Episode 4- Hollywood Was A Mistake

Dan and Sam are back again to wallow in this week’s mire and muck. In this episode, we’re going to mansplain toxic masculinity. We’ll take apart white boy icon Louis CK’s “apologies” for inflicting the image of his middle-aged manhood on at least 5 women since 2002, and we’ll connect it to his greater comedic efforts to inflict the image of his manhood on all of us.

Next, we’ll check in with Senate hopeful Roy Moore and the biblical implications of his unrepentant pederasty.

After that, we’ll get technical and talk about Twitter’s decision to bestow the coveted blue verification check mark on Jason Kessler, the alt-right organizer behind the violent rally in Charlottesville this past summer. We’ll also try to investigate why Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, and his fellow capitalist futurists might not care about their fellow markets,er, I mean, humans.

In our next segment, we’ll leave the sex pests and neo-nazis behind and talk about the results of last week’s elections, including the DSA’s down-ballot victories, the DNC’s love of inexplicable advertising, and the liberal fetishization of marginalized identities. We’ll also go into the successful failson culture of DC consultants and election professionals like verrit founder Peter Daou and the vitezi rend’s very own Sebastian Gorka.

In the pop culture corner, we will critique the trailer for the upcoming newspaper blockbuster The Post and put it into context with the #resistance, Nixon nostalgia, and the slow, painful death of print media.

We’ll end with a few battle stories from our days playing youth football, and we’ll try to explain how a peculiar mix of misplaced aggression, masculine showboating, and bird droppings made us into the men we are today.

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Links:

Louis CK Sexual Misconduct Exposed:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html

Louis CK’s Non-Apology:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/television/louis-ck-statement.html

Tig Notaro on One Mississippi and Louis CK’s Role:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tig-notaro-louis-ck-needs-to-handle-his-sexual-misconduct-rumors

Gawker Allegations against Louis CK going back to 2012:
http://defamer.gawker.com/louis-c-k-will-call-you-up-to-talk-about-his-alleged-s-1687820755
http://gawker.com/5894527/which-beloved-comedian-likes-to-force-female-comics-to-watch-him-jerk-off?comment=48089921#comments

Twitter verifying Jason Kessler:
http://people.com/politics/twitter-suspends-verifying-accounts-white-supremacist-jason-kessler-blue-checkmark/

Jerry Moore on money and the DNC’s role in the Roy Moore allegations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/11/09/alabama-state-official-defends-roy-moore-citing-joseph-and-mary-they-became-parents-of-jesus/?utm_term=.e693fd2a9b14

Roy Moore discredits accusers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/roy-moore-alabama-senate.html

DSA candidates who won:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dsausa.org/15_dsa_members_elected

Revenge of the Obama Coalition:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/opinion/democrats-election-obama-coalition.html

Danica Roem’s issues-forward campaign: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/meet-danica-roem-virginias-first-transgender-elected-official/2017/11/08/18bd9250-c444-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html?utm_term=.a15b76b4ee39

John Ossoff’s insane ads and some background on DNC activities in Georgia’s 6th district:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/anatomy-of-a-propaganda-campaign
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/ghost-candidates-are-not-acceptable

The New York Times actually broke the Pentagon Papers:
https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/tom-hanks-meryl-streep-new-york-times-washington-post.php