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So folks, I I want to talk a little bit
about hope because I I understand it's
in quite short supply and I wanted to
just chat a little bit about what I'm
finding hopeful in the current moment.
And number one is the fact that people
from all across this country in their
own neighborhoods are standing up and
are doing their best to fight for their
neighbors and their friends and their
family. You know, they are doing the
work. They are uh putting their their
lives and their bodies on the lines in
order to fight these masked faceless
ghouls that are patrolling our streets
and trying to snatch up anyone that
looks uh you know racially convenient to
them, demographically convenient to
them, we'll say. Um and I wanted to
share this uh video with you. This came
out uh a few days ago uh from Chicago
and uh it let's just watch what happens here.
here.
>> You know, you've got an ICE agent trying
to detain
[Music]
>> Starts trying to choke him out. [Music]
[Music]
Like I want to point out they've already
roughed up this guy so much that one of
his shoes is gone. Like has just been
just been kicked off in the scuffle.
They're they're choking him. They're
trying like he's he's throwing his phone
to like bystanders. Like this is some
like this is some authoritarian fascist
[ __ ] These people who are being who who
are doing the snatching, they deserve
each and every one to be prosecuted. And
in my ideal world, each one would hold a
jail cell till the end of time for their
role in what they are doing.
>> He He's shouting, "Help me. Help me.
Help me." He's grabbing on to to folks
who are stopping by and and trying to
help him. [Applause]
[Applause] [Music]
Let him go.
>> Get off him.
Like the community members step in,
start pulling their cuffs away, throwing
them throwing them down the street, and
like the these absolute fascist
jackasses are like running into traffic,
almost getting hit by cars because
they're so desperate to try and like
scoop up this man for the crime of like
no crime. No crime at all. Just he looks
like a guy. He looks like the kind of
profile of guy. And we all know what
that means. The Supreme Court had to
step in and say, "Actually, it's totally
fine for these fascist [ __ ] to just
grab people off the street because they
look Hispanic." Yeah. Running into a
funeral procession of cars. Yeah. No,
that that is what's happening here, by
the way.
>> Hey, get the [ __ ] out of here. Let me
>> The community just converges on that
spot. Those two guys go, "Oh [ __ ] wait
a minute. These people, like if you
watch earlier in the video, these people
have already risked like assault charges
by laying hands on these officers. You
can see uh here the this this woman is
is putting hands on this uh ICE officer.
This man, I think, is the one who like
slips off and like throws the uh the
Oh, no. He He gets them off. Okay. And
then he throws them there. But like
these people are putting their
themselves on the line. Like Ice has
already been shooting people, right? But
at at the same time, like these people
are are heroes. I don't know if this is
the case, but do you think they're
helping because this is a tight-knitknit
community? I mean that might be part of
it, but I think by and large the other
part of it is that people in general now
are recognizing ICE as a threat that
they must expel from their streets.
People have now collectively in mass as
a society
agreed, hey, actually these people from
outside our community, these masked
goons who are abducting people are in
fact bad. And when we see them doing
these bad things, these attempts to
kidnap people, the good thing to do is
to intervene, right? This is an
excellent excellent turn of events,
right? And I I mean like we'll we'll get
like we we'll get to this again later. I
I'll I'll be using this clip, but ICE is
also and ICE in this context needs to be
understood as like the foot soldiers of
the fascist regime. like they are
effectively they've effectively been
rendered this lawless force that answers
to no one but Trump. And um we're kind
of seeing this manifest in an
interesting way that is not helpful to
the regime at all in the form of cops
that are turning up to separate
protesters from ICE officers who are
attempting to do, you know, uh
kidnappings are finding themselves the
victims of ICE violence as well. Here's
[Music]
They don't give a [ __ ] about you either.
Why you protecting me?
>> Like these two cops getting tear gas by
ICE. Like ICE is shooting tear gas at
the cops. These are the people these are
the people who need to be on the side of
the fasc fascist regime because the cops
actually generally live in the local
community. And when you start alienating
them like this, it's a big deal. The
more that cops identify with protesters
rather than ICE, the better it is, the
harder it is for ICE to, you know, gain
cooperation, the harder it is for them
to gain actual support from the local uh
cops and local jurisdiction. And like
this is good. These are good things.
every single time that these people alienate,
alienate,
you know, the general population, which
is almost non-stop. Like, it it's it is
truly incredible how often these people alienate
alienate
uh just your average people, right? And
I wanted to share this with you because
when we're talking about resistance and
we're talking about um fighting this
regime, a lot of people think of like,
you know, you got to get in the streets,
you got to get ready to scrap, right?
And well, I got to I got to be honest. I
think that there are some more effective
ways to actually diffuse
what we're seeing here, you know,
because I want to remind you all that
like Donald Trump has gone around and
his rhetoric on what is happening in say
Portland is absolutely insane and
>> Portland is
>> we're going to look at that. It was
amazing. Portland is burning to the
ground. It's uh insurrectionists all
over the place. It's Antifa. And yet the
politicians who are petrified. Look, the
politicians are afraid for their lives.
That's the only reason that they say
like there's nothing happening. And
you've seen it. The place is burning
down and they pretend like there's
nothing happening. The place is burning down.
down.
>> If they need any tips on alienating the
general population, I'm sure Pete Hexith
could give them pointers.
>> Oh god. I'm I'm sure. you know, if you
need uh if you need tips on how to
alienate the general population, just
look at uh you know, just look at Steven
Miller. That that that dude can't be
like you you've got literally the worst
pe like the worst peopleing
oriented people in charge of the country
right now. You got like Steven Miller,
someone who would make even the most
conservative person's skin crawl. You've
got JD Vance, a man who can't even order
donuts or look at a couch and be normal
about it. And then you've got like Pete
Hegith, a guy who's literally made out
of snake oil. you know, there like these
people are completely
not the folks who can sell this uh
fascist project, you know, and on top of
that, you know, when we talk about
getting out on the street, one of the
ways you can do that is by undermining
the perception of the protests in the
conservative mind. Uh, I posted this
over on Blue Sky because I think it is
an excellent example of what I mean here
of both destroying the narrative that is
being put forward by the Trump
administration and by ICE and by by
getting involved on the ground but in a
>> This is from the account the
[Applause] [Music]
[Laughter]
Oh god, the [ __ ] the [ __ ] hip
The frog is casting dangerous
anti-fascist magic. Indeed. Indeed. God.
I like this is what I mean. Or or or
this, you know, like this is posted by
Senator Ron Widen and like this is
what's happening outside that facility
in the daytime. You got like a goddamn
like there's
it's the quietest most peaceful thing
and people are just you know turning it
into absurdity and I think that's
another effective and wonderful way to
do protest.
>> Pete Hith was literally in front of an
audience of generals while alienating them.
them.
>> It's true. Like, if you need to get
people on your side, sending them out
there to call them all fat is not the
way to do it. Like, I'm I'm sorry. If
you want people to like you and be on
your side, you can't do it that way. So,
I just I I'm I'm putting all this
together here for you because I think
that generally what we are seeing is,
you know, kind of what's outlined here
in the American Prospect. Uh this piece
uh was written, you know, last month uh
about a month ago, you know, minus 10
days. Um can resistance succeed, which
is a pretty that was a pretty scary
headline, you know, and I would
recommend folks read this article. I'll
link it in chat here for you guys. Um
because I I I think it's good. I think
it's nice stuff. Um but basically it is
going through what is happening right
now within the country, the battles in
the courts, the different like things
that people are attempting to slow down
this administration and you know make
things happen and the way that like
Zoran Mamani has kind of shifted the
political paradigm and the way that like
the National Guard is being uh stymied
in its deployments by Donald Trump, you
know, Um, not he's not the one doing the
stying, but you guys understand what I
mean. And towards the end of this, I I
just want to get down here towards the
end, which I I thought was it it's a
long piece, but I think this ending is
is great. All of the foregoing suggests
that the great American democratic
experiment is far from over. If the
slide of autoc slide to autocracy can be
slowed and reasonably fair elections
preserved, the millions of citizens
engaged in resistance could stay
mobilized to elect a drastically
different governing coalition and set of
policies. If the antibodies to tyranny
continued to revive, Trump's paradoxical
legacy may be a reawakened citizenry
over the long term. That is the only
antidote to Trumpism. And I I think
that's right. I I think that is correct.
I think that like what is necessary is
getting as many people as possible aware
of what is happening and getting them
not just aware that it's happening but
to actually take action in some form or
fashion within their communities because
those two things need to happen. It is
not enough to simply know what is
happening. You need to do something
about it. It's a two two-part thing. You
need you need like the knowledge and
then you need to act upon that knowledge
to make a difference, right? And so what
I'm suggesting here is that folks, you
guys do make a difference. And like I I
want to point out that you know the
entire history of the United States is
building up this kind of resistance. And
the point is not just so that we can get
one measly change and disintegrate as a
movement but that we need to hold true
to a set of principles. Those principles
need to be rooted in democracy, in
equality and equity, in uh commitment to
one another's humanity and the
betterment of our world. Because just as
we should always seek to better
ourselves, so too should we seek to
better our world. you know, kind of that
age-old adage of like, you know, leave
leave a space better than what how you
found it, right? And I want to point out
that if you're feeling a bit down right
now, if you are still feeling, oh man,
maybe maybe this whole democratic
experiment has failed, I would encourage
you to read, you know, maybe for the
first time ever, I would encourage you
to read this se uh section of uh
Menchious Moldbugs
thinking. For those of you who don't
know who Menches uh Y Goldbug is, that
is the pen name of one Curtis Yarvin.
And Curtis Yarvin is, you know, kind of
the fascist thinker of the moment. He is
the guy who as Trump was coming into
office had the ear of many of these
technocratic billionaires, had the ear
of many conservative politicians and was
writing essentially that what Trump
needed to do was to come in and start
the Holocaust. And I'm not I'm not I'm
not being facitious here. I'm not being
hyperbolic here. um he he was literally
calling for execution chambers to
expedite the uh killing of political
dissident and journalists. Right? This
was kind of his thinking, right? He is
um a disgusting fascist who has somehow
been allowed to uh exist within the
current academic
thinkers that uh have hold influence.
Hex Seth pulled a sorry Sarge. You told
me to call our generals fat cool cats,
but I thought you wanted me to call them
fat cold. P word for cats. Oh, sorry Sarge.
Sarge.
>> It's true. Kly, thank you for the $10
super chat. And Saki Tanuki, thanks for
the five tier one subs. I'll lick I'll
look at that link when we're done with
this segment. But I wanted to read out
what Curtis Yarvin is saying about this
particular moment in time because I
think you guys will uh take some hope
from it. All right. The second Trump
revolution, like the first, is failing.
It is failing because it deserves to
fail. It is failing because it spends
all its time patting itself on the back.
It is failing because its true mission
which neither it nor less its supporters
understand is still far beyond its reach
as algebra is beyond a cat because the
vengeance meditated out after its
failure will dwarf the vengeance after
2020 because the successes of the second
revolution are so much greater than the
first. I feel that I personally have to
start thinking realistically about how
to flee the country. Everyone else in in
a similar position should have a 2029
plan as well. It's not even clear that
it will wait until 2029. Losing the
Congress will instantly put the
administration on the defensive. Here is
a Twitter exchange that captures the
situation perfectly. First, Steven
Miller of Homeland Security. And there's
a screenshot of Steven Miller saying the
issue before is now God. Steven Miller
can't even [ __ ] tweet, right? The
issue before is now is very simple and
clear. There is a large and growing
movement of left-wing terrorism in this
country. It is well organized and funded
and it is shielded by far-left
democratic democrat jud judges,
prosecutors, and attorneys general. the
only remedy is to use legitimate state
power to dismantle terrorism and terror
networks. In which he's talking about
using, you know, the federal government
to dismantle the the judiciary and and
and like the state judiciaries, I guess,
because, you know, he's a deeply
unserious person. Uh, quote, "When you
see clips of uh we're back to Yarvin
now. When you see clips of masked DHS
goons hauling off some equally masked
anarchist, you may be tempted to cheer.
Don't. Yes, charges will be filed. No,
it will not harm the anarchist. It will
make his day, his year, and maybe his
life. All the money and power in the
world will be at his defense. He will
not even need to lift a finger to
organize his own lawyers, much less pay
them. In the end, as with many of the
BLM riers, he will probably be well
compensated with taxpayer funds for his
trouble. Not to mention all the [ __ ]
and/or dick uh she or he will as a
martyr be entitled to. For the Islamist,
this reward is only in heaven, but for
the leftist, it comes on earth. Just I'm
sorry, the [ __ ] the [ __ ] rampant
inceldum that is uh like just like, oh
yeah, our enemies are all getting laid.
All the leftists who are going to the
protests are getting laid. That that's
what he's saying. He's saying like when
he's saying the Islamist the reward is
in heaven, he's saying basically Muslims
get like uh [ __ ] in heaven but leftists
get [ __ ] on earth. That's essentially
what he's saying. And it's, you know, it
this this man is bereft of maidens, you
know, as as the as the the classicists
like to say. Um
the reward for Steven Miller and his ilk
is also on earth. They look tough.
They're doing something that they are
not even doing 0.01%
of what it would take to solve the
problem that at much more risk to
themselves, the most they could probably
do is 0.05%
matters not. They can milk it as far as
it goes. They too will sell books.
Basically what Curtis Yarvin is saying
here is that um essentially leftists are
all getting laid and uh that this
administration if it wanted to actually
succeed in the project of having a
fascist state would need to actually
kill millions of its left-leaning
uh opponents and it's not doing that and
therefore it will fail um because it's
already lost in the court of public
opinion and really the only way you
could have not done that is kill the
public that doesn't support you. And so
he that that's what he's saying when
he's saying like this administration
isn't doing, you know, uh is doing 0.01%
of what it takes to actually succeed.
He's he's talking about the fact that
they're not doing massacres on the
regular, right?
That's that is the entire point. Also,
if you're a leftist, you can
hypothetically get 72 virgins with one
giant polycule.
>> Take that religion.
>> I mean, I don't I don't think if
somebody's in a polycool, they're
they're uh they're a virgin, jazz dog.
But thank you for the $5 donut. You
know, maybe maybe it's possible. I don't
you know, I
polycules are beyond me. I'm I'm sorry.
I monogamy is is is where I'm at because
like, you know, I'm at the love of my
life. But that being said, it is hard.
It should be heartening to you that the
people who have spent the most time
trying to plan and coordinate and think
piece their way into a fascist
government are looking at what is
happening right now and they're going,
"Oh no, we're losing. We're losing so
badly that we need to start trying to
flee the country. Oh, oh no, we we need
we are losing badly." And if actual
consequences happen, we're [ __ ]
>> Curtis Yarvin is someone who should have
been trolled off the internet years ago.
He's pathetic. He thinks he's deep, but
he's just an edgy [ __ ]
>> I mean, that yes, that that is true.
That that is very true. The issue is he
comes from like that 4chan background
where like you can't bully him off the
internet. Like he's he that's what he
gets off on. He likes the bullying. So
it it's just I I took some great degree
and comfort in that. You know, we are we
are looking at a system that has in my
estimation stalled a lot of the fascist
attempts of this government to seize
power. Not all of them, of course, but a
lot of them. And I think that we will in
fact make it another year, especially if
Democrats hold firm today. Cuz let me
tell you, Republicans [ __ ] hate a
government shutdown like this. As for
all the posturing of the Trump
administration, they hate it. And they
are losing in the battle of public
opinion, which means that they are not
going to come out of this looking
better. They're going to come out of
this looking worse. And they were
already looking about as bad as any
administration, as any Congress has ever
looked in history. We are in a actually
a very good situation here. when we in
at least in regards to the project of
like making it to the midterms and
actually having elections and actually
defeating our adversaries because these
people the people who were the true
believers of a fascist revolution,
they're terrified right now. Please keep
going out and protesting. Keep being
silly little little guys, gals, and
non-binary pals, okay? keep uh putting
on those costumes and making your
protest silly, ridiculous, and welcoming
because we're coming up now to No Kings
on October 18th here. All right, make
sure you get it on your calendars. No
Kings, folks, because what we're looking
at with No Kings 2 on October 18th is a
larger demonstration than the last No
Kings, which I want to remind everyone,
the last No Kings demonstration was one
of the largest civil rights
demonstrations in in modern American
history. And folks, we need to make it
even bigger. And right now there are
more protest locations planned than
there were for the first no kings. And
we still got 2 weeks left, folks. All
right. Get to work. Organize. Get your
friends, your family, your neighbors.
Get them together. Get them out there.
You know, I I talked with my mom
recently, and she's kind of like my
bellweather for where relatively
non-political libs are at this very
moment. Every single one of my mom's
friends, and I want to remind you all,
they're all like 75 plus. Every single
one of them is going out on October
18th. My dad, who's a trans phobic,
conservative creationist, is going out
to that protest. Like, I I let me let me
tell you guys, people are pissed. And
it's not the traditional like far-left
folks. It's not the people who are
calling themselves socialists standing
alone. We are talking about one of the
biggest mobilizations in American
history. And folks, you got to turn up
to this. If a 75year-old lib in the
Midwest can turn up to one of these, so
can you. And you know, if you can't
because of disability or something,
figure out a way you can contribute,
whether it's putting out uh amplifying
messages or coming up with printable
propaganda. figure out something you can
do. All right, we all got to do our
part, whatever that part may be. And
yeah, it's true, Travanoid, the problem
with no kings, it's only a few hours
long. We need a general strike. And you
know what? People are working on that
general strike. That's right. Go to may2028.org
may2028.org
if you want to organize a uh about as
close as we're going to get to a general
strike uh in in any any type of
reasonable time frame. Um, folks, it's
real. It's happening.
>> Remember when Pete Hexath almost
murdered a drummer? Pepperage Farm remembers?
remembers?
>> I I don't I don't remember that
actually. Folks, go uh go coordinate go
coordinate your contracts with May 1st,
2028. Okay, let's go. We'll have a real
Mayday. We have good reason to hope
because by standing in solidarity
together, by turning out onto the
streets, by turning up for our
neighbors, by turning up for our
marginalized community members, we can
and will win. Do you have the courage to
like go to a protest and put on a silly
frog costume?
Like I think I think you guys do. I know
some of you guys got Halloween costumes.
Let's go. Let's [ __ ] go. And with
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