rant · moment 8 of 20
Barstool Bros, AOC's Bank Account, and Republican Own-Goals
from Carney Code · #123
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minTim mocks 'Saturdays are for the boys' cigar-bro masculinity, then attacks conservative media and CNBC for shaming AOC over having only $7,000 in savings, arguing this plays into her favor and that Republicans keep making themselves look foolish attacking her.
- 23:37Barstool Sports has become people's personality, with goons posting 'Saturday's for the boys' as if they need a brand hashtag.
- 24:02Modern manhood has devolved into slobs smoking cigars in man caves instead of actually taking care of themselves, their families, or their communities.
- 24:55Republicans are attacking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for having only $7,000 in the bank, despite the average American having $400.
- 25:21Tim argues that AOC's lack of personal wealth actually strengthens her credibility as a politician compared to typical corrupt Congress members.
- 25:56The best Republican argument in ten years was that Democrats are just as corrupt as Republicans—but attacking AOC for being broke undermines that case.
- 26:39The old white banker types attacking AOC look like villains from 1980s movies—Mortimer from Trading Places or Caddyshack—and keep coming across as idiots.
- 27:01Party leadership should tell these attackers to stop; the left will eventually turn on AOC themselves without Republican help.
- 27:14Democrats will eat their own—AOC will one day say hello to George W. Bush and her base will call her a complicit Nazi.
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezBarstool SportsGeorge W. BushBernie Sanders