LA Riots GOING Nationwide, Trump Preps INSURRECTION ACT, CIVIL WAR Or Summer Of Love ft. Julio Rosas
Summary
In the wake of the massive riots in Los Angeles and across the country, the question is, who's to blame? Is it the police, the protesters, or is it something else entirely? This week, we talk to reporter Julio Rosas, who has been on the ground covering the riots in L.A. and Mexico City.
Transcript
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We've got here in America, we don't do kings, a call for a massive escalation of the conflict.
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We've got tweets saying ice out of San Antonio. We've got ice out of NYC. These protests are
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being planned for right now. They are preparing to launch mass riots like we saw in L.A. across
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this country, giving people instruction. And then we have on the 14th of June, the No Kings
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protest. Here's a question for you. In this map for No Kings, it's an anti-Trump, anti-American
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protest. How do they organize all these? All of these different rallies. Now, first, what
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I'll say is many of these rallies, even in Toronto, there's no way it's Toronto. It is. Wow.
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That's Canada. They're not really organizing these protests. They're telling you they're
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planning on doing it and they've decided on a location for where it should start. They're
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hoping that if people just see this, they'll choose to show up. But who is supplying these
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organizations with the resources to launch such a coordinated effort? Because I got to tell
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you this, we do events here at Timcast. It is not easy to organize one, let alone six official
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events and a thousand plus ancillary events. This takes mass resources. This is, oh, it's
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all over Canada. Wow. Canada's got a ton, actually. Oh, I'm sorry. That's just Maine. But there
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are a bunch in Canada. Oh, is it just Maine? Oh, my bad. I thought that was New Brunswick.
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You got a couple in Canada. Sure, fine. Oh, here's on the border. How fun. International
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Falls, Minnesota. This is being prepared. This is being organized. So we're going to be joined,
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my friends, by Julio Rosas. He's been on the ground, actually reporting on his riots in Los
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Angeles. Let's bring him in now. See if we can get all of this rolling. And loading,
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currently loading. Sources loading, video loading. I believe Julio is, how's it going, man? Can you hear
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me? I can hear you. Hey, so you're currently on the ground at the L.A. riots. You're in a hotel or
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something, right? Yeah, this isn't it. But yeah, man, I got in yesterday. I was actually, funny
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enough, I was on vacation in Mexico trying to get in some R&R before riot season truly kicked off. But
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I guess I'm a little rusty given that it's been four years since the last riot I actually, the last
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true riot I fully covered. So, well, where, do you want to say where in Mexico you were? Or like,
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were you close to L.A.? No, no. It wasn't like Mexico City to where I could just fly directly. It was a
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whole, it was a whole process. But no, it was, it's just interesting because obviously, you know,
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these riots are happening in part because the crackdown on immigration. And it's just funny
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seeing Mexican flags in Los Angeles being waved over burning cars. But what I always like to say
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is like, you couldn't pull that in Mexico City. I mean, could you imagine if a bunch of Americans
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showed up and were in the main plaza burning cars and waving American flags? The Mexican government
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would have cracked down that on. It's so hard it'd be, people would be whining about the Geneva
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conventions. I'm pretty sure Mexicans would crack down on you. Just people who live there would
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probably come up and not tolerate that. No, no. They actually, I mean, for all of its faults,
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Mexicans in Mexico have a lot of pride. Well, so this has been, it was massive. I mean,
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this is several days long. They're saying there's going to be more riots tonight. They're planning
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other cities to have big riots. There's talk of massive protests organized across the country for,
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I believe, like a week from now. I'm curious, we've seen a lot of these videos of people waving
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Mexican flags, but who are these people? Are they, I mean, are you able to discern whether or not these
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people are actually Mexican nationals, or are they just Americans support Mexico?
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I think, I mean, it's hard to say, but I just kind of knowing the culture a little bit more. I think a lot
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of it is just like people, like American citizens who, who's, who's mom or dad are, you were originally
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from Mexico, right? Or, you know, maybe, maybe a grandfather in particular, maybe their immediate
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family member is illegal. I mean, it's, it is this weird thing and I don't want to get too much into
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the, I mean, I kind of understand where they're coming from in terms of like, okay, you are,
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you are American, right? Like I am where I was born here, raised here. Uh, but obviously we took
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different paths, right? Cause there's no way I'm going to go riot and wave a Mexican flag in the
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city. I mean, the United States is my country. Uh, but to them, they, they have, they have this
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attachment, um, because of this family member, let's say, and they think, well, we do all this
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stuff. It's racism, you know, white supremacy, all, you know, all this stuff, you know, colonialism,
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you know, Los Angeles was part of Mexico at one point. And so for them, it's, it's, it's like,
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we're, it's basically, it's their version of like return, right. You know, return to tradition,
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return to how things were, uh, which is funny because, you know, they can have that national
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pride, but even though they're not necessarily, like I said, from Mexico directly, but, um, it's,
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it is, it is just speaking for myself. It is, it is kind of a interesting and at times a weird
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dynamic, but you have to choose, you, you have to choose. And for me, and you know, speaking for
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myself, I, yes, I, I obviously I know my name. I know what I look like, but the United States is
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my country. Um, I, I, I like Mexico. I mean, like I said, I was just there on vacation. There's a lot
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of things I like about it, but my loyalty and the country that I want to do, you know, best number,
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you know, for the first is the United States. And obviously I want Mexico to succeed as well,
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uh, because it's, it's better for both of us. Uh, but that, that's, that's why it's frustrating
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to see because even talking to the Mexicans in Mexico saying, Hey, I'm going to go to Los Angeles
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to, to, to, to cover this. A lot of them were actually saying, yeah, we understand why Trump
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wants to do that. Like wants to deport people. It was like, he has to, he has to do what's best
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for his country. Um, so there is, I mean, he's not as unpopular as, as you might think in Mexico,
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although obviously I would say the majority is, but it's not an overwhelming majority I would
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hazard. Yeah. I think, uh, I was actually just expressing, uh, similarly when you have, uh,
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amnesty, when you allow people to come here illegally, they'll have kids. Those kids are
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born in California. They are told, uh, a lot of them are told these leftist ideologies. They blame
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white people for everything. They're told, you know, this used to be Mexico until it was stolen
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from us in a war. We were routed, they invaded, and it's actually our land. You grow up with this.
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You grow up with Mexican flags in your house. You grow up being told of your family's heritage in
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Mexico. You go vacation to see your grandparents in Mexico. And then Donald Trump comes in and says,
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illegal immigrants can't be here. And what does that mean? It could be your parents. It could be
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your cousin. It could be your next door neighbor. Trump is correct. This is America with American
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borders, but for the individual interests of these people who are Americans, they're thinking,
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I don't know or care. I want what's best for me and my family. And my family are not Americans.
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So I'm not going to let you do this. You end up seeing them flying American flags. Now,
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the question I guess is at what point is this insurrection and invasion and how, how, how do you
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deal with it? I mean, the democratic governors are saying, don't do anything. Let me, let me ask you
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this actually. Uh, in your experience being on the ground, how would you rate the performance of the
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LAPD and the California state highway patrol or the state police? I mean, they're doing, they're
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doing the best they can. The problem is, is that they're not, you can, you can have as many personal
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as you, as, as you, as you want in situations like this. It's if they're unable to actually
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confront the rioters in any serious way. I mean, the whole reason why that we're in what day three,
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day four into this is because initially LAPD didn't respond to the riders that are outside the
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federal holding facility, which is exactly what happened in Portland. The reason why Portland in
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2020 went on for so long at the federal courthouse is because it was just the federal agents and the
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personnel that they had to bring in because Portland police was, was forbidden from even talking with
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the feds. Um, and it wasn't until they were finally able to cooperate that the riots at the federal
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courthouse finally stopped. So that's why what's happening right now is such a, it's such deja vu where
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it's literally like, sure, it's a different issue, but it's the same thing where Trump is cracking down
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and the sanctuary city mayors and Democrat, you know, governors, they're not going to want to
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cooperate. They, they want to, you know, borderline interfere with this. And that's just only going
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to rile up the people more because while they might not like, let's say Kieran Bass or, or, or Newsom,
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they're at least being provided kind of that cover from their local leaders. And, and, and that does
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matter to us, to a certain extent, right? That will have an impact. Um, and then of course you have
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like the local, like you have city council members and saying, we need to escalate our tactics and do all
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it. So I, I think I, I, it's going to get worse before it gets better, I think. And, and, and the
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problem with Los Angeles and Los Angeles County as a whole with, with this large population that's
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sympathetic to the, to the illegal immigrants is that, um, you can, you can, you can secure the
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downtown area, but then when something pops up in Santa Monica or Glendale or Burbank or, you know,
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Compton, right. I mean, Compton was, was kind of an area that got, so you need a, unless you're
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going to play whack-a-mole, which is only going to let this go on longer, you're going to need a
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massive military response. And so I know the reported number is 500 Marines in addition to
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the Guardsmen, but, but I think it's going to, I think it's going to take a few more units from,
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uh, the first Marine division to, to foot it. Cause again, I mean, LA is just so massive.
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Well, you called it, uh, you said getting right, you were on vacation before the start of riot season.
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So is this, do you, do you see this as turning into summer of love 2.0?
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I mean, I, I, if you were to ask me two weeks ago, I'd say, uh, I, I don't know, maybe, but
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with today, you know, today and, and seeing the reaction from, again, the local leaders who are
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egging this on, um, and, and trying to fight the Trump administration to, you know, um, I, I think
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this does has the potential to, to kind of get back up to that level of chaotic, you know, chaotic
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behavior. Um, I, but you know, for example, I saw that there's supposed to, there's supposed to be
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a rally today in Tampa, Florida. That's not going to go anywhere. I mean, that's, if something gets
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out of control, that's going to be shut down within, within, you know, within the first hour,
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Um, but, but, but, you know, there's Chicago, there's Portland and New York city was, was popping
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off over the weekend too. So, I mean, this is how, and this is how it was. And that's why,
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that's why I took the risk of going to Mexico because up until this point, the only time where
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it was kind of like a chaotic situation was during the ice operation. But then once the
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agents left, people, people didn't go to the, you know, go to the jail or go to the, you know,
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the, the, the federal courthouse or whatever, they, they, they just went home. So, so that's
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why it's significant that Los Angeles, they, they kept the, the rioters kept the momentum
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going. And then of course the response, which then makes them mad. And you know, it, it just,
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it just spirals out of control to where now it's just like, we're just going to attack
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cops like LAPD, even though they initially had, even though they weren't the initial
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We we've, we've seen a bunch of videos. Actually, there was one viral video where
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ICE was performing a raid, I think somewhere in Massachusetts and a bunch of protesters
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and rioters come out and start fighting with cops. So before Trump got elected, I'd been
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talking about, uh, you know, the period that we're in this, it's, it's called the civil
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strife period. The civil rights movement was a civil strife period. Sometimes these things
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turn into civil wars. I don't see an immediate in the short term, this becomes something like
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that, but we are starting to see the bubbling up of this unrest and these protests, this
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fighting with cops. And I had asked many Democrats, do you think Donald Trump will use the military
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to enforce, uh, deportations? Of course they all said, yes, it was one of their talking points.
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Trump's a fascist. He's going to send in the military and violate the law. And I said, okay,
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the question then is, do Democrats resist this or let Trump do it? And so what we're starting
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to see now lends itself to the, I think the obvious possibility of escalation to some degree,
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but either this turns into, I mean, I'm, I guess my question to you is based on what we've seen so
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far in these other cities in LA, do you think the Trump administration is going to really escalate
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this to use the military, to make sure these mass deportations happen?
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Well, I, well, again, I wouldn't say it's, it's Trump escalated. I know that's how a lot of people
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say, well, I mean, that's what, you know, Newsom and Bass, they're, they're all saying like, well,
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he escalated it. None of this would be necessary if it wasn't for the rioters from Friday.
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I, I, I, HSI, I mean, the, the White House and DHS have released the list of people that they were
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targeting in that operation. And it was people that we don't want in our country just because
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they shouldn't be here. Number one, but also number two, these are some, you know, you know,
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these are the, these are not the very fine people. Right. So, you know, these, these are not,
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these are not the, you know, some, I assume are good people. And so, but, but to them,
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it doesn't matter. Right. It's, Oh, it's ice. It's a, you know, it's, it's, you know, the,
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the Gestapo is here. We got to fight them. And that's why it's so stupid that, because right now,
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yes. I mean, other people have been swept up in these raids. I'm not denying that, but the,
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but the primary targets have been the criminals and foreign, you know, national security threats.
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That has been the primary focus. And so, but they, they can't even wait. They can't even wait
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for, for more people who are just here illegally to, to, you know, what, just like the moms and,
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and, you know, the young children in, in, in, in bigger numbers, they just, they just automatically
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just have to go to, all right, well, we're just going to start interfering and fighting. And so,
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I mean, look, this has been building for a long time. And I would say with Los Angeles specifically,
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again, because of the demographics, I mean, I was here in February when, when there were mass protests and it,
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and it wasn't because of a big ice operation. It was just standard enforcement. And there was,
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it was chaotic. I mean, the one-on-one back then was, was, was blocked. I was outside city hall with
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this, with a high school walkout. And within 10 minutes of it starting, the kids start fighting
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each other and the kid got stabbed. Whoa. Yeah. In front of city hall. So this, so, so with,
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with Newsom and Bass saying, oh, we didn't have any problems until this operation. Yeah, you did.
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You, you, you had, you had massive problems. You had, you had like a week's worth of protests before
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this a couple months ago. So yeah, I think that's decided a little bit since that, or, you know,
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before, before that, but they've, they've just been hyping themselves up. They've been building
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themselves up for this moment. They've, they've been waiting for that opportunity to act. And they,
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and they finally got it on Friday. Um, and I don't think it's going to let up anytime soon
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because I mean, I just talked to a guy at ice today. I said, Hey, like, is this going to slow
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anything down? Because obviously, you know, it can't interfere if you can't go out and grab people
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because you've got a massive crowd there. But he said, no, the plan is to still move ahead. I mean,
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we, I mean, Trump has the mandate to carry all these mass deportations. That's what most Americans
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want. It's actually popular. It wasn't before. Um, and they can thank the Biden here. And I always say
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the whole reason why we're in this mess is because of the Biden Harris administration.
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Mass deportations would not have been popular if it wasn't for the four year border crisis that was
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purposefully, you know, created. Yeah. So if anything, if anything, blame those two, blame those
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two people. Yeah. I was watching some videos. I mean, with, with the fires on the, of the like
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torching of the Waymo vehicles, the smashing of the police SUVs. I also saw a video of a guy
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punching several cops in the face. Now I, I covered, uh, riots and civil unrest on the ground
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in the United States. I'd never actually seen it get to this level. Certainly there were some wild
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moments. They were de-arrests. Sometimes there were fights, but to see a video of a guy punching
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several cops in the face directly and then running off, I was just like, Whoa. I mean, you've got
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Democrats now at ICE facilities like, uh, uh, rep McIver. She's on video closed fist
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punching a federal, uh, law enforcement office. I think it might've been ICE or HSI.
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You've been covering this up for a long time. Am I wrong about this or does it seem like they're
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more violent than they've been in the past several years? Well, I mean, I mean, yeah, especially
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certainly since 2021, um, I would say, but, and, and I would even say that the rhetoric has, has
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gotten worse in terms of, in terms of agging on the, the rioters saying that we need to do like,
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we need to fight back even harder. Um, because I mean, you had, you had like a Los Angeles city
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councilwoman the other day saying, if they're going to come in and escalate, we got to escalate.
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Um, I mean, that's pretty direct. Right. And so, and I, and I, and I think it's just because
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they know, they know that the Trump administration is not going to tolerate this stuff there. They
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are actually going to act. And that's why it's significant that Trump activated the national
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guard under his federal authority. He said, you know what, we're going to buy it. You know,
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you knew some, you're not, you're, you're clearly not doing anything. So we're going to take action
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that, you know, that it was a little bit of a slower response, uh, especially with democratic
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governors back in 2020 to actually get things on it to actually, you know, as someone who was in
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the military, especially in the reserves, which is what, uh, the, um, Marine Corps reserves, but
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the national guard is, you know, reserves. I mean, that takes time. You can send out the order to
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like, okay, we got it. We got to deploy, but you know, you got to call the guys in, you got to, you
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got to get all your stuff ready. You got to get the orders. You got to get, you know, all these
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plans and processes in place before you actually cross that line of departure. Um, and that's why,
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um, in, in times like these, you got to have decisive action. You can't wait a day or two
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because, because it takes a day or two for, for the reinforcements to actually come in.
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I'm sorry. Are you saying that you think Trump was prepping the poll in the national guard
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before like a day or two before they actually came down?
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Well, that's what Holman was saying. He was saying, he was saying that we're one step ahead
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of them. We're already calling in the national guard. Um, so I, I, I, I, and I think they learned
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a lot from 2020, right? I mean, they, they, I mean, they were, they were in, they're in office
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during that time. And so I think, I think the plans were, the plans were definitely in place to say,
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okay, you know, with these operations and potential unrest, we got to make sure that
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whichever state that these are happening in that we can quickly call it in. Now they are
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kind of limited, um, under the current, under the current, uh, activation that they're under
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because it's not an insurrection act, uh, deployment. Um, but it's still significant
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because if you have the national guardsmen protect a federal facility that frees up police
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officers who can do domestic operations, um, to, you know, uh, uh, get a better handle on,
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You know, I'm just thinking about, I'm thinking about the past decade plus, and you mentioned
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how we have a riot season and I'm just like, man, I don't, I don't know. Was there a time
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when we didn't have a riot season? Cause I'm, I feel like we did and it's become sport for
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these people. It's, it's summer. It's time to go outside and fight with cops for some reason
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and just join in whatever the cause may be. Cause the cause seems to be different. You know,
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it just, it's just whatever ideologically left aligned cause. Um, so I'm just, I'm thinking
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about the NATO protests. I'm thinking about, you know, BLM. Now we've got these ice protests
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protests or the Palestine-Israel protests. And it seems like as long as it's summer and we can go
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outside, people are starting to do this, but is this, is this the reality of where we're going
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every summer? We can expect major cities to just have violence and firebombs.
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Yeah. I mean, and even like, even in places like Chicago and New York, right. I mean, it doesn't,
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it doesn't even take a controversial thing, right. Warranted or not there,
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all you gotta have is a bunch of, you know, 200 youths show up at one, at one, at one spot and
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start just doing, you know, spontaneous looting and, and everything. We see, we saw that in Chicago
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earlier in the spring. Like it was like the first, it was the first nice Friday, um, of the spring and
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a bunch of, uh, kids, you know, teenagers showed up and, and caused mayhem. Um, and, and the kid got
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shot actually at that one. So, so, so yeah, I, that, that's why, that's why I always joke.
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That's why I always joke whenever I see these videos of, of, of when we get to this time,
00:21:26.860
because like, yeah, I mean, like there, there's a reason why the college encampments, uh, last
00:21:31.860
year, there's a reason why they didn't start in December. Yeah. It started in April. It started in
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mid April. So, um, yeah, I, I think, I think, I mean, I just think we're going to be in a season
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regardless. It depends on the issue and depending on the issue, it will dictate whether or not it's
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just for, just for the night or if it's a week long, week long thing, because with the Palestinian
00:21:53.800
Israel thing, um, as much of the tension as we give that to, to that too, demographically,
00:21:59.040
it's not a lot of people in the country compared to let's say illegal immigrants, which is why
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this right season has been a little bit more because not only is the administration different,
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but the, the, there's just more people like we were talking about at the beginning that are more
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directly connected that are saying, okay, well, I might not go out and march for Gaza or Israel,
00:22:19.900
but I'm willing to march out for my, my TIA. You know, it'd be funny if, if the Trump,
00:22:24.280
Trump just comes out and he's like, you know what, we're going to stop doing all ice enforcement
00:22:28.020
until maybe November. And then we're going to ramp it up tenfold with, we're going to deploy the
00:22:32.720
military. I, I, I wonder what their plan is for this winter because smooth sailing, if, if ICE does
00:22:41.920
raids and deports, and let me add this, you know, we're talking about how they're largely going
00:22:46.800
after the criminal elements first. I honestly don't care who they go after. If you're here
00:22:50.440
illegally, you got to go. You, it's, it's a deportation. Okay. If you've, if you're here
00:22:54.740
illegally and there's an order for expedited removal, we give you a ride home. There's nothing
00:22:59.520
wrong with that. I think that if Trump makes massive moves come this winter, cause he, you know,
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he just gets in at the end of January, still a little cold. He's got to get his administration
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ready. But, uh, this next end of December, I doubt, I doubt you can get 10 protesters to show up for
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anything, let alone a riot started. If Trump's doing ice raids in the dead of winter, cause I,
00:23:23.480
we, we, nobody ever comes out. If it's raining, they don't come out. It could be, it could be 69
00:23:28.260
degrees and then everyone's outside rain starts. They're gone. What do you, what do you think?
00:23:34.400
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and, and cause, uh, in, well, I think, I believe it was 2020, uh, in the winter
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where there, it was the first time, uh, a Minneapolis police officer shot and it was,
00:23:48.480
it was a good shoot, uh, shot, uh, someone during an altercation. Um, and it, it was justified to my,
00:23:55.540
if I'm remembering correctly, but it was the dead of winter. And yes, I know Minnesotans are used to the
00:24:00.780
cold, but it was, it was really cold because it was still Minneapolis. There people did show up,
00:24:06.620
but it was like 15, 20 and they did start a fire. But the only reason they started the fire was so
00:24:10.760
they can keep warm. It was just, it was just like a, it was a makeshift fire pit. And so they weren't
00:24:15.520
making Molotov cocktails or anything. They just wanted to stay warm and nothing happened. And same
00:24:18.980
thing in Kenosha when the, uh, the police officer that shot Jacob Blake, when the DA announced that
00:24:24.560
they weren't going to charge him, it was, uh, actually January 5th, 2021. And so I was debating
00:24:33.180
at the time I was debating, should I go to Kenosha in case something happens? But it was again,
00:24:37.120
and they did prepare. They brought the national guard that they put the fence around the courthouse
00:24:40.620
again in January in Wisconsin. And there was, again, there was a protest, but it was like 20,
00:24:46.520
35 people. And they just marched around coldly, slowly. And that was it. And then the next day I was in,
00:24:52.060
that was, it was January 6th. So that, you know, that's a whole other thing. Um, so yeah,
00:24:57.140
well, no, so yeah, I, it is, it is, this is, it is very weather dependent. And that's why I'm
00:25:02.100
saying, I mean, this, this is a perfect storm. Um, cause even here in Los Angeles right now,
00:25:06.540
it's supposed to be just sunny. All, you know, there's, there's no chance of rain. There's no
00:25:10.620
chance of cold. It's, uh, right now it's, uh, it's in the seventies. Yeah. Well, it heats up
00:25:19.180
obviously in the afternoon, but like, it's supposed to be, yeah, it's supposed to be 75,
00:25:22.720
80, you know, 75, 80. So, so that was what I'm saying. Even, even the conditions, like just
00:25:27.880
naturally, the natural conditions are favorable for these things to continue, obviously not just
00:25:32.520
here, but even in Portland, Seattle, where miserable most of the year.
00:25:37.100
I love that there's like a science to proper riot growth. It's like you need the correct
00:25:41.560
temperature and humidity level. Otherwise people don't riot and you don't get your political outcome.
00:25:45.860
There is, there, there is, believe it or not, there is, there is a science to this.
00:25:50.420
Now, you know, there, there has to be, the thing is the thing that always the X factor
00:25:54.780
is, is the spark, right? It is the catalyst because that can happen anywhere. But if you
00:25:59.580
have, if you have your, it's kind of like a, it's like that fire triangle where you need
00:26:02.540
all three components. If you, as long as you have all those three, something's going to
00:26:08.040
I love too, that if it's too hot, it could be sunny out and it can be 80 people start gathering.
00:26:13.580
But then if by the heat of the day, it's 90, nothing, they all start dissipating. Some
00:26:18.520
people might stick around. Heat isn't as detrimental to the riot as say rain is. I just
00:26:24.260
absolutely love the idea that these people who purport to have this worldview, this, they're
00:26:29.500
anti-fascist. They're, they're sitting there going, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, I'm anti-fascist,
00:26:33.920
but no one ever said we were going to put us in rain. Come on, let go home.
00:26:37.640
I, I, I, and that's the thing. Don't get me wrong. These people are very dangerous.
00:26:45.580
They can be, especially in the numbers, but yeah, for all their, for all their talk and
00:26:50.720
bluster, they, they, they really are just, they're wimps at the end of the day because
00:26:55.580
you're right. They're like, we're revolutionaries. We're going to take on fascists. You know,
00:26:59.580
we, we, we punch Nazis and then, and then they, they, they instigate, they instigate
00:27:06.220
a fight and then they cry on social media. Oh, I got shot with a pepper ball or I got
00:27:10.300
shot with a rubber bullet. It's like, you do realize like actual revolutionaries would
00:27:15.080
get shot with real bullets. Right. So, I mean, like you're not like, this is great. I've
00:27:21.240
been shot with a rubber bullet, not because I was doing anything wrong. Um, it's not fun.
00:27:24.760
Um, but I'm not, I'm not the one proclaiming that I'm going to take on the, the, you know,
00:27:29.600
the Trump was one of those 40 millimeters expanding foam. It was, it was, it was a 40
00:27:34.720
Mike, Mike, right, right directly, right directly in the stomach. So no, it was Minneapolis.
00:27:40.160
It was Minneapolis. It was the first one because I didn't, I didn't have any of my gear. I
00:27:43.920
didn't have any gear. I was just wearing my T my, my T-shirt. And so thankfully, even
00:27:49.220
though the cop was in the wrong, he thankfully shot me where they're supposed to shoot
00:27:52.680
you because if it was, you know, a few feet above, I, you know, probably wouldn't be living.
00:27:57.180
And if it was a few feet below, you'd be talking to Giulio Rosas right now.
00:28:02.520
Yeah. Uh, there's a video going around of a reporter from Australia getting shot in the
00:28:06.380
leg with what was probably a foam round. And I, I, I love how in this video you can hear
00:28:11.520
some of the writers going, you just shot the press, man. You shot the press. And I'm just
00:28:16.020
like, you hate the press. They're, they're, they're LARPers. It's so fake. I've seen these
00:28:21.700
people steal cameras and beat journalists. It's just about what makes them pretend like
00:28:26.460
they're good guys when they're the ones starting all the fights. But, uh, last question real
00:28:30.400
quick. Got a couple of minutes left. Uh, what's your plan for today? What do you think is going
00:28:33.060
to happen? Uh, so I've gotten word that they're supposed to, there's supposed to be people
00:28:39.260
gathering back at the federal holding facility in downtown Los Angeles. Uh, I'm not sure, I'm
00:28:44.700
not sure how, how shut off LA is. Cause I mean, I, I can tell from, I can tell you from last
00:28:50.220
night, so many of the exits and the ramps have been, have been closed off. So you can
00:28:54.640
still use the one on one, uh, yeah, the one on one, but it's not, um, you can only drive
00:28:59.520
through, through it. You can't, you can't actually exit off. So it, it, it depends. I mean, don't
00:29:03.880
get me wrong. I think people will still show up, but, uh, if they have the personnel to cut
00:29:08.100
off road access, it could, it could obviously temper things down, but yeah, this is how it is.
00:29:13.420
Just, just wait and see. Where can people find you?
00:29:17.260
They can follow me on my, uh, X account, uh, at, at Julio underscore Rosas 11. They can
00:29:23.080
find me at, uh, my sub stack, mostly peaceful dot media. And, uh, I'm also the national correspondent
00:29:30.380
for the blaze. Right on, man. Thanks for hanging out. I really do appreciate you coming in and
00:29:34.120
letting us know what's going on and stay safe out there, man. Yeah. Thanks for having me.
00:29:38.880
Have a good one. That was Julio Rosas, friend of the show. We've had him on
00:29:43.320
several times. He does great work. Uh, I'm not an on the ground guy anymore, man. You
00:29:47.260
guys aren't going to see me, uh, at these, at these protests. Hassan Piker was on the
00:29:51.040
ground of all people, but he said he was there specifically to support the riots and the
00:29:56.400
rioters. So we get it. I still do want to say this though, cause I did a bigger show about
00:30:02.320
this. Hey man, uh, any, any video coming from on the ground, even if it's from Hassan is going
00:30:09.100
to be good because he captures what he captures. He's going to try and focus on the cops. He's
00:30:13.000
going to try and focus on ice. He's going to blame them for everything, but the video
00:30:16.040
is going to show you stuff. So, you know, the more cameras down there during these moments,
00:30:19.900
I think are, are, are the better for, uh, the historical record and what's going on.
00:30:24.660
My friend's going to wrap things up. We're going to be rating our friend Russell Brand.
00:30:27.860
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00:30:51.260
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00:32:16.840
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