🌊The Flood—When Too Much News Becomes The Strategy 🎙️ Radical Roots Ep 74
Mon Feb 02 2026
🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 74: 🌊The Flood—When Too Much News Becomes The Strategy📅 February 1, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from SNOWY North CarolinaHAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!This week was a flood 🌊. So much news it's hard to even keep up.Government shutdown. 3 million Epstein pages dropped. Prominent journalists arrested. Liam finally came home. Greg Bovino demoted. February 13 deadline.Is the chaos the point? When you can't defend the indefensible, flood the zone with distractions.🔥 What We're Covering:🏛️ Democrats Made Them Blink... kinda?Senate Dems blocked funding, forced DHS split. Trump agreed. Senate passed 71-29. February 13 deadline for DHS negotiations. They're still demanding reforms—not abolition.👮 Trump's Secret PoliceDon Lemon & Georgia Fort arrested Friday covering January 18 church protest. FACE Act charges. Judge rejected warrant—arrested anyway. Meanwhile Valentina Gomez disrupts churches, burns Qurans, mock executions—no charges. Pattern clear: FACE Act only enforced against the left. Does it even apply?📁 The Distraction Drop3 million+ Epstein pages dropped Friday (same day as arrests and shutdown). Trump mentioned 4,500+ times. Cabinet members implicated. FBI tip list removed from database. Why now? Bury ICE murders.💔 The Body Count + Liam Comes Home30+ shootings, 8 deaths since January 20. Trump calls Alex Pretti "insurrectionist." Liam Ramos & father released Saturday, flew home Sunday. Two more kids from his school now detained.🔴 The Right-Wing LostDefending detaining 5-year-olds and murdering nurses. Chris Madel drops Minnesota governor race (can't support party). Lindsey Graham defends ICE as "demonized cops." Even some Republicans breaking. BIG LOSS IN TEXAS special election.⏰ February 13 - The TestWill Dems hold the line or fold (history: ACA failure)? ICE already has $75 billion. Reforms won't work. 69% of Dems support abolition. Leadership won't say it. Only solution: ABOLISH ICE.✊ The Thesis:When you can't defend the indefensible, flood the zone with so much chaos people can't keep up. This week proves it. We're trying anyway.📢 Join the Movement:💬 Drop your thoughts below 📲 Follow: @RadicalRootsPodcast on IG, Threads, Bluesky 🔔 Subscribe & hit the bell 📩 podcast@radicalroots.us 🌐 https://radicalroots.us and DONATE#RadicalRootsPodcast #blackandbrown #solidarity #coalition #RadicalRoots #KiethPorter #SilverioVillegasGarcia #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #DonDavis #ChaseRanklin #NCDemocrats #Obama
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🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 74: 🌊The Flood—When Too Much News Becomes The Strategy📅 February 1, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from SNOWY North CarolinaHAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!This week was a flood 🌊. So much news it's hard to even keep up.Government shutdown. 3 million Epstein pages dropped. Prominent journalists arrested. Liam finally came home. Greg Bovino demoted. February 13 deadline.Is the chaos the point? When you can't defend the indefensible, flood the zone with distractions.🔥 What We're Covering:🏛️ Democrats Made Them Blink... kinda?Senate Dems blocked funding, forced DHS split. Trump agreed. Senate passed 71-29. February 13 deadline for DHS negotiations. They're still demanding reforms—not abolition.👮 Trump's Secret PoliceDon Lemon & Georgia Fort arrested Friday covering January 18 church protest. FACE Act charges. Judge rejected warrant—arrested anyway. Meanwhile Valentina Gomez disrupts churches, burns Qurans, mock executions—no charges. Pattern clear: FACE Act only enforced against the left. Does it even apply?📁 The Distraction Drop3 million+ Epstein pages dropped Friday (same day as arrests and shutdown). Trump mentioned 4,500+ times. Cabinet members implicated. FBI tip list removed from database. Why now? Bury ICE murders.💔 The Body Count + Liam Comes Home30+ shootings, 8 deaths since January 20. Trump calls Alex Pretti "insurrectionist." Liam Ramos & father released Saturday, flew home Sunday. Two more kids from his school now detained.🔴 The Right-Wing LostDefending detaining 5-year-olds and murdering nurses. Chris Madel drops Minnesota governor race (can't support party). Lindsey Graham defends ICE as "demonized cops." Even some Republicans breaking. BIG LOSS IN TEXAS special election.⏰ February 13 - The TestWill Dems hold the line or fold (history: ACA failure)? ICE already has $75 billion. Reforms won't work. 69% of Dems support abolition. Leadership won't say it. Only solution: ABOLISH ICE.✊ The Thesis:When you can't defend the indefensible, flood the zone with so much chaos people can't keep up. This week proves it. We're trying anyway.📢 Join the Movement:💬 Drop your thoughts below 📲 Follow: @RadicalRootsPodcast on IG, Threads, Bluesky 🔔 Subscribe & hit the bell 📩 podcast@radicalroots.us 🌐 https://radicalroots.us and DONATE#RadicalRootsPodcast #blackandbrown #solidarity #coalition #RadicalRoots #KiethPorter #SilverioVillegasGarcia #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #DonDavis #ChaseRanklin #NCDemocrats #Obama