Matt

Well, the whole, I mean, did you see that Julianne Moore's book? Julianne Moore, the actress, she co-authored a children's book about a seven-year-old girl with freckles who hates her freckles and then learns that because they make her different and unique, they make her special and good.

Well, the whole, I mean, did you see that Julianne Moore's book? Julianne Moore, the actress, she co-authored a children's book about a seven-year-old girl with freckles who hates her freckles and then learns that because they make her different and unique, they make her special and good.

And this is currently under review and in the process of being taken out of libraries in military schools by the Department of Defense. They want to replace that with books like this that just tell you like, actually, you can't achieve your dreams. It's not even about being transgender. It's like you cannot imagine. You cannot imagine a world of difference.

And this is currently under review and in the process of being taken out of libraries in military schools by the Department of Defense. They want to replace that with books like this that just tell you like, actually, you can't achieve your dreams. It's not even about being transgender. It's like you cannot imagine. You cannot imagine a world of difference.

You can't aspire to anything because it's all in service of trying to create this like monoculture and it's just so fascist.

You can't aspire to anything because it's all in service of trying to create this like monoculture and it's just so fascist.

Yeah, it's just beating young people into submission, which like, I don't know, like, we're all gay here. Right, Maura, you're gay?

Yeah, it's just beating young people into submission, which like, I don't know, like, we're all gay here. Right, Maura, you're gay?

Yeah, we're all gay. We're all gay here. Like, I feel like growing up as a gay kid, you know exactly what it's like to be beat into submission. And they just want to do that to the, you know, most extreme level. It's not even enough to be straight. You have to be like a million other things as well.

Yeah, we're all gay. We're all gay here. Like, I feel like growing up as a gay kid, you know exactly what it's like to be beat into submission. And they just want to do that to the, you know, most extreme level. It's not even enough to be straight. You have to be like a million other things as well.

Wait, if sex lasts longer than three minutes, then it's gay?

Wait, if sex lasts longer than three minutes, then it's gay?

Is that straight?

Is that straight?

Nice. Nice.

Nice. Nice.

I did it, Ashley. I did it, Ashley. So I wanted to make this episode in tandem with other recent episodes I've made about the sort of cultural rebrand of the Republican Party, I think, especially as it's become the Trump Party. You know, political parties aren't static in policy or cultural branding. They're amorphous. This has been my take, at least.

I did it, Ashley. I did it, Ashley. So I wanted to make this episode in tandem with other recent episodes I've made about the sort of cultural rebrand of the Republican Party, I think, especially as it's become the Trump Party. You know, political parties aren't static in policy or cultural branding. They're amorphous. This has been my take, at least.

You know, Republicans were famously the party that ended slavery, as they so often love to tout as a party accomplishment. Even though the political parties have realigned across so many different lines since then, that that's just basically meaningless posturing at this point. Obviously, Republicans have become the white nationalist party.

You know, Republicans were famously the party that ended slavery, as they so often love to tout as a party accomplishment. Even though the political parties have realigned across so many different lines since then, that that's just basically meaningless posturing at this point. Obviously, Republicans have become the white nationalist party.