KCAA: Politics by Jake (Mon, 23 Jun, 2025)

KCAA: Politics by Jake on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Teen thirty two.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
That w Hi. This is Jake with Politics by Jake
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(00:24):
and FM ten fifty and one oh two point three
and one O six point five, respectively. I am Jake.
I am your host, your political commentarist, and a student
of history. Trump is an agent of chaos. Everything he
touches dies. He's an agent, I say again, of chaos
and destruction. His fascist and we know it is fascist.

(00:50):
We know administration is a cacistocracy, which means the very
worst people governed. Snake oil salesman, charmers, grifters, religious fanatics
who think Trump was chosen by God, who thinks Trump
speaks with God, People like Mike Huckabee who refers to

(01:11):
himself as Trump's servant. People who are so deluded, who
are so bereft that they long for a king. These
are the archetypical Youngian wounded masses following the Youngian wounded leader,
not just the lumping the rags as Marx calls them
lumpen is German, it means rags, the lump and proletariat,

(01:35):
the ones who have fallen out of the middle class.
But these as well, who have transmogrified. A snake oil salesman,
a con man, someone who uses bankruptcy as a business technique,
a thirty four time felon, a trader who is found
guilty of insurrection by the Supreme Court of the State

(01:58):
of Colorado, and Griswold vin Anderson, which the United States
Supreme Court completely ignored in its decision in Trump vi.
Anderson because they know that Trump is guilty of insurrection.
And speaking of cacistrotic one of them is the Secretary
of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, And

(02:23):
what has he recently done. He comes along and he
summarily fires these seventeen people who are on the Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices, every single one of them. He
fires them all. Now, normally, if you're going to do
this is a laborious process, you just don't do this.

(02:45):
You have to profile these people. You have to look
at their academic papers, you've got to look at their
track record, You've got to be aware. Are they Charlatan's
Are they kooks? Are they quacks who go on the
internet and try to make money with anti vax stuff,
because that's the big problem. Of course you have the

(03:07):
head quack. Well, of course, let me say a quack
is a disreputable doctor. Okay, RFK Junior is not a doctor,
but he's like the head Charlatan, he's the head kook.
So RFK says, I'm not going to have that seventeen. Instead,
I'm going to have eight. We'll have eight guys and

(03:27):
we'll go through who they are and let me tell
you from what I can see, those eight are they
are not good? The summary overview is if there are
eight members, my very rough examination of these people is
a about five of them are likely to be anti
vax votes. In other words, what does this mean? It
means these are people who have a profile where they're

(03:50):
negative on vaccines. They say, what are the side effects
going to be? How sick are you going to get?
What happens? And we'll get to that in just a second,
but you can see the idea is, then if you've
got the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and we've got
an anti vax majority there. That's enough to block a

(04:12):
very large part of the new vaccines. And that's extremely
serious and I don't have time to talk about that
much more right now, but that is an example of
thekkistocratic concept that is infesting this illegitimate administration. So, okay,

(04:34):
back to the most recent stuff. Trump attacks Iran net
and Yahoo attack Iran. These two are both criminals. Let's
face it, They're wanted men in their own countries. Trump
is a further thirty four time felon. We can construe
that their actions are to keep them in power, because

(04:54):
once they get it out of power, basically they're going
to wind up in prison. So you have to look
at these attacks with a kind of jaundiced view. And
I know that Trump is thinking in terms of the
next election. He wants to appear to be a war president.
He's surrounded by fanatical fascists, minions mini means, his cabal

(05:19):
as I have described it, who are prodding him to
do this. These are the same kinds of people who
prodded Reagan to attack Iran. They've been doing it all along.
They've been playing the long game. And Trump, of course
is weak, but he wants to appear strong, not weak.
He doesn't want appear to be Taco, etc. One of

(05:42):
the things he wants to do, of course, is to
curry favor with the evangelicals, because this is all tied
up in that the religious fanatics of this country who
think that Trump is God or who think that he's
a prophet of God. The only problem is that it's
some constitutional He's done is unconstitutional. Trump has ignored and

(06:04):
violated the constitution. Only Congress can take the country to war,
and conveniently, Trump waited until Congress was out of town
for two weeks to do this. He obviously did not
seek the approval of Congress. And this is more of
the example of Trump as a king and Trump is

(06:25):
a dictator. And those of you who voted for Trump,
let me ask you, and I asked you. I asked
you periodically. I just asked you on the last show.
Do you see do you see now who he is?
Do you understand now? You know he had his toy
tank parade just a week ago. Literally nobody showed up.

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I mean the Stephen Chung said two hundred and fifty thousand,
that's completely wrong. All you have to do is look
at where the parade was and you know that's not right.
I heard a figure ten thousand, but when you look
at the promenade, it looks more like a couple of thousand.
So this was about all, and this is all in

(07:08):
his mind, and this is the problem because he has
a diseased mind. His niece Mary, who is a psychologist,
has talked about this, his malignant narcissism and how it
affects him. So he had to spend ninety two ninety
three million dollars. He had to have his toy tank
parade just a week ago. Nobody showed up, almost literally

(07:32):
nobody showed up, as I said, at all in the country,
whereas now they're calculating something like thirteen million. I said
five on the show last week, I said five to
ten million, But it's they're calculating something like thirteen million.
Just over thirteen million people showed up for all of

(07:54):
the No King's parades. Of course that's you know, that's
not just one in New York and Los Angeles. Those
are the parades or the demonstrations. Maybe I should say
that were everywhere. And I want to say, and you'll
have to excuse me on this, because as we go
to air on this. I don't have the figures on this,
but I'm not sure that thirteen million counts all the

(08:19):
rest of the world. I'm not sure it counts all
the world. And I'll have to check those figures, and
I apologize and I'll get this for you. But we
know that at least just over thirteen million people showed
up that we know I've showed up for the note
Kings parades. Thirteen million compared to let's say it was
ten thousand. I don't think it was, but let's say

(08:41):
it was ten thousand for Trump's toy tank parade, where
the military who were detailed in order to do it
looked like they were phoning it in order to make
it look good. I mean, it was an embarrassment. It
was a total embarrassment. I talked about it on last
week's show. So I'm not even sure that includes the
demonstration that took place in the entire world. I think

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we're just talking about the United States. And so he's humiliated,
and he looked like he was about to cry. I
told you about this. He looked like he was the
saddest person in the whole world. The poor little rich
boy in the old days I don't know about now.
There was a comic strire called Richie rich the poor

(09:22):
little rich boy. Here we have the poor little rich boy.
So and the next week, what does he do? And
you know, I can imagine the cogs and the wheels
turning in his brain saying this. They didn't come to
my party, they didn't come to my parade. I'll show them.

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I'll show them. And he unconstitutionally attacks another sovereign country
in violation of the constitution, didn't even seek permission from
Congress to do it, conveniently did it while Congress was
gone for two weeks. Do you understand now, America? Do
you see who this is? And let me tell you.

(10:08):
If you think you need to worry about the election
in twenty twenty eight, I say this to you. You
need to worry about the election in twenty twenty six
and whether that's going to be allowed to even take
place because they're in power now. Trump's in power now,
his fascist cabalgis, Steve Bannon's, his Steve Miller's, his Carolyn Levitt's,

(10:35):
his Christy Nomes, his RFK juniors. He's in power now.
They're in power now, he's already shown his complete and
utter willingness to go against and violate the Constitution and
reshape the government as a dictatorship. So he's not going
to let go, And I mean how he can't let go?

(10:57):
Look if he lets go, New York comes in after him,
they're going to re sentence him. Georgia comes after him,
aching their teethache those prosecutors in order to indict him,
and who knows who else does that, and he becomes
more of a felon, more of a disgrace, more of
a trader than he already is. If it happens that

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the Democrats, which I expect the Democrats win in twenty
twenty six in the House and the Senate, I guarantee
you Congress impeaches him. That's going to happen, and maybe,
just maybe the Senate this time actually convicts him. So
do you see why he has to do this? If

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he allows free elections to take place. And the thing
that you need to understand about this, you really need
to understand about this, is that Trump acts like a king.
He is a king. He has people around him who
long for him to be such, who long to say,

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we are your servants, instead of being what they should say,
the servants of the people of the United States. This
is how bad it is. And the country is infested
with this type of person as I said, sad, deluded, bereft.
And when we say to him, no more kings, as

(12:22):
we did last week, no kings in America, he says,
I'll show you. And that's what this is. This is
how is infantile, five year old wounded child mind thinks.
And if you think the elections therefore in twenty twenty six,
if you think they're a sure thing, guess again, not

(12:45):
because there won't be a huge change, arguably a seed
change in the Senate and in the House, but because
they might not be allowed to take place at all.
Do you have enough belief now, my listeners, some of
you hate what I say, but it's like Howard's during
you'd listen to me because you want to see what
I'm going to say next. Do you have enough belief?
Do you have enough understanding now to understand why Trump

(13:08):
is anti constitution and that he is anti constitution and
why his fascist cabal and his ministers and his minions
and his mini means around him who have drunk the
kool aid are anti constitution, why they are constitutional heretics,

(13:29):
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(14:54):
won't you join us at patreon dot com Forward slash
politics by Jake. All right, and it is Monday, June
twenty third. Wow, how time flies? And I say that
every week. This is your reporter, Jake with the Politics
by Jake, and I'm speaking to you here and we're recording.

(15:16):
It's now time for the usual strategic biweekly overview that
we never get to finish, but we try, we try,
and it's complete with things that you can do to
help influence the world's historical situation. So all right, so
I want to talk about a great many things, but

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let's start with you know, one of the things that
we're fighting for, and this is since the Civil War
and the rebirth or the new birth of the United States,
and we just had the celebration of June teenth, and
June teenth marks the completion of the legal termination of
slavery and that's black chattel slavery where a man could

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be considered like a chair or a table, or a hoe,
or a raker, and any other kind in the states
of Confederate States of America and shame, and specifically we
know that the Emancipation Proclamation had been proclaimed slavery was

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abolished henceforth and forever free. That was January first of
eighteen sixty three. The pre proclamation had been issued by
Lincoln after the Union defeat of Robert E. Lee by
the Union Army under McClellan at the Battle of Antietam
actually near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on the Potomac, and Lee was

(16:45):
driven back into Virginia across that river. Honestly, the war
could have ended. Then McClellan was too timid, he was
too interested in appeasement. Frankly, he ran against Lincoln in
eighteen sixty four, kind of supported by the Copperheads, which
were Northerners who were, you know, kind of for the South,

(17:07):
and wanted appeasement. He wanted a negotiated solution to everything.
And in a civil war that is, you know, not
always going to be possible. Sometimes it's impossible. And then
Lincoln said Okay, after that lift, we're going to declare it.
And it went into effect, you know, on January first.

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And you've got to remember, though, this was done by
executive order, and it was done specifically in areas that
were in rebellion, because the way to justify this under
the United States Constitution as it was read at the time,
you couldn't simply expropriate somebody, but as a war measure

(17:51):
you could, so areas that are in rebellion, there you
can expropriate property of insurrectionists. And that's what Lincoln did,
so that became common knowledge in many areas. There was
an immediate emancipation in certain parts of northern Virginia, the
city of New Orleans and wherever the Union had been

(18:13):
re established and federal authority had been reasserted. But then
there are lots of areas, backward areas that are there.
We might say, I've been to some of them. We
might say, like go Texas, the trans Mississippi Confederacy, where
this was not known. It was not known that this

(18:34):
had happened. So what happened was unions, I'm sorry, units
of the Union Army arrived at the port of Galveston,
Texas on or about June nineteenth, June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five.
And at that time, of course, the war was over.
The thirteenth Amendment had been passed by Congress, it was

(18:56):
in the process of being carried out by the States,
proved by the states. Because you know, you've got to
do both right, you've got to get two thirds and
three quarters, and that's a tall order, but that was
going to get done. That was going to happen. And Lincoln,
of course, was already dead. He had been assassinated by

(19:16):
the Confederate agent John Wilkes Booth. And at the same
time we had the surrender of Lee. A week or
so before Lincoln's assassination. Lee surrendered at Appomatics Courthouse, Virginia,
and very soon after that the Army of Joe Johnston,
Confederate General Joe Johnson, surrendered in North Carolina to Sherman. However,

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what happened on June teenth was that General Gordon Granger
of the United States Army arrived in the port of Galaston,
as I said, and made it known, issued a proclamation
saying we're now bringing the news of the Emancipation Proclamation,
which back in January eighteen sixty three, because they didn't know,

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because they were under Confederate control, they didn't have that news.
So news of the Emancipation Proclamation here to Texas and
made the announcement. Therefore, this is part of the proclamation. Therefore,
slavery in this state, which was of course totally in
rebellion against the United States. On January first, eighteen sixty three,

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slavery is abolished. Now when we say the Union Army,
kind of remember the Union Army had about two hundred
and twenty thousand Black soldiers and a lot of them
were recently liberated slaves. The term at the time was freedmen.
That called them the freedmen. And the holiday therefore starts,

(20:49):
i think, by some accounts in eighteen sixty six in
some black churches, and it spread and it's been observed
and honored in many areas ever since. There are certain
regional deviations. There's one part of I think it's Kentucky

(21:09):
where the abolition of slavery is celebrated in August, and
there are other variations. But now thanks to Biden, thanks
to the effort of some very dedicated volunteers who made
this in some ways their life work. We now have
the holiday of Juneteenth and the song the battle cry
of Freedom says, and he's marching through Georgia, where the

(21:33):
refrain is Hurrah, we send the Jubilee. And this has
overtones of freeing slaves, because the Jubilee in the days
of the Old Testament, which a lot of people were
aware of at that time, Jubilee was like the forty
ninth of the fiftieth year, and all slaves had to
be freed. So that's why it says we sing the

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Jubilee and the flag that makes you free. The words
off the top of my head here the flag that
makes you free. And from my personal point of view,
this is what you want. The American flag should be
the agency of liberation and freedom across the world. Elsewhere

(22:20):
I say the Constitution has primacy over the flag, but
used properly, the flag should be a representation of liberation
and freedom across the world, and it should be a
matter of bringing down the tyrants and uplifting the subject
oppressed populations. And that's the great significance of the Civil War,

(22:44):
which was won by a united front, an invincible one,
as it turned out, a united front of the populations
of the Northern States together with all kinds of other forces.
And despite the losses four or five and we should
never forget. And of course we have a memorial Day
for this, but you know, I wonder if in between

(23:04):
the ballgames we remember what this is really about. But
we should never get despite the losses four or five
hundred thousand, six hundred thousand total deaths, probably four hundred
thousand on the side of the Union. It's just a lot.
And of course a lot of it is from disease
from typhoid typhus camp fevers. It was known. But of

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course the battle deaths were, you know, also very numerous.
And now we're told or recently told that, you know,
because this is the twenty third and the nineteenth was
last week. Trump had nothing to say about Juneteenth. And
this is listen, this is an insult. And you've heard

(23:50):
me talk about this. You've heard me talk about the
fourteenth Amendment, at the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth Amendment, and
how these are the new birth of freedom, and how
these have to be followed, and how these have to
be honored, and how these have to be obayed. That
this is an insult to the Union. Dead, and somebody

(24:10):
better speak for them, and I'll do my best. So
much of what is going on now is the veritable
trampling on the honored graves of the Union Dead on
the part of a group of scoundrels. And I'm talking
about this president administration and this cabal in both the
executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch, and

(24:35):
in the state houses. A group of scoundrels, a group
of miscreants and wretched people in general. And that's what
we're afflicted with, a cacistrotic government, a government of the
worst people, a government of hooligans, of ignoramuses and irrationalists.
But for us, June teenth, whether you're white, black, or

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wherever you are, any human being should celebrate this. And
if you don't do it, you're going to try to
discourage this holiday. It's too late for that. The holiday exists.
That's what Trump would like to do, That's what any
of his remarks were pointed towards. He said, we have
too many holidays. That was an oblique reference to Juneteenth.

(25:20):
We've got to have stop having so many holidays. We've
stop having holidays that celebrate the new birth of freedom
in the United States. That's what he was saying. So
it's too late for that. The holidays here. Therefore, it
needs to be honored and indeed expanded, because it is
the work of the entire American people to get that done.

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This is our work, this is our heritage, this is
our legacy, this is our job. So about ninety years
after the freedom of the colonies from British rule, you know,
you get this. And so it's an indication of the
tremendous progress made in the tremendous price which Trump and
his fashion cabal and all these other fifth columnists in

(26:03):
the United States and these hangars on, these miscreants from
the flyover zone, so on and so forth, made the
tremendous price paid. So the White House had nothing to
say except that oblique reference that I said, Well, the
American do, the American people do. And here's another one.

(26:25):
Let me just mention one of the ways this holiday
was spread. Juneteenth was promoted in part by the federal government,
and the part of the federal government that is relevant
here is the so called Freeman's Bureau. This is illi
history for you. Under the direction of one of my
favorite Civil War generals, indeed, he's kind of my favorite.

(26:48):
Although I like Thomas, I like him being well the
loyal Virginian because he had this political dimension. And one
I'm talking about is Major General Oliver Otis Howard. Oliver
Otis Howard lost an arm in the first couple of
years of the Civil War, but then he became the
head of eleventh Corps. He was unfortunately right in the

(27:10):
path of the flanking motion by Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorville
and later at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, he's maligned by some there
because they don't like his subsequent activities. He was too
interested in advancing the cause of the freedman of freed slaves.
But Oliver Otis Howard is the guy who said, look,

(27:32):
we're going to fight north of Gettysburg. On the first
day of the battle. We're going to fight north of
Gettysburg because we've already got Reynolds Corps is already engaged
by the Lutheran Theological Seminary, if you can believe that,
But it was kind of a military institute like vm I.
But we're going to leave a division behind on the

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northern edge of Cemetery Ridge, and therefore Cemetery Hill Cemetery
ridge you buy the entrance to the existing local cemetery.
And it meant that when the Union army was defeated
north of Gettysburg, when it flowed back through the town
and onto this particular ridge, there was already solid anchor,

(28:17):
a solid Union division. I believe under Steinweer Steinberger that
was there. And I know you don't know this, but
this is important. This is history, and it kind of
chokes me up as I think about it. That meant everything.
That meant the chance to reform the line, regroup and
then resist on the second and the third, and to

(28:38):
win the battle and to drive Lee back into Virginia.
So okay, So the Freedman's Bureau did all kinds of things,
schools and so forth, and they're central. Their biggest school
was the one in Washington, d c. And appropriately enough
that is now called Howard University after Oliver Otis Howard.

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This guy, he lived longer than anybody else who was
already a full general. You know, he wasn't a brevet,
but like Custer, for example, was a brevet general. After
the war, he just was dropped down to a colonel again.
But this was a full general. He was an actual
general during the war, during the Civil War before the

(29:22):
end of it, and he died in nineteen oh nine.
And he was the last of the full regular Army
generals who participated in the Civil War. And the other
thing he did was when Sherman did march through Georgia,
he divided his army into two wings, so he spread
out and he was making Georgia howl, as the saying goes,

(29:42):
on all fronts of that advance. So I think it
was Sedgwick. I guess he was commanding one wing, but
Howard commanded the other wing. So he had half of
Sherman's army and another glorious outfit with the Army of
the Potomac. And that's how the the war was won. Really,
this is all wrapped up, and you really cannot disregard anything.

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And once again remember that without the two hundred and
twenty thousand freedmen, primarily in the Union Army, the war.
I don't know. Some people say the war could not
have been won. It would have been tougher, it would
have been more difficult to prosecute this. And so when
we have the battle cry of Freedom once again, it

(30:26):
says we'll fill our vacant ranks. The song We're coming
with three hundred thousand more. We're coming, Father Abraham, three
hundred thousand more. And then he says it, says, we
will fill our vacant ranks with a million freedmen more.
This is it. And of course fortunately the war ended

(30:47):
before that was reached. But that's the sort of idea
that the people who had died and this is sacred. Listen,
this is holy as a nation. This is sacred, the
idea that the people who had died could be replaced
by newly freed slaves. Okay, so that's the holiday. And
we condemn the drump administration for their churlish, un American, envious,

(31:14):
bitter sectarianism in not doing justice to this holiday. And
that has been a long segment. Boy, that went longer
than I thought. Let's take a break, Let's have a
commercial message and a couple of comments, and then we
will be back. And this is politics by Jake. And
now let's pause for a brief commercial message. Hi, this

(31:36):
is Jake with Twain Consulting, and I'm back again to
talk to you about one of these little wrinkles that
can cause a lot of problems and a lot of
happiness for people who actually want to own a business,
or who have just started a business, or who have
been operating a business now for some time. It doesn't
really matter. My guess is that you wanted asset protection.
That's one of the reasons for starting a business. You

(31:59):
wanted to well and you wanted to protect the wealth
that you created, and you thought that a limited liability
company or a corporation would be the way to do that.
But did you know that just creating a corporation or
a limited liability company does not guarantee that at all?
Do you want to know if there's any way to
fix that? Go to Wwjkelaw dot me. That's j A. K.

(32:19):
E Law dot m e and watch my video where
I talk about this very important thing, and then set
up a time where we can have a phone conference
or call me directly now at five seven three four
five four one one six eight. That's five seven three
four five four one one sixty eight. Call now, and
now let's get back to Jake and Politics by Jake. Hi.

(32:45):
This is Jake with Politics by Jake. Do you like
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is proba by Jake, and we're back. And it's hard,
and I it's hard in more ways than one. Playing

(33:07):
ketchup here with all that's going on, I wanted to
talk about the Minnesota political shootings and cover that. And
it's hard to overstate what happened in Minnesota last week.
What happened wasn't just random violence. And you've heard me
joke about a sister state, Michigan, where I only half

(33:29):
jokingly have referred to that state as having their second
largest homegrown industry is making and manufacturing of pipe bombs.
This is kind of the same. This wasn't random violence.
This was an assassination attempt. This is domestic political terrorism,
you know, by any honest name. And it didn't happen

(33:52):
in some war torn country or some authoritarian regime. It
happened here. It happened in America, in the suburbs, in
the people's homes. Admittedly, yes, the flyover zone, I mean,
but there you have it. I mean, a man impersonating
a police officer showed up. I'm sure you've heard all this,

(34:15):
but I'm going to give it to you anyway, because
it's important. A man in personating a police officer showed
up at the home of State Senator John Hoffman and
his wife Yvette. He knocked on the door and they
answered In the open fire. John was shot nine times,
Yvette was shot eight. Amazingly, both survived, but this was

(34:35):
no isolated ambush. The gunman, whose name is Vance Bolter,
left their bloody doorsteped and drove straight to the home
of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark
and executed them both. What followed was a statewide man hunt,
but the damage was already done. Two elected officials gunned

(34:57):
down in their own homes, two more barely alive, and
all of it was targeted. And it gets worse. Inside
bolters abandoned SUV, investigators found what can only be described
as a hit list. These were the names the home addresses,
surveillance notes over seventy individuals, lawmakers, pro choice leaders. Don't

(35:23):
get me started on pro choice, Oh my god, anyway,
I mean, don't get me started on anti abortion. I
should say members of Congress. A list of targets. Democrats.
They were all democrats. They were all Democrats. Abortion providers, activists,
even philanthropists like Mackenzie Scott Bolter had been compiling this

(35:47):
list for months and he was just getting started. And
we now know that two other lawmakers were likely next.
They were either away from home or they were warned
in time. But let's be clear about this, Okay, this
was an assassination campaign. This guy wanted to kill his

(36:07):
way through a political enemies list, and it was only
stopped because of one person. Hope Hoffman, John and Yvett's daughter,
who is the bullet's flues, slammed the door, locked it,
and called nine to one one. She told the dispatcher,
my dad is Senator John Hoffman, and that changed everything.

(36:27):
That triggered an emergency statewide response that led police to
the Hortman's that saved lives. Now, let's not downplay what
we're looking at here. This wasn't just a lone wolf.
This was someone acting on an ideology, acting out the
fantasy that violence is a valid political tool, that disagreement

(36:48):
justifies execution. It's the same ideology we've seen spreading in
dark corners of the Internet, in militia forums, in QAnon groups,
and an increasingly mainstream rhetoric. This shooter didn't post a
man of facto manifesto, he didn't have to. His kill

(37:09):
list spoke for him. And now lawmakers across Minnesota and
across the country are asking themselves this I on the list.
This is not normal, and this is having a chilling
effect on public service. We're watching something unravel and we
have to stop pretending we're not. It's like I said

(37:30):
in the last segment, you're not going to get these
Republicans out of power. You have to kick them in
the nuts. That's the way you're going to get them
out of power. We have to stop pretending. The data
is clear political of violence in America is rising. Princeton's
Political Violence Tracker reported over six hundred threats against local

(37:53):
officials in twenty twenty four a loan, and now we're
here elected leaders hunted in their homes. This is not politics.
This is fascism. This is how democracies fall, not with
one big collapse, but through a thousand shocks, through fear,
through silence, through numbness, and this moment is one of

(38:18):
those shocks. Let me put it in historical terms, when
a shooter named Gabrielle Giffords I'm sorry, I should say
when a shooter targeted Gabrielle Giffords in twenty eleven, it
stunned the nation. When a gunman opened fire on Steve
Scalies and GOP members at a baseball field at twenty seventeen,
one of the very few incidents of these that was

(38:41):
done by a Democrat. These are largely Republicans, the guys
who attempted to assassinate and I think this is a
honk job. I think it's a put up job. I
don't believe it, but it's for the sake of argument.
Say that there were two assassination attempts, they were both Republicans,

(39:01):
and when a gunman opened fires I said, on Steve
Galize in a baseball field of twenty seventeen, it forced
a reckoning. But now we're barely talking about this. The
speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was assassinated, and we're
treating it like a local crime story. But no, this
was a political murder. And if we look away now,

(39:24):
if we try to downplay it as the act of
one disturbed individual, we are complicit in normalizing it. And
we've seen this playbook before, lists of enemies, people showing
up dressed as comps, pretending to have authority, gaining trust,
then pulling the trigger. These are the tactics of authoritarian movements.

(39:46):
The brown Shirts, I could tell you a lot about
ernest Rome and the brown Shirts. Those are the Nazis,
The black Shirts, those were the Italians, the death squads
in the time of Mussolini. They use throughout his to
dismantle democratic institutions. And the only difference now is it's
happening here. And yet listen to what the leaders say.

(40:09):
President Biden Higg, did extremism have no place here. Listen
to Vice President Harris political violence was never be tolerated.
Even Donald Trump, through a spokesperson, condemned the attacks. But
words aren't enough. Condemnation isn't prevention. Security isn't strategy. We

(40:29):
need action, and that means expanding protections for public service,
but without turning our democracy into a fortress. That means
confronting the online cesspools where this ideology grows. That means
naming this for what it is, domestic political terrorism. And
it means standing together, not left or right, but as

(40:50):
Americans who refuse to accept the future where a political
disagreement is met with a bullet. Let me speak plainly here.
Democracy dies when we stop believing that ballots matter more
than bullets. And the only way to stop that death
spiral is to confront this terror loudly, clearly and without blindfolds.

(41:12):
We owe that to John and You'vett Hoffman. We owe
that to the memory of Melissa and Mark Hortman. We
owe that to Hope Hoffman, who stood between a killer
and a massacre. And we owe it to ourselves because
if we don't draw a line now, there may in
the end be no line left to draw at all.

(41:35):
And this is politics by Jake. Okay, this is politics
by Jake. And we're back, got about five minutes left
or so thereabouts, and I wanted to talk. You know,
I don't want to be accused of talking out of
both sides of my mouth, but this is going to
kind of sound like it because I started the show

(41:56):
talking about the anti constitutional violation the constitution, Trump being
a king, the wounded five year old pouting because no
one came to his toy tank parade of attacking Iran.
But I want to say a couple of things in
the way of political analysis on the other side, So

(42:18):
the recent news is is that the Iranians hit a hospital.
It's called Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, and this is in
the Negev more or less, this is in the southern
cone of Israel, and so they hit a hospital. I
don't know whether this is in relation to the Demona
Israelly nuclear research and indeed the nuclear reactor center. We

(42:41):
have these very bellicose quotes from the Defense Minister Katz
saying that I had told that kam and I cannot exist,
that his existence is intolerable. And well, that's clear up.
And Bibi, of course that's Netanyahu says, of course, nobody
is immune. Right, he's asked you agree with kats He's asked.

(43:04):
He said, well, nobody's immune. And he was asked about
regime change in Iran, and he said, that's not officially
what we're attempting to do. We want to hit nuclear sights.
But he acknowledged he said that may be the result.
And in the background you have the Shah or the
pretender to the peacock throne. I think it's called the

(43:26):
Iranian throne. That was the throne of the Shah of Iran, Rezapalavi,
who was driven out in nineteen seventy eight, seventy nine thereabouts,
in the midst of this Carter and this Brushinsky operation,
and he's saying total insurrection, Rise up, get rid of
the monarchs. The show you get rid of the monarchs,

(43:47):
get rid of the malarchy, and free yourselves. Now is
this realistic? Well, you have some pretty fearsome secret police
what are they, the Savama, and if you go there,
the impression you get is that the place is very
much under control. It's like East Germany under the Stazi.

(44:07):
The Stazi were the secret police, and the KGB from
Russia or from the Soviet Union was a Putin was
a member of the KGB, and he was stationed in
Eastern Germany. So there I wouldn't call it infiltrated, but
they were in there, you know, overseeing Stazi operations. So

(44:27):
it's not so different. Maybe not quite as severe, but
it's comparable. So all that's happening, and the question now
becomes will this government be overthrown? And my argument is
that it's not a legitimate government, the Islamic Republic, it's
not a spontaneous creation, it's not even in my opinion,

(44:51):
it's not even really that well thought out. It's not
a creation by the Uranian people. It's something that was
imposed through intrigue from abroad by the United States in
the late nineteen seventies with the APEX coming under Carter.
Carter actually didn't start it, but I think Brzhinski on this,
I think he's the guy who brought this to fruition,

(45:14):
with the help of others, most of whom they're no
longer with us now. The BBC had a program the
other day where they were interviewing Iranians and these were
I think, you know, middle class Iranians, people comfortably living abroad,
because they said, you know, we can't operate. The BBC
can't operate and not speak freely, so we only talk

(45:35):
to people who are living abroad. And one of the
women made a very interesting remark. She says, I have
a lot of friends and I don't know anybody in
my friend group who is a supporter of the Mula regime,
of the Iyatola regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
They are hated, and I think that this is I
think this is true. I think you can't contest this.

(45:57):
The most recent examples of this would have been twenty
twenty three, mainly when the women and Iran decided that
they'd had enough of this kid job business, that they
did not want to have a dress code imposed upon
them by the government and enforced by a morality police.
So they went into the streets and they protested, and

(46:18):
like several hundred up to one thousand maybe where then
they were killed or executed or jailed. Lucky if they
were just jailed. And that is I think an indication
that this is a hated regime. That they have had
a number of upheavals lately. One was a minijod I'm sorry,
I'm a dinijod being elected, I think for the second time,

(46:39):
and that triggered a lot of rioting, a lot of protests.
You didn't really hear about it, but I did in Iran,
Tehran North, and then in particular in the plate of
these women. And it's something that they want to impose
upon anybody. Any woman counting and coming into the country

(47:01):
is going to be subjected to the compulsion to wear
this garb, this kid job. So I think it's realistic
to say that there's a large majority I would guess
about seventy percent who are opposed to the regime. That's
a lot. The difference, of course is that in the
rural areas, the peasant and the people like this are
I think they're probably much closer to the regime. But

(47:23):
the regime, on the other hand, hasn't done much for them.
That was under Ahmadinajod there was an attempt to build housing,
but it looked like it broke down once they got
a couple of year or two into the program, and
there's sort of all half finished buildings that dot the landscape.
So that's their popularity. Of course, is there an organization,

(47:44):
because to have mass support is one thing. To have
it organized that's another, And that I don't know if
I can see the Shah. This is the guy who
in nineteen seventy nine he was the young Shaw residental Lobby.
This was nineteen seventy nine, nineteen eighties, no longer called
the young so he's now the mature Shaw and he's
calling again for rebellion. So this is certainly possible. Would

(48:07):
fit into the tendency of a kind of being fed
up with the political Islam across the Middle East right,
and especially the brand of it that focuses everything on
the destruction of Israel without having any means. And we
see this with the Palestinians and the Muslim Brotherhood, who
is using the Palestinians as a proxy, cruelly, as a

(48:29):
proxy that wants the destruction of Israel without having any
means by which they might be pursued. And they don't.
They just don't. They can't do it. Well, that's what
some of them. It's claimed that some of them are
now trying to change that by getting these nuclear weapons.
So all right, so we've got a situation where the

(48:50):
Israelis would argue and have that. You can't duplicate the situation.
We've got a situation where after a couple of years
of fighting, Hamas is decimated to pieces, main leaders all dead.
Hezblah has also been more than decimated, and they're their
main leaders are also dead. The Huthis have been severely mauled,

(49:12):
although they're slightly less wrecked, I would say than these
other two. And as a result of the two exchanges
last year, there were two exchanges of missiles, you remember
in air raids. One was in April. We remember that
was the one that was defended by Britain, France, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan in the United States there may have been more,
and that meant the ones launched by Iran very few

(49:35):
could a target. And then later in October another round,
and this October round was the one where the Israelis
did very limited air raids but mainly concentrated on the
destruction of the anti aircraft defense system. And this is
an important date. The Iranian anti aircraft defense system has
been strongly disrupted as of last October. And the question

(49:58):
is that wasting asset because if you don't do something
about that, then you're going to find that it will
be rebuilt and all your advantage will disappear. So you
could say, well, this guy, you know, he wants to
kill me. He's trying to get ready right now. Should
I have a favorable situation for putting an end to
this threat? What should I do? Should I wait? Because

(50:19):
in the meantime he may perfect his preparations. So you know,
we have all this, you know, and I ran as
one of these areas where if you're an American, they're
very interested. You have parents in the past that bring
their kids to speak some words of English. If they
found out that you're a foreigner, they found out you're
an American, speak some words of English to communicate to

(50:40):
somehow share the idea to the rising generation that there's
a big world outside of the narrow confines of this
oppressive dictatorship, because that's what it is, secret police and
so forth. It's really one of the more among the people.
It's one of the most pro American Player says, you
can find. I would compare it to Poland maybe towards

(51:05):
at the end of the Cold War or Italy back
further into the Cold War. But this is a place
where you would find that the American for among the people,
not among the regime, is very welcome and is an
object of curiosity, benign curiosity, and a desire to again
bring the kids, the rising generation and say, look, this

(51:27):
is an American. This is possible outside, and I think
that has to be born in mind. So it's just
not that the regime is unpopular. It's desperately unpopular, and
really they don't do anything about that. I mean, look,
they have public executions. They have the stoning of women
for adultery and related things. Men can be stoned for homosexuality,

(51:50):
although other methods of summary execution are often used. They
use cranes to hoist people up by the neck and
conduct a hanging. And it's all public. It's a place
of a great deal of brutality, and you've got to
remember because they are not in a position to free anybody.
So all this could be said and more, and this
is you could say the other shoe dropping on what

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