Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov - Trump Can’t Stop Fighting Canada

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

Get your ticket for our live show at 92NY: https://www.92ny.org/event/scott-galloway-and-jessica-tarlov Trump just renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” as his trade war with Canada heats up. Meanwhile, Democrats face a growing civil war over the party’s future, Trump ramps up deportations of Haitians, and a Florida grand jury finds $10 million was misappropriated by the DeSantis administration. Plus, Donald Trump Jr. pushes states to back off prediction-market regulations despite his financial ties to the industry, Trump’s new crypto bank gets a massive foreign backer, and Jelly Roll finds himself in the crosshairs of the MAGA mob after joking about Trump. Jessica Tarlov and Aaron Parnas break down the latest political chaos, corruption, and fights shaping the country. To see Raging Perspective LIVE, and to get ad-free episodes of Raging Moderates and all the other Prof G shows: join ProfG+ on Substack: https://ragingmoderates.profgmedia.com/ Get The Monday Rage newsletter: https://profgmedia.com/s/monday-rage/ Follow Jessica Tarlov on Instagram, Substack, and Bluesky: https://instagram.com/jessicatarlov https://substack.com/@jessietarlov https://bsky.app/profile/jessicatarlov.bsky.social Follow Aaron Parnas on Substack, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube: https://aaronparnas.substack.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@aaronparnas1/ https://instagram.com/aaronparnas/ https://www.youtube.com/@aaronparnas1 Follow Raging Moderates on IG, Tiktok, and Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/ragingmoderatespod/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ragingmoderates https://www.facebook.com/ragingmoderates Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RagingModerates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This isn't like a Mark Carney problem. Like, this is a history problem. I know that doesn't matter to him, but I just wanted to get that out into the ether. It is, if he does get to rename it, and it will only be for people that are pandering to him who use the term. It was a consolation prize since Canada

didn't want to be our 51st state. No surprise there. Here's Trump talking about it. The lake change, a lake of America, was something I've been thinking about for a long time, actually. As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico, we changed it, and now it's very routinely the Gulf of America. So if you think about it, we have a Gulf and we have a lake. Now all we need is an ocean.

So maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and or the Pacific. Maybe we'll change them both. I'm so tired of him. My question was going to be, how is this real life? Which is akin to I'm so tired of him. You know how we learn the Great Lakes, the acronym Homes? Now it's shame. And because Ontario is replaced with America.

No, I mean, listen, no, I will just say this. And, like, I try to be as nonpartisan as possible. But if, like, your vibe is a political leader renaming things because he doesn't get his way, like, we're just not on the same way. these days. I just like, who cares? And I don't know if you saw this, but Florida's education,

I don't minister or whatever, the person who leads education of Florida, announced that he's going to reprint the entire state's textbooks to change the name of like Ontario to Lake America, costing Florida taxpayers likely millions of dollars. Like, it is insane.

It is truly insane what we're witnessing right now. But it, number one, it's all going to be undone by any future president. Like any Democratic president come in, revoke this, Gulf of Mexico is going to be Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario is going to be Lake Ontario. And the Department of Defense will probably be the Department of Defense. But number two, it's just, it's just crazy to see how, like, you have the Canadians who are their economy today is booming.

GDP growth is soaring. And at the same time, Kevin Warsh comes out today and says inflation remains stubbornly high. and we may not have any more rate cuts. So, like, the American economy is struggling. The Canadian economy is booming. Canada's finding other folks to trade with, the Chinese, the Russians, and we're renaming lakes. We're very busy with all of the important stuff. I am waiting for Trump to lash out at Kevin Warsh, who sounded like a normal human being,

because I know that he really hates when that happens. It was interesting, though. I was talking about this on the five yesterday and pushing back because I... I do not believe for a second that if a Democratic president got in his or her head, God willing, there is a her at some point, and said, I want to rename Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America, Lake Ontario, et cetera, that they would be cool with it. And they told me absolutely because it's patriotic. So I'm calling that out on all of my platforms that that is a load of shit.

But Dana Perino said that she thinks that this trade war with Canada gets resolved before the Canadian retaliatory tariffs go into place on the 8th. She said, like, maybe it's Labor Day. We're out barbecueing and they fix it. I'm not sure about that. You know, she might have information that I'm not privy to or just more faith in Donald Trump and Jameson Greer. but what are your thoughts about how far this actually goes? You're absolutely right about finding the other partners, and I would just add to your list, India. Is it now a huge partner as well? For those that we have scorned and tried to become their overlords.

Yeah, I mean, listen, I think what a lot of people forget, and maybe Dana is kind of overlooking this fact, is the fact that we've been in a trade war with Canada since January 20th, 2020-25. Like, this trade war has been kind of like a Cold War-type trade war for 18 months. months now. So even if it ends in a week, let's say, I have no doubt in six months from now, we're going to be slapping tariffs onto Canada again because Mark Carney did something Trump didn't like. Like, I thought we were done with this. I thought we had moved on from the tariff game and the let's attack Canada. It was enough that they have to repay more than they took it. Yeah, like,

I thought this was like a thing of 2025, but now we're back on it. And it's like, what's next? Are we going be back on Greenland in three months if NATO doesn't give us Greenland. Like that, it's like recycling the past. I mean, listen, at this point, I put this out yesterday and a lot of Trump White House staffers liked it, and I wouldn't be surprised it ends up on a street social. But I said, you know what, like at this point, Trump is just going to rename the San Andreas fault, Joe Biden's fault. That's where we're, that's where we're heading to next. And I got a lot of Republican likes. So we'll have to see what happens. To be judged by your likes. I got leftis liking it and then I got like Monica Crowley liking it.

Okay. I know Monica. She wouldn't do that by accident necessarily. The horseshoe effect goes for a lot of things in society today. And it might be one on these useless trade wars. Do you think there is any real juice behind the idea that maybe Canada would want to join the EU? Well, Canada's not in Europe, so that...

I know, but like... It wouldn't make sense. If they made, like, a special partnership, obviously a lot of it is, you know, because of the easy transfer across land, but... I don't think it makes much sense. I mean, I think...

I mean, he needs better friends than us, or they need better friends than us. I'm serious when I say, I think the better friends are going to be the Chinese and the Russians and the Indians. I mean, I really think Carney's just, like, reestablishing this kind of new global order. I think the last...

last thing. I mean, where we are heading, which is what I predict, is that you could, like, right-wingers are worried about Cuba having, like, Russian missiles in Cuba. In two years, if this relationship continues to be degrading, what if the Chinese just say, we're going to build a military base on the border of America and Canada? And the Canadians are like, yeah, build a military base in Canada. I mean, like, but, like, this is where, like, things can go if, like, you really, really tear down this relationship. I don't know if it'll ever get there, but Yeah. I mean, that's really scary. Yeah. I'm not saying anything is impossible. Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States of America two times. Twice. Yeah, first time, maybe a little bit by accident for people. Second time, intentionally. Correct. So weirder things have happened than I guess a Chinese military base right above the border. I, the collective meltdown here would be something to behold. And I would join in that meltdown. I want to talk Democratic side of the aisle right now.

You know, we've been in this civil war seems extreme. We're having some problems. The tent is difficult to wrangle like a toddler. The anti-establishment candidates having their moment, but not in Iowa where Rob Sand is just doing all the good stuff. I don't know how much you're into him. I'm a big fan of Rob San. I think he's going to be a presidential candidate one day. Yeah.

Yeah. I think if he wins, he'll be like top of the ticket, 2032 or 2036, whenever. Yeah. Well, I do think he is going to win. And Zach Leanne, who he's running against is not impressive. But he was being interviewed this week. I was asked about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, if he wants them to campaign for him. He was a no.

It doesn't think that Harris should run again in 2028. himself in the party's last national ticket. Let's watch him. There's some candidates obviously wouldn't be helpful necessarily to you here, right? Probably. Yeah. Would you want to have Joe Biden here campaign for you? No.

Can he even do that right now? I'm sorry. How about Kamala Harris? No, thanks. Let's move on. We need some new leadership. You don't think Harris should run in 2028. Nope.

He just says what he thinks. It's like so nice to see. Right? Yeah, I mean, it's very refreshing. And I think Rob Sand is doing what he needs to do to win in a ruby red state like Iowa. I think if Rob Sand was running for governor of South Carolina, I think he'd want Kamala Harris there. I think Kamala Harris puts up much better numbers in South Carolina than she would in Iowa. So I think that it just depends on where he's like the state, the election, the state, I mean, there's so many factors to it.

but it is refreshing to hear that from Rob. I mean, reasonable minds can disagree with him, but yeah. Do you think this is going to start a bit of a trend? And obviously, he's in Iowa. It's different than people running, you know, in states where either Biden might still remain popular. Yeah. You know, Jim Clyburn and Joe Biden, you know, that's a thing that you could end up seeing. But Kamala Harris, some of these other states might be welcome beyond South Carolina.

But I feel like this is a most. moment where the gates are opening a little bit for people to be able to not dance around it as much and to just say, you know, great respect for them. But no, the people are ready to move on. That's what I've been hearing on the ground. That's the safest thing. Put it on the voters, because the voters do want to move on. Well, I don't know if you saw this, but in Iowa, the Iowa Democratic Party has really only allowed three 2028 hopefuls kind of come in the state. right it was Andy Bashir, Mark Kelly, and Pete Buttigieg, even like Gavin Newsom, AOC, like the top dog, they're not in Iowa. And I think the Iowa party is sending a clear message.

But I also think, I'm going to be honest with you, like, Iowa is not going to matter that much for Democrats in 2028 anymore, given the new primary schedule. Iowa is no longer first in the nation. Iowa is no longer in the top five in the nation. And so it's just another kind of caucus primary that happens down the line. I think it's interesting to see something like in Massachusetts, sixth congressional district, Dan Coe, embracing Biden, embracing Harris and winning, potentially in that primary versus Iowa, the opposite. So we'll have to see. I mean, I don't know. I think it's a robust conversation and disagreement of ideas, and I think that's important.

But I guarantee you that if Kamala Harris is the nominee in 2028, Rob Sand will probably get behind her. So we'll have to see. Yeah. I mean, Rob Sand is also running a distinctly nonpartisan campaign on a comparative basis. There was a big Times piece about how you actually wouldn't know what party he was representing based on his ads and the way that he talks, which is fabulous. And I wouldn't mind if we had more of that, frankly, in more parties.

partisan races, even in bluer states because I, you know, 40% identify as independent and people are sick of the tribalism anyway. But I do think that he's going to have a decisive win. I think he is hopefully going to be very helpful as well to Josh Turrick in lifting him up to. And I think that people will take lessons from that because I had Josh Turich on and I asked him, you know, who do you want to come campaign with you? And he only named folks from Iowa, you know, said like, oh, Tom Harkin, that would be great. He did allow Biden, Obama in. And I was like, well, yeah, we do have to.

When you said not a 2028 hopeful, I was like, oh, sad, but maybe Michelle, as my pipe dream continues. Or Hillary. Enough. You know that I love Hillary. Like, I wear a brightly colored pantsuit every day in her honor. If I have to hear about Hillary on the five, again, I'm not going to kill myself. I have children and I like being alive. What do you hate hearing about more?

Hassan Piker, Hillary Clinton, or trans athletes on the five? That is such an upsetting ABC or like fuck Mary Kill scenario. I hate it all. I would actually, I would talk about trans athletes more than I want to talk. about Hillary Clinton because it hurts my heart when people are mean about her. And then Hassan, I was saying yesterday to one of our mutual DSA pals that the amount of stress that goes into having to talk about Hassan Piker for me is with blood boiling level. Like I'm in a full sweat. I should put towels underneath my armpits to make it through a segment about

Hassan Baker. And here we did it again. Yeah, clip it. Tows in my armpits. Apple dropped some new upgraded computers this week, like a new Mac studio for AI stuff, a new Mac Mini for AI stuff, with new faster chips, also for AI stuff. Also this week on the Vergecast, we give a dorm room a smart tech makeover. We get advice on what laptops are worth buying now that everything is more and more expensive,

And we break down what happened with this week's big meta-settlement about kids' safety. That's this week on the Vergecast, wherever you get your podcasts. Immigration news reports that Haitian deportation flights are set to expand as soon as this week. Trump administration is moving faster to remove the roughly 350,000 Haitians whose temporary protected status lapsed this summer, following the administration's Supreme Court went in June. The first flight already sent more than 160 people back on August 20th, returning people back to a country facing ongoing gang violence at over a million internally displaced people. We're not supposed to go there as Americans, just so you know how unsafe and I don't believe

they even have a functioning airport. So, yeah, the Department of Homeland Security said the flight included several people with serious criminal records. I trust the federal government on that one. Whenever they tell us that someone's a bad ombre, it usually turns out to be true. A second flight went out this week that also included several children born in the U.S. or Brazil. And Haiti and Brazil are different places. This comes right after Trump paused all immigrant visa applications to the U.S. Where do you think the TPS battle goes? Because the Haitians are a different

category of immigrant to a lot of people, including many Republicans who have spoken out about this, you know, folks like Governor DeWine in Ohio, you know, huge populations. in a lot of Republican-led states where they have good evidence that these are solid people, believe in American values, do the hard work, respect the country, all the things that they say that they want, and also had legal status, right? Not living in the shadows, fully authorized. They're playing a dangerous game, but they have been since the beginning because it's not just the Haitian TPS. They're about to revoke TPS for Ukrainians, too, potentially soon. And I think that immigration is not the top issue for the overwhelming majority of Americans today.

It may have been back November of 2024. But November of 26, it is not a top issue. And I think seeing the cruelty, seeing the, you like to tweet out often, cruelty is the point because it is. Right. Like I think every average everyday Americans seeing people ripped off our streets, that is not something. that anyone wants to vote for. You have your far right, select few people who want that and want to see that.

But overall, this is not going to help the president. And I don't know if you saw the Department of Homeland Security put out kind of like a dehumanizing video of these Haitian migrants who are being revoked TPS in like prison outfits, chains, getting thrown on these planes, and getting sent back. Like, that's not how you do this. Like, even if you're like, I understand the argument,

temporary protected status is temporary. Sure, it's never meant to be a person. permanent situation. But there are avenues where you can go from temporary to permanent and they've shut all those avenues down. Asylum, you can't get an asylum appointment. Green cards, impossible. I mean, like, these applications have been paused worldwide. You can't get to permanent, number one. Number two, these people aren't, like you said, they're not bad people. Like, if you're going to revoke their TPS, like, okay, put them on a normal flight. Give them a thousand bucks like you're giving everyone else who are voluntarily self-deporting help try to set them up.

I mean, there are so many problems with the way they're doing it. But, well, I mean, will it matter? I don't know. Well, the snuff video advertisement for this does remind me, remember the Seacott videos with Kristy Knoam and the tight white T-shirt wearing a Rolex, like standing in front of these cages. where in Seacot there were a lot of hardened criminals, but there were a lot of people who were accidentally sent there because they just had a tattoo, for instance,

you know, weren't actually even Venezuelans, all of it. And it scares me to see that we are going down this path because, as you said, we don't have an immigration problem like we did after 2024. Biden did a lot of work in his own. year to stop the flow of immigrants across the border. But no one in their right mind would say we didn't have an immigration problem. The border is closed now. Right. Right. They can't go around

saying like there are 230,000 people streaming across the border in a month alone. Like, this is what my drones are or whatever. So this is straight up cruelty. And I worry, I have a friend who's an immigration attorney that there is no recourse for the these people. And what are you sending the Ukrainians back to? I wanted to ask you, what do you think John Ratcliffe was doing in Russia? What do you think he was saying? Oh, I think it was similar to what the CIA director under Biden, I forget his name, it's missing his name right now, went in 2021 to warn Putin not to conduct a large-scale invasion. Like, I think all signs point to...

Aren't we kind of past that? We are, but all signs point to a massive mobilization of Russian forces to do another kind of push into Ukraine, potentially use tactical nuclear weapons, potentially do some type of provocation with NATO. And I think it was all kind of to say, stop. Not smart. Yeah. Do you think? That's why he was only for like eight hours.

I don't think Putin cares. I think Putin's going to do whatever he wants to do. Yeah. Oh, this sounds great. Everything is going so well. You already brought up Florida and all the money that they're going to spend on reprinting textbooks to reflect the Lake of America. but there's another big story. A grand jury has found that the DeSantis administration, quote,

misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money. The money was redirected to Hope Florida. The charity started by First Lady Casey DeSantis right before the 2024 election. The money was then moved into political action committees and the Florida GOP, and it was used in efforts to defeat the recreational marijuana ballot measure. The jury didn't file charges because despite the fact the money was misappropriated, nobody would take responsibility. for who actually moved it. Is this a big deal? Yes.

Okay, great. It was money meant for sick kids. Poor sick kids. And it went into the political action committee of the sitting attorney general, who wasn't even elected attorney general, was appointed, was DeSantis' former chief of staff.

I mean, it's just the corruption is mind-boggling. But then it even gets another layer of corruption because the current United States senator, Ashley Moody, who's also not an elected, United States Senator was the Attorney General who knew about all of this. And it's just like, it's all one big family affair with the DeSantis crew. And that's why you even see Republicans

calling out, which I find very interesting. Rick Scott called it out and was like, this is unacceptable. You have Matt Gates calling it out saying it's unacceptable. Florida Republicans are furious about this because it's corruption, plainest day. As setting all of that aside, they all hate each other Florida Republicans. That's like the open secret. Like Rubio hates Scott. Scott hates the Sanchez. The Sanchez hates Rubio. They all hate each other. But it is, it's very bad. And I, and I'm shocked there won't be criminal charges. Do you think it can be used effectively in these elections, whether by Angie Nixon or David Jolly to talk about this culture of corruption? I feel like it also is just much easier for Republicans to call out something like this versus

calling out what the Trump administration is doing so that they can seem like decent human beings. I mean, but possibly. I am probably, I mean, I think like, and I say this as a Floridian, Florida is a very big up-pote battle for any Democrat running. And so maybe this goes from a 10-point race to a 7-point race, 7-point race to a 5-point race. I don't know.

Do I think this is the reason why Angie Nixon beats Ashley and Moody? No, there's got to be more than just this. but maybe there will be more, we'll see. What do you think DeSantis does when he leaves office? I think he wants to be a cabinet official for Trump. I think he wants to be like a replacement for Hexeth. Because I don't see Hexeth lasting all four years. That's what I think DeSantis wants.

Where is he going to mount his 2028 campaign? Oh no, he's going to go sit next to you. Why do you do this to me? He's not sitting next to me. And we have a new co-host, Emily Campano, named this week. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Exciting.

Yeah. I mean, it's reliability, too. Nice to have the team. Anyway, you guys don't care about this. But anyway, Emily is great. And it was exciting to see the announcement. More corruption stuff. Now, actually, I'm like, how much corruption could we find in one rundown?

Yeah. This one. a Trump kid special. The New York Times is reporting that back in March, Donald Trump Jr. spoke to a room full of state attorneys general. See how I said that properly. I've been working on it in New Orleans and urged them to back off attempts to regulate prediction markets like Cali and Polymarket. His argument was that companies like this are already regulating themselves, where we heard that before, but it's important to note that he has a direct financial interest here as he's a paid strategic advisor to Calci and sits on Polymarkets board with a financial stake through his firm 1789. capital. I don't, I mean, I get why he's on the board of both of those, but it is kind of crazy

just to hear it, to be like, oh, the two biggest competitors and the president's kid is on the boards of both. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't really have anything to say on this, honestly, because it's just like, okay, another thing is first. Like, it's just another one. It's just another one, another one, another one. And if accountability doesn't come, I may, I don't know, I may like, up a bunch of Democrats if a county vote. It doesn't come if they win. If like... Well, what...

Okay. Like, regulating these companies, like, hauling people, like, what? I want them hauling Don Jr. I want all of them. I want all of them. Yeah. I want Don Jr. up on Capitol Hill, testifying under oath about all of this. I want to set a record.

I set a record so that if there is a Democratic Attorney General, an attorney general can look at this and actually look at whether there are criminal charges there, whether there is conflict of interest issues. I want it all under oath. I want it all transcribed. Make it happen. Make it happen, guys. That's what we want.

We want inflation down, more affordable housing, good health care, and oversight hearings. That is our plea to you. Yes. Anything else? No, that's it. Okay. Cool. That sounds good.

I got more corruption for you this time from the Middle East. Trump's new crypto bank has a very powerful foreign backer, Abu Dhabi Royal, Shake Tano. Oh, the spy shit. Oh, yeah. That would have been easier to say. I'm not even going to try to do the rest of it. The UAE's National Security Advisor, who owns a 49% stake in the bank's holding company.

He already invested $500 million into Trump's crypto venture, a deal that sent $263 million to Trump family entities. I love that that's even a term, the Trump family entities. Now the administration is obviously making major decisions involving the UAE. I remember this story, and no one wanted to talk about it around inauguration because they were just launching so many meme coins that you were like, how can I even keep up with this? And then smart people were like, okay, so you have the basic grift.

And then you have this international grift and what the UAE is doing. And it is all happening in the two days surrounding inauguration. What can be done about this, if anything? Or it's just like we got a win and then something can be done. Democrats have to win and then do something. I mean, like, who's going to do something? Todd Blanche? No.

It's just, why is there no shame reflex? That's what I don't understand. I also, you know, I don't know what it's like to have billions of dollars, obviously. But, like, in general, I wish that people had some sense of, like, when enough is enough. Like, you are very, very rich. Yeah. Could you just take a pause? Because.

do you want people talking about you like this all the time? You're asking for a lot. I mean, I don't think that'll ever happen, but the rich always want to get richer. I know. They should take the giving pledge. Yes, I agree. I know.

They would never. Okay. Before we get to questions, a little bit on the jelly roll controversy. I was actually surprised at jelly roll in for Jimmy Kimmel. Right? I did not think that this was his politics at all. Let's play the clip.

Wait, wait, no, no, let's not play the clip. Because if we play the clip, because if we play the clip, we get demonetized everywhere. Because it's Kimmel. So stay away from that clip. Okay. If you don't know, Jelly Roll went on. You're the Brendan Carr of this podcast. Okay.

If you don't know, Jelly Roll went on Jimmy Kimmel, co-hosted, and decided to call Trump large and make fun of Donald Trump's weight. And now Republicans are banning jelly roll from Florida. news nation hosts are like deleting his uh songs off their phone um in real time even though jelly roll was like maga adjacent just like last week so uh it's hilarious i just think that like the they're eating their own and okay yeah it definitely feels like a writing on the wall moment um also showing off his new bod so you know that's part of it but i i do like when the outrage becomes just so performative and like the bat signal goes out and it's like take out your phone and

you know video yourself deleting jelly roll songs and things like that like he's fine he's laughing all the way to the bank um correct and now he has lots of liberal friends and we're more loyal and fun at a party i don't know if that's really true but um anything on jelly roll questions okay um eva's d is that i one would say it wants to know even with knowing that food recalls happened during every administration, do you think there's any correlation between this year's uptick in them and Project 2025? Because there was a chapter in Project 2025 about food safety. No. So there actually isn't an uptick in recalls this year. The amount of recalls this year is actually the same as we've seen last year. People were just talking about recalls more.

Where we do see an uptick this year is in foodborne illnesses. We're at a 500% increase. So the foodborne illnesses are surging, not the recalls. And yes, the foodborne illnesses, there's a direct correlation with Project 2025 because RFK shuttered a number of agencies and programs meant to monitor foodborne illnesses. So that was a very detail well research answer. I'm impressed. Thank you. We just have more diarrhea. Jennifer Hughes asked, why do you think Hakeem Jeffries really met with Jared Kushner? I am kind of, I don't know. I mean, I think Hakeem met Jared, because, I think Jared in the White House in part see the writing on the wall that I think Democrats

are going to take over. And I think Hakeem hasn't met with administration officials since becoming Democratic leader. So I think that was part of it. I think another part of it was it was a trap, right? The White House kind of lured Hakeem in. And Hakeem kind of took the debate. And then Kushner leaked it and made this whole thing for Hakeem. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I thought that this was such a stupid outrage cycle. And it was, I guess it unified the big tent on the left that everyone was pissed about it, like all the lefties to James Carville, who's like, you don't meet with fascists, whatever you go out and you beat them. You have no idea what they sat in there. Right. Like, Hakeem Jeffries could have walked in there and sat silently and was like, okay, you make your case. And then he says, like, we're going to route you guys in November. And we will leave no stone unturned in investigating your dirty business dealings. all the other shit that's gone on. Like, how do you know? And I think if you're in a position of leadership, you take the meeting. I mean, maybe I just, you know, sound like someone too conciliatory

who hangs out with conservatives, which I do, and I'll see you at five o'clock today. But like, the idea that the leader of the Democratic Party in the House wouldn't take a meeting with a powerful senior advisor in the administration seems silly to me. Like they showed up as they should have. remember when they went to the Oval Office and Trump had the MAGA hats and then he did the AI sombrero and was all racist and all of it. I actually think that worked tremendously to Hucking, Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer's advantage because it showed that there are some adults in the room and there are some, you know, blithering idiots. So I know it wasn't, this one wasn't televised, but I'm pro taking the meeting. All right. I mean, we'll see. I don't know what was said in this,

so I can't really say. Fine. I'll still see you at five. Okay. Blake asked Aaron. What do you think of the meta settlement and the news that they'll put daily usage limits on Instagram for teens? And it's good as long as it's able, I mean, you could enforce it. I think meta knew it was wrong. And I, and I, and like, it's a good thing, right? Like, I think we should hold these big tech companies accountable. But I don't think you'll actually see any real results until there is real regulation from Congress. Yeah. You didn't ask me, but I'm going to tell you that I think that we need it for adults too. I will surrender my phone for it. And that the settlement was peanuts. It was like less than Q2 earnings.

Right. So not that throw it with it. And Mark Zuckerberg were then being out there like, you know, YouTube and Snap. You know, everyone follow our example. Yeah. When we know what goes on at that company from the whistleblower accounts and just being common sense adults. That is it for the raging perspective.