Trolling Fascism with Taylor Smith
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Smith, one of Gabe’s fellow activists on the ground in LA, calls in to the show from the federal building as we all await the verdict of our friend on trial against DHS. They discuss the ways we can use humor and memes to fight fascism (the Portland frog) how trolling the officers creates humanity and dispels fear and power, and ways to show up that confuse and disarm.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to A Thousand Natural Shocks, A Bad With Money podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm your host Gabe Dunn. |
| 0:06.5 | And today we have another one of my activist friends on the ground in Los Angeles, Taylor Smith. |
| 0:13.1 | Taylor was an accountant in the film industry before all of this went down. |
| 0:18.6 | And she has been with me on the ground, |
| 0:21.8 | same as Eddie, who you met last week. |
| 0:25.2 | And she is someone who is very loud and fearless. |
| 0:30.6 | And raise my voice, I think I can get a little bit scared about being on the megaphone, |
| 0:35.9 | worried about what I'm going to say. |
| 0:38.1 | And Taylor is just someone who has been able to communicate with the DHS and ICE and police |
| 0:48.1 | in a way that I aspire to. |
| 0:50.9 | And we'll talk about this in the episode. |
| 0:53.6 | This episode is mostly about responding to |
| 0:57.6 | the violence that is being done against us with humor and with maybe a future full of memes and |
| 1:06.6 | ridiculousness as a way to fight back against how serious and bleak and, I mean, violent things have |
| 1:17.2 | become. And I think one of our great hopes is being able to allow Trump's foot soldiers to see that |
| 1:24.2 | what they're doing is immoral. It's unethical, it's inhumane, and it's something |
| 1:31.6 | that they don't have to be doing. |
| 1:33.8 | So please enjoy this conversation with Taylor. |
| 1:36.5 | It was real fun. |
| 1:37.2 | I will say the sound is middling because Taylor is coming to us live from City Hall where one of our friends is on |
| 1:48.0 | trial for allegedly throwing an umbrella at a DHS agent, if you can believe it. And she's |
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