Scars that Speak

Luis: Okay, here we go. Joe coming at the end.
Joe: What's up collective offenders welcome back I'm joined with my co-host Dave Bridget and Luis as always how are you guys doing today?
Luis: Super shitty bro. We're we're at war fucking We're attacking multiple countries of brown people. ⁓ Fucking things on the home front suck. Yeah.
Joe: Bridget?
Bridge: ⁓ Yeah, you know, I'm super excited for the additional amount of PTSD that, ⁓ you know, our brothers and sisters are going to have from us going back to the fucking sandbox. That'll be great. It's not like ⁓ we haven't had a rise in numbers with our 22 a day. So that'll be really cool to see that number go up. I'm just over it.
Joe: Word, I feel ya. Dave, how you doing, man?
Mo: We're here we're doing it I Really just don't give a shit anymore. I feel like this is the point in the class where ⁓ We stand up more like fuck this group project and we flip the fucking table Fuck it who gives a shit
Joe: Word. Word. So on that on that subject of war with Iran, I did write a little piece that I'm going to share with the collective offensive here. It says, as an infantryman in the United States Army, I've carried a rifle into war. I've walked patrols in cities where every alley could hide a bomb and every doorway could change a life forever. I watched young men not old enough to buy a beer, step into combat based on lies. I watched those young men die, violently. So when people talk casually about expanding war with Iran, I need you to understand something. War is not a headline. War is not a talking point. And war is not a strategy game. War is blood in the dust. War is picking up pieces of your friends that are scattered all over the place. War is young people screaming for help as they die or watching people they love die. War is a knock on a door back home that begins with the words, We regret to inform you. I've seen what modern war actually looks like on the ground. I've seen what it does not only to soldiers, but to the people who live where the bombs fall. When missiles hit a city, they don't just hit military targets. They hit neighborhoods. They hit apartment buildings. They hit roads where parents are driving their kids home from school. Right now, there are families in Iran listening to aircraft overhead, holding their children, wondering if tonight... is the night their home disappears. Those people are not the ones making geopolitical decisions. They are teachers, students, nurses, shopkeepers. They're kids who want to grow up, go to school, fall in love, and live ordinary lives. But when war starts, their lives become statistics. And for what? For people like Pete Hegseth to fulfill his fantasy of a new American crusade? Think about how ridiculous that sounds for a moment. A crusade?
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Joe: The last time the world used that word, it meant centuries of religious wars that slaughtered civilians and tore entire regions apart. Using that language today is not just reckless, it's dangerous. Because when leaders frame war as a crusade, they stop talking about strategy and start talking about holy missions and enemies to be destroyed. We see this happening in the alleged complaints lodged. with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation where troops are being told that war with Iran is all part of God's divine plan and that President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth. That kind of thinking doesn't make anybody safer. It guarantees endless war both abroad and at home. I've already seen what happens when leaders promise quick wars in the Middle East.
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Joe: We were told that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would be fast. We were told they would make the world safer. Instead, they dragged on for decades, left entire countries shattered and formed new enemies to fight in the future. The people who paid the price were ordinary civilians overseas and young soldiers sent to fight. As this war expands, it won't be the people giving speeches who carry it. It'll be the 19-year-old private standing guard in a place he can barely pronounce.
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Joe: It'll be the medic trying to keep someone alive in the dirt. It'll be families in Iran and families in the United States burying people they should never have had to lose. I've seen enough war to know how easily it starts and how impossible it is to control once it does. Every bomb dropped creates more grief. Every escalation pushes the region closer to something much bigger. We've already watched an entire cut. We've already watched entire countries be torn apart by war. We should not be repeating the same catastrophes again. The lives of America's youth and the lives of Iranian civilians are not expendable pieces on a geopolitical chessboard. The interesting thing about war is that it doesn't end for the war fighter. I came home from Iraq almost 18 years ago. Or did I? I left my innocence, my health, and my sanity in that fucking desert.
Mo: you Okay. Okay.
Joe: The person who came home is not the person who left home. My entire existence, the way I do life, was forever changed. And I go back to the fighting every night when sleep finally takes hold, if it does. The people who understand war the most, those of us who have actually fought in one, know exactly why we should be doing everything possible to stop another one from starting. And you know, so...
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Joe: I want to point out too that this is in no way an attack on the troops, right? Because at the end of the day, the military, our government, preys on underprivileged communities. It preys on impoverished communities. It promises somebody a way out that they can't see another way to get out or when they can't see another way to get out. So with that, Bridget, what's your take?
Bridge: you know, it's, really fucking scary to me. This, this whole rhetoric that they're pushing of, of, of being a holy war, right? We have seen, we've seen nations fucking topple over holy wars. And if, if that's something that this current administration wants to be involved in, like I, I know we've, we've already said it multiple times. ⁓ that if we continue down this fucking path, just as we're going as a country in a whole, right? Not even just like the religious aspect, but if we continue down this path that we're going, I don't see the US lasting much longer. Especially if we start bringing in this fucking holy war bullshit. We're already fucking torn. when it comes to ideas and beliefs in this country, and that's only gonna push us even further apart. We have our founding documents, which very specifically state we are supposed to have a separation of church and state, and it seems like we have just decided to just rip all this fucking up and set them on fire. ⁓ All of our fucking...
Mo: Thank Thank
Bridge: founding documents are in the air right now somewhere, because apparently they have to go on a tour. But I wanted to bring up a letter that was ⁓ sent to the MRFF, which stands for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. And you guys can go to MRFF.org and you can read everything about what they're doing. ⁓ It's a great fucking organization. ⁓ I know that they have helped a lot of people who require religious accommodations ⁓ throughout the years that are not getting them with their units and things like that, excuse me, ⁓ have helped to kind of like advocate for them and be a voice for them. ⁓ But also to make sure that no one's religion is being squandered, but that also that no one is being pushed for like to go towards a religion one way or the other. Well, so the MRFF has been inundated with fucking complaints here recently. And I want to read one of these complaints to you guys. So this was sent from an active duty military NCO, which an NCO stands for a noncommissioned officer, for those of you not in the know. That's someone with a rank of E5 or a sergeant or above. So they are withholding all the personal information because they are afraid of retaliation, which should.
Mo: you you
Bridge: absolutely fucking not be a thing in the military. You should never be afraid of retaliation, but that's where we're at. So this email says the subject is a unit combat readiness briefing and Armageddon. Mr. Weinstein, who is the founder of MRFF, I believe. ⁓ Thank you for taking my calls and the calls of some of my colleagues as to what happened earlier this morning with our combat unit. The date of this email, by the way, was March the 2nd, 2026 at 1.02 p.m. says, please protect my identity and the identity of those I'm speaking for as we discussed.
Mo: you you
Bridge: Our unit is not currently in the combat zone, AOR, regarding the Iranian attacks, but we are in a ready support function where we could be deployed there at any moment to join and augment the combat operation as participants. I am a NCO in our unit. This morning, our commander opened up the combat readiness status briefing by urging us to not be afraid as to what is happening with our combat combat operations in Iran right now. He urged us to tell our troops that this was, all part of God's divine plan, end quote. And he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation, referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ. He said that, quote, President Trump has been anointed by Jesus.
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Bridge: to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to earth." He had a big grin on his face when he said all of this, which made his message seem even more crazy. Our commander would probably be described as a Christian first supporter. He has been this way for a very long time and makes it clear that he desires all of us under him to become
Mo: I'm sorry.
Bridge: just like him as a Christian. But what he did this morning was so toxic and over the line that it shocked many of us in attendance at the Ops Readiness Briefing. Besides myself, I am reaching out to MRFF on behalf of 15 fellow troops. I know you asked me about the religious views of our group who have requested help from the MRFF. I can only tell you that I am Christian and at least 10 of the others are also Christians. One of the others is Jewish and one is Muslim. I don't know the religious or non-religious status for the other three at this time. I and my fellow troops know that it is completely wrong to have to suffer through what our commander said today. It is not just the separation of church and state as we discussed, Mr. Weinstein. It's the fact that our commander feels as though he is fully supported and justified by the entire, and then they, he named the, ⁓ the unit, but they're withholding that, by the entire chain of command to inflict his Armageddon views of our attack on Iran on those of us beneath him in the chain of command. I hope by sending this email to you that this will help expose these wrong actions which destroy morale and unit cohesion and are in violation of the oaths we swore to support the Constitution. So, Joe, I know that me and you talked earlier, or yesterday, whatever day it was, ⁓ about religion in the armed forces and how...
Joe: Thanks.
Bridge: It should always be separated from our service, but that's not always the case. Would you mind explaining to everybody, tell them a short snippet of your story that you told me?
Joe: It's not. Sure, so in 2007, a young, ⁓ more handsome Big Joe was at basic training in Fort Benning, Georgia. That's the only place that the infantry does basic training in the Army. While attending basic training, I was told that it was mandatory to go to church on Sunday. I refused. So instead of going to church, while everybody else scurried off into their good little God shit,
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Joe: I stayed at the barracks and got the fuck smoked out of me for a couple hours, right? And for those of you who don't know what that means, that means doing pushups and flutter kicks and mountain climbers and all the fucking nice corrective exercises that they love to do, right? So it'd be a couple hours straight to getting the fuck smoked out of me. And that didn't last forever. Eventually that fucking mellowed up and I just got to kind of hang out and have some time to myself. However, I was in basic training during Easter and on Easter Sunday, we did have a mandatory service that we had to go to and we had a guest speaker that was Colonel Jeff Strucker, right? If that name sounds familiar to you, that's because before Colonel Jeff Strucker was a chaplain, he was an army ranger, and he is one of the people that the movie Black Hawk Down is based on. He was actually part of that operation. So he's now a chaplain at this timeframe and he gives a speech.
Mo: Okay.
Joe: And one of the things that he said, it stuck with me and I remember it verbatim. And I sat there, I went, oh, I might have fucked up here. He said, where are my Christians at? I know I have a lot of Christians out there and you might be feeling some sort of way about killing people. But I want to tell you, you're killing in the name of Jesus and that is fucking righteous. That was Easter Sunday.
Mo: Thank What the fuck?
Joe: 2007 on Fort Benning, This shit has been around. This religious aspect, this Christian nationalist aspect has been around for a long fucking time. It's definitely, it's come to a head now where instead of it being just colonels or people, know, random individuals here or there, it's taken hold of our government and it's fucking nuts.
Bridge: So, Dave, Luis, I would like to ask you guys, because you guys didn't serve, ⁓ what do you think about hearing this, the religious talk within our troops?
Mo: I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised at all. ⁓ I would think that there'd be more cohesion, right? And that it wouldn't be so religious based, you would hope. But I guess a lot of people are stuck in their ways.
Luis: Dave.
Mo: I'm not really sure that I have an official opinion on it, but I do know that when, you know, ⁓ ideology and religious ideology starts dictating policy, which then dictates who and who doesn't live, that's a problem. Luis, what are your thoughts, dude?
Luis: I think it's gross to use poor working class kids who, like Joe said in his piece, will be somewhere that they can barely pronounce, right? To use these children to kill other poor working class people in the name of some pretend God. It's fucking, it's ridiculous. ⁓ It's like telling people to go kill fucking people in the name of Papa fucking Smurf because that's how much Jesus is coming back. Right. Exactly. I'll miss you, but I'll need to, I need to go to Iran to kill kids like you. Cause if I don't, then the people who rape kids like you might go to jail. Dead on. Right. And I have friends that have served, ⁓ Some of them came back not so bad and some of them came back pretty fucked up. ⁓ And I've been honored to know and hear some people's Right? And I don't wanna, I wish that on no one. Right? This war for greater Israel is ridiculous. Okay?
Mo: Is that what you're calling it now?
Luis: What is it? Am I calling it the war for greater Israel? Absolutely, absolutely, bro. I'm going to fucking. I'm going to call it fucking. Or we can call it Operation Forget About Epstein.
Mo: Yeah, who's calling it that?
Joe: And that's what it is.
Mo: Fair enough.
Luis: Whatever you want to call it.
Joe: I see it now like I don't think that I don't I don't think that it is operation forget about Epstein right because this shit has been fucking planned out Pete Hegseth wrote a fucking book outlining exactly what the fuck he wants to do years ago and he is playing it out right that's what I'm saying it's like no I get that I'm not saying like that I'm saying as far as like the Epstein shit goes though like yeah it's definitely a distraction but I don't see that being
Luis: Right. But, but the Iranians are ready too, bro.
Joe: the take home from it, right? This is about fucking beating your chest that we're the big bad fucking Christians, Christianity is number one, we're the fucking top, and we're gonna go fucking try to conquer everywhere in the fucking world, and we're watching that happen, right? We're watching it happen with Iran, we watched it happen with Venezuela, we fucking, now we're apparently gonna go attack fucking Cuba, right?
Luis: I was just going to say, because I, because you and I were talking earlier about how Cuba is the next fucking Dave stated is the next one on the list. Right.
Joe: Yeah. Yeah. And for those of you like I do want to just point out like, I know one of the stories that Luis was talking about a second ago about friends who've been willing to share shit with them whatnot was was from me. Right. And I'm not going to go into what it was. But everybody up here on this little fucking panel of our podcast has seen some paperwork that I have from the army that outlined some shit that has ⁓ that I had to do while I was deployed. Dave and Bridget have seen it. Yeah.
Luis: Have we all? We all have? Fuck bro, I'm not as special as I thought I was.
Joe: Yeah, yeah, not everybody. You saw it. You saw it first, dude. You saw it first. And we were talking about it. We were talking about it with them. And I was like, Well, fuck, now I got a show. Right. ⁓ But no, where I was going, I'm not going to share that with the fucking world, right. But what I will say about that is, for those of you who have never walked into a fucking war,
Mo: If.
Bridge: Hehehe. Hehehe.
Luis: I'm just playing. I'm just playing. Yeah, no, no, I am just playing you guys. just, I'm just playing.
Mo: Thank Plus, who doesn't like going last?
Luis: No, I pre-
Joe: some of the shit that you end up having to do to stay alive, it will never fucking leave you. Like I said, in that piece that I wrote, one of the other things that I've shared with them, I mean, it's, I've been home now since 2008. So what's that? 18 years, almost 18 years I've been home. I have had the same recurring fucking nightmares multiple times a week. for 18 fucking years. My sleep schedule is fucking ridiculous. Like the toll that this takes on our nation's young people after they come home is insurmountable. And that's just talking about our people. It goes the same for the people of wherever the fuck we're getting sent to by Uncle Sam. Probably fucking worse, honestly.
Bridge: Right?
Mo: Well, that's my issue is I have no issue with the Iranian kids. I have no issue with any of these people, these normal everyday working people, trying to, like you said, trying to go make a life for themselves, make sure that their kids actually get to get an education or wear decent clothes. I have no issue with these people.
Luis: Do we have that news clip of ⁓ the Iranian foreign minister, I believe, talking to a newscast? Did I send that to you, Bridget?
Bridge: I don't think so, but I can get it.
Luis: Okay.
Mo: We have more in common with the everyday person over there than any of these governments who are making decisions for us.
Luis: Absolutely. And I'm not here to talk about whether some wackadood theocracy should exist because I don't believe it should exist. But let's be honest, dude, the Iranians were no fucking threat to this country and anybody who says that they were fucking prove it to me. How was how was like some dude in Baghdad fucking?
Joe: Word. Well that's
Luis: Capable of fucking harming me in fucking the United States somebody anybody
Joe: Well, that's the thing like right, right. So one of the things I've heard my entire life is that Iran's only two weeks away from attacking us. It's been Iran's two weeks away from attack for 20 fucking years with zero fucking attacks.
Luis: And I would like to say that, you know what, the Iranian government, especially since the revolution, so 47 years this year is just as prepared for this attack, right? ⁓ that they've had 47 years to dig themselves in and to make contingency plans upon plans, upon plans. They know the power of Western bombs and what the West is capable of. Right. And I don't know, maybe you've seen the news, but apparently. Here in the West, there's a missile problem. I don't know if you guys know this, but for, so the Iranians spend $50,000 to create a drone, right? This fucking, and it's a suicide drone cause it's a one way fucking ticket, right? It takes fucking at least three missiles of $10 million each to intercept said drone. In some cases they fired 10 or 11 missiles to get one drone. Right? So add that up.
Mo: Yep. Mm-hmm.
Luis: Now here's the problem. I just read an article saying Ukraine needs 60 interceptor missiles a month. A month. Ukraine. Ask me how many America makes a year.
Mo: We're gonna burn him out.
Luis: Thank you, Dave. Thank you, Dave. Fucking. We make 600 a year. That's it.
Mo: many.
Bridge: Ha ha.
Luis: Okay. So there's a fucking problem here. Do you see how this adds up? You know, the Iranians are waiting. Mobile fucking missile launchers were always, that was the thing, right? That the Russians had a bunch of them in the eighties with their nukes because you can just pick up and drive them away and fucking set them up like somewhere else. So this isn't gonna be some quick pro-tactic war. This is gonna be some long drawn out fucking shit where brown people are gonna die for white Christian nationalism and fucking cheap oil. So, ⁓ here we go. Yeah, let's play this right here.
Mo: See ya.
Bridge: Uh-huh.
Joe: This shows the fucking stupidity of Americans. It really does.
Luis: Yeah, we're not getting any volume over here though.
Joe: Yeah, no sound, Bridget.
Bridge: ⁓ don't have any of- ⁓ no. ⁓
Luis: No, no sound.
Joe: ⁓ we're playing this game again.
Bridge: Here we go, here we go, hang on.
Joe: Motherfuck.
Luis: But you know what, you watching this live, you'll get this. But when you watch the finished product, it won't be here like magic. All right. This is a stupidity.
Bridge: I got it. I got it now. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Here we go. Ready?
Mo: Nope.
Luis: Absolutely. You know what? When your country is under attack, all right, I'm not here to debate the theocracy that rules Iran. Fucking let's just get that out of the way. Fucking all of them are bad. Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, fucking wangadoodle. OK, don't give a shit. So when you.
Mo: Why you gotta call it my religion like that, Wangadoodle's where it's at, It's like up there with smashing shockers. Wangadoodle, dude.
Joe: Yeah, Winkadoodle's pretty legit,
Luis: Damn.
Joe: Yeah, what the fuck, Luis?
Luis: So when you attack a country, you surround a country with all your bases and all your forces and then you attack them and your homeland isn't like right next door, it's fucking around the world, what do you expect them to do? You expect to, they're like, hey, America's punching the shit out of you. Why are you swinging back, guy? Why are you swinging, bro?
Joe: You know what though, dude? It makes fucking sense, right? And I'll use that fucking dipshit Tommy fucking boy whatever from Portland, right? He goes around, and this is why this makes sense to me on a fucking individual level, Because we see all these little fucking maggots chuds, they run around, they talk a bunch of shit, they try to fight everybody, they've straight up punched people on camera, and then homeboy got fucking matched up with somebody who was about it and got fucking lumped up, right? And then, ⁓ my God, can you believe the violence of these people? Look, I'm in the hospital now with a black eye because who the fuck goes to hospital with a black eye? Obviously somebody who's a fucking bitch, but that's beside the point, right? But that's the thing though, right? Like you run around starting shit and then you're amazed when somebody fucking fights back. That's exactly what's happening here. And that's exactly how I took that fucking interview from that news lady. Like why would you be attacking military bases?
Mo: Clearly a bitch.
Luis: you
Mo: Come here, bitch.
Luis: No, you're absolutely right.
Joe: fucking because you're bombing the shit out of us. What the fuck are you talking about?
Luis: We saw tiny toe East do that right in the fucking two thousands running around, beating women, beating people half his size. But you know what? When he fought a one-legged skinhead, he didn't beat that guy. He got fucking mop bro. I was right there. I saw that fight bro. One-legged fucking skinhead mopped him up. Okay. And that dude's a veteran too. Right. And that dude's fucking the homeboy fucking much love. know who you are. Right.
Joe: It got fucking mopped up. Ha ha ha ha. Ugh. word.
Luis: But but fucking um, that's real bro You know There are a bunch of pushes like like Andy. No Andy. No took some fucking some Slaps to the face bro. His fucking punches that he took to the face didn't knock him on his ass They kept them up on his fucking feet, right and he walked out of there. Yeah, he walked out of there milkshaked and fucking crying Okay, but he went to the hospital and said I had a brain bleed
Joe: That's it though, right? So like, is the thing I was saying earlier.
Luis: Or, his brain swirled up, but yet he fucking got on the plane the very next day. I don't know about you guys, but all the doctors tell you that when you get your fucking brain swollen, it's okay to go on a fight the next day. Okay?
Bridge: Yeah! ⁓
Joe: Totally dude, it's legit right the fucking pressure changes doesn't affect anything at all
Mo: Every time, absolutely. If your brain's swelling, you should definitely get them.
Luis: Okay, but the best thing about that was when fucking Trump looked at Andy Ngo at his fucking round table and Tifa said, Andy, did you cry? Did you cry, Andy? I bet you cried. I bet you cried, Andy.
Mo: Andy was not okay.
Joe: Do it Dave, do it. Do it in the Trump voice.
Mo: Andy, tell me you were crying. ⁓ my, I know. You had a couple tears. I'm not gonna do it. You were no man. That's right. You were a little girl. I saw you, Andy.
Bridge: You
Luis: Are you okay? Yeah, sing the song for me. Andy, are you okay?
Bridge: You
Mo: Andy are you okay? Are you okay Andy?
Joe: You okay Andy?
Luis: But there are all these dudes like they come up with names like beta cucks. They're all fucking cucks, bro. Right.
Joe: ⁓ dude, they're just fucking, that's the thing, right?
Mo: Dude, every single one of them. If you're watching this right now, you're a fucking cuck.
Joe: No, but seriously seriously though like when I'm talking about these people that are on the street when we're talking about these people that are in government Who are fucking you know? The secretary of fucking defense or the secretary of war or whatever the fuck they want to call it now We're dealing with a bunch of fucking fake strongmen, right? They want to put on this facade that they are as tough as it gets but in reality They're all coward little fucking bitches
Bridge: I
Mo: Yeah.
Joe: who won't stand up for anything unless they think they have the upper hand. We've seen it in the streets with the fucking Proud Boys. They won't fucking, those fools won't fucking throw hands unless it's like fucking five, six to one, right?
Luis: And you know what? Here's the thing, bro. I'm sorry. Are you done? didn't mean to interrupt you, but like Bridget said something earlier. I don't know if it was right before we came to air or not, but, um, something about up to 22 veterans a day committing suicide. And I looked it up really fast. And, um, I think that was a high, but in 2002, it got to 17.6 a day vets a day. We're committing suicide. And the thing is, is that
Joe: No, go ahead.
Bridge: Uh-huh.
Mo: It's fucking insane.
Luis: If you value if you value just soldiers lives, you don't just send them to die. Right. And then when they do come home, you don't leave them to fucking die in a gutter, bro. You take care of them. And it's this using of your group, your your your choose community of veterans. Right. It's not days in my it's your community and they're and they fuck they use this shit out of you guys. Just fuck you and fuck you and fuck you. Like, ⁓ we care about vets, all this and that, and then fucking throw you aside like a fucking cum rank.
Mo: Yep.
Joe: They always have dude, like nobody actually gives a fuck about the veterans except for veterans and their fucking families. Right. Like we're always just used as a political prop by both sides of the fucking aisle, by the way. You know what I mean? On this two party system, it's both sides of the fucking aisle. It's ⁓ well, we got to fucking support veterans. We support veterans. No, we do know we're better. No, we're better. And in reality, nothing gets done on either fucking side for us. Really? The fucking most that's been done.
Luis: Absolutely. Yeah.
Bridge: Mm-hmm.
Luis: Because you- you know what?
Joe: in recent years, as much disdain as I have for that old fuck Joe Biden during his last presidency, that dude fucking did some shit for the veterans, which is fucking wild that so many veterans hate his ass because he's really the only president I can think of who's done fucking anything with the fucking EVAST Act, which was ultimately turned down in the fucking house. That was the ensuring veterans easy transition. like you didn't have to fucking you didn't have to go through all of the bullshit to get enrolled with the VA. So what that would have done, like I said, it was shot down, but what it would have done was taken veterans as they were getting out of the military. Their last like month, two months in the military would have been doing all the fucking paperwork with assistance to get you registered in the VA system, right? Sounds great, right?
Mo: you
Luis: Yeah. Yesterday showed it off for me, bro. Yesterday showed it off for me.
Joe: Yeah, right. The other one was fucking ⁓ the ⁓ my god, the PACT Act, right? The PACT Act literally saved my fucking life, right? So I'll tell you guys another little story here, a little veteran fucking story. So in 2015, I got sick and I was throwing up blood and I was in San Francisco and I went to the doctor, I went to the hospital, to the emergency room, to the VA emergency room in San Francisco.
Mo: you
Bridge: Yeah.
Joe: And they treated me, they thought they were checking me for Ebola and shit like that. And they're like, all right, yeah, we don't know, fucking see you later. Like, what, I think it was July of that year. So this was in January. In July, I got a phone call from the VA saying, hey, we need to schedule you for surgery. And I was like, surgery for what? And they're like, ⁓ well, you went to the hospital in San Francisco and we found that you have a spindled cell sarcoma in your esophagus. And I was like, ⁓ dope. Like, what the fuck is that? That sounds like a cancer name. And they're like, yep. And I was like, ⁓ well, I mean, I'm not a gynecologist, but last time I checked time is kind of the essence when it comes to cancer. What the fuck? Like, am I going to die? And they were like, well, we're all pulling for you. Exact fucking words. And I was like, ⁓ dope. So I go have this surgery. Turns out it wasn't fucking cancer. Maybe it was. Who fucking knows at this point? Because I got told like nine different fucking things. Right. But anyway, so they set that up in July, I believe when I actually got in to go have the surgery done was like February. So we're like 13 months out from this fucking initial fucking contact, right? So anyways, now I'm gonna take this to after the implementation of the PACT Act. In 2023, I woke up one morning, I was shaving, and I what the fuck is that? I got this big lump in my throat, which now I'm freaking out, right? Because I've already had issues with my fucking throat. What the fuck is that? So like I go to work and I'm doing my thing. I call the fucking, I call the VA and I said, Hey, I got a fucking thing in my throat. I've had a history with things in my fucking throat. I know there's a dirty joke to be made here, but yeah. Yep. But I was like, I got a history. got a history of this shit, right? When can I come in and get fucking seen? And she straight up goes, can you be here at two o'clock? Absolutely.
Bridge: I was waiting. ⁓
Joe: So this was after the implementation of the PACT Act and what the PACT Act did was it made certain illnesses, cancers, threats of cancers, shit that came from burn pits and other chemical agents that we were exposed to in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It really fucking bolstered healthcare for those items. So at two o'clock I was like, yeah, I can be there. I went in, I fucking, I saw the doctor at two o'clock and they go, okay, cool, this is what we need to do. Right. We need to fucking get you an MRI. We need to get you fucking this, that and the other all these fucking tests. And I was like, all right, so when are we looking out for those? go, well, can you do it tomorrow? You know, sure. So I went and did it the next day. Fucking then I had another appointment with a doctor like four days after that, because they got all the results from imaging and interpreted it and shit like that and said, all right, so we think it's a colloid cyst. That's what that's what we think. Right. My advice. would be like, we could biopsy it, but I don't want to, right? Like my advice would be to monitor it, and if it grows anymore, you call and we'll see what's going on with that. But this is what we think it is. And I said, all right, cool, I'm good with that. They would have biopsied it if I would have wanted them to. So a few months down the road, I noticed this thing like doubled in fucking size, right? So I call and I'm like, yo, and they're like, all right, yeah, come in. So I went in and he goes, all right, we got two options here. We can biopsy it. Or we can just do surgery and cut the motherfucker out, right? If it is cancer and it's operable, we're gonna fucking cut it out anyways. If it's not, you're just getting this thing cut out of your fucking throat, which is ultimately gonna have to happen anyways because it's putting pressure on your airway. So we could biopsy it or we can just schedule the surgery. said, well, let's do the fucking surgery. So I went in and I got the motherfucking thing cut out. And this shit all happened. All of this happened. in a fraction of the timeframe of my previous experience. And that was thanks to the PACDAQ.
Luis: I think that's awesome. Wow. ⁓ I feel like it's the veteran show. ⁓ but, but the veterans episode, no, but, but, but here's the thing, dude, no, really fast. Like we're on the tick talks a lot and we hear people like, respect veterans. I respect, know, I respect people based on individuality. ⁓ what you did, that's something different, but that aside, ⁓ but yesterday that video, I don't know if we have that video from.
Mo: you
Joe: No shit, let's get off of this nonsense.
Luis: ⁓ boy, Montana. ⁓ The Marine veteran who went. ⁓
Bridge: ⁓ the one who got his fucking arm broke.
Joe: ⁓
Luis: ⁓ who went there in his dress blues, right?
Mo: Yeah.
Luis: and decided to make a statement against the war. Okay. And, and, and he was attacked and carried out and he's yelling, he's yelling. And you know, as they get him through the door, he fucking latches onto the door and some sitting Senator comes over and just fucking breaks that dude's fucking. ⁓ Right.
Mo: I think he's running for office in North Carolina. If I'm not mistaken. So from where I was sitting or from the angle I saw in the video, it looks like he went to grab the door and the way those doors move, the axis or like the pivot point is not straight on. Like it's not actually at the end. So his hand was caught.
Luis: Yeah, but- I, I, I, so my actual points, yeah, but my actual points not about that dude himself. It's about everybody else that was in the crowd. It was about the dude with the fucking camera because I'm pretty sure if you would have asked all those people down the line 10 minutes before that happened, do you respect and care about veterans? Absolutely. I do. God, God and country jerking off. Right. But we.
Mo: ⁓ fair.
Luis: Push came to shove and any one of those people could have tried to intervene and stop them. The only intervention I saw was some guy putting up the chair. that had gotten knocked over. People don't give a shit.
Mo: No.
Luis: or two will not be the veterans hour.
Mo: I think it's an important topic, man. We're getting ready to send this entire, I thought about this the other day. The generation of veterans who we have who fought in the Middle East, you know, after 9-11, have grown up, as Joe was saying, with all of these different weights and burdens to bear. And now you have, now you're suggesting that you send their children to war too.
Luis: Yeah, that's, that's yeah. You're right.
Mo: Does it make sense? You're just cycling this shit through and Donald Trump says this shit where he's like they chant death to America. ⁓ No wonder dude, you continue to blow up their fucking schools. You continue to drop bombs on fucking children. All the while you're a fucking child molester at the same fucking time.
Luis: I mean here I'll say it on this podcast, death to America as it currently stands. It's unsustainable. Let this motherfucker die. Quickly, please. Let's run that video.
Bridge: So this is Brian McGinnis, ⁓ and he is a Marine vet. He is currently a Green Party candidate running for Senate in North Carolina. He was at a subcommittee hearing, ⁓ and he's an anti-war protester. A Marine vet, anti-war.
Mo: Ooh, absolutely pulled that fucker out of socket or something. shows you how fucking powerful that dumb fucking costume is that they wear. And look, now they're gonna jack him up by the same fucking arm.
Bridge: That's yeah.
Joe: Yeah.
Luis: I mean, here's the thing though.
Bridge: Watch the way they continue to fucking treat him after just breaking his fucking hand.
Joe: just want to point out though that that fucking untied status marine crops fucking dude took that shit like a G. Like you just sit in there with this fucking shit all broke off. Fuck you.
Luis: If that man was a man of color, he would have been shot dead and, and his service would have been questioned.
Joe: Yeah.
Luis: Like again, if he were a black veteran, a brown veteran, a Muslim veteran who had done the same thing, they would have killed him. And then we would hear, be hearing a bunch of propaganda from the right wing about how he was stolen valor.
Mo: you
Joe: ⁓ yeah.
Bridge: So the guy who broke his hand is an active senator, ⁓ Tim Sheehy, Sheehy, Sheehy, whatever, doesn't matter, from Montana. ⁓ Yeah, so his fucking statement. This afternoon, an unruly man who started to illegally protest during a hearing put everyone in a dangerous position by violently resisting and fighting our officer's attempts to remove him from the room.
Joe: Tim Dorknerd.
Bridge: The outburst happened just before 3 p.m. during a hearing inside the Hart Senate office building. Three officers had to be treated for injuries by DC fire and EMS. The suspect who got his own arm stuck in a door to resist our officers and force his way back into the hearing room was also treated. The suspect, 44-year-old Brian C. McGinnis of North Carolina, is facing three counts of assaults on a police officer. as well as three counts of resisting arrest and crowding, obstructing, and incommunate, uncommoning for the unlawful demonstration. Protests are not allowed inside the congressional buildings. There are plenty of other spots on Capitol grounds outside where demonstrations are allowed. So let me ask you, is Tim Dworkmickface gonna be held liable for breaking his fucking hand?
Mo: you
Bridge: There are three fucking police officers there handling the fucking situation. This motherfucker decides that he wants to play big balls and he wants to come in and save the fucking day by assaulting, assaulting, let me say it one more time. He assaulted a fucking US Marine veteran for no fucking reason and broke his fucking hand.
Mo: Yep.
Bridge: Is he going to be held liable?
Mo: That's one.
Joe: So no, because there is a long history in the McDorkface family ⁓ of not being held accountable for fucking shit. Because as much as the United States wants to talk about how nobody's above the law, everybody's beholden to the law, that's not what we see on the fucking daily. There's multiple tiers of fucking law. And if you're up here, you're above it.
Mo: Okay. you
Luis: Apparently you can be a fucking pedophile bro. You can do little kids to the left and the right and still be fucking president. You can fuck your own daughter like Donald Trump has and be your own president and still be president. Okay? You can say weird things that you would hope that your daughter has her mom's boobs and still be president in America.
Joe: For sure. So like as a father to a daughter.
Mo: Thank
Joe: This is the most disgusting fucking bunch of fucking bullshit I've ever heard in my life. I would beat the fucking shit out of somebody for saying that shit about my daughter. Why the fuck would I say it?
Luis: It's not though bro, it's gonna get- It's going to get so much grosser and we're okay with it. And we're okay with it, dude, because these dudes all want to be pedophiles too. The fucking, they want to be rich and fucking, they want to be Donald Trump juniors, the Enrique Tarrios, the Tommy Portland's fucking, the Andy knows. Okay. They want the same things. And all these people want the same things. If you're in that mega party, that's what you're trying to get to. You're trying to be like Donald Trump, aren't you? You're trying to be like fucking.
Mo: Well, except for one, which I never fucking thought that I would ever say this shit. Doc and I were talking about this the other night. Fucking Nick Fuentes, bro.
Luis: Get the fuck, what a... What?
Mo: No, listen, listen, listen, listen. I've never.
Luis: You made me and my brown ass voice go high bro. So when we hit that high note bro, fucking questions are about.
Mo: So, so listen, listen. So first of all, fuck that motherfucker. Any day of the week, let's go. But I think Doc, do you have that fucking sound clip?
Bridge: I do. I sure do.
Mo: So listen to this batshit crazy. So if you didn't, if you already didn't think that we were fucked before and that like 3i Atlas should have fucking happened because I'm still team 3i Atlas. Okay. You need to listen to this shit.
Bridge: Those motherfuckers left us... No, look, fuck those aliens because those motherfuckers left us stranded here and they turned around and went somewhere else. So fuck them. I'm mad at them.
Joe: Just seeing that fucking dude.
Mo: Because of fucking white supremacy, ⁓
Joe: I'm telling you what just seen this motherfuckers picture right there makes me want to put my head through the goddamn wall
Mo: Makes my blood fucking boil.
Bridge: I
Luis: Bro, it's making me move my shit so I can go smoke, okay? Like I'm literally...
Bridge: Alright, I'm hit and play.
Mo: Look at Luis, he's like, I gotta head out, I gotta go for a walk. Okay.
Luis: Okay, so... Before I lose my fucking mind right here, okay? Like seriously. I'm gonna let you- Okay, no, no, no, no.
Mo: ⁓ Dude, wish all you need all you need to beat this motherfucker at level seven is the fucking like a middle-aged white lady trying to deliver right treats.
Luis: No, no, dude, before I lose my mind right now, okay? Did we just fucking start that clip? Well, everyone but Nick Fuentes? No, dude, that dude literally fucked stuffed animals, okay? Fucking seriously. Okay? Like, I would not trust a stuffed animal around that guy, okay? And, and...
Mo: I know you're to lose your fucking mind. Dunno. hahahahah ⁓ What is with the right and fucking inanimate objects like couches and fucking stuffies and like...
Luis: And here's the thing. He is a true Nazi. Okay? He is a true nationalist socialist. Nick Fuentes, man, if that dude fucking... Hold on. I can't piss off our lawyer again, so hold on. Wait. ⁓ No, wait, no, no, because you'll say it too, dude.
Joe: Yeah.
Mo: No, no. 100%. Like fuck this guy through and through. ⁓ 100%. Yeah ⁓
Joe: Here let me say it then, I hope that motherfucker trips and falls and drowns in a vat of boiling refried beans.
Mo: I'm sorry. gonna a...
Luis: Okay, see, I was going to say something different. Okay. Look, I'm going to, I'm going to preface what I'm going to say this. Sex assault is never funny. Okay. Now with that being said, were Nick Fuentes to get raped by three wandering camels down fucking the street, that would be pretty fucking funny, bro.
Mo: We got a full on fucking Olive Garden with that shit. Agreed. Yeah.
Joe: Don't laugh, Moe. It fucking makes him keep going.
Mo: You ⁓
Luis: All three of you laughed so fuck it, suck it bro, it was funny. Are you gonna tell me that if you didn't see him getting raped by just like two camels just tagging on him fucking on 5th Avenue you wouldn't laugh? Look at you bro. Look at that image in your head. Fuck those camels.
Joe: Cut the fuck up.
Bridge: I have logistics questions, but I'm not going to ask them.
Luis: For right now, they don't exist. Okay. Right now he's just getting worked by countless. It all works. No, but seriously, like, like just because a fucking broken clock is right and tells you that it's 6 PM or 6 AM twice a day doesn't mean that fucking we can get behind anything that he said. mean, listen to him. You promised mass deportations. Motherfucker. That's what's happening right now. Right. It's what's happening.
Bridge: Yeah.
Mo: ⁓ no.
Bridge: Mm-hmm.
Mo: I was more making a joke, you know that though.
Luis: Yeah, no, I know that. It's just like when I hear fucking these people be like, well, what's that cunt's name that fucking thought the Jewish people had space lasers? Yeah, that fucking horse face fucking by the way, she is fucking running the Kentucky Derby this year, I hear. But anyway, it's just like when people were like, she's on our side. No, bitch, she's not on our side.
Joe: Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Bridge: ⁓ my god. No, no, none of these people are on our side. Let's keep in mind too, right? The fucking group of people that follow Nick Fuentes, the fucking, the Gropers, right? Donald Trump isn't far right enough for them. That's been the biggest fucking problem. So is he sitting here saying that like Donald Trump is fucked up and like, you know, it's gone too far for him? Okay, fine, he can say what he wants, but. that still doesn't change the fact of like all the other bullshit that he has said in the past, the horrific things that he has called for in the past. He still doesn't want women to have a fucking vote.
Luis: He said he would vote for the Democrats. That should show us where the fucking Democrats are. That they have a platform where he's all like, yeah, I can get behind that.
Bridge: That's the fucking part. That's the fucking part.
Joe: I just gonna say that.
Mo: That was literally gonna bring that shit up!
Bridge: That fucking part.
Mo: That's
Luis: Fucking the Democrat should hear that and fucking run for the goddamn mountains.
Joe: And the fact And the fact that the Democrats would be like, absolutely, dude, they would fucking 100 % be like, yeah, dope, dude, fucking let's do it. Same with MTG, same with all of them, like, oh no, she's on our side. He's on our side. No, dude, I am never on the fucking side of fucking Nazis. I don't understand how this is still a fucking conversation. Like, I've said it a fucking million times, it's pretty common knowledge. If there are three Nazis at a table and you fucking roll up and fucking sit down and you break bread,
Bridge: ⁓ huh.
Mo: Come on, yeah, we'll take all those boats. That's exactly what they would say.
Bridge: No.
Mo: Nope.
Joe: There are four Nazis at that fucking table.
Bridge: Absolutely. Absolutely. ⁓ They're not, we're not on their side. They're not on our side. They still suck. And again, you know, we, we bitch about the Democrats a lot within our little group. And I think that, I don't know, I still try to have hope just a little bit sometimes that this, this should yet again be another wake up call. for our Democrats that are sitting in a position of power to be like, don't shake your head at me, hang on, of being like, hey, this is really bad. We don't want Nick Fuentes being like, hey, Democrats, we need to be more progressive because this isn't fucking working.
Luis: My hope is over.
Joe: They won't though because the Democrats take absolutely every single opportunity to learn absolutely fucking nothing from their shit. Always absolutely nothing like, cool, you figured out you were duped. Good for you. Now kindly go die in a fire. I don't give a shit.
Luis: No, they won't. ⁓
Bridge: You're right. You're right. I know. I know. ⁓
Luis: I mean, they're not going to, they're not going to help us. mean, fucking they don't care because they're the party of fucking Fuentes. Right? Like, like the fact that he can look at all the parties, right? Because yes, there's more than two parties that run a presidential candidate, but you know, only two are going to win. anyway, like, and he picks them.
Mo: Yes.
Bridge: Yeah, for sure. So. So not only do we have like, Merger Terry LeGreen and Nick Fuentes and a few other like big names that have kind of been like, yeah, Tucker Carlson. ⁓ Who else do we have? Fucking Thomas Massey. ⁓ We've had quite a good handful that have come out and been like, you know, fuck this shit. We don't need to be doing this. This isn't what, you know, we signed up for as being Republicans. ⁓ I know that we've come across a lot of like,
Joe: Tucker Carlson? fuck face
Bridge: plain Jane, like just, you know, fucking civilians on the interwebs that are like, ⁓ I disavow this now. I don't want to be a part of this now. And what's funny, what's so funny to me is that they get their feelings hurt when we don't welcome them with open arms. And I know how much we love to watch white
Luis: I can't.
Bridge: mega women cry. And I thought that this would be a perfect opportunity to give you guys a little present. So.
Mo: Mmm.
Joe: Let's see it.
Luis: Yay, a gift.
Mo: Fuck yeah, let's get it.
Bridge: Let me, let me.
Luis: But then I want to get, after we come back from our gift, I do want to address that topic since you brought it up.
Bridge: Absolutely. Now this is a screen recording because she refused to turn on her duets, she refused to turn on the ability to download the videos, and after a while she even turned off the comments because of course she did.
Luis: ⁓ I saw this lady.
Mo: Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Bridge: Real quick, let me just say, whenever you guys are done, this is a three-minute long fucking video, whenever you guys are done, just wave me down and I will fucking end it. Give me another 30 seconds of it, hang on, hang on.
Luis: you
Mo: Look at the weeds! ⁓ You ⁓ Louis is dying.
Luis: Safe word! Safe word! ⁓
Bridge: you
Joe: Goober Havel Flievenstein.
Mo: You woke up up. Holy shit.
Luis: Yeah ⁓
Joe: dude, like fuck dude
Bridge: ⁓ my god.
Luis: Okay. Um, so yeah, so I'm gonna like
Joe: Yeah
Mo: You
Bridge: She has to pause in just a second because she has to compose herself because she's crying too much and then she comes back to finish her recording.
Mo: Stop! No!
Joe: I hate it.
Luis: Anybody who's listening to this who wants to be embraced by the left so I hope that never happens for you. Okay. Like, why? Because, because you've wished harm and you've caused harm to us. Right? So the most that you can realistically offer, okay, is every name you know. The most that you can fucking ever give us is every bit of every name, every information, every email on every group that you've ever been a part of.
Mo: For real though, you can get fucked.
Luis: And even then after that, you can just get fucked. Okay. Because that's what you're useful for. Okay. And no, you are not welcomed in this fucking fight. Like I'll never forget when that turd fucking gunny told me, well, I hope one day there's a place for me in this fight. And I mean, it might be.
Mo: you
Luis: But it's fucking called the guy who wipes my butt when I have a fucking poop. That's your job, Gunny.
Mo: Yeah, not the fucking guys eating black men while in cuffs
Luis: Okay, okay, you are called the shit eater, Gunny.
Joe: You know? Alright, well check this out though. So let me throw on my take on this shit real quick, right? These people, they're like, ⁓ we're leaving MAGA and I can't believe that you're not accepting us. Like, motherfucker, we all told you what he was gonna do. And it wasn't like it was some secret decoder ring that fucking figured it out. All you literally had to do was look at what he was saying, what he's already done, and watch the people that he was trying to fill his fucking cabinet with. So quite frankly, when Donald Trump said in an interview before the election,
Mo: Thank you.
Joe: Yeah, immigrants are a problem, but the real problem is the enemy within the extreme left. Maybe we need the National Guard or even the military to do something about that. And then goes on to label Kamala Harris as a radical Marxist when in fact she's an extremely, extremely fucking moderate Democrat. Definitely to the right of center. Right. So I know what it means when he says, ⁓ I need the military to fucking deal with that.
Mo: Or short.
Joe: Right? So when you voted for me and my fucking family and the people that I care and love about to be fucking killed or rounded up and put in concentration camps and then you go, ⁓ my bad. No, fuck you. can fucking you know what you can do to fucking gain my acceptance. I need some entertainment. And I've heard that self emulation is fucking gnarly to watch. And I would love to see it. So please go douse yourself in gasoline and light yourself on fucking fire so that I have something to fucking laugh at.
Bridge: You
Luis: See, I was gonna be like. What if they got raped by a count?
Mo: Nah, dude, not as good. But either way, I need pictures or it didn't fucking happen.
Luis: Joe didn't even smile right there, fucking he tried he wanted to.
Joe: No, I really didn't dude because this shit fucking pisses me off. You know what mean? At the end of the day, like these people are the fucking reason that I have friends that are fucking being rounded up and fucking disappeared into fucking whatever concentration camp they're fucking being put in. This is the fucking reason that there's people that I love and I fucking care about who are scared to fucking go to work or fucking go downtown or whatever. Not even because they're a fucking immigrant, but because they're fucking gay or because they're trans. or because they're simply fucking different and society doesn't fucking that general fucking right-wing society doesn't view them as fucking human because dehumanization has been the whole entire process of this like the motherfucker at the the protests that my kid did with the fucking walkout who decided it was a great idea as a 40 something year old man to go tell a group of little girls between the ages of 11 and 14 suck my dick you dumb fucking cunts no dude
Luis: Well, when are we gonna fight back? I mean, when are we gonna start fighting back?
Joe: You all fucking voted for this. all told you this is where it was fucking going and you didn't even need to be told. All you had to do was use your fucking eyes. So fuck you very much. Like I said earlier, go die in a fucking fire.
Mo: Yep.
Luis: And, but when are we gonna start fighting back? Right? When are, wherever you are listening to our voices at, what's your red line? Right? They're taking away trans rights, they're taking away human rights, they're taking away fucking everything. And what's your red line, your personal red line that you're like no more? You know, if it's me out in the streets by myself, so be it. Right. So so I hope it's soon. And people, Mo and I, Dave and I, we have this debate sometimes. ⁓ Because I get especially last week, I get pissy. I'm done waiting on you white people. You guys are fucking you guys. You guys fucking you fucking progressive, democratic, fucking farts suck. OK. ⁓ And Dave's like, be calm. Just be patient. It's coming.
Mo: Yeah.
Luis: It's coming. Be patient. It's coming. It's got to build up. It's got to build up. Okay. And I've done this for so long that like, no, by the time you guys get angry enough to fucking do something, the concentration camps are already going to be in fucking place. By the time you guys, by the time you guys get ready to fucking do Red Dawn and become Wolverine.
Mo: And you're not wrong.
Luis: It's gonna be over.
Mo: But you're not wrong, right? You're not wrong. But at the same time, it still is going to happen that way. The reaction will come too late. Tens of thousands of people will have been hurt if not murdered. The same shit that they're doing in Iran, Trump wants to do here. It's no different. It's absolutely no fucking different. Because what the fuck? I mean, to be fair, right? So to be fair, right?
Luis: So then why should people fight? So then, okay, let's just see that through. Why should people fight then?
Mo: I always say everyone has their own reason, but at this moment, why the fuck not? What the fuck else are you doing? Anybody listening to this, what the fuck else are you doing? You might as well do it. You might as well fucking stand up for yourself. What else you got going on that's so much more fucking important?
Luis: Well, I mean... Well, let's look at let's look at us. Are we like we are fucking targets. Every one of us on this on this pod is a target. OK. Whether willfully or not willfully, especially because of the shit we say. OK, and we we we say it in hopes, go ahead, go ahead.
Mo: Listen, all I'm saying is I just want to order out. Listen, Luis, if I can just order my flat white with a shot of strawberry on the left, I will be good. Okay. But thank you.
Luis: I can. I can order that here.
Joe: You gotta do the single shot, you fucking dork, you fucked it all up. It's a single shot, flat white, otherwise it doesn't make sense.
Luis: Duh. But all I'm saying is like, when are people gonna fucking... fucking stand up and be like, fucking push yourself away from the table and be like, no mom, I don't want any more fucking peas. Right? Like, I just don't get it because like, why should, like why should... Bro, we are fucking risking our lives, our freedom. Okay?
Bridge: ⁓ Get it right. ⁓
Luis: And really once you're in the fed system under the way it currently is, as if you're, if you're in like BCP custody or ice custody, you can get lost forever, bro. The way it seems to be. Why should we risk our lives for people that will forget about us? No one here, everybody here. And if you were listening to this wherever this is, this is a segue that I didn't mean to make, but I'm going to talk about political prisoners for a minute. Okay. Right now I want you to go check out free Alex Stokes.com.
Mo: you
Luis: I want you to go there and I want you to learn about Alex Stokes. was an anti-fascist activist. who was defending his community and stabbed two people. ⁓ and is now serving 20 years. She stabbed two proud boys. ⁓ that just fucked me all up.
Bridge: Bye.
Joe: What the fuck
Luis: How
Bridge: Welcome, welcome to the live recording. This is how things go. No, we're good.
Luis: What does that do for the whole stream though?
Joe: He's got to come back to fucking to let it fucking download all the way now.
Bridge: That's fine, we're good.
Joe: It's not that big of a deal, Luis. This has happened before.
Luis: This... this is... I know, this is the intermission, huh? This is the interlude?
Joe: This is the time to do our fucking-
Luis: ⁓ that's the fucking Cantina! Well fuck bro, that was a fine fuck you and how do you do day fucking.
Bridge: Yeah.
Joe: You
Bridge: Thanks for hanging out with us, Chat, while we experience some technical difficulties.
Joe: Damn it.
Luis: But I was getting ready to go on a good rant about Alex Stokes and supporting political prisoners. It's gonna be good, but I've been working on it all day.
Joe: every time. Now it goes every time. I'm good.
Bridge: Dance party. Hey! ⁓
Joe: Hey, look at that. Hey, Yeah.
Mo: All my shit was like internal error, internal error.
Bridge: Yeah, I saw that the live on TikTok went down too.
Joe: year.
Mo: Yeah, it did.
Bridge: I don't know.
Mo: It's okay though, we're back. We're back.
Bridge: I will point out we're on the same wifi and mine's just fine, thank you.
Mo: Ooooo girl.
Joe: I think he just had to fucking kick out and go fucking play with his bussy for a second because he was getting all excited about that conversation that Luis was getting into.
Bridge: Was that? That was it.
Mo: Well, I just want to so well, what I did do was I stood up and because we were talking about a fucking Charlie Kirk, I was like, well, fuck now I want to just check out this dope ass class that we got. We went antiquing today, but then got this fucking mug. Yeah, dude. I'm not gonna lie, dude.
Joe: salt the salt chick
Bridge: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Luis: That's dope.
Joe: I can't read it, but I know it's the salt lady.
Luis: Yeah, it's Morton Salt, bro.
Mo: Yeah, man for ice. Melts ice. Yeah.
Bridge: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Joe: ⁓ well, thanks a lot for making me fucking sound like an idiot, Louise. You have Morton salt to be precise. Morton salt, you fucking, you fucking nerd.
Bridge: How dare you not know that?
Mo: Morton's soul.
Luis: ⁓ I'm having a Charlie Kirk mud made for me. Like seriously, like his head with like a little fucking bullet in the head, like fucking with my boy with the 3D printer. So suck it right wing.
Mo: You know what's- Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Bridge: Jesus.
Joe: Dude, yeah, I was fucking trying to get like some shit 3D printed where it was a Pez dispenser where the head open sideways and like cherry Pez shot out.
Bridge: There's gotta be a fucking way to do that. Somebody has to have that.
Luis: I was there when you came up with that idea. helped you create that idea personally. I was, I was free for me with it. No, fuck that guy, bro. No, I know who you, I think, I think I know who you're talking about. I'm like, we don't need shit from that guy, bro.
Joe: I know.
Mo: Dude, I'll talk to a, I'm not gonna name him, but I'll talk to somebody on here. I'll talk to somebody who I know. You don't know shit. You don't know anything about that.
Joe: Hey, you don't fucking you don't yell at me. God damn it.
Bridge: Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright.
Luis: Book that guy, Hey, ⁓
Bridge: You ⁓ Guys welcome Welcome back it is it is time for us to Talk about our weekly our weekly homework assignment that we've got for you guys ⁓ This one is going to be a ⁓ rather short documentary, but a good one on The YouTube's hang on let me pull it up so I can reach you. This is put up by frontline not the same
Mo: Hahaha
Luis: God damn it, Greta.
Bridge: PBS and this is called Documenting Hate Charlottesville. It's about an hour long, but this goes over, it's posted, what was it, back in 2019. It's an investigation into how the violent and infamous rally in Charlottesville became a watershed moment for the white supremacist movement. ⁓ So their correspondent with PBS ⁓ shows how some of the behind the scene or behind the race,
Luis: Mm-hmm.
Bridge: racist violence went unpunished and shines a light on the rise of new white supremacist groups in America. And again, this was in 2019. So just, you know, good to point out the fact that like this shit was happening then. How much worse is it now?
Luis: Well, as someone who was there, not at Charlottesville, do. We had a lot of people there, though, but around in 2019. And ⁓ actively in the streets, I can say. This is a more dangerous time. It's it's scarier. Late than 2019. I mean, 2019, we saw some shit, right? We had Joe and I had some friends, right? The fucking whatevs. ⁓ That aren't with us anymore. And so like. To me, this feels worse, weirdly enough.
Mo: You
Joe: Yeah.
Luis: And it's.
Joe: There's definitely it's it's it's branched outside of these goofy groups and it's more mainstream now to be confrontational and violent like well and what I mean by that is that it's not just the fucking proud boys or identity Europa or the Patriot prayer like the fucking ding-dong that's fucking parking in the grocery store is a lot more apt to start shit right now.
Bridge: Mm-hmm.
Mo: But. Okay.
Luis: And there was a time when these white nationalists were, you would think that, you know, them being close to power, ⁓ that's ridiculous. ⁓ that's silly, but they've plotted and they've planned for this. you have Pete Hegseth, a goddamn white Christian nationalist taking us to war. You guys did an hour on that earlier.
Mo: One of the things I was going to say about that earlier to Luis was that when we were talking about the disregard for life or the lack of training or the lack of experience that these all dudes, these all these dudes don't throw chests and blah, blah. You have seen his demeanor and his face turned white every time he's talking about somebody who's died. Like he clearly does not understand Pete Hegseth. Like he like completely dodges any question that has to do with a soldier or a service member losing their life. He's like, said what I was gonna say. He gets all jumpy and shit.
Bridge: Mm-hmm.
Mo: He doesn't have the, I wouldn't have the ability to manage that situation in front of the nation. He definitely doesn't have it.
Luis: It's... I don't know. I really don't want to talk about the military shit first, but like I keep thinking like those six soldiers came home and we didn't talk about that for a minute and like fucking. The leader of the country who sent these people to die, like I always thought that like when the first ones come back home, right? That the leader of the country is there to salute the casket. coming off the plane, right? And that didn't happen. Nobody was there really to greet them. Not Pete Hegseth, not Donald Trump, not fucking Jesus Dominican Vance, JD Vance, Jesus Dominica, I don't know. I tried to think of a funny name right there, but I couldn't. ⁓
Mo: No. No.
Luis: Nobody was there, so yeah, they don't give a shit about life. Right-wingers don't give a fuck about life.
Mo: Nope. They'll make that argument like they do. They act like they do when talking about Iran. They're like, ⁓ we're liberating all the women. You mean the guys who are taking rights away from women here? Those are the guys who are quote unquote liberating women overseas? Get the full.
Luis: You know?
Joe: Well, it's kind of funny, They're like, ⁓ they just executed 30,000 people, which I am in fucking full opposition to. Right. But. This is the same shit that MAGA talks about wanting to do to us on the fucking left every goddamn day. You're be like, ⁓ well, we're doing this for human. Motherfucker, you talk about wanting a fucking civil war and fucking executing everybody who doesn't agree with you on the daily. Suck my dick from the back, kindly, kindly, in the most disrespectful way possible. Suck my fucking booty hole, you pig-whoring son of a bathroom attendant bitch.
Luis: Andy knows f- Dude Andy knows friends fire bombed my house.
Mo: What a dick.
Luis: Right? But like check it out. But when I say, ⁓ I want Andy, no to get Charlie Kirk, then I'm the big fucking bad guy. Right.
Joe: Yeah.
Luis: When I want Tommy Portland to fucking step on a hypodermic needle and catch AIDS and can't afford the fucking meds, I'm the bad guy, right?
Mo: You cancer in his dick so it just rots off.
Luis: When I think I would find it humorous that Enrique Haryo, if that dude got deported, like fucking, I'm the bad guy, right?
Mo: You
Bridge: ⁓ quick, quick fact check with for you guys. ⁓ just from what I have been reading, ⁓ I don't think that the soldiers have come home yet. ⁓ I know that there was some videos going around showing that dignified transfer. ⁓ I'm pretty sure that was an older video, ⁓ because everything that I've been reading thus far, they're not scheduled to come back to Iowa until this Saturday.
Luis: ⁓ okay. Okay. Okay, well then my bad. ⁓ but still stand to case that they can all catch AIDS.
Mo: Not the vets coming home, but the ones who orchestrated their namaz, guys. Before the chat loses their fucking mind.
Bridge: No. Yes, yes.
Luis: They can fucking lose their mind whatever what are they gonna do fucking report me? Suck it Like seriously, okay now really fast I'm gonna talk about Alex Stokes Alex Stokes was an anti-facet- is an anti-fascist activist from upstate New York who a few years ago was found guilty and upon appeal had his appeal denied and is doing a 20-year bed
Bridge: You
Mo: Yes.
Luis: in the New York State Penitentiary System. His only crime is stabbing two Proud Boys who were attacking other people. Why is this important? You say, why should I give a fuck about some guy in prison who's not in the game anymore because he stabbed somebody? Well, because he did what other people were afraid to do because he defended his community. He saw proud boys attacking women that would not get off of them. And so he made them get off. So if. Your sister, your mother, your partner were being attacked. I would hope that there would be somebody there that defended them and had their back much like him. Anyway, when you're doing time, time is hard, right? It's it's fucking to do time as an anti-fascist, anti-racist is shitbag hard. Okay, it really is hard. So these people need our support. So you can support Alex Stokes and find out more about his story. If you go to freealexstokes.com or you just Google his name. You can, how else can you support? You can follow the trial of the anti-fascists for the first time in US history that are being fucking held to trial in a fucking kangaroo court, in a clown show court. They're going to be found guilty. One dude's gonna do 20 years for merely moving magazines. The rest of the people are looking at serious time for partaking in a sound disruption.
Mo: Hmm Thank you. That's all they were doing. Just sound. I think some people might have had like cameras or pictures being taken, but like nothing. Like nothing. They allege everything else.
Luis: but we need to support them. And if you show community support, even a little bit, a letter, a card, as Joe often says on the Tiki Talks, if we all do a little bit, lot gets done. Then what you do is you show future revolutionaries that that support is there, that it's not merely fucking talk, that you care about your soldiers as much as they care about you. If you can't fight, you don't have to be one to fight, but you can help support. ⁓ Luis, I don't have money to send these fucking people in jail to buy their soups. Cool. Booyah, a card. ⁓ A book.
Mo: Yeah, a letter would be nice.
Bridge: Support, just support. ⁓
Mo: 20 bucks on their commissary.
Luis: Yeah, something like saying hey, thank you for the work that you do. We will not be forgotten
Bridge: I would say that if you are about the cause and you want to stand 10 toes down, you support these people rather than caring about fucking what's your name, Nancy, whoever the fuck white lady is. Yeah.
Luis: Guthrie. Well, that's a great question, Bridget. Like where can people go to support? They can go to anti-fascist in the anti-fascist international defense fund. Okay. First and foremost, you can start there. Okay. ⁓ you can, yeah, you can start there. They support anti-fascists all around the globe.
Bridge: Like.
Luis: that are facing illegal prosecutions and trials and look to help cover court costs. You can go to IDAVOX and One People's. ⁓ You can support bands like The Oppressed, 21 Gun Salute, Los Fastidios. You can support orgs ⁓ that are everywhere. Yeah.
Bridge: Absolutely. And ⁓ we are going to start linking these things on our website. Don't know if you guys know this or not, we have a website now.
Luis: Woohoo! Joe looks tired.
Bridge: We are, we, he does. Joe, did you know we have a website now?
Mo: you
Joe: No fucking way. Yeah, go to the collective offensive dot com.
Bridge: Fucking yeah!
Mo: Thanks.
Bridge: Nope, not that. It is collectiveoffensivepod.com.
Joe: Go to thecollectiveoffensivepod.com
Bridge: That's the one. Yep. There you go. ⁓ On there, on there. ⁓ Still building it, work in progress, but we're gonna have a whole bunch of different links, cool shit on there. All of our social media is linked on there, ⁓ as well as the YouTubes. So we have all of our videos up there. Twitter, if you wanna watch the boys over here on fucking Twitter, and that fucking hellscape, just giving it to the fucking right wing.
Luis: Collective offensive thought.
Joe: Yeah.
Bridge: They're over there doing that shit. ⁓ I don't have the bandwidth to deal with that, but that's the boys. Also, we got a fucking hoodie now. I don't know if you guys know that either. It's pretty neat. And that's available on our website. If you guys wanna go check that out.
Mo: Suck it!
Luis: And it's also made of 100 % dead baby seal.
Bridge: It is. It is. It's super soft. It's, you know, you get, they're on the, they're on the hood. So they're like ears on the hood.
Mo: Perfect.
Joe: There's little flippers like shoulder pads, right? You get the little flippers on there.
Luis: Yeah. Left turn,
Joe: All right, this is getting a little bit fucked up right now now we're get fucking we're gonna get petered Yeah, we're gonna get fucking petered ⁓
Bridge: Yeah. Fucking PETA.
Mo: I'm saying, fuck vegans too though. Fuck vegans, fuck PETA, fuck all of them.
Bridge: Fucking vegans. We're gonna be just about as bad as fucking Kristy Noem killing her fucking dog. Also, can I just say, listen, super excited that she got fucking fired. I really don't like the fucking, the dude that's taking over for her. ⁓ He's just as much of a piece of shit. But I had so much goddamn material to go over today about Kristy Noem. And then this bitch, this fucking cunt got fucking fired today on the day that we're supposed to fucking record. I'm so mad.
Joe: on the day of my daughter's wedding.
Bridge: How dare she? So upset.
Luis: I mean, there was a lot of interesting stuff that came happen right before we went to air. Like, so I was talking to Joe and fucking we're like, ⁓ Tel Aviv's getting bombed with like cluster munitions. Right. Like fucking Kristi Noem's getting fired. And ⁓ apparently this guy is beloved by everybody, though he's got like democratic and progressive friends. And so cool. The guy that's replacing Kristi Noem. So. Yeah.
Joe: Yeah.
Bridge: Who? Who?
Mo: you
Joe: Fuck that guy in the fucking face hole, dude. That guy sucks Bigfoot's dick,
Bridge: No!
Luis: Yeah, they were like they were talking on NPR today that he's like got lots of friends on both sides of the aisle like in the progressive caucus and shit like that. Yeah.
Mo: Excuse me.
Bridge: Mark Wayne Mullen? ⁓ No, I'm pretty sure he's... ⁓ That's fucking gross. Yeah.
Luis: Yeah, even though he's like super hard mega, he's super hard mega, but like he's got all kinds of friends that are like, well, you know, it's just politics.
Joe: He's right.
Bridge: Also, like, I'm pretty sure he's got some pretty fucking, like, hardcore ties to, Christian nationalism as well, because he was talking a bunch of shit ⁓ against James Tellerico, ⁓ because James Tellerico, I guess, said something about God being non-binary, and Mark Wayne Mullins was upset about that.
Mo: lost his fucking mind.
Luis: God's a man. God's got a penis.
Bridge: Yeah
Joe: Markwayne Mullins can fucking eat my ass with Worcester sauce.
Mo: So my only argument as to why God would be a man is because I think statistically, how do I say this? Women don't immaculately, women don't statistically rape young people to fucking create children like the fucking president of the United States.
Bridge: Who trusts someone with that name? I don't know, but you better watch it. That's not where I thought you were going with that, but okay.
Luis: That's such a weird tie in bro. That was fucking like, feel like, I feel like, I feel like as you were driving that car, you realize the fucking clip you were coming to and you just fucking were like, just turned it really hard at the left. You fucking. You saw the looks on all our faces and we're like, ⁓ fucking hit the brakes.
Mo: I'm just saying bro, I'm just saying I'm sorry this fucking. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Joe: You
Bridge: Yeah.
Mo: Thank
Bridge: you I was just waiting for you to make some fucking misogynistic remark. That's that was it.
Mo: No. No, but sincerely, do think that, you know, go ahead, go ahead, Luis.
Luis: I mean, I don't... How is God a man equaling to our president fucking children?
Mo: So because, so,
Joe: Because God fucking raped a 12 year old to fucking give her Jesus.
Bridge: Ooh!
Mo: Boom! Thank you, Joe. You were with me. You were with me.
Joe: You're welcome.
Mo: to do. So I'm saying dude, like this is what I mean that like, no, but that's my argument for why God's a dude. That's my argument for why God's a dude is because he because a 12 year old got raped and then she fucking had a kid. If it was written from if God was written from a woman's perspective, it wouldn't have started that
Luis: We're going to get killed for that right there, bro. Watch, bro. That fucking. And it's and I'm not saying that. You know, I was going to walk back my statement for a second. Right. That Mary got raped by a fellow Jew and I was going to say something like. The Jewish people aren't raping anybody, and I really feel bad for for saying that right now. But then quite, but then quite frankly, I thought about fucking Gaza and the IDF. So we're just going to leave it out there.
Mo: Mmm, that's also not true.
Luis: Keep it moving.
Bridge: Yeah, but I feel I feel like we've had this conversation before though, too as far as like, you know I I look at this is no different than like the Iranian people the citizens who are not out there doing this this shit like You can't fucking put it on them the same way. You cannot put What the fuck BB Netanyahu is doing on the people who just who live in Israel like now the ones who are supporting don't give me that face the ones who are supporting it and are fucking like woohoo in the street, like yeah, obviously they're a fucking problem, but I don't like no blanket, I don't like the blanket statements.
Mo: you
Luis: No, no, I agree. But like, I guess like here's the deal for me. Outside of Israel, one thing. If you in any way live in Israel. And you are not actively fighting against the regime there actively.
Mo: Thank
Luis: You are complicit and go get fucked. And I think something like like I think I saw some polls where like 80 to 90 percent of Israelis support this war. As it currently stands.
Mo: Mm-hmm.
Joe: Yeah, but so there's a thing with polls though, right? You're to have obviously fucking bias polls that are coming out of Israel. That'd be like saying that'd be like saying fucking. I'm gonna have a poll in my house of fucking how many people like my dog. It's everybody right or if somebody goes now, I'm not really a fan. Well, fuck you. This is my house. Yes, you do If that does that make sense
Mo: Yep.
Luis: I mean, it does, but like, but like, it's cool. Let's have this argument, right? Like fucking ⁓ my counter to that is like colonialism fucking works for the left is colonial as well as the right is colonial. Right. And what I see happening ⁓ in Israel is that the Israeli political spectrum is that the the right wants the total eradication of the Palestinians as well as the Arab people. Right. They want greater fucking Israel to exist. And the left, they're like, ⁓ we're okay with that, but maybe we have these Brown people as our serving, as our working class, as our servant class.
Joe: Yeah, but here's the thing. So we have the same exact fucking thing in the United States. Yeah, does that mean that all of us buy it? Hold on, hold Does that mean that all of us buy into it?
Luis: Yeah. If we're not, what? ⁓ What do we say, bro? What do you and I say? We say if you are not actively fighting the system, then you are condoning it.
Mo: Well, that's what the hippies used to say, if you're not with us then you're against us.
Joe: I'm not just ⁓ fucking shut up with the hippie shit.
Luis: Yeah, bro. We're fucking what the fuck, Fucking dude, what the fuck? right. No, no, but that's not even the same thing, right? If you're not with us, if you're with us, then whatever, bro. Fucking hippie slogan.
Joe: Yeah, dude, a bunch of fucken hippies. Fuck out of here with that.
Mo: Peace. It's literally the same fucking thing.
Joe: Yeah, go listen to fucking put yourself put yourself on mute and go listen to fucking 30 hours of steel begonias you fucking
Luis: Bro, it's not the same thing because we because the hippies are saying if you're not with us, like if you're not listening to Grateful Dead, if you're not fucking banging on your bongo, not taking a shower, then you're against us. Cool. I'm against you guys. Yeah, absolutely. Fucking OK. But but what we're saying is if you don't actively fight every day, do something anti-fascist every day, something anti-colonial every day, then.
Bridge: ⁓ Don't subject me to that.
Joe: I'm against you. ⁓
Luis: You are by default fucking condoning the system and a part of the system. And what I'm saying is by far from what I can see for the last 75 years of the political fucking spectrum, the Israeli I'll fucking say I'll be the only one up here to say I don't give a shit, dude. I until fucking Israel shows me something different. They're all fucking guilty. I am not saying every Jewish person is guilty because that's fucking ridiculous. I'm saying everybody who lives within the fucking borders of Israel, the support of the fucking the open air prison camp, the support, the fucking imprisonment of children. OK, that that talk about they talk about the slaughter of children. If you live in a settlement, fuck you get it.
Mo: you I have no issue of any of that being openly said.
Luis: Because that is literally stolen land.
Mo: Well, and we say this all the time. There's nothing to be bad at.
Luis: Okay. And if you're not fighting that then yeah.
Mo: There's nothing that's bad about saying that though, because we say that all the time. Everyone here in the States is guilty of all the same thing. The blood is on everyone's hands. Everyone's. Doesn't matter who you voted for. Doesn't matter if you voted or didn't vote. The blood is on your hands and it's ultimately going to be on your children's hands if you don't do anything about it.
Joe: What if I got an autograph dildo though?
Mo: Well, mean, depends on who's in a stormy dildo.
Luis: What if you rode around on a Harley and talk shit to a bunch of old people?
Joe: You're a piece of shit, you know that?
Mo: So here's my issue with old people, right? Here's my issue with the oldest of the people, right? The ones who don't get it. The ones who don't get it are like, yo, I think this is the end of the world. And they go along with it because they don't know any better. And no one's like, hey, grandma, go back to bed. You know, like, this needs to be something that if you're not challenging the elderly people in your life, then what are you doing? You know, like you need to challenge them, the young, you think they know?
Joe: I don't necessarily buy that though,
Mo: Do think they just, they all know?
Joe: I think that they do know, dude, because I know plenty of old people who are fucking not with this shit. Right? I feel like that's a fucking cop out, a fucking, well, that's just how they were. That's a different generation. Like, nah, dude, that's a fucking cop out. You know, like, I mean, straight up, so my mother was a fucking quote unquote lifelong conservative. When Donald Trump ran for the first time in 2016, she was like, yo, no, fuck that shit, fam. with zero provocation and she has been fucking extremely anti ever since. I've slowly, my younger brother and I have slowly been able to radicalize our mother and that's fucking dope, right? But she had that fucking consciousness to say, this isn't fucking right. And my mom is like 76 years old, by the way, right? So she is that older generation.
Luis: Yeah, we can't be we cannot forgive. can't have this fucking look to be perfectly frank, bro. These people are out to hurt us. OK. And. These rats do know, like, here's the thing. There is no seeing the light. You picked your side a long time ago. There is no coming to my side. You don't accept traders.
Mo: They are hurting us.
Luis: What's Sen Tsun say about traders or like you fucking you use them. You never welcome that. You won't welcome them and you use them. You never embrace them. Right. Again, dude, like it's not even a situation of like, ⁓ I want you to eat just not at my table. No. It's you pick the side now, fucking fight for your side. Okay. And, and fucking, but here's the thing right now.
Joe: You
Luis: They're winning. They have won. They're kicking our ass. We live in a delusional state.
Mo: Thank
Luis: where we say there are more of us than them. And I look in the streets and I go, no. And I was there in 2020 where you might, you know, that that kind of felt that way then. And they're they're kicking our ass in every fucking way they can kick our ass. They they fucking they tell us, we're building this concentration camp, that concentration camp. We're fucking bombing Iraq. We're fucking, you know.
Mo: you Shh.
Luis: Because we have this trade embargo on Cuba and we fucked over Venezuela and they're getting no oil. There's now blackouts in Cuba, right? Fucking nobody's getting food. Hospitals are shutting down. More people are getting hurt. And they're winning. They are fucking beating our ass. just made fucking every trans person in Kansas disappear. And everybody in this country was like, well, that's fucking horrible.
Mo: Well, you know what, I gotta say something there, like even though I'm not a member of that community, I'm gonna say this, what I've learned, nobody disappeared. I know what you're saying, like on paper, but. I know a couple of friends of mine who would say, no, the fuck, hang on. They took a piece of paper away and that's a big fucking deal, but not a goddamn single person disappeared. They are all still here. Everyone's still here. And that's why we're going to continue to fight. No, but do you get what I'm saying? That's a...
Bridge: I mean, no, no, I'm gonna, no, no, because, because, no, I'm gonna push back on that because they are, did they physically disappear? No, obviously they did not physically disappear, but did it dehumanize them even further? Absolutely, absolutely. So even though it might be seen as just a piece of paper, it's still their fucking livelihood, right?
Luis: How hard is... Yeah.
Bridge: It literally like their license, their driver's licenses, all of their fucking IDs were invalidated overnight with no fucking direction whatsoever of how to fix things. Like it was illegal for them to drive. None of their fucking passports are valid anymore.
Luis: Can't go get your money out of a bank.
Bridge: Nope. so it's not just, it wasn't just a piece of paper. I was just saying, like, it's literally their everyday ordeals that everyone has to go through, right? You get in the fucking car, you gotta drive to fucking work. What would happen if one of them were to get fucking pulled over and their driver's license is no longer considered fucking valid?
Luis: Possibly death. Let's be real.
Mo: you
Bridge: Like, this is not just a few extra fucking hoops for people to jump through, right? This is now people that are having to walk back their fucking identities to make the fucking Christians happy.
Mo: You That is true. okay, so I appreciate you seeing what I was saying, but you are right in some aspects there, because we have spoken with a couple of people who have said that they have had to go back to hiding who they truly are.
Luis: They've won! They've won!
Bridge: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This is not just, oh, OK, now I got to go. Like with the fucking Save Act bullshit, Now I have to go and find fucking copy of my marriage certificate and blah, blah, blah, blah. And we've talked ad nauseum about this shit. But it's not just an extra piece of paper. This is their identity that they have now lost to make a group of fucking Christians happy. because they are uncomfortable with the trans people's existence.
Luis: And I hate, I hate that and I hate this that, you ⁓ but we're getting that signal from our white overlord that ultimately runs everything. And ⁓ it's been two and a half hours. And I think our white overlord is being told by his brown overlord to wrap it the fuck up. Maybe I'm wrong.
Mo: Okay.
Bridge: You
Joe: No, just our fucking producer lady.
Mo: What the fuck, Louise?
Luis: ⁓ she's saying wrap it up. We gotta wrap it up.
Joe: Yes.
Luis: I thought, okay, so, fucking, thanks for listening to another fucking episode of The Collective Offensive. The opening song you heard once again was by the greatest anti-fascist band this world has ever known called The Oppress, Welsh anti-fascist rock and roll since 1981. Give them a listen on Spotify, wherever you get your music, the YouTubes. Joe, why don't you tell us who the second band is?
Joe: The outro song here is called Someone Among Us by a band called 21 Gun Salute, who are my brothers. It's an awesome song, once again, anti-fascist, anti-racist band. The song, I feel like, plays perfectly with some of the things that we've talked about this episode and on other episodes, where people can't keep their fucking mouth shut and end up. ratting on their fucking friends. And this song talks about that, so give it a listen.
Luis: I'd also like to right now take just, you know, this is what our fourth episode you guys and, ⁓ before we get out of here is our fifth episode. Sorry. ⁓ for this, for, for being a young podcasts, ⁓ you guys have shown us a lot of love, a lot of friendship. ⁓ and I, I really appreciate it. And to all the bands.
Bridge: It's our fifth. It's our fifth.
Mo: I had the same thing happen earlier.
Bridge: You
Luis: that have been kind and that you've heard their music of and the ones that are still you're going to hear their music next week and the week after that we have you know to all these bands that have said yes we can use their music and have been so kind and have reached out to us. ⁓ Thank you. It means the world to us guys. ⁓ Also remember fucking Putin. Suck it. We are banned in Russia. Fucking let's talk about that for a fucking quick minute. We are banned in a
Mo: 100%. Hahaha!
Bridge: We are.
Luis: Fascist country and I want to say Putin suck my dick from the backside your fucking little twat Right. ⁓ On a serious note there was a lot tonight that we wanted to talk to you, but we just couldn't get to ⁓ Remember the fight doesn't stop and and the and the world's getting more horrible every day ⁓ When we talked to you guys last time ⁓
Bridge: We are.
Mo: That's right, dude.
Luis: World War three hadn't potent hadn't even started. We were joking about it. And I don't know where the world is going to be. Next week, right? Like, I mean, the fucking world we live in next week, could really be fucking on. It could be over. It could be somewhere else. But either way or whatever way, people are going to get hurt until you fucking do something about it.
Bridge: David, do you have any closing remarks?
Mo: Nope, do fucking something. Something is better than nothing.
Joe: Thanks for listening to us tonight. I feel pretty fucked up. I'm getting sick. I feel like I got fucked by a Bigfoot. So thank you for listening and fucking suck it.
Mo: SUCK IT! SUCK IT! SUCK IT! SUCK IT!
Luis: Sookie! Sookie!