The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3572 - Progressive Packs Maine Arena; Tariffs Take Toll

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

Sam has returned from vacation for a classic News Day Tuesday On today's show: Graham Platner and Bernie Sanders held a rally in a sold-out arena in Portland, Maine. In his speech, Platner says we should be spending our tax money to build schools and hospitals in American rather than destroying them in Gaza. Here's a link to donate to Graham Platner's campaign. GOP Alabama Representative Barry Moore is heckled so incessantly at a town hall that he has to escape through a backdoor right in front of the audience In an interview with Lara Trump on Fox News, Scott Bessent dismisses the idea that the tariffs are hurting Americans. Ms. Rachel pleas for members of congress to provide baby formula and aid in Gaza. In the Fun Half Protesters lock staging ICE officers into a parking lot with a bike chain. Joe Scarborough presents a "radical" idea in suggesting that JB Pritzker pick up the phone and call Donald Trump and forge a partnership to fight crime that is already declining. Jimmy Dore brushes off "accusations" racism towards Nick Fuentes in blatant appeal to align with him in the media space. Zohran Mamdani appears on the "I've Had It Podcast" to discuss Andrew Cuomo's ties to Donald Trump. All that and more. The Congress switchboard number is [phone]. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join 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 ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow 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: LIQUID IV: Get 20% off your first order at LIQUIDIV.COM Use code MAJORITYREP at checkout. DELETEME: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/MAJORITY and use promo code MAJORITY at checkout. SUNSET LAKE:  Head to SunsetLakeCBD.com and buy any three 4-packs, and you’ll get a fourth one for free. Just add four 4-packs to your cart and use the code LABORDAY25 at checkout Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech 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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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. On the program today, federal judge on Friday rules many of Trump's tariffs illegal pushed off until October 14th for possible appeal. This says the $800 de minimis exemptions expired on Friday. Meanwhile, another federal judge rules that Trump's use of the military in L.A. was a violation of federal law. In D.C., the House is back from recess. Reddy's action on Epstein files.

This as a government shutdown looms. And speaking of the House, Gerald Nadler, sort of a progressive within. In the periphery of Democratic leadership in the House announces that he will retire at the end of his term. Good job, Nabbler. And speaking of retirement, Joni Ernst also set to announce her retirement during this week. And she also plans to eventually die. International Association of Genocide Scholars declares Israel's assault on Gaza

quote meets quote the legal definition of genocide Trump to provide proof of barely life today in an anticipated announcement of the Defense Department becoming the war department another federal judge halts Trump's fast-track deportations

and another federal judge stops the deportation of 800 Guatemalan children. Labor Day features anti-Trump protests across the country. This as a half a million federal workers have been stripped of their union rights in August alone. And U.S. regulators cancel bank exams as part of a Republican regulation rollback. abundance of an opportunity for a new financial crisis. And as the Trump regime queues up invasion of Chicago, a new report shows highest violent crime rates are in rural parts of red states. All this and more on today's majority report.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. It is Newsday Tuesday. Newsday, Tuesday. Welcome back, Sam. Thank you for noticing. I was actually gone for the past week and a half. People are saying this is proof of life. Yeah.

People weren't sure. There was like bruises all over my hands. Yeah, you were wearing a big baseball cap with your mouth. Like, people see me after the show, and I walk around with my mouth agape. There's diaper debates. Exactly. Make sure you're charging the cattle prod. Well, I could settle the diaper debates.

Those are still happening. But everything else was a lie. I am still here. I also want to make it clear, wasn't anywhere near Washington, D.C., wasn't involved in any of that. No laser gun for Havana syndrome or anything like that? I have longtime listeners of this program will know that very often, when I go on vacation, like right-wing figures die. or like October 7th happens for example yeah

I wasn't on vacation and that was in Vegas oh sorry so you couldn't have but Limbaugh being maybe the most famous one Limbaugh I think even Breitbart uh oh yeah kicked when I was gone too I mean Kissinger died when you were out Kissinger yeah maybe you should just retire I mean it might save the country uh Dobbson I don't think I think Dobbson died when he couldn't when I was or did Dobson die

when I was in? Yeah, that's maybe who it was. You know who Dobson was? The focus of the family? Were you on vacation? What do you say? I think I was on vacation when he died.

I think he died last week. Yeah. James Dobson. I can't, right? I don't know. Anyways, but we'll see if Trump doesn't show up today

or if they bring out a body double. We'll see. I mean, I want to, it would be fascinating if he's struggling with his speech in some way, because I don't know. I mean, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but he's been off, out of, like, the public eye and off camera for a week.

When is the last time that happened? I'd also just say it'd be the second issue. They've really hoisted themselves on their own petard, first being the Epstein files, saying, like, we're going to expose all that. And they get, actually, we're really implicated. If they go after saying, how could you, when did you know Biden's decline was what it was? and then now they're trying to weaken at Bernie's him already. Remember the auto pen?

Trump has the auto sharpie. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, I suspect he'll be out there with a very brief announcement that it's going to be. God did that. That it is now going to be the Department of War. Yeah, war is not an easy way, easy word to say with droopy lip. I mean, listen, I am, I am. sympathetic. I'm getting up there

in age myself. And, you know, the, there's some, like, rumors that he's had, like, a series of small strokes. Yes, thank you. I just had as Sam's mid one.

Exactly. But we'll see. We shall, we shall see. Trump will be making that announcement, supposedly at 2 p.m. today. So maybe we'll cover live if it's if it actually happens yes um a lot of news happened while i was out and i will be honest i did a fairly good job of keeping things at like three quarters arms length sorry for

texting you all that stuff um um so you know in the fun half we'll talk about some of the stuff that i uh missed but one of the things that i missed um that i regret and we're going to have them back on, because this guy is great. There was a speech yesterday in Portland, Maine, as part of the fight oligarchy tour. Let's play number 10. Just to give you a sense of the size of this rally. Brian knows this facility well, right? What is it?

This is, it used to be called the Cumberland County Civic Center. Now it's got some corporate name in debt, right? Because Cumberland County Civic Center is so like, it's so iconic, you know, everybody It's like the garden. You're going to Cumbies? Is that where they would they say? Are you going to Cumbies? Cumbies is a corner store in Maine.

No, I know. Cumberland Fonds. Yeah. Oh, okay. And that's going to say you're going to Cumbies. All right. Shut up, you too much. But here's, take a look at the size of this.

This is, I mean, this is a lot of people to be in a political rally, right? I mean, this is like the biggest facility in Maine. Yes, largest arena. Good. Packard. For a primary challenge and the primary isn't for another nine months. And well, I mean, it's also,

this is part of the fight oligarchy tour. Right. And, but Graham Platter, I would imagine, this is the biggest audience he's probably addressed. I don't think I have ever. dressed in audience this i did one really bad uh stand up thing at syracuse university

with jeanine one time that was but that was that's another story um and uh he killed it um this is really important stuff too because with um mills announcing that she was going to wait until November to make her decision about running, what she's looking for is, is she going to have a clear field in the primary? And my sense is if she's not going to have a clear field, she doesn't want to deal with it. She's going to be 78 at the end of the year. She would end her term at 85. 78 years young. 78 battle tested years. Yeah. And so the more, the more momentum

platinum gets from things like this the less a chance of her or jumping into the race and then uh you know the democratic establishment to to stop him if that's what they want to do and i'm sure their inclination is now to do that i don't know what that inclination will be in three or four months we'll have to rely on like one of those mothership guys or something supposedly that's floating around. We spoke, I guess it was two weeks ago, about the mothership being basically some of the scam pack type of situation.

But here is Platner. And on top of the fact that it seems like the folks in this arena, again, a year and a half out, we're in August when this speech and or September 1st, whatever, a year and a half out from the general election, like at least a half a year out from the primary. I mean, this is, I don't ever remember seeing anything like this. And the biggest applause line here also gives an indication of what this energy means. Well, that's another story. We'll get to that. Watch this.

Everyone in Maine knows in their bones that the system is. screwing us and we know it because we can see it we watch from the sidelines of struggle as incomprehensible amounts of wealth and power are consolidated by very few We are all looking in that and we all wonder, why cannot we all share in that success? Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza. We can take back. that belongs to us that has been stolen by corrupt politicians and the corporations that bought them we can use government to usher in a golden age for unions and

workers not double down on gig work and union busting for the benefit of Wall Street and CEOs and we can have an economy and a government that works for the 99% and not just for the 1%. Folks seem to appreciate what he had to say there. About Gaza, too. I mean, that's the biggest line. That is what I think is

fascinating about that line. I mean, it was the reaction was huge. And obviously, the idea that we should be doing more with our tax and we shouldn't be we shouldn't be funding a genocide this issue and I think um what happened with Richie Torres while I was gone on the Adam Friedland show and maybe we'll have him on later this week not Torres I don't think he'll agree I sense an invite yeah yeah but during the 2024 election Israel and Gaza was a

wedge issue that cut against or cut in favor of Donald Trump, I should say. And I think what we're starting to see with that reaction is an example, the fact that Richie Torres did not understand. I mean, this is a moment where the ground is moving underneath the feet of Democratic politicians and that Torres interview was an example of them not realizing it and waking up. And some are going to wake up and fall flat on their face like Torres did. There was that, I think he's a Kentucky lawmaker or a Democratic congressman who announced some backpenter. I hadn't quite heard of him.

I saw in North Carolina, it was a woman who was a moderate who said she's not taking APAC money. there was another guy in um i think in kentucky who said the same thing this past week there are some who realized the the the terrain has shifted underneath their feet and they're moving towards it there are others like torres who get flatfooted and end up on their face and then there are going to be some who i think are going to get elected because they are coming out so forcefully for this um and and forefronting it or at the very least not sure lying away and being full-throated about it. And we,

Zoron staffers are working on Graham's campaign, right? At least one. So you can see, I think Zoron's answer about the one Democratic state was the blueprint for Democrats going forward. And you'll, he'll give that answer and you'll hear mainstream Democrats say like,

oh, he's not representative of the party. It's just calming New York City, but they never think, talk about how like both the House Democratic leader and Senate Democratic leader are from New York State. You're not going to like analyze that at all, but whatever. This is the, I think, blueprint for how to run on this kind of issue more broadly. Because when you just basically make this case, we're saying, why are your tax payer dollars going to bombing schools? Let's build schools at home. It's a very simple message that cuts across not just the Democratic base, but with independence as well. And so I think that's the blueprint going forward for, there's going to be more and more of these kinds of candidates. And now is a good time to go and show your support for Platner. Yep. This is, this is the time where if there is an opportunity to give him at least a, you know, breathing room in this primary, now is a great time to go and show some.

support. He benefits a lot from a head start and crowding out the rest of the field. I mean, what's been so encouraging is that he's already, he's not even talking about the other Democrats in the race from what I've seen so far for the most, and there are a few. They're just very lower name recognition and Janet Mills is the highest name recognition who could jump in. But he's basically already running against Susan Collins. And I think that's another lesson just rhetorically for progressives candidates who are running without the advantage of corporate funny is that if you just kind of act like you can win and that there's an inevitability to it it draws people in because for so long I don't think that the obstacle to getting the

democratic base to support left wing ideas is as ideological as is portrayed by the consultant class a lot of folks just want to bet on a winner and people felt because the party told them effective and they were effective with this propaganda that burning could never be Trump or left-win candidates could never beat Trump or Republicans, and you can't imagine more. Platner creating this sense that, like, this is already a race between him and Collins, allows people to imagine for more. Yeah. Although maybe that's too much of a story being told for the abundance, guys. I will also say I was very bummed to miss his appearance on the program.

He was bummed to miss you as well. So we're going to have him back on and soon. I would say even maybe before Mills makes her decision, you know, November, we've got a little time. He had the Maine and Nurses United in the background and the IM union, which I believe the International Association of Manufacture, International Association of Machinists, it's over. Don't enter the race. We got our candidate. It is very encouraging that Mills is waiting until November. because if you're definitely in a run you don't do that and if you um if you're desperate to win

you're she wants to see that there's going to be no big hurdle for her and as you start to see like it's going to be interesting to see what happens like i know these two things seem completely unrelated but Andrew Cuomo he goes down in in New York city former governor of new york state can't win in the biggest city in his uh in his state that's a sign even like with with the idea of nadler uh retiring it starts to to create a sense of like of of where the momentum is and what makes just generally what makes sense all of these things will influence that decision but uh exciting to see uh platinum already out there, thousands

of people in Maine, going and hearing him speak and giving him standing ovations. Really impressive stuff. And Brian's just beaming. I fired up. I was going to go, but I didn't want to get back at 4 in the morning to

New York. We don't have high-speed rail to get you there, unfortunately. You know all the ways to get into Cumbies, like in the back doors, right? Cumbies? Mostly bought things in the parking lots of companies. Not really inside them.

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fast-tracking deportation authority that Donald Trump has been using. Of course, you know, I think there's something like one million now folks missing from the labor market. People are, you know, We still have the Trump administration trying to convince, I think, in California, ICE to have the ability, a federal judge for ICE to have the ability to essentially racially profile. If you look brown, if you're not speaking English, maybe an again point, or if you're working at certain jobs, they can just pull up on you with just because. and that's what's happening. This is number,

just give me one second, folks. Yeah, well, I want to play that clip in a second. But on Sunday, a separate federal judge prevented the Trump administration from sending a group of migrant Guatemalan children that had already been boarded onto a plane. and hundreds more in government shelters

from being deported the judge Sparkle Suknananin said she had been awakened at 2.35 a.m. and alerted to the case she issued a temporary restraining order

halting removal of the children who are ages 10 to 17 for 14 days. She expanded the order to include any Guatemalan unaccompanied minors in the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This group could number in the hundreds of children. Kidnapping. Yeah. Meanwhile, a fellow judge on Friday

had blocked the Trump administration from carrying off fast-track deportations, which essentially was a denial of due process, due process that was established both by statute and arguably constitutionally. Due process, again, let's not forget, the Constitution is not that it bestows certain rights onto people. It requires certain actions of our government in relationship to people in the United States, not just citizens. And the whole point of due process is not that you're granted some type of like special privilege.

It is to establish whether the government is accurate or telling the truth in justifying the actions that it takes. you understand that if you do process is not something that's bestowed upon people like we're going to bestow it on citizens but not bestow it on non-citizens because you can't establish that disparity without requiring due process by the government this is a this is a constraint on the government it is an attempt to prevent tyranny it is an attempt to prevent tyranny it is an attempt to prevent some uh you know whether it's obama or trump being a uh king who decides you go and you don't no the government must justify its actions although tell that to christ you know i remember in may i was just reminding myself she thought that it was exactly what you're saying that uh it's not

trying to constrain the government from impinging on your rights it's a like a luxury granted to people yes there's no that they flip that on its head because it benefits that their abuses. Of course. And if it were a luxury or a privilege granted to people, you still couldn't determine who, who is worthy of it unless the government was required to provide due process. But they claim that the Constitution is only, and in their perversion of what due process is, their central claim is that people who are not here as full citizens as of right now are not allowed to have those protections. But without due process, you still can't even establish that.

Agree. It's just an amazing how many different layers of bastardization of the constitutional text that are present here, it feels like. Let's take a trip down to Alabama, shall we? And here is Representative Barry Moore. He is a representative in Daphne, Alabama. I'm not sure what district that is in Alabama. the second district and um i don't know are there pockets of um of wokeness in alabama

of of of of libs because uh apparently people aren't too happy uh with barry moore's uh conception of things like due process so there are those cases now where they're trying to clean up But I think we're going to have to look. Clean up. We want to hear out. We don't want them here. We want them here. You're seeing people in his audience who have undoubtedly lost neighbors, friends, I don't know, storekeepers,

folks work, colleagues working with them, folks working for them, being deported. People are starting to catch on like, hey, wait a second. This whole, I thought we were only going to get rid of a trend to Agua. Yeah, gang members and rapists. What, like, the grandmother living next door to me, she was an MS-13. And they're starting to realize that this whole program is just out and out xenophobia and racism and an attempt to purify the country. He literally said clean up.

Well, what he's trying to do is he, he's, he's, responding to them saying like you've arrested citizens you've arrested non-criminals and he's we're working on clean that up that's that's his point he's not talking about we're trying to white purify everything that i don't think they're but but in practice this is an ethnic cleansing campaign let's be real i mean like this is ethnic cleansing it's just not in like the final stage that it is in gaza or whatever we must maintain the purity of the the american heritage, which goes back almost over 200 years. And the response from the crowd indicates that they're edgy about that sort of stuff for good

reason. We don't want them here. Why are people about getting due process? Why are in a process for a citizen and non-citizen are different? There you go. False, false, lies. The fifth and 14th amendments allow. for it. The Supreme Court is back

it many times. Shame. Shame. What? What? That's it. Not even a goodbye. Hey. Hey, man. Bye, Felicia. My God. That is so

embarrassing. Did he not realize that there were people with video cameras there? I love that that guy came armed with the right defense there, which is that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments do apply to all. The Fifth Amendment explicitly says persons, and that is for the federal government on like these rights that are protected for those folks. And the 14th Amendment applies that to the states as well. So people are so engaged. But what's also amazing to me is like this guy just like, screw it. I'm just out of here. Like it doesn't even give like a goodbye. That's what in the

gaming community we call a rage quick. yeah he just throws this controller on the ground i'm done take the ball and go home exactly what a baby um now to be fair to uh representative barry more who ran out the back door after um his constituents apparently were aware of the constitution and that there isn't two sets of due process for two different categories of people in the country, categories of which you cannot establish without due process in and of itself. They should throw a smoke grenade.

Exactly. He could have done like one of the, like, oh my God, is that a fire over there? And then just like run out or something. And it's a squirrel flying. What? But here he is earlier in that meeting. And this is,

this is coming on August 29th, which was the day that Donald Trump had essentially, he had announced it prior, but the exemptions for de minimis tariffs was revoked on everything. All of the tariff regime that Trump has imposed up to this point still allowed for, I think except for China, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Allowed for what was known as a de minimis exemption. If you purchased something that was less than $800, you would not get a import tax imposed on it. That's what a tariff is. It's just an import tax.

And while you had corporations who would stock up in anticipation of potential tariffs, while you would have some stuff, some products not available, and the supply chain was starting to absorb some of the import taxes. The rest passed on to consumer. In de minimis situations, it's almost all absorbed by the consumer. And you're going to start to, people are going to start to see this right now. That video camera that you want to buy is going to be more expensive. I mean, everything.

The stuff, I mean, shoes, the. The stuff, we had an IEM or last week talk about a tool, and I think that had parts that were either steel or aluminum, those are going to be severely impacted because that's some of the highest tariffs that were put on earlier. So that is, meaning like those effects are already being felt, and it's just like a preview for the rest of the tariffs that are being imposed. A buddy of mine showed me a camera that he bought for doing podcast. It has like a little tripod. It tracks you. I asked him how much it was. he said it was 630 bucks but he checked

it again it's now up to 900 literally a couple of weeks later and this as a judge another federal judge or I should say a panel of federal judges

on Friday I believe it was federal appeals court in the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C., seven to four, ruled against Trump and his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose all these tariffs. Generally, you need laws to pass

these tariffs, and you need congressional approval. He claimed that there was an emergency in this country because of fentanyl. And then, uh, will, nilly started levying these tariffs. And it looks like they may get rolled back. But again, the impacts are already being felt. The impact, I mean, as you find that, I just got to say, like, even if some of them get rolled back, we have now frozen economic development in this country for over six months with this back and forth with the tariff thing. I mean, that is going to chill the economy, regardless of the outcome of this challenge on the legal front.

And just to be clear, these tariffs are not going to be rolled back until mid-October so that the Trump administration go to the Supreme Court. Now, I wouldn't necessarily count on the Supreme Court ruling against Trump, although there are some people who have, and we'll get to that in the moment. But here is that same Representative Barry Moore. And the reason why he ran out of the room after people started quoting the Constitution to him about due process is because prior that, they also were basically schooling him on tariffs and trade. Here's that clip. They want to know who pays the tariff. Is it consumers that are true in the exporting country? So right now, when we just saw a report is that we haven't seen inflation at all.

That was a question. That wasn't quite a good question. Who pays the terror? Who pays the terror? Who pays the terror? Who pays the terrorists? Who pays the terrorists? Who pays the terrorists? Can I at least tell you about the terrorists? No, how do you face it? And there's a couple of things you need to know about terrorists. But do you realize that after World War II, the Marshall Plan, coming out of World War II, said, okay, Germany in Japan, in order to help you rebuild, we're not. We're not going to, we're not going to, you can study their cars in America, but we're not going to, we're not going to force U.S. autos to sell into foreign countries. And so that's why when you go to Berlin, Germany, you do not see a general motor's product. When you go to Japan, you do not see in Tokyo if you don't see force. But you see Brazil.

It's been going on a long, long time. So he's the question. So Trump asked the, Merle, the chancellor of Germany, and said, why is this? So I'm not going to ask the question. So we'll start seeing, as we just cut the taxes on all the new cars, the interest on the taxes that you're going to get a taxpayer or any new cars you buy, that helps you all to initially in Alabama because we got it.

It looks like the shipping companies from the foreign nations are planning them because we have not seen any inflation in goods? Yes! It was 14% last month. So I can't possibly need that you're seeing inflation. And it's 0.2%. Pause. Okay.

Understand that the inflation measures that he's talking about do not take into account imported goods. And to the extent that there has been any downward pressure on inflation, inflation is up. Make no mistake about that. It has been from things like oil because economic activity is also down. And so things like gas and oil get cheaper. But goods are definitely getting more expensive. And you know that because it took him five minutes to answer the question, who pays the terrorists?

And he starts talking about the Marshall Plan and how there's no big SUVs in Japan or in Germany. Because of Eisenhower. Like vehicles that would literally get stuck. these roads because they're so big it's fascinating like they must sit around i mean here the guy's gone in he surely has seen videos of other people of other town halls he's going into this town hall he knows he's going to get asked this question but they must live in such a bubble where it is literally just driven by some weird resent that uh u.s cars don't exist in europe oh well they're also working backwards from Trump's fixation on tariffs. I mean, do you think the Republican,

what gives you hope about the Supreme Court is probably what would be happening if Trump wasn't in power again, which is it would be more free trade, more, you know, allowances for corporations to make more money and, uh, offshoring jobs here in the United States. I mean, that has been Republican economics for years and years, but he has to work backwards from Trump's kind of insane Ron Vera calculation. Why are American cars not being sold in Europe and why are Chinese cars being sold there?

It's because they have central planning and they've decided to make the car of the future and we've still been making the car of the American suburban past. I mean, we are viral jokes when you look at our infrastructure and you compare it to say China or Japan or Europe or Australia.

Elsewhere. I mean and that's what he probably doesn't understand is that like there isn't pride, I think, in the products here that that he's trying to rely on that's going to overcome people's economic hardship. He's using 1950s patriotism to appeal to people here. I mean, it's ridiculous. And let's be clear, if you wanted to build industry in this country, you wouldn't just do willy-nilly tariffs across the board on products that will never be built in this country, that you wouldn't want built in this country, that you

can't grow in this country, you would have targeted tariffs, and you would then have the other half of the policy, which would be investment in these industries to grow them. But they're not doing that. They're scrapping the chips act. This is just a way to collect regressive taxes. That is what it is. It may be something else, you know, in Donald Trump's mind, it's like some type of, I don't know, a penis measuring contest. But for everything else, it is just a regressive tax. Here is Scott Bassant on, with Lara Trump for, you know, because of journalism. And this is like, it's good that he was on with Lara Trump because no secretary of Treasury could ever. say this in front of anybody who was even slightly interested in the topic and get away with it.

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever, like, this is, this is not junior high. This is grade school reasoning. Why did they even bother? They should have just had Besson in front of a mirror, and that would have been the same effect. I think it would have been tougher because then he'd have to see himself saying. Self-reflection, right, in this point, at least Laura Trump is like, are you exactly good. Of course, you have critics, and they will say that the tariffs are a hidden tax on the consumers here in the country. But give us the reality.

If they're so bad, and the American consumers paying them, why do we hear the European companies or the Chinese companies or the Chinese complaining about tariff if it's all being borne by the American consumers? people. It's just, it's just not happening. When I talk about President Trump's economic policy. Let's think about why a country and the producers in that country selling stuff to Americans would complain that all of a sudden the price is 10, 20, 30, 40 percent higher for that consumer. And they don't say. see any of that money. It's just, uh, the consumers are going to stay away and not going to buy it. And it's not going to be worth it for them to ship it. That's why they would complain about it. I mean, it's, yeah, it's bad for their business. That's why they would complain about it.

Exactly. I don't know why, like, why would I complain, uh, if, if, uh, the iPhone started charging members of the majority report an extra $2 a month? because people will be like wait a second why is this so expensive and but if you're complaining then the majority report listeners must be getting a real great deal

out of it because that's what they're that's what that's his worldview it's if a Chinese company is complaining that must mean that we are doing a good job it's like the Chinese companies versus the American public don't you understand that again it's like they only see the money going out and not the thing coming back

but it's they buy it on both themselves he knows the truth he yes of course and it's just um i don't know if she does she may not uh she may not but he certainly have haters why are they wrong sir give us the reality what a funny question and here's the interesting uh one more interesting point about this tariffs before we go so the tariffs are starting to be imposed in spring you know independence day or whatever you called it Retribution Day or

Liberation Day. How could you forget? How could you forget? I had like 10 of them. Exactly. It's called June 2 for business. Re-reliberation Day is here today.

Ultra-liberation. Super liberation. Like everything in this country, the idea of tariffs, there has been a sort of secondary market on this so if the tariffs ultimately are found to be illegally imposed all of this money

that has been collected by the federal government has to go back to these producers now the amazing thing is these producers may get off pretty good because they may have passed on a certain percentage of that money to somebody else the consumers whatnot now i don't know if they're obligated in any way to then pay back the consumers my guess would be no so you've got this potential of a tariff refund in the event that a court um rules the supreme court rules against these tariffs and finds that they were illegally imposed so you have this thing called the tariff refund Right now, let's say your tariff refund is worth $10, but it's hypothetical. It's almost like you're a creditor of a company that has gone bankrupt.

You may get your $10 that they owe you back or you may not. And what happens in those situations and has happened in this situation is that people came in over the past six, eight months and said, you've got a potential tariff refund for $10. But you're relying on the court to say that these tariffs are illegal. You don't know if that's going to happen. Right now, I will pay you $3. And you give me the rights to collect that $10 refund if it happens. And so you've got people buying up these tariff refunds.

hypotheticals but they're selling them for real money that's what happens with bad debt too you get people coming in going like i'm going to pay you 10 cents on the dollar for that debt that you have you don't even know if you're going to collect i'm willing to take the risk well it turns out the biggest one of the biggest players in purchasing up tariff refunds really early in this process back in like May and in June was this subsidiary of a financial firm called Cancer Fitzgerald, which up until Donald Trump became president was run by Donald Trump's now Commerce Secretary. What is it? Howard Lutnik. Yeah, but it's not run by him anymore, right?

No, it's not. It's completely out of his hands. It is run by the Lutniks, and they have bought up a ton of this tariff refund credits. And the idea of like these financial products is not terribly, you know, shocking. People buy bad debt all the time, and this is what it is. It's like potential debt. But even if. Understand, 25 cents on the dollar, 30 cents on the dollar, Wired reported on this over the summer.

In June or May or April, today after this initial ruling by the courts, that's probably worth 50 cents on the dollar now. So as it stands, we don't know exactly how much of this debt they bought up. And remember, there's like what, $100 billion worth of tariffs that have been collected at this point, taxes that may have to be refunded. They may have bought, I don't know, half of $50 billion for $0.25 on the dollar. They could turn around and sell that. They just like made billions of dollars. there is no doubt my mind they're dumping half of it right now they're covering everything that

they paid for plus a little more and then holding on to the rest in the event that it uh that it pays off yep and uh one of the lutnik sons i believe was is doing business with eric trump on their cryptocurrency uh venture and as of this morning the wall street journal reported or yesterday at least uh the trump family has officially amassed five billion dollars after their crypto launch, World Liberty Financial. Hopefully later this week we'll have on Molly White to talk about that insane level of corruption, but it's just amazing that this is accepted right now.

Oh, the amount of money that these people have extracted from our economy is just, I don't know if we'll ever be able to fully sort of like absorb it. There'll be a little disturbance. we're okay with that it won't be much between the you know being president when the COVID collapsed economy and this like he's probably one of the most individually catastrophically or catastrophic person from a economic standpoint oh yeah I mean he is the most impactful president of my lifetime and it's not close oh yeah and I have a feeling like like the number of things

that are just sort of propped up. You have these bank regulators backing off basically testing, more or less stress testing banks, which was a key feature in the wake of the 2008 crisis, making sure that they have the right amount of capital relative to what their investments are, making sure that they're not engaging in risky financial schemes with essentially depositor monies. I mean, all those type of things.

All those woke things. You've got the idea that they're floating around now that they're going to provide crypto as collateral for mortgages. Crypto is a little bit volatile. That's what we need. We need, that's the lesson from 2008. We need more volatility and speculation in the real estate market. And people are asking if we have a dog there.

Sometimes you'll hear there's a dog in the hallway that likes to bark. So that may be what. Yes, we don't have a dog in studio. But there's someone that does on our floor. But am I hearing you correctly that basically Canter Fitzgerald bought the rights to this refunding, essentially hedging on and with an understanding or a belief that there's a good chance that the tariffs are nullified by the So Lutnik has inside information about the tariff policy and the legal standing behind it and his sons just happen to hedge on the tariffs essentially and get a piece of the tariff refunds. That's that's how this is shaping out.

Oh, no, not a piece. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the event that it is Lutnik's sons basically betting that the tariff regime is illegal. Yep. and that the federal government's going to have to pay back all this money or a significant portion of it. And they have purchased the rights to those refunds for pennies on the dollar. Yeah. And it's probably, they're probably just freelancing and their father's the Commerce Secretary, right? They're just going in blind and making that assessment. I mean, it's just

it's so obvious. If Wired published this, I have no doubt. If, if, Howard Lutnik saw this had no idea what his sons were up to. Are you kidding? I would never. I'm sure he sat there and instead of thinking, oh my God,

all of this business that I built up and gave to my sons, they're going to ruin it. Buying all this worthless refund opportunity. I wish I could contact them in some way, but I know that would be wrong. I have to let them fail on their own.

Exactly. They have to build their own pile. Exactly. It is their mistake to make. I'm sure that's what's going on there. He doesn't talk to his sons. Only his grandmother, who never complains about social security being cut off. The level of corruption.

And the thing is, the level of corruption is so astronomical. I don't know. You have to go back to literally the robber baron era, I think, to come close. And really, it's debatable. Yes. It's debatable as to whether this is worse than that. I think this, like, teapot dome looks like, you know, good government. Exactly.

Well, I just read analysis saying that the level of incoming wealth inequality has exceeded the worst of the gilded age. So that's where we're at. there was where is this guy some like billionaire hedge funder is in the news for saying that

wealth inequality's gotten out of control yeah his name is Ray Adalio found out of Bridgewater Associates he basically said that classically increased wealth and value gaps lead to increase populism of the right and populism the left

and irreconcilable differences between them that cannot be resolved through the democratic process. He says we're back in the 30s and 40s. I mean, he's right. And it's leading to more autocracy. Billionaire says what people have been saying for a while, because as a billionaire, there's a news story about it. Of course, you've got to listen to.

And despite all of this, like, how massive this corruption is, within the context of the history of the United States, I'm sure that there's been, you know, much more extreme looting of various countries around the world. world. But in terms of the United States, we're probably in the most extreme sort of like looting phase of this country. It's still probably maybe the second or third, fourth headline. Yeah. When you talk about like we're destroying the hundred and some odd years that it took to build up the premier institutions that deal with public health being destroyed within a context

a month in terms of like labor rights being destroyed in terms of like safeguards for consumers and the economy being destroyed in terms of like rolling up and building we have now net negative migration into this country And yet we are on the eve of increasing ice so that it's larger than some government's army, a domestic federal militia, essentially, that is going around and going to be rolling up grandmobs and dads and kids and just your neighbors. I mean, so, like, the number of stories, and we are funding a genocide and an ethnic cleansing and the annexation of the West Bank, and also destroying what

appears to be the vast majority of our relationships with the other great powers and emerging powers in the world China, India I mean Did you see that in the images out of bricks? I mean Putin, Modi and G

were like basically doing a three-way hug. Yay, America's destroying itself here. Let's come together. It's like this is exactly what we've been. All it took was $750,000 worth of Facebook ads and look what we did. If we if only we had known.

That's why I say Newsom, Slotnick, 28. Oh, thank you, Brian. We will talk about Brian. We have to check his bank account. Brian is wearing a hat that says 1630 funds. What weird?

1630. But that counts as disclosure, right? I don't know what you're talking about. It's like a NASCAR. suit on it. All right, we've got to take a break. We're going to head into the fun half. Folks, just a reminder.

Did you want to plug that one thing? Just reminding you. Sorry, I am due. It's right there. The Miss Rachel thing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, shoot. Yeah.

Let's play this. I want to play this video. The, and this seems, I don't know, this seems. about as definitive as you can get without a ruling from the International Court of Justice. Now, of course, the International Court of Justice has now been basically rendered almost completely

ineffective between Israel and the United States, threatening of multiple prosecutors, threatening of sanctions, threatening of people in this country who are going to, going to uphold any of those rulings. But the international association of and

like literally count down until until Israel starts their own or the ADL starts their own international association of

genocide. scholars, I should say. It was a resolution passed on Sunday, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, who consists of the world's most foremost genocide scholars, oddly enough, passed a resolution. saying that Israel's nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza meets, quote, the legal definition of genocide.

It's sort of fascinating that this is not getting that much attention. Like, remember when it was a big deal? Like, it was completely, and every, all these people would argue on, Twitter. It's not genocide. Completely like... We're anti-Semitic. We hate Jews because we would say, how could you say that about people who were victims of the Holocaust? It would have meaning. Killing tens of thousands of children as if leveling cities into rubble, as if bombing hospitals, bombing universities, bombing power plants,

cutting off water, cutting off food. If it, if it's not legally, the definition of genocide it's okay right like that was the the sort of like why um they would focus exclusively on the question of whether the word is appropriate well um the association has roughly 500 members 86% of members who voted on the resolution approved it the The, one of the administrators said we were very surprised at the level of consensus there was. Really? Mm-hmm. I'm not.

The resolution states that the October 7th attacks by Hamas against Israel and prompted the campaign in Gaza constitutes international crimes. But it also concludes that Israel's response violates all five conditions set out in the 1948 convention. including killing members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group, conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part. That is according to one of the members of the association's executive board. The 1948 convention, of course,

was in the wake of where these, I guess, principles were drawn up in the wake of the Holocaust. The resolution accused Israel of carrying out, quote, indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza.

The destruction of a substantial part of group constitutes genocide, the association concluded. Here is a clip from Ms. Rachel. As you know, we

spoke to a doctor I guess it was like two or three weeks ago who would come back from Gaza or no he was in Gaza Dr. Lubano. Oh right I'm sorry while he was in Gaza he was also aware that the baby

formula was being prevented from entering Gaza now that was Amber Salimi who talked about that oh I'm sorry so I wasn't there for that one and she had a colleague who was stopped with baby formula and she had told us that uh baby formula was not allowed into gaza i'd be

fascinated by anyone's argument as to why you can't let baby formula into gaza but uh here's miss rachel who has asked people to share this video pressure members of congress like we say the we said this earlier whether it is you know uh richie torres finding out that like um oh maybe the ground is shifting a little bit in terms of uh of people's disposition towards Israel and what they're doing um whether it's uh congress people deciding they're no longer going to take APAC money or Graham Platner getting huge applause

in saying we shouldn't be using our tax dollars to destroy Gaza things are beginning to shift at least within the context of the Democratic Party and so passing this around maybe we'll also

see it shift in the Republican party, at least in the context of providing baby formula for babies. My members of Congress, thank you so much for listening to me and Susie today. About 20 minutes ago, little Susie got hungry, and I just grabbed formula and gave her a bottle. As I was feeding her, I thought about moms in Gaza that can't get formula, and they can't breastfeed because they're too malnourished. I can't imagine the anguish of hearing that same. crying, the cry of hunger, and not being able to feed my baby. And this isn't about politics.

Please cry of hunger is the same everywhere, and it's absolute cruelty to have formula miles away. Please sign the letter to get formula, food, and aid into Gaza. We will remember who signed it. It doesn't matter if you're Democrat or Republican. This is about babies having formula. A few words to the Christian members of Congress. If you're not going to sign this, I would just like to know why, because Jesus is so clear that we need to feed the hungry. He says when we feed the hungry, we feed him. He says to love your neighbor as yourself, and he's clear that your neighbor is everyone.

And we would never want our baby to starve. We need to love our neighbors as ourselves. I have a chance to do something great and be one of the people that wanted to get the formula to these starving babies. Very connected to a huge number of parents having the number one kid show in the U.S. And people don't want this. They don't want to be part of, kids starving. They don't want to be part of 18,000 kids being killed. They're devastated.

Moms are commenting that they want to send their own breast milk to Gaza. Everyone's saying, how can I help? How can I get these babies fed? And you have that power. And we just are begging you. And I think so many parents, parents in my community, their compassion for kids doesn't stop at borders. They want all kids to be safe, fed, and loved. And they know that that's the best thing for our children as well. We feel like politicians aren't hearing us that we don't want children to suffer this way. We want to be helpers like Mr. Rogers told us to me. When you were a kid and you dreamed of what you could be when you grow up and you decided to go into public service eventually, I know that you didn't want to be part of starving any child. It's not who we are. And I know deep within and your

heart and soul, you know that that's wrong. And we have to do something about it. History is going to look back on this time and say, who did something? Be part of this group that did something. I sat with a mom from Gaza, Isra, and I would love for you to meet Isra and I. We're both teachers. We both have little girls, but her daughter doesn't have legs anymore. Her daughter is Rahaf. The whole world has fallen in love with Rahat. She is the sweetest, brightest, most loving little girl. Kids are our whole world, and every child is a universe. And putting politics aside, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter. We have to do something. It's not let one more baby or child die of starvation. I'm so honored to have had the chance to talk to you,

and I want to thank you so much for listening. Thank you. We'll put a link to where you can pressure your Congresspeople to sign that letter in the podcast and YouTube description. I'm going to take quick break. Head into the fun half of the program. Just a reminder to your support that makes this show possible. You can become a member join the Majority Report.com.

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Low number episode for Left Reckney coming. Wow. This is before you don't roll out any new products until the first week of September type of situation. It's just like, yeah. But actually, we're going to be talking about this elephant graveyard sort of. disemboweling of the Rogan sphere Roganverse, I'm not sure which one is really taken off but it's sphere.

I think Rogan sphere sounds better. Somebody's going to lose the green room pass. Yeah, exactly. At the mothership. Somebody's going to lose the green room pass. I've linked up with a different mothership, so. Exactly. Yeah, and I'm in a shake.

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