Like Disaffected? Help us produce it! We don't have advertisers or sponsors, only the generosity of viewers. Two ways to help: -One-time "tips" can be sent by PayPal to us@disaffected.fm -Monthly subscription support. Subscribers get access to our private members-only Discord chat server. Josh and Kevin show up there, and we have hangouts and backstage recording events. You can subscribe in two ways: -disaffectedpod.substack.com. If you buy a paid subscription, you get everything above plus our paid, member-only essays and content -subscribestar.com. If you subscribe here, choose the $10 per month or higher level to get Discord access *********************************************************** -Woke has infiltrated everything in the West. Medicine. Media. Schools. The universities. The government, top to bottom, local to national. It's infiltrated red America, too. You're not safe in your red state. -Montana has legally kidnapped a troubled 14-year-old girl with extreme trauma. They've taken her from her concerned parents. Why? Because Montana says that her parents refusing to consent to sterilizing their daughter, cutting off her breasts, and pretending she's a boy named "Leo" is "abuse." -Colorado is the latest state to put forth legislation that would allow convicted felons to change their legal names—if they're "trans." The brave and stunning "trans woman" for whom the bill is named has a years-long felony record including charges of forgery, trespassing, prostitution, and lewdness. Why ever would "she" wish to hide her real name from prospective employers, or from the parents who allow their children to participate in "her" drag shows? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9QMcm2Ey0A

We threw out the entire script we had ready for tonight's show to bring you something more important—the undoing of representative democracy in an American city. Join us to watch and listen to the hysteria, abuse, and threats hurled for hours at the meeting of the Burlington City Council on August 14. Radical activists, anarchists, and black supremacists screamed, lied, cajoled, and threatened the mayor and the city council. For what? For having the temerity to investigate the management practices of a former black employee in the city's "Racial Equity Inclusion and Belonging" department. The opportunistic white politicians who hitched their wagon to these crazed anarchists to get the lunatic vote have now arrived at the only destination that was ever possible. This is a difficult episode to watch, but not as difficult as it will be for all of us if we don't notice what's happening and stand up before it's too late. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no056AyEqT4