Premium 296: Probably Apocryphal

Good stuff!

Joshua Cool

Always a joy to hear the boys laughing this much.

Gorrozolla aka AntiLinguist

In talking about the complainer stuff, Trump does it in almost the same way as Rodney Dangerfield. He brings you in on the joke then by the end dismisses it because you and he both know that he will come out ok *wink wink*

Bschiltz3

i'm all-in on one of his high-rises collapsing with him in it

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one piece of the puzzle here might be that sydney sweeney was a ~victim of cancel culture~ because of those photos at a birthday party her MAGA family. i’m not sure if that made it onto the radar of the conservative commentators though

lomadenzo

is coach cal cooked?

Beau

Charles DeGy’all

matthew chasney

Not too blue ignore the naysayers

Cole Heideman

Best episode since I started subscribing. More like this.

Andrew Ratcliffe

https://open.spotify.com/track/3gtTsCbDYnVqfOoFf1IOjX?si=7LdoTdOeRDSWcuc4LclTrA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3l90EEnsvtz3OqzBqO9lGp

Evan

Finally committed to Patreon after that one episode where Tom asked for anyone who would based on some weird ass phrase. I’ve been listening for years but, I just got this Pavlovian response. Absolve me of my free rider grift ty lol

Wilford

My HS history teacher said the he believed Hitler was likely not in Hell because he was insane. Public school before anyone asks.

Warbs

How was it?

HarshMalarkey

1. here in louisville we’ve got a whole megachurch of the “drink beer, swear a lot, be really into menswear and edgy design” guys but their views on women remain archaic. it’s a dark, hip place 2. obviously elections have always operated as a capitalistic mechanism in practice, but that used to be behind the scenes. with shit like secret pop-ups and only communicating through demanding money, politicians have turned it around on us. like it used to be that they pretended they were listening to what we wanted in order to gain votes, but that facade is gone. now they’re like “no, this is what i’m selling, take it or leave it.” 3. also yeah i feel like if there’s less than a certain % of voter turnout, both parties should have to run different candidates for another election, but that would probably lead to more voter suppression, so

cimara

Is there a march madness pool this year?

Dylan McCarthy

Would you bozos please add a higher Patreon subscription and call it the Dylan Presidential Suite. But seriously. Do it.

Kyle Turnbull

Trump is definitely dying in like a plane crash or a freak car explosion

Alex Strout

haven't finished the ep yet but i just needed to let my friends in the comment section know that i'm having some sex i shouldn't have tonight 🫡

lucy isadora

"I went to your holler and no one claimed you as a 3rd cousin twice removed"

creetch

Silverfish do predate on other bugs in the house similar to house centipedes if I'm not mistaken? That being said they do freak me out

minty

Can't believe they didn't mention Huey Long in the humor article, fascinating figure in American history

Elfriede

The Bogus Beggar!!

Trillbilly Worker's Party

One of the people quoted in the article on Trump and humor, Alexander Reid Ross, is the author of Against the Fascist Creep and has been tracking the far right for several years now. Pointing this out because I think his quote was taken as a “all humor is bad” but I don’t think that’s his take; he’s definitely not a conservative or a lib

Beckett

my journeyman had freinds that grew weed back in the day and he showed them how to steal electricity during the day and run grow lights while they were out for the day and then plug the meter back in after so the power company or the cops never had any red flags go off

every man a kong

Terrance saw him outside a hotel? The flagrant vagrant or some shit like that.

dick titball

speaking of good scams, who was that guy who they made an ep about. “The lying” something.

dick titball

There would never be a need to formally drop LGBTQ+ for the same reason there's no reason to formally drop "the black vote". The poverty of choice in a two-party system divvies up areas of concern in both an implied and explicit way, but since there's no credible challenge to how those things actually get handled outside of the dynamic between the two parties, they can just hang around with the unstated threat of "well, where else are you going to go? Over there?". If you have a de facto monopoly on something like LGBTQ+ issues - or non-white people's concerns -, then there's really no incentive to do much with it. You "have it", and get the full value of it as a signifier regardless whether you work tirelessly on it, or put in exactly 0% attention and work. The only credible challenge to that would be a third grouping - a party or movement - which has an increasingly harder fight the longer the two parties stay in power, and can amass means to stop something like that from taking off. Two-party systems are really, really bad. They monopolize big swathes and areas of concern, have little incentive to work effectively for those concerns as long as their stances are understood as being in opposition to the other party, and fairly quickly build up an enormous amount of defensive capability to any new challenger ever getting to their level of power, money and agency.

Jesper Ohlsson

Love this episode. Trump is engaged with society enough to be a real hater. Libs are not engaged with the world, so they can't find it funny.

L

in Australia we have mandatory voting (under pain of $50 fine) and most elections still turn out majorities for the right wing.

Fingerless

I'm at 1:06:00, y'all need to go over the fact that Sydney Sweeney is literally doing a Catholic / nun horror movie called Immaculate

Andrew Dunn

Cosmic, checkout the story Seeing about not voting.

Abdulla Faraz

Tarence saying “and they have to die” was hard

Grant Francis

The man show for protestants

Feedbag

This has reminded me of shoplifting the Rhonda Shear issue of playboy at Freehold Raceway Mall in 1993. My fear of my friends parents having to deal with me getting caught was outweighed by my desire for the USA Up All Night lady.

Mark Hardgrove

William

Like, the workers are mad because of material conditions, but a figure like Trump allows them to sublimate these feelings of anger through a transgressive pleasure aka jouissance

Isaac Taylor

Deep red state, deep blue city. Only yard sign I’ve seen so far has been for RFK Jr. plenty of signs for local races. this election is going to be so fucking funny.

Richard Cochnar

The GOP is perverted in the godly way, just like you.

Isaac Taylor

I know Zizek’s star has fallen, but when he talks about Lacan’s obscene supplement, this is exactly the spice that energizes all sorts of Trump supporters

Isaac Taylor

The sinful workers party 😏

Isaac Taylor

I think conservatives want at least 1 person in their life that they can feel superior to, instead of facing the fact that most of them are useless to society. Does the woke HR lady bother you because she’s woke or because she’s a woman and you think she’s talking “down” to you

William

Aaron minting a new banger, “drink too much of their own supply” I miss these and Tarence’s mixed metaphors

William

what if you had an election and nobody came?

Milo Brosamer

Ya it was 30k like three hospitals and refugee camps ago with no signs of slowing

Eric Murphy

i subscribe for the blanket statement doomer takes. i need them

FamilyGorgeous

SLATT 🐍🐍🐍

Dame

Speaking of DeGaulle: y'all gotta watch "Day of the Jackal". It holds up incredibly well

Andrew Dunn

Mark Ruffalo is a 9/11 truther

Nick

Tarence have you read that "Stop Me Before I Vote Again"? It calls what you're talking about the ratchet effect. "The American political system, since at least 1968, has been operating like a ratchet, and both parties -- Republicans and Democrats -- play crucial, mutually reinforcing roles in its operation. The electoral ratchet permits movement only in the rightward direction. The Republican role is fairly clear; the Republicans apply the torque that rotates the thing rightward. The Democrats' role is a little less obvious. The Democrats are the pawl. They don't resist the rightward movement -- they let it happen -- but whenever the rightward force slackens momentarily, for whatever reason, the Democrats click into place and keep the machine from rotating back to the left." ... "Over time, the Democratic Party has assumed the role of ensuring that the countervailing pressure from the Left doesn't happen. The party contains and neutralizes the Left, or what there is of it. Left voters are supposed to support the Democrat, come what may -- and it's amazing how many of us have internalized this supposed obligation -- but they are not allowed to have any influence on the party's policies, either during the campaign or during the Republicans' infrequent holidays in opposition."

Some Guy

This has nothing to do with the episode but I thought you boys should hear it: one of the lawyers who brought about the Roe V. Wade case lives in my hometown. Her house now has an Israeli flag and a trump USA sign in the front yard.

Carter Mize

"I don't want these arbitrary signifiers of sexuality, I want these arbitrary signifiers of sexuality."

Jesper Ohlsson

..the way the article is written makes it sound like Vance is doing hormone replacement therapy, or is possibly FTM.

Jesper Ohlsson

Thanks boys

abby

This looks so good that I'm saving it for a 5 hour drive Wednesday morning, thanks boys

Joshua Cool