1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of My Heart 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: Radio Together Everything, so don't don't well. Hello, welcome back 3 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: to the very new Worst Year Ever. I'm Katie Soul. 4 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: I'm and I offered to kick off today's recording because 5 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 1: I told him that I have a joke. Here's my 6 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: joke jokes. Wow, we're really starting the year off with 7 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: a flash bang. Ah. That's better than my opening, which 8 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: was just me shouting I told you so, I told 9 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: you so, I fucking told you so. Let's let's have 10 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: that also, because I think we need more than it 11 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: was cackling like the joker, So I don't want I 12 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: can't believe how differently today started. Although I let's just 13 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: dive right in. The Capital has been breached at the 14 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: time of this recording, people dealing the walls, most likely 15 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: pissing in Nancy Pelosi's office. UM, I have seen. I 16 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: watched every video I could of them breaching the Capitol 17 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: walls and then breaching the Capitol, and I can honestly 18 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: say I saw more force used on a mixed group 19 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: of middle aged moms and teenagers with skateboards trying to 20 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: pull plywood off the front of a federal courthouse way 21 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: more force. People's skulls were broken by rubber bullets when 22 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: they tried to do that. But there are cops taking 23 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: selfies with people who shattered the windows of the Capitol 24 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: building inside inside just strolling around with stole things from office. 25 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: The podium like the congressional and was stolen by the 26 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: Q and on Shampon he walked out with it. I 27 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: didn't realize that was the guy. Yes, they may or 28 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: may not have opened the gate to let them in, 29 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: they being the police we were talking about. The gates 30 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: near the capital was open and people were ushered in 31 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: by police. You don't know exactly which one yet, which 32 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: one it was the gate near the capital. Yes, regardless, 33 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: not a good look for a police officer. Um. We 34 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: have heard over and over again at the time of 35 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: this recording that the National Guard is on their way, 36 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,119 Speaker 1: and then we saw that the Department of Defense halted 37 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: that did not allow for the National Guard. Now they 38 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: seem to actually be coming, but they haven't showed up 39 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: yet at the time of this recording. It's been ours. 40 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: This wasn't a surprise, and this wasn't a surprise. No. 41 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: I published an article yesterday where I pointed out people talk. 42 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: I pointed out a young woman talking about how I'm 43 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: going to read just a quote from this woman on 44 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: the Donald dot Win that she wrote yesterday, I toor 45 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: that she wrote two or three days before this. I 46 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: told my mom goodbye today. I said, I had a 47 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: good life and I have no kids, no husband. I 48 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 1: told her I wanted to wanted to be peaceful, but 49 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: if our leaders do the wrong thing and we have 50 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: to storm the capital, I'm going to do it. A 51 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: young woman. Maybe that young woman was shot dead today 52 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: by police officers in the Capitol as she attempted to 53 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: breach into the capital chamber. Like all of this was, 54 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 1: was not not just obvious, but was directly and deliberately signposted. 55 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: They wrote about what they were going to do for 56 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: weeks and spelled out in detail what they planned to do. 57 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: No action was taken to stop them. Very very hard 58 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: to get more literal, uh than like the writing was 59 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: on the wall. Yeah and uh. At the time of 60 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: this recording, not a lot of coverage of what's happening 61 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: around the country. But stuff is happening, not just in 62 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: d C. Yeah, I've heard reports of the Georgia capital 63 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: being breached I don't know to what extent. There definitely 64 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: were a bunch of militias out there. Uh, there's violence 65 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: and a lot of major cities erupting right now. In 66 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. It's bad. It's bad. It's a bad look America. Uh, 67 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: you know, nothing like what's happening in d C. But 68 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: there's big caravans of MAGA people in around different parts 69 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: of town and in downtown l A. Right before the 70 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: people who have been talking about this like in like oh, 71 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: political positions who have been like leading up to this 72 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: specific day, it's it's happening the way they wanted it. Yeah, 73 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: and but now maybe they're like, oh no, wait stop, Yes, 74 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: but downtown l A there have been violence of people 75 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: being removed in stretchers and bloodied and being beaten up 76 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: from the Black Lives Matter people. Salem, which is the 77 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: capital of Oregon. Um, things seem to have been calmer. 78 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: And Olympia, the capital of Washington. I know somebody on 79 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: the ground in Georgia who again, you know, hundred or 80 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: so people, some armed, but like nothing serious. Um, but 81 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: it looks like things went a little bit hotter in 82 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: Kentucky to uh, this is just the start of whatever 83 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: this is right, Like, even yeah, even if all of 84 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: this gets it gets calmed down and broken up and 85 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: President Trump leaves office and Biden takes office, there's now 86 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: thousands of right wing activists who are not going to 87 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: be punished for this, who have tasted breaking into the 88 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: capital and are going to try to do it again. Um, 89 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: And we've seen that the police are more or less 90 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: fine with them doing that, Like maybe they won't be 91 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: in the future. Like, one of the most infuriating things 92 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: to me was, um, a couple of hours ago, Matt Fuller, 93 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: who's a reporter with the Huffington Post, Um, was being 94 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: evacuated with Congress because he was on the floor of Congress, 95 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,239 Speaker 1: you know, reporting on on the certification of the electoral 96 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: college happening today. And as he was being evacuated with 97 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: our entire congress, uh, he heard the police officers saying, 98 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: bet they like us now. And you know that officers 99 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: insinuation was like, now they're going to appreciate cops now 100 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: that there's tords of extremist at the gates, Like you 101 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: fuckers left them in the tier gas. None of them 102 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: had masks. One round of tier gas would have broken 103 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: this up. I am. I don't. We're going to be 104 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: learning a lot in the coming days about exactly what's 105 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: happened and how this happened. But it seems pretty clear 106 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: that there's a lot of looking the other way that's 107 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: been going on. There's a lot of people I don't 108 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: know everybody. All the coverage I'm seeing and all the 109 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: questions swirling is like, how do they actually even get in? Okay, 110 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: So getting across the police line leading up to the 111 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: Capital bill, getting into the Capital, into the building, we 112 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: saw the glass breaking, all of it. It's just this 113 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: was allowed. This was allowed to happen. My point, courage 114 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: to happen for months. Um, and all the little worms 115 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 1: in the Senate who were like stand down, this is 116 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: not who we are, are like, no, you did it, 117 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: it's yours. This is what you wanted. Um, it's been allowed, 118 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: it's been encouraged. Jim Acosta an hour ago tweeted a 119 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: source close to the White House who is in touch 120 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: with some of the rioters at the Capitol said it's 121 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: the goal of those involved to stay inside the Capital 122 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: throughout the night. So like, who's that source close to 123 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: the White House talking to those rioters? Um, yeah, Oh gosh, 124 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: where do you even begin? I mean, I guess we've begun. 125 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: There's just so much. We started the day excited, hopeful, 126 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: as hopeful as you can be. Well sure, but yeah, 127 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: like all the other things, I was hoping to talk 128 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: about the possibilities that we have, what we can expect, 129 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: what we need to do over the next two years. 130 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: Because the other big piece of news is that it 131 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: looks like okay, Raphael Warnock and John Assuf have both 132 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: won their Senate races announced Democrats. UM. But that was 133 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: definitely overshadowed by this mornings and this all also this riot. 134 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: This is happening at the backdrop of an attempt to 135 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: certify the election results, where a shocking number of Republicans 136 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: were calling into question the validity of it. Um. That's 137 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: what that's like. A wild day of news, guys. That's 138 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: because those things are super related. They've been calling for 139 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: this and six if they was stolen. I just wanted 140 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: we just want the people to be heard. Well, now 141 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: they're being heard in the way that maybe you should 142 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,719 Speaker 1: have expected them to be heard. And the uh, it's installed. 143 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: The thing that they were trying to exactly it was 144 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: a success. I mean, it's just right before this happened, 145 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: I was watching the coverage and seeing the senators speak 146 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: and and Ted Cruz making the case if I understand 147 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: your concerns, but what about the concerns of the people 148 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: that believe that this election was fraudulent? You little fuck 149 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: They believe it's fraudulent because you little concerns of the 150 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: people who believe the moon is a hologram put up 151 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,439 Speaker 1: by the United States in order to make the Soviets 152 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 1: look bad. Their concerns. And how about those of us 153 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: that know the earth to be flat? Yeah? What about us? 154 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: What about those of us who know, who know to 155 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: a point of certainty that Lee Harvey Oswald was a 156 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: decent patriot who did no crime while Bernard Montgomery Sanders 157 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: stood in the window of that book depository and fired 158 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: down at John Fitzgerald Kennedy. What what about us specifically? 159 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: Oh boy, what about the people who think jfk Jr. 160 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: Is alive? Well, I mean he is, but he's not 161 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: a part of quing on. He's actually working as a 162 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: commonness Malibu. Oh boy, he works right alongside the guy 163 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: who invented hot yoga. They it's actually really bad. Today's 164 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: today Today's had so much whiplash it's unbelievable. But hey, 165 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: congratulations to us Off and Warnock for stealing the election 166 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: yesterday barely, but they did it. Actually, I need to 167 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: shout out, shout out to Georgia. Shout out to Stacy 168 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: Abrams help for helping steal the election. I mean we 169 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: should multiple things could be true at once. This could 170 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: be horrifying and heartbreaking what's happening in the Capitol. And 171 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: also something truly uh truly remarkable was pulled off yesterday 172 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: as well, maybe not remarkable considering it was good. Well, 173 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: I mean, I just stunned by the We have uh 174 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: direct payments of two thousand dollars a month pulling at 175 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: over popularity across the country, and you have to Democratic 176 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: senators running on that. You have the President of the 177 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: United States in the last minute claiming he wants that, 178 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: going at odds with the party. And so there's these 179 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: two Republican senators running staunchly against those payments. I mean 180 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 1: that alone should have swayed the needle a lot in anyway. Yeah, 181 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:34,680 Speaker 1: I wonder how much uh they regret, Uh, I bet 182 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: they a lot um or not. I don't know. I 183 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: don't know, nothing makes sense, but I was um delighted 184 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: to see last night, even before it was clear, uh, 185 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: just how much better these two are doing, even than 186 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: Biden and just about every county, uh, Republican or Democrat, 187 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: they did much better or you know, enough better. And 188 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: that's really bolstering it to the lot about um that 189 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: maybe it was like a bad idea to elect reality 190 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: TV show fascists. Well, yeah, no one could have predicted 191 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: it at the time, but it seems that way, yes 192 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: or no. But also that you could make the case 193 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: that some of them underperforming is because Trump wasn't on 194 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: the ticket, but also Trump fuck them. I know you 195 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: tweeted this, I think yesterday. I'm hold you very fascinated 196 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: to hear how many people wrote in Trump. So many 197 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: people responded to me with well, actually, uh, you can't 198 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: write in things on electronic ballots, and I was like, come, 199 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: you're missing the point. You're missing the goddamn point. The point, 200 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: in case you guys aren't clear, is that at the 201 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: beginning after the November election, they started encouraging people to 202 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: write in Donald Trumps. Got to make sure Trump wins, 203 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: gotta boy, what else? What else? Loving all the tweets 204 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 1: from Marco Rooo and Ted Cruz and Dan Crenshaw, all 205 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: the all the hits, all the greats. I've seen one 206 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: good meme come out of this, and it is it 207 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: is pretty magnificent. You know that meme. That's the guy 208 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: with like the big dominoes and he's like kneeling next 209 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: to the tiny domino and there's one that's like fifty 210 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: times its size at the very end. It's it's that meme. 211 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: And the little domino is labeled a guy making a 212 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: website in order to rate his classmates on how hot 213 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: they are, and the big domino is the Q and 214 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: on Shammon has occupied the capital. There is man men 215 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: on the planet. I UM. I can't help but but 216 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: make a note of the fact that on CNN's live 217 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: coverage of this, they've called the insurrectionist during over like 218 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: video of these people like shattering the windows of the 219 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: capital climb in, they've called them anarchists, which is very 220 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: funny to me because I've watched how police respond to 221 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: anarchists all year and it has mostly been, uh, the 222 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: anarchists will touch offense or spray paint something, and then 223 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: the police will beat them into unconsciousness and drag their 224 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: body into a cloud of tear guests to arrest them. Yeah, 225 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: this is different. I've seen how the president and people 226 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: like Ted Cruz talk about anarchists. It's not like this 227 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: doesn't call them special people. I remember when he called 228 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: the teenagers in Portland terrorists for knocking down a statue 229 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: of George Washington. Um, but these are very special people 230 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: and special people, very special. We love them. They stole 231 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: the election, it was fraudulent. But but go home. I 232 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: love you when you're right, but go home. Police change 233 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: the tone slightly and say that it is fun to 234 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: joke and that's a good coping mechanism with stuff. But man, 235 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: I've been pretty too and angry. Um. I got emotional 236 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: at one point. I got furious at one point. So 237 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: I just think that we should acknowledge that this is 238 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: massively fucking awful. It's really bad and incredibly predictable, and 239 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: literally anyone who paid the least amount of attention knew 240 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: that this was building and going to happen. And the 241 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: ultimate responsibility lies mainly on America's police, not just the 242 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: d C police, but police all around this country who 243 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: have used wildly desperate policing methods on left wing and 244 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: right wing demonstrateges. It made it very clear to these 245 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: people that they would be allowed to do this, and 246 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: they were in fact allowed to do this. Yeah, anyway, 247 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: and good stuff. We don't even know how many people 248 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: are going to die because of COVID. No, I mean sure, 249 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: I mean this is, uh, I believe, the worst day. 250 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: I mean we've had some any worse days. But I 251 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: mean before this, we'll just take a moment to mention 252 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: that before this was a rally where the where the 253 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: Trump spoke, and you know, and everybody walking around. I 254 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: forget who it was that I saw speaking. I was 255 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: at the dentist this morning watching it with my dental hygienist, um, 256 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: who was up there saying, this is a super spreader 257 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: what event, go up and hug each other. Let's make 258 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 1: it a super spreader event, encouraging each other. And that's 259 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: when my dentist said, Tequila makes her clothes drop off 260 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: at another story. What an interesting tourn of events there, Katie. 261 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like your dentist and I have 262 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: a lot in common, but that's outside of the point. 263 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: I know you both do dental work on people. To 264 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: the point masks like yeah, COVID, but also they so identifiable, 265 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: all these people. I don't know that it matters. No, 266 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter for a lot of them. Um. I 267 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: also enjoyed, enjoyed, uh, Rudy at the rally earlier today. 268 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: They sounds like a kid's book, Rudy the rally. Uh. 269 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: But Rudy at the rally was talking about how we 270 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: can settle this with trial by combat. Oh you know what, 271 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: he did some board. You know what. I think one 272 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: thing we could get left and right on board with 273 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: is that it would rule to watch Donald Trump and 274 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: Biden Biden have to fight it out. And I'm on board. 275 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: I will stand with the MAGA guys if that's the result, 276 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: If we get a fist bite between those two broken 277 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: old men, that would be amazing. Unfortunately, I think Rudy 278 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: meant what we're seeing right now. Um. But if he 279 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: did mean Trump and Biden fight each other bare knuckle 280 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: boxing or something into it to the death. Absolutely, Yeah, 281 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. I'm of of terrorists charging the media and 282 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: destroying their equip Yeah, which, which, by the way, in 283 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: the article I published on Belling Cat yesterday, they specifically 284 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,199 Speaker 1: talked about stealing cameras from the press and assaulting them. 285 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: Today than they did it again. All of this was 286 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: signposted ahead of time. All of it has been written before. 287 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: Possibility of multiple deaths. Um, I think we can acknowledge 288 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: we already know that one person. CNN keeps talking about 289 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: the one woman in critical condition that was shot in 290 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: the chest. Robert, you are aware of somebody else being 291 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: injured that I have not seen covered a someone that well, 292 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: actually she's been tweeting. Molly Conjure has been undercover. She's 293 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: out now. Um. She witnessed when the first flash bangs 294 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 1: go off and old went off, an old man dropped 295 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 1: to the ground, uh from a heart attack what she 296 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: describes as very bad. CPR was performed on him by 297 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: some other demonstrators and he was carried away, looking gray 298 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: and not breathing. I'm regretting my flash bang joke. No, no, no, 299 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,360 Speaker 1: it's fine. He deserved it, like whatever, like like at 300 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: this fucking point like this is this is the first 301 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: time in a year worth of demonstrations and riots where 302 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 1: I think flash bangs and tear gas were somewhat justified 303 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: because they were trying to kill or kidnap the entire 304 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: elected government. There's video or pictures right now that PBS 305 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: just posted of a demonstrator and a tactical vest and 306 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: a handgun in Congress with a handgun on his hip 307 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: and a bunch of zip ties in one hand. They 308 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: were looking to take hostages. This was an attempted coup 309 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: to overthrow the democratically elected government and institute of fascist 310 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: state force was justified. It wasn't really used up until 311 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 1: the last moment, but it was justified. Absolutely. There have 312 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: been at least one explosive device has been found at 313 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: the time of this recording, um other suspicious ones. We'll see. 314 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: Is bad. Y'all out there? Great, We've got to take 315 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 1: a quick break for you know, the thing that supports 316 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: these podcasts. Forget the word. It's been two weeks. Some 317 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: some people talking money or something. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, 318 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: so ducks and purposes. There it was we together, everything 319 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: all right, We're back and we have with us a 320 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: live guest who has been on the ground in DC 321 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: all day for the storming of the capital. She was 322 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: there the last time we reported on Vincent d C. 323 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 1: It's Talia, Jane. Talia, how are you holding up. I'm good. 324 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to head back out there right now, 325 00:20:55,080 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: hopefully providing some very tense like a SMR for people. LT. Crow. Yeah, 326 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: she's literally strapping in putting on her helmet as we 327 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: are talking. Now. It's a riveting it's a riveting picture. Yeah, 328 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: everything's really normal. He super normal in the world. It's great. 329 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 1: I for one love it, um taliant, would you mind 330 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: kind of walking us through what happened today, like what 331 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: you saw and particularly interested in what kind of use 332 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: of force you saw from the police and when you 333 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: saw them deploy it, What did you see and when 334 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: did you see it? Um so, So I was we walked. 335 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: Trump had his speech and most people were over by 336 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: the White House for that the at the lips is 337 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: where he was speaking, and then um people started wandering 338 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: over the people started wandering over to the Capitol or 339 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: um because there's supposed to be a one pm round 340 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: And what ended up happening was as people arrived, they 341 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,439 Speaker 1: said like fuck it, we're taken back our country, and 342 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 1: they started rushing up the stairs. They broke a metal 343 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,199 Speaker 1: fence and also pulled down barricades and then rushed all 344 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 1: the way up to and I wouldn't realize this. I 345 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: didn't realize this until after they started climbing it. Uh 346 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: the area of where the president is inaugurated, um, and 347 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 1: they have scaffolding set up for like seating there. UM. 348 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: At that point, they only had a line of cops 349 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: with uh you know, had some bats and some riot gear, 350 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 1: but no riot shields, no barricades, nothing like that. I 351 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 1: think that they may be expected that they'd be able 352 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: to hold that line just fine. And then they realized 353 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: that these people were actually they don't actually back to blue. 354 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: They just hoped that by saying they're back to blue, 355 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:03,199 Speaker 1: they will get permission do whatever they want. Right. So 356 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 1: people started pushing on the police. They started, you know, 357 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: gaining some ground, and the cops were started telling them 358 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: like stay back. There was a female officer up uh 359 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: where the president gets sworn in, and she had a 360 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: pepper ball gun and she was shooting people with it. 361 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: Uh and that was like they're only defense. Um. And 362 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: then people kept moving in and they brought in um 363 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: more cops with some metal barricades, and I guess we're 364 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: just like hoping for the best. Uh. They started releasing 365 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,640 Speaker 1: flash grenades, which at first people were like, holy shit. 366 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: And then after a while they're like, uh so it 367 00:23:54,480 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 1: lost its effectiveness extremely fast. Um. And then and that's 368 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: when they started. Also, they have these really big canisters 369 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,679 Speaker 1: of tear gas or not tear gas, pepper spray and 370 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: mace and all that stuff. They were trying to get 371 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: that on people, and it was not super uper effective. Um. 372 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 1: And that's when they started launching. It was the the 373 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: Metropolitan Police, which is like the regular DC police, they 374 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: started launching um tear gas canisters, which I'm pretty sure 375 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: there's a federal injunction against here. But so that happened 376 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: there is Okay, great Peanut Gallery says there is. Yeah, 377 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 1: it was just it was just like you know, people 378 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: kept on. It was this is the second time here 379 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: that I've seen the MAGA crowd is the one escalating 380 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: and the police are sort of like helpless to do anything. Um. 381 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: In every protest I've covered, it's like a BLM protest, 382 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: it's usually people are being kind of peaceful and then 383 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: the cops escalator. So it's just so bizarre seeing it 384 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: um reversed so lately watching the coverage here, UM, I 385 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: keep hearing the phrase the police are outnumbered, they're just 386 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: out match. And I'm asking for confirmation of that because 387 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: it's just wild to me. We know what, well, it's not. 388 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: We've already talked about this all the time at length 389 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: today and before what side the cops are on? But 390 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: they knew this was coming, they knew that this was happening. 391 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,160 Speaker 1: Why has it taken so long for reinforcements? What is happening? 392 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: I wish I knew. I mean, honestly, like seeing them 393 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: at the Capitol, they didn't really bring many reinforcements in. 394 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: It was Capital Hill Police as well as UM Metropolitan 395 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: Police UM, and it was maybe like fifty or a 396 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: hundred of them, And I think they really thought that 397 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,680 Speaker 1: having like a line of cops two or three deep 398 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: was going to supice when there was like thousands of 399 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 1: is banging at the door. Well, and it's one of 400 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: those it's one of those things I've been talking about, 401 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: like the fact that they haven't tear gassed this crowd 402 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: because I just saw so much used against people doing 403 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: a lot less over the summer. They didn't need to 404 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: tear gas this crowd to disperse it. Like a hundred 405 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 1: men firing pepper balls would have fucking broken this crowd 406 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 1: if they'd done it early enough. They chose not to. 407 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: They chose to let them fucking a in there like this. 408 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: This was a decision. They had one cup firing pepper balls. 409 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: That was it. It was not. And another thing is 410 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: that the National Guard. I saw four, I mean four 411 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 1: National Guards officers just kind of standing. So there are 412 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: National Guards there now otherwise from the beginning, so they 413 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: hadn't been like activated there and it was just four 414 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, No, I would say it was bizarre 415 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: because so the cops in DC number five five and 416 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: a half per thousand residents, and then the the cops 417 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: nationwide it's it's the average is three point four per 418 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: thousand residents. Um. So they have a significant police force, 419 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: they have you know, parks Police, they have Metropolitan, they 420 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: have Metro Transit, they have Capitol Hill, they have all 421 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: these different things and yet to zero turnout. It's so 422 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: so bizarre. Um, how many many thousands of people do 423 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 1: you think we're are there? When you were there early, 424 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: we're actually responsible for preaching. At one point I looked 425 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: down the road and all I could see where mag 426 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: is like it was they were filling the the Capitol 427 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: Hill area. They were filling like the lawn, and then 428 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: they were overflowing past that for multiple blocks, like I 429 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 1: could not see an end. This is a bigger crowd 430 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: than his actual inauguration. Yeah, yeah it is. It was. Yeah, 431 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 1: it was a sizeable crowd, but it also I don't 432 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: know from the live streams, it didn't look larger than 433 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 1: the BLM demonstrations that were in d C at the 434 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: height of the summer um like it looked I don't know, 435 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: like somewhere in the like that was actually on the 436 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: Capitol grounds, like in the thousands, but not in the 437 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: tens of thousands could hold up the Bible upside down. 438 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: That was way less. Yeah, yeah, ok, yeah, I can't 439 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: say I was. It's too Yeah. It was a lot 440 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,959 Speaker 1: more than um that we're here last time, sure, And 441 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: it was a lot more that we're here than we're 442 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: here the time before that. Yeah, I mean that would 443 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: makes sense because there was no action taken against them 444 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: the previous two times, so more people kept coming out. Yeah. Yeah. 445 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: It's a funny thing where when you tell people that 446 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: are behaving badly that how their behaving is fine, they 447 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: we'll keep doing it. So it's great. It's great. I 448 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: mean yeah, I mean it was like, like, let me 449 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: be clear, like I'm being kind of you know, lighthearted 450 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: about this right now. Um, but it was at one 451 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: point it was terrifying being at the capital because it 452 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: was so many people who the police could not control, 453 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: and we're not equipped or bothering to become equipped to 454 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: control um like this incessant insane determination to Greek like 455 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: just pure havoc because they were literally chanting we want 456 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: Trump like they were having. And I don't want to 457 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: like reduce people agency by you know, making them sound 458 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: like children, but they were. It sounded like a fucking 459 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 1: tantrum and it was sound, and they were violent and 460 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: they were ready to like they were like it's a revolution, 461 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: like right now, we're going to take this. If they 462 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: had gotten their hands on Nancy Pelosi or someone else 463 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: like that in the Democratic but they would have killed them. 464 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: What if they saw AOC in a second? Yeah, I 465 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: did have a thought of like, gosh, you know, I'm 466 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: not big sympathizer to our elected officials, especially not Nancy Pelosi, 467 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: but I what what a scary moment, the unthinkable thing happening. 468 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: And my my anger is not anger at like my 469 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: respect for Nancy Pelosi or even AOC. It's at the 470 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: fact that they are literally literally it's that there was 471 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: a mob literally threatening and attempting to capture and due 472 00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: violence to the elected leaders of this country, and almost 473 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: nothing was done against them. Cops were ambling by them 474 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: in cases, taking selfies with them. Um. It's uh, I 475 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: don't know. My my mind just keeps going back to 476 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: Donovan Labella, the young twentysomething guy in Portland who was 477 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: holding a boom box over his head in front of 478 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: a courthouse and had his skull shattered by a rubber 479 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: bullet from thirty feet away. Um. Fun stuff to think about. 480 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: It's like, you know, it's always it's always jarring when 481 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: you see the disparities and hypocrisy so so clearly on display, 482 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: Like it never becomes easier to to witness and to 483 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: recognize UM. And I think you know, it can it 484 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: can feel sort of like minimizing when you're just like, 485 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 1: look at this disparity, UM, and it feels like that's 486 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: all you can do. UM. But a lot of times 487 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: people don't bother taking that first step of recognizing, UM, 488 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: the hypocrisy at play. They're not It's not right, Yeah, um. 489 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: And so even just being able to say like, hey, 490 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: this is fucked um can sometimes be the thing that 491 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: helps to open someone's eyes who otherwise wasn't really looking. Um. 492 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 1: And that is my very people attempt at optimism. Right now, 493 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: we just now have confirmation, I mean, the video confirmed 494 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: it clearly enough. We have confirmation that the person shot 495 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 1: at the capitol today is dead. Um the person shot? 496 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: Which person? Now we've gotten the woman who was shot, 497 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: The woman who was shot at the capital, I mean 498 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: she was dead in the photo where they were wheeling 499 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: her out. Is as a rule, if you see medics 500 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: performing CPR on a person and using an amboo bag 501 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 1: on them, which is like the breathing bag, use, that 502 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 1: person is dead. You don't do CPR on the living. 503 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 1: It's only ever done on dead people. That's what it's for. Um. 504 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: And sometimes it resuscitates them, but not often. You know. Anyway, 505 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: a lot of things I never knew today. Fun stuff, 506 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: fun stuff. Now. Pictures of the i E. D s 507 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: that were posted near the capital. Um, they look like 508 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 1: they have fucking um like like you know those little 509 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: twist knob timers that you can use for cooking. Uh, yeah, 510 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 1: it looks like those on pipe bombs, but those look 511 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: like straight up pipe bombs. Cool. So what you're telling 512 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: me is that the ballistic best that I have on 513 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be sufficient. Well, I mean though, 514 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: actually the ballistic vest that you have on will protect 515 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: your trunk unless you're at like even like, unless you're 516 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: like at point blank range, the shrapnel it will stop. 517 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: Like soft vests are generally very good at stopping shrapnel 518 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: from small explosives like that. It's more your legs in 519 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: like your femoral artery and your throat, your karate and 520 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: stuff that I would be worried about. You do you 521 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: do you care about your legs and your arteries very much? 522 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,879 Speaker 1: Are you a big cat? They ever done for me? Right? 523 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,879 Speaker 1: So what's your plan now? So you're heading over there now? 524 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: Is there? You're just gonna generally go check things out? 525 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:22,400 Speaker 1: Is there a plan of action? Yeah? So I am 526 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: not going to be in press block because they stole 527 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: what I believe was a p s um like all 528 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 1: of their media equipment, snash it up. They talked before, 529 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,800 Speaker 1: and they have been assaulting other people who are visibly pressed, 530 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: so I have UM, We're not going to say it 531 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: out loud but I will show you guys. Um, I 532 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:53,280 Speaker 1: have I have some some contingency plans I should say 533 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: that will hopefully allow me to do my job without 534 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,400 Speaker 1: basing serious harmor injury. And if you want to avoid 535 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 1: facing serious harm or injury, the only way to do 536 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: that is by the products and services. I still got 537 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 1: to pay for the plumbing. I don't know. Hey, man, 538 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: capitalism don't stop for nothing, not even a generalized revolt 539 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 1: to institute a fascist state. Sign out for coup apron. 540 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: Sometimes it helps with that. Actually, Talia, thank you for 541 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: taking time to chat with us before you head back out. 542 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 1: We will be following closely. Please tell everybody that they 543 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: can find you online. Uh. Yeah, it's an underscore Talia 544 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram. Um, I'm on Patreon. Link is 545 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 1: in my Twitter um, and yeah, I think that's basically it. 546 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 1: I really can cheat you guys for bearing with me, 547 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 1: as I'm very much still in the middle of all this. Yeah, 548 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:08,560 Speaker 1: and what to do, like you've been at this a while. Yeah, 549 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see. Uh, we'll see if I'm able 550 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:17,200 Speaker 1: to like listen to this after ye, in which case, 551 00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 1: if I die, UM, avenge you if you die. This 552 00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: is going to make our release really weird. It's gonna 553 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,560 Speaker 1: sunk up this episode. So I would love it if 554 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 1: you didn't die like for other reasons too, for the 555 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,920 Speaker 1: sake of the pod. Yeah, I guess you know, like 556 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,440 Speaker 1: if I die like like and subscribe, click the banner 557 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 1: ad put the banner ad over my tombstone. Yeah, like, 558 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 1: your your devotion to this podcast is will be appreciated. 559 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: It's what I will be most remembered for. Absolutely well together. 560 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: He Hey, okay, so Talia has gone off to risk 561 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: her life again reporting on the coup attempt. Um. We're 562 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:28,320 Speaker 1: all sitting frustrated. I'm writing a column um because I 563 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,840 Speaker 1: don't know what else to do. Uh, And like everyone, 564 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,520 Speaker 1: we're all probably gonna uh spend the rest of the 565 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,040 Speaker 1: night glued to a series of live streams and tweets, uh, 566 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,919 Speaker 1: watching what I presume will be eventually a higher death 567 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,759 Speaker 1: toll come in. And then over the next month, we'll 568 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,400 Speaker 1: be watching the death toll from the plague that was 569 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:50,000 Speaker 1: spread by this coup come in healthy ways to continue. Yeah, 570 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,480 Speaker 1: the only advice I can give people in times like 571 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,800 Speaker 1: this is to consider buying a Casper mattress. Now, Casper 572 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:05,160 Speaker 1: mattresses or shifter. We're not sponsored. This is not a 573 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,280 Speaker 1: mad plug, but I gotta wait in blanket for Christmas. 574 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: And let me tell you this, well and years. I 575 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 1: got a suppressor for one of my rifles right before Christmas, 576 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:22,879 Speaker 1: so we each got comfort from that. Yeah, I got 577 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,720 Speaker 1: Robert alcohol shotgun. I was gonna say, I got Boz. 578 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: I do I do enjoy the alcohol shotgun, Cody, you 579 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,200 Speaker 1: also got a lovely dinner from me. I did get 580 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 1: a lovely dinner. It was very relaxing. Well, Merry Christmas, 581 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: Happy coup, Happy cool Year, Happy happy coo Year. Nailed it. 582 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,399 Speaker 1: You did it, You did it all right. Cut in print, 583 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,160 Speaker 1: the episodes done. Sorry guys, we made you sit through 584 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,239 Speaker 1: another ad break for our wrap up thoughts, but that 585 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,239 Speaker 1: joke was worth it. We're gonna be following this. We're 586 00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 1: not sure when will release next. It'll be sooner than later. 587 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,880 Speaker 1: I bet we're gonna do something else this week because 588 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,839 Speaker 1: you know what's happening. Most likely, most likely we will 589 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 1: reconvene tomorrow on the even More News podcasts. So this 590 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,840 Speaker 1: isn't the end of what we have to say about 591 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:20,200 Speaker 1: what's happening now. But I was gonna say Katie was 592 00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: about to say the worst you ever, question Mark, best 593 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,320 Speaker 1: year ever, question Mark, welcome to the best year ever. 594 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:36,800 Speaker 1: Be I'll just say this, you know, wasn't the worst 595 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 1: year ever. It was the start of it was the 596 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:44,399 Speaker 1: worst time so far, but it was. It was the 597 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,200 Speaker 1: start of us realizing the extent of the damage. It 598 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,719 Speaker 1: is the start of us seeing all the cracks in 599 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,520 Speaker 1: the holes. And it's not magically better because it struck 600 00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:02,440 Speaker 1: midnight on December admitted that far um, but this isn't 601 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,520 Speaker 1: going away. You guys all know that the ship's barreling onwards. 602 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,239 Speaker 1: In Joe Biden's speech on the day of the coup 603 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,880 Speaker 1: to try to unsee him, he sounded like he was 604 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,440 Speaker 1: literally asleep. I get bored me. I was bored. I 605 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 1: was just going back to couldn't Mustard as much rage 606 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,120 Speaker 1: as the Mayor of Portland Mustard when one person charred 607 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,759 Speaker 1: the plywood outside of a business near the North Precinct? Um, 608 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,640 Speaker 1: couldn't Mustard more rage than Joe Biden himself? Mustard when 609 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: a voter asked him a question, Yeah, shoved him in 610 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,160 Speaker 1: the chest for it. Unbelievable this guy. But more on 611 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,359 Speaker 1: that tomorrow probably Yeah, And we're now We're going back 612 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,640 Speaker 1: to our Twitter feed and the words, the words of 613 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:52,839 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer, buckle plenty to talk about. Chuckle up. No, 614 00:40:54,719 --> 00:41:02,960 Speaker 1: that's the fucking episode, all right, So everything so dumb 615 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:09,640 Speaker 1: and it's not again. I tried. Daniel. Worst Year Ever 616 00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,320 Speaker 1: is a production of I heart Radio. For more podcasts 617 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,600 Speaker 1: from my heart Radio, visit the I heart Radio app, 618 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,600 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.