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Feb. 12, 2025 - Liberty Hangout - Kaitlin Bennett
10:07
Boomers Gone Wild
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Trump is going to deport his enemies.
That's what he's going to do.
Yeah, that's what it's about.
It's not about, you know, Trump wants to divide us so his oligarchs can rape the country.
Did you think that he was going after legal immigrants?
I thought he was going after anyone who did not fit the picture of being white and in this country legally or being born in this country.
Do you think the deporting people who have committed crimes, do you think that's a good thing that Trump is doing?
He released criminals into our society when he released the January 6th criminals.
All right, we're just going to go for it.
Okay.
So read your sign and tell me a little bit about it.
Trans rights are human rights.
Okay.
Okay, was this a deportation and immigration rally or is it just kind of like everything?
It's everything.
Mostly, you know, I mean, the communities that are really being attacked are immigration and the trans community.
And then it's everything else too.
And now it's, you know, Elon Musk getting into the Treasury Department.
You know, we have a coup going on.
Tell me about that.
What do you think about Elon Musk and what is he doing?
He's got, he hired like six kids to go into the Treasury Department to recode everything.
So Elon Musk has access to all the programs in the Treasury Department.
What do you think about what's being done with U.S. aid?
Right.
Yeah, that's a problem because U.S. aid helps us with pandemics and helps us to fend off ISIS.
So it's very dangerous.
It takes us back to being an isolationist country.
Okay, well, you're talking about fend off, you know, ISIS and so you're like terrorists and people trying to do America harm.
Yeah, because they were using USAID to combat that.
But, you know, now we're under, looks like Putin's calling the shots.
Maybe he is.
Maybe he is.
So I like how you mentioned trying to keep America safe from terrorists and ISIS.
Do you think there's any merit to having a secure border to also try to keep America safe from people who want to do us harm?
I don't think there's a lot of, you know, I don't think that's a big problem.
You have to realize NAFTA made a lot of the people, a lot of the Mexicans come over here because our big agriculture took over in the 90s, so they had nowhere to go.
So they were coming over here for years.
It's our diplomacy that's been screwing everything up.
And then we're like, oh, the border, the border, which is BS.
Why don't you go down there and help those people?
Look what we did to Nicaragua, El Salvador.
You know, I mean, we've ruined those countries, so we need to stop.
You know, how about United Fruit in the 50s?
We caused a coup.
So it goes back to all that.
So going over the border, yeah, because we effed it all up over the years.
Well, the El Salvadorian president actually said that he's willing to take the criminal aliens that we need to deport.
What do you think about that?
If he, you know, we were these bad people, do you think he would want to take our criminal aliens?
No, this is, Trump is going to deport his enemies.
That's what he's going to do.
Yeah, that's what it's about.
It's not about, you know, Trump wants to divide us so his oligarchs can rape the country.
And we need to get together.
We need to reach across the aisle and say, look, we're all against oligarchs.
Remember the French Revolution.
You know, we have to get together and get rid of the oligarchs, get them out of the Treasury Department.
So I've already been outed.
I've already been outed.
Even though I've got this beautiful shirt on, I don't know how they outed me.
What are you doing out here today?
What are you so passionate about?
What are you so passionate about?
I know there were a couple different topics that were today, like immigration, pro-choice, trans rights.
Which one speaks to you the most?
Personally, I find that queer rights and trans rights speak to me the most.
Although I do believe in the intersectionality of it all, so I believe that queer people are affected by the loss of other human rights and immigrants are affected by the loss of queer rights and etc.
So personally, I'm out here for all human rights because I believe that we all deserve them.
Yeah, perfect.
That's exactly what my shirt says.
We are all human.
I definitely believe that.
What do you think is the craziest thing going on right now in the Trump administration.
The craziest thing, I have to say Elon Musk's attempt at defiling their checks and balances and how he is allowed to run loose in the Capitol.
I really don't like that.
I feel like that is too far and that we are losing what keeps our democracy in check.
Do you think what he's doing is illegal?
I'm a confident believer that what he's doing is illegal and what Trump is doing is that it is against the Constitution.
I believe both of them are fascists and are making our country hurl towards us.
What is a fascist?
What is a fascist?
It's kind of hard.
I'm not really great with explaining definitions, but a fascist is someone ultimately who doesn't believe in human rights, who doesn't believe in the rights of others, who doesn't believe that everyone is equal and that they should be above others.
Yes, absolutely.
Okay, all right.
What are you out here for today?
I'm out here because I'm angry, I'm upset, and I feel so helpless in stopping what he's doing.
I mean, today he's talking about turning Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East.
These things are insane, and he wants his son-in-law to get billions of dollars to do that.
We have got to stop this.
And if we don't turn out in protests like this, they're going to roll right over us.
Our democracy is at stake right now.
And people with disabilities who need Medicaid, they are really going to be hurting.
And we can't allow this.
So if we can't get out here and talk about how angry we are and how determined we are to save our democracy, then who will?
Perfect.
I love it.
So I know this was mainly focused on like immigrants and deportation and stuff like that.
What are your thoughts about his executive orders and the deportations that he's doing right now?
It's absolutely insane when you consider so many people that are here, they're here legally and they deserve to be here.
And they're doing the jobs that other people just don't want to do.
And we need to protect their rights and their health care and everything as well.
People think that anybody can get health care.
Well, they can't.
And they're the last ones that will be able to get health care in this country.
So you would campaign and kind of champion this idea of illegal immigrants getting free health care?
No, that doesn't exist.
What doesn't exist?
Free health care for immigrants does not exist.
It's an oxymoron.
There is no way that you could sign up for health care, either Medicaid or even getting private insurance, if you don't have the right credentials.
Do they deserve it?
Yes, they absolutely do, because if they're here, think of so many that come over the border, they're put in vans without any windows, and they wind up somewhere either here in Florida or somewhere else, and they're doing these jobs that are hard work.
And if something happens to them, they can put them back in that van and take them somewhere and just drop them off.
That's not right.
Health care is a human right.
It's not a privilege.
And that's what we have to make sure that we hold on to.
Do you think the deporting people who have committed crimes, do you think that's a good thing that Trump is doing?
He released criminals into our society when he released the January 6th criminals.
Well, that's a whole nother discussion.
Do you think that people who entered the country illegally without being vetted and then raped and killed people like her name was Rachel?
She was a mother of five.
She was raped and murdered and then Lake and Riley was murdered as well.
Do you think that people like that should be deported who commit those crimes?
They should not only be deported, but they should be punished.
But when you look at the statistics, the numbers are not that everybody coming across the border is a rapist or a murderer.
No, they're not, but we don't know because they're not being vetted, right?
But the ones that are being vetted, they are certainly not coming through our borders illegally.
And that's what we have to protect.
We need to make sure that those that are coming are legal, that they are not rapists and murderers.
Okay, so you agree with his deportation then, because he's deporting the people who are not vetted.
So you agree then, right?
I don't agree with deportation.
For people that aren't vetted, yes.
For people who are vetted, no.
That's what he's doing.
He's not deporting people who are legal.
He's not saying that.
he did.
He specifically said...
He's getting as many people out of this country as he can, whether or not...
We don't have proof that they are illegal.
Yes, we do, because we don't have proof that they are illegal.
That's the proof.
It's not that we don't have proof that they're illegal.
We don't have proof that they are legal and that's what makes them illegal.
If there's a justification for somebody to be deported, absolutely they should be.
That's what he's doing.
Well that's that's what he says he's doing but we don't have to think we know that either.
You think he's just deporting anybody?
When people that are that are here in this country are worried about being put in a van and taken to Guantanamo or somewhere else and they've done nothing wrong, that's not right.
If you want to go after the people that have done something wrong, by all means, that's justifiable.
That's what he's doing.
97% who are here legally that are still worried about taking out.
Well then that's them.
They're not, they shouldn't be scared.
He's never said that he's going after legal immigrants.
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