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I'm Greg. And I'm Surge.
And today, we're talking about the man who might be the most
responsible for what is currently happening in the Trump
administration, Stephen Miller. But before we talk about the
Joseph Gables of the Trump administration, let's talk
silver lining. Sergio, I know it's going to be
hard today, but can you hit me with it?
Oh man, you, you and I have been yeah, pre gaming by by talking
about kind of all the crazy things that have been going on,
but and we are both in a state of disbelief and and shock.
Well, why are we in a state of disbelief?
Let's let's let's recap what's happened in the last 48 hours,
right? Well, I you, you informed me
today that about 45 minutes ago that a state legislator in
Minnesota and she was executed and, and her husband was killed
by, by somebody that doesn't like liberals.
Apparently, yeah. We also had Israel preemptively
took a strike against Iran. Bombing their their nuclear
facilities, killing top generals.
Yep, Yep. What else happened?
We, we had a plane crash in India that killed all but one
passenger. So that's great.
Oh LA how dare I? How, how could I forget?
But yeah, no. So with all that in the
backdrop, what is what, what, what, what can you find from for
us today? As are as are the eternal
optimist of the of the program, 'cause they can come to me for
the negativity all they want. I'm I'm coming and turning to
you, Sir. There's nothing.
We're all fucking screwed. No, just kidding.
I like it. No, so silver lining is just
currently there's one left, one day left of school, which is
going to be great to just be able to kind of decompress.
And you know, the other thing is that just being able to talk
about this in this kind of forum with you is, is kind of like
free therapy for me. It's, it's a great way to be
able to process this and just being able to, you know, as we
continue to doom scroll and read all the crazy things that are
happening, being able to just talk about it is, is a silver
lining. And just kind of think about
what we can do to, you know, support our listeners and people
that are are getting screwed over by this administration and
killed. Yep, Yep, we are.
There are lots of really negative bits out there and, and
to have this space absolutely matters for for me too.
I, I really value this period of time every week to be able to
sit down and process the, the, the frustrations that I have
with our, with our current political climate, with the
actual climate itself. I mean fuck, there's we have an
orange alert for the East Coast because of all the Canadian
wildfires that are happening. I thought that was because of
Donald Trump. Yeah, well, that too, but no,
yeah, I mean, it is, it's it's nice to be able to have that.
So I I appreciate your silver lining, man.
I, I I see that. I recognize it.
And yeah, big shout out to you for that.
I'll give you mine. So this week I was flying for
work and I had a layover at the one the only Denver
International Airport. Suite.
I can confirm it is a portal to hell.
I found all the secrets of what's going on underneath those
little tunnels, but the, the, the, the main thread here is
that I actually got to speak to our Lord and savior Lucifer.
All hail Lucifer. And he wants to thank you and I
for spreading the good, the good news of of his mission in this
world, which is to bring it and envelope it in darkness.
But his with his only his eyes guiding us to the pits of the
Denver International Airport. Heck yeah.
Other than that, it's been a really fucking hard one, man.
And I'm having a hard time finding good things.
I mean, it's Thursday weekend. Happy Father's Day to you.
Happy Father's Day to all the other fathers and.
To you as well. You're you're, you're the dog
father. Hey, there you go.
I like that. Thank you.
Yeah. So, yeah, you know, we've got
that going on, too. So hey, look, you know, if you
got a dad out there who's involved in your life, or even
if you don't have one, who's involved in your life who you
want to see? Sorry, I'm not laughing at that.
We're we this episode might have some ADHD in it, but I just saw
a script. We're watching the protests that
are going on DC, but there it was just pan to like tiny Dick
president and something else that were signs over on the
right hand corner. That may be kind of Google.
Yeah, they're all these are all. There's a lot of really good
signage. Good to see people.
I, you know, I drove through a protest earlier today in my
town, you know, for, for what this town is or this county can
be at times. It was really, really good to
see people mobilizing and making their voices heard.
And yeah, it was really, really, really good to see that.
But but yeah, no. Happy Father's Day to all the
all the dads out there. Big respect that you know,
anyone could be a father, but it takes a special man to be a dad,
so. Well said.
I got that from Steve Harvey, who's a other problematic
individual. But with our Silver Linings out
of the way, let's take a real quick break.
When we come back, it's douche new time.
Sergio, what do you have for us this week?
It's douche canoe time, douche canoe time douche, douche,
douche douche. Do we need a It's douche time.
We could make that work. We can make, we can make that
happen. OK, We're going to make a little
Jingle next week. We'll have a little Jingle for
the douche canoe. Yeah.
And then we can have like listeners coming around at at
work or just, you know, make it try to catch you.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, douche.
Oh, hey now. Hey now.
So douche canoe Gregorio? Yeah, you like that?
I do a little stank. On it, I try to try to spice it
up a little bit. Not that you need any more, you
know, spice and coming your way. So I have a nomination for
Douche Canoe of the Week and it's a duo who has been charged
in a course of scheme to obtain labor and services and using
economic, sexual, emotional, financial and psychological
abuse as long with along with surveillance, indoctrination and
intimidation. Who does that sound like?
That sounds like a cult it. Does, but we've kind of covered
a, a, a power duo that was Strife and all this.
They're English and Andrew Tate and a Tristan Tate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Are we, are we, are we
going down that lane? No, because we've already talked
about them and, you know, since it's not them, we're we're equal
opportunities. So it's actually going to be two
women. We at this podcast are all
about, you know, equality and douchery.
And so we're going to talk about Nicole Daydon and Rachel
Cherowitz, who are the founders of the One Taste Company.
So guess what they specialized in?
One taste, some kind of seasoning for popcorn.
Yes, or the the. Popcorn of your soul.
Yeah, popcorn of your soul while stimulating the clitoris.
Oh, OK, so we've got we've this has taken a turn.
All right, I'm in. So it they specialize in
orgasmic meditation. No shit.
OK. So, So what do you think
orgasmic meditation is? And folks, we're making light of
this a little bit and just overall as a concept, but
there's some pretty heavy and dark stuff.
So, so there could be some trigger warning.
So OK, just just throwing that up.
There is a, so it's a warning. I keep a pretty not, I don't
want to say like it's like 3 * 4 * a week meditation practice
where I, you know, focus on, you know, my breath and like do
things like that. Now, I have heard about like,
you know, tantric meditation and things like that where you do it
with a partner and it really is supposed to like elevate, you
know, the sense of intimacy, but I've never.
Or how would Trump say it? Intimacy, intimacy.
He definitely like, runs through a couple of words, letters
there, but no, I yeah. So like, I've heard of this as a
concept in terms of, you know, connecting at a deeper level,
but never, you know, put I guess I shouldn't be surprised that
someone found a way to try to make money off of orgasms.
I guess what I mean to say. And, and there's an old saying,
right sex, sex cells, and especially if you can tie it
into meditation and mindfulness and stuff like that.
So I was researching all this stuff and then I got freaked out
because I was like, I'm at work right now and I'm researching
orgasmic meditation. Yeah, it's like, you know, I
don't want HR to come and try to.
To reach out to me but. You know, I, I looked at it
through, through NPR, so I, I feel like I'm OK.
OK, Yeah. So from NPR, Orgasmic meditation
or OMA spiritual practice developed by One Taste involves
a male participant stimulating female participants clitoris for
15 minutes while the female participant focuses on her own
internal experiences and the resulting physical sensations.
It's not concerned a sexual act and there is no requirement for
sexual repressosity. Yep, Yep.
I don't know if I said it right or not.
You got it. You got it.
Rest reciprocity, reciprocity. There you go.
The practice has been described as a method to cultivate
mindfulness and spiritual connection.
Sure. So what did you do you think of
of of that after I I just read the definition to you.
So, you know, I think that the, the, the premise of of like of
the, of the female focusing on her internal and physical
sensations is all part of meditation anyway, right?
Like, do I think there needs to be 15 minutes of continuous
clitoral stimulation? That that that.
Not to say that this is like this is throwing me off yet, but
like you can start to see the cracks in the meditation
practice so to speak already. Well, and it's also too just
like you think about like, oh, it has to be 15 minutes.
So the the way that so we talked a little bit kind of our
feelings about it and you can see how some of the stuff can be
problematic. And so the way that one taste
presents itself is as a new age company teaching women its
participants as female sexual liberation.
And that sounds all good, right? Like you, you want, you know,
people to have onus of their own bodies and to be able to learn
different ways to be more intimate with their partners
and. With themselves, right and.
With themselves. Self-care is a is a big deal.
Absolutely. You can enjoy self-care.
You probably enjoy, you know, other people taking care of you
too. Absolutely.
And, and there's a lot of studies that say that, you know,
engaging sexual activity, consensual sexual activity, it
helps all sorts of like relieve stress, anxiety, helps you sleep
better. It's good for you overall.
So, yes, but, and we're going to I'll, I'll say, but but we're
going to just listen to Miss Daydone just talk for a few
seconds about kind of what the company is.
But then we're going to find some, I think kind of cracks in,
in the, in the. So I figure we're 10 people,
we're fast, we're savvy, we're smart.
So I'm just going to. This should be said that this is
a Ted talk. Is that?
Yes, she's going to take a Ted Talk.
Got it. Break the ice for us.
OK? My topic is female orgasm.
So that said, I want to thank the people of Ted X for having
me on this stage. This has been a dream of mine
that I thought was absolutely impossible.
That we could have a relevant, intelligent conversation about
female orgasm was just a distant dream for me.
I just fell in love with this practice.
That's what happened for me. I gave nearly 10,000 hours to
this practice. That's a lot of hours, but I
learned some key things in that time that I am bringing to you.
The 1st is that female orgasm is vital for every single woman on
the planet. The second is is not so bad for
the guys either. The 3rd, and on a much more
serious note, is that it roots our fundamental capacity for
connection. So yeah, in her presenting, that
doesn't sound too bad, right? No, not really.
I mean, you know, it's very boilerplate, but I imagine
you're about to drop a fucking hammer on me, so.
So from 2006 to 2018 is when this company was founded.
Dave Dunn and Sherwitz were the the founders were found to have
been hiring women, young women and manipulating them and
performing degrading sex acts for the company's benefit,
including sexually servicing potential investors.
Wow OK so this sounds like. Have you ever heard of Nexium?
Yes. Yeah, It sounds very similar.
Like it's very you're going to work.
You're we're, we're going to pimp you, essentially sounds
like. Basically.
And so they recruited women with the history of prior trauma to
participate in the program. They were under constant
surveillance. They were told where to sleep,
assigned beds, where, who to eat with, and they were forced to be
participants for different classes and workshops and
basically being pimped out. This is a fucking cult.
So they coerced their employees into working long hours with
little to no pay, intimidated them, tried to ruin them
financially to threaten family members and stuff like that.
And so it ended up that so they, the, the, the news kind of got
out about this company. And so they done, the FBI was
was investigating and they done basically sold the company for
$12 million. Shut up 12 million. 12 million.
Jesus Christ. And so in 2018, after they
started doing the hardcore investigations and interviewing
employees, the company stopped hosting in person classes and
basically kind of shut down. Is that US or is that like all?
Our, I think it was US mostly. OK.
So yeah, they they sold the company that both resigned, made
$12 million and now the company as of 2018, it closed all its
doors. But Daydon is future prominently
still on their website. Really.
So I've got the link for that. I'm actually just.
Going to and it's now known, it's not known for one taste
anymore. It's now known as the Institute
of Orgasmic Meditation Foundation.
Wow, OK, so is this her that I've got to put her on the
screen? Gee golly dude, modality
oriented towards human connection.
So these women have just been found guilty.
I don't know what their sentence is going to be, but knowing kind
of the climate that we're in, if they just fork over a couple
$1,000,000 to the Trump Organization, I'm sure they'll
get pardoned within within the year.
Oh, yeah, yeah. No, hey, look, you know that
that sounds about right. Because why?
Why wouldn't you after, especially after what we learned
last week around, you know, people who are committing fraud
and all they have to do is commit more fraud to get out of
said fraud? Exactly, it's a pay to play like
you said last week and. Jesus Christ.
So yeah, pretty disgusting knowing that that people
continue to engage in this kind of behavior and exploit other
people and make millions of dollars off of it and well, you
know, probably get off pretty, pretty Scott free.
Jesus, man, what a fucking I mean to again, you know, I'm a
big believer in in meditation, mindfulness practices that that
really help ground you in the moment so that you're not
thinking about a million different things and like you're
only focused on one thing. And I can appreciate the the
practice of meditating, but like to abuse people and with
something that is so personal and that is so it's meant to, to
not even think about those kinds of things.
You know what I mean? And you're now being used and
abused to make someone $12 million.
Yes. And you know, the people that
you know, fall into this trap are people that are are trying
to reach enlightenment. They're trying to, you know.
Seekers. Seek, seek something else, try
something else and they get exploited and it just kind of
disgusts me that this world's just full of people that just
take advantage of other people. Yeah, and it's a tale as old as
time. You know there are many cults
that are basically do the exact same thing you.
Can say yeah. I mean, it's, I mean, we
mentioned Nexium earlier, but like, you know, it's, it's not
uncommon. It feels like unfortunately.
Yeah. So that's my, my, my nomination.
Yeah. And somebody that's not in the
political world, but. Yeah, no, hey, look for the DC,
we have plenty of non political douche.
Yes, lots of non political douche bags to go around, or
douche canoes rather. Sorry.
Yes. Well, Sergio, now that you've
gone and done it again, let's take a real quick break.
When we come back, we're going to be discussing what happened
in LA and the man behind the curtain making all this
possible, Stephen Miller. We begin tonight with breaking
news out of Southern California. Good evening and thank you for
joining us. I'm Becca Hobiger, in for Luke
Clary tonight, a third night of unrest in Los Angeles.
The National Guard is on the ground following days of
immigration protests and escalating clashes with law
enforcement. Take a live look here over
downtown Los Angeles tonight, which continues to see protest
activity. Earlier today, streets were
lined with demonstrators. You know, no secret, we have
been dealing with some serious unrest in this, specifically in
LA, But as we're seeing today on the TV that we're watching right
now with the No Kings protests that are taking place all around
the country today, people are upset.
People are very angry. A woman is currently beating a
Donald Trump pinata on the ground right now with the rope
around his neck. Well, that looks more like an
S&M collar. And I believe that the woman
doing the dragging is her the Donald Trump effigies money.
But here's a real quick stat blast for you.
Before the National Guard was involved and brought in by
Donald Trump. We're going to get to that here
in a second. The conversation, you know, I
want to provide a little bit of backdrop here.
Over 50% of Americans approve of Trump's deportation policy,
according to the the most latest CBS You Gov poll.
OK, so 54% of Americans polled said that they believe that
what's happening is okay. What are you reading directly
from? In part from a an article
written in The Intercept by a reporter by the name of Nick
Terse quote. On Saturday, President Donald
Trump took the already extraordinary action of calling
up more than 2000 National Guard troops to tamp down
demonstrations in California. In doing so, he exercised A
rarely used federal powers that bypass Governor Gavin Newsom's
authority. Which is just insane that we're
like, like he could have done this January 6th.
He didn't do it. Nope.
Containing from the article he followed up followed it up two
days later with an even more extreme move.
While it is unclear under what authority Trump in the Defense
Department did so, United States Northern Command activated 700
Marines from the Second Battalion, 7th Marines, First
Marine Division, all assigned to 29 Palms, California, which is
just outside of LA. They were being shipped out to
support Task Force 51, which is a deployable command post used
in crisis response who are protecting federal personnel and
the federal property of Greater Los Angeles.
That's a that's a according to a statement issued by Northcom.
More from Nick's Peace Active duty troops like the Marines are
full time professional soldiers. The National Guard, at least
historically, have been citizen soldiers who are in their
communities during the week and training on the weekends.
For Californians, Los Angelinos who are facing these Marines, it
feels different. And to some great degree, it is.
Mobilizing Marines against their neighbors is a profoundly
dangerous escalation. This deployment is plainly
illegal, and it points to the reason why we have these laws
against these deployments in the 1st place.
Not only is it an authoritarian power grab, it also threatens
the physical health of people exercising their constitutional
rights to protest protest and the moral health of the Marines
to suppress those rights. I mean, excellent writing from
Nick. His reporting is always spot on.
But these protests have largely been peaceful.
They they have been and, and the thing that's really interesting,
I think the last time I I heard this that Marines and National
Guard were were sent out were during the civil rights
movement, stuff like that, where governors weren't that that
didn't OK it. And I think one of the things
again, that was really interesting.
And if you look at Fox News that they will only show that really,
really small percentage of the the vandalization of the self
driving cars in in Los Angeles. And then also there is a, a, a
video of a man on, on like a little scooter with a Mexican
flag that were as that was just like, oh, it's a guy holding a
Mexican flag. It's a it's a, it's an
insurrection of an incoming army and out from the from the
outside, right? Like that's how it was framed.
Yeah. I mean, you know, I think I was
reading something where they done a pan out from the area,
like the CNN helicopter to show like just how localized this
protest was. And then like right across like
a couple streets over, there was an active pride parade
happening. So like, it wasn't like we're
looking at like a like a Rodney King situation where the entire
city is on fire. And like, you know, there's a
lot of that stuff happening, right?
And it just on top of it, too. The other thing that's just kind
of cracks me up is that the LAPD itself said no, we got it.
And the LAPD historically great to protesters or people of
color. Or even before, without, during
or after a protest. They just don't like people in
LA. They're pretty much and they're
say they, I think they tweeted something of like saying, you
know, we, we support people that are actively utilizing their
First Amendment right except to be able to peacefully protest.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But the more important thing
that's happening in LA, people are being separated from their
families, their neighborhoods are being destroyed by ICE and
the federal government is kidnapping children off the
streets. This is really upsetting period
of time to be in right now. And if you didn't think it was
going to happen, you're finding out the hard way now.
This is an all out assault on the people of LA, the United
States, the immigrant communities in our country.
Not sure how much more this administration has to do to show
you and prove to you they will stop at nothing in order to hurt
people. And yeah, you know, it's, it's
it is really hard. I saw something on on Instagram,
it was one of the shorts and it was this Hispanic American.
I don't know if he was high school or or college age at his
graduation. And his dad's next to him and
staying in a thick accent. You know, Trump, you're trying
to destroy America. Well, we immigrants come here to
try to build it up. And the sun is kind of smiling
at 1st and just starts breaking down in tears.
And the dad when he's when he's saying it, kind of his voice
cracks a little bit in the beginning, but was able to say
it. But I just thought of that and
just how powerful a statement that is.
Yeah, and, and you have video of high school girl who's in her
senior year, you know, gets pulled out of class by ice and
she's all she's saying the entire time is but can I go back
to class 'cause I have to finish my finals each people who it
gives me chills to think about just the brutality.
And it's really hard. This has been a very, very, very
hard week. And I think in order to kind of
recover from that, we should go take a a real quick break, take
a really long walk around the the block, try not to send any
fires. So when we come back, we are
going to discuss Stephen Miller, the architect behind the Trump
administration's immigration policy.
We're back. So Long story short, the Trump
administration has been planning this for at least 10 years,
flowering quite a bit all the way, but taking our country's
discourse around immigration, in the conversations around it,
further and further to the right the whole way they've been doing
it. And if you don't believe me,
allow me to introduce you to somebody who's been helping that
effort to shape policy, executive orders, speeches for
the Trump administration. Stephen Miller.
I had a whole plan on discussing Miller's early days in high
school where he was similar to Charlie Kirk.
And like, you know, trying to build it like this, like web of
like connection between, you know, the Nick Fuentes of the
world and the Thomas Rousseau's of the world and the Charlie
Kirk's the world, The guys that we've been talking about for a
little bit now. But I, I, I just don't give a
shit about that conversation anymore.
I want to talk about just how much of a fucking Dick this guy
has been around this whole process of immigration.
He's such a fucking Dick. We don't have the time to
discuss the op-ed that he wrote while he was at Duke University
titled Sorry, Feminists, where he discusses gender roles and
how women need to be OK with their traditional roles in
society. Or his Farewell op-ed where he
discusses and goes to great lengths to discuss the political
correctness and how it's ruining our country.
Or the former editor of Breitbart who released a trove
of emails where Miller was blatantly feeding false stories
or generating leads for an organization organization to run
with. And this is where I'm going to
expose the layers I'm trying to to work in for you.
Recall when I told you I was listening to a book called The
Camp of the Saints? A Camp of the Saints is a book
where white replacement theorists site as an example of
what is happening to the West due to immigration and how the
West would eventually crumble and that white people would be
replaced by black and brown people.
In one of the emails that Stephen Miller writes to the
Breitbart op-ed, former editor at that Breitbart, he writes
this. You see the Pope saying we must,
in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the
parallels to the camp of the Saints.
Less than 18 days later, after Miller's e-mail, an article was
published in Breitbart called Camp of the Saints scene
mirrored in the Pope's message. So it's a one to One Direction.
Let's say it's a one to one connection here, and we cannot
touch on that because we have to talk about what this useless
sack of flesh has been doing in the Trump administration and how
he's directly responsible for the damage that's happening
across our country right now. And I'll stop there real quick
because I, I know that's a lot to chew on, but fuck me, I'm
just, I'm fucking angry about this guy.
And the thing about Stephen Miller, too, he's just again,
like a swarmy piece of shit. He kind of looks like the
Nosferatu. Yeah, I was going to say grew
from a despicable of me too. Yes, except grew is kind of
lovable. He this guy is This guy's a turd
stain. He's the biggest turd stain of
all the turd stains. I, I want, I would love to flush
that turd stain down the toilet. I want to play for you real
quick. A, a, a compilation from the
Washington Post on Stephen Miller.
And this is his own words on his thoughts on immigration.
Have a secure sovereign border and for the right to have a
government that puts American citizens ahead of illegal
aliens. The president of the United
States said I'm taking a stand today for American workers and
the American economy, and we're putting American families first
on immigration. We're saying our compassion
first and foremost is for struggling American families,
and our focus is on the national interest.
When did the American people sign up to be in every war, in
every place, on every side of every conflict all over planet
Earth? People that you don't connect
with and understand, The people whose manufacturing jobs have
left, who've been besieged by high crime communities and
who've been affected by a policy of uncontrolled immigration?
Those voices, those experiences, don't get covered on this
network. You cannot conceive of a nation
without a strong, secure border. It is fundamental and essential
to the idea of sovereignty and national survival to have
control over who enters and doesn't enter the country.
Vote. For the right.
OK, Yeah. And the thing that, again, is
really interesting about him is that he's a conservative Jewish
guy. And yeah.
Well, he grew up as a liberal. He grew up in a liberal Jewish
household. Yes, but he himself is
conservative. Yeah, yeah, I mean conservative
in all areas of life. But again, as somebody who is in
this kind of position and, and being Jewish at just, I, I
wonder what kind of pushback he gets from the, the white
nationalists and stuff like that.
I'm sure, I'm sure they like him.
He's kind of the token, you know, whatever, but.
He's so, you know, I, I hate to kind of reveal my hand here, but
you know, I definitely spend a lot of time on forums that are,
you know, not great because I'm trying to figure out like what
what's being said, like what's like, what's the narrative
that's being built out around this?
And it's kind of like that whole like King Cyrus thing that we
talked about with the like the seven mountains philosophy of
like, oh, well, he's a flawed person, but he's he's a, an
instrument of the, of God kind of thing.
Stephen Miller is seen as an instrument of like the white
nationalist movement. Like he's there to usher in.
But once that's done, like he's up next kind of thing.
It's it's kind of like the what the ultra Christian, you know,
we like Israel until it gets bombed the fuck out of and then
the rapture can happen. Right, Yeah, we want, we want
Israel to have a one state solution so that they can.
We don't want George Soros. But, you know, here's here's
Steven in May of this year discussing suspending habeas
corpus. You know, President Trump has
talked about potentially suspending habeas corpus to take
care of the illegal immigration problem.
When could we see that happen this evening?
Well, the Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the
supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion.
So notice that it's an option we're actively looking at.
Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right
thing or not. At the end of the day, Congress
passed a body of law known as the Immigration Nationality Act,
which stripped Article 3 courts. That's the judicial branch of a
jurisdiction over immigration cases.
So Congress actually passes. Fuck that, I'm tired of hearing
that fucking prick. I fucking hate him.
I hate him so much and The thing is, is that he's not an idiot.
No, he's really really, really, really, really smart.
He's a smart guy. He's a very intelligent person.
He, I mean, you don't get into Duke without being at least semi
literate and you know. I mean, Robert F Kennedy got
into Harvard or whatever. Yeah, but I mean, you know,
Harvard, you know, is that a real school?
Not anymore. Everyone knows that.
Everyone knows it. But last week, Miller met with
ICE officials and said, quote, just go out there and arrest
illegal aliens. Rather than develop a list of
targets for arrest, Miller told agents to raid Home Depot
parking lots and 711 convenience stores.
But if you recall, the whole premise, and which we all knew
was baloney to begin with, was that it was only those with
criminal records and those who overstayed their visas.
The bad hombres. Targeting day laborers does not
seem to fall in line with the original pitch thrown to
Americans. Days later, June 6 happens.
ICE agents descend upon Home Depot to predominantly Latino
Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, kicking off a weekend
of protests centered around a federal detention center in the
city of Downtown and the nearby Paramount and Compton
neighborhoods. Everyone knows that when you
fuck around near Compton, you're going to find out.
So given the fact that they locked up a labor Union Leader
and then started to do these Gestapo, let me see your paper.
Look, lock ups and deportations paired with Miller's new 3000 a
day arrest quota mandate. I was wondering when you're
going to get to that? You can see why the people are
over it. You can really see why people
are done with this fucking shit. And you pair that with Steve
Bannon, the archetype of Trump's first presidential term.
He said this week that Trump, the Trump administration should
double and triple down on the the deportation efforts in
California and across the country.
He's he's also asked for habeas corpus to be suspended.
That's fucking scary, man. Yeah.
And these are people who have their finger on the pulse of the
extreme right wing and also are helping to shape and pull people
who might say, oh, you know, I kind of like what Trump's doing
with the, like, the economy. I think it's a good idea for us
to, you know, tariff the shit out of places.
We need to restore work and blah, blah, blah.
But, you know, I really don't necessarily feel like the
immigration thing is going very well all of a sudden.
Like, you start to hear these stories that are getting pumped
out by the Steve Bannon's of the world and the Millers of the
world who are pushing content that they want published to, you
know, different news organizations.
And those things get aired and those things get published.
And all of a sudden, the people who might be sitting on the
middle of the right start getting pulled a little further
and further and further and further.
Well, and I'm just thinking too, with everything you've seen
when, when it talks about making 3000 arrests a day, first of
all, where are you going to house that many people, if they
can even come close to meeting that quota?
Second of all, how much is it going to cost to send them by
suspending hideous corpus? Are they just going to be sent
without any trials? We're, we're talking about
filling up airplanes and just doing a mass, you know,
migration of, of people and just how many millions and billions
of dollars that's going to cost. And the fact that I was
listening today that they're trying to use the the Marines
and, and use National Guard to help a company during these
arrests and they're not trained ICE officials.
No, you can deputize anybody, apparently.
Well, especially if you go to Virginia in distance, give,
yeah, give some cash. You can get a badge and gun man.
You show up with a bag of cash, you can get whatever you want in
Virginia. Everyone knows Virginia is for
for crooks. I am not a.
Crook. Oh, Virginia is for lovers.
Everybody knows that. Always.
But as Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy, Miller has
made this week even worse by saying that the demonstrations
are acts of insurrection and played the white replacement
theory bullshit as quote, saying California is all you need to
see to know that mass migration unravels societies.
I think the language here is crucial, though.
The, the language that they're using in terms of calling it an
insurrection. You heard Stephen Miller say it
and then all of a sudden, the Fox News sphere took off with
it, right? And I want to come back a little
bit, just take one step back and explain exactly what the
Inspiration Insurrection Act of 1870 is.
It empowers the President of the United States to nationally
deploy the US military and federalize the National Guard
units of the individual states in specific circumstances such
as the suppression of civil disorder, of insurrection,
insurrection, and of armed rebellion against the federal
United States, The federal government rather of the United
States. The Insurrection Insurrection
Act provides statutory exception for the Posse Comitatus Act that
limits the President's deploying the US military to enforce
either civil law or criminal law within the United States.
So the Posse Comitatus Act was passed in 1878 after the end of
Reconstruction. And the return of white
supremacist to political power in both Southern States and in
Congress. There we go.
Through the wall, Congress sought to ensure that the
federal military would not be used to intervene in the
establishment of Jim Crow in the former Confederacy.
And I wonder sincerely, how long till judges step aside all
together or step in? If the military is policing your
streets, you can no longer pretend you live in a democracy.
And, you know, we were trying to kind of joking around about,
like, you know, the word posse comitatus.
But, like, it's not a laughing matter.
That posse Comitatus has been ignored by launching the Marines
into downtown LA. Yes, which is just a complete
provocation because it is Las one of the more liberal cities
in the United States is one of the biggest cities in the United
States behind New York. And they don't need the help at
all. And yet you are going to go with
the this, you know, strongman appearance to intimidate people
and to really stir people up so that you can get those images on
Fox News of this wild insurrection that's going on,
quote UN quote. That's right, to be able to say
look, the streets are running wild and blah blah blah blah,
yet they won't be able to take responsibility for January 6th
at all. Oh, no, not at all.
Why would you do that? Why would you take, you know,
any responsibility for that? No, I think like, yeah, it's
it's you know, I think you're also pointing to there too, is
like, hey, if we didn't send in the Marines and all that, well,
guess what? Then you would have an even
bigger issue, right? And you know, not not for
nothing clip here, I just you know this is a completely non
sequitur completely. Unrelated, the Insurrection Act
to deal with the situation in California.
If there's an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it.
We'll see. But I can tell you less.
Last night was terrible. The night before that was
terrible. We have, as you've seen, it was
on most of your networks, people with big heavy hammers pounding
the concrete and pounding curbs pounding and breaking up and
handing these big chunks of concrete to people.
And they were taking that concrete going up in bridges and
dropping it into the roof of a car.
They were throwing it at our police.
They were throwing it at our soldiers that are there.
And we got it stopped. And we have them one, by the
way, that you fucking put there. They didn't like, like you said,
the police said they've got this.
Like we don't need you to be here with the National Guard or
the Marines, but in custody right now.
Look, if we didn't get involved right now, Los Angeles would be
burning just like it was burning a number of months ago with all
the houses that were lost. Los Angeles right now would be
on fire. And we have it in great shape,
in great shape. It's in great shape.
You know, you know, he, he, he mentioned it at the very top of
that where he said when, when asked, would he, would he, you
know, would he suspend posse Comitatus?
And he said only if there's an insurrection.
And the likes of Fox News, The Five, Laura Whatever, Laura
Ingraham, Sean Hannity. Fox and Friends.
Yeah, Bret Baier and the only person who leaves the room last
every single time, Stephen Miller are they're all calling
it an insurrection. All of them, every single one of
them. The right wing Alex Jones has
been calling it an insurrection since fucking Tuesday.
Like it's if, if you think for a moment about this, the language
that they're using, that the language that they're starting
to cultivate is so that they can do and, and and expose all of us
to violence. Those of us who disagree with
what's happening right now, they're priming the pump.
They're putting the language in. So that way they when it comes
down to it, they can just go, well, it's an insurrection.
We have to get rid of this. And, you know, we were talking a
little bit earlier in the show in the episode about just the
simple fact that, you know, fucking January 6 happens
doesn't call in the the National Guard, you know?
No one blames Nancy Pelosi. Right.
And so you know, how, how far do you take a very localized
protest and try to make that into we've, we've already
rewritten history, right? That's what fascists do really
well is they rewrite history and they do it fucking quick because
that happened in under what, four years?
Five years? It's like now.
Now the right wing is calling what happened in LA an
insurrection, even though they tried to literally overthrow a
government and no one was punished because they're all out
of fucking jail. And the guy who did it, fucking
Merrick Garland and all of his fucking useless cronies, fucking
did nothing about it. Nope, the left did nothing.
They just stood there. Fucking virtue signaling pieces
of shit. Well, and you also think about
the Republicans that had to run for their own lives.
Yeah, where you have Mike Pence, you had Josh Hawley running.
And these guys are? Fucking chicken shit piece of
shit. Exactly.
And even though they're they, they drank the Kool-aid.
Yeah, big time, big time. I want to give my final
thoughts, Sergio, and then I'm going to turn it over to you to
close this out. And I've got 2 clips that is
going to help us close this out. And I have written here that
we're going to have to do some real soul searching as people if
we're going to come off the brink of this.
Together in this room are going to be the ones who elect
President Trump to end the invasion, to end the occupation,
and to send the illegals back home.
Look at all these photos around me.
Are these the kids you grew up with?
Are these the neighbors you were raised with?
Are these the neighbors that you want in your city?
No. These are the criminal migrants
that Kamala Harris brought into your community.
And as swiftly as they came, Donald Trump will send them.
Back there's got to be a way to come back off this, right?
There's got to be maybe, I don't know.
But when you do have to have those and myself too, those
really, really hard conversations with friends,
colleagues and loved ones. And they say they, they didn't
know that they would actually do this or, you know, they didn't
believe that they would be this bad or this would be, it would
be this dramatic or traumatic. I won't believe them.
I, I, I, I won't believe them because they've been saying it
the whole time and they've wanted it the whole time.
You can't complain about what's happening to your town.
They want you to shut up. They want you to be quiet.
They want you to be silent. We are not going to shut up
because we love our country too much.
We love our family too much. We love our kids too much to let
them grow up in a community and in a country that is run by
organized criminal cartels. Not on our watch.
Not going to happen. They want you to think that you,
you have to justify why you want to send the migrants out.
No, no, no, no, no. They have to justify why the
hell they're bringing the migrants.
In the Deportations are not about immigration.
It's not about crime. It's about removing brown bodies
from the country. There's no other way to put it.
It's outright racism. It's a systematic approach of
getting rid of people that Miller was never cool enough to
hang out with in high school or in college.
Like all of the rest of the asshole that we've talked about
from episode 1 to current day, it is all about their fucking
ego. All of it.
History has shown us that it's going to get much worse.
It's going to be a very long, very hot summer.
So take time to check in with your friends, your family, your
loved ones, and the most vulnerable members of our
community. Protect them and be there for
them because they may not be able to do it for themselves.
Protect yourselves this summer. Stay woke Sergio.
Stay woke to you. So woke.
They say I.
I think from just listening to you and then reading the news,
one of the things that just comes out to me is the stark
contradiction with especially with Donald Trump who talks
about the illegals that are coming in, coming into this
country and destroying everything, raping and killing
people. But yet as the raids are to
happen in California, especially in the agricultural section,
Donald Trump did a 180 turn saying that, oh, we need to,
these are good people. They've been here for 20 years
and we need farmers here. We need people to work in
hospitality for in my hotels so they can get paid under minimum
wage. And so it's really easy for
white America to villainize and demonize people of color when
all statistics point to is that for the majority.
And things happen where there's people that are criminals and do
horrible things. But overall, immigrant
communities want to stay under the radar.
They want to work. They're trying to escape
situations that are far worse than their countries of origin
and are coming here to try to achieve that American dream.
And you are absolutely right. This is all about racism.
It's all about saying that black, brown, Asian people are
not the same intelligence and that they're beneath us.
And so we need to get rid of them and we need to have more
white people. It is disgusting.
It is revolting. I am ashamed of what's happening
and frankly it it enrages me to a level that it's hard to put
into words at this point. We are really backsliding fast,
faster than I thought that we would.
With within 100 and six months, yeah, it is just been absolutely
100% chaotic. And I think the thing that's
also really interesting is that we talked about polls earlier
and you said that 58. 54. 54% of people approved of it of Trump's
immigration policy, but I think that was that was going after
criminals. I don't think it was for people
going after day laborers, people that have had children for kids
that were came up here that so or somebody that's married to
somebody who's an immigrant, it nobody's safe.
No, no one is. And even if you are an American
citizen, you are, you could find yourself in some trouble the
debate or, you know, depending on what you're posting on, on
Facebook or Instagram or whatever, they're going through
that stuff. And this is we're, we're going
into a really, really bad space. Not to project too much and not
to put us in a place where we're not at currently, but I was
watching the movie Civil War, the a 24 film and one of the
actors in that movie, I forget his name, really famous guy, but
he, he played the soldier and he had a gun and he's got like
these glasses on and, and the reporters are on their knees and
they're saying, Sir, we're, we're, we're Americans.
We're Americans. And he like takes his time, he
takes a beat and he goes, well, what kind of American are you?
And that line stuck with me 'cause it's like, holy shit,
man. Like I, I, I don't know that
we're there yet, but it sure as fuck feels like we're getting
close when they're fucking shooting Democratic politicians
in, in, in, in Minnesota not. And, and again, I don't
political violence is of any sort is not good.
And I as much as I dislike Donald Trump, the man had his
life attempted twice. Like we're we're not almost
there. If I told you that this was
happening in Kenya or in Papua New Guinea where the tribal
leader was beat, had his life assassination attempt twice in
one year and then the next year politicians from the opposition
party were being shot and killed, you'd say that's a
failed state. That's a state that's failing.
That is a democracy that is in trouble.
And then you've turned the lens back on ourselves and go, holy
shit, man. Like, where are we at?
What are we doing? How do we get here?
And I think people like Stephen Miller and Charlie Kirks of the
world and the Rush Limbaugh's and the Alex Jones's otherworld,
all these fucking lunatics out here are part of the problem.
And I, you know, it's made me start to think about my own
rhetoric. Like, am I saying things that
are too fired up? Am I getting too fired up?
Am I letting myself respond to base instinct versus trying to
reason with it? And sometimes I feel like.
I don't know how you can reason with that though.
I don't know how you can reason with somebody that thinks that
it's OK to just deport people because of the color of their
skin. Yeah, and bring in white South
African Africaners because they are being.
Genocide. Yeah, like we're using terms
that genocide is a very loaded term and what like genocides
have been, have happened and we can very clearly identify them.
It's not happening in South Africa, I can tell you that.
No, it's it's not. There's.
There's been a genocide against Native Americans in this
country. There's been genocide in Rwanda.
There's, you know, you can name different countries, but 60
white South African, Afrikaners, yeah, there's not a genocide.
The president said that there's not a genocide and not to throw
one kind of last final thing. Yeah, please do.
No, this is, I mean, this is, this has been a very heavy week,
man. Like we, we've got a lot to talk
about so. Well, and I, I don't even
remember because we've talked about so many things, but the
Christy Noem, the secretary of, of Homeland Security, yeah, was
having a new, a news conference in California.
And Alex Padilla, the senator from California, Yeah, was
asking her a question and arrested, Yeah.
And handcuffed, yeah. And so we're arresting US
senators, Yeah, for questioning the administration and.
Shooting politicians. And shooting politicians.
And Padilla had a really good quote saying that if they're
doing this to US senator, yes, just think what they're doing to
the day laborers, what they're doing to the farm workers, what
they're doing to people of color, which, you know, is
pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty.
Awful yes, pretty awful, they say so this is the video.
I'm not going to play the whole thing for us here, but like this
is the video I was telling you about where they're getting
chased down in in a in a field by ice agents.
It's fucking disgusting. Anyway, you know we're I think I
think we probably should cut it there.
I think that's probably where we should because, you know, all
these things are are very heavy and it's very, very difficult to
remain keep calm and carry on kind of thing.
I feel like if I keep on going I'm going to start screaming
into a microphone and I pay way too much for this microphone so.
I'm not with all these tariffs, man.
Can't. Get another microphone.
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