257・Our Beloved Gerontocracy Yearns For Those Rare Earths But Only Deserve One-Way Ice Floes Artwork

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257・Our Beloved Gerontocracy Yearns For Those Rare Earths But Only Deserve One-Way Ice Floes

February 16, 2025

Amuse bouche: Crass Popculture Corner (CPC) with Ye, an Italian-American troglodyte, Rid Kock, juggalos, Boebert. /§/ Russia-Ukraine-related USA's hard turn into throwing the proxy to the Azov wolves, Trump openly declares a protection racket project RE "rare earths," and Putin puppetry of the penis confessionals after dark. /§/ Trump claims he'll cut the Defense budget in half and that he'll halt nuclear weapons programs (as long as Russia and China follow suit regarding both). /§/ Joe Brandon was "boring" ackshully. /§/ Ceasefire turbulence and the politely euphemized "Gaza real estate plan." /§/ Eve Shartlow Continues to Lose Her Shit /§/ Grimes gets the dumbest award in Dubai for even dumber reasons. /§/ A whale swallows a man for the second time in our podcast history. /§/ China is Chinese...BUT AT WHAT COST?!? /§/ Technofeudalism continues to ascend and degrade at more or less the same pace. /§/ Labor unions meet Valuetainment. /§/ Democrats continue to purposely show off their impotence in hilarious ways. /§/ Our geriatric politicians continue to physically unspool before our eyes.

Recorded on Saturday, February 15th, 2025 around 11.00 AM Korea Standard Time

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