Black Mirror 2020 was better than this. Dont talk shit. 

The Best version of WAP was Ben Shapiro reading the lyrics in a disgusted way layed over the instrumental.

"Yemen war: Joe Biden ends support for operations in foreign policy reset," reports the BBC. "Trump: US will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas 2020," cheered Military Times. "Trump Orders Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Northern Syria," the New York Times told us.

For decades, the United States has very often appeared to have "ended" wars that do not, in fact, end at all. Open-ended jargon like "residual counter terror forces," "Vietnamization," "military advisors," along with deliberately ambiguous timetables, process criticisms––all are used to confuse the average media consumer. America's politicians know the American public broadly dislikes war and empire––and thus wants to see it restrained––but these same politicians don't really want to end wars so they have a frequent PR problem: How do you make it look like you’re ending a war or occupation without really doing so?

To solve this conundrum, American political leaders have perfected the art of fake-ending a war. Which is to say, announcing a war is going to end, typically around election time, only to––once the headlines make a big splash––backtrack, obfuscate, claim the "situation on the ground has changed" or the military involvement will only be in a "limited" or "defensive" capacity, shuffle troops around or find other thin pretexts to continue the war or occupation.

In this episode, we discuss the United States' history of fake-ending wars, who these pronouncements are meant to please, why troops levels are often impossible to know, and why so many of our so-called "wars" are not really wars at all, but military occupations that are never really meant to end.

Our guest is Shireen Al-Adeimi, assistant professor at Michigan State University.

Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Will Menaker (of the Chapo Trap House podcast) take on very icky and sad and surprisingly very good late sequels to all-time horror classics: Richard Franklin's PSYCHO II (1983) and William Peter Blatty's THE EXORCIST III (1990). Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on surreal Italian zombie cinema: Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE (1979) and Michele Soavi's CEMETERY MAN (1994), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

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Outro // 1:52:13-1:56:12

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141 - PSYCHO II (1983) + THE EXORCIST III (1990) ft. Will Menaker

We are joined by LA comedian Sarah Squirm and SF tenant organizer Shanti Singh to talk about CALIFORNIA and her various PROPS and JOWLED GHOULS.

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CALIFORNIA UBER ASS w/ SARAH SQUIRM & SHANTI SINGH

We are joined by Breht from Rev Left Radio and Brynn Nieboer from Beep Beep Lettuce to discuss Vladmir Lenin's 1901 pamphlet, What Is To Be Done?, and how it relates to how we currently need to do things.

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We didn't feel like working this week so we did a dumb one. Some of you guys love these, some of you hate these, either way, you all will be mad. Happy New Year.

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IDK Man It's The Holidays

A recap of the year 2020, in historical narrative form.

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Episode 179: Party's Over

the HELL YEAR 2020 DUMPSTER FIRE© is gone but not forgotten. We here at Comedy Central's PDA@ decided to send off the WORST YEAR OF ALL TIME the only way hardcore Comedy Store© Belly Room© comics like us know how. By having a SICK. FUCKING. ROAST. OVER. ZOOM.

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David Sitrick @DavidSitrick
Melissa Rocha @Melisshious
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Taking calls in the basement yall...
// Glove Time // Fostering Dialogue // Bryans Birthday Meal // Doing All Kinds Of Stuff // They Got Shalacked // People On Their Heels // Thank You Pedro // Ready To Fall Apart // Union Talk // Boomer Myself // Jobs Discourage You // Slicker Than Shit // Constant Insults // Ohio Eigths Suck // Saw This Coming // Struggling Conservatives // Camelids // Rolling Down Hill //  

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Ohio "Eighths" Suck

Author of the Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins, comes on to talk about the cold war and the influence of America's #1 rag tag gang of friends, the CIA.

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Poisoner in Chief by Steven Kinzer
The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot

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"Elon Musk sent a thank-you note to Tesla's workers returning to work," Business Insider squeals. Walmart teams up with UPS to air an ad "thanking essential workers." "Jeff Bezos Just Posted an Open Letter to Amazon Employees About the Coronavirus. Every Smart Business Leader Needs to Read It," insists an article in Inc.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate leaders, politicians and celebrities have been quick to paint "essential workers," and those often described as "frontline" workers, as heroes — laborers conscripted, presumably against their will, into a wartime-like scenario of heroism and sacrifice as our country battles the ongoing coronavirus scourge.

The sentiment behind this rhetoric is understandable, especially from everyday people simply trying to express their deep appreciation for the underpaid labor doing the work to feed, house, care for and treat everyone else. But when deployed by powerful politicians and CEOs, the "essential workers as heroes" discourse serves a more sinister purpose: to curb efforts to unionize, preemptively justify mass death of a largely black and brown workforce, protect corporate profits and ultimately discipline labor that for a brief moment in spring of last year, had unprecedented leverage to extract concessions from capital.

As Wall Street booms and America’s billionaires see an increase of $1.1 trillion in wealth since March 2020 — a 40% increase — while the average worker suffers from unemployment, depression, drug abuse and a loss of healthcare, it’s become increasingly clear that “essential” never meant essential to helping society at large or essential to human care or essential to keeping the bottom from falling out, but essential to keeping the top one percent of the one percent’s wealth and power intact and as it turned out to be the case, massively expanded.

Indeed, 2020 saw the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in decades, a transfer largely made possible by the essential worker as hero narrative, with little discussion or debate. In March 2020 everyone agreed in this wartime framing that was going to send off millions of poor people to their deaths for a vague, undecided greater good of the quote-unquote "economy," when really it was for the seamless maintenance of Wall Street profits.

On this episode, we explore the origins of the concept of "essential work" and those deemed "essential workers"; how it's been used in the past to discipline labor during wartime; how hero narratives provide an empty, head-patting verbal tip in lieu of worker protection and higher pay; and why so few in our media ask the more urgent question of all: whether or not low wage retail, food, farming, and healthcare workers ever wanted to be heroes in the first place.

Our guest in Ronald Jackson, a worker and organizer with Warehouse Workers For Justice.

Episode 131: The "Essential Worker" Racket - How 'COVID Hero' Discourse Is Used To Discipline Labor

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