WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #32 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.840 Cold Zone Media. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.520 No inappropriate joke Robert to start this episode, Wow, I 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:11.680 feel so clean. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.840 You know. I guess you could say I have some 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:16.760 executive dysfunction today. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.000 This is it could happen here executive disorder, our weekly 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.640 newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the Crumpling world, 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.640 what it means for you. I'm Garrison Davis today. I'm 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.560 joined by Mia Wong, Robert Evans, and possibly Sophie Lichterman, 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.360 our producer. This episode, we are covering the week of 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:37.720 August twenty eighth to September third, Happy fake Labor Day 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:42.760 to everybody, and some breaking news from this past weekend. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.040 Trump maybe died. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.559 Yeah, let's check out on that. Garrison as our official, 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:50.680 is the president a lie of correspondent? 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.640 Let me do a quick at Google search here? Oh no, no, 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:55.880 he's still around. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:57.200 Did everyone get tricked again? 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:58.040 He's still okay? 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:00.880 Like conspiracy theory is the week were really fun And 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.840 then there was that thing that video that went viral 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.520 of like them like opening a White House window and 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.600 throwing out a couple of black trash bags. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.480 That really was really funny. That was really funny. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.040 I was like, there's way worse things going on in 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:14.560 the world. I don't have time to care about this. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.600 But we never got information about that. That was just 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:17.200 some weird shit. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.560 Not yet, not yet, Sophie sensational. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.399 I don't think we know what it was. I mean, 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.240 it could just be that's them fucking cleaning shit. But 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.120 I wouldn't be surprised if they were destroying evidence. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.479 I wasn't aware those windows could open. I thought they 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.360 were like bulletproof and and like weren't. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:33.679 Supposed to open. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.240 I'm sure they both bulletproof, but have to be possible 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.880 to open so that the Secret Service has more paths 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.240 of egress in the event that some crazy disaster were 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.120 to befall the White House. Okay, well, you need to 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.760 watch the documentary White House Down, Sophie. This spells all 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:47.280 of that out. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:52.640 So Trump went a few days without a major public appearance. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.640 The man is just trying to take some time off. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.280 Though he was seen golfing between Saturday and one day, 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.160 but there's nothing on Trump's public schedule for three days 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.040 during Labor Day weekend, where he essentially took a brief 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:13.320 gulfing holiday, and this fueled speculation that he was in 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.919 a rapid health decline, spawning a whole bunch of conspiras, 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:21.520 theories about him being in the hospital, Vance imminently taking over, 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.240 and some comments from JD. Vance during a USA Today 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.720 interview released last Thursday fueled some of this speculation. Over 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.920 the weekend, Vance said, quote, I feel very confident the 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.080 President of the United States is in good shape, is 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.200 going to serve out the remainder of his term and 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.320 do great things for the American people. And if God 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.200 forbid there's a terrible tragedy, I can't think of better 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.400 on the job training than what I've gotten over the 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:50.400 last two hundred days unquote. It sounds like he's ready 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.200 to take the reins right now. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.600 Sure, man, Yeah, you're trained up now. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.440 Over the weekend, people spread AI altered images of Trump's 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.480 face looking more swollen and sickly than it actually was, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.880 and rumors circulated that roads to Walter Reed Medical Center 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.760 were closed yeah, when in fact there were no irregular closures, 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.760 and screenshots of maps supposedly showing these quote unquote closures 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:20.000 were actually just showing old security gates because yeah, you 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.840 can't just like walk or drive up to the front 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.760 door of Walter Reed Medical Center. Yeah, it's in a 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:26.600 military base. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.440 This is the ocent of idiots, right, which is people 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.880 seeing something that is described as being one thing in 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.680 this like little clip that they get of it in 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.000 social media and they don't actually do any further check up. 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.400 It's the same thing with like the Pentagon pizza totally 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.280 orders that people are like, ohh when pizza orders peeked 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:47.960 the Pentagon, where about the US is about to go 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.400 to war, and it's like no, Sometimes people just order 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.640 pizza near the Pentagon because the Pentagon is surrounded by 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.880 a city, right, there's like there's people. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.280 The Pentagon pizza tracker was part of these weekend conspiracy 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.800 theories that you were like trying to decide how to 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.800 handle Trump's declining health, and yes, people just like pizza guys. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.200 Like it's one of those things. I'm certainly not saying 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.680 there's no way you will wake up tomorrow to hear 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.240 that Trump has died, because you know what, he's seventy nine. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.800 It wouldn't be weird if his health took a sudden 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.200 turn in the next day. Just statistically, it wouldn't be 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.800 weird because he's seventy nine. But like the people pointing 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.720 out sy simile they were doing with Biden pointing out like, oh, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.680 like the marks on his hand, and it's like, yeah, 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.880 that isn't it for both of them. This is evidence 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.400 that they are older than you should be to be president. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.200 But like, my grandpa had shit like that, because my 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:35.920 grandpa lived with us for the last like ten years 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.920 of his life. His hands looked a lot like that 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.800 for like a decade. Like, so people live for a 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.039 long time. After it becomes clear that they're very sick 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.279 and old, it's not a sign that they're about to 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:47.480 kick off this weekend. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.440 That guy in Congress who looks like a turtle has 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.600 had weird bruises on his body for as long as 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:56.200 I can remember, Toddle, Yeah, but no, Like accounts were 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:01.080 basically theorizing that like Putin poisoned Trump during their last meeting, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.080 and this is why he's in a rapid health decline. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:04.239 Oh my god, why. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.159 Why would he need to do that? Why would that 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:06.880 benefit him? 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:08.160 So baffling. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.320 Yeah, when people noticed looking at the White House schedule, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.640 which they'd realized just existed a few days ago. But 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.560 when looking on the schedule, they saw that quote unquote, 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.600 the president was to give an announcement on Tuesday afternoon. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.599 Because of this, rumor spread that it would be Trump 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.560 resigning for health reasons or Vance would come out and 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.839 announce Trump died and he was the president now like 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.720 some like really bad Aaron Sory in movie. That's how 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:37.200 it works. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.159 Also, I just want to also put this out there. Yeah, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.680 that White House leaks like a fucking sieve. There is 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:48.520 no way you could cover up the president dying without 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.200 it being out immediately, Like come on. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.919 No, I'm sorry, like you, they couldn't keep it hidden 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.840 when he got sick. You think they're going to keep 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.800 the fact that they're gonna weaken it Bernie's it's ridiculous. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:06.200 Yeah, when this press conference got delayed an hour on Tuesday, 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.279 this too was used as the evidence of Trump's declining health. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:15.159 But sure enough, right before three pm, Trump came out 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.200 with a huge gaggle of people, which is probably why 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.560 it was delayed, because he had like twenty guys with 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.479 him who, like multiple people spoke to announce that they 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.680 were moving space command. And Trump seemed normal. He seemed 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.039 like normal Trump, like he is an old guy, but no, 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:31.560 this was just normal Trump. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.880 Yeah, does he seem older than he did in twenty sixteen. 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:35.440 For sure. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:37.360 Man, it's like were wrinkled. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.920 But like he's older exactly like he did before these 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.320 conspiracy theories started. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.640 Yeah, I mean he looks old, Like he looks older 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.320 than he did ten years ago. Yeah, I'm just saying. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.279 Oh, he's so much less coherent than then. But like, yeah, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:50.960 he's not like, yeah, dying. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.760 I don't have any particular reason to expect he's about 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.839 to drop dead, like as opposed to like three months 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.000 ago or six months ago, you know, yeah, like does 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.560 it appear as if time is continuing to march on 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:04.159 his face? 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.640 Yes, of course, you know exactly. During said press conference, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:14.360 Trump himself was asked about his alleged imminent demise and responded, like, 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:14.720 this a. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.239 Really different but about a big viral social media trend 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:18.960 over the weekend. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.040 How did you find out over the weekend that. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:22.640 You were dady? 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.360 You see that? No, people didn't see it for a 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:26.920 couple of days. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.080 One point three million user engagements as of Saturday morning 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:31.280 about your demise? 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.160 Really, you know, I have heard it's sort of crazy. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.960 But last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.920 They went very well, Like this is going very well, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.520 and then I didn't do any for two days, and 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.840 they said there must be something wrong with him. Biden 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.560 wouldn't do him for months. You wouldn't see him, and 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.080 nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.480 And we know he wasn't the greatest of shape. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:57.360 No, I heard that. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.880 I get reports. Now you knew. I'd did an interview 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.840 that lasted for about an hour and a half with 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.720 somebody and everybody. So that was on one of your competitors. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.800 That's a remarkably coherent Trump by Trump's standards. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.320 Like no, and he's talking about how he was sending 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:18.480 out very pointiant truths over the weekend on truth So okay, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:24.400 that's for current Yeah, like and yeah, he just took 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.960 a nice little golfing golfing holiday and like it is drue. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.800 He is the oldest elected president and the White House 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.679 recently announced he was diagnosed with chronic venus and sufficiency 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.959 a few months ago to explain his ankle swelling and 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.680 the bruises on his right hand have become more noticeable, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.960 which the White House is attributed to frequent handshaking and 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:45.280 the use of aspirin. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.679 That is really funny. Yeah, he shook too many hands. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:52.880 He just can't stop shaking hands. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.320 That's actually hilarious. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.640 But the aspirin thing is is real, and people of 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.559 his age, frequent aspirin use can lead to bruising. Yeah, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.120 but I just finished up my Blue and On research, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.160 and then this whole weekend as I was like literally 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.880 finishing those episodes, this, this whole this whole giant wave 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.840 of these like Trump health conspiracies just just completely took 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.040 over and I felt like I was like losing it, 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.800 like everyone around me, and everyone around me was indulging this, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.960 and like usually from this place of like half joking 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.800 but not really joking. Like when yeah, when that line 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.960 gets blurry between are you indulging in this like ironically 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.240 because it's fun or does it is it actually kind 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:33.000 of altering your brain? Like is it actually slowly making 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.000 you convinced of this stuff? In like a small way. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.840 This gets to what is at the root of all 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.720 conspiracy culture, regardless of like the political ideology, which is 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.600 the need, the emotional need to believe that you are 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.880 the possessor of secret knowledge. Yeah, right, like that that 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.200 that is so much a part of this that like no, no, no, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.120 I'm I am privy to secrets about the world that 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.480 the average person is not, and the degree to which 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.800 that's like comforting and also emotionally necessary for quite a 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.240 few people. And that's part of the problem with humoring 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.320 this is that the instant you let it into your life, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.600 it starts taking more and more power because it becomes 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.120 part of your ego, It becomes part of your coping mechanisms. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.480 It becomes like yeah, something, but you become dependent upon it. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.280 Yeah, And I think it's also word noting. Like, you know, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.560 people are confused all the time about how does the 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.640 right come to believe all of these things? How does 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.000 the right sort of you know, like, how does like 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:33.000 vaccine conspiracism spread? How does like QAnon spread? It's like 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.760 it spreads like this, right, this is what it looks like. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.640 And you're also not immune to it just because your 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.080 politics are better. It's still really really easy to fall 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:48.320 down those pathways because they're addictive and fun. And that's 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.960 spreading so much unhinged shit. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.080 Yeah, the root of a lot of madness comes with 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.040 thinking that you're better than other people and that you're 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.400 not cognitively. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.280 I can play around with this stuff without it affecting me. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.720 The way to fix other people. M M yeah, or 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.320 just because this is because the politics of this counter 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.360 factual belief system are better than their counterfactual belief system. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.160 This is not a counterfactual belief system totally. Yeah, And 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.040 like when we see this with the way some people 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.880 talk about like Russia, and like, I've faced a little 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.160 teeny bit of pushback on some of the ways that 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.200 I was framing like Russia Gate in the Blue and 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.000 on episodes, and like, there is a difference between a 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.520 social media disinformation campaign to influence elections, which Russia does, 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:35.160 Like we know. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.719 This absolutely, that's not in question whatsoever. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.000 Yeah, there's a difference between that and like straightforwardly stealing 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.440 an election in such a manner that the election results 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.240 are themselves illegitimate. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.160 Right, And this is the big question always if you're saying, like, no, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.559 they literally did steal this election in the twenty sixteen election, 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.800 then like, but they just like fucked up for twenty twenty. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.719 They just couldn't get their shit together in time for 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.680 that one. Like what or is it that they have 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.560 influence campaigns like everyone else and they're influence, Like that 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.320 doesn't mean saying that they're not problems but it doesn't 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.680 mean pretending that's the only reason shit broke their way. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.920 You know, in part, A big reason why things worked 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:14.640 the way that they have and have worked the way 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.600 that they have is that the disinfo campaigns that Russia, 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.079 that the Russian government was engaged and were complementary to 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.600 campaigns of disinformation that have existed for decades. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.080 And the US right look at the way they were 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.280 funding right wing content creators through Tenet Media, right, And like, 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.400 you know, same thing with Trump, Like publicly encouraging Russia 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.920 is not the same thing as actual collusion. And there 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.160 is no clear indication that the twenty sixteen Russian influenced 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.120 operations or even like their accessing of voter registration actually 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.360 made a meaningful impact on the results of the election. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.520 And this is the same thing with you know, like 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:54.040 the rights legal methods of voter disenfranchisement, voter suppression or 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:58.079 changing mail in voting rules. Right, there's that versus talking 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.000 about like hacking voting machines. Right, the former doesn't mean 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.320 that the election was quote unquote stolen. Now just because 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.040 they do voter suppression, right, the results still need to 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:12.319 be accepted, Like that's not illegal. Election interference. It's not good. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.319 We should oppose it. Yeah, but it's not a legal 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.600 election interference. And like this is kind of just like 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.400 a coping method that passes the buck to avoid accepting 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.600 that Republicans were better at winning these elections. Yeah, and 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.319 it may be emotionally easier to like blame Russia than 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.240 to actually like reflect on ourselves. And I've seen the 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.200 same thing when people talking about how for the twenty 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.280 twenty four election, on election day there were bomb threats 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.840 to swing state polling places that were traced back to Russia, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.960 and like, while this is nominally true, this did not 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.960 influence the result of that election. And then this can 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.640 very quickly devolve into like just like basically like just 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.360 asking questions, right, like you can't prove a negative, and 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.240 this just turns into like a very cartoon version of 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.880 understanding reality, like with like people in ski masks fixing 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:03.680 elections or changing votes, where like hackers compromising election like 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.040 voting machines, instead of just accepting that a lot of 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.280 people voted for Trump and he won well. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.800 And the part of the other problem is that I 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:15.000 think when you lose yourself in patterns of thinking like this, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:20.240 it also leads to a failure to accurately gauge the 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.360 strengths and the capacities of the enemy. Like if you're 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.840 unwilling to see where they've made smart decisions and where 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.760 they've made good investments that have paid off for them, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:35.040 then you are unable to follow and properly counter those 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.040 kinds of things. And I think part of why this 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.680 is so difficult is that so many people, so many 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.960 liberals and people on the left. I don't think I 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.280 think both sides have differences in how they do it, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.080 but I don't think there's a massive difference in the 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.840 degree to which either side does it. But you find 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.240 on both ends of the political spectrum this emotional need 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.640 to be like, these people are idiots, And the corelating 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.720 factor with that is that like, and I'm not right, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.800 Like I'm smarter because I'm not one of these people, 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.920 because I'm not one of these like fools who buys 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.000 into this right wing propaganda. And you're if you're more 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.120 obsessed with that than you are with seeing where your 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.760 enemy has made smart decisions, then you're going to continue 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.200 getting dunked on by them endlessly. You gonna gain blindside, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.200 and that's that's where we are right now. People are 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.560 getting dunked on repeatedly because they refuse to see the 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.280 things that Trump does that are based in actual intelligence, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.080 and the things that the far right has done, the 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.520 things the Republican Party is of the architects of this 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.680 movement have done that have been successful. You know who 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:32.880 else is successful? 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.720 Genius the products that support this podcast. Yeah, that's right, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:49.640 and we are bad. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.440 So on Tuesday, the Mayor of DC ordered that the 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:59.360 city will continue cooperating with the federal law enforcement pass 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:04.320 the export date of Trump's Crime Emergency Declaration, which is 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:09.400 set for September tenth. She has established the quote Safe 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:14.400 and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center. She is for DC to 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:20.000 indefinitely coordinate with Trump's Safe and Beautiful Task Force. This 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.600 is like a caving and like an acquiescence to prevent 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.040 some kind of larger legal fight over Trump's ability to 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.280 exert power over DC. It's giving him a little bit 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.440 of what he wants while trying to maintain a degree 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.280 of sovereignty, but in doing so you kind of just 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.000 play into what he actually wants. In the end. This 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.840 operations center will work on quote centralized communications formulate post 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.120 emergency planning and operations, and ensure coordination with federal LW 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:54.720 enforcement to the maximum extent allowable by law within the district. Later, 0:16:54.960 --> 0:17:00.520 in her order, she quote unquote, requests that federal partners 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:06.440 adhere to effective community policing practices to maintain community confidence 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.440 in law enforcements, such as by not wearing masks, clearly 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.240 identifying their agency, and providing identification during arrests and encounters 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:14.120 with the public. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:14.680 Great. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.359 Quote, the Safe and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center will continue 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:23.000 to prioritize DC National Guard for typical mission focused activities unquote. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:28.080 So they are requesting that federal partners not wear masks, 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.040 and that's kind of the strongest amount of pushback the 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:35.399 mayor is allowing in regards to Trump's federal control of 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.240 over law enforcement in DC. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.720 Great, that'll solve it, you know. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.600 A while back, I said that like, one of the 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.359 most important sources of support that the Trump administration has 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.000 is a bunch of the Democratic mayors and governors, and 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:52.640 oh boy, is this one of them. 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:53.320 Yeah. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:54.040 Uh. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.480 However, it's worth noting that this has not been the 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:03.200 response of all of the Democrat governors, and I think 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:07.320 we're going to turn here towards the impending occupation of Chicago. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.679 So Trump has said that he is going to deploy 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.240 the National Guard to Chicago, ostensibly also because of crime. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.760 As of two thirty two Pacific time on Wednesday, the third, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.360 we don't have a timeline for the National Guard deployment. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.880 That could change. The situation is evolving rapidly. We will 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.400 get you more on a second. We also have conflicting 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.640 reports where Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker has said that 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:38.879 the Texas National Guard is being staged to sort of 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.400 participate in the sort of occupation of Chicago. Gray Abbott 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.680 has denied this. We sort of don't know what exactly 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.520 is going on with that, but it is worth noting 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.760 that both Governor Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.760 been very very clear of that they do not want 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.359 a federal deployment in Chicago. They have said go home. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.320 There isn't really because this is a federal deployment, There 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:07.719 isn't really much they can do about it outside of 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.120 legal stuff. And the Trump administration has been a lot 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.960 more careful about this, and they were in La in 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.320 terms of how they're doing the deployments legally, so we'll 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:23.679 see what happens with the National Guard deployments. However, and 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.720 this is something that I think is getting very very 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.399 little coverage, which is that the actual threat model on 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.479 the ground in Chicago, and the day this is going up, 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.280 we will have run in an interview the day before 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.280 with Raven who's a journalist from the Chicago based outlet 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:43.760 Unraveled about what the response in Chicago has been to 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.639 all of this, and how people are repairing and what 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.400 the threat model is. The actual thing people are worried 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.120 about in Chicago is not the National Guard so much. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.880 It is the deployment of federal agents from Homeland Security, 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.600 including ICE in the Border patrol. Very very specifically, there 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.359 is difificant concern about border pature because while there has 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.080 been ICE operation in the city and that's obviously very bad, 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.760 as we sort of talk about, there really hasn't been 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:11.040 any significant border patrol deployments and that seems like it's 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.240 about to start as an indication of how fast the 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:18.960 situation is moving. So that interview was recorded Wednesday morning, 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.520 September third, Yeah, September third. In the time between that 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.720 recording and now, which was maybe three hours, we got 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:30.200 more information about the federal deployment. So the Sun Times 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:36.560 is reporting, based on reports from government officials, that two 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:41.800 hundred and thirty agents, including Border Patrol, are being sent 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:46.320 from LA to Chicago. Thirty agents are already here. They've 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:50.200 been doing training in anti riot stuff with flash bangs. 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.760 They've also apparently moved one hundred and forty unmarked vans 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.679 to this naval base, not really in Chicago, we'll get 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.120 to that seconds, but they've moved one hundred and forty 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.240