WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #2 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:10.600 Cools Media. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.320 This is it could happen here. Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.400 newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:19.720 of our world, and what it means for you. I'm 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.520 Garrison Davis today I'm joined by Mia Wong, James Stout, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.400 and Robert Evans. This week we are covering the week 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.680 of January twenty ninth to February fifth, and oh boy, 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:34.200 has this week felt like a month. I am absolutely exhausted. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:39.680 And let's start, I guess by talking about what Trump did. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:44.240 Tuesday night. He had a press conference with both himself 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.800 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and Yahoo to announce that 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.519 the United States would qute unquote take over the Gaza Strip, 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:57.400 resulting in quote unquote long term ownership. Previously on that day, 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.480 Trump also signed an order pulling out of the United 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.080 Nation When Rights Counsel and cutting off aid to UNRA. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.560 Let's start with this topic. Hopefully we will have a 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.520 later episode, maybe next week, covering what's happening in Palestine. 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.560 But you know, this is as of right now, the 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:14.920 current most development. 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.800 This is one of the more like crazy things that 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.399 he's like, like you could see net and Yahoo even 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.600 like in the room clearly finding out about this for 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:24.319 the first time. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.040 Yeah, that there was a real, oh shit really vibe. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.399 I'm not sure how long Trump and Nantyaho actually had 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.280 this like entire thing planned that that is a distinct 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.440 possibility that like, this has been Netanyahu's goal for a while, 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.800 and this was like impacted his negotiations with Biden, like 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.400 knowing that he wanted this to be like the outcome 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.120 where the US basically just takes and holds the territory 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.040 of Gaza as a US territory, like indefinitely. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.840 I think Babe knew that Trump would give him a 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.320 positive outcome in any number of ways, right, like to 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.920 include just saying like bomb it off the map, Like 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.000 I think it's reasonable to assume that. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.280 Well, I mean something like this was I think the 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.200 obvious outcome as soon as Trump, I mean, from before 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.120 Trump won, right, Yeah, net and Yahoo never had any 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.200 intention of letting things go back to the way they 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.240 were before October seventh, And Trump has a vested interest 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:16.920 in giving Netanyahu whatever he wants the most, Like it's 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.880 a I don't know, I'm not surprised by it. I 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.720 guess I'm a little bit like Okay, at least now 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.440 we know what they're going to do next. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.000 It's in line with the manifest destiny territorial expansion Trump 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.399 has been talking about the past few weeks. Yeah, I mean, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.040 Joe Biden laid the groundwork for this by giving like 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.080 Israel the actual like bombs and materials to to like 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.800 do the demolition side of this project. And now Trump 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.839 continues to discuss relocating Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan, while 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.400 promising to turn Gaza into quote unquote the riviera of 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:55.240 the Middle East, level it out create an economic development unquote. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.639 He has also said that he's gonna again said he's 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.359 going to withdraw US troops from Syria, which would leave 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.560 two thousand people in senth Coom to deploy to Gaza. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.040 I guess if that's what they want to do. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.720 Yeah, I mean I feel like there's no possible way 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.840 this can go quote unquote, Well this is going to 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.320 be a fucking catastrophe. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.399 The basic plan here is to do a genocide. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.280 And then I mean, this is this is part of 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.440 a genas title operation. Yeah, it's like, this is like 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.360 what we're doing. We're doing at second larger genosiside this 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:22.480 is like the finishing touch. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:23.000 Yeah. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.760 But then but you know, like on a sort of 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.720 practical level, it's like, Okay, the US couldn't hold Afghanistan, 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.720 right like, and like obviously this is this isn't like 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.920 a quote unquote easier occupation, but it's like, this is 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.680 gonna be a fucking ship like a nightmare, like and 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.920 I don't know, I mean by my assumption is that 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.600 this is going to be just like if he if 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.400 he actually like you know, does a deployment of US troops, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.400 this is going to be hideously unpopular. People are going 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.400 to be coming back in body bags and it's gonna 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.560 fucking I don't know's it's. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.520 Going to be a nightmare for everyone involved. 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:57.120 And yeah, it's a it's a absolutely terrible idea. 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:58.960 I'm more scared that they're gonna get away with it. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.920 I think it's I'm more scared that things will go 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.800 fine for them and this just becomes like an actually 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.880 stable US territory in the Middle East. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.720 There will be significant pushbacks not the word right like 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.120 that there will be guerrilla warfare right Like, It's very 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.760 hard to take and hold significantly large urban areas as 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.120 the US has found out for twenty years. Whether or 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.400 not people will accept that, I think I think they might, 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.359 Like I think Trump kind of needs an enemy, you know, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.400 like a war, and and like a quote unquote you know, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.480 he can he can paint almost anything as a win, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.599 and I think people might be more willing than we'd 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.040 like to think to accept people coming home in body bags. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.080 From that, I'm not really sure. I think we're actually 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.840 going to see the kind of troop deployment that people 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.760 think based on what Trump has said as opposed to 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.560 expand and support for what the Israelis have already been doing, 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.800 which has like done a significant job to depopulate the 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.560 area as it stands. Like, Yeah, I think we have 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.240 to be has a tempt to draw too strong a 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.040 line between the rhetoric and what Trump is actually going 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.200 to do, Which doesn't mean I don't think that it's 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.720 not very likely that you're going to continue to see 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.359 massy population in Gaza. I think it's just that, like, 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.960 I don't know that. I think the only way that 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:21.279 happens is something that looks like most of the occupations 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.720 of the last century have looked like from a US 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:24.360 point of view. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.280 Yeah, and the new model is this serial model, right, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.920 make of a relatively small footprint and then in a 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.760 local partner forth at the IDF pulling security for US 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.240 contracts and in US money like that. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:41.400 Right, the IDF and a lot of third party corporate PMCs. Yeah, PMCs, 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.880 you know, like that's what that We've We've got guys 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.360 champing at the bit to do that. And like I 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.320 that looks a lot likelier to me than the tenth 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.839 Mountain Division, you know, occupying large chunks of Gaza. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.960 Agreed, Yeah, Eric Prince is ready to ready to get 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:58.320 sadly All. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:03.080 Right, let's let's transition to our new segment titled Stinky Musk, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.120 which I came up with last night. Delirious and yes 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.280 it's bad. No, I'm not going to fix it. South 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.000 African Gang does a hostile takeover of the United States. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.080 Yeah, you're hidden, you're hdden Today Garrison. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.599 Elon Musk and a gig of overly online gen z 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.560 interns are doing an oligarchic cybercup of the federal government, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.840 starting with the Office of Management and Budget and moving 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.359 on to USAID, A, General Services Administration, the Treasury, and 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.479 as of Recording uh Noah, as well as many other agencies, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:36.360 smaller agencies, bigger agencies that they are infiltrating both physically 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.960 and digitally. Employees of these agencies have been locked out, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.039 both physically and digitally as the DOGE team ransacks various 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:47.640 departments and accesses sensitive data with no oversight. And that's 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.080 like government data about you, possibly in the hands of 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:55.960 a literal Nick Fuentes pilled Groper. Intern security officials who 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.200 tried to resist Musk's seizure of classified materials have been fired, 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.400 and do personnel threatened to call the US Marshals to 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.919 be let into buildings. I have some more info on this, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.520 as will as we will go on, but I guess 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.040 this is this is an okay time just to discuss. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.840 Yeah, I think the response to this is one of 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.840 the more hopeful things going on right now. And kind 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.000 of what led me to think that is looking at 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.920 twenty twenty, looking at the fallout from twenty twenty and 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.960 what worked and what didn't largely what didn't work, and 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.560 thinking like, okay, well, if we're going to actually get 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.880 any kind of functional resistance to what's happening, what does 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.400 that look like? And it doesn't look like the same 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.240 cruise of people doing the same thing that they did 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.280 four or five years ago, Which is why I've got 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.520 some hope in the fact that you've got a different 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.600 crowd of people who are radicalizing and taking to the streets. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.880 And you know, we federal employees federal employees, right, and 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.440 you've got a lot of like or former Yeah, most 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.760 of them are still current, but you know it's a 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.480 mix of former and current federal employees. These are these 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.080 are the people who do a lot of the nuts 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.080 and bolts stuff at the Office of Personnel Management, Office 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.400 Management Budget like. These are the people who like make 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.200 keep things functioning at like a ground level, and a 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:14.920 lot of them are are pissed off in a way 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.880 that I don't think we have really seen before. And 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.560 I think there's a potential And who's to say, Like 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.080 right now, we just had a big protest in front 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.320 of Treasury about a full city block or so of people, 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.840 many if not the vast majority of whom we're federal employees, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.199 rallying alongside a lot of Democratic members of Congress. And 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.400 you know that's not that doesn't accomplish anything on its own, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.240 but it's a potential start to accomplishing something. You know, 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.960 if you get those people out in the street, it provides, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.439 among other things, a lot of cover for everyone else. 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.800 And it also is the start of, you know, what 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.840 you might call a reverse January sixth. You know, if 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.920 January six was a bunch of random people taking an 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.480 occupying government buildings without any knowledge of what they are 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.800 or how things actually function inside of them, the kind 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.440 of thing that we might be looking at in the 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.920 near future is the opposite of that, where a bunch 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.240 of people who absolutely do know how those organizations and 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.600 buildings function trying to take and occupy them. And that's 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.760 the feeling I got because I talked to some folks 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.640 who are at the Treasury protest. One person that I 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:29.600 talked to most extensively as a federal contractor who was 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.679 present in twenty seventeen at the travel ban protests if 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.400 you remember those, which is back when Trump announced his 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.040 first Muslim bound and a bunch of people started occupying 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.240 like airports and stuff like I was at the LAX 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.920 for that. This person was at some of those protests 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.640 and it was out in front of Treasury, and the 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.360 quote that I've got from them there was I was 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.040 expecting it it being this protest, the Treasury protest to 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:53.760 feel like the travel ban protests. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:54.480 It didn't. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.319 It was a lot angrier than the travel ban protests. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.079 The travel ban protests were kind of an indefense of 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.680 another person's sort of anger, and this was narrowly focused 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.600 anger at a very specific group of people. There are 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.679 a lot of people yelling and screaming outside of their 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.160 congressman's offices and the like, and like, there hasn't been 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.000 that much disruption compared to what we're going to see, right, 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.800 Social Security payments haven't stopped going out in moss. So 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.239 if we're seeing something like this at this early stage, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.840 I think there's a lot of potential there. And the 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.040 thing this person brought up repeatedly is like when we 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.640 start seeing congressmen kicking indoors is when things are going 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.240 to get interesting. If that happens, Like that's kind of 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.800 the stage at which there's a lot of potential for 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.920 this to turn into something that could actually cause change, 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.440 Like if you actually start getting government employees who are 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.040 willing to do more than stand outside of their offices, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.920 like who are willing to take direct action to occupy 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.760 those buildings or stop other people from and you've seen 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.080 little bits of that. Right. One of the things we 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.319 did see is as these doge kids came along, federal 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.680 employees refusing them entry, keeping doors locked. Now that was 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.880 not illegal because these were literally, as it's been described 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.800 in me by multiple people, just kids showing up demanding 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.200 entry without any kind of a badge or evidence of 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.120 who they are. Right right, when you when you get 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.520 people who are willing to escalate from that and refuse entry, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.080 that's when we might actually see some things start to 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:22.440 seriously shift here. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.920 I mean based on how much of what Musk is 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.520 doing is just like bypassing Congress and doing like like 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.160 a very kind of like typical like like Ola garcic 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.320 Co coup, Like he's doing all those steps. And if 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.000 you look at like what happened in South Korea a 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.280 few months ago, we are not at the point where 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.200 congressmen are literally like like you know, climbing over like 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.040 fences barricading doorns. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.439 We're not in South Korea territory yet, but yeah, but like. 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.319 Their lawmakers like we're willing to do that. And there 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.120 is like I think waiting from people to like wait 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.280 and see if our lawmakers are going to be willing 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.240 to do the same to like protect the actual like 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:59.000 functional aspects of our government, and like things are already happening, 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.760 like we are in some ways kind of already at 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.320 this point. The USAYED website is now like completely removed, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.000 leaving only a note that claims that all personnel have 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.760 been put on administrative leave, including overseas personnel. But and 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.120 this essentially leaves a whole agency shut down, but all 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.680 done with like without an Act of Congress or even 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.160 like an overstepping executive order from Trump. It was just 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.200 it was just the unelected Elon Musk who decided to 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.160 and carried out the closure of a government agency, which 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.240 like should be like like should actually be like a 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.840 criminal like there is like statutes that are designed to 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.280 stop this from happening, just no one's enforcing them because 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.120 they control almost every aspect of government. Musk has also 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.200 closed the IRS direct file tax system, which which has 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.480 now forced taxpayers to use third party paid services, so 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.560 like he's doing this like one by one. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.120 I think the weakness that they have right now is 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.199 that because you're causing so much chaos, because they're you're 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.240 gonna talk about the FBI, pers they're trying to do 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.280 like you know, but the thing that they're relying on 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.400 is everyone is just going to let them in and 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:00.800 just let them get walked over. But it's like, Okay, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.680 the thing about acting this muscleside the law is what 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.000 guys with guns do you have who you can use 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.119 to enforce this. That's the thing where it's it's legitimately 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.880 like if theyre's serious resistance to them, they might start 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:16.199 to crumple. Because the reason you work inside of the 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.720 legal order or you have your own paramilitaries is so 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.920 that you can have like the guy with the gun 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.680 to make you open the door. And the more people 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.600 who are willing to just be like no, fuck you 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.679 like and like force them to actually like find guys 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:30.679 with guns who're willing to. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.840 Do this, the odds are lower that you get a 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:38.800 positive shift because people engage directly and aggressively with the cops. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.839 Then you have when some sort of like mid level 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.160 military functionary is asked to drive a tank over a 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:49.000 school teacher, right Like, Historically, historically, if you look at 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.480 when regimes fall, that happens more often than the waving 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.840 a flag on top of like a pile of corpses. Yeah, right, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.480 Like demands are ordered illegal illegal orders are given to 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.520 people with guns, and they're like, no, I'm not going 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.240 to shoot at a bunch of teachers today. That's not the 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.480 only way this kind of thing happens, but at least, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.240 like for my money, that's the likeliest positive outcome, right, Yeah. 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.240 And if you look at the last world historical empire 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.400 run by it incredibly unpopular geneotocracy, it was the Soviets, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:17.959 and look at how they fell apart. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.040 That's that's more or less what happened. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.680 Yeah, yeah, And like it's interesting that if we use 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.880 a Bavarian definition of the state like that has the 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.560 monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, right, that they've 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.880 dismantled their apparatus for state violence as well. And this 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.360 could just be like the blunt instrument of apparently offering 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.160 every federal employee I know. I've heard that they've tried 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.920 to unretire Worldland firefighters who accepted their offer of retirement. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:48.760 It's extremely funny, but like it's it's very Yeah, if 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.440 you're going to work, you're going to retire a bunch 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.640 of FBI agents or fire them because, like Mia said, 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.680 they are going to need hitters. They're going to need 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.640 to use coercive force at some point, possibly very soon, Yeah, 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.120 to get what they want to do done. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.480 And I think when it comes to that, the question 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.840 is like which hitters, Yeah, because the FBI and the CIA, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.720 I mean are getting are getting gutted at the moment 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.920 right now. Like so you're looking at like in the NSA, 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:20.680 you're looking at local police, Federal Protective Services, Department of 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.560 Homeland Security, you know, and the marshals, right like like 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.960 these are kind of like the shooters Trump has to 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.240 play with, and the military will remain an open question 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.640 until the critical moment, right Yeah. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.040 I mean, FPS is infinitely expandable and it's mostly contract 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.360 through wordman. I aspect about it before, but like that's 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.160 the one that has a lot of potential to grow. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.280 And I think within local especially sheriff's departments, you got 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.320 some people who weren't bat annihilateding some of those. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.480 Oh no, no, no, absolutely not. And I do think that, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:55.040 like sheriff's departments are kind of what haunt me the most. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.240 But that's also it's not purely a matter of like 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.120 which agencies and organizations are going to back Trump in 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.720 this it's also a matter of like geographic location and DC. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.200 In DC, at least he can count on a lot 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.720 less of those guys because like the Capitol Police aren't 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:14.640 thrilled right now. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.320 You know, essentially what Elon is doing right now is 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.960 exactly what he did to Twitter, except to the entire 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.200 United States of America. And like, by the end of 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.240 this process, it still might function on some level, right, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.720 Like Twitter still kind of functions, but it's just worse 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.360 in every way. It's worse. It doesn't have the quote 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.560 unquote good features it used to. It's it's buggy, it's 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.240 full of Nazis. It's just it's it sucks more Like 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.800 the previous version was was already bad and harmful, but 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.080 the new one is just worse without the aspects that 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.520 made it semi worthwhile. And like I'm going to do 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.240 an episode like next week, like kind of about this, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:56.080 like specifically and how Musk is twitterifying the entire government 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.880 using like all of the same tactics, like refusing to 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:03.120 pay leases on buildings, installing beds in agency headquarters to 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.679 make employees sleep there overnight, having teenagers review code of 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.320 like long standing employees. It's the exact same process. And 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.919 if you didn't like what happened to Twitter, that process 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.600 is now happening to the government itself. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:18.800 I can't wait for the I R s to send 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.240 me a letter saying my pussy and bio like that. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.480 That will be Hey, now now you've now you've gotten 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.800 me back on the Trump trained you know what. I'm 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.920 peacing out for the day. I'm on board. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:31.200 Now. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:33.760 Before we close the segment and pivot to adds, I 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.800 do want to shout out the work that Wired is 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:36.400 doing right now. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:36.720 Man. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.199 Yeah, Wired magazine is doing for some fantastic reporting on this. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.920 The DC Attorney is currently promising and to go after 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.439 individuals who post about Doge employees. They might end up 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.920 going after some of these Wired journalists who identified this 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.600 gen Z Doge team that is wreaking havoc throughout the 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.399 government with no oversight. Wired provided what should be you know, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:03.440 legally required and necessary identification of public workers who Musk 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.200 is trying to keep secret. The DC Attorney, and like 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.520 Trump's DOJ, is very mad about that. They might end 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.440 up like going after these people. But fantastic work coming 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.640 out of Wired right now. If you want to keep 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.080 up to date on Musk's takeover. I strongly recommend checking 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.399 out their work. I'll post some of those in the 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.280 sources below. Let's go on a quick ad break and 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.000 then come back to talk about the continuing kind of 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:43.120 fake trade wars and immigration sick. All right, we're back. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.080 I'm going to pivot towards James and Mia to discuss 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.480 tariffs and immigration take it away. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:52.480 Yeah, So on Monday, Trump sort of averted the market 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.520 collapse that he had set off with his declaration that 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.320 they are going to be twenty five percent tariffs on 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.480 all goods and hanna in Mexico and also ten percent 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.480 tariff on China. So let's let's go into like what 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.560 actually happened. So the tariffs on Mexico and Canada are 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.840 on hold for a month. However, the ten percent tariff 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.000 on all Chinese goods did go into effect, and we'll 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:18.280 get some more about what that's going to do in 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:23.280 a second. But much more importantly, Trump eliminated the Deminimus exception, 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.200 which allowed like people and companies to ship goods from 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.439 China that were worth under eight hundred dollars and not 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.919 have to go through the formal customs process and you know, 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.000 pay tariffs on it and also have to spend all 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.879 of that time paperwork and shit. And before we get 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:40.680 into the sort of devastating effect this is going to 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.320 have on businesses, I want to make it clear that, 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.560 like regular people in China used this to send things 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.040 to people in the US, Like that's a that's a 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:49.840 very normal thing. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.560 Yeah, that is now really really difficult. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.399 And about a third of YouTube ads are supported by 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.280 people who run companies that make use of this loophole. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.600 Yeah, okay, So on the business side, this is actually 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.240 really interesting because I think it's one of the I mean, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:06.879 not the first, but I think it's going to be 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.119 a very very early example of Trump completely fucking a 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.879 base that's been very very supportive of him, because this 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.960 is going to liquidate huge portions of the drop shippy economy, right, 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.960 like all of the stupid YouTube shirts, like all of 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.760 that stuff is just going to be annihilated. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.200 Can you explain drop shipping if people aren't familiar mere 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:26.919 just like ten second versions. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.879 Yeah, so drop shipping is a thing where you do 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:34.080