WEBVTT - Biden's Title 42 Plot to Make the Border Worse 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:08.119 Cause media. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:13.360 Hello, Hello Mia, Hello you lot. Hello podcast fans, This 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:15.800 is it could happen here a podcast about how the 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.280 world is falling apart and some people who are trying 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.000 to pull it back together. Today, we are not talking 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.480 about people who are pulling it back together. We are 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.920 talking about a guy who is constantly struggling to hold 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.280 it together. And that, my friends, is Joseph Robinette Biden, 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:37.400 old guy, United States President and a border fascist. And 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.080 what's happening. Why are we talking about Joseph Robinette Biden today? Well, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:46.040 because you will remember that Biden made some promises when 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.440 he was campaigning in twenty twenty, and it will shock 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.000 you to hear that he is throwing migrants under the 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.440 bus again. In an attempt to get Republicans in the 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.360 Senate to stop stamping their feet and wailing and having 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.959 a tantrum, specifically, the Senate failed to pass an immensely 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.520 spending bill which would find military Among other things, it 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.920 would fund military a to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel. And 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.800 the reason they did that is because these Republicans are 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:15.800 having a little tantrum about quote unquote border security. Border 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.240 security probably doesn't mean what you think it means. In 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:24.280 practical terms, what border security means is killing more innocent people, 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.600 more people who are fleeing the worst things that are 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.080 happening in this world. At our southern border. It is 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:34.440 making America a more deadly place for the most desperate 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.160 people on earth. That is what border security means. That 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.479 is what I want you to think of when you 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.360 hear people saying we should secure our border, because the 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:49.480 people you're securing it against are the Azidi mother I 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.760 saw carrying her children to try and come to a 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:59.920 safer place. They are the Afghan grandmother who I saw 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.640 walking through the mountains last weekend. Those are the people 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:10.880 who we're securing our border against. Right, And this is sorry, 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.880 This just pisses me off to an unfathomable degree for 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.000 many of you. But the reason we're talking about this 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.560 today is because whatever happens at the border, right, whatever 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.919 policy we have at the border migration won't change because 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:28.040 what people are leaving is worse than that, and so 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.040 they will still come here because they believe the lies 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.120 in America tells the world, and it tells its citizens 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.600 about itself too, that this is a safe place. And 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.400 for some people that has been a safe place, and 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:42.680 that's a good thing. But what will change is how 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.639 people are treated when they get here, because what Biden 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.680 has proposed is a return to Title forty two. I 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.320 made a whole series on Title forty two that you 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.480 can listen to. But what he's proposing this time is 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.720 a very similar policy by which the border patrol agent 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.760 who meets people after they cross the border in between 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.440 to entry can send them directly back to Mexico without 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.079 them having a chance for an asylum hearing. Right, this 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:10.040 is illegal under international law and parts of the US law. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.400 It's not clear what Biden's proposing or what the administration 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.760 is proposing to do about it. Maybe they could change 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.000 the immigration law. They could probably get enough vote for that, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.480 given that people in Congress seem to care very little 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.200 about migrants. But this isn't a well fleft out proposal. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.480 But what it very clearly shows, right, is the intent 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.800 to throw some of the most desperate people on earth, 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.160 and that is It's disgusting, it's ab horror, and it 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:38.840 shouldn't be unexpected either. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.240 The executive is a branch in democratic control that is 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.080 utterly incapable of helping a single person. But has the immense, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.600 terrible and powerful authority to kill any person on earth, 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:53.200 and then secondarily to I'm just going to call it, 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:58.480 effectively perform ethnic cleansings by continually removing populations from the US. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.640 They could just do this, Yeah, and they used the 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.640 executive for yes it is yeah, yeah, yeah. They have 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.400 never once waived that executive power in defense of the 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.800 little guy or people who desperately needed help. It would 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.640 seem certainly not in the last couple of administrations shouts 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.080 or the former Obama administration staffords by the way, for 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.120 showing their whole ass by the screaming racist shit at 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.120 Muslim people in the last few weeks for people who 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.679 hadn't already kind of worked out how terrible the Obama 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.880 administration's policy was. So I want to talk a little 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.200 bit about the things that they're trying to do. So 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.240 the first and foremost would be allowing border patrol to 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.280 summarily expel migrants. Let me explain to you exactly how 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.919 fucking stupid this thing is. I was present with a 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.440 border patrol agent last week who was trying to discern 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.120 who was a child or not. Who was hampered in 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.520 this by not being able to count in Spanish. Border 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.720 patrol agents do take a Spanish class in their academy, right, 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.800 but how the fuck are we expect this guy to 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.279 discern the veracity of someone's asylum claim when he can't 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:09.960 count to eighteen? Like this person right under this proposed 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:19.440 democratic proposal would have the effectively life or death choice 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.800 of whether someone can make an asylum claim or they 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.560 get immediately bounce back to Mexico. Right, this person would, 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.560 for instance, have the choice to send a trans woman 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.320 who would not be safe quote unquote remaining in Mexico 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.719 while she applied for asylum here back to Mexico to 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.520 apply for asylum here. Right, this person will be able 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.160 to send someone who has very credible fears of violence 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.640 in Mexico back to Mexico where they often have no network, 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:52.080 they have no resources. It once again be putting the 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.240 strain of our foreign policy and the fucked up shit 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.719 we've done all around the world that has destabilized regimes, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.400 specifically across South Marica, but also all around the world. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.200 As a consequence of that, people aren't safe there. They're 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.400 coming here to find safety, and we're placing it in 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.840 the hands of a random border patrol agent who may 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.320 very well not speak the language. You understand anything they're 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.039 saying to bounce them back. That's not how we should 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.000 do think. I think it probably goes without saying. They 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.640 also want to begin a process of what's called expedited removal. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.880 This allows immigration officials to deport people without court hearings 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.360 if they don't ask for asylum or if they fail 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:36.719 their initial asylum interview. Again like this treating of people 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.560 seeking asylum like they don't have rights or right like 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:44.120 they have to they're guilty and to proven innocent almost 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.880 in this system, right and to be proven to get 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.920 these court hearings. To do well in these court inks, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.240 they need money. They need lawyers. Those lawyers can cost 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.960 anywhere from six to twelve thousand dollars from what I've heard. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.280 But these people aren't allowed to work in the United States. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.839 We're creating a de factor system the privileges wealthier migrants. Right, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.440 ten twelve thousand United States dollars is a lot of 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.080 money if you're coming from large parts of the world, 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.280 we're weighing so much lower. So having that kind of 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.520 money isn't something that people who may be in desperate 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.440 need of help would have. For instance, yesterday I was 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.440 speaking to a USD family is ed. However you want 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.200 to say it who people will be familiar with the 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.720 way their community was treated by isis right. Some of 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:36.960 the worst genocidal and misogynist violence that we've seen this 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.360 century was enounted upon that community. They're coming to the 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:44.640 United States to be safe, and I don't think those 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.560 people would have had the money to get together for 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.960 a hearing. Right, they speak Kurdish. I've never encountered about 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.880 a patrol agent who speaks Kurdish. Right, So they would 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.840 have to make their claim on arrival. They could be 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:03.280 immediately rejected. They could if they fail their asylum interview, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.360 they could be placed in this expedited removal process, by 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.800 which they wouldn't have a right to a court hearing, 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.720 a lawyer or translator, all those things. And the final 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.080 thing that they've indicated that they want to do, and 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.800 I think this is the most bizarre one, is that 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.240 they have decided that they want to mandate the detention 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:28.600 of certain migrants while their claims are adjudicated. This one, 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.480 it seems like obviously like a massive concession to this 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.080 sort of insane Republican right wing sort of demand that 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:37.880 we criminalize all asylum seekers. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.960 And I think which I want to say something like 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.000 for a second about this too, because like, yeah, you know, 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.800 one of the ways that all this whole anti migranting 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.199 has ramped up, like when I was a kid, like 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.120 because there was you know, I was like growing up 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.640 when this this first sort of like anti immigration hysteria 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.960 was like ramping up. And back then the hysteria was 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.880 illegal immigration. It's like this stuff is all legal, Like 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.200 you have the legal like these are literally people doing 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:08.040 legal immigration. Yeah, they and we're just here now where 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:09.640 it's like no, like like you try you, if you 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.800 attempt to come into the US legally, we are going 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.239 to fucking put you in a camp. Like it's fucking insane. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.280 It's like like this is shit that like even like 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.040 fifteen years ago, people would have been like what the 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.680 fuck are you talking about. But the way that the 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.280 way that this has been accelerated, and this is something 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.280 that's you know, like the fact that Biden is fucking 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.319 just like just going like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:31.760 should this is this is fine, Like we're gonna do 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.440 like this is this is stuff that would have been 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.480 unimaginable for a Republican president in the two thousands. Yeah. Like, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:39.640 the thing about this too is that none of this 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.080 would have been possible without democratic implicity. This is this 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.200 is this way this system has worked this entire time. Right, 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:45.760 is the reason they called a bomb of the Deporter 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.040 in chief because he was the guy who could could 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.520 have actually turned the tide against this stuff and just 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.240 didn't and was just like, fuck you, We're gonna deport 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.600 millions of people. And that's that's how we're fucking here 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.520 with this shit over again. People who are literally coming 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.920 to the country legally, which is what all these people said, 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.280 spent all this fucking time saying you're supposed to be doing. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.840 Yeah, I mean, I think the claim of it by 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.199 the administration is I don't fucking know, Like they want 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.320 people to use CBP one, right, CBP one is the 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:19.840 biggest fucking disaster in applications. I can't think of anything. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:21.920 I don't know. It's like as bad as fucking Testa's 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.240 auto pilot. If Testa's auto pilot got to decide your 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:28.280 whole future, right, every single person I have met at 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.280 the Southern border has tried CBP one. People aren't. Like, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.160 No one wants to pay someone to drive them off 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.280 road across the desert to a shitty hole in the 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:44.360 wall in the middle of the freezing mountain range eighty 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.000 miles east of here, and then to sit with their 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:52.400 children while it rains, snows, freezes and wait for one, two, 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:57.120 three nights in this shitty conditions with maybe a con 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.079 tent that we dumps to dive from a Susan g 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.200 comen event, right, or maybe if they're really lucky, like 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.440 a yurt that me and my friends built from palaps, right. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.560 And no one in their right mind would want to 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.199 do that. These people don't want to do that. They've 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:15.240 tried fucking CBP one. Most of them who I have 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.040 spoken to are carrying visa rejection letters, right. They've been 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.920 to embassies all around the world, have just been summarily dismissed. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.959 They don't give a reason for rejecting your visa, right, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.640 and they've exhausted all their options. No one wants to 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.520 spend their life savings and walk across the desert. It's dangerous, right, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.760 but that is the only way they can do it. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.400 And as you say, it is perfectly legal to enter 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.600 the country between ports of entry and immediately surrender to 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.559 the first law enforcement agent you see to claim asylum. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.160 That that is how one claims asylum when one is 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.120 fleeing persecution. And when we have shut the door through 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.480 this stupid app that only recognizes white faces and crashes 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.319 all the time and isn't in most languages, and it's 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.840 entirely understandable that people have taken this route. We have 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.719 cooked the bottler of migration and then shaken it up 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.520 right for three years with the title forty two, which 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.439 is this Trump era policy that co opted the COVID pandemic, 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.040 which they allowed to rip through large segments of the 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.280 United States community and pretended that by expelling migrants who 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:27.280 are protecting us. It didn't have any provisions for vaccination, 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.280 it didn't have any COVID testing. It was just a 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.960 cynical attempt to use the pandemic. And we've seen through 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.480 public records request is something they've planned long in advance 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.480 to evict people from this country without giving them a 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.280 chance of an asylum hearing, and now Biden is doing 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.520 it without even the pretense of an excuse. Right at 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.840 least Trump made up some bullshit. It was transparent. But 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:55.200 Biden isn't even bothering to do that, and he's just 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.160 going to boot these people back into a place where 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.760 they're going to be vulnerable. I've spoken to migrants who 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.680 have been abused, who have been robbed in Mexico. It's 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.040 it's not a safe place of vulnerable people. And the 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.240 more vulnerable people you put into it, they're less safe. 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.120 It's going to get and nor is it. Mexico's a 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.240 fucking problem, right, Like Henry Kissinger didn't fucking run Mexican 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.440 policy and then get to live to one hundred and 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.319 die in's bed, right, It's it's a lot of these 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.840 countries people are coming from, they're coming from because we 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.640 fucked up their policy as a country. We fucked up 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.840 their future, right. We we did this neoclonial thing where 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.480 we stole everything we thought was a value. We imposed 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:38.080 dictators upon them when they chose socialist or more progressive regimes, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.400 and then we'd split our hands up in the air 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.360 and said no, you can't come here to no space. Sorry, 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.360 And it's it's fucking inexcusable and it's imhorrent me. Do 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.480 you know what else is inexcusable? And abhorrent? 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.520 Is it the products and services that it is? 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:58.840 Mar Yeah, yes, the products and services that we so 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.600 greatly love. Oh hang on, I got something say about 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.040 the fucking products and services. We're doing this now because 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.680 we've got time. There was an advert for Novo nordisking 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.520 our podcast the other day, and I just want to 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.920 take this opportunity to say an extra special fuck you 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.640 to them, because I have held in my hand as 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.000 a little fucking children who have died because they can't 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.920 afford insulin. And the reason they have died is because 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.000 these fucking ghouls want to extract every penny out of 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.720 those of us who have diabetes. So I'm sorry that 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.960 you heard those adverts and you won't ever again. But 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:44.480 here's some other adverts we are back without, hopefully adverts 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.880 for evil pharmaceutical companies. It's me and Meir, and we're 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.200 talking about Joe Brandon and his terrible immigration policy. So 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.920 the final part of this, and perhaps the most bizarre one, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.760 is that the White House but mandating the detention of 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:06.080 these migrants pending their claims. The US has never had 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:11.120 enough enough detention space to do this, and we don't now. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.680 It remains extremely fucking unclear how this will be done. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.240 I will say that there was a big fuss made 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.520 me and maybe remember this that Biden was canceling private 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.160 prison contracts when he first came into office. Do you 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:30.040 remember his executive order on this vaguely? Yeah, yeah, I 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.400 think it got a lot of attention. That may have 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.600 specifically applied to people who are in federal criminal incarceration. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.200 It's certainly never applied to people seeking asylum because those 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.400 people have always been detained by third party contractors like 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.640 cour Civic Right, and they continue to be so on 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.840 the the Biden administration because again right, it is seemingly 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.160 the implicit policy of the Democratic Party that these people 0:15:55.280 --> 0:16:00.880 are of less value and have fewer rights than US 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:05.800 citizens or then people seeking permanent restudency in this country 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:06.720 through other means. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.920 You know. One of the things I was, I was 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.400 doing this for other reasons, for not this story, but 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.080 I was going back through and I was reading the 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.840 the Democratic Party platform from twenty twenty and if you 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.400 go back and read the Democratic Party platform from twenty 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.240 twenty eight, the opening thing is them talking about the 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.520 like how they're they're when they're in power, they're gonna 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.960 do us need to dismantle structure and racism in this country? 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:34.200 Fuck me? 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.280 And it's like my ass, Like, and this is one 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.800 of these these really really sort of grim things about this, right, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:49.160 is like the Democrats really really cynically capitalized off of, like, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.800 like people's revulsion at the fucking horrible suffus doing it 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.440 at the border, and then they got into power, they 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.040 did all of the same shit, and nobody fucking cares 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.720 now because that's that's literally what the Democrats are there for, right. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:04.119 They're there to diffuse people's ability, capacity and desire to 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.600 resist doing the exact same fucking things Republicans are doing. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.199 And it's really effective. And the consequence of this is 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.480 that now we're fucking here with like trying to bring 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.960 fucking the same shit Trump was doing back. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.520 Yeah, and you're right, like so many people poured so 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:26.040 much rage and passion into like I'm sure you can 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.160 remember the whole no more kids in kGy thing, Yeah, 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:29.640 I will. 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.560 I will say this. I was always kind of cynical 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.000 about that because I remember Occupy Ice. Now, I remember 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:36.840 all those fucking liberals who told me they'd be marching 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.119 in the streets just fucking abandoning us and leaving us 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.440 to like deal with the fucking cops on our own. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:43.520 So like I think, I think it is like there's 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.880 been a sort of mythologization to some extent of how 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:47.840 willing people were to actually do shit it or Trump, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.479 but they sure is fuck not here under Biden. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.480 So then yeah, there ain't no one in the streets 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.200 saying no more kids in cages now, right, Like they're 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:00.800 not here for the little children I've met, you know, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.720 day in day out for the last six months, who 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.000 are going to be detained, who might be separated for 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:06.760 their families. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.480 Yeah, and I want to this is kind of off 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.119 topic too, but like, so this is this is a story, 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:14.840 Like at some point I'm going to do an actual 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:19.200 episode about this. There's been I've been I've been trying 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.400 to get to talk to people about this for a bit. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.879 But so there's been a whole bunch of shit with 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.159 a lot of So one of the subsequent things that 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.760 was happening with all these people is that like the 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.160 government in Texas has been like shipping them to random cities. Yes, 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.560 so a bunch of people have been shipped to Chicago, 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.119 and it turned and there there eventually were protests here, 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:43.560 but like our fucking progressive mayor tried to have a 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.439 basically a concentration camp company set up like a camp 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.679 for these people on land that it turned out have 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:55.760 been a toxic waste dump and only just didn't do 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.679 I I don't even think he ever backed up the 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.919 a story years kind of. I think what happened, if 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.680 I'm remembering correctly, is that the governor was like, like 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.560 pritz Crew was like, what the fuck are you doing? 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.600 You can't have this stuff beyond a toxic waste site. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.920 But so that's like temporarily to stopped. Like that's that's 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.359 the kind of shit that's happening, like in you know, 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:20.480 like like Brandon Johnson like nominally is one of the 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.520 most left wing mayors in the US, And this is 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.879 what is fucking happening even in this from of the 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.199 sort of progressive wing the Democratic Party, like the concern 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:33.040 like the Joe Biden conservative wing is like even worse 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:34.760 than this stuff. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.639 Yeah, and like the entire Democratic Party in so much 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.680 as has and there was a time when it genuinely 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.080 did show up for people trying to come to this 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.359 country to seek asylum at least it wouldn't. This is 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.879 like the immigration system is like a ratchet and it 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.720 only moved to the right, and the democratic government it 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.440 wouldn't move to the right. It does now. And this 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:03.840 means something. There is not an electoral option for you, right, 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.280 You cannot just vote if you give a single fuck 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.720 about innocent people living outside of this country wanting to 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.240 come here and be safe. You don't. There is nothing 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.960 on the ballot box for you to tick that represents 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.080 a serious option. And that's sad. Yeah, it's a pretty 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.960 fucked reflection of our electoral politics. But I think it 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:28.359 also impels us to like, look, look as someone who 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.639 believes that there is not a ballot box option that 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:34.000 is going to deliver us a system with dignity and 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:39.720 democracy and justice. Anyway, I think this is where we 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.720 have to step up and do the stuff that we 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.280 always talk about. Like this happened a little bit in 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.080 twenty twenty, it happened a little bit under Trump, but 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.520 like now more than ever, the need to do mutual aid, 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.800 especially for migrants, but also for in house people within 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.920 your community, for all the fucking human detritus of Joe 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:04.119 Biden's dogshit, evenance, it's right now, and like it is, 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.720 as I've seen personally, within the power of a very 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:09.720 small group of people to impact the lives of a 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.800 very large group of people through organizing. I've participated in 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.679 mutual aid for a while. I'm sure many of the 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:18.800 people are listening have as well. But like if you, 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.960 if you haven't found the play or the way to 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.359 do so, like it's it's a great time to start 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.920 organizing something. The options in the next electoral cycle are 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:32.960 that things get worse or that things get much worse. 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.680 I don't think we have an option which is dismantling 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:41.480 the structural racism that is within the United States, or 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.719 even just not punching down on some of the most 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.400 vulnerable people in the world. It would appear, and so 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:51.000 to protect those people, it falls upon our communities, And 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.000 that's that's a big burden to shoulder, right. When the 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:57.640 state has enough money to send one thousand pound bomb 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.320 state Israel, that means that we have to pay for 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:02.480 beans for hungry children. Yeah. 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:05.000 Well, And I mean the thing that this too, right 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.399 is like if you if you spent the amount of 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.000 money that the US was spending on trying to keep 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.919 Ale out of the country, on just like giving like 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.360 if you just gave that money to the same those 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:19.680 same people, we wouldn't be having this problem right now. 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:22.840 Like it isn't like putting people in a prison is 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:25.560 like the least cost efficient way to do possibly do anything, 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:29.640 And it doesn't matter because the whole point of this, 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:31.159 like and this is one of these things with this 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:33.119 sort of ratchet, right is eventually you're gonna get to 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:37.080