November 6, 2025 • 37 mins
Left-wing TikTok influencers are leading a boycott against Sephora because of an "offensive" commercial featuring Mariah Carey. I break it down in this episode of the Brad vs Everyone podcast. Plus, leftist streaming star Hasan Piker praises a Democrat who fantasized about Republican children dying, and the controversial streamer "Sneako" is going viral for some wild rants about capitalism and Sharia Law.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sephorah really said you have you seen.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Their new ads?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Mariah Carey and Sephora released that It's Time ad openly
mocking the working class of this country.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm out a new TikTok boycott just kicked off, and
somehow this outrage is even dumber than last time. We're
going to break down the TikTok boycott against Sophora that somehow,
(00:33):
some for some reason involves Mariah Carrie, plus so much
more on today's episode of The Brad Versus Everyone Podcast,
my daily show where we take on the craziest ideas
from across the Internet and social media, all from an
independent political perspective. And up first, like I mentioned at
the top, we gotta check in with TikTok because the
(00:54):
folks over there, in particularly this time, the women, the
woke women of TikTok, are not coping well because Sephora
put out a holiday themed ad featuring Mariah Carey and
her famous Christmas song that has them crashing out and
I'm sorry, their tears are delicious. Like It's just the
outrage is so dumb, so pointless, so hysterical, so absurd.
(01:18):
I can't help but enjoy every second of it. First, though,
I mean, this is making big news. So we've got
media headlines like why are people boycotting Sephora? What to
know about controversial Mariah Carey ad in the Arizona Republic,
they report Mariah Carey released her annual November one social
media post heralding the coming of Christmas, but this year's
(01:39):
post and Adverseephora, has triggered an online backlash, with some
saying it's out of touch with the current economic and
political environment. I am disgusted by this ad, one commenter
wrote on Instagram. Now I'm just gonna show you this ad.
It might sound a little funny because I had to
remove the background music for copyright reasons, but I'm don't
(02:00):
you going to show you this horrific hate crime that
was inflicted upon America by Sephora and Mariah Carey that
is getting so much backlash, So you can see for
yourself why it's so horrible and oppressive.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Listen to this Halloween slid, But now it's.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Spilite.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Who's the thief?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Fusted bad news, Mariah Carey. The elves are striking this
year elf revenge for putting us through holiday hell Sanna's
help her quit I'm punning all this so I can
afford elf therapy.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's my blush.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Elf boy, your lipstick, I'm taking it. Christmas it's canceled.
No bells, no cheer, no glam bie, sweetie.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You can't cancel Christmas any last words.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, it's tough, can we not?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So that's right, Mariah Carey bust the ELFs strike by
turning him into a snowman. This is all very serious
and real and has intense political ramifications. Apparently I'm not kidding.
This is it. This is the ad that has people
(03:17):
crashing out on TikTok. We are talking millions of views,
hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of likes on videos acting
like they just did some sort of I don't know,
attack on the working class with this. A lot of
this does come from more socialist leading creators, and they're
acting like this was somehow meant as some attempt to
(03:39):
beat down the working class and enforce the rule of
capitalism or other nonsense. I mean, I can't even really
do them justice. The takes are so deranged here. So
I'm just going to play you a compilation I made
and we'll discuss as we go along. Let's look at
this now, but do before I show you it, like
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people crashing out on TikTok, because that's what we do here,
because y'all are a little sick like that and enjoy
watching me suffer.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Befoora really said, have you seen their new ad?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
It's the way I just love how we all just
watch that ad and that person interpret it as attack
or an f you am? I? Am I the crazy one?
Or did I just not? Personally? I didn't feel attacked
by the elf jokingly being turned into a snowman after
talking about going on destroy Like it's not that deep,
(04:42):
it's a joke, babe, But they feel so attacked and
they are promising to never spend money on Saphora ever
again a new ad. It's the way Saphora will never
get another dime from me after that commercial, like girl,
what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And Sephorah This is one of the most tone depth
advertisements we have seen in this entire year. And this
includes the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle thing.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I am I am a Saphora girlie, But you want
to pull this crap with me? Oh honey, no, I
just have to pause. They're still acting like the Sydney
Sweeney thing was unironically bad. Remember this was the American
Eagles gene commercial where this hot blonde, blue eyed actress
or whatever was like, I have great genes, I love
my American Eagle jeens or whatever, and they were like
(05:25):
Nazi eugenics. And they had like a multi day megaviral
meltdown about this on TikTok and they're saying, this is
the most tone deaf ad now that we've seen. So
first you were triggered by jeans, now you're triggered by elves.
It's like, none of this is that deep, and y'all
sound ridiculous. They are getting so pressed over things that
(05:47):
are so fundamentally inconsequential that I really just have a
hard time understanding it. Elves aren't real, y'all. They didn't
really break up a strike by like turning someone into
a snow first off, that would be kind of based regardless,
but they are applying a layer of like serious and
(06:10):
Marxist analysis to this, as you'll hear in some more
of these videos, that is just not called for because
it was clearly meant as a joke and it's like
a fictional scenario. I don't think they understand that people
don't always literally make everything serious and analyze it in
the most annoying way possible the way that they do.
(06:31):
I liked the commercial. I thought it was cute. Call
me crazy, call me evil villain. I don't know, Robert
barn if you want.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
I don't like the fact that they villainized an ELF
that specifically has lines in the script where he's saying,
we're striking because y'all put us through hell last season,
and I'm taking this thing of yours to sell it
to afford therapy in order to deal with the hell
that y'all put us through, and the subsequently is turned
(07:00):
into a snowman in response to that to save Christmas.
Like what I am I missing some Like what the.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I just love it. She's taking this so serious. She's like,
they villainized the ALF. Bitch, it's at ALF it's a joke,
it's a commercial. They villainized him. All he was doing
was taking stuff. That doesn't you mean stealing? Yeah, they
villainize the person who was robbing someone. Where are my pearls?
Where are my smelling salts? I'm gonna faint at this
(07:37):
horrific outrage. I can't with them. I absolutely cannot with them.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Go way to Corporate America, along with celebrity and multi
millionaire Mariah Carey, mock the fact that people are striking, boycotting,
and generally protesting the conditions under which we are all
being strangled.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I feel I feel like I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Comrades, we got to you.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You are, in fact losing your mind, just not in
the way that you think, because, first of all, Americans
are not striking. That's not a thing you and your
other unemployed friends on TikTok. Continuing to be unemployed is
not a strike. It's just called you being unemployed. Like,
(08:21):
is it a strike if you never had a job
in the first place, and if you have no intention
of going back to work ever. But then the idea
that like, yes, they were intending by joking about the
elf striking because of the conditions in Santaville or whatever.
They were intending to like shame and attack the working
(08:44):
class in this country for not being subservient enough to
the oligarchy. It's like they really weren't. It was a
joke about an elf and elves aren't real. I you
do not, in fact need to subject to everything to
your Marxist analysis, which is terrible and insane in its
own right. But like, regardless, yeah, you do need to
(09:08):
work harder in terms of not being crazy and not
being infuriating. That would be a good start for left
wing activists in my book at least, but they struggle
with that concept.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I'm out.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I saw that commercial. If you can call it that, well,
what are you good at call it? She's like, I
love how dramatic she is. She's cutting up her car.
She's like, oh, I'm out if you could even call
it a commercial. I just I love a dramatic bitch,
don't get me wrong. So I'm here for this one.
I take everything negative back. I said, I'm with you,
(09:47):
I'm with her.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah that ad was tone deaf, Yeah it was cringey,
but above all else, that ad was sain ash shit.
This is just so many things. But you know what
doesn't matter done. I'm officially breaking up a Sephora.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Did I just miss how this ad was so viciously mean?
Like it was just meant to be funny. She turned
the elf into a pumpkin, or not a pumpkin, a snowman.
It's like the whole thing is not serious. It was
so mean. Boy, these people are made of bubble wrap.
(10:28):
Like seriously, I almost pity them that they must have
led such coddled and sheltered lives to actually be at
the point where they can see an ad like that
and somehow be scandalized by it or think it's mean.
It's like, tell me you have no real problems without
telling me, because I genuinely can't imagine fixing my mouth
(10:49):
to get up there and be all worked up about this,
like I'm out ten out of ten for dramatic effect,
I will say, but there's a little more to this
as well. I think one is just another day that
ends in why a dumb outrage on TikTok. These people
are like offense offense archaeologists is afraid, I've heard, like
(11:09):
they go looking for tiny fragments to discover that they
can manufacture into some sort of reconstructed outrage because it
gets them attention, and then also because I think they're
bored the relative prosperity and comfort of modern life. Actually
they want to cosplay repressed work in class so bad,
(11:30):
But actually clearly they are not too repressed and being
worked to the bone if they have time to obsess
over a pointless, stupid crap like this all day. But
then finally, I think there's a little bit of a
deeper phenomenon here as well that applies not just to
this story, but to social media and people getting worked
up about stuff online as well. And that's that some
(11:51):
people and I actually this is understandable to me. It
is easier to focus on small, basically irrelevant, petty thing
like a commercial that hurt your fefees or whatever, then
it is to actually look in the face and think
about or grapple with these serious problems plaguing the world,
the constant inundation of our news feeds, with death and
(12:14):
despair and tragedy around the globe and even in our
own country. I think there may be a psychological coping
mechanism at play here where they want to fight against
a commercial from a makeup company and like make TikTok
essays about it. I literally saw one video that was
really really popular that was like seven minutes long dissecting
(12:39):
the commercial frame by frame. I think, to some extent
this is like true crime for woke people, or just
it's a hobby to them getting offended for no reason.
But then also I think it is to some extent
a coping mechanism, and that's that might be why we've
seen this particular kind of thing, I think take off
after Trump became pressed it in again. They're so unhappy
(13:02):
with what's going on around them in the world, and
they feel so powerless and helpless to change it all
that they're like, well, maybe we can bully a makeup
commercial into a makeup company into apologizing for a totally
anidyne commercial. Like maybe that's it. Maybe psychologically they are
coping by obsessing on tiny things they might they think
(13:22):
they might actually be able to change or effect. And
I'm not going to sit here and say that that's
therefore their right to crash out for no reason, or
to harass companies or smear them as like evil and
mean when they're not. But it maybe makes it a
little bit more understandable, and frankly leaves me feeling just
kind of pity for some of these women more than
(13:44):
anything else. I don't know, what do you guys think?
Let me know what you think in the comments to
make sure you subscribe like comment and all that. And
now we've got to check in with the left wing
streamer and YouTube and twitch star Hassan Piker, very controvert show,
left wing radical, because he just hit another low. This
(14:05):
is low even for him. I've talked about this on
my channel before. But the attorney general candidate who sent
texts fantasizing about murdering his Republican political opponents and even
about their kids dying in their mother's arms, Jay Jones.
He won. He actually won relatively comfortably in the end.
He won his race against a Republican, Jason Miaras for
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the Virginia Attorney general nomination. And that alone is bleak enough.
I did a whole video talking about how bleak I
find that to be. But now you have Hassan Piker
and one of his friends who might also be a
content creator. I didn't recognize him talking about how much
they actually love Jay Jones, and it's really sickening. Stuff
we already knew. Hassan loves violent rhetoric, loves violent extremism.
(14:52):
He has said all sorts of reprehensible things on that front,
but even this, it shocked me how open he was
with a He must feel very comfortable in the left
wing political media environment, just openly supporting unhinged violence, which
tells you something and it's not something good. But without
further ado, let's take a look at this clip I
want to break down from his son and one of
(15:14):
his buddies talking about how iconic they find Jay Jones
to be the candidate who fantasized about Republicans children being murdered.
Listen to this attorney general.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
My favorite politician in the country is the attorney general
in Virginia. J Jonah Jamison.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Baby Okay, j Jones?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Yeah, I love.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
That this guy again openly texted to a Republican. By
the way, so he is clearly crazy if he didn't
think those texts were going to leak about how he
thinks his other Republican opponents he really hates should be
shot in the head. In fact, he said he would
shoot them in the head over Paul Pott and I
(15:58):
think Hitler and then even fantasize about their kids being murdered,
and Hassan is like, ah, my new favorite, so iconic base,
let's go. And yet this guy is somehow a beloved
media darling even though that is so despicable. This guy
is influential to and listened to by millions of young
(16:20):
people every single day. This is a real problem, like
we are taking society off off a cliff towards civil
war with this kind of thing. But go off King
so funny, ha ha love that.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
That was my biggest lock when we were looking at
the text message when they first got released, and I
was like, I think liberals are gonna look at this
and go I don't give a voting for him.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
No, you well you were right about that. Hassan though,
that to me is a damning indictment of the Democratic
voter base, at least in Virginia, that enough of them
weren't willing to set partisanship aside and maybe vote for
Democrats for every other slot, but just leave that one blank,
or vote for the Republican for goodness sake. I don't know.
I know I would have if I still have in Virginia,
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but hey, I mean they sent the message that it
is okay to fantasize about your political opponents being murdered,
murdering your political opponents, and about their kids dying, and
then become the top law enforcement officer in your state.
That's the message they sent, and Hassan thinks that's amazing,
totally fine. Normal political analysts we have here.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
You cannot you cannot subject them to all this and
then be like, why won't you rebut j Jones, Yeah,
I found out so much great stuff about him. Yeah,
two bullets in the back of the dome?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Jones? Did you know the ha ha? So funny he
joked about shooting Republicans in the head. But it wasn't
a joke by the way when Jay Jones said it.
But Hassan here is joking about it. It's not like
we've just seen Charlie Kirk be murdered, not like Trump faced,
multiple assassination attempts, but so funny, who cares, it's not
even really bad whatever. Well, there's really only two excuses here,
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and both of them are not excuses at all. Two explanations.
One is that Hassan just thinks it's funny and thinks
it doesn't mean it and is like whatever, and that
at this point with where we're at in politics, is
so naive and so disqualifying. And two is that he
actually does believe it, and he knows Jay Jones does
kind of mean it, and Hassan does too. He doesn't care.
(18:18):
He thinks also thinks Republican should be shot in the head.
And honestly, given the context of Hassan's past violent commentary,
I kind of leaned towards that one at this point,
call me crazy. He got so he got dinged for
doing like one sixteen in a seventy.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Oh yeah, and he he.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Got community service, and his community service that he did
was volunteering for his own pack. Yeah. Respect, I did
love him. Yeah, So we should pause on that because
that did get overlooked, and for understandable reasons, because he
obviously fantasized about kids being murdered. That's a lot worse.
But what they're referencing here is true. Jay Jones had
(18:55):
speeding offenses that were like insane. I don't know if
the exact numbers right there, but he said one hundred
and seventeen in a seventy sorry not sorry, not even
getting into the corruption of doing your community service as
a volunteering for your own political pack. That's diabolical and
shouldn't count. But you probably shouldn't be the top law
enforcement official in your state if you've broken the laws
(19:18):
repeatedly and not like I got pulled over because I
was going eighty and a sixty five going one hundred
and seventeen miles an hour. Over one hundred and in
any kind of seventy, you're putting other people's lives at risk.
You're demonstrating callous disregard for the lives and safety of
your neighbors while violating the law. You probably shouldn't be
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attorney general. Call me crazy, call me insane for that
take if you've done that as an adult. Crazy. But
they're like, oh so based, Yeah, somebody could have died
a beg killed, But lol so Edgy, I love the guy.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
I like that he's also going for attorney general, which
is like, like, that's gotta be a dang on your
stainless reputation, is like the top cop, and he's like nope.
Liberals are like, uh nope, this administration cut our salaries.
If you're a federal worker or fired. Half of the
workforce that live in Virginia and then they've been starving
(20:15):
the Virginians for the past month and also doing you know,
decadent displays of like the Roaring twenties in mar A Lago,
and every liberal is like, no, I want j Jones.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, So this is interesting because it just shows you,
like what a sloppy propagandist is, Hassan is like, for example,
you've been starving Virginians for the last month. He's referring
to the food stamp freeze. But food stamps only stopped
going out in November, so it's only been a few
days since people haven't been able to access the benefits.
(20:49):
And also that's because Democrats shut down the government. Like
whether you support what they did or not, just unambiguously,
Republicans passed tried to pass budget authorization legislation clean reauthorization,
and Democrats withheld their votes and you need sixty votes
in the Senate. So Democrats shut down the government and
caused that. And I'm sorry, but like you, you don't
have to agree with necessarily the things Trump has done
(21:10):
to the federal workforce. And we could discuss all that.
What does that have to do with saying it's okay
to fantasize about kids being murdered. That just seems Oh, well,
they slashed federal jobs, so fair game to want to
murder their kids. Is the logic there in the room
with us. What even if you thought what they did
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to federal jobs was terrible and that hurt federal workers
and all this stuff, you still shouldn't be okay with
a politician wanting kids murdered. Those two things don't in
fact go together. What even I don't even understand how
he makes that leap.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
The energy you want to bring to the table hoping
Jennifer Gilber's children.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Children would die.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Yes, I've told you this before. Only when people feel
pain personally do they move on policies.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Gatling, Yeah, j Jones would send Republicans of conversation camps
I think, or like to re education camps.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Yeah, he would be on board with that.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, And Hassan likes that and thinks that's good. But
he's totally not an authoritarian psycho or a monster at all,
totally just a normal progressive. Yeah. Sure, he does give
off a little bit of a school shooter vibe, but
there's a confidence that I mean, if he didn't win
like this would still be funny.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
The fact that he won makes it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It makes it hilarious, and it makes it like a
lot cooler honestly, because, oh boy, I maybe I'm the
crazy one. I don't find it cool or hilarious that
Virginia Democrats elected as their attorney general somebody who wants
his political opponents dead and wants their kids to die
in their arms. I actually think that's the exact opposite
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of a message America should be sending right now. We
should be sending the message that we settle our differences
with ballots, not bullets, with the bait, not devastation and
destruction and destroying people's families and lives. After all, the
political violence we have seen, which I absolutely both Democrats
and Republicans have been targeted with it does happen in
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both directions. I think we've seen more of it from
the far left recently. But we should all be saying, like,
absolutely no to that, because that way lies madness and
civil war and destruction and so many innocent people being hurt.
But Hassan and his buddy here are like, uh huh,
so iconic, so cool this I mean, And yet all
(23:35):
of this is fine on Twitch by the way, people
were banned for like saying men can't be women or whatever,
But this is all fine, and this is their golden boy.
That's what's so crazy to me. This guy will continue
to get his puff interviews and profiles and mainstream media
because I guess they just aren't bothered by that. They're
not bothered by him openly supporting designated terror groups, so
(23:58):
I guess why would they be bothered by him thinking
it's funny for kids to be murdered. I think that's cool.
I think that's based. I don't know. Then again, like
Hassanas is the most fringe and horrifying person in the
mainstream left, but really his mirror image is Nick Quentas
on the far right, who is similarly violent and unhinged
(24:19):
and hateful, but frankly more so more blatant. And now
we're seeing people make excuses for him and defend him,
mainstream conservative movement and media. So everything is getting worse,
and I think these people are just taking our country
off a cliff real fast. But all I can do
is call it out, highlight it and spotlight it and
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say not me, We're gonna do it differently over here.
That's my take. Y'all have to let me know what
you think in the comments. Up next, one more story
we got to tackle today. Sneako, the controversial streamer and influencer,
has weighed in with his thoughts on political and economic themes,
and uh, he probably should not quit his day job
(25:04):
to become a news analyst or ineconomist because his latest
video critiquing capitalism, a clip that's getting a lot of
attention online, makes very little sense and contains a large
number of factual inaccuracies and incoherent claims. We're going to
take a look at it and I'll give you my thoughts.
(25:25):
Buckle up, and uh, let's take a look.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Talk like you literally just mentioned the wealth gap and
people call you a communist? You sell stupidness? Is you
sell stupid? Like these brain people have been like, yeah, capitalism,
capitalms so good? Yeah, capital so good, Capital's so good?
Who is it benefiting the most?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So I'll just pause here and say like, Okay, I
obviously don't think that having concerns about inequality makes you
literally a communist. I agree if people are shutting down
good faith debates about economic realities and inequality by calling
people commis that's bad. However, I'm actually not a big
believer that inequality is that big a deal. I think
(26:05):
what matters is people's objective absolute living standards, not relative
like Elon Musk's net valuation varies massively with the stock market,
but your life, and that means inequality is going up
and down, but your life doesn't change at all. I
don't really put a lot of stock in that. And
then this question of who is capitalism working for, I think,
(26:27):
I mean, he's going to go somewhere else with it.
But the truth about that, if you look at the data,
is the global poor and the lowest people in our
economic and social order have had their living standards and
working conditions and rates of starvation and hunger just slashed.
Billions of people have been lifted out of poverty since
just nineteen eighty because of the spread of global trade
(26:49):
and capitalism. So those are the biggest beneficiarys for sure.
And yes, a lot of people got rich, and in
some cases they may have done so in ways that
are bad or harmful, but in any cases they did
so by providing services and development and jobs and economic
progress to the world. And I don't begrudge them that
at all. But he has some other issues that he's
(27:10):
blaming on capitalism that I agree our issues. I just
don't think capitalism is the problem.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Listen to this, Oh oh, capitalism is the reason why
all our tax dollars go to fund bombs that go
on children in Palestine, the reason all our tax dollars,
majority of them go towards war.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well, so there's a couple points here. One is that
this is a factually an accurate claim. I do think
we spend too much on our military, too much on
foreign affairs, but it's not the majority of our tax dollars,
not even close. If you look at federal spending, that
is not a majority of our tax dollars. But then two,
(27:51):
is that what capitalism is. See, my understanding was that
capitalism was a system of privatized means of production with
free markets where people engage in voluntary transactions. Not when
the government confiscates your money and sends it to their
allies in the military industrial complex or overseas. That's not capitalism,
(28:16):
what I mean. I agree we do too much of that,
but don't blame capitalism for it.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
And who's the one benefiting from all of our our weapons.
Who's saying publicly, we need even more. We used all
your bombs. Send us more, Send us more. Capitalism. Yeah, capitalism, bro,
there's a clear problem. If you even say that, they
call you a comedy. This is stupid. Time to grow
up and have a real conversation.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, I again, I agree we shouldn't just call
people communists willy nilly and try to shut down conversations.
But I also think the flip side of that is
you should try to keep your conversations about this stuff
grounded in facts and correct definitions. And so far he
has totally not done. So not off to a great start.
Oh and we haven't even gotten to the part where
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he talks about Sharia law being good, which we will
come to.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
I talked to so many people today and the vlogging
on the stream. How much average debt do you think
gen Z holds through? Like five K, ten K, twenty K,
build ninety four dollars in debt you're starting in gen
Z is you were starting adulthood, you're starting getting negative
a hunt of k the average person. How are you
supposed to have a decent life now in America?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So I looked into that and that is not a
real number. That just comes from a survey where they
ask some people how much debt you have, and then
they extrapolated it. If you look at actual financial household
data from the Federal Reserve, and like actual serious economic data,
it's a lot less. Look at credit karma, other sources,
it's a lot less debt. And actually gen Z, I'll
(29:49):
put this graph on screen, has less debt than other generations.
So all the other generations are in much more debt
than gen Z. Actually, but he's making it sound like
are just buried in debt and a lot of Oftentimes
the biggest contribution to these debt figures are mortgages, which
is not even necessarily bad or harmful debt to have,
(30:10):
So it's just kind of a misleading stat to throw
out there.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
The average salary is what forty to fifty K.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
It's actually closer to seventy thousand, FYI.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
And you get interest on your debt because the capital,
oh capitalism was so good. What a fuck do you
have interest on your debt?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Well, because why would anyone just loan you money for free?
Like I don't if it is important that capital and
exists and that people for economic investments of all sorts,
and that you are able to borrow money sometimes when
you don't have it yet for a return on investment
down the line. But people aren't just gonna give you
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money and then you pay them back the exact same amount.
They've lost all that money in the interim and everything
they could have done with it, and the time value
of that money, and they've gained nothing. Then that's why
interest exists. Huh. Like you could argue interest rates are
too high, but to say, like, why does interest even exist?
Is just an uneducated.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
You see how usory screwing people over. You take out
some student loans, Say you take out sixty k, and
you do your payments all the time. By the time
you almost paid it off, you paid almost double of
what it initially was because the interest. Now that initial
sixty k debt has become one hundred and twenty k,
because some people are taking interest on it because of usury,
(31:34):
because of the capitalism that you dicks on so much.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
So this last point is particularly amusing to me because
I don't think he knows anything about student loan debt.
I did a lot of coverage and commentary on this issue.
It's almost all government loans owed to the government, and
much of it actually has subsidized below market interest rates.
Even then, nobody is profiting off of it because there
aren't companies, there aren't shareholders getting returns on investments. It's
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the Department of Education, and the money is going back
into the treasury. There's no profit. No one's taking that
money home. It's mostly just probably going to be wasted
elsewhere in the government. But yeah, it's not some get
rich scheme. It's almost exclusively done by the government, which
again is not what capitalism is. When the government is
controlling money and investments and resources, that is more socialistic
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on the spectrum. When free markets and private enterprise are
controlling markets and businesses, that's more capitalistic. Student loans are
almost exclusively and there's a small amount, like a couple
hundred billion of private loans, but then it's trillions of
government loans, so it's almost all the government. I just
don't think he knows very much. And I'm not one
of these people who says, like shut up and dribble,
(32:43):
influencers or athletes should never talk about politics, But I
do think your opinion isn't more useful or insightful in
any way. Just because you're you have some sort of
platform or skill in something else. And then too, you
still have to know your stuff. And too many of
them think that just because they're famous, therefore their opinion
is worthwhile. No, you actually have to do the legwork
(33:04):
to make it worthwhile. And so people should not look
to the likes of sneak O for their insight and
analysis on economic affairs when he has no idea what
he's talking about. Whether you agree with where he's coming
from or not, he just doesn't have the basic factual grounding. Yeah,
millions of young people are tuning into these streams and
having their worldview shaped by the perspective of somebody who
(33:27):
not only doesn't know what he's talking about when it
comes to the economy, but also apparently think Sharia law
sounds good, referring to Islamic law where women, in, gays,
and everyone under the sun. Basically anyone who doesn't subscribe
to hardcore Islam is viciously oppressed or even killed or stoned.
He's like, aha, based, there's no only fans in Sharia
(33:47):
law listen to this. I'm not even this is not
a caricature.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
He actually believes this right now, what's being demonized so
much as sharia law? But you know what prevents usury?
You know it prevents gambling, you know it prevents porn.
You know what prevents core option. You know what allows
for a fair government society, Sharia law. There's a lot
of things that people in the West don't like. They're like,
we want to have gay pride parades and okay, well yeah,
Scharialla doesn't allow for that. We want to have slot walks,
(34:12):
and we want to have the pink pussy walks. Okay,
schariallatas allowed for that. I can understand why it's not
compatible with Western society. Whenever they say sharia la is
not compatible Western society, it's because we parade around only
fans girls that we make them celebrities. It's because we
have gay pride parades. Yeah, Charia law is not going
to work with that system. So is it compatible? Probably not.
When they say it's not compatible western values, break it down.
(34:35):
What are Western values? Shooting the boot, drinking a beer
out of a shoe, doing a keg stand, wet t
shirt contests, hot dogs, and tailgates? Like, what are Western values?
What are they? People love to say that term, but
nobody really breaks it down. So no, shari la probably
isn't compatible with the Western values and the Western society
as it stands. But I think a lot of people
(34:56):
don't even look into what it is. They demonize that
word so much, but look at the problems.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, they demonize it because it's evil, because women are
viciously repressed, because gays are stoned to death. There's not
about can you have gay pride parades, which, by the way,
actually free speech and freedom of assembly and expression are
good things. So it's good that you are allowed in
a free society to have gay pride parades, whether people
agree with it or not. And yeah, the Western values
(35:22):
he seems to disdain are things like freedom of speech,
freedom of religion. Try being Jewish or Christian, not Muslim
in a country with rigid Sharia law. By the way,
the idea that there's no corruption in those governments is
totally detached from reality. Take your pick of regimes in
the Middle East that are deeply corrupt and enrich themselves
(35:45):
but have Sharial law. And yeah, I'm sorry, you don't
have to like only fans or any of these things,
or gambling. You could advocate against them, You could even
how to advocate for them to be banned. But the
alternative being sharia law. Yeah no, if you want that,
then you hate America and you hate our values. You
hate pluralism, you hate freedom, you hate individualism, And there's
(36:07):
plenty of countries you could go live in that do
have it. Why not go a sneak o this streamer.
He has the resources to relocate. If it's so based,
if it's so awesome, go live in Saudi Arabia. No
one's stopping you. But don't try to say that that
shouldn't be stigmatized. And actually that's better than how we
do things here in America. Know it most certainly is not.
(36:28):
And if you actually believe that, then you hate America's
most fundamental values and should reconsider or relocate. That's my
take at least. Can't say I'm a big fan of
this sneak O guy from the little that I have
seen about him, But you guys will have to let
me know what you think in the comments below. Do
make sure subscribe like YadA YadA, yeah, and that will
(36:50):
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Speaker 6 (37:05):
H
Sephorah really said you have you seen.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Their new ads?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Mariah Carey and Sephora released that It's Time ad openly
mocking the working class of this country.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm out a new TikTok boycott just kicked off, and
somehow this outrage is even dumber than last time. We're
going to break down the TikTok boycott against Sophora that somehow,
(00:33):
some for some reason involves Mariah Carrie, plus so much
more on today's episode of The Brad Versus Everyone Podcast,
my daily show where we take on the craziest ideas
from across the Internet and social media, all from an
independent political perspective. And up first, like I mentioned at
the top, we gotta check in with TikTok because the
(00:54):
folks over there, in particularly this time, the women, the
woke women of TikTok, are not coping well because Sephora
put out a holiday themed ad featuring Mariah Carey and
her famous Christmas song that has them crashing out and
I'm sorry, their tears are delicious. Like It's just the
outrage is so dumb, so pointless, so hysterical, so absurd.
(01:18):
I can't help but enjoy every second of it. First, though,
I mean, this is making big news. So we've got
media headlines like why are people boycotting Sephora? What to
know about controversial Mariah Carey ad in the Arizona Republic,
they report Mariah Carey released her annual November one social
media post heralding the coming of Christmas, but this year's
(01:39):
post and Adverseephora, has triggered an online backlash, with some
saying it's out of touch with the current economic and
political environment. I am disgusted by this ad, one commenter
wrote on Instagram. Now I'm just gonna show you this ad.
It might sound a little funny because I had to
remove the background music for copyright reasons, but I'm don't
(02:00):
you going to show you this horrific hate crime that
was inflicted upon America by Sephora and Mariah Carey that
is getting so much backlash, So you can see for
yourself why it's so horrible and oppressive.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Listen to this Halloween slid, But now it's.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Spilite.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Who's the thief?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Fusted bad news, Mariah Carey. The elves are striking this
year elf revenge for putting us through holiday hell Sanna's
help her quit I'm punning all this so I can
afford elf therapy.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's my blush.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Elf boy, your lipstick, I'm taking it. Christmas it's canceled.
No bells, no cheer, no glam bie, sweetie.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You can't cancel Christmas any last words.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, it's tough, can we not?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So that's right, Mariah Carey bust the ELFs strike by
turning him into a snowman. This is all very serious
and real and has intense political ramifications. Apparently I'm not kidding.
This is it. This is the ad that has people
(03:17):
crashing out on TikTok. We are talking millions of views,
hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of likes on videos acting
like they just did some sort of I don't know,
attack on the working class with this. A lot of
this does come from more socialist leading creators, and they're
acting like this was somehow meant as some attempt to
(03:39):
beat down the working class and enforce the rule of
capitalism or other nonsense. I mean, I can't even really
do them justice. The takes are so deranged here. So
I'm just going to play you a compilation I made
and we'll discuss as we go along. Let's look at
this now, but do before I show you it, like
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(04:02):
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those is in the description. And now let's look at
people crashing out on TikTok, because that's what we do here,
because y'all are a little sick like that and enjoy
watching me suffer.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Befoora really said, have you seen their new ad?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
It's the way I just love how we all just
watch that ad and that person interpret it as attack
or an f you am? I? Am I the crazy one?
Or did I just not? Personally? I didn't feel attacked
by the elf jokingly being turned into a snowman after
talking about going on destroy Like it's not that deep,
(04:42):
it's a joke, babe, But they feel so attacked and
they are promising to never spend money on Saphora ever
again a new ad. It's the way Saphora will never
get another dime from me after that commercial, like girl,
what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And Sephorah This is one of the most tone depth
advertisements we have seen in this entire year. And this
includes the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle thing.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I am I am a Saphora girlie, But you want
to pull this crap with me? Oh honey, no, I
just have to pause. They're still acting like the Sydney
Sweeney thing was unironically bad. Remember this was the American
Eagles gene commercial where this hot blonde, blue eyed actress
or whatever was like, I have great genes, I love
my American Eagle jeens or whatever, and they were like
(05:25):
Nazi eugenics. And they had like a multi day megaviral
meltdown about this on TikTok and they're saying, this is
the most tone deaf ad now that we've seen. So
first you were triggered by jeans, now you're triggered by elves.
It's like, none of this is that deep, and y'all
sound ridiculous. They are getting so pressed over things that
(05:47):
are so fundamentally inconsequential that I really just have a
hard time understanding it. Elves aren't real, y'all. They didn't
really break up a strike by like turning someone into
a snow first off, that would be kind of based regardless,
but they are applying a layer of like serious and
(06:10):
Marxist analysis to this, as you'll hear in some more
of these videos, that is just not called for because
it was clearly meant as a joke and it's like
a fictional scenario. I don't think they understand that people
don't always literally make everything serious and analyze it in
the most annoying way possible the way that they do.
(06:31):
I liked the commercial. I thought it was cute. Call
me crazy, call me evil villain. I don't know, Robert
barn if you want.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
I don't like the fact that they villainized an ELF
that specifically has lines in the script where he's saying,
we're striking because y'all put us through hell last season,
and I'm taking this thing of yours to sell it
to afford therapy in order to deal with the hell
that y'all put us through, and the subsequently is turned
(07:00):
into a snowman in response to that to save Christmas.
Like what I am I missing some Like what the.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I just love it. She's taking this so serious. She's like,
they villainized the ALF. Bitch, it's at ALF it's a joke,
it's a commercial. They villainized him. All he was doing
was taking stuff. That doesn't you mean stealing? Yeah, they
villainize the person who was robbing someone. Where are my pearls?
Where are my smelling salts? I'm gonna faint at this
(07:37):
horrific outrage. I can't with them. I absolutely cannot with them.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Go way to Corporate America, along with celebrity and multi
millionaire Mariah Carey, mock the fact that people are striking, boycotting,
and generally protesting the conditions under which we are all
being strangled.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I feel I feel like I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Comrades, we got to you.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You are, in fact losing your mind, just not in
the way that you think, because, first of all, Americans
are not striking. That's not a thing you and your
other unemployed friends on TikTok. Continuing to be unemployed is
not a strike. It's just called you being unemployed. Like,
(08:21):
is it a strike if you never had a job
in the first place, and if you have no intention
of going back to work ever. But then the idea
that like, yes, they were intending by joking about the
elf striking because of the conditions in Santaville or whatever.
They were intending to like shame and attack the working
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class in this country for not being subservient enough to
the oligarchy. It's like they really weren't. It was a
joke about an elf and elves aren't real. I you
do not, in fact need to subject to everything to
your Marxist analysis, which is terrible and insane in its
own right. But like, regardless, yeah, you do need to
(09:08):
work harder in terms of not being crazy and not
being infuriating. That would be a good start for left
wing activists in my book at least, but they struggle
with that concept.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I'm out.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I saw that commercial. If you can call it that, well,
what are you good at call it? She's like, I
love how dramatic she is. She's cutting up her car.
She's like, oh, I'm out if you could even call
it a commercial. I just I love a dramatic bitch,
don't get me wrong. So I'm here for this one.
I take everything negative back. I said, I'm with you,
(09:47):
I'm with her.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah that ad was tone deaf, Yeah it was cringey,
but above all else, that ad was sain ash shit.
This is just so many things. But you know what
doesn't matter done. I'm officially breaking up a Sephora.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Did I just miss how this ad was so viciously mean?
Like it was just meant to be funny. She turned
the elf into a pumpkin, or not a pumpkin, a snowman.
It's like the whole thing is not serious. It was
so mean. Boy, these people are made of bubble wrap.
(10:28):
Like seriously, I almost pity them that they must have
led such coddled and sheltered lives to actually be at
the point where they can see an ad like that
and somehow be scandalized by it or think it's mean.
It's like, tell me you have no real problems without
telling me, because I genuinely can't imagine fixing my mouth
(10:49):
to get up there and be all worked up about this,
like I'm out ten out of ten for dramatic effect,
I will say, but there's a little more to this
as well. I think one is just another day that
ends in why a dumb outrage on TikTok. These people
are like offense offense archaeologists is afraid, I've heard, like
(11:09):
they go looking for tiny fragments to discover that they
can manufacture into some sort of reconstructed outrage because it
gets them attention, and then also because I think they're
bored the relative prosperity and comfort of modern life. Actually
they want to cosplay repressed work in class so bad,
(11:30):
But actually clearly they are not too repressed and being
worked to the bone if they have time to obsess
over a pointless, stupid crap like this all day. But
then finally, I think there's a little bit of a
deeper phenomenon here as well that applies not just to
this story, but to social media and people getting worked
up about stuff online as well. And that's that some
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people and I actually this is understandable to me. It
is easier to focus on small, basically irrelevant, petty thing
like a commercial that hurt your fefees or whatever, then
it is to actually look in the face and think
about or grapple with these serious problems plaguing the world,
the constant inundation of our news feeds, with death and
(12:14):
despair and tragedy around the globe and even in our
own country. I think there may be a psychological coping
mechanism at play here where they want to fight against
a commercial from a makeup company and like make TikTok
essays about it. I literally saw one video that was
really really popular that was like seven minutes long dissecting
(12:39):
the commercial frame by frame. I think, to some extent
this is like true crime for woke people, or just
it's a hobby to them getting offended for no reason.
But then also I think it is to some extent
a coping mechanism, and that's that might be why we've
seen this particular kind of thing, I think take off
after Trump became pressed it in again. They're so unhappy
(13:02):
with what's going on around them in the world, and
they feel so powerless and helpless to change it all
that they're like, well, maybe we can bully a makeup
commercial into a makeup company into apologizing for a totally
anidyne commercial. Like maybe that's it. Maybe psychologically they are
coping by obsessing on tiny things they might they think
(13:22):
they might actually be able to change or effect. And
I'm not going to sit here and say that that's
therefore their right to crash out for no reason, or
to harass companies or smear them as like evil and
mean when they're not. But it maybe makes it a
little bit more understandable, and frankly leaves me feeling just
kind of pity for some of these women more than
(13:44):
anything else. I don't know, what do you guys think?
Let me know what you think in the comments to
make sure you subscribe like comment and all that. And
now we've got to check in with the left wing
streamer and YouTube and twitch star Hassan Piker, very controvert show,
left wing radical, because he just hit another low. This
(14:05):
is low even for him. I've talked about this on
my channel before. But the attorney general candidate who sent
texts fantasizing about murdering his Republican political opponents and even
about their kids dying in their mother's arms, Jay Jones.
He won. He actually won relatively comfortably in the end.
He won his race against a Republican, Jason Miaras for
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the Virginia Attorney general nomination. And that alone is bleak enough.
I did a whole video talking about how bleak I
find that to be. But now you have Hassan Piker
and one of his friends who might also be a
content creator. I didn't recognize him talking about how much
they actually love Jay Jones, and it's really sickening. Stuff
we already knew. Hassan loves violent rhetoric, loves violent extremism.
(14:52):
He has said all sorts of reprehensible things on that front,
but even this, it shocked me how open he was
with a He must feel very comfortable in the left
wing political media environment, just openly supporting unhinged violence, which
tells you something and it's not something good. But without
further ado, let's take a look at this clip I
want to break down from his son and one of
(15:14):
his buddies talking about how iconic they find Jay Jones
to be the candidate who fantasized about Republicans children being murdered.
Listen to this attorney general.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
My favorite politician in the country is the attorney general
in Virginia. J Jonah Jamison.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Baby Okay, j Jones?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Yeah, I love.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
That this guy again openly texted to a Republican. By
the way, so he is clearly crazy if he didn't
think those texts were going to leak about how he
thinks his other Republican opponents he really hates should be
shot in the head. In fact, he said he would
shoot them in the head over Paul Pott and I
(15:58):
think Hitler and then even fantasize about their kids being murdered,
and Hassan is like, ah, my new favorite, so iconic base,
let's go. And yet this guy is somehow a beloved
media darling even though that is so despicable. This guy
is influential to and listened to by millions of young
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people every single day. This is a real problem, like
we are taking society off off a cliff towards civil
war with this kind of thing. But go off King
so funny, ha ha love that.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
That was my biggest lock when we were looking at
the text message when they first got released, and I
was like, I think liberals are gonna look at this
and go I don't give a voting for him.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
No, you well you were right about that. Hassan though,
that to me is a damning indictment of the Democratic
voter base, at least in Virginia, that enough of them
weren't willing to set partisanship aside and maybe vote for
Democrats for every other slot, but just leave that one blank,
or vote for the Republican for goodness sake. I don't know.
I know I would have if I still have in Virginia,
(17:00):
but hey, I mean they sent the message that it
is okay to fantasize about your political opponents being murdered,
murdering your political opponents, and about their kids dying, and
then become the top law enforcement officer in your state.
That's the message they sent, and Hassan thinks that's amazing,
totally fine. Normal political analysts we have here.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
You cannot you cannot subject them to all this and
then be like, why won't you rebut j Jones, Yeah,
I found out so much great stuff about him. Yeah,
two bullets in the back of the dome?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Jones? Did you know the ha ha? So funny he
joked about shooting Republicans in the head. But it wasn't
a joke by the way when Jay Jones said it.
But Hassan here is joking about it. It's not like
we've just seen Charlie Kirk be murdered, not like Trump faced,
multiple assassination attempts, but so funny, who cares, it's not
even really bad whatever. Well, there's really only two excuses here,
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and both of them are not excuses at all. Two explanations.
One is that Hassan just thinks it's funny and thinks
it doesn't mean it and is like whatever, and that
at this point with where we're at in politics, is
so naive and so disqualifying. And two is that he
actually does believe it, and he knows Jay Jones does
kind of mean it, and Hassan does too. He doesn't care.
(18:18):
He thinks also thinks Republican should be shot in the head.
And honestly, given the context of Hassan's past violent commentary,
I kind of leaned towards that one at this point,
call me crazy. He got so he got dinged for
doing like one sixteen in a seventy.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Oh yeah, and he he.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Got community service, and his community service that he did
was volunteering for his own pack. Yeah. Respect, I did
love him. Yeah, So we should pause on that because
that did get overlooked, and for understandable reasons, because he
obviously fantasized about kids being murdered. That's a lot worse.
But what they're referencing here is true. Jay Jones had
(18:55):
speeding offenses that were like insane. I don't know if
the exact numbers right there, but he said one hundred
and seventeen in a seventy sorry not sorry, not even
getting into the corruption of doing your community service as
a volunteering for your own political pack. That's diabolical and
shouldn't count. But you probably shouldn't be the top law
enforcement official in your state if you've broken the laws
(19:18):
repeatedly and not like I got pulled over because I
was going eighty and a sixty five going one hundred
and seventeen miles an hour. Over one hundred and in
any kind of seventy, you're putting other people's lives at risk.
You're demonstrating callous disregard for the lives and safety of
your neighbors while violating the law. You probably shouldn't be
(19:38):
attorney general. Call me crazy, call me insane for that
take if you've done that as an adult. Crazy. But
they're like, oh so based, Yeah, somebody could have died
a beg killed, But lol so Edgy, I love the guy.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
I like that he's also going for attorney general, which
is like, like, that's gotta be a dang on your
stainless reputation, is like the top cop, and he's like nope.
Liberals are like, uh nope, this administration cut our salaries.
If you're a federal worker or fired. Half of the
workforce that live in Virginia and then they've been starving
(20:15):
the Virginians for the past month and also doing you know,
decadent displays of like the Roaring twenties in mar A Lago,
and every liberal is like, no, I want j Jones.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, So this is interesting because it just shows you,
like what a sloppy propagandist is, Hassan is like, for example,
you've been starving Virginians for the last month. He's referring
to the food stamp freeze. But food stamps only stopped
going out in November, so it's only been a few
days since people haven't been able to access the benefits.
(20:49):
And also that's because Democrats shut down the government. Like
whether you support what they did or not, just unambiguously,
Republicans passed tried to pass budget authorization legislation clean reauthorization,
and Democrats withheld their votes and you need sixty votes
in the Senate. So Democrats shut down the government and
caused that. And I'm sorry, but like you, you don't
have to agree with necessarily the things Trump has done
(21:10):
to the federal workforce. And we could discuss all that.
What does that have to do with saying it's okay
to fantasize about kids being murdered. That just seems Oh, well,
they slashed federal jobs, so fair game to want to
murder their kids. Is the logic there in the room
with us. What even if you thought what they did
(21:31):
to federal jobs was terrible and that hurt federal workers
and all this stuff, you still shouldn't be okay with
a politician wanting kids murdered. Those two things don't in
fact go together. What even I don't even understand how
he makes that leap.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
The energy you want to bring to the table hoping
Jennifer Gilber's children.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Children would die.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Yes, I've told you this before. Only when people feel
pain personally do they move on policies.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Gatling, Yeah, j Jones would send Republicans of conversation camps
I think, or like to re education camps.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Yeah, he would be on board with that.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, And Hassan likes that and thinks that's good. But
he's totally not an authoritarian psycho or a monster at all,
totally just a normal progressive. Yeah. Sure, he does give
off a little bit of a school shooter vibe, but
there's a confidence that I mean, if he didn't win
like this would still be funny.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
The fact that he won makes it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It makes it hilarious, and it makes it like a
lot cooler honestly, because, oh boy, I maybe I'm the
crazy one. I don't find it cool or hilarious that
Virginia Democrats elected as their attorney general somebody who wants
his political opponents dead and wants their kids to die
in their arms. I actually think that's the exact opposite
(22:52):
of a message America should be sending right now. We
should be sending the message that we settle our differences
with ballots, not bullets, with the bait, not devastation and
destruction and destroying people's families and lives. After all, the
political violence we have seen, which I absolutely both Democrats
and Republicans have been targeted with it does happen in
(23:14):
both directions. I think we've seen more of it from
the far left recently. But we should all be saying, like,
absolutely no to that, because that way lies madness and
civil war and destruction and so many innocent people being hurt.
But Hassan and his buddy here are like, uh huh,
so iconic, so cool this I mean, And yet all
(23:35):
of this is fine on Twitch by the way, people
were banned for like saying men can't be women or whatever,
But this is all fine, and this is their golden boy.
That's what's so crazy to me. This guy will continue
to get his puff interviews and profiles and mainstream media
because I guess they just aren't bothered by that. They're
not bothered by him openly supporting designated terror groups, so
(23:58):
I guess why would they be bothered by him thinking
it's funny for kids to be murdered. I think that's cool.
I think that's based. I don't know. Then again, like
Hassanas is the most fringe and horrifying person in the
mainstream left, but really his mirror image is Nick Quentas
on the far right, who is similarly violent and unhinged
(24:19):
and hateful, but frankly more so more blatant. And now
we're seeing people make excuses for him and defend him,
mainstream conservative movement and media. So everything is getting worse,
and I think these people are just taking our country
off a cliff real fast. But all I can do
is call it out, highlight it and spotlight it and
(24:40):
say not me, We're gonna do it differently over here.
That's my take. Y'all have to let me know what
you think in the comments. Up next, one more story
we got to tackle today. Sneako, the controversial streamer and influencer,
has weighed in with his thoughts on political and economic themes,
and uh, he probably should not quit his day job
(25:04):
to become a news analyst or ineconomist because his latest
video critiquing capitalism, a clip that's getting a lot of
attention online, makes very little sense and contains a large
number of factual inaccuracies and incoherent claims. We're going to
take a look at it and I'll give you my thoughts.
(25:25):
Buckle up, and uh, let's take a look.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Talk like you literally just mentioned the wealth gap and
people call you a communist? You sell stupidness? Is you
sell stupid? Like these brain people have been like, yeah, capitalism,
capitalms so good? Yeah, capital so good, Capital's so good?
Who is it benefiting the most?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So I'll just pause here and say like, Okay, I
obviously don't think that having concerns about inequality makes you
literally a communist. I agree if people are shutting down
good faith debates about economic realities and inequality by calling
people commis that's bad. However, I'm actually not a big
believer that inequality is that big a deal. I think
(26:05):
what matters is people's objective absolute living standards, not relative
like Elon Musk's net valuation varies massively with the stock market,
but your life, and that means inequality is going up
and down, but your life doesn't change at all. I
don't really put a lot of stock in that. And
then this question of who is capitalism working for, I think,
(26:27):
I mean, he's going to go somewhere else with it.
But the truth about that, if you look at the data,
is the global poor and the lowest people in our
economic and social order have had their living standards and
working conditions and rates of starvation and hunger just slashed.
Billions of people have been lifted out of poverty since
just nineteen eighty because of the spread of global trade
(26:49):
and capitalism. So those are the biggest beneficiarys for sure.
And yes, a lot of people got rich, and in
some cases they may have done so in ways that
are bad or harmful, but in any cases they did
so by providing services and development and jobs and economic
progress to the world. And I don't begrudge them that
at all. But he has some other issues that he's
(27:10):
blaming on capitalism that I agree our issues. I just
don't think capitalism is the problem.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Listen to this, Oh oh, capitalism is the reason why
all our tax dollars go to fund bombs that go
on children in Palestine, the reason all our tax dollars,
majority of them go towards war.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well, so there's a couple points here. One is that
this is a factually an accurate claim. I do think
we spend too much on our military, too much on
foreign affairs, but it's not the majority of our tax dollars,
not even close. If you look at federal spending, that
is not a majority of our tax dollars. But then two,
(27:51):
is that what capitalism is. See, my understanding was that
capitalism was a system of privatized means of production with
free markets where people engage in voluntary transactions. Not when
the government confiscates your money and sends it to their
allies in the military industrial complex or overseas. That's not capitalism,
(28:16):
what I mean. I agree we do too much of that,
but don't blame capitalism for it.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
And who's the one benefiting from all of our our weapons.
Who's saying publicly, we need even more. We used all
your bombs. Send us more, Send us more. Capitalism. Yeah, capitalism, bro,
there's a clear problem. If you even say that, they
call you a comedy. This is stupid. Time to grow
up and have a real conversation.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, I again, I agree we shouldn't just call
people communists willy nilly and try to shut down conversations.
But I also think the flip side of that is
you should try to keep your conversations about this stuff
grounded in facts and correct definitions. And so far he
has totally not done. So not off to a great start.
Oh and we haven't even gotten to the part where
(29:05):
he talks about Sharia law being good, which we will
come to.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
I talked to so many people today and the vlogging
on the stream. How much average debt do you think
gen Z holds through? Like five K, ten K, twenty K,
build ninety four dollars in debt you're starting in gen
Z is you were starting adulthood, you're starting getting negative
a hunt of k the average person. How are you
supposed to have a decent life now in America?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So I looked into that and that is not a
real number. That just comes from a survey where they
ask some people how much debt you have, and then
they extrapolated it. If you look at actual financial household
data from the Federal Reserve, and like actual serious economic data,
it's a lot less. Look at credit karma, other sources,
it's a lot less debt. And actually gen Z, I'll
(29:49):
put this graph on screen, has less debt than other generations.
So all the other generations are in much more debt
than gen Z. Actually, but he's making it sound like
are just buried in debt and a lot of Oftentimes
the biggest contribution to these debt figures are mortgages, which
is not even necessarily bad or harmful debt to have,
(30:10):
So it's just kind of a misleading stat to throw
out there.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
The average salary is what forty to fifty K.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
It's actually closer to seventy thousand, FYI.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
And you get interest on your debt because the capital,
oh capitalism was so good. What a fuck do you
have interest on your debt?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Well, because why would anyone just loan you money for free?
Like I don't if it is important that capital and
exists and that people for economic investments of all sorts,
and that you are able to borrow money sometimes when
you don't have it yet for a return on investment
down the line. But people aren't just gonna give you
(30:51):
money and then you pay them back the exact same amount.
They've lost all that money in the interim and everything
they could have done with it, and the time value
of that money, and they've gained nothing. Then that's why
interest exists. Huh. Like you could argue interest rates are
too high, but to say, like, why does interest even exist?
Is just an uneducated.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
You see how usory screwing people over. You take out
some student loans, Say you take out sixty k, and
you do your payments all the time. By the time
you almost paid it off, you paid almost double of
what it initially was because the interest. Now that initial
sixty k debt has become one hundred and twenty k,
because some people are taking interest on it because of usury,
(31:34):
because of the capitalism that you dicks on so much.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
So this last point is particularly amusing to me because
I don't think he knows anything about student loan debt.
I did a lot of coverage and commentary on this issue.
It's almost all government loans owed to the government, and
much of it actually has subsidized below market interest rates.
Even then, nobody is profiting off of it because there
aren't companies, there aren't shareholders getting returns on investments. It's
(32:00):
the Department of Education, and the money is going back
into the treasury. There's no profit. No one's taking that
money home. It's mostly just probably going to be wasted
elsewhere in the government. But yeah, it's not some get
rich scheme. It's almost exclusively done by the government, which
again is not what capitalism is. When the government is
controlling money and investments and resources, that is more socialistic
(32:23):
on the spectrum. When free markets and private enterprise are
controlling markets and businesses, that's more capitalistic. Student loans are
almost exclusively and there's a small amount, like a couple
hundred billion of private loans, but then it's trillions of
government loans, so it's almost all the government. I just
don't think he knows very much. And I'm not one
of these people who says, like shut up and dribble,
(32:43):
influencers or athletes should never talk about politics, But I
do think your opinion isn't more useful or insightful in
any way. Just because you're you have some sort of
platform or skill in something else. And then too, you
still have to know your stuff. And too many of
them think that just because they're famous, therefore their opinion
is worthwhile. No, you actually have to do the legwork
(33:04):
to make it worthwhile. And so people should not look
to the likes of sneak O for their insight and
analysis on economic affairs when he has no idea what
he's talking about. Whether you agree with where he's coming
from or not, he just doesn't have the basic factual grounding. Yeah,
millions of young people are tuning into these streams and
having their worldview shaped by the perspective of somebody who
(33:27):
not only doesn't know what he's talking about when it
comes to the economy, but also apparently think Sharia law
sounds good, referring to Islamic law where women, in, gays,
and everyone under the sun. Basically anyone who doesn't subscribe
to hardcore Islam is viciously oppressed or even killed or stoned.
He's like, aha, based, there's no only fans in Sharia
(33:47):
law listen to this. I'm not even this is not
a caricature.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
He actually believes this right now, what's being demonized so
much as sharia law? But you know what prevents usury?
You know it prevents gambling, you know it prevents porn.
You know what prevents core option. You know what allows
for a fair government society, Sharia law. There's a lot
of things that people in the West don't like. They're like,
we want to have gay pride parades and okay, well yeah,
Scharialla doesn't allow for that. We want to have slot walks,
(34:12):
and we want to have the pink pussy walks. Okay,
schariallatas allowed for that. I can understand why it's not
compatible with Western society. Whenever they say sharia la is
not compatible Western society, it's because we parade around only
fans girls that we make them celebrities. It's because we
have gay pride parades. Yeah, Charia law is not going
to work with that system. So is it compatible? Probably not.
When they say it's not compatible western values, break it down.
(34:35):
What are Western values? Shooting the boot, drinking a beer
out of a shoe, doing a keg stand, wet t
shirt contests, hot dogs, and tailgates? Like, what are Western values?
What are they? People love to say that term, but
nobody really breaks it down. So no, shari la probably
isn't compatible with the Western values and the Western society
as it stands. But I think a lot of people
(34:56):
don't even look into what it is. They demonize that
word so much, but look at the problems.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, they demonize it because it's evil, because women are
viciously repressed, because gays are stoned to death. There's not
about can you have gay pride parades, which, by the way,
actually free speech and freedom of assembly and expression are
good things. So it's good that you are allowed in
a free society to have gay pride parades, whether people
agree with it or not. And yeah, the Western values
(35:22):
he seems to disdain are things like freedom of speech,
freedom of religion. Try being Jewish or Christian, not Muslim
in a country with rigid Sharia law. By the way,
the idea that there's no corruption in those governments is
totally detached from reality. Take your pick of regimes in
the Middle East that are deeply corrupt and enrich themselves
(35:45):
but have Sharial law. And yeah, I'm sorry, you don't
have to like only fans or any of these things,
or gambling. You could advocate against them, You could even
how to advocate for them to be banned. But the
alternative being sharia law. Yeah no, if you want that,
then you hate America and you hate our values. You
hate pluralism, you hate freedom, you hate individualism, And there's
(36:07):
plenty of countries you could go live in that do
have it. Why not go a sneak o this streamer.
He has the resources to relocate. If it's so based,
if it's so awesome, go live in Saudi Arabia. No
one's stopping you. But don't try to say that that
shouldn't be stigmatized. And actually that's better than how we
do things here in America. Know it most certainly is not.
(36:28):
And if you actually believe that, then you hate America's
most fundamental values and should reconsider or relocate. That's my
take at least. Can't say I'm a big fan of
this sneak O guy from the little that I have
seen about him, But you guys will have to let
me know what you think in the comments below. Do
make sure subscribe like YadA YadA, yeah, and that will
(36:50):
be it, guys for today's episode of the Brad Versus
Everyone Podcast. Thanks so much for tuning in, Do rate
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