The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3562 - Trump Pines for Greenland; Minnesota Fights Back

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

It's News Day Tuesdy on the Majority Report: On today's program: As Trump ramps up threats to annex Greenland, Denmark sends troops in response. Faiz Shakir, head of A More Perfect Union, appears on Fox News to lay out a talking point blueprint national Democrats should follow—but likely won't, since it would require actually taking action. Deputy AG Todd Blanche says that the government is not investigating the murder of Renee Good. We take a look at some patriots who are helping protect their communities from ICE's violent invasion. In the Fun Half: Sen. Ruben Gallego, a "tough on the border Democrat" who voted for the Laken Riley Act, calls for a total teardown of ICE. Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he will not vote for one dime of funding towards ICE. ICE beats a man and arrests him for blowing a whistle from a distance that could never be described as obstructing or impeding operations. ICE detains a father and leaves his 6-year-old daughter alone to wander until a couple of women find her and help her. Houston Texans star linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair talks to the media about his thought process behind writing "end the genocide" on his eye tape. Miriam Adelson is asked about how one gains influence in politics beyond writing checks and she refuses to answer, not wanting to give the game away. Tony Dokoupil tries - and fails - to have a little banter with some steelworkers. 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 AMQuickie 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: PROLON:  ProlonLife.com/majority Get 15% off their 5-day nutrition program. SMALLS: get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to Smalls.com/MAJORITY. SUNSET LAKE: Use the code NEWFLOWER—all one word—to get 30% off their new crop of hemp flower and vape carts at SunsetLakeCBD.com  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @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 show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com

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industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Trump links Greenland takeover bid to his Nobel Peace Prize snub. America first. Don't know what to tell you. Minnesota, a Tinder box as more groups announced their support for General Strike this Friday. Trump's DOJ, meanwhile, seeks to press charges against Don Lemon and church protesters of a pastor who is an ICE manager. Third immigrant detainee death at a Texas ice facility. EU, EU chief warns Trump Greenland threats are causing a permanent break.

This as Canada mulls sending troops to Greenland. Woof. Market drops on Trump's 10% across the board European tariff threat, including a 200% tariff threat on French wine if Macron doesn't join his peace board. Senate strikes a deal on health care legislation involving PBMs and community health centers, ACA subsidies still languish. Some good news for China.

Their economy grew by 5% in 2025, buoyed by, if you can believe it, exports. ISIS stop payments for detainee medical treatment. A federal judge, however, limits ICE's crowd tactics. We'll see how long that sticks. It is day eight of the largest nurse strike in New York City history. And Virginia Dems paved way for a gerrymander that may give Democrats a four-seat pickup in the House of Representatives. All this and more on today's majority report. What's, boom.

It is a newsday. It is Newsday Tuesday. I get thrown off by the music going away. Hello. Hello. It's been a couple of days. Yes, it's Newsday Tuesday. Hello to you, Sam.

Hello, Emma. Hello. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Sorry. A little throwing off. I just saw an I AM saying, I miss you guys talking about me. You haven't said my name.

This is from Graham Platner on the Iams. I don't think it's actually Grand Platner. Since my wife and I announced that we were taking my great sperm to Norway. He took a spend it, but only for a couple of days as far as I can tell. He mean, at least a campaign. I think a week or so, right? The IVF cycle. It's crazy how affordable it is over there.

Compared to here, right? It is. Eighth of the price. Yep. Yeah. America, but hey, best, uh, a prince has come to America for their health care. So best in the world, baby. Is there like an anchor sperm type of situation in Norway or something like that?

Or no, that doesn't work that way. I mean, maybe the Trump administration is going to look into that birthright citizenship at the point of conception or going to do reverse it from there? Unclear. We've got a lot to get to. Obviously, things in Minnesota are still on the brink or I don't really know how to articulate it. There's the Trump administration seems like they are stuck between wanting to get out of there, but also not looking weak, it appears to me. But we shall see.

But we will get to that in a bit. In the meantime, there have been reports that the 11th Airborne Division up in. It's the Arctic. What is it? The Arctic Airborne, I believe. It's the 11th Infantry in Alaska. 11th Infantry up in, stationed in Alaska, was prepping to come to Minnesota. But there's also speculation that that was sort of a head fake, that in fact, they would probably be one of the, if not the lead in invasion of Greenland. You got a multi-frette war between Minneapolis and Greenland. And Denmark, meanwhile, has sent 100 troops there, I guess, ostensibly just to make it sort of, you know, uncomfortable if the United States were to invade.

Canada is considering sending troops there as, you know, Trump is really essentially mulling the end of NATO. And really a decent relationship with the EU. We reported over the past couple of days, like Canada signed a big deal with China to essentially establish not only the sales of their cars, EVs in Canada, but what looks like the paving of the way of a Chinese plant in Canada or maybe more, building EVs as we watch the beginning of the end of the U.S. car manufacturing business, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I think like people in Europe have to be looking over at Canada and saying, why not us to a certain degree? A lot of European leftists have long held that this relationship

with the United States based in NATO, but the over-reliance on U.S. for their security, and their economic relationship puts them in peril. I mean, we have kind of folded in for many years, decades, Europe into our imperial aggression in Iraq and in the Middle East, and also in our sanctions regime, which has limited Europe's capacity to do business with who they want to do, a business with, right? And Canada has kind of done a clean break,

and Carney doesn't share all my politics, but this deal with China is going to benefit Canadians. There's no doubt about it. Kermit Favag, fat hog, says I work in International Institute in Germany, and we were advised this week to transfer all of our data into European servers from any American ones like Dropbox or Google Drives in case the U.S. decides to cut off European access to those services, which, you know, seems like a rather prudent, reasonable step to take. I would have done it, yeah, last year. Here is a clip from the BBC trying to explain the most recent development in Trump's desire to take over Greenland.

There was reporting last week that Ron Louder, the billionaire, had put the idea into Trump's head to buy it, some time ago. And then it just sort of things have steamrolled. Maybe. I mean, I guess. Anybody's guess. But here they are explained in BBC. The latest what appears to be impetus. You'll recall Donald Trump was not the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this past year. A national heartbreak. They fixed that. I am the winner. But that doesn't mean he didn't end up with the medal when the,

winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Maria Carina Machado. Who was the would-be beneficiary of the Trump coup in Venezuela. She turned out to be more would-be than she had anticipated because he felt like, well, she doesn't have the support. And frankly, I don't really care what's going on in Venezuela as long as we get a taste. And we got a taste. And so that's it.

when he met with her the other day, he demanded the Peace Prize. She brought it to give it to him. Of course, the Nobel Institute was like, it doesn't work that way. I mean, you can get the prize. I have it now. But, you know, it's like a prize fighter selling the belt. Right.

Somebody buying it at a pawn shop. Pawn shop. And then go like, I'm the world champion. No, it's like. No, you're not. You got the belt. No, it's. Like a ganglord taking.

taking your bowling trophy. Or people that purchase Super Bowl rings and then acting like you scored the winning touchdown. Didn't Trump steal like one? That was a... Rob Kraft. Yeah. It was Putin.

Putin. You know, I could do it. It's, I learned for the best. All right, so here's the BBC explaining the latest reason why Trump is giving that he may invade Greenland. It's because everybody else made me do it. In Davos this morning, morning, Faisal, said the world. Economic Forum gets underway a little later on. And of course, I imagine a lot of the chat will be

about tariffs. What impact could they have on the UK and indeed the rest of Europe? Now, Sally, John, I hope you're sitting comfortably. I know that normally you talk to me about economics and numbers, but this is also the place where all these people will meet. Donald Trump is coming here on Wednesday. We think Kirstama might do. He might want to get his skates on because of something that's just happened. We have both the Norwegian Prime Minister and Finnish Prime Minister accounts of an exchange of letters, which is truly extraordinary. It is absurd and funny in a way, but it's also incredibly serious.

Overnight an email or exchange between those two and Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is reported to have replied, considering your country, this is a message to Norway, decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped the walls. longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace and then goes on to make an argument for why America should own Greenland. An astonishing note, really, to think that that would be sent by the president of the United. And it shows the sort of... It's astonishing if it was sent by anybody. Not just the president of the United States. If anybody said, you know, I didn't

get the peace prize. So... Now I'm the war guy. Might as well just do the war. because... I thought you were bragging about saving he was this... The other day, saving tens of thousands of lives is what he said. What happened to your principle of being anti-war? All it took was you not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, which, by the way, the government of Norway doesn't... There's so many layers of insanity here. The government of Norway doesn't give you the prize.

Secondly, Norway does not control Greenland. That's Denmark, buddy. I mean, he's being so... close enough. He's confusing white people. This is anti-white racism. No, they're all live in cold places. I'm offended as a Norwegian.

I'm offended. Is this a real letter? Yes. Is this a real letter? Pop this up here. This is, this appears to be real. Dear Jonas. Not referring to him as his, as dear Mr. President.

Like trying to be a jerk. This is the thing that I find is not. There's no way Trump type this out. No. Right? But it's got like his Trumpisms, like the numeral 8, like the capital

C. I think this is dictated, probably. Considering your country Oh, this is for Norway. Put a capital in C. Yeah. Decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus.

What? Okay. So, we can't count me. higher than number. Numeral 8, so it's easy to read. And then plus all in caps. Thank you. Okay. I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it would always be prominent. What? I, oh wait, no, not prominent. Predominent. Although it would always be predominant. Yeah. You know. But can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. See, before I was always like, peace this, peace that, no, Mr. President, that's not America

First, I don't care. I care about peace, but then you just shoved it all in my face. I'm cutting my hair. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a right of ownership anyway? There are no written documents. It's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago. Oh my God.

But we had boats landing there also. Is he 12? I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding. And not I have done more than NATO. He personally has done more than NATO. Okay. Okay. And now NATO should do something for the United States.

The world is not secure unless we have complete and total control, all caps, of Greenland. That's the name of my new book. complete and total control of Greenland. Thank you. CTCG. I mean, he's a lunatic. He has lost his mind.

He has lost his mind. The thing is, is that if they were to land, I don't know of those 1,500 troops from the 11th airborne infantry would probably just have it and we'll work out the details later. You guys just keep doing everything like you're doing and just we own you now. And that's it. Yeah. As I said, it's just incredible. I mean,

this is that Europe is completely neutered by this right now. And there have been a lot of people sounding the alarm saying Europe needs to be a little bit more, you know, take control of their defense packs. And they need to be less relying on the United States for defense, relying on the United States for its economic ties and its trade relationships. Canada is out ahead of this right now. They understand that China is the future. And if I were a member of a European country right now, I would be screaming to kind of cut bait at this point. To be fair. The United States is not a reliable partner in any capacity. To be fair, if I am some of these European countries, uh, rightly or wrongly, uh, I would have concerns.

about Russia. That's true. We saw two countries join NATO, countries that would never have contemplated joining NATO until Russia invaded Ukraine. And for the past 60, 70 years, they have relied on the U.S., the existence of the U.S. and the commitment from the U.S. for at least the bulwark of their security. But that's what Trump know, or maybe I think some of the neocons that are okay with how Trump is operating here understand, is that because of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, NATO is essential for a lot of these countries that border Russia right now in the immediate.

And so we have them by the balls figuratively. Donald Trump, when did he truth out this last night, I guess. We have subsidized Denmark and all the countries in the European Union and others for many years by not charging them tariffs or any other forms of remuneration. Now, after centuries, centuries? I mean, it was a different century, 19th was. I've figured out what Trump derangement syndrome is. just his brain. It's Trump's derangement. Yeah. The last fucking 12 years of this country.

World peace is at stake. China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it. They currently have two dog sleds as protection. One added recently. Good stuff. Only the United States of America under President Donald J. Trump can play in this game and very successful. I mean, this is all just, I can't even. This is just the ranting of a lunatic. We'll play this clip after the break. Also, we should just say, it's one thing for Europe to be sort of stunned and unclear on what they should do here. Cut bait. I mean, they clearly are, you know, this is sort of the classic metaphor of turning an aircraft carrier.

They clearly are starting to move away in certain ways. But it's, you know, it's a process. But if they look to like, you would anticipate. that if there was an opposition party in this country, that the opposition party would be saying, you know, don't worry, Denmark, or, hey, Europe, we are, we're going to come back and we are going to salvage this. And we're making a commitment here now as a shadow, whatever,

that if we get back into power, we're going to attempt to, you know, fix our alliances. I mean, the Europeans would have to be clinically insane. Yeah. to trust this country ever again. Sorry, we're busy learning Mandarin right now. Right. I mean, and also, you know, it's an overwhelming majority of the population of Greenland is indigenous.

And I just like, you know, when we're seeing these reports to out of Minneapolis or in Minnesota of how ICE is targeting indigenous Americans here, we see the Trump administration's support for basically conquest in Gaza. and the ethnic cleansing and genocide there. This, like, the Donro Doctrine or whatever he's returning to is just really a retreat into the more naked forms of imperialism and conquest that this country already engaged in. And so it's just important to point out that this hasn't ended. And even if Greenland is like, you know, a less populous part of the world, it is still very much the same through line of like Western powers and

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because think about what we've heard from Democratic leaders regarding Greenland. Exactly. Yep. That's exactly. I mean, Dick Durbin apparently was like, said something to the fact of like,

I hope they can hang in there. And like, we have no opposition party. Not even hang in there. I hope you can hang in there. Seems like it's going to be tough. You might not be able to. We have no opposition party. And there's, in addition to the fact that like,

this stuff seems important, seems like an opposition party would be out in front of like saying, this is madness. There's some pretty obvious mess. that's available to them. But the problem is that they don't want to have to sign up to do anything. And so invariably, any type of messaging is going to sound like they're committing to doing something. And in that case, that would be problematic.

This is a great example. You have heard of, it's the Tyson plant, right? that is closing and in, where is it? Lexington, Nebraska. And this is a plant that has been profitable.

They are closing essentially because they just want to make sure they can maintain the profit margins on beef processing. And so in a town of 11,000, 5,000 jobs are going to be lost. And here is Fashkirk

point on this. The greatest problem of our time is that in the richest country in the world, we have great wealth and income inequality, and the poor are getting poor. We've cut Medicaid from them, we've cut housing assistance from them, we've cut the ACA subsidies from them, we've made AI come for their jobs. The question is, can we offer put solutions on the table that improve the lives of these working class people? And every day, I think there's opportunities.

You see a Tyson plant closure in Lexington, Nebraska right now, 5% of American beef production going away. Instead of going after Greenland and running Greenland, how about you go and run a Tyson's plan and save those jobs? Well, we can put that on the list as well again. But, but I mean, there's the messaging. Yeah. And AOC sort of previewed this. We played it last week where she's going out.

She's almost doing these like pseudo-fireside chat things, which is by the way, what Zorro and Mamdani did to great effect of not treating the voters like idiots and explaining exactly. what you're going to do for them. But to your point, Sam, most national Democrats don't want to have to do anything. So they're not going to go through the effort of messaging. But like it's a it's about what are the priorities of the federal government. Your tax dollars are taken out of your paycheck. There's a pool of money. What is that spent on? And I know, of course, it's not necessarily how the, the government works with MMT and all that, but just from a political messaging perspective, what are the priorities? What are your tax dollars? going to. They're going to the genocide in Gaza. They're going to rounding up people on your streets and harassing your communities. They're going towards annexing Greenland when you can't afford health care. You can't afford child care. That's what it has to be. Like a Greenlanders a stipend for joining us. We're floating that. Right. And something like, what? It was like a hundred thousand per person or something. Maybe 10,000, yeah. And even the messaging I'm describing is defensive messaging. And it doesn't, and it's very good for this period, but what it leads, it creates oxygen for is, then we tax billionaires

to fund those services plus. Like, it's a question of priorities with our current, current, the current way that we're taxing and spending this money, but then we can do more. We can tax billionaires out of existence and guarantee you health care. So it's simple. And Trump, they don't want to acknowledge the fact that the genocide in Gaza had an impact on this election, but Trump being the default anti-war guy, all of that is completely abandoned by his actions here. And the opposition party should be pointing that out. I mean, that's the real reason we need an entire, like people, what is a revolution? It's an entire changeover of the people making decisions. Democratic Party is not set up to say, we're going to nationalize Tyson. Like Chuck Schumer or Marie Glucent-Perez,

you need people like Sayyed and Platner and Bernie Sanders and the squad type folks, but the vast majority of the party is brainless. Well, the amazing thing is, is that we've already watched the Trump administration by 10% of a bunch of different American companies. God knows where the money's going to end up. But the idea that Chuck Schumer could come out and suggest we should provide a bridge loan to the employees of that, the 5,000 employees of that. Tyson factory and and sell them the company and provide the bridge loan essentially to them.

There's a million different ways of providing support for that and messaging it, but they cannot bring themselves to doing it. It is shocking. All right, let's start here as we go and look and remember on Friday, there's a very long list. of Minnesota Unions and Labor Federations endorsing a total shutdown on January 23rd in Minnesota. No work, no school, no shopping is what the banner they are pushing. The Amalgamated Transit Union, 1005 CWA, local, the St. Paul Federation of Educators, Minneapolis, Federation of Educators, Minnesota Nurse Association, SEIU, Unite Here, OPEIU, YATIU,

YATI, graduate labor unions, UAW local. I mean, there's a bunch of different local unions that have joined in in the call for this. meanwhile and this is in the wake of the killing uh that we saw of rene good two weeks ago uh here is um this is blanche right yep deputy attorney general todd blanche Todd blanche who again reminder this time last year well January 20th I guess it's been a year this time 54 weeks ago this man was Donald Trump's defense attorney. And then he joined the DOJ. And here he is explaining why the feds are not going to look into any aspect of this killing of Renee Good. Well, the governor's response referenced a number of things, you know, going after Mark Kelly. He says, Alyssa Slokin, Jerome Powell. But he also mentioned

what Matt Finn mentioned in his reporting there. He says the only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her. So is the FBI conducting the investigation into that agent into the shooting? What can you tell us about that? Will it be made public? Look, what happened on that day has been reviewed by millions and millions of Americans because it was recorded on phones when it happened. The Civil Rights, the Department of Justice, our civil rights unit, we don't just go out

and investigate every time an officer is forced to defend himself. against somebody were putting his life in danger. We never do. That has nothing to do with what happened in Minneapolis. There are over a thousand shootings every year where law enforcement are put in danger by individuals and they have to protect themselves and they have a lawful right to do so.

The Department of Justice doesn't just stand up and investigate because some congressman thinks we should, because some governor thinks that we should. We investigate when it's appropriate to investigate. And that is not the case here. It wasn't the case when it happened. and it's not the case today. If circumstances change,

and there's something that we do need to investigate around that shooting or any other shooting, we will. But we are not going to bow to pressure from the media, bout of pressure from politicians, and do something that we never do, not under this administration, not under the last administration.

And so, no, we are not investigating, and if there comes a time when we need to, we will, but it's not now. Is there some type of a fatal shooting that they're basically, saying we're not going to conduct any internal investigation over of fatal shooting of the American citizen. I know how this country feels about people who are not American citizens. We see how they've summarily executed dozens of folks on boats. But is that, is there any precedent

for this? Well, on one hand, he says it, the, that Ross was acting in self-defense, but I don't know, I'm part of the review of that. I saw the New York Times frame by frame thing. It was quite clear that he was not acting in self-defense. It doesn't even seem to be a questionist whether or not the second and third shot were fired where he was in any threat whatsoever. But here's another question the investigation could ask. Why was he circling the car videotaping it on his phone?

What was the purpose of that? What was, why did he take the actions he did that were completely contrary to ICE policy about not putting yourself in front of a car at any point? Was she impeding the, any of the ice work? The cars were able to wave by. I mean, there's a lot of obviously questions. It's obviously, you know, a total snow job. But, I mean, the amount of just absolute destruction wreaked upon our government that we're sitting here going, like, completely unsurprising that Donald Trump's former defense attorney has decided not to investigate this. But this all represents a fundamental sort of like tear down of the basic structures of our government.

But they're basically, I mean, what is, if oftentimes say there is a police related involved, you know, shooting usually of a person of color in a community, they'll go through some sort of at least pretense and fake investigation and they will exonerate the officer more often than not in some of those circumstances. And that is what people were protesting over in the Black Lives Matter movement. But what is immensely and concerning to me about this is the fact that they don't want to set a precedent for an investigation whatsoever. That's the, that they, they don't even want to go through some sort of kangaroo court process, which we've seen they have the ability to do across a variety of different issues that might impact Trump negatively. They're just not even going to do an investigation at all. To be fair, half of the DOJ has probably left the agency anyways. They literally may not have the people. And they don't have a great record in court on some of these charges.

So, like, they can't. But they also, but, but. They may not want to get. Exactly. If you're in court, even if you're going through some sort of kangaroo court process, you would have to bring up certain documentation. There would be a paper trail and there would be records of communications between this ICE officer, between the superiors.

There would be some sort of probe into the way ICE is conducting itself. So that one, there's like the, the, we don't want to show any weakness so that we can incentivize our officers to brutalize people at will. That's like, I think, the more political reason, but just the structural reason, the structural challenge to ICE's operations would include some sort of like discovery into their internal communications and that's what freaks them out. Because we have no idea who these people are and that's what they did. That's what they're afraid of. They need every cent that was given to them by Congress last year because their morale is down despite all of this support. And if Trump, if they waver on that and these guys think that they're going to have court waiting at the end of this supposed opportunity, it becomes a big drag on morale. Let's go catch up with some of the other moments that have taken place over the past weekend.

Don Lemon formerly of CNN now Don Lemon show on YouTube has been doing some great I saw some he's been on the road quite a bit

I feel like in 2020 25 and I've seen some really good interviews he's done with folks he's gone out to Minnesota and it has created some controversy he interviewed

protesters who were about to go into a church and disrupt the services there because the pastor, do we have that clip? We do. The pastors I can't tell where it would be. 21. 21.

The pastor, David Easterwood, leads an ice field office in St. Paul. Dispicable. And so the church protesters decided to protest and maybe let his congregation know that this dude also, one hand, he's talking about, I mean, I don't, I'm not Christian. I don't know what happens in churches like this, but I assumed it was a lot of love thy neighbor,

be good to people, be nice, not let's round up the brown people, but, disgraceful. Here, play this clip number 21. Yeah, and you won't see the guy, David Easterwood is the pastor who is the ice field operator is not in this video, but this is the disruption that is causing

the Trump administration to launch a probe. They want to bring charge. Now, this is all on video. I don't know why they need a probe for this. Well, they're saying that it's anti-religious, anti-Christian discrimination. of course. Remember the SPM-7.

MS specifically, what is it, the memo? MSM-7? MS-P-M-7. Yeah. NSPM-7. NSPM-7, yes. NSPM-7. I can't remember what it is.

But specifically outlined anything that was anti-Christian or perceived as anti-Christian, one of these protesters is a pastor herself. So, I know, it gets, it gets, it's confused. Self-hating Christian. Go ahead. David Easterwood is a pastor here. He is also the director of the field office for ICE and St. Paul. So someone who claims to worship God, teaching people in this church about God, is out

there overseeing ICE agents. Think about what we've experienced. The murder of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, a Venezuelan National shot by ICE, a six-month-old baby who almost died as a result of ICE unleashing military gray weapons on our community. How dare you claim to be a pastor of God and you are involved in evil in our community? would be understanding. We're about worship. We're about spreading the love of Jesus. But did you try to talk to them?

No works had gathered for worship, which we do every Sunday, and we were interrupted by this group of protesters. We asked them to leave, and they obviously have not lived. Which one is his main gig? Is being a pastor of the main gig, and the ICE field director is his side gig? That's not the guy. just FYI. He wasn't there. Oh, the pastor wasn't there? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, that's a different guy? Different pastor. Yeah. In that church? Yeah. Yeah. That guy, the field director is bald. You can look him up. What does he have to say about David Easterwood, though? Are we going to just hide behind don't criticize houses of worship? Because I'm not here for that in 2026. There's a lot of that.

And it's despicable to have, if it's true that this David Easterwood is a nice field director and is like defending the crowd control violence being inflicted on the community. And then also saying, we're just trying to worship here. Go fuck yourself. Well, I mean, it's exactly right. Also, we- The Christians in there need to wake the fuck up too. We also, we've played video last week of ICE agents stationed outside of churches, rounding people up,

trying to target anybody that might look Latino or black going into churches. So which one is it? Is it like all of these spaces are off limits and churches can be sanctuaries as the real Christians are saying that they will protect people within their halls of worship? Or is it, you know, a place for political ICE kidnappings? Pick one. We've got to stop giving tax breaks to these places. like that's not anything any politician that we're going to have on is going to run on

that's just Matt it's despicable and this type of stuff that's getting away from in religious organizations understand too this is going to end up being potentially a test case as they start to sort of attempt to label people who protest outside of any type of religious place. Based upon, obviously, like, people aren't there protesting Christians for being Christian. They're there protesting a would-be minister for his involvement in ICE. However, there's going to be an attempt increasingly by this government. They've already outlined it in this presidential.

directive that to do this, you are engaging in some form of terrorism. Yep. Here is Representative Keith Self. Republican. Republican. From Texas. From Texas. Trying to make that argument.

Here he is like, I'm going to do. This is going to be an assist from me to the DOJ. Look, when you live stream something, you wanted to be, you wanted to cause terror in the population. That's the definition of terror to cause fear amongst the population. Pause it for one second. I just want to make it clear. We're live streaming right now. We do not mean for this to cause terror. Yes. And Keith Self is this scary guy. The idea that we are occupied and have people like him who are literally lawmakers in this country, it's terrifying. But that is not the purpose of this live stream. Very often when you live stream, the idea is

very similar to when you just stream, even if it's not live. Like even if we were to premiere this as opposed to live, it's not a question of creating terror. It is a, it is a form of what's it go? Oh, protest. When you live stream a protest, you're doing it to educate and show that you are protesting, not terrorizing. But he didn't just say the protest part. He said live streaming in and of itself is an act of terrorism.

I'm wondering if Keith self pre-recorded this interview, because if not, he might be towing the line in terms of engaging with domestic terrorism. One could argue that live streaming this actually makes the population feel more secure because they see that, like, oh, those people are just protesting in the church. We're fine, particularly right now, since I'm not at that church and it's live. But the terror people might feel is like, this is happening in real time and I'm not there, but it's like the train that came at people when they first saw one of the first films. They thought the train might hit them. They might think that they're actually in the place where they're experiencing the live stream. To be fair. When Lauren Michaels first pitched Saturday Night Live, he thought, he said this is going to be terrorizing to be. Canadian insurgent. Yes.

All right, let's go back and just listen to Keith Self trying. Shellless turtle. Work this out. Old skeleton. Look, when you live stream something, you wanted to be, you wanted to cause terror in the population. That's the definition of terror to cause fear amongst the population. So when they live streamed it, I compare them to Hamas, who live streamed the attack in Israel. They killed thousands of hundreds of people, especially in that one.

festival. So that's what they want to do. They want to instill terror. Can we have an American frame of reference, for Christ's sake? Like, we're in America. Well, he's auditioning. Get the campaign money out. Yes, yes. How can I shoehorn Hamas into this?

Jesus. So, you know, for me, I thought the problem and why people were critical. Some House Foreign Affairs Committee. I know. He doesn't even know, like, he can't even. Well, I mean, and I thought that the problem with what Hamas did in October 7th was the killing, apparently it was the live streaming. It took up so much bandwidth.

Yeah. You couldn't get any cell phone coverage. I mean, honestly, you know, like when people watch things on TV, like the ball dropping on New Year's Eve, and that's live. It's like a mass terror event. Well, you're afraid that that ball is going to drop on people. I know.

It's like an Hamas attack. No, I don't know. We got enough. Let's just hear. They live streamed it. I compare them to Hamas who live streamed the attack in Israel. They killed thousands of hundreds of people, especially in that one festival. That's what they want to do.

They want to instill terror. I think the federal authorities ought to go after them, at least in the face act. Look, you heard, elderly ladies were given prison sentences for praying outside on a public sidewalk, outside an abortion clinic. let's use it. They've abused it. Let's use it. Look, we should also say Hamas did not live stream it. I think they recorded stuff, but they did not live stream it. But regardless. I remember a mosque getting shot up in New Zealand live streamed by a Christian.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why I didn't use that one. Unclear. Unclear. Unclear. Let's go back to Don Lemon, who has been on the ground out there again. you can find Don Lemmel put a link to his YouTube channel good work out there

here he is interviewing in addition to interviewing those folks who are going into protest the church you know without any weapons just like a terror group would the church again with an ICE director

as a pastor I mean key key bit of context there. Here's Don Lemon interviewing a man. We just know him as Jack. On the ground, out in front of an ice facility. What's your name?

My name's Jack. We're just trying to help pick up some release detainees. You know, they're left off the cold and get some supplies, get them home, whatever they need. Cool. Thank you. It was nice to meet you down. Do they come out here when they release them? Yeah, we got, you know, a whole little system.

We've got whatever you call these. Do you know when they're going to let them out? We don't know when. And they just walk out? They just drop them out. I'm looking for somebody with a jail bag and then we go and help out. Do they even have the, like it's freezing today? What I'm told is they've been taken, no, they don't have the right clothes.

So in some ways, I should be thanking us because that's like another type of murder, you know, throw them out in this weather. You don't last very long. But basically, I'm told they've been taking IDs if they're brown and then also phones, no matter what. So we try to get them burner phones, things like that, get them awry, whatever they need. What do you think of these tactics? It's just, it doesn't feel right, man.

I don't, how do you, I don't even want to entertain an argument, you know? It's just like you think about these kind of two-way fetish people. Here's your moment. This isn't small government. I know that. So it's just hard to stomach. That's all. Thank you for the work you're doing.

How many people do you have you helped so far? So this is my first day. I just started a new job. I get two days off a week, 2.30 to 11 p.m. so when I'm off, I'm going to be here. I just learned of this group that's kind of doing some meaningful stuff and do my part a little bit. Why get involved?

It's a beautiful city. It's a beautiful country in a lot of ways. And we want, I just don't see us staying that way unless people stand up. It's a cold day. You could be on your couch, watching a football game, your feet up. That's exactly what I'd be doing, to be honest. But it's who I'm, who, else is going to do it. We just, at this point, it's not the police. We need the people.

What you name again? Jack. Jack. Yeah. Come here, brother. Yes. I appreciate you. That's what people need to do, man. You're amazing. That's what people do. This is really upset you. Why? It's, you know, it's, you don't want people to die. You don't want, I don't, I don't, I don't, I, I, I, that's a tough one for me. But it's, it just seems so clear. It's not right. It used to be like, oh, you're going too far with these Nazi references. Now it's like, how do you not make those comparisons? I don't know. I used to try to stay away from that.

It escalates things, but it's just a trip looking out here. I don't know. I don't know how to take it in, you know, stomach it the whole deal. Well, you're doing, but you have to be willing to sacrifice something, and you are. Yes, and your reporting has a lot of meeting too. Thank you, brother. Thank you, John. impressive

yeah I mean those Nazi references aren't obviously they're becoming more and more I think easier for people to accurately describe ICE as a Gestapo draw those comparisons also don't orientalize it the clan the Japanese internment this is America 100%

and and I mean slave catchers that have also been described to, but can we just put this up for a sec? Because this is, the reason that I'm not, you know, the reason you say Nazis is because they're, this is, look at how Bovino is dressing.

Like, this is, they're, this is, he's, he's trying to look like a Nazi, this outfit that he wore the other day. We have this up? Yeah. I mean, look at this. This is Nazi iconography. The

jacket that he's wearing. He looks like an SS officer and that's on purpose. I mean, policies. Is it already? They're tweeting out Nazi iconography. I got quoted in media. I got quoted in media. I got quoted in mediae earlier last year for saying, hey, this is, this codes very clearly to hail Hitler and 1488 stuff. That, the night I got quoted in media, I got a bunch of attempts to log into my shit. Really? Yeah. Well, I'm not too fast. To be fair, you know, my understanding is that some of these Nazi uniforms were modeled on like Massachusetts State Troopers with the big boots is actually where that came from. I mean, so you could just, maybe he's just being sentimental for another time in this country. I mean, look, fascists are never going to be the exact same fascists that they were in the past. Everybody has some new innovative twists.

Back in the 1920s, you had to take a pillowcase and cut holes in it. But now you can just have a mask and pull it up and then wear some Oakleys or something like that. There's innovations to the fascism that we have to account for. Fascism is basically a murderous elite impulse against democracy. And it plays out in different ways. And like the sort of dissimilar, like the Nazis and Italians were more regimented. in a military sense than we are now, but the impulse is the same. Like, why are we talking about immigration at all right now?

It's because, A, capitalism can't provide rising wages. It's all going to the top. And B, there is this, oh, that's my turn of thought. Sorry, I looked at Brian and put me up on screen. I'm beautiful. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, it's just their mission is an ultra-nationalist one to create puritan.

They're not just going after immigrants. They're going after refugees. They're going after they're going after. They are just look at the way in which they're defining what an undocumented immigrant is, a search for undocumented immigrants. It's walking up to people of color with an accent or without an accent and assuming from there, like, that's not the way that you're going to find all the undocumented people in Minnesota. Like, you're not going to find. Irish people who've overstayed their visas or Polish people have overstayed their visas

or you know Ukrainians who have overstayed their visas but this is this is about a sort of like a racial and racial and national purity ethnic cleansing and the thing about to finish the democracy point the Republicans have to find a story of why they keep losing

every besides the Kamala one popular vote and the big lie the big lie in this country is that it's illegal is doing that. And everybody even I know that votes Republicans still in North Dakota believes that shit, believes that they're being replaced. Joe Rogan, he keeps talking about it. That's the, that's literally said three days ago that it.

That was the plan. We got to do. What are you going to do about it? That right there is the murderous impulse that gives us fascism now, because they can't win it democracy. All right. Before we go into the fun half, there's a couple of,

uh, uh, of notes of pushback that are worth celebrating. Also, let me just say this. There were reports of people throwing water balloons at ice officials in Minnesota. In that weather? In that weather. It's freezing cold.

And the idea, I guess, is that, you know, if someone's get a lot of water on their coat or on their, it's going to freeze up in that thing. Get icy. And get icy. And just, you know, I guess I'm going to say, obviously, if an ice person saw you throw a water balloon at them, they would be upset. They could shoot you in the face. Yes. And, like, you know, obviously if you were, let's say, up in a, like a third floor of a building or something like that, like you were in a different locale and they were to come into your town. You could drop those water balloons down.

It would be harder for them to find you. saying you're not supposed to do that. And in anybody who comes up with some type of like innovative way in which to find a way in which to get ice officials wet in that cold, obviously would be doing something that was wrong, but also innovative. But what if you meant to like help them hydrate too? because, you know. There's a lot of times, like, there's a lot of times, look, you get freaked out, you squeeze the bottle of water, and you get nervous.

Who knows? All I'm saying is just reporting the news. It's good to remind cops also when it's cold out, you forget that you also dehydrate. Exactly right. And you know how in, like, hockey players, they have the squeezy bottles and they just squirt, you know, you are squirting water for them to drink. It's hydration innovation. Also. saw a video of this, which I thought was great too.

There are people now using their key fobs. And when they see ice, they're just like setting off the alarms on their cars. And so ice coming down in neighborhood. Whistles is good, but you just hit that key fob in all of a sudden all the horns go off. And then there's this guy who, I don't know in Minnesota what the laws are.

in terms of care. Pretty lenient, I think. Maybe not quite Texas. But here's a guy who's going out and decided to protect his neighborhood in the way that ICE apparently is, you know, pretends that they're protecting us. Oh, God. Yeah. He live in the neighborhood?

Yep. This is my boss. This is my area. I don't go into other people's neighborhoods and try to intimidate them. I protect my people. Are you giving up your name? No, I'm okay with it. that our neighborhood's showing up you guys had a lot of people out here right at least 30 or more

more yeah 40 or 50 that's pretty good for a quick turnout so it's got is uh you know that's another thing from the don lemon piece where that guy said the two-way fetishists like this isn't small government i think that that's uh under under remarked on development is how sort of uh discredited the libertarian Like anti-war, anti-government thing is. Who gives a shit with any of these losers saying anymore? This is what, like, how, what was it? Two years ago, maybe less, where we had a U.S. state, we had federal, we had senators saying that the Second Amendment is not there because of, you know.

Rand Paul said it's not, it's not there to hunt. He tweeted out. It's still up. But it's not there for deer hunting. It's there to shoot at the government when it becomes tyrannical. You tweeted that out. I mean, what would a tyrannical government look like if it didn't involve sending in two to three thousand up armored troops into a city? Medicare for all.

It's very clear that all Second Amendment sort of conservatives, their fear isn't the tyrannical government. It is sort of non-white teenagers in their neighborhood that's making them nervous. Could be dental coverage. Well, that's the thing, right? I mean, yeah, there is an over-representation. of a libertarian perspective in media because of the dynamics that Matt was just laying out that the conservative project and Republicans

have won a popular vote or over 50% in quite some time of the country on the presidential level because it is deeply unpopular what they advocate for. So you have people on the internet that maybe are like right-wing media figures, sorry, there's a dog in the hallway, media figures that will water down what the Republican Party really stands for, whether it's that Trump's actually anti-war or that it's the conservative movement or libertarianism

that's against the boot of the government and that we're going to stand up for personal liberty because that is a, that's a much more palatable brand than what the Republican Party actually stands for because their ideas are not popular. Yeah, the Second Amendment, and I'm somebody who does, for the reason he, like I'm open to certain limited rights to bear arms arguments. But the Second Amendment has been very clearly just about scared men and the right, the freedom to be able to lynch somebody if you want to and not the freedom to or power to protect yourself from the government. We'll see how that goes.

We've got some Black Panthers in Philadelphia walking around with a lot of weapons. I'll see how long that lasts. The Second Amendment has said, I mean, there is, it has. So it has to have some restrictions. Isn't that what happened in California? Because of the Black Panthers? Ronald Reagan was the first push for gun control was because some Black Panthers went to. I think it was in Oakland City Council meeting with some weapons.

Impeccable Muslim restraint by those folks. All right. Just one more community note. You can go to ICE RR. to find a ice watch near you. And here's a way that you can help. Let's say you work at a hotel. Let's say you work at a motel and you don't like ice.

But you notice that there's a lot of guys from out of state coming and staying at your hotel or motel. You know, there's ways of leaving anonymous tips to some of these immigrant defense projects or I don't know just uh this is a letter from a double tree um dear blank in room number blank please know that your safety and well-being will always be our top priority

due to heightened public safety concerns in St. Paul we have made the difficult decision to temporarily close our hotel and your reservation will be canceled effective Sunday, January 18th, 2026 by 12 p.m. We're taking this step out of care for you,

our team members, and the surrounding community. Due to your unexpected departure, our team can assist you with alternate accommodations if needed to support you during this difficult transition, and as a gesture of goodwill, we can either refund your last

night's day or pay your first night's day at your new hotel at the same rate as your canceled reservations with us. Thank you for understanding, during this challenging time. Apparently, multiple ice agents were booked at the St. Paul downtown Doubletree, and they received this notice. They are not taking, according to Bill Malugan on Twitter,

they have not been taking any reservations at that double tree. But that's probably because somebody, who worked at the double tree and realized that they had ice agents there. And look, sometimes maybe if you worked at a hotel or motel,

you would tell a friend to tell people or maybe you would send it from your own phone maybe the way they have surveillance. Maybe do it by a mouth. Yeah. Or, you know, maybe write a note and send it to one of these

ICE RRTs or send it to the press or send it to, I don't know, local group. And, you know, if somebody has to drive 45 minutes to work or an hour to work or an hour and a half to work,

I mean, it's less time for them to put in at work. And in this instance, that would be great. Yeah. So much of what we're going to be dealing with this year is going to be thwarting ice in any way that we can. Attrition. And there's not going to be a situation where you're going to be able to thwart ice directly. You're going to have to just make their job more and more difficult.

Makes it difficult when people blow whistles. Makes it difficult when people set off car alarms. makes it difficult when people know their rights makes it difficult if you can't get a good night's sleep makes it difficult if it's really, really cold your gear gets wet. The folks sitting up drums and instruments outside of hotels to bang on them to 3am is so awesome.

Also, you know, it is, there's nothing that is more difficult than when somebody cuts the nipple off of your attire, your inner tube. That has happened to me, and it is so frustrating. Because, you know, like, obviously, like, to pierce a tire is difficult. But it's not that difficult to just sort of, like, flick off that pressure gauge on your inner tube. Which you can see right there with the little, I mean, that, I don't know why they don't make those better. And it's always, that has been one of my greatest limits.

But, I mean, God forbid something like that would ever happen. Now, of course, you don't want to ever be seen doing anything like that, you know, at night in the parking lot of someone's car or something like that. You wouldn't want to be seen doing that. You shouldn't do it. It's dangerous. And wrong. But just as a community service, it's wrong. Here is Graham Platner.

There were reports that there were 200 ice up in Lewiston, Maine. And Brian tells me that there's not necessarily a huge immigrant population per se, but there is a significant refugee population up in Maine. And understand, they don't care. This is not, it's never been about undocumented immigrants. It's never been about dangerous criminals. It has been about a uber nationalism, ethno, uber nationalism to purify the country from and get rid of people that are from what, shithole countries, as Donald Trump called them. Yeah.

They're rounding up people at their ICE hearings. They are trying to strip people of temporary protected status, meaning they came to the country legally. So it's never been about people's immigration status. It's about their ethnic character. They're doing an ethnic cleansing with ICE as the Gestapo. It's not even like the political element of it. Like there was an older homong guy who was a lot of Hmong in Minneapolis because they sided with us during, or we used them in Vietnam. war. No, it doesn't, don't care.

Throw him out, bring him out in his crocs. Drive him around for three hours. Yeah, we have that. Until you find out that actually, oh, he's a citizen. Yeah. Here is, uh, grand platiner, uh, outlining again, uh, we've heard this from other politicians. I think this very similar script, but, uh, worth hearing again so that people remember it. ICE has been operating in Maine for a while, but now they're threatening to step up

through brutality and bring what we saw in Minneapolis to our state. It is time for Mainers to step up and protect our communities. The following are things that you can do to protect yourself and your neighbors. One, you do not have to speak to federal agents. Two, you do not have to show them any form of ID. Three, you do not have to sign anything. And four, most importantly, you do not have to open your door. ICE cannot enter your home or private areas of your business without a signed judicial warrant.

That looks like this. If ICE does not have a signed judicial warrant, you have the right to say, I do not consent to entry and keep your door closed. ICE is legally allowed and trained to lie to you. They try to trick people into opening their doors with fake warrants that look like this. If you are asking to see a warrant, ask them to slide it out of the door or hold it up to a window. But in public spaces, all ICE needs to make an abduction is what they call reasonable suspicion. We know what this looks like. Racial profiling. asking people for their papers, ripping people out of their cars, and tackling people in the streets.

If ICE approaches you in a public space, don't speak, don't show, don't sign. You have the right to ask, am I being detained, am I free to go repeatedly until you get an answer? There is no law against informing fellow manors at ICE is in the neighborhood. There is no law against using the tools at our disposal to keep our families and our communities safe. not let mass agents come to Maine and terrorize our communities. We will not be intimidated. This is our home. Boom.

We had a Graham on Left Reckoning last year, and it was right after he went to a rally with Somali refugees. And, yeah, I'm not surprised that he's good on us. All right, we're going to take a break. Head into the fun half. Just a reminder to your support that makes this show possible. you can become a member, join the Majority Report.com. When you do, you now only get the free show, free of commercials,

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Other things have to be fun. We will play some hard-hitting. We're going to watch some bare-knuckle politics. done by Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats. Oh, yeah. It doesn't matter what your politics are, ladies and gentlemen, watching a maestro like Chuck Schumer work his political magic. Whoa, wait, do you see this?

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and today we turn our attention to James Salarico, who had an extremely disappointing statement about his position on Israel that basically admits that he's not going to be a leader on that issue, which is sad because he's proven that he can be a smart communicator on some of this stuff. We'll get into that. Folks who have been hoping we would go after him a little bit harder are going to be happy about it. Folks, I'm getting a reminder that we should ask you to follow us on Instagram. Whether I do a little more on Instagram?

Was that you? That followed me back on Instagram? Yeah, I did. Okay. It's not verified, so I'm like, is this a folks? I don't know how to do any of this stuff on there. How do I get verified? Like, I probably should have waited.

Do I get a pay? Is it like a paid service? What's not? Really? I got verified like you know no not on Instagram right? Yeah. Well, they just gave me a check. You probably got verified before. Oh, probably.

Yeah. It's so funny that Elon, Elon gets all the crap for the paid for verification for Twitter, but everyone does. No, they copied him. I would pay. I would pay on Instagram, but. Okay. Well, I don't know. Either way. I don't know. I just, I, you're the first person I think I followed. I mean, I think there was a couple of other people I followed.

I was suspicious. I'm like, this is this some hacker because there's like three, there was three like crystal ball TikTok accounts. I'm like, these aren't all real.

Those people pretending to be crystal. So it's good that you're on there now. I mean, if someone wants to pretend to me, be me on Instagram, what they do is post nothing. Yeah. But you should follow us on Instagram.

It is majority. Dot FM on Instagram. Majority report. com. Majority report. com. On Instagram. There you go.

Yes. You can follow me on there too. I'm very active these days on Instagram. I basically kind of abandoned. I mean, Twitter all tweet something on occasion, but it's just the website's broken. Like, you don't reach anybody on there. I've reached so many more people on Instagram, really since the genocide, since I started getting more active on there. Twitter's for reaching Nazis and journalists.

Yeah, that's it. Also, we should also announce, I sort of wanted this to happen on Friday, and I'm convinced if I say something now, it's going to end up happening like on Thursday. Right. But I don't really care. that much about it. I mean, I do. No, I do care. This is exciting.

Okay. What's, what? This is exciting. This is exciting. What? Ladies and gentlemen, we are just days away. Listen, don't sign up until Friday, okay? Because we're closing in on two million subscribers on YouTube.

Saul actually told me that yesterday. Yes. I was like, I had, I, I know, like, Brian. you had mentioned it like months ago. But the thing is, it's ebbs and flows. Like some months we're getting 20, 30,000 subscribers. Other months, it's like 10, 15,000 or something like that. So you never know.

But we are within days of getting 2 million subscribers. And I get a write a piece about it. You're right. Thank you. Let's go on the fun half, maybe. What an ambivalent announcement? Well, it's just came. I meant to, like, plan for it, but I was like, I'll plan for it on a Friday.

Who cares? No, it's good. It's good. It's a good thing. I think it's good. We're very excited over here. This is a shaggy broadcast today. It's a little bit.

Pretty shaggy, yeah. All right, folks. See you. Yeah, thanks. Three months from now, six months from now, nine months from now. 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, hold on for a second. Emma, welcome to the program. Hey. Matt.

What is up, everyone? One fun pack. No, me, teen. You did it. Fun pack. Let's go Brandon. Let's go Brandon. Fun practice.

Bradley, you want to say hello? Sorry to disappointment. Everyone, I'm just a random guy. It's all the boys today. Fundamentally false. No, I'm sorry. Women is... 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. Is you. 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 just know what. Libertarians. They're so stupid though.

Common sense says, of course. Gobbled e gook. We fucking nailed him. So what's 79 plus 21? Challenge met. I'm positively quivering. I believe 96 I want to say. 857.

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$6, $5, $3 trillion sold. It's a zero-sum game. Actually, you're making me think less. But let me say this. Poop. You can call it satire. Sam goes to 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. Obviously. Yeah. Sundow guns out. I don't know. But you should know. People just don't like the entertainment.

I have a question. Who cares? Is enabled, folks. I love it. I do love that. Got a jump. I got to be quick. I get a jump.

I'm losing. 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.

Love you. Bye-bye.