The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3553 - Republicans Rush to Redistrict as Their Base Turns on Them; Gaza Has Been Completely Destroyed

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Starting point is 00:02:27 So, now time for the show. No comment. The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. It is Tuesday, August 5th, 2025. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America. Downtown Brooklyn, USA.

Starting point is 00:03:01 On the program today, redistricting war erupts as Abbott issues, very limp arrest warrants over the Texas State Democrats busting quorum and preventing Abbott from carrying out Donald Trump's orders to redistrict for. five new Texas seats. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu unveils full reoccupation of Gaza plan. Their cabinet meeting had to be suspended because it's

Starting point is 00:03:43 apparently somewhat controversial there. Trump continues to whine about jobs data as the economy is on the brink. The Department of Homeland Security retracts a threat of withholding FEMA funds for cities or states or towns that dare to boycott Israel.

Starting point is 00:04:10 Dozens of democratic law, I should say a dozen Democrat lawmakers call on Trump to recognize Palestinian statehood. And with tourism down dramatically in the country, international tourism, the Trump regime floats $15,000 bonds to people who want to visit the country. That's my love language bribes. X-Fox news host and desperately ineffective Secretary of Transportation orders NASA to expedite plans for a nuclear power plant

Starting point is 00:04:55 on the moon These are not serious people and Bolsonaro arrested for breaking a restraining order in his coup case Apparently, he was supposed to not encourage Donald Trump to interfere. All this and more on today's majority report.

Starting point is 00:05:24 Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, it is... Newsday, Tuesday. You've been very excited to say that, I feel like. Yeah, no, I'm in a good mood. I mean, I'll just say I became a cat parent last night. I adopted two kittens. You're beaming. Yeah. They're really cute. They're two brothers. I love it. So I'm in a bit of a better mood, although that will be short.

Starting point is 00:05:48 We need you to be Mamala of the country. Yes. I think both my smalls ad reads are going to be much better now because I'll be able to not just speak to your guys' experience, but to mine. But it's very sweet. They're so cute. And I can't wait for my good mood to dissipate in like five seconds once we talk about the news. I'll tell you, that's basically how it tracked with my kids. So, you know. Cressian Homes said, I thought it was 10,000 for the bonds. They're floating 15, 10, and 5 four countries where people have a certain rate of people visiting, overstaying their visas. Now, of course, this is designed to eliminate people who are not extremely wealthy. It's going to keep a lot of people from being able. to visit with their family. It's just more of the Trump administration's agenda.

Starting point is 00:06:49 And if you start to think about like what theoretically was supposed to happen with all these deportations, as we announced, or as it's announced that there may be net negative migration to this country, over the past three months we know at least two months ago we added something like less than 30,000 jobs over the course of two months that is absurd that is absurdly low number of jobs being added and even the most recent month

Starting point is 00:07:28 came in lower than expected and I would be willing to bet that unless Trump simply just didn't put out the statistics, we're going to find that that number is revised down too. We'll talk more about that in a bit. But first, the freak out that wealthy people, and I want to say wealthy people, because I don't even know, we know. The most vociferous wealthy people, the people who cater to wealthy people, the business people, as marked by CNBC, are so terrified of Zoran Mamdani and the prospect of him winning. And part of this is because, you know, we saw what

Starting point is 00:08:25 happened when Eric Adams won the mayoral race. It completely redefined the way the Democrats felt like they should run and position themselves. Now, that's a function of just how sort of weak they are in terms of having a particular agenda. And it certainly won't be as influential with Mom Dani because there is an act of resistance to what Mom Dani wants to do. But here it's articulated and it's fascinating. Elizabeth Warren does a very good job of pushing back on this.

Starting point is 00:09:02 This is her, like, greatest skill as being in a room with a bunch of, like, corporatist, rich hacks and having the language to push back on them in this way. She has a lot of experience doing it. And I will say, I think, like, the specific response to, oh, millionaires are going to leave,

Starting point is 00:09:22 which all the data has shown that that's not the case. New York City has more millionaires after a tax increases than it's ever had. But the idea of, like, there are people leaving the city because of a expense, and it's not millionaires. Exactly. This is your issue. It's a national issue, not a local issue. The issue is affordability. Do you know how many working families are chased out of New York City every day?

Starting point is 00:09:49 Because they can't afford housing. They can't afford groceries. They can't afford child care. What Zoran is saying is, I want people to be able to afford to live in New York City. That's what keeps a vibrant city. That's what makes people want to live here. Nobody disagrees with that, Senator, but raising taxes in order to do it, why is that the answer? Oh, dear. Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry? No, I'm worried that they're going to leave and spend their money elsewhere.

Starting point is 00:10:15 You know, they've threatened to do that over and over. I pause. I just want to like, just contemplate this for a moment. The argument is that billionaires are going to leave New York for Florida. let's say, because of after every, after your first million dollars, you get an additional 2% tax on anything you make above that. So it could be up to like, you know, if you make only $2 million a year, that could cost you an extra $2,000.

Starting point is 00:10:51 Yeah, but put that aside. No, Brian, we probably won't see you again. but the uh just contemplate this if this was such a dramatic impulse to push uh uh wealthy people out of new york why do any live here you can go to florida and pay no state income tax and a lot of them do that a lot of them live six months and a day in florida and then they come back to new york during a month that they're a little bit less hot down there

Starting point is 00:11:25 and so they're already doing it. That's what Rush Limbaugh did. But why are there any millionaires in New York City? Paying taxes here. Why are there any?

Starting point is 00:11:36 If this theory is correct, there should be zero millionaires and zero billionaires who pay taxes in New York City. And I just can't believe that was a real question and real follow-up.

Starting point is 00:11:48 But the answer is taxing billionaires? Does he not understand how confiscatory taxation works? works. Yes, it's a method to redistribute wealth, and that's what this is an effort to do, except to help regular people. And the solution has always been to cut taxes for the past It's not confiscatory. Oh, sorry. Unless it, like, is literally just to diminish their wealth.

Starting point is 00:12:10 Now, I would like to see, let's do 90 cents on every dollar after a million. But instead, it's going to be 0.02 cents. go ahead out engineers are going to go hungry no i'm worried that they're going to leave and spend their money elsewhere you know they've threatened to do that over and over and over and they have they've left i mean here's the thing and goldman sacks when they create new jobs they do it in dallas blackstone won't build a new headquarters you want to have a workable city oh my god

Starting point is 00:12:41 two financial outfits are not going to expand their doing because it's so hard to find financiers in new york city gosh That's the job's worried about? Do you realize that you'll be walking around New York City? And it's going to be so difficult to find some type of brokerage house that you want to go browse or something like that. You have a nice day. Take the kids. Go let's go look at the brokerage house windows.

Starting point is 00:13:09 Go ahead. Have a city that's vibrant. You want to have a city with streets are full where there are things for sale 24 hours a day. Then you need people who can live here and work here. We've got that right now, by the way. I would point out, New York is thriving, so right now, it's doing pretty well, actually. I'm glad you think they're doing well, because a lot of people are struggling to pay for housing. A lot of people are struggling to pay for groceries, and I've got to tell you,

Starting point is 00:13:34 Mamas and daddies who are facing $25,000 a year to pay for child care. Those are national issues. I mean, I know they are the local state, but you can't, you. Yes, but if you deal with them in that way, by what is always your backup, just tax them more, they will leave. No, the backup is make this city and make this country work for everyone. I get that the Republican point of view is make this country and make every city in this country work better and better for a handful of billionaires and let everybody else eat dirt. But what Mamdami won on in a Democratic primary is he said, I'm going to address affordability.

Starting point is 00:14:14 And he didn't win by one vote. No, he won by a lot. It's very much unclear he has the ability to actually do it, by the way, based on the laws and what the governor has to say and what he would actually have to do. You know, I love that as the fallback position, and that is he's fighting for the right thing, but maybe, maybe the billionaires. Well, everybody wants a lot of beautiful city. I just want to say, I just want to say that this guy has absolutely no idea.

Starting point is 00:14:43 He just went as deep as he could in explaining what the head wins. that mom Donnie's going to face. He had no idea. 100% not even a clue. If she had just stopped and said, what's going to be difficult specifically? I mean, that's it.

Starting point is 00:15:05 It would have been over. But yes, it is a complete retreat from like, okay, when you basically put it between billionaires getting what they want and people eating dirt, okay. But none of this is going to happen. It's all pie in the sky. So what are you worried about?

Starting point is 00:15:20 Right. That was his last refuge, basically, there. There was a article in the New York Times in, I think, February that showed that a quarter of New York City residents don't have enough money for housing and food. That's a national issue, Emma. It was a report done by Columbia and Robin Hood, and it found that a share of New Yorkers in poverty was nearly double the national average in 2023 and increased by seven percentage points in the past two. years. And you have the CNBC anchor arguing that we shouldn't be doing this 2% tax over income over a million dollars in order to make it more affordable. Right. Move CNBC to Florida. I mean, isn't that an incredible statistic? It is double the national average and increased by seven percentage points in just two years. And that is in part due to the crazy amount of

Starting point is 00:16:15 wealth in this city and the fact that housing has been used, especially in like expensive cities like this as speculative assets for rich people, including like international rich people and people that don't even live here, that flip properties, and there's no housing for everybody else and no protections. I, just to be clear, the 2%, it taxes 2%, not 0.02%. It is 2% of, in that second million. And so if you make $2 million, your taxes go up by $20,000. If you make $1 million, your taxes don't go up at all.

Starting point is 00:16:57 It's that second million you get the 2% on, just to be clear. But I couldn't remember it either. So Malta Burrito writes, and it can't help but feel highly critical at Warren's comments after she sabotaged the working class in 2020 by splitting the Super Tuesday vote. she speaks out when it's safe first off um uh i i don't know if i agree with your characterization of of splitting the working class vote i think the issue was uh that people her critique of her was that she was the professional managerial class regardless uh of whether or not she should stayed in for super tuesday and whether that would have made a difference um the comments you should

Starting point is 00:17:40 appreciate like you know like i think it's important to sort of like judge these politicians rather than what you think is in their heart or anything else, just upon either their actions or, you know, in this instance, they're pushing back on these narratives when necessary. There are things that Warren does well. There are things that she does poorly. Some of her political decisions I take issue with. But when she comes out strong for stuff like this,

Starting point is 00:18:14 you should just appreciate that for what it is. It is pushing back on a narrative where there are very few other people who are doing that. She was one of the, I think she was literally the first person to stop, to support Occupy. But nevertheless, here is Zoran Mamdani writing in X. Working class New Yorkers are leaving New York City at significantly higher rates than wealthy residents. This is according to research by Fiscal Policy Institute affordability concerns, especially housing and the cost of raising a family, are major drivers of population loss in New York State. The report notes that 90% of this loss comes from New York City, with black and Hispanic residents, households with young children, low-to-mill income families most likely live. In contrast, wealthy New Yorkers have left the state at much lower rates, with the exception of a temporary surge in their migration rates in 2020 and 2020.

Starting point is 00:19:15 2021, likely induced by COVID-19. In typical years, the average New Yorker has been four times more likely to leave the state than the top 1% of earners. Now, the response that the CNBC guy would give, if he wasn't embarrassed to do it, is, but yes, but they're poor. They're poor. They don't add anything. One millionaire equals like 10,000.

Starting point is 00:19:40 Exactly. Exactly. More bank for your buck. And it is indicative of, and then the assumption is, oh, you need rich people so that other people can get money. Because if they're not in New York spending their money, now, to be clear, these rich people are not going to the deli and buying, you know, whatever it is. They're not buying, they're buying high-end stuff that is completely. untethered to neighborhoods or other places they're not buying their you know the and they may be hiring a couple of people but a it exhibits what that person's perspective of is is a definition of a

Starting point is 00:20:33 good economy and whether a good economy is having wealthy people or having just more people live without uh suffering or a miseration on some level and the bottom line is all those wealthy people leave i mean warren and i think mom donnie are careful to say like fine goodbye go i mean go but if they did if they did you would see affordability increase exactly and you would see uh a just as vibrant city Maybe not with the high-end stuff that you could get, that, you know, $500 meal that you really desperately wanted. Gold surloids. It's not going to be there.

Starting point is 00:21:26 But you'd get a much more vibrant city. But it would be there because of New York City is... New York City. New York City. I'm saying if they all... Yes, in theory, right? And they're here because it works for them business-wise. Like, Goldman Sachs, they're not here because they want to give back to the city.

Starting point is 00:21:43 They're here because they're giant hoover's of... money, and New York City makes it able for them to do that. Right. Now, here is Cory Booker, who dropped out of the 2020 race very quickly. I know. When we covered him last Thursday, nobody even

Starting point is 00:21:59 remembered this presidential run, except yeah, I mean... He dropped out of the presidential race very quickly. So, he didn't split the working class vote there. God, if you want to come

Starting point is 00:22:13 up to me that way, you're going to have to take it up with me and here I don't wait here he is here he is asked whether he endorses mom donnie

Starting point is 00:22:29 and the question is fairly obvious one because he is in New Jersey it's a next door state much of New Jersey relies on New York for its sort of like economic vibrancy with all due respect and by the way that tax rate over there in New Jersey is what Zoron

Starting point is 00:22:45 wants to raise the corporate tax rate to to fund free buses. So yeah. And it's a reasonable question because he came out two weeks after Eric Adams won his primary and congratulated him and endorsed him.

Starting point is 00:23:01 And he's weighed in on I think governor's races in New York. I mean, he's done this before. It's completely understandable why someone would ask him this question. And then he's sort of comes up with a different answer.

Starting point is 00:23:17 About Mom, Donnie, are you going to support him? I have learned a long time ago. Let New York politics be New York politics. We got enough challenges in Jersey. I got a governor's race. I'm supporting Mikey Cheryl. I got legislative races. That's where my energy is going to go going into November.

Starting point is 00:23:32 New York City, I love you. You're my neighbor. You're about 10 miles from where I live. You guys figure out your elections. I'm going to focus on mine. What happened to vote blue no matter who? That blue is Israel? Yeah, right.

Starting point is 00:23:47 Exactly. Like, there is a dollar figure associated with him not endorsing Mom Dani. Yes. Like, it's just, there was a check that came in. Just like, good job. Thank you, Corey. Thanks for holding the line. Same with Jeffries.

Starting point is 00:24:06 Same with Schumer. I mean, man, it is embarrassing that they spent so much time screaming at the left for their disloyalty because they were upset about Bernie Sanders losing the 2016 or 2020 primary or whatever it is. And they just show their ass like this. This is why Democrats have the lowest approval rating in 30 years. It's because people think they're craven liars. Well, for good reason.

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Starting point is 00:29:53 I mean, both, it's not a surprise the Republicans are doing this. I would say the bigger surprise is that we're seeing the Democratic Party. And again, this is just a pure partisan fight. There's no ideological issues associated with this. This is just, are you going to participate? in politics in the way that it comes at you or not. And the Democrats at this point have what appears to have done is step up. 51 out of 60, at least 51 out of 60 Democrats in the Texas State House have left the state

Starting point is 00:30:33 denying Republicans quorum so they cannot go forward with this special session to do a mid-census redistricting that would, at least in the hopes of Republicans, give them an extra five seats out of their state. Now, that bet that Republicans would be banking, it's a little dicey because they're counting on the same numbers that they saw in 2024 will show up in 2026. And that is never a guarantee. But also, it's not a guarantee, especially with Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, because we've now seen three presidential election cycles where he is able to get many more voters out, low propensity voters, in the way that the Republican Party is unable to and off your elections. So even this is a gamble for the Republicans because they're make, if they would be gerrymandering, some of these districts are pinker as opposed to deep red because of how aggressively Texas is already gerrymandered. And this is Trump from the top making this decree as opposed to like the Texas Republicans even kind of coming to it themselves.

Starting point is 00:31:55 And the question is why are Republicans pushing this so? Hard. Well, because it's an off-year election, the party out of power tends to win. But they're not just looking at Texas. J.D. Vance has flown to Indiana, hoping to get one seat there. They're looking at Ohio, I think maybe Tennessee. And here is a prime example of the problem that Republicans have with this off-year election. It's not just the secular, generic. party out of power we haven't seen much of this because Republicans are not going to town town halls and if they were we would be seeing a lot more of this they are terrified

Starting point is 00:32:45 they are terrified quietly though because there's not many examples but Mike Flood elected in 2022 in Lincoln Nebraska he's not afraid and he showed up at his town hall last night

Starting point is 00:33:00 This is Lincoln, Nebraska. There are 750 to 1,000 people in this theater where he's having a town hall. And I don't know. My experience, if Lincoln, Nebraska is this well organized with Democrats, then I think Democrats are doing quite a good job because it's not the first states that they would be doing this in. So it gives you a sense of the anger that exists. out there towards Republican lawmakers. It's just

Starting point is 00:33:34 that we don't see it because they don't expose themselves to their voters. We have the next question right here. My question is fiscal. With 450 million FEMA dollars being reallocated to open alligator alcatraz and

Starting point is 00:33:52 600 million taxpayer FEMA dollars being used to now open more concentration camps and ice burning through 8.4 million dollars a day to illegally detain people. How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country? Americans went to the polls in November and they had a choice between. And they had a choice between a Democratic candidate

Starting point is 00:34:32 that had an open border no enforcement fentanyl, drugs, human trafficking and they had a choice between that and a candidate that said close the border get illegal immigrants out of our country

Starting point is 00:34:48 stop the fentanyl stop the human trafficking stop the drugs, stop the crime stop the violence that's what Americans voted for Americans voted for a border that is secure and I support the president

Starting point is 00:35:05 enforcing our immigration laws which by the way our immigration laws yeah well he's losing it he's losing it a little bit did you also see the part about health care we have that in there now here's the yeah yeah that's probably

Starting point is 00:35:22 full of a bunch of like Brooklyn hipsters sure going down to Lincoln Nebraska and getting super Brooklyn hipstery. Let's play the next one. This is regarding health care. Yes. This was also incredible.

Starting point is 00:35:40 And also shows how much, frankly, Democrats are leaving on the table by not coalescing around a health care agenda that isn't just what the Republicans are doing is bad. Because listen to this fury, listen to this just fury in the crowd, But also, how these old Republican talking points about health care being a privilege for the employed have just completely dissipated and also really engendered a lot of anger in the population. The Medicaid program, one of those changes is that if you are able to work and you are able-bodied, you have to work. If you choose not to work, you do not. get free health care you do not get free health care okay okay so here's a question so here's a question do you think that people who are 28 years old pause for one second he's going to say

Starting point is 00:36:49 do you think the people who are 28 years old should get free health care now let's be clear this is a canard because we have seen two examples, Georgia and Arkansas that have done work requirements. And all it does is it ends up driving people off of Medicaid who are perfectly eligible. However, the bureaucratic hurdles are designed to keep them off. Their ability to sort of like have to constantly update on how they work. I mean, have you ever been late for your insurance premium payment. Have you ever been late for the now, have you ever been exhausted by the amount of work you had to file with your insurance, uh, to get reimbursed? Now multiply that times five or 10 for somebody who is, um, who is actually working and struggling to have time

Starting point is 00:37:47 to do these type of things. So the, the scenario is setting up is false, A, and B, this R plus 10 district not necessarily with their talking program. Do not get free health care. Okay, okay. So here's a question. So here's a question.

Starting point is 00:38:14 Do you think that people who are 28 years old that can work and refuse to work should get free health care? I don't think that a majority of Nebraska's agree with you. Oh, well. I rephrase, do you think America should be the only country that uses the cudgel of you get health care or not to drive people to labor, which is what this is about? Well, and let's also be clear.

Starting point is 00:38:45 The real question is, do you think that this 28-year-old should be prevented from getting health care at the cost? of five times that one person to lose their health care because that's what studies show happens. It's maybe even higher than five times. That's what studies show happened in the real world. We have data on this. And we'll have more data.

Starting point is 00:39:18 There's a reason why 14 million people are going to lose their Medicaid, and it's not because they're not working. It's because of the requirements that are going to be imposed and the hurdles are going to be posed to getting the health care. But the only way people could not see the salience of an argument for free health care for people regardless of whether or not they're employed is if you're somebody that has never had to deal with an insurance company that you couldn't or a claim that you couldn't pay for before. I mean, the amount of time that people spend on the phone with health insurance companies to, try to get something paid for or procedure or healthcare paid for, that they already have felt that they've been

Starting point is 00:40:01 paying into on a monthly basis and that they have been with their insurance, let alone folks like the millions of people that are going to lose Medicaid coverage. I mean, I think 80 million people when you add Medicaid and CHIP together rely on this because we also don't force many of these employers to guarantee health care for their workers. So it's not just people who are these

Starting point is 00:40:25 28-year-olds in the basement or anybody that's unemployed, everybody that has experienced our health care system can empathize with that perspective. Healthcare should be a human right. And then here is the question put in another way. Like, okay,

Starting point is 00:40:40 do you even have a plan for providing health care that people can afford? I'm sorry? I know you've talked a little bit about this, but what plans does the Congress have for providing reasonable cost health insurance to Newbraskans. Well, one of the ways to bring down our commercial private payer insurance is to not have as many

Starting point is 00:41:09 people on Medicaid. Because what happens? Medicaid pays a much lower reimbursement rate that a commercial payer does. And so when there's a difference between those two, The commercial payer ends up paying more and more and more to make up for the difference. Money does not fall out of the sky. It does not grow on trees. It comes from all of you. And you pay your health insurance. I wish there was a world we could live in where everything came from the government and it was free. I posit. But that will never... Pause it. the increases to private insurance are going to be the biggest one-time increases we have seen, I think, probably in close to a decade.

Starting point is 00:42:00 And it is because they are ramping up, A, because the subsidies were cut for the ACA, in many respects, they did their repeal of Obamacare in the big, beautiful bill. and B, it's not like these people who are not getting Medicaid are going to somehow evaporate into thin air. They're going to get sick at the exact same rate as they got sick before, except for this time, they're not going to have a doctor. And this time, they're not going to have any preventative care. And so they're going to go into the ER. So everything he's talking about, in addition to it not being the case that insurance companies have that much elasticity, insurance companies go to state regulators, ask for a rate increase based upon their pool.

Starting point is 00:42:56 Hospital rates are all over the place. They just get whatever they can. It's completely opaque. But somebody's going to have to pay when these people go to the emergency room. somebody's going to have to pay for the diabetes that could have been prevented had they been seeing a doctor on a regular basis somebody's going to have to pay for all of this and that's where the taxpayers pay he's just I don't know if it's an out and out lie but even the even the sort of the theory he has what that basically they're going to force more Medicaid

Starting point is 00:43:31 recipients into the private insurance pool and that's going to decrease costs I thought that's what he was trying to say no no his argument is that because reimbursement rates for Medicaid are lower than private insurance, that private insurance has had to subsidize Medicaid patients. In his whole theory is predicated that these people are just going to go away, that they're not going to exist anymore, that they're not going to get sick. They're not going to, like, it's just a denial of the existence of these people. It's absurd.

Starting point is 00:44:05 It's absolutely absurd. There is no plan to provide any low-cost or reasonable cost health insurance for Americans that the Republicans had. They've never had one. The closest was the ACA back, you know, 15 years ago. This is the system that they want, that you pay your insurance, you pay your private insurance company thing. And it doesn't work. It's not a system that works. So that's why you can't make a coherent defense of it.

Starting point is 00:44:38 Let's go to, what is this number? What do you? Oh, let's go to, no, let's go to 14, because this is ultimately about the redistricting. And here is, the biggest threat that the Democrats have done at this point is they've said that they're going to, actually, let's go to Pritzker. Many of these Texas Democrats have gone to Illinois or to New York to essentially hide out. Texas has no authority to arrest them there and bring them to the state house. And Pritzker has implied, I don't know if he's finding them housing or what. But remember, these Texas state legislators, they only make 600 bucks a month.

Starting point is 00:45:37 yeah and um like almost half the staff here makes more than that and uh 600 bucks a month and they so they all have day jobs many of them have families um so they're going through uh this is a difficult time for these people um and here's pritzker uh today this morning ken martin is there um they are talking about essentially what this fight is. We're here, of course, because Texas House Democrats are demonstrating what it means to fight for the preservation of our constitutional republic. Donald Trump, Governor Abbott, Texas Republicans, well, they know that they're headed toward a loss of the Congress in 26. They're afraid, and they should be. Because when you try to tear health care away from veterans

Starting point is 00:46:40 and seniors, from children and people with disabilities, when you raise tariff taxes on groceries and beer and automobiles, when you let poor and working class families go hungry, when you allow smokestack industries to pollute the air and remove safety standards from food producers, well, all so that you can give a massive tax break to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Bill Akman, well, frankly, you'd better watch out. You're going to lose your elections. So they've decided that the only way to save themselves is to cheat, to change the rules in the middle of the game. And what do Maga Republicans in Texas do when Donald Trump ignores, well, his oath of office and they and when they're taking it upon themselves to thwart the will of the American people,

Starting point is 00:47:38 well, they say, when Donald Trump calls, they say, yes, sir, right away, sir, happy to lick your boot, sir. When Donald Trump says jump Greg Abbott and Ken Pax and say, how high, they don't care that they're violating the Voting Rights Act and racially gerrymandering their state, well, they're hoping they can rob the bank and get away before anyone notices. Texas Republicans are trying to diminish the voting power of their own constituents, and in doing so, diminish the rights of Illinoisans and all Americans. Texas House Democrats are putting their lives on hold and their livelihoods at risk

Starting point is 00:48:19 because they don't want to live in a country where the president rigs elections for his side. That's not democracy. That's not America. he's good he's good at this the partisanship element i am looking for uh him ultimately to say to cut taxes for jeff bezos for elan musk for bill acman and for me uh because he's that wealthy too you mean cut taxes you raise taxes no no he said uh he was criticizing trump to cut those taxes like he's got to start acknowledging uh you know because he's not going to be able to hide it when he it when he runs for president. Right.

Starting point is 00:49:01 Well, but that's the angle he could do it if he's smart about it. And if he does run in that way, it would be telling if he avoids that. And that means that this is another status quo guy. But if he wants to do the, oh, I'll be the FDR guy that will no longer be a billionaire and be the class traitor and I'll take on the bullies, I do think that's a salient political argument for real. Without a doubt. Yeah. But it is good to see Democrats now. Gavin Newsom is out there.

Starting point is 00:49:27 He is claimed that he will, if. Texas does this, we don't need to see a clip of him. If Texas does this, he will call a special legislative session, and they will redistrict five Republicans out of their office. And they have already studied whether it would be a violation of the Voting Rights Act. Remember, if you have a majority-minority district, there are a certain number. based upon the percentage of minorities in a state that they must have a certain amount of representation as per the Voting Rights Act.

Starting point is 00:50:10 In Texas, they're going to dispossess people of that. And they feel like, well, we'll deal with the Supreme Court if it ever comes up later. In California, they've studied whether that would be in violation of the Voting Rights Act, and it won't be. So they've got five there. In New York, Kathy Hokel's already talking about redistricting two if they do this. That's three in New York. Here is the five or whoever, whatever the Fox show this is.

Starting point is 00:50:45 Outnumbered. Sorry. Is it outnumbered because there's always four women flanking an old guy? And all of them almost all have to show their legs. Exactly. It's every man's fantasy. Exactly. Totally.

Starting point is 00:50:58 Every 75-year-old man watching this show gets to just, like, place himself in the middle of this couch. Put four women in their place at the same time. I like Kennedy. She's really sharp. Oh, tell me more about Cindy Sweeney, being a Republican. Here is more pictures, please, of the young actress. Here is Kennedy who seemingly does not understand what redistricting applies to. Hmm.

Starting point is 00:51:27 Right. It's like TDS off the chart. It's all about them versus Trump. And why? Because they're so thirsty politically. Yeah, but this is why California is a monoparty state. That's why Democrats have a supermajority. And, you know, it's like that's why they have two Democrat senators. That's why I have a Democrat governor.

Starting point is 00:51:44 And, you know, it is such a massive majority because of this type of redistricting. Pause it for a second. Which is incredibly insincere. Oh. Apparently, she's not. aware that there are no districts that impact the Senate races. Whoopsie. It's the whole state.

Starting point is 00:52:07 The governor, like the only redistricting that could possibly happen is if you were to actually draw the, redraw the lines of the state of California. Take parts of Nevada. Yeah, but take only the blue parts of Nevada. And that's how you know. The reason why California is a monoparty state is because Republicans shit the bed there years ago with Pete Wilson basically killed their their chances in that state. It has nothing to do with redistricting. Otherwise, you wouldn't see a Democratic

Starting point is 00:52:44 governor and two Democratic senators. And also because part of why the Democratic Party is behind on this is because of states like California dropping the ball and not doing partisan gerrymandering in reaction to the Republicans doing so. That's part of why California is such a central focus because it would be doing away with the independent redistricting commissions that Democrats have said we're so, you know, we're so much better than the Republicans in so many of these states that they've relied on. That's why California is centrally focused here because, no, we could, this is like the threat, gerrymandering. It actually. Same with New York. Yeah. same with new york but it's just stunning amount of ignorance and nobody seems to catch her on this

Starting point is 00:53:29 because she's supposed to be like the liberal oh she's the no no she's not she's a libertarian she looks like that i've confused that liberal with her oh no i'm saying like she's not a maga person oh she's the reasonable intellectual one you can tell she reads she's got the classes she reads the news okay got you she's like the MTV buckley yeah is a monoparty state. That's why Democrats have a super majority. And, you know, it's like, that's why they have two Democrat senators. That's why I have a Democrat governor. And, you know, it is such a massive majority because of this type of redistricting, which is incredibly insincere whenever Republicans start to get a stronghold in a certain part of the state, they just, they carve it apart.

Starting point is 00:54:12 I'm not a huge fan of this. And I think that, you know, you need to run better candidates if you're worried that your party is out of power. And, you know, offer voters better ideas because this is not a fight. This is cowardice. So if you are expecting your caucus to grow, you're doing it wrong if you're running to another state where the obese governor might eat you.

Starting point is 00:54:35 Wait, what is she even babbling about? Does she go by one name? Like she's Beyonce or something? She was an MTV VJ. She really was. Honestly, I couldn't even make sense of the last part of what she was saying. I think it was a shot at Pritzker.

Starting point is 00:54:51 No, no. I get the part about the Pritzker thing, but she's seemingly criticizing Abbott for redistricting and not having better candidates to beat these, uh, while blaming Pritzker for enabling Pritzker for enabling the Democrats for stopping Abbott from doing what he's doing. Right. Exactly. Like they're doing, they instigated this. And also, Jamie Vance has taken trips to Indiana. Hogan's heart dark says, if Democrats already have the power to redistricting and give themselves the edge, why aren't they already, uh, already not doing it in california and in new york democrats passed legislation to have an independent commission

Starting point is 00:55:29 do it personally uh i think it was naive and they are now starting to realize it was naive yep and so the threat is we're going to have the democrats we have the uh we have the numbers in these states despite the fact that we have an independent commission that does the redistricting we're going to redistrict and I hope they don't just do it for congressional. I hope they do it for state legislatures. Oh, yeah. I'm very much comfortable

Starting point is 00:55:57 with no Republican state legislatures or assembly. I'm very comfortable with that idea. Until there is a Supreme Court case in sometime in the future or a federal mandate and law that there is

Starting point is 00:56:13 an all independent committee redistricting in all 50 states, every Democratic state should be responding with gerrymandering. That's it. If Republicans are going to do it, Democrats have to get on this. And it's just funny to me, not so

Starting point is 00:56:29 funny, that Democrats talk about when Bernie was running in 2020 and 2016, are we going to unilaterally disarm by just taking small dollar contributions? Are we going to unilaterally disarm and not take any more corporate money? But when it comes to things like, I don't know, taking political power

Starting point is 00:56:45 and seizing it, we'll outsource to the Independent Commission and functionally unilaterally disarm as the Republicans do this. Like, that speaks so much to the issues with the party that are hopefully, hopefully starting to change. But, you know, we're behind on this, and it's the Democrats' fault for being weak and polyanish, to put it mildly. All right. Let's change focus for a bit. We'll go to clip number one. you've probably seen and I know we've played at least one clip of this guy or two

Starting point is 00:57:21 he's an ex-GF GHF contractor the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation foundation set up by Israel and America or at CIA guys exactly

Starting point is 00:57:36 he was essentially a contractor mercenary former green beret Anthony Aguilar, he was sent there, apparently expecting that they were actually doing humanitarian aid, and he was protecting recipients of humanitarian aid and protecting the aid. And his experience there was very, very different. He's been on a bunch of shows. Here's a clip of him on the MSNBC weekend primetime show.

Starting point is 00:58:13 I'm not speaking because this is my story. I'm speaking because this is the story of a population of human beings that if we don't do something now, we're on a dangerous road and a day of reckoning is coming, that as a world we're going to see it, and we have no excuse. But we have no excuse when everything comes to bear and this box is opened and we see inside.

Starting point is 00:58:38 We have no excuse as a nation. We have no excuse as a, as a, is a, is the world to look at this and say we didn't know. We do know. And I'm not looking for anyone's approval. I'm not looking for the approval of paid spokespersons from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation or a paid contract lawyer who wants to talk about,

Starting point is 00:58:58 I don't know how to, you know, I don't know what I'm seeing on a certain site when I've been there. So I'm here for consciousness and for doing what's right, and American values. America needs to know what we are doing in Gaza, what we are complicit in, and America's voice needs to stand up and put an end to it. Because a day of reckoning is coming, and right now we are on the wrong side of history. Lieutenant Colonel, do you believe that you witnessed war crimes, not just the fog of war,

Starting point is 00:59:26 as the IDF has said, that this is not a policy? Where did these orders come from? Is it a systemic policy? And how does it compare to when you served in Iraq and Afghanistan? Complicated and complex environments require strong leadership and require strong morals. It's very easy in a situation like this where the population has been dehumanized to see them running and scrounging for food and to see them as, it's very easy to go down that path of dehumanization and then just looking the other way. War, the fog and friction of war is real.

Starting point is 01:00:06 However, the, the azmuth, the line that keeps us. straight through that fog and friction is our morals and our ethics, humanitarian laws that we all abide by. These aren't questionable. These aren't things that have flexibility. These are our guideposts. The Israeli defense forces have been put in a very precarious situation in the South because the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation put all three of the sites,

Starting point is 01:00:31 the southern sites, in the middle of combat zones. Each of the distribution sites in the South are right in the middle of ongoing combat operations. It puts the IDF in a very bad position tactically and operationally, and it puts them in a dilemma to where they're in their area of trying to combat Hamas, which is their mission. They're also having to pretend with 8,000 to 9 to 15,000 hungry civilians in any given day. And when there's not strong leadership and there isn't a strong purpose, then this type of situation where we see the, the war bear on people where the dehumanization becomes almost organic, that this is what that becomes. And, you know, up in northern Gaza, they've been isolated for even longer. No one can go in and out of the Nessarim corridor north in the Gaza city in Javalia. And when aid starts going in

Starting point is 01:01:30 there, when the world has had enough and we start to go in to northern Gaza, we're going to see things that are going to bring the world to their knees. Mark my words, we are going to see human suffering like the world has not seen in a long time and it's going to bring us to our knees and we have an opportunity right now to stop this and to do the right thing and if we don't we are complicit in that and the world is going to see it and that day is coming that would just see hearing that just sends a chill down your spine right um because we know that we only know a fraction of both the death toll, the level of suffering, the level of destruction. And Aguilar, he had, I heard his interview with breaking points and he said

Starting point is 01:02:23 something in that interview where I think it was like, you know, talking about Hamas and he had mentioned, this is not to discredit him. This is just to do the opposite to anybody who's still like a Zionist watching this. He had said the thing about the microwaving babies in that interview or something in passing, which was a lie that Hamas was doing that, a propagandistic lie at the outset of the genocide to manufacture consent for it. I only point that out to say that this is somebody who isn't going, wasn't, wasn't approaching this with a bias. It was somebody who had like- He was going as a mercenary. You know, he had served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is still going out there as a mercenary. I mean, the- I mean, the amount of credibility

Starting point is 01:03:08 of his testimony is just important to underscore here. And what he is saying is that this genocide is from his own eyes even worse than what we have seen and what we know. Let's look at clip number four. This is a

Starting point is 01:03:25 ITV news somehow got a hold of aerial footage of Gaza. It has been just obliterated. And they're prohibited from filming. So this is, the IDF is, keeps... Building by building,

Starting point is 01:03:45 well, let's hear they're right. Cities like broken skeletons laid waste by war. Graveyards of life and lives. The streets, homes and coffee houses of old now cast to the ground. The soul of this place, along with the souls who lived here, brought to ruin. in the rubble and dust.

Starting point is 01:04:11 Israel bans foreign journalists from entering Gaza. 15,000 feet above is the closest we get to seeing for ourselves the consequences of the war it is waging here. When we joined an airdrop last week, Israel also tried to restrict images from above being filmed or shown. Aid being dropped from this flight is to those who are trying to survive in this hell. This was Gaza before the bomb started falling, a place of life where normal lives were lived. There is no sign of that normality now.

Starting point is 01:04:48 This is one of the explosions which destroyed Gaza, targeting the Turkish-Palestine Friendship Hospital, the only specialist cancer hospital in Gaza. This is what's left of it now. This was the Alwar for Old People's Home. We can't say what's become of its residents. This was a primary in secondary school. We can't say what became of the pupils. Many of the other ruins were homes.

Starting point is 01:05:19 We can't say whether those that lived here survived or among the 60,000 now dead. Under international law, it is a war crime to target schools, hospitals, and other civilian sites. All right, we should say that the 60,000 person death toll is only the official count and there is any reasonable estimates that are now coming out as people study this anticipate that number to be anywhere from eight to ten times that

Starting point is 01:05:53 we should also say there's aerial drops of aid Canada just did some it is woefully inadequate You need trucks to go in, and Israel is still inhibiting trucks from getting in there. Just to give you a sense, over the past, I guess, year or so, we've heard messages from a family in Gaza via their brother who lived in Europe. Part of the family was able to get out about a year ago, I guess, now, to Egypt. They have been sending money back to Gaza, where they have essentially started a bakery. This is not the one. It's a different link. But we got another message from the family.

Starting point is 01:07:03 this is i just want to give you a sense of let's first do the rice uh the the the the gaza bakery is handing out i don't think it's a bakery in the sense that we think of bakeries uh here uh but they're handing out and uh cooking of rice apparently is one of the few things it gets in um and uh this is uh they're helping uh serve food to people this is in um I believe it's in southern guys. I want to show you on the I want to show you a picture of Muhammad, who we've spoken to on the program, his brother. There are three pictures.

Starting point is 01:07:58 We're going to start with it. It's basically before and after. This is a little disturbing. This was Muhammad's brother, Qadar, a couple of years ago. And then the interim is a picture of him here. And then most recently, this is the latest picture. You can see that he has lost an extraordinary amount of weight. Um, it's just, this is what's happening in Gaza.

Starting point is 01:08:37 We also have an audio message from another member of the family that, uh, they wanted us to play. It's upsetting, uh, just to hear the level of desperation. Um, but the, it's important for them to know that people are at least aware of what's going on in Gaza. Uh, let's play this. audio. My name is Rina. I'm a 21 years old. Speaking from Gaza, this is a first-hand account. My brother just returned from one of the Gaza aid distribution size, the ones backed by a U.S. group. He saw people shot while reaching for flower. Children were lining in blood. We are terrified. Israel is turning to.

Starting point is 01:09:31 food lines into war zones and they are targeting children. We are starving, but it is too dangerous to get food. This isn't humanitarian aid. It's a deadly trap

Starting point is 01:09:46 funded by the U.S. and begged by Trump. Please, don't stay silent. Share this, speak out, demand and end to U.S. support. We just want to leave. we have a link to the Gaza bakery

Starting point is 01:10:08 this is not it I sent it in the chat Emma sent it in the chat we had and here it is you can go and donate money that they're now essentially applying to try and provide food for people in Gaza you know I think

Starting point is 01:10:37 the way this works is pretty complicated I would imagine I don't know how food gets in where they're getting it from but that's what they're doing there it's important to note

Starting point is 01:10:58 that this has been the story that's been kind of under the radar but I want to give credit to the Washington Post for two days ago having an article on what Israel's been doing in terms of funding this gang essentially

Starting point is 01:11:14 it's led by this guy Yasser Abu Shab who Hamas is basically accusing of being a traitor because he's clearly taking money from Israel and he has this little, he has a militia of around a hundred people that have been stealing aid so that Israel can blame it on Hamas.

Starting point is 01:11:34 And this was a tactic that Israel's used previously with Hamas, where they propped up the government of Hamas, Netanyahu openly talked about allowing Qatar to fund Hamas so that they could use them as a scapegoat to further emiserate Palestinians because Hamas was not a leftist or, you know, pacifist organization in the way that, you know, some other Palestinians groups had been. So they wanted to basically divide the Palestinian people and, and have a competitor to Fatah. Right. So that there was no, no unified Palestinian body politic, essentially. But just to give, they're not, Israel isn't just blocking almost all aid. to try to starve Palestinians to death in this final solution territory.

Starting point is 01:12:31 They are also funding groups that will steal aid so that they can justify it on the ground. And this level of depravity and evil is historic in many ways. It starts with the whole smear in the U.N. The GHF should not exist. There should be no use for a, quote, Gaza humanitarian foundation run by mercenaries. I talked with Jasper Nathaniel about this. Like, humanitarian aid is actually a discipline. You can't just have some mercenary come in and do it.

Starting point is 01:13:02 UNRWA should be doing this. It isn't Israel let aid in. It's Israel let the UN in. But, unfortunately, even Chuck Schumer was talking to the New York Times about how anti-Semitic that organization is. So here we are. I should also say, got an email from a listener, Abby, in Minneapolis. they uh she's doing she was doing a raffle we missed the email but uh for many lands mutual aid

Starting point is 01:13:32 um who provides as much food aid as he can in gaza will also include that link uh in it's also a separate go fund me um i don't know um i'm not familiar with this listener Abby writes in and then says that she's you know been raising money for them um do know the Gaza bakery uh stuff or at least we you know we've spoken to Muhammad on this program a couple times I think over the past year or two but we'll put both links in there um and again you know at the end of the day there has to be a change in policy there's um and it's obviously extremely difficult to be outside of the coalition that is dictating policy in this country and influence it um you know i think to to the extent that

Starting point is 01:14:40 there's uh republicans who have argued against uh the policy that this government has in supporting what Israel is doing, I don't know that they're ever going to have the numbers, you know. We saw the polling. Like right now, Gallup has 25% of independence support Israel's military action in Gaza, 8% of Democrats support it. Around 70% of Republicans do. I mean, this was our argument prior to the election,

Starting point is 01:15:15 was that it's not about the candidates in the sense. it's about who's in the coalition. And like you've got Marjorie Taylor Green or Thomas Massey speaking out, it's not making a difference. And no matter how many media figures are doing this, because Trump wants to turn it into the rivvy area of the Middle East and he did a quid pro quo, basically,

Starting point is 01:15:38 with the Israel lobby, including Miriam Adelson, to annex the West Bank in exchange for helping him get elected. So this is what we've had. We are not in the, coalition in the same way. Like this was part of what Slokin was saying in that interview with Crystal, like, well, I don't see the same amount of protests against Trump. First of all, it was because Democratic voters had the gall to expect that their president would have a little bit more humanity than Donald Trump. And we were in the coalition, so we had the opportunity to influence

Starting point is 01:16:11 them. Secondly, the Trump administration is repressing protest in a very aggressive way in criminalizing it. So people are afraid. And Slokin is trying to like make a hypocrisy argument about that instead of acknowledging that very real reality. And thirdly, there happened protests. It just hasn't been at, at the same, I guess, level at the height of it because the worst has already happened in many ways. Like, we are at past a point of no return. And that is why we are seeing these craven Democrats flip now because they know what's coming and they know that we're going see hundreds of thousands of dead and an entire like population be decimated. I'm not even sure if we don't actually have a similar amount of protests.

Starting point is 01:17:00 It's just that it's not a news story anymore. It's not campaign season. Well, it's not just a question of campaign season. It's more of a news story when members of a coalition are protesting against their own sort of of successful political leadership. She knows that. Everyone who is, you know, has any type of sort of mild association or awareness of what politics are, knows that. Jerry McLean says, I've been getting ads smearing the UN on YouTube.

Starting point is 01:17:34 There has been, there is no doubt. And a couple of people have mentioned this. I think even Brian, you mentioned this too, is that there is a tremendous amount of money that is being poured in. into, I mean, not just YouTube, I would imagine, but all sorts of, like, internet advertising because Israel realizes it is losing this public relations battle in the U.S. Is it, you know, an existential fight if they lose political support in the U.S.? Well, I mean, ultimately, but they are very, very nervous, I think, and rightfully so, because it's quite clear that at the very least, the democratic voter, the typical Democratic voter, they have lost, just in terms of like the polling.

Starting point is 01:18:26 They still have the leadership and they're paying for it. That's why, you know, Cory Booker won't endorse Zoran Mondani. I don't know that his endorsement would make a difference. But there's a reason why, you know, Chuck Schumer and Kristen Gilliband, they're all staying away. it is because their donors want them to and their donors want them to probably as much

Starting point is 01:18:50 if not far more because of Israel than anything else and dear God if you want to come up me that way you're going to have to take it up with me it's so good so Cory Booker's up in 2026 it's really interesting

Starting point is 01:19:07 because in New Jersey Josh Godheimer just like soaked up is real money. Gimmie, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. You know, the one of the most right-wing Democrats in Congress. And he got single digits, like Ross Baraka beat, outpaced him, and Mikey Sherrill won the nomination. But I'd be interested if Ross Baraka would take on Cory Booker in a primary for 2026. Because Cory Booker is still doing this dance here.

Starting point is 01:19:40 And I want a chaotic leftist on Twitter actually gave a tweet this out, gave me the idea. So credit to her. But I think that there could be some Democrats that they're taken by surprise by how there is going to be a motivated voting population to come out for somebody that rejects APAC money and this level of support for genocide. I know one Democrat who I think was taken by surprised about the depth and the importance of this. issue to Democratic voters, and her name was Kamau Harris. Yep. And it's sort of shocking because, again, I keep thinking about that poll that Harry Anton showed over the past eight years or 10 years, how dramatically, dramatically,

Starting point is 01:20:28 like tens, I can't remember it with dozens of points difference between that has shifted in terms of sympathy with Israel versus sympathy with the Palestinians. And surely the people on Harris's campaign must have known this. And they made a calculation that the financial support that we're getting from a certain donor class is more important than these actual opinions of these Democrats. And, you know, with these things you can never know for sure, what is the one thing that. depressed turnout, depressed activists, cost you votes, but there is a lot of evidence that it had a far greater impact than they anticipated and may have been determined. Then trans issues, for example, than trans issues, because of what supporting Israel codes

Starting point is 01:21:33 as for a voter. It means you're an establishment person who can't be trusted. That's what people think. When you take A-PAC money, they think, bought, not for me, for the Israel lobby, for corrupt interests. That is the line of demarcation. So even if you want to be all cynical about it, the consultants have motivated reasoning to say that supporting Israel is not going to cost us elections because they're all making money together. People are actually cool with it. Like, they're, this whole like, well-funded class that is, has successfully, both like manufactured candidates that have this ideology, but also insulate like Democrats from just craving political realities about what would benefit them electorally

Starting point is 01:22:17 is one of the most corrupt things ever. We'll talk about that article in that tomorrow about where all this money is going in the DNC. I mean, this is a major problem and it's a deeply depressing reality that we had squandered the organizing from 2008 and less than 20, 20 years later, we are in such a horrific position with the Democratic Party, at least on a national level, where this is what makes sense is like these Democrats in Texas or in Illinois or in on the state level, they are so much better equipped to deal with this than our APAC funded corrupt career Democrats in Congress who are so out of touch that it's completely destroying the brand of the party and preventing us from mounting an opposition to fascism. They're fatally corrupt in a way that's historically almost unprecedented. Yep. Be Dan from San Diego. I bet Kamala was pro-Palestine.

Starting point is 01:23:13 She would have won had she been. I don't even think, personally, I think things would be better than they are now in terms of our Palestinian policy than Trump. And, you know, it's impossible to prove a counterfactual. But I don't even think. that she would have had to have been actively pro-Palestinian. She needed to indicate that she was open or was interested in changing our policy from that time. And that could have been indicated by any number of things. Let a Palestinian speak at the DNC with the most sort of benign speech that you could possibly imagine from a Palestinian

Starting point is 01:24:02 American lawmaker, which would have at least indicated that there is some recognition that Palestinians are human beings, which would have been a significant upgrade from what the Biden administration had done. Again, like, I'm not being polyanish here. I don't think that I don't know. I don't know where we would be in terms of this. conflict, but I do think that it would be, we would not be seeing this mass starvation at this point under a Harris administration.

Starting point is 01:24:44 And I, but they failed as in a completely, you know, just sort of like a crass political calculation. They failed to recognize this. Or they simply made a tradeoff that they thought they could get away with. That was, I'm not going to ail. alienate these donors, but I'm okay to alienate these voters. That was the trade-off they made. And she did not lose for lack of money.

Starting point is 01:25:16 So that was a very bad trade-off. Because at the end of the day, the money is there to get you votes. Well, I also get, you know, buy some nice cars with it. How much, how many words do you think she's going to spend on the Gaza decision in 170? days. Oh, my God. But you're going to skim entirely over and seven days? Her book.

Starting point is 01:25:37 Her new book coming off. Jesus, I can't. I know. I literally, I think I had already blocked that out of my mind. I might get into hard drugs. Honestly, honestly, the title itself. October 7th days. No, no.

Starting point is 01:25:53 It is a complaint. Oh, yeah. The title itself is a complaint. Didn't let me cook. just need more time to get to know her how about the word unfair I mean yeah again you know I'm sympathetic to how

Starting point is 01:26:16 like women and especially women of color have to navigate things that are like of course politics and there's things where you know I think in an ideal world politicians like that could be freed to say more things if they weren't so afraid of how they'd be perceived or if they didn't have a consultant class that also has, like, certain assumptions about women and women of color that hamstring them. And I think she's, in many ways, part of that kind of lack of progress we have as a country.

Starting point is 01:26:45 But it doesn't really matter because her politics, like, it's just evident in the fact that she hasn't said anything. Like, they're just, like, the Democrats that lost, I know it's, like, good decorum to, after you lose, go into hibernation a little bit. But that's not what this moment meets right now. We're in a fascist moment. And it showed like the hollowness of that kind of liberalism or that lack of coalition or organizing is made clear right now. Because she's not like if she were a true leader that could meet this moment or in 2028 that could meet that moment, she would have not gone away after her law. She would have been a part of organizing and mounting an opposition to Donald Trump. But her apparatus and her politics is fundamentally incapable of doing that.

Starting point is 01:27:36 And that's part of what, it's not just a new generation of leadership in terms of age. That's part of it, though. It's both in its age and also, of course, ideology. All right, folks. The shortest presidential campaign in modern history. It's, wow. Always lead with, it doesn't even mean anything

Starting point is 01:28:05 I'll tell you a book I did a movie that I didn't release for a number reasons and not the least of which it was about a terrorist attack in New York City and we were editing it over the summer of 2001 the left wanted to make comedy illegal and you know some people would argue it's not funny but

Starting point is 01:28:27 having been a filmmaker and made things, I know that you cannot get up in front of the audience after they watched the movie or beforehand to go like, this was going to be much better. But here's what happened. First off, I got fucked over by these people. Yeah, yeah. They didn't deliver the thing. And this shot, like, I told the DP, get the shot.

Starting point is 01:28:53 And he didn't get the shot. And he said he had it. And then I get back to editing. I couldn't go back to the, you can't. explain why you failed the basic thing like there's no explaining after the fact like this is why just imagine if this scene moved with a better pace right now watch the movie that's what this book is right like not my fault oh of course why i lost of the black guy by mitt romney this is a version of what all of the consultants were doing by going on policy for america

Starting point is 01:29:29 after the election. Hire me, hire me, hire me. And then for her, I want to keep my options open for 2028. And like, she's a name recognition polling frontrunner, but I do not have any confidence that if she actually, if she actually tries to run, that that's going to work out well for her. Because I just don't think we're going to be in a place where people are going to want to go back. We're not going back.

Starting point is 01:29:52 At no point in her career, is she ever excited massive voters? Yeah, she doesn't have that capacity, exactly. Majority Report Wardrobe Coordinator. I saw a demographic coalition breakdown from Cornell Belcher that indicated Kamala got more white votes than Biden, but roughly 2 million fewer Latino votes and 3 million fewer black votes. Doesn't this put forth a different theory of her loss than Gaza being the main cause? Was it a combination of immigration? There's no doubt there was a combination of a bunch of different things.

Starting point is 01:30:24 But if you focus on the swing states and you focus on Pennsylvania and Michigan, and in what was the third state that was going to be the closest one, Nevada? If you focus on, at the very least, Michigan and Pennsylvania, you can look at the polling there, but also you're depressing the activist class. The people whose job it is to get people out to vote, you depress them.

Starting point is 01:30:53 I know that for a fact. I had multiple conversations with multiple leaders of groups that were just like, it's tough. Because the people go out, like the core of the activists who go out and organize and get people to the polls, they care about this issue. It's just, that just happens to be the case. I mean, I remember talking to somebody after Biden dropped out and the relief that he was gone and they had a somewhat blank slate to get people to go. knocked doors under under Kamala was you saw it in the polls there was a huge like rise and and totally enthusiasm and then it was squandered i'm not saying it's the only issue i'm not saying

Starting point is 01:31:39 it's the only issue i but and and again who knows if it was determinate but certainly that and the pivot they made basically starting with the convention uh you know just was one thing on top of another she had depressed her own people She had a four-point lead leading up to the convention. But that's when she dropped, we're not going back, and the weird stuff. What you don't want to talk about anymore? No, let's go. Let's go to the fun half.

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Starting point is 01:33:45 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. Hold on for a second. Emma, welcome to the program.

Starting point is 01:34:04 Hey. Fun hat. What is up, everyone? Fun pack. No, me, Key. You did it. Let's go Brandon. Let's go Brandon.

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3553 - Republicans Rush to Redistrict as Their Base Turns on Them; Gaza Has Been Completely Destroyed

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