Conspiracy! The Show 334: The Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center

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I.
Hey everybody, welcome to

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Conspiracy the Show.
I’m your host Adam Todd Brown

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joining me as Co host this week.
Connor Mcspadden is in the cut.

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How’s it going, man?
It’s going better now, man.

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Now that we’re talking about
GMOC gay men of color.

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No, I’m kidding.
We’re talking to General Motors

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Overseas Corporation.
Also joining us, Sam Sweets is

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here.
How’s it going, Sam?

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Hi.
It’s going good.

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We are, as Connor said, talking
about GMOC, but that means the

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Guantanamo migrant operations
center.

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We.
And if you think that sounds

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depressing and bum tacular, it’s
really.

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It really is.
This ain’t one of them.

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Conspiracy.
The shows where Elvis is alive

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at the end.
But if you put the song

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Guantanamera under it, you know
it’ll give it a little buzz.

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Yeah, that’s that gives it a
little haunting, bittersweet

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aspect I like.
Yeah, I should just play that

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underneath this podcast the
whole time.

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Guantanamera, right?
Yeah.

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I need someone, like, wailing on
an upright base while I talk.

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That’s what I really need.
Like that Mitch Hedberg album?

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You have you have the look of an
upright bass player.

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See, I don’t want to.
I don’t want to drive the car

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though.
I want to be in the plush back

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seat.
I want someone else playing that

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thing.
I own an upright bass but I

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can’t play it.
Oh.

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You don’t want to use it.
Well, we’re halfway there.

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If you could just learn to play
it.

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Adam looks like the only human
they would allow in the country.

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Bear Jamboree.
God damn right they would,

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because I’m fucking cool.
And you could RIP it up on this

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stand up washed up bass.
Damn right, and I look great in

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a pair of fucking overalls.
I’ve always said that about you.

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Yeah, so Guantanamo, the crown
jewel of America’s torture

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apparatus, has been back in the
news of late on account of how

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Trump, and only Trump, wants to
send deportees there to die in

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the sun.
I don’t know how many people

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were aware.
I kind of was not that.

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There are actually 2
Guantanamo’s.

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There’s the Guantanamo Bay
detention camp, which is the one

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we all know and Connor loves.
We call it Gitmo sometimes.

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That’s where we tortured
terrorists.

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That just reminds me of the 90s.
Like we say Lollapalooza, you

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say Gitmo.
I’m getting the same era.

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Yeah.
Gitmo and G mock.

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It’s like Romulus and Remus but
for torturing people.

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And we have a bonus episode
coming up this week that’s about

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regular ass Guantanamo, where
again, this is an audio medium,

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so people didn’t see me throw up
air quotes around the word

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terrorists.
But most of the people who are

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sent to Guantanamo were
eventually released without

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charges.
So there’s that.

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But GMOC, the Guantanamo migrant
operation center, completely

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different thing.
And when Trump issued that

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executive order saying he wanted
to expand Guantanamo so it could

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house 10s of thousands of
deportees, he was referring to

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that other Guantanamo.
It has a whole sordid history of

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its own that dates back decades
prior to the ship we pulled it

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Gitmo.
So we’re talking about that shit

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today.
And if you Google the other

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Guantanamo, there’s also BBC
little documentary that’ll just

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tell you about the great styles
of dance that they invented

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there.
Like at the detention?

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Camp No, they were saying like
Guantanamo’s just not the prison

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you’ve heard about.
There’s a lovely culture.

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And then they sent a white
British lady to talk to Cubans

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and learn to dance.
It does feel a very Daily Show

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2005 like you said, talking
about Gitmo again, it does feel

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like and jets.
Are you going to be my girl is

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at the top of the charts.
Here we are and beautiful sunny

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Gitmo.
Yeah, Guantanamo, that thing

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about there being a whole
culture and people there, Let me

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tell you, those people do not
want the Guantanamo Naval Base

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to be there.
What?

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I know, crazy.
So many jobs.

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Yeah.
And it’s such a shining star on

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the coastline, I’m sure.
But ever since the Cuban

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Revolution, the people of Cuba
have been like, you’re going to

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leave, right?
You’re going to get rid of that

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naval base and leave.
And we sure are not.

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We definitely are not.
We signed a treaty that allows

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us to keep it there.
Here’s.

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What I said to the people of
Guantanamo.

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I grew up in a prison town.
Chino, CA Prison towns are nice.

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They they keep them nice.
OK, so maybe, just maybe instead

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of trying to reject this new
aspect of your community, maybe

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try to live with it.
You know, maybe try to sell the

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prisoners some kind of colorful
juice.

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You know, there’s an idea.
How about that?

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They got a McDonald’s now.
They have a McDonald’s.

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Well, then I think, who’s that
guy that says we’re never going

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to go to war with him because we
both have a McDonald’s?

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Was that Noam Chomsky or am I
just making that up?

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I know there’s someone who says
that.

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Somebody says it’s like the
McDonald’s the doctor.

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It was Noam Chomsky like.
God.

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Damn, he’s part of the hangs out
with the hamburger.

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Well, the Hamburglar is trying
to fucking steal the season

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means of production along with
the hamburger he wants to he

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wants to fry later in the grill
and the whole fucking whole

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thing.
Yeah, he’s a grill Marxist.

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Yeah, so let’s talk about the
history of G mock Guantanamo

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migrant operation center again,
completely separate facility

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from the detention camp.
History dates back to the 1970s

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when lots of people were trying
to flee Haiti, much like today

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still.
They hated it there they.

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Hated it, damn it.
What we just we just do a hack

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head butt over?
The no, I said it first and you

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said it second, but you’re the
guy, so you’ll get credit for

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it.
Jinx.

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I didn’t.
I didn’t bring any kind of

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competition energy to it.
That was all you.

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So there were lots of people
trying to flee Haiti, and they

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would often sail directly to the
United States, but more often

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they would sail to Guantanamo on
account of how it’s a nice

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midpoint between Haiti and the
US.

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And almost immediately, the US
realized the same thing about

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Haitian migrants that we
realized about the War on Terror

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detainees, which is that if we
deal with them in another

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country, we don’t have any legal
oversight in what we do.

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We can just kind of handle the
situation however we want, and

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then the courts in law can’t say
shit about it.

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You know they’re not called CIA
transparency sites.

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Exactly.
Yeah, this is a policy we’ve

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definitely abandoned since then.
Yeah, we’re better than that

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now.
So people started fleeing Haiti

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in 1972, or at least that’s when
the first group of people

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fleeing Haiti landed in the
United States.

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They were fleeing the
dictatorship of Francois and

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then later Jean Claude Duvalier.
Sick ass name for a dictator, by

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the way.
Yeah, Jean Claude Duvalier, man.

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And I believe it’s Jean Claude,
whose nickname was Baby Doc,

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which is also kind of a
frightening nickname.

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I like that, yeah.
Like Joseph Mengele and the

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dictator of Haiti.
Why that had the same?

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Wait like he’s a doctor on
babies or he is a baby doctor

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like baby boss?
Like, yeah, boss, baby.

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I didn’t Google them much but I
wonder if they are father and

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son and maybe father was just
not.

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Yeah.
That’s adorable if so.

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I don’t know if that’s an
answer.

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I’m going to be able to find
this fucking quick.

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I’m I’m looking.
Well, he died.

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Francois died in 71, which leads
me to believe that.

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Oh, it is.
His father was Francois.

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Francois was his father.
Yeah.

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Papa Doc Duvalier.
So yeah, Papa Doc and Baby Doc.

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That’s that’s cool.
I mean, they sound like Smurfs,

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you know?
Yeah.

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Horrible.
Who’s going to be scared of that

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regime?
Well, about 3500 Haitians from

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1972 to 1977.
As it turns out, they all landed

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in the US seeking asylum.
Haitian boat people, we called

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them back then.
In 1981, Reagan instituted a

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policy of intercepting Haitian
refugees at sea.

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I got to say real quick, just
backtracking the Haitian boat

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people.
That’s not the least racist

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thing we’ve ever called anybody,
but it’s definitely not the

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most.
Yeah, there’s so much worse.

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We’ve definitely done worse.
I grew up in South Florida in

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like the mid to late 90s and
there’s much worse that they

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still use.
Yeah, I’m sure.

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So in 81, Reagan instituted a
policy of intercepting Haitians

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at sea, and the Olicy was
essentially just to capture them

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and immediately send them back
to Haiti.

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But that became a lot trickier
after the 1991 overthrow of Jean

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Bertrand Aristide.
They had this dictatorship.

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It ends, and then Jean Bertrand
Aristide takes over.

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And he’s a generally cool guy.
Human rights abuses go down.

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People trying to flee the
country go way, way, way down.

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Everything’s fine.
And that lasts for eight months.

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And then he is overthrown within
less than a year of taking

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office.
And in the decade before he was

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overthrown, 25,000 Haitians were
intercepted at sea trying to

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seek refuge in the US.
In one year after he was

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overthrown, 38,000 were
intercepted at sea.

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So it was a huge influx of
Haitian asylum seekers into the

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United States.
So George HW Bush calls for them

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to be redirected to Guantanamo.
And that is because at one

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point, a group called the
Haitian Refugee Center

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successfully sued to block
forced repatriation, meaning we

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could not just send people back
to Haiti all Willy nilly.

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But that only applied on US
soil.

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So just like with the War on
Terror, we were like, oh OK,

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well we can get around all those
bullshit laws.

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US soil, huh?
Don’t seem to get that around

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here, do you?
And so we decided send everyone

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to Guantanamo and then we can
just repatriate them without

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giving it a second thought.
Mommy, do we have to stay in

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Guantanamo?
So at its height, G Mach held

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around 11,300 refugees.
That’s a like a medium sized

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city in the Midwest.
Yeah, I feel like that’s a

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Coachella.
That’s like less than.

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Yeah, it’s at least like an
arena basketball game or

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something like G League.
Now, G League’s not selling

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that.
That’s like a Caitlin Clark WNBA

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game.
That’s like the last new FX

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concert was about that many
people.

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It’s an alarming number of
people to just be holding in a

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camp.
So in 1992, GHWB issued

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Executive Order 12807, AKA the
Kennedy Bunkport Order that

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called for repatriating Haitians
without even screening them for

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the possibility that they might
be eligible for asylum.

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And so eventually, most asylum
seekers were repatriated.

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About 1/3 were granted asylum.
But even after that, as of 1992,

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there were still around 267
asylum seekers being held at G

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Mock.
And why?

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Because they were all HIV
positive.

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This was kind of the height of
the AIDS crisis also, and a 1987

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law barred anyone who was HIV
positive from emigrating to the

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United States.
Was that Reagan?

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We love Reagan.
Yeah, fucking Reagan.

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I know the answer is no, but has
anyone seen the Reagan movie?

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Probably.
Not no.

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I had to watch it for.
Work.

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I will see the porn adaptation
when they make that though.

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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down your
pants.

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I need to watch the Reagan movie
again just to make sure I saw

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this correctly, but it’s like a
fucking Marvel movie.

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The way they treat him like he
is a superhero in this movie.

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But at one point they’re talking
about criticism and they show

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the number of people who died of
AIDS under Ronald Reagan.

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And I swear to God, it looks
like a fucking Instagram meme.

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It’s got like explosive colours.
It fucking pops.

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It looks like they were
celebrating how many people died

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of AIDS under Reagan.
I’m not joking.

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Hey, just make it snappy though,
you know?

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Yeah, that movie is wild.
This fucking I sat in the corner

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and fucking head.
That sounds like something they

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make at the Scientology studios.
Yeah, yeah, it’s propaganda for.

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Sure.
Are you going to make a

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hagiography about the guy who
gave us Alexander Hague?

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That’s no good.
There’s too much Hague.

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Way too much.
So that is how 1 camp at G mock,

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in particular Camp Bulkley.
Became the best disco in

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history.
Close.

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It became the world’s first
detention center exclusively for

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people with HIV and AIDS.
That’s not a bad look at all,

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and I’m not surprised the United
States was first to open some

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shit like that.
I think we’re the first, first

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group to round up Japanese
people and people with HIV.

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So, you know, as far as camps,
concentration camps go, we’ve

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broken more ground than we
really like to admit.

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I mean, has Russia done it?
I don’t know.

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Russia ever rounded up Japanese
people, People with AIDS?

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That’s a good question.
Yeah, and I mean, we’ve kind of

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got everyone beat with, you
know, indigenous people.

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That was we built this country
on a fucking genocide.

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A lot of people did.
Yeah.

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And so when AIDS activists found
out about this camp, they were

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understandably furious.
Bill Clinton, tell me if this

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sounds familiar.
George Bush is in office, and he

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has opened this camp at
Guantanamo that is just seen as

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a stain on the United States
reputation on the world stage.

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And now along comes a Democrat,
Bill Clinton.

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And he campaigns in part on
what?

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Closing that Guantanamo.
And then he does what?

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Nothing.
He does not close that camp.

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I feel like I’ve heard that
again.

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We had the remix of that.
The same the same shit is some

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bad stuff, man.
We could have could have a

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fucking up the party.
But he did play really good

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saxophone.
Yeah, yeah.

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He looked mean in a pair of Ray
Bans.

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And so we, I mean, he was
running against George HW Bush.

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It’s fine.
And he’s just got that smiling,

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puffy, happy, drunk face that’s
just kind of infectious, you

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know?
Yeah.

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And also, we probably thought he
was going to close down the AIDS

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camp at Guantanamo, but he did
not.

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He campaigned on closing it and
then, almost like right before

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taking office, decided never
mind.

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Hasn’t like actually every
Democrat done the same thing,

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every Democratic president
since?

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Yeah, yeah, this was, it’s
fucking history, Yeah.

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Joe Biden was like, we’re we’re,
we’re, we’re going to blows

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quanamo.
I think Obama said he would,

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too.
Oh yeah, Obama definitely did.

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I remember that.
Yeah, it was one of Obama’s

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main.
He was like sanctimonious as

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fuck about it too.
He was like, and we’re going to

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do what was long overdue for
many years now and we’ll close

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Guantanamo on day one and then
just didn’t do it for eight

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years.
Yeah.

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So in January 1993, detainees at
Camp Boakley went on a hunger

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strike and students at Yale Law
School.

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This was back when we were
allowed to protest shit without

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getting disappeared.
Students at Yale Law School who

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had helped file legal challenges
on behalf of detainees at Camp

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Boakley joined the hunger strike
for one week.

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That’s so Harvard.
They went on a cleanse.

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Yeah.
It was Yale, and then they

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passed it to.
Students like HPV like.

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Yeah, yeah.
Like that Denzel Washington

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movie where you just touch
someone and now they’re.

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Like the fucking talking stick.
Like, OK, now you support

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Guantanamo This week.
We, we did it.

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We did our shift.
I took the hamster home for one

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weekend for the class pet.
It’s your turn now.

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It’s.
The IT follows of activism.

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They met at the Guantanamo
McDonald’s to trade off and

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everyone threw down on
cheeseburgers.

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The only place with good Wi-Fi
around here I know.

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Was that when we were protesting
McDonald’s because they had

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Styrofoam though?
Oh, that’s right.

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Similar fucking times, you know,
You know what I haven’t seen in

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a million years?
The meat is murderer sign.

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It’s no, it’s.
Like you don’t live in Echo

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Park, clearly.
I did live there.

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It’s been a while.
I’ve lost my roots I guess.

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Peter still has got their
billboards up like a chicken

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going.
I’m not dinner, I’m a friend.

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Those the Yeah.
Yeah, both.

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But I’m talking about a Bikini
Kill poorly spray painted.

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Meet his murder on a you know, a
poster board.

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Sign an issue, an issue of
Adbusters magazine.

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Last time I saw anti meat
graffiti it was in Costa Rica.

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I haven’t seen it here in a
long.

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I feel like we gave them Beyond
burgers and they’re fine now.

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Yeah, probably they.
Probably put some sedatives in

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all the fake meat.
I mean, do you just eat a bunch

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of calories?
That’s a sedative in itself.

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But you know who was not eating
a lot of calories was the

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students at Harvard.
Sorry.

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So Harvard, after they got past
the hunger strike, they passed

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it on to the University of
Michigan, which that feels like

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a step down.
Yale, Harvard, University of

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Michigan.
Football though, or yeah.

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Probably DeVry after that, that
was Grand Canyon University.

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Arizona State.
Palm Beach Community College,

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Shout out Alma Mater.
And then, and then, at the very

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last, how about Trump?
University, I very briefly went

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to a junior college called
Illinois Central College, ICC,

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and people would say ICC stood
for I can’t spell.

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That’s cute, yeah.
I was real.

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So eventually, protests broke
out on college campuses across

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the country.
And at least from a protest

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standpoint, things reached a
head when Susan Sarandon and Tim

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Robbins appeared at the 1993
Oscars and used the moment to

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draw attention to to the plight
of Haitian detainees being held

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in the Guantanamo HIV camp, as
it came to be known.

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Joining a surprising list of
real ones.

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Yeah.
Thank God for celebrities fixing

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everything.
What would we do without them?

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I like it really is our only
hope at this point.

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We’re like, yeah, maybe the Rock
will fix it if it feels like it.

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Yeah, I mean corporate America.
Maybe Google will turn out to be

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nice again.
Remember when their slogan was

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Be Evil and then they were like
I fucked that.

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Change it to make money and
break stuff.

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Yeah, now it’s fuck it, be evil.
So the HIV camp at Guantanamo

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was finally shut down in June
1993.

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I like when we call it camps.
You know, Camps makes it sound

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fun, like they’re playing
tennis.

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Like, I remember when we met at
HIV camp, you had so much HIV.

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Oh, you did too.
It was finally shut down in June

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1993 after US District Court
Judge Sterling Johnson Junior

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ruled that the camps were
unconstitutional and kind of

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dropped the hammer on the
Clinton administration in a

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highly angry 53 page ruling that
included accusations that the US

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was showing, quote, deliberate
indifference to the medical

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needs of refugees and holding
Haitians in, quote, arbitrary

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and in definite detention.
Who do they think they are?

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Local police departments.
Yeah, exactly.

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I don’t.
Know what was this guy’s name?

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He had the most homophobic show
ending name ever, but he was

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down with the ’cause there’s
like Lee Sterling.

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Sterling J Johnson.
Sterling J Johnson.

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No, that’s classic gay.
That’s back when they were like

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Liberace and and that’s that’s a
classic gay name.

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Oh, really?
OK, Sterling.

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Come on.
What do I know?

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Sterling is a gay name.
Back then, like this is like a

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Time magazine, Errol Flynn,
glamour boy, like Rock Hudson.

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I’m just imagining this is an
older judge, like a silver fox

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daddy.
I don’t know.

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I was I pictured, I pictured,
Yeah, Sterling similarly, but is

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of the racist cowboy, not a sexy
fucking.

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How about?
Cowboy.

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Both, baby.
There’s your day, judge.

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There’s your night, judge.
Depends on where his wife is.

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He also said they’re being kept
in conditions quote usually

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reserved for spies and
murderers.

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Wow, that’s a hard quote.
And that their continued

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imprisonment quote serves no
purpose other than to punish

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them for being sick.
End Quote and one last quote.

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The Haitian’s plight is a
tragedy of immense proportion

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and their continued containment.
It is totally unacceptable to

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this court and quote called for
everyone to be released and

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placed anywhere but Haiti, and
everyone in the camp was

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eventually relocated to Miami or
New York City.

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Yes, that explains a lot.
And you know, if you’re a real

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HIV nerd, you can still trace
certain strains of HIV all the

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way back to Haiti.
So there’s a little history for

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you, Blue Dream.
HIV came from this shipment of

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migrants.
And so then not long after that

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relative success story, I guess
we got everyone liberated from

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the Guantanamo HIV camp, but not
long after that, the Cuban

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rafter crisis.
Yeah, I lived in Florida.

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I was in West Palm for this.
Oh really?

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What was that like?
Yeah, you’d be like, who washed

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up today?
Yeah, I at first wondered if

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this was related to the Elian
Gonzalez thing.

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Ellion was at the end of it, I
think.

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You know, it’s funny, I googled
him today.

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Later I think.
He was at the end of the 90s,

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Yeah, like. 99 two thousand.
He just became a Cuban

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congressman, Ellion.
Yeah, I also googled him last

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night.
Yeah.

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It’s crazy that America went
from holding automatic weapons

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in the face of children to all
this fascism.

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What the fuck.
Who could have seen us getting

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here.
We were so chill in the 90s.

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Yeah, it’s almost like we’ve
changed so much.

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So much.
I know all we were doing was we

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were raiding compounds and
deporting people.

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It was even awful.
I mean, that’s my thing though,

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about everyone that says it’s so
bad now I’m like, but how is it

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different?
Yeah, we’re just talking about

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it now.
Yeah, it’s all the same.

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No, no, Steve.
Now we’re just like openly

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trying to rebate rebrand it, you
know?

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Yeah, in 50 years, this will be
what America has always been

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according to history books,
because that’s what they’re

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doing.
They’re trying to erase history

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and rewrite it as this version.
That’s what we’ve done since

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Columbus came and the Pilgrims
made friends with all those

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Native Americans who just
suddenly died for no reason.

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Yeah, yeah, they all and
conveniently left us their plush

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ass pad with all this cool corn
and maize.

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And it’s super duper Nazi shit.
The Nazis at one point sent this

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group on like a knowledge
expedition to find out all the

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points in history where Aryans
were involved in developing

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00:24:50,360 –> 00:24:51,800
history.
And they came back and we’re

438
00:24:51,800 –> 00:24:55,720
like everywhere, in fact,
everywhere throughout history.

439
00:24:55,840 –> 00:24:59,360
And I feel like that’s what that
Ancient Aliens bullshit is

440
00:24:59,400 –> 00:25:01,640
leading up to.
You think it’s actually ancient

441
00:25:01,640 –> 00:25:04,320
Aryans?
Well, I think ancient Aliens, it

442
00:25:04,320 –> 00:25:09,520
is kind of inherently racist.
Like it’s the idea that Oh well,

443
00:25:09,520 –> 00:25:14,720
these fucking uncivilized
monsters did not develop

444
00:25:14,720 –> 00:25:16,280
anything.
They didn’t know how to do

445
00:25:16,280 –> 00:25:19,160
anything.
It was time travelling white men

446
00:25:19,280 –> 00:25:21,360
who came back and told them how
to do shit.

447
00:25:21,440 –> 00:25:23,800
Gray men, thank you.
Are they though?

448
00:25:23,800 –> 00:25:26,640
Like if you watch that show,
there’s the Gray men and then

449
00:25:26,640 –> 00:25:28,960
there’s also the fucking Nazi
looking men.

450
00:25:29,000 –> 00:25:31,520
Space Nazis.
Fuck yeah, space Nazis.

451
00:25:32,440 –> 00:25:35,320
I mean, how else are they going
to explain the Oh yeah, Aryans

452
00:25:35,320 –> 00:25:38,520
were everywhere?
I mean, now that we’ve got Elon

453
00:25:38,520 –> 00:25:41,600
Musk and SpaceX, we are
literally one step from space.

454
00:25:42,720 –> 00:25:45,400
A lot of Ancient Aliens people
are like, how did they cut this

455
00:25:45,400 –> 00:25:48,640
big ass rock this big?
Like then their whole thing is

456
00:25:48,640 –> 00:25:51,680
like being autistic about rocks.
And then I’m like, I’m sure

457
00:25:51,680 –> 00:25:53,240
being a Nazi has nothing to do
with it.

458
00:25:53,560 –> 00:25:56,160
So I don’t know the every
ancient Aliens guy is a Nazi,

459
00:25:56,160 –> 00:26:00,200
but yeah, they definitely some
it is.

460
00:26:00,200 –> 00:26:03,240
It is kind of funny that we
can’t.

461
00:26:03,240 –> 00:26:06,520
We can’t just like, like, like
accept that Egyptians made a

462
00:26:06,520 –> 00:26:09,800
cool pointy thing.
Yeah, I don’t think every person

463
00:26:09,800 –> 00:26:13,040
who like watches Ancient Aliens
is a Nazi, and I don’t think

464
00:26:13,040 –> 00:26:16,640
everyone who believes it is, but
I think at its root it’s

465
00:26:16,840 –> 00:26:19,520
probably some Nazi shit.
The Nazis were definitely into

466
00:26:19,520 –> 00:26:22,240
ancient aliens and like the
hollow Earth and shit like that.

467
00:26:22,240 –> 00:26:25,240
If you follow a lot of
conspiracies down far enough,

468
00:26:25,240 –> 00:26:28,720
you get to hating the Jews.
It’s a real common denominator.

469
00:26:28,920 –> 00:26:32,760
Yeah, that’s it’s so true.
So yeah, probably some Nazi shit

470
00:26:32,760 –> 00:26:34,560
in there.
Yeah, I mean, that’s part of it.

471
00:26:34,760 –> 00:26:38,040
We just had Passover where we’re
like, the Jews were the slaves

472
00:26:38,040 –> 00:26:40,160
of the Egyptians and like, how
did the Egyptians build all this

473
00:26:40,160 –> 00:26:43,120
shit?
Aliens.

474
00:26:43,800 –> 00:26:45,200
Not.
Not the Jewish slaves, the

475
00:26:45,240 –> 00:26:47,680
aliens.
Aliens.

476
00:26:47,920 –> 00:26:54,600
So in 1994, Fidel Castro gave a
speech that his opponents deemed

477
00:26:54,600 –> 00:26:59,840
as a bit of a threat, and riots
and protests broke out over it.

478
00:26:59,960 –> 00:27:02,960
And in response, Castro was
like, you know what?

479
00:27:03,280 –> 00:27:05,000
If you don’t like it, you can
leave.

480
00:27:05,200 –> 00:27:09,040
I will let you leave because
that wasn’t always a thing in

481
00:27:09,040 –> 00:27:10,280
Cuba.
You couldn’t just.

482
00:27:10,280 –> 00:27:12,360
This is like when you let your
five year old kid run away from

483
00:27:12,360 –> 00:27:14,520
home, you know, and he gets down
the street, starts crying.

484
00:27:14,640 –> 00:27:19,120
Yeah, it’s a lot like that
because 35,000 men, women and

485
00:27:19,120 –> 00:27:23,680
children kind of all at once
hopped on makeshift rafts and

486
00:27:23,680 –> 00:27:28,760
homemade boats and tried to make
the trek from Cuba to the United

487
00:27:28,760 –> 00:27:31,880
States.
And some of them made it to the

488
00:27:32,040 –> 00:27:36,400
US, which was a good break for
them because I think even at the

489
00:27:36,400 –> 00:27:40,400
time, but not long after this
crisis, the US put a policy in

490
00:27:40,400 –> 00:27:45,280
place called wet foot, dry foot,
which was if you made it to the

491
00:27:45,280 –> 00:27:47,840
United States, they would grant
you asylum.

492
00:27:47,840 –> 00:27:49,560
If you made it to United States
soil.

493
00:27:49,680 –> 00:27:52,880
If they intercepted you on the
sea in a boat, you got

494
00:27:52,880 –> 00:27:55,960
repatriated back.
Yeah, it was like a game show.

495
00:27:56,160 –> 00:27:58,480
I was about to say, I love that
they turned it into like a Death

496
00:27:58,480 –> 00:28:02,520
Race challenge.
Yeah, I remember reading, like,

497
00:28:02,760 –> 00:28:06,880
articles all the time of, like,
people who would come ashore on

498
00:28:06,880 –> 00:28:10,280
Florida beaches and you’d be
like, how the fuck did they all

499
00:28:10,280 –> 00:28:14,880
fit in that, like, plastic
bucket with three tubes around

500
00:28:14,880 –> 00:28:16,760
it?
And then like he just made it.

501
00:28:16,800 –> 00:28:19,560
It does sound kind of fun to
make a boat out of crap you just

502
00:28:19,560 –> 00:28:22,160
find lying around Cuba.
You know, that seems kind of

503
00:28:22,160 –> 00:28:25,000
like an exciting challenge.
Real crafty.

504
00:28:26,280 –> 00:28:29,720
So people who made it to
Florida, that was good.

505
00:28:29,800 –> 00:28:32,280
Some others died.
There was a lot of drownings.

506
00:28:32,320 –> 00:28:37,960
I will say, though, a lot of the
rich Cubans came over and

507
00:28:37,960 –> 00:28:43,240
there’s like a very Republican,
conservative upper class, large

508
00:28:43,240 –> 00:28:46,640
population of Cubans that came
that like, you know, took their

509
00:28:46,640 –> 00:28:48,880
private jets or whatever.
Well, there’s Mexicans that are

510
00:28:48,880 –> 00:28:51,480
like, build the wall, you know,
like I got mine.

511
00:28:51,480 –> 00:28:54,040
Fuck you.
I mean, I’ve always known a lot

512
00:28:54,040 –> 00:28:57,400
of very white looking because
they were like the descendants

513
00:28:57,400 –> 00:29:01,040
of the Spanish slaveholders,
like very rich, very

514
00:29:01,040 –> 00:29:04,240
conservative Republican Cubans.
So the people who made it to

515
00:29:04,240 –> 00:29:06,320
Florida, that was great for
them.

516
00:29:06,440 –> 00:29:10,800
The rest were intercepted at sea
and taken to G Mock.

517
00:29:10,960 –> 00:29:14,000
This story actually has a much
happier ending though.

518
00:29:14,160 –> 00:29:18,840
While it is true that thousands
of Cubans were kept in generally

519
00:29:18,880 –> 00:29:22,880
inhumane conditions for years
after this exodus, the Clinton

520
00:29:22,880 –> 00:29:27,440
administration announced in May
1995 that Guantanamo detainees

521
00:29:27,440 –> 00:29:31,200
from Cuba would be allowed to
emigrate to the United States,

522
00:29:31,400 –> 00:29:36,400
and Washington agreed to issue
20,000 visas a year in an effort

523
00:29:36,480 –> 00:29:39,960
to curtail the amount of people
arriving by Bok.

524
00:29:40,240 –> 00:29:42,080
And the problem was solved,
yeah.

525
00:29:43,440 –> 00:29:45,880
Everyone lived happily.
Ever.

526
00:29:46,080 –> 00:29:49,760
Never.
And so now, after all that, the

527
00:29:49,760 –> 00:29:53,840
United States is looking to go
back to sending immigrants and

528
00:29:53,840 –> 00:29:57,840
asylum seekers to the Guantanamo
migrant operations center.

529
00:29:57,880 –> 00:29:59,840
Well, it’s just sitting there at
them.

530
00:29:59,840 –> 00:30:01,480
What would you do with it?
Let it rot.

531
00:30:01,600 –> 00:30:05,680
It really is insane how much
free space there is at

532
00:30:05,680 –> 00:30:09,240
Guantanamo.
They are literally holding 15

533
00:30:09,240 –> 00:30:12,200
people at Guantanamo.
Why was it like a bad theatre

534
00:30:12,200 –> 00:30:16,480
production?
They are holding the Cheeto

535
00:30:16,480 –> 00:30:21,280
Community Theatre cast of
Sweeney Todd, Thank God, at an

536
00:30:21,280 –> 00:30:25,160
undisclosed CIA black site.
So there was all this outrage

537
00:30:25,400 –> 00:30:30,800
when Trump announced these plans
to expand the Guantanamo migrant

538
00:30:30,840 –> 00:30:33,480
operation center and send
deportees there.

539
00:30:33,680 –> 00:30:38,840
Here’s the headline one example
beyond the pale IRAP denounces

540
00:30:38,840 –> 00:30:43,360
Trump plan to expand detention
of migrants at Guantanamo Bay

541
00:30:43,360 –> 00:30:48,560
IRAP being international refugee
assistance project, another.

542
00:30:48,680 –> 00:30:53,320
Trump’s Guantanamo migrant plan
evokes a dark history that is

543
00:30:53,320 –> 00:30:59,680
CNN, but like so many other
things immigration related in

544
00:30:59,680 –> 00:31:04,680
this country, Democrats stance
on this isn’t actually all that

545
00:31:04,880 –> 00:31:07,480
different.
Here’s another CNN headline for

546
00:31:07,480 –> 00:31:11,240
March 13th, 2024.
Biden administration discussing

547
00:31:11,240 –> 00:31:15,560
using Guantanamo Bay to process
possible influx of Haitian

548
00:31:15,560 –> 00:31:17,920
migrants.
And then New York Times,

549
00:31:17,920 –> 00:31:22,480
September 19th, 2024, inside the
secretive facility housing

550
00:31:22,480 –> 00:31:27,320
migrants at Guantanamo Bay.
It’s like all of those border

551
00:31:27,600 –> 00:31:30,680
facilities that Biden also never
closed.

552
00:31:30,760 –> 00:31:33,920
Well I mean, Obama opened them,
so why would Biden close them?

553
00:31:33,960 –> 00:31:38,280
That that’s another really
underrated aspect of the

554
00:31:38,400 –> 00:31:42,120
Democrats stance on immigration.
Yeah, putting kids in cages

555
00:31:42,120 –> 00:31:44,120
sucks.
Who built those cages?

556
00:31:44,720 –> 00:31:47,320
Oopsie.
Yeah, that was Obama.

557
00:31:47,400 –> 00:31:52,200
Thanks, Obama.
And this is the same thing.

558
00:31:52,200 –> 00:31:55,920
Conditions did not improve there
just because a Democrat was

559
00:31:55,920 –> 00:31:58,440
president.
Internal reports obtained by the

560
00:31:58,440 –> 00:32:02,200
New York Times and interviews
they conducted with migrants who

561
00:32:02,200 –> 00:32:05,080
were held there produced all
sorts of allegations.

562
00:32:05,400 –> 00:32:08,360
Migrants were forced to wear
blackout goggles when being

563
00:32:08,360 –> 00:32:11,280
transported through the base.
Calls with lawyers were

564
00:32:11,280 –> 00:32:13,520
monitored.
Some areas of the camp were

565
00:32:13,560 –> 00:32:17,920
unfit for habitation and were
overrun with rats and

566
00:32:17,960 –> 00:32:20,920
overflowing toilets.
Sounds like a pretty bad place

567
00:32:20,920 –> 00:32:23,320
to live, but a pretty good half
life game.

568
00:32:25,360 –> 00:32:27,760
Department of Homeland Security
inspectors.

569
00:32:28,080 –> 00:32:32,600
So the Department of Homeland
Security itself at one point

570
00:32:32,760 –> 00:32:36,640
recommended that on account of
all the squalid conditions at

571
00:32:36,640 –> 00:32:42,000
Guantanamo, the government
should stop holding children

572
00:32:42,000 –> 00:32:44,760
there.
So under Biden, we were sending

573
00:32:44,920 –> 00:32:50,840
children to Guantanamo.
And I’m not at all saying Trump

574
00:32:50,840 –> 00:32:55,200
sending people to Guantanamo is
better, but also this shit

575
00:32:55,200 –> 00:32:57,440
about, oh, this is so beyond the
pale.

576
00:32:57,440 –> 00:32:58,680
This.
We’ve never heard of anything

577
00:32:58,680 –> 00:33:01,520
like this before.
We all have Google.

578
00:33:01,520 –> 00:33:03,880
We can just look it up.
Yeah, like what the fuck?

579
00:33:04,080 –> 00:33:06,920
Biden was doing the same.
Thing I hate when Democrats

580
00:33:06,920 –> 00:33:10,720
pretend like they’re so perfect
and on like everything they’ve

581
00:33:10,720 –> 00:33:13,320
ever done is great.
This is kind of one of those

582
00:33:13,320 –> 00:33:16,360
things like signing NAFTA where
every president tells says fuck

583
00:33:16,360 –> 00:33:18,760
the other president for signing
NAFTA, but they were all just

584
00:33:18,760 –> 00:33:20,240
the boarding people the entire
time.

585
00:33:20,440 –> 00:33:22,800
Yeah, yeah.
It’s almost like they’re the

586
00:33:22,800 –> 00:33:25,360
same class and they’re trying to
manipulate us to keep us

587
00:33:25,360 –> 00:33:27,120
distracted from doing anything
to change.

588
00:33:27,120 –> 00:33:29,560
Anything there’s a new flavor of
Sprite out?

589
00:33:29,560 –> 00:33:31,160
I should probably go check that
out.

590
00:33:31,480 –> 00:33:35,040
Oh hell yeah, there’s a few.
Well, there’s there’s new

591
00:33:35,040 –> 00:33:37,560
sprites and there’s new 7 UPS
out there.

592
00:33:37,640 –> 00:33:41,080
Wow, this is this is an
embarrassment of lemon lime

593
00:33:41,080 –> 00:33:44,120
riches, Adam.
There is a Shirley Temple

594
00:33:44,120 –> 00:33:47,000
flavored.
Oh, bangs. 7UP.

595
00:33:47,000 –> 00:33:51,280
Bangs, Adam.
It fucking bangs.

596
00:33:51,400 –> 00:33:52,960
It’s good.
It’s very good.

597
00:33:53,280 –> 00:33:55,800
I bet.
But they just put granitine in

598
00:33:55,800 –> 00:33:56,960
it.
I don’t care.

599
00:33:57,160 –> 00:33:59,520
I hope so.
Why you being this way Sam?

600
00:33:59,880 –> 00:34:02,960
You can buy it in a can now.
Oh, can I?

601
00:34:04,760 –> 00:34:10,199
So yeah, we were sending kids to
Guantanamo under Biden.

602
00:34:10,440 –> 00:34:14,159
The only real difference between
the Biden and Trump plan is that

603
00:34:14,320 –> 00:34:18,600
Trump wants to go back to the
days when the Guantanamo migrant

604
00:34:18,679 –> 00:34:22,400
operation center could hold 10s
of thousands of people, as

605
00:34:22,400 –> 00:34:26,080
opposed to the few 100 it can
apparently hold now.

606
00:34:26,159 –> 00:34:28,320
So he wants to, he actually
wants to make the camp.

607
00:34:29,080 –> 00:34:32,639
If what I’m understanding is, is
is correct, he wants to make the

608
00:34:32,639 –> 00:34:35,080
camp less concentrated.
He wants it to be.

609
00:34:36,159 –> 00:34:38,880
Larger.
You know more camp less, you

610
00:34:38,880 –> 00:34:40,560
know better ratio.
So it’s not.

611
00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:44,280
The the biggest, the greatest
concentration camp anyone’s ever

612
00:34:44,280 –> 00:34:46,239
seen.
Like Burning Man.

613
00:34:46,800 –> 00:34:47,440
Right.
Yeah.

614
00:34:47,800 –> 00:34:49,480
Yeah, like Burning Man.
Exactly.

615
00:34:49,480 –> 00:34:51,560
Yeah, the Burning Man of where
you burn man.

616
00:34:52,880 –> 00:34:54,760
It’s essentially a music
festival.

617
00:34:55,159 –> 00:34:58,800
It’s kind of like Firefest.
Yeah, it is kind.

618
00:34:59,120 –> 00:35:00,800
Of like firefest which better
bath?

619
00:35:00,800 –> 00:35:02,520
And they’re doing Firefest too,
right?

620
00:35:02,680 –> 00:35:04,720
They claim they’re doing
Firefest too.

621
00:35:05,000 –> 00:35:07,760
I think it’s already like
there’s nothing give me money

622
00:35:07,760 –> 00:35:11,200
and there’s no refunds.
Yeah, it’s if you bought tickets

623
00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:15,520
for Firefest too, you deserve.
You should go to the new Gitmo.

624
00:35:16,920 –> 00:35:19,280
Yeah, yeah.
We should get you out of society

625
00:35:19,360 –> 00:35:22,560
as opposed to immigrants.
You’re dragging us all down.

626
00:35:22,760 –> 00:35:27,400
So this tent camp was opened and
we were going to send detainees

627
00:35:27,400 –> 00:35:31,600
there, but it did not meet
Department of Homeland Security

628
00:35:31,600 –> 00:35:34,920
standards in that it was not air
conditioned.

629
00:35:35,320 –> 00:35:38,560
And I bet you that was a Guard
complaint that got addressed

630
00:35:38,760 –> 00:35:42,240
more than a oh, well, we, we
don’t want the people we’re

631
00:35:42,240 –> 00:35:44,560
holding here to be in sweltering
conditions.

632
00:35:44,560 –> 00:35:46,600
I guarantee that was the people
who had to over.

633
00:35:46,840 –> 00:35:49,520
It was somebody’s nephew going.
It’s hot.

634
00:35:49,600 –> 00:35:52,440
Yeah, exactly.
Weirdly, Department of Homeland

635
00:35:52,440 –> 00:35:55,200
Security seems to be whiny
enough to help.

636
00:35:55,200 –> 00:35:58,960
Yeah, they’re hearts of gold on
these fascists at the end.

637
00:35:58,960 –> 00:36:01,040
Of the day Nickety.
This has saved us again.

638
00:36:01,200 –> 00:36:04,080
And I don’t know, I’m assuming
the real explanation is that it

639
00:36:04,080 –> 00:36:07,960
was just cheaper to disappear
everyone to El Salvador or

640
00:36:08,080 –> 00:36:10,920
whatever.
Also, the outfit that was given

641
00:36:10,920 –> 00:36:15,760
the government contract to run
the expanded G Mock, a company

642
00:36:15,760 –> 00:36:19,600
called Akima, has run previous
prison camps and has been

643
00:36:19,600 –> 00:36:24,360
accused of all sorts of human
rights abuses at those camps

644
00:36:24,360 –> 00:36:26,680
also.
Did they run the Woodstock 99?

645
00:36:26,840 –> 00:36:30,440
I think so, yeah.
So this outfit that was given

646
00:36:30,440 –> 00:36:34,400
the government contract to run
the expanded GMOC, which it’s

647
00:36:34,400 –> 00:36:37,400
interesting that they were given
keep that part in mind.

648
00:36:37,400 –> 00:36:41,400
They were given this contract to
run an expanded Gitmo migrant

649
00:36:41,520 –> 00:36:44,520
operation center.
A company called Akima been

650
00:36:44,520 –> 00:36:47,080
accused of human rights abuses
before.

651
00:36:47,240 –> 00:36:50,080
Just like the fucking Trump
administration to give a

652
00:36:50,080 –> 00:36:52,080
contract this important to a
bunch.

653
00:36:52,080 –> 00:36:53,520
Of the company, Who’s this
friend?

654
00:36:53,600 –> 00:36:55,960
Abusive monsters.
Well I was just joking.

655
00:36:55,960 –> 00:36:58,840
It’s actually Biden who did this
part also.

656
00:36:59,320 –> 00:37:02,680
He awarded them that contract in
August 2024.

657
00:37:02,800 –> 00:37:08,280
It was for $163.4 million and
runs through June 2029.

658
00:37:08,440 –> 00:37:12,680
It’s almost as if he knew we
were going to be expanding

659
00:37:12,680 –> 00:37:17,960
Guantanamo Bay to hold refugees
and asylum seekers.

660
00:37:18,320 –> 00:37:20,200
You know what someone mentioned
the other day that I didn’t

661
00:37:20,200 –> 00:37:22,240
think about?
They’re like, wow, Biden made a

662
00:37:22,240 –> 00:37:25,080
great recovery right after the
election, right?

663
00:37:25,080 –> 00:37:27,440
He was falling down just
forgetting shit, and now he’s

664
00:37:27,440 –> 00:37:29,240
just walking around smiling,
being great.

665
00:37:29,640 –> 00:37:32,240
Pretty remarkable.
He’s playing rocks and Jocks

666
00:37:32,240 –> 00:37:35,800
softball next week on MTV.
Yeah, miraculous.

667
00:37:35,800 –> 00:37:38,520
Yeah, really turned it around.
He signed with CAA.

668
00:37:38,520 –> 00:37:40,120
I know that part is actually
true.

669
00:37:40,280 –> 00:37:42,000
It’s like.
CIA or CAA?

670
00:37:42,160 –> 00:37:43,800
Is there a difference?
I don’t know.

671
00:37:46,280 –> 00:37:50,160
So yeah, it was actually the
Biden administration that

672
00:37:50,320 –> 00:37:54,680
awarded this group of abusers A
mysterious contract to run

673
00:37:54,760 –> 00:37:57,560
Guantanamo Bay’s migrant
operation center through.

674
00:37:57,600 –> 00:38:01,040
I need you to Gimo needs to be
the bigger man.

675
00:38:01,040 –> 00:38:04,720
It’s got to be huge.
And like that contract runs

676
00:38:04,720 –> 00:38:08,840
through what would have been
past the end of a second Biden

677
00:38:08,880 –> 00:38:11,040
term if that was.
Going to have to talk to

678
00:38:11,040 –> 00:38:14,160
Kamabala about to make the
rooms.

679
00:38:14,160 –> 00:38:17,760
Many many rooms man.
We need many big rooms, man

680
00:38:17,760 –> 00:38:19,720
rooms.
And had had he dropped out by

681
00:38:19,760 –> 00:38:23,560
August 2024.
I don’t remember.

682
00:38:23,800 –> 00:38:25,000
Let’s check.
Was he?

683
00:38:25,160 –> 00:38:27,120
Yeah.
Was he unfit to run but fit to

684
00:38:27,120 –> 00:38:29,760
sign expansion deals for CIA
black sites?

685
00:38:30,080 –> 00:38:33,680
Could be.
Yep, July 21st, 2024.

686
00:38:33,800 –> 00:38:36,360
Wow.
The Biden administration

687
00:38:36,640 –> 00:38:41,240
withdrew their candidacy for
president but was still mentally

688
00:38:41,240 –> 00:38:45,520
competent enough, yeah, to hand
this contract for an expanded

689
00:38:45,560 –> 00:38:48,320
Guantanamo.
To place the rubber stamp onto

690
00:38:48,320 –> 00:38:51,960
the piece of paper and apply
firm pressure around the edges.

691
00:38:51,960 –> 00:38:54,720
Yeah.
And yeah, it’s almost as if the

692
00:38:54,720 –> 00:38:59,840
plan was to expand Guantanamo
and send people there all along,

693
00:38:59,920 –> 00:39:01,640
no matter who won.
Go figure.

694
00:39:02,200 –> 00:39:04,960
Go fucking.
Figure almost like a lot of the

695
00:39:04,960 –> 00:39:08,480
same stuff happens no matter
what puppet is in front of it.

696
00:39:08,480 –> 00:39:12,160
Yeah.
And it is interesting timing

697
00:39:12,280 –> 00:39:17,680
that he awarded this contract in
what would have been the heart

698
00:39:17,840 –> 00:39:22,680
of all the uproar about him
dropping out and Kamala being

699
00:39:22,680 –> 00:39:25,040
chosen to run.
It’s almost like he knew there

700
00:39:25,040 –> 00:39:27,800
would be distracting stories so
no one would be paying attention

701
00:39:27,800 –> 00:39:30,560
to the policy he was doing.
Never let a good crisis go to

702
00:39:30,560 –> 00:39:33,480
red go to waste, right?
I used to say that all the time

703
00:39:33,520 –> 00:39:38,880
about the Mueller probe when he
was looking into Trump and

704
00:39:38,880 –> 00:39:41,280
Russia.
Whenever something would drop

705
00:39:41,600 –> 00:39:45,240
about that, If you did enough
Googling, you would find an

706
00:39:45,240 –> 00:39:48,200
arguably bigger story that
people should have been talking

707
00:39:48,200 –> 00:39:50,000
about.
And the one that always stands

708
00:39:50,000 –> 00:39:54,640
out is when the one of the first
like indictments was handed

709
00:39:54,640 –> 00:39:57,280
down.
It was at the exact same time

710
00:39:57,480 –> 00:40:02,680
the US was in front of Congress
trying to expand this order that

711
00:40:02,680 –> 00:40:05,400
allowed us to just kind of
declare war in the Middle East

712
00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:07,560
without having to clear it.
With Congress.

713
00:40:07,760 –> 00:40:12,200
We wanted to expand that to
Africa, and no one fucking

714
00:40:12,200 –> 00:40:14,800
reported on that.
I mean, people reported on it.

715
00:40:15,120 –> 00:40:19,920
But it was not a thing Americans
were like, up in arms about or

716
00:40:20,080 –> 00:40:21,160
asking questions.
That’s.

717
00:40:21,160 –> 00:40:23,360
Not spicy.
That’s not spicy fun.

718
00:40:23,360 –> 00:40:27,080
Yeah, and it got rejected, but
so I’m sure Africa is going to

719
00:40:27,080 –> 00:40:30,640
be fine now.
I guess we’ll just have to make

720
00:40:30,640 –> 00:40:33,760
the war a little less endless
for now, no?

721
00:40:34,720 –> 00:40:36,680
Oh no.
Sometimes I I wonder if I should

722
00:40:36,680 –> 00:40:39,240
just root for the deep state.
Maybe they do know it’s best for

723
00:40:39,240 –> 00:40:42,440
us, you know, maybe if we don’t
get those minerals, we’re all

724
00:40:42,440 –> 00:40:45,360
going to die.
Yeah, I also, I mean, in terms

725
00:40:45,360 –> 00:40:48,680
of rooting for the deep state, I
am really interested to see what

726
00:40:48,680 –> 00:40:52,920
the blowback is going to be from
firing all those USAID people

727
00:40:52,920 –> 00:40:55,040
and making them come back to the
United States.

728
00:40:55,320 –> 00:40:57,800
It’s like they’re the ones who
make coups happen.

729
00:40:58,120 –> 00:41:01,320
Yeah, they’re all spies.
Yeah, why would you want them

730
00:41:01,320 –> 00:41:03,480
back here?
That’s insane.

731
00:41:03,920 –> 00:41:06,600
Yeah, it’s like a, it’s a, it’s
like a, a bunch of unemployed,

732
00:41:06,600 –> 00:41:09,640
destabilizing dudes.
Nothing to do.

733
00:41:09,880 –> 00:41:13,600
What are they going to get into?
And with so much social media

734
00:41:13,600 –> 00:41:16,880
capability in their hands that
they didn’t have in those tiny

735
00:41:16,880 –> 00:41:20,080
ass countries where they were
causing all sorts of mayhem,

736
00:41:20,240 –> 00:41:23,120
they even USA to actually.
It’s like we’re going to get a

737
00:41:23,120 –> 00:41:25,440
lot of like Tik Toks from former
spy.

738
00:41:26,440 –> 00:41:30,720
Probably we did that.
We did AUS aid episode and one

739
00:41:30,720 –> 00:41:36,160
of the spy things USA did at one
point was start Cuban Twitter.

740
00:41:36,440 –> 00:41:40,960
It was a it was called Zun Zun
Zeneo or something like that,

741
00:41:40,960 –> 00:41:43,840
which is supposed to be the
sound Cuban hummingbirds make.

742
00:41:44,000 –> 00:41:48,760
And it was all part of a plan to
like topple the government in

743
00:41:48,800 –> 00:41:50,160
Cuba.
They were going to build up the

744
00:41:50,160 –> 00:41:54,480
user base using like pop culture
and sports content and then at

745
00:41:54,480 –> 00:41:58,560
one point just start hammering
it with political content about

746
00:41:58,560 –> 00:42:01,520
how people should gather in
public to overthrow the

747
00:42:01,520 –> 00:42:04,480
government.
That was fucking USAID that did

748
00:42:04,480 –> 00:42:05,840
that.
Someone told me they worked for

749
00:42:05,840 –> 00:42:07,360
USAID or they volunteered or
something.

750
00:42:07,360 –> 00:42:10,840
When they got into like like a
higher up role, their supervisor

751
00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:13,840
walked around, they met like all
the other people from other

752
00:42:13,840 –> 00:42:15,920
charitable things from the
countries that they were working

753
00:42:15,920 –> 00:42:17,000
with.
And then afterwards they were

754
00:42:17,000 –> 00:42:18,960
like, yeah, don’t tell those
guys anything.

755
00:42:18,960 –> 00:42:23,160
Everyone’s this not.
Yeah, that and that is, I mean,

756
00:42:23,160 –> 00:42:27,440
there there was also a thing USA
did in Cuba where they just

757
00:42:27,440 –> 00:42:30,400
wanted to get people in to spy
on Cuba for something.

758
00:42:30,560 –> 00:42:33,360
And so they opened an AIDS
clinic.

759
00:42:33,520 –> 00:42:36,840
And that’s the kind of shit
people don’t take into account

760
00:42:36,840 –> 00:42:40,400
is like, you look at that on
paper and you’re like, but USA,

761
00:42:40,400 –> 00:42:42,880
they’re helping.
And it’s like, yeah.

762
00:42:42,960 –> 00:42:46,760
No, it’s US AIDS.
Yeah, well, and it it comes at a

763
00:42:46,760 –> 00:42:49,680
cost.
Like we don’t just help like

764
00:42:49,680 –> 00:42:53,320
when the United States is
helping, we want something we’re

765
00:42:53,320 –> 00:42:54,720
fucking up to.
Something Yeah.

766
00:42:54,720 –> 00:42:57,800
It’s like, didn’t, didn’t we?
Well, we caught bin Laden with

767
00:42:57,800 –> 00:43:00,680
like, that weird blood sample
thing where we trace like, some

768
00:43:01,040 –> 00:43:04,440
genome markers from his family
back to a certain village under

769
00:43:04,440 –> 00:43:07,240
the auspices of providing some
kind of like, medical care for

770
00:43:07,240 –> 00:43:08,280
people.
And it seemed like we were

771
00:43:08,280 –> 00:43:09,280
supposed to doing this nice
thing.

772
00:43:09,280 –> 00:43:11,560
The fucking we weren’t.
We were catching bin Laden.

773
00:43:11,760 –> 00:43:16,040
Yeah, and I don’t mean that to
imply that Trump and Elon Musk

774
00:43:16,040 –> 00:43:20,520
are right for shutting down USA,
because they’re just doing,

775
00:43:20,720 –> 00:43:22,920
they’re just doing mob shit on
the world stage.

776
00:43:22,920 –> 00:43:24,400
We’re just not.
Well, because I think they

777
00:43:24,400 –> 00:43:26,720
actually thought that we’re they
were stopping giving away

778
00:43:26,720 –> 00:43:28,320
charity.
They don’t even realize what

779
00:43:28,320 –> 00:43:30,440
they’re shutting down.
Yeah, that’s possible.

780
00:43:30,440 –> 00:43:31,440
That’s the thing I think
there’s.

781
00:43:31,560 –> 00:43:34,120
I think they wanted to own the
libs, but they accidentally

782
00:43:34,120 –> 00:43:38,200
owned the fucking deep state
coup apparatus like you said.

783
00:43:38,520 –> 00:43:40,680
Yeah, yeah.
I feel like they actually don’t

784
00:43:40,680 –> 00:43:44,120
even know what it was.
Yeah, that could be because

785
00:43:44,120 –> 00:43:46,160
that, yeah, that was our whole
thing.

786
00:43:46,160 –> 00:43:49,280
Like, we dished out a lot of
charity money around the world,

787
00:43:49,280 –> 00:43:51,160
but it’s because we wanted
stuff.

788
00:43:51,320 –> 00:43:54,880
Right, because they’re so non
politician they actually are

789
00:43:54,960 –> 00:43:57,600
also the idiot.
Like they drank the Kool-aid on

790
00:43:57,600 –> 00:43:58,920
what we’re all supposed to think
about.

791
00:43:59,320 –> 00:44:03,000
Yeah, but I am also worried.
I mentioned this on the USAID

792
00:44:03,000 –> 00:44:05,360
episode, but I am worried that
it’s also going to be a

793
00:44:05,360 –> 00:44:08,240
crackdown on Independent
journalists.

794
00:44:08,400 –> 00:44:10,400
There hasn’t been independent
journalism in a while.

795
00:44:10,680 –> 00:44:14,480
Yeah, a crackdown who?
Everyone’s getting paid by some

796
00:44:14,560 –> 00:44:17,160
corporation or billionaire.
Everything’s got a scant,

797
00:44:17,160 –> 00:44:18,520
everything’s got a slant,
everything.

798
00:44:18,520 –> 00:44:21,760
There’s a crackdown on Adam Todd
Brown and Whitney Webb, the last

799
00:44:21,760 –> 00:44:24,560
two independent journalists.
Yeah, they’re coming for us.

800
00:44:24,560 –> 00:44:27,560
They’re coming for the pods just
so so Gavin Newsom can be the

801
00:44:27,560 –> 00:44:30,640
only podcaster in town.
Oh, does he start a podcast?

802
00:44:30,840 –> 00:44:32,280
Did you say does he have a
podcast?

803
00:44:32,440 –> 00:44:35,360
Newsom has a podcast.
Yeah, he had fucking Charlie

804
00:44:35,360 –> 00:44:38,480
Kirk on his first episode and
then had Steve Eve Bannon on the

805
00:44:38,480 –> 00:44:40,720
2nd episode.
Gruesome Newsome.

806
00:44:41,000 –> 00:44:44,080
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the thing about not they’re

807
00:44:44,080 –> 00:44:45,640
not being independent
journalism.

808
00:44:45,640 –> 00:44:48,480
That doesn’t mean journalists
should be rounded up and sent to

809
00:44:48,480 –> 00:44:52,560
El Salvador, which is what the
president of El Salvador wants.

810
00:44:52,840 –> 00:44:55,200
They should be rounded up and
sent to journalism school.

811
00:44:55,240 –> 00:44:59,240
Yeah, maybe so.
Yeah, that’s the Guantanamo

812
00:44:59,240 –> 00:45:03,440
migrant operations center.
It has been around for a long

813
00:45:03,440 –> 00:45:06,880
time.
Trump did not invent the idea of

814
00:45:06,880 –> 00:45:10,720
sending immigrants there I which
probably comes as a little bit

815
00:45:10,720 –> 00:45:13,480
of a disappointment to Trump
supporters.

816
00:45:13,480 –> 00:45:16,520
I’m sure they want to think
their guy is breaking all sorts

817
00:45:16,520 –> 00:45:20,400
of new ground in being shitty to
immigrants, but it’s.

818
00:45:20,680 –> 00:45:23,520
It’s kind of like how the like
Trump did the vaccine but he

819
00:45:23,520 –> 00:45:25,760
can’t really take credit for it
and liberals all wish that it

820
00:45:25,760 –> 00:45:30,640
was Biden’s vaccine.
Yeah, it’s they They don’t want

821
00:45:30,640 –> 00:45:32,680
Trump to necessarily be new.
They want him to be Reagan

822
00:45:32,680 –> 00:45:35,760
again.
So in a way, yeah, bringing them

823
00:45:35,760 –> 00:45:39,360
back to AIDS in Guantanamo is
very Reagan.

824
00:45:39,440 –> 00:45:43,280
Yeah, so much of what’s
happening is just like which.

825
00:45:43,400 –> 00:45:45,640
Is what they wanted.
That’s that’s what they wanted,

826
00:45:45,640 –> 00:45:46,480
right?
That’s not great.

827
00:45:46,480 –> 00:45:48,120
Again.
Yeah, absolutely.

828
00:45:48,400 –> 00:45:50,560
And that was even.
I mean, everyone knows this by

829
00:45:50,560 –> 00:45:53,040
now, but that was also Reagan’s
campaign slogan.

830
00:45:53,040 –> 00:45:56,440
He just put let’s I just.
Read a really great book about

831
00:45:56,440 –> 00:45:59,200
Reagan called Reagan Land by
Rick Perlstein, who’s done this

832
00:45:59,200 –> 00:46:02,360
like series about conservativism
in America, going from Barry

833
00:46:02,360 –> 00:46:07,480
Goldwater to Nixon to drilled
forward to Reagan and like like

834
00:46:07,520 –> 00:46:10,280
the way that he put it.
And that made me feel like so

835
00:46:10,280 –> 00:46:12,200
nostalgic.
That’s that it’s so connected to

836
00:46:12,200 –> 00:46:15,600
the president is that like he
finds a way to make this like

837
00:46:15,880 –> 00:46:20,960
corporate welfare seem like
folksy common, like morality,

838
00:46:20,960 –> 00:46:23,080
like it’s like the like it’s the
salt of the earth.

839
00:46:23,080 –> 00:46:25,680
You know, like like he makes you
cutting USA.

840
00:46:25,680 –> 00:46:27,880
It seems seem like it’s
humanitarian.

841
00:46:27,960 –> 00:46:30,840
Yeah, I mean, that’s what young
Bush had too.

842
00:46:31,040 –> 00:46:32,600
That’s what GW had going for
him.

843
00:46:33,080 –> 00:46:36,360
I mean the the SCAMP almost
privatized Social Security.

844
00:46:36,480 –> 00:46:40,160
He was a real, I don’t know, I
think he was kind of a a hidden

845
00:46:40,160 –> 00:46:43,000
gem GW in retrospect.
What?

846
00:46:43,000 –> 00:46:45,240
I read a book about him too,
called Days of Fire, and he

847
00:46:45,240 –> 00:46:47,880
sounded very sincere.
Like he sounded like he really

848
00:46:47,880 –> 00:46:50,920
actually took the office of the
president seriously, as much as

849
00:46:50,920 –> 00:46:52,560
a kind of a dumb guy could, you
know?

850
00:46:52,640 –> 00:46:55,040
Yeah, now he’s just like
painting art and trying to do

851
00:46:55,040 –> 00:46:56,440
his own.
Thing and he’s the he’s the kind

852
00:46:56,440 –> 00:46:58,840
of he would at least he listened
to the Senate parliamentarian

853
00:46:58,840 –> 00:47:01,480
and all that whatever shit that
we just don’t even all the all

854
00:47:01,480 –> 00:47:05,680
the like semantics that we just
no longer entertain in the the

855
00:47:05,880 –> 00:47:09,120
post Trump political era where
we just, you know, do whatever

856
00:47:09,120 –> 00:47:10,800
we want.
Yeah, he’s a fucking war

857
00:47:10,800 –> 00:47:13,240
criminal.
Oh, all of our presidents are.

858
00:47:13,920 –> 00:47:15,720
There’s not a single U.S.
President.

859
00:47:15,720 –> 00:47:17,240
I think that’s not, though.
Yeah.

860
00:47:18,400 –> 00:47:21,480
So Guantanamo.
That’s our episode now.

861
00:47:21,480 –> 00:47:26,440
You know, when migrants get sent
to Guantanamo, just take heart

862
00:47:26,440 –> 00:47:30,040
in knowing they’re going to a
slightly different version of

863
00:47:30,040 –> 00:47:32,960
Guantanamo that’s also a brutal
nightmare.

864
00:47:33,160 –> 00:47:34,960
Yay.
But hey, at least they’re not

865
00:47:34,960 –> 00:47:36,960
being waterboarded.
Probably.

866
00:47:37,280 –> 00:47:38,720
Right.
Was that the one with the the

867
00:47:38,720 –> 00:47:40,000
picture?
Who was that?

868
00:47:40,640 –> 00:47:42,600
The military lady who was in the
pictures?

869
00:47:42,600 –> 00:47:45,240
Like giving the thumbs up.
Is that Abu Ghraib You took him

870
00:47:45,240 –> 00:47:46,680
in?
That was Abu Ghraib, OK.

871
00:47:46,760 –> 00:47:51,200
Which was in Iraq.
I get all the torture places

872
00:47:51,200 –> 00:47:52,680
confused.
I’m just a girl.

873
00:47:52,680 –> 00:47:54,520
It’s hard to keep track, there’s
so many.

874
00:47:54,600 –> 00:47:58,520
All the torture places like your
nutsack and your nipples and

875
00:47:58,520 –> 00:48:02,080
your eyelids and the.
Butt hole.

876
00:48:02,160 –> 00:48:04,200
Torture places.
Yeah, the torture places.

877
00:48:04,360 –> 00:48:07,800
So Speaking of torture places,
that has been our Guantanamo

878
00:48:07,800 –> 00:48:11,200
episode.
Connor, Sam, thank you both so

879
00:48:11,200 –> 00:48:13,560
much for doing the pod.
I appreciate it.

880
00:48:13,680 –> 00:48:16,880
What in the fuck do we have to
plug before we get out of here?

881
00:48:16,880 –> 00:48:20,000
This feels like the best
possible time to plug some shit.

882
00:48:20,040 –> 00:48:23,280
I would like people to follow me
on Blue sky Adam Todd, brown dot

883
00:48:23,280 –> 00:48:26,440
B, Sky dot social.
It’s Todd with 1D.

884
00:48:26,680 –> 00:48:29,840
It means death in German.
I think my mom did that on

885
00:48:29,840 –> 00:48:32,720
accident, but very cool.
Sam, what do you want to plug?

886
00:48:33,600 –> 00:48:38,240
I’m at Sam’s Suites on Insta and
I don’t think TikTok and

887
00:48:38,240 –> 00:48:40,080
Twitter, I don’t know.
I don’t know.

888
00:48:40,080 –> 00:48:42,200
I know I don’t go on it anymore,
but you can probably find me

889
00:48:42,720 –> 00:48:44,160
there.
I’m only Sam’s with two ES on

890
00:48:44,160 –> 00:48:46,320
only fans.
I have definite fans of your

891
00:48:46,320 –> 00:48:48,880
pods on there and they’re always
very nice and polite, so I

892
00:48:48,920 –> 00:48:54,160
appreciate them.
And I’m doing stand up at the

893
00:48:54,160 –> 00:48:59,640
State Social House in West
Hollywood on Monday, April 28th,

894
00:48:59,800 –> 00:49:01,880
I think at 8:30.
PM Nice Connor.

895
00:49:03,240 –> 00:49:07,560
You can check out my new radio
show Good Morning Viet Guan

896
00:49:08,560 –> 00:49:12,880
every every morning at the GMOC,
watch my comedy special on

897
00:49:12,880 –> 00:49:18,000
YouTube, and listen to the Mean
Boys podcast, The Cavalcade of

898
00:49:18,000 –> 00:49:19,960
Comedy Fun.
And I think that’s it.

899
00:49:19,960 –> 00:49:21,880
Let’s get the fuck out of here,
Sam.

900
00:49:21,880 –> 00:49:23,200
Say goodbye.
Goodbye.

901
00:49:23,920 –> 00:49:25,800
Connor, say goodbye.
Bye bye.

902
00:49:26,040 –> 00:49:27,120
Goodbye everybody, we love you.