Full-Time Lurker Vic Fazio

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social One of my friends just asked me what I think about phones in schools and the Anxious Generation (I work in education/youth issues), and my first thought was "Boy do I have a podcast for you." Shared some of my own learnings and the episode!

Congrats, ZB! Will miss hearing you daily but hopefully Bo will let you back on the pod within the next 50 years.

Sometimes you simply must hand it to consultant vampires for doing this to him at a high cost politically and financially

Watched Tires season 2 and I really liked a lot of it, especially any scene with Steve Gerben. The weakest parts are when Shane Gillis just throws in an ‘edgy’ or racist joke, mainly cause it’s weak writing/a crutch, and he’s so much funnier when he’s not forcing shit.

this sounds insane on its face? voters do not closely follow legislation and policy but they are very aware of the image and vibes of the elected officials. if voters say “we think they are nerds who won’t stand up for themselves” that’s almost certainly what they mean

“youre goddam right im for ‘they/them’ theyre americans arent they?”

its really not that hard to flip this shit right on its head if you actually want to

Tanner McKee

Abysmal messaging. First, politicians address sports-related issues all the time. Second, trans people in sports has *already been handled* by leagues and communities. Every major sports body has criteria for trans athletes! Most communities do not give a shit. The problem is bigots ignoring that.

I'm the cousin of two of the guys you shouted out from the Phillies game and the guy whose name you forgot said thanks for the shoutout and he never actually told you his name so it's not on you haha!

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

Yeah and the logic makes no sense. Like what are these assholes actually fighting about? Seems like that should matter.

Watched Sully (2016) last night and it’s so clear that the entire Rehearsal Season 2 was based on that movie lol, not just the Sully episode. Love the idea that Nathan Fielder saw it and was like I have to take this concept to the extreme.

turns out giving ground on immigration and transphobia are not just morally bankrupt but also ineffective politically. if only there was some way to have known this beforehand

@bowulf.bsky.social Made this earlier this year when people were calling for ZB bingo in the chat and sent it via broken Twitter DMs. Hope this responds to your Ospreys calls for jokes and references from the last year!

I hope ZB does right by this person and reads their name out loud during the Ospreys.

[in the cadence of Honey, I Shrunk The Kids]

Summer, I Turned The Pretty

consenting to a shakedown from the pedophile president with an approval rating in the 30s is insane

On top of this being Islamophobic, I think it’s funny that his actual statement here is completely illegible like he can’t quite figure out what he’s accusing Zohran of.

Oh god just got to the end of the pod and I did not like the “is ZB leaving??” section!

really interesting that we don’t have a cultural panic about group think and intellectual homogeneity among the most powerful money men in the country. all the more interesting when a bunch of them have clearly lost their mind.

Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one

people are energized now, they’re angry now, they’re mobilizing in huge numbers now, and they want to see that energy and anger matched in congress. instead they get fundraising pitches and talk of the midterms while the dems execute their “keep your heads down” strategy and it’s just discordant.

A perfect opportunity to play the song!

@danpfeiffer.bsky.social listened to your interview with Mark Cuban he is a fucking moron lol. More airtime and control in Dem circles for these vapid, opportunistic billionaires, more of the same results.

“I don’t know that sheriff”

I just watched this episode of Poker Face

Bipartisan group of senators posing with Benjamin Netanyahu

Democrats who posed in Washington with Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal wanted by the ICC:

Adam Schiff
Jacky Rosen
Amy Klobuchar
Chuck Schumer
Maria Cantwell
Chris Coons
Cory Booker

Did I miss anybody?

JD Vance is suggesting that neo-Nazis and the descendents of confederate soldiers have more claim to being part of this nation because they're white than immigrants who believe in the Declaration of Independence.

This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.

Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.

After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.