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This. What you're hearing is a video show shot at the San Francisco airport four days ago. It's heartbreaking, but unlike what that onlooker is yelling, it is not illegal. We know this because of subsequent reporting by the New York Times. In the San Francisco Chronicle, the woman being detained by ICE agents and her nine year old daughter, she is Angela Lopez Jimenez. The daughter was identified as being under a deportation order, as was the mother. The judge ordered the deportation in 2019. She came into the country, requested asylum, went some hearings, then melted into the background and has been living as such for the last seven years. And then with the latest deployment into airports, the ICE agents were actually tipped off beforehand by the tsa, did detain her and they can do it. And Donald Trump was elected to do this. It is a consequence of the democratic process and a reaction to the previous administration not doing it, not doing it sufficiently to the will of the American people. Now there's another argument that you hear in the coverage is that Trump said he'd arrest the worst of the worst. And this is not that. This is a sympathetic non law breaker. Yes, yes, he did say that. But he and Tom Homan and Steven Miller also said dozens of times that they would be doing internal detentions across the board and not just the worst of the worst. You might have noticed that Donald Trump says everything and it's opposite but there was no real question that the administration would be doing many of these detentions and promise to. In fact, the cleverest retort of the intelligentsia was that it would be unpopular. And guess what? It has proven to be. The only reason that this was reported, one detention among many, was that it had gone viral before the reporters were called in to actually lend some truth and clarity to the story. Jessica Yellen, a former CNN correspondent, is where I saw it. She has an instit Instagram feed called News Not Noise and here's how she wrote this up. Eyewitnesses say this woman was detained by ICE agents at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday night. The woman was at a domestic terminal where passports are not required for travel. That may be true. I mean, that is true. But it's irrelevant to what happened here, though it's clear that the implication is something like there was some unfairness to the woman who was possibly asked for a passport that she didn't produce. The description goes on to say, and according to witnesses, was accompanied by her daughter, who is a U.S. citizen. Well, how would they know that? So again, separating news from noise is what news, not noise, says to do. She is the former chief White House correspondent for cnn. But this was noise. The sad, plaintive crying that you're hearing or that you heard earlier and also the noise of arguing in the comments, mostly from a place of ignorance or the false belief that this detention was a violation of some law or the girls rights or US Policy. I wrote about this in the Gist list and I will say go to mike pesca.substack.com I tie it into other Internet videos that we can't believe because that's one aspect to this. As soon as I saw this, I said, well, you could take the framing of Yellen, but how are we supposed to know what's to be believed? And then we wait for three or four days for a real news organization to actually do some reporting. That's less than ideal. If Yellen, who is a real journalist and she is providing a service overall, but also if she gets it wrong, you can understand why. Look at the comments of the audience. Yellen says, I'm here to present the news how they are, but really the stock in trade is news of how bad things are and how bad Donald Trump is. And I agree with that in general. But I don't know that that's a fair presentation of the news, that Donald Trump's failures are what gets the most engagement and what is highlighted again and again to the audience as constantly occurring. So even if Trump's failures are legion, what we're seeing here I would not call a success. But it's way more challenging than a Trump fail to us as US Citizens. If the biggest danger with Trump, and I believe this, is that he's so undemocratic, what happens when the democratic expression of his policies do take place and we still decry it and we deny it and we won't engage? The only advice that I have is at least try to get the initial reaction right, though it's hard giving the audience's predilections given how much audience capture and how much pressure there is to keep providing the content that keeps your business afloat. We shouldn't have to require the New York Times to do cleanup with facts that won't penetrate as much as the video. Otherwise it is all noise, the kind that the phrase preaching to the choir describes on the show today. It's a not even mad episode. And we have back Yasha Monk of Persuasion. And he's joined by a first time guest and a guy whose podcast I had been listening to, though I hadn't heard of him before a couple weeks ago. His name is Colin Cole. He is with more equitable democracy and his podcast is called the Future of Our Former Democracy. So right there he's telling you how dire it is. And Cole pursues the idea of proportional representation as a cure to so many of our ills. Luckily, Yasha Monk is an expert on this. This season of Cole's podcast is about how proportional representation works so well in Germany. Yascha Monk is in fact a German political scientist and expert on forms of government. It will be, I can assure you, an interesting conversation. Not even mad. Up next, foreign so winter job sites don't mess around freezing mornings, wet condition wind that cuts through your cheap gear. Yeah, I'm talking about gear you need workwear that performs when it's brutal. And true Work is the gear that builds performance like it matters. Because guess what? It matters. Dickies, Carhartt, the other brands, they focus on cotton, but Truewerk does it differently. It uses advanced performance fabrics that originally were developed for extreme outdoor conditions. And they still work very well in exactly those conditions. Every piece is tested on real job sites and they're moisture wicking, wind resistant and insulated. They keep you comfortable and mobile all day. And oh yeah, they look good. 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And we do so as we promise to uphold our reputation for refutation while at the same time vowing to be not even mad. Who are we this week? We are Yasha Monk, founder and editor in chief of Persuasion and author of the Identity Trap. I know you've written many books, Yasha. I will either give you the opportunity to list two more or to list the subtitle of the Identity Trap, if you remember it.
