Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 403: War Boy Academy

Episode Date: July 31, 2025

We start off this week with some light discussion regarding a few items in the news lately, then pivot to a more serious discussion expanding on Monday's Patreon episode about the ongoing catastrophe and genocide in Gaza. We end with a lighthearted but still somewhat concerning article about a new AI school in Texas. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Terence, I just want to point out, next time you think that she looked tired and sunken in, I just want you to look at your boy and realize that you could flavor a pot of beans with what's in my cheeks. I got jowls. No, anytime you feel like you look like shit, just think about Peter Thiel

and how he resembles a blanche skull, you know. Well, it's just the prolonged combined aggregate effects of sleeping poorly since January. Like, I just, like, I can't even do the video chat anymore. People are, like, pivot to video.

It's like, I can't even stand the site. Hey, hey, two years ago, sure. Yeah, like, I looked great two years ago. Like, I have never looked worse. Like, I can't stand the side of me these days. You don't want to shock people. Yeah. I can't stand the side of me either,

but for different reasons. You look. Great. You're the best. You look great, brother. You look great. I was talking about the psychic pain that comes with taking a hard look. It comes when a man looks real hard in the mirror at himself, you know?

Yeah. Speaking of taking a hard look at yourself, I've got this story for you. Bizarre TikTok trend sees young women baking autism reveal cakes to announce their diagnosis. This is my autism reveal cake, a TikTok. declares to the camera as she stands over an ice cream cake with the word autistic written in icing on top

if it's rainbow on the inside I am autistic if it's white on the inside it's just ADHD let's see she continues as she slices into the sweet tree upon seeing that the cake was rainbow a delighted Kimberly explains it's a rainbow in another woman

in another video a young woman named Cheyenne throws an autism reveal party with her friends After cutting into her autism cake and discovering a rainbow sinner, Cheyenne squeals, yay! Her friends start whooping and cheering before breaking into a chant of autism, autism, autism. Boys, I got something. I got something to say about this. I never thought I would see the day when medicine becomes washed.

Madison's washed. Uh-huh. Well, here's the problem. You can't pivot to witchcraft because you, You incensed the same element that's doing the autism cakes. They've got the market cornered. Oh, man. So what do you do?

I do think, though, I could appreciate a depression cake, you know. Depression anxiety cake, and maybe it would be blue or red. It's like a suicide cake. Like, will I hang myself or will I shoot through the top of my mouth? When they give you the knife and cut it, they're like, wait, wait, I'll cut it instead, actually. I don't think you should be the one to cut it. I just, look, it's what they'll say, like, I just, I want to know where those diagnoses are coming from, because I promise you, if there is an enterprising young psychiatrist out there, there is a whole, with no scruples, there is a whole boatload of cash to be made from ADHD diagnoses, autism diagnoses, by BPD diagnoses even. Dude, I have a friend who teaches special ed, and she was telling me that, like, it's really been pronounced since the pandemic, but in the last few years, the number of parents that have been leaning on her to get their kids in the special ed program diagnosed as autistic has been, like, astroph-like, it's just been astronomical.

Like, there's never before have we seen so many parents trying to get their kids diagnosed autistic. And, like, her, I mean, I guess she's a little conservative. Like, her thing was like, oh, they just want welfare benefits. And I was like, yeah, maybe. But, like, I kind of think probably, I think another part of it is that, like, people just really want. Never mind. I'm not going to go. I'll go here.

I'll go here. Listen. So the alley up to top. Listen, I started playing basketball. ball for the fashion really okay like and then I became a hooper because I enjoyed hooping you know what I mean but it started because I wanted to wear like you know like Alan Iverson baggy shorts and like you know all that kind of shit you know what I mean because I was having something of an identity crisis as a young man no matter so I understand full well like wanting to getting into something because of the gear or the you know

of the stuff. Dude, save thing with me for skateboarded brother bad. I got into Nike SB. Yeah, another thing I got into

for the fashion. Are you saying the autistic gear is what like it's pretty tight? Well, I'm just saying that here's what I said.

I got into tennis for the fashion. Here's the thing. I think what anytime you take an interest in something you start out as a phony and then the pose

takes hold eventually if you like something if you actually genuinely end up liking it. You know what I mean? so you're saying we have autistic poses autistic what-abees I think there's I think that like if we're applying like 90s like skateboarding rules to it you could have people like they're like maybe a bit you know

awkward or quirky or whatever and they they jump to the obvious conclusion that they like are neural divergent you know and this is no disrespect to any neural diver I love there's a lot of neural divergent people I love it. in my life okay i'm not saying that can be disrespectful i'm just saying that like y'all are having a moment right now autistic people are basically as cool as skateboarders you know what i mean you know you know cannot can i pose another mildly possibly offensive example but uh but i think what is like a one is a legitimate though it's sort of like what can i put it man it's sort of like how being a nerd or a geek whether it's you know you like shit like um you know fantasy or

superhero stuff. I feel like before the advent of all these Marvel movies with beautiful people playing your favorite characters, before the Big Bang Theory, which did a lot to popularize nerd or geek culture, I don't know if there's a difference

between the two. I'm using them synonymously. But I feel like now it's cool, you know, now that's something that's like sort of socially acceptable or adds maybe some texture to people's lives. And also, I mean, realistically, too, I think there's a lot of misdiagnosities, right? So doctors can, you know, sell you pills, push them by pharmaceutical industry.

So I think it's a little bit of both, you know. They need not, man, I need not fucking wind me up, but I'd be throwing out them diagnoses like candy. Yeah. What do you want to be? You tell me and I don't. Let's give you a magic eight ball of neurodivergents. Yeah. What's, and listen, that.

There are people that really, I mean, stepping aside from autism, all that kind of stuff. And I don't want to have ever framed that as like, you know, I saw somebody on the tennis channel talk about this tennis player, Jensen Brooksby, struggle with autism. And I was just like, that's a weird way to frame that.

You know what I mean? But in the next breath, they called Jerry Shang, the player from China, Chinaman, so I'm not sure that they were up on that. What tennis were you, what's it like,

Dyrstermmer, tennis hour? more like uh yeah this guy was talking like a 20th century like uh california gold prospect around there been to head out california why you know so um anyway i just like the spectacle of not only like celebrating your diagnosis but um which is good i'm you know i too want to make it clear, I'm not being like abelist or throwing shade at my neurodivergent, uh, listeners. Even though I'm somewhere, somewhere within the umbrella of neurodivergent. Uh, but like I, uh, it's just, it's the spectacle of like filming it and putting it on

TikTok and like celebrating it with a cake and, um, which I don't even know why I'm criticizing it. Why do I, I don't even know why I'm criticizing it. I guess it's like, recently I said on an episode, like, I think it was the episode with Tracy when we talked about Zoron winning. I was like, oh, I sit down and I try to find all the worst things about the world and aggregate them. And that's the show. And people were like, why do I listen to this?

You shouldn't have told me that. Like, you just gave away the blueprint. I was like, oh, shit. This is doom scrolling from my ears, basically. You're right. I was like, oh, man, I need to, like, really reassess some things, okay? So, like, I've been trying to reassess. So maybe there's nothing wrong with this at all, actually.

This is a positive story. This is a positive story. We should serve as to celebrate neurotivary. Yeah. Yeah, what started off as a duck, I've come around on this. Jokes on you, listener. Yeah. It took me all nine minutes to come around on this.

Got your ass. You thought this was going to be a doomer story. It's actually a positive one. How powerful stuff. You know what we've been good news, brother. You know, be funny. Remember those videos a couple years ago where like when like Memphis rap was kind of having a moment on like TikTok and like people just be sitting there and then they would play like,

you know, Kingpin Skinny Pimp or 36 Mafia or something and then like it would pop up like a devil like a Baphomet figure in the background or whatever. Oh yeah. It's the cake reveal but it's like do I have narcissistic personality disorder or antisocial personality disorder sociopathy? And then if it's just like garden variety narcissism it's just like you just hear like an applause track and if it's like antisocial like the damn pops up and the memories ramp comes off

and they'll see it's going if it's a sociopathy or psychopathy reveal instead the cake is a laced with arsenic or something like that just to prevent you from doing anything dangerous or harmful in the future yeah it

shoots out an image of like a dying baby deer or something and it's like if you're a sociopath you have no feeling on that at all you're like cool like I wish I did that actually I wish I did that actually I wish I killed that baby dear yeah it's like

they're just the scream blinks and that's just everybody at the reveal is just like laying there in the floor of fake blood on with the Halloween music keys up you're standing there holding the knife that they cut the cake with right right You're right.

This trend is breaking boundaries in how we should, you know... De-signmatize mental health. De-stigmatize it, exactly. And, you know, how we diagnose... Not only how we diagnose, but break the news. We should break all news like this. Like, if you're a doctor and, like, you just get out of surgery and the family's waiting there in the ER, like, you carry a cake out there.

And it's like, all right, cut it open. And it's like, did he live or did he die in surgery? So either way, either way, it's either way you get some kind of gift to a consolation prize. You know what I'm saying? Because if he's dead, then at least you get to eat cake, you know? Yeah, if he dies, the doctor sits there and, like, forms the line and cuts little slices for the whole family.

Like, sorry for your loss. Yeah, we should do all, all news should be delivered this way. We should absolutely make light of everyone in life seriously, like emotional situations. Maybe with a Benny Hill soundtrack playing in the background. Okay, well, you know, it's a good way to pivot to the news this week. Welcome to the show this week, everybody. An ancient message from... Hi, God, look at you.

You look at radiant. Yeah, man, you're glowing right now. Did you put makeup on? I was putting makeup on. Yeah, we got ready to TV. No, dude, I look god awful. now you look positively radiant brother you do uh yeah no uh well thanks boys i appreciate your enthusiasm and encouragement um sorry it may interrupt you there just you look good i was just gonna

i'm just breaking the news i mean this is the news this is a new show and we're finding good news that's not depressing for people and so um well we found some good news they found some good news they found a message from Moses in an ancient Egyptian mine. I don't know if you heard about this. Did you? The Moses? Not just some other motherfucker who had the same name. Happen to have the same name?

Moises. Not the former Philadelphia 76 was powerful. His name was Bouss. Okay. Not Moses Malone. The Moses. Just Brazilian soccer style one name Moses. The Pharaoh,

You mean to tell me the Pharaoh's adopted son What did Moses have to say to us? Can they translate it? Yeah, that says that Two instances of the name Moses

Promoting worship of a being called L a Northwest Semitic word meaning God and faced a cult of a gold cow goddess named Baylot. Other carvings which he suggests, say Zot and Moshe would translate as this is from Moses. I guess it's like the whole golden cow thing.

Remember when Moses was kind of mad about that? About worshipping false idols? It was bail worship, right? Wasn't bail the golden calf? Mm-hmm. I don't know. Or I got that fucked up. I'm kind of skeptical about this, personally.

The veracity? Yeah. How do you, I want to know that, how do you verify the age of? this like do they like carbon dated or something like that or is it the is it the other artifacts that surrounded by it because how do you know some motherfuckers didn't just go in there like last week and plant it you know yeah or you see aaron it gets vetted by the israeli history uh ministry and then you know after their thorough review uh may know the truth about most things in the world actually yeah they um i i don't know it to answer your question i to answer your question i don't

you're probably you're doing a bit but that is probably literally how it works his I don't know researcher Michael Michael Barron

his claims have proven to be controversial not Michael Barron Barron okay Barron yeah I mean I don't know dude it seems a little

ify to me it seems like the man man name of Barron was born to plant fake biblical artifacts and caves and shit. Well, I mean, he's currently a graduate student

of Ariel University in Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology. So I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to, like, perhaps he might have some, you know, agenda of his own that he shrines. Well, you said, you did say that the Israelis have produced a couple of good historians. So until he comes and says that the name Netanyahu

who was carved on a cave wall prophesying the return of the one true king. Today, behold, a baby's born in Philadelphia. They shall lead men. You know, then when he starts producing that shit, then that's when we'll have to. There might be some, that's a salient point, though, Tom, because, and I hope I'm not bullshining here, but I swear, isn't there like an industry in Israel of stealing artifacts that could be, attributed to Palestinian history, although I know that the history gets muddled geographically when you go that far back. But I'm just wondering if it's also some sort of claim to further

mythologize in a really concrete way that Israel is this homeland of Jews and is this sacred place that is not just a political invention of the past 70 years or so, you know, but that it's almost timeless, you know, in this real religious way, you know what I mean? I read, I was reading Herodotus, and the, I mean, he, and I posted this on Twitter and obviously got a lot of pushback, but he claims that the land from Syria all the way down to Egypt is, in the way he says it is interesting, he's like, it's known as the land of the Palestinians. So, I mean, he really did say from the river to the sea all the way in like 400 BC. But, um, but people were like, you know, Herodotus is known as the father of

lies like he's a liar famously and it's like no actually that's Satan according to the all right you got my man fucked up um I mean Herodotus did probably stretch the truth about a lot of things or I don't know people say that but like my interpretation of him is that he was just reporting he was just reporting the goddamn news all he was doing was just reporting what he had heard really so yeah you're only as good as your sources you know yeah but also don't all historians kind of like end up, not for any malicious reason, malicious intent, but all historians end up kind of bending the truth within their perspective of events that

happened at the time. Well, possibly trying to be objective, but it's kind of hard to be objective. It's impossible to be objective. Well, you have to create a searing narrative, you know, in order to do that sometimes, you can't let the truth get in the way of a good story. You know what I mean? Exactly, exactly. Herodotus is interesting because it's not just like a straightforward account of historical events because he's also weaving in folklore he's weaving in ethnography he's weaving in like several different things and the idea that he would lie about this specific thing it only makes like that is a claim that would only have any kind of

traction in the year 2025 because it implies that all the way in the year 400 bc herodotus knew that there would be like some genocidal land theft going on by Westerners to take that land. So he had to set the record straight like thousands of years ago. He had to hop on the waterbelly game like a thousand years ago.

Listen, if you spent any time in Asia minor in those days, you were bound to have visions, okay? Uh-huh. That's true. So Rarada de Saw it playing his day and he tried to get out ahead of him by several thousand years, you know? True, he really saw this apocalyptic

wasteland, as you've said, Tom, looked like the surface of the moon, you know, being gauzin, said, no, I have to warn them, you know. Now, you know, if we're just talking things on their face here, okay, everybody knows I'm a Bible guy. But do we take the guy that said, yep, major things happened when a guy had a piss dream about his daughter? Or is that that much crazier than a man lived in the belly of a well for three days? I ask you, dear listener. They're both.

They're both good stories. We can at least say that. I mean, actually, I wish it had it in front of me right now, but actually I did read a story of a surfer who accidentally got swallowed by whale. And because whales, like, their esophagus is very, very small, like they only eat krill and stuff, like these, you know, these baleen whales. He got spat right back out, so, you know. Oh, I just threw him up.

Yeah, he just threw up. That's good to know they can throw up because horses can't throw up. Are you serious? Horses can't throw up. Horses just have to swallow it whole or die? I want if giraffes can throw up with them long ass and eggs, bro. Probably not. Probably, yeah.

Oh, dude, imagine if you're a giraffe vomiting. You're like, it's like a river. It takes six minutes to come up. You're like, wait, hold on, bro. Hold on, bro. Hold on just kneeling for like 10 minutes. Is my man got the pause?

What's going on here? Then six minutes later, just, like a slinky or something like that? Rivers of... All cylindrical. Green leaf bile. I mean a giraffe looks so fucking stupid throwing up

Like a fire hose Just like somebody lost control of Like wacky inflatable band Yeah Yeah Yeah You done you big dumbass It's good content folks

Giraffes throwing up That's premium content for you I'd sympathize, though. I've got a metaphobia myself. I'm terrified of throwing up. Is that what's called metaphobia? It sounds like being afraid of robots or some shit. Emet, you know, emet, emet, emit.

Oh, emetophobia. Any time I throw up, I have immediately sent into like a crazy panic attack. Oh, shit, man. I hate it. All right, let's get into the real discussion. Now, if you're waiting for the Duma News now, I heard it is.

Now, here's the actual humor news, yes. Okay, all right, there's a few things we can cover this week. One of which is the tariffs. The tariffs have, once again, with China anyways, they put a 90-day pause on the tariffs,

something that they've been doing since February. Every 90 days, they hit pause on the tariffs. But the whole rest of the world is going to have to pay. They reached some deal with Europe, the Trump

administration reached some deal with europe where europe is supposed to you know i don't know pay some you know insane tariff but then they also send like 600 billion dollars in investment to america and i think i saw some some e u officials say like we can't actually do that like it was like you know they kind of got one over on trump but um and then they're also still like trying to work out the tariffs still with Canada, but Canada is planning to recognize Palestine as a state, so apparently that's going to once again interfere with the trade talks.

We can talk more about Palestine and all that. I just got back from Canada. Let me tell you something. They're selling on the red, white, blue up there. Are they? Not interested in us anymore. Some of them are downright ornery about it. They hear...

Very nice, though. Very nice people. Well, Terrence, I just wanted to say I saw this, speaking on the tariffs and the rising cost of products, imported products, I saw that Adidas, this is from the BBC, Adidas has warned that U.S. tariffs will cost the German sportswear giant a further 200 million euros or 173 million pounds. I don't know how many U.S. dollars that is. And confirmed that it will raise prices for American customers. There is nearly half of the company's products are made in Asian countries, which recently agreed trade deals with, which recently agreed trade deals with the U.S. So as a sneakerhead, I am personally impacted by this, you know, especially impacted. Well, dude. Did they not consider the sneakerhead with these tariffs?

They did not. They did not. The, um, the price of coffee right now is unbelievable. I mean, the price of everything is unbelievable. But, I mean, I, I, I, I mean, I. I don't know. I mean, I do have to hand it to Chris Hayes. He did have a funny tweet. He got, he got a, he got a chuckle out of me because he quote tweeted a photo of, he quote tweeted this infographic that the White House had made where it's like, $500 billion in tariff revenues. All right. And he was like, I got to say, like, this is the first time I've ever seen a politician bragging about raising taxes on Americans. And it is, it is very strange. I mean, it's an interesting approach. side list. But like, you know, Trump,

someone had tweeted this at Metal Gear Obama, L.O.L. Trump just ended the de minimis exemption to tariffs for the entire world. Rip buying products from overseas. It was a nice century. Yeah, it's about to get real, real bad. I mean...

Well, isn't, well, isn't the implication, or maybe the Trump administration had said this outright, but that this means that there will be more investment in American companies and more products will be made in America. Isn't that the trade-off with the tariffs, right?

That's what they said. To wean us off of the rest of the world. Yeah, they were saying, well, maybe your coffee is $20 a container, but we're going to start growing coffee in America. Bro, it's not, I just love this idea that we're going to start

making things in America again. I think that ship has sailed, brother. We're not doing that anymore it's not gonna happen man well i saw them saying on fox and friends that like since they're deporting everybody like they just want to like what's wrong with making kids work in the blueberry fields and so maybe that's what they think like oh we can get six year olds back in the minds there are wonderful jobs in in uh farming in construction all of this that that has sort of been handed over to um largely illegal aliens allowed into the country to do all this cheap labor.

Maybe you pay a little bit more for blueberries to actually have Americans picking the blueberries, but that's wonderful. Or maybe our government. To do it as summer jobs. The idea that your government, that your precious government doesn't allow children to work summer jobs

in blueberry fields is just mind-blowing to know. Well, it's very difficult work, by the way, and it's fine. I'm totally down with everything that you're saying, but the point is for Americans to want, to do these jobs, if it costs more, I'm okay with subsidizing that labor because then I think we get more fruits and vegetables. You should reward good things

and punish bad things. Yeah, like their little white children would be working, picking tobacco with some shit like that. It's not going to be happening. Yeah. It's not happening. Here's the rut. Like this tariff shit was never going to catch fire at all. As I saw that Carl Schaub pointed out on Twitter that China has an absolute stranglehold on mining

rare earth minerals, something that every EV, every phone every goddamn thing we make requires it's suicidal to try to buck with them we are in the chinese century boys right better learn to speak mandarin yeah uh-huh maybe that's why they've i for one i'm excited about the opportunity same maybe that's why they've also grateful also grateful for sure maybe that's why they've keep uh pausing the terror with China, just with China. It's like nobody else gets to pause, but China gets the

tariffs pause every 90 days until the rest of time. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny. If you have fucking cum quots or coconuts, it's a 2,000% tariff, but you got rare earth minerals. It's like yeah, 100, but yeah, we'll pause it whenever we need something.

Maybe for this, for me, maybe this is a silver lining for me, again, as a sneakerhead, because a lot of these products, Nike products, are made in China or Vietnam, but, you know, China as well, man. Well, they're soon to be made in Alabama, my friend. They're going to build a Nike rubber factory. By six-year-olds, six-year-olds in Alabama are going to be making your sneakers soon, bro.

They're going to be stitching the jump pad onto the tug of my Jordan. Yeah, we're going to have teenagers dying a sneaker long because of Aaron. I mean, it makes sense, it makes sense, like, why the Republicans want to, they want to, yeah, it makes sense why they want to ban abortion and why they don't care about education standards anymore, why they don't care that illiteracy is back on the rise and all this stuff, it's like, no, they just want to send six-year-olds back to the fields and the minds. Your kid will be working at the bottom, but the thing is, what's ironic about it is, like, that's not happening anyways. Even if we did get to a point socially where we did accept eight-year-olds to work back in factories, like, it's never coming back, guys. Factories will, they're not coming back. I'm going to go ahead and tell you, just a heart, you know, listen,

we've been giving you the Budweiser cold hard facts since spring of 2017, and here's the, here's the, I'm telling you right now, here is the Budweiser, Cold Hard Fax. America is over. It's over. It's over. It's done. It's done. So, it don't matter.

I don't give a flying fuck if Xi Jinping himself fucking ex-patriates from China and becomes the president of the United States. There ain't nothing bringing it back. That's 100% true. Although I would welcome that, though. I would welcome.

I guess technically, if we're entering the Chinese century, he may as well be our president. That's done. That's done. It's never cut. There's no. there's no I'll tell you

when I really knew it was cashed in okay it's like if if we're going to get to the point where Donald Trump's

a benevolent pedophile how far behind can it be six-year-olds going back to the mines right you know what I mean yeah well

yeah you know what else too go ahead go ahead well I was just going to say another metric for this and we talked to a little bit about it on the Patreon but like

the cost of home ownership is just it is so staggering so astonishing like we will never ever have another moment where the government tries i mean in the 90s the government was through neoliberal is like through neoliberal means trying to foster home ownership and that's what caused the subprime lending crisis the 2008 recession right like we're not even trying to do that anymore it's just like it seems quite by comparison Seems quaint by comparison. Like, you're going to rent your entire rest of your life.

You're not going to build any equity whatsoever to pass on to your children. You will pay $5,000 a month for an 800 square foot apartment in, like, Lexington, Kentucky. And if you can't, and look at this, if you can't afford that, and you end up houseless, you know, then Trump apparently has signed some executive order, what was it last week, basically saying that U.S. cities were going to be cleared of the houseless. you know who are mostly on quote mostly on drugs or had mental illness so even when you don't own a home and the only refuge is on the streets you can't even

not that that's something to look forward to and that situation is already horrible but now it's going to get even fucking worse you know this the end result of neoliberalism was only ever going to be extermination because once you force people out into the streets

you know this is not something people choose people do not choose to be homeless they don't choose to like have to live under an overpass and like barely get a few meals every week let me stop you out there terence i should have thought about that for they made some bad choices i just the thing is is like you can't control at this point they're not even trying to control that contradiction it's just moved into an eliminationist standpoint and this is true everywhere you look i mean it's obviously this is well tried in territory but like what I really want to stress to people is that at a certain point what that engenders within the population is a callousness and a heartlessness that lends itself to a fascist politic it's like it's almost it's almost the opposite it's almost exactly backwards it's like we own we got to fascism through like the effects of neoliberalism right it's like we had to get the population to a point where they were like kind of

okay with sacrificing with basically you know murdering on the altar of the market you know several hundred thousand people a year and then that that would create this kind of right wing populism that then makes it like okay for people to be like yeah like this we'll just because nothing much matters at that point if you can eliminate a you know a non insignificant percentage of the country and by extension the world's population and then just and then and then speaking

about it in terms such as liquidating our human capital stock, which is things that were said on the TV news, the TV news. Not even news. And I also think too, like, um, dovetailing like obviously because it's like a kind of feedback loop with the economic policies and, you know, that turn out like in these fascistic, exterminist ways. I mean, there's the moral justification of neoliberalism being hyper-individuality, you know, um, responsibilities. right that that obviously if you are out on the streets is because of some personal moral failing right yeah um and you know which deems you as not an individual or an individual worthy of protecting you know taking care of so i mean that just gives for license uh even more

license for people to just accept it as you know as is yeah i mean it's you know matthew ellis um who you know i'm friends with on twitter like you know kind of said it best he said that The post where a social contract, where American, however defined workers, are granted access to security, not through a vast safety net, but access to capital in the form of real estate is over. It's not coming back. That era of accumulation is finished. It's true. It's not coming back, even through like a social democratic, okay, we're not even getting that. I don't even know why I'm like saying that that would happen.

Like we'd have a president's over on London. I mean, no. I will say, though, that Daniel Bessner on Twitter had said that, like, progressive liberalism, you know, or that kind of left liberalism is also over, you know, which I guess was the last bastion. I mean, I think that you could say could be affected through electoral politics, you know, also with, like, you know, union organizing and all of that. But I think that all these grassroots means of organization, I should say. it seems like that's completely going out the window as well you know so uh what do we have left then you know well i tell you what we have left my friend and it's my retirement plan i'm going to have a small but humble plot in rural hube province china i'm going to live off the land ring chicken necks

you know getting back to my roots i mean i i guess my plan is um Antarctica might be kind of cool Yeah, yeah Especially when it starts melting Yeah, I think that's probably going to be Or the moon If I could be a white slave on the moon I wouldn't be that pet. Is that something you're going to sign up for though?

It's like, ah hell, somebody's got to do it I could be a white sleeve on the moon, yeah You could be white slave of the moon? I mean, I think I'm going to go the Kevin Costner route Waterworld with rising sea levels And just build like, you know And the necessary adaptations Yeah, live on the sea

live on a sea stetter, is what I should say, you know, that's what I'll do. You're more of a Phoenician vibe. Yeah, exactly. So let me get this straight. I'm going to the motherland, China. You're going water world. Terrence, what did you say you're doing?

I'm going to the moon. Go to space? You're going to the moon. You're going extraterrestrial. That's a curb by, I figured Thorpe would be the moon guy. No, I mean, it's not... Space seems terrifying, but I would still go. Well, Aaron's...

I mean, I guess you could go as the slave driver because if I'm a white slave on the moon. Yeah, I'd be the black slave driver on the moon. Somebody's got to get these crackers in line. Might as well be doing. You're just laughing like at monocally all day. I'd read to it about those. Beating the hell out, Terrence.

Yeah. Dude, yeah. If it means woke, if it means we get woke back, I'll be a white slave on the moon. Fucking whatnot. Nah, Terrence, if you were, if you were a white slave on the mood and I was a black slave driver on the mood, I would feed you extra rations. I would sleep you extra rashes, you know? I haven't had favoritism

Like why that guy Terrence would be the housecracker Oh man There's another algae ration brother Dude our white slave songs Are gonna be so tight It's gonna be like Party in the USA

Party in the USA This will be the worst shit you've ever You've ever heard You know what I mean You listen to like black field spirituals From the 20s It's like it moves in tears How powerful it is

Art is gonna be the worst shit No, white sleeves on the moon, spirituals will be like, last Friday night, skinny dipping in the dark. We're going to be singing Katie Perry. Breaking rocks on the moon. Oh, shit, son. Oh, man. Okay.

Terrence comes in from the long bay of busting rocks on the moon. Thorpe's just like, you ain't done yet, boy. Sure ass back out there. I don't care if we did, used to podcast together. But I get, I get, like, seven extra protein pellets. Exactly, exactly. Hell yeah, dude. Oh, shit.

Thorpe slides on the protein pellets your pocket and tells you, I'm telling them. And wigs? Okay. Another thing I wanted to cover real fast was, The House was trying to pass a bill. I think they called it the Pelosi Act. Republicans were trying to pass this bill.

They would ban congressmen and the president from holding stocks, from trading stocks. And it failed, obviously, because Republicans tanked it. But I wanted to play this. Even though they named it after one of their most famous enemies, Nancy Pelosi. I wanted to play this clip from Rick Scott. I don't know if you all saw this. Let me know if you can't hear this.

I own our operating businesses. But somehow, it's suspect because I made money. I don't know how many people in the audience. How many of you don't want to make money? Anybody want to be poor? I don't. Right? So this idea that we're going to attack people because they make money is wrong.

I wouldn't say it's wrong. It's absolutely wrong. We should cherish all of our different backgrounds. Anybody want to be poor? I like that it's a millionaire What is he? A millionaire senator, right? He's a senator. Yeah, tell me asking him.

Is the audience he speaking to a bunch of his regular-ass people? No, he was at a, they had a committee hearing about this. So I guess like Congress, Okay, okay. Congress isn't in session right now because Mike Johnson sent everybody home so that they wouldn't have to vote on releasing the Epstein files. Is that your man's bill?

Is that your man's bill? They got your man's bill. You ain't feel bad on nothing. Mr. President, did one of those stolen, you know, persons that include for Virginia Jeffrey? Uh, I don't know. I think she worked at the spa. I think so.

I think that was one of the people. He stole her. And by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever. Peace my people. Let's talk a little bit about, like, Gaza and the things that have happened since we recorded the Patreon on Monday. Because there's a few things I wanted to cover there. I'm not even sure where to really begin. But suffice to say that, like, the premise of our episode on Monday was that there had been a shift, right, in the media.

And among commentators, politicians, journalists, that maybe what Israel was doing was maybe not genocide, they wouldn't call it that, but it was ethnic cleansing light. Like, I don't know if y'all watched the interview with Alyssa Slotkin that Crystal Ball on that show Breaking Points had done. Did y'all watch that interview? They had Slotkin on Breaking Points? No. Yeah. I saw that she missed not one but two Israel votes to go be on the failing Colbert program. She did.

She did. They interviewed her actually the morning of a vote to send more weapons to Israel. There's several things that, like, I would recommend the audience to do. If this is therapy, I'm going to give you some homework, very light homework. Several things I want to recommend you do. Go watch that interview with her. Because to me, it is, it's fascinating at a, obviously at a political level, but at a psychoanalytic level. Because the way they keep catching her in lies, in the way every single time, like, she admits early on that, like, it is basically ethnic cleansing, right?

But that, but it's not genocide. She refuses to call it a genocide. She says it's like ethnic cleansing, but then later on, she's like, it's not ethnic cleansing. And then Crystal Ball's co-host, he's like, you just said it was basically ethnic cleansing. And she's like, well, and then they kept pressing her on it. They were like, why is it different when Russia does it as opposed to Israel? And she, and basically after enough prevaricating, she kept trying to evade that question. Finally, she just said, look, Israel is our ally.

an ally ship means something it has to mean something like when someone's your friend you have to be an ally to them and this is something that like can i just add good what about if they got your mans though on sexist on charges you're with them every day but yo it turts i just want to say before you say what you said i would add something to this because um you know Bernie Sanders um Caitlin Collins I guess from CNN, who was interviewing him about whether or not it was a genocide in Gaza. And I just want to quote Sanders really quick because I think there's something very interesting that is going on with the sudden 180 that you also saw in Slotkin's interview. Bernie says, quote, genocide is a legal term.

What is going on now clearly is absolutely horrific. But the important point is not what you call it. It is horror. The answer is what the hell do we do about it? And, you know, I would say, you know, I think that calling it a genocide, implies some legal ramifications, you know, and holding people to account on the world stage, instead of being some moralistic sort of phrase to throw around to shock people. It's actually important that you call it a genocide so people can help be held accountable.

Yeah. It's really interesting that they evading doing that because Israel again is our best friend. Did Sanders make a deal with some sort of an imp or a genie or something that if he says genocide one more time in his life, then like that genie's going to like blow up New York? city or something he's just like oh it's still his solar some shit yeah it's like the way he dances around that is so fucking bizarre it's I mean it's just

other than just like you know the moral cowardice of it it's just weird that like everybody else in the world knows what the fuck what time it is you know what I mean right well it's the best that we've been able to produce in the halls of power is like no no it's not

if it walks like a duck it's not always a duck actually Sometimes it could be, you know, a swan to some shit. Sometimes it's a cute little, I don't know. A long nap, that's not making a damn sense. Well, it's almost like they're robots. And the best way that I know how to explain this is like you saw multiple people over the last, in the media on Twitter, Instagram, wherever you fucking get your news. You probably saw some version of this.

I think Matt Iglesias kind of basically spelled it out along the lines of like, well, pro-Palestine activists were like the boy who cried wolf. They were wrong, but then when they were right, it was too late. And now it actually is a genocide, but they were wrong this whole time. And the thing is, whether it's Madaglacius, Bernie Sanders, or Alyssa Slotkin, what is going on with all of them? the reason that they cannot bring themselves to call it a genocide, because you're right, Aaron, the word does have a legal definition, and the legal definition would require a legal response and accountability. And that would mean we're talking war tribunals. We're talking probably prison sentences, something like that you saw for like Slabodon-Milosevic or something, like actual consequences.

And the reason they can't do it, and the reason why they, like, you know, again, you saw Anthony Blinken say something like this over the weekend where he said, like, I think someone had asked him, maybe it was like Christiana Amunpur, I can't remember, someone had asked him like, why didn't you work harder to stop the war? And he's like, well, we would have if it wasn't for the pro-Palestine, pro-protesters, the students, protesters and all this. And the thing is, is that- We would have stopped the war if a bunch of polysacists.

majors wouldn't have went out on the quad and started singing songs. Yeah, the thing is... And making art, you know. What is so repellent to them, what they find so disgusting, we made this point on the Patreon, but I just want to put a fine point on it. They think that any expression of solidarity with Palestinians is disgusting because Zionist ideology demands that you see Palestinians. as degenerate. I mean this literally. Their very existence offends Zionist ideology. It is

anti-Semitic to be Palestinian. And the reason why is because in the true settler colonial fashion, the Zionists want the land. And so the reason they seem like robots or automaton's or whatever when they're pressed on these questions and they can't actually go to call it a genocide or in the case of Bernie, he can't indict all of Israel, he just has to indict Netanyahu, is because they have drunk at the well of Zionist ideology for so long

that they unknowingly, I do think this, I think that this is the case for Blinken, everyone from Blinken to Slotkin to Bernie to even Maddie Iglesias, they've drunk at that well for so long that they have unknowingly let themselves become rabid racists

against Palestinians. And they wouldn't see it that way. If you pointed it at, out to them? I've also at the same time not seen any journalists actually point that out to them. Like, what is Zionism? What does it entail? What is it, what is as an explanatory model of the world,

how does it make you, help you make sense of your place in the world? And what it does is it degrades Palestinians in a racial hierarchy beneath Israelis. And again, I think this is why they seem like robots when they're sort of in these interviews.

They can't, like, and this is the same thing. Like, Slotkin, carving out this exceptionalist ally position for Israel. It's like Iraq has been our ally in the past. Libya, we had no problem turning on them, so clearly allyship doesn't fucking matter a whole lot

except this one fucking exception. And all of our ruling class has, like I said, thoroughly internalized all of the tenets and demands of Zionism as an ideology. Well, you see, you also see what happens too with the genocide

culminating into mass starvation is that you'll see you see now again once again the resurgence which has always been um i guess the undercurrent or rather i guess just the way that the war is just the genocide sorry it's justified it's not a fucking war is through the hostages in hamas right yeah so you can't really call it a genocide because we have to remember that this is a war against hamas right and whether it's the completely far right position that every Palestinian baby man woman and child is going to grow up to be a Hamas terrorist, or rather it's that Hamas has the Palestinian people in a chokehold,

so much so that it's preventing aid from getting in from the U.N., because they're hoarding it. Either way, you have to keep reminding people, as you yourself have internalized, that this is a war against Hamas. And unfortunately, Israel just went a little bit out of control, right? Yeah. In fighting the good fight, it's self-defense, right? You saw that breakdown in real time over the last seven days,

because genuinely the concept is preposterous the idea that it's okay for a child to starve because an entity like Hamas exists that is fucking absurd and I think a lot of them know that as they start spouting it more and more you see these images coming out it's just like they know that that's absurd

and so like you kind of get this like very very cynical position like you kind of saw it with Blinken like this very cynical position where it's like, well, it's the protesters' fault. A lot of people are saying that. It's the protesters' fault. No, maybe it's your bitch-ass dad's fault

that had, you know, six Israeli prime ministers and 12 Hamas guys carry him to his fucking eternal rest of place. And you can't play fucking dead worth of shit, you fucking piece of shit. It's actually even darker than that, Tom. It was Galane's Maxwell's father's resting place that those people were at. Right, right, right.

Yeah, I call, yeah, I call the pedophiles. I thought the Pope of pedophiles. I thought the Pope of pedophiles. I stand correct. Yeah, you're talking about the Pope of Pitos. Yeah, the Pope of Pitos, brother. God damn it, so. It's just, um...

I had five for pedophilia. The, like, this is kind of immemomatic of what you're talking about, Aaron, this op-ed in Politico, how the war of words in Gaza makes it harder to save lives. As aid groups and others warned in recent days that Palestine, Indians in Gaza face widespread starvation. Israeli officials determined to downplay the crisis have fought back by focusing on labels. Okay, so I should point out that this article starts out by criticizing the more insane leaders within the Israeli government like Smotrich and Ben-Givir. But basically uses this as a jumping off point to criticize also the people that use the word genocide.

Because what he's getting at is that, that everyone from the far right to the far left, whether they're using words like famine or genocide or whatever, throwing around words is really making it hard to get aid to Gazans. And, like, it's just fascinating thing. Words are among the many tools being weaponized by multiple sides in several ongoing global conflicts. Famine, genocide, terrorism, anti-Semitism, occupation, apartheid,

are just some of the terms whose definitions inspired. public relations legal and policy fights it's like words words okay words have no meaning for anybody also aren't you using words to obfuscate the like the fact that it's genocide in the first place and also talking about the words as if they've materialized and manifested as physical objects as actual blockades that are stopping the food from getting in like what the fuck are you talking about yeah you read Hillary Clinton's somebody said it's it hurt a statement about the food trucks not getting said it's not the lazy trucks yeah trucks don't want to work these guys.

I mean, I guess it does get at something that is very, like, postmodern in the sense that our signifiers and signified, like, our reference have all fucking broken down. And, like, you do see a moral center of people, in my opinion, the only people with a moral center, the ones who are on the side of the Palestinians, using the words like genocide. But you do see, like, that is a moral center because you're right, Aaron, it places a demand on the people who are doing it, which is to say that there should be fucking consequences for the people doing this. But like this kind of shit like exists to sort of break that down, like articles like this.

It kind of just says like, well, look, some people use words and like, but words really don't have, like, should they really have that much meaning? To me, it's the same, it's the flip side of the coin of them calling that fucking death squad, like Einzatz's group and death squad in Gaza right now, the Gaza humanitarian, Foundation, like, putting this name, the word humanitarian. It's mystification of the perpetrators, man. It mystifies who's the perpetrators, you know what I mean? That is a fascinating thing that you would have a death squad, like, basically a CIA-funded

death squad with the word humanitarian in it. Like, that's only something you would see in like a post-liberal global order. You know what I mean? 100%. Yeah, I ain't never seen a death squad yield anything good or nice. I've never seen the Death Squad with noble That's the thing about death squads Is generally not good things follow

There's like a lot of controversy over what this thing is I don't know if you all read that Chottner interview With the guy from Channel 12 But Chottner also interviewed another guy Who used to be the former head of IDFs Like Gaza Palestine Relations Bureau or something That guy was a liberal Zionist And he was like really critical of Smotrich and Ben Gavir

that interview had something absolutely harrowing in it, which is that, you know, not only is Israel funding GHF and pretending that they aren't, what they're trying to do is, and what they're going to be starting to do soon, is basically giving weapons to the gangs inside Gaza to, which, because obviously this is a famine, right? And in famine conditions,

usually you've got the rise of organized crime. who can, because of their relationship to violence and the breakdown of the state's monopoly on violence can position themselves in ways where they can get certain goods and resources. So there's gangs in Gaza, and the, you know, IDF is now talking about arming these gangs to the teeth to go after Hamas,

which is basically just going to create... We are talking about the purposeful engineering of a genocide that is like, it's it's it's it's methodical but it's also pure chaos right it's like just kill them by any and all means necessary like bomb them to death starve them to death like fucking shoot him to death deputize deputize i mean can i can i just say this is just real quick and i just say that this is mirroring right or there's a precedent for this in the west bank where settlers and i have to say settlers these are not like just citizens the whole entire point of these people in a settler

project is to kind of how can I say it sort of materialize that manifest destiny mentality right use the civilians as the shock troops exactly and exactly and they're given U.S. guns to do it you know they're given U.S. guns to do it all right which is what these gangs will be armed with when they talk about IDF arming them it's U.S. weapons I'm curious how they're going to spin that though do you know what I'm saying like you know how like kind of I think it's al-Qaeda, for example, sort of took on the posture of, like, an organized crime syndicate

in, like, the Horn of Atten, Somalia, and Mogadishu. Like, sort of, they kind of had moved into there and all that kind of stuff. I wonder how the list of Slotkins of the world and all the liberal Zionists, even, fuck, even Bernie Sanders. What are they going to call that shit? You know what I mean?

Whether they're going to call it when you actually have, like, real, like, thugs and gangsters, you know what I mean? Like, going into, places and like murdering people and being deputized by the fascist government. Well, it's patriotism, you know what I'm saying? That's what they're going to probably call. Are they allies?

They're liken it to some kind of patriotism. Yeah. You know? Yeah. That's a great point, Tom. Right. Like, where does it fall within their carefully orchestrated schematic of who's the good guys and who's the bad guys here? Because if the, if the goal is to take down Hamas by any means necessary, then like, surely you

must support the roving, you know, gangs of war boys that are going to be fucking deputized but like that's the thing that's also the contradiction it's like the fucking famine itself was literally organized orchestrated to take down

Hamas Netanyahu said it in March when they cut off all aid he literally explicitly said that they were organizing a famine they were cutting off aid to take down Hamas and so it's like you're right Tom like Bernie Sanders they should be asked this like does that mean

you support that if that is your aim you know and and let me let me let me let me let me just outline something to underscore something too terrence i'm about that is that i've read like for example in this um this new yorker interview um who's who's who's i forgot the journalist um who had done it but talking to a a an israeli journalist who it was chottner it was chattner interviewing that seagull guy right from channel 12 right yes exactly that seagull guy so when he says that humanitarian aid could be possibly used to strengthen or bolster or provide the continuation of Hamas's, you know, war on Israel, like, in and of itself, you're saying that you believe that inherently that

all Palestinians, right, are Hamas, right? That, that humanitarian aid can be used by this all-encompassing enemy, which includes the population, right, to prevent the death of innocent people, you know? Yeah. That was that, that interview. And this is, I said a second ago, you have homework audience, the Lysa Slotkin interview. Go read that Chotner interview in The New Yorker. Because that was fascinating. Noah Colwyn pointed this out. Everyone should read it because it's a perfect document, a perfect example of how often Israeli leaders and media figures lie.

Just like fucking, just the amount of times that the editor, you know, editors know that this person is lying, just telling a bold face. fucking lie. It was astonishing. The amount of bracketed italics. Yeah. He was like, wait a minute. This is a fucking lie. Yeah, just a straight, bald-faced fucking lie.

And the thing is, is at the end of that interview, you kind of get a glimpse into the mind of how the fascist mind works because he says, I disagree with ethnic cleansing in Gaza. But then the last line of the interview, he says, I do believe all Gaza should immigrate out of Gaza. It's like there's no difference, but in their wine, the way they have carved this exception out, and they have arrived here by the ideology of Zionism, which, as I said, necessitates that Palestinians are degenerate. They're subhuman. They're not worthy of human life. They must be basically pushed to the ends of the earth or exterminated wholesale. That's how you get there. You are able to carve out that tiny little sliver of a fucking exception, which I've seen everybody do. In which, again, all of American media in institutional life is bent towards this idea.

Even Chris Hayes, like someone who said, like, he quoted the New York, the Chautner's interview with that IDF guy. I can't remember his name now. He said, this interview is the first time I felt like I had any understanding of what problem the GHF was supposed to solve, and it's a political one. a big part of Netanyahu's coalition wants zero air entering Gaza it's like dude these people have degrees okay people like fucking Chris Hayes

all these fucking presumably they've read about the Rwandan genocide in Indonesia in the 60s in the Armenian genocide manifest destiny the Holocaust what the fuck is so hard about grasping wrapping your mind around the concept

that Israelis want to exterminate all Palestinians when you're wiping out multiple generations what do you fucking i just i mean i think two men i know i said this in the the patreon but i just think again and this is not an original point but the horrific memory of the holocaust right is obviously used by israel to um laundered by israel to justify this and it's just like you know i guess the part for me which i mean maybe the answer is simpler than i'm making it out to be but just like how is it that you can see that and the perpetrators

are using the Holocaust as cover to do that, even straight up saying that Hamas is trying to commit its own its second genocide against the Jewish people. But somehow the Palestinians are what deserving of this Holocaust? Well, the other disgusting wrinkle to that is like after the Holocaust, like sort of like derision for Holocaust victims became a tenant of Zionism. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Right. It started out that way, obviously, because, you know, that they were, you know, going to Palestine before, you know, the Holocaust, but, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's like, well, it's the, it's the, it's the muscular Jew, right? It's the fact that the Jews who, you know, were genocided in the Holocaust was that they were too weak, right? They weren't strong enough. They didn't fight back for themselves, you know, which is just fucking a historical and offensive, you know? Yeah. But again, it's, yeah, you're right. Like, that's why Zionism, why Zionism is a fascist ideology. Like, like, it posits a hierarchy of human ability and standard and like capability and organization that and worth and worth right that is like genuinely i mean it's exterminationist even to the people who are within the quote ethnic tribe but don't support the ubermensch aspect of it and i there's something i just want to say about like zionism and like the degree to which it is like taken hold within all americans

institutions in American life, even despite the fact that, like, at this point, over 50% of American adults disapprove of Israel. Like, I think it's like 56% or something like that. I think that, like, the New York Times itself had a article about how, like, the starvation is causing, is causing Israel to be isolated at the global stage. Like, I think it's, like, 21 out of 24 countries polled. let me pull up the statistic here another pew poll conducted last month found that 20 of 24 countries surveyed half of more half or more of adults had an unfavorable view of Israel so I mean uh and then again just within America over half Americans across the board Democratic Republican nonpartisan whatever disapprove Israel and and and sympathize with Palestinians

over Israel. But the, the, and so I just, you know, like I said, I just kind of take that for granted that Zionism has not filtered as an ideology. I'm not even talking about the specific individuals. I'm talking about in the Marxist sociological sense, as an ideology,

the degree to which it has dispersed and become internalized by the people who are responsible for reproducing power, both domestically and at the global stage. the degree to which it has taken hold, but you see how it can't become dislodged.

And the way, I don't know about you guys, but like the clearest example of this was the New York Times running a correction on a story about how this photo of this starving child, this child had a pre-existing condition of some kind of like palsy, cerebral palsy or something, that made his, bones more

maybe more brittle or more apparent through his skin and therefore he wasn't starving pronounced yeah yeah and like I mean dude that's like medicare that's like just not not to steal tweet from one Will Medeker

but like that's like Will Minnaker said when he said you know it's the same Holocaust denial as people saying well Anne Frank died from typhus right it's it's it's Holocaust denial this is the thing like right who was responsible for Anne Frank dying of typhus it doesn't

fucking matter v had pre it's a starving child and this is what i'm talking about when i talk about like zionism as a as a set a preordained set of political imperatives and prerogatives that require you to dehumanize the palestinians you would only run a story like that if you had not thoroughly for multiple generations in a row thoroughly internalize the idea that these people are subhuman and not worthy of human life you could only only run a fucking correction on a story where this kid is well actually he's not starving

he has a pre-existing condition and therefore we can't say that this famine is not directly organized even though the people themselves doing it routinely say they're doing it and even said after October 7th that they planned on doing it that's what Zionism is

it's the part of your brain that like that's the machine part right as a fascist ideology that's the machine part that takes over I mean I don't know man I just And the contradiction is this man The contradiction

And like the kind of like You know These two viewpoints that are held At the same time It's sort of like Okay It might be a genocide Or maybe it's not even a genocide

But now the war is unjust right But at the same time It's not even a humanizing Palestinians By recognizing that But you have to take a step back And say that well The conditions that Palestinians are facing, there isn't a clear perpetrator, right?

This is almost naturalized. Where you've mentioned it before, Terrence, is that Israel can't be mentioned as a perpetrator, not that it's Western allies. And it's almost as if it's an act of God or some amorphous spirit that is hanging over the Palestinian people that is causing this, or that they're just subhuman. Yeah. You know? It's a very disembodied, it creates a very disembodied experience where it's like you have

to like oh my god there's this unspeakable horrific crime being visited upon them but who's doing it it's like it's an alien spirit or something that's like in the planet like but we can't acknowledge it it's just i mean and i don't know the natural state of the Palestinian people you know yeah it is really wild like and also it the degree to which like i said zionism has become dispersed within the american political class the people like i said responsible for for reproducing political, economic power in this country and ideological power. You weirdly saw how people who have not, like I said,

drunk from that well, like, they kind of are able to see it more clearly. Even people who are just straight up, like, also genocidal people in their own right, like Marjorie Taylor Green, calling it a genocide, right? It's just like, clearly this is someone who's not, obviously she doesn't take A-PAC money but also at the same time it's beyond just taking A-PAC money it's also like she

doesn't sit in on the fucking meetings of like I said how powers reproduce Pentagon meetings like fucking domestic security homeland security meetings and all this stuff so obviously she's not going to be like indoctrinated into that Zionist ideology so it's like weirdly enough she's able to see

that it's a genocide and I'm not saying like we should you know kudos to her and all this that's to Marjorie. Yeah, exactly. That should be a fucking stain on every Democrat who, like, if you're looking at two things, one, that Trump supports this, but two, that 50, over 50% of Americans, Republican or Democrat, don't support Israel. And you're still out there going, like, Alyssa Slotkin's still going out there and saying, like, oh, we can't call it a genocide. Like, we still have to support Israel. What the fuck are you doing? I'm sorry, but if, if Israel has a lower favorability rating, um, then eating glass. you know what I'm saying then I could I could pretty much say

that maybe you should assess why that is you know like what the fuck are we doing here man stop providing cover for this shit it's fucking heinous

about three points ahead in Minnesota yeah I don't I don't know there's not much else to say about this you know

another thing that drives me fucking insane about this there is one more thing why why did we I feel like

by the end of the Biden administration we were at 140,000 conservatively dead in this. And we've just, like, went back to the 60,000 number. And even though we see people continue to die every day, that number doesn't move. Dude, it's, Tom. And they attribute it to the Gaza Health Ministry?

You know, what's so insane about that? We live in Holocaust denial world. It's like neo-Nazis run the fucking shit. So it's like the Lancet published a number that was close to half a million over the weekend, something like $450,000. million. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just saw Sam Hussaini. Yeah, it's like the number is close to half a million. And we just stuck at 60 because that seems like, you know, it's like America's a triage nation where there's an acceptable amount of rat shit that can be on the top of my Coca-Cola can. You know what I mean? So there's an acceptable amount of death. There's an acceptable amount of people that have to serve from this thing or that thing in this country. And we've landed on 60,000 was the acceptable, like, palatable number to keep the gears running because if most people realize half a million people dead, that hits harder than 60K. And it's like we just arbitrarily decided that one night and everybody's just been repeating

that when it's, it was a hundred forty K was the number when Biden was still in office. Well, bro, we start, we start, it wasn't even arbitrarily. We started it because we realized that we were entering the final solution. You know what I'm saying? That Gaza was entering inside. That Israel was creating a final solution that it was mass starvation was going to kill so many more fucking people, you know? Yeah, it's like, it's like, yeah, I mean, you know, it's the same thing with, like,

Iraq, like, you know, like, we know the number's like close to two million, but I heard, like, there's people still say 80,000 people died in Iraq. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. Well, Tom, like that number, the number closer to two million with Iraq, it's like that number probably in the same way that the number for like. Half a million is probably conservative. Well, dude, like people in Vietnam still die from stepping on landmines and from Agent Orange. you know what I'm saying like that number will continue to fucking grow and like the um as many people have pointed out like starvation is not something that you just fix immediately like I've seen people like Rokana and other people try to like plead like let's get the food in there immediately it's like that's not something that you just fix like overnight it drives me insane when they're like oh yeah the result of famine is just give

everybody two pieces of fucking bread it requires a medical intervention and like a long medical intervention to get like stop wasting to like get everybody's nutrients electrolytes all that shit right man like I mean it's because at one point the body becomes so atrophied and wasted that no amount of food when it's too late

that's injected into the fucking population will save things. Think about how much you feel like shit if you just haven't eaten in like five or six hours and your blood sugar's low you know what I mean and that's like the you know your body will start triggering all your warning signs like you'll feel lightheaded you'll feel dizzy you'll feel like heart pout

all that shit. Now, imagine just having to live in far worse than that. You know what I mean? Where the body's eating itself. I mean, it's hell. It's a different kind of. I mean, you've had your, but when your organs, yeah, exactly, Tom, when your organs start eating themselves because of severe malnutrition, I mean, I saw this, I think in the same piece, the Schotner piece, Terrence and Tom, there's like, you know, the doctor talking about treating a Palestinian baby who he thought was a newborn. Because, like, skin and bones is not, aren't even the worst to describe like the emaciation, the horrific hellish amaciation of fucking, like, you know, like how many fucking people and it's crowing, you know?

And this is why we have to, this is why now it's like, oh, well, we're going to let in the aid food trucks. Well, that's not it when you're fucking killing doctors, when you're blowing up hospitals, you know? Yeah. I mean, it's really astonishing that the number is over 50% just with this 60,000 number. Like, if the fucking American public knew that it was actually closer to fucking half a million, like what would that number be like you know what I'm saying like what would the

number what would the approval rating be on that that's just yeah I mean I just I don't know and the furthermore like the attempt to like demonize anybody trying to take them aid like Chris Smalls right like getting imprisoned and beaten up like just like to me it's like to me it's really it really kind of gives the game away that like people People just wanting to deliver aid, food or whatever, are basically listed as terrorists and demonized because they just want to do something like, just something, anything,

to try to fucking alleviate what's going on because we are helpless at this moment in America, but it's our fucking weapons that do this, and it's our fucking politicians that do it. But like just people wanting to do anything, anything that like they're sort of demonized and called like Hamas sympathizers or whatever or in Chris Small's case like beaten up like held prisoner I will have to I will have to add to that as far as I know what's been reported that the only person that was captured and

beaten and imprisoned was Chris Smalls a black guy if you just want to think about Israel's racial animosity right to anyone else right you can look at Ethiopian Jews in Israel too as well, you know? I mean, I don't know how much more you could clearly see that a racial caste system is pretty much codified, which is literally codified by law, but enshrined within this, within the settler colonial project, then the only black guy getting his fucking ass beat, you know? Yeah. And imprisoned, you know what I mean? I mean, those cops or those people train American cops, so is it really any, like, surprise why our cops are the way that they are? I mean, right um i don't know i just there's really not a whole lot else to say about it um i just um

and routinely i mean that new york times correction just it broke me in a way that just like you you see the um inhumanity of this stuff right like you see like what humans are capable of um and how uh just the mass um deprivation and just catastrophe and just catastrophe and just catastrophe catastrophe visited on another people. But, like, that is a whole other level of inhumanity that I can't even, like, wrap my mind around, like that, like, because, like I said, you have so deeply internalized this idea of Zionism, you have carved out these tiny little exceptions, and that is what racism is.

That's what racism does. It's why, like, it's why I said, I don't know, you know. I've thought about this a lot. Like, it's why I said in the days after October 7th, when we all knew what was coming, it's why I said, like, resist the urge to dehumanize the people that are going to be perpetrating this. Because ultimately, at the end of the day, it's ideology that does this. That's what makes people do these acts, right? Like, like, dehumanize other people, right?

Like, that's, and that's kind of what I'm getting at, that, like, yes, I mean, these people, people are monsters they aren't human right like the israelis um that's taken for granted but i guess what i mean is that like this is also the way racism works racism is an ideology it is it is a story a construction of of uh prerequisites a construction of um you know stories that you tell yourself about the way the world works and why it has to be the way it is it's how you justify the status quo. It's how you justify the mass death of an entire people. And I think that is an idea that most Americans are, they know a little bit about it. They think like, oh, racism might just be like in my head, like I have to be nicer to my neighbor or, you know, like we have to be

tolerant of other people. It's like racism is a, it is an ideology. There was a time on the planet before it existed. You know what I'm saying? Like it is the cornerstone of modernity. It is what modernity is constructed around and it's a death drive harnessed and sort of you know facilitated by human monsters right if you want that synthesis

of like these people are monsters but they're also people operating in ideology it's a death drive completely just yeah harness and channeled by human monsters because that's exactly what they are man you saw that in that New Yorker interview with that guy from Channel 12 I mean just

the open contempt he had for not only Palestinians, but anybody who would even dare show solidarity with them. Something that he shares with most liberal leaders, from Bernie Sanders to Anthony Blinken to Madaglacias.

They have open contempt for anybody who would dare support the Palestinian people. And maybe it's not so open sometimes. Maybe it's not so insane. Like, I don't want to make Bernie sound like he's a fucking frothing racist like he hates all of Palestinians.

But he is a liberal Zionist. And the thing is, is that liberal Zionism... I mean, he continues to vote for funding for the... Go ahead, go ahead. Well, I was just going to say liberal Zionism is how we got here. Those... Those... There were plenty of liberal Zionist governments in Israel

in the 50s and 60s and even up to the fucking 80s. That is just a part of how it works. At a long enough timeline, it will end in this. Well, if you even look at the kibbutz, man. If you even look at the kibbutz, it was supposedly a more benign form of colonialism right you know that that some people claim has socialistic tendencies to it and I'm like well but for who you know but for who right who's exclusive to that exactly yeah um okay well I don't um any further thoughts on that um no I will I will say that um you know Chris Mills um he

did get uh released today and I just got to say that um I wish I had the quote in front of me But I think he said before he boarded the flotilla that if this was the sort of last mission that he went on, then it's, and these are my words, I guess, but it's more than worth it because God's the teaches us how to love. Quote, I remember he saw that. And I think that, you know, I mean, at a time when so many people have been ostracized or lost their jobs or have been harassed or arrested or whatever the case may be or under threat of deportation, you know, just got to give it up to the dude because, um, You know, he's showing us some fucking integrity that I wish would be shared with, you know, the vast majority of the whole entire political establishment, you know, immediate establishment. Yeah. That's a good quote. I like that. With power.

And I would offer that right now Democrats own nothing in Washington. So the don't play powerless with me. You're in a state senator. I understand what you can do. And in terms of who runs our foreign policy, I just think it's interesting, right? that there was a ton of protests when Democrats were in charge. There was a protest in Manhattan yesterday. Okay.

You know, we're at an hour and a half here. We should be going soon. I did want to read this quick article for you guys, something I thought you might enjoy. This is in the New York Times, AI-driven education. founded in Texas and coming to a school near you. In Austin, Texas, where the- So Texas instruments, but the instrument is AI? No, you are the instrument, my friends.

Are they seriously going to liquidate all those $27,000 your extremely important jobs that, like, we treat the people that work on like absolute dog shit? I think that's the plan, my friend. I think that we are... We're suicide, I swear to God. I swear to God, I hope

this piece of shit fucking place deserves to have the fire of a thousand hells rained on it. It's... You're right, Tom. That's the goal here. It's like,

the project of neoliberalism began as an onslaught that Melissa Cooper or Melinda Cooper book talks about this kind of revolution like it began as a attack on public um sector workers most of whom were people of color because those are the only jobs that that uh black americans and Hispanic Americans could get um was mostly in the public sector and neoliberalism started as an attack on private sector unions and the public sector in general and the education sector is

one that's been kind of protected for a long time because I mean And those jobs are kind of some of the only jobs in a lot of these small town communities that vote Republican, right? So it's like you kind of, you don't want to fuck up the bag there. But we're rapidly heading towards a place where, as you said, Tom, like, even those jobs, like, we're fucking, yeah, even the public, the public school teacher is going to get the boot soon. In Austin, Texas, where the Titans of Technology have moved their companies and built mansions, some of their children are also subjects of a new innovation, schooling through AI. And with ambitious expansion plans in the works, a pricey private AI school in Austin called Alpha School will be replicating itself across the country this fall.

Supporters of Alpha School for the Alpha males. That's right. The supporters of Alpha School believe an AI-Ford approach helps tailor an education to a student's skills and interest. McKinsey Price, a podcaster and influencer who co-founded Alpha, has called Classrooms, quote, the next global battlefield. I've seen the future, she wrote,

And it isn't 10 years away. I'm doing it again. Tom is hanging himself on here. I'm going to start presenting a cake for Tom. Like, how will he kill himself this episode? Um, like chatbots, AI and education is proliferating. Alpha already has branches in Miami and Brownsville, Texas, where Elon Musk built his company town around SpaceX. The next expansion will bring Alpha's model to more than a dozen.

other American cities, including New York City and Orlando. Parents and teachers, we need to embrace this change, Ms. Price wrote after President Trump signed an executive order pushing AI in schools. At Alpha's Flagship, dude, this fucking killed me, dog. This

killed me. At Alpha's flagship, students spent a total of just two hours a day on subjects like reading and math using AI-driven software. The remaining hours rely on AI and an adult, quote, guide, not a teacher to help students develop practical skills in areas such as entrepreneurship, public

speaking, and financial literacy. We're going to go back to Zaris Russia levels of a literacy dog. But also, like, how are you going to disrupt sectors when you can't read? I mean, you know what I'm saying? Like, how are you going to start your goofy-ass companies that manufacture problems that don't solved in the first place with all the valves removed if you can't find maybe that's why they can't that's why they take the vows out because they can't that's what yeah yeah yeah if you can't read tom you can come up with better names for your startups right that's right like

we're going to we're going back like scott's a leg with this type of a spelling you know no ballots you have motherfuckers naming their companies after like uh you know like greek legends but never don't even have any framework or having any reference point for what it even means. You have companies called like Odysseus with all with the O's and news taken out. And they know who Odysseus was. Oh, man. It's pretty bad.

I think part of the, I think part of this is like we were saying, a little bit ago at the beginning of the show, it's part of it is driven by they literally want kids back to work. But like, it's going to create a very weird, um, dynamic. because those kids aren't going to get jobs. There's not even jobs for adults. The kids aren't getting jobs. I mean, but, like, I joked about this on Twitter, but, like, truly, we're entering an era where in, like, the 13th century,

if your child was, like, literate, like, you got to be a, you would probably get to be maybe a priest or a courtier in the king's retinue, right? Right, right. And that's, we're re-entering that. Like, I remember in the 90s, people would be like, do you remember how, like, ambitious parents were in the 90s? They were like, you can learn how to code

and learn multiple languages because you can be anything you want to be. And now we're going back to, like, you should learn how to read because now you might get to be in the king's retinue. You know what I was thinking too just now, bro? It's like, it's the way that technology and these emerging technologies such as AI are being used to de-educate people because I remember in the 90s man when when computers were more prevalent in schools we were using in the early 2000s we were using Mavis Beacon typewriter which was a program that taught you

how to use a quirky keyboard because computers are more prevalent in schools but now and you know the fact that yeah the internet and you would be able to go online to use the cordy keyboard to learn anything and find everything in this vast sort of vantage point of human information and now it's like the technology being used to make you dumber you know what I mean that was just locking you in to in curiosity and more I guess profitable modes of thinking or careers such as like I mean I don't the same shit they told us when I was in grade school they would tell us that well here's how it is in communist Russia is that you get they decide what you're going to be when you're born and you can't do

anything else but that it's like yeah right right all the thing that you all you know erroneously attributed is what you all are doing the whole time well i went to canada this week stayed with some friends and we were watching um smote enron commercials on youtube which are trippy as fuck go go look up in ron commercials on youtube it's like it it transcends adam curtis b-roll it's how it's it's insanity but in one it's got like the guy playing one of the executives like in an age when i can send a fax from an airplane and i was like my god that seems quaint by comparison now you know what i mean when you got i was like and that's bad when you're like you're feeling warm and fuzzy about enron you know what i mean

Right, right, right. They, um, teaching children financial literacy is like a very hilarious concept. Like, I read this interview, I read this story about Scott Bessent over the weekend, over this week said, you know, the Trump accounts where they're giving every baby born from now until 2028, like $1,000 that they can use for, um, some capital gains. Like it has to be, it's a stock for future. Future algae rations, you know, if it falls apart. He said, Scott Besson said that the purpose of the Trump accounts was literally, I can't believe he admitted this, it was a backdoor way of privatizing Social Security and teaching

young Americans about financial literacy. It's like, okay. I eat financial crimes. Do they really, like, I guess like they think that like we're going to give every child $1,000 in a capital account and then like, They can use it to, like, it's a stock, you know what I mean? Like, it's a stock market. Well, I mean, like, if we lift our values, we would be doing that, you know?

Like, if we're going to be capitalists, let's do that. Might as well. Like, teach check-kiding and fucking derivatives in elementary school. You know, like, teach finance crimes early. I'm telling you, you better off be burning those Trump baby bonds. Because by the time, like, the way that the American of a dollar will devalue, you're better off burning them. for energy and heat, you know what I'm saying? Like, and you're bobbed out, you do American

City, I'm telling you right now. That's true. That is true. Well, the Alpha School, the school was founded under Legacy of Education, a for-profit education company. That's all the words of for-profit education company should be

banned from human life. It should not... It should be grounds for immediate imprisonment. that's baffam it speaking to you right there man that's evil shit it began in 2014 it now serves about 200 students from kindergarten through eighth grade and another 50 high schoolers across two campuses in central austin tuition is

$40,000 a year at the austin schools and guides earn guides earn six figure salaries you're not even a teacher you're just a guide like you just like tell them how to tinker with chat gbt um uh Let's see. The AI-led lessons, free up guides to, so I guess they do do a few AI-led lessons. Free up guides to focus on motivating students instead of on-time intensive tasks,

like lesson planning and grading. I can motivate them when they don't got to work for it because of the AI, that's the whole fucking point. I guess that's the thing. Like, it's freeing them up so they don't have to do lesson planning and grading. It's like, I mean, okay, you could quibble with the, the whole premise of grading in general and testing.

Like, you know, pedagogia, I'm sure much smarter people than me who know about pedagogy can probably articulate or critique that. But, like, lesson planning is pretty, you know, like, my mom's a teacher. Like, you got to do lesson planning. That's part of pedagogy. Like, you have to construct, like, a framework for kids to understand something. And the reason why it's arduous and cumbersome is because teachers don't get fucked. like people people like the way people shit on teachers like oh they fucking take three months off a year well they fucking at the end of every week they probably wind up working like 80 hours a week during

the school year because not only do they spend like eight hours a day in a classroom but they also have to do lesson planning and grading so i mean it's just like it's just a way for them to further like destroy that's public sector but also try to squeeze as much surplus out of it as possible I mean, this is what we talked with talking about. And also just too, it makes me think of like when people complain about nurses without actually placing the onus on the for-profit health care system. Yeah. It just seems to hollow out public confidence, you know what I mean? A hundred percent, yeah.

Let's see. Alpha is also trying to establish a public school charter network called Unbound Academy, Jesus Christ. Oh my god There was something in here These names are fucking killing me Yeah there was something in here About like one of the lessons that they did Oh in the afternoon students

Focus on projects that require interaction With other students such as wilderness training Cooking and sports For example fifth and sixth graders last year Decided Okay this is the funny thing Okay so they're trying to say that like If I focusing on AI too much

We might be engendering within these children in like alienation, like they're just looking at a screen all day. So, like, they have to do some group activities. Okay, so what kind of group activities can they do? Oh, I've got it. Here we go. Last year, they had to learn how to create a food truck as a business. And then to accomplish their goal, they had to learn how to budget, form a business plan

with the help of a chat bot and to cook eggs. I mean, cooking eggs is a good skill to have, I guess. But, like, that being the way you teach kids how to teach kids how to socialize like form of business together also I'm interested at the wilderness trading because that might sound like a positive thing especially if like you know we're heading towards this like

post apocalyptic health hunting the most hunting the most dangerous gang they teach how to build a fire grow food and ride horses we have our marauding rover marauding band class

yeah they're going to teach yeah they're going to be a Visigoth. Yeah, yeah. How to form successful checkpoints in neighborhoods, you know? Yeah. How to scalp invaders? How to disrupt the checkpoint space? How to conduct the siege?

How to loot and maraud are neighboring towns. Yeah, how to make a tribune. How to how to dangle your enemy's rotisserie style over a boiling pot of cauldron with an apple in their mouth To elicit where they hide their extra food We're just going to have torture method classes actually How to make a soup out of your enemies How to interrogate your prisoners about where they're hiding the gasoline Yeah.

See, those classes are more useful, brother, man, and financial literacy, dog. I need to be on those classes right now. Because I don't want to fucking die. I want a fighting chance, you know? I really don't want to die, please. I don't want to die. I would have lived so badly.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, how to stretch your prisoners on the wheel. How to break them on the wheel. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God, dude, that got me. Oh, my God. Oh, man, all right.

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