WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:03.200 Old media. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.200 Happy g October everybody. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.600 Oh, shut the fuck up, we can't. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.520 This is that could happen here? Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.320 newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.119 and what it means for you. I'm Garrison Davis to 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.560 joint by Mio Wong, Jamestown and Robert Evans. This episode 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.520 recovering the week of September twenty first to October first. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:30.760 And what a week it was. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:32.919 Yeah, it does not feel like it should be October, 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:37.080 but who cares. I guess the government's shut down right now, 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.320 So all of the dozens of anarchists around the country 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.320 are rejoicing, uh huh, as the Senate has failed to 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.360 pass a short term funding bill. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.320 That's right, everyone, we did it. We defeated the state 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.560 using the power of the state. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:50.880 State. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.400 Yeah, many such cases. As the governments shut down, Trump 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.680 is threatening mass layoffs, and Republicans are framing this whole 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.040 shot down as being caused by Democrats who are trying 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:08.440 to defend health care for quote unquote illegals, which isn't real. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.640 Undocumented immigrants do not get federal health care. That's not 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.840 even what the Democrats are fighting for. Would be cool 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:16.480 if they were would be cool if the theory of 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.679 this country you could just get health care, that sounds nice. 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.080 Wouldn't that be a cool, almost utopian place to live. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.000 But that's not what's happening. And the rights confronted with this, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.960 but they just do not care. Here's a Mike Johnson, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.959 Speaker of the House on CNN having a little debate 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:31.480 about this. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.640 If that counterproposal was enacted, is illegal aliens would be 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.039 paid for American taxpayers hard earned dollars would be paying 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.679 for benefits for illegal aliens. Again, we're not doing that. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.360 But it's against federal law for people who are here illegally. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.319 To get yes, and that's why our reforms are so 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.600 important to enforce all that. The important thing. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.320 To remember is that the Democratic proposal that people who 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:52.400 are here illegally again. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.240 Because they don't have the level of specification that we 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.440 had in our bill, it will unwind that and all 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.200 those things that the CBO just verified will be reversed. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:01:59.960 We can't afford to do. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:03.160 Right. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.360 No, that is a red hearing in this in this debate. 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.480 So what the Democrats are actually doing right now is 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:13.320 they're trying to extend the current currently enacted federal subsidies 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.960 for the Affordable Care Act, which keeps millions of people 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.280 able to access healthcare. And Democrats are also trying to 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.720 reverse some of the federal health care cuts, including to Medicaid, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.040 which happened under the One Big Beautiful Bill earlier this year. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.280 That is what they're actually fighting for. The White House 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.880 is retruthing and retweeting proposals from the Democrats that include 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.120 health care for aliens. But that's legal aliens, that's like 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.160 legal documented residents, and they're framing this as health care 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.600 for quote unquote illegals. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.080 It's a it's a bad faith representation, as it always is. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.440 Like people can go all the way back to the 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.000 episode that I made with Robin Sophie last year about 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.200 what Trump might do to learn more about the public 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.160 charge rule and how that pertain to people who are 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.840 not US citizens. I don't think we really have the time, Noise, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.639 this the place to go over that here, But there 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.560 is not, and there has never been a massive federal 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.400 free health care plan for undocumented people. In fact, people 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.400 who are undocumented are not going to see the doctor 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.520 right now because of the persistent and untrue rumor that 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.000 ICE are taking people from hospitals. That is not something 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.960 I'm aware of ever happening. Ice do take people who 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.160 are already in their custody to hospitals, and they will 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.040 wait for those people while those people are treated. That 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.080 it's not the same as entering the hospital and grabbing 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.120 people based on the immigration status. And I'm aware of 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.960 several cases where people whose life was genuinely in danger 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.600 were afraid to go and seek medical attention because they 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.520 were afraid that they would be targeted for their immigration status. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.320 So we'll see how long this government shut down last. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.800 The last one start on twenty eighteen, lasted thirty five days. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.440 If this shutdown is still happening next week, I'm sure 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.760 we will include some details about government services being affected. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.280 But this could resolve in a few days, a few hours, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.000 or in a few weeks. We do not know. But luckily, 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.200 not all is depressing and dark in this country. There 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:13.920 still is a ray of hope. In that ray of 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.000 hope is named Jimmy Kimmel, who was thankfully back on 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.200 the air. I know we've all been watching. We've all 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.400 been watching this certainly, and next our Instintclair have ceased, 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.560 preempting his show. That's back on air across the country. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.800 Free speech is hashtag So back in America, provert. Do 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.159 you want to talk about the Disney plus boycott? 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:38.080 Yes, So we've gotten some data finally on the damage 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.680 down to Disney's result of the boycott. After they fired 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:42.200 Monsieur Kimmel. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.240 Suspended, suspended, Monsieur kim. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.840 Il suspended, suspended, They were definitely going to fire. They 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.400 wanted to fire his We definitely wanted to fire him. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.120 And you know, there was a lot of posting online 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:53.640 about it. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.480 There's a lot of posting, a lot of. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.119 Posting about people canceling their accounts and people being like wow, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.760 and it's I always it's always very frustrated to me 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.919 because like people get very excited and it's impossible to 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.280 tell with the moment is this actually anything? Right? Yeah, 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.000 sixteen thousand people shared this thing about how the website 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.560 for Disney was down, but that doesn't mean anything other 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.760 than like someone saw the website down and a bunch 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.640 of people shared and posted it. So it was very 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.400 difficult to tell, like, is there actually any follow through 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.960 on this? Is Disney's bottom line being hurt? And thankfully 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.800 I'm very happy to say that it does look like 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:34.240 Disney suffered a substantial financial setback as a result of 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.560 the boycott campaign. YEP, something like one point seven million 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.360 paid subscribers canceled. And this was immediately before Disney was 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.960 looking to announce a price increase. So like this, this 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.839 is like a serious I'm not surprised they reversed. Course, 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.000 this is like damaging to them. We're not talking about 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:52.800 the amount of money that a company like Disney would 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:53.320 just ignore. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.640 Yeah, And I think the most important thing here for 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.360 all of us, and this is the thing I talked about. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.000 We did an episode about this. This is actually before for Kimmel. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.880 I've reenstated by Sinclair. But one of the really important 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.200 things here is that everyone fucking hates this government. They 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.440 are hideously unpopular of the All of their sort of 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:19.080 legitimization stuff, all of the sort of media complicity they've 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.960 bought has bought them about a four percent of poofa 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.520 rating bump from where they were this time of the 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.800 administration the first time, so he said about forty one 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.919 percent of poofa rating. Everything that he's doing is hideously underwater. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.760 Like his most popular thing is his immigration policy, which 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.120 is horrible. But it's again like forty two percent. Everyone 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.920 hates these people, you know, and it's it's very easy 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.080 because of their control the media sphere to believe that 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.000 they have this sort of total hegemonic power over everyone 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.720 in the US until the exact moment where it gets 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.760 challenged and everyone's like, wait, hold on, no, it turns 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.440 out most of the country hates this, does not want 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.479 Jimmy Kimmel acts from Disney. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.800 Like, Comrade Kimmel has joined the fight. Yeah, yeah, there 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.719 are more of us than there are and there always 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.039 have been, and by more of us, Mia is referring 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.680 to herself and Jimmy Kimmel as a coherent political class. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.160 Just for the record, there the only two members of 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.840 the coherent political class. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.920 But that's good news just over the state which holds 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:22.080 me up and Kimmel and the entirety of the fourth Estate. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.280 But I don't know, there's a little bit of good 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.360 news for you. A bunch of people got really pissed 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:31.640 at something blatantly anti First Amendment, anti democratic, massive overreach 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:36.120 of the state, thought crime, nonsense, and the company suffered 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.200 such dramatic within like literally in the space of a week. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.880 That's three hundred and thirty million or so million dollars 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.600 a year that Disney lost. That even Disney can't ignore 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:46.320 that kind of money. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:47.800 Oh looks like regular people. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.960 Yeah. Yeah, like people who subscribe to Disney Bluss. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:51.400 Yeah. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.480 An army of ordinary liberals, the actual silent majority in 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.040 this country. Yeah said no this, like. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.160 Well, that's gross and scary. I'm not paying Disney anymore. Yeah, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.560 and it's good that they did that. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:07.320 Currently, the rights trying to manufacture counter boycott against Netflix 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.559 for having children's shows with non binary characters, mostly using 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.320 clips and children's shows that are like two or three 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.600 years old clips that Limbs of Talk Talk has already 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.680 posted years ago. Now try to write check and others 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.720 are recirculating these clips to being like, look at how 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.120 Netflix has gone too far as pushing woke nonsense down 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.920 the throats of your children by using like ancient clips 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.560 from like the Jurassic Park TV show. Like, okay, guys, 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:33.680 good luck with that. Have fun. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.160 Yeah. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:40.560 In other news, the Department of War. This actually happened 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.760 last month. On September fifth, Trump signed an executive order 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.000 approving the name the Department of War as a secondary 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.599 title for the Department of Defense to use an official correspondence, 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:56.640 public communications, ceremonial contexts, and non statutory documents within the 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.680 executive branch, while the administration also works on changing the 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:05.400 name officially through Congress. Hag Seth nearly immediately switched all 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.120 of his accounts and his office name plate to read 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:09.880 Secretary of War. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.440 Yeah, you know, he pushed hard for this one. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:18.880 Defense dot gov now redirects to war dot gov. And 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.559 they're just referring to this in all public appearances as 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.040 the War Department, something that we've talked about on the 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.560 show before of them wanting to do and they're going 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.600 to continue to push this and using this kind of 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:34.800 war framing for domestic operations, yeah, not just international deployments. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.800 This was its historical name right like way way before 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.440 it was a DoD Yeah. Yeah, it was, so just 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.760 to be clear for people, that doesn't mean that it's 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.160 like a good reason to change it back. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:51.959 Trump truthed last week quote, at the request of the 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.679 Secretary of Homeland Security Christinome, I'm directing Secretary of War 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.880 Pete Hagseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.000 more ravaged Portland and any of our ICE facilities under 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.760 siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists. I'm 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.360 also authorizing full force if necessary. Thank you for your 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:16.160 attention in this matter. War ravaged Portland. How's it hanging 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.760 out there for our Portland correspondence. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.560 It's fine. It's kind of raining. I had a nice 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.680 tapas dinner on Sunday. It was pretty good. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:24.240 The crows are really nice. 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:25.960 Do what it does? Does someone want to mention like 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.680 the nature of the anti ICE protests happening in like 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.880 one square block in like the south waterfront of downtown Portland. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.520 Yeah, it's in the South waterfront. McAdam is what people 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.640 here call it the neighborhood where the ICE auxiliary facility is. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.200 And there have been protests off and on pretty much 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.760 since Trump took office. Usually on like a good night 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.280 you get maybe one hundred and fifty two hundred people. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.640 There were some nights kind of around where things blew 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.160 up in LA that there were more like five or 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.480 six hundred people out for a couple of days. There 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.960 really hasn't been any of the like what we were 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.280 seeing in twenty twenty in terms of like the mass 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.679 mass gatherings, and you know, there has not really been 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.480 much in the way of like people getting arrested, generally 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.040 getting arrested for crossing a line that separates federal property 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.280 from like state property, so to speak, and like step 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:15.920 over it and then a bunch of guys run out 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.280 and grab them. Right, That's that's mostly what the arrests 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.400 are for. A lot of people have had charges dropped. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.000 I mean, people get fucked up charges when they get charged, 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.040 but a lot of them are not really sticking because 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.680 they're not very strong, like because it's just not much 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:30.199 going on. 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:30.680 Right. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.280 Yeah, we'll talk more about why Trump thinks there's this 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.800 apocalypse now scenario happening in Portland. But yeah, so far 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.760 the protests have been relatively mild. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.520 Yes, Yeah, the vibe is very much like the classic 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.360 Portland thing of people with like holding doughnuts on fishing 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.480 lines out in front of the cops. Right, it's like that, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.160 not like molotovs. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.720 The response has been crazy, Like there's a video going 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.480 around that's a bunch of federal agents. I think they're 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.079 fps rolling in up from a van from outside of 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.480 the ice facility and arresting somebody who again probably crossed 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.240 a line or through something. Generally is why people have 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.760 been getting arrested, so that the response has been nonsense. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.680 That video is from recently, and I'm seeing it attributed 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.560 to Trump's declaration of war. But like I saw stuff 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.240 like that three months ago, four months ago, like it's 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.240 been happening every day, like they do roll up in 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.840 their vans when they because they periodically throughout the day 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.079 will have Feds come in to go grab a couple 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.360 of people, and that this is a thing they've been doing. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.920 So they've been so far at least, I have not 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.920 seen either an escalation on the ground really in terms 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.439 of what protests, what the protests are doing, and the 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.640 numbers of protesters since Trump's declaration. And I also really 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:43.679 haven't seen an escalation in what's being deployed on the ground. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.079 We have not seen the Oregon National Guard presence that 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:50.800 is being promised. No, this has just been DHS officers. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.319 I can confirm, just based on some information that's come 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.720 my way that there do seem to be an increased 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.280 number of DHS blackhaws flying with their transponders off. There's 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.360 a couple of reasons they can do that. Some of 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.840 them is for if they are transporting like high value 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.520 quote unquote deportees, right, people who are being deported for 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.719 some sort of serious crime. Sure, some of it is 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.720 if they are feel like they are under threat and 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.800 are doing like emergency personnel transfers. They're not generally supposed 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.520 to fly without their transponders, although again, you can't really 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.760 trust anything to work the way it's supposed to work. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.960 But there is some evidence that they have been ramping 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.679 up and they have been flying more MQ nine's over 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:36.560 the city Reaper drones for surveillance purposes, so that I 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.600 can say there does seem to have been a degree 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.360 of escalation, But in terms of we're not seeing troops 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.880 marching through the city yet, and I honestly can't, it 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.920 doesn't seem to me, as of the moment that we're 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.360 recording this, that there has been an escalation in the 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.560 level of force used on the ground right now. That said, 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.000 the level of force use on the ground before Trump 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:58.200 declared his war on Portland or whatever was still pretty extreme. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.000 That has continued. I just it doesn't seem like what's 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.680 happening right now is a massive increase over where we 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.640 were two weeks ago. You know, That's all I'm saying. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.080 And I think the place where that has happened is Chicago, 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:09.360 and we will get to that later. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:10.040 Yeah. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.920 Yeah, Well, Trump has continued to talk about deploying quote 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:19.800 unquote troops to US cities, including at a meeting of 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.800 top brass on Tuesday, September thirtieth, where Pete hag Seth 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.480 basically ranted to top generals and admirals about no more 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:33.440 wokeness in the military. But Trump also spoke telling top 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.520 military officials to prepare to deploy military to liberal run cities, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:42.240 calling it a quote war from within. Let's play the clip. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.600 But it seems that the ones that are run by 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.800 the radical left Democrats, what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:55.160 New York, Los Angeles the very unsafe places, and we're 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.000 going to straighten them out. It'll be a major part 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.760 for some of the people in this room. That's a 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.640 war too, It's a war from within. Controlling the physical 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.600 territory of our border is essential to national security. We 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:07.640 can't let these people in. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.440 The two separate issues there that he conflated, right, protests 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.600 in cities and people crossing the border. 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.360 Yeah, and that's the way Trump's been talking about this 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.280 for a while. I mean, same thing with like DC right, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:26.600 combining this like crime issue with undocumented immigration and also 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:31.320 with protests against ICE operations targeting undocumented immigrants, all kind 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.760 of bundled together into this, into this war from within. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:39.280 Yeah. I mean the immigration issue, right, is one that 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.600 gives him a much broaderly way and the powers the 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.920 constitutionally available to him as the executive than policing with 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.760 the military, which is on the face foot of thing 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.520 that shouldn't happen in the United States. It makes sense 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.200 from a tactical perspective for them to conflate those two 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.600 things together. I will say, even if it's not particularly real. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:03.200 During this televise meeting, Trump told military leaders quote, last month, 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.560 I signing an executive order to provide training for a 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:11.200 quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.960 is going to be a big thing for the people 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.000 in this room talking to the generals, because it's the 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.680 enemy from within, and we will have to handle it 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.320 before it gets out of control. It won't get out 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:30.080 of control once you're involved. Unquote. They're directly addressing admirals 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.960 and generals about them having to help form a quick 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.360 reaction for us to quell civil disturbance, which won't get 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.320 out of control once they're involved, calling it again the 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.720 enemy from within, align that Trump used a lot during 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.520 the tail end of his presidential campaign in twenty twenty four. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.480 Yeah, which is just it's every single element if it 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:49.240 is just fascist. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.880 I mean it's it's pretty it's pretty blanket authoritarian stuff. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.840 Like there's no like sugar coating it here. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.120 they don't need to like use coded phrases, right, they 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:57.000 just say this stuff. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.120 Yeah, No, they're just yeah, they're just this is this 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.480 is just fascism. They're just trying to do it. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:02.720 Yeah, they're just saying the thing. 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:07.240 In the meeting, he explicitly labeled these dangerous cities as 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.800 a training ground for our military National Guard. 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.320 But I want to salute every service member who has 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.960 helped us carry out this critical mission. It's really a 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.040 very important mission. And I told Pete we should use 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.880 some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.600 military national Guard. But military, because we're going into Chicago. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.159 Verson that's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:32.119 governor stupid. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.040 And I think it's worth noting that both the mayor 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:39.240 of Chicago and the Governor Pritzker have been very unhappy 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:44.199 about this. Like as much as Pritzker has kind of 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:49.320 not been doing anything about like CPD aiding ice in raids, 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.320 he is absolutely not budging at all about not putting 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.280 National Guard troops in. So if they're very serious about 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:57.760 following this through, we're going to see some kind of 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:58.760 large scale confrontation. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:17:59.160 Yep. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:05.320 And Pritzker is not the kind of like knock needs, 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.160 uh Gavin Newson type governor. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:11.399 Yeah, he's not Gavin Newson. 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.840 He's not simply just going to let Trump do this. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.320 And yeah, that's going to be a major source of 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.879 confrontation assuming this, Assuming this specific like we're going to 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.280 send the National Guard in the Chicago stuff like happens soon. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.879 Trump also talked about talking with Tina Kotec, governor of Oregon, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.600 about deploying Oregon National Gardener, and her pushing back against that, 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.520 but ostensibly acquiescing in some way because there's been an 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.439 announcement from the organ National Guard that they will be 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.920 deploying and people in Oregon probably aren't gonna be happy 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.160 about it. They won't quote understand the mission. But during 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.800 this meeting, Trump did talk about his phone calls with 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:47.240 the Oregon governor. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:52.600 Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone. And 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.960 I get a call from the liberal governor. Sure, please 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.160 don't come, and we don't need you. I said, well, 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:02.240 unless they're playing false tapes, this looked like World War two. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:08.040 Your place is burning down. I mean, you must be kidding, sir. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.040 We have it under control. I said, you don't have 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:13.600 it under control, Governor, but I'll check it and I'll 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.800 call you back. I called it back. I said, this 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:21.040 place is a nightmare. Probably it's certainly not the biggest, 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.720 but it's one of the worst. Is brew They go 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:28.120 after our ice people, who are great patriots and tough 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.040 job too, but they love it. They love it because 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.400 they're cleaning up our country. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.800 And I think because it's a fifty thousand dollars sign up. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.280 Well, unless they're playing false tapes. So the tapes aren't 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.480 necessarily false. But if you're watching Fox News twenty four 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.760 to seven, what Fox News is doing is they're playing 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:47.760 a lot of clips not from the Year of Our 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.640 Lord twenty twenty five, but in fact from twenty twenty 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:55.200 when Trump's last federal invasion of Portland happened where he 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.760 deployed Bortac, which looked much more like a war scene. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.200 Do you know why because of the massive amounts of 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:06.800 chemical munitions that Bortac like caked downtown Portland, which made 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.960 it look very similar to a war scene. So yeah, 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.399 those are the clips that are playing NonStop on TV. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.119 I've been watching Fox News clips. They're just playing clips 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.840 of Portland twenty twenty to make this look like a 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.600 different situation than what the current on the ground situation is, 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.320 which may have some intense moments, but not nearly the 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.120 intensity of five years ago, which again was stoked by 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:35.240 Trump's own military police force, which was deployed to the city. 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.280 So yeah, there's some information that Trump got corrected internally. 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:41.960 I don't know that I think that that's going to 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:46.239 mean anything, but yeah, six year old footage, five year 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.240 old footage being used to justify in military deployments about 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:49.840 you'd expect. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.800 Really literally, yesterday I saw footage circulating on X the 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.520 Everything app of someone throwing a Molotov cocktail into a street. 0:20:57.640 --> 0:20:59.160 Yeah, I remember that Molotov. 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.639 I remember that. 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.320 That Malota getting thrown half a decade ago. 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:09.920 It only hit another protester whose feet got very badly burned. Yes, 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.720 and that's the type of footage circulating that makes it 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.480 look like, you know, once again, Portland's burning down, Portland's 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.720 always burning down, using like one or two select clips 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:20.320 from yeah, half a decade ago. 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.879 And again no buildings actually burnt down. 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.560 Yeah, they've created a reality around what happened important in 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:30.640 twenty twenty that you will never change with facts or evidence. Right, 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.479 like to people who watch Fox News, Portland was burned 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:36.760 to the ground in twenty twenty. 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.920 And again, even on the worst nights in Portland, we 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.680 could go three blocks and get food from a food cart. 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:43.360 Yeah, we got a lot of great Chinese food. 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.320 That stuff. We've got great Chinese food, shwarma, you know. 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:46.920 Yep. 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.080 In La when the city was whatever under siege, I 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.280 went to Buffalo Wild Wings and pretty pre normal Buffalo 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:55.199 Wild Wings at two am on a Wednesday scene. 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:57.960 That's a war zone. That's a war zone. 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:01.080 I had my plague carrier on. I was ready to go. 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.040 Here's some ads. We'll be back to talking about Chicago, 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:08.800 but enjoy these possibly Buffalo Wild Wing sponsored ads. 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:24.160 I doubt it. No vegan food. All right, we are 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:27.360 back sweet and it's good to be back. I want 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:32.320 to talk very briefly about Pete hegsss sec war as 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:34.520 he is calling himself now, right, and the little speech 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:39.720 he gave Pete Pegs he's he's working on his his 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:42.800 physical fitness for sure, his bod that He put a 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:46.280 big emphasis on physical fitness in his speech, along with 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:47.879 grooming standards and other. 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:49.280 Shiit male standards. 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:52.320 Yes, everybody has to attain the male standard for the 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.080 various role of their combat roles that they if they 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:58.240 want to do that, right, So that would mean, you know, 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:01.800 the Army Physical Fitness test, right, whatever the male standard 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:05.200 quote unquote was would be everyone's standard. I don't want 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:08.360 to go deep into hegsth career. That would be another episode, 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.040 possibly of another show, but I do want to talk 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:13.720 about this stuff. Did you notice he said no more. 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.080 He listed number of generals, but one of them was Milli, Right, 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.800 he said no more. Milli's Chiarelli, and I forget who 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:21.760 the other one was. But I thought that was interesting 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:24.920 given what we saw Trump say about a QRF. Right, 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:27.639 Milli had a long career in the military, rate he 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:30.119 saw plenty of combat and all that stuff. But I 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:32.199 think He's most well known to most people for his 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:36.800 cooling effect on the use of the US military against 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:40.400 protesters in twenty twenty. Elsa, I think that is what 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:43.200 that was referring to, right that hegsth was talking about 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:46.639 removing that kind of person from Kamal and. 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:50.760 Milly also said no to Trump when he wanted to 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.879 deploy for and he was also working behind the scenes, 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:56.440 he's admitted now with Pelosi being like, we need to 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:58.359 have a plan if he tries to use the nukes 0:23:58.440 --> 0:23:59.119 after the election. 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:03.679 Yeah, Millie was doing everything he could to mitigate what 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:08.240 he saw as a massive danger of Trump responding in 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:10.119 a completely disproportionate. 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:11.440 Way a legitimate national security and danger. 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:15.480 Yeah yes, yeah, like, yeah, someone whose job is protecting 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:18.320 the United States, like that's some reasonable concern. Was a 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:22.320 reasonable concern at that time. Obviously, the Trump administration does 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:26.359 not want people like that in command anymore, and that 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:29.639 was something that HEGs spoke about at length. The rest 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:33.640 of his speech focused on shit like fitness standards, shit 0:24:33.800 --> 0:24:37.159 like grooming, visible tattoos, a bunch of stuff that you 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:40.680 would expect from a mid career infantry officer who hasn't 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:43.040 had a particularly distinguished career, right, Like, that's the ship 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:46.280 that mid career infantry officers do. 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:49.359 I think you mean war fighters, James, which is haig 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:51.280 Set's preferred term for soldiers. 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:57.240 Yes, fuck me. Yeah, well because it's gender neutrals start that. 0:24:57.240 --> 0:24:58.560 They've been doing that for a while. 0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:00.480 But yeah, it's on the MRI, It's been on the 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:03.000 emerys for a while. But yes, heik Seth does like 0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:07.879 the phrase warfighters. His stuff was, like I said, not 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:09.919 something you would expect from someone who I think he 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:13.360 was a four in the national card, right. I don't 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:16.800 think any of that it's particularly new. He issued a 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:20.160 number of directives. One thing I did want to talk 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:25.200 about was this change in grooming standards. So the War 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:30.480 Department has issued a new directive on shaving profiles. What 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:35.040 this does in practice is we can see from their announcement, 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:39.119 which features prominently a black soldier shaving, is it takes 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:44.040 away long term shaving profiles for soldiers with medical conditions 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:49.679 such as pseudofoliculitis or exma, or other soldiers who experienced 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:54.080 skin irritation by shaving. Previously, those soldiers may have had 0:25:54.119 --> 0:25:57.199 a like a waiver which they could show to their 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:03.160 officers of their officer said, hey, soldier, why have you shave? Soldier, sailor, emon, 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:08.040 Space Force, guardian, whatever, why haven't you shaved? They could say, well, 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:10.680 I'm on the shaving profile because of this condition that 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:14.439 I have. Now you will only have a year and 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:18.360 then you will have to somehow rectify that condition. They 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:20.280 talk about treatments a little bit in this Sonow's which 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:21.680 you can read if you want, not going to read 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:24.280 them out for you, but this will very clearly target 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:27.200 black service people the most. And I don't think that's 0:26:27.200 --> 0:26:30.399 a coincidence. And as we see from the picture of 0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:34.800 the black soldiers shaving in the in the release that 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:37.240 they sent out there, this is happening at the same 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:38.760 time as the arrested his stuff, right, and at the 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:42.240 same time as we've seen trans folks removed from the military. 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:46.120 As Heagfest seems to be going pretty hard on removing 0:26:46.160 --> 0:26:51.600 women from combat roles. He's previously been more out right 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:53.600 in that this time he's in his speech he was 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:55.760 talking about how women, if they could meet the same 0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:59.000 standards as men, would be welcoming combat roles, but they 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:02.879 wouldn't qute unquote lower the standards. The whole thing was 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:06.159 pretty remarkable to see heg Theift lecturing, you know, people 0:27:06.200 --> 0:27:11.040 who have spent collectively maybe hundreds of years in combat, right. 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:16.920 People spent decades losing wars. Yeah, yeah, decades of period 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:17.320 of time. 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:21.399 Yeah yeah, I mean centuries between them, right, But explaining 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:25.520 how warfare works to people who have vastly more experience 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:29.040 in it than him. Yes, I'm basically telling them it's 0:27:29.040 --> 0:27:32.760 not a myth that we haven't seen from fascist states before. Right. 0:27:33.040 --> 0:27:35.199 The soldiers were fine, but they were betrayed by the 0:27:35.200 --> 0:27:39.160 politicians in the generals. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is nothing new. Yeah, 0:27:39.160 --> 0:27:41.120 but but it was still kind of remarkable to see 0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:43.879 heg theft delivering it to the generals. 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:46.480 And specifically, both he and Trump made statements about if 0:27:46.560 --> 0:27:49.200 the generals and animals do not like what Trump and 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:53.040 Hexer were saying, they should just resign, they should just leave. 0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:56.440 I've never walked into a room so solid before. This 0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:59.320 is very don't left, don't live if you're not allowed 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:02.040 to do that. You know, I just have a good time. 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:05.160 And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:07.119 you want to do anything you want, you can do 0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:09.160 anything you want. And if you don't like what I'm saying, 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:11.600 you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:17.320 there goes your future. But you just feel nice and loose, okay, 0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:19.880 because we're all on the same team. 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:23.200 Part of this is because Trump just wants more loyalists 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:26.680 in the upper brass of the military. Like that's part 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:29.080 of this process. That's why he doesn't want millies. He 0:28:29.080 --> 0:28:31.399 doesn't want people that will deny him. He wants just 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:33.960 a complete loyalist government, and that includes the military. 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:34.320 Yeah. 0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:37.240 And if that means that we're going to have a 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:40.000 whole bunch of generals and animals resigned because of hig 0:28:40.040 --> 0:28:44.120 Seth and Trump's anti woke granting, then that's a desirable 0:28:44.160 --> 0:28:46.400 outcome for the administration at this point. 0:28:46.720 --> 0:28:47.400 Yeah. 0:28:47.840 --> 0:28:54.640 Speaking of war Chicago, Yeah, I mean the scenes that 0:28:54.680 --> 0:28:59.360 I have seen the most frequently described as war or 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:02.560 looking like war this week have come out of Chicago, 0:29:02.760 --> 0:29:05.800 where on Tuesday the thirtieth, there was one of the 0:29:05.800 --> 0:29:11.920 most brutal raids that we've seen from the Feds yet 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:15.560 in any city. This took place in South Shore, which 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:17.600 is a ninety percent black neighborhood on the South side 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:21.360 of Chicago, where a whole bunch of immigrants who. I 0:29:21.360 --> 0:29:24.840 don't know if people remember when Texas and a bunch 0:29:24.880 --> 0:29:27.040 of other states in the South started busing immigrants up 0:29:27.080 --> 0:29:29.200 to cities in the north. Chicago is one of the 0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:31.479 ones where that happened. A lot a lot of these 0:29:31.520 --> 0:29:35.040 people ended up in South Shore and there was a 0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:39.960 massive raid on an apartment complex in the South Shore. 0:29:40.640 --> 0:29:43.600 Agents showed up in a combination of moving vans, sort 0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:48.360 of unmarked vans, and armored vehicles. It's still unclear exactly 0:29:48.440 --> 0:29:52.080 how many people were taken. We so don't know. Estimates 0:29:52.080 --> 0:29:56.200 at the time suggested about forty. It's very unclear. What 0:29:56.240 --> 0:29:57.520 we do know about the raid was that it was 0:29:57.560 --> 0:30:00.960 absolutely brutal. A bunch of a bunch of the initial 0:30:01.000 --> 0:30:02.800 reports thought that they had been shooting, but there hadn't 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:04.600 been shooting. What there had been was that they blew 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:07.640 into this apartment complex with flash bank grenades. 0:30:07.760 --> 0:30:11.440 Yeah, pretty common for people to mistake those two yeah. 0:30:11.560 --> 0:30:13.800 Yeah. And these are just you know, these are just 0:30:14.040 --> 0:30:16.680 regular people who suddenly at one in the morning, a 0:30:16.680 --> 0:30:19.720 bunch of explosions start going off. There's a whole bunch 0:30:19.720 --> 0:30:22.560 of pictures that you can see in various articles about 0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:26.080 this of doors torn off their hinges. The agents did 0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:28.520 a I think this is a classic Chicago police tactic, 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:30.960 but you know, they just went through and just started 0:30:31.160 --> 0:30:33.880 grabbing everyone's stuff and tearing through it and throwing it 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:39.160 onto the ground. There were black Hawk helicopters like constantly 0:30:39.240 --> 0:30:44.000 circling this just random apartment complex. There was a massive 0:30:44.080 --> 0:30:48.640 FBI presence alongside border patrol and Ice. Yeah, it's also 0:30:48.640 --> 0:30:51.840 worth mentioning that Independent book Club Chicago, which is one 0:30:51.880 --> 0:30:55.840 of the very sort of prominent independent local media outlets there, 0:30:55.880 --> 0:30:58.640 obtained a picture from a neighbor who was like next 0:30:58.680 --> 0:31:01.920 to the raid that show Chicago Police Department on the scene, 0:31:01.960 --> 0:31:06.040 which they are there expressly forbidden like by state law 0:31:06.320 --> 0:31:09.760 from assisting in immigration enforcement. It is worth reading this 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:13.400 article in order to see this quote quote. We did 0:31:13.440 --> 0:31:17.560 not participate in or assist with any immigration enforcement, spokesperson 0:31:17.640 --> 0:31:20.800 Maggie he Un said in a statement, followed immediately by 0:31:20.840 --> 0:31:23.360 pictures that clearly show a CBD car on the scene 0:31:23.400 --> 0:31:28.920 of this raid. Yeah, this raid is a really significant 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:31.600 escalation of force in a sea that has I mean, 0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:34.800 I've already seen ice literally shoot someone and kill them. 0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:39.040 But yeah, I'm going to quote this from Tribe, which 0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:42.040 is another independent news outlet in collaboration with Unraffled Press. 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:46.440 Veronica Castro, if the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 0:31:46.440 --> 0:31:50.320 at a press conference, said quote, this looked like hundreds 0:31:50.360 --> 0:31:53.360 of masked agents knocking down doors and dragging families out 0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:56.800 in the middle of the night, holding babies that were unclothed. 0:31:57.200 --> 0:32:02.160 Castro added, so people from their homes in the middle 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:05.040 of the night, holding naked babies because people haven't had time, 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:06.880 Like they're not giving people time to like even put 0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:10.120 clothes on something. You see a lot in the accounts 0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:12.320 of this. I'm gonna read some more from an account 0:32:12.360 --> 0:32:15.440 from ABC. As I got to my unit to stick 0:32:15.480 --> 0:32:17.200 my key in the door, I was grabbed by an 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:20.160 officer and I said, what's going on? What's going on? 0:32:20.240 --> 0:32:22.960 He never actually told me. He said I was being detained, 0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:27.200 said Alicia Books. Neighbors like Ebony Watson say they duck 0:32:27.280 --> 0:32:31.120 for covers. They heard several flashbangs. They was terrified. The 0:32:31.200 --> 0:32:34.920 kids was crying, people was screaming. They looked very distraught. 0:32:35.400 --> 0:32:36.960 I was out there when I seen the little girl 0:32:37.000 --> 0:32:39.200 coming around the corner, because they was bringing the kids 0:32:39.240 --> 0:32:43.000 down too, had them zip tied to each other. Watson said, 0:32:43.480 --> 0:32:47.000 that's all. I kept asking, what is the morality? Where 0:32:47.040 --> 0:32:50.320 is the human One of them literally laughed he was 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:54.800 standing right there. He said, fucking kids. So that is 0:32:55.160 --> 0:32:57.400 what these raids are looking like now. It is again 0:32:57.400 --> 0:33:00.000 also worth noting that like this, this is a very 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:03.200 significant escalation of force. They are zip tying children to 0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:04.960 each other as they dragged them from their homes at 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:06.680 one in the morning and saying fucking kids. 0:33:07.880 --> 0:33:08.120 Yeah. 0:33:08.120 --> 0:33:11.600 And this also marks what seems to be a pretty 0:33:11.720 --> 0:33:16.320 large pivot away from the areas they've been targeting before, 0:33:16.320 --> 0:33:18.160 which hand to be the suburbs in the outlying areas, 0:33:18.200 --> 0:33:21.680 and into very very majority, the majority black. 0:33:21.440 --> 0:33:22.200 Parts of Chicago. 0:33:22.880 --> 0:33:26.160 And we're gonna talk more about this next week with 0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:27.800 journalists who's been on the ground. 0:33:28.560 --> 0:33:28.760 Yeah. 0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:30.520 I mean, for example, a couple of hours before we 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:35.280 recorded this episode. So there are sparse details, but there 0:33:35.320 --> 0:33:39.719 is a video that shows the Feds just two hands 0:33:39.760 --> 0:33:43.800 on neck choking a black man in East Garfield Park. 0:33:44.320 --> 0:33:48.840 It's deeply unclear why this is happening, but they are 0:33:49.160 --> 0:33:54.040 just doing this now, and what we have so far, 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:55.560 we don't know why they were doing this. But this 0:33:55.600 --> 0:33:57.960 is also one thing I think is very alarming. This 0:33:58.000 --> 0:33:59.760 is also reported by Tribe. There is a video from 0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:03.400 this where an agent is recorded saying, just so you 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:06.560 guys know, this is not an immigration enforcement action. The 0:34:06.640 --> 0:34:08.480 agent goes on to say they were responding to a 0:34:08.560 --> 0:34:11.960 robbery in progress. All we know about is there was 0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:14.719 a car crash and they just started choking this guy. 0:34:15.200 --> 0:34:19.280 It's unclear exactly what's going on with this. There probably 0:34:19.320 --> 0:34:21.160 will be more details by the time this episode is 0:34:21.200 --> 0:34:24.960 going out, but the Feds are just doing this stuff 0:34:25.000 --> 0:34:28.520 every day in Chicago, I mean, just randomly choking black 0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:32.000 people on the street. And this massive, hideous raid and 0:34:32.080 --> 0:34:36.600 Sushore are pretty significant escalations in places that haven't been 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:40.640 targeting before. And it's hard to see this ending anytime 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:44.959 soon or they're you know, things getting any better from here, 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:48.600 especially with the sort of you know, as you were 0:34:48.600 --> 0:34:50.560 mentioned earlier, there hasn't been really any sign of like 0:34:50.560 --> 0:34:54.040 an intensification in federal violence in Portland, but in Chicago 0:34:55.120 --> 0:34:59.320 there absolutely has been. And yeah, it's horrible. 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:04.000 Yeah, So talking of intensification of federal activity, I guess 0:35:04.280 --> 0:35:07.680 according to a notice posted in the Federal Register, DHS 0:35:07.800 --> 0:35:13.640 is going to use the Cultural, Environmental and Historical Protection 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:16.680 Waiver that we reported about that came out this spring 0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:20.240 to force through war construction in the San Diego sector. 0:35:20.719 --> 0:35:26.239 I am guessing that in part we will see this 0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:30.160 used to wave one of the acts that is waves 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:34.680 the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. And I'm 0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:38.080 guessing in part that this will be used to waive 0:35:38.239 --> 0:35:43.000 that right because Kumei ancestors are in these areas and 0:35:43.120 --> 0:35:45.920 in at the end tail end of the previous Tramp administration. 0:35:46.040 --> 0:35:48.480 I reported on this for Sierra, which is a magazine 0:35:48.480 --> 0:35:52.360 of the Sierra Club. Kumii people were using ceremony, So 0:35:52.400 --> 0:35:56.960 they were participating in ceremony every day at construction sites 0:35:57.239 --> 0:36:01.680 in order to slow down the clock, and they also 0:36:01.840 --> 0:36:03.799 filed a lawsuit. Right, but they were trying to basically 0:36:03.840 --> 0:36:06.240 run out the clock on the Trump administration. In twenty twenty, 0:36:06.719 --> 0:36:11.239 they successfully in some areas prevented some construction, but with 0:36:11.440 --> 0:36:14.600 the waiver of Nagpray, it's hard to see how they 0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:18.520 will be able to do that. They also wave a 0:36:18.560 --> 0:36:21.880 bunch of other acts that Eagle Protection Act, Environmental microtrect 0:36:22.000 --> 0:36:26.360 Bird Treatise, a bunch of other acts. Right, this comes 0:36:26.360 --> 0:36:30.640 on the same week as Secretary of War Headths restored 0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:35.799 medals of honor to soldiers at Wounded Knee. If people 0:36:35.840 --> 0:36:38.000 are not familiar, this is not the episode where I 0:36:38.040 --> 0:36:40.040 do a history of things sort of happened at Wounded 0:36:40.120 --> 0:36:43.200 Knee Creek. But this was the largest mass shooting in 0:36:43.280 --> 0:36:43.920 US history. 0:36:44.080 --> 0:36:45.040 This was just a slaughter. 0:36:45.640 --> 0:36:49.080 Hundreds of unarmed Lacta civilians were murdered by the United 0:36:49.120 --> 0:36:50.520 States military in the battle. 0:36:50.520 --> 0:36:51.719 This was just a massacre. 0:36:51.920 --> 0:36:56.000 There were significant casualties for the US military, most of 0:36:56.040 --> 0:36:59.479 them were caused by the US military, a friendly fire 0:36:59.520 --> 0:37:03.760 and completely disorganized slaughter of civilians. There was a standoff 0:37:03.760 --> 0:37:06.760 at Wounded Lee later in the nineteen seventies in which 0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:10.560 two Indigenous people died one went missing. You can read 0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:13.000 Mary brave Bird's book about that if you want a 0:37:13.040 --> 0:37:15.759 first hand account fat it's very good book. But yeah, 0:37:15.920 --> 0:37:19.040 Hegseth is doing this, I think because Lloyd Austin had 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:23.040 previously ordered a review of those medals, because they weren't fighting, 0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:26.560 they were just killing people. Therefore, it makes sense, you know, 0:37:26.640 --> 0:37:29.680 that led to strip these these medals of honor, in 0:37:29.760 --> 0:37:31.640 that there was very little honor in what they did. 0:37:31.960 --> 0:37:35.120 Hegseth has restored those very amusingly, he said, this is final, 0:37:35.320 --> 0:37:38.400 like another SECTEF couldn't just order a review like in 0:37:38.480 --> 0:37:42.840 four years and change it again. CBP has also issued 0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:45.359 a request for comments here in San Diego about its 0:37:45.440 --> 0:37:48.640 plans to build seven point six miles of war west 0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:51.560 of Dakat as well as one point three miles of 0:37:51.640 --> 0:37:55.120 wall east of Dakat, more secondary barrier east of O 0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:59.759 tim Mesa, and install or maintain fifty one miles of 0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:04.040 quote barrier system attributes, which may include fiber uptic cables, 0:38:04.160 --> 0:38:08.239 lighting poles, artificial lights, power cables, surveillance cameras, access and 0:38:08.320 --> 0:38:10.600 patrol roads, and utility shelters. 0:38:11.600 --> 0:38:12.400 What this would do. 0:38:13.080 --> 0:38:14.880 I think most people who haven't spent time at the 0:38:14.920 --> 0:38:17.120 border in not aware that there are vast gaps in 0:38:17.200 --> 0:38:21.319 the border wall right, and this would close some of those. 0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:25.120 There are still gaps east of this area. When a 0:38:25.160 --> 0:38:26.880 lot of people were entering in twenty twenty three, they 0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:29.479 were coming east of here in a more mountainous area. 0:38:29.840 --> 0:38:33.319 But this will close existing gaps in the wall around 0:38:33.360 --> 0:38:37.040 takat Ara and Marin Valley. I imagine that after that 0:38:37.280 --> 0:38:40.920 they will continue to move east the areas where there 0:38:40.960 --> 0:38:42.920 are gaps. Some of the area's where the gaps for 0:38:42.960 --> 0:38:44.799 the east aren't that hard to access. Some of them 0:38:45.400 --> 0:38:49.480 would be very hard to access with construction machinery, and 0:38:49.520 --> 0:38:51.680 therefore they'd have to spend a long time building a 0:38:51.800 --> 0:38:56.120 road before they could even begin building the wall. Reuters 0:38:56.400 --> 0:38:59.439 has conducted a review of more than two million court 0:38:59.520 --> 0:39:03.840 records and concluded that federal prosecution of drug cases, especially 0:39:03.920 --> 0:39:07.480 those of high profile traffickers, have dropped to the lowest 0:39:07.800 --> 0:39:11.520 level in decades. Fell forward again a word, yeah, yeah, 0:39:11.600 --> 0:39:16.480 I mean normally you would see things like racketeering, money laundering, 0:39:16.600 --> 0:39:19.680 conspiracy charges, right, but these are down twenty four percent 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:24.200 compared to last year. Even ongoing investigations have stalled as 0:39:24.239 --> 0:39:27.680 a federal law enforcement apparatus is focusing the vast majority 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:29.880 of its people on deporting people who have not been 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:30.839 accused of any crime. 0:39:31.080 --> 0:39:33.600 Really, and even just like the regular FBI investigative capacity, 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:37.800 it has been shifted massive large extents towards just immigration enforcement. 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:41.040 So they're not they're actually just not going after as 0:39:41.160 --> 0:39:42.520 much like actual crime. 0:39:43.480 --> 0:39:47.120 Yeah. I think some agencies like the Bureau of Alcohol 0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:49.319 to back of firearms and explosive for example, I think 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:53.879 have the majority of their agents tasks to immigration rates 0:39:53.960 --> 0:39:57.239 right now. The FBI one agent described what he had 0:39:57.280 --> 0:40:01.399 been tasked with as quote photo op bullshit shit, which 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:04.960 was taking photos of their teams on and before raids 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:07.440 for use by the ADF and the White House in 0:40:08.000 --> 0:40:11.879 social media posts. So they do appay to have. I've 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:16.000 lost the support of even some federal law enforcement. Talking 0:40:16.120 --> 0:40:19.359 of federal law enforcement, we have also learned this week 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:22.960 about an FBI operation during the Biden administration during which 0:40:23.080 --> 0:40:27.400 Tom Homan allegedly accepted fifty thousand dollars in cash. What 0:40:28.239 --> 0:40:31.600 you didn't hear about the Tom Homan bag of Yeah, 0:40:34.280 --> 0:40:36.080 what a joy to be able to share this with 0:40:36.160 --> 0:40:39.080 you going to get better, Just just keep it, keep 0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:46.320 simmered down, a simmer down, simmer down, sima down. So 0:40:46.800 --> 0:40:49.000 Tom Homan, for those who are not familiar, is Trump's 0:40:49.080 --> 0:40:52.200 borders are and a longtime border security official dating back 0:40:52.239 --> 0:40:55.400 to the Biden administration. Let's find out about how they 0:40:55.560 --> 0:40:59.239 got on to Tom Homan said that there was fifty 0:40:59.280 --> 0:41:02.399 dollars in care but for what Just wait wait, wait 0:41:02.520 --> 0:41:08.680 wait wait. Another Obama era I staffer, Juliancalderas, who agents 0:41:08.760 --> 0:41:11.600 undercover agents had contacted as part of a separate investigation, 0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:14.880 repeatedly suggested to the agents that they may wish to 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:20.520 bribe Homan in order to obtain government contracts. Kyl Deris 0:41:20.840 --> 0:41:24.279 repeatedly suggested this to the undercover agents, so much so 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:28.319 that they diverted their investigation and set up this investigation. 0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:32.080 They gave Home and the money, but waited to see 0:41:32.239 --> 0:41:35.680 what he would do in office in order to see. 0:41:36.480 --> 0:41:38.200 I guess they felt they would have a stronger case 0:41:38.440 --> 0:41:39.800 if he came back to them and said, you know, 0:41:39.880 --> 0:41:42.200 I have these five federal contracts, which one would you like? 0:41:42.960 --> 0:41:46.320 The Trump DOJ took no further steps to investigate and 0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:50.040 has closed the investigation. According to NBC, the Trump administration 0:41:50.160 --> 0:41:52.200 is claiming this was a set up by the FBI, 0:41:52.719 --> 0:41:55.839 but of course the investigation occurred in September of twenty four, 0:41:56.040 --> 0:41:59.360 so before the election. Again, it was not an investigation 0:41:59.480 --> 0:42:02.400 that they started on. It branched off because car Thereus 0:42:02.560 --> 0:42:06.160 repeatedly suggested that they should continue to they should try 0:42:06.239 --> 0:42:10.560 and bribe Home. The agents who who did this operation 0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:14.160 were posing his businessman trying to get government contracts. Right, OK, 0:42:14.719 --> 0:42:18.880 This might explain so Homan was a big time Trump affiliate, right, 0:42:19.280 --> 0:42:22.279 big time Trump supporting. Yeah, people were suggesting that he 0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:26.960 might be made Secretary of Homeland Security. This might be 0:42:27.160 --> 0:42:30.720 why we will never know official right, This might explain 0:42:30.800 --> 0:42:34.160 why he's been given a slightly less formal role which 0:42:34.200 --> 0:42:36.200 I don't believe. He has to pass through Congress, which 0:42:36.239 --> 0:42:37.520 is quite unquote borders za. 0:42:38.280 --> 0:42:42.720 This is like the level of normalized corruption which exists 0:42:42.719 --> 0:42:46.560 in every level of this administration is like remember when 0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:49.239 they just could not stop talking about Hunter hide in 0:42:49.320 --> 0:42:53.239 it all the time. And meanwhile you have like like 0:42:53.360 --> 0:42:55.480 you know, like all of like Jared Kushner's dealings with 0:42:55.719 --> 0:42:59.480 like Saudi is the tom hooman getting fifty thousand dollars 0:43:00.160 --> 0:43:04.839 in cash, Yeah, recover he'sents posing US businessman to help 0:43:04.880 --> 0:43:10.240 obtain like government contracts. It's like an absurd comical cartoon world. 0:43:10.440 --> 0:43:12.560 So it's Keystone cop shit. We don't know if he's 0:43:12.600 --> 0:43:13.640 given the cash back. 0:43:14.040 --> 0:43:20.719 Oh that cash, Oh god, so much cocaine, Like I 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:21.920 could either confirm her did I? 0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:25.960 It was spent on cocaine? Yeah, a world incidence of corruption. 0:43:26.080 --> 0:43:26.600 Oh god. 0:43:27.640 --> 0:43:31.320 Finally, I want to talk about Venezuela. In Venezuela, it 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:33.840 seems that Stephen Miller has been taking the lead on 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:36.879 strikes on alleged drug smugglers. According to a Guardian piece, 0:43:37.239 --> 0:43:40.759 the strikes have been authorized by the Homeland Security count Shure. 0:43:41.360 --> 0:43:44.200 That's a body that Miller leaves, which has massively grown 0:43:44.239 --> 0:43:47.880 in influence since the Trump administration. It seems like most 0:43:47.920 --> 0:43:49.960 people in the administration were pretty much kept in the 0:43:50.080 --> 0:43:54.839 duck about this until very shortly before the strikes took place. 0:43:55.600 --> 0:43:58.319 They were just find under the Article two powers, which 0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:00.680 give the president authority to use force in limited self 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:05.319 defense engagements. But it seems like Miller is the pun 0:44:05.440 --> 0:44:09.560 driving the ship on this increased violence that we're seeing 0:44:09.560 --> 0:44:10.400 against Venezuela. 0:44:23.080 --> 0:44:27.640 All right, we are back for our final story this episode. 0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:33.719 We're going to talk about the National Security Presidential Memorandums 0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:40.160 number seven, titled Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence, 0:44:40.800 --> 0:44:43.840 which was signed by President Donald Trump on Thursday, September 0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:49.400 twenty fifth. This relates in many ways to the Antifa 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:53.120 Domestic Terrorism Executive Order from last week, but this memo 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:56.720 is a lot more clear in outlining actual policy changes 0:44:57.040 --> 0:45:00.839 that will affect law enforcement investigations. So let's go over 0:45:01.560 --> 0:45:05.480 the four sections of this very very long memo. I've 0:45:05.520 --> 0:45:07.400 tried to condense it down as much as possible, but 0:45:07.600 --> 0:45:09.160 there is some good information in here too. 0:45:09.280 --> 0:45:09.400 Now. 0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:12.680 Section one asserts that there's been an increase in political 0:45:12.760 --> 0:45:16.360 violence in recent years, with assassinations and quote unquote riots 0:45:16.400 --> 0:45:19.160 in Los Angeles and Portland, which have resulted into more 0:45:19.200 --> 0:45:22.480 than one thousand percent increase in attacks against ice officers 0:45:22.520 --> 0:45:25.759 since Trump's inauguration two point zero. The memo states that 0:45:25.920 --> 0:45:30.080 riots and violence aren't organic events or isolated incidents, but 0:45:30.200 --> 0:45:35.000 in fact, quote a culmination of a sophisticated, organized campaigns 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:38.760 of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence 0:45:38.760 --> 0:45:42.320 of posting speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, 0:45:42.520 --> 0:45:46.640 and prevent the functioning of a democratic society. Unquote. 0:45:47.120 --> 0:45:50.040 If we've spoken about the statistic about attacks and ICE 0:45:50.120 --> 0:45:52.279 officers before and how that's very misleading. 0:45:52.960 --> 0:45:55.480 Yeah, I mean an ICE officer is attacked when of 0:45:56.080 --> 0:46:01.280 ice officer's fist encounters the face of a child that's 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:03.120 Latino grandmother. 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:06.239 R yes, uh, Latina grandmother in that case. 0:46:06.560 --> 0:46:09.120 Well, and a lot of this talking about, you know, 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:11.840 riots is not organized depends us at an incidents what 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:14.320 they describe here is this like a culmination of the 0:46:14.400 --> 0:46:18.000 sophisticated campaign. This is just describing like the process of 0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:21.200 like what protesting is right trying to direct or change 0:46:21.239 --> 0:46:23.960 policy outcomes, which comes up a lot in these like 0:46:24.040 --> 0:46:27.760 domestic terrorism laws, which when over applied to just nonviolent 0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:32.200 acts of speech, just start infringing upon very standard First 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:32.960 Amendment activity. 0:46:33.000 --> 0:46:35.800 It's one of the five fundamental freedoms of the First Amendment, 0:46:35.920 --> 0:46:37.759 right like the right to assemble. The right was several 0:46:37.840 --> 0:46:39.640 of them, actually, the right to assemble, the right to speak, 0:46:39.640 --> 0:46:42.320 the right to petition the government, like these are fundamental. 0:46:42.440 --> 0:46:44.840 The right to twitch stream at a riot as a 0:46:44.920 --> 0:46:46.040 free member of the press. 0:46:46.080 --> 0:46:49.480 Yeah, definitely, that's not a right that I choose to exercise, 0:46:49.600 --> 0:46:52.719 but I guess it is one that exists. But you 0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:54.400 and I have you were important and I was in 0:46:54.480 --> 0:46:57.319 Los Angeles. Like the idea that these cities were fundamentally 0:46:57.440 --> 0:46:59.839 like damaged by these protests, it's just not true. 0:47:00.160 --> 0:47:02.640 Well, and they're not just talking about damage from riots, 0:47:02.840 --> 0:47:06.520 they're also talking about, you know, effects on individual citizens. 0:47:06.640 --> 0:47:09.879 This memo describes how these you know, organized campaigns start 0:47:10.000 --> 0:47:14.400 by quote isolating and dehumanizing specific targets to justify murder 0:47:14.640 --> 0:47:18.840 or other violent action unquote, claiming that this process happens 0:47:18.880 --> 0:47:23.640 across quote anonymous chat forums, in person meetings, the social media, 0:47:23.719 --> 0:47:27.560 and even educational institutions. These campaigns then escalate to organized 0:47:27.600 --> 0:47:31.480 docsing with the explicit intent of encouraging others to harass, intimidate, 0:47:31.800 --> 0:47:34.400 or violently assault targets en quote. 0:47:35.160 --> 0:47:38.840 I mean this is what the right has done to 0:47:39.520 --> 0:47:43.719 like express especially migrants and trand people right for for 0:47:43.760 --> 0:47:47.000 a very long time. Anonymous chat forums. And do they 0:47:47.080 --> 0:47:47.319 mean a. 0:47:47.320 --> 0:47:50.520 Reddit credits telegram maybe? 0:47:51.200 --> 0:47:55.160 Yeah, I know, I know that some subreddits have been 0:47:55.280 --> 0:48:00.640 closed since the issuing of this memorandum, which and wondering 0:48:00.960 --> 0:48:02.840 if it is related. 0:48:02.800 --> 0:48:05.080 Not explicitly, but like I think this memos would be 0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:08.520 in this section like referring to things akin to ice Watch. 0:48:08.640 --> 0:48:10.400 Okay, yeah, yeah, that makes a lot of sense as 0:48:10.440 --> 0:48:10.839 well as. 0:48:10.760 --> 0:48:14.320 You know standard like you know, anti fascist action against 0:48:14.560 --> 0:48:18.640 like legitimate neo Nazis, which, yeah, the right is not 0:48:18.920 --> 0:48:21.479 against a dooxing as a practice, as we have seen 0:48:21.960 --> 0:48:25.680 a few weeks with the state sponsored organized doxing harassment 0:48:25.719 --> 0:48:29.120 campaigns against people for their comments about the death of 0:48:29.200 --> 0:48:31.800 Charlie Kirk. Yeah, the memo goes on to list a 0:48:31.840 --> 0:48:36.640 collection of quote common recurrent motivations and indica or indicators 0:48:37.160 --> 0:48:40.439 that unite this pattern of violence and terroristic activities under 0:48:40.440 --> 0:48:45.160 the umbrella of self described anti fascism. These movements portray 0:48:45.480 --> 0:48:49.160 foundational American principles support for law enforcement and border control 0:48:49.440 --> 0:48:53.880 as fascist to justify and encourage acts of a violent revolution. 0:48:54.480 --> 0:48:59.640 Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti Americanism, anti 0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:03.439 cap anti Christianity, support for the overthrow of the United 0:49:03.440 --> 0:49:07.640 States government, extremism on migration, race and gender, and hostility 0:49:07.680 --> 0:49:11.600 towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, 0:49:11.760 --> 0:49:15.319 and morality unquote. So in so far as this memo 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:18.960 has been reported, it's mostly been on this specific section here, 0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:25.319 listing the indicators that could be driving terroristic acts under 0:49:25.360 --> 0:49:29.280 the umbrella of anti fascism, including all of these beliefs 0:49:29.320 --> 0:49:32.280 that people are allowed to hold in the United States 0:49:32.760 --> 0:49:34.839 due to the rights granted to us and the Bill 0:49:34.840 --> 0:49:35.760 of Rights in the Constitution. 0:49:36.120 --> 0:49:39.160 Yeah, I mean, the hypocrisi is the point, and it's 0:49:39.160 --> 0:49:41.160 sometimes not worth it. It's not the point, but it's 0:49:41.200 --> 0:49:43.520 not particularly you know, it doesn't change anything I'm pointing out, 0:49:43.520 --> 0:49:45.239 But I will just point out that the idea that 0:49:45.600 --> 0:49:49.080 border control is a foundational American principle is not true. 0:49:49.560 --> 0:49:51.880 That it was not until the Chinese Exclusion Act that 0:49:51.920 --> 0:49:55.080 the United States began to exclude anyone from coming here, 0:49:55.120 --> 0:49:58.399 and that was in the nineteenth century. History understanders will 0:49:59.160 --> 0:50:01.959 have noticed, so the United States began at some point 0:50:02.120 --> 0:50:04.200 before the nineteenth century. 0:50:04.800 --> 0:50:08.920 One thing I will say regarding this section, some reporting 0:50:08.960 --> 0:50:11.960 around this memo is framing things like, you know, anti 0:50:12.080 --> 0:50:14.759 capitalism or anti Christianity is now that is going to 0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:18.360 be used as evidence that you are a terrorist. That 0:50:18.520 --> 0:50:21.720 is not the explicit way is written about in this memo. 0:50:22.160 --> 0:50:25.960 These are indicators which if some investigator sees on a 0:50:26.120 --> 0:50:29.359 Twitter account or a blue Sky account, could then cause 0:50:29.440 --> 0:50:32.719 them to investigate further into this personal group. But it's 0:50:32.760 --> 0:50:36.920 not like just expressing these things will itself deem you 0:50:37.160 --> 0:50:39.440 a terrorist and be putting you in jail. And this 0:50:39.840 --> 0:50:42.960 does rely on action. Now, the memo does go on 0:50:43.080 --> 0:50:46.040 to talk about trying to prevent crime before it happens. 0:50:46.880 --> 0:50:48.360 I think this would be more in the way of 0:50:48.480 --> 0:50:51.640 how the FBI tries to set up like sting operations 0:50:51.719 --> 0:50:54.880 or catch people who are planning a violent act before 0:50:54.960 --> 0:50:57.279 they actually do it. Yeah, as we've even seen the 0:50:57.320 --> 0:51:01.760 past few weeks with people being arrested for planning retaliation 0:51:02.000 --> 0:51:05.840 attacks following the death of Charlie Kirk. This has happened. 0:51:06.360 --> 0:51:06.560 Yeah. 0:51:06.800 --> 0:51:10.200 Now, the memo calls for a new national law enforcement 0:51:10.200 --> 0:51:13.759 strategy to quote investigate all participants in these criminal and 0:51:13.960 --> 0:51:18.880 terroristic conspiracies and disrupt networks, entities and organizations that foment 0:51:19.120 --> 0:51:23.239 political violence. That law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies 0:51:23.680 --> 0:51:27.800 before they result in violent political acts unquote. So that 0:51:28.040 --> 0:51:32.120 is the pre crime aspect of this order which they 0:51:32.200 --> 0:51:35.440 could use some of these beliefs like right extremism on 0:51:35.560 --> 0:51:40.719 migration or race or gender, anti americanism as justification to 0:51:40.760 --> 0:51:45.279 start investigating groups, which then arrests could follow prior to 0:51:45.960 --> 0:51:49.720 imminent violent act as deemed by federal law enforcement. 0:51:50.320 --> 0:51:53.280 Yeah. I mean, in theory, the role of the effectially 0:51:53.320 --> 0:51:56.319 federal law enforcement has always been to investigate people who 0:51:56.360 --> 0:52:00.200 were planning violent or terroristic acts. The difference here that 0:52:00.280 --> 0:52:03.920 this is being specifically framed around a certain group, and 0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:07.640 this probably will lead to more attempts by their more 0:52:07.760 --> 0:52:10.800 surveillance on people within exactly groups. 0:52:10.920 --> 0:52:14.279 Right now, this is very worrying in terms of like surveillance, 0:52:14.520 --> 0:52:18.240 suppressing speech, chilling speech, because what they're qualifying as violent 0:52:18.400 --> 0:52:22.400 terroristic gas is just ordinary protest activity, first man protests activity, 0:52:22.960 --> 0:52:28.560 non government organizations that support progressive causes or values. That's 0:52:28.719 --> 0:52:30.480 the real concern here. 0:52:30.800 --> 0:52:34.760 It's worth stating here that in Los Angeles, for example, 0:52:34.800 --> 0:52:37.520 a number of grand juries did not return indictments of 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:41.640 people who were accused of quite serious crimes that the 0:52:41.719 --> 0:52:44.280 grand jury did not think it was reasonable to indict 0:52:44.320 --> 0:52:47.440 them for right. This is unusual. Most federal prosecutions do 0:52:48.640 --> 0:52:51.040 result ultimately in a guilty plea right because they bring 0:52:51.239 --> 0:52:54.279 very strong cases when they bring them. But it's worth 0:52:54.360 --> 0:52:59.000 noting that the specifically, like the US Attorney's Office in 0:52:59.040 --> 0:53:00.960 Los Angeles, has not stuck their landing on all of 0:53:01.000 --> 0:53:03.759 its attempts to indict people for things that they did 0:53:03.880 --> 0:53:05.640 during that time of protest in June. 0:53:06.320 --> 0:53:10.080 In terms of like implementation, the memo says, quote law 0:53:10.160 --> 0:53:15.080 enforcement will disband and uproot networks entities and organizations that 0:53:15.239 --> 0:53:19.879 promote organized violence, violent intimidation, conspiracies against rights, and other 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:24.400 efforts to disrupt the functioning of a democratic society. Unquote 0:53:25.160 --> 0:53:31.320 networks entities organizations. These refer to like established organizations, like 0:53:31.440 --> 0:53:36.799 actual like formed groups that have political activity. Now, Section 0:53:36.920 --> 0:53:40.600 two outlines how the National Joint Terrorism Task Force will 0:53:40.680 --> 0:53:46.160 quote unquote coordinate and supervise a new comprehensive national strategy 0:53:46.840 --> 0:53:49.680 and orders the local Joint Terrorism Task Force around the 0:53:49.680 --> 0:53:54.640 country to quote investigate potential federal crimes relating to acts 0:53:54.719 --> 0:53:59.560 of recruiting or radicalizing persons for the purpose of political violence, terrorism, 0:53:59.560 --> 0:54:03.719 conspiracy against rights, or the violent deprivation of any citizens' 0:54:03.840 --> 0:54:09.200 rights unquote. The GDTFS, Joint Terrors and Passport will also 0:54:09.320 --> 0:54:15.399 investigate institutional and individual funders, including employees of organizations which 0:54:15.400 --> 0:54:19.120 are quote responsible for sponsor or otherwise the A and 0:54:19.160 --> 0:54:23.120 EVET the principal actors engaging in the criminal conduct as 0:54:23.280 --> 0:54:24.680 previously described. 0:54:25.200 --> 0:54:27.920 That's a broad neet, right, There's. 0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:29.480 A lot of this stuff, like the anti for order 0:54:29.520 --> 0:54:31.919 also alluded to this. Trump's statements made in the Oval 0:54:31.920 --> 0:54:36.120 Office have alluded to this going after funders, foreign funders, 0:54:36.200 --> 0:54:39.640 whether that's the groups like the ACLU or like bail 0:54:39.800 --> 0:54:43.640 funds they mentioned George Sorows very often, Yeah, the Open 0:54:43.680 --> 0:54:45.840 Society Foundation, right, Yeah, I. 0:54:45.880 --> 0:54:48.360 Think the right has had a fascination with sorrows for 0:54:48.440 --> 0:54:50.960 a long time, Right, They've been looking for a reason 0:54:51.320 --> 0:54:54.560 to either exclude Sorrows from participation in US politics and 0:54:54.680 --> 0:54:57.160 just to be like obviously, I think most people realize this, 0:54:57.280 --> 0:55:00.080 but that that fascination is rooted deeply in antisemitis, and 0:55:00.200 --> 0:55:03.680 George Soros is a Holocaust survivor, and there has been 0:55:03.800 --> 0:55:07.680 like an attempt to find reasons to exclude sorrows from 0:55:07.800 --> 0:55:10.760 US political activity for some time. I think it's reasonable 0:55:10.800 --> 0:55:11.760 to see this in that trend. 0:55:12.360 --> 0:55:15.120 This sort of like big organizations foreign organizations is also 0:55:15.200 --> 0:55:17.920 mentioned in this memo and saying the investigation will include 0:55:18.280 --> 0:55:22.719 NGOs and American citizens with foreign ties that could be 0:55:22.880 --> 0:55:26.360 in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act or quote 0:55:26.600 --> 0:55:29.680 money laundering by funding, creating, or supporting entities that engaging 0:55:29.719 --> 0:55:34.600 activities that support encouraged domestic terrorism unquote. The memo states 0:55:34.640 --> 0:55:37.920 that the Attorney General shall issue guidance which ensures that 0:55:38.040 --> 0:55:43.239 domestic terrorism priorities include quote politically motivated terrorist acts such 0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:50.520 as organized docsing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, damage 0:55:50.560 --> 0:55:53.839 of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder. The guides 0:55:53.840 --> 0:55:57.280 shall also include an identification of any behaviors, fact patterns, 0:55:57.360 --> 0:56:01.560 recurrent motivations, or other indica common to organizations and these 0:56:01.560 --> 0:56:03.719 that coordinate these acts in order to direct efforts to 0:56:03.760 --> 0:56:07.320 identify and prevent potential violent activity. Unquote. This is a 0:56:07.400 --> 0:56:10.000 worrying list of things that are not domestic terrorism that 0:56:10.080 --> 0:56:14.680 they're going to try to claim our domestic terrorism. Trespass. Yeah, 0:56:15.200 --> 0:56:19.200 like trespassing is now domestic terrorism. That's not a great 0:56:19.280 --> 0:56:21.800 thing for the Attorney General to be issuing guidance on. 0:56:22.480 --> 0:56:27.520 Yeah, civil disorder is a very broad and somewhat nebulous term, right, Like. 0:56:27.680 --> 0:56:31.080 Are they going to call the organized doxing campaigns that 0:56:31.200 --> 0:56:34.279 the right is doing right now domestic terrorism? No, of 0:56:34.360 --> 0:56:37.600 course not right, These things are just taking form for 0:56:37.800 --> 0:56:42.040 explicit like political prosecution, for the political ends of Trump administration. 0:56:42.560 --> 0:56:43.960 I think the goal hit like some of these are 0:56:43.960 --> 0:56:45.800 reason even a statue, right, Like, I'm not aware of 0:56:46.120 --> 0:56:50.160 a broad federal doxing statute aside from you know, certain 0:56:50.200 --> 0:56:52.480 specific instances where it might be a crime to reveal 0:56:52.560 --> 0:56:53.400 someone's address. 0:56:54.120 --> 0:56:57.440 Violent intimidation of probably like federal law enforcement would be 0:56:57.560 --> 0:56:58.600 one thing that they go after. 0:56:59.080 --> 0:57:03.719 Yeah, federal law enforcement people with protective orders that kind 0:57:03.719 --> 0:57:06.400 of thing, right, And yeah, there are probably ways of 0:57:06.520 --> 0:57:08.279 doing that, but I think a lot of this is 0:57:08.920 --> 0:57:11.840 intended to have a chilling effect on speech and organizing. 0:57:12.280 --> 0:57:14.920 Absolutely, the Treasury Secretary will work with EA turn in 0:57:15.000 --> 0:57:17.760 general to quote identify and disrupt financial networks at funded 0:57:17.760 --> 0:57:21.040 domestic terrorism and political activity, and shall deploy investigative tools, 0:57:21.320 --> 0:57:24.000 examine financial flows, and coordinate with partner agencies to trace 0:57:24.000 --> 0:57:27.840 illicit funding streams unquote. Again, very obsessed with this idea 0:57:27.920 --> 0:57:31.919 that there's tons of money that is funding Antifa, which 0:57:31.960 --> 0:57:34.760 if you know anyone under the Antifa umbrella, you know 0:57:34.880 --> 0:57:38.520 that they are extremely bro Yeah, yeah, this is left 0:57:38.560 --> 0:57:42.040 wing protesters are not the most financially stable budget. Yeah, 0:57:42.160 --> 0:57:45.960 there's not this illicit funding streams. This is a huge, 0:57:46.040 --> 0:57:48.400 a huge idea that the right has like latched on. 0:57:49.000 --> 0:57:52.000 Ironically, this is something that the right shares with the 0:57:52.040 --> 0:57:55.840 authoritarian left. Actually, the idea that people can't act independently 0:57:55.960 --> 0:57:59.480 unless there is a large, well funded actor motivating them 0:57:59.520 --> 0:58:02.680 to act. It's something that because the authoritarian right and 0:58:02.720 --> 0:58:05.480 the authoritarian left agree on some things, and one of 0:58:05.520 --> 0:58:09.360 them is that like people can't take the initiative to act, right, 0:58:09.400 --> 0:58:11.920 that there has to be some kind of vanguard in 0:58:12.000 --> 0:58:15.920 the case of the authoritarian left, or nefarious funder in 0:58:15.960 --> 0:58:18.760 the case of the authoritarian right. And so this this 0:58:18.920 --> 0:58:20.800 lines up with the way that they understand the world. 0:58:21.080 --> 0:58:23.600 I mean, yeah, and I was talking specifically here in 0:58:23.680 --> 0:58:27.880 terms of like regular people on the ground attending protests. 0:58:27.920 --> 0:58:30.800 There's like big, big groups like you know, often like 0:58:30.880 --> 0:58:33.440 you know, communist A line groups that may be receiving funding, 0:58:33.520 --> 0:58:37.160 possibly from foreign sources. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for real, But 0:58:37.880 --> 0:58:40.520 I do not believe that is what this order is, 0:58:40.640 --> 0:58:43.080 at least this section is actually wanting to go after. 0:58:43.360 --> 0:58:45.360 That might be what they in the end actually end 0:58:45.480 --> 0:58:47.720 up targeting, end up sweeping up because it's the only 0:58:47.760 --> 0:58:50.120 thing that actually has like you know, foreign funding. But 0:58:50.360 --> 0:58:53.920 like you know, capital a Antifa teenagers with like umbrellas 0:58:53.960 --> 0:58:55.800 showing up in front of an ice building are not 0:58:55.920 --> 0:58:58.560 receiving money from like Iran, China or Russia. 0:58:58.720 --> 0:59:02.160 Like, yeah, as you say, it might be large as 0:59:02.240 --> 0:59:06.960 Southern Policy Law Center, the ACLU, Open Society Foundation, built. 0:59:06.800 --> 0:59:07.920 Gate Network for Strong Community. 0:59:08.000 --> 0:59:10.520 Yeah, like some of these organizations might be what they're 0:59:10.600 --> 0:59:12.920 trying to drag a net over here. 0:59:13.320 --> 0:59:17.240 Or nonprofits. The next section instructs the IRS to quote 0:59:17.360 --> 0:59:20.720 take action to ensure that no tax exempt entities are 0:59:20.840 --> 0:59:26.960 directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism unquote, 0:59:27.440 --> 0:59:31.000 and calls for the IRS to refer suspect organizations and 0:59:31.120 --> 0:59:34.160 their employees to the Department of Justice for investigation and 0:59:34.280 --> 0:59:35.480 possible prosecution. 0:59:36.360 --> 0:59:39.280 It's probably worth noting the context here that there was. 0:59:39.960 --> 0:59:43.160 This is after a twenty ten congressional investigation that found 0:59:43.160 --> 0:59:45.760 out that the IRS had gone after some Tea party groups. Right, 0:59:46.200 --> 0:59:48.240 do you remember the Tea Party Garrison? You or seven 0:59:48.280 --> 0:59:48.760 at that time? 0:59:49.400 --> 0:59:51.440 I remember the Tea Party, Yeah, yeah. 0:59:51.800 --> 0:59:56.040 So the feeling here Biden, if you remember, Garrison also 0:59:56.160 --> 0:59:58.760 hired a number of new IRS agents. There was a 0:59:58.840 --> 1:00:03.240 conspiracy theory that the were to provide some kind of armed, massive, 1:00:03.360 --> 1:00:05.680 armed element to the IRS that was going around in 1:00:05.760 --> 1:00:10.120 the Biden administration. I'm sure the IRS had an armed element, right. 1:00:10.120 --> 1:00:12.880 There is not a federal investigative agency that doesn't, like 1:00:13.240 --> 1:00:16.040 the Postal Service, has cops and probably a swat team. 1:00:16.640 --> 1:00:19.960 But there was a feeling on the right that Biden 1:00:20.040 --> 1:00:24.200 mobilized the IRS against right wing individuals, and I can 1:00:24.280 --> 1:00:27.320 see this being the old Pantue'm swinging back in the 1:00:27.360 --> 1:00:28.360 other direction a little bit. 1:00:29.120 --> 1:00:33.200 One of the more interesting sections that I've highlighted of 1:00:33.240 --> 1:00:38.160 the memo instructs investigators to quote question and interrogate individuals 1:00:38.280 --> 1:00:42.560 engaged in political violence or lawlessness regarding the entity or 1:00:42.720 --> 1:00:48.520 individual organizing such actions and any related financial sponsorship prior 1:00:48.640 --> 1:00:53.640 to perfect comjunication or initiation of a plea agreement unquote. 1:00:53.880 --> 1:00:58.200 That's directing like the interrogations of people arrested at protests, 1:00:58.400 --> 1:01:01.360 like specifically go after who funding them to be a protest. 1:01:01.480 --> 1:01:04.120 I'm sure some very fruitful information will come out of 1:01:05.560 --> 1:01:09.000 referring back to our discussion of like, you know, the 1:01:09.440 --> 1:01:12.960 common motivators are Indica, including things you know like anti capitalism, 1:01:13.000 --> 1:01:16.440 anti Americanism, and how those beliefs in and of themselves 1:01:16.480 --> 1:01:19.240 I do not think will be sufficient for declaring someone 1:01:19.320 --> 1:01:22.400 a terrorist and like locking them up. Is because later 1:01:22.560 --> 1:01:28.000 in this memo, the memo directs investigations to quote prioritize 1:01:28.200 --> 1:01:32.440 crimes such as the following assaulting federal officers or employees, 1:01:32.640 --> 1:01:36.280 conspiracy against rights, conspiracy to commit offense, solicitation to commit 1:01:36.360 --> 1:01:39.520 a crime of violence, money laundering, funding of terrorist acts, 1:01:39.600 --> 1:01:44.520 or otherwise facilitating terrorism arson, violations of the u Rico Act, 1:01:44.920 --> 1:01:49.640 and major fraud against the United States unquote. So could 1:01:49.720 --> 1:01:54.000 the government use these indicators to then find groups to target, 1:01:54.200 --> 1:01:58.120 to stick some of these crimes onto groups or organizations. Absolutely, 1:01:58.280 --> 1:01:59.600 that's probably what they're going to do. 1:02:00.040 --> 1:02:00.280 M h. 1:02:01.040 --> 1:02:03.920 Yeah, But these these are the things to like be 1:02:04.120 --> 1:02:06.840 aware of, and they're going to try to, you know, 1:02:06.920 --> 1:02:09.320 slap these on people who are just arrested at protests, 1:02:09.360 --> 1:02:13.040 people who work for NGOs, people who work for legal 1:02:13.080 --> 1:02:18.480 support networks, maybe migrant assistance networks like that's that's going 1:02:18.560 --> 1:02:21.680 to be the target for a lot of these things. 1:02:21.760 --> 1:02:24.400 And we've seen some of these like conspiracy charges in 1:02:24.520 --> 1:02:28.040 San Diego with their with their Antifa prosecution case. We've 1:02:28.080 --> 1:02:31.480 seen similar stuff in Atlanta with Stop Cop City. Right, 1:02:31.520 --> 1:02:34.600 there is precedent for this. We've seen the state try 1:02:34.680 --> 1:02:38.360 to and to a degree of success and failure, actually 1:02:38.440 --> 1:02:39.840 push these charges forward. 1:02:40.600 --> 1:02:40.800 Yeah. 1:02:41.000 --> 1:02:44.200 The panic that those two cases created, I think, and 1:02:44.320 --> 1:02:48.200 we we're still pre you know, trial in the Atlantic case, right, 1:02:48.840 --> 1:02:51.959 trials in progress. Yeah, yeah, sorry, pre uh, I guess 1:02:52.120 --> 1:02:53.280 a conclusion of that trial. 1:02:53.760 --> 1:02:56.480 But the current indication is that most of these record 1:02:56.560 --> 1:02:57.880 charges are not going to stick. 1:02:58.000 --> 1:03:00.640 Yes, and most of the conspiracy charges and San Diego 1:03:00.720 --> 1:03:04.240 did not write and most of those people ended up 1:03:04.360 --> 1:03:06.400 not being convicted of all the things they were accused of. 1:03:07.640 --> 1:03:09.960 I do see the major fraud against the United States, 1:03:10.000 --> 1:03:12.600 and I think that's probably going to use against NGOs. 1:03:12.920 --> 1:03:16.480 I do also wonder they have spoken before about the 1:03:16.760 --> 1:03:20.320 Payroll Protection Plan and looking at PPP fraud. 1:03:20.680 --> 1:03:24.040 Yeah, I mean financial crimes are always are always really scary, 1:03:24.200 --> 1:03:25.040 right like. 1:03:25.320 --> 1:03:28.160 Yeah, yeah, like a lot of nonprofits, you know, like 1:03:28.480 --> 1:03:32.640 people undoubtedly given a scare of the PPP people abused it. 1:03:32.840 --> 1:03:36.760 I think nonprofits would be a lot more buttoned up 1:03:36.960 --> 1:03:40.280 than almost anyone else in that regard, you know, these 1:03:40.440 --> 1:03:44.120 especially these big liberal nonprofits. But that is an area 1:03:44.160 --> 1:03:46.680 which I'm sure that the Trump I R s will 1:03:46.720 --> 1:03:47.360 be looking at. 1:03:47.560 --> 1:03:49.400 Yeah, and they might even try to slap these on 1:03:49.520 --> 1:03:53.160 people making jokes or quote unquote threats online right solicitation 1:03:53.240 --> 1:03:54.560 to commit a crime of violence. 1:03:54.760 --> 1:03:57.120 Yeah, yeah, Yeah. People shouldn't be saying stupid shit on 1:03:57.400 --> 1:03:58.280 social media right. 1:03:58.200 --> 1:04:00.960 Now, which which is absolutely like a chilling speech, right 1:04:01.200 --> 1:04:05.520 that is that that is a bad thing. But you 1:04:05.640 --> 1:04:08.160 don't want to give these people extra ammunition to use 1:04:08.200 --> 1:04:09.360 against yourself. Right now. 1:04:09.920 --> 1:04:16.240 Fighting words are not always like First Amendment speech right 1:04:16.360 --> 1:04:18.960 now now, Like I'm no expect in where that starts 1:04:18.960 --> 1:04:21.120 and where that ends. But yet, yeah, like in terms 1:04:21.160 --> 1:04:24.680 of not doing stupid things, like this is not a 1:04:24.720 --> 1:04:27.640 time to do stupid things on your posting website of choice. 1:04:28.320 --> 1:04:32.000 Section two closes by calling for investigators in federal police 1:04:32.000 --> 1:04:35.320 to quote adopt strategies similar to those used to address 1:04:35.400 --> 1:04:39.160 violent crime and organized crime to disrupt and dismantle entire 1:04:39.200 --> 1:04:43.160 networks of criminal activity unquote. So yeah, especially with all 1:04:43.200 --> 1:04:48.280 this financial stuff, money laundering, rico, conspiracy charges, they're basically 1:04:48.480 --> 1:04:52.200 using or they want to use like tactics to take 1:04:52.280 --> 1:04:55.560 down like organized crime rings just targeting their political enemies, 1:04:56.200 --> 1:05:00.760 targeting political organizations and people who attend protests like that 1:05:00.920 --> 1:05:05.200 is that is the real gist of this memo. Section 1:05:05.280 --> 1:05:08.280 three instructs the Eturney General to designate qualifying groups or 1:05:08.480 --> 1:05:13.600 entities under investigation as domestic terrorist organizations per the definition 1:05:13.640 --> 1:05:17.680 of domestic terrorism in eighteen USC. Two three three one five, 1:05:18.200 --> 1:05:20.320 and to submit a list of such groups to the 1:05:20.480 --> 1:05:24.120 President of the United States. And Section four instructs the 1:05:24.120 --> 1:05:27.120 Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to designate domestic 1:05:27.200 --> 1:05:31.000 terrorism a National Priority area and provide extra funding for 1:05:31.120 --> 1:05:34.760 law enforcement to quote, detect, prevent, and protect against threats 1:05:34.840 --> 1:05:39.400 arising from this area. That is the bulk of the 1:05:39.520 --> 1:05:44.760 National Security Presdential Memorandum number seven, promising to chill speech 1:05:45.040 --> 1:05:49.280 and go after political opponents and organizations, entities and individuals 1:05:49.320 --> 1:05:53.640 and employees of organizations. Yeah, very very undemocratic, very very 1:05:53.720 --> 1:05:57.840 on its face authoritarian. Yeah, you don't even need like 1:05:58.000 --> 1:06:01.360 like allegations of political targets. Like they're writing down how 1:06:01.400 --> 1:06:04.720 they want to do political targeting, they're bragging about it. 1:06:05.680 --> 1:06:07.960 It's really what briefly want to raise the example of 1:06:08.360 --> 1:06:13.920 the flag burning. Right, so Donald Trump signed an executive 1:06:14.040 --> 1:06:18.200 order ordering the Justice Department to investigate flag burning earlier 1:06:18.240 --> 1:06:22.560 this year. I can't quite remember when. Subsequently, someone called 1:06:22.680 --> 1:06:28.760 jan Carey of North Carolina was arrested after they burned 1:06:28.800 --> 1:06:32.040 a flag, an American flag, just to be clear outside 1:06:32.080 --> 1:06:34.360 the White House, I guess the flag burning executive order 1:06:34.360 --> 1:06:37.480 doesn't apply to like you're you know, like anime flag 1:06:37.600 --> 1:06:40.200 or whatever, specifically about the flag of the United States, 1:06:40.560 --> 1:06:43.800 something which I think Johnson versus Texas is a Supreme 1:06:43.880 --> 1:06:45.840 Court case, right, But there is a considerable amount of 1:06:45.880 --> 1:06:50.320 legal precedent, that is First Amendment speech. Kerry was arrested. 1:06:50.760 --> 1:06:53.640 What is being missed in the discussion is that Kerry 1:06:53.800 --> 1:06:57.520 was charged with two misdemeanor crimes. One was for lighting 1:06:57.600 --> 1:07:00.440 a fire not in a designated area and receptacle. The 1:07:00.560 --> 1:07:02.760 other was for lighting a fire in a manner that 1:07:02.840 --> 1:07:04.919 threatened to cause damage to a resulted in the burning 1:07:04.960 --> 1:07:08.440 of property, real property and park resources. These are both 1:07:08.480 --> 1:07:11.560 offensives and you can be incarcerated or fined for I 1:07:11.920 --> 1:07:14.600 want people to know that, right Like, he was not 1:07:14.800 --> 1:07:18.920 arrested because of the executive order, although the executive order 1:07:19.040 --> 1:07:22.160 may very much influenced the climate which led to his 1:07:22.360 --> 1:07:24.680 arrest in charge with these other things, but he wasn't 1:07:24.760 --> 1:07:27.600 charged with violating the executive order because that is not 1:07:27.800 --> 1:07:28.680 how it works. 1:07:29.320 --> 1:07:32.480 They can't change the law with executive orders or presidential memorandums. 1:07:32.680 --> 1:07:36.520 What they can do is direct how the law will 1:07:36.600 --> 1:07:40.840 be enforced or policy guidelines, right, and that's what this 1:07:41.000 --> 1:07:44.080 is affecting. Right now, all of these branches, like the DHS, 1:07:44.360 --> 1:07:48.000 Justice Department, Federal Police are going to be following the 1:07:48.200 --> 1:07:52.360 policy guidelines and outlines established in this memo to then 1:07:52.760 --> 1:07:55.600 try to enforce the laws that we have, some of 1:07:55.680 --> 1:07:58.320 which they will probably find ways to do it, and 1:07:58.520 --> 1:07:59.600 sometimes they won't. 1:08:00.120 --> 1:08:03.000 Yeah, we have a very broad range of statute's criminalizing 1:08:03.040 --> 1:08:06.120 a very large range of things, and someone will find 1:08:06.160 --> 1:08:08.640 some way in there to criminalize someone for something that 1:08:08.840 --> 1:08:12.520 might seem on the face of it to be not nefarious. 1:08:13.360 --> 1:08:16.639 But that doesn't mean that we have executive legisative fusion. 1:08:16.720 --> 1:08:18.439 We don't write yourself too proind to the government. And 1:08:18.479 --> 1:08:19.720 that is important to remember too. 1:08:20.400 --> 1:08:26.040 No, no laws have been changed criminalizing anti americanism, right, Yeah, 1:08:26.200 --> 1:08:28.559 that is that is an important thing to keep in mind. 1:08:28.720 --> 1:08:31.040 That does not mean that this order is not going 1:08:31.120 --> 1:08:34.280 to chill speech, suppress free speech, or be used to 1:08:34.360 --> 1:08:38.840 criminally target people. Yeah, criminal prosecutions can ruin the lives 1:08:38.880 --> 1:08:42.600 of people for years and years, regardless of the actual outcome, right, 1:08:42.600 --> 1:08:45.160 even if they get off on the charges. And totally 1:08:45.320 --> 1:08:47.200 we want to be clear that we're not like minimizing 1:08:47.280 --> 1:08:49.599 the effects of this, but we do want to actually 1:08:49.640 --> 1:08:52.920 break down what like the threat model is specifically for 1:08:53.080 --> 1:08:59.519 like NGO's legal organizations that help protesters or migrants, LGBTQ organizations, right, 1:08:59.800 --> 1:09:02.400 these are probably going to be the first targets of 1:09:02.479 --> 1:09:06.040 a lot of like the conspiracy fraud sections of disorder. Besides, 1:09:06.120 --> 1:09:08.840 you know protesters that get rounded up and get put 1:09:08.960 --> 1:09:12.719 into into this like political war game that they're playing, 1:09:13.080 --> 1:09:16.559 similar to how regular protesters in Atlanta then found themselves 1:09:16.920 --> 1:09:20.360 suddenly admitst like a three year long Rico domestic terrorism 1:09:20.479 --> 1:09:24.120 case despite not participating in any kind of large organized 1:09:24.160 --> 1:09:27.360 aspect of Stop Coop City. They were just regular attendees. 1:09:27.680 --> 1:09:30.960 So there'll be stuff similar to that that happens throughout 1:09:31.040 --> 1:09:33.960 the next few months to years, and I think that 1:09:34.200 --> 1:09:37.640 is where we should keep our attention focused on mitigating 1:09:37.880 --> 1:09:39.400 the harms of government overreach. 1:09:39.880 --> 1:09:42.519 Yeah. So for the fund raise this week, something slightly different. 1:09:43.000 --> 1:09:45.720 I wanted to read of this GoFundMe for the emergency 1:09:45.920 --> 1:09:49.720 circus they are traveling south of the US border. I 1:09:49.800 --> 1:09:53.719 believe they're going to migrant shelters in Tijuana to hold 1:09:54.080 --> 1:09:58.719 circus acts circus performances for kids. I have obviously, obviously, 1:09:58.800 --> 1:10:00.360 but I've spent a decent amount of my life in 1:10:00.439 --> 1:10:03.360 refugee camps and migrant shelters and they can be pretty 1:10:03.400 --> 1:10:06.960 hard places for kids. And it's something that I think 1:10:07.040 --> 1:10:10.360 about almost every day, and so people bringing joy to 1:10:10.400 --> 1:10:12.840 their children is something that I think is wonderful and 1:10:13.040 --> 1:10:16.639 very important. People you get the impression that like legal 1:10:16.680 --> 1:10:18.439 funds are important and the kids having a laugh is 1:10:18.479 --> 1:10:21.080 not important, But like children have a right to be children, 1:10:21.120 --> 1:10:23.240 and that's taken away from them by the immigration system. 1:10:23.720 --> 1:10:26.479 And so I would like if you supported this. The 1:10:27.360 --> 1:10:32.519 website is ww dot gofundb dot com slash f slash 1:10:32.600 --> 1:10:36.760 ec hyphen o, f f hyphen ic. It will also 1:10:36.840 --> 1:10:39.479 be in the show notes. If you would like to 1:10:39.680 --> 1:10:43.320 email us, you can do so at our encrypted email address, 1:10:43.680 --> 1:10:48.960 which is cool Zone tips at proton dot me. Your 1:10:49.000 --> 1:10:51.120 email will only be end to end encrypted if you 1:10:51.280 --> 1:10:54.600 send it from an encrypted email address. 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