Episode 26- The Only True Patriotism is Posting

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This week Gina Haspel decided, with Trump’s encouragement, not to withdraw from consideration for the job of CIA Director, Facebook hired the Heritage Foundation to help them address their alleged conservative bias, and the Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York was tweeting about nipples for some reason. In terrible takes, we’re discussing the Home Depot CEO’s book I Love Capitalism, Kumail Nanjiani’s gut-wrenchingly bad tweets, Mitt Romney’s professed love of ground meats, and the general incel panic brewing amongst older generations that have been unfairly forced to learn what that word means. We’ll keep panicking about incels in the pop culture corner as we discuss the classic Scorcese film Taxi Driver through that lens, and we’ll also talk about an atrocious Law and Order: SVU episode about college activism and the unbearable persistence of HBO’s overwrought sci-fi catastrophe Westworld. NOTEZ: Gina Haspel offered to quit http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44028854 Streaming services have a conspiracy documentary problem https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-insidious-conspiracy-theory-documentaries-on-netflix-and-amazon-prime.html Facebook Hires Ultra Conservative Group to Monitor Content https://splinternews.com/facebook-does-not-understand-the-conservative-grift-1825725673?rev=1525296392462 Trump Doctor https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ai https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/harold-bornstein-trump-letter/index.html Bizarre NYPD Nipple Tweet https://twitter.com/SBANYPD/status/992561992731852800 New Book: I Love Capitalism to dispute Bernie Sanders popularity https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/992501679739240448 Romney loves hot dogs https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/mitt-romney-favorite-meat-hot-dog.html THE INCELS ARE COMING https://twitter.com/ekp/status/991817194987114496 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opinion/incels-sex-robots-redistribution.html Matt Christman on Prestige TV https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/05/how-tv-became-respectable-without-getting-better

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