Speaker 1: Welcome to political beat down. I'm Ben Mysella is joined
by Michael Cohen. We've got a lot to discuss. Cohen,
where do we start? I mean we can start with
the federal judge in the Southern District of New York,
Judge Angelmeyer, ordering the Department of Justice to respond if
the judge has standing based on the protective orders in
place and based on the judge's supervisory responsibilities of a
case to enforce compliance with the Epstein Transparency Act. This
follows Congress Members Roe, Conna and Massey, I think brilliantly
sending a letter to the judge flagging these issues.
Speaker 2: And the judge.
Speaker 1: Reviewed that letter and said, I want to understand what
the DOJ's view is. Do they have standing? Do any
victims want to come forward and say they want this?
Speaker 2: Also?
Speaker 1: I think it was a hint to the victims and
the survivors who may have standing as well, maybe you
should file something. And then it asks the DOJ should
I appoint an independent monitor here? And I think the
strategy by those members was executed perfectly.
Speaker 3: It's a strategy. They're finally doing something. But Ben, can
we just break something down for a quick second? Break
it down, Break it down. Let's break it down. So
the House voted on this Epstein Transparency Act. Yes, it
was immediately given to the Senate unanimous consent everybody. And
then it goes up to the President of the United States,
to the big Man himself, who goes ahead and puts
his John Hancock on the on the Transparency Act and
ships it off to the DOJ. Can somebody please explain
to me why that file is not in the hands
of Congress, why it's not why it has not been released,
Why do you actually even have to be going to
court right now? And that's the part that people are
not talking about. We talk about it here on the network.
I my just touched network, because that's what we do.
We break shit down, all right. We talk about the
things as well that others choose not to talk about
because it's not, let's say, politically expedient. They don't want
to piss off the administration and then have their credentials revoked. Well,
I lost my credentials a long time ago. So let's
break this shit down. Ben. At the end of the day, nobody,
and I mean nobody should have to be asking the
courts right now, not Rokanda, not anybody, not Republican, not Democrat,
not independent as to the release of a file that
was signed off by Congress Article one and also signed
off by the executive branch Article two. So who's holding
this thing up and why are there not impeachment then actions? Well,
why are they not calling Pambondi in with the files.
We want you to show up right now to Congress
with the files for a hearing.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because there's a downstream impact when
the rule of law doesn't really exist anymore. And I'll
give you a totally unrelated example, but I started my
semester teaching law school at USC. I'm a professor there
and I teach sports law there. One of the issues
is that in this new world of name, image and
likeness payments where players get to basically switch teams every
single year, players are signing contracts with team X, but
then they just decide, hey, I'm a nineteen year old
I actually want to play for team Y. And then
there's no mechanism to sue or hold people accountable who
sign contracts because there's no legal structures or guard rails
around the idea of a contract holding, meaning there was
a player who, for example, signed with Washington and then
they decided, actually, I may want to play with LSU.
And then people are like, well, how do you enforce
this thing? And that's just an example of at a
level that does not impact all of us, or it
doesn't involve child sex trafficking. But what happens the way
Donald Trump's words are empty when the law itself is
empty is meaningless. Where the Department of Justice is actually
injustice and they are a racketeering enterprise covering up a
child sex traffic ring. You know, in the typical course, right,
Judge Angelmeyer presides over a case involving DOJ Glane Maxwell Glane,
convicted child sex trafficker who should be rotting away in
Tallahassees Prison, but was moved to a minimum security facility
by the Trump regime because they perceived her helping them
out and continuing to help them out in working with
the DOJ. So normally DOJ is supposed to be and
let's be clear, the DOJ is not this. They're always
doing the right thing and they're great. But in theory,
let's just leave it like this. It should be adversarial, right,
the DOJ and Gilane shouldn't be on the same team
in trying not to release something. They should be adversarial.
So there's nobody in the action who's actually fight for
the victims or the survivors. And what happens when there's
a federal law? Federal law, the Epstein Transparency Act isn't
a state law, so you can't go to California state
court or New York state court to enforce that law
because it's federal, so you have to go to a
federal court. Well, what happens when the DOJ is the
one who basically says, well, where the DOJ it calls
for us to be the ones to release it, and
we're doing whatever we can do. We're doing our best job.
And then Cohen when they're not, they're covering it up.
What happens when your branches of government in the United
States now function like the Duma in Russia. And so
today James Comer and by the way, the reason we're
starting off talking about the Epstein files is because this
is what the Trump regime does not want us to
talk about first. Okay, so I'm intentionally covering something first
that they want to just be taking off the news
in general, and that you're not seeing really covered in
corporate news at all anymore.
Speaker 3: No, no, not.
Speaker 1: But James Comer is asked about, well, what do you
think about the DOJ and their production, and Comer's like,
I think they're doing a great job. I think they
are complying. Now, this is the guy who runs the
House oversight, right, that's the main body that is to
your point, Cohen, who why is in Congress bringing this
guy in for impeachment? Why aren't they doing Play the
clip of James Comer from earlier in the day saying
that he thinks the DOJ has done an incredible job.
Let's play that clip.
Speaker 4: We Suphoena Pambondi for the documents. She started producing the documents.
Then Congress voted for the discharge petition to send another message,
and we all voted for that. Is she they are
sending dock with. They sent a big batch. The Democrats
were unhappy. They said they weren't enough for action. So
now the DOJ's going through trying to make sure they
redact everything. So as from my standpoint, the Department Justice
is cooperating, they are turning over documents. We would all
like for them to turn documents over quicker. But at
the end of the day, they are complying. President Trump
is answering your questions about Epstein. He's answered them over
and over and over again. Who we haven't heard from
is Bill Clinton, And I stated why the amount of
time that that Epstein spent with Clinton Bonley was president
and post presidency. So I don't think it's it's out
of line for former President Clinton to come in for
a bipartisan subpoena and sit down and answer questions. So
thank you all.
Speaker 3: Okay, First of all, there's so many laws in that
statement you roll up from it. Stay with me on
this one, bed, I mean you could actually throw up
from the lies coming out of the Skuy's map. First
and foremost, nobody has to at this point in time
ask for the release or beg Pam Bondi for the release.
There is a law, the Epstein File Transparency Act, that
has been signed by your fearless leader. By the way,
I agree with Beverly Fillmore, one of our subscribers here. Yeah,
comer is dumber than Louis Gohmert. There's no doubt about
that one. Because the fact that he's sitting there and
trying to now push this off. By the way, By
the way, if you're going to bring Bill Clinton, and
I'm fine, bring Bill Clinton in, I don't care. Meanwhile,
he turned around, he said that it is not a
legitimate legislative reason within which to bring him in. Okay,
they're gonna now litigate that thing and distract us from
again having the files released. But if you're going to
release the files, if you're going to ask Bill Clinton
to come in, how about release the files so that
you can ask him cogin questions about each and every
aspect of it, not the ones that you want to end.
I want to end before turning it back over to
Ben here. You all should know by now what percentage
of the Epstein files have been released so far to date,
And the answer is approximately one percent. One percent of
the files, despite the fact that there is a ruling
that it was supposed to have been turned over almost
thirty days ago on the nineteenth of December. Somebody needs
to explain that one percent of the file. And this
idiot says, oh, I think that they're doing I think
Pam Bondy's doing a great job. If she turned over nothing,
he would say the same thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the fact that they and it was so
obvious and I covered it back then, you know, which
is they were going to make this about Bill Clinton,
you know, and say ah, and by the way, Bill
Clinton put out a statement saying release all of the files,
and then I'm okay with releasing all of the files.
Now the broader issue with a Bill Clinton and this
is what the MAGA Republicans know that subpoenaing a former
president in general always carries with it a process that's
going to be slower and is going to take time
and will not happen immediately. And so I owe and
by the way, in my own view, Clinton is on
the list, then expose him. No one's out here defending
anything Bill Clinton with Epstein, like at all, who's ever
involved needs to be exposed and called out. But again
they throw up these red herrings like we're stupid, and
I think fundamentally, especially if you look at what Trump's
speech in Detroit today, it's all about treating people like
they're stupid and like they're worthless, because how else can
you say the things that you're saying, how else can
you say that inflation has been totally defeated and things
are great, and everybody's living the most amazing time ever.
Speaker 3: Prices it down oil.
Speaker 2: He is saying.
Speaker 1: Down here, he is saying that drug prices will be
coming down one thousand percent. Here play this clip of
him saying, drug prices coming down thousand percent.
Speaker 5: In executive order, we're doing most favored nation drug prices.
When we would have drug prices stay the same, everybody
thought it was great. They're going to be coming down
thousands of percents.
Speaker 1: Standing, Okay, let me do one, let me do one more,
and then I go back to you.
Speaker 3: Guys at Minas were so great when you reposted my
sub stack. When I talked about and I explained fifth
grade mathematics. I hope that everybody here with us understands.
In fifth grade we all learned a very important principle.
One hundred percent of the same number of any number
off will bring you to the number zero. So you
can't have greater than one hundred percent in terms of savings.
So where are the thousands coming from? Here?
Speaker 1: He says, we've totally defeated inflation.
Speaker 3: Let's see, mazl Mosel.
Speaker 6: So lucky to be here under our administration. Growth is
exploding productivity, assuring investment is booming, incomes arising, inflation is defeated,
America is respected again like never before. And other than that,
we're not doing that well.
Speaker 1: And then also on the bottom of the screen, state
regime media is also saying ice agitators, like confronting them,
ice agitators, ice agitators. And this is part of That's
why I call them state regime state regime media, because
now it's part of a propaganda campaign to attack peaceful
protesters in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. By the way, Minneapolis,
Saint Paul, and Minnesota collectively filed a lawsuit against the
Trump regime, saying that the tenth Amendment of the Constitution
has now been violated because Ice and Border Patrol they're
not doing law enforcement, they've done an invasion.
Speaker 2: Of the city.
Speaker 1: What Trump realized is why do I need to even
invoke the National Guard? If I have my own paramilitary forces,
I'll just dress up these unqualified people in military gear
and I'll have them terrorize peaceful communities. And we've been
documenting it. We did this incredible partnership con and I'm
sure you've seen it with the group called Status Coup
and they've got people on the ground, and they show that.
You'll have these ice Gestapo agents look at peaceful protesters
who are not blocking the streets. They'll take chemical agents, gas, pepper, spray,
flash bangs and just throw them at the people and
then provoke the people in the streets. And then when
the people are provoked, then they got state regime, Fox
media to be like boom, you see, look at the
war zone that's out there. We have an invasion. That's
what they called it in the lawsuit too, an invasion
of American cities. But this is what Donald Trump meant
when he said we have to go after the enemy
from within.
Speaker 3: When you listen to him how he describes who the
enemy is. They're American citizens. They are they are protected
under the First Amendment. They're peacefully protesting. And what does
Trump turn around and say, they're sitting there, They're yelling
at them, they're blowing whistles and horns, they're mocking them,
they're being disrespectful. This to him is tantamount to traitors
to you know what, what are some of the some
of the the adjectives that he's used. Uh, you know
that they're agitators and He's got a whole litany of
descriptive words for these individuals, but the one descriptive word
that he does not use, right is upstanding. What they're
not doing that all they're doing is invoking their First
Amendment constitutional right. Something that I understand better than most,
something I warned so many people about. Is to anybody
who's ever listened to me, going back to when I
was ultimately released on that habeas petition from thank god,
Judge Alvin K. Hellestine, a name that you all have
recently heard. He is the judge on the Maduro case.
Judge Hellestine turned around and stated that the government violated
my first Amendment, that it was retaliation because I refused
to waive my first Amendment constitutional right. That's what this
regime is doing. They and I said, I said to everybody,
if they can do this to me, just sit back
and wait and watch what they're gonna do to you,
and lo and behold, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I just remember the Tea Party protests from they had
those flags, don't tread on me, don't tread on me.
And what they were talking about was like Michelle Obama
recommending healthier lunches, which has now basically been plagiarized by
RFK Junior, but in a warped and dystopian and sick
way where you know, but the healthy lunches that was
treading on you, and the government's going to tell you
what to eat with lower sodium consumption as a recommendation.
And you literally have people in military outfits by the
thousands with weapons of war invading blue states and blue cities.
Frankly the whole country, but focused on blue states and
blue cities. If you were to say that Biden did
that or Obama did that, we would be in a
full fledged civil war.
Speaker 3: Ben, could you imagine if Biden was speaking before an
economic committee as Trump was today and he invoked the
year twenty twenty four, and to those of you that
may or may not be aware we're in twenty twenty six,
twenty twenty four has no play in this at all.
If this was Joe Biden who made that, immediately Republicans,
including our president, would be turning around and calling for
Joe Biden to be put in a straight jacket, to
be taken off to a facility to have an MRI
done of his brain, and basically demanding that there'd be
on television a cognitive test in order to demonstrate that
he knows what year it is or who he actually is,
because not only did he start right off Joe Biden
again during this economy, but he's the one who made
that same exactness. He didn't even realize that he made
the mistake. You know what, just play that clip so
people see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: Over the past twelve months, almost every promise I made
to you right here in twenty twenty four has been kept.
I've kept all my promises and much more. I mean,
I've given you much more than I gave you promises,
and I produced much more than I said I was
going to produce.
Speaker 3: I gave you. You know what would be you know
what would be really great? If pay per view would
do a Trump I would pay for it. Could you
imagine a pay per view event Trump wants every everything
has to have some sort of a financial transactions associated
to it. How about if pay per view does an event,
We'll call it the Donald Trump cognitive exam. And let's
just all see what a cognitive exam that's being given
to the president it is. I think we should at
least have the right to see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeremy, let's play that first clip that I told
you about, because to me, this is what we'll probably
be watching on pay per view.
Speaker 2: Let's play. Let's play.
Speaker 1: Let's you know the clip I'm talking about, Jeremy, Let's
play that one.
Speaker 5: Ah Ah, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, you got to admit it is funny
if it was coming from anyone other than the President
of the United States describing his predecessor. I mean, that's
just I don't know, rude, it's moronic. I mean, what
the hell you know?
Speaker 1: And again the theme about words should matter, though, from
the President of the United States, right, words should matter.
So Donald Trump says in a social media post, He's
imposing twenty five percent tariff increases on any country that
does business with Iran. So what does that mean? Does
that mean twenty five percent on China they get oil
from Iran? Does that mean twenty five percent tariffs on
the United Arab Emirates, who Trump does personal business deals
with and has given our semiconductor technology to. And so
he says, twenty five percent tariffs. But the words don't
have any meaning. And so, and this is an issue
I discussed with congress Member Brendan Boyle. And you know,
like when Donald Trump has this, DOJ launch a criminal
investigation into Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
The markets don't believe him. The markets view the action
as a troll and they shouldn't view it as that.
But the words carry with it no meaning that if
you speak to people, if you speak to bankers or
people in corporated mar eeah. Trump just says these things
and ultimately they resolved themselves. Yeah, he said twenty five
percent tariffs, which technically would mean twenty five percent more
tariffs against China, which would mean massive disruption of businesses.
But it's it's not really to talk about Iran. Donald
Trump said on January second, if the regime there killed protesters,
he goes, we would come in guns a blazing. He posted,
Remember he posted that.
Speaker 3: Well, remember he posted that. But there was a great
question that was asked of him today too finish up.
Speaker 1: And then January second, he posted that. And now the
death toll on the low end is probably in the thousands.
Some suggest there may be as many as twenty thousand
protesters who were killed there's an Internet blackout there. We're
now January thirteenth. The regime there is not listening to
Donald Trump. What Trump wants is Raisa Paulavi to show
up at Marra a Lago and kiss his ring after
also undercutting pa Lavi the same way he undercut Machado
and doing all of that. But then Polavi goes on
state regime media Fox and says, Donald, you so much
stronger than Biden, which, by the way, then undercuts Pavlavi's
ability to interact in a geopolitical world when you've submitted
like that the same way Machado has screwed herself royally
by selling out the way she did, and she's going
to show up on Thursday. Trump's not going to care.
He's gonna take your Nobel prize, which he's not allowed
to take by law, but he's gonna take the plaque
or whatever the medal, and then he's still gonna have
dels run it. Delsi Rodriguez in Venezuela is still gonna
is still gonna run it. And Trump doesn't want democracy
in Iran. He doesn't want democracy in Venezuela. He doesn't
want democracy in the United States. He wants and he
doesn't want democracy in Ukraine. He wants a Trump puppet
authoritarian who will give not even America the resources, but
Trump and his buds the resources to enrich themselves.
Speaker 3: That's what this is all about. The whole thing also
with Polavi is so stupid. You know. Look, yes, the
shaw was a very a lot, uh you know, the
sha v Run was a wonderful, wonderful leader for the people.
People really did truly you know, admire and care for him.
But the thought or the no of bringing Raiza Palavi
now happen to know the family quite well, including Raza.
The chance that he's ever going back to become the
leader of a country that he has not been in
for forty seven years. He has not been in that country,
doesn't understand the you know, it doesn't understand the country anymore.
He's been out in the United States, you know, amongst
the Iranians, specifically the Persian communities talking about it. They're
very good to him and so on. They talk about what,
you know, the old days of Iran, and it's it's
wonderful for the nostalgia of those people that went through
it and understand it. But there's new generations, there are
new issues and so on. The whole thing is just
a waste of time, pure and simple. It's just a
waste of time. The thing that I really appreciated is
there was a journalist and I don't know who she was,
but she came straight out and she said to Trump,
you said that if protesters got killed, that you would
not stand for it, that you were going to do
something about it, that you were going to resolve this.
Tell us how do you plan on doing it? And
his response, Ben was classic Cohen.
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Speaker 1: Is that, you know, what people aren't talking about though
a lot now, which definitely needs more attention. And this
is by design as well, of course the Epstein files.
That's why we cover that at first. But I guess
this is a week were no longer supposed to talk
about Ukraine.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that sarcastically. Of course.
Speaker 1: We went from what were they what were they trying
to sell us? Three weeks ago, and then three weeks
before that, and then three weeks before that, we were
so close, so close to a deal. There was such
great progress being made when you actually looked at what
was happening in Leviv and other places. As Putin was
escalating things since the invasion of Venezuela, but Trump was saying,
We're so close, We've got this, and isn't.
Speaker 3: Ultimately you're doing great, and Jared and Marco and Marco,
you're doing great, doing great, We're almost there, almost.
Speaker 1: There, right, Yeah, as as as our producers said, we
were so close, and then Putin made up that Zelensky
was going to attack the home and then and just
made up, you know, made up that lie, you know,
so you know what one interesting thing going to Trump's words,
don't you know, are meaningless. You know, it's interesting because
Trump uses this term, you know, the deep state or all, like,
we have almost two governments running right now. Right you
have kind of Trump in his inner circle, Stephen Miller
and Bondi and Gnome, who are doing the most horrific
things and inflicting horrendous amounts of pain. And then you
have what Trump says and what these people are all saying.
And then you have like this top commander at NATO
who I saw gives speech in Sweden the other day
two days ago, and the way he talked about the
Arctic and NATO and joint training exercises is like completely
ignoring everything that Donald Trump says. So he shows up
there and he talks about NATO ever been stronger, and
you would think you were in the twilight zone. And
he'll be asked questions, well Trump said this, Well Trump
said that, and he'll basically be like, well, you know,
I can't get into the politics of things, but I
can tell you here's what we're doing at NATO, and
here's and and here, and here's what's actually going on here,
Here's here's the way things are running. But Cohen, I
just think that that's such a dangerous situation where there's
no real chain of authority. You have Trump who just
spews this nonsense every day, gets up there, lies about everything.
Then you have other people who then say things that
try to make it feel normal, but it's not called washing,
sain washing. And then you have a media that's built
around kind of plucking those clips while we have an
invasion in Minneapolis, Like, let me just show you our
partners at Status Coop. They got they get this footage
all the time. I'll just show you the footage from
moments ago. I think we've got this footage, Jeremy, where
you'll see peaceful protesters who have a First Amendment right
to protest loudly, right, and if they want to, they
could say things that make Ice uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: They can say, f u Ice, you're terrorists, you're harming
our communities. Right, So let me show you what. I'll
show you fifteen seconds because people will get the point
of this clip. But for Trump, as he said on
Air Force One, and as Christy Nomes says, you can't
be they say disrespectful to Ice, because if you're disrespectful,
they have the right to take your life to kill
you Just watch what happened moments.
Speaker 2: Ago here playing this clip.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. Could you imagine? I wonder what the conversation
in the vehicle between the driver and the idiot that
dropped it out must have been, Yeah, what should I
do to these assholes? What should I do to them?
And boom? All right, there you go, fuckers, right, you
blow whistles at us, you turn around, you tell us
to leave. We're not going anywhere, so have a little
tear gas while you're at it. I mean, this is
the problem. This is serious, the problem. This is what
I warned the country about going back when I was
unconstitutionally remanded. You think you have a First Amendment constitutional right.
You think that this book that the constitution right. You
think this document turns around and gives you the right
to stand on a public street and to yell well
at ice agents who are there literally literally outnumbering the
police force. You know, God bless this kid. Jacob Frey,
the mayor who turned around and said, I want people
to understand numbers. You know, there's the old adage numbers
don't lie, people do. According to what he said, all
of Minneapolis has the police department. There has six hundred
approximately police officers. Trump has sent in more than two thousand,
and there are more on their way. That's not that's
not you know, that's not enforcement. That's a that's an invasion,
is really what it is, and that's what he wants.
It's to be able to just like come in and
swallow everything whole. You're not going to do what I say,
all right, his little fucking tea guests for you. Oh,
by the way, that's not good enough. He What we'll
do is maybe we'll shoot out the window next time,
some some tasers, right or something or something else. How
about if we just stand on the street and as
you turn around screaming a US, we just shoot you
in the face with bare spray or worse like this
idiot John Ross, I'll shoot you in the fucking face
with my nine millimeter.
Speaker 2: Horrific. I mean horrific. I mean you.
Speaker 3: Great reporting by them, seriously, three great reporting.
Speaker 1: You know, it's been a big priority for me in
twenty twenty six as it was in twenty twenty five, though,
to identify groups that are doing incredible work. And I
think it's a responsibility we have here at the Midas Touchdowork.
Given the size of our platform, I think it's a
fiduciary obligation to uplift and to help others do what
we've done and not just talk the talk about helping
independent media, but to truly grow other platforms. And so
the team over there, I mean John Faren is the
camera guy.
Speaker 2: They've got j T.
Speaker 1: Sstowski, this guy Jordan Shariot who leads it. They've been
doing this work since for the past six years, seven years,
and you know, to see their subscriber growth in the
past two weeks and to uplift them, that's got to
be a major priority there that we all have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben, I wanted to ask you could we replay
that video by by by your group one last time
because I was just thinking about something. So imagine if
we can. So you see right here when he goes ahead, Yeah,
a lot of people that are around, So they dropped
the canister out. Imagine if that guy that was standing
right there picked it up and threw it back into
the car, back into the open window and say, sir,
I think you sir, sir, I think you drop this
and then you put it back into the car, right
you think there would be some legal you know, some
legal issues there.
Speaker 1: I think there would be legal issues. I would certainly say.
Speaker 3: They dropped it out the window, they were loitering, So
I decided I was going to give it back to you.
Maybe you wanted it. Don't you think that would be something.
Speaker 1: I would say, don't do that and don't listen to that.
That's not legal, that's not legal advice, and I don't
endorse that, and I don't support that. And be very
careful out there and make sure you're a peaceful protester
and you are alway, and never give this regime an
excuse ever to escalate, because you know that that's what
you know, that's what that's what they wanted.
Speaker 3: That's what they wanted, you know, with Minnesotans, and we
don't like you know, we don't like you.
Speaker 1: I think that I would don't know, but it would
be funny shorthands or but but if you analyze the
incidents involving the use of noxious gases in situations like
I think in the Federal court in Chicago which issued
the injunction against Ice and Border Patrol from using these
chemical agents, they did an analysis and I think it
was over the thirty or forty years of Chicago police enforcement,
there was never a single use of the gas like ever,
like they don't use that in any of their law
enforcement in Chicago Police along with their SWAT team. You
can imagine the situations that they've had to deal with
over the past thirty to forty years that they would
never resort once, not once, to spraying gas and chemical
agents on peaceful protesters or dem instraders or in any context.
And this is something utilized by these Ice and Border
Patrol agents every day. I'm not sure if you saw
this story by Slate, and my one guidance to Slate
you don't have to listen to me, but there I
understand you want memberships and you want to grow it.
There are some stories that are so profoundly important that
you do that you should make sure they're free, like
this one where they had a reporter who goes undercover
as an ICE agent and the reporter applied without any qualifications,
didn't submit the domestic violence affidavit, didn't submit the drug testing,
didn't submit any of the stuff, and they got the job.
And they were a reporter and they used their real name,
they didn't use a fake name, So all they had
to do was say, wait a minute, you're a reporter
from Slate. You didn't submit the documentation. The way our
editor and chief Ron Philipkowski described it is that that
Ice and Border Patrol has become a welfare program to
maga chuds in these way described it, who are unqualified
for anything else. And you know, these are people playing
dress up as the military and they're given these weapons
and kind of told to use them. And it's creating
a very deranged, scary, unlawful situation, and it is an invasion.
If you're wondering the legal basis of the lawsuit in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
in Minneapolis Saint Paul and the state generally, it's that
our law enforcement can't do their job because our law
enforcement now is being pulled to have to deal with
ice attacking our population. Our hospitals can't function effectively because
ice is terrorizing them. Our schools can run because people
don't want to send their children to school right now.
And so the Tenth Amendment says all of the enumerated
powers that are not given to the federal government are
reserved for the state local policing education for example, those
are local state functions, and the federal government is now
using a militarized paramilitary force to invade a city, and
I think it's important that we recognize that Ice and
Border Patrol are paramilitary.
Speaker 3: Hey, Ben, can we go back to that reporting that
you were talking about with Slate for a quick second.
I would be very curious after he was accepted. I
wonder because it's forty seven days of training, and I'm
kind of curious as to what that training entails over
the forty seven days. Is it every day you go
in for forty seven days and you watch a video
of Christinome, you know, cosplaying in a different outfit. Hi today,
I'm you know, I'm uh, you know cowgirl, you know
cowgirl Christie, And this is how we're going to deal
with states that you know, have horses. I mean, who
the hell knows, you know what what it's about. I'm
dying to know what that forty seven days of training
or I don't even know what we would call it?
What what that even in twenty.
Speaker 1: Seven days of case playing dungeons and dragons as Ice
agents and and Border patrol. You know, we just got
video too. I'm not going to be able to play
it here, but I'll play it in a in a
future video. I do because we're uploading it right now.
That ICE agents attacked and arrested people in Minneapolis and
then bragged about, quote, we killed the lesbian bitch. We
killed the lesbian bitch is what Ice and border. And
by the way, the killer Jonathan Ross, after shooting Renee
Nicole Good three times in the face, said fucking bitch
after he shot her in the face three times. You know,
one of the things when you go back to COVID,
that just what made me get politically active or involved
or I don't even like to use the word political
because I think it's human humanity active, because I don't
view this actually as political at all. I viewed as
fighting for humanity was you know, one of the reasons
they call certain cults death cults is that because life
has very little meaning, it's just service to the cult
leader and dying in service of a deranged and demented cult.
And one of the things that just shocked my conscious
during COVID is when you had these massive death numbers,
there was a group in the population that took it seriously,
and there was a group that truly didn't care as
long as they were not the ones dying, but then
perceive that they weren't going to be the ones who
died or if they did. So, what if you could
reduce life to having so little meaning?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, I did this exercise the other day
because I wanted to know. We were just thinking about
the blessing of our baby girl, he meant him, and
I wanted to know, Well, what are the odds of
being born? It's a silly existential question. What are the
odds of being born? Of any human being who's alive?
The odds of being born are one and five hundred
trillion to be alive. And whether you are a religious
person or not a religious person, that number should be
a very humbling number. And as I like to say
on this show, a lot where we pull back and
we shouldn't be if we just focus on the gamified
nature of politics, this person versus that person and this personality.
Speaker 3: We lose.
Speaker 1: Trillion, really five hundred trillion. And it goes on to
explain how because it has to be at the perfect time.
It goes back of one parent meeting another parent, your
grandparents meeting the grandparents.
Speaker 3: It depends on who, oh, now I sh' going back right, right, right.
Speaker 1: And and so it is a broader analysis of all
of these things. And Lindy, your great great great great
great great great had to meet your great great great
great great great great great.
Speaker 2: Great, you know.
Speaker 1: And so it's one in five hundred trillion for us
to walk this planet. And that's why I said, it's
such a humbling number when you think about that. But
life is precious. And this is what I try to
say to my law school class also, or just in
general when I interact, it's like, we have to take
a step back and try to be like, what are
we trying to accomplish with like with our life, our
with our very existence. And do we want to be
good and uplift or do we want to be evil
and bad? And I don't mean to bring us into
these existential areas, but sometimes the coverage is so Democrat, Democrat, Republican, Republican,
this person versus that person. This is Bumbani versus a
centrist this person. It's like, chill, what are we doing
to help human beings?
Speaker 3: And by the way, for some people, it's even more
than five hundred trillion, Like my father, who's a Holocaust survivor.
So imagine from the town in ko Bochnia in Poland
where he was from. So just imagine less than ten
percent of that town survived. So I think his numbers
would probably, you know, also be you know, off the chart, ridiculous.
Two fingers salute one hundred percent go to John Ross,
goes to John Ross and all of those who support
him on this GoFundMe bullshit. I mean, I can't imagine.
I can't imagine how to prave the human being must
be to turn around and say, yeah, he shot that woman.
I don't care. He doesn't like her because she's because
she's gay, or he doesn't like her because she's a woman,
or doesn't like her because she's a democrat, or because
whatever it might be, because she was smiling at him
and laughing. Who knows what it is that set this
idiot off. But what about the idiots that is supporting
the action of a man who opened fire shot a
woman three times, once in the shoulder, through the front
windshield and twice through the side window in the face.
All right, imagine and you're gonna say, hey, yeah, yeah,
you know, that's where I want to That's where I
want to put some of my money I want to
give that guy, because you know what he deserves it.
Fuck them all right, and whatever whatever fucking tree that
they fell out of, because they clearly, like I've always
said about MAGA, you're talking about people with three brain
cells and four teeth, and this asshole is definitely, definitely
the poster child for stupidity, for MAGA stupidity. So John
Ross to you and anybody that supports this piece of
shit that went ahead and took a life for no
fucking reason at all, Fuck you, dude.
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