I don’t really think the white house covered up a cancer diagnosis, but if they did because grandpa didn’t wanna give up his car keys i’m gonna become the freakin joker
tommy endorsed some sort of reform that allows greater transparency into presidential candidate health. finally, let’s pass the stable genius act
i have said in the past that the worst pod save episodes are live recordings because they get a little too excited in front of a crowd but it gets worse. lovett and two gay republicans, sarah longwell and tim miller, did a show at worldpride and it is painful
this is a fucking psyop. they have michael fanone up there talking about his time undercover doing drug interdiction in gay bars. who let them do a pride event that is majority republican and also includes a cop as a guest.

“Like this is not exactly how history went, but imagine you're a 30 year old in this country, right?

In 2016, you supported Bernie Sanders. The entire establishment supported Hillary Clinton, including the people who worked at the DNC during the primary. In 2020, Bernie, you support Bernie Sanders again.

He is on the cusp of victory. Everyone else drops out and endorses Joe Biden. Everyone goes and vote.

They all go and vote for Joe Biden to get him elected. In part because they believe that Joe Biden will be a one-term president. They are begging someone else to run against them or for Joe Biden to step down.

He doesn't do that. And then here once again, they are inspired by a candidate and people from the Democratic establishment. If you live in New York and you want Brad Lander or someone else, that's fine.”

the pod save boys are mad about the dems lining up to support cuomo, and for once i agree

Oh we got Jen “What do you want us to do, mail everyone tests” Psaki on this episode
Mark Cuban: “You gotta do what Mr. Beast does”

Mark Cuban: “Now we're seeing all this AI video. Why aren't they creating just tons and tons and tons and tons? Of AI video that's all prompt generated.

This stuff makes us laugh, right? I mean, you see the gorilla with Downsy and all this stuff that's... You know what I'm talking about?”

Jon Favreau: “I don't know. Tell me.”

MC: “Oh, you don't? Okay. Because it...

Maybe it's because I look at my son's stuff sometimes, but there's just like... There's stuff that becomes ubiquitous on social media, and that... You've got to use it.”

jesse, what the fuck are you taking about?

oh no, googling that makes it appear that it might be the most dehumanizing ableism on the planet. i haven’t watched because tiktok loginwall but how is mark cuban watching this shit, what is wrong with you man?

“And there is this incredibly dangerous logic here that is just embodied in what Vance says, which is as the president of the United States, we have the authority to declare anyone or anything that we view as a threat to be a terrorist or terrorist organization. And also we, as the president of the United States, have the power to do anything we can to protect America from said terrorist or terrorist organization.”

This is news to you, Dan? You worked for the Obama administration and the same AUMF for the global war on terror is still in effect.

Pod Save had exactly the reaction i expected to kirk’s death. “But i’m a well known political commentator too”

“Maybe I am the naive one, maybe we are still huffing Obama hope fumes, but I do believe that the vast majority of the American people do not want where we are. They hate that we are this divided. And there are certainly political partisans and we are among them, who live in that divide.”

I largely agree that the average american wants a return to brunch, but average people are unable to see a path where organizing, running for office, and voting gets us out of this. And i’m afraid the pod save boys are the ones deluding themselves when we have military deployments in major american cities

The pod save boys are so upset about being called pod bros by the president and his ilk that they hired a woman onto the show. #diversityWin
pod save played a clip of shane gillis that i don’t think shane would have even considered a joke, just like observation. they seemed to think it was cutting humor or something

“Because Janet Mills, she may be a great candidate, but she is just a better version of the Sarah Gideon campaign in 2020.
It's the same thing. It's an establishment Democrat running has made. What if we had an anti-establishment, an outsider, someone with the appeal?”

the dems can’t run someone with appeal, that might be a good idea

Jen Psaki and Lis Smith starting going on about how Kamala got blindsided by republicans making hay on her response to that aclu survey that asked about gender care for inmates. Lis asked why ACLU would even ask the question and Jen advocated for just not answering these questionnaires.

I would like to point out that where Kamala went wrong wasn’t in saying it, it was that she wouldn’t defend her stance. It was settled con law that denying necessary medical care is cruel and unusual punishment. She balked instead and that’s where she fucked it up

ruben gallego thought he had some great idea telling biden to raise the federal milage rate as a way to garner working class political favor. you'd have to drive about 22,500 miles for work before you even take the itemized deduction so i really doubt this reaches the "hundreds of thousands or millions" of voters. it would be a bigger deal to a bunch of random white collar guys who get the reimbursement from work
it's a great story because it's simultaneously biden not pulling any of his available levers for political gain, but also just a dem being deeply out of touch at the same time

“So maybe this cycle of like, bankrupting American farmers and then paying them off will work again. My guess is ultimately these farmers would rather just like run a business and not deal with this shit, but...”

Clearly you’ve never met an american farmer

the pod save boys are deeply skeptical about ai’s bulbous nature but also think it’s really bad that trump is green lighting loosening chip export regs to china. So the ai is gonna crash and burn but it’s super dangerous to let china buy things from nvidia at the same time
ok, that was a little unfair to the pod save position. Lovett shortly after launched into “the ai is real and strong and it’s my friend” so they seem to just kinda believe everything about ai, good bad and indifferent
They announced a tour of Australia and New Zealand so if you want to surround yourself with the most insufferable people on your continent, go check out the live show among the australians with way too much interest in american politics

“It was really interesting talking to Pritzker because I do just, he has a, like a, and I said this to his face, like if you would have told me that this was like one of the richest human beings in America and the richest person in public office, like that would be surprising because that's not how he carries himself. He has a much more, I don't know, like just not what comes to mind. And it was an interesting conversation about how he does come from all this privilege, but that he was shaped by a lot of loss.”

oh fuck off lovett. i don’t give a shit that a billionaire lost his dad in childhood when it comes to electability. I haven’t listened to the interview so i won’t say that pritzker is wielding it this way. i think people who live this life usually manage to balance the personal experience better

“And that we're the party that can most easily, and because of our fundamental values as Democrats, address what I think is coming, which is a wave of unemployment as a result of artificial intelligence.”

Sorry Jay Bob Pritzker, i don’t know that what you think is coming is actually coming, nor do i think the Democrats should be trusted to navigate that scenario

they did a plug for buying your friend a “friends of the pod” subscription for christmas. if you are my enemy and want to do me harm i will accept a gifted subscription
they called maduro and his wife the “former first couple”, guys i think that’s awful quick personally
of course they are cheering on maduro’s extraordinary rendition because they are fully on board with US State Dept claims that the election was not won by Maduro
Lovett, of all people is unfamiliar with the term globohomo? shocking, he’s the one who i expected to know it most
why does the nba do the US national anthem at the start of a game in london? you should boo on principle

“Jesus Christ, when are these people gonna stand up and do something?”

right there with you tommy

he’s talking about european leaders but i might extend it to a few more people personally
“in a fight to out-violence fascists we will not win” says you

“I think that the image of the Democratic Party is as bad as these polls suggest. I also think that a lot of it's coming from Democrats. A lot of those numbers are coming from Democrats who don't like the party, who are going to vote for Democrats no matter what, and many of them will crawl over glass to vote for Democrats in the midterms, even though they are not happy with the party.”

yeah man we are so fucked when the “opposition” party is hated by their biggest supporters

they have david plouffe on and he is talking about how bad the electoral maps will be for dems after 2030. man it’s so time to jettison the democrat party and start fresh without the baggage
plouffe suggested if we get an 8-1 court it could be game over, but dude i think a few bad decisions this year could be the end of the game

If i had a podcast about hatelistening to pod save, i would definitely put favreau saying “Qanon was right” on the drops board.

if i ever do this get me help

@timmy would you call it Pod Damn America
@IntrepidVector unfortunately, that name is taken

@timmy ah, damn

I must know the name in your back pocket then, even if you have to invent it

@IntrepidVector thinking up a name is like 3/4 of starting a podcast, i cannot do this it’s too dangerous

@timmy I know not with which I meddle but that's true like 80% of the time anyway

there's always Pod Save Pod Save America

@IntrepidVector i accidentally did come up with a name btw. Frenemies of the Pod