June 20, 2025 • 10 mins
I've been really against freaking out. But I think now might be the time.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Call zone media. Yo. I try my best to not
be an alarmist about stuff, like especially political stuff, because
sometimes it's like my rebellious streak, if you will, just
don't want to be goaded or goaded into feeling or
(00:25):
thinking a thing. I consider myself sometimes in a rather
arrogant way, though, like maybe a little less healthy than
it should be. I consider myself pretty savvy, being able
to tell when I'm being hustled or not hustled, you know,
kind of looking around the corner and figuring out like
(00:47):
what's really going on, like what's the slight of hand,
what's the lick? Being able to notice the thing that's
actually important. And I feel like one thing I did
call and I wasn't the first person to say this,
don't make I don't want to pretend like I have
some sort of magic ball that will predict something that
(01:12):
nobody else predicted, but just having a sense enough to
know that like that. Yang jd Vance was talking in
the beginning of this presidency about the federal courts, the
Supreme Court, if you will, not having jurisdiction over the
executive courts, really doing this good Rigamaro, that's a good
(01:37):
Black people word Rigamaro and who shot John around? Should
the president actually listen to a federal judgment? If you
disagree with what the judge said, why should I listen
to them? I'm like that, My friend is scary af
(02:00):
that y'all elected a man who squad think like this.
Fast forward to now when the Trump administration was trying
to bring a case to the Supreme Court about universal
injunctions and Amy Cony Barrett asking this full ay, so
if we make a decision, are you going to follow it?
(02:23):
Holmy was like depends. Wait what it depends? You just
may not listen to the Supreme Court told y'all like, okay,
that's something that y'all need to be concerned about. And
there it is playing out right there. Now, there are
two things I'd like to say are actually okay, wait,
(02:43):
this is actually a big deal. One is Gavin Newsome
actually said fascist, which is great. And number two, Trump
actually did a fascist thing. Tap in with me. For
(03:14):
some reason, the Democrats have tried to avoid the F word.
They've tried to avoid calling him or his actions actions
that are undoubtedly fascist. They would say we're creeping towards fascism.
They would say he is an autocrat. He admires dictators
(03:35):
being very careful with their words, and I respect that
in some senses, you want to be very accurate in
your words because you don't want to be as messy
and as sloppy as he is with is. I get
that right, But it's also been a little cowardice, especially
when it's kind of like it's right in front of you,
like this, this is actually what you're doing. And I
(03:58):
would say as much as I would tease, like I
say all the time my brunch loving institutionalists who are like, listen,
the system is set up for this. This is how
it works. It is designed so that no one man
should have all this power. It's designed for it where
it's this is how it works, and right now it's working.
(04:21):
And I would continue to push in these group texts
with with with my brunching friends, it's working right at
right now, and I'm like, I don't know, man, this
some janga like this. You keep pulling these janga pieces.
You keep saying, don't worry about it. I'm looking at it, wabble.
(04:44):
I'm like this, how it falls this out? These are
the steps. It is my opinion, though, that I think
we really crossed the line this time, and I think
that line was the we all know Trump is remarkably,
remarkably tissue skinned, right, which we talked about already, especially
(05:07):
this week, is that he just cannot He cannot stand
against the smallest of wind gusts that challenge whatever he
is thinking or doing. He responds so heavily to any
protests because he just cannot handle it. There were reports
(05:29):
during the George Floyd uprisings that his team had to
beg him to not send in national troops because even
they understood you're crossing a line when you bring American
troops onto American soil for things that are not to help.
(05:51):
And there was even reports with the Marines who were like, Doug,
why didn't y'all bring us in for the fires in LA?
Whenever we get deployed domestically, it's to help here. I
don't understand why you got us here. Most of the helplines,
(06:13):
there's reports again through the military on their helplines that
dudes are feeling really conflicted about this, like, man, I
don't want to I don't think we should. I really
feel like we shouldn't have to do this. It really
don't seem that serious. This is not what I signed
up for. But the line crossing, which we know he
is an habitual line crossing. But this line, I think
(06:33):
is actually a line you need to think about, is
federalizing state troops. It is under the sole command of
the governor to decide when to deploy state troops. There's
an interesting pr twist here because what in his mind
(06:54):
could seem like a show of force could also seem
like a show of weakness, like these people got you
that scared. I thought you was a big tough guy.
But either way, one of the biggest juxtaposition is the
June eleventh anniversary of when John F. Kennedy called in
(07:15):
the National Guard in Alabama. But it was in order
to get black students into their college. And this was
the George Wallace doing the segregation now segregation forever. So
if you're a Democrat, you're a Democratic leader. I don't
know why you don't point at that. You'd be like,
how ironic that the last time state troops were called
(07:40):
in by the FEDS was to protect human rights, was
to protect constitutional rights. But now you just associated the
National Guard with ice by making them come there and
protect ice. Dudes to be able to do the raise
(08:00):
that they doing so now rather than holding the piece
and making sure no government property is destroyed, now they
just here to help ice. You started something here. You
started something here that I think is going to keep
happening whenever Trump don't like what somebody doing. State of
(08:23):
California suit them like, Yo, you can't just do this.
The courts was like, actually, you're correct, you can't just
do this, and then another court was like, wait, yay
can because it's some sort of insurrection act. This is
hardly an insurrection. And finally somebody finally said it, This
(08:48):
is fascism. Gavin Newsom finally said it, guys, can we
just say it? This is fascism. I wanted to run
for president, but I ain't picking up this mess. That's
a line. I think a line was crossed, y'all. And
if you don't agree with me or not agree with me,
(09:09):
I ain't worry about you agree with me. But if
there's another thing that I could use to get you
to make to make get my point across here, Minnesota
senators were shot, so you got you got military opened
up on civilians, and you got political opponents being killed
(09:36):
we're here, guys. My only option now is just to
continue to resist. But I think the line was crossed
Old Taco doing the work. I think this one's a
(09:56):
big deal, y'all, Tap being with the money
Call zone media. Yo. I try my best to not
be an alarmist about stuff, like especially political stuff, because
sometimes it's like my rebellious streak, if you will, just
don't want to be goaded or goaded into feeling or
(00:25):
thinking a thing. I consider myself sometimes in a rather
arrogant way, though, like maybe a little less healthy than
it should be. I consider myself pretty savvy, being able
to tell when I'm being hustled or not hustled, you know,
kind of looking around the corner and figuring out like
(00:47):
what's really going on, like what's the slight of hand,
what's the lick? Being able to notice the thing that's
actually important. And I feel like one thing I did
call and I wasn't the first person to say this,
don't make I don't want to pretend like I have
some sort of magic ball that will predict something that
(01:12):
nobody else predicted, but just having a sense enough to
know that like that. Yang jd Vance was talking in
the beginning of this presidency about the federal courts, the
Supreme Court, if you will, not having jurisdiction over the
executive courts, really doing this good Rigamaro, that's a good
(01:37):
Black people word Rigamaro and who shot John around? Should
the president actually listen to a federal judgment? If you
disagree with what the judge said, why should I listen
to them? I'm like that, My friend is scary af
(02:00):
that y'all elected a man who squad think like this.
Fast forward to now when the Trump administration was trying
to bring a case to the Supreme Court about universal
injunctions and Amy Cony Barrett asking this full ay, so
if we make a decision, are you going to follow it?
(02:23):
Holmy was like depends. Wait what it depends? You just
may not listen to the Supreme Court told y'all like, okay,
that's something that y'all need to be concerned about. And
there it is playing out right there. Now, there are
two things I'd like to say are actually okay, wait,
(02:43):
this is actually a big deal. One is Gavin Newsome
actually said fascist, which is great. And number two, Trump
actually did a fascist thing. Tap in with me. For
(03:14):
some reason, the Democrats have tried to avoid the F word.
They've tried to avoid calling him or his actions actions
that are undoubtedly fascist. They would say we're creeping towards fascism.
They would say he is an autocrat. He admires dictators
(03:35):
being very careful with their words, and I respect that
in some senses, you want to be very accurate in
your words because you don't want to be as messy
and as sloppy as he is with is. I get
that right, But it's also been a little cowardice, especially
when it's kind of like it's right in front of you,
like this, this is actually what you're doing. And I
(03:58):
would say as much as I would tease, like I
say all the time my brunch loving institutionalists who are like, listen,
the system is set up for this. This is how
it works. It is designed so that no one man
should have all this power. It's designed for it where
it's this is how it works, and right now it's working.
(04:21):
And I would continue to push in these group texts
with with with my brunching friends, it's working right at
right now, and I'm like, I don't know, man, this
some janga like this. You keep pulling these janga pieces.
You keep saying, don't worry about it. I'm looking at it, wabble.
(04:44):
I'm like this, how it falls this out? These are
the steps. It is my opinion, though, that I think
we really crossed the line this time, and I think
that line was the we all know Trump is remarkably,
remarkably tissue skinned, right, which we talked about already, especially
(05:07):
this week, is that he just cannot He cannot stand
against the smallest of wind gusts that challenge whatever he
is thinking or doing. He responds so heavily to any
protests because he just cannot handle it. There were reports
(05:29):
during the George Floyd uprisings that his team had to
beg him to not send in national troops because even
they understood you're crossing a line when you bring American
troops onto American soil for things that are not to help.
(05:51):
And there was even reports with the Marines who were like, Doug,
why didn't y'all bring us in for the fires in LA?
Whenever we get deployed domestically, it's to help here. I
don't understand why you got us here. Most of the helplines,
(06:13):
there's reports again through the military on their helplines that
dudes are feeling really conflicted about this, like, man, I
don't want to I don't think we should. I really
feel like we shouldn't have to do this. It really
don't seem that serious. This is not what I signed
up for. But the line crossing, which we know he
is an habitual line crossing. But this line, I think
(06:33):
is actually a line you need to think about, is
federalizing state troops. It is under the sole command of
the governor to decide when to deploy state troops. There's
an interesting pr twist here because what in his mind
(06:54):
could seem like a show of force could also seem
like a show of weakness, like these people got you
that scared. I thought you was a big tough guy.
But either way, one of the biggest juxtaposition is the
June eleventh anniversary of when John F. Kennedy called in
(07:15):
the National Guard in Alabama. But it was in order
to get black students into their college. And this was
the George Wallace doing the segregation now segregation forever. So
if you're a Democrat, you're a Democratic leader. I don't
know why you don't point at that. You'd be like,
how ironic that the last time state troops were called
(07:40):
in by the FEDS was to protect human rights, was
to protect constitutional rights. But now you just associated the
National Guard with ice by making them come there and
protect ice. Dudes to be able to do the raise
(08:00):
that they doing so now rather than holding the piece
and making sure no government property is destroyed, now they
just here to help ice. You started something here. You
started something here that I think is going to keep
happening whenever Trump don't like what somebody doing. State of
(08:23):
California suit them like, Yo, you can't just do this.
The courts was like, actually, you're correct, you can't just
do this, and then another court was like, wait, yay
can because it's some sort of insurrection act. This is
hardly an insurrection. And finally somebody finally said it, This
(08:48):
is fascism. Gavin Newsom finally said it, guys, can we
just say it? This is fascism. I wanted to run
for president, but I ain't picking up this mess. That's
a line. I think a line was crossed, y'all. And
if you don't agree with me or not agree with me,
(09:09):
I ain't worry about you agree with me. But if
there's another thing that I could use to get you
to make to make get my point across here, Minnesota
senators were shot, so you got you got military opened
up on civilians, and you got political opponents being killed
(09:36):
we're here, guys. My only option now is just to
continue to resist. But I think the line was crossed
Old Taco doing the work. I think this one's a
(09:56):
big deal, y'all, Tap being with the money
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