July 14, 2025 • 30 mins
Ex-MSNBC journalist Joy Reid is spreading wild anti-Trump claims on TikTok... and people are starting to believe them. I break it down in this episode of the Brad vs Everyone podcast. Plus, Elmo gets hacked, Zohran Mamdani's radicalism gets even further exposed, and Trump nominates a Twitter troll as a U.S. Ambassador.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you know where it is?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
That's the Great America.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
These people walk back.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
This wacky journalist is hitting new lows with her fear mongering,
but people are starting to believe her. We're going to
react to the latest wild take from Joy Reid, formerly
of MSNBC, the progressive journalist and commentator who is stirring
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people up over or extreme alarmism, because Today's the day
that ends in Why Yes? That? And so much more
is coming up on today's episode of The Barad Versus
Everyone Podcast, my daily show where we take on the
craziest ideas from across the Internet, our media, and our
politics from an independent perspective. Guys, I'm bringing you this
one on the road as I got booked to do
(00:58):
CNN tonight at ten pm Eastern on Monday night. Please
do tune in if you care to do that sort
of thing and had to fly into New York City regardless,
I'll probably break down some highlights of the appearance on
the show later this week, assuming data it's as spicy
as I'm hoping, But for today, we're at our regular business,
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just in a slightly different improvised hotel setup, so hopefully
you'll bear with me. On that front. But up first,
we're going to check in with Joy Reid, who you
may remember was fired from MSNBC after years if kind
of the most extreme and obnoxious, hyperventilating, imaginable about doomsday
warnings about Trump and progressive panic and constantly hopping on
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the woke issue of the day. Yes, she is back,
and she is now rebranding as a TikTok influencer and
putting out this kind of bizarre fear mongering content like
seriously suggesting that Trump is bringing back slavery. Take a
listen to this video. Have the idea of finding some
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way to get farm workforce and service sector workforce, and
I think you've discussed.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Somehow a program of people leaving on a sponsorship and
coming right back.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Can you give us are more.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Detail about that and why in the views hardliners, it's
not a.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Fake care of our farmers and hotel workers and various
other people that we're working on it right now, and
Ron's going to be involved, and.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You're involved already.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So we have a case where a lot of cases
where ice.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Will go into a farm and those are guys working
there for ten fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No cloud from the farmers.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
Know, and we're going to put people, let's go a
farmer responsibility or owner responsibility where they're going to be
largely responsible for these people.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And they know these people.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
They've worked on the farms for fifteen years and all
of a sudden, So I have a great.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Uh Ron does Christie does?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We have a great.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Feeling for the farmer and for others in the same position,
and we're going to give them responsibility for people. And
we're going to have a system of signing them up
so they don't have to go.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
They can be illegally, they can pay taxes and everything.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
They're not getting citizenship, but they get other things, and
the farmers need them to do the work.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Without those people, you're not going to be able.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
To ruin your follow See now, y'all, don't get mad
at me when I tell you what it is.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You just heard what it is.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
You know what that is.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You know, endangered servants.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Were essentially tied to the jobs that they were doing,
and if they weren't working, they weren't allowed to be here.
So at minimum, that's what that is. And I've been
told y'all that's the great America. These people want back
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Welcome to Megamerica.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Okay, guys. So there's a lot to unpack there. As
you can tell, Joy Reid has strong emotions about the
clips she played of Trump. I want to give you
a little bit of context on that before I give
you my take. Trump is talking about a proposal that's
actually quite controversial in magaworld. Some would call it amnesty
for illegal immigrants who work in farms or hospitality or
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other areas where if they will get deported there will
be a serious labor shortage. Personally, I think something like
that makes a lot of sense, but immigration hardliners aren't
happy with it, of course, because they want to deport
everybody who's here in the country without legal status, not
make any exceptions. So that's kind of will he won't he.
That's kind of a debate playing out in right wing
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politics right now. But this idea is essentially work visas, right,
So some of these undocumented immigrants could be they could
leave the country then come back on temporary work visas.
Joy Reid, until very recently was one of the prime faces.
But a major cable news network suggests that that is
not just indentured servitude, which she says, but it is slavery.
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She says that over and over again. She mouths it
so if you're listening on audio, you wouldn't hear it.
But she also wrote hashtag slavery in the caption. There
is quite a big difference actually between voluntary temporary legal
status to work somewhere you choose and want to work,
and slavery where people were viciously mistreated, forced against their
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will to labor, and put into dangerous conditions. And it's
actually crazy that somebody who claims to be like a
pro African American racial activist with so callously disregard and
diminish the horrific legacy of slavery in America by comparing
it to work permits. She's like, oh, well you're trapped
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at that job. Yes, Joy, that is how many forms
of work permits operate. It's not indentured servitude, and it's
not actually particularly remarkable or novel or dystopian like I
have some friends who are on H one B visas
or similar types of visas, and if they stopped working,
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they would have to leave the country unless they qualified
for some other form of legal status. Doesn't mean they're indentured.
Certain indentured servitude or slavery, anything of the sort. They
are actually very grateful to be in America and eager
to contribute. But of course, like we been knew that
miss joy Read is too far gone to be reasoned with. Unfortunately,
the sad thing is, though, that she's apparently having an
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effect and radicalizing other people. I want to play you
this video from a black radio host echoing some of
her alarmism and propaganda. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
If you go and watch joy Read videos to get
an opportunity to watch joy Read videos, go watch them.
You'll learn a lot, especially in her video own slavery.
Oh we're gonna wait to the midterm election. Come, ain't
gonna be no mid term election. You better look into
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getting a dual citizenship somewhere.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
If you can, because.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Yep, things about to get ugly, things about to get really.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Really ugly. Yep, And I'm scared, scared, scared, scared.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
It might be a point where we might have to
pack up our families and leave.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Because if ice.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Can get immigrants or whatever and just go and get them,
and without their due process in court, why can't they
do it to everybody else?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Now they're doing it to and who and who do
you think is next? And he don't give it. They
don't give a damn if you're a Democrat or a Republican.
They don't care. Nah, they don't care.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Get Ready, these white supremacy concentration camps, they're all over
the country. They're stocking up on weapons and everything as
if they are preparing for a war. While we out
here popping fans in boots on the ground, they got
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real boots on the ground.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So this is really concerning to me that some people
are falling for this alarmist hysteria. And look, there's no
shortage of things that I would criticize Trump for. There
are no concentration camps. That's absurd hyperbole. It's actually really
as scientific to the legacy of the Holocaust and the
millions of Jews and others who were killed. And temporary
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immigration detention facilities. While I'm actually not a supporter of
mass deportations, I think we should have a more moderated approach,
is not the same thing as that. And there is
literally no reason to believe that the midterms will be
suspended or any sort of like dictatorial move to seize
the elections. Of course, I mean, it's possible, and I
would say after the tantrum Trump through in twenty twenty
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when he lost, you never know for sure. But seeing
as there's no actual evidence that that's happening, it's alarmist
and hysterical to spread that kind of thing and make
people panic. People really don't need to be, especially US citizens,
do not need to be fleeing the country getting dual
citizenship any of this. But again he's citing Joy Reid
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as an information source, which is scary because she literally
thinks the drump administration, even though they've appointed freaking black
cabinet officials and one increasing portions of the black vote,
is going to bring back slavery to America. That is
not an exaggeration. That is literally what they think make
America great means. I mean, is it's not just concerning
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because it's wrong, which of course it is. It's concerning
because if you actually believed that, if you actually put
yourself in the shoes of someone who thought that was
true and truly believed it, I mean, that's how you
end up with things like assassination attempts, That's how you
end up with political violence, until you end up with riots.
And insurrections and other sorts of terrible things. I mean,
the people who rioted on January sixth then tried to
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steal the twenty twenty election on the Republican side. They
believed all sorts of fantastical and dystopian ideas that were
not true, that the Democrats had seized Howard would never
ever give it up again, and all sorts of things.
It's like, when you let yourself go down into this
dark place, it has dark results. So it's much worse
and much more important than people just being misinformed. When
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you're this misinformed, when you're subject to this level of
alarmist propaganda and brainwashing, I mean, it can take you
to a very dark and dangerous place. What do you,
guys think? Have you seen this kind of rhetoric? Do
you think more people are falling for it? Or is
it just still isolated examples of a few people. Let
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in is in the description up next, guys, Elmo was hacked. Yes,
Sesame Street has been compromised. That is a sentence I'm
actually saying, which feels weird and feels wild. But honestly,
so many stories in twenty twenty five. If you presented
them to me five years ago and told me this
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would be something I'd be talking about in the news,
I would have looked at you like you had three heads. Yeah,
that's our current timeline. Almo has been hacked the official
Almo account on Twitter x Now these tweets have since
been deleted, but Elmo was hacked and immediately went on unhinged,
virulently anti semitic and violent tweet threads that we're going
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to go over. So whoever seized the Elmo account with
this hack immediately tweeted release the files at Donald Trump
child Effer, referring to the Ebstein files. But then here's
the really disturbing bit. Elmo says all Jews should die.
Good Jews. Donald Trump is netan Yahoo's puppet because he
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is in the Ebstein files. Jews control the world and
need to be exterminated. Now, that is horrifying. That is
deeply anti semitic, it's unhanged, it's dangerous place on some
of the most dangerous ideas in human history. I mean,
but there's also an element of like trollishness to this.
So somebody, if I find whoever hacked Almo, I swear
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to God. And then Almo replied if are you gonna
do and word, to which someone replied, muting Almo, because
this is hacked, and the Almo replied if you and
your tea slur referring to trans people, daughter and word.
So wow, And we do know that this was a
hack because Assessame Workshop spokesperson confirmed the hack to the
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Daily Beast, saying Almo's ex account was compromised today by
an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including anti Semitic
and racist posts. We are working to restore full control
of the account. So, on one hand, I guess anything
like this could always happen, right, I mean, add that
two factor authentication bro like, because somebody could take over
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your account, and a lot of times when they take
over people's accounts, they just use it to push a
crypto scam or something. But this person, who's clearly very
sick in the head, decided to use it to spread
hateful anti Semitism. And I'm concerned about that because I
want you guys to set side your views on Israel Palestine,
because listen, you can criticize Israel, you can oppose the
state of Israel. Does not make you anti Semitic. But
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you are kidding yourself if you do not acknowledge that
there is a very real and very disturbing and very
dangerous uptick in anti Semitism. Now this isn't really the
only example of this. We see this across x. It
really is an increasingly anti Semitic garbage pile on there,
and that disturbs me because the Jewish people deserve the
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ability to live freely and live openly like anyone else
in a tolerant society. And we know from history the
terrible things that can happen when you categorize and dehumanize
all Jews like this. It's really terrifying stuff. And of
course I hope this hacker. I hope they find him
because obviously this is a legal behavior and hold him accountable.
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But I'm also concerned who are the thousands of people
that retweeted and liked these tweets before they were deleted.
They were only up for a couple hours, but even
in that time, thousands of people engaged with them positively.
I want to know who those people are, because they're
the ones I'm actually worried about, and they're the ones
that I feel like I need to do everything in
my power to stay the heck away from, Like, please
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identify yourselves so that the rest of us can avoid you,
because that is not normal.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I do think this hacker totally wasted this opportunity by
revealing themselves to be such a fringe extremist, hateful weirdo,
because if they had just tweeted, hey at Trump released
the Ebstein files from Elmo's account, that would have been
kind of funny. Not sure it would really be worth
the potential criminal investigation and charges, but it would have
been kind of funny, like, instead of deeply dark and
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sinister the way that this turned out, But hey, I
guess if you're gonna go down, you might as well
make yourself look like evil. I don't know. I don't
know what this person was thinking or if they achieved
what they hoped. But thankfully the sanctity of the Elmo
Twitter account has been restored, and people really need to
brush up on their CyberSecure practices. What do you guys think?
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Let me know in the comments. So you was horrified
by this as I am, I certainly hope you are
up next. And it's funny actually, because I'm in New
York City as we speak. For CNN tonight, we're going
to talk about zooron Mom Donnie, the Democratic nominee for
mayor in New York City's upcoming mayoral election, who is
quite the controversial figure, a hardcore socialist, left wing extreme
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mess with a long history of deeply radical opinions and takes.
But it's actually worse than we thought and worse than
we knew. The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet,
has obtained audio from just a few years ago, in
twenty twenty, of Zoran on a podcast where he you
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have to hear it to believe it, but he essentially
downplays domestic violence and suggests that it's not an incident
the police should be involved in. And remember this came
in the context of the whole defund the police movement
in twenty twenty without you really kind of contextualizing it
too much more. I just want you, guys to.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Police do not create safety for many, many people across
this city and the state, police actually create and amplify violence.
And it is very important to speak about that reality
that many people have because it pushes up against the
conventional understanding of police who are seen to be people
who come to resolve violence. But I mean, you just
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look at the history of the NYPD and you see
that we have invested in a system that functions in
many ways to punish poor black and brown people across
this city and across the state, frankly, across this country.
And there are so many responsibilities we have given to
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police that frankly, should have nothing to do with their departments.
A homeless person is on a train, they do not
need a stranger with a gun to come and resolve
that situation. If you know, if somebody is jaywalking, if
somebody is surviving, you know, going through domestic violence if
there are so many different different situations that would be
far better handled by people trained to deal with those
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specific situations as opposed to an individual with a gun.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Hey, so this is unhinged to casually list off domestic
violence in the same sentence as jaywalking. This kind of
in and of itself diabolical in how much it downplays,
it kind of belittles the significance of that horrible offense.
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And it also really really just just betrays a mindset
that I think belongs to nowhere near a position of
responsibility for public safety. I mean, the idea that police
create danger they don't create safety is absurd. I'm totally
open to conversations about criminal justice reform, but especially when
you consider this in the context of Zoron just a
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few years ago tweeting abolish the police for queer liberation.
This clearly is a very radical guy at his heart
who does not believe in policing, when in reality, most
New Yorkers, even most minority New Yorkers, want more police,
not less, in their communities. Now, in his actual campaign
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website and agenda, so Ron claims he no longer supports
defunding the police, but I don't really think he's done
enough of a explanation on why he was so wrong
to ever believe in that position to actually kind of
assuage our concerns. I mean, I think it seems like
he's just saying now that he doesn't support it for
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political expediency, right. He knows it's an unpopular position, even
with Democrats, even with minority voters, So he's just taking
a different tune. But when you have such a long
track record years and years and years as such a
far left activist, I don't really think it's unbelievable to
just say, JK, I won't do that if you elect
me now and expect us to believe that, Like, that's
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not who you actually are, right, I think that's who
he actually is. And though I'm not a New Yorker,
it scares me for the people of New York. And
he actually had the opportunity to say, of course not,
of course I believe the police need to be involved
in domestic violence situations. Because the Washington Free Beacon requested
comment from him, to which he did not respond, so
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they write in a tweet, it's not entirely clear whether
Mom Donnie stands by it. His may or platform calls
to replace police with crisis responders and mental health cases,
but it does not define such cases, and the mam
donni campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
And whether he would prevent the police from responding to
reports of domestic violence. That's concerning to me, because you
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sure would think that it would be pretty easy to
jot off a statement saying, of course, if I'm the
next mayor of New York City, I will support the
police intervening in domestic violence cases and protecting battered women
or other people. It's not just women, but it is
primarily women. Yeah, not reassured. This is not my reassured face.
Based on the fact that he wouldn't reply to comment
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for the story and as of this recording, I looked
to see if he had addressed this anywhere, and I
couldn't find it. He may have at some point, or
maybe he will in the future, But I mean, it
shouldn't be too much to say that, yes, I support
police arresting and intervening in domestic violence cases. Like what
are we even doing? How was that even a question?
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I don't understand how we got here. I don't understand
how we ever entered a politics where someone as radical
as him could be at all viewed as mainstream or electable.
It's kind of scary, honestly, but I think people need
to remember how deeply radical that twenty twenty moment was,
and it was kind of summed up funnily by this
tweet I encountered by a guy named Blake Flayton. He wrote,
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fun story. Oh it's actually not really fun story, but
fun story. When I was living in Brooklyn, I would
hear my super downstairs assault his girlfriend slash wife almost
every night. At the time, I was swallowing progressive propaganda
about not calling the police, so I called the landld,
a community safety service, the property manager and talk to
the neighbors to see if they would intervene. It kept happening,
so I eventually called the police and it stopped and
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the super was removed from the building. I'm glad I
did that, though I continue to feel guilt that I
waited so long. I mean, yeah, I'm glad he did
the right thing in the end and called the police.
But I guess maybe that tweet in this story sums
up the evolution that some people have had, where have
come to their senses a little bit on this stuff.
But Zo Ron I don't believe that he really has.
I just don't believe that he is now some moderate
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who will support the police and all that. I think
he's still that radical at heart. And given that he
may well be the next mayor of New York City
and that regardless, he is now a prominent face of
democratic politics, that really concerns me. What do you guys think?
Can you believe a mainstream politician actually suggested that not
police shouldn't get involved in domestic violence cases? That is
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absolutely wild. But here we are speaking of things that
are absolutely wild.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
We're going to talk.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
About some news that I still care a wout my
head around. Donald Trump has nominated a Twitter troll to
be an official US ambassador. Yes, seriously, take a listen
to this reporting from ABC News in Australia.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
A former Sydney local councilor turned conservative influencer and self
proclaimed alpha male has been named as Donald Trump's pick
for the US ambassador to Malaysia. North American correspondent Carrington
Clark joins US Now from Washington. Good morning, Carrington, what
do we know about Nick Adams?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Nick, Adams has risen to prominence here in the United States,
in part because Donald Trump has publicly endorsed two of
his books. But back in Australia, he served as a
deputy mayor in Ashfield, which is kind of the inner
west western suburbs of Sydney, and he had a colorful
political history there. The Liberal Party moved to suspend him
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after he verbally insulted a local journalist about his attendance
at council meetings.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
He's moved to the.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
United States in twenty twelve and really attached himself to
the MAGA movement. He's become well known as a commentator,
as a motivational speaker, and he sells himself as an
alpha male who he says, eats rare steaks and likes
to go to the restaurant Hooters. Now he has taken
to social media today to thank the US President for
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nominating him for this prestigious role.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
The country that has given me so much. I am
humbled and honored to be in a position to give back.
I look forward to my confirmation process before esteemed senators.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
So this is absolutely wild to me because I have
followed Nick Adams for years on Twitter, because I've always
thought he was so extreme, so almost to the level
of parody of satire. What a goofball chud he was.
And he tweeted the most obnoxious things about what an
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alpha male he was, and how about women and all
this stuff. But I believed he was doing a bit
yet as a troll, like intentionally intentionally exaggerating and being
a troll. But Donald Trump apparently decided to reward that
and make a Twitter troll an official ambassador to the
United States. So I want to read you some of
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his best tweets, some of his greatest hits from over
the years that some up the seriousness and character of
this individual. He wrote. It starts with Fortnite and boneless wings.
It ends with gender pronouns and communism. I will admit it.
I will stand on business. Boneless wings are better than
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bone in wings. They soak up the sauce more and
they're just you get more meat. It's just chef's kiss.
And I will stand on that, even if it leads
a into communism. Here's some more tweets from Nick Adams.
I go to Hooters, I eat rare steaks, I lift
extremely heavyweights. I read the Bible every night. I am
pursued by copious amounts of women. I am wildly successful.
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I have the physique of a Greek god. I've an
IQ over one eighty. I'm extremely charismatic. They hate this,
And then in another tweet, he wrote, alphas don't need
to announce they are alpha's. Everyone just knows, even though
in his ex name he had in parentheses alpha male.
See how it has to be a bit, See how
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it's so like it's not even real. He's just a troll.
But he's also like an ideologically inconsistent and absurd troll
because he is tweeted for things like, for example, any
adult that needs to discuss sexuality with a kindergarteners a predator,
not a teacher, which okay, fine, yeah sure, But he
also tweeted this back in the eighties, how gender studies
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were done. And then it's a young young boy reading
play Boy that has nudes. He also tweeted if more
members of gen Z had been brought to Hooters as children,
I can guarantee we would have had a red wave
last night. That was after the twenty twenty two midterm elections.
He continued, I am sick and tired. Of beta males
and feminists trying to gilt alpha males out of eating
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at Hooters. There's absolutely nothing wrong with eating at Hooters
on a weekly basis, even with the family and kids.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say
that you probably shouldn't be okay with exposing kids to Hooters,
which is like extremely sexualized. If you're going to champion all,
anyone who sexualizes kids or exposes them to ideas about
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sexuality is terrible. I mean, I basically agree that they
shouldn't be exposed to this stuff, but you should at
least be somewhat consistent, and this guy is not. He
has a weird obsession with Hooters. He tweets about it
all the time. This is my personal favorite tweet of his.
Just boarded a flight. I got to my seat and
spread my legs wide, as I always do. I was
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immediately confronted by a wife and her husband in my row,
accusing me of man spreading and being inconsiderate as an
alpha male. I had no intention of apologizing or adjusting,
so I reclined my seat all the way back and
told them respectfully to get bent. Man's comfort is of
paramount importance. M Okay, well you just sound extremely inconsiderate
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and obnoxious, if that's even a real story, which I
don't actually believe that it is for a second. So look,
I don't even want to talk too much about this
guy because he's just a clown, Like he's just an
obvious troll, like an engagement rage baiter. But obviously, look,
US ambassadorships are important, but not important. Some of them
are important to certain countries, but some of them are
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like almost ceremonial gigs that don't involve that much of
substance or serious. But it's still really really, I mean,
the idea that the Trump administration would appoint this guy
to anything is embarrassing, but it just makes America look
like a joke. Why why would you do this just
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patronage to reward somebody who's publicly slobbed on your knob
for years been sucked up to you. I mean, surely
you have people who have our supporters of you, who
you could put in your ceremonial positions that aren't utter
clowns and trolls. Like it's really it just comes off
as so unseerious. And when you consider the fact that
(29:26):
like we've covered it on the show. Really extreme people,
but really dodgy histories and pasts have been appointed to
actual jobs in this administration. It's just of a piece
with the broader trend of unseriousness, amateurness, and clownishness that
I think has unfortunately dogged the second Trump administration more
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so than the first, and just Republican politics these days
in general. It's one thing to be anti elitist, anti
establishment and frankly, look, they've done a lot to earn
our score over the last several years, but you also
should still have some standard call me crazy. What do
you guys think? Do you support disappointment? Let me know
in the comments. All right, guys, that'll be it for
(30:07):
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Speaker 5 (30:16):
Real so,
Do you know where it is?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
That's the Great America.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
These people walk back.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
This wacky journalist is hitting new lows with her fear mongering,
but people are starting to believe her. We're going to
react to the latest wild take from Joy Reid, formerly
of MSNBC, the progressive journalist and commentator who is stirring
(00:35):
people up over or extreme alarmism, because Today's the day
that ends in Why Yes? That? And so much more
is coming up on today's episode of The Barad Versus
Everyone Podcast, my daily show where we take on the
craziest ideas from across the Internet, our media, and our
politics from an independent perspective. Guys, I'm bringing you this
one on the road as I got booked to do
(00:58):
CNN tonight at ten pm Eastern on Monday night. Please
do tune in if you care to do that sort
of thing and had to fly into New York City regardless,
I'll probably break down some highlights of the appearance on
the show later this week, assuming data it's as spicy
as I'm hoping, But for today, we're at our regular business,
(01:19):
just in a slightly different improvised hotel setup, so hopefully
you'll bear with me. On that front. But up first,
we're going to check in with Joy Reid, who you
may remember was fired from MSNBC after years if kind
of the most extreme and obnoxious, hyperventilating, imaginable about doomsday
warnings about Trump and progressive panic and constantly hopping on
(01:43):
the woke issue of the day. Yes, she is back,
and she is now rebranding as a TikTok influencer and
putting out this kind of bizarre fear mongering content like
seriously suggesting that Trump is bringing back slavery. Take a
listen to this video. Have the idea of finding some
(02:03):
way to get farm workforce and service sector workforce, and
I think you've discussed.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Somehow a program of people leaving on a sponsorship and
coming right back.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Can you give us are more.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Detail about that and why in the views hardliners, it's
not a.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Fake care of our farmers and hotel workers and various
other people that we're working on it right now, and
Ron's going to be involved, and.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You're involved already.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So we have a case where a lot of cases
where ice.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Will go into a farm and those are guys working
there for ten fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No cloud from the farmers.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
Know, and we're going to put people, let's go a
farmer responsibility or owner responsibility where they're going to be
largely responsible for these people.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And they know these people.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
They've worked on the farms for fifteen years and all
of a sudden, So I have a great.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Uh Ron does Christie does?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We have a great.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Feeling for the farmer and for others in the same position,
and we're going to give them responsibility for people. And
we're going to have a system of signing them up
so they don't have to go.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
They can be illegally, they can pay taxes and everything.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
They're not getting citizenship, but they get other things, and
the farmers need them to do the work.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Without those people, you're not going to be able.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
To ruin your follow See now, y'all, don't get mad
at me when I tell you what it is.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You just heard what it is.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
You know what that is.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You know, endangered servants.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Were essentially tied to the jobs that they were doing,
and if they weren't working, they weren't allowed to be here.
So at minimum, that's what that is. And I've been
told y'all that's the great America. These people want back
(04:00):
Welcome to Megamerica.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Okay, guys. So there's a lot to unpack there. As
you can tell, Joy Reid has strong emotions about the
clips she played of Trump. I want to give you
a little bit of context on that before I give
you my take. Trump is talking about a proposal that's
actually quite controversial in magaworld. Some would call it amnesty
for illegal immigrants who work in farms or hospitality or
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other areas where if they will get deported there will
be a serious labor shortage. Personally, I think something like
that makes a lot of sense, but immigration hardliners aren't
happy with it, of course, because they want to deport
everybody who's here in the country without legal status, not
make any exceptions. So that's kind of will he won't he.
That's kind of a debate playing out in right wing
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politics right now. But this idea is essentially work visas, right,
So some of these undocumented immigrants could be they could
leave the country then come back on temporary work visas.
Joy Reid, until very recently was one of the prime faces.
But a major cable news network suggests that that is
not just indentured servitude, which she says, but it is slavery.
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She says that over and over again. She mouths it
so if you're listening on audio, you wouldn't hear it.
But she also wrote hashtag slavery in the caption. There
is quite a big difference actually between voluntary temporary legal
status to work somewhere you choose and want to work,
and slavery where people were viciously mistreated, forced against their
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will to labor, and put into dangerous conditions. And it's
actually crazy that somebody who claims to be like a
pro African American racial activist with so callously disregard and
diminish the horrific legacy of slavery in America by comparing
it to work permits. She's like, oh, well you're trapped
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at that job. Yes, Joy, that is how many forms
of work permits operate. It's not indentured servitude, and it's
not actually particularly remarkable or novel or dystopian like I
have some friends who are on H one B visas
or similar types of visas, and if they stopped working,
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they would have to leave the country unless they qualified
for some other form of legal status. Doesn't mean they're indentured.
Certain indentured servitude or slavery, anything of the sort. They
are actually very grateful to be in America and eager
to contribute. But of course, like we been knew that
miss joy Read is too far gone to be reasoned with. Unfortunately,
the sad thing is, though, that she's apparently having an
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effect and radicalizing other people. I want to play you
this video from a black radio host echoing some of
her alarmism and propaganda. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
If you go and watch joy Read videos to get
an opportunity to watch joy Read videos, go watch them.
You'll learn a lot, especially in her video own slavery.
Oh we're gonna wait to the midterm election. Come, ain't
gonna be no mid term election. You better look into
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getting a dual citizenship somewhere.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
If you can, because.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Yep, things about to get ugly, things about to get really.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Really ugly. Yep, And I'm scared, scared, scared, scared.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
It might be a point where we might have to
pack up our families and leave.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Because if ice.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Can get immigrants or whatever and just go and get them,
and without their due process in court, why can't they
do it to everybody else?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Now they're doing it to and who and who do
you think is next? And he don't give it. They
don't give a damn if you're a Democrat or a Republican.
They don't care. Nah, they don't care.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Get Ready, these white supremacy concentration camps, they're all over
the country. They're stocking up on weapons and everything as
if they are preparing for a war. While we out
here popping fans in boots on the ground, they got
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real boots on the ground.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So this is really concerning to me that some people
are falling for this alarmist hysteria. And look, there's no
shortage of things that I would criticize Trump for. There
are no concentration camps. That's absurd hyperbole. It's actually really
as scientific to the legacy of the Holocaust and the
millions of Jews and others who were killed. And temporary
(09:03):
immigration detention facilities. While I'm actually not a supporter of
mass deportations, I think we should have a more moderated approach,
is not the same thing as that. And there is
literally no reason to believe that the midterms will be
suspended or any sort of like dictatorial move to seize
the elections. Of course, I mean, it's possible, and I
would say after the tantrum Trump through in twenty twenty
(09:25):
when he lost, you never know for sure. But seeing
as there's no actual evidence that that's happening, it's alarmist
and hysterical to spread that kind of thing and make
people panic. People really don't need to be, especially US citizens,
do not need to be fleeing the country getting dual
citizenship any of this. But again he's citing Joy Reid
(09:47):
as an information source, which is scary because she literally
thinks the drump administration, even though they've appointed freaking black
cabinet officials and one increasing portions of the black vote,
is going to bring back slavery to America. That is
not an exaggeration. That is literally what they think make
America great means. I mean, is it's not just concerning
(10:09):
because it's wrong, which of course it is. It's concerning
because if you actually believed that, if you actually put
yourself in the shoes of someone who thought that was
true and truly believed it, I mean, that's how you
end up with things like assassination attempts, That's how you
end up with political violence, until you end up with riots.
And insurrections and other sorts of terrible things. I mean,
the people who rioted on January sixth then tried to
(10:32):
steal the twenty twenty election on the Republican side. They
believed all sorts of fantastical and dystopian ideas that were
not true, that the Democrats had seized Howard would never
ever give it up again, and all sorts of things.
It's like, when you let yourself go down into this
dark place, it has dark results. So it's much worse
and much more important than people just being misinformed. When
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you're this misinformed, when you're subject to this level of
alarmist propaganda and brainwashing, I mean, it can take you
to a very dark and dangerous place. What do you,
guys think? Have you seen this kind of rhetoric? Do
you think more people are falling for it? Or is
it just still isolated examples of a few people. Let
me know in the comments. Do hit that like button,
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in is in the description up next, guys, Elmo was hacked. Yes,
Sesame Street has been compromised. That is a sentence I'm
actually saying, which feels weird and feels wild. But honestly,
so many stories in twenty twenty five. If you presented
them to me five years ago and told me this
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would be something I'd be talking about in the news,
I would have looked at you like you had three heads. Yeah,
that's our current timeline. Almo has been hacked the official
Almo account on Twitter x Now these tweets have since
been deleted, but Elmo was hacked and immediately went on unhinged,
virulently anti semitic and violent tweet threads that we're going
(12:19):
to go over. So whoever seized the Elmo account with
this hack immediately tweeted release the files at Donald Trump
child Effer, referring to the Ebstein files. But then here's
the really disturbing bit. Elmo says all Jews should die.
Good Jews. Donald Trump is netan Yahoo's puppet because he
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is in the Ebstein files. Jews control the world and
need to be exterminated. Now, that is horrifying. That is
deeply anti semitic, it's unhanged, it's dangerous place on some
of the most dangerous ideas in human history. I mean,
but there's also an element of like trollishness to this.
So somebody, if I find whoever hacked Almo, I swear
(13:02):
to God. And then Almo replied if are you gonna
do and word, to which someone replied, muting Almo, because
this is hacked, and the Almo replied if you and
your tea slur referring to trans people, daughter and word.
So wow, And we do know that this was a
hack because Assessame Workshop spokesperson confirmed the hack to the
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Daily Beast, saying Almo's ex account was compromised today by
an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including anti Semitic
and racist posts. We are working to restore full control
of the account. So, on one hand, I guess anything
like this could always happen, right, I mean, add that
two factor authentication bro like, because somebody could take over
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your account, and a lot of times when they take
over people's accounts, they just use it to push a
crypto scam or something. But this person, who's clearly very
sick in the head, decided to use it to spread
hateful anti Semitism. And I'm concerned about that because I
want you guys to set side your views on Israel Palestine,
because listen, you can criticize Israel, you can oppose the
state of Israel. Does not make you anti Semitic. But
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you are kidding yourself if you do not acknowledge that
there is a very real and very disturbing and very
dangerous uptick in anti Semitism. Now this isn't really the
only example of this. We see this across x. It
really is an increasingly anti Semitic garbage pile on there,
and that disturbs me because the Jewish people deserve the
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ability to live freely and live openly like anyone else
in a tolerant society. And we know from history the
terrible things that can happen when you categorize and dehumanize
all Jews like this. It's really terrifying stuff. And of
course I hope this hacker. I hope they find him
because obviously this is a legal behavior and hold him accountable.
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But I'm also concerned who are the thousands of people
that retweeted and liked these tweets before they were deleted.
They were only up for a couple hours, but even
in that time, thousands of people engaged with them positively.
I want to know who those people are, because they're
the ones I'm actually worried about, and they're the ones
that I feel like I need to do everything in
my power to stay the heck away from, Like, please
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identify yourselves so that the rest of us can avoid you,
because that is not normal.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I do think this hacker totally wasted this opportunity by
revealing themselves to be such a fringe extremist, hateful weirdo,
because if they had just tweeted, hey at Trump released
the Ebstein files from Elmo's account, that would have been
kind of funny. Not sure it would really be worth
the potential criminal investigation and charges, but it would have
been kind of funny, like, instead of deeply dark and
(15:39):
sinister the way that this turned out, But hey, I
guess if you're gonna go down, you might as well
make yourself look like evil. I don't know. I don't
know what this person was thinking or if they achieved
what they hoped. But thankfully the sanctity of the Elmo
Twitter account has been restored, and people really need to
brush up on their CyberSecure practices. What do you guys think?
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Let me know in the comments. So you was horrified
by this as I am, I certainly hope you are
up next. And it's funny actually, because I'm in New
York City as we speak. For CNN tonight, we're going
to talk about zooron Mom Donnie, the Democratic nominee for
mayor in New York City's upcoming mayoral election, who is
quite the controversial figure, a hardcore socialist, left wing extreme
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mess with a long history of deeply radical opinions and takes.
But it's actually worse than we thought and worse than
we knew. The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet,
has obtained audio from just a few years ago, in
twenty twenty, of Zoran on a podcast where he you
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have to hear it to believe it, but he essentially
downplays domestic violence and suggests that it's not an incident
the police should be involved in. And remember this came
in the context of the whole defund the police movement
in twenty twenty without you really kind of contextualizing it
too much more. I just want you, guys to.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Police do not create safety for many, many people across
this city and the state, police actually create and amplify violence.
And it is very important to speak about that reality
that many people have because it pushes up against the
conventional understanding of police who are seen to be people
who come to resolve violence. But I mean, you just
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look at the history of the NYPD and you see
that we have invested in a system that functions in
many ways to punish poor black and brown people across
this city and across the state, frankly, across this country.
And there are so many responsibilities we have given to
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police that frankly, should have nothing to do with their departments.
A homeless person is on a train, they do not
need a stranger with a gun to come and resolve
that situation. If you know, if somebody is jaywalking, if
somebody is surviving, you know, going through domestic violence if
there are so many different different situations that would be
far better handled by people trained to deal with those
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specific situations as opposed to an individual with a gun.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Hey, so this is unhinged to casually list off domestic
violence in the same sentence as jaywalking. This kind of
in and of itself diabolical in how much it downplays,
it kind of belittles the significance of that horrible offense.
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And it also really really just just betrays a mindset
that I think belongs to nowhere near a position of
responsibility for public safety. I mean, the idea that police
create danger they don't create safety is absurd. I'm totally
open to conversations about criminal justice reform, but especially when
you consider this in the context of Zoron just a
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few years ago tweeting abolish the police for queer liberation.
This clearly is a very radical guy at his heart
who does not believe in policing, when in reality, most
New Yorkers, even most minority New Yorkers, want more police,
not less, in their communities. Now, in his actual campaign
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website and agenda, so Ron claims he no longer supports
defunding the police, but I don't really think he's done
enough of a explanation on why he was so wrong
to ever believe in that position to actually kind of
assuage our concerns. I mean, I think it seems like
he's just saying now that he doesn't support it for
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political expediency, right. He knows it's an unpopular position, even
with Democrats, even with minority voters, So he's just taking
a different tune. But when you have such a long
track record years and years and years as such a
far left activist, I don't really think it's unbelievable to
just say, JK, I won't do that if you elect
me now and expect us to believe that, Like, that's
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not who you actually are, right, I think that's who
he actually is. And though I'm not a New Yorker,
it scares me for the people of New York. And
he actually had the opportunity to say, of course not,
of course I believe the police need to be involved
in domestic violence situations. Because the Washington Free Beacon requested
comment from him, to which he did not respond, so
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they write in a tweet, it's not entirely clear whether
Mom Donnie stands by it. His may or platform calls
to replace police with crisis responders and mental health cases,
but it does not define such cases, and the mam
donni campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
And whether he would prevent the police from responding to
reports of domestic violence. That's concerning to me, because you
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sure would think that it would be pretty easy to
jot off a statement saying, of course, if I'm the
next mayor of New York City, I will support the
police intervening in domestic violence cases and protecting battered women
or other people. It's not just women, but it is
primarily women. Yeah, not reassured. This is not my reassured face.
Based on the fact that he wouldn't reply to comment
(21:02):
for the story and as of this recording, I looked
to see if he had addressed this anywhere, and I
couldn't find it. He may have at some point, or
maybe he will in the future, But I mean, it
shouldn't be too much to say that, yes, I support
police arresting and intervening in domestic violence cases. Like what
are we even doing? How was that even a question?
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I don't understand how we got here. I don't understand
how we ever entered a politics where someone as radical
as him could be at all viewed as mainstream or electable.
It's kind of scary, honestly, but I think people need
to remember how deeply radical that twenty twenty moment was,
and it was kind of summed up funnily by this
tweet I encountered by a guy named Blake Flayton. He wrote,
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fun story. Oh it's actually not really fun story, but
fun story. When I was living in Brooklyn, I would
hear my super downstairs assault his girlfriend slash wife almost
every night. At the time, I was swallowing progressive propaganda
about not calling the police, so I called the landld,
a community safety service, the property manager and talk to
the neighbors to see if they would intervene. It kept happening,
so I eventually called the police and it stopped and
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the super was removed from the building. I'm glad I
did that, though I continue to feel guilt that I
waited so long. I mean, yeah, I'm glad he did
the right thing in the end and called the police.
But I guess maybe that tweet in this story sums
up the evolution that some people have had, where have
come to their senses a little bit on this stuff.
But Zo Ron I don't believe that he really has.
I just don't believe that he is now some moderate
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who will support the police and all that. I think
he's still that radical at heart. And given that he
may well be the next mayor of New York City
and that regardless, he is now a prominent face of
democratic politics, that really concerns me. What do you guys think?
Can you believe a mainstream politician actually suggested that not
police shouldn't get involved in domestic violence cases? That is
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absolutely wild. But here we are speaking of things that
are absolutely wild.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
We're going to talk.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
About some news that I still care a wout my
head around. Donald Trump has nominated a Twitter troll to
be an official US ambassador. Yes, seriously, take a listen
to this reporting from ABC News in Australia.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
A former Sydney local councilor turned conservative influencer and self
proclaimed alpha male has been named as Donald Trump's pick
for the US ambassador to Malaysia. North American correspondent Carrington
Clark joins US Now from Washington. Good morning, Carrington, what
do we know about Nick Adams?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Nick, Adams has risen to prominence here in the United States,
in part because Donald Trump has publicly endorsed two of
his books. But back in Australia, he served as a
deputy mayor in Ashfield, which is kind of the inner
west western suburbs of Sydney, and he had a colorful
political history there. The Liberal Party moved to suspend him
(23:59):
after he verbally insulted a local journalist about his attendance
at council meetings.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
He's moved to the.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
United States in twenty twelve and really attached himself to
the MAGA movement. He's become well known as a commentator,
as a motivational speaker, and he sells himself as an
alpha male who he says, eats rare steaks and likes
to go to the restaurant Hooters. Now he has taken
to social media today to thank the US President for
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nominating him for this prestigious role.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
The country that has given me so much. I am
humbled and honored to be in a position to give back.
I look forward to my confirmation process before esteemed senators.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
So this is absolutely wild to me because I have
followed Nick Adams for years on Twitter, because I've always
thought he was so extreme, so almost to the level
of parody of satire. What a goofball chud he was.
And he tweeted the most obnoxious things about what an
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alpha male he was, and how about women and all
this stuff. But I believed he was doing a bit
yet as a troll, like intentionally intentionally exaggerating and being
a troll. But Donald Trump apparently decided to reward that
and make a Twitter troll an official ambassador to the
United States. So I want to read you some of
(25:30):
his best tweets, some of his greatest hits from over
the years that some up the seriousness and character of
this individual. He wrote. It starts with Fortnite and boneless wings.
It ends with gender pronouns and communism. I will admit it.
I will stand on business. Boneless wings are better than
(25:51):
bone in wings. They soak up the sauce more and
they're just you get more meat. It's just chef's kiss.
And I will stand on that, even if it leads
a into communism. Here's some more tweets from Nick Adams.
I go to Hooters, I eat rare steaks, I lift
extremely heavyweights. I read the Bible every night. I am
pursued by copious amounts of women. I am wildly successful.
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I have the physique of a Greek god. I've an
IQ over one eighty. I'm extremely charismatic. They hate this,
And then in another tweet, he wrote, alphas don't need
to announce they are alpha's. Everyone just knows, even though
in his ex name he had in parentheses alpha male.
See how it has to be a bit, See how
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it's so like it's not even real. He's just a troll.
But he's also like an ideologically inconsistent and absurd troll
because he is tweeted for things like, for example, any
adult that needs to discuss sexuality with a kindergarteners a predator,
not a teacher, which okay, fine, yeah sure, But he
also tweeted this back in the eighties, how gender studies
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were done. And then it's a young young boy reading
play Boy that has nudes. He also tweeted if more
members of gen Z had been brought to Hooters as children,
I can guarantee we would have had a red wave
last night. That was after the twenty twenty two midterm elections.
He continued, I am sick and tired. Of beta males
and feminists trying to gilt alpha males out of eating
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at Hooters. There's absolutely nothing wrong with eating at Hooters
on a weekly basis, even with the family and kids.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say
that you probably shouldn't be okay with exposing kids to Hooters,
which is like extremely sexualized. If you're going to champion all,
anyone who sexualizes kids or exposes them to ideas about
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sexuality is terrible. I mean, I basically agree that they
shouldn't be exposed to this stuff, but you should at
least be somewhat consistent, and this guy is not. He
has a weird obsession with Hooters. He tweets about it
all the time. This is my personal favorite tweet of his.
Just boarded a flight. I got to my seat and
spread my legs wide, as I always do. I was
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immediately confronted by a wife and her husband in my row,
accusing me of man spreading and being inconsiderate as an
alpha male. I had no intention of apologizing or adjusting,
so I reclined my seat all the way back and
told them respectfully to get bent. Man's comfort is of
paramount importance. M Okay, well you just sound extremely inconsiderate
(28:21):
and obnoxious, if that's even a real story, which I
don't actually believe that it is for a second. So look,
I don't even want to talk too much about this
guy because he's just a clown, Like he's just an
obvious troll, like an engagement rage baiter. But obviously, look,
US ambassadorships are important, but not important. Some of them
are important to certain countries, but some of them are
(28:43):
like almost ceremonial gigs that don't involve that much of
substance or serious. But it's still really really, I mean,
the idea that the Trump administration would appoint this guy
to anything is embarrassing, but it just makes America look
like a joke. Why why would you do this just
(29:05):
patronage to reward somebody who's publicly slobbed on your knob
for years been sucked up to you. I mean, surely
you have people who have our supporters of you, who
you could put in your ceremonial positions that aren't utter
clowns and trolls. Like it's really it just comes off
as so unseerious. And when you consider the fact that
(29:26):
like we've covered it on the show. Really extreme people,
but really dodgy histories and pasts have been appointed to
actual jobs in this administration. It's just of a piece
with the broader trend of unseriousness, amateurness, and clownishness that
I think has unfortunately dogged the second Trump administration more
(29:46):
so than the first, and just Republican politics these days
in general. It's one thing to be anti elitist, anti
establishment and frankly, look, they've done a lot to earn
our score over the last several years, but you also
should still have some standard call me crazy. What do
you guys think? Do you support disappointment? Let me know
in the comments. All right, guys, that'll be it for
(30:07):
this episode of the Barad Versus Everyone podcast. Thank you
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