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American Prestige

Special - The LA Protests and the Imperial Boomerang w/ Spencer Ackerman (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now for the full episode and access to all breaking news specials. Spencer Ackerman of ⁠Forever Wars⁠ is back on the podcast to talk about the LA protests and his piece on them for Zeteo, ⁠"The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles."⁠ You can read the "director's cut" of Spencer's piece ⁠over at Forever Wars⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Prestige, it's Derek. I'm joined, as always, by my friend and comrade, Danny Bessner,

0:13.4

and we are very grateful and pleased to welcome back to the program. Spencer Ackerman, the

0:19.4

proprietor of Forever Wars, the newsletter, the writer of the current

0:24.5

run of Ironman, columnist for Zateo, Spencer, am I missing anything?

0:29.9

Rain of Terror, the book.

0:34.5

Am I missing anything else?

0:38.0

You got me as always, Derek.

0:39.4

All right.

0:40.7

You mentioned Iron Man, right?

0:42.1

I spaced out for a second.

0:43.4

Yeah, I did mention Iron Man.

0:44.6

Okay, okay, sorry.

0:45.4

You got to mention Iron Man, yeah.

0:47.2

Got to mention Iron Man.

0:48.5

So we are very grateful to have Spencer back the program.

0:52.6

Obviously, people are familiar with what's happening in

0:54.5

Los Angeles protests against the immigration crackdown, if you want to put it in as neutral a term as

1:02.9

possible by the Trump administration, have led to Donald Trump calling out the National Guard,

1:08.8

and now the U.S. Marines to put down the protests. So,

1:13.0

Spencer, why don't we start there? What is going on in L.A. beyond that very superficial

1:21.5

description I just gave. You wrote a column about it, the Imperial Boomerang lands in Los Angeles,

1:26.9

and we'll get into the boomerang effect,

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