MAGA Influencers Struggle To Follow Marching Orders Amid Trump/Epstein Scandal - AD-FREE
Added 2025-07-18 19:03:33 +0000 UTC
Hi. Comedian Josh Gondelman joins Katy, Cody, and Jonathan to talk about the latest in the Trump/Epstein debacle, how MAGA grifters like Benny Johnson are scrambling to decide what they believe, the latest inflation numbers, the GOP defunding NPR & PBS, and Grok's new creepy "companions."
(And, as is typical, we finished recording right before The Wall Street Journal published that Trump-Epstein birthday card! We'll talk about that soon, but until then, may every day be another wonderful secret.)
Watch Josh's special here: https://youtu.be/RAvNlgpdKKo
VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/Pw5EMskVItY
Comments
Cody asked why Musk would want to provide the incels a way to avoid reproducing instead of helping to 'restore birth rates' or whatever, and this is one of those things that makes me think back to the first of the recent Wolfenstein games with an alternate history. On a New Mexico street ten years after the Nazis win WW2, a Nazi is talking to two redneck Klanners, and is disgusted that they can't even speak German properly. He tells them that "the wheat will soon detach from the chaff." Usually that's helpful for reminding us how out-groups are formed, the next set of people the fascists are going to turn on once they've exterminated the current out-group, but I think it's useful here as a reminder: Musk doesn't actually like incels. For some reason he needs them to think he's cool, but he's a multi-billionaire with a clutch of heirs on a private compound from his harem. I think it's pretty simple: if you can be dissuaded from talking to women and having a baby by the existence of a Grok product, you're too weak to be one of the superior white race he wants to create. He wants rich people and movie stars to have more kids, not the losers whose wallets he wants to empty.
Alex White
2025-07-24 17:44:54 +0000 UTCOn behalf of anime fans, I apologize for that Grok Ani clip. I just... don't know where to begin with how flanderized that makes its appeal.
Joseph A.
2025-07-23 10:35:35 +0000 UTC
