This week Gina Haspel decided, with Trump’s encouragement, not to withdraw from consideration for the job of CIA Director, Facebook hired the Heritage Foundation to help them address their alleged conservative bias, and the Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York was tweeting about nipples for some reason. In terrible takes, we’re discussing the Home Depot CEO’s book I Love Capitalism, Kumail Nanjiani’s gut-wrenchingly bad tweets, Mitt Romney’s professed love of ground meats, and the general incel panic brewing amongst older generations that have been unfairly forced to learn what that word means. We’ll keep panicking about incels in the pop culture corner as we discuss the classic Scorcese film Taxi Driver through that lens, and we’ll also talk about an atrocious Law and Order: SVU episode about college activism and the unbearable persistence of HBO’s overwrought sci-fi catastrophe Westworld.

NOTEZ:

Gina Haspel offered to quit

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44028854

Streaming services have a conspiracy documentary problem

https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-insidious-conspiracy-theory-documentaries-on-netflix-and-amazon-prime.html

Facebook Hires Ultra Conservative Group to Monitor Content

https://splinternews.com/facebook-does-not-understand-the-conservative-grift-1825725673?rev=1525296392462

Trump Doctor

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ai

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/harold-bornstein-trump-letter/index.html

Bizarre NYPD Nipple Tweet

https://twitter.com/SBANYPD/status/992561992731852800

New Book: I Love Capitalism to dispute Bernie Sanders popularity

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/992501679739240448

Romney loves hot dogs

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/mitt-romney-favorite-meat-hot-dog.html

THE INCELS ARE COMING

https://twitter.com/ekp/status/991817194987114496

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opinion/incels-sex-robots-redistribution.html

Matt Christman on Prestige TV

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/05/how-tv-became-respectable-without-getting-better