Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – Stage Managing a Battle of Los Angeles

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

A growing number of powerful people call for the drone striking of Greta Thunberg so nerds can feel free to dress as hummus for Halloween. (We swear these are real things.) Then we get into the weekend’s ICE protests in L.A., Trump sending in the National Guard, and whether we need the Marines to stop a couple Mexican guys from riding dirt bikes. Join us.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you as you're watching this it's june 10th 2025 uh we recorded this on june 9th monday june 9th 1.30 p.m. on the left coast coming to you from the dystopian hellscape of los angus it's trey crowder and mark a g weekly skews how do we survive this city market's on fire every three months on people by parents home, wonder how we make do every day in a place like this. I'm sure. Yeah, I'm wearing my Cambo hat today. So I come to you as Comedante A.G. Given us one last radio address from a fallen Republic of California. So this is, we're going to talk about it when we get to it, but it's a little, it feels a little weird to live in a materially different reality that you

see reflecting on the news. We're just talking about a few square blocks downtown. Right. So, we'll get to that when we get to it. But so before we get to the show, I want a quick, fun update for you in a story we talked about a couple weeks ago. I remember the wrench attacks, the crypto people getting robbed and tortured for their passwords? So, New York, we talked about the guy, the Italian guy who got held hostage where the guys, those guys put his feet in water and tased him and made him smoke crack, right? And then he escaped and the cops caught him. Well, two NYPD detectives in place don't leave because they were providing security for the kidnappers.

Yep. One of them was on Eric Adams' private security detail. You don't remember recall Eric Adams came into office as a big Bitcoin guy. Surprise. He wanted to take a salary in Bitcoin. And we're just living, again, on one hand, all the pleads have to abide by extreme sort of rule of law. Meanwhile, if you're a cop or if you're a mayor, you can get out of corrupt charges for corruption by being even more corrupt. But taking a payout from the federal government of bribe of a blackmail from Donald Trump.

and then his private security detail can moonlight as an Uber-Each driver who delivers guys to get their balls tased while their forces of smoke cracked they hand over their passwords for fake money. Yeah, I mean, that's what, look, these off-duty cops that were working for the torturer, like, is it known or established that they were, like you just said, they were, you know, Uber each driver, they're transporting this guy. Like, were they, you know, hauling this guy up from the basement

to hook his balls up to a battery? cable or were they just like standing outside the door of this guy's Manhattan penthouse while he does his Patrick Bateman shit inside and is that at least their story you know what I mean like how active of a participation was it it's not clear but wild earth would these guys need security if not to help them guard their torture victim right well to keep from getting abducted by another guy becoming their torture victim I was there you go yeah it's all crypto crimes all the way down but yeah it's like the whole thing's a weird mystery uh nypd stays nypd so yeah all right we got a big show just get to it yeah let's do it producer matters with us doing this thing

we already alluded to what we're going to be talking about what else the protest in downtown los angeles and the uh the perception and from our own perspective truth thereof all that a little bit later but uh but before we do any of that i got to make my announcements as i do every week. Hope you don't mind. First, if you'd like to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person, you can go to Trey Crowder.com and check up my upcoming tour dates. I'm actually leaving in the morning to go to New York City for the next few days.

That's where my next couple, few shows are. And at the end of the month, I'll be in wine country. And then here, I get Largo in Los Angeles, if it's still there in July and Tulsa, San Diego, a bunch of other places after that. So go to Treycrowder.com. Check it out. You can also find a link to my most recent special trash. Daddy at Traycrowder.com as well.

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What do we talk about? Mark, I already forgot. Palantir. Palantir. Wild, shadowy, techno. Palantir, and that's where you got our thoughts on the Elon Musk Donald Trump break up, which it appears to be

over thanks to the riots. Who knew that a self-generated false flag attack could bond people together. Bring people together. What a sweet story. All right. Well, anyway, that's available on our Patreon, so check that out. Now, as for today's show where I told you we're going to be talking about, so let's kick things off as we always do with

the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's DED is all of us for getting the goofy loser police state we deserve. Yeah, this is the kind of high-end spy tradecraft. The University of Michigan paid $100,000 for it if you're wondering what you're about to watch. What was that? I obviously got you now. You too.

You got me doing what? I heard you. You can cover your face. You see my arm? I feel like, I'm threatening. He's threatening me. Uh-huh. He's threatening me.

and this lady you want to follow me too all right he says he wants my wallet going on so that guy the guy the guy with the glasses and the half a mullet all right he's basically a mercenary

private spy Pinkerton and that the university hired to harassed uh pro-Palestadian protesters and the best he can do is pretend to get robbed and one of the kids catches him falling around and films him

all right what's he doing what's he doing is that lady also undercover or he's I think so, yeah. That's what I, but the report from The Guardian, which the publication on uncover this, didn't go into what that lady's role is. But Bayes University of Michigan is using private undercover investigators to surveil

pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them, eavesdropping on their conversations. So, I mean, they couldn't have cast it a little better than that. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's the best. It's not the most discreet operator on a college. campus dude he looks like he's too old too stupid he literally looks like one of the ag teachers at my old high school 20 years ago like yeah like what what is his role even

supposed to ostensibly be on a college campus if not you know undercover narc like what's he what's he supposed to be doing there like that's weird you think they try a little harder than that it's almost like this is the best they can do uh So this guy works for a Detroit-based company called City Shield, it's a private security group. And some of their evidence was used by Michigan prosecutors to charge in jail students, although all the charges have later dropped because they're stupid horse shit. It's not just an intimidation tactic, but these undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them in one case, drove a car at a student and had to jump out of the way.

That's one of two weird interactions with this guy that were caught in video. I want to watch the other one where the same moron, fakes, being deaf, and immediately gives up as he can't keep up the ruse. Are you still a handicap? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. What's that?

Mm-hmm. What do you want? How are I doing? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I didn't know you of them that's supposed to meet's kids. I didn't know people.

Oh, whatever. That was actually really dumb. What is anybody doing anymore, man? See, I call this guy up to the, the big waves. He's ready to go. It's right in. Master manipulator. The amount of powerful

people that have actually gone insane over any sort of like, just like vague complaints about like Israel's policies still were Palestinians. Like, so Greta Thunberg just got like, she was on a boat. There was like an aide doing a, call itself an aid foetella going to Gaza

take food and shit, all right? Right. They've been apprehended, right? As of this morning. Yeah. Israel's, Israel seized their boat in international waters, which another word for that as piracy, but whatever. They got, they, they're all safe. They didn't get hurt or anything, which is like, not the way a bunch of powerful people wanted it to end.

Right. Lindsay Graham was saying that Israel should sink Greta Thunberg's boat. Uh-huh. His exact wording was hope Greta and her friends can swim. So he wants, like, what? Like a, like a, like a submarine to torpedo, Greta Thinberg's boat? Yeah, Palantier Drone Starke or something I can imagine. I mean, I'm sure he could just, or I don't know, I'm sure he would just be like, well, you know, I didn't mean it literally, you know, but it's, it's the type of thing that you could never imagine an American politician even pretending to joke about, you know, 15, 20 years ago or whatever publicly.

Like, it just wouldn't happen. Congress always has as clowns and lunatics, but like usually they're in the house and no one takes them seriously. But Lindsay Graham's like, a leader in the Senate. Right. So, like, you don't have to respond to Greta Thunberg at all. They could have quietly hesa, hey, stop your boat, go this way, and no one would have fucking noticed except for who was watching your live stream or watching her Instagram videos. But, like, Israel's defense minter, got him cats, said that Israel wouldn't allow anyone to break its naval blockades.

And let me quote here, to the anti-Semitic Greta and her fellow Hamas propagandists. I'll say this clearly. You should turn back because you will not make it to Gaza. All right. Bro, what you could have said was nothing. right like break the blockade of Gaza

like do you think Greta Thunberg is actually running guns right well also it seems a little stricand effective to me because I don't mean this as a criticism

I just assumed that I assume that they had that they being the freedom flotilla Greta's boat and this organization they had to anticipate that this was going to be

the outcome right that this is exactly what was going to happen so I feel like if you really wanted to play 4D chess with them or whatever, if you're Israel, then, you know,

maybe you just let them deliver the whatever they have, the MREs and shit that they have on the boat to these, you know, people. I mean, hell, if you're being real shitty about it, you'd be like, yeah, put it over there. We'll make sure they get it. And then you just like kick it off the dock

when they go back to Italy or whatever you want, whatever evil shit you want to do later. But it just feels like this is, you know, just makes you look even worse, which is part of what they wanted, I'm sure. I hate to give them, like, PR advice, but this is, like, this authoritarian shit backfires in the media, like,

the crazy. There's no reason to, you, let credit maker Instagrams. What the fuck difference is it made? You're just, like, you're apprehending her and threatened to kill her because you find her annoying. But, like, there's a lot of that going around, right? So one last thing before we get to the main segment, I wanted to highlight this story out of New York,

where Representative Richie Torres, Democrat from the Bronx, is demanded an investigation of the socialist-leaning park-slope food co-op over alleged anti-Israel hate. Can we break down the socialist-leaning park slope food co-op framing for a second? The co-op, founded in 1973, requires 16,000 members to work 2.7-hour shifts every six weeks in exchange for the privilege of purchasing heavily discounted groceries and voting on store policies. So, Richie, you're telling me that the anarcho-sendicalist broccoli store commune is left-wing. Holy shit, bud.

What the fuck? You put that in the newspaper? Oh, my God. How brave are you, Richie? Hold on. Wait, wait a minute. 2.7 now, 2 and 3 quarter hour shifts. One, two and three-quarter hour shift every six weeks?

I think so, yeah. That's a fucking sweet deal. I mean, who wouldn't take the, you know. Yeah, with 16,000 members, like, it's like, it's like that's, that's, that's, it's, You're covered, yeah. Yeah, of course, but I'm just saying, who wouldn't work one three-hour shift every month and a half to get, you know, half off cauliflower or whatever? That's pretty, right. It's almost like some of these things are, you know, good ideas that makes sense, this type of thing.

Yeah. So, Ritchie wrote a letter to Eric Adams, Kathy Hockel, and other city and state honchos demand the state division of human rights and the New York City Commission of Human Rights, probe allegations of quote, an insidious pattern of harassment, intimidation, and discrimination against people that are pro-Israel at this crunchy book and co-op. He says the members of the anti-Israel boycott divestment sanctions movement have, quote, seized control of the co-op's governance. Like, they're making it sound like a militia war-torn country is taking the radio, like I said, a joke earlier, he's taking the radio station. What this is about? All right, there's one anecdote cited here from a woman who put her name on the record. Name Zarr Watkins, who opposed the BDS movement, said she was minimal.

and cursed at last Halloween for wearing a costume paying tribute to the Israeli made product Sabre of hummus. Yeah. Which is good stuff, by the way, in my opinion. I prefer the boys head, but yeah, Sabre's not bad. But yeah, so

a guy, she dressed up like hummus for Halloween. She says a guy yelled at her for it. I'm not sure whether it's because Sabre's made in Israel or hummus is a stupid fucking Halloween costume. So then a congressman who represents a district that this food co-op's not even in

who is a Catholic born Catholic Puerto Rican is District's overwhelmingly black and Latino is the poorest district in the country wrote a letter to the governor that it should be a hate crown

to make a lady sad on Halloween basically to break it down honestly I'm a little bit torn on whether hummus could ever be a good Halloween costume like was it sexy hummus I need to know that first of all

yeah I doubt it I don't know how you'd pull that off you'd have to be one sexy lady indeed to pull off sexy hummus. Just smear yourself in literal hummus. Yeah, you do the like Allie Larder thing from Farcity Blues, but with hummus instead of whipped cream.

Hey, I'm hummus. Really, you're just a naked lady with hummus on your boobs. Now I'm listening. Anyway. Yeah. But also, you shouldn't yell at a lady in a grocery store about her stupid Halloween costume about how stupid it is. Also, Zara, don't cry to a congressman.

Even if he was yours, which he isn't, about a guy being a dickhead in the grocery store. And politicians don't be grandstanding dick shits about Halloween costumes. Like, I feel like my main takeaway from this is the, remember that classic S&L bit from Norm McDonald? It's like, this might sound harsh, but everyone involved in this story should die. Right. Yes. It's kind of how I can feel about it.

It's just like everybody's gone insane, dude. Speaking of which, let's get into the fake Battle of Los Angeles that's being staged by Donald Trump, if you want to. Please, I would love to. Yes. again we both live here so let me ask you this first of all Mark

what percentage of the protests that have happened so far do you think have been what percentage of protests you think of having so far been completely like peaceful and non-eventful versus the amount that they pulled all the pictures from and stuff and plastered

all over social media any protests especially the left week protest is going to be a grab bag of a bunch different groups and you're going to get knuckleheads to show up and there's summoning Waymo's to burn them is a pretty funny bit to me but you probably shouldn't do it for optics wise. Right. But,

so LAPD had to ask Waymo to shut down their app, the robotaxies because people get summoned them to burn them. I mean, as far as property damage goes, I feel like the driverless robot cars owned by fucking Google, you know, is like

I mean, that's, that's just about the best option on the table, in my, in my opinion. Absolutely agree. If you're going to destroy property, like, it's a good choice. Won't someone please think of the poor people that work at Google after file insurance reports? Right. It's like, that people literally basically crying on the news about this. I'm like, honestly, like, it's not a quince. They're also throwing those birds.

People are throwing bird scooters over the, over the highway overpass, a cop. cars. Well, those suck, too. Right. So it feels like this is all, this feels like a like also kind of a tech backlash. Yeah, you're right. It's like it's like a, like a protest. They feel symbolic in nature, those particular choices.

Like they're sending a protest within a protest or something. Considering half the fucking protesters probably drive for Amazon or grubhub or whatever, like it feels like it makes sense to me. But like say what you will about the, you know, merits and pros and cons of like a robo-taxies and driverless cars. I think a human driver probably would not keep accepting rides that are being summoned for them from feels like a set-up boulevard and just show up to be ritually sacrificed over and over and over again, but whatever. So this whole thing, it feels like it's not a coincidence to me that is happening the weekend leading up to Donald Trump's big birthday military parade. I also want to point out these big workplace raids in mass like roundups are not happening. happening in Texas, which has the second most undocumented immigrants in the country of any state behind California, where it would probably be easier for them to pull off, right?

And I was like, this feels like made-for-TV bullshit, like they're programming a fucking fake TV show and the news because they love footage, they love riot porn, right? They love it all. They love burning cars that everybody's working together to create this like made-for-TV moment. And then this, we were already going to talk about that lens. And then this morning I see the story that Dr. Phil was embedded with ice during the original raids up on Friday.

They kicked all this off. Um, the footage Dr. Phil filmed is for his, uh, his merit TV website or whatever, uh, for a special report called Dr. Phil prime time, which is supposed to air tonight and tomorrow night. Let me read from the, from Dr. Phil's press release about this. All right. Dr. Phil and Tom Holman break down the multi-agency raid targeting cartel linked businesses in LA's Garmin district with $80 million in undeclared imports uncovered, 17 million dollars in unpaid tariffs identified and 41, undocumented immigrants detained. The high-impact operation drew fierce public protest. Cartel linked, they rated like some like clothing stores. Maybe the Zetas have gotten

into fucking t-shirts. I don't know. But like, what the fuck are they talking? There's no like, there's no proof for any of this. And like, this entire administration is fighting, he's fighting like these fever swamp crises imagined by the dumbest people we all fucking know. There's no

immigration crisis. There's no crime crisis. It's fucking made up bullshit um and dr dr phil's not like dr phil's whole thing like he should not exist as a public thing yeah like he got famous he's he's a psychology degree but he hated working with patients because he hated people so he became a jury consultant he was Oprah's jury consultant she got sued for trying to put hamburger out of business she thought he was charming of folks he said he put him on tv to say shit like stop being fat and now and now he's a right wing fucking influencer

doing immigration raids and he's not the only one like lives of TikTok has been embedded with ICE so is Tommy Lauren and like everybody wants to make this TV show now the news has got riot porn so like for context this is a few square blocks downtown like I said earlier around the federal building which is near the intersection of the 101

and the 10 sorry I spoke California there from US 101 and I10 okay nearly everything you're seeing about this is inherently out of context. Do you know what I'm saying? Right. Like, this video has been on the loop on Fox News

for reasons that we'll have to break down because you've got to see this video of this guy on a motorcycle waving a Mexican flag. You know, let's hope that no one is hurt and no one is injured, and it doesn't escalate from here. Look at the flag. There it is. Mexican flag can, you know.

Um, you know, this is, this is criminal activity that I hope is people are held accountable for. And I'm talking about the riots right here. Where are the cops? Okay. Yeah. Where are they? Right there. The cops are right there.

So what, like, I don't know who set the crawfire, right? But for the sake of argument, I'm going to assume it's not this guy, these two guys, one guy riding a minibike and they got carrying a Mexican flag on a motorcycle. What crimes are they committing right now? Riding without a helmet? Right. uh being rad as hell in a no crushing zone right well i did want to ask you about that whole thing you mentioned optics earlier and i think about just setting cars on fire in general but you're also just talking about how like you know this is what they want they want this type of you know riot

porn they want to stir this type of shit up why aren't they doing it in texas there's probably a reason they they want this is what they want the whole idea you're playing right into your hands this makes it all this is counterproductive because it makes things look bad and all of that sort of idea, you know, and wondering what you think about that versus the idea of like, no, well, what they're doing is bullshit and deserves a response. And that's what this is. Do you know what I'm saying? One of the funniest things that happens with stuff happens is people want to give notes on

the protest. Yeah. Right. So everybody who feels like they have feedback, just email the leader of the protests. Right. And you're like, wait, there is no leader. You're like, exactly. So what the fuck is anybody going to do about it, right?

Right. So people are like, you shouldn't wave the Mexican flag. You should wave an American flag. I'm like, well, every bar I've ever been in has a fucking Irish flag in it. Yeah, Italian flags all over New York and that type of thing. Right. Nobody thinks twice about it. Gadsden flags, fucking, like half of Congress has either a Confederate flag or an Israeli flag hanging in their offices, if not both.

Yeah. See Armenian flags all over L.A. Right. Multiple points throughout the year. No one ever cares. Yeah. Yeah, I know. It's like, yeah, well, they're all, I mean, hell, you know, you don't know. Right. It's not a, protest is not a monolith. There isn't, it's not dictated and organized in that way. You never know the motivations of any one person doing anything. So to be like, oh, well, they shouldn't do it that way. It's like, well, who is they? What is they? Who's the person who even decided to do that, you know? And you know, there's not some Ajean provocateurs, Mark, you know. Right. But you're talking about, like, thousands of people.

people who spontaneously showed up on a Saturday afternoon if your shit went wrong in their neighborhood and you're like, okay, I'll go down there I'll be like, A, everybody, every huddle up, huddle up. Yeah. No Mexican flags, all right? And then somebody's going to be like, fuck you, Vato.

Then what? What do I do? Right. All right. So, but now Pete Hickseth wants to send him the Marines. CNN reported just a few minutes ago. The 500 to 700 Marines are being mobilized in response to these protests. So we got to go make sure the Mexican guy doesn't ride his motorcycle around

and circles in an intersection in the street. like I was trying to think in another context what would a responsible police officer do if he saw that in like a regular Saturday you'd be like somewhere between giving the guy a ticket and saying hey cut it out get out of here right so

but like everyone was so fucking going so fucking crazy over this guy like there's another picture of a guy standing on top of a burned out way and another guy holding a Mexican flag and people are like I saw a bunch of mega influences being like the Mexicans have taken Los Angeles right yeah

bro they took it back from Zorro Fuck a hundred years ago, the conquistadors fucking, like, yeah, it's called Los Angeles. Like, its name is in Spanish. It's like they think it's named it for a bunch of lost chicks named Angela or something. Right, yeah. And like we're laughing and joking right now because it's almost 2 p.m. on Monday at this point. No one's died yet miraculously, okay? So that's one reason I feel pretty joke about this, even though we do joke about people dying sometimes too.

But, like, it's quickly evolving. As far as the people being hurt, Saturday, cops injured a British photographer pretty badly with a rubber bullet. I saw it watch a video of ICE running over a protester with a car. They also tried to get around the protester, hit an unrelated guy who was just riding his bike through the intersection. Both those people got up seemed fine. The news framing of this is fucking ridiculous.

They're saying Donald Trump sent in the National Guard to, quote, restore order. You know the things are pretty peaceful in Kauai and Los Angeles? was fucking Thursday. Right. Before ICE did any of their bullshit. But also, even Friday and Saturday, it wasn't really much of anything happening until,

and people, like, even the fucking LAPD, but also Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass and everybody was saying, we don't need the National Guard, everything's fine. That's just going to make things worse. And then he sent them in anyway, and then things got worse. But again, like, I'm sure that's by design on their part. Like, that's what they want. to happen so you know but right LAPD put out a press release saying things are

peaceful nothing the National Guard that was Sunday morning I believe right at LAPD right in organization the back in 2020 broke international law to commit war crimes against the citizens of Los Angeles was like this is fine right and then like then that was after I started arresting people who were bothering no one just and just going to fucking jobs. But then, of course, Department of Homeland Security showed up Friday. National Guard troops showed up Sunday and made everything fucking worse. And so by the time this drops tomorrow, either things will be status quo in which case

there would be shoving matches and people firing pepper, pepper bullets at protesters, or the people in charge would accept that these kind of mass immigration raids are not doable, are not doable while the seat is on a high alert, or Trump would drop Moab's on Bob's Big Boy and Jumbo's Townroom. Yeah. but it's utterly fucking surreal. 99.9% of the city is fine. Unless you to drive through downtown, nothing's happening. Right, right?

Yeah, I walked to an ice cream parlor at Twilight last night to get scoops for my sons and everything. You know, and I didn't need a gas mask. There was no smoke on the horizon or cars on fire or nothing. Yeah, it'd make it look like it's, you know, it's like escape from L.A. Like Kurt Russell's going to dive in on a hang glider at any moment now. we're all going to be fucking chained up gimps.

Just our Mad Max overlords or something by next week. That's what people think, I feel like. And it's, you know, it's business as usual. Have you seen the, you brought up Kurt Russell. Have you seen the Wyatt Russell stuff going around? No. Just talking about our information environment is utter fucking garbage. All right.

There's viral videos and multiple social media platforms right now. This guy is speaking to, they're out of frame. I think it's either some sort of feds, the National Guard, or FBI and ICE people. They're like, I thought you took an oath to the Constitution. You don't serve the fascist in the White House. You guys are the wrong side of history, yada, yada, yada. And several accounts are taking this video and saying it's Wyatt Russell talking to the cops.

All right. Now, it's not Wyatt Russell. It's just the rare other white guy who has a chin. Yeah. Okay. And I'm like, why are they saying it's Wyatt Russell? Obviously, they're just engagement bait, like, farming accounts. But also, I clicked under.

it and it's like, if there's any sort of purposeful side up other than trying to generate engagement, people are like, oh, it's a spool of rich kid out of touch Hollywood elite, even though it's clearly not Wyatt Russell. I'm like, oh, okay, if there is a point of this is to make everyone think that only a spool out of touch rich kid would think that Donald Trump's a fascist or something. Anyway, this whole thing is like fucking surreal.

I want these two things, I want to point out, this is Saturday night. These two things were happening at the exact same time. You got these two videos, Matt. Murray, it's a surreal sight. This Black Hawk moved in just in the last few minutes from the Border Patrol landing at that Homeland Security Office on the Paramount side, right next to the Home Depot, and they are unloading this huge helicopter with, I mean, just boxes and boxes, dozens of boxes, ammunition, less lethal weaponry. You see these tanks with... to be simultaneously living in the late 1960s

if Richard Nixon was, like, permanently stuck in his drunk talking to presidential portrait stage of his mental decline, but also in an Alex Garland movie set in 2036. Yeah. Yeah, the president coming out to fucking walk out music at a gladiator event. Yes.

You know, people cheering. Yeah. Weird. He got a photo up holding a championship belt, so I guess it was all worth it. while, you know, the people, these regime's forces are doing street battles with, uh, on-armed people firing him with fucking, like, like, uh, beanbag bombs, natural guards carrying live ammunition, shooting pepper spray and pepper balls and shit. Um, so we'll jump this off. There's three, so there were three separate things that happened Friday. We're talking about these, these mass rates, okay? Um, ICE and FBI people, they carried out at immigration raids at, uh, a home depot out in Paramount, which is a suburb. a fashion store in downtown Los Angeles is warehouse districts

and a lot of people were detained while going to check-ins the Edward Roybal federal building in downtown and then what resulted is really willing to gas the whole city to fucking abduct people from the parking lot of a Home Depot

and the result of all this so there was an organized protest at the federal building this is what I'm trying to piece all this together in retrospect because it wasn't clear because people were confusing all three and not just in the online but in social media coverage

but there's an organized protest outside the federal building where they're just like people show up for their court dates following the legal process and ice just goes well here's some free people waiting in the courthouse just round them all up right the fashion district and the Home Depot thing were like surprise raids where like taggoons and tactical gear like flood out of fucking vans

and run at guys in the Home Depot parking lot people see this happening get outraged like hey bro cut the fuck out then when ice escalates and you turn it to a spontaneous spontaneous like protests or people are throwing rocks and shit then by the next day Mexican dudes are driving motorcycles

and circles in the street waving flags all right so the main thing I'm about takeaway is like we're still back to 2020 already the Soros brick pile conspiracy theories are all over the internet

because there are piles of bricks near the protests which are being staged at workplace raids where the rounding up guys at construction to do construction work yeah right yeah yeah what was the Soros brick

that George Soros was placing pallets of bricks around for people to pick up and throw through windows and at cars and shit like that yeah imagine the Joyce Floyd protests in 2020 those were right it was like the left wing version

I was thinking that the cops put the bricks there so people would commit property crimes to like to the other way but like the to me that I want to give notes in the protest thing is a protest should protest in my exact way

is sort of like the yin version of the yang to this where you think it's all super organized and coordinated and like no the the protests cannot police everybody involved to not throw a brick or set a car on fire nor are there like soros protesters who stay underground in sleeping cryo chambers like waiting to emerge like cicadas every time Donald Trump is president okay Sunday morning I'm getting text from failing members to make sure I'm okay right and I'm like I want an elliptical machine watching the accountant too yeah on my iPad. All right. I guess like we're talking to you guys yesterday. I was like, I just walked my dog, I guess, under martial law. And like, this guy, this interview, the news interviewed this guy yesterday, kind of perfectly captured the vibe of what it is to be here right now. You told me you got caught up in the tear gas as well. Describe what happened to you.

Oh, just tasted a little tear gas. Tasted like fascism. Yeah, bro. So, and we already tied to us. So, the coverage of this man, like, I'm glad you wouldn't talk to that guy. He's like, yeah, just walking around, pumping his way back from the weed store

and like all this bullshit's going on. So the New York, the coverage of this man, the New York Times is fucking trying to kill me. I want to read to you from this lady's report. This woman wrote, protesters are lighting a Home Depot shopping cart on fire behind a dumpster they have set up as a barricade. The car is melting,

and the police are firing back with what appeared to be flashbangs, in pepper balls. Firing back, firing back implies there was some firing. Right. Beyond the bad

reads like bad refrigerator magnet poetry, but another way to put that firing back as a cops are trying to kill two guys for

damaging a shopping card. Um, I, I, so you've been there with the term imperial boomerang

right? No. Not to the two lefty theory bullshit, but it's the Imperial Burranging's the idea that governments to develop oppressive techniques

to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens. Like, it's meant to be sort of a metaphor. But because nothing about this country is fucking subtle, the guys doing this are using the same surplus global war on terror gear that our troops used

to do it in Iraq, except with more forcible methods, because these kind of techniques were against the rules of engagement in Iraq. It's imperial boomerang, but it's like a comical boomerang hitting Uncle Sam square into fucking balls where he falls backwards in a pile of horse shit. Okay. Tom Holman went on TV and told NBC News yesterday that he was going to arrest Gavin Newsom and

Karen Bass, the mayor of LA, for if they interfere with the immigration raids. And by the way, they're not interfering. They're posting tweets saying, hey, can you guys cut it out? And then, I first of all, I just want to say, most days if somebody wanted to put Gavin Newsom in handcuffs, I'd fucking cheer him the hell long. but he's actually not being bad on this. And Gavin Newsom was basically like, get at me, bro. Get on with it, motherfucker if you're going to arrest me.

And then Tomin, because it's a coward, back down and said, no, no, I meant if they did something illegal, I'd arrest him. Not I'm just going to arrest them. Cowards. Just fucking cowards all the way through. Before we get too far away from the first principles behind these raids and why they're happening,

can we talk for a minute about why these guys are in the Pome Depot parking lot in the first place, the people that got detained? Because people hire. them to do stuff there all the time people go people in neighborhoods like mine need a you know a fence painted or whatever or a little or a shed built or something you just run down to home depot and get some day laborers to throw that up for you for for the day it's very very common practice yeah i mean in fact because me our neighbors think that we are super fucking weird because we just do i say we katy just does that shit herself and other people are

our neighborhood, like, you're going to do it yourself? Like, why don't you just, you know, want you go hire somebody at Home Depot? So it's very much the standard around here. Yeah. They're in the Home Depot parking lot because they want to work and they're able to, that's this away from them to make money because people want to hire them. Their services are in demand. Right.

And they're in the Home Depot parking lot because people know to find them in the Home Depot parking lot, which is how the government knows to find them in the Home Depot parking lot. None of this is secretive. It's how the thing works. Right. Well, it's just like how on a larger scale, so many people that, whatever, farmers and fucking Texas ranchers and real estate people and whatever and construction people and stuff who are hardcore Republican and vote for Trump and that type of thing, you know, employ a shitload of illegal labor because it's fucking cheap and they want to save money and they all do it anyway or they have illegal people working and they're on their staff at their houses and all this type of shit. very, very common, and they all just act like, I don't know, I don't know. It's just more mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance where they're always like,

well, I mean, you know, I mean that. Or even if they do, it's like they don't expect it to fag them personally. It's just, it's in keeping with the way they look at everything, I feel like. Right. So it's also like the workplace raids. They know which workers have a bunch of undocumented, which workplaces have a much of undocumented workers because they have taxpayer identification numbers and they pay taxes of the money they're making. So, like, again, they noted, these are the biggest layups of immigration raids.

It's like, I don't know, man. It's like the drunk looking for his car keys underneath the streetlight, but it's governmental policy, right? I want to quote here. So, again, everything was great Thursday. I mean, normal functioning L.A. fine on Thursday. Peaceful protests through Sunday morning. Let me quote here

from a reporter for Task and Purpose by the name of Nicholas Slayden Task and Purpose is like a publication whose audience is like

active duty military and retired veterans but there's a civilian publication is a Twitter post from him on Sunday morning in downtown LA

it's calm and sleepy life goes on people are out shopping in Little Tokyo around the quarter from the federal building it's not mass and rest or chaos

I was watching the British tabloid the sun had set up a live feed of the federal building and the National Guard was standing around with their hands in their pockets, the guns hanging down by their waist on shoulder slings.

While people on the street honked horns and a lady who was vaguely scolding them, a kid with a skateboard walked up and offered a national guardsman a hit off his vape and a guy declined and walked away. I was like, and this is being covered like it's World War III because that's what they want, right?

And then we had talked about the restore order thing That's the situation The Guard had to restore order from Trump didn't use the insurrection I had no idea what legal authorities used to send the Marines in but the National Guard

he used like some like other federal law that says a National Guard can be federalized to defend federal property but only that. So that's why they're standing around the federal building. That's all they were doing.

But Trump, Saturday night, if you got this video, Matt, of I think it's ABC News. Overnight, President Trump thanked the National Guard for a job well done, but we've actually seen them just arrive here this morning getting set up with riot gear, all of these armored vehicles. So far, a lot of the response has been local law enforcement with some federal officers.

So Trump thanked them Saturday night for restoring order of Los Angeles when they didn't arrive until Sunday morning. And the reporter watched the truck drive up. Now, Trump does want this fucking conflict. Again, he did it in Los Angeles. a county where 35% of the people were not born here in the United States, all right? People are going to feel a visceral sort of outrage about seeing their fucking neighbors being hauled off for having been born elsewhere.

It's inescapable. And the kind of the people that are giving advice to protesters from air conditioning cable news studios on the East Coast about how they should. approach seeing goons and face masks kidnap their abuelas, I don't understand what planet you guys are from. It's not human. Right. No, it's not. And then they make the argument it's like, it just makes it whatever. It strengthens Trump's argument with people around the rest of the country, makes them look bad, you know, whatever to people in Iowa or whatnot. But like, those people already think all that anyway. Do you know what I mean? Like, I know, like, I know

from people in like towns like mine have thought that like a place like Los Angeles has just been a fucking Mexican ran crime-ridden hellhole for the past 50 years or something anyway. Do you know what I'm saying? Like they're already like fully convinced of it. Like I don't see how them saying this shit from this weekend on Facebook is going to make any kind of material difference in anything or if they didn't see that that would help the matter in the future or something, you know? Like, I just don't, I don't see how any of that really fucking matters.

Yeah. If you just let, if you let, if you let, if you just let Donald Trump, uh, put your cousin in a private ice facility that's rampant with rape by the guards, then later on, it'll make Chuck Schumer's talking points less complicated. Right. Right. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. Like, I don't. Do you, do you, do these people not have any emotions or any sense of justice or righteousness or

concerned for their fucking community members? Like, it's just, it, Donald Trump does want this. It probably, I'm not, I'm not naive. I know that, like, if a Apache helicopter dropped down over the 101 while protesters were in the middle and fired a mini gun into a crowd

and cut 40 people in half, it would probably have a 75% approval rate in this country. I've seen the polling from the Kent, after the Kent State massacre. I've seen, I just saw polling this morning, somebody reposted it about how unpopular the Freedom Riders were in 1961.

But what are people supposed to do? Right. This is actually much more muted than I anticipated. No one's fired a gun and a cop yet. No one's built an IED.

No one's blowing up an ice truck. Right. Like, yeah, this probably is good, like, Donald Trump had a pretty bad week last week. I didn't know the military parade was planned. He probably eventually won in this fucking confrontation in a blue state where he could like,

you know, try to start a shootout between people, like, again, he's a coward. So if he starts a shootup between the National Guard and protesters, nobody dying is him. It's probably cool to him. But like, like, so yeah, yeah, the big fight with Elon. Elon has refollowed Stephen Miller on Twitter, by the way. So that's definitely how it's succeeded in that.

I think I mentioned that earlier. And at first about all this, like the National Guard is, again, just standing around the federal building. I haven't seen them engage in conflicts. Maybe they have. Maybe they've heard some people, I don't know. at first they felt bad for them they had called up for 60 days

to stand around a federal building these people have day jobs and families by the way and to do nothing and I saw videos they didn't make any plans for where they're sleeping they're sleeping on the floor of the federal building or in trucks yeah I remember thinking that before with the soldiers in like 2020

and stuff is like I don't think I just felt like the majority of them are like I didn't sign up for this shit about this type of thing to say nothing of the just the, you know, the general discomfort of it of having to sleep on the floor when it all feels so unnecessary, you know?

Yeah. I mean, like, we brought it up, like, when Texas called up its National Guard to go down to the border and hang around, like, the number of, the troops were dying from suicide and drunk driving accidents, because they're, like, they were objectively fucking miserable. They're in hell.

I want to talk for a minute about a woman named Eliana Garcia, who was founder of Latinos for Trump. came out this week and said this is not what we voted for I've always supported Trump through thick and thin however this is unacceptable and inhumane

talking about his immigration policies now I've taken flack from some of our listeners for saying this is not what people voted for about a lot of this shit Ileana is a state center in Florida she understood

what she was voted for and it's worth noting that all the stuff that's happened so far is not nearly as bad as what Donald Trump actually promised if you follow him closely this is not the worst of it.

They're trying to get there, and that's part of what all this is about, okay? Let's talk about quotas for a minute because what Stephen Miller is trying to get the administration up to is 3,000 deportations a day. Right. Which just seems insane. What we're currently at is a couple hundred a day.

This is what a couple hundred a day looks like. May 28th, one of the highest days since Trump took office, they got to 1,600. So at 3,000, it would look like Lucy in the chocolate factory but with human fucking misery. And these recent ice

escalations are the result of Stephen Miller fucking hectoring and nagging ice and homeland security to get the numbers up. I want to quote here from this piece

came out a couple days ago. At a time of collaboration necessary to undertake President Donald Trump's mass deportation goals, trust has eroded as some high-ranking employees feel they're being

closely monitored by the White House over how they are carrying out arrest operations of illegal immigrants. And this is a Washington examiner, which is essentially a right wing rag, which is why they're framing it as though we need to get morale up so we can do more deportations.

Quote, they've been threatened, told they're watching their emails and text and signals the first official said. That's what is horrible at things right now. It's a fearful environment. Everyone in leadership is afraid. There is no morale. Everyone is demoralized. I feel very bad for you,

home and security guy about your morale over how you're not being mean enough to immigrants. Dude, did you see that clip that the ICE director

or whatever he was, some high-ranking ICE official put out on social media like right before all this started Wednesday or Thursday night that was like, he was like pleading with people to stop being so mean

to ICE agents or whatever to stop harassing ICE agent. He was like, he was like, I would remind you that these people that you're harassed, these agents you're harassing, these are real human beings they have families they have lives like he literally said that

with like no ounce of self-awareness whatsoever about how about how that sounds you know but yeah no they don't they're you know i i am aware of that which is why i wouldn't task them to do assignments they're going to get their to get their uh you know attrition rates up suicide rates up, give them PTSD, and make them go to therapy later and make them retire early, right? They still shouldn't be doing any of this shit. They should be resigning in protest out of principle or slow walking the orders or doing whatever else. But like, but the, I, this just, I'm just following order shit is not going to fly very long, buddy.

So what this article from the examiner is about is, uh, 25 enforcement removal operate, ero field office directors and 25 home and security investigators were summoned to the White House to the, I'm sorry, to their Washington headquarters of their agency on Tuesday, May 20th. There, Stephen Miller confirmed them. This guy says, Miller came in there and eviscerated everyone. Quote, you guys aren't doing a good job. You're horrible leaders. He just ripped into everybody. He had nothing positive to say about anybody. Shot more out down. Oh, man, you didn't get a gold star from Steve Miller. I feel so bad. Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven? This guy quoted Stephen

Miller saying. Everybody knows it's where all the Mexicans are. God damn it. What are you doing? So, so one of the, you are, one of the officials stood up at the meeting and was like, he said, well, DHS in the White House had publicly messages about targeting criminals, like criminal illegal immigrants. And therefore, that's what ICE was doing was targeting the criminals, not the general immigrant population. Miller said, what do you mean you're going after criminals? And he got fucking visibly upset.

And the guy was like, well, that's what Tom Homan says every time he's on TV. We're going out for criminals. And he's, so anyway, you wonder whether Home Depot is because Stephen Miller screamed with their bosses to go to fucking Home Depot to get their numbers up. Right. Because they're not meeting their quotas. Which is like, Stephen Miller is the real president when it comes to immigration policy right now.

Trump doesn't care about any of this. He's not fucking, he wants to see cool footage on the news, but like, he's not paying attention. He's fucking golfing and taking bribes. Yep. Going to UFC fights. Right. I wanted to do it. So there was a

biography of Stephen Miller that came out in 2020. No one cared about it because it felt like Stephen Miller was going away. We never have to fucking think about it again. We got owned. So, but a writer So I got wrote a review of his book a couple weeks ago because

he was like, I guess I ought to go back and read this. I want to talk about Stephen Miller for a second here. Stephen Miller's from Los Angeles, from Santa Monica. he fucking hates this place because he had to go to high school with Latin people his childhood's weird

he grew up rich in Santa Monica with like Mexican nannies housekeepers he's from a reform congregation of juniorism which is like it tends to be people tend to be more progressive usually in that part from that sex

so we got let's for a second assume that the rumors about Elon sleeping with his wife for true. We've got reformed Jewish Nazi cucks now. Who says America no longer renovates? Right. So I'm going to quote here from his experience in high school,

so we all know what kind of guy we're dealing with. All right. He stood up. I think anybody who cares about this stuff has already seen the video of him running for class president in high school where he stands up and talks about how he's complaining about the janitorial staff and about how they're expecting. to pick up their own trash.

And I'm not the only one here is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash and we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us. He screams it and he gets booed. He did not win his race for class president.

High school students in Santa Monica are way better at sniffing out fucking vile dickheads than general American populace is when they go into a loading bed. Stephen Miller was observed both in high school and college throwing trash on the floor

in front of janitors so we could watch them pick it up. I kind of expressed to you What I'd want to do to a person If I saw them do that in real life Yeah, well that's like a cartoonish characterization Of a villain in a movie or something If you show him in high school

Like this is our villain in high school And you showed him doing that People watching that would be like Well, I mean, that's a little on the fucking nose You know, feels over the top But that makes him perfect For this particular moment Is that just like

Just in general like just general vibe. He cultivated a mid-century gangster act back back in high school. He listened to Frank Sinatra, enjoyed gambling, and dressed like Ace Rothstein, the Robert De Niro character in Casino.

God, what a dip shit. We need to bring back more bullying, dude. God, fucking damn it. Not for nothing. Talk about a history turns on a dime here. Do you remember how Stephen Miller rose like got famous the first time around? No, I do not.

When he was a student of Duke, the Duke-Lacross case happened. Yeah, I remember that. I mean, I remember the case, I'm saying. Right. And those kids, the case was for sure. Yeah, they were railroaded, right? They were railroaded. Yes.

By a crooked DA, Durham is majority black and Duke's in there, right? So just like every college town, the town's folk in the town I went to college in, also hated the college kids. You can amp this up between the whole vibe of Duke and the vice. of Durham in general. So he was trying to get a case before he got re-elected, and he kind of sort of like railroaded these four frat kids who were easily hateable because they were Duke lacrosse players, right? Stephen Miller, through a pure coincidence, was right they were innocent.

But he only thought that because they're rich and white. Right. Right. So who we have to thank for Stephen Miller running white house immigration policy is that dipshit DA who ended up spending, I think, a day in jail after pleading guilty for trying to frame these four kids. history turns on a dot so Stephen Miller being an asshole

ice guys being yelled out to get the numbers up with how they end up raiding at Home Depot and starting these protests in LA okay that's the chain of events here um that's some context for out of control ice is let's talk about some examples of them being out of control

uh ice is basically in the weeds they don't have to buy us to do all this it's like it's like being in the weeds you need you have both way of tables except instead of like having to fire cheddar bay biscuits off Friday night, it's trying to, like, find humans to cage. They just can't find enough people. Last week in San Diego, they were ready to restaurant on a Friday night while people

were out eating in the restaurant. And when a crowd's like, hey, man, don't do that. You fucking suck. They food through flashbangs at the fucking people eating in the restaurant. All right. I've seen reports of them zip time nine-year-olds in San Antonio. They're so mad about the backlash. They've asked a newspaper in San Francisco to blur out agents' faces even in the

their public servants. My home state of Virginia has told state troopers and ICE details to take off their name tags. Last week in New York, congressional offices are also in federal buildings where they're snatching people from court hearings. So they arrested a staffer at Jerry Nadler's office.

Jerry Nadler's a congressman in New York. This arrest was caught in video, Awashita. It's a woman weeping while Fed's handcuffer. And the reason they're handcuffing her is because they're accusing her. of harboring a protester in a congressional office to which I say

protesting is legal their constituent they can walk into a congressional office and what the fuck are you doing handcuffing a lady who's at work in an office Nadler by the way is not some bomb-throwing radical he's an elderly 5-foot

4 man who attended a yeshiva and had weight loss surgery famously had weight loss surgery is from a New York Times article back in 2002, Mr. Nadler was so obesity and long ago gave up riding the subway in New York to avoid the tiring climb up and down the steps.

This is the guy ICE is accusing of trying to lead a revolution. Right. Well, I mean, when you have, it's the danger of having quotas. I can't remember if we talked about it on here last week or if it was when I was on somebody else's show that I did last week

where we talked about politics. But the danger of applying quotas to something like this is that this is the like, unavoidable outcome of that. Like you said, they get in the week, especially they don't not only have quotas, but then their bosses get called to D.C. To get, you know, read the riot act by fucking the Jewish Nazi cuck over the Lord of the Trump administration.

And once that happens, it's like, it's going to end up with nine-year-olds getting zip-tied and, you know, innocent office workers getting rounded up and shit like that because at a certain point, they're not going to care about, well, also, it's arbitrary. You say, like, are, are there even enough illegal, actual criminals in this country to round up 3,000 a day indefinitely. Like, no, they're not. But if you act like there are, the only possible outcome of that is rounding up, you know, innocent people and children and people who don't deserve it at all.

And it's like, it seems so obvious to me. And in fact, it's playing out in real time in front of everyone. And yet, you know, half of America is still totally on board with it somehow. And, you know, the rest of us just have to. set Waymo's on fire, I guess. My dad wasn't super fond of cops, but the quotas were the thing you hit the most. He was probably mistaken. He assumed that every state a trooper had a quota of many tickets he had to write, whatever.

But like, there was a famous case in New York where these eight NYPD officers sued the city over a program where they were basically had unofficial quotas. A guy recorded his sergeant. Sargent pulled the man to yell at him or reprimand him. He'd be like, hey, man, we're supposed to issue eight summonses per shift. and the guy was like, what if I don't see eight crimes per shift? And his sergeant laughed at it. Right. So, yeah, it's a formula for human misery.

I do want to say here that I have no idea what Democrats in Congress can or should do, although they're holding hearings right now to approve more Donald Trump judicial nominees. The people are going to be, California is currently suing over Trump nationalizing the National Guard. So like, like, these are the kind of judges are going to get these cases and maybe you should be approving, you know, these judges, whatever. So Hakeem Jeffries was on CNN Sunday morning show last Sunday

after Representative LaMonica McIver was arrested on trumped-up ice charges for that kerfuffle at the ice facility in New York, New Jersey a couple weeks ago. I want to quote here, Dana Bass asked him, you previously warned that the administration charging members of Congress was a quote, red line, what are you doing now?

Hakeem Jeffries. We will make that decision in a time, place, and manner of our choosing. But the response will be continuous, and it will meet the moment that is required. Dana Bash. What exactly does that mean? Have you not decided how to respond? Jeffreys says the same thing again about time, place, and manner. Amy Klobuchar was on a morning show yesterday, where she was asked about what's going on in L.A.,

and she immediately pivoted to how this is a distraction from his big, beautiful betrayal of the middle class. and I'm sorry, but an authoritarian crackdown to pick a fight to further justify more authoritarian crackdowns is not a distraction from the budget fight that you already had talking points for. The protest might be counterproductive, but at least they're doing something. Yep. So, like, I don't fucking know, man. Like, Jesus. Gonna have to be more protest, I think. But in other places.

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