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 

We will be back on Callin this week (8:30 Eastern) where, barring any Earth-shattering events that need to be discussed on a Wednesday, we’ll be doing an October-long series on horror movies / TV shows 

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

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