Speaker 1: Cool media.
Speaker 2: This is it could happen here. Executive Disorder, our weekly
Speaker 2: newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world,
Speaker 2: and what it means for you. I'm Garrison Davis today.
Speaker 2: I'm joined by Mia Wong, James Stout, and Robert Evans.
Speaker 2: This week we're covering the week of April third to
Speaker 2: April ninth. We have we have recovered from the Liberation day,
Speaker 2: fully liberated. Yeah, and now the economy is back to normal.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, everything's really good. Everyone's four oh one k's
Speaker 3: have been normal and stable and stable and stable. That's
Speaker 3: what's important. Just line go up. The economy runs from stability.
Speaker 3: I mean one of the things the line did was
Speaker 3: go up. So yeah, lines, God, why should anyone complain? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, line's gone in a few different directions this week.
Speaker 3: Among the different directions the line went up, was you
Speaker 3: know a portion of that time?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, durrection that hasn't gone is left. I guess
Speaker 4: which you know we're waiting for that one.
Speaker 3: And related news, A dead cat can bounce. I don't
Speaker 3: know why they picked the cat for the dead animal
Speaker 3: to bounce to refer to that stock market term, but.
Speaker 4: I think this is a term that's new to Garrison,
Speaker 4: just judging by the facial expression.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't know what that is. So basically, when
Speaker 3: when a stock price for a company or whatever collapses
Speaker 3: right there will generally be it will straight a line
Speaker 3: down and then it will bump back up and it
Speaker 3: will look like it's rallying. But this isn't generally a rally.
Speaker 3: What it is is that when people like short a stock,
Speaker 3: there's a point at which they have to like buy
Speaker 3: back the share like shares, and that artificially inflates it
Speaker 3: briefly before it then begins to decline again. So it's
Speaker 3: not a real it's the result of how short selling
Speaker 3: works that there has to be this thing that makes
Speaker 3: it temporarily look like it's rallying, but that's really not
Speaker 3: what's happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm familiar with this concept.
Speaker 4: And they call it a dead cat. It's referred to
Speaker 4: as a dead cat bounce.
Speaker 5: Yere.
Speaker 3: I don't know why it's referred to as a dead
Speaker 3: cat bounce, but it is.
Speaker 6: Stockbro because are not normal people then why these these
Speaker 6: are Wall Street guys. One of them has probably done
Speaker 6: it like that's that's probably why it's called that, Like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've thrown a lot of corpses at a lot
Speaker 3: of things and they don't really bounce.
Speaker 2: Speaking of corpses, Robert, you have some exciting news on
Speaker 2: the army.
Speaker 4: To pronounce Col Garrison.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes. The good news is the army is going
Speaker 3: to be more lethal and efficient than ever before, which
Speaker 3: President Trump announced while sitting in the White House next
Speaker 3: to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net and Yahoo, who had
Speaker 3: to take roughly at twice the length of trip he
Speaker 3: normally has to take to go here because so many
Speaker 3: countries that he would normally fly over or stop in
Speaker 3: have arrest warrants out for him. For all of the
Speaker 3: war cries. Oh, we love to see it, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's not about the journey. It's about you know, the
Speaker 3: people you journey too. And Netanyahoo met with Trump, you know,
Speaker 3: someone whom he clearly feels very safe, and you know,
Speaker 3: I dare I say loving with and the two of
Speaker 3: them shared the most intimate bond that two elderly men
Speaker 3: who have committed war crimes can share, which is announcing
Speaker 3: a record budget for the United States military of one
Speaker 3: trillion dollars. Well, I should say, Trump stated it would
Speaker 3: be in the vicinity of one trillion dollars. Now does
Speaker 3: that mean possibly that very little is changing about the
Speaker 3: military budget. Yes, it does, and we'll get to that
Speaker 3: in a second. Hag Seth, our Secretary of Defense, made
Speaker 3: a post on Twitter right after saying Trump is rebuilding
Speaker 3: our military and fast. He also really bragged about that
Speaker 3: trillion dollar amount and said, ps, we intend to spend
Speaker 3: every tax payer dollar wisely on lethality and readiness. Now
Speaker 3: here's the thing. Trillion dollars shitload of money. Current amount
Speaker 3: of funding allocated to national defense programs eight hundred and
Speaker 3: ninety two billion dollars, so trillion dollars about a ten
Speaker 3: percent bump right for you know, the national defense programs.
Speaker 3: But it's actually unclear the way in which he phrased
Speaker 3: things and the way in which we like talk about
Speaker 3: the funding for national security, this could mean that basically
Speaker 3: the military will have pretty much the same, you know,
Speaker 3: something of an increase but not a mass, not really
Speaker 3: a significant difference from what it has now, and there
Speaker 3: will be more money into other defense related programs. So
Speaker 3: this is not like as massive a thing as it
Speaker 3: might necessarily sound like. I think one thing that's sort
Speaker 3: of significant here is like how this comports with the
Speaker 3: way a lot of the folks and what we'll call
Speaker 3: the shit had left had talked about where there was
Speaker 3: this discussion that Trump's actually going to be you know,
Speaker 3: bad for imperialism and the war machine. And you know,
Speaker 3: there was even talk as of a couple of months
Speaker 3: ago that they were going to like half the Pentagon budget,
Speaker 3: Like you know, you know, all these whatever else happens,
Speaker 3: you know, it's worth it if the military budget comes
Speaker 3: down in this imperial juggernaut of hell gets finally neutered,
Speaker 3: and just all of those people are always wrong. They
Speaker 3: were always going to just make the army bigger. They
Speaker 3: were always going to put more money in events. They
Speaker 3: were always going to put more money into the hands
Speaker 3: of defense contractors. Like anyone who knows anything about these
Speaker 3: people or about how Republicans have worked knew that was
Speaker 3: going to happen. There was never any chance that they
Speaker 3: were going to cut the actual amount of money. Now
Speaker 3: they're probably going to cut the number of people in
Speaker 3: the military because despite what heck Seth said, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of evidence that a shitload of this is going
Speaker 3: to go towards modernization, and in fact, armed services each
Speaker 3: branch is being our arm services are all being asked
Speaker 3: to cut about eight percent of their individual budgets in
Speaker 3: order to put money into modernization efforts, which obviously any
Speaker 3: military needs to regularly modernize different systems. But this is
Speaker 3: also a thing where if your country is run entirely
Speaker 3: by grifters and conman trying to shotgun money to their
Speaker 3: political supporters, have a lot of money in different defense companies.
Speaker 3: What this means to me is you are probably going
Speaker 3: to see them continue to trim numbers of actual troops
Speaker 3: and put more money into bullshit that gets a lot
Speaker 3: of money to contractors. Yeah, that's that is my expectation.
Speaker 3: That is what I see happening. More than anything here,
Speaker 3: we'll see. But I think a lot of this additional
Speaker 3: money is going to go towards buying shit that may
Speaker 3: or may not be useful. But the primary purpose of
Speaker 3: putting the money into that shit is because somebody who
Speaker 3: is somebody gets a veig. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, if we look at fascism as a concept too,
Speaker 4: it kind of it has this troubled relationship with modernity,
Speaker 4: but one of the things it likes to do is
Speaker 4: flex it's new little weapon systems and toys, and we're
Speaker 4: going to see some guys posing with some weapon systems
Speaker 4: that probably never get used, right, like probably some AI
Speaker 4: targeting shit stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, it's Rallery does that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, we got to find some way to reallocate
Speaker 2: the alleged fifty billion dollars in DOGE cuts, which is
Speaker 2: certainly a fake number. Absolutely, we might as well send
Speaker 2: over two hundred billion more to the Defense Department.
Speaker 3: Based on early IRS filings, there's something like half a
Speaker 3: trillion dollars that we might be losing in tax income
Speaker 3: this year. So you know, net, I don't think we're
Speaker 3: doing great. I should also know to hear a big
Speaker 3: part of the money that they're going to get for
Speaker 3: modernizations coming from cutting fifty to sixty thousand civilian jobs,
Speaker 3: many of whom are veterans, but also just in terms
Speaker 3: of like military readiness, guys like hag Seth, who's primarily
Speaker 3: a push up dude, and people who don't know anything
Speaker 3: about the military see it as like, well, you know,
Speaker 3: the military, you just want as many door kickers as
Speaker 3: you possibly can, and you actually need very few of
Speaker 3: those guys would need a lot of is guys that
Speaker 3: can move things to different places and fix things when
Speaker 3: they break, and do a lot of the paperwork that's
Speaker 3: necessary to make both of those things possible, which is
Speaker 3: why you need those jobs, and cutting a shitload of
Speaker 3: them is not likely to increase readiness. It's also worth
Speaker 3: noting that the US Army is looking at a forced
Speaker 3: reduction of up to ninety thousand active duty soldiers. This
Speaker 3: is based on an article from April fourth, which is
Speaker 3: a significant reduction, and again like, we're not.
Speaker 6: Is that real?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Why why are they doing a ninety percent reduction?
Speaker 3: In part because it's very hard for them to find
Speaker 3: new active duty soldiers. It is not easy to get
Speaker 3: people to do this, and it is not the priority
Speaker 3: of anybody in charge of anything to actually get more soldiers.
Speaker 3: The priority is to put more money into systems AI
Speaker 3: and all this shit, Like, I don't think they have
Speaker 3: a vested interest in actually helping with that.
Speaker 2: How are we going to take Greenland with drones? What
Speaker 2: do we do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Probably? I mean there's not a lot of peace.
Speaker 2: Probably, how we're going to do it?
Speaker 3: There's not a lot of people in Greenland.
Speaker 2: Garrison excited for the naval blockade of Greenland to yeah,
Speaker 2: kick off at about two months.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's going to be great anyway. They're going
Speaker 3: to make part of why I think they feel confident
Speaker 3: trying to make you know, they're calling this making the
Speaker 3: army smaller and more agile, is because Trump is doing
Speaker 3: his best to make friends with Russia and we're certainly
Speaker 3: not going to whatever happens with Taiwan, the US military
Speaker 3: is not going to be involved.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we ain't going to go back for them.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: His attitude is like what do we need this for?
Speaker 3: We need an agile military that we can use to
Speaker 3: fuck with Greenland and Panama. Like that's that's what we're
Speaker 3: going to be doing, two very.
Speaker 4: Similar biomes where like everything is very similar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's a lot of people like you know,
Speaker 3: the folks running Palenteer who have an increasing amount of
Speaker 3: say in what happens to the military, and you know
Speaker 3: what Trump does, who are basically advocating for, like we're
Speaker 3: going to have this whole kill chain automated soon. We
Speaker 3: barely need people. You can't trust people, you know how
Speaker 3: untrustworthy your generals have proved. Donald Cool.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited for some more Arctic camo surpl us
Speaker 2: to hit the mark at once. Yeah, Greenland situation is resolved.
Speaker 4: I'm excited to be fucking around wondering who a drone's
Speaker 4: going to kill next. That has been a really life
Speaker 4: affirming experience for me, and I'm excited to have it
Speaker 4: again soon.
Speaker 3: It's going to be great.
Speaker 4: Robbie, you mentioned the IRS and irs maybe maybe get
Speaker 4: less money, So I got to talk a little bit
Speaker 4: about the IRS. I guess let's let's start with like
Speaker 4: a little summary of this week immigration news. This week
Speaker 4: child Rachik, who is the person who runs libs of
Speaker 4: TikTok yeah, joined Ice on a raid.
Speaker 3: She is, shall we say, the Julius Striker of our
Speaker 3: modern fashions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 3: Damn sorry, I'm just no. I mean, like, I wasn't
Speaker 3: joking about that. That's the most direct comparison that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I just took a moment to reflect on that,
Speaker 4: and it's not a great thing to reflect on.
Speaker 3: It's really not. Now. It doesn't make me feel good, yeah, No.
Speaker 4: Other things that make me feel good are the sixteen
Speaker 4: Minutes report, seventy five percent of people since Siko had
Speaker 4: no criminal conviction, which seems to leave open the possibility
Speaker 4: of there being a crime for which it would be
Speaker 4: okay to be sent to a foreign goo lag with
Speaker 4: no hope of return, which I don't believe is the case. Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm very disappointed at any reporting which focuses on guilt,
Speaker 4: as if one could ever be guilty of anything which
Speaker 4: would make this justifiable, you can't. The government is also
Speaker 4: soliciting for proposals this week to massively increase migrant detention,
Speaker 4: which again is not surprising, right, we talked about this
Speaker 4: last November, but it's also not great. But where I
Speaker 4: want to focus today is on the IRS and the
Speaker 4: Abdegogatia case we spoke about last week. So well, it's
Speaker 4: see inter reporting that the IRS has said it will
Speaker 4: hand over information of people who are subject to criminal
Speaker 4: investigation to DHS or ICE right, ICE being under DHS.
Speaker 3: They so they say they.
Speaker 4: What happened here is that part of court filings and
Speaker 4: memorandum of understanding between ICE and the IRS was released
Speaker 4: in the MoU or in the court finding. Actually they
Speaker 4: cite an offense of failure to depart the United States
Speaker 4: after being ordered removed. So Essentially anyone who they're saying
Speaker 4: like you have to go right, you know that they
Speaker 4: could They could then ask for their tax return information.
Speaker 4: Exactly what the IRS will disclose to ICE is covered
Speaker 4: by a big black reaction in the court documents, so
Speaker 4: we don't know that the entire emmaus submitted, but like
Speaker 4: there's significant reactions in it, ICE has to hand One
Speaker 4: thing that's not redacted is that ICE has to hand
Speaker 4: over the person's name, address, and the crime of which
Speaker 4: they're for which they're investigating, and it has to be
Speaker 4: a non tax crime.
Speaker 3: Not that that matter is Huguely.
Speaker 4: This is more limited than a lot of people have feared,
Speaker 4: and it's more limited than a lot of the reporting
Speaker 4: I've seen. It's possible that there's something else going on.
Speaker 4: I saw the acting director in ICE was going to
Speaker 4: quit over this. I saw that this morning. But the
Speaker 4: fact that they have to have their address suggests that
Speaker 4: they couldn't locate them using the tax return form right,
Speaker 4: which which is a good thing. It is one last
Speaker 4: step towards fascuistrom. I guess I'm also aware of ICE
Speaker 4: having memorandums of understanding with other agencies, to include HUD right,
Speaker 4: housing and urban development. All of this is going to
Speaker 4: reduce the amount that migrant communities engage with the federal
Speaker 4: government to any degree. Right, Contrary to what you might
Speaker 4: have heard undocumated to people do to pay their taxes,
Speaker 4: it's actually relatively rare for them not to do that.
Speaker 4: And this might change if the RS starts handing over
Speaker 4: people's tax returned information to ICE right. Obviously, if HUD
Speaker 4: starts handing over people's information, that's going to lead to
Speaker 4: people not being as willing to take housing benefits, more
Speaker 4: people landing up living on the street.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, Houston City in Texas, for that,
Speaker 4: you who an't familiar, have I Have I pronounced that right?
Speaker 3: Robert Tehause, Yeah, I thought it was. I wasn't sure
Speaker 3: of it. It was Houston.
Speaker 9: Houston, Oh house.
Speaker 3: Soon understood. It's a it's a place we just don't go.
Speaker 3: That's that's that's how I refer to Houston. Okay, beautiful.
Speaker 4: So this Texas No Man's landtown has turned over information
Speaker 4: including addresses and license paids for people charged with driving
Speaker 4: without a license, even though some of this under Texas
Speaker 4: law is supposed to remain confidential.
Speaker 3: So that's great.
Speaker 4: They are also now making immigration detentions at regular traffic stops.
Speaker 4: Some aware of one incident where a man was arrested
Speaker 4: after being stopped for a cracked windscreen and he's now
Speaker 4: an ICE detention, so that there was I presumably an
Speaker 4: ICE warrant for this person that the Houston police then
Speaker 4: acted upon.
Speaker 2: I mean, and this is this can just be racial profiling, right,
Speaker 2: Like if they're going to pull someone over and then
Speaker 2: send them to ICE, like they're just going to start
Speaker 2: pulling over as many people that they don't want to
Speaker 2: be in Houston.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like we already know that police departments have a
Speaker 4: tendency to pull over people who aren't white more often, right,
Speaker 4: and then like if you give them this, that's just
Speaker 4: going to exacerbate that further. Again, it's also going to
Speaker 4: stop migrant communities interacting with the police in any way.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 4: This obviously has look not a big police fan, but
Speaker 4: like in cases like domestic file, right, sometimes people need
Speaker 4: to go to the police to be safe, and they're
Speaker 4: not going to do so they think that means they
Speaker 4: or people they love will be deported and this will
Speaker 4: have negative consequences, and specifically in cases like domestic violence,
Speaker 4: and we know this. There is plenty of evidence for this. Nonetheless,
Speaker 4: this is continuing anyway. What's also continuing is our obligation
Speaker 4: to pivot to act, which we should do.
Speaker 9: Now, Okay, we are back.
Speaker 4: We're back, and it's time to talk about the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: Do we have to?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we do, Garython, because it's the biggest court.
Speaker 4: It's the big one, and they've been crushing it all week,
Speaker 4: just just sending down decisions. The two big ones, I
Speaker 4: guess I want to talk about are a five to
Speaker 4: four ruling that it was vacating Boseberg's trro Bosberg being
Speaker 4: the judge who had intally told the United States government
Speaker 4: that had to stop sending people to set court right.
Speaker 4: And then the US had ignored Boseberg and done it anyway,
Speaker 4: and then they had this whole court case about how
Speaker 4: they hadn't ignored him in any way.
Speaker 3: It was a secret.
Speaker 4: Even though we're tweeting it, you can go back a
Speaker 4: couple of eds and hear about that. In this decision,
Speaker 4: the Court was unanimous in asserting that people removed under
Speaker 4: the Alien Enemies Act do have a right to due process,
Speaker 4: but that they have to bring a habeas petition. So
Speaker 4: like the reason they vacated to tro was that the
Speaker 4: case shouldn't have gone to Bosburg, right, that they should
Speaker 4: have bought this Havieu's petition. In practice, that's going to
Speaker 4: be very hard given the fact that many migrants, even
Speaker 4: under the current system, even and the Biden, most migrants
Speaker 4: wh didn't speak English didn't have access to legal representation.
Speaker 4: So this ruling is still pretty bad. The only thing
Speaker 4: that people in the court case wanted to stop was
Speaker 4: their rendition to L salbadare right. It wasn't even like
Speaker 4: opposed to other forms of removal, it was specific to
Speaker 4: this El Salbador situation. The court also sort of cited
Speaker 4: k crime all cases as precedent, which is a very different thing.
Speaker 4: And it gives us very narrow ruling of the due
Speaker 4: process available to migrants rate and it relies on my
Speaker 4: having access to a legal team, which could be expensive
Speaker 4: and complicated for them.
Speaker 2: So this ruling allows Trump administration to send people to
Speaker 2: El Salvador as as long as they have the quote
Speaker 2: unquote right to do process, which is narrowly defined as
Speaker 2: something that not many people will have access to anyway.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, well, summarized. Yeah, you would need to have
Speaker 4: like a lawyer on retainer to file your habeas right
Speaker 4: leg straight away.
Speaker 2: So if that just doesn't get filed, then you are
Speaker 2: basically in their view forfeiting your due process and they
Speaker 2: can deport you anywhere.
Speaker 4: Well, they can deport you anyway. Yeah, I guess you
Speaker 4: have the right to appeal it, like by saying like
Speaker 4: I'm going to file this habeas petition, but most people
Speaker 4: an't going to do that, so in practice that they
Speaker 4: haven't explicitly ruled on this setcot thing. Right, the Aberigo
Speaker 4: Garcia case, which is the other case, a Fourth Circuit
Speaker 4: judge required the US to return Abergogarcia to the US,
Speaker 4: and then Chief Justice Roberts on his own issued in
Speaker 4: an administrative stay, so he is effectively telling them that
Speaker 4: Fourth Circuit judge, you can't order them to have him
Speaker 4: return right now. We need to take a time out.
Speaker 4: We need everybody to get their evidence in order and
Speaker 4: then bring that to us. So that case like remains ongoing.
Speaker 4: Right in the brief for that case, the government referred
Speaker 4: to Abligo Garcia as an enemy alien. But I don't
Speaker 4: think MS thirteen is covered by the evocation of the
Speaker 4: Alien Enemies Act. I think it was specific to trend
Speaker 4: deer Ragua. And then they also claim that they removed
Speaker 4: him under the Immigration Nationality Act, not the Alien Enemies Act.
Speaker 4: So like, none of this, I guess is hugely surprising.
Speaker 4: We're seeing this like sort of post hoc justification of
Speaker 4: what they did, right, which is kind of how they operate.
Speaker 4: Case still remains ongoing, so we're still we're still going
Speaker 4: to hear that one, which presumably will reflect on the
Speaker 4: constitutionality of sending people to said cord. But like the
Speaker 4: fact that, yeah, they ruled the other case right, the
Speaker 4: one that was five to four. It wasn't about whether
Speaker 4: seid Cock was legal. It was about where the Bosberg
Speaker 4: had the right to make a decision on this particular case.
Speaker 4: But it's still not great. Like it looks like the
Speaker 4: Supreme Court is doing everything it can to avoid a
Speaker 4: face to face showdown with the executive branch because they
Speaker 4: don't want to deal with the consequences of be ignoring them. Nope,
Speaker 4: and like we said before, like maybe the only court
Speaker 4: that they will listen to is a Supreme Court. Whether
Speaker 4: the Supreme Court doesn't make them, then they won't. So
Speaker 4: that's where we're at with that. Not great, not exactly
Speaker 4: great at all. Well, do you know what is doing great?
Speaker 4: The economy? And for more on that, I think it's
Speaker 4: time for Tariff Talk with mia Wan.
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Speaker 4: The only clash song from hm plagar in Operation Desert Storm,
Speaker 4: which major stach Strummer cry, a real catastrophe.
Speaker 2: Do you know what is in a catastrophe?
Speaker 9: The economy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, how's it going?
Speaker 6: So I just I just saw a wonderful chart where
Speaker 6: someone was like, ah, this is this is one of
Speaker 6: the eight best days the SMP has ever had, And
Speaker 6: every single other one of those days is like nineteen
Speaker 6: twenty nine, nineteen thirty one, age.
Speaker 4: To Whooh, it's one of the best days. From Mount
Speaker 4: Saint Helen's Equality. Yeah, yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 3: So all right.
Speaker 6: The teriff situation as of two forty three pm Pacific
Speaker 6: time on April ninth, is that there is.
Speaker 4: Mine going good. It's gotta be cool. Guys, don't worry
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 6: Okay, So there isn't one hundred and twenty five percent
Speaker 6: tariff on all goods from China?
Speaker 9: Is that bad?
Speaker 6: I uh, you know, there's a bit that I cut
Speaker 6: here where I was gonna say about how like at
Speaker 6: fifty four percent, I was like, we've entered the part
Speaker 6: of the map where it just says here there'd be dragons,
Speaker 6: and one hundred and twenty five percent there's not even
Speaker 6: dragons there that they didn't even think to put that
Speaker 6: on the map as an unknown region.
Speaker 1: Hi, this is Mia from the future. It is now Thursday.
Speaker 1: One of the problems with attempting to do this episode
Speaker 1: is that we are learning the teriff rate from in
Speaker 1: real time. So it turns out that the actual tariff
Speaker 1: right on China, as as clarified by by Donald Trump today,
Speaker 1: is one hundred and forty five percent. And also it
Speaker 1: has become clear that the twenty five percent turf tariffs
Speaker 1: on both Mexico and Canada are also still in effect.
Speaker 3: So yay. In medical terms, it means what happened to
Speaker 3: the global economy is equivalent to you getting hit directly
Speaker 3: in the spine by an F two fifty going forty
Speaker 3: five miles an hour. That's that's that's what's happened to
Speaker 3: the base of the global economy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I mean it's it is very funny that
Speaker 6: like a lot of people have been focusing on the
Speaker 6: bond stuff because you can just look at the tariff
Speaker 6: numbers and it's like like, yeah, okay, seeing a one
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty five percent tariff on all goods from
Speaker 6: China and then looking at the bond markets to figure
Speaker 6: out if that's bad or not is like like is
Speaker 6: like walking outside into a blizzard and being like, whoa
Speaker 6: my need the weather rather tell me if it's knowing, like,
Speaker 6: what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: The reason I'll explain, like briefly, treasury bonds are the
Speaker 3: underpinning of every country, the entire global economy. Every single
Speaker 3: country has a shitload of money in US treasury bonds
Speaker 3: because they are the most reliable thing. And what a
Speaker 3: treasury bond is is you give money to the US
Speaker 3: government and they say, in a period of time, you
Speaker 3: can take this out and it will have grown by
Speaker 3: a set percentage. Because treasury bonds have been for the
Speaker 3: last basically a century so incredibly stable. This is where
Speaker 3: you put your money that you don't want to gamble,
Speaker 3: so you have money that is in stocks and stuff
Speaker 3: that can go up and down, but you also head
Speaker 3: your bets by having a bunch of this. And you know,
Speaker 3: generally treasury bonds are hopefully enough to about keep pace
Speaker 3: with inflation or beat it by a little bit. But
Speaker 3: usually the rate is not all that high because there's
Speaker 3: a shitload of demand. People are always buying treasury bonds.
Speaker 3: When the treasury bond rate, which is the percentage you
Speaker 3: get back, raises, that may look good, right, they're like, wow,
Speaker 3: you get five percent now on if you put money
Speaker 3: into a into a thirty year TA bond. But what
Speaker 3: that means is that everyone is selling their treasury bonds.
Speaker 3: So demand is down and the rate is higher, and
Speaker 3: everyone is selling them because entire countries at a time
Speaker 3: are pulling their money out. Nations are pulling their money
Speaker 3: out of the US economy.
Speaker 6: It's great, yeah, and we are going to get more
Speaker 6: into how throw administration wants to fuck with that later,
Speaker 6: But first off, programming note, programming note. I am going
Speaker 6: to be from this episode forward referring to all of
Speaker 6: these as the turf tariffs, because fuck them and because
Speaker 6: these tariffs are in a large part also about a
Speaker 6: bunch of really weird fucking masculinity bullshit.
Speaker 3: So God excited for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And when you make most of your election ads
Speaker 2: being about yeah, trans people, and then and then and
Speaker 2: then the economy goes to the toilet. This is this
Speaker 2: is what was voted for.
Speaker 6: Like, if if you wanted transphobia, this is what you wanted.
Speaker 6: You want you wanted to lose your job, You wanted
Speaker 6: everyone to lose their fucking hope.
Speaker 3: Speaking at Tea Bonds, am.
Speaker 2: I right, let's skip over that immediately.
Speaker 3: No, no, no one law for him, go away? Okay, okay. So,
Speaker 3: so the most the most chaotic.
Speaker 6: Thing happening here, other than Robert randomly saying things, is
Speaker 6: that nobody knows what the tariff situation is going to be,
Speaker 6: just even just on Friday when you're listening to this,
Speaker 6: right you, By the time you were listening to this,
Speaker 6: there could be two hundred percent terriffs on Indonesia. There
Speaker 6: could be four thousand percent terrorists in Vietnam.
Speaker 3: We don't know. No, Trump could have dissolved the US
Speaker 3: dollar and we're all using the fucking d whatever, like
Speaker 3: I know, I don't.
Speaker 6: Know, yeah, and like you know, so, so it's all
Speaker 6: really unstable. We can talk about the other things that
Speaker 6: are still in effect, so that there's a general ten
Speaker 6: percent tariff on all countries except for China are just
Speaker 6: supposed to have a general ten percent tariff. There's also
Speaker 6: the per Megan Cassellos, a CNBC reporter, there are twenty
Speaker 6: five percent tariffs on steel, aluminum.
Speaker 3: And cars.
Speaker 6: There's probably going to be more. He keeps talking about
Speaker 6: more tariffs, and it's like, who knows where they're gonna happen,
Speaker 6: like maybe pharmaceutical semiconductors. But the Liberation Day tariffs, turf
Speaker 6: tariffs are currently on.
Speaker 2: Hold for ninety days at least as of right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the and the quote unquote reciprocal tariffs have
Speaker 2: been lowered to ten percent for me at least, it's
Speaker 2: unclear as of recording. On Wednesday, Trump said that this
Speaker 2: is a fact, this is in effect immediately. It's unclear
Speaker 2: if those ten percent tariffs are also on hold for
Speaker 2: ninety days.
Speaker 6: No, I think the temper said ones are in effect
Speaker 6: right now, but it's really hard to tell because he's
Speaker 6: just saying shit.
Speaker 2: And yes, it's very hard to tell, which is I
Speaker 2: ain't saying it, he's truthing it, because yes, sorry, he is.
Speaker 4: He is true social ing that this information that is
Speaker 4: how we have to work out the global economic future.
Speaker 4: It's based on posts. I'm true social Yeah, so so okay.
Speaker 6: And one of the things, one of the things that's
Speaker 6: been happening with with the turf tariffs is that like
Speaker 6: the media is just is reporting things as true that
Speaker 6: are just clearly obviously a lie. So one of the
Speaker 6: ones that's been going around and that the media is
Speaker 6: reporting a Trump has said is that he said he's
Speaker 6: going to pause tariffs on countries that don't retaliate, except
Speaker 6: we know that's a lie because the EU already imposed
Speaker 6: retaliatory tariffs. But the EU's turf tariff rate is like
Speaker 6: already down to ten percent, just like everyone else. So
Speaker 6: we know that Trump is lying about his rationale for
Speaker 6: the rollback of the turf tariffs, right, and every single
Speaker 6: fucking media outlet is still just reporting it because nobody
Speaker 6: fucking knows how to do freaking reporting anymore, we should
Speaker 6: move to what this is going to do the supply chain,
Speaker 6: And to put this in perspective, when I learned about
Speaker 6: the one hundred and four percent tariff on China, that
Speaker 6: was before it was one hundred and twenty five percent
Speaker 6: where it's at now, I was writing an episode called
Speaker 6: the Old Economy is Dead, which will probably still be
Speaker 6: coming out on Monday. Again, that was the fifty.
Speaker 3: Four percent rate.
Speaker 6: I was writing a thing called the Old Economy is
Speaker 6: Dead at one hundred and four percent, Like things are
Speaker 6: going to break in the supply chain that only seven
Speaker 6: people on Earth have ever heard of before, Like entire
Speaker 6: sectors of the economy are going to be annihilated.
Speaker 3: We're going to see right.
Speaker 6: Now, we're probably going to see everyone attempt to route
Speaker 6: like all shipping from China. There's going to be a
Speaker 6: massive effort to try to reroot it through like literally
Speaker 6: any other country. But again that's only a solution for
Speaker 6: like you know, ninety days, and and again it's not
Speaker 6: even clear that that can work. I mean, I'm already
Speaker 6: seeing a bunch of reports swamp business as being like, yeah,
Speaker 6: we're fucked because and that was the four percent tariffs
Speaker 6: and at one hundred and twenty five percent, Entire industries
Speaker 6: are non viable. Now, it's maybe possible that if it
Speaker 6: was just these tariffs and an all Chinese shipping was
Speaker 6: able to be routed through some other country, maybe we
Speaker 6: would only have a regular economic collapse, like a like
Speaker 6: you know, like an early two thousands tech bubble collapse,
Speaker 6: and not like a two thousand and eight one. But again,
Speaker 6: that's the same thing that note moti war tariffs go
Speaker 6: into effect. Now. The problem is that we went through
Speaker 6: this with the ninety day pauses on the Mexican tariffs
Speaker 6: and the Canadian tariffs, and then after ninety days everyone
Speaker 6: assumed that they weren't going to go to effect again,
Speaker 6: they just went to effect. So the odds are of
Speaker 6: that the absolutely catastrophic turf tariffs from like Liberation Day
Speaker 6: are going to go into effect in about ninety days,
Speaker 6: right that that's probably what's going to happen. There's probably
Speaker 6: going to be some attempts to negotiate them down, but
Speaker 6: like again, those absolutely catastrophic tariffs which are going to
Speaker 6: just fucking annihilate the entire world economy, are probably going
Speaker 6: to go into effect. And you know, part of what's
Speaker 6: happening here, right, is that so the markets are doing this,
Speaker 6: they're like dead cat bounce, right, And a lot of
Speaker 6: this is because they haven't actually stopped to think about,
Speaker 6: like how much American manufacturing and contra every argument everyone
Speaker 6: is making about this, there is actually a lot of
Speaker 6: manufacturing still in the US, but all of it relies
Speaker 6: on Chinese imports and various stages of invadio stage are
Speaker 6: auction and they're fucked. And I haven't even mentioned yet,
Speaker 6: by the way, the sort of caption to all of
Speaker 6: this is that China is doing an eighty four percent
Speaker 6: retaliatory tariff on all American goods, which is going to
Speaker 6: just fuck massive portions of American agriculture. We've talked a
Speaker 6: lot on the show about soybean exports. It's going to
Speaker 6: be absolutely catastrophic. We're going to go more into this
Speaker 6: on Monday. But you know, the thing that's clear from
Speaker 6: this is that these people don't see the economy as
Speaker 6: real in the way that you and I do, Right.
Speaker 6: They simply don't, you know, we look at the economy
Speaker 6: as something where we have to have a fucking job
Speaker 6: so we can go to work, so we can come
Speaker 6: home and fucking buy food for our families and pay
Speaker 6: our rent. And they think it's a fucking joke, right,
Speaker 6: They think it's a fucking masculinity signifier and they think
Speaker 6: it's it. Like they look at tariff rates and they go,
Speaker 6: this is just a number on a fucking page. And
Speaker 6: that's why the tariff rate is now one hundred and
Speaker 6: twenty five percent on China because it doesn't None of
Speaker 6: this shit is real for them at all. Now do
Speaker 6: you know what is real? No, the products and services
Speaker 6: support this. Ye ye, yep, we are back now.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: One of the things that I've been seeing a lot
Speaker 6: of is there are a lot of arguments about whether
Speaker 6: there was some kind of plan here. Trump has claimed
Speaker 6: that he was going to roll back the terrorists all along,
Speaker 6: and no, he wasn't. Just no, he's just lying. He's
Speaker 6: just going by the seat of his pants. And I
Speaker 6: can prove that there is no plan here by moving
Speaker 6: on to the second thing that I want to talk
Speaker 6: about here, which is a speech given by Council of
Speaker 6: Economic Advisors Chairman Steve Myhren at the Hudson Institute. So
Speaker 6: this is this is again the the the Council of
Speaker 6: Economic Advisors is a federal agency that is like their
Speaker 6: their job is to provide economic advice to the president, right,
Speaker 6: and their chair gave a speech where he argues, and
Speaker 6: this is something that like I I Hey, Jesus fucking Christ,
Speaker 6: we were talking about, okay, the fact that every fucking
Speaker 6: country on Earth has US Treasury bonds. We were talking
Speaker 6: about this earlier, right, the status of the US dollar
Speaker 6: as the global reserve currency. This guy is arguing that
Speaker 6: that is actually a public good that other countries.
Speaker 3: Should pay us for.
Speaker 6: He wants to force countries to fucking pay taxes to
Speaker 6: the United States for holding US Treasury bonds.
Speaker 3: And again, if any nation on Earth could pay to
Speaker 3: have their currency be the global reserve currency, there's no
Speaker 3: amount they wouldn't pay. Like, the degree to which this
Speaker 3: benefits you was ridiculous, Like the fact that you want
Speaker 3: to charge other people for it. It's nothing.
Speaker 6: It is like, Look how this like actually works, right,
Speaker 6: is that every single other country on Earth is forced
Speaker 6: to buy American debt, which is what a bond is, right, Yeah,
Speaker 6: And this allows the US to carry out even more
Speaker 6: spending without inflationary effects every single other country.
Speaker 3: Everything is based on this, Yes, it's just it's.
Speaker 6: All forced on on like other countries having to stockpow
Speaker 6: US dollars, like the literally the entire global economy. The
Speaker 6: US is advantage in the entire global econy is that
Speaker 6: every single other fucking country on Earth needs US dollars.
Speaker 6: Part of this is to buy oil. And part of
Speaker 6: this is again because the dollar is the fucking reserve currency.
Speaker 6: It's the currency that fucking trade is done in, and
Speaker 6: the assets that you hold is is like is the
Speaker 6: fucking US bond. The anthropologist David Graeber called this in
Speaker 6: his book Debt the First five thousand Years, a tribute
Speaker 6: system that again, every country in the world is forced
Speaker 6: to buy US bonds. The US government has just like
Speaker 6: fairly explicitly like did this in the Reagan administration, does
Speaker 6: this other times, like has just fairly explicitly leaned on
Speaker 6: countries and been like, you're buying a fucking a fucking
Speaker 6: bunch of US bonds now, right, Like this is this system.
Speaker 6: The status of the dollar of the world reserve currency,
Speaker 6: is the entire lattice that supports and spreads the American Empire,
Speaker 6: and these fucking clowns one of people to pay taxes
Speaker 6: on the tribute that they are.
Speaker 3: Paying to us.
Speaker 6: This is not by Trump from Elon Musk right, this
Speaker 6: is the guy these people brought in to be their economist,
Speaker 6: to do economic policy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: There there is no limit to their stupidity. There is
Speaker 6: no rock of sanity upon which the tide of madness
Speaker 6: will crash. Everything we have seen, we have seen so
Speaker 6: far is just a prelude to an infinite abyss of stupidity,
Speaker 6: so mindnumbingly incomprehensible it will shatter our minds like a
Speaker 6: snowflake and a hurricane. You can no longer think to yourself.
Speaker 6: They cannot possibly be this stupid. They are thinking thoughts
Speaker 6: even gods can not comprehend. They are attempting to drain
Speaker 6: the sea by shouting at the moon. They are trying
Speaker 6: to wipe their ass with pine cones.
Speaker 3: There is no five.
Speaker 6: Dimensional plan here. There is not even a man behind
Speaker 6: the fucking curtain. There is only an infinite sea of cruelty, malicon,
Speaker 6: stupidity trying to drown us all for the crime of
Speaker 6: attempting to ext in the world we're born in. The
Speaker 6: reality of the men who rule the American Empire.
Speaker 9: Is this.
Speaker 6: It is so terrifying that everyone from the most powerful
Speaker 6: CEOs on the planet to the fucking day traders running
Speaker 6: the stock markets to broke left the ship posters recoil
Speaker 6: in horror and try to construct meaning and some kind
Speaker 6: of like anything, any kind of strategy, any kind of
Speaker 6: strategic reason why anyone could possibly be doing this, because
Speaker 6: the existence of a plan, literally any plan, no matter
Speaker 6: how evil it is, is preferable to this, which is
Speaker 6: that the largest economy in the world, the most powerful
Speaker 6: empire of the world has ever seen, is being run
Speaker 6: by the dumbest people who have ever fucking lift and
Speaker 6: they are doing this because they are evil and they're stupid.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, there's absolutely like yeah, yeah, no, nothing else
Speaker 3: to say. Really.
Speaker 2: I think one of the things that is underpinning this,
Speaker 2: which you can pick up on if you are cursed
Speaker 2: enough to listen to enough of these speeches and enough
Speaker 2: of their of their talking heads podcasts, is like this
Speaker 2: reoccurring trend in which these people really need to be
Speaker 2: victims in order to in order to politically succeed, which
Speaker 2: is an accuation that's usually thrown against you know, woke sgws.
Speaker 2: But like before the election, right, it was this idea
Speaker 2: that that because because of the dem corrupt elite establishment.
Speaker 2: You know, everyday Americans are are are victims of this,
Speaker 2: of this hidden cabal of Democrats that that are ruining everything.
Speaker 2: But but now that these people are in charge of
Speaker 2: of of the United States, the people who are victimizing
Speaker 2: us is just the entire world, right, the entire world
Speaker 2: is ripping off the United States by using our dollar,
Speaker 2: by by doing trade with us. They are somehow ripping
Speaker 2: us off, like we are the victims of this global scheme.
Speaker 2: And it's hurting you at the average blue collar worker,
Speaker 2: and it's making women adopt managerial positions and and this
Speaker 2: is this is what's actually is the core of of
Speaker 2: your oppression. And even even even when they win, and
Speaker 2: even when they control the country, they can't let go
Speaker 2: of this victim status. They have to have someone ripping
Speaker 2: them off in order to justify them doing just incomprehensible
Speaker 2: stupid power grabs. And it is very much linked to
Speaker 2: like this like masculine signifier. It's very odd, like like
Speaker 2: the way that people are trying to trying to justify
Speaker 2: losing so much money in the stock market. It's by
Speaker 2: re posting a clip of some like Australian women dancing
Speaker 2: on dancing on TikTok in like an office building, and
Speaker 2: they're like, well, you know, tariffs are are are much
Speaker 2: better than having to deal with women in the office,
Speaker 2: am I right now?
Speaker 3: Women having a joke?
Speaker 2: This is this is this is how they this is
Speaker 2: how they justify it.
Speaker 3: At least we don't have woke. It's worth it to
Speaker 3: not be able to afford food. If THEO is the
Speaker 3: global long house, that's a deep cut down long house
Speaker 3: is burnt down. Sure, because the long House is burnt down,
Speaker 3: we're now exposed to the elements and all of our
Speaker 3: food story story are gone and it's about to snow
Speaker 3: eighteen feet. But at least the long house.
Speaker 4: The long house with your am nephew in it, that
Speaker 4: you hate and owned you at Thanksgiving, it is gone.
Speaker 2: Shout out to your nephew.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess what's the nibbling? Nibbling is a correct
Speaker 4: non binary appollition.
Speaker 2: In other news, last week, President Trump said that he
Speaker 2: would be quote unquote honored for the President of l
Speaker 2: Salvador to take US citizens, which he calls American grown
Speaker 2: and born criminals and put them into SEACOT. The terrorism
Speaker 2: confinement center, which is essentially a prison work.
Speaker 3: Camp YEP, that no one gets released from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Trump said, quote, why should it stop just at
Speaker 2: people that crossed the border illegally? On quotes, But it
Speaker 2: shouldn't stop that she shouldn't be there at all. And
Speaker 2: and his James already mentioned seventy five percent of the
Speaker 2: immigrants sent to sea caught don't have a criminal conviction.
Speaker 2: These people are not criminals. Now, a few days later,
Speaker 2: the White House presecretary reiterated that this is something that
Speaker 2: Trump is seriously discussing, both publicly and privately.
Speaker 7: So the President has discussed this idea quite a few
Speaker 7: times publicly. He's also discussed it privately. You're referring to
Speaker 7: the President's idea for American citizens to potentially be deported.
Speaker 7: These would be heinous, violent criminals who have broken our
Speaker 7: nation's laws repeatedly, and these are violent repeat offenders in
Speaker 7: American streets. The President has said, if it's legal right,
Speaker 7: if there is a legal pathway to do that, he's
Speaker 7: not sure.
Speaker 6: We are not sure if there is.
Speaker 7: It's an idea that he has simply floated and has
Speaker 7: discussed very publicly. As in the effort of transparency, now.
Speaker 2: One of the last things we're going to discuss is
Speaker 2: an update on DHS and ICE efforts to deport students
Speaker 2: across the country. Me and James did an episode last
Speaker 2: week which is still pretty relevant, but all of the
Speaker 2: numbers have increased dramatically since that episode. As of Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: April eighth, ninety two student visas have been revoked at
Speaker 2: California University, fifty at UC campuses, and thirty six at
Speaker 2: California State University campuses, with six more at Stanford. Also,
Speaker 2: as of April eight, fifty student visas have been revoked
Speaker 2: at Arizona State University, with multiple students now in iced attention.
Speaker 2: Lawyers for these students believe that upwards of one thousand
Speaker 2: visas have been revoked across the country. A map on
Speaker 2: inside higher ed dot com shows four hundred and nineteen
Speaker 2: confirmed instances of student visas or in some cases, green cards,
Speaker 2: being revoked by Secretary of State Mark Rubio across thirty
Speaker 2: four states, and as of Wednesday, April ninth, visas for
Speaker 2: eighteen international students have been revoked at the University of Utah,
Speaker 2: with these students and recent graduates received letters from the
Speaker 2: Trump administration instructing them to quote unquote self deport immediately.
Speaker 2: At Utah State University, more than thirty students have been impacted,
Speaker 2: according to the university administration.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm aware of at least one UCSC student who
Speaker 4: is detained at the border and immediately deported. And also
Speaker 4: where the UCOP uc officer the president right a statement
Speaker 4: about the impact of service terminations across its campuses. But
Speaker 4: the UCSD Guardian, in a dub for Student Journalism, reported
Speaker 4: that UCSD convened an emergency meeting before this of faculty
Speaker 4: and it knew about the revocations or that the service changes, right,
Speaker 4: they were revocation of their student status, and it was
Speaker 4: reluctant to act because it hadn't received guidance from UCOP yet.
Speaker 4: So we're seeing this from a lot of university administrations, right,
Speaker 4: they don't know how to respond. I did see that
Speaker 4: the University of Arizona was helping fund some of the
Speaker 4: legal fees of their students, which is more than many
Speaker 4: universities are doing as of now. There seems to be
Speaker 4: no pattern of prior rest for the people who have
Speaker 4: had their status has changed, But in some cases, it
Speaker 4: seems that in some university systems. All of the people
Speaker 4: who have lost their status are either Chinese, Indian, or
Speaker 4: from majority Muslim countries.
Speaker 6: One other thing I wanted to close out is episode
Speaker 6: on So we have an episode out about this already.
Speaker 6: But one of the things that ICE has been doing
Speaker 6: has been targeting migrant farm worker labor organizers.
Speaker 3: They have.
Speaker 6: I'm basically just kidnapped, like just straight up broke this
Speaker 6: guy's window in his car and dragged him out. A
Speaker 6: guy named Alfredo Quarez is known as Lalo. He is
Speaker 6: an organizer for Familias you need Us Legisticia in Washington,
Speaker 6: and there is going to be a protest. This will
Speaker 6: be Saturday, the twelfth. That will be tomorrow as you're
Speaker 6: listening to this, on Friday at Portland City Hall at
Speaker 6: two pm. Organizers are also asking that you call the
Speaker 6: Washington Attorney General to demand pressure be put on everyone
Speaker 6: to release him. Yeah, if you want to hear more
Speaker 6: about that, there is I have an interview with an
Speaker 6: organizer who works with them, and yeah, it's real fucking bad.
Speaker 6: The scale of the repression has been increasing. It's not undefeatable,
Speaker 6: and this is a this is a tangible thing that
Speaker 6: you can do to try to stop them. But yeah,
Speaker 6: it requires movement now, and yeah, do this now before
Speaker 6: it gets worse.
Speaker 2: To update another topic of the episode me and James
Speaker 2: did last week, we mentioned that DHS was seeking input
Speaker 2: for installing a new program to screen the social media
Speaker 2: activity of people applying for immigration benefits for what would
Speaker 2: they label as anti semitism. And this policy is now
Speaker 2: in effect. This applies to quote unquote, aliens applying for
Speaker 2: lawful permanent resident status, foreign students, and aliens affiliated with
Speaker 2: educational institutions, possibly also people applying for citizenship. To quote
Speaker 2: the DHS Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs, Trisha McLaughlin, quote,
Speaker 2: there's no room in the United States so for the
Speaker 2: rest of the world's terrorist sympathizers, and we are under
Speaker 2: an obligation to admit them or let them stay here.
Speaker 2: Secretary Nome has made it clear that anyone who thinks
Speaker 2: they can come to America and hide behind the First
Speaker 2: Amendment to advocate for antisemitic violence and terrorism, think again.
Speaker 2: You are not welcome here. Unquote. The web page for
Speaker 2: this new policy states, under this guidance, USCIS will consider
Speaker 2: social media content that indicates an alien endorsing espousing promoting
Speaker 2: or supporting anti Semitic terrorism, anti Semitic terrorist organizations, or
Speaker 2: other antisemitic activity as a negative factor in any discretionary
Speaker 2: analysis when adjudicating immigration benefit requests.
Speaker 4: So essentially, this.
Speaker 2: Means that if you've posted anything that is in support
Speaker 2: of Palestine or criticizes the Israeli government, this will be
Speaker 2: now used against you if you are applying for visa,
Speaker 2: if you are applying for a green card, if you're
Speaker 2: applying for citizenship and already live in this country as
Speaker 2: a permanent resident lawfully. So just a wider net of
Speaker 2: social media surveillance. Four h forour Media put out a
Speaker 2: good article on when Day about a palanteer system that
Speaker 2: ICE is using to look for immigrants and people in
Speaker 2: this country, which allows them to select for specific attributes
Speaker 2: with a pretty intense filtering system. So yeah, this is
Speaker 2: ongoing and we will continue to report as such.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, everybody, Well until next week, please don't
Speaker 3: go to an El Salvador in prison camp if you
Speaker 3: can avoid it.
Speaker 2: We reported the news.
Speaker 3: Great, we reported the news.
Speaker 4: It could happen.
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