Episode 45: The George Dubya Bush Masterclass

[@mayamayhemmusic]

In my country we had a painter turned War Criminal, apparently in America it works the opposite way around.

[@Cnichal]

😂

[@beccagrantham5978]

I love Yugopnik's fake Texas accent, it's so funny 🤣

[@TennesseeJed]

Man, I would have loved to hear that bleeped out section.

[@Duterasemis]

Something like "life to America, life to George W Bush" idk

[@_Ve_98]

Found the Fed

[@noname-bu1ux]

Fun fact, Hakim made all those noises with his mouth. That's not bleeped out.

[@xbeheritx8323]

JT is being surveyed by the FBI, and threatening a former president is a felony. So I don’t blame him for bleeping it out.

[@TennesseeJed]

@@xbeheritx8323 yes I remember a JT mention of trying to get his FBI file, a long wait for heavily redacted file.

[@SelectBard133]

Oh my God I'm so glad I found this podcast. The absolute broiling fury beneath every one of Hakim's statements was golden.

[@Draconatus24]

I love how Hakim was the most innocent doctor man and now he's the only one who JT has to bleep out😂😂

[@EdwardMDL]

Hakim unleashed!!! Fav podcast, keep it up guys

[@RedScareClair]

I'll never understand inviting politicians to masterclass. Like Yugopnik said, I understood like Gordon Ramsay, NDGT, and the urban gardening guy whose name is escaping me... But I do not understand what politicians would be invited to give a masterclass on. How to lie, cheat, steal, and kill people and laugh about it? How to perfect insider trading? Like if you weren't the president during a civil war and you reunited the country or if you didn't make massive reforms that greatly benefitted people's lives...I cant be bothered with it.

[@winsonzhu4427]

I agree with the sentiment, but they also answer it in the episode: it's about the prestige. Those vids are low effort and blatantly pandering to companies because that's the whole point. Score points with sponsors and look cool and respectable to establishment. brain-wormed American "enlightened centrist" liberals are about the only civilians who actually buy the stuff said in the masterclass

[@castor9683]

You already know the answer. Money. Masterclass knows that there's enough people out there who worship these demons so much that they would buy their shitty how to videos. So they make em.

[@CripplingDuality]

Is NDT teaching people how to kiss in the mirror?

[@shanefoster2132]

Money? They did it for money?

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

hey some politicians write theory too... (Brzezinski? mao at least) not any of these tho

[@sponge5417]

the best part of the week is deprogram

[@3Starinvideot]

JT is the token American there to make sure people know Hakim and Yugopnik's America jokes are just jokes.

[@rembrandttip4861]

Don't you know? Everything they say is to be taken completely literally.

[@theggfloupin4084]

for every bleep, the wire tapped JT gets another page added to his file.

[@CraigKeidel]

Wire taps are so 1990s, the FBI has a rootkit in his computer

[@deptusmechanikus7362]

I’ve been looking forward to this all week

[@alkmibeats2133]

Mashallah same here❤️🙏🔥🇯🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸🇮🇶

[@podemosurss8316]

32:06 Speaking of Spanish, I'm remembering when his brother Jeb Bush on a meeting with the Spanish Head of Government (whose title is "President of the Council of Ministers", at this time it was José María Aznar, who is basically like if you mixed Bush's and Trump's politics and added a stupid moustache), and Jeb called him "President of the Spanish Republic". We haven't had a republic in Spain since 1939, and the country is officially "Kingdom of Spain". Not to mention that the ruling party at the time (the People's Party, it's basically like the GOP) is staunchly monarchist.

[@alvaromontes3314]

Es Bush y Reagan pero con tableta y bigote

[@podemosurss8316]

@@alvaromontes3314 A mí me recuerda más a Bush y Trump, pero será porque soy más joven.

[@miaumiau679]

1:08:34 great didnt think i would be crying to this podcast today...

[@thebigt3706]

Love this podcast. Always considered myself libleft but I have to say the comrades are pulling me to revolution lol

[@tankpiggy]

Hopefully you didn’t come to that conclusion from the pol comp test. I still get “lib-left” yet am constantly called a “tankie”.

[@JustHatcheted]

@@tankpiggy yeah, i'm an ML and I always get libleft. I don't think anyone who isn't a weirdo "patriotic socialist" will get authleft

[@CripplingDuality]

@@tankpiggy because that test is bullshit and designed to legitimize libertarianism

[@jakobsmith4046]

I always get libleft on the original political compass test but authleft on the sapplyvalues test which I think is way more accurate.

[@copacelu93]

I guess you could say they DEPROGRAMED you, haha bazinga

[@sms1511]

You guys are quickly becoming one of my favourite podcasts. I am wondering if its better for you guys if I listen on youtube or on podcast specific platforms? Better listen to it twice just to make sure 😅

[@Ajente02]

1:24 - 1:34 Funily enough, here in Latin America those "jokes" also exist. _"El Chavo"_ was famous for that kind of humour. 2:34 - 2:47 My "funny uncle" is the youngest brother of my mother. He was fired from his job due to alcoholism, so it checks out.

[@CraigKeidel]

MFW I'm the funny uncle 🥴🍺

[@HaloJumper7]

Many US Mercs served in Iraq as contractors and they suffered heavy casualties as well as committed war crimes.

[@RedStarMonkey98]

Could you guys pls pls have comrade Paul on the pod love the dynamic and the building of the united KZbin front 🙏🙏🙏

[@petemercurio8638]

Pauls under-rated. annd is havin $ issues. As good as the deprogramed guys.

[@trainpushingtutorials2822]

Paul interviewed them on his channel so u can check that out

[@colonel__klink7548]

Thinking about what a country should be for reminds me of a fascinating lecture from some English university on KZbin (Gresham college? Not sure.) This lecture was on the agricultural revolution in Europe after the fall of Rome that facilitated basically triple the population. What was so fascinating is that you see these villages in the UK in the 700s and 800s build out the substantial infrastructure needed to support livestock for labor, adopt ploughs for the fields and really skyrocket the production of grain. *THATS WHEN YOU SEE THE APPEARANCE OF MANORIAL LORDS, AFTER THE VILLAGES HAD ALREADY FIGURED THINGS OUT.* All because cereals were the perfect tax base for a government. The peasants built things up, not the other way around. The fascinating thing about this exchange is looking at the industrial revolution in the 1700-1900 timeframe. It was during this period that the government used it's ability tax the massive agricultural surplus to begin the process of industrial buildout and development ("free trade" building industrial economies is a lie, every great industrial power was built upon a massive government intervention program.) The manorial lords were simultaneously armed bullies who oppressed the peasants out of what they had built, but also the means by which the central authority was able to pool the resources to actually pull society out of an economy limited by the hectares of land available.

[@Ryukuro]

How dare you insult the noble and esteemed art of puns and plays on words.

[@tankpiggy]

7:35 - 8:40 10:04 - 10:40 23:07 25:23 30:07 35:04 - 35:45 40:18 - 40:50 45:06 50:00 50:53 52:26 57:11 1:09:20 - 1:10:10 1:16:20 1:17:08 1:23:34 1:24:58

[@michaelslowmin]

Big E

[@morgengabe1]

brilliant episode, guys!

[@spiderwrist]

The business language used shows who this masterclass is aimed at: business people. Middle management and up eat this shit up with a spoon and think it'll help them increase profits.

[@CraigKeidel]

Scammers scamming scammers

[@allypoum]

I haven't paid for any digital content since around 1995. Torrents rule.

[@CraigKeidel]

I'll pay if it's a good product at an affordable price. NHC Software makes some great audio & video tools that I've shelled out a few bucks here and there for.

[@CraigKeidel]

Also local and regional bands 🤷‍♂️

[@ipheclekennedy]

Finally so ecstatic 35:35 what did he say lol im dying to find out

[@viktormedvedev3992]

Love yall

[@jansecj9472]

Fantastic EP, Hakim spitting hard truths was great.

[@Turdfergusen382]

CEO = Chief Executive Officer…

[@Komrad_Cybersyn]

Hi, from "tat guy". Question : how does the de program chooses its guests?

[@Cam-zw8lj]

This isnt showing up on spotify, just the teaser still

[@Cam-zw8lj]

If you're having this issue, reinstall the app, its a spotify problem

[@nearby222]

To anyone reading this could someone point me to some information on Mao? My knowledge on the individual is severely lacking and I would like to learn more but everything I read tends to paint him as a evil individual which could be true but All of it's from extremely biased source. Something a little less bias would be much appreciated.

[@Fight4Liberation]

Space Baby (youtuber and music artist) has some great videos and the Peace Report also has some great videos. Both are on youtube.

[@nearby222]

@@Fight4Liberation thank you very much I appreciate it

[@Ajente02]

You can basically read his writtings directly and make your mind for yourself on his ideas. Most of them are quite short and pretty understandable without too much previous knowledge. They're all available in BannedThought, Max2Mao, and the Marxist Internet Archive online for free.

[@nearby222]

@@Ajente02 I appreciate that also

[@nearby222]

@@Mildau30 thank you I'll look into these also

[@mrpieceofwork]

@53:18 This is why he never used "Jr", I presume

[@zo.bot.]

47:55 that’s def a thing at dodgers stadium,,, idk if other places do it as well but “dodger dogs” are famous here

[@CjThe_ICEBURG]

Ok so I'm new ik the second thought guy, but who's character is who between the other two comrades?

[@Aermydach]

That's Hakim. Check out his vids.

[@raybird9583]

There’s Hakim on the left and Yugopnik on the right, both have great channels, highly recommend

[@CjThe_ICEBURG]

@@raybird9583 I'm going to trust blindly 😭 i subscribed to both

[@hyacinthdathenes9405]

@@CjThe_ICEBURG you will not regret it!

[@guapochico69]

Hakims videos are insanely good for understanding communism and socialism and past revolutions histories

[@andren55]

❤

[@52flyingbicycles]

Two ultra long boomer jokes I’ve heard. Abridged. 1. A guy inherits an exotic pet known as a rary. The rary is super high maintenance and keeps messing up his life, but he can’t get rid of it. He and the rary wind up standing by a cliff and he considers nudging it off the edge. Just tip it over the edge. Another guy comes along and our protagonist explains the whole situation and what he was thinking about doing. The traveler says “oh no, it’s a wrong way to tip a rary” This completely blew over my head at the time because it’s a pun on “it’s a long way to Tipperary” which is a positively ANCIENT song. 2) this guy was super honest and selfless his whole life. He dedicated himself to the service of others at all times and got all the accolades for it but never let it get to his head. He goes to some foriegn land to do charity work and gets captured by cannibals, who threaten to eat him. He tells them that they will regret it if they do, but they do it anyway. After they finish eating him, they all become violently ill and start throwing up all over the place. The moral of the story is that you can’t keep a good man down.

[@harsarligan6665]

the bleeping makes it funnier xd

[@Hopperton]

They got pretty deep with that analysis on America and the state of the fuckery around 57:00

[@T_Dot94]

💙

[@OtseisRagnarok]

I had no idea George HW bush died.

[@dirrdevil]

Ted Cruz was born in Canada.

[@davidbouchard2499]

There were protest against the Irak war if i remember correctly.

[@milkdrinker7]

yugopnik really needs to find a better vocal crutch than et cetera et cetera

[@paulseaver8149]

His brother George P Bush was running for a house seat in Texas. He lost twice.

[@ruubskii]

Texan here. Must correct that both HW and W are from New England, and Cruz is Canadian. They’re pretend Texans and we’ve never claimed them. That is all.

[@leroitiaks]

Hakim, d'ont get excited, many other ethnicities also have not been represented by so-called 'terrorism'

[@dandelion_fritters]

Ah, despise the presidents of the last 100 years especially.

[@alechinshaw5990]

Biden - Always has been an awful politician Trump - he’s a billionaire Obama - Drone strikes Bush jr - Iraq, Patriot act (they rhyme) Clinton - The crime bill (TBF Biden made it) Bush sr - Gulf war Reagan - Union busting, enemy to every worker Carter - the least offensive of everyone on the list, the best one as a human being, and being the only one to criticize Israel. Ford - never heard his name until last year in junior US history class. Nixon - he chose Kissinger, enough said. LBJ - Vietnam, and just a racist. Only decent thing he did was Medicare and Medicaid. He didn’t even want to sign civil rights act to law. JFK - Bay of pigs Eisenhower - putting the word god on currency, and the pledge. Truman - Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Cold War FDR - Japanese internment camps (still the best on the list for when it comes to economic reform) Hoover - Great Depression Coolidge - Laissez-faire. Only redeeming factor about him is supporting the women’s suffrage. Harding = HARD to remember what he did. And right before the last 100 years, we have the worst of the worst, that of course being Wilson.

[@TheMoistestNugget]

1:20:45 americans when they find out you can kill millions of civilians and then youve killed more than the enemy so you win now

[@18nakedcowboys69]

Hakim is fucking going off in this episode