Episode 103: Truckers, Perverts, And San Franciscans

After a very important Goat Update (tm), the hosts discuss the Canadian government’s heavyhanded response to the truckers, a very kinky new appointee to the Biden administration, and the San Francisco School Board recall. Premium subscribers can discuss the episode here.

Show notes/Links:

Cowboy… porno… metal…?: ​​https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/anti-vax-trucker-convoy-porno-metal-ram-ranch-1297926/

This dude:

Mandy Stadtmiller @mandystadt

Absolutely nothing I say could EVER prepare you for this video of Aubrey Cottle, dude who hacked #GiveSendGo, writhing, preening, full-throated screaming into the camera “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO ME HUHHHH??!?”

Ilham Omar… welcome to the Intellectual Dark Web:

Trudeau taking advantage of emergency powers: https://archive.is/kFjgR#selection-1375.138-1375.214

Brinton on their conversion therapy: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/08/survivor-mit-grad-student-samuel-brinton-remembers-ex-gay-therapy/

More on them: https://businessequalitymagazine.com/qa-nuclear-engineer-presidential-advisor-conversion-therapy-activist-sam-brinton/

“'Pup Play' Isn't Just a Sexual Kink. It's Freedom.” Uhhhh okay: https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a35523288/puppy-play-bdsm/

Andy Ngo Andy Ngoing:

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 @MrAndyNgo

Sam Brinton (@sbrinton; they/them), a left-wing activist & advocate of sexual fetishes, has announced they will be working as a high-level staffer at the U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY). Brinton gave live demos on wax, bondage & "electro play" as part of their lessons.

Katie’s observation:

Katie Herzog @kittypurrzog

What one puts in one’s butt has no bearing on one’s ability to run a nuclear plant

SF is quite blue:

https://abc7news.com/election-results-joe-biden-donald-trump-bay-area/7680084/

https://sfist.com/2020/11/16/over-56-000-people-in-san-francisco-voted-for-trump/

NYT on the recall: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/us/san-francisco-school-board-recall.html

Moliga had attempted to distance himself from the other two: https://sfstandard.com/education/facing-recall-school-board-member-faauuga-moliga-goes-it-alone/

Good rundown: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/san-francisco-school-board-recall/

López does herself no favors in this Chotiner interview: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-san-francisco-renamed-its-schools

Seems like a good use of School Board time:

Heather Knight @hknightsf

The SF school board tonight spent two hours talking about whether to allow a gay dad of mixed-race SFUSD kids to volunteer for one of several empty seats on a parent advisory group. Their problem was that he’s white and doesn’t bring diversity to the group. 1/2

Heather Knight @hknightsf

They didn’t appoint him, and now the parent group remains all moms which means women must do all the work of the group. And seven hours after the meeting started, they still aren’t talking about how to safely reopen schools.

Racist tweets: https://missionlocal.org/2021/03/alison-collins-school-board-tweets/

Crazy CNN article: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/opinions/san-francisco-school-board-recall-hemmer/index.html

Rufo happy and attempting to connect this event to his movement:

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo

The "dangerous message" is this: we are crushing the left-wing school ideologues and we will not stop until their reductive, racialist, anti-merit ideologies are removed from public life.

Good interview with Siva Raj:

Image: Police and demonstrators clash on February 19, 2022, in Ottawa, Canada. - Police in Canada deployed to dislodge the final truckers and protesters from downtown Ottawa, in a mostly peaceful operation aimed at bringing an end to three weeks of demonstrations over Covid-19 health rules. Ottawa police, who pledged the operation would push ahead "until residents and citizens have their city back," were still working to clear the capital's streets. (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)