Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - March 02, 2021


LOL: Guys I Just Had To Share This One


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

159.70589

Word Count

181

Sentence Count

16

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

Trump Jr. attacked me for being a gender neutral potato head in a speech at CPAC. I thought of some clever ways to respond, but then I realized it was just more distraction. This was more BS fuel for the culture war, and it does not matter. The best thing we can do for each other in this world of tweet storms is to refuse to be confused by the noise. There is too much real news going on. There are too many distractions. There's too much to do, there's too many real news to deal with, and there's not enough time to respond to them. So I didn't respond. And then the tweets started rolling in on my computer, people telling me about Donald Trump Jr. insulting me. And I thought, "What do I do with this information? I don't even have a clue what to do with it." And then I decided to do the only thing I know how to do: I left it at the bottom of my computer and let the rest of the world do the rest. And guess what? It doesn't matter anymore. It's not even important anymore. I'm going to tweet about it anyway, and I'm not going to respond. Tweet me what I think about it, right? Tweet Me! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What do you think of it? 3:15 - Is it OK to be a potato head? 4:30 - What does it matter? 5: Does it matter if it's gender neutral or not? 6:10 - What are you confused? 7: Is it okay to be gender neutral? 8:40 - How do I respond? 9:00 11: Should I respond to something that's not gender neutral?? 13:00 | Is it a problem? 15:15 | What do I have an opinion on something else? 16:10 17:30 | What should I do about it? 17:40 18: What's the point of the tweetstorm? 19:30 21:50 - How can I tweet about something that matters to you? 22:40 | How do you feel about something like that? 23: What is it OK? 25:00 / 16:00 + 17:00 Is it matter to you, do you have a problem with it? / 17:15 24:00


Transcript

00:00:00.000 On Friday, I was about to go get dinner for my kids when Donald Trump Jr.
00:00:03.000 attacked me in his speech at CPAC. Something about me looking like a gender-neutral potato head.
00:00:08.000 If Hasbro really wanted a gender-neutral Mr.
00:00:11.000 potato head so badly they should just slap a picture of CNN's Brian Sletler on
00:00:15.000 the cover of their next potato.
00:00:19.000 What? They don't call him Mr. Potato Head.
00:00:27.000 Potato Head for nothing. And then the tweets started rolling in on my computer, people telling me about Donnie Jr.
00:00:33.000 insulting me, and I thought of some really cutting responses, some really clever ways to reply, some way to go viral, but then I stopped.
00:00:42.000 I didn't post anything.
00:00:44.000 It was just another distraction.
00:00:47.000 He wanted me to respond.
00:00:49.000 This was just more BS fuel for the culture war, and it does not matter.
00:00:56.000 The best thing we can do for each other in this world of tweet storms is to refuse to be confused by that noise, is to refuse to be distracted.
00:01:06.000 There is too much real news going on.