All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/ https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips Dana Goldstein, “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020. Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.) James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.) Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.) Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.) Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5 https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/ https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/ https://mutualaidsudan.org/ https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/ https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886 https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the President of Argentina's meme coin scandal?
Yeah. Yeah. I'll be curious too. It's really interesting to me, like to what degree this resonates with everyday people, I guess, in Argentina, because, you know, there's, there's a lot to complain about with the Mule government. And so, you know, it's sort of fascinating to me that people are latching onto this and
It's sort of interesting just to compare with the United States where there's a lot to complain about with the Trump administration. And people were complaining about the meme coin, but by the time that was partly because it was pre-inauguration and so Trump hadn't started signing all the executive orders.
And so it was very quickly overshadowed by the other sort of blatantly illegal things happening within the Trump administration. And so it didn't get that much traction in sort of the longer term. So it's interesting to me to watch this play out in a different country where Millais has been in office for some time now, and this has gained at least some degree of a foothold.
And I'll be curious to see if that endures or not. He's sort of trying to play it off as like, you know, oh, everyone knows crypto is risky. He said something, he tried to do this like damage control interview on TV where he said that basically like the people who bought this token knew they were playing Russian roulette and they got the bullet, which is a wild thing to say. Jesus Christ.
Yeah, that's just a nutty thing to say, but also very in character for him. And, you know, he said something in that interview to the effect of, like, you know, only a couple thousand people lost money. What's the chances that those people were even Argentinian? Like, we shouldn't even care if they were, you know, not Argentinian.
And so, you know, it's sort of interesting to watch him try to downplay this. It's like, well, yeah, of course people lost money. It's a scam. You know, it's like, yeah, I guess. Yeah.
I think part of the reason this is, like, a real issue for him is that, like, he really, truly, you know, and this is something that, like, Trump is also doing this. But he, like, really, truly went out to, like, his main base of supporters. Yeah. And was like, I was going to take you up behind a wood set and shoot you and, like, take the money out of your pocket.
And, like, the way he's, like, systematically fucking all of the people who are supposed to be his political base. And, like, Trump was also doing this, but, like, people sort of, like, haven't set in that this is what's happening. Whereas, like, this rug pull thing, it's, like, this is, like, the only thing that the fucking unhinged right-wing crypto bro people care about.
Like, this is, like, the one thing you could possibly do. to like, it's the wall.
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Chapter 2: How is Peronism affecting Argentina's current political landscape?
The other thing I would say is like there's a real union sort of feel to a lot of this. And as we started coming together, a bunch of us realized, well, we all kind of had union conversations somewhere along the way. But corporate unions and like SEIU represents a lot of like individual sort of arms of companies like the ones that we work at.
they aren't interested in the politics of the work you do. They're interested in your benefits, they're interested in you as a worker, but they're not interested in your relationship to the work. And so we're approaching this not necessarily as a union, but from the perspective that if we need to strike on behalf of patients and their access to care, like that's a tool in our toolbox.
And we don't have to do anything more than declare it a strike to be protected under the NLRB and some of these various different things.
And we can do it for political reasons instead of for pay reasons, which means we can do it as a diverse group instead of as all the nurses, all the advanced practice providers, all of the psychologists and therapists and LCSWs, where they break us apart by discipline instead of by, you know, what sort of managerial status you are.
Yeah, yeah. I think that's a very good point. I read a book recently about how the longshoremen in San Francisco stopped weapons going to Chile or El Salvador by striking and refusing to load weapons onto ships. And like, that's a union energy we could use right now.
Yeah, I think people would be well advised to like, I will say that they'd be well advised to check with federal and local law because like some state legal landscapes can be very different. Right. I want to end with like, people are probably afraid of accessing care, right? Like people are probably afraid of going to see their providers.
Like understandably, like you said before, like especially kids or people under 18 are like right in the center of care. The president of the United States called out a friend of mine personally by name recently. She's a trans athlete. And like, they're really coming after people. I understand that people are afraid.
Like, what should they know if they're concerned about their hormone supply or they're on puberty blockers right now? Like, if people are listening, what would you, maybe they don't know where their provider stands, you know?
Yeah. I mean, I tell my patients this, but I'm in awe of them. They're incredible people. And a lot of them are nerdy theater kids who love cats and they want to just exist. And some of them are also incredible outspoken activists. They are just amazing. And I will fight with everything that I've got for them. And I really hope they know that.
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