In the process of listening and I just wanted to comment on the hostage deal (I also wrote about it in my little Substack).
This deal is a bad deal for Israel. This deal emboldens the future generations of kidnappers (I already saw a toddler holding a gun in Gaza as part of their so called victory declaration). I am not even sure we will get to the second phase of it.
But it is our duty to bring these people back home. And with the lack of pressure on Hamas from world leaders, unbelievably confused college students and/or international agencies like the UN, or as I call them- Hamas’s branch in the Middle East- we don’t leave our people behind. It is very clear that the next war(s) is just a matter of time, and no one lives in an illusion of two states solution anymore. I mean, with who exactly.
But it is clear that if we don’t save whoever is left to save- it is a stain for us as Jews and Israelis for generations to come. This is why it has to happen even if it’s a bad deal.
Ben Gvir also declared that he is going to resign if this deal will be approved by the government, so that’s another win for us, sane, normal Israelis.
And Smotrich, who doesn’t want to sit in the gulag of not passing the threshold needed to even sit in the parliament in the next elections -is making a lot of noise, but is still staying in the government.
If we will be able to get rid of these two who have too much influence far beyond their actual electoral college- we will be able to start healing. Let us all cross our fingers in the next weeks.
Ralph is both the most important/influential American designer, *and* a designer whose work is distinctly American. More than a worthy recipient for the PMoF, so much as anyone should care, given the broader list of recipients.
I saw it when it first aired, and it caught me completely off-guard — as so much of what Lynch did could.
Further examples: Lynch voiced himself on Family Guy and The Cleveland Show, and had a cameo as director John Ford in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans. That was his last on-screen appearance.
Bill Burr’s vitriol towards corporations and CEOs is the dumbest part of his persona, but he’s had it for a long time. He identifies as a working class, mal-adjusted Boston dude who never learned to handle his anger, and so directs his it at people and institutions he sees as keeping down the working man. He hates people he perceives as elite - hence why he rails against woke stuff and is skeptical of the type of feminists who are always beating up on men for being… men.
I wasn’t surprised when he started praising Mangione, because he has always had this profoundly ignorant, visceral reaction towards “corporations” and “CEOs”. It’s just your basic, incurious class rage towards those who are more successful and powerful than you. It’s dumb.
It’s especially frustrating when you realize that he never bad-mouths the corporate leaders and entities that have made him a multi-millionaire (Netflix, etc). He sees his own success and excessive wealth as the result of his hard work and bootstrap-pulling, but Brian Thompson’s as the result of corruption and victimization. It’s dumb.
People think that because Bill is anti-woke, and defends regular masculinity, that he’s right-coded, but he’s really just a once-working class lefty at heart, who is very susceptible to conspiracy theories about the rich and powerful.
Generally agree with you, but to be fair, I think that Netflix, etc. didn't make him a multi-millionaire. He did that by being someone millions of people want to watch be funny. And I suspect he'd argue that working with them is a necessary evil, like paying taxes. I also don't think he hated Thompson for being successful and wealthy, but because he disagrees with (doesn't entirely understand, I think) the way insurance deals with medical care.
Good points. He definitely has earned his success. Generally, he seems to respect the rich and successful people in industries that he understands. Ie he doesn’t take issue with Showbiz giants because he knows how hard it is to get there, and understands what it takes. But he has no connection to high-flying executives, and just assumes that they are all nefarious actors who got to where they are by trampling on others and taking advantage of either employees or consumers, or both. He has been railing against “the corporations” for years, and he genuinely seems to believe that they are evil, that they are playing a zero sum game where regular people get screwed, and they make their millions. But it’s not like he ever gives a reasoned critique. He just points at their salaries or their revenue, and says, “obviously they are evil, look at how much money they make”.
Same. He’s a comedian, and his rage makes him hilarious. He also has jokes about solving overpopulation by mass murder, so this Luigi stuff in some ways is just more of the same. It’s not entirely clear exactly how serious he is about his public policy commentary. He usually acknowledges his ignorance.
This kind of sounds like "clown nose on/clown nose off" though. The clips I've seen of him discussing the Thompson murder sure don't sound like he's joking, whereas the context of solving overpopulation via murder makes it clear that he's joking.
I agree. I think he’s so used to being outrageous and hyperbolic in his comedy, that he blurs the lines between being serious and not serious. I think he genuinely does sympathize with mangione, at least in who he identified as the enemy, and because he is so used to making outrageous, disproportionate assessments, it has turned into him feeling like it’s ok to exaggerate and make dramatic/shocking claims about causes he does feel strongly about.
I don’t know if this makes sense. But when you listen to a lot of the comedian podcasters in the Rogan universe, they will talk in these loose, generalizing terms all the time - and it’s usually in a semi-serious context where they are talking about real events and trying to make genuine commentary, but they are still trying to be funny and/or entertaining. They have very little incentive to be reasonable, accurate, or draw logically / morally defensible conclusions. They get so used to this kind of context for their political commentary, that I think they sometimes can stray pretty far from normally acceptable viewpoints. I have observed this in a lot of comedians. It seems like a pitfall that comes with the job. The only way to avoid it is to NEVER try to make any points that are remotely serious, but always stay in character as a comedian. I feel like Tim Dillon is the only one who is so consistently extreme and outrageous, that everything I ever hear him say is always meant as humor, regardless of how much truth there might appear to be. Everyone else shifts back and forth between comedy/commentary so much, that they end up getting into hot water.
Jesus Christ. Thank you. I love the fuck out of Bill. But to say he’s “gone woke“ is a dumbest thing MM has ever said in his life. He’s just taken a page out of the fucking retard right wing book.
"An administration that has perhaps done some good things."
What? An administration that started by making racial gerrymandering a central part of the federal government policy. That lied about the nature of COVID shots in order to try to create a backdoor employer-enforced mandate. That created a "disinformation governance board." That is doing everything it can to outlaw every affordable gas appliance on the market. That *continued the Trump tariffs*. Where are the good things?
US pulled out of Afghanistan, fine, I like that too, but did so in the most catastrophic and idiotic way possible that resulted in needless American casualties. If they were trying to discredit those who wanted us out of Afghanistan how would it have happened any differently? Commuted a few cannabis sentences but nobody was in the federal pen for just cannabis possession, didn't follow through on that campaign promise either...
There are no actual, tangible accomplishments to which to point. I guess the destruction of legacy corporate media once and for all but that's not something of which they will be proud..
Even if we all concede CHIPS act "might" pay dividends and half credit for the other thing, still doesn't add up to a full accomplishment IMO. And even so? That's it? This is like the rest of how Biden/Harris went. "See, technically we can bend the definition of accomplishment in order to say Biden accomplished a thing, so everything else said is discredited and disinformation." (Not saying that's what you're doing here but I can just hear KJP now). Schtick is getting so old.
She's not my cup of tea but far be it from me to yuk your yum. Fortunately for you I do expect her to end up on cable news somewhere, although I don't think that's exactly going out on a limb.
Really enjoyed the "fuck you in the face with a mean penis" for the outgoing surgeon general. The point of life isn't having a stick up your butt just so you can live to be 81 and thumb your nose at those who were too cool to live that long.
Regarding women in combat…. I never served and don’t have a strong opinion on this one way or the other, but I disagree with Kmele that egalitarianism should guide the policy. We should be primarily concerned with how effectively a unit can fight, and I do think evaluating it at the unit level, rather than the individual, is probably the way to go.
In Joe “Where’s Jackie?” Biden’s defense, he probably thought the deceased recipients of the Medal of Freedom — a pointless award — were still alive. Also, he’s dead himself, politically and LITERALLY.
"FUCK. YOU. Fuck you in the face, with not even a nice penis, with a MEAN penis!"
I'm absolutely using this in my daily life going forward. Thanks Matt!
"Mean penis", exactly the deep intelligent analysis I came for, no pun intended.
Drinker's rage!
My wife and I have at times discussed the phenomenon of "angry pussy". Now I wonder if that's caused by mean penis.
the best part of another 4 years of Trump is Moynihan’s Melania voice that i totally didn’t realize i was missing so badly
Our forever first lady👑👑💎👑👑
WWD is covering the family's fashion this weekend.
https://wwd.com/pop-culture/culture-news/gallery/trump-family-style-inauguration-2025-events-photos-1236856639/president-elect-trump-arrives-at-washington-dulles-international-airport-ahead-of-inauguration-2/
Hi guys,
In the process of listening and I just wanted to comment on the hostage deal (I also wrote about it in my little Substack).
This deal is a bad deal for Israel. This deal emboldens the future generations of kidnappers (I already saw a toddler holding a gun in Gaza as part of their so called victory declaration). I am not even sure we will get to the second phase of it.
But it is our duty to bring these people back home. And with the lack of pressure on Hamas from world leaders, unbelievably confused college students and/or international agencies like the UN, or as I call them- Hamas’s branch in the Middle East- we don’t leave our people behind. It is very clear that the next war(s) is just a matter of time, and no one lives in an illusion of two states solution anymore. I mean, with who exactly.
But it is clear that if we don’t save whoever is left to save- it is a stain for us as Jews and Israelis for generations to come. This is why it has to happen even if it’s a bad deal.
Ben Gvir also declared that he is going to resign if this deal will be approved by the government, so that’s another win for us, sane, normal Israelis.
And Smotrich, who doesn’t want to sit in the gulag of not passing the threshold needed to even sit in the parliament in the next elections -is making a lot of noise, but is still staying in the government.
If we will be able to get rid of these two who have too much influence far beyond their actual electoral college- we will be able to start healing. Let us all cross our fingers in the next weeks.
Did Israel really drop eighty seven thousand tons of explosives on an area the size of Detroit?
Moynihan can go stub his toe.
Ralph is both the most important/influential American designer, *and* a designer whose work is distinctly American. More than a worthy recipient for the PMoF, so much as anyone should care, given the broader list of recipients.
Totally agree. Most deserving person on that list
Got his start in the industry working retail at Brooks, blended prep/ivy, Western and workwear. And even was surprisingly adopted by hip hop culture:
https://youtu.be/YNxM4Q1K2ak?feature=shared
He just doesn't like him because he's a Yankee fan
No Matt, Elon Musk did not found Tesla.
Inject neocon moynihan straight into my veins
Lynch on Louie was so so good: https://youtu.be/HlEJbs02wAM
I saw it when it first aired, and it caught me completely off-guard — as so much of what Lynch did could.
Further examples: Lynch voiced himself on Family Guy and The Cleveland Show, and had a cameo as director John Ford in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans. That was his last on-screen appearance.
RIP
What a treat, unusual to drop an episode this late and getting the scoop, you are being very kind to us Californians recently! :D
Bill Burr’s vitriol towards corporations and CEOs is the dumbest part of his persona, but he’s had it for a long time. He identifies as a working class, mal-adjusted Boston dude who never learned to handle his anger, and so directs his it at people and institutions he sees as keeping down the working man. He hates people he perceives as elite - hence why he rails against woke stuff and is skeptical of the type of feminists who are always beating up on men for being… men.
I wasn’t surprised when he started praising Mangione, because he has always had this profoundly ignorant, visceral reaction towards “corporations” and “CEOs”. It’s just your basic, incurious class rage towards those who are more successful and powerful than you. It’s dumb.
It’s especially frustrating when you realize that he never bad-mouths the corporate leaders and entities that have made him a multi-millionaire (Netflix, etc). He sees his own success and excessive wealth as the result of his hard work and bootstrap-pulling, but Brian Thompson’s as the result of corruption and victimization. It’s dumb.
People think that because Bill is anti-woke, and defends regular masculinity, that he’s right-coded, but he’s really just a once-working class lefty at heart, who is very susceptible to conspiracy theories about the rich and powerful.
Generally agree with you, but to be fair, I think that Netflix, etc. didn't make him a multi-millionaire. He did that by being someone millions of people want to watch be funny. And I suspect he'd argue that working with them is a necessary evil, like paying taxes. I also don't think he hated Thompson for being successful and wealthy, but because he disagrees with (doesn't entirely understand, I think) the way insurance deals with medical care.
Good points. He definitely has earned his success. Generally, he seems to respect the rich and successful people in industries that he understands. Ie he doesn’t take issue with Showbiz giants because he knows how hard it is to get there, and understands what it takes. But he has no connection to high-flying executives, and just assumes that they are all nefarious actors who got to where they are by trampling on others and taking advantage of either employees or consumers, or both. He has been railing against “the corporations” for years, and he genuinely seems to believe that they are evil, that they are playing a zero sum game where regular people get screwed, and they make their millions. But it’s not like he ever gives a reasoned critique. He just points at their salaries or their revenue, and says, “obviously they are evil, look at how much money they make”.
I love him so much because even when he's making ignorant points (you know, the ones I disagree with!) he still makes me laugh.
Same. He’s a comedian, and his rage makes him hilarious. He also has jokes about solving overpopulation by mass murder, so this Luigi stuff in some ways is just more of the same. It’s not entirely clear exactly how serious he is about his public policy commentary. He usually acknowledges his ignorance.
This kind of sounds like "clown nose on/clown nose off" though. The clips I've seen of him discussing the Thompson murder sure don't sound like he's joking, whereas the context of solving overpopulation via murder makes it clear that he's joking.
I agree. I think he’s so used to being outrageous and hyperbolic in his comedy, that he blurs the lines between being serious and not serious. I think he genuinely does sympathize with mangione, at least in who he identified as the enemy, and because he is so used to making outrageous, disproportionate assessments, it has turned into him feeling like it’s ok to exaggerate and make dramatic/shocking claims about causes he does feel strongly about.
I don’t know if this makes sense. But when you listen to a lot of the comedian podcasters in the Rogan universe, they will talk in these loose, generalizing terms all the time - and it’s usually in a semi-serious context where they are talking about real events and trying to make genuine commentary, but they are still trying to be funny and/or entertaining. They have very little incentive to be reasonable, accurate, or draw logically / morally defensible conclusions. They get so used to this kind of context for their political commentary, that I think they sometimes can stray pretty far from normally acceptable viewpoints. I have observed this in a lot of comedians. It seems like a pitfall that comes with the job. The only way to avoid it is to NEVER try to make any points that are remotely serious, but always stay in character as a comedian. I feel like Tim Dillon is the only one who is so consistently extreme and outrageous, that everything I ever hear him say is always meant as humor, regardless of how much truth there might appear to be. Everyone else shifts back and forth between comedy/commentary so much, that they end up getting into hot water.
It is insane to me how Moynihan does not understand this. It’s his hypocrisy at its worst/best depending on your view.
Jesus Christ. Thank you. I love the fuck out of Bill. But to say he’s “gone woke“ is a dumbest thing MM has ever said in his life. He’s just taken a page out of the fucking retard right wing book.
"An administration that has perhaps done some good things."
What? An administration that started by making racial gerrymandering a central part of the federal government policy. That lied about the nature of COVID shots in order to try to create a backdoor employer-enforced mandate. That created a "disinformation governance board." That is doing everything it can to outlaw every affordable gas appliance on the market. That *continued the Trump tariffs*. Where are the good things?
US pulled out of Afghanistan, fine, I like that too, but did so in the most catastrophic and idiotic way possible that resulted in needless American casualties. If they were trying to discredit those who wanted us out of Afghanistan how would it have happened any differently? Commuted a few cannabis sentences but nobody was in the federal pen for just cannabis possession, didn't follow through on that campaign promise either...
There are no actual, tangible accomplishments to which to point. I guess the destruction of legacy corporate media once and for all but that's not something of which they will be proud..
The CHIPS act *might* be starting to pay dividends. Too early to tell, though.
The initial response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was pretty good, but the Biden administration hasn’t acquitted themselves well since.
But I overall I agree with you. Biden has largely been a failure.
Even if we all concede CHIPS act "might" pay dividends and half credit for the other thing, still doesn't add up to a full accomplishment IMO. And even so? That's it? This is like the rest of how Biden/Harris went. "See, technically we can bend the definition of accomplishment in order to say Biden accomplished a thing, so everything else said is discredited and disinformation." (Not saying that's what you're doing here but I can just hear KJP now). Schtick is getting so old.
Am I the only one that has a soft spot for KJP? Not because she’s a good Press Secretary, mind you. I just think she’s pretty.
She's not my cup of tea but far be it from me to yuk your yum. Fortunately for you I do expect her to end up on cable news somewhere, although I don't think that's exactly going out on a limb.
Really enjoyed the "fuck you in the face with a mean penis" for the outgoing surgeon general. The point of life isn't having a stick up your butt just so you can live to be 81 and thumb your nose at those who were too cool to live that long.
That made my day! A MEAN penis!
Regarding women in combat…. I never served and don’t have a strong opinion on this one way or the other, but I disagree with Kmele that egalitarianism should guide the policy. We should be primarily concerned with how effectively a unit can fight, and I do think evaluating it at the unit level, rather than the individual, is probably the way to go.
"FUCK. YOU. Fuck you, in the face. With not even a nice penis; with a mean penis." -- Matt Welch
And now I need to explain to my coworkers why I started laughing that hard.
In Joe “Where’s Jackie?” Biden’s defense, he probably thought the deceased recipients of the Medal of Freedom — a pointless award — were still alive. Also, he’s dead himself, politically and LITERALLY.
I could listen to at least 20 more min of Kmele and Matt going to town on the Biden farewell address. So fucking good!
Also, I was previously unaware of Bill Burr's tack away from comedy. Too bad for him. Too bad for us.
Bill Burr has been a conspiracy guy for a looooong time.
Forever! But they only seemed to strike back against the left-wing conspiracies. Fucking annoying, man.
He was deeply into the illuminati stuff and banking/financial conspiracies…