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podcast friday
Mar. 14th, 2025 08:04 pm A little late. Look, I was doing other stuff. This week's recommendation is Bad Hasbara's latest episode, "Free Mahmoud Khalil, with Bilal Sharmoug."
I can't stop thinking about Mahmoud Khalil and neither can Matt or Daniel, or Bilal. This episode is all over the place. You can probably skip like, the first 20 minutes of banter. It's just important that everyone know as much as possible and fight as hard as they can because Mahmoud is the guy. He's specifically the guy. He is the guy in the first line of the poem. He is the very thin line between ostensible lip service to democracy in America and outright fascism. If they deport him, they are coming for any American who doesn't deepthroat the boot, and when they're done disappearing those, they'll come for the people who didn't deepthroat the boot hard enough.
I am full of rage. At Trump, and Elon, and all of those fascists of course, but also at Columbia University, which failed to protect its students and despite its attempts to fully fellate the autocrats, is still going to lose all of its funding, and deserves to. For the liberal Zionists. I know right-wing Zionists are pieces of shit but none of this happens without the majority of the American Jewish community failing to hold organizations like the ADL to account, for whining about campus protests, for weaponizing social justice vocabulary that never should have escaped containment on Tumblr. To the credit of a handful (mentioned in this episode), some are taking the "I hate this guy but he shouldn't get deported" line, but like. It's not the majority. Do they not know that the precedent for sending the goddamn Gestapo after a green card holder who isn't accused of a crime is a law that they used to deport Jews? Do they know that dozens of Jews have just been arrested at Trump Tower in the name of "stopping anti-semitism"? Yeah they know, it's just despite their professed lack of safety they know deep down they're at the bottom of the poem.
I have been thinking of campus free speech fights and how just a few short years ago, the right was whining about how they didn't have free speech on campus. What did the left do? Protested Nazis and got our skulls cracked for it by the cops. We didn't go whining to Big Brother to deport people we didn't like, because we're not a bunch of little bitches. Meanwhile, when the right doesn't like free speech on campus, they go complaining to the manager and forget all about their professed commitment to free speech.
Anyway, the first step is learning everything you can, so this episode is helpful, even if you have to skip ahead because of the rambling.
I can't stop thinking about Mahmoud Khalil and neither can Matt or Daniel, or Bilal. This episode is all over the place. You can probably skip like, the first 20 minutes of banter. It's just important that everyone know as much as possible and fight as hard as they can because Mahmoud is the guy. He's specifically the guy. He is the guy in the first line of the poem. He is the very thin line between ostensible lip service to democracy in America and outright fascism. If they deport him, they are coming for any American who doesn't deepthroat the boot, and when they're done disappearing those, they'll come for the people who didn't deepthroat the boot hard enough.
I am full of rage. At Trump, and Elon, and all of those fascists of course, but also at Columbia University, which failed to protect its students and despite its attempts to fully fellate the autocrats, is still going to lose all of its funding, and deserves to. For the liberal Zionists. I know right-wing Zionists are pieces of shit but none of this happens without the majority of the American Jewish community failing to hold organizations like the ADL to account, for whining about campus protests, for weaponizing social justice vocabulary that never should have escaped containment on Tumblr. To the credit of a handful (mentioned in this episode), some are taking the "I hate this guy but he shouldn't get deported" line, but like. It's not the majority. Do they not know that the precedent for sending the goddamn Gestapo after a green card holder who isn't accused of a crime is a law that they used to deport Jews? Do they know that dozens of Jews have just been arrested at Trump Tower in the name of "stopping anti-semitism"? Yeah they know, it's just despite their professed lack of safety they know deep down they're at the bottom of the poem.
I have been thinking of campus free speech fights and how just a few short years ago, the right was whining about how they didn't have free speech on campus. What did the left do? Protested Nazis and got our skulls cracked for it by the cops. We didn't go whining to Big Brother to deport people we didn't like, because we're not a bunch of little bitches. Meanwhile, when the right doesn't like free speech on campus, they go complaining to the manager and forget all about their professed commitment to free speech.
Anyway, the first step is learning everything you can, so this episode is helpful, even if you have to skip ahead because of the rambling.
