Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 3/18/25 – Can You Deport the First Amendment? Let’s Find Out

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

DOGE has innovated a new kind of dog that doesn’t need food, don’t worry about it. Plus there’s a new government-funded style influencer who posts videos smiling over the blood curdling screams of her fired co-workers. Then we get into the latest on Mahmoud Khalil, and whether Trump can successfully cram the first amendment on a rendition flight.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you as you're watching this it's march 18th 2025 we recorded this yesterday on st patrick's day mark has green on i don't i forgot again y'all are watching this on march 18 so who cares but i'm gonna get pinched. I'm recording this on the we're recording this at 104 p.m. on the left coast on Monday, St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, 2025. How are you doing, Mark? Are you, you got any Irish in you? Yeah. Agee's French, isn't it? The name's French, but my family was here since this early 1600, so it's like, we're from the south. So DNA-wise, it's all Scotch Irish, I'm assuming. Yeah. Um, plus the 116th Cherokee. Yeah. Uh, naturally. Got a hold of that.

Like every fucking redneck. So, yeah, at St. Patrick's Day, the DOD is still celebrating. They're still doing the St. Paddy's Day stuff. What do you think that's about, Trey? White holidays only from here on out. I mean, I wish I would stop saying DE. Why what they're doing is resegregating the federal workforce. But like the fact that at least they haven't gone all the way back to hanging up no Irish allowed signs.

at least we're not that far back. We're only going back to the 1950s, not the 1920s. So that's something to hang on to. I want to talk about today when you're talking about the horrors. The horrors have begun, the immigration horrors. I stepped up from our usual immigration horrors that happened under both parties. But before we get to that, I wanted to talk about a fun bit of news. So one thing Doge does as part of its quote-unquote cost cutting is, like, reduce everyone's credit card limit to $1.

all the company, the federal government company credit cards. Oh, yeah, the GSA cards. Yeah, I used to have one of those. Yeah, yeah. So, like, if you, so if you needed printer paper for the DOE or whatever,

you can run and grab it, right? Or whatever, you know, hypothetically. So the problems I've seen is, like, well, the park service, like usually the Rangers, like, you know, like a door came off,

it changes on a cabin. They would just run to Home Depot and get it and fix it, right? But you can't do that because it hinges more than a dollar. But a fairly comically stupid example of this, Uh, the TSA can't feed its, uh, bomb sniffing dogs. Hmm. They can't buy dog food.

Them freezing all of these governmental credit cards, I mean, doesn't, wouldn't that, would that not just bring all kinds of governmental operations to a screeching halt, like across the, yeah. Well, I mean, some of that stuff needs to be done, doesn't it? I don't know. Like, yeah. I mean, you'd think you'd want to sniff for bombs at the airport. That seems like a basic.

Like, if we want to get rid of the TSA, okay, we can go back to pre-9-11 stuff. I guess it mostly worked. But, like, except for the one time, it really, really didn't. Right? But they don't catch a lot of stuff anyway. But, like, a dog, like, what are, how does starving a dog that, like, they can't pay for vet visits either? So I guess we're getting, we can't even get dog vaccines now.

But even that, a TSA spokesperson, I'm assume, was hired a Trump hireee told, told 4-4 media reported on this. Our heroic canines are happy, healthy, and funded. Credit card purchases have been restricted for 30 days, but canine operations have not been adversely affected by this effort. So, unless they raise this credit card limit, the dogs will have no more food after 30. What they're saying essentially is they haven't run out of food yet.

Or they're just lying and watching the dogs starve and saying, Dear Leadership. But I was imagining a Sarah McLaughlin commercial, but they just recut it to the walking on. sunshine the soundtrack song yeah like like it's like just the dogs like oh my god bro yeah I mean this is kind of apropos of nothing but I don't know why I'm saying it but I do

that a lot on this show the way when I had those cards I guess every agency probably has different ones or they're probably different across the government but when I have one those cards I used to have to pay that bill for that card and then the government would reimburse me for you know whatever I pay meaning like that way they could decline to reimburse me for x part of it you know like if i i never did but if i used it on something i wasn't supposed to use it on they wouldn't reimburse me for that amount they just give it you know and then so that then that amount would be out of my pocket but that's how they used to make us do it but anyway could you could you expense like netflix if you were watching like a documentary series

about nuclear holocausts definitely not no okay so yeah people used to like care about things yeah when i worked together they actually were pretty pretty stringent about stuff uh you know almost too much so i would have said as a 25 year old but anyway all right let's get into it producer mats with us this is weekly skews uh before we continue i want to remind you of a few things of course uh first if you want to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person go to tray crowder dot com and check out my upcoming tour dates i'll be in new hampshire boston in binghamton new york this weekend all over the northeast that'll be fun uh that graphic is outdated.

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But now, Chris was a black guy, so I was like, okay, you just, you know, all white guys look alike. Yeah, right. Yeah, that's what I chalked it up to. But thanks. Yeah, every now and then people being particularly gracious, I'll get Oscar Isaac or like Charlie Cox sometimes, who is the daredevil guy. See, I've never seen it before, but just in that picture.

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Now, as for today's show, Mark already kind of told you. We're talking about the horrors have started immigration horrors. We can say, can you, in fact, deport the First Amendment? We're doing our damnedest to try more on the travesty that is the situation with Mahmoud Khalil a little bit later. But first, we begin with the Daily Dumbass, Matt, Graves. please. Tonight's DD, people who thought let them eat cake could never be topped

being introduced to let them wear Prada. There we go. It looks just like any other influencer video, a young woman posing in front of a camera over and over and over again, showing off her trendy, timeless, professional fashion. But she's no ordinary influencer. And that's no ordinary office. Her name is McLarence and over. And she's the Trump administration's new director of communications

for the Office of Personnel Management or OPM, which manages federal employees. All of these videos were shot in her government office here at OPM headquarters in Washington, D.C. Round zero for Trump's plan to cut thousands of workers from the federal government in the name of efficiency. Inside her office, and over captures video at her desk, putting on makeup, modeling new outfits to her 800 followers. Okay, you've got it. 800 followers. 800 followers.

800 followers. That's the part that I wanted to get. Oh, my, dude, Jesus Christ, this fucking lady. So she just took this job in January. So pure Trump appointee, McLaurin is. McLaurin pinned over. So she deleted her account after Sian asked her about it.

Any but timeless, hashtag DC influencer, her hashtag, I mean, her handle was get dressed with MC. So while her, we quote here from the story, while her team is getting axed, she's twirling around in her office.

Again, she's a spokesperson for OPM, which is the department who's in charge of laying off the federal workforce. And she is spending her time, again, the people being laid off in the name of government efficiency. And what is she doing at work? Twirling in hashtag OOTD outfit of the day, you know, outfits.

Yeah. What the fuck? Well, I'm not, you know, glad to say it's not much as Chang. I mean, we were, I was there kind of pre-influencer, but, you know, in my day, I was, it was like, I was on fantasy football pages and, you know, that type of, that type of stuff is what I was doing in my governmental office. But, yes, it's particularly bad look for the, like, at least a mouthpiece for, you know, the Doche's hatchet phase they're going through with the federal government. Somebody's got to defend them laying off-season governmental veterans and, you know, making a little, little fit, fit drip video, you know, fits and drips and all that. I don't know, but you know what I mean? Or not be doing that on government time anyway.

It's a bad look. Well, I mean, I'm not even trying to be one of those people. Like, I don't care if she played fantasy football. I wouldn't even care if she's making these videos if she was like, like, if the government was no functioning. Like, like, I don't care. What if people's office jobs would spend maybe two and a half of their eight hours, you know, it's like normal. Generally, it is very normal. Yes.

No, I know. No, right. I'm saying, look, far be it for me. But it's just like, it's like it comes up sometimes. But it's like, of course I don't have a problem with, like if Lindsay Graham is gay, I don't have a problem with that. It's just the way that he'd be about, you know. gay people and the rest of the gay community is what that's what makes it a problem and it's a similar type of thing here yeah let's watch i want to watch this second clip in the senate piece because it's pretty uh it's pretty funny february 13th the day 20 people on her communications team lost their jobs she posted a moment for mixed pattern

her agency demanded all federal employees look she's wearing like dark gray or black right there posted the business woman special as o p m spokeswoman she did you get I was sorry. Go back, Matt, that's my fault. I thought it was just that first clip. I didn't realize there was more. For mixed patterns. And the week when her agency demanded all federal employees list five things they did that week, she posted the businesswoman special. As OPM spokeswoman, she defended the metal.

So do you think she replied to the five things email with five videos or what? Yeah, I mean, I would respect her more if she did. That would be hilarious. but yeah I was just saying she's just you know at least it's like in gray scale it's like you know she could wear that to a funeral is what I'm saying so at least you know she's got a little right a little bit of cladish you know color patterns or anything while they're firing everybody that would be uncouth that's the other part of this her outfits are fucking trash yeah they're the most plain fucking nothing vanilla office lady out which is fine

I'm not saying everybody but you're trying to be an influencer wearing the same shit that my mom wears to work. You know what I'm saying? Like there's a reason you have 800 followers McLaurin. You might as well do your fucking job because this shit isn't going to work for you.

But like... Taylor, that's right. Fucking, yeah, roasted. Boom, roasted McLaurant. But anyway, she still has her job as far as anyone knows because whatever she's doing is far more important

than, you know, the park rangers and the cancer researchers. Bro, did you see that there was a mrna pancreatic cancer vaccine yeah that just have a bunch of success in trials and the government is responding to that by taking away all funding from mrna vaccines right just because of like covid backlash stuff like because because mrmrna vaccines are just dirty words now you got to get you can't even cure cancer anymore but just everybody knows that's the cancer my dad died from by the way

which so if i was a republican i'd probably be glad to hear this because you know i i wouldn't think anyone else would deserve a living father after mine had died that's usually how they treat like student loans and shit like that so uh but i'm not so i would like to see them cure pancreatic cancer yeah i think that's a real shame what a wolf pusified liberal would expect the government to supply you with a living father yeah oh my god no it's just like they're funny all the science dude well yeah yeah so it's just like yeah it's just like that's the real painful this moment is like not that any of the horrors that we're experiencing unprecedented or that this is a

relatively bad time human history to be living through until the nuke starts flying or whatever. But like, but it's just that a better future was right there. It was right there. You can reach it. I don't know. Maybe that isn't true

what I was going to say. I was just going to say, I feel like on my Patreon earlier today I was talking about like the Gilded Age and stuff and the like some of the parallels, whatever the rampant income inequality and technological explosions and all that shit. But I feel like the overlords back then, the main thing I was talking about was how they

were like, you know, like Carnegie and Rockefeller and all them. It's like they were ruthless cutthroat, you know, businessmen who destroyed countless lives. But they also, at least were majorly philanthropic and would like make colleges and stuff and they'd do a little bit of something. So I was limiting how shitty our class of rich people are. But the other thing I was just now thinking about was I feel like back then there was no I don't think there was a big anti, like, scientific advancement sentiment or whatever.

Like, people were excited about... Oh, sure, they were. That's part of the Red Scare and stuff. It was part of, like, all wrapped up in that. I mean, we're doing the Red Scare again, but it's similar. But among, like, those people, like, the people in charge of the government, like, we've always been very pro-advancement, haven't we? Like, I know there's been movements of people. No, I mean, like, it was the business overlords who were pushing the Red Scare, trying to kick out all the Jewish scientists because they were afraid, because they were afraid, because they were.

mad about the new deal. They're still mad about the new deal. It's the same thing. Okay. Yeah. So, but yeah, I mean, the Carnegie people, they, they, they lived through serious labor uprisings and had watched the fall of the czar and Russia, Soviet Russia, right? They knew, they were paying the mob not to kill them, but their philanthropy.

Because they understood how the social contract worked that them giving the poor people a chunk of their money for some services was the compromised position as opposed to getting murdered. Elon thinks he's being taken by taxes. Yeah. He doesn't understand that that's the compromise position. So he's trying to undo it. So I don't think it's going to work. Anyway, you want to talk about, let's talk about the horrors?

Yes. All right. So the general stuff, like, last time we talked about immigration stuff, it was about how they were over bragging about the little bit they'd done in order to scare people. Well, now they've gotten their ducks in order. And so everybody understands what's happening is they, would Biden, Obama before him, and even Trump, one, did to a lesser degree, was focused on deporting people who were actually dangerous criminals, right?

But having some due process to prove they were dangerous criminals. The problem is that's difficult, and finding actual criminals is harder because there's not as many of them. So what Trump has done is reshifted immigration focus from actual dangerous people and criminals to everybody who's here with even mistaken paperwork to get the numbers up. so they're basically imagine deporting a teacher and leaving a rapist

because they're more teachers than they're rapists okay that's essentially what's happening right now it's just easier to pad your stats but but doing it that way yeah

yeah that's what we're doing so I just a few these are anecdotes but they like they they shipped a mong woman from Milwaukee to Laos with no insulin like she needs insulin

they don't have it she's under guard in Laos she doesn't speak Laotian she's never been there She was born in Thailand. She's been in Milwaukee since she was a little kid. And what she got deported for was somebody dredged up an old weed arrest from like eight years ago. Okay.

Yeah, but what, how, I mean, why Laos, Laos, like, like how, why that specific country, if she's never been there or whatever? If they're going to deport her, how did it end up being that country that she has no ties to? She was born, and my understanding is she was born in Thailand after her family fled. Fled there? Okay. Yes. So, so. But even, like, what a tragedy

at a farce is, if you know anything about the history of the Hmong people and why they were forced to flee Laos is because the CIA tricked them into helping support their fight against the, of them in a fight against the communist. Anyway, like we basically, yet another ethnicity we listed in a fight against an oppressive government that we just abandoned when they were no longer

useful to it, so they lost. Classic, yeah. Classic CIA. Classic They deported a Trump supporter's wife and they tried to reenter the country from vacation in Puerto Rico, which means that's not even an international flight. They just nab this woman at the airport, even though they were flying from a U.S. territory to a U.S. territory. Okay. And do you read that piece, train?

I know I sent it to you. About the Trump supporter's wife guy. Yeah. Yeah. The guy's whole attitude was like, wow, that's crazy. Yeah. It's like, bro, Jesus fucking Christ. Well, hell, you know, maybe he's one of them that was trying to get rid of her.

I don't know. You know what I mean? No, I mean, like the details an article sound like there were newlyweds who were deeply in love and like his, her stepdaughter. his daughter really, really loved her and stuff. So, like, it sounded like, it sounded like he was just sort of, like, at a loss. Yeah. The stuff I don't even get the point of, they've arrested two German, one German who coming in the country in a visa, another one who's been here on a visa, married to an American citizen. The one who's married to an American citizen, I think is from the Northeast somewhere, like, the way he was being treated as described as, like, torture.

They forced him into cold showers, depraved him of food. They said they were interrogating him, but he said German national was been living. here for a long time. Interrogating him for what? They're just like fucking torturing for the fun of it, the point you had to go to a hospital. The, uh, they detained a British cartoonist who's lost in the fucking, uh, deportation system.

Uh, a, uh, a fucking Canadian woman. Um, are any of those people that you know of, or they like, like that cartoonist, does he make like, uh, you know, scathing political cartoons or anything? Like, are any of these like, uh, you know what I mean? Dissidents or something like that? Or they're just regular.

They don't even, they're all political. they're all boring white people right that's the like this what I'm saying is like if anybody watching this overseas do not fucking come here yeah do not come here which is a sad note that's not the main thing but rest in peace the American tourism industry

the uh like they're just basically like it feels like they're just like let loose it's like I don't know like Fox and Ann else type shit would they just fucking anybody with like the the Canadian lady she was coming into US from Mexico

she had went back to the embassy to get her visa fix after being detained and then she just got arrested and shuttled around to fucking deportation facilities for reasons no one the best guess is because what she does is she she owns like a brand of like I think what do you call it seltzer water that has tea it has hemp in it okay so the federal government thinks she's a big time drug dealer even though it doesn't have THC is like fucking anyway they wouldn't let a kitty transplant doctor at Brown University come back in from Lebanon if she went visiting her family she was a full bright she was a full also a full bright scholar at Columbia University fled to Canada we have political refugees fleeing the country is one of the one of everybody to understand here the this full bright scholar at Columbia we're talking about Columbia a lot today she was wasn't even a protester she got kettled she was walking back to her apartment after class or study at the library or something and you know when cops call kettling when they they corner everybody in alley so they can group arrest them.

Okay. She just got caught up in a mass of people and arrested even though she wasn't even protesting anything. She was on a list on an ice list.

She just fucking fled to Canada. Over the weekend, the administration defied a court order in the midst of shipping 261 Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador. Again,

we're shipping Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador. Yeah. Is this the thing that Holman said, I don't care what the judges think, I don't care what the courts think, whatever was about this,

whatever. And it's like, that's like, you know, that's been kind of the question The whole time with all these rash decisions they're making, and as far as, you know, judges standing in the way, it's like, I mean, you tell me, well, then, if they just respond to that like this, if they just go like, okay, well, I'm just not going to do that or I'm going to do what I want to do anyway. And then they do it, like, I mean, then what? Well, they're not, well, they're not really, oh, well, I don't know what happens after that, but, but like, they're not really in. And so Trump spoke someone when Kristen Leavitt walked back.

Well, Tom said that. He was fired up. We're in compliance to all court orders. What they're saying is the order didn't count because the plane was already over international waters. Okay. All right. All right. But that's not really how anything works because the agency has headquartered in the United States.

It's not like there's not like a base you can get to where you don't have to listen to a court order. But also it's like, well, we're not sure that a verbal order is the same power as a written order, which is like, talking about how fucking far school. No lawyers ever made that decision. distinction before, because for one thing, it's just not true that a vote verbal order doesn't count. But two, we've all seen law and order, and we know there's a court reporter sitting there turning a verbal order into a written order within half a second after the judge verbalizes

it. So the fuck. They're saying the news reports about this, and there has been some pushback. I'll give some reporters credit up. But like, they keep saying alleged gang members, okay? No one believes all 261 of these guys were gang members. You cannot fucking believe it. It's not true.

Last time we talked about this when they're rounding up people in Colorado, they rode out for a day with the goal of rounding up 300 gang members. They arrested 100 people whom, according to their own information, five of them were members of Trendiagua. There's about 5,000 people in Trendiagua worldwide last time I checked. 261 of them are not on that fucking plane. That's a lie. Yeah, it's just like brown dudes with tattoos.

Right. They're saying, and they're saying the tattoos prove their connection to the gang, which is funny because I have tattoos. Um, one of the tattoos they put out as like indicative of membership in Trenda Iguagua is the Michael Jordan Jumpman logo. Come on, dog. Right. Fucking, yeah. So every streetball player from the 90s, uh, and Ryan is in Trenda Agua now, or however the hell you say it.

They appear to reverse engineer this because of Venezuelan who have been living in Colombia, presented himself at the border on January and 19th to ask for political asylum. a border patrol officer saw his neck tattoo of the jumpman logo, decided it was suspicious, and therefore he wanted to be deported, and then they reverse engineered this logic. The jump man logo is trend to Ara Agua. You just made me remember something I hadn't thought of in years and years. Did you ever run into, like, your hometown, the particular brand of nonsensical racism that was like,

you just maybe realize this is not the first time that I've heard that there were, like, racist meanings behind, like, Nike iconography or things like that, like sports clothes? I was like, do you ever hear redneck say what, like, what Nike really stood for or, like, that it was, like, gang related and shit like that? Nike and Adidas and all that. Yeah, well, I did. I don't want to get into it because it's real gross, but I didn't know, I didn't know how widespread that was. But I remember, like, some of the rednecks in my school in the 90s saying that, that, you know, because, like, Nike was huge at the time and associated with, like, Michael Jordan and other black people.

And, I mean, of course, fucking white kids were wearing them, too, all over the place. But anyway, they were trying to act like it was some pre-internet. conspiracy theory that it was all secretly some kind of gang shit it was all gang stuff pattern logos and iconography and stuff like that so very very dumb no I'm not not familiar with that particular racist conspiracy theory so

another another tattoo they're saying is indicative of membership in Trendera Agua is just a tattoo of an AR-15 which is like so RIP to like everybody in tactical gear you're getting deported so this particular scheme we're paying Salvador's president Buckele $6 million to hold

them hold these people a year during which they're supposed to be a year to serve hard labor I assume they'll never fucking get out and by the way when you hear Salvador in prisons think where Batman was sent and Dark Night Rises. Yeah

I mean aren't they famous for like the they revamped I'm doing air quotes their prison system a few years ago to just like be way more brutal and draconian basically to like crack down on all their all their gang stuff or whatever but it's like basically Salvadoran prisons are they don't fuck around they're they're very intense by even central and South American standards yeah you can go read human right human rights watch reports in Salvador prisons and I read like yelp reviews after stays and Pennywise's sewer right yeah exactly yeah so the uh if you think about this perhaps a second. What we're doing is we're rounding up people based upon flimsy pretexts and we have shipped them overseas to serve

as slaves. We're human traffic slaves except we're not even really, we're not selling them into slavery as paying them into slavery. Right. So, yeah. And so they had deported these people. Trump invoked the Alien and Enemies Act, which is from

part of the Alienist Edition Act from 1798. And whenever somebody dredges up a law from 1798, you know it's going to be good. the federalists openly trying to use this law to punish journalists they deemed unfairly critical and deport immigrants he saw as a threat to the nation. Conservative media of the day built support for these laws by circulating batch of conspiracy theories. So again, the more things change.

You're right. By the way, the continuing resolution that fucking Chuck Schumer, none of the Democrats voted for at the end of last week added 500 million more dollars for ICE. So congratulations everybody. Democrats also passed the Lake and Raleigh Act to spot. feed all this shit up. By the way, just so everybody knows it's watching this on the regular edition, we did talk about Chuck Schumer's big betrayal last week at the beginning of the Patreon

episode we did, just so you know. Yeah, I would repeat my takes, but I'm too mad to do it again. But I want to talk about, like, focus on one guy's horrific immigration experience ongoing right now. He hasn't been deported yet. He's still being held somewhere in, I think, a private prison in Louisiana right now. talking specifically about Mamu Khalil. His arrest, kidnapped, I'm going to call it.

He's just a kidnapping by ICE. He's gotten a lot of attention, I think, because it wraps up a bunch of our national illnesses into one neat little ball. You got racism, addiction to war, attacks on free speech, tax on higher education, and the dismantling of scientific research, plus, you know, all this stupid fucking surveillance state we built up after 9-11. And the through line I want to talk about here is, like, I think a lost count of the inversions of reality.

reality, the way people talk about this case. There's so much bullshit wrapped up in it that it kind of makes my head want to explode. It's just like so much the stuff is just happening in a fake universe. It's like we're watching a debate show that's being aired on the ship on Starship Troopers. Right. Do you know what I'm saying? Yes. Like speaking of Starship Troopers, Trump administration put out a fucking video of the deportations of the fake trend of O'Awa members.

It was set to like a techno beat and showed their heads being. forcibly shaved and being dragged off the plane in cuffs by guys in balaclava's holding weapons dragging them by the neck and i'm like i don't know who this is supposed to hit for yeah right yeah it's like yeah showing it is like a source of pride or whatever like highlight videos and it's just like crimes against humanity people people are cheering it on and shit well uh also speaking of starship troopers i just read yesterday that they've got a new one in development mark coming from neal blom camp the director of district nine so uh that That's got some potential, but if you don't know,

Neil Blomcamp has been attached to pretty much every prominent sci-fi franchise in recent years and hasn't made a single one of them. So it probably wouldn't ever happen. He also said they're going back to the book as source material, not the movie, where the book is objectively pro-faction. Yeah, right, yes. But that doesn't, yeah, but you could still, I mean, you could subvert the, you know, you could use the narrative.

It doesn't matter. We ain't got to divert into that. I just didn't know if you'd heard that because I know we both like that movie a lot. Yeah, yeah. So the weird thing about this story, the way people talk about Khalil, is the only people involved with any institutional power who are being remotely honest are the Trump administration when they admit that he committed no fucking crime. They're the only people being honest. Like, no, we didn't do anything wrong. We're taking them out anyway.

Like, it was purely first political speech. Yeah, we're doing it. So, like, there were protests planned over the weekend. I didn't see much coverage of them because, of course, there's not going to be any. But, like, but they're supposed to be nationwide protests. and I hope they fucking continue. But to get to who Mahmood is, he's 21 years

28 years old. He's a legal permanent resident, which is an important part of this story. His wife's eight months pregnant. She's an American citizen. The reason I bring up the legal permanent resident thing is because when I snatched him, it's on video. I just don't want to play it because it's fucking gross. He, they go, we're picking you up because your visa's been revoked. He goes,

I'm not here on a visa. So you could not have revoked my visa. I have a green card. I'm a legal permanent resident. They go, oh, well, that's been revoked, too. Not a fucking thing. Right. They just pretended they had their homework in order, and they did not.

Khalil's, he's a Palestinian descent, but he was born in Syria, I think. I've seen that reported, and he's a citizen of Algeria. I can't tell you, again, people talk about these protests is insane to me. I can't tell you that no one said anything anti-Semitic at the Columbia University protest related to Gaza and Israel. That would be a stupid thing to claim. But Kaleo did a lot, as a leader of the protest movement, did a lot of interviews where he said all the right things about how my Jewish friends don't have the same fight. These are old prejudices.

There's anti-Semitism. There's anti-Semitism. There's no place in our protest movement. He also coordinated a Passover cedar for Jewish protesters. Was he kind of the face of the ones at Columbia at the time when they were happening? Like, you know what I mean? So obviously, yeah. What I know you said they straight up admit that that's why they picked him.

up. But I'm just saying, like, clearly that's the reason why, like that, like, him being the face of those protests, which they deemed anti-Semitic, regardless of what he on a personal level did or how he conducted himself, that's like the justification that, the only justification they need to deport this legal permanent resident. And they don't even feel the need to, like, lie or bullshit about it either. Right. They don't think their whole position is they don't need a justification. Yeah, right. And we'll get to that in a second, but like, so, uh, Khalil also worked at some point

for the UK at an embassy as a translator and as far as I know he was just a translator but he seemed to be well liked to coordinate

I saw interviews with his former colleagues of the embassy but for a moment there I was like did they kidnap a British spy so

I'm not sure why he was targeted but he was targeted and it's pretty clear that he was personally targeted by the Trump

administration first of all they posted this official White House Twitter account Shalom Muhammad with a picture of it like make it look

like a wanted poster like he's wanted for crimes against the Jewish people or something so they're taunting him with Shalom yeah I mean they're not even like

I can't handle the lack of cleverness of any of this like they did not need to stunt or flex on this at all they could have quietly done this and maybe less people would have noticed right yeah kind of

strisand effect situation right but like But again, they, you know, they're proud of it. They don't think they have anything to apologize for. And they, like, they don't care. They want the, I don't know if they want the heat. They just don't care if anybody tries to turn up the heat.

They'll just, you know. They want this fight because if they win it, okay, if you can just remove a person's green card status and take it away. And then what comes next is like visas, like, no one's going to contest a visa being revoked. And, like, what comes next is trying to denaturalize people. Uh-huh. I'm sure those start people that are born form. and born, but there's no reason they couldn't do it to me and you. People born in America have been denaturalized before.

And they're going to do it straight up for political speech. So this is like a, this is like a, this is a test run, a trial run to see what happens, right? And another reason we know, these ice agents on the video I watched, refuse to give their names. But when you're standing up for the fucking law and you won't say the name of yourself as a cop, I feel like you know you're fucking up. Right? And then one other reason we know they were targeted. This is according to Kaleo's lawyer. The agent said this.

They said the White House was reported, they said the White House is looking for a report, all right? They ever heard officers say that. So they were calling the White House to give a direct update on snatching one guy who hadn't violated any laws they were trying to try to deport. Is the full machinery of the state going after one guy for political speech? speech. I just wanted to be out of the clear about what's happening here. According to the Guardian, the pro-Israel group,

Betar U.S., I don't say it, says it is the deportation list and sent thousands of names to Trump officials. Okay. So you have a Zionist organization who has a list of people they want deported, and they have Trump in their pocket. So what's happening the economy of kind of. Yeah. And I thought, look, not to give her any kind of

credit at all, so I don't know if she since walked it back, but I know when this was first happening, even like uh wasn't like didn't anne culter go like did you see the thing in culture said about this she was like it was funny because she started it by uh she started it by saying listen there's almost nobody on earth i don't want to deporting people no i hate to run down somewhere we're going to get to it but yeah she said she said like i basically want everyone deported but if this is just about it's just about his political speech then yeah here we go yeah there's almost no one i don't want to deport but unless they've committed a crime Isn't this a violation of the First Amendment? Right. So it's like when you got even Ann Coulter, you know, calling you, you know, this excessive, then, you know. Her, she has a more principal position on this than Chuck Schumer and John Federman.

Right, yeah. And I know it's because she's anti-Semite. Sure. But she doesn't, she, her position is correct there. So, and I do you want to say, like, you find yourself reluctant to, like, be supportive of Mahmood because you find his politics distasteful, like, that's exactly why they chose him. They chose him because he has a pretty unpopular position in America. So today, and also, because if you try to, like, defend him or whatever in any kind of public

way, they can just, they can just then say that you're being anti-Semitic or you're also anti-Semitic or whatever. And it's like, even though that's ridiculous, they can just say that and then go on with their day. And it, you know, it, like, gives them out or whatever. Chuck Schumer, uh, was. was asked about an interview over the weekend. And, no, sorry, you put out a statement, um, last week about this.

The gist of it was, of course, Mahmood is a subhuman piece of shit, terror, sympathizer. But let's make sure due process is followed. Right. And Trump's response to that was to say he's not even, Chuck Schumer's not even Jewish. He's a Palestinian. They're calling him Cuck Schumer, Trey. I think we got to get the name stick. So if his speech follows you, so today it's the edgier parts of the pro-Palestinian activism.

Tomorrow it's gender ideology. Then it's saying you were born gay. And a year later, it's like for promoting the climate hoax, which is like, I'm barely exaggerating. Because right to seize a bunch of money from Habitat for Humanity that the Biden administration dispensed to fight climate change. Because climate change is fake, therefore the money was obtained through fraud. The FBI is harassing Habitat for Humanity. because of climate change. So I'm saying

take a stand here or there's no fucking there's no stand but also like this today's not about the merits of the protest but having this discussion at this particular moment

feels like a fucking farce because last week the AP had this story where the US and Israel trying to talk three African countries Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland into taking two million

Gazans after they kick him out of their fucking homeland And shortly after Khalil was arrested, Israeli energy energy minister, Eli Cohen announced that there will be no more electricity in the Gaza Strip, which means no more clean drinking water. So that's a part of this big bullshit, is you object to any part of this. You say that, like, children should have access to drinking, should have access to clean drinking water taken away from them. You're being anti-Semitic. Right. Yeah, that's the bullshit nature of how they framed it, you know, from the very beginning.

Right. And there's a poll last week, 70% of Israelis still want Bibi Anjahou to resign. Is that anti-Semitism? Do the Jewish people of Israel know that's anti-Semitic in America? Because that's how it's being framed over here. The actual way they're framing it to sound legalistic, but it's not, is they're saying Mahmood was engaged in, he led, quote, led activities aligned to Hamas. While his friends say he attended Shabu's.

Shabbat dinners. So who do you believe on Mahmood's anti-Semitism? His beloved Jewish friends or the administration of a guy whose wife said his favorite book was mind comp. But that's how much bullshit stacked up on this stuff. Like, it's like, it'd be, it'd be funny if it was, you know, another reality. Yeah. But most people, I say most people on because we just talked about Ann Coulter a minute ago,

but most people that are on, you know, their side will see. they'll just see that he was you know leading those protests they'll just buy it is what I'm saying even though he has Jewish friends saying like you know he went to Shabbat or whatever they'll you know they're not going to hear it he's a he's a brown dude who was in those protests and whatever so they'll just you know they'll totally believe that he's that he's in Hamas you know um and yeah and nothing you can do about it with those people aligned to Hamas sounds like it's quoting some law or something but it's not a legally operative standard. The standard for moving somebody

or punishing somebody for being pro-terrorist in America is material support for terrorism mostly money or maybe intelligence. Yeah. So by phrasing it is aligned to Hamas, they're basically admitting they can't meet a real standard, like an old real

standard by inventing a fake new one. So that brings this to the big bullshit number two. He's being accused of like leading activities aligned to Hamas. Nyanahu's government literally He literally facilitated the funding of Hamas. I'm talking literally delivering duffel bags full of cash to Hamas. Yeah, because he want to that, right, so that they would do some shit, which would

necessitate a response from them, which would allow them to wipe them off the face of the earth after that, basically, and keep power the whole time while they're in. The other potential faces of Palestinian independence have more international credibility than Hamas because they're a terror group. So Nyanyahu wanted to keep the terror group in power So we can say we can't let them be a state because they're led by a terror group Right yeah The Palestinian Authority while corrupt as fuck

Is a lap dog to Nanyahu and is secular and is there not a terrorist group And is therefore more credible to outside people to be to be the leaders of a two-state solution So they can't be allowed to have any more power because people might think that Palestinians can govern themselves Right Right So, Mahmood chanting Free Palestine on a sidewalk is activities aligned in Hamas, but BB handing Hamas, a duffel bag with $5 million of American cash is not. Okay. People want this to be about anti-Semitism so fucking bad.

And I want to turn off the bullshit counter for a second because I think I'll need a graphic calculator to keep track of it. So I've talked about Chuck Schumer being accused of Palestinian for saying that maybe Mahmood might be, shouldn't deserve to get it out of the country. What the fuck is the ADL doing, man, the anti-defirmation league? They're worried about Mahmood when Elon's supporting the ADP in Germany. And JD has literally gave an interview the other day about how the blood of Europeans is being polluted by a foreign invading hordes, which is the language that led to the Holocaust. Nazis could be literally reopening Auschwitz. And ADL would mad about Macklemore rapping. Do you know, like, how am I a fucking dipshit comment writer here to remind anybody of their priorities?

30s. Plus, like, another big tell here is the judge that blocked Khalil's deportation is Jewish. You want to guess how the Maga Wright responded to that? Here's Laura Lumer, exclusive, Marxist-Jewish activist judge and his family exposed, Obama appointee, a bunch of other fucking... So, like, these people are going to get a Jewish judge the name of protecting Jewish people and getting Jewish people killed. Another fucking farcical layer on top of this.

The Trump administration just put out a new executive order last week. add additional measures to combat anti-Semitism. The executive order was numbered 14-188. Yeah. The Hitler numbers. Yeah. What's the one in the middle? Yeah.

Well, the one in the middle is unfortunate, like, logistical thing they can't get around because these things are, they are numerically ordered. So some Trump executive order is going to get the number 14-188. Right. Yeah. They show. 14 is the words, right? There's a statement.

14 words. Yeah, protect the future for white children. And then eight, eight letter of the alphabet, which is H, which is Howell Hitler. Yeah, right. So, so something's, I just a coincidence, Mark. Right. They put it 100 executive orders. The one that deal was anti-Semitism has the Haul Hitler in numerical quote for all Hitler in it.

So, yeah, I'm sorry, I know that they're just trolling with this shit. But like, fuck, at a certain point, they'll be trolling when they put people in the ovens. You know? Another thing people do. is, like, left-wing protests get hit with this, like, fantastical combined with evil thing, where it's like, like, the Black Lives Matter protest got fallen into either they were, like, the evil parts there were their paid protesters by George Soros, you know,

funded radicals to, like, try to overthrow the American government or place with like a black supremacist government or whatever. And then, you know, the far school platform where they want to, like, what they want to do is, like, they want to end all policing and make it so, like, we live in an anarchist, like, fake utopia. It's like, no, what they're asking for is pivoting some amount of city budgets to social work, right? It's a very material, normal thing to ask for. You can disagree with them if you want, but it's not something outlandish. What they did with the fucking, the Gaza protest, it was either they were calling for the destruction of Israel or they were calling for world peace, right?

Right. But then, by the same token, whenever a right-wing protest shows up to, like, literally overthrow the government on the steps of the Capitol, They're just like, God, it was just a bunch of, you know, it's a peaceful. Yeah, right. So. Right. Yeah. So the Columbia protesters, the same ones, not by the ones who were saying and saying shit,

but they have material asks of their college administration. Yes, they would have liked to stop the bombings in Gaza. But they were asking the Columbia, the University of Columbia administration to have a vote, for the board to have a vote, not for them to do it, just to have a vote. Or they're not to divi-divest from investing in companies in Israel and weapons manufacturers here in the United States, right? They're asking them to pivot some of their tab merely to have a vote on pivoting some of their investments. That was it. A vote.

And they got their fucking skulls cracked in for it. And everybody pretended like they weren't asking for anything real. The, uh, and they, there are lots of reasons you wouldn't want, like, like, I don't really have the relation to my college that these Ivy League people seem to me. to have with theirs where it's like kind of like a family you plan on being a part of where you deeply care about it 21 years after you no longer go there I don't really understand that but these people do and they feel need to guide the future of their institutions but also like there's there are common sense reasons why a school like an Ivy League school that teaches future people leaders of the Department of State and the DOD and DOJ while they

wouldn't want the people teaching them about the politics and the world's work to be making a buck off of war. Seems straightforward to me, right? Right. But, like, so that's, anyway, pretending they didn't, they were, they were asking for, like, outlandish shit is a piece of big bullshit here.

The law of the administration's citing to take away his legal, permanent resident status. It originated during the second, during the second red scare in 1952, it's called the Immigration and Naturalization Act. It says that, quote, an alien whose presence or activity

in the United States, the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would a potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences of the United States is deportable. It was written to protect the country from communism and quote Jewish interests. Another item of big bullshit here is that they're trying to raise a set of dominoes

here where Mahmoud hands out pamphlets in Manhattan in the city of New York in the United States and somehow a few dominoes later, Hamas rules the Holy Land. Right. because he's more powerful than Marco Rubio. Yes.

But it's like you said, right, but it's a, it's like a, a trial run, right? For a lot of stuff that they want to do in the future, like it sets a lot of precedents at the same time that they would like to have set for what they can police and how. And what recourse there is, if any, for, you know, for any of that. Like a little fun, a little fun subplot here is the only other time in recent history that this law was invokes and Bill Clinton

I tried to deport a former Mexican government official who was accused of corruption. But a federal judge at the time ruled the law was in an unconstitutional violation of due process. And that judge was Marianne Trump-Berry, Donald Trump's sister. That's a big club, Troy. We're not in it. That's exactly what I was about to say. Yeah, that's wild. I didn't even know he had a sister who did that.

Yeah, she had to resign the first Trump administration over, like, I forget, maybe just her time to retire. I remember being there being some controversy about it. Anyway, right now the DOJ. is examining whether student protests at Columbia University over the genocide in Gaza violated federal terrorism laws. Here's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying so. The president promised that under his watch,

we will no longer stand by while universities tolerate and facilitate anti-Semitism and support of terrorism on their campuses. All right. So everything's terrorism after 9-11. Fucking everything is terrorism. Like, right now, they're trying to expand terrorism laws against people that are protesting at Tesla dealerships.

So what they're gearing up for is to call you a terrorist and deport you if you boo a cyber truck. That's where this is going to end up. Okay. I bring the war on terror up because one of the things we're about to do, let me quote here from this piece by Spencer Ackerman. The administration intends to detain and deport more Khalil's at scale. Axios reported on Thursday that Rubio intends to use an artificial intelligence. program to identify visa holders who protested against Israel. So they're going to scan social, using AI to scan social media for activity that is

quote unquote aligned to Hamas and then see who they can deport for it. The other day, I Googled the runtime of a movie and Google's AI returned to me that the movie was an hour and seven minutes long, which sounded really short for me for a movie. So I went to the web version and found the actual runtime. It was 107 minutes long. And we're going to let it decipher what's anti-Semitic when no fucking two human beings can just decide, can agree on what's anti-Semitic. Yeah, I know. Yeah.

We're placing our trust in these, you know, AI programs that can't even get shit right on Google. I mean, Google's become like basically worthless at this point. Yeah. Because they were like, I mean, that's how they rose to the, the peak of the, you know, the tech pyramid for a while there is because of a. Yeah. efficacy and now you can't every time you search for anything on there it's like it's just a bullshit AI summary at the top that probably isn't accurate and then like five hidden ads disguised as like responses to your search or whatever or more you know yeah and there's there's hidden those ads

those top five results can be scams too and they do nothing to police the scams anymore and it really should have been a big tell when their founding motto was don't be evil and they got rid of it change it. Yeah. Right. So why would you change it? Like honestly, thank you for being honest

when you changed it, I guess. So that brings us to Columbia University and the last big bullshit live one's telling themselves right now that we can coward our way

out of this. If you, to keep track of how we got here, last spring we talked about the time, a bunch of like college presidents were hauled before Congress and harassed by Republican

Congress people about how they weren't doing it to fight anti-Semitism. These are hearings led by Elise Stefonic who promotes the great replacement conspiracy theory that Jews are importing immigrants to replace white people.

Okay. That should have been a tell to people, but apparently liberals are fucking too stupid. They don't get played the exact same way every time because if you just accuse them of anti-Semitism, something in their brain cannot let them go fuck off. Just say fuck off. Yeah.

Yeah, no, people just, you know, you can't be it's, uh, you got to be, if you're, you know, if you're, you know, if you're going to be a good liberal, you got to be down with everybody. You know what I mean? You can't be seen as, is anti-Semitic. You can't let people think you're, but you weren't being anti-Semitic.

I know that. I know that. But I'm saying, but like they're, you know, you just, you know, accuse them of that

and they're like, they automatically get, you know, defensive on the matter. So, so the Columbia's president caved, invited cops on the campus

to beat the shit out of her students. She got fired anyway. So all this fucking capitulating and activity that got her kids injured, almost killed, accomplished nothing,

not even for her own career. The new administration seems determined to rectify that mistake by not even begin with the pretense of integrity or spine. And one thing I want people to notice here is you never see Wesleyan University brought up in any of these discussions. Wesleyan University, the president was like, nope, not calling a cops. I'm like students. Things proceeded normally pace.

They never get broken up in any of this. He said, fuck off, fuck you. Nothing happened. Right. So there's no downside to, well, at least now, as for now, there's no downside to just you know standing up for yourself but if you bend over for them you're you know you're just going to get railroaded either way so uh-huh do it it's like so like yeah chuck schumer capitulating for them and then getting insulted to his face or whatever like it like you know

like if it's going to matter in the end that he was one of the good ones or whatever it's just right how this shit works uh so um my mood according to post public kept private uh independent journalism outfit is at tao dot com they got a hold of emails that come back move sent to Columbia's administration asking for help because he thought he was going to be harassed by ICE. He got none. In fact, it appears they helped ICE find him. They basically let ICE

on the campus nonstop. Ice basically gets their own dorm rooms now on Columbia's campus. Some professors try to help their kids keep from getting kidnapped by ICE. They tried to hold classes remotely so they wouldn't have to come to campus. Columbia, in response to that, banned those professors from having remote classes so kids would have to

come on the campus to get kidnapped. They've since announced, quote, multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions for students who participated in the protest. There were like a half-dozen Columbia graduates who were caught spying for the Soviet Union who never had their degrees revoked. They're being harder on these kids than they were fucking literal traitors. Oh, my God. Yeah, everything comes out now, man.

People are afraid of this administration, I guess. too much of a course correction from a lot of people since they want like people got it in their head that's like this is what America wants or whatever so we better listen even if we disagree or something like that or they're just afraid or both but either way it's

fucked up maybe they don't feel like fucking hauling AOC off to Puerto Rico like a prison in Puerto Rico but like I don't know maybe this haven't gotten around to it we'll find out I guess but Trump also just just took away 400 million in funding from Columbia they did all this

after he took money away from them. I don't know what fucking else he can do to them. But they're still just capitulating just fucking because it feels good, I guess. Some context here. Columbia's student body

is a quarter Jewish. So he's defunded a school which is 26% I think Jewish in the name of fighting anti-Semitism. This anti-Semitism panic has resulted in a bunch of Jewish kids losing their access to their education. Chuck Schumer in another interview over the weekend

was asked about the 400 million funding being taken away from a school. that's down the street from his house in his fucking these are his constituents and he's like well it sounds fine to me but to see what the four hundred million dollars is for what he took away and it's like i like the idea that chuck schumer thinks that the four hundred million dollars was like directly funding anti-semitism and you can defund four hundred million dollars worth of anti-semitism from a college what the fuck you talking about bro no i yes i that's not how

any of that works their endowment is huge anyway what's for like they it's not like they have a line item for anti-Semitism or funding protests in the first place, but I guess he just doesn't care because, you know, that pissed him off when he saw those protests that he deemed anti-Semitic in his head. So now it's fucked them from him from going forward, I guess. I don't know. Their endowment is $14.8 billion. They're kissing the Trump's administration's asshole.

Over 400 million they don't need. and has already lost. What's the point in investing in weapons manufacturers to make a cool profit if you don't spend the money on a rainy day? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like you said, now's the time, man,

you're not going to get anything for trying to play their game anyway. It's not going to help, so. No. And like, like, what is the, I'm not, I'm trying, like, the response to the protest was draconian, like, it was authoritarian crackdown. Like, what did they want? Another Kent State plus airstrikes?

Like, what, What else does Chuck Schreman want them to have done? They said they didn't do enough to fight anti-Semitism. And now the Trump administration's demanding control over, like, syllabuses at Columbus, at Columbia. He's demanding they immediately placed their Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies departments under receivership for a minimum of five years. That's a condition to receive any more federal funding.

And just to put a button on this, I want to quote here, because nothing everything new was everything old is new again or whatever here's the New York Times article I want to quote from Columbia here's plea for expelled student the student members of the American

Student Union including Robert Burke who was expelled in June for leading the anti-Nazi demonstration last May addressed a gathering of 500 students of the college and their various schools of Columbia University in front of Hamilton Hall yesterday at noon appealing of support to youth and their struggle.

So September 25th, 1936. They expelled somebody for protesting Nazis in 1936. And I'm not comparing, I'm not saying Zionists or Nazis or whatever. I'm just saying protesting Nazis was unpopular in 19, fucking 36. I don't know. It's rough, but you got, you have one. Actually, no, we'll save that for next time, I guess.

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