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- 1:01Speaker 3: Also joining us, returning guest Dante Wimberley.
- 1:05Speaker 2: How's it going, How you guys doing.
- 1:07Speaker 4: Excited to be back.
- 1:08Speaker 3: We are excited to have you. We're talking about the
- 1:12Speaker 3: Red Scare, the first Red Scare. There have been a
- 1:14Speaker 3: few in this country and around the world, but.
- 1:17Speaker 1: We're focusing on the podcast today, right.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Oh, is there a podcast called the Red Scare?
- 1:22Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very popular.
- 1:24Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'll edit that out. Please don't mention another
- 1:26Speaker 3: podcasts my body.
- 1:28Speaker 1: I forgot I tarned to do, not compete cluse before
- 1:31Speaker 1: I entered this Zoom meeting.
- 1:33Speaker 3: So the Red Scare, if people aren't familiar, the most
- 1:37Speaker 3: basic way to describe it was a movement in this
- 1:41Speaker 3: country that was meant to sniff out communists and radicals.
- 1:45Speaker 3: And what that usually meant was people who wanted to
- 1:49Speaker 3: join labor unions and people who wanted better living and
- 1:53Speaker 3: working conditions and things of the like. It was more
- 1:57Speaker 3: means of crushing descent than anything, as stuff like that
- 2:02Speaker 3: usually is.
- 2:03Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair, those are some pretty anti
- 2:05Speaker 1: government ideas. Livable working conditions, that's not.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Yeah, this government, for sure. I don't know why I
- 2:13Speaker 2: said that, like most.
- 2:14Speaker 3: Governments, but you get it's uh sometimes cited as happening
- 2:18Speaker 3: from nineteen nineteen to nineteen twenty, but it actually starts
- 2:21Speaker 3: a little early in that.
- 2:22Speaker 2: Nineteen seventeen I would say.
- 2:24Speaker 1: I'm I'm into the early stuff.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Yeah, when it was more bluesy and raw.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Hell yeah yeah, where that the Red Scare got bluesy,
- 2:32Speaker 1: But it did.
- 2:33Speaker 3: And what I find really interesting about this, I've been
- 2:36Speaker 3: reading a lot about the Office of Naval Intelligence. I've
- 2:41Speaker 3: been doing episodes about the various intelligence agencies of the world,
- 2:46Speaker 3: and started with naval intelligence and in reading about this,
- 2:50Speaker 3: they were hugely involved in the first red scare. What
- 2:55Speaker 3: red scares me is how close we are to something
- 2:59Speaker 3: like this happening again, and like not in that close, like, oh,
- 3:04Speaker 3: we better fix this or it's gonna our grand kid turned.
- 3:09Speaker 3: It feels like a year away, maybe six months something
- 3:12Speaker 3: like that.
- 3:13Speaker 1: And when are they gonna come for the dissenting podcast?
- 3:16Speaker 1: I mean, podcasters have already started choosing side of the selection.
- 3:19Speaker 1: We saw him sink Joe Rogan and his freaking acceptance speech.
- 3:23Speaker 1: But the one is someone going to notice that Adam
- 3:25Speaker 1: Todd Brown has been calling this shit but the John
- 3:28Speaker 1: Madden of the world ending for the last ten years.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Yeah, I've kind of given up on talking about modern politics,
- 3:35Speaker 3: but here we are. I mean, this is still history stuff,
- 3:38Speaker 3: but I feel like it ties into today.
- 3:41Speaker 4: I feel like Trump stated that union was really two
- 3:44Speaker 4: things really struck me. I would see a highlights about
- 3:47Speaker 4: the TikTok Bean. So when the Senate hearings, when the
- 3:51Speaker 4: CEO for TikTok, who Singaporean, was talking about it, I
- 3:54Speaker 4: forget Tim Cotton, Senator from Texas, maybe kept asking the
- 3:58Speaker 4: dude like have you or have you ever been in
- 4:00Speaker 4: member of the Chinese Communist Party And the dude is
- 4:02Speaker 4: just like, no, I'm Singaporean. I'm from Singapore. I was
- 4:06Speaker 4: in the military of Singapore.
- 4:08Speaker 1: So are you Chinese or Japanese?
- 4:10Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 4:11Speaker 4: Essentially, you know, and it just li likens back to like, yeah,
- 4:13Speaker 4: the hearings of like have you or have you ever
- 4:16Speaker 4: not been a member of the Communist Party?
- 4:18Speaker 1: When did you stop beating your wife's Yeah?
- 4:20Speaker 2: You know.
- 4:20Speaker 4: I think about Trump State of the Union speech, and
- 4:22Speaker 4: I think twenty seventeen where he rails against I guess
- 4:25Speaker 4: the last messages of the communist countries Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea,
- 4:30Speaker 4: and it's just very sentiment of like old Red scared
- 4:34Speaker 4: rhetoric of stomping out the communists.
- 4:36Speaker 1: We don't have any good bad guys anymore. Those are
- 4:38Speaker 1: the bad, Like, oh, Venezuela and Cuba scary. You know,
- 4:42Speaker 1: that's that's not selling any John Claude Van Dam movies
- 4:45Speaker 1: Like North Korea is kind of creepy and cool and scared.
- 4:48Speaker 1: I'll give you that one. But Cuba and Venice, we
- 4:51Speaker 1: got to have a better access of evil than that.
- 4:53Speaker 5: I mean.
- 4:53Speaker 3: There was an Amazon original series about war with Venezuela
- 4:57Speaker 3: one with John Krazinski where he plays spy.
- 5:00Speaker 4: Oh the Tom Clancy.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Yeah, the Tom Clancy thing.
- 5:04Speaker 4: And Tom Clancy's a fucking military propagandist too.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Who would have thought the only thing Jim from the
- 5:10Speaker 1: Office loved more than Pam was Raytheon.
- 5:13Speaker 3: Let's talk a little more about what things were like
- 5:16Speaker 3: leading up to the Red Scare before we get back
- 5:19Speaker 3: to modern times. Even before the Red Scare started, the
- 5:23Speaker 3: Office of Naval Intelligence, they were our first intelligence agency.
- 5:28Speaker 3: They've been around the longest, and they were kind of
- 5:31Speaker 3: the boots on the ground sniffing out radicals and extremists
- 5:35Speaker 3: and communists during the first Red Scare, and even before
- 5:40Speaker 3: the Red Scare started, they were on the hunt for radicals.
- 5:44Speaker 3: But at that point it mostly just meant people trying
- 5:46Speaker 3: to unionize at the plants where we made ships and
- 5:50Speaker 3: bombs and whatnot. And then the Russian Revolution of nineteen
- 5:55Speaker 3: seventeen happens, Lenin takes power, Communist Party starts to rise
- 5:59Speaker 3: in Russia.
- 6:00Speaker 2: We're like almost.
- 6:02Speaker 3: At the end of World War One by that point,
- 6:05Speaker 3: so nationalism is just off the charts in the United
- 6:09Speaker 3: States at that point, and that Russian Revolution just sets
- 6:14Speaker 3: something off in I feel like it more sets something
- 6:17Speaker 3: off in the mind of the American government where they
- 6:19Speaker 3: were like, oh, we can exploit this to.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Whether it's a new TikTok dance or a new lever
- 6:24Speaker 1: of control for the deep State to exercise upon you.
- 6:28Speaker 1: You kind of have to see someone do it first
- 6:30Speaker 1: and then you go, oh, it's possible, you know, like
- 6:34Speaker 1: poor Rodney Mullen did the first black Ground Allie, was
- 6:36Speaker 1: anyone ever going to jump on a skateboard? It was,
- 6:38Speaker 1: It's impossible, it makes no sense to even try to
- 6:40Speaker 1: do it.
- 6:41Speaker 3: And so at the end of the day, the Red Scare,
- 6:43Speaker 3: it wasn't so much about smoking out communists, it was
- 6:47Speaker 3: again about crushing descent.
- 6:49Speaker 1: I have to be honest, if I'm the US government,
- 6:51Speaker 1: I kind of see the specifically stopping unionization at plants
- 6:55Speaker 1: that make ships and bombs. That's kind of a I
- 6:58Speaker 1: don't know, a full crum point you could bloit to
- 7:00Speaker 1: the fucking strike. There is a pretty impactful like probably
- 7:04Speaker 1: against American national interest to have a union there just
- 7:07Speaker 1: thinking you know, like a me evil.
- 7:09Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was their whole thinking.
- 7:12Speaker 1: I mean, I think stopping people from unionizing it the
- 7:14Speaker 1: fucking bakeries kind of laying ass. But you know, I
- 7:17Speaker 1: guess there's this whole slippery slope deal. Yeah, that's why
- 7:20Speaker 1: I could never make it for the evil Shadow government, Adam.
- 7:22Speaker 1: I got too big of a heart.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Too big of a heart to let people unionize it
- 7:28Speaker 2: worship back.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, too too much compassion.
- 7:32Speaker 2: That makes sense.
- 7:33Speaker 3: So what really kicks things into gear along the lines
- 7:38Speaker 3: of cracking down on labor unions is a big general
- 7:43Speaker 3: strike that happens in Seattle. Sixty thousand workers across a
- 7:47Speaker 3: bunch of different unions all walk out at the same time.
- 7:50Speaker 1: All fifteen hundred people in Seattle with jobs we walked out.
- 7:53Speaker 1: I media, I see it in my head as just
- 7:57Speaker 1: a bunch of tech douchebags living large after Apple stuck.
- 8:00Speaker 1: But I don't know, are just like lazy hippies. I
- 8:02Speaker 1: don't know where I was going with that choke.
- 8:04Speaker 3: So the press in particular was really quick to label
- 8:09Speaker 3: this strike in Seattle a communist insurrection of sorts brought
- 8:15Speaker 3: on by foreign influences.
- 8:17Speaker 2: There was a.
- 8:18Speaker 3: Group that had been set up like a year prior
- 8:21Speaker 3: called the Overman Committee that was meant to look for
- 8:26Speaker 3: German radicals and troublemakers in this country, and as soon
- 8:31Speaker 3: as that strike happened the next day, their mission shifted
- 8:34Speaker 3: to labor unions.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Basically, that's funny.
- 8:38Speaker 1: That's kind of like when they outlawed the KKK and
- 8:39Speaker 1: then they started the NRA the next day.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Oh did that happen?
- 8:42Speaker 1: I saw him in Michael Moore documentary. Adam must have happened.
- 8:46Speaker 1: At least it happened in two thousand and one. It
- 8:48Speaker 1: might not be true now, but in two thousand and
- 8:50Speaker 1: one it was.
- 8:51Speaker 3: So they issued this report about Bolshevism and all of
- 8:55Speaker 3: the horrors that are coming our way. Because they're associating
- 8:58Speaker 3: labor unions with the Bolshevik revolution. It must be that
- 9:03Speaker 3: these dirty communists are coming into the country and making
- 9:07Speaker 3: our workers unhappy when they were happy before.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Which is kind of unfair because being in a labor
- 9:13Speaker 1: union is cool, but it's not as cool as being
- 9:15Speaker 1: a Bolshevik revolutionaire. I mean, that's cool. You actually drank
- 9:20Speaker 1: the blood of the rich, You did it, man.
- 9:22Speaker 3: They say that the Bolsheviks are going to come to
- 9:25Speaker 3: this country and impose atheism, seize newspapers, shut down banks.
- 9:31Speaker 3: They also referred to Russians as assassins and mad men,
- 9:36Speaker 3: human scum, stuff like that. And again, I feel like
- 9:40Speaker 3: we're back at this point in history, but now we're
- 9:45Speaker 3: just talking immigrants mostly. I mean, there's several groups out
- 9:49Speaker 3: there that are getting demonized in different ways, but it
- 9:54Speaker 3: feels like in terms of the dehumanizing talk and the animals, criminals,
- 9:59Speaker 3: stuff like that, it's definitely immigrants getting it right now.
- 10:03Speaker 1: We sort of had I guess, like with eight years
- 10:06Speaker 1: of Obama, I guess we all thought we were going
- 10:08Speaker 1: to be like polite forever. Do you remember that when
- 10:11Speaker 1: like shit was like a diplomatic and polite and you
- 10:14Speaker 1: was like, oh, that was fairly reasonable what you said
- 10:17Speaker 1: about that? And I don't know, I don't think it's
- 10:20Speaker 1: like I think it's coming back like it Like this
- 10:23Speaker 1: is what I was trying to say, is it's like
- 10:25Speaker 1: we it feels like we were back on to like
- 10:27Speaker 1: full blown scapegoating is now like open. It used to
- 10:31Speaker 1: be you had to kind of like say the quiet
- 10:33Speaker 1: part loud and like kind of allude to it and
- 10:35Speaker 1: sort of be polite about it, be a polite racist, fascist,
- 10:39Speaker 1: whatever the fuck. And now you can just be like,
- 10:40Speaker 1: it's the fucking Mexicans dude, like they just it's open season.
- 10:44Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, especially in terms of politics and elected officials,
- 10:49Speaker 3: talking that way seems to have I mean, it's it's
- 10:51Speaker 3: the thing now.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Well, it turns out saying the loud part loud gets
- 10:54Speaker 1: you more votes than saying the quiet. But like you know,
- 10:57Speaker 1: I think, like, are we that surprised.
- 10:59Speaker 4: I feel like communists and leftists organizers have kind of
- 11:01Speaker 4: been I don't want to say central always, but definitely,
- 11:04Speaker 4: like as far as radicals go, definitely pushing labor unions
- 11:07Speaker 4: to a point of confrontation. I feel like that is
- 11:11Speaker 4: a history, not even necessarily like government propaganda, but just
- 11:14Speaker 4: like the way that leftists and communists organized, they are
- 11:17Speaker 4: in the organization is kind of pushing a confrontation with
- 11:20Speaker 4: the government in a way. And as far as the scapegoading, like, yeah,
- 11:23Speaker 4: I don't know, it's very Germans nineteen twenties nineteen thirties,
- 11:28Speaker 4: very similar rhetoric across the board in terms of like
- 11:31Speaker 4: the dehumanization like you said, so, yeah, absolutely, especially how
- 11:35Speaker 4: fervent anti communists the Nazis were so along with other
- 11:39Speaker 4: subversives like communists and leftists were also a part of
- 11:41Speaker 4: the Holocaust. Right, people identified as like communists. Leftists were
- 11:45Speaker 4: very much like you know, Hitler's like national socialism, but
- 11:48Speaker 4: also very much anti Bolshevism, anti communism.
- 11:52Speaker 3: One of the things I've legitimately worried about when it
- 11:55Speaker 3: comes to Trump in these mass deportations. We know, when
- 11:59Speaker 3: Hitler like really took power, he had the Night of
- 12:02Speaker 3: the Long Knives where he literally just rounded up all
- 12:06Speaker 3: his opposition and had him killed. What if in the
- 12:09Speaker 3: course of these mass deportations, Trump just rounds up his
- 12:13Speaker 3: enemies too, and it's like, sorry, fucking fight it out
- 12:16Speaker 3: in court. We feel like there's reason to deport you.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Like he's gonna send Ice to Rachel Maddow's house.
- 12:22Speaker 2: Fucking Maybe you think Ice wouldn't go if he asked.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Yeah, you think Ice wouldn't go. They would go. That's yeah,
- 12:30Speaker 1: they would take the call.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Ice would absolutely deport Rachel Maddow.
- 12:34Speaker 1: They would argue about who got to do it? So fair?
- 12:37Speaker 1: I've got so many guys last month, this is fucked up.
- 12:40Speaker 4: There's a in the Nunberg Child, there's a lot of
- 12:42Speaker 4: discussion about how regular, average everyday Germans could like turn
- 12:45Speaker 4: around and do really really horrible shit. There's a lot
- 12:48Speaker 4: of takeaways from it, but a lot of people talk
- 12:50Speaker 4: about how people seeing it as just kind of doing
- 12:52Speaker 4: their job, Like I may not have ideologically agree with
- 12:55Speaker 4: the Nazis, but like I was just I just had
- 12:57Speaker 4: to do my job. I just had to follow orders.
- 12:59Speaker 4: So really begs the question of you know, a lot,
- 13:02Speaker 4: I mean a lot of people that work for ICE,
- 13:03Speaker 4: A lot of people that work for border patrol are
- 13:05Speaker 4: children of immigrants, our first generation immigrants, Like a lot
- 13:09Speaker 4: of people of color are in the military and all
- 13:11Speaker 4: these other institutions. So it begs the question of, like,
- 13:14Speaker 4: what will force these people to just say, no, I'm
- 13:17Speaker 4: not doing this. You're telling me to deport all these people.
- 13:19Speaker 4: You're telling me to like mass incarcerate these people in camps,
- 13:23Speaker 4: and I'm just no, I refuse to do this. So
- 13:25Speaker 4: I feel like that would be the big question for
- 13:27Speaker 4: the people that actually like have to enforce it.
- 13:30Speaker 1: You know, it would make all the ice cratch quit.
- 13:31Speaker 1: I think I think this would actually do it. If
- 13:34Speaker 1: you told them they had to be nice to the immigrants,
- 13:36Speaker 1: I think they would they would all be like, oh
- 13:38Speaker 1: my god, just this job is going to be impossible.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Yeah, what worries me?
- 13:43Speaker 3: Is I'm assuming when mass deportations happened before, it's probably
- 13:49Speaker 3: a little less diverse of a bunch carrying them out,
- 13:52Speaker 3: But no one's refused it so far. We've done mass
- 13:56Speaker 3: deportations a few times, and I mean there's always opposition,
- 14:01Speaker 3: but not enough, not enough to stop.
- 14:04Speaker 1: We will be rounding up the trans community. I call
- 14:07Speaker 1: it a miss deportation.
- 14:11Speaker 3: I do think it's coming for trans people just as
- 14:14Speaker 3: much as immigrants. I will say one facet of American
- 14:19Speaker 3: history where deportations were frowned upon to the point that
- 14:23Speaker 3: a lot of them were stopped was the Red Scare.
- 14:26Speaker 3: They tried to deport thousands of people over this, and
- 14:31Speaker 3: somehow the I think the Secretary of Labor stepped in
- 14:35Speaker 3: and got a bunch of them thrown out. So in
- 14:38Speaker 3: the end they rounded up and deported I think five
- 14:41Speaker 3: hundred and fifty six people, which is, you know, tens
- 14:44Speaker 3: of thousands in twenty twenty four population numbers.
- 14:48Speaker 1: But still, well damned. There should be like a service
- 14:52Speaker 1: that really, like conveniently does the inflation rate for the
- 14:56Speaker 1: tragedy like this as a percentage of the population. This
- 14:59Speaker 1: was actually like five Hindenburghs.
- 15:02Speaker 3: Yeah, the Hindenburg. This is a weird way to say it.
- 15:06Speaker 3: One of my favorite disasters.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Anna Nicole Smith, the Hindenburg.
- 15:12Speaker 3: Well, the thing about the Hindenburg, if you go back
- 15:14Speaker 3: and watch footage of that, most of the people survived
- 15:17Speaker 3: because it was the balloon on top that was on fire,
- 15:20Speaker 3: not the part that held the passengers. Only like thirty
- 15:23Speaker 3: people died and they were the ones who got out
- 15:25Speaker 3: last as the balloon was collapsing to the ground. But
- 15:29Speaker 3: in fact, anyway back to Red Scare, I think also
- 15:35Speaker 3: Palestine supporters, especially vocal Palestine supporters, could be facing stuff
- 15:43Speaker 3: like this soon. That is a thing. Stephen Miller, who
- 15:46Speaker 3: is kind of the architect of these deportation plans, he
- 15:50Speaker 3: has flat out said that in interviews because he's talked
- 15:55Speaker 3: about the people that are going to get deported criminals first,
- 15:59Speaker 3: blah blah blah, and then eventually he gets to and
- 16:02Speaker 3: you know, maybe some people who are here legally, And
- 16:05Speaker 3: when the interviewer asked him what he meant, he said,
- 16:08Speaker 3: the people in the streets supporting Amas. So if what's
- 16:12Speaker 3: happening in Israel turns into widespread protests, I think we're
- 16:17Speaker 3: going to see people getting fucking rounded up, and I
- 16:20Speaker 3: don't know.
- 16:20Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what'll happen after that.
- 16:22Speaker 1: But I guess I'm trying to think, like, so, what's
- 16:25Speaker 1: the criteria, Like you're at this public event and we
- 16:27Speaker 1: come in with a clown car and a bunch of
- 16:29Speaker 1: cops and get you or is it like you made
- 16:31Speaker 1: these Facebook posts? I guess, And it's we're all speculating anyway.
- 16:34Speaker 1: It's impossible to know, but I don't know. With a
- 16:37Speaker 1: lot of this stuff, it's I'm sort of like, where
- 16:39Speaker 1: is the marker for Okay, you're in the group, you're
- 16:42Speaker 1: getting kicked out. Where's the sweet spot with supporting Palestine?
- 16:45Speaker 1: Is where I'm trying, you know what I mean?
- 16:47Speaker 4: Like, Yeah, I think about the super Prisident and I
- 16:50Speaker 4: forget whether it's Honduras or garam Artik is Honduras? Whukele
- 16:54Speaker 4: the president where he just kind of rounded up sixty
- 16:58Speaker 4: seventy thousand people and it's gonna be a thing where
- 17:00Speaker 4: it's like it's not gonna really matter. The criteria is
- 17:03Speaker 4: gonna be so like lax, it's just gonna be just
- 17:06Speaker 4: round people up and put them in camps on mass like, oh,
- 17:09Speaker 4: you're a criminal. It's like it's kind of like the
- 17:11Speaker 4: War on Terror right, where it's like if you're a
- 17:13Speaker 4: fighting age in a particular population, you're considered an enemy combatant.
- 17:18Speaker 4: So even if you've had no interaction with any sort
- 17:21Speaker 4: of quote unquote terrorist sales or even hamas, right, anybody
- 17:24Speaker 4: that's of a certain age, it's considered a part of
- 17:27Speaker 4: hamas because like they're in a diseased population because of
- 17:31Speaker 4: like resistance. So yeah, there isn't gonna be a particular
- 17:34Speaker 4: like level. It's just like, okay, well you're of this
- 17:36Speaker 4: age and you're this will just take you in anyway
- 17:39Speaker 4: just to say we were rounding folks up. So I
- 17:41Speaker 4: feel like a lot of it's gonna be like performative,
- 17:44Speaker 4: even though it's gonna ruin people's lives for sure, but
- 17:46Speaker 4: it's gonna be for the soul sake of performance to say, oh,
- 17:49Speaker 4: look what we're doing. Look what we're doing, Like we're
- 17:51Speaker 4: kicking people out, We're kicking people out. Logistically, it's just
- 17:54Speaker 4: like not that feasible.
- 17:55Speaker 1: You think. It's like when when you get a new
- 17:57Speaker 1: boss at work and then they starts laying down the
- 17:59Speaker 1: lodge just to like prove they can make you do shit.
- 18:02Speaker 4: I mean, all authority is like pretending. It's like I'm
- 18:04Speaker 4: pretending to like hold this authority, but I don't really
- 18:07Speaker 4: have it, and I have to rely on other people
- 18:09Speaker 4: to carry it out. And it's just like how many
- 18:11Speaker 4: people get told something. It's like, Okay, let me find
- 18:13Speaker 4: the cheapest, easiest, like most lax way to do this.
- 18:17Speaker 4: How can I follow orders without really following orders? How
- 18:20Speaker 4: can I do this? It's all pretending. Everybody's pretending to
- 18:23Speaker 4: do the thing.
- 18:23Speaker 1: I'm pretending to be on a podcast right now.
- 18:27Speaker 3: So let's get back to the events of the Red
- 18:29Speaker 3: Scare for a minute. In nineteen nineteen, the US is
- 18:33Speaker 3: in heavy turmoil domestically. There's mail bombs getting sent to politicians,
- 18:38Speaker 3: labor strikes left and right, riots, fucking racial and otherwise
- 18:43Speaker 3: happening all the time. May Day nineteen nineteen was a
- 18:47Speaker 3: big turning point that year. Labor movement supporters gather on
- 18:52Speaker 3: May Day to celebrate the labor movement, and they had
- 18:55Speaker 3: been doing that peacefully for years before this, and somehow,
- 18:59Speaker 3: if you can believe it, May Day nineteen nineteen ended
- 19:02Speaker 3: up getting violent, which I'm sure had nothing to do
- 19:06Speaker 3: with the police presence and how they acted at that event,
- 19:11Speaker 3: which was very fucking aggressive obviously, and then Red Summer happens.
- 19:17Speaker 3: It's a series of race riots in the summer and
- 19:20Speaker 3: early fall of nineteen nineteen.
- 19:23Speaker 1: So this is not when Taylor Swift dropped for album
- 19:25Speaker 1: Red at Timeless.
- 19:27Speaker 2: Okay, very different, very different.
- 19:29Speaker 1: Because that was my red You can this can be
- 19:31Speaker 1: your Red Summer. I know when my Red Summer was,
- 19:34Speaker 1: and that was my Red Summer.
- 19:35Speaker 3: How much of what happened then, the May Day thing
- 19:39Speaker 3: and Red Summer both, what are the chances that the
- 19:42Speaker 3: government wanted that to happen and that they might have
- 19:46Speaker 3: been the agitators behind it with a lot of the
- 19:48Speaker 3: Red Summer stuff, it was white dudes in military uniforms
- 19:52Speaker 3: burning down black neighborhoods and killing people.
- 19:56Speaker 1: Is this when they bombed what was that city they bombed?
- 20:00Speaker 1: There's a prominent black city with like a lot of
- 20:02Speaker 1: black owned businesses, and they like the dropped bombs from
- 20:04Speaker 1: a plane.
- 20:05Speaker 4: I think you think about Tulsa, Yes, nineteen twenty one,
- 20:08Speaker 4: I think was Tulsa.
- 20:09Speaker 2: Yeah, so right around the same time.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just wondering if it was part of it.
- 20:14Speaker 4: I think about that a lot. But I also hear
- 20:16Speaker 4: it from the other side, Like anytime there's a protest,
- 20:18Speaker 4: anytime there's anything like, there may be agitators, for sure,
- 20:21Speaker 4: there are people who are a part of a protest
- 20:24Speaker 4: that may escalate, But it's really hard to say in
- 20:28Speaker 4: terms of race riot. It's like, how much agitation do
- 20:30Speaker 4: white folks in the nineteen twenties really need?
- 20:33Speaker 5: You.
- 20:33Speaker 4: There's not a lot to push on, right, there's not
- 20:36Speaker 4: really that. It doesn't take a lot to kind of
- 20:37Speaker 4: push that button. So while I can suspect that, yeah,
- 20:42Speaker 4: I can see a government being instigators, it doesn't happen
- 20:46Speaker 4: out of nowhere. The anger and the violence and the hatred,
- 20:49Speaker 4: the sentiments are already there. The kindling is there, so
- 20:53Speaker 4: the government may be oh, I can just like the match,
- 20:55Speaker 4: and then from there it's like, now it's a fire.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Two things that I wish more than anything I had filmed.
- 21:00Speaker 1: But I swear to God, I saw these with my
- 21:03Speaker 1: human eyes at two different Black Lives Matter protests in
- 21:06Speaker 1: LA when all that was happening. One was a brand
- 21:10Speaker 1: new freshly unwrapped with like the plastic wrap undone outlet
- 21:14Speaker 1: of bricks, like right in the middle of the protest,
- 21:17Speaker 1: bat like the most convenient protest. Okay, so that's the
- 21:21Speaker 1: pile of bricks, and then right across the street from
- 21:23Speaker 1: the growth, there's got to be video fooages this somewhere
- 21:25Speaker 1: because there's a zillion fucking people and it was insane.
- 21:28Speaker 1: There was a cop car flipped upside down and on fire.
- 21:31Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't flipped upside down. I think it was
- 21:33Speaker 1: just on fire, but the cop car looked like the
- 21:35Speaker 1: fucking prop PP car from Ghostbusters two or some shit.
- 21:39Speaker 1: It was like a movie prop car. So I don't know,
- 21:43Speaker 1: I've seen this shit with my own fucking eyes.
- 21:46Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a thing at one of the Santa
- 21:48Speaker 3: Monica protests where there was what absolutely looked like a
- 21:52Speaker 3: used cop car that had been repainted, just sitting in
- 21:56Speaker 3: front of I think Santa Monica College with a sign
- 21:59Speaker 3: that said free in the window, and people were like,
- 22:02Speaker 3: don't touch that fucking car.
- 22:03Speaker 2: A car car there.
- 22:05Speaker 1: My friend's dad used to do the bait car, so like,
- 22:08Speaker 1: make a car that looks like, you know, really easy
- 22:10Speaker 1: to steal a ninety four camera and then people get
- 22:12Speaker 1: in it, doors locked from the outside electronically the cops
- 22:15Speaker 1: can get you, you know, pretty predatory fucked up thing,
- 22:18Speaker 1: but funny TV show. There's a funny showta be like,
- 22:23Speaker 1: I gotta go to work in the morning, and he'd be, look,
- 22:25Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna make it.
- 22:26Speaker 4: Yeah, the cops they want to be able to point
- 22:29Speaker 4: to the regular sensibilities of people to say, oh, look
- 22:32Speaker 4: at these violent protesters. I think it just takes people
- 22:35Speaker 4: to kind of take a step back and say, oh,
- 22:37Speaker 4: they burned that thing down, Like that sucks. But it's like,
- 22:40Speaker 4: you know, whatever, stuff sometimes stuff burns, like there's agitation,
- 22:44Speaker 4: there's like, yeah, okay, even even with the nineteen twenties
- 22:47Speaker 4: protesting before that, we talk about the unrest. That's just
- 22:50Speaker 4: kind of a part of it is that the government
- 22:52Speaker 4: pushing it, for sure, but like that's also one of
- 22:55Speaker 4: the things that comes with unrest, is like property destruction.
- 22:58Speaker 4: That's kind of part for the course.
- 23:00Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems to be a big push right now,
- 23:04Speaker 3: is criminalizing protest in general. I'm sure everyone else saw
- 23:09Speaker 3: it also, but I saw the Reagan movie in theaters
- 23:12Speaker 3: because I watch it for a podcast, and that is
- 23:17Speaker 3: a running theme throughout that movie, which is protesters, Yeah,
- 23:23Speaker 3: they're exercising their constitutional rights or whatever. But we also
- 23:26Speaker 3: got to crush them. They are kind of the problem.
- 23:30Speaker 3: And I just think about how many fucking Trump supporters
- 23:35Speaker 3: went to the Reagan movie and just got that.
- 23:38Speaker 2: They've already had it drilled into their heads already.
- 23:41Speaker 4: Yeah, they're predisposed to like see dissent as like bad,
- 23:44Speaker 4: Like you're not supposed to speak out against Daddy.
- 23:47Speaker 1: Then what the fuck was January sixth though? You know,
- 23:49Speaker 1: like what they what the fuck?
- 23:51Speaker 2: What do you call that patriotic protest?
- 23:54Speaker 4: Yeah, they're protecting They're protecting the sanctity of like America. Like, yeah,
- 23:59Speaker 4: when they do it, they're protecting America. When they do it,
- 24:02Speaker 4: they're fighting a good fight for them at least, they're
- 24:05Speaker 4: like being righteous. But whenever they see other people speaking
- 24:09Speaker 4: out or protesting, it's like, oh, I have to protect
- 24:11Speaker 4: the status quo because I'm like a fascist little dickhead
- 24:15Speaker 4: and I just love sucking off Pallas.
- 24:19Speaker 3: So there was also a coal strike in nineteen nineteen
- 24:22Speaker 3: that might have been the final straw in terms of
- 24:26Speaker 3: public opinion when it came to labor unrest, because coal
- 24:30Speaker 3: is pretty important at best point in history, especially in December.
- 24:35Speaker 1: And there was a lot of bad kids around Christmas
- 24:38Speaker 1: that year too, so huge demand.
- 24:41Speaker 2: Yeah, that puts a strain on the supply for sure.
- 24:44Speaker 3: And this coal strike happens and Americans are like losing
- 24:48Speaker 3: access to coal. People are fucking cold, and the media
- 24:52Speaker 3: jumps in and starts calling this like a Russian revolution
- 24:58Speaker 3: an insurrection. So people are all fucking up in arms
- 25:02Speaker 3: and into the fray. I mean by nineteen nineteen, this
- 25:06Speaker 3: guy had been into the fray already. But I haven't
- 25:08Speaker 3: mentioned him yet.
- 25:09Speaker 2: Attorney General A.
- 25:11Speaker 3: Mitchell Palmer, who is arguably the key figure in the
- 25:15Speaker 3: First Red Scare in terms of being the government face
- 25:19Speaker 3: of it when he loses his reputation as when this
- 25:22Speaker 3: kind of end. What he did is he responded to
- 25:26Speaker 3: this coal strike by invoking something called the Lever Act,
- 25:30Speaker 3: which was a law that was meant to prevent people
- 25:34Speaker 3: from hoarding and profiteering supplies during wartime. But the way
- 25:38Speaker 3: it was worded was just that it was a crime
- 25:41Speaker 3: to quote interfere with the production or transportation of necessities.
- 25:47Speaker 1: You're an essential worker, bitch, Yeah, kind of make that coal.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 25:51Speaker 3: That was kind of his argument was, listen, you're violating
- 25:55Speaker 3: the Lever Act by being on strike. And they tried
- 25:58Speaker 3: to stick it out for a little bit. But that
- 26:00Speaker 3: did essentially break that strike. Like the guy who organized
- 26:04Speaker 3: it was going to fucking go to prison basically.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Oh wow, he wouldn't go to prison for the cause.
- 26:09Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that's a decent point.
- 26:12Speaker 4: Can't they make you like, I don't care how many
- 26:14Speaker 4: cops there are if this sixty thousand people are strike,
- 26:17Speaker 4: Like what they going to arrest sixty thousand people? Theyre
- 26:19Speaker 4: going to bring in new coal miners and like train
- 26:21Speaker 4: sixty thousand new coal miners.
- 26:22Speaker 2: They did threaten to do that.
- 26:24Speaker 1: I've played a lot of Minecraft, and pretty easy to
- 26:26Speaker 1: get coal kind of all over the place. Doesn't take
- 26:29Speaker 1: very long to mind the brick. I always have like
- 26:31Speaker 1: too much of it. Frankly, I don't really see what
- 26:34Speaker 1: the issue is.
- 26:36Speaker 3: And so a year before that coal strike, the US
- 26:39Speaker 3: passed the Immigration Act of nineteen eighteen, which was basically
- 26:44Speaker 3: an update to previous immigration laws that made deporting undesirable
- 26:50Speaker 3: aliens much easier.
- 26:53Speaker 1: The next year, to sitcom Olf was tragically canceled before
- 26:57Speaker 1: it's really had a chance to come into its own
- 26:59Speaker 1: I was show fucking great show.
- 27:02Speaker 3: It expanded the definition of anarchists to include pretty much
- 27:07Speaker 3: anyone who is remotely associated with a group or individual
- 27:12Speaker 3: that the government considered communist or otherwise subversive. And this again,
- 27:19Speaker 3: this we've kind of talked about this part already, but
- 27:22Speaker 3: Trump didn't even pass it. Biden at least under the
- 27:25Speaker 3: Biden administration, a bill was just passed that will let
- 27:30Speaker 3: the president label nonprofit organizations that are deemed to be
- 27:35Speaker 3: terrorist affiliated. He can designate them as terrorist organizations.
- 27:41Speaker 1: Any Palestinian thing at all. You know, it's like trying
- 27:44Speaker 1: to fucking get cell phone chargers to kids without faces
- 27:48Speaker 1: like terrorists.
- 27:50Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be exactly that.
- 27:52Speaker 3: And we kind of saw that after nine to eleven
- 27:55Speaker 3: with the War on Terror, there were groups that if
- 27:58Speaker 3: you like donated money to people, bro, you couldn't.
- 28:01Speaker 1: Buy hummus at the grocery store without people looking at
- 28:04Speaker 1: you like you were a piece of shit.
- 28:06Speaker 2: Yeah kind of.
- 28:07Speaker 3: And yeah, like this is a thing, like Connor said,
- 28:10Speaker 3: with Palestine, I could absolutely see this coming back to
- 28:14Speaker 3: the United States really really soon.
- 28:16Speaker 2: It seems like people are hungry for this kind of thing.
- 28:19Speaker 4: So the Georgia thing, like I know, there was like
- 28:21Speaker 4: there were big protests in Georgia around the stock cop
- 28:23Speaker 4: City movement, and you got the governor coming on TV
- 28:26Speaker 4: like local news calling people like anarchists and subversives and
- 28:31Speaker 4: like outside agitators. That's always a word they like to use.
- 28:34Speaker 4: So like we kind of see this rhetoric already been
- 28:37Speaker 4: circled in the in the mouths of politicians. So I
- 28:39Speaker 4: could definitely see that type of rhetoric going nationwide. Like
- 28:42Speaker 4: anybody who says is anything remotely against the government, Oh
- 28:45Speaker 4: you're an anarchist, Oh you're a blah blah blah, as
- 28:47Speaker 4: a justification for just like a crazy a mouse of
- 28:50Speaker 4: force or just like you know, bring returning of death
- 28:54Speaker 4: squads to murder political prisoners.
- 28:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I could see a thing happening like justice reform
- 29:01Speaker 3: will happen someday. I mean not like totally, but when
- 29:04Speaker 3: I say that, I mean they're gonna come up with
- 29:06Speaker 3: other ways to make money off of arresting people and
- 29:09Speaker 3: charging people with shit. And I could see justice reform
- 29:13Speaker 3: right now in a way where oh, let's let's move
- 29:16Speaker 3: to like more home confinement and shit like that and
- 29:19Speaker 3: empty out these prisons a little bit, and then it'll
- 29:22Speaker 3: be shit like this that refills those fucking prisons. I
- 29:26Speaker 3: feel like the United States. People in the United States
- 29:29Speaker 3: would love to think this government couldn't possibly, Oh what,
- 29:33Speaker 3: You're gonna round up every fucking person who posted free
- 29:36Speaker 3: Palestine on the internet.
- 29:38Speaker 2: Yeah, they might, they fucking might. Do you know how
- 29:41Speaker 2: many people we have in prison right now? Millions of
- 29:44Speaker 2: fucking people.
- 29:45Speaker 1: How many people do we have in like shadow prison
- 29:48Speaker 1: and like Guantanamo Bay prisons? You know that's probably a
- 29:51Speaker 1: few thousand at least, like black sites.
- 29:54Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so much room at Guantanamo. There's only twenty
- 29:57Speaker 3: people being held there now. At best. I think it's
- 29:59Speaker 3: less than that. So, yeah, Guantanamo's mostly empty. And the
- 30:03Speaker 3: I mean argue with the weather. If you get sent there,
- 30:05Speaker 3: that's that part's going to at least be nice.
- 30:08Speaker 2: Cool.
- 30:09Speaker 1: This is Adam is like, you know how in Succession
- 30:12Speaker 1: Tom is like in the last season kind of like
- 30:14Speaker 1: shopping around which prison he wants to go to if
- 30:16Speaker 1: you get sent there for his white collar crime. Adam's like,
- 30:19Speaker 1: when I get deemed a dissident towards the States, I'm
- 30:22Speaker 1: hoping I can get a spot in Guantano Well, obviously,
- 30:26Speaker 1: I mean that's my that's my my reach school.
- 30:30Speaker 3: Yeah, so a year removed from the Immigration Act of
- 30:34Speaker 3: nineteen eighteen. Attorney General Palmer is getting all this heat
- 30:39Speaker 3: for not having cracked down on radicals enough, and this
- 30:43Speaker 3: led to what became to be known as the Palmer Raids,
- 30:47Speaker 3: was a series of police actions November nineteen nineteen in
- 30:52Speaker 3: January nineteen twenty where police and federal agents rounded up
- 30:56Speaker 3: thousands of suspected leftists radicals, all without the aid of
- 31:02Speaker 3: social media, GPS, the Internet any of that, mostly based
- 31:06Speaker 3: on their political affiliation as opposed to having committed crimes
- 31:11Speaker 3: or acts against the country. I definitely couldn't see any
- 31:14Speaker 3: administration that might round people up based on their political
- 31:17Speaker 3: affiliation this country.
- 31:19Speaker 2: No, no way.
- 31:20Speaker 4: They use the software where if you've ever made a
- 31:23Speaker 4: political donation, So I made a donation to Bernie Sanders
- 31:26Speaker 4: in like twenty sixteen, and so like even still I
- 31:29Speaker 4: get like emails because of it. So there's absolutely a
- 31:32Speaker 4: list of like everybody's political donation. So that's definitely going
- 31:35Speaker 4: to be like a tool used for the mass roundups.
- 31:38Speaker 1: When they come for the Mary and Williamson voter there'll
- 31:41Speaker 1: be nobody left to speak out.
- 31:44Speaker 3: And we've talked about the possibility of there being like
- 31:47Speaker 3: a social credit system in this country that replaces the
- 31:51Speaker 3: credit scores we have now the way that works in China.
- 31:55Speaker 3: A big part of it is how mouthy are you
- 31:57Speaker 3: about the government.
- 31:58Speaker 2: If you speak out against the.
- 32:00Speaker 3: Government, a bunch fucking good luck rent in a nice apartment.
- 32:05Speaker 3: That could absolutely be a thing here in Bryce poverty.
- 32:09Speaker 1: They have to let us know, and it starts if
- 32:11Speaker 1: all the info retroactively counts, we're all fucked. Oh yeah, yeah,
- 32:14Speaker 1: we got it. We gotta have a chance to set
- 32:16Speaker 1: our own algorithm, correct your behavior.
- 32:18Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we all we need a chance to have
- 32:21Speaker 3: that MSNBC Joe Scarborough interview where you have Trump in
- 32:25Speaker 3: and you're like, listen, we're cool, right, I'm not saying
- 32:29Speaker 3: anything anymore. MSNBC just flat out said that's why they
- 32:33Speaker 3: had that meeting with Trump.
- 32:35Speaker 2: They're afraid of retribution, and why the fuck wouldn't they be. Yeah, really,
- 32:40Speaker 2: a lot of people should.
- 32:41Speaker 1: Be, especially when your face is just begging for revenge,
- 32:44Speaker 1: like Joe Scarborough just got this awful, fucking douchey face,
- 32:49Speaker 1: So you know, to see the whoa or tragedy befall him,
- 32:52Speaker 1: it's just great.
- 32:54Speaker 3: Yeah, I find it hard to have sympathy for someone
- 32:57Speaker 3: who has rumors swirling around that he may be murdered
- 33:00Speaker 3: one of his aides and then jokes about it to
- 33:04Speaker 3: don Imus.
- 33:05Speaker 2: At least have better judgment than that.
- 33:07Speaker 1: I like my political creeps who don't get caught. Thank you.
- 33:12Speaker 1: The Kennedys covered that shit up. You didn't hear boo
- 33:15Speaker 1: about chap equitic for months?
- 33:17Speaker 2: Yeah you know.
- 33:17Speaker 3: Ted Kennedy had a dog named Splash that rocks.
- 33:22Speaker 2: He wrote a kid's book about it.
- 33:23Speaker 4: That was Kennedy's man.
- 33:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm the number one presidential dog is was and
- 33:29Speaker 1: always will be Checkers. I'm sorry, Checkers, I'm.
- 33:32Speaker 2: Not familiar with presidential dog history.
- 33:34Speaker 1: Checkers was Nixon's dog, and you gave a speech called
- 33:36Speaker 1: the Checkers Speech where he was talking about all his
- 33:40Speaker 1: political like you know, whatever shit that he got from
- 33:43Speaker 1: being in office. And he's like, I can live in
- 33:45Speaker 1: a shitty house and blah blah blah blah blah, and
- 33:48Speaker 1: I got those dog, Checkers, and you won't take that
- 33:50Speaker 1: from me.
- 33:52Speaker 3: I would argue the best presidential dog of all the
- 33:55Speaker 3: of all time is the one Biden had that kept
- 33:58Speaker 3: biting Secret Service agents.
- 34:00Speaker 1: I was thinking about Major is a very close second.
- 34:03Speaker 2: Yeah, I like a dog that hates an undercover cop.
- 34:06Speaker 1: That's great, this dog hates spooks and narcs.
- 34:11Speaker 3: So after they round up all of these radicals and
- 34:16Speaker 3: leftists in nineteen nineteen and nineteen twenty, it culminates in
- 34:20Speaker 3: deportations via a ship nicknamed the Soviet Art and the
- 34:27Speaker 3: public and media both just enthusiastically support this shit on
- 34:31Speaker 3: account of all the strikes and unrest. Once protests start happening,
- 34:34Speaker 3: We've seen it with protests that have happened recently.
- 34:38Speaker 2: They carry on.
- 34:39Speaker 3: Long enough, and people are just like, can I just
- 34:41Speaker 3: fucking drive to work without having to do it through
- 34:44Speaker 3: a crowd?
- 34:45Speaker 2: Please?
- 34:46Speaker 3: And if you're not political, like that shit weighs on
- 34:50Speaker 3: you and it's going to be easy to sway those
- 34:52Speaker 3: people to the side of how about we put these
- 34:55Speaker 3: motherfuckers on a boat and send them to Finland, which
- 34:58Speaker 3: is exactly what happened.
- 35:00Speaker 1: They sent them to Finland's what does Finland have to
- 35:03Speaker 1: do with it?
- 35:04Speaker 3: Finland, I believe, was the country that would take them.
- 35:06Speaker 3: They tried to send them a lot via first, But
- 35:10Speaker 3: on the bright side, some of the people rounded up
- 35:13Speaker 3: refused to be deported and they were sent to a
- 35:15Speaker 3: concentration camp in New York called Camp Upton, so that'll
- 35:20Speaker 3: never happen again.
- 35:21Speaker 4: I Camp A radicals is dangerous, man, I don't know.
- 35:24Speaker 4: If I was Trump, I would not want to put
- 35:26Speaker 4: all the radicals in one place. That seems like maybe
- 35:29Speaker 4: not the best idea.
- 35:30Speaker 5: I like your approach reverse psychology. I wouldn't want to
- 35:33Speaker 5: put all the radicals in one spot. It seems like,
- 35:35Speaker 5: I don't know, they might start talking to each other
- 35:38Speaker 5: and building networks and like, I don't know, organizing God.
- 35:42Speaker 1: I mean, but if you're exterminating on the that's kind
- 35:44Speaker 1: of yeah.
- 35:46Speaker 2: Let people have this kind of God damn it.
- 35:48Speaker 1: It would be a cool like series of children's books
- 35:51Speaker 1: like The Hunger Games, like the fucking dissident camps get
- 35:54Speaker 1: together to stick it to the old dean or whatever,
- 35:58Speaker 1: the dean of the concentration camp.
- 36:00Speaker 3: Why can't we just be headed for that kind of
- 36:02Speaker 3: dystopia where there's like really problematic Olympics every year and
- 36:06Speaker 3: otherwise we're just fucking chilling. I don't know, manba we
- 36:10Speaker 3: all matic Olympics every few years already, there's not room.
- 36:14Speaker 1: My theory is that it's God punishing us for how
- 36:16Speaker 1: much we all masturbate this.
- 36:18Speaker 3: Oh this is another thing that I found interesting about
- 36:24Speaker 3: the red scare was red flag laws. In nineteen nineteen,
- 36:27Speaker 3: Kansas enacted a red flag law, which meant displaying a
- 36:32Speaker 3: red flag, which is a common symbol among like leftist groups,
- 36:36Speaker 3: was outlawed, and very shortly thereafter, twenty four more states
- 36:41Speaker 3: quickly followed suit. I don't know if people have heard
- 36:46Speaker 3: the recordings and ramblings of Justice Alito and his wife,
- 36:51Speaker 3: but his wife has straight up said like the pride
- 36:56Speaker 3: flag should be banned, or there should be like a
- 36:59Speaker 3: counter flag that you can hang on your.
- 37:02Speaker 1: Door, anti pride shame.
- 37:05Speaker 4: I feel like the American flag kind of starts that
- 37:07Speaker 4: purpose though.
- 37:08Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I have a neighbor who put up two
- 37:13Speaker 3: Trump flags in front of his house. I live in
- 37:16Speaker 3: a townhouse, and there's like an h way and I
- 37:19Speaker 3: feel like the HOA was like, come on, dude, we
- 37:22Speaker 3: don't allow flags like that. And because like two days
- 37:25Speaker 3: later they were just American flags now, same same shit, Like.
- 37:29Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, remember, Yeah, you can tell.
- 37:33Speaker 3: You can tell when there's a house that's either super
- 37:37Speaker 3: patriotic in their way of framing it or just you know,
- 37:41Speaker 3: they have guns. I Remember I saw two houses side
- 37:44Speaker 3: by side once. One had an American flag and one
- 37:47Speaker 3: had an Oakland A's flag. I was like, they both
- 37:50Speaker 3: got guns. There's guns in both of those fucking houses.
- 37:54Speaker 1: That's fine. I saw the Trump flag in my The
- 37:58Speaker 1: Trump flags in my hometown are in same They're they're
- 38:01Speaker 1: all like twenty four the Revenge Tour. Let's but fuck
- 38:07Speaker 1: those dema cuns.
- 38:09Speaker 3: Yeah, this one was pretty normal, but it was gigantic.
- 38:13Speaker 2: It's huge.
- 38:14Speaker 4: I'm trying to do this thing where it's like, I
- 38:16Speaker 4: don't hate Trump supporters because they that's what feeds them.
- 38:20Speaker 4: Like the feeling that they are hated is what like
- 38:22Speaker 4: gets them the So I'm like, not not in the
- 38:25Speaker 4: sense of like I'm trying to take away their enjoyment
- 38:27Speaker 4: by like not like hating them, like and just kind
- 38:30Speaker 4: of being sad. I'm like, oh, actually, just an idiot. Damn,
- 38:34Speaker 4: I kind of feel bad for you.
- 38:35Speaker 3: That was kind of my thinking about the Trump flag.
- 38:38Speaker 3: Like I didn't say shit about it, and I mean,
- 38:41Speaker 3: one big reason I wouldn't say anything about it is
- 38:44Speaker 3: half the fucking country voted for the guy. You're gonna
- 38:46Speaker 3: see Trump flags like that's it's gonna be a thing.
- 38:50Speaker 1: But I think I think you're right, Like you feel
- 38:53Speaker 1: bad for all the people in the in Springfield when
- 38:56Speaker 1: the monoail guy comes to town takes all their money
- 38:59Speaker 1: and leaves, you know, like like it's I don't you know,
- 39:02Speaker 1: I'm not just gotta take pity on them. But it's
- 39:04Speaker 1: like hate is the wrong choice.
- 39:06Speaker 4: I guess it's a it's a grift, like that's that's
- 39:08Speaker 4: ultimately what it And it's like that's the thing about
- 39:10Speaker 4: Hitler for the question of like whether he himself was incompetent,
- 39:14Speaker 4: Like Hitler was probably very incompetent, but there are so
- 39:17Speaker 4: many people within the Nazi apparatus who like genuinely believed
- 39:20Speaker 4: in it and who were genuinely competent that they were
- 39:23Speaker 4: able to execute the Holocaust kind of irrespective of like
- 39:26Speaker 4: whatever Hitler has going on. So that's why I think
- 39:29Speaker 4: with Trump, it's like Trump is probably just an idiot,
- 39:31Speaker 4: like an idiot grifter. He ran again to stay out
- 39:34Speaker 4: in prison, like and he's just kind of going up.
- 39:37Speaker 4: But there are people who like idealogues, the idealogues in
- 39:40Speaker 4: the party that will like carry it out with ruthless efficiency.
- 39:43Speaker 4: Is the part where I'm just like Wow, that's the
- 39:45Speaker 4: kind of the sad part. But for people that kind
- 39:47Speaker 4: of believe in trump Ism as like a thing that's
- 39:50Speaker 4: gonna rescue them out of what Bertie what is Bertie
- 39:52Speaker 4: Sanders label economic anxiety, it's just like it's just like sad,
- 39:56Speaker 4: it's satisfyed, like you're a fucking you're a fucking.
- 40:00Speaker 3: Yeah, the notion that Trump is just going to show
- 40:03Speaker 3: up and start handing out jobs, it's like, well.
- 40:06Speaker 1: I mean if you believe this and like you just
- 40:08Speaker 1: have like a shitload of tech stocks, like yeah, probably, yeah,
- 40:13Speaker 1: Like yeah, I do think he's got a vision for
- 40:17Speaker 1: me a bitcoin holder.
- 40:18Speaker 4: A bitcoin I'm invested in the grift like I need,
- 40:22Speaker 4: I need the grip to work out, Like I have
- 40:24Speaker 4: my life savings in the grift. Like that's and that's
- 40:26Speaker 4: what the fucking the that's the whole in cel. Jordan Peterson,
- 40:31Speaker 4: what's the other dudes? Andrew Tate, like their whole fucking
- 40:34Speaker 4: thing is like, yeah, it's just a grift. I need
- 40:36Speaker 4: to sell people an emptiness that I can feel.
- 40:39Speaker 1: I need to sell people an emptiness.
- 40:41Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm selling you an emptiness so I can then
- 40:44Speaker 4: like sell you the cure for it.
- 40:45Speaker 1: Like you didn't know that immigrants were attacking your life
- 40:48Speaker 1: and ruining your whole fucking like quality of living.
- 40:51Speaker 4: Gay people are the reason you can't get laid way
- 40:54Speaker 4: minute are the reason that you can't.
- 40:55Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's just like when the
- 40:57Speaker 1: fellas are in charge, they'll have to give us some
- 40:59Speaker 1: of that claim. Who's with me? I think I saw that.
- 41:03Speaker 1: I think I saw that in the JD Van speech once.
- 41:05Speaker 4: No Jvan, I literally JD Vance is like the perfect
- 41:08Speaker 4: encapsulation of that.
- 41:09Speaker 3: Like another thing I found interesting reading up on the
- 41:13Speaker 3: Red Scare was how much not only the media got
- 41:17Speaker 3: behind it, but film industry too. And I do wonder
- 41:22Speaker 3: if there will be a shift at some point where
- 41:25Speaker 3: if mass deportations and things like that start happening, are
- 41:29Speaker 3: we just gonna get like enthusiastic op eds from the
- 41:32Speaker 3: fucking New York Times in Washington Post about how it's
- 41:36Speaker 3: the right thing to do and they support it.
- 41:39Speaker 1: Probably? I mean people will. As a writer, writers will
- 41:42Speaker 1: write whatever you fucking pay them to write. It's like
- 41:46Speaker 1: that simple. And if they won't, then another guy will
- 41:48Speaker 1: who's pretty good. And if he's not available, there's this
- 41:51Speaker 1: chick and she can do it too well.
- 41:54Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's also I'm sure they've stopped doing it now,
- 41:57Speaker 3: but the CIA is has been known to reach out
- 42:02Speaker 3: to media outlets and you know, get them on their
- 42:06Speaker 3: side and get them to talk about or not talk
- 42:09Speaker 3: about the things that they want. There was one actual
- 42:13Speaker 3: project called Project Mockingbird got uncovered in like nineteen seventy
- 42:17Speaker 3: nine that was exactly that proof of concept.
- 42:20Speaker 1: And it's also like you think they stopped doing.
- 42:22Speaker 2: It, Like, yeah, there's no way.
- 42:23Speaker 1: The artic Mockingbird was very successful.
- 42:25Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if anything, another outfit would be doing
- 42:28Speaker 3: it aside from the CIA.
- 42:30Speaker 2: You just send someone else out.
- 42:32Speaker 1: You think they trade hustles every once in a while
- 42:33Speaker 1: just to keep the conspiracy guys guessing, Like, hey, you
- 42:36Speaker 1: know what, FBI, you've had sexual blackmail domestically for the
- 42:40Speaker 1: last thirty years. Let's do that at the CIA and
- 42:42Speaker 1: we'll give you, guys naval smuggling cools could be But
- 42:47Speaker 1: I'm serious about that fucking right as the right way
- 42:49Speaker 1: you paid The right I was written their award show
- 42:50Speaker 1: with the Ukraine war broke out and for some reason
- 42:54Speaker 1: they thought we needed to say something about this on
- 42:55Speaker 1: this fucking Award Show. So I don't remember what I wrote,
- 43:00Speaker 1: but I'm just writing whatever they wanted, like and it
- 43:02Speaker 1: was just something I totally didn't agree with, Like I
- 43:04Speaker 1: don't support this war. I'm gonna support the Ukrainian people.
- 43:07Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what the fuck is happening,
- 43:09Speaker 1: but I was. I was being paid quite handsomely to
- 43:12Speaker 1: say whatever they wanted me to say. So yeah, so
- 43:14Speaker 1: I'll do it.
- 43:15Speaker 3: There's lots of people who will take that rite a
- 43:17Speaker 3: pro hummograte, pro deportation, op ed job if it's offered
- 43:22Speaker 3: to him.
- 43:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably would. I would hope that I draw
- 43:24Speaker 1: the line at that one, but you never know.
- 43:27Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody, you gotta have a line. You gotta have
- 43:30Speaker 4: a line, like totally like but as a journalist, like
- 43:33Speaker 4: what what what is the money gonna cost you? Personally,
- 43:36Speaker 4: you can say you don't give a fuck about it,
- 43:38Speaker 4: and I just want the money. But it's like what's
- 43:40Speaker 4: on the other side of that New York Times at least,
- 43:42Speaker 4: like I don't fucking know, like liberal, like what I
- 43:45Speaker 4: expect it from. I don't know who's the right wing paper?
- 43:48Speaker 4: The Wall Street Journal absolutely.
- 43:50Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the Wall Street Journal.
- 43:52Speaker 1: If Joe Scarborough is even fucking well, he's a flip flopper.
- 43:56Speaker 1: He's done this before. But I'm saying there's some of
- 43:58Speaker 1: these Democrats are packeted, man. I mean, I don't know,
- 44:00Speaker 1: I could, I could see the New York Times do it. Like,
- 44:02Speaker 1: I don't think they're that scrupulous.
- 44:04Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, they're not.
- 44:06Speaker 4: I mean intellectual. I feel like celebrities may have a
- 44:09Speaker 4: different relationship with it, but you would think like a
- 44:12Speaker 4: journalist on some level is an intellectual and like with
- 44:15Speaker 4: that comes a level of integrity, Like I'm not just
- 44:18Speaker 4: gonna completely completely sell out, like I gotta get a
- 44:21Speaker 4: job somewhere serious. I don't know. Yeah, maybe maybe I'm
- 44:25Speaker 4: being naive.
- 44:25Speaker 3: I mean, it's probably like anything else in that it's
- 44:29Speaker 3: both proba. There's legitimate journalists out there and there are
- 44:33Speaker 3: journalists who will write whatever fuck you want them to
- 44:35Speaker 3: write or the right amount of money. It's gonna be
- 44:38Speaker 3: like anything else. And you know, we just got to
- 44:41Speaker 3: get rid of the honest ones. Then this country will
- 44:44Speaker 3: be great, and.
- 44:45Speaker 1: We're gonna do it with a series of camps.
- 44:48Speaker 2: We are.
- 44:49Speaker 3: So the beginning of the end for the Red Scare
- 44:52Speaker 3: and Palmer both was this big warning he issued about
- 44:57Speaker 3: May Day nineteen twenty. He had the fucking president issue
- 45:01Speaker 3: at first, and then he goes in front of the
- 45:03Speaker 3: people a couple days later and is like, listen, fucking
- 45:07Speaker 3: May Day twenty twenty, baby, buckle up, stay inside. It's
- 45:11Speaker 3: gonna be chaos. There's gonna be protests, there's gonna be
- 45:15Speaker 3: acts of terror. Just you wait, America, you'll see. And
- 45:19Speaker 3: then May Day nineteen twenty came and went without incident,
- 45:23Speaker 3: and people were like, all right, God damn it, this
- 45:26Speaker 3: guy is talking nonsense. That part I don't think will
- 45:29Speaker 3: happen if some shit like this jumps off again in
- 45:33Speaker 3: this country. I don't think it will lose favor with
- 45:36Speaker 3: the public that quickly.
- 45:38Speaker 2: I think America will be better at it.
- 45:40Speaker 1: Yeah. I think there was a decent amount of people
- 45:43Speaker 1: on both sides of these various protests the last four
- 45:45Speaker 1: or five years that kind of just wanted to fight
- 45:47Speaker 1: the cops a little bit.
- 45:49Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
- 45:50Speaker 1: I think I think people are a lot more fucking
- 45:52Speaker 1: down there. Like you know, it's been a whole hundred
- 45:55Speaker 1: years since this happened. Then it's like nothing, none of
- 45:57Speaker 1: this shit has gotten better at all, Like.
- 45:59Speaker 3: Well, what I mean, I think the government now has
- 46:02Speaker 3: more means to put down descent than it did in
- 46:06Speaker 3: nineteen twenty. For sure, we've got more facilities, we've got
- 46:09Speaker 3: more cops, got more weapons. Everything they fucking need to
- 46:14Speaker 3: put down mass protests.
- 46:15Speaker 2: They got it.
- 46:16Speaker 1: But do you think that's going to discourage.
- 46:18Speaker 3: I mean, it's not going to discourage people, but as
- 46:21Speaker 3: it goes on, how many people are going to be
- 46:24Speaker 3: left to fucking descent? Like again, you mentioned Dante, you
- 46:29Speaker 3: mentioned the dictator.
- 46:30Speaker 2: It's El Salvador is where Boukel is and I looked
- 46:35Speaker 2: it up. I didn't like pull that up.
- 46:36Speaker 4: Thank you. In my head, I could have just looked
- 46:38Speaker 4: it up.
- 46:38Speaker 3: I'm sorry, No, it's fine, but yeah, I mean he
- 46:41Speaker 3: rounded up seventy thousand people in El Salvador. We got
- 46:44Speaker 3: more people to round up here. But we can do
- 46:46Speaker 3: it if he can do it. What an inspiration that
- 46:49Speaker 3: guy is?
- 46:50Speaker 4: No, you're you're joking, but like the era of mass
- 46:53Speaker 4: incarceration was eshered in it because they call it super prison. Yeah,
- 46:57Speaker 4: Like so he he is ueshered in like a new
- 46:59Speaker 4: era of massive incarceration that we're gonna see like across
- 47:02Speaker 4: the board, Like just just put them in camps just
- 47:05Speaker 4: because the public. What is the public gonna do. It's
- 47:07Speaker 4: like they're gonna cry it like it's they kind of
- 47:10Speaker 4: in a way. In a way outside there is a
- 47:11Speaker 4: different situation because like the public is willing to abide
- 47:15Speaker 4: by it because there's been a lot of just like uh, instability,
- 47:19Speaker 4: crime or whatever, what have you. Whatever. But I feel
- 47:22Speaker 4: like with protests it might be the same situation, Like
- 47:24Speaker 4: people are gonna becauseeople are gonna fight, people are gonna
- 47:26Speaker 4: be in desperate economic situations. So either people are gonna
- 47:29Speaker 4: like protest or people are gonna commit crimes, and it's
- 47:32Speaker 4: probably gonna be a bit of both. So people on
- 47:35Speaker 4: mass would probably want some relief from it, So they
- 47:38Speaker 4: would definitely like, yeah, just throw people in camps. If
- 47:40Speaker 4: they break the law, throw them in camps. If you
- 47:42Speaker 4: try to steal something, throw them in the camp. If
- 47:45Speaker 4: you protest and throw the molotov cocktail, throw them in
- 47:47Speaker 4: the camp. Get rid of them. That's the purpose of incarceration,
- 47:50Speaker 4: is to remove elements from society as opposed to confronting it.
- 47:54Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think when it comes to the government,
- 47:58Speaker 3: I think both sides want that they want to be
- 48:01Speaker 3: able to crush descent in that way, and Trump is
- 48:05Speaker 3: just the perfect face for it, because when it's all over,
- 48:09Speaker 3: everyone can just point and go, oh, look what that
- 48:12Speaker 3: fucking evil dictator did.
- 48:14Speaker 2: Yeah, it was gonna happen. It's gonna fucking happen.
- 48:18Speaker 1: And this is this is Fox News. Well this is
- 48:22Speaker 1: going on in the future, mass in car survation. What
- 48:26Speaker 1: the prisoner is self pleasuring problem means for the municipal
- 48:30Speaker 1: facilities said America is humane migration camps.
- 48:37Speaker 2: So I think that's the end of the episode.
- 48:39Speaker 3: Do we have any final thoughts on the Red Scare
- 48:42Speaker 3: or the state of America.
- 48:45Speaker 4: As a government employee, you still have to pre pledge
- 48:47Speaker 4: a pledge fealty to the state of Georgia. If you
- 48:51Speaker 4: work for the government in Georgia, you can't be a
- 48:53Speaker 4: member of the Communist Party, and you have to like
- 48:55Speaker 4: pledge loyalty to the US Constitution in the Georgia Constitution.
- 48:59Speaker 4: I don't know other papers to have loyalty oath. As
- 49:02Speaker 4: a federal employee, you atholl still have this for a
- 49:04Speaker 4: loyalty oath. I don't know if LOYTHI old came out
- 49:06Speaker 4: of the first one or the second one, but like
- 49:08Speaker 4: Lois Elks are still like on the books right now.
- 49:11Speaker 2: Well, that's a thing.
- 49:13Speaker 3: If you read Project twenty twenty five, one of their
- 49:17Speaker 3: big initiatives is basically purging civil service jobs of people
- 49:23Speaker 3: who aren't loyal to the government, and by that they
- 49:26Speaker 3: mean loyal to Trump, and that's like one of their
- 49:30Speaker 3: main goals. So that I think it's kind of written
- 49:34Speaker 3: in stone that that's coming for I don't.
- 49:37Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to be able to do
- 49:38Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff until Trump's like third term actually,
- 49:42Speaker 1: so I'm I'm not really super worried.
- 49:45Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe halfway through the fourth something like that,
- 49:47Speaker 3: when he's one hundred and six and living off all
- 49:50Speaker 3: the adrina chrome he stole from the cabal that he
- 49:54Speaker 3: rounded up and put in Guantanamo.
- 49:56Speaker 1: And he's like totally senile, but he's still like the
- 49:58Speaker 1: Emperor of the Known University. Let me tell you about
- 50:00Speaker 1: when I invented McDonald's.
- 50:03Speaker 3: Ah, good times, good Times. It's gonna be a fucking
- 50:06Speaker 3: roller coaster for sure.
- 50:07Speaker 4: Long Live Emperor Trump.
- 50:09Speaker 3: Yeah, but that is our episode. Connor Dante, thank you
- 50:14Speaker 3: both for doing the pod. This upbeat moment feels like
- 50:17Speaker 3: the perfect time to plug some shit. I have a
- 50:20Speaker 3: solo podcast called in Broad Daylight that you should listen to. Also,
- 50:24Speaker 3: by the time this is out, there will be some
- 50:27Speaker 3: like holiday specials running in terms of subscribing for bonus
- 50:32Speaker 3: episodes on the podcast, so had to Patreon dot com,
- 50:35Speaker 3: slash and Pops or you don't pod dot supercast dot
- 50:38Speaker 3: com to check those out and subscribe for bonus episodes.
- 50:42Speaker 2: But in the meantime, all the bonus episodes through the
- 50:44Speaker 2: end of the year are free. Uh, Dante, what do
- 50:47Speaker 2: you got to plug?
- 50:48Speaker 4: Then you gonna have to plug. I'm an artist. I
- 50:50Speaker 4: make music. I also talk shit on Instagram. If you
- 50:52Speaker 4: guys want to follow me wimbo xib on everything. I
- 50:55Speaker 4: release music. I've released the music pretty consistently on band camp.
- 50:59Speaker 4: If you guys want to check me out winbow x
- 51:01Speaker 4: I V Yeah, that's all I have to flog.
- 51:04Speaker 2: Nice Connor, what do you got?
- 51:05Speaker 1: My podcast is called Mean Boys. It's very funny. You
- 51:08Speaker 1: can watch it on YouTube Mean Boys Podcast, and I
- 51:11Speaker 1: have seven comedy albums on Spotify and band camp as well,
- 51:15Speaker 1: if you want to keep those and follow me on
- 51:19Speaker 1: Instagram and stuff everything.
- 51:20Speaker 3: Connor Rix, all right, and let's get out of here.
- 51:23Speaker 3: Dante say goodbye, Connor say goodbye
- 51:26Speaker 2: Goodbye, goodbye, everybody, we love you.