The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3578 - Bondi Epstein Crash Out; Next Step in West Bank Annexation w/ Jasper Nathaniel

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

It's Hump Day on the Majority Report   On today's program:   Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the House Judiciary Committee this morning and loses her composure.   Jasper Nathaniel of In...finite Jaz joins the show to provide updates on the new series of cabinet decisions made in the Knesset regarding the total annexation of the West Bank in Palestine.   In the Fun Half:   AOC is asked about the horrors the sanctions on Cuba have created for innocent civilians and says that there used to be protections for innocent civilians and now after the genocide in Gaza, it's almost acceptable for the Western world to turn a blind eye to people starving   The US Curling team makes it clear that what is happening with ICE is wrong. This upsets JD Vance.   If you are in the LA area you can see Emma join Francesca Fiorentini for a Bitchuation Room live at Dynasty Typewriter on March 22.   all that and more To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. 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: IQ BAR: Text MAJORITY to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply. SUNSET LAKE: Use coupon code "Left Is Best" (all one word) for 20% off of your entire order 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 You are listening to a free version of the Majority Report with Sam Cedar. To support this show and get another 15 minutes of daily program, go to Majority.fm. Please. The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. It is Wednesday, February 11, 2006. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning Majority Report. report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the
Starting point is 00:00:38 heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Jasper Nathaniel, publisher of Infinite Jazz on Substack. As BB Netanyahu meets Donald Trump, Israel's West Bank annexation plans, finally break through the media. Also on the program today, FAA closes airspace surrounding El Paso
Starting point is 00:01:11 for 10 days and then reopens hours later and the U.S. blames Mexican cartel drones. Grand jury refuses to indict Democrats over their video
Starting point is 00:01:28 telling the military not to follow a legal order. economy adds 130,000 jobs exceeding expectations. Lots of backward-looking revisions, though. Lutnik may be the first to pay a tiny price over the Epstein Association as revelations keep coming and Pam Bondi on the hot seat. And while Republicans fail to protect Trump's tariffs, Democrats now plan a barrage of anti-tariff votes.
Starting point is 00:02:06 DHS funding negotiation stall two days out from potential DHS shutdown. Meanwhile, John Thune says there are no votes to pause the filibuster in order to pass their voter disenfranchisement Save Act. FDA refuses to review Mardiners, Marderna's application for a new MRNA, flu vaccine refuses to review the application. After gutting the EPA measure of climate change, Trump now is going to direct the Pentagon to buy more coal. And Trump's Canadian bridge threats tied to a rival bridge owner's lobbying
Starting point is 00:03:02 of Howard Lutnik. It's just a better bridge. Discord announces age verification requirement to get adult only content starting in March. All this and more on today's majority report. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks so much for joining us. Emma Vigland out today. Should be back tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:03:39 Should also note there was a. Canada suffered its worst school shooting in its history, I believe, yesterday. Eight people dead, I think approximately 20 injured. The killer killed herself, so amongst the dead. People are asking me about the refusal to review Moderna's flu vaccine trial results. It's insane. I mean, I don't know enough about, obviously, about scientific trials to say whether something should be accepted or not accepted per se. But the idea that you won't even review the trial results of a potential flu vaccine, particularly following this year's flu, which was and continues to be devastating.
Starting point is 00:04:43 Sorry, I'm getting updated. It was 10 people dead and 25 injured in Canada. Record setting pediatric flu deaths in 24, 25. The flu has been particularly virulent, and we are now seeing the rollback of vaccination uptake, essentially, because of RFK Jr. and Donald Trump and really in many respects the Republican Party's project of returning us to the Middle Ages.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Did you say that pro-life march was like a measles super spreader? There is a belief that the pro-life march in January in D.C. ended up creating measles outbreaks across the country. Not remotely to surprise. So a lot's to get to today, but let's get into this. The Epstein files continue to provide a look into, again, there's multiple aspects of this scandal, which is that you had this child present. child sex trafficker, protected by some of the country's most powerful people, some, you know,
Starting point is 00:06:26 luminaries, Noam Chomsky, you know, on the left, not necessarily a guy with a huge amount of power, but certainly somebody who many on the left looked up for in terms of some sense of moral clarity, at least in the context of of U.S. and foreign relations and in the way that we treat our own people. You can't get into the head of people and understand how they're operating, but there really is no context in which
Starting point is 00:07:02 one can believe that nobody knew, particularly. I mean... Maybe the most open secret of the past. of the century. Yes. And it's, you know, it's one thing like,
Starting point is 00:07:15 well, I didn't Google this guy when I first met him, but I find it really hard to believe that there was enough ignorance to justify this. And I certainly like, you know,
Starting point is 00:07:28 someone serves time for an offense. I can see, I'm going to give this person a second chance or whatnot, but this goes a little bit beyond that. And there was, I think it's very hard to believe that there was any indication that he really had reformed. Nevertheless, what I think is also becoming clear is sort of like the web of financial ties and horse trading.
Starting point is 00:08:07 And it's just been revelatory into the way that certain things operate. Now, I've heard some people say, like, this is the deep state. No, I mean, not really, no. This is corruption amongst a wealthy elite who already live a life where they don't have to follow the rules that the rest of us do. C. Wright Mills called it the power elite in the mid-century. Yes. And but I think it's been laid bare, and it also shows how. sort of decrepit, morally decrepit it is.
Starting point is 00:08:49 I imagine there was a time of power elite that was like, you know, I know what's best for the little, little pucians. And so, but this is really, this goes beyond that. Like Briggs is going to happen. Let's buy some deals when everything collapses. Yeah. And you can see, I imagine historians are. going to write about the the era of the last 50 years. And you can see the progression to where we have
Starting point is 00:09:22 without a doubt. I mean, by a factor of, I don't know how many, the most corrupt administration we have had in the history of the country. I mean, the president himself has enriched themselves to the tune of multiple billions of dollars over the course of 10 or 11 months by just leveraging the office. And everybody's getting a taste. Pam Bondi got this job because all it took was a $25,000 donation to her as Attorney General for her to stop investigating Trump University 10 years ago. Here she is being questioned by the ranking Democrat on the judiciary.
Starting point is 00:10:17 Is this on the judiciary committee in the House? Jamie Raskin, giving an open statement, we're going to play a couple of clips from this hearing, which took place this morning. And still going on. This was just a couple hours ago. That will be your legacy unless you act quickly to change course. You're running a massive Epstein cover up
Starting point is 00:10:40 right out of the Department of Justice. You've been ordered by subpoena and by Congress to turn over six months. million documents, photographs, and videos in Epstein files, but you've turned over only three million. You say you're not turning over the other three million because they're somehow duplicative, but we know that there are actual memos of victim statements in there, and you also took down the Department of Justice's prosecution memo from 2019. So it's clearly not all duplicative, but even if it were, why not release it? Just release all the duplicative
Starting point is 00:11:15 stuff. In the half you did produce, you redacted the names of abusers, enablers, accomplices, and co-conspirators, apparently to spare them embarrassment and disgrace, which is the exact opposite of what the law ordered you to do. Even worse, you shockingly failed to redact many of the victim's names, which is what you were ordered to do by Congress. Some of the victims had come forward publicly, But many had not. Many had kept their torment private, even from family and friends. But you published their names, their identities, their images on thousands of pages for the world to see. So you ignored the law, and even with over 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference, and jaded crime. cruelty towards more than 1,000 victims raped, abused, and trafficked.
Starting point is 00:12:20 This performance screams cover-up. Conviction. I mean, there really isn't a lot of, like, opining that's going on in that. It's simply the facts. The idea that the Department of Justice reviewed all six million of the documents and decided that three million were duplicative in some way is patently absurd. The skiff that the Congresspeople are allowed to go into where there are redacted files apparently has what four computers.
Starting point is 00:13:01 And who did the math on this? I believe it was Jamie Raskin. Oh, Jamie Raskin. It would take something like six years to go through all. Seven years of 40 hours a week of doing nothing but going through the files. With just four computers. I mean, there is a law that Congress passed saying release all these documents. And they haven't done it.
Starting point is 00:13:27 Here is Jerry Nadler on the Judiciary Committee. He is retiring in the fall. Yes. Or I guess by January of next year. Crazy because he doesn't even have. gray hair yet. Nope. It's unbelievable. It does not need a walker. Although he may need a cane. He asked how many Epstein co-conspirators has she investigated? We know there's at least six that were named in these Justice Department files. Nadler asked
Starting point is 00:14:00 her how many she's investigated. She seems a little defensive about it. How many of Epstein's co-conspirators have you indicted? How many perpetrators have you indicted? How many perpetrators? Are you even investigating? First, you showed it. I find it. How many have you indicted? Excuse me. I'm going to answer the question.
Starting point is 00:14:25 I'm going to answer the question the way. I want to answer the question. The actress are ridiculous. Chairman Jordan, I'm not going to get in the gutter with these people, but I'm going to answer the question. How many have you invited? Again, the time belongs. Reclaiming my time. The time belongs.
Starting point is 00:14:39 I think it's very interesting. I think it's very interesting that he talks about they indict. The president said they indicted him twice. They sure did. They sure did. And they should die. Oh, okay. Here we go with these theatrics.
Starting point is 00:14:53 The time belongs to the gentleman from New York. We will give you a few more seconds. We will do that. But when you ask a question, your witness gets to say it. You may not like the answer, but she gets to answer. They don't like the answer, Chairman. Because it's honest. So he asked a four-minute question.
Starting point is 00:15:13 Restore 45 seconds, Mr. Navarre. Mr. Chairman. You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch. Not on our time. No way. And I told you about that, Attorney General, before you started. You don't tell me anything. Yeah, I did tell you because we saw what you did in the Senate. Not even a lawyer. Committee will be in order. I should get back at least 45 seconds.
Starting point is 00:15:33 We will give you a few more seconds. I said that already. 45 seconds. Okay. I will. She called Raskin a washed up loser lawyer. Oh, that was Raskin. She was talking to, yes. I mean, look, this is a show she's doing for Donald Trump. This is their strategy. They're going to hang in there.
Starting point is 00:15:54 Now, we should say it, I hope the irony of Jim Jeffords, Jim Jordan. Excuse me, Jim Jordan, chairing this committee is not lost on anybody. This is a man who multiple members of was the Ohio State wrestling. team. Yep. Accused of protecting a doctor who was molesting them. Several former OSU resists stated that they directly informed Jordan about the abuse by Strauss, some claiming they told them numerous times.
Starting point is 00:16:31 Apparently, Jim Jordan called one or two of them crying. Please don't tell anybody what I did. Yeah, I got a clip of that. Like, maybe playing the phone house. I don't know how this didn't get more media attention. I think there was even a documentary. And that's why Jim Jordan is where he is. That was what he sold to the Republican Party.
Starting point is 00:16:50 But, oh, we can get this guy in here. If he can do that for OSU, he can do this for us. It worked for Denny Hastert. He became Speaker of the House. And there was definitely an awareness that this guy had been accused as a wrestling coach of molesting some of his players. And in fact, I think he served some time after his time as Speaker of the House. A Democratic Party that functioned as well as the Republican Party.
Starting point is 00:17:15 that functioned as well as the Republicans in terms of these things would make sure that I don't even need to tell you all this. You would all know this. As soon as Jim Jordan showed up on the screen, you'd go, oh, pedophile protector. Yep. Just like Denny Hastert.
Starting point is 00:17:34 Ohio still has a athletic center with Leswe's name on that was put there after a $2.5 million Jeffrey Epstein donation, by the way. Here is Pramila Japhal. asking, or trying to examine whether Pam Bondi has done anything with all this information that she has had. Now, again, again, let's just, I just want to remind people that this was a campaign promise by Donald Trump. This was such a vow that they had taken that they actually released all the files in three ring binders for a couple of rights. wing stooges. This was their own proclamations of doing this stuff. Here's Jan Paul.
Starting point is 00:18:28 To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands if you have still not been able to meet with this Department of Justice. Please know for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand. Attorney General Bondi, you apologize to the survivors in your opening statement for what they went through at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein. Will you turn to them now and apologize for what your Department of Justice has put them through with the absolutely unacceptable release of the Epstein files and their information? Congresswoman, you set before
Starting point is 00:19:31 for Merritt Garland set in this chair twice. Attorney General Bondi. Can I finish my answer? No, I'm going to reclaim my time because I asked you a specific question that I would like you to answer, which is, will you turn to the survivors? This is not about anybody that came before you. It is about you taking responsibility for your Department of Justice and the harm that it has done to the survivors who are. standing right behind you and are waiting for you to turn to them and apologize for what your Department of Justice system members members get to ask the questions the
Starting point is 00:20:12 witness get to answer and the way they want to answer that attorney general that's not accurate mr. chairman because she doesn't like the answer so mr. chairman I have asked she asked Merrick Garland this I'm reclaiming my time and when I will claim my time I'm not determined the gentleman that's reclaiming the time getting the gutter for her theatrics. The time belongs to the, the time belongs to the gentle lady. The gentle lady has 17 seconds. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:20:39 You're not going to answer this question. So let me just say this. Chairman, I'll direct it to you. What a massive cover-up. Mr. Chairman, will you restore her time? The witnesses are up. I'm not going to get in the gutter with this woman. Stop the time.
Starting point is 00:20:49 She's doing theatrics. Let me have my. The thing that I would love to have seen the Democratic members of this committee remind Pam Bondi is that she is not elected. she is a Republican appointee and every single person who's asking them, asking of her question, has the power of hundreds of thousands of constituents who have elected them to sit there and hold this Republican appointee accountable. This is not beanbag.
Starting point is 00:21:22 And, you know, the Democratic Party, like, look, there's a lot of terrain where the Democrats have not gotten aggressive. that are more in many respects, more to the point in terms of impacting people's lived experience, this stuff is to some extent, to some extent, eye candy and low-hanging fruit. And I understand the desire and the ease in which you go out this and you want to take, you know, Trump's legs out and Congress's legs out from underneath them, regardless of what it is. Go harder. And not even necessarily on the substance. Remind everyone there, this is the Republican Party.
Starting point is 00:22:23 And when you're addressing that chair, remind everybody that Jim Jordan has a bad history in protecting pedophiles. Also, Trump's attorney generals do. Alex Acosta was the one who gave. He was Department of Labor, but yes. Right, right, yeah, sorry. But when he was down to Florida, gave Epstein the sweetheart deal. And Pam Bondi later became, I believe, the first AG of female AG of Florida. And didn't follow up on that and just allowed that deal to stand.
Starting point is 00:22:56 And just surprisingly, those two Florida folks became members of Trump administration. And as soon as Pam Bondi shows that she's not going to answer your questions, you just start asking rhetorical ones. Here's Pam Bondi, again, protecting her job. with Donald Trump. She has an audience of one here. And Democratic lawmakers need to understand that. There's an audience of one. They have a much bigger audience. And if she's playing to only one person, she's going to look like a, a curtain to a vast larger audience. But here she is just losing it. To release all of those documents, he is the most transparent president in the
Starting point is 00:23:44 the nation's history. And none of them, none of them, ask Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein. How ironic is that? You know why? Because Donald Trump, the Dow, the Dow right now, is over, the Dow is over $50,000. I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader, as I hear Raskin. The Dow is over $50,000. right now. The S&P at almost 7,000. And the NASDAQ smashing records. Americans 401Ks and retirement savings are booming.
Starting point is 00:24:28 That's what we should be talking about. But that stuff was true under Biden, too. The economy was roaring. Can you address the cover-up of the elite sex cabal? It seems a little tone-deaf. When you are talking about a billionaire financier who was running a child
Starting point is 00:24:48 sex ring and had co-mingled this with a bunch of other financiers and billionaires to be bragging about the stock market. And also, are you really attacking Merrick Garland if you're saying, we're just doing
Starting point is 00:25:02 what he did? I mean, again, the audience that she's playing to is a very narrow subsection of the American population. You did great. You did great. And here's the thing. You know, we've been talking about this, and Howard Lutnik is in a lot of, it seems to be the person that is being teed up as a fall guy.
Starting point is 00:25:31 Now, maybe it was because he went out there and went so far over his skis months ago when he was like, I found him disgusting. I never dealt with him. And yes, he was blackmailing people, of course. and maybe maybe that's still ringing in some people's ears. But the name of the game is if they can get one resignation, if they can get one firing, the dam starts to decompose a little bit. Because if you compare the Trump administration 2024,
Starting point is 00:26:08 2025 to 2017, by this point, I don't know, five cabinet members had to have resigned because of all their corruption. This cabinet is just as corrupt and just as inept, maybe more so than the first one. But the difference is their corruptness and ineptness is both their weakness and their strength. It's their strength in that they all know we're going to sink or swim together. And so Trump just keeps them together because he knows that their number one directive is loyalty to him. And that's why she's doing what she's doing here.
Starting point is 00:26:54 In a minute, we're going to be talking to Jasper Nathaniel. He's the publisher of Infinite Jazz on Substack as Netanyahu meets with Donald Trump. And Israel's slow annexation of the West Bank starts to stick itself out. It starts to pop its head out of the water, as it were. We'll talk to him in a moment about that. First, word from our sponsor. This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar. It's a delicious low sugar, sugar a snack that is sponsoring the program today.
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Starting point is 00:30:16 to be annexed. We're going to talk about how much the West Bank has been annexed. We'll be right back. We are back. Sam Cedar on the majority report. Emma Viglin out today. I want to welcome back to the program. Jasper Nathaniel, publisher of Infinite Jazz on Substack.
Starting point is 00:31:07 And Jasper, you're coming on on a day where, I mean, literally any minute Netanyahu is going to exit or they'll open up the Oval Office office with Trump and Netanyahu to take questions theoretically. This is on a day where Donald Trump said, or I guess this is an interview gave yesterday with
Starting point is 00:31:32 Axios, we have enough things to think about now in response to annexation. He said, I'm against it. We don't need to be dealing with the West Bank. Before we get into what's actually happening, what's your sense? Like, is this just like he doesn't want this on the plate until after the midterms? It feels like to me. Well, I think for starters, he doesn't actually understand anything about the West Bank, except that, you know, his donors want him to allow Israel to annex it.
Starting point is 00:32:06 But I think that, like, Gaza and, you know, his Gaza peace plan is much more straightforward in his mind. He sort of has, like, set his mind to this is one of the things that will cement his legacy. the West Bank, I mean, to the extent that it is relevant to Trump, you know, as in to the extent it's, you know, in his self-interest to be engaged at all, it's really twofold. One is that, you know, as we know, Miriam Adelson and many of his donors would like him to give Israel the green light to formally annex it. But the second thing is that, you know, the Abraham Accords, which was like his, the crown jewel
Starting point is 00:32:44 of his foreign policy achievements for his first term, which was about normalizing relations between Israel and a number of states, most notably the United Arab Emirates. The UAE has threatened to basically back out of the Abraham Accords if Israel goes forward with annexing the West Bank. And that would be a blow to Trump's legacy and his ego. So, you know, there was actually a time, I believe, in 2020 at the end of his first term when Nanyahu was moving towards some sort of a formal declaration, the UAE came out and said very loudly, we will leave the Ahmahama Accords if you do this. And I think that they, they're foreign, one of their secretaries or something, actually like wrote an op-ed where they were like, this would be very embarrassing for Mr. Trump.
Starting point is 00:33:33 And of course, you know, he responded to that, immediately put the kibosh on it and then who backed down. So, you know, that is why, you know, among other reasons why the entire annexation project is meant to be done without ever having to formally declare annexation. Because for a guy like Trump, that means he doesn't have to think about it, as he said in that quote. You know, and we should say the reporting prior to the election was that Miriam Adelson was dangling her $140 million, $150 million in front of Trump. If he would provide a green light for the annexation of the West Bank. This is sort of like a redux of their first deal where Trump bragged, like, I gave her the
Starting point is 00:34:18 goal on Heights and she didn't even ask me for it with all the money that she gave. So, you know, it's impossible to know what Miriam Adelson's sort of like, I guess, demarcation is for Trump to have fulfilled his promise. Right. But, and so maybe we'll put a hold on that, but you wrote just yesterday that annexation breaks containment, meaning that it has, people are noticing a little bit more, in part because the New York Times finally wrote a piece about it. You've been to the West Bank multiple times. You've complained about the failure of the media to report on this stuff. Now the Washington Post has no foreign reporters there. What was it that breached the surface this week? I've been thinking about that. Like, why now? Because, you know, this is certainly what they just did, which we'll get into,
Starting point is 00:35:19 is a really grave step towards annexation. But it's not the first one. And, you know, as I write in that piece, like every one of these moves towards this de facto annexation have been telegraphed by Smotrich and the settlers for years. And so nobody should be surprised by this. And, you know, like, in fairness to the Times and the Post and all these places, like, they do, they cover these events when they happen, but it's the lack of the sort of ongoing coverage that contextualizes how this is happening that, that I think is the problem. And so just to answer your question, I mean, I think the reason this one really broke through is because it is the most direct violation of the Oslo Accords, which is a phrase that most. people know, even if they don't actually know what it is.
Starting point is 00:36:09 This one is just literally, I mean, that specifically what it does is it basically says, you know, the Oslo Accords divided, carved the West Bank up into areas A, B, and C to, you know, give the PA, the authority to administer in areas A and partially in area B, and Israel has area C. And that was sort of like the nominal framework that, you know, the occupation was running through, was running within. You know, to be clear, like they were constantly violating the Oslo courts. But one of the new cabinet decisions that just came out on Sunday, I believe, says that the Israeli civil administration, which is the governing branch within the Israeli military or within the defense ministry, that Smokic, the finance minister, that he basically took over in 2023.
Starting point is 00:37:00 They now have the right to go into areas A and B to, to, basically control things like zoning and to order demolitions and to just take control away from Palestinian Authority in the few places where they still have it. And the way all of these policies are written, it doesn't just say Israel can now go into areas A and B. What it says is where there are environmental hazards or, you know, desecration of our archaeological sites or, you know, theft of water, then the Israeli civil administration is allowed to go into areas A and B and basically take control. And, you know, I think this is obvious, but they make those claims everywhere in the West Bank. And, you know, not just that, but they are creating those issues. So just to give one concrete
Starting point is 00:37:53 example, there's a big, one of Smotritch's like projects right now is railing against environmental pollution from Palestinian cities in the West Bank, specifically around the burning of their waste. He just yesterday, when these new cabinet decisions were announced, or maybe two days ago, went into one of these cities and, you know, did a photo near the waste burning site. And they're clearly setting the groundwork for this to be one of the places that they go in and seize control. Now, the reason that they're burning waste and the reason why they're doing all these things that are creating, that the Palestinians are, you know, potentially creating pollution and whatnot, is because Israel, the occupation, has completely
Starting point is 00:38:32 sabotage their waste management infrastructure. They've made it impossible for them to run a, to run their cities the way most cities run by, you know, picking up the waste and bring them out to dumps and all the things that you do in waste management. They've cut off those routes. They've confiscated the dumping grounds. And they've left the Palestinians in these places with no, with no choice but to burn the waste. And then they use that as their justification to say, look, you're creating air pollution. Now we get to go in and take control. So it's all a self-fulfilling prophecy, basically. I mean, that, that mechanism, as soon as we're talking about those exceptions and where they could go into A, B, it's all I could think about was Chuck Schumer and Jim and Hakeem Jeffries saying, you can wear masks except for in circumstances where there is some, like those type of qualifications are.
Starting point is 00:39:32 are the way in which this stuff sort of like, it's the way that laws get degraded and other laws kick in. Here is, let's talk about the cabinet decisions you write about that have taken place over the recent history, which has sort of like creepily created almost like a de facto. annexation or in the process of starting with opening the West Bank as a settler real estate market. So just a quick refresher, you know, the West Bank is governed by a military occupation, which means that the Israeli government, the Knesset, does not get to make the rules over there. It's Israeli defense ministry that does Smotrich, who is this far-right messianic settler, whose life's goal is to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state and to take over the whole
Starting point is 00:40:34 West Bank installed himself in the defense ministry so that he could take over all of the governance of the West Bank, which is why people say he's essentially the governor of the West Bank. So for starters, like the reason that all these policies are able to sort of fly through is because they're not going through the usual checks and balances that they would if they had to go through either the Knesset or even the normal military sort of bureaucratic channels. Now they're just going through a civilian chain of command put together by Smotrich, which is all settlers. So it's very easy to get things approved. So that's the sort of and does the rest of the body politic, the Israeli body politic or a substantial amount of it,
Starting point is 00:41:16 they okay, they are okay with Smotrick sort of inserting himself within that military regime so that they do not have to own the decisions he makes. And they are insulated from any type of accountability about those decisions because they're like, we don't have access to it. I think that's as good a theory as any. I mean, it also should be said that like interest among, you know, the sort of ostensible liberal politicians in Israel and just liberal people, interest in preventing this creeping annexation of the West Bank has really plummeted since October 7th. Like there used to be a faction in Israel, a meaningful faction that, did not want the settlement movement to take over the entire West Bank.
Starting point is 00:42:06 And that is, you know, such as it ever was a strong movement. I don't know that it could ever really be considered a super effective one, but that pressure is basically gone. And so, yes, I think it's easy to just sort of like wave it away as Smotrich's project now. There's nothing they can do. But also, like, there's just people, they're more focused on Gaza and they're more focused on security. And as far as they're concerned, security in the West Bank means, you know, domination and crushing the Palestinians.
Starting point is 00:42:34 And so I think that that is one of the conditions that has allowed Smotrish to get away with all of this. I also want to just mention that. So like when I say I wish that the media did a better job of sort of contextualizing all of this, pretty much everything that we've seen from Smotrich and the settlement movement in the last three years fits remarkably well within the blueprint that Smokurch created for this in 2017 before he entered politics. He wrote something called the decisive plan.
Starting point is 00:43:09 It is called the decisive plan because what he says in it basically is, we've been dilly-dallying around finding a solution for the West Bank for all these years. It's time to come up with a decisive plan for it. And this text has become canonical. That's because you couldn't use final solution. Exactly. Yeah, Final Solution had been used by somebody else who I'm blanking on. But so they went with Decisive Plan and, and it's become a canonical document for the settlers. And when you read it and I've read it like 40 times, it's truly awful to read.
Starting point is 00:43:41 But like, it's, you see where all of the moves are coming from. And so specifically what I want to just point to is what Smuter says is that there's no room for, for two national longings. nationalist longings in, you know, what he calls Judea and Samaria. There can only be one. And he's actually very careful in this particular document to not frame it as like violent towards Palestinians. He tries to make it a really like practical document. He's like, look, let's just be real. There's no way we could have a Palestinian, you know, self-determination here while also having a Jewish state here. So what are we going to do about it? And what his solution amounts to is three different options that they're going to provide to what he calls the Arabs of Judean. day in Samaria. The first one is subjugation, and it basically means that the Palestinians
Starting point is 00:44:31 commit to being colonial subjects of Israel. They literally have to, you know, swear their allegiance to the Israeli state and, you know, declare that they're not interested in any sort of self-determination. And if they do that, they are then allowed to live there as sort of subjects. So that's option one. option two is emigration and he's very generous in the document and saying we'll pay you to leave we'll make it easy for you well you know grease the wheels on your way out and and it'll be voluntary and it'll be natural because people will want a better place to live and then the third option is just brute force he basically says for anybody who does not give in to one or two will fight you to the death and we're the ones with the bombs and the jets and the and the tanks and stuff
Starting point is 00:45:18 And so, you know, most people know about everything in the West Bank is a, it's all domination. It's all subjugation. So the first one is very clear. The third one, brute force. Also, it's clear how the Israeli military is using brute force against the Palestinians, particularly in, you know, the refugee camps in the north, which they have carpet bombed. But it's the second option, the immigration that I think that this, these real estate policies, the new real estate policies in the, the, the, cabinet decisions. It's the second one that they focus on. And so what I mean by that is, you know, Israel has done a really effective job of making life completely miserable for Palestinians
Starting point is 00:46:00 in the West Bank for, you know, 60 years really, but specifically over the past three years, they've made it, they've revoked 100,000 work permits for people who actually were working in Israel. They have, you know, strangled the financial system and the economy. They have, you know, put up checkpoints everywhere. They've hemmed communities. in, they've made it really miserable for people. And now what they want to do is make it really easy for them to leave. Not that dissimilar from what they're doing in Gaza, where, you know, they talk about this, you know, emigration or what I think we would call ethnic cleansing as if it's a sort of humanitarian
Starting point is 00:46:36 initiative. Like, you know, they want a better life somewhere, so we should give them a better life. And then once they're gone, we'll, you know, turn Gaza into the Riviera. In the West Bank, so what these new real estate laws do is. is it makes it really easy for Israelis to go directly to Palestinians in the West Bank and buy their land from them. And that is significant for a number of reasons. The main thing is that since 67, there's been, well, since before 67, actually, from Ottoman times, it was illegal for Arabs in the West Bank to sell land. land to non-Arabs, to sell their land to non-Arabs.
Starting point is 00:47:22 And then that also was law in the Jordanian rule period. And once the occupation began, the occupation actually has to uphold the laws of the occupied people. And so what that means is that the Jordanian law around Palestinian land not being able to be sold directly to Israelis has been in effect for all these years. Now, there's been a workaround, which is basically that settlers can go and register a company inside of the West Bank, get what's called a transaction permit, and go through these sort of bureaucratic steps, and then they can use that to then buy land directly from a
Starting point is 00:47:58 Palestinian, since now they're doing it as like a company. But what those bureaucratic steps did was, number one, it made it much more difficult to pull off fraud and forgery, which is really common when Palestinians don't want to sell their land. Settlers will sometimes just forge documents. But notably, what it did was it gave the Israeli military the ability to basically veto any of these purchases. And the reason that's significant is because, remember, the Israeli military for all of its cruelty and brutality does not necessarily have the same agenda, or up until recently, I should say, has not had the same agenda as a settlement move. They're more concerned with maintaining stability and, frankly, ruling with an iron fist. But what that means is that for settlers to go, like, deep into a Palestinian city, for example, in area A where they're not supposed to be at all, that creates a problem for the military. They then have to go in there and protect them, and they're obligated to protect settlers wherever they go.
Starting point is 00:48:58 And so before these new laws, what you've been seeing is settlers peeling off from their settlements, going deep into Palestinian territory, setting up what are called illegal outposts, which means they've not gotten Israeli approval for them. And then from those outposts, they go in terrorized communities. They provoke, you know, a response sometimes. Israeli military comes in. And, you know, the area is eventually cleared out. And then it becomes an Israeli settlement. What they've done now is created a legal route to do all of that. So anybody can now go through the records, which have now been opened up.
Starting point is 00:49:30 So this is another thing. They opened up the public registry. So you can see who owns plots of land anywhere in the West Bank, including in Area A. You can go directly to these people. and offer to buy it from them. And now the military can't step in and say, you can't buy it there because that would create a problem for us. How, but how do they get around the idea that the occupied territory law remains?
Starting point is 00:49:57 Of not being able to sell to a non-eye. The new cabinet decision literally just repeals that. It just says that that is no longer the law. But based on what authority? How do you repeal? How does Israel, I mean, I understand how they violate international laws, but how does Israel repeal a international law? Well, that's not an international law.
Starting point is 00:50:24 That's, you know, a Jordanian law. But the law that the Jordanian law would supersede it, Israel has no authority to change that law, theoretically, but I guess it's just sort of you and what are. No, I mean, you're right to point that out. Technically, it should not be possible. But that is literally like the system that Smotritch has built where, you know, everything that he's doing is still technically, legally within the military occupation. All of it technically legally still is, you know, ostensibly towards maintaining security or stability or one of these things.
Starting point is 00:51:03 In this case, they're calling it, you know, an anti-Semitic law. and so they give themselves sort of permission to revoke it, you know, preventing Jews from buying land here, even though it's preventing everybody who's not from there, from buying land there. And they just create sort of like loopholes within loopholes within loopholes. So they legalize something that is, you know, a direct violation of international law.
Starting point is 00:51:23 That is the way the entire settlement project has worked from the beginning was like finding these loopholes, building these like sort of shell or shadow governments within the military occupation to approve things that are against international law. technically doing it within international. I mean, it's endlessly confusing. And that's why it works. Because Donald Trump, you know, nobody's going to explain that to him.
Starting point is 00:51:45 He just, you know, he, so, yeah, you get it. So they're basically thrown open the doors to private investors or private buyers of this land. What is the reviving state-back land purchases? Before that, I just want to say one more thing. I want to just put a fine point on the fact that, number one, the settlement leaders, have come out and just said openly, this is a huge business opportunity for us. We can now expand our industrial zones. We can build new factories.
Starting point is 00:52:14 We can build new roads. We can build new health systems. So they are now looking at Area A, which again is like the, you know, maybe 20% or less of the land in the West Bank. They're now seeing this as places where they can now build. But most notably, again, like they, the settlers, these well-financed settler groups are now going to be dictated. policy because the military is obligated to follow them wherever they go. So they will literally be, you know, buying up a pot of land deep in Palestinian territory. The military will then go in there with them.
Starting point is 00:52:50 And now there will just be, you know, a settlement getting built in the middle of Palestinian city with the military there. So it really is a sort of seismic change. The second thing that you mentioned, it basically, it's the same idea, except it just gives the state the ability to buy. land directly from Palestinians, which they have not been able to do in, I think, since the 70s or the 80s. Now, it should be said that, like, they use endless other tools, like declaring something a nature preserve or, you know, a protected heritage site or any one of these things.
Starting point is 00:53:24 And now they're, again, just giving themselves another route to be able to buy land. And so, you know, the reason I brought up the decisive plan was because, again, like, if you are a Palestinian living in a community that is being tormented, or your livelihood has gone to shit, and your life is just much worse than it was, and somebody just approaches you with a lot of money and offers to buy you out, that is what Smotrich says in his plan. We will pay you to leave, and you will get a better life.
Starting point is 00:53:58 And so they're greasing the wheels for that now, basically. You also cite Israeli enforcement inside areas A, and B, which we talked about already. And also, we can see that the real estate deals that they allow end up being the entree. Like, the military couldn't, they can't refuse because it's the law that they have to go and protect these settlers who have, at least in the way that the law has been changed, legally bought this land in the context of Palestinian territory or ostensibly Palestinian territory. Talk about the stripping of Palestinian municipal authority around religious sites. Again, I guess they're like they're superseding whatever sort of like laws that existed there,
Starting point is 00:54:52 but they seem, the Israeli government seems to like be able to sidestep this stuff. Yeah, I mean, it's focused on two areas. One of them is around the, the, the, uh, the, uh, Ibrahim Mosque, or what is also known as a cave of the patriarchs in Hebron, which is a holy site for Muslims and for Palestinians. And it's in Hebron, which is one of the more, I'll say, interesting places in the West Bank, because it is a Palestinian city with a settlement literally built, like, inside of it and around it. And so because of this situation, they actually had to create their own set of policies in the 90s. the Hebron protocol, I believe that's what it was called, which again divided up municipal responsibilities. So it was like an Oslo Accords within the Oslo Accords, specifically around
Starting point is 00:55:42 Hebron, because this is a sensitive area for a number of reasons, including because the Ibrahim Mosque is there. What they've done is now just tossed that agreement in the trash and said, Israel, the Israeli civil administration now strips authority away from the Palestinian Council that had authority there, which will prevent Palestinians from building. prevent them from zoning, and we'll give the settlers there the ability to just expand their settlements into Palestinian territory. Similar thing happening near Bethlehem by Rachel's tomb, where they are just basically stripping away the powers from Palestinians to control, you know, building and real estate and whatnot in this sacred area and just giving it over to the Israelis.
Starting point is 00:56:28 please. Let's lastly talk about a bill in the Knesset that installed. You had talked about the sort of like the way, the interplay between archaeology and the expansionist desires in Israel. And they figured out a workaround. Tell us how that all went down. Yeah, I mean, this is, it's interesting because, like, you know, these new cabinet decisions already take care of a lot of this problem in in giving Israel the right to just go into areas A and B to protect their heritage sites. But in parallel, there's been this fight going on for years where basically the, you know, archaeology, as we've talked about before, is like a really big deal in Israel. I mean, if you think about it, the state of Israel, it's like claim to the land is grounded in. in these sort of biblical, historical, you know, moments that took place in the land of Israel. And in the West Bank, what they call Judea and Samaria, it is in fact true that a lot of the Old Testament, you know, such as it was written, takes place in those areas.
Starting point is 00:57:47 And so Israel has long used archaeology as a sort of justification to go into Palestinian villages and take control and accuse the, the Palestinians there of, like, desecrating their Jewish heritage and whatnot. But one of the challenges they've faced is that, again, legally, the Israeli government is not allowed to play a role in governance in the West Bank. And so what that has meant is that within the military, again, what's called the civil administration, there was like an archaeology unit that oversaw the archaeology sites in the West Bank. what what they had been trying to do was basically dismantle that and give all those powers to the Israeli antiquities authority, which is the official government body that oversees archaeology in
Starting point is 00:58:38 Israel. And this is significant because, again, it's basically erasing the green line and just saying that we're now treating archaeological sites here and the towns around these archaeological sites, like any other place in Israel. Our government can go in and they can, you know, use their normal. zoning rules and, you know, demolitions and whatnot. So that is significant. What happened, though, it's kind of interesting, was that the antiquities authority itself, as well as the sort of the like archaeology community in Israel came out fervently against this. And the basic reasoning
Starting point is 00:59:15 was because these, you know, law-abiding archaeologists, and what I mean by that is the ones who are not directly violating international law by excavating in occupied territory in the West Bank, they were afraid that if their body, if their archaeology body was just combined with the illegal archaeology taking place in the West Bank, then boycotts that are already taking place against settlers and illegal excavations would spill over to them. And basically, they would all be implicated. And, you know, it should, it's worth pointing out that, like, most of these people, with a few exceptions, most of these archaeologists and the antiquities authority never had a problem with the illegal archaeology with the occupied excavations
Starting point is 01:00:00 until it could potentially affect them in the form of boycotts. So anyway, they come out and they start railing against it, and ultimately that bill stalls in the Knesset. Fast forward a year or so, this new bill that is currently flying through the Knesset basically creates a parallel antiquities authority. It's called the Judean Samaria Heritage Authority, I believe. And by doing that, again, it, you know, in their mind, insulates the Antiquities Authority and the Israeli archaeologists from being complicit in what they're doing, but it is still a government body that will be overseen by the heritage minister, Amichai El-Jahu,
Starting point is 01:00:45 who is a true fanatic. He's in Ben-Gabir's party. it will then give them the power to oversee archaeology in the West Bank. So they have, again, Sam, like, found a workaround to not have to... It's like a cutout to do the illegal stuff that theoretically won't in any way tarnish the reputations of the rest of the archaeology community. And so they theoretically won't put up any stink about what they're doing because they're not associated with it. And again, that's exactly a microcosm of the larger project that Smokchurch has pulled off, where he actually created a shadow government within the defense ministry so that he could just do, you know, fulfill all of his settler dreams without implicating the Israeli state by doing it outside the, you know, the confines of the military occupation.
Starting point is 01:01:45 So everything they're doing is discuss. to adhere to international law, to be sort of niche policies. You know, what's funny is that, you know, Nanyahu often does not typically talk about, like, declaring sovereignty over the West Bank. But Smotrich and the settler leaders are constantly, every time they put out one of these policies, they say, this is another move towards, you know,
Starting point is 01:02:13 declaring Jewish sovereignty across the West Bank. We have, you know, Smokcher just said, we have buried the Palestinian state once and for all. So, like, they are disguising these policies in a way that hopefully they won't get international attention in the way that, like, an official formal blanket declaration would, but they just can't help themselves. And they have to keep shouting from the rooftops about how they're taking over the West Bank. But that seemingly is not enough for, you know, the international community to actually, you know,
Starting point is 01:02:43 put out some threats that have some real teeth and stop them from doing it. Well, this seems to be the M.O., right? Like, I mean, you could follow that, that dynamic of we're going to isolate the entity that's going to do the bad stuff from ostensibly the greater body politics. So it's a smotech in the military. It's the archaeology. It's Netanyahu government as opposed to Israel. I mean, that's the M.O. just making accountability sort of at always at arm's length for everybody.
Starting point is 01:03:24 The one thing that I don't even want to say hold out hope, but that could theoretically be a thorn in their side is that I think the 19th or 20th point in Trump's peace plan says that the Palestinians, you know, should have a path to statehood and to self-determination. And it's incredible how Nanyahu, like every day, says there will never be a Palestinian state. There will never be a terror state in the middle of Israel. You know, Smotrish, like I said yesterday or the day before, said we've buried the Palestinian state once and for all. So while I do not expect Trump to, you know, get into the weeds of these laws, these, you know, little like death by million cuts annexation.
Starting point is 01:04:09 But perhaps somebody could whisper in his ear, hey, they're openly talking. about defying your peace plan, you've got to stop this. And again, I'm not holding my breath, but the fact that statehood is, Palestinian statehood is in that plan and the Israeli leaders keep on saying it's never going to happen, one could, one would hope that that will, you know, prove to be a thorn on their side. But that's number 19. And so if you get 18 out of 20, that's pretty good. Yeah, 18 out of 20. Well, you made a prediction that following today's meeting that Trump would turn to Netanyahu and say, no, no annexing the West Bank, right?
Starting point is 01:04:55 And Netanyahu would just sort of smile and not really respond. I guess we'll have an opportunity later to see if that was the case. I just want to encourage people to go over and check out your substack. because in addition to this latest piece, there's a great piece. I mean, it's a couple of weeks. Well, it's about a month old now. But the journey that you took and followed in the release of Muhammad Abraham's journey himself, a 16-year-old boy.
Starting point is 01:05:39 An American of Palestinian descent who had split, you know, spend summers there in the way that, I don't know, people are like, oh, my grandparents live up in Maine. I'm going to go up to Maine for the summer type of thing. He spent a year, nearly a year in prison, and I can't recommend enough people to go check out that story. It's a very, it's a very sort of like personal story indicative of what's going on there. It's fascinating. So really appreciate it. Jasper Nathaniel, the site is Infinite Jazz on Substack, and we will link to that at majority.com and in the podcast and YouTube descriptions. Thanks again.
Starting point is 01:06:25 Thanks, Sam. Take care, guys. Great work. Really appreciate it. All right, folks. we will take a break, head into the fun half, wherein we will endeavor to have fun. And we will take some phone calls and take your IMs.
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Starting point is 01:07:11 Emma Vigland is going to join Francesca Fierantini at what location? Dynasty Typewriter. Dynasty? Is that a place? Yes. Dynasty Typewriter is a comedy video. Why do we got to be that? Why? Why is so weird.
Starting point is 01:07:30 Come on, guys. It's in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. It's a premier comedy venue in the city. Dynasty typewriter. Where is it? It'll be at franchise Penny Farthing. MacArthur Park. Okay.
Starting point is 01:07:45 So that's sort of towards downtown, right? Yes, exactly. Yeah. We didn't, that didn't even exist when I, when I, back in the day when I was there. Typewriters actually existed Typewriters existed They were just coming out And so people were naming a lot of stuff after typewriters
Starting point is 01:08:08 But that's why I think it's so anachronistic now So the name of the place again is typewriter what Dynasty Typewriter Dynasty Typewriter But go see the show you can get tickets Are there still tickets left? Yes All right still tickets available
Starting point is 01:08:28 I mean it's a month off March 22nd. I have a link in the show notes. Who else is going to be on that show? The flyer just says Emma and Francesca. I mean, that's all you need. Tomoff link says Emma's going to her natural habitat. Other people's shows.
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Starting point is 01:09:33 Majority Discord, great place to connect with people who may be planning or dealing with ice situations, or just talk about movies, or maybe you're starting a campaign, you're running for something. You want to see if there's people who live in your neighborhood. Let me tell you something. there are majority report listeners everywhere in the country. And in just about every country on the globe, in the globe? I would say on. On the globe.
Starting point is 01:10:12 In the globe, sounds like they're in like a hollow earth type situation. Yes, it is bad timing for the Discord news-wise. Starting in March, and this is not just our Discord. It is Discord as a service. Discord is rolling out age verification. This is according to, I think, 404. Steve Bonafield, Stevie Bonafield is writing.
Starting point is 01:10:51 You will automatically set all users' accounts to teen appropriate unless you demonstrate that you're an adult. So it says, quote, for most adults, age verification won't be required as Discord's age inference model uses account information such as account tenure, device, and activity data, and aggregated high level patterns across Discord communities. Users who aren't verified as adults, however, will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels and won't be able to speak in Discord's, live stream like stage channels, and we'll see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friends requests from potentially unfamiliar users, which is not a real bad thing, and DNs from unfamiliar users will automatically be filtered into a separate inbox. So you, one of three things will happen.
Starting point is 01:12:00 one, you'll automatically be verified as an adult because of your past usage. Two, you will be required if you want more sensitive content than a teenager would be allowed. You'd have to put in your ID. Or three, you just do the teenage version. Now, the majority report discord is, I would imagine, very teen friendly. We try and don't have any sensitive information. But in the main, a little scary when you have to, I don't know, whatever the requirement, like take a picture of your passport or something like that. I myself am a G-rated person.
Starting point is 01:12:55 People know this about me. And so, or PG, I think I would be. So, you know, I would not do that. No, you could start a little thread on Apple, different apples that you like. That seems like what you'd be doing on the Discord. Yep. Macintosh.
Starting point is 01:13:19 That's your favorite, right? Get the hell out of here. Macintosh is fine. I didn't mean to be so inflamed. in the free half. Yeah, no. I mean, it's a little straightforward. And it's not, it's not static.
Starting point is 01:13:35 It's not static. It's not static. I mean, it changes. It really, actually, honestly, it depends on the year. Because different apples perform better in different years. It's a function of like, you like the 2019 Macintosh. Honestly, like that. That was a good year for McIntosh.
Starting point is 01:13:54 I remember that. Trying to think of like, what was the, best Apple. Like, uh, Snapdragon underperformed this past year. But it was great, uh,
Starting point is 01:14:05 the two years prior. So. Fascinated. I cannot tell you how many people in my personal life say just like, are you this boring on purpose? They say it to my face. Ramona Frankenstein says,
Starting point is 01:14:29 I will say it shocked me just how many MR. listeners are in New Hampshire. The fact that I've had multiple people be like, wait, are you the Ramona Frankenstein? It's extremely funny. I want all of us to do a reverse free state project thing and turn New Hampshire into a socialist utopia. Also, check out the AM Quicky at amquicky.com. Three days a week. Whitney and Corey provide you a great breakdown of the news, super quick, but super relevant from a lefty perspective. And if you want five days a week, it's a couple extra bucks. Matt, what's happening in the Matt Lecky and Media universe?
Starting point is 01:15:13 Yeah, a new episode of Left Reckoning. It went up yesterday talking with Greg Stoker and Etienne Rosas about their campaigns for Texas Congress, which people should check out. And also talking with Robert Skbarra about Epstein and the recent email revelations and how to think of his sort of connections. So check that out. Patreon.com. So I's left for Rekning to get our Sunday show this weekend.
Starting point is 01:15:35 All right, folks, see you in the fun half. Three months from now, six months from now, nine months from now. And I don't think it's going to be the same as it looks like in six months from now. And I don't know if it's necessarily going to be better six months from now than it is three months from now. But I think around 18 months out, we're going to look back and go like, wow. What? What is that going on? It's nuts.
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Starting point is 01:16:36 Let me finish. Where is this coming from, dude? But dude, you want to smoke this? Seven, eight? Yes. Yes? It is you. Oh, it's me.
Starting point is 01:17:00 I think it is you. Who is you? No sound. Every single freaking day. What's on your mind? We can discuss free markets and we can discuss capitalism. I'm going to go start life. Libertarians.
Starting point is 01:17:14 They're so stupid though. Common sense says, of course. Gobbled e-cook. We fucking nailed him. So, what's the way? 79 plus 21. Challenge met. I'm positively quivering.
Starting point is 01:17:23 I believe 96, I want to say. 857. 210. 35. 501. 1 half. 3-8s. 911 for instance.
Starting point is 01:17:31 $3,400, $1,900. $6.5,4, $3 trillion sold. It's a zero-sum game. Actually, you're making anything less. But let me say this. Poop. You can call it satire. Sam goes satire.
Starting point is 01:17:46 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. Hi, folks. Folks. It's just the week being weeded out, obviously.
Starting point is 01:18:06 Yeah, sundown guns out. But you should know. People just don't like to entertain ideas anymore. I have a question. Who cares? Our chat is enabled, folks. I love it. I do love that.
Starting point is 01:18:27 Got a jump. You got to be quick. I get a jump. We're already late, and the guy's being a dick. So scrum. Sent to a gulaw? Outrage. Like, what is wrong with you?
Starting point is 01:18:44 Love you, bye. Love you. Bye-bye.

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