Radley Balko

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278 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 28 Jan

Radley Balko’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I mean, it is almost the way that they describe the people, the way that they instantly pass judgment.

You know, they're sabotaging their own investigation before it gets started, but that's because they never intended to conduct one anyway.

Because it sounds like a very fair.

Well, it's what scholars who study authoritarianism call performative lying, right?

This isn't lying to cover something up or to get away with something.

This is when you lie in a way that everyone knows you're lying.

It's a projection of power.

You're saying we can get away with whatever we want.

It's completely, we're in completely uncharted territory.

I mean, these are paramilitaries.

These are what strong, these are the kinds of things that the kinds of muscle that Trump has wanted going back to his life in the private sector.

I mean, he's always admired, you know, he praised the Tiananmen Square crackdown, right?

I mean, he has always admired these kinds of paramilitary forces that can do a strong man's bidding.

And that's what he has.

I mean, you know, they use their legal justifications in court.

You know, they know their case law.

And so they'll say,

Oh, things are – crime is soaring here.

There's an insurrection.

Immigration officers can't do their job.

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