937 - Killing Santa feat. Arjun Singh & David Sirota (5/27/25)
Will & Felix catch up on Democrats’ commitment to burning millions of dollars in search of a crumb of clout from the pod-mano-sphere, and John Fetterman’s chronic senate absenteeism as he searches for good vibes. Then, we’re joined by Lever News’ David Sirota & Arjun Singh to discuss their new podcast series Tax Revolt & the “Big Beautiful Bill” working its way through congress. We look at the devastating consequences of GOP tax policies, the increasing unpopularity of such drastic cuts, and how they fit in with the 50 year conservative war against taxes.
Find all things Lever News at: https://www.levernews.com/
And listen to Tax Revolt here or wherever you get pods: https://the.levernews.com/tax-revolt/
Comments (145)
I like how Biden aides know to shoot any journalist on sight if they start asking questions about his cognitive capacity, but Fettermam keeps agreeing to uncaffinated interviews on a Tuesday afternoon
Thank you, this type of episode is why I subscribe
Hope this clears my mental RAM of the Jacques episode
Man, sometimes Arjun's voice sounds so much like our Big Beautiful Boy Matt!
I think he sounds like Travis from MBMBAM.
Yakuza 0 somewhat meets the GTA + Sim City game idea with the Real Estate minigame, and it makes sense because the game takes place in 1988 and definitely has that abundance mindset built in. The game straight up lets you throw cash at the poors to avoid fights.
Abundance Hatred is one of the best Felix bits of all time
fast forwarded to the end to make sure that outro song was there
I have additional questions, but im also cool not knowing
Wow, felix is back on whatever he wasnt on in the previous ep
“I just wish I could be in a tilt-a-whirl full of my dad” tears in my fucking eyes oh my god that was so good
Instead of tax policy debate we need a law that makes all work places employee owned and controled
a society based on workplace self-management councils, some kind of "Soviet" system, if you will
Shout out prop 2.5. Every Massachusetts policy wonks least favorite law
I was right at the middle of that Vito arc so technically this counts as a spoiler but I guess after 4 seasons of Sopranos I shouldn't be surprised that the outcome is Bad and that someone dies for no reason
Democratic Party must give $20 million to Home Halfway immediately
every day i think about blimps
I had to find out more about the song at the end: https://genius.com/Fortune-kit-david-sirota-lyrics
I think the dems need a consultant who graduated one of canadas top business schools with really good grades
Queeber is the Joe Rogan of the left. Imagine how many Legos $20m could buy
The Democrats can't give $20 million to Violence Gang LLC
The Euro-Amerikan masses are itching for a New Deal style reinvestment. They are overwhelmed with hassling technology that was promised to better their lives. The more tech makes their lives difficult, the less patience they will have when dealing with a capitalist system purposefully designed to screw them.
*Footage of a car full of young men pulling into a parking lot. Then a bunch of women in tradewife dresses come out of a building and start darning the men socks.* Voice over: “the Democratic Party: we’ve made some… changes”
you know, Will's game idea sounds a bit like This Is The Police, a real video game.
Where should the dems funnell money to? The number one centre-left podcast on the market right now: The Adam Friedland Premium Podcast!
How about Bernie Sanders? No, we tried that and it worked
I feel like chapo listeners should just flood to applications to the make a lib joe rogan startups
we can't all get turned down 😎
The EU produced a game called “Future Gov” that is basically exactly what Felix was describing. Some of the character archetypes from the unfinished game : whistleblower, person without digital identity , micro-preneur, person with disability. The objective was to pass legislation, exhilarating!
Make a game with the character archetype of micro-peeneur
This game's pronouns are brought to you by the Democratic party! Vote blue
Ok hear me out... Dems win over young men by spending 20 billion dollars to have Josh Shapiro take every young guy in America bow hunting and teaches them how to dress a wild turkey
My MSN homepage thinks Chrissy(sp?) Tiegan’s hair is literally the only thing in the universe that I care about.
The funniest guy who could have the money funnelled to them is Adam Friedland
Can’t deal with siroya
Why not
*to the tune of “Better Man” by Pearl Jam* “He lies and says he’s with his kids, Can’t find John Fetterman”
Fetterman a Jehovah's Witness?
Felix drawing dangerously close to Cumtown-type Downs Voice at 31:15 lol
But will he have the courage to go full Mullen?
The Democratic Party will truly do ANYTHING to avoid talking about economic issues. At least the search for the next Joe Rogan is at not as bad as throwing LGBTQ people under the bus.
I love how they keep calling him John like he's some goofball at their office
Tom Meyers needs 20 million dollars
maybe I missed it, but feels odd not to mention the medicaid for trans healthcare ban they slipped in to this bill.
10 years on and I still dont understand GamerGate
Video games are slightly more difficult to whack off to than they were 10 years ago
Hmmm, the rich use their resources to claw back every concessions made to workers? Huh, should probably do something to address the root issue. On an unrelated noted, come check out the Fight the Oligarchy tour
It’s funny that the Dems $20 million dollar idea to appeal to men is to advertise in video games when the Harris campaign already did a Fortnite thing.
The Thanksgiving dinner/gooning shoutout was from the new Yorker article, that line and the fact that they mentioned that your theme song was Gucci mane are why I started listening to the show.
Why doesn't anyone talk about Southern Baptists who drink we face more social pressure than a silly Mormon, simply bc there are probably way more Baptists to snitch on each other.
Very true. The pressure for Mormons only really exists in enclaves like Utah County
She lies and says she's in love with him Can't find a Fetterman
God how much have we degenerated that something like “tax income as income” is completely outside the Overton window
how do we make our message of "everything is basically fine, this is how it's supposed to work stop fucking complaining" attractive to the first downwardly mobile generation in 100 years
Tax wealth not labor. Simple as that.
Hatred sequel starring Pennsylvania senator Hodor
the Brazilian Butt Lift Budget Reconciliation Act of 2025
Get this Abundance/Hatred game on kickstarter now. I need that in my life
i would fucking rock an FDR skin in fortnite
mini FDR in his wheelchair instead of the ranger as a drone in battlefield 2042
my new firm is also called double tap democracy but in the firearms sense
That lady who interviewed Tim Dillon is the living avatar of the Democratic Party.
I just saw a video of Adam Friedland on GQ while listening to this I think I know where the money is going
The Democrats make it so hard to vote for them. Just a deluge of neurotic, insulting, ineffectual bullshit.
SAM is definitely from McKinsey
Fetterman in the amusement park yearning to play whackamole with his dead grandfather really got me lol
Get back in your post-Thanksgiving goon caves
What's even the point of bowling, even if you knock them all down they just pick them up again - fetterman
Double tap democracy is the most honest thing the democrats have named in a long time
Does will play Cities skylines, a game I have 1200 hours in?
“The main character if Hatred is if Danzig was fat”… Glen Danzig is fat!
So the main character of Hatred is Glen himself, got it
Listening to tax guys makes my tummy ache because i'm a tax guy and this is what i sound like
Imagining John Fetterman doing figure 8s in his office like King Vendrick in Dark Souls 2
MF has gone hollow
let’s go Pacers fuck da Knicks
Epic city skyline reference.
Man, the Laffer curve. Never been more mad at a drunk guy scribbling on a cocktail napkin
All of that story about the “Democratic Joe Rogan” is them trial ballooning creating an A.I. podcaster character
“You know how wives are with carpet trauma?” Felix, it’s a wonder why you’re not taken.
Oooh that’s who David Sirota is. I assumed he’s just a guy Alex and Charles know.
Rebecca Traister wrote the worst thing ive ever read written about politics in NY Mag: "As a young Hillary hater, I often compared her to Darth Vader — more machine than woman, her humanity ever more shrouded by Dark Side gadgetry. These days, I think of her as General Leia: No longer a rebel princess, she has made a wry peace with her rakish mate and her controversial hair and is hard at work, mounting a campaign against the fascistic First Order."
Autocorrect messed up "rapist mate"
The song at the end slaps
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop gorging slop"
it’s unbelievable THE monomaniacal energy with which Democrats are able to convert anything imaginable into a problem of communication. The ideas are always right, they are just being inadequately communicated.
Hey, leave Fetterman alone, he just wants to hang out with really cool war criminals and collect Israeli cocktail flags
one day they'll turn down the volume of the intro good lord my heart cannot handle this for much longer
It would be very funny to see an ActBlue donation box in the middle of a call of duty level
38:00 Mom’s basement ridiculous pull
Democratic Influencer PeanutButterGamer
Trillbillies are what democrats looking for but they don’t know it
Are we sure Glen Danzig isn't fat, these days?
"Syntax, language and content." Oh great, they're creating a chat bot.
Has anyone made the obvious Pearl Jam reference: “Can’t find a Fetterman, can’t find a Fettermaaaaaaaan” Gen X represent.
Listening to david sirota talk about government when he clearly doesnt even have a coherent idea of a theory of state is torture. "government is good when you dont notice that its government" like what the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Thank you tax matt
The dem influencer haul should go to mindofjson
Football Manager x Democracy
Pumping 20 mil into The Adam Friedland Show to have him host Witten and hash out what happened between them would influence the mid terms for the Dems.
I will re-litigate 2016 to my dying day.
Brother, who gives a fuck. We got owned 2 times in a row. At this point if you still believe in the Democratic Party, you are retarded.
Sounds like Fetterman came up with the economic policy.... Jesus
Fetterman turning into Cyraxx
Future president Nick Mullen series to exclusively discuss post 2016 podcast scene coming when? Now that's he's burnout on podcasting, the takes will be extra delicious.
Registered Democrat about ten years back so I could vote in primaries. Regretting it ever since.
The emails never stop. I recommend burning your account
I’m sorry, I for one want you to literally do an entire episode going back over the shit that has been flung at you since 2016 by Traister et al, like four consecutive reading series all in one episode. Maybe multiple episodes.
"I just wish I could be in a tilt-a-whirl full of my dad" will be in my head for a long time
go knicks
Lost again
Taxes don't fund anything. That's not how taxes work. The fed spends money into existence and taxes take it out in order to control the amount of currency in circulation. Don't believe me? Pay your taxes in cash and watch them feed it into a paper shredder in front of you. Take a tour of the federal reserve and they give you a bag of shredded money as a momento. I am so sick and tired of the myth that you collect taxes in order to spend the money you collected. Money is a unit of measurement, you don't think a scoreboard at a baseball game is going to run out of points do you? Do you think we'll have to stop building a house because we ran out of inches on tape measures?
🫰🫰🫰 https://youtu.be/o2FvYmBq1jg?si=8AGZS3TgxooT9sRi
The abundance end state game already exists in sim city, it’s a city called magnasanti that is population 6 million and is made entirely from high density housing and militarized police departments to control the rioting from the lack of all other social services https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city/
Real hippie hours…if you haven’t, check out Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti. It’s still being built in AZ, I believe. The (not) first NEOM.
In reference to the Democrat video game ads, I can’t wait for the Jimmy Carter Fortnite skin that buffs your build time (Habitat For Humanity) but automatically crashes the battle bus at the start of the round (Operation Eagle Claw).
The idea of fetterman hanging at arthur morgans grave will live rent free in my head for the rest of my days
I saw ol' Art on TV recently and thought he was dead when I learned about him in college in the mid aughts.
The Hero of Kvatch closing Oblivion gates that lead to Abundance city that continuously releases Ezra Klein and Johnny Harris Homunculi.
Am drunk listening to this...on verge of throwin up...lovin it
If you spew spew into *this* \_/
Not 2 hours before listening to this I was trying to figure out how to get Windows to stop shoving 5 different subscriptions in my face every time I update my computer, lol
Im about 99% sure Felix just confirmed that he's a yahtzee (formerly of zero punctuation) fan https://youtu.be/2ub4wS_tjY4?si=3hE_9kEicU9Xew-6
Dems should give Conor O'Malley millions for an ad campaign.
Dems should run Conor O'Malley for president- Joe Pera can be his no nonsense VP.
I'm in the Lotus I'm feeling like David Sirota Puffin on Yoda
Ooh my stories! (((Mozambique Democracy)))
David is great. Hopefully he doesn’t try to sheep dog people into the Democratic Party again like he’s been doing the past few years. The lever is good though
Off topic but I finally got around to seeing Eephus and it was great
Fetterman's staffers had to tell him it was his son's birthday to get him to attend those hearings.
Assain's Creed in Abundance City. All your targets are the homeless.
Or Hitman "we have a new assignment for you, agent forty-seven. There is a woman who is on foodstamps, but is secretly renting out her building-allocated car space for $35 a week, as she cannot afford a car. Infiltrate her building and eliminate her. There can be no witnesses, so her four children must be taken out"
Felix just misses the 2016 huzz
That first article about appealing to young men sounds like something that Ozy Media guy would come up with - and I wouldn't be surprised if it is
Dem video game should be a Deus Ex clone but everything is nice
You merge with the ai and introduce school vouchers for everyone, the plague you largely ignore and hope the next god ai can take care of it.
Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 38 seconds today
Probably the “Hatred” game review that Felix is talking about https://youtu.be/2ub4wS_tjY4?si=yV2E1Cnjp_crNS6D
Zero Punctuation in the Chapo comments is an unexpected crossover
watching THE WARRIORS 4k disc. what a picture. sorry, unrelated to the new episode, I'm trying to remove it
Does it have the godawful director's cut transitions, or is it classic theatrical?
Call me a little piggy
Get it while it’s hot!
The IDF recreated the intro to The Running Man today
First gay