Bisexual Superman Is (not) Destroying America

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God willing, guys, I could use some knives, send Katie di loose knives, loose loose knives in sacks with insane handwritten notes my or clippings for magazines. Yes, clippings from magazines used any I used to cut those up. Yeah, you get on it. Folks. Do we have a job today? What is our job? We've been vamping for five solid minutes. Well about time to go to ads. Then talk about the news here? What's up in in general? I mean, like, not exclusively, is this jogging your memory at all? But

what we do here? What? What do we do? Who are we talk about the news? Mostly? Okay? So the Tonk and Gulf. A lot of people are debating whether or not, you know, we should invade Vietnam, and I don't think we have any choice, uh, Cody, Okay, I would say we probably have a choice, but um that's just me. I'm uh. I would say we definitely have a choice. Well, and the choices do it? Yeah? Fast forward a bit. There's some more current events that have

happened in between then and now. Cody explained to me the Superman. I understand that he's by now, and some people are very angry. People like me are going Superman Fox. No, they are rightfully angry. Can I read what Garrison wrote for us? Because I think it's really good? Okay, the new comic book Superman, Jonathan Kent, Clark and Lewis's son loves to kiss boys. That's all he does now, fly around and fight cute boys to kiss. That's the whole comic.

Because this is based and cool. It's obviously triggered the little Gama snowflake cons who get grossed out by hot smooching. And I thought that was just really good in dicinct way of phrasing it. Yeah, come along, I'm so glad to see him. Um yeah, finding his own and that incredible. Yeah. Yeah, Superman's by now. But also like Superman is Mark's son, my question, being an alien, is Superman even by or or do Superman might not have a sexuality that registers

on traditional human scales because he's not a human. Uh well, I've got so many things to say, but I wish I didn't have so much to say about bisexual Superman um because Superman is an alien um and but he's a male alien and he likes to women, and that's important human women. Okay, he likes Um, yeah, he had a son who's sexual. Actually, there's an exceptional exceptional science

fiction short story. Um, who is it by? It's it's it's the one analyzing what super how Superman's come would function and pointing out the fact that, based on the other things we know about him, his semen would penetrate low Us Lane fatally and then continue out on throughout the universe like endlistening, definitely life. It's a fact from all rats. It's called Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. No, it's by Larry Niven Google Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.

It's an incredible tonest I might not see fiction writer. Um, but that's so like, but that's all that's also so that's like kind of beside the point. But it is like because he's an alien and she's a human woman, and do you have a problem with that? No? Okay, all these all these dorks love Star Trek, all the aliens and humans are fucking and sucking in that. Like there's it's whatever, Um, And I wish we didn't have to talk about this, but politicians are because that's just

where we're at. That's what we talk about now, that's what people running for office and people in office complain about. Um. Wendy Rogers and Arizona State Republican who has uh spread election disinformation in the past. Her tweet reads Superman loves Louis Lane. By the way, did not did not correctly say Lois Um. So she's right on the money. There does love Louis Lane. Um. Period. Hollywood is trying to

make Superman gay and he is not. Just renamed the new version Superman so we can all know the difference and avoid seeing it. Um, Superman because gay people have lists and she hates gay people joking. Yeah, that's exactly what she's saying. Yeah, because it's because I really wish I hadn't asked. Yeah, you didn't get it because it's not funny, and also like it doesn't reflect your worldview. So you're not gonna go oh because the list thing. Um. So she's clearly it's all it's just you know who

also has lisps? God? Yeah? Oh yeah, Okay, I thought you were doing an ad pivot and I was gonna be like, Katie, that's not God does though, um, God as universals. I just accidentally started playing the talking Heads in my earbuds. Um. Uh, this must be the place I was gonna say, that's a great one. But is there a single talking Head song that isn't completely perfect? Um? I I can't think of one, so um, leave it in or cut it? I don't care. I've stopped music cody.

One rule for my podcasts and any podcast I'm on, and it's if someone mentions talking Heads, nobody cuts that ship. Okay, can play, um just a clip of that song? Yeah afterwards? Sorry, David burn solo stuff is also wonderful. Any continued? Um, all right, okay, okay, we hate it. Fire. It's also like bisexual, so like so like the thing is okay, So then there's like a lot of other like Josh Mandel's running for senate in Ohio, good luck Ohio. Um,

bisexual comic books for kids? They are literally trying to destroy America. Not sure how, IM not sure what that means. I just know that, Uh it's homophobic. Um, Josh Barnett, A lot of Josh is up in here. Why does Hollywood have to ruin everything? Uh? Well, first of all, it's not Hollywood's a comic book, so you don't even know what you're talking about, but also what is ruined here.

I would love to actually play this clip on Laura Show with I don't know some twerp because it's fascinating and it really gets to the core of what's actually going on here, which is homophobes trying to pretend that they're not um by saying that they don't want to know at all what the sexuality of anyone is UM. So we're gonna play it real quick. It's very short,

so uh apologies ahead of time. Man bisexual d C comic book toy that was announced today that that comes after a gay Aquaman, a bisexual boy Wonder Robin, and a gender fluid Loki. Call me when they have a gender stable aisle with superheroes whose sexualities we know nothing about. Why are they sexualizing superheroes? You know, I was a Batman and a Superman, Spiderman kid. I love those heroes. We just wanted them to get the bad guys, not

a venarial disease. Anyway, leave our comic book heroes alone. Lord, we don't want to hear any more about what they do. Okay. I have so much to say about this. This is fascinating. It's unbelievable the worldview these people pretend to have so. First of all, the idea that we have not ever known the sexuality of any superhero is laughable. The idea that we only want superheroes to fight crime is laughable. Stories require an emotional human element. That's why every single

one of these fucking characters has a love interest. You know, Superman loves Lois Lane. You know, spider Man wants to marry Mary Jane, and they end up doing it, and you cheer for them because they did it. They got their romantic interest. It's the most famous scene from the

first spider Man movie. It has nothing to do with Spider Man's powers and everything to do with him doing that upside down kiss with What's that's what we want out of these If it was just one fighting crime, boring as fuck, what would be watching sexualized superhero Well, actually we very much do. Two of the most famous superheroes are Batman, a billionaire playboy, and iron Man, a billionaire playboy. Their character description is that they fuck women constantly.

We aggressively know what their sexuality is. It is unbelievable. Don't tell me that, like Catwoman isn't some sort of fetish old Batman movie, cat Woman, absolutely Fox. They all fuck and we all know who they fuck. So they're not actually saying we don't want to know their sexuality. They're saying we want them to be straight. We don't want them to be gay. We don't want to see that. We want them to be ignored. We want to put them all away, associating um, you know, diseases. That's a

whole other Yeah, that's straight. People don't have straight sex doesn't won't get me v D. Yeah, it's it's unbelievable. Talk to talk to Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend about that is remarkable because when you were first pitching this as a topic, I was like, I don't think there's that much meat there, but here we are. There's lots to chew on. It's this one clip. This one clip like

says it all. It's what they're doing. One of the things that pisses me off most about this, as someone who doesn't even like comics as a general rule, Superman has been a cobby, and he has been I'm fairly certain a zombie. He has been a fascist. He has been every single possible thing other than bisexual at this point in the factions of Superman comics there and it's a sons whatever, man, I don't give a ship. Comics

are ridiculous. And one of the things about comics is that because the potential audience for them is so wide, eventually every character will be almost every conceivable kind of thing, because that's just what comics do, because you can only tell so many stories about them punching people. So you make Batman and I don't know a fucking hipster brewing I p a is in Portland, Like everything gets done in comics. It's fine there, comics they're called there's like,

what if is an entire genre comic book for these people. Well, so everything that you guys are saying is, of course true. I think that to me, what really the meat of it that pisces me off so much about it is this um, fake outrage and repeated framing of this is the destruction of America, this old, hackneyed line of thinking that people abandoned a long time ago. You know, in general,

you know, this this sexuality thing. But when literally things are happening all around us that they these politicians have the power to do something about and instead they're talking about this and adding distraction after distraction so that people aren't talking about what they aren't doing. Yeah, it's exactly, it's a way, it's complete, it's a complete ways of time, culture war bullshit. But also like it is this them

being openly homophobic while telling themselves that they're not. It's that sort of thing like I don't care what happens in your bedroom. I just don't want to know about it. You do care, because when you do know about it, you get mad. And if you knew if you see Superman fuck a woman, if you see any the superheroes fuck like in a straight way, they will not say a single word because to them, that's not that's not shoving it down their throat. That's just the way things are.

That's like the normal way. But they don't want to see the other thing because if you if you say, like Superman is bisexual, then like it I guess it, Like the image pops into their head and like they're just like you, um, and it's just it's like a gross dishonest way of framing like I'm not I'm cool with gay people. I just don't want to see it. If you don't then you're then you are are You're not actually cool with it because you don't want them

to exist. You don't want society to acknowledge the existence of anybody other than Batman. Uh he sucks thousands of women every year. Um, but that's not shoving sexuality down your throat. That's just the way things are. And just like again the idea that like we don't want we want superheroes to just fight crime. We don't want them

to like talk to other people. Always full interesting part of any super or a story is the fighting crime part, right, Like it's like, okay, all the emotional stuff it leads up to some punchy fight. Okay, great, but like if you get rid of that, Yeah, that's the reason why I don't know the Batman versus Alien thing was only ever as short because that got everything, Like nobody wants

to see more of that ship. It's like why we don't, like we don't do the Nolan type Batman movies anymore because okay, we did it, we saw him fight the fight crime. Let's do some weird ship. That's apparently what people want. I don't want it because I don't watch superhero movies. But like I know what people want because I watch What's Successful now and that nobody wants Batman

stopping muggers. They want Batman shooting lasers at Superman. I feel like there's lasers in the New One, the New Extended Zach whatever his name is, Snyder, that make people happy. And it seemed ridiculous, so whatever. Like I wonder if Batman's behind Havana syndrome anyway, why not make Batman be Havanna syndrome. Have Batman declare a one man more on the entire international security apparatus. Let's do it. Also, I love this, uh this this onion headline gets to another

point that I think it's really funny. Is a bisexual Superman ruins comic for fan who preferred smoldering, homoerotic undertones. It's like, yeah, for years, like it's just it's just it's just nonsense. I like, I like Spider Man uh at best when he's just swinging through the city and then uh swipping criminals and then going to the next criminal to twip and then going to the next criminal of twip. I don't know, uh high school or like,

it's just unbelievable. I just want a Spider Man, who before he does every power thing, you know, he shoots his webs, he swings, he uses a super strength. I want him to say I don't fuck. Yeah, that's what they need to not feel challenged. Also, if like, if there was a fucking superhero who is a sexual, they'd be like, what, I don't But this is like, that's that's what we want, right, isn't that what you want?

You want when we have like the fucking Vision is what like a robot alien thing and we make him fun. We had to sexualize. We want them all to fuck. We need our superheroes to fux, So why don't they fuck a bunch of different things? It's fine, I believe that was in the comics code. Right, they have to fund. We do have to also take a break. Absolutely, we should probably say something less ridiculous. Yeah, I'm sorry we even had to talk about this. It's just like politicians

are talking about everyone's talking about it. It's just embarrassing in a way to be Let's let's talk about that when we get back, how embarrassed we are for how much we just talked about it. But you know who Fox everything of all genders and and no genders who just fucks the products and services that support this podcast indiscriminately. Ever,

oh we're back. So before we actually move on to the actual news, I want to talk about what we just did, which is talk about fucking moral panic over bisexual Superman son, which is stupid and not news, and we talked about it instead of talking about I don't know, the Mexican government trying to declare war on the Zapatistas, or a million other bishar al assad being brought back into inter poll a billion different like things that are life or death for huge numbers of people around the world.

And in part of it, it's because I didn't prepare things on either of those because I was reading people yell about Superman on Twitter, and that's that's an indictment of me, for sure. But it's also like, it's why these this stupid ship happens. It's the tactical reason behind

like pushing these kind of bullshit moral panic. I don't even know exactly how these like bullshit culture war like nonsense, and like I get that, I get why there's there's feel for people to be like fetching about identity politics stuff and they're wrong when they're saying, like, we shouldn't be arguing about you know, trans rights or whatever because it's you know, it's I pol and we should be

talking about class like that's incorrect. But the reason that that those arguments have a little bit of weight is that we are we are wasting our brains on this fucking more on on on on culture war bullshit. And this is culture war bullshit. Right, trans rights is not culture war bullshit. That's life and death and incredibly important arguments about like whether or not bisexual Superman is something

we're talking about at all at all. But you also, it floods the zone and both the mix of people laughing and like you now you have to deal with the fact that like, okay, the whole right is using this as an excuse to like attack this group of people that or they're trying to get these people fired, and like some sort of defense seems like it's necessary and it's I hate it, um, but I don't entirely know how to out maneuver it, especially since we just

talked about it for twenty four ula. Well, I think that it's it's just being aware of that happening, and like like even as and like, yes, we're having this conversation. Um, there are plenty of things to be said about what's happening, and it doesn't mean anything, it doesn't, but we are buying into it. But it's happening. But at the same time, we know that this is kind of like cover they're active.

They're using this to not talk about all the things that are happening around us right now, or to cloud the discourse so that there isn't enough room or oxygen for the other stories that are vitally important to breathe. And yeah, so good point that I am reiterating, and like it's it's just frustrating because like yeah, like if like they're they're doing it, they're doing it no matter what, Um, even if we didn't do this segment, And like part of me is like we can just ignore it and

then make it. But well, right, because like it is literally just like them like normalizing this this fun way to be homophobic, and it's like, well, you've got to at least mentioned that that's what they're doing. Um, so that I don't know, maybe if you know, if your uncle is complaining about bisexual Superman, you can have a reasonable chat with him and point out how these people were fucking wasting his time. I think that you also include yeah, yes, exactly, like there's no point in having

this conversation when these other things are happening. And why why did Josh Mandel talk about how bisexual comic books are is destroying? Well, I know what does that mean while also endorsing conspiracy theories about January six then and conspiracies about George Sorrows and the deep State. Now, what's actually destroying America? Superman son or Robert Anyway, we should talk about other things now, sexual half alien, half human, fucking god, talk about whatever you say, Thank God? All right?

Not um Southwest Airlines, not the region, the airline, not the region, not the second best region of the United States, for sure. So Southwest Airlines canceled more than three or fifty flights on Monday following uh oh yep, this is cancer culture. It's finest uh a weekend of major disruptions that it blamed on bad weather and air traffic issues. But it turns out it's it's much bigger than that.

The disruptions became because there's like a strike. People are refusing to show up to work in protest of the vaccination mandate. But it that's not quite the accurate story. Um. Apparently that it's more about the union, the the what do we call them, the gentleman that fly, the pilots, Yeah, I can the gentle people, the gentle people that fly the fly I call them sky pimps, the sky pimps. Yeah. What is the word skypimps? Gender neutral? Anyone can be

a pimp. Yeah. The union I'm quoting here. The union argued Southwest must negotiate over the issue because it could involve sick leave or disability if pilots have a reaction to the vaccine. You're not anti vaccine at all, but but our pilots are extremely worried about how their medicals are going to be handled if they are unable to fly yep. Union president Casey Murray told the Associated Press. Murray said pilots had not staged a stick out because

of the vaccine mandate. He instead blamed the chaos of the past few days on Southwest's operation, which he said has become brittle and cracks under the slightest pressure. Now extremely reasonable as it sure does was based on what's happening with like toilet paper yeah, and um, it's interesting because I think that on the surface this story until you actually read it. Well, go ahead, Well he's told

I heard that. It's they think the vaccine mandate is Nazi stuff, and that's why they're they're they're gonna quit their quitting because of the mandate, is what I heard from. Pretty easy to um to believe that if you choose to listen to Donald Trump Jr. Instead of freeing the article or listening to what the pilots union, Well, why would you listen to the people you're talking about when that might make you unable to say all of the

things that you want to say about them? Um. There's also unions at both Southwest and American have also argued that management has been too slow to bring pilots back from leaves of absence that the airlines persuaded them to take during the pandemic, leaving them shorthanded. So it sounds like a lot of chaos, um uh with the airlines themselves,

which is frankly not surprising. It sounds like the pandemic caused a lot of chaos and a lot of industries and uh, we really shouldn't have handed Yeah, why do we decide to do that. Why did we We shouldn't have. We really shouldn't have. Um. I tweeted kind of a half baked thought that there's more reason, plenty of room

to expound upon. But like reading this, there were so many I see lots of people have been posting about frustration at flights being canceled and flights being delayed, and um, with that is like we just mentioned a lot of misunderstanding as to what it is that's actually happening. Um. And it just struck me like, yes, traveling, taking a day of travel and having my flight canceled, and maybe I really need to get home, maybe I've had a

really long day. All of that stuff is true. But what's also true is that I support unions, and I support support the right to make reasonable demands to protect themselves, and protests are one of the only ways that we can do it. U reason. Yeah, complaints are entirely reasonable. Which is well, if we're made to do this, some of us are going to miss work because some people have bad reaction to the vaccine. We need to know

how you plan to handle this. Are you going to like penalize us for this, because if so, we're not okay with that, And that's not an unreasonable thing for union to say, especially when working with an industry that clearly has not done the best job responding to the pandemic and probably really a lot of things. You know, the airline industries, trash pilots generally are fine, uh fuck all of this, except for the pilots having perfectly reasonable

concerns about you know stuff I like pilots. Um, yeah, it's I mean, it's stewardess. Is points to a lot of just like every you know, um, if you were going to uh try to get everyone your company vaccinated or like employees vaccinated, make sure that they do have the time to recover from that, and all the things that you know, everyone should have. Um, it's like the

kind of thing that we don't. We haven't every everything, every like problem with this pandemic has like come like happened before, like anybody really like thought about it or planned about like thought ahead. Yeah, and it's again we just shouldn't have had it. Actually, yeah, I think it was a mistake. You know, we had a lot of debates before this, should we have a pandemic? Should we not? Like, because it's really a good idea, and you know, we tried it, and I think maybe we should not not

do it again. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Here here, what's a bold stance. It's going to be controversial, but I don't think the pandemic was a good idea. Can we like email somebody about that? Or yea I talked to Can I write a complaint? Can I Karen my us out of this situation? Let me take care of it. Yeah, I'm I'm sending a series of threats to the CEO of Southwest that that seems like the person to blame an army of Karen's What would the would the term

the collective term be for that? Umatre mo? I don't know about that. UM. Do we want to breaking news of a quick update on what Dean Kane has to say about bisexual Superman? Oh? Good, thank god, Cody, thank god, get us right in there. Who is Dean KANEA can we do a breaking news alert? UM played Superman UM in the Adventures of Lewis and Clark or Lewis and Clark the eventual Superman whatever the ship show is called Clark, Louis and saman Yeah. He has a lot of opinions

about this he doesn't think. So they say it's a bold new direction, and I say their bandwagoning. All right, Robin just came out as by who's really shocked about that one? Alright? Fair point. Uh, the new Captain America is gay. My daughter in the c W CERI Supergirl where I played the father was gay. So I don't think it's bold or brave or some crazy new direction. If they had done this twenty years ago, perhaps that would be bold or brave. Um. That's so, like, here's

the thing. That's a fine point, I guess, because like, yeah, it's not like it should just be a thing that happens. It's just another weird thing. He said this on Fox and Friends and their fury it's about it. So actually maybe there is some sort of like boldness to it if it's making half of the country furious. Um. Brave would be having him fighting for the rights of gay people in Iran, where they'll throw you off a building

for the offense of being Kay. They're talking about having him fight climate change in the deportation of refugees, and he's dating an activist, whatever activist is. Why don't they have him fight the injustices that created the refugees whose deportation he's protesting. That would be brave, I'd read that. Or fighting for the rights of women to attend school and have the ability to work and live, and boys not to be raped by men under the new warm

and fuzzy Taliban, that would be brave. There's real evil in this world today, real corruption, government overreach, plenty of things to fight against, human trafficking, real nactual slavery going on. It would be great to tackle those issues. So there's a lot going on there. I would argue that if Superman was fighting against um the causes of refugee crisis is crises, he would be he would be furious, would

say it's anti American. Yeah, it would be. He would be saying it's anti American, anti uh, you know, capitalism, anti private businesses. Yeah, he was like, yeah, where you Why do you think the refugees? I mean, I I agree.

I think it would be incredibly based. If we had a Superman movie that opened with a montage of him hunting down the family members of the the executives at United Fruit and Union Carbide and brutally murdering them while footage of the disasters they were responsible for plays in the background. Um, and then the movie were to climax with him tearing off Henry Kissinger's head and Henry Kissinger's got a max suit for some reason. I think that would be rad as hell. I would watch the ship

out of that Superman movie. Yeah, we reveal these brainiac or something like that exactly. But but again, like it's just weird, like obfuscation and dismissal where it's like, no, I'd rather them do this. You would be so mad if they did that, you'd be furious. If we are sure back to Superman for I'm sorry, but uh, you know Superman spoke up and I think it's a gonna yeah, I mean, there wasn't a breaking news. Uh, the we're gonna take a break for some ads popping for more

together everything, So don't don't Cody. Did you want to talk about Christen Cinema? Is she good? Now? What you're pitching you're I mean, I know that she's teaching a fundraising class and she's also like running the Boston Marathon and doing all this stuff that is not her job.

Oh yeah, I mean she is teaching a class on fundraising. Um, and uh, maybe that's an issue that maybe maybe like maybe a sitting senator and like this is the thing was like, Okay, if she was a senator years ago and it's like, oh, I'm gonna teach you how fucking how the fucking do it? Um, that would be not still like perpetuating the system that we don't want, but like that wouldn't be that would be like a little more acceptable because she's not literally in office. What is she?

Who is she teaching it too, students? And uh Arizona I believes Arizona State, Arizona State. Hold on, Oh the college in which she hid in the bathrooms? Right? Yeah? Um yeah, it was like right, I mean like she she left the class on fundraising to go hide in the bathroom. Um. And it's not even like you know, go ahead do it, but it's just a very um it just shows you exactly who she is. And um, it's it's almost believable, like if you wrote this into

a movie, be like, well that's that's too far. That's I mean, they're not she's not literally going to be right, teaching a class on fundraising, um, and like how to get donations. Um. The outline identifies key course concepts as corporate giving, political strategy, influence and power. Oh Man teaching this class for cinema, did not respond. Um, yeah, it's a it's just a it's not great, it's not correct, but she's gonna get her way. Probably. Yeah, we're terrible

people nearly always do. Except she doesn't care about being reelected. Did we talk about that on this show. Probably? I mean what she wants is just more money, So I guess she's doing it by teaching. Well, I mean it doesn't seem like she's interested in being reelected. Well, no, she wants a book deal. She wants like whatever is next. She's done with politics. It's time for her to get rich and to speak the things that she is making more inevitable for the rest of us. And like she

can't even help her get into office. Yeah, you can't. Look, the problem is the electoral system is fundamentally flawed, and the only people who run for public office are not good people of them, even the ones you like, they're all bad. If they are when they get started, they become it. And yes, exactly, it eats you up. Money

eats you up. It changes the way your brain works. Um, And like there's just an aspect of like because the only way really out of this kind of thing, Like, Okay, she's now she's teaching his class and fundraising, which means she is not only perpetuating the system, but she's basically saying that it's good. Uh, and here's how to do it. Like here, it's good, and here's how to do it. Because the way to get out of it is to have people who are elected sacrifice their positions of power.

But like, for example, like this is a small example, but like Ted Cruz uh has written an amendment from years ago. He doesn't talk about it because doesn't want to actually do it. Where it has term limits. It's term limits on Congress. But in the bill, in the amendment, he points out that if you are in Congress at the time that this passes, you don't count. So it limits terms to two terms. But if you're if you've

been senator for five five terms, you still get two more. Uh. Because they're not willing to sacrifice their position at the time. It's all ahead of time, you can't. Like we've so we've joked about like yeah, uh, it would be amazing a president becomes the president. No more presidents. I'm the last one. No more. Um, you have to have people in power go We're not like making laws to restrict their own power and their own um access to funds

and influence. And there's there's nobody really uh fighting for like publicly funded elections or or you know, third party because you if you're in the system, you can't because it means you have to give something up. Um M. And I don't know, maybe Yank's third party will help, maybe that you you always bring the yucks. Very nervous for mid term and I mean, yeah, I just was looking. Biden's poll numbers are good trash and uh, it's comparable.

It is it should but I mean, I I do think that both Obama and Clinton UM had similar We just don't like politicians. We just don't like them. Well. And yeah, like Democrats for a long time haven't really delivered the goods and I've been disappointing. Yeah. I can't think of a single good they've ever delivered. Um. You know, Obamacare is a step in the right direction here, but all the things you can be that can be said about that, um, And it does feel I mean, I

know we talked about this. Yeah, what's gonna happen? I don't want to make predictions about Donald Trump, but if he's alive, I bet he's running um, you know, and who knows, who knows, who knows. I'm just saying that, Gosh, I don't even know how. I'm just saying that all this ship is happening around us, and our election integrity is under threat, and we're just in this weird limbo period.

It feels like watching the people we elected not do shit, you know, and all these other oppressed chess pieces lining up to be just year after year of worst year ever. That's fun. I'm glad I said all that. You got it off my chest. I wish I had anything like positive of at the moment, like there is. Yeah, I don't know. It varies with me from day to day, like whether or not. Because the upshot of this is that, well,

most Americans hate Trump and most Americans hate Biden. Maybe most Americans will eventually come to realize this is all trashed, funck this system, and mobilize in order to replace it with something at least marginally better. Downside is no some guy who just hasn't ruined his reputation yet will come in and turn out to be a fascist and give

and learn from this and learn better. Um, but I mean even yeah, I mean to see the way that Republicans, even if there aren't there's plenty of people that are anti Trump within the party, but still a party in general, leans in his direction. You know, Chuck Grassley or whatever his name is. Oh yeah, you just did you guys see his acceptance of Trump's endorsement. It was basically like he basically said, I was born at night, but I wasn't born last night. I'd be a fool not to

accept this nomination. And it's like he just stood up there and said, like, yep, I'm selling my soul. No exactly, they can only acknowledge. Sorry. Yeah, And like Steve Bannon's back doing his bullshit tinkering around, and it feels very much like they're going to focus on the anyway. It doesn't matter we've all said any things. They know that, uh,

Trump is the only way forward for them. Yeah, right to a fascist and the only answer now is more fascism, like you have you know, like even Trump is like like realizes like it's all it's all just sort of like this monster that was created and now you can't contain it. They're all those clips. Whenever Trump says get the vaccine, he gets booed because, uh everything. We didn't

even talk about the Ashley Babbitt video. Oh god, I mean we are, of course referring to the video the President put out basically, you know, calling her a martyr, you know, and saying we're still looking just as thinking, you know, well, their horse vesseling her like as hard as they possibly can. They're they're turning her into a martyr so that they can justify the mass murder of

their enemies. Uh it's going to be great. Yeah, Um, it's yeah, they they It's not the same situation, but the same with Rittenhouse, where it's like, no, he's our paper saint of how to deal with these protects. Mean, yeah, it's a very similar situation. Anyway. Cool, cool, we got there. Well you should probably to a close. But before we go out, because this has been a little bit of a bummer, I want to read an exerpt from the Larry Niven short story Man of Steel, Woman of kleenex

Can I do that? Of course? May breaking is um, yeah, okay, consider the driving urge between a man and a woman. The monomaniacal urge to achieve greater and greater penetration. Remember also that we are dealing with Kryptonian muscles. Superman would literally crush Lois Lane's body in his arms, while simultaneously ripping her open to crop from crotch to sternham gutting her like a trout. Lastly, he'd blow off the top

of her head. Ejaculation of semen is entirely involuntary in the human male and in all other forms of terrestrial life. It would be unreasonable to assume otherwise for a Kryptonian, but with Kryptonian muscles behind it, Kelel Seman would emerge with the muscle velocity of a machine gun bullet. In the view of the foregoing normal sex is impossible between Lois Lane and Superman. Artificial insemination may give us better results. First, we must collect the semen. The globules will emerge at

transonic speeds. Superman must first ejaculate, then fly frantically after the stuff to catch it in a test tube. We assume that he is on the moon, both for privacy and to prevent the semen from exploding into vapor on hitting the air. At such speeds, he can catch the semen, of course before it evaporates in a vacuum. He's faster than a speeding bullet. But can he keep it? All known forms of Kryptonian life have superpowers. The same must

hold true true of living Kryptonian sperm. We may reasonably assume that Kryptonian sperm are vulnerable only to starvation into green kryptonide, that they can travel with equal ease through water, air, vacuum, glass, brick, boiling steel, solid steel, liquid, helium, or the core of a star, and that they are capable of translate velocity sexual fascinate kind of a test tube will hold such beast east. It goes on like this, it's incredible short story?

Is that even like a short story? Or is just like it's just pages of Larry Niven speculating about Superman's come. What a little science nerd he is? Any you well, and thank you for ending on that um on that note, and you know what, that's a that's a sincere thank you appreciate it. Yeah, check it out. It's for free online. You can find it. Man of Steal a Woman of Kleenex. All right, that's good, all right, we did it, We fucking did it. So dull. Everything so dull it's get

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