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Weekly Roundup: Hegseth’s Execution Livestream, “Bomb LA,” and "What Would Hitler Do?"

Weekly Roundup: Hegseth’s Execution Livestream, “Bomb LA,” and "What Would Hitler Do?"10 okt1 u 07 min

They want to rule, not govern. This week on the Weekly Roundup, Brad Onishi and Dan Miller break down Trump’s “bomb LA” comments, the “enemy combatant” rhetoric aimed at Somalis in Minnesota, Hegseth’s plan to live-stream a firing squad execution, and Tucker Carlson and Curtis Yarvin’s Hitler comments. Then they close with some reasons for hope: Ossoff in the Georgia debate and a Satanic invocation in Ottumwa, Iowa.

With the midterms less than a month away, Brad and Dan argue the GOP is ramping up fear-mongering, race-baiting, and empty promises because it has little else left to offer.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro: Iran, LA, Somalis, and the live-streamed execution

03:38 The thesis: ramping up the tactics before the midterms

06:43 Somalis as “the new Haitians”

10:46 JD Vance can’t define socialism

15:26 Ruling vs. governing

17:37 Hegseth’s live-streamed firing squad

27:34 “Pro-life” and “family values”? Bloodlust and the research on televised executions

33:16 Tucker Carlson on why the UK fought WWII

42:38 Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance, and the “engineering” view of society