Bret Weinstein’s Galaxy Brain Expands Beyond Safe Levels

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[@bengreen171]

Somewhere in Madagascar, there's an old lady who tells the tale of some strange foreigner who once tried to steal her cat, and only left when she waved a frying pan at her and her husband.

[@dawnsmith9596]

🤣

[@rdnax92]

🤣😂🤣😂 thats probably the correct version!

[@Stoic_grimace]

This is exactly what I thought

[@MrSirlulzalot]

😂 good one.

[@1020kerry]

😂😂😂

[@dr2926]

ASMR racism

[@elisawhitman8526]

I casually scrolled past your comment, then had to go back to hit the like button as it suddenly dawned on me how funny it was. It was like… delayed humor. It took a second.

[@travisrlel2]

Underrated comment

[@billybeer55555]

Exactly! I was wondering why they were whispering...is there someone in the next room they're hiding their racism from?

[@KnutFan]

Worlds colliding!

[@kmlund42]

Ha ha ha, That one was funny.

[@puffball4484]

Oh no immigrants being dumped into the interior of the country as though that's not the entire history of this country.

[@leftwingdogwhistle]

“If they don’t want them there they’d have every right to deny new immigrants.” “But they do want them there.” “But you can imagine how it’d be if they didn’t!”

[@pano3607]

“Immigrants are being dumped into the interior of the Fatherland errr… I mean…”

[@spacedoutcowboy5211]

It's cause they're black

[@craigmusa2254]

​@@pano3607sounds like Hitler 😅

[@FischerNilsA]

Immigrants "being dumped in" (I´d say "searching for a better life", folks got agency and reasons to come) pretty much IS the entire history of this country. Everybody but the natives has very recently had migrants in their family history, and the whole idea of the country is of this new, unburdened project for people from everywhere. But if you prefer talking about people being dumped in against their agency? That is a topic deserving discussion.... only that wasnt too recently.

[@Boneworm852]

Madagascar is an island. Haiti is an island. Coincidence???

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

*x-files music plays*

[@RogerWeese]

This couple is bananas. Bananas are grown in both Madagascar and Haiti. Coincidence? I think not.

[@thomasrussell4674]

Surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.

[@leparfumdugrosboss4216]

English people eat strange stuff too. We're on to something, definitely.

[@Osyris666]

Continents are massive islands! Mind blown lol

[@TenthCrane2788]

Bret and Heather going grocery shopping must be intense. Standing in the store, analyzing how they are being "trapped" into buying bananas.

[@johnprentice1527]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ninjalectualx]

Pointing out how "grocery stores trick you by making you walk through the fresh produce first" then refusing to look at anything fresh

[@michaelwhite5455]

That’s fucking hilarious. Try sitting behind them at a fuckkng movie theatre. Lol lol.

[@tyronnemoss]

😂😂😂

Good one

[@leparfumdugrosboss4216]

Haïti might be thousands of miles away from Madagascar, and Haitians might be descendants from slaves captured overwhelmingly in west Africa, on the other side of the continent. But let's face it, both of their populations are very very black, and that's the only criteria Heather needs to draw her conclusions that they must all be the same. 🙄

[@attaxiaffxi7033]

I surmise that incident in Madagascar where someone clearly chased her off their property for appearing to groom their cat might have been the primary prejudicial catalyst. The cat was black too which didn’t help matters (this was before they overcooked it).

[@paulstewart6293]

Cats are not indigenous to Madagascar.

[@guillaumelagueyte1019]

Lol it's pretty obvious. The fact that they're island nations (in a very loose sense for Haiti) may also have played a role, but let's keep it real, that's the main thing she had in mind. Scary and shocking black people culture.

[@trippingthelight]

um, excuse me, it's Hatia. that's why they're called Haitian, duh /s

[@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965]

the "traps abound" is just lazy click bait journalism, it's capitalism. capitalism incentivizes this kind of crap TMZ outrage marketing.

[@Mogorman87]

Bret is the epitome of the if I just talk slowly and calmly I’ll sound smart kinda guys. We all know who the rest are.

[@tmcd5049]

I don't.

[@Mogorman87]

@@tmcd5049 except you then.

[@tmcd5049]

@@Mogorman87 gonna spill the beans, then?

[@tari8134]

@@tmcd5049 Sam Harris

[@mcemeric4976]

Lex Fridman

[@fearlessherojg]

The way Heather "whisper speaks" is unbearable.

[@brentwalker8596]

Yeah, I had a hard time watching.

[@MikesOnAPlane-bv7is]

It’s like the delicious dish NPR SNL skits from back in the day

[@ShermThursby]

So weird!

[@greatwhitesufi]

I find it kinda hilarious

[@ahahaha3505]

They're so theatrical.

[@Jay-yr9oi]

Just pointing out, they both literally acknowledge they know nothing about this story. Yet, instead of waiting and maybe doing a little research, they feel the need to comment on it and amplify it and offer opinions of what it represents

[@21972012145525]

They literally do this all the time. They say that throughout their entire podcast

[@WhiskerDooz]

Anything for those sweet, sweet views! AdSense and nonsense

[@sotrain515]

that's the rightwing commentator secret sauce. read article headlines, listen to soundbites, take everything out of context. anytime you're called out just play your trump card: "well i don't have all the facts in front of me, but --" and then go back to whatever it was you were saying already

[@Jay-yr9oi]

“Maybe this is a trap.” Yeah, you’re so close, and then you fumble on the goal line. Yeah, it’s a trap. It’s white nationalists dangling their shiny keys in front of rubes like you knowing you’ll spread it for them with the “assuming it’s true” qualifier. Never “just ask questions.” Just asking question should very much be discouraged. Ask questions and then see if they have an answer. That’s what actual skepticism is.

[@mpemberton7760]

@@sotrain515 "We know the election probably wasn't rigged, but we're going to continue pushing that narrative and questioning election integrity, anyway."

[@Naveen-tx8be]

I LIVE for the occasional laughter in the background. It’s my favorite MR staple 😁

[@user-ye1go6hw9r]

...and it was extra good in this episode: contagious, real tears-in-eyes belly laughs. ❤

[@ninjalectualx]

That's how I choose leftist talk shows: which ones have the most laughter

[@tari8134]

I miss Michael. He had the best background laugh.

[@Junebug89]

I miss when Michael was one of those :(

[@garethmaccoll4374]

Meanwhile somewhere in Madagascar, some Malagasy woman is remembering when some white lady tried to eat her cat and she had to chase her away with a frying pan

[@markobrien3859]

That was one smart and informed old Madagascan woman! She knew white Americans eat cats.

[@6trillionmiles]

I have to admit I fell for the fake tension in their marriage. I sent a thirst trap to heather. Now I look like an idiot. Traps abound

[@tmcd5049]

First trap, you mean? Or am I falling into your carefully designed trap by suggesting that?

[@polydex108]

Sneaking into her DMs.

[@6trillionmiles]

@@tmcd5049 got you!! Or what… oh no. My god. Touché. Your trap was brilliant

[@dawnsmith9596]

LOL!!!

[@dawnsmith9596]

@@tmcd5049 😆

[@HalcyonAndroid]

im putting it around a 2% chance that madagascar anecdote actually happened.

[@georgesears934]

I give it 4%, just because I could plausibly believe that a local would enjoy screwing with some gormless tourist by doing something completely ridiculous and acting like it's totally normal in her neck of the woods, just to see the look on the tourists' face and tell all her friends and family about her prank and laugh at this clueless idiot. It might've even been her family'e cat, if the cat had zero reaction to a human sprinting towards it waving a big clobbering thing and sat there patiently while the humans had a conversation. Because it musta sat there, otherwise there'd be no cat to cook in the first place. You can't eat something you can't find.

[@johnmilhem5660]

closer to 0.02% I'd say

[@darkhorse381]

“Speaking of black people, I’ve been to a black cat-eating country so who knows if these blacks do it too”

[@media4amigos]

and frankly, if it did happen, it would ultimately reflect very well upon the Madagascan woman. she saw an animal commonly enjoyed as food and immediately offered it to the white devil in a generous act. imagine a hillbilly tackling a wild pig and offering to cook it up for you-- that would be an uncommonly generous thing to do for a stranger, even if we didn't want the animal killed for our benefit

[@21972012145525]

​@@georgesears934 she wasn't a normal tourist. She's a evolutionary biologist and went to do research

[@foxinsocks7531]

“He asked me to marry him and now he just talks to me on camera about dumb shit. Traps abound”

[@brentwalker8596]

Who wears the pants ?

[@foxinsocks7531]

@@brentwalker8596 pants are a trap.

[@mldb13]

​@@foxinsocks7531😂😂😂

[@craigmusa2254]

Dude she comparing Haitians to citizens of Madagascar is wildly racist 😅

[@Epicfountain10]

:She was walking down a dirt road and some woman run out with frying pan and wanted to cook her some random cat: did I hear that right?

[@thecollector6746]

Leave it to the skeptics to not buy this absolutely ridiculous, insulting story.

[@leparfumdugrosboss4216]

It could be true. So what? Cats are useful for chasing rodents, it makes sense to let them multiply freely around a farming house and eat one from time to time. Although carnivores meat isn't so good and there ain't much to eat on a stray cat. So it could be false too. More people should watch the South Park episode about the Japanese hunting sea mammals. Including Bret and Heather.

[@Epicfountain10]

@@thecollector6746 I get it. What got me flabbergasted was how she made up the story. I am from a region not far from the east African islands and I never heard of cat meat being a food source In Madagascar. The majority of people in Madagascar aren't Africans but Malay from South East Asian who settled on the island more than 2000 years ago and they themselves don't have history of cat meat consumption.

[@markwillies7666]

​@@Epicfountain10 Google it they do but largely done as opportunistic.I live in Cape Town I'm going to ask my friend who lives in Madagascar wot part of a cat she likes.

[@Demo5]

Apparently she was shouting Tomas!! Bret stopped her before she got to that part .

[@craigbradford4850]

Neither of them know anything about this, he said he’s agnostic and she stated she was unaware until she heard about it on the debate. Yet, their ignorance of the subject doesn’t stop them from running their mouths about the topic.

[@ethanaskey7285]

Because they're worthless soulless shills who can't just go on their platform made for them to speak their view and actually speak their real views. If they said we don't know anything about this it'd come off like a bad look for them in their far right lunatic audience. It's pathetic really.

[@ambylam]

why is the idea of eating cat or dog meat more distasteful than eating beef? As a cat owner, obviously I would be horrified if someone tried to eat MY cat, but the way animals are defined as pets or protein sources in different cultures is completely arbitrary.

[@nancybryant4325]

Exactly. Isn’t the cow considered sacred by Hindus? I doubt they eat beef.

[@Robert_Bob_Bobrob]

Believing in American excellence gave so many adults child brain...

[@toddtetrick2414]

Bret is like a schizophrenic who thinks every crazy thought he has is being broadcast through his fillings by the CIA.

[@pietzsche]

I'm agnostic about that.

[@al4nmcintyre]

Plot twist: those CIA transmissions are being received by his pre-alpha Neuralink implant, not his fillings.

[@Sebastian-ld4qg]

True Fact, CIA all over the place ^^

[@ZERO_O7X]

Bert Weisenheimer uses all three of his braincells and confuses his wife who has 4! 😂

[@numberonedad]

seriously, these are some of the dumbest people alive

[@sotrain515]

lol "Bert Weisenheimer" would be the Looney Tunes version of Bret that Bugs Bunny would square off against if Dark Horse Podcast was a radio show in the 30's

[@aecnqewimnazxclwdxl]

Just a reminder: Brett and Heather were professors at a small, unknown liberal arts college before he went on Tucker Carlson's show to air an internal debate about their institution's "day of absence" observance. In a completely rational and defensible move, Brett sought a solution to a workplace disagreement in Tucker's sage advice. And now he and Heather are applying that same sober, staid approach to news stories on their podcast. You know, totally normal stuff.

[@tyronnemoss]

I actually attended high school football camp at that particular college. It was a decade before Brett went crying to Joe Rogan but I visited nonetheless. Evergreen state college.

[@ericbray4286]

The 2017 years graduating class was greeted by death threats and had to move the location to an safe space thanks to his "storytime" with Tucker/Rogan and his fame seeking. He could have just held class in one of the many nearby state parks during the day of absence since he is trained in biology. His damage to that college is still being felt, a college by the way that trains mostly teachers, social workers and community organizers.

[@TheFatblob25]

Maybe not so much known now, but when I went there in the late 90s Evergreen was (weirdly) highly regarded. Regularly in the top 10 colleges by US News & World Report Magazine... (which is a very old timey thing to say). In state it was known of as the hippy stoner college.... which it was. It was a great school, with no grades, no requirements, all evalutions. My transcript is like 30 pages thick. Lots of independent learning contracts & self directed students. Learned critical thinking above all, had some great professors. I remember thinking to myself how ironic the annual "Day of Absence" was primarily because the demographics of the college were blindingly white. Like 95% white or something. So weird that this dude is the fallout from all that.

[@21972012145525]

​@@ericbray4286 Brett claims the death threats were to him as well. Also the threats occurred before his appearance on jre. I didn't even know about his tucker appearance

[@21972012145525]

​@@TheFatblob25that's how they claim it was while they taught too.

[@feralhomunculus]

Who cares where people eat meats that _we_ consider "inappropriate"? I'm a vegetarian and a dog trainer who dedicated my life to the well-being of dogs and cats. When I go to countries where they eat dogs, I don't think the people who do that are any less than people who eat pigs or octopus. Meat is meat. Who gives us the right to make moral distinctions?

[@ninjalectualx]

Our reasoning ability gives us the right to judge

[@trippingthelight]

​​@@ninjalectualx there's a whole country, one of the largest and most populous, in fact, that would consider those eating cow meat to be savages. so unless you think your reasoning and judgement is _better_ than an entire ethnicity/nation... well, there's a word for that.

[@ArDeeMee]

It’s really all about the animals‘ living conditions. You put them into tiny boxes with low-grade food? Deprived of space to move and sunlight? THEN Imma judge the heck out of you. We eat less meat in this house. We try to buy meats that had a better life. This doesn’t always work out perfectly, naturally, but it’s a start.

[@tomsweder7459]

​@@trippingthelightbut those beef abstainers have too much melanin to matter to these folks.

[@ninjalectualx]

@tripping please research what an opinion is. You may be surprised to learn that opinions are not facts

[@placebojesus5652]

Bret Weinstein is like the academia version of David Rubin

[@placebojesus5652]

Such cringe

[@dakunssd]

Dark enlightenment, or Endarkenment for short. Also equivalent: Endorkenment.

[@arnoldcox9128]

Tim Walz needs an award for exposing how weird these people are

[@elisawhitman8526]

Right off the bat, Bret gets every single fact wrong. He can’t arrive at a rational destination when his starting point is the Land of Falsehoods.

[@loganme]

Absolutely wild how Bret keeps tripping and falling into these traps.

[@READERSENPAII]

Dude really said “traps abound.” Lmao

[@douglasmennella4525]

Pretty sure he’s playing 1-dimensional chess. He can’t figure what to do with his knight.

[@ZERO_O7X]

Knight smash Queen. King me! ChExMiX LiBeRaLs!1 👑

[@ninjalectualx]

Google en passant

[@douglasmennella4525]

@@ninjalectualx … and?

[@ninjalectualx]

Holy hell!

[@jgreen802]

Dude has blundered his queen on move 3

[@user-mx9pt4dr7y]

THE BRAIN YOU CANT RESTRAIN! Sam, this is quantum chess. Deepak degrees of chess.

[@ninjalectualx]

5G chess, baby

[@dakunssd]

When you're in Madagascar and the weird lady both wants and doesn't want to kill and cook the cat for you and you're playing chess on your phone: Quantum chess. Traps abound.

[@tomfrombrunswick7571]

One suspects the woman in Madagascar was saying "get away from my cat or I will re-arrange your face with my frying pan. Fluffy is a valued member of our household". But with the clip it is like two idiots talking in a bar. Aren't these people meant to be educated or something

[@SergeantVau1]

Not just educated, but educators. They used to be teachers.

[@21972012145525]

​@@SergeantVau1*professors.

[@colewood3297]

Does Heather even speak Malagasy or French? For all we know she had no idea what the woman was saying to her

[@ryanlangley1219]

How cool it is that we get a glimpse into the minds of literally insane people

[@chrisp7044]

"What if we took all the substance out of NPR but kept all the pretension?"

[@ArawnDan]

That scene in Princess Bride just replayed through my head. It made more sense than that man.

[@simonssays78]

Inconceivable!!!!

[@seedye]

I detect a theme here. Conservatives: “You can’t allow people to buy marijuana, because they’re illegal drugs! You can’t allow illegal camping by homeless people in cities where it is legal to do that! You can’t allow illegal migrants to live here just by writing some laws to allow them to live here [to paraphrase a thing that JD Vance said recently]!”

[@Hbr_ed]

exactly

[@sundaysommers1476]

Sam you rip me up. Sitting alone in my living room and can't stop laughing. Bret is such a douche.

[@isabellaandfrancesca.9834]

Where's the empathy for sheep and cows 😂😂😂😂

[@ArDeeMee]

And pigs, who are incredibly intelligent creatures.

[@martinaee]

Bret or Eric every time: “Here are our deep brain super smart models and concepts of the world and how things work… and that is why trans and woke people are bad!” 😂

[@lmaololroflcopter]

“It’s a trap within a trap within a trap within a trap within a trap!” - Admiral Ackbar

[@AdamtheRed-]

Inconceivable!

[@jamesdana1273]

This woman's storytelling is insufferable

[@elftax]

Maybe she is playing 4 dimensional chess, she bores you to sleep and you end up playing the entire podcast… looks great for the Spotify stats.

[@garysouza95]

Reverse AMSR.

[@6trillionmiles]

Enter the Mandelbrot dimension

[@Raydensheraj]

More like the "Schimmelbrot" dimension 😂

[@ZERO_O7X]

The Howie Mandel Btatwurst dimension! 🌭

[@uhspagettspookedya]

White People Self Important Podcast Studio, imagine how beautiful the room would smell after a bean burrito buffet lunch, like absolute rose petals. They are the most thought provoking people they have ever met.

[@numberonedad]

the road in the village was DUSTY?!

[@timharbert7145]

Thank you for your videos.

[@user-ye1go6hw9r]

...ahhhhh the Princess Bride poison goblet conundrum.

[@WhymMC]

This just reminds me of the Prince Bride scene.

[@Jay-yr9oi]

Madagascar, Jamaica, Haiti, basically all the same places with the same cultures

[@ShaithMaster]

What in the flying fack does Madagascar have to do with Haiti?

[@IceSpicesSweat]

Brown people

[@ninjalectualx]

They're both equally foreign

[@colewood3297]

Former French colonies (just kidding, they don't care about that, it's the Black people)

[@stevensica5918]

Islands. Poor. Non-white. Former colonies.

[@JPH1138]

You know, if Bret believes in Occam's Razor he should probably stop and think about which explanation is simpler for the proliferation of ridiculous stories like these: on the one hand, we have the possibility that they are elaborate traps set by Democrat operatives to trick mildly popular online intellectuals such as himself into promoting them and looking foolish. On the other hand, there is the possibility that a lot of Republican supporters aren't very smart or discriminating, so share easily debunked stories based on nothing. One of these theories, to me, requires far fewer moving parts and also seems to be supported by a lot of other observable evidence.

[@mpemberton7760]

@JPH1138 Or there's a 3rd possibility: the Haitians themselves planted this fake story to demonstrate how easy it is to dupe racists into believing the most absurd things about non-white migrants.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

"Unbelievable!" No, Sam. The word is INCONCEIVABLE.

[@MikesOnAPlane-bv7is]

Their conversation style reminds me of the old NPR hosts SNL skit

[@JohnnyTheMonkey]

😂😂😂

[@rocdaroc]

Madagascar isnt that far off, I mean it's just an ocean and a whole continent in the way.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

And an entire different culture, ethnicity and government

[@abracadaverous]

"I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you."

[@sgtearache5303]

Imagine being married to either one of these unbearable people! What a nightmare...

[@attaxiaffxi7033]

So this woman expects us to believe that she was petting a cat and that someone come out and chased her with a frying pan offering to cook the cat for her. Was she trespassing when this happened? I think she may have misread the situation. Edit: wtf she back peddled immediately after

[@Hbr_ed]

I had the exact same experience with the video also 😅

[@mpemberton7760]

I have a hunch that she probably misreads LOTS of situations.

[@enkibumbu]

Weinstein calls himself left leaning. Based on his last couple years of rhetoric, I'd have to conclude the students at Evergreen may have been at least partly correct.

[@CS-iq4xn]

no theyre staunch progressives. transphobic, anti-vax, pro-Trump progressives.

[@21972012145525]

​@@CS-iq4xncorrect

[@405DC]

Wait until she finds out about cannibalistic tribes.

[@DahVoozel]

Do those cannibalistic tribes have a large, powerful central government and a state regulatory system?

[@SteppenWolf-z9c]

Unbelievable? Didn't you mean inconceivable?

[@user-ye1go6hw9r]

Haha YES I was shouting it in a room by myself!

[@Cancellator5000]

As a vegan I apologize for comparing eating farm animals to eating cats and dogs. There is no real moral difference between the two, but it seems like people are too dumb to see that.

[@ninjalectualx]

Ehh, one could argue that cows and chickens are on the same moral plane as fish and bugs

[@thecollector6746]

Not that it matters here as Heather clearly made this ridiculous story up.

[@Cancellator5000]

@@ninjalectualx Yeah, the same plane as humans. Well, unless you believe in Jesus or something. Science has proven solidly that all those creatures and probably some bugs are sentient. Cows and chickens can certainly behave in much the same way as cats and dogs when shown affection they just aren't as cute.

[@leparfumdugrosboss4216]

As a meat eater I share your feeling.

[@Cancellator5000]

@@thecollector6746 Did you know that bees probably invented democracy. It's how they choose where to move if an original hive becomes overcrowded or destroyed. A great example of individual and collective intelligence.

[@puppysuprise]

i am so ready to create a sub community to the dark horse podcast, i listen to every episode out of sheer entertainment. i cant be alone.

[@21972012145525]

I stopped watching long back. EVERY story/topic is prefaced by the disclaimer that they haven't looked into it (usually by Heather). While I appreciate the honesty, why have a podcast? Research it, then discuss. Or don't discuss at all

[@larryforbes6718]

What's up w the Madagascar cat story. What does Bret think she meant

[@Raydensheraj]

Stoogestein....urggg ....is he still blaming Carol for stealing his Nobel Prize😂 I seriously don't know who is the worst.... Jordan Xanaxsen, Tim Foolkovsky, Dave Rubinovsky, Jimmy Dore etc.... Hard choices....but the Stoogestein brothers are high in the "Dumb as Hell Champions League" table...

[@brentwalker8596]

They are quite the assemblage of villainous stable geniuses.

[@SixOneNiner23]

Dumb people that think they are smart are extremely dangerous

[@21972012145525]

Whatever happened to that claim.by.h? Also, super easy. Dave Rubin. At least everyone else has SOME basic credentials

[@joezink881]

When Sam said unbelievable instead of inconceivable, that hurt me.

[@thecircledk8597]

They're living the American dream Is that what they find difficult ?

[@JDBees37]

Trouble in paradise with these two.

[@ShparkleDurginz]

Turned that fractal chess all the way up to 11.

[@ainaqui6095]

From Madagascar here😂😂 I have never heard of Malagasy people eating 🐈‍⬛ C’est des CONNERIES (pardon my French)

[@gerrelldrawhorn8975]

There's actually some scientific research by public health experts and anthropologists on villag s with reported cat consumption in Madagascar. The major point is that rural Malagasy sometimes resort to consuming cats due to food insecurity There were few other sources of protein, even bushmeat. tBut the cases were rare. About one third of persons in the sampled rural villages reported eating cat sometime in their lifetime. even then, with he consumption amongst those that had eaten cat being unusual ~with a median of 2.5 instances of consuming cats over their lifetime. Most respondants of those who had eaten cat had not consumed that meat in over 7.5 years. Cats were not stolen...having been either a family cat, a gifted cat, or, on occasion, an already dead cat. So even if Madascans immigrate to the USA there is unlikely to be an epidemic of feline gastronomy breaking out.

[@gerrelldrawhorn8975]

Maybe we should start calling J.D. Vance"The Senator from Madagascar".. At least there are authentic reports of cat eating there.

[@benjatatafasa3105]

Can confirm. My dad’s a Malagasy immigrant. We have three cats. He’s never tried to eat them.

[@mpemberton7760]

@gerrelldrawhorn8975 Thanks for doing the research. The myth that cats are a staple of the Madagascan or Haitian diet is a racist concoction, based on the perception that Third World people ("The Other") are generally uncivilized, primitive and even subhuman. White racists never stop to consider that impoverished, malnourished Black natives may sometimes resort to eating cats or dogs when there's a scarcity of protein sources available to them. The idea that Haitian immigrants are stealing domestic cats and cooking them up for dinner (you know, those Haitians like the taste of cat meat!) is absurd on its face. And the fact that this hogwash was twisted into a political talking point by Trump, Vance and the rightwing media, as though it were true, is despicable.

[@colewood3297]

Also worth pointing out that the idea that eating cats & dogs is somehow "uncivilized" is culturally supremacist world view in of itself, since there is no actual difference between those animals & the 1s we eat for meat, we just view it differently because of our culture

[@jonathanwpressman]

Whoever titles these vids, thank you. ❤

[@T.K...]

Loved how she described her vacations to the beach as "spending time"

[@kenlowiii]

Clicked on this just for the title 💀💀💀

[@meamishere1166]

Ben Carson called, he wants his Thorazine drip back.

[@tundrastreaming]

It's the Democrats fault if Trump trips over a stick and faceplants. Did the Democrats put the stick there? maybe..... But they definitely created the conditions for the stick to exist at that particular location 🤯

[@MsTyrie]

In other words, shout fire in a theater, then bow for an award for Best Incendiary Effects? .

[@batwingpie]

I guess she chose Madagascar for her story because saying they eat cats and dogs in China wouldn't have the same racism slant they are going for.

[@MsTyrie]

Thanks!

[@RustyShackelford2011]

Whos whittling all the pungy spikes for all these traps? Damn hard worker, that one.

[@athenaortiz94]

“this is a French problem” 😂😂😂

[@brettmiller6463]

Inconceivable!!!!

[@mediaversenetwork]

comedy gold.

[@VictorianDad]

"It's like pure heroin" Come on! "It's like catnip" was right there!

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

Wow, that image of Heather is going to haunt my dreams.

[@cooncam4980]

He is a victim of audience capture. He started to appeal to the MAGA fringes and then tailored his podcast to those people.

[@The_Zeta_Male]

This is what we call "11th dimensional chess"

[@Dennis450D]

What are the chances that that lady in Madagascar saw Heather and thought to herself: "I can't believe I'm even considering doing this to Sprinkles, but that lady looks French. I believe they eat cats there....here goes nothing"

[@cmustard599]

Their digression on Kamala's debate earrings... a similar 'inception' style nested trap... was comedy gold

[@simonssays78]

Inconceivable…..scene from princess bride! Where he over thinks the poison trap

[@panpluto13]

but they dont know that we know that they know

[@wesshiflet2214]

She’d never HEARD of a culture eating cats until she WENT to Madagascar???

[@Michael-cm8qk]

Extraordinarily extraordinary.

[@PaullyRobots]

This is my favorite type of comedy.

[@samjonesi2658]

I HAVE been to Haiti. I did not see a cat being cooked.

[@euronimo34]

Only a true sceptic would be "agnostic" about a story where the originator came on CNN and said "Yeah, I made that up."

[@BroccoliDog420]

Plans within plans.

[@PureNeptune]

I learned about Haiti the hard way, from a Madagascan.

[@MeinGottHatDenLangsten]

How did that guy become a university professor, even for a short time? Holy scheisse!

[@AslanJazzLan]

It's like that scene from a princess bride 😂😂

[@Jennifer_Elliott]

These two were college professors 🌚

[@isabellaandfrancesca.9834]

Coincidentally the same thing happened to me in Ireland, I was standing at a fence looking at a cow when a farmer ran out of his house holding a frying pan offering to cook the cow for me .😊