Speaker 1: Can you point out, Steve is that people should have optimism.
Speaker 1: They should know that, you know, the the reaction against
Speaker 1: what is happening is stronger than the administration and what
Speaker 1: they're doing. And it's really important to have days like
Speaker 1: that where people see each other face to face, not
Speaker 1: on substack, not on on social media, and are reminded
Speaker 1: about the power of the network that has formed to
Speaker 1: oppose what's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now there's a lot of joy. I was out
Speaker 2: in Iowa City for a football game and did the
Speaker 2: note things protests out there, and uh, it was great.
Speaker 2: People inflatable dinosaur costumes and bear costumes and you know,
Speaker 2: marching a lot of American flags, all of it, all
Speaker 2: of it peaceful, and you know, reinforces three things that
Speaker 2: are of supreme importance for people to to to get one.
Speaker 2: There are more of us than there are of them, right,
Speaker 2: I will say that again, there are there are more
Speaker 2: of us than there are of them, and and do
Speaker 2: not be afraid of them. They can't shove all of
Speaker 2: us into an iceman. And then just the way you
Speaker 2: said it about the joy, it's such a contrast and
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know how else to say this.
Speaker 2: Except to express it in my native uh colloquial Patois
Speaker 2: of central New Jersey. But whether it's Pam Bondi or Christineo,
Speaker 2: or the thug Tom Holman, or the wack job sector
Speaker 2: chief Den Baveno or Cash patl or Caln Levitt, they
Speaker 2: are a collection of the most miserable motherfuckers that I
Speaker 2: have ever seen, snarl sneering, nasty, deranged, fucking vicious for
Speaker 2: no reason, no paw. And you got there's twenty seven
Speaker 2: or twenty eight year old child married to a senior
Speaker 2: citizen every day, every day along with the Speaker of
Speaker 2: the House, defaming half the country. Fuck you, all right,
Speaker 2: every one of you? All right, that we're on American
Speaker 2: we're traders, were this or that? The abuse of power
Speaker 2: these people, the pointing of the weapons at American citizens
Speaker 2: by Trump's secret police, all right, it was it was
Speaker 2: a national day of go fuck yourself. And I don't
Speaker 2: mean that in the way that it's used by Maga
Speaker 2: the rattlesnake and is in iconic American aw and it's
Speaker 2: on some of the earliest flegs. Don't tread on me
Speaker 2: that you're sending the army to Chicago and threatening San Francisco,
Speaker 2: and after scores of millions March release of video of
Speaker 2: the president as a demented king flying a plane dumping
Speaker 2: shit on half the country. But how dare these people,
Speaker 2: how dare they desecrating these offices, these institutions that belonged
Speaker 2: to us, belongs to us? And what this weekend was
Speaker 2: about was a natural dose of Penicellan against Cynesis, against insanity,
Speaker 2: and against these sneering assholes who got a lick of
Speaker 2: power incompletely totally, absolutely lost their minds with it.
Speaker 1: Well, so what do we make of this video? This
Speaker 1: is a classic Trump thing where you do something that
Speaker 1: is so distasteful, so unlike any elect what any elected official,
Speaker 1: let alone the president of the United States would do
Speaker 1: a new low, as I think some people in the
Speaker 1: comments are pointing to it, and yet in some ways
Speaker 1: totally predictable and unsurprising, because he has total contempt for
Speaker 1: anyone who opposes him and doesn't care that he's actually
Speaker 1: the president of every American and pays doesn't even pay
Speaker 1: lip service to the idea that he represents everyone. Even Nixon,
Speaker 1: even presidents that hated their enemies, never would have governed
Speaker 1: the way that he does for just his base, for
Speaker 1: just the Americans that actually support him, and hold total
Speaker 1: contempt for everyone else. And so on the one hand,
Speaker 1: you see the MAGA defenders, who will obviously defend anything
Speaker 1: he does, say, oh, it's just a joke, this is
Speaker 1: just funny. He's you know, literally shit posting. This is
Speaker 1: you know, why can't y'all take a joke. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, again, just to go back to the test
Speaker 1: I always apply to these things, is what if this
Speaker 1: were happening in another country? What if you saw, given
Speaker 1: what's happened since January in this other country, and then
Speaker 1: you read in the paper that the leader who's already
Speaker 1: taking troops from donor states willing to supply them, and
Speaker 1: sending them into the cities of states where the leadership
Speaker 1: doesn't want them, who's militarizing city, who's threatening to impose
Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act, on and on and on, totally destroyed
Speaker 1: the independence of the Justice Department, and weaponized federal agencies
Speaker 1: against companies and media organizations that criticize him, kicked the
Speaker 1: reporters out of the Pentagon, snatching people off the street
Speaker 1: and sending them to gulags. That whole litany of things
Speaker 1: shutting down the government and using it as a excuse
Speaker 1: to purge the workforce and do things that are illegal
Speaker 1: during previous government shutdowns. And then you saw that the
Speaker 1: largest protests in American history, according to one estimate by
Speaker 1: forgetting our colleague on subjects strength in numbers, largest protests
Speaker 1: in American history, political protests, the asterisk there's Earth Day.
Speaker 1: The Earth Day protests might have been bigger, but not
Speaker 1: explicitly political. And then you see that the leader of
Speaker 1: that country, his response was to post a video of
Speaker 1: him in a fighter jet dumping shit on his own people.
Speaker 1: If this were happening elsewhere, we would be talking about
Speaker 1: whether we should intervene. We would be talking about how
Speaker 1: our State Department should be going to the UN or
Speaker 1: you know, making sure that there were international election monitors
Speaker 1: in the next election. We would have warnings about traveling
Speaker 1: to that country. The level of alarm if this were
Speaker 1: another country and we were watching it would be, you know,
Speaker 1: at eleven. And yet I have seen zero condemnation of
Speaker 1: this from a single Republican elected a FA. And then
Speaker 1: of course Jade Vance does something just as disgusting on
Speaker 1: Blue Sky. So we're living in this bizarre world of
Speaker 1: where the president and the vice presidents have taken on
Speaker 1: the tactics of what started in twenty sixteen with the
Speaker 1: most atrocious people on the internet, and when these people
Speaker 1: are all now elected and running the government. But ten
Speaker 1: years ago, when we were watching this come from the
Speaker 1: right to this kind of ship posting right where everything
Speaker 1: was sort of ironic, it was just sort of right
Speaker 1: wing irony.
Speaker 2: We were all.
Speaker 1: Sort of mystified, disgusted by it. These same people have
Speaker 1: now accepted that as the norm and are running the
Speaker 1: country as you know, late teens right wing ship posters.
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