Sunday, May 31st
·
Recap
of the Week – George Floyd’s murder, protests in Minneapolis and around the
U.S.
o
While
Tucker Carlson wrung his hand over looting, John’s focus was (obviously)
instead on the U.S.’s “legacy of white supremacy that prioritizes white comfort
over Black safety”
o
Ugh,
Trump’s “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” – John was
disgusted/impressed with Trump’s position as “the Library of fucking Alexandria
of 20th-century racist maxims,” given his ignorance in every other
avenue
o
John
mentioned just how much there is to unpack in this still-unfolding story,
which, to me, spelled, “We’re not going to go in-depth on this yet because we
need more time to give this subject the episode it deserves”
·
Main Story – Voting by mail
o
For
John, Trump’s lying rants about mail-in voting hearkened back to “his classic
2016 hits about voter fraud and rigged elections,” in the days before the
smoking ruin of 2020
o
I
loved John’s tangent about “who hell owns a fully-functioning pencil?!”, in
response to a poll worker questioning whether voters would need to bring their
own pencils to minimize COVID-19 transmission with in-person voting
o
John
calling the coronavirus “the Donald Trump” of infectious diseases was perfect –
“it doesn’t give a fuck about democracy, it’s weirdly shaped, and it
disproportionately affects minorities”)
o
John’s
adoration for Louisiana’s “I Voted” sticker – featuring a pelican with a crown
and an inexplicable earring – was incredibly on brand
o
That
Texas official snidely asking, “Have you been to the grocery store?” in
response to the idea of COVID-19 being a valid reason to get a mail-in ballot
was gross – as John put it, “Going to the grocery store doesn’t mean people
aren’t afraid; it means they have to eat”
·
And
Now This – Newscasters scrutinize remote correspondents’ home décor
·
Finally
– UFC update
o
After
UFC president Dana White stole John’s idea to call his “Fight Island” “UF-Sea,”
John was ready with more name ideas – my favorite was “UFC: Knuckle Showdown”
o
White
had his own impressive trademarks, though – I died at “Fight Library”
Sunday, May 31
·
Main Story – COVID-19 and Supply Chains
o
Hasan
focused on two main supply chains: PPE and meatpacking, highlighting the
problems disrupting both and Trump’s very different reaction to the two issues
o
To
start off, Hasan highlighted the depth of America’s problem with two stark
statistics – the U.S. is 4% of the world’s population but accounts for 31% of COVID-19 cases
o
Looking
at how U.S. supply chains maximize efficiency and profit, Hasan held up Amazon
as the prime example – if you wanna “make Jeff Bezos rock hard,” “don’t talk
about how big Amazon’s warehouses
are. Talk about how small their
unions are”
o
Great
point about how, in the U.S., everything we want (iPhones, Netflix, etc.) is
amazing and everything we need (schools, hospitals, etc.) is falling apart
o
I
loved the shade on Trump’s tweet where he (after 2 months of healthcare workers
pleading for PPE) announced “Invoke P!” (evidently the Defense Production Act)
– “No one knows what this means, but it sounds like what Benedict Cumberebatch
calls sex”
o
But
in contrast, it only took Trump 2 days
to invoke the Defense Production Act for meatpacking plants, and Hasan spelled
out precisely what that meant – “He’s not forcing them to stay open, he’s
giving them cover to stay open to
protect them from liability”
o
The
result? 12 of the 25 biggest hotspots in the U.S. began in meatpacking plants
o
We
ended on the big mic-drop line – “Real wartime presidents care about the
frontlines, not the bottom line”
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