Yannis Pappas Hour - Post Apu Apocalypse

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

Everything has gone right wing, community notes have won over fact checkers and more!

What's up everybody? Welcome to the YP hour. I am your host, Giannis Papas. Good to see you. I hope you guys all had a first good week after the new year. You're having a better week right now than Denmark, who's very nervous they're going to lose Greenland. Looks like we're changing our America First policy to an America First policy meaning you're gonna become a part of America first. I'm talking to you Panama Canal. I'm talking to you Greenland. We want cha. We want cha. Just like Putin wants Ukraine. What he said? Oh it's the apple of his eye. Well guess what? I think Donald Trump wants Greenland and he wants to give it to the Hebrew nation. He wants to do something with Greenland because he wants it bad and he's been talking about

and threatening Denmark. He's threatened in Canada. He's threatened in Panama. He's threatened in NATO. He wants them to pay 5% of their budget to military purposes. He's threatened everybody. He's threatened in Hamas. He says if the hostages are not released by the time he's inauguration, it's going to be all hell to pay. He is threatening everybody. Things are a change and cultural shifts are changing. McDonald's is doing away with DEI after the court ruling.

They're re-examining their DEI requirements. Everything is just going right wing, including jokes at the Golden Globes, which I did not watch, but Nikki Glaser did an amazing job. She's a friend of mine. Congratulations Nikki. And apparently wine gives you cancer. Every single week there's another thing that gives you cancer. Let me just tell you something real quick here folks. You know what gives you cancer? Processed foods, sugar, fake stuff, and things that you do way too much of,

including jerking off. This is the YP Hour. Stick around. So I have no idea if this is true or not because they go back and forth coffee's good coffee's bad now we're at the coffee's good point you don't know which lobby is telling you what you don't know what's going on like we we found out the Uber lobby was pushing for this congestion toll in New York City which is an imitation of the London toll which is nine bucks. Nine bucks to get into to say. If you want to get into the city you got to pay nine bucks now but Uber doesn't have to pay that. They pay like a dollar 50. And we found out there was an Uber lobby

that was pushing for that, because they want people to be more dependent on Ubers and not bring their cars to the city. Because everyone wants to keep making money because there ain't no end to up. There ain't no end to down either. There ain't no end to down. There ain't really no end to the sides either. There ain't no end to down. There ain't really no end to the

sides either. There's no end. We haven't found the end of the universe. We don't know. There's no end. We haven't felt any limit on our brains either. We don't know. I do know that the placebo effect does work, okay? Because I just took a CBD with Jesse and we both feel so good. So relaxed. Oh man, I feel so relaxed. Why don't they just call CBD what it really is? Bullshit? Yeah, no, just call it like it's, you know what it is? It's non-alcoholic beer. You get the dry mouth a little bit. It's an old duals. Yeah, it's an old duals. It's an old duals for weed, but you know old duals. It's an old duals for weed. But you know, we don't like the psychoactive stuff

because make no mistake, we got adult responsibilities. The anxiety was bad when I was a teenager, but I think part of the anxiety being bad was because we lived in New York City. Maybe if we were doing it just on a mountain, holding each other's feet. Oh, maybe. We would've been fine.

I mean, like, can you just feel the energy flowing through me? Yeah, you're the life force flowing. We're all connected. You feel this grass. That might have been different. I think we didn't feel safe to begin with. And I think the weed just made us think more about what we were already thinking about.

That's what I think. That's why I think weed makes people paranoid. Yeah, smoking that blunt outside of Bodega is probably not the best. No, or just sitting by the Yeah, smoking a blunt outside of Bodega is probably not the best. No, or just sitting by the parks, smoking a blunt, you know, and just like anyone can come at any moment. That's already in your mind.

I think what weed does is just brings your thinking. It's like steroids for thinking. It's like taking thought steroids, and you're just going there and it's going like, oh, you were thinking about this before, now here you're gonna be thinking about this tenfold. You had power before with that bat, now you have tenfold that power.

So if you're already nervous, it's gonna make you more nervous. So that's all I think it is. And I think CBD is just an oh, duals. That's what's going on. So we took a CBD, I don't know. But I think what really people need is to just constantly be told they're

being in a new drug test for whatever they have. That's what they need to be told because at least 30-40% of them will get better and that's just the power of the mind right there. Whatever you tell yourself is what it is. The world in your brain is your own canvas and you have to do what you want with it. So if you just drink the alcohol and say to yourself, this is vitamins, you'll feel better. That's what I do. That's what I do. I have a spiked seltzer and I tell myself, these are vitamins and I feel better and that's all you have to do. But the US Surgeon General has

issued an advisory warning about the risk of cancer to be included on alcoholic beverages, given the conclusive evidence on the cancer risk because of consumption. But what they also always fail to mention, but they always do it in the fine print at the bottom, there's obesity in there. So it's the third leading preventable cause

behind tobacco and obesity. So get on Zin so you're off tobacco. Get on Wigovie so you lose some weight. And enjoy your Guinness. It's responsible for 100 hundred thousand cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States. That is not that many. That is not that many in the 300 millions of people.

Greater than the 13,500 alcohol associated traffic crash fatalities per year. But here's the thing, those 13,500 alcohol associated traffic crashes kill other people. When you're drinking, you're just killing yourself slowly. How can you tell this, you think, I mean, what are we going to do with Irish people? I mean, this is definitely from the therapist lobby because you're trying to take away what I call Irish therapy, where they just pour it on the wounds.

You know how when you pour alcohol on the wounds, it just cleans it? That's what they do. They pour it on the wounds. Don't do this to the Irish people. Don't do that. That's not nice. Yeah, I'm going to therapy now because I don't want cancer.

Don't scare people like that. So this link has been there since the 80s. It came to light in the 80s and it became clearer over time. Research shows more than 740,000 cancer cases could be attributed to alcohol use in 2020. The American public, however, is largely unaware of the risk. Let me just be honest, 740,000, not that many. It's under a million. So what are all these people? 67 and they get cancer, 72 and they get cancer. I mean who's gonna give up their drinks that they needed in those 67

years to live into the 80s and 90s and put a diaper on? Sometimes you just got to understand some people don't want to get to applesauce time. Some people just don't want applesauce. That's it. And it is what it is. This doesn't seem like our biggest problem. This is definitely not our biggest problem because you know what I see on this list is obesity, but I'm going, what is causing the obesity in America?

Why? What is it? What is it? Is it just people's choices that they can eat as much as they want? Or is it the enticing addictive properties of processed garbage that is made into chicken nuggets that's got the poor population just with diabetes and cancer all the time?

I want to see a study that says this is these are the questions people answered when they came in for cancer and this is how often they ate fast food. How can alcohol which been been around for thousands of years be more dangerous to then a processed food which has only been around for what a hundred years? At most so how could that be so how could that be so I don't think it is I just think that it's a lie I don't think alcohol causes problems I don't think the biggest risk to alcohol

is cancer I think the biggest risk is peeing on your ex-girlfriend's door, banging on it, telling her you love her. That's what happened to me. We've all been there. We've been there in college. Yeah, I didn't pee on her door actually, but I did bang on it with my roommate at the time, pulling me back saying don't do it. And I'm like, ah, ah, ah, ah. Thank God she was away for the weekend. I mean, thank God, but I'm banging on her door. We didn't even know she wasn't home. I was so hammered.

We got drunk with a Russian neighbor who was probably a spy. And, cause I went to school in D.C. And then I went into the hallway and peed into the hallway of an apartment building. Oh, it was in the inside. Yeah. You peed on the inside.

I peed on, I just took my dick out and peed. Oh boy. Yeah, I was a mess. Some feelings came out. So that's a bigger risk, right? You are an emotional drunk. Texting and saying you up is a risk of drinking. I don't drink to the point where anything happens anymore.

After two, I'm just like, I've had enough. Yeah, nice glass of wine, you know, beer. Yeah, getting drunk doesn't do anything for me, Mark. It just doesn't do anything for me. I'm not into the drunk, I'm not into the hangover, I'm not into anything. I'm into CBD and placebo effect, that's it. They could come up with a natural Xanax replacement

that has no side effects. Why don't they work on that? They do, they have it. What is it? Jesus. Jesus is good, but it's not as good as a Xanax. That's the problem. That would be a great advertisement for Xanax. Jesus is good, but not as good as Xanax. But meditation and prayer works, but it doesn't have that same effect that a Zanny bar has. And I've only took a Zannex once, but it was the best feeling I've ever had in my entire

life. See, I hate that feeling. You like it? What do you hate about it? I hate like the wobbly legs, the disconnected from your body. Well, what are you doing? Trying to play water polo while you're on a Zanny? Yeah.

Well, that's the problem. You're not supposed to take a Zanny and go to the gym. Like, what if I have to run? You're not supposed to run. You're supposed to take it when. Like, what if I have to run? You're not supposed to run. You're supposed to take it when you're on the couch, you put on a comedy special, and then you're just in the greatest place. I didn't like it.

I loved it. But, you know, anxiety protects you. I do have anxiety like most people, and I am more anxious of getting addicted, so I would, you know, they don't even give you Zanis anymore, but I would never even take a Zanis because I'd be so scared about getting addicted to it, you know, because it's so easy to get addicted to.

Like painkillers, they just feel too good. They work too good. Is it an opioid? It's, no, it's a benzo. Yeah, it's a benzo, it's the best one. It's the most addictive one. Clonapin is also, it's a benzo. Yeah, it's a benzo. It's the best one. It's the most addictive one. Clonopin is also, it's not as addictive. That's why now I think they look to prescribe clonopins

more than Xanax. So those opioids are just off the market, right? Like which ones? Oxycontin. That was the big one, right? I don't know. I mean, for painkillers, the painkillers is the oxys. I don't know if those, I've never taken one of those.

Because those devastated the country. Yeah. I mean, the OxyContin thing was bad. Yeah, sometimes things are too good. And it's funny when you consume something that's too good, you know, you just, you want more of it. There is a such thing as too good, unfortunately. That's what lets you know we're not supposed

to feel too good here. It's supposed to be, you're supposed to be uncomfortable to balance yourself out because you can't just be chasing Zanny highs. You can't do it. You can't do it. But if they can come up with something, yeah, doctors sometimes prescribe opioid medications to manage and treat pain. Oxycodone is still there, Oxycontin, Perk- Oh some perks, Vicodins and Narcos. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm getting excited. I've never tried one. I've never tried one. It's probably a pretty sweet body high. Dude, my old landlord used to take those. I mean, he was a zombie, a walking zombie.

He used to take them all the time? Yeah, dude, you see them in the hallway, just delirious. Yeah, they're good. I mean, it's amazing because they're, you know, they're drugs made by legitimate drug dealers and they're really good. They're really, really good. But they also work really good for pain,

just like obviously, fentanyl works really good. But they also work really good for pain, just like, obviously, Fetanol works really good as an anesthesia, right? So, I mean, it's just what the people do. The people abuse it. People like to, some people just like to, you know how some people just like to a dab of ketchup on a fry? Some people just like to really drench

the burger and fries in ketchup. And some people just like to really drench the burger and fries in ketchup. And some people just like to drench a lot of the drugs on their life. That's their ketchup and that's what they do. But you got to address the root cause. And the root cause of all of this is that we got rid of a poo. I've noticed, I really have noticed, bro, since a poo's been off the symptoms, have you not noticed the decline in global affairs? It was all downhill. And mental health issues, and drug abuse,

and school shootings, and car mass murders since Apu. I mean, it's really it's like post Apu. It's a post Apu apocalypse is what we're living in right now. You know, and I really blame Hankazaria for for caving in after 32 years. But it's really. What year did that come out? Is it direct correlation? Look at that. It came out October 29th, 2018. It's almost perfect. Then what happened right after that? You know? That's right. COVID. That's right. Ukraine, Russia. Tensions. The writing was on the wall. The writing was on the wall, dude.

There was something so pure and good about Apu, but we got rid of him because of that racist accent and that it was a white guy playing it. But I guess also he didn't want the accent. So even an Indian guy on there doing that accent is not good because it's a poor representation of South Asian people. So that was it.

He had enough and that was that. And I liked the guy. I like Hari. He's a good guy. Good dude, good dude. He's a good guy. I would have did this too. I would have made a documentary.

I would have sent the problem with Mr. Panos and I would have talked about myself. But I get it, you don't want the whiteys doing any, you don't want anyone with pale skin making an accident with anyone with potentially darker skin. What they should have done is just made Apu, this is what they should have done. They should have made Apu have like a pigmentation deformity and he just got whiter and had an episode about that and then it would have been fine.

But we need to bring Appu back. You should have made a documentary on how there's no Greeks on the Simpsons. There are no Greeks anywhere. I mean there's no Greeks on the Simpsons. There's no representation. There's zero representation. This is bad dude. Appu was on there and he was a business owner, but now they're like, you know, they're all doctors and lawyers and crypto bros

and bankers and you know, and they're like CEOs, CEOs and surgeon generals and I don't know where Vivek's gonna end up, some where good, but most Indians I don't think had a problem with a poo. I mean we're throwing this back, but only because I've noticed that the world has gone to shit. We're living in a post-a-poo world,

and it has become an apocalypse. That's the title of the episode. Yeah, and he's sitting there going, you see what happens? That is what's going wrong. It's a problem, it's a problem. Now things are on the loose. Trump really has his leash off now. He really has his leash off. He feels like he has a mandate and

he's acting like it. I mean he's giving a speech and he's just throwing threats at everybody. He's threatening to expand and rename things. He wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America. He wants to, I think legitimately make Canada 51st day. He wants to unite that, which I don't think is bad. You know, he says Merry Christmas to all, including the wonderful soldiers of China. You just think he's either making jokes or trolling his opposition.

Yeah, pretty much. I don't know. Yeah, I think we've known him for a long time now. You don't take 90% of what he says seriously. I guess, but I mean. I mean, he's here for our entertainment, really. I guess, I guess you're right. So he wants to include a Merry Christmas

to the wonderful soldiers of China. Of course, I mean, come on, he starts with a joke. The guy, this guy knows what he's doing. Yeah, he knows what he's doing because they don't celebrate China. Who said, who are lovingly, but illegally operating the Panama Canal. He's so hard for comedians to do anything with

because he is very funny. I mean, Merry Christmas to all, including the wonderful soldiers of China who are illegally operating the Panama Canal, where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago. Always making, there's a pop-up. Sorry. Always making certain that the United States puts its billions of dollars in quote-unquote

repair money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about anything? Also to Governor Justin Trudeau, he called him Governor. I mean, he's a dick. Also to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose citizens' taxes are far too high. But if Canada was to become our 51st state, their taxes would be cut by more than 60%. Their businesses would immediately double in size. And they would be militarily protected like no other country anywhere in the world. Likewise to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for national security purposes.

We're just gonna take you. And who want the US to be there and we will. He's speaking for Greenland. Have the people of Greenland spoke? Can we find anything on what the people of Greenland are saying? I know Denmark is saying it's not for sale. And I think Trump's saying we'll use the military if

necessary. But Greenland is a mega country. Yeah I mean what's going on in Greenland? What do those Danish and Inuit people want? Do they want Target? Are they in to Costco? Would you like a Walmart? I know Donald Trump Jr.'s going there, but what are they saying about it? Let's see. Is there a big MAGA movement going on in Greenland? I think so, yeah.

Really? There's Proud Boys over there, there's a whole thing happening. We wanna know what's going on. Trump supports US expansion to Greenland, Canada. Right there, let's check out the Which one? The New York Times, but we're not gonna be able

to open it, right? Yeah, they're behind the paywall. Maybe, maybe I haven't. Yeah, yeah, okay, no, we're still here. Okay, okay. What about South America? Like, I think he watches his podcast, man. He might, we gave him those ideas.

We gave him those ideas, I mean, it's really funny. That was, we talked about going all the way down to the Panama, like right at the edge there. We talked about that, I mean, we really did talk about that. I mean, there is a chance this just could be one of the podcasts that he listens to. It just could be so. He's very media savvy.

It could be so. He could be like, all right, there's one small one that I like. Well, this guy's got good ideas and he just takes me literally. So he's not ruling out military force. So he is like having a plan to retake the Panama Canal, which was returned by treaty decades ago,

and acquire Greenland, which Mr. Trump said was necessary. So he really does wanna do it, or he's taking the piss. Jesse says he's taking the piss. So we will find out. Maybe they wanna be part of the US, you never know. I gotta admit, I'm just kind of excited to have him have the reins again, just because of how fun it is.

Just the president going up there and saying, we're invading Greenland is just wild. And it just gets us back to a really manic fun place. He's the entertainer in chief. Yeah, fun place. He's the entertainer in chief. Yeah, I mean, he's the entertainer in chief, and it's just gonna be fun, and you just don't know what to take seriously or whatnot. I think Americans know that you can only take

about 30% of what he says seriously, but maybe that works when Hamas hears it, and they go, you got hell to pay if you don't. Maybe they just, that type of thing just gets them nervous and they just release, I don't know, bones. I mean, what are we doing at this point? What is this release the hostages? Where are they?

Yeah, how many even left? Yeah, I mean, how many, he wants the Americans ones? Is that what he's saying? Yeah, there's still some American hostages. Yeah, well, I mean mean I think at this point It's safe to say And unfortunately They may not be with us anymore I hate to say it but he is throwing threats

And who knows what he'll act on. He also is throwing threats at New York, Kathy Hochul, saying he's gonna overturn the congestion tax that went on, the tolls that are going on. But I gotta tell you, pretty sweet for me, pretty sweet for me. I'm coming in from from Long Island. I mean there is no traffic, straight shot. People are getting on that train. So they're gonna have to fix up those trains again. And make sure people don't get pushed into the tracks. That's it.

Hamas currently is believed to have 101 hostages left, including seven Americans, at least three of whom are brought are thought to be dead So there's only four and Trump. He's long threatened repercussions for the terror group So for four people Trump is 78 78 year old guy So he's basically taking office at the same time that Biden took office. But Biden was 77, right? And now he's 81.

It is a completely different 77. It is. Well, maybe in different ways. You know, like Trump kinda reminds me of my dad a little bit in his late 70s and 80s, just unbridled and, you know know yelling things you know because you just there's no consequences really for you you're like I'm out of here soon so let me just go out with a bang so I don't know we'll see and it's

I guess what I'm saying is I'm curious about the Trump presidency because I want to see how this all works. I want to see how Dana White being on the board of Metta's community notes works. I want to see how Kid Rock having a cabinet position is gonna fly. I want to know what's gonna happen. We're gonna have so many good storylines coming out this year. You know, we could find out Tulsi Gabbard really does work for the Russians. Something's gonna come out big.

We could find out Vivek is in a trance. Something's happening. Oh, that would be, I would love that. We could find out that Dana White and Mark Zuckerberg are having an affair. Oh, even better. Yeah, because these two are bros. I mean, the transformation this finger sniffer

has gone through, I mean, it is really, I mean, this is, he is, I mean, he's dressed like Crystalia. I mean, this guy now is the coolest, look, he's got forearm muscles. Yeah, dude. I mean, he has made a transformation. The country transformation from like Left-wing comedy. This is like a post

this is like a Liberal comedian going on Rogan and then getting a big fan base and then just showing up at the next show with a different outfit This is a post Rogan outfit. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just a little bit more of a right-leaning audience. I Mean that is a free speech outfit He's got the chain out. Yeah. No more. No more ironic flannels. No more Thrift store shopping. He's got a nine hundred dollar watch on nine hundred thousand nine hundred thousand dollar watch on he's got a chain out Just like David like the port just like David Portnoy. David Portnoy, what's his name?

Yeah, that's it, right? No, yeah, the Barstool guy. Yeah, Barstool guy. I wanna say I can't wait to listen to a new podcast they have over at Barstool called For the Table. Is that right? Yeah. Also, I wanna remind you on January 18th,

History Hyenas will be doing a live podcast in Washington, D.C. Get your tickets at historyhyenasisback.com, Washington, D.C., January 18th. And January 14th, we will be in New York doing a live podcast at the Stand Comedy Club and Restaurant, so get your tickets for that. Whoops, my bad.

And so, also you can see me on the road in Chicago, in Tucson, in Boston, in Rochester, in San Diego. Tickets are on my website and some of those dates have been moved. My DC dates have been moved because we're doing the show January 18th. So I'll be back in DC to do stand-up another time. So check that out at patreon.com slash Yanis Papasour for a bonus episode, check that out.

But what is going on with Meta? They have decided that they want to do away with the fact checkers. Now I assume these fact checkers were working at newspapers because Washington Post just cut 4% of their staff. So maybe there's a correlation there. But Mark Zuckerberg is putting Dana White on the board of Metta, right?

And he is going, he says, much like X, similar to X, starting in the United States, there will no longer be fact checkers. We're going with community notes. So it's gonna be, there's going to be a lot more free speech on Facebook. So buckle up for the good, the bad, the ugly. Yeah. Yeah. Just remember it's the internet.

It's not a real place. Um, a lot of fact checkers can be punching up their resumes. Yeah. I mean, the fact checkers got to do stuff. I mean, look, where do you go as a fact checker? I don't know what you do as a fact checker. Who's hiring fact checkers? I don't know.

I don't know. If your official job title was fact checker, I don't know where you go after fact checker. But community notes is more of a democratic way to do it, right? Because how does the community note work? So it's like a lot of people get into it. I think it's people get to comment and you know and then it's like a collective. Whatever seems to be the rightest answer. Right, right. And how do they decide what's the rightest answer? I guess from the community. From the consensus. Enough people say it.

Yeah, that's my guess. Okay, well, you know, the majority's not always right. This is just difficult. It's just difficult, but I don't know how it's working on X, but I don't know. That's what they're gonna do. Are they gonna free the nipple?

That's the big question. Are they gonna free the nipple? Are you gonna be able to see some titties? That's what we wanna know. But I haven't been on Facebook in so long. It's also Instagram. Instagram, I haven't been on Instagram in a while, but I guess this is gonna be good for comedy,

maybe, in the algorithm, I don't know. For adult humor, I should say. I mean, Nate Bargatzee will be fine no matter what they do. But for, you know, the way adults speak in private, people, this could be good. But the fact checkers are going home. A lot of slashing is gonna be happening. I think a lot of slashing.

2025 is the year people are just gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of slashes. They're gonna come in, they're gonna slash the government, they're gonna slash spending, they're gonna slash jobs at these libertarian run kinda tech companies. Look what Elon did with X. He came in and he slashed 75% of the workforce.

75% of the workforce slashed down and it runs. It runs. Yeah, it runs. But people need jobs too. That's true. So like let's and it runs. It runs. Yeah, it runs. But people need jobs too. That's true. So like let's spread it around. You know, people need stuff. You know, I don't, I don't know.

Just I don't mind people going to work and pushing papers around or whatever. It's fine, it's fine, that's great. Or just like, you know, drifting off. Because if they're not, then they just like become comedians. And there's just too many of those. True, they start podcasts.

I mean, just the inflated amount of comedians, you got hot comedians, you got, I mean, hot women, you got rich people becoming comedians. Just, it's become a thing where like, it's just so much content, man, content about content. I mean, it's just, it's an a thing where like it's just so much content man content about content. I mean it's just It's it's it's an opinion driven talking economy Where everyone's just talking at each other

And I think most the majority of the audience of people who are listening to you also have a thing where they're talking That's right So it's like people who talk for a living listening to other people who talk for a living And a lot of the audiences of these people are people who want to are aspiring who talk for a living listening to other people who talk for a living. And a lot of the audiences of these people are people who want to, are aspiring talkers for a living. We all just talk for a living. We don't do for a living anymore. We talk for a living.

Because information has been flattened out. So all you have left is talkers. That's it. Because information is at the touch of your fingertips. You don't need experts anymore because you could just check anything. You got chat GPT, you got AI, so now we just have talkers.

Yeah, we just have talkers now. It's just talkers. It's like you gotta talk. This is not a good time to be an introvert. To really get your social skills up. If you wanna make money. Yeah, get your narcissism up. Your narcissism's gotta go up.

This is gonna condition just a nation of narcissists. It's gonna be unbelievable, dude. Unbelievable. We're already in there, but this is just going to accelerate it. So these next four years, it's like a fight that has been hyped up, and you want to see it. It's like Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, like you're just so curious

or more better, I think it would say Jake Paul versus Tyson. Nobody, people just tuned in for curiosity, right? It wasn't a great fight one way or the other. People just wanted to see if Mike Tyson could still be Mike Tyson and no, he couldn't. So it's really just curiosity. That's the main thing that is exciting me about the four years. I'm just fully curious because you know what, if a usual politician gets in there, you know what it's gonna be. But this is Trump on a second term,

knowing he's not gonna have another one and he's old. So he's just gonna be fully charged Donald Trump. He's fully charged now. But you've also noticed the vibe is different, right? Like there doesn't seem to be a lot of resistance. There's not a lot of resistance, there's a, everyone is shifting for the culture. Everyone's looking at the election as,

oh, the culture is not there anymore. Right. So you're not gonna be seeing a lot of commercials like we were seeing before. There's no Woman's Mars. There's no, yeah, it's just, because the cult people are just going, oh, most people aren't into this anymore.

Even at the Golden Globes, I mean, there was nothing political. Nothing political and nothing Wokey. Wokey's been done. She went up there and she cooked them, like Ricky a little bit, like a little less a little more tame but she did a perfect job they're probably gonna ask her every year she was great yeah she was great and she's a very funny person and she jokes about

herself so I'll just say since she's mainstream now and like she's gonna probably be doing a lot of Golden Globes stuff she's really her her Botox doctor was looking at that going, yes, yes, cause she is gonna be getting face shots. She looks good. She looks good. She's beautiful, she's funny. Congrats to Nikki. And she did a great job.

She did a really great job up there. So yeah, you know, you know that The previous policies are being overturned when you hear McDonald's is doing away with DEI If they're not doing it schools are turning their back from it it had a run man, it had a run it had a run and They went too far if they just stayed a little more silent, a little bit more moderate with it, a little quieter with it, but they got fascist with it.

And just like this reaction movement will do the same. It'll just become, they'll just be intolerant of different people. It just shows you how people go with the flow, right? Oh, this is in, DEI's in. We're in with that. Okay, now we're all gonna look like extras in Yellowstone. All right, let's get our flannels, our boots.

It's cool to be Republican. Let's go with that. It's just, nobody knows anything. It's just going with the trend. And the trend is the winds have, you gotta set your sail in the opposite direction, it seems like. So, McDonald said it's going to retire its practice of setting aspirational representation

goals. They're back to just hiring, back to just hiring unqualified people for anything else. They're back to, you're going to, I guess it's going to be kids and just people with GEDs. It's funny that they even had diversity. I guess stupid people, I shouldn't be making fun of them, right? They're good people. Yeah, of course.

Yeah. It's not even that easy a job. To work at McDonald's? Yeah, I think actually my job's easier than working at McDonald's, just as far as like the grind. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's a hard job. It's, just as far as like the grind. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's a hard job. It's a hard kitchen.

Yeah, it's a hard job. But definitely these are people who can't get hired for thinking, is what I'm saying. Maybe that's where the fact checkers will go. They'll work at McDonald's. Maybe they could work at McDonald's and lift the fries. So that's gonna be interesting to see the shift in that as well.

So this might be in the corporate offices as opposed to the restaurants, because they have a huge number of corporate employees. So the DEI initiatives in McDonald's might have been more in corporate than in the actual restaurant. Oh, right, maybe, but it doesn't say here, it doesn't really, oh, the change,

the way it refers to its diversity team to the global inclusion team and So, I don't know Global inclusion team now. They're back to capitalism, baby Now they're they've taken the bullshit veil off And been like look this DEI thing was really just to reach those markets anyway So now let's just be more honest about it and call it the global inclusion team. Can we get more people hooked on our garbage, on our absolute shit? So the changes were communicated by email and oh yeah, to restaurant

owners, operators, employees and suppliers. Yeah, so it is everyone. Amid a backlash against diversity focused initiatives and quote unquote woke policies that picked up momentum across corporate America. The list of companies that have backed away or adjusted such policies include Walmart. Okay, so they're just, they're realizing that across the country, most of the people at these companies go the other way.

If you're shopping at Walmart, you're not watching RuPaul's Drag Race. So Walmart's in there as well. Lowe's, John Deere, this is pretty predictable. Jack Daniels, Harley Davidson. Did they have diversity initiatives in the first place? Funny that they even tried. Yeah, it's funny that they tried. Conservative activist, Robbie Starbuck, has said many of the discarded diversity initiatives happened after he communicated plans to expose woke policies.

So that's what he's claiming. Starbucks contacted McDonald's to inquire about its policies. Oh, Starbucks, though he did not engage in conversation with the company. There have been other rollbacks enforced by the courts. A federal appeals court struck down NASDAQ rules designed to encourage more diverse company boards. The decision handed down by nine judges, blah, blah, blah, should not have approved the NASDAQ rule in 2021. So yeah, there's just a cultural shift going the other way

and people are kind of done with it. So in a couple of years, it's gonna be cool to be liberal again, is what's happened. There'll be a backlash and then it'll be cool to be liberal again. But right now, look, if you're Republican, enjoy your run, man. You guys shifted the culture back as far as mass media goes. They're

going, whoa, whoa, whoa, we didn't make it, let's go where the money is. And so that will reign for a couple of years until that goes too far as it always does. And when I say that it always does, it has already started by Andrew Tate announcing that he's going to run for prime minister of the United Kingdom. And that's how it starts. Right? That's how the yippies become the yippies Right. That's when you go too far You start with a Trump and then you end up with Andrew Tate

Saying he has serious Aspirations and he's got a new party called the bruv party But his bruv and he's got a new party called the Brough Party. But his Brough Party got suspended on X. What happened? What did he do? What did he do? What do you do to get suspended on X? Andrew Tate encountered issues with Elon Muck.

What do you have to do? Do you have to like do a video of burning a cross on someone's lawn? Like what? I've been on X and it's like you can say anything. Like what did he do? Was it a live murder video? What did he do? Let's see. He was suspended so the BRUV, shortly after launching his political party BRUV and announcing plans to run for prime minister, the party's official handle was abruptly suspended without explanation. Tate had shared the party's charter in a post.exe

promising to resign if he failed to fulfill his commitments and emphasizes his accountability. Following the suspension, the former kickboxer tagged Elon Musk in a post questioning the billionaire about the account's removal. After a short period, the bruv handle was restored, prompting Tate to thank Musk publicly in his reaction. They probably did it together. Reiterated his mission to bring greatness back to Britain. Musk clarified that he was unaware of the reason

behind the suspension, but confirmed the issue has been resolved. So maybe they just did like, hey man, let's get some press, suspend me, and then bring me back, because I'm making a run for the prime minister of the United. And this is how. Yeah, we shouldn't laugh at this. No, yeah, I know, but this, you have to laugh at it.

But this is how movements just end up always going too far, because you open the door, and it's just, that's what happens. And this is what humanity does. He might have a chance. Of course he's going to have a chance. It's because it's fame. Scary. Yeah. Well, is it?

We'll see. Maybe he'll do a great job. Maybe we'll learn that these people who have massive charisma and questionable ethical compasses based on their histories are great at politics. Maybe that. And I know there's someone watching going like, oh, the traditional politicians have a better moral compass.

That's a good point. Debatable. It's debatable. It's a good point. They definitely do have more formal education. That's for sure. They were definitely smarter before. It was definitely more of an elitist running things.

People used to snarl at the elitist, but being an elitist does come with exposure to education you know, and, and a higher tradition, a continual tradition of controlling the maniacs and barbarians. But now it looks like we're going to lazy, fair democracy on everything. Community notes, who's the most famous, you know, let the people decide. And I'm not so sure that'll work out, but maybe it will. Maybe the people do know best. Because as we know, the people are not easily fooled. They never are. So that's what's happening now.

That's what's going to happen. And without the fact checkers and just the community notes, Andrew Tate has an open lane to the highest office of Britain. Can we stop calling it Great Britain? It's just Britain now. So this is the era of the rise of digital influencers, my friend. This is the rise of the era of digital influencers. Celebrities from movies and TV are no longer famous the way that they were famous.

People are famous on the internet. Andrew Tate, one of the most famous people in the world, has never been on an American show or an American movie. And he's a global star on X. He's a global star on Instagram. He's a global star on Instagram. He's a global star on Facebook. He's a global star on what has become the new networks a couple of minutes at a time. The tech companies who not only run our entertainment, they run everything else as well. That's the difference between them and Hollywood is like they that's just one of

their octopus legs They got I mean Amazon is in everything healthcare retail Content I mean what else grocery stores groceries? I mean, we're just gonna get to this point where it'll be a capitalist orgy for a while.

So this is really, and I'll be right, I'll be end up right. I'm not great with numbers, but I am great with cultural predictions. It's gonna be an orgy for a little while. So, engage in the orgy. But then after the orgy, you're gonna end up, like we have previously, with then after the orgy, you're gonna end up like we have previously

with overreaching monopolies and absolute disappeared middle class. It's gonna be decimated, and it's gonna be like a lot, well, like a lot of, a lot more rich people, but a smaller percentage compared to a big mound of like poor people. And just because you're just gonna have to be working for Amazon and Amazon's just gonna be going

with the bottom line. So you're gonna get paid like shit. There's gonna be no more mom and pops that can compete with any of these guys because Trump is in bed with these guys and these guys are in bed with Trump because they love the money that's about to flow in because this is going to be a tech, this is where tech is getting its handcuffs off. No regulation on tech, they're all going free, they're not listening to the government anymore.

So these tech barons are going to rule our life like even more than they have been. And that is gonna be wild. And they have a superpower called artificial intelligence and now they have a mandate from the government to be hands off. And that's what really Elon Musk is doing. You know, it's like the robots and artificial intelligence are gonna take over and we wanna be involved

when that happens to rake in a lot of dough. They say they wanna make sure it's safe, but really they're gonna benefit so much. So get your Nvidia stock, get your Tesla stock, get your Google stock, that's it. Get rid of your Johnson and Johnson fucking 1983 stock, get rid of your fucking Pfizer stock because those people are not gonna be able

to allow to make medicine anymore. So the streets are gonna be filled of schizophrenic people just yelling and attacking you. There's gonna be a lot more of that because they're gonna be off their meds because they're all gonna be on vitamin D pills this is not financial advice do your own research do your own research but everyone is gonna be encouraged to take natural wheatgrass shots once Robert Kennedy jr. it's gonna go schizophrenia is caused by a calcium deficiency

and the people are going to be prescribed milk. And it's what's going to go that way for a little while. So it's going to be a little bit of an unbelievably dramatic show over the next four years. And I'm curious to see how it works out and maybe it works out better. Maybe people with psychiatric conditions just have some sort of mineral deficiency

and maybe that's what we'll find out, okay? Maybe vaccines do nothing except harm and cause autism and all this shit. We're about to find out because there's about to be a bunch of people not getting their kids vaccinated and there's gonna be a bunch of vaccines that are gonna be rolled back. So we're gonna find out. But one thing I can guarantee you is this next four years will not be moderate.

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