1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: It's an introduction. Good for you. We did. Yeah, I 2 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: love that. What what show is this? Uh? This is 3 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: this is it could happen here a show that is 4 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: also currently in the middle of about seventeen thousand personnel disasters. 5 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: But it's fine. Uh yeah, I am I am Christopher 6 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: Wong and with me is Garrison. Hello, Hi, good morning 7 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: or afternoon or evening, depending on when you're listening. And 8 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: also Sophie Hello, Hi. So we are we're going to 9 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: talk about something that is I guess technically over, but 10 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: it was extremely weird and did a lot of harm. 11 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: And that is the very weird stuff that Texas General 12 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: General Jesus hopefully not Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who had 13 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: general the General of Texas. Greg, I mean, like you're 14 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: kind of not wrong, but he wished like that, he 15 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: wishes he wishes he was the General of Texas. I mean, 16 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: I feel like that's one of those things where like that, 17 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: that's when we know the coup started, is when he himself, 18 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: the general, takes over Texas. So Greg Abbott is extremely mad, 19 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: and he's actually mad because Biden finally decided to end 20 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: one of like the absolute worst Trump era border policies 21 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: just called Title forty two, and it's he was like 22 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: nominally an anti pandemic measures, like the CDC. That's so, 23 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: I don't know why it took me like five seconds 24 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: to remember the name of the CDC, the Central Defense Agency. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 25 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: that one. Yeah. So it's normally supposed to be a 26 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: thing where it's like, okay, you can you cut off 27 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: migrants from coming into the country because there's a risk 28 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: of a pandemic. Now, okay, if if if you have 29 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: lived the last two years, you know that the US 30 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: just literally does not give a single ship out the 31 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: pandemic at all, like ending. Yeah. Yeah, so this, this 32 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: whole thing really has just been a justification to just 33 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: boot out, this prevent every like asylum seeker in refugee, 34 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: an immigrant for getting into the country. And you know 35 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: that you can tell this because the title forty two 36 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: when it was originally invoked, didn't cover people who were 37 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: like driving trucks across the border. Like he didn't cover 38 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: economic activity of course not. Yeah, so it's it's it's 39 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: just a way for the US to like not have 40 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: asylum seekers. And Biden let this go for like another 41 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: fucking year while he was in office, and so like 42 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: it's like like late last monthy like he finally got 43 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: rid of it. And you know, this means that like 44 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: immigrants and refugees now once again have their legal right 45 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: under both American and international law to a petition for asylum, 46 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: which again the US doesn't give a shit about, because 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: you know, the US doesn't care about laws unless they 48 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: do bad things. But this finally happens and Greg Abbott, 49 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: who is once again we must remind of you one 50 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: the great habbit is, is running for election in November, 51 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: and she's it's justus just literally running through the entire 52 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: right wing like every single right wing scary we can 53 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: possibly think of. Don't worry, Chris, don't worry Chris. Beto 54 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: will get him. I believe. I believe in Beto this 55 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: time by like slide. Yeah, well okay, So the thing 56 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: that could stop him from this is Greg Abbott decides 57 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: you like two PR stunts, and one of them is 58 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: he's taking busses of of immigris throt asylum seekers and 59 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: just busting them. The d C and I want to 60 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: talk about this for a little like a second, because 61 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: like this is really shitty and that shouldn't be legal, 62 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to really traffick. You're trafficking people across 63 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: the country for a political stunt. That's like that that 64 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed. Yeah, Like and like I think like 65 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, this is book like it is. But 66 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: like the thing with American political sence is that real 67 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: people get hurt constantly. Yeah, And we're gonna come back 68 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: to that theme more in a second. As we talked 69 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: about the second stunt that he did, which was so 70 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: essentially what Abbott did, is there are an enormous number 71 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: of trucks that cross the US Mexican border into Texas 72 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 1: like every day, right, I mean they're like there are 73 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: individual bridges that are moving six seventy billion dollars of 74 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: just produce like every day. And so that produced when 75 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: it when it comes into the US, it goes to 76 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: a bunch of checks by the border patrol and stuff. 77 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: And there's all these checks and this is this whole thing. 78 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 1: But uh, Abbott went on this incredibly bizarre rants about well, 79 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: I mean it's not bizarre. I guess if you're right. 80 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: When we went on this rant about like the cartels 81 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: and there's immigrants of need to stop them, and so 82 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: she's very scary. Yeah, it's really weird. Okay, So he's 83 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: he's doing all the birds faymongering, and he's like, Okay, 84 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: we need to stop the people from getting across the border. 85 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: So we're gonna inspect all of these trucks, which again 86 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: like they're already being inspected by the FEDS. This is 87 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: this is you know, this is where like the horrible 88 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: ice budget is going. Right. So he he does this, 89 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: and he he calls in a bunch of just like 90 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: the border patrols to just literally do all of the 91 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: same checks again. And this has an enormous economic impact. Um, 92 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to read a quote from the American Statesman. 93 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: The delays have resulted in a six drop in commercial 94 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: traffic at the border, according to ums U S Customs 95 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: and Border Protections. The agency said the delays are a 96 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: direct results of quote additional and unnecessary inspections being conducted 97 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: at Abbot's request. I I do like that the same 98 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: people who were shooting moms in Portland now inspecting produce 99 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: at the Texas. It's it's pretty well. I mean, I 100 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: think I think that there there there's an important thing 101 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: to note here. Writes like, so, why why are these 102 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: the people who are like doing both these things. And 103 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: the answer is that, like those organizations like that, the 104 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: thing that they're designed to do is to protect the 105 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: interest of American capital. And you know, so the interest 106 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: of American capital are we need to move capital across 107 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: the we need to move goods across the border, and 108 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: we need to just like absolutely obliterate like a bunch 109 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: of teenagers who don't like us. That is pretty much 110 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: their bit um. I mean, yeah, I know we've talked 111 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: in the past about us like customs and border and 112 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: word protections and the weird the weird like agencies and 113 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: weird kind of almost militias that they operate and how 114 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: they get deployed into certain areas if they're you know, 115 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: x x miles away from the border. Um, it would 116 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: be worth talking about more in depth in the future, 117 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: because I know Robert has done some historical background on 118 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: them from Bastards, um. But I think, yeah, that is 119 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: something I would I would be down to talk more about. Yeah. 120 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: I think they are a very bizarre agents. Yeah, they're 121 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: very weird. They're also really not like in this story, 122 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: they're basically really just sitting there being mad because it's 123 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: taking longer at what they do. Yeah. And and you 124 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: know because because again like these these actual spections are 125 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: being run by like state troopers, and because because because 126 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 1: Abbott has more direct control overy stage. Yeah, because yeah, 127 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: Abbot dr power for them. And this means that like, okay, 128 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: so you have your truck, right, your truck has a 129 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:14,679 Speaker 1: bunch of produce in it, you would be it across 130 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: the border. Um. This usually takes about two hours of 131 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: you know, being like sitting there in a truck while 132 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: you're stop your every once cargo gets inspected and stuff, 133 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: which I will say the truckers don't even get paid 134 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: for that when they're waiting two hours. Yeah, and and 135 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: and you know what would make that worse, Oh yeah, 136 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: now it takes between ten and thirty hours because intentionally, 137 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: on purpose was like okay, we're just we're gonna put 138 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: six thousand like people total to do this whole thing. 139 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: And so you know, like hundreds of millions of dollars 140 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: of produce like since like onions and tomatoes and avocados 141 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: are just sitting in these trucks, rotting in the textas heat. Yep, 142 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: hopefully the trucks are refrigerated, but still, well, the trucks 143 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: are refrigerated, but like the people in them, I'm sure 144 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: the cabins are not. Yeah, I'm sure it gets mighty well. 145 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: You know, I do have some family who would truckers, 146 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: and some of the cabins can be nice. But still 147 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: that's sitting for thirty hours without getting paid because the 148 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: only get paid when you are moving. Um, which is 149 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: oh uh not a great way to you know, run 150 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: our entire economy. Yeah, I'm gonna read a quote. I'm 151 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: gonna read a suction from the paragraph of the Texas Tribune. Felix, 152 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: a sixty year old Mexican trucker who was transporting tomatoes, 153 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: onions and avocados, waited about thirteen hours in line at 154 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: the bridge. He has to be identified only by his 155 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: first name for fear of retribution and targeted inspections from 156 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 1: CPB officials. Hearing of the delays at the border, he 157 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: packed water and food for a few days, but other 158 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: truckers didn't come as prepared, and we're sitting in stand 159 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: still traffic without anything to eat or drink. Felix said 160 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: he was told by a CPB official that the agency 161 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: would be putting portable bathrooms along the bridge for the 162 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,839 Speaker 1: gridlocked truckers, but he never saw them. Once Felix made 163 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: it to the state troopers inspection point around nine pm, 164 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: he said they didn't even peer into his truck, which 165 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: had been sealed since Mexican had already's inspected about six 166 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 1: hundred miles away in the state of Sineloa. There's no 167 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: possibility of bringing legal immigrants in the merchandise or in 168 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: the cabin, he said, referencing one of Abbott's explanations for 169 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: the inspections. I can't bring any illegal immigrants here for 170 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: money because I know inspectors are going to discover them. 171 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:16,599 Speaker 1: It's not a thing here. I don't know what the 172 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: politicians ideas are. I don't know what they're talking about. 173 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: So that seems not good. Yeah, it's it's really bad. 174 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 1: And like again, like this is this whole thing is 175 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: nonsense like that. I didn't even I didn't even think 176 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: about having to, you know, use the bathroom for hours. Yeah, 177 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 1: and like do you think the thing with this is 178 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,839 Speaker 1: like this, the backups are eight miles long, so like 179 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: if you want to go to the bathroom, you have 180 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: to walk for like miles, depending depending on where you 181 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: are in this backup. And you know this is having 182 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: like these just enormous horrifying that there's like these normous 183 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: horrifying knock on effects. Um, because you know, it's not 184 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: just the truckers are affected by this. There's a bunch 185 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: of workers whose job it is you know, it's the 186 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: process is these goods rights, take them out of trucks, 187 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: put them into American trucks to like sort through the 188 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 1: vegetables and figure out like which ones are good and 189 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: which ones are not. And again, like just enormous amounts 190 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 1: of just produce that is like fresh and good to eat. 191 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,719 Speaker 1: It's just being intentionally destroyed because it's being forced to 192 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 1: sit at the border for this long. Uh. There's a 193 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: bunch of these people whose whose job like who who 194 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: are contract workers whose job it is to like go 195 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: through this stuff, and they're all getting fired because they're 196 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: like there's no work for them to do. Um. There's 197 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: all of these people who like their their jobs that 198 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: they run bodegoes that they run like like they run restaurants. 199 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: Did they run a much of stuff on the border 200 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: for these truckers, and they also don't have any work. 201 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: And those people have to on a day by date, 202 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: like it's like I think it's per day to rent 203 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 1: a terminal in Yeah, and they're making nothing, and it's 204 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: it's it's horrifying. There's all there's there's just enormous economic 205 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: devastation that that that's been sort of like you know 206 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: that that that that's been happening because of this and 207 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,839 Speaker 1: well you know, you know what else reminds me of 208 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: economic devastation, Ah, the fact that the fact that our 209 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 1: paychecks are solely reliant on the products and services that 210 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: support this podcast. It's true. Yeah, Well we'll talk about 211 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:27,959 Speaker 1: the problems they're having in a second after this break. Yep, 212 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: one second. Wow, that was that was a fast second. 213 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: That just that that flew right by time is not real? 214 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: Destroy the clocks decided to start the police, all right, 215 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: if you press if you press the if you press 216 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: the thirty second button four times, yes, yeah, real speedy. 217 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: Now this is having other problems because, as we talked 218 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: about the show, literally ad nausea and our supply chains 219 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: are really bad. And it turns out, yeah, that does 220 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: seem to be a recurring character on the pod. Is 221 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: that supply chains uh not the most stable thing we've invented. Yeah, 222 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: and especially with especially with with with fruit and vegetables. Well, 223 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: I mean, well we will be getting some of the 224 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: other supply chains that are like fun because of this, 225 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:24,559 Speaker 1: but like prudent vegetables in particular, like the way that 226 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,679 Speaker 1: we do them, they're they're designed to be in motion 227 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,319 Speaker 1: for like a very specific amount of time so that 228 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: when they show up to you they're ripe. Yeah. Yeah, 229 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: you know, you add a few hours onto that everything 230 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: falls apart. And this like I'm not sure if it 231 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 1: happens because I'm not in Texas, but there was there 232 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: were a bunch of articles were talking about like yeah, 233 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: like avocados and Texas are gonna cost five more dollars, 234 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: Like like a single avocado is price is gonna increase 235 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: by like five dollars over the weekend because like because 236 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: it was just the enormous amount of produces that that's 237 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: being destroyed here. And you know, there's there's a lot 238 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: of other stuff going on here because American and Mexican 239 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: supply chains are enormously integrated. It from now. I mean 240 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: they've always been in good to some extent, but like 241 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: particularly post NAFTA, there's a lot of like auto supply 242 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: chains in particular that are that are tied to two 243 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,719 Speaker 1: plants in Mexico, and you actually this occasionally has like 244 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: interesting effects, like Mexico's has a lot of auto strikes 245 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: and you get like you get these things where like 246 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,599 Speaker 1: people will like tuck messages into like auto parts and 247 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: like send them to the US. People will open these 248 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: messages from like a worker in Mexico too. Yeah, you 249 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: need and it's it's cool that there's lots of there's 250 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: interesting stuff there, but this also means that like, yeah, 251 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: so if those parts are moving across the border, there 252 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: was just in time, production schedules are even more Omega 253 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: screwed than they've been already. And so yeah, there's been 254 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 1: a lot of sort of economics stuff that's been happening here. 255 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: And you know the other people who are getting just 256 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: completely screwed by this are are the Mexican truckers and 257 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: so yeah and so so so this this this starts 258 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: on April six, on Monday, April eleven, I the truckers 259 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 1: are just like funck this and they start just completely 260 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: blockading the largest border crossing between like this it's on 261 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: the Giant bridge. They started they literally just blockade the 262 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: bridge and but prevent any goods from from getting in. 263 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: And this this has an enormous impact because again, like 264 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: you know, it was going like yeah it was production 265 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: was down by by sixty percent, but that means still 266 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: means goods are getting through. And now you know, and 267 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: bye bye bye. By the eleventh, it's just nothing. Um. 268 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: I do. I do hope the one the one good 269 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: thing that can come out of the whole Canada COVID 270 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: isn't real protests, um, is that people have learned that 271 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: blocking off supply chains it's a really effective way to 272 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: do protest. Use. You can stop the import of thousands 273 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: and millions and billions of dollars of trade um pretty 274 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: easily actually, And it would be cool if more people realize, Hey, 275 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: obviously the COVID stuff that we're talking about and the 276 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: whole over the in the government part um to install 277 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 1: a right wing dictator that part it's obviously bad, but 278 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: some of their tactics were actually pretty interesting. Yeah, we're 279 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 1: we're going to get more into that, uh like later, yeah, 280 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: I mean I would say, like I think that the 281 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: thing with the U S is that, like I think 282 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: there's been a lot of focus on the American left 283 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: on ports because yeah, there's a lot of reasons for that, 284 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: but like, yeah, you can do the border crossings too, 285 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: and the the mexicge rucker is really effective. I mean, okay, 286 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: so that's this has been a thing where it's it's 287 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to get information from. I saw 288 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: a few like newspapers talking about um, like cartel people 289 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: like like attacking the blockaded, lighting trucks on fire to 290 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: try to force goods to go through again, which it's possible. 291 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: I I don't know, um, but this, you know, once 292 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: once there are like once the block like the border 293 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: is completely blockaded, this completely ages like the entire political 294 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: situation because now, like you know, ab Abbot's been running 295 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: this thing sort of as a political stunt and as 296 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: this game he's playing with you know, I suppose he's 297 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: trying to play a game with Biden, right, and he's like, okay, well, yeah, 298 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: you gotta decently go about the border or whatever, like 299 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: you know's he's been challenging Biden over like immigration bullshit. 300 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: But you know, now now there's a there's a third 301 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: party involved, and that third party is for Mexican truckers. 302 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: And now and now Abbot's not just in the It's 303 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: like Abbot's in a confrontation with the people that he 304 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: needs to make the entire Texan economy run. Yep. And 305 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: this starts going very badly for him. And the other 306 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: thing that starts going very badly for him is that 307 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: I it turns out if you shut down cross border trade, 308 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: you really really piss off the bourgeoisie. Turns out, it 309 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: turns out that will happen if you ain't careful. Yeah. Yeah, 310 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: it's really interesting and and you know, and and I 311 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: think I should mention like stressed this, Like they're piste 312 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: off on both sides of the border. And like obviously 313 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: you could talk about the excient which like yeah, like 314 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: they're the same class. But like capitalists on both sides 315 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 1: of the border start exerting their political pressure because they're 316 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 1: I mean, they're losing enormous amounts of money off of this, 317 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: that's what they do. Yeah, and you know, the way 318 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: their ability to do capitalism as capitalists, they're going to 319 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: be mad. Yeah, which again you think you would think 320 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 1: that the Abbot would like get this, but he just 321 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: he it seems to have not occurred to him. That 322 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: he was going to piss off like either or like 323 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: he thinks he didn't care enough and thought it wouldn't matter, 324 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: but like, no, it turns out like you know, one 325 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: of the things that happens. Yeah, it's it's amazing, Like 326 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: he's you know, like I mean, I think this is. 327 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: This is you know, I think this is. This is 328 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: sort of a symptom of like people lose like right 329 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: wing politicians losing sight of what their actual basis because 330 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: like this is all this is all supposed to be 331 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: like campaign trail feeding the anti immigrant base, but like, 332 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 1: you know, you you are a politician in the US. 333 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 1: Your actual constituency is the capitalists and and like you 334 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 1: have an actual job and let's make the economy keep 335 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: going and keep the people in power to have all 336 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: the power, Like you're not just like that. That's one 337 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: interesting thing that Trump was kind of one of the 338 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: first big um indicators for which is like a politician 339 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: now is just the endless cycle of campaigning and they 340 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: don't actually have a job. It's just always campaigning and 341 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: then it's always campaigning, uh, and they're like, oh, I 342 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 1: guess I should do my actual job that I was 343 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: elected for or I could just do more rallies and 344 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: that seems like it would be less work. Yeah. Well, 345 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: I mean I think I think what Trump was like 346 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: there was those instet to which the bureaucracy kept functioning, 347 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: and so you know, like like he like Trump got 348 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: Trump got the tax cut, right, yeah, and like he 349 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: didn't really start getting in trouble with him until he 350 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: started doing the anti China stuff, which was sort of 351 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 1: a disaster because there was a lot of people who 352 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 1: turned out like need those trade connections to make money. 353 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: And you saw like like it was weird. It was 354 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 1: very weird thing. Like you started to see even some 355 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: of his like like domestic like small business base. I 356 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: started to get really mad at him because he's putting 357 00:18:57,119 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: all these sanctions up and it's like, oh, hey, look 358 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,199 Speaker 1: all these sanctions mean at all these people who are 359 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: reliant on Chinese supply chains have to pay this stuff 360 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: and an Abbott. Abbott has like done this in microcosm, 361 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: and like these these people like they start going to 362 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: the press. Um, I'm going to read a quote from Bloomberg. Uh. 363 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: Some retailers, particularly those in the grocery industry, have experienced 364 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: supply chain delays resulting from the extended wait times along 365 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: the Texas Mexico border. John McCord, the executive director of 366 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: Texas Retailers Association, wrote in an email, so, like, you 367 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: know these are like like the Texas Retail Association is 368 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: like this is like the most republican solidly institution in 369 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 1: the country and and you can watch them over time, 370 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: like these people are getting really mad. Like one of 371 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: I was like, like, what if Abbot's like I forget 372 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: the exact title, Like what one of Abbot's like secretaries, 373 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: like they're like at the secretary or some one of 374 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 1: the like economic bureaus was like, yeah, man, avoca are 375 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 1: gonna cost five more dollars. And you know this really 376 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: hits me hard because everyone knows it's about me. I 377 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 1: care a lot about retail um, retails like my one 378 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: of my big core personality traits UM. And you know 379 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: who else wants you to care about retail? Oh my 380 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: goodness is that the washing st Patrol. That is right, Sophie, 381 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: it's the Washington State Patrol. Are are are good friends? Um? 382 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: So here here is some here's some messages about about 383 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 1: how you can improve your retail decisions. Okay, I can't 384 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: find this George Bush quote instead of that, we will 385 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: return to this. And you know, one thing I think 386 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: we should also mention is if you ran into this 387 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: on Twitter, um you will see a lot of videos 388 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: of people like Democrats like standing at the border and 389 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: pointing at the trucks and going, uh, this is this. 390 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: This is Abbot attempting to like make inflation to get 391 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: worse by sabotaging the economy. Cringe and like cringe cringe moments. Yeah, 392 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: like okay, Like uh, I cannot rule out that this 393 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: was like a part of what he wanted to do, 394 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 1: but that's not really why he's doing this. Like this, 395 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: this is this is like mostly and I some people 396 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: talking about like, oh, this is like the trucker's buckage 397 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: and Chile and I'm like, no, no, it's not at all, 398 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: like like yeah, yeah, yeah, Like yes, Chile has a 399 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: bunch of right had I had a bunch of right 400 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: wing anti communist truckers unions that tried to shut down 401 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 1: the government, But like that's not what's happening here. This 402 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: is the state and Abbott trying to do this is 403 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: like an immigration pr thing like this isn't like he's 404 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: not actually he's not actually trying to destroy government, because 405 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: the the only way you can get stuff like that 406 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: is if like, is is it the capital's classes like 407 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: genuinely afraid that they're about to get like like wiped 408 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: up by communists And it turns out that is not 409 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: about to unize the entire us. I don't think that's 410 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: actually a looming threat at the moment. No, So yeah, 411 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: it's like no, it's like it's it's not it's not 412 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: really about that, Like it's it's it's it's mostly about 413 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: this sort of this sort of like border game that 414 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: the communities are coming for your avocados. Well, this is 415 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: sort of this is the interesting thing here because it's 416 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: like you have this really weird scenario where like it's 417 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: it's it's the right wing governor like shutting down the 418 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 1: flow of commodities, and like the liberals are like, we 419 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: must restore the flow of commodities, and the like we 420 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: must restore the flow of commodities, and like even the 421 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: cartels or something sentire like come on, like we all 422 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: we all need the border open. Uh. It really it 423 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: really does just showcase the entire bit. Yeah, you know, 424 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: but I mean, like we've been talking a lot about 425 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: the human cost of this and the reason this stuff 426 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: works is because American politics is literally just a machine 427 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: that turns human suffering into stories and then turns those 428 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: stories into percentage points at the polls. And that's Abbot's 429 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: entire weight. Am I getting him confused with no Greg 430 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: Abbots the governor. I momentarily got him confused with the 431 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: UK guy Tony emmett Ri, also bad in very similar ways. Yeah, 432 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: but I think I think we're allowed to have two 433 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: bad Abbots. Yeah. I thought there's kind of Australia too, 434 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 1: But well, the bad appots that are multiplied. Someone has 435 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: got to get on this. We need we need to 436 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: deal with the anglos theory before they pro the fourth 437 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 1: produced a fourth one and we get the four horsemen 438 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: of the apocalypse. That would be funny if you just 439 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: have four Abbots bringing the apocalypse. Yeah, but I think 440 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 1: I think that think that's important to understand about Like 441 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 1: about Abbott is like that that everything that Abbott does 442 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: is just about inflicting suffering on people and trying to 443 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: use that to do polls. Right, Like he he has 444 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: genuine right wing beliefs, but like the timing of everything 445 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 1: that he does That's what all of his that's that's 446 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: that's what all has had anti trans stuff is is 447 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: that he couldn't beat his primary challenger, who was trying 448 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: to campaign a little bit fur them to write than 449 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: Abbott was. Yeah, And this is the thing where like 450 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: politicians are allowed to play games with all people's lives 451 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: like that that's their job. But they're allowed to do 452 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 1: this up until the exact moment at which those real 453 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: people are the bourgeoisie, and the moment this is this 454 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: The thing that Abbott is learning is that you can 455 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: do this kind of stunts all you want, Like you can, 456 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 1: you can, like you can shoot every trans kid, you 457 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: can like I don't know, like you can you can 458 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: ban like every school from like saying the word race. 459 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: But you can't funk with the bourgeoisie. And and you 460 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 1: know this, this is this, This is the problem that 461 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: he has is bye by like by like the middle 462 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: of last week. He has the like the ruling classes 463 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: turning on him. The truckers a up blockading the bridges 464 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: that preventing all travel, and Abbott is like basically scrambling 465 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: to find a way out. And the thing that he 466 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: does to do this is he like, he goes to 467 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: a bunch of Mexican governors who who are like that, 468 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: the governors of border states, and these governors have like 469 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: sent him letters being like hey, like what are you doing, 470 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: Like we need like we we we need our economies 471 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: to function. Can can you can you actually do this? 472 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 1: And you know, so he starts doing these negotiations with 473 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 1: him where he's like, well, okay, if you guys like 474 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: inspect all of these trucks or whatever before and you 475 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: ensure that there's no immigrants in them where whatever before 476 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: they get here, like we'll reopen the borders. And you know, 477 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: so they do this, and I think there's a couple 478 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: of interesting things about this. One is that most of 479 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 1: these I think there's one guy who's from the p 480 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: r I, but like almost all of these governors are 481 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: from the p A N, which is Mexico's like far 482 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: right wing party, and like these guys, these guys are 483 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: also like hard right, like we're on drug hard liners, 484 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: you hate immigrants and and this this has been another 485 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 1: big part of how the sort of border regime works, 486 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: which is that like, yeah, on the one hand, you 487 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: have you have Abbo and you have like Texas so 488 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: you have just the US government like projecting its power 489 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: like into Mexico, which is you know, another big part 490 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,159 Speaker 1: of what this is. But the other part of it 491 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: is has been the US essentially outsourcing its its border 492 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: regime and border policy just in like to Mexico. And 493 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: so you get a lot of there. There's been a 494 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: lot in the last especially dridern Trump administration. Uh, I 495 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 1: mean it goes back much further than that, but like 496 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: in the in the last like five years have been 497 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,399 Speaker 1: a lot of really egregious examples of just like border 498 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: patrol ship but by the Mexican police, because it turns 499 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: out there's also a bunch of people in Mexico who 500 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: fucking hate Central American refugees and b uh the police 501 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: or the police literally everywhere. And this also for example, 502 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: like this, this is how this is how a lot 503 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: of the border regime stuff works in um in Europe, 504 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: front acts of the European border like thing makes you 505 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 1: to do like makes like basically just negotiates with like 506 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 1: literally every like I don't even know what you call them, 507 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: like border state, I guess in Africa to ensure that 508 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: like refugees coming up to North Africa, like don't ever 509 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: get to Europe, and like this is that they make 510 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: deals with Gadaffi. They made deals with the people who 511 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: came after Gadaffi. Um, yeah, there's the border system is 512 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: horrible and this is sort of the border system like 513 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 1: working as intended. Now, the other thing that we should 514 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: mention is that like, okay, so they're they're stopping and 515 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,680 Speaker 1: like supposedly searching all of these trucks and they find 516 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: literally nothing the entire time, because like there's there's you know, 517 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: there's never anything there. But you get all these press 518 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: companies they were like, well, yeah, of course there is nothing. 519 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 1: It's because the cartels were tipped off of the raid 520 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: because we did press conferences about it, and that's why 521 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: they announced. We announced the thing that we were gonna do. 522 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 1: So it gave him a chance to smartest Wow whoa. Yeah. 523 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: So that that that that's been fun. Um And the 524 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: last thing I wanna talk about, Yeah, this was part 525 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 1: of what we were talking about earlier, which is that like, yeah, 526 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: this is the second time this year that we've seen 527 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: right wingers like block off a border for political reasons. 528 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: And I think there's a few interesting things here. Um. 529 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: One is that This is the kind of stuff that 530 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: from like basically from the start of occupy and even 531 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: before then until like the Bernie campaign. This is like 532 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: the core of like what Marxist we're thinking about in 533 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: the US, and also anarchists or something sent like if 534 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: if you go and read anything from that period, like 535 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: it's all about logistics and kinter logistics and how you 536 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: can like disrupt them and whether or not we shuld 537 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: try to take control of logistics, and you know, and 538 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: I think you see here like like attacking logistics is 539 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: a very powerful political tool, but it's tool that has 540 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: like limited um, like it has limited utility for the 541 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: right because you know, the right depends on the backing 542 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: of capitalists for the politics to work. They really really 543 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: need buy it the capitalists. Those capitalists need cross border 544 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: trade and you know, and the other thing like they 545 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: also need they also need market workers to make their money. 546 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: And if you cut that stuff off, your political base 547 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: starts to collapse. And the second part of it that's 548 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: interesting is you get to see how powerful this is 549 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: as a weapon for you know, like the working class 550 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: because of just like how instantaneously Abbott back down when 551 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: the trucking buckhead starts because this this is all over. 552 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: Um last Friday, I think the what date is that? 553 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: That was good Friday, I mean the goodest, the goodest Friday. Yeah. 554 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: Abbott was like, oh oh it's all over. We secured 555 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: the border. Yeah everything here to the border, sure buddy, Okay, yeah, 556 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 1: but you know and you but like that's the thing, 557 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: like you can see like, yeah, you gotta see. You 558 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: gotta see a rare moment of like Mexican workers and 559 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: also like the the sort of international capital class working 560 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:14,719 Speaker 1: on the same side. And you've got to see how 561 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: fast they just like collaborate their politicians because yeah, like yeah, 562 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: like that the state is that the state is a 563 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: powerful force, but it turns out it's it's class politics 564 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: all the way down. And I think I don't know 565 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: between this in Canada, I think there's a couple of 566 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: interesting things. One is which, Okay, yeah, you're like if 567 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: you're on the left, like already automatically you're going to 568 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: be fighting the capital business Oshi is just always mad 569 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: at you. That's less concern. You will face more suppression 570 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: immediately obviously. This this is this is how the game 571 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: is played. Yeah, your face, more supression benediately. But it's 572 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 1: also like that that's not like a you're based turning 573 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: on you, Like that problem doesn't stem from capital is 574 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: not making money. The problem you have with your base 575 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: turning on you is about being being able to provision. 576 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: It applies to people, and I think this is you know, 577 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: I guess you know more about this than I do, 578 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: but I will finish the sentence and then stop talking. 579 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,239 Speaker 1: Which is that like like, yeah, if you should look 580 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: at Canada, it was like part of the reason their 581 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: occupations failed was that like yeah, like just like a 582 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 1: bunch of ordinary people got really really mad at them 583 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: because their whole their cities were being locked down. Yeah. Yeah, 584 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: they started impacting not just the economic drivers, but the 585 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: people who live in those areas regularly and need them 586 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: to operate. And that gave politicians enough enough of incentive 587 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 1: to be like, see, it's actually hurting real people. It's 588 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: not just hurting the economy, but it's hurting you know, 589 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,719 Speaker 1: your grandma who could be living in like Ottawa or something. Right, 590 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: So when you when you use these tactics, it's about 591 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: balancing the propaganda of like not severely impacting the people 592 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: who actually live in these places very much. But but 593 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: targeting the economics, policies and the you know, you know, 594 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: the corporate elite or whatever kind of framing you want 595 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: to use, because as as soon as you start doing 596 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: tactics that just hurt you know, regular people, that is 597 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: such an immediate like propaganda l as the kids would say, um, 598 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: because yeah, you're you're just giving them the tools to 599 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: easily fight you back. And yes, they're gonna they're gonna 600 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: try to invent tools to to to stop you no 601 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: matter what. Like they're they're gonna, they're gonna they're gonna 602 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 1: try to do something via propaganda lens. But there's some 603 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: propaganda is way easier and uh much harder than others. 604 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: So I think a big part of these types of things, 605 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: when you're starting to like block off you know, roots 606 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: to cities, block off supply chains as you need to 607 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: be cognizant of making sure that the people who are 608 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 1: like immediately next to kind of things that are also cool, 609 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,479 Speaker 1: because that can give you so much more legs. I mean, 610 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 1: we saw this in the Red House in Portland. There 611 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: was a there was a lot of effort um to 612 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 1: make the immediate neighbors not hate the occupation there to 613 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,239 Speaker 1: to stop the family from being evicted. Um. And there 614 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: was a lot of debate around like how much graffiti 615 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: should be allowed out in the surrounding area because you know, 616 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: you don't want to piste off the neighbors too much. 617 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: Now that this can obviously stem in bad directions in 618 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: terms of like there was then like self self appointed 619 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: security guards like beating up and shooting people with paintballs 620 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: who were doing graffiti, which is obviously like not not 621 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: not how you do good anarchism, um. But then there's 622 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: other stuff being like no, we should just trash this 623 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: area anyway, it's all in the process of being gentrified, 624 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: which mean it is, but you're like, yes, I understand 625 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 1: that emotional impulse. Um. And you may be right in 626 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 1: a lot of senses, like like more like more correct morally, 627 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 1: but to play the propaganda game to actually stop a 628 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: black family from being evicted, maybe we can actually to 629 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: look at this at a more tactical level. Yeah, And 630 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot of examples of things 631 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: we can learn from strikes that is very efficiently. Like 632 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: one of the things one of the reasons the wildcats 633 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: in West the wildcat teacher strikes West Virginia, and he 634 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 1: doesn't seventeen worked was that the striking teachers in West 635 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: Virginia were very very careful about making sure that they 636 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: did things like you know, like making making sure that 637 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: kids got like the meals that the school would have 638 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: been like providing like like you know, like this is 639 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 1: why this is when mutual aid is extremely important because 640 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 1: it lets you it lets you provision services, not just 641 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 1: when they collapse because of like you know, oh hey 642 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: the government's doing weird stuff or like there's a plague. 643 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 1: It lets you do it, lets you shut down logistics 644 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: slignes yourself and still have community support and still be 645 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 1: able to provide people to think that provide people things 646 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: that they need. And this is like you know, if 647 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 1: if you carry this all the way to like the 648 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: macro macro level, it's like yeah, okay, so like why 649 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: did why did the Russian Revolution not work? And you know, 650 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 1: like like why did the Pairs Commune fail? And it's like, well, yeah, 651 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 1: it's because instead of like giving peasants things, they went 652 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 1: into the countryside and shot them into decepting to get 653 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: those things. And it's like yeah, like you have to 654 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: what what what whatever? The thing that you're doing is 655 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,680 Speaker 1: in in in your sort of like base area, right whatever, 656 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: you're like, hey, you're you're doing a ch you're shutting 657 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 1: down a bridge. You're like, you know, you're blocking up border, 658 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: you're trying down to support, Right, you have to make 659 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,400 Speaker 1: sure you're constantly expanding and building out support outside outside 660 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: of that, outside of that action, and making sure you're 661 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: you're you're able to provision the people who are affected 662 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: by it. And if you don't do this, you end 663 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: up like Abbott. And it's like, yeah, you know he 664 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: Abbott had like the entire power of the American state 665 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 1: behind him, and he was able to keep this up 666 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 1: for like less than two weeks before he had to 667 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 1: just pull out. So yeah, we can do this better 668 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 1: and for things that are good and in ways that 669 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,879 Speaker 1: don't hurt people or at least hurt people significantly less 670 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: or you know, don't not hurt the wrong people instead 671 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 1: try to try to hurt the right people. Just like 672 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:51,439 Speaker 1: an incredible lack of like thinking that's my that's my summaries. Yeah, 673 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 1: better do thing like yeah, And I think also like again, 674 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,800 Speaker 1: like Abbott, Abbott's politics like is entirely about like infercting 675 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: old to young people right and ours like shouldn't be 676 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: and shouldn't And the fact that we actually care about 677 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 1: people makes our politics were effective and I guess I 678 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 1: should in theory. In theory they should um and any 679 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 1: time when we take a misstep from that, I think 680 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,399 Speaker 1: is of it is a big loss. Ye. There's there's 681 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 1: one more strike thing that I just remembered that I 682 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 1: was going to talk about, which is I So it's 683 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 1: also trains a lot. There's there's a type of striker's 684 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,240 Speaker 1: name I'm forgetting because I'm a hack and a fraud 685 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,360 Speaker 1: where like the people, the people, the people will just 686 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 1: like take over a train and they'll run it, but 687 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: they just won't take fars. That is incredibly big. Yeah, 688 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,799 Speaker 1: and you know, so that's that's that's like level one 689 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 1: of it. And then level two of the strike is 690 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,440 Speaker 1: inside of just we're on strike, but we're running the 691 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,920 Speaker 1: series and not taking any money. It's we now control 692 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,120 Speaker 1: this train and that that has happened on several occasions, 693 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 1: and well, yeah you hear that. It's cool. You heard 694 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: it here first to take over your local train, Um, 695 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 1: it could happen here. We could we we can do 696 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: it anarchism can make the trains run on time. Oh hi, 697 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: I am not sure about that. Punk punk time is 698 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 1: as an unstoppable Okay. Here, here's the thing. Here's the thing, 699 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 1: right like punk time Like okay, so you don't have 700 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,479 Speaker 1: the punks running the trains. You have the train nerds 701 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 1: running the train, people who should spend all of their 702 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,520 Speaker 1: time playing train simulator running the trains. Okay, that the 703 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:28,000 Speaker 1: trains will run great? Alright? That is that is completely fair. Um. 704 00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,440 Speaker 1: Where can people find you and or the show on 705 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 1: the internet. You can find me at three on Twitter 706 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,400 Speaker 1: if you want to do that for some reason. You 707 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,040 Speaker 1: can find us that happened here pod on Twitter, Instagram. Uh, 708 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 1: there's also the Cool Zone. 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