← Bulwark Takes
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Hey everybody, it's Tim Miller with the new Bulwark. Take look, there's been so much happening out here that even though it's the fifth anniversary of January 6th, I wanted to take the day to focus on all the stuff Trump is doing now to attack our democracy and undermine us on the world stage. I had a great interview on the POD with John Blitzer talking about what's happening in Venezuela. The I talked about Trump's attack, attacks on the First Amendment rights of Americans who are speaking out against him. In that interview with Imran Ahmed, you should go check out if you haven't, who is at risk of being deported right now despite having American kid, American wife, and a green card because he advocated against some of the changes that Elon Musk made to X. And Trump's now doing Elon Musk a solid and trying to send him out of the country. I thought they were all free speech absolutists. So, you know, what is happening now is so urgent that I wanted to focus on it. But I felt remiss not talking a little bit about January 6th. There's so many other folks out there who did these amazing retrospectives for us. Bill Kristol talked to Tom Jocelyn, the Washington Post. One is so good. NPR's my new colleague Sarah Matthews, who was actually there and quit that day on January 6, did some great work over on TikTok. And so rather than kind of do all that and get on my high horse. I just wanted to tell the one story of one of the people that was pardoned because I saw this video yesterday and it incensed me. And I'm hoping in particular that Republicans of good faith that people that support Israel might see this, might see this video and think about what it is that they're supporting. No, sorry, there are no Republicans of good faith. And I'm hoping in particular that any Republicans left with an ounce of possible concern about this country and what Donald Trump's doing to it, or anybody who are supporters of Israel and are concerned about the anti Semitism in the country and the attacks that we're seeing, I'm hoping that they might look at this and think about the fact that Donald Trump pardoned this person and really reflect on where we are as a country. That things could have gotten so partisan and so divided that half the country could think it's okay that somebody like this man could be pardoned and celebrated within the right. So let's run through it. The man I'm talking about is Jacob Lang. Lang was facing an 11 count indictment for his actions on January 6th before he was pardoned. Yesterday, the White House touted the commutations and pardons for all these people say that they were unfairly targeted and overcharged. Unfairly targeted and overcharged. Well, let's take a look at the story of Jacob Lang here. He was seen with a gas mask and a shield attacking a police officer with a bat on January 6th. Let's watch. This is the back. The blue guys, the one who pardoned a person that did that, attacked a cop with a bat after he attacked the Capitol Police. The Justice Department said that Lang tried to organize state militias on telegram to try to stop Biden's inauguration. So for him, it didn't just stop on January 6th. He wrote, Our best and honestly easiest option right now is to make sure Joe Biden never gets in that office. You understand why Trump would like Jacob Lang. I mean, he just did a coup of his own in Venezuela. So Trump's big on that. But generally speaking, you think people that are supporters of our liberal democracy would not be in favor of pardoning a guy that attacked a cop with a bat and then tried to organize a militia to stop the inauguration and the peaceful transfer of power in this country. Fast forward a few years since Trump gave him his newfound freedom. Here's what he's been up to. He's not like, you know, you might have seen the video Yesterday from the Jan6 or the Jan6 grandma who talks about how she deserved the punishment and how she's changed her views. You know that she he's not come out of incarceration and decided to recommit himself to the community. No. Lang is a self described Christian nationalist and well, he's been productive. Since he got out of jail he's been a productive piece of shit. He's been traveling around the country taunting Muslims, Jews and other minorities. In November he traveled to Dearborn, Michigan for an anti Islam protest where he threatened to burn a Koran and he waved a package of bacon in the face of counter protesters. Here's this really fucking upstanding confederate holding his bacon outside the protests. A week later he traveled to Plano, Texas once again to protest against Islam. With a pig in his hand. He was shouting this I want to.
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See the Trump administration send ICE in here like they promised recently and remove every scumbag, dirty Muslim and Somali that is here. We need to protect our country, our posterity. White children in America will cease to exist unless we take to the streets, show our dominance and make these people feel uncomfortable.
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We need to protect the white children of America. Just the white children. Not the black children, not the brown children, not the Jewish children, just the white Anglo children. We have to protect them. Well not from school shootings. We gotta protect them.
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Which brings us to what he's doing this week, to the video that I saw that prompted this take. He's here. It's the anniversary. Coming up on the anniversary and right beforehand, Lang held a Americans only crusader rally outside of apec. What happened at this rally, you wonder, you know, were they counter protesting? I was told that all of these pro Israel right wingers, the Nikki Haley supporters, needed to support Trump because the left was so anti Semitic. So I imagine Trump's guy that he pardoned that was there on January 6th was outside of AIPAC. Who knows, maybe he was counter protesting Hamas. No, he was outside of aipac throwing gold coins at people dressed like politicians. Let's watch.
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They have bought our politicians. They've thrown their Jewish money at our politicians. They have held us into their forever wars. And we are saying, as American Christians, it's America first. It's America only then he went and.
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Called himself a Nazi.
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One pathetic counter protester. Let's go, baby. Tor and proud. Tor and proud. If you're whatever a Nazi isn't, then I'm a Nazi, bitch. Shut the fuck up, Nazi.
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And then as the rally was coming to an end, here was his parting thoughts.
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White Christian men are not gonna sit around while you turn our children into a bunch of lovers.
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Our children are not gonna turn into a bunch of lovers. Really? Really. Well, here's what I think. Fuck this person and his thoughts and his attack on cops, on Muslims, on Jews, on black kids. Fuck him. Fuck him. And fuck Donald Trump who pardoned him. Fuck Jacob Lang and all of the people who are in the Trump administration up to including his Vice president. Who said that he wasn't going to pardon the violent criminals. He did. He pardoned a violent criminal. He pardoned this guy. And you know what he's doing now? Not only is he back out there agitating, is he back out there demeaning and discriminating and doing everything that goes against what we would want for a pluralistic society. He wants to try to take over our government. He's decided that he's going to run for Senate in Florida. He wants to challenge Republican Senator Ashley Moody, who was appointed there after Marco Rubio became Secretary of State. I got to tell you, this is a guy that should be behind bars. This is a guy that should have the condemnation of everyone outside of a handful of racist cranks who watch Nick Fuentes because no girls will love them. But instead, he has been pardoned by this administration, honored by this administration. On January 6, when Donald Trump and his White House offered a retrospective, they attacked the Vice president, Mike Pence, who tried to do the right thing, and they honored people like Jacob Lang, who stormed the Capitol, attack cops, throw coins at people walking into aipac, try to throw bacon in the face of Islamic Americans, say that he doesn't want our children to be N word lovers. That is. That is the type of person that Donald Trump is fighting for, him and his billionaire buddies. It's a. It's a truly, truly enraging and maddening state of affairs. And, you know, part of the reason why I wanted to focus on going forward is because you can just tell, it just gets you so fucking pissed to think about it. And sometimes to be successful and to be effective, the only thing to do is to put one footstep in front of the other and go forward. And we're going to do that. We're going to keep fighting these guys, and guys like this are going to lose. His worldview is going to be in the dustbin of history, but we need to fight it head on, and people need to look at it. People need to know that this is the type of person this administration has advocated for. Jacob Lang. All right, there you go, everybody. This is Bulwark. Take hope you could stomach that one. Subscribe to the feed. We'll see you all soon.