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We were both ready to go to sleep right here.
And now...
But here we are, you know.
Yep.
Happy Monday afternoon.
John Peterson, Gordon Young.
And we were watching the TV screen and Europe is up in arms, you know, a Greenland.
But they are forming now what is called a trade bazooka.
Whatever that means.
Whatever that means.
We can't hear it and we really can't keep up with the closed caption.
But I'm telling you a trade bazooka is going to.
Hit the fan.
People
are going to be
Yeah, thanks guys.
guys, yeah, you mentioned the Puppet thing.
I can't help but remember the old Captain Crew gag where Bunny Ravid and Mr. Moose, I think it was Bunny Ravid would drop the ping pong balls.
Yes.
Captain Kangaroo and the secret word came through or whatever.
You guys can remember that.
of these fools actually think that Trump's tariffs are actually, we are the ones that would pay any tariffs on the products.
Exactly.
These people are just, you know, it's American consumer that is paying the price for the tariffs right now and people just don't seem to.
There's too many people on
But in the political spectrum, do not seem to understand, we are the ones paying those tariffs.
That's an extra tax.
Probably, you know, unconstitutionally, because Trump is really, you know, that if you strip constitutionalists on the Supreme Court should say, Constitution says it's Congress that's supposed to be setting the tariffs.
That's what the Constitution says.
It doesn't matter that they think Trump is a blasted king.
And the stuff that is going on in Minneapolis, I mean, I have a cousin that sent me some stories.
in her little circle that it is horrifying.
She knows that this kind of stuff has happened
Yeah, well, she's nervous about going out and taking her dog
the vet chest and driving 50 blocks.
She shouldn't have to be worried about that.
She's absolutely terrified because she's white and she's 50 something and that it is just
But for this kid that got dropped off
a Walmart after being kidnapped from Target, what the hell is CJ and his co-thinkers think about something like that?
What do they think?
Do they think there's any excuse at all for that?
There's just absolutely no excuse at all.
For them to be dropping this kid on the pavement and be whooping on him because they didn't like it.
Every single one of those ICE agents should be up on discipline charges.
Trump would probably like to hang a medal on their damn chest.
Right.
So, yeah, I know it's the same.
The thing that bothers me about all of this is that they don't really know how to follow up.
You know, if they are going to make an arrest, follow up on that.
You know, if you're going to have to drive the person back home, then follow up on that.
They don't seem to have follow up on anything.
It's just arrest people, take them in and then drop them off anywhere.
Or not take care of them at all.
Or if they are bloody, then not even taking care of their injury.
That is just basic law enforcement.
to help these people.
No matter what happens, no matter who they are, if they're protesting, so what?
If they're bleeding, help them out.
My God, this should be just part of the training.
This should be part of the standard procedure, and it isn't.
And that's driving me crazy.
It's
Yes, good afternoon.
Thank you for taking my call.
I wanted to say something about the agents.
Ice agents in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities.
I'm not going to call them people.
I'm not going to call them agents.
I'm going to call them things.
How many of these things have outstanding arrest warrants for themselves?
I'll bet that there is a bunch.
What they, what they really are is domestic terrorists and that's what they're doing.
And I'm sure that a bunch of them probably were associated with the insurrection on January 6th.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah, we don't know.
We just don't know and they're not really screening these individuals.
We found that out recently too from a reporter.
So yeah, a lot of these things are just hanging out there.
We're not, we can't do anything about it.
We want to, but we can't investigate.
We can't find these things that reporters are doing a damn good job of trying to search this stuff out though.
I do have to admit that.
So Dale, thanks for that.
Thank you.
Thanks for that, Paul.
Okay.
I got a story here.
All right in relation to all of this a scathing ACLU lawsuit accuses federal immigration officials of carrying out a racial profiling campaign of massive scale and here's an example Mubasher Hussain.
He's 20 years old was out getting lunch
When confronted by ICE, he repeatedly informed the officers he was a U.S.
citizen, but agents refused to let him retrieve his driver's license or phone in the restaurant.
Hussein's supervisor showed agents a copy of his passport card, which the agents also ignored.
The agents then released Hussein out into the December cold and telling him to walk the seven miles from the field office back to where they detained him.
agents later pepper spray to send in the face after he recorded federal officers on a public sidewalk.
DHS denied using skin color, race, or ethnicity.
They use reasonable suspicion to make arrests.
My God, there are no indiscriminate stops being made.
I'll tell you.
No one's believing any of this stuff.
This is racial profiling like nobody's business.
And Justice Brett Kavanaugh actually allowed this to happen.
I mean, if you can pile up a couple of reasons why, you know, they're standing around and they look like a minority, that's enough, I guess, you know, two
corporations making billions from president trump's mass deportation machine this man todd lions is the acting director of ice and at a private prison industry convention in phoenix he said something quite chilling quote we need to get better at treating this like a business like amazon prime but with human beings
trump's one big beautiful bill turned ice into the single largest federal law enforcement agency in american history
with a budget bigger than the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, Marshall Service, and ATF combined.
And if you listen in to the earnings calls for some of the biggest players in the deportation industry, it's clear they view this time as a historic windfall.
This represents the largest amount of new business
that we have won in a single year in our company's history.
Amazing.
I've worked at Core Civic for 32 years and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career with the company.
Perhaps the most significant growth in our company's history over the next several years.
Today, nearly 90% of people in ice custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies.
GEO Group has a transportation subsidiary that is the largest provider of ground and air transportation for ice.
And ProPublica reports, GEO Group is even fighting to pay its detainees as little as $1 for work they do inside the facilities, like cooking and cleaning.
When a federal judge ruled detainees were entitled to at least minimum wage, the multi-billion dollar company decided, well, it would just be easier then to end the program.
So there you go.
Yeah, privately owned for-profit prisons are one of the things that make me the absolute angriest.
And this is even worse.
It is.
This is sickening.
This is disgusting.
How do these people sleep at night?
They don't.
Well.
Yeah, I guess they do.
I mean, this is very comfortable for them.
They
And it's so funny because these are the same guys running for governors in their states now, different positions.
Seriously, you've done nothing at all to protect the people that have elected you.
So this is pretty tragic stuff.
I also have have this This is what oh This is oh wait, okay.
Here it is Palantir remember Palantir
the
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And it's software the government decided to use.
It's all over the globe, by the way.
Other governments are using it as well.
And what they're doing is they're surveilling
the US population.
Yeah.
And in this case, neighborhoods.
So why don't we check out how they're helping ICE deploy their agents?
Ice is use of technology for months now.
And I kept hearing about this thing called elite.
I didn't know what it was at the time.
And we didn't really know what tech ice was using to actually find people.
But eventually, I got leaked this user guide, which explained the tool in detail.
I found this testimony.
from Oregon where an ICE official, you know, under sworn, sworn deposition explained exactly how they were using this tool to actually target neighborhoods.
And I also found this link to Palantir as well.
I think finally providing the clearest link yet.
between the tech the Palantir is making and how ICE is actually choosing where to raid and where to target.
And ICE officials said it's basically like a Google's map interface where you can look around the United States, you can zoom in on targets.
And I've seen the interface and he's exactly right.
That's exactly what it looks like.
You then click on an individual person and it brings up their name, a photo.
Most importantly for ICE, they're a parent address and also
a confidence score on how likely it is that person is actually there, such as 90 out of 100 or 75 out of 100.
It allows them to really zoom in on who they want to go pick up that day.
The tool can be used to sort of write up special operations is what ICE calls it.
And that can send target lists out to people on the ground, and then they can then pursue them as well as part of these much wider operations that we see across the United States.
to some people that they're just watching our every move and can find anybody they want.
But it's actually very real.
And a lot of the cameras that do this, I'm not going to name it because I don't want to encourage this behavior.
A lot of the cameras that do it are super easily hacked, like ridiculously easily.
And just any average person could go and they may not be able to, you know, search up an individual, but they could very easily watch through those cameras.
Really?
No kidding.
I watched a few YouTube videos on how people did it, and it took them like no time at all to hack into these police cameras.
They're very not secure.
have
this
of pulled.
had
They are promising on the spot hiring to where you could, in fact, walk out with your $50,000 bonus that day, possibly.
I went in.
I handed in my resume, which was I did a skills-based resume.
I'm a veteran.
I served two chairs in Afghanistan.
So on the surface, the resume looked pretty good.
Had a very brief interview, took all of six minutes.
They didn't ask very many questions.
And then I left, assuming I would never hear back, because I'm a very Google-able person.
I have an unusual name.
I'm the only Laura Judite on the internet.
And I make no secret of how I feel about ICE and Trump and all of it.
So I was not expecting several days later to receive a tentative offer.
I missed it in my inbox and it sunk to the bottom, which means that I never filled out the paperwork they requested.
I never accepted the tentative offer.
I never filled out my background check paperwork.
I never signed the affidavit saying I committed no domestic violence crimes, none of it.
A few weeks later, I got a message from LabCorp saying that ICE wanted me to do a drug test.
And I went ahead and did that.
I was pretty sure I wouldn't pass.
I'd partaken in legal cannabis six days before the test.
But why not waste some of their money, right?
And then nine days after that, I decided I wanted to, you know, I was curious, had they processed the drug test yet?
So I logged on to the ICE hiring portal and what I found was that not only did the drug test not seem to be relevant, I had been, I was listed as having joined ICE as of three days earlier.
I had listed that I had accepted the offer.
They had offered me a final position as a deportation officer.
My background check was listed as completed three days in the future for when I was looking at it.
So it seems like the answer to the question, who are they hiring, is they don't know.
I mean, it's very funny that they hired a lefty journalist with a profile on an anti-foot watch.
That's hilarious.
But what's not funny is
They didn't make me sign a domestic violence waiver.
So how many people with domestic violence convictions are running around with guns in our cities terrorizing people?
How many people who have been committed of sex crimes or crimes against children are in charge of detention centers where there's no oversight, where people won't be missed and won't be believed?
The agent was very keen on letting me know that I wouldn't be given a badge and a gun right away.
I wouldn't be out in the street messing people up.
I would probably have to push paperwork for about six months before I got there.
And when I expressed that that was fine with me, my analyst background,
Actually, the atmosphere changed.
He was like, no, listen, we want everyone on the street with guns eventually.
Wow.
to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps poor people are forced to pay more for less living in conditions day in and day out
where the whole area is constantly drained without being replenished.
It becomes a kind of domestic colony.
The tragedy is so awful.
These 40 million people are invisible.
Because America is so affluent, so rich.
Because our expressways carry us away from the ghetto, we don't see the poor.
This is America's opportunity to help bridge the gulf between the haves and the have-nots.
The question is whether America will do it.
There's nothing new about poverty.
What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty.
But the real question is whether we have the will.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But if a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life, nor liberty, nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness.
He merely exists.
And we have difficult days ahead in the struggle for justice and peace.
But I will not yield to a politic of despair.
I'm going to maintain hope.
was
You know, okay.
I mean, that was an inspiring speech and one of that was, you know, it's just, you look at where we are today.
And we're so far beyond any of this.
I mean, this is, this is targeted what?
What Trump is doing, Mad King Don is doing to the entire nation is turning on everyone, not just minorities.
I started off with immigration, of course, but now it's aimed at the American public.
And in fact, that's all we're talking about.
Now is the American public being locked up and pursued and beat up on and taken away.
It's just it has really morphed and it was so fast.
This changeover was just so quick that and now they're getting ready to deploy the army into Minnesota.
So that that's that's about to happen.
Yeah.
It could very well happen to them next.
They're actually trying to make this part of the governor's race.
And in fact, there's a new add out from Tom Tiffany who was constantly beating up on this whole issue thinking that we're gonna suddenly turn into Minnesota.
I don't know where he's coming from on this thing.
It's such a ridiculous thing just to even think about.
But here it is.
This is Tom Tiffany.
He thinks...
He thinks that fresh out of college or fresh out of high school students will want to work out the fields, you know picking crops and maybe even living on farms so they can milk the cows 24 seven okay every day that's what he's basically thinking here because Governor Evers is saying we've got to have our immigrants in this state in order to help us run our farming community right and the dairy state yes so we need all of them here
And he's trying to make it seem like, oh, well, you don't like American jobs.
So let's listen to this cut 265.
I
When asked if ICE is welcome into Wisconsin, Evers told us he doesn't see the need for the federal government to come here.
He says the state can handle immigration enforcement on its own.
right.
He thinks this is bad.
Right.
Having these immigrants here in this state doing these jobs.
Now, I don't know why, but there seems to be a mega contingent out there that really has it out for immigrants.
And they've blown up a few incidents around the country.
Horrible incidents.
Americans getting killed by immigrants, illegal immigrants.
I understand that.
But it's not like that all over the place.
It's not.
It's not.
It's not a.
It's not spreading across the country.
It's not a huge it's not that kind of problem It may be a problem, but at that moment in that time in that state I get it
but it's not something you can blow up out of proportion through the right wing media fan.
And
that is being used for immigrant housing.
I don't think that's gonna work out so well.
Now I've interviewed a few of these individuals and it's really horrific.
It was very sad.
And I was just thinking, boy, I don't know, this is not the life.
Now, if we had the visas, the correct visas for these individuals,
that
that these workers, laborers could be here on and they haven't been able to get them.
Only agriculture has been able to get the year full year visas, oddly.
So yeah, Evers knows what he's talking about.
If Tiffany wants to get in there and get rid of everybody in this state, and you know he wants to turn this state into what's happening in Minneapolis, even though he's criticizing Minneapolis, boy, that's the worst place to be.
We don't want Wisconsin like that.
He truly is trying to make Wisconsin that.
That's right.
So it's sad and unfortunate.
And that guy is just...
Too much for me.
Well, well,
This
just your friendly reminder, Dia.
Anytime you are to put your John Hancock on a contract, you should read the fine print.
And I do believe today the Frozen Cruise about to find out right away that some of them did not read that fine print in that contract.
All they heard was a big old bonus was coming from the Orange Turd.
50 grand.
So they whipped out their tiny little hands and signed it right away.
And you want to know what the fine print just so happens to say about the bonuses coming their way?
Well, firstly, dear, they must stay there for the entire five years.
You can't quit.
You can't leave.
And if you do quit or leave before the five years, dear, well, you will have to pay back to the federal government any overtime and bonuses they
given to you.
It really isn't a bonus, dear.
It was more like a loan that you have to pay back.
The Fox News hosts were kicking around the idea of protesters wearing QR codes.
I mean, not protesters, the ICE agents wearing QR codes on their outfits.
I think that would be a fantastic idea, actually.
They were also talking about
grinder, but I found that less appealing than actually being able to see their QR code on their outfits.
Let's listen to the cut.
Okay.
Tiktokers are encouraging users to expose agents on dating apps, apparently believing ICE is spending all their time scrolling through dating apps while rounding up dangerous illegals.
If you're on Grindr, if you're on Tinder and you come across a new influx of men who have traveled into your city for a very specific reason, screenshot it and send it to me.
You're going to out them?
Tommy, I'll make a deal with them and I'll do this on behalf of ICE because I think most ICE agents would be okay with this.
They'll wear a scannable barcode that tells you who they are.
If members
of
Congress will wear a scannable barcode that tells you everyone that donated to them, all the phone calls they took from special interest and donors this week that influenced how they vote and
spew garbage.
To your point
about the things coming full circle here.
This Richie Torres fella, he wants the QR codes to identify the agents and all their agency and all this thing about them.
These are the same people who don't want voter ID.
You shouldn't have to show your ID to vote.
It's not the
same.
Because that's racist and
oppressive.
But you think ICE agents should have wearable on
Yes.
To get their identity and their agency.
I mean, these people, I know we keep saying it, but they're so stupid.
And they go on these left wing
legacy media channels and they think they're sounding so smart and so innovative.
And the fact that people vote for this is beyond me.
You know, I can't help but remember just about an hour and a half ago, we talked about this teacher artist nurses union and Tommy now both made the point.
We love teachers.
We love nurses.
We
don't like some of the things that these unions or school boards or hospitals do with those professions.
We've sat here and talked about how ICE agents apparently are bad for being homosexual and single.
They're bad
for not knowing how to do their job.
Like they attack the people themselves, the individuals.
They wanna know their name, their face, where they live.
They wanna go after the individual, not the job they're doing or the policy that Congress passed that they're instituting.
They wanna go after people.
You know who's
think ice
are doing
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John and Gordy here.
Mm-hmm.
Talking about Minneapolis, St.
Paul.
and the troop deployments out in Minnesota, this is getting worse, and I don't know where this is going to end or how it's going to end.
Nobody knows.
I've always feared that somebody is going to get hurt or killed.
That's already started to happen, obviously, and even detainees are dying.
I think number seven passed away.
It was killed somehow in confinement.
I mean, this is just getting worse and worse, and I don't know what we can do.
I know that there was a warning out there in Minneapolis, and this was posted at a few places.
Actually, get your provisions and stay inside.
Don't go to work or school.
Stay inside your home.
Don't engage with icy enemy or military, very likely enemy.
Stay cool and calm.
We will get through this.
Those are kind of messages you wouldn't expect in this country,
Good afternoon.
A little cold out here in Madison today, but at least it's not snowing.
But I just want to do a quick list of Trump problems.
Most of them he created himself.
And it's, it's a pretty long list.
And I'm probably going to miss some of these, but today is, it's the invasion of Greenland.
So he's got a NATO mess.
You got Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela, um, the Supreme court rulings that are coming down on this stuff.
I don't judge rulings.
They got healthcare problems, then the big ones, tariffs, and he implemented more today in Europe.
And then finally, well, you got the Epstein files.
That's the big one.
And then ice in Minnesota.
I mean, I mean, I think I've missed some.
I mean, I even went back to, you know, all the stuff with Musk and everything else.
But this is an amazing list itself.
It is.
Yes.
I don't know.
The thing in Minnesota really got me scared because you can't put law enforcement on the street with no training Something bad's gonna happen one
the other, but you got all this stuff.
I mean and I probably miss some And I don't know all these broke so what you know the GOP I think the public is gonna mentally turn on these people anyway before I get too carried away and mad
You guys have a great day.
Thanks for your
Honestly really does that make you feel better?
Yeah, I think it's just beating up on immigrants.
I think that's all it is It's just at the heart of this whole movement
Um, I want to get to this, uh, what happens in ice detention.
This is a story, uh, broadcast, uh, an American citizen's experience at the Whipple building, the ice detention center in Minneapolis.
So let's listen to cut two 52 here.
All right.
Here, CVS reported that he did have internal bleeding in the torso, but he was released that same day.
So is he back at work?
Did you give
him the required three
days of
suspension?
Not in situations, but I'm not going to struggle with his medical records.
I know that you know.
I'm asking you about your
When we got to the Whipple Federal Building, I immediately saw Hispanic and East African people lined up against a wall about to be put into holding cells.
I was escorted into the building and led to a room where they put me in ankle shackles.
I was then taken to a hallway with cells designated for U.S.
citizens and was held there for over eight hours.
While I was there, I was never given a phone call, despite asking at least four times.
My friend and I in adjacent cells had to beg for water and to go to the bathroom.
The bathrooms were in different holding cells, often with other people in them, with only a three-foot panel in front of the toilet to cover people's bottom halves.
While being escorted to the bathroom and to questioning, I saw holding cells with over a dozen people each and a large holding cell of between 40 to 50 people.
Most of the people there were Hispanic and East African, both women and men.
Some cells had no room for people to sit or lay down.
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