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EPISODE · Aug 13, 2025 · 1H 20M

“ICE Is No Gestapo!” Complain Gestapo Enthusiasts

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VR3 - It ’s Thomas, Lydia, and Matt versus the entire National Review editorial board! Join us as we take on the conservative magazine’s recent op-ed on why it is extremely rude to compare masked American federal agents of today who refuse to identify themselves as they grab innocent families off of the street and shove them into unmarked vans bound for concentration camps to masked Nazi German agents of 1933-1945 who refused to identify themselves as they grabbed innocent families off the street and shoved them into vans bound for concentration camps. Matt explains with historical examples why ICE is not NOT the Gestapo as we consider what we can learn from Nazi history. We celebrate the recent return of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US after his illegal deportation to El Salvador with a take so bad that it is hard to believe that the whole thing wasn’t actually published in The Onion. What was the audience for this willfully obtuse Newsweek op-ed praising the DOJ for finding a way to bring Abrego Garcia back other than the fact that the Supreme Court told them to, and what is this trying to say to them? Has this thing already aged worse than Stephen Miller? Finally: updates from Martha’s Vineyard (last week’s patron-only story) as Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz and his crusade to bring down the considerable weight of the law against people who refuse to serve him tasty Polish food. WATCH US ON YOUTUBE! ”ICE is No Gestapo,” The Editors, National Review (8/6/25) "Why Was Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned to the US?", Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek (6/11/25)  “Alan Dershowitz once again denied pierogi as Martha’s Vineyard residents chant ‘time to go,’” Justin Baragona, The Independent (8/7/25) Check out the OA Linktree for all the places to go and things to do!

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