All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The Old Economy Is Dead Cosmopolitanism feat. Andrew The Canadian Election: NOTHING EVER HAPPENS May Day Special: The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 1-3 Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #14 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 Old Economy Is Dead https://www.versobooks.com/products/2222-carbon-democracy?srsltid=AfmBOop1btGiR59VH99WTMZMzuAgua2p9xgWyT8zbZzAhET-DEwjImqw https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-11/china-raises-tariffs-on-us-goods-to-125-in-retaliation https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/national/business/2025/04/11/tariffs-shipping-china-port-of-la-declines https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trans-pacific-blank-sailings-soar-as-ocean-shipments-plunge https://gcaptain.com/massive-surge-in-transpacific-blank-sailings-amid-u-s-china-trade-tensions/ https://www.freightwaves.com/news/air-cargo-faces-22b-revenue-hit-when-china-tariff-exemption-ends https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modifying-reciprocal-tariff-rates-to-reflect-trading-partner-retaliation-and-alignment/ The Canadian Election: NOTHING EVER HAPPENS https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/results/#/all-parties https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4jd39g8y1o https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/the-ndp-is-set-to-lose-official-party-status-after-canadas-election-heres-what-that/article_ac2e10a8-98f0-412d-81dd-a3408b07c6b4.html https://abacusdata.ca/2025-federal-election-final-poll-of-campaign/ https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/ Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #14 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-reassigns-about-dozen-civil-rights-attorneys-amid-shakeup-2025-04-22/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-communities-from-criminal-aliens/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/enforcing-commonsense-rules-of-the-road-for-americas-truck-drivers/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/advancing-artificial-intelligence-education-for-american-youth/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/investigation-into-unlawful-straw-donor-and-foreign-contributions-in-american-elections/ https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/10/politics/political-fundraising-elderly-election-invs-dg/ https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3lnxyq7teck2e https://knightcolumbia.org/content/federal-court-says-first-amendment-bars-government-from-deporting-students-and-faculty-on-basis-of-political-viewpoint-says-challenge-to-trump-policy-can-go-forward https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/29/trump-border-militar-zone-migrants-charges/ https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lnxqhgvlzs2a https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/ https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/UFW%20v%20Noem%20PI%20CLASS%20CERT%20RULING_04.29.pdf https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=35bc713ede854401a475cb9957dd2765 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-eases-tariffs-on-select-us-goods-as-trump-says-beijing-will-eat-the-costs-191201015.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-china-tariffs-are-shutting-the-big-loophole-that-make-shein-and-temu-so-cheap-234229735.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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Chapter 2: How does the old economy affect today's world?
The supply chains for really, really basic goods that we don't even think about the production process of is going to start breaking down because it relies on being able to cheaply import one very, very specific kind of product ball bearing that's made in one factory and suddenly costs like 400 times as much as it did before and we don't know what that's going to do
And this is, on the one hand, absolutely horrifying, right? Like, this is going to mean an unbelievable amount of suffering for people across the world. But on the other hand, there is no plan, right? They don't have a fucking strategy. And that means that the future of the global economy is up in the air and it's up to us to make it a fucking better one, right?
It's we either drive these people from power and we destroy the basis of their power on such a fundamental level they can never return to power, right? Like, we just fucking kneecap them. We physically seize all of the fucking assets and all of the things of the productive capacity that they have that has been allowing them to do this. We make sure they can never get it again.
Yay!
I, for one, am very excited to see the anarchist-liberal re-globalization alliance finally fighting in the streets of Seattle to regain globalization full circle.
You know... I will point out, the reason they all called it alter-globalization and not anti-globalization was that, like, one of the original things... A lot of them did say anti-globalization. A lot of them did, right? But, like, a lot of their argument was, like... The West Coast team certainly did. This is true.
But, like, it's also true that, like, one of the arguments they were making was that, like, neoliberal globalization meant that people couldn't move to places, but capital could. And the thing that they want was a world where people can move between things and, like, fuck capital. What the fuck? Like, eat shit, right?
and that's a world that we can build right we we can build a world where fucking nobody gets arrested by the immigration gestapo we're like there isn't a fucking line on the ground that dictates whether people can disappear you to a concentration camp and that is also globalization right we just have to fucking do it anarcho-clintonism one day we can look at a beautiful world
Look, if Bill Kristol could admit the radicals were right, all of these other motherfuckers could come around. We've been right all, but we've been right the whole fucking time. Fuck you assholes.
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Chapter 3: What happened in the recent Canadian election?
step on gaza is different like the canadian liberals have have restricted arms arms trades and arms deals to israel the past year carney has not thrown trans people under the bus the same way some democrats have the past year um like these are these are different people i think you know canada is a different country than the united states for now garrison
And I think what we can see here is that this Canadian election, although it was close, it still was a rejection of Trump-style politics. Most Canadians do not want Canada to go the way of America. There's been a subset of Canadians, especially in Alberta and Saskatchewan, who have been trying to push for this, like, mega-style, like, Canada-first rhetoric. And this was denied.
I think you were seeing more support for conservatives under Doug Ford with this more, like, moderate conservatism. I think that's something to, like, watch out for more. But, like, this Trump-style politics was... was rejected across the country.
And Carney was able to figure out a way to make people trust him to be a genuine combatant against Trump and usher in a new golden age of neoliberal trade in the face of Trump's chaotic and anti-market sentiments.
hopefully it does put an end to like this, this tendency among liberals, especially in the U S but also in the UK to like feel that they need to engage on right wing culture war talking points. And like, I guess, quote unquote, give some ground. Like we've seen that in the UK, right. With, with like really transphobic shit coming out of the labor party.
And like, I would hope that like people can see the, where this leads to and that they're not going to vote for liberal politicians who are going to throw trans people under the bus. And that will be like a deciding factor in their support. But I guess that's just my hope right now.
Yeah. Well, and frankly, you know, a better liberal party or a liberal NDP coalition would be willing to engage with the idea of like taking trans refugees from these extremely hostile countries, which is just something they've not like, you know, publicly talked about. But as things get worse in the States, we will see. Yeah.
So yeah, that is what I have to say as a Canadian who lives in the United States. My thoughts on the Canadian election. You know, it could have been worse. It is odd to see Canada almost accidentally replicate America's two-party system. So even if this was a rejection of Trump-style politics, This climate of fear did result in replicating America's two-party system, which is kind of interesting.
The amount of which the third parties lost support with support going just towards conservatives and liberals. That is one of the big stories of this election. The NDP blowout, one of the big stories. And Polyev losing his seat, I think, is at the very least a nice cherry on top for this election.
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Chapter 4: How does Trump's influence affect Canadian politics?
Yeah, is to do drugs, drink, and dance. Yeah. That's how you exist under the horrific conditions that the Empire forces you to live under. Yeah, yeah.
And there's this fascinating thing. I noticed this especially watching back season one. If you go back and watch those scenes and you look at the way it's lit, you look at the way that there's just this stark white light coming through the windows. This is not how it's lit in season one, right? This is a very deliberate choice.
Almost everyone else who does this scene would do this sort of warm, rich, golden lighting because that's how you do these sort of fancy wedding things. And this, the way that it is lit is the same way that they're lighting all of the, like, the stark white imperial corridors. And there's this very, you know, it's working on, like, all of these sort of, like,
levels of visual metaphor of all of this, just like, oh yeah, this is also imperial space, right? And everyone here is operating either, regardless of what side they're on, they're operating in imperial terrain, in this sort of thing, as Asma Motha also was just dealing with her kid becoming a trad cath, and trying to talk her kid out of being a trad cath, and her kid...
fucking loses her shit at her for being like hey maybe you shouldn't do this like weird marriage thing when you're like a child like 12 year old marriage yeah yeah I think I think a place I want to end on is there was a really interesting thing where like the Disney account like, just posted a video, like, I think it was on Twitter, that was just one, like, one hour of Mothma dancing. Yeah.
And there was, like, a fascinating reaction to this of, like, like, because on the one hand, there's, like, all these people, like, who I know, Victoria Zeller, who's a trans writer who I follow, who I'll probably be talking to on the show at some point soon, had this thing about, like, oh, yeah, like, there are also, there's just going to be weddings that are, like, based on this Shangri-La wedding thing in, like, two or three years we're going to be seeing this.
Yeah. And there's this interesting dynamic where, like, on the one hand, you have the people who are just completely focused on the aesthetic.
And then on the other hand, you have the people who are like, oh, yeah, I, like, this is fucking me getting just absolutely fucked up as, like, all of the fucking horrors play out around us and having to, like, deal with and fight all the fucking horrors while, like, all of the people around me are just, like... kind of just completely checked out.
And I thought it was just like fascinating watching that sort of play out on social media and on like in real life, like this, you know, they're being very, very literal about how it works and it's working. I'm seeing people do it.
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Chapter 5: What are the key takeaways from the Canadian election results?
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