Premium 344: Schrödinger's Democrat
Added 2025-02-03 19:45:57 +0000 UTCCovering this weekend's news (Musk + tariffs), plus an interview with Amy Klobuchar in the New York Times that reveals primo Vichy Democrat Mindset
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This one was a banger, you guys. For the record: I wasn't 100% convinced Tarence had TB, but I TOTALLY thought Landman was a show y'all were making up. For longer than I care to admit.
Simone MG
2025-02-12 02:50:17 +0000 UTCIf Bob doesn’t appear on the next ep giving commentary about the superbowl halftime show I’m literally donating arms and money to the Marcos regime. Good luck!
every man a kong
2025-02-10 01:49:44 +0000 UTCI don't know about you, but the fact that you're not reading a page 3 lower right blurb in your sunday paper about sitting US senator Amy Klobuchar having been killed by the deliberate activation of some kind of high heat mobile-bed-bug-van-service after voluntarily stepping into it - in what could charitably be described as a lesser David Sedaris story - is plenty reason to believe that there is much we can accomplish if we just apply a sufficently bipartisan attitude about all this.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-02-08 22:35:17 +0000 UTC...I was hoping Predator 2 had inspired Aaron to buy the biggest, longest and widest khaki-pants anyone has ever worn.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-02-08 00:18:49 +0000 UTC"we spent the weekend feeding USAID to the woodchipper. Could have gone to some great parties, but since I wasn't formally invited, the threshold proved impasssable."
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-02-07 09:39:32 +0000 UTCChicken eggs too expensive? Sounds like a golden opportunity to crank up the snakes and lizard farms. That's right; time to get real gross!
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-02-07 09:26:41 +0000 UTCDid Tanya tell you about the Venus retrograde transit? 🥹
Bee
2025-02-06 17:52:48 +0000 UTCBeing exhorted to read Faulkner’s Mountain Victory? YES PLZ.
joseph harris
2025-02-06 02:22:13 +0000 UTCShort answer to your question that may have been intended as rhetorical is yeah, really. And if you really aren’t “trying to defend bigotry,” stop doing it. Don’t nitpick about the number of people who actually want to commit murder compared to the ones who consider it impolite like that’s the group of people being unfairly considered a threat.
Eva
2025-02-05 20:56:26 +0000 UTCI consider myself to be a commie, and yes I live in the US. The bathroom warriors and people obsessed with pronouns are certainly annoying, but exterminationist? Really? I don't doubt that many people in this country are bigoted against trans people, and a tiny number may even be homicidal, but I haven't seen evidence that the average Republican is even slightly invested in killing trans people en masse. I know lots of Republican voters and they certainly do not want that. I mean, being suspicious of trans athletes and insisting on "M/F" on legal documents may be bigoted policies, but I don't see them as explicitly like homicidal? Surely the idea that most Republicans want to round up trans people and throw em in the gas chamber is a bit exaggerated. That is not my experience of actual existing Republicans 🤷♂️ Not trying to defend bigotry, just doesn't seem useful to me from an organizing perspective to demonize entire swathes of the population due to their association with one or the other bourgeois party.
Sai
2025-02-05 19:26:54 +0000 UTCEasiest game of “spot the fed” ever. Found’em
William
2025-02-05 18:34:57 +0000 UTCWell there was a $600k sidewalk for the civil service institute in Kabul or that time we gave out maternal health information on iPods to rural women without access to electricity or the time we made children work for water in Africa. I should write a book.
Sara
2025-02-05 18:34:56 +0000 UTCPlease do! I’d love to hear some juicy insider knowledge.
Sonicthunder35
2025-02-05 17:56:51 +0000 UTCIt’s like looking at the way America reacted to the AIDS epidemic and saying “well they’re not actually herding gay people into the gas chamber so everything seems fine here”
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-02-05 17:09:22 +0000 UTCHonest question. How did you get here? Like what are your politics about? Do you live in America? To try and answer you… 1. The entire right wing for years. They’ve recently federally declared that there are only two genders and they’re assigned at birth (or conception, unclear). For years they’ve been obsessed with people using their preferred bathrooms and unfair advantages in high school sports. 2. Because they’re bad people. Ignorant, incurious, self-important, entitled, hateful, in short bigoted 3. That’s a really good question. I guess the undying love of the cattle-people that make up most of this country? The illusion of effectiveness and competency? Maybe we’re just in the first line of the “first they came” poem and they’re testing the waters, seeing who they can cull without anyone caring? Trans people tend to be pretty left wing for what I assume are obvious reasons.
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-02-05 17:05:47 +0000 UTCI worked for USAID for 15 years on 3 continents. I can tell y'all some stories.
Sara
2025-02-05 16:35:42 +0000 UTCI love Aaron immediately cracking up at the mention of Amy Klobuchar. Reminds me of one of my all time favorite moments- Aaron's laughing fit over Tarence referring to Dianne Feinstein as "that dead lady."
Mary Colleran
2025-02-05 12:31:56 +0000 UTCI worked in manufacturing for years (and only recently quit because I moved out of the States) for a company that’s a pretty big name in what they produced (I’ll spare details because only five people would get it.) Everything that we made got stamped with Made in America. That’s a big selling point, american labor and american made. Where did we get supplies? Where did we get the components for what we assembled? Canada, Mexico, and China. From what I understand a LOT of ‘american made’ companies are like that. If those tariffs happen it’s going to kneecap a bunch of companies in the States. They were fucked during covid when the supply chain wasn’t moving. If those tariffs go through those places are going to cease to be profitable. They only paid us minimum wage and had mandatory overtime so who gives a fuck honestly, but it shows me how completely uninformed the people cheering that on are.
Marie
2025-02-05 05:48:20 +0000 UTCI don't really understand the analysis that the right is exterminationist against trans people... Who is trying to exterminate them? Why would they? What would they stand to gain politically by targeting such a tiny population?
Sai
2025-02-04 23:42:08 +0000 UTCI’d love to explore the notion of cars being inherently fascist. As someone who doesn’t own one, it’s fascinating to look in on the psyche of people who have made driving their entire identity.
Kyle Turnbull
2025-02-04 21:47:06 +0000 UTCAnyone promising pain before salvation that ain't named Jesus Christ is playing you, folks. Jury's still out on the other guy, too.
Jonathan Howard
2025-02-04 20:10:58 +0000 UTCHahaha I love being bait
Raquelle Jac
2025-02-04 16:32:12 +0000 UTCShe ate a salad with a comb and quipped about not needing dressing. It's pretty safe to assume that her understanding of what makes people feel queezy is a bit off.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-02-04 16:30:23 +0000 UTCMore like soft-as-fuck power, amirite.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-02-04 16:26:43 +0000 UTCYes. This.
Ralley Taura
2025-02-04 15:08:53 +0000 UTCTom especially murderous today, we love to see it
SF
2025-02-04 13:58:02 +0000 UTCI don’t know what to do with this information but I just learned that USAID funded the wuhan institute of virology, in some sort of connection with eco health alliance, the people who requested darpa funding for investigating bat-born viruses; basically Tom and tarance weren’t playing fast and loose with virology all those years ago
William
2025-02-04 12:31:08 +0000 UTCYou should put all your episodes on patreon
L
2025-02-04 12:28:01 +0000 UTCI love his increasingly unhinged ideas for Fetterman's demise
Tom's Trips Official
2025-02-04 12:10:14 +0000 UTCMy long suffering wife waking up at 2am to me trying to stifle by laughter at the opening of this ep
laihall
2025-02-04 08:35:16 +0000 UTCI mean I’ve been saying, everyone posts about guillotines and nobody owns one… 🤷🏻♂️
MUNDIAL
2025-02-04 06:24:04 +0000 UTCAgreed. That boy is spitting bars (as the kids all say)
William
2025-02-04 03:24:33 +0000 UTCYou’re the bait kinda like Nosferatu but less erotic.
BookMisser
2025-02-04 03:11:43 +0000 UTCI can’t even imagine a politician without wanting to spit on them. Tbh the sinking feeling bedbugs give me perfect match for my feelings on politicians. (P.S. if you get bedbugs on the ropes and want to finish them wrap the posts of your bed or the sides of your mattress with double sided tape. They can’t jump. They will try for you from whatever spot you missed and get stuck).
BookMisser
2025-02-04 03:08:40 +0000 UTCthe atlantic trans cover thing was worse than Tarence even remembers, it was a few years before the pandemic (August 2018) and the full front page splash misgendered the subject and overshadowed the quite prescient article "We're Not Prepared for the Next Pandemic" which was relegated to a small mention on the corner of the front page https://www.them.us/story/trans-cover-model-misgendered-and-outed-by-the-atlantic Real awful stuff!
William
2025-02-04 02:54:14 +0000 UTCAlso i want to second the other person who said your episodes help a lot. They really really do. I sometimes listen to them multiple times because it is soothing. I think about the news so much ever since i began to become more informed after oct 7 and hearing yall talk about the news in an insightful and comedic way is a breath of fresh air. Thank you! I’d pay extra for even more content tbh. Also i love the nosforatu (lol autocorrect tried to correct that to BISCOTTI LOL) pu$$y eating bit lol. I haven’t even seen the movie but man oh man i love that cowboy nosforatu bit!!! So funny!
Raquelle Jac
2025-02-04 02:32:20 +0000 UTCMan I can’t stop saying this. Ted “Fuckface” Cruz has been talking shit about us down here in New Zealand, saying we’re refusing visas for Israeli soldiers. Saying we’re bad allies. Frankly we should be excluding them but we’re not. They can travel here without visas. Isn’t fucking up texas and America enough for Ted? He’s gotta talk shit about us? Fuck you ted. And fuck you America for having cunts like this in power. Also the fucking mossad got busted down here a few years back forging New Zealand passport applications for im sure good and cool purposes. So who’s the bad fucking ally?
Louis Wilkins
2025-02-04 02:29:09 +0000 UTCDoes she not know the physical visceral reaction people have when they hear “bedbugs”??? God she’s so out of touch. If she’s ever even had an interaction with one bed buggy she’d know better than to evoke that name. When i was a teen my mom made me sleep on a bed bug infested mattress for almost a year bc she didn’t want to get a new one for me. It was terrible. I was covered with bites continuously. Anytime i hear the word bed bugs i have a psychological reaction and i feel itchy. The last fucking thing you want people to associate you with is bedbugs. It’s just psychotic space cadet behavior
Raquelle Jac
2025-02-04 02:28:37 +0000 UTCThat Tom laugh at 18 mins rocked my world
Noah Shue
2025-02-04 01:39:08 +0000 UTCThis episode helped. You guys are keeping me sane. I've already lost one of my 2 jobs in a publicly subsidized hospital due to Trump and now my pharmacy said my medicine is going to be out of supply....very stressful..
Matthew Shaffer
2025-02-04 00:32:49 +0000 UTCDems: “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 on TRUMP”
Clammy_Damp
2025-02-04 00:17:23 +0000 UTCTom has been on fire the last two episodes
Rachel W
2025-02-04 00:08:56 +0000 UTCCars are the closest thing we have to a gundam suit. Anyone can just climb in and become an inhuman metal behemoth that can liquefy any living thing and blast through walls. Any civilized society would require some kind of proof of necessity to own anything bigger than a smart car, and would make public transportation so good that personally owning a car is completely unnecessary in all other cases.
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-02-03 23:49:41 +0000 UTCOmg I love it
Yani x
2025-02-03 23:41:50 +0000 UTCI think the awesome music for the last several months is Tarence
Brodie Kelly (BK)
2025-02-03 23:34:42 +0000 UTCHey I should probably know this but what’s the song playing for the outro? It’s so pretty and I actually kind of needed it (for world reasons and life reasons) ❤️ anyway love the ep hope everybody is well!!
Yani x
2025-02-03 23:20:12 +0000 UTCI had that reaction initially too and had to do a double take. “Well boys, we’re libs now.”
Cthulhusbedandbreakfast
2025-02-03 22:53:29 +0000 UTCTerence’s righteous fury is cathartic as fuck because that’s how I feel literally every time I hear the Dems talk about anything
Cthulhusbedandbreakfast
2025-02-03 22:52:23 +0000 UTCAs a Minnesotan I can tell you Klobuchar is a terrible centrist in a rather Blue state. She avoids publicly being a blue dog or "no lables" but is 100% of that ideological bent. She ran in 2020 to help the "anyone but Bernie" strategy
Kenneth Merriman
2025-02-03 22:50:28 +0000 UTCThanks for mentioning the trans-women prison transfer stuff, the practice is known as 'V-Coding' in the wider parlance and results in repeated rape in approximately 90% of cases. so yeah, its basically as y'all described: an intentional, extended death sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_the_United_States#V-coding
Moonwatcher13
2025-02-03 22:49:22 +0000 UTCTarence been listenin to Chani
sarah
2025-02-03 22:22:53 +0000 UTCSame lol
Grant
2025-02-03 22:05:42 +0000 UTCThat’s why I think we have to organize with 2028 in mind. For both the planned general strike AND the election. We gotta put a deadline on this shit. The best time to organize and get our act together was eight years ago. The second best time is now.
Grant
2025-02-03 22:05:12 +0000 UTCThe bed bug truck is gonna be in my brain for a while.
Richard Cochnar
2025-02-03 21:57:28 +0000 UTCTAT! Bedbugs are so gross!
Megan Vetter
2025-02-03 21:54:40 +0000 UTCKlobuchar exiting the Bedbug Truck: "I'd like to see how Trumps hair would fare in a Bedbug Truck"
Vincent
2025-02-03 21:45:35 +0000 UTCThe gin blossom democrats
Richard Cochnar
2025-02-03 21:43:32 +0000 UTCMe too. I even told my wife about it hahahaha
Kaceyyy
2025-02-03 21:39:38 +0000 UTCLoving the outro 🎵
foul tarnished
2025-02-03 21:17:04 +0000 UTCY'all I actually believed Tarence had tuberculosis. I just believe everything he says at face. I don't apologize for it.
Tom's Trips Official
2025-02-03 21:14:24 +0000 UTCRight? It's so infectious. Love it 😂😂
Danielle
2025-02-03 21:11:34 +0000 UTCMy suspicion is that musk will eventually get fired and blamed for all the stupid shit they have been planning to do, and are doing, to the structure of the federal bureaucracy. And trump gets off scot-free
William
2025-02-03 21:06:04 +0000 UTCNAFTA hollowed out the American manufacturing and the Mexican agricultural sectors
William
2025-02-03 20:54:24 +0000 UTCI’m going to have to report this. Sir, please state your star sign, moon sign, and rising sign
William
2025-02-03 20:40:13 +0000 UTCIt’s 1905, at best. We ain’t getting 1917
William
2025-02-03 20:36:55 +0000 UTCNo, no.. our coal just went out to get milk & cigarettes. It'll be back, any day now.. 🥺
Lars
2025-02-03 20:35:11 +0000 UTCTom’s laugh at the 18:15 mark is exactly what I needed today. 😂
Norma Louise
2025-02-03 20:09:58 +0000 UTCRead the episode description too fast, thought y’all were interviewing The Klob, shiiiiiiit
curiousjello
2025-02-03 20:05:51 +0000 UTCThe butcher trump is unironically an accelerationist who might crash the economy and do irreparable harm to the empire. If there was a mobilized, organized left there might be an opportunity here
gavin curran
2025-02-03 20:05:45 +0000 UTCThis is an illustration depicting Pope Sylvester II and the Devil. Pope Sylvester II (946-1003): Born Gerbert of Aurillac, he was a highly educated figure, proficient in mathematics, astronomy, and other sciences. He served as Pope from 999 to 1003. Legends and Accusations: Due to his advanced knowledge, rumors spread that Sylvester II had acquired his skills through dealings with the Devil, associating him with sorcery and black magic. Historical Context: The image likely originates from the Middle Ages when beliefs in witchcraft and demonic influence were prevalent. Purpose of the Illustration: This depiction could serve as a warning against the pursuit of forbidden knowledge or a representation of the power of the Church over evil forces.
Evan
2025-02-03 19:55:55 +0000 UTCSo tired of Venus and its retrograde views.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-02-03 19:55:40 +0000 UTCI love you guys
McMiller
2025-02-03 19:47:43 +0000 UTC
