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June 29, 2018 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Women's March Movement Pushes Open Borders & Socialism | SLIGHTLY OFFENS*VE

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elijah schaffer
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elijah schaffer
More like socialism.
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, I'm a socialist.
You know, LA is such a powerful influence for Trump's plans.
So I think it's really important that the Women's March focuses here.
Like, I'm just here to, like, produce and support the system.
elijah schaffer
What happens once we stop Trump's policies?
Do we ever stop protesting or do we always continue?
unidentified
We have to continue because that's the basis of human rights, unfortunately.
elijah schaffer
What are we actually fighting for here at this event?
unidentified
Open borders.
Yeah, right.
elijah schaffer
And so this is a woman's march.
And so what do open borders have to do with being a woman?
unidentified
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
elijah schaffer
And the rebellion is now in session.
The rebellion is now in session.
All rise.
The rebellion is now in session.
unidentified
Well, I would have to say that I fall in line with democratic socialism.
But 80 years later, I'm a gay man, living with age.
elijah schaffer
What's up?
We're out here at the Women's March in Los Angeles, and we want to talk to some people to find about what we're marching for, what we're marching against, and what we stand for.
Because out here in Los Angeles, it's not as a matter of much of what you are protesting.
It's who you're protesting.
And as long as that's Donald Trump, you have yourself a permit and space.
Okay, so we're out here at the Women's March I'm here with.
unidentified
My name's Angie.
Mike Fiorini.
My name's Julie.
elijah schaffer
So we met in the parking lot.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah, we did.
elijah schaffer
And we met in the parking lot.
unidentified
Yes, we did.
elijah schaffer
Awesome.
And so what are we out here to protest against specifically?
unidentified
I'm out here to protest the separation of the immigrants from their families, from their parents.
So the Women's March is collecting supplies that are hopefully going to be delivered to detention centers.
But I think I'm here because I think that family detention shouldn't be happening at all.
And I want to participate in any activities that are about agitating and mobilizing people to fight this policy.
elijah schaffer
Awesome.
So with the supplies, what supplies are currently missing at the detention centers?
unidentified
I mean, everything you can imagine.
The most basic needs, diapers for babies, food, you know, comfort, toys, clothing.
I mean, I think kids are being given two outfits.
We're protesting the United States being turned into a fascistic regime.
elijah schaffer
Do you enjoy protesting?
unidentified
I enjoy coming out.
It's great to connect with people around here.
It's also just great to make your voice heard.
elijah schaffer
Protests are kind of like socials in LA.
You just kind of get to meet people and say what's up, right?
unidentified
It's pretty cool.
Yeah, and it's not just in the protests.
You get the same thing out of any of the local communities like with the DSA.
elijah schaffer
Nice, awesome.
That's the Democratic Socialist of America, right?
unidentified
Yeah, and it's not technically a party.
It's a grassroots movement.
So you can still register as a Democrat.
elijah schaffer
Okay, so for our viewers who are probably highly interested maybe in socialism, what do they do to become a part of the Democratic Socialist?
unidentified
It's very easy.
I mean, you just have to pay, like, your annual dues as well as, like, if you want to just meet, you can just go to...
elijah schaffer
So there's somebody in charge that's collecting the dues?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yes.
But they're not too picky about it because they understand that, you know, if you can be struggling, just give what amount you can.
elijah schaffer
So it costs money to be a socialist?
Yeah.
Do you think that this is kind of just a disguise as another name for another march, but it's really just against Trump?
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, if you boil down the Women's March, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Socialist Party, it's all basically anti-Trump.
I mean, if you boil anything down when they have these events, you can pin it down to I'm against Trump.
That's basically it.
elijah schaffer
Wait, what is it?
Anti-Trump, not my president.
Okay, so we got a judge here.
Judge, what kind of judge are you?
unidentified
Actually, I want to be for the Supreme Court.
And so, you know, the fact that people are standing, even though there's been attacks and arrests, you know, all over the nation, that's really important.
elijah schaffer
Where were the attacks and the arrests?
unidentified
I believe one was in Washington, D.C.
I could be wrong, but I think I'm right.
Washington, D.C., where 40 people were arrested, and then a gunman came.
elijah schaffer
Did he kill anyone?
unidentified
I believe he killed five people with a shot.
elijah schaffer
At a woman's march?
unidentified
Yes, at a women's march.
So I believe I'm right, but I won't say.
elijah schaffer
I hadn't heard that, but I'll go with your saying.
unidentified
My source was CNN, and I was watching it.
elijah schaffer
CNN's pretty accurate, too.
unidentified
So I believe so.
elijah schaffer
Yeah, they're probably the most trusted news source.
But I also want to say that while we're out here, there's a lot of different signs fighting for a few different issues.
So what is the one issue that women could find themselves joining in on as we fight against totalitarianism?
unidentified
I think just by supporting these families, I think a whole bunch of issues are brought up.
I think, yeah, that's a hard question.
I donate to the Democratic Socialists of America.
I've also donated to the ACLU, and I also donated to the Women's March.
elijah schaffer
So it's all just like doing all probably like the three best investments you could make if you're trying to change America.
unidentified
Exactly.
Global genocide is what they're up to.
elijah schaffer
Trump?
unidentified
It's not just Trump.
It's the evil capitalist society that has taken over the world and runs on greed.
Trump and Pence must leave peacefully, but please leave.
elijah schaffer
That's why I got the sticker here.
It says Trump pence must go.
It's cool, actually.
We got my boy over here.
He's passing them out, actually.
You see that?
He's got a whole stack.
So on that note, knowing that they got to go, where do they go?
unidentified
That's a great question that I don't know that I can answer.
elijah schaffer
So you have Linda Saurusur on your shirt here, right here.
Linda Saussur.
So she's given a lot of anti-Israeli sentiments and a lot of anti-Semitic sentiments.
Do you support her statements about that?
unidentified
Well, the reason why I have all this because actually I'm gay.
elijah schaffer
So we got a couple pins here.
One says resist.
The other one says march for our rights and gun violence.
Trump is my sexy slave.
That is new.
Trump is a sexy slave.
March for our lives, disarm hate.
And Linda Saurusur, anti-Semitic, guaranteed.
But you always got to have the anti-Semitic pin.
More or less.
Sort of drum away the hate.
Let me see.
Dang.
Sort of like drum away the hate.
I like percussion.
I thought when you had the stick that you were blind or something, but I realized it was just a cajone stick.
We're at the woman's march, seeing where we're going to go very far.
Cause we're going to march down to City Hall.
Feeling like we're not small, feeling pretty tall.
Because we're going to protest.
Donald Trump feeling rumped like I got a goosebump.
Cause I'm feeling kind of scared, kind of hairy.
Cause you know my hair is rising, rising, tithing, tithing on the tides.
Cause you know I'm on the beach looking for my right side, looking for ice abolish ice.
Turn up the temperature melted.
Oh, whoa, we're going.
We're going crazy.
That was good.
That was good.
I like that.
That was good.
Freestyling.
unidentified
Occupy America.
Occupy LA.
Occupy USA.
Free the weed in N Corba Greed.
Live at City Hall in Los Angeles.
Richard Eastman, the founder of Medical Marijuana, the United States, supports children of immigrants that need to get out of jail.
And we need to put Donald Trump in jail for his corrupt administration that cares more about making money on war and hunger and disease and war when he could be curing people with AIDS and cancer and women with breast cancer twice and freeing a little plant that healed me called marijuana.
And that's what I really, really want.
Everything back to normal, like Obama, Wolyrus.
We wake up every morning and they're surprised, surprise.
Trump comes up with all these different things every day.
And I'm really to a point where I don't even want to turn on the TV or look at my phone.
elijah schaffer
And then once the facilities are shut down, where do we put the kids when we basically find them at the border crossing illegally?
unidentified
Well, I think that assuming that all of these people are crossing illegally is inaccurate.
elijah schaffer
Not all the time, just when they are.
unidentified
When they are.
I mean, I believe in progressive immigration reform.
I think we should have much more open borders, especially for people who are fleeing countries that have been destabilized by U.S. policies and initiatives over decades.
So, you know, I think that there should be a much more open system for asylum and refugee seekers, which I think most of these people are based on the numbers and the countries that they're coming from.
elijah schaffer
It's hard to know what we're actually protesting sometimes.
unidentified
Sometimes I agree, yeah.
elijah schaffer
But we do need to protest.
unidentified
I think, yeah, and the event.
elijah schaffer
Regardless of if we know, because it's the merit behind it.
unidentified
Yeah.
Hey, you really want to be citizens of the United States?
Here's what we will do for you.
We will give you food.
We will give you clothing.
We will give you education.
We will give you citizenship classes.
You really want to be a part of the people.
elijah schaffer
Who pays for that specifically?
unidentified
We do.
I do believe that Russia interfered with the election, and I support Congressman Adam Schiff's Select Intelligence Committee for the investigation and Robert Mueller's investigation of the most corrupt president in American history.
elijah schaffer
Wow, you know what we just got while we were saying that you someone gave us Trump pests, Trump pence must go stickers?
I got my Women's March official pin, and now I'm, dude, I'm like becoming one of the sheeple.
Look at this.
I'm becoming just one of the crowd.
unidentified
I don't know where your video is going to end up.
YouTube.
Public figure, and I fought for Americans and everybody on the planet for my entire life to end war, end hunger, and disease, and homelessness, and free the weed and end corporate greed.
Live at LA City Hall, Richard Eastman and Friends of Medical Marijuana.
elijah schaffer
And that was another episode of Slightly Offensive.
Signing out.
unidentified
I am Cracker Jack Joe, and I want to abolish ice cubes in our fast food restaurants.
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