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This is like one of those humiliation rituals the q folk always talk about, but from the right. Making the pod save boys do an ad read that sound dangerously close to the 14 words

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“his administration thus far has the patina of competency and success that his first did not”

are you watching the same administration? none of his agencies have ever shown any competency this time around, and he staffed them with bottom of the barrel guys. his first admin was full of republicans who thought they could work with him who resigned later because he’s a petulant old man

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susan rice, the former ambassador to the un for obama, called the president of el salvadore "trumps butt-boy" on pod save. sincerely what the fuck

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pod save is doing an episode about biden’s cancer diagnosis. fascinating angles in this one

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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

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tommy endorsed some sort of reform that allows greater transparency into presidential candidate health. finally, let’s pass the stable genius act

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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

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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.

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“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

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Oh we got Jen “What do you want us to do, mail everyone tests” Psaki on this episode

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Mark Cuban: “You gotta do what Mr. Beast does”

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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?

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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?

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“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.

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

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“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

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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“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

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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

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they called maduro and his wife the “former first couple”, guys i think that’s awful quick personally

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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

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Lovett, of all people is unfamiliar with the term globohomo? shocking, he’s the one who i expected to know it most

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why does the nba do the US national anthem at the start of a game in london? you should boo on principle

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

right there with you tommy

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he’s talking about european leaders but i might extend it to a few more people personally

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“in a fight to out-violence fascists we will not win” says you

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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Bobby Pulido: “I mean, I have friends and family in border patrol. And they felt that they had been, they didn't sign up for necessarily for processing people because that's what it was becoming with the asylum seekers. They're like, I signed up to patrol the border not to be processing people, right?”

They wanted to go ride around on 4 wheelers catching border crossers and were mad that biden made them do paperwork? these friends of yours?

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“Like it's a 20 kilowatt laser, which is actually not that much. It's kind of like the low end of the spectrum. I read it was like 350 light bulbs, basically.”

No one has had a 60w incandescent bulb in their house in like 5-10 years man

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“Also, the Super Bowl is not a unifying event. It is an opportunity for the NFL to make as much money as humanly possible for a group of billionaire owners. As the United States, we all pick one side or the other, and we watch them concuss each other to death on a field.”

Not even gonna touch how good an allegory for US politics that is, eh?

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this platner interview is a *lot*. asked about what differentiates him from the governor, he says that she has a poor voting record on unions, and then also dives into a specific tribal sovereignty injustice that he’d like to see fixed that she has consistently stood in the way of.

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“Like, when did you start paying attention to politics? And what was your world view like back then?
And sort of how has it evolved?”
“I mean, I've always been politically, I was a big history buff when I was a kid, which in many ways kind of makes you sort of politically aware just because you're doing that. In high school, I was introduced to more critical thought, like Howard Zinn and Chomsky. I, you know, at that point, but I remember reading those things and like being like, yeah, some of this makes sense.
But I also still was very much like a bit of a patriotic young man. So, and I always wanted to join the military. So I had this kind of like weird, like militaristic bent that I really can't explain.
But since I was two, I wanted to be a soldier. It was really after my military service that I began to think much more deeply about it”

this is the guy who said he didn’t know what a totenkopf was until a few months ago. he committed to one very weird lie

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“I had four tours in the infantry and I fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I really came to believe that what we were doing was not what we were claiming to do.
I could not figure out what the immense amount of violence I partook in, what that did for the town of Sullivan, Maine. And like, and to this day, no one's ever been able to explain to me. I do know that some people made a lot of money off the wars that I fought in, and it wasn't the young men and women who did the fighting, and it certainly wasn't the civilians that we inflicted just wild amounts of violence upon.
It's defense contractors, and it's folks in political power. Like, it really is, and that began to, so I became very critical of American foreign policy, which as I, then that kind of just sent me on a road of being, well, if I'm critical of foreign policy, why is our foreign policy like this? So I became more critical of our political structures.”

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“And once you start being critical of the political structure, you're like, well, why is our political structure like this? And that takes you into, like, an economic critique, and you start to realize that, oh, I like, this whole system in many ways does seem to be built by people in power with wealth to maintain or expand their wealth and power generally to the, the immiseration or diminishment of regular working folks. And, and I think, you know, the reason my, this campaign has sort of blown up the way it has is, I think a lot of people are getting wise to this.
I think a lot of folks are like, wait a second, like, this stuff that we all thought for years, we are getting a totally different outcome from what we claim we're trying to do. So are we actually trying to do the thing that we claim, or is all of this doing something else? And when you reframe the question of like, does all of this exist just to like screw working people and make somebody else rich?”

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these 3 toots are a continuous monologue from him.

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i could quote this entire interview. normally i listen to pod save so you don’t have to, but i actually recommend this episode. Platner’s flaws are stark and somehow despite them he is possibly one of the best candidates the dems have found in the past 10 years. precisely because he’s actually a weird median voter and not aligned with either party.

Pod Save America: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down, Mar 1, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod-save-america/id1192761536?i=1000752293544&r=1797

Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

Podcast Episode · Pod Save America · March 1 · 1h 13m

Apple Podcasts

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lovett is struggling to form sentences talking about us entering war with iran. the automated transcript cuts out all the stutters and ums, but he’s never sounded remotely like he does atm

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“So this is an iced coffee.
There's a splash of half and half in here. Maybe a little more than a splash.
It's quite a shade of ecru for to be just a splash.
It's a Dunkin splash, which is a little heavier than your Starbucks splash. And it's got five pumps of sugar-free vanilla, sugar-free.
Oh, see, RFK-approved coffee.
And a couple of Splenda’s. A couple of Splenda’s.”

RFK Jr, please put this man in jail

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pod save mentioned that chuck schumer has a -31 approval rating….. among *democrats*

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i listen to pod save to try to convince myself that the democrats have some sort of plan to preserve themselves and i’m having more and more trouble believing that to be true as time passes. we’re so cooked with these people soaking billions into consultants and ad campaigns while not having any meaningful vision for a better future

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“My feeling, what I see when people kind of celebrate someone's death is actually like when someone dies and they did bad things […]
But to celebrate someone you don't like dying is to act as if dying is a kind of justice, that they're getting justice. But that can't be true because everybody dies. And what you're really doing when you celebrate the death of your enemies, you're actually just avoiding facing the injustice that happened when they were alive.
You're coping with the fact that you don't believe they faced what they deserved when they walked among the living.”

lovett, you seem to think we should not be feeling like these people didn’t get that what which was coming to them. Why should anyone feel like justice comes for any of these powerful people whose deaths get celebrated? you are just living a different reality that most of america

Tom Magnanimous Mar 24

@timmy I agree, we shouldn't celebrate deaths like Kissinger's, because he faced no justice and lived far beyond when he should have. However, we should absolutely celebrate deaths like Charlie Kirk

unlofl [Promoted Toot]Mar 24

@funkula @timmy The Onion nailed it when Dick Cheney died, headline: "Dick Cheney escapes justice"

@timmy it really does feel like their big thing is "return to status quo of Obama!"

Cheerios de Bergerac Mar 23

@timmy Still somehow better than Fetterman's

@timmy I *think* we've finally gotten rid of our last one, we replaced them as they burned out... But every once in a while I find a non LED/CFL (We're replacing the CFLs as they die too...)

IntrepidVector Feb 3

@timmy hey hey at least get it right:

friends and family

IntrepidVector Feb 3

@timmy my dear old uncle had a simple dream, to chase people down like prey and destroy water caches in the desert

@timmy ooof that's a damning indictment of people he calls friends (and his family sucks as well, but you can't exactly choose that though you can choose to support them or not)

big "i have friends and family in the SS" energy