Full Transcript for "Culturally Significant Anakin Poasting": A 2026 Midterms Special (Andorks: Detours)

post was by... At Architect Oracle 00:02:46.090 --> 00:02:52.289 on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Life 00:02:52.289 --> 00:02:55.830 of Gen Z. College left you in debt for a degree 00:02:55.830 --> 00:02:58.969 nobody wants. COVID stole your 20s and prime 00:02:58.969 --> 00:03:02.689 memories. AI deleted the jobs. Rent takes half 00:03:02.689 --> 00:03:06.030 your paycheck. Boomers still call you lazy. And 00:03:06.030 --> 00:03:10.229 then it's a picture of Anakin burning on Mustafar. 00:03:10.610 --> 00:03:15.750 And at that point. The right basically realized 00:03:15.750 --> 00:03:19.949 we are exactly like Anakin Skywalker. So I think 00:03:19.949 --> 00:03:21.810 we actually have to start before that because 00:03:21.810 --> 00:03:23.289 I don't think this starts with Anakin. I think 00:03:23.289 --> 00:03:28.229 this starts with Malfoy. I hate that I know what 00:03:28.229 --> 00:03:32.490 Malfoy is. I think there's a I think this is 00:03:32.490 --> 00:03:34.849 like a fucking Steve Bannon quote, but it's a 00:03:34.849 --> 00:03:37.409 it's a paraphrasing or whatever. But he's like 00:03:37.409 --> 00:03:42.810 American politics is that liberals control culture. 00:03:43.509 --> 00:03:45.270 but so desperately want to control politics. 00:03:45.870 --> 00:03:47.689 And then right -wingers control politics and 00:03:47.689 --> 00:03:50.629 so desperately want to control culture. Yeah. 00:03:50.729 --> 00:03:53.330 And I think, I don't know, anticipating a like 00:03:53.330 --> 00:03:56.860 mental breakdown that was about to happen. Right 00:03:56.860 --> 00:03:58.919 -wingers sort of like decided that like, we're 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:02.060 going to go all in on heck and millennials and 00:04:02.349 --> 00:04:05.030 we're going to turn Malfoy. We're going to force 00:04:05.030 --> 00:04:09.810 them Malfoy into like a borderline lowly con 00:04:09.810 --> 00:04:14.669 figure who represents like, what we wish we are, 00:04:14.750 --> 00:04:17.389 which is like white, but also mean, but then 00:04:17.389 --> 00:04:20.089 everyone thinks we're hot. It's like we're the 00:04:20.089 --> 00:04:23.750 evil, mean, rich girl. And that's why they're 00:04:23.750 --> 00:04:26.889 jealous of us. Yes, none of the girls like us. 00:04:27.170 --> 00:04:30.490 So we need to project outside an image of a girl 00:04:30.490 --> 00:04:36.279 that would like us. Yeah. And so then if that's 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:39.879 the aspirational figure that they want, is Anakin 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.240 then representing the person they think they 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:47.779 are? I think, I don't know. I mean, it must be 00:04:47.779 --> 00:04:51.160 because it also ends up matching reality in the 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:55.279 sense that they immediately got their legs cut 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:58.319 off and then set on fire. And now everyone's 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.319 laughing at them. Well, I think they would argue 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.060 that's what they're arguing is that the cucked 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:05.939 media takes a hero like that and then makes him 00:05:05.939 --> 00:05:11.279 fall apart at the end. That's why it's bad. Anyway, 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:12.459 we should talk about how the fucking White House 00:05:12.459 --> 00:05:15.920 posted one of these. Yeah, it went it went be 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:20.910 like this posting started and I was like, you 00:05:20.910 --> 00:05:23.689 know, the right has been trying to co -op Star 00:05:23.689 --> 00:05:28.209 Wars for as long as Star Wars has existed. This 00:05:28.209 --> 00:05:31.230 isn't really anything special. We don't need 00:05:31.230 --> 00:05:34.509 to do an emergency podcast about it. And then 00:05:34.509 --> 00:05:39.970 Elon Musk posted an AI generated Star Wars thing. 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:46.180 with Anakin and Padme on the Imperial throne. 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.699 And I was like, okay, fine. Like maybe there's 00:05:49.699 --> 00:05:53.019 something here. And then the Department of Education 00:05:53.019 --> 00:05:57.279 posted anime Anakin. Well, they had posted Malfoy 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.579 a couple of days earlier. Yeah. Whatever incel 00:06:00.579 --> 00:06:04.220 is in charge of their Twitter account. Oh God, 00:06:04.300 --> 00:06:06.000 I'm going backwards here. There's a lot of stuff 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.720 I had not seen. A lot of normalcy happening here. 00:06:08.819 --> 00:06:10.779 But yes, they posted like a Malfoy education 00:06:10.779 --> 00:06:14.930 meme. Yes, on October 27th, they put there's 00:06:14.930 --> 00:06:16.810 magic and learning where they have a Malfoy in 00:06:16.810 --> 00:06:20.170 it just to, you know, wing to their base. And 00:06:20.170 --> 00:06:24.209 then on October 30th, they posted a AI image. 00:06:24.250 --> 00:06:27.110 Clearly, I don't know why, taking the artwork 00:06:27.110 --> 00:06:33.420 from Death Note to have Anakin and Padme and 00:06:33.420 --> 00:06:36.300 quote, there's magic and learning and then make 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:38.949 education great again. And then all hell broke 00:06:38.949 --> 00:06:45.819 loose. So the question is, like, why is this 00:06:45.819 --> 00:06:52.060 such a recurring phenomenon? Because culture 00:06:52.060 --> 00:06:56.019 died 20 years ago and we haven't moved on. And 00:06:56.019 --> 00:06:58.560 I would even go a step further than that. And 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:03.100 I want to quote the Iranian cleric Shahab Muradi. 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.290 There you go. Who said, in your opinion, if anyone 00:07:06.290 --> 00:07:08.870 around the world wants to take the revenge on 00:07:08.870 --> 00:07:11.649 the assassination of Soleimani and intends to 00:07:11.649 --> 00:07:14.709 do it proportionally in the way that they suggest, 00:07:14.949 --> 00:07:17.730 that we take one of theirs now that they've taken 00:07:17.730 --> 00:07:20.730 one of ours, who should we consider to

take out 00:07:20.730 --> 00:07:24.100 in the context of America? Think about it. Are 00:07:24.100 --> 00:07:26.759 we supposed to take out Spider -Man and SpongeBob? 00:07:26.980 --> 00:07:29.939 They don't have any heroes. We have a country 00:07:29.939 --> 00:07:32.199 in front of us with a large population and a 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:35.319 large landmass, but it doesn't have any heroes. 00:07:35.540 --> 00:07:39.100 All of their heroes are cartoon characters. They're 00:07:39.100 --> 00:07:42.319 all fictional. So instead of being able to post, 00:07:42.420 --> 00:07:46.129 like they can't even like giga post about Trump 00:07:46.129 --> 00:07:48.829 anymore because Trump has failed them. Like the 00:07:48.829 --> 00:07:52.180 hero that they have invented. has failed them, 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.759 and now they have to retreat to Anakin and even 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.639 gender -bent Draco Malfoy. Well, failing is good, 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:02.759 actually. They want their characters to fail. 00:08:02.899 --> 00:08:06.360 That's what makes them good. You know, maybe 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.199 The Last Jedi had a bigger impact than they wanted. 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:11.120 I mean, we'll get to the election results, but 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.259 just the shared agreement that in Woke 7 or whatever, 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:17.439 just The Last Jedi will be shown at all hours 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:21.069 of the day. I don't know. We can get into this. 00:08:21.149 --> 00:08:23.750 But I'm just like, clearly, Disney does not know 00:08:23.750 --> 00:08:26.069 what the fuck they're doing with Star Wars. Like, 00:08:26.069 --> 00:08:28.889 Adam Driver came out today and was like, I wanted 00:08:28.889 --> 00:08:31.870 to do Hunt for Ben Solo, but as far as I know, 00:08:31.930 --> 00:08:33.889 I'm done. Unless they wanted to do something 00:08:33.889 --> 00:08:39.220 else, in which case, I'm not done. But I do not 00:08:39.220 --> 00:08:42.629 think that the John Watts trilogy is going to 00:08:42.629 --> 00:08:47.179 happen. But they have... Andor is just free money 00:08:47.179 --> 00:08:49.789 on the table. Everyone loves it. Like every time 00:08:49.789 --> 00:08:51.509 something like this happens, it gets a huge amount 00:08:51.509 --> 00:08:54.789 of like viral media. Just throw the fucking cash 00:08:54.789 --> 00:08:58.909 truck at Tony Gilroy. I don't understand. Behemoth 00:08:58.909 --> 00:09:01.049 is not getting such good reviews that he's so 00:09:01.049 --> 00:09:06.889 busy with Behemoth. I saw that Andor rewatches 00:09:06.889 --> 00:09:10.590 are surging after the midterm results. The Democrats 00:09:10.590 --> 00:09:14.210 posting Nemec's manifesto. Yeah, so in response 00:09:14.210 --> 00:09:17.529 to all the right wing stuff, the Democrats account 00:09:17.529 --> 00:09:21.590 started. tiktok account posted a montage of various 00:09:21.590 --> 00:09:24.710 clips against nemex manifesto yeah and or fan 00:09:24.710 --> 00:09:27.009 cam it's also funny because i think one of the 00:09:27.009 --> 00:09:30.419 things that i maybe is a something i talk about 00:09:30.419 --> 00:09:33.379 a lot which is that andor does not really have 00:09:33.379 --> 00:09:36.769 an answer of how to fix like what to do after 00:09:36.769 --> 00:09:39.690 fascism like it's really good about fighting 00:09:39.690 --> 00:09:41.870 fascism and why the dangers of fascism are but 00:09:41.870 --> 00:09:45.529 it does not offer any like answer so doubling 00:09:45.529 --> 00:09:47.980 down on just the like The idea of like the Democrats 00:09:47.980 --> 00:09:50.960 just won this monumental win at the house. What 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:53.980 do we do with it? I don't know. It's just actually 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:55.600 kind of more emblematic of Andor than they think 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:02.019 it is. Yes. The way that everybody is posting 00:10:02.019 --> 00:10:07.039 the end of episode six with everybody celebrating 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:10.440 that the empire has been defeated just makes 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:14.350 me think about how. the Empire is able to rebuild 00:10:14.350 --> 00:10:18.070 out in the outer rim of the galaxy and then come 00:10:18.070 --> 00:10:20.929 back and just destroy everything right over again. 00:10:21.429 --> 00:10:24.169 Okay, so here's a good Anakin tweet I found. 00:10:24.250 --> 00:10:26.590 It was from Arminius Speaks. Got every one of 00:10:26.590 --> 00:10:30.690 these as just fucking some Greek statue as our 00:10:30.690 --> 00:10:33.730 Twitter icon. And quote, the prequels at the 00:10:33.730 --> 00:10:35.289 end of the day are about a young man trying to 00:10:35.289 --> 00:10:37.210 claim what is rightfully his and he's treated 00:10:37.210 --> 00:10:39.169 with suspicion, contempt, or even outright hatred 00:10:39.169 --> 00:10:42.190 because of it. He wants skill, power. influence, 00:10:42.370 --> 00:10:44.789 order, hierarchy, and isn't afraid to tell people 00:10:44.789 --> 00:10:46.990 that. He kills the guilt that he used to feel 00:10:46.990 --> 00:10:49.250 for wanting what he should have. It's remarkable 00:10:49.250 --> 00:10:51.450 how relatable all of this is actually for young 00:10:51.450 --> 00:10:54.330 men. Made to feel guilt for who they are, denied 00:10:54.330 --> 00:10:56.990 what is rightfully theirs by birth, villainized 00:10:56.990 --> 00:10:58.889 by a weak, corrupted, aging republic that has 00:10:58.889 --> 00:11:01.389 long outlived its usefulness. Fortunately, everyone 00:11:01.389 --> 00:11:03.450 seems to be on the same page as us. We're going 00:11:03.450 --> 00:11:06.809 to reclaim what is ours. And the AI image of 00:11:06.809 --> 00:11:13.600 Anakin. un unmarred on a throne with uh sexy 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:17.299 padme and evil in evil dress i can only describe 00:11:17.299 --> 00:11:19.720 it as like the dress when you're evil and then 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:24.000 two baby luke

and baby leia i i saw another one 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.960 that was talking about how anakin was being held 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.580 back by all the dei hires on the jedi council 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:36.700 who were clearly inferior to him and like pointing 00:11:36.700 --> 00:11:41.019 out like Mace Windu was holding Anakin back, 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:43.360 even though Anakin was better than him. I'm like 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:47.000 Mace Windu was a million times a better Jedi 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:51.500 than Anakin was by any text that you follow. 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:55.490 Even Anakin would say so. It's just fun. It's 00:11:55.490 --> 00:11:57.509 so funny that this happened before election day. 00:11:57.590 --> 00:12:01.539 Yeah. Because I think to me. what i think this 00:12:01.539 --> 00:12:03.240 election proves and we get we'll talk a little 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:06.940 bit more about the election after uh in a little 00:12:06.940 --> 00:12:09.340 bit at behind the patreon wall so we can get 00:12:09.340 --> 00:12:13.299 real spicy um yeah head on over to patreon .com 00:12:13.299 --> 00:12:17.259 and orcs pod for and orcs after dark uh a woo 00:12:17.259 --> 00:12:25.049 um is that the i don't think this election i 00:12:25.049 --> 00:12:27.370 was just talking to somebody and i'm like we've 00:12:29.450 --> 00:12:38.059 had one two three four five six seven elections 00:12:38.059 --> 00:12:42.149 since trump was on the ballot i think that's 00:12:42.149 --> 00:12:45.330 correct yeah there's yeah i think seven but my 00:12:45.330 --> 00:12:47.090 point is that like we have not everyone that 00:12:47.090 --> 00:12:50.710 wanted like the general like revulsion of society 00:12:50.710 --> 00:12:53.669 of being like let's get rid of this guy hasn't 00:12:53.669 --> 00:12:56.539 happened and i think people want to pretend that 00:12:56.539 --> 00:12:59.879 this election is that and i'm not sure it is 00:13:00.539 --> 00:13:02.799 I think in some ways these weird right wingers 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:06.879 are parallel images to the left of like we need 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:08.779 to construct this like narrative that people 00:13:08.779 --> 00:13:11.559 need to embody. And then by embodying this narrative, 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:13.820 they will we can create change when I think it's 00:13:13.820 --> 00:13:17.230 most of the voters were like gas too expensive. 00:13:18.429 --> 00:13:21.350 I think that if it wasn't anything more than 00:13:21.350 --> 00:13:23.029 gas too expensive, this would have happened any 00:13:23.029 --> 00:13:27.200 time in the last 10 years. I think that being 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:32.090 in California helps me to. understand what the 00:13:32.090 --> 00:13:36.649 average voter is thinking because every year 00:13:36.649 --> 00:13:40.110 or every election year we have a variety of ballot 00:13:40.110 --> 00:13:44.570 propositions and it you can just tell that whichever 00:13:44.570 --> 00:13:46.850 one is going to win is just the one that is on 00:13:46.850 --> 00:13:49.730 the tv the most like there's no real coherent 00:13:49.730 --> 00:13:53.830 ideology to which ballot propositions pass In 00:13:53.830 --> 00:13:58.090 a massively left -wing blue wave election year, 00:13:58.370 --> 00:14:01.330 our billionaire tax failed, and we even passed 00:14:01.330 --> 00:14:03.750 a proposition to make it so that we can never 00:14:03.750 --> 00:14:06.830 pass a billionaire tax ever again. No, that's 00:14:06.830 --> 00:14:09.669 not quite correct. The one that passed is the— 00:14:09.669 --> 00:14:15.259 I thought it's the no personal property tax one. 00:14:15.580 --> 00:14:17.559 I think it's housing property. The other one 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:21.720 didn't pass. Oh, so that's with personal property. 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:24.649 Yeah. I think I might be getting that wrong, 00:14:24.769 --> 00:14:28.529 I believe. In any case, we have failed to stop, 00:14:28.690 --> 00:14:32.529 you know, indentured servitude through the prison 00:14:32.529 --> 00:14:36.889 system. We have kept the death penalty. And, 00:14:36.990 --> 00:14:43.990 you know, at the end of the day, Trump won with 00:14:43.990 --> 00:14:49.070 the promise of deporting people and starting 00:14:49.070 --> 00:14:52.350 a trade war with China and starting a war with 00:14:52.350 --> 00:14:57.149 Iran. And people did go for it. And now it's 00:14:57.149 --> 00:14:59.389 just, oh, when we see it actually playing out 00:14:59.389 --> 00:15:01.909 in front of us, that's when people, I guess, 00:15:01.929 --> 00:15:04.090 don't like it. And they'll just forget about 00:15:04.090 --> 00:15:07.610 that in another five years. I guess it's finally 00:15:07.610 --> 00:15:10.909 like Trump won on a promise of like two things, 00:15:11.009 --> 00:15:14.230 like I will make things cheaper and also no war. 00:15:14.409 --> 00:15:16.789 And he just blew through those things immediately 00:15:16.789 --> 00:15:22.460 in like six months. Maybe my memory is wrong, 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:24.820 but did those things happen the last time he 00:15:24.820 --> 00:15:27.259 was president? Because I don't remember. We did 00:15:27.259 --> 00:15:29.620 not go into any new wars, really. No substantial 00:15:29.620 --> 00:15:34.100 boots on the ground wars. Sure. And we were coming 00:15:34.100 --> 00:15:38.500 off of, and the economy was doing fairly good 00:15:38.500 --> 00:15:41.559 after coming out of Obama. It was churning for 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:43.360 a couple of years there. So we got the benefit 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:46.679 of the doubt there. But the Democrats still took 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:51.860 over in those midterms. But there was not a huge 00:15:51.860 --> 00:15:56.970 wave. But then it all it didn't take long for, 00:15:56.990 --> 00:15:59.830 you know, Trump to get a huge wave and he won 00:15:59.830 --> 00:16:04.070 and got everything along with him. So it's hard

00:16:04.070 --> 00:16:09.899 for me to imagine this blue wave lasting for 00:16:09.899 --> 00:16:13.419 very long. Again, to to use the Star Wars analogy, 00:16:13.740 --> 00:16:16.870 like it didn't take that long for the first order 00:16:16.870 --> 00:16:19.470 to show up. And Trump is even still in office 00:16:19.470 --> 00:16:21.970 right now. Yeah, I mean, I guess the question 00:16:21.970 --> 00:16:26.669 to me is I don't, this does not mean that there 00:16:26.669 --> 00:16:30.730 is not somebody who can find other juice, but 00:16:30.730 --> 00:16:34.769 Donald Trump has a unique control on the American 00:16:34.769 --> 00:16:37.990 psyche by being a TV figure who's existed since 00:16:37.990 --> 00:16:41.029 the 80s, that he has just like 50 years worth 00:16:41.029 --> 00:16:45.620 of mass awareness. He has battle, force battle 00:16:45.620 --> 00:16:49.360 meditation. He can connect with people from across 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:54.340 the nation using his mental powers. Yes, exactly. 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:58.899 But I don't like, he cohered everything together. 00:16:58.980 --> 00:17:02.059 And I don't know, look, I'm sure they'll find 00:17:02.059 --> 00:17:03.639 somebody who they'll immediately just all glom 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:05.900 onto and I'll look like an idiot. But like, unless 00:17:05.900 --> 00:17:09.039 you're getting like Joe Rogan to run, I don't 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:10.980 see any other way that you can recreate that 00:17:10.980 --> 00:17:13.930 like. that people will buy into because there 00:17:13.930 --> 00:17:16.619 is nobody who is that... They don't even need 00:17:16.619 --> 00:17:18.740 to be trusted, but just prominent in society. 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:23.599 Again, we have no heroes. Who would it be? That's 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.500 why they have... Malfoy is going to run. They're 00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:30.220 going to Hatsune Miku a presidency. We're going 00:17:30.220 --> 00:17:35.029 to have our first Vocaloid president soon. Fuck, 00:17:35.130 --> 00:17:37.109 that's just a Black Mirror episode. God damn 00:17:37.109 --> 00:17:40.390 it. I just... Yeah, I don't know where we're... 00:17:40.539 --> 00:17:42.319 I think eventually we'll just sort of like end 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:45.079 up in like two, we'll just be in like a very 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.160 balkanized country where like New York and California 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.259 and various states and cities have like functioning 00:17:50.259 --> 00:17:52.660 governments. And then it's a little bit Mad Max 00:17:52.660 --> 00:17:54.420 -y outside of those places. And we'll just keep 00:17:54.420 --> 00:17:59.079 trudging along. I don't really see any, I don't 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:02.700 see any great like reorganization of society 00:18:02.700 --> 00:18:04.880 happening in either direction. I mean, society 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:06.599 will keep falling apart, but we're not, I don't 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:09.759 see any real

movement forward. Like I don't, 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:13.559 I'm glad. I got to live out for 24 hours. I have 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:14.859 no fucking idea what the Democrats are going 00:18:14.859 --> 00:18:18.819 to do in office. No idea. And I am very plugged 00:18:18.819 --> 00:18:20.220 into politics. I have no idea what the actual 00:18:20.220 --> 00:18:22.380 coherent plan is, what they're going to do when 00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:27.539 they get in there. I saw a recording of a conversation 00:18:27.539 --> 00:18:31.859 with Elisa Slotkin, senator from whatever state 00:18:31.859 --> 00:18:35.220 she's from. Sorry, Elisa. I believe Michigan. 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:40.910 Sure. No, we love Michigan. Thank you, Michigan. 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:47.099 She was talking about going to Hungary and meeting 00:18:47.099 --> 00:18:50.000 with, you know, the politicians there who just, 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.140 you know, overthrew their authoritarian dictator 00:18:53.140 --> 00:18:58.380 after 16 years. And what she learned from them 00:18:58.380 --> 00:19:02.859 was that they basically had within each of their, 00:19:02.980 --> 00:19:07.200 you know. committees and avenues of power they 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:13.319 they found star cases in which they could prosecute 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:17.299 and make an example out of the remnants of that 00:19:17.299 --> 00:19:20.809 prior administration the thing that concerns 00:19:20.809 --> 00:19:24.150 me is that the examples that she pointed out 00:19:24.150 --> 00:19:27.869 were things like building the east wing of the 00:19:27.869 --> 00:19:32.680 east wing nobody cares Nobody cares. And what 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:37.640 is the reflecting pool? These areas of graft 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:43.299 and yeah, no one gives a shit about that. She 00:19:43.299 --> 00:19:47.339 did also name Jared Kushner, right? As like somebody 00:19:47.339 --> 00:19:52.140 who has obviously profited off of it. And so 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:57.509 that's where I'm like, that is a good idea. We 00:19:57.509 --> 00:19:59.529 want to prosecute people. That'd be fun. But 00:19:59.529 --> 00:20:01.849 they're going to find the dumbest way in which 00:20:01.849 --> 00:20:04.349 to prosecute people is what I'm worried about. 00:20:04.509 --> 00:20:06.930 And then Trump's just going to pardon them. Yeah. 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:11.920 There's the issue of it's the right thing to 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.240 do, but that the voters who matter will not care. 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:22.769 If the price of gas, if the price of diesel, 00:20:22.890 --> 00:20:25.930 if the price of eggs does not come down, they 00:20:25.930 --> 00:20:30.650 don't care if the person who... voted to make 00:20:30.650 --> 00:20:35.269 this blue wave happen will not care. I mean, 00:20:35.289 --> 00:20:38.349 the helpfulness is that it will still be a anti 00:20:38.349 --> 00:20:41.910 -Trump wave. Trump is still president for two 00:20:41.910 --> 00:20:45.470 more years. So the next wave will just be still 00:20:45.470 --> 00:20:50.220 a reaction to Trumpism. So I think the Democrats 00:20:50.220 --> 00:20:52.299 are actually, if they were a functioning political 00:20:52.299 --> 00:20:54.039 party, would be in a really good position in 00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:55.880 two years because then they are very close to 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:58.220 getting to 60 because they've won in seats this 00:20:58.220 --> 00:21:00.359 year that they should never have won in. And 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:03.119 then the next cycle are much more favorable seats. 00:21:05.859 --> 00:21:11.559 We're looking at Mississippi right now. The problem 00:21:11.630 --> 00:21:16.230 with that is our House Majority Leader is Hakeem 00:21:16.230 --> 00:21:19.630 Jeffries and our Senate Majority Leader is Chuck 00:21:19.630 --> 00:21:26.000 Schumer. And I saw somebody from the Israeli 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:30.210 government posting about how Those are both strong 00:21:30.210 --> 00:21:33.809 friends of Israel. And so as much as we want 00:21:33.809 --> 00:21:38.559 to say the genocide in Palestine and people's 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:43.099 moral objection to that helped fuel this blue 00:21:43.099 --> 00:21:47.720 wave, I think the storm walls are up to prevent 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:50.559 that from leading to the kind of change that 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:54.400 we want to see happen. Trump already announced 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:57.660 that basically we're going to stop. And Netanyahu's 00:21:57.660 --> 00:22:01.259 fine with this. we're going to stop giving weapons 00:22:01.259 --> 00:22:02.700 to Israel and we're just going to let Israel 00:22:02.700 --> 00:22:07.779 buy them from our giant military industrial complex. 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:10.500 Like there's no actual difference to it. Yeah. 00:22:10.779 --> 00:22:12.900 I think Netanyahu referred to it as we're growing 00:22:12.900 --> 00:22:14.279 up and we're going to start just buying things 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:16.079 that's supposed to be given them. Like that's, 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:17.359 they have plenty of money. Let's just keep buying 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:19.099 it. That doesn't actually functionally fix the 00:22:19.099 --> 00:22:20.900 issue. I mean, it's nice that we're not, our 00:22:20.900 --> 00:22:22.779 taxes are not paying for it, but we still have 00:22:22.779 --> 00:22:28.220 a state that is basically undetachable from the 00:22:28.220 --> 00:22:30.990 military. So I don't fucking know. What do I 00:22:30.990 --> 00:22:34.789 know? I'm a fucking Star Wars podcast. I just 00:22:34.789 --> 00:22:37.670 want to talk about some good posts. If I can 00:22:37.670 --> 00:22:42.259 make one more Star Wars reference, we have our 00:22:42.579 --> 00:22:48.049 beloved Mon Mothma lead the rebellion to victory. 00:22:48.809 --> 00:22:52.970 And then what does she do? But immediately disarm 00:22:52.970 --> 00:22:59.140 it. And if I hate to

prognosticate about the 00:22:59.140 --> 00:23:02.039 future, I have been wrong about. Just about everything 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:06.140 that has happened over the last 10 years. But 00:23:06.140 --> 00:23:08.900 I hope that one doesn't come to pass. Disarm 00:23:08.900 --> 00:23:14.660 what? Again, not prosecuting the outgoing administration, 00:23:14.859 --> 00:23:20.079 I guess, would be my version of disarming. Coming 00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:23.319 into power and then not using your power. I just 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:25.380 feel like the I guess meme guy. Like, I guess, 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:27.900 yeah. Why not? I don't think it fucking matters. 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:29.960 Like, it's the right thing to do and it should 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:32.660 be done because it's the right thing to do. But 00:23:32.660 --> 00:23:36.339 to me, until there's some functional reorganizing 00:23:36.339 --> 00:23:39.960 of how society works, it's just going to be a 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:42.460 little bit worse each year because there's nobody 00:23:42.460 --> 00:23:45.980 actually interested in building a better vision. 00:23:47.019 --> 00:23:49.000 It's just a reaction to what already is bad. 00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:52.839 Yeah. It's like people who I always get mad at 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:54.799 people when they're like, well, that's late capitalism 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:56.700 for you. And I'm like, I don't know why you're 00:23:56.700 --> 00:23:59.930 so optimistic that we're late. We could just 00:23:59.930 --> 00:24:01.890 be in the prime of capitalism. I don't think 00:24:01.890 --> 00:24:04.670 we're anywhere near late. It's still working 00:24:04.670 --> 00:24:06.769 pretty well as far as capitalism is concerned. 00:24:07.450 --> 00:24:11.390 Yeah, I just wanted to call out some good quotes. 00:24:12.250 --> 00:24:17.519 Some good quote tweets of stunking on right -wingers 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:20.599 of, that's right, Libs. I've been duped by an 00:24:20.599 --> 00:24:23.119 elderly pervert and I'm mere hours away from 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:25.079 having my cock and balls incinerated in a volcano. 00:24:27.099 --> 00:24:33.880 Very good. That was from user... At QQQQ. Thank 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:36.779 you for your service. Yes. May the force be with 00:24:36.779 --> 00:24:44.880 you. Where was the other ones? I like these both 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:46.380 on my personal account and the Andor account. 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:54.789 Crucially, everyone has decided that The Last 00:24:54.789 --> 00:25:00.569 Jedi is actually good, which is also great. Where 00:25:00.569 --> 00:25:04.650 is it? 24 -hour endless loop of The Last Jedi. 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:07.700 Director Rian Johnson on every cable channel 00:25:07.700 --> 00:25:10.880 in North America for the next four years. Actually, 00:25:10.900 --> 00:25:13.380 every movie is going to be deleted from existence 00:25:13.380 --> 00:25:16.819 except for The Last Jedi, directed by Rian Johnson, 00:25:17.019 --> 00:25:23.430 by at Samantha That Arlie. Yes, and then also... 00:25:23.430 --> 00:25:25.609 May the force be with you. At informal majesty, 00:25:25.849 --> 00:25:27.549 The Last Jedi is now the only Star Wars movie 00:25:27.549 --> 00:25:32.589 ever made. And from at Reed Star Wars, the acolyte 00:25:32.589 --> 00:25:36.240 is getting renewed after tonight. I also want 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:40.259 to quote the call. I don't be sure of Anakin 00:25:40.259 --> 00:25:42.619 becomes so invested in advancing the political 00:25:42.619 --> 00:25:45.220 agenda of a weird old grandpa that he loses his 00:25:45.220 --> 00:25:46.700 wife and becomes estranged from his children. 00:25:46.779 --> 00:25:48.480 So he has a very good allegory for right wing 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:52.359 men. And I think if anything best described our 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:55.359 podcast, it was at murder with which is right 00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:58.160 wing Star Wars discourse. The destiny of the 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:00.279 West now hinges on how many hype edits of child 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.170 murder we can use to juice midterm turnout. left 00:26:03.170 --> 00:26:05.329 -wing Star Wars discourse. There's a new three 00:26:05.329 --> 00:26:07.109 -foot -tall annoying alligator man, and he is 00:26:07.109 --> 00:26:14.329 my best friend. That's it. Congratulations to 00:26:14.329 --> 00:26:17.589 Biddy Blaze for being elected to the Senate in 00:26:17.589 --> 00:26:21.809 Alaska. I hope you serve us well. The problem 00:26:21.809 --> 00:26:23.170 was that they also had someone named Biddy Blaze 00:26:23.170 --> 00:26:25.950 spelled B -L -A -Z -E, and they're not sure if 00:26:25.950 --> 00:26:30.180 people voted for the right one. If I can share 00:26:30.180 --> 00:26:36.759 two to Ernest. that are Andor related. I know, 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:40.680 I know. The first is from Maggie Lovett, deputy 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:44.200 editor of news over at Collider, who said, I 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:48.490 would like to sincerely thank Andor. It may be 00:26:48.490 --> 00:26:51.609 purely anecdotal, but I've seen folks on Facebook 00:26:51.609 --> 00:26:54.230 who have never spoken out politically and always 00:26:54.230 --> 00:26:57.089 leaned right, using Andor to express themselves 00:26:57.089 --> 00:27:01.319 for the first time and finally lean left. The 00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:05.789 first time I read that, I thought... I thought 00:27:05.789 --> 00:27:09.690 Oprah. I don't think that Andor made those people 00:27:09.690 --> 00:27:14.529 left. However, what I do think is that art provides 00:27:14.529 --> 00:27:19.150 us with a voice that we do not necessarily know 00:27:19.150 --> 00:27:21.410 that we have. It provides us with words that 00:27:21.410 --> 00:27:25.329 we ourselves are not as smart enough to put together 00:27:25.329 --> 00:27:29.470 in the way that Tony Gilroy is able to turn a 00:27:29.470 --> 00:27:33.269 concept into poetry, right? And when it is done 00:27:33.269 --> 00:27:36.529 well, it can resonate with you and you can carry 00:27:36.529 --> 00:27:39.750 it with you into the real world. And I guess 00:27:39.750 --> 00:27:43.470 that's the best version of what Andor and what 00:27:43.470 --> 00:27:47.009 Star Wars and what art can do, which is that 00:27:47.009 --> 00:27:50.450 it can give you new vocabulary with which to 00:27:50.450 --> 00:27:54.309 engage with the world around you. I think that's 00:27:54.309 --> 00:27:56.490 a fair framing of it. I think people just so 00:27:56.490 --> 00:27:59.950 quickly go to, this is the magic show that's 00:27:59.950 --> 00:28:02.259 going to solve everything. And if people just 00:28:02.259 --> 00:28:05.880 watch the show, magic will happen. I mean, that's 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:09.759 where the show's ratings going up now. Watching 00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:14.440 Andor should not be high on your priority list 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:19.200 after this election result. High on your priority 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:22.759 list should be signing up for our Patreon at 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:25.660 patreon .com slash andorxpod. Now that's going 00:28:25.660 --> 00:28:29.970 to help fuel the rebellion. Yes. No, I mean, 00:28:30.009 --> 00:28:31.789 it's, it's, it's, I think, do we want to, uh, 00:28:31.849 --> 00:28:34.930 do I, oh, I was gonna say, do we want to talk 00:28:34.930 --> 00:28:37.289 Digger, but maybe we should, uh, Mike just texted. 00:28:38.609 --> 00:28:42.089 Yeah, we're gonna go ahead beyond the paywall 00:28:42.089 --> 00:28:46.309 now to talk to the very first Andorx elected 00:28:46.309 --> 00:28:51.990 official. 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