IC–026 | Screaming for Vietnamese Refugee to Self-Deport
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[0:00] just the very present because I think that we've done that for quite a number
[0:06] of years,
[0:06] just looking at fixing problems when we should be looking at prevention and
[0:13] looking at how
[0:15] agriculture is going to look into the future.
[0:18] There are candidates that are supportive of protecting soil as a natural
[0:24] resource and
[0:25] looking at the future of agriculture.
[0:29] And for so many in Iowa, farming runs in the family.
[0:32] Hey, Patch.
[0:33] Let's go to it.
[0:34] Come on.
[0:35] Well, as a little kid, I've always rode around with my dad, so I mean, I guess
[0:39] I've
[0:39] always wanted to be a farmer.
[0:41] Mike Holden is a third-generation farmer, now weathering the weight of being on
[0:46] the
[0:46] front lines during the pandemic.
[0:48] My wife works in a hospital.
[0:51] My daughter drove by her earlier, works in a hospital in Des Moines, commutes.
[0:56] Her frontline people, I work seven days a week, virtually 365 days, but if I
[1:03] don't come here,
[1:05] they're not going to get fed.
[1:07] But he's feeling the impact of how the farming industry has changed.
[1:11] It's an interesting way of life that has really become more corporate.
[1:16] And I've farmed for over 40 years now, and I'm not happy with the way farming
[1:24] has become
[1:25] the neighborly thing, the thing that you used to do because you wanted to help.
[1:32] Sorry, I get emotional here.
[1:37] You want to help, because that person needed your help.
[1:42] This year, he chose to cast his ballot for Biden.
[1:45] The money that the Trump administration then gave to farmers in Iowa to keep
[1:50] them afloat
[1:50] was welcomed, but not enough.
[1:52] Yeah, it doesn't make up for the losses we had.
[1:55] It certainly softens the blow.
[1:57] I think it was bribery.
[1:58] I'm going to buy your vote on the threes of money, and hopefully you'll keep
[2:02] supporting
[2:02] me.
[2:03] And they do.
[2:04] And I don't get it.
[2:05] The bailouts, not enough for him to overlook what he views as failed leadership
[2:09] and a lack
[2:10] of civility in the White House.
[2:12] I think he's dangerously reckless, he's brutally insensitive and disrespectful.
[2:19] I mean, you can be tough without being a bully.
[2:23] And we need badly need some civility in my opinion.
[2:27] And Lindsey, most importantly, the farmers that I spoke with said no matter
[2:30] what happens
[2:30] on election day, they will still wake up early.
[2:33] They will go to work.
[2:34] They will do their jobs feeding the country.
[2:38] Hi everyone, George Stephanopoulos here.
[2:40] Thanks for checking out the ABC News YouTube channel.
[2:42] If you'd like to get more video show, fuck up, George, I will watch the
[2:46] Vietnamese one.
[2:51] In fact, Vietnam, despite our horrific war crimes there.
[2:57] And I was, I was shocked when I found out about this as well.
[3:00] But in fact, about Vietnam, the most, the country that views the United States
[3:06] of America
[3:07] the most favorably is Vietnam.
[3:12] Despite our actual war crimes there in our, in our genocidal efforts in the
[3:19] region, you
[3:20] know, fighting communism, of course, necessary, if you ask some people, still
[3:25] having generational
[3:26] impact with like children being born with disabilities to this day because of
[3:31] Agent Orange.
[3:34] Vietnam, despite all of that, has the best, most favorable opinion of the
[3:40] United States
[3:41] out of every country on the planet, Vietnamese people do.
[3:48] I don't mean that like, I'm talking about Vietnamese people.
[3:54] I don't know why I have no understanding of why it is.
[3:58] Maybe it's because they see us, they see the United States as like a like a cud
[4:01] gel against
[4:02] China or something and they fucking really hate China.
[4:07] But excuse me, I'm sorry.
[4:10] They, they like the United States more than they, more than Israel in Israel as
[4:17] the highest
[4:18] favorability of the United States after Vietnam, if I'm not mistaken.
[4:23] It is a remarkable fact that I was very confused by and very shocked by a very
[4:29] weird, very
[4:30] strange.
[4:42] I really don't have any idea why our Vietnamese community is overwhelmingly
[4:49] conservative.
[4:50] We support President Donald Trump because as Vietnamese refugees, we have
[5:08] endure suffering
[5:09] under the Communist regime and we believe that, okay, fuck you, dude, I mean,
[5:16] seriously,
[5:17] fuck you, old lady, shut the fuck up.
[5:19] You stupid fucking idiotic old lady with your stupid fucking gamer head said,
[5:26] who is fucked
[5:27] you harder America or fucking Ho Chi Minh suck my dick, old lady.
[5:31] God damn, dude, you'll fuck this refugee, okay, seriously, fuck this South
[5:37] Vietnamese mother
[5:38] fucking whatever, like Christian supremacist psychotic fucking refugee living
[5:44] in America
[5:44] now and, and, and able to talk that shit, why don't you go back and live in
[5:47] fucking South
[5:48] Vietnam in the same conditions, if that's your perspective, be careful, be
[5:54] careful.
[5:55] No, I fucking hate these people, dude.
[5:58] They're so insane, like they, they fucking beat in to the American propaganda
[6:03] hook line
[6:03] and sinker, like it's bullshit.
[6:05] Well, the fuckers were self-immulating because of our, because of our actions
[6:09] over in fucking
[6:09] Vietnam and, and this lady's like, oh no, it's the communist, like fuck you.
[6:14] And Trump is, definitely, he doesn't like socialism or communism, he's fight
[6:21] for freedom
[6:22] and democracy, he bring a lot of jobs back to America.
[6:26] Shut the fuck up.
[6:27] You feel happy, even though it's a lot of people say he's bad.
[6:31] I think a lot of us, the majority of us, are really, it's not the same as Cuba.
[6:41] It's not the same as Cuba.
[6:44] It's way worse than Cuba, because at least America didn't like directly have
[6:52] the same
[6:53] kind of fucking immediate and horrific actions took immediate and horrific
[6:58] actions in Cuba.
[6:59] It was, it was Castro versus Batista, not America versus Vietnam or the fucking
[7:04] North
[7:05] Vietnamese.
[7:06] So like, it's literally worse than that, okay?
[7:10] I get Cubans being like, oh, I fucking hate like, you know, I hate communism,
[7:15] whatever,
[7:16] a fuck Castro, fuck Jay, all that stuff is whatever.
[7:21] You have to tie it back to the United States to be like, oh, well, it was a
[7:25] fascist puppet
[7:25] dictator and like, he was favorable to America and that's why he was able to do
[7:29] so much torment
[7:30] to our people, whatever.
[7:31] That's a secondary consequence.
[7:33] It's not like, I mean, not for a lack of trying mind you, but it's not like
[7:39] America went
[7:39] in and like fucking did the shit that we did to Vietnam, specifically South
[7:45] Vietnam, not
[7:45] even North Vietnam.
[7:47] I really like the song, the music.
[7:52] It's a level of delusion that is like, on the fathomable.
[7:56] My parents were victim of war.
[7:59] So when the communist forces took over Vietnam, my dad were forced to live in a
[8:06] jungle literally
[8:08] for much of his childhood.
[8:10] So anything that is a step up from that is something to be grateful for.
[8:38] So the Vietnamese community grew in Oakland City back in the mid 70s.
[8:47] So a lot of these refugees saw the bigger city.
[8:51] There were jobs available here.
[8:53] There were factories that they could work out that they didn't have to have a
[8:55] good grasp
[8:56] of the English language.
[8:58] And so all they needed was just the determination to work hard and support
[9:02] their family.
[9:03] Coming from an undemocratic.
[9:05] By the way, this is like low key to true as well.
[9:08] I think, okay, correct me if I'm wrong.
[9:10] I think this is another one of those like tidbit Oklahoma facts that I know in
[9:13] the back of
[9:14] my mind.
[9:15] But I'm pretty sure under FDR, the internment camps were in Oklahoma, right?
[9:21] So that's why there is the only like significant group of Asian population in
[9:26] Oklahoma is Vietnamese
[9:27] people that came in as refugees after Vietnam and every other fucking, every
[9:34] other, by all
[9:35] the Japanese people that were there or all the other Asian people left Oklahoma
[9:41] never to
[9:42] look back because of the internment camps there in most of the camps on the
[9:49] west coast.
[9:50] I thought they were also, I thought they were like big ones were built in
[9:54] Oklahoma.
[9:55] Maybe I'm wrong though.
[9:57] In a democratic country with a dysfunctional democracy, America was the
[10:03] pinnacle for what
[10:05] a government should look like.
[10:07] Yeah, so my dad is definitely a Republican.
[10:11] He is a strong believer in America and American exceptionalism.
[10:17] I had assumed he would be voting for Trump in the November election.
[10:25] I decided I'm not going to let my dad, a decent loving man vote for Donald
[10:46] Trump.
[10:49] They went by around TikTok because a lot of kids my age were in the same
[10:55] predicament
[10:56] where their parents, you know, were going to vote for Trump, you know, half the
[11:01] reason
[11:01] that I'm a Democrat is because I want to protect and fight for my parents.