They Are Normalizing the Army at Your Door

ICE agents in full body armor are now deployed to airports across the country while TSA remains unfunded, 400 experienced agents have quit, and two Trump officials gave completely contradictory explanations for why ICE is there. Meanwhile, swaths of the president's civilian cabinet have relocated to military bases with no historical precedent. The Nintendo Switch 2 just cut production from six million to four million units because US families cannot afford them anymore, a direct result of tariffs and AI-driven chip inflation that the billionaire class simply does not feel. Today's episode connects the dots between militarized normalization, the economic squeeze on working people, and the professional class that still thinks it is not next.