"Why has America become the 'protest nation' for all other nation's problems?"
Today we're covering the anti-war protests, including a massive rally in DC and a direct action at an Oakland harbor against a military vessel headed for Israel. We also discuss Zionist's newest limp, bad-faith tactic of taking "Free Palestine" to mean "Genocide Israel" PLUS: in more lighthearted news, an LAPD cop appears to intentionally hit another cop with his cruiser. The media has trouble choosing who to exonerate, and right wing commentators struggle to (mostly) suppress their urge to blame the victim Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for only $5/month and get 2 bonus episodes a week Contact your reps using the forms at https://ceasefiretoday.com/ Listen to the Work Stoppage Podcast Music: Small Brown Bike - Cold Marnie Stern - Oh Are They
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Anti-war protesters are responsible.
You know, I knew it would be them.
To be honest, if you asked me who is going to be who is going to end the world, I would be like those goddamn peaceniks.
Yeah, they don't mean it.
It's doublespeak.
You know, they're saying no war, but I don't know what they really mean.
They clearly mean they want Genocide?
Well, their actions, I mean, despite whether they want war or not, it's their actions of protesting war just make me want more war all the more.
Yeah.
It's like when you tell someone to calm down.
Exactly.
You can't just tell Israel to calm down.
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Tony right now, as we're recording this in Washington, D.C., there are reportedly tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian pro ceasefire protesters in Washington, D.C. right now.
Have you been seeing this?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's awesome.
It's awesome.
Like tons.
It's, it's really, it's.
It's good.
Yeah, I mean, it's probably some of the largest demonstrations in a while, and it might be the largest pro-Palestinian protest ever in U.S.
history, but not to like pat ourselves on the back.
It's just heartening to see a lot of people, you know, because especially like what we do, you see a lot of People on the other side of things saying awful things and defending awful things.
So it's just it's so nice to see a bunch of people standing up for what's right.
Yeah, yeah, it rules.
It is it's heartening.
And, you know, we've been doing the show for long enough to where we've kind of seen people kind of finally catch on to, you know, the the apartheid state that is the occupation of Palestine.
And it's good to see more people in the mainstream and in common everyday places speaking so loudly on this.
I know it's unfortunate it's taken this this this to happen to do this, but it is good to see that we're finally here.
It's become it's become people now know I think for the most part They know the right side of history and if they're not in there, then they're just there then they are like virulent bigots I mean, they're seeing it.
It's happening in real time.
Yeah, and Our own president is trying to cast doubt on the death tolls of civilians in Gaza.
People are seeing a lot of actual atrocities occur in real time.
I've seen people try to blame TikTok.
That's the difference.
That's why opinions have shifted so against Israel is because of TikTok.
Either there's a conscious or unconscious bias towards Palestine on that platform, and I would say it's just Available.
The stuff is just available now everywhere and it's not because it's TikTok and because it's Chinese funded or it's a Chinese app.
It's just because everybody has cameras now.
Everybody has cameras now and everybody has the internet now.
And yes, people will be using quote alternate news sites or whatever, but a lot of that is just Your own eyesight, you know, your own, your, your own ears.
And you can't like put the blame on a, I just, I think it's pessimistic for people to say, Oh, this is because of a.
A generational shift in media consumption.
I mean, yeah, but they mean like which social media site.
And that's, I think that's giving people too little credit because absolutely there's a bunch of adults who have been using social media their whole, you know, their whole lives and haven't seen anything like this, you know, because, because it's, uh, it's out, it's out of step with humanity.
And like, I mean, I mean, I'm on TikTok.
I use TikTok now and I'm not I'm not really seeing much.
I'm not seeing much on TikTok.
It's not it's not it's not a special phenomenon at all.
Palestine was Palestine had like millions of more hits than than Israel.
Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure, but it's not, I'm still seeing more, um, I'm still seeing more like slime videos than I'm seeing about Palestine, you know?
Um, and like, so, so it's like, yeah, this is bigger than that.
It's way bigger than that.
Um, and I think it's really important.
This is something I've been thinking about a lot real quick.
Uh, it's really important that, that, that, you know, America and Americans do speak up and do be loud about this.
Because, like you said, we have the president trying to, like, discredit death tolls and, you know, backing Israel.
And, like, because it's really apparent that the project that is the apartheid that is really the Israel project is so important to America because it is like a little experiment of if it doesn't work there, if what's if Palestine is able to do what they're what they're they're going to be able to do, Um, and under their circumstances, then that means that America's going to have to face something soon, too.
You know, because we have, like, it's... They learn from that.
I mean, they're using IDF, you know, martial arts to enforce martial law in America.
They need to see this work.
They need to see this work over there to maintain the order they have here.
That's one of the many reasons they're so invested in this, and it's so important to be aware of that.
It is, yeah.
It's bigger than just there.
It's an example of what people will do for freedom.
Yeah, totally.
I mean, it's, you know, America already committed its genocidal act, its ethnic cleansing.
And this is, like you said, the testing ground for like what that looks like in a modern situation and what that looks like for For climate refugees and what that looks like for, you know, mass, mass hungry people are not, not to get too apocalyptic here, but I mean, it is, it's apocalyptic situations over there.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So our heart, yeah.
It goes out to Gaza and we need to keep calling your Senator and filling out those forms that mass, you know, mass send out mass communications to, um, to your representatives.
Uh, Yeah, get out into the streets if you can.
I was reading a Washington Post article about today's rallies in D.C.
and one of the paragraphs said, Signs and Speakers Saturday accused Israel of, quote, genocide.
Many demonstrators chanted, quote, from the river to the sea, a call for freedom from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea that some interpret as a call to wipe out Israel altogether.
Um, and so that's not in quotes.
I like that Israel committing quote genocide, but, uh, the, it's just kind of stated as the paper's opinion that this could be interpreted this way.
Um, this is the new argument that you're seeing.
This is like what Israel's actions have reduced their defenders to is that you can't even call for freedom.
From the Israeli government without that being akin to genocide because it's like they're actually Committing one and so they have to come up with something that would justify that or something that would distract from that or you know Cast a shadow on it or something and it's oh you said you said you wanted freedom Well, that sounds to me like genocide and it's like why what are you doing to prevent the freedom that would happen?
That would make a genocide happen It's the most extreme version of, oh, you like peanut butter, so you hate chocolate?
It's the most extreme version of that.
Oh, you think people, you think they should be able, you think they should be able to live, so you're saying they should all die?
That's pretty, you know, it's so... It's a sick mind that hears freedom and thinks genocide.
Well, that means genocide for me.
Because it's like in the in the most charitable sense, it's like, oh, when Gazans get their freedom, they're going to do genocide on us.
That's like the most charitable explanation of this, because the least charitable is they're going to do genocide from the beginning and never even try to coexist as a free people or whatever.
It's funny because I don't know if they know what they're saying, but what they're really saying is, oh, Palestine, you want to be free?
You're going to have to kill them all.
Yeah.
That's the only way.
They're not going to let you.
They're over their dead bodies when you'll be free.
It's funny because that is, you know, the truth.
It's like a pretty bad place to be in an argument.
To be like, oh, well, they're saying they want freedom.
That means genocide.
Everybody knows how freedom is bad.
Everybody knows that free means genocide.
The like most coherent argument I saw for this was in the form of a meme where it was, you know, the angry duck or the sassy duck chasing the guy away with a stick meme.
Have you seen that?
It's like two panels.
No, but I like this idea.
It sounds fun in my mind.
It's a cute meme.
The duck is hitting the guy and chasing him away, but he says, free Palestine.
And the duck says, free Palestine of whom?
And then it starts chasing him, free Palestine of whom?
And it's like, yeah, that's not the preposition I would have assumed after free.
Like I don't, when I say, oh, I want, I want to be free, free of the rats that live in my, like, that's not where my mind goes first.
Is it even like a gotcha?
Cause like there's an answer to that.
It's free from, it's just the way that you chose, like free of means like you're going to exterminate.
Oh, okay.
Like get rid of something, you know?
And it's, it's just like this such bad faith interpret, like the worst interpretation of the word free you could possibly come to.
Pretty bleak.
Pretty bleak.
Yeah, it's free, free of the fucking Israeli government that doesn't let us leave this giant prison that they locked us in.
You, you asshole.
What else would we be talking about?
Come on.
Yeah.
So I just wanted to address that.
Um, so, you know, like with the protests this weekend, the protests last weekend, the protests the weekend before, um, They're having an effect on the Biden administration.
People like Adam Johnson from Citations Needed have have noted this before, but, you know, there's always a certain level of off the record.
Oh, we actually feel really bad about what's happening in Gaza and we're trying to do our best with Israel.
But, you know, Israel, so, you know, they're so crazy about this or whatever.
There was there was that kind of from the beginning.
But now we're getting leaks from the government like this one I'm reading from CNN.
U.S.
warns Israel amid Gaza carnage it doesn't have long before support erodes.
President Joe Biden and his top advisors are warning Israel with growing force that it will become increasingly difficult for it to pursue its military goals in Gaza as global outcry intensifies about the scale of humanitarian suffering there.
This is like This, I don't know, this is such a good sketch of modern America and just like America in the last, you know, 50 to 75 years is you, you let, or you do war crimes for something, for supposedly a good cause, eliminating Hamas, right?
That's the good cause.
And you let all this shit happen, or you do all this shit yourselves.
And then like halfway through, you realize it's not working.
And so then you just stopped doing them.
And then the war crimes were for nothing.
Like not like they should be for something.
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just saying from the very beginning, it was obvious to a lot of people that this sort of assault on Gaza or like not even this sort of assault, but giving Israel the room to do what it was obviously going to do wouldn't work and would just be a humanitarian catastrophe to say the least.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
It does speak volumes though that...
Yeah, it did take this much for America was if America is like saying you need to chill, you need to chill with like the bombings and stuff.
If America is saying that, then God damn.
Well, and it's also indicative of like Democrat politicians like Biden had, like, does Biden have a conscience?
I don't know.
I think he's more appealing to polling.
He's, he's, he's reflecting more on that.
He's always been fairly pro-Israel.
But anyway, um, I, it's, it's like a Democrat politician to just do the war crimes for nothing and be a failure afterward.
And then like, get, I don't know, get scared of your own party or get scared of your base.
And it's like, that's not something you can undo.
There's going to be people who are Democrats, who identify as Democrats, who aren't going to be able to vote for you anymore.
Yeah.
And who are going to remember everybody else who didn't say anything, didn't stand up, didn't call for an actual ceasefire and not a humanitarian cause.
People still remember the Iraq War.
People remember who was cheerleading that war.
True.
And I think this is going to be the same.
And it's the same for Ukraine.
Now Europe and the U.S.
are going to reportedly are going to be encouraging Ukraine to seek some sort of peace deal.
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
When they this it could have happened a year ago.
You know, but we just I mean, we know why it's not because like they they like war for war's sake, they like it for the money that it generates.
And it didn't like tidy up in time for the next election cycle.
So.
Yeah, more from this article here.
Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Security of State Antony Blinken.
Antony Blinken, who, by the way, his message to Israel.
This is from Axios.
Blinken's message, according to one U.S.
and two Israeli officials, was, quote, We don't want to stop you, but help us help you get more time.
What?
He was trying to encourage a humanitarian pause and spending it to Israel as well.
Doing a humanitarian pause actually gives you guys a chance to regroup and They're like, listen, guys, you know, genocidal burnout's a real thing.
Okay?
You need to take a moment.
mass of being able to do during a humanitarian pause which is the point of a human so the point is is to save lives but anyway um they're like listen guys um you know genocidal burnout's a real thing okay you need to take a moment take care of yourself like a humanitarian pause is fine but that's it's the right wing progress That's the progressive Zionist argument.
Maybe is a humanitarian pause, which is different and distinct from a ceasefire.
None of our politicians are calling for.
I mean, there's very few of our politicians are calling for a ceasefire.
In fact, there was what, 11 of them or something?
None, none of them white.
They're so they're refusing to call for a ceasefire, which is distinct in that it would be like a permanent situation, whereas a humanitarian pause means they could start up at any moment.
You know, that means, you know, if it's a ceasefire, that means Israel can't defend herself or whatever.
But it's funny.
Have you seen.
That video of Justin Trudeau almost saying ceasefire.
No, it like almost comes out of his mouth, but then just he has to take it back.
Yeah, so this is Justin Trudeau speaking on Canadian television, I guess.
We need to see a cease.
We need to see a humanitarian pause so we can flow.
We need ceasing of the levels of violence that we're seeing.
Smooth.
Hell yeah, dude.
Well done.
Well done.
We need a cease to the firing.
Oh no, fuck!
The levels of, you know, ceasing the... Yeah, that's...
It sucks because it would have been really great if he just leaned into the fuck up and just... It would have, you know, sent some waves.
Uh, yeah.
And he definitely wouldn't have gotten elected, re-elected, or however their system works.
I don't claim to know.
Something with like a flume, like a smokestack, and I think a dove.
Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who departed Thursday for Israel with a message on protecting civilian lives, have all expressed explicitly pressed the case in recent private conversations with the Israelis, telling them that eroding support will have dire strategic consequences for Israeli defense forces operations against Hamas.
Is are we ever going to stop giving money to Israel?
That would be insane.
That would be probably the most it won't happen.
No.
They just won't get another aid package.
Yeah.
That's all that would happen.
It won't happen.
There's no way.
That's what he's talking about.
Eroding the IDF's strategic whatever.
He just means the next aid package that will be coming if they can give us a humanitarian pause.
That's more of what that means, I think.
Behind the scenes, American officials also believe there is limited time for Israel to try to accomplish its stated objective of taking out Hamas in its current... Where's the Taliban at right now?
This is so fucking funny.
We're, I mean, like, how are you this fucking stupid?
Or like, how do you think I'm this stupid?
You know?
You guys didn't, you guys, you honestly, you really should have You really should have, like, re-named what you're doing here.
Like, you shouldn't have said Defendants of Homage.
You should have just called it a defense from the war on- a defense from the terrorism.
Just say the terrorism.
You could just go buck.
You can get- you can get decades out of that phrasing.
It's so funny.
I saw somebody say something like, um, yeah, and likely more refugees from this bullshit, yada, yada, yada.
And it's like, yeah, when there's war in the Middle East, there's refugees, man.
I'm not.
What do you think a refugee is?
You know, you should probably stop supporting those then.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
If you hate refugees, maybe you should not be into war.
God, I want I I need a you know what?
Free Palestine because they're taking my damn jobs.
Like, I'll let people do that if that's what they need to do.
Particularly jarring to Biden and his national security team, two sources familiar with the matter said, were Israeli strikes this week that targeted a refugee camp in northern Gaza, resulting in grim scenes of widespread destruction and deaths.
The president, quote, didn't like this at all.
One of the sources said, you're fucked, dude.
It's you.
Yeah, you did.
You did this like you did this as much as Netanyahu did this man.
Because if anybody had had the ability to stop this, it would be someone like you.
It would be someone at the fucking top.
And no, now you're going to be you're going to be remembered as part of this.
So sorry.
And the logic is so funny because they're like, no, listen, like Hamas can get in the hospitals, but this is a refugee camp.
We don't let any Hamas in the refugee camp.
So they had no business doing that.
Like is that like the line of reasoning why this is way worse than a hospital?
It's just because there's video of it on every screen.
Yeah.
That's why.
The problem for Israel is that the criticism is getting louder, not just among their detractors, but from their best friends.
I don't know about that.
Yeah.
Keep holding them to the fire.
You know, let's go out next weekend too.
I wanted to talk about This Bay Area demonstration in Oakland.
Yeah, awesome.
Activists at Port of Oakland block entrance to military ship they say is Israel bound.
This is from SF Gate, so San Francisco Gate.
It's by Sam Muahe Moore.
More than 100 demonstrators and activists gathered at the port of Oakland on Friday to block the entrance to a ship they claimed was transporting military weapons to Israel.
What started as a group of a few dozen activists affiliated with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center grew to as many as 150 protesters over the course of the morning, AROC's press coordinator Waseem Hage told SFGate.
A source from the port informed AROC that the cargo ship Cape Orlando was scheduled to transport weapons to Israel, Haig said, after a stop in Tacoma, Washington.
So, coming up here, baby.
SFGate could not immediately confirm the contents of the ship or its final destination.
Lots of cool photos here of We're sending the alarm that the U.S.
government is, in fact, sending these weapons to Israel, Hague said.
We want people to be aware that the U.S.
is going to continue to use our ports to facilitate the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza.
It really feels like this is something we should be able to unite Around like I don't think anybody wants any any more war in the Middle East I think every or like in to incur at the very least to encourage that and to participate in it The anti-war appetite I think has never been higher.
You know, there's a lot of like grifters and you know politicians who have made their whole careers now of just Claiming to be anti-war, you know, it's, it's, the time is ripe for mass anti-war protests and movements.
And we got to try it, you know, it's, it might not work, but it's the, it's there.
You can feel it.
And that's, that's when you join in is, is, is when you can really feel that tide turning.
And this is a huge change of it, too.
This aspect of understanding that we are culpable in this.
We are part of it.
We are part of the problem.
They are using weapons we are sending to them.
That part of it is really huge.
You can't illustrate it any better than Literally trying to stop the weapons we're sending to them.
Yeah.
Because I mean, even, even like the most cynical asshole will could be like, well, it's none of my business.
It's happening overseas.
Yada, yada, yada.
It's like, no dude, it is your business.
All of us, all of us are, are, like you said, have a, have a hand in it.
And it, you know, it doesn't mean you're guilty, but it means you got to try something, you know?
Yeah.
Uh, okay.
Protesters began arriving to the port at around 6.45 a.m.
Port of Oakland spokesperson Marilyn Sandifer told SFGate a handful of people climbed the ropes on the side of the ship, AROC's executive director.
So many names in here.
Laura Kiswani told SFGate at the port on Friday afternoon.
Quote, people took it upon themselves to directly occupy the ship, Kiswani said.
Eventually, yeah, it's cool.
Eventually, protesters were removed and the ship began to leave the port a little before 2 p.m.
with onlookers shouting, quote, shame on you and see you at the next stop as it deported, as it departed.
AROC has been, quote, in coordination with our partners in Tacoma who are prepared to block the boat once it reaches there, if it does, Kiswani said.
Uh, Cape Orlando belongs to the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration.
I saw someone in a comment was like, why didn't Pete Buttigieg do anything about this?
And I was like, I was like, what?
That's a, that's a stretch.
And I forgot that they actually, uh, you know, referenced the Department of Transportation in here.
Pete should have been there.
Yeah.
I was too busy raising his stolen baby.
Fucking knew Pete was pussy.
Uh, No details were available on the ship's projected route or the cargo it is carrying.
Well, I say that's a good sign for the protest.
I'd say that's that's a sign that the protesters are probably correct.
If you, the reporter, can't get any information about what's on the ship, it's probably military related.
Yep.
Just a hunch.
Local law enforcement was on the scene, but the Oakland Police Department told SFGate that no arrests had been made as of 4 p.m.
and Santa first said that no disruption to the port's flow of commerce had occurred due to the demonstration.
So that's interesting.
Nobody got arrested.
Which is good.
I don't know how that happened.
I'd be interested.
That's huge.
That's what it sounds like.
Maybe I'm reading this reporting wrong, but that's what it sounds like.
I didn't hear of any, I was waiting for that.
I was hearing, I didn't hear anything of that also because I haven't seen anything about like about like jail support or bailing around this yet.
So hopefully that's why we haven't heard anything about that.
Uh, there were a lot of comments on this, uh, this story.
Um, but I, the only a couple of them were, were that interesting, I think.
Yeah.
So like this one, I dunno, this is, I don't want to be too hard on this person, but this is a conversation I w this is like a sentiment I was seeing pretty frequently.
And this is the Washington post comment section.
I was shocked by the October 7th attacks on Israeli citizens and the kidnapping of innocents.
We in the USA have always stood by Israel and I have always supported that position.
This time, though, is different.
Punishing all of Gaza is an overreaction.
Again, I don't want to be hard on this person.
without enough food, water and medicine, their electricity and fuel supplies have been cut off.
Hospitals are not able to properly treat their patients.
The stories I read about the conditions in Gaza bring tears to my eyes.
So again, I don't want to be hard on this person.
I think this is a good response to have, but this time is not different.
This Gaza Gaza's only trapped there because Israel's trapped them there.
They don't have enough food or water because Israel's cut it off.
And they've cut it off plenty of times in the past.
I think people are seeing this stuff for the first time.
And it's not because of TikTok or whatever.
It's just because the information is out there.
People are finally seeing what the reality of Gaza is, and maybe they haven't come to terms with their false reality of Gaza in previous years.
But it's this is this is a good development.
Yeah.
And like you said, I don't want to be too harsh on them because it sucks.
They were wrong for a long time, but they understand it now.
And that's all that matters.
Yeah.
You know, absolutely.
We're not we're not going to fucking gatekeep being pro Palestine.
The number one response to this is illustrated pretty well here, though.
The response to this protest, this action at the Oakland Port, this sums it up pretty well on Facebook.
Ricky Cueva says, Federal Prison!
63 Impala says, Insurrection!
Four exclamation points.
Norm Kellogg down here says insurrection?
Question mark, question mark, question mark.
He's not responding to the other guy saying insurrection.
He's just questioning, isn't this insurrection?
Hello?
Some of this is.
Yeah, that's so great because it's like, no, that boat's the government.
That boat has eminent domain.
How dare you?
This was a really good response.
We're at SF Cron 26.
This is in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Comment section says, were it my command, the vessel would have been swept clear with fire hoses.
We're my command.
Like you, this person is so racist.
They still, they still fantasize over taking people down with fire hoses.
Like that's you're, you're blowing it.
Do you think he's wearing like a admiral's hat in this situation?
Absolutely.
Like one of those, um, kind of like dome hats with a little spike on top.
Yeah, totally.
No, I mean like one of the big frilly, like giant mast sort of hats.
And he's probably, I think he's probably wearing a saber as well.
I could see that.
I could see that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That, were it my command, I would be wearing the saber.
Okay.
You know, we should be, we're lucky it wasn't his command, honestly.
Thank God.
This is maybe one of my favorite Comments I've ever read news daily.
This is a news day.
This is somebody who consumes the news daily.
Tony says, why has America become the quote protest a nation for all other nations problems?
Dog again, again, like it's in America.
What they're doing is literally in America.
Yeah, like, it's because it's American weapons going there from America.
Like, it is America.
They're not even pro- They're technically not even protesting Israel at that point.
They're protesting the weapons being sent to Israel.
Man, how come the wars come home?
What's up with that?
What's going on?
Why is the war always come home?
That's kind of stupid.
Don't make sense.
It's because they hate to see us free.
That's why.
Oh, I loved this one too.
ALN999 says, I hope they all are prosecuted to the fullest.
Enough is enough.
In a very progressive liberal Germany, quote, free Palestine from the river to the sea is now considered a hate crime punishable by prison term for nationals and deportation for refugees.
I don't know if that actually happened.
I know they were like talking about it, but did it actually happen?
Uh, can you look that up?
I, I don't, I don't know if that actually happened.
I don't think I know what was being talked about.
Um, I love, um, in a very progressive liberal Germany, quote, free Palestine from the river to the sea is now considered a hate crime punishable by prison term.
If this comment were happening under Anything else, this would be used as an indictment of progressivism.
Like, oh, well, in progressive Germany, it's illegal to put, you know, to do the SIG Heil or whatever.
Right.
They would be calling that fascism or overreach.
But because they banned like a hopeful phrase, free Palestine from the river to the sea, like nothing about that says Murder or death or destruction.
It's it's a I see like a shining future.
Well, the whole thing is that there's something between the river and the sea.
That is not that is, you know, under under not the name Palestine.
It's preventing the freedom.
Yeah.
So I also I just looked at it.
I looked it up right now.
I couldn't find anything saying it's a fair.
I just saw that it was like a, you know, like a some buzz article going around saying that somebody suggested it, maybe.
I think someone like Parliament suggested it, but that's none of our business.
That's what's happening in the real world.
As far as this commentator is concerned, they did ban it.
So that's all we need to know about it.
Yeah.
And I like that he's using that as an example of like a good thing.
To do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Funzies says about these protesters, the left wing version of MAGA's similar mental illness and aspirations towards anarchy and terrorism, but different politics.
I mean, because it's that whole, well, there's, there's extremists on both sides, but it's like what they're doing is not as important as who they're doing it to and why they're doing it.
Right.
It's a different thing.
Well, I think it's pretty clear that there's a difference between the right and the left, and that the left wants to stop the war.
The left wants to prevent more weapons going towards the war.
You can't call that It's terrorism.
That's the it's the like, yeah, I don't know.
You know, it's a sit in definitely isn't terrorist terrorism.
I mean, I guess unless you're so afraid, are you funsies like so afraid of these peace protesters that you're thinking they're using stochastic terror or they're doing terrorism to try and scare you into voting for peace?
Well, the thing is, you're you're only thinking about how they were trying to stop this boat from leaving and how that is a little bit of terrorism.
But you're not thinking about how they're actually trying to stop End times from coming.
And that's the real terrorism.
They're trying to impede on the second coming.
That's why this has got to go down, brother.
That makes a lot of sense, actually.
Did you hear about that mom who kidnapped her son because he was part of the prophecy?
They thought her son was the prophecy, and what kicked it off was this war happening the way it is.
They're like, this is it, it's going down, and we gotta take our golden son to the top of the mountain now.
That's just regular boy mom stuff.
Yeah, you wouldn't understand this boy mom stuff.
That's how every boy mom feels.
It's what every boy mom knows.
Yeah.
True story, though, very funny stuff.
Ask my boy mom.
I think that this is a deliberate tactic to just call any direct action or any worker action or any popular action terrorism.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's not a new tactic.
They've been calling Palestinian protesters terrorists forever, but it seems like a pretty peaceful situation.
If the cops beat the shit out of people, that would be one thing.
But it would be the cops doing it anyway.
Yeah, I think I think we can move on Shout out to these groups.
I will be very interested to see if this ship does come to Tacoma, Washington Yeah, very interested in that.
Yeah, watch this space.
face yeah shout out to them solidarity with them love to see it so yeah i thought we might talk about something a little more light-hearted
a little more fun just to you know kind of get the taste out of our mouths here So we've got a story here from KTLA5 video appears to show L.A.
police cruiser hit another officer during chase.
People may have seen this.
It's this is this is from a few weeks ago, but it's it's something I've saved for a rainy day.
Just to kind of help lighten the mood here.
First of all, I love this headline.
Video appears to show LA police cruiser hit another officer during chase.
So now I'm confused.
I thought they were exonerating the officer behind the wheel of the cruiser by saying the cruiser was the one that hit the officer, but then they say another officer.
So are they calling the police cruiser an officer too?
You know, I think that is the rule.
I think cruisers are officers.
That way, if you deface a cruiser, you're assaulting a cop.
I think that's probably something they've probably done.
Yeah, when they do a pit maneuver on your car, you're actually charged with assault as well.
Yeah, yeah.
The video is pretty amazing.
It's so fucking good.
They have a still of it right here where the other officer, not the cruiser, but the other officer is rolling up the hood.
And we should say the officer's not in critical condition.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think he's fine.
We'll get to it in the story.
I'm trying to look for the video.
Because I mean, we've seen like stuff like this before, kind of, but nothing like this exactly.
And the video is just so good.
I showed Penny it and like she wasn't ready for it.
And she let out like the best laugh ever.
It was so because she was like shocked by, you know?
Yeah.
What it looks like to me, I'll just say it.
It looks like the officer behind the wheel thought the other officer was the suspect and was trying to hit him deliberately.
Yeah, that's totally what it looked like.
Okay, I'm using... It's like he saw somebody running and his thought was, gotta get him.
Because the story is they were involved in a high-speed chase and the guy eventually stopped the car and this other officer was running towards that car and an officer who was arriving at the scene was turning right and just kept driving into him.
KTLA has obtained dash cam video capturing the moment an LAPD pursuit takes a heart-stopping turn.
As law enforcement rushed to the scene in Sun Valley, an officer behind the wheel of an LAPD cruiser appears to strike a fellow officer.
Wow, they actually said an officer was doing it.
They're not even waiting to see if maybe it was a malfunction.
Maybe it's the new Tesla cruiser.
I don't know if it's not up yet, but there's no, I can't see video right now.
I need to see it again.
KTLA's Sandra Mitchell is live in Hollywood with the video and the investigation now underway.
Sandy.
Sharon Micah, let me start by saying the officer was not seriously hurt, but this video is wild.
You're going to see this moment of impact.
To some people, it might be disturbing.
Yeah, the officer is driving, was driving like 75 miles an hour down a residential street.
Like through traffic too, like very, very scary stuff.
He's coming up on an intersection and there's a cop that's like running across the street up ahead of him and he just follows the cop and hits him.
Yeah.
It's hard to believe the LAPD officer slammed by a car.
He fucking rams, rams him with the left fender and throw in his back and throws him forward like 30 feet.
You can see him over the hood of the car, like in the distance, almost on the other side of the street, almost on the curb.
Mind you, we have not seen a drop of water all day in this video.
But there's like a puddle, there's like wet asphalt where the cop lands.
It's unfortunate.
So the cop like lands and like slides in the water and is like soaking wet by the time, so he like gets hit, rolls up on the hood, gets projected like forward, lands in like the puddle of water and slides like a fucking water slide down the street and is like, starts rolling.
After that, and he's soaking wet to add this to, like, on top of this.
He's also very wet.
It's so fucking funny.
It's amazing.
If I were there, I would have put my coat down.
There's like a wake.
There was a wake.
You can see water spraying from where he's going.
Keep stay dry.
They're tumbling across the ground.
The rollover!
The pitiful rollover!
Like, have you ever seen, like, a really large drunk guy, like, on the floor rolling over?
That's how the last rollover looked.
It's just so pitiful.
It's so- and he's so wet!
I don't know how he didn't get serious injuries from this.
Because of the water!
The water saved him!
The water fucking saved him!
He fucking skipped like a stone.
Um, I, he's all, it also should be say, uh, he's, he's Mexican.
He's a Brown guy.
He's a Brown cop.
And I think that was like a piece of why he got hit.
I genuinely think like this guy thought he was the suspect and ran him down, ran him fucking down.
He did a pit maneuver on his lower back.
He was like that Mexican stole my stole a cop's uniform.
I'm going to get him.
Not just his uniform, his whole identity!
Look, I found a badge and everything!
Found an ID!
The sick fuck.
He's been planning this.
But the thing is, this is like LA.
It's LAPD.
So there's tons of Mexicans.
There's tons of Hispanics on the force.
So like, I don't, I don't know what's going on here to be honest.
Did he like, did he like fuck, fuck his other girlfriend one too many times or something like that?
Like, is this, was he going to testify about how the driver did sexual assault on a person in custody or what?
Now, okay, I do want to take a little bit off of the driver.
I do think there's a little bit of, like, the driver being like, there's no fucking way he's gonna run in front of my car right now, right?
I'm going fast, my sirens are on, he's not gonna run in front- he's running in front of my car!
I'm hitting him now!
He's like running in the middle of the street and he's running.
He crosses this.
I just, I wouldn't turn after him.
Yeah.
He's already crosses your, your plane of travel, your, your direction of travel.
You don't have to turn the steering wheel.
You know, I would maybe go, go around to the next block or something, something like that.
That's it.
It's incredible.
KTLA exclusively obtained this dash cam video.
It appears to show an LAPD patrol vehicle hit the officer as he runs across the street.
It sounds like someone inside the LAPD vehicle yells heads up and then the accident.
I just hear the helicopter and then I hear sirens and as soon as I hear tire screeching.
Hector Morales witnessed the chaos.
He didn't see the officer go down but he says LAPD officers at the scene confirmed it was one of the LAPD vehicles that struck the officer.
I didn't see that but I heard that one of the fellow cops hit him.
It happened Friday evening just after 5 on Covella Street and Hollywood Way in Sun Valley.
LAPD officers in pursuit of a stolen black truck.
The truck crashed into a fire hydrant and a car in a driveway.
Almost immediately another call on the radio.
I love it.
I love it that a cop had to get hit, vital infrastructure had to get taken out, somebody's truck in their front yard had to get smashed into, just so these cops could feel alive for a few minutes.
Yeah, yeah.
And just be alive, because like I said, if he didn't hit that fire hydrant, and that water saved him, he would have been shredded up.
The cops didn't even admit that it was a cop driving the cruiser.
They're like, I'm not saying nothing.
But a cruiser hit him, right?
So it had to be a cop.
We haven't ruled out that the car thief didn't steal the cop car and then strike one of our officers with it.
How weird is it that we, cause you can hear, there's like audio of the dash cam.
Not much audio, but it's like ambient audio.
The driver doesn't say anything.
I just think in his head, he was like target acquired.
Yeah.
No, that was right.
Cause that's always like the most interesting things about like, you know, cop is like when a cop shoots someone a video when they realize they shot him and they're like, fuck.
Yeah.
That didn't, that part didn't even happen.
Right.
On Tuesday, officials with LAPD would not confirm that the officer was hit by one of their own cruisers.
I love I love that.
Like we were looking at the dash cam footage of it, but they were in pursuit of a stolen vehicle when an officer was struck at the termination, sustaining non life threatening injuries.
It's cool.
This is what happens when officers insist on high speed pursuits for a car.
Theft, you know, or whatever.
It's it's not good.
I mean, it's L.A.
Like, don't tell me you guys don't have choppers.
Yeah, it's I mean, we've.
High speed pursuits are so awful and like it's one of those things that we should be like just as mad about those as we are about everything else they do.
You know, like I had I had a friend who was killed on his bike because somebody who Decided to run on He was running on like tags.
It wasn't even anything crazy running on tags.
They're chasing him through the canyon and And the dude just went through my friend at 90 miles an hour fuck and it wouldn't have happened if the cops weren't chasing him No, it's it's such a joke.
It's it's absurd like I don't I People die all the time for no reason from that stuff.
Again, like, it doesn't justify... Whatever crime happened doesn't justify it that much more.
You're not undoing the crime by doing any of that.
Yeah, like, go be a fucking detective.
You have the plate information.
Go, like, find them later.
Go be a detective.
Right, exactly.
Let's get into a few responses before we get out of here, because they were pretty good.
Hardly spent says who could have who could have not seen that the world's worst driver definitely shouldn't be patrolling the streets.
Maybe grabbing coffee for the team would be a more appropriate task for this gifted person.
A lot of anti cop stuff in this noise.
Some of it was racist against the brown cop and some of it was like, oh, yeah, he's too fat.
And that's why they hit him.
So it's something like that So something to that effect, I don't know like oh if he'd run faster He wouldn't have gotten hit by the cop car or something.
I don't know but um, no a lot of general like are these guys total morons?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, yes.
But Jintoki-san, Jintoki-san, oh god.
Jintoki-san replies, maybe... Let us know if we need to edit that.
We'll do it in post.
Let us know if we should not have said that.
Yeah.
Maybe, just maybe, we need to fun them a little more, you see?
Oh, yeah!
And I love that it's like oozing sarcasm, so it...
Almost could sound like that's what an idiot would say.
Yeah.
Like that's what he's trying to do.
But I think he's being like, duh, if we had more money, uh, you would teach them how to not be homicidal maniacs.
Like, I don't like, do they?
This is more than negligence.
Like I, I genuinely think he thought he was the.
The perp, they thought he was the suspect, and this is what they do to suspects.
They run them down.
I mean, aside from like the excuse me, aside from glad I remembered aside from the high speed pursuit thing being awful, cops routinely will hit suspects fleeing on foot with their With their cars.
There's been several times where that's happened and I just I don't want to cover it on the show because it's not fun because people because reactionaries love it.
The fascists love hitting people with cars and it's it's too dark even for me.
And they're convinced they're doing it like in a tactical fashion.
They're convinced they're doing it in a non-lethal fashion.
Yeah, so this is what they do.
They just normally do it to people you hate and want it done to.
They're not, quote, stupid.
They're just violent.
They're violent and awful.
You know, I actually, I could get behind this if we can design a mechanism that upon impact of a person, it sprays out a soapy, watery liquid on the landing zone so they can also slip and slide and be safe.
And yeah, then it would be fun too.
And just soaking wet.
Yeah, it's more embarrassing though.
So I think that's that.
Maybe that's how we get the compromise will be.
No, this is really embarrassing for them.
You won't kill them, but their reputation will be.
We'll make it like an effeminate color.
Sure.
We'll make it look like cum.
We'll just make it look like cum.
That way it looks like they're just covered in cum when it's done.
Oh, are we going down another cum riff?
What this show is known for?
Oh, we're not going to talk about the cum trucks.
Comtrux, yeah, let's not talk about Comtrux.
See, exactly.
I liked this.
Daisy 101 from the Bay Area says, that is why it is called an accident.
Every single time a criminal runs or resists, the danger goes up for everyone.
Glad the officer is okay.
And this is where me, I'm the duck with the stick.
Running after Daisy 101, and I'm saying why does the danger go up for everybody?
Why does the danger go up?
It's because cops are gonna hit you with their car at 75 miles an hour.
And this also is kind of going under the premise of like, listen, you think it's bad, but what if that cop wasn't a cop?
What if that cop was a bad guy?
Like, that's what she's saying.
Like, no, no, if they run away, that's more danger, but that wasn't a criminal?
They wouldn't have to drive 75 miles an hour away if the cops weren't chasing them.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Okay, yeah, here we go.
Jellybean1 says, and excuse me, a tubby cop that got hit ran directly into the path of the car that hit him.
Dumb of him to run into the center of the road with others in pursuit.
He could have run on the side of the road, not center.
He also needs to lose some weight as he's probably a heart attack waiting to happen.
Um, so yeah, I don't like this wasn't the main sentiment in here.
Like this is just a really vicious guy.
I'm trying desperately trying to blame it on the victim here.
You know, that's probably in a lot of these people's DNA and it's just confused things when the victim happened to be a cop this time.
Yeah.
Also, like, um, that him being, you know, a little, a little, uh, on the husky side probably helped him out a lot on the impact.
That's true.
And we've also discovered a lot about the health and wealth of fat people and non-fat people and about how a lot of those things are just fatphobic, um, uh, you know, fallacies.
And, you know, you really need to do some reading up, JellyBean1.
I bet you're one of those skinny fucks who eats a bunch of candy.
I'd rather have a fat, cuddly cop than a wiry school shooter cop.
Oh yeah, I don't want a wiry school shooter cop, no.
Frank W. Smith says adrenaline induced tunnel vision during pursuits is real.
Glad the officer is okay.
The driving officer needs more training.
The thing is about tunnel vision is the cop was right in front of him.
So wouldn't like he turned to ensure that the cop stayed within his tunnel of vision.
Like the camera had the you might as well drawn a crosshair on the center of that video and the camera turns with the with the pedestrian officer.
And so like that's not necessarily either you know wrong but you're right it's right right in front of you and also part of if you if If a pursuit is part of your job, and adrenaline is tunnel vision, something you have to deal with, like, Formula One drivers, they do this thing where they have to deal with that because they're, you know, taking corners at 140 miles an hour, so what they have to do is they have to train to avoid the tunnel vision so they don't hit people around them, and there's something you can do to avoid that.
Yes, average person, adrenaline, for sure, but if that's part of your job, you should be prepared for that.
I think we should fund the police finally so they can afford to get those adrenaline blockers for introverts.
Yes.
There you go.
And that way we could have cool, unemotional police officers.
But then they'll never be satisfied and they'll do more desperate things to.
To get that high?
Achieve, to try to find it, yeah.
To get that emotional high?
Are they going to be sense criminals?
No, they're just going to start playing chicken on the freeway.
They're just going to go the opposite direction on the freeway without their lights on.
Yeah, Tee Jordan said, there was a lot of this.
This looks like the Keystone Cops.
In California, they are not used to going after bad guys.
That's true.
You know how cops have quotas?
In most states, it's quotas to catch criminals.
But in California, you have a quota to catch other cops.
Yeah, yeah, right.
I fucking wish.
Where's this idea that, like, California's easy on crime thing coming from?
