Hey there, I'm Scott, and this is Tangents.

I have to say, I am getting annoyed with the audio quality on this.

I hope that it's not bothering you, but I've been recording these on my AirPods Pros.

And I'm used to condenser mic and something a lot better.

And this just sounds like asked to me.

I'm annoyed just in general with a lot of things about Apple too.

But it's not good, I'm sorry.

I'm not sorry enough that I'm going to get something before I get back to the US.

But I am sorry, I apologize.

So it is, as I'm recording this, the second of September 2025.

I'm still in Bangkok.

It will be today's Tuesday, I'll be here until Saturday.

And I strictly speaking, I mean to make this about once a week.

I think I recorded the last one of these two days ago.

Maybe it was three, I don't recall.

But it wasn't very long.

It definitely wasn't a week ago.

And next week, I'm going to be traveling with a friend in Japan.

I definitely am not going to be able to make one of these.

So I'm probably going to bank up a couple.

But I'm not the kind of person that likes to bank stuff up, but not release it.

So I'll probably bank it up and then release it almost immediately.

I doubt that this will actually go out on the second and it'll probably go out on the third.

But it's not going to go out next week while I'm doing other stuff.

So if you've heard this joke, the aristocrats.

And it's basically this idea that you tell the most transgressive awful story.

And it's about this act and then you just go through.

And it's kind of an improv thing and it's kind of like a weird comedian thing.

But you're basically just trying to be as gross as awful as possible.

And then at the end, the punch line is just formulaically.

The aristocrats.

Well, I am calling this episode and I refer to a specific political party as the demistocrats.

Because to me, they are just fundamentally ontologically awful evil as a party.

And I can almost hear like, every time I talk about how bad they are.

I know people think somehow that if you don't support the democrats, you're a Republican or you're a Trump supporter.

This is part of the problem, by the way.

The fact that you're understanding of politics, that you're understanding of the political spectrum extends from the extreme far right.

Christoph fascist and our co-capitalist Republicans to the still right of Reagan, modern democratic party, so-called democratic party.

Nobody hates democracy more than the actual Democrats.

It's funny.

We should legitimately sue them for using that in their name.

It is false advertising.

They hate anyone that is at all left of center-truey, like you look at Bernie.

who is a little bit left of center, and the way that the party got together and organized and worked, you know, just tirelessly.

They fought him the way they should be fighting Trump.

Let's just say that.

I mean, like, you can see who is the real threat to the party.

Because the way that their, or quotes fighting Trump is just a fucking joke.

I mean, while, you know, they assemble, like, old-fron and put aside their differences and fought Bernie, tooth and nail.

And I will say, like, I still, yeah, I still love Bernie in the same sense that there's a part of me that still likes Obama and Robert Greig and all of these kind of.

yeah, the sort of brunch liby shit liby kind of people.

I like them.

I do.

It's a residual thing.

I'm not proud of it.

But they're really not.

They're not aligned with me.

It's part of the problem.

So, any time, again, I talk about this, I'll get comments from people who, again, I would call brunch lives.

The people who, if Harris would have gotten elected, would have gone to back to brunch.

And in fact, I've seen them literally in as many words say that, I've seen signs that said that.

And if you don't understand that that's part of the problem, I don't know what to tell you.

I really don't.

I also see, yeah, all of these people.

I mean, I'm particularly annoyed with the getting behind Gavin Newsom, who is, and I'm not just throwing this word around when I call him a fascist.

He is a fascist.

He's a corporatist.

He is anti-omeless.

And I don't mean that he's anti-omelessness, like he wants to end homelessness.

He is against homeless people.

He, like, you can find photos and talk about this before, but you can find without any difficulty.

Very recent pictures and video of him personally, with his own two hands, air quotes clearing homeles.

and nothing.

People who have no place to go.

He's picking up their shit, he's throwing it away, and that could be their central medications.

It could be their few possessions.

I could be heirlooms or things that matter to them or anything.

It could be their few things.

He's throwing them out.

And you can see the glee and joy in his face.

It is not like he's just doing it because he thinks that this is a necessary evil.

He's doing it and he is enjoying it.

I have zero doubt about that.

This is a man who, and I say the same thing about Trump.

This is the thing.

I am so frustrated when I talk about this subject that I cannot talk about it without peopl.

thinking that somehow I'm a Trump supporter.

I fucking hate Trump.

And it's like, you don't criticize Republicans in the same way that you criticize the Democrats.

I'm not going to talk about this a lot in the future.

It's something that I want to kind of address now one time.

And then don't expect me to talk about it again.

I'm sure it will come up.

It's something that's kind of a perennial subject, unfortunately.

Until maybe people start getting better and start recognizing where things are and start developing principles.

But it's, it's really, it's quite frustrating to me.

And especially, like, this is another thing that I'm just going to repeat endlessly.

But in 2016, when 2015, 2016, first, I, it was the first time I really was engaged politically.

And I went out and I knocked doors to some extent also made phone calls and things.

But mostly not doors for burning.

And I also spent a lot of time telling people that Trump could easily win.

This is before Hillary got the nomination.

Trump could easily win, and that it would be prudent, even independent of just.

especially at the time, thinking that burning really reflected my beliefs and values.

And he does certainly more than most of the party, but he's further right than I am.

And he's also much more of a supporter than the party than I.

But even at the time, you know, I was telling people, Hillary could very easily lose to Trump.

And Bernie almost certainly would not.

And that's not, I, I want to, I can just hear, there's a horrible thing, like I've spent too much time on the internet.

And I can, I can not talk about subjects like this without hearing people be like, oh, it's misogyny.

It's because nobody wants a woman to be, no, it is not that.

Don't give me wrong.

Misogyny is a very big factor.

It is baked then.

But Hillary could have still won.

Hillary could have beaten Trump.

And she could have beaten whoever else was there.

But she kind of went out of her way not to.

Similarly, Harris, Harris could have easily beaten Trump.

And, you know, it's frustrating to me how much she went out of her way to just absolutely ensure that I could not in good conscience vote for her.

But I'll get to that in a little bit.

I want to talk more now about general things, and I don't want to speak specifically about these cases.

But I do want to say before just like the front load this 10 minutes in.

That I after Bernie, if you want to be really civil and diplomatic lost the nomination.

and if you want to be a little bit more provocative as I would be here.

And I think more honest, had the nominations stolen from him by Hillary.

And I don't mean like, I don't mean literally like there was vote rigging or anything like this.

But there were a lot of factors that the party did and even got sued for.

And you know, there was the term that they can decide how to run their elections.

And this is one of the reasons why I said nobody hates democracy more than the Democrats.

But they did a lot of things that were very dirty that sort of handed her the nomination.

And took it from him and us.

And a big one was just the super delegate thing.

And the way this worked, you know, I don't want to get into the weeds here because this is not at all the subject.

And in fact, I want to talk very generally without getting into the party specifically.

But I do want to just get through this quickly.

The way the super delegates work is these are not people that you're voting for.

These are just like party officials and higher-ups and leadership if you want leadership.

And they get to vote and they very early on without having voted or without doing anything like this.

But in the reporting, we're counted in the numbers for Hillary.

And I know that doesn't seem like a big deal, but what that did was make people feel like it was extremely, extremely unlikely.

Maybe even to some extent numerically impossible for Bernie to win.

And this is something that annoys me about people in general.

But there's something with people that they will not vote for someone who they don't think is going to win.

Which, of course, means that if you would vote for somebody, they could win.

It's a very weird sort of logic that it's almost like a disease not to be able to steer.

But it's almost like this innate thing with you have to be on the bandwagon.

And if people, if your perception is that you're going to be on the losing team, then you abandon that team.

And so part of what happened there, big part, is that it kind of suppressed the vote.

It got people not to vote for him because they're like, oh, it's not even worth it.

It's not, you know, there's no open, blah, blah, blah.

And then, well, it's history.

And never mind also, I've talked about this.

I've only done like four episodes. I've talked about this, but please Google, well, not Google.

Dr. Go or whatever, not whatever less evil search engine you're using.

Search for Hillary Clinton, Pied Piper, or they always wanted Trump.

And you will find in not like weird random guy on the internet talking to himself about like in political.

the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Hill, and you just go through the list, like all of these massively reputable publications.

They have write-ups about how Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic Party knew absolutely new.

And obviously when I say new, they were wrong.

They were very wrong, and they were obviously wrong.

But they were absolutely confident, confidently wrong, that Trump could not possibly win.

And they as a strategy did this Pied Piper thing, which was basically to get him the nomination.

If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for their interference, if it wasn't for their pushing a lot of corporate media to really elevate him.

and make him seem like a contender and make him seem like the natural nominee and the leader of the party.

If they didn't do that, he probably would have lost.

This is something, this is a big fucking thing.

But anyway, I, in the moment, was looking at the polling data, looking at models, all those kind of stuff.

And I knew he could very easily win.

I absolutely knew that.

And I also knew, because I've spent a long time being for abortion.

And I mean, like for abortion rights and abortion is healthcare and abortion as a procedure, just like I'm for appendectomies.

You know, I've never mind that now, but I've been for that for a long time.

And so I knew that for longer than I've been alive, and really it goes back, like if you want to dig into the history of this.

I guess you could always go back into other stuff further.

But basically, at the civil rights era, there were all of these Supreme Court decisions, like Brown versus the Board of Education, like loving Virginia.

And not just civil rights decisions, but also environmental decisions, anti-corporate decisions.

And these kinds of things pissed off a bunch of rich white assholes, including people like the Koch brothers.

But a bunch of rich white assholes, and they got together.

And this is one of these things that seems like a conspiracy theory, but it's real.

And it's easily, it's very well documented.

And it's been happening in public view, like it's not even like they were pretending otherwise.

But they put together things like the Federalists Society, things like the Heritage Foundation, things like acorn, to push for, you know, pre-package legislation that they could distribute to state legislator or legislatures and get implemented in states.

And their whole thing was basically, we are going to make sure that we can undo this.

And that they did focus on this for, again, longer than I've been alive, many, many decades, more than half a century.

They've been working on this.

And I knew about this.

I knew that they were growing in justices in the lab, getting into law schools, getting into legal organizations.

And basically building a pipeline of people who would be what they accused other people of being.

So they always use this terminology or quotes activist judge.

And, you know, legislating from the bench is another one they really like.

That's what they wanted to do.

They're literally just telling on themselves when they talked about these things.

And their whole goal was basically to fill.

And they have federal courts and the Supreme Court with people like Brett Kavanaugh.

who essentially have been cultivated their entire lives to legislate from the bench.

to be activist judges, to change a case law, to essentially make the Supreme Court.

to the extent that it ever was legitimate, completely illegitimate.

And that's been their goal.

They've been working on it and they succeeded.

And I knew about this stuff before 2016, because I, again, paid attention.

I was involved for a long time.

And I saw that.

And I knew that if Trump won, then these people would be getting into the Supreme Court.

And so after Bernie had the nomination stolen from him, I busted my ass.

I mean, don't give me wrong. I was not happy about it.

But I still went out every week and busted my ass, knocking doors, making phone calls.

more knocking doors than phone calls, but still both for Hillary.

And I was on Facebook telling everybody I knew and in person, telling everybody I knew.

A, he could easily win.

B, I know she sucks, but you got a vote for her.

And you know, just like desperately begging people.

And it was another reason why I wasn't surprised that.

that he did win, because when I was knocking doors for Bernie.

and I really encourage anyone, I noticed I still haven't gotten to the party stuf.

and all of this other stuff yet.

I will get to it.

I really will.

This is just the introduction.

But it was not a surprise to me because when I was knocking doors for Bernie.

and also I knocked doors for Medicare for all.

And when I did these things, no matter who I talked to.

people liked and respected them.

You know, I would occasionally, very, very rarely find somebody who's like.

you know, oh, comedy or socialist or whatever.

The funny thing is actually, like, Biden is not in any way a socialist or a communist or anything like that.

Hillary is absolutely not.

These are, these are capitalists.

They're neoliberals and all of this.

But the Republicans have painted them as such.

Even more so than they have Bernie, which is a weird fucking, just absolute mind fuck.

But somehow they've done that.

It's one of the things also that gets me annoyed with this party because they take the space and they make people think.

oh, these are socialist policies.

When they're absolutely just corporatists.

pro capitalist bullshit.

And because they do that, they're essentially ruining the name and the reputation of people who are not pro capitalist.

But anyway, I busted my ass knocking doors and I talked to people about Bernie.

and I knew how much they liked them.

And then I talked to people about Hillary.

And for Bernie, they put us in not just like high-prepensity, you know, so just sort of general donors or general voters rather.

General people who were registered to vote, registered to vote, I think Democrat for the most part.

But people who were not necessarily, you know, high-prepensity means like they voted in the last three major elections.

Hillary, they were basically all high-prepensity voters that they put us on.

It was just kind of different strategy of the people running the ground game.

Weirdly enough, the guy who was actually running the Tempe Democrat volunteer stuff, the coordinator that I was under.

He was a Bernie supporter.

All the people that I was volunteering with, at least like two-thirds of them were Bernie supporters.

This is for knocking doors for Hillary, but never mind all of them.

It endlessly irritates me that we get completely defamed and slandered and livid by people who insist that somehow we got Trump elected.

We were working harder than anyone.

We voted more for her than say her voters voted for Obama.

More of her voters voted for what was his name that came at the time.

It's it's it's fucking offensive.

And people don't talk about how, you know, I mean granted Obama did win, but it was not with the help of her voters.

Let's just say that.

So anyway, when I was knocking doors and talking to people, I talked to so many people, high-prepensity Democratic voters who didn't like her.

Didn't trust her.

Didn't want to vote for her.

And it didn't help also that her campaign was pushing.

I call it the secret because basically they were pushing this idea that she's got it in the bag.

She is inevitable.

Like, go on.

But the fuck is his name.

I can't even think of his name.

The finger stop guy.

Thanos.

You know, like she's just, she's got it.

And in doing that, they were discouraging people from voting because if she's got it in the bag and people don't feel like voting for her.

But they don't like her and all this kind of stuff.

Then why would they go out and vote for her.

You know, you don't have to.

So of course you're not.

It's it's it's a ridiculous thing.

But I was talking to people.

I knew that they were not into her.

And her campaign completely ignored that kind of stuff.

They didn't try to address it.

And I'm not saying that it was all fair.

I'm not saying that it was all right.

I mean, a lot of it was based in misogyny.

And it was based on the fact that, you know, like a bunch of Republicans saw her in the 90s in front of Congress pushing for her health care plan.

Which I should go back and look at.

I have not.

I feel like it's a bit of diligence that I should.

I should check that before.

I feel like we're actually like even talking about it now kind of a shame that I'm not more familiar with it.

But whatever the plan was, a bunch of Republicans saw that.

They did not like, did not like her.

You know, this is.

I'll put people in talking in front of Congress.

And they defamed her for the next, you know, so many years.

I've been told the present because of that.

That was a fact.

But she also has gone so much out of her way to be so, like, arrogant and, you know, uninterested.

Absolutely uninterested.

And even trying to be persuasive or trying to make any kind of a case for herself.

Yeah.

It's like, yeah.

Part of this is unfair.

Part of it is misogyny.

And part of it is you.

And like, you can't.

This gets the one thing that I always get annoyed with.

Like I say, I'm kind of talking about the party.

But this is not what I wanted to talk about.

And we'll get to the other stuff.

But one thing that really annoys me with that party is just that they look at the stuff.

And they're like blaming other people, blaming things that are external, blaming things that are outside of their control.

And the problem with this is if everything is the fault of somebody else, everything is the fault of the weather.

Or, you know, like, just random chance and happens to us.

Then everything just becomes a lottery.

You're not, you have no agency.

You have no control.

You have no real influence.

And this is a mess.

A problem because it's not actionable.

I can't say, well, okay, well, the weather fucked me over today.

I'm going to change the weather tomorrow.

Yeah, that's, that's not a realistic thing.

You could, you could definitely say, well, I could, let's see.

The weather yesterday kind of didn't work with my plan.

So maybe I'll change my plan so that I can deal with different weather and be in a better position to handle whatever the weather might be.

Yeah, that's something you can actually do.

That's something that makes sense.

That is something where, again, like, you're not saying that the weather is in your favor.

But you are saying, regardless of what the weather does, I will be prepared.

And I will do what I can to, to win or to, you know, thrive or whatever under those circumstances.

And you're basically turning something from this external force measure kind of thing to something that is internal that you can actually act on.

And then the thing that's really important about it is that it is actionable that it's something that you have influence over unlike, again, the weather.

Like, I mean, I guess technically in principle, maybe you could figure out a way to manipulate the weather or change it.

But you're probably not going to, and you're probably not going to by the next election.

So anyway, all that stuff, it was very bothersome.

And the fact that she, like, didn't go to Michigan, didn't do all of these things.

And also, you know, like, Bernie, I swear, I feel terrible like focusing on something that happened like a decade ago so much.

But the reason part of the reason that I'm talking about this so much and that I focused so much on it is that, you know.

I talked to people that are endlessly to this day blaming Bernie supporters for her losing.

And I want to clear the record.

I want people to understand, no, we actually really contributed to her chances.

We did as much as we could, truly, we voted for her in mass.

We helped her as much as we could.

We did what we could. It was not us.

It was, it was, it was, it was more than anything of her and her air against her hubris.

And, you know, I mean, if you want to, this is not a due to lung Hillary episode.

But if you, if you want to really like twist your brain a little bit, she had something.

I remember what year it came out.

I think it was like 2018, 2019, doesn't really matter exactly.

She had something where it was, it would have been her, I don't know what you call it.

It's not an acceptance speech, but her speech that she would have given after winning.

And some of it was fine, some of it was okay.

But a lot of it was like, like, just ridiculous over the top nonsense.

And I'm not exaggerating it. It's worth watching, truly.

It gives you some insight into her.

But she's sitting there having a conversation or the framing of this is she's having a conversation with her younger self.

And explaining how essentially, like, God or Dane, that she would be the first woman president.

I swear, I'm not making that shit up.

I like, it is, like, whoa, you know.

And totally out of touch with reality, obviously.

And especially, like it was already out of touch with reality, even if she would have won.

But she could, she very well could have won.

I know people who were like, oh, she had no chance.

She could have easily won.

It was on the day of it was probably like two to three in her favor.

That is to say, like, order of if you ran the same day three times.

Two of them you'd expect her to win and one you would expect her to lose.

I think that's probably a realistic assessment.

It's not good odds.

Like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't do Russian roulette odds.

I wouldn't play that game, especially when you think about the cost.

This is worse than Russian roulette.

This is, like, twice as bad.

I definitely wouldn't, there's an advice that I would roll.

You know, it's all I'm saying.

And I think this is a thing where people who really do not understan.

at a very fundamental level statistics and probabilities and odd.

and all that kind of stuff, but that's not the point in this.

Now, I'm almost a half hour.

I'm going to fucking get to the stuff that I actually want to talk to.

But all of that said, that's kind of just some background here.

So what I really want to talk about is, yeah, the Republicans are fucking awful.

I don't think there's any question about that.

I think it's even an interesting thing to talk about.

They're extreme far right, crystal fascist, anarcho-capitalists.

And I know some people who are anarchists and they get annoyed when I say anarcho-capitalists.

They're not the same, they have the same word in them.

They're one is an extreme right wing thing, and then the other is a very left wing thing.

I wish people had better just poly-side background.

It's annoying that you can't have a conversation with people, but just in a side.

anarcho-capitalists are basically like capitalists can do whatever the fuck they want.

The people with the money get to dictate everything, they get to decide everything.

they don't have to follow any rules, they can just make up the game, that's it.

And then crystal fascist literally, you know.

their people who have their version of Christianity.

and they think the government should be wrong in accordance with those ideas.

Which are pretty fucked up, especially given the tenants of the Christianity as I understand the.

are not as horrible as this, if you just laid them out.

But their version of it is like Calvinism, and they like to call it the prosperity gospel.

Let me get like it's a new thing, but it's an old thing.

They're pretty fucking terrible.

They're just like, and the end of the world called and all this other stuff.

And of course, you know, well all the stuff that goes with religious fanaticism, just in general.

misogyny and in general just horribleness and all that.

That's who they are.

And Trump is fucking awful.

Look, I don't think I shouldn't even need to say that.

I shouldn't need to explain to you that Trump is awful.

And the thing that does, I mean, I could go on and on.

And I really could just on and on.

I didn't find item about all the ways that he's terrible.

I've known he's my entire life.

I've known he's terrible.

I did.

It was not something that I had to really learn or figure out.

In the 80s he had the, what does it central park five.

He had things where, you know, just like overt racism.

Is it through lying for him.

But even if you take that out, he's just an asshole.

Like just a fundamentally terrible person.

Yeah.

You would see, like he'd pop up in this America and talk about how.

You could just go in the back and the changing room.

And, you know, he's transgressive.

He's like a sex past.

He's not only racist, not only classist, just indecent.

And when I say he has no class, and then since I don't mean, well.

that's independent of being classless or classist, rather.

But he has no class, and he has no decency.

He's not got respect for anyone, but himself.

He feels like he should be able to do whatever the fuck he wants.

Just a fucking awful person.

Like, and it utterly unprincipled and extremely lazy.

And a cheater and a liar.

And you can go on and on and on.

You just, you could, I don't have to, though.

I shouldn't have to.

I should not have to explain how bad he is or how bad the Republicans are.

I assume, you know that.

I echo with kind of the principle of charity, which is to assume, well.

I guess several things, but one to assume the best interpretation of something when you say it.

But also, I kind of assume that you have the capacity and experience and understanding to know who these people are.

But it's, it shouldn't be necessary.

And I think, well, I mean, this is kind of a depressing thing.

Because I see a lot of the people who I would call blue maga in the brunch lives.

I used to call them more shit lives, but I think shit lives sounds more personal.

And it sounds more like I just don't like them because I don't like them, although I do.

Yeah.

But brunch live really catches, like exactly who they are, which is just, they don't want to be bothered.

They don't want, they don't mind the policies of Trump.

They don't mind the deportations that Obama was doing.

They don't mind Obama blowing up kids and weddings.

They don't, they don't mind any of that kind of stuff.

They just don't like that it's being done by somebody who is overt and awful and, like, in your face about it.

That's the real objection to Trump, which is, in itself, it's actually kind of disturbing.

Because, like, all that stuff that I said and all this stuff I could go down to list about Trump and why he's awful.

It's not because he's just like the orange turd, or whatever the fuck they call him.

I certainly don't have to use ableism.

I certainly don't have to use body shaming.

I don't have to use homophobia or transphobia to criticize him.

I would never have to do any of that stuff.

But you see the brunch flips doing this stuff.

The blue mega people doing this stuff all the time.

And it's, it's fucking annoying.

It's like, I don't need to talk about how bad he is, but maybe you guys need to think about why he's so bad.

Because I don't think you know, I think a lot of you just are on this, like, social being.

In the same sense that, you know, like, I lived in Gilbert, Arizona for a long time.

And when I was there, there were a fuckload of trucks, including, like, well after he was not going to be the nominee.

And, you know, like, probably to this day, they have bumper stickers that are, let's go brand him.

They love this guy, they love genocide, Joe, they love crying bill Joe.

And I don't know why they like him so much, but they hate him.

They love to hate him.

But the thing is, if you actually, like, listed the policies, you listed his principles and his positions, like, he is pro forced birth.

That's not a reason for me to like him.

That's a reason for you guys to like him.

They hate him.

They think that he's a communist.

And we're just fucking, it's just silly.

It's funny.

It's ridiculous.

It's absurd.

If you had any kind of, any kind of understanding of political theory, you would know who he is and who he is not.

There are plenty of reasons to hate that guy.

I mean, he is a plagiarist, he is a liar and a cheat.

And when I say he's a plagiarist, I don't mean, you know, like, I'm just throwing the word around.

If you go back to 1988, I actually have a video pinned on my TikTok, where I have some clips from.

from 1988 when he was in the Democratic primary and he got drummed out for plagiarism, like literally just reading other people's speeches.

You know, almost, almost verbatim.

It's ridiculous and over the top.

And these, these videos are from people like, just mainstream established journalists talking about how bad it was.

These are, these are people like Eleanor Cliff or Dan Rather talking about, like, how he's just like a doll that's, you know, a puppet.

It's spitting out other people's words as though they were his own.

And how his career should be destroyed or was destroyed.

They just assumed at the time, laughably, that that would destroy his career.

And it should have, he should have never had the political office again after 1988.

He would be able to frankly, he shouldn't have before, you know, because there's.

Keep plenty of reasons why he shouldn't have before, but that should have ended it for him.

And you go back to let law school and his undergrad.

He cheated in classes.

He plagiarized massive chunks of papers.

He, he was not a good person.

He was, like, the amount of stuff that he has in common with Trump is uncanny.

Is it both just kind of mediocre old white dudes who have their entire lives had nothing but privilege.

Had lots of stuff handed, and you can, I understand, like, you know, okay, he's had some tragedy.

I'm not, I'm not saying that he had a perfect life.

You know, this isn't as similar to, um, if you have white privilege, it does not mean that your life is great.

It doesn't mean that you never faced any problems. It just means that your problems did not come from your race.

It means that, you know, like, I have had plenty of difficult fees in my life, but they're not coming from the fact that I'm a white male, right.

It's just head, white male. Those are not, those are not hurting me.

Whereas there are people who, you know, if you're, uh, like a femme dude, um, that's gonna hurt you.

If you are trans, if you're Black, if you're brown, if you're a woman, um, all of those things are going to hurt you.

And those are things that will be in people's way.

And there are people with multiple intersecting marginal identities who are much more successful than I am.

but they did it despite all of those things, not because of them.

And, you know, I am less successful than I could be, but, you know, it might, my, my race and identity are not factors that they're not things that were in my way.

So, anyway, um, both of these guys completely mediocre, um, lying, cheating, indecent, uh, very transgressive.

It's, it's kind of, uh, a, a hand-to-standard part of this is a generational thing, but both of them are extremely transgressive.

Like, there, there, there was the, this is another thing, um, you can look up the audacity of the grove.

This was a daily show, um, there wasn't a full episode, but it was like a decent chunk, um, in there.

So, man, the B and John Stewart.

And it's a, it's just clips after clip after clip of Biden, um, with various women from Angela Merkel to, uh, to little girls.

And he's like doing like this weird creepy, um, shoulder massages and getting, like sniffing their hair and just like being gross and weird.

Um, and similarly, you know, just like Trump.

Now, I'm not saying they're exactly the same guy, but they're so similar in so many different ways.

Um, you know, and, and you look at like how they both cheated through university.

They both, um, have, frankly, blown up things in huge ways that would have destroyed most people's careers.

Um, and yet they faced no real consequences for it.

But the stuff that Biden did in 1988 should have ended his career.

Um, Trump losing a billion dollars and other people's money should have ended his ability to get investments and get, to have a career past.

And yet both of these guys, uh, continued to fail upwards up to the presidency.

It's, it, the thing about these two, especially, I think it's going to be much more obvious with the perspective of history.

It's hard to see when you're in the middle of it.

But with the perspective of history, um, these two guys at kind of the end cap of, of the United States as, as we've known it.

Um, they are the perfect avatars for that country.

They really truly are.

They are the embodied embodiments of everything that's wrong about that country.

Like, you could not pick, you couldn't cast better examples of, of, of what's so fucked up by the country.

And also in both cases, you have their supporters.

I mean, I'm going off on a, well, really a tangent.

That's a thing that I do I guess.

But, um, you know, this is not what I meant.

But talk about it.

They're both such, um, such an example of this and also the way that their supporters bot.

loath the other person.

Not based on how horrible they are because they both are horrible people.

They both, you know, have endless reasons to dislike them and be disgusted by them and fin.

them offensive and never want them anywhere near any kind of power, uh, both in th.

terrible.

But the people that hate them, they hate them because orange turd or, uh, you know.

the people that hate Oklahoma, uh, they call them Obama and all that they have a B.O.

Is a, is another one.

There's a lot of very thinly veiled racism and horrible stuff.

Uh, they hate him for reasons that are not like, oh, he is, uh, agent of empire.

Um, he's an oligarch himself for aspiring one who chums up with oligarchs and blows u.

little kids and does all those horrible stuff and doesn't, you know, does not see to i.

that W or his administration, uh, face any consequences at all for, you know, overtly torturin.

people, right.

It, you know, like there are plenty of reasons to hate the supporter and chief, uh.

that the people who hate him for the most part hate him for completely ridiculous made u.

reasons that are not so subtly racist.

That's, you know, the people who hate, um, Biden for the most part.

It's not because he's genocide Joe or crime bill Joe.

Oh, yeah, that's a thing that he did.

Um, it's weird.

Also, this is, this is not intended to talk about as well.

But, uh, I, these are groups that I can't help getting into as I'm talking about this stuf.

that came out of it because it's so fucking annoying.

Um, Biden and Harris both built their political careers on putting Black men into prison.

And it's, it's kind of stunning when you look at it and you look at how much they both were involve.

in law enforcement and an unfairly taking civil rights from people and enslaving people.

Again, like, bears endless repetition.

The 13th amendment does not, um, for bit slavery, um, it has a little asterisk.

It has a little asterisk.

It doesn't abolish slavery in abolishes it, except as a punishment for crime.

And putting an asterisk on there, it's, it's pretty special.

It says a lot about that country.

Anyway, um, getting back on track that where I wanted to be.

I've never voted for a Republican.

I can't imagine any scenario in a realistic near term that I would ever vote for one.

You know, the party would literally have to do another one of these seismic shifts and completely reverse itself in order for me to even consider it.

And frankly, the, the brand is so tainted, like even if, um.

the Republicans became openly communist.

I don't think that I can vote for a Republican.

I just, I just don't think I could.

And it's too, too associated with racism and Trumpism and all these things.

Um, so it's, it's very annoying to me that people would jump to this thing like.

Oh, somehow, because you're criticizing Democrats, you must be a Republican.

You must be a Trump supporter.

And I don't think, you know, I think people generally speaking, even if they don't really know the details.

they kind of know how terrible the Republicans are.

They don't really have that much of a clue how terrible the Democrats are.

And it, including even actually the, the red manga people, the Republican supporters that don't like the Democrats.

Again, they don't like them for reasons which are imaginary.

Not for the actual reasons, not to like them.

Not for the actual, um, problems with them.

The actual reasons that I don't like them.

Um, and so I want to talk a little bit about this.

And I want to talk, I, I'm not going to talk about the parties in particular.

I'm not going to go through, like, I don't want to go critically in it.

And why is like the Democrats sort of this.

And this is the, and the Republicans are this.

Instead, I'm going to start from a different angle 45 minutes in.

So this, this probably should have been at the top.

But 45 minutes in them finally getting started.

That was the introduction.

Um, I want to talk a little bit about my principles.

Where I stand on things.

And then as I go through those, talk about the parties and how well they align with me.

Um, so first of all, first of all, just to be, you know, very clear, very open.

Um, I'm an anti-capitalist.

I, I don't want to go into, uh, like, this is already in 45 minutes into this.

I don't want to get into the details of what that means.

Um, maybe I'll do that in another episode someday.

It's worth talking about.

Um, but just in general, um, I don't believe in or support, uh, the individual accumulation.

a glomeration of wealth.

Um, I don't think billionaires should exist.

Period.

Yeah.

I get into a lot of arguments with people about how, uh, oh.

that there was one that posted something on Facebook yesterday, the day before.

about, you know, the biggest long multi-page screen about how Taylor Swift is still a human.

She's a human being.

And, like, people, like, it's so lazy and cheap and blah, blah, blah for people to hate her.

I don't hate her because of anything about her other than the fact that billionaires are ontologically equal.

The existence of the very existence of billionaires in a world where there are people who do not have enough to eat.

We do not have shelter.

We do not have basic needs met.

Um, when you have people hoarding so much wealth that they individually.

cannot spend it in a thousand lifetimes.

Um, that is evil.

Like, that is as close to pure unadulterated evil as, I think, exists in the world.

Um, it is a hoarding thing and it's terrible.

It just is intrinsically terrible.

Um, that should not exist.

Should just fundamentally not exist.

And, you know, you still may be a human being.

You still may have feelings and all those kind of stuff.

But it does not make you a good person to be a billionaire.

If you were a good person and somehow suddenly somebody gave you a billion dollar.

for whatever reason, you find yourself being a billionaire.

You wouldn't be a billionaire for very long because you would go out of your wa.

to help as many people as you can and use the inordinate amount of resources and power that you hav.

that again amount to, you know, the equivalent of thousands, millions of people around the world.

You have that much.

Um, that's ridiculous.

Then nobody should have that much power.

Nobody should have that much wealth.

Nobody should be able to do the things that they can do.

Nobody should be able to buy a city block, you know, just at will on a whi.

because they can because they want to.

Um, nobody should be able to, even the good stuff that they couldn't in principle do.

but somehow never end up doing.

Um, it shouldn't exist.

Um, and in fact also, you know, this is just, it gets to, to this.

Um, well, I don't, I don't want to go too far down this path because again, I will.

I will make another one later on about the, about not being a capitalist and being anti-capitalist.

But, it's just, it's just bad.

It's not a good thing.

And to be clear also, that doesn't mean that I'm opposed to you having personal property.

You know, I, I want to have the computer that I am that I have.

That should be my computer.

That's, you know, my toothbrush should be my toothbrush.

I think that's, that's fine.

There's, it's kind of almost like a natural thing.

Um, you know, like our ancestors had stuff that was kind of theirs.

They had their own shit.

Everybody kind of can have their own shit to some extent.

If you're on island, but you can have your own toothbrush.

You know, you can have your own space.

You can have, you know, some stuff that you have, you've done.

You've worked towards all of that kind of stuff.

And when I say, you've worked towards it.

This is part of the difference between, you know, personal property.

And private property.

Um, that doesn't mean that you have a company that you, you know.

you don't get to own an apple, like apples, not your thing, right.

Um, even if you somehow built it all yourself, which nobody does.

uh, but you don't get to do that.

That's not, that's, that would be the private property thing.

You don't get to own, um, an island.

You don't get to own a factory.

Nobody should own those things.

Um, that's not, and think that any individual.

or organization really should be able to do.

They should be collectively owned resources.

And frankly, a lot of things shouldn't be owned by anyone.

You know, nature has its own, you know, well.

and I don't even want to get into that, but that's.

a lot of things are not ownable.

You should be able to own a person or another animal.

Um, it's, it's, it's fucking weird, actually.

Like the fact that people think that you can or should.

they're, that's a fine thing to do.

Um, I'm opposed to investors.

I'm opposed to, you know, it's one thing for you to work on stuf.

and make something and make something that other people find of value.

And then exchange that with them for something else of value.

Um, I, I, I, I, I'm much more into the gift economy and like.

you make extra stuff in the process of doing stuff.

And you give it away.

But I'm not opposed intrinsically to the idea of markets and commerc.

and exchange and that kind of stuff within reason.

Um, but I am opposed to investors owning a company.

uh, not really contributing to anything there other tha.

contributing, or quotes capital.

Um, I don't, I don't believe in capital as a concept.

Um, and then taking the surplus.

uh, from other people, the extra work that people have done.

that they're not getting, uh, the reward from.

I don't, I don't believe in that.

I don't believe that, that is a thing that even makes sense.

And it certainly should not happen.

Um, I'm very opposed to that.

Um, and, you know, if, this is, this is kind of thing.

Like if, if somebody, you make something.

And then it gets exchanged or sold for something else.

You should get the part of the value that you put into that.

You just should, um, it's, it's the way it should be.

And even if you don't necessarily take it home yourself.

like you could reinvest it, you could decide, okay.

well, it would be better if we as a group.

or making these things together, um.

got some tools, got better tools, got better space.

Did, didn't X or Y or Z.

I put that into raw materials to make more stuff.

Or to, you know, any of that kind of stuff.

You can make that decision.

But that's different than somebody who's, again.

investing, um, a capitalist who owns the thing.

That isn't contributing to the production of the thing.

Contributing to the actual, you know, making of the thing.

And I'm, I'm talking about making as, as though these are like widgets.

but they could be services, they could be whatever.

They're thinking, you know, things that, in a very abstract sense.

you are making.

Um, so I bring this up and, you know.

what, what does that have to do with the Democrats or the Republicans.

Both of these parties are capitalist parties.

Both of them are completely diametrically opposed to where I am.

And that, in that regard.

And in that sense, neither one represents me.

And neither one, even remotely.

aligns with me on a very, just basic foundational fundamental thing.

This is one reason why I'm not a Democrat.

I'm not a Republican.

I don't like either of these parties.

I'm much, much further left.

I assure you, then either of these parties.

It's funny also, like, this is just an aside.

But, you know, I like to send people to political compass.org.

And it is not perfect.

It is, like, I could give you an enlistment of criticisms of the site.

And the way that they're measuring things and all those kind of stuff.

But it does kind of, in very broad strokes.

shine a light on the fact that the Democrats.

the mainstream Democrats, including Bernie.

are very vaguely, like.

like, Bernie again is for the party kind of, like, extreme sort of middle of the road.

And you look at, like, Obama and Clinton, both Clinton'.

and Trump and McCain and all these people.

They're all clustered in the upper right corner of the sort of authoritarian right.

And, you know, there's not that far from each other.

If you actually look, whether you like the metrics that they use or not.

if you actually list, and I really encourage, like.

I think this is something, this is an exercise for the reader.

Not that you're reading.

Maybe you are reading, I don't know.

But as an exercise for the reader.

one thing that I wish people would do is kind of think about what are your values.

What are the principles that you hold dear.

What are the things that you think matter.

What are the things that you think are not negotiable.

And you should have things that are not negotiable.

I understand this weird thing that people have now where they talk about how.

you know, you can't have a purity test.

Purity tests are literally just or litmus tests or whatever you want to call them.

They like purity tests because it sounds really bad.

All it means fundamentally is having basic standards.

You know, I will not vote for somebody who supports genocide, hard stop.

That is a basic standard.

That is a basement level standard.

It is like something that should not be controversial.

It shouldn't be something that I even have to say.

It shouldn't even be something.

It should be like just a given.

Of course, you don't have to vote for anyone who supports genocide.

Because now who would support genocide.

Like, and it turns out, of course, both the Republicans and the Democrats support genocide.

Both support Ecoside.

You know, the environment that we live in that we depend on that our entire existence is based on.

And our civilization developed and you probably should not fuck that up.

And you probably should take care of that so that we have some kind of sustainable future that's viable.

It's not horrible.

That should be a basic fundamental principle.

And if the thing about this and I'm really want to say.

this is one of the reasons why I get annoyed with people especially.

Democrats, the Democrats, and this one is like a rank and file thing that bothers me.

If you had standards, if you would not, like if you.

and when I say you, I mean, everybody who's going to vote for a Democrat.

if you put your foot down and you said, I am not going to vote for somebody who supports genocide.

period, hard stop, then you wouldn't have a candidate that supports genocide.

You would have a better candidate.

You would have a candidate that I can vote for.

That's the fucking thing.

And because you have that lack of standard, and especially because like I see.

I keep seeing people declaring publicly that they're going to vote for whoever the nominee is next time.

This is like, do you want to, let's, let's just take this a little bit more into the abstract.

I'm going to write a contract.

I'm going to leave all the terms blank.

I'm going to fill those in later.

Don't worry about it.

You don't have to, we don't have to negotiate any of that stuff.

You're going to sign it now, right.

You're just going to sign the contract.

And then later on, I'll put everything.

the, I'm getting and everything that you're getting in there.

And you think you.

does that seem like a reasonable way to negotiate anything to you.

Does that seem like it doesn't, doesn't make sense.

You're like, you're essentially saying.

you can be safely ignored because you're going to vote for whatever the fuck I give you.

You're going to take it.

You're going to accept it.

It's very annoying to me.

And when I say annoying, I mean, that is not nearly as strong enough word.

It is a fucking awful.

It is beyond fucking awful.

And it is the reason why you have two candidates in the last election for the two majority parties.

They're arguing with each other over who is a bigger fracker than our both pro genocide.

The both went.

was a two to be basically like beach property for somebody else.

to be taken from people to be leveled.

That is why there are no standards because you have no fucking standards.

Like it's not me.

It's not people that actually have standards.

It's your fault.

I really wish people would get that.

I really deeply.

but it's fucking annoying.

I think, I think housing is a human right.

I think just for the fact that you exist as a human being.

you should be able to have safe, comfortable shelter.

You should be able to not have to pay rent to exist and to live.

That's just a fundamental thing.

And I don't think that should be a ridiculous thing.

That should just be a given.

That should just be like simple.

don't check.

Neither party.

Neither party is for that.

Nobody should have to pay rent to live.

Also means you should get food.

And I'm not saying shitty food.

You should be able to get decent, good, healthy, nutritious food.

The taste good.

Just as a matter of.

just in exchange for existing.

It's part of the deal.

That's part of the package that we offer.

It's like, okay, you're going to exist.

And as in return for existing.

you get that.

Neither party.

Neither party.

Belief food is a human right.

I think education is a human right.

As in exchange for existing.

you should have health care.

You should have education.

You should even have indulgences.

I understand this is a big thing in the US with food stamps.

You can't possibly have sugar with food stamps.

You can't possibly have any kind of thing that you might enjoy.

It has to be just, you know, like, terrible tasteless, awfulness.

But I think you should be able to, like, if you want to have coffee.

And you want to have chocolate.

And you want to occasionally have ice cream or whatever.

You should totally, that should be part of the deal.

That's part of the package.

Just for existing.

You don't have to, to work for that.

That's a innate human right.

I think you have an innate in neither parties for any of that.

I think you have an innate human right to autonomy.

And that includes not only self-determination in terms of how you spend your tim.

and lives, but that means you also have a fundamental right to wrong.

You have the right to be where you are and to go someplace else.

And that means that there's a lot of consequences.

Like that, that belief.

That means borders should not exist.

Or they should at least be very open.

Like it should not be.

It should be maybe, if you want, like, the.

the, I always talk this up, Shindan area in Europe.

Where you can just go from country to country and live and work.

And, you know, or just like the United States.

as maybe a simpler example.

And there should not be borders between different countries.

You should be able to do it.

If you want to live in Australia.

you should be able to go to Australia and live in work.

Module, like colonizer, self-knowledge, kind of stuff.

There are details, obviously.

But you should be able to.

You should be able to go anywhere.

The borders should be open.

They should not exist.

And that also means, in both parties.

are very fundamentally deeply opposed to that.

And I have to meet my phone because.

I don't know if you're getting the bumps that they're.

super annoying.

Both parties are opposed to that.

That's, that's like, again, basic foundational thing for me.

That also means that cities should be accessible.

Not just walkable.

Although they should be walkable.

Walkable means you, without a vehicle.

can go from point A to point B.

And it might take you a long time.

It might be a little long.

But you can do it.

And it's going to be safe.

You're going to have a sidewalk there.

Probably also, they should be accessible.

which means you can roll from A to B.

If you're a wheelchair user.

If you need some other group of systems beyond that.

that should be a thing.

There should be public transit.

They can quickly get you from A to B.

Now, it maybe it doesn't go point to point everywhere you ar.

to everywhere you can go.

But within like five minutes of walking or rolling.

you should be able to get to public transi.

from basically anywhere.

And go wherever you're going.

And then five more minutes of walking or rollin.

to get to your destination.

That should just be, yeah.

And at your destination, if it's a 20 story building.

there should be an elevator there.

For people who can't go up 20 flights of stairs.

It also means that there should be high speed rail network.

built from city to city.

And those should be much more like a better version of Toky.

where in Tokyo is pretty good.

Don't get it wrong.

Compared to any US city, other than maybe New York.

Tokyo is pretty nice.

But you should basically be able to be wherever you ar.

in your apartment, which again you didn't have to pay for.

You can, if you wanted, you could pay for one that's nicer.

But you got a nice apartment just by virtue of existing.

You could be there.

And I don't mean that you're sheltered, you're sheltered.

Where house together with a bunch of other people that aren't paying.

You can have a nice place and a nice place.

With, yeah.

You should be able to go from there to public transi.

to a train station very quickly.

And then from that train station, you should be able to ge.

basically anywhere at a reasonable cost.

And, you know, I'm not saying it should be free necessarily.

Although it should be damn near free.

It should be like a level where anyone with a tiny bit of effor.

could do it.

And fundamentally, I would really say, probably should be free.

Like you should say, yeah, you could set things up so that they could do this.

Like it does not have to be an expense that you have to incur personally.

Now, obviously, with all this stuff.

I can, even when I was talking about the food and the health car.

and the educational is going to stuff.

And then you talk about autonomy and you're like, well.

how do you get that and square that with people having the righ.

to choose what they do.

Well, I hate to tell you this.

There are plenty of people who would be doctors.

who would be lawyers, who would be educators.

You have a fundamental right to legal representation, by the way.

That's another thing I believe that neither party believes.

Fundamental right.

But you should, there are people who would do that stuff for fre.

if they didn't have to do, you know, like all the stuff to pay rent.

They don't have to somehow exchange currency in order to exist.

There are plenty of people who would make art.

And I would personally do research and engineering for fre.

not for other people, not to make other people rich.

But for myself, and when I say for myself.

I mean, I would do research that would probably advance the.

you know, the border of human knowledge and capacit.

and make things that are useful for people.

I would do that and I don't need to be compensated for it.

I need to have like a safe place to live.

I need to have all the stuff that I was talking about.

Not like an exhort, like I don't need to have a mansion.

But you know, a comfortable place where I can work and where I can liv.

and where I can just, you know, like maybe enjoy a view is a nice thing.

Have a little comfortable workspace where you can do your project.

or do art or do whatever you're into.

And a plate like a little nuck where you can read.

These are things.

Every single person should have simply for existing.

And we could, like, these are not like.

this is not me to open in like, oh, if we someday.

if we have automation, then we can really, no.

we could do this today for everybody.

Absolutely.

I'm so fucking looping.

It wouldn't even require that much restructuring of, you know.

found a more foundational economic systems.

It's most of, this is a thing.

And this is, I talk about this sometimes.

Like, I do not understand the concept of money.

And I say that, and I'm saying it kind of gives, like, half tongue and cheek.

But also, I mean literally, I understand, obviously, like.

I have a PhD in physics.

I've not undergrad degree in mathematics.

I understand what people think the concept of money is.

But it is so disconnected.

The current, you know, fiat currency, all of this kind of stuff.

It's so disconnected from any kind of real intrinsic value.

It's one of the reasons why cryptocurrency seems to kind of make sense to peopl.

because it's just as completely disconnected from anything in value.

Maybe it's maybe a little bit more.

But because of that, it's all just made up.

It's all literally numbers in a computer.

Like, it might as well be scores in a video game.

And the thing about them is you could totally change all the numbers.

and it fundamentally would not change anything.

It's one of the reasons why I say you could do this today.

And the thing also is, like, you could make the worl.

much, much flatter.

And, you know, not really impact stuff that much.

If you look, this is a thing.

If you look at people who are activists for far more girls.

and you look at what they actually get paid.

and they're working conditions, and all of this kind of stuff.

And then you see how much it would cost to just double.

Not like increased by a slight amount, double what they're getting paid, or more.

And it ends up being like a penny for, you know.

like some negligible amount of increase for produce.

for individual, like a head of lettuce or whatever.

And when you see, when you start seeing that.

and you start realizing, like, how much everything is designe.

to just be horrible, and to funnel both to funnel wealt.

to people who are already fucking rich.

And also to keep people, you know.

and I think this is a thing that is easy to discount.

but keep people struggling and keep people poor.

And when I say poor, I mean, I'm including in poor anyon.

that is not able to exist without working.

Like if you, if you cannot indefinitely quit your jo.

and just exist indefinitely without working, you're poor.

And I understand, like, you don't see yourself as poor.

but that is, I think a reasonable definition of poor.

Now, there's, of course, extreme poverty.

where you have to work three jobs just to exist.

and all of this kind of stuff.

And, you know, I'm not trying to undermine that or to, like, you know.

gloss over it, that's much worse.

but most people are poor.

Most people.

And part of the reason that people don't revol.

is because you don't see yourself that way.

You don't understand that, you know.

you should be able to take vacation.

You should, at the very least, if you were in the US.

like you should be able to have the kind of lif.

that people in Europe have.

And the fact that you can't.

and the fact that you don't even know.

like most people there.

think that they have the best healthcare on the world.

they live in the best country in the world.

And they have no fucking clue what they're missing out on.

All that kind of stuff.

That's a pretty big fucking deal.

That's, I wish that more people would kno.

what they're getting fucked out of.

This is one of the reasons why I want trave.

to be basically free.

Yeah.

And when I say travel is free also.

that means you should be able to go to another cit.

and, because housing is a human right.

there should be places where you could stay there.

For free.

There should be food that you can eat there.

Water that you can drink there.

For free.

There should exist that.

None of this stuff is compatible with anythin.

that the Democrats or the Republican.

align with or agree with.

And that doesn't get into.

you know.

like part of the rate of growin.

means you're not like.

I'm not allowed to just walk into somebody's apartment.

But it does mean that you can't be like.

the node course.

yeah, course a lot.

Or on.

I can see his face.

I can't think of his name.

Zuckerberg.

God.

You're not with one of these asshole.

who somehow thinks they can own a beach.

That's not a thing.

That is not a thing.

You can have your own house.

You can have your own space.

But you can't have your own fucking beach.

You can't have your own fucking island.

You can't have your own woods.

Oh, that kind of stuff.

That kind of stuff.

People, all of them say.

you could have your own little garden.

That could be within reason.

Within, you know.

you have to kind of balance this.

There are certain things that are reasonabl.

and there are things that are just ridiculous.

And having your own beach is fucking ridiculous.

Having your own island is fucking ridiculous.

So anyway.

the Democrats are not for any of that stuff.

I don't know if you noticed.

And it also, like.

one of the things that people talk abou.

is like, oh.

you only want the perfect candidate in all of a sudden.

Now, I'm willing.

well.

I'm not compromising on this stuff.

but I'm willing to vot.

for somebody who is like minimally acceptable.

I'm not asking for somebody that agrees with all of that stuff.

Although.

it'd be nice.

But I would.

I would vote for.

like.

if you take care of us.

and she was nominally.

I'm sorry about that.

There's an ambulance going down the street by me.

And it's pretty.

like, the traffic's already stoppe.

and the ambulance is just kind of like stuck in there.

I hope it's not.

I waited as long as I could tolerat.

and it's kind of down the road now.

but it's still really struggling.

Like.

people are not opening the red se.

to let them through.

Let's just say that.

That's the thing I saw.

Well, I don't want to get into that.

but then in Paris.

I saw the same thin.

like.

people would not hear at leas.

people are kind of moving out of the way.

but they're really.

really not doing a great job of it.

And Paris.

like.

nobody got out of the fucking wa.

when I saw this.

It was just like.

they're stuck in traffic.

And if you have to get to the hospital quickly.

and urgently.

you're kind of fucked.

Anyway.

what was I talking about.

I completely.

completely blew my mental stack.

Well.

this is so embarrassing.

Oh.

shit.

comfortable shelter.

Nobody should have to pay rent to live.

autonomy.

Nobody can own a beach.

That was it.

And neither.

neither party is.

neither party aligns with that.

I believ.

that abortion is a human right.

Just like healthcare.

Just like the rest of healthcare.

And again.

I am pro abortion.

Just like I'm pro appendectomy.

Neither party agrees with that.

I can hear somebody going.

like.

what's Scott.

But Scott.

the Democrats are for abortion rights.

They're for their pro choice.

I'm using little air quotes.

you can't see.

I'm pro choice.

No, they're not.

They're really.

really, really.

really not.

I wish that.

this is another reason I wish people woul.

fucking pay attention.

because.

yeah.

I'm just.

if I had hair.

I would pull it out.

Biden.

up until 2019.

Biden.

you know.

the leader of your fucking party.

This guy was for the hide.

H.Y.D.E.

for some reason.

It always goes like.

H.Y.I.G.H.

team.

or something like that.

I don't know if it's my pronunciation.

or whatever.

but the hide amendment.

Apologies.

if it's wrong in the transcript.

But he was for the hide amendment.

up until 2019.

And then somebody told them.

you know.

you can't be the democrati.

nominee with.

without kind o.

pretending to support abortion.

or abortion rights.

you know.

at least with the Hillary.

like.

safe legal and rare kind of bullshit.

But.

yeah.

he was.

that's who he is.

He said.

as recently as 2024.

this is not.

like in the 70s.

although he did say it in the 70s.

as well.

But as recently as 2024.

he said he thought.

row went too far.

After dogs.

overturned row.

he said he didn't want t.

politicize the court.

Like.

like.

you know.

he didn't.

he didn't.

it's actually.

comical.

like he didn't want to politicize the court.

Could you imagine if somebody politicized the court.

are you fucking shitting me.

That the cour.

could not be more political.

It was already political.

just with.

with parents.

Thomas and there.

And, you know.

like.

I mean.

come on.

you don't want to politicize the court.

For abortion or choice.

I neither is Pelosi.

another party leader.

neither is Clyburn.

and you can just go down the list.

and there are so many.

so many people in that part.

that are not.

and alignment with me there.

That's a.

that's a big.

it's a kind of big foundational thing.

and it goes back to bodily autonom.

and all this kind of stuff.

Neither party is anti gun.

I do not believe people have the righ.

to have a point and click.

murder device.

murder remote control.

I don't think.

I think it's contrary to the bodily autonom.

of others.

that you can point somethin.

at somebody.

and with the zero effort in their life.

Both parties support.

you know.

the.

I mean.

at most.

maybe some additional regulations.

I'm completely opposed.

and I just don't think they should exist.

even.

I don't support the police.

and they.

you know.

they don't protect.

they don't exist to protect citizens.

They are there to protect a capital.

And, you know.

I mean.

if you look at their history.

it's not that surprising.

that they're.

but they're actually there for.

but they don't prevent crime.

You can look through the statistic.

you can look through.

and there's been so much study of this.

they do not.

and it's weird that people think that they do.

They.

they don't even really.

meaningfully investigate or punish it.

and it.

to be.

to be for also.

I'm not pro carceral.

I'm not.

for punitive justice.

But both parties are pro cop.

both parties are pro punitive justice.

and carceral punishment.

and all of this kind of stuff.

Both parties are for slavery.

and.

and prisons.

I don't support.

you know.

wasting millions of dollars.

a year-end defense.

I don't think that's a good thing.

I don't think that's.

and most of that.

also.

is not even actually spent to defend anyone.

It's.

it's just going to military contractors.

That.

you know.

essentially it's like a socialis.

for people that are making tanks.

and.

you know.

rolling the tanks out into the desert.

It's one of those things.

also.

like you make them.

and.

at a certain point.

you have a bunch of weapons.

so it's hard not to use them.

So simply having them is a fundamentally destabilizing force in the world.

And I think bad for that.

but also.

like you think about how much.

how many resources are waste.

on building things to kill people.

versus.

like.

use those same resources to build public transit.

or to advance the state of art for healthcare.

or.

you know.

anything that's actually goo.

and an investment in people.

Both parties.

on the wrong side of that one.

Universal healthcare.

I'm against torture.

both parties for torture.

It's.

it's fucking ridiculous.

And I can go on and on and on.

but I think you get the point.

Neither party represents me.

And the reason that I talk more about the Democrats.

than the Republicans.

is because.

you know.

I can't.

I never would have voted for a Republican.

but I spent my entire adult life.

up until.

damn.

up until the last cycle actually.

I.

I was not going to vote for.

for crime bill.

and Jim Crow Joe in 2020.

but I got.

kind of.

arm twisted into it.

But up until the 2024.

I always voted for Democrats.

And now I can't imagine ever doing it again.

And the problem is.

like.

they pretend to align with me.

And people need to understand that they don't.

and you need to do somethin.

to.

to improve that situatio.

and to get something that actually doesn't suck.

And until you do that.

we're stuck.

We're stuck in this situation.

I'm not.

not necessarily.

like.

all of this is crumbly academic anyway.

because I don't know that.

a electoralism is going to get.

the country out of the situation that it's in.

But.

to the extent that it can do anything.

It's.

I think.

then.

one of the two major parties is not helping.

The.

the other one.

I think you already know about.

so.

about them.

because.

you know.

of the two.

who pretends to align with me.

who pretends to represent me.

Yeah, that's, that's basically it.

Anyway.

with all of that.

I'm gonna.

just trying to think if I.

if I missed something.

both are agents of capita.

and white supremacy and colonialism.

That's.

that's basically what I was saying.

So anyway.

with that.

I will talk with you more later.

I.

I appreciate it as ever.

And.

take care.

Thank you.

See ya.

Thank you.