October 11, 2025 • 47 mins
This week was chaos.
Stephen Miller said "plenary authority" on CNN then froze, revealing they want unlimited power. ICE is abducting U.S. citizens. The government took over federal emails to blame Democrats. And MAGA doesn't know Puerto Ricans are Americans.
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Stephen Miller said "plenary authority" on CNN then froze, revealing they want unlimited power. ICE is abducting U.S. citizens. The government took over federal emails to blame Democrats. And MAGA doesn't know Puerto Ricans are Americans.
Let's talk about it.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sunny spaces, smiling faces, happy places. But every sunny space
holds a shadow. Behind every smile, our sharp teeth, and
every happy place has something sinister lurking just below the surface.
Welcome to We Saw the Devil, the podcast diving deep
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unflinching exploration will take you to the darkest corners of
the psyche and through the unimaginable depths of human darkness
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to unearth stark secrets. To the harsh light of day.
Nothing will be left untouched. Are you ready? Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We Saw the Devil? Hello of It's Robin. Welcome back
to Red, White and Bruised, my new political commentary series
where I basically examine the events of the week and
then scream into the void with you. We have made
it to episode three. Welcome. If you're not already pissed
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off and furious, buckle up, Buttercup, because today we're covering
quite a bit a lot happened this week. We have
everything from Stephen Miller basically revealing the Trump administration's dictatorship
plans on live television. Ice is now abducting American citizens
off the street like it's a damn movie. The government
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is literally hacking into federal employees' email accounts to blame
Democrats for a shutdown they caused. And MAGA is losing
its collective mind over bad Bunny performing at the super Bowl.
We'll get to that momentarily. It has been one hell
of a week. Let's dive in. Let's start with the
moment that Stephen Miller, you may know him as Trump's
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ghoulish architect of cruelty who legitimately looks like he feeds
on the souls of immigrant children. He looks like if
a sickly Victorian child somehow made it to adulthood but
has some leftover remnants, you know what I mean, Absolutely
horrendous human being. He accidentally told America exactly what they're planning,
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and spoiler alert, it's a dictatorship. It is a full
on dictatorship. They want a dictatorship and they're not even
hiding it anymore. Okay, So picture It. Monday October sixth,
Stephen Miller goes on CNN to defend Trump's deployment of
Natural Guard troops to various US cities. CNN's Boris Sanchez
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asks what should be a simple question, will the administration
abide by a district judge's order blocking troop deployment in Oregon.
Miller starts spouting his usual bullshit, the usual song and
dance appeals legal President, blah blah blah, blah blah. But
then he says something he definitely was not supposed to
say it out loud.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Thank you so much for joining us. By the way,
you've called the district judges ruling blocking the deployment of
National Guard in Oregon legal insurrection. Does the administration still
plan to abide by that ruling?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
The administration filed an appeal this morning with the Ninth Circuit.
I would note the administration won an identical case in
the Ninth Circuit just a few months ago with respect
to the federalizing of the California National Guard under Title
ten of the US Code. The President has plenary authority.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Has.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Stephen Stephen, Hey, Stephen, can you hear me? I don't
know it seems Stephen, I apologize, it seems like we're
having a technical issue. We'll try to fix that and
get back to you after a quick break stick.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Under Title ten of the US Code, the president has
plenary authority. And then he just stops dead stop. Miller froze,
just staring into the camera like a malfunctioning android. Steven
Miller just blinking like someone yanked his fucking battery out.
Now CNN cuts to commercial claims that it's a technical issue.
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Sure it was, and I'm sure what sure, Jane, But
here's what actually happened. Miller said the quiet part out loud,
and someone in his ear, in his little earbud from
the control room, screamed, shut the fuck up, and he
froze like a deer in headlights because he realized he
just revealed the whole game plan on live television. And
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the best part is that when CNN uploaded the interview
to YouTube, they edited out the entire plenary authority comment
gone memory, hold ice box, nothing to see here, Yeah,
totally just technical difficulties. It was very clear that Stephen
Miller was there and present. He just realized he fucked up.
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So what is plenary authority and why does it matter?
Why is the world freaking out over it? You know
what is that?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Cordell University defines plinary authority as power that is wide ranging,
broadly construed, and often limitless for all practical purposes. Let's
say it again, limitless for all practical purposes. It's essentially
absolute power with no limitations or review whatsoever. King shit,
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dictator powers, the kind of authority that doesn't exist in
democracies because democracies have this insane idea called checks and balances.
There are very few instances of clinary powers in the
United States, and for good reason. One example would be
the presidential pardon. The president can pardon whoever he wants
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for federal crimes and nobody can stop him. And it
doesn't matter if you're Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Donald Trump,
Bill Clinton. They've all pardoned people, right. So that is
an example of plenary power being utilized. And the presidential pardon,
whereas in some instances, has been a little controversial, widely accepted,
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not too much of a kerfluffle is made over it
when it happens. But Miller wasn't talking about pardons. He
was claiming Trump has unlimited power to deploy military troops
to American cities, to send armed soldiers into Portland and
Chicago and Los Angeles because he doesn't like the politics there.
That's not presidential power. That's tyranny. Now, you might be thinking,
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but there must be some law Stephen Miller is referring to, right, Yeah,
there is. You've probably heard this one floated around in
the media quite a bit or on Twitter, Facebook, whatever
news site you use. It's called the Insurrection Act, and
it's terrifying. It was signed into law in eighteen oh
seven by Thomas Jefferson, back when the big threats were
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actual rebellions and actual foreign invasions, like you know, large
scale war on this soil. It wasn't referencing people protesting
ice raids. The Insurrection Act gives the president power to
deploy the US military domestically under certain circumstances, and it
sounds reasonable until you read the fine print of it,
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or more like the complete lack thereof. The president can
deploy troops to quote suppress in a state any insurrection,
domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy. So cucol cool, cool cool.
Here's the problem. The statutes don't define these terms. The
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president gets to decide what counts as an insurrection. And
let me say this again for the people in the back.
The Insurrection Act allows the president to decide what an
insurrection is. The Brennan Center for Justice looked at this
law and basically said, it's quote so bafflingly broad that
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it cannot possibly mean what it says or else. It
authorizes the president to use the military against any two
people conspiring to break federal law. In layman's terms, y'all,
it's a blank check, a get out of democracy free card,
and Trump is about to cash it. But what's happening
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right now? Let's talk about what Trump is actually doing,
because this isn't hypothetical anymore. This is happening right now
today while you are listening to this. Trump has already
deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles, Washington, d C, Memphis, Portland,
and Chicago his justification crime and protecting ICE agents from
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rabid protesters. But here's the thing. The democratic governors and
mayors in these cities don't want the troops. They didn't
request them. They're actively fighting them in court Illinois and
Chicago soon to stop it. A federal judge in Orgon
blocked it, and Trump's response, fuck your courts, I'll do
it anyway. Trump told reporters, quote, if people were being
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killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or
mayors were holding us up, sure I do that. Did
you catch that? Did you catch what Trump said? He said,
if courts were holding us up. Trump also claimed, with
zero evidence that there is an insurrection happening in Portland.
He has used the word insurrection in describing the events
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in Portland. Organ Governor Tina Cootec said, there's no insurrection
in Portland, no threat to national security. But as always,
Trump doesn't care about facts. He cares about power, and
if he has to lie about an insurrection to deploy troops,
he'll do it. Oh and by the way, they're already
breaking the law. A federal judge, if you remember, ruled
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in September that Trump's use of the Nation Guard in
Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatis Act, the eighteen seventy
eight law that says you can't use the military as
a domestic police force. The judge found that while the
military claimed that they were just protecting federal buildings, that
evidence showed they systematically used armed soldiers in military vehicles
for law enforcement. They lied, they broke the law, and
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they got caught. Trump's response threatened to do it again,
but this time call it an insurrection, so technically legal.
Trump told military commanders that American cities should be used
as training grounds for our military. He called civil disturbances
the enemy within, not foreign terrorists, not actual enemies. American
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protesters exercising their constitutional rights. That's fascism. I'm not being hyperbolic.
That's literally how fascism works. NBC News reported on October
eighth that White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions
about Trump invoking the Insurrection Act. They're not just threatening it,
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they're actively planning it. And is that part of Project
twenty twenty five. Yes, Invoking the Insurrection Act would give
Trump extraordinary powers to use military force in US cities
in a way not seen since the Civil Rights Movement.
The last time a president actually used it was during
the nineteen ninety two La Riots over thirty years ago.
If Trump declares an insurrection in Illinois without the governor's consent,
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it would be the first time that's happened since Lyndon
Johnson did in nineteen sixty five to protect civil rights
activists in Alabama, and LBJ used it to protect people.
He did it to protect civil rights activists in Alabama
to ensure their safety. Trump wants to use it to
deploy military force against them. Right now, two hundred National
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Guard troops from Texas are preparing to deploy to Chicago.
State troops going to a democratic city to do what exactly,
keep order from what protesters. Internal military communications show the
military itself is freaking out, expressing concerns about quote far
reaching social, political, and operational impacts, and the military is
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warning that using military forces poses a direct quote extremely
high risk to civilians. Not only civilians, but likewise to
troops and the military's reputation. Even the military is like, yobra,
this is a bad idea. So let's go back to
Stephen Miller and his very convenient technical glitch. People on
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social media, myself included called bullshit, saying that Miller said
the quiet part out loud and that clip perfectly exemplifies
the maximalist conception of presidential power pushed by Miller and
the Trump administration. And this isn't new for Miller. He
previously claimed that, quote, the president's authority as the head
of the executive branch to terminate executive branch employees is
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a plenary authority, and that's completely ignoring constitutional and statutory constraints.
Stephen Miller genuinely believes that the president is a king,
and he's working every single day to make that belief
an actual reality. Brian Frizell, the Deputy Chief Council of
the Constitutional Accountability Center, pointed out that even where the
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president does have plenary powers over the National Guard, it's
a very small scope literally just relating to the number
of troops. And in terms of this, Frizel also said,
it certainly does concern me. I won't say it surprises
me though, based on the arguments that the administration has
been making in court. This is an expert on authoritarianism
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as well as the constitution, and everyone sees that this
administration is openly arguing for a dictatorship. But let's talk
about what's actually happening with troop deployments, because holy hell,
this week was a dumpster fire. Last weekend in Portland
was apparently unprecedented. Want to know what the violent insurrection
in Portland looked like. Evidence showed that protests had been
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relatively mild leading up to Trump's order, including the night
before his social media post about Portland, when police noted
the Ice Facility protest featured eight to fifteen people at
any given time, mostly sitting in lawn chairs and walking around,
and that energy was low, minimal activity. Eight to fifteen
people sitting in lawn chairs. Yes, it has grown, but
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there's no mala toff cocktails being thrown and hundreds of
people in the streets. You guys, it is literally one
block outside of one fucking building, like the cul de
Sac in my neighborhood outside my window is basically the
size of this protest area. Yet, for whatever reason, conservative
news outlets are acting like its Fallujah. And my favorite
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was last week when Fox was doubling down trying to
support Trump on obviously deploying the National Guard. Fox News
played a clip from five years ago, when there were
actually heat hostile protests five years ago. They literally play
footage from five years ago to pass it off as
there being violence today. The Trump administration told a federal
judge this week that protesters had assaulted federal law enforcement
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officers with rocks bricks, pepper spray and incendiary devices, and
damaged federal property. So which is it? Portland police says, No,
it's been pretty mild. Lawn chairs, a guy dressed in
a frau as a frog, lots of improv theater music, dancing,
cha chaw slide. Is it that? Or for the federal
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government molotov cocktails? White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt called
the anti Ice protesters violent mob members who night after
night after night, are ravaging this community, ravaging the community.
Federal Judge Karen Immergut, a Trump appointee, by the way,
granted Oregon a temporary restraining order, finding the Trump administration's
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argument unconvincing, saying that incidents at the ICE facility do
not approach the level of disruption to federal functions. Listen
to that again. Even Trump's own judge said that he
was full of shit, and it gets better. Just hours
after the judge blocked the National Guard deployment, federal law
enforcement officers escalated tactics on protesters in the city. They
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pushed crowds of protesters hundreds of yards down the street.
They fired tear gas, They used flash bangrenades and pepper
balls without any clear signs of provocation. It just came.
They lost in court, and then immediately it was obvious
that an order came down to increase the violence. It
was immediate. Federal officers were flanked with videographers with professional
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equipment and high vizvess filming from behind the lines of officers,
capturing the show of force. This wasn't law enforcement, it
was a propaganda film shoot and Trump he gave a
press conference repeating this unfounded claim that Portland is burning
to the ground, and at seven thirty am in Portland,
several hours after he made the comments, videos showed the
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streets virtually empty, like people are staying home. In Portland.
There were just a couple runners, and in fact, in
the annual Portland Marathon, they ran right past the ICE
building and there was no incident at all. Now, let's
talk about the American citizen that Ice grabbed. Frank Miranda,
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US citizen born in California nineteen seventy nine living in Milwaukee, Oregan.
Miranda says that he was abducted by masked playing clothes
agents from ICE when he arrived at his Northeast Portland
job last Thursday, was kicked to the floor of a
van and taken to an ICE detention center. Let me
repeat that an American citizen abducted by masked federal agents
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and kicked to the floor of a van. In his interview,
Miranda said that he got up that morning, he drank
a shake, said his prayers, and drove down to the
metal shop where he works. He parked at six am
and then noticed lights behind him. That's when two men
sprang from a 'maul unmarked suv and called him by name,
asking for ID. They said they were from DHS and
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wanted to determine his citizenship. They looked like day laborers.
Miranda says they were not looking or acting professional at all.
Both had thick Central American accents. Think about that, and
I've seen this reported all over the country in almost
every state that ICE is operating in, which is basically
all of them. There is a sudden realization that ICE
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is using agents with Central American accents to abduct people.
Where are they coming from. Miranda took out his organ
driver's license and one of the men snatched it. He said,
I didn't pull it out to give it to him.
I pulled it out to show it to him. I
knew something was wrong right there. Miranda took out his
phone and began filming. In a thirty second video, a
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massed agent says Miranda is an overstay, perhaps meaning that
he'd remained in the US beyond his visa expiration date.
When Miranda resists, another agent off camera threatens to get
a dog. This is a US citizen born in California,
and they're threatening him with a dog. The agents asked,
where were you born? Don't lie to me, Miranda responded, California.
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When he asked where ICE got its information, the agent said,
wherever we got it from, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. The
agents handcuffed him and forced him into a van. Inside,
an agent who apparently spoke no English, kicked his legs
out from under him and told him that he would
be sitting on the floor. They were high fiving. Miranda
says they were celebrating kidnapping an American citizen. They took
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him to the local ICE facility, where he was fingerprinted
and held for several hours. The ICE agianists refused to
provide any names or badge numbers. After several hours, Miranda
was driven back to his place of employment without being
given any legitimate reason for his abduction. No apology, no explanation,
just whoops are bad? You can go now. This may
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be the first documented case in Portland where ice has
swept up an American citizen, first documented how many undocumented
cases are there. And if you think Portland was bad,
wait until you hear about what happened in Chicago. Body
camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in a
shooting of a woman shows an officer saying do something, bitch,
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before pulling over and shooting the woman five times five times.
The video appears to contradict the government's allegation that Merimar Martinez, thirty,
drove toward officers before one of them opened fire. Martinez
and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, twenty one, were charged with
felony assault of a federal officer. Martinez is a US
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citizen and works for a school. Ruiz is also a
US citizen and self employed as a DJ two American citizens.
They were following federal agents, which last I checked is
an illegal. Martinez's attorney, Christopher Parente, said the video shows
an agent turning a federal vehicle left into Martinez's vehicle,
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which after an agent says do something, bitch. The agent
then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez. The agent
provoked the confrontation, taunted her, and then shot her five times.
Parente said Martinez had seven holes in her from the shooting,
and that agents were in such a hurry to take
her into custody at the hospital that they had to
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return later because Martinez began bleeding from her wounds seven
bullet holes, and the hospital was trying to work on
her to get her to stop bleeding, and the ice
officers were fucking antsy to get her into custody. Prosecutors
notably did not mention a loaded gun in Martinez's car
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that was referenced in a previous DHS statement, but in
court Monday, the prosecutor said Martinez had a loaded firearm
on the passenger side of the car but never brandished it.
Martinez's attorney said she has a valid firearm and concealed
carry license, so she legally carried a gun, she never
pulled out, got shot seven times, and somehow she's the criminal.
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Parente disputed the government's claim that Martinez is a danger
to the community, saying instead that the ice officer who
shot her was a threat damn right. US District Judge
Heather McShane denied the federal government's requests to detain Martinez
and Ruiz, saying it's a miracle to me that no
one was more seriously injured. Even the federal judges like,
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what the fuck were you thinking? But wait, there's more,
Because ICE had a spectacularly bad week in Chicago courts
this week. A judge ordered ICE to dial back arrest
tactics in Chicago, and a grand jury refused to indict
a Chicago couple arrested by ICE agents. Let's start with
a grand jury. A husband and wife from Chicago were
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arrested by ICE and this all happened outside the facility
in Broadview. Ray Collins twenty one and Jocelin Roblado, thirty
were charged with felony assault of a federal officer, with
both allegedly carrying guns and al allegedly struggling with agents.
It turns out that both were legally permitted to carry
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the pistols and licensed in Illinois, legally armed exercising their
second rate amendments, and ICE arrested them anyway. Prosecutors actually
dropped charges after a federal grand jury in Chicago declined
to approve indictments, something that almost never happens. Grand juries
only hear the government's side. Their attorney, Richard Kling, said,
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there's an old adage that a good prosecutor could get
a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. In my case,
obviously they didn't. They didn't even have enough for a
ham sandwich. The grand jury, hearing only the government's version
of events, still said naw, that's bullshit and didn't believe it.
And then there's the other ruling. US District Court Judge
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Jeffrey Cummings, in a blistering, scathing ruling, said ICE has
been repeatedly violating a court agreement made in twenty twenty
two two in which the agency agreed to not make
warrantless arrests without probable cause. Judge Cummings ordered ICE to
stop and lift all bond conditions for twenty two arrestees,
with hundreds of others who could also be freed because
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they were legally arrested as well. According to the ruling,
ICE agents made unlawful warrantless arrests beginning last summer. They
literally created fake warrants on the fly. Senator Dick Durman said, Unfortunately,
the Trump administration and its agencies have a record of
defying court orders. We can't take anything for granted. I
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think that clearly the President has overstepped his authority and
he is creating a chaotic and dangerous situation in Chicago.
This is the state of law enforcement in America right now.
Agents acting like movie villains, judges trying to rain the
men in the administration just ignoring court orders entirely. Okay,
we already talked about ICE being out of control. Hey,
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but at least the rest of the government is than
doing No. Nope, let's talk about this government shutdown, and
let's be honest here, guys. Republicans cause it. They control
both chambers of Congress and the Presidency, and they have
seized employees computers and emails. Multiple furloughed workers at the
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Department of Education had out of office messages blaming Democrats
for the government shutdown, and these were automatically sent from
their email accounts without their consent or knowledge. Again, without
their consent or knowledge, the new out of office message
read thank you for contacting me. On September nineteenth, twenty
twenty five, the House of representatives past HR five three
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seven to one, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat senators
are blocking passage of HR five three seven to one
in the Senate, which has led to a lapse in appropriations.
This is disturbing, and this is violating, and this is
something that could also potentially impact their professional reputation. Five
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federal employees said that they used non partisan language earlier
in the week on their auto responders, only to find
out that while they were furloughed, someone had changed it.
They changed it back, and the administration changed it again.
Richard Painter, who served as a chief White House ethics
lawyer during George W. Bush administration, said this may have
actually violated a number of laws, including one prohibiting political
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lobbying using taxpayer funds and another that prohibits a government
coercion and of political activity, which is also a criminal statute.
Richard Painter said, if you coerce someone to send a message,
that's a violation. But then let's go to the next
step and say, well, instead of doing that, they just
seize control of your email because you're not allowed to
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go in your email, and they put out an email
with your name on it. Isn't that coercion. Yes, that's
exactly what that is. And it wasn't just the Department
of Education. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's website
has a banner and pop up message blaming the radical
left for the federal government shutdown. Same thing with the
Office of Management and Budget, Same thing with the Department
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of Labor, Justice, and Education. Out of office email messages
denouncing Democrat senators for causing the shutdown. The statement from
the Department of Veteran Affairs used even harsher language, saying
radical liberals and Congress are to blame, and radical liberals
and Congress are trying to shut down the government to
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achieve their crazy fantasy of open borders, transgender for everybody,
and men competing in women's sports. Again, on an actual
American website for the Veteran Affairs it says, radical liberals
in Congress are trying to shut down the government to
achieve their crazy fantasy of open borders, transgender for everybody,
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and men competing in women's sports. What the actual fuck?
When ABC News emails the White House Press Office, they
get an automated response with exactly the same messaging. Same
with the State Department. The American Federation of Government Employees
is now suing the Trump administration for inserting language into
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Department of Education employees out of office email messages. The
complaint states forcing civil servants to speak on behalf of
the political leadership's partisan agenda is a blatant violation of
federal employees' First Amendment rights. The Union accused the administration
of violating the First Amendment by co opting the voices
of rank and file employees and the non partisan civil
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service to take part in political messaging. It's profoundly offensive.
So this administration and all of the Republicans that are
supporting it are going to all of this trouble, literally
committing crimes, violating the Hatch Act, forcing federal employees to
lie to avoid blame. Is it working? A Washington Post
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poll released on Thursday of this week revealed that forty
seven percent of respondents pointed fingers at Trump and the Republicans,
edging out the thirty percent who blamed Democrats. White House
Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt declared, it's the Democrats who have
forced the White House and the President into this position
by voting to shut the government down. Republicans control both
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chambers of Congress, so that's a lie. The administration is
taking aggressive countermeasures, including thousands of federal layoffs, to heighten
the pain. Budget Chief Rosavot sees it as an opportunity
you can squeeze the Democrats while also slimming down the bureaucracy.
In the red tape, they're going to fire people during
a shutdown that they caused to make Democrats look bad.
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One Trump ally put it bluntly, when they're significant upside,
he doesn't care about a downside, and he doesn't really
give a damn about criticism. Translation, Trump will burn down
the government if it helps him politically. All right, light
in the mood? Shall we let's talk about some peak
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stupidity here. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so
freaking racist. The NFL announced that Bad Bunny, one of
the most streamed artists on the entire planet currently, will
be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show in February, and
conservatives lost their ever loving minds. Trump went on Newsmax
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and said, I've never heard of him, I don't know
who he is. I don't know why they're doing it.
It's like crazy, which okay, Boomer, but Bad Bunny was
literally the third most stream artist on Spotify globally last year,
the only Latino in the top five. His twenty twenty
two album is the most streamed album in Spotify history.
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But sure, Donald, you've never heard of him. Immediately, Maggot
influencers were calling him demonic, a Marxist, a tranny, saying
he's not American because he performs in Spanish. Homeland Security
Secretary Christy Nome said the NFL sucks for picking him
and said, I quote, well, they suck, and we'll win,
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and God bless us, and we'll stand and be proud
of ourselves at the end of the day, and they
won't be able to sleep at night because they don't
know what they believe and they're so weak. We'll fix it.
What the actual fuck does that even mean? Like that
was half the time when Christy Nome speaks. You know,
when you see documentaries of the snake handlers and southern
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churches right like the really far right ones, or people
speaking in tongues. Every time Christy Nome and Trump open
their mouths, that's all I hear is people, That's what
I hear. That's what the fuck is because nothing she
said in that commentary made sense. Gnom also said that
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ice agents will be all over the super Bowl. Trump
advisor Corey Lewandowski said that there's nowhere you can provide
safe haven to people who are in this country illegally,
not the super Bowl, and nowhere else. We will find
you and apprehend you and put you in a detention
facility and deport you. They're threatening to conduct ice rays
at the super Bowl. And as a side note, I
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would like to make it explicitly clear they are focusing
on suppose illegal immigrants at the super Bowl. When the
super Bowl is the number one day of the year,
the number one day of the year for human trafficking,
it is rampant. Thousands and thousands of women are sex
trafficked at the super Bowl. This has been a problem
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for decades, but no one has ever thought to really
focus on that. But back to the bad Bunny stuff.
Here's where it gets absolutely hilarious. Bad Bunny is from
Puerto Rico, and apparently no one in the Trump administration
or most people on the right, it seems, paid attention
in middle school civics class because Puerto Rico is a
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US territory it has been since eighteen ninety eight. Puerto
Ricans are American citizens with citizenship, don't need to be naturalized,
don't need green cars. In essence, they are Americans. Bad
Bunny is his American z apple Pie more American than
Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada. So when Homeland
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Security is threatening to send Ice to the Super Bowl
to what arrest an American citizen for being too brown
for speaking Spanish? The cognitive dissonance and idiocy is fucking stunning.
But you know what's even better? Since Christy Nome and
the Yellow Dotard are really upset about non American performers,
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how about we go over a list of halftime performers
who were not American citizens, you know, the ones who
actually needed work visas to perform. Here, Rihanna back in
twenty twenty three. She's from Barbados. Shakira twenty twenty, Columbia,
The Weekend, Canada, Coldplay twenty sixteen, British Paul McCartney two
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thousand and five, British Rolling Stones two thousand and six,
British The Who twenty ten, British U two two thousand
and two, Irish Shania Twain two thousand and three, Canadian sting.
All the times he's been there, British Phil Collins, all
the times he's been there, British. Did we see Maga
lose their minds over Paul McCartney The Rolling Stones?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You two?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Did Homeland Security threaten to send Ice after Rihanna? No,
of course, not because they're either white or, in Rihanna's case,
she performed before Trump radicalies half the fucking country. The
racism is so transparent it's embarrassing. Bad Bunny is an
American citizen performing at an American event in Spanish, the
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second most spoken language in this country. Spanish has been
spoken on this continent longer than English has. It's older
than English. And here's the thing, Bad Bunny is making history.
He's the first artist to perform entirely in Spanish at
the Super Bowl halftime show. That's a landmark moment for
Latino culture. It matters to millions of Americans whose first
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language is in Spanish. It matters to people in Puerto
Rico who are Americans but constantly get treated like they're foreigners.
That's been made explicitly clear this week that over half
of this country is fucking stupid. I'm not a Bad
Bunny fan. If you guys know me, I listen to
basically the same. I'm more of the circus Survive anything,
Anthony Green, Touches, Hail the Son, Donovan Malaro, Chelsea Wolf Like,
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that's my vibe.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I don't like pop music, any of it. Really Bad Bunny.
I've tried to listen, especially after this news out. Not
a fan, but you know what, he just finished a
thirty one concert residency in Puerto Rico. It brought half
a million people to Puerto Rico and generated seven hundred
and thirty three million dollars for Puerto Rico's local economy.
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That's what he does for his community, and that's what
he does for America. Here's the bottom line. The outrage
over Bad Bunny isn't about citizenship, It's not about patriotism.
It's about the fact that a proud Latino man who
refuses to perform in English, who speaks out about ice raids,
who endorse Kamala Harris, and who has the audacity to
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be unapologetically himself, is getting one of the biggest platforms
in the world and they can't stand it. They can't
stand that he didn't ask for permission, that he didn't
tone himself down, act more cis hetero toxic masculinity, that
he didn't try to be palatable for white conservative audiences.
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And one more thing. Bat Bunny actually has already performed
at a Super Bowl halftime show back in twenty twenty
with Shakira and j Loo. No controversy then, because Trump
wasn't president and the outreach machine wasn't in full swing yet,
So go ahead and fucking spare me the pearl clutching
about this tradition in American values. This is about xenophobia,
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plain and simple. This is about people who can't handle
the fact that America is diverse, that Latino culture is
American culture, and that not everything needs to cater to
their narrow world Viewoo, we are almost done here. Let's
just quickly run through some other insanity from this week,
because honestly, there's too much to cover. So, speaking of ICE,
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a pastor issuing the Trump administration after being shot directly
in the head by a pepper ball fired by ICE agents,
and this happened at a protest in Chicago. Video shows
Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago,
immediately falling to the ground just after he was praying.
They shot a pastor in the head while he was praying.
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Lawsuit filed. Also, FBI has been resigned to immigration. Nearly
a quarter of the FBI's roughly thirteen thousand agents are
currently assigned to immigration enforcement, the numbers climbing to upward
of forty percent in the largest FBI field offices. This
is pulling agents from investigations into cybercrime, drug trafficking, terrorism,
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and counterintelligence. So who's protecting us from actual threats? Nobody? Apparently.
Also this week, Apple quietly removed the citizen reporting app
Delser from its app store. App activists and immigrant communities
use it to track ICE activity. Can't have people knowing
where those secret police are, can we? And then something
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else that made me want to scream into the void
this week was Trump's Antifa round table. Trump led a
round table on Antifa with far right activists and claimed
without evidence that Antifa members are paid and funded. Good
Old Christinome compared Antifa to MS thirteen, hamas Hesbelah, and
the Islamic State because peaceful protesters are totally the same
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as international terrorist organizations. Apparently there is no Antifa, guys,
like part of the reason why this shit is a
I wish I could even say laughable because it's so
fucking terrifying. There is no Antifa. There's no Antifa, there
is no group, there is no group of Antifa. It's
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literally antifa. Anti fascist is what it stands for. It's
an ideology. There is no physical clubhouse for Antifa. But
do you see what this administration is doing. They are
going to designate quote unquote antifa is terrorists so that
at these protests or anywhere else, or anyone speaks out
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about the government, they can say that they are Antifa
and make up fake charges because suddenly now anyone speaking
out about the government can be considered an Antifa. Look
at where this is going. Then we have Rutgers University
history professor Mark Bray. He came out and said that
his family is moving to Spain after receiving death threats
at their home address following a conservative campus group's petition
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calling for him to be fired. Why were they doing
that because he taught about anti fascism. He taught about
anti fascism for years without issue. Now he's receiving death
threats for being anti fascist in America. Let that sink in.
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And just for the record, these conservative campus groups were
pissed that a professor was talking about how to fight
in one of his courses many examples, because the biggest
example of fascism we have is Hitler, Republican students were
upset and called for him to be fired. Are you
seeing a theme here? Also this week we did have
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a James Also this week, we did have a James
Comy court appearance. And then finally Trump came out and
reinstated Columbus Day as a federal holiday with the declaration quote,
We're back Italians because apparently we're just ignoring Indigenous People's Day.
Cool cool, cool, cool cool. Sure, let's celebrate the mass
murder that we can't honor the people who were here
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first and godslaughtered. Cool cool. We have the Stephen Miller
Plenary Authority debackle, where he froze after he realized what
he had said. So yes, this administration is actively planning
to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy actual military troops
to US cities. We have Ice subducting American citizens of
this off the street. We have the administration hacking into
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federal employees' email accounts without permission. MAGA is having a
complete fucking meltdown over an American citizen performing at the
Super Bowl because he speaks Spanish. This is not normal,
This is not politics as usual. This is authoritarian behavior.
They don't respect courts, they don't respect the law, they
don't respect your rights. They don't even respect their own employees.
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Senator Dick Durbin said it best. Unfortunately, the Trump administration
and its agencies have a record of defying court orders.
We can't take anything for granted. The President has overstepped
his authority and he is creating a chaotic and dangerous situation.
They're telling us exactly what they want, unlimited power, a
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dictatorship in everything but name. We have American citizens being abducted,
protesters being teargas for sitting in lawn chairs or dancing,
federal employees having their voices stolen, court orders being ignored,
military being deployed to American cities against the will of
local officials, against US citizens, the FBI being pulled from
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investigating actual crimes to round up immigrants. Are you over
it because I am, I've been there, A lot of
us have, and if you're listening to this and you're
not there yet. I honestly don't know what it's going
to take, and I don't have an answer for anything.
That's it for today's episode, you, guys, Another day in Paradise.
I want to know what you think. If you think
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I'm completely full of shit, or if you are seeing
the same patterns that a lot of other people are,
I want to know. I want to know. Leave a
comment on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Yeah, we're getting in some
pretty scary times, guys. I would actually like to offer
a prediction. I'm not psychic. I don't have been. I
don't believe in any of that. I'm not psychic, but
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I am going to make a prediction based on patterns.
I think the Insurrection Act is going to be invoked
in the next two weeks, two to three weeks, probably
two weeks. I think that the administration has been trying
to go and get protesters to fight back. That is
why on these podcasts, I have been begging people to
stay home and do not go out, and do not
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give them what they want, Do not be the spark
that lights that powder keg, because once that powder keg
blows and the Insurrection Act is invoked and the military
is dispatched. Guys, that is not a situation we want
to find ourselves in. And it's probably gonna happen either way,
right because they're making up shit. They spent half a
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day showing the same clip on Fox News last week,
the same little video clip, and it was from five
years ago, and they were passing it off as this week.
So they are manufacturing it's gonna happen. But I'm estimating
that it's going to happen in the next two to
three weeks. And I honestly don't know how that's going
to happen. I'm obsessed with history, obsessed with history, World
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War two, Civil War, I'm a freak, I know. I
just wonder, because the United States is so unique, such
a large land mass, so many different states, how is
that going to happen? How is interstate travel going to
be monitored? How is international you know, if martial law
comes down. Has anyone ever considered what martial law would
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look like in the United States? Because for whatever reason,
I can't actually picture that. It makes me think of
the movie Civil War? Have you seen it? It came
out last year. It has Kirsten Dunst in it. She's
basically a photo journalist who used to specialize in war
zones and she's traumatized. But then there's a civil war
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that breaks out in the US, so they have to
travel from New York to Washington, DC, and she's documenting
the conflict. And it's not explicitly partisan, so it doesn't
say like good bad, so on and so forth, but
it shows what it would look like. And that's kind
of what I imagine. That's it for today, you guys.
And I just want to be explicitly clear. I don't
hate anyone, And for the right wingers out there who
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would hate me for being a gay, liberal woman, I
wish nothing but the best for you. I wish you
nothing but a job that pays a livable wage, housing
that's affordable, healthcare that's full coverage and gives you what
you need, good education opportunities, also for your children. That's
all I want for everyone in this country. And I
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think it's safe to say that on both sides that's
largely all that we want, at least for ourselves. Most
of us want it for others as well. And also
I'm begging everyone who's listening, whether you're left or right,
keep an eye on your social media algorithms. We do
live in an echo chamber. Our algorithms work in a
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certain way to collect data and make money, and we
will see additional content that they think that we're interested
in to stay on their platform, to see more things
and make them more money. My side of TikTok probably
looks vastly different from someone in Southern Alabama's TikTok. You
know what I mean. So please just be cognizant of
the information that you're being fed. Believe nothing, Believe nothing shit,
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double check me. But that's it for today, you guys.
Next episode coming up early this week is going to
be Iris and myself discussing two horror movies, the scariest
that I've ever seen and then one that she saw
this week. My pick is The Dark in the Wicked
and hers is immaculate with Sidney Sweeney. It is October,
after all, and I love horror, and so October is
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pretty much the only month that I can actually slip
in some of these things and get away with it.
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We Saw the Devil? Hello of It's Robin. Welcome back
to Red, White and Bruised, my new political commentary series
where I basically examine the events of the week and
then scream into the void with you. We have made
it to episode three. Welcome. If you're not already pissed
(01:16):
off and furious, buckle up, Buttercup, because today we're covering
quite a bit a lot happened this week. We have
everything from Stephen Miller basically revealing the Trump administration's dictatorship
plans on live television. Ice is now abducting American citizens
off the street like it's a damn movie. The government
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is literally hacking into federal employees' email accounts to blame
Democrats for a shutdown they caused. And MAGA is losing
its collective mind over bad Bunny performing at the super Bowl.
We'll get to that momentarily. It has been one hell
of a week. Let's dive in. Let's start with the
moment that Stephen Miller, you may know him as Trump's
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ghoulish architect of cruelty who legitimately looks like he feeds
on the souls of immigrant children. He looks like if
a sickly Victorian child somehow made it to adulthood but
has some leftover remnants, you know what I mean, Absolutely
horrendous human being. He accidentally told America exactly what they're planning,
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and spoiler alert, it's a dictatorship. It is a full
on dictatorship. They want a dictatorship and they're not even
hiding it anymore. Okay, So picture It. Monday October sixth,
Stephen Miller goes on CNN to defend Trump's deployment of
Natural Guard troops to various US cities. CNN's Boris Sanchez
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asks what should be a simple question, will the administration
abide by a district judge's order blocking troop deployment in Oregon.
Miller starts spouting his usual bullshit, the usual song and
dance appeals legal President, blah blah blah, blah blah. But
then he says something he definitely was not supposed to
say it out loud.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Thank you so much for joining us. By the way,
you've called the district judges ruling blocking the deployment of
National Guard in Oregon legal insurrection. Does the administration still
plan to abide by that ruling?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
The administration filed an appeal this morning with the Ninth Circuit.
I would note the administration won an identical case in
the Ninth Circuit just a few months ago with respect
to the federalizing of the California National Guard under Title
ten of the US Code. The President has plenary authority.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Has.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Stephen Stephen, Hey, Stephen, can you hear me? I don't
know it seems Stephen, I apologize, it seems like we're
having a technical issue. We'll try to fix that and
get back to you after a quick break stick.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Under Title ten of the US Code, the president has
plenary authority. And then he just stops dead stop. Miller froze,
just staring into the camera like a malfunctioning android. Steven
Miller just blinking like someone yanked his fucking battery out.
Now CNN cuts to commercial claims that it's a technical issue.
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Sure it was, and I'm sure what sure, Jane, But
here's what actually happened. Miller said the quiet part out loud,
and someone in his ear, in his little earbud from
the control room, screamed, shut the fuck up, and he
froze like a deer in headlights because he realized he
just revealed the whole game plan on live television. And
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the best part is that when CNN uploaded the interview
to YouTube, they edited out the entire plenary authority comment
gone memory, hold ice box, nothing to see here, Yeah,
totally just technical difficulties. It was very clear that Stephen
Miller was there and present. He just realized he fucked up.
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So what is plenary authority and why does it matter?
Why is the world freaking out over it? You know
what is that?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Cordell University defines plinary authority as power that is wide ranging,
broadly construed, and often limitless for all practical purposes. Let's
say it again, limitless for all practical purposes. It's essentially
absolute power with no limitations or review whatsoever. King shit,
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dictator powers, the kind of authority that doesn't exist in
democracies because democracies have this insane idea called checks and balances.
There are very few instances of clinary powers in the
United States, and for good reason. One example would be
the presidential pardon. The president can pardon whoever he wants
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for federal crimes and nobody can stop him. And it
doesn't matter if you're Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Donald Trump,
Bill Clinton. They've all pardoned people, right. So that is
an example of plenary power being utilized. And the presidential pardon,
whereas in some instances, has been a little controversial, widely accepted,
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not too much of a kerfluffle is made over it
when it happens. But Miller wasn't talking about pardons. He
was claiming Trump has unlimited power to deploy military troops
to American cities, to send armed soldiers into Portland and
Chicago and Los Angeles because he doesn't like the politics there.
That's not presidential power. That's tyranny. Now, you might be thinking,
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but there must be some law Stephen Miller is referring to, right, Yeah,
there is. You've probably heard this one floated around in
the media quite a bit or on Twitter, Facebook, whatever
news site you use. It's called the Insurrection Act, and
it's terrifying. It was signed into law in eighteen oh
seven by Thomas Jefferson, back when the big threats were
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actual rebellions and actual foreign invasions, like you know, large
scale war on this soil. It wasn't referencing people protesting
ice raids. The Insurrection Act gives the president power to
deploy the US military domestically under certain circumstances, and it
sounds reasonable until you read the fine print of it,
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or more like the complete lack thereof. The president can
deploy troops to quote suppress in a state any insurrection,
domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy. So cucol cool, cool cool.
Here's the problem. The statutes don't define these terms. The
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president gets to decide what counts as an insurrection. And
let me say this again for the people in the back.
The Insurrection Act allows the president to decide what an
insurrection is. The Brennan Center for Justice looked at this
law and basically said, it's quote so bafflingly broad that
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it cannot possibly mean what it says or else. It
authorizes the president to use the military against any two
people conspiring to break federal law. In layman's terms, y'all,
it's a blank check, a get out of democracy free card,
and Trump is about to cash it. But what's happening
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right now? Let's talk about what Trump is actually doing,
because this isn't hypothetical anymore. This is happening right now
today while you are listening to this. Trump has already
deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles, Washington, d C, Memphis, Portland,
and Chicago his justification crime and protecting ICE agents from
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rabid protesters. But here's the thing. The democratic governors and
mayors in these cities don't want the troops. They didn't
request them. They're actively fighting them in court Illinois and
Chicago soon to stop it. A federal judge in Orgon
blocked it, and Trump's response, fuck your courts, I'll do
it anyway. Trump told reporters, quote, if people were being
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killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or
mayors were holding us up, sure I do that. Did
you catch that? Did you catch what Trump said? He said,
if courts were holding us up. Trump also claimed, with
zero evidence that there is an insurrection happening in Portland.
He has used the word insurrection in describing the events
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in Portland. Organ Governor Tina Cootec said, there's no insurrection
in Portland, no threat to national security. But as always,
Trump doesn't care about facts. He cares about power, and
if he has to lie about an insurrection to deploy troops,
he'll do it. Oh and by the way, they're already
breaking the law. A federal judge, if you remember, ruled
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in September that Trump's use of the Nation Guard in
Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatis Act, the eighteen seventy
eight law that says you can't use the military as
a domestic police force. The judge found that while the
military claimed that they were just protecting federal buildings, that
evidence showed they systematically used armed soldiers in military vehicles
for law enforcement. They lied, they broke the law, and
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they got caught. Trump's response threatened to do it again,
but this time call it an insurrection, so technically legal.
Trump told military commanders that American cities should be used
as training grounds for our military. He called civil disturbances
the enemy within, not foreign terrorists, not actual enemies. American
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protesters exercising their constitutional rights. That's fascism. I'm not being hyperbolic.
That's literally how fascism works. NBC News reported on October
eighth that White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions
about Trump invoking the Insurrection Act. They're not just threatening it,
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they're actively planning it. And is that part of Project
twenty twenty five. Yes, Invoking the Insurrection Act would give
Trump extraordinary powers to use military force in US cities
in a way not seen since the Civil Rights Movement.
The last time a president actually used it was during
the nineteen ninety two La Riots over thirty years ago.
If Trump declares an insurrection in Illinois without the governor's consent,
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it would be the first time that's happened since Lyndon
Johnson did in nineteen sixty five to protect civil rights
activists in Alabama, and LBJ used it to protect people.
He did it to protect civil rights activists in Alabama
to ensure their safety. Trump wants to use it to
deploy military force against them. Right now, two hundred National
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Guard troops from Texas are preparing to deploy to Chicago.
State troops going to a democratic city to do what exactly,
keep order from what protesters. Internal military communications show the
military itself is freaking out, expressing concerns about quote far
reaching social, political, and operational impacts, and the military is
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warning that using military forces poses a direct quote extremely
high risk to civilians. Not only civilians, but likewise to
troops and the military's reputation. Even the military is like, yobra,
this is a bad idea. So let's go back to
Stephen Miller and his very convenient technical glitch. People on
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social media, myself included called bullshit, saying that Miller said
the quiet part out loud and that clip perfectly exemplifies
the maximalist conception of presidential power pushed by Miller and
the Trump administration. And this isn't new for Miller. He
previously claimed that, quote, the president's authority as the head
of the executive branch to terminate executive branch employees is
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a plenary authority, and that's completely ignoring constitutional and statutory constraints.
Stephen Miller genuinely believes that the president is a king,
and he's working every single day to make that belief
an actual reality. Brian Frizell, the Deputy Chief Council of
the Constitutional Accountability Center, pointed out that even where the
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president does have plenary powers over the National Guard, it's
a very small scope literally just relating to the number
of troops. And in terms of this, Frizel also said,
it certainly does concern me. I won't say it surprises
me though, based on the arguments that the administration has
been making in court. This is an expert on authoritarianism
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as well as the constitution, and everyone sees that this
administration is openly arguing for a dictatorship. But let's talk
about what's actually happening with troop deployments, because holy hell,
this week was a dumpster fire. Last weekend in Portland
was apparently unprecedented. Want to know what the violent insurrection
in Portland looked like. Evidence showed that protests had been
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relatively mild leading up to Trump's order, including the night
before his social media post about Portland, when police noted
the Ice Facility protest featured eight to fifteen people at
any given time, mostly sitting in lawn chairs and walking around,
and that energy was low, minimal activity. Eight to fifteen
people sitting in lawn chairs. Yes, it has grown, but
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there's no mala toff cocktails being thrown and hundreds of
people in the streets. You guys, it is literally one
block outside of one fucking building, like the cul de
Sac in my neighborhood outside my window is basically the
size of this protest area. Yet, for whatever reason, conservative
news outlets are acting like its Fallujah. And my favorite
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was last week when Fox was doubling down trying to
support Trump on obviously deploying the National Guard. Fox News
played a clip from five years ago, when there were
actually heat hostile protests five years ago. They literally play
footage from five years ago to pass it off as
there being violence today. The Trump administration told a federal
judge this week that protesters had assaulted federal law enforcement
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officers with rocks bricks, pepper spray and incendiary devices, and
damaged federal property. So which is it? Portland police says, No,
it's been pretty mild. Lawn chairs, a guy dressed in
a frau as a frog, lots of improv theater music, dancing,
cha chaw slide. Is it that? Or for the federal
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government molotov cocktails? White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt called
the anti Ice protesters violent mob members who night after
night after night, are ravaging this community, ravaging the community.
Federal Judge Karen Immergut, a Trump appointee, by the way,
granted Oregon a temporary restraining order, finding the Trump administration's
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argument unconvincing, saying that incidents at the ICE facility do
not approach the level of disruption to federal functions. Listen
to that again. Even Trump's own judge said that he
was full of shit, and it gets better. Just hours
after the judge blocked the National Guard deployment, federal law
enforcement officers escalated tactics on protesters in the city. They
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pushed crowds of protesters hundreds of yards down the street.
They fired tear gas, They used flash bangrenades and pepper
balls without any clear signs of provocation. It just came.
They lost in court, and then immediately it was obvious
that an order came down to increase the violence. It
was immediate. Federal officers were flanked with videographers with professional
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equipment and high vizvess filming from behind the lines of officers,
capturing the show of force. This wasn't law enforcement, it
was a propaganda film shoot and Trump he gave a
press conference repeating this unfounded claim that Portland is burning
to the ground, and at seven thirty am in Portland,
several hours after he made the comments, videos showed the
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streets virtually empty, like people are staying home. In Portland.
There were just a couple runners, and in fact, in
the annual Portland Marathon, they ran right past the ICE
building and there was no incident at all. Now, let's
talk about the American citizen that Ice grabbed. Frank Miranda,
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US citizen born in California nineteen seventy nine living in Milwaukee, Oregan.
Miranda says that he was abducted by masked playing clothes
agents from ICE when he arrived at his Northeast Portland
job last Thursday, was kicked to the floor of a
van and taken to an ICE detention center. Let me
repeat that an American citizen abducted by masked federal agents
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and kicked to the floor of a van. In his interview,
Miranda said that he got up that morning, he drank
a shake, said his prayers, and drove down to the
metal shop where he works. He parked at six am
and then noticed lights behind him. That's when two men
sprang from a 'maul unmarked suv and called him by name,
asking for ID. They said they were from DHS and
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wanted to determine his citizenship. They looked like day laborers.
Miranda says they were not looking or acting professional at all.
Both had thick Central American accents. Think about that, and
I've seen this reported all over the country in almost
every state that ICE is operating in, which is basically
all of them. There is a sudden realization that ICE
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is using agents with Central American accents to abduct people.
Where are they coming from. Miranda took out his organ
driver's license and one of the men snatched it. He said,
I didn't pull it out to give it to him.
I pulled it out to show it to him. I
knew something was wrong right there. Miranda took out his
phone and began filming. In a thirty second video, a
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massed agent says Miranda is an overstay, perhaps meaning that
he'd remained in the US beyond his visa expiration date.
When Miranda resists, another agent off camera threatens to get
a dog. This is a US citizen born in California,
and they're threatening him with a dog. The agents asked,
where were you born? Don't lie to me, Miranda responded, California.
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When he asked where ICE got its information, the agent said,
wherever we got it from, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. The
agents handcuffed him and forced him into a van. Inside,
an agent who apparently spoke no English, kicked his legs
out from under him and told him that he would
be sitting on the floor. They were high fiving. Miranda
says they were celebrating kidnapping an American citizen. They took
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him to the local ICE facility, where he was fingerprinted
and held for several hours. The ICE agianists refused to
provide any names or badge numbers. After several hours, Miranda
was driven back to his place of employment without being
given any legitimate reason for his abduction. No apology, no explanation,
just whoops are bad? You can go now. This may
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be the first documented case in Portland where ice has
swept up an American citizen, first documented how many undocumented
cases are there. And if you think Portland was bad,
wait until you hear about what happened in Chicago. Body
camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in a
shooting of a woman shows an officer saying do something, bitch,
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before pulling over and shooting the woman five times five times.
The video appears to contradict the government's allegation that Merimar Martinez, thirty,
drove toward officers before one of them opened fire. Martinez
and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, twenty one, were charged with
felony assault of a federal officer. Martinez is a US
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citizen and works for a school. Ruiz is also a
US citizen and self employed as a DJ two American citizens.
They were following federal agents, which last I checked is
an illegal. Martinez's attorney, Christopher Parente, said the video shows
an agent turning a federal vehicle left into Martinez's vehicle,
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which after an agent says do something, bitch. The agent
then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez. The agent
provoked the confrontation, taunted her, and then shot her five times.
Parente said Martinez had seven holes in her from the shooting,
and that agents were in such a hurry to take
her into custody at the hospital that they had to
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return later because Martinez began bleeding from her wounds seven
bullet holes, and the hospital was trying to work on
her to get her to stop bleeding, and the ice
officers were fucking antsy to get her into custody. Prosecutors
notably did not mention a loaded gun in Martinez's car
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that was referenced in a previous DHS statement, but in
court Monday, the prosecutor said Martinez had a loaded firearm
on the passenger side of the car but never brandished it.
Martinez's attorney said she has a valid firearm and concealed
carry license, so she legally carried a gun, she never
pulled out, got shot seven times, and somehow she's the criminal.
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Parente disputed the government's claim that Martinez is a danger
to the community, saying instead that the ice officer who
shot her was a threat damn right. US District Judge
Heather McShane denied the federal government's requests to detain Martinez
and Ruiz, saying it's a miracle to me that no
one was more seriously injured. Even the federal judges like,
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what the fuck were you thinking? But wait, there's more,
Because ICE had a spectacularly bad week in Chicago courts
this week. A judge ordered ICE to dial back arrest
tactics in Chicago, and a grand jury refused to indict
a Chicago couple arrested by ICE agents. Let's start with
a grand jury. A husband and wife from Chicago were
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arrested by ICE and this all happened outside the facility
in Broadview. Ray Collins twenty one and Jocelin Roblado, thirty
were charged with felony assault of a federal officer, with
both allegedly carrying guns and al allegedly struggling with agents.
It turns out that both were legally permitted to carry
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the pistols and licensed in Illinois, legally armed exercising their
second rate amendments, and ICE arrested them anyway. Prosecutors actually
dropped charges after a federal grand jury in Chicago declined
to approve indictments, something that almost never happens. Grand juries
only hear the government's side. Their attorney, Richard Kling, said,
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there's an old adage that a good prosecutor could get
a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. In my case,
obviously they didn't. They didn't even have enough for a
ham sandwich. The grand jury, hearing only the government's version
of events, still said naw, that's bullshit and didn't believe it.
And then there's the other ruling. US District Court Judge
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Jeffrey Cummings, in a blistering, scathing ruling, said ICE has
been repeatedly violating a court agreement made in twenty twenty
two two in which the agency agreed to not make
warrantless arrests without probable cause. Judge Cummings ordered ICE to
stop and lift all bond conditions for twenty two arrestees,
with hundreds of others who could also be freed because
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they were legally arrested as well. According to the ruling,
ICE agents made unlawful warrantless arrests beginning last summer. They
literally created fake warrants on the fly. Senator Dick Durman said, Unfortunately,
the Trump administration and its agencies have a record of
defying court orders. We can't take anything for granted. I
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think that clearly the President has overstepped his authority and
he is creating a chaotic and dangerous situation in Chicago.
This is the state of law enforcement in America right now.
Agents acting like movie villains, judges trying to rain the
men in the administration just ignoring court orders entirely. Okay,
we already talked about ICE being out of control. Hey,
(24:57):
but at least the rest of the government is than
doing No. Nope, let's talk about this government shutdown, and
let's be honest here, guys. Republicans cause it. They control
both chambers of Congress and the Presidency, and they have
seized employees computers and emails. Multiple furloughed workers at the
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Department of Education had out of office messages blaming Democrats
for the government shutdown, and these were automatically sent from
their email accounts without their consent or knowledge. Again, without
their consent or knowledge, the new out of office message
read thank you for contacting me. On September nineteenth, twenty
twenty five, the House of representatives past HR five three
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seven to one, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat senators
are blocking passage of HR five three seven to one
in the Senate, which has led to a lapse in appropriations.
This is disturbing, and this is violating, and this is
something that could also potentially impact their professional reputation. Five
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federal employees said that they used non partisan language earlier
in the week on their auto responders, only to find
out that while they were furloughed, someone had changed it.
They changed it back, and the administration changed it again.
Richard Painter, who served as a chief White House ethics
lawyer during George W. Bush administration, said this may have
actually violated a number of laws, including one prohibiting political
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lobbying using taxpayer funds and another that prohibits a government
coercion and of political activity, which is also a criminal statute.
Richard Painter said, if you coerce someone to send a message,
that's a violation. But then let's go to the next
step and say, well, instead of doing that, they just
seize control of your email because you're not allowed to
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go in your email, and they put out an email
with your name on it. Isn't that coercion. Yes, that's
exactly what that is. And it wasn't just the Department
of Education. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's website
has a banner and pop up message blaming the radical
left for the federal government shutdown. Same thing with the
Office of Management and Budget, Same thing with the Department
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of Labor, Justice, and Education. Out of office email messages
denouncing Democrat senators for causing the shutdown. The statement from
the Department of Veteran Affairs used even harsher language, saying
radical liberals and Congress are to blame, and radical liberals
and Congress are trying to shut down the government to
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achieve their crazy fantasy of open borders, transgender for everybody,
and men competing in women's sports. Again, on an actual
American website for the Veteran Affairs it says, radical liberals
in Congress are trying to shut down the government to
achieve their crazy fantasy of open borders, transgender for everybody,
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and men competing in women's sports. What the actual fuck?
When ABC News emails the White House Press Office, they
get an automated response with exactly the same messaging. Same
with the State Department. The American Federation of Government Employees
is now suing the Trump administration for inserting language into
(28:12):
Department of Education employees out of office email messages. The
complaint states forcing civil servants to speak on behalf of
the political leadership's partisan agenda is a blatant violation of
federal employees' First Amendment rights. The Union accused the administration
of violating the First Amendment by co opting the voices
of rank and file employees and the non partisan civil
(28:35):
service to take part in political messaging. It's profoundly offensive.
So this administration and all of the Republicans that are
supporting it are going to all of this trouble, literally
committing crimes, violating the Hatch Act, forcing federal employees to
lie to avoid blame. Is it working? A Washington Post
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poll released on Thursday of this week revealed that forty
seven percent of respondents pointed fingers at Trump and the Republicans,
edging out the thirty percent who blamed Democrats. White House
Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt declared, it's the Democrats who have
forced the White House and the President into this position
by voting to shut the government down. Republicans control both
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chambers of Congress, so that's a lie. The administration is
taking aggressive countermeasures, including thousands of federal layoffs, to heighten
the pain. Budget Chief Rosavot sees it as an opportunity
you can squeeze the Democrats while also slimming down the bureaucracy.
In the red tape, they're going to fire people during
a shutdown that they caused to make Democrats look bad.
(29:42):
One Trump ally put it bluntly, when they're significant upside,
he doesn't care about a downside, and he doesn't really
give a damn about criticism. Translation, Trump will burn down
the government if it helps him politically. All right, light
in the mood? Shall we let's talk about some peak
(30:02):
stupidity here. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so
freaking racist. The NFL announced that Bad Bunny, one of
the most streamed artists on the entire planet currently, will
be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show in February, and
conservatives lost their ever loving minds. Trump went on Newsmax
(30:23):
and said, I've never heard of him, I don't know
who he is. I don't know why they're doing it.
It's like crazy, which okay, Boomer, but Bad Bunny was
literally the third most stream artist on Spotify globally last year,
the only Latino in the top five. His twenty twenty
two album is the most streamed album in Spotify history.
(30:43):
But sure, Donald, you've never heard of him. Immediately, Maggot
influencers were calling him demonic, a Marxist, a tranny, saying
he's not American because he performs in Spanish. Homeland Security
Secretary Christy Nome said the NFL sucks for picking him
and said, I quote, well, they suck, and we'll win,
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and God bless us, and we'll stand and be proud
of ourselves at the end of the day, and they
won't be able to sleep at night because they don't
know what they believe and they're so weak. We'll fix it.
What the actual fuck does that even mean? Like that
was half the time when Christy Nome speaks. You know,
when you see documentaries of the snake handlers and southern
(31:28):
churches right like the really far right ones, or people
speaking in tongues. Every time Christy Nome and Trump open
their mouths, that's all I hear is people, That's what
I hear. That's what the fuck is because nothing she
said in that commentary made sense. Gnom also said that
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ice agents will be all over the super Bowl. Trump
advisor Corey Lewandowski said that there's nowhere you can provide
safe haven to people who are in this country illegally,
not the super Bowl, and nowhere else. We will find
you and apprehend you and put you in a detention
facility and deport you. They're threatening to conduct ice rays
at the super Bowl. And as a side note, I
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would like to make it explicitly clear they are focusing
on suppose illegal immigrants at the super Bowl. When the
super Bowl is the number one day of the year,
the number one day of the year for human trafficking,
it is rampant. Thousands and thousands of women are sex
trafficked at the super Bowl. This has been a problem
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for decades, but no one has ever thought to really
focus on that. But back to the bad Bunny stuff.
Here's where it gets absolutely hilarious. Bad Bunny is from
Puerto Rico, and apparently no one in the Trump administration
or most people on the right, it seems, paid attention
in middle school civics class because Puerto Rico is a
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US territory it has been since eighteen ninety eight. Puerto
Ricans are American citizens with citizenship, don't need to be naturalized,
don't need green cars. In essence, they are Americans. Bad
Bunny is his American z apple Pie more American than
Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada. So when Homeland
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Security is threatening to send Ice to the Super Bowl
to what arrest an American citizen for being too brown
for speaking Spanish? The cognitive dissonance and idiocy is fucking stunning.
But you know what's even better? Since Christy Nome and
the Yellow Dotard are really upset about non American performers,
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how about we go over a list of halftime performers
who were not American citizens, you know, the ones who
actually needed work visas to perform. Here, Rihanna back in
twenty twenty three. She's from Barbados. Shakira twenty twenty, Columbia,
The Weekend, Canada, Coldplay twenty sixteen, British Paul McCartney two
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thousand and five, British Rolling Stones two thousand and six,
British The Who twenty ten, British U two two thousand
and two, Irish Shania Twain two thousand and three, Canadian sting.
All the times he's been there, British Phil Collins, all
the times he's been there, British. Did we see Maga
lose their minds over Paul McCartney The Rolling Stones?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You two?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Did Homeland Security threaten to send Ice after Rihanna? No,
of course, not because they're either white or, in Rihanna's case,
she performed before Trump radicalies half the fucking country. The
racism is so transparent it's embarrassing. Bad Bunny is an
American citizen performing at an American event in Spanish, the
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second most spoken language in this country. Spanish has been
spoken on this continent longer than English has. It's older
than English. And here's the thing, Bad Bunny is making history.
He's the first artist to perform entirely in Spanish at
the Super Bowl halftime show. That's a landmark moment for
Latino culture. It matters to millions of Americans whose first
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language is in Spanish. It matters to people in Puerto
Rico who are Americans but constantly get treated like they're foreigners.
That's been made explicitly clear this week that over half
of this country is fucking stupid. I'm not a Bad
Bunny fan. If you guys know me, I listen to
basically the same. I'm more of the circus Survive anything,
Anthony Green, Touches, Hail the Son, Donovan Malaro, Chelsea Wolf Like,
(35:27):
that's my vibe.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I don't like pop music, any of it. Really Bad Bunny.
I've tried to listen, especially after this news out. Not
a fan, but you know what, he just finished a
thirty one concert residency in Puerto Rico. It brought half
a million people to Puerto Rico and generated seven hundred
and thirty three million dollars for Puerto Rico's local economy.
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That's what he does for his community, and that's what
he does for America. Here's the bottom line. The outrage
over Bad Bunny isn't about citizenship, It's not about patriotism.
It's about the fact that a proud Latino man who
refuses to perform in English, who speaks out about ice raids,
who endorse Kamala Harris, and who has the audacity to
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be unapologetically himself, is getting one of the biggest platforms
in the world and they can't stand it. They can't
stand that he didn't ask for permission, that he didn't
tone himself down, act more cis hetero toxic masculinity, that
he didn't try to be palatable for white conservative audiences.
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And one more thing. Bat Bunny actually has already performed
at a Super Bowl halftime show back in twenty twenty
with Shakira and j Loo. No controversy then, because Trump
wasn't president and the outreach machine wasn't in full swing yet,
So go ahead and fucking spare me the pearl clutching
about this tradition in American values. This is about xenophobia,
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plain and simple. This is about people who can't handle
the fact that America is diverse, that Latino culture is
American culture, and that not everything needs to cater to
their narrow world Viewoo, we are almost done here. Let's
just quickly run through some other insanity from this week,
because honestly, there's too much to cover. So, speaking of ICE,
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a pastor issuing the Trump administration after being shot directly
in the head by a pepper ball fired by ICE agents,
and this happened at a protest in Chicago. Video shows
Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago,
immediately falling to the ground just after he was praying.
They shot a pastor in the head while he was praying.
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Lawsuit filed. Also, FBI has been resigned to immigration. Nearly
a quarter of the FBI's roughly thirteen thousand agents are
currently assigned to immigration enforcement, the numbers climbing to upward
of forty percent in the largest FBI field offices. This
is pulling agents from investigations into cybercrime, drug trafficking, terrorism,
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and counterintelligence. So who's protecting us from actual threats? Nobody? Apparently.
Also this week, Apple quietly removed the citizen reporting app
Delser from its app store. App activists and immigrant communities
use it to track ICE activity. Can't have people knowing
where those secret police are, can we? And then something
(38:24):
else that made me want to scream into the void
this week was Trump's Antifa round table. Trump led a
round table on Antifa with far right activists and claimed
without evidence that Antifa members are paid and funded. Good
Old Christinome compared Antifa to MS thirteen, hamas Hesbelah, and
the Islamic State because peaceful protesters are totally the same
(38:46):
as international terrorist organizations. Apparently there is no Antifa, guys,
like part of the reason why this shit is a
I wish I could even say laughable because it's so
fucking terrifying. There is no Antifa. There's no Antifa, there
is no group, there is no group of Antifa. It's
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literally antifa. Anti fascist is what it stands for. It's
an ideology. There is no physical clubhouse for Antifa. But
do you see what this administration is doing. They are
going to designate quote unquote antifa is terrorists so that
at these protests or anywhere else, or anyone speaks out
(39:31):
about the government, they can say that they are Antifa
and make up fake charges because suddenly now anyone speaking
out about the government can be considered an Antifa. Look
at where this is going. Then we have Rutgers University
history professor Mark Bray. He came out and said that
his family is moving to Spain after receiving death threats
at their home address following a conservative campus group's petition
(39:55):
calling for him to be fired. Why were they doing
that because he taught about anti fascism. He taught about
anti fascism for years without issue. Now he's receiving death
threats for being anti fascist in America. Let that sink in.
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And just for the record, these conservative campus groups were
pissed that a professor was talking about how to fight
in one of his courses many examples, because the biggest
example of fascism we have is Hitler, Republican students were
upset and called for him to be fired. Are you
seeing a theme here? Also this week we did have
(40:38):
a James Also this week, we did have a James
Comy court appearance. And then finally Trump came out and
reinstated Columbus Day as a federal holiday with the declaration quote,
We're back Italians because apparently we're just ignoring Indigenous People's Day.
Cool cool, cool, cool cool. Sure, let's celebrate the mass
murder that we can't honor the people who were here
(41:01):
first and godslaughtered. Cool cool. We have the Stephen Miller
Plenary Authority debackle, where he froze after he realized what
he had said. So yes, this administration is actively planning
to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy actual military troops
to US cities. We have Ice subducting American citizens of
this off the street. We have the administration hacking into
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federal employees' email accounts without permission. MAGA is having a
complete fucking meltdown over an American citizen performing at the
Super Bowl because he speaks Spanish. This is not normal,
This is not politics as usual. This is authoritarian behavior.
They don't respect courts, they don't respect the law, they
don't respect your rights. They don't even respect their own employees.
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Senator Dick Durbin said it best. Unfortunately, the Trump administration
and its agencies have a record of defying court orders.
We can't take anything for granted. The President has overstepped
his authority and he is creating a chaotic and dangerous situation.
They're telling us exactly what they want, unlimited power, a
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dictatorship in everything but name. We have American citizens being abducted,
protesters being teargas for sitting in lawn chairs or dancing,
federal employees having their voices stolen, court orders being ignored,
military being deployed to American cities against the will of
local officials, against US citizens, the FBI being pulled from
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investigating actual crimes to round up immigrants. Are you over
it because I am, I've been there, A lot of
us have, and if you're listening to this and you're
not there yet. I honestly don't know what it's going
to take, and I don't have an answer for anything.
That's it for today's episode, you, guys, Another day in Paradise.
I want to know what you think. If you think
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I'm completely full of shit, or if you are seeing
the same patterns that a lot of other people are,
I want to know. I want to know. Leave a
comment on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Yeah, we're getting in some
pretty scary times, guys. I would actually like to offer
a prediction. I'm not psychic. I don't have been. I
don't believe in any of that. I'm not psychic, but
(43:06):
I am going to make a prediction based on patterns.
I think the Insurrection Act is going to be invoked
in the next two weeks, two to three weeks, probably
two weeks. I think that the administration has been trying
to go and get protesters to fight back. That is
why on these podcasts, I have been begging people to
stay home and do not go out, and do not
(43:27):
give them what they want, Do not be the spark
that lights that powder keg, because once that powder keg
blows and the Insurrection Act is invoked and the military
is dispatched. Guys, that is not a situation we want
to find ourselves in. And it's probably gonna happen either way,
right because they're making up shit. They spent half a
(43:48):
day showing the same clip on Fox News last week,
the same little video clip, and it was from five
years ago, and they were passing it off as this week.
So they are manufacturing it's gonna happen. But I'm estimating
that it's going to happen in the next two to
three weeks. And I honestly don't know how that's going
to happen. I'm obsessed with history, obsessed with history, World
(44:09):
War two, Civil War, I'm a freak, I know. I
just wonder, because the United States is so unique, such
a large land mass, so many different states, how is
that going to happen? How is interstate travel going to
be monitored? How is international you know, if martial law
comes down. Has anyone ever considered what martial law would
(44:30):
look like in the United States? Because for whatever reason,
I can't actually picture that. It makes me think of
the movie Civil War? Have you seen it? It came
out last year. It has Kirsten Dunst in it. She's
basically a photo journalist who used to specialize in war
zones and she's traumatized. But then there's a civil war
(44:50):
that breaks out in the US, so they have to
travel from New York to Washington, DC, and she's documenting
the conflict. And it's not explicitly partisan, so it doesn't
say like good bad, so on and so forth, but
it shows what it would look like. And that's kind
of what I imagine. That's it for today, you guys.
And I just want to be explicitly clear. I don't
hate anyone, And for the right wingers out there who
(45:11):
would hate me for being a gay, liberal woman, I
wish nothing but the best for you. I wish you
nothing but a job that pays a livable wage, housing
that's affordable, healthcare that's full coverage and gives you what
you need, good education opportunities, also for your children. That's
all I want for everyone in this country. And I
(45:31):
think it's safe to say that on both sides that's
largely all that we want, at least for ourselves. Most
of us want it for others as well. And also
I'm begging everyone who's listening, whether you're left or right,
keep an eye on your social media algorithms. We do
live in an echo chamber. Our algorithms work in a
(45:51):
certain way to collect data and make money, and we
will see additional content that they think that we're interested
in to stay on their platform, to see more things
and make them more money. My side of TikTok probably
looks vastly different from someone in Southern Alabama's TikTok. You
know what I mean. So please just be cognizant of
the information that you're being fed. Believe nothing, Believe nothing shit,
(46:16):
double check me. But that's it for today, you guys.
Next episode coming up early this week is going to
be Iris and myself discussing two horror movies, the scariest
that I've ever seen and then one that she saw
this week. My pick is The Dark in the Wicked
and hers is immaculate with Sidney Sweeney. It is October,
after all, and I love horror, and so October is
(46:37):
pretty much the only month that I can actually slip
in some of these things and get away with it.
If you're not following the show, you can follow the
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follow the show We Saw the Devil podcast on Instagram
or We Saw the Devil on Twitter and Facebook. Also
started working on a new website, bare Bones, but it
is up at weesawthedevil dot com. And that's it for
(47:00):
today's episode of Red, White, and Bruised to you guys,
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