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Hey. Hi. Hello. Welcome to Even More News Monday edition. I don't know. Title is a work in progress. We're gonna workshop that. I'm Katie Stoll. Hi. Hi, Katie Stoll. And thank you so much. I'm Cody Johnson. Welcome to to be determined, the show, the sloper. The last three days? The sloper bucket. Hi. Hi. Jonathan is also here. Whoop whoop. Hi. On a Monday, I'm here. Bright eyed and bushy tailed. Prove it. I can't show you my bushy tail, but you can see my broadness. I don't wanna What can you show us? Shake my butt on camera. I want I wanna see I wanna see what you're drinking out of. Oh, oh, do you? I really wanna see Look at that mug. Because oh my gosh. Jonathan is also here, Meg. Oh my gosh. It looks so good. Face, and you're saying hi, and you're also there, and you're on a mug and everything. Our loyal listeners and viewers to understand that you asked for this merch. You asked. You begged for this to to this is for you. In the merch store, and Jonathan is the only one that's bought one. Well, we've sold a sticker and a shirt. Oh. You know, it's a How did you buy a sticker, Jonathan? No. I didn't. I just bought it. Is there a sticker at the bottom of that mug? Although, you shouldn't buy it. We'll reimburse you for that. It's not every day, though, you get to drink out of a mug with your face on it, except it is for me now. It is every day. For you now. Now. Well, we made that merch just specifically for you. Enough about that. I just need to introduce what this new version, this new show is. It's a it's a new version. We want to do our best to keep up with the absolute fire hose of news. So we are recording this Monday morning, and it is going we're doing gonna do our best to cover all the stuff that develops between when we record on Thursday and now Monday morning. It is gonna be a little different. It's gonna be quicker. No holidays to celebrate. Oh. Just mainlining that good news. Oh, good news. Good news. So You said good news? Think there's any good news. Oh. Unless you're a bad person, I suppose. Oh. Jonathan, where are we starting? I know. But explain for our listeners. We're starting in New York City. In New York City. The big city. Yeah. At Columbia University, Trump is cutting $400,000,000 in funds to Columbia because of apparently how they handled the encampments last spring. Yeah. And they're threatening to remove up to $5,000,000,000 in federal grants that they're eligible for going forward. And this did start developing last week. I'll we we briefly mentioned this and didn't have time to go into it, but more has developed since then. But so last week, he declared illegal protests. You know, funding would be revoked from schools over, illegal protest. Oh, yeah. And he said this months ago. Like, this was part like, he mentioned this during his campaign. Like, we're gonna this is this is part of it. And then over the weekend, a student permanent resident of The United States was detained by ICE for leading the leading one of the encampments. His name is Mahmoud Khalil. He was taken from a university owed residence on Saturday night by ICE. He has a wife who is eight months pregnant. They don't know exactly She's American. Right? Yes. Like, their lawyer, Amy Greer, has been trying to track him down. They think he might be in Louisiana. They don't know where he's been detained. And let's be very clear. This is, like, detaining people, disappearing people. This is terrifying. This is thought policing. They say it's because, he's a Hamas supporter, but, of course, he was leading a encampment aiming to get Colombia to divest from Israel, which is, different from support from us. This is what we've we've talked about. The difference between, no. Obviously, Biden administration was terrible about the war. Kamala really missed the mark in how she campaigned, and we knew that this would be 10,000 times worse under Trump administration. Outright horrifying. The fact that they I mean, all of it's horrifying, but I'm really, really locked in on they don't know where he is. What the f**k do you mean they don't know where he is? Well, they didn't even know, like, they didn't they they, like, said, like, his Visa was revoked and then he was like, well, I have a green card. And, like, well, that's been revoked too. Like, it was just this weird back and forth where, like, they didn't even know the details of what they were doing. They were just, like, the directive was seems to have been just, like, just get him. Just get him for, like and say whatever you have to to get this person, which and, like, you have different people have varying opinions about the protests and, and all this stuff, but this is the first one. Yeah. This is not the last thing that will happen like this. To, to back this up, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state. Well, he tweeted, we will be revoking the visas and slash or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported. First of all, legally, they can't revoke a green card. Marco Rubio does not have the power to do that. Donald Trump does not have the power to unilaterally do that. An immigration judge would have to do that. And there's a lot of the language they use, like Marco Rubio says Hamas supporters. And then the DHS spokesperson said Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas. So they're not even saying different things. They're not saying he's a member of Hamas or even someone who's, like, in from an organizational capacity supported Hamas. They're just saying, well, he's aligned with them in that maybe he wants some of the same things that You can define that so many different ways. Yeah. Wanting a company or a university to divest from another country is grounds for deportation now. Yeah. It's absurd. And it is something we've talked about before. Sorry, folks. But this is something that was always, on the horizon. And, the Sucks being right, doesn't it? Sucks being right. But, also, this is something that, again, we've seen, like, last year, a lot of Democrats and Liberals, supporting this line of thinking and this sort of logic of, like, oh, you're, like, calling people Hamas supporters throughout these protests, saying that you're aligned with Hamas for these divestment, camps and things like that. And so they've laid the groundwork to let this happen more. Like, they don't really have rights to stand on in defending this because they've spent a year calling them Hamas supporters. If you're supporting that narrative, you're handing Trump an easier time to get this stuff done. Columbia University did tons of stuff to crack down these protests. Like, they arrested students. They did all kinds of stuff to, like, do the right thing and do what everybody everybody in that world wanted them to do, yet they still Air quotes on do the right thing, by the way. Do the right thing, air quotes for our listeners. So they've they've done all these things already and yet still, they're like, well, we're pulling your funding because you're Hamas terrorist supporters and all this kind of stuff. Again, this is like the laying the groundwork for this fascist crackdown is what happened last year and it sucks. Yeah. I guess, is my point. I don't know. I could I couldn't agree with you more completely, my friend. And if you think it's think that's gonna fit on a mug. I don't know. I was trying a new cat phrase. I couldn't agree with you more completely, my friend. You my friend? I just feel like I my head is spinning off of my body. The way it's framed when you dig into the discourse online about, let's say, these these terrible riots at these college campuses. Citation needed about the riots. There was some protests. There were some, yeah, kids being stopped from going to classes a bit. Not really. They can walk around. Regardless, the sheer hypocrisy of an actual riot at our capitol and all of these January 6 Thurs being I wouldn't even I don't even have to use the word coup. It was a f**king riot. We can all agree on that. Just the the wild, wild hypocrisy. These are students exercising their rights. And then also, though, when you dig in online, I I f**king dared to tread into a Libs of TikTok tweet about it. Oh, god. But I I was also I was horrified by the responses, but also pleased by some amount of people saying, I voted for Trump, but this doesn't seem right. Well no. But the I think the January 6 comparison is apt because they are Trump is intentionally doing what MAGA perceives happened to them during the Biden administration, where they were all arrested and detained for their beliefs. They weren't. But that that's what they're intentionally trying to do. I want to, point out that they do know where, Mahmoud Khalil is being held. He is at a facility in Jeddah, Louisiana. They they originally told his wife that he was in a holding facility in New Jersey, and I guess he was there briefly. But she went there on Sunday, and he wasn't there. So it's just a complete cluster. Another, that that spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security also said that the justification for detaining him was, quote, in support of President Trump's executive orders prohibiting antisemitism, which is different than aligned with Hamas unless you just mash all that stuff together. The hypocrisy is what's really getting me getting my gut. One of the I mean, one of the those guys is like, yeah. We need to, like, normalize Indian hate and, like, I love racism. Like, what? Like, okay. Yeah. But, to to your point, Jonathan, like, to there's no there's no clear reason because they know they don't need one because they're just gonna do this. And, they seem to have things in place where you can say, but that's illegal, sir, and that doesn't matter. And saying like, oh, you're Hamas supporter, or, oh, you're aligned with Hamas, or, oh, you're just antisemitic. Like, those three things are not just, but you know what I mean? Those are all the same, and you can define it however you want and get rid of whoever you want, and, nothing matters. Our Monday morning show is off to a rousing start. Feeling good, feeling fine. On Friday, we talked about the tariffs and their potential their justification for the tariffs, none of which makes sense, and why they might actually be doing this, particularly to Canada. And one thing we didn't mention is this attempt by Trump to economically demolish Canada so that they will become the fifty first state. And this suggestion, you know, we've kind of laughed it off because it's so incredibly stupid. But Trump has said he's serious, and His actions. Justin Trudeau has said that he's serious. They're taking this very, very seriously. Well, I just wanna acknowledge because we've got a lot of Canadian viewers and listeners, and we love you so much, and we appreciate you. And rightfully, some people were not mean or anything. So this isn't like a pointing out that the reality of what it feels like to be living in Canada right now, to be experiencing this rhetoric and feeling this, and it's horrifying. And under no circumstances do we wanna brush that under the rug. This is a threat, and, it's mind boggling. Yeah. I mean, it's like there's this idea of, like, well, he only he's only gonna go after, like, Toronto and the area around there. I mean, any But even that, there's nothing Of course, that's absurd. No. Even just invading Quebec a little bit or something would be What are you talking about? There's seemingly no reason for it other than hubris and maybe, like, oh, they've got some resources there that we could use, and that's what other leaders do is they you know, that's what Putin's doing, expanding his area. He just thinks it would be cool if he was the guy to expand The United States for the first time in however long. And he's also, seems to be aiming for, you know, places in the North, and like Greenland. And it does seem like it's one of those it's one of those things where conservatives and Republicans and fascists, I guess, don't believe in climate change, but their actions are aligned with what a fascist might do if they did believe in climate change. Even like Trump's like, back in the day, his golf course, they built a seawall for the rising sea. Uh-huh. But he doesn't believe in climate change. It's a hoax from the Chinese, but he still his actions still line up with it. And a lot of the Canada Greenland stuff seems to be somewhat related to that where it's like, well, obviously it's not like real, but we're gonna treat it differently. Cody, you think though if the sea level rose that Trump wouldn't just sell his golf course and move it to somewhere else? It's a good point. Don't you think why wouldn't you just sell it and and move? He should just he should just sell it to somebody. Some fictional f**king aqua. Ah. You know, it's hard to follow all of the threats. It's hard to understand what's gonna stick and what isn't. We've got tear some tear us on, some tear us off. You guys are feeling that for real, and it's it's really we don't we don't know where this is headed at this exact moment or what will actually materialize, but it's all terrifying. You know, our new producer, Moana, had pointed out, like, right now, he's doing an executive order to start logging our national forests. Is this tied in with the tariffs, you know, on lumber from the dugout? Yeah. Put a logger in charge. Like, it's it's just it's a lot to sort. But we, certainly acknowledge this and, gosh, don't hate us. I also think Trump might not have known that a bunch of the Great Lakes are, like, technically split between The United States and Canada. Like, I think, like, Michigan is completely in The US, but all of the others were just kind of, like, the jurisdiction is through the middle. And he's like, no. We should have the North Part of Lake Erie too. What the hell? That that's fine. He keeps he keeps learning stuff. And He never stopped learning. But that but we shouldn't be doing that. And, And, like, some of some of these stuff is like, yeah. But, like, we made the deal. Like, what do you like, it's just this this, long pattern of, betraying our allies and making them simply not trust us anymore for anything. Yeah. Not that we should be, like, fully trusted, in all the things that we do, but, like, every single thing is like, well, we should just redo it. We should just take it back. We shouldn't have done that deal. It's a bad deal. Yeah. But you're new, man. Like Right. He he the the emphasis on the nineteen o eight border treaty is very Putinesque. He's saying, look, this treaty that demarcated the borders a hundred and twenty years ago, That's that was not a valid treaty because of no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No he knows Russian history way better than Trump knows about the history. I don't believe Trump could pass a civic Trump half distorts it just because he has has no idea. Right. And so they're both lying about stuff, but for far different reasons. Yeah. The also the I just wanna highlight, we're talking about this tariffs. We're gonna talk about this forever and ever. He's still talking about them like they're threats and deal and part of a deal making. But then he says, like, well, actually, the tariffs are gonna bring up billions and billions of dollars, and you're gonna have more money than you could possibly imagine. Well, which is it? Which is it? Are they good and necessary, or are they a threat to get some other deal happening? And what's the goal? What are we what are we talking about here? That's absurd. Also, like, you have he's, like, talking about saying, like, oh, yes. We need a a rough transition. Secretary of the treasury said it was a detox period is what, they described it as. Other words for recession. It's not good, folks. None of it's good. It's not good for us. It's not good for Canada. It's not good for the world. Nothing is good. Everything's bad. I have a small thing I could talk about. Oh, you've got a small thing? Yeah. Letter fire. Just a small Little friend. That's not gonna make even more news. Colon all the small things. All the small things. All the small things. We're gonna need you guys to sound off in the comments what we should call this. Even more news. Damn it. Wait, Cody. What's your small thing? My small thing is, something that doesn't technically matter, but it does in the large scheme of things. And, it's illustrative of the many obvious lies told by the Doge guy and his Doge team. I'm gonna read this tweet. It's from a couple days ago. It's from Doge at Doge on Twitter.com. The VA canceled a $56,000 contract to water about eight plants for five years. This is about $1,400 per plant per year. The contract has been canceled, and Doge will water the plants free of charge. Yep. Those plants are thumbs out. Toast. That's the first reaction is those plants are dead. You're gonna throw those plants away or they're gonna die slowly. What a weird thing to say. Doge will water the plants free of charge. No. They won't. They're not gonna be living in the VA offices. Like, what are you talking about? They're not gonna show up to water these plants multiple times a week. So that is absurd and a lie, obviously. But what I wanted to highlight is so stupid. I'm sorry for wasting everybody's time. They share two pictures in the tweet. And one is a picture, in the office of two plants in, like, the lobby. And another is a picture of the paper that tells everybody not to water the plants. I'm gonna read this and describe the piece of paper. Please do not water these plants. These plants are serviced by a plant contractor. Thank you. Buildings management division. The paper has pictures of 15 different types of plants. There are 15 different types of plants that they're not supposed to water. There's another picture of two of the same type of plant in the office. Therefore, one can assume there are at least 16 plants in the office that are to be watered. About eight is a weird estimation when there are 15 different types of plants that are to be watered by these people. I would pause it that there are probably, like, 20 to 30 plants, not about eight. So, actually, it costs about 700 per plant per year or probably less. This is a small thing. You're right. You're right. It does not matter. But you know what? This is the weekend update, whatever, whatever, the last few days. I just think it's, like, very again, it's very illustrative of, like but that's an obvious lie. About eight, you're sharing a picture with 15. Oh, these were dumb. Why would you say about eight? It's just like they're such liars. I'd like to bring one other thing up related to this. Because even if you think even if you agree, like, okay, well, the government shouldn't let people who work in those offices bring their own plans. We should talk. Whatever. Totally. Okay. Doge is supposed to be saving hundreds of billions of dollars. If they are bragging online about saying we're saving you $56,000 over five years, like 10 k a year for the federal government is like me saying I saved money by not buying my son this, like, whale bath toy where the water goes blah blah blah blah. Like, this is nothing. This is crap. Like, what are you talking about? If if my wife came home and I'm like, I saved us so much money today, I canceled the contract. I'm returning this. Right now. Returning this for 35¢. Consider the money say your why didn't you waste my time you should have worked two minutes longer and made more money if that's how this worked. Also, it'd be like you saying, like, I returned 9 of them, and she'd be like, but we only have one. Like Alright. Boys, your point has been made. This is stupid. But tell me, surely the Doge guy is getting along with other people. Things are going swimming swimmingly in cabinet meetings. Like, his relationship with Marco Rubio, for example. So, I mean, on Friday Plain of transitions. I I love these, Palace Intrigue stories. Maggie Haberman is like I like I don't buy the thing that the media loves Trump and they wanted Trump back, but Maggie Haberman is like, thank goodness. I'm buying a nice stories. I do buy the thing that the media loves Trump. I mean, it's a complicated love hate, but It's a it's complicated, but I wouldn't yeah. There was this cabinet meeting on Friday, hastily assembled. It was called Thursday night. They met Friday. The whole cabinet was there. Elon Musk is there. A bunch of cabinet secretaries have been going to Trump and saying, this guy is like firing people left and right. Is he running my department or am I running my department? And Trump is like, let's get in the courtroom. Let's apprentice this. I could figure this out. Elon Musk starts just berating cabinet secretaries pulling out like, well, I've run a bunch of billion dollar companies. You don't think I know what I'm doing? Marco Rubio gets all upset and they get into a shouting match back and forth. So Elon and little Marco, The New York Times says Elon Musk was letting mister Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff. You have fired nobody, mister Musk told mister Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from mister Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. So they all hate each other. They're not doing very well. Musk also suggested that Rubio was, quote, good on TV with the clear subtext. This is The New York Times with the clear subtext being that he was not good for much else. I would posit he's not even good on TV. But Yeah. This is, again, just like, yeah, this is what we would expect. But now there's lots of they love each other tweets. Nothing to see here Oh, so funny. Or other way folks. One interesting thing about the story, I thought, because, like, the the Rubio thing is, like, okay, Rubio, you're not gonna last that long. Like, I know, like, you're on board and you're gonna pretend to be, like, we are we are serious administration, but, like, you're gonna be slumped in your little couch while Zelensky is, like the the they demand him to be like, to thank them or whatever. Sean Duffy was also, involved in this story. And Sean Duffy, for viewers for our younger viewers, he, he's he was on The Real World. He started his career on The Real World. Seattle, I think. It's a show on MTV. It was a show on MTV. MTV was music television. Starting the television. Television was the thing you could have, have, like, should have all these channels. Right? Oh, okay. But Sean Duffy, is the depart head of the department of transportation, and he also had a bit of a a back and forth with Musk because, Musk is Musk's Doge kept demanding that he fire air traffic controllers. True. True. And Duffy was like, but no. This is my department. And then Musk was like, but how many, like, who name the names. Name names. Who's be fired? And Duffy was like, well, nobody because I didn't do the thing that you demanded I do. So I can't give you names because I'm not doing the bad idea that you have. Hell yeah, real world. And I thought that was just, like, that's an inter I know. Like, it seems This is the real world must. It's a fascinating thing because, like, Marco Rubio knew what he's getting into. Like, he's like, oh, I'll do okay. Yes. Trump. Sean Duffy is, like, one of those guys, like, yeah. I'm a Fox News guy. Yeah. Alright. Trump's great. Like, they just, like, gas him up for years because, like, part of their career and all this stuff. And it seems like he's like, wait. But I thought I was gonna, like, run the department of transportation. Wait. Is this kinda like a f**king clown show? Like, what's going on here? Read the thing. According to the New York Times, the exchange ended with mister Trump telling mister Duffy that he had to hire people from MIT as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be geniuses, he said. What are you talking about? End of episode. End of end of the apprentice episode, not this episode. Not this well, pretty close. Yeah. It is all wild, mind boggling, chaotic, not the way to run a country, terrifying for anybody that's working in these departments or just your average American that wants to fly somewhere soon because, you know and I don't wanna lean into all the rhetoric about the amount of crashes we have being reported, because there is some we do have more plane accidents than we realize, and they are being reported now. But it's a wild time to be talking about firing these people and having fine blaming them all. I mean, I it's not gonna get better like this. I'm fine saying it's all their fault. Oh, a real quick conclusion to this Duffy story. One day later, Elon Musk unfollowed him on Twitter. Oh, burn. Got it. And also before we, move on or end, Rubio with the Rubio story. Yeah. There is a deputy State Department official named Darren Beatty, who has deleted a bunch of tweets. Oh, the racist guy who was like, we need white people in the government. Yeah. Oh. So he's deleted a bunch of tweets, where he called, Rubio low IQ and said he went to foam parties, I believe. Okay. What whatever a foam party is. But I do want to read a tweet that as of now, he has not deleted. Okay. Yummy. That tweet says competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities and demoralizing competent white men. That tweet's up. That guy is high ranking in the state department. Yeah. He is. It's horrifying. Yeah. He works for Marco Rubio. Oh, it's, it's all real bad. I I we got a little silly and I wanna tie this back and, these all these people are, very racist and, they're all these bad people who work in this administration. And that is, to tie it back to what we're talking about. They're just gonna, like, go after, like, black and brown people and people who don't look like them and, deport as many people as possible, who don't look right. And, we're seeing the start of that and using using this, as a pretext that a lot of people seem to be going along with. I've already seen, like, some liberals be like, well, he's a terrorist, so, like, get him out of here. Right. It's real, again, like, flashbacks to past administrations, and, it is Well, they set the stage for this. %. Yeah. And and now we're here, Biden. But even, like, you know, like, post nine eleven flashbacks and stuff where it's like, okay. We're just, like, calling everybody a terrorist, trying to get them out. And now we have these, again, like these, vicious clowns, kind of working together in this, like, cobbled together movement of people who disagree with each other, but agree on just enough. And one of the main things they agree on is, like, Trump is king, and he's gonna do all this stuff and get it done. And anyone who says that's illegal will not be involved for long. And it's chill it's chilling. So chilling and overwhelming. Yeah. You you can get away with accusing people of something without any evidence, and there's so much coming down the pipeline at all times. It's hard to keep track of stories. Okay. And one fun thing we will leave you on with, we all have to watch this more in-depth, but Sam Cedar did a jubilee style debate situation, and the clips are absolutely astounding. I am going to treat myself by watching it all later today. Oh, yeah. It does tie in with a lot of these conversations. When you talk about you said that that they are racists. You know, it's easy to say and I don't think that everybody that voted for Donald Trump is racist. I'm gonna say that, again, even though but a lot of them are. And one of them is highlighted in this video, and she just flat out says it. Like, what's wrong with having an ethnostate? What's wrong with us being white? And other people just so unable to grasp the basic reality of, oh, no. DEI, in the government doesn't mean that they're getting tax breaks because they're the f**king government. They don't pay taxes. It is mind blowing, but, watch it maybe. It's a fascinating look. I've watched it. I think, I have to believe some of these people are doing characters and bits. They can't be real people. There's no way they're real people. It is I know they are, but I, my brain is really struggling to believe that they're real people. But sort of to to a point I was kinda making earlier about, like, the Trump movement, it is really interesting to see 20 conservatives talk about these issues. And first of all, they don't actually address the things he says. It's very much they're sort of making his argument for him by being like, actually nationalism is great, or actually billionaires are great. Like, they sort of argue in a in a weird way by not arguing with him. But, it is interesting to see like, oh, there's like four racists who are like, yeah, I'm racist. And then there are other people who are like, wait, what? Like, there is there are factions of people who have been cobbled together in support of one thing, which is Donald Trump and the, like, many, like, swirl of lies that he says. And it's just very interesting to see them all try to argue these same things, but in different ways for different reasons and then be like, wait. Well, I don't agree with it. I don't agree with racism. Right. Like, it's very, very interesting. It kind of crystallizes everything that we've been saying that I've been saying, which is like, yeah. People have bad ideas. Some of them are bad about this. Some of them is has nothing to do with race, but it does have to do with this. And it's all wrong. Or it doesn't. They don't realize it and, like And then, like Yeah. It it's just more nuanced and more insidious. And with that, my friends, my friends, I think we've done it. I think we've done it. I think. Don't know what this voice is. I agree with you. Completely Thank you. And couldn't disagree more, my friend. Jonathan, my friend. How you doing? I feel great. The end of the show check-in? Awesome. We feel great. We feel Catharde ready to go tackle the week. Go read more news. At home, we love you very much. And end of the show. You said it so quickly.
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