Jen and Noam chat about Ron Desantis’ love of thigh food, culture war grifting, dark money grifting, Xi Jinping throwing his weight around (metaphorically), and a bunch of other things

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Show notes:

DeSantis, thigh food aficionado:

https://www.ft.com/content/3aa3b7a6-8f72-4c37-82dd-d98946198aa7

Time to argue about hummus being colonization (again):

https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1583909464607928320

CNN makes a list of election deniers:

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1583819058151297029

Whatever you do, don’t call MTG’s rise to prominence a comeback: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/briefing/marjorie-taylor-greene.html

The Dark Money Grifter Summit:

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1583506004007788558

Xi Jinping is a jerk:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-congress.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

https://twitter.com/ProfYangZhang/status/1583788208894414849

Sacheen Littlefeather was not a real Native woman:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php

Wikipedia editor banned for saying Sacheen Littlefeather was not a real Native woman before it was cool:

https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1583877263275134979

Warp speed, Pride flag: 

https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1583143019444068352

Climate change activists being attention whores (again):

https://twitter.com/AufstandLastGen/status/1584185689541054464

https://twitter.com/VickieGuerrero/status/1581353771216818176

Alexa, not the Amazon assistant, the Isralei Love Is Blind contestant who…might be a Zionist:

https://twitter.com/melissaeweiss/status/1583098510387224577

(Warning - there are Rings of Power season finale spoilers in the first five minutes, so skip that part if you don’t wanna know)

Noam and Jen tackle the John Fetterman stroke situation, Herschel Walker paying for an abortion, bad faith deflections, the desire to win at all costs, and hypocrisy 

Also the not so good Rings of Power finale with its Big Reveal, the very good She-Hulk season finale that is devoted to roasting the MCU, a little Hot D, and how we’re about to have a lot less TV to consume

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Show notes:

Noam's piece for Commentary on Max Fisher's book about the effects of social media

https://www.commentary.org/articles/noam-blum/social-media-chaos-machine/ 

The Fetterman interview that launched a thousand accusations of ableism 

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/fetterman-nbc-interview-stroke-pennsylvania-senate-race-20221012.html 

And did you know Fetterman had a stroke four days before his primary? It’s ok to say no, it wasn’t talked about much

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-candidate-fetterman-almost-died-stroke-vows-return-trail-2022-06-03/ 

That one time it was perfectly OK to say having a stroke disqualifies one from holding office

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/14/chicago-tribune-offers-an-awfully-blunt-reason-for-not-endorsing-sen-mark-kirk-his-stroke/ 

Kara Voght’s tweet about Gisele Fetterman becoming the de facto candidate, which I assume someone explained to her wasn’t a good look 

https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/1581306253606690816 

Dianne Feinstein isn’t doing so well

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php 

Herschel Walker gets caught paying for an abortion 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/11/herschel-walker-abortion-payment/ 

Noam quotes The Diamond Age, because of course he does

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1518212786983157761 

Jen and Noam discuss Kanye’s plan to go death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE, Ukraine’s very normal war act of blowing up a strategic military target, and Biden’s big weed announcement 

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Show notes:

Kanye’s weird (bipolar?) tweet

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11296055/Kanye-West-posts-disturbing-tweet-claiming-hes-going-def-3-JEWISH-PEOPLE.html 

The GOP thinks Kanye and Elon are based af, like Trump 

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1578174670854975491 

That time Hajj Amin Al Husseini thought Hilter was a friend to the non-Jewish semites 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/film/hajj-amin-al-husayni-meets-hitler 

Freddie DeBoer discusses Kanye’s current controversy in light of his mental health issues 

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/how-convenient-that-kanye-wests-behavior 

World War Z book, Noam really wants you to read it

https://www.amazon.com/World-War-Oral-History-Zombie/dp/0307346617 

Musk tries to do geopolitics, fails 

(side note from Jen - man I hope he tries to float the two state solution on Twitter, it’d cause a meltdown of epic proportions) 

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/after-russia-ukraine-plan-musk-offers-proposal-resolve-china-taiwan-tensions-2022-10-08/ 

Biden is Armageddoning It 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bidens-warning-nuclear-armageddon-reflects-stakes-russia-imminent/story?id=91211670 

The bridge that is now under the water  

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/world/europe/ukraine-crimea-bridge-explosion.html 

Hey look, actual terrorism!  

https://twitter.com/ngumenyuk/status/1578959308813135873 

The Iran-Iraq War was disturbing, to say the least  

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/iran-iraq-war-child-soldiers-mines/#:~:text=Many%20were%20sent%20into%20battle,in%20the%20Iran%2DIraq%20War 

The stamp commemorating the bridge that is now under the water, which serves as proof that the Ukrainian military planned to blow up the bridge or something 

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1578740494234193922 

Dark Brandon releases the pardon kraken…

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/ 

…after having fired WH staff for ingesting cannabis  

https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-white-house-sandbags-staffers-sidelines-dozens-for-pot-use 

And a correction - Elon is from South Africa, not South America, the point still stands 

Noam and Jen triumphantly return after a brief hiatus to record a double sized episode on the Russia - Ukraine conflict, the protests in Iran, real American imperialism, mispronounced name microaggressions, She Hulk and the pain of being left on read, the new Disney+ / Star Wars series Andor, what is going on with Rings of Power, and HotD (which is pronounced “hot D”)

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Jen and Noam have a long discussion about Gov. DeSantis’ questionable flying of Venezuelan immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard and a short discussion on the NYT piece blaming the downfall of the Women’s March on Russian trolls that leads into a conversation about social writ large

No Callin this week but make sure to check out last week’s episode, which was unexpectedly hilarious

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Noam and Jen break down the racism incident that didn’t happen at BYU, updates on the war in Ukraine, geopolitics, and people giving up on TV shows too soon 

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Jen and Noam talk about Kiwi Farms getting kicked off Cloudflare and the statement the company released explaining why, Biden’s big speech that more resembled a Twitch stream, and of course some House of the Dragon and the Rings of Power premier 

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Noam and Jen talk about the student loan debt forgiveness crisis and a bit about the big Rogan / Zuck revelation regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story 

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Jen and Noam have a belated chat about Finland’s party girl PM, the controversial She-Hulk premiere episode, and the long awaited Game of Thron…er House of the Dragon premiere

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Noam and Jen resume the discussion on the Trump warrant now that it and the receipt of what the FBI took has been unsealed, the difference between a fatwa and madposting, and the incomprehensible absolutely not for kids movie Lightyear 

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