January 11, 2021

S05:E02 - "Pick Up A Football"

As the coup last week demonstrates, more people need hobbies.

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Aaron’s Purchases

Aaron’s going hammertone army green

Exercising my ass

Are we exercising?

The QAnon Putsch

Should we feel bad for this people? Do we need to include them in our big tent?

First we have to agree on who these people were.

It seems like they’re mostly pretty rich; after all, they could afford to fly out to DC.

Reactions

Brands Expressing Concern

https://twitter.com/Chevron/status/1347004338577813511

Surreal

https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1346924232828092418

https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1347587630817452036

Furious Backtracking

https://twitter.com/ChrisCaesar/status/1347447959324135425

False Flagging

https://twitter.com/djjudd/status/1347192809133121538?s=12

Donald Trump Notice Me Senpai

https://twitter.com/RationalDis/status/1346992889243578375

https://twitter.com/LibertyHangout/status/1346886192990744580

You, Specifically, Do Not Get To Quote MLK

https://twitter.com/KaitMarieox/status/1346913535515877382

Takeaways

The Ascendent America theory proved false

Look at the number of black and brown and non-republican allegiant reactionaries at this demonstration yesterday.

Hope in the inevitable victory of democrats via demographic shifts is naive and dangerous

Checking in on the clinton dems I know that are now MAGA confirms that Trumpism has absorbed a lot of democrats

If we’re going to curb this fascism, we have to materially improve peoples’ lives

Looking at the videos and posts of the people involved in this riot, you find a thread of common outlook: the state of our cities and states is in shambles.

They talk about all the homelessness, the drug epidemics, the suicides, the joblessness, the hopelessness—- these are working class concerns

If the prospects for your life and the life of your children only looks to be getting perpetually worse, it’s extremely unlikely you’ll be persuaded by decency or morals or ethics.

We have to improve peoples’ material lives and make a better world.

Biden admin shows no signs of doing this because you have to change underpinning systems

A return to civility will not begin to quell the threat of fascism in the US

Fascism does not arrive on the scene with full uniform and programme. The Jewish socialist Arthur Rosenberg traced the origins of fascism as a mass movement to the period before the first world war, when millions were already infected by volkisch, racial-nationalist ideology, and by contempt for democratic government. It consolidates through experimentation, learning the ropes through episodes that, at first, appear amateurish and thuggish, from the beer hall (Munich) putsch to the demolition of the Babri Masjid. First as farce, then as tragedy.

The absurdity and chaos is a feature, not a bug

Trumpism is not an aberration, but a mass phenomenon. Trump greatly expanded his base between 2016 and 2020, adding more than 10 million votes to its total. He expanded into places and demographic constituencies thought to be closed to him. No other Republican presidential candidate could have done this. And it was achieved precisely through the same means that led to the spectacle in the Capitol. To hope that Joe Biden can defuse this by restoring civility and bipartisanship to Washington would be unforgivably complacent.

This is the final result of “Make America Great Again”

Trump Was Banned For This Post

lol

Reactions

Conservative

Please Notice Megan McCain

https://twitter.com/dwdavison/status/1347767842968645635

Please read another book

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1347697226466828288

MUH FIRST AMENDMENT

https://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1347811654965329928

NATIONALIZE FACEBOOK

https://twitter.com/jfruh/status/1347789269947932672

Oh, just now?

https://twitter.com/johnrobb/status/1347685997790834697

Liberal

What if they do this to us?????

https://twitter.com/ramsincanon/status/1347780821260898304

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1347732737369772032?s=12

Bruh, they DO do this to us. Just ask listener Dylan whose account is suspended more often than its up. They are a victim of censorship.

Thought Experiment 🤔

https://twitter.com/jakebackpack/status/1347704704340545536

AD: Sean Hannity for Olive Garden

Recontextualize, or Please sir, may I have some context

So much bad discourse happens simply because somebody pops off without any context.

Modern social media makes this even more difficult. It tries to decontextualize everything.

Conclusion: More People Need Hobbies

Pick up a football

Burger King Rebrand

https://www.businessinsider.com/burger-king-redesigned-logo-and-signs-with-whopper-2021-1

https://twitter.com/jcast1337/status/1347577534242689024

The Whole Foods Guy’s Whole Thing

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g5ny/whole-foods-ceo-who-needs-health-care-when-you-have-whole-foods

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