Adam Serwer and Bobby Pulido: MAGA Got Proven Wrong
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Hey everybody, big news. We are going back on the road. We wanted to be with y'all. Me and Sarah wanted to hug you. JVL wanted to greet you from a polite distance. So we're planning our spring Bulwark tour, and we demanded that it kick off with our friends in the Twin Cities. So we'll be there February 19th. I guess it probably won't be very spring in the Twin Cities, February 19th, but that's okay. We're going to be there for a one-night show. Details are to come on that. Then after that in March, we're headed to Texas. We're going to be in Dallas on March 18th and Austin on March 19th. Minnesota tickets are going on sale Friday. The Texas shows will go on sale next week. Watch your inboxes, thebullock.com slash events for more.
Go to thebullock.com slash events. If you are not from Minnesota, by the way, come. Come hang with us. It's going to be a big venue. We're going to plan some other stuff February 19th. Hope to see you all there.
Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. We've got a doubleheader for you today. Up in segment two is Bobby Pulido, who's running for Congress in South Texas. Super interesting guy I met last week. I'm excited to talk to him about immigration and what the hell the Democrats are going to do about their Hispanic voter problem, or even if they have one anymore. So stick around for that. But first, I'd like to welcome back to the show, staff writer at The Atlantic, He was in Minneapolis last week to report on ordinary Minnesotans who mobilized to resist the occupation of their city. It's Adam Sarwar. What's up, man? Hey, how's it going? I guess I'd start here. Could you sum up the administration's actions in Minnesota in five words?
An attack on an American city? I don't know if that... Say the line, Adam. Oh, yeah. I'm not going to.
I refuse to do it. I refuse to do it. I'm going to give you the Bart Simpson. It's funny that that's exactly where you were going, and I didn't even get it. Anyway, yes. I think you'd have to say the cruelty is the point there. I mean, you just look at how people are talking about... You know, the two Minneapolis St. Paul residents who were killed by the Border Patrol and basically seeking to unperson them in order to justify the unjustifiable, which is, you know, the taking of the lives of people who pose no threat to anyone and who were killed. you know, when they were killed in the process of trying to protect or aid the people around them.
I'm just jealous I don't have a tagline. I mean, I've been talking 20 hours a week and nothing sticks yet, but one of these days. The article that you wrote, I think, had some really... deep and poignant elements that I want to get to and is maybe concerningly for you in line with some of the stuff I've been thinking about. You just put it better. But I just before we get to kind of the deeper elements of your analysis, what's happened in Minnesota, just explain for people. I was interested to kind of hear the more rote, you know, play by play of what's happening on the ground. Like you were riding around with some of these ice watch folks. Like what exactly are they doing and what's happening? Yeah.
So, look, you know, I was riding around South Minneapolis in a neighborhood called Powderhorn that has seen a lot of ice activity. And what you'll see when you go to Powderhorn is there are a lot of people walking around on foot with their whistles. Sometimes they stand in front of particular restaurants that they know are vulnerable because they're, you know, Somali-American owned or whatever. mexican-american owned or something like that um so they know there'll be a target for immigration authorities and then you have people in cars and generally you know these people are referred to as observers or commuters and you'll have a driver and a co-pilot and the co-pilot will listen to sorry my uh my cat uh loves it whenever i'm recording you two people love the cat all good so
The co-pilot will listen to a dispatcher who will identify locations where ICE activity is occurring or the presence of an ICE vehicle.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:02
2
What is the significance of community resistance in Minneapolis?
7:02–15:11
3
How do ICE watch groups operate in Minneapolis?
15:11–19:00
4
How does the Second Amendment relate to current events?
19:00–41:37
5
What are the implications of MAGA's immigration policies?
41:37–50:07
6
How does the current political climate affect Hispanic voters?
50:07–57:12
Speakers
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