It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: San Diego Mosque Shooting, Trump Settles Lawsuit with Trump

Episode Date: May 22, 2026

The gang discuss the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, memetic nazi accelerationism, tariff rebates, and Trump’s new $1.776 billion slush fund from a lawsuit against his own IRS. Fundraiser: https://goodbricks.org/campaign/icsd.org/official-icsd-victim---family-support-fund Sources: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-talk-about-158456324 https://www.blm.gov/policy/ib-2024-024  https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/huffman-celebrates-bureau-of-land-managements-decision-to-cease-use-of-cyanide-bombs-on-public-lands  https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/climate/cyanide-bombs-public-lands.html https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2057144264526598381?s=20 https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10179.pdf https://x.com/SecScottBessent/status/2056411947982115207?s=20 https://x.com/usf_army/status/2056395215833903335?s=20 https://x.com/cecelou18/status/2056746877798817830?s=20 https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/051526zr_1a72.pdf https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/2025-10/102325-alpr-revised-surveillance-report.pdf  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3628735046 https://x.com/PGSA_IRAN/status/2056359507203142013?s=20  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/letlow-fleming-advance-to-runoff-louisiana-gop-senate-primary-cbs-news-projects/ https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/185  https://x.com/USAfricaCommand/status/2055614134851424487?s=20  https://www.africom.mil/pressrelease/36568/isis-number-two-killed-in-nigeria https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/2053890390126665819?s=20 https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/2053889711567970589?s=20 https://apnews.com/article/massie-gallrein-trump-kentucky-republican-primary-03a658b1a45593ad04ebf6283a3fdb47 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/17/massie-aipac-record-spending-israel-maga-trump-primary-00925375 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116602192066577324 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/republican-senators-trump-paxton.html https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-dismisses-lawsuit-against-irs-court-filing-shows-2026-05-18/ https://www.ft.com/content/57334fae-a475-4ab0-a202-8df3766927e4?syn-25a6b1a6=1  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/5/20/bolivian-president-to-reshuffle-cabinet-amid-anti-government-protests https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/5/18/clashes-as-morales-allied-protesters-march-on-bolivian-capital https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/what-is-behind-bolivias-widening-protests-2026-05-18/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Harrison Davis. I'm joined by proper defense. Mia Wong, James Stout, and James's hat. And James's hat. What does it say, Garrison? Oh, they hurt. I think the audience heard. We've got to leave that one in, are we?

Yeah, women fear him, fish want him, something along those lines. Fish want me. It's a whole thing with fish. Fish fear women, women want fish, something like that. I don't know. Del Toro made a movie about this. Yes, he did. Yes, he did, Garrison.

What happened? Did nothing happen this week? I guess we can all go home. It seems like an uneventful news week, right? Yeah. Nothing happened with the IRS or anything. Anything shootings overseas. All good.

Cuba, fine. Nothing happening in Bolivia. Nothing happening with very little Bolivia. Ro Castro. Well, that does it for it's not happening here. Thank you for listening. We'll see you next week. Yes.

It's not happening here. A podcast brought to you by marijuana. And sleeping pills. Should we start with some little things and then move on to some big things? It's not the little things are unimportant, but we're just covering them in less detail now and maybe more detail later. Yeah. Former Interior Secretary now Representative Ryan Zinke is once again attempting to delist brown bears from the aged species act. He hates those brown bears.

He fucking hates a bear. They're trying to do the same thing with grizzlies, too. They're a little further behind, but there's a push going right now to like grizzly numbers have recovered a lot. They're starting to do bad stuff. We got to start hunting them. Yeah. So ground bears, brittly bears are the same species. They're just brown bears would be the term I would use to describe all of the Ursus Herobulus, I guess, in North America.

Yeah. Like Codiak, brown bear and grizzly bear. But yes, you're right. The justification that Zinke has given is that populations are getting higher, and he specifically cited a tragedy in which a hiker lost their life in Glacier National Park. And another attack on two tourists and Yellowstone. Yeah. The Endangered Species Act has nothing to do with how dangerous an animal is,

not as population size, really play a role. And it's not like these bears attacked these people because they were hungry because the other bears had out-competed them for food. Now, one person walked up on a sow with cubs, so that group came across the sow as cubs and the other one, I think the bear was probably foraging for berries and a person surprised it in some thick timber.

A lot of people thought that they would delist of grizzlies, but they didn't straight away in January, and they so if I haven't, I'd write a whole 2,000 words on this one news left if you want to learn more about bears, a lot of bear content. we will also bring you a bear episode in the coming weeks in which I talk to Molly about bears because it seems like you like me talking to Molly about animals. Talking of animals,

Trump administration has re-approved an exciting way to kill them. The M-44 cyanide trap has been re-approved. Thank God. Single issue cyanide voters. That's been my one issue for years, Garrison. You know this. I'm all about, and it's not just this. I'm just in general supportive of anything that increases regular Americans daily access to cyanide, you know? That's why I'm also against clean air regulations. Continue, James. I will. I've bumped into a few of these.

Like, maybe you have to... It's not a coyote get. So, coyote get is a different thing. But what this is, it's like a spring-loaded trap. It's a little thing poking out the ground, normally covered in cloth and baited. It's triggered when something bites and pulls it. So it's designed to then squirt cyanide up into the mouth of... It's normally canines, right?

It's not much else. Yeah. bites and pulls them. These things have killed dozens of pets and livestock. It's a pretty fucked up kind of trap. Like, it's really bad. Yeah, it's pretty bad. The old ones, they used to use like a 38 special blank

that would really fire the cyanide up. Jesus Christ. That was a massive fucking issue. That's awesome. That's cool. That was a coyote getter. See, I just want to put those in my normal 38 and just conceal carry a cyanide pestle. Everyone dies.

Get really close. Get really close. Unless they attack you from upwind, you know, and then it's just you. Yeah, why don't you open your mouth and get really close to me, you know? Yeah. I guess, like, people will maybe be familiar with these from an incident where a 14-year-old boy was injured and his dog was killed. This was back in the 20 teens. In that case, the M-44 was not on the family's property, but it was less than 100 yards from their house.

Wow. And they've just continued using them in Idaho after that. But the BLM as a whole discontinued their use only in like late 23, early 24. Trump administration hates or every living creature. So it's not really surprising that these are back. Obviously, the issue here is livestock, right? Like, they're protecting livestock. Yep.

From Canids, yeah, there are better ways of doing that. We shouldn't be fucking putting cyanide in a public land. It's not, sorry, this one gets me kind of annoyed. Yeah, just the general belief that anything that might interfere with a livestock animal, justifies like widespread genocide of crucial species is really bad. Yeah, and also dominant in a lot of the American West. Yes, and like coyotes are some of the smartest creatures we have. They've resisted all attempts to control their population.

They continue to thrive. I believe in all 50 states. I think they're, maybe not in 49. I don't think they're any in Hawaii. But yeah, incredible animals. Coyote America by Dan Flores, a good book about them. In the Channel Islands, Channel Islands National Park, a fire has already hit over 14,000 acres. It is on Santa Rita.

It's threatening a grove of very rare Torrey Pines. Tori Pines, really, we have some here in San Diego and some up there. The initial reporting suggested that the mariner himself had fired distress flares, and those flares had ignited the fire. What the coast guard is now saying is he's on like a 52-foot boat by himself. Boat people mad about me saying boat non. whatever. I don't know. I don't care. The boat had run aground and it was rocking. I'm guessing that rocking, like a shortage something or cut a fuel line. That caused a vessel itself to ignite. And then the vessel igniting caused a fire on the island. And he then fired flares standing

within a previously burned area. So the fire had burned past him. He fired flares. Quite why he wasn't able to signal with his radio or if he was able to signal with his radio or if he was able to signal with this radio and then the radio got burned or other means of communication, like a personal locator beacon, ePurb, I don't know. All I know is what's been reported so far, but nonetheless this is really tragic for one of the very few areas in California, which has been less ravaged by capital. Moving along to immigration, I have seen evidence that USCIS income is plummeting, and this is because they're processing fewer applications, right? Then they're moving.

much, much, much more slowly with actually processing the applications to give people the right to have visas or to permanent residency citizenship. The agency is normally funded by fees, and it seems that it will soon not be funded by fees anymore. So despite all these doge cuts and efficiency cuts, the agency is going to end up costing taxpayers more money. It's great. Today, United States Marines boarded the motor tanker Celestial, which they, quote, suspected was en route to Iran. Flights from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, are facing new rival restrictions due to the outbreak of Ebola in the region.

With USAID funding slash, the US would have normally led a response to something like this, or at least helped fund it. Now, it won't. This means that the outbreak will be bigger and more people will die. Scott Besant has said that the United States will temporarily allow, quote, the most vulnerable nations to access Russian oil selectively. temporarily lifting sanctions. Also, Ukraine has begun using unguided rockets on first-person-viewed drones. And this is a pretty serious development for like remote control warfare. They're using

them to suppress Russian air defenses, but they released videos of that for the first time this week. Finally, from me, it appears that a large batch of new immigration judges will be starting work. Immigration judges, it's worth noting, are not judges in the sense. So we understand the word for other judges in the legal system. They're more like bureaucrats. Like Robert. Yes. Robert's more real of a judge. They're certainly not reverend judges. Their ranks have been purged by the Trump administration read since 30 2025. I know lots of them have retired or quit or been fired. I can imagine that this new cohort might be more favorable to the Trump administration's immigration goals. So there's been in the past few days a massive intensification of

month-long protests in Bolivia that has escalated into a general strike. It's also turned into one of the traditional Bolivian protest tactics, which is a series of roadblocks blocking access to the capital. These are largely the result of two kind of different kind of related fights. The first one was an attempt to agricultural reform that would have done a whole bunch of sort of, I guess you'd call it in 1994-style Mexican constitution, like neoliberalization of like collectively held indigenous land. And then now the protests have been gaining steam over dire economic situation and neoliberal reforms passed by their right-wing president after the MAS effectively imploded during 2024 and 2025, leading to the first right-wing

president in Bolivia since the early 2000s and also the re-emergence of Carlos MAK. a guy I literally never thought I would hear about again, but apparently is back somehow after getting ousted by like, basically effectively these exact same style of mass road block protests in 2005. He's now also back for some reason. But yeah, these protests are probably going to continue to escalate. We've reached the miners throwing dynamite phase of oblivion protests, which tends to proceed governments collapsing.

We will see how this story progresses. For our first main story, we'll discuss the shooting at an Islamic Center in San Diego. James, do want to start us off? Yeah, so the shooting happened on Monday the 18th of May. Three people were killed. We'll go for a little bit about them in a second here. It happened at the Islamic Center of San Diego, which is the largest mosque in San Diego County. People might be familiar with the Islamic Center of San Diego because of other stories about surveillance on the mosque over the years.

In this case, the two shooters were Kane Clark 17 and Caleb Vasquez 18. Shortly after the shooting took place, police searched Kane Clark's house. It took them a long time to get a warrant. Normally, they can use an e-warrant for these things and get one very quickly, but it at some reason took several hours. Officers were actually at Clark's house when the shooting began. This was because his mother had called police to report her son was missing in her car, in camouflage and had stolen her weapons. She called them two hours before the shooting began.

Despite that, they were able to make it to the Islamic Center of San Diego, kill three people, then move further down the street and fire at a landscaper, who seems to have been largely uninjured or not injured in a serious way. Then they proceeded further down the street before ending their lives. I think one of them shot the other and then shot them. I think it's worth noting that like San Diego has driven itself into debt, spending massive amounts of money specifically on cops and specifically on surveillance and neither of them did anything to prevent this. The San Diego Police Department received a call two hours before the shooting to quote police chief Scott Wall, quote, she believed her son was suicidal

and she began to share information that several of her weapons were missing. Her vehicle was missing in addition to her son, Wool said. She also said her son was with a companion. They addressed in camera that it's not consistent with what we would typically see from someone who is suicidal. They tried to use their automated license plate readers, commonly referred to with flock cameras. The flock actually doesn't provide the hardware in San Diego. Their only lead was a single hit in Fashion Valley, which is several miles away from where the shooting took place. Also, further from Clark's house than the site of the shooting was, but Vasquez comes from Chula Vista, which is much further south. There is no way.

way that I can see to get from Fashion Valley to ICSD without passing automated license rate readers. You can't take surface streets and avoid them. I've ridden most of that route. This was the way I used to commute on my bicycle when I was teaching. In the end, that didn't make a difference. They weren't able to get there and prevent the shooting. Not a single officer discharged their firearm. Last month, the San Diego officer did discharge his firearm and a lady with a ballpoint pen missing several times in a busy street. Let's talk about the three people who are killed here. Yeah. I think they're more important than these. Well, yeah, because they undeniably saved any of those kids from getting killed. Yeah. In a way that, like, is genuinely

laudable and heroic. Yeah. So Amin Abdullah was a security guard of the mosque. I saw a report he had eight children. He seemed to have significantly delayed the shooter by exchanging fire with both of the shooters and initiating the mosque's lockdown protocol. Yes. So he used his radio to initiate the lockdown protocol. The shooters live streamed the shooting. I've reviewed some elements of that. And you can see they basically get into the entrance of the mosque and then get hold up there. Yeah.

Because they moved past him and he engaged them. Correct. Yeah. Because they were attempting to get past him to the kids. And he engaged them, drew them back. And yeah, I mean, all of this would have been so much worse if he hadn't done what he did, which cost him his life. Yes, exactly.

Like, yeah, he engaged him. He continued to draw their fire. until obviously he passed away. Other two victims, Manso Kaziha, known as Abuaziz, who worked at the mosque for decades since they broke around. He was managing the store, like the little gift shop, snack shop. And Nadia Awad, his wife teaches at the school, and he lives right next door.

He actually was at home when the shooting began, and he ran toward the mosque when he heard the shooting. And it seems that both of them were in the parking lot, directing people away from the mall. mosque and again drawing the attention of the shooter, right? So that unfortunately resulted in them both losing their lives. The shooters, as I said, then fled in a white BMW, shot at a landscaper and then took their own lives. It appears that they met online. Vasquez lives in Chula Vista, like a good distance away from where the shooting took place. There was a press conference

shortly afterwards where the mayor was heckled. Gloria is a pretty important. popular mayor, for a number of reasons, making San Diego very unlivable for poor people. He's consistently attacked our unhouse population. I guess notably in this case, because of the presence of a pro-Palestinian artist, he boycotted our pride march. But what is worth, Gloria himself is gay. City has had a really bad record of hate crimes. And I think in San Diego, because of this long history of hate crime and bigotry and anti-blackness

and anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and the deep roots they have here, assumed that these two young people would have come from East County, which is, I think sometimes it's this myth, right? They're like all bigotry exists, kind of east of the 15, and it's fine after that. That is very much not the case. And these two people do not come from that scene. They do not come from that world. There are groups that are white supremacist in East County, without a doubt, many of them, and individuals who, I mean, Metzger was not living that far away, right, this is not that. Claremont, where Clark lived, is one of the most diverse neighborhoods.

I have taught in high schools in Claremont. I taught in the community college there. Tons of my students over the years have been people who attended this mask or they have children who go to the school and the preschool there. So yeah, this is like very close to home for me, I guess. We should discuss a little of the shooters kind of accelerationist worldview, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, the imagery and associate manifesto that leaked online after the shooting.

I mean, just the shortest thing we can say before getting into it is that this is a Christchurch-inspired attack. Yes. Motivated by anti-Islamic Islamophobia, right, obviously, but also these shooters were very motivated by anti-Semitic beliefs, by in-cell beliefs, and by general fandom of mass shootings, you know? Yeah. Yeah, the first inclination. we had that this was linked to any Nazi accelerationism was some pictures that were released of the shooter's vehicle where a gas can had an SS sticker on it.

Eventually pictures came out of their weapons, which had slogans like race war and hate speech written, literally the words like hate speech written down on the weapon. Yeah. As well as wearing Nazi imagery on tactical clubs. thing. Garrison will have more to say, and we'll look at more about these shooters. But first, here's some ads.

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To start off, I pretty much agree with extremism researcher Jared Holt, who's one of the best in the business. That quote, these kids could not have been any clearer that they cooked their skulls on a neo-Nazi accelerationist slop. Their manifestos are as sloppy as they are extremist, but they do make clear they sought to be copycats, unquote. Yeah. That's an entirely, entirely correct analysis of what happened. It's one of the laziest manifestos in some ways. It's very patterned off of the Christchurchs Shooter's manifesto, which was, you know, say what you will about it, a fairly original work. Like there's one of the more notable segments of this is a chunk where, in their

talking about their beliefs, they talk about the Freemasons. And whichever one of them was writing that portion is like, I don't actually know anything about them, but I know that they're bad, basically. Like, I haven't had time to get into this part of the ideology, which is, like, it's very, it's very sloppy. It's very online. It's very much a product of terrogram, you know? Like in, the sloppiness is part of the humor I kind of expect for these guys. Yeah, large parts of it were just like parentheses unfinished. Yep. Yeah. And I think that's part of a bit. you know. Yeah.

So the manifesto was titled Sons of Tarrant, named after the Christchurch shooter. Yeah. About half of it was written by each of the shooters. And it states that Tarrant was their biggest inspiration. The manifesto shows a deep referential knowledge of Nazi acclerationism. But in a very, like, regurgitated sense, right? Almost as if you asked Chat D.P.T. to make a neo-Nazi, exoratious manifesto.

I'm not saying they actually did that. But that's the sort of like vibe that it has. Yeah, it's very generic. Yeah, it's slop. There's really nothing like new at all in there. It's mostly just referential. And it has that chat GPT vibe in part because they're just copying these other manifestos that were written by guys who were somewhat more original than them.

And they came by it, I think primarily not even from initially scanning the original documents, but from seeing chopped up pieces of them in these conversations that they're having in these, like, groups that they're in. And so it just kind of, and co-cates this Slop mindset. Like, this is kind of, it's not just the manifesto that Slop. The way these people were radicalized probably was also Slop. Yeah. Yeah, there's this big element of like Gen Z irony throughout stuff like this.

And you can see that on the shooters TikTok and their Steam page, which has a whole bunch of anime Nazi edits, little TikTok dances with accelerationist imagery and like anime art. the way that these two shooters identified with Nazi accelerationism and mass killers is very close to the way a lot of people just identify with pop culture fandom. The Columbine aspect is also pretty

crucial here and one of the shooters writes about that in the manifesto on their steam they had a anime Columbine edit. Yeah. Trying to understand a shooting like this as just primarily ideologically driven has its limits

right. That's certainly an aspect of it that's very clear. The ideological imagery is front and center. But there's also this copycat aspect and like the saint lineage of these shooters trying to make themselves infamous by associating themselves with these other mass killers. And the in-group signaling is what the fashion of ideology is resting on. Yes. The in-group signaling is key because when you just say they're trying to like copy their copycats,

they're trying to copy these other killers, then that makes people think of someone who is kind of purely narcissistically so focused on the outside on how people see them as a result of their act. But at least equally important is this group of folks that they socialize with in these telegram chats and other communities that they think are cool and that they like. And they are trying that's why the manifesto is the way it is. That's why the Christchurch manifesto was the way it was. They're trying to signal to their differing communities of people online. It's like part of a fandom.

It's exactly. The way that we think of pop culture of fandom, that's what this is. for a small number of young people online. Yeah, and it's like, it's not just even Nazi stuff. Like, I've seen a lot of people making a big deal about the fact that one of the shooters had a profile image of a character, Ashley Graves, from... The Incest Video Game. Yeah, a video game called The Coffin of Andy and Layley, which is like a really

fucked up incest video game. And she's, like, she's, like, specifically, like, a really bad, evil person. And it's, like, the comments I've seen are basically like, yeah, I'm not surprised that he would idolize. someone who would do this would like idolize a character like that. It's a bit. It's a bit. Yes. It's a bit. Like that's, these are, these are all things that are like popular in these weird little chunks of the. Right. Like it's, it's, it's an encompassing thing. It's not just these people are Nazis or these people want to be famous. And if you're just looking at that, then you're going to be confused by this like very sloppy seeming manifesto unless you understand it's there to make their friends laugh, you know? Yeah. I mean, like, and as ideological as this is, it's just as.

as memetic. Even if the overt Nazi stuff is very strong in this case. And as much as people will focus on the Nazi stuff and a lot of the reporting, we can't overlook this sort of like fandom and like a Columbine aspect. You know, crucially, there's two shooters here. That's very, very Columbine-esque, and that's something they acknowledge in the manifesto. They did live stream, the shooting in a discord call. So there were people aware that this shooting was happening since before the shooting started, people to hop on to this call. Jesus Christ. They said in their manifesto they were going to wait

until they had a good number of people on the call before starting so they could ensure someone recorded it, which indeed someone did. Just as a side note here, I've seen a lot of people talk about this as like a quote-unquote 764 shooting. 764 refers to a specific group of or a specific online community that does child-like sex exploitation. They try to extract in black,

male children into providing child sexual abuse material, and sometimes convincing children to also do acts of violence. There is not an explicit 764 connection that I am aware of at this point. Sometimes these communities do overlap to intersect, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is something 764 related that comes out about one of these shooters eventually. Sure. But I think that framing, that understanding is slightly mistaken. I think people jump to that very often. There was obviously the sort of like group element of this shooting. They're streaming it in a discord call, but I think 7664 does actually refer to a specific group. It's not just, you know, neo-Nazi accelerationist shooters in general. I've seen some people question why a mosque was

chosen as the target if a lot of the manifesto is anti-Semitic. That's kind of like the crux of of their ideology. They did the Islamic Center, likely, because they wanted to specifically copy Terrant, right? That's even down to the clothes

that they're wearing. The military fatigues that they're wearing are very similar to what Terrant wore. The manifestos, even around the same length as Terence manifesto.

Yeah, and I think a vital part of this and when you're looking at this sort of, what seems like things that are incongruent between what they're writing

and what they're doing, it's that this is sort of the most advanced stage of the reduction of politics to aesthetics and it's reached a point where, like, the aesthetic itself is, like, memetically alive. Yes.

In a way that's, you know, in a way that operates independently of, like, what the people who made the ideology we're trying to do. And now the aesthetic itself is getting people to just do the things. And so they're doing it for the aesthetic, which is what the politics has been turned into. 100%. Yeah. And, you know, even like the selection of video games, they have on their Steam profile, is designed with this in mind.

The incest game, one example. Yeah. Parts of Iron Four is also included on. God, of course it fucking is. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. The shooter unlocked no achievements. Yeah.

So they weren't even playing the game. It's about being cool to your buds. They weren't even playing the game, but he wanted to include the game on the profile because it references or has been a part of other neo-Nazi accelerationists in the past. Similarly, a lot of like the enemy visual novels included on the profile seem to be unplayed.

Yeah. It doesn't happen enough. This gets looked at. because of how horrifying the actions are as something separate fundamentally from like all the other shit that like dumb shit young people do to be cool and it really shouldn't entirely or just being suicidal right or just being extremely mentally like unwell like underregulated socially disintegrated i think the the desperation to fit in anywhere is tied with that sort of thing too yeah right like the fact that you would lie about the stuff you're interested with in order to

put on this image that is more fitting for what you think this community wants to see from you, you know? Part of the tragedy here is that these people as kids found community in these acceleration of spaces that became the primary way they socialized in a very similar vein as a lot of people socialize online about Star Wars or whatever anime is popular on TikTok or like those other fandom spaces that are not designed around going into a place of worship or a school and killing tons of people. Yeah.

I guess I should just say real briefly, the FBI removed 30 firearms from Kane Clark's family home. It seems to all the firearms they use for whatever it's worth. It doesn't make a huge difference, I guess, other than to say that, like, these were all compliant with California law. California has very strict gun laws. It's very hard in this country to stop people getting the means to kill lots of people. Yeah. I mean, that said, it's entirely possible that that is why there weren't more people killed. You know, we really, it's impossible to say that the gun that they were using isn't wildly different from an AR in this kind of situation. But, you know, there's limitations on the amount of ammo in a mag or whatever that may have had some impact. I don't really have, I don't have enough granular detail about all of that. And it's also kind of impossible to say. But yeah, these were all Cali legal guns.

Yeah, you see the kid I would not suggest watching the video I don't think anyone needs to watch a video It's not good for you This is no reason to watch it or read the manifesto There's nothing in there Yeah, none of this will make your grief You know more real or it's just solidarity

More completely you don't need to You see the kid fuck up the window for a while In a video which is good I wish someone had fucking shot him When he was doing that One of the last things I want to add There has been an attempt by some popular right-wing figures

to try to turn this into another trans shooting. Yeah, specifically Elon Musk. Yes, Elon Musk has boosted claims. Yeah. Completely unfounded, false. Just outright false. Absolute lies, admitted by the O.P. He's just lying.

False assertions that either one or both of the shooters were transgender. This seems to be primarily using a picture of one of them has long hair as the sort of quote-unquote evidence. They are not trans. Neither of them are trans. They write about hating LGBTQ people in the manifesto. They are not trans. It's not a trans shooting.

No, they're right about hating trans people in particular. Yeah. Yeah, but, you know, they're just like these people like Elon Musk and all threatening people doing this, like they're just overtly doing the Julius striker like Dirstormer, like Jewish crime shit. Like that's just, that's just all this is at this point. It's, yeah. They don't think it's true any more than like we do. They just know that you've got in this period of time right after something like this happens,

if you flood the zone with shit like that, some number of people will never get corrected. That's all this is. Reality is very malleable in those first few hours. Yeah. Yeah. I think some of them also think it's funny. Yeah. Like I think in the same way, it signals that you're cool to your friends and in the same way that these people did that.

Like, it's disgusting. Wow. It's all the same thing. We're doing the meme genocide. It's arguably genocide's always been a meme. Yeah. The whole thing has been really hard on the San Diego community, right?

We have a big fire at East of La Posta as well. It's getting under control. We will share a fundraiser for the families of the three people who unfortunately lost their lives. It's already up a half a million dollars, which is nice to see. But yeah, I know that that mosque specifically has spent so much time. on security. I know they've applied for grants. Like,

I know they've done everything they can. They have cameras. They had armed security. Like, they, it's really sad that this community felt that this might happen and it happened, you know, that they felt that they weren't safe.

I filed some public records requests, yeah, that will take weeks, months to come back. But if there is more reporting on this to be done, we will do it, especially like, this is where I live.

This is my community. So, like, I'm going to try my best to, uh, find as much as I can. But yeah, it's a tragedy right now. Before we go on an ad break, I have one more story here. On Tuesday, there was a primary election in Kentucky.

Incumbent libertarian Republican Thomas Massey lost the election by 10 points to APEC and Trump-backed challenger Ed Galeraine. Massey broke with Trump over the release of the Epstein files. though unlike Marjor Taylor Green, he did not step down but continued to serve in Congress, opposing the one big beautiful bill, the war on Iran, and aid to Israel. Trump selected, Ed Gowrin, a former Navy SEAL, to run against Massey. And this election became the most expensive primary in house race history. Great.

APEC and other pro-Israel lobbying groups spent over $9 million to unseat Massey. Jesus. And overall ad spending in this primary reached over 30,000. $23 million. Jesus. It's like a wide receiver one money. Yeah. It's wild.

This is crazy for a Kentucky house scene. That's going to go to a Republican either way. It's just a Trump's ego thing. It's like a Trump Israel thing. Yeah. It's pretty wild. Yeah. Israel too, obviously. Yeah, of course.

The pro-Israel lobby funded a significant, a significant part of the ad spending here. That's crazy. Another interesting factor. Pax on both sides of this race. used AI deep fake ads depicting the opposing candidate. I would have briefly show some of these. No.

Not the whole ones, just very short clips to get like the sense of what the deal is here. Credible and pending sense of dread. Yeah, I love it. These Trump traders, they can't stand our president and can't help but let it show. Like Woke Eddie Galrine, Woketty left the Republican Party after Trump won the GOP nomination in 2016. Take a look for yourself. And when did Woggetti change his registration back to the GOP?

After Joe Biden was sworn in, Trump was in the foxhole, and Boatty Gowrym tucked his tail and ran. Kentucky 4th is responsible for the content of this ad. Oh, my God. So it's done just Donald Trump is participating in World War II. in this video this is the craziest part of the ad where a deep fake Donald Trump

is in the trenches with a rifle it just looks like a photoshop it looks like a shitty meme photo shop it's like World War I or two it could kind of be either I think they're giving D-Day right like you got the tank barriers

like he's got the Garan the tank barriers but that looks that is that a garage? Yeah because he fired it twice without running the ball Did he? I don't think they know what we're that supposed to be. We've put more thought into this and they have already.

His camo doesn't look anyway. Whatever. Yeah, true. So woke Eddie Galran ran away as Trump was in the trenches. The foxhole, Garrison, the foxhole. My apologies. Under fire. This is the pro-Massiad, right?

So the promasiat, you're trying to frame the Trump-backed candidate as woke, woke Eddie Galer. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Who abandoned Trump. Meanwhile, the anti-Massie ads looked like this. Thomas Massey caught in a throple in Washington. What? Oh, man.

No, what is happening? Massey voted with the squad against finishing Trump's wall. He voted with them against hiring new border agents. Jesus Christ. This is worse than adultery. It's a complete and total betrayal of President Trump. and Kentucky Conservatives. On May 19th, fire Thomas Massey.

Maga, Kentucky is responsible for the content of this advertising. I guess the upside of this is the term throuples really gone mainstream, huh? They trust people in just like small town Kentucky to know what thruble means. So this ad, famous Thomas Massey, is in a quote-unquote thruple with the squad, showing him holding hands. Also, the squad is more than three. Showing him holding hands with AOC. He can handle that. and other deep-faked interactions between AOC and Alon Omar.

Yeah, great. Cool stuff. Yeah, wow, the cable news generation really got to be having their minds melted by that shit. Lastly, an ongoing story we followed on ED the past few months is whether Trump will endorse in the Republican Senate runoff in Texas. Early reports indicated that Trump would back incumbent Senator John Cornyn over Maga hardliner and Texas AG Ken Paxton. But Trump seemed irritated that his intentions were leaked. And following that, Paxton started to make some moves. In a bit to win the president's favor, in March,

Paxton promised to drop out of the race if the Republican Senate killed the filibuster to pass the voter restriction bill dubbed the Save America Act. At the time, the bill was Trump's top priority. And this gambit by Paxton seemed to work, as later that month, he was seen meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. and then this past Tuesday, Trump endorsed Paxton via truth on truth social, quote, he is a winner in all caps. Ken is a strong supporter of terminating the filibuster in all caps.

And very importantly, the Save America Act. John Cornyn is a good man and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough, unquote. This endorsement seemed to catch Senate Republicans off guard, some of whom now worry the seat may be in jeopardy. Republican Majority Leader John Thune is still backing Senator Cornyn. What's going on that break? Yeah.

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What's the song? We're about to hear the song. We're about to hear the song. Well, I am excited about that. That must mean it's time to learn about tariffs. My God, there's tariff news again. So, let's run through a few pieces of tariff news. we have now technically speaking started the tariff-free fund process.

People are starting to get their money back. This is going to be a catastrophe that unfolds over the course of genuinely who knows how long. My guess is I don't think this is done by next year. We've also seen a series of negotiations from the Trump administration with a whole bunch of different countries. The U.S. had a summit with China where Trump is Xi Jinping. met and appear to be trying to wind down the trade war. There is an attempt to reduce tariffs on goods that aren't under the sort of Section 301 national security tariffs. There's also been some attempt by the Chinese government to get the U.S. to back off of using the national security powers

for more tariffs. The deals on this one are still kind of inconclusive. We're going to see more as this unfolds. There's a very good quote. that I think is interesting from U.S. trade rep James and Greer were in Reuters. Well, this is reported in Reuters, was on Fox Business News, where he said, quote, it's not really a situation where we go and get China to change the way they govern the way they manage their economy. Greer told Fox businesses last week, this was about three weeks ago now. That's all baked into their system, but I think there is a world where we find out where we can optimize trade between China and the U.S. to achieve more balance. So this is effectively a pure back off of everything they've been saying about like all of the,

all of the Chinese economy inherently having rigged trade because of government subsidies, et cetera, et cetera. It seems like they're kind of trying to wind this down, I think, largely because they have, with this war in Iran, they have dropped a second nuke on the economy and they want to make sure that the two bombs they've dropped on their own feet aren't going off at the same time. So in that vein, we've also seen the EU has finally gotten together to approve-ish, it's a little complicated, a provisional deal with the administration that the details are also still a little murky on, but the short version seems to be the U.S. imposes a 15% tariff on European goods.

While, once again, per Reuters, the EU would, quote, remove import duties on U.S. industrial goods and grant preferential access to U.S. farm and sea produce. We still don't know exactly what that's going to look like, but those are the, those are the preliminary details after these negotiations were thrown into chaos when Trump was trying to invade Greenland. Yeah, well, we'll know more about what these deals look like in the weeks to come. Now, the other piece of news we should talk about here is that on Friday, on the Friday that you're presumably listening to this, on Kevin Warsh is going to be sworn in as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. this has come as part of a deal where in order to get Warsh out of committee, the Justice Department dropped their investigation into former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

It is worth noting, though, that Jerome Powell, so Jerome Powell has obviously stepped down as the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Coward! That's all. I got nothing. My brain is too cooked on Federal Reserve to be able to react. properly. But, comma, Jerome Powell is not stepping down from the Board of Governors,

which he's still on. I think he's still also on the Open Market Committee. So Warsh has his work cut out for him. We should mention, so who is Kevin Warsh? We've talked about this a little bit before. He is, I would say, more stable and more hinged than the previous candidate Trump has been talking about. He has experience in the federal rule.

reserve. However, he's also very, very close to a lot of the tech, right, particularly Thiel and Andresen. That is absolutely a cause for alarm that these sort of tech fascists have gotten their guy as the head of the Federal Reserve. However, he has effectively inherited a grenade. So how are things going to be going for him when he takes office in about two days as we're recording for this? Not great. The yield on the 30-year T-note is at 5.4%, which is the highest it's been since 2007. For people unaware of what high T-note yield means, it means things bad for the U.S. economy, and investors are spooked and kind of panicking. This seems to mostly be investors finally starting to price in, wait, hold on, this war on Iran is not simply going to end.

so he is inheriting a situation that is going to be a mess because these high interest rates means that there's going to have to be sort of fed interest rate hikes in order to curve inflation however Trump wants exactly the opposite of that so warish is immediately caught between a rock and a hard place the rest of the Federal Reserve Board does not want to slash interest rates right now and Jerome Powell who hates him is still on the board and is still attempting to manage a kind of veer-flank resistance to Trump's control over the Fed.

So who knows, there's going to be some pretty dramatic clashes, my guess, fairly soon, between some combination of Trump Warsh and the rest of the Federal Reserve Board. And we will keep you informed. Nice. Speaking of money and taxes. Yeah. Giving Trump allies control of massive pools of money. And that, and that.

Yeah, of our tax money, thank you. On Monday, President Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS after he negotiated with Trump administration to create a $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of political, quote, unquote, weaponization. Yeah. The lawsuit Trump levied against Trump's government, alleged the IRS failed to prevent a contractor from leaking his tax returns in 2019 when Trump was also president. Part of the settlement, this is wild, right? I have to, like, this is, this is wild.

You know, a headline. Yeah, it's very, it's incredibly silly. Trump wins lawsuit against Trump government. Yeah, against Trump's IRS. Yeah. You know, technically they didn't win the lawsuit. It was settled. And part of the settlement is this $1.8 billion fund.

Garrison. 1.776 billion dollars fun. Come on. Come on. Yes. I was rounding up. That's right, baby. I hate this world. Yeah.

In this case, Garrison, he's unacceptable to round up because they had something they were going for there. They were ashamed to miss it. They were cooking. They thought this fight is for people who believe they are victims of political epitization by the DOJ. Acting A.G. Todd Blanche said, quote, it is this department. intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again, unquote. Blanche himself will appoint a five-member committee to evaluate weaponization claims submitted by the public. So this is basically a scheme to usurp Congress's power of the purse by literally

weaponizing the judicial process. But this story actually gets crazier. Oh, yeah. Another part of Trump's settlement against Trump is that the DOJ has pledged that Trump and his two eldest sons are to be forever exempt from tax audits by the IRS. It's amazing, then. Quote, the United States releases, waves, acquits, and forever discharges each of the plaintiffs from and is hereby forever barred and precluded from prosecuting or pursuing any and all claim. unquote. Incredible. Now, a DOJ spokesperson later told the Financial Times that this exemption only applies to

existing audits, but that's not really what the document says, and that's not what the Trump administration is saying outside of this one statement from a DOJ spokesperson. So, who knows? Again, Julius Caesar didn't do this shit. Like, what are we doing here? Yeah, it's, again, the standard for a long time previously was that like the president and VP were audited like yearly because it's just like what you do like in a democracy just because you it should be built into the system that you don't trust that the president isn't corrupt that's a bad idea it's speaking of corruption the whole idea of settling a lawsuit yourself yourself yourself it's yeah using everyone's money i would i would sue myself a lot

i'm going to be honest i'm going to be honest i'm going to be honest i don't like i don't like What the? I didn't know he could do that. I just... I just... This has somehow managed to turn me into a way they made Jimmy Carrey gave up his peanut farm live. Yes. Like, yes, no, that was literally what I was thinking.

Like, Bill Clinton, not the most, not exactly analogous, but like, Bill Clinton used to cross the street to use a different phone to avoid transgressing the hatch act. Yeah. And now we're here. absurd. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a Bill Clinton fan, but yeah, come on. But just thinking about the difference in severity between how Monica Gate, which is what it was literally called, often at the time was treated, and how the president creating a $1.776 billion slush fund for people who tried to do an insurrection is being treated. Like, it's insane. Yeah. Right. And that's the other thing we should mention. This is going to be mostly used by people who are prosecuted for their involvement

in the January 6th insurrection. These funds are not going to be granted to like left-wing activists who are being prosecuted by Trump's DOJ for political targeting. Although there might be some lawsuits around that. I mean, we'll see. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

has said that Democrats are going to fight every element of the self-dealing measure. Not only is this another heinously corrupt act by the most corrupt administration in history. It's clearly a violation of the law that prohibits interference by executive branch officials and IRS audits. So we'll see if any of that is successful.

Good luck. I'm not against trying, but it's not my odds on bet, you know? Yeah. Not to demean the effort. I'm just trying to be reasonable here. Yeah. We can dream. Back in 2019, when I was in film school, I was interviewing a federal judge. Wow, humble brag, huh? For some, like, documentary project. And she talked about, you guys, in 2019, so Trump won, she talked about how she thinks that it's really going to be the judicial system that saves us from authority. This is this is our, this is the last line of defense we have against a dictator.

Judge thinks their job good. Like, to be fair, I knew a lot of journalists who are like the press, every press will save husbands. Meet me while. Me, meanwhile, like that. Back in reality, like the Supreme Court just like repealed the voting rights act. And that's what I was, that's what I'm getting to. Yeah.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Democrats emergency appeal in the Virginia redistricting case, leaving the decision by the state Supreme Court to block the new voter-approved house map in place. The U.S. Supreme Court offered no explanation in their brief one-sentence unsigned memo. That might be the shortest shadow docket yet, which is insulting because they were already, like, one paragraph. Yeah. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled the new map violated the state constitution via procedural error during the referendum process. I, I, I often, think about the conversation I had with this, with this federal judge in 2019, as all this stuff's been happening. I'm like, I would really love to talk with her again. I should maybe try to track her

down and then like ask because, oh boy. Yeah. How do you conceive of yourself now, like your role in this? Yeah. How do you function ideologically as a person whose job it is to do the law when the Supreme Court has said that Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution when it says that Congress can pass laws to regulate elections does not actually apply to Congress passing a law to regulate elections? Like, what do you do after that in order to make it so that black people don't get a vote? Yeah, like, where do you put your ideology on it to you know? It's all fake. Yeah. God, I'm extremely angry about this. I mean, around that time was when, you know, partisan gerrymandering was like explicitly

allowed by the Supreme Court. I mean, you can, yeah, we can track a lot of, a lot of the stuff to, to that ruling as well, right? And this was, yeah. This was, I think that was around 2019, between 2019 and 2021. Shall we move on to the war, which is not a war in Iran? I believe we shall. Okay, well, we'll start at the start of this week just gone, I guess, where the president set a deadline for strikes, about which we found out through a series of AI-generated images,

and then back down from it at the urge you about it in the region, as talks continue. Meanwhile, Iran has not stopped using drones and missiles to attack Kurdish groups, largely Iranian Kurdish groups in southern Kurdistan. Indigenously produced missiles. Yes. We're going to talk about indigenous production later. Yes, okay. Okay.

All right. I see what you're doing. Trump on Monday said he would hold off the quote-unquote scheduled attacks. Meanwhile, Iran has opened an X account using X.com, the everything website for the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a direct contravention of my desire to not make this segment Twitter review. This is the worst episode we've done in a while. It's bleak. You know, you know 28 days later when it opens and all this bad shit is just like clicking through? Yeah, that's every week now.

Every new sentence one of us says, I just, my headache grows a little, a little. A little bit, a little bit bigger. Like longing for the halcyon days we thought that 2020 was the worst year ever. People are nostalgic for 2020 now. Folks are getting hopeful about the Hanta virus out there. Oh, yeah. Please, God.

So, yes, Iran's ex-account for the PGSA, the Persian Gulf, Strait Authority, is claiming that it has established a controlled maritime zone in the straight hashtag, straight of Hormuz. hashtag Hormuz Undercourse straight if you want to get in on that conversation. Why would you hashtag it that? This isn't important.

You are the Islamic Republic of Iran. What are you doing is creating a hashtag because Donald Trump has bombed you for three months without declaring war yet. Like, what a world. What a time to be alive. Meanwhile, CBS. See, again, every fucking sentence, man. Only the best. Only the best.

Oh, man. Every time I see it. I see a full stop. I want to just go and walk into the ocean. If I did, I might eventually float to the Strait of Hormuz where CBS is reporting that the U.S. has identified 10 naval mines. I spoke to my mine guy that this is a life I lead. His mind guy.

The Supreme Leader of Iraq. Mine guy. It's going to be my new. by autobiography. You could DM the old Ayatollah on Twitter. It's possible you can get the new one already. There's no way to know. Although the old one never got back to me

about whether or not he liked anime. So that remains an unanswered question. He would post about American sports. It's very funny. These are the Maham 3 and 7 minds. So the 7 minds here are the particularly advanced ones. They apparently can absorb some sonar, making them very hard to detect.

And they can go off when you're searching for them. Neither of these are contact minds, right? The Mahama 3s, for example, they're midwater floating, whereas 7's going to be on the bottom. They can go off using a number of different sensors. Like the Mahama 3s could go off using magnetic or acoustic sensors when a ship is nearby. So you don't even have to directly bump them, which is great. If they have found 10, one assumes that there are actually tons more than that. We are now waiting until something bumps into one. Great. For a long time, there was like Schroding just. minds, right? We know the minds are there. The minds are real. So the cat is out of the box.

No, no, James, I seem to recall several weeks ago. Donald Trump said Iran's offensive capability has been completely degraded. That's correct. Yeah, no Navy, no boats. So they must have got these very quickly in the initial hours after the strikes began, I guess, and it just took this long to find them. Well, sometimes sea turtles lay particularly explosive eggs, but Donald Trump can't be expected to have anticipated that. Well, we've already denied the suicide dolphin program, so we couldn't stop the sea turtles. Yeah. Well, these are not suicide dolphins, right?

What if these dolphins intended to live another day? They're homicide dolphins. Yeah, the homicide dolphins. That'll be a good band name. Or like the dolphin from Sequest. Reach out to me if homicide dolphins is a name if you're banned. Reach out to me if you like Seekwest. Yeah.

Like a lot of Iranian military technology, these are entirely copied, right? I think it's a Norwegian-Swedish mine. and French minds. Iran does this a lot, right? It sort of plagiarizes other people's military technology. Yeah, like a smart person does. Like the U.S. did. Like everyone does, if they see someone else make a good weapon.

That's how war works. Yeah, and the Iranians do it in a more direct way than most, I will say. They don't even pretend. But if the world has cut you off with sanctions anyway, what has you got to lose from my P-theth? This isn't like fucking Android copying shit. from iPhones code or whatever. This is just how war works. Yeah.

What are they going to do? Bomb them? Yeah, we didn't sue the USSR for plagiarism when they got a nuke. Like, that's not how this works. Yeah. I'm sure some like French guys are mad about it, but yeah, not going to change. Let's talk about reporting from NYT today that Israel intended to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the new leader of Iran.

And the way that they intended to do this. Fucking, of course. And I think this is particularly telling of the IDF. Yeah. They bombed his house. Yeah, that's all. That's the only thing they know how to do, James. Yeah, it says when you only have a hammer, the world is a nail.

When I read that, it made me think this great comedian now dead Bill Hicks had a bit during the Gulf War, the first Gulf War, where he was like talking about the amazing guided missiles the U.S. has that we could like fire down chimneys. And he was like, couldn't we theoretically use that technology to shoot food into the mouths of hungry people. I thought about that. Did I read that story? Unfortunately, they

injured Ahmadinejad. Oh, shit. Of course they injured. Again, because it's Israel, right? And like, there's nothing they love to do more than a killer age or a Muslim person. And so, yeah, spectacularly, they attempted to install Ahmadinejad, a guy who wanted to wipe Israel off the map into power in Iran. This guy was the devil.

If you remember, if you watched the news when he was first president of Iran, this guy was the devil. Also, a massive pusher of their nuclear program. Yeah. Fascinating. Probably the world's most famous hardliner. Maybe he's just, maybe he's the only guy they do about. Like, do they have some incredible compromise? Yeah, like, did they just have no other names?

Well, I mean, this is part of Israel strategy, though. They want aggression to increase, so they have justification to, like, take over the region and, like, crack down, like, even harder. That was part of their strategy with Hamas for years. Yeah, sure, but they already have justification. They're already killing a bunch of people in Iran. They could try to rope in even more countries, roping more people. This is like a scaling issue. They are the accelerationists of the international.

No, really? Yeah, genuine. We also found out that Israel low-key invaded Iraq, setting up two bases in the Iraqi desert and shooting at Iraqi troops and civilians who came near them. Hey guys. Israel low-key invaded Iraq.

Yeah, yeah, that's me. I am here to maintain our youth audience by using the language that they understand. Yeah, that's good. Let's talk about the Senate. On Tuesday, the Senate advanced a resolution, quote, to direct the removal of the United States armed forces from hostilities with or against the Islamic Republic of Iran

that have not been authorized by Congress. This is more of a rebuke than anything with a reasonable chance of actually stopping the war, but still significant. significant because Bill Cassidy crossed party lines after losing his primary election in which Trump campaigned against him. Only after losing, though. Yeah, right.

Yeah. After this guy have destroyed your whole life, you suddenly grow a backbone. That makes sense. He was joined by Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Well, of course, do you guys want to guess which festering turd of a Democrat senator crossed the other way? Federman? Yes.

Yeah, of course. When you said festering, I thought of Federman. Okay. Okay. It's always Federman. Yeah. They're calling him Festerman in the chat. Good stuff.

John Cornyn of Texas, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, and Tom Tillis of North Carolina didn't vote, which allowed the vote to pass. In practice, even if the resolution passed the House, I guess the president could veto it if you wanted to. It's interesting that they've been gradually peeling off Republicans. Markowski switched last week, Cassidy this week. I don't think the non-voting was as much about this as they just didn't vote at all that day. But Cassidy, we can see why. Collins and Makowski are the ones that they talk about like swinging a lot. Ram Paul is plowing his own lonely furrows, as he always has.

But it's interesting that they have gradually peeled these people away from the Republican Party. Meanwhile, in Nigeria, the United States has carried out a series of strikes against Islamic State targets. They killed Abu Bakr al-Manuqi, someone who went by several other names. You'll see a lot of other names in impressors. He definitely was solidifying a power within the West Africa province as the Islamic State and definitely becoming globally relevant, especially, you know, post-territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Yeah, this is the stuff that most of that counterterrorism tragedy document was

writing about. Yeah. And they have been pursuing this in Nigeria for some time. I wrote last Christmas about them winding up for grown strikes, right? The incident they've stationed troops there. Trump's statement was, as always, somewhat incomprehensible. Trump said he had been hiding in Africa. That man had obviously lived in Africa his entire life, never left.

Trump called him second in command globally. That's not outside the realm of possibility, but it's also not lear, right? There's not like a direct, like, pyramid chart that we can go to. It was a joint U.S. Nigerian operation. We saw overhead videos. Looks to me like it's from a drone. It seems like there was a helicopter component, potentially a ground component as well.

The US, of course, has had special and conventional forces in Africa for decades, but this is still a remarkable strike for them. It will be maybe the first of many. It seems like they were doing several, almost every day this week, judging by the Centcom Media Release page, which I will link in the sources. Well, go ahead and email us, gone. Yep, cool zone tips at proton.com.

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