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"Hi. Katy, Cody, and Jonathan spend today's episode going through the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, why politicians are so reluctant to say that Israel is the country doing the starving, Ross Douthat's op-ed, online scolding and, of course, Epstein stuff."
Israel denies food to the people of Gaza for almost two years, turns to camera, asks "Who killed all these people?"
Far too many people watching this are stumped. Or, rather, are playacting at being stumped.
Katy: "I hate to do this. I really do hate to do this, but I'm afraid we do need to... talk about some Epstein updates. I feel so frustrated by the whole situation and how much time does get sucked up talking about it, except that it has to, because they're trying so fucking hard to bury this and to change their narrative and the conversation. And I think it's important. I think we have to keep talking about it and not let it go away."
Cody: "Yeah, it's um... I mean... aside from the fact that this is clearly a point of contention in some of the MAGA folks and this is something that could actually, like, help people get out of this cult of Trumpism..."
Katy: "Um hmm."
Cody: "Um, aside from that... I mean, we have an episode coming out on Wednesday about this, but um I think I'm probably not speaking for anybody on the podcast when I say our position is generally yeah, he's a pedophile rapist."
Katy: "Yeah."
Cody: "The President, Trump. And he's going-"
Jonathan: "Allegedly."
Cody: "Eh... Jonathan thinks allegedly. I think definitely."
Jonathan: "No, I'm not saying allegedly because I believe personally it's allegedly. I'm saying... for legal reasons."
Cody: "Oh, legal. No no. Exactly. I'm saying Jonathan, for legal reasons, allegedly. Me, for legal reasons, definitely. You fucking rapist pedophile, Donald Trump. Come sue me. I'm sure you have plenty of time to do that. Um, but in addition to all of that, he is. And we shouldn't have him in charge of anything. Of people. He shouldn't be in polite society. He needs to go. Away. Because, even ignoring all of the policy stuff, that's an evil man. He shouldn't be allowed to be the President or in polite society. So, uh... but what's going on now is that he is trying to gaslight the entire nation and his supporters and everybody into thinking that, actually, 'I'm the only one that's not, actually. It's like everybody else is but me.' And he might get away with it, and that's disgusting. And we can't let him get away with it. And part of that is talking about it more and keeping it in people's minds, and that sucks because it is a really horrific thing to have to talk about. And, also, he's so obviously guilty every single day. We're going to watch him be obviously guilty in a moment."
As for "Biden doctored the files..." Nobody really believes that if the Biden administration actually doctored the Epstein files (which they didn't, because come the fuck on), they wouldn't have also, you know, released them? You know, while Biden was still in office? Rather than just, you know, leaving them laying around for Trump's team of rampant Trump-shart-huffers to find? Right? Really, if it weren't for the Trump-shart-huffers... if it were only ever just Donald Trump, he'd have been in prison decades ago, because he is a very, very stupid man. It's all the coattail-riders who (somehow, despite every fucking thing) keep him out of prison and in power.
And as for the whole "if the roles were reversed and it was a Democrat president in Trump's shoes right now, you know the RWNJs would have been howling bloody murder this entire time" thing... I mean, that really just goes without saying. And if a Democrat president actually had done all the things that Trump has done, I'd be right there with the RWNJs howling bloody murder, too, as would (I hope) every other sensible, sane person. Like Bill Clinton, for example. Throw his ass in the same cell as Trump if you want, as far as I'm concerned. The fact that the RWNJs (or, at the very least, the RWNJs in public positions of power and influence, anyway) are, instead, increasingly circling the wagons in defense of Trump (which is a thing that they've been doing continuously for the past fucking decade now) just says all that needs to be said.
Also, you know, I was being facetious when I said before that Trump could totally be the guy who normalizes pedophilia, and yet... it's already starting. "Thirteen and up is fine, dawg, but if it's ten? That is where I draw the line." What about 11 or 12? Is that okay, or what? And what about the people who think it's okay to fuck, like, six year olds, Azealia Banks? Just because you disagree with them (the same way most people don't agree with you that it's okay for 40 year olds to fuck 13 year olds) doesn't mean they're wrong, right? Jesus fucking wept.
The difference between now and back in "the good old days" (when pedophilia was acceptable or, better yet, wasn't even seen as a thing that existed or whatever) is that when young girls got pregnant back then, the girls would just be "sent away" for a few months (because they were an embarrassment to the family, you see), come back childless and (probably) depressed, and the baby either would be raised by distant relatives, shipped off to an orphanage, or left out in the woods for wild animals or tossed in a river or whatever the fuck. Unless, of course, the young girl was married, because then they'd be expected to start pumping out baby after baby from like 13 and onward, until they died at the ripe old age of 30 or whatever.
You know what else only relatively recently started being thought of as a bad thing? Slavery. For thousands of years, up until like the 19th century, slavery was generally seen as okay. Sure, there were always abolitionists and emancipationists, but for most of human civilization, slavery was, at the absolute very least, widely tolerated. It was only comparatively recently that slavery started to be (almost) universally condemned. So... with that said... should we be bringing that shit back along with "tolerated pedophilia," too? (Don't answer that, because I'm sure there is a not insignificant portion of MAGAts who really would be okay with owning a slave or three or three dozen, along with being able to fuck 'em as young as they like.)
Well ...
Date: 2025-07-30 02:12 am (UTC)From:It's pretty obvious. But the moment you point out that this is what the Nazis did to the Jews -- trapping them in ghettos to starve -- people call you an anti-semite. *shrug* Doesn't make Palestinians any less dead.
Re: Well ...
Date: 2025-07-30 08:53 pm (UTC)From:Re: Well ...
Date: 2025-07-30 09:41 pm (UTC)From:A question nobody's asking: What will happen if Israel runs out of Palestinians to slaughter? After all, that's the goal of genocide: total annihilation. Do you think the Israelis will feel safe then? Or satisfied with the amount of land they have absorbed? I don't. They're surrounded by Muslims who hate them. I think that Israel will just pick a new fight with someone else and keep going.