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This week, Cameron talks about the latest cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, we walk through the Trump Antifa conference and then we watch some clips from a recent with Marjorie Taylor Greene, where I, an coastal, elite, out of touch liberal, agree with the gentlewoman from Georgia.
00:00 Introduction
05:21 Monologue
11:10 Trump Antifa Conference
27:51 SCOTUS Cases
38:08 Resistance Ideas from Sarah Kendzior
44:42 I agree with Margorie Taylor Greene
52:57 Outro
00:00 Introduction
05:21 Monologue
11:10 Trump Antifa Conference
27:51 SCOTUS Cases
38:08 Resistance Ideas from Sarah Kendzior
44:42 I agree with Margorie Taylor Greene
52:57 Outro
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06:33I bring the latest and greatest headlines of things that I think that you should be paying attention to.
06:41I always, for those that I always focus on news narratives.
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13:41it's, uh, but anyway, this whole roundtable, um, very performative in many ways. The thing,
13:51the thing that I think is funny about Antifa and why this news narrative is unhelpful in so many
13:59ways, and I wrote about this a little bit in the newsletter on Saturday, is that Antifa
14:05exists as a concept, a vague ideology, um, but it's really networks of groups and not
14:16even that well organized of groups that, uh, are willing to do violent things in order
14:24to resist this president, this administration, um, and anywhere, uh, anywhere that, uh, they,
14:35they decide, um, fascism and authoritarianism are thriving. And so when Pam Bondi says,
14:43we're going to take them down brick by brick from top to bottom, there's not really a top
14:48to bottom to go after. And the most convenient thing about Antifa is that because it doesn't
15:00really exist, it doesn't, um, it's not an organization with any sort of leadership or
15:07central committee or anything like that, because it doesn't really exist, you can make anything
15:13Antifa. So anytime that there's a protest outside of an ICE facility or whatever have you, and
15:19there's violence involved, oh, well, that's Antifa. Now, the reality is it's really anarcho-anarchist,
15:26anarcho-libertarian people, anarcho-communists, all this sort of thing, who are the fringe of
15:34any protest movement. We had them at Occupy. The fringe of any protest movement that are
15:38actually doing this, the people who probably organized the protest were not affiliated in
15:42any, in any way to do that. However, from a narrative perspective, the fact that Antifa
15:48doesn't really exist as anything beyond a battle cry of several fringe left-wing organizations
15:56that, and I, this is worth mentioning, not affiliated with the Democratic Party, makes
16:02it very easy because then anything can be Antifa. When something, when there's a word that's been
16:07popularized but it doesn't exist, there's no there there, you can then apply it to anything
16:12and make it real. So you can find whatever organization and say, oh, that's Antifa. So
16:19because, because of this narrative, it becomes so broad that, one, you have the public thinking,
16:25oh, we're fighting Antifa because they're doing, you know, they're doing really bad things and
16:30they're attacking police and causing violent protests and all this type of thing. But then
16:34you also can make any resistance to what's happening, especially around ICE and immigration,
16:41and that's where the bulk of this is coming from. The AI summary is like, oh, assaults in Portland
16:48and Seattle, but they never tell you what those assaults were about. And it was about ICE detention
16:53facilities. It was people trying to stop and thwart the work of ICE doing immigration raids.
16:59Regardless of how you feel about that, that's the part that's not being said, which means you can
17:03then take anyone who's attempting to stop ICE and immigration raids and all this sort of thing,
17:10and you can say that they're Antifa. When you start talking about, does it mean them a foreign
17:14terrorist organization, did international ties, or even a domestic terrorist organization,
17:18which they did do, but that doesn't really exist, then you can make any, anyone or anything that.
17:26It, it then, it, it, it, it, and in that way, from a narrative perspective, it becomes the perfect
17:31domestic boogeyman. So when we start having conversations about instituting martial law
17:36with the president taking over cities with National Guard, guard, guard, guard troops in the guise of
17:42crime, um, which really the crime is just trying to, you know, trying to allow ICE to continue its
17:49work. Because remember, when the National Guard went into LA, it was to protect the federal ICE
17:53facility in downtown LA, which had been blocked off by protesters. That's where that started from.
17:58In Chicago and Portland, it's, it's the, it's the, it's the same, it's the same playbook. And one of
18:05the first things that's happened after Chicago has National Guard troops there, it then becomes
18:10a, oh, there's an ICE raid in this apartment building, where they're arresting women and
18:14children and people who don't have an immigration case. There's the rest of the entire building,
18:17900 people. That's, that's what is, and unfortunately, when we get into authoritarianism,
18:24and we start talking about government overreach, which sending the National Guard into cities
18:30certainly is, then it's like, well, what, what is the specific problem you're going to
18:36stop? Now, people will say, well, haven't we sent in the National Guard to stop protests
18:39before? Yes, we have. Though, there was a very specific instances where that happened.
18:46It happened with the consent of, of state governors who maybe felt overwhelmed with the resources at
18:51hand. All the, it's not unknown. This is unique because it's specifically protecting federal
18:57facilities. And to be very honest with you, it's also, it's also protecting a certain amount
19:04of what I would consider overreach. A lot of, when it comes to mass deportations, I do not
19:12agree with my open borders colleagues who think we shouldn't have immigration law at all.
19:17Quite the opposite. I would like a robust and stringent immigration system. I think that's
19:20a good thing. And that goes for H-1B visas too, not just people who, who pick vegetables.
19:27What the, what they're doing, the way they're going about it is particularly insidious.
19:34And it is not to the letter of the law and certainly not in its spirit. And that's usually
19:41where a lot of people begin to break down. As one might expect, people were protesting about
19:47this sort of thing. Now, I don't mind a nice non-violent protest, but the reality is any
19:52protest that has teeth is going to involve a certain amount of civil disobedience. It's going
19:56to involve a certain amount of people getting arrested for various and sundry things. That's
19:59part and parcel of a protest movement with teeth that's more than performative.
20:05This reaction is, I think, a bit heavy-handed, but only because it's the perfect foil to allow
20:13them to continue the type of federal government overreach that we have now become familiar
20:18with. And I think that is, in this way, the media is not, is not serving the public well
20:29by not talking about what Antifa actually is. It's a concept, came from 4chan. It's a concept,
20:38it's a vague ideology, but in so much as the government can make it be whatever it is,
20:44so do the people that are a part of it. But again, there's nothing really to join. It's
20:49really a gaggle of left-wing groups around the country who have come around to a certain
20:56ideology, and they have decided that the government's movement in this area is fascist. And so this
21:01news narrative becomes very dangerous, because Antifa will then become anything and everything,
21:08and it becomes the ultimate boogeyman. In any sort of authoritarian regime in the 20th century,
21:15there was, it is very easy for the government, and this is even true when the, you know who the enemy
21:22is, it is very easy in the name of public safety for our government to do a lot of terrible things.
21:26Japanese internment is a classic example. And that was, then we knew who the enemy was, Japan.
21:32They were a real thing, a real place, real, you know, people in uniform sort of thing, a very,
21:36you know, formal sort of thing. You know, but that, then that, then that extends to, well,
21:41any Japanese person can be a threat, so we must lock away all of them. It is very easy for government
21:45to do very terrible things going after something. And when that something is vague and has,
21:51doesn't have the type of organization that you can take down and take apart, cartels are more
21:57organized, then it can become a foil for anything. And that puts us all in a very dangerous position.
22:03A very, very dangerous position. Because when Antifa can be anything, anything is Antifa. So if
22:14there's something inconvenient, or you want to shut down protests entirely, or you want to arrest some
22:19people, you can just, oh, they're Antifa. It's the same, it was the same dynamic under communism.
22:25Oh, this is me against the party. Oh, they're against the party. They're anti-communist, whatever
22:28have you. It, it, when it doesn't, when it has a very vague meaning, you can then apply it to
22:33anything and everything. And that is quite, quite, quite dangerous. This meeting is not surprising.
22:40And who was there is not terribly surprising. Although I would have loved to have been invited to say,
22:46okay, well, all right, we can investigate these NGOs for the funding, that makes sense. We can find out,
22:53you know, who is or is not paying for these groups to be able to travel and, and, and do this sort of
22:59thing. Well, let's also count up what the exact, what, what is the real problem here? And oh, by the
23:05way, does not anyone here in this room understand, Antifa doesn't actually exist as any sort of
23:09organization. It's a concept with a vague ideology that roughly can be described as anti-fascist.
23:17You know, but no one's really, no, no one's terribly interested in having that type of
23:23conversation. But like I said, um, the funding list and who that they said were funding, quote,
23:29unquote, Antifa is very interesting. Definitely look for these names to be in the news a lot more.
23:34It's no surprise that George Soros is at the top of the list. He funds a lot of left-wing groups
23:38and, um, any, you know, any, anything, you know, anyone, anything he's connected to can become
23:47Antifa. But you're going to see these names a lot more in the news. But here's the problem is it
23:50ultimately it's going, I think the, this idea of, oh, we're going after Antifa is going to be any
23:56left-wing group that shouts too loud about what the administration is doing. Because again,
24:00Antifa doesn't actually exist. Which means it can be anything and everything and be anywhere.
24:06Uh, the other thing that I also thought was rather, rather interesting. Cash Patel said here that,
24:13uh, the FBI is tracking down all money for Antifa and will go after criminals with a vengeance.
24:18Here's the thing is it's not really money for Antifa. It's money for leftist groups that they can
24:24connect to the protests at ICE facilities that we're going to call Antifa. That's what that really
24:30means. Well, it doesn't fit well in a tweet. And that's where this narrative begins to break down.
24:35There's, and I love Mediasan, he's just making it up and there are zero consequences for his lies.
24:41Every media organization, every newspaper front page, even every nightly news broadcast should be
24:45leading with the president is lying about the situation in Portland, but our media is broken and
24:48Kent won't do it. And this is my problem with the media is the media never talks, never, the media
24:54never has the conversation I'm trying to have with people right now to say, here's the reality of
24:59the situation, or here's what this really is, or here's why this actually matters, here's how it
25:04does or does not affect your life. Portland has a lot of issues and problems, and it has for some
25:10time. Unlike Seattle, where we tried to take on some of it, Portland never really has. And that
25:16is an extremely unfortunate, uh, extremely unfortunate situation. And for a lot of these,
25:30it's the, well, it's a left-wing city with a homeless problem and there's crime, but most
25:35importantly, there's people protesting against the administration or protesting against ICE.
25:37That's what a lot of these places and things have in common. And that, uh, and that, that's a very
25:45important thing to, to mention. You get lovely posts like this, hey Antifa, your reign of terror is
25:51almost over. Well, it never started, so it's very easy to, to end it. And that, yes, looking at the
26:03media, my question to all, for all of you, how would you feel if every time you showed up to work,
26:08mass militants tried to kill you? Because that's how we feel. That's our lived reality. Then you go
26:12and tell us we're liars, the riots aren't that bad, right? I've never seen any of you guys on the
26:15ground. I've never seen anybody representing the companies you work for on the ground. Stop saying
26:20we're lying. We're not. We risk our lives every day to do the job you guys are afraid to do.
26:28That's fair, and I'm not saying that people who are quietly trying to go to work at the ICE facility
26:33should, um, have to deal with that sort of thing every, every day. And you can certainly bump,
26:40bump up security. But at a certain point, especially when working in government,
26:45your work and your job is going to interact, sometimes conversely, with people's right to
26:50protest about it. If I wanted to be, not, I think he has a great point, but if I wanted to be,
26:56you know, kind of an asshole about this, I could say, well, neither does a woman going into an
27:01abortion clinic, but that never stopped them, now did it? And that's why this isn't useful.
27:06That whole discussion isn't useful. What is useful is understanding what this is actually about.
27:12What is useful is understanding that, you know, very obviously, this administration is taking a
27:17very hard line on immigration, and people are unhappy about that. Now, how we solve that is
27:22going to be up to them, and we get an excellent idea of what this is. But instead of trying to
27:27address the real problem, they're going to address Antifa. And that opens the doors to a lot of other
27:34authoritarian tendencies down the road. Anyway, enough of that. Let's move on to the next one.
27:43I, on the study newsletter, wrote a lot about some of the upcoming Supreme Court cases. But this opinion
27:50piece, I wanted to kind of get back into for the news hour. And it says here, should they just go ahead
27:56and put up a gold Trump sign on the Supreme Court? And this was a conversation between Emily Bazelon
28:03and David French. And it says here that, talking about some of the cases that are coming up. And so
28:10David French says, can I share the executive power case that alarms me the most? It's called Trump
28:16versus Slaughter. And the first question is whether the court will overrule a 1935 case called Humphrey's
28:21Executor, which upheld limits on the president's ability to fire a member of the Federal Trade
28:25Commission. The question of the president's authority over independent agencies or commissions
28:29is important. Most conservatives, me included, believe Humphrey's executive was wrongly decided
28:34and that the president should be able to fire the heads of agencies that operate in the executive
28:37branch. But there's a second question in that case, and the answer could have more enormous
28:42implications. The court has asked parties to brief and argue whether a federal court may prevent a
28:47person's removal from public office, either through relief or at equity or at law. The implications
28:53here are staggering. Could a president really just sweep through the civil service, firing everyone
28:57at will, and then sit back and wait to be sued for damages? All while he runs wild with something
29:01that looks a lot like the old spoiled system of the 19th century. And Emily replies, here's an
29:08argument that Humphrey's executive was rightly decided when Congress established some of the federal
29:12agencies we're talking about, including the Federal Trade Commission in 1914 and the Federal
29:16Communications Commission in 1934, and then added more later, like a National Health Department in 1953
29:21and the Federal Election Commission in 1974, it is intended for the agency's leaders to have some
29:26independence from the executive branch. Congress said the president had to have cause to fire an
29:31agency head, meaning that he or she was corrupt or a bum or whatever. That's how the federal government
29:35has functioned for more than 90 years, since the Supreme Court said yes to that structure in
29:39Humphrey's executor. It's a basic part of the architecture. Would Congress have designated all
29:44this authority to the agencies without the assurance that the president couldn't replace their heads
29:48to serve as personal and political interests? To move on to your excellent point about the second
29:52question in the case, I agree it's breathtaking. How is this supposed to work if the whole civil
29:56service can be canned by any president at any time? Oh wait, we're finding out what that looks
30:01like in real time, with 150,000 federal employees losing their jobs so far, and Trump threatening many
30:05more layoffs given the current government shutdown. If the government ranks get refilled in every new
30:10administration, a ton of institutional knowledge and skill walks out the door. And who will want these
30:15jobs? The honor of a lifetime of civil service helps draw people, many of whom would make more
30:19money in the private sector. And then David makes an excellent point, give a president total firing
30:27power and combine it with his pre-existing pardon power over federal crimes, and you'd allow the federal
30:31government to be run as a criminal enterprise. Well David, there you go. But then it gets into the
30:38tariff cases, but I wanted to highlight that one in particular, because that, that, that's something
30:46where, based upon how the Supreme Court has acted so far, Trump's probably going to get his wish. And David
30:54points out very accurately that with total firing power and pre-existing pardon power, you'd allow the
30:59federal government to run as a criminal enterprise. That's what's at stake in this case. If there's one
31:03thing that I think is kind of funny in political dynamics in this country and everything, is how
31:09the right cares a great deal about the Supreme Court and Supreme Court cases, because that's where a lot
31:14of social questions are decided. The left has never cared about the Supreme Court nearly as much, nor have
31:20they, nor do they care about cases as much either. And so it's kind of, so I'm trying to encourage us
31:26to actually pay attention to these things, because these things can radically change life for all of us,
31:31and how government operates and how it interacts with us. It gets into, um, the tariff cases and
31:38whether the president, um, can create tariffs without congressional approval, and how much
31:46deference the court will give to the president when he invokes his power over foreign policy
31:50and international diplomacy. And, um, and also he brings up kind of the end of that. You see the
31:58theme here, who really has the power to check a president? And that should be the other two
32:02branches. That's their job, the co-equal branches. And it seems like all of a sudden the courts and
32:10Congress are not comfortable with doing that, but that's also partly because the Republican Party has
32:17all three branches of government in a rough ideological chokehold. The Supreme Court is 6-3 conservative,
32:26Congress is, is controlled by the Republicans, the White House is controlled by Republicans,
32:32you know, they've, they've got, so it's a matter of not if they're, if the president can be, that
32:38question's already been answered by the Constitution. He absolutely can. It's whether they'll actually do it
32:42or not. That's the question. And that is, you know, the fact that we're still discussing that
32:52in the year of our Lord 2025, in this republic, this Republican, small, our Republican democracy,
32:59is quite, quite, quite, quite troubling. The last one I want to talk about that I did write about on
33:06side of the newsletter was the Colorado conversion therapy case. Colorado wrote an extremely broad
33:14lot, says here, Colorado's definition of conversion therapy included banning efforts to change behaviors
33:18or gender expressions. When applied to talk therapy, you're talking about restricting, for example,
33:22a therapist helping a Christian or Muslim kid align his behavior with his own moral values. And if you
33:27grant a state the ability to ban a particular kind of talk therapy, then what's to stop a state from
33:31doing it in the reverse, banning therapy that's affirming of LGBTQ kids. And also, Colorado wrote
33:40the law very broadly so conversion therapy could continue, but obviously a lot of people who've
33:45been through conversion therapy were happy that Colorado banned it and they want, you know, they
33:50want that law to stay. The Supreme Court probably isn't going to let them keep it. The other one is
33:55there's, um, three cases, um, that would allow states to be permitted to reserve women's sports to
34:03biological females, and those will probably all go through, which will rather be the end of all that
34:07question. Uh, and that, uh, that, and it gets into the, to the details of all of this. You can go read this
34:19if you would like to, but, um, that, that's what's happening in the Supreme Court right now. Like I said, I
34:25wrote about this on Saturday, but I wanted to go over some of these cases because this term upcoming
34:29in the Supreme Court is going to be heavy. We've got tariffs, we've got presidential firing powers of
34:37independent agencies, we've got gay conversion therapy, we've got trans stuff. So the cases will
34:43start now in October, we'll get rulings in June, and it's going to be a raucous set of decisions coming
34:52out. And given the composition of the court, we pretty much know how all these cases are going to
34:58go. And I would just advise everyone to not get tired or not get frustrated because this is how it
35:06goes. Um, the reality is the, the Republican Party has spent quite a few years now working their will
35:16to make sure that they get a court that it gives them ideologically to stop a lot of the social
35:22changes that have been coming out of the left and the Democratic Party, especially on social issues.
35:28And they've now got their wish, which means that we're going to see some very troubling decisions
35:34come across. I, I don't think there's a case this term, but we're going to see a gay marriage case
35:41pop up here soon, which will return it back to the states where it used to be. Um, it used to be,
35:47if you wanted to get gay marriage, you had to go to California or Massachusetts. Um, so there's,
35:52um, there's some troubling things that are going to come along. This is the push and pull and tug
35:58of, of democracy. Some of these things I agree with, some of these things I don't. I don't think
36:03the president should have a terror power without Congress. Congress is supposed to set those tariffs,
36:06and that should be that way. Although there is a law to, to do that. The, um, banning trans women
36:12from, from sports, I think is probably by and large, a good idea because of the profound biological
36:19differences that happen as, uh, boys and girls mature into young men and young women. And no amount
36:27of hormones or surgery can change a lot of that stuff. So I think out of fairness, I think, I think
36:31that's probably going to make, going, going to make sense, despite the fact of how it makes people
36:35feel and the message that it sends to the trans community, which I also understand as well.
36:41When it comes to, uh, the, uh, the, the whether, you know, Trump can fire somebody, that's probably
36:49going to be decided in his favor, which then brings us back to the headline, should they just
36:53go ahead and put up a Trump, a gold Trump sign on the Supreme Court. There was another article I
36:58talked about a couple weeks ago, um, that talked about how friendly, you know, I think it was
37:02titled, the Supreme Court finally has a president-like sort of thing, talking about how friendly the
37:06court was to, was to Trump. And I'm sure that has probably to do with the fact that three of them
37:11are sitting there because of him. He got three appointments in his first term. And we're going
37:15to be living with the consequences of that for a long while, because Amy Coney Barrett's pretty
37:22young. So is Brett Kavanaugh. And, um, if somebody dies in the next couple of years, we'll have even
37:29more. So, and Biden only got to do one. So it's, uh, it's, it's a quite difficult thing. So big shout
37:39out to Justice Jackson and Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson for
37:46being the, the last holdouts in an institution that, uh, that is going a different, a different
37:57direction. I want to stop by Sarah Kenziore's, uh, substat quickly. Um, she did an interview
38:08with some people from Panopticon, um, which I actually want to go to at some point. Um, and I,
38:16I, I never get to go to fun things. Um, but I want to, uh, to go and, um, to go to that at some
38:25point. But, uh, she has some interviews here and I was, the thing I was interesting, interested in
38:31reading about all of this, um, was some of the stuff on, on AI. It says here that, uh, like the
38:42internet research right now, it says the loss of working search engines and easy access to
38:49information is a tremendous crisis for researchers, especially when coupled with AI. Here are some
38:56suggestions. First, all AI content needs to be labeled as such. Second, we need far more curation,
39:02including preservation of digital only works. Third, anyone who can make their website free
39:07should do so. I am a lone writer in Missouri and I keep my work free, yet millionaire media groups
39:13claim they can't. As a result, we end up with a slew of paywalled, here's the only way to save
39:17democracy articles, with the answer blocked. People pay to bypass the wall and land in a gated
39:22community of Stepford pundits. These pseudo-resisters prey on fear for profit. They are the Regriftons.
39:28Yes, very true. I, most of the Cameron Journal is free and I wish the Regriftons would reach my
39:34doorstep, it never seems to. Um, but I, you know, I asked for you to join the Cameron Journal, um,
39:41Cameron Journal Plus, but I tend not to put too, I do have something behind the paywall, but I tend
39:45not to put too many things behind the paywall in the interest of, uh, in the interest of keeping
39:51information, information open, but I, yeah, I wish some of that money would get over to me,
39:56never seems to. The war on information is a war on the future by way of destroying the past,
40:01especially the recent past. I worry that the history of the first quarter of the 21st century
40:05will be annihilated. When I look back on my books, I know I could never uncover all that corruption
40:09today, partly because search engines are broken, partly because media's censor outlets have gone
40:13under. My endnotes have become dead ends. Boy, do I feel about that. I see so many of the stuff that I
40:20did in the mid-2010s for, like, the early essays and what the hell is going on. I recently
40:26uploaded all that work to the Cameron Journal. It's in the What the Hell is Going On collection,
40:30and it's kind of my core, core work sort of thing. And many of my endnotes have also become
40:39dead ends and things that I link to are not anything. Um, it says here,
40:43I encourage folks to print out articles, make copies as Word docs, save them on Internet Archive,
40:48anything. Hopefully, there will be a more organized preservation movement in the future.
40:52Given the enormous amount of vital digital information out there, every effort helps,
40:55even if it's not public yet. Someday, a writer may post that they're looking for something,
40:59and you may be the person who can provide it. And then they get into Stephen Miller,
41:03and, uh, and, and the little clip of him talking about plenary power, and that, you know, Trump could
41:12be, you know, dictator if he wanted to, sort of thing. Which is funny, because CNN edited that out,
41:18which was quite, uh, quite, quite, quite, quite, quite entertaining. And then it gets into economic
41:26boycotts, and it gets down here to, I found it this weekend, where is it? In the old days,
41:33I would have printed this out and highlighted it. Um, and lots of left liberal stuff about Gaza,
41:40and, uh, ah, here it is, linking back to the story we just talked about regarding Antifa.
41:53It says here,
41:55I am more worried about ICE, which has been trained to be lethal and lawless for decades,
41:59than I am about the military, but I know that the Trump administration's dream is Kent State on an
42:03exponential level. They will try to get the military to attack fellow citizens. I do not know if soldiers
42:08will do it. Many join the military purely for money. They can't find another job. They want to pay for
42:12college and so on. Shooting random Americans is not what they signed up for, but they may be hesitant
42:17to disobey orders and face repercussions. If folks have to stay in the military as just resisting
42:21through feigned incompetence and Bartleby-style refusal, an underrated strategy of surviving an
42:25authoritarian takeover is to seem like an absolute moron who can't figure out orders well enough to
42:30follow them." And then, uh, Jones says,
42:33I started listening to you back when you published this article. Um, I've learned so much from you,
42:37I don't understand how the people can harness their majority to now overthrow the oligarchy
42:43back government. We know that this is an international crime syndicate. How do we throw
42:47these motherfuckers off now? How do I convince people to give a shit about my kids' future when
42:50they barely give a shit about their actual lives now? This crisis is not our fault. It's our burden.
42:55We can't do a citizen's arrest of a mafia state. We cannot vote out the mafia, though we can try not
43:00to vote them in. There were many off-ramps and opportunities for officials to curtail this
43:04disaster. The best opportunities were between 2015 and 2018. Officials threw those away,
43:09and ordinary people paid the price. I do think people give a shit about your kids' future. I care.
43:14People are often afraid to express concern because they don't know the answers and fear rejection.
43:18But we are more likely to find solutions if we are creative, and creativity requires vulnerability and
43:22honesty. The first step is admitting the scope of the crisis and proceeding from there. Finding points
43:27of leverage against the oligarch insult. At the same time, build your own refuge. Refuge can become
43:32subterfuge when you're up against the soulless. There's no guidebook for the situation we're in. Not
43:36with digital surveillance. That component makes it new. We have to write the guidebook ourselves,
43:40and it may be a sloppy, messy thing, but it has to be ours. Don't count on institutions, and for the
43:45love of God, do not ask AI. Trump and his cohort succeeded through malicious ingenuity and a deep
43:50understanding of power. We need creative and compassionate ingenuity. But with that same
43:55grasp of power, and I mean grasp, nobody gives you real power. Real power is something you take.
44:00And to prove my willingness to take things, I stole that line from Jacques Ewing on Dallas.
44:05But it's true. So, I'm not a huge fan of Kara St. Kenzie, or she's to the left of me,
44:14but I thought this conversation was interesting. If you want to go check it out, you should do so
44:20on her sub stack. And we're gonna get to now, now we get to the good part. We get to Marge. So,
44:28let's set this up. Marjorie Taylor Greene, congresswoman from Georgia. She has become rather
44:35well-known for saying some very extreme things and acting a fool at everything from
44:43State of the Union speeches
44:46to any time a Democrat is speaking. However, some recent clips of her on the Ron Smith podcast.
44:55Well, let's watch, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
45:00Portwood is trying his long-term goal, but we're having problems with these tariffs. And now we're
45:08having problems we can't get supplies from this country, and we can't get supplies from this country.
45:12And there's problems. But have regular people's bank accounts been affected? Has the stress come off?
45:22No, that has not happened yet. And that needs to be the major focus. It shouldn't be about helping
45:28your crypto donors or your AI donors or welcoming in these people that hated you and spent money to
45:35try to beat you, but all of a sudden are excited to come out to the new Rose Garden patio. That shouldn't
45:42be the focus. The focus should be the people that showed up at the rallies, stood there for freaking 18
45:50hours trying to get in, in the rain, in the cold, in the 100-degree heat. For those people, those are the
45:58ones that I care about. Those are the ones that voted for not only the president, but every single
46:05Republican gave us power. I don't think those people are being served.
46:09You know what, Marge? You're not wrong. And I think it's interesting that someone who has
46:20been part and parcel of Trump's time in office, and has been part and parcel of the MAGA movement,
46:26and has been out there like she's been out there, is coming along saying the White House isn't focused
46:30on regular working people, and that a lot of their policies are negative. Yeah, Marge,
46:34we're paying the tariffs. We tried to tell you. We tried so hard to explain to you a tariff is a tax
46:42on us. Now, its job is to make foreign imports less competitive, but in our modern globalized economy,
46:50all it does is make stuff more expensive. All we're doing is sending Washington DC extra money,
46:55and they already get a lot that they spend poorly, and we're giving them more.
47:02Like, yes, no, prices have not come down. All, everyone who voted for lower prices has gotten
47:08completely screwed over. Inflation's up 3%, you know. Like, it's, it's not, you know, it's, um,
47:16it's, um, yeah. And, and I, I kind of laugh because so many people should be, should have
47:26understood that a year ago when we were getting ready to vote. So many people should have understood
47:32that, um, six months ago when we started with, you know, Liberation Day, and we kept explaining to
47:40people this isn't a good thing. And now, finally, that her citizens, her district folks, her
47:47constituents are coming up and complaining. Now, all of a sudden, Trump's not working for the working
47:55person. Oh, and he's working for crypto and AI people. Well, it gets even more crazy because we
48:01bounce over here, and Marjorie Taylor Greene has more to say on Israel, no less, which for the right
48:07has become all but a third rail, almost as bad as Social Security. Let's hear what Marjorie has to
48:12say. We have to continue to give them, uh, 3.8 billion dollars every single year because it's for
48:19their defense. Um, we have to fund their Iron Dome. But by the way, Israel has, um, they have state-funded
48:27health care. They have state-funded education, college education. Um, Israel is not anywhere in debt like
48:35we are. They're in less than 400 billion dollars in their national debt. We're in 37 trillion dollars
48:41in national debt. So, in the aid that we give them, it's very possible that their state health care and
48:46their state education, United States of America is paying for that. All money is fungible. Right. All
48:53money is fungible. Right. No one can ever say it's not. All money is fungible. That's right. And then,
48:58but here's the most interesting thing. These other foreign countries, they're, they're not taking our
49:04members of Congress on trips that last for weeks on August recess period. That's not happening. I
49:11guess they should start. They may be better. Yeah, that's, that's the pushback is all these other
49:16countries. They spend a lot more money on, on lobbying Congress, but I'm like, yeah, but Israel's
49:21the only one really coming out, getting our military to fight all their wars for them.
49:24So, when I saw this this weekend, I dropped my phone. I was kind of like,
49:37who, how, hmm, whoa. I mean, obviously this isn't going to change anything right away,
49:47but again, this is the Cameron Journal News Hour. We talk about news narratives here. Narratively
49:52speaking, when you have someone with that type of public profile and that big of a wheel in the
50:00MAGA movement coming out and literally dropping to be kind of like, yeah, but we're the one fighting
50:04the wars for them and they're costing us money. They have better stuff than we do and their national
50:08debt isn't as much and all this type of thing. And it's MTG saying this. I mean, if this were some
50:16sort of moderate Republican from Iowa or something, this wouldn't be news. But when, you know,
50:22the queen of MAGA is saying like, well, Israel's got better programs and whatnot than we do and we,
50:28maybe we should have those things and help some working people and not give them, you know,
50:32all this money and all this type of thing. That's a lot. I mean, I almost want to be kind of like,
50:41well, Marge, I mean, welcome to the Democratic Party, I guess, and we'll join the club. I mean,
50:47but I think the big sort of, I think, narrative story here out of these clips is one, she feels
50:56comfortable going on a podcast and talking about this. Two, the host isn't pushing back. And three,
51:01and I think most importantly about all of this, it's very simple.
51:07It's where the median voter is at. It's where the regular person trying to pay their bills is at.
51:13It's where everyone who voted for Trump, maybe because they didn't like him that much,
51:18but they thought he'd be better on the economy because things were not great under Biden,
51:22all this type of thing, are looking around and being like, what's improved? What's changed?
51:26Not much. Everything's gotten more expensive. Oh, and by the way, but Israel's check has gone
51:30through. Our government is shut down right now. I haven't really talked about the government shut
51:34down that much. I haven't really made it a stir, but they're not going to shut down right now.
51:39We can't come together over healthcare subsidies. But Israel's check's gone through. And hell,
51:45we'll throw Ukraine under the bus too. Ukraine's check's gone through too. And I think where Marge
51:51maybe is at and where everyone else is at is when is it the American people's turn? When is it our turn
51:59for us to get the good stuff for us? When are we going to quit paying for everyone else's stuff?
52:05That was the whole point of Doge and getting rid of USAID, USAID, and all this type of thing. The whole
52:12point of that was to clear out government, get rid of the inefficiency, and make government work harder
52:17for you. Doge didn't make it six months. Elon was gone by Memorial Day. You haven't heard about the
52:30work from Doge in months. You know, sort of thing. That whole big giant thing never went anywhere.
52:40And so people, I think, are rightly asking, when is it our turn? When do we get the good stuff?
52:46And I don't blame them for asking. Not at all. And the fact that MTG is out here being like,
52:52I think this is some BS. That's quite telling. That's quite, quite telling. So anyway, that was
53:01the headline of the night. I agree with Marge. And she's right. I mean, I never thought I would agree
53:05with Marjorie Taylor Greene on anything. Ever, in any universe, that would never be a thing.
53:14But you've heard it here first. Marjorie Taylor Greene, I agree with you.
53:18The tariffs are bad. We're not helping regular working people. And yeah, there's a lot of
53:24countries living off our largesse. And we should probably put a stop to that. Anyway, that's the
53:30hour. Well, almost 53 minutes. That's about the hour. I want to thank everyone for watching the
53:37Cameron's Journal News Hour. Happy Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day, depending on how you feel
53:41about that. Happy day, Columbus or Indigenous. Put in whatever's comfortable for you. Anyway,
53:48happy Columbus or Indigenous Peoples Day, everybody. My name is Cameron Cowan. This is
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