{"id":312793,"date":"2026-02-02T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=312793"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:16:22","slug":"join-ice-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/02\/join-ice-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Join ICE&#8221; (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Viral musical sensation Jesse Welles brings his GRAMMY-nominated tune from his latest EP, &#8216;<\/em>No Kings<em>.&#8217;\u00a0LIVE on <\/em>The Late Show<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Join ICE&quot; - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61I4hlig78w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>LYRICS<\/strong><br \/>\nWell, if you&#8217;re lookin&#8217; for purpose in the current circus<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re seekin&#8217; respect and attention<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re in need of a gig that&#8217;ll make you feel big<br \/>\nCome with me and put some folks in detention<\/p>\n<p>Just last week was kind of tough, I put a kid in cuffs<br \/>\nI zip tied a lady to a van<br \/>\nWe can sneak around town, hunt workin&#8217; folks down<br \/>\nI hear they got a great benefit plan<\/p>\n<p>Join ICE, boy, ain&#8217;t it nice?<br \/>\nJoin ICE, take my advice<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re lackin&#8217; control and authority<br \/>\nCome with me and hunt down minorities<br \/>\nJoin ICE<\/p>\n<p>Well, I failed the academy, the cops weren&#8217;t havin&#8217; me<br \/>\nThe Army didn&#8217;t sound that fun<br \/>\nSo I found me a paramilitary operation<br \/>\nThat was keen to hand me a gun<\/p>\n<p>I got picked on at school, I never felt that cool<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a hole in my soul that just a-rages<br \/>\nAll the ladies turned me down, and I felt like a clown<br \/>\nBut will you look at me now, I&#8217;m puttin&#8217; folks in cages<\/p>\n<p>At ICE, we&#8217;re respectin&#8217; power<br \/>\nJoin ICE, I hear they got great hours<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a sign-on bonus of 50 grand<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re in need of you, needin&#8217; to feel like a man<br \/>\nJoin ICE<\/p>\n<p>(Look at him go!)<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you&#8217;re lookin&#8217; for purpose in the current circus<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re seekin&#8217; respect and attention<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re in need of a gig that&#8217;ll make you feel big<br \/>\nCome with me and put some folks in detention<\/p>\n<p>See I failed the academy, the cops weren&#8217;t havin&#8217; me<br \/>\nThe Army didn&#8217;t sound that fun<br \/>\nSo I found me a paramilitary operation<br \/>\nThat was keen to hand me a gun<\/p>\n<p>Join ICE, boy, ain&#8217;t it nice?<br \/>\nJoin ICE, take my advice<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re lackin&#8217; control and authority<br \/>\nCome with me and hunt down minorities<br \/>\nJoin ICE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viral musical sensation Jesse Welles brings his GRAMMY-nominated tune from his latest EP, &#8216;No Kings.&#8217;\u00a0LIVE on The Late Show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[229,1660,871,3442,70],"class_list":["post-312793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week","tag-activism","tag-ice","tag-music-video","tag-protest-movements","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312796,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312793\/revisions\/312796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}