Tim Miller: GOP’s Strategy Is To Make You Miserable
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
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| 0:37.8 | to the National Guard and maybe the military coming into New Orleans. So much to discuss. Stick around |
| 0:43.2 | for that conversation. Subscribe to our feed. We'll be talking to you soon. If this were simply about |
| 0:48.3 | normalizing the use of military forces in American cities, then one could argue they should be playing it cool, right? |
| 0:55.6 | They should be going in. They should let the action speak for itself. It is almost as though |
| 1:01.0 | they cannot contain themselves and allow the action to simply speak for itself. They have to |
| 1:06.8 | narrate what is happening. Yeah, it's intimidation theater, right? Like, that's what that is. |
| 1:11.1 | I mean, Hague Seth was a weekend talk show host, so, like, that's what he knows, theater, and that's what you can tell Stephen Miller's trying to do to sort of butcher himself up. And I'm with Phenone, look, and he's said that the policies and procedures are ingrained, you know, in our local police departments, And obviously he's going to know that better than me, and I trust that. |
| 1:27.7 | This is the issue, though, is there... |
| 1:29.7 | It is an intention. you know, in our local police departments, and obviously he's going to know that better than me, and I trust that. |
| 1:27.7 | This is the issue, though, is there, it is an intentionally a recruitment effort. |
| 1:32.9 | Like, they have the resources now for recruitment. |
| 1:35.4 | I mean, the ICE amount of funding that's going to ICE, you know, if the government, you know, |
| 1:39.4 | ever starts working again, is going to be greater than the State Department. It's like greater than the Israel military, the amount of money is going to ICE. So they got to recruit and bring in a bunch of new people. And the new people they're bringing in, they're trying to draw the types of people that want to be unleashed, that want to go after the enemy within. And I think that's the ominous part about this. And if you look at Trump's, the one thing I just want to add to the quote you played from Trump is he doesn't just say that we have an enemy within. He says that the enemy within is more dangerous than the foreign enemy. And you don't know who they are because they're not wearing uniforms. It could be anybody. Like that is just laying the groundwork for these these new recruits or maybe existing people that are on board with that to, like, come in and start roughing people up, start treating people like enemy combatants. And I think it's a legitimate thing for folks to be worried about. I'm worried about it as we're kind of talking today in New Orleans. There's news that they're going to be sending troops into New Orleans, I think, |
| 2:34.3 | imminently, too, on top of Memphis and the other cities that have been mentioned. |
| 2:37.5 | You know, Tim, I am just oftentimes reminded that rarely what Donald Trump does, |
| 2:43.3 | what his administration is doing, is original. |
| 2:45.5 | That he is, they kind of like combed through history's greatest hits, |
| 2:49.2 | whether we're talking about history's dictators or things that they've seen in America previously. |
| 2:54.1 | And what is happening right now with his attempted, well, not even attempted, these military |
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