As always, Pie’s shtick is a left-leaning reporter who nonetheless calls out his fellow lefties on their obtuse blindness in their own narrow, insular view of the world. Some quotes:
“How could we possibly have lost? Everyone I know voted the same way I did!”
“‘How could that be? Everyone I know spent election day same as me: Posting amusing pro-Labour memes on Instagram, and spending the preceding six weeks calling anyone who voted Leave, or was thinking of voting Tory, thick as shit! How could we possibly have lost?’ Once again, the strategy of calling everyone who was thinking of voting differently to me self-serving, inward looking, stupid, racist, Leave-voting scum, paid absolute dividends, didn’t it?”
“When are we going to get it into our thick skulls that the country voted to leave the European Union? Twice now!”
“Refusing to talk to people you disagree with whilst assuming the motives behind their voting decision is a recipe for disaster!”
And the real money quote that can’t be repeated too many times:
“When will we learn that the real world is not on your Facebook feed?”
About 3:15 in starts he repeating various talking Labour cliches rather than dissecting them, but it’s still worth watching.
Missed this in December, but everyone’s favorite fake UK reporter does a fine job concisely and succinctly explaining why PM Theresa May’s Brexit agreement was such a horrible deal for anyone who voted Leave:
A hard, no-deal Brexit is infinitely preferable to the dog’s Brexit May cooked up.
Diana Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Portsmouth. (Also, when she was going to graduate school at UT Austin many years ago, we dated very briefly.) Here she is debunking the gender pay gap myth.
She’s only in the first three minutes or so, the rest of the discussion features other people, including Andrew Doyle, the producer for Tom Walker’s “Jonathan Pie” fake British telejournalist videos. Here’s the Pie sex gap video they reference above:
They also interview Kate Andrews from the Institute for Economic Affairs and Joanna Williams, a Senior Lecturer at University of Kent.
I was going to do a post called “How My Liberal Facebook Friends Elected Donald Trump.” (Indeed, I still may.) But this lovely rant make some of the same points.
Tom Walker is a comedian whose shtick is pretending he’s a reporter called Jonathan Pie caught telling shocking, unspeakable truths between real reporting segments. He’s reliably lefty, but this post-Trump election rant hits home:
Some choice segments:
“How many times did the vote not have to go our way before we realize that our argument isn’t won by hurling labels and insults?”
“But I can’t say this to any of my friends, Tim. People like me. I’d get fucking lynched!”
“The left is responsible for this result, because the left has now decided to any other opinion, any other way of looking at the world, is unacceptable. We don’t debate anymore because the left won the cultural war, so if you’re on the right you’re a freak! You’re evil! You’re racist! You’re stupid! You are a basket of deplorables! How do you think people are going to vote if you talk to them like that? When has anyone ever been persuaded by being insulted or labeled? So now if you’re on the right or even against the prevailing view you are attacked for raising your opinion. That’s why people wait until they’re in the voting booth, where no one’s watching anymore, there’s no blame or shame or anything, and you can finally say what you really think, and that is a powerful thing.”
“If my mansplaining is triggering you you can either fuck off to your safe space or you can engage and debate me and tell me what I’m getting wrong.”