Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

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A Partial Transcript Of Peter Navarro’s Appearance On The Katy Tur Show, 7/15/20

“Good morning to all you MSNBC viewers out there, which means good morning to 70-year old liberals, Twitter-famous layabouts hoping for a trainwreck, and…huh, I can’t think up a third one. I understand watching Fox or CNN, but who the hell would choose MSNBC? It’s like going to Hardee’s when there’s a McDonald’s and a Burger King right across the street. But hey: You’re here, I’m here, let’s do this. My guest is the White House’s Director of Trade Policy, Peter Navarro.”

“I’m also in charge of the Defense Production Act, and the President let me have a sip of his Diet Coke once.”

“Why would you want to drink from someone else’s glass?”

“I had a theory that the Diet Coke’s possession by the President would make it taste better than Diet Coke owned by, say, a poor person. Executive transubstantiation, if you will. And I was right! I wish President Trump could just spit all my beverages into my mouth.”

“Ew.”

“I tasted heaven that afternoon, Katy.”

“Let’s get to the point: You recently wrote an Op-Ed for the Washington Post entitled ‘Anthony Fauci Has Been Wrong About Everything I Have Interacted With Him On.’ Can you share with us some of the disagreements you’ve had with Dr. Fauci?”

“It’s not so much individual disagreements as it is two opposing worldviews, one of which is wrong. We fundamentally disagree on the topic of the coronavirus. He’s just a doomer, man. Can’t go to ball games. Can’t go to discotheques. I’m sure you can guess how he feels about the Chinese buffet place. You know the one I’m talking about. Usually in the same strip mall with a supermarket. And not entirely Chinese. I mean, the owners are Chinese and there’s Chinese crap all over the walls, but the food’s from everywhere. Chinese buffet by me has pizza and cupcakes.”

“I don’t see what that has to do with anything.”

“Well, it speaks to the congenital disrespect that the Chinese have for our Intellectual Properties.”

“Congenital?”

“Oh, yeah.  Every Chinaman is a born bootlegger.”

“Do not use that kind of language on my show, Mr. Navarro.”

“What? Chinaman?”

“Yes.”

“How is that wrong? If someone called me an Americaman, I’d be like ‘Damn straight, brother.'”

“We were discussing your op-ed about Dr. Fauci.”

“Perfidious sheep-shagger.”

“That’s a bold accusation.”

“The adjective or the noun?”

“The whole phrase. What exactly have you and Dr. Fauci differed on?”

“The science, Katy! It’s all about the science.”

“What about the science?

“He wants to pay attention to it, and I say we ignore it.”

“Ah.”

“What has science ever done for us, anyway?”

“Provided us with civilization?”

“What about lately? What has science done for us lately? You know there hasn’t been a new Dr. Pepper flavor introduced in ten years? Science has dropped the ball, Katy. Time to cut it loose.”

“I don’t think that’s a great idea.”

“All of my ideas are great. Just this morning, I had a spectacular idea.”

“What was it?”

“Shooting war with China.”

“God, no! That’s the worst idea in the entire world.”

“It would be a license to print money, Katy. Nothing gooses the economy like a good war.”

“Speaking of the economy, Mr. Navarro: You were trained as an economist, and have worked in the field your whole career, correct?”

“Yup.”

“So how are you qualified to comment on Dr. Fauci’s medical opinions?”

“Lemme tell you a little secret, Katy: Being a doctor is 90% bullshit. You wear your little coat, hit people’s knees with your stupid hammer, and tell ’em to quit smoking and lose some weight. There’s nothing to it.”

“Nothing you said was correct.”

“According to who? Experts? Scientists? Smaaaaaaaaaaaart people? Aren’t you tired of this tyranny of the clever?”

“No.”

“Well, you’re a sheep, Katy. Hot sheep, but still a sheep. The fact is that Anthony Fauci is in cahoots with MS-13, and also maybe a Terminator.”

“What now?”

“Cyborg assassin from the future. Maybe SkyNet sent him to kill all of us. That’s a lot more difficult than just killing one lady. You’d have to finesse that one. What better way to murder America than to take control of its health apparatus? Crafty little bugger, I’ll give him that. Faucinator plays the long game.”

“Don’t call him that. Dr. Fauci is not a killer robot from the future.”

“Cyborg. If it was just a robot, it couldn’t make it through the time portal.”

“Anthony Fauci is a human being from the present. Your allegations are absurd.”

“Absurd? How is trying to save America from a werewolf absurd?”

“I am also accusing Dr. Fauci of being a werewolf.”

“Dammit, Navarro.”

“If he’s not a werewolf, then why does he fear being shot with a silver bullet?”

“Have you–”

“Threatened! Just threatened! There has been no gunplay in President Trump’s White House, and we never get any credit for that.”

“There’s not supposed to be gunplay anywhere!”

“Katy, this is America. Now who’s being absurd?”

“Do you have any other complaints about Dr. Fauci?”

“The President asked me to point out that Dr. Fauci is of Italian descent, and you know how those people are. Always stuff falling off the backs of trucks around them.”

“That is breathtakingly racist.”

“I am pointing out a fact, Katy. You can’t argue with numbers, and the numbers say that all Italians are mobbed up.”

“They are not! Stop that!”

“I’d trust a Jewish doctor, but an Italian one? C’mon. He probably got his tongue depressors from his cousin.”

“We’re going to commercial.”

“Some ethnicities are trustworthy, and some aren’t! That is the official position of the American government!”

“Go to commercial!”

A Partial Transcript Of Secretary Of Education Betsy DeVos’ Interview, 7/12/20

“Good morning, or afternoon, or evening. Time has become both mercurial and saturnine in these, the days of the gloaming. I’m Katy Tur, and I took a pill I found in my sock drawer a couple hours ago. Might be an interesting show! Today’s guest is the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. Thank you for joining us.”

“Thank you, Katy. I’m excited to be here. And by ‘here,’ I mean in my home doing this interview over the video chat.”

“I bet. Not wearing pants, huh?”

“I have never worn pants in my life. Pants are for whores, Katy. Women wear dresses.”

“Okay. Let’s move on. The Trump Administration, and your department, is pushing hard for a full reopening of schools this fall.”

“Yes. We believe that it will be safe for our nation’s children to return to their schools in two months.”

“Why do you believe that?”

“Because we really want to. There was a meeting, and we discussed how President Trump said it was going to be just fine to have the kids in school, and so we all decided to go with that. Then we cut our fingers and swore blood oaths to never change our minds. And, uh, here I am.”

“I’m not shocked. I might have been in 2017, but not now. Will the Department of Education be issuing any guidelines about how schools can protect students and teachers?”

“I’m sure someone will whip something up. Katy, each school has its own needs and special circumstances, and should be in charge of their own response to the pandemic. If there’s one thing that vice-principals, French teachers, and marching band directors know how to do, it’s deal with a pandemic.”

“America’s teachers are hard-working, underpaid, incredible people. They are, however, in no way qualified to come up with a virus-prevention plan.”

“But they should have the freedom to do so. Freedom is so important.”

“Is it more important than the survival of our children?”

“I cannot answer that question in the universal sense, but I can say that my freedom is more important than the survival of your child. Katy, the point is that all the other countries are opening up their schools, and we’re not going to fall behind in the the Reopening Race.”

“It’s not a race.”

“We believe that there exists a Reopening Gap. We can’t allow that. We will open faster, wider, and with more gusto.”

“Secretary DeVos, other nations are able to cautiously readmit students to their schools because they’ve gotten a grip on the coronavirus. For example, Germany is beginning in-person classes, but they only had 400 new cases yesterday. We had 60,000, and you want to open the schools?”

“That’s German efficiency, Katy. We can’t compete with that.”

“Denmark had under 100 cases.”

“It’s not fair to compare the U.S. to countries that have their acts together. We’re Americans, Katy. We shoot first and ask questions later. Let’s just send the kids back to school and see what happens.”

“That is a terrible plan.”

“Also, many parents are getting sick of their children. In my role as Secretary of Education, I come into contact with a great deal of people who are poor, and cannot afford proper childcare, so they have to actually spend time with their kids. All of them are ready to strangle their children. The CDC predicts that if we don’t open the schools, up to 8 million kids might get murdered.”

“The CDC said that?”

“Champagne Dave’s Cabaret. It’s a burlesque bar my family owns. But, uh, all the dancers agree with the 8 million number. And some of those gals have graduate degrees.”

“Ma’am, how are we going to keep our teachers safe?”

“I would advise having a brother with a private army. That keeps me safe as hell.”

“Most teachers don’t have your resources. How are you going to protect them from coronavirus?”

“Protecting citizens from disease is not the responsibility of the government, Katy.”

“It totally is. It has been since the invention of government. It’s one of the primary functions of a ruling body. Maintaining the roads, policing the market, and tamping down plagues: these are the basic functions of government.”

“Uh-huh. Did you see how powerful President Trump looked in his mask?”

“Let’s just go to a commercial.”

“Of course, he’s always worn a mask.”

“Stop talking.”

Possible Replacement Names For The Washington NFL Team

  • The Drooling Ballmunchers.
  • Still The Redskins, But In Reference To Onions.
  • The Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathies.
  • The Herpes. (SLOGAN IDEAS: You’ll never beat us, and you’ll never get rid of us OR Herpes: Comin’ At Ya!)
  • The Washington Lee Atwater’s Brain Tumors.
  • Dingusboys. (Worth it if only to see the defeated looks on the players’ faces when they’re forced to take the field wearing “Dingusboys” jerseys.)
  • What if they didn’t have a name, like Clint Eastwood in the Spaghetti Westerns?
  • The Dirtworshippers.
  • The Washington Shmoshingtons.
  • I’m gonna repeat “Dingusboys” because it would simply destroy everyone who worked for the organization. Imagine winning the Super Bowl, but doing it as a Dingusboy. You’d live in shame ’til the end of your days. I would expect many of the team’s players would suicide fairly quickly.

Ways To Knock Down The Washington Monument

CALL SUPERMAN Superman could do it. Although he most likely wouldn’t, would he? Superman loves the Washington Monument; I bet he knows all sorts of facts about it. You’d have to mind control him or something. Maybe call Zod? Zod would totally knock down the Washington Monument.

CALL MATTER-EATER LAD The Washington Monument is nothing but matter, so Matter-Eater Lad would be in his element. (Matter-Eater Lad is real. I didn’t make Matter-Eater Lad up. He’s a member of DC’s Legion Of Super-Heroes, which is a group of meta-human teens from the 31st century who have always sucked. Sometimes, he looks like this:

They hate him at his local diner.

“Hey, hon. What can I getcha?”

“I’d like some matter, please.”

That shit gets on your nerves real quick.)

WRECKING BALL, MAYBE Not the one that Miley Cyrus swung in on. You’d need a much bigger ball. The Washington Monument is fucking enormous.

EXPLOSIVES? I feel like you’re massively underestimating the size of the Washington Monument. It’s a 40-story building made out of solid rock. Anything less than a nuke is just gonna leave a scorch mark on the facade.

FLYING GUILLOTINE The flying guillotine would have no effect whatsoever on the Washington Monument.

WHAT ABOUT A REALLY BIG FLYING GUILLOTINE? 200 words. It took you barely 200 words to start acting like a dickhead.

MY MONEY’S ON THE GIANT FLYING GUILLOTINE Fuck you, man. You’re not a professional.

Boys.

YOU CAN’T TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH I don’t need to deal with this bullshit in my condition.

Nice to see nothing’s changed.

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