It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #23

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

The gang discuss the DOJ‘s attempts to denaturalize American citizens, how the Big Beautiful Bill funds genocide, and Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani from Republicans and Democrats. Plus, updates on tariffs, the Diddy trial, and Elon Musk’s subsidies. Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/27/us/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes  https://ktla.com/news/local-news/mother-and-young-kids-inside-during-explosive-huntington-park-raid-suspect-not-home/   https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-vylan-visa-revoked-state-department-1235375566/ https://bsky.app/profile/mclem.org/post/3lstr4lfyns2w https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-denaturalization-convicted-distributor-child-sexual-abuse  https://bsky.app/profile/immdef.bsky.social https://laopinion.com/2025/06/30/hija-de-inmigrante-secuestrada-por-encapuchados-no-encuentra-a-su-madre-enferma/ https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0306-71 https://x.com/RepOgles/status/1938301392416084150 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/kirsten-gillibrand-zohran-mamdani-00436031 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8dU-K1qZ4  https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article309792865.html https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/tesla-sedan-hit-by-train-after-self-driving-error-in-berks-county-stops-train-traffic/article_aa1cbbf4-7918-4379-b557-da80f9596103.html  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/heres-whats-in-the-big-bill-that-just-passed-the-senate https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/how-might-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-the-senate-passed-reconciliation-bill-affect-rural-areas/ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/trump-trade-vietnam-deal.html https://newrepublic.com/post/197412/donald-trump-big-beautiful-budget-bill-devastating-poll https://www.cbpp.org/research/medicaid-and-chip/senate-reconciliation-amendment-would-cut-hundreds-of-billions-more-from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-in-trump-big-beautiful-bill-senate-version/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. I'm Robert Evans and on my show Behind the Bastards this week, we have one of our worst subjects ever, David Byrd, founder of the Children of God cult, who we'll be talking about with special guest Ed Helms. He's not just like a weird religious cult leader. He was like fusing a bunch of hippie ideology in with this kind of like evangelical Christianity, Pentecostal preaching in the mid-century is a very weird guy. But yeah, I'll just get into it. Like nothing you just said makes sense. That doesn't say. But that's the beauty of cults.

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This episode, we are covering the week of June 25th to July 2nd. It is the end of Pride Month. It was Canada Day. Fourth of July is coming up. I will say no one on our team wished me a happy Canada Day. Not that I noticed. Mm-hmm. That's correct. I hate the Trump administration because I can't do my Death of Canada jokes anymore. It sucks. It's terrible. Canada, welcome to the Resistance.

I'm going to start with a brief news roundup, because there's been so many news stories this past week that we cannot do big sections on all of them. We have we already have three main stories but there's some mini stories that I didn't want to get forgotten. I'm going to start by talking about the Supreme Court which has now limited the ability of lower court judges to use nationwide injunctions. So now Trump's order to end a birthright citizenship can be enforced, if even temporarily, for those who are not affiliated with the actual court cases on the constitutionality of ending birthright citizenship. What this means on a broader scale is that Trump's very

obviously illegal executive orders can now be enforced in a lot of states because the injunctions that judges are putting on only apply to the people in those specific cases. So enforcement of the orders can start before the final order on if it's legal or not gets issued. So this is really bad because it will cause some intense, if temporary, like short-term headaches for many people whose now citizenship is in a big question mark But this also affects many other cases regarding judge's ability to actually issue injunctions that affect things across the whole country Yeah, there is some sort of like weird hack shit you can do. We're like

There's been some stuff the judges have been trying to do and to be like everyone in the country is a plaintiff or whatever the fuck. Yeah. And I don't know how long that's going to hold up. And like, and like the fuck thing about this is again, it's just like, what this means is Trump administration can kind of do whatever the fuck they want. And it's just legal until the Supreme Court like looks at it and that's completely unhinged. Yeah, like, egregiously illegal orders can now be enforced for a period of months to years. Yeah.

As the court cases eventually will turn their way up to the Supreme Court. Yeah, and this is a particularly egregious one too, because like birthright citizenship is so obviously, it's just literally in the Constitution. It's literally the Constitution just says if you're born here, you're a citizen Yeah, well it says that section of the amendment that is under question is subject to the authority thereof Which is what is being litigated here? There is a section there that that I guess is perceived by some people to be debatable doesn't seem very debatable to me, right? No, it's completely insane. Yeah, it's like unhinged shit like it's like it's like it's like stuff

You wouldn't have seen even from like unhinged conservative legal cranks 15 years ago You absolutely would have seen this particular case. Unfortunately. Well, I guess the absolute most unhinged baby But like you wouldn't have seen even like I don't know The the normal like person on Fox News kind of unhinged thing arguing this even like 15 years ago and now. This was like on the blogs I have, you know, the GeoCities era web design. Yeah, yeah. Trying to restrict and quantify citizenship is going to be probably the main theme of this episode,

as we will get to in the future. And if even temporarily trying to strip the citizenship of already episode, as we will get to in the future. And if even temporarily, trying to strip the citizenship of already thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who live in this country is incredibly worrying, considering the massive amount of increased funding that ICE is about to receive. Speaking of ICE, second little mini story, an explosive ICE raid in Huntington Park, California. Hortack and ICE agents used explosives to breach and raid the home of U.S. citizens. A drone was sent into the home after explosives shattered the windows, sending glass shards flying into the home occupied by a mother and two young children.

The target of the raid was not in the home. Now Border Patrol was looking for a man that got into a car accident during a previous ice raid, who was questioned at the scene and was allowed to leave. But now the DHS alleges the man was obstructing the actions of ICE when he rammed his car into a vehicle carrying CBP agents. Though witnesses at the scene say that the feds break checked, leading to a rear ending. The man turned himself in on Friday after the raid. So what actually happened here is that ICE caused a car accident and in response they blew up the home of US citizens.

Yeah, well they dynamically breached a home with a little child in it, right? Like you see in the video. Two young kids, I think like a six year old and a two year old. Yeah, you see them, presumably the mother of the two year old with the child in her arms leaving. They sent a fucking drone in there, they're acting like it's a house full of like active combatants. You have like dozens of people in military fatigues raiding this home. Yeah, except they didn't do it in such a fashion as you would if you were actually worried, right? Like there wasn't a flashbang, right? They breached, stood around for a while, sent a drone in.

They didn't dynamically breach in a dynamic way, right? Like they would if they were expecting a real threat. No, they just wanted to blow up this person's fucking house because they were pissed off that they caused a car accident. Yes. These are the tiniest fucking baby secret police I have ever seen in my entire goddamn life. Fucking Christ. It reminds me of that one picture

of a police raid in the 90s that conservatives used to use in terms of the governments taking over of this retro 90s SWAT cop pointing a gun at a family that's hiding in a closet. The Elian Gonzalez raid, do you mean? Yeah. And how much this was used as like fear of like federal overreach, like used by conservatives. And now this is like their entire platform is raiding the home of U.S. citizens. Yeah, it's pretty worth noting, I believe Huntington Park, their mayor has directed their police to enforce the California law, which requires law enforcement offices to identify themselves. Right. It's been very common to see ICE agents

refuse to identify themselves and wear masks. Right believe this was passed by their council and then their mayor whose name is Arturo Flores released a statement calling the ICE masked abductions and directing his police to intervene if what was happening was unlawful or unauthorized. And I can't help but think that that is why we saw this happen here. Right? I think it may not be so. My Sakaqa actually has a chance to do something in this city, which has been one of the very few that has taken meaningful action to prevent this.

Absolutely. Because people don't like ICE. There's new ICE approval ratings that came out by Quinnipiac on June 24th, 2025. Net approval of ICE negative 17%. Democrats negative 80%, independents negative 32%. This is the centrist position. Independents negative 32%. Oh yeah, you've got like Bush admin staffers saying abolish ICE.

It's a win for Mia. Oh yeah. GOP is up 60%, but that's it. This is like the centrist position now. And also 60% is, yeah. GOP is up 60, but that's it. This is like the centrist position now. And also, 60% is nearly half the GOP. Like, people don't like ICE. The majority of people in this country don't like ICE.

Negative 17%. Candidates that need to run on abolishing ICE. This is like one of the most important issues facing the country right now. And they are wildly unpopular, including for independents. This is the set. Abolishing ICE should be the centrist position. Yeah, but this is sort of the problem, right?

Which is that the Democrats did this, like, well, at least some of them, at least AOC did, so some of that democratic wave ran on that in 2018. And then the Democrats were just like, eat shit, we're never going to do that again. And like AOC never fucking mentioned it again. Like they all came into power and were like, okay, we got to deal with border crackdown shit. It's like, they need to, they fucking need to do this. Yeah. But people should bring it back. I think the data here is in support.

Yeah. And like, ICE is younger than I am. ICE is younger than all of us. Yeah. ICE is a fucking fake agency. Yeah. And DHS is younger than most of us. Yeah. Like the ICE as an agency should be like disappearing. We should like try to be forgiven for it over

the course of hundreds of years. Like... Yeah. Yeah. People want to learn more about the history of DHS. I did a series about Title 42 where I talk about it a whole lot. Speaking of agencies that shouldn't exist, the BBC cut the feed of the Glass Free Music Festival during NECAP's performance to block pro-Palestinian messaging, but they failed to stop Bob Villain from leading a Death to the IDF chant.

Wait, Bob Dylan? Bob Villain. Oh, Bob Villain. Okay, okay. That sounds like, what? Hold on. Thanks, Bob Villain! Thanks, Bob Villain! They are a punk rap group, and they were leading death to the IDF chants broadcast live on the stage. Both of these music groups, kneecap and Bob Villain, are now under investigation by the British police from their political comments at this music festival. And the US State Department has revoked Bob Villain's work visa ahead of an upcoming US

tour as punishment for criticizing the military of a foreign country. The party of free speech strikes once again. Yeah, I do want to say that like, as a consumer of Glastonbury Music Festival content, right, I guess as a British person, yeah, and at the target like age demographic, I guess, what this has overshadowed is the massive amount of support for the Palestinian cause that you saw. Like, go watch a Glastonbury video and you will not not see Palestinian flags in the crowd. Most of them you will hear the artists acknowledging that there was a genocide in Palestine, right? I don't know if anyone at the BBC is familiar with Bob Villain.

Like, I'm sure they've played their music, but whoever made the choice to stream them and not stream Kneecap, clearly had not done a fucking, like a Wikipedia-level research, because you know what you're getting into with these guys. Both the people in the band are called Bobby Villain, right? No, that's their stage name that they use in order to have a little bit of privacy. But there's an interview with him a while ago where he's like, yeah, I just like pissing people off

because it's the only thing that brings me joy in this miserable fucking country. Like, like... Ha ha ha! Incredible! Yeah, they've been very outspoken about a large number of things. The British police have been going completely unhinged with this too. The Parliament's currently... I don't know what the result...

I think they may have voted to do it already. They've been trying to vote to, like, make it make it illegal for like Palestinian action to exist after they did it after they did a pretty big action at a British, yeah after Palestinian action did a pretty big like action at a like fucking British arms manufacturer that sells to Israel So they're going so unhinged on all of this shit. And they've been going after kneecap for years There's yeah, multiple investigations into kneecap now. You should check out kneecaps new movie. It's pretty good.

For our first main story, I guess I'll throw to James to discuss denaturalization. Yeah. Oh, come on. Yeah, that's exciting. The Glastonbury Music Festival. So denaturalization, if you're not familiar with the removal of US citizenship from people who became US citizens at some point in their life. The DOJ has issued instructions to its Civil Division employees to pursue denaturalisation proceedings against naturalised US citizens

quote, in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence. It goes on to list some categories. These include some of the things you might expect, including being in access to terrorism and organized crime, people who engage in war crimes, people who committed violent crimes or failed to disclose felonies on their application for naturalization. But they also include fraud, both against private individuals and against Medicaid, Medicare and the Pay You Check Protection Plan, maybe program, the PPP, COVID era government bailout, right? The last one, however, is the most concerning, quote, any cases referred to the Civil Division that the Division considers sufficiently important to pursue.

Any cases that are found to be sufficient, sufficiently important. Just people are familiar rates, civil and criminal law are distinct. Civil law has a lower burden of proof and crucially the accused person is not entitled to legal representation. In addition, this could have trickle-down effects. Children of naturalized citizens are also citizens, so their citizenship derives from their parents' citizenship. So it's possible that children who are not even accused of doing anything wrong could be de-naturalized,

or not naturalized, de-citizenized, and left stateless, right? Many of these children will not be dual nationals. This is another big problem with ending birthright citizenship. Yes, it will lead people... So like, this is something that I do feel like, much like I feel like in the UK, people should have pushed back against the government prosecuting people for saying shit that was fucking hateful and disgusting about migrants when there was a stabbing attack last year. I still feel people should have pushed back because it's not a good situation when the government gets to decide what you can and can't think. Likewise, in this instance, nations in the global north have been leaving people who fought for the

or people who are accused of fighting for the Islamic State or joining the Islamic State stateless for a long time. And I think that was a bad precedent. And they were able to, as we'll get into, they will always use an odious person as the first example, right, to set the precedent and then go from there. Yep. So in the odious person as the first example, right, to set the precedent and then go from there. Yep. So in the odious person example in this case is someone called Elliot Duke. They have been denaturalized. Duke was a UK citizen, served in the United States military while serving in Germany. They received and distributed child sex abuse material. According to the DOJ, they were later contacted by the FBI about this and prosecuted. The DOJ stated that their case was identified as part of Operation Prison Lookout,

which aims to identify sex offenders who have naturalized. I haven't seen any reporting on Prison Lookout. It's in the press release, but I think maybe people don't read to the bottom, but it appears that the DOJ, this case has been going on for months, the Duke case, right? And so the DOJ, as early as February this year, was looking through prosecution records to find naturalized citizens who have been convicted of sex crimes. Duke was not able to get an attorney to represent them. They also, it appears, renounce their UK citizenship and it's not very clear what happens now, right? Like in other stateless person cases, where does this person go?

Denaturalization has been used before, right? The time when the United States did the most denaturalization was during the Second Red Scare, Second Red Scare, aka McCarthyism, right? And oh boy, are they trying to bring it back? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. 20,000 cases a year in the McCarthy era. For reference, that's, I could find suggest about 25 million naturalized citizens in the United States.

Both Obama, Obama had something called operation Janus identified people who were eligible for denaturalization. Trump won also had higher rates of denaturalization, but nothing on this McCarthy-era scale, right? People will be familiar with denaturalization also. Before that, that happened to Emma Goldman, for example. Yeah. One other story from this week that's kind of related is it was announced that tool to check the citizenship status of all Americans. This is the first time we've had a centralized tool like this, or we've attempted to.

The US has, for a while, has resisted creating like a dossier of like official citizens because this is like a kind of problematic thing to have. There's a lot of issues with this concept. Actually verifying that this list is accurate is very tricky. You have to add people who have been naturalized, how they've been naturalized. There's other people who acquire citizenship through other means than the standard naturalization process, including through your parents. There's the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, where if one of your parents is a US citizen

and you are not a US citizen, but you live with your US citizen parent while being a legal permanent resident, that then gives you automatic citizenship, but you don't need to apply for the naturalization process. So this is like a really weird thing to prove. You have to like apply for a certificate or apply for a passport as proof of citizenship. How would those cases be added to this list? This is an incredibly problematic thing to have, and it's going to be used mainly just to hunt people down and try to deport them. Yeah, massive information security risk. It's really problematic and tied in with these other denaturalization programs,

it's a really worrying sign of where things are going to be going. Yeah, talking of worrying signs, this is a worrying sign that we have to pivot to advertisements. I'm Robert Evans and on my podcast Behind the Bastards, we talk about the worst people in all of history. We've discussed a lot of horrible monsters in our time, but this week we have one of the very worst we'll ever talk about. David Berg, founder of a cult called The Children of God. We'll talk about all of his horrible crimes

with special guest, Ed Helms. He's not just like a weird religious cult leader, he was like fusing a bunch of hippie ideology in with this kind of like evangelical Christianity, Pentecostal preaching in the mid-century. He's a very weird guy. But yeah, I'll just get into it. Like nothing you just said makes sense.

That doesn't say. Right. But that's the beauty of cults. Listen to Behind the Bastards on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebene, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebene, and every Tuesday Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories

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Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. All right, we are back. James, you do have one piece of good news in the immigration front. Well, I do, Garrison, but I gotta hit you with some bad news first, buddy. That's the way this show works. That's how we do it here at Cool Zone Media. It could happen here special. Immigrant Defenders Law Center, a legal nonprofit, says one of their clients, Julie Calderon,

was abducted by armed men in Los Angeles and taken to San Ysidro. People are not familiar with San Ysidro. The border that you might call San Diego border, right? The town that actually has the physical nexus with Tijuana is San Ysidro. The city of San Diego also has some land down there. She was told at San Isidro that she was to sign voluntary deportation papers. She very reasonably refused to ask to see a lawyer and a judge. And at this point she was taken and returned to the armed men and is now being detained in a warehouse with no beds, blankets or food.

She was able to make a call to her family from a blocked number. She described the people as bounty hunters. And at this point, she said she has not seen any uniformed officers in her detention. She's being detained in an area where men and women are mixed, which is not usual in border patrol detention, according to IMDEF. According to IMDEF, she has not been able to shower and the only water source is a sink. The Mexican consulate has been informed and thinks that she might now be in the Otay Mesa detention centre, but because she's not showing up on the ICE detainee locator, they don't know that for sure and they are therefore still a little bit unclear on where this lady

has gone. I have seen reports of bounty hunters. Many of you have sent them to me. I have seen none that I find to be credible before this. ImDeaf are an established group. They are not people who I've found to be prone to making things up or exaggerating. I trust them as a source. And this is deeply, deeply worrying. I don't know why it's not getting more coverage other than most people on the migration and border beat, perhaps don't speak Spanish or have actually just turned up on this beat a few weeks ago and have no notion

of like who the actors and these groups are. And they tend to go off government press releases. This is like shit that we haven't seen in the United States since I know the Fugitive Slave Act. Yeah, like it's appalling. Yeah, this is like the most just actual straight up 1930s Nazi shit that we've seen from them. Like it's hideous. Yeah, it's happening here in San Diego.

But it's also of course like as Californians, we are entering this time with the most cowardly and like pathetic governor that we've had in a long time. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger was a Republican, but I bet he'd have handled this better than Newsom who is just a slimeball. Yeah, like the fact that Newsom isn't like, like if this was happening in fucking Illinois, Pritchett would have SWAT teams. Like these, these, these people would be like dead right now. But like this is, this is completely fucking unhinged.

Yeah. No, this is. What the fuck? Yeah. James, I was, I was promised a good news after the break. You're right, Garrison. And I do have some lucky you. Finally, a judge has ordered that Trump's sweeping asylum ban exceeds his authority

as president and granted broad class protection. So we're going to see, like literally this happened maybe 30 minutes before we started recording. I'm going to read over the court documents. I've linked them in the notes here and see what this means. But it suggests that Trump's authority under the Immigration Naturalization Act doesn't allow him to just say we're not doing asylum anymore. And therefore, that could mean that it's possible for people to once again apply for asylum in the United States. I don't know how that will look. The Biden administration had great success gating asylum through CBP one, right? And making it practically impossible for many people, people who have darker skin,

people who don't have fancy cell phones, people who don't have access to Wi-Fi, et cetera, et cetera, to apply for asylum. That was the Biden administration. The people who we're supposed to think are good, they were terrible for migrants. But they got that through, right? So what we'll see from the Trump administration, I don't imagine we will see a return to like regular Title A asylum processing, as we saw like, like, you know, last time we saw it, I guess was in the Obama era, and that was pretty bad. So yeah, I don't know what we'll see. Yeah. All right, now I'm going to throw to Robert Evans for a special report on the Diddy trial.

Hey everybody, Robert here. I guess I'm our resident P Diddy expert because I did the Bastards episodes on him. Just felt like it was appropriate to give y'all a brief update. So on the day that we record this, which is Wednesday, the second of July, Sean Diddy Combs was found guilty on two of the five charges in his trial. He was being charged with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. And he was not found guilty of racketeering conspiracy or of both sex trafficking counts, each of which carried 15 year mandatory minimums. But he was found guilty on two counts of transportation

to engage in prostitution. These were four, one for a woman who was sued named Jane and one for his former partner, Cassie Ventura. So this is not what people who understand the case had hoped entirely, right? This is not ideal. It's not nothing, but it's not ideal. Now, do you know the thing? Why did this happen? Right?

Why didn't he get convicted on these higher charges? He was absolutely guilty of it. It's because the prosecutor's fucked up. Right? There were a number of different felony charges they could have gone after him for that were less difficult to prove than racketeering and sex trafficking. And did he had good lawyers? Right?

And there's a lot of weirdness about like, well, they didn't go after him for the guns and drugs that he had both at his properties or for a number of the other things that they could have done after him. You know, this is because prosecutors have to make choices as to like what to charge someone with. And they tried for some of the harder stuff that was always going to be a little more difficult to prove. Now the two charges he's been convicted on, he could do up to 20 years, each has up to a maximum 10 year sentence. So he could get sentenced to do 10 years for each. Prosecutors have said that they're each has up to a maximum 10 year sentence, so he could get sentenced to do 10 years for each. Prosecutors have said that they're looking for a four to five year prison sentence, which

I think is much too light. 20 years would be, I would say, like, okay, that's a serious punishment. Anything over, 10 years are over, I would say that's still at least, we can say it's not all the things you should have been convicted on, but that's not, no one's going to spit at 10 years in prison, especially at his age. He's in his mid fifties right now, but four or five years, you know, I wouldn't quite say that's a slap on the wrist, but it's not nearly what is deserved here. Right.

Now you do with, with federal sentences like this tend to serve a lot more of this. This is not a hope and he'll be out in a year kind of situation. One of the things that's kind of worth noting here is that he and his team did ask for bail while he waited for because next week he's going to, they're going to like set up when he's going to get sentenced, right? So that doesn't mean he'll be sentenced next week, but they'll be scheduling his sentencing next week, right? The legal system moves pretty slow.

And his team asked for bail, there's evidence that he had people like setting up getting extra security up around his, you know, primary home, and they were kind of expecting him to be able to go home today. That's not going to happen. The judge has denied his bail. This is after one of his accusers basically said, hey, I think this guy is really dangerous. He has a history of going after his accusers.

I don't feel safe with them out, you know, before sentencing. And that's maybe a good sign that maybe the judge will go further than the prosecutor. his accusers, I don't feel safe with them out before sentencing. That's maybe a good sign that maybe the judge will go further than the prosecutor, so I don't know if that's likely. Again, I'll be like, okay, well, at least this is serious if it gets 10 years or something like that. If it is four or five, I'm going to be pretty frustrated. That's the case.

We are talking about a billionaire going to court here. So any serious prison sentence is more than you usually would expect. And this is a guy who's been used to living with kind of impunity for a while. And if he spends years in prison, either way, it's not totally impunity, but yeah, not ideal, that's the situation as it stands right now with P Diddy, you know, we'll see again next week, they're going to schedule his sentencing. So, yeah, we'll see how things shake out. Now we'll pass over to Mia to discuss our second main story this episode. The formerly named One Big Beautiful Bill.

Ugh, God. So, actually reading through this, I refuse to call this anything over the genocide budget because this budget What is designed to do is a genocide and that's not an exaggeration Well, there's multiple types of killing included in this bill. Not just genocide. Yeah, the Medicare cuts I think that's true aren't aren't technically genocide, but they but they could lead to mass death So we should be we should be inclusive. We should be inclusive of all the types of deaths I think we'll get into the medicaid shit later we need to start with the

the mass deportation we want to do an ethnic cleansing we want to just simply wipe out entire peoples who live in the u.s. and like fucking deport them from this country right and by we you mean the bill not you mia wong or us cool zone media no no by yeah by by we i mean the republican party who fucking wrote this bill. Okay, just checking. So, okay, what is actually in this? So there's a very good write-up of this from the American Immigration Council, and a lot of the stuff is from there.

Okay, so across Homeland Security and Government Affairs, the judiciary and the military, the version of the budget that just passed the Senate allocates $170 billion to their fucking unhinged deportation shit. This would be the third largest military budget in the world. It is 30% larger than the military budget of Russia, which is currently fighting an active full-scale ground war. Right? This is a genocide budget.

They are trying to get $170 billion for all of the border enforcement shit because they want to do a genocide they are trying to remove entire peoples from the United States and to do that they need this kind of money yeah so let's let's let's break down a little bit of where this money is fucking going we're gonna do a longer thing I'm gonna do a longer episode about this thing probably Tuesday about like everything that's in this budget, but this needs to be understood. They are running 45 billion dollars specifically for immigration detention. And as the American Immigration Council points out, that is at minimum

five and a half billion more dollars per year than the entire budget of the entire federal prison system Yeah What the shit? That's again at minimum. That's like for it's a 14. It's like 14 and a half billion at minimum For detention just just for immigration attention again Significantly look like over 50% larger than the budget for the fucking entire federal prison system they want to put into this. They're also giving out $3.5 billion to state and local governments spent on working with ICE. The American Immigration Council estimates this could be 125,000 holding beds

for people which is, and I quote, only just a bit below the current population of the entire federal prison system. They basically want to create a whole new prison system just for immigrants. Yes. Yeah. And again, and again, and I cannot emphasize this enough. The United States has one of the largest prison systems on Earth, and they want to be the largest. I think China might push it. It's I think it's technically smaller than the Chinese. Oh, let me let me let me actually pull the numbers up.

Yeah, I think it's technically for a cat in America per capita Yeah, it's like it's like there's like no contest Yeah Well, this is so weird because there's countries that have like a really really small number of people Sure like in terms of like large countries for major countries for major companies not even close Yeah, not even close. Now obviously that's also counting like state prisons, but like still that with the far federal prison system is still like I'm unfathomably massive. Yeah, and they basically want to double the size if it's specifically just to fucking do this Just just to do these deportations. They there's 30 billion dollars in this for direct deportations and

Just like the higher ten thousand more ICE agents, which Trump's also been calling for an executive orders Yeah, there is 48 billion dollars for building the wall and like border and like physical border enforcement infrastructure. There's an additional $5 billion for checkpoints and like like border patrol, like facilities and outposts and shit. There's also about $15 billion for states to do deportation shit. There's so much unhinged anti-immigrant shit in this bill that like again, I can't we don't have time to get into it here. This is going to be a full episode on fucking Tuesday.

This is why you have people like Stephen Miller trying to rally the whole party in support of this bill which massively raises the deficit something that Elon's been complaining about quite famously. Yeah five trillion dollar hole in the budget doesn't matter. Now there's all these Republican congressmen who constantly complain about the federal debt, who are totally fine increasing the federal debt massively. People compromising their fiscal conservatism in support of a bill that furthers the United States as a white supremacist penal colony. Yeah. And if these senators and congressmen vote against it, then that will be used against them in future elections.

senators and congressmen vote against it, then that will be used against them in future elections. Being flanked from further on the right with attack ads claiming that the senators failed to round up the illegals in not voting for the big beautiful budget bill. Yeah, and I want to point this out, right? Like they're not going to stop at immigrants. I need to make this incredibly clear. Once you have this infrastructure, you have to use it. Yeah. Okay, look, like the people on the furthest left of the US have talked about for a long time, but this is a country that is built on genocide. Right. This is an apparatus that is designed to turn the US specifically into a machine to to and again, I need to point this out. The definition

genocide includes like removing people from a place. Yeah. Right, like that is a genocide. If you force a bunch of people to, if you fucking round them up, put them into camps, and then fucking send them somewhere else, that's genocide. That is what they are trying to do. Like Laura Loomer has been talking today about like the number she was citing was 65 million people, which is just every Latino person in the entire US. Yeah, that's Latino people. That's what she's talking about. Specifically talking about how she wants to feed them to alligators, which we'll talk about later.

Yes, the context of the number was feeding them to alligators. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So like Trump has been joking for a long time about how if Stephen Miller got his way, there would be like 115 million people in this country and they would all look like Stephen Miller. Like that's where they're going. And that's not like, oh, this is why you're like this is the infrastructure for them to be able to do this.

And so like killing this fucking bill is unbelievably important. We're going to get into more of the fucking unhinged shit in here, but like they only passed it by one vote in the House last time. And because of the way that that reconciliation works, right, if anything changes in the House version of the bill it has to go back to the Senate where they also only barely passed it by like buying off Susan Collins it was a 50-50 split yeah in the Senate yeah with like Murkowski voting for it for example yeah so like you know on the one hand being able to pass this bill is precarious. On the other hand, if they do it, that limits the window for which we have to

like make ICE non-functional a lot, because as they ramp up this capacity, it's going to take them a while to ramp up this capacity, right? Even if this passes. But like they haven't had the capacity to do the genocide they've been trying to do. Right. This will give it to them with this with this amount of resources. Yeah. With the third largest military budget in the world They can do this kind of shit and we have to stop them before they get there Yeah, like this is one of those call everyone you can in Congress situations like

Not always a big call your rep person. Yeah, we're gonna get to at the end of this like how we've actually met We've gotten provisions killed From this bill already. We're going to get to that later. We also need to talk about the Medicaid shit because, Garrison, you were saying, oh, I don't think it's going to be considered a genocide, but it's so killing. I actually disagree with that because, okay, let's explain what's going on with Medicaid. They want to do a trillion dollars of cuts. I think it's just slightly under a trillion or maybe it's actually a trillion dollars of cuts over the next 10 years to Medicaid. They want to put an 80 hour a month

work requirement for Medicaid and food stamps. Now, if you are disabled, right, this is just like a fuck you die proposal, because there are a lot of people who fucking can't work 80 hours a month. And this is just like literally eat shit and die right they're also expanding this shit the work requirements to they want these work requirements to apply to people who have children ages 13 and older so if you are trying to like raise a child fuck you eat shit and die and again also like this is both Medicaid and SNAP so this is a targeted the estimates by the CBO this is per PBS, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that it will, that by 2034, 18.8 million people will be uninsured

from this. It will keep 3 million people off of food stamps. A lot of those people are just going to be disabled and unbelievable numbers of those people are going to fucking die. And that's the point of this, right? Also, it's going to be just hideous for trans people who use Medicaid and SNAP at enormous rates because disabled and trans people are like the two poorest populations in the US. It's fucking hideous. These systems are already so hard to get in on and stay on. Like both like both SNAP and Medicaid require substantial revisions and reforms to make them easier to access to strengthen the infrastructure capacity of these things to get more people on them. They need more funding. This is basically trying to take an already kind of dying

system and just take it out the back and shoot it in the head. Yeah. Yeah. Well and they intentionally just wanted to be like harder and more frustrating and shitty to use. Like they literally rolled back. Like part of this bill is rolling back a bunch of reforms that Biden made to make it like slightly easier to get on. Yeah. And this is just going like, yeah, fuck you. This is going to be an absolute fucking catastrophe. Not just because of the people that it immediately affects, although it is again going to kill unbelievable numbers of people. The other thing with this is that this is going to fucking annihilate rural hospitals because rural hospitals get a huge amount of their money from Medicaid. And you

know, there's a very good Kaiser Family Foundation report where they talk about how like, yeah, one in four people in rural areas get their health insurance from Medicaid. And it's estimated a hundred and fifty five billion dollar decrease in money to hospitals in rural regions over the course of a decade. Those hospitals are already closing. Those hospitals are fucking gone. Like if this fucking passes as is and there is a provision in there that's like oh we're gonna spend fifty billion dollars on like to give money to rural hospitals that's not enough. That's like that's a third of the amount that

they're getting cut by right? Like and even if those are open, how the fuck are people gonna pay for the treatments because they're now kicked off Medicaid? But this is going to fucking just absolutely eviscerate, like, the tiny remains of our rural healthcare system, which is a complete fucking shambolic mess. This is just going to fucking liquidate it. It is going to cause mass suffering and death on a scale that like we are going to look back at the height of the opioid crisis and like in fucking nostalgia because we're going to have the opioid crisis and this at the same time so it's real real fucking bad I'm gonna mention

a couple of other things that are in it's like there's two points to this bill right one of the two points of it is to do is to, again, just like ethnically cleanse every non white person from the US. The second point of this bill is to give corporations $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. It's mostly for rich people. That shit sucks. That's like the buy in for like the business people is you get

these tax cuts. They also want to end the tax credit for electric cars because their response to climate change is, fuck you die. Now, again, as I mentioned, this only passed in the House by one vote last time. And that was actually a less extreme version of the, well, okay, there were some,

there's some more running shit in it that we'll talk about in the other episode in the House version of it. But this only passed in the House by one vote. And it only passed by one vote because three Democrats died in office. Great system. Great. So things going great. However, comma, it is possible to like, like it is possible to beat these people. It is possible to get shit cut from this fucking bill to end on

a positive note on this. We talked a bit last week, maybe last week, two weeks ago, one recent executive disorder. Yeah, yeah. We've talked about, I think it's on two different ones now, about how we beat the fucking ban on using Medicaid for trans healthcare, and by we, I mean a combination of trans journalists like Maddie Castigan, Vera Levine, David Forbes, our like resident trans policy analyst, Kieran Green. I did some work on it, not like a huge amount, but like, I't know I did a little bit a lot of like local queer orgs did a bunch of really good work on This and like quite frankly like the other people who killed this is every single one of you who like fucking called and emailed and harassed Your senator like Ron Wyden

There was like there was there was there was queer orgs like lobbying him directly and then also his office got fucking flooded by shit from like you yeah who went and like screamed at them until they stopped doing this and because of that we got this thing killed from the fucking bill and the Republicans are so mad about it that like They could theoretically re-add it to the house one and there's a chance where they get so mad that they re-add this to the house bill and then that causes the house bill to fail it fell in the Senate because if they re-add this into the house bill then Reconciliation fails and they have to go back to the Senate again. So, you know, it is possible to fucking beat these people and It's also important to understand that this was not done by like the giant national like gay ink like huge nonprofit like Human Rights Commission Bullshit council stuff. They did a little bit of stuff on the fucking trailing end. This was accomplished almost entirely by a combination of non-white and working

class trans journalists and organizers and just like a bunch of random fucking people who were like, eat shit, fuck you, get this out. And, you know, on a thing that would have killed unbelievable numbers of trans people, we fought the Republican party and we beat them. So this can be done and this bill is not guaranteed to fucking pass The bill can still be it can still be killed. Yeah. Yeah, like it is it is It is devastating enough to like rural health care that even Republican senators are talking about not wanting to cut Medicaid So it's a very unpopular bill and when when you tell regular Republicans about the details of the bill, they don't like it.

They're fucking hate it. They're being like the Republican media machine is being so selective in how they're talking about the bill. Because if you discuss the way that it just rips the heart out of Medicaid, that's not what most older Republicans want, because they actually also rely on Medicaid Yeah, so it's it is a pretty unpopular bill and the more people learn about the bill the more they dislike it And you can you can see stats on this Yeah And and the the unhinged thing about this right is that even with limited information most Republicans have about this It still has like a 20 to 30 percent approval rating. It's so unpopular

Even in the low information environment. We're currently in it has is like a to 30 percent approval rating. It's so unpopular. Even in the low-information environment we're currently in, it has like a 20 to 30 percent approval rating. I think if everyone actually understood what was in the bill, I think its approval rating would fucking drop even further. Nobody wants this except for like the overt genocide people. Most people, if they're not personally harmed, will know someone who's being personally harmed. Yeah. Do you know what is popular, James? Uh, I can guess. The products and services that support this podcast.

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You know what else is extremely popular? It is my hit theme song about tariffs. Let's fucking go. Mia, what do we have for Tariff Talk this week? So this is an important week for tariffs next week will be the really really critical one So next to Lee allegedly we'll see skeptical So so next week all of the tariffs on every other country in the world from the liberation day turf tariffs They're supposed to like come off. We're gonna see what happens. I've become it could happen. Here's biggest tariff denier I'm I'm the tariff denier conspiracy theorist well, so here's the okay

So so the Trump administration is claiming that they cut a deal with Vietnam. Again, as a kind of recording on Wednesday, I haven't actually seen anything from like Vietnam confirming this. It's just a Trump tweet. It's totally real. Who fucking knows? So the deal that he's saying is that Vietnam is going to levy or the US is going to levy a 20% tariff on all goods from Vietnam and a 40% tariff on goods that are produced elsewhere and move through Vietnam. Now I know we're all used to like looking at like 130% tariffs, but I cannot emphasize enough that like a 20% tariffs on goods from Vietnam is also just fucking ruinous.

Most tariff coverage on Vietnam focuses on the fact that like companies like Nintendo, for example, deliberately move production to Vietnam to avoid tariffs on China. Now coverage is like this because all of these people fucking learned about Vietnam producing things like a week ago. They missed a decade of capital flight along, I mean it's a decade and a half really, so 2011 a bunch of trade capital has been flowing into Vietnam like down the Mekong Delta. So these tariffs are not just affecting the ability of China to evade the tariffs on it by like moving products to other countries, which has been a lot of what's been keeping the inflation from just fucking exploding, has been the ability of producers to route

goods through places like Vietnam. This is also hitting one of the world's largest manufacturing hubs, right? In a developing manufacturing hub that has very good infrastructure, etc, etc, etc, that capital from China had been moving to. This is still even this 20% tariff on Vietnam is like catastrophic. Yeah, so we'll see what happens next week. If the rest of the turf tariffs kick in. I don't know what's going to happen. Who fucking knows? I've been leaning towards I think they will. But yeah, even even this stuff is really fucking bad and we're gonna start seeing the impacts of it But yeah, this has been tariff talk. There's there's enough skepticism in the market about the tariffs in general that so far

Not not not all but but most corporations have been eating the tariffs in the short term Yeah, not all like famously like like like Walmart like has been has been raising some prices Not all like famously like like like Walmart like has been has been raising some prices But a bunch of corporations have been eating them eating the costs Because they do not think these will these will be largely effective like long term And I mean this will slowly change especially as some of us as more of these start like Being taken into effect on like a rolling basis will probably see it corporations adjust to this and we'll see their market adjust to this Yeah, but I think that's part of why maybe people haven't been seeing the like a rolling basis, we'll probably see corporations adjust to this and we'll see the market adjust to this. Yeah.

But I think that's part of why maybe people haven't been seeing the massive price hikes that were expected back, you know, like two months ago. Yeah. Well, and I think also, again, the important thing here is what this is going to do to logistics firms, which have very, very low margins. And right now, they've been surviving by just running shit through other places. But like, again, if this is,

if 20% is the rate on Vietnam, plus there's now a massive incentive not to run goods through Vietnam, that's really bad because that like kneecaps the evasion tools people have been using. Yeah. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, wait for Myanmar to come into play.

Yeah, yeah. Let's talk about Alligator Alcatraz. So- Oh, fucking God. Florida's new immigration detention center has opened this Wednesday. It's built on a remote airport with aircraft hangars outfitted with cages and bunk beds to incarcerate between three to five thousand people. The facility

is surrounded by a moat of alligators and python snakes. They're calling it Alligator Alcatraz. It was designed to be the most efficient deportation machine in the country. National Guard members will act as immigration judges on site to speed up deportation proceedings. I'm going to play a short clip here, apologize for hearing DeSantis. I mean, this is going to be, illegals will come in, there'll be process, there'll be places for them to be housed. You'll have an ability for food, you'll have an ability for them to consult legal rights if they have that, because there is a process that's involved

with this. So the Florida Attorney General has called this a quote, one stop shop for immigration enforcement. Come in, get your process and fly out unquote. So immigrants will be flown here. They will have some degree of due process here. Not really real due process, but enough to fast track their deportation, stay basically at this facility like less than a week and get deported from it. It has a working airport. They want to start running thousands of people through this facility

basically every week. Trump toured the facility on Tuesday and he said, quote, Biden wanted me in here. Okay. He wanted me didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here. That son of a bitch unquote, which is an insane thing to say. And, but it gives you an actual look into why the current Trump administration and like, like why Trump term 2.0 is kind of different from 1.0 because it's purely built on this animosity. It's built on this idea that Trump thinks that the entire world conspired against him to lock him up and somehow he beat them and now he's getting his revenge on the entire world.

That's how he's governing. It's because Biden wanted to send him to the alligator Alcatraz, but he was able to beat him. And now he's gonna get revenge on everyone who's tried to stop him. And that's how he's running the country, because that's the thing that he's obsessed with. He can't stop talking about Biden. He brings up Biden fucking every day, because it's not about what Biden actually did.

It's this like symbol of like everyone who's tried to like, tried to beat me, everyone who's tried to like lock me up. Now, now I get to take my revenge out on them. They wanted to disappear me to this alligator concentration camp, which no, they didn't cause this thing fucking didn't exist a week ago. Like this, this facility was built in the last eight days. It's going to cost $450 million annually to operate. I remember when I went to the Charlie Kirk event in Atlanta, they're talking about how

much money we're spending to give immigrants free cell phones and to give them housing. Meanwhile, you have not only this bill that massively increases the deficit in ways we've never seen before, plus on the local level, you have $400 million a year for these deportation facilities. And this facility specifically built on the Florida Everglades, it's not hurricane proof. Of course. After one day of operating, they've already had flooding issues.

This is an incredibly dangerous facility. It could lead to like a natural disaster could kill thousands of people here. Yeah. And currently the state of Florida is selling alligator Alcatraz merchandise on their website. I guess it's always a grift as well. So you can get deportation merchandise, you can get concentration camp merchandise. This is the soul of the Republican party.

For our last main story tonight, let's talk about how Trump and the Democrats are trying to stop the Zomentum Because ranked choice voting has now been completed. Zoran has defeated Cuomo 56 to 44, 12 points, which were tallied in just the third round of ranked choice voting The other tallies will come out like eventually but this is like the last like legitimate tally because of like the elimination rules Zoran got 150,000 more votes than Eric Adams won with in 2021 eventually, but this is like the last like legitimate tally because of like the elimination rules. Zoran got 150,000 more votes than Eric Adams won with in 2021. Like phenomenal sweep. That's so huge.

It's wild. Like we've never seen anything like this. Call me summer, baby. Let's go. So Republican Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking to investigate Mamdani for denaturalization on the grounds that he obtained citizenship through misrepresentation or concealing material support for terrorism. I'm going to read this disgusting quote from Ogles because I think people should hear it. Quote,

Zoran Little Mohammed Mamdani is an anti-Semitic socialist communist who will destroy the great city of New York. He needs to be deported, which is why I'm calling for him to be the subject to denaturalization proceedings. This is a guy who would be petrified if he ever had to walk around New York because seeing brown people is very scary when you know this kind of person. Zoran's been facing this huge wave of egregious, like, Islamophobic attacks, including from members of his own party. Yep! On a radio show, Democrat New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand falsely claimed that Mamdani had made references in support of quote-unquote, global jihad. Outrageous stuff.

Yeah, it did. On Monday, she apologized for these comments in a private call to Mamdani and expressed that she believes that Zoran is sincere when he says he wants to protect all New Yorkers and combat anti-Semitism. Fucking gross stuff. Yeah. It was so hideous. It's like 2003 level. Yeah, it's really bad. It's considerably worse than that.

Bush gave the Islam is the fabric of America speech in 2001. We now have Democrats just knee-jerk to fuck them all they're terrorists. In their own party. And like many top New York Democrats have still refused to endorse the now Democratic nominee, including Governor Kathy Hochul, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Senator Chuck Schumer. Jeffries posted in support of him today, I believe. Some of them have expressed like support of him,

specifically support against Islamic public attacks, but have explicitly refused to endorse him as the nominee. Which is like, it's vote blue no matter who, until you have like a Muslim democratic socialist, and it's like, we have to discuss like you know There's some we have some skeptical things about his candidacy and his ability to keep New Yorkers safe. You're like, oh boy Yeah, yeah, you voted for the three people who die you endorsed the three people who died in office I guess like since the last election in the house like

Now the attacks have continued on Monday. Fox News reporter Peter Ducey asked White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt about deporting Zoran. Let's play the clip. Peter. Thank you, Caroline. Does President Trump want Zoran Mamdani deported?

I haven't heard him say that. I haven't heard him call for. I haven't heard him call for that. But certainly he does not want this individual to be elected. I was just speaking to him about it and his radical policies that will completely crush New York City, which is obviously a city that the president holds near and dear to his heart. There's this congressman, Andy Ogles, he wants the Attorney General Bondi to explore denaturalization proceedings because he thinks Mamdani could have misrepresented or concealed material support for terrorism

based on rap lyrics he wrote in 2017. Does President Trump think this is a worthwhile use of the Attorney General's time? Well, I'll let the President speak to that. I have not seen those claims, but surely if they are true, it's something that should be investigated. It's ridiculous to suggest that you could wrap your material support for terrorism, like that they have to prove that you METERIALLY supported a group which is listed as an FTO. Yeah.

Then on Tuesday, a day later, Trump himself attacked Zoran, threatening to arrest him if he interferes with ICE. Your beloved New York City may well be led by a communist soon, Zoran Mondami, who in his nomination speech said he will defy ICE and will not allow ICE to arrest criminal aliens in New York City. Your message to communist Zoran Mondami. Well, then we'll have to arrest him. Look, we don't need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I'm going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation.

Later, Trump suggested that Zoran, quote-unquote, may be here illegally, and that the Trump administration would be looking into that, while in the same clip praising the now independent nominee and current mayor Eric Adams. ...independent running, Mayor Adams, who's a very good person. I helped him out a little bit. He had a problem and he was unfairly hurt over this question.

He made a statement to the effect that this is terrible. New York City can't have all these immigrants come in. Like he was indicted the following day. Just openly admitting to corruption and he had a little problem and I helped him out. Yeah, yeah. Just a little problem with accepting massive payments from Turkey to fucking corrupt his whole city. And I want to say here too, like as you're watching just like Trump openly targeting

Trump, Donnie, like all of the Democrats who are attacking him are just on the side of Trump here. And this has been a significant problem in the entire administration is that one of Trump's like core basis of support is like sitting Democratic fucking legislatures. It's like fucking Chuck Schumer. Yeah. Like all of these people. Yeah, they're working with Trump rhetorically on all of this.

Yeah. And sometimes literally with like Schumer voting for the original like budget resolution shit. Like they're just they're just actively collaborating. On Tuesday, Zoran released a statement regarding Trump's comments saying, quote, the president of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship and put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law, but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city. His statements don't just represent an attack on our democracy, but

an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows, if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation." That Trump included praise for Eric Adams in his authoritarian threats is unsurprising, but highlights the urgency of bringing an end to this mayor's time in City Hall. At the very moment when mega Republicans are attempting to destroy the social safety net, kick millions of New Yorkers off health care, and enrich their billionaire donors at the expense of working families, it is a scandal that Eric Adams echoes this president's division, distraction, and hate. Voters will resoundingly rejected in November unquote and former mayor Bill de Blasio Came out in support of Zoran saying quote Donald Trump will have to go through a lot of us first if he wants to arrest

His own mom, Donnie we New Yorkers will put a human shield around him if we need to no one gets to intimidate us Bill de Blasio if you get arrested doing the shield, we will forgive you for one of your many crimes. Yeah. One crime off for arrest. Good for Bill. Good for Bill. But no, everyone needs to do this. Like, everyone needs to get behind him right now. If he's going to be the target of this, like, denaturalization push. Yeah, no, fuck this. Yeah. If he becomes, like, the symbol of everything that Trump hates,, like Democrats need to fall in line fucking right now.

And you can't be attacking this guy for like innate Islamophobia. Yeah. It's outrageous. Yeah, he also has made one of the funniest music videos I have ever seen. There's some good stuff. His video about how much he loves his grandmother with Mada Jafri in it is outstanding. Now, we do have some good news to close this episode on, including the return of the stinky Musk segment in Pennsylvania.

A Tesla turned into train tracks and drove into an, drove into an oncoming train. It's okay. People were able to exit the car before the crash, but great stuff. Great stuff in the self-driving car department. And Trump truth on Monday quotes, Elon might get more subsidy than any human being in history by far. And without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa.

No more rocket launches, satellites or electric car production, and our country would save a fortune. Perhaps we should have Doge take a good hard look at this. Big money to be saved. And then on July 1st on his way to alligator Alcatraz, Trump was questioned again about Elon and said, quote, we'll have to take a look. We might have to put Doge on Elon. You know what that Doge is?

That monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn't that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies. Elon responded to this on X the Everything app, quote, so tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting, but I will refrain for now. I will say Musk has also been talking about forming a new party if this budget bill passes. So God, I hope so. It would be the funniest thing. Oh, it would be so good. What other good news do we have to end on here? I think the other good news was the

The asylum ban getting stopped in the courts. Oh, we already did that good news. Yeah, we already did that. Oh That's it then yeah Mm-hmm. All right. Well people people like Ed being an hour long. I've been The longer the better. It's one thing they say about ED. It goes without saying, James. We reported the news. We reported the news. It Could Happen Here is a production of Cool Zone Media. For more podcasts from Cool Zone Media, visit our website, coolzonedmedia.com,

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