Weekly Roundup: Golden Visas and Immense Cruelty

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 800-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Brad and Dan discuss a range of pressing issues under the Trump administration, focusing on the controversial 'Golden Visa' proposal. Donald Trump's plan would allow wealthy foreigners to purchase U.S. citizenship for $5 million, raising questions about who is deemed valuable in America. They talk about the broader implications of this policy, including its exclusionary stance towards asylum seekers, the elderly, and those on Medicaid. They also tackle Elon Musk's unprecedented influence over the executive branch, particularly through mass firings and the contracting of federal communications systems. The episode examines plans for mass deportation, including proposals involving military contractors and private mercenaries. Additionally, the hosts scrutinize the moral and ethical values underpinning these policies, comparing them to historical practices in Russia under Vladimir Putin. .Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi.
0:12.1	Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold carbon?
0:17.5	Yeah, possibly. Hey, I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people. It's possible.
0:23.6	They're not quite as wealthy as they used to be. They're not as wealthy as they used to be.
0:28.5	I think they can afford, I think they can afford $5 million. No, a lot of people are going to want to,
0:33.9	a lot of people are going to want to be in this country. And they'll be able to work and provide jobs and build companies and pay taxes.
0:42.9	And I was going to announce it sometime next week.
0:46.1	And I figure, why not?
0:47.0	We have a lot of cameras blazing right now.
0:48.8	We might as well do it now.
0:51.5	That is Donald Trump talking about Russian oligarchs and the possibility of them receiving a golden visa,
0:58.5	paying $5 million for citizenship in the United States.
1:02.2	Today, we talk about how the golden visa wraps into a comprehensive view put forth by the Trump administration
1:10.5	regarding who is valuable and who is not.
1:13.7	The ways that if you're rich or beautiful, then you are somebody who has value in the United States.
1:19.1	And if you are not, if you're an asylum seeker, somebody fleeing violence, if you're an elderly
1:24.2	person in a rural small town, if you're somebody who doesn't have millions of
1:29.4	dollars, then you might be expendable. All of this in the context of Elon Musk's running the
1:35.3	first cabinet meeting of the Trump administration and reports about camps, mercenaries,
1:41.4	and reports about camps, mercenaries, and private planes as the apparatus for mass deportation
1:47.7	in the near future. I'm Brad Hineshi, and this is Straight White American Jesus. I'm Brad Onishi here today with my distinguished co-host.
2:14.5	Distinguished, yes. I am Dan Miller, Professor Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College.
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