1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Media. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to electile dysfunction. 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 3: Electile. That's a new one. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, the podcast about Why President Bad, also 5 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: Why World Bad, also Why America Bad. I'm Robert Evans, 6 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 2: Introducer Extraordinaire with Me Today. Garrison, Davis, Mio, Wong, James Stout. 7 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 3: Eventually special segment from James Stout later in the episode. 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,599 Speaker 2: Yes, later, he is being held in custody by the FTC. 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 3: That's not true. You cannot say that because that is 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 3: something that actually could happen over time. So unfortunately he 11 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 3: is not. That's why I made it be the FTC. Garrison. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 4: People will believe us. I don't. People will believe you 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 4: can get arrested by the FTC any day now. 14 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: We could get arrested for the FTC any day now, 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 2: thanks to the ads that I've been reading for British petroleum, 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 2: even though exclusively use American petroleum. 17 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 3: This episode recovering the week of August seven to August thirteen. Yep, 18 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 3: for no, Yes, it's just so we were. I think 19 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 3: it's important to keep up because, yeah, if people refer 20 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 3: back to these episodes, it's good to know what week 21 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 3: we're talking about. 22 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't usually remember what day it is? So yeah, 23 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 2: good to do that, good to remember what day it is? 24 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: Meya you want to start us off? 25 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, need I need to issue a correction about Sesame Street. 26 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 4: I was wrong about Sesame C's structure. Where got a 27 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 4: very street message from someone who works on the show 28 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 4: about the way I talked about it being stripped for parts. 29 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 4: Sesame Street was never actually like ran by PBS. It 30 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 4: was ran by its own independent nonprofit entity, Sesame Workshop, 31 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 4: I believe. Yeah, yes it is not. Yeah, all called 32 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 4: Sesme Workshop. And so the episodes that were being streamed 33 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 4: on HBO Max and I think they're now they've now 34 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 4: moved to like Netflix. Those episodes all did still air 35 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 4: on PBS. However, Comma they only aired nine months later. 36 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 4: But yeah, I want to be clear about that. And 37 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 4: then Garrison, do you want to talk about PBS kind 38 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 4: of not existing anymore. 39 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 3: Well, PBS may still find a way to exist, but 40 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 3: specifically the Corporation for her Public Broadcasting, which helps facilitate 41 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 3: the you know, the funding and the structure and the 42 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 3: operation of things like PBS and your local MPR, after 43 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 3: being defunded by the Trump administration, is now going to 44 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 3: shut down completely. 45 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 4: So yeah, and that's and that's a lot of the 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 4: how a lot of the funding for rural networks particularly 47 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 4: was able to function. If your PBS network is like 48 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 4: mostly not funded by that or they can find other 49 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 4: funding sources, it can survive. But real bad. 50 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: It's pretty disastrous for public media. 51 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 4: Yep. 52 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 3: And like NPR specifically and all of its local affiliates 53 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 3: are some of the best like local news journalism across 54 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,119 Speaker 3: the country, and this is going to be a big 55 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 3: hurdle to get over with the loss of like a 56 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 3: giant in the not just like the like national media space, 57 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 3: but like forournalism and as well as children's educational content. 58 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 4: And it's you know, and it's worth messing to you, 59 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 4: like this is one of the last as sort of 60 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 4: local media and local radio and local newspapers have been 61 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 4: carved out and got out of business and destroyed the adventure 62 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 4: capital firms. NPR was like one of the last local 63 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 4: journalism outlets left in a lot of places, especially in 64 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 4: rural areas, and that's just getting worse. So we hate that. Yeah, 65 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 4: this has been the Sesame Street correction. I deeply apologize 66 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: to the cast and crew and production staff of Sesame Street. 67 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 2: Yes, sorry, particularly to Grover. Not sorry to Elmo. No 68 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 2: apologies down, we saw what Almo was tweeting. I'm on 69 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 2: Larry David's side of that beat. 70 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 3: For our first main story this week, Let's Talk DC. 71 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 3: On Monday, Trump declared it was a liberation day for 72 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 3: the District of Columbia to quote unquote take our capital back, 73 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 3: and officially invoked Section seven four zero of the District 74 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 3: of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the DC Metropolitan 75 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 3: Police Department under direct federal control and order the Secretary 76 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 3: of Defense to mobilize the DC National Guard to quote 77 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 3: address the epidemic of crime in our nation's capital. Along 78 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 3: with this announcement, Trump pleased a presidential memorandum reading, in part, quote, 79 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 3: the local government of the District of Columbia has lost 80 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 3: control of public order and safety in the city. The 81 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 3: mobilization and duration of duty shall remain in effect until 82 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 3: I determine that conditions of law and order have been 83 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 3: restored in the District of Columbia. Robert who in the 84 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 3: past have you heard talk about federalizing the police? 85 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I mean just a Coppola. Guys. There's this dude, Hitler, 86 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 2: who you know, worked with a guy named Hermann Gering 87 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 2: and Heinrich Himmler to do that back in the past. 88 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 2: But that was in Germany, you know, a country totally 89 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 2: different from the United States, almost three four countries away 90 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: from US, so not really not really relevant at all 91 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 2: to anything happening here. 92 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 4: And we can all rest assured it can't happen here. 93 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not Germans. We have a lot of Germans, 94 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 3: but we're not Germans. This is part of Jarvin's writing 95 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 3: on how to take over the government, centralizing the police 96 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 3: as one of the key steps nationalizing local law enforcement, 97 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 3: putting hum under federal control. And here is another version 98 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 3: of enacting such a policy, mainly citing this crime epidemic 99 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 3: in DC, though according to DC Metropolitan Police and their 100 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 3: own crime figures, violent offenses, which peaked in twenty twenty three, 101 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 3: fell to their lowest in twenty twenty four, lowest time 102 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 3: in over thirty years, and now in twenty twenty five 103 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 3: continue to fall even lower than that. Though Trump claims 104 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 3: that these stats, just like uh, just like the Bureau 105 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 3: of Labor stats are all made up. We're all fake. 106 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 4: We'll get to that. 107 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 3: These aren't These aren't real stats. And they're they're they're 108 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 3: assuming that there's there's been fake, fake statisticians who have 109 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 3: been covering up the real, the real crime wave happening 110 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 3: across DC and even across the country. Trump cited three 111 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 3: incidents leading to the federalization of DC police won the 112 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 3: assassination of two Israeli MC staffers in May, a fatal 113 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 3: shooting of a Congressional intern in June, and most recently, 114 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 3: an alleged violent car jacking of the DOGE staffer known 115 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 3: as Big Balls, and a possible future recipient of the 116 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 3: Presidential Medal of Honor Or or Freedom one of the 117 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 3: Metal Honorary. Yeah, well, you know, big Balls. Frankly, it 118 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 3: might have some military credentials based on how he survived 119 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 3: this latest uh, this this latest violent encounter. 120 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 2: Who's to say, this assault from a platoon of Romanians. 121 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, quite quite. Frankly, I feel like we're only about 122 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 4: six to eight months out from him getting like commissioned 123 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 4: as a lieutenant and then them giving him the actual 124 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 4: Medal of Honor, saying there. 125 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 2: I go for his courageous service getting beaten up by 126 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 2: two fifteen year olds. 127 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 3: So this latest incident with mister Balls, I think is 128 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 3: his official title at DOUGH. We're now the Social Security Administration. 129 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 4: Not related to Ed Bolls. 130 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 3: Different balls, but the very different guys. This latest incident 131 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 3: with mister Balls seemed to tip Trump over, though this 132 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 3: is something that he has lofted for months and months 133 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 3: he's been wanting to do this. On Tuesday night, forty 134 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 3: three arrests were made in DC in relation to the 135 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 3: federal seizure of police. Four and fifty officers were part 136 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 3: of this operation, half from DC Metro Police, which are 137 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 3: now federalized. So far, only thirty National Guard troops have 138 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 3: been deployed, but around eight hundred are on the way. 139 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 3: On Wednesday, Trump discussed extending his control of DC police 140 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 3: past the thirty day limit. 141 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: Thank you, mister President. 142 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 5: Your federalization of the police has a thirty day limit 143 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 5: unless Congress acts to extend it. Are you talking to 144 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 5: Congress about extending it or do you believe thirty days 145 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 5: is sufficient? 146 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 6: Well, if it's a national emergency, we can do it 147 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 6: without Congress, but we expect to be to Congress before 148 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 6: Congress very quickly. And again, we think the Democrats will 149 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 6: not do anything to stop. 150 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: Crime, but we think the Republicans will do it. Almost unanimously. 151 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 6: So we're going to need a crime bill that we're 152 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 6: going to be putting in and it's going to pertain 153 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 6: initially to DC. 154 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: It's almost we're going to use. 155 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 6: It as a very positive example, and we're going to 156 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 6: be asking for extensions on that, long term extensions, because 157 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 6: you can't have thirty days. Thirty days is that's by 158 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 6: the time you do it. We're going to have this 159 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 6: in good shape. And don't forget in the border. Everyone 160 00:08:57,960 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 6: said it would take years and you'd have to go 161 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 6: back to Congress. I never went to Congress for anything. 162 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 6: I just said close the border, and he closed the 163 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 6: border and that was the end of it. I didn't 164 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 6: go back to Congress. We're going to do this very quickly, 165 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 6: but we're going to want extensions. I don't want to 166 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 6: call a national emergency. If I have to, I will, 167 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 6: but I think the Republicans in Congress will approve this 168 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 6: pretty much unanimously. 169 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 4: Don't like that. 170 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 3: No, it's pretty dictatorial on like a y base level quote. 171 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 3: If it's a national emergency, we can do it without Congress. 172 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 4: It's very Palpatine emergency powers coded. 173 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 3: And I'm not sure if if Lucas was pulling on 174 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 3: any real world examples for Star Wars the prequels, or 175 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 3: if he was just pulling all that shit out of 176 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 3: his ass, who knows, it seems pretty fanciful. Defense Secretary 177 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 3: Pete heg Seth told his former co workers on Fox 178 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 3: News that it's unknown how long DC will be under 179 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 3: this militarized occupation. 180 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 5: He's got the guts to say, I'm to federalize the 181 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 5: police that are that don't work. I'm going to bring 182 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,679 Speaker 5: in the National Guard, I'm going to bring in federal marshals. 183 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to bring in the park police. How almost What. 184 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 5: Is the cost money? 185 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: Right? 186 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 7: It cost money? 187 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 3: And the question is are you there for a year? 188 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 3: Are you there for six months? And when the troops 189 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 3: pull out, what happened? 190 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 4: I would call this conditions based. 191 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 5: I would say it's a situation where we're here to 192 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 5: support law enforcement. Uh and the more we can free 193 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 5: them up to do their job, the more effective. 194 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 4: They can be, the more we can work. 195 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 5: I mean, this isn't my realm, but the justice system 196 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 5: to make sure people who are arrested are actually locked up. 197 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 5: That's why the President's talking about cash list, bear bail, 198 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 5: and sanctuary cities. If you're illegal here in DC, that's 199 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 5: going to be a problem. So all of these things 200 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 5: that apply to law and order are are front and 201 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 5: center for us. And I don't know, weeks, months, what 202 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 5: will it take. That's the President's call, but we're going 203 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 5: to be there for him to execute as swiftly. 204 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 3: As possible, conditions based. 205 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 4: It's real, Like Warren Rock vibes. 206 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of the these days. Yeah, got a 207 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 2: mission accomplished coming out of the Trump administration too, because 208 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 2: they've learned that, like there's no consequence in just saying like, yeah, 209 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 2: we close the border and we won the borders won 210 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 2: You know, it's done. No one's going to get to 211 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 2: their base with a counter opinion that matters. 212 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 3: As bad as things are in DC right now, this 213 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 3: is just the start of what they want to do. 214 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 3: Trump seeks to make a quote a quick example of DC, 215 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 3: but soon wants to go further and attempt this in 216 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 3: other cities, first naming places like Chicago and Los Angeles, 217 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 3: and then later New York, Baltimore and Oakland. 218 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: We have other cities that are very bad. 219 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 6: New York has a problem, and then you have of 220 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 6: course Baltimore and Oakland. 221 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: We don't even mentioned that anymore. 222 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 6: There's so they're so far gone, We're not gonna let 223 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 6: it happen. We're not gonna lose our cities over this, 224 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 6: and this will go further. 225 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: We're starting very strongly with DC and we're going to 226 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,599 Speaker 1: clean it up really pretty quickly. As they say. 227 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 3: We're not going to lose our cities over this, that 228 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 3: gets into like the core part of their framing this, 229 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 3: this idea that homeless people and criminals cough cough black 230 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 3: people are making us lose, like lose our cities. They're 231 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 3: so far gone and this is necessary for such reasons, 232 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 3: and like you can look at that pretty clearly. And 233 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 3: he's naming like Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago, New York like it's 234 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 3: it's it's not it's not very masked here. 235 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:30,319 Speaker 4: Yeah. 236 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 3: I talked with DC resident bridget Todd this morning. We 237 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 3: should have an episode with her perspective coming out early 238 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 3: next week. I think Sunday night. 239 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 2: I wrote an episode early this year laying out, you know, 240 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 2: some of my predictions for the year, and this along 241 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 2: with weird terrorism, we're two of like my big ones, 242 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 2: right that that DC in particular, he would be attempting 243 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 2: to fill with soldiers and probably invoke the Insurrection Act. Now, 244 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 2: one thing that I have been surprised on is that 245 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 2: they really do seem kind of hesitant to go full 246 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 2: in on the Insurrection Act. And obviously I didn't expect 247 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 2: LA to get troops deployed in it before DC, but 248 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 2: just based on what they were saying, like after the election, 249 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 2: kind of as he was preparing to take office, it 250 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 2: was very clear that they were looking at DC as 251 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 2: a focus, in part because they had, you know, during 252 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 2: his last term as well. Right, this is not entirely unprecedented, 253 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 2: but his desire to specifically not just take away any 254 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 2: sort of autonomy that the city has and put it 255 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 2: under direct federal control. But to see troops in the 256 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 2: streets and federal agents in the streets is not surprising. 257 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 2: It's something that like, it's not even should be I 258 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 2: honestly shouldn't even call it a prediction. It's just something 259 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 2: he's been repeatedly saying he's going to do. So the 260 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 2: fact that it's happening now, you know, the only thing 261 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 2: that's surprising to me is that it happened in LA first, right, 262 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 2: and that they really do seem to have and who knows. 263 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 2: You know, this could change by the time the episode airs, 264 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 2: but they do seem to have something of a I 265 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 2: don't know if a block is the right way to 266 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 2: phrase it, but they don't seem yet willing to go 267 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 2: for the Insurrection Act. That still seems to be a 268 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: bridge too far for some reason. I'm not one hundred 269 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:11,079 Speaker 2: percent sure why. 270 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 4: I think. I think they're worried about like massive backlash 271 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 4: to it, like they're really unpopular, and. 272 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 3: Right, I mean, they also just don't need to Yeah, 273 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 3: that's that's a fair point. Gar they have this like 274 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 3: section seven forty to call on, and if Trump's going 275 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 3: to try to get Congress to pass a new crime 276 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 3: bill that can allow them to do this kind of 277 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 3: stuff without having to use the Insurrection Act. So I 278 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 3: think it's more of like a matter of necessity, Yeah, 279 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 3: just maybe just a risk they don't think they need 280 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 3: to take. Yeah, and like who knows what type of 281 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 3: weird shit they would try to push into a crime bill, 282 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 3: including like exceptions for almost any city to have their 283 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 3: police force be federalized. 284 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 4: I think the interesting part of this to me is 285 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 4: also so that like it feels like a lot of 286 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 4: what their politics is is like the spectacle of making 287 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 4: it look like there's power there versus like actually doing 288 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 4: the thing, because like you can't actually hold DC with 289 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 4: eight hundred National guardsmen, and like, you know, if if 290 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 4: you look at what happened in LA, they kind of 291 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 4: like declared victory, but then the actual thing they came 292 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 4: there to do, which was like do this like unpresented 293 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 4: mass deportation with they did some of it, and then 294 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 4: they got right out of the city. And so I think, 295 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 4: I don't know. I think I think there's a kind 296 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 4: of apocalyptic framing of this where it's like, Okay, well 297 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 4: it's over, they can just do this. But also it 298 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 4: has not been going well for them. And like was 299 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 4: it from DC that the video of the guy of 300 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 4: the guy just like throwing a sandwich at the National 301 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 4: Guard throwing a subway sandwich? Yes, yeah, right, Like actual 302 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 4: regular people really don't like them. And I think I 303 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 4: think we're just going to see escalating resistance as more 304 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 4: than like fucking eighty guys get deployed there. And I 305 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 4: don't know, it's unclear to me whether they can actually 306 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 4: just like maintain this or if they're just gonna say, 307 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 4: like we did it. Joe in like thirty days and 308 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 4: pull out, right. 309 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 3: That's kind of what some of the rhetoric looks like, 310 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 3: is that they're going to try to arrest as many 311 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 3: homeless people as they can, put them in jails, lock 312 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 3: them up into hospitals, like the executive order that we 313 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,239 Speaker 3: mentioned a few weeks ago. Yeah, and like scare teenagers, 314 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 3: and that's most of what they want out of this, 315 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 3: and they're going to make a big show of it. 316 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 3: And then they'll yeah, declare that the city is now safe, 317 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 3: and then they'll use the legitimate crime stats showing crime 318 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 3: falling and be like, look, we proved it, so that 319 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 3: I think that is probably what it will what it 320 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 3: will turn out to be. But if they try to 321 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 3: push forward to a new crime bill like Trump is mentioning, 322 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 3: or call it a national emergency to help strengthen his 323 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 3: own powers, I think that's indications that this could have 324 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 3: some longer lasting results. Let's go on and ad break 325 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 3: and return to talk terrif I suppose. 326 00:16:48,040 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get to that and we're back. 327 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 2: And obviously the big tariff news this week, as we'll 328 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 2: get to, well, one of the pieces of big tariff 329 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 2: news is that Trump has ordered another extension of the 330 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 2: kind of delay before enacting tariffs against China. You might 331 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 2: say Trump looked at his tariffs against China and decided 332 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 2: tariff He no like it. 333 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 8: Lie jazz lighty jazz sorry lot, lie jazz bin lie 334 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 8: jazz bline. 335 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 3: Okay, that was min true talk tariffs honestly. 336 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 4: Okay, So this is kind of a light tariff news week. 337 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 4: There isn't that much. Also, because if you want to 338 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 4: hear me talking about tarriffs for like forty five minutes, 339 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 4: go listen to the episode on Wednesday. 340 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 2: You just did a tariff episode. I just really wanted 341 00:17:58,240 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 2: to lead into the tariff thing that way. 342 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 343 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 3: No, there is actually a very important piece of tariff 344 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 3: news today. Arizona iced tea is considering raising prices for 345 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,959 Speaker 3: the first time in over thirty years due to Trump's 346 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 3: fifty percent aluminum tariffs. 347 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 2: All right, everyone get off the call right now. It 348 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 2: is time to riot, find it building, burn it down. No, 349 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 2: this is this is not a drill. 350 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 3: Not acceptable. Arizona iced tea has been the shining beacon 351 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 3: resisting inflation for decades. The proof proof that inflation is 352 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 3: fake is on every Arizona iced tea can and if 353 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 3: Trump's gonna take it away from us, burn the whole 354 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 3: system down. Yeah, that's it. I want CEO handing out 355 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 3: cans to throw at your at your local government building 356 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 3: of choice, to defend the ninety nine cent can. It's 357 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,679 Speaker 3: one of the important aspects of American culture. 358 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,120 Speaker 2: It's the only thing left of the American dream. It's 359 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 2: the one last piece of the American dream is a 360 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 2: ninety nine cent can of Arizona iced tea. 361 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 3: That's all we have left. Fifty percent aluminium tariffs will 362 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 3: not take this away from US aluminium. Yeah, just just 363 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 3: move past it. Maya, forget it. It's it's Canadian. 364 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 4: Where are it going on? Okay? This is actually a 365 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 4: good way to pivot into the just complete mess at 366 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 4: the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So one of the things 367 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 4: that Trump has been really harping on is so the 368 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 4: Buera of Laboratistics published a jobs report and it was bad. 369 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 4: And Trump has been absolutely furious about this ever since. 370 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 4: And we will actually come back to I think we 371 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 4: will literally come back to the Arizona cans after this, 372 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 4: thank God. But however, good Lord, the people they are 373 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 4: trying to put an office right now, I so long 374 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 4: ago in the galaxy far far away, I made an 375 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 4: argue that Trump regime is built on peer stupidity, that 376 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 4: there is no plan at all. There is only, you know, 377 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 4: a raviting mall of the oblivion of reason that obliterates 378 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 4: all attempts to comprehend it and leaves only the words, yes, 379 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 4: they really are that stupid. And this argument was about 380 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,239 Speaker 4: a guy named Stefan Miron who was Trump's share of 381 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 4: the Council of Economic Advisors and his plan to like 382 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 4: make other countries pay taxes on holding US bonds, a 383 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 4: thing that is just unequivocally good for the United States. 384 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 4: And you know, this is a plan. You can go 385 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 4: back and listen to that episode from a few months ago. 386 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 4: This is a plan so monumentally stupid that the only 387 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 4: way I can think of describing it was like yelling 388 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 4: at the moon to stop the tides. Anyways, Trump is 389 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 4: trying to get that guy appointed to be one of 390 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 4: the board members of the Federal Reserve. And the staggering 391 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 4: thing about that isn't just that he's doing this. It's 392 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 4: not like this is not the guy who's in the 393 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 4: news right now for being unbelievably stupid and getting apointed 394 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 4: to an extremely important ructural agency of the American economy 395 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 4: because they are trying to appoint senior economists at the 396 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 4: Heritage Foundation EJ and Tony as the head of the 397 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 4: Bureau of Labor Statistics after they fired the last head 398 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 4: for like releasing the job support. Right, this guy, Okay, 399 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 4: I make fun of economists for being dumb as shit 400 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 4: all the time. He might legitimately be the stupidest economist 401 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 4: I have ever seen. Just on Blue Sky, like the 402 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 4: day this was announced, right, I saw someone dunking on 403 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 4: him for drawing a chart where he doesn't seem to 404 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 4: understand that people retire and that when they retire they're 405 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 4: not in the labor force anymore. Where he was doing 406 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 4: this trend line that was based on the assumption that 407 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 4: like people wouldn't retire. There are so many just incredibly 408 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 4: basic economics since he doesn't understand. There's a post that 409 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 4: I saw. This is the first one. That was the 410 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 4: second one that I saw, the first one that I saw, 411 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 4: And it's really funny because this is like in the 412 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 4: New York Times now, but I just like saw this 413 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 4: on Blue Sky. Was this post by this econs name 414 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 4: Joey Paulitano, who said, quote an economists so dumb. I 415 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 4: had to explain to him how the price index works. 416 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 4: Will now lead the BLS kill me good. So he 417 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 4: was doing his thing where he was like posting the 418 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 4: price index and being like, prices aren't going up. But 419 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 4: the thing about the import price index is that it 420 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 4: calculates price is pre tariffs. Okay, so of course they 421 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:24,479 Speaker 4: wouldn't go up because they're not calculating the tariffs. And 422 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 4: he was posting this as like, no, see, the terrorists 423 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 4: don't do inflation. Ugh, he is he's being chosen for 424 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 4: this position because he is just like a rigid ideologue 425 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 4: of the Trump administration, right, but he's also he's so 426 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 4: fucking stupid that things are happening. I have never seen 427 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 4: with right wing economisy before, where other right wing economists 428 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 4: are going like, this guy can't be allowed to take office. 429 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 4: He's going to fuck everything up because he's too dumb. 430 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 4: Like I am watching economists at the Manhattan Institute, which 431 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 4: is an organization that was literally founded by Reagan's Director 432 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 4: of the CIA, William Casey, right like that the Manhattan 433 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 4: Institute is a right wing institute, right, Like again, this 434 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 4: is this is this is an organization founded by Ronald 435 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 4: fucking Reagan's CIA director. And I am watching those people go, 436 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 4: this guy is too stupid to be put in office. 437 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 4: Please don't put him there. This is unprecedented. I've never 438 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 4: seen right wing economists break rank on the sort of 439 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 4: like affirmative action program they all have for like really 440 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 4: really underachieving right wing shithead economists. It's astonishing and so 441 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 4: and the reason he's being brought in and this is 442 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 4: also the reason he was like the chief economist of 443 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 4: the Herritor's Foundation, is that he has been calling for 444 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 4: getting rid of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and also 445 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 4: thinks that again like like Trump does it, they've been 446 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 4: like cooking the books to make Democrats look good and 447 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 4: Republicans look bad. And so if he gets appointed and 448 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 4: this is also like goes to the Senate, but him 449 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 4: being appointed here effectively signals the end of independent economic 450 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 4: data from the federal governments, hooray, which is a just 451 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 4: catastrophic Like every single part of the government's, every policy organization, 452 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 4: every like, every every single element, every corporation, every element 453 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 4: of the entire US economic system relies on this data 454 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 4: being nonpartisan and accurate, and it's obviously like yeah, all, 455 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,159 Speaker 4: like all data is political, but like it being like 456 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 4: reasonably accurate is like the defining thing about the US 457 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 4: economy is that this data is there and functions and 458 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 4: this is what everyone based their decisions off of. And 459 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 4: he very much looks like he wants to just end that, 460 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 4: and I want to close by noting that're like one 461 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 4: of you know, at the very end of the Soviet Union, 462 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 4: right one of the things that was taken as like 463 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 4: the giant signal that things were going to shit there 464 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 4: was that like their leadership by like the like the 465 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 4: mid late eighties was deploying satellites specifically so they could 466 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 4: use satellite imagery to check the output of their own 467 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 4: factories because they're they're their control of the economic statistics 468 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 4: had become so like just annihilate right by just like 469 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 4: mass falsification, their loss of control over the standards that 470 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 4: they're measuring. Regime was seen. It's like, this is the 471 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 4: regime falling apart, and we are like eight months out 472 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 4: from Google doing that shit, right, Like we are not 473 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 4: very far out from companies doing a thing you have 474 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 4: to do with like remote provinces in China, where the 475 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 4: fault were, like there's data falsification of like okay, we're 476 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 4: like using satellite data to like measure freight loads and 477 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 4: like measure electrical consumption and like figuring out what factories 478 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 4: are open at night to figure out how much that's 479 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 4: You know that that is something that is very much 480 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 4: in our future. I'm only kind of joking about the 481 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 4: satellite shit. I think we probably will live to see that, 482 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 4: assuming this thing goes through, assuming they remember how to 483 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 4: launch satellites. Well it won't. It won't be them, It'll 484 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,360 Speaker 4: be it'll be like corporations doing this. Oh sure, sure, yeah, 485 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 4: like you using their own satellite grads. 486 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 3: And I mean I can, I can. I can see 487 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 3: the uh yeah, the Blue Origin satellites launching to keep 488 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 3: track on it, to keep track of Amazon's efficiency. 489 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh good lord. Yeah. I want to close 490 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 4: on like one final brief note, which I've said this before, 491 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 4: but I want to say it again. This is the 492 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 4: exact thing that but like one is. One of the 493 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 4: big things that brought down the military katorship in Brazil 494 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 4: was that they were lying about inflation data. You know, 495 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 4: the thing about inflation is that you can just see 496 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 4: the price of the Arizona can go up. 497 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 2: Just like you can see Huey Dewey and how we 498 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 2: expand and our favorite inflation fetish pornography. 499 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 4: They don't give me Hazard pay for this. They really 500 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 4: should Hazard. 501 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 3: I feel like this is a bonus. 502 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 4: Oh, I guess this is also mentioned. Part of the 503 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 4: reason they're trying to put this like absolute clown on 504 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 4: the board of the Federal Reserve is that they want 505 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 4: to replace the Chairman of the Federal Reserve so that 506 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 4: Trump can just directly set interest rates. That's a looming 507 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 4: crisis that is coming. 508 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 3: Trump is threatening to sue the head of the Federal 509 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 3: Reserve right now. 510 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,640 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. 511 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 2: He is yep, he sharees, which is a fasc's gonna 512 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 2: be amazing precedent. I am excited. 513 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 4: Oh it's it's astonishing. I don't know. It's been very 514 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 4: funny because a lot of the kind of internal publications 515 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 4: from like the banks about this have been like, ah, 516 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 4: if you're a Boostero and Powell, it's not that big 517 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 4: of a deal. Like the banks can like autonomously said 518 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 4: interest race technically without the Chairman of the Veederal Reserve 519 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 4: and it's like, Okay, I don't think you understand how 520 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 4: bad this is going to get. So we're we're still 521 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 4: in cope. I don't know what we'll report to you 522 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,639 Speaker 4: back on the show when all of that enormous clusterfug 523 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 4: blows up. 524 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 3: Yay, before we go and break again, I'd like to 525 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,160 Speaker 3: have an update for one of the stories we talked 526 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 3: about last week, the Texas Democrats fleeing to Illinois and 527 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 3: then later to California to brick orm to stop or 528 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 3: delay a redistricting vote in Texas. And now Texas Democrats 529 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 3: are set to come back home, possibly as soon as 530 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 3: this weekend. Yes, after govern Greg Abbot ended the special 531 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 3: session to redraw the congressional map, which would add five 532 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,479 Speaker 3: new Republican House seats. With some Democrats expected to return 533 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 3: very soon, nothing stops Abbot from just calling another special 534 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 3: session once the Democrats return. In fact, he has said 535 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 3: that that's exactly what he's gonna do. He's definitely going 536 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 3: to do that, yes, and add in new legislation to 537 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 3: convince some of them to stay. So we will see 538 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 3: that they can just leave the state again if they 539 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 3: want to m hm, unclear, if unclear, if they will. 540 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 3: I mean, other states are threatening retaliatory redistricting, specifically the 541 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 3: governors of New York and California. This is going to 542 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 3: be a really annoying mess with different with different states 543 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 3: all redrawing their maps just to create some kind of 544 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 3: congressional balance. Of Florida also threatening to do the same. 545 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 3: So we will we will see how this develops over time. 546 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 3: But yeah, Texas Dems may be home sooner than expected. 547 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 4: It's so cool that on the one hand, you have 548 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,959 Speaker 4: the Republicans creating the image of tyranny and then expanding 549 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 4: their actual power, and then you have the Democrats doing 550 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 4: the image of resistance and then giving in. 551 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 3: I mean they're not really giving in yet. 552 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. 553 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 3: But they are going home because this session is ended. 554 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 4: Yeah. 555 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 3: What still remains to be seen is if they will 556 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 3: flee the state a second time, like a week later. 557 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, which who knows. I have little faith in that, 558 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 4: but we'll see. 559 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure at this point. Yeah, but I 560 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 3: thought we should include that small update there, and now 561 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 3: we should include a secondary ad break. Okay, we are back. 562 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 3: In other news. Last week, on Friday, a mass shooting 563 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 3: was targeted against the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The 564 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 3: thirty year old shooter broken to his father's safe to retreat. 565 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 3: Five firearms were then used in the attack. The shooting 566 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 3: started at a CVS across from the CDC main entrance. 567 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 3: Shooter then fired upon six buildings on the CDC campus, 568 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,479 Speaker 3: with the total five hundred rounds being fired during the incident, 569 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 3: with two hundred shots hitting CDC buildings. One Decab County 570 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 3: police officer was killed. The shooter later shot and killed himself. 571 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 3: Police were contacted several weeks before the shooting by unknown 572 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 3: individuals due to quote recently verbalized thoughts of suicide. According 573 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 3: to the GBI director Chris Hosey, this was about the 574 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 3: soon to become shooter. Police found written documents from the 575 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 3: shooter expressing distrust in the COVID nineteen vaccine. Georgia Bureau 576 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 3: of Investigation Director Josey said the shooter quote wanted to 577 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 3: make the public aware of his discontent with and distrust 578 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 3: of the vaccine, with sources who knew him telling ABC 579 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 3: News he blamed the vaccine for making him sick and depressed. 580 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 3: The CDC director sent a letter to its ten thousand 581 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 3: employees earlier this week, saying, quote the dangers of misinformation 582 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 3: and its promulgation has now led to deadly consequences unquote. 583 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 3: The Monday after shooting, RFK Junior oh No, who recently 584 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 3: defunded mRNA Vaccines, visited the CDC campus to express condolences 585 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 3: for the family of the officer killed, as well as 586 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 3: to quote offers support to all of the CDC employees 587 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 3: who are a part of a shining star health agency 588 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 3: around the world. To quote from an interview he gave 589 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 3: with Scripts News, when Kennedy was asked what would be 590 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 3: done to stop the spread of vaccine misinformation to prevent 591 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 3: future incidents like this shooting, Kennedy said, quote people can 592 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 3: ask questions without being penalized, and quote we don't know 593 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 3: enough about what the motive was of this individual. 594 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 4: Quote hate that. 595 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 3: That's all pretty pretty disgusting seeing narratives that RFK Junior 596 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 3: has promoted for his own profit for years yep being 597 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 3: used to justify as shooting targeting the CDC headquarters. 598 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's you know, it's kind of unclear exactly 599 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 2: what because it seems like he was shooting at the buildings. 600 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 2: He fired at least two hundred rounds, roughly two hundred 601 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 2: rounds into the buildings, about five hundred rounds fighter total. 602 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 2: But I've seen people say that means he was like 603 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 2: shot five hundred He did not that a lot of 604 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 2: those rounds are the police. 605 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 3: No, that's the host of them or the police. 606 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 2: You know, two or three hundred rounds would not at 607 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 2: all be odd for how many police would fire in 608 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 2: response to a guy like this who is just bag dumping, 609 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 2: you know, into a building. It's unclear to me did 610 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 2: he see people through the windows and was he trying 611 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 2: to hit them or was he just shooting at the 612 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 2: buildings to make a statement. The fact that he did 613 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 2: shoot and kill a police officer, presumably with intent, makes 614 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 2: it more likely that maybe he he was trying to 615 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 2: hit people inside the building. I don't know how much 616 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 2: it's worth splitting hairs here, but I am like, it 617 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 2: is kind of unclear to me. Was his goal more 618 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 2: to make a statement or was he hoping to like 619 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 2: rack up a body count of CDC employees and this 620 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 2: was just as close as he could get. I don't 621 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 2: think we really know, Maybe we probably never will. 622 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 3: It seems he had trouble accessing or getting close to 623 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 3: some buildings on the CDC campus. This was mostly done 624 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 3: from the CVS, which he at a certain point, according 625 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 3: to police reports, he could not get out of. He 626 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 3: was locked inside the CVS what and tried to exit 627 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 3: by shooting like the windows and doors, and was unable 628 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 3: to and then killed himself inside. 629 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 4: Huh jeez. 630 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 3: So it is a kind of odd situation. We don't 631 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 3: have a clear idea yet because this just happened a 632 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 3: few days ago. We don't have a clear idea yet 633 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 3: of like the exact on the ground situation, just these 634 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 3: kind of general facts about which buildings were hit and 635 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 3: how many shots were fire and then the anti vaxic 636 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 3: opinions and writing found allegedly in his home. 637 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll say more will come out about this 638 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 2: in time, but I mean the basics are pretty clear, 639 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,880 Speaker 2: which is that this is the natural extension of decades 640 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 2: of anti vaccine rhetoric and specifically the last several years 641 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 2: of OURFK relentlessly attacking the CDC. 642 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 3: Now the piece of news this week that I should mention, 643 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 3: though frankly, we don't have much to stay on this 644 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 3: because it's unclear this will actually turn into anything real 645 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 3: or not. But later this falls, the Supreme Court will 646 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 3: consider whether to take a case that could overturn the 647 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 3: national ruling on gay marriage. This specific case that they 648 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 3: would be considering has not done very well in all 649 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,359 Speaker 3: lower federal courts, which is why it's been appealed to 650 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,280 Speaker 3: this level. The legal justifications used for the First Amendment 651 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 3: have not made much progress in federal appeals courts so far. 652 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,880 Speaker 3: If the case does get chosen, it would be primarily 653 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 3: for like ideological reasons based on specific new Supreme Court justices. 654 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 3: But it is still unclear if this will get accepted, 655 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 3: and I'm thinking not super likely. I don't think this 656 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,400 Speaker 3: is something that we need to have tons of panic 657 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:17,240 Speaker 3: about at the moment. 658 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 4: So something that I mean, I don't know if panic's 659 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 4: the right word, but did actually happen and is very bad? 660 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,439 Speaker 4: Is that? So Trump issued an executive order a while 661 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 4: back about like getting rid of collective bargaining rights for 662 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,520 Speaker 4: a bunch of different kinds of government employees, like nominally 663 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 4: under the auspices of national security. There'd been a whole 664 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 4: bunch of court cases kind of winding the way through 665 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,280 Speaker 4: the courts. But last week, the VA became the first 666 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 4: government agency to actually do it. They just straight up 667 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 4: got rid of the union contracts for three hundred and 668 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 4: seventy seven thousand workers. Like, three hundred and seventy seven 669 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 4: thousand workers is an astonishing number of workers to just 670 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 4: straight up the union doesn't exist the next day, Yeah right, 671 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 4: because they just their contracts aren't being recognized. This in 672 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 4: and of its self is really stunning, and also the 673 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 4: lack of response by the union movement, especially considering the 674 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 4: number of people involved. It's just been like strongly worded 675 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 4: statements and encouragements for the Democrats to pass a bill 676 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 4: through Congress to like recognize collective bargaining rights, which speaks 677 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 4: really really ill of the broader labor movement that like again, 678 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,920 Speaker 4: they just they just took away the unions of almost 679 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,319 Speaker 4: four hundred thousand people, and Organized Laborer's collective response was 680 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 4: just to kind of shrug. So that's really fucking bleak. 681 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 4: It's probably going to be spreading to more agencies as 682 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,920 Speaker 4: this plays out. Yeah, it's really I don't know. And 683 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 4: even the language unions of using it talk about it, 684 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,839 Speaker 4: they're like, oh, this is union busting for speaking out 685 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,920 Speaker 4: against anti worker policies, and it's like no, it's union 686 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 4: busting because they literally got rid of the unions of 687 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,200 Speaker 4: three hundred and seventy seven thousand people. What are we 688 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 4: doing here? I don't know. I'm gonna have more on 689 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,399 Speaker 4: this as I get more word from union sources. There's 690 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 4: a staggering lack of information about this, and people are 691 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,360 Speaker 4: being slow to respond, but I want to mention it 692 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:09,440 Speaker 4: here because it's devastating and hideous and yeah, it's real 693 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:10,240 Speaker 4: fucking bad. 694 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,480 Speaker 3: Before we close this episode, James Stout has a special 695 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 3: report on immigration and information about a fundraiser. 696 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 7: James, all right, So, immigration report. With the change of 697 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 7: the month, children across the country are returning to schools. 698 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 7: This means that ICE agents are also returning to enforcement 699 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 7: at schools. Not just ICE agents as we know at 700 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,720 Speaker 7: the Federal Agents Board, Patrol ATFDA, etc. Are all taking 701 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 7: part in immigration enforcement now they're no longer restrained by 702 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 7: the Sensitive Places doctrine, which previously stopped them from doing 703 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,279 Speaker 7: enforcement at schools and churches and other places where it's 704 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 7: generally considered not worth it because doing so obviously provides 705 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,800 Speaker 7: a massive disincentive for families to take their children to school. 706 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 7: In this instance, in Chula Vista, second largest city in 707 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 7: the county San Diego. I detained a parent a block 708 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,400 Speaker 7: away from a school, leaving two young children in the car. 709 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 7: Like most schools in the area, to Ula Vista Elementary 710 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 7: School District will not allow ice on campus without a 711 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,360 Speaker 7: warrant unless there's an active emergency. Just to explain that 712 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,040 Speaker 7: active emergency thing a bit, I guess, for instance, in Uvalde, 713 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,279 Speaker 7: because all the local cops were coward and stood outside, 714 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 7: it was actually a border patrol team or attack specifically 715 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,239 Speaker 7: who killed the shooter there, So that would be an 716 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,839 Speaker 7: example of when immigration agents might enter a campus during 717 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 7: an active emergency. In Los Angeles, a fifteen year old 718 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,200 Speaker 7: boy with disabilities was pulled from a car, handcuffed, and 719 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:40,440 Speaker 7: detained by federal agents at gunpoint. He was accompanying a 720 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 7: relative who was registering at the school, and he was 721 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,720 Speaker 7: in the car with his grandmother. The agents, who appeared 722 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,160 Speaker 7: to be border patrol from videos i've seen, release the 723 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,960 Speaker 7: boy after intervention by school staff and left live ammunition 724 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,359 Speaker 7: on the sidewalk. For some reason, these looked like five 725 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,080 Speaker 7: five six rounds from the pictures I've seen, I'm guessing 726 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,839 Speaker 7: it's just all weapons handling procedures. 727 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 3: Here, it appears that this. 728 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,320 Speaker 7: Boy was not the person they were looking for, but 729 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 7: nonetheless they've obviously horrifically traumatized this young man for no 730 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:14,960 Speaker 7: good reason. In response, LA Unified School District is ramping 731 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:20,800 Speaker 7: up safety patrols. These include volunteers, teachers, and school cops. Apparently, obviously, 732 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,319 Speaker 7: school cops cannot directly prevent immigration enforcement officers from doing 733 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,480 Speaker 7: immigration enforcement, but they can notify people of their presence, 734 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,719 Speaker 7: and they're trying to have safe zones around school so 735 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,799 Speaker 7: that people can safely walk to school or safety drop 736 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:39,200 Speaker 7: their kids off. They're also changing their bus programs. Buses 737 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,360 Speaker 7: are part of the school district's property right, So, just 738 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,879 Speaker 7: as ice could not enter a school without a warrant, 739 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 7: nor could they enter that bus without a warrant, and 740 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,760 Speaker 7: it would be within the training of the bus driver 741 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,319 Speaker 7: to deny them access if they did not have a 742 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,560 Speaker 7: warrant right. So the bus would potentially be a much 743 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,759 Speaker 7: safer way for people to get to school than having 744 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,960 Speaker 7: their parents drive them. And sola USD is doing is 745 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 7: expanding their bus programs in LA. I've seen a lot 746 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,239 Speaker 7: of information on this in the resource guide that was 747 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,440 Speaker 7: published by the LA Office of Immigration Affairs. So now 748 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,320 Speaker 7: is a good time to remind everyone that San Diego 749 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:18,120 Speaker 7: Mayor Todd Gloria defunded the San Diego Office of Immigrant 750 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 7: Affairs because he refuses to stop giving the cops a 751 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 7: fire hose of our money. This has left migrants in 752 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,680 Speaker 7: one of America's largest border cities even more vulnerable. We're 753 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:34,040 Speaker 7: also doing a fundraiser this week. We're going to fund 754 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,120 Speaker 7: raised for Bouquet again. I'm going to go see her 755 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:42,040 Speaker 7: later this week. I know she has hearings coming up. Bouquette, 756 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,320 Speaker 7: for those who do not remember, is an a Levy 757 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,320 Speaker 7: Kurdish woman. Because of her ethnicity and religion, she wasn't 758 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 7: safe in Turkey and she came to the USA to 759 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,839 Speaker 7: ask for refuge. She's been in San Diego for six 760 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,640 Speaker 7: months right now, and she is trying to raise money 761 00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,879 Speaker 7: for her asylum case. She can't work because she doesn't 762 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:03,080 Speaker 7: have work permit, and she has cancer, which is obviously 763 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,440 Speaker 7: something which is very difficult for her to manage alongside 764 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:11,799 Speaker 7: the massive stress of immigration enforcement. Right now, she needs 765 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,040 Speaker 7: to raise seven thousand dollars to pay her lawyer. I'm 766 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,239 Speaker 7: looking at the GoFundMe as I record this and it 767 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,400 Speaker 7: is at one thousand, nine hundred and forty one dollars. 768 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:23,759 Speaker 7: If you would like to help, you can go to 769 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:31,400 Speaker 7: www dot GoFundMe dot com, slash f slash urgent, hyphen help, 770 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:38,880 Speaker 7: hyphen four, hyphen bouquette, b uk e t s, hyphen asylum, 771 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 7: hyphen case, or you can just go down as a 772 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,640 Speaker 7: show notes and click the link. We really appreciate the 773 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:45,840 Speaker 7: support you guys have given. 774 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,520 Speaker 3: Thank you to James for that. Well, I guess that's 775 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,040 Speaker 3: our week. We reported the news, We reported the news. 776 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 3: It could Happen Here is a production of cool Zone Media. 777 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 3: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website 778 00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,840 Speaker 3: coolzonmedia dot com, or check us out on the iHeartRadio app, 779 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,480 Speaker 3: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can 780 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,840 Speaker 3: now find sources for It Could Happen here, listed directly 781 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,160 Speaker 3: in episode descriptions. Thanks for listening.