This F@#king Country

Rethinking protests by swapping escalation for satire, coordination, and documentation to stay safe and still hit hard

• greg • Season 1 • Episode 10

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No one wins by giving authoritarians the footage they crave. We unpack a smarter protest strategy that swaps escalation for craft: coordinated visuals that anonymize and unify, quick exits that deny conflict, and an always-on camera culture that turns fleeting moments into undeniable evidence. The goal is simple and ambitious—protect people on the ground while raising the reputational cost for abusive actors and forcing mainstream attention with content too shareable to ignore.

We walk through the practical pieces: off-site hubs for changing and briefings, uniform outfits that double as safety and symbolism, and clean roles that separate satirical front lines from dedicated documentation teams. Humor becomes a tool, not a side note, as themed days and synchronized actions across cities create a moving target for would-be aggressors and a consistent brand for supporters. When contact begins, we don’t argue—we move, regroup, and turn the lens back on power. That discipline reframes the narrative and keeps bodies intact.

Not all uniforms are the same. We talk about meeting traditional police and National Guard with respectful distance unless conduct proves otherwise, while applying a strict freeze-out to units with documented abuse. It’s a pressure campaign powered by evidence, culture, and coordination. If you’re ready to rethink street tactics, amplify the message, and keep people safe without losing impact, this conversation offers a clear blueprint you can adapt city by city.

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Hello and welcome to this fucking country. I'm your host, Greg. Thanks for tuning in. Today I want to talk about protests. Protests have changed a little bit in the last few months. I remember the last one I went to was out in Orland Park. It was a very positive experience. A lot of people are very passionate about against Trump and his policies. But this was well before ice, uh the ice holes kind of really came onto the scene and started terrorizing everybody. So the protests now have a whole different feel to them. They've basically come in and they've kind of amped up the violence, they've amped up the ill illegality, shall we say? They're doing whatever the fuck they want. They're masked and they're cowards. So it's different now. So I don't think we can kind of come at protests the same way we did before. Recently, I've kind of turned the corner and I've I've got a whole different view on how I think we should protest. Starting off, we have to acknowledge that this current administration is, I'm willing to bet, uh, not being a historian, the most uh corrupt, inept, cowardly, spineless, and overall probably dumb uh administration we've ever had in US history. Now I know the people pulling the strings, uh the billionaires behind the administration are not dumb. They're very, very smart, uh very horrible people, but very smart. But the administration, Trump and all the idiots he's hired and put into positions, are all seem to be just about they just seem to be the dumbest of the fucking dumb. So so we have to realize what we're dealing with. Because not only are they dumb, they're just really bad fucking people. They don't seem to give a shit about anybody but furthering their own power and their own bank account. And now we also have to acknowledge that the people they hire, these ice holes that they're they're employing, uh, these probably January 6th assholes who were pardoned, they're untrained, they're unthinking, they're uncaring, uh, but they're dangerous. I mean, they've got no moral code, they they've got what I would consider just an enormous amount of uh little dick energy. So guys like that are are dangerous because they're just too fucking dumb to realize what they're doing. This is what we're dealing with, and we we have to go into it being smart and knowing who we're dealing with. How do we deal with this kind of shit bag people? My philosophy is this we we need two things to happen first. Okay, the first thing we need to do is we need to get a donation from some of the good billionaires, okay? I'm thinking, you know, a couple million dollars would be great. And I'll tell you what that's for in a little bit. And then the second thing we need is Hollywood. Except for South Park and our talk show hosts, Hollywood, as far as I could tell, has done nothing. We've got a few people who've come forward and, you know, spoken out, but most people are just deadly silent. I don't know what their contracts say, I don't know what the fuck the reason is. Except for a few actors and entertainers, uh, Hollywood has been just radio fucking silent. What I would like Hollywood to do, I would like them to create content, because that's what Hollywood does best. And they don't have to sign it, they don't have to put their name on it, they don't have to be in it. They could even fucking make it in AI. But what they need to do is they need to create content. Lots and lots of content. Now, mind you, they don't have to create everything because uh Trump every day says something stupid uh that we can use. Uh, there's all sorts of footage of these fucking ice holes doing illegal, horrible things, shooting innocent people, murdering people in the street, uh ripping apart families, zip tying five-year-old children. We have this to use also. But I I think it'd be fun to kind of just go off and just create some uh some small dick energy videos. Uh, you know, use some footage of these ice guys. Let's have some fake interviews with their ex-girlfriends, you know, and and just make up, just have a blast with it. Just just something so that we can kind of combine actual footage put to Benny Hill music. Uh, I don't know if any of you have seen that footage of the uh the guy in the bike in Chicago, downtown Chicago, who uh challenged the fucking ice guys and then rode away and then someone put it to Benny Hill music, which is fucking amazing. Uh so that's the type of thing I'm talking about. Anything that makes these idiots look bad is what I want to see. So once we have content and once we have some money, I I think what we need to do next is we need to restructure the protest because people are getting hurt. A lot of innocent good people are getting uh especially women, the c the the ice officers really seem to like the knock knockover women. They're they're pretty fucking good at that. You know, twelve of them in a fucking row just piling on one person. Just the biggest fucking cowards. What I'd like our protesters to do is I'd like them to organize. So what I want them to do is I don't want them to engage with the ice holes at all. So you you stand wherever you're gonna stand, but if they come out to address you, you get the fuck out of their way. Don't give them anything to do. So here's the first thing I want to do. So we take some of that donations and we spend we spend some money on outfits. Because I think if they can all dress the same way, so can we. Okay, now this serves two purposes. Uh the first purpose is that if everyone's dressed the same, same helmet, same outfit, same goggles, everything. It's gonna be really hard to identify who the protesters are. Okay, so if something does happen, good luck figuring out who it is. Okay, so my thing is you get a big tent, you keep it off the premises so that uh you know they can't say it's in the way. Everyone goes out and does their little protesting, all dress the same, and then everyone runs back into the tent, runs around, twirls around, and goes back out, right? Good luck identifying who the fucks who. Now, regarding the costumes, so I'm thinking, okay, we could do camo. Sure, everyone could dress the exact same. We can all buy, we can get those vests and the camo gear all off of uh all off of Amazon. So we looked the exact same as them, so that kind of might be fun to mock them. But then I think it would be great to have a Waldo day. You know, where's Waldo? Everyone's dressed like Waldo. I think that would be entertaining. And then, of course, you have to have a Trump day. We can easily get the Trump masks, you know, the black suits, the long red tie. I think that'd be fucking hysterical. Okay, just droves of these fucking people. The the guys who are out there, women who are out there in those uh the dinosaur, the blow-up dinosaur outfits, and those, those are still fantastic. Keep keep those coming because you can't identify who the fuck anybody is, and they're fucking hysterical. So my whole goal is I want to make this as entertaining and fun for the protesters as possible. And we're gonna keep them out of harm's way. They go line up at the fence wherever the hell they're supposed to, and as soon as these fucking goons start coming to the fence, run away. I mean, don't don't fucking walk away, don't, don't say shit to their face. Just run. Hop, skip, cartwheel. Do whatever the fuck you can so it looks funny. You could do your best curly impersonation from the three stooges, you know, you know, one of those. Anything, have fun with it. Okay, just run, run in circles, and everybody back into the tent. Now, mind you, I think it would be kind of fun before you run. If we have glitter bombs, stink bombs, fart sprays, you know, a couple people, all they need are the leaf blowers, and then a couple people just kind of release the smell, use the leaf blower, blow it into them. Now, I'm not saying close to the fucking guys. I don't want anyone getting close to these idiots. I mean, you could be stand back and let the let the uh leaf blower do all the heavy lifting there. So to me, I think I think this is a a good, funny, funny, funny fucking thing. Plus, you're creating content. You know, there's gotta be people constantly videotaping this. God, I sound so old videotaping. There's gotta be a bunch of people recording this uh so that there's all sorts of this fun stuff to use. Now, I don't want to all be just silly. I I do think we should also uh be a little bit more effective too. So we need two stages of uh protesters. So we've got our our people at the gates, the ones kind of you know dressing up and running around and being silly, and then we've got our secondary ones. Let's say they're half a block, a block off, right? These are the people maybe who might be uh holding those uh those tacks and things, things that can kind of disable cars, tires, flattened tires, uh that kind of thing. Maybe a group of people holding bags of shit to launch. Off of the premises, you like when you know the cars are coming, you radio in, there's a car coming down the street, you just drop some of these tacks as the cars go past. That that could be fun. So the upfront, the upfront is comical and non-threatening, and then as they get further in, then then there's a little bit of a little conflict there. Hopefully, they won't see the conflict coming. Hopefully they won't have anybody to engage in. The people who have done who will do the damage will do it from afar or will do it uh before they get there. So there is nothing they can do to the people when they get there. Safety. We want to keep uh these protesters, we want to keep them safe. We want to disrupt the kidnappings as much as we can, but again, it's vital we keep our protesters safe. And of course, constantly recording, never stopping recording. And if possible, faces, tattoos, any kind of identifiable marks, because someday, unless this country actually does go down in flames, we if we ever do get a real Supreme Court again, if we get people who aren't criminals in there, then we might be able to bring charges against these douchebags. And we will need faces, we'll we'll need recordings, dates, times, and tattoos and things like that are great for identifying people. Always, always recording. A throwback to the the costumes again is that even if we're recording, as long as everyone's dressed the same, we're all covered up, we're all in our safety gear, nobody's gonna be identified just like them. So we're gonna do a little bit, you know, we're gonna play by their fucking rules. That that is a good jumping off point for ICE and Border Patrol agents, because uh it seems that those are the biggest fucking douchebags out of this attack on our on our freedoms. I know we have the uh National Guard coming in. I know sometimes we have the police, we have the state police uh getting involved. Uh depending on who's sending them, I don't know what to anticipate. I'd like to think, though, that our National Guard are not going to be these type of scumbags like ICE. Okay, I'd like to think these are guys who enlisted and actually swore an oath. So I think because of that, we give them the benefit of the doubt and we embrace them. Instead of attacking them, I say we embrace them. I say we try and get some selfies with these guys. Let's try and act kind toward them. Let's open up some kind of a communication so that they are aware that we do not despise them. They're doing their duty, they're being called out to do this. This is what they have to do. They still have to feed their family, this is a job for them. Let's try and keep them until they do something that proves otherwise. Let's just treat them as if they're innocent in this whole thing as we are. So, what we do now is we're kind to our police officers, our real police officers. I believe, I'm hoping some of them are there to protect the protesters, to protect things, and to just keep things from getting crazy. Okay. So we try and be kind to the police officers, we try and be kind to the National Guard. We freeze out ICE and the Border Patrol. Fuck them. No place to eat, no place to park, no place to sleep, no place to regroup. Fuck 'em. The the people following them, honking fucking amazing energy, keep that shit up. They should not have a moment's of rest in this fucking whole thing. I mean, they they should go home every fucking day feeling like the world fucking hates them because the world does. So fuck them. This is this is a philosophy I have, and I think this could be very entertaining, and I think it could be very effective. If non-stop, we have just constant, constant content of those ice holes looking like just the biggest fucking losers. They're they're watching it, and the administration's watching this, and it's gonna be hard for them. I mean, even Fox is gonna have to put this shit on TV, and they're just gonna look dumb. And if we can keep safe, if we can keep off, they're not gonna get their footage of them beating on people, which is what these, you know, these ice holes really like. I'm assuming that these fucking Republicans who voted for this shit, that's what they want to see. So we take that opportunity away from them. We have some fun with this, we have some fun with this, and then see where it goes. So that's my philosophy. I think it can work. We just need some benefactor who can donate a little bit of money so we can get some fun outfits. And again, we need this to go across the United States, Portland, Chicago, anywhere, LA. It's got to be the same. And it would be great, like if we could have Waldo in every single state uh at the same time, if we could have the Trump thing in every state at the same time, that would be fucking tremendous. So that's just my thoughts on protesting in uh 2025 under this current fucking Nazi administration. Uh, I hope you think it was entertaining. I hope you think it was fun and a great idea. And uh please share it with anybody who's out there protesting. And uh, I'd love to see this on TV someday. So thanks for listening. It's been a blast.