The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 2723 - Mike Johnson Melts Down; Markey Mauls Moulton; HBCU Funding Crisis w/ Milton Allimadi

Episode Date: September 2, 2026

It's Hump Day and we're back with another Majority Report On today's program: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson melts down after CNN's Manu Raju asks him if the public should judge Johnson for his lies about the war on Iran. Senator Ed Markey trounces Seth Moulton in the Democratic primary for Senate in Massachusetts. In Markey's victory speech he calls for taxing the rich, blocking the bombs and ending data centers. Milton Allimadi, co-founder of Black Star News and PhD Student at Howard University, joins to discuss the $12.8 billion funding gap facing Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Milton has a new book out September 20th about the Nigerian Civil War entitled, "The Day Biafra Died", which can be preordered here. In the Fun Half: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries prints out some posters to promote the Democrats agenda for next year, assuming they take control after the midterms. Jeffries is completely flabbergasted by reporters asking for something specific about the plan. READ THE POSTERS PEOPLE. Milo Yiannopoulos goes on Piers Morgan in attempt to curry favor from viewers over his deportation despite his constant cheerleading and active participation in ICE's mass deportation campaign. Harry Enten presents polling showing that given how low Trump's approval rating is, they are underperforming heading into the midterms. All that and more. To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is [phone]. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AM Quickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: SMALLS: Get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you head to Smalls.com/MAJORITY !  SUNSET LAKE CBD: Head to SunsetLakeCBD.com and use coupon code "Left Is Best" (all one word) for 20% off of your entire order. Please fill out this form to request Bryan to come to your town to do stand-up comedy @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's YouTube channel: https://ww.youtube.com/Th3Discourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here: https:/www.youtube.com/@avaraiza

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On the program today, Milton Alamati, co-founder of Black Star News, Ph.D. student, Howard University, discussing the $12.8 billion funding gap facing historically black colleges and universities. Also on the program, U.S. bombs a wedding party in Iran. untold number of deaths, civilian deaths, of course. This as Iran hits U.S. bases in their biggest exchange since July. Massachusetts Edmaki trounces Seth Dushi Moulton. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts congressional incumbents hold on to their seats. Capitol Hill, Hakeem Jeffries, criticized by Nancy Pelosi for losing control of his caucus as two Democrats defect to help Mike Johnson pass a rules vote.

She could at least whip her caucus. He's also incompetent, too. Pete Higgseth continues his purge of the military by targeting woke officers, raid, read Black and, uh, female officers. Cubans living in Florida being deported to Africa. Ice arrest top 50,000 in August, again at a record-breaking pace. California, meanwhile, passes a bill, or I should say the lawmakers do. Let's see if it gets signed by Gavin Newsom that would prevent former ice agents from holding a wide range of public sector jobs in California. And in the wake of deportation orders for up to 350,000 Haitians, the U.S. extends its ban on commercial flights to Haiti because of gang violence.

All this and more on today's majority report. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, it is. Humpty. Oh, yeah, it is. Says Emma Vigland, I lost track of what day it was. Me too, almost, but I couldn't forget. Just getting back into the swing of things, the school year starting. My son's still not in school yet.

Oh, they don't start. New York, they don't start until after Labor Day, and Labor Day is late, and so. Be that as in May. We got a lot to talk about today. we will get more into that Hakeem Jeffries. I mean, it's, well, maybe worth just mentioning up top. There are, and according to Nancy Pelosi, this is somewhat unprecedented where members of your caucus defect not to vote for legislation that maybe most Democrats won't vote. vote for. That is, that happens. You'll find a couple. But two Democrats, Jared Golden and Marie

Hugel Scamp. Lusen Camp Perez. Exactly. Voted for a rules change, which, with the Republicans, so that they could bring up a whole host of legislation. one of which was the condemnation of socialism. So they allowed these two Democrats to have hours of debate attacking the left on the House floor via this bill about socialism. The ostensibly golden and the... I can't remember. I can't say that. M.GP.

MGP said that they were. interested in a bill that was protecting supposedly protecting lobstermen on both coasts from protections of whales

and to push back this protection of whales on behalf of lobstermen. I can only imagine what Jared Golden received you know

in exchange for that? Well, we will talk about this more. It's an important story because it shows that Jeffries is not only ideologically out of step with the base, but he's incompetent at doing the basic nuts and bolts of his job, which is keeping the caucus together. Yeah. And he when asked about it, he said you should ask Catherine, who is the whip. Blaming his number two. This is what quarterback sound like when they are about to.

get benched, blaming the offensive line or the protection or the receiver or the rest of the team. Like, it's quite literally not your job to do that as a leader. It's poor leadership just from that standpoint. If you just care about the Democrats as a united front. Maybe there's other things he cares about. There might be something else. So I don't think this is the rotating villain strategy as they use for things like Pentagon funding because this is so professionally embarrassing for Jeffreys that as as Sam said it wasn't just Pelosi saying this all Capitol Hill reporters were talking about how unprecedented this is that a minority leader loses control of his caucus on a rules procedural motion like this. Jeffries is bad at his job in every

facet. Moving on the let's start with with this last night there was exchange of missile fire and drone fire between the U.S. and Iran. U.S. reportedly hit a wedding party in Iran, and of course, the U.S. is not taking credit for that, claims that they hit some type of military base. We've been through this before. And Iran hit U.S. base in Kuwait. And frankly, again, it could be more extensive than that because the United States has not been in any way forthcoming with the effectiveness of Iranian strikes. but this was interesting. Manu Raju from CNN asked Mike Johnson the obvious question one would ask of the Speaker of the House

just for those people who have never had any civics lessons in elementary school or for those who never saw those weekend cartoons about how, you know, the U.S. government works, or apparently also for the, exactly, for the Speaker of the House, it is the house that controls the purse strings of a war. If they wanted to end the war in Iran, they could do so tomorrow. I mean, I guess today. If they wanted to pass a War Powers Act, they could do so today. I just say that because apparently Mike Johnson unaware of this.

I think there was a moment today that was so telling on Capitol Hill when Manu was asking House Speaker Mike Johnson about the timeline for this war and what American people the American people should expect. On Iran, you said repeatedly that this war was going to be over soon. You said that this would be a temporary blip on short term, on gas prices. It is still more than six months. People are getting hurt still at the pump. Should the American public people not also judge you on your projections here that were clearly off base? Manu, that is one of the stupidest questions you've ever raised. I have nothing to do with the prosecution of the war across the globe.

You are responsible. You are selling this. the American public, are you not? So should the House Speaker be held responsible for the duration of a military conflict around the globe? You answer that question. That's an easy one to answer. Yes. Of course.

In fact, your body has abdicated its responsibility as the body, the legislature, that is supposed to be responsible for the declaration of war. One word, Constitution. Yeah. It's quite literally in the text.

going to the comptroller of Duchess County? No, that's a question for Jared Kushner. Yeah, exactly. But obviously, Mike Johnson sweating it, there's got to be a lot of pressure on the Hill because you have now reports of Republican lawmakers in like

plus nine Republican districts who are sweating whether they're going to win their midterm elections. Now, of course, we are every day. we see more and more

indication of how the Trump administration plans to at least inhibit the votes of people who are going to be voting against them. Hopefully in the next couple of days, we'll have somebody on to talk about this U.S. postal worker whistleblower who has found that there is a portal that is set up

in conjunction with the requirement that some states fulfilled red states to get voter lists. And the portal apparently is like just set up to disenfranchise tens of thousands of people based on being triggered by stuff like if somebody's using their maiden name instead of their married name. Like one individual will trigger 10,000 people getting essentially a lack of ability to vote via mail. We'll talk more about that as it goes. We also have some the vote in Texas that the election committee essentially voted to close 30 percent of the voting, the polling places in one of the Texas, his biggest counties where about 2 million people vote.

And we have some footage from that. We'll talk about that in a bit. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, this guy won. We need to tax the rich, block the bombs, and stop data centers from polluting our community. We must fight for the laws and put people ahead of profit. Why should we be hopeful in this moment when there is so much fear and hate? Why am I so optimistic?

Because there are more of us than there are of them. Because when we stand together with better ideas and stronger ideals, they do not stand a chance. Because the many will always beat the money. And we know, we know, we know that our work, is more than a campaign, more than even just this moment in which we are all being called to act. Our progressive movement knows how to fight. We cannot surrender. Tomorrow, and for the next eight weeks in every corner of the Commonwealth and across the country, we have to hit the streets.

He defeated Seth Moulton by 65 to 35 percent. I mean, this was a trouncing. Yeah. And, And also in initial, I mean, I guess exit polling or initial data that's come out, it's shown that the only place where Moulton managed to defeat Markey with a majority would be in the wealthiest towns, really, in the state. That was where he was able to have success. But Markey ran up the numbers everywhere. We should also say, you know, Seth Moulton was one of the first people to come out and claim that the Democrats, lost in 2024 based upon trans people sports involvement. He said some offensive things about trans girls and women participating in sports. You're not allowed to say this stuff anymore. He literally played back.

And you know what Ed Markey did who has a history of fighting for regular people? He proposed a trans bill of rights. So I'm looking forward to the half a dozen think pieces. Actually, that's probably conservative. The dozens of think pieces that are going to be coming out in the mainstream press about how transphobia is an electoral issue for Democrats in primaries now, right? That must be what this data is showing. Coastal deep blue state. Oh, yeah.

Can't extrapolate it. Well, we should tell. We should also, you know, note that Massachusetts not quite as blue. as people suggest, particularly on issues like this. But nevertheless,

Molten came out and we now know based on data, that none of that is true. We know that it was a function of inflation. We know that it was a function of Gaza. We know that it was a function of a

shortened campaign in 2024. But for him to jump on that gave an indication of where some of these conservative Democrats were hoping to go. And he failed. Yeah. And look at what his instinct was there. And then how he had to do a complete 180 when he was running in this primary. He thought that it would be not enough to go after the age tag with Markey, this aesthetic thing that, oh, wow, it must have just been Biden's age that people had a problem with. Generational. change. Look, it was a major problem, I think, for the Democrats that Biden had the, was unable to communicate even some of the good things that he did domestically because he had issues articulating

himself. And that was a major problem. But if D.C. really thinks this is just about age, they have a rude awakening coming to them. And I think it's already happening. Like, they're desperate to avoid the ideological battle in the party. And this is another example of how this isn't about age. This is about the substance of what they stand for. And Molting was unable to lie to the people of Massachusetts as he wanted in the way that he wanted because he was apparently directing these super PACs spending on his behalf to frame him as a progressive when he has, you know, a very pro-Israel record taken money from private equity, Wall Street, pro-AI, etc. Generational change apparently does not mean let's go back to 1993. Right.

or even more accurately, 1995. So Seth Moulton is now, I think, floating at the bottom of the Charles River. Probably. They found Weddy Bulger, though, didn't they? They did find Weddy. They found him in Santa Monica, California. Yeah, yeah.

Well, so we won't have Seth Moulton to kick around anymore. I'm pretty happy. about that actually. Yep. What else we got here? Let's go, do we have time for this? No, let's, we'll take a quick, well, I've got, in a moment,

we're going to be talking to Milton Alamadi, co-founder of the Black Star News, a PhD student at Howard University, to discuss the huge funding gap facing historically black colleges and universities. first, a word from our sponsor. It's actually been, for whatever reason, from the schedule standpoint, I haven't hung out with my cat for a while.

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to the program, Milton Alamadi, co-founder of Black Star News. Milton, welcome back to the program. Hey, thank you for having me. My pleasure. Good to see both of you. Good to see you. Nice to see you as well. Let's just, for the sake of folks who don't understand the sort of like a broad history of historically black colleges

and universities. Let's, uh, we, we just walk through, um, the, uh, the, the genesis, largely of, uh, HBCUs in this country. And then we'll talk about, uh, land grants and, um, uh, which is, at the very least, it, one, uh, source of their lack of funding as of late. Right. Okay, so good. I mean, obviously people that are conscious and know history, you know that education was not one of the foundations during the period of enslavement, right? So after the Civil War, the idea was that to set up institutions that would allow higher education for formally enslaved. and Howard was one of those first institutions that was created in 1867. And of course, initially, I think the expectations were not that ambitious. So maybe we can train people to become, you know, like church ministers,

and then eventually get some to become doctors. And then, of course, as people started exerting, the humanity, now they're released and freed from this historical bondage. I mean, of course, their aspirations started flourishing. And lo and behold, we now have full-fledged institutions like Howard University with professional programs, with multiple programs, with undergraduate students, as well as graduate students. And of course, people that don't know the history of HBCUs should really go back and look a little bit of the history that we are talking about right now.

It's not that because sometimes in this modern environment, people that are not curious about history get the sense that, oh, maybe African Americans just don't like mingling with the broader population and want to have their own niche institutions. these institutions evolved from a certain, very critical history. Without these institutions, formerly enslaved people, would never have had access to education. So I think that's very important for people to realize that because it's not widely taught. So I would not be surprised if there are many people that believe that these institutions exist just because African-Americans want to seclude themselves

in this learning process. So I think that was important to get out as well. My understanding is that most HBCUs, kind of the explosion of the creation of HBCUs, happened during the period of reconstruction. And obviously, we've talked about reconstruction on the show quite a bit. What is the relationship of HBCUs to reconstruction and then, of course, the fault, how it fell apart as well? Well, of course, it was a very critical component of it.

And thankfully, it was one of the, it was one of the few institutions that was not abandoned. Right? during the restructured people that Milton, we're having a little bit of connection problems. Institutions because they want to ban them.

Milton, we're having a little bit of connection problems. Let's... I think it might be caught up now, Milton, if you want to try that answer one more time. Yeah, if you want to try one more time with that. Okay, can you hear me now? Yep, I think we're good now. Can you hear me now?

Yep. Okay. So I was saying, you know, imagine if these institutions had been abandoned as part of this, the repudiation, the rejection, the regression of the vision and the objectives of reconstruction. When, of course, ultimately, the South reemerged, resurg. And there was a resurgence of what, I would call neo-enslavement and all the visions of having formerly enslaved, gained higher office be elected into the state legislator, into the natural legislator. All of that was, of course, abandoned in this reactionary period that led to the complete repudiation of what the whole idea of reconstruction was all about. But fortunately, at least these historically black colleges

and universities survived. And that is why they still exist today. And of course, now ironically, there are in an environment where they are threatened like all other higher institutions of learning, but they're also threatening in a much more special way. Because many of the students that attend these institutions come from working class families. They don't have the kind of endowment

that a Howard or a Columbia has. I mean Harvard, Howard's is one billion and it's considered to be actually prime compared to other ABCUs that average 250 million, 300 million. But of course, Harvard, 50 billion, Yale, 40 billion, Columbia, almost 20 billion.

So now we see that these institutions don't have the kind of cushion that the Harvard's and Yales of the world have. And we should say, my understanding is it was the Moral Act or Morrill Act that established land grant colleges where the federal government would provide federal land to the states, and that would provide a funding stream for these colleges. and in the first version of the act, it ended up being mostly white colleges

following the civil war in late, I mean, maybe technically outside of Reconstruction, in the late 1880s, I think it was, there was a second act that basically said, you either have to integrate your colleges or set up separate colleges for formally or for Friedman. And no surprise, a lot of these institutions basically said, or in states said, we'll take the form of the ladder and set up.

And so these land grants have been something that have been going forward, at, I think initially, it was just a federal government giving actual land. And then subsequent to that, the USDA provides actual funding or is supposed to have. But there has been a failure of that money going from the USDA to the states and then ending up essentially underfunding HBCUs as opposed to the other institutions in these states. Correct. And that's only one aspect of it, of course. know that even in the Trump era, where we have heard all these pronouncements of that HBCUs are not going to be affected, the funding is going to be continuing and it's going to be increasing, those

are really the verbal commitments, you know. We have not seen a lot of these monies actually reaching these institutions. And ironically, the people that follow the news would know that many of the major donations have become, are coming from private donors, are becoming from private donors, like McKenzie Scott, for example, giving millions of dollars to these institutions. So, yes, you're right.

I mean, obviously, that was, I guess, another way of abandoning the vision of reconstruction, even if it did occur after the period that reconstruction, really covered. And I mean, I think there's another component, though. I mean, at this critical time, there are African-Americans

of resources as well that have resources and not only, you know, traditionally people point to people in the entertainment or athletes. It's not limited to that. There are some African-American entrepreneurs, people on Wall Street. And I think they should also

take these institutions seriously and look back into the history and look back into why they were founded in the first place and then you know step forward i mean if people like the mackenzie scots can commit millions of dollars i don't see why more african-americans of means cannot do the same. We should say, too, that African-Americans make up three, I'm sorry, HBCUs make up three percent of the country's colleges and universities, but produce 15 percent of all African-American graduates. And during Biden's administration, they were pushing for, um, for states to, they were talking about this massive disparity in terms of essentially underfunding, where these land grants have been given by the USDA and administered by the state,

and the money just simply hasn't been going to all of the land grant schools. It has only been going to the non-HBCU schools in these states. So this has left them underfunded. What's happened now under the Trump administration? Actually, to be honest, I've not heard any movement on that particular issue. I mean, I did hear there was some coverage when it was announced that even though there's going to be cuts in educational institutions generally, HBCUs were not going to be affected. But in terms of those being verbal commitments and the funding actually materializes, that to me seems to be the missing component. Well, okay, so as far as I know, we have two different issues.

One is the land grant thing that has been traditionally, and it's been in a problem that existed prior to the Trump administration. And yes, in, I think it was like the second month of the administration, Trump made some big executive order that we were going to fund HBCUs. And then classic Trump stuff. No, nothing's happened since then, surprisingly. And, but as far as I can tell, there's been a couple of ways in which the funding has dried up. They're under the great big, beautiful bill or whatever it was called, the federal parent plus of funds, which is essentially would provide loans for the full amount of a, of a, of, of a school, those have been cut dramatically, and that has had... They've been capped as well.

Yes, and just walk us through how that has impacted these institutions. Okay, well, you know, previously there was essentially no limit. But now that there is a cap, if there's a cap, it means you have to look through additional funding to other sources. If there's no, if you can't, if there's a cap knife, there's now a ceiling on funds that previously, so long as you were willing to take the commitment and take that loan, there was no cap. So you could fully fund your education using that process. But now that there's a cap on that, and that indeed came during the Trump administration, it means that you're going to have to

look for other sources. Of course, other sources, meaning you're going to be having to pay higher rates for those loans. And that has ended up excluding my understanding is a significant portion of students because they simply don't have the means in which to find funding from other places. Let's also talk about the change in the funding for HBCUs that the Trump administration has done. My understanding is they've, instead of providing annual funding, they have given a essentially like a one-time a chunk of money to funding, which makes it much harder for the universities

to both absorb and to almost like amateurize over time. And to plan as well. And I think that is probably what contributed to some of the challenge that we saw specifically at Harvard. I mean, of course, I'm not familiar with the intricate details at the administration at the university and how they handle that. But I would imagine that that was probably one of the compelling reasons

why they wanted students to provide their information much earlier and the complete information, not in stages, to enable them to plan and to compare the needs of the students with the resources that the university had available. And it led to what was widely covered in media when 500 students, incoming students, undergrads, were unenrolled. And of course, the publicity was,

not good for the university. And at the same time, I imagine the university administrators who are handling all these challenges and pressures. I don't imagine this is the kind of thing that any educational institution would do without very serious pondering and consideration, because that's not the type of media that any education institution wants. 200 were reportedly subsequently re-enrolled in the university. And then the good thing was that the response from other institutions, other states was also very good. I understand many of these students got absorbed either in the University of Maryland.

And here in New York, of course, the governor also, Governor Hockles said, I think New York would be able to absorb, if I recall, 200 additional of those students. that had been unenrolled. Is there anything else we should know at this point? I mean, higher education is under a lot of pressure. I think we're going to see a lot of universities, both HBCUs, and I should say in colleges, private colleges,

close in the next couple of years because of just the operating costs and the difficulty and the lack of loans. And just it's a mess at this point. No, it's a challenge. I mean, personally, my department, I'm doing a PhD at the history department at Howard. And I had funded my last two years with a graduate assistantship. Unfortunately, that was not renewed this semester. So I'm in the middle of scrambling around. Hopefully, even if I'm not able to fund for this semester, hopefully by the spring I'll be able to

either pair myself with another fellowship or scholarship or scholarship or I've actually even launched a crowdfunding campaign. I want to make sure I'm back at least by the spring semester, you know. Well, good luck with that. And also, I should say, congratulations. My understanding is your book is coming out in two weeks on the Nigerian Civil War. Yes. The day Biafra died. Just tell us briefly. Just tell us briefly.

What I found interesting was that a New York Times reporter Lloyd Garrison developed a very special relationship with a Swedish aviator and a former fighter pilot named Carl Gustavon Rosen, who actually told him about his plan to create a Biafran Air Force that would attack federal targets in May 1969. And Garrison, the New York Times, knew about this one month in advance before the Nigerian military government knew about it, and the attack did materialize. So that's one thing I found out, memos in the New York Times archives.

And then the second thing was that, Richard Nixon actually seemed on the verge of recognizing Biafra. He tilted totally. And I think a lot of it was because of the public pressure, the images of the famine victims in Biafra due to the Nigerian blockade. The images beamed on US TV, so there's a lot of domestic political pressure.

So he totally pivoted, and he actually told Kissinger, I want the French to give the by and France more military weapons, and I'm going to personally, as he put it, Ron Hurd on Prime Minister Wilson or Britain, so that Britain would also stop providing the Nigerians with weapons. But then I think Ojuko made a, what turned out to be a fatal error.

Nixon wanted the Red Cross to resume delivery of food to Biafra, which meant Biafra had to open its airport, to daytime deliveries. And Rujuku was not willing to do that. And when he refused to do that, Nixon sort of backed off on that path that seemed to would have led to the U.S. recognizing Biafra, which, of course, would have made it politically difficult for Nigeria to then still pursue a military solution. We should tell people, too. I didn't give

enough background of that, but Biafra was a basically a secessionist state in Nigeria in the late 60s. Correct. We declared independence in 67. And the website is the day biopra die.com. For anybody interested. We will put a link

to that in our YouTube and podcast descriptions. Milton Alamati, always a pleasure. Thanks so much. And good luck with the funding for the rest of your PhD. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for the work you guys do.

There are forces out there that need to be challenged. Thanks so much. I appreciate the talk. All right, folks. That's it for us today. We're going to take some phone calls. in the fun half today. And you can join us in the fun half.

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Yeah, David Griscom and I... Did Markey condemn Hassan? Is that how he won? Yeah, yes, exactly. He spent the last couple weeks condemning Hassan Piker and saying, how dare he say that thing that he has apologized for. Is Hassan PICA? Can we just say, like, Hassan streams like 14 hours a day,

and that they have to point to something that was, I mean, in the almost previous decade, and they can't really point to anything else. I think shows how impeccably well-behaved here. It's total bullshit. I don't know. But, yeah, Griscom and I did a left reckoning for folks. Check that out.

We talked about Houston folks. Check this out. Sam Ressick has a piece in, I believe the Texas Observer, about the Houston mayor, Whitmire, I forget what his first name is, not Whitmer, but Whitmire, which I, anyway,

check that out, a great discussion of another example of why moderates are bad at governing and shouldn't be trusted by voters to govern. Who knows who wins in elections, maybe it's a complete toss-up between progressives, although Markey Beat and Moulton would suggest maybe otherwise, but moderates can't govern. Patreon.com has left reckoning. All right, folks.

See you in the fun half. Three months from now, six months from now, nine months from now. And I don't think it's going to be the same as it looks like in six months from now. And I don't know if it's necessarily going to be better six months from now than it is three months from now. But I think around 18 months out, we're going to look back and go like, wow. What? What is that going on? It's nuts.

Wait a second. Hold on for a second. The majority. Emma, welcome to the program. Hey. Matt. What is up, everyone? Fun hat.

No, me, teen. You did it. Fun hat. Let's go Brandon. Let's go Brandon. Bradley, you want to say hello? Sorry to disappoint. Everyone, I'm just a random guy.

It's all the boys today. Fundamentally false. No, I'm sorry. Women's... Stop talking for a second. Let me finish. Where is this coming from, dude? But dude, you want to smoke this?

Seven and eight? Yes. Yes. It is you. Oliver's me. I think it is you. Who is you? No sound.

Every single freaking day. What's on your mind? We can discuss free markets and we can discuss capitalism. I'm going to go to life. Who libertarians? They're so stupid though. Common sense says, of course. Gobbled e gook.

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It's a zero-sum game. Actually, you're making things. But let me say this. Hoop. You can call it satire. Sam goes satire. On top of it all? My favorite part about you is just like every day, all day, like everything you do.

Without a doubt. Hey, buddy. We see you. Folks. Folks. Just the week being weeded out. obviously. Yeah.

Sun's out guns up. I don't know. But you should know. People just don't like to entertain ideas anymore. I have a question. Who cares? Our chat is enabled, folks. Got to jump.

I got to be quick. I get a jump. Two o'clock. We're already late, and the guy's being a dick. So screw him. Sent to a gulaw? Outrage. Like, what is wrong with you?

Love you. Bye. Love you. Bye-bye. Thank you.