It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #45

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

The gang discuss Netflix and Paramount’s bids for Warner Brothers, CBP social media screening for tourists, and Trump’s national security strategy. Plus updates on the J6 pipe bomber, Texas gerrymandering, and tariffs. Sources: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/10/2025-22461/agency-information-collection-activities-revision-arrival-and-departure-record-form-i-94-and#page-57209 https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/politics/georgia-democrat-eric-gisler https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5641420-democrats-gain-momentum-miami/?utm_social_handle_id=1917731&utm_social_post_id=619113438 https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-use-redistricting-map-challenged-as-racially-discriminatory/  https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/man-charged-planting-explosive-devices-outside-rnc-and-dnc-january-5-2021 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/pipe-bomb-suspect-told-fbi-believed-2020-election-conspiracy-theories-rcna247544 https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7869373/1/Return-to-Sunny-TownSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I knew it was a bomb the second that it exploded. I felt it ripped through me. In season two of RipCurrent, we asked, who tried to kill Judy Berry and why? They were climbing trees, and they were sabotaging logging equipment in the woods. She received death threats before the bombing.

She received more threats after the bombing. I think that this is a deliberate attempt to sabotage our movement. Episodes of RipCurrent Season 2 are available. now. Listen on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. CoreZone Media. All right, everybody, this is an emergency episode of It Could Happen here. We're dropping everything else for the most important breaking news in the country. Andy Dick has overdosed in public in the city of Los Angeles.

us thankfully in preparation for this we've had our entire team deployed to the areas around Andy Dick's home uh James do you have any updates on the situation no I'm not sure who Andy Dick is it's like a public figure in America I could have planned this out better yes it's uh Andy Dick is America's sweetheart uh and he's going through some troubled times but it's okay they Narcanned him in public no it's Andy Dick's fault this is entirely on Andy Dick yeah well good on the person who had naran carry Narcan Yeah. No one should ever feel sorry for Andy Dick.

I feel bad for the Narcan. This is it could have in here, executive disorder, our weekly newscast covering what's happening in the White House, The Crumbling World, and Andy Dick. I'm Garrison Davis. This episode I'm joined by Mio Wong.

We've referred to someone the first time we only use the last name, Garrison. Yeah. I'm joined by Mio Waj, James Stout, Robert Evans and Sophie Lichten. We are covering the week of December 4th to December 10th. So one of the big stories of the last week or so is something that would seem,

would be unequivocally a bad thing in any other political climate, which is Netflix buying Warner Brothers and contributing to the shrinking ever further of like America's like the number of people who actually own all of the media that Americans consume. Yeah, monopolization is obviously bad. But in this case, I mean, it's bad that on that end. It's probably better that Netflix buy it than Paramount buy it. Yes. So I guess I'm like,

Okay, this could be worse. Predator versus alien situation. This is a really weird situation, right? Because a lot of people are really dooming about, you know, Netflix acquiring Warner Brothers and what that'll mean for, like, you know, art and the, you know, theatrical model of film distribution. And then not realizing that Paramount's counterbid based on Saudi money would place Warner Brothers in the control of one of the most Trump-aligned,

like, media enterprises in the United States. States right now. Yeah. So let's roll back a second and look at what is actually going on here. And it's actually very important to note, this is being recorded on Wednesday, December 10th. This whole situation is changing extremely quickly. There could be

some, another unhinged thing could have happened by the time you're listening to this. But the basics here is that Paramount, which was recently acquired by Skydance, which is... Which direction did that acquisition go? I mean, technically speaking, it was a merger, but it was

really, but it was Skydance taking control of Paramount. Skydance had been run by Larry Ellison's son, David Ellison. David. Yeah. So, and this is, this is, this is, this is, this is the regime that sort of imposed Barry Weiss on CBS, which has become increasingly right wing under her quote-unquote leadership. We're going to do a full episode about this, I think, on Monday. You'll be tuning into the Charlie Kirk, Erica Kirk Town Hall on CBS this Saturday? Oh, God. They can't. make me. I will have recorded this episode before they did this. I'm going to be tuning in

because it looks phenomenal. So it's worth pointing out. So Larry Ellison, who is the father of David Ellison, is one of the most terrifying of all of the right-wing billionaires. He's kind of more quiet than someone like Andreson or Elon Musk about being a unhinged right-wing fanatic, but he's one of Trump's biggest supporters. He has a whole thing about how everyone's inevitably going to be under total

constant surveillance that will make everyone behave well. We'll cover this more later, but the Ellison's, the father, son, Ellison duo, and Paramounts, backed by the Saudis, Abu Dhabi, and Cotter. They won Bugs Bunny desperately, because he keeps, my sources are saying he keeps pranking Muhammad bin Salman. By cross-dressing, yeah, and it's really. Yeah, the entire Saudi military is incapable of stopping Bugs Bunny. I mean, this is their best bet for taking him down. Well, I think what's an interesting fact in these various bids for. or control of Warner Brothers, the Netflix deal does not include CNN.

The Paramount deal does. Yeah. Before we get into that, we should say what Paramount is doing now, which is Paramount on Monday began to try to just do a hostile takeover by just straight up buying out the shares at what they're claiming is a higher share price. There's a whole lot of complicated stuff about share pricing here that you don't really care about. And there have been so many dishonest headlines like one being like Paramount lost the bid by just

75 cents. It's not a 75 cents to share. That's like hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Yeah. And that's not even, it's all, it's all ridiculous. Yeah. The Wall Street Journal has been getting a lot of the information about this. We've gotten to a point on Wednesday where investors are going to the Wall Street Journal

and being like, there's going to be a bidding war, there's going to be a bidding war. But the Wall Street Journal points out, and I think this is an interesting thing here that's important to say, these hostile takeover attempts almost never work. It's like 30% of the time. Yeah. And it's like some 30% that these things kind of work. but the other card that the father's son Ellison duo have is claiming that Trump is more likely to back Paramount's buyout

than the Netflix one because Trump can sort of stop this through antitrust or quote-unquote antitrust stuff per Axios Jared Kushner's consultancy firm is part of Paramount's buyout plan and per Wall Street Journal, David Ellison met with Trump administration officials in quote recent days and has offered to, you know, so this comes back to what Garrison was saying about CNN being part of

this package. They have been offering to effectively do to CNN what they did to CBS, which is put it under the control of some right-wing fanatic and turn it into a pure propaganda outlet. This is obviously corruption of a sort of mind-blowing.

Yeah. And a product of the fact that like our quote-un-un-court free press is literally just for sale. Amazingly, this is not, this doesn't seem to be working? No. I mean, and Trump has spoken positively about Netflix and the Netflix CEO the past few days. But he's also spoken negatively. He's spoken negatively about both of them. Yeah. Both the Netflix. Yeah, he's spoken negatively about Ellison recently. And there's a, there's a quote from an article I found in the Wall Street Journal. Yeah. Trump has so far avoided publicly backing a bitter. None of them are particularly great friends of mine.

He said at a White House roundtable on Monday. A person close to Trump said the president will want Paramount and Netflix to compete for his approval of a deal, which does sound very Trump. Yeah, and apparently this was a big thing he's mad at Paramount about is for having Marjorie Taylor Green on CBS. Yeah, that's funny. Oh, he's so cool. It's really funny. There is no amount of sort of ass kissing that you can do to actually make Trump consistently

be on your side. It's really hideous. This is all disgusting. Unless you give him the FIFA World Peace Prize. Yes. He'll die for FIFA now. Yeah. Can I just say, fuck me?

He's actually renaming American football to soccer. God. I love the FIFA trophy because it looks disgusting. Have you seen the FIFA trophy? Yes, I have. Fifteen minutes on that fucking thing. Just all those hands grasping that ball. Oh, my God.

Yeah, really genuinely, one of the most impressive act of sports sick of fantasy since 1933. But, but yeah, it doesn't seem like Trump is. as keen to back Paramount's bid as what some of the Paramount people thought he might be. And the Netflix deal might just end up actually going

through. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll see about this. This is all going to change probably by the time you're reading this or listening to this. That's the one that you do. But it's so cool that we live in an economy where your two options are Netflix destroys film forever and

the Nazis gain control of CNN. It's great. Great system. No, no, no, no notes. And what would really be damaging if Paramount's able to buy Warner Brothers is that then they would be in charge of Nathan Fielder's rehearsal, which does target the fascistic paramount regime. Yeah. James, what's some small news stories we can go with here before our first break?

Yeah, okay. I'm operating on a couple of computers here, so this is going to have to work around some constraints, Good thing you're wearing your 511 uniform to help maintain the discipline necessary. Garza, this is not 511, my friend. This is 5.1.1. You cannot get this shit outside of Syria and Iraq, and I fucking love it.

Yep, yeah. I still have my knockoff Timberland shirt, which just says Thickson Gand, and looks honestly, the label looks like an AI slop tried to push the Timberland logo. It's amazing. My favorite is the one that just says 16, 5 plus 11. I love fake 511 shit.

If you have fake 511 shit, I have a collection of it. Send it to me. I will retire and make a museum one day. I cannot get enough of it. I love that it started as a rock climbing brand in Newsemiti, and now it's a lifestyle brand in Syria. It's perfect. I tell you, I miss my Adotis track suit that I got in Turkey.

I got some Merle boots as well. Yeah. Yeah, I love that shit. I got a fake Gerber knife, Graber. That one, that one was it. That's from David, Chris. Yeah, yeah, it's bullshit, bullshit knives, yeah. It's one of my favorites.

It's going to start putting out women's hats very soon. Yeah. Okay, let's talk about the news. So, this is a fun one. Schrodinger's permit, we're going to call it. In Pensacola, somebody participating in food, not bombs, was arrested. Following that, at a press conference, the city announced that the person was arrested for being in a park too late. Right?

I guess in Florida. Of course. Yeah, this is the most serious crime on that. Yes, and also giving food to poor people, which is probably like a felony in Florida. So the city then announced issue been resolved because there was a permit issued to Food Not Bombs for them to be in the park late and give people food. Food Not Bombs did not apply for the permit, nor do they want the permit, right? That's not how Food Not Bombs works.

Food Not Bombs is an action, not an entity, right? Like it is a protest action. the city is now reviewing if the permit is releasable under public records laws so someone can find out who attempted to white knight food not bombs yeah some of the suggestions as there's a guy who run some kind of we will cooperate with the cops to get people off fentanyl charity which uses some incredible AI imagery on its Instagram page yeah that sounds good yeah so I will keep you updated on this this Florida story yeah thanks for that James

James. In the Oregon v. Trump case regarding National Guard deployment, Judge J. Bybee, not normally a guy associated with woke. A George W. Bush appointee has penned an extensive opinion, I think it was 64 pages on the domestic violence clause of the Constitution and how it ought to restrain the use of the guard. It's like a different argument than we've seen previously, right, in discussions about the National Guards. Because, yeah, I've read the other judge opinion pieces, but not this one. Yeah, so Bibi's been in it for a while and he's been someone who has previously not really been an opponent

of what I might see as of overreach in terms of state power and violence but yeah, using this, this is a different clause of the Constitution, right? So it's now moving along in that discussion. Yesterday as we were recording this so that would be on Tuesday at the 9th the Democrats held a bicameral shadow

quote unquote shadow hearing on the detention of US citizens by DHS. it doesn't really have the power to do much and I have not had time to listen to the entire recording because it was only streamed on Facebook I love that we have an opposition in this country God, I love the Democrats. Yeah, they're really, I like how together they've got it

like after a rough patch, they're really firing on all. Like a phoenix from the ashes of an absolute ass whooping in the election, yeah. Yeah, like an ass Phoenix, exactly. Yeah, ass Phoenix. That's my band, actually. I can't believe that you plugged us on Thank you.

Okay. Trump's ongoing barrage of hate about Somali people has been met with some incredible posting. People who are not on X.com will have missed this, but like genuinely some of the funniest response to some of the most hateful shit. Like Trump and Miller have both been on a... And I guess Fox News.

Fox News went to Minneapolis and heard a call to prayer and had a meltdown about it. But this is this campaign, I guess, by Trump. And Miller is very much ongoing. We spoke about that last week with the TBS If people aren't familiar They can check that out last week Yeah, Eileen Higgins

won the Miami mayoral election Do I want to make a pit bull joke? The dog? You're talking about Mr. Worldwide? Well, we could do Maga is a major issue I'm just trying to work on that acronym Oh, God. Because I'm always thinking about Mr. Worldwide, James.

He's never far from my thoughts. No, I often think about Pitbull and how he and Hillary Clinton often were exactly the same thing. That's right. They have a lot in common, actually. The primary thing is being there. Is this like a Miami thing?

Yes. He's Vimple, Mr. Worldwide is in fact a Miami thing, Gary. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Yes. But this is the first time a Democrat has won the mayoral office in Miami in almost 30 years, which is. Yeah, this is wild. Significant.

Yeah. This is astonishing. Yeah. And this was like a pretty decent win. This was a runoff election, but it's still a pretty substantial win. Yeah. And I think there's a few important notes here. One is that even the Miami.

Cuba demographics swung massively towards the Democrats, which is sort of apocalyptic news for the Republicans. That's really, really bad if you're losing the Miami Cuban population. If you have got Miami Cubans to think critically about politics,

things are dire. Yeah. And the other thing here, too, is that the Florida Democratic Party, like, I would compare them to clowns, but like these motherfuckers make Bobo the clown look like fucking depot. These are the most, some of the most incompetent people in the entire history of politics.

And the Republicans are losing to them. That's astonishing. There were a couple of other results like this. Yeah. This week, Democrats flipped a Georgia state house seat. The seat moved blue by 22 points. Jeez. Yep.

They flipped Albuquerque City Council. There's all of these little results. And this has been happening basically since we got the first special elections of the Trump administration. where the Republicans are losing like R plus 22 districts. They're getting destroyed in places that it shouldn't be possible for them to lose.

And this is another major confirmation of the Mia everyone hates them theory. Every day, it gets more and more validated. Everyone fucking hates them. Yeah. Last small news story that I think is worth mentioning because it's, I think, pretty important, actually.

Conservative podcaster Benny Johnson is threatening to sue Milo Yonopoulos for alleging that he is gay. so we're going to be keeping up with this story pretty close I know this has a lot of ramifications for listeners yeah

great cool we should do ads hey hey everybody it's Chuck and Josh from the Stuff You Should Know podcast and it's that time of year again

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We're back and we're talking about the January 6th pipe bomb guy. Suspect. Yeah. Well, I mean, we know there's a person. We don't know that it was a guy. We know someone planted those pipe bombs. I'm going to talk about the suspect. Yes.

I want to start just for a little bit by, again, talking about the degree to which I really hope this is apocalyptic for the blaze. Yeah. What they did is a case study and what you should never do as a publication. It was unethical, it was idiotic, and it was deeply dangerous. And if the Capitol Police officer does not sue them, I don't know what kind of advice she's getting other than maybe just sheer terror at the number of death threats she's already received. But like, ma'am, getting all of Glenn Beck's money is the only thing that will keep you safe

right now. Please do it. No, yeah. So you were out last week when we got the, some of the very first reporting on the pipe bomb arrest. I know. It's the only thing. I regret about my vacation. Yeah. But very little information was out last week, and we have more information now regarding the alleged January 6th pipe bomber, or technically January 5th, pipe bomber, who is now charged with transporting an explosive device with intent to kill, injure, or damage property, and attempted malicious destruction by means of fire and explosive materials. According to

court records, the FBI identified the suspect through cell tower records, license plate readers, and purchases of potential bomb-making materials, including the pipes, the cap-ends, the wires, steel, and nine-volt batteries. It doesn't appear that they gained possession of new information, but by changing the agents looking at the information, they were able to piece this together to actually make an action on it, leading to the arrest. It's a classic FBI story of they had all the information they needed to have caught this guy very long ago and did not. Yeah. Right. Or lacked the ability to, like, put the pieces together in a way that makes them able to do the rest. But as is always the case, this was not an issue if they didn't have enough access to information.

There was too much encrypted. There was, you know, they need more power. No, they had everything they needed. They just didn't think right. Yeah. That's what it was. They weren't thinking right, you know? No.

Still very little has come out officially about the alleged bomber's potential motivation. Who may be innocent? Let's be clear. Yeah, yeah. There's nothing alluding to his motivation in the charging documents of, besides just an interest, a year's long interest in bomb making, starting in 2019 and continuing into like 2021. Now, NBC has reported, based on sources inside the law enforcement investigation team, but NBC's reported that before the suspect acquired an attorney, he confessed to investigators

and told the FBI that he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories. but some new information from the New York Post which I have verified may have actually cracked this story wide open they have learned that the suspect is a brony My Little Pony fan draws a lot of actually

relatively good quality My Little Pony fan art and writes My Little Pony fan fiction I could read some here Garrison what is the quality of their fan fiction yeah let's just give us like 15 minutes I'll read a paragraph. Quote, Apple Bloom's eyes

it snapped open as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red mane. It was another bad dream about that village she had discovered

back in the ever-free forest, sunny town. At first, it seemed like a normal, peaceful little village, kind of like Ponyville. What was strange was that none of the inhabitants

had cutie marks. In fact, they hadn't the slightest clue as to what a cutie mark was. So... Gary, could you send me that link? Could you send me that link?

Oh, sure. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I'll actually, I'll send this to the entire team chat. I'm demanding hazard pay at the next union negotiations. Yeah. We need hazard pay. Actually, like, this is very standard, but relatively good quality, My Little Pony Brony activity, non-sexual entirely.

Like, I've looked at a lot of this guy's art. It's fairly clear pros. Fairly high quality, My Little Pony fan art in a variety of styles from different arrows at the show. Not like a sexually fetishistic depiction. Can't wait to see the headlines from this. Cool Zone host Defends Capital Pipe Bombers Bros. But no, like a high school classmate told Washington Post that he was bullied for having

a My Little Pony backpack in school. Yeah, that makes sense. He's had this interest for quite a while, kind of tapered off a few years before the bombing. But for a while, this was like kind of one of his main hobbies. On a Tumblr profile, he lists his interest as, quote, hardcore. music, video games, mainly horror, drawing, improving myself philosophically, and anime, unquote. His grandmother is described him as, quote, almost autistic like, because he doesn't understand a lot of stuff, unquote. He's only ever worked for the family bail bond business.

Yeah, well, I mean, look, I'll say this, he wasn't bad, like he could have had a future in a private security or something like that. like not bad opsec as it turned out but I don't know a funny slash a dark thing is that in the right way just desperate effort to make everything about trans people they have turned this brony thing into like a you know

trans people also like my little pony and like like quotes from like psychologists in some of these articles about how how bronies like play with like gender boundaries by by being fans of like a girl's

like a property that's usually enjoyed by girls. So there's been like a slight attempt to try to kind of paint this in like a pseudo-translate. But that's not getting much traction because like people know what bronies are. And like, come on. I think this whole strategy is on the out in some ways. Yeah. Am I incorrect here? Because I had just caught this, but I didn't actually, this is like while I was on vacation.

I had heard that he expressed a belief that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Yeah, that's what it seems. Do we know if that's accurate? Okay. Okay. So he does seem to be... That's being reported by the NBC that he told investigators

that he believed in like 2020 election conspiracy theories the ones that were spread by Trump. So, I mean, it seems like from what we have one of the more predictable ones. And like, it's not, if this is like a weird right wing, you know,

brony, this is not the first time a right wing brony has done something violent. He doesn't seem super political, in my opinion. Like, none of his only activity points towards a, like, a deep, interest in politics? Yeah.

No, but if he said he thought the election was stolen, then that makes sense as being a contributing factor. Yeah, a factor perhaps, but not a huge, like, online presence that revolves around politics. Like, a lot of people who aren't super into politics maybe thought the election was like stolen or like rigged. I mean, as we try to point out periodically, the vast majority of people who will carry out a shooting or other act of mass public violence in the U.S. are going to have a

more in common with other people who do that than anyone specifically just in political terms for the most part. Because most of them are, you know, their shooter stands, they're that sort of thing. Like this is their special interest, bombings or whatever. He does seem to have, like, it's a lot of special interests, right? It used to be my little ponies. Then it became bomb making. That just seemed to be a special interest of his for like three or four years was just like the practice of bomb making. This is just just something he got like into. And I think that's, more of a motivating force and like a specific partisan political motivation. And I think it's really funny, like, reflecting on a statement that, uh, that, that law enforcement

leaked last week saying that he had like anarchist-like leanings, which is very, very amusing now in light of, in light of all of us. For a long time, they have used anarchism to mean, like, a predilection for violence or chaos. It doesn't like the government. Blah, blah, blah, right? Yeah. Yeah. Part of this is just the way people tend to use the term anarchism.

When I was doing my research for, like, the nuclear doomsday device episodes, there's a bunch of otherwise great pieces that are like, and then in the wake of a global nuclear war, society will collapse and all that will be left is anarchy. And it's like, guys, like, it's not anarchy that's going to be the problem. Like, like, you realize that the cause of a nuclear war is, is like, all of this, like, yeah, it's, it's, it is not at all. I'm not worried about anarchy as opposed to nuclear war. I'm worried about, for example...

Yeah, the nuclear war part. Yeah, I'm worried about, like, democracy, fucking authoritarianism. I'm worried about all of those things. Anarchists would never have built a nuclear doomsday device. Yeah, it's why I used left libertarian sometimes in my academic writing

because it was just the term. It's just not comprehensible, especially like someone coming, having been raped on US media. And in the wake of a global nuclear war, you'll be lucky to get some anarchy because it probably means someone's found some food and it's cooking it for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Food, not bombs. They're like food off. They've rebranded, but they're still going. Food, comma. Yeah, yeah. Food post-bonds. We're out of bombs.

The world is actually done with bombs. We did it. We replaced the bonds of food. One other update, I'll squeeze in here quick. It's short. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Texas can use its newly drawn congressional map. in the upcoming 2026 midterms, likely adding five Republican seats.

The lower court order, which found the new map was racially gerrymandered intentionally, has been stayed indefinitely as the Supreme Court prepares to consider whether to overturn the lower court's ruling entirely, a process which could take months go well into the midterm cycle. So the Supreme Court has authorized the use of that new map for this next election. Talking of fan fiction and covers of things, here is a song that was originally the worst song by The Clash, and now it's about tariffs. I think the cover is of a similar quality as the alleged. Bombers fan art, in my opinion.

Dear God. There's a lot of good Twilight Sparkle stuff that he was drawing. I'm sorry. So, all right, China is technically once again buying American soybeans as part of the sort of giant trade deal that Xi Jinping and Trump negotiated, but, come up. It is not buying soybeans at the rate that the White House said it would in the fact sheet that was released by the White House about the negotiation. this is a huge problem

because farmers are still not being able to sell enough soybeans to not get completely fucked and the White House is now putting out a bunch of statements saying oh no we actually screwed up the fact sheet they said that they would buy the soybeans

not before the end of the year before the at the end of like the growing season that's good that's good yeah so and his other solution to this has been a $12 billion dollar farmer bailout, which is funny because he did a $12 billion farm bailout in his first

term when exactly the same thing happened and it didn't really do anything. Well, at least we're not bailing out, let's say, Argentina. Funny example, Garrison. What makes you choose that one? Oh, God. Yeah. So the issue with this farmer's bailout is, and this is something that farmers have been saying through all of the trade press, any regular press they can get access to every local media outlet. Every single farmer who anyone has interviewed has gone, we don't want to bailout. We want to be able to sell our blasted soybeans. And they still can't. And this is, you know, becoming a real problem for this administration that even after their giant negotiations to get trying to buy soybeans, they still can't do it. And farmers are continuing to be very,

very pissed off about this. Where are my beans? Yeah. They're sitting in the silos. They're still there. They can't sell them. How am I going to keep up my soy consumption? I'm going to be forced to become a, I don't know, one of the vegan options era, some other kind of boy, I guess. Yeah. Well, we'll just have to get it from Brazil instead.

Brazil mentioned, everyone, cheer. Hey, they're doing good these days. Oh, yeah. Hasn't there been some Bolsonaro news recently? I feel like I've... There has been. Let's roll the ads and then we'll talk about it. Okay.

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on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcast. We're back, and you know who's not free to listen to podcasts, Jahir Bolsoniaro. We can hope. After trying to cut off his ankle monitor, he has been taken into custody for attempting, or at least probably trying to escape. Trump had made comments about expecting to see him soon. Yeah, I don't think, I think he's going to die in prison. He's not doing well. I will say one thing we got to do, you know, back when he got stabbed, I think everyone's

opinion on it was like, oh, fuck, you've just, you know, you've made him a martyr, you got to look cool and seem like a badass, this has done nothing but empower him. No, it cares. No, actually, that stab did a lot of damage. Like, that ruined his life low key. Yeah. So thoughts and prayers to that guy, wherever he is, you know, we just didn't realize the level of game that you had, my man.

No, I mean, it's, it's tough. I mean, we used to have the two, like, of the world's sickest men, Bolsonaro and Stephen Crowder, just fighting it out to see who would stay sicker for longer. What about Jordan Peterson? That seems like erasure. He's taking the spot because he's still vanished from the Daily Wire because of his, like, bizarre illness.

His daughter says he's basically dead. Yeah, he's like Patient Zero for CWD in humans or something, right? The Daily Wire still is acting like, God. Peterson's, like, still a person. Yeah, it turns out cold turkey quitting binzos via a fucking coma in Russia is a bad call. Speaking of Crowder, I did watch the two-hour Stephen Crowder, Nick Fuentes, interview this week. Oh, God.

And it was really uncomfortable. Yeah, I'll bet. I can imagine. They were just, like, jerking each other off for two hours. Nick was trying to be nice and, like, not act like Stevens, this, like, totally irrelevant, like, boomer. And Stephen was trying to make Nick think he was cool and it was so painful to watch the entire time. I'm not to watch that.

Yeah. It was bad. There was really nothing else notable from that. I guess let's actually move to some notable stories to close this episode. Yeah. So I want to talk about the case of Faustino Pablo Pablo. A U.S. District Court in El Paso, Texas

has granted Mr. Pablo a tentative restraining order directing the government to return him to the United States by the 12th of this month, which would be the day that you are hearing this episode. Mr. Pablo Pablo entered the USA in 2012 and was found removal by a judge. However, that judge granted his application for withholding of removal under the Convention Against Torture because he would likely be tortured if he was returned to Guatemala, which is where he's from. In theory, he was removable, therefore, to a place where he would not likely be tortured.

should, right? This is what we've seen the US government doing more and more in the last year, really. He spent more than a decade. He moved to California, attended his ice check-ins, until he was detained at an ice check-in on the 5th of November. Mr. Pablo Pablo's lawyer filed a habeas petition and asked the court to enjoin ice from removing him from the Western District of Texas, which is where they took him on 17th of November, right? So he was detained on the 5th. People who listened to my immigration series a couple of weeks ago will be familiar with this, right? People were detained in L.A., ferried all around California and then sent to Texas. This is what happened in his case.

He wouldn't have been sent to the same place. People of my series were because that's for family detention. By the time the court ordered the government not to remove him, they had already sent him back to Guatemala. Just to cover there is one country in the world that he has withholding of removal to, because he will be tortured there most likely, and that is where they sent him. The government conceded that they had made a mistake and said they, quote, tentatively scheduled a flight for the 4th of December. He did not take that flight.

As far as we know, he is still in Guatemala, he's in hiding, and the court has ordered that the government facilitate his return by the 12th of this month. So we'll probably update you on that in next week's ED. I'm going to talk about an expansion of social media monitoring, which we've already seen for visa applicants, but now expending out to tourists as well. Customs and Border Protection and DHS have posted a 60-day notice for a proposal to revise the electronic system for travel authorization application, which is a waiver that some foreign tourists can use to avoid getting a tourist visa. And the proposal is to add mandatory

social media collection for all foreign tourists using the ESTA visa waiver. This proposal would require that applicants provide their social media information from the past five years, citing a January executive order, quote, protecting the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public safety threats, unquote. This would match the sort of social media monitoring. We've seen applied to some visa applicants and immigrants just now extending out to tourists using the ESTA application. And to comply with this January executive order, CBP is also planning to add, quote, several high-value data fields to the EST application when feasible, unquote. This would include, quote, telephone numbers used in the last five years, email addresses used in the last 10 years, IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos, family member names, parents, spouse, siblings, children, family telephone numbers used in the last five years, family.

family member dates of birth, family member places of birth, family member residences, biometric, face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris, business telephone numbers used in the last five years, and business email addresses used in the last 10 years, unquote. Yeah, this is a wild amount of data. I mean, they can flash some of this really quickly against, like, quote-unquote, watch lists, right? Yeah. But some of this, A, like, to gather this data. To gather biometric data, that's not possible with, like, say, you're applying on your cell phone or your home computer, right?

So this might require an appointment. Yeah, for some of the fingerprint stuff. Yeah. Part of the proposal is also requiring a selfie be submitted with this application, separate from whatever's on the ID that is being used. And so they can extract some, like, facial biometrics from that. Yeah. But they can also collect that stuff, like, at the airport reports of entry. They have fingerprint scanners now at a lot of these, like, entry kiosks.

Yeah, yeah. The selfie isn't just a selfie. It's what's called a facial liveliness scan, which is what we've spoken about before with CBP1, right? That, like, notoriously was very poor at capturing black faces. Generally, you sort of have to, like, move the phone around your face to check that it's not, like, it's not me holding up a life-size copy of Garrison. It's actually Garrison. A 3D Garrison, yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

the garrison mannequin that we all got for Christmas last year. Can you excuse that one to me? Sorry. It's not legal in New York. Yeah, this will make it a lot harder for people to apply for Esther visas. It's going to create a massive, like, drag net of data for people applying for Esther visas. I'm guessing that kind of is the goal already, right? So, like, if you live in these countries, you don't always qualify.

for an Esther. There are certain things you could have done, certain countries you could have been to certain, like if you have a criminal record, etc., where there you wouldn't be able to get an Esther. So this is kind of already a something of like a pre-vetted group. And countries who, from which citizens can apply for esters, is that in itself. It's like a tier, right? Not everyone in the world can apply for an Esther. Yeah, it's already a semi-exclusive waiver with like a cost burden as well. Yes, yeah. Yeah, it creates a massive data mine, which I'm guessing might be what they're going for.

Yeah, I mean, just the normalization of this sort of like social media scanning to identify, you know, undesirable political beliefs that Mark Rubio in the Department of State or DHS and deems is like a national security threat. Yeah. Yeah, I also have kind of my fringe fears that this will be used to train LOWS. Yeah, it's probably fair. But, yeah, we'll see. Yeah. How is this not going to be catastrophic for any business that relies on tourism? Any state that relies on tourism.

Right. Like, yeah, Florida. Yeah. I know that's not the top risk, but like it just seems, again, they're going out of their way to fuck over every single demographic in the country, which I don't think is going to work out for them in the long term. yeah it's a this is a weird one for me because it's yeah the economic cost is so obvious

it's a it's a catastrophe and there's a part of me that's like maybe this is a good thing just because it's part of like we've always known and have been trying to say for years every single aspect like these people are bad for everybody

there's like 150 people in the country who benefit from the policies that like the most extreme parts of the right wants to push and everyone else is going to be completely fucked over by it. And we might as well just take the mask off. And maybe that's some of what we're seeing in the collapse of Trump's approval is people realizing like, oh, my God, these guys really just want to destroy everything good about life. Like that is conservatism in a nutshell.

We hate life and ourselves. Yeah. Well, yeah, that was the Democratic Party in that Simpson's episode, Garrison. We want what's worse for everybody. There, that's the other one. Yes, there you go. Yeah, that's the other one. 50, 50. You got it.

Yeah. Yeah. Talking of worse for everybody, do we want to talk about the National Security Strategy document that the Trump administration released? Let's go for it. Yeah, we should do a dedicated episode about that, but we can talk briefly about it. We have 15 minutes. That's not used to all 15. Yeah, I've pulled a lot of quotations from it.

And we're not going to be able to discuss all of them here. I think we will have to discuss this probably next year when we do a whole episode on it. It is one of the more like, especially in terms of like foreign relations, one of them more like sort of this is our ideology, this is our outlook and these are our goals, documents that I've seen from this administration, right? They talk about how, I'll just quote from here, American strategy since the end of the Cold War have fallen short. They have been laundry lists of wishes or desired end states and have not clearly defined what we want, but instead stated vague platitudes and have often misjudged what we should want. They talk about how they are going to retain soft power. Soft power, people aren't familiar, is a theory that Joseph Nye has an international relations.

It's a power to compel or persuade rather than to force, right? The United States has been hemorrhaging soft power, like someone with their artery cut, like in the last 12 months. Like, soft power is a fraction of what it was a year ago. I find it very odd to see them even mentioning that, to be honest. when, like, I mean, they have soft power if you're Victor Orban. Talking of Orban, there's this incredible stuff about Europe here. Quote, we want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe

while restoring Europe's civilizational self-confidence and Western identity. Jesus Christ. Another quote. That's good. This is wild. The larger issues facing Europe include the activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty. migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife,

censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birth rates and the loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. And then I'm skipping a bit here, we want Europe to remain European. This just sounds like your average white nationalist, like Twitter post. Yeah, no.

Like, yes, it comes from Twitter, right? This is just a Twitter reply. This is, like, very Twitter-brained, like, types of politics. Yeah, yeah. This guy has, like, a Greek statue avatar. Exactly. Oh, 100%. I mean, I think it's really fun to think of Europe being like, I'm Europe.

I have a lot of self-confidence issues. I can't really speak up for myself in big groups, like the European Union. Like, come on. What do you mean? Self-confidence grow up. Yeah, it's wild. They're, like, you know, they're saying that, like, what you're. European people don't have enough, like, white European pride.

People don't respect my Western identity. Like, okay. Yeah. Notably, like, for instance, a country of France, a country which lacks self-confidence and pride in its identity. This has been an issue for a long time. It's very funny to have this in like a U.S. foreign policy or national security documents.

Yeah. This is, like, these are the guiding principles of our, like, foreign policy going forward. And they're, like, jorking off about, like, Europe remaining. European. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like shit-talking an entire continent. No, America should think Europe is gay and we should stay away from it. That's what our national security party should be. Is Europe is gay. We don't want to deal with whatever Europe is doing. We're America. Yeah, leave us alone. Yeah, that ended really well for us in the 30s. Yeah. Well, there's almost like an early 20th century vibe to this document. They talk about the Monroe Doctrine.

Yeah, they do. And they talk about the Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. which they define as, quote, we will deny non-hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities or to own or control strategically vital assets in our hemisphere. Which people aren't familiar with the Monroe Doctrine.

It's the US sort of has a right and obligation to exercise some control over the outcomes of the entire Western hemisphere. Like, say, Venezuela. Yes, that would be one example, Carrington, yes. See, it's totally different from Iraq because this is on our hemisphere. So it's good intervention, actually.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Manifest Destiny has given us the right to all of the Americas, and so we can intervene in outcomes. There's a lot about the nation state in here, and like the idea that the quote-unquote nation state should prioritize its own interests. I wonder what they're talking about there, because like we have many nations that are excluded from states all around the world, right? Like the Kurds being one example, right? Like, are they, like, are they saying that nations and states should always align, whilst, like, their special envoy to Syria is saying that he said this week that decentralization has never succeeded in the Middle East, which is a wild statement to be saying in a place where, like, you can drive in a single day to the sites of three different genocides from northeast in Syria, right? You can see the places where the Armenian genocide happened, the Yazidi genocide, and the unfal. Like, you can do that drive in a day if you don't get hung up at the border.

Yeah, I mean, honestly, for now, if we're counting some of what was done against the Alawites and the Ways of the Satsfall, I think that's a little unclear at the moment. But, yeah, possibly. Yeah, like to say that centralization is the only way for the Middle East is a wild statement. So I don't know how some of this pans out. There's also a lot here on border security as national security, right? Sure. I'm just going to read one. They used the word nation a lot.

Nationalism was a subfield of my PhD, so obviously, like, I'm interested in the exact understanding of nation they have here because there are several. But throughout history, sovereign nations prohibited uncontrolled migration and granted citizenship only rarely to foreigners who also had to meet demanding criteria. The West's experience over the past decades vindicates this enduring wisdom. In countries throughout the world, mass migration has strained domestic resources, increased violence and other crime, weakened social cohesion, distorted labor markets and undermine national security. The era of mass migration must end border security is the primary element of national security. Great. And this is the only terrain they have left because they've abandoned class interests and like exploitation. So the only thing they can actually focus this on and they focus the economy on is through nationalist immigration

policies. This is like the last refuge for the right once they're still trying to appeal to some sort of populism, but don't actually want to address real class conditions. Yeah, and for a lot of the right, when they talk about nationalism, they are talking about ethno-nationalism. Right. The people, you know, the people are the nation. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the

Volk, like, which is not always, like, blood and soil nationalism. It's one type of nationalism. It's not all types of nationalism, right? Like, that's the cool thing about the United States. This is the one country, one of the only countries where this, that principle has been like opposed in varying degrees since the country.

his founding. Yeah, like, it's supposed to be that the example, maybe along with France, right, of like, subscriptive nationalism, where nationalism was not an ethnic quality, it was subscribing to a set of values and beliefs. A philosophical idea. Yeah. That does not seem to be the vibe I'm picking up. There's a lot more in this document.

They spent a decent part of it shit-talking other documents, other previous national security strategies. Yeah. These are always long and verbose, but we're going to keep it brief. And then off they go. But yeah, I think it's worth us maybe doing a whole episode on because I think it's one of the more like coherent statements of belief. Not a lot of this stuff is new.

We knew that's how they thought about immigration. You hear them talk about it on Fox, on Newsmax. Like any Stephen Miller like public statement is going to talk about, talk about how, you know, immigration is changing, you know, the economic makeup of the country and like the core identity. of the country is changing to defend Western identity, that sort of stuff. Yes.

Seeing it all written in a document together, I think it's where this has value. Totally. And I think, yeah, seeing that all laid out, seeing the way these things play into their view of the world. And then as I say, following what's actually happening in the world and, like, you know, clearly that when they're talking, they're talking about the United States,

when they're talking about nations, right? They're not talking about the Kurds. They're not talking about Yazidis. Yeah. the Catalans are the nations that have states, right? It's just so funny because they lay out all these economic things, right? Straining domestic resources, violence and crime, weak in social cohesion, and destroyed labor markets, right?

They lay out all of these things which have direct, like, economic causal drivers. Yeah. And they're like, no, no, no, no. It's actually not about these economic factors. It's just about immigration. Like, they're so, it's so blatant. Yeah, no other ideology in history escaped. go to a certain group for the economic disaster in a country. That's never happened before.

Yeah. It's just one for one. If you go back to Mojepistone's theory of, like, structural anti-Semitism as the driver of the Holocaust, it's literally just this, right, except this is an even more blatant version of it. Yes. See, like, the Nazis even though did try to do some, like, populist economic policies as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, the strength through joy program. Yeah. The modern American right, does it. even try to do that. It's just the immigration. They're not even doing like a weird like right wing, like socialized.

There's a, I'll just, I'll push back. There's a little bit of like the talk with, oh, we're going to have a give every American and they're born, $1,000 that will be invested in that. Like, there's, they are like talking about it. They don't do it. They don't do it. But they talk about it. Yes.

Sometimes. Yeah. He talked about a tariff check, right? Trump was going to give every, every American is. Yeah. Yeah. The first time they did during COVID, right? They threw some.

around but there was that like yeah one or two stimulus checks we got at the end of COVID yeah the end of the first you know batch of the pandemic cycle to be more accurate yeah yeah Robert was there one other thing you wanted to talk about we've time yeah this is basically related to the Warner Brothers acquisition for whatever reason Reddit's algorithm will periodically give me little hints and bits of the war between Zach Snyder fans and the rest of the world Oh, yeah. I know a lot about this. I know a lot about this. I'm not a big Zach Snyder fan, you know, but I don't care. Like, I didn't feel strongly anti or pro his DC movies.

There are some crazy people out there who believe, and they are like reading the tea leaves. They think the Saudis are going to like kill his enemies. They're going to restore the Snyder first, Robert. Yeah. You know, this is, I've been following this just as like a personal interest for years. It's nuts. It's crazy. No, they're a fascinating people. Like, they're a fascinating unique people to study. Like, the number of people who literally believe that it, like, there should be people executed publicly for not letting Zach Snyder finish his movies that didn't make money is outstanding. No, because, well, because Netflix has partnered with Snyder for years, when, when, if Netflix takes over, they're obviously going to restore the Snyderverse.

They're going to restore the Snyderverse. But if the Saudis and Paramount takes over, the Saudis want to, yeah. do it too. So it's really, for Snyder Bros, things are looking up. So put your money in Snyder coin right now. Well, my favorite thing about that is that like, as soon as they announced the deal, they were like, and James Gunn is staying. Yeah, because of course. They talked a lot about him on the call because, like, his movies are a big part of what makes what are valuable right now, right? Like, he's good at making money for the people that he works for. And the level of conspiracy theories, like, no, they have, it's like Q&ON stuff. They have to hide.

Zach Snyder's back because they can't let people know yet. But he's already even told he's out. They've been doing this for like eight years. It's so funny. I had not realized how crazy they were. Yeah. I love it. It's really fun. Anyway,

that's, I always enjoy encountering a new cult. I think Zach is kind of taking advantage to them to get his Instagram follower count up. It's very funny. He's like posting stuff. That's like, their reading is like, he's messaging that it's coming back, even when guys like, Ben Affleck's like, it was the worst,

I hated being Batman. I would never do that again. I don't want to be, like, it's, I, I love it. I just love seeing deranged people be deranged about something that's actually harmless for once. Yeah. We could get, we could get a Snyder-vers related shooting. That's not impossible. Snyder does encourage it a little bit, but Snyder is not, I think, the villain of this story. No, he's clearly friends with gun. Like, they're not. No, yeah. And specifically, he has dropped his plans, which he had for years to do some Ayn Rand and adaptions, which I'm bummed about because I think Snyder's Ayn Rand would be great. And instead, instead, he's writing this like, this like lesbian movie with someone.

With Tick Natara. Yeah. So unfortunately, we're trading Ayn Rand for like this like lesbian cinema slop, which I am, I think it's lesbian bank robbers or something? I am really bummed about because I think, I think Zach Snyder's iron rand would be a much more fascinating piece of art. No, no. I want to see Ben Shapiro get $150 million to make Atlas shrug. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's what I want to see. They bought exclusive TV rights to one of the, one of the books. I forget, I forget if it was fountainhead or Atlas shrugged, but since the daily wires like finances have collapsed, I do not think

they're going forward with that right now. Oh, but, but Gare, the pin dragon cycle is coming out, though. I'm excited, right? We got to watch that together, buddy. We got to have the company pay for us to meet in the Airbnb in a third state and just watch that son of a bitch. If we want to this year to plan some kind of a cool zone convergence to watch the Penn Dragon cycle together, I would happily travel for that. I think we're ethically obligated to do that. Okay, final closing note, trans housing insecurity continuing to increase. But if you have an extra room, put a trans person in it.

If you have a couch, put a trans girl on your couch. This is going to be via the message going forward. Jesus Christ, people, put a trans girl on your couch. You can figure out how to live together. It will be fine. People are going homeless and dying. Please do this. Is there like data on?

Is this just as a result of like the continuing like people being forced out of their jobs? Yeah. This is all. This is me finally talking about something I've been tracking for a very, very long time, which is, I mean, I say very long time. But, you know, over about the past four or five years, has been massive transmigration into places like Portland, into places like Chicago, into places like New York. They're getting housing in New York. There's a lot of trans housing in New York. I think this, yeah, there's some, like, regional aspects of this.

Don't come to San Diego. Yeah, it makes sense that the cities that are safer are having, like, a big influx. Yeah, and there's a lot of people. are also cities that do not have great housing supply. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's neoliberalism. And there's been a lot of issues with it and that's something that can be mitigated by just putting people on your couch. I mean, yeah, that's a short term maybe.

I don't honestly, the couch thing freaks me out as a long-term solution. Well, but I mean, that's the thing, though. It doesn't have to be a long-term... If people have connections to help other people get jobs,

so they can like actually like... Pay a low amount of rent for like a room. that's way more solid than like this like forever couch surfing thing that sometimes people like refer to as like quote unquote trans housing yeah okay but again but the the idea here is that there and this is something that I have run into extensively is there are a bunch of people who basically just need to get out and need like a couple of months or a month to get back on their feet and don't have the ability to do it and are going homeless because of that and it's

killing people and it fucking sucks yeah and that is something that can be mitigated with sort of cultural shifts towards sharing space more, and we're all going to have to do it more because the economy is about to collapse even more. So, great, fun. Yay. Put a transgoal on your couch. If you would like to email us, you can do so by emailing cool zone tips at proton.many of you already have. I'm sure there are more of you to come. If you want it to be encrypted, you should send it from a proton mail address as well. Okay, everybody. Well, happy holidays. I think we have one more ED episode before the end of the year.

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