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Far-right creeps say the darnedest issues, and some of their current insane soundbites had been performed on this week’s bonus episode of The New Irregular politics podcast. These had been a number of the most absurd but, from a clip of a Missouri State Senator backing marriage for 12-year-olds to one in every of a far-right Trump supporter calling to make girls’s canine possession unlawful.
First up, present hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy take heed to a clip of a Republican named Webster Barnaby (R-FL) evaluating trans folks to mutants from X-Males throughout a listening to. (He later apologized.)
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“We've got those who stay amongst us as we speak on planet Earth which are joyful to show themselves as in the event that they had been mutants from one other planet. That is the planet Earth the place God created males, male, and ladies, feminine. I’m a proud Christian, conservative Republican. I’m not on the fence,” he says within the clip.
“Sir, take your ass to Mars, too,” Danielle chimes in. “I’m so sick and drained. Like ‘God created blah, blah.’ All people doesn’t imagine in your similar God. All people doesn’t learn out of your similar Bible of evil and despair. So mutants, no matter, X-Males, improbable, all of them have particular powers, they’re all actually fucking cool.”
“They’re additionally the great guys,” provides Andy of the X-Males, stating that Barnaby apparently doesn’t even notice that mutants are nonetheless people and never aliens.
Then, they react to a social media “selfie-style” clip of alt-right Trump supporter Ethan Schmidt-Crockett that's so wild it doesn’t appear actual. In it, Schmidt-Crockett says that ladies, significantly single girls, shouldn’t personal canines.
“A difficulty has not too long ago got here to my consideration and that’s the difficulty of ladies proudly owning canines. Okay? You realize, if a single girl owns a canine, that may be a main pink flag. Main pink flag. You realize, each girl I’ve ever seen that’s single and has a canine, particularly a male canine, you already know, they don't have any management over the canine. Okay? It’s tremendous bizarre. Tremendous cringe. And you already know, it needs to be outlawed in the USA. We have to cross laws in opposition to this,” he begins to say in a really lengthy rant by which he additionally says that he’s been attacked by these canines belonging to single girls.
He does assume there needs to be one exception, although, to this anti-female canine proprietor rule he’d wish to enact.
To which, Andy responds “Oh my god, what a loser.”
Plus! Comic Josh Gondelman joins this episode to speak about what it was wish to be a author for political comedy reveals like Final Week Tonight with John Oliver and Desus & Mero.
Take heed to this full episode of The New Irregular on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.