Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: What are the conditions leading to the Minneapolis rent strike?
There's escalating climate catastrophe. We're going to be in this situation much more frequently and at higher degrees of stress. pretty much for the rest of our lives. So it's good actually for us to start learning from the work that we did five years ago and applying it here to like borrow and steal from our past selves to build from something rather than start from scratch.
I wish we didn't live under these types of cascading crises, but that's the situation we're in. And I've been feeling so often in the last month that the only touch point in my life I have to this moment is the early months of the pandemic. Yeah. And I think that gets at the depth and seriousness of the crisis in a way that I feel like is not understood outside of Minneapolis.
I mean, I think, you know, like my connections, I'm from Chicago, my connections in Chicago, there was a lot of that experience, but even, even in Chicago, it was kind of, There were places that were like that, and then you could go like three neighborhoods over, and everything was sort of operating normally for the most part until the next sort of raids came.
And that, I feel like, I don't know, it seems to me from listening to you talk about this, that that's been the catalyzing force for all of this, that it is just constant crisis everywhere. Yeah. And I think you're right that people outside of the Twin Cities maybe don't understand the depths of the devastation.
But just to put a fine point on it, conservative estimates show over $47 million in lost wages among people who have not been safe to go to work in the last three months. $47 million in lost wages. I just had a conversation with a dad yesterday. whose kids go to a school where there are 80 families where the parents have not been safe to go to work.
They haven't been safe to take their own children to school. And so the other parents in the school have been organizing support around them for the last two months. And they just did a round of calls through all those families this week. None of them can make March rent, right? Yeah. So even if we're living under a supposed drawdown, the crisis is still so alive.
And I think that's also why you see organized labor lining up alongside us in this strike drive. They know, like, Local 26 has 200 members that cannot make the rent on March 1st. So I think that that sort of like economic side of this story is not really known, felt or understood outside of the Twin Cities right now.
But everyone here knows and feels it because they've turned their lives inside out for the last three months to organize, you know, millions of dollars in mutual aid. But here's the thing is we cannot GoFundMe our way out of this scale of emergency.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: How does the tenant union's organization relate to broader labor movements?
I'm going to hope that there are eyewitnesses there. I'm going to hope and seek to provide as much evidence that I possibly can, that I had no other choice to do what I was going to do, right? Any civilian carrying a firearm responsibly thinks about the same things, about like,
If I am in a shooting, first off, there's the question of I need to defend myself, but then there is immediately the question of I need to defend myself in court. And police don't have that second part. Not really. Not in a way that matters. And this to me is why the Alex Pretty situation, which was so visibly documented by multiple cameras, is such a concern.
Because in this instance, we see two officers unload on the guy. One guy shoots him at least once or twice, and then another guy unloads on him again. And we have multiple video angles, yet the narrative from them is that this guy was attacking them, which is clearly not the case on the video. I mean, you can look at it from multiple angles.
Whether or not you agree with his protest methods, he was not attacking anyone. He was standing between them getting pepper sprayed and being beaten with pepper spray can and then getting unloaded on.
And at the same time, we now live in this situation where at least some parts of the firearms community or gun community, which isn't a community, owning a thing isn't a community, but we use that term, gun community.
like you said, some of these rights groups have said something, but the response to this is still disturbing to me because there's a lot of people saying, well, don't show up to a protest with a gun. Don't be in public with a gun. You can't bring a gun. In fact, we saw parts of the Trump administration saying, don't show up with a gun.
This man had a handgun and two magazines on him looking for trouble. Well, If he was, he didn't have the gun out. And by the way, carrying a handgun with an extra magazine is by no means abnormal. In fact, that's a normal procedure for most people that concealed carry.
If you and I were hanging out on the street and we decided that we got into a fight with some guy, you know, Sheila Booth comes out of the bar and starts swinging on us. And then not only do we punch him and knock him to the ground, you shoot him, and then I shoot him nine more times, and there's video evidence of that. We're going to jail forever.
But we have footage of these guys doing this, and really nothing comes of it. Part of what I really want to get across to people is how bog-standard
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Chapter 4: What are the demands of the Minneapolis rent strike?
He's trying to be off-putting on purpose because that will drive attention to him from people who don't like him.
And, you know, in trying to cover him in this episode, you know, I'm trying to like ride that line of not just unnecessarily giving him publicity because he says outrageous things, but then also framing his rising profile within a certain like context, which is Groiper candidates popping up more and more frequently across the United States. Yeah.
So in terms of Florida, DeSantis can't run for another term. He is term limited. The clear front runner to succeed DeSantis is U.S. Representative from Florida, Byron Donalds, who has Trump's endorsement. Last month, Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins also announced a run for governor. But Fishback is not a non-player in this race.
And his candidacy displays a tension within the Republican Party, between the former Tea Party and classical MAGA wing, which is now the effective conservative establishment, and this new America First wing, which takes some of MAGA's originating principles to their far-right nationalist conclusion.
I talked about this tension last year in the episodes about Nick Fuentes' interview with Tucker Carlson and this surge of Graper-adjacent Gen Z staffers filling out the ranks of the Republican machine in D.C. Now, Fishback is one of the first candidates to draw a lot of attention by essentially running as a Graper candidate.
Depending on how well he does, it could indicate how successful this politics can be when presented in front of Republican voters. The primary election isn't until August. There's not tons of polling yet on this race, let alone from established pollsters.
But as of late January, Fishback's most favorable poll puts him 15 points behind frontrunner Byron Donalds, according to quote-unquote patriot polling. Okay. Meanwhile, Donald's own sponsored poll puts him upwards of 42 points ahead of Fishback around the new year. So all this stuff is really out of date. And Fishback certainly has risen his profile since then.
But we're still waiting on like reliable polls to come out. Yeah. But he's certainly getting a lot of headlines and is doing a successful job in raising his public profile.
Now, a part of Fishback's strategy to raise his public profile and name recognition, both in Florida and nationally, seems to be just through generating controversy, very similar to how Fuentes did this or the more recent social ascension of the looks-maxing streamer Clavicular.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's claims about immigration and crime?
Yeah, a Purple Heart. Yeah, we gave out a Purple Heart. And Olympic Gold. Yeah, many of those. He, like, had this, like, strange moment where he's like, I would like one of those, but apparently, like, it's not... Yeah, for the Medal of Honors, you can only get them in the Army. Maybe they'll open it up. Maybe they'll open it up. And if they do, I'll be the first one in line.
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He did tout that we ended DEI in America, just, like, one of the annoying talking points that means nothing. Yeah. Whilst ICE were not mentioned by name, there was a lot of border chat, right? Yeah, especially at the start and then a few times towards the middle end.
Yeah, and one of the things he did pretty consistently was talk about horrific incidents, often involving the death of children, sometimes in front of their parents. Yeah. I just want to highlight a couple of those. The first one he talked about Delilah Coleman, right, who was injured in a crash with a big rig. The driver is which was not a U.S.
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Chapter 6: How does the discussion address the impact of tariffs on the economy?
citizen, but did have a work permit, a work permit issued by the federal government under Donald Trump. And this has been a claim on the right. This guy was undocumented for some time. Right. And that California has been giving CDLs. to undocumented people. In this case, that is not the case. I'm interested in what happened to the Coleman family.
I understand they've been through like a horrific thing, right? Their daughter, it looked like she was going to use the use of her legs. She's now relearning to use her legs and to walk, which is great. But previously, they had met with the person who was driving the vehicle that caused their daughter this horrific injury.
And they had explicitly declined to politicize it, saying that they weren't interested in doing that. So I don't know what happened here to now Trump proposing a law, which Delilah's law, he's calling it, right, which would, I'm trying to remember if he said stop non-citizens or undocumented people or illegal aliens to use his parlance from getting CDLs, obviously. I think illegal aliens.
There are states which will give you driver's license without asking for documentation for the very obvious reason that people in this country have to drive. Large parts of this country are set up around driving. You cannot exist in some parts of America without a motor car. And it is better that people get a license and insurance than that they don't do that.
He said barring any state from granting commercial driver's license to illegal aliens was his framing. Yeah, that's his normal framing, right? I have never had a CDL in this country and I've never gone through the application process, but I would assume one would first need a federal work permit, right? As one would for any employment. Well, you need a driver's license.
Yes, you would also need a driver's license.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs?
Let's start there. You got to have a driver's license to get a CDL. Yeah, there's a background check component to the CDL. One of the lines that he used right before this call to action was that illegal aliens cannot read road signs. Yes. Yeah, that's how we introduced the section of like, yeah, they're all through this country driving around.
They don't know what like a warning sign is or a stop sign. Obviously, lots of people come to this country and are perfectly capable of speaking English. There are also people who are born in this country who don't speak English. Well, we just we don't have an official language. Just to say a lot of people can't drive very well in this country. Yeah. As an L as an L.A. driver.
A lot of you people don't know how to merge, and it has nothing to do with what language you speak or your citizen status, okay? Like, this is a pointless remark to make, is my point. It's just, it's a policy that they can make. Right, yeah, yeah. Didn't he sign an executive order officially making English the official language at some point early on?
No, I'm just, I'm trying to remember if that was the case or not. Yes, yes. Okay. The other claim that I thought was interesting was the killer of this young woman in Charlotte, right, who was killed. The train stabbing incident from last year. Yeah, Irina Zarutskaya. And Trump claimed that the man who killed her had come in through an open border.
I am not able to find any evidence that this person is an immigrant to the United States. I have not found that reported anywhere. His father appears to have at least resided, if not been born in the United States. His name is DeCarlos Brown Jr.
And so assuming that the DeCarlos Brown who is resident in the same place is his father, therefore I would assume that he was born in the United States and had citizenship through birthright citizenship. I have no idea about it. His father could well be a citizen too. I'm just... trying to research things in a hurry.
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Chapter 8: How does the conversation conclude regarding immigration policies and their effects?
I have not seen it reported anywhere. Zero reporting about this man being an immigrant, including from right-wing outlets who used this horrific incident to stoke racist crime panic narratives last year. Yeah, and that may not have been the goal. It may have just been more traditional race panic. Yeah. Yeah, that was what it was. They used it for racialized crime panic.
This comment by Trump inferring that he is an immigrant may have been an unscripted ad lib that he just did. But from what we could tell, this man was not an immigrant. Yeah. No, it's just like a guy did a bad thing.
Nor was he released early from custody, by the way, which is part of the narrative that the right was using in the reporting around this was that this guy was like released early from prison and he did serve the entirety of his sentence. He may not have been released early from his sentence, but you're released early from your sentence of not listening to us. Here's some ads.
Oh, that's one of the worst ones. Yeah, well, too bad. And we're back. Hooray. So in the start to middle section where he was still kind of talking about the economy before the entire pageantry performance took over, he started talking about the tax cuts and the one big beautiful bill. Yeah. And he had this fun line about how all the Democrats voted against these tax cuts.
And this made all the Democrats stand up and applaud. Yeah. That was kind of funny. But then he talked about this mom who was homeschooling two kids who also works as a waitress during the night shift on top of her husband who also works full-time and how these tax cuts have gotten them to take an extra $5,000 home each year. This is the no tax on tips thing.
And the story of this mom who's homeschooling kids and working at night and a full-time husband was framed as this triumph of the American economy. It was hard to interpret this as a massive economic triumph when you were talking about a mother who's not only doing labor at home by schooling her children and then also working nights and a husband who's also working full-time.
That demonstrates how difficult it actually is to exist economically, especially if you have a family in the country right now. And his kind of twisting of this scenario to support his notion that he's helping the American economy I found to be quite interesting. And that's mostly what the Democratic response by Governor Spanberger was about.
It's like how it's pretty clear to most Americans that it's actually been quite economically challenging based on his wildly unstable trade agreements and tariffs, which have caused a great deal of economic instability in this country. Yeah, there was a feeling during the Biden administration, especially with like Psaki, right?
The Biden administration was somewhat gaslighting people as they struggled economically. Sure. But Trump has not diverged from that policy, right? No. And obviously now the Dems are calling it out. Talking of budgetary issues, did anybody else catch that the Democrats have frozen funding to DHS who would like to be out there helping people shovel their snow? I missed this.
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