6/12/25 Poll Numbers Nosedive as Trump’s Grip Weakens & Cracks Begin to Show in His Base

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
It is a weird situation we find ourselves in. Hello all,
you'll find this. This is like those sci fi movies
where something goes wrong, something horrible's happened, and.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
The message is found.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
You know, when you see this, you'll know that such
and such has happened. If you see this, you'll know
we survived. But we've had to take these extreme, extraordinary
measures to get this across. I don't know that you're
hearing me or seeing me right now, abou what has
happened in our main show, the show that allows us

(00:42):
to bring in guests from all over the world, the
show that allows us to bring in opinions from everywhere,
the show that allows us to share video with you,
to share audio with you. That's all on a platform,
right and that platform is called stream Yard, and stream
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(01:05):
yards down everywhere. So and we know that only because
we have been trying to get going here for a while.
And so we've been knocking around the universe looking for
others who are having a similar problem, and there are
plenty of others. So the reality is that all my

(01:30):
compatriots will not be joining me. They can't I can
be with you, which is why I fired up the machine.
But I cannot bring in any of the wonderful voices
that I wanted you to listen to today. But I
will tell you that as we continue to monitor the

(01:55):
situation with our main platform, it may power back up
and then everything will be as normal. But for now,
I really appreciate your forbearance. I'm not happy about it either,
But and I don't know if you can here. I'm
gonna I don't know if you can hear this? Can
you hear do this to me all the time? I
don't know what the hell they do it for. Can

(02:16):
you hear that? Did anybody hear that?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah? All right?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
So if you can hear that, that at least gives
me like you can hear, you can hear dings? Right,
you can hear that? This is good because it just
okay good. Lets me know sort of the breadth of
things that I can do here. Sadly, I will not

(02:45):
be able to share video with you, and I kind
of wanted you to see some video. But as I say,
we'll get powered up and go back and you'll see
and hear everything we wanted you to see and hear
this is an extraordinary time. I'm in our nation's history,
in the city of Los Angeles and the state of

(03:07):
California's history, and in the history of the world of
course with the Donald Trump in power, and I think,
what's happening. Just to kind of get to the serious
stuff first, we had intended to. I was going to
share with you and I'll still share with you kind
of descriptions of what happened at the Kennedy Center. You know,
they have the sort of rebooted Kennedy Center. They dry

(03:29):
cleaned all the wocism out, and these guys just platform
on this wokism thing. They just you know, they can't
get that wokeism talking point out of their holster fast enough.
So anyway, the new Kennedy Center has started, you know,

(03:51):
no more woke stuff, no more Dei stuff. The Big
Dei musical that was planned for the fall, I guess
that's off and lame is Le miserab The outstanding show
that plays still I think plays on Broadway.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean, you could argue it.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Best musical ever, best musical the modern Age, whatever you
want to say, best show of all time, whatever you want.
So it's a strong choice. It was playing at the
Kennedy Center last night, and we were going to show
you that Donald Trump was booed when he came into
the Kennedy Center hall. And to be fair to Trump,

(04:36):
there were also people chanting USA, USA, but the booze
were I mean palpable. The booze were really loud. So,
I mean, he's a controversial figure, and he ain't loved
even by the new Kennedy Center crew. And the new
Kennedy Center crew got rid of like the old Kennedy
Center crew, which really wouldn't have liked him.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
A lot of.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
People canceled their memberships and there's season subscriptions anyway. Uh,
Trump was asked on the way in and then I'll
get I'll get to ice, and I'm going to get
to the troops and I'll get to all that.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
But just on this weird thing.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
As I started, as I started by saying, we were
going to show you this, but we really can't, so
I won't go. And now I'm gonna. I'm gonna I'll
just describe it on the red carpet. You know, it's
the big red carpet premiere Kennedy Center.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Again.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
All those woke libs are gone now it's us us right,
might is right in the new Kennedy Center, and he
and Millennia were on the red carpet. And again, I
can't show you any pictures because this is a backup
feed I'm giving you. But he was asked, who do

(05:50):
you identify more with? Javert who is the bad guy,
and laz Or Jean Valjean, who is the good guy.
In Lay is essentially the Lamez story. It's a Victor
Hugo novel. Is that Jean Valjean is this guy who
stole a piece of bread so he could feed his

(06:11):
family something like that, right, And Javert is the lieutenant,
the French police lieutenant who tracks Jean Valjean, and he
wants to track him for the sake of justice. And
the more we see Javert in every scene, the more

(06:32):
sworn he is to destroy Jean Valjean. It's a you know,
the two of them face off, and so it's kind
of like saying, who do you identify with more, the
bad guys or the good guys.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
There's no watching.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Lay, miz and in any way confusing who you're rooting for.
I mean, there's nobody rooting for the bad guy in
lame is there's no one rooting for Javert to catch
Jean Valjean and jail him because he stole a piece
of bread for his family. I mean that literally is

(07:08):
why Javert is tracking him and trailing him across Paris.
So Trump has asked who do you identify with more
and after saying I've seen les miz countless times. We've
seen it countless times. If you've seen it countless times,
it should be pretty much a layup. Well, I identify

(07:30):
with the hero Chean Valjean. That's not what he said.
He said, Well, it's a tough question. I don't really know.
It's a tough question, Billy. I'll leave that question to Milania.
Do you want to take that? It reminded me of
you know, what's your favorite passage in the Bible.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh, they're all great. Read the Bible all the time.
They're all great.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
And that was the thing that struck me was that
he does that thing where he goes, you know, I've
seen lesmuse over and over. We've seen it many times.
You've seen it many times. Shouldn't be a tough one.
Then you identify with Jean Valjean. I mean, that's who
you should aspire to identify with anyway.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
So it's it was.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
It was classic Trump bs ing and the kind of
lunacy that we've sort of grown to expect. And then
when he got in the hall, it was capped with
the booze that Donald Trump received.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
I want to thank Mike Hall.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know if I can post, and I don't
think I can anything on the screen, sadly, but I
want to post these things and I'll put them off
to the side and try to Mike Hall. I want
to thank you fifty dollars for the Kennedy Center and
of course for the Mark Thompson Show. I'll be at
the No King March tomorrow in San Francisco making Good

(08:57):
trouble Seys. I thought the No King March is Saturday?
Am I wrong? So when you say tomorrow, is there
another one like does a warm up No King March
that I didn't know about in San Francisco? Rev P
says Inspectors of Air seems nice. No Streamyard is not

(09:25):
down nationally, says Google. All of Streamyard systems are currently
operational according to Streamyard status page. I know I looked
at that same status page. Thank you PT, but I'm
telling you based on what my people are saying, and
I have the very best people, you know, I do
know the very best people. Streamyard is down. So yeah,

(09:54):
Albert's saying that Streamyard is down across the board. So
we are Albert, thank you, you are again. And I
don't know we're at the mercy of fates a little bit.
Trevor blames Tony Kim always blames me for everything. I
always blame Albert for everything. So that is Albert. That

(10:15):
is the order of things. But I wanted to play
for you, and this is really the sad part. I
had really shifted through a lot of video for today's show,
and one of the things I wanted to play for
you before I even got to the troops in Los
Angeles was the address that Donald Trump made as he

(10:42):
spoke to enlistees, and he spoke about the nature of
America right now, and he was doing it at Fort Bragg.
So so, Fort Bragg is a place that was stripped

(11:04):
of the name Fort Bragg under the Biden administration. They
renamed it because it was a Confederate luminary that Fort
Bragg was named after. The Trump administration has renamed it
Fort Bragg. But it's not the Confederate Fort Bragg. It's
a different Fort Brag. I mean, it's a different Brag

(11:25):
that's in Fort Bragg. Now, the the idea was, we
want to get clearly the name Fort braggback, but we
can't use the Confederate general's name or whatever he was.
Braxton Brag is this Confederate general. So for one hundred

(11:47):
years that the place is called Fort Bragg, right, they
changed it to Fort Liberty. And I mentioned this because
it's not nothing, it's kind of what is happening. It's
an agenda item. So there was a Defense Secretary issued
memorandum just this week on Monday changing the name again

(12:10):
to Fort Bragg, and Hegseeth actually said an announcement. That's right,
Brag is back. So Brag. This Brag is a private
first class with the seventeenth Airborne Division, and the DoD

(12:31):
says he was a World War Two hero who earned
the Silver Star and Purple Heart for exceptional courage during
the Battle of the Bulch. It's an ode to brag service,
it suggested, and the military base gets that name back.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
So that's the backdrop.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
For Donald Trump's speech and the speed each I really
wanted you to see, and I have big chunks of
it that I will share with you if we get
back up on stream yard, and even if we get
no show back up today, full blown show, meaning with video,
with my ability to share these things, I will include

(13:18):
bunches of it tomorrow because I really want you to
see it. And here I will get to the point
as to why Trump made offensive political statements at this
rally in Fort Bragg. He went after Biden, but you know,

(13:42):
like in rude, rude ways to suggest that this new
administration will bring back the might to America and also
kind of lays the ills as he's concocted them and
also as he has perverted them, that is to say
facts about what's going wrong, the same way in Los Angeles.

(14:04):
He talked about Los Angeles in the speech. In fact,
I think he started with Los Angeles. He's concocted a
narrative about what's going on in Los Angeles that sort
of justifies and requires even the President to intercede because
it's so out of control in Los Angeles. And as
I told you before then, I returned to his comments.

(14:28):
I've been working in news in Los Angeles for thirty
five years, I've seen this city on the edge. In
nineteen ninety two, after the Rodney King verdicts, this city
was on the edge. There were fires everywhere. People were
being pulled out of their cars in certain neighborhoods. There
was that truck driver, Reginald Danny, who was beaten horribly
after being pulled out of his truck.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
It was a.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Real period during which you thought anything can happen. You'll
remember most Korean store owners sitting on the roofs of
their businesses with guns trained on the street below to
scare away looters. There was wild looting. All that's to

(15:14):
say that was la and that was the situation where
the National Guard was called in and really were needed.
You really needed that presence. So I got nothing against
Colin in the National Guard. That the city is really teetering.
This is, as you know, this four block area. Now,
I told you yesterday and I will reiterate again, just
because we're on it. I feel that they should be

(15:38):
even more aggressive about making sure that store owners and
a lot of property and store owners are protected and
a lot of property is protected. I believe that one
of the problems is that we tend to be too

(15:59):
permit when it comes to violence. I consider violence throwing rocks,
throwing objects at cops, throwing things down on police vehicles,
and as you know, I consider violence also the ways
in which they are rounding up some of these people
who ice officers are taking down. So please I but
right now, I'm just talking about protesters. I'm just kind

(16:21):
of giving you a sense of what's happening in Los Angeles.
The handful of people, and maybe it's several handsful, maybe
it's I think they've made a total of three hundred arrests.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Good.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
I would be tough on all of these people who
violate the basic tenets of peaceful protest. And there are
agitators there, paid or otherwise they are there. They're those
who just enjoy mayhem. You know, those kind of view
it as Yeah, I don't have a stake in society.
I'm angry at the cops. I'm going to go down
there and with rocks and stuff you've broken off the curb.

(16:55):
The Trumps talks about all the time those pieces of
cement are hurled at police officers and military now military officers.
So I've already said I'm very much for handling those
situations strictly, aggressively and completely. But that's the situation doesn't

(17:17):
require the National Guide. Again, I've been in Los Angeles
for thirty five years. I know what situations in this
town require that kind of presence. So I can be
both critical of the response, that is to say, I
thought it was a bit on the insufficient side. I

(17:37):
thought it should have been more muscular in protecting businesses.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Particularly.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
I want to see these cities Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento,
San Diego, and so on, New York, Chicago. I want
to see all of these cities flourish. So for that reason,
I want to see business owners who set up businesses
in the city, I want to see them protected. And
so yeah, I want a muscular show from law enforcement

(18:07):
for those who are trying to vandalize, tag and loot
these businesses. But that doesn't mean you need the National Guard,
and it certainly doesn't mean need the military. This is
a concocted crisis and it is being used for political purposes.
And so we get back to his comments at Fort Bragg.

(18:29):
He starts with Los Angeles. I mean, it's like an
arsonist bragging about the fact that he's put out the fire.
He started this whole thing. Ice came in heavy. You
got reaction from the community, which you wanted. You took
that small reaction, you amplified it, You stirred it up.
You said, wow, law enforcement officers, ICE agents need protection.

(18:54):
I'm going to bring in both the National Guard and
I'm bringing in the Marines. And so when you talk
about what's happening, as you speak to those at Fort
Bragg all around you, and I'll get to who's around
him and how they chose those people in a second,
you again politicize something that is political theater. You brought

(19:22):
in the National Guard, mister President, and you brought in
the Marines because it was theater. They are props for
you in political theater, and that is offensive. These men
and women who serve to try to protect this nation
from foreign enemies, they serve in foreign theaters of conflict.

(19:47):
They shouldn't be called upon, constitutionally, shouldn't be called upon,
and ethically shouldn't be called upon to view those in
Los Angeles as the enemy. But that's exactly what's happening.
And moreover, if I can use that word, because I
never had a chance to use the word Moreover. Moreover,

(20:07):
I would say you have offended the armed forces when
you use them in political theater as props in the
same way that you use them as props when you
were the president for the first four years and sent
them to the southern border to handle this caravan invasion
that was again completely concocted you and Fox News Channel.

(20:30):
All I heard about was the caravan. It's coming, it's coming,
it's coming. These immigrants are coming. It's going to be
an invasion. We knew it was bs right, but you
sent the troops to the southern border. To me, again,
it was almost cosplay. It's incredible. The cosplay is the
is the ice agents with the I mean, they're all
loaded up what to arrest somebody? And who's working in

(20:54):
a slaughterhouse? You need your night vision goggles for that.
I mean, it's offensive, isn't it. So when you get
to these comments about Fort Bragg that he made at
Fort Bragg, I want to be clear because he's not
only referring to the political theater which he set up
in Los Angeles, but he is speaking to the Fort

(21:19):
Bragg audience and describing those in Los Angeles as the
enemy describing California as the enemyt the woke left, the
liberal weak governor. He said these things. And the reason
this is particularly disturbing is that it prepares these men

(21:46):
and women, who again are potentially heroic in their service
to the country. It prepares them for occupying the streets
of America. That's not what they're supposed to do. But
you begin to turn their attention and focus toward the

(22:09):
enemy in this country. When he talks about the woke liberals,
he's talking about this country. You don't hear about Russian expansionism.
You don't hear about the tinder box that the Middle
East is. You don't hear about the alliance that has
served this country well and serve the developed world well

(22:31):
since World War Two. You hear about the woke liberals
in California. And if it weren't for me, the place
would be on fire. That's what he's saying. On fire
from protesters. He's talking to those who will be armed
and serving in the military. He's talking to them about

(22:55):
his fellow citizens and our fellow citizens.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Who will.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm sorry, I just got a message. I'm trying to
figure out what's happening. Who who will be seeing these troops.
It would appear in more and more American cities. This
is his plan. He looks at the military clearly, based
on his comments, based on his speeches, based on his disposition,
based on his executive orders, based on what's happened in

(23:24):
Los Angeles. He sees the military as his own personal military.
He doesn't see them as the American military. And so
these speeches that he makes where he focuses on American cities,
these speeches represent a real window into the future, and

(23:48):
it's a dangerous one.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
At that.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Troops cheered and jeered as President Trump made political statements
at this rally in Fort Bragg. During the speech, uniformed
soldiers yelled in support of Trump's political statements, booed former
President Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom. Do you
think this crowd would have showed up for Biden? I

(24:14):
don't think so, Trump said. Trump made other comments about
Newsom and Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, other
comments about the quote fake news media, transgender people protesters
in California flag burning. The flag burning also drew booze
from the uniform military members in advance in attendance. I

(24:38):
should say Trump is known for his rallies at which
he goes after and pokes fun at political enemies and
other issues, but typically he makes those remarks at political events,
not on US military bases. Such overt political activity on
a base like this is the prerogative of the commander
in chief, but military leaders would typically frown upon troops

(25:00):
reacting as they did, as it's inconsistent with military good
order and discipline, and according to one expert, it is
a violation of military regulations found in the Uniform Code
of Military Justice the UCMJ. You are seeing how that
is changing. Again, these are my troops. There is only

(25:27):
one code of conduct, and there is only one allegiance,
and that is the allegiance. To me, it's a sad
tradition to use the military as a backdrop for political purposes,
said Jeffrey Deweese's a retired judge advocate general is now
an attorney and he's commenting as a you know, a farmer,

(25:51):
what is that jag to actively attack another president or
sitting governor and incite the crowd to boot. That's up
in a dangerous direction. That really says we want to
politicize the military, and that sends a bad message. So
the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseith. He's also testifying before Congress.

(26:17):
These are Appropriations Committee testimonies, primarily in which he has
to explain expenditures and the like. But he's been a mess.
He doesn't know how much is spent, or he doesn't
want to acknowledge it. His high ground is that it
is it's classified. So heg Sith, who was also at

(26:40):
this Fort Bragg address, he looks the other way on
all of this, and as you know, he has pledged
a kind of fealty to a divine vision almost of
what he has in Donald Trump. I mean, he invokes
Trump and his loyalty to Trump so frequently that it's
sort of like, dude, back off, little bit, I get it,

(27:01):
you're drunk on Trump, got it. But that's of course
what ensures his job. The interesting thing about the crowd
that collected for the Fort Bragg's speech is that they
were cast like you'd cast The Apprentice, like you'd cast
one of these shows that Trump is on, like you'd

(27:22):
cast a movie. He took the podium before rows of
young soldiers in camo printed fatigues who'd been selected for
their body shape and personal politics. It was a bit
of stage design, reflecting Trump's obsession with appearances and popularity,

(27:43):
but it was highly unusual for the military, which is
long sought to portray itself as indifferent to partisan politics.
Military dot Com reviewed orders that were sent out in
preparation for the event. One order repeatedly read no fat soldiers.

(28:03):
The troops were reportedly told that they could object to
being placed in the stands behind Trump if their personal
values were in conflict with his politics. Trump's speech at
Fort Bragg sounded no different from a campaign rally, they
note here. The troops reactions similarly striking cheered some of
the president's most inflammatory remarks, such as when he characterized

(28:26):
the immigration movement as an invasion. The other thing, and
the last thing I'll say is if I told you
this ahead of time, you go, come on, this isn't
going to happen. They were selling Trump merch and Maga
merch at the Fort Bragg address. It's extraordinary. I mean,

(28:51):
does it get tackier, more gross, more creepy than that.
I mean, it's just I don't know, dude, You're not
you too you're the president of the United States. You
know you don't come on and go yeah, not much
available in the lobby. Right after we're done, We're going

(29:13):
to crap on some liberals and leftists and then don't
forget to pick up on new merch hats and T shirts.
I had the British accent because I think it like
that would be a rocker. He would say, you see, yeah,
that was the speech and Ford Bragg, but again just

(29:36):
to put a button on it. The reason it's of
immense significance is because it is what we've been talking
about since the entire situation went down in Los Angeles,
and even prior to that. Donald Trump, our president, wants
to normalize and prepare troops in our military for occupying

(30:03):
the streets of America later on in this movie. Right now,
he's got them in LA again, completely unwarranted, completely unneeded,
not requested. In fact, they are there despite the protestations
of the governor, the mayor and other public officials and

(30:23):
those in Washington who have commented on this as well.
But that's only the beginning. Again, that Fort braggspeech I
thought was instructive because it prepares them for viewing Americans
as the enemy, the left as the enemy, the Libs
as the enemy, the woke people as the enemy, the
transgenders as the enemy. He's building the list of those

(30:49):
who the military who will be called upon to occupy
other American cities to accompany other raids. He's building that
list for them so that they will feel okay with
this incredibly radical change in the charter of military and

(31:13):
military service in America. I'm looking at the chat well
Ice rays go on. Nothing is being done about immigration
reform by Republicans. Nothing, says Vilma. Yeah, of course that
that's true. And I'd suggest that the reality of that

(31:37):
was already exposed in the last year of the Biden administration.
They had a bipartisan immigration bill, and as you're well aware,
it was the Republicans who chaoted it at the request
of Donald Trump. The reason they requested of chaoting the
bill getting rid of it, scotching that bill was because
it was of political value the immigration crisis at the border.

(31:57):
Didn't want to give Joe Biden the win at all
and make it look like he was doing anything on
the southern border. That would have if you were serious
about this threat, not just using it as a talking point.
I mean, clearly, everything's theater. I mean, I've just gone
through all the ways that he's using the military and
doing so much using the military's props and doing so

(32:19):
much as political theater. It's clear, right, But if you
were serious about the immigration problem, you would have you
had that bill passed. It was a bipartisan bill, largely
a Republican bill. Increased the number of immigration judges, immigrator,
increased the number of border patrol and all those things
were done in that first turn, in that first Biden

(32:41):
It was the last year of Biden's term, and Trump said, no,
we don't want it. Pulus deeff, thank you for a
ten dollars super chat continue on Mark. Yeah, it's kind
of weird. This is a show that normally would have
I'd be showing you a lot of video, sharing a
lot with you can't do it. This is our backup

(33:03):
plan to give you something on this Thursday. And of course,
the distinguished former federal prosecutor David Katz is now a
defense lawyer in Los Angeles. I was so looking forward
to having him join, but right now our stream yard
platform is down, so I'm waiting for a word from

(33:27):
Kim from Albert and if we yeah, I'm just I'm
just seeing messages from them now. And if we get
stream yard backup, will it, We'll power back up on
that platform. Senator Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from the

(33:51):
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nomes news conference. He
had questioned for Trump's questions for Trump cabinet secretary during
her press conference in Los Angeles, and Alex Padilla is
removed forcibly. He was detained after trying to question Homeland

(34:12):
Security Secretary Christy nom Here is the quote, I am
Senator Alex Padia. I have questions for the secretary that
prompted several men to physically push him out of the
news conference. Padilla's office shared a video of the incident.
The video shows Padilla being taken into a hallway outside

(34:33):
and pushed face forward onto the ground as officers with
FBI identifying vest told the senator to put his hands
behind his back. The officers then handcuffed him. DHS and
Padia's senator office did not immediately return requests for comment.
Nome is in LA to hold a press conference to
address the ongoing demonstrations protesting President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies,

(34:58):
including US immigrant and customs enforcement operations in the southern
California area. Senate Minority Chuck Schumer, reacting to the video
of Padilla, he said, quote, I just saw something that
sickened my stomach, the man handling of a United States senator.

(35:21):
We need immediate answers to what the hell went on?
He said, well that I ought to do it. Demanding
of immediate answers, Newsom said this is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful.
Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This
must end now. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, of which Shippadia
is a member, also said this, of course is unacceptable.

(35:44):
We demand a full investigation and consequences for every official
involved in this assault against a sitting US senator. I
do think that this is another level. It is absolutely
another level. And what is said by Newsom is right.

(36:08):
You may not be a Newsome fan, but you got
to give it to him. This, I quote, I think
says it. He said, this is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful.
Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This
must end now. And this goes to what I was saying,
these troops, these FBI agents, these ICE agents, all of

(36:34):
them having taken this sort of litmus test about January sixth,
you know that they didn't want anybody working anywhere in
this administration who didn't accept the lie about the last election.
That became the litmus test. It was the litmus test
at the highest levels for people like Cash Mattel. I

(36:55):
mean you didn't need to ask cash Betel that because
he he was one of the guys that came up
with the litmus test. But across the board, so there
isn't us versus them mentality here. That's horribly dangerous. You
see the excessive amount of force being used. The brutality
is the idea. The thesis is be brutal, be scary.

(37:22):
Go in hot, more troops, the better, flash bangs, tear gas,
whatever you need, go in like it's a Tom Cruise movie. Man.
We're trying to make a message, and that message has
to be communicated to everyone. I think it's alarming because

(37:44):
they'll start at the slaughterhouses and it's coming straight up
to all of our houses. You may feel that I'm oversteering, overreacting.
This is unprecedented, really unprecedented. Now this King's the no
King's rally tomorrow, No King. The mass mobilization is six

(38:11):
fourteen in San Francisco? Isn't that day after tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Okay? I just want to be cleared that.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
And of course those rallies are going on all across
America at the same time that that military review, the
North Korean military review. Happy birthday, dear Dictator. Look at
all of these troops, look at all of this strength,
and look at all your power. I mean, it's an

(38:42):
absolute ego maniacs wet dream. Trump asked for it and
he got it. What was that MTV show where people
who turn sixteen have these birthdays? Do you know what

(39:02):
I'm talking about? So there's an MTV show. I forget
what it was called. Like anyway, they have these insane,
over the top birthdays. I mean, these are wealthy people
and they put all their wealth on display for these birthdays, right,
And that's kind of what we have in the president.

(39:24):
He's like a sixteen year old kid, you know, shows
up to work, occasionally, makes some pronouncements, does a bunch
of stuff, calls the Marines in. Then he goes to
a UFC fight and says, I want a big birthday, Dad,
and I don't really care how much it costs.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
I want a big birthday.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
And so everybody's yes, sir of course, of course said
we were just planning a big birthday for you, sir,
So that will be happening concurrently, right, that's the same
time that all of these no King's protests go on.
Chaplain Fred with a twenty dollars super chat. Thank you
so much, Chaplain Fred. Hi Mark, I'm just so confused

(40:06):
and upset for Alex Padilla. We are seeing how Trump
is after everyone who is against him, but let me see,
we are seeing how Trump is after everyone who is
against him. But what is more sad is how law
enforcement is not reacting to what they are seeing and doing. Yeah,

(40:29):
I agree, I mean the complicity of law enforcement, this
is kind of what I was getting at is disturbing.
I'll also just say this kind of is an overview.
I think there is a general sense that Trump is
on the side of the blue law enforcement. I mean,

(40:50):
and you know, the Democrats they want to investigate police brutality,
and the left cares and they sort of they they
want law enforcement, but then they won't let law enform
do their job. That's sort of like the general I
think framework in which everything is seen. Of course, the
reality is, if Donald Trump and the Trump administration really

(41:11):
cared about law enforcement, they wouldn't have pardoned fifteen hundred
or sixteen hundred J six protesters, many of whom beat
law enforcement people within an inch of their life, actually
produced injuries that led to deaths immediately following everything that

(41:32):
went down at that protest at the Capitol. That was
an invasion, that was an attempted coup, that was the
kind of situation that desperately required the National Guard, and
you didn't see National Guard troops anywhere near it because
Donald Trump didn't invoke any power to knock that down.

(41:54):
But back to the point, the framework that the right
is for law enforcement and the left is for investigating
law enforcement, it doesn't really hold water because you see
how Trump allowed heroic law enforcement officers to be brutalized
the way they were and there to be no repercussions,

(42:18):
full pardons for all those involved. He didn't even go
case by case. There was talk, as you know, and
there's been a lot of reporting on this, that he
was going to go case by case or that they
were going to review it case by case. There were
public comments about it. They were asked ahead of time,
are you going to pardon these J six protesters? That
was said during the campaign, and it was stated, well,

(42:40):
we're going to go case by case. Certainly no one
who's involved in any kind of violent protest will be.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Pardon.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
But then apparently Trump just said, ah, just pardon all
of them.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
He probably had a golf game or something. There was
the reason he had to go do something. Maybe his
favorite show on Fox News channel was on. I don't know,
but I mean to me, that was a degradation of
everything that we admire in this culture, in the society,

(43:14):
and when it comes to law enforcement, it degrades the
notion that you care about law enforcement at all. So
that was a situation where he didn't call in the
National Guard, and as you say, law enforcement not reacting
to what they are seeing. I almost have to take that.

(43:39):
In the specifics, law enforcement is told to restrain, to limit, etc.
Protests and movements, and then they try to I presume,
respond to those as best they can. And when I
say presume, I mean it's hard in the fog of
protests and all this sort of thing. People hurling stuff

(44:01):
at you, shouting stuff at you. This is really a
tough situation. You know what happened at Ken State. They
brought in the National Guard at Ken State to anti
war Vietnam protesters, and those Vietnam protesters were angry, they
wanted an end to the Vietnam War. They shouted things,

(44:23):
they threw things, and finally, as I always say to you,
because it's true, I mean these National Guard guardsmen in
this case, there were no women I don't think in
the Guard at that point. Were They're human beings. You
shout stuff and throw stuff at him, and eventually they

(44:45):
killed people. At Kent State, they killed four people students.
Now I would have said before this even began, and
I'm sure many did say, what the f was the
National Guard doing in there with live ammo? That is

(45:06):
absolute insanity. For the reasons I cite, these are human beings.
You have them in a situation where they may respond
like human beings to the provocation which was intense. So
I saw that as a truly instructive moment, a tragic

(45:31):
instructive moment. Now you get to today, the National Guard
viewed as a prop the military viewed as a prop
by the president, and he just wants to pull them
in from stage left or stage right whenever he can.
And the fact that they've been carpet bombed on all
the bases all around the world. During the Trump administration,

(45:54):
only Fox NewsChannel can be on. Only the propaganda, Only
the right wing propaganda can be on. In all of
the mess halls and all of the community meeting areas
and all of the common spaces, the television is always
on Fox News Channel. That's the propaganda. So if you

(46:15):
view America as left and right, you don't view the
people on the left as as American as you are.
You view them as the problem. You view these immigrants
as invaders, regardless of what they're doing. I mean, they're
going to the agricultural fields and just scooping up people

(46:37):
who are picking strawberries. What that's your immigration plan? You
go to a slaughterhouse? Do you want to go work
in the slaughterhouse America? You won't find a lot of
American citizens and slaughterhouses. Just being straight about it, I

(46:58):
remember that from COVID. Remember we got a pretty good
window on who works in slaughterhouses during COVID. These people
who are in this country with no legal status, are
still employed in these slaughterhouses. And you'll remember during COVID
they were ordered by the then President Donald Trump to

(47:21):
go back into those slaughterhouses despite the threat of COVID
and work. And during that same executive order, Trump included
an indemnification for slaughterhouse owners such that if anybody got
sick and there were complications and even death involved, they

(47:42):
couldn't be held legally liable. It was an executive order.
Go look it up. It was in the first Trump
term at the beginning of the COVID nineteen outbreak. So
now you go to these slaughterhouses where these people already
have desperately awful lives, and you scoop them up with

(48:05):
the ice raids. They come in heavy, they come in hot,
and they arrest these poor people who are working at
the stink and slaughterhouse. This place of death and blood
and terror for these creatures that are led through this thing.

(48:25):
And now it's a place of terror for those who
work there. It's despicable. It's despicable. That's your immigration plan.
Go get the strawberry pickers and the slaughterhouse workers. You
want to come after the sanitation workers. Next, you want
to go storm another restaurant with nine ICE officers before

(48:48):
you even open. Happen in a high end restaurant in Washington, DC.
You're looking to shake down the kitchen crew, some poor
guy from Honduras nineteen years old working in some shole,
and you're gonna grab him, cuff him, throw him to

(49:09):
the pavement. Because the brutality is part of it. I think,
sadly the immigration issue, have made this point repeatedly and
I'll make it again, is a winner for Donald Trump.
I think maybe many of you watching and listening care
about the immigrants, care about the contribution they're making. I'm
talking about people who have no real legal status here.

(49:31):
I mean, let's be honest. I mean, let's be really honest,
something that Trump is not being when he talks about
mar Lago. Mar Lago populated by a bunch of people
who are not in this country legally. It's the same
hypocrisy about China. I want to have everything made here
in this country depend too much on China. I'm putting

(49:52):
these tarots in. We shouldn't be dealing with China. When
it comes to all of the Trump stuff. All that
stuff is made in China, his tie, his hats. I
don't know. You can tell me. Maybe in the last
couple of months they found a plant in this country,
just because it's such a bad look to have all
of his stuff made in China.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
But that's where it was.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Made, China, Vietnam, not in America. And so when we
talk about what's happening in this country, we can talk
about mar Lago and Bedminster Course and all of his
other resorts, and they're populated by people who are not
here in this country with the legal status that's the president.

(50:35):
Not all of them are from south of the border.
There was great reporting on this during his first administration,
during which it was pointed out that he has many
workers from Romania, from places sort of in Europe where

(50:55):
you wouldn't necessarily associate gig workers or restaurant works as
necessarily a being from and he has them employed in
large numbers at mar Lago. Now, again that was during
the first term. I don't know if he's updated it
and sifted through because it is such a bad look,
but the idea somehow that we don't need these people

(51:18):
doing these jobs. It's absurd. The entire American economy on
some level. On one level is dependent.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
On these workers.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
The industries affected by pulling these workers out of California
are manifest the agricultural business to start go up and
down the Central Valley. I told you about that experiment.
It was by now, it was maybe eleven years ago,
a dozen years ago, where they tried to get Americans.

(51:52):
They put agricultural jobs. This is jobs in the agricultural
fields of California. They put those up as jobs available
to Americans. I think at the time they were paying
twenty five to thirty dollars an hour. They actually got
some Americans to work. When I say Americans, I'm talking

(52:13):
about American citizens who went into the fields to pick lettuce,
pick strawberries, et cetera. They didn't even last two weeks.
That's how harsh the conditions are. It's not a good job.
It's not a good job in the slaughterhouse. It's not
a good job in the agricultural fields. It's not a

(52:35):
good job in the heat of the kitchen. It's not
a good job cleaning up public toilets. Those aren't great jobs,
and they're done by a mix some people who are
here legally, some people who are American Caucasian, and some
are in large measure many are Latino, and they belong

(53:01):
to unions, and they pay taxes and they help support
the state of California. And that's why I say these
actions on the part of Ice and this president, these
heavy handed actions, they will have a chilling effect, and
they'll have an effect on industry, and it will affect
the California economy and by extension, the American economy. These

(53:25):
are scary times. They're scary times. That's the economic side.
But they're real people involved here. They're earnest people. They're
trying to make a living, a modest living, and they're
not a blight on our society, none of them. Now,
you want your violent criminals. He always advertises the violent criminals.

(53:46):
That's all we hear about, and then those talking points
are echoed on Fox News Channel. All we hear about
is the violent criminals, the insane asylums, etc. Well, you
know that that's a minuscule number, in a minuscule number
of people. We always heard the first million will also
all be violent criminals. Mark, They're all going to be

(54:08):
violent criminals. We're going to be glad that first million.
Then the next nine million what we're going to do
is they will just take it case by case, will
you case by case? Is that why you go in
hot to the fashion district in Los Angeles? The effing
fashion district. Come on, Fashion District, slaughter house, home depot.

(54:35):
It's disgusting, it should be embarrassing. That's where we are though,
And then I take you back to my original thoughts
about what's happening with this president and the way that
Pete Hegseith echoes the president's general disposition toward the politics
of the military and preparing the military for occupation of

(54:59):
American cities. This is where we are. It's utter insanity
and it's scary. So the other thing I'll just say
about the Marines deployed to La The idea is that

(55:20):
they will protect federal officers who are doing their job,
and the federal officers are doing their job to scoop up,
arrest and deport.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
I mean, the officers won't deport them.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
They'll arrest these people who are in the country illegally,
and the determination as to whether or not they're in
the country illegally will do that'll be handled in the court.
So you know, for the day they're closing down businesses.
They're destroying families. I say destroying film. I mean it's destructive.
Imagine mom or Dad or both being arrested, separated. There's

(56:01):
a recklessness to all of this that's so consistent and
so on brand. The same way Elon Musk went in
and recklessly dismantled government, fired all of the people who
are associated with USAID. EPA goes into the IRS, scrapes
those systems for data on Americans, it goes into the

(56:21):
Social of Security Administration does the same thing. There's just
a recklessness. That's just a few of the things that
he did. But that same recklessness is being applied now.
It's really the only way they know how to operate.
It's so sloppy. I mean, you know, it's funny. Pete

(56:43):
Hegseth is testifying before Congress and he was asked, what
is your backup plan? What is your backup plan? In
various scenarios that he's laid out, there is no backup plan.
I'll share that video with you when we go back
to our main platform again.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
We're on a temporary direct.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
To YouTube platform today, so I can't share a lot
of the stuff that I had queued up and ready
to go. But we will. I'll get it all to
you in the day's ahead. So the reason I wanted
to talk to David Kats and may bring him in tomorrow.
I may actually record something and I'll drop it as
a separate video a little bit later, so kind of

(57:29):
watch this space. I wanted to bring David Kats in
for the legal questions around bringing in the National Guard
and having them in any way involved in the arrest
and detention of civilians. I think you get into a
problematic legal area when you do that. So the idea

(57:51):
somehow that you can go into La New York, Atlanta, Chicago,
you can bring these ICE agents in and then have
them sort of running shotgun the National Guard with all
of these raids, I don't know about that. I'm not
so sure you can do it. I know they can't

(58:11):
make arrests, so it's their presence that works. And I've
told you if you just are getting here, I'll just
reiterate I believe that the leaders of Los Angeles should
have been more aggressive in knocking down the what I
consider violence. You throw cinder blocks of police cars, et cetera.

(58:34):
You throw any objects of police et cetera, tagging I
include all of that. I think they should have been
more aggressive in knocking that down. And you know where
I sit on this. Immigration is strure. I just get
you a whole you know, chapter and verse on it.
But when it comes to public property and private property,
I think you've got to be you got to be tough.
I want to know that my city's a safe place

(58:55):
and we're not going to take that. So I think
that was a fail. I'm the part of local leadership. Now,
that doesn't mean that you needed any of this other stuff.
This other stuff is obviously political theater. You didn't need
the National Guard, you didn't need the Marines, and more.
The way it was done makes it clear that it
was political theater. Right didn't coordinate it with the governor,

(59:17):
didn't coordinate it with local officials like the mayor of
Los Angeles. Just did it because that's the political theater.
Those guys are idiots. I'm here, I'm going to assert
myself on this situation. That is as important as the
troops themselves. It's part of the theater. It's part of
the narrative that the Trump administration wants to establish. The Left,

(59:42):
they're idiots. They're feckless. They're ruining your city. Oh my god,
you'd be done if it weren't for us. Let me
tell you, I didn't even talk to those guys. They're
the enemy. I just sent in the troops. That's the
message he's sending also to as I've mentioned, and I'm
going to mention it over and over those Fort Bragg

(01:00:02):
military people who patiently waited, some cheered, some jeered the
ex President Biden. That's the message Newsom Bass, the left,
the Democrats, you don't need to pay attention to them.
They're the enemy. The soul of America rests with us,
the righteous. You're doing our bidding, and you'll do it

(01:00:24):
on the streets of America, because that's where the battle
now must be waged. That is what he is saying.
And that's scary. Again. No mention of Russia, no mention
in the Ukraine conflict, no mention of the Middle East,

(01:00:45):
no mention in the South China. See, I mean, there's
so many areas. You know, the Iran thing could boil
over any moment. But he's more concerned with the political
theater of demonizing the opposition and creating the very real
notion that the the opposition is so much the enemy

(01:01:08):
that you should feel okay as a military military endlest
you should feel okay going to America's cities and lining
up against our own citizens. It's scary. We'll be protesting.
We'll be protesting in our little city of Dublin on Saturday,
says Kathleen Marshall with a fifty dollars super chat. Thank

(01:01:31):
you for that. No kings, no dungeons. Thank you for
all you do. We need you. Thank you, Kathleen Marshall.
Love that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
I hope the curfew stays for at least a week,
says Shout Up producer Calvin Loong. I am looking at
the This is something we do on the channel, of course,
to typically regularly when I'm there, joined by Kim and
all the rest, but now I have to just kind

(01:02:07):
of do it in the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
It's just me today.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Thank you again for the super chats, for the superstickers,
and also for just the thumbs up and subscribing to
the channel. Hey hit the notification bell if you would,
and you'll know whenever we drop a video. And I
mentioned that particularly today because again today I'm dealing with
this huge technical outage. But I want to record something
with David Katz, the former federal prosecutor will weigh and

(01:02:35):
he's one of the great legal analysts in the English
speaking world, and he will lay out the legalities of
what's going on. And I know you've heard a lot
about the legalities, but let me say that there is
a little wiggle room for this administration potentially in my
lay judgment legally, and I'd suggest that David katz Is

(01:03:00):
opinion today is really relevant. So I'm going to ask
you to hit the notification bell so you'll know when
I released that video with him. That conversation should be
later today. I hope if I if I can book
him the deal with the pete Hegseith and his position
toward all of this. As you know, he's the Fox

(01:03:23):
and Friends weekend host getting that big promotion. He is
now backing up President Trump in everything that President Trump does.
He is Trump's boy. And on the deployment of troops
to Los Angeles, you'll be not in the least bit
surprised to find he thinks it was lawful. Sadly, just

(01:03:47):
couldn't cite the law that he was following. But it
is right there in the constitution. Great, tell me where
in the constitution, several lawmakers, this is a Senate budget hearing. Okay, So,
and you talk about like the amount of money that
stuff costs, Like how much money it costs to put
the military in Los Angeles, how many military members had

(01:04:12):
to be fed, had to be housed. Of course, there
were no provisions made for all of that. The whole
thing was done halphazardly. I told you before. Everything in
this administration is half asked. So it's what happens when
you just play the theater of being in charge. Yeah,

(01:04:34):
we've got the prisons. We know we can scoop up
the soft targets that are house workers and agricultural workers
and people working in the fashion district and home depot.
Those are soft targets, right, Those aren't violent criminals. They're
no blight on society. They're actually critical parts of society,
aren't there. But no one wants to say that, So

(01:04:58):
Heigsith can't even tell you how much that cost. It
was asked by a number of people in this Appropriations hearing,
But when asked about sending thousands of troops to LA
including seven hundred active duty Marines. He said, it's legal.

(01:05:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's legal. It's right there in the Constitution.
And he was asked to explain the legal underpinning of it, okay,
and he said, I have to pull up this specific provision.
This is in speaking with Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin. Senator
from Wisconsin. Quote, but our Office of General Counsel, alongside

(01:05:44):
our leadership, is reviewed and insured in the order that
we set out that it's completely constitutional for the president
to use federal troops to defend federal law enforcement. So
Baldwin said, you know, just show me the order. Was
that in the order you say it was? Show me
where in the law it's illegal to have the active

(01:06:06):
duty military there? And he said, it's in the order, ma'am.
But we'll make sure you get it as well. I mean,
he took a lot of static in this committee, hearing
a lot of questions about domestic deployments, research, budget cuts,

(01:06:27):
the impact of tariffs on the defense industrial base. Republicans
didn't mention LA a lot, and it was heg Satu
said that the deployments to LA and the southern border,
they're thirteen thousand National Guard and active duty troops involved.

(01:06:50):
In those things, that is to say, the southern border
and in LA they're necessary to protect the country. We
very much support President Trump's focus on defending the homeland
on our southern border. He said, let me just say
one thing, if I can step out of the movie
for a second, I have to tell you I hate

(01:07:12):
the word homeland.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
I hate it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
It started I think around George Bush the Younger's the
younger George Bush's presidency. But somebody may be able to
go back and actually go find it where it started.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
The homeland reminds me of an Eastern Bloc country where
everybody's trying to get out. The homeland reference reminds me
of Nazi Germany, the homeland deutsch Land. It should be
erased from the American vernacular, certainly from the governmental vernacular.

(01:07:57):
It should not be used. It sickens me every time
I hear it, and it's become one of those things
that is sort of boilerplate politics where a lot of
politicians will say the people of the United say, you know,
I think this is what's required, and this is what
the people of the United States of America want. They'll
just tack it on. Sounds good. The people of the

(01:08:18):
United States of America. Yeah, the people of the United
States of America. Yeah, protect the homeland. Why not you
say protect the nation. I mean, I'm not even being
critical of whatever you're saying. I'm just saying this homeland
thing is bad. But it's too late. That horse is

(01:08:38):
out of the barn. I mean, we've got a Department
of Homeland Security and it's being run by someone who
is vacuous and moronic and who just looks for photo
ops and knows nothing about shaping policy and being smart
about this and turns on a dime. I showed you

(01:08:59):
the when she's talking to Sean Hannity angry at Biden
as he was making rumblings in her view about nationalizing
the National Guard, trapesing all over states rights. Sean, I kid,
this is an outrage typical Democrats. They don't respect states rights.
Joe Biden wants to nationalize them, the National Guard. He

(01:09:23):
wants to take control of the National Guard over what
a sitting governor wants.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
That's exactly what's going on now.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
And now what she's saying, Donald Trump is very much
in his right to do this. Absolutely Article ten. I mean,
there's just no there there so again, these people who
are chosen because they are on the metal stand anyway,

(01:09:55):
if they're not gold medalists when it comes to sucking
up to Trump, they're on the metal stand, and they
so impressed the President with their sucking up that they
get these appointments. This is who you're dealing with, and
that's who she is. Christinom. I mean, I'm looking at
the Iran situation, which is as a I think it's teetering.

(01:10:15):
I mean, there is a real possibility that the Israelis
could initiate a preemptive strike against Iran and their nuclear plant,
and then you're going to see a retaliation on the
part of the Iranians. They've already said on American targets
in Iraq. Marco Rubio has already told a bunch of
people who are involved with American assets over there they

(01:10:38):
should leave. So, I mean, everybody's kind of braced for
impact on this right. Do you know who's handling the
diplomacy for America on Iran and the Middle East. It's

(01:10:58):
not somebody with any kind of of Middle Eastern diplomacy background.
It's not somebody with any kind of knowledge of history
in the region. It's a guy who is a real
estate mogul. He's a huge donor to Donald Trump. He

(01:11:20):
golfs with Donald Trump all the time. That's who's handling
the Middle East negotiations. He is the diplomat through which
we get all of these communications. When you talk about
Trump trying to kind of put the Iranian nuclear deal
back together, you know, we had an Iran nuclear deal.

(01:11:41):
It was negotiated under Barack Obama. But in Trump Season one,
he came in and he destroyed that right away. Anything
that was Obama right he destroyed. So in destroying that,
he lost the connection to the Iranians in terms of
restraining their nuclear ambitions. And now he's kind of trying

(01:12:02):
to put Humpty Dumpty back together again and wants to
just put his name on it. Look new Trump Iranian
nuclear deal, which is great, dude, if you can do it,
do it. But my point is simply, you had it,
and you s candidate. So the idea now that this
has to be put back together by his leading negotiator,

(01:12:24):
well that puts a lot of pressure on that negotiator,
and that negotiator isn't a diplomat prior to this, not
any kind of background in any of these areas in
which he has to be handling things and actually run lead.
He's a real estate mogul. He's a real estate mogul

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who golfs with Trump and he's a real estate mogul. Although,
just to as an aside, point out, whose son is
in business with the president's son run World Liberty Financial together.
That's the platform on which you can buy and sell
crypto and the Trump mean coin. So you see that

(01:13:10):
even in the inner workings of the government, there's self
dealing and conflict of interest everywhere. But as this Iranian
thing teeters, it would be nice to have some real
diplomats in there with some real deep knowledge of what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
We don't have that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
We have a real estate mogul. I'm not talking about Trump.
I'm talking about his lead diplomat to the Middle East.
All this crap is being handled by a bunch of amateurs.
They're amateur loyalists, and that's all they have to show
for it is loyalty to Donald Trump. And the price

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we pay could be immense. George w started after nine
to eleven. This is on the whole Homeland thing. Thank you,
Scott Rittenberg. I was saying out to get rid of
the word homeland. I think it's just a It reminds
me of Nazi Germany. Honestly, George w started after nine

(01:14:11):
to eleven Native Americans. I know hate that word too.
Please don't lose this voice. I worry, Yeah, I worry too.
I don't know, I don't Yeah, I know that citizen
Swain saying he's a reality TV showman, not a mogul.

(01:14:33):
It's Mark Burnett's fault completely. Yeah, I think when I'm
talking about when I'm talking about diplomats and when I'm
talking about the mogol part, a successful real estate fortune
is what this guy who is negotiating and trying to

(01:14:55):
protect us in sense of negotiations with the Iranians in
the Middle East. That's who that guy is. That's the
guy who's a successful real estate guy. But no, you're right,
Trump is a complete imago. He's a complete concocted theatrical character.
But by the way, to be fair to Trump, as
I've said, and you know, I don't know how many

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of you have seen the show before, maybe you're just
passing through, but you know, Trump is a generational political figure.
Now you can hate him and I understand why these
are hateful, loathsome grotesque notions that he's brought to life
the worst of America. But he's done it with a

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smooth and unapologetic Cohn And a lot of Americans disgruntled
with something, disgruntled with their lives, disgruntled with the economy,
angry at them. Just show me who the them is
because I know I'm angry. Give me a them. It's
those people. They're taking your jobs, They're taking your lifestyle,
they're taking your religion, taking what you thought was America.

(01:16:01):
They're taking it all. He sold that. I mean, it
helps that he just make stuff up. All these guys
make stuff up. I gave you the video the other
day from the Labor secretary. That's who it was. Remember
the Labor Secretary. She was on with Maria Bartarromo. Maria Bartromo,

(01:16:24):
who looks great, by the way, which is amazing because
I didn't think you could crawl so far up somebody's
ass as she did with Trump, come out and still
look as good as she does. But anyway, she's talking
to this labor secretary, who is complete, who's talking about
If I'm remembering this right, it mightbe. It was Stuart Varney.
It was one of these things. They're talking about. The

(01:16:46):
manufacturing jobs lost under the Trump administration so far, eight
thousand manufacturing jobs lost just last month. That's in one month.
So for all this on shoring, we're going to make
stuff work here, we're going to incentivize industry here in
this country. We lost eight thousand industry jobs last month.

(01:17:07):
So she answers by going, well, actually, everything seems to
be going well. Things are holding steady, and she's just
kind of filling time. It's like clearly bunk. And then
she finishes it and this is the best part to
me with. And tens of trillions of dollars are coming
into America now that we'ren't coming in before. Tens of trillions.

(01:17:30):
That means more than ten trillion. Tens of trillions means
minimum twenty trillion, but I'll take ten trillion. It's all crap.
It's just totally bogus, void of any reality. It's just
out there. And that's what these people do. That's what
the Labor secretary's doing. She's filling time and spinning lives.

(01:17:54):
And so Donald Trump, who's much better than the labor secretary,
Trump is good. Trump is solid. He speaks unapologetically, He
lies right to your face, and it feels so real
you can't believe that it's not real. And talking about
the newsome call, and talking about the money coming in,

(01:18:15):
and talking about the deal that has just made with China,
and talking about all the deals he's made, it's all
just beautifully, unblinkingly confident. And that's what sold so many Americans.
That's how we ended up here. So when you don't
care about referencing any actual fact, you can spin this stuff.

(01:18:37):
And then I have to also say, you know, and
this is something that sorry, I know, I'm up against
a lot of the visitors who come to our show
who have all the faith in the American people. I
have faith in the American people that I don't. I
don't have any faith in the American people none. I mean,
he says I'll stop the war in Ukraine on day one.

(01:18:58):
It may stop even before I take office. People believe
that I used to. He's a passive mark. He's anti war.
That's what I like about him. He's going to get
us out of these wars.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Dude, what.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Leader an aspirant? Somebody who wants to be president. Is
pro war?

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Is that a big thing?

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
I didn't realize that's a yeah, exactly. Nobody everybody's anti war.
They'll all tell you how they're going to establish the peace.
I mean during the Vietnam War, they were talking about
how they were going to wind down the war, had
a plan for ending that war. Afghanistan was another thing.

(01:19:42):
You read the Afghanistan papers, maybe you read excerpts of them.
Afghanistan was like Vietnam. They knew that there was no end,
that our presence in Afghanistan was going to be open ended,
and money and casual tease that was just going to
be part of it, year after year after year, twenty years.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
There, so.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Realities and what stated can be different. And when it
comes to war, everybody's pitching themselves as for peace, right,
but just pulling back all American troops from every place. Again,
I don't see that. It's messy, it's reckless, that's not considered,

(01:20:29):
you know. I did want to mention the poll though,
the latest polling you might find both interesting instructive. Maybe
it's just a blip, but wow, there is I think

(01:20:52):
maybe the first signs of something you can look at.
But even as I say that, I will tell you
that there might be a footnote to it. So let
me let me get it for you, and then I'll
recognize a few people because Kim isury beautifully helping me
with helping me with super chats and superstickers and people

(01:21:18):
who said things and we want to respond to Trump
on polling is underwater on some of his top issues,
including immigration. President Donald Trump, according to a new Quinnipiac
University poll released yesterday, is underwater on some of his

(01:21:40):
most favorable issues. Immigration and the economy are the two
that helped vault him into power. The poll shows that
Trump's approval rating at thirty eight percent among registered voters
is a three point drop from April. He's also losing
support on subjects that were crucial to that victory, as
I say, the one in November. On immigration, an issue

(01:22:03):
that the president hammered on the campaign trail, Trump's approval
rating drops five points from April to forty three percent,
is already low. Approval rating on the economy didn't budge,
remains at forty The results show a majority of voters
fifty four percent disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy.

(01:22:27):
The poll surveyed almost thirteen hundred self identified registered voters
from July fifth through the ninth, and margin of era
of plus or minus two point eight percent. His approval
rating had been steadily picking up after dropping significantly in April.

(01:22:47):
So the big beautiful bill legislation, how does that poll?
Fifty three percent of voter's poll did not support the
law legislation. That's over half by three percent. Divided among
party lines, sixty seven percent of Republicans supported, while eighty
nine percent of Democrats and fifty seven percent of independents

(01:23:11):
opposed it. Unmedicaid funding an issue that has become democrats
messaging priority. Forty seven percent of those surveyed thought funding
should increase on Medicaid, while forty percent thought it should
stay about the same. Only ten percent think that federal
funding should decrease. The bill has passed by the House,

(01:23:31):
estimated to end Medicaid coverage for millions of people. Quinnepiak
also asked voters what they think of billionaire Elon Musk,
and his approval rating is crashing among Republicans after his
public breakup with Trump. Among Republicans, sixty two percent had
a favorable view of Musk. A sixteen point drop from April.

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But while Trump's approval languishes again and Democrats don't poll
well either, so it's by no means clear that Democrats
could take advantage of this. A vast majority of voters.
Seventy percent of voters disapprove of the way Democrats in
Congress are doing their jobs. Twenty percent approve. That's twelve

(01:24:22):
points lower than how voters viewed Republicans in the same survey.
So you begin to see the work cut out for Democrats.
It's messaging, it's having to reconstitute that party in some way.
The on sending in the National Guard a new survey

(01:24:50):
from The Washington Post and George Mason University Shar School.
The results as follows President Trump's choice to send the
National Guarded Marines to respond to the protests in Los Angeles.
Forty four percent oppose Trump's choice to send in the
National Guarden Marines, forty one percent support it, fifteen percent

(01:25:14):
say they are unsure how they feel about it. Republicans
in the survey are more likely to support Trump's action, apparently,
eighty six percent supporting Trump's bringing the Guard and the
Marines to LA. Democrats oppose its seventy six percent, and
as I say, the support on the Republican side is

(01:25:36):
eighty six percent, but political independence break toward opposing. Forty
eight percent of independents oppose, thirty three percent support, and
nineteen percent are unsure. The survey also finds near even
splits overviews of the protests themselves. Thirty nine percent support

(01:25:56):
the protests in LA the protests against the government's immigration
enforcement is the way the survey was asked, and forty
percent opposing those protests against thirty nine supporting, forty percent opposing,
twenty one percent unsure. Americans also split over whether these

(01:26:18):
protests have been mostly peaceful. Thirty five percent say mostly peaceful,
thirty seven percent say mostly violent. And I think these
are just a snapshot, obviously, as most polling is, but

(01:26:39):
again instructive on big issues that Trump won on and
is now maybe hitting some headwinds on deployment of troops
to help with a flawed immigration policy. Again I call
it flawed. It's not even really a policy. I mean,
I guess it's a policy because he's doing it, and
it's rategy and there's a blueprint laid out for the future.

(01:27:02):
You've got Stephen Miller, who's you know, shaking up the
snow globe everywhere he can get me three thousand scalps.
I just want them. I don't care where you get them.
Go to home depot, go to where they hang out,
go to a taco stand. I don't care. I want
those Latino faces. That is essentially what Stephen Miller's position is.

(01:27:23):
Don't worry about that violence thing. That was just something
we were doing to get into office. We're not going
to find a lot of violent criminals. Just get me anybody. Well,
the American people are beginning to see that, I mean,
based on this polling again, just to remark on the
poll and so it's becoming a bit of a troubled policy.

(01:27:45):
The other thing that's happening, of course, is that RFK
Junior who got rid of all the the VAX committee.
I mean again, that committee on.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
On vaccines.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
Was populated by people who read all of the scientific literature.
I'm saying that's something that I don't think RFK Junior does.
I just don't think so. I mean, look at how
that seventy six page report discussing what was going on
at HHS. Look at how it was produced, is produced

(01:28:25):
by AI. You could have written it. You just go
in a chat GBT and say, I want a seventy
six page report on the general direction that AHHS is moving,
and you put in a lot of stuff and with
an emphasis on vaccines and pandemics. It's easy to do.
We all know how to do it. And then ten

(01:28:46):
seconds later you'll have that report. And that's exactly what
they did. And we know that because in that same
report there was seven studies that they cited that were
completely made up, completely fictitious. That's who's running HHS, A

(01:29:10):
guy who is not only pulling it out of his ass,
but then he's serving it on a plate, a plate
adorned with a bunch of AI. So his new hires,
after he's got rid of all of those scientists who
on that team, of those evaluating those vaccines, read all

(01:29:33):
those reports, put all that science through a rigorous examination.
All those people are gone. Now you have new people
on board, seventeen member panel erased of all of those people.
All of them were bad. The new people include a

(01:29:55):
scientist who researched mRNA vaccine technology transformed into a con
conservative Darling for his criticisms of the COVID nineteen vaccines.
He's a leading critic of pandemic era lockdowns. That's how
all these people found each other. They found each other
during COVID nineteen. There may be many of you. I
have people, I know, friends, family, whose entire political perspective

(01:30:21):
is informed by COVID nineteen and the regulations and mandates
around COVID nineteen and vaccines, the lockdown, the masks, the vaccines.
I know a lot of people. I'm sure you do too.
Their entire political world perspective is informed by that. They're

(01:30:42):
in a way single issue voters. And so what you
see now is the logical extension of this. So, as
I mentioned, you have that guy who I talked about,
the the guy who was involved with criticisms of the

(01:31:03):
COVID nineteen vaccines, becomes this leading critic of pandemic era lockdowns,
and now he's part of the new crew as we've
recast HHS. Kennedy's decision to retire the previous seventeen member
panels noted here was widely decried by doctors groups public
health organizations who feared the advisors would be replaced by

(01:31:26):
a group aligned with Kennedy's desire to reassess and possibly
even end longstanding vaccination recommendations. The new appointees to the
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices include doctor Robert Malone, the
former MR and a researcher who emerged as a close
advisor to Kennedy during the measles outbreak. And speaking of

(01:31:50):
measles outbreaks, we have more of them now than we've
had in decades because people are buying the bs around
the measles vaccines. So this is what's happening and a
slice of what's happening in Washington. I also wanted to

(01:32:12):
mention this the apparently the word is that David Katz,
who would be normally on at this time, will join
tomorrow for a few minutes. So we'll be able to
get David Katz on and be able to ask him
about the very substantial and I would say dangerous legal

(01:32:36):
issues that are raised by what's happening in Los Angeles
now and by invoking powers and relationships with the military
for domestic surveillance, for domestic presence, for domestic law enforcement
that we've never seen. So Surf and Tumbleweed, thank you

(01:33:00):
for a thirteen dollars super chat Wow, Thank you, REVP.
You sound great. Mark much love, brother, much love to you,
and a shout out to you, big shout out to
both of you, serving tumbleweed. REVP. Harry Magnuan h on

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Lame Miz And do you identify? Which was the question
to Donald Trump with Javert or John Valjean. It should
be a layup? What are you kidding? The good guy
or the bad guy? Harry Magnan says, I can see
Trump supporting stealing bread from a family. Yeah, he to
support his family though, is what John John Uh Mike

(01:33:47):
Hall with a fifty dollars super Chat, Thanks so much,
Match shout out fifty dollars for the Kennedy Center and
of course with the Mark Thompson Show. I'll be at
the No King March in San Francisco making good trouble
Vilma with a four dollars super Chat while ice rates
go on. Nothing is being done about immigration reform by Republicans,
nothing exactly, because immigration reform doesn't really interest them there.

(01:34:10):
It's all performative and sadly there's a real price being paid.
But I've told you the price you're gonna pay economically
in California and across the country is immense. This is
a huge part of the dark economy of America. Hulu,
Steph continue on Mark. Yeah, thank you Hulu Steph for that.

(01:34:34):
Ten dollars. Super Chat and croquet Film La mis is
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make fun of his hairs, weight or anything. I don't
really do that stuff. But I guess you guys are

(01:34:56):
having at it. The Turdman of Alcatraz wants to put
up a couple of flagpoles the White House to distract
us from his flagging poles.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
I got what you did there.

Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
I love it, big Tuna for you ten dollars. Have
you seen the Craigslist ad for seat fillers in Washington
this Saturday? Yes, let me spend thirty seconds on this
for Saturday's review stand. Those who are going to be
behind Trump on the review stand. I've seen the Craigslist ad.

(01:35:27):
They'll give you one thousand dollars to sit on the stage.
That it'll be crypto, that they'll send you to be
a seat filler behind the president. But I wasn't sure
how real that was. That's why I didn't report it
earlier in the show. But in response to your question,
I will mention it is out there, you know, check
it out and maybe you can tell me whether you

(01:35:48):
think it's real. I saw it on TikTok, I saw
it across social media. So joan Hollywood, Who's popping out
of Trump's birthday cake?

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
That's a.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
Well, I would hope it would be Janine Pirot. Yeah,
mister President, I'm here for you. Chaplain Fred on the
Alex Padilla thing, the Alex Padilla rough arrest put in
cuffs today as he was just trying to ask a
question of Christine Nome. I'm sure it was an argumentative question,

(01:36:21):
Don't get me wrong, Chaplin. Fred with a twenty dollars
super chat says, I'm just so confused and upset for
Alex Padilla. We are seeing how Trump is after everyone
is against him. But what is more sad is how
law enforcement is not reacting to what they are seeing
and doing. A lot of law enforcement is just and
it's really set up this way, having to follow the

(01:36:43):
orders of those who are in charge so you know,
I give the men and women of law enforcement a
little bit of a break. I sure wish they would
go easier on many of these people that they are arresting.
I don't like this kind of nightclub bouncer attitude that
a lot of these law enforcement ice agents have. I
just think it's it's not cool. It doesn't have to
be done that way. These are sweet people are working

(01:37:04):
in an e FN slaughterhouse.

Speaker 2 (01:37:06):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:37:07):
I mean, you don't have to where's your humanity? I
get that you have to do your job, but I
also think there can be some humanity run them up.
What makes these Trump people think their Second Amendment right
will stand when the military comes to town. Well, of
course that argument I've made for years. The ideas amount, well,

(01:37:29):
we need we need to arm ourselves just in case
the government comes out. If the government comes after you,
I don't really care how you've armed yourself. You're done.
Distobian Dragon Senator Padilla has been arrested. Padilla gave a
press conference after where he After that he said he
was not arrested. He was detained for asking a question,

(01:37:52):
pushed out of the room, shoved to the ground, zip tied.
He said we will hold this administration accountable, I hope
so I don't think that they're much in the.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
Being held accountable department.

Speaker 1 (01:38:03):
Kathleen Marshall says, we will be protesting in our little
city of Dublin on Saturday. Thank you for the fifty
dollars super chat on that too. Really appreciate you supporting
the channel. This is an extraordinary day where our normal
cast of characters isn't here in the normal multi media
presentation that we bring you isn't available to us, So
really appreciate your support. Scott and Rittenberg says, almost like

(01:38:28):
the radio days, this is to sponsor and official the
Mark Thompson Show, Vocal Break and stephen Ward ten dollars
with his super chat. Convicted of thirty four felonies makes
chump a felon. Chump is not above the law, President felon,

(01:38:53):
and yet he is not in prison. When the law
does not apply to everyone, then the law applies to
no one. Comment from Randy did you see the Trump
Truth social posts this morning where he acknowledges that these
deportation rates I started to affect farmers and other segments
of the economy who could have known Deirdre Losica. The

(01:39:15):
young Department of Homeland Security thugs ZIP tied Padillo while
he was faced down on the ground. Yeah, as we reported.
Thank you everybody who is filtered into comments and also
supporting us today. I want to mention one thing about
the felony because it was just mentioned by.

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
Yeah who mentioned it?

Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
Just the felony thing. Oh, it was a Scott Rittenberg. No,
it was it was Stephen stephen Ward. So you're right,
Trump convicted of thirty four felonies. We can talk about
the convictions and the cases and you know how it's standing.
I would have absolutely moved forward with the classified documents case.

(01:40:00):
It would have been tried in Washington, DC if I
had been in charge. Again, I know a little bit
through David Catz that it could have been charged that way.
I thought it was the easiest slam dunk case. It
was easy to understand. There was no excuse for it.
You know, why are you taking thousands of documents to
your place in mar Lago stored in completely unsecure areas?

(01:40:21):
First of all mar Lagos in insecure area, unsecured area.
It's in a bathroom, is the first tranch of documents,
the second tranch and multiple tranches, are in bedrooms, in ballrooms,
in closets, in a work area that many people have
access to. These are sensitive documents they're playing. So I

(01:40:41):
thought that was an easy case to make and an
easy and they actively moved documents when the FBI served
them with subpoenas. I really thought, wow, this is really
an easy case to make. But because of a jurisdictional
issue they were in Florida, they get the concierge judge
from Florida to basically let Trump off the hook on that.
And now, of course all of this goes away. That

(01:41:03):
was the potentially felonious act and case that should have
stuck to Trump. The thirty four felony counts all right,
but it is what it is. But now to your
question and why I mention all of that. Trump is
bothered by the felony thing. So even as we can

(01:41:27):
play it off, and it is played off as well,
it was a you know, the Libs they weaponized they
He's bothered by it and he's trying now in court
to get those felonies erased from his record, and so
far he hasn't been able to do it. But when
you mention those felonies. It does land with him, and

(01:41:51):
he is trying all he can to get those felonies
erased from the public record. We'll see how successful he is.
But there are government lawyers and Trump lawyers working on
it now. So what a weird day, Hi, everybody, a
truly weird dayson's show.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
I will tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:42:18):
That we'll be back tomorrow and David Katz, the former
federal prosecutor, will be here. Can you hear our closing music? Everybody,
you know, I love our closing music. I love production elements.
So for me it's a it's a big thing, you know,
music opens, announce I love all that stuff. So the

(01:42:47):
the word tomorrow is be here. By then hopefully our
stream yard platform will be back up. It's been off
across the board for many shows, and David Katz will
join us.

Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
We will talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:42:58):
The law and the legal problems that this country may
have and this president and administration may have trying to
pursue this level of control over Americas at the cities.
Thank you for the support, thank you for everything. And
now as we say goodbye, I'm Sheefon of Stevens for

(01:43:22):
the Mark Johnson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:43:24):
Bye by.

Speaker 1 (01:43:27):
Long time I would say, this is Mark Thompson Show,
unplugged it. We'll do it plug back in tomorrow and
until then, bye bye,