Radley Balko

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

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The ICE Age of Surveillance and Enforcement · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

But then in their down moments, like you see what they're actually about.

So Trump posted on social media a couple weeks ago that the reason he sent these forces into Minneapolis was because he thinks he won Minnesota all three times and local officials stole it from him.

And that's why they're there, right?

In Los Angeles, Kristi Noem says –

Federal forces are going to be in Los Angeles until they liberate the city from its socialist political leadership.

Right.

I mean, that's that's those are the reasons why they're there.

I mean, it is.

I kind of think if George Orwell had written a book about our times, his editor would have rejected it as a bit heavy-handed.

There's just no...

I mean you literally have people – Yarvin yearns for monarchy, right?

Somebody posted something about 10 years ago.

Trump's too soft.

Where he talks about how like mentally ill people should be confined in like these tiny little spaces for the rest of their lives and shown like virtual reality so that they can live a fulfilling life but locked in this –

And like these are – like he is a – he has been cited by J.D.

Vance as a major influencer on Vance's political development.

I mean we're like being run by the most like deeply dorky loser like 4chan message board is like those are the people running the country now.

So the targeted worst of the worst using that technology to its capacity, as worried as I am about all that, if that was only what they were doing, if that was their interest here, I don't think a lot of us would be nearly as alarmed as we are.

The problem is –

That's not the goal.

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