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0:00 What happened in Minneapolis
2:05 Video evidence and disputed claims
5:40 Why self defense does not hold up
8:10 Mayor Frey responds
9:45 Kristi Noem statement examined
12:40 Why this moment echoes George Floyd
17:20 Gen Z reacts to ICE violence
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Welcome to a special episode of the Dangerous Ones. I'm Jim drastic. I'm Tiffany drastic. I'm Nick Knudsen and today We're going to talk about the tragedy that happened in Minneapolis. We had a whole other show plan, but You know this takes precedent. It's just unreal So we wrote some things down and then we're going to get right into it We got some videos for you guys to show you show you the reaction of what's going on It's very very fluid. So if you don't know today in Minneapolis an ice officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was sitting in her car peacefully blocking the roadway in protests Ice claims to shooting was self-defense, but city officials and quite frankly any rational human being who seen the video Disputes that account Because the video evidence shows the woman was engaged in peaceful protests at the time she was killed One bystander video in particular shows that the agent's life was not in danger We'll share reactions from the mayor of Minneapolis and examine how the disgusting way the head of
Homeland Security Christy Nome is framing today's tragedy We'll be getting live reactions from Gen Z voices a generation that has grown up surrounded by this kind of violence and Normalized abuse of power and it's not lost on any of America this morning that this incident took place just blocks from where George Floyd was murdered a Tragedy that sparked a movement for change and here at the dangerous ones We believe that this is a turning point. This is a moment for resistance not for silence Moments like this should mark the beginning of the end of unchecked power when people finally decide that they've had enough We will share a tool that you can use to send to your members of Congress at the end of this episode and demand accountability and oversight of ice it is their constitutional responsibility to do so and they are Not doing it. That's it. So we have a tool for you later on. Yeah, stay stay tuned for that The folks right off the bat. We want to know what you think 503 212 4600
You can call us seven days a week 365 days a year you can leave up to a five-minute message and also you can emails at shout at the dangerous ones.com So we had like we said we had a whole different show lined up and we're gonna talk about Gen Z's reaction to what was going on in Venezuela and everything else But this happened this morning. So we shifted gears and so You know, this is This is changing things what happened today. I think you know, and it's scary. We scary We've got lots of videos to show you guys and we're certainly not going to try to exploit What's going on? We're gonna turn this into a moment of action By the way, the victim's name we're just learning is her name was Renee Nicole good and from what we understand She was a recipe influencer and just tragic, you know, we've seen the video and we're gonna show you an angle of the video No, gore we're not you know, we're not showing the gore or something like that
We're showing you the angle of the video that shows the officer's life was not in danger It's important for everyone to see it absolutely what happened But you know when I look at that video and we've seen the video It's it's it's I said the typical that could have been you Yeah, we would I could see us blocking the road like that. Yeah, you know, right at the same pot. Yeah, you know Mark do we have that so here if you haven't seen the video here is One of the angles of the video. This is not quote-unquote a graphic video in the sense of gore But it does show how the officer's life was not in danger No
What the fuck did you do You are fucking criminals You're fucking criminals What the fuck What the fuck What the actual fuck you are fucking insane you What did you do? you shame shame shame Oh, called 911 All right, Mark. Thank you So we have so we there's the the full video right so we have a slow motion version of that video and I think what we want to point out here is you know, obviously the woman listen Right, if you're if you are standing there sitting there and traffic you're blocking Okay, you want to arrest me because I'm blocking traffic fine, you know And hey, you want to arrest me because I'm backing up and leaving fine, but you shooting
I mean what do you think you don't get to that just fucking shoot people and and she's not she's not threatening them Like it's clear, you know, and that's gonna be the spin. Yeah, is that she was gonna ram her car into the ice agent or whatever But clearly like she was blocking traffic They pulled up they got out of their cars very aggressively to come over and open her door And we're yelling at her to get out of her car She probably was like super scared about that and was like, okay, I'm out. Yeah, and was just trying to pull away Yeah, she was trying to ultimately trying to do what they were asking her to do Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm not like a crash reconstruction specialist, but she was driving away She's not pulling into the end for second of all I don't care if you were you shoot first as a de-escalation tactic you should not have a badge on your chest Right you do not belong with enforcement after your name ever. I can't we can't trust you as Americans. Yeah What the fuck are you doing? I think that's a really good point because it's the
They does these ice agents now feel like Going to level 10, right? What the fuck is going on? Is that what they're teaching you in ice school? Yeah, yes, yeah, probably right. Yeah, and well, and the other thing that they're learning is if I commit crimes Then my president will pardon me right so we found out about this this morning and I said to Tiffany I go watch they're going to give that guy an award You know and sure enough where we're going to play what Christy Nome said in just a moment I mean they're already defending him so but here's a slow motion version of what happened now I want you to keep an eye on the cars front wheels So you know going for it in the car. She's clearly trying to get out of there. Yeah, now listen Let's assume she's sped away. Let's assume she just robbed a bank and start sped it away. What she didn't He's still can't shoot her It's disgusting and like you know
Law enforcement like they're trained to study the face of the person Right, you know the perpetrator or the person committing these crimes I he You know, it's fuzzy, but he's looking directly at her face. Oh, you can see that she is not like She's a recipe influencer. She's not trying to run you over. She didn't have to back up to run over him either She could have just explored it. She was right out of that's right. That's a really good point You know, she's just out there doing her civic duty and standing up for other people Other people's rights is flexing her right as a protester to stand there and say no to her tyrannical government And this is what happens. Yeah, Renee good say her name say her name. Yeah, hashtag say her name. Hey, so let's go to the reaction from mayor Jacob Fry or fray fray fray And see if the here's a clip of him and he had he did not mince words There's a lot of information that is swirling around right now and We collectively are going to do everything possible to get to the bottom of this
To get justice and to make sure that there is an investigation that is conducted in full, but what we do know Is that a 37 year old woman is dead and that she was shot by ice We've dreaded this moment since the early stages Of this ice presence in Minneapolis Not only is this a concern that we've had internally. We've been talking about it They are not here to cause safety in this city. Yeah What they are doing is not to provide safety in America What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust They're ripping families apart. They're sewing chaos on our streets and in this case quite literally killing people So They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense
Having seen the video of myself. I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit Yeah Word Reaction. Yeah, it's a nice job. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the conviction with which he speaks and then this video you're going to see of Christine She knows. Yeah, damn good. Well, she's lying. Well, then let's see what she had to say watch this Any comments on what's happening with the shooting in Minneapolis you didn't mention it earlier I was wondering out of the 2000s deployed there Are they including the new the newly hired ice agents are or are diverse and still happening from F the FDI border patrol DA and So a couple of questions there you asked about a shooting that we just had in Minneapolis, Minnesota It was an act of domestic terrorism What would happen? It was our ice officers were out in enforcement action They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that isn't Minneapolis
They were attempting to push out their vehicle and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him And my understanding is is that she was hit and is deceased. We're continuing to gather more information You know, that's that's that's literally no different than them saying January 6 was a tourist. We just a normal day at the at the Capitol. So now they're saying protesters are domestic terrorists. Yeah, exactly Standing up there with your big dumb fucking hat sitting there saying like and you know the other reason why she's saying it that way too Because she knows that if she if she and the president they all know that they don't defend these ice agents They're not going to go out and keep doing the crazy bat shit stuff that they want them to do you know, and so To call her a domestic terrorist. Yeah
Well, and just the whole I mean she just like pulled that story out of her ass It's like sorry lady. There are cell phones now. Yeah, right You were you were counting on nobody having any footage of that scenario Yeah, and did your core wouldn't you agree? This is another example of them trying to make us not believe our own eyes Don't get fucking fooled. That was not she's not it. She's a recipe influencer. Yeah Ridiculous So there's Christy gnome lying about all of that and then I believe did we have another video or was that the last one? We have the governor, right? Oh, right. We have the governor Tim Walsh spoke and let's hear what he had to say Please sense the the summer of 2020 We had a lot of work done on teams being ready to to make sure that civil unrest and what that means and I think Commissioner Jacobson was very clear and I want Minnesotans to hear this from me. I The desire to get out and protest and and to speak up to this administration of how wrong this is that that is a
Patriotic duty at this point in time, but it needs to be done safely And I think the commissioner simply just laid out some of those parameters. We can do that. This is the peaceful resistance that we need This boy. I love that. I you know here. He's well. Yeah. No, I don't have it But I think his it is the patriotic thing to do is to get out you know and protest and I have a feeling That's going to start happening all over the country and just speaking From a Portland POV what happened in 2020 like you know, they They burned a lot of this city to the ground that the police response was very violent Um, and the city has never recovered and so I understand like this I want to burn that motherfucker to the ground too, but listen This is there is a very small window where level heads and deep breaths can really Drive where we need to go and because if we do it wrong We're going to be it's going to take us so far back and it's gonna. Oh, I've agreed
It's going to be so hard to get in front of it Especially when you have a game show host That is spinning the narrative. That's what they do. That's what people like him do that's yeah And and so we have to be very careful how we react to this He just I was gonna say he just said it the other day on Air Force one that he was waiting for an opportunity to go to the answer action act Right And he's just waiting for that opportunity, right? But I would say that that you know I think that by the way, you're both completely right and but what how how we do it is because we have to get out in the streets Yeah, that has to happen. I think we're gonna be out there probably It has to be just overwhelming amount of people that's how you really fight back Yeah, it doesn't you know not to burn the place down be just overwhelming like a state. Yeah, like a state bit You know like I I know that white hot rage like that's in me too But you have to channel it now and you have to make it impossible for them to spin Yeah, you have to make it too big that they can't talk their way out of it They can't sell you that it's something else if all of us coming together
Say and get the fuck out because this is not gonna stop unless we make no kings look like a family gathering Right, we got to make no kings looks like it was just that was just a couple of friends that we had over for dinner That's right. We've got to get out if you whip you really really want these ice things to stop It's time we we all have to get out in the streets So more on that as we as as developments come out Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna say, you know, Kristina was Calling this woman who was killed today a domestic terrorist. Yeah, it's very very clear that ice is a domestic Domestic carous outfit. Yeah, like I mean that is literally what they're doing domestic terror. Yes, like it is they're they're ripping people off the street. They're killing people They're trying to deport us citizens. I mean, it's um the it We need to keep that in perspective and Not let them use that kind of rhetoric against us because that's that's the whole thing that Trump does and we can't let it
Let's let's say that you're what I'm gonna call you the thing that I am right And we can't let it scare us into not showing up for our neighbors and not protesting and not peacefully showing Because They're violent. They are they this is what they want, but we can't We can't have that scare us and to stay in home. We just can't stay home anymore Speaking of the rhetoric that you were mentioning after right after this happened on Twitter Guess what the top three things that we're trending number one trending on Twitter was self-defense So they're right so the bots were out the bots were also trying to get domestic terrorism trending which they did and Number three was justified now having You are looking at three people who have made many many many many things trend on Twitter and This clearly this is bots. This is a sigh up. This is a sigh up. Yeah, thank you. This is a sigh up Yeah, that's not honest trending. Yeah
That is if you ever wanted to know what a sigh up look like that's what it looks like Yeah, and also I think this is on a small note This is what happens when you that trending report That's what happens when you have The richest man in the world also owning one of the biggest social media platforms in the world This is all you know, it's all one fucked up thing after another. Okay, listen this episode We really we we had we wanted to have our next guest on to talk about some other things But this happens we want to get a Gen Z perspective because They're growing up in a different world, man. Yeah, it's not the boomer or the Gen X world that I grew up in America was not violent like this Not in the same way when we were in our 20s, you know, yeah, so Chifty. Who do we got Joining us today is an activist political influencer and former staffer for the late congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Who represented Texas's 18th congressional district for nearly 30 years? He's also a recent grad of university of Houston and our dear friend
Ladies and gentlemen members of the danger corps. Please welcome Josh Martin. Welcome Josh Hey, thank you guys so much. It's so great to see you again. Thanks for coming on Thank you for coming on And in full disclosure we got to see Josh this summer we came out went out to Houston and visited with him and his brother while his brother was running for Congress It was just fantastic and they were wonderful hosts. We had a fantastic time. Yeah, and Josh We were gonna have you on to talk about a bunch of stuff Oh, yeah, but then this morning tragedy struck again And really we thought boy, you know, we'd love to get your perspective the Gen Z perspective on what's going on But before we get to the Gen Z perspective, what is your overall reaction to this morning's tragedy? Well, I think what happened the day was just straight up Indefensible and inexcusable for something to happen in our society in 2026 We literally are seeing an innocent person that was just Murdered in Donald Trump's America because of his ice agents that are literally just going out there and and doing his bidding
I mean, how many ice agents did you see in Minnesota before some bone-headed Dude named Nick Shirley decided to go and create a video of attacking immigrant communities in Minnesota That's inexcusable and now you have Christy Noam going on record calling her a domestic terrorist I mean if we're being honest the only people right now that I think are domestic terrorists are the people They're massing themselves going into these communities attacking innocent people So it's horrible. It's inexcusable, but that's the reality that we're facing right now in Donald Trump's America and it's not okay You know and I agree and in September we had um Micah Irfan and Samuel Schwartz on the show who I know you're dear friends with and I asked Them and I said hey, we I knew I said I know you don't speak for all Gen Z and Sam stop me Actually, I do speak for all Gen Z we laugh about but I know you don't speak for all of Gen Z But can you give us a general overall view of what you're you know, what is the younger generation
Think about these ice raids and what's going on you know, I didn't grow up with this um, right, you know Baby baby boomers didn't grow up with this you guys are what what is happening? What does your generation think? I mean, it's definitely completely ridiculous It's definitely not something that we're used to seeing a bunch of mass people coming in our communities I know that Houston where I live is one of the number one cities for ice raids Happening with an America and it's completely ridiculous. I mean right now what we Thought and what a lot of people my age were promised is that ice would come in they get rid of the criminals They get rid of the people that are hurting people within our communities to make a safer and that's not what's happening at all You have these people that are going in the communities maxing themselves abducting American citizens People who haven't committed a crime that's not what we were promised and it's completely ridiculous What we want to see from our government is people that are going to work to address through affordability crisis of Work to address the housing crisis people that are actually going to show up and fight for us to make America more affordable
And not just abducting people for political reasons and what we're seeing right now is that Donald Trump and his people right now They're not focused on any of those things that they promised with us and just focus on scoring political points So I mean we're absolutely disgusted and seeing what's happening right now in America And we're really hoping that right now we can really work to enact some tangible change because right now it's frankly ridiculous That's what I don't want happening. I don't want the narrative to be shifted into this Officer this ice officer should be Um, exalted for what he did to turn into a hero for them to make a national fucking holiday She was a peaceful protestor. She wasn't doing anything more than that And that does not constitute murder and that's what this is. Yeah. Yeah Uh, I was I was curious what you were going to say to that one Josh because I kind of wonder sometimes with with younger generations um Yes, you weren't you didn't grow up with masked agents of dark
People off the streets, but you you have grown up in the Donald Trump era when You know the the rules have been kind of shifting or the norms have been shifting and what I mean what they're doing is patently Illegal and unconstitutional to I mean to just go go and whether they're American citizens or immigrants Everybody in this country is should be afforded due process before they're sort of grabbed off the street and thrown in the back of a van And so just just just that level is terrible and now they're Just gunning people down you're right and honestly what we're seeing right now is that we have a government Straight up ignoring all laws that we've had in place for the longest period of time I mean, I know that the Donald Trump era is something that's just been a part of my life I'll never forget whenever you got elected in eighth grade Well, I was in eighth grade whenever you got elected. I'll never get my mom sitting me down telling me that It's about to be a really rough time in America and we just have to learn to grow up with it
And as I've gotten older. I just can't help but think that that is the wrong answer We shouldn't just have to learn to grow up in a society that doesn't work for everyone I mean, I know that on whenever we were on the campaign trail I really got to kind of know kind of what's going on in our community on a more personal level I mean we have people and parts of Houston to where you just they they grow up and they just see trash on the streets They don't have sidewalks going on in their communities And it really just makes you to think like how could this possibly going on in an America to where we should all be able to work and afford and be able to buy a home and You know go off and live our life and live the American dream And it's just frankly sad and honestly what we're seeing right now especially what's happening with these ice rays Just yet another example of what's happening when we have a government that is strength frankly just just not care about what's going on Yeah, I I also think too because I'm an old I come from a different League of Democrats that where you know the Democrats that were above me
You know the boomers and octogenarians came from that gentleman's agreement of well form a committee and look into it And that'll change things and now this is what I love so much about Gen Z is you guys are like fuck this Look around we're in a different it's different now and when your mom had to sit you down and go okay Look, it's it's not what it was I think we're having a hard time um Translate getting out of Thinking that we can just sit here and form a committee and everything is gonna be fine That's a good point really embracing you guys who you know you're on the forefront You've got all this time ahead of you now in this country with all this shit happening that if any change is gonna happen It's gonna be with you guys and you've got Excuse me Jen's but the balls on Gen Z is like thank you Thank you for showing up and speaking like you speak and just being there for people that everyone's really afraid And they don't know what to do and they feel like if they say anything they're gonna get in trouble and that's really prevalent in Gen X and
Boomers and older is don't rock the bow. Don't say to us. Yeah. Yeah. Oh can be rock for all I care Does not care if I live or die he really And I think that of right now instead of just sitting back and just taking it from him I would rather just go and punch him in the mouth and say look We aren't just gonna go and accept this. I mean we see what's happening every single day He says f me I say f you so that's just how I feel about it And I feel like a lot of people my age feel the exact same way. Yeah Well, let me ask you this because we brought up in the intro that you worked for the legendary congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee And you know during that time, I'm sure you learned what works and what doesn't what it would you say to your Your generation is the best way most effective ways to fight back. Is it writing letters letters that does help I know good writing congress You know your representatives helps getting out there helps. What do you recommend to your generation? What what should they be doing to fight back?
Well, I think that if you just want to fight back You don't first off if you want to fight back You do not need a position. You don't need a title. You don't need a platform of anything You can literally just get yourself Go and pick up a clipboard and start knocking on doors to talk about what's happening in your community You can go to community meetings You can go and join a club you can go and join an organization There's plenty of groups right now that are doing so much great work and communities across our country That are doing a lot of great work to go and make America the kind of place that it should be So I think that what the focus on needs to be is organizing coming together as our communities because the best You you've always noticed that in America that things always work out whenever there's a community behind it Building some type of camaraderie. So grab some of your peers go and talk to people about what's going on Because one thing what I'm noticing right now especially with Gen Z is that a lot of people just aren't informed about what's going on And that's honestly People should know that the reason why they go to the grocery store and that things are more expensive now
And then we're last year is because of Donald Trump's policies People should know that whenever they go and try to go and buy that first that first home Or they'd go and try to rent that apartment that the reason why you're rent is going up every single year Is because of Donald Trump's policies They need to know that the reason why literally everything is more expensive because these stupid tariffs Studies put on to make everything more expensive if we go and work and we organize to educate people of our generation Of why things are the way they are then ultimately we're going to get out go and vote and go and vote these people out Because we need to let politicians know on all sides of the aisle that if you don't work for us We're going to remove you and we're done waiting around Wow fantastic I agree and I think as I love today. This is true. I think as of today It's 300 days to the the November midterms Vote vote vote we're going to be pressing that all year long here on this show Josh we can't thank you enough for joining us You're such a dear friend and we look to have you on over and over with your your insight and also being from Houston
How did your football team do this year? Oh? Well at the University of Houston we did pretty good in the Texans or still in it right Hey mom one day Against the Pittsburgh Steelers. So if you're a Steelers fan watching this, you know We got something coming for you, but I'm always with the Texans through and through you're probably talking to one of the biggest Texans fans. There is Well, I showed up and in a Portland Trailblazers hat and Josh looked at me like I had two heads So But anyways Josh thank you so much for joining us and we can't wait to have you back on Of course, thank you so much I want to say everybody. I really love that his Tiktok and Instagram content. He does a really great. We'll put your links up. Yeah, go follow We'll put everything for you guys because really he's such a great voice not just for Gen Z But he just for me, you know, just for Gen X just for everybody. We really your voices really agree. Yeah. Yeah Thank you. Thank you Wow, Josh. It's so good. He's so good. Yeah, he brings such a great perspective
You know, and and I think everything he said was just just fantastic and boys. You can see the fight It fires me up But we also wanted to talk to our resident Gen Z. That's right. Mark one in the house We're all what do we do? Mark what are your thoughts? I mean, I know you were moved quite quite emotionally about today's events Give us your overall Yeah, yeah What Jim's talking about is I came in to the office today and I saw everything breaking I was right about at the same time and It's sickening and it was literally sickening to me. I mean, I was watching there were a couple graphic videos that I came across that You know, I needed to take a step back and take a walk around and So I encourage anyone in the audience who's feeling that way about that to do the same And you know beyond that
I think My generation we want a Gen Z take. I think my generation There's a lot of us who for some reason or another grew up with They just grew into a lack of emotional intelligence So if you set those people aside There's a lot of people like Josh and myself Who this is all we can think about Um, and like you said, this is something that's kind of unique to our generation to be growing up with but You know, like I said, it's sickening And we try and get out there and do as much as we can. I know that We referenced how close this was to George Floyd uh Personally, I was out in the streets a lot around George Floyd and I got to know a lot of people In the community here in Portland And I would say It's definitely an opportunity to get to know your local community members um This doesn't just sicken you it sicken's a lot of your community members
Probably a lot of your family And yeah, I think it probably you know when you get don't I would imagine For Gen Z this is high anxiety stuff it is for everybody But for a uh, generation who grew up with this it's one after us you've all deez ababa It's every god damn day. There's another god damn thing. I know yeah, and it just it feels like um I hate that tragedies like this have to happen for us to Get out in the streets like we need to get out but we always talk about building the kind of community that Um, you know, that people don't really know what to do. They feel lossy or scared They don't how do I even get in touch with people That feel the same way as me Because of things like this now All of us are going to be on the streets All of us are going to be on the internet all of us are going to be getting louder And this is how you find your people. This is how you come together This is how you start organizing you just start doing it I just don't know what else we're supposed to be doing
Yeah, and I would just say uh, that uh, that's why the danger core uh, the family that we built here, right Uh, it this normal you you guys know us normally we have fun and we do laugh a lot Obviously, this is not a laughing matter and throughout this year We might have a lot of things that aren't that way but There's one thing we can always go walk away with as we know to get we can do we we're gonna get through this together um, but uh, well, thank you mark an a and I just uh, I think mark your point was very very good in the fact that You know, this is not the same thing as a George Floyd, but what it is if it's so weird that it happened to mile down the road But what it is is what George Floyd what happened with that situation it was it was a moment of tragedy that sparked a movement Yep, and there's a possibility here that that's what happened today. Wouldn't you say mark? Absolutely And if I could say one more thing um, you guys know it when I came Uh, and came to work for the podcast um, I said you guys an email shortly after and I said, you know
Fair warning. I can be an anxious guy and it's this kind of stuff These kinds of videos especially that make me really anxious. So if you're Uh, member of the danger core and you see this and it Um, it's a fire in you and it makes you anxious and it makes you want to throw up all at the same time Just know I'm with you and reach out and gain your community. Thank you mark and that's how we all feel right yeah, but now We're obviously there's Fighting back is a multi-pronged thing. It's you do it online. Yeah, you go out to protest uh, uh, you know And fight back in the streets and one other thing you can do that is extremely important Nick what is that So that I said it the other day there are three branches of government There's the executive branch which has the president. There's congress which has uh the house in the senate And then there's the judiciary which has the Supreme Court and the lower courts And uh, the courts are helping in some ways right now and but the Supreme Court
You know, and it's not something that we have direct control over Congress is something that we Have a deep hand in uh, constituting you know, we we elect people directly to congress They work for us and they are not doing their fucking jobs where they are not doing their fucking jobs none of this would be happening If congress was exercising its power to uh, to provide a check on an out of control executive Thank you And so it is time to hold their fucking feet to the fire and we are going to be talking a lot more about this Especially in the in the context of a midterm election Yeah, yeah when we can throw a lot of these people out At which we have to do and I don't care what part of you're from if you're not If you're not doing the right thing right now, then you know We got a we need people in congress who believe in the power of congress who believe that congress should Exert influence over an executive branch that is supposed to be an equal branch of government. So That being said off my soapbox
We put together at the on the demcast side the organization that I run uh, we put together a form that you can fill out That uh, we'll send it takes like two minutes and we'll throw the QR code up on the screen. Yeah Here uh, and it it sends letters to each of your two senators and your house rep And it only it takes two minutes. There's pre Formatted prewritten letters you can edit them to your heart's content Uh, but it gives you some starting language and we're just asking congress to exert the The uh the authority that they have to provide a check on the executive branch the executive branch runs the department Of Homeland Security which runs ice and uh, and there need to be hearings They need to um, they're these people should not be wearing fucking masks. Yeah, like there's so much that is wrong with what's happening right now And it's time for us to get louder We can yell at Donald Trump all we want. He's not gonna change. Right. Christy knows I'm not gonna change. They they love this
They think it's funny. Yeah, like we need to put the fear of God into our members of congress That they are going to lose their seats unless they do their fucking jobs Yeah, and the one thing that we got going for us is it's an election year. So yeah Well, listen, uh, we're gonna stay on this and I have a feeling You know, we I have a feeling even today. I'll bet you people were gonna be down at the ice uh facility Here in Portland because there in Portland does not fuck around And and stuff like this it can really make you feel lost like mark was saying it can make you feel anxious It can make you feel alone and like hopeless and I don't know what to do Filling out these forms filling out these letters and adding your name to that to those voices That's how the chorus gets louder yeah louder and louder and that's what we're doing This we've got to make a huge show of force as the people and I'd like to add one more thing to that if you're feeling anxious or feeling scared about what's going on Call us up talk to Tiffany tell Tiffany 503212 4600 503212 4600 or you can e-mouse it shout at the dangerous ones calm you can leave up to a five-minute message and you can remain anonymous as well
Yeah, and if you fill up the five minutes just call back call back Uh Just we we're closing out here. We we've got your backs. You've got our backs. That's why we are developing this wonderful community of the danger core You know use the tools that we have yeah to To reach out and communicate and all that kind of stuff because that we we get through this together 2026 is 2025 and yeah, it's gonna it's gonna be a it's gonna be a long one It's gonna be a long one but we'll get we'll get through it together We'll get through it together on behalf of Nick and behalf of Tiffany Be safe and let's all get into good trouble. Bye. Bye guys. Bye
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