Democratic Socialists of America training militants | Hour 3

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According to its authorizing resolution, it is preparing for a quote national uprising against federal agents and police brutality. This is the DSA. And by the way, we have on our Charlotte City Council. One of the newly elected members is very very very close to the DSA. Not sure if he's a member, but he says the stuff that the DSA says. Jd Arius masswas, I think it's how you're supposed to say that. In practice, that means training cadres in tactics like armed and unarmed self defense, as well as how to block intersections and how to fight fascists with umbrellas. I think I don't think they're like, I don't think they're using umbrellas as weapons, although I have thought that would be a pretty cool weapon. Like you're walking around with your umbrella just in case it's gonna rain, you know, and then you press the little button and it pops out the umbrella. I mean, not like fully open umbrella. You know, it's still like wrapped up. You know, it's still tightly compacted. But you just press that button. If you get close enough to somebody, you can press it and go bam, and it's just like spring loads into them. It doesn't really hurt though, it's not powerful enough to hurt. But maybe maybe they're using the wrapped up umbrellas compacted umbrellas. They're using them as batons. No, no, I think it's actually too You open the umbrella to hide everybody from. The camp so you can commit violence, you know. Anyway, back to the story, there was a recent panel that was offered and it gave us an unprecedented window into what the project looks like. Organizers from Minnesota, a, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Tucson, Austin, and Portland they all got together to compare notes. Once again, this is not Antifa, although I would be surprised if there's not some bleedover of membership there. This is the Democratic Socialists of America. These people have elected members of their party into office, okay, and they have the Red Rabbit Security Commission as a subgroup of the political party. Okay. So they got together, the Red Rabbits did. They got together and they compared notes. As the discussion made clear, the DSA is trying to construct a nationwide security apparatus to support its expanding role in street protests and quote unquote direct action organizing, and in so doing it fears drawing the attention of the irs. They're worried about this, so I will explain why. But the DSA launched the Red Rabbit Security Commission at its twenty twenty five national convention. So last year, organizers chose the name on purpose. Okay, it sounds innocuous, Oh, the Red Rabbits. Who doesn't like the rabbits? Right? But the rabbits are a nod to the book Watership Down, in which anthropomorphized rabbits are outnumbered and beset by enemies. It was kind of violent too. I remember watching there was a cartoon of Watership Down that When I was growing up, we got a VCR and we would record stuff on the TV, you know, and that came on for some reason. It's like a cartoon of Watership Down, and I guess my parents thought, oh, it's a cartoon, and we record it, you know. I remember there's part of it that was really violent. Rabbits were attacking each other and stuff. Anyway, Earlier branding proposals, including so here's a name that they rejected was the National Vigilance Committee, but they said that's too politically stark. Some members were concerned that it could be interpreted as an endorsement of vigilanteism. So they chose the Red Rabbits. I'm assuming red meaning Republican right they're no, of course, not red meaning COMI meaning socialist Marxism. That's that's what red. This is why like, oh, it's like this still angers me. I know it shouldn't. I know it shouldn't, but it does. Why the Republicans ended up as the Red team. They should not have been the red team. And you know how that happened. This is so stupid how they like, why would you let because basically they let the media choose their color for them. That's like that. This is why people say the Republicans are the stupid party, because like that's just stupid. Why would you? Why would you go along with that? And the reason why they ended up with the Red team was because they just like on election night, the media would do these different colors for what president, uh, what candidate you know carried which states, and so they would just assign colors to the parties and a like decades ago, they used a bunch of different colors because the parties weren't associated with colors at that point. I remember these these days, Republicans weren't always red. Sometimes they'd be like yellow versus green colors on the map. It would just vary and sometimes like the Republicans would be blue and the Democrats would be red. Whatever. It was just like different channels had different colors and all of this. But somewhere along the line, the Republicans ended up with the red color and the Democrats with the blue color, and that it's like, okay, that's it, everybody, We're going to keep these colors. Why I would much have preferred the blue for the Republicans and you know, red for the Commis. Oh I kid, I kid my Democrat friends, as I discussed the Democrats Socialists of America that has infected your party. I know, I know, you're totally not Marxists. Now, you just have a very large contingent of them in your base that dictate outcomes of elections. But okay, anyway, The Red Rabbits claim that their focus is on five core security skills. Number one d escalation, Yeah, stop the bleed, a first aid training on bleeding control when the de escalation doesn't work, I guess, firearms safety, unarmed self defense, as well as protest marshaling in other words, crowd management during your fiery but mostly peaceful riots. The Commission has set a goal of having at least five members in forty percent of DSA chapters complete these trainings. Why would your political party need its own security force? Why are you training members of your political party to run quote security during riots? Hmmm. Since its inauguration, the committee has been a source of internal controversy, though. That includes an unsuccessful effort by some members of the dssay's governing National Political Committee to remove a Maoist organizer whose passed public comments included praise for revolutionary violence. That failed, though, so the committee ultimately voted to retain the Maoist revolutionary espousing violence. So he's still involved or she, I don't know, probably a heat, So there's there's still they're still in the in the mix there. 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You can email Katie Katie at group travel videos dot com. Group travel Videos from old memories to new adventures, preserving life's moments for a lifetime. All right, So the report here from the City Journal by Stu Smith, investigator, investigative analyst talking about the Democratic Socialists of America and their emerging militant network. They have been training up people inside their chapters. They want at least five members in nearly half of the chapters to go through these trainings and become members of the Red Rabbits. That's the name of the group, the Red Rabbits Security Commission. And of course it's all framed as you know, we're just here to maintain the peace during demonstrations. But we know what this looks like in real terms, right, because every single time there's a fiery but mostly peaceful riot, you get these idiots out there and they, you know, they they make masking tape signs of you know, press or legal observer, you know where they where they pretend that they're not actually participating in the violence and in the demonstration. Right, some chapters already conduct in house trainings or are working to expand them, such as the Philadelphia chapters plan to develop what one member called sick firearms safety trainings. Does that sound familiar firearms safety trainings? Yeah, Graham Platner, candidate for senator in Maine, this. Is what he did. He trained up a bunch of Antifa revolutionaries, posted it onto Facebook and the local chapter they posted it. This is what he was doing. So why are these Marxist revolutionaries getting trained up in firearms use self protection? Is that what they're doing it for? Who's coming after them? Or there's a bunch of bunch of Maga people running around screaming this is Maga country like attacking Marxists. Or is it the Marxists. Who are going around and attacking other people and property? The DSA's Oklahoma City Queer Fight Club not kidding, that's apparently. I'm just going to give you a second to visualize that. Okay, Yeah, Queer Fight Club has evidently become a local training hub teaching quote unquote self defense as well as broader community defense skills. So self defense but also community defense. Would this look a little bit like the Antifa efforts that they were running in Minnesota against ice sort of like that is that the community defense? Because that's how they keep framing themselves that they're just defending their neighbors. You see, I had to try to run over that ice agent because I'm just defending my neighbor. Right. Portland DSA has organized trainings on how to block intersections with bicycles, a practice known as corking. Who comes up with this name corking? Did they make that name up? Why would you call it that corking? There's nothing cork on a bicycle, is there? Uh No, there's no, There's nothing on a bike that's made of cork. Weird, But this is the tactic that the left has been using for quite a while. They did it up in Asheville while I was still up there, and they had those riots up there attacking cops, and whenever a cop would try to arrest somebody on the rare occasion, then you would have dog piles where these leftists would just swarm the cop and jump on top. They would try to impede the police cars. They would block the intersection with intersections with their bicycles, claiming to be observers or claiming to be you know, chaperones or something. Oh, I'm just here for crowd control. You don't have a permit to block these streets. And then they would, you know, swarm a vehicle, pound on the vehicle, threaten people, shove people, attack them, that sort of thing. This is the left ground troops they are training. Recognize where we are back to the story. That work also has drawn the DSA into closer alliance with even more radical groups. For example, out in Tucson, Arizona, the Red Rabbits work with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Does that name sound familiar It should if you listen to this program, because I've talked about the PSL quite a bit. PSL was present in the Charlotte City Council chambers a couple of weeks ago. They are part of the quote unquote grassroots Movement against Data Centers PSL. As we tracked a couple of weeks back, PSL gets a bunch of funding from the communist Chinese billionaire nevill Roy Singham. Okay, wait, he may not be a billionaire yet. I think he's at like seven hundred million or something, eight hundred million. I mean, he's getting close. This guy fund. He's the guy that married one of the co founders of Code Pink. They've been sponsoring all of these left wing quote unquote grassroots groups. And again, why would China want to impede the construction of data centers in America? Why would they want to do such a thing? Which is weird because they're subsidizing the construtroduction of data centers in China, but for some reason they don't want us to have them. I'm sure it's for our own good. Yeah. The PSLA would be revolutionary political party with close ties to the Communist Party of China. The Portland DSA cited its work with the National Lawyers Guild. Does that name ring a bell? It should. They're a left wing legal group with historic ties to the Soviet Union. The National Lawyers Guild is always on the scene during the fiery but mostly peaceful riots, where they promptly run around and bail out everybody and represent everybody that engages in the violence against the oppressor. They also provide trainings so you know your rights. See, this is the network, this thing, this is how they belies so quickly. This network already exists, it is already funded to the tune of billions of dollars across all of these different entities, all across the country and globally to and so then they just activate. They print up their signs, hand them out and boom, you're there. And people don't even know what they're showing up for. Sometimes they're like out there, like, here's your sign. Oh, what are we protesting today? Okay, this thing? You know. That's how it goes, because they may be outside DSA's mandate though as a five OZHO one C four social welfare organization, the Red Rabbit's trainings could invite legal scrutiny and jeopardize the tax exempt status of its sister five OZHO one C three. The DSA Fund and the panelists that all gathered to compare notes a few weeks ago, they are aware of this risk, right because if you are regi stirred, as with the IRS, as a social welfare organization, you're not supposed to be engaged, well, yes, in the violence, but you're not supposed to be engaging. In the political activities. You see, and this might be a problem for them with the IRS, and they are aware of it. They also raise concerns about the legal risks introduced by the DSA's new allies. The Portland DSA representative named C pointed to the Sunrise Movement. Is that name ring a bell? It should if you listen to this program, because we've talked about the Sunrise Movement. They started off as an as an environmentalist whack job group now and then they like transformed into this you know, tentifota crowd, Like, what's that got to do with the environment. That's an activist group increasingly focused on disruptive protests. Quote. Sunrise nationally has been doing a lot of more high risk stuff for official organizations, like the no Leap for Ice campaign where they go out in front of hotels and Blair music and. That sort of thing for the environment. Obviously, their partners in immigration organizations might not be as ready to engage in that work because of their immigration status. So this might pose some problems with the I R S and gosh. I hope somebody at the IRS read this story and starts looking into their activities and starts going after their funders. That's how you that's the only way you're going to dismantle this network. Let me head over to the UH text line M M m m okay here I am. Steven says they just want to build their own military. Yeah, well, they just want to They just want to engage in some of the ultraviolence is all. John says it's called corking because you are bottling up the traffic. That doesn't sound right to do. Three Three says, oh no, this is Matt who says red Rabbits equals brown shirts. Correct, they and this is they always do this. They always the left always has its militant wing always. They always have to have their own little army. Um do. Ralph Bakshi put out an animated part one of The Lord of the Rings around the time he did Watership Down. I think I saw that too. Actually, also did Wizards a couple of years before. And Monica says that she was so traumatized by Watership Down. Um mm hmmmmm. Okay, that's on the Iran topic from the previous hours. The Eye Gcs are the Nazis of our time, just as with the Axis Powers. Their plan is world domination. They should have been dealt with in nineteen seventy nine by Reagan, but I guess the wounds of Vietnam were too fresh. As with World War Two, the only realistic solution to eliminate the IRGC as ground troop action, but the snowflakes of today's government refused to see the big picture necessary to stop the global threat. Sean says, what's a VCR, Grandpa? Oh yeah, Josh, like the penguin from the Batman series. His umbrella was a weapon. James O'Keefe formerly a Veritas, the Project Veritas, and then I'm not really sure what all happened there. I remember watching some of the stuff whatever I get, But he was forced out from his own company. So now he does OMG, which stands for O'Keefe Media Group, and he had a his organization. They you know, they do these undercover stings, right, same sort of template that he popularized with Veritas, where you know, you go onto a dating app, you get some you know, attractive person on a dating app, and they target, you know, somebody in the government or in an organization. They get undercover video of them admitting all of this stuff, and then they publish the video and then they go and they're like, hey, well you said this, you said that, and then the guy like. Flees the store. You know that kind of thing, So their latest is An OMG journalist spent the past eight months undercover inside New Jersey Antifa, infiltrating the private signal chats. Of a group known as n J BURNE b U r N. What we uncovered proves Antifa is not just an idea. It is a network of real people organizing, coordinating, and operating inside America. Inside the group's signal chats, members discussed plans for port blockades, riot activity, support networks for criminal defendants, and they celebrated acts of political violence using names, profile photos, and digital receipts. OMG traced individuals to positions throughout some of America's most influential organizations. The same network connected to disruptive port blockades in New Jersey was also active during the unrest surrounding Delaney Hall, where activists confronted law enforcement and journalists outside the immigration detention facility. See there's a very small population of people here that's actually causing the vast majority of problems, and this is always the case among those identified. We're an engineer affiliated with Open ai and Open AI newsroom. That seems like a problem. An AI automation leader at t Mobile Rutgers university students and personnel, a Princeton doctoral candidate, a former New Jersey congressional candidate and city councilman. Board members connected to the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild, as well as nonprofit executives with ties to United Nations affiliated initiatives. So I mean this is not a grassroots network, all right. Up next, we got Brett Winterble dropping in for the return, the long awaited return, like the Prodigal Sun, and once again he graces us with his return. Won Brett Winterble for the Pregaming with Brett segment. Hello Brett, Hello, it's great to be with you. It is good to see you again. You've been gone for quite a while. I was just yeah, it was just like half a month. No, well maybe he could be. Well technically ten days, ten business dates exactly. That's what that's you got to. That's how I heard you say this on your show the other day. You don't count weekends. I don't count we ends, right, I just wait for the weekends to end so I can come back on. Right, But it is still fourteen days, It's still those are those are breathless days? Wow? Breatless makes me feel kind of ichy. Yeah, like, I knew it as soon as I like, yeah, maybe, I like I took my shirt off and he's breathless. I don't know what that would be. Do you have done that at one of our wbts, just one time? Just one time? Yes, Well, guilty is charged. He did have a muscle shirt? I did. I did. Yeah. Do we still call the muscle shirt? No, it was a tank top. What's the difference. I think the tank top. Is it goes down and then you've got the you know, you got the tops like that, and the other one. Is oh bigger arm cutouts. Yeah. I don't have those kinds of guns. Guns. I just don't. The muscle shirt, I think, like the under the arm pit, it goes all the way up to the pit. I still have it. I'll bring it and you can wear it if you want it. You were wearing a tank top which has a much lower Oh yeah, that goes like down to like below the rib cage. I don't I don't want to hijack, but I just gotta tell you something. When I was growing up, if I wore a tank top, my dad would not let me go out of the house. He'd be like, what are you wearing. What are you wearing? Yeah, put something else on. I'm like, dad, just going to school. No, I'm kidding. We weren't allowed to wear shorts to school unless it was over ninety degrees. Really, yeah, I was one of the rules my mom had. So if you had eighty nine degrees, nope, wow, nope. And back then, we didn't have the temperature on our phones. You know, you had to like like you're looking at the newspaper, yeah, for like the forecast that's oh, that's true. Yeah, or you're looking at like maybe you turn on, you know, the TV news and you get the out of New York City. You're watching ABC or something on the current weather conditions. But like, we never did that. It was always based on the newspaper, like what is it going to be tomorrow? And of course, you know up in New York the summers don't get really hot until like July and August. But every now and again, you would you would get some heat wave. Ye, very true, as we would go to school through like late June, definitely, and our schools did not have air conditioning uphill both way in the snow, in the snow right even during the heat waves. Right, So you're a former Californian still getting those ballots? Yes in the mail? Yep, not one? Did you vote? Swallowell vote? I never. I don't even open them, okay, because I just do not even I have them and I gregate them. It's so nuts the fact that, like I saw people this last election for the primary out in California, I saw people posting their pictures of their ballots, and they don't live in California anymore, right, And I was because I remember when you first told me when I first got back. So this is like four years ago, and you you told, you showed me. I think you brought it in and I thought, like this has got to be like a one off, that's crazy whatever, But no, this is their system. Yes, they're still counting. I believe it's awful. They literally mail out ballots to every person that's ever been on the voter roll. It seems like pretty much. Actually what they do is they shoot I hate to tell you this, they shoot. Out all of those ballots off the DMV. Oh I believe that. Yeah, So motor voter, baby, motor voter man. That was it? So you walk in you can't speak English, doesn't matter you check the box. Yep, you get called for jury duty. You can't serve on the jury, so they kick you off. But never cross reference that list. Absolute right, right with the voter rules. So now get this, Los Angeles voters could soon decide whether non citizens should have a path to voting. But just in the city and school board elections. Oh gosh, it's always you know that better than I know. So just take the local election, the thing that they said they're not doing. Nobody Democrats assured us, right, nobody is saying that illegal aliens, they would never say that, right, But undocumented migrants, no one is saying that we want them to vote in elections. We don't even. Remember when we went through this twenty twenty four North Carolina constitutional amendment. Of course only citizens can vote in elections, and the Democrats said, we don't need this constitutional amendment. Nobody would do this. No. Well, now, the city Council voted ten to five to advance one of the most controversial proposals in a sweeping charter reform package headed for the November ballot. They vote on everything up there. It's insane. It's like the phone book delivered like to just to go vote to see what's on the ballot. When I was with Roger Hedgecock, when I was one of his producers, he went to They were canvassing, right, they were like trying to see what was going on. He went to a place and the guy's name was Vin Vong. Okay, he was a thea Oklahoma Vietnamese man. Oh, I was gonna say, from Oklahoma. And here's what happened. As he rings the doorbell, he talks to Vin Vong, and Vin Vong answers the door and he says, he says, look, look at all these ballots that are on my front porch. I don't know what to do with them. They counted them. It was twenty It was twelve hundred ballots that had been stashed just on the front porch of this man. And he was honest enough to say, I don't know what to do with these. I'm not voting because I'm not allowed. Yeah, and if you get rid of them, then you could get charged, oh my gosh, right with destroying ballots or something. Right, they may, like democrats get they may throw the book at you for that, oh for sure, right, because they'd be like, whoa, this is our campaign strategy, our electoral strategy. So you just destroyed the ballots. Now you could go kill somebody. We'll let you out. No charge, is there, right? They got to get the red rabbits, red rabbits. That's it, all right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.