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Episode 36: Weekly Roundup -OM & Stephen Miller

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Beloved, before we start this episode, I wanted to shout out KAZA Maryland. We've shouted them out in previous episodes, but now more than any other time, we ask that if you don't give us a follow or a like or, you know, whatever, reach out to kazamaryland@wearekaza.org or other immigration advocate services like immigrationadvocates.org. Donate at those places if you can and enjoy the show. This is At the Extremes,

beloved. Welcome back to At the Extremes, the podcast where we discuss the extremes in our society and how we got here. As always, we're your host. 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.

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. But listeners, we want to thank you for enjoying another episode of At the Extremes. Do subscribe and share. It goes a long way. Again, please, if you've made it this far through the episode casamaryland.org, we mentioned at the very top of the show, but please, please, please, please

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