1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Coolson Media. 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 2: This is It could Happen here Executive Disorder, our weekly 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: of the world, and what it means for you. I'm 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 2: Garrison Davis today I'm joined by Mia Wong and Robert Evans. 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 2: This episode, we're covering the week of March five to 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: March twelve. Trump films a Tesla commercial, RFK Junior eats 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: beef tallow French fries at Steak and Shake, and Sam 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: Seter commits a mass casualty event on YouTube. How's everyone 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 2: doing today? 11 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 3: Very happy to join you for ED this week. Huge 12 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 3: fan of ED, just like just big big ED guy. 13 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 3: So yeah, psyched to be here. I feel like we 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 3: should mention up top. 15 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 4: There's also a bunch of unhinged tariff news and the 16 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 4: most like electing fucking Caliguli's horse to the Senate thing 17 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 4: I've seen in a long time, So stay. 18 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 3: Tuned for that. Lots of good stuff. 19 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: Yes, we will get to it. First, I would like 20 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 2: to have a little bit of an update on a 21 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: story that we talked about a few days ago, the 22 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,680 Speaker 2: detention and the revocation of a green card for a 23 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: Palestinian activist Mamood Khalil. As of Wednesday, his lawyers have 24 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 2: still been unable to even contact their client. There was 25 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 2: a large rally outside the First Court conference in New 26 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: York this Wednesday. So we talked about this a few 27 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 2: days ago for some background an episode with James Robert 28 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 2: and myself. Robert, do you want to like briefly summarize 29 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 2: the situation and then I'll play a clip from one 30 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 2: of his lawyers. 31 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 3: This situation is that this guy got taken into custody. 32 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 3: My understanding is it was at an apartment that he 33 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 3: lived in with his wife. He was a US citizen. 34 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 3: He became aware, it looks like at least about twenty 35 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 3: four hours before probably became more that he was being 36 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 3: It's a little clear if he was just like being 37 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 3: surveilled or there was something else that tipped them off. 38 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 3: But he contacted the school asking for help convince that 39 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 3: Ice was coming for him about a day before they 40 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 3: did when they entered the house. My understanding is based 41 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 3: on the claims being made by his wife that they 42 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 3: did not like, they didn't like produce a warrant or anything. 43 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 3: He's still not charged with any crime, No he's not 44 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 3: been charged with any and they just took him and 45 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 3: like turned off the phone when they were on the 46 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 3: phone to their lawyers, if I'm remembering correctly. Correct, So 47 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 3: it's like none of this is the way this should 48 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 3: have gone. Like if this was an arrest. 49 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 2: No, he was just like black bagged from campus. 50 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 3: But it's not an arrest again, and they've been very 51 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 3: clear about this that, like they have specifically stated we're 52 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 3: not accusing him of like breaking the law, right, Like, 53 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 3: that's not what's going on here. 54 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 2: Correct, And we will get to some of that later. 55 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 2: I'm gonna play a clip from a press conference outside 56 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,959 Speaker 2: court that happened on Wednesday, March twelfth. This is one 57 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 2: of his lawyers. 58 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 5: Mister Khalil's detention has nothing to do with security. It 59 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 5: is only about repression. United States government has taken the 60 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 5: position that it can arrest, detain, and seek to deport 61 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 5: a lawful permanent resident exclusively because of his peaceful, constitutionally 62 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 5: protected activism, in this case, activism in support of Palestinian 63 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 5: human rights and an end to the genocide in Gaza. 64 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 5: The government takes the position that because the Secretary of 65 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 5: State finds his descent unacceptable or contrary to US foreign policy, 66 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 5: he can be deported. As Romsey suggested, it's largely unprecedented, 67 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 5: save for ugly historical precedents, including the Red Scare and McCarthyism. 68 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 3: That's what we're talking about. 69 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 5: We're also talking about a period of repression that the 70 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 5: Center for Constitutional Rights knows well following nine to eleven, 71 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 5: when we were in the courts trying to get people 72 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 5: out of secret detention. 73 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 3: One thing that's different now. 74 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 5: Is the legal infrastructure is so much stronger, and everyone 75 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 5: out here on the streets knows that we cannot hide 76 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 5: in the face of. 77 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 3: This amount of repression. 78 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 5: We will be fighting in the courts and fighting in 79 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 5: the streets to bring Mahmoud home and prevent this level 80 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 5: of repression from spreading to many others, as the administration 81 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 5: that's threatened to do so. 82 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 2: That was on Wednesday. For now, a Khalil will be 83 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 2: remaining in ICE attention in Louisiana, and ICE director Tom 84 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:49,799 Speaker 2: Homan said Wednesday that quote, free speech has its limitations. 85 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 3: Unquote, Yeah, I have found some stuff today of people 86 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 3: on the right attacking the judge who put out as 87 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 3: I guess called a stay on this in part because 88 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 3: the judge is Jewish, so it's nice to see the 89 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 3: anti Semitism being used in that way as well in 90 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 3: this instance. Just fascinating. We're really breaking new ground in 91 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 3: all of this. 92 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 2: A White House official did tell friend of the Pod 93 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 2: the Free Press not necessarily our favorite publication, but they 94 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: do have an exclusive quote here that the basis for 95 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 2: targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations 96 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: against other students, saying Khalil is quote a threat to 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 2: the foreign policy and national security interests of the United 98 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 2: States unquote, said the official, noting that this calculation was 99 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: the driving force behind the arrest, saying, quote, the allegation 100 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 2: here is not that he was breaking the law. So 101 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 2: we have this official like openly saying, like, he's not 102 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 2: charged with a crime. We're just wanting to see if 103 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: we can do this. Can we deport a legal permanent 104 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 2: resident for saying something that we don't like? 105 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think there's been a lot of comparisons 106 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 4: to this to direct maccarthyism. I think that's accurate to 107 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 4: some extent. I think the most direct compared to this 108 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 4: is not maccarthyism. It's the Palmer Raids yep, which I 109 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 4: think people tend to be way less familiar with. That 110 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 4: was the first Red Scare, which is largely targeted at 111 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 4: the industrial workers of the world for their opposition to 112 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 4: World War One, and they did basically the same shit. 113 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 4: A lot of people would give anti war speeches and 114 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 4: then a whole bunch of IWW organizers and other sort 115 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 4: of like leftists would get fucking deported for it. So yeah, 116 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 4: that was a absolutely terrifying period of repression. If the 117 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 4: line is not drawn here, and it should have been 118 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 4: drawn like two hundred miles back from here, but if 119 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 4: isn't drawn here, this is going to continue. This is 120 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 4: going to continue to get worse. 121 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 2: And I mean all of this is in relation to 122 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 2: Trump's executive order, you know about quote unquote anti Semitism. Meanwhile, 123 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 2: today in the Oval Office he said something incredibly anti 124 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 2: Semitic and also anti Arab somehow, like in this same 125 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 2: statement saying, quote, Schumer is a Palestinian as far as 126 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 2: I'm concerned, he's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish, 127 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 2: He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian unquote, which is 128 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 2: just an unbelievably anti Semitic and anti Arab statement all 129 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 2: at once, like removing someone's Jewishness because of how they 130 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 2: act or things they've said or things they believe in. 131 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's one of those things. Again, Like it's 132 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 3: worth like covering this as it develops. There's not much 133 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 3: to say other than like, this is incredibly illegal and 134 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 3: has to be opposed immediately and vigorously. Like yeah, yeah, no. 135 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 2: It's really bad. And of course you're not gonna have 136 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 2: the ADL coming out against Trump hero. 137 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 3: The ACLU did, which I should note because I heard 138 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 3: some people saying they did not expect the ACLU too 139 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 3: they have. But yeah, the ADL is fully in the 140 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 3: camp of lock any one up who's ever protested Israel. 141 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 2: And they're not gonna call Trump anti Semitic for making 142 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 2: a statement like this, Yeah, because their interests are are 143 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 2: fairly aligned at this point. Read what's happening in Gaza. 144 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 2: So I think now we're gonna play a special report 145 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 2: from James, who can't be on the recording here today, 146 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 2: but he does have a report on deportations in Panama. 147 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 2: So James take it away. 148 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 6: So something that we've seen in the last week is 149 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 6: that the people who the US government has deported to 150 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 6: Panama who it can't deport to their home countries, have 151 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 6: in some cases been released by the Panamanian government and 152 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 6: given a thirty day visa or thirty days to essentially 153 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 6: exit Panama, and they're not really been given any support. 154 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 6: So they're in some cases like just sleeping on the 155 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 6: streets in Panama City, right just wandering around trying to 156 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 6: work out how to get home and trying to work 157 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 6: out like what they should do next. 158 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 3: Obviously, these people who. 159 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 6: Have fled places like Afghanistan, Iran, right, places where they 160 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 6: can't go back to, they would face persecution just for 161 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 6: the act of having tried to lead they weren't already 162 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 6: facing persecution before, which many of them were. 163 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 3: That that's why they fled. 164 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 6: So they've just kind of kicked it down the road 165 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 6: a little bit and we'll see where this leads. But 166 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 6: it's another piece of evidence that this wasn't hugely well planned, 167 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 6: that the Trump administration just wanted to get these deportation 168 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 6: numbers up but almost cost. 169 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna go on a break and come 170 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 2: back to talk about the Department of Education and Tariff 171 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 2: talk with Mia Walong. 172 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 3: Wow. Well, we are back, and you know it's everyone's 173 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 3: favorite time of the podcast talking about tariffs. And before 174 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 3: we get to Mia, I want to bring on a 175 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 3: musical guest to set this section of the program up. 176 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 7: Rocky Jazz Bob rocking jazz boy locking rocking jazz bo rocking. 177 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 4: Jazz bo Ah. 178 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my gosh. That was worth the rest of 179 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 3: our year's budget. Now everyone will be getting paid for 180 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 3: the rest of the year in Denny's coupons. That's all 181 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 3: we have left after paying for this. But I think 182 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 3: we can all agree worth it. 183 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 2: Do you want to explain what that is because I 184 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 2: still don't really have a clue what exactly that opening 185 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 2: theme song is for Tariff Talk. 186 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 3: Well, there was a great band called the Clash once 187 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,959 Speaker 3: and they wrote one song that wasn't very good, and 188 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 3: in it, somebody says something that didn't sound very much 189 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 3: like the word tariff. But if you mispronounce the word tariff, 190 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 3: it fit in. And that's where forty two thousand dollars 191 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 3: of our operating budget this year went. Anyway, Mia, let's 192 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 3: talk about tariff's. 193 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, now that I've now that I've gotten one of 194 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 4: the two things I've ever wanted in life, play on music. 195 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 4: So since last week this has been an entire roller 196 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,839 Speaker 4: coaster because right after we finished recording, in like the 197 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 4: next two days, everyone went, oh, the tariff aren't going 198 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 4: to be that bad, because a lot of the tariffs 199 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 4: that were hit with Trump sort of general twenty five 200 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 4: percent Canada Mexico tariff got waved after Trump agreed not 201 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 4: to apply them to goods covered by the U SMA 202 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 4: Free Trade Agreement. But then everyone remembered that the twenty 203 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 4: five percent steel in a Lune of tariff was still 204 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 4: going into effect, and so that went into effect this week. Now, 205 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,439 Speaker 4: there was also a brief, incredible moment of panic where 206 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 4: Trump was talking about doubling them to fifty percent. He 207 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 4: backs off of this in exchange for Ontario's Doug Ford 208 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 4: stopping a like twenty five percent increase in electricity prices. However, coma, 209 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 4: the trade war is one hundred percent still on. Canada 210 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 4: is doing a whole like sort of slate of reciprocal 211 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 4: tariffs specifically on steel and also tariffs and taxes on 212 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 4: a whole suite of other US goods. I'm just going 213 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 4: to read this from the Associated Press, because this is 214 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 4: no longer the trade war here is no longer limited 215 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 4: to the US, Canada, China, and to some extp Mexico. 216 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 4: For Mexico's really hasn't been responding in the same way 217 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 4: as basically every other country who's come under these tariffs, 218 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 4: or at least the sort of main focuses of these tariffs. 219 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,599 Speaker 4: But this week the EU officially joined the phrase. So 220 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 4: here's from the AP quote across the Atlantic, the European 221 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 4: Union will raise terrace on American beef, poultry, bourbon and motorcycles. 222 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 4: Bourbon again. 223 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, bourbon twice. Yeah, bourbon twice. It's twice as 224 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 3: important as the other things. 225 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 4: Yes, peanut, butter and jeans. Actually you say this, there 226 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 4: was a whole like part of the whole speech. It 227 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,839 Speaker 4: was not a joke, maya people the EU would like this. 228 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 4: This was this was part of the thing. Was yeah, like, 229 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 4: we're hoping to restore the profitability of the American spirits 230 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 4: markets with the US backs down. 231 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: It was also the only American product that Trudeau can 232 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 2: named during his big very funny. 233 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 3: Let's be honest, outside of music, this nation has produced 234 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 3: one thing of value to the world, and it's bourbon. 235 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,839 Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty reusable It's also very funny that it was 236 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,719 Speaker 4: like Bourbon was like our what attempt number was it 237 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 4: at making whiskey before we finally got one that was 238 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 4: like exportable. 239 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 3: Terrible. I mean, yeah, it took. It took generations. Look, 240 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 3: you know, Rome wasn't built in the day, and Bourbon 241 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 3: is the rome of liquors produced in Kentucky. 242 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 7: Yeah. 243 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:02,599 Speaker 4: Well, and speaking of it being produced in Kentucky, this 244 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 4: is actually deliberately Okay, well, all right, so the EU 245 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 4: in theory, the line that they're saying is that these 246 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 4: are deliberately designed to like target things that are made 247 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 4: in red States. They also did do soybean tariffs too, though, 248 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 4: which is you know, like you're dropping a new kin 249 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 4: Illinois here. Okay, So the EU as impost reciprocal tariffs 250 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 4: on twenty eight billion dollars of US goods. Also on Tuesday, 251 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 4: China's tariffs went into effect, which means the agricultural terrifts 252 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 4: that we talked about last week. And notably I keep 253 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 4: coming back to soybeans because soybeans are such a critical 254 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 4: part of the system of American agriculture as the crop 255 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 4: that you rotate out with coren to sort of like 256 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 4: preserve soil integrity. The Chinese tariffs are now in effect. 257 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 4: It's mostly on agricultural goods. Yeah, and this has I 258 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 4: think in ways that are pretty predictable, at least to me. 259 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 4: This has caused a lot of panic in the markets. 260 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 4: There's been some sort of rallying as like more information 261 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 4: comes in, but there's stuff that I did not predict, 262 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 4: which is so okay. Goldman Sachs has downgraded its projection 263 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 4: for us GDP growth. Their chief economist is talking about 264 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 4: how he thinks we're gonna get stagflation again, which is 265 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 4: sort of While ceclation was the thing in the seventies 266 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 4: that was, you know, like you have inflation and unemployment 267 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 4: growth at the same time, this is basically the economic 268 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 4: condition that liquidated the welfare state and allowed to write 269 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 4: take power in the first place. 270 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 2: That's funny because when I google stag inflation, I get 271 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 2: very different results. That could just be my own. 272 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 3: No, that's that's stagfilation, Garrison, two very different things. 273 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 2: Oh sorry, yeah, I think I I think I'm anyway. 274 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 4: The things I have to deal with on this job, 275 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 4: they never warned me every single time. It's true, It's true, 276 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 4: it's true. 277 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 6: This is this. 278 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 4: This makes up for a lot. 279 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 3: If you ever get to fight the Undertaker, you have 280 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 3: a song to go on too. 281 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 4: It's true, So okay now now, so it's sort of 282 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 4: more surprisingly and this is something I have literally never 283 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 4: seen before with the US. Both City Bank, while City 284 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 4: which is the over the City Bank like changed his 285 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 4: name to City or something, but City Bank and ubs 286 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 4: the giants Swiss Bank downgraded the status of all US equities. 287 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 4: I have never seen anything like this in my entire life. 288 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 4: They are also boosting the status of Chinese and EU 289 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 4: equity So this is basically like this doesn't have like 290 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 4: a technical official effect, but this is like this is 291 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 4: basically their their evaluation of what countries like stocks basically 292 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 4: you should purchase right And this is also sort of 293 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 4: applies to bonds, So. 294 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 7: Is that bad? 295 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 4: This is like I assume that the US would get 296 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 4: its actual credit rating devalued before this happens. I've never 297 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 4: this is this is unreal. Like the argument that they 298 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 4: are making here is that it is because of the 299 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 4: instability in the US, like because because of the tariffs 300 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 4: and because of everything that's going on, that like you 301 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 4: should just fucking pull your money out of the out 302 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 4: of the US and American companies and put it somewhere else. 303 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 4: And they're they're secifically boosting the status of Chinese and 304 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 4: EU equities, which is astonishing because again one of one 305 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 4: of the one of the countries again who's whose equity 306 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 4: status that they are boosting is China. China's economy is 307 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 4: a fucking disaster right now. They're dealing with like their 308 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 4: fucking housing bubble going under. They've been trying to do 309 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 4: this pivot to a consumer based economy for years and 310 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 4: years and years and years, and it doesn't work because 311 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 4: they don't pay people enough to actually like fuel an 312 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 4: economy consumer spending. Like they're you know, they're they're about 313 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 4: to take giant damage from the trade war. And also 314 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 4: they like you know, like it was only like three 315 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 4: years ago the CCP faced their first like nationwide mass 316 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 4: protests like since Tianneman, right, and these guys like and 317 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 4: again these are these these are the financial analysts of 318 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 4: City Bank and UBS have looked at that and went, 319 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 4: you are better off putting your money there than you 320 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 4: are putting it in the US. 321 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 2: I mean, at this point, I think Trump's tariffs have 322 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 2: wiped out. I'm reading four trillion from the US stock 323 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 2: market just in this past month. 324 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 3: Now, now trillion? 325 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 7: Is that? 326 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 3: Okay? So for example, I have thirty two dollars right 327 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 3: now in in my pocket. Is it more than that? 328 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 3: I think it's a little bit more, Okay, Okay, okay, 329 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 3: so it is enough to buy two different servings of pizza. Okay, 330 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 3: this is I'm trying to put this into terms I 331 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 3: can understand, thank you. 332 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 5: It is. 333 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 4: Imagine, imagine one burger, right. 334 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 3: And a burger and Portland does cost thirty two dollars? 335 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 2: So yes, yes, Now now imagine I thought you're gonna say, 336 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 2: does cost for tull a dollar? 337 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 4: I mean probably tomorrow, right, like khudos. I don't know 338 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 4: if if any fucking plagues that. 339 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 3: We're doing adding levity because this is legitimately kind of frightening. 340 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 4: No, like this is I have never seen the financial 341 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 4: press like, yes, like the only times I've ever seen 342 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 4: the financial pressure react to something like this is like 343 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 4: they were kind of acting like this about the possibility 344 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 4: of Jeremy Corbin like taking power in the UK, like 345 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 4: they are like I washed a guy on CNBC, right, 346 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 4: this is not like like this is this is not MSNBC. 347 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 4: This is not even like CNN. This is CNBC literally 348 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 4: go on air and call what Trump is doing quote 349 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 4: insane and start talking about how and this is and 350 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 4: this is I think what these people are worried about 351 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 4: is they're you know, the thing that they're seeing that's 352 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 4: starting right now, and it's starting with these sort of 353 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 4: these downgrades views equities is capital flight, which is straight 354 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 4: up a butt like international capital taking their money from 355 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 4: the US and fucking literally moving out of the country 356 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 4: and moving it somewhere else because the US is so unstable. 357 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 4: This is like, I don't know if anyone knows what 358 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 4: mass capital flight from the US would do, because I've 359 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 4: never seen anything like this. So part of what's going 360 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 4: on right and part of the reason the markets have 361 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 4: kind of recovered in the last few days after the tanking, 362 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 4: and they did Monday, is that, like the inflation data 363 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 4: came out and it wasn't that bad. But the thing is, 364 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 4: all of the inflation data we're getting right now, and 365 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,360 Speaker 4: all of the economic indicators we're getting right now, it's 366 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,959 Speaker 4: gonna take a little bit of time for the actual 367 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 4: effects of these terrorists to set in, right Like these 368 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 4: are these are things that like you know, it's going 369 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 4: to take it's going to take like six months, maybe 370 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 4: a year before we fully see the impact of that. 371 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 4: But and when we do, it is going to fucking 372 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 4: law ismoking creator into the economy. And the worst part 373 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 4: of it this about this is this isn't even the 374 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 4: most unhinged part of this. The most unhinged part of 375 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 4: this is how the Republicans have been reacting to all 376 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 4: of this in Congress. So one of the few things 377 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 4: the Democrats have been trying to do, and I say 378 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 4: one of the few because like the response has been 379 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 4: Downwright collaborationists, that they've been trying to force Republicans to 380 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 4: take a vote on the tariffs, because the tariffs are 381 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 4: unbelievably unpopular, and they're particularly unbelievably unpopular among like the 382 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 4: capital owning class, who you know, actually matter. So what 383 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 4: they've been trying to do is that Trump did these 384 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 4: tariffs by declaring a state of emergency, and the Democrats 385 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 4: wanted to use the National Emergencies Act to force the 386 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 4: vote in the tariffs. I'm just going to read this 387 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 4: in the New York Times. The National Emergency Law lays 388 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 4: out a fast track process for Congress to consider a 389 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 4: resolution ending a presidential emergency, requiring committee consideration within fifteen 390 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 4: calendar days after one is introduced, and a floor vote 391 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 4: within three days after that. But the language the House 392 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 4: Republicans inserted into their measure on Tuesday declare that quote 393 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 4: each day for the remainder of the one hundred and 394 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 4: nineteenth Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for the 395 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 4: purposes of the emergency that Trump declared on February first. 396 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 4: So the point we are at right now is is 397 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 4: in order to preserve a bunch of tariffs which are 398 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 4: effectively about to fucking obliterate the entire world economy, Congress 399 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 4: has declared that days don't pass. This is fucking this 400 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 4: is completely unhinged. This is fucking like caligulous horse in 401 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 4: the Senate shit like they again, they are literally they 402 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 4: have literally declared that calendar days passing are not actually 403 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 4: calendar days, so that Trump can just keep doing tariff 404 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 4: shit and rule by fiat like the Israelites. 405 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 2: They have stopped time in order to win the battle. 406 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 4: It's it's genuinely astonishing and the extent to which this 407 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 4: has kind of just been swept under the rug Republicans 408 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 4: have been you know, doing this kind of quietly right 409 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 4: and there. And and the fact that like the fact 410 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 4: that Democrats are not literally on TV every single second 411 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 4: of every day going that the Republicans are voting to 412 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 4: stop time so that Trump can destroy the economy is astonishing. 413 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 4: It's this real, like sort of admission by the Republican 414 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 4: Congress that like they're seating authority over policy like to 415 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 4: Trump completely right, Like the government now is Trump ruling 416 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 4: by sort of fear and people attempting to sort of 417 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 4: like run circles around him in courts, which is not 418 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 4: you know, working enormously. Well, yeah, we'll see and and 419 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 4: you know, and this this, this is starting to have 420 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 4: effects on like investor confidence like in the in like 421 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 4: the US as a political entity in the US is 422 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 4: an economic entity, which is unprecedented. The other thing I 423 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 4: think it's worth noting is that these people like Elin 424 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 4: Must Donald Trump the people around them have been saying 425 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 4: for a long time that the plan is to cause 426 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 4: a recession and then after the recession things are going 427 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 4: to get better, and the financial pressures hasn't believed them. 428 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 4: And this right now is the period in which they're 429 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 4: starting to realize that they were serious about this, and 430 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 4: I don't know what the political ramifications of that are 431 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 4: going to be, because these are people who actually matter 432 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 4: in the political system, and I think we'll see the 433 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 4: rammications of this play out and then this sort of 434 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 4: coming weeks and months. But this is a fucking cliff 435 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 4: that we've hit, and we're now like Wiley Coyote, like 436 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 4: running off the side and trying not to look down. 437 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 3: But on the upside, we have a great new song 438 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 3: for everybody. 439 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:26,400 Speaker 1: So woo. 440 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 3: Who's to say if any of this has been bad? 441 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 2: All right, we are back speaking of running circles around 442 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 2: the courts. We do have a small update reusade side. 443 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 2: Last week, in a five to four vote, the Supreme 444 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 2: Court denied an appeal from the Trump administration in a 445 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 2: case regarding Trump's attempted federal funds freeze and the shuddering 446 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 2: of you said. This was a case filed by the 447 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 2: AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Global Health Council. The 448 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,959 Speaker 2: White House is now required to pay foreign aid contractors 449 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 2: for work that has already been completed, and further details 450 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 2: will be worked out back in the district court. And 451 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 2: it's still unclear if the Trump administration is going to 452 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,959 Speaker 2: abide by the court's ruling and resume all required payments. 453 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 2: But this is the first move from the Supreme Court 454 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 2: regarding Trump's actions the past few months. This has also 455 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 2: not stopped Trump from trying to slowly close other entire 456 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 2: government agencies. This very week, the Education Department laid off 457 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 2: nearly half of its workforce, over one thousand and three 458 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 2: hundred employees. Late Tuesday night, Education Secretary Linda McMahon went 459 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 2: onto Fox News to say that this reduction force is 460 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 2: only the first step towards abolishing the entire Education Department, saying, quote, 461 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 2: this was the president's mandate. His directive to me clearly 462 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 2: is to shut down the Department of Education, which we 463 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 2: know we'll have to work with Congress, you know, to 464 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 2: get that accomplished. But what we did today was to 465 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 2: take the first step of eliminating what I think is 466 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 2: a bureaucratic bloat unquote. 467 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean, like, you know, we've talked on 468 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 4: the show for a long time how eliminating Department of 469 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 4: Education eventually destroying public education has been a long running goal. 470 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, of the most absolutely unhinged of these people, 471 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 4: who are the people now in charge. And Yeah, they've 472 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 4: decided to just like individually fuck every child in the US. 473 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 4: It's incredible. 474 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 2: Well, and so far, the way that they're trying to 475 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,159 Speaker 2: close up the Department of Education is kind of in 476 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 2: a more selective manner because they're still keeping certain parts 477 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 2: of the department active. 478 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 3: Yeah. 479 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 2: On March tenth, the Education Department announced that they were 480 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 2: launching investigations into sixty universities for quote Title six violations 481 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 2: relating to anti Semitic harassment and discrimination quote and this 482 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 2: is in relation to anti genocide protests on campus. And 483 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 2: this comes after Trump announced the immediate cancelation of four 484 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 2: hundred million dollars in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. 485 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 2: The Education Department is threatening that these other fifty nine 486 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 2: universities may lose their funding if they do not quote 487 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 2: enforce Title six of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits 488 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 2: any institution that receives federal funds from discriminating on the 489 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 2: basis of race, color, and national origin. National origin includes 490 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 2: shared a Jewish ancestry Unquote. I don't know how to 491 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 2: say here. 492 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 4: You get to see all the threads of this admin 493 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 4: coming together, right, which is that you know, these people 494 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 4: are also attempting to effectively destroy like the secondary education 495 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 4: system in this country two for reasons that are sort 496 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 4: of unclear to me, I don't know. But what we're 497 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 4: seeing here, right is the ways that the Democrats sort 498 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 4: of like falling into lockscept with Republicans on back of 499 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 4: the genocide in Israel has sort of led to this 500 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 4: thing where the Republicans are using this to just straight 501 00:25:54,840 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 4: up obliterate like all of the US's like political, economic, 502 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,479 Speaker 4: and social institutions. 503 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 2: Well and specifically with this like investigation, they are they 504 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 2: are trying to get all these universities to cooperate in 505 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 2: efforts to selectively remove students who have protested against the 506 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 2: genocide in Gaza. Right, this is this is the you know, 507 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 2: the same attack on free speech and free expression that 508 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 2: they're doing against Khalil, Like this is this is the 509 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,239 Speaker 2: same exact purpose, and now they're trying to get more 510 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 2: and more universities to be complicit in like the selective 511 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 2: removal of people in this country who choose to express 512 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: their First Amendment rights regardless of whether they're a citizen, 513 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 2: a Green card holder, or on a student visa. So 514 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 2: this is this is all deeply, deeply worrying. Robert, you 515 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 2: have a you have a small segment you want to 516 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 2: discuss before we start to close out. 517 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, just a little bit at the end here. So 518 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 3: in the subreddit for the five OHO five oh one 519 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 3: protest campaign, which is an attempt to do protests in 520 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 3: all fifties dates simultaneously, right, I think their next day 521 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 3: of action is coming up in April. I'm not giving 522 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 3: an opinion on the overall thing, but in the subreddit, 523 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,120 Speaker 3: somebody posted claiming to be a National Guard soldier given 524 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 3: kind of his thoughts on how the National Guard would 525 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 3: respond to orders to carry out violence against US citizens, 526 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 3: And I just wanted to chat about this book because 527 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 3: it's something we talk about on the show pretty regularly. 528 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 3: My opinion is that one of the likely ways things 529 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 3: come to a head, probably as early as this summer, 530 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 3: is that there is mass protests in DC and the 531 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 3: Insurrection Act gets used and the Guard at least are 532 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 3: brought in to attempt to crack down. I mean, obviously 533 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 3: Trump has done a version of this before, and Trump 534 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 3: and his state attorney have both discussed using the Insurrection 535 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 3: Act to crack down on protests. I think they see 536 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 3: DC as the place they want to do that. So 537 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 3: it's interesting to me to see a post like this. 538 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 3: This is not a thing where like I've been able 539 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 3: to verify this guy. Yet there's a couple of points 540 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 3: that make me that is probably is a National guardsman. 541 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 3: For one thing, there's a lot of them, right, Like, 542 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 3: this is not like a National guardsman. Where'd you find one? 543 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 3: There's a ton of fucking dudes in the National Guard. 544 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 3: For the other thing, everything he says is consistent with 545 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 3: things that I have seen and talked to other people 546 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 3: who are in and were in the Guard about. There's 547 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 3: one little bit where he advises people on like stop 548 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 3: the bleed gear, and he gives good advice. He says, 549 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 3: only buy from NAAR and North American Rescue. It's the 550 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 3: same advice we would have given. He cites DoD Directive 551 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,719 Speaker 3: thirteen forty four to ten, which is why he believes 552 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 3: he's well within his rights to make a post like this, 553 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 3: And in essence, what he's saying is that it is 554 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 3: his belief that most of the military chain of command 555 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 3: from NCOs up to officers would not be down with 556 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 3: following illegal orders to fire on US citizens. But the 557 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 3: vast majority of enlisted troops, if fired upon, would get 558 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 3: over whatever issues they have with that very quickly, right. 559 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 3: That's the gist of it is that I think, you know, 560 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 3: within sort of the officer class and the NCO class, 561 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 3: there are a lot of resistance to the idea of 562 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 3: the military being used for domestic policing. That is less 563 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 3: clear with kind of the enlisted class, who are you 564 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 3: A significant chuck of them are very much down for Trump. 565 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 3: But whatever sort of divisions exist within enlisted soldiers would 566 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 3: fall apart pretty quickly if soldiers were fired upon. And 567 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 3: I think this is probably like a assuming this is accurate, 568 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 3: and I don't really see a reason to doubt it. 569 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 3: There's nothing he's saying here that's crazy. I think this 570 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 3: is kind of an interesting thing to keep in mind that, like, 571 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 3: when you're looking at the military, it's not the police. 572 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 3: Like if I have to have armed agents of the 573 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 3: state cracking down on a protest, I'm less worried about 574 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 3: people being killed if it's the National Guard in general. 575 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 3: But that situation can change very very rapidly if the 576 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 3: situation becomes an active firefight. And I do think like 577 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 3: that's a thing we have to consider right now. What 578 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 3: was the possibility that we have US soldiers, whether the 579 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 3: National Guard or active duty, engaged openly in shooting at 580 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 3: American protesters. Like that's in the cards as early as 581 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 3: this summer, and it's not a fun the thing to 582 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 3: think about. But I'm seeing more and more, not just 583 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 3: posts like this, but I'm having more and more conversations 584 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 3: with people who are in the military or who were 585 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 3: are in the National Guard about their concerns about what 586 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 3: they might be called upon to do. Some of this 587 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 3: has to do with the border, but like it is 588 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 3: becoming increasingly common for people in the military to worry 589 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 3: about how they are going to be used in the 590 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 3: immediate future. We're not talking about years. We're talking about 591 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 3: this summer, right is when there's a very good chance 592 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 3: a lot of stuff comes to a head. So these 593 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 3: are things you should be thinking about. If you're listening 594 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 3: and you are in the military, these are things that 595 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,719 Speaker 3: you should be thinking about because the people who are 596 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 3: in charge of our government right now have made a 597 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 3: lot of statements about how they want to use the 598 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 3: military to deal with protest tests, and the idea that 599 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 3: that's going to happen very soon is not not fringe 600 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 3: you're crazy. 601 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 2: Well, and although these people might have you know, slightly 602 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 2: more disciplined when it comes to actual firearms. There is 603 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 2: also incidents like in twenty twenty yep where the Kentucky 604 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 2: Army National Guard killed someone via the misuse of crowd 605 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 2: control absolutely munitions. I think that this this is also 606 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 2: worth stating. Even if you know, like a kent State situation, 607 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 2: maybe is not not as likely in like the modern day, 608 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 2: there's certainly other other ways to cause grievous harm. Yes, 609 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 2: in these sorts of like protest environments, and. 610 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 3: When we've seen I mean even in Portland, when we 611 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 3: have seen which you witnessed personally, unfortunately, Garrison, the worst 612 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 3: injuries to crowd control devices are usually people in our 613 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 3: case it was federal agents, but who are utilizing crowd 614 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 3: control weapons and have not trained on them. Yeah, because 615 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 3: they're not. There's certain ways you're supposed to and not 616 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 3: supposed to use them, and these guys are just Hey, 617 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 3: you know how to use a gun. You must know 618 00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 3: how to use the robot balling thing. 619 00:31:59,440 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 7: You know. 620 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 2: No, if you use like less lethals the way you 621 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 2: would use you know, a regular firearm, that actually leads 622 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 2: to like much more like possible lethal consequences or like 623 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 2: life changing consequences. Yeah, which you know, police are more 624 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 2: familiar with the regular use of crowd control munitions than 625 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 2: necessarily you know, like bore attack or like state national guards. 626 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 2: Something that's also you know, worth keeping in mind. Let's 627 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 2: close by my my least favorite segment, Stinky Musk, which 628 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 2: I still has a really bad name. On Monday, a 629 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 2: Central judge ruled that Musk's DOGE should be the subject 630 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 2: to comply with FOIA requests and public disclosures of information 631 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 2: required of government agencies, with the judge ordering the release 632 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 2: of email correspondence between Musk's team and the Office of 633 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,719 Speaker 2: Management and Budget and was ordered to quote begin producing 634 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 2: documents on a rolling basis as soon as practicable unquote now. 635 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 2: Despite Musk's claims of quote unquote maximum transparency. Last month, 636 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 2: the Trump administration tried to shield DOGE from public records 637 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,719 Speaker 2: requests by labeling the agency's documents as quote unquote presidential records, 638 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,200 Speaker 2: which carries special protections. This specific case is super interesting. 639 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 2: The judge of federal judge by the name of Cooper 640 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 2: also critiqued the way that the Trump admin tried to 641 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 2: litigate this case, quoting from political quote, the lawyers offered 642 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 2: virtually nothing in the way of evidence about doge's operations 643 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 2: or management. Indeed, the court wonders whether this decision was strategic, 644 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 2: Cooper said, noting that the Trump administration lawyers had taken 645 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 2: competing positions, including that DOGE qualifies as an agency under 646 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 2: some sections of law but not others when it suits it. Thus, 647 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 2: DOGE becomes, on the defendant's view, a Goldilocke's entity, Cooper wrote, 648 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 2: not an agency when it's burdensome, but an agency when 649 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 2: it's convenient unquote. And I do like Cooper's analysis here 650 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 2: of how DOGE is very selectively an agency only when 651 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 2: it causes you know, benefit to Trump or Musk. And finally, 652 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 2: we have one other Musk story to close out. This 653 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 2: episode admits Tesla's plummeting stock price, protests outside Tesla dealerships, 654 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,880 Speaker 2: and reports of vandalism of dealerships across the country. Trump 655 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,800 Speaker 2: has essentially started doing ads for Tesla on the White 656 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 2: House driveway. Upon climbing in a red car that he's 657 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 2: not allowed to operate, Trump remarked, Wow, everything is computer 658 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 2: So this was a very very odd and kind of 659 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,360 Speaker 2: embarrassing show of favoritism where Musk brought out like a 660 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,800 Speaker 2: number of different Tesla models and Trump got to quote unquote, 661 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 2: you know, pick the one that he wanted to buy, 662 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 2: as he just like sat in on this like televised 663 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 2: advertisement for Tesla as his you know, company is losing 664 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,280 Speaker 2: a shocking amount of money in the in the stock market. 665 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 666 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 4: And there, I mean there, there's literally there's literally a 667 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 4: picture of him with like the notes that he has. 668 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 4: There's like in an in like really really. 669 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 2: Like a Tesla's sales note like bullet point of like 670 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 2: how much certain models are, what their different features are, 671 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 2: which ones have self driving features included, which ones you 672 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:07,360 Speaker 2: have to pay extra for. 673 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 5: Yeah. 674 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,239 Speaker 2: No, he's literally carrying like a Tesla sales pitch as 675 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,880 Speaker 2: he does this televised appearance boosting his new best friends 676 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 2: and co president's company. Trump said on True Social the 677 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 2: radical left lunatics are trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla, 678 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 2: one of the world's greatest automakers and Elon's baby, in 679 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 2: order to attack and do harm to Elon and everything 680 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,959 Speaker 2: he stands for unquote. So now not only has Trump 681 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,320 Speaker 2: called the Tesla boycott illegal, which which is, you know, 682 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 2: its own form of unhinged. But on Tuesday, Trump announced 683 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 2: that vandalism of Tesla's will be labeled as domestic terrorism, 684 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:55,879 Speaker 2: promising that perpetrators will quote unquote go through hell. White 685 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 2: House spokesperson Harrison Fields said, quote ongoing and heinous acts 686 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 2: of violence against Tesla's by radical leftist activists are nothing 687 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 2: short of domestic terror unquote, So that. 688 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:10,879 Speaker 3: Would be fun to see how that blaze out. 689 00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,920 Speaker 4: I feel like we're we genuinely are not that far 690 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 4: off from just like Trump trying to hand down legal 691 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 4: mandate saying you must buy a Tesla like this. This 692 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,040 Speaker 4: is the this is the kind of shit that we're 693 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 4: in now. 694 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 2: Now, this is one of the most like bizarre things 695 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 2: I've ever seen. If if Biden or any Democratic president 696 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,280 Speaker 2: did anything similar to this, you would have like thralls 697 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,360 Speaker 2: of people screaming for his impeachment, similar to like the 698 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,360 Speaker 2: erg Adams thing. It's like one of the most blatant 699 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,200 Speaker 2: open displays of corruption I've ever seen, where I president 700 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:44,000 Speaker 2: is using his office to boost like the personal financial 701 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 2: interests of one of his top advisors who's also like 702 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 2: running government agencies essentially and doing massive massive cuts to 703 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 2: prohibit their ability to like investigate his own businesses, while 704 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 2: also taking massive amounts of government money to keep businesses 705 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 2: like Tesla and SpaceX operable. So this has been a 706 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,919 Speaker 2: pretty pretty silly thing to watch unfold the past few days, 707 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 2: and now Tesla shares have risen four percent after Trump's 708 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,240 Speaker 2: support for Musk and Tesla. 709 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,719 Speaker 3: Great, well, I think that's going to do it here 710 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 3: at us with the ed to play us out, We're 711 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 3: gonna refer back to our friend the Narcissist Cookbook who 712 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,879 Speaker 3: put together our lovely new tariff theme song that you're 713 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,080 Speaker 3: gonna hear every week until tariffs aren't a thing anymore. 714 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:31,920 Speaker 2: We reported the news. 715 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:44,879 Speaker 7: Locky jazz bob locking jazzpot, Sorry, lock locking jazz bob 716 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:46,719 Speaker 7: locking jazz Bot. 717 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,959 Speaker 1: It could Happen Here is a production of cool Zone Media. 718 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,200 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website 719 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,839 Speaker 1: coolzonmedia dot com, or check us out on the iHeartRadio app, 720 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,360 Speaker 1: ap a podcast, or wherever you use to podcasts. 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