Monday 12 November 2018

Trumpism 3 - Drunken Trumpcast!

Daniel, Kit, James, and Jack unite for a third in their sporadic 'Trumpism' series, in which the hellish alternate reality we seem to be living in is the main point of discussion. A huge sprawling talkfest notionally focused on the recent mid-term elections.  We hope you find it as cathartic as we did.

(Kudos to Daniel for taking on the editing job on this one and getting it turned around in doublequick time.)

Here is Part One.  It's two hours long.  Kit is quite drunk.

Show notes: Introductions. Recounts. Results. Democratic Establishment. Hope a difficult word. Generational divide. Speaker Pelosi? Middle ground. Existential threat. The utility of subpoena power. Pushing against norms. The Senate will kill us all. Popular votes. Electoral reform. Constantly counting votes in Florida. Voting rights for felons. Obstructionism. Daniel the Radical Centrist. Hating Hillary Clinton for the wrong reasons. Suburban voters. Voting and yelling. Queues as voter suppression. Ronald McDonald, ballot official. A podcast dedication. Tucker Carlson terror attack. Disappearing Caravan. Tucker Carlson drinking game. Hannity versus Carlson. Wernher Von Braun. Talking points as apologetics. Beto versus Raphael. Disorienting media. Beto's name. James O'Keefe or George Soros? Gish galloping the news. Difference and continuity. Tonnage in Afghanistan. Obama and deportation. Mollie Tibbets. Polling categories. A cliffhanger on the Jim Acosta "assault."

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And here is Part Two
.  This bit is three hours long.  Kit is very drunk.

Show notes: Institutional forces against fascism. "Violent extremism." Climate refugees. Jack Graham has radicalized Daniel. The British Empire and 9/11. The neoliberalism to fascism pipeline. Alex Jones joins the 'cast. The deep state. Dumbest online political pundit. Chrissy Tiegen dunks on Jacob Wohl. Jack's Ben Shapiro impersonation. The appeal of Jordan Peterson. Interrupted by the dog. Sargon Sargon Sargon. Right wing safe space. Nine-eleven. Gore conterfactuals. Catalysts. Neoconservatives and paleoconservatives. Libertarianism as blind alley. Hayek versus Rothbard. Precarity and capitalism and intersectionality. Ideological incoherence in voting. Hashtag Resistance Twitter and Jeff Sessions. Sarah Palin. Misogyny is fundamental. Do we have hate-listeners? The alterea Acosta video. Rescuing "doublethink." Ideologically convenient hallucination. Sarah Huckabee Sanders retweets Infowars. Conspiracy theorists. Preparing for climate change. Nationalist Trump. The alt-right and the word "racist." Bell Curve Cliff Notes. Intellectual honesty among Nazis. "Pioneer something." Ideologically acceptable propaganda. Shoving a dildo up one's ass to own the libs. "Peak Daniel achieved." Electoral minority. Ballot initiatives and direct action. "Do we want to talk about Bernie?" Doughnut theory. The need for a robust liberal press. The media doesn't understand the internet. Not real capitalism. Capitalism and environmentalism. The Luxury of Cynicism. Satire is useless. Worker's movements with long-term perspective. Adorable little Nazis. PJW and the Lee Harvey Oswald metaphor. Robert Bowers. UK versus US fascism. Reaction. The need for left theory. Jack and Kit talk British political history. The problematic Daily Show. An abrupt ending.

Christine Tiegen owns Jacob Wohl:
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058889766861557760
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058892394156875776
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058894043231346689
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058899676185817088

Vic Berger IV threatened by Proud Boy:
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b06de68e4b07c4ea1060e92

Carter Before the Horse, Episode 1 - 'The Shining' (1980)

Yet another strand of WWA launches.  This time it's Carter Before the Horse.  It's basically just Consider the Reagan but earlier.

In this inaugural edition, James, Kit, and Jack watch Kubrick's The Shining, and say things about it.

Beware Triggers, because we talk about the film's themes, and they're not pretty.

Download here.