Chop Shop Economics

Welcome everyone to the episode where we laugh, cry, and shout at the totally Adult Swim stupidity of re-opening America. Whether you're talking the sheer dedication of the Murder and Suicide Cults to stacking up bodies in the name of Number, the cruel irony of small business owners' marching and shouting their way into the line of fire, impending "biblical" famines, or the absolute and total demise of the oil industry there's something for everyone! Please keep your limbs, digits, and appendages inside the ride at all times.

Welcome, Chop Shop listeners, as we examine the latest development in Death Cult Capitalism: astroturfed lockdown protests! Sit aghast in horror at their callous disregard for the lives of others and their absolute dedication to saving the market no matter the cost, especially if they won't be paying it. Join us as we delve into their arcane theology, how this message reached the masses, and what this means in the time of COVID apocalpyse!

Link to the New England Journal of Medicine letter:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025

The Sanders campaign is dead, long live the leftist movement! Here at Chop Shop we're taking this news with a shit-eating grin and our usual brand of gonzo journalism. Join us for the latest pronouncements of the Death Cult capitalists, the CNBC on-air stroke, the Second Golden Age of Piracy, Joe Biden's flaccid suicide cult, and more. Our Jolly Roger is nailed to the mast and we have not yet begun to fight!

Strike map: https://paydayreport.com/covid-19-strike-wave-interactive-map/

Joining us in the recording booth is Street Sheet editor Quiver Watts. Street Sheet is a San Francisco-based homeless newspaper and is the largest and longest currently running homeless publication in North America. We ask Quiver about San Francisco Mayor and Bloomberg Fan London Breed's shocking Moscone Center quarantine plan, whether AirBnB eating shit is good or great news, the unhoused squatting empty residential units, and what you can do to help during these times.

For more information go to https://www.streetsheet.org/

Today Chop Shop Economics delves into the bleeding edge of economic thought: Death Cult Capitalism! Whether their believers are sacrificing Boomers to the DOW, burning entire continents to keep the coal flowing, destroying their very livelihoods in a pointless price war, or committing political suicide there is no question this insidious new ideology is turning the world on its head. Join us as we find out more of their strange beliefs, bizarre rituals, and highest principle: I want YOU to die for the market!

Welcome, Chop Shop fans, to our latest excursion into this economy's heart of darkness. Listen as we explore the inner workings of an international death cult plotting to kill your grandparents, the best and worst of the ongoing apocalypse, the debate over how many bread crumbs the poors actually need, and the ways people are coming together, organizing, and fighting back. Hang on tight cause this rollercoaster has only just left the platform!

In this week's episode listen as we utterly fail to revive Number or stay in our hourly timeslot, but who cares cause that's how we fucking roll at the Chop Shop! Along the way, you'll see that capitalism as we know it is dead on arrival, how Bernie Sanders and Gavin Newsom are being absolute Chads, the ways Boris Johnson is trying to discreetly kill the poor, and what you can do to get through self-isolation, help each other out, and ask if maybe there's a better way to organize society. Hang on tight cause we ride at dawn bitches!

For anyone looking to help out during this time of crisis here are some handy links on mutual aid groups and guides for how you can help each other.

Article on Rural Healthcare Conditions:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-clinic-of-last-resort/2019/06/22/2833c8a0-92cc-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html

Mutual Aid:

https://crimethinc.com/2020/03/18/surviving-the-virus-an-anarchist-guide-capitalism-in-crisis-rising-totalitarianism-strategies-of-resistance

https://medium.com/@kittystryker/collective-care-is-our-best-weapon-against-covid-19-851e29568656

https://itsgoingdown.org/autonomous-groups-are-mobilizing-mutual-aid-initiatives-to-combat-the-coronavirus/

DIY:

https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Cloth-Face-Mask/

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ This lets you set aside some of your computer's processing power to help with medical research

Just in from the fresh horror that was Sarah Palin's surreally appropriate appearance on "The Masked Singer" we jump into why Wall Street is diving into the pavement, how Donald Trump broke the stock market, that Joe Biden needs to be stopped, and why Boris Johnson may be eviler than Trump. This is Chop Shop, reading and watching this shit so you don't have to!

For anyone looking to help out during this time of crisis here are some handy links on mutual aid groups and guides for how you can help each other:

Mutual Aid Groups:

https://medium.com/@kittystryker/collective-care-is-our-best-weapon-against-covid-19-851e29568656

https://itsgoingdown.org/autonomous-groups-are-mobilizing-mutual-aid-initiatives-to-combat-the-coronavirus/

Folding@home:

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

This week the Chop Shop crew regales you with the ballad of disgruntled stockbrokers! Listen as we find out that CNBC talking head Rick Santelli is actually a disaster movie villain, coronavirus CAN be spread over the Internet, the exact quantity of animals and/or small children you need to sacrifice so the free market fairy will finally love your economy, why the UC graduate TA strike is totally badass, the velocity of a crashing oil market, and more.

In solidarity with the UCSC strikers we ask you give whatever you can to the student-organized strike fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-fund-for-striking-workers-at-ucsc

Join the gang at Chop Shop as we answer burning questions like was White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow totally shitfaced at his Friday press conference, why everyone on Wall Street suddenly love Tim Cook so much, what happens if we don't clap our hands hard enough for the free market fairy and more! Hold on tight, this one is a rough ride but at least we'll get in some laughs on our way down.