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Folks, the president threw burger. He threw burger, ok? Burger was thrown, the ketchup…running down the White House walls. So we catch up on the only good gossip out of the J6 hearings, then continue pulling on some threads from Monday’s episode. The dire judicial stranglehold on democracy, useless dems, potential challengers to Biden in ‘24, the cowardice of cops, and the need to build with people in real life. But there’s also some real silly stuff in here.

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Eamon Short

Hey! You can't say that! That's really offensive! To compare that asshole to the far more noble, intelligent and socially conscious retards out there is very unfair. 99.9% of retarda out there are far more high function and morally upstanding than this troglodyte, mongolid, waterheaded cunt.

Reece Coren

every time Felix mentions thomas jefferson fighting the barbary pirates you know it’s a great bit

Dez Martin

Amber good more amber

Sean Bradley

so glad i waited to smoke this blunt for this

Beehive Fucker

this little piggy is ready for his slop, folks

saintbeau

this isn't the adam friedland show...

gill

burger was thrown

Woke Batou

Thanks for getting me to the weekend

saintbeau

just took an entire bottle of robitussin, time to tap in to the meta.

BryceSprungstein

DeSantis is much more dangerous than Chapo thinks. ANd he won't have to run against Trump, the dems are clearing the deck for DeSantis now.

Sam

Who is JB?

Brad

Fun fact: all the Pritzker grandkids were forced to go to law school. They could do fuck all after, but if you wanted to get that trust money you had to get your law degree.

Steven P Schiesser

👏 You guys are not only the funniest you’ve ever been tonight you’re also the most profound we have to stop thinking anything of the Democratic Party I used to give them money about six months ago I stopped I think everyone else is going to stop as well. I am afraid however they’re going to start World War III with Russia because they don’t know how else to stay relevant

Austin Heath

Solid first ep, interested to see where this new podcast goes.

HeyB00B00

The supreme court ruling that allows the oklahoma general to headshot Hillary and the Dems response had me dying 😂😂😂

HeyB00B00

One Half of Tenacious D

Steven P Schiesser

Property rights as ideology is the chain that must be broken

William

Nah, there won't be a world war 3 so don't worry

Brian

Predictit.org. You’re welcome

ScottB

Is Felix on Letterboxd?

Hugo

Wrong! The point that JB is the biggest boys the dems have produced is Jim Justice erasure. Sure, he campaigned for trump and switched his party with in months, but WV is proud that we have the LARGEST governor

Jessica Rios

I agree with Felix 100%. Trump looked way cooler once that testimony came out. At least he was trying to go to the Capitol. Can’t see Biden lunging for anyone

CR

Very good ep, appreciate you. The part with the Burroughs quote really got me

Poppy Chulo

What's the picture from? It looks like a younger Rutger Hauer about to blast a younger Rene Russo with a desert eagle.

Taylor Pence

Can't wait to be out on the Farm with the boys.

Poppy Chulo

Maybe Biden would make a small groan of protest if one of his aides took away his tapioca pudding before he was finished gumming it down.

Padjoe

Olympus has Burger.

Mauve_Avenger

Not a bad time for people to take to heart the perennially good (if obvious; see Jordan Peterson) advice of de-cluttering your life, getting into shape, etc. Whether you need to motivate yourself by some fantasy of running from/towards cops or not, the truth is that having your shit slightly better put together will 1) probably make you feel better in and of itself, 2) create room in your life for involvement in political activity, whatever that looks like, and 3) likely increase your confidence in / the efficacy of your organizing efforts (halo effect, etc) Plus, at minimum it's better than doom-scrolling some social media feed

Alex Berkowitz

I think equating the military and police mindset is a misread

Dan

I appreciate Felix’s moments of levity

Mike Mariano

John Waters - Cecil B. Demented. That’s Melanie Griffith and Stephen Dorff.

Joe

This was good.

Andrew Cross

unlock this business maybe. kinda resonates to me, someone who isn’t in the US

Travis White

Cecil B. Demented, the movie Felix mentioned: that's Stephen Dorff and Melanie Griffith in the thumbnail.

D.O.D

Pritzker not currently on their docket of candidates

Noah Swain

Whats the out tro audio from?

D.O.D

William Burroughs x Bill Laswell - the road to the western lands

AKorgar

Thumbs up for a President JB Pritzker. Let's get a Democrat version of Taft in office

miss cloud

bro that's literally the opposite of the sentiment presented here, solutions are not always individualistic as society, and peterson, dictates, sometimes you need to organise with and rely on others

miss cloud

is this satire? haha

Mauve_Avenger

Not satire -- but these aren't solutions to political problems, just personal ones. The sentiment presented in this ep is in part about recognizing the severe limits of individual political acts. There's a need to join / create / look out for new cooperative efforts. ... But it's definitely true that personal bullshit can get in the way of that. Things in the US are even more fucked than usual, and it's easy to sink into bad coping mechanisms (e.g., too much drugs, endless content binges, doom-scrolling, etc). There may/may not exist solid local political outlets for someone, but there are usually opportunities available to feel less shitty day to day. Feeling better can give people more energy to devote to those group efforts that do matter

Patrick Burke

No joke this was a really great ep, definitely lifted my spirits a bit on this dark July Friday. The refrain about people fighting back despite dipshit Democrats is the thing I’ve been holding on to in the face of this bs.

K H

In a reality where the most powerful and prolific forces are imbecile forces, I'm strengthened by one question. What is more imbecilic than hope?

Drew McGill

I googled JB and about died

BigBoto

Starting to feel more and more like Reno 911! was a documentary

BigBoto

Best $5 you ever spent?

aKg

Anyone know the music at the midpoint?

miltonic

Good episode, thank you.

justdave

Ich bin ein burger

IHaveHemorrhoids

"bodenga" Matt wins funniest mispronunciation today

Ascetic Blur

I'm sorry I couldn't listen this week boy's I was too busy furiously penning strongly worded poetry for the Revolution.

Stan Refermat

Thanks for that ending boys, I really could use something like that rn

Jacob Jones

Feel like this one should be unlocked. It's really important. A wider audience needs to hear this.

Mario Ortega

That ending was really powerful, thank you boys!

Clean Shirt Piggie

So do we or do we not continue to pay taxes to our overlords & slavemasters?

Ian Rogers

Always love an Oklahoma shoutout

Oatmeal

I’m gonna tell Ock that you said Bodegas suck, he’s my best friend and he’s gonna be super pissed at you guys

K U

Even though Chris writes them, I always read the episode synopsis in Will's voice.

Woke Batou

If the courts virtually eliminate elections, at least DSA can stop being the progressive wing of a failed party

Treppy

not my house tho!

Damen Irving

Northwestern’s law school is literally called the Pritzker School of Law lol—you better get a JD when you’re family owns the college you go to

Doug Cartel

It's interesting how social forms are the last thing to go in a famine before people start eating each other, because America has this contradiction of drowning in material wealth but also behaving as if there's a famine constantly. Well, the middle class, anyways. Incapable of forming social bonds, viewing all strangers as potential threats until proven otherwise, but also having a house. sidenote: Police budgets are going up forever, but they are also having manpower problems like the military.

Maxwell Harkness

Its precisely why I don't believe it. I don't believe anything that shows him to have any even mild courage. The beauty of all these Trump hearings is that its implicitly unbelievable because its all GOP hack liars testifying.

sir peepus

I’m going to do lots of things in Minecraft 😎

Liz

Thank you for this episode. I know it may be bleak but at the end of the episode when you talk about organizing people and how that is the only way forward if we hope to make positive change was key and absolutely correct. I helped to start a grassroots organization 6 years ago and we are doing that in my tiny part of the country. I could not be more proud of what we've built and how we've managed to change our conditions by collective action. If you want more information google Lancaster Stands Up. If anyone wants information on how to do this where you live, contact us/me at: info@lancasterstandsup.org Solidarity Forever ✊🏾

Doug Cartel

"saying no by yourself" is the challenge every manager gives you when he brings multiple supervisors into the room during annual employee review.

Degrassi Knoll

Well said. Perfect capper to such a bleak ep...

Dan

Matt says “Dems can’t do anything” and he’s right and that’s why they need to be removed. They are structurally tied to do a nothing strategy. They need be removed. But when Matt says “have faith in other people who will some how wake up when things get really bad” is classic impotent leftist bullshit. Things don’t always end up nice because people are good, and that terrifying conditions will somehow summon their true virtue. Talk about a “fantasy escape hatch”. Fuck off Matt—, find your American generals needed to reform and organize political operations to break the structures the ensure a stagnant Democratic Party, who are capable to then go on to completely undo the republicans strategy— or just shut the fuck up. Because that’s the kind of shit that’s been done to the American people and there is no one to stand up and fight back. Matt’s whole philosophy reminds me of the Tom Waits song: God’s away on business. Who are the ones we left in charge? Killers thieves and lawyers.

Jonny Mac

Thanks for the episode. Felix, I love whenever you go to the Glenn Simpson well, but you forgot Nelly Orr this time!!

Degrassi Knoll

Embarrassed to say I rationalized sticking with them, even after they ratfucked Bernie. I wasn't supporting Jb specifically - but it is fairly obvious the entire party is in lockstep with their real bosses... I have to say the speed in which they started walking back promises was kind of impressive. Joe is just so happy to have finally won after -40 years. Expect more bike riding antics, as I'm pretty sure that's all he's in it for.

Frederick Von Drasek

....top episode. You should unlock this one. It needs to get around...

Dean

Matt would probably know, but what is the dynamic that led to the dissolution of the older parties like the Whigs and transitioned into the current Democratic and Republican parties and is that something at all adaptable to the modern 2 party system?

Bobi Jon-son Kenobi

I know it’s trite to make cultural references relating real life, but we all gotta be like Guts facing down the blobs at the Tower of Conviction (hey, at least it isn’t a Star Wars/Harry Potter reference)

DRV

You guys keep pointing towards the path ❤

Luke

generally this episode is goated and should be unlocked but i gotta critique one thing as a rural southerner. The fash in my area may not be SA tier but to call them bitch made cowards is just cope imo. I know some of these dudes (old high school acquaintances n what not) they work out like crazy, train in firearms/martial arts, are stocked up on ammo and tactical gear, and lately they’ve been organizing more and more. Not to mention, calling these guys bitch made seems to sweep under the rug the mountains of dead bodies they have historically made via police infiltration and domestic terrorist attacks like mass shootings or the OKC bombing. I hate to break it to everyone listening but the left is painfully and obviously unprepared to confront the fash violence we are going to see more of, and minimizing their danger just discourages us from training, arming, and organizing ourselves. Not that I actually believe any of us will, which is why it reeks of cope to call THEM the bitch made cowards.

Woke Batou

Yes, it's never good to underestimate fascist violence. Never underestimate the right wing. I grew up in conservative churches in Fresno and these people have been talking about killing "communists (any liberal)" for as long as I've been alive. Don't underestimate them. Arm and train. And better yet, organize.

Woke Batou

For real though: whole Chapo gang should get strapped

mc_peepants

Does anyone know the source of the William S Boroughs quotes? I may have missed it in the show somewhere but was curious what book or article that came from. Sorry for failing at google so hard today.

pdschmidty

The first “nepenthe” drop since Edgar Allen Poe in “The Raven”.

Sam Oxley

Thanks for the words of encouragement - I needed to hear that. Love y’all ❤️

MinkL0af

The inevitability of our living in a 50-country Metanation, with each state offering totally different social services and having necessarily conflicting interests, begs the question: what about Ohio?

Mauve_Avenger

I mean, I think it's true what they say: if you believe that people who genuinely thought being Democrat was how to do right by their fellow man, upon being confronted with irrefutable evidence to the contrary, will all just lay down to die, then you have very little faith in humanity. Didn't something like summer 2020 give you an inkling that, given the right conditions, more than the usual suspects can be spurred into action?

Mauve_Avenger

Like, the "find an American Napoleon" thing is more a bit than not. Chapo has never been either apolitical or politically "black-pilled" so idk what you expected their content to be here?

Mauve_Avenger

In your local context, how would you estimate the proportion of genuine fascist ideologues in the police versus Uvalde-tier cosplayers (i.e. fash until their lives are on the line)?

TangiePower

Find some friends to do group meal prep with and gradually build your shit up to a true mutual aid apparatus. We’re gonna need stuff like that where we’re headed and besides, what else are we gonna do?

Justin Slepicka

Yo this was one of your best episodes for real

Evan Silverman

Will just casually dropping references to my favorite Burroughs novel ever. This is why I love this podcast.

Julie Baxter

A stranger is just a friend you haven't met!

Kinetics Video

Yall don't get it. BURGER THROWN! Nothing will be the same

justdave

WRONG!!! We do not live in the fourth reich, as the third reich never ended, and even that was just copying American ideas of racial purity and manifest destiny, we're at reich version 3.8 or so

Kinetics Video

This whole stop saying what the Dems should do line makes a lot of sense, but it's also narrow casting to online poisoned news dorks. Like, most people aren't invested enough to understand that the Democrats can't do anything because of these entrenched institutional algorithms. Maybe I'm biased because it's the path I had to take to get something like good politics, but I think for most people it's still going to be decide to give a shit -> become a Democrat -> realize the Democrats aren't doing shit on purpose -> become whatever your immediate conditions allow for your politics to go beyond electoralism/the NGO pseudo-state (unionism, Leninism, just breaking the law a lot; people get really particular about this but really a lot of valid options that aren't actually mutually incompatible). Maybe in the future when there's really a left media with popular penetration something like what CNN/Fox has we can leap over that Democrat step, but for now sorry, that's a stream we can't overlook.

Luke

the thing is, nobody is putting any of them in a situation where their lives could conceivably be on the line while enacting fascist violence. They are increasingly unopposed. And protecting schoolchildren is not fascist violence, so the fash in that police department weren’t in that context ideologically motivated in the first place. So the cosplayers are still potentially dangerous. That being said, I would wager that 5% or less of them are truly genuine for now, the problem is how little that matters.

Archibald

Christ wtf was that noise in the intro

James

These last few episodes have been incredible

B2B Commuter

Fix bayonets boys, we’re going over the top to get general AOC to completely undo the republican strategy!

Gulb

Agree that the steering wheel grab makes him look good. Of course his followers never believed he hung them out to dry anyway.

Gulb

Regarding Trump v DeSantis, I think the party could pay Trump off to get him not to run

bravo_delta_echo

Please consider making this episode free/public. It needs to be heard

bravo_delta_echo

Indeed, but only after Mitch McConnell's latest episode of monumental hypocrisy. IOIYAR!

djpmac007

What is the thumbnail from?

Gulb

Felix should watch "Cries and Whispers". He'll love it. I'll stop commenting now.

Marcus

What is the name of the Pritzker company?

William

Yeah, so, I didn't think that's what he meant and he's never explicitly said "just wait around". Matt has, for several years now, been talking about logging off and doing stuff in person - be that building networks, organizing, or just fucking grilling. Sounds like you heard him say 1 thing and then you extrapolated it into a straw man you could beat down

Dan

@Mauve_avenger and @william I was hoping to hear more than, just go out and talk to people! I’m at the point where “just go out and organize your local community” is starting to sound a lot like “just out and vote”. In both cases you are getting easily outflanked by a more unified and stronger enemy every time. There needs to be some kind of National strategy electorally and legislatively— AOC and Bernie haven’t proven themselves to be adept at this, but we need to do something. It’s going to be hard when so many leftist are allergic to any kind of nationalism starting with a national project or identity. But nationalism beats this kind of wimpy shit every time.

K H

Nah. Defeatism is quite logical. Religiosity feels like you're always winning and living in a myth, plus cool activities with the boys. We are all going to slam our head into a wall and hope this will be the time it falls down, and if it kills us hope we made a dent.

K H

There is 0% chance that any of that was true besides maybe knocking a burger over.

K H

Maybe just shoot for more politically motivated unions.

Dan

Good point. I was also kind of pissed about this part of the ep. There are some seriously monstrous people out there A lot of people (most blue line people) are fash just as an outlet of pet grievances, but there are legitimate amoral psychos out there and it’s pretty stupid to underestimate them.

K H

Guys I figured it out. Execute fetuses for murder and assault. Should be legal in Texas.

Patrick Burke

Do you know what the track with Burroughs speaking on is called? Edit: I found it

fake

Sturmabteilung aka Brownshirts. Nazi street fighters who eventually were professionalized into the SS.

Kamran Husain

i will tack on fetterman to the big man big ticket canadian bid. big boys szn baby!

David Turner

They could have those conovs but without organizations to execute them, then it'd be just as a calorie-less. If they talked more about unions then yeah there could be convos about how we all need to prepare for the 2023 Teamster UPS strike or helping starbucks shops. But, I always take talk to someone is with the hope or assumption that it's within the context of trying to build or already within some working class formation. Not just have a nice chat at the mailbox with someone but again considering the vast amount of isolation in this country that likely wouldn't hurt either.

Walker Sigmon

Podcast leftists are the type to bring words to a gun fight. Good luck boys

J P 3

Of course, the leadership of the SA was more rounded up and murdered by the SS during the Night of the Long Knives. Not sure what percentage of the SA shifted into the SS (it probably happened), but I was under the impression that the SS was set up as a separate force that was more directly accountable to Hitler.

Jonathan Gear

Shoutout to the show Alone bc they filmed near my hometown

J P 3

i.e. Hitler's storm-troopers. His paramilitary footsoldiers in the 1920s and early 1930s. In 1933, I've seen estimates that the force had something like 300,000 members -- many were WWI veterans. There is no real American equivalent to Hitler's SA.

Olen Koira

what was the reference to an American SA getting funding?

J P 3

Karl Polyani's "Great Transformation" lends creedence to Matt's argument. e.g. there is a historical precedent for this line of thinking. It is part of human nature to seek forms of self-protection when survival is at stake. The alternative view is that people in a subordinated position are always passive in the face of their annihilation. This may be true sometimes, it is obviously not true universally. When the people in that subordinated position gain a critical mass, and in periods when there is a collapse of authority and a power vacuum, you tend to have significant political and social change.

J P 3

JB looks great in comparison to Biden, but I would be curious to know more about the people who are his key advisors. Just doing a quick look, it looks like he's surrounded mostly by Hillary for America and Rahm Emmanuel people.

pq

The word you're looking for to describe JB is "Lunker"

Crosley Querin

The dinosaur screech, the 40 minute punchline... *chefs kiss*

blackFFillip

Nailed it. While there may be a contingent of active duty and veterans that signed up for lack of better options, there are certainly those who volunteered out of conviction. Many of those saw combat in Afghanistan and Iraq , came home, and joined the guard for benefits. They continue shooting recreationally, and maintain large collections of firearms along with their friends. In the case we sink into a low-grade civil conflict, to assume that the US military will universally obey the orders of even a center-right president to go to war with their countrymen is fantasy. Will was right about one thing: victory will only come through organizing. If you’ve never been a member of a union, and only idolized them from afar, or talk about them on a podcast, I suggest you talk to union members. It’s dull and repetitive, and not everyone has posters of Bakunin, Zapata or Marx hanging on their walls.

SF

This is one of your best episodes imo

Jeff

JB Pritzker

justdave

Prophet said I, thing of evil, prophet still if bird or devil. Whether the tempter sent, or tempest tossed thee, here ashore

Dan

@J P Again it’s not clear, it’s a series of ifs. What really brings people together in these types of situations is the question— what motivates them. I’m not trying to be controversial, but from what I understand of history, it’s some kind of nationalism. Leftists and liberals have a kind of universalist vision of how things should play out, that’s why both sides really fail. Leftists need to be less of universalists and more pluralistic and realistic about America’s place in the world if they want to motivate people and win with a national identity. And you have to take that national identity back from the liberal and conservative identities based on false premises of global liberal hegemony and pure resentment.

garrette M cipriano

Love you guys. Your perspective keeps me going. Thanks for the awesome podcast

Dru Heff

“Bodega Bro” didn’t get fired bc he questioned markets in NYC. He kept making TikToks about how he was surprised by the amount of gay people in NYC. Also how he was the only white guy in his gym and he might buy a NAACP shirt to fit in “with them” and then the cherry on top was on his social media he had his job letter offer which had all his information along with salary which I believe was against company policy to post that particular document online. I don’t agree with people losing employment and a way to live over being an idiot online but he’s not just some innocent guy who just questioned the lack of grocery markets in NYC and then bam he’s fired.

Evan Silverman

The Western Lands. Its the final book of a trilogy that begins with Cities of The Red Night. also here's the spoken word piece they played at the end, https://youtu.be/3x3NibKpMlg

samanthar

i also watched cecil b demented at a young age and loved it lol

EUGENE HETZEL

There is always an unspoken assumption, especially with Matt, that the Ds are automated to fail, but he never bothers to say why, so its circular seeming. Also, it is naive to say people will come together and resist or not oppress others. Never happens in repressive states. Why would "tempering at some point" work? Isnt that, "If there is hope, it lies in the proles" Winston Smith logic?

I am become reply guy

A sharpei learning algebra, Matt is a genius. It’s up there with calling Megan Mcardle’s head a circus peanut.

Thomas Stevens

Look at what’s happening right now, democrats could stop this at any time but they aren’t.

MusƎEqual

Marky Mark should be all over this! WhaaaalBuuuurger

EUGENE HETZEL

Yeah, still not seeing a why its "automated" as he constantly asserts. Prime facie isnt an explanation, its an assessment. Therefore the logic is circular. So if no one can give a good answer, then I will consider it hyperbole. And if its hyperbole and its at the center of his assessment, the whole edifice becomes folly. I just want a why.

A RHINO

Who tf is JB?

Trevor

The governor of Illinois

Dean

That was for the Whigs, but there were other parties that were viable but dissolved (the Federalists, the Democratic Republicans, the Bull Moose, etc); what pivot point was the same for most of them that could be used to either transform the Democratic party or replace it with something more relevant? I’d guess the short answer is winning or losing, but it would be nice to not need to have Republicans absolutely steamroll another election while that transition happens

justdave

I think thats the trap, it changes faces, but no, all these primeval parties, these protozoans, adapted and changed- until slavery (and i mean reconstruction/jim crow), then they were, more or less, defined.

Liam

Are we just gonna sleep on Felix’s riff on the Barbary pirates

William

Have you ignored the entire history of socialism in the United States? Even right now, most people are fine with abortion. Most people just want fucking security for themselves and their families to just live. Sometimes, people do get oppressed, but the forty years from 1890-1930 would beg to fucking differ about people "not coming together"

Anxiety

So I am struggling at a personal level about how to prepare for whatever future is being predicted here. In many ways my life has never been better. I have a good job, friends, partner, and live in a city that seems to be good. I am now bringing forward doom into my life via not illogical opinions like this show and various readings. I am privileged full stop. I am not rich, but am privileged currently in every other way. Other than talking to my friends about what the future might hold, which alienates them, I am at a loss. Just being vulnerable here.

Trevor Ryan

Matt’s reasoning and tone around comfortably letting the Democrats die knowing something better will grow in their spot is the most reasonable and reassuring thing I have heard since SCOTUS started their Sherman’s March. Well said and thanks

Anxiety

Matt’s most recent no cap v log is a good companion to this ep. Talking about how your politics cannot exist at the electoral level. It must be somewhere else. The system is on auto-cap.

Jay Ramage

But let’s not relitigate our decision to not vote in an election that had an open Supreme Court seat. See…it’s all the democrats’ fault. Rolling my god damn eyes. If you are an acceleratist just say it out loud and saying you are willing to sacrifice people today to better future generations.

Darius Arian

Political actors even in real democracies (to say nothing of the farce that governs this country) have a responsibility to earn the vote of the people by campaigning on their beliefs and delivering on their promises. They are not failed by their voters, they fail to both widen and turnout support among their base.

BS

Time to join a communist party.

Trevor Ryan

I don’t see a viable choice anymore.

FlawlessNirvana

How can you go through even one week of news in this country with critical thinking skills and not understand why the democratic party wants to do nothing forever?

FlawlessNirvana

We reached the point where it's just "The Reich" and you pay per month for biannual updates.

FlawlessNirvana

matt has waxed previously about how unqualified he is to be armed.

FlawlessNirvana

electorally? legislatively? you think they're just going to go "oh well ok, you voted hard enough for the democratic socialist party, welcome to the workers' republic of america!" the point of organizing is to build alternative institutions for when the current ones fall apart or betray us.

FlawlessNirvana

defeatism is wholly illogical and unacceptable. people have been far, far worse off before and risen to greater heights, and we know exactly how they did it. it is a scientific fact that socialism is the only option. the way is not shut, it is paved and marked. all we need is a lamp, our supplies, and each other.

FlawlessNirvana

world war makes line go down. no line go down, therefore no world war.

bravo_delta_echo

You didn't mention logic as the criteria, but either way I'd advise against automatically assuming every challenge is hopeless to the point of absolutely never attempting to achieve/improve anything. Sounds pretty all-or-nothing; are masks/vaccines useless too? Also - "Religiosity feels like you're always winning and living in a myth, plus cool activities with the boys" - anyone can do that without the whole 'baselessly insisting on the existence of a magical man in the sky/forcing said nonsense upon others' part

Hudson

stfu jayhole

justdave

You made me go back and respell 'riech' I'm so imbarrassed (also great joke, I think Disney + is a plot by the archons)

K H

Drowning in the ocean is probably unacceptable and the steps of swimming back to shore might be clear and scientific...doesn't stop people from drowning. If you're underwater you literally just need go up ez. We are going to lose, you're going to lose, are losing now, have been losing historically, but what you need is to be autistic enough to just keep trying. Hope is being dumb enough to try even when you know you're probably going to lose and nothing is clear, not because it's logical, but because you can't help but do anything else. Sometimes you get lucky and hit the shore(free real estate). Become an agent of terrible cosmic power. Become the imbecile.

AbeLinkin

Listen to the Ezra Klein show and suck someone off then

AbeLinkin

Is this Lancaster, MA?

Liz

Lancaster PA

BryceSprungstein

'he never says why' they've said why so many times, what are yout alking about?

Gary Alexander

I agree, the Chapo boys need to answer for New York going Democrat.

ac1dP1nk

" I guess if you have a fucking gun to my head, fine, vote democrat". "[After Bernie being beaten by backroom shenanigans] Most of our listeners will hold their noses and vote democrat" - Will Menaker 2020

Dan

Huge misread. Cops are local power trips, soldiers are motivated completely differently

Dan

@flawlessnirvana dem socialists have never really tried to put together a coherent national strategy, or developed the capability to fight machine politics. They like to put all their hope on a few anointed people who inevitably fail, or offend some sacred cow, then all the leftists go back into hiding, or doing their own brand of leftism, meanwhile they are getting divided and conquered the whole way, by a much larger, better embedded and more disciplined political force. There’s no strategy, no real drive, no compromises, no real poltik, no discipline.

John Mitchell

Damn dudes, I had to listen to this 3 times before I figured out that J.B. wasn't "joe biden" cause Matt said this word I didn't understand, "pritzker" or some shit. But hey, I get it now. Godzilla is coming out of the ocean and we get to watch it burn it all fucking down over the next 10 years. Believe in your neighbor. . .

Frank

the disrespect to my big beautiful boy JB in this post smdh

B2B Commuter

400 plus super delegates lined up behind the wife of the NAFTA pedophile before a single primary vote was cast and you want me to blame some podcasters for blowing 2016? GTFO

George Lochinski

Fun fact Mr Ramage the frustration youre expressing rn: the cause isnt that we're a bunch of contrarian dickheads, the cause is the shoddiness of the act of voting as a way to effect change

I am become reply guy

Yes! Every Christman burn needs to be collated and inscribed into a vellum tome.

Alexandr

POSTED: 5 DAYS AGO AT 9:43 PM Where's the slop. Where's the slop.

Jon Bon

Made me think of the "Got a Light?" ep of Twin Peaks

David Cox

New ways of thinking - the parallax view - the aspect afforded by a new whole way of being in the world.

Jon Bon

Can we get an unlock on this, I wanna send this to a few ppl. Great episode boys.

Charlie Fox

I think it's "Would you kindly" Ryan... if you want to get (Bioshock spoilers) you're gonna have to get the line right....

aRubes

What's that track around 38:10 ?

Joe

Glad to know Chris is a big Alone-head. His observation about the cops on the show is spot on.

Natalie

why are you worth more than the future

Natalie

and any argument ur making here is pointless. HRC got more votes in 16 and only lost bc of electoral collage BS, and biden won in '20. what else are we supposed to do when they give us nothing?

Jorge Enesto

what was the sound at the beginning?