1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: Cool Media. 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Birds and the Bees, a podcast where 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 2: James Stout makes animal noises and also we talk about 4 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: what's going on in the White House this week. 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 3: That's right, This is that could happen here Executive Disorder, 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 3: our weekly newscast covering what's happening in the White House, 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 3: the crumbling of our world, and what this means for you. 8 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 3: That is Robert talking Previously, James Stout is also here. 9 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 3: I'm Garrison Davis. I'm also joined by Mia Wong. This episode, 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,959 Speaker 3: we're covering the week of February sixth to February twelfth. Currently, 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 3: me and Mia are inside New Orleans, Louisiana, and I 12 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 3: am proud to report that fascism has been defeated. The 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles have beat the kk Kansas City Chiefs in 14 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 3: Super Bowl. Drake has been executed live on stage. It's 15 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 3: a great week. 16 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: That would have been kinder than what actually happened to Drake. 17 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 4: Look as someone, as someone in My Blueskin mentioned, says capitalism. 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 4: Currently the rule of capitalism seems inescapable, but the divine, 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 4: the divine rule of the Chiefs once seemed undefeatable too, 20 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 4: And they were fucking humiliated. 21 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 2: Oh my god, they lost so bad. 22 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 4: I can't even I can't even say that they were 23 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 4: beaten up and down the field, because I'd even fucking 24 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 4: get down the field, obliterally generational beat down. 25 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 3: And yeah, when I arrived here in New Orleans on Monday, 26 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 3: this is the Monday after the Super Bowl, so a 27 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,919 Speaker 3: complete nightmare. But there was just an ocean of an 28 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 3: ocean of out and proud Eagles fans. And the funniest 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 3: thing I saw is that when I was waiting for 30 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 3: me to fly in, there was this like half a 31 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 3: full clothing rack of leftover Chiefs merche and all of 32 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 3: the Eagles merch were gone. 33 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 5: I will see that Chiefs Merch again somewhere in like 34 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 5: a resource pause edging from now. 35 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's going to be the uniform of a 36 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 2: future civil war. 37 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 3: Literally literally Taylor Swift themed Kansas City Chiefs merch. 38 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 2: Ah. 39 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, huge Alpha capital. 40 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 2: It is so funny. Oh man, well, I guess. Yeah. 41 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 2: The big losers this week, Drake and unfortunately the nation 42 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: of Ukraine and most of the rest of Western Europe. Yeah, 43 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 2: I guess We'll start with the big news today, which 44 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 2: is that Trump just had a really great call with 45 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin went super well. They're going to be meeting, 46 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 2: maybe in Saudi Arabia. There's been some floating of the 47 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 2: fact that they might meet at the White House, which 48 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: I don't think it ends well for Putin if he 49 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 2: visits the Uniteds. I don't think it ends well for 50 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 2: anybody if he visits the United States. This country is 51 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: too heavily armed and crazy right now. But they're doing 52 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 2: this because Putin and Trump have evidently reached some sort 53 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 2: of agreement about the end of the war in Ukraine. 54 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: Zelenski was not really on this. He's made a couple 55 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 2: of statements like yep, we're we're hoping that this is 56 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 2: what pushes everything towards peace. But it's very clear that 57 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 2: what's happening is Ukraine is going to be made to 58 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: give up a decent chunk of their territory. Now they 59 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 2: do have Russian territory still to bargain with somewhat, so 60 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 2: it hopefully will not be a situation where Putin gets 61 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: is entirely his own way. But that is kind of 62 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: the what's happening, and the sea change that will accompany 63 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 2: this is that new Secretary of Defense and alcoholic Pete 64 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 2: Hegseth made a statement and a meeting in Brussels that 65 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 2: the United States will no longer be the guarante of 66 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 2: peace in Europe. Specifically, he stated that we're not going 67 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 2: to tolerate of an imbalanced relationship which encourages dependency. But 68 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 2: this was an announcement that the post war sort of 69 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: status quo is no longer something that we can rely 70 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: on going forward, and that is a really significant admission 71 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 2: from the sec deaff. 72 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's sick, it's pretty cool, and it's going to 73 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 5: be great. It's going to be great. If you're in 74 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 5: the German arms industry, it's going to be a banger 75 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 5: year for you. You making similis, I. 76 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 2: Think we could all agree the future is bright for 77 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: German weaponry. 78 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, once again Germany will rise to its former glory. Hussah. 79 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, you say that as kind of a joke, but 80 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 4: like genuinely the fact that we are doing a bunch 81 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 4: of stuff that is leading to the full re armament 82 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 4: of the German army at the moment when the German 83 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 4: fascist parties are like about to take power. 84 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 2: When off Day is getting into power, Yeah, it's great. 85 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 5: And the Luftwaffe hasn't even bought to change his slogo 86 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 5: since the last time, so that's cool. 87 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 2: Well, and what you bring up there me is probably 88 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 2: worth discussing in concert with all of this, which is 89 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 2: that AfD off Day, the Alternative for Deutschland, which is 90 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 2: the new Nazi Party in Germany, is not the majoritarian party, 91 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 2: but is taking enough seats that it is going to 92 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 2: be included in the next governing coalition, which is something 93 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 2: that has not happened in the post World War Two era. 94 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 2: In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, every Western 95 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 2: European nation basically came to a tacit agreement referred to 96 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 2: as the cordon sanitaire, which is when a right wing 97 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 2: party starts to gain power, you do not coalition with 98 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 2: them under any circumstances. Germany is actually like the last 99 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 2: of the European countries to give up this idea. But 100 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 2: the fact that the Cordon sanitaire has fallen in Germany 101 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 2: is real bad news. 102 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, And the ADF, like it's worth mentioning, right, Like 103 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 4: the ADF is so right wing and so nazi that, 104 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 4: like the the Italian fascists to our empower right now 105 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 4: will not work with them, Like, Yeah, yeah, a bunch 106 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 4: of stuff leaked a little while ago about these people 107 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 4: at beatings openly talking about deporting every single Jew and 108 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 4: every single immigrant from the country. Like these people are 109 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,359 Speaker 4: you know, I mean, they're just Nazis And yeah, so 110 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 4: now we're fucking handing them the fucking justification to fucking 111 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 4: rebuild their entire arms industry. So yep, great stuff. 112 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 2: It is dark, I mean. And again when we say 113 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 2: the Italian fascists, this is literally Mussolini's party, as in 114 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 2: his granddaughter it's a member. 115 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: Yeah. 116 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, that's bad. I think that's probably most 117 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 2: of what we can say about what's going on in 118 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 2: Europe and with Ukraine right now. But it's not good. 119 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's not good. It doesn't point to a 120 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 5: great future. And this is the multi polar world that 121 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 5: like Russia has wanted for some time, like coming to fruition, right, 122 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 5: and I didn't want to talk about. So there was 123 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 5: a time when Vladimir Putin some as you remember, was 124 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 5: sanctioned by the International Criminal Court for his war crimes 125 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 5: in Ukraine. The United States, however, the United States has 126 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 5: not been a signatory to the Rome Statute, so it 127 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 5: wouldn't necessarily have enforced that arrest warrant anyway. But this 128 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 5: week Trump signed a little executive order titled in block capitals, 129 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 5: as we've come to expect, imposing sanctions on the International 130 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 5: Criminal Court, and in doing so, he followed the example 131 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 5: of Putin, who in twenty twenty three put out arrest 132 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 5: warrants for ICC prosecutors after they put out a warrant 133 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 5: for his arrest. Trump didn't cite the Putin example. He 134 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 5: called the ICC's actions against Israel illegitimate and baseless. That's 135 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 5: a quote. He specifically called the warrants against UF Gallant 136 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 5: and Benjamin Etting Yahoo baseless. He then went on to claim, quote, 137 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 5: both nations are thriving democracies with militaries strictly adhered to 138 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 5: the laws of war. This is a thing that is 139 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 5: not true. His order then goes on to outline what 140 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 5: it calls protected persons, people who aren't familiar at United 141 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 5: States person is distinguished from the United States citizen. It 142 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 5: also includes any permanent residents. It also includes US Armed 143 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 5: Forces government officials and contractors working on behalf of US 144 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 5: Armed Forces contractors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the people who can 145 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 5: do no wrong. It then goes on to include US allies, 146 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 5: including all of NATO and sometimes contractors working on their behalf. 147 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 5: It says that if the International Criminal Court investigates any 148 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 5: of these people, Trump called the Clara National Emergency. It 149 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 5: also imposes material sanctions and travel bands on both ICC 150 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 5: prosecutors and people acting on their warrants, as well of 151 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 5: the families of those people. Interesting, Yeah, this is an 152 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 5: unprecedented American politics, and sometimes it gets reported like it is. 153 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 5: I want to like throw back to what they called 154 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 5: the Hague Invasion Act. That wasn't its real name, but 155 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 5: that was George Bush's. Like it authorized the President to 156 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 5: use any means necessary to release United States people held 157 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 5: by the ICC or at its request. So people started 158 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 5: calling it the Hague Invasion Act. 159 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 4: Right. 160 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 5: Trump did also sanction ICC prosecutors and their families in 161 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 5: twenty twenty for looking into US war crimes in Afghanistan. 162 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 5: I think that happened in June of twenty twenty, So 163 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 5: you can be forgiven for having missed up because some 164 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 5: stuff was happening at that time. 165 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 2: Oh was it? 166 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, things were going down. I'm sure Philadelphia Eagles were, 167 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 5: you know, beginning their rise to glory again. That was 168 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 5: a big thing. Kansas City chiefs were doing some racist shit, shockingly, shockingly. 169 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 5: I'm sure Taylor Swift was doing something too, But yeah, 170 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 5: this is like Israel has for nearly a decade been 171 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 5: trying to hack samea surveil and threaten the Court. In 172 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 5: the show notes, I'll include a link to a Guardian 173 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 5: article that came out last year about Israel's attacks and 174 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 5: attempts to undermine the International Criminal Court. And just if 175 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 5: I've been talking about something and you're like, what is 176 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 5: the International Criminal Court? Very briefly, it's based at the Hague. 177 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 5: So if you've heard, you know you will stand trial 178 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 5: at the Hague. That's what they're talking about. It has 179 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 5: its most immediate routes in the tribunals investigated perpetrations of 180 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 5: genocides in Rwanda and Yugoslavia. The US and Israel are 181 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 5: lot members of the court. They never signed the Roman Statute. 182 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,959 Speaker 5: Russia withdrew in twenty sixteen. 183 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 3: Curious time to withdraw? 184 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 5: Interesting, fascinating. Yeah, they just decided that it wasn't for them, 185 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 5: and off they went to do some war crimes. The 186 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 5: ICC has been criticized, probably recent for the vast majority 187 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 5: of the people who have actually been prosecuted for the 188 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,359 Speaker 5: ICC being outside of the core neoliberal states, right, It's 189 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 5: prosecuted a lot of people in Africa. That doesn't mean 190 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 5: that like African people can't do war crimes in Africa, 191 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 5: of course they can, but it means that they're held 192 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 5: accountable more often than when countries in the global North 193 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 5: do war crimes, which they can do too. Okay, So Trump, 194 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 5: that's like everything else he does, was condemned internationally for this, right, 195 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 5: including by several NATO allies, in so much as they 196 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 5: really are NATO allies anymore given everything we've just talked about. However, 197 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 5: it's also worth noting that some of the countries like France, 198 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 5: who condemned Trump's sanctioning of ICC prosecutors, also allowed someone 199 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 5: with an ICC warrant I Benjamin that's in Yahoo to 200 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 5: transit their airspace. So like, therefore, commitment to the ICC 201 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 5: perhaps can be questioned. This is a problem with the ICC, right, 202 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 5: it doesn't have an integral enforcement mechanism. 203 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean like Canada previously promised quote unquote 204 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 3: promised yeah to arrest net Yahoo if they were ever 205 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 3: like able to, and like, yeah, I'm very curious to 206 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 3: see how this is going to shake down with the 207 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 3: US taking like an extremely firmer stance at least than 208 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 3: we previously had. We already like you know, quote unquote 209 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 3: like condemnic Canada. But like I'm interested to see Trump 210 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 3: like be more interested in actually pushing this further than 211 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 3: it has been. 212 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess we'll see how it goes for people 213 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 5: who are unfamiliar. I do want to like really quickly 214 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 5: mention that like Palestine is a signatory and therefore war 215 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,079 Speaker 5: crimes to happen within Palestine and covered by the CORE. 216 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 5: Even if states such as Israel are not signatories, right, 217 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 5: therefore they're still under the court to jurisdiction. So that's 218 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 5: how in this case this is happening. 219 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 2: Yep. 220 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 5: It could also make the ICC's life very difficult in 221 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 5: terms of using technology, right that the tech back end 222 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 5: of everything that ICC does. Try to remove that from 223 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:53,959 Speaker 5: any United States involvement would be very hard. 224 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 3: Well, let's go on a quick out of break in 225 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 3: return to talk about I don't know what the treasury or. 226 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about the treasury. 227 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 3: All right, all right, we are back. But before we 228 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 3: talk about the Treasury, I first wanted to do some 229 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 3: do some breaking news while kind of breaking. So when 230 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 3: I was flying to New Orleans, I was able to 231 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 3: fly past the brand new Gulf of America. It was 232 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 3: a life changing experience. It really warmed my heart. And then, luckily, 233 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 3: a few days ago, Georgia Representative Buddy Carter announced legislation 234 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 3: to empower Trump to enter into negotiations to quote unquote 235 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 3: purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland and importantly to rename it red, 236 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 3: white and blue. Lind God, let's get some quick reactions 237 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 3: from the panel. 238 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 5: Sorry, As a person born in Europe, the idea of 239 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 5: Buddy Carter authorizing the formation of Red, White, Blue Land, 240 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 5: it's simply just like the fact that this is not 241 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 5: a parody, it's just fucking too much for me. 242 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, well, what it is is purposefully ridiculous. 243 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 2: It's a it's a flex, it's a statement of the 244 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 2: power that they have over their own party and the country. 245 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 2: It is purposefully absurd, and everyone is going to go 246 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 2: along with it because the Chief, the King supports it, right, 247 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 2: Like that's the point in my opinion. 248 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, see empress new clothes of invading places. 249 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 2: Like it doesn't matter. We can be as silly as 250 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 2: we want. 251 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,359 Speaker 5: Genuinely interested in hearing from people in Greenland. 252 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 3: Yes, honestly, I'm kind of surprised, because I would I 253 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 3: would assume it. Maybe maybe this is still in the works. 254 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 3: If Elon Musk can find a way to call this 255 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 3: thing excellent, is really my concern. 256 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm really interested in 257 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 5: hearing from Greenland. Is genuinely You can contact us at 258 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 5: cool Zone, tips at proton dot me, which is an 259 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 5: encrypted email address that you can send emails to. 260 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, let's let's let's talk about Trump potentially 261 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 4: crashing the entire world economy. He's taking more shots to 262 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 4: just literally blow this all up. Yeah, okay, So let's 263 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 4: talk about the treasuries thing and him potentially talking about 264 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 4: not paying out our fucking treasury bonds. Okay, so many 265 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 4: reason quotes from Reuters. So this is Trump. We're even 266 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 4: looking at treasuries. Trump said there could be a problem. 267 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 4: You've been reading about that with treasuries, and that could 268 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 4: be an interesting problem. Now treasuries again, our course, US 269 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 4: treasury bonds. We will get to what those are in 270 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 4: a second, but I need to read the rest of 271 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 4: this quote. It could be that a lot of those 272 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 4: things don't count. In other words, that some of the 273 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 4: stuff that we're finding is very fraudulent. Therefore, maybe we 274 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 4: have less debt than we thought. Now, that's a very 275 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 4: scary thing to say here. 276 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. Treasury bills are the primary underpinning of like economic 277 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 2: stability in this country. T bells are what large corporate 278 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 2: institutions when they have a lot of cash with like 279 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 2: very wealthy people. It's where you park your money, and 280 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 2: it's where foreign governments park a lot of their money, 281 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 2: like yeah, and it's how our government gets a lot 282 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 2: of its money because it's a good, reliable investment. So 283 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 2: saying maybe we're going to declare some of these T 284 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 2: bill investments bullshit is very dangerous. 285 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, for the global economy. 286 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 2: Yeah. 287 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to read this next line because one 288 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 4: of the things that's happening here, right is that people 289 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 4: just simply and this has been a real problem for 290 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 4: this entire administrations, people simply do not believe that he 291 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 4: means to do the thing he says he's going to do. Right. 292 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 4: Quote this is from Broiders. Again, it could be treasury payments, 293 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 4: which is not linked the treasury bonds. Said for shop Bihani, 294 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 4: investment chief for Asia at BNP Power Boss Wealth Management. 295 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 4: I would be very surprised if they ever stopped a 296 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 4: payment of treasury bonds to a holder. It would be 297 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 4: like shooting yourself in the foot, he said. Now, this 298 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 4: is something where these these institutional investors, like they still 299 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 4: have not quite wrapped their head around the fact that no, 300 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 4: he really will do this shit because he doesn't understand 301 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 4: at all. He thinks that American debt works the same 302 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 4: way as like his own personal debt, and no it doesn't. 303 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 4: I mean, it's worth saying some bits. So, I mean, 304 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 4: just a very very basic shit about how national debt works. Right, 305 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 4: Like all of our money, literally every single dollar that 306 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 4: is in circulation, every dollar that is in a bank account, 307 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 4: that is literally government debt, right like that that's what 308 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 4: money is, right, And these treasury bonds are as we 309 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 4: were talking about earlier, right, this is like the investment 310 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 4: asset for literally the entire world, and there's trillions of 311 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 4: dollars of these. Actually, Japan is the largest holder of 312 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 4: treasury bonds. China's sort of been selling some of theirs, 313 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 4: but they have a lot of them. 314 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, probably good to be doing that, Yeah. 315 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 4: And it's also you know, like the fact that he's 316 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 4: saying he's not gonna pay these yet, like this can 317 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 4: start a massive crisis in which I've been talking for 318 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 4: a bit about, you know, every day we sort of 319 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 4: get closer to credit rating agencies like downgrading the quality 320 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 4: of US debt, which is a real problem for US 321 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 4: trying to like get money from people. And and you know, 322 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 4: even if you listen to what that what the sort 323 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 4: of bond analyst is saying, right, he's like, well, it's fine, 324 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 4: they'll just stop paying like US debt to other things, 325 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 4: which is like unbelievably unhinged. Would also in and of itself, 326 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 4: like destroying the full faith and credit of the United 327 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 4: States would absolutely just fucking annihilate the world economy. And 328 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 4: it's also another example of Trump not understanding how the 329 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,679 Speaker 4: empire he's inherited works, because like the one of the 330 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 4: ways the US funds is government is by getting its 331 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 4: client states to buy like trillions of dollars of assets. 332 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 4: Like that's partially why feelief. Look at who's who buys 333 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 4: US assets, like it's China and US tributary states like Japan, 334 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 4: for example, which is just purely in American military Protectorate. Right, 335 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 4: it's a sort of incredible system for the US. Right, 336 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 4: you get a bunch of people and you, you know, 337 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 4: you just you just sort of perpetually keep borrowing money 338 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 4: from them. And it's this thing where they don't understand 339 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 4: who actually holds the power in the relationship, which is 340 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 4: that the US having all this is the one with 341 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 4: the power and is the one that's getting everyone else's 342 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 4: money for this sort of secure asset. So, you know, 343 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:11,439 Speaker 4: who knows what's going to happen with this If this 344 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 4: actually starts happening, like, yeah, this is the world rending 345 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 4: economic crisis levels of stuff. Well, we'll see if he 346 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 4: moves on it, he may simply forget about it, or 347 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 4: we're going to wake up one day and like the 348 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 4: US's credit's going to be downgraded to like junk bond 349 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 4: status and everything's going to be chaos. So, speaking of 350 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,719 Speaker 4: Trump trying to sort of like take shots at pillars 351 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 4: of the global economy, starting in March, he's trying to 352 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 4: implement a twenty five percent tariff on all imported steel 353 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 4: and aluminum. Most of that's actually from Canada and Mexico. 354 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 4: I think in their minds is the thing about Chinese steel, 355 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 4: but it's mostly from Canada and Mexico. This is also 356 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 4: a fucking shit show because the US manufacturing capacity that 357 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:56,920 Speaker 4: we still have and we still actually do have a 358 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 4: decent amount of like a very high tech manufacturing right 359 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 4: relies on this stuff, and this is going to make 360 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 4: it more expensive, gets bad. It will do nothing to 361 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 4: deal with the fact that US doesn't produce steel anymore, 362 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 4: which is the product of that. One day I'll do 363 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 4: my structural Chinese steel over capacity episode. But you know, 364 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 4: it's it's the product of like half a century of 365 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 4: the global manufacturing economy, you know, becoming zero sum, and 366 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 4: they're simply not being a large enough consumer market for 367 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 4: all of industrial goods, which means the production becomes increasingly 368 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 4: you know, it becomes impossible to expand production to one 369 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 4: place without you know, getting ready production another place. In 370 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:36,479 Speaker 4: Trump things you can solve those with tariffs. 371 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 2: You can't. 372 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 4: Mostly it's just another like throw things at the economy shit. Now, 373 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 4: you know, Trump is sort of throwing bombs at the 374 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 4: economic system. One of the largest ones that he's thrown 375 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 4: is he just straight up stole eighty million dollars in 376 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 4: FEMA funding that they had already paid out, like just 377 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 4: straight up stole it from like a New York City 378 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 4: bank account. They like, so I've been paid to the 379 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 4: government in New York. 380 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 3: Right, this happened earlier today. 381 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 4: Right. This is yeah, literally literally this this is breaking news, 382 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 4: breaking news on Wednesday. This is coming out Friday. This 383 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 4: episode is being recorded on Wednesday. Everything that you hear 384 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 4: if shit has happened in the US a few days, 385 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 4: that's from the future. We didn't know. But yeah, yeah, 386 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 4: he literally, like they have taken eighty million dollars just 387 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 4: from this bank account. They just stole it. The hostitial 388 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 4: government is just straight up robbing banks. 389 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 2: It's okay. That came out today and said that don't 390 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 2: worry your bank accounts are still safe everybody. 391 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is like appropriated funds like for FEMA 392 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 3: being sayly secured in banks that have like literally been 393 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 3: funds are approved. 394 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 4: By Congress for a specific purpose, right, Yeah, And what's 395 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 4: actually going to happen with this, right, because you would 396 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 4: expect a even like a normal shitty mayor of New 397 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 4: York to like go sicker mode. However, well man, however, Comma, 398 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 4: here's from Yahoo News quote Eric Adams said, he will 399 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 4: not publicly criticize Trump or his administration. Instead, they'll take 400 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 4: his concerns to Trump in private. On Monday, Adams convened 401 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 4: a meeting with his own top officials to urge them 402 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 4: not to speak badly about the president in public, saying 403 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 4: if they were to do so, it could risk federal 404 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 4: funding later that day. That same day, Trump's Justice Department 405 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,199 Speaker 4: ordered the prosecutors in Adam's criminal case to drop the 406 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 4: charges against him, in part, arguing Adams must be free 407 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 4: of the burden of his corruption indictment to help carry 408 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 4: out Trump's immigration agenda in the city. 409 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 5: Great. 410 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 3: Cool, This is the most like quid pro quote thing 411 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 3: I've ever seen. 412 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 2: It is the single most corrupt thing I've seen out 413 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 2: of US politics. Yeah, like blatantly, it's staggering. 414 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 5: I mean it would come from Trump plus Adams, right like, Yeah, 415 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 5: we're going to see it. That's what we're gonna say. 416 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 2: We've hit a singularity of corruption. 417 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, it's stumbled as always the first stop. Yeah. 418 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:46,919 Speaker 4: The only way they can go further than this is 419 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 4: that Eric Adams is going to point Rob Lagoyevitch's head 420 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 4: of like bank robbery or something. 421 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 3: One can dream Mia one can dream. 422 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 5: There are a few other ways they can go further 423 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 5: with yo. I'm afraid to inform you, miya, but we'll 424 00:21:58,400 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 5: be hoping those don't happen. 425 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 4: Well on the eruption index, on the corruption index. 426 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 3: Okay, speaking of corruption, let's pivot to ads. All Right, 427 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,439 Speaker 3: we are back, and I'm going to close by talking 428 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 3: about the war on Woke, my new favorite news beat 429 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 3: that I'm forced to attention to every week. There was 430 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 3: a transports band that that that Trump did an executive 431 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 3: order about using a whole bunch of children as a 432 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 3: prop very clearly trying to steal steal the charisma from 433 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,959 Speaker 3: whatever that governor who lost the election did with his 434 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 3: free school lunch there anyway, Instead now it's you just 435 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 3: you know, hurt other children in the school by not 436 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 3: making them be allowed to play sports. So that happened, 437 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 3: and then a few other things have happened the past 438 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:56,959 Speaker 3: few weeks, and I'm kind of just like catching up 439 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,439 Speaker 3: on because I've been really focused on like reporting on 440 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 3: like Muscus specifically, and there's been a lot of other 441 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 3: stuff the past few weeks. So I'm going to kind 442 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 3: of get to that now. The State Department's travel website 443 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:13,719 Speaker 3: change the acronym LGBT to LGB on a web page 444 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 3: like warning about like how dangerous it might be to 445 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 3: like travel to like other countries with like worse legal protections, 446 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 3: say LGB travelers can face special challenges abroad. Laws and 447 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 3: attitudes in some countries may affect safety and ease of travel. 448 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 3: Many countries do not recognize the same sex marriage. Many 449 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 3: countries don't recognize the ex gender marker in passports and 450 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 3: do not have it systems at ports of entry that 451 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 3: can accept sex markers other than female and male. 452 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 5: So they've only changed the title pot. Yeah, they haven't 453 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 5: even bothered to edit the text. 454 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 3: No, because because they also have another info page where 455 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 3: they have just like control ft LGBT two LGB as well. 456 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 3: So this is this is like one of like many 457 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 3: changes we're seeing across a whole bunch of federal websites 458 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 3: in relation to Trump's order to like remove wokeness and 459 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 3: gender ideology. Previously, the CDC removed like HIV and trans 460 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 3: related like health info pages from their website, and as 461 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 3: of yesterday, February eleventh, the web pages for the FDA, 462 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 3: Health and Human Services and the CDC were allegedly brought 463 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 3: back online, restoring their January thirtieth status. They did this 464 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 3: like right before a court mandated deadline to restore these pages, 465 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 3: like I can I can now go back on to 466 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 3: the CDC's HIV page. Verge was first reported on this, 467 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 3: and they said that, you know, they've been unable to 468 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 3: verify that all of the pages have been restored exactly 469 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 3: to how they were before. This is something that we're 470 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 3: still working on because it's literally happened, like you know, yesterday. 471 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 3: This is this is like a small, a small part 472 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 3: of their of their current war on wokeness. Another aspect 473 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 3: of this is there's been a whole bunch of orders 474 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 3: from federal agencies to ban specific woke keyword words across 475 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 3: like their databases, their websites, training information, including from agencies 476 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 3: like noah SO just like the Weather and the National 477 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 3: Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They released a memo of banning 478 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 3: specific words across the agency, including words like ability, acceptance, access, affirmation, aggression, allyeship, 479 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 3: androgyne a, sexual belonging, bias, binary, bisexual, black culture, DEI, discrimination, diversity, empathy, empowerment, equity, ethnicity, fairness, gay, 480 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 3: gender genitus, foria, handicap, homosexual, LGBTQ, intersex, pan sexual, queer, transgender, transvestite, 481 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 3: as well as words like impartial inclusion, indigenous, intersectionality, justice, 482 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 3: the word white has been banned, They space, social justice, 483 00:25:54,760 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 3: underserved communities, race privilege, powerdynamics, Native American, multiculturalism, all of 484 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 3: these Like again, this is like the Party of Free 485 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 3: Speech has banned all of these words, and it's not 486 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 3: it's it's it's it's not just Noah. Also, the National 487 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 3: Science Foundation has has released my most saying that they 488 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 3: cannot have these words included in their documents because it 489 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 3: could cause them to lose grant funding. 490 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 5: Well, it's the end for race science. Then they can't 491 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 5: do race science anymore. 492 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 3: There's a lot of similar words flagged in the National 493 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 3: Science Foundation list of banned words, like activism and activists, advocacy, 494 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:36,119 Speaker 3: a barrier, a bias black LATINX community, uh diversity, equity, 495 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:45,199 Speaker 3: cultural differences, cultural heritage, culturally responsive, diverse, you know, diverse, community, divice, groups, diversified, diversifying, 496 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 3: all this kind of stuff, ethnicity, equality, inclusion, inequality, LGBT 497 00:26:51,720 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 3: institutional marginalize, trauma, underappreciated, stereotypes, systemic under presentation, undervalued victim. 498 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 2: I love that you can no longer do scientific papers 499 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 2: about systemic infections. 500 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, organs, Like yeah, no, there's anything that has a barrier. 501 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. 502 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 3: There's so many words that are just like used in 503 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 3: like how like studies function that they cannot use because 504 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 3: the word is too woke, and then they're gonna lose 505 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 3: their funding. Like yeah, you can't, like you can't like 506 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 3: look at like things being equal. You can't look at 507 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 3: any kind of like scientific bias, Like you can't like 508 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 3: this very basic stuff. It may just result in like 509 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 3: the tiktokification of us, like trying to spell these words 510 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 3: with like a different letter. 511 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 5: Talking about cute little boots what it is. 512 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 3: And like I'm laughing because it's all like absurd and 513 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 3: it's kind of like kind of like a coping mechanism. 514 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 3: But like this is all like very bad. 515 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 4: Well, but like this something else, just something else we 516 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 4: need to talk about you, which is like like you 517 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 4: are required by law as part of your grand proposal 518 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 4: like have things that talk about like how this is 519 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 4: going to different communities, et cetera, et cetera. Is a 520 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 4: legal requirement for you to put that in your thing. 521 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 4: So like if you were to like strictly enforce this, 522 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 4: this kills every fucking grant. And this is this is 523 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 4: one of these things where it's like you're literally just 524 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 4: running straight into the federal law tells you must do 525 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 4: this thing, and the Trow administration says these words are banned, 526 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 4: so like, yeah, who knows. 527 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 3: It's a really weird situation. 528 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't do IRB right now. Like most guards 529 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 5: will go through an institutional review board that will determine 530 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 5: like if there are human subjects, they're like there ethical boundaries, 531 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 5: and like what you're doing is okay. I can't see 532 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 5: it being possible to do an IRB and not say 533 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 5: these words. 534 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 3: Yeah no, And like we have to do scientific studies 535 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 3: on like how how various disabilities affect people's lives, like 536 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 3: very basic stuff like this, all of these types of things. 537 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 3: It's really bad and these things like are going into effect. 538 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 3: I know, like this is this stuff is still happening. 539 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 3: Columnists to doctor Lucky Tran reported quote the CDC has 540 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 3: instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of 541 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 3: any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific 542 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 3: journal the move aims to ensure that quote unquote, no 543 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 3: forbidden terms appear in the work band. Terms must be scrubbed. Great, 544 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 3: it's all really bad, yep. And we're seeing this this 545 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 3: sort of like lists being formed increasingly, including this DEI 546 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 3: watch list put together by a conservative oppositional research group 547 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 3: called the American Accountability Foundation PRICE, who released a DEI 548 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 3: watch list which publishes the names, photos, occupation, and personal 549 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 3: information of mostly black employees who work under the Department 550 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 3: of Health and Human Services. When the website was first discovered, 551 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 3: the employee profiles were labeled under targets. This has since 552 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 3: been changed to dossier's like very very frightening, like very 553 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 3: bad stuff, like very obvious intimidation for each target. The 554 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 3: website lists a collection of alleged DEI offenses, which includes 555 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 3: donations to Democrats and social media posts having pronouns in 556 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,479 Speaker 3: their bio or previous work on since deleted diversity, equity 557 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 3: and inclusion initiatives. Columnist Jamal Bowie says, quote, they are 558 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 3: mostly targeting black employees, so this is quite literally just 559 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 3: a repeat of Rigrow Wilson's segregationist purge of the federal government. 560 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 3: And like yes, like all of this, all of this 561 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 3: like push against quote unquote DEEI is like very clearly 562 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 3: just like white supremacists segregation in action. Like this is 563 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 3: the whole point is that if any employee is a 564 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 3: person of color, that means that they that they must 565 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 3: be unqualified because they were hired only due to DEI. 566 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 3: And to avoid doing that, you could only hire white people. 567 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 3: And Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent out a memo 568 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 3: directing staff on where to direct like grant funds, and 569 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 3: he said, quote give preference to communities with marriage and 570 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 3: birth rates higher than the national average unquote, which is 571 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 3: a very clear dog whistle to just like only hire 572 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 3: like white Christians, hire Christians with big families, you know, 573 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 3: parenthesis like white people. This is like very very obviously 574 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 3: what they're doing. 575 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're I mean, this is extending to the 576 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 2: military now under Hegseth, west Point has just announced effectively 577 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 2: the banning of a number of clubs, including the Society 578 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 2: of Black Engineers, which is like three quarters of a 579 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 2: century old something like that, also ending programs that are 580 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 2: focused on like recruiting into the military black soldiers but 581 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 2: have like pivoted to recruiting from NRA gatherings, even though 582 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 2: there's internal agreement that that brings in a lower quality. 583 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 5: Type of saying I've seen CEMENTRA members. 584 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've seen a few NRA members, right, and 585 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,719 Speaker 2: I yeah. And it's just one of these things, Like 586 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 2: there's a very good book that I think people need 587 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 2: to read if you want to know kind of the 588 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 2: operational impact this is going to have, both on the 589 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 2: US military and probably to an extent, law enforcement. We 590 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 2: look at agencies like the FBI. There's a book called 591 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 2: The Dictator's Army that heavily focuses on how changes like 592 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 2: this impact operational if efficiency, And the gist of it 593 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 2: is that the goal, and clearly what Hegseth's job is, 594 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 2: is to make the military into something that can't pose 595 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 2: opposition to the new regime. Right, that's the goal here, 596 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 2: because there's a very realistic understanding that the military was 597 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 2: one of things that stopped him from maintaining power in 598 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 2: twenty twenty, right, both because the military was not willing 599 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 2: to be used to crack down directly on protests and 600 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 2: because General Milly acted as a barrier to Trump's attempt 601 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 2: to do a coup. The last time, right, So you 602 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 2: have an understanding which is very common when regimes like 603 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 2: this takeover in democratic societies. In the early days of 604 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 2: the Third Reich, the military was the primary concern Hitler 605 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 2: had because they were not Nazis, right, they were conservative, 606 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 2: but they were not in the tank for the Nazi Party, 607 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 2: and there was a lot that he wanted to do 608 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 2: that the military establishment at the time the Third Rich 609 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 2: came to power wouldn't let him do. And that was 610 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 2: one of the first things and this took several years, 611 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 2: but that was one of the first goals of the 612 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 2: Nazi regime and power was reforming the military as much 613 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 2: as possible in their own image. 614 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 3: And like so much of like what Heggs is doing 615 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 3: here specifically with like the West Point like club banning. 616 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 3: It's like like these things are not like DEI. These 617 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 3: things are like very old. These are like pretty like 618 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 3: standard standard things that have been like roped into like 619 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 3: what it means to like be in America. And we're 620 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 3: now just seeing this like crusade against DEI being used 621 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 3: to just reverse affirmative action and specifically select for white 622 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 3: Christian applicants. Yeah, and like that's the entirety of this 623 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 3: point here, like they're they're using dei as like a 624 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 3: like as this like magical wand to frame things that 625 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,239 Speaker 3: are like pretty standard and like accepted parts of like 626 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 3: how you do like hiring practices, how you don't do 627 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 3: discrimination to just specifically only only like uplift white Christians. 628 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 3: And that's part of this like very basic like Christian 629 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 3: nationalist project that people like Heritage have been trying to 630 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 3: do for a long time. 631 00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 4: I think it's also worth noting too that like the 632 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 4: other thing that this mirrors, you know and the like 633 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 4: specifically in the way that this target's queer people is 634 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 4: the Lavender Scare, which is a thing from like the 635 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,959 Speaker 4: sort of late forties through the sixties where the US 636 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 4: is part of this like giant anti communist herge. It 637 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 4: was on basically went through and found every gay government 638 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,320 Speaker 4: official and fucking ran them out. That's like another aspect 639 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,359 Speaker 4: of this whole thing, right, like the way these people 640 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,320 Speaker 4: understand the world. In order to sort of like purify 641 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 4: their like white state, right like you have to get 642 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 4: rid of the non white people, and you have to 643 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,479 Speaker 4: get rid of the queers and you know, and people 644 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,360 Speaker 4: especially people who are fucking both and so this is 645 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 4: this sort of transformational project of changing this this sort 646 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 4: of like just changing the composition of what the US 647 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,400 Speaker 4: is into like and how its state functions, and how 648 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 4: they can to what like what level of violence they 649 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,680 Speaker 4: can bring about on people. 650 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 3: And they've wrote these things together so closely now, like 651 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 3: the anti trans like school executive order, only the first 652 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 3: half the executive order was actually about the gender ideology stuff. 653 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 3: The second half was aimed at curbing what they called 654 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 3: discriminatory equity ideology d DEI. Basically it was proposing a 655 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 3: program for quote unquote patriotic education across the country, basically 656 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 3: trying to rewrite history to make like the United States 657 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 3: like this like noble historical project. 658 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 4: HU. 659 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 3: It's like stuff that they've tried to do before with that, 660 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 3: like a with that like seventeen seventy six project that 661 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,399 Speaker 3: The New York Times reported on. Part of Trump's order 662 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,840 Speaker 3: called for quote an accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, an ennobling 663 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 3: characterization of America's founding and foundational principles, a clear examination 664 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,319 Speaker 3: of how the United States has admirably grown closer to 665 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 3: its noble principles throughout history. The concept of that commitment 666 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 3: to America's aspirations is beneficial and justified the concept that 667 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,880 Speaker 3: celebration of America's greatness and history is proper. And then 668 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 3: the order goes on to try to ban the concept 669 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 3: of white guilt, saying that, like, teachers can get in 670 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,240 Speaker 3: trouble if any of their students and feel guilty about 671 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 3: things that people of like that same race have done 672 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 3: in the past, and like making sure that teachers do 673 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,799 Speaker 3: not teach things in a way that could possibly make 674 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,600 Speaker 3: us students feel quote unquote guilt. 675 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,880 Speaker 5: They use the word children actually not students, which like 676 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 5: is fundamentally something we don't do in education. 677 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:18,759 Speaker 1: Right. 678 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 5: We refer to our students as students because we respect 679 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,840 Speaker 5: them as people. We don't think of them as like 680 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 5: lesser than, especially when we're getting to the points where 681 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 5: we're discussing things like race and equity, Like these are 682 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,320 Speaker 5: high school students, right, maybe totally we know we certainly 683 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 5: do discuss these things in university, and like, it's fundamentally 684 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,720 Speaker 5: shows a complete lack of understanding of how education works 685 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:38,720 Speaker 5: to call them children. 686 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,239 Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think it gets to what this is 687 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 4: actually about. And this is something that I would argue 688 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 4: both Trump administrations were about right, if you look at 689 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 4: when Trump like comes down the fucking elevator for the 690 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,439 Speaker 4: first time. So I think people may remember, like after 691 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,799 Speaker 4: Ferguson in twenty fifteen, there was Baltimore where there was 692 00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 4: you know, huge riots, massive confrontations with police, like massive educations, 693 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 4: and that's the that's like the thing that really truly 694 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,800 Speaker 4: tipped like a bunch of the Republican Party even further 695 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,879 Speaker 4: right from where they'd been with the Tea Party into 696 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 4: into this into sort of trump Ism. It was, you know, 697 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 4: it was a reaction to that, and then this entire 698 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:14,919 Speaker 4: campaign right like all of the stuff that he's talking 699 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,440 Speaker 4: about here, you know, this is about twenty twenty, right, 700 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,680 Speaker 4: this is about reversing the gains that had beened, you know, 701 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 4: and like obviously they were incomplete gains. One of the 702 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 4: things that did happen was that a bunch of teachers 703 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 4: were trying to change the way the US history is 704 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:29,920 Speaker 4: taught to reflect that this country was like again a 705 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,000 Speaker 4: settler colonial empire built by slave labor, and you know 706 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 4: that that expanded its territory through genocide, which is just 707 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,720 Speaker 4: this is just objectively true about how the US started. 708 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 4: But the thing is, like that's not good for you know, 709 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 4: these people's projects, right, Like saying that out loud is 710 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 4: a fucking issue for them. And so you know, their 711 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,719 Speaker 4: their attempt to roll back everything that was gained from 712 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 4: sort of the Black uprisings is culminating all of this 713 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,160 Speaker 4: shit with like the purge of black workers for the 714 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,840 Speaker 4: federal government, with all of these things ordering you to 715 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,479 Speaker 4: and like that's why they're talking about all these weird 716 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,400 Speaker 4: all they keep banning all these weird like terms that 717 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 4: don't make any sense, Like we were talking about like empathy, right, 718 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,399 Speaker 4: So like okay, so why the fuck are they talking 719 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 4: about banning empathy? Yeah, because specifically these things come from 720 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,759 Speaker 4: the purges they've been trying to do in the education system, 721 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 4: where they have a bunch of very specific grievances about 722 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,520 Speaker 4: like kinds of education stuff that teachers, the teachers were implementing, 723 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 4: particularly in sort of like middle and high schools. 724 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to close here with two pieces of 725 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,640 Speaker 3: breaking news. One, Like, earlier today we learned that the 726 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 3: NAH has finally has finally acknowledged that the grant funding 727 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,840 Speaker 3: freeze is illegal. And this is probably like due to 728 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 3: pressure from like news coverage about all of the temporary 729 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 3: restraining order violations through the continued freezing of funds, and 730 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,799 Speaker 3: now the NIH is saying because of these orders, we 731 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:51,080 Speaker 3: will resume funding. The first tro was like two weeks ago, 732 00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,520 Speaker 3: on February first, So it's not like like they just 733 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,240 Speaker 3: learned about this. It's that they have in some ways 734 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 3: like perhaps caved to pressure. Again, like these executive orders 735 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 3: do not enforce themselves, These are enforced by people at agencies. 736 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 3: These things do do not do not become automatically enforced. 737 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 3: So this is this is like one one step. Now 738 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,160 Speaker 3: you can go to a popular dot info who has 739 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,840 Speaker 3: been breaking the news on this specifically, and then some 740 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,919 Speaker 3: some breaking news that I have here on drop site 741 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:25,840 Speaker 3: quote unquote armored Tesla forecast estimated to win four hundred 742 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:31,920 Speaker 3: million dollars of State Department contract funds. What So, this 743 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,360 Speaker 3: could go one of two ways. This could either go 744 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,920 Speaker 3: a really funny way, Yeah it's gonna shay, or it 745 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,120 Speaker 3: could go a really sad way. 746 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,600 Speaker 2: Yeah I do. I do like the idea of a 747 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,240 Speaker 2: lot of Trump appointees being in Tesla's that are armored. 748 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,919 Speaker 2: When the batteries catch and maybe the jaws of life 749 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,000 Speaker 2: can't cut through those, You know yep, yep. 750 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,480 Speaker 5: Yeah it was. This is very funny because Trump went 751 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,240 Speaker 5: off on a on a contangent about electric tank horrible 752 00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,960 Speaker 5: idea campaign trail a couple of times. 753 00:39:59,040 --> 00:39:59,800 Speaker 2: Horrible idea. 754 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, well he's had he's had to come to Jesus 755 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,680 Speaker 5: moment and he has changed his mind and he wants 756 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,719 Speaker 5: a more sustainable sure beast as they call it. 757 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,239 Speaker 2: What everyone always says, the problem with tanks is is 758 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 2: that they don't explode enough when hit by munitions. 759 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,839 Speaker 6: Or by themselves when not hit by being by themselves, 760 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:20,239 Speaker 6: just because batteries do that sometimes. Yes, yeah, you never 761 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 6: know what you're going to get. 762 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,279 Speaker 2: I'm excited. This is going to make everything a lot 763 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,840 Speaker 2: safer for our our our men and women in Greenland. 764 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 5: I'm guessing. Yeah, batteries. 765 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,359 Speaker 3: Batteries thrive in the cold, red, white and blue lip. 766 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:35,200 Speaker 4: Yeah. 767 00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,840 Speaker 2: I do love the new m one a whatever seven 768 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,160 Speaker 2: abrams that gets four miles on a chart. Yeah, and 769 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,360 Speaker 2: then again, detonates wait six months to use a solar 770 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,640 Speaker 2: panel to field recharge place where it doesn't get light 771 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,600 Speaker 2: for six months. Yea magnificent upwards of ten miles a year. 772 00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 3: Yes, yep, all right, Well that is it for us 773 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,480 Speaker 3: today on Uh, it could Happen Here? James Things. Do 774 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 3: you want to talk about the tip line again? 775 00:40:59,160 --> 00:40:59,359 Speaker 6: Yeah? 776 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, So everybody, we have an email where you can 777 00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,040 Speaker 5: reach out to us if you have things that you 778 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,680 Speaker 5: think we should be reporting on. It is a proton mail. 779 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,799 Speaker 5: That doesn't mean that it's super secure. It simply means 780 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,640 Speaker 5: it's sent to end encrypted. If you send from a 781 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:16,680 Speaker 5: proton address. 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