WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: Virginia Redistricting, Renaming the Iran War, TPUSA Event Cancelled by ANTIFA

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<v Speaker 1>Also media speaking of things that are on fire America.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, I did my job, Garrison.

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<v Speaker 2>What are we doing?

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<v Speaker 1>Who are we?

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<v Speaker 3>This is?

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<v Speaker 4>It could happen here.

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<v Speaker 5>Executive Disorder, our weekly newscast covering what's happening in the

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<v Speaker 5>White House, their prombling world, and what this means for you.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm Garrison Davis today, joined by James Stout and Robert Evans.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep.

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<v Speaker 5>This episode recovering the week of May sixth through May thirteenth. Yep, James,

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<v Speaker 5>some small news items to open us up.

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<v Speaker 6>My little grab bag of news stories.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>The United Kingdom parachute drop supplies and medical personnel into

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<v Speaker 6>Tristan d'acunha last weekend to respond to the huntavirus outbreak.

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<v Speaker 6>A man had got off the cruise ship when the

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<v Speaker 6>outbreak began in April and returned to Tristan Tacuna, where

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<v Speaker 6>he resides. I think the cruise ship stopped Tristan da

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<v Speaker 6>Cuna this weekend. British paratroopers from the Path Find a

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<v Speaker 6>platoon tandem jumped a doctor and a nurse onto the island,

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<v Speaker 6>along with supplies, including oxygen, which was criticulally low on

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<v Speaker 6>the island. The patient had reported symptoms two weeks after

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<v Speaker 6>disembarking the cruise ship, and they'd spent that time on

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<v Speaker 6>the island, and therefore there's a fairly high chance that

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<v Speaker 6>that they've interacted with other people. Right, the island has

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<v Speaker 6>no air strip. They was such a low supply of

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<v Speaker 6>oxygen that there obviously wasn't time for a boat to

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<v Speaker 6>get to Tristan Pacuna. So the UK conducted this fairly,

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<v Speaker 6>I mean extremely You'm sure this is the first time

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<v Speaker 6>the UK has ever done it. The island has a

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<v Speaker 6>populaced around two hundred and twenty people and only two

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<v Speaker 6>medical professionals who are obviously exhausted after delivering care to

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<v Speaker 6>this person who's on oxygen for several weeks. Yeah, so

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<v Speaker 6>they jumped a couple more in there. Fairly audacious response

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<v Speaker 6>to the hunt virus. Secondly, and I think we can

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<v Speaker 6>also agree of equally important Japanese snack food, Giant Cowbi

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<v Speaker 6>is switching to black and white packaging for its Oh.

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<v Speaker 2>No, Garrison is loading a gun right now.

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<v Speaker 4>This is a significant portion of my daily diet.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, Garrison won't be able to make it through this.

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<v Speaker 6>One is going on hunger strike.

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<v Speaker 2>They are wiring a crew detonator together. It looks like.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm going to join Oran put an end to this madness.

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<v Speaker 6>That is. This is because ingredients use for the ink

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<v Speaker 6>on its normal colorful packages are hard to come by

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<v Speaker 6>thanks to the war with a run and thanks. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>So if you want, if you've got one of those

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<v Speaker 6>little stickers that says I did that, and you've got

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<v Speaker 6>a packet of black and white crisps, now you can

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<v Speaker 6>combine the two.

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<v Speaker 2>And your black and white laimash hips.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah. Yeah. The one thing that gave us joy is gone.

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<v Speaker 6>The Nigerian military has once again carried out an air

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<v Speaker 6>strike on a market, killing at least one hundred civilians.

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<v Speaker 6>Going to anasty International, The air strike on the Tumfo

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<v Speaker 6>market is the second in a month to hit a market.

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<v Speaker 6>The Nigerian military claims the area was to hide out

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<v Speaker 6>for bandits, but it has yet to acknowledge the civilian

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<v Speaker 6>death toll. Government in this area is more or less

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<v Speaker 6>like only present through its ability to project force like this,

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<v Speaker 6>and I've seen interviews with local suggesting the town was

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<v Speaker 6>under the control of non state groups previously. People remember,

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<v Speaker 6>the Nigerian government has suggested that anyone doing business with

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<v Speaker 6>the people at targeting is also a legitimate target, which

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<v Speaker 6>is how it has justified dropping bombs on crowded markets.

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<v Speaker 6>Like this, CNN is claiming that the CIA facilitated a

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<v Speaker 6>car bomb in Sinaloa. The article seems to have sources

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<v Speaker 6>in or very familiar with the operations of Ground Branch.

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<v Speaker 6>It also alleges that the US government employees who were

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<v Speaker 6>killed in the car crash last month were members of

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<v Speaker 6>Ground Branch. More than the fact of this story, it

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<v Speaker 6>doesn't shock me that the CIA is killing people in

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<v Speaker 6>weird ways in different countries. Now, that is one of

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<v Speaker 6>the things that they do. That's like the CIA's job. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>the fact that CNN has a source that is leaking

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<v Speaker 6>Ground Branch operations, that is not usual for someone in

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<v Speaker 6>the CIA to be talking to someone at CNN. Well,

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<v Speaker 6>these operations are ongoing, right, and like, yeah, operations in

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<v Speaker 6>Mexico are exceptionally high risk for these kinds of folks.

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<v Speaker 6>Like in twenty twelve, some Mexican federal cops open fire

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<v Speaker 6>on US government employees, presumably not acting on behalf of

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<v Speaker 6>the federal government. Right, Obviously, it puts this mission at risk,

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<v Speaker 6>which isn't already a high risk thing. But the fact

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<v Speaker 6>that somebody has felt the need to leak this CNN

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<v Speaker 6>is pretty remarkable.

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<v Speaker 5>Speaking of potential CIA leaks, former director of the National

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<v Speaker 5>Counter Terrorisment Center, Joe Kent claimed on X the Everything

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<v Speaker 5>app that before the President launched the war in Iran, quote,

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<v Speaker 5>the US intel community, including CIA, was an agreement that

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<v Speaker 5>Iran wasn't developing a nucular weapon and that Iran would

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<v Speaker 5>target US bass in the region and shut down the

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<v Speaker 5>straight of hornor news if they were.

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<v Speaker 2>Attacked by Israel and the US en quote.

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<v Speaker 5>The Supreme Court extended access to remote prescription at melt

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<v Speaker 5>delivery of the abortion pill with pristone until Thursday, May fourteenth,

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<v Speaker 5>which is the day this episode releases.

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<v Speaker 2>The night this episode releases.

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<v Speaker 5>Around Thursday, they're expected to make a shadow docket ruling

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<v Speaker 5>on whether Louisiana's ban on mail order abortion pills can

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<v Speaker 5>go into effect as the case continues through a lower court.

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<v Speaker 5>A golden statue of President Trump was unveiled at a

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<v Speaker 5>Trump resort in Miami last week. The statue was blessed

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<v Speaker 5>by evangelical pastor Mike Burns, who said, quote, let me

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<v Speaker 5>be clear, this is not a golden calf unquote.

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<v Speaker 2>God, it's so hard. I like you, you went through everything.

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<v Speaker 1>You just like the little parade of horrors like you

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<v Speaker 1>do every week, and then you just drop that that

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<v Speaker 1>there's there's a priest blessing a golden statue, pastor, pastor, sorry,

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<v Speaker 1>you're right, pastor. And I know that like they that

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<v Speaker 1>he had dressed in the moment, like the whole golden

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<v Speaker 1>cat thing of it all, which just funnier that like

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<v Speaker 1>he knew I gotta say something like I gotta make

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<v Speaker 1>a comment.

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<v Speaker 6>That's what got me that he felt that he needed

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<v Speaker 6>to address the golden cough in the room.

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<v Speaker 2>Really genuinely funny.

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<v Speaker 4>My, this is not a golden calf shirt.

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<v Speaker 5>Has a lot of people ask few questions already answered

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<v Speaker 5>by the shirt.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh fuck, it's great, but yeah, grim stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep So.

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<v Speaker 6>A natural survey of one thousand Americans by News God

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<v Speaker 6>and YouGov suggests that about half of people in the

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<v Speaker 6>United States surveyed think each of the attempts on Donald

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<v Speaker 6>Trump's life was staged or they're not sure if it

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<v Speaker 6>was real. For the White House Correspondent dinner attempt and

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<v Speaker 6>the Butler Pennsylvania attempts, twenty four percent of those surveyed

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<v Speaker 6>thought the attempts were staged. Thirty two percent were not

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<v Speaker 6>sure in the White House Correspondents Dinner attempt, and twenty

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<v Speaker 6>nine percent for the Butler Pennsylvania event.

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<v Speaker 1>It's more than half if you add them up, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm convinced.

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<v Speaker 2>Super funny.

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<v Speaker 6>I'll quote from the report here. Of the twelve percent

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<v Speaker 6>of Americans who said all three attempts were staged, fifty

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<v Speaker 6>five percent were Democrats, thirty eight percent were Independents, at

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<v Speaker 6>seven percent were Republicans.

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<v Speaker 5>According to the report, really interested in that seven percent, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>what are they getting out of that?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't.

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<v Speaker 2>Like, what way do they think?

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<v Speaker 6>It was just like, hell, yeah, we're owning the Libs,

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<v Speaker 6>we're staging. We did look at us go.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it may just be like, well, I voted

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<v Speaker 1>for Trump because I wanted my taxes to be lower.

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<v Speaker 2>But I know he thinks that.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, this is obviously worrying, and this, this trend is

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<v Speaker 5>something we've been talking about for years. At this point

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<v Speaker 5>is why I've been kind of such a such a

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<v Speaker 5>hard ass about the about like the liberal conspiracism that

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<v Speaker 5>is growing.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even find it worrying anymore. Garrison. I find

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<v Speaker 2>it liberating that we're finally.

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<v Speaker 3>Look at that.

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<v Speaker 5>We're finally free from the shackles of truth. Yeah, everyone's

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<v Speaker 5>everyone's down on the muck together. Nobody's nobody's standing pretty anymore.

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<v Speaker 5>Everybody's just wallowing like a filthy pig and shit.

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<v Speaker 6>That it's pretty much the status of the Yeah, the

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<v Speaker 6>US news market right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm fine with it.

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<v Speaker 6>God, it's fucking bleak. It's so bleak. Like I just

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<v Speaker 6>I don't want to address like the factual elements of

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<v Speaker 6>each thing because there's no point, right, But like.

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<v Speaker 1>No, we we should all know that's useless by now, right, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>just have we not gotten to a place free of that? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I know, I uh, I already don't know what

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<v Speaker 6>to say about that.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, there are like real issues here. A conspiratorial

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<v Speaker 5>base can be more easily recruited into reactionary thought, right,

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<v Speaker 5>this is the idea of the cultic mill. You and

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<v Speaker 5>we can see a version of this happening with certain

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<v Speaker 5>portions of the left.

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<v Speaker 4>Might engage with people like Tucker Carlson or Margie Taylor

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<v Speaker 4>Mareen right now.

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<v Speaker 5>But for me, kind of the biggest issue with this

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<v Speaker 5>is that it's a refusal to understand or accept the

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<v Speaker 5>particular moment that you find yourself with them, like a

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<v Speaker 5>resistance to the self realization that you are living through

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<v Speaker 5>history and that people are active agents in history. It's

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<v Speaker 5>an ahistorical rejection of the fact that some people may

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<v Speaker 5>look at some of the actions that someone like Trump

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<v Speaker 5>is doing, whether regarding Ice or the war with Ron,

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<v Speaker 5>and then choose to act in response, or in the

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<v Speaker 5>case of the Butler shooting, the result of social disintegration

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<v Speaker 5>or underregulation manifesting as someone's violent, nihilistic expression, similar to

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<v Speaker 5>the mindset of like a school shooter. My last issue

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<v Speaker 5>relates kind of to the second issue, Like the ahistorical element,

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<v Speaker 5>how these false flag shooting conspiracy theories also prescribe Trump

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<v Speaker 5>too much power by not just turning him into this

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<v Speaker 5>like invincible god, but then also assuming that, like the

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<v Speaker 5>US deep State is capable and competent enough to stage

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<v Speaker 5>major world events like this like brainwash and groom patsies

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<v Speaker 5>into doing these shootings, and like this also obviously removes

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<v Speaker 5>the agency and the clearly defined history other people that

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<v Speaker 5>do these own shootings, right. It rejects this Like like I said,

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<v Speaker 5>this relates to the second thing. It rejects or refuses

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<v Speaker 5>to understand the moment that you're living in and that

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<v Speaker 5>people actually are active agents of history. And like the

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<v Speaker 5>people that do these shootings have their own family and

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<v Speaker 5>their own friends, They have their own history that we

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<v Speaker 5>can show and prove. And assuming that all this is

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<v Speaker 5>like fake, that like the government has like manufactured this

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<v Speaker 5>or somehow like turned someone who's an army kind of

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<v Speaker 5>liberal suddenly into like doing a shooting, or has like

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<v Speaker 5>fake this backstory. Right, it gives the government so much power, Right,

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<v Speaker 5>it assumes that the government has power like a magical

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<v Speaker 5>wizard that totally controls reality.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>Anyway, for our first main story today, let's talk about

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<v Speaker 5>Turning Point USA. But first, on Sunday night in Seattle,

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<v Speaker 5>a nineteen year old transgender girl was murdered. She was

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<v Speaker 5>a student at University of Washington and was found with

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<v Speaker 5>stab wounds in the laundry room of an off campus

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<v Speaker 5>apartment that she lived in. No suspect has yet been identified.

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<v Speaker 5>While horrific in and of itself, Turning Point USA was

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<v Speaker 5>scheduled to hold an anti trans debate event just days

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<v Speaker 5>later at the very campus this trans student attended. This

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<v Speaker 5>event was going to be hosted by a far right

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<v Speaker 5>anti trans lobbyist and influencer named Chloe Cole, a teen

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<v Speaker 5>transitioner who subsequently de transitioned a few years later following

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<v Speaker 5>an acid trip and then conversion to Christianity.

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<v Speaker 2>Many such cases.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, that's fascinating.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, most normal Christian d transitioner.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>She made an appearance at Trump's last State of the

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<v Speaker 5>Union address when the president talked about restricting gender affirming

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<v Speaker 5>care minors. After the murder in Seattle, Cole and TPUSA

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<v Speaker 5>continued plugging their anti trans event online, prompting students to

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<v Speaker 5>plan a protest to quote unquote shut the event down,

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<v Speaker 5>calling to bring quote flags, drums, or anything to make

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<v Speaker 5>noise unquote. Then on Tuesday, the National Turning Point USA

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<v Speaker 5>organization decided to cancel the event, according to University Washington

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<v Speaker 5>spokesperson Victor Balta. Later that night, Tuesday night, Chloe Cole

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<v Speaker 5>announced the event was postponed because quote Antifa has assembled

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<v Speaker 5>a local militia in their own words unquote.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh that's that's alarming. A militia.

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<v Speaker 4>Now.

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<v Speaker 5>I was not able to find an instance of Antifa

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<v Speaker 5>claiming to have assembled a quote unquote militia.

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<v Speaker 1>Really, no photos of the militia, the documentation of the militia.

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<v Speaker 5>Nor was this language, this this this claim of a

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<v Speaker 5>militia in their own words, nor was this language included

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<v Speaker 5>in right wing reporting of the planned protest.

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<v Speaker 4>I cannot find a so horse fist.

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<v Speaker 5>I really looked like I went through Fox articles, Post

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<v Speaker 5>Millennial articles. There was nothing about Antifa using the word militia.

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<v Speaker 5>No one, no, no counter, no protester that I could

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<v Speaker 5>find was using the word militia now. Chloe Cole also

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<v Speaker 5>claimed that they were quote explicit threats on my life

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<v Speaker 5>and that the protest caused a quote level of attention.

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<v Speaker 5>Our security team and the local PD are frankly unprepared

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<v Speaker 5>for unquote.

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<v Speaker 2>She shared an.

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<v Speaker 5>Article from the Canadian far right outlet The Post Millennial

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<v Speaker 5>documenting threats against the TPUSA event. Threats like one Twitter

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<v Speaker 5>user in Canada saying that people should shut down the event,

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<v Speaker 5>like Milo Unopolis's Berkeley campus event in twenty seventeen, writing quote,

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<v Speaker 5>make them hurt for scheduling this. One other Twitter post

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<v Speaker 5>with two likes read quote Luckily the bricks in Red

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<v Speaker 5>Square are easy to grab this time of year. Okay,

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<v Speaker 5>that's the evidence that Andy No used to claim that quote,

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<v Speaker 5>far left extremists are urging their comrades to carry out

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<v Speaker 5>deadly violence on two posts, just those two posts. That

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<v Speaker 5>was That was the post that Chloe Cole was sharing

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<v Speaker 5>via this post Millennial article, that that was the evidence

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<v Speaker 5>for these deadly threats. Now, I do think it's worth

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<v Speaker 5>reiterating that to these people. They also believe that just

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<v Speaker 5>calling someone a fascist constitutes a threat of violence, right.

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<v Speaker 5>This is something they've been repeating a lot since the

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<v Speaker 5>death of Charlie Kurk, that just calling someone a fascist

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<v Speaker 5>constitutes a deadly threat. In Chloe Cole's video announcing that

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<v Speaker 5>the TPUSA event was, in her words, postponed, she said

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<v Speaker 5>that after charlie'ssassination, quote speaking on a university campus in

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<v Speaker 5>twenty twenty six can come with deadly consequences. But towards

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<v Speaker 5>the end of the video, she stressed that quote this

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<v Speaker 5>is not a win for antifa because truth will always win.

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<v Speaker 5>I am not afraid of Antifa, and that a quote

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<v Speaker 5>ragtag group of wanna be revolutionaries on cross sex hormones

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<v Speaker 5>won't scare her. The enemy is both strong and weak.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, yeah, good for her.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, Yeah, that's how these people work now.

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<v Speaker 5>While I was watching Chloe Cole's video, something sprank to mind.

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<v Speaker 5>Last week, the White House released a new counter terrorism

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<v Speaker 5>strategy that named three major threat groups the country is

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<v Speaker 5>currently facing Narco terrorists and transnational gangs, legacy Islamist terrorists,

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<v Speaker 5>and violent left wing extremists, including anarchists and anti fascists.

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<v Speaker 5>The document says that counter terrorism activities will quote prioritize

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<v Speaker 5>the rapid identification and neutralization of violent, secular political groups

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<v Speaker 5>whose ideology is anti American, radically pro transgender, and anarchist unquote.

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<v Speaker 5>I did a full episode about this with Robert earlier

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<v Speaker 5>this week, if you want to check that out.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep.

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<v Speaker 5>But the left wing, transgender, anarchist, ANTIFA stuff mix up

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<v Speaker 5>just a handful of sentences in a sixteen page document

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<v Speaker 5>which is mostly focused on Islamic terrorism, cartels and complaining

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<v Speaker 5>about the Biden administration. For a TLDR, there's nothing new

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<v Speaker 5>in this counter terrorism document pertaining to the left that

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<v Speaker 5>wasn't already in National Security Presidential Memorandum number seven. It

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<v Speaker 5>does not grant any new powers nor designate trans people

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<v Speaker 5>as terrorists. Like NSMP seven. It essentially states that being

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<v Speaker 5>quote unquote extremely pro transgender can be a motivating factor

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<v Speaker 5>in carrying out terroristic violence or threats. Since last October,

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<v Speaker 5>joint terrorism task forces across the country had been directed

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<v Speaker 5>to investigate Antifa aligned groups and individuals quote engaged in

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<v Speaker 5>acts of political violence and intimidation. This new document is

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<v Speaker 5>just describing things that are already happening while building Trump's

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<v Speaker 5>justification for military strikes on suspected drug boats in the

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<v Speaker 5>Western Hemisphere, regime change in Venezuela, and the ongoing war

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<v Speaker 5>in the Middle East. But in the wake of this

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<v Speaker 5>new strategy being released, I wonder if tpusa's canceling of

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<v Speaker 5>the event and Chloe Cole's language and the announcement might

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<v Speaker 5>also be designed to coax Trump's Feds into going after

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<v Speaker 5>radical transgender ANTIFA terrorists. Whether that may be individuals who

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<v Speaker 5>possibly sent threats online that I just couldn't see or

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<v Speaker 5>just made semi questionable posts on Twitter dot com, or

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<v Speaker 5>who simply spread the protest flyer online, or the protest

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<v Speaker 5>organizers themselves. Yeah, I think that is something to keep

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<v Speaker 5>in mind. This new counter terrorist strategy. It mostly serves

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<v Speaker 5>as a chilling effect for speech and for organizing. Like

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<v Speaker 5>I said, it doesn't actually grant new powers, but it

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<v Speaker 5>can scare people into thinking that the Trump administration is

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<v Speaker 5>designating a whole class of people as terrorists and stuff

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<v Speaker 5>like this, you know protests, right, that is one thing

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<v Speaker 5>that they can investigate. Your threats online, that is something

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<v Speaker 5>that they can investigate, right. That is, that is what

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<v Speaker 5>they are actually looking into. They're not just investigating random

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<v Speaker 5>and trans people as terrorists. They will be looking into

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<v Speaker 5>you know, threats or questionable posts made on social media, right,

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<v Speaker 5>those are the things they actually can look into. And

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<v Speaker 5>I think some of Chloe Cole's language about the quote

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<v Speaker 5>unquote deadly threats she received stuff like that could be

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<v Speaker 5>used bunch up administration as a pretext to investigate people.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, whether or.

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<v Speaker 4>Not those threats even were real.

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<v Speaker 5>Right, I did not see anything that I think constitutes

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<v Speaker 5>a deadly threat based on the post millennials reporting, but

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<v Speaker 5>her saying that might be enough for a local FBI

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<v Speaker 5>field office to want to investigate you know, student activists

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<v Speaker 5>at this university.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, right, Yeah, I think that makes sense.

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<v Speaker 4>So That's what I wanted to talk about here.

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<v Speaker 1>This is by far the thing I'm seeing people freak

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<v Speaker 1>out about the most right now is like overall the

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<v Speaker 1>idea that like they've just declared it, you know, terrorism

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<v Speaker 1>of violence, terrorism to be trans or to be anarchist,

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<v Speaker 1>or to be you know, any of the things like

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<v Speaker 1>anti capitalist mentioned in that in that document, And what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm actually seeing on the ground so far is very

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<v Speaker 1>much the same kind of prosecutions that they've been doing

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<v Speaker 1>and the same kinds of like messaging that they've been making.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think that, like, you're right on the money,

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<v Speaker 1>this is something to pay attention to, Like does this

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<v Speaker 1>get a response? Is there an actual like investigation. Do

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<v Speaker 1>we wind up see someone get indicted for a Twitter

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<v Speaker 1>post or you know, if someone made a threat that

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<v Speaker 1>we're not privy to, do they get indicted for that, like,

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<v Speaker 1>or do we see something that does look more like

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<v Speaker 1>a witch hunt where they're going after like a protest organizer.

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<v Speaker 1>That'll tell us a lot about kind of what's coming

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<v Speaker 1>in the immediate future. But right now, I don't see

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<v Speaker 1>anything different than what they've been doing, which is kind

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<v Speaker 1>of like incompetently and haphazardly flailing at everything, sort of

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<v Speaker 1>vaguely lefty.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, And you know, I think including this in a

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<v Speaker 5>document like the Counter Terrism strategy you know, also serves

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<v Speaker 5>as a chilling effect. Right, this is this is to

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<v Speaker 5>scare people into not doing anything, right, That is a

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<v Speaker 5>part of their strategy.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep.

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<v Speaker 5>But you know they have investigated people for making death

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<v Speaker 5>threats four years right, the Biden administration and their FBI is.

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<v Speaker 1>Able to make death threats. By the way, if their

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<v Speaker 1>actual death threats, that is illegal.

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<v Speaker 5>The FBI under Biden investigatives top cop City. The charges

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<v Speaker 5>against the protesters at Prairie Land started. That the investigation

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<v Speaker 5>started before ns MP seven was even you know released, Right,

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<v Speaker 5>this is not new, but it is something to to

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<v Speaker 5>keep an eye on to see if they're if their

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<v Speaker 5>scope is actually changing.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, you know what else is changing in scope? Our sponsors.

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<v Speaker 6>Are they not really no same ship? Yeah, and we

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<v Speaker 6>are back and we are back to talking about the

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<v Speaker 6>war in Ran. So I want to start off with

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<v Speaker 6>President Trump's extremely vocal criticism of curtish groups. One can

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<v Speaker 6>assume in Iran that it doesn't necessarily seem that his

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<v Speaker 6>criticism is limited to curtiss groups in Iran. Let's play

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<v Speaker 6>the clip.

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<v Speaker 7>The level of ferocity for protests. You know, the people

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<v Speaker 7>are watching that they want to go out on the streets.

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<v Speaker 7>They have no weapons. They have no guns. We thought

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<v Speaker 7>the Courage were going to give us weapons, but the

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<v Speaker 7>Courads disappointed us.

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<v Speaker 3>The Courage take, take, take, and they have a great

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<v Speaker 3>reputation in Congress. Congress is Oh, they fight so hard.

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<v Speaker 3>They fight hard when they get paid. So I'm very

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<v Speaker 3>disappointed in the Curds. But they were given I said.

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<v Speaker 7>It wasn't going to work. By the way, I just

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<v Speaker 7>have to say it. I disagree with what they did.

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<v Speaker 3>They gave it.

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<v Speaker 7>I said, they'll never get there, and I was right.

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<v Speaker 7>I like to be right in this case.

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<v Speaker 3>Too bad.

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<v Speaker 7>But we said some guns with ammunition, and they were

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<v Speaker 7>supposed to be delivered, but they kept it. I said,

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<v Speaker 7>they're going to keep it.

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<v Speaker 2>But what do I know.

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<v Speaker 7>I've only been doniced.

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<v Speaker 3>What do I know?

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, fascinating his Diacuda asking him about this.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you so much, mister president.

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<v Speaker 8>Mister President, yesterday, you said you gave the Kurds arms,

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<v Speaker 8>but they took it for themselves. US military officials says

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<v Speaker 8>that the Kurds have noticived ony arms and the critics

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<v Speaker 8>police the parties are denying to sing any army.

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<v Speaker 4>It's wrong, and the.

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<v Speaker 6>Officials the officials of wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, well there's the Kurds. Could be so many things,

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<v Speaker 1>like they just said that officials. I'm assuming the KDP

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<v Speaker 1>and the p u K is either referring to. But

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<v Speaker 1>that's just like the two big parties in Iraq, which

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<v Speaker 1>isn't even all of the Kurdish parties in Iraq, Like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>not to mention all of the different armed groups in

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<v Speaker 1>the But I have no idea who he sent guns to,

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't know that he does, yeah, or if

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<v Speaker 1>he did, he seems pretty confident that he did.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>This is like the opposite of Iran contra, with the

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<v Speaker 1>president saying like, get these sent them guns.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm running guns.

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<v Speaker 1>I was running guns, and everyone else is like, we

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<v Speaker 1>have no fucking clue what he's talking about.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, so I'm guessing this refers to his previous theory

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<v Speaker 6>that they had supplied guns to Iranian Courtish groups in January.

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<v Speaker 6>It's the time when they were large scale protests in

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<v Speaker 6>Iran that those Iranian Courtish groups were expected to deliver

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<v Speaker 6>to presumably Persian protesters, presumably in large cities such as Tehran.

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<v Speaker 6>The Jerusalem Post has reported that Trump himself personally vetoed

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<v Speaker 6>this exact plan in January after receiving pressure from Turkey

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<v Speaker 6>to do so. There were some mind backs to January,

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<v Speaker 6>but small arms, we've said before, would not really have

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<v Speaker 6>tipped the balance here. Aram's army police besiege the IGC

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<v Speaker 6>as we've seen since February, can survive assault from the

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<v Speaker 6>US and Israel. It's not going to be toppled by

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<v Speaker 6>a bunch of people with aks. They would have bombed

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<v Speaker 6>the whole cities, so they had to. We covered this

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<v Speaker 6>at a time in our episode about it with Gudayen,

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<v Speaker 6>but most of the Curdish groups I've spoken to don't

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<v Speaker 6>have responses at this time. But the PAK that's the

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<v Speaker 6>Kurdistan Freedom Party sent me this comment regarding the protests

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<v Speaker 6>in January.

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<v Speaker 2>Quote.

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<v Speaker 6>From the end of December twenty twenty five through approximately

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<v Speaker 6>January twentieth, twenty twenty six, the Iranian regime committed an

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<v Speaker 6>unprecedented massacre across the Ilam, Kamanchan and Lauristan. The mobilized

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<v Speaker 6>hashtal Chaby militias into Persian cities and deployed a massive

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<v Speaker 6>military presence into our territories. In order to defend our citizens,

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<v Speaker 6>we targeted the outposts and military bases where these forces

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<v Speaker 6>were stationed. We confirmed that, yes, we carried out these operations.

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<v Speaker 6>So what they're confirming there is that they carried our operations,

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<v Speaker 6>not where the weapons came from. That we saw those

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<v Speaker 6>operations in January. Pull at Yan put at Yan famous,

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<v Speaker 6>but I guess for being a founding member of the

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<v Speaker 6>epigae or of fuendecard n SDF commander. He's also an

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<v Speaker 6>author and the politician did make a statement which I

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<v Speaker 6>thought was interesting. I'm going to read it at least

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<v Speaker 6>a good amount of it because I think it's worth it. Quote,

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<v Speaker 6>the Kurds are not mercenaries, Kurdish blood is not cheap,

0:26:23.160 --> 0:26:24.840
<v Speaker 6>and the lives of Kurdish youth are not for sale.

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<v Speaker 6>The Kurds are fighting for their freedom, dignity, and political rights,

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<v Speaker 6>not to serve the temporary agendas of regional or international

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<v Speaker 6>powers without any clear outcome for the Kurdish people themselves.

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<v Speaker 6>At the same time, the Curds have repeatedly shown their

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<v Speaker 6>willingness to cooperate in fighting terrorism, extremism, and instability in

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<v Speaker 6>the Middle East. Kurdish force has played a central role

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<v Speaker 6>in the defeat of ISIS and contributed greatly to regional security,

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<v Speaker 6>but cooperation must be based on mutual respect, clarity, and

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<v Speaker 6>long term political understanding. I do not know the actuity

0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:54.800
<v Speaker 6>of the recent claims regarding weapons are literally sent to

0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:57.840
<v Speaker 6>protesters inside i Ran. If such operations truly just died,

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<v Speaker 6>then the American side should clearly explain which group, force,

0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:03.159
<v Speaker 6>or individuals received those weapons. A nation of tens of

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<v Speaker 6>minutes of people should not be collectively accused of vague

0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:09.320
<v Speaker 6>and unverified statements. Yeah, it's pretty good.

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<v Speaker 2>It sounds reasonable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it sounds like a

0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:13.320
<v Speaker 2>really reasonable thing.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, it does seem that Trump has some personal animus

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<v Speaker 6>against the Kurds.

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<v Speaker 1>I wonder if what he's referring to is that, like

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<v Speaker 1>a year or so ago, the last time they sent

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<v Speaker 1>over more weapons. If he sent some message more recently

0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:32.480
<v Speaker 1>being like, hey, could you send some of those guns

0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:35.520
<v Speaker 1>that we already gave you over to rebels in Iran?

0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:39.880
<v Speaker 1>And they were like no, no, what do you mean?

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<v Speaker 2>And he's pissed. I wonder if that's what he's pissed about.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, it's so hard for me to say. Is he

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<v Speaker 6>talking about the SDF. Is he talking about groups in

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<v Speaker 6>southern Kurdistan that they did. Yeah, he asked him to

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<v Speaker 6>like pass them alone. I have never seen large numbers

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<v Speaker 6>of Americans supplied weapons among the Rogilati groups.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, although they do. Some of their aks come from

0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:08.240
<v Speaker 1>the US. If you look at like what's center, a

0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:10.359
<v Speaker 1>bunch of and like body armor, a lot of like

0:28:10.640 --> 0:28:13.480
<v Speaker 1>what the SDF like the armor they have came from Americans.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, yeah, and with their like highest speed SDF guys

0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:19.159
<v Speaker 6>you'll see like m fhors but even like night vision

0:28:20.040 --> 0:28:23.240
<v Speaker 6>like yat the anti terror forces and the SDF you'll see.

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<v Speaker 6>But like on on the Iranian side, I have not

0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:31.200
<v Speaker 6>seen that. And it's He's repeated this several times ever

0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:34.280
<v Speaker 6>quite a long period of time. It seems to be

0:28:34.280 --> 0:28:38.240
<v Speaker 6>something he genuinely believes, but I have seen no evidence

0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:42.600
<v Speaker 6>aside from his claims, to support it. It doesn't matter,

0:28:42.680 --> 0:28:45.400
<v Speaker 6>but it does matter in the sense that Trump clearly

0:28:45.480 --> 0:28:50.560
<v Speaker 6>is personally mad at Kurdish groups and does not seem

0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:55.120
<v Speaker 6>to be interested in supporting their aspirations for autonomy, which

0:28:55.160 --> 0:28:58.880
<v Speaker 6>is disappointing. But I guess I don't know why. Maybe

0:28:59.360 --> 0:29:01.800
<v Speaker 6>because he feels that he alone to take credit for

0:29:01.800 --> 0:29:04.440
<v Speaker 6>the defeat of the Islamic State, like I can't. I

0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:06.320
<v Speaker 6>can't quite work out what to cause this, other than

0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:08.800
<v Speaker 6>maybe he perceives them to have slighted him by not

0:29:08.840 --> 0:29:12.760
<v Speaker 6>giving weapons that we don't know anything about. Yeah, let's

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<v Speaker 6>talk a little bit about the broader situation in Iran.

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<v Speaker 6>I don't want to make this like true social review.

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<v Speaker 6>I know I've read Trump's truth in the past. I

0:29:22.520 --> 0:29:24.800
<v Speaker 6>have reached a point where I can't do that anymore.

0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:26.360
<v Speaker 2>That's fair.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, Like I can't. People are dying, right, they bombed

0:29:31.680 --> 0:29:34.239
<v Speaker 6>a girls school, Like this is serious and horrible, and

0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:36.920
<v Speaker 6>it's really hard to bring the gravity that needs to

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<v Speaker 6>be brought to this and also read out the absolutely

0:29:39.400 --> 0:29:45.080
<v Speaker 6>bonker stuff that gets posted. And Trump described a missile

0:29:45.080 --> 0:29:48.960
<v Speaker 6>strike on Iran as a love tap. Yeah, this past week.

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<v Speaker 6>So I'm just not gonna not gonna do that this week.

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<v Speaker 6>I am going to say that both sides have repeatedly

0:29:54.600 --> 0:29:58.800
<v Speaker 6>and openly violated the ceasefire, which Trump describes to reporters

0:29:59.000 --> 0:30:04.080
<v Speaker 6>and dr Oz as being on quote massive life support. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 6>Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Ghalibath has said quote around forces

0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:11.760
<v Speaker 6>are ready to deliver a well deserved response to any

0:30:11.760 --> 0:30:15.360
<v Speaker 6>aggression mistaken strategy and mistaken decisions will always lead to

0:30:15.360 --> 0:30:18.520
<v Speaker 6>mistaken results. The whole world has already figured this out.

0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:21.240
<v Speaker 6>We have prepared for all options. They will be surprised.

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<v Speaker 6>This comes as Trump calls Iran's peace demands quote a

0:30:26.040 --> 0:30:30.880
<v Speaker 6>piece of garbage and quote a stupid proposal. Iranian demands

0:30:30.920 --> 0:30:34.480
<v Speaker 6>allegedly included an end to Israeli aggression in Lebanon and

0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:37.320
<v Speaker 6>sovereignty over straight at Hommus. Trump has also alleged that

0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:39.960
<v Speaker 6>they walked back an agreement to surrender and rich Ranian.

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<v Speaker 6>We've also found that Iran has retained a large number

0:30:43.320 --> 0:30:46.680
<v Speaker 6>of their missiles and their launch capacity. This week, It's

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<v Speaker 6>also been reported by Jim Laporter, who is one of

0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:51.720
<v Speaker 6>the few people still doing decer reporting at CBS, that

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<v Speaker 6>Pakistan has provided safe haven for Iranian aircraft, shielding them

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<v Speaker 6>from US strikes. Allegedly, some civilian aircraft also sheltered in Afghanistan,

0:31:01.960 --> 0:31:04.360
<v Speaker 6>but then had to be moved when Pakistan began bombing

0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:08.080
<v Speaker 6>Afghanistan in March. Iran has friends everywhere.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess.

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<v Speaker 6>The United States sent a ballistic missile submarine to Gibraltar

0:31:13.480 --> 0:31:17.520
<v Speaker 6>this week. These O higher class submarines provide the survivable

0:31:17.520 --> 0:31:20.360
<v Speaker 6>element of the nuclear triad, or the most survival element

0:31:20.400 --> 0:31:21.400
<v Speaker 6>of the nuclear triad.

0:31:21.640 --> 0:31:24.520
<v Speaker 1>You can't strike a nuclear submarine before it gets a

0:31:24.600 --> 0:31:26.880
<v Speaker 1>chance to strike. It's it's basically impossible.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, that's that's the reason that they exist.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, guarantees that you will get to do your thing.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, for mutually assured destruction reasons. It's not super normal

0:31:36.640 --> 0:31:39.320
<v Speaker 6>to announce their presence in places I don't think, but

0:31:39.640 --> 0:31:41.360
<v Speaker 6>the Navy did this week.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean it can't be. It depends on like

0:31:43.880 --> 0:31:46.520
<v Speaker 1>the situation depending is a little weird.

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<v Speaker 6>Yes, yeah, yeah. The Pentagon seems to be planning to

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<v Speaker 6>rename the war in Iran Operation Sledgehammer. This seems to

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<v Speaker 6>be an attempt at end run around the nineteen seventy

0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:02.920
<v Speaker 6>three war Howars revolution. They claimed already where we spoke

0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:05.520
<v Speaker 6>about this last week, the claiming epic fury is over

0:32:05.600 --> 0:32:09.240
<v Speaker 6>now and that this is a new and distinct operation.

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<v Speaker 6>In a congressional hearing, Hexseth denied that they needed an

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<v Speaker 6>authorized use of military force. Let's play the clip.

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<v Speaker 9>It doesn't appear that hostilities have ended, and so the

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<v Speaker 9>question to you is whether or not the administration has

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<v Speaker 9>has considered or had intended to seek an authorization of

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<v Speaker 9>use of military force from the Congress.

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<v Speaker 8>Senator, our view is that should the President make the

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<v Speaker 8>decision to recommence.

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<v Speaker 6>That we would have all the authorities necessary to do so.

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<v Speaker 9>Do you think that it would be helpful to the

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<v Speaker 9>president if it was made clear that, in fact, the

0:32:51.400 --> 0:32:59.240
<v Speaker 9>Congress did allow did provide an AUMF I think the

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<v Speaker 9>president our you is that he has all the authorities

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<v Speaker 9>he needs under Article two to execute.

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<v Speaker 6>Thanks, Chairman, that's more or less heigth'st saying they don't

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<v Speaker 6>need Congress, which is great.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>Heccess face pointed questioning from the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees,

0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:21.640
<v Speaker 6>he repeatedly batted away questions about munitions depletion and suggested

0:33:21.640 --> 0:33:23.920
<v Speaker 6>that it wasn't appropriate to answer them in public on

0:33:23.960 --> 0:33:27.880
<v Speaker 6>the record like this, Oh, I'm sure. He also did

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<v Speaker 6>not directly confront the cost of the war, which is

0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:33.800
<v Speaker 6>now approaching thirty billion, instead saying, quote, what is the

0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:36.480
<v Speaker 6>cost of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon? And the fact

0:33:36.480 --> 0:33:38.600
<v Speaker 6>that this president has been willing to make a historic

0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:41.520
<v Speaker 6>and courageous choice to confront that it comes with cost,

0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:44.960
<v Speaker 6>and we recognize that kind of an exercise in an

0:33:44.960 --> 0:33:48.440
<v Speaker 6>evasion on excess part there, apart from his pretty emphatic

0:33:48.520 --> 0:33:51.600
<v Speaker 6>statement that he didn't think that they needed any permission

0:33:51.720 --> 0:33:56.920
<v Speaker 6>from Congress to continue with this war. So we will

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<v Speaker 6>be back next week to keep you updated on what

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<v Speaker 6>might be operations sledgehammer.

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<v Speaker 2>Great great stuff, very exciting.

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<v Speaker 1>So on May twelfth, twenty twenty six, the former mayor

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<v Speaker 1>of Arcadia, California, Eileen Wang, pled guilty to acting as

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<v Speaker 1>an unregistered agent of a foreign government and is being

0:34:22.120 --> 0:34:26.240
<v Speaker 1>sentenced in the near future for being an unregistered agent

0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:29.880
<v Speaker 1>of a foreign government. People have taken this news normally

0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:31.640
<v Speaker 1>the foreign government is China.

0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:32.680
<v Speaker 2>I did a.

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<v Speaker 1>Quick little bit of googling before coming around here and

0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:37.040
<v Speaker 1>found some fun headlines.

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<v Speaker 2>One of them in.

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<v Speaker 1>The Lion California mayor pleads guilty to serving Communist China.

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<v Speaker 1>And that article was written by John Ransom, who's a

0:34:46.600 --> 0:34:49.200
<v Speaker 1>senior contributor at The Lion and also has written for

0:34:49.239 --> 0:34:53.120
<v Speaker 1>The Epic Times, which itself is like the agent of

0:34:53.160 --> 0:34:58.480
<v Speaker 1>a foreign power effective. Yeah, the WCBM had a headline

0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:03.879
<v Speaker 1>this Democrat mayor just came clean about working for Communist China.

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<v Speaker 2>She could come clean clean.

0:35:06.520 --> 0:35:11.000
<v Speaker 1>She pled guilty and for that, you know, and then

0:35:11.040 --> 0:35:14.719
<v Speaker 1>from the House Committee. On China's website, Mulinar warns of

0:35:14.760 --> 0:35:18.920
<v Speaker 1>CCP influence after California mayor charged in foreign influence plot.

0:35:19.440 --> 0:35:21.880
<v Speaker 1>These charges highlight the very real threat of the Chinese

0:35:21.880 --> 0:35:25.399
<v Speaker 1>Communist Party's attempts to influence are free and open society. Well,

0:35:25.400 --> 0:35:27.880
<v Speaker 1>it denies freedom and liberty for the Chinese people. The

0:35:27.920 --> 0:35:30.960
<v Speaker 1>CCP is actively working to subvert our institutions and divide

0:35:31.000 --> 0:35:33.719
<v Speaker 1>us against one another. In this case, an elected mayor

0:35:33.800 --> 0:35:37.000
<v Speaker 1>acted at the direction of CCP handlers, coordinated with Chinese

0:35:37.040 --> 0:35:39.800
<v Speaker 1>intelligence linked individuals, and used a local news platform to

0:35:39.840 --> 0:35:43.719
<v Speaker 1>spread CCP propaganda. And so let's talk about that.

0:35:43.719 --> 0:35:46.400
<v Speaker 2>How much of this is true, right, yeah, I.

0:35:46.440 --> 0:35:49.080
<v Speaker 1>Mean technically, yeah, Like that's that's kind of what happened,

0:35:49.800 --> 0:35:53.399
<v Speaker 1>except for the part where they were like coordinating to

0:35:53.480 --> 0:35:58.080
<v Speaker 1>drive Americans apart from each other and create unrest and whatnot.

0:35:58.120 --> 0:36:01.160
<v Speaker 1>That's not what the purpose of this thing that Eileen

0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:05.719
<v Speaker 1>got wrapped up in was. She and her former fiance,

0:36:06.360 --> 0:36:10.040
<v Speaker 1>a fellow named Sun who got sentenced before she did

0:36:10.640 --> 0:36:15.280
<v Speaker 1>Mike's son, are accused of basically having run like content

0:36:15.360 --> 0:36:20.239
<v Speaker 1>farms at the behest of Chinese government officials, like they

0:36:20.239 --> 0:36:25.120
<v Speaker 1>were putting out articles on the alleged genocide in Zinjang,

0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:27.920
<v Speaker 1>denying like the Chinese government had done anything wrong there

0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:31.759
<v Speaker 1>there was any genocide at all in the region, and

0:36:31.840 --> 0:36:34.120
<v Speaker 1>so it's kind of like propaganda stuff like that. They

0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:37.120
<v Speaker 1>were serving as like a fire hose of propaganda, per

0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:39.960
<v Speaker 1>the Justice Department. In June of twenty twenty one, a

0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:42.840
<v Speaker 1>PRC official contacted Wang and other individuals via the we

0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:46.480
<v Speaker 1>chat encryptid messaging application with pre written news articles, including

0:36:46.480 --> 0:36:49.480
<v Speaker 1>a PRC official written essay in the Los Angeles Times

0:36:49.480 --> 0:36:52.440
<v Speaker 1>that stated China's stance on the Zinjang issue. There is

0:36:52.440 --> 0:36:54.759
<v Speaker 1>no genocide in Zinjang. There is no such thing as

0:36:54.760 --> 0:36:58.400
<v Speaker 1>forced labor in any production activity, including cotton production. Spreading

0:36:58.440 --> 0:37:01.560
<v Speaker 1>such rumors due to fame China Joy's enjaying safety and stability,

0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:05.200
<v Speaker 1>weaken local economy and suppress China's development. Minutes later, when

0:37:05.239 --> 0:37:07.360
<v Speaker 1>posted the article on her own website and responded to

0:37:07.400 --> 0:37:09.719
<v Speaker 1>the PRC official with a link to the article on

0:37:09.760 --> 0:37:11.560
<v Speaker 1>her website, the others in the group did the same.

0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:15.200
<v Speaker 1>The PRC official responded, so fast, thank you everyone.

0:37:15.719 --> 0:37:17.040
<v Speaker 2>And this is bad.

0:37:17.200 --> 0:37:21.480
<v Speaker 1>Genocide denials bad. The spreading slop content on behalf of

0:37:21.520 --> 0:37:25.080
<v Speaker 1>a foreign government is like bad. It is important to

0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:28.920
<v Speaker 1>note that this is not like spying or sabotage in

0:37:28.960 --> 0:37:32.040
<v Speaker 1>any meaningful way. She's not acting to like try to

0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:36.560
<v Speaker 1>damage the United States. She's acting as like an unregistered

0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:40.160
<v Speaker 1>pr agent for the Chinese government, or at least that's

0:37:40.200 --> 0:37:42.799
<v Speaker 1>what she had done up to this point in her life,

0:37:42.800 --> 0:37:45.319
<v Speaker 1>and like everything that she was doing was legal if

0:37:45.360 --> 0:37:48.600
<v Speaker 1>she had disclosed who she was working for, which I

0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:50.680
<v Speaker 1>think is also an important thing to note because shit

0:37:50.760 --> 0:37:54.200
<v Speaker 1>like this happens all the time, and in the media,

0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:56.799
<v Speaker 1>like we all see, there's tons of content that is

0:37:56.840 --> 0:37:59.200
<v Speaker 1>the result one way or the other of some government's

0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:03.200
<v Speaker 1>influence op and for the majority of the time when

0:38:03.239 --> 0:38:06.720
<v Speaker 1>it happens, nobody gets tripped up, you know, either because

0:38:06.760 --> 0:38:09.640
<v Speaker 1>they have friends in power or because they don't quite

0:38:09.719 --> 0:38:12.160
<v Speaker 1>cross a line. And I Leen and her friends were

0:38:12.160 --> 0:38:15.520
<v Speaker 1>not very savvy about what they were doing, but they

0:38:15.520 --> 0:38:18.520
<v Speaker 1>were also not operating on a very large level, like

0:38:18.560 --> 0:38:22.280
<v Speaker 1>this is not a big operation. One of the notes

0:38:22.320 --> 0:38:25.040
<v Speaker 1>in this charging document is that Eileen sent this Chinese

0:38:25.080 --> 0:38:28.040
<v Speaker 1>government official at screenshot showing that the article had been

0:38:28.080 --> 0:38:31.320
<v Speaker 1>viewed fifteen one and twenty eight times through her site,

0:38:32.000 --> 0:38:34.120
<v Speaker 1>which is like not, we're not talking like big deal

0:38:34.320 --> 0:38:39.440
<v Speaker 1>influence ops here. We're not talking like sweeping powers over

0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:43.560
<v Speaker 1>like public opinion. Now, perhaps that's what they hoped Eileen

0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:47.200
<v Speaker 1>would kind of rise to over time. She didn't seem

0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:50.560
<v Speaker 1>to be like a kind of rising star in local

0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:53.640
<v Speaker 1>government in southern California. She got endorsed by some prominent

0:38:53.680 --> 0:38:57.200
<v Speaker 1>Democratic Party officials, and she was still in touch with

0:38:57.280 --> 0:39:00.000
<v Speaker 1>her Chinese government handlers at this time. This whole period

0:39:00.480 --> 0:39:03.480
<v Speaker 1>in which she's like being charged for working as an

0:39:03.480 --> 0:39:05.719
<v Speaker 1>agent of the Chinese government, it's like twenty twenty through

0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:07.480
<v Speaker 1>at least twenty twenty two.

0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:09.479
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, this is like, you.

0:39:09.360 --> 0:39:12.359
<v Speaker 1>Know, a bad thing, and it's good that this got

0:39:12.400 --> 0:39:15.160
<v Speaker 1>found out and that she's not continuing to be the

0:39:15.160 --> 0:39:17.440
<v Speaker 1>mayor of Arcadia.

0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:19.160
<v Speaker 2>But also, this is.

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<v Speaker 1>Not like the scary thing that the right wing press

0:39:21.320 --> 0:39:22.759
<v Speaker 1>is making it out to you. She was not here

0:39:22.800 --> 0:39:25.000
<v Speaker 1>to like subvert the US so that it could be

0:39:25.000 --> 0:39:27.759
<v Speaker 1>invaded or destroyed. She was there to try to stop

0:39:27.800 --> 0:39:30.280
<v Speaker 1>people on the internet from being mean to the Chinese government.

0:39:30.360 --> 0:39:32.520
<v Speaker 1>Like that was the primary use that they had with her.

0:39:32.960 --> 0:39:37.000
<v Speaker 1>It's just not that like actually scariest story or anything.

0:39:37.080 --> 0:39:39.040
<v Speaker 1>It's just the kind of thing that happens. This lady

0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:42.719
<v Speaker 1>happened to become mayor of a small down basically, which

0:39:42.760 --> 0:39:43.200
<v Speaker 1>is wild.

0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:46.560
<v Speaker 2>It's crazy that that happened. But like this is going

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<v Speaker 2>on all the time.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I think, I yeah, people have lost their minds

0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:54.080
<v Speaker 6>about this one in a way that like.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a perfect California city, like it's a southern California town,

0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:01.920
<v Speaker 1>and she's the government female spy.

0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:05.080
<v Speaker 2>Like a course of course.

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<v Speaker 4>There's a lot of stuff.

0:40:07.239 --> 0:40:10.640
<v Speaker 5>Back when Eric Swalwell was still a relevant human being,

0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:13.840
<v Speaker 5>there was some attacks on him for associating with a

0:40:13.920 --> 0:40:17.160
<v Speaker 5>quote unquote Chinese female spy like man ten years ago,

0:40:17.200 --> 0:40:18.800
<v Speaker 5>and that was like one of the lines of attack

0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:22.480
<v Speaker 5>against him. Sure because like someone someone he had like

0:40:22.560 --> 0:40:26.319
<v Speaker 5>relations with in like twenty fourteen what was alleged or

0:40:26.520 --> 0:40:28.320
<v Speaker 5>found to be a working as a spy for the

0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:31.279
<v Speaker 5>Chinese government. It's interesting that they're doing this type of

0:40:31.320 --> 0:40:34.480
<v Speaker 5>stuff at like the exact same time that Trump just

0:40:34.520 --> 0:40:36.680
<v Speaker 5>got just like it is like arriving in China.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah right now, Yeah, it's really great timing.

0:40:39.760 --> 0:40:41.439
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, curious timing there.

0:40:41.520 --> 0:40:43.759
<v Speaker 6>But I'm guessing she took them leave. This had been

0:40:43.800 --> 0:40:45.760
<v Speaker 6>a period of some time, right, like her fiance.

0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:49.719
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, yeah, because first first her former fiance got busted,

0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:51.000
<v Speaker 1>and then she was like, I.

0:40:50.880 --> 0:40:53.880
<v Speaker 2>Didn't do anything wrong, and then it became clear that

0:40:53.920 --> 0:40:55.480
<v Speaker 2>she very much hadh right.

0:40:55.560 --> 0:40:57.680
<v Speaker 1>So there was this was like a thing that, yeah,

0:40:58.200 --> 0:40:59.719
<v Speaker 1>this has been going on for a little while. It

0:40:59.840 --> 0:41:02.319
<v Speaker 1>just sort of once she pled guilty, then you could

0:41:02.360 --> 0:41:06.240
<v Speaker 1>do the article like California mayor pleads guilty to working.

0:41:06.000 --> 0:41:06.960
<v Speaker 2>For the Chinese government.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, just funny timing. Yeah,

0:41:11.520 --> 0:41:28.560
<v Speaker 5>speaking of timing, here are some ads. Great, yay, Okay,

0:41:28.560 --> 0:41:32.759
<v Speaker 5>we are back for one of our last main stories.

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<v Speaker 5>Let's talk about Virginia and the redistricting efforts. Last week,

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<v Speaker 5>in a four to three ruling, the Virginia Supreme Court

0:41:42.680 --> 0:41:47.360
<v Speaker 5>blocked the voter approved redistricting map that passed in April

0:41:47.719 --> 0:41:51.800
<v Speaker 5>with almost fifty two percent of the vote. The court

0:41:51.880 --> 0:41:56.200
<v Speaker 5>found the process used to advance the referendum violated the

0:41:56.320 --> 0:42:02.440
<v Speaker 5>state constitution. According to Virginia's constantation, the legislature has to

0:42:02.560 --> 0:42:07.799
<v Speaker 5>vote twice to pass any proposed constitutional amendment before it

0:42:07.800 --> 0:42:11.399
<v Speaker 5>gets put on the ballot for Virginia voters, but these

0:42:11.440 --> 0:42:15.560
<v Speaker 5>two General Assembly votes must be separated by a state

0:42:15.719 --> 0:42:20.279
<v Speaker 5>General election. The first General Assembly vote for this redistricting

0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:24.840
<v Speaker 5>amendment passed in October twenty twenty five, before the November

0:42:24.840 --> 0:42:28.280
<v Speaker 5>general election, and the second vote to approve the referendum

0:42:28.480 --> 0:42:32.320
<v Speaker 5>happened next January, so a few months ago. The Republican

0:42:32.400 --> 0:42:37.160
<v Speaker 5>challengers to the new voting map argued that because early

0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:42.400
<v Speaker 5>voting had already begun, the General Assembly's first vote in

0:42:42.440 --> 0:42:48.200
<v Speaker 5>October did not actually occur before a general election, and

0:42:48.600 --> 0:42:51.520
<v Speaker 5>that was the grounds the State Supreme Court used to

0:42:51.560 --> 0:42:56.280
<v Speaker 5>block the voter approved amendment. The four judge majority ruled

0:42:56.440 --> 0:43:01.440
<v Speaker 5>the intervening election requirement was violated because the general election

0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:07.000
<v Speaker 5>quote began on September nineteenth, twenty twenty five, and just

0:43:07.560 --> 0:43:10.080
<v Speaker 5>ended on election day, November fourth.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I feel like you're kind of outside the spirit

0:43:13.160 --> 0:43:14.839
<v Speaker 6>of what they were going for with that one.

0:43:15.080 --> 0:43:17.920
<v Speaker 4>But no, this on the face sounds quite absurd.

0:43:18.080 --> 0:43:20.120
<v Speaker 6>It's one of those things that's technically correct, but at

0:43:20.160 --> 0:43:21.040
<v Speaker 6>the same time.

0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:24.879
<v Speaker 5>Well, and there's some complicating factors because of Trump's own

0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:28.839
<v Speaker 5>attempts to restrict early voting or deem early voting like

0:43:29.120 --> 0:43:34.080
<v Speaker 5>not constitutionally like appealpriate, or like it defies the federal

0:43:34.080 --> 0:43:37.600
<v Speaker 5>government's definition of the word election. And so now you

0:43:37.680 --> 0:43:39.880
<v Speaker 5>have some groups in Virginia who are trying to pass

0:43:39.960 --> 0:43:42.719
<v Speaker 5>this amendment, Democrat groups who are using kind of.

0:43:42.640 --> 0:43:44.280
<v Speaker 4>Similar rhetoric as Trump.

0:43:44.640 --> 0:43:47.480
<v Speaker 5>We'll get to that in a sec So Justice de

0:43:47.719 --> 0:43:52.279
<v Speaker 5>Arthur Helsey wrote to the majority opinion, saying, quote, this

0:43:52.480 --> 0:43:57.720
<v Speaker 5>violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote

0:43:57.719 --> 0:44:02.120
<v Speaker 5>and renders it null and void. Early Virginia voters unknowingly

0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:06.600
<v Speaker 5>forfeited their constitutionally protected opportunity to vote for or against

0:44:06.719 --> 0:44:11.560
<v Speaker 5>delegates who favor or disfavor amending the constitution by not

0:44:11.600 --> 0:44:15.640
<v Speaker 5>anticipating a legislative vote on a constitutional amendment four days

0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:19.240
<v Speaker 5>before the last day of voting, unquote. So the court

0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:23.600
<v Speaker 5>said that the reason why they have this to vote

0:44:23.600 --> 0:44:28.040
<v Speaker 5>requirement across two different general assemblies is to give voters

0:44:28.120 --> 0:44:32.799
<v Speaker 5>enough time to not just support or not support a

0:44:32.800 --> 0:44:36.040
<v Speaker 5>constitutional amendment on the ballot, but then also vote for

0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:39.960
<v Speaker 5>state lawmakers who will either approve or not approve the

0:44:40.000 --> 0:44:43.279
<v Speaker 5>constitutional amendment in the legislature itself. Right, So that's what

0:44:43.320 --> 0:44:45.960
<v Speaker 5>they're saying. It's like this, this process of having these

0:44:45.960 --> 0:44:48.680
<v Speaker 5>two votes is to ensure that voters have a say

0:44:49.280 --> 0:44:52.120
<v Speaker 5>both in who they put into office as well as

0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:53.719
<v Speaker 5>on the ballot, and they're saying that this process was

0:44:53.760 --> 0:44:57.800
<v Speaker 5>violated because early voting had already commenced by the time

0:44:58.360 --> 0:45:01.880
<v Speaker 5>that the legislature acts actually voted on this proposed amendment.

0:45:02.719 --> 0:45:06.680
<v Speaker 5>Chief Justice Cleo. Powell wrote in the dissent that the

0:45:06.719 --> 0:45:11.239
<v Speaker 5>majority quote broadened the meaning of the word election as

0:45:11.360 --> 0:45:15.160
<v Speaker 5>used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period.

0:45:15.760 --> 0:45:18.799
<v Speaker 5>This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and

0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:22.680
<v Speaker 5>federal law define an election. By extending elections in the

0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:26.120
<v Speaker 5>Commonwealth of Virginia beyond a single day, the majority's formulation

0:45:26.280 --> 0:45:29.920
<v Speaker 5>would directly conflict with the federal mandate that elections for

0:45:29.960 --> 0:45:33.640
<v Speaker 5>federal officials be held on a single day quote. So

0:45:34.000 --> 0:45:38.080
<v Speaker 5>under the Supreme Court of Virginia's new ruling, the district

0:45:38.120 --> 0:45:40.960
<v Speaker 5>map drawn in twenty twenty one must be used for

0:45:41.000 --> 0:45:45.880
<v Speaker 5>the upcoming election this November. The midterms, the new map

0:45:46.320 --> 0:45:51.400
<v Speaker 5>would have won Democrats four more House seats, but considering

0:45:51.520 --> 0:45:54.640
<v Speaker 5>this ruling by the state Supreme Court, Dems are now

0:45:54.760 --> 0:46:00.080
<v Speaker 5>eight seats down in the national redistricting battle, which the

0:46:00.160 --> 0:46:03.560
<v Speaker 5>latest gutting of the Voting Rights Act will only make worse.

0:46:04.080 --> 0:46:05.239
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:09.360
<v Speaker 5>Over this past weekend, Virginia Democrats Hakim Jeffries and Governor

0:46:09.600 --> 0:46:13.600
<v Speaker 5>Abigail Spanberger held discussions on what to do about this ruling.

0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:17.439
<v Speaker 5>The New York Times reported that Virginia Democrats expressed determination

0:46:18.160 --> 0:46:21.240
<v Speaker 5>to win two or three of the Republican held seats

0:46:21.680 --> 0:46:24.960
<v Speaker 5>even with the current map, but also discussed a few

0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:29.600
<v Speaker 5>long shot options to change the ruling or push forward

0:46:29.640 --> 0:46:32.840
<v Speaker 5>the map anyway. One of the more extreme measures debated

0:46:33.280 --> 0:46:37.440
<v Speaker 5>was the possibility of replacing the entire Virginia Supreme Court

0:46:37.920 --> 0:46:42.279
<v Speaker 5>by lowering the mandatory retirement age from seventy five to

0:46:42.360 --> 0:46:46.799
<v Speaker 5>fifty four and then having a new court rehear the case.

0:46:46.880 --> 0:46:49.799
<v Speaker 6>Sounds great, let's do it in between now and Novem.

0:46:50.280 --> 0:46:54.680
<v Speaker 5>So it seems the Democrats decided against this path ultimately

0:46:55.200 --> 0:46:58.799
<v Speaker 5>in part because the State Department of Elections deadline for

0:46:58.880 --> 0:47:02.480
<v Speaker 5>congressional maps is May twelfth, which is a day before

0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:03.440
<v Speaker 5>we're recording.

0:47:03.880 --> 0:47:06.080
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, they kind of ran out of time on this.

0:47:06.680 --> 0:47:08.440
<v Speaker 5>It's also unclear if they really would have had the

0:47:09.400 --> 0:47:13.120
<v Speaker 5>bravery to pull such a an extreme maneuver. Right, something

0:47:13.120 --> 0:47:15.160
<v Speaker 5>that may be the correct thing to do, and maybe

0:47:15.160 --> 0:47:17.319
<v Speaker 5>something they should just do anyway if they have the

0:47:17.360 --> 0:47:21.560
<v Speaker 5>power to fully replace their Supreme Court. Why not, Because

0:47:21.600 --> 0:47:24.360
<v Speaker 5>the Democrats are currently in a majority of control of

0:47:24.440 --> 0:47:27.200
<v Speaker 5>the state legislature right now, why not do this anyway

0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:30.560
<v Speaker 5>to a certain extent, Also, Abigail Scanberger can only serve

0:47:31.200 --> 0:47:34.640
<v Speaker 5>one term, so you know you're not going to lose

0:47:34.719 --> 0:47:38.040
<v Speaker 5>much political capital by pulling a kind of insane move

0:47:38.120 --> 0:47:41.080
<v Speaker 5>like this. But it's not going to happen at least

0:47:41.320 --> 0:47:46.560
<v Speaker 5>right now. Yeah, nope, Virginia State Senate majority leader Scott

0:47:46.640 --> 0:47:50.239
<v Speaker 5>Sortiville told The New Republic quote, as a practical matter,

0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:53.960
<v Speaker 5>the move would not be capable of being implemented given

0:47:54.040 --> 0:47:59.080
<v Speaker 5>the time frame now. Despite that May twelfth deadline, On Monday,

0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:03.879
<v Speaker 5>Virginia Attorney General J Jones and Democratic state lawmakers filed

0:48:03.880 --> 0:48:07.839
<v Speaker 5>an emergency appeal asking the US Supreme Court to put

0:48:07.880 --> 0:48:11.440
<v Speaker 5>the state Supreme Court order on hold for the upcoming

0:48:11.480 --> 0:48:15.280
<v Speaker 5>midterm election, arguing that the state court based their ruling

0:48:15.600 --> 0:48:20.240
<v Speaker 5>on misreading the federal definition of election and by adopting

0:48:20.239 --> 0:48:23.160
<v Speaker 5>its own definition, the State Supreme Court infringed on the

0:48:23.160 --> 0:48:28.280
<v Speaker 5>state Legislature's power to regulate federal elections quote by forcing

0:48:28.280 --> 0:48:32.440
<v Speaker 5>the Commonwealth to conduct its congressional elections using districts different

0:48:32.480 --> 0:48:35.600
<v Speaker 5>from those adopted by the General Assembly pursuant to a

0:48:35.600 --> 0:48:39.160
<v Speaker 5>constitutional amendment the people just ratified. The Supreme Court of

0:48:39.239 --> 0:48:42.719
<v Speaker 5>Virginia has deprived voters, candidates, and the Commonwealth of their

0:48:42.840 --> 0:48:48.680
<v Speaker 5>right to the lawfully enacted congressional districts. This case will

0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:51.800
<v Speaker 5>be initially decided by Chief Justice John Roberts, who handles

0:48:51.840 --> 0:48:55.560
<v Speaker 5>the emergency appeals from states covered by the Fourth Circuit

0:48:55.560 --> 0:49:00.640
<v Speaker 5>Court of Appeals, but the US Supreme Court may argue

0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:03.640
<v Speaker 5>that they don't have the authority to intervene because the

0:49:03.760 --> 0:49:07.879
<v Speaker 5>Virginia Supreme Court ruling cites state law, not federal law.

0:49:08.080 --> 0:49:12.240
<v Speaker 5>And The New Republic also reported that state Senate Majority

0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:16.480
<v Speaker 5>Leader Scott Saureville confirmed that even if the Supreme Court

0:49:16.560 --> 0:49:19.759
<v Speaker 5>gives them a good ruling, that ruling could be unlikely

0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:23.839
<v Speaker 5>to impact this upcoming election cycle due to this May

0:49:23.880 --> 0:49:24.680
<v Speaker 5>twelfth deadline.

0:49:25.239 --> 0:49:28.200
<v Speaker 6>I guess it's just what we're saying that, like the

0:49:29.040 --> 0:49:32.600
<v Speaker 6>nature of this midterm will be very important for the

0:49:32.640 --> 0:49:35.520
<v Speaker 6>way you get to vote in America going forward.

0:49:35.880 --> 0:49:37.920
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, they're they're pulling out all the stops,

0:49:38.120 --> 0:49:42.280
<v Speaker 1>like they're throwing any kind of plausible deniability in the trash,

0:49:42.640 --> 0:49:46.520
<v Speaker 1>because this is the get it the lose it moment

0:49:46.600 --> 0:49:49.080
<v Speaker 1>for the right, you know, Like that's very much how

0:49:49.080 --> 0:49:49.719
<v Speaker 1>they're looking at this.

0:49:49.840 --> 0:49:51.800
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, this is a locking in forever.

0:49:52.480 --> 0:49:53.560
<v Speaker 2>We'll see. Yeah.

0:49:53.920 --> 0:49:58.120
<v Speaker 5>A few years ago, Ohio pushed through unconstitutional maps, but

0:49:58.160 --> 0:50:01.719
<v Speaker 5>maps that were deemed unconstitutional by by state courts. One

0:50:01.800 --> 0:50:05.319
<v Speaker 5>federal court did authorize them to use these maps in

0:50:05.360 --> 0:50:08.120
<v Speaker 5>like an interim period, and they're still using them. And

0:50:08.280 --> 0:50:11.760
<v Speaker 5>in a piece by the Nation, they mentioned this option

0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:14.280
<v Speaker 5>was said that they would need to have the backing

0:50:14.719 --> 0:50:18.400
<v Speaker 5>of the state Board of Electors, and Virginia might not

0:50:18.480 --> 0:50:22.279
<v Speaker 5>have that. There's lots of people on the Democratic side

0:50:22.280 --> 0:50:25.480
<v Speaker 5>that are much more rule followy than a lot of

0:50:25.480 --> 0:50:28.880
<v Speaker 5>the Republicans as we have seen now. Virginia may be

0:50:28.880 --> 0:50:32.280
<v Speaker 5>able to still pass this redistricting map in the future

0:50:32.640 --> 0:50:36.000
<v Speaker 5>by spreading out the process over a bigger period of

0:50:36.000 --> 0:50:38.600
<v Speaker 5>time to not create this confusion about the early voting period.

0:50:38.960 --> 0:50:40.239
<v Speaker 5>But the map will not be able to go into

0:50:40.239 --> 0:50:42.279
<v Speaker 5>effect before the midterms, but it still may be able

0:50:42.320 --> 0:50:44.400
<v Speaker 5>to go into effect in the future. I do think

0:50:44.440 --> 0:50:46.680
<v Speaker 5>it's also worth noting that the same day that Virginia

0:50:46.719 --> 0:50:49.400
<v Speaker 5>filed this appeal, with the Supreme Court. The US Supreme

0:50:49.400 --> 0:50:52.960
<v Speaker 5>Court also paved the way for Alabama to eliminate one

0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:56.120
<v Speaker 5>of two majority black districts before the midterm elections by

0:50:56.200 --> 0:50:59.560
<v Speaker 5>overturning a lower court order that blocked the use of

0:50:59.600 --> 0:51:02.880
<v Speaker 5>a report public impacked map from twenty twenty three. So

0:51:03.080 --> 0:51:06.440
<v Speaker 5>the Supreme Court is currently weighing in on not exactly

0:51:06.480 --> 0:51:10.160
<v Speaker 5>the same but similar similar things in other states.

0:51:10.480 --> 0:51:13.920
<v Speaker 6>That was because it was basically pointy twy s Louisiana

0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:16.080
<v Speaker 6>ruling and saying like, we've ruled on this.

0:51:16.000 --> 0:51:16.719
<v Speaker 2>Yes, this is right.

0:51:17.080 --> 0:51:18.840
<v Speaker 4>This was following the Louisiana ruling.

0:51:18.920 --> 0:51:24.960
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, yeah, okay, that makes sense. PANO great videos Democratic

0:51:25.040 --> 0:51:28.959
<v Speaker 6>Process Voting Rights Act Ooh.

0:51:29.280 --> 0:51:33.439
<v Speaker 1>So, there's an increasing movement in the United States, both

0:51:33.480 --> 0:51:37.840
<v Speaker 1>at the state and the federal level to repeal gas taxes.

0:51:37.880 --> 0:51:41.839
<v Speaker 1>So in the United States, there's federal gas taxes that

0:51:41.840 --> 0:51:45.000
<v Speaker 1>that everybody pays. The current federal gas tax rate is

0:51:45.000 --> 0:51:48.480
<v Speaker 1>about eighteen point three cents per gallon for gasoline and

0:51:48.640 --> 0:51:51.200
<v Speaker 1>gas a hall, which is the actual official name of

0:51:51.600 --> 0:51:54.960
<v Speaker 1>fuel mixed with unleaded gas that's like unleaded and ethanol together,

0:51:55.120 --> 0:51:56.439
<v Speaker 1>is actually just called gas a hall.

0:51:56.520 --> 0:52:00.640
<v Speaker 6>Okay, I never knew that what yes, love, Yeah.

0:52:00.440 --> 0:52:02.400
<v Speaker 1>They couldn't think of anything better. And then twenty four

0:52:02.440 --> 0:52:04.440
<v Speaker 1>point three cents per gallon for diesel fuel.

0:52:04.600 --> 0:52:07.520
<v Speaker 2>Right. And then some states have their their own like

0:52:07.560 --> 0:52:09.480
<v Speaker 2>Oregon has its own like gas.

0:52:09.239 --> 0:52:12.520
<v Speaker 6>Taxes California centy does at both levels.

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<v Speaker 1>Like the federal gas tax is there in short because

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<v Speaker 1>it helps to pay for the roads, right, like that,

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<v Speaker 1>that's why we need a federal gas tax is because

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<v Speaker 1>it funds what's called the Highway Trust Fund or the HTF,

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<v Speaker 1>which is a big part of what keeps our interstate

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<v Speaker 1>infrastructure functional. And then state level gas taxes are often

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<v Speaker 1>also like supporting like state local roads.

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<v Speaker 2>Right. And so Trump has.

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<v Speaker 1>Talked about temporarily repealing the gas tax for like a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of months. There have been Democratic proposals that are

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<v Speaker 1>very similar. Graham Platner, who's about to be a congressman

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<v Speaker 1>from Maine, it's a Democratic nominee. Yeah, who's currently the

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<v Speaker 1>nominee but is almost certainly going to win.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, Well, the presumptive nominee, i think.

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<v Speaker 1>Has expressed support for ending the gas tax outright. And

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<v Speaker 1>his basic plan was something like, you have wealthy corporations

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<v Speaker 1>pay the money that the gas tax is currently going

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<v Speaker 1>to and you put that burden onto corporations instead of people.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's not uncommon, by the way, for the gas

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<v Speaker 1>tax to be temporarily repealed. During the early months of

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<v Speaker 1>the most recent escalation of the Russian invasion into Ukraine

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<v Speaker 1>and the Biden administration back in twenty twenty two, Biden

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<v Speaker 1>temporarily paused the federal gas tax. Right, So this is

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<v Speaker 1>the thing that happens. It's just always a bad idea

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<v Speaker 1>because it's the reason why you see people in the

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<v Speaker 1>left and right make suggestions like this repeal state or

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<v Speaker 1>federal gas taxes is because it's really easy. It's an

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<v Speaker 1>easy way to say, like, I'm looking out for you.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to take care of regular people. Gas is

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<v Speaker 1>too darn expensive already. We've got to do everything we

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<v Speaker 1>can to make your life easier. The problem is the

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<v Speaker 1>Highway Trust Fund, which is absolutely critical for our roads

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<v Speaker 1>being functional, is already always running at a deficit. Twenty

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<v Speaker 1>four it was a deficit of about thirteen billion dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>The main reason for this is that, like transportation, infrastructure

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<v Speaker 1>is aging every single year and falling behind, and at

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<v Speaker 1>the same time that gas tax is not like peg

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<v Speaker 1>to inflation or anything. So it has not been keeping

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<v Speaker 1>pace with the actual needs of the Trust Fund. So anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>we're already in a really bad situation with the HTF.

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<v Speaker 1>Every time we pause these taxes, it gets much worse.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm worried right now that as reasonable it may

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<v Speaker 1>sound and say something like well, we should just have

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<v Speaker 1>the rich pay for that, you're never going to have

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<v Speaker 1>any kind of like move that does both of those

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<v Speaker 1>things at once. They're going to start by repealing the

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<v Speaker 1>gas tax and then they'll never get around to replacing

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<v Speaker 1>it with anything, and then the roads will just be

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<v Speaker 1>bad forever. I think this is a bad idea, and

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<v Speaker 1>I think you should be a little wary of politicians

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<v Speaker 1>doing this because it's an e way to get a win.

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<v Speaker 1>But that said, damn near everybody is, so how wary

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<v Speaker 1>can you actually be. It's just a really irresponsible, bad

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<v Speaker 1>idea that has a lot of bipartisan support.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>Really, Ever since the no tax on tips thing, there's

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<v Speaker 5>there's been this wave of of you know, people have

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<v Speaker 5>called this like slopulist policies or like things that are

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<v Speaker 5>that are that are you know, populist in framing, but

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<v Speaker 5>have certain like economic problems or or get dispersed in

0:55:25.480 --> 0:55:27.640
<v Speaker 5>weird ways, you know, as me has talked about some

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<v Speaker 5>specifics around the no tax on tips policy, But there's

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<v Speaker 5>there's there's been like a wave of these you know,

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<v Speaker 5>small targeted tax cuts on on on various little things

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<v Speaker 5>to kind of lift lift the financial burden that Americans

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<v Speaker 5>are facing, you know, the better ones, you know, ones

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<v Speaker 5>like like like Platinum Strategy, which has a part of

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<v Speaker 5>his plan increasing taxes on billionaires and oil corporations. But

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<v Speaker 5>these words of taxes are just like little band aid

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<v Speaker 5>solutions and that are almost like consolation prizes for not

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<v Speaker 5>being able to raise the corporate tax rate or income

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<v Speaker 5>tax brackets. Right, And it's it's like we're adopting these

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<v Speaker 5>consolation taxes for this presumed impossibility of just actually raising

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<v Speaker 5>taxes to the level of you know, if you look

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<v Speaker 5>at the United States in like the nineteen fifties, super

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<v Speaker 5>super high, super high level of the taxes that actually

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<v Speaker 5>funded social services. And one thing that could be frustrating

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<v Speaker 5>about these these sorts of more like sloppulist tax angles is,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, it undermines the vital role of taxes to

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<v Speaker 5>actually fund social services.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep.

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<v Speaker 5>Now, should more of those taxes be funded by corporations

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<v Speaker 5>and billionaires? Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, but I think that should

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<v Speaker 5>be the focus rather than these little itty bitty kind

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<v Speaker 5>of you know, cutting away at the corners of like small,

0:56:46.880 --> 0:56:49.839
<v Speaker 5>small targeted taxes that are that are again like used

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<v Speaker 5>used as like you know, consolation prizes, rather than actually

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<v Speaker 5>addressing the pretty significant you know, tax reforms that need

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<v Speaker 5>to happen in this country.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's it's just dangerous because it acts as if

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<v Speaker 1>what the gas tax is there the fund is optional,

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<v Speaker 1>is not like necessary, like, well, we don't really need this,

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<v Speaker 1>so we'll pause this whenever like things get bad because

0:57:12.480 --> 0:57:14.399
<v Speaker 1>we don't need them, but we you do, like our

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<v Speaker 1>society is reliant upon the maintenance of that fund, and

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<v Speaker 1>we shouldn't act like it's.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is very frustrating to me.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, you can see why the gas tax in particulars

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<v Speaker 6>appealing right now. Right now, Yes, people are struggling, like

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<v Speaker 6>it is literally seven dollars a gallon in pods of California.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, it's fucking nuts.

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<v Speaker 6>Like people who like a lot of people who struggle

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<v Speaker 6>to make it are really struggling to make it now, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>why our society is set up, means it's very hard

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<v Speaker 6>for people to exist without a car. So you're like, yes,

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<v Speaker 6>the populist appeal is obvious, and.

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<v Speaker 1>As is always the case with this sort of thing,

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<v Speaker 1>the fact that it has an appeal is based on

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<v Speaker 1>ignorance because when roads are poorly maintained, it hosts regular

0:57:56.960 --> 0:57:59.320
<v Speaker 1>people huge amounts of money, and the damage it does

0:57:59.320 --> 0:58:01.960
<v Speaker 1>to their car far more than the gas tax costs.

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<v Speaker 1>This has been established. This is not like I think

0:58:04.960 --> 0:58:07.040
<v Speaker 1>we have to wonder about. There have been studies into this,

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<v Speaker 1>like you pay more money when the roads are bad

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<v Speaker 1>because your car gets fucked up.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, And it's reasonable for people to say, well, a

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<v Speaker 6>country has enough money, can't we unfunck the roads and yes,

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<v Speaker 6>not charge me a lot of money. Unfortunately, we just

0:58:20.840 --> 0:58:24.240
<v Speaker 6>spent thirty billion fucking invading Iran, so no we can't.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you have to not do some of the other

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<v Speaker 2>things that we're doing.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, that it's not up for grabs in the current

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<v Speaker 6>political atmosphere, right, and even your dure like mainstream Democrats, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>aren't going to ride for that.

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<v Speaker 5>No, I mean it requires pressure against mainstream Democrats and

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<v Speaker 5>obviously the Republican establishment as well, right, Like part of

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<v Speaker 5>Platner's plan is a fifty percent per barrel windfall tax

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<v Speaker 5>on big oil profits, which.

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<v Speaker 4>Would be significant.

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<v Speaker 5>But there will be a lot of pushback against this,

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<v Speaker 5>including among the democratic establishment, and that might require getting

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<v Speaker 5>rid of a whole bunch of these democratic establishment figures

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<v Speaker 5>who are currently occupying seats of power.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, well everyone think about that.

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