Part One: Blue Dawn: A Right Wing Fantasy of Leftist Revolution

Robert sits down with Garrison to read through a brand new novel that fantasizes about the aftermath of an Antifa revolution in ... 2021.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Also media.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
What hasn't slept in days? My host of this podcast,
It's Behind the Bastards, a podcast hosted by a man
who is just an absolute wreck of a human being.
And as as we always do whenever I'm a wreck
of a human being, We're doing a book episode. Everybody,
you know, we actually don't do these all that offen

(00:25):
anymore because for a long time, I couldn't find any
good books for us to do. It's harder than you
would expect, but the audience loves a books episode. It
lets us get by with a little bit less research
one week and we don't have to do a rerun,
so it keeps the new content flowing. And I know
all you you maniacs love that. But I finally found

(00:47):
a fresh you know, like in the movie Fury Road,
how a Morton Joe lives in that citadel where there's
all that water, you know, inside the big Rock. I
found the book equivalent of that, and to pour it,
I'm just gonna splash it all over our guests today, Garrison, Davis, Garrison,
how are you doing.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'm tired, but hanging in there.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Wow. Yeah, this is the day after both the union
negotiated its contract and Donald Trump got convicted of thirty
four felonys. It was a crazy day tonight for a
lot of people. It was a crazy day in there.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
I also got to take some of our co workers
to waffle House for the first time, so it was
really just a whole bunch of w's as they say.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, this is actually now for the first time, Donald
Trump can truly have the waffle house experience, which is
eating at a waffle house as a convicted All right, Garrison,
you're ready to warm this? Open the fuck up?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I always am.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, So what.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
This is behind the master?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
This is the show that we're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yes, it's a book episode, and I'm going to tell
you what book it's about. But but there's a lot
of setup that we need for this guys. So you know, Garrison,
being a victim of state repression is a terrible thing,
you know, having the force really you don't say, yeah, yeah,
very frightening, having the force of a nation's like legal

(02:15):
system and law enforcement arms brought down on your head
just for say, speaking your mind or you know, lifting
your voice in protest.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Or thirty four counts of financial fraught.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's it sucks actually being oppressed. But pretending to be
a victim of censorship is great because you get all
of the victim the benefits of being a victim. You
get that sympathy, you get to feel like a hero.
You have to make like grand speeches about how you
won't be silenced, but you don't actually have to face
any consequences for any of your shitty behavior. Right and
in the in the long list of fake victims in

(02:49):
this country, I think probably the fakest and one of
my favorite is a guy named David Thomas Roberts. Now,
David wrote a book back in twenty twelve called Patriots
of Treason. And the plot of this book, this is
not the book we're covering this week, Okay, okay, but
you need to hear about it to get to that book.

(03:09):
The plot of this book is that an unhinged Barack
Obama stand in president. Many such cases, Yeah, it's one
of those. It's like one of those right wing this
is what Obama's right about to do books because he
publishes it right before he gets reelected.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm like, I'm like, I think I think we've seen
this film before. Got It, Got It.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's almost the Ben Shapiro story. His his not Barack
Obama stand in is Tyrell Johnson and is also a
black president. Don't like that, No, it's it's it's really
not great. Now. The plot of the book is that
an Iranian American student like, because Tyrell Johnson is unpopular,
he attacks Iran. That's actually that's actually suggested. It's like,

(03:50):
this is what the evil Democrat will do, is he's
not popular, and so he bombs Iran. And this Iranian
American student, who is both angry that his sister died
in the attack and also loves the founding fathers of
the United States and the Tea Party, carries out an
assassination attempt against Evil Obama, and because they find some

(04:14):
like Tea Party literature in his house, they use it
as an excuse to arrest conservatives in mass It's very funny.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Very very scary.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I love conservative alternate histories that are exactly the opposite
of what happened in real life. My favorite detail about
the book, which I got from a Texas Monthly review
of it, is that the fake president in the book,
Tyrell Johnson, was originally just named Barack Obama, and they
did a find in replace and you can tell this
because each chapter starts with an epigraph, and one of

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them is a real quote from Rick Perry about Barack Obama.
But in the Perry quote in the book, Obama's name
is replaced with President Johnson.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh oh, that's funny.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, it's funny of Obama.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's good stuff. It's good stuff. It's a perfect snapshot
of the kind of mania among conservatives that existed around
Obama in this period, This fear that like one of
like a pretty milk toast liberal president was going to
become a dictator and massacre everybody to the right of
I don't know, fucking John McCain. Yeah, very very funny. Now,

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the reality is that in two thousand and nine, a
homeland security analyst named Darryl Johnson wrote a report titled
right Wing Extremism about the danger of groups like the
Oathkeepers and other militias, and once the paper went out
got out, it went viral among people like Alex Jones
and also more mainstream right wing commentators who complained they
were being persecuted. Johnson was forced out of his job
and the report was retracted by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano

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again the exact opposite of the right wing fiction. Actually
absolutely yeah, like a perfect opposite. So if the plot
of this book I've described sounds like the result of
chat GPT gobbling up like one hundred hours of Fox
News and spitting out a novel, that is what Roberts
has laid out as his creative process. He described how
he gets his ideas this way in an interview with
Blaze Media. I watch Fox News, get mad, can't sleep.

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Then I turned the TV off and wrote my first book,
which is Therapy. So we're said it.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
We're like in so many layers of like fiction. It's
like fiction based on fiction, based on.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Whoa, yeah, no, the guys in the fucking Plato's cave
are writing stories about the shadows, the shadows.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
The publisher that he uses for this is like a
vanity press, like one of those places where you pay
at least some of what it costs to get your
book published. And the fact that he had no trouble
getting published through this press or starting his own vanity press,
and the fact that he gets interviewed by like Texas
Monthly as well as the Blaze does not seem to
have done anything to convince this guy that he is not,

(06:58):
in fact oppressed. And he said to Texas Monthly, for
a long time, the left was the champion of free speech.
Look at the McCarthy era and the protesters in the
sixties and the Vietnam era. But today I think it's
mostly the conservative voices that are silenced now totally. The
specific act of persecution he claims to have endured is
that his vanity publisher AKA Publishing, didn't display his book

(07:20):
prominently at a twenty twelve event. And again, this is
a vanity, this is not a real publisher twenty twelve.
He's early.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, yeah, he's really he's really uh honest on the
custom of things.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, And he's going to because of this horrible, the
horrible cruelty of not being as prominently featured as he
thinks he should have been at one of their events,
he founds his own publishing company, Defiance Press. And I
think these guys are going to be the host of
a lot of our future book episodes.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Garrison out there, I'm gonna I'm gonna stay clean, uh huh, yeah,
I want. I'm sure, I'm sure, if I look into
into Defiance Press, I'll get too excited, So I'll keep
myself in the dark so that it'll be more more

(08:11):
interesting when I get surprised.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, you might. We'll see how surprised you. There's
at least one surprising title in here. But it is
a vanity press. You have to pay some of the costs.
They call it hybrid publishing, which is again just not
a real publisher, you know, like it's it's it's a
vanity press.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
If it's a one step above like Amazon, like yeah,
Kindle Publishing or.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Whatever, they just mad mend the title.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Right, yeah. Now they're top titles, like the book texts
it make the case for like that makes the case
for Texas secession, and it's sold about ten thousand copies,
which is like not bad for a real book, but
you know, that's that's kind of the best any of
their things do. Most of their products are non fiction,
but there are books well. Texas Monthly describes it as

(08:59):
like books that stretch that definition, with titles like Corona Fascism,
Trump in the Resurrection of America, uh and hunt It,
Kill It and Drag It Home, which is apparently a
self help book, So that that all sounds like a
lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
Are they talking about like dating or like going like
hunting for food?

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I think they're talking about how hunting for food is
like a metaphor for how you should handle everything in life.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Totally, that seems it seems healthy.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, like you know, in relationships, just like in hunting,
sometimes you have to smother your body in deer urine
so that you smell like deer pits.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
I have I have been hearing this, Actually I have
been here. Yeah, I am, I am.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
I'm currently soaking a pack of In's in a whole
bunch of the dear plus right now.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh, there you go. You'll like this. They have a
young adult book called Looks Like a Cheetah to me,
that's apparently an anti trans fairy tale. So of course
I'm not sure that one's great.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
As soon as you said that, like, okay, I can
see what they're is there, like how how can we
do attack helicopter but legally distinct?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, So that article in Texas Monthly on Defiance Press
included so many different book summaries that I felt were
perfect possible subjects for Behind the Bastard's Book. Episodes, and
I want to read you a quote about one of
them that we're not covering this week, but we may
in the future, probably later in the year. From Texas Monthly,
Chadwick Bicknell's twenty twenty two novella and American Carol reimagines

(10:26):
Ebeneezer Scrooge as Alex Slid Dumas, a militant gay lefty
who has sworn off attending a Fourth of July party
with his relatives because many of them support a Trumpian president.
After visits from George Washington, the ghost of America's passed,
Marilyn Monroe, the ghost of bizarrely America's present and death,
which apparently is what the new future the near future

(10:48):
holds for watch us if we don't watch out, l
Dumas realizes the right is more tolerant than the left,
recognizes the Trumpish commander in chief has actually made America
great again and is spiritually reborn as a docile, gay Republican.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
That sounds amazing.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
I think we're gonna have to get into that one.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
That sounds that could be my top ten list of
this year. To be honest, that that is a steppenwolf
has been pretty good.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Step Stepenwolf's a fine novel. But but uh, hesse could
never Alex ld Dumas's.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
That's that's that's stunning.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Now, there are a lot of hideous books these people
will put out, But the one we're going to actually
do in this episode or maybe episodes, we'll see how
it goes is a little title named Blue Dawn, and
the author, Blaine Lee Pardout, is best known for, according
to his wiki, his Battle Tech and mech Warrior novels. Now,

(11:51):
there's maybe some easy, cheap jokes I can make about it,
but from from my reading of his books, he's actually
kind of competent technically as a right, he's not Okay Shapiro,
he knows like I wouldn't call him a good I
don't think his book is good, but like he his
sentences are structured well, and his like chapters. He understands
like the flow that a book is supposed to have,

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as opposed to like a Ben Shapiro, who like does
does not understand how you are actually supposed to like
structure things happening in a chapter. You know, because he's
he's a he's a workmanlike writer, right, he's like a
guy who's got to put out genre fiction for a living.
He also seems to have had some kind of real
career as a military historian, so I was interested, you know.

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In Blue Dawn, part of me was like, if this
is just going to be kind of like slightly right wing,
mediocre fiction, this might not work for us because there
won't be a much to make fun of. And I
was very wrong, because Garrison, this is a right winger
writing a novel about like what if all of our
anarchist dreams came true? Like he is. He is like

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envisioning an alter it modern day, if like the Antifa
from Fox News was real. And it's fascinating to see
what he thinks was just about to happen in twenty twenty,
because there's a there's a lot of courage that you
have to have to write near future speculative science fiction rightly,
like if it's really close. And he publishes this in

(13:20):
July of twenty twenty one, and it opens with a
fictionalized version of a coup in twenty twenty, but it's
a completely different coup than the one that we got.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay, all right, Yeah, writing something that gets that is
like talking about like twenty twenty six is oddly like
harder than going to like twenty fifty two.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yes, you have a lot more like runway, and he
doesn't give himself any runway. So this comes out months
after an actual coup attempted by his people, and he's
writing like. The whole book opens with like the Antifa
coup that takes the White House and the Capitol building.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
God, that'd be so cool, fascinating.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm going to read first. I'm going to read you
a summary of the book that I got on the
Defiance Press website, and then we'll get into the actual
text itself.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Sounds good.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Almost five years ago, America as everyone knew it came
to an abrupt end in a spectacular coudetta. It was
called the Liberation by those progressives and radicals that screamed
for its outcome, the fall by its victims whose freedoms
were trampled. The White House and Capital were overrun by anarchists,
and the leaders of the once proud nation were either
imprisoned or sent to social quarantine camps. The president was

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arrested and eventually died in prison. Or so everyone was
led to believe, America was rebooted. In a new progressive,
socialist image. New America, the United States of old, was gone,
its history erased and rewritten, its icons destroyed. By the
time people tried to organize resistance, it was too late.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
How is New America spelled one word or two words?

Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's one word, just New America, and everyone calls it
that everyone called without being like that's the stupidest. It's
been five years, Like you're not kidding everyone, Like everyone
buys into this entirely new Orwellian language, which like works
in nineteen eighty four because it's been generations since the
government got in place. They're talking like that and it's

(15:17):
literally been five years.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
I don't think New America is going to catch on.
I'm gonna be real, I don't.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
I think that Gavin Newsom should use that as his
campaign slogan and ruin it for them.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, thank you, thank.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
You, give my da.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
So he's like, oh yeah, he's like cool, he's like
putting more hair jehl in his hair. He's like, yeah,
news New America, that's.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
The one they do. But Gavin newsoen allied with the
fucking anarchists is exactly like the level of politics that
this book is capable of.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, I am, I am, I am ready to hear.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
Like, okay, what is his version of like the utopian
dystopia is absolutely.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, Garrison will take that little journey together into New America.
But first, first take a journey into the products and
services that support this podcast.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
And it's not Gavin Newsom's hair sheel.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
We don't know that, we don't know what brand he uses.
Ah wow, Sophie, I'm back and I am just feeling.
I put I put a solid pound and a half
of that Gavin Newsom hair jel, which, by the way, folks,
my hair now it's just horse seamen, you know. But
it works incredibly Sorry, Sophie, already committed to making that

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bit started talking.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
It's okay, I laid it up for you.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
You got it, You got it.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
You gotta move past that l a hairjail, Sophie, Yeah,
you gotta.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
They get it all from that cowboy ranch in the
middle of the city. So it starts with a character
Jack Desmond, a secret service assistant shave. Yeah, it's pretty again.
He's like a workmanlike genre rider, perfectly fine protag in
his name. He's a secret serviceman. He's at the White
House as it's under siege. And this entire White House

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siege garrison is based on some clips this guy watched
of Portland from Andy No's social media feed. It's very clear,
but it starts with him talking about like how the
nation has been collapsing since the twenty twenty election, and
this is clearly Trump is the president and the election
has just happened. Anarchists Cell sewed further division. Their desire

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was that the entire political system be violently taken down.
Many politicians looked the other way and even funded their efforts,
hoping it will damage their political opponents in the upcoming elections.
Little did they realize at the time that they were
empowering people that were willing to take them down as
well as their opposition classic democratic politicians funding the anarchists.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
I'm interested to see how much this is going to
differ from Alex Garland's understanding of American politics.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, I am kind of curious about that as well,
although I think this one in My understanding in that
is that like the bad guy president who bombs America
is the Trumpian stand in, and in this Trump is
like almost like a helpless child before yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, Like the climax is still like the West Coast
forces are invading the White House, so like there you go.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, in this it's it's I think there's soldiers in
that at least in this it's just it's literally just
an anarchist that has fireworks, and of course we'll get
to it. So here's here's another paragraph from that that
intro the presidential election became a quagmire of fraud, both
perceived and real. The lawsuits drew bitterness and only added

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to the insecurity of daily life. The drawn out legal
process led the protests, which morphed into rioting across the country.
Brute force was applied to restore law and order, but
it only generated more resistance and hate. Law and order
began to dissolve, indecision as to who had really won
the election. Toll at the American people, months at being
suppressed by restrictions tied to the virus, made their anger
transition into undirected violence. And I find it interesting because

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that's like the opposite of where people were by that point,
Like all that happened. You had an election that was
deeply controversial, I mean not for good reason, but it was.
But like there wasn't widespread rioting, and people were mostly
just exhausted by everything that had happened in twenty twenty
by the time November rolled around, and we're glad for
it to be over, very exhausted, very tired also, and

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then Biden dies as soon as like in early winter,
the self proclaimed president elect, who where lad to believe
is Biden has a cerebral aneurysm and dies, and then
the vice not a bad prediction, not a bad prediction.
And then Kamala Harris gets assassinated by a right wing extremist.

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And so that's how we get a a constitutional crisis,
and China and Russia leap into the breach to take
advantage of all this chaos, and they send money to
the anarchists, which is what makes the revolution possible. I
don't know how they get it. Are they like are
they venmoing it to different food not bombs groups? And

(20:18):
like bail funds? How are they sending all of these
weapons over what does this actually look like?

Speaker 4 (20:25):
That's really funny, that's really funny. Choice Russia is funneling
some money to people quote unquote on the left, but
it's certainly not anarchists.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
No, and it's certainly not like they're they're they're like
they get mortars. They're attacking the White House with actual
with actual mortars at some point. But parts of this
do read like Portland fan fiction. And I'm gonna I'm
gonna go back to the book now. Secret Service Assistant
Chief Jack Desmond sit in the hot seat of the
Services Emergency Response Center, two stories under the White House

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and glared at the screens. The protesters had been getting
bolder in the last few weeks, a few clamoring over
the fence in Lafayette Park and then attempting to scale
the perimeter fence around the White House. Each night. The
numbers grew each night new tactics were employed. The majority
of the perpetrators had been apprehended, but there was method
behind their madness. The increased use of fireworks was part
of a strategy. Desmond saw a pattern which was a

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part of his job to go beyond the raw data.
They're testing our response, watching how we react. It spoke
to him of a level of sophistication. The FBI and
the DOG were not assigning to the leaders of the protests.
When the two groups hit the perimeter fence at different times.
He finally convinced his superiors they were planning something bigger,
something far worse. They're coordinated, organized, and upping their game.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
It's funny because it is definitely like just Portland panfic,
but also yeah, wildly underestimating the FBI and the DHS's yeah,
presumption of like a complexity.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, because they.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
Have some very interesting theories on how these types of
protests operate.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, well yeah, the reality is that they were like
obsessed with attempting to find a leadership CADRA behind the
twenty twenty George Wood protest that.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
Like never exists, yeah, which is like yeah, and uh,
you know, on the same token, like when there was
actually a siege at the Capitol Building, they weren't ready
at all because they had not in any way prepared
for the one that actually came their way.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
This guy's kind of Fox News brain worms. You can
you can tell he just kind of mainlined a raw
diet of andy No during the twenty twenty election. Here's
here's his description of the White House surveillance system. There
were cameras everywhere around the White House on microdrones, some
planted on the fence. Some camouflage is nothing more than
bolt satellite surveillance. Not to mention the agents that mingled

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with the protesters decked out in all caps Antifa black.
Every single time he uses the word Antifa, it's in
all caps, as if Antifa special black. They licensed Bantom
black from that.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
One guy that would be so cool is really shadow people,
and it's he talks about how like some of them
have takeout took out cameras with paintball.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Guns, which is a real thing that people do. Others
have strobes to overload the night vision gear, and others
used signs, large banners, and makeshift shields to conceal their
nefarious activities.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah this is just Portland.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, well what are you concealing with a shield? Guys,
they're concealing that they're trying not to get shot with
rubber bullets. One of the things I find fascinating and
kind of enlightening about this is that every time he
talks about the crowd, he talks about it as if
it's like a hive intelligence, Like not like it's a
group of actual people, but like it's it's some sort

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of like alien species, where like the entire organization of
people has a collective mind. So yeah, here's.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Isn't like wrong.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Sometimes it isn't wrong about how fear works. It's it's
he he is crediting them with like again, you and
I have been to these kinds of things and seen
how hard it is to get a group of thousands
of people to take down one line of fence. Right.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Absolutely, in very brief moments, you'll see a group of
like fifty people move as like a fluid cluster and
do something really cool and then it breaks out and
to get into like entropy.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
But if they do, they're wearing charcoal black, not into you.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, they're probably probably didn't have the right color of
black in Portland.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeerson, honestly that that may be it.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
Just like a charcoal or like a faded or you know, definitely.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Not would be nice. Actually I agree, Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's a great color. It's a great color.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
So here's another great line. The rules of engagement for
a massed assault were known, and he knew people would
hesitate thoughts of mowing down American protesters on the front
lawn of the White House was the kind of thing
that got you hauled up to Capitol Hill He had
reviewed the rules carefully with the teams at the start
of his shift. As he watched the screens, he saw
that the crowd was monitoring his people on the rooftops
and their assorted purchase. The problem was that the crowd

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was willing to risk it, fueled by hate and organized
by All Caps, Antifa and other radical groups. They had
gotten more sophisticated.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
The Antifa All Caps for me baby, Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Then we get our actual Portland reference Garrison. The arrest
of several cells in Portland and New York had resulted
in bombings and two assassination attempts on department heads, leaving
one director in the hospital. This was beyond protests. This
was now war, though the press played the entire thing
down as minor incidents of violence and otherwise peaceful protests. Sure, yeah,

(25:37):
I again, it's this like, they did arrest a lot
of people that they claimed were like leaders in Portland
and elsewhere. And you know what didn't happen is any
directors of federal agencies got murdered.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
No, unless I missed that in the news cycle.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, I feel like they would have hit on that
pretty hard. Yeah, I did want to at anytime one
of these guys gives me something to drill in on,
particularly in the press playing down incidents of violence at
peaceful protests and stuff. I want to dig into that
as much as I can, And there's a couple of
good articles on that by some scholars who have actually

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analyzed the way in which the media tends to cover
social justice protests and what things they tend to highlight
in their coverage. One of the first papers I found
was by Danielle Brown and Summer Harlowe in the Journal
of Press and Politics titled Protests, Media Coverage and a
Hierarchy of Social struggle. This is what they write. Scholars
across disciplines of scrutinized press coverage of collective action, exploring

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the institutional, organizational, and individual influences that shift the quality
and quantity of coverage. Many different structural, organizational, and institutional
features of media production and social disruption affect media coverage
of social movements. However, most scholars have shown that the
institutional logics of the mainstream media do not favor social movements,
and only the most appealing or newsworthy features of a

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movement are likely to result in news coverage, and when
we talk about, like what are the most newsworthy features
of a movement that's like incidents of violence or anything
that can be characterized police on fire, Yeah exactly, Like yeah, yeah,
that's the like if that happens, that's the only thing
that's winding up in a lot of coverage on a protest.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
If a dumpster's on fire on day one, it might
get something. If dumpter's on fire on day twenty five,
no one cares.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah. Yeah, it's become the norm. And Harlowe also wrote
an article for The Washington Post in twenty twenty one
where she summarized the data she's collected during years of
research into how the media covers protests. Quote my own
research analyzed about fifteen hundred protest related news stories published
throughout twenty fourteen in mainstream, alternative, partisan, and online news publications.

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Articles about conservative protests, like protests supposed to immigration or
LGBT rights, or protest supporting Trump and gun rights, are
less likely to be negatively framed as riots than other
types of protests. In contrast, Black Lives Matter protests are
more likely to be framed as riots. New use coverage
focus is more on violence, property damage, and confrontations with police.
For example, at twenty seventeen San Antonio Express News article

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about an anti white supremacy protest, which was included in
another study I did, started with a reference to brawls
that broke out and the arrest of protesters who swarmed
the sidewalk hurling insults and chanting. The aim of the
protest was placed in quotation marks white supremacy, which arguably
delegitimizes protesters' grievances, and yeah, yeah, pretty normal stuff. She

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surveyed one hundred journalists from Missouri, Virginia, Arizona, and Texas
in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen and combined those surveys
with an analysis of nine hundred and thirty two protest
related stories from newspapers in those states, and found that
most journalists said that they were neither supportive nor unsupportive
of protesters generally, and were less supportive of racial justice

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movements than they were of women's rights or immigrants rights,
which I found interesting.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
That is interesting.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, again, it's the appic of what
this guy reports, because reality is the opposite of what
actually happened. But let's return to the fantasy. Of China
funded Antifa.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
It's a lot more fun.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
So this next line here gives us both collapsible ladders
as a sinister weapon and gives us our first anti
mask line. Sir the captain seated in front of him
spoke up, pointing to the far left monitor. Look, I
think those are collapsible ladders. Jack saw them too in
the crowd. They were hard to make out, even with
night vision that use them before to toss up makeshift barricades.

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But tonight, tonight felt different. Leaning in, he toggled the
microphone on and tore off the black mask he'd been
forced to wear since the pandemic began. He couldn't afford
to have his voice muffled. Not now, this is Rabbit
to all stations. Southeast corner ladder spotted prepare for breaching attempts.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
I like that. The ladder is hard to spot too.
It's very good.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
What kind of ladders are they carrying that you can't
very easily?

Speaker 4 (30:00):
An extendible ladder is like it's like three times.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Hind of a man. Yeah, yeah, I love this. How
sinister the ladders are. Yeah, it's it's all beautiful.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
That maskline, he is really proud of that one.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
It's so good. So the protesters, working with military precision,
penetrate like he gets a call that while they're sieging
the White House, rioters have already penetrated the Capitol and
taken the Speaker of the House hostage. So he has
to order he has to order a condition red because
protesters are headed for them. Next, the crowd surges forward

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and the cops start shooting. He could not hear the
gunfire in the erc but he heard it over the speakers.
Rubber bullets at first sprayed a swath of the rioters,
but they did not recoil like they had before. Though
a dozen or more dropped from the kinetic impacts, most
got right back up and continued the climb. Body armor
Fucking Amazon and eBay. They would run out of rubber
bullets soon. Then things would get ugly and bloody. You

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can get body armor on eBay. I wouldn't recommend it,
but they don't sell it on Amazon anyway. Whatever.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Maybe they mean like motorcross gear.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
I don't know, like airsoft. I mean airsoft armor is
fine for rubber bullets. Yeah, I don't think they mean
like ballistic armor. I think I think I just like padding. Yeah,
that does make if these guys are all dressed as
air softers, though, it does make them seem a little
bit less threatening. Now it's unclear to me because he
makes a big deal about how they're using fireworks. At
the start, he starts, there's a line here where like

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they start heals mortars because they start exploding.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
This this is an andy No thing. Andy No calls
all fireworks mortars like this, Like when they say mortars,
they don't mean like actual military motors. What they mean
Fourth of July fireworks.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
In this it's in this garrison. It's both because he
starts by talking about fireworks and meaning mortars, and then
he says mortars. And it becomes clear over the course
of the fight that they are actually shooting real mortars
at the White House. Presumably the Chinese gave it to them,
but these are these are Now we are both getting
like fear mongered of like they're using fireworks to test

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the defenses and now they have real mortars. Okay, so
that's that's where this goes. We now cut to a
new character, Charlie spelled just with an I Kazinski, who
is a lady Secret Service person who works on the
President's detail, and she busts in the Oval Office. This
is we presume President Trump. And she's like, you know,

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we got a real problem here. The Antifas are about
to take the White House. Part of why this is
very funny to me is that the first thing President
Trump says is like, I can't leave. What about my family,
my wife and son? And real President Trump absolutely would
not be concerned with that in the situation.

Speaker 7 (32:53):
Absolutely, it would leave them to die.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Several shots at the proof glass of the Oval office,
snap cracking on the armored glass. The President rose as
another explosion went off outside, throwing tiny bits of grass
and dirt on the window. He moved to her side
as two additional agents rushed in flanking him. My family,
my wife and son. So she promises to get his kids,

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and yeah, there's a Charlie takes him down an elevator.
We're informed that the elevators in the White House can
be electrified after use, so they'll kill anyone trying to
access them. And there's also a gas system to pump
knockout drugs into the shaft if it were breached. I
looked into this. I couldn't find any evidence one way
or the other. Maybe maybe that's true, I hope. So

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so he calls our boy Jack calls the Secretary of
Defense and tells him to scramble the troops, and the
troops are under attack too. The military base, Joint Base
Bowling was just hit by two car bombs and is
being shelled, and so is Andrew's Air Force Base. So
the antifas have carried out on the same night overwhelming
attacks against two military bases, the Capitol and the White House.

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And again, in the most impressive actions you and I saw,
they were able to tear down a fence after like
five hours.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
After like two weeks. Yeah, practice, this is. This is
an unprecedented level of coordination.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, this this is I'm really wondering what the signal
loops are like for these anti Those.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Signal chats gotta be going crazy.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Hey guys, we're bombing Joint Air Force Base Santruce. We're
in the Pentagon, we are on the teams gone, We've
got the speaker. Oh yeah, it's really funny. So there's
a moment here where the Secret Service head or sorry,

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where the President tells the Secretary of Defense to send
the army in to crack down on the protests, and
the Secretary of Defense won't do He's not willing to
send American troops in to like fight Americans on American soil.
And this is again like a thing that happened right
now in real life. What happened is President Trump asked

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General Millie, his secretary of Defense, can you just shoot
them in the legs?

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
And Milly was like, no, I can't have the army
just go shoot protesters in the lakes. Anyway, I find
that very funny. But you know, Garrison, what's not funny
and what won't shoot you in the.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Legs are lovely advertisers.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
They might shoot you in the legs. If it's the
Washington State Highway Patrol again, they'll definitely shoot you in
the legs. Well yeah, yeah, all right, so we'll come back.
But first, here's some ads, all right, Garrison. So that's

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our cold open, right. The White House is sieged and taken.
The president is it's kind of unclear what happens to him,
Like we know from the summary that he's supposed to
have died in this, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Because he was like taking captured and died in prison.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
We don't see him die in this right we some
you know, as a spoiler, he's not actually dead, garrissons.
Donald Trump is alive and living in secret five years
so he's going to lead some like resistance for us hopefully.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Oh, Garrison, you've you've predicted exactly where this book is going.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, of course, of course.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
So chapter one, it opens with a character named Andy Forrest,
and Andy is in a cancer ward at a hospital
watching his dad die. It's it's National Hospital one fourteen
because all of the hospitals were in a sinister manner nationalized.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
They're communist hospitals now.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
They're communist hospitals now. Yeah, and his father is classified
as non essential, non contributing, so there's debate about whether
or not his recovery is even worth it, and he's
he's angry that he had to fight to get the
treatment he got and it's still not working and just
like that's just yeah, just like in Canada. I don't know,
like his experience sounds a lot like the hospital experience

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I just had with my dad that exists in our
current system. But yeah, he's unhappy about it. And part
of why he's unhappy is that his sister's here, and
his sister is a sinister member of the new Antifa
law enforcement agency, the social enforcement Agency. Oh, Harrison, the

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Garrison they shared do and they are literally they're literally
Antifa mobs that follow people around and harass them if
they're bad.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
So I'm going to read me. So this is this
is the description of his sister. Oh for first, Actually,
there's a line I need to read here about the hospitals.
Andy wished he could afford private healthcare, but at the
same time was glad he couldn't. If I made that
kind of money, it just would have put a target
on my back. In Numerica, making money was a curse?

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Because that's not Actually that doesn't actually make sense. Can
you buy better healthcare with your money?

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Or no?

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Is it a curse? Or is it a curse?

Speaker 3 (38:08):
I forgot about nu America for exec.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
That he will not let you forget, Garrison. You're about
to get so many different fucking acronyms and shit shoved
in your face.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Oh I'm so I'm so thrilled for acronyms. I love
me some fake three letter agencies.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Are you all ready for this? Banana anyway, Okay, here's
here's a description of his sister. The woman wore her
black shirt with red piping on her collar showing her
rank and social enforcement. Where the National Security Force NSF
was a potent arm of the fedgov, social Enforcement was
a less controlled and thus more dangerous born out of
the all caps Antifa and BLM mobs during the liberation.

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The act is informal police dispensing social justice as they
saw fit.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Oh wow, that's that's really something special.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
It's't that beautiful.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
That's that's that's amazing. That's really that's really nice. I
like the caller piping.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Classy, classy nice.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
It's good to know that we we still have style.
When the Antifa mobs are made part of the government.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
N SF has like a good a good ring to it.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's not ye. Dispensing social justice is.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Just deeply, deeply funny.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
It's it's extremely funny. Her name is Karen, and the
first thing he notices about her is that she's put
on weight since the last time he saw her. Because,
of course, cool insult my eye. Yeah, so they have
a fight, he says. It's because she and her social
justice goons got their dad fired from his job quote
because of the sees. He lost his house, our mom,

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almost everything he had, and his reputation because of the.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Investigation canceled culture police.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
That's literally what they are. They took his mom from him.
Oh fuck, it's so funny. So she's like, no, he
was a bad our dad did a bad thing. He
supported a domestic terrorist group, and he didn't change his
class curriculum to the standard. The man was a professor
at Sir Journer Truth you and refused to adhere to

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the rules. So Andy gets angry first because Sojourner Truth
University is supposed to be Mary Washington University, but all
of the schools with Washington and the name got purged
during the Great Reformation.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Nice and again it's like, actually.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah, I think Sojourner Truth deserves the university more than
Mary Washington.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
I agree, yeah, but whatever, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
That anybody cares that much. Here's him describing what happened
to his dad. His father had been a respected historian,
but the NSF had ruined him. Surely Sojourner Truth would
have been opposed to that. They had sent social enforcement
teams to follow him everywhere harassing him to the point
where he couldn't get to his classroom. They broke windows
at the house, set fire to his car, and relentlessly

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followed him, screaming and shoving to the point where businesses
wouldn't allow him in. Everything he typed was monitored, screened,
and often edited. Big Tech monitored every keystroke he made,
or so he claimed.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
This, this is this is the retribute of justice blueprint.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
This is what we need to get big tech Antifa
mobs hand in hand.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yeah, big tech working yet like perfectly with the random
mops of people breaking windows.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Sitting in keystroke lubs, gangs.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Mark Zuckerberg just can't wait to partner with an antifa mob.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
He would love this. He would love this definitely.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
This has been his dream since the beginning. Andy's sister
was part of the Social Enforcers or SE, a part
of what the FEDGOV called the Great Reformation. Again, he's
already introduced all these concepts before, and now we're getting
the info dump on them, which is just is a
little sloppy. That's what we editor what I called this.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Yeah no, that's what we call solid writing. That's called
the world building.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Robert the Overview Throw of the government was called the
liberation by almost everyone out loud. In whispers, however, it
was called the fall. Karen had consumed the kool aid
of the riots. Yes, so yeah. He'd gotten fired by
the school, who didn't even care that he'd done nothing wrong,
And then came the NSF interrogators. Separate from the se

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They were just as bad, if not worse, because they
had a fragment of legitimacy the social enforcers lacked. The
NSF claimed he knew radicals and that he had incriminating
materials in his possession, materials that were never produced, only alleged.
They allowed him to be hauled before two people's tribunals
the kangaroo courts of the SEES, with no evidence, and
he lost two years of his life, exiled to a

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social quarantine camp, denied his freedoms. He had come back
from social quarantine a hollow shell of a human being.
In the end, Karen had done nothing for her father
other than attempt to persuade him to provide the names
of his associates. She'd been in social enforcement and could
have vouched for him, perhaps called off their dogs. Instead,
she let their father die emotionally now the cancer was
doing the rest, and Andy reveals that they were the

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terrorist group he was a charge of being a member of.
Was the Republican Party?

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Oh my god, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
And Karen's like, no, he actually had ties to another
group called the Sons of Liberty and natural terrorist group
and he's like, well when it was it become I
legal to support a cause? Well, Andy, you've just been inconsistent.
There was your dad just a member of the Republican
Party or was he a member of this terrorist group?
But it's it's it's fine anyway. Karen and Andy continue

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to argue. He calls them a bunch of thugs who
go out to administer you know, uh self described justice
to innocent people, and Karen says, we don't go after
innocent people. Innocent people have nothing to fear. YadA, YadA, YadA.
It's uh, it's it's it's it's it's mostly the rest

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of them. There. Argument is there's some good world building
when we get to the end of this chapter.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Here this is just like a boomer writing his own
scary enemy and then getting scared of himself.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Where Karen saw him as flawed.
Andy saw him as a man who honored his friends.
The mention of their mother hid hard. When their father
had lost his job and was tormented NonStop by the
social enforcers, she had left him. His mother lived under
a cloud of fear that she would be attacked while
stepping out to get groceries. That was part and parcel
with the tactics of the social enforcement teams. Harassment was

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a weapon in their hands. She moved in with a friend,
but was unable to get work. Her name was on
a list because of their father. She took her life
six months later, never even speaking to Andy's father. He
had not been released for her funeral. Karen laid the
blame at their father's feet. So that's their totally realistic
situation here. Yeah, I found it powerful.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Very very scary.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yeah, very scary. So that's our opening. And then we
get to the district. So we're introduced to a new
CA character, Kaylee Leetram, who I think from reading this
was former CIA and is now a part of the
FEDGOV actual law enforcement agency, so not the anarchist mobs,
but like basically the FBI and the CIA and all

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the other law enforcement groups got amalgamated into a different
organization that didn't have the name police in it, because
that's that's scary.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Now, it's really just the word that we have a
problem with. Nothing, Yeah, that they do systemically, I'll be
to be fair, there's definitely like a third of of
I don't know, the people on the left that I've met,
that just want to make the police their own police. No,
that is that is true.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
But you know.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Another third who just wants the scenario as written here,
and the other third who yeah, to think of something
a little bit better than both of this.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Yeah, But in the reality is that all three of
those groups together are about two hundred people, like not
not quite enough to overthrow the White House capital and
two hundred though, yeah, every one of them on Twitter.
So there's some great descriptions here. When the boss of
the National Support Force, which is this law enforcement agency

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comes in, and you really you get a lot about
the author from how he describes her, because I think
this is supposed to be AOC. The secretary of the
National Support Force came into the room, a perky woman,
probably the same age as Kaylee, in her mid to
late thirties. The secretary had a quasi hispanic look.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
To she es no, no.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Hispanic.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
See, how do you write that? And editor would have
caught that? Editor when I caught that?

Speaker 2 (46:43):
What is what is quasi hispanic? Anyway, he's very Again.
It's like whenever Ben Shapiro talks about AOC, you can
just like you can feel the thirsty. Yeah. The secretary
had spanic look to her, dark skin, pristine, long straight hair,
and almost perfect makeup. She wore a single gold pip

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on the coldar of her jacket that signaled her rank.
Other than that, she wore a small black flag pin
adorned with the white outlined fist and arrow lightning bolts
stabbing downward. The old flag had long been banned, deemed
far too racist and prejudice to ever be shown in public.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Nice nice base BASEA wow.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
I like that. Also, they have like Star Trek uniforms
with like pimps on them.

Speaker 5 (47:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
No, that's good moves. It seems like the new government's
making some solid choices.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
I like that they like add in details that they're like,
by the way, she's hot, hair, luscious.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Makeup, almost perfect, almost perfect. She fucked up one bit
of it.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
They're like one eyelash out of place xoxo.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yeah, weird. Yeah, So you know, she gets into some
sort of bullshit argument with the secretary lady, who is like,
have you been briefed as to why you were brought here?
And Kaylee, we can tell is like the bad girl
who doesn't who you know, doesn't play by the rules
but gets results. So the secretary asks, have you been
briefed as to why you were brought here? And Kaylee responds, no,

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I presume it's because somebody fucked something up and you
need me to unfuck it. Watch your language, Kaylee. Her
direct supervisor, Burke Dorn said from his seat next to her.
Doran was the oldest man in the room and had
been FBI back in the day when they formed the
National Support Force. The FBI, DHS, state and local law
enforcement had all been combined. The word police had been
dropped because it had been deemed defensive and potentially racist.

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And I do love that all of these old FBI
guys and shit are still cops. They just had to
call themselves something different.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
No, it shows it is a weird like fundamental misunderstanding
of like everything.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Yeah, it's it's very funny that, like, yeah, it is
basically the same guys. It's just AOC is in charge
of the CIA. Now finally the leftist evolution has accomplished
its goal. So they're they're all concerned because the Sons
of Liberty are back. There's some they had thought that
they killed all these guys. Kay Lee was like, I

(49:11):
buried the bodies myself. We took them out. Uh, but
they're buried the bodies. No, no, no, kay Lee, whose
who's our our I think our self insert girl character author.
So we thought, but there have been some recent acts bombing,
cyber swipes and an assassination or two. We had our
friends in Silicon Valley crunch it and they say, there's

(49:31):
a pattern. You think the Sons of Liberty are or
the s o L are back. The use of the
acronym was important. The use of a full name gave
terrorist groups identity, using an acronym to humanize them. They
weren't people. They were just a thing and needed to
be dealt with. It was the language of the fedguff
which made it the language of numerica.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
Well, why wow, there's a lot.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
There's a lot to unpack. I don't know if we
have mind going on there to unpack that the level
of dehumanization of three are accurate acronym terrorist groups.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
I'm like, whoa, what about the FBI, Like.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
The FBI is an acrony.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Say yeah, so if becomes clear that's what's happened, is
they would you know, when these attacks started, they started
like following up on any leads who were kind of
close to some of the Sons of Liberty people that
they took out. And they saw on like a security
camera footage next to a car that used to belong
to someone who's in the Sons of Liberty. They got
a clear picture of Donald Trump. There's a they think

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there's a there's a fifty three percent chance and their
facial recognition that it's really him. And Kayley's like, I
don't know, that's not very high and they're like, no,
take a look, and she's like, I'm confused. He was
arrested and put in prison. I saw the pre trial motions.
He died of a heart attack in his cell. Everyone
saw the body. It was all over the net. Dorn
diverted his eyes to the conference room table, and the

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Secretary drew a long breath before continuing, what you saw
was what the country needed closure. Our friends in how
would help us craft something that would help everyone heal
he survived, we were unsure. We haven't seen any trace
of him or his detail since the liberation. We believe
there was an almost zero chance of him being alive.
The city was on fire and citizens were roving the streets.
The Trader President wasn't a quiet man. If he had

(51:16):
been alive, he would have popped up. We did some
good cgi with our Hollywood associates and gave the people
what they wanted. Justice. And then there's an Epstein reference. Jesus, Yeah,
of course, yeah, yeah. We couldn't have him Epstein himself.
He was dead, which was all we wanted. But now
it's clear he's not dead, and you can see. I
think Kaylee is going to turn out to be a

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good character because she's disturbed that they lied about the
President being dead. I love the idea of Donald Trump
living in hiding in the undercraft.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
He would hate hanging out with these guys, oh my god,
because they are not the same class level. Like he
does not fuck with these people actually, and he is
not gonna want to hang out with the sons of libert.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
He's able to spend five or six years, completely silent
in the underground. When the real Trump gets cut off
of Twitter and creates a new app so that he
can tweet on the toilets, like the discrepancy between the
real man and this like cold blooded operator president is
extremely funny to me. Sure anyway, Kayley's concerned because she's

(52:27):
used to being able to see through the propaganda and
she hadn't caught that they lied about this, But now
she's like, you want me to assassinate the president of
the United States. He is not the president, not anymore,
the secretary had raged in her voice. It was understandable.
She and the President had been sworn enemies years before
the liberation. On top of that, they've already declared him dead.
The United States is what we've made it, not what

(52:49):
he was in charge of. That country is no more.
He's a war criminal. The man is a monster and abomination.
What I want is for you to do your job.
The world thinks him dead, so we need to maintain that.
Can you do it? And uh yeah? She's like, yeah,
I need all the money you can give me, and
I need a team. And she's told that she's gonna
be She's going to have to fight against the the

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se groups out there, right, So the the remnants of
the real cops have a conflict with the social enforcement
cops because they don't actually follow any rules. They're just
mobs of people who break windows and light your car
on fire, which is the best word, the best world
building in this book so far. But apparently AOC is
in the process of trying to destroy the Social Enforcement Organization.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
It's great because it's, yeah, what if the world was
full of like there's maybe like twenty anarchists who are
actually like this, but what if everybody was those twenty people?

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Yeah, and what if there were enough of them to
overthrow the government exactly?

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Yeah, and then just like keep going afterwards too, they
just can't stop break a windows.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Yeah, and we get a little inside AOC. Is my here.
Six years ago, I was an outspoken junior congresswoman, a
radical in my own party. Now I control the most
powerful agency in the Fed Gov. So yeah, she's she has.
She pushed through the Restores Civil Liberties Act, which rolled
all of the different police agencies together. So that's that's fun.

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And yeah, there's like a line about how they had
to fire a few thousand cops to make this new
cop agency. That's all the cop agencies, and that's a
small price to pay for to restore public confidence. Now
the nu American people can feel a sense of confidence
in their law enforcement. Even in her own head. It's
nu America.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
So there's like the real cops and like the cancel
culture cops, both working independently at the same time.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Yes, yes, yes, Garrison, that's my understanding.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Okay, yeah, okay, sure.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Now that ends chapter two or chapter one. And now
at chapter two we start in Alvarado, Texas.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
It was all one chapter.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
That was one chapter, Garrison, a lot of round right,
he made moves. You know, we're we're almost done with
this episode. But I want to introduce you to Raoul Lopez,
who is He's eighteen years old and he's he's trying
to decide should he join the youth cores.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
No.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Most of his fellow high school graduate student line for
reparation points and stimulus relief rather than the land jobs.
The TV news said Numerica was prospering, but he never
saw it. Many businesses had been damaged by the riots
and closed up forever, and others had simply left their
buildings gutted for copper wire and plumbing.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
So what's changed. We still have TV news, we still
have businesses like mm.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
What's different is that the entire economy seems to be
based around reparations.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
Reparations and stimulus. Yeah, so we have like universal basic
income and reparations and nationalized healthcare.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
It's kind of unclear.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
We did it, Joe. And they cancel culture cups.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Yeah, they cancel culture mob cups. So he Raoul goes
into the recruiters eye for the youth core and she's
like hot. That's the first thing he notices is she's hot.
She's got a small triangle insignia on her right collar,
which he says is probably a rank. I think it
might actually be like the queer triangle, like for concentration

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camp inmates. Because she's about to talk to him about
the different minority groups he's a part of and how
many points he'll get from them on his reparations. It's bad.
It's bad. Garrison so weird. Also, this is a personal
pet peeve, but he describes the electronic device she's using
as a digipad, and like, just call it an iPad.

Speaker 7 (56:35):
Man.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
You wrote this in twenty twenty one. It's set in
twenty twenty five. They didn't invent a new set of tablets.
It just give her an iPad.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
It's like, it's so fine, just say tablet like this
till it right? Did you?

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Pad?

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Is so pad?

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Come on, man, come on, man, like we have tablets.
So Roll was the first person in his family to
graduate high school, and she his mom, wanted him to
go to college. Rule had tried to explain to his
mother that his grades had been low, that jumping straight
into college was not really an option. The problem was
that when college had been made free, everyone wanted to go.

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The colleges couldn't handle the massive influx students got in
based on race, sexual preference, poverty level. Even with Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
What are we doing?

Speaker 1 (57:24):
What are we doing here?

Speaker 3 (57:28):
How many dicks have you sucked? He's on the application.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Paper, Jesus, Oh my god, it's so funny. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Not enough dix for the graduate program.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Not enough dick. So your grades back, literally, that's what
he's like, is like, because of all the different things
that count, your grades actually matter, and my grades aren't
high enough to get in. And that's like why the
system's broken. That's so funny, Like it sounds like the
systems still merit based. Then, yeah, it's very funny. So

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this lady is like, no, you could. You could go
to college. If you do two years in the Youth Corps.
You get into any school that you want, right, and
there's even classes in the evenings to help you prepare
for school, and those grades can boost your high school
grades retroactively so you can get into better colleges. It
actually sounds like the Youth Corp is a great deal.
Garrisons deal. You get paid, you get freedom and board,
on the job training, free admission to any college you want.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
That's not a bad deal.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Yeah, sounds great. So he asks does it pay, and
she tells him we pay off the freedom scale. It
isn't a lot, but we're providing you room, board and training.
You'd be ranked by reparation points. You are Hispanic, so
that would give you some points, but being male will
hold you back for points based on sex. By any chance,
are you gay? Transgender are part of an oppressed religion?

Speaker 1 (58:52):
See, I'm fine with them giving CIS men less points.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
To be honest, that's exactly what she says. You'll still
make more than a privileged white man.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
There you go, there you go. You're still on the team, buddy.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
And role asks even if we did the same work.
Of course, the recruiter said with a smile. The scale
rates people by their oppressed status. The more oppressed you are,
the more you're compensated. It's based on the reparations scale
used for monthly checks. It's all designed to make things fair.

Speaker 4 (59:22):
There's just this is so fox News break like, this
is so sus Such a high number of people who
genuinely believe like this is what like the Democrats want
to do and like like have already done for colleges,
people who this is already what is happening like this,
this is DEI.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
This is like.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
It's it's really funny, and it's like he's he's like,
I don't what prevents somebody from just lying about being
gay to get more money, But he also doesn't do that,
which is kind of like suddenly working against the author's point. Anyway,
I think this is a good place to end for
now we've seen our vision of the of the terrifying
antifa utopia. Garrison. I think it's interesting to see this

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actually laid out by somebody who's like a baseline level
of competent at writing, so you can really actually see
what they think is going to happen or what they
think the Democrats want. Fascinating stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:00:21):
I do wonder what my oppression level would be, like
how much do I make? I would I would love
to try to try to quantify this, honestly, but maybe
that's for another another time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Yeah, maybe that's for another time. Well, Garrison, you know
what's not for another time?

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
The end of this episode.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
That's fine right now? Oh yeah, what do you gotta plug? Garrison?

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
There's probably something can happen here episode on some terrible
thing that's happened that I put out recently, So go
check out.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
It could happen here.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
Sometimes we talk about good things too, so you never know.
It's always it's always a gamble. And then you can
find me on X the place to go to see
what's happening at Hungry bo Tie.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Yeah, that's where Garrison will be whipping up his social
enforcement mob. I'll try, I'll try.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
Yeah, it was really uncomfortable hearing you call it X.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
I was like, what are you?

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
I was like, what are you talking about? And everybody
we did it. It's fucking over. Bye. Behind the Bastards
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