WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:02.880 Media. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.640 Welcome back everyone to electile dysfunction. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:12.319 Electile. That's a new one. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:17.919 Yes, yes, yes, the podcast about Why President Bad, also 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:23.040 Why World Bad, also Why America Bad. I'm Robert Evans, 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:31.160 Introducer Extraordinaire with Me Today. Garrison, Davis, Mio, Wong, James Stout. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.000 Eventually special segment from James Stout later in the episode. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.599 Yes, later, he is being held in custody by the FTC. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.199 That's not true. You cannot say that because that is 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.519 something that actually could happen over time. So unfortunately he 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.800 is not. That's why I made it be the FTC. Garrison. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.320 People will believe us. I don't. People will believe you 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.120 can get arrested by the FTC any day now. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.560 We could get arrested for the FTC any day now, 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.240 thanks to the ads that I've been reading for British petroleum, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.680 even though exclusively use American petroleum. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.640 This episode recovering the week of August seven to August thirteen. Yep, 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.440 for no, Yes, it's just so we were. I think 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.160 it's important to keep up because, yeah, if people refer 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.000 back to these episodes, it's good to know what week 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:15.880 we're talking about. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.960 Yeah, I don't usually remember what day it is? So yeah, 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.319 good to do that, good to remember what day it is? 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.160 Meya you want to start us off? 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.800 Yeah, need I need to issue a correction about Sesame Street. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.120 I was wrong about Sesame C's structure. Where got a 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.440 very street message from someone who works on the show 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.440 about the way I talked about it being stripped for parts. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.120 Sesame Street was never actually like ran by PBS. It 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.880 was ran by its own independent nonprofit entity, Sesame Workshop, 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.200 I believe. Yeah, yes it is not. Yeah, all called 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.120 Sesme Workshop. And so the episodes that were being streamed 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.880 on HBO Max and I think they're now they've now 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.680 moved to like Netflix. Those episodes all did still air 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.600 on PBS. However, Comma they only aired nine months later. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.400 But yeah, I want to be clear about that. And 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.240 then Garrison, do you want to talk about PBS kind 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:04.520 of not existing anymore. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.800 Well, PBS may still find a way to exist, but 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.960 specifically the Corporation for her Public Broadcasting, which helps facilitate 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.359 the you know, the funding and the structure and the 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.760 operation of things like PBS and your local MPR, after 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.880 being defunded by the Trump administration, is now going to 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.359 shut down completely. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.440 So yeah, and that's and that's a lot of the 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.560 how a lot of the funding for rural networks particularly 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.800 was able to function. If your PBS network is like 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.560 mostly not funded by that or they can find other 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.000 funding sources, it can survive. But real bad. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.720 It's pretty disastrous for public media. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:44.280 Yep. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.919 And like NPR specifically and all of its local affiliates 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.880 are some of the best like local news journalism across 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.119 the country, and this is going to be a big 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.800 hurdle to get over with the loss of like a 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.200 giant in the not just like the like national media space, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.920 but like forournalism and as well as children's educational content. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.120 And it's you know, and it's worth messing to you, 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.560 like this is one of the last as sort of 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.440 local media and local radio and local newspapers have been 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.359 carved out and got out of business and destroyed the adventure 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.080 capital firms. NPR was like one of the last local 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.640 journalism outlets left in a lot of places, especially in 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:28.760 rural areas, and that's just getting worse. So we hate that. Yeah, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.799 this has been the Sesame Street correction. I deeply apologize 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.800 to the cast and crew and production staff of Sesame Street. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.880 Yes, sorry, particularly to Grover. Not sorry to Elmo. No 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.960 apologies down, we saw what Almo was tweeting. I'm on 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:45.840 Larry David's side of that beat. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:52.120 For our first main story this week, Let's Talk DC. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.960 On Monday, Trump declared it was a liberation day for 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.400 the District of Columbia to quote unquote take our capital back, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.040 and officially invoked Section seven four zero of the District 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.120 of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the DC Metropolitan 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.040 Police Department under direct federal control and order the Secretary 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.360 of Defense to mobilize the DC National Guard to quote 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:21.680 address the epidemic of crime in our nation's capital. Along 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.440 with this announcement, Trump pleased a presidential memorandum reading, in part, quote, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.920 the local government of the District of Columbia has lost 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.560 control of public order and safety in the city. The 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:37.200 mobilization and duration of duty shall remain in effect until 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.360 I determine that conditions of law and order have been 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:44.479 restored in the District of Columbia. Robert who in the 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.839 past have you heard talk about federalizing the police? 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:54.320 Oh gosh, I mean just a Coppola. Guys. There's this dude, Hitler, 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.200 who you know, worked with a guy named Hermann Gering 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.640 and Heinrich Himmler to do that back in the past. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.159 But that was in Germany, you know, a country totally 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.000 different from the United States, almost three four countries away 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.960 from US, so not really not really relevant at all 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.120 to anything happening here. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.720 And we can all rest assured it can't happen here. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.200 Yeah, we're not Germans. We have a lot of Germans, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.200 but we're not Germans. This is part of Jarvin's writing 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.360 on how to take over the government, centralizing the police 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.440 as one of the key steps nationalizing local law enforcement, 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:33.159 putting hum under federal control. And here is another version 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:40.120 of enacting such a policy, mainly citing this crime epidemic 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:45.400 in DC, though according to DC Metropolitan Police and their 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.880 own crime figures, violent offenses, which peaked in twenty twenty three, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.320 fell to their lowest in twenty twenty four, lowest time 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.680 in over thirty years, and now in twenty twenty five 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.800 continue to fall even lower than that. Though Trump claims 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.480 that these stats, just like uh, just like the Bureau 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.440 of Labor stats are all made up. We're all fake. 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:04.120 We'll get to that. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.039 These aren't These aren't real stats. And they're they're they're 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.800 assuming that there's there's been fake, fake statisticians who have 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.200 been covering up the real, the real crime wave happening 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.840 across DC and even across the country. Trump cited three 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:23.720 incidents leading to the federalization of DC police won the 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.600 assassination of two Israeli MC staffers in May, a fatal 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.320 shooting of a Congressional intern in June, and most recently, 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.839 an alleged violent car jacking of the DOGE staffer known 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:40.120 as Big Balls, and a possible future recipient of the 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.039 Presidential Medal of Honor Or or Freedom one of the 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:48.200 Metal Honorary. Yeah, well, you know, big Balls. Frankly, it 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.160 might have some military credentials based on how he survived 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.040 this latest uh, this this latest violent encounter. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:59.240 Who's to say, this assault from a platoon of Romanians. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.080 Yeah, quite quite. Frankly, I feel like we're only about 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.000 six to eight months out from him getting like commissioned 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.400 as a lieutenant and then them giving him the actual 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:09.920 Medal of Honor, saying there. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.800 I go for his courageous service getting beaten up by 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.240 two fifteen year olds. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:19.520 So this latest incident with mister Balls, I think is 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:24.440 his official title at DOUGH. We're now the Social Security Administration. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.480 Not related to Ed Bolls. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.440 Different balls, but the very different guys. This latest incident 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.520 with mister Balls seemed to tip Trump over, though this 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.800 is something that he has lofted for months and months 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.080 he's been wanting to do this. On Tuesday night, forty 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.480 three arrests were made in DC in relation to the 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:48.520 federal seizure of police. Four and fifty officers were part 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.760 of this operation, half from DC Metro Police, which are 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.200 now federalized. So far, only thirty National Guard troops have 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.240 been deployed, but around eight hundred are on the way. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:04.640 On Wednesday, Trump discussed extending his control of DC police 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.680 past the thirty day limit. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:09.320 Thank you, mister President. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.440 Your federalization of the police has a thirty day limit 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.160 unless Congress acts to extend it. Are you talking to 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.440 Congress about extending it or do you believe thirty days 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:18.040 is sufficient? 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.320 Well, if it's a national emergency, we can do it 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.280 without Congress, but we expect to be to Congress before 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.280 Congress very quickly. And again, we think the Democrats will 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:28.760 not do anything to stop. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.720 Crime, but we think the Republicans will do it. Almost unanimously. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.319 So we're going to need a crime bill that we're 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.920 going to be putting in and it's going to pertain 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:39.480 initially to DC. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.640 It's almost we're going to use. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.960 It as a very positive example, and we're going to 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:48.720 be asking for extensions on that, long term extensions, because 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.920 you can't have thirty days. Thirty days is that's by 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.560 the time you do it. We're going to have this 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.960 in good shape. And don't forget in the border. Everyone 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.680 said it would take years and you'd have to go 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:01.960 back to Congress. I never went to Congress for anything. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.880 I just said close the border, and he closed the 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.360 border and that was the end of it. I didn't 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.280 go back to Congress. We're going to do this very quickly, 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.480 but we're going to want extensions. I don't want to 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.640 call a national emergency. If I have to, I will, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.280 but I think the Republicans in Congress will approve this 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:20.559 pretty much unanimously. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:23.880 Don't like that. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.680 No, it's pretty dictatorial on like a y base level quote. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.400 If it's a national emergency, we can do it without Congress. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.440 It's very Palpatine emergency powers coded. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.720 And I'm not sure if if Lucas was pulling on 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.959 any real world examples for Star Wars the prequels, or 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.480 if he was just pulling all that shit out of 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.680 his ass, who knows, it seems pretty fanciful. Defense Secretary 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.199 Pete heg Seth told his former co workers on Fox 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.480 News that it's unknown how long DC will be under 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.920 this militarized occupation. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.800 He's got the guts to say, I'm to federalize the 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.760 police that are that don't work. I'm going to bring 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.679 in the National Guard, I'm going to bring in federal marshals. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.880 I'm going to bring in the park police. How almost What. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:11.800 Is the cost money? 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:12.000 Right? 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:13.640 It cost money? 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:17.360 And the question is are you there for a year? 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.480 Are you there for six months? And when the troops 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.440 pull out, what happened? 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:22.920 I would call this conditions based. 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.440 I would say it's a situation where we're here to 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.560 support law enforcement. Uh and the more we can free 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.760 them up to do their job, the more effective. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:31.880 They can be, the more we can work. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:33.960 I mean, this isn't my realm, but the justice system 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.679 to make sure people who are arrested are actually locked up. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.000 That's why the President's talking about cash list, bear bail, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.520 and sanctuary cities. If you're illegal here in DC, that's 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.000 going to be a problem. So all of these things 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.319 that apply to law and order are are front and 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.840 center for us. And I don't know, weeks, months, what 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:50.840 will it take. That's the President's call, but we're going 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.320 to be there for him to execute as swiftly. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.040 As possible, conditions based. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.480 It's real, Like Warren Rock vibes. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:02.480 Yeah, a lot of the these days. Yeah, got a 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.280 mission accomplished coming out of the Trump administration too, because 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.520 they've learned that, like there's no consequence in just saying like, yeah, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.960 we close the border and we won the borders won 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.240 You know, it's done. No one's going to get to 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.520 their base with a counter opinion that matters. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.600 As bad as things are in DC right now, this 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.080 is just the start of what they want to do. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.760 Trump seeks to make a quote a quick example of DC, 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.439 but soon wants to go further and attempt this in 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.160 other cities, first naming places like Chicago and Los Angeles, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.000 and then later New York, Baltimore and Oakland. 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.280 We have other cities that are very bad. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.040 New York has a problem, and then you have of 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.600 course Baltimore and Oakland. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:47.200 We don't even mentioned that anymore. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.400 There's so they're so far gone, We're not gonna let 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.280 it happen. We're not gonna lose our cities over this, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.880 and this will go further. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.240 We're starting very strongly with DC and we're going to 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.599 clean it up really pretty quickly. As they say. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.880 We're not going to lose our cities over this, that 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.120 gets into like the core part of their framing this, 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.760 this idea that homeless people and criminals cough cough black 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.520 people are making us lose, like lose our cities. They're 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.400 so far gone and this is necessary for such reasons, 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.959 and like you can look at that pretty clearly. And 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:27.240 he's naming like Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago, New York like it's 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.320 it's it's not it's not very masked here. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:30.319 Yeah. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.880 I talked with DC resident bridget Todd this morning. We 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:38.240 should have an episode with her perspective coming out early 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.160 next week. I think Sunday night. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.160 I wrote an episode early this year laying out, you know, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.440 some of my predictions for the year, and this along 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.640 with weird terrorism, we're two of like my big ones, 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.160 right that that DC in particular, he would be attempting 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:58.679 to fill with soldiers and probably invoke the Insurrection Act. Now, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.440 one thing that I have been surprised on is that 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.520 they really do seem kind of hesitant to go full 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.360 in on the Insurrection Act. And obviously I didn't expect 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.360 LA to get troops deployed in it before DC, but 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.880 just based on what they were saying, like after the election, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.800 kind of as he was preparing to take office, it 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.960 was very clear that they were looking at DC as 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.240 a focus, in part because they had, you know, during 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.040 his last term as well. Right, this is not entirely unprecedented, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.800 but his desire to specifically not just take away any 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.280 sort of autonomy that the city has and put it 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.160 under direct federal control. But to see troops in the 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:41.000 streets and federal agents in the streets is not surprising. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.559 It's something that like, it's not even should be I 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.680 honestly shouldn't even call it a prediction. It's just something 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.960 he's been repeatedly saying he's going to do. So the 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.680 fact that it's happening now, you know, the only thing 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.240 that's surprising to me is that it happened in LA first, right, 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.600 and that they really do seem to have and who knows. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.760 You know, this could change by the time the episode airs, 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.800 but they do seem to have something of a I 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.480 don't know if a block is the right way to 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.160 phrase it, but they don't seem yet willing to go 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.320 for the Insurrection Act. That still seems to be a 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.160 bridge too far for some reason. I'm not one hundred 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.079 percent sure why. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.440 I think. I think they're worried about like massive backlash 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.000 to it, like they're really unpopular, and. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.400 Right, I mean, they also just don't need to Yeah, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.400 that's that's a fair point. Gar they have this like 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.400 section seven forty to call on, and if Trump's going 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.320 to try to get Congress to pass a new crime 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.080 bill that can allow them to do this kind of 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.000 stuff without having to use the Insurrection Act. So I 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.120 think it's more of like a matter of necessity, Yeah, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.080 just maybe just a risk they don't think they need 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.600 to take. Yeah, and like who knows what type of 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.800 weird shit they would try to push into a crime bill, 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.920 including like exceptions for almost any city to have their 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.400 police force be federalized. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.760 I think the interesting part of this to me is 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.080 also so that like it feels like a lot of 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.840 what their politics is is like the spectacle of making 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.640 it look like there's power there versus like actually doing 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.880 the thing, because like you can't actually hold DC with 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.040 eight hundred National guardsmen, and like, you know, if if 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.840 you look at what happened in LA, they kind of 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.840 like declared victory, but then the actual thing they came 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.120 there to do, which was like do this like unpresented 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.400 mass deportation with they did some of it, and then 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.040 they got right out of the city. And so I think, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.040 I don't know. I think I think there's a kind 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.400 of apocalyptic framing of this where it's like, Okay, well 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.360 it's over, they can just do this. But also it 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:30.200 has not been going well for them. And like was 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.200 it from DC that the video of the guy of 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.320 the guy just like throwing a sandwich at the National 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:38.000 Guard throwing a subway sandwich? Yes, yeah, right, Like actual 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.080 regular people really don't like them. And I think I 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.360 think we're just going to see escalating resistance as more 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.560 than like fucking eighty guys get deployed there. And I 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.320 don't know, it's unclear to me whether they can actually 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:50.960 just like maintain this or if they're just gonna say, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:55.520 like we did it. Joe in like thirty days and 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:56.520 pull out, right. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.520 That's kind of what some of the rhetoric looks like, 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.400 is that they're going to try to arrest as many 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.920 homeless people as they can, put them in jails, lock 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.960 them up into hospitals, like the executive order that we 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:10.239 mentioned a few weeks ago. Yeah, and like scare teenagers, 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.480 and that's most of what they want out of this, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:15.920 and they're going to make a big show of it. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.280 And then they'll yeah, declare that the city is now safe, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.480 and then they'll use the legitimate crime stats showing crime 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.040 falling and be like, look, we proved it, so that 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.640 I think that is probably what it will what it 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.720 will turn out to be. But if they try to 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.960 push forward to a new crime bill like Trump is mentioning, 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.840 or call it a national emergency to help strengthen his 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.400 own powers, I think that's indications that this could have 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:43.200 some longer lasting results. Let's go on and ad break 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:48.040 and return to talk terrif I suppose. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:17:03.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get to that and we're back. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.920 And obviously the big tariff news this week, as we'll 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.800 get to, well, one of the pieces of big tariff 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:13.679 news is that Trump has ordered another extension of the 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.120 kind of delay before enacting tariffs against China. You might 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:22.000 say Trump looked at his tariffs against China and decided 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.720 tariff He no like it. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:38.480 Lie jazz lighty jazz sorry lot, lie jazz bin lie 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:39.760 jazz bline. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.000 Okay, that was min true talk tariffs honestly. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.680 Okay, So this is kind of a light tariff news week. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.440 There isn't that much. Also, because if you want to 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.040 hear me talking about tarriffs for like forty five minutes, 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:55.680 go listen to the episode on Wednesday. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.200 You just did a tariff episode. I just really wanted 0:17:58.240 --> 0:17:59.920 to lead into the tariff thing that way. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:00.520 Yeah. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.399 No, there is actually a very important piece of tariff 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:08.560 news today. Arizona iced tea is considering raising prices for 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.959 the first time in over thirty years due to Trump's 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.240 fifty percent aluminum tariffs. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.720 All right, everyone get off the call right now. It 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:21.600 is time to riot, find it building, burn it down. No, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.800 this is this is not a drill. 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:28.360 Not acceptable. Arizona iced tea has been the shining beacon 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:35.800 resisting inflation for decades. The proof proof that inflation is 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:40.840 fake is on every Arizona iced tea can and if 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.160 Trump's gonna take it away from us, burn the whole 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:49.440 system down. Yeah, that's it. I want CEO handing out 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:55.760 cans to throw at your at your local government building 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.520 of choice, to defend the ninety nine cent can. It's 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.679 one of the important aspects of American culture. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.120 It's the only thing left of the American dream. It's 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.960 the one last piece of the American dream is a 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.480 ninety nine cent can of Arizona iced tea. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.360 That's all we have left. Fifty percent aluminium tariffs will 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.919 not take this away from US aluminium. Yeah, just just 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.400 move past it. Maya, forget it. It's it's Canadian. 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.680 Where are it going on? Okay? This is actually a 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.679 good way to pivot into the just complete mess at 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.040 the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So one of the things 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.560 that Trump has been really harping on is so the 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.800 Buera of Laboratistics published a jobs report and it was bad. 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.720 And Trump has been absolutely furious about this ever since. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.520 And we will actually come back to I think we 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.040 will literally come back to the Arizona cans after this, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:53.680 thank God. But however, good Lord, the people they are 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.760 trying to put an office right now, I so long 0:19:57.840 --> 0:19:59.760 ago in the galaxy far far away, I made an 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.440 argue that Trump regime is built on peer stupidity, that 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.720 there is no plan at all. There is only, you know, 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.920 a raviting mall of the oblivion of reason that obliterates 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.000 all attempts to comprehend it and leaves only the words, yes, 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.720 they really are that stupid. And this argument was about 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.239 a guy named Stefan Miron who was Trump's share of 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.760 the Council of Economic Advisors and his plan to like 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:24.480 make other countries pay taxes on holding US bonds, a 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.240 thing that is just unequivocally good for the United States. 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.320 And you know, this is a plan. You can go 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.040 back and listen to that episode from a few months ago. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.400 This is a plan so monumentally stupid that the only 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.240 way I can think of describing it was like yelling 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.800 at the moon to stop the tides. Anyways, Trump is 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.879 trying to get that guy appointed to be one of 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:47.520 the board members of the Federal Reserve. And the staggering 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.880 thing about that isn't just that he's doing this. It's 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.359 not like this is not the guy who's in the 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.480 news right now for being unbelievably stupid and getting apointed 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:02.720 to an extremely important ructural agency of the American economy 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.720 because they are trying to appoint senior economists at the 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.439 Heritage Foundation EJ and Tony as the head of the 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:12.600 Bureau of Labor Statistics after they fired the last head 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:16.720 for like releasing the job support. Right, this guy, Okay, 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.680 I make fun of economists for being dumb as shit 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.960 all the time. He might legitimately be the stupidest economist 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.919