Co-host/Interviewer (4:07)

I completely agree. I just wish the people that, that I could extricate from my life, all the Fox News people, but that would include my parents, so I would be an orphan after that. Okay. And then Trump, who never, ever stands up for Americans or American citizens, when asked about did he believe deadly force was okay in the situation that occurred in Minnesota, this is his response that deadly force was necessary.

Progressive Commentator (4:36)

After watching all the footage of the days of past, what's your assessment there? It was highly disrespectful, respectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement. You saw that they were harassing them, were following for, for days and for hours. No, I think frankly they're professional agitators.

Co-host/Interviewer (4:59)

Okay. Highly disrespectful. Now that is a crime because that to me violates the free speech clause in the Constitution. Highly disrespectful. And deadly force should never be next door neighbors, in my opinion. And this whole paid agitator thing, now are we going to start rounding up antifa and doing all that? I mean, that's, he cannot justify what this ICE agent did, whether they were paid, not paid, whether they were followed, whether the language was disrespectful. Of course, obviously we know that it wasn't. But when he says that, what's your take?

Progressive Commentator (5:38)

This is a thing that the right wing has used for a very, very, very long time. Paid agitators. And they like to, and this is before Trump even. And they like to link it to George Soros, who is a very progressive Jewish billionaire that stands up for human rights, universal human rights. He is one of the very few benevolent billionaires that uses his money for good. And they can't understand it. They cannot understand that somebody would stand up for somebody that they perceive as less than them unless they were getting paid. They cannot understand it. So this resonates and absorbs with the MAGA bases. They're like, yeah, why would you stand up for a black person? Well, you have to get money to do that. Why would you stand up for this lesbian? Well, you'd have to get paid to do that because these people value Money over human beings. So they lie and say, and you and I have been to each been to a lot of protests, haven't received one paycheck. There's no such structure that exists in these no Kings rallies. There's no payment plan, there's no busing in. In fact, it's on their side where they paid to bus people in. But really important in this is the reason the Soros stuff sticks and has taken off is because the real anti Semitism is rooted in the Republican Party and it is rooted specifically in the big tent of bigots that the MAGA regime has made. And the MAGA regime continues to feed this, these anti Semitic attacks and tropes on Soros. And you. This is a very interesting thing that's happening right now where you have hardcore Zionists that have gone to Donald Trump for refuge and to think that they are safe. And when you look at the people that Elon Musk retweets all that, you know, all this Nazi that he does, it is so hardcore Jew hater, anti Semitism. And so that paid protester thing is something that they have done for a long time because these people are so morally defunct, so morally inept, they cannot understand that a woman like me or a woman like you would put our hand in hand with a black woman and say, I stand with her, her struggle is my struggle and I will fight and for equality with everything in me. They don't understand that. They can't relate to that. So they think in order for us to have that kind of compassion and to have that kind of empathy and to have that type of conviction, that we would have to be paid because they would have to be paid for them. It's transactional, right?

Co-host/Interviewer (8:49)

That's exactly right. In fact, that's a great segue, Kylie. If you'll pop up the last slide and then we'll come back to the next one. Speaking of paying, ICE is spending $8 million on deals with pro ICE influencers to push its propaganda online. And according to an internal document obtained by the Washington Post, Immigrations and Custom Enforcement is carving out eight million from its hundred million one year wartime recruitment strategy on funds with pro ICE influencers. So this is exactly, exactly the link you made. They cannot imagine not having to pay and support or not support has to be transactional. But to be fair, ICE is so vile, the fact that you would take money, even to take money for it is gross to me. You're just as bad a part of the problem if you're Pro ice, whether you get paid or not?

Progressive Commentator (9:52)

Well, yeah, I mean, that's every MAGA person with a cell phone. You know, I mean, they retweet, they do all that. I mean, of course they'll take money to promote violence. Of course they will. Whitewash January 6th. Like, this is a. This is a political party that has really been exposed. This is a political party that was weaponized homophobia and weaponized racism for years and years and years. And now the mask is really, really off. And I cannot emphasize this enough. My differences with MAGA voters are not political. They're moral. They are absolutely moral. What I see this regime doing, the dehumanization, what I've seen when Trump came down the escalator and called immigrants rap, rapists, drug dealers, when he's the one who pardons rapists and drug dealers from the jump, My disagreements with him and my disagreements with this movement have never, ever, ever been political. My disagreements with John McCain when he ran against Obama, those were political. Those were political differences. Nuances in tax policy, nuances in civil liberties, which I is a hill I will die on. But this regime and what they do is something that is just far, far beyond for me. And the only parallel that I have to link this to is Nazi Germany. And I don't have to keep doing that because the administration keeps using and copying Nazi propaganda. They just translate it from German and they're putting it into English and the hoods are off.

Co-host/Interviewer (11:36)

You're absolutely right. And one thing I wanted to point out, since we're talking about civil rights, the DOJ has fired and or the people resign. It's not 100 clear the within the DOJ, there is a part of it that is strictly human rights looking at human rights violation. And so top DOJ officials quit after. After their division refused to probe Minnesota ice shooting. So at least four of the officials in the DOJ civil rights unit wanted to do a full investigation into whether or not Renee Good civil rights were violated. And they were told no, and so they quit. And of course, you know, some people in MAGA are saying they're fought, but it doesn't matter. The people with any kind of conscience, with any kind of ability to see things objectively, they have now been removed. They are no longer in their offices. And there we have it. We've just got the full maga. You know, all the lovers, the sycophants, they're still in there. But they would not open an investigation into civil rights violations because in my mind, they don't think Trump is capable of violating Civil rights because they don't believe people really have civil rights unless they're part of their movement.

Progressive Commentator (13:01)

Well, right. And they don't want the truth out.

Co-host/Interviewer (13:04)

Well, right.

Progressive Commentator (13:04)

They have to keep the propaganda going. They don't want a civil rights division at the doj. These people oppose civil rights. The president of the United States just recently said the civil rights movement was very unfair to white people. So any notion that we're going to have a DOJ that have a. Has a civil rights division when this administration is whitewashing at an incredibly obscene rate all of the black service members from the military. Juneteenth was canceled. We're going to have civil rights division in this. In. In Nazism. No, that's not going to happen. Of course, their. Their end goal here will be to do away with the civil rights division and the doj and their murder, their illegal murder of Renee Good just accelerates that for them.

Co-host/Interviewer (13:57)

Absolutely. And. And I fear that Renee Goode will not be the last person. As we see all these shootings coming with ICE and, you know, the response by the administration where we're going to send more people. I think they want a fight to continue. They want the protests to become confrontational and violent because then they feel like they're justified. And then, you know, I take it all the way to the midterm election.

Progressive Commentator (14:24)

Yeah. I think the one thing that these people didn't calculate because they lack impulse control was in order for this to really turn into the autocracy, oligarchy, dictatorship that they want, they would have moved incrementally, but they're moving at such a rapid speed, and there's such a massive backlash. And I think it's going to be a really, and I use this word very cautiously, but I think this ICE stuff is going to get bloodier. Since Renee Good shooting, they haven't decreased, they have increased. And these people are sharks, demonic sharks. And when there's chum in the water, they just can't get enough of it. When it. As it pertains to ICE agents beating up women. And now they've widened the scope to wine moms that are organized and getting paid and all this crazy that's not even believable to Donald Trump watching the capture of Maduro, who now all of a sudden has imperialistic ambitions and the chum. When these people, they're like Pavlovian, when they get a little taste for something, it just increases their desire to increase the depravity at such a rapid rate and the rate in which they're moving. There's such a backlash to it. But I, I'm hopeful that our midterms stay very localized and that the pouring out, that it's too big to rig, that there are so many Americans like that we have the highest voter turnout that we've ever had that it is impossible, impossible for them to rig it. And they're going to try. They're already starting with, you know, the post office. There's been changes there that are terrible. All the gerrymandering. They're going to do everything they can to try to cheat. But I don't want that to suppress voter turnout because, listener, you must remember our political races are very localized and contrary to what Republicans have been saying forever, we really have free and fair elections. And so I hope that all of their voter suppression tactics that we can create a chorus that people turn out and turn out and force and it must be too big to rig.

Co-host/Interviewer (16:54)

No, I completely agree. We have to get everybody out there. All right, we're going to stay on top of this story. Please like this video and subscribe to our channel.