#224 BONUS: Doctor! Somebody Keeps Murdering My Fat Dead Stupid President!

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Excellent episode as always Michael — particularly intrigued by West Indian MSJ at 36:04. Would be interested in hearing more of this on future episodes; perhaps an intro a-La Bustance? The fans would love it. Something to consider.

You were really cooking with this one

Dig yourself out of the shit!

Going to make a pedantic, regional complaint and say that the thing about Florida is that "the further south you go, the further to the North you're going." This shit happened in West Palm Beach, it's the region where all the dipshits from northern parts of the US moved to. (I grew up there because my parents moved there from New England when I was a toddler.) At least as far as the white neighborhoods go, no one in that area was actually born in Florida, and people with Southern accents are as rare as diamonds, generally having all died out/been replaced by Northern Whites decades ago.

With accent work like this I am counting down the days for a lil Original Pronunciation (OP) 🤞

Mike, you actually didn't quite get Romney's and friends tactics quite accurate. Actually what they do is get the loan to buy the company using the company as collateral and a promise to destroy the company and the jobs etc therein as the premise for profitability. On the short term is course. I know you basically said that but I think people will miss quite how demonic and criminal a tactic for making profit it is from how you said it is which in itself was incredibly demonic. No the true reality is forcing a company you just took over hostilely like a pirate jumping on a ship to take on the debts you used to raid it then seeking off the assets it had and running it into the ground with the investment money repaid hopefully and the company bankrupt and you with a couple million in the pocket.

Interesting about how weird things happen in your presence. Have a bit 9the same syndrome - not to brag. I believe the technical term s “Freak Magmet.

Wait people actually try to literally “manifest” good vibes/energy? I thought it was a joke

@ 12 minutes or so: you're living a version of Dennis Potter's Karaoke.

as a social worker there were all of these off label metrics that you would use instead of the actual metrics but then you couldn't document them. like for example when a clients doorknob is greasy, they have relapsed. I don't know why that works so well. during productivity reviews the people who are flagged as the least productive will always be the people who talk about how they like the show Friends. I don't know why that is either. One of the ones with hiring for complex trauma is that if somebody hasn't just intuited sort of lefty non-liberal politics then they're not going to be able to handle trauma in an individual. I don't mean the like they call it lefty but it's actually word salad PhD semantic liberalism either. those people are damaging. But when you have a liberal therapist a lot of the time when you get to the important part of trauma treatment they don't like the part of reality that is distracting from the spectacle as the solution so they either shame the person into not acknowledging something real or they teach the person to avoid it with a deflection that just masks the trauma. almost always in an extremely transparent copy of the way that they mask their own because they're a therapist now so they're "cured".

Can’t help but to compare R.R. and Eric Adams

Honestly, I don't think we should strive for the lives our parents got for free. We can live better lives with less. Embodying a resistance to neoliberal atomization and alienation in general is going to be necessary. Not saying it's easy. In some contexts it's pretty damn impossible. But in some contexts, it might be the only thing that makes sense to do. Super insufficiently materialist of me I know. I might get kicked out of somebody's communist 🎉 for this

Stop the flow of stimulants, whole system grinds to a halt. From the boardrooms to the oilfields Leviathan runs on stimulants. We are living in a speed culture. It's pretty goddamn scary. I don't really think you could stop the flow of stimulants at this point but it's a fun thought experiment. The shit Leviathan will do for plant alkaloids. And people think plants aren't conscious smdh.

“I saw them in the photograph finally, still indistinct but as real as my own tongue. Beings, somewhat like us, plagued by the futility of their limits. That night I dreamt of a peach, red and orange and large in a glass bowl the size of a fist. The skin of the peach opened, there was the flesh of the peach. The flesh of the peach opened, there was the stone of the peach. The stone of the peach opened, there was cyanide. The cyanide of the stone opened into a photograph. And upon the photograph, dimly, was a body. I do not mean a human body, or the body a peach has. But some intense, disgusting yearning to eat the stone of yourself, to dissolve the you-ness into you. I wept, there was salt. I ate the stone at my centre, and finally I found annihilating freedom.”

When you said “do gooder conman” i immediately thought about knoy2012

real MSJ girlies love when the ep starts w an accent heavy bit

MSJ is one of our most powerful psykers, folks!

Listening to this on Adderall 🫡

The comparisons between you and Slothrop have become easier to make as time goes on so I must ask, how erect were you before that guy tried to kill Trump?

Strong "Speak a lil Chinese for 'em Derek" energy in the intro Incredible work as usual

30:15-30:42.... My mind goes directly to the genociders' Of Indonesia as seen in the documentary The Act Of Killing... like word for word rhetorically

Laissez les bon temps roulez yuh honnuh

Is the Bustance Business Gay?

Losing my shit on this one

Bustance Pemberton is a Pynchon character caliber name

YouTube prankster twins put flesh onto Baudrillard's ole conceptual bones. Twice in one day they ran into banks with fake guns and tried to get out of it by telling the cops "it's just a prank bro!"

Orthodox Marxist position: religion is the opium of the 19th century masses. Death Corner Marxist position: amphetamines are the opium of the 21st century masses. Therefore: me selling my Ritalin to the other kids at my private Christian school in order to finance my record collection circa 2000 resolves the dialectic. QED.

She bertoned my Pem till I…oh goddammit, Bustance is too good to even be deconstructed

Oooh what a pleasant surprise on a Friday:

OIDA IN THA COIT

"we are going to solve America's problems by casting the perfect superhero movie" is brilliant

I love it

Bustence

I'm up what's going on?

You weren't kidding when you said us freaklings should be on high alert