May 16, 2025 • 49 mins
The gang talks about White House efforts to suspend habeas corpus and expand deportation efforts, while DeSantis builds new detention centers in Florida. Plus, updates on tariffs and Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestine students.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg4zk22n9wo
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/establishing-project-homecoming/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/national-guard-immigration.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone/
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Colson Media.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I will get way too mad if I talk about
the DNC anymore. In this preamble, this is it could
happen here Executive Disorder, our weekly newscast covering what's happening
in the White House, the crumbling world, and what it
means for you. I'm Garrison Davis today. I'm joined by
James Stout, Mia Wong, and Robert Evans. Right, everybody, this episode,
we are covering the week of May eighth through May fifteenth.
(00:30):
Trump gets bribed by cutter, Stephen Miller wants to suspend
Habeas Corpus, and a twitch streamer gets interrogated at the border.
How are we doing, fellas?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Uh, I don't know. Bad, Like every time.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm not talking to border patrol willingly and ye, that's
what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And I'm not doing I'm staying the fuck away from
the border, although it's also impossible to stay the fuck
away from the border because like ninety percent of the
country lives technically within a hundred mine the border patrols
from met Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, but if you are happening to go to the
border and you do get stopped by law enforcement, you
should not talk to them. You should you should say
that you're staying silent and will only speak with a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You have certain things that you have to say, right
if they decide to talk to you about something other
than you know, here's my passport, et cetera. Do I
have anything to declare? Which you do have to answer
if they attempt to engage you in other conversation about, say,
your political beliefs. All you have to say is am
I being detained? And if they say yes, you say,
(01:33):
I plead the fifth and I demand to speak to
a lawyer, and then nothing else. There's nothing else you say.
That's how you should handle this situation.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, you definitely do not need to debate your politics.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Not required with the border patrol.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Tell them how you feel about Potestine. That's yeah, not
gonna end well.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
No, not necessary, and yeah, like it's one of those
things I have no desire to, like get into an
online beef with the fellow who got stopped. He is
a big boy and able to make his own choices.
But I do not recommend you make those same choices,
because there's no actual benefit to you in doing that.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Right, Yeah, yeah, don't coalk the cops. It's very easy
to not talk to the cops. I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Uh huh, that's what you think trivially easy.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, it's it's it's simple and unnecessary, and it's just
like largely the problem is that And this is even
something that he talked about where like, well, the guy
seemed really nice and he apologetic and like he didn't
want to have to do this. And if you're having
a conversation like that with them, then they're getting what
they want out of it, which is for you to
(02:42):
feel like that right, for you to feel like, oh, Okay,
this guy's this guy's nice, I can chat with him
for a little while you feel to talk.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, yes, that's their entire job. That's what they're trying
to get you to do. Yeah, And again, like this
is this is specifically if you are like a US
citizen coming to read to the country. There's there's different
different rules and different different suggestions which you should talk
with an immigration lawyer about if you were not a
US citizen.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yes, yes, not advice for people who are coming here
and not citizens.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, yeah, none of this is.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But yeah, you really really do not need to get
into a debate with the border guard about your politics
when you're trying to enter the country.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Or any other time really just just.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Really any time.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, there's no point in time in which that's useful
to you or anyone else.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You ain't changing doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Maybe do it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Maybe there's more to politics than debate. No, speaking of
more to politics, the PKK, what's going on with the
PKK fellas.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We should, we should give a brief overview of who
the PKK is. The PKK is the Kurtish Workers Party,
and it is originally a Maoist and now not that
terrorist group. That's legally how it's defined by the United
States and by most Western countries. That was started in
southern Turkey like in the late seventies, close to fifty
(04:03):
years ago, and it started out as a rather different
kind of organization than it is. It's one of its
founders and generally the guy referred to as its founder
as a dude named of the la Aujalon or Oppo
who got captioned Kenya a few decades back and has
been in a Turkish prison ever since, but does continue
(04:25):
to like write stuff that informs because there's kind of
this strong Maoist core at the heart of the foundation
of the party continues to have a lot of influence
over it. And this is the root of kind of
the different organizations that sprung out and became what we
call Rajava. Is this this group that kind of came
(04:45):
in during Isis's invasion and you know, had changed significantly
from its MAOIs roots at that point, and kind of
from the PKK, we get the YPG and the YPJ
and you know these different social and militant move movements
in Northeast Syria.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Anyway, Yeah, they would dispute the from the PKK, they
sure would, yes, Roberts for a good legal reason. Yes, yes,
but they're all inspired by the political thought of oyser Land,
right like we can say that safely and Ouscherland. I
guess addressed by video the twelfth Congress of the PKK
(05:23):
which occurred earlier this month, at which they voted to
disband themselves and lay down their arms. So that's the
they had a meeting, right they get together. Obviously it
seems that Turkey decided not to air strike that meeting.
Turkey has been carrying out strikes against the PKK in
three different countries for decades, and sort of small arms
(05:46):
engagements as well, and artillery in the whole nine yards.
So yeah, at that conference, they decided to lay down
their arms and begin disbanding themselves and return to They're
still pursuing their struggle, I guess, for freedom for Kedistan.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
But this time through the democratic process.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, we're going to cover this subject in more detail
on Tuesday next Tuesday. But suffice it to say, like,
this does not mean that like the PKK is like
that all of the kind of different movements that came
out of and were inspired by the PKK are like
folding up and setting up shop. This is more of
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a pragmatic decision made as the result of the changes
of situations on the ground and the progress that a
number of these other movements have made. And yeah, this
is worthy of deeper discussion. We'll give a deeper discussion.
But this is something that's going to hopefully at least
mean that Turkey spends less time bombing nor than Iraq,
although that it may be foolish to hope too much
(06:48):
for that.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah, do you love to bomb an Iraq?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I guess they're calling it there like good Friday moments
of people who are familiar with the Irish situation.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, when the Ira was like, maybe we've done enough.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And significantly when there were releases of people who were incarcerated.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Right, right, And the British government did make some significant
concessions too.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yes, so we will learn more of there were concessions
involved in this process or if it was a kind
of unilateral thing.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, there's a lot of rumors again, just to go briefly,
that the Turkish government essentially needs that aired one essentially
needs some of the support of the Kurdish parties in
order to maintain keep doing Erdawan shit. So again, we'll
see on all that. Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Speaking of not blowing each other up India and Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well yeah, slightly blowing, lightly blowing each other up. Can
we say that without minimizing it.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Because yeah, there's some fens blowing up.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, so let's let's talk about this. We are thankfully
no longer on nuclear war watch. Yeah, which is great.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Put on pause, it's all cool, everything's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I was talking with a friend last night about whenever
this sort of confrontation happens. One of the nice things
about a globalist world order is that if the rest
of the world goes whoa.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, come on now, it kind
of works.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Pull them back, hold me back. China got a hand
on Pakistans chess. It's not worth it. They're not worth it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
That's the role of the United Nations, jade E Vance,
like massaging India's shoulders.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I know, man, I know, but it's whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Things get really spicy between two equal powers if one
of their buddies just can go, hey, hey dude, whoa, whoa.
It kind of works, which is a little bit silly,
but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Just remind everyone in charge. Do you know how rich
you are? Come on, you don't want this, Like you've
got hot tubs in your mansion. It ain't worth it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Politics, so much of it is just so unbelievably stupid,
Like it is just like weird nationalist masculinity bullshit, where
it's like, okay, so we killed some of your your people,
and then you're gonna kill some of our people, and
then we can both agree that we like retaliated, neither
of us back down, and then we'll do a ceasefire.
So the good news here is that we did actually
get a ceasefire. The ceasefire was holding, and it's continued
(09:21):
to hold. This is not like a kind of like
Israel Palace and ceasefire where the Israelis immediately just start
like shooting everyone an instant later. This is actually holding.
It's good. It will probably continue to hold. We got
some more details from Reuters who talked to a bunch
of officials from different camps. But we know now we're
(09:42):
gonna do a longer episode about this next week. Tuesday, Yeah,
all the wars on Tuesday. Probably Tuesday, unless like I
don't know, like some other shit happens. Who knows. I
don't want to ever promise an episode's going out of
a day because.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Tuesday, Tuesday or Wednesday, because it's like like we could
we could wake up to life.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Trump is likely Trump has like declared that like his
meme coin is now the official currency of the United
States or something like who knows what you say our Wednesday,
we'll say, yeah, yeah. So what used to have happened
that really escalated everything is that India fired on a
critical Pakistani air base and Pakistan was like, all right,
(10:20):
gotta go fucking Siico mode now, and so they do
their retaliation. India appears to not have understood exactly how
pissed off Pakistan was going to be about them hitting
this air base, which also, like you would I don't
know what their military planning is, like you would assume.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The trees normally love it when you hit their air bases. Yeah,
whenever one ran at Area fifty one, Yeah, like what.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Are we doing here? What are we doing here? But
the thing that does seem to have worked is that
Mark or Rubio seems to have actually been like able
to kind of pass information along between the advance was
also sort of involved. It seemed mostly like Rubio was
able to pass a thing to the Pakistani government being like, hey,
the Indians are gonna star up, and the Pakistani government
(11:02):
was like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, right right, but this is getting done. We did
our retaliatory attacks, like we fucked up a bunch of
expensive jets. Like that is key is that everybody can
sort of this didn't go on so far that that
like everyone has a lot to avenge, and it went
(11:24):
on enough that everybody can claim some wins. Pakistan could
be like, we really did some damage to India's best
chunk of their air force, and India can be like,
we blew up some stuff. You know, everybody's got if
you if you don't have enough information to know that,
like nobody really won. You can pretend you did, right,
And that's what both of them are doing.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, and I think this was this what you were
talking about this last week, like that the best case
scenario for this is actually I kind of better than
the best case scenario was thinking of. I mean not
this is like none of this is a good outcome,
but the outcome here of like it's like a very
abbreviated version of like in Israel or Ron thing where
they shooting each other a few times and then stop.
Hopefully this will continue to hold, and hopefully both sides
(12:06):
will not take this. And this is something that they
were talking about. One of the experts that we're just
talking to were talking about was like, hopefully both sides
don't see this as a like, oh we can have
conflict between two nuclear empowers. It'll be okay. Hopefully both
sides are going to be like this was very dumb,
but right now it seems to be over. The ceasefires holding.
(12:26):
Hopefully more people don't die.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, the dessaults dunk price though that that took a
foul after all this rafiles shut down, that's kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You know what else is funny? Hopefully rus ads.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yeah, this podcast nice one.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, that's why they pay me the beautocre bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Uh yeah, Well back to something ed. If you have ed,
please consider him zinta Cutter, I hardly Okay, no, no, Garrison,
I'm so proud of you, buddy. That was the right
thing to say. That was the right thing to say.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Ahead of Trump's plant trip to the Middle East, Cutter
has offered a gift to President Trump, a four hundred
million dollar Boeing seven forty seven eight luxury jet known
as a Palace in the sky, which Trump does plan
to accept.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Which a stupid fucking plane.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
You gotta look up a picture of this thing.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It is absurd, And I gotta say, honestly, my primary thoughts,
I know they should be like offence and anger, but
most they're mostly Ah Cutter, you know the assignment. You
knew exactly. This man can't turn down a luxury palace plane.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Someone should off from the fucking snow piercer.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
You know, it's all gold up in there.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It is. It is all gold up in there. Actually,
you can look it up.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
It is.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
No. I don't need to Garrison in my in my
mind palace, I've already seen him.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Okay, hit me with the link.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Why did we allow this to be constructed?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Because it's it's one of those things. This is not
this is like again, should it not be legal for
Trump to do this? Is it not legal for Trump
to do this? Of course? Is it physically possible for
the man Donald Trump to say no to this plane? Now?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
No, that never was in the carts. This, this is
a temple to the defeat of the International Workers Movement.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Jesus, I want to see a pictures of this plane.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Someone send me pictures.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Of the plane.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Oh man, oh, oh good lord, oh good lord. Okay,
I'm putting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I mean, it's exactly the plane you'd think.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yes, okay, it's the most trump thing you could ever imagine.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'm so angry. It's it's just Trump tower in the sky,
like you.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
No, it's it's actually what I will say about that,
here is a Trump tower in the sky. Is like
a shit built to look fancy to like tasteless Americans.
The Katari versions actually is actually extremely nice. Yes, yeah,
the immorant of Qatar knows what they're fucking doing when
(15:22):
it comes to interior design for fucking evil rich people.
This you could have had this if you replace the
walls that are clearly a plane. This could have been
like a set on and or from like a high
level coruscant like the person's house, Like that's that's what
we're talking. Especially that like room with the elevator in
the middle, Like that's a set where mon Mathma yells
(15:44):
at her husband like it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So this plane would be used as a new air
Force one and after his term, Trump would retain ownership
through his Presidential Library Foundation.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Of course that's normals.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
So many issues with this, from like national security to
like a very clear bribe. On Monday, Trump told reporters quote,
I could be a stupid person and say no, we
don't want to free very expensive airplane.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I thought it was a great gesture.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Unquote. Of course, of course what owned So what made
a comment that like we received the Statue of Liberty
as a gift the same thing.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, that's not really the same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Guy, If like it was Jeff, I don't know who
is president went arrive, but if the president was living
inside the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Chester, I think it was Chester ar for there. Yeah, okay, yeah,
I don't remember exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I do also love that Trump isn't making the same
argument that like the old that Clinton supporters used to,
which is like, well you can take money from a
thing without being influenced by it, and like the New
York Times is making this argument. They're like, well, just
because people are spending one million dollars to have dinner
at a crypto thing with Trump does mean that he's
actually been influenced by the money, so you can't call
it bribery. And I was like, this is great society.
(17:05):
We love this, we love this. Just give him, give
give the president the fancy.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Quentin pro what.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah, to be fair, Trump does have something of a
history of entering into a financial contract with people and
then totally abandoning his end of it.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
So could you could make that up?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, it's so bad Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
They get into an argument with with ABC anchors when
they asked him if he thought this could be seen
as a bribe.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I'll play a short clip here.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Why are you saying people who view that luxury jet
as a personal would get to you?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Why not leave it your NBC fake news? Why it's
only only ABC.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well a few of you would, let me tell you,
you should be embarrassed to ask him the question.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
They're giving us a free jet.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I could say, no, no, no, don't give us.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I want to pay you a billion or four hundred
million or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Or I could say thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know those are all golfer named Sam Great Golf.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
After that, he goes on to talk about golf for
a whole minute, building an analogy based on making an
easy putt on a golf course. I'm gonna quote from
BBC quote. Attorney General Pambondi reportedly investigated the legality of
the deal and determined that because there are no explicit
conditions attached, it would not amount to a bribe. Conservatives
(18:25):
and others were quick to point out that Bondi was
registered as a lobbyist for Cutter prior to joining Trump's cabinet,
at some point earning up to one hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars a month.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
For her work for the Qatari government.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, no, one's going to be like influenced by a
mere one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars a month. You couldn't,
for example, much money and get me to say everyone
should buy a Chevy truck, the new Ram, that's the
vehicle of the proletariat Ram.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
We know that this is fake because Robert would never
knowing endorse a Chevy product.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
He sent for one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. Do
you think I wouldn't sell Chevys?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
But this is the most like corrupt administration we've ever
seen before. It's absurd, like just completely like flying it
in your face. Even ten Cruz said that this gift
could could impose quote significant espionage and surveillance problems unquote, because.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Yeah, that plane is gonna be so fun for the Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
My god, how they're just the whole plane.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's just it's a flying bugs. It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Our government they're gonna listen in to every Air Force
one meeting.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Not only are they going to listen into it, the
guy whose job that is like they've already been paying
almost as much as the plane costs for him to
get preemptive therapy to sit and listen to that many
Trump inner circle conversations. The fucking Emrror himself is putting
a hand. I know, man, I know it's gonna be hard,
like we're all back, We're all behind you.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Everyone from like Ben Shapiro to Laura Lumer have have
opposed this de facto bribe as quote unquote sleazy, while
also pointing to Cutter as a terrorist aligned state.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Didn't you think your guy was?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Come on, you watched Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You believe he's gonna take a golden palace in the sky?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Come on, man, didn't They also wheel out a mobile
McDonald's famine Costa, so.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
He get that was in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Saudi Arabia, Arabia.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
They're also planning to possibly construct a new Trump tower
in Dubai.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Honestly, both Dubai and Trump deserve that kind of like shade.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah, sure they belong together.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, the people that Trump is negotiating with here just
really know how to like get wins out of him, Like, yeah,
Trump Tower, here's a mobile McDonald here's a.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Million dollar free jet. They really have him on lag.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It's tragic because the mobile McDonald's and Burger Kings used
to be a sign of American like logistical dominance that
like I was wondering if it had invaded it rock
like fuck our ability to like airstrike anyone anywhere. We
can put a fully operational McDonald's anywhere on the planet
in about sixteen hours, like no one else can do that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, we invaded a rock with burger king trailers.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, yes, and to see it turned against our values
so much? Is it's just deeply if no, I mean,
I'm joking here, but it is funny.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Speaking of foreign trade, what is that I hear? Is that?
Is that the lucid melody of tariff to Reef Garrison
locking jazz Bot sorry, lock.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Locking, jas locking.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Jason, we're all thinking about the best way we ever
spent to our company money. Every penny of that one
hundred and fourteen thousand dollars a month Chevy gives us
for telling people to buy the new Rams. It went
to a good place.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Just if we could just get one more automotive industry sponsor,
then I can finally rewrite White Riot to be about
white genocide in South Africa.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's right. We're courting Shell right now. So don't worry, James,
We're gonna get that cover.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But I'm glad to hear it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
So I heard all the tariffs are gone, basically, I
heard we're back to normal. Nothing ever happens. I can
go back to buying TMU all day long. I can't
stop playing those those TV gambling ads, and everything's normal, right, Mia.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay, So let's let's let's where are we at with
the turf tariffs. So there were actual negotiations between the
US and China, and so they agreed to a ninety
day pause on the one hundred and forty five percent
tariff and the one hundred and twenty percent tariff of
china Hood imposed retaliation. However, come there's still thirty percent
(23:00):
like a tariffs on all Chinese goods, which is in
and of itself alone enough to cause a recession. I
just want everyone's Easter forgotten. This China's is back down
to ten percent across the board on all US goods. Now, again,
this is a ninety day pause, which has been like
this is just the way that all this functions now
is nothing ever ends. It just gets kicked off like
(23:20):
down the road for ninety days. So we'll be back
here in ninety Oh well, okay, we'll be back in
the crisis zone a bit before that, because we're still
on the other ninety day countdown, which the Liberation Day
turff tariff one for every single country on Earth.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Honestly, I don't think these countdowns are real. And I
know this is like this is like different from the
way like other commentators will talk about how these tariffs
aren't really Like, I'm not saying these tariffs aren't real.
I don't know if there's someone in the White House
who is literally counting down each day here like this.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
No, I think there is. I think it's Navarro, because
Navarro actually wants all of these tariffs. And that's the
driving thing behind this is Trump kind of wants these tariffs,
but there's not enough of him there psychologically to like
push it unless Navarro is doing it. But the reason
these are taking the form of pauses is because Trump
like actually wants them until he can like negotiate his
(24:11):
big shiny deal or whatever the fuck that like can't happen.
Structuralational reasons we'll get into, but.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Like, I'm just remembering the Canada Mexico tariffs that Trump
put on a ninety day pause and then can we
completely forgot about and instead it did the Liberation Day tariffs,
which then got another ninety day pause.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
No, but there was also the but also like the
auto tariffs got paused and then those came off and
like went into effect. Yeah, so some of these like
have happened and like and I think, I really think it.
The actual thing it comes down to is like will
Navarro be the last person in the room with Trump
or will it be one of his other cabinet people
who don't support this stuff? And I think it's just
a coin flip basically as to like who wrap fucks
(24:50):
the other one successfully as to whether like all this
stuff happens. And there's still like more tariffs that are
like floating in the air that we haven't heard anything
about from last week, wild wild tariffs frolicking and in
the woods.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah, like sour dough, they can just flick it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I want to actually explain what the fuck is going
on with the Chinese tariffs though, because the reporting on
it has been really bad and no one's in the
idea what the fuck is going on? So Okay, on
the one hand, there is still the thirty percent across
the board on all Chinese goods. However, the fee for
small packages right, which is the stuff that was in
the deminimous exemption that we talked about getting reduced so
(25:26):
that tariff is at fifty four percent or a one
hundred dollars flat fee for the package. What qualifies as
a small package value. I think it's like sub eight
hundred dollars, okay roughly. So yeah, And they also still
have to go through like actual full customs, which which
the package is been diminimus like weren't going through right, okay.
(25:48):
So this is still lethal to like Tamu and Chian
and like all of all the companies that have been
relying on this stuff. It's still lethal to like vast
quantities of like parts of the supply chain that we
haven't even seen yet that we're getting like the one
kind of screw that they need in cheap Chinese packages,
because you could just do that and so and so
that's what's still in effect right now, and as best
(26:10):
I can tell, there hasn't actually been any negotiation. It's
also unclear whether the Chinese government like knew that those
were going to go back into effect, because because Trump
did this whole thing like ah, the tarifts are over,
blah blah blah blah, no are the thirty percent tariff
on all goods, And then the next day he was like, oh, yeah, no,
but that the small package one's still there and that
rates also changed, so it's also possible by tomorrow the
rates are different. Because this is the dominant feature of
(26:32):
all of this structurally is just complete chaos, Like it's
it's just chaos. Nobody has any idea what the fuck
is happening, and this is just a complete fiasco for
literally everyone, because the shifts and teriff rates that are
happening on a day by day basis are shifts large
enough to shift the entire structure of the global economy,
and they're just happening every day. And that's and that's
the thing that's like fucking the economy almost as much
(26:55):
as like the actual tariffs, is just the chaos and
the uncertainty and the inability to do any kind of
like yea, even the short term planning that businesses usually do.
It's also worth noting that like there's no actual trade
deal right like there isn't actually a US China trade deal.
There's just they both agreed to like back off for
(27:15):
a while while they do negotiations. There's also no structural
way to actually like resolve the problem that Trump sees here,
which is that like Trump and Navarro and the hardliners
don't want there to be a US trade deficit with China,
and that's not a thing that could be solved, never
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, And so you know, and this has been playing
out in other negotiations too. The US has been in
negotiations with India. Trump just like came out and straight
up lied and said that India had agreed to get
rid of all their tariffs, and India was like, no,
we didn't. What the fuck are you talking about art
of the deal. Yeah, so you know, this is all
turned into just an utter fiasco. Meanwhile, we're starting to
(27:53):
see signs that, yeah, the price increase that we all
knew we're coming up coming. Walmart is doing massive price increases.
A bunch of other companies are considering them. They're probably
going to start very soon. I want to read this
quote from an economist named Marcus Nolan that NBC talk to,
who is a senior institute for the Pierson Institute for
International Economics. He said, quote, I think we're in for
(28:13):
a lot more turbulence and a lot more back and forth,
and the market seems to grasp, which I'm glad someone
else is finally fucking saying this because like, yeah, no shit.
And part of what was going on here too is
the market is just incredibly easy to manipulate because people
running the markets are very stupid and the moment they realize,
like you could just very very easily make an unhinged
(28:33):
amount of money by being like the terrorists are going
to go into a fact and then batting against the market.
There's been so much like insider stories of like insider
trading from this stuff, and I don't think that's like
the major thing going on, but it's also like it's
just such an easy grift to pull if you know
what's gonna happen, Like I could have made a bunch
of money if I'd been willing to be like, hey, friends,
give me a bunch of money to put to the
stock market and let me short a bunch of shit
the day before the liberation Day Tarish or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And that's a plug for our a new weekend show
where Mia does Jim Kramer. We're gonna we're gonna start
doing stock portfolio suggestions.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
It's called Markets with Mia.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Markets with MEA thank you, James, Yeah, well I will,
I will, fucking I will throw darts at a dark
board and then throw the dartboard at a larger dartboard,
and I will outperform Jim Kramer.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, we're calling this to do whatever the opposite of
Jim Kramer says power hour. We've literally just reversed his audio.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's such a powerful investment strategy, never been defeated. Okay, So,
so the one lest thing I want to talk about,
which is not quite terriff but is Ekon related, is
that there are for the Financial Times, there is a
plan and show administration to roll back a bunch of
the rules about leverage ratios we're imposed on banks after
two thousand and eight. And so, okay, Mia, what the
(29:47):
fuck is a leverage ratio?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
The very short leaver underneath the bank.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
If you want to tip it over, you have to
be quite a long way, like away from it actually,
and then you pivot on the other end.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think this is a very funny joke for no
one else's last I got the call.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
No, I would try to figure out how to write
part two of it, but then you just brought up Archimedies.
I was trying to over Archimedies's name, but I couldn't
do it, so okay. So basically basically what this is
that so banks have just like a bunch of unbelievably
risky assets, and this is a requirement that they actually
have assets that are safe. Yeah, so they have the
assets that are risky go under. They don't get fucking
(30:21):
nukes like everyone did in two thousand and eight. Now
this is worth noting because one of the other kind
of stories that's kind of flown under the radar is
that in the past couple of years, a bunch of
banks and a bunch of investment firms have been getting
back to the literally the exact types of extremely risky
mortgage back securities at the cause of two thousand and
eight financial collapse. It's literally the same people to bring
(30:42):
them back to do the same thing again. They've also been
doing it with auto loans, which is great. And in
the middle of this, the Trump administration wants to roll
back a bunch of the protections that have been maintaining
this very very precarious balance that the banking system has
been in to like not really collapse for the past
decade and a half. So that's gonna be fun. The
rumor is gonna happen over the summer. If he does
(31:04):
this over the summer, right as everything kicks off, it's
gonna be a trip.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Do you know what else is a trip? These products
and services that support this podcast. Woo, all right, we
are back. We're in the closest episode with me and
(31:30):
James talking about a whole bunch of really bad immigration
stuff that has happened again, which I feel like is
kind of an evergreen for US. Same thing with Tariff top.
We always have some bad immigration news and this week
is no different. On Friday May ninth, Stephen Miller announced
that the administration is quote actively looking at suspending Habeas corpus. James,
(31:52):
do want to give a very brief definition of what
habeas corpus is.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, it's just a foundation of like but legal systems
in the world which draw I guess on English common
law means bring me the body, right, Like the idea
is you have to present some evidence before just incarcerating.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
If you're going to say this guy killed somebody, there
better be a corpse.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Right needs to be like reason and due process for detention.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, Yeah, you can't just lock someone up because you
wanted to. Yeah, actually you can, but.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Sometimes can and this does predate the United States, and
the United States itself has suspended Habeas Corpus a few times,
usually in specific states. For instance, following the Pearl Harbor attack,
Habeas Corpus was suspended in Hawaii to detain Japanese civilians.
A President Grant and Congress works together to suspend Habeas
Corpus in South Carolina during reconstruction, admits to terrorist attacks
(32:48):
from the KKK, which is kind of crazy to think
about in retrospect. And the very first time Habeas Corpus
was suspended was in the lead up to the Civil
War when President Lincoln called for its suspension in the
state of Maryland. Now that unilateral action was later deemed
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and now it's widely recognized
that only Congress has the right to suspend Habeas Corpus.
(33:09):
This is in the case of rebellion or invasion. Now,
this is something that Stephen Miller is talking about. It
should be incredibly worrying. Obviously, they've kind of tried to
make this happen just already without like explicitly saying so,
which is also what like FDR tried to do during
World War two, where they don't formally like call for
the suspension like nationwide, but they start instituting policies that
(33:32):
definitely like do that, Yeah, exactly, which is why we're
seeing so many habees petitions being filed across the state
when people have been detained unlawfully. Homeland Security Secretary Christin
Nomes said on Wednesday in a congressional hearing that the
level of border crossings under Joe Biden provides a sufficient
legal justification to suspend Habeas corpus following Trump's.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Declaration of invasion.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, so this is something to watch out for as
they start trying to basically codify all of the actions
that they're currently doing which can be construed as illegal
or certainly legally questionable, They're going to try to find
ways to make them more explicitly legal.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
So probably the most notable immigration happening this week is
one that we already covered on the show, and it
is the reopening of the United States refugee admissions program.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
We're taking refugees again.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We didn't, we didn't, yeh.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Unfortunately, we're only taking the persecuted Africanas of South Africa.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Wait what, Yeah, they.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Are the survivors of the white genocide, those those who
made it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Through quote unquote white genocide, the white genocide that even
Groc doesn't agree existly.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, can't make a digital child believe in No.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Let me actually quote from a from a grok doing
a Darter Banks impression.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We don't have to do this, Lisa.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Groc Oopsie used to ask about the replies. But Lisa
tinks you are meaning the big talk about South Africa. Yeah,
do white jeniside talking Bucho controversial?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I'm sorry, I can't hear the rest.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
It's not even good jar Jar, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Did he speak Spanish? I think it's chucking all the
racial stereotypey, what are we?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
They make it more racist.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
White farmers getting attacks too much, like two hundred and
fourteen attacks a year, and political words like killed four
making it worse.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Bos.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
It's too bad. I'm not getting as pay for exposure
to this. It does go on.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Sentences so much more like I love how you should like.
It's fucking dubstep recorders cut.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
In the song. I've never met a nice South African
right here?
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah, I think we can. We'll just do the first first.
We just discussed it with fine copyright. Yeah, yeah, I'll
throw that in here, yep. So even've got a reference
to me and Mars, so we're fine. We've covered it before.
It's the central worldly song.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Lisa says, no, thank you stop.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
So if he's giving a double thumbs down, everyone is
very upset right now, apart from Garrison.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Who's laughing like a little imp.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Having introduced jar Jar binks to the call right back
to the Afrikaners that fifty nine Afrikaners who were brought
to the United States came After the United States halted
or refuge admissions in January, thousands of people, including Afghans
who and Iraqis who worked for the United States, remained stranded.
Some of them are stuck at airports. Most of them
(36:43):
are in third countries where they only have limited visas,
and they're looking at timing out their visas in those
third countries. As a direct result of the Trump administration's
facktory with the white genocide stuff, the Episcopalian Church, not
the most work of organizations, has suspended its contracts its
resettlement contracts with the government. Criticals support yeah, I mean,
(37:05):
I read the letter from one of their bishops on
our show about this, and like he was very forthright,
and like I generally genuinely do have critical support for
the faith based organizations who help refugees. It's a good
thing to do, and I'm glad that they are doing it, especially.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
If they're not trying to like turn into a weird
missionary operation like evangelicals do.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, what's it called the fucking Glenn
Back One doesn't it's not a resettlement agency luckily. So
in Worcester, Massachusetts, a place that I didn't know there
was a Worcester in America.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Actually this yesh. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
So how is it then that as a nation, Americans
are incapable of saying Worcestershire.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh boy, yeah, because that's just one state and it's
not a good one. Also, that's the sauce, right.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
It's also the place I was born Garrison. Oh well, yeah,
Worcestershire for those who are you wondering there it is people.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah again, I we do have to call it Worster
because that's what it's called in this country.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I care a lot about accurate pronunciations of places and names.
So it is Worcester.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Worster's the city in Worcestershire is the county in England too,
so you don't have the county and where you have Massachusetts.
So Western Massachusetts Ice threatened to arrest a twenty one
year old woman named Augusta Clara, and they told her
that they'd have to take her three months old baby
as well, because they couldn't leave it with her seventeen
(38:29):
year old sister on account of the younger woman being
a miner. As it turned out, this was a ploy
to lure out her mother. Clara called her mother, who
came out to take the baby, and they arrested her mother,
which was who they'd been wanting to arrest the whole time.
Right This arrest came the day after they'd arrested the
baby's father in what Clara says was a response to
(38:51):
him honking his horn an undercover ice agent. Neighbors tried
to intervene in the scene, which resulted in the Worcester,
Massachusetts Leice Department responding. The cops proceeded to body slam
seventeen year old girl, arrest her, and arrest a local
woman for what they claimed was pushing them. Locals have
been protesting since the city council has moved its meetings
(39:12):
online citing public safety concerns, and in another bungled raid
in the same state, ICE agents left a twelve year
old child alone on the sidewalk and drove their vehicle
aggressively towards a city councilor who was trying to document
a situation. Meanwhile, in Florida, DeSantis has sworn in one
hundred Florida Highway Patrol deputies as special US Marshals and
(39:37):
their claiming this allows them to conduct immigration enforcement operations
of their own outside of cooperation with ICE or CBP.
That adds to the two thousand ATF and DA agents
the Tramp administration has requested to join ICE teams. So
when you're watching videos sometimes you'll see when there are
these like ICE snatch squads.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Right there are.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
EIGHTF agents with them, and what they're generally there to
do is like to secure, to provide like additional security
on the team while the ICE agents do the actual apprehensions.
DeSantis has also offered quote new detention facilities. I haven't
seen much reporting on this, but in the same statement
on his website where he talked about cross swearing, the
(40:18):
highway patrol guys. He also talked about these quote new
detention facilities, and I want to take this opportunity to
reflect on the existing detention facilities in Florida because they
are the worst in a system of horrific detention facilities.
The ACLU has documented quote persistent emotional, physical, and sexual
abuse at the hands of staff for these facilities, Detainees
(40:41):
reportedly being punished simply seeking medical care, being denied medical
attention just by having pre existing conditions. The report also
found ample evidence of gendered and racialized mistreatment the Chrome
Detention Center that's krom Is in particular horrific migrants there,
(41:01):
in one instance, were held in chains on buses for
sixteen hours and told to use the bathroom where they
were sitting on the buses. A migrant named A studios
as a hell Vasquez Martinez somehow kept his phone inside
the Chrome Detention Center and was able to live stream
(41:21):
or at least post videos showed horrific overcrowding. Some sources
claim there were as many as four thousand people in
the detention center, which has a capacity of five hundred
and two people that we know of have died there
since January, Florida looking to add more detention centers.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
Not great, it's.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
About all I got. Garrison talk to us about Project Homecoming.
Who's coming home?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Yeah, And again we will actually close on some good news.
So it's not all horrible stuff this entire time. But
we do need to mention Project Homecoming. So this was
a proclamation issued by Trump on May ninth, entitled Establishing
Project Homecoming, which aims to curb a quote unquote full
scale invasion. It claims to devote more federal resources to
(42:09):
assist self deportation via the CBP home app, including paying
for flights for those who are quote voluntarily and permanently
departing the United States, which says, quote the Secretary of
State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall create a
concierge service whereby any alien illegally present in the United States,
it may arrive at an airport with or without appropriate
(42:32):
travel documents, book air travel to permanently relocate to a
different country. So they are really strengthening these self deportation mechanisms.
Section two promises to provide financial incentives in the form
of a quote unquote exit bonus for each illegal alien
who voluntarily and permanently departs the United States.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
Yeah, so a couple of really weird things there, just
off the bat. Yes, age like permanently departs, it seems
to suggest that you would be permanently barred from ever
entering the United States acquiring a visa.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Again.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Secondly, if you don't have travel documents, the country that
you're traveling to or through has no reason to admit you.
Right that the US government cannot force other countries to
admit people without travel documents. There are things called refugee
travel documents, which allow people who have had their passports,
et cetera stolen to travel.
Speaker 5 (43:22):
I don't think that's what's gonna happen here.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Yeah, it does mention something about trying to negotiate with
other countries to allow people without documentation to arrive there,
but like, well they actually do that probably not like
they've claimed to not have to need to do that before,
so like, yeah, that's not like a solid promise. Now,
those who choose to remain will face quote sweeping consequences
including removal, prosecution, incarceration, and fines as consistent with applicable
(43:48):
law for immigration related crimes, the garnishment of wages, and
the confiscations of savings and personal property, including homes and
vehicles unquote, so they're threatening to steal all of your things.
This poclamation follows this like propaganda video shared by Christino
in the Department of Homeland Security. This video was released
a few weeks ago and it contains some similar rhetoric
(44:11):
regarding self deportation and fines being imposed for those who
stay in the country.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
accused of murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged with
filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
(44:36):
Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christinom, the United States Secretary
of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings
are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over one
hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you are
here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly one
(44:56):
thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported you will never return.
But if you register using our CBP home app and
leave now. You could be allowed to return legally. Do
what's right. Leave now under President Trump, America's laws, border
and families will be protected.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
The whole style of video is very bizarre.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Yeah, it's like a Marvel trailer.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
It's like a Marvel trailer with like the aesetex of
like mid two thousands, like dystopian sci fi.
Speaker 5 (45:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Again, the end of that video, she talks about being
able to return legally, which is in contrast to the
language in a Project Homecoming, which says that people would
be leaving the United States permanently. Finally, the proclamation directs
the Secretary of Homeland Security to within sixty days, supplement
existing law enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting
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state and local police, former Feds, and quote, other individuals
to increase the enforcement and removal operations force of the
Department of Homeland Security by no less than twenty thousand
officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove
illegal aliens unquote. And now, as of this morning, May fifteenth,
the DHS has requested to mobilize over twenty thousand National
(46:10):
Guard troops from the Department of Defense to comply with
Trump's order to expand its immigration crackdown, and on Wednesday,
the FBI ordered agents to deprioritize white collar crime investigations
for the remainder of twenty twenty five to instead focus
on immigration enforcement. Field offices notified their agents that now
one third of their time must go towards assisting Trump's
(46:32):
immigration policies. I'm going to quote from Reuter's quote. The
orders came on the same day that Matthew Gailliatti, the
head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, issued new guidance
to prosecutors that scales back to the scope of white
collar cases historically pursued by the Department and orders prosecutors
to quote minimize the length and collateral impact of such investigations. Jeez, again,
(46:56):
the most corrupt administration ever ever before seen. For the
good news to close the episode, the Tuft's university student
was may Oz Turk, who was black bagged on the
streets of Massachusetts for co authoring a pro Palestine op ed.
Has been released on bail as of May ninth, after
spending six weeks in iced attention. The judge said that
(47:16):
missus Ostrich's claims of her First Amendment and due process
rights being violated are quote unquote very substantial. And then
on Wednesday, May fourteenth, the Georgetown University researcher from India
named Batar Khan Surrey was released from immigration detention as
he continues to fight two deportation cases brought against him
by the Trump administration for his support of Palestine. So
(47:38):
this is now the third or fourth person that has
been released from ICE custody following like political prosecutions based
on their activism.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Now, these cases are still going to be continuing in courts,
but the fact that these people have been released from
ICE attention is good news.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
And in most cases they were released on their own
recover since right without GPS tagging or any like.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah, they're free to move throughout the country because most
of them have cases in like multiple states. ICE is
trying to move them around to many different locations. And
I know that Surrey and Osturik are able to go
back to their homes.
Speaker 5 (48:17):
Yeah, so like it's good.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
It shows that the courts are still able to stop
some of this stuff at this time.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yes, and that the actual ability of a lawyer to
intervene when you were treated illegally by the state is
not nil yeah yet.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yeah yeah, good point, positive developments here, but like yeah,
as we'll see with with Miller's goal of getting rid
of Habeas Corpus and accelerating law enforcement operations with these
twenty thousand new National Guard troops. This is this is
something that's still going to be a very a very
hot issue for quite a while, and we will continue
to report on it as it develops.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Well everybody, until next time, Remember something we sa reported
to news, say we reported the news.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
I will get way too mad if I talk about
the DNC anymore. In this preamble, this is it could
happen here Executive Disorder, our weekly newscast covering what's happening
in the White House, the crumbling world, and what it
means for you. I'm Garrison Davis today. I'm joined by
James Stout, Mia Wong, and Robert Evans. Right, everybody, this episode,
we are covering the week of May eighth through May fifteenth.
(00:30):
Trump gets bribed by cutter, Stephen Miller wants to suspend
Habeas Corpus, and a twitch streamer gets interrogated at the border.
How are we doing, fellas?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Uh, I don't know. Bad, Like every time.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm not talking to border patrol willingly and ye, that's
what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And I'm not doing I'm staying the fuck away from
the border, although it's also impossible to stay the fuck
away from the border because like ninety percent of the
country lives technically within a hundred mine the border patrols
from met Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, but if you are happening to go to the
border and you do get stopped by law enforcement, you
should not talk to them. You should you should say
that you're staying silent and will only speak with a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You have certain things that you have to say, right
if they decide to talk to you about something other
than you know, here's my passport, et cetera. Do I
have anything to declare? Which you do have to answer
if they attempt to engage you in other conversation about, say,
your political beliefs. All you have to say is am
I being detained? And if they say yes, you say,
(01:33):
I plead the fifth and I demand to speak to
a lawyer, and then nothing else. There's nothing else you say.
That's how you should handle this situation.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, you definitely do not need to debate your politics.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Not required with the border patrol.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Tell them how you feel about Potestine. That's yeah, not
gonna end well.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
No, not necessary, and yeah, like it's one of those
things I have no desire to, like get into an
online beef with the fellow who got stopped. He is
a big boy and able to make his own choices.
But I do not recommend you make those same choices,
because there's no actual benefit to you in doing that.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Right, Yeah, yeah, don't coalk the cops. It's very easy
to not talk to the cops. I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Uh huh, that's what you think trivially easy.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, it's it's it's simple and unnecessary, and it's just
like largely the problem is that And this is even
something that he talked about where like, well, the guy
seemed really nice and he apologetic and like he didn't
want to have to do this. And if you're having
a conversation like that with them, then they're getting what
they want out of it, which is for you to
(02:42):
feel like that right, for you to feel like, oh, Okay,
this guy's this guy's nice, I can chat with him
for a little while you feel to talk.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, yes, that's their entire job. That's what they're trying
to get you to do. Yeah, And again, like this
is this is specifically if you are like a US
citizen coming to read to the country. There's there's different
different rules and different different suggestions which you should talk
with an immigration lawyer about if you were not a
US citizen.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yes, yes, not advice for people who are coming here
and not citizens.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, yeah, none of this is.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But yeah, you really really do not need to get
into a debate with the border guard about your politics
when you're trying to enter the country.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Or any other time really just just.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Really any time.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, there's no point in time in which that's useful
to you or anyone else.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You ain't changing doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Maybe do it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Maybe there's more to politics than debate. No, speaking of
more to politics, the PKK, what's going on with the
PKK fellas.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We should, we should give a brief overview of who
the PKK is. The PKK is the Kurtish Workers Party,
and it is originally a Maoist and now not that
terrorist group. That's legally how it's defined by the United
States and by most Western countries. That was started in
southern Turkey like in the late seventies, close to fifty
(04:03):
years ago, and it started out as a rather different
kind of organization than it is. It's one of its
founders and generally the guy referred to as its founder
as a dude named of the la Aujalon or Oppo
who got captioned Kenya a few decades back and has
been in a Turkish prison ever since, but does continue
(04:25):
to like write stuff that informs because there's kind of
this strong Maoist core at the heart of the foundation
of the party continues to have a lot of influence
over it. And this is the root of kind of
the different organizations that sprung out and became what we
call Rajava. Is this this group that kind of came
(04:45):
in during Isis's invasion and you know, had changed significantly
from its MAOIs roots at that point, and kind of
from the PKK, we get the YPG and the YPJ
and you know these different social and militant move movements
in Northeast Syria.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Anyway, Yeah, they would dispute the from the PKK, they
sure would, yes, Roberts for a good legal reason. Yes, yes,
but they're all inspired by the political thought of oyser Land,
right like we can say that safely and Ouscherland. I
guess addressed by video the twelfth Congress of the PKK
(05:23):
which occurred earlier this month, at which they voted to
disband themselves and lay down their arms. So that's the
they had a meeting, right they get together. Obviously it
seems that Turkey decided not to air strike that meeting.
Turkey has been carrying out strikes against the PKK in
three different countries for decades, and sort of small arms
(05:46):
engagements as well, and artillery in the whole nine yards.
So yeah, at that conference, they decided to lay down
their arms and begin disbanding themselves and return to They're
still pursuing their struggle, I guess, for freedom for Kedistan.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
But this time through the democratic process.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, we're going to cover this subject in more detail
on Tuesday next Tuesday. But suffice it to say, like,
this does not mean that like the PKK is like
that all of the kind of different movements that came
out of and were inspired by the PKK are like
folding up and setting up shop. This is more of
(06:28):
a pragmatic decision made as the result of the changes
of situations on the ground and the progress that a
number of these other movements have made. And yeah, this
is worthy of deeper discussion. We'll give a deeper discussion.
But this is something that's going to hopefully at least
mean that Turkey spends less time bombing nor than Iraq,
although that it may be foolish to hope too much
(06:48):
for that.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah, do you love to bomb an Iraq?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I guess they're calling it there like good Friday moments
of people who are familiar with the Irish situation.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, when the Ira was like, maybe we've done enough.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And significantly when there were releases of people who were incarcerated.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Right, right, And the British government did make some significant
concessions too.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yes, so we will learn more of there were concessions
involved in this process or if it was a kind
of unilateral thing.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, there's a lot of rumors again, just to go briefly,
that the Turkish government essentially needs that aired one essentially
needs some of the support of the Kurdish parties in
order to maintain keep doing Erdawan shit. So again, we'll
see on all that. Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Speaking of not blowing each other up India and Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well yeah, slightly blowing, lightly blowing each other up. Can
we say that without minimizing it.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Because yeah, there's some fens blowing up.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, so let's let's talk about this. We are thankfully
no longer on nuclear war watch. Yeah, which is great.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Put on pause, it's all cool, everything's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I was talking with a friend last night about whenever
this sort of confrontation happens. One of the nice things
about a globalist world order is that if the rest
of the world goes whoa.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, come on now, it kind
of works.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Pull them back, hold me back. China got a hand
on Pakistans chess. It's not worth it. They're not worth it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
That's the role of the United Nations, jade E Vance,
like massaging India's shoulders.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I know, man, I know, but it's whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Things get really spicy between two equal powers if one
of their buddies just can go, hey, hey dude, whoa, whoa.
It kind of works, which is a little bit silly,
but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Just remind everyone in charge. Do you know how rich
you are? Come on, you don't want this, Like you've
got hot tubs in your mansion. It ain't worth it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Politics, so much of it is just so unbelievably stupid,
Like it is just like weird nationalist masculinity bullshit, where
it's like, okay, so we killed some of your your people,
and then you're gonna kill some of our people, and
then we can both agree that we like retaliated, neither
of us back down, and then we'll do a ceasefire.
So the good news here is that we did actually
get a ceasefire. The ceasefire was holding, and it's continued
(09:21):
to hold. This is not like a kind of like
Israel Palace and ceasefire where the Israelis immediately just start
like shooting everyone an instant later. This is actually holding.
It's good. It will probably continue to hold. We got
some more details from Reuters who talked to a bunch
of officials from different camps. But we know now we're
(09:42):
gonna do a longer episode about this next week. Tuesday, Yeah,
all the wars on Tuesday. Probably Tuesday, unless like I
don't know, like some other shit happens. Who knows. I
don't want to ever promise an episode's going out of
a day because.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Tuesday, Tuesday or Wednesday, because it's like like we could
we could wake up to life.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Trump is likely Trump has like declared that like his
meme coin is now the official currency of the United
States or something like who knows what you say our Wednesday,
we'll say, yeah, yeah. So what used to have happened
that really escalated everything is that India fired on a
critical Pakistani air base and Pakistan was like, all right,
(10:20):
gotta go fucking Siico mode now, and so they do
their retaliation. India appears to not have understood exactly how
pissed off Pakistan was going to be about them hitting
this air base, which also, like you would I don't
know what their military planning is, like you would assume.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The trees normally love it when you hit their air bases. Yeah,
whenever one ran at Area fifty one, Yeah, like what.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Are we doing here? What are we doing here? But
the thing that does seem to have worked is that
Mark or Rubio seems to have actually been like able
to kind of pass information along between the advance was
also sort of involved. It seemed mostly like Rubio was
able to pass a thing to the Pakistani government being like, hey,
the Indians are gonna star up, and the Pakistani government
(11:02):
was like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, right right, but this is getting done. We did
our retaliatory attacks, like we fucked up a bunch of
expensive jets. Like that is key is that everybody can
sort of this didn't go on so far that that
like everyone has a lot to avenge, and it went
(11:24):
on enough that everybody can claim some wins. Pakistan could
be like, we really did some damage to India's best
chunk of their air force, and India can be like,
we blew up some stuff. You know, everybody's got if
you if you don't have enough information to know that,
like nobody really won. You can pretend you did, right,
And that's what both of them are doing.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, and I think this was this what you were
talking about this last week, like that the best case
scenario for this is actually I kind of better than
the best case scenario was thinking of. I mean not
this is like none of this is a good outcome,
but the outcome here of like it's like a very
abbreviated version of like in Israel or Ron thing where
they shooting each other a few times and then stop.
Hopefully this will continue to hold, and hopefully both sides
(12:06):
will not take this. And this is something that they
were talking about. One of the experts that we're just
talking to were talking about was like, hopefully both sides
don't see this as a like, oh we can have
conflict between two nuclear empowers. It'll be okay. Hopefully both
sides are going to be like this was very dumb,
but right now it seems to be over. The ceasefires holding.
(12:26):
Hopefully more people don't die.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, the dessaults dunk price though that that took a
foul after all this rafiles shut down, that's kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You know what else is funny? Hopefully rus ads.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yeah, this podcast nice one.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, that's why they pay me the beautocre bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Uh yeah, Well back to something ed. If you have ed,
please consider him zinta Cutter, I hardly Okay, no, no, Garrison,
I'm so proud of you, buddy. That was the right
thing to say. That was the right thing to say.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Ahead of Trump's plant trip to the Middle East, Cutter
has offered a gift to President Trump, a four hundred
million dollar Boeing seven forty seven eight luxury jet known
as a Palace in the sky, which Trump does plan
to accept.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Which a stupid fucking plane.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
You gotta look up a picture of this thing.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It is absurd, And I gotta say, honestly, my primary thoughts,
I know they should be like offence and anger, but
most they're mostly Ah Cutter, you know the assignment. You
knew exactly. This man can't turn down a luxury palace plane.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Someone should off from the fucking snow piercer.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
You know, it's all gold up in there.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It is. It is all gold up in there. Actually,
you can look it up.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
It is.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
No. I don't need to Garrison in my in my
mind palace, I've already seen him.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Okay, hit me with the link.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Why did we allow this to be constructed?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Because it's it's one of those things. This is not
this is like again, should it not be legal for
Trump to do this? Is it not legal for Trump
to do this? Of course? Is it physically possible for
the man Donald Trump to say no to this plane? Now?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
No, that never was in the carts. This, this is
a temple to the defeat of the International Workers Movement.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Jesus, I want to see a pictures of this plane.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Someone send me pictures.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Of the plane.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Oh man, oh, oh good lord, oh good lord. Okay,
I'm putting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I mean, it's exactly the plane you'd think.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yes, okay, it's the most trump thing you could ever imagine.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'm so angry. It's it's just Trump tower in the sky,
like you.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
No, it's it's actually what I will say about that,
here is a Trump tower in the sky. Is like
a shit built to look fancy to like tasteless Americans.
The Katari versions actually is actually extremely nice. Yes, yeah,
the immorant of Qatar knows what they're fucking doing when
(15:22):
it comes to interior design for fucking evil rich people.
This you could have had this if you replace the
walls that are clearly a plane. This could have been
like a set on and or from like a high
level coruscant like the person's house, Like that's that's what
we're talking. Especially that like room with the elevator in
the middle, Like that's a set where mon Mathma yells
(15:44):
at her husband like it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So this plane would be used as a new air
Force one and after his term, Trump would retain ownership
through his Presidential Library Foundation.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Of course that's normals.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
So many issues with this, from like national security to
like a very clear bribe. On Monday, Trump told reporters quote,
I could be a stupid person and say no, we
don't want to free very expensive airplane.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I thought it was a great gesture.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Unquote. Of course, of course what owned So what made
a comment that like we received the Statue of Liberty
as a gift the same thing.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, that's not really the same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Guy, If like it was Jeff, I don't know who
is president went arrive, but if the president was living
inside the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Chester, I think it was Chester ar for there. Yeah, okay, yeah,
I don't remember exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I do also love that Trump isn't making the same
argument that like the old that Clinton supporters used to,
which is like, well you can take money from a
thing without being influenced by it, and like the New
York Times is making this argument. They're like, well, just
because people are spending one million dollars to have dinner
at a crypto thing with Trump does mean that he's
actually been influenced by the money, so you can't call
it bribery. And I was like, this is great society.
(17:05):
We love this, we love this. Just give him, give
give the president the fancy.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Quentin pro what.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah, to be fair, Trump does have something of a
history of entering into a financial contract with people and
then totally abandoning his end of it.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
So could you could make that up?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, it's so bad Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
They get into an argument with with ABC anchors when
they asked him if he thought this could be seen
as a bribe.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I'll play a short clip here.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Why are you saying people who view that luxury jet
as a personal would get to you?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Why not leave it your NBC fake news? Why it's
only only ABC.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well a few of you would, let me tell you,
you should be embarrassed to ask him the question.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
They're giving us a free jet.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I could say, no, no, no, don't give us.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I want to pay you a billion or four hundred
million or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Or I could say thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know those are all golfer named Sam Great Golf.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
After that, he goes on to talk about golf for
a whole minute, building an analogy based on making an
easy putt on a golf course. I'm gonna quote from
BBC quote. Attorney General Pambondi reportedly investigated the legality of
the deal and determined that because there are no explicit
conditions attached, it would not amount to a bribe. Conservatives
(18:25):
and others were quick to point out that Bondi was
registered as a lobbyist for Cutter prior to joining Trump's cabinet,
at some point earning up to one hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars a month.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
For her work for the Qatari government.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, no, one's going to be like influenced by a
mere one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars a month. You couldn't,
for example, much money and get me to say everyone
should buy a Chevy truck, the new Ram, that's the
vehicle of the proletariat Ram.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
We know that this is fake because Robert would never
knowing endorse a Chevy product.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
He sent for one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. Do
you think I wouldn't sell Chevys?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
But this is the most like corrupt administration we've ever
seen before. It's absurd, like just completely like flying it
in your face. Even ten Cruz said that this gift
could could impose quote significant espionage and surveillance problems unquote, because.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Yeah, that plane is gonna be so fun for the Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
My god, how they're just the whole plane.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's just it's a flying bugs. It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Our government they're gonna listen in to every Air Force
one meeting.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Not only are they going to listen into it, the
guy whose job that is like they've already been paying
almost as much as the plane costs for him to
get preemptive therapy to sit and listen to that many
Trump inner circle conversations. The fucking Emrror himself is putting
a hand. I know, man, I know it's gonna be hard,
like we're all back, We're all behind you.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Everyone from like Ben Shapiro to Laura Lumer have have
opposed this de facto bribe as quote unquote sleazy, while
also pointing to Cutter as a terrorist aligned state.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Didn't you think your guy was?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Come on, you watched Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You believe he's gonna take a golden palace in the sky?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Come on, man, didn't They also wheel out a mobile
McDonald's famine Costa, so.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
He get that was in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Saudi Arabia, Arabia.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
They're also planning to possibly construct a new Trump tower
in Dubai.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Honestly, both Dubai and Trump deserve that kind of like shade.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah, sure they belong together.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, the people that Trump is negotiating with here just
really know how to like get wins out of him, Like, yeah,
Trump Tower, here's a mobile McDonald here's a.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Million dollar free jet. They really have him on lag.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It's tragic because the mobile McDonald's and Burger Kings used
to be a sign of American like logistical dominance that
like I was wondering if it had invaded it rock
like fuck our ability to like airstrike anyone anywhere. We
can put a fully operational McDonald's anywhere on the planet
in about sixteen hours, like no one else can do that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, we invaded a rock with burger king trailers.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, yes, and to see it turned against our values
so much? Is it's just deeply if no, I mean,
I'm joking here, but it is funny.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Speaking of foreign trade, what is that I hear? Is that?
Is that the lucid melody of tariff to Reef Garrison
locking jazz Bot sorry, lock.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Locking, jas locking.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Jason, we're all thinking about the best way we ever
spent to our company money. Every penny of that one
hundred and fourteen thousand dollars a month Chevy gives us
for telling people to buy the new Rams. It went
to a good place.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Just if we could just get one more automotive industry sponsor,
then I can finally rewrite White Riot to be about
white genocide in South Africa.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's right. We're courting Shell right now. So don't worry, James,
We're gonna get that cover.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But I'm glad to hear it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
So I heard all the tariffs are gone, basically, I
heard we're back to normal. Nothing ever happens. I can
go back to buying TMU all day long. I can't
stop playing those those TV gambling ads, and everything's normal, right, Mia.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay, So let's let's let's where are we at with
the turf tariffs. So there were actual negotiations between the
US and China, and so they agreed to a ninety
day pause on the one hundred and forty five percent
tariff and the one hundred and twenty percent tariff of
china Hood imposed retaliation. However, come there's still thirty percent
(23:00):
like a tariffs on all Chinese goods, which is in
and of itself alone enough to cause a recession. I
just want everyone's Easter forgotten. This China's is back down
to ten percent across the board on all US goods. Now, again,
this is a ninety day pause, which has been like
this is just the way that all this functions now
is nothing ever ends. It just gets kicked off like
(23:20):
down the road for ninety days. So we'll be back
here in ninety Oh well, okay, we'll be back in
the crisis zone a bit before that, because we're still
on the other ninety day countdown, which the Liberation Day
turff tariff one for every single country on Earth.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Honestly, I don't think these countdowns are real. And I
know this is like this is like different from the
way like other commentators will talk about how these tariffs
aren't really Like, I'm not saying these tariffs aren't real.
I don't know if there's someone in the White House
who is literally counting down each day here like this.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
No, I think there is. I think it's Navarro, because
Navarro actually wants all of these tariffs. And that's the
driving thing behind this is Trump kind of wants these tariffs,
but there's not enough of him there psychologically to like
push it unless Navarro is doing it. But the reason
these are taking the form of pauses is because Trump
like actually wants them until he can like negotiate his
(24:11):
big shiny deal or whatever the fuck that like can't happen.
Structuralational reasons we'll get into, but.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Like, I'm just remembering the Canada Mexico tariffs that Trump
put on a ninety day pause and then can we
completely forgot about and instead it did the Liberation Day tariffs,
which then got another ninety day pause.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
No, but there was also the but also like the
auto tariffs got paused and then those came off and
like went into effect. Yeah, so some of these like
have happened and like and I think, I really think it.
The actual thing it comes down to is like will
Navarro be the last person in the room with Trump
or will it be one of his other cabinet people
who don't support this stuff? And I think it's just
a coin flip basically as to like who wrap fucks
(24:50):
the other one successfully as to whether like all this
stuff happens. And there's still like more tariffs that are
like floating in the air that we haven't heard anything
about from last week, wild wild tariffs frolicking and in
the woods.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah, like sour dough, they can just flick it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I want to actually explain what the fuck is going
on with the Chinese tariffs though, because the reporting on
it has been really bad and no one's in the
idea what the fuck is going on? So Okay, on
the one hand, there is still the thirty percent across
the board on all Chinese goods. However, the fee for
small packages right, which is the stuff that was in
the deminimous exemption that we talked about getting reduced so
(25:26):
that tariff is at fifty four percent or a one
hundred dollars flat fee for the package. What qualifies as
a small package value. I think it's like sub eight
hundred dollars, okay roughly. So yeah, And they also still
have to go through like actual full customs, which which
the package is been diminimus like weren't going through right, okay.
(25:48):
So this is still lethal to like Tamu and Chian
and like all of all the companies that have been
relying on this stuff. It's still lethal to like vast
quantities of like parts of the supply chain that we
haven't even seen yet that we're getting like the one
kind of screw that they need in cheap Chinese packages,
because you could just do that and so and so
that's what's still in effect right now, and as best
(26:10):
I can tell, there hasn't actually been any negotiation. It's
also unclear whether the Chinese government like knew that those
were going to go back into effect, because because Trump
did this whole thing like ah, the tarifts are over,
blah blah blah blah, no are the thirty percent tariff
on all goods, And then the next day he was like, oh, yeah, no,
but that the small package one's still there and that
rates also changed, so it's also possible by tomorrow the
rates are different. Because this is the dominant feature of
(26:32):
all of this structurally is just complete chaos, Like it's
it's just chaos. Nobody has any idea what the fuck
is happening, and this is just a complete fiasco for
literally everyone, because the shifts and teriff rates that are
happening on a day by day basis are shifts large
enough to shift the entire structure of the global economy,
and they're just happening every day. And that's and that's
the thing that's like fucking the economy almost as much
(26:55):
as like the actual tariffs, is just the chaos and
the uncertainty and the inability to do any kind of
like yea, even the short term planning that businesses usually do.
It's also worth noting that like there's no actual trade
deal right like there isn't actually a US China trade deal.
There's just they both agreed to like back off for
(27:15):
a while while they do negotiations. There's also no structural
way to actually like resolve the problem that Trump sees here,
which is that like Trump and Navarro and the hardliners
don't want there to be a US trade deficit with China,
and that's not a thing that could be solved, never
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, And so you know, and this has been playing
out in other negotiations too. The US has been in
negotiations with India. Trump just like came out and straight
up lied and said that India had agreed to get
rid of all their tariffs, and India was like, no,
we didn't. What the fuck are you talking about art
of the deal. Yeah, so you know, this is all
turned into just an utter fiasco. Meanwhile, we're starting to
(27:53):
see signs that, yeah, the price increase that we all
knew we're coming up coming. Walmart is doing massive price increases.
A bunch of other companies are considering them. They're probably
going to start very soon. I want to read this
quote from an economist named Marcus Nolan that NBC talk to,
who is a senior institute for the Pierson Institute for
International Economics. He said, quote, I think we're in for
(28:13):
a lot more turbulence and a lot more back and forth,
and the market seems to grasp, which I'm glad someone
else is finally fucking saying this because like, yeah, no shit.
And part of what was going on here too is
the market is just incredibly easy to manipulate because people
running the markets are very stupid and the moment they realize,
like you could just very very easily make an unhinged
(28:33):
amount of money by being like the terrorists are going
to go into a fact and then batting against the market.
There's been so much like insider stories of like insider
trading from this stuff, and I don't think that's like
the major thing going on, but it's also like it's
just such an easy grift to pull if you know
what's gonna happen, Like I could have made a bunch
of money if I'd been willing to be like, hey, friends,
give me a bunch of money to put to the
stock market and let me short a bunch of shit
the day before the liberation Day Tarish or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And that's a plug for our a new weekend show
where Mia does Jim Kramer. We're gonna we're gonna start
doing stock portfolio suggestions.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
It's called Markets with Mia.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Markets with MEA thank you, James, Yeah, well I will,
I will, fucking I will throw darts at a dark
board and then throw the dartboard at a larger dartboard,
and I will outperform Jim Kramer.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, we're calling this to do whatever the opposite of
Jim Kramer says power hour. We've literally just reversed his audio.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's such a powerful investment strategy, never been defeated. Okay, So,
so the one lest thing I want to talk about,
which is not quite terriff but is Ekon related, is
that there are for the Financial Times, there is a
plan and show administration to roll back a bunch of
the rules about leverage ratios we're imposed on banks after
two thousand and eight. And so, okay, Mia, what the
(29:47):
fuck is a leverage ratio?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
The very short leaver underneath the bank.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
If you want to tip it over, you have to
be quite a long way, like away from it actually,
and then you pivot on the other end.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think this is a very funny joke for no
one else's last I got the call.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
No, I would try to figure out how to write
part two of it, but then you just brought up Archimedies.
I was trying to over Archimedies's name, but I couldn't
do it, so okay. So basically basically what this is
that so banks have just like a bunch of unbelievably
risky assets, and this is a requirement that they actually
have assets that are safe. Yeah, so they have the
assets that are risky go under. They don't get fucking
(30:21):
nukes like everyone did in two thousand and eight. Now
this is worth noting because one of the other kind
of stories that's kind of flown under the radar is
that in the past couple of years, a bunch of
banks and a bunch of investment firms have been getting
back to the literally the exact types of extremely risky
mortgage back securities at the cause of two thousand and
eight financial collapse. It's literally the same people to bring
(30:42):
them back to do the same thing again. They've also been
doing it with auto loans, which is great. And in
the middle of this, the Trump administration wants to roll
back a bunch of the protections that have been maintaining
this very very precarious balance that the banking system has
been in to like not really collapse for the past
decade and a half. So that's gonna be fun. The
rumor is gonna happen over the summer. If he does
(31:04):
this over the summer, right as everything kicks off, it's
gonna be a trip.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Do you know what else is a trip? These products
and services that support this podcast. Woo, all right, we
are back. We're in the closest episode with me and
(31:30):
James talking about a whole bunch of really bad immigration
stuff that has happened again, which I feel like is
kind of an evergreen for US. Same thing with Tariff top.
We always have some bad immigration news and this week
is no different. On Friday May ninth, Stephen Miller announced
that the administration is quote actively looking at suspending Habeas corpus. James,
(31:52):
do want to give a very brief definition of what
habeas corpus is.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, it's just a foundation of like but legal systems
in the world which draw I guess on English common
law means bring me the body, right, Like the idea
is you have to present some evidence before just incarcerating.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
If you're going to say this guy killed somebody, there
better be a corpse.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Right needs to be like reason and due process for detention.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, Yeah, you can't just lock someone up because you
wanted to. Yeah, actually you can, but.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Sometimes can and this does predate the United States, and
the United States itself has suspended Habeas Corpus a few times,
usually in specific states. For instance, following the Pearl Harbor attack,
Habeas Corpus was suspended in Hawaii to detain Japanese civilians.
A President Grant and Congress works together to suspend Habeas
Corpus in South Carolina during reconstruction, admits to terrorist attacks
(32:48):
from the KKK, which is kind of crazy to think
about in retrospect. And the very first time Habeas Corpus
was suspended was in the lead up to the Civil
War when President Lincoln called for its suspension in the
state of Maryland. Now that unilateral action was later deemed
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and now it's widely recognized
that only Congress has the right to suspend Habeas Corpus.
(33:09):
This is in the case of rebellion or invasion. Now,
this is something that Stephen Miller is talking about. It
should be incredibly worrying. Obviously, they've kind of tried to
make this happen just already without like explicitly saying so,
which is also what like FDR tried to do during
World War two, where they don't formally like call for
the suspension like nationwide, but they start instituting policies that
(33:32):
definitely like do that, Yeah, exactly, which is why we're
seeing so many habees petitions being filed across the state
when people have been detained unlawfully. Homeland Security Secretary Christin
Nomes said on Wednesday in a congressional hearing that the
level of border crossings under Joe Biden provides a sufficient
legal justification to suspend Habeas corpus following Trump's.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Declaration of invasion.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, so this is something to watch out for as
they start trying to basically codify all of the actions
that they're currently doing which can be construed as illegal
or certainly legally questionable, They're going to try to find
ways to make them more explicitly legal.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
So probably the most notable immigration happening this week is
one that we already covered on the show, and it
is the reopening of the United States refugee admissions program.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
We're taking refugees again.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We didn't, we didn't, yeh.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Unfortunately, we're only taking the persecuted Africanas of South Africa.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Wait what, Yeah, they.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Are the survivors of the white genocide, those those who
made it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Through quote unquote white genocide, the white genocide that even
Groc doesn't agree existly.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, can't make a digital child believe in No.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Let me actually quote from a from a grok doing
a Darter Banks impression.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We don't have to do this, Lisa.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Groc Oopsie used to ask about the replies. But Lisa
tinks you are meaning the big talk about South Africa. Yeah,
do white jeniside talking Bucho controversial?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I'm sorry, I can't hear the rest.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
It's not even good jar Jar, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Did he speak Spanish? I think it's chucking all the
racial stereotypey, what are we?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
They make it more racist.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
White farmers getting attacks too much, like two hundred and
fourteen attacks a year, and political words like killed four
making it worse.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Bos.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
It's too bad. I'm not getting as pay for exposure
to this. It does go on.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Sentences so much more like I love how you should like.
It's fucking dubstep recorders cut.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
In the song. I've never met a nice South African
right here?
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah, I think we can. We'll just do the first first.
We just discussed it with fine copyright. Yeah, yeah, I'll
throw that in here, yep. So even've got a reference
to me and Mars, so we're fine. We've covered it before.
It's the central worldly song.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Lisa says, no, thank you stop.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
So if he's giving a double thumbs down, everyone is
very upset right now, apart from Garrison.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Who's laughing like a little imp.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Having introduced jar Jar binks to the call right back
to the Afrikaners that fifty nine Afrikaners who were brought
to the United States came After the United States halted
or refuge admissions in January, thousands of people, including Afghans
who and Iraqis who worked for the United States, remained stranded.
Some of them are stuck at airports. Most of them
(36:43):
are in third countries where they only have limited visas,
and they're looking at timing out their visas in those
third countries. As a direct result of the Trump administration's
facktory with the white genocide stuff, the Episcopalian Church, not
the most work of organizations, has suspended its contracts its
resettlement contracts with the government. Criticals support yeah, I mean,
(37:05):
I read the letter from one of their bishops on
our show about this, and like he was very forthright,
and like I generally genuinely do have critical support for
the faith based organizations who help refugees. It's a good
thing to do, and I'm glad that they are doing it, especially.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
If they're not trying to like turn into a weird
missionary operation like evangelicals do.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, what's it called the fucking Glenn
Back One doesn't it's not a resettlement agency luckily. So
in Worcester, Massachusetts, a place that I didn't know there
was a Worcester in America.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Actually this yesh. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
So how is it then that as a nation, Americans
are incapable of saying Worcestershire.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh boy, yeah, because that's just one state and it's
not a good one. Also, that's the sauce, right.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
It's also the place I was born Garrison. Oh well, yeah,
Worcestershire for those who are you wondering there it is people.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah again, I we do have to call it Worster
because that's what it's called in this country.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I care a lot about accurate pronunciations of places and names.
So it is Worcester.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Worster's the city in Worcestershire is the county in England too,
so you don't have the county and where you have Massachusetts.
So Western Massachusetts Ice threatened to arrest a twenty one
year old woman named Augusta Clara, and they told her
that they'd have to take her three months old baby
as well, because they couldn't leave it with her seventeen
(38:29):
year old sister on account of the younger woman being
a miner. As it turned out, this was a ploy
to lure out her mother. Clara called her mother, who
came out to take the baby, and they arrested her mother,
which was who they'd been wanting to arrest the whole time.
Right This arrest came the day after they'd arrested the
baby's father in what Clara says was a response to
(38:51):
him honking his horn an undercover ice agent. Neighbors tried
to intervene in the scene, which resulted in the Worcester,
Massachusetts Leice Department responding. The cops proceeded to body slam
seventeen year old girl, arrest her, and arrest a local
woman for what they claimed was pushing them. Locals have
been protesting since the city council has moved its meetings
(39:12):
online citing public safety concerns, and in another bungled raid
in the same state, ICE agents left a twelve year
old child alone on the sidewalk and drove their vehicle
aggressively towards a city councilor who was trying to document
a situation. Meanwhile, in Florida, DeSantis has sworn in one
hundred Florida Highway Patrol deputies as special US Marshals and
(39:37):
their claiming this allows them to conduct immigration enforcement operations
of their own outside of cooperation with ICE or CBP.
That adds to the two thousand ATF and DA agents
the Tramp administration has requested to join ICE teams. So
when you're watching videos sometimes you'll see when there are
these like ICE snatch squads.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Right there are.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
EIGHTF agents with them, and what they're generally there to
do is like to secure, to provide like additional security
on the team while the ICE agents do the actual apprehensions.
DeSantis has also offered quote new detention facilities. I haven't
seen much reporting on this, but in the same statement
on his website where he talked about cross swearing, the
(40:18):
highway patrol guys. He also talked about these quote new
detention facilities, and I want to take this opportunity to
reflect on the existing detention facilities in Florida because they
are the worst in a system of horrific detention facilities.
The ACLU has documented quote persistent emotional, physical, and sexual
abuse at the hands of staff for these facilities, Detainees
(40:41):
reportedly being punished simply seeking medical care, being denied medical
attention just by having pre existing conditions. The report also
found ample evidence of gendered and racialized mistreatment the Chrome
Detention Center that's krom Is in particular horrific migrants there,
(41:01):
in one instance, were held in chains on buses for
sixteen hours and told to use the bathroom where they
were sitting on the buses. A migrant named A studios
as a hell Vasquez Martinez somehow kept his phone inside
the Chrome Detention Center and was able to live stream
(41:21):
or at least post videos showed horrific overcrowding. Some sources
claim there were as many as four thousand people in
the detention center, which has a capacity of five hundred
and two people that we know of have died there
since January, Florida looking to add more detention centers.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
Not great, it's.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
About all I got. Garrison talk to us about Project Homecoming.
Who's coming home?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Yeah, And again we will actually close on some good news.
So it's not all horrible stuff this entire time. But
we do need to mention Project Homecoming. So this was
a proclamation issued by Trump on May ninth, entitled Establishing
Project Homecoming, which aims to curb a quote unquote full
scale invasion. It claims to devote more federal resources to
(42:09):
assist self deportation via the CBP home app, including paying
for flights for those who are quote voluntarily and permanently
departing the United States, which says, quote the Secretary of
State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall create a
concierge service whereby any alien illegally present in the United States,
it may arrive at an airport with or without appropriate
(42:32):
travel documents, book air travel to permanently relocate to a
different country. So they are really strengthening these self deportation mechanisms.
Section two promises to provide financial incentives in the form
of a quote unquote exit bonus for each illegal alien
who voluntarily and permanently departs the United States.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
Yeah, so a couple of really weird things there, just
off the bat. Yes, age like permanently departs, it seems
to suggest that you would be permanently barred from ever
entering the United States acquiring a visa.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Again.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Secondly, if you don't have travel documents, the country that
you're traveling to or through has no reason to admit you.
Right that the US government cannot force other countries to
admit people without travel documents. There are things called refugee
travel documents, which allow people who have had their passports,
et cetera stolen to travel.
Speaker 5 (43:22):
I don't think that's what's gonna happen here.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Yeah, it does mention something about trying to negotiate with
other countries to allow people without documentation to arrive there,
but like, well they actually do that probably not like
they've claimed to not have to need to do that before,
so like, yeah, that's not like a solid promise. Now,
those who choose to remain will face quote sweeping consequences
including removal, prosecution, incarceration, and fines as consistent with applicable
(43:48):
law for immigration related crimes, the garnishment of wages, and
the confiscations of savings and personal property, including homes and
vehicles unquote, so they're threatening to steal all of your things.
This poclamation follows this like propaganda video shared by Christino
in the Department of Homeland Security. This video was released
a few weeks ago and it contains some similar rhetoric
(44:11):
regarding self deportation and fines being imposed for those who
stay in the country.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
accused of murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged with
filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
(44:36):
Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christinom, the United States Secretary
of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings
are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over one
hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you are
here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly one
(44:56):
thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported you will never return.
But if you register using our CBP home app and
leave now. You could be allowed to return legally. Do
what's right. Leave now under President Trump, America's laws, border
and families will be protected.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
The whole style of video is very bizarre.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Yeah, it's like a Marvel trailer.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
It's like a Marvel trailer with like the aesetex of
like mid two thousands, like dystopian sci fi.
Speaker 5 (45:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Again, the end of that video, she talks about being
able to return legally, which is in contrast to the
language in a Project Homecoming, which says that people would
be leaving the United States permanently. Finally, the proclamation directs
the Secretary of Homeland Security to within sixty days, supplement
existing law enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting
(45:48):
state and local police, former Feds, and quote, other individuals
to increase the enforcement and removal operations force of the
Department of Homeland Security by no less than twenty thousand
officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove
illegal aliens unquote. And now, as of this morning, May fifteenth,
the DHS has requested to mobilize over twenty thousand National
(46:10):
Guard troops from the Department of Defense to comply with
Trump's order to expand its immigration crackdown, and on Wednesday,
the FBI ordered agents to deprioritize white collar crime investigations
for the remainder of twenty twenty five to instead focus
on immigration enforcement. Field offices notified their agents that now
one third of their time must go towards assisting Trump's
(46:32):
immigration policies. I'm going to quote from Reuter's quote. The
orders came on the same day that Matthew Gailliatti, the
head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, issued new guidance
to prosecutors that scales back to the scope of white
collar cases historically pursued by the Department and orders prosecutors
to quote minimize the length and collateral impact of such investigations. Jeez, again,
(46:56):
the most corrupt administration ever ever before seen. For the
good news to close the episode, the Tuft's university student
was may Oz Turk, who was black bagged on the
streets of Massachusetts for co authoring a pro Palestine op ed.
Has been released on bail as of May ninth, after
spending six weeks in iced attention. The judge said that
(47:16):
missus Ostrich's claims of her First Amendment and due process
rights being violated are quote unquote very substantial. And then
on Wednesday, May fourteenth, the Georgetown University researcher from India
named Batar Khan Surrey was released from immigration detention as
he continues to fight two deportation cases brought against him
by the Trump administration for his support of Palestine. So
(47:38):
this is now the third or fourth person that has
been released from ICE custody following like political prosecutions based
on their activism.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Now, these cases are still going to be continuing in courts,
but the fact that these people have been released from
ICE attention is good news.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
And in most cases they were released on their own
recover since right without GPS tagging or any like.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah, they're free to move throughout the country because most
of them have cases in like multiple states. ICE is
trying to move them around to many different locations. And
I know that Surrey and Osturik are able to go
back to their homes.
Speaker 5 (48:17):
Yeah, so like it's good.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
It shows that the courts are still able to stop
some of this stuff at this time.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yes, and that the actual ability of a lawyer to
intervene when you were treated illegally by the state is
not nil yeah yet.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yeah yeah, good point, positive developments here, but like yeah,
as we'll see with with Miller's goal of getting rid
of Habeas Corpus and accelerating law enforcement operations with these
twenty thousand new National Guard troops. This is this is
something that's still going to be a very a very
hot issue for quite a while, and we will continue
to report on it as it develops.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Well everybody, until next time, Remember something we sa reported
to news, say we reported the news.
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