Episode 91: A BARPod Musical Milestone, A College Democrats Meltdown, And Rittenhouse Goes Rittenhome

Jesse and Katie talk about their chaotic day, an INCREDIBLE gift a musically talented listener gave them, rapidly multiplying accusations of bigotry within the College Democrats of America, and the mercilessly bad takes that followed the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. If you are a paying subscriber and would like to discuss this episode, head on over to the discussion thread.

Show notes/Links:

DJ Sac O'Judaea - Blucked and Suckported (feat. Jew-Z) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VOoL7ETyZ5ajgk2hW5Y0-UF7p6jizMRW/view?usp=sharing

Source material:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/qfyk7p/techno_heads/

https://www.discogs.com/release/13517924-Traxmen-Basement-Traxx-Vol-III

Episode 87: HE'S GOT A WEAPON!

College Dems chaos: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/college-democrats-of-america-dnc-522864

Bad ACLU takes:

ACLU @ACLU

Despite Kyle Rittenhouse’s conscious decision to travel across state lines and injure one person and take the lives of two people protesting the shooting of Jacob Blake by police, he was not held responsible for his actions. Unfortunately, this is not surprising.

https://www.aclu-wi.org/en/news/aclu-responds-not-guilty-verdict-kyle-rittenhouse-case

Jesse on Bari’s podcast: https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/3085b7c4/the-medias-verdict-on-kyle-rittenhouse

Jesse’s early writing about the shootings:

Here Are My Contemporaneous Articles About The Kyle Rittenhouse Shootings, Now Unlocked

NOOOOOOOOOO:

Mayor Bill de Blasio @NYCMayor

Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum are victims. They should be alive today. The only reason they’re not is because a violent, dangerous man chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people. To call this a miscarriage of justice is an understatement.

CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk

Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted of all charges in his homicide trial https://t.co/F8tN3jRE12

MAKE IT STOP:

Jesse Singal @jessesingal

The person who DMed this to me said "Her critics will present this as dishonesty, but what's really going on here is that the epistemic closure in media circles over this story runs so deep that even she doesn't know what actually happened!" I think there's some truth to that.

$#@*)$)@@:

Clay Travis @ClayTravis

The DCCC put out a statement condemning Kyle Rittenhouse. In it they said Jacob Blake, who is alive and was armed when he was shot by police, was dead and unarmed. Will @Twitter be fact checking lies like these? Of course not. But don’t you dare question masks!

David Weigel @daveweigel

@mattyglesias The DCCC chairman’s statement today says that Jacob Blake was 1) unarmed and 2) killed, neither of which is true. This is sensitive stuff and folks are stomping around like drunk elephants.

On the other hand, some good reporting:

New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/kyle-rittenhouse-american-vigilante

Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/11/19/kenosha-shooting-kyle-rittenhouse-interview/

New York Times Magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/magazine/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-wisconsin.html

Image information: KENOSHA, WISCONSIN - NOVEMBER 19: Judge Bruce Schroeder, right, listens as the verdicts are ready by Judicial Assistant Tami Mielcarek in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 19, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges in the shooting of three demonstrators, killing two of them, during a night of unrest that erupted in Kenosha after a police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back while being arrested in August 2020. Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, claimed self-defense who at the time of the shooting was armed with an assault rifle. (Photo by Sean Krajacic - Pool/Getty Images)