by Dr. Susan Block     

We use the “F” word a lot on this ride, but not the fun one. Unfortunately, it’s fascism that is on the rise in America.

Amazing Anti-Fascist Bacchanalian Video & Photos from Our Bonoboville Reuninon” (now playing on DrSuzy.Tv) like this shot featuring Daniele Watts, Rhiannon Aarons, Amor Hilton and Ikkor the Wolf… cheers us up! Coming soon to VICE TV…

It’s a little confusing, since the American brand isn’t the same as fascism in Germany, Italy (birthplace of fascismo!), Japan or Chile. That’s one reason so many have said that “it can’t happen here” in the Land of the Free. But it can, and it apparently is happening right here in the good old wholesome U.S.A., in real time.

With a civilian “army” of racist, misogynist, religious fanatics, corrupt police, Proud Boys, Oathkeepers and ammosexual incel mass shooters at the bottom, the power-mad, illegitimate, forced breeding–fetishist Supreme Court Injustices at the top, and unscrupulous politicians in the middle, this new all-American fascism is a growing menace to our society, our sexuality, our democracy and the very future of life on Earth.

Off the Deep End into Deep Doodoo

It’s pretty depressing, and I’m pretty depressed. When I’m depressed, I usually need deep rest, but, like a lot of depressed people, I’m in a state of unrest and not getting much sleep these days. I have personal reasons, it’s true. However, I’m a social creature like most humans, and I live, work and play in society, aka human civilization, and it seems to be going off the deep end into deep doodoo—fascist doodoo—which is very, deeply depressing.

I almost called this show “Sex, Depression & the Bonobo Way,” but I thought “depression” sounded too depressing, and “fascism” sounded sexier. That’s how fucked up fascism is. All those hot kinky uniforms, fascistic fashionistas and lethal phallic weapons generate mesmerizing sex appeal. Of course, American fascists don’t tend to be very sexy. They’re mostly out-of-shape slobs with BBQ stains on their “Let’s go Brandon” T-shirts. Not even cum stains for these winners.

Yes, they’re bigtime losers, but they lie and cheat, and they plan to lie and cheat some more, so these angry spiteful fascistically inclined losers—along with their cynical and infinitely greedy billionaire and corporate sponsors—can walk, sit and poop all over the rest of us.

The Christofascists… promise to wipe out “decadent” sex, decadent art, decadent books, etc. to make the nation pure “again” in the eyes of their Puritanical, woman-enslaving, gun-toting God.

With the ongoing Coronapocalypse and heightening Climate Chaos swirled into the mix, there appear to be just a few possible futures for this place we call America: 1) Fascism, which is shaping up to be a bloodthirsty, Cowboy-American, demonically “patriotic” Christofascism (that has less to do with the Biblical story of Jesus than with guns, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, intolerance and The Handmaid’s Tale, 2) Civil War (which would be as different from the first Civil War as American fascism is different from European models), 3) Anarchy (think Mad Max, not Capt’n Max), 4) Monarchy (let’s make Harry and Megan king and queen of America (just kidding), and 5) The Bonobo Way.

Of course, we’re advocating for The Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure, ecosexuality, female empowerment, male well-being, great consensual sex and sharing all we have. Unfortunately, with the increasingly hostile, corporate fascist takeover of all popular social media, our message of peace, love, good sex and socialism usually gets censored or insidiously shadow-banned.

Both Capt’n Max (who eats a lot less cannabis chocolate than the last show) and I get pretty fired up on this show; one way to relieve your depression is to release it on your podcast. Our commenters are also pretty fired up, so we don’t have time to take calls. Max and I are both pretty disturbed by current events, but Max manifests his rage as righteous anger, and mine tends to drop precipitously down into depression.

Well, things could be a lot worse!  We could be suffering through climate catastrophes, suffocating pollution, starvation and death like so many people all over the world, especially in the Global South thanks to the North’s dirty capitalist addictions. Then there’s Covid (yep, it’s on another upswing); monkeypox (be careful—these monkeys are not cute!); the horrific Israeli apartheid crushing innocent Palestinians; inflation (unrestrained capitalism is the cause; a little socialism is the cure); loneliness (having galivanted about for a few short weeks, Max and I masked up and shut in again, but at least we have each other—and Bonoboville!) or the terrible crushing poverty so many are experiencing all over the world, including here on the crumbling streets of wealthy and prosperous America.

That Musky Stench

Speaking of wealth, we could also be a miserable, emotionally stunted billionaire, and we are grateful not to be Elon Musk. Sure, we’d like a few of his billions, but my Goddess, are we happy not to be him! Too bad we and the rest of humanity are victims of his rapacious need for power to heal his broken heart. Recent revelations of a second semi-incestuous love child born to Elon’s younger step-sister and fathered by his father(!) Errol Musk, are telling. Ugh. Isn’t abortion legal in South Africa? Errol’s love child (who is also his ex-step grandchild) would have been a good case for it, but Musk, Senior revels in procreation as much as the Christofascists, increasing the already bursting human population with his obviously damaged DNA. “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce,” proclaims the procreation pappy, Errol, though he *only* has seven offspring, while Elon’s already had eight and counting, determined to outdo the Dad he claims to despise, but apparently emulates.

Sexually selfish creeps like the affluent elder Musk (Elon’s is yet another story of Riches-to-Greater-Riches)—and tRump— give erotic freedom a really bad name. It’s unfortunate, though predictable, that Errol’s shenanigans are being used as an example of liberal “decadence,” and that is what the fascists, especially the Christofascists, use to gain power. They promise to wipe out “decadent” sex, decadent art, decadent books, etc. to make the nation pure “again” in the eyes of their Puritanical, woman-enslaving, gun-toting God.

Though I stand by my usual statement that sex is theoretically *okay* between consenting adults (assuming the step-daughter was an adult), there are consequences, sometimes terrible consequences. One terrible consequence to Erroll’s indiscretion is his son Elon’s misery that he is now inflicting upon the world. Indeed, Errol’s semi-incestuous love children are nowhere near as destructive to humanity and the planet as the social, financial and environmental harm his uber-capitalist, lithium-plundering, phallic rocket-obsessed, union-busting, sad-eyed progeny Elon has wreaked upon America… not to mention Twitter. Fuck da Rich! Elon needs to get into some good non-reproductive kink and pay his fair share of taxes. Ninety percent of his wealth, like the rich paid in F.D.R.’s time, would be a good place to start. But not a penny should go to the military!

Of course, that’s just a peacenik’s pipedream. Sigh. So, the summer gloom lingers like a stagnant pond on a sweltering day, contaminated groundwater on the brain.

Sex Heals & Protest Helps

Most humans with a heart and half a brain are worried sick right now, the suicide hotlines are lighting up like Christmas trees, and many are depressed. It is truly overwhelming, in a global sense.  But on a personal level, let’s just say orgasms do help, at least temporarily.

Max and I try to practice what we preach and cheer ourselves up with a little good (albeit not too strenuous; don’t want to tempt the heart attack demons!) senior sex.

Don’t sell yourself short to others, just so you can show how honest you are about your faults.

We also believe in the fine art of protesting these terrible wrongs, and we commend those who are out there on the front lines of these battles, risking getting shot, run over, pepper-sprayed or catching Covid. At first, I express remorse that I haven’t been to public protests this season; but then I realize that yes, actually I did participate in a big public protest at Yale University a few weeks ago during my alumni reunion, focusing much of our collegial wrath on infamous Yale alumnus Brett Kavanaugh, one of the two men (the other being Clarence Thomas) credibly accused of sexual abuse during their Supreme Court confirmation hearings that are now sexually abusing the entire country. Wow, what a realization!

Protesting Lying Crying Christofascist Supreme Injustice Brett Kavanaugh in front of the Women’s Center at Yale University (our mutual alma mater).

I also realize that in a vain effort to second-guess my critics, I can be a little quick to put myself down, often before I’ve thought things through. I even call myself a “hypocrite” on this show about not attending protests… about five seconds before remembering that I had just attended a protest! Oh, the mental gymnastics…

Here’s a mental health tip (that I obviously haven’t mastered): Don’t do this! Don’t sell yourself short to others, just so you can show how honest you are about your faults. I’m not fond of braggarts, but extreme self-criticism is not the answer either.

Bonoboville Reunion Bacchanal

Aside from gazing at the galaxies brought to us by the awesome James Webb Telescope, what really cheers me up—and not in that fleeting way—is checking out our amazing show and the beautiful photos streaming throughout the live podcast from our erotic exotic orgiastic anti-fascist fantastic Bonoboville Reunion, Class of 2022, with Vice TV, in the Womb Room sanctuary of the little Love Church of The Bonobo Way.  What a night to remember and cherish in moments like this.  Will we ever have another night like that? If we can, we will!

Bonoboville Reunion, Class of 2022, Dance Party with Onyx Muse twerking low to the ground. Photo: Renzi

Yes indeed, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners, the best antidote to this creeping—and very creepy—neofascism in America is to #GoBonobos, to follow The Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure, ecosexuality, female empowerment, male well-being, great consensual sex and sharing everything… because everything and everyone is connected, and nothing is really just “ours” and ours alone.

“Sex, Fascism & the Bonobo Way” Transcript

MAX
And now for the good and the ugly. The good is Dr. Caitlin Bernard who aborted a fetus from a 10-year-old girl who was raped in Indiana, with if I may use a Trump sort of thing… “Fat Cheeks” Todd Rokita the Attorney General is going to investigate her. I live in a little village here in America. You may not know of it. It’s called Arcadia, California, and in Arcadia, California, there’s a church on every corner. There’s a religious bigot on every corner. There are forced labor religious folks who want to make women have babies. That’s worse than what the Chinese are doing. All you nice religious folks nailing the Christ on the cross, you have no idea what he said, and having said that, I know the last few weeks everybody had been going, “What’s wrong with Max?” Due to drug, drugs, druggies… Yeah, I’ve been a druggie for a long, long time and I advocate the use of all drugs so that we don’t use dirty needles and we don’t put our children through police lines. So, I was taking several chocolate chips, but I guess the last couple of times, I took big chocolate chips, so if you get those big square chocolate chips, don’t have a whole square. You just have a little tiny bit and then you get very stoned. So, before I be coming… I can’t say the word. I’m going to have a gummy… Takes about an hour and a half. By the time I’m done with the show, it’s time to eat a little bit.

And look at the insanity that surrounds us in our world! Todd Rokita, the fascist out there in Indianapolis. And all you good God-fearing people and every corner of the village, will you recite prayers at the City Council that are non-inclusive of my God or my goddess? But only your little creepy, creepy guy sitting on a cross bleeding from the palms of his hands. And knew all you little sheep followers, who changed his story into bullshit about your God is better than that God, and that God is better than this is your God in this? Fuck you all, pro-life. The killing in the name of religion, it’s been going on for a long time. There’s a lot of dead people in the name of religion. And the best laid plans may not get you laid as planned, so this morning when I started out my day, I was going to… had a few things I had to do. I didn’t get to do them, so what I was planning to do did not happen, but with all things like that, you have to remember that there’s a bright side of things, and so because of what happened and because my plans didn’t quite go as planned, I saved $7000. So, all in all, it was a good day.

And now from the religious center of Christianity from Arcadia, California from Tom Beck… Hey Tom, are you related to Chief Beck, Chief of Police in Los Angeles County? From Arcadia, California, with my dear partner and friend, your host with the most, Dr. Suzy Block. Here she is…

Dr. SUZY
Hi Capt’n Max.

MAX
Hi.

Dr. SUZY
I’m depressed.

MAX
I’m sorry, Susan. Well, go ahead, okay, you’re depressed.

Dr. SUZY
Being depressed, I probably need deep rest. But I can hardly get to sleep these days. So… how are you?

MAX
You talking to me?

Dr. SUZY
Sure.

MAX
I don’t know if you’re talking to me or somebody else.

Dr. SUZY
That’s OK, I could talk to anybody. How are YOU?

MAX
How are you out there?

Dr. SUZY
So, I have personal reasons for being depressed, it’s true. I could go into those, but I don’t think anybody is interested, so I won’t.

I will say though, that my depression is also based on being human, a social creature, like other humans, living working and playing in society, AKA human civilization, which seems to be going off the deep end, and possibly taking me with it.

It is certainly taking a lot of people I know, a lot of my fellow Americans, off the deep end into deep doodoo.

So, I almost called this show “Sex, Depression and the Bonobo Way,” because I am so depressed about this. But then I thought, “fascism” sounded sexier than “depression,” so I’m calling it “Sex, Fascism and the Bonobo Way.”

And brothers and sisters, lovers and sinners, Capt’n Max, Unscene Abe, I want you to know, that that’s how fucked up fascism is. It’s kind of sexy. All those hot sexy uniforms, with everybody marching together, wielding those phallic weapons. Very sexy.

Of course, most American fascists aren’t sexy at all. They’re overweight slobs with barbecue sauce stains on their “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirts. Not even cum stains.

Not that anything I say about this really matters. That’s also depressing, that my voice has been minimized by the fascist Internet, which used to be the free Internet, but now of course there’s a lot of censorship, and some of it is very direct, as in when they take down your posts or shows or podcasts because of whatever, they don’t really say. That’s what fascism is all about.

Or it can be a little more insidious. I guess you could call it Fascism Lite where the social media platforms shadowban you, and they don’t let anybody see your posts except maybe you.  And so yeah, it’s a little depressing to be barking into the wind here.

But bark we do, like dogs. We love dogs. Dogs are so cute. Everybody likes dogs. Even fascists like dogs. Actually, they always have dogs, especially the kind that sniff for drugs on hippies. But they like all kinds of animals, and they like a lot of the same things we like.

They like sex too. Fascists like sex. They just believe the female, the woman, the pregnant person, has got to bear the baby from the sex. That’s a key element of fascism that happens to come about in a lot of fascist countries, not all, but a lot and there are different types, I should add.

American Fascism is not at all the same as German or Italian or Japanese fascism. They’re different.

Jux Lii writes to us on Facebook, “Sexy plus Fascism sounds dangerous.”

And yes, of course it is dangerous, and that’s part of fascism’s appeal to some people. Fascism is almost always sexy in some way, even though the fascists are always putting down recreational sex as “decadent.”

But they do have the best uniforms, right, Capt’n Max?

MAX
The Germans and the fascists always, like the church, build these uniforms, or they build the churches on top of hills.

Dr. SUZY
Right, the church also has beautiful uniforms.

MAX
Yes, divine uniforms.

Dr. SUZY
In fact, a lot of them are crossdressers which is fine with me. I mean, you look at those—what are they called? —Cardinals. They’re called Cardinals because they wear bright red dresses with white lace, and it is just so beautiful.

MAX
Pink panties maybe?

Dr. SUZY
Oh, yes, underneath their dresses, I’m sure just like the judges on the Supreme Court, they’re in panties…

MAX
No please, I don’t wanna see.

Dr. SUZY
So American fascism is a little different than Vatican fascism, or Italian Mussolini style fascism or German Nazi style fascism. And certainly, the uniforms are not as hot as the Hugo Boss uniforms that the Germans were wearing.

Another thing American fascism lacks at the moment, although this could change, is a strong leader. American fascism doesn’t really have a strong leader now. Their big strong leader Trump is being put on trial virtually at the hearings, and who knows if he’s going to maintain his leadership role. Certainly, Biden is no fascist leader. However, we do have the Supreme Court. Yes indeed, the Supreme Injustice is Trump’s Supreme Court Injustices have indeed risen to the occasion, or fallen into the pit, as leaders of American neofascism.

If you like that term, NEO fascism, we could use that, or you could say Christofascism. Not that it has anything to do with Jesus as the story has been told, if he existed, but Christofascism is a very particular form of Christian authoritarianism that is becoming very American, though in a way, it has always been very American.

Since America was founded, that is since some of the first settlers came here for so-called religious freedom so that they could be Christian, Puritan, Pilgrim, and so they could kill the natives of this land that was called Turtle Island, but that became America, taken from the name of an Italian map maker.

Quigly on Youtube says, “In regards to fascists in Germany, in Germany they simply call German Shepherds “Shepherd dogs.”  OK, they like their dogs. We all like our dogs.

Oscar Bravo on Facebook says, “Keep going, Susan. It matters a lot.” Well, thank you very much, Oscar. Yes, I care that you care, and I thank you for saying that, because sometimes I really do feel like I am shouting or whispering into the wind, where the answer, my friends, is blowing… but a lot of people are blowing a lot of hot air into that wind, so it’s hard to be heard, and the loudest voices, the most extreme voices, are the ones that generally get heard.

And I’m sorry I’m not an extremist. I’m a bonobo. I’m into good consenting-adult sex and peace on earth. Is that extremist? I don’t think so. But because I’m not an extremist, I’m not amplified much, I’m shadow banned a lot. The extremists are amplified for entertainment value, and heard in big ways in American neofascism, Christofascism, authoritarianism and nationalism, in cahoots with corporate America. And actually, it’s not just corporate America, it’s the international corporate system that has taken over our country, thanks to our Supreme Court which, to a great degree, granted them all this power. Citizens United was the name of the case, ironically, because it’s got nothing to do with citizens. It’s got to do with making corporations into “people,” so that they can support political candidates with all kinds of moolah which they have, and which buys them power, brothers and sisters, lovers and sinners. That’s what it’s all about: Power to harm our pleasure is what the Supreme Court seems to be doing to a great degree, saying we can’t have sex for pleasure, it must only be for procreation, not recreation or even for relationships. And yes, it’s just horrific.

I mean, the fact that in Ohio… We talked about this last week when it first happened. We almost couldn’t believe it. But we did believe it, because there was proof, and it was in the news that a 10-year-old girl who got impregnated needed to go to Indiana to get an abortion. And yes, that happens because, as we said, a couple of weeks ago on this show, young girls are getting their periods earlier and earlier. I got mine when I was 12, and that’s when girls got them way back when 11 or 12. Now they’re getting them at age 9 and 10.

And so, this girl, she obviously was menstruating, and she was raped, and she got pregnant. I think for most human beings it’s a no brainer to say that the poor girl needs to get an abortion. And even an anti-abortion activist agreed to that. At first, she couldn’t believe that any of it happened. No one on the Right believed it, or a lot of Right-wingers said they didn’t believe it. They said no, this didn’t happen. This is a lie. This is the Left making up a story. And this is part of what fascism is, brothers and sisters, lies…

MAX
Lies.

Dr. SUZY
And damn lies. And the bigger the lie, the more power the liar gets from telling it. And that is something that we, Americans and our neofascism have in common with other forms of fascism. It’s all based on lies.

Though it’s tough to get really down on the fascists for lying, because of course, America has been telling itself and the world lies from the beginning. The whole idea that this was a land virtually without people, a wilderness. But that was a lie. This was a land filled with Native American civilizations that were not white European, that were their own civilizations. What a big lie it was that these English settlers came here in good faith. They came here to kill the natives of this country, steal the land, and establish their religious fascism. And that’s just what they did.

There was much religious fascism in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  They killed women for being witches, and those weren’t even the natives. They killed as witches the Puritan women that they didn’t like. Usually older women. Maybe they yelled too loud for the Puritans’ delicate sensibilities. You know loud women, pushy women are often considered witches, and that’s a problem. It’s still a problem. I myself run into that problem every once in a while. But it’s one thing to just be told, hey, keep your voice down, and it’s another thing to be burned at the stake.

And oh, they killed the guys too. Back then they burned men at the stake or hung them. Mostly hanging. And the prime crime for the guys was sex with the animals. Yes, bestiality. I’m not going to defend bestiality, but I don’t think it should be punishable by death.

Maybe we should make sex work legal. That might help a lot of these guys that are so desperate, they go after their sheep. That’s usually why they’re doing it. They’re desperate, most of these guys are just horny and they don’t know what to do. They’re also fascist, but fascism doesn’t really tell them what to do about the problem. It tells them to channel their sexual energy into violence actually, as well as making babies, you know procreation. The Right says making babies is manly—even if you don’t take care of them. That’s why a lot of really rotten misogynistic guys that are silently supporting this Roe V Wade overturn.

Not all guys; there are a lot of wonderful guys that are defending women and other pregnant people right to choose. I do say “other pregnant people,” and sorry-not-sorry if I offend anybody out there. I’m a woman. I’m a she/her, but there are trans men who can get pregnant, so we don’t want to leave them out.

And by the way, there are other people that are not women who can get pregnant. I mean girls, little girls, like the little girl that had to get this abortion. And yeah, the district attorneys are going after the abortion provider in Indianapolis who did it totally legally. And I guess they are also going after the family of this little girl. They’re after everybody because they’re freaking out that people are seeing the terrible truth right away of their fascist anti-sex edict handed down from on high by these Supreme Court Injustices that they forced into office.

Most of these justices, by the way, that voted for this, were appointed by presidents who did not actually win the popular vote.

Bush Junior appointed Sam Alito and Chief Roberts, who’s the “man with a slow hand,” who fretted over the terrible speed of overturning Roe but didn’t actually he stop the fascist takeover. He just kind of broke up his vote. He voted for dismissing Roe on the Mississippi case, and against taking away abortion rights from everybody. But still he allowed this thing to unfold, and just generally votes too often with the Christofascists.

So those two were appointed by Bush Junior, who really didn’t win his election. Al Gore just rolled over and gave it to him, because unfortunately, our Democraps are not a strong opposition. They are not as fascist as the Republicans, not at all, but we have a duopoly here and they need to be a stronger opposition. Al Gore should have fought for his win. He won the popular vote. He didn’t lose that election and he didn’t even lose in the Electoral College. Really, he just let George W. Bush take Florida because his brother was the governor. And they had the lame Brooks Brothers riot orchestrated by Roger Stone and a few of his buddies, all fascists like the brown shirts, just kind of acting like they were more powerful than they were.

So, Al Gore gave that election to George W., he appointed two fascist judges, in addition to his Dad’s reactionary pick of Clarence Thomas. Then we get three through Trump and all three were forced through, plus Trump didn’t win the popular vote, so these Supreme Court Injustices are committing a grave injustice against us, and that’s a big reason that I am depressed.

We don’t have a one-party dictatorship… yet. That’s true here, and a lot of the fascist nations have had that. This duopoly of Repugnicans and Democraps is better than a one-party dictatorship, but not a lot better because the Dems allow the Coup Anon party to get their way almost all the time.

And then there are the armies, the civilians. You know that’s when they started fascism in Italy after World War I, when they decided that civilians were really part of the military effort.  And they named “fascismo.” Max, you might know how to pronounce that better than me. Fascismo is derived from “fascio” meaning “bundle of sticks.”

MAX
Fascismo, si.

Dr. SUZY
Because a bundle of sticks is stronger than one stick?

MAX
Right.

Dr. SUZY
So, isn’t that a cute little term for fascism? And they loved it at first. Everybody wanted to be fascismo. Now nobody wants to be called a fascist. It’s like being called evil.
And it is kind of evil, but in the beginning the fascists loved calling themselves fascists. They thought it was great to be strong to be together, everyone agreeing, and there is a lot of that feeling here in America right now. And yes, the civilian armies are assembling, but not exactly like they did in the old fascist countries. These are armies of ammosexual incels, sexually frustrated young men who do most of the shooting, and sexually frustrated old men, who do a lot of the raging. And they all suffer. They’re all victims. And they got lots of rage and victimization and loneliness and guns. And they use those guns.

Civilians are the real fighters these days. And the die’rs. They’re dying in America, in Ukraine everywhere.

David D on YouTube says, “Holy fuck!”

Well, yeah. I agree David D. And that’s why this show is called Fuck da Rich, because a lot of this is due to Da Rich being too rich for their good, or for our good! And they need to be fucked out of their money. We need to spread it around.

So, David D says, “Holy Fuck! A 10 year old got raped and got pregnant. And thanks to Republicans she had to go to another state to get an abortion.”

Yes, David D, she did, and that’s not all. She also was harassed, is still being harassed.

MAX
Threatened, threatened.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, and David D continues, “What if her parents didn’t have enough money to travel?” Good question which I asked last week, David D.  But thanks for reminding me that yeah, she was fortunate that she could travel, that she had a proactive family with a few bucks, they could go and get this abortion.

MAX
You know, in some countries, if the government wants more babies.  They pay for them.  It’s not slave labor. 

Dr. SUZY
They pay for babies? Oh yeah I see what you mean.

MAX
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
They give tax cuts or pay a subsidy for people who have children for families in some European countries.

MAX
Not here.

Dr. SUZY
Of course, of course, that makes it kind-of worthwhile, in a way, even for people that don’t want kids to have more.

MAX
Have more babies, yay.

Dr. SUZY
Because you’re getting paid. Well hey, if you governments and corporations, you need people to work in your factories and buy things from Amazon, and of course the big thing is to join the military then yeah, you should subsidize people. You should at least pay for health care. Come on.

But you know, that doesn’t solve it.

MAX
Of course, it doesn’t solve it.

Dr. SUZY
That doesn’t solve it for the 10 year old, and that doesn’t solve it for other people that get pregnant and don’t want to give birth. The 10 year old is such an extreme example, but it did really happen, and it’s so extreme that the Republicans thought that the Liberals were lying when they said, hey, this happened. But, it did happen. They wouldn’t believe it until they produced the asshole that raped this girl.

So, they produced this guy, and they arrested him. Good. He should be arrested. You know, I don’t believe in most people being arrested and thrown into jail. But yeah, this guy should be.

Then the Rightwingers decide, oh yeah, OK, well maybe it happened, but, but, but, all these “buts”.  And the most amazing thing was in a congressional hearing, when Swalwell is talking to this so-called pro-life activist. Really, I don’t consider them “pro-life,” they’re just pro birth. They don’t care about the life, just the birth. Anyway, this anti-abortion activist was saying that abortion is never right, and so Swalwell asks, “Well, what about in this case of this 10 year old?” And at first she’s sort of like “no, that didn’t really happen.” And then she has to admit that ok, it did happen, but if it happened with a 10 year old, she says, “Then it wasn’t an abortion.”

How about that?

And immediately smart Swalwell asks someone who was a pro-choice activist, “Did you just hear misinformation?” Disinformation, because it was deliberate. And she said yes. Of course, that’s disinformation, because of course that 10 year old had an abortion. And yes, it’s an extreme case, but there are many different wild cases, whether it’s the mother’s life being in jeopardy or something happening to the fetus, the fetus dying even inside of the mother’s womb. All these things are extreme, but they deserve an abortion, and so does just the fact that a pregnant person doesn’t want to have a child. That pregnant person deserves to get an abortion. Because it’s not a child until she has it. It’s just a fetus or an embryo.

And if you believe that it’s a child, that’s your religion. And that’s fine for your religion. But you can’t force your religion on me, and on that 10 year old and on all the pregnant people who want abortions, you just can’t do that and say that this country has a separation of church and state. We don’t have a separation of church and state when you force your religious beliefs on the rest of us who don’t believe that that’s a baby. I don’t believe it. I didn’t believe it when I had an abortion. It was an embryo. It wasn’t a baby. It was a piece of tissue. So, your belief that it’s a baby is not my belief. And you should not be able to force your beliefs on me or the rest of America.

That’s why one of the most important aspects of American law is the separation of church and state. That made right the wrongs that the Puritans did to America, to this land we call America. But they just made it wrong again. They just reverted back to Puritan times. How about that?

Soon they’ll be burning and hanging witches. Hey, it’s not so far fetched. After all, we have politicians who are in office like Miss Gunslinging Lauren Boebert said, “I don’t like the separation of church and state. Screw that.” And she got big applause.

So that’s what we got right now in America. Christofascism on the March. And that’s why we must abort the court or put more judges in there. Something!

Kristen Rock gave us nine fire emojis. Is that how many Supreme Court judges there are?

MAX
Is that 9 Supreme Court judges?

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, they’re all on fire. Fire them all now.

MAX
Their handler.

Dr. SUZY
Actually, there’s three of them that are OK.

MAX
Their hemorrhoids are on fire.

Dr. SUZY
Ryan Leslie says, “As a young man, I am lonely every day and all I want is a lovely lady to love me and love her in return.” Awe he’s on Instagram. Ryan continues, “Every day I am notified about some story of murder, and it worries me because there is not enough love or sex going around.”

I feel you, Ryan, this is why I’m depressed. That is only one of the reasons, of course.  I have others, but this is the main reason, because I am a sex therapist, I’m the Love Doctor. I believe in love. I believe in The Bonobo Way of love, of peace through pleasure and good sex, female empowerment and male well-being. An important part of female empowerment is male well-being, meaning that guys like Ryan who are lonely need help. He’s probably not a shepherd, so he’s not going to have sex with his sheep. That was a big problem back in Puritan days. And he probably won’t do it with his dog either, even though we all love dogs, we’re not doing it with our dogs, most of us, thank goddess. I am not recommending doing it with any nonhuman animals. But I’m just saying people are so crazed, they’re so desperate they’re so frustrated, and we need to be understanding of this.

The fascists are very understanding of this. They try to take all that sexual frustration and turn it into ammosexuality. They try to take that aggrieved incel mentality and turn it into violence. They’re pretty good at it, and they’re doing it at every level of society.

So, we have to get good at what we’re doing, brothers and sisters, I’m not saying I know exactly how to do that. But, I need your help, I guess, because the fascists are right about one thing: the sticks together are stronger than a stick alone. But I don’t want fascism in my country.

MAX
Oh, I was just thinking about what you were saying, right?  So one of the things is you can’t overthrow the government.  Could be dangerous.  You can’t overthrow the church.  You need to question your preacher.  You need to question your priest.  You need to question the money they spend.  You need to question about their crystal fascism.  You need to teach them not to intrude into your life.  You need to walk up to the priest and say what are you people doing?  Get out of my life.

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, and you know I am not against churches, synagogues, mosques, temples of Buddha, Brahma, Krishna, whatever you want to worship.

MAX
As long as you stay in your lane.

Dr. SUZY
Well, I actually appreciated when the priests like the Berrigan brothers, they were anti war, they came out against the war. There are liberal priests. There were anyway. I don’t know if they exist anymore.

So, I don’t mind if religious leaders get a little involved in politics – though they should pay taxes. But really, it’s when the politicians themselves start to raise up their religion over all the rest of us, and we’re not all in that religion. That’s Christofascism and when the Supreme Court raises up religion as the law of the land, that is Injustice.

MAX
I say something about these Catholics, actually.  During the Kennedy election, one of the big worries was that President Kennedy was a Catholic and they were worried that if the Catholics came in, there would be a lot of pressure to change things and the funny thing is, many years later a non-Catholic, not even religious person put a bunch of Catholic on the Supreme Court. Heard it’s.

Dr. SUZY
Very interesting.

MAX
And they were, yes, they were so worried under Kennedy.

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, they were worried under Kennedy because they were concerned about the Pope wielding power in America.

MAX
Their teachings.

Dr. SUZY
And they wanted a separation of church and state. And actually, Kennedy was pretty adamant that he wanted that too, and certainly he didn’t allow the Pope to influence him.

MAX
Yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
And by the way, the current Supreme Court Injustices don’t seem to be influenced by the Pope. I don’t actually think the Pope expected this ruling against abortion, and I actually am sure the Pope would not support this ruling that forbids New York’s government from putting restrictions on guns.

I can’t imagine the Pope is for their recent ruling that allows Mansion and his coal mining buddies and other corporations to just pollute without any restriction.

MAX
And kill.

Dr. SUZY
And kill, yes, there’s different ways to kill, and that’s a big way to kill, through climate catastrophes that are being generated by the capitalist pursuits of these corporations.

MAX
Which by the way, we’re doing not only in this country, but the pollution and the garbage, and these corporations are killing people around the world.  Mostly poor people, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Oh yeah, sadly, mostly in the Global South. Yes, so I have some more comments, actually a lot of comments. Ki Gong on YouTube says, “Shalom from Europe.” Well, Shalom back at you Ki Gong, and as a matter of fact, I’m a Jewish American person. Not that I’m religious at all, but I am ethnically Jewish, and I am a Jew for Palestine. So, I say Shalom and Salam. And I really believe that unfortunately, many of my brethren who are Zionists have acted badly in terms of taking this land of Palestine basically for themselves, it’s similar to what the Puritans and other Europeans did with this land we now call America that used to be Turtle Island and so you know, the Israelis have gotten a lot of ideas for their settler movement from American history. Hitler tried to. He thought Americans were brilliant because of how we (the Europeans) got rid of most of the Native Americans.  It’s pretty disturbing when you put all this together.

Ki Gong goes on, “I agree. Fuck the Rich.” That’s cool. But “Fuck The rich, he says, and you see, Ki Gong, you gotta understand, this is F.D.R. Max here is from Italy, where the fascists originated, so he’s an Italian Prince. And, of course, the monarchy is pretty fascist to begin with. They’re a little like the Vatican. They can occasionally be liberal.

But yes, I “Fuck Da Rich,” with a “da” because Max is Italian and says “da” for “the” sometimes.

FDR also stands for Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was a pretty good president, although he could be a little bit fascist too. He was a little bit of a dictator in the sense that he ruled four terms. How about that? And of course, he waged the terrible World War II, which we sort of won. I’ll get into that later.

Ki Gong also says, by the way, Zelenski owns $1 billion, or does he owe that? I’m not sure. Either way, Zelensky is a billionaire and he’s a comedian, but he’s fighting the good fight. Listen I am pro Ukraine. My ancestors, some of them are from Ukraine. I feel very strongly in support of Ukraine, and very much against Putin’s invasion. Putin’s war.

But I do not demonize Russians. I don’t even demonize Putin. I think there’s a lot of fault to go around, and I think we’ve got to start the peace talks.

Peace talks!

It really bothers me that America isn’t calling for peace talks. That’s also depressing me. Because I can’t tell Russia what to do. Russia is not my country. America is my country, and not that America listens to me. But you know America, hey you guys, brothers and sisters of America, we have to get the peace talks going. We can’t be saying that we want to do this until we defeat Russia, until they’re like all in the ground. We’re not going to do that, first of all, and second of all, that’s not the way to make peace We’ve got to try to make peace before we have a nuclear war or a nuclear accident.

Also, Ki Gong says, “I use my love gun.” And that is a beautiful thing. I even accept the use of the term “gun” when you’re talking about your penis in that way, and I even am OK with the dildos that are shaped like guns. It bothers me a little bit, you know, I wouldn’t buy one, but I get it. It’s in the culture. I’d rather you use a dildo gun than a real gun.

Shoot the gun between your legs! That’s my motto, so I enjoy using the gun terminology, like everybody else. Like I said, fascism is sexy. That’s one of the problems. There’s a sexiness to marching with those goose steps, and those sharp uniforms, and the parades, and the guns, guns, guns.

That why all these guys are imitating them. They want to be heroes to their lost cause, whatever it is, although it usually is some kind of Christofascist white supremacy. Though not always, there’s a few other lame causes, but that’s the latest one that is used a lot in America.

Robert B on Facebook says “fascism’s goal is to turn rhetoric into reality.” Hmmm… Well, I’d like to turn my rhetoric into reality. I’d like to turn the Bonobo Way into reality. So, I don’t know if that’s only fascism’s goal. I think that’s everybody’s goal, actually, but OK, Robert B. I want to like you, so let’s see what else you say. “It segregates people into different classes categories instead of unity to promote certain agendas, and people are weaker when they are separated.” Interesting. Well, I see what fascism is doing it tries to unite certain people. In the case of America, it’s trying to unite these white aggrieved supremacist Christian trying to unite them, the guys that believe in patriarchy.

MAX
Are these guys Christians?

Dr. SUZY
Well, they’re Christofascists.

MAX
They’re not Christians. They’re hiding behind some kind of Christo-something or other.

Dr. SUZY
Are the Israelis Jews? They’re hiding behind Judaism in my opinion.

MAX
So all over the world people are hiding behind their religions and committing atrocities.

Dr. SUZY
That’s how religions started.

MAX
You’re hiding behind religion and committing atrocities around the world.

MAX
Go ask your priest nicely.

MAX
Go ask your preacher nicely.

MAX
Why are you telling these lies?

MAX
Why are you trying to enslave the world under your philosophy?

Dr. SUZY
Honestly, I don’t know that it’s just the priests’ and the preachers’ fault. I think it’s the fault of the politicians. It’s the fault of the people that let these priests and preachers have power. There will always be priests and ministers and rabbis. The problem is these religious leaders have state power and they should not have state power. We can’t let them have state power.

MAX
You know what? Just, just as a side note, you know I’ve always liked Chinese culture, and I’m certainly not a fascist, but I think all these guns, with their little teeny weeny little barrels and in their ammunitions it should be sent to re-indoctrination camps because…

Dr. SUZY
Guns, or you mean the people?

MAX
The guns will stay behind.

Dr. SUZY
Well, I’m not gonna get on that bandwagon.

MAX
You yeah. No, I’m on that but I’m just saying that’s me, you know, because in the meantime people are being killed by these assholes. So as long as we’ve got Catholic judges who are handling handing everybody guns. OK, yeah the killing is massive.

Dr. SUZY
But keep in mind that these are the foot soldiers of the Christofascist judges and the police. And look at the police. They didn’t even try to stop the killing down there at that school in Uvalde, Texas. They didn’t try to stop nothing. They were standing there in the hallway looking at their phone. One guy had Punisher on his phone, and he’s standing there while people are being killed. Big Sissy. Another guy’s using sanitizer! Because hey, it’s dirty in there.

MAX
Hahaha, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
I mean, it’s funny, but it’s not funny at all.

MAX
Right.

Dr. SUZY
We’re laughing because of gallows humor here folks, but children were killed. Adults were killed. Innocent people were killed.

MAX
And every day more people are killed.

Dr. SUZY
So Robert B. on Facebook agrees that “fascism tries to make enemies out of our groups.” So yeah, I mean they try to unite a lot of people because they need armies of people to support them, even though they don’t care about voting and stuff like that. But these fascists do need armies and they do need these people out in the streets to rough other people up and that’s why in America, we have the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers roughing people up. They are the bundles of sticks, the fasci, the little  fascist organizations. The Latin word is fasces. Sounds like feces.

MAX
Fashionistas.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, Fascist Fashionistas, and there are also the ammosexual incel killers, the shooters. They are part of

this fascist movement in America. They are hearing instructions from people like Trump, from people like Tucker Carlson that “they’re replacing us.” The replacement theory was the big impetus for the supermarket killer in Buffalo.

MAX
Well, they’re replacing you because they’re having more sex than you, stupid.

Dr. SUZY
Well, yeah, I mean, let’s just say this. There is some replacing going on there, that is not a lie, it’s just that you’re blaming and killing the wrong people.

MAX
Oh yeah, totally.

UNSCENE ABE
Right.

Dr. SUZY
The people that are replacing you are the Corporate CEOs, they’re replacing you with workers in other countries or with machines, and the leaders of the country they’re replacing you. The billionaires are replacing you. I’m not telling you to go kill them, I’m just saying you’re killing people that don’t even have any power.

MAX
Be peaceful.

Dr. SUZY
We should all be peaceful. No assassinations. But certainly these mass shootings, these horrific mass shootings are part of the Christofascist takeover in America.

They’re keeping people in a state of fear. One element, and it doesn’t seem like a big element, but it’s an element to me, is that I’m afraid to go to a protest. I want to go to a protest but I’m afraid of getting shot. I don’t think I’m the only one. There’s a lot of protests and kudos to the people out there protesting.

And by the way, I believe that that presidential order that Biden wrote the other day that helps somewhat with protecting people that want abortions in states that have outlawed it already, it’s not a fix, but there is some protection. There is some movement there, and he didn’t do it right away, folks. He didn’t do it when the draft was leaked or when the ruling came down. He did it when there were protests, when people got out in the street and that is what we have to do. I feel like such a hypocrite because I’m not out there because I’m afraid of getting shot, I’m afraid of getting COVID also and I am immunocompromised.

MAX
But keep in mind that over the years, this show and Dr. Suzy has been threatened by the United States government, by Muslim newspapers, by all kinds of violent, vile ugliness.

Dr. SUZY
But I just remembered I HAVE been to a protest. I participated in a big protest just like a few weeks ago

at Yale. It was pro-abortion rights, anti-Supreme Court. Really, anti-Brett Kavanaugh because he went to Yale. Although so did Alito. He went to Yale Law School. It’s so embarrassing that these total creeps went to Yale, my alma mater, though especially Yale Law School. Max spoke at Yale Law School.

MAX
They were having a class about pornography yeah, and this and that.

Dr. SUZY
It was part of Sex Week at Yale, yes.

MAX
Part of Sex Week at Yale and in the middle of it they shut it down.

Dr. SUZY
They shut it down because they showed a piercing.

MAX
A piercing which is a traditional goes back in history, yeah? The beginning of time. Yeah, and they cut that off so that there’s two. We need both. Yeah, so that there’s students. Now could not judge whether that you know I was fiery, right?

Dr. SUZY
You were great. You were very fiery. And I was great when I was part of Sex Week at Yale, giving lots of lectures, but they shut that down.

MAX
Christofascists, shut that down.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, Christofascists, shut it down surreptitiously. They didn’t show their religion in the name of their group. They called it something like Better Yale, but they were Jesus freaks.

MAX
Better Yale.

Dr. SUZY
Except they weren’t going by Jesus teachings, they were Christofascists.

So, on Youtube, Michaela Andrew asks, “Are you religious? Ban LGBTQ activism. America sucks by liberalism.”  That’s what I mean.

MAX
Yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Somebody in our office wrote that it was a troll.

MAX
It doesn’t matter, you’re a killer, you’re an asshole OK, get off my channel.

Dr. SUZY
So the question, “are you religious?” I will answer that, just in case you don’t know. No, I am not religious. I’m not even going to say I’m spiritual because I think that’s totally meaningless. When people say that, I always have to be polite because I feel they’re so sincere when they say, “I’m not religious, but I’m spiritual.”

MAX
I’m spiritual.

Dr. SUZY
Fuck that shit. I don’t know what it means. I ask questions about life and death. I meditate. I do yoga. I care about humanity and the Earth. I don’t know if that means I’m spiritual. Maybe you define it that way. I think about the forces in the universe. I was blown away by the pictures that came out of all the galaxies surrounding us. It makes me feel small in a nice way that was very reassuring in my depression. I see that there are a lot more things out there than this Christofascist mess in our little…

MAX
Shithole.

Dr. SUZY
Right, it’s turning into a “shithole country,” Trump, thanks to you to a great degree. Although it’s not all Trump, by the way. Fascism was rising in America, this American style of fascism. Trump just rode the wave and he’s still riding the wave.

MAX
I, I, just want to interject one little thing there that you know Billy and his wife and all of that, but for a long time they have been telling us that there is a massive right wing conspiracy at all levels that they’re organizing to take away some of these rights.  Newsom did an ad for Florida that said, do you really want a government that takes away your books?

Dr. SUZY
Newsom’s not bad. He’s not perfect, but who is? As far as the famous politicians go, he’s one of the better ones in America right now.

MAX
No, nobody right and he’s got a nice hairdo sort of thing going.

Dr. SUZY
I would vote for a combination of him and AOC for president

MAX
Well, they both have the same teeth.  Oh, they both have 385 teeth in their mouth so that they have in common.

Dr. SUZY
Ah yeah, those big sexy political smiles. Yeah baby!  Anyway, yes, protests are great and that is what moved Biden. He listens to the protests so does everybody. So keep getting out there, you brave people. And I did get out there too. I protested the Supreme Court a few weeks ago with my fellow Yalies with a big sign that says Brett lied.

MAX
Yeah, that’s another thing.  They all lied that this was now law.

Dr. SUZY
That’s why I say, abort the court!

MAX
Yeah no, no they gotta go.

Dr. SUZY
They should be impeached.

MAX
The liars, they’re, they’re like fuck you man.

Dr. SUZY
Clarence Thomas should be impeached just because he has baldly and boldly stated that he wants liberals to suffer because they made him suffer.

MAX
All righty.

Dr. SUZY
All righty.  Adriana says, “The merging of church and state is a scary thing.”

MAX
Absolutely yeah you, you bet tomorrow Sunday, OK tomorrow, Sunday. So I want you to go to church very peacefully or to wherever you go to worship whoever you worship and find out what these preachers are doing and what they’re doing to you and to your family and to your future generations.

Dr. SUZY
And don’t be afraid of the F word, and I don’t mean “fuck,” though you shouldn’t be afraid of that either. I mean, fascism. Because there isn’t a better word for what is threatening us right now. Authoritarianism is good, but it’s not as good a word for what is going on.

MAX
None of us.

Dr. SUZY
Authoritarianism is part of it, but there is an American fascism on the move and on the rise, and we have got to stop it. It is possible to stop it.

MAX
You, you me, your friends, your neighbors, your lovers the bus driver, or the doctor.

Dr. SUZY
Hey I’m not a big fan of how World War II was fought in many ways on the Allied side, but certainly on the Axis side they were for shit. They were fascists. There’s no doubt and they were stopped.  So, I’m not saying we should stop at the same way, not at all. In fact, it can’t be stopped the same way. It isn’t the same kind of fascism. It’s not happening in that way, and we need to stop it a different way. And I believe we need to stop it the Bonobo Way. We need to be Bonobo.

MAX
And you need to stop being silent and afraid.

Dr. SUZY
We need to be noisy bonobos.  Bonobos don’t kill each other, but they are not silent.

MAX
They scream.

Dr. SUZY
They yell, they scream and yell, especially when they’re being attacked. And we are being attacked, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners. We are being attacked by Christofascist White Supremacist-Fellating idiots. They are idiots because this is going to kill them too. Most of them directly or maybe just their children.

MAX
No more rubbers at the gas station.  They’re going to take those out now.

Dr. SUZY
Are you serious?

MAX
No rubbers.

Dr. SUZY
Are you just saying that they’re taking the rubbers out of the gas stations?

MAX
No, they want to pass laws.

Dr. SUZY
Oh my goddess.

MAX
They want to prohibit that.

Dr. SUZY
So Christofascism means you can’t buy condoms at the gas station? All right.

MAX
At that folks isn’t that nice, hey?

Dr. SUZY
They really want you to get pregnant.

MAX
Send your children into the army.  Forced breeding is what we called it, and that is what it is looking like more and more and more.

MAX
Human trafficking it also calls.

Dr. SUZY
It’s disgusting.

MAX
Human trafficking so.

Dr. SUZY
In my depression, I saw three possibilities for America, three possible futures. And seriously, they’re all bad. One is fascism, which we’ve been talking about. Another is anarchy. And when I say anarchy, I mean really nobody is in charge and that could very well happen because of climate catastrophe. It could be that, yes, our grids will go out. Or it could be because of nuclear war or just a nuclear accident. Anarchy could be our future. Think Mad Max, not Capt’n Max.

And Capt’n Max often says “it’s either the monarchy or the anarchy.” I don’t know, I’m hoping there are some possibilities in between.

MAX
Yes, in Italy where they have 385 political parties.

Dr. SUZY
You know what? I would like to have 385 political parties?

MAX
Wouldn’t that be nice to represent each one of us, yes.

Dr. SUZY
I think that would be better, yeah. We could have the Bonobo Way party. Or the Block Party!

MAX
The Block Party.

Dr. SUZY
That would be fun. And yeah, I think we should have more parties. This duopoly is killing us, brothers and sisters. Because it’s not really two parties, it’s one party because we got the Republicans, they’re the fascists. I’m not saying the Democrats are fascists, but they are supporting the fascists by not mounting a strong enough opposition, by trying to go to the center, by letting so-called Democrats like Joe Manchin still call themselves Democrats. What good is that?

MAX
Did anybody kick his ass walking down the hall or just, just put a shoe up it nicely now very nicely. This thing this guy is not a Democrat.

Dr. SUZY
How about a gun-shaped dildo?

MAX
Or a gun shaped dildo.

Dr. SUZY
Ooh, no violence, of course.

MAX
I’m not gonna commit violence.

Dr. SUZY
Just kick him out of the Democratic Party.

MAX
Yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Just shame him at least.

MAX
Shame him that there are times it’s.

Dr. SUZY
He’s no good in the Democratic Party.

MAX
You know what’s he doing in there anyway, you know right what?

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, so you Democrats, my friends that I vote for, please!  We got to understand. We got fascism as a possibility, and we got anarchy as a possibility and we’ve got civil war as a possibility.

MAX
Which is right now just in the beginning stages?

Dr. SUZY
Of course, because if anybody tries to mount a war against the government while the government has the whole military and bombs, nobody is going to be successful, and that goes for all you little oath keepers there. The problem is, if the fascist gets in control of the government You know Biden is very namby pamby with the fascists, but of course he is in control of the weapons, which he’s sending so many to Ukraine.  And like I said, I’m pro-Ukraine, but I don’t think we should be sending them all these weapons. I think we should be trying to negotiate for peace.

Harry Sapien says, “Yes, we have two parties that serve the same master, the corporations.” That’s exactly right, and it’s because they all need corporations to fund their campaigns.

MAX
It is. It’s really like in Russia. It’s like you have the Liberals you have the and you have the the right wing. And, uh, and I think my

Dr. SUZY
So somebody on Youtube just asked me if I was a Republican or a liberal, but I don’t see their name anymore. Somehow that got removed, but in any case, they asked, “Are you a Republican or a liberal?” First of all, I call them “Repugnicans,” so obviously I’m not one. I don’t know how you could think I was.
But you also ask: Am I a liberal? That’s a good question actually. I think I am.

MAX
Right?

Dr. SUZY
I’ve always identified as liberal, but in the old-fashioned sense, NOT neoliberal. I despise neoliberals almost as much as fascists. I think a lot of our fascist problem comes from neoliberalism. That is, we have let corporations have the rights of human beings – more rights – and we have let capital run the world.

I am not liberal about the freedom of capital, the freedom of capitalism and the freedom of corporations. I don’t believe in that. So in that sense, I’m not a liberal. I’m a liberal in the old fashioned sense, the pre-corporate sense. My liberalism says hey, whatever your religion, it’s fine. Whatever your sexuality, it’s fine as long as you don’t hurt others, as long as it’s consensual. In that sense, I am liberal, I am tolerant. I try to be. It’s never a perfect situation. So that’s your answer, and it’s sad. I I remember when some people first were asking me about that, and they said, “Well your liberalism has turned into neoliberalism.” That I was years ago and I thought, no, they’re not the same at all, neoliberalism is the opposite of old-fashioned liberalism. So it’s not fair. There should be a place for old fashioned liberalism in our society, an honored place, and we should bring it back.

MAX
I’m a libertine.

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, I’m also a libertine.

MAX
Yeah, libertine and leaning to the left. That’s because I need a new head bun left but.

Dr. SUZY
OK so I’m a libertine too, but I want to separate myself from certain liberties, such as Elon Musk’s dad. OK, I am not that kind of libertine, and I do not approve of Elon Musk’s dad Errol Musk having a child, actually two children with his own stepdaughter. I mean, sex is great between consenting adults, assuming the stepdaughter was an adult, which I’m not even sure of. So OK, if they’re adults and they’re separate from the rest of the family, okay it’s not criminal, but keep in mind there are consequences. Terrible consequences sometimes. So my big question is, isn’t abortion legal in South Africa? Because here’s a case where abortion should have been practiced.

Although Errol Musk’s semi incestuous lovechild isn’t anywhere near as destructive to human society and the Earth in my libertine opinion as his son Elon Musk’s corporate capitalism pooping upon America… and Twitter.

MAX
Hey, listen before we go Suzy. Oh well so we have 10 minutes left.

Dr. SUZY
Oh my goodness, this has been a fast show.

MAX
If, if you guys got any comments or anything, our telephone number is 213-291-9497 that’s 213-291-9497. Bro and you can call us right now if you have something to say actually how you can do that is using your phone.

Dr. SUZY
Actually, there’s no more time to call. The problem is when they call at the end, I have to rush my answers to their questions which isn’t great.

MAX
Oh, right, yeah, that’s the problem.

Dr. SUZY
I usually like calls, but I guess we talked so much, and so many comments!

MAX
Well, I’m just trying to see if I if I can get somebody riled up to you know that’s all then.  And we’re well, if we don’t like what they’re saying, we hang up on them and…

Dr. SUZY
No, we usually talk to them, even if we don’t like what they’re saying.

MAX
Oh, OK.

Dr. SUZY
So Speaking of not exactly liking what they’re saying, Ryan, who says a lot of things I like, like almost everything. But he now he says, “Life Force” – whatever that is – “debuted in 1985 captivates because it represents Make Love  Not War.” Fine. I love Make Love Not War. But then he goes on to say, “Chaos reigned upon the earth but the only way to stop it was a union between man and woman.”

All right, I guess I’m all for unions between man and woman. In fact, I’m in one. I’ve been married 30 years and I have a lot of great man-woman sex, and actually we had some great man-woman sex  last night.

MAX
Yeah, and and we’re pro-sex. Also we’re pro unions, right?

Dr. SUZY
Right, we’re pro-unions in general, but unions can be between a man and a man, or between a woman and a woman.

MAX
A man and a corona.

Dr. SUZY
OK, right away here, I’m not sure about that kind of union as a marriage, you know, because that’s what the right wingers say. They say if you start letting men marry men, then the next thing you know you’re going to have to let somebody marry a tree.

MAX
Well, that’s already happening. Annie Sprinkle has married various trees.

Dr. SUZY
Well, that’s true, but I don’t think it has legal standing. It IS legal actually, for a man to marry a man and a woman to marry a woman, and hopefully it’ll stay legal, but with Clarence Thomas, it probably won’t.

MAX
Oh yeah, and that’s another thing that’s going out the window so all you guys and gals or who have built your little life and built your that’s gonna end.

Dr. SUZY
So Ryan says, “This is how our society should overcome, with peace understanding and love.” Well, OK, I certainly believe in peace and understanding and love. But I will say this, which I said last week, so I won’t spend too long on it now… But a lot of people fight wars out of love. A lot of people kill out of love, so love is a double-edged feeling.

MAX
Right.

Dr. SUZY
Speaking of war… Free Julian Assange! Keep this in mind: Wars are started by lies. Peace is often started by the truth. Julian Assange is being prosecuted by the US and the UK because he told the truth about America and our wars, and specifically Bush’s wars. But really, all of American wars being waged in our name. So free Assange! He is now being extradited to the US, and there he will be imprisoned, hung maybe, not given a fair trial, I’m sure.

Actually, the Mexican president has an interesting idea. He says we should take down the Statue of Liberty, because our indictment of Julian Assange, a journalist, shows that America is no longer the land of liberty. He did say that in response to somebody questioning him about Mexican journalists being killed, and yes, there are quite a few Mexican journalists being killed. It’s very sad and terrible, but he’s not killing them. He’s trying to find the killers.  I actually kind of like this Mexican President.

MAX
Yeah, he’s pretty cool.

Dr. SUZY
Speaking of people in charge, I have to say we talked about former Japanese Prime Minister Abe last week.  I’m sorry, Abe.

UNSCENE ABE
Yeah, that’s okay.

Dr. SUZY
There’s no excuse for Abe being assassinated, but he was a bit of a fascist. He was very neoliberal, and he wanted to bring back the Japanese military. And the guy who killed him… You know why he killed him?

UNSCENE ABE
No.

Dr. SUZY
Because Abe had spoken at a Moonie convention. Remember the Moonies? They’re still around and they’re big in Asia. They’re also kind of big here in America, but they’re kind of fascist and very dangerous.

MAX
I, I used to.

Dr. SUZY
I infiltrated the Moonies when I was young. I used to live next door to their compound in Holland.

MAX
All the movies up there, yeah?

Dr. SUZY
Oh wow, see we both had Moonies in our background.

MAX
Yeah yeah Oh yeah.

Dr. SUZY
I infiltrated them when I was with the Suicide Club. We also climbed the Golden Gate Bridge and eventually did Burning Man anyway, and we spied on the Moonies for a weekend. Anyway, Abe spoke at a few Moonie conventions. Moonies are very, very conservative. And they’re grifters. And this guy who killed him – not that the guy has any excuse – but his mom gave all her money to the Moonies, so he was upset. So he killed Abe which was a bad idea because now Abe is a martyr. OK, it’s a bad idea first, because you shouldn’t kill anybody. That’s the main thing. But second, because you made this conservative neoliberal semi-fascist, militaristic guy into a martyr. And now his conservative neoliberal, militaristic, semi-fascist party is cleaning up at the polls in Japan. So be careful who you assassinate.

MAX
You know when we lived on the farm near the moonies on the North Sea he and beg bargain and say at the in Bergen and say I saw a lot of hot chicks coming out of that place.

Dr. SUZY
Well, yeah, like I said in the beginning of this show, fascism can be sexy. That’s the problem.

MAX
I’m, I’m telling you, man.

Dr. SUZY
A lot of these cults, like the Moonies, they get a lot of hot chicks, and the cults are always fascist.

MAX
I am telling you.

Dr. SUZY
They’re a little microcosm of fascists in a little small community.

MAX
Right.

Dr. SUZY
Before we’re done, I just want to say that through my depression, I am cheering myself up by checking out all of these amazing photos from our Bonoboville Reunion show, Class of 2022, which we did thanks to Vice providing COVID tests. Before that, we weren’t doing these in-person shows because we didn’t want to catch COVID.

MAX
It was wonderful. And it was for a Vice special, really.

Dr. SUZY
And Vice is going to put out a documentary about us very shortly. But we wanted to put out our show and Vice said it was fine because our show is different. Vice can’t show all that we showed on our show. Our show is only on our site. So go to https://drsusanblock.com/bonoboville-reunion and you will see what I mean. Amazing people, like Amor Hilton, plus Daniele Watts and Chef Belive – happy anniversary guys! And Sally Mullins and her Man-Pet, and Mistress Mina and her mentee Nova and so many great people. Rhiannon Aarons and Mistress Erica, Ikkor the Wolf, and Coralyn Jewel, our therapist who you can talk to when you call 213-291-9497. We even had some really important Lefty celebrities in our audience, including Abby Martin and Michael Prysner. Plus John Barrymore and Luzer Twersky, although I wouldn’t call Luzer a lefty, I don’t know what he is lately. But he’s a VIP, and he’s pretty leftist, right?

MAX
He’s pretty interesting.

MAX
He’s yeah, he’s pretty left.

Dr. SUZY
He’s showing a big movie now in Europe.

MAX
In Germany, the movie is called “A Restaurant with No Name”

Dr. SUZY
Right.

MAX
Yeah, and it’s about.

Dr. SUZY
A Bedouin and Jew that get along.

MAX
And a Jew that has to go to cross the lands the Arab lands in order to get to this other place in order to take part in this convocation of some sort and so this shows him traveling through these Arab lands, and of course, my favorite scene is when he’s on the bus with all these Arabs and they discovered there’s a Jew in the back and so things get a little a little nervous and exciting and Loser, there’s a great scene where he looks out from behind the seat of the bus very worried and, and then the Arab now if he doesn’t get there, if a loser doesn’t get to this place this whole Jewish little thing falls apart. So the Arab, becomes torsky and he goes to this convocation as Luzer. And so all of a sudden, everybody cheering and other and it’s kind of fun because the Jews I see Jews like a lot like Italians. You know that the Jews knew that wasn’t Twersky? Because there were, police was down below, but they received him like Torsky. Anyway, sorry, it’s a good movie. Go see it, it’s a fun movie.

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, it’s a good movie, and Luzer is, of course, a great actor in it. I have to say though, since you went into such a long description, and since we’re talking about fascism, I gotta be quick about this because we’re almost out of time, but the problem with the movie as I see it is that it kind of glosses over the fascist state of Israel.

MAX
Oh yes.

Dr. SUZY
And how it is creating an apartheid state, stealing the land from the Palestinians, and it makes it seem like everybody is fine with all of that, and that the Bedouin and the Jew all get along. And it’s all very nice, but it ignores this terrible crime that is being committed against the Palestinian people. It totally glosses over that, and yet it’s supposed to be about Israel, so I guess, to me, it isn’t something I would totally recommend, but I just recommend it because Luzer does a great job acting in it.

MAX
It’s a movie.

Dr. SUZY
Right.

MAX
And also because he’s a bonobo. He’s our friend, right?

Dr. SUZY
He’s our friend, that’s true, and you can always like everything about a movie.

MAX
Right.

Dr. SUZY
And these days I don’t like most movies because most movies are just so violent, and this one isn’t, so I appreciate that. Most movies are full of either real violence and blood and gore, or – and this is maybe a little bit worse – they’re full of comic book violence that makes violence seem like it’s just playing a video game.

And you know the fascist state of Israel proves something else. It just proved this recently, which is that neofascism doesn’t need a strong leader. Netanyahu is long gone and Naftali has crashed and burned, and there’s no big charismatic Zionist leader now, bu the colonial settlers are still stealing Palestinian land and killing Palestinians, even a prominent American journalist, Shireen abu Akleh. And we are not coming out against this, “we” meaning America. I just cringe when I see Joe Biden saying he’s supporting Israel no matter what. And I see he’s saying he supports basically Saudi Arabia. He’s fistbumping with the killer of another American journalist Jamal Khashoggi. So I got to say, this duopoly sucks. And yet I still vote Democratic because the Republicans are worse.

MAX
The lesser of two evils.

Dr. SUZY
Sex is under attack everywhere, Brothers and sisters, from fascism. It’s coming from the bottom with the mass shooters and Proud Boys.  It’s coming from the top, the Supreme Injustices. It’s coming from the environment. COVID is back. I don’t know that it ever really went away, but we wanted to feel that it went away, so a lot of people act like it went away and still act like that and keep their masks off, and anyway, it’s back. People are in hospitals. The microbes are out there. And now there’s a new disease and monkeypox. It’s a little like smallpox, pretty terrible, and it’s going around.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are restricting voting rights. That’s the bottom line.

MAX
You better hide your books.

Dr. SUZY
And they’re restricting reading lists in schools, of course, and libraries. It’s really appalling, but we’re here still on F.D.R., at least for now and hopefully for a little while longer. So we hope that you stay with us and that you try to go our way instead of the fascist way.

And yes, I do believe in trying to make my rhetoric a reality. The fascists do it all too well, and it hurts us all. But please hear our rhetoric, and practice the Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure, and that means lots of sex, consensual sex, peaceful sex, good sex. Maybe a little bit of fighting here and there, but no killing. Bonobos are our closest cousins and have never been seen killing each other. So, we can do it too. Bonobos empower the females. #MeToo could learn a lot from the Bonobo Way. Rape is rare among bonobos. The Bonobo females rule. MILFs rule, Bonoboville. Older females – burned at the stake as witches by the Puritans – are respected as wise matriarchs among bonobos.

Why do the guys put up with this? You may ask that question, as many have asked, and the answer is the other part of the Bonobo Way is male well-being, male nurturing, and that includes male sexuality, brothers and sisters. Male sexuality has got to be nurtured and cared for, or provided for in some way, in a consensual way, in a tolerant way. One way is allowing all the guys to have sex with other guys. A lot of guys would do that if it wasn’t so repressed, so stigmatized, so looked down on. There’s lots of different kinds of sex guys can enjoy which are stigmatized in our society, like sex work, and like masturbation.  How about that? That is also looked down. And it’s killing us. Guys have to express themselves sexually, and that’s part of the Bonobo Way, or else they may go ammosexual, and we’ve seen how that goes.

And sharing. Bonobos share. We have to share. Of course, bonobos don’t have mansions and gas guzzling, SUVs and planes. But they do have bananas and they share them, and they show us that sharing is better for everyone.

I see from this story about Elon Musk how he is suffering. His father is pretty creepy. I get it. He’s got a problematic family, as many of us do. Elon Musk needs some help, and it’s apparent that his billions don’t help him at all with his family or his own mental health issues, and they certainly don’t help the rest of us.

So Fuck Da Rich! And tax them. We need some socialism in America. We don’t need fascism. So let’s start sharing please, brothers and sisters. Because otherwise I’m going to get really depressed, and I don’t like being depressed, so cheer me up! #GoBonobos! Be Bonobo. Stop fascism! Make kink, not war!

Make like bonobos, not baboons, Make Love Not War. Make love to someone you love tonight, even if that someone is you. I love you.

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Show Length 01:31:50  Date: July 16, 2022

© July 16,  2022 Susan Block, Ph.D., a.k.a. “Dr. Suzy,” is a world renowned LA sex therapist, author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure and horny housewife, occasionally seen on HBO and other channels. For speaking engagements, call 213-291-9497.