The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3590 - Trump Fatigue Setting in?; Voters Beg Democrats to Grow a Spine w/ Heather 'Digby' Parton

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

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Thursday, casual thursday. That's what we call it. And Friday, casual Shabbat. The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. It is Friday. February 27, 2026. My name is Sam Cedar. this is the five-time award-winning majority report.

We are broadcasting live steps from the industry ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Heather Digby, Parton, contributing writer to Salon and the proprietor of the Uber blog, Hullabaloo. Also on the program today, no deal after yesterday's Iran talks,

J.D. Vance claims, however, we will not be in a protracted war. Epstein files contain an explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused a minor. However, the bottom line is DOJ still supposed to release it. Netflix drops out of bidding Paramounts wins its bidding war for Time Warner, meaning they will own just about everything. However, at the very least, the California AG Bonta has some serious

antitrust concerns and his beginning is investigation. There's going to be a lot more state investigations as well on this. This is not a done deal. Good. Unions tell Chuck Schumer, stay out of Maine, specifically the Senate primary, but probably

also don't go to Maine. There's enough New Yorkers up there anyway. We're good. Democratic leadership reverses, speaking of Chuck Schumer, will push for votes on war powers resolution on Iran. That's got to have been hard for him. No side deals.

DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients. That's just what they admit. Denver authorizes police to protect anti-ice protesters. Top federal judge in Minnesota threatens criminal contempt charges versus Trump's ICE officials, and it sounds like this time they mean it, mean it. Mom Donnie secures a release of a Columbia student from ICE abduction pitches Trump on a $21 billion affordable housing build in New York City.

Anthropics says Pentagon's so-called final offer still unacceptable. Anthropics still supposedly insisting on human safeguards for drones and surveillance. Pakistan and Afghanistan in near open war. Bill Clinton to testify by in front of the House Committee investigating

Epstein today. Hillary Clinton went there yesterday. And the British Green Party wins big over labor in a by-election in a Northern England member of parliament race. All this and more

on today's majority report. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks so much for joining us. It is Casual Friday. Casual Friday. I'm not even wearing a collar. That's how casual it is. I'm going to say this is as casual as Sam's ever been on Friday. No, I've actually... I have a rotation of like three or four shirts

in the winter. I mean, maybe the Thanos tank top was the most casual. Oh, yeah. How could I forget? Do you know that that's your contact photo in my phone? So when you call me, that's the picture that shows up. That's one I hand out on my, that's my LinkedIn profile that I give to people as well. Yeah, no, that's not.

That's a headshot you provide diners when you autograph it and ask you to hang it up. Actually, it's really something I should do. But now, my other shirt is, I, I, I, I, I got screwed up because of vacation with laundry. And so my other shirt, so, you know, but this could be the norm. I could start going colorless on Fridays because everybody else is getting more casual. Let's pop the breaks. Let's not get too crazy.

Or you could just go the complete opposite way and do the saga and jettie and wear like a three-piece suit for every broadcast. There's a suit in the sauna. Yeah, I. That is highly unlikely. Yeah, I think so too. I would have to then go get a suit. I have one suit. I'd be concerned.

Yes. Sam's reverse fettermaning. We should say on Tuesday, there's some big primaries that you should be aware of, obviously, in Texas. Also, in North Carolina, Emma spoke to Nita Alam. Really, really significant race against an APEC. funded candidate. She says she swore off APAC, but Hakeem Jeffries and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has been funneling APAC money to her kind of secretly. Surprise, surprise. So Nita Alam in North Carolina's fourth, if you're in North Carolina,

please go out and vote for her. Yes, that is, it's going to be huge. I mean, that is, it's another, this is another, I mean, we keep seeing more and more indications. that, and we'll talk about this with Digby, about the critiques of the Democratic Party coming from Democrats and the perspective of Democrats, at least in terms of those who come out and vote for a primary, the people who take the most ownership of the party. Really?

I mean, that's what, when we talk about coming out off your election primary, I mean, that's what we're talking about, right? I mean, the people that were most engaged with the party. And increasingly, we are seeing them look for more progressive candidates, candidates that are on top of being sort of like progressive in a whole host of issues and in terms of where their support comes, also rejecting the unconditional or any support of the Israeli government in the wake of, and really not we're not even fully out of the wake frankly of the genocide in Gaza and what they're doing in West Bank, etc., etc.

So super, super important to get out and vote. Those are the biggest races, I guess, in Texas and in North Carolina. But we'll see how we're going to cover that on Tuesday. But yes, check that out. And that is a huge story that, I think it was drop site, right? It was sludge, actually. Oh, sludge, right. Those guys are great as well.

Yep, yep. This, you know, the, we hear, it's very difficult. I just saw like a clip of Ken Hassett on with Cudlow, talking about how they cut 300,000 federal workers. And has anybody seen a job? difference in services, he said, and of course, Cudlow and Hassett haven't, because to the extent that they interact with government services, it's things like the IRS, and all they get is like, we have more breathing room to cheat, essentially, because of the way that the IRS has been

decimated. They don't care about the functioning of government in any way whatsoever. And both from an ideological standpoint and also where they're positioned in society, all they know is that they're paying less than taxes, and they got more room to cheat on it. But the fact is, even though it's difficult, and this is why things like getting rid of the filibuster becomes even more and more important, is it sometimes is very hard to know what the implications are of what the Republicans do, or for that matter, but the Democrats do, both good and bad.

But here is a moment on that C-SPAN call-in program, which just brings it home what the implications are. Very easy to be sitting back and going like, people are going to get dumped from Medicaid, or there's going to be like tens of dollars cut for each person on food stamps. That doesn't mean anything. Watch this clip. I went and had my annual physical yesterday.

I'm 65 years old. I'm legally blind. I'm on disability. I went to my doc, and I lost 28 pounds in the last year. I did not need to lose 28 pounds. I did not try to lose. 28 pounds. I lost the 28 pounds because I cannot afford to eat anymore. Under Biden, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Under Biden, I was able to put $100 a month away for food, along with my snap. And I did okay. I could get fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and meat. It is just me. But now, with Grocery prices so high, propane, electricity out of this world.

I now only allow myself $65 a month for food. Sharon, are you on SNAP benefits? Let me tell you. Under Joe Biden, I received $80 a month for SNAP. That was taken away from me under Donald Trump. He took it away. He gave me $24 a month. I did receive that for a couple of months.

then he took it down to $12.15 a month. I said, screw you. So I'm not doing that no more. So now I get $65 a month, Mimi. And for them people out there, all these Republicans that are doing so flipping well right now, I have three potatoes. I have a half a tomato. I have three bananas, one apple, one can of soup,

I have a loaf of a bread, one egg, and one can of green beans. I do not get paid until the third. I am disability blind. I cannot drive a car. I'm 15 miles out of town, so I am not able to just, oh, trot my butt down to the food shelf. I used to volunteer at the food shelf. I can't even do that anymore. I don't understand.

I'd like somebody to explain to me. Why is it always the poor people that are helping the poor people? I don't understand. But what I want to say, Mimi, is that it's really close coming like that man said, the end is coming near, and it can't be any more true for me. I mean, there are probably tens, if not hundreds, even arguably millions of stories like this in one fashion or another. I mean, and I guess easily millions, when you expand it out from things directly in terms of like food assistance. You know, somebody's talking about how they've lost Medicaid and they're permanently disabled because of it or someone they know has died because of it because they can't afford whatever.

And these stories are happening every day and it's very rare we get an opportunity to hear them. And these are the implications on a daily basis of, I mean, even just what we're seeing at HHS in terms of like spreading the vaccine skepticism. There are parents out there who've lost their children. They made the decision not to get the vaccine because they didn't feel like their kids needed it or, you know, they've been told or, and soon it's going to be harder for people to get vaccine. scenes because of the way that HHS is scheduling them and providing access to them. And there's just going to be all of these sort of atomized stories of people suffering in one form or another. And that's the implications of this. I mean, this is the economy that we're living in right now. The corporate profits are at a record high, higher than they've ever been.

Wages are stagnating. Credit card debt has hit a record high. It keeps hitting highs over and over again. Subprime auto delinquencies keep hitting their highest levels and breaking records on that front. And the Trump administration and the Republicans cut food stamps. to the bone. They cut Medicaid, health care for low income people to the bone.

They destroyed the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies so that people who are buying their health care are now going to be paying double or dropping their health care. Or not having any health care at all. I mean, she's like, that's what

that caller was saying, like $12 a month. You know, what, it's insulting. It's, and why is it Always poor people helping poor people. Like what really got me was when she talked about how she volunteered at the previously to help feed people in her community and now she's the one who has to kind of rely on some of these services Like this is the richest country in the history of the world

Of the world and we're starving grandmothers Is Kathy Hokel hear this about this whole tax to rich people? Yeah, because like I I I do appreciate the difference that she stresses under Biden and Trump. We're having this conversation right now. And the only, the solutions that Zoran pointed out is like property taxes and taxing the rich. The other solution is to cut more services. Who needs to make the sacrifice now? We need to dictate to rich people that they make the sacrifice for the foreseeable future. And honestly, what kind of sacrifice are we talking about here? I mean, I want to hear them. It is not. I mean, it's not, I mean, it's honestly like the,

the, the two. Gavin Newsome too, by the way. fighting this billionaire tax. And let's be clear here. When Trump during the state of the union address talks about how he's lifted people off of food stamps, this is what they mean. Yeah, brag about it. People can lift themselves out of food stamps

if they have the opportunity to make more money. But if there's a policy change and food stamps is cut, nobody's being lifted out of food stamps. People are being dropped. out of food stamps. Let's be clear on that. All right. We'll have more to talk about this with Digby in a moment. That Gavin knew some stuff, incidentally, has sat with me very poorly over the past couple of days.

Like, just his 9-7-6 on his SATs. And, you know, I've been times not been culturally normal. Like, I was way out there with gay marriage. But as we're saying, as he's fighting a bill. trying to tax the rich so that his so people in california don't feel the implications of this gutting of medicaid that's what he's doing right now in democratic states this is where this is the test yeah to be fair he said culturally normal not uh not non-culturally normal that's why you're talking about taxing rich people that's not culturally normal that's uh come on come on i'm just one of the guys

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So, here we are again. it is another state of the union. We've probably talked about, I don't know, 15, 20 state of the unions in the past. Probably. This one was uniquely, it was the longest, at least of this century, and maybe the longest one ever that was televised. And I have to say, hard to top this in terms of boringness. He's just sort of like lost his luster. only 28 million people watched it, which is a lot,

unless you compare it to like every other one in the past 10 years. It's less than like 8 million less than the least watched one over the course of the past 10 years. Broadly, what was your thinking about this? I mean, I know the State of the Union is not that much of a big deal, but it is sort of like an interesting snapshot in time. Yeah, it is. I agree with you.

It was incredibly boring. And I feel for all of you who had to sit through it, I think all of us probably did. And it was pretty, pretty hard. But, you know, it's interesting that it was the longest because the second longest was a speech by Bill Clinton back in the 90s. And you may remember it's him. And, you know, he was known for, you know, long-windedness too, like Trump. But when he came out on the other end of those speeches, having actually persuaded vast numbers of people, on policy. He had a unique ability to go on and on and on, but it was a speech. It was an actual speech

where he would talk about policies and express why he thought it was a good idea to do certain things. I mean, agree with them or not on what those policies were. He was very, very good at that particular thing. And people would, you know, the next day, go, boy, that was long, but geez, he's good. You know, he'd always get a little bump and, you know, it was a thing. Trump is the opposite. The more he goes the more people are put off by him. He's completely lost the ability to read the room. And in truth, this was not really a speech, was it? It was more like a pageant of some sort.

I mean, I don't know how much of the time that was spent in it was talking about policy, but it was very little compared to the awards ceremonies. It felt like an awards banquet at like some trade meeting. Exactly. When they trolling out the hockey team, As a fan of that sport, it was incredibly difficult to watch. But it was like he spent, it was a little bit of policy. Then he'd do the weave.

And then a bunch of lies. Then hockey team, which they're so desperate to capture the one whiteest sport in the country that is somewhat sympathetic to them because they have to enclose around culture. Then some policyish and a bunch of lies. Then, oh, Melania is a movie star. And that's what it felt like the entire thing. was. It was. It was just one after the other. And, you know, it was also, you know, it was, I felt like it was just disrespectful to some of those people. I mean, some of it, like, you know,

the old guy at the end who got that Congressional Medal of Honor, I assume he deserved to get that. And to put him on there at the, at the end of Trump's, you know, so he could bask in the sort of stolen valor of this guy who deserved to have his own ceremony. I mean, those, those Medal of Honor ceremonies are kind of a big deal for the people who get them. And, you know, they're very solemn. They take place in the White House. They invite the whole family. And everybody, they get a big speech about, you know, what it was they did.

And, you know, I mean, to put him up there, you know, as part of Trump's pageant, as part of his, you know, W. You know, extravaganza, the spectacle. It just seemed, I mean, I felt kind of creepy about that, too. And certainly that the USA chants and the. And then, you know, we have to, let's talk about the Republicans because they really, I'm sorry. And we can talk about the Democrats, too. I mean, I personally felt like none of them should go. But I do believe that if they were going to go and Trump turned to them, pointed at them and said,

these people are crazy and they're the reason that everything's going wrong in this country, they should have all stood up on Moss and just in a very dignified manner, just walked out of the thing. They didn't have to say anything. They didn't have to scream anything. Just go. That was so beyond the bail. And meanwhile, the Republicans, they're doing close-ups of the Secretary of War. Pete Hags said, cheering like a, you know, like a racist monkey over the whole thing.

And just it was sickening, watching those Republicans jump up out of their seats. It was like they were at a wrestling match, chanting and clapping and cheering over just utter nonsense. You know, the whole thing, it was very, very difficult to watch. And he seemed angry through the whole thing. I mean, did you think that? Oh, yeah. There's a couple of things. First off, that point you make about when he would turn to, because he did that a lot,

like, oh, you guys are crazy. How could you not stand for that? You're crazy. Jeffrey's whole thing that he told the caucus was like no reaction. And ostensibly, it's right, because we want to show that we're dignified and we're above this. But your suggestion that at one point, they all get up at a very dignified. manner and leave would have isolated his behavior and made people pay more attention to his behavior and would have communicated the same thing but in a more cohesive way and would have

made them look better. We'll talk more about this. But I want to play this clip because this one is the only clip I think we played the day after on Wednesday. It seems like years ago now. Wednesday and but now we can see that there were focused testing on this and this was the creepiest

moment I thought throughout the whole thing and it really captured that dynamic between Republicans and the president and sort of like who he thinks

his list his audiences and I think he's right but I think that's a very very narrow band of people this is a focus test on that sort of

that moment where he's talking about winning and he's getting all sort of like creepy and it's it's almost like it's almost I I I I I be is too strong of a word but there is like a quality of like dominance and yes yeah like sure whipping your ass with a belt uh you know Pete Hagson you are loving it what watch people are asking me please please please Mr. President we're winning too much We can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country until you came along.

We're just always losing, but now we're winning too much. And I say, no, no, no, you're going to win again. You're going to win big. You're going to win bigger than ever. People are asking. You can see, I mean, scroll right through that one more time, Matt. Just scroll through it. Don't put it back up.

You can see how it drops like a rock as he starts to do that. Because, and, you know, that's encouraging. It's a sign to me that, you know, we only have 25% of those right-wing authoritarians, and only 25% of them were on the dials, and they're the ones who are enjoying it, but the rest of the people are like, oh, this is creepy. And they're sick of the way he talks that in that manner, I think, too. Like the winning thing, it's just people are like, I'm over. A decade of this.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It's tired. It is so tired. His stick is so tired. And in fact, when you looked at that, that was the navigator research people that did that dial-up thing. Every time he did one of his patented stick moments, you know, the golden age and winning and all this kind of crap, even a lot of the immigration stuff, which, you know, he's talking about the, you know, the ugliness.

I mean, it was a real snuff porn, you know, aspect of this thing, too. the lured, bloodthirsty stuff that he was talking about. I mean, it was really kind of turning my stomach. Whenever that would happen, the dial would go down. This is no longer playing to anybody but his most hardcore mega base. And, by the way, the Republicans in the audience who were cheering madly for that stuff. They loved it. Did you see J.D. and Johnson sitting behind him just chuckling.

Oh, that's just so, yeah, it was just bleak. You know, I mean, those two are really real pieces of work, too. And, and, you know, seeing those three up there, Johnson and J.D. Vance and Trump just kind of, you know, running through the shtick, it was, it was really pretty disgusting. And apparently, I mean, it did not play. It didn't play with people in the audience. It didn't play with, you know, with anyone who, you know, the snap polls that came out afterwards, he got nothing out of this. And that's of the people who actually watched it. And as you point out, it was not well, you know, well attended by the American people. They don't want to hear him anymore.

I don't think. No, I agree. And this is most relevant, you know, most state of the union addresses are not, again, terribly relevant in terms of like the fortunes. But, you know, Biden at one point, I think, like, helped himself, at least, you know, probably to our detriment, frankly, in indicating that he could. deliver a speech in his last date of the union address. I mean, he looked lucid during that one. But rarely... I think Trump could have, too.

If he'd come out there and given a normal speech, people would have been so relieved and gone, oh my God, you know, okay, well, maybe he's got a point. I mean, if he had just acted against type, he can't do that, of course, it's impossible for him. But if he had, if he had, you know, made the strategic decision to say, okay, I need to, you know, do something here

to try and turn these poll numbers around, maybe, you know, try something different, but he can't do it. But had he done it, I think people would have been shut. Ben Jones would have immediately said that he had become president. Exactly. That's exactly what I was thinking. But this is the point. The value of the state of the union in my mind, at least for our purposes, is to get a sense of where the different players and parties think they are. And Donald Trump thinks he's in decent shape. Or at the very least, that he doesn't have to, like, there is no indication from the Republican Party. It is like literally like they, they may be aware that the bridge is out down the road,

but they are peddled to the metal it. I mean, they have other plans. And we'll talk about this in a second because you've written about this. But I want to go to the Democrats, too, because, you know, I saw Summer Lee's speech from the WFP and she's sort of representing the progressive, not necessarily the progressive caucus specifically, but the progressives in general. and hers was very much about organizing and very much about getting

you know involved and get off your couch and come do stuff and you know we can do stuff that's her background too and that's your background and but it gives you a sense of like where the progressives are at this point it's not just about what do we do yeah what do we need to do something about this that's very inspiring to hear somebody say okay here's the plan you know

and it recognizes like progressives realize there's a hunger to do this there has been like you know like mom Donnie's campaign was sort of like huge in terms of involvement. I mean, you had like literally like one eighth of the electorate was volunteering for him. It was insane. And Platner's run up in Maine has gotten a lot of people are involved in Maine. Maine's not a big state, but it's gotten a lot of volunteers. And this is, you know, the organizing is becoming more and more of a, of like sort of the carrying cry,

not just about policies, but the organizing, like come and do stuff. Now, Spanberger gave a speech and, you know, I had very low expectations for it. And she, I would say she exceeded them.

I mean, she seemed to like, she just come off, but there was no call to action. There was, and Corey Robin had a, really fascinating critique that I think, you know,

Gavin Newsom this week went on some show and said, we need to not be, we need to be culturally normal. And he had said on, on that thing, culturally abnormal to him sounds like, you know, supporting trans rights or supporting even marriage equality. It sounded like he felt was like sort of abnormal. So he's been there, whatever. And being normal is, you know, not being able to read well or to get bad scores on your SATs and apparently being normal is also remembering what your SAT scores were 40 years after you've taken it or whatever but be that as it may Corey Robin had a piece where he's talking about the way

that she spoke and how so much of what the Republicans are doing was put in the passive voice and there was like this sense of trying to like maintain decorum and you know it was she chose Colonial Williams which is a pretend place, and with like sort of like values that, you know, it was from 1920. And but it was also sort of like, you know, like sort of like maintaining some type of like institutional decorum. And she spoke this way.

And it was very strange. Like, you know, he points out just a couple of things. It's not even ideological. It is like, it is like what you're focusing on. Tonight as we watched our nation's lawmakers gather for a joint session of Congress, we did not hear the truth from the president. and he's just like, why can't you just say at the state of the union, the president lied? He's a lying sack of shit.

He didn't lie. Yeah. Just say it. Or the president didn't tell the truth. She said something to the effect of like, she asked a question, is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family? It's like, this is a second order thing. He's not making your life affordable. Right.

Just say that. Why do we have to guess what he's doing? Why do we have to allow wiggle room here? Yes, tell us what he's doing. Well, I think, you know, it's funny because I'll cop to the fact that I wrote afterwards. I was actually, you know, relieved and, you know, mildly impressed with her speech, not because of that, but because of the fact that she didn't frame it all around nothing but kitchen table issues and, you know, that kind of thing. I was worried that it was just going to be.

She mentioned ICE, which I thought was really important in Minnesota. Well, yeah, and she talked about, you know, she talked about democracy. And, you know, she tried to frame it all as part of a whole, you know, sort of in a holistic way, which I appreciated because I'm really afraid that Democrats are so hooked on the affordability concept, which of course is, you know, vital and extremely important. But that they're not, they're going to miss the zeitgeist, which is not just about that. It's about the chaos and everything kind of coming apart. So I wrote that. And then, you know, I got a note from my friend Rick Pearlstein, a historian who, you know, he reads my stuff.

And he writes and he goes, what's wrong with you? We didn't say it like that. But it was sort of like, you know, this was terrible. He sent me the Cory Robin piece and I was persuaded by it. You know, I said, well, I'm open to that criticism. And the idea of speaking like a normal person, not in the Gavin Newsom's sense of it, because I don't even understand what he's talking about. I don't think he, maybe he doesn't know what normal people sound like anymore.

Yeah, I agree. But, you know, but in this case, you know, I felt like Robin had a good point. And I asked Rick, I said, well, who do you think does this about, you know, who does this? Who could I look to see who is speaking in normal terms? And he said two people, one of which I agree with and the other one I don't. The one that I don't agree with, he said he used Bernie as an example. And I think Bernie does a good job of talking about issues. But I don't think he sounds like a normal person.

I think he's kind of a, you know, a hectoring old guy who's kind of giving a, you know, lecturing people about, you know, why don't you understand what's going on here? You know, and I don't know that that's that effective with the broad spectrum. But that maybe that's just me. The other person that he mentioned was AOC, who I think is brilliant in this way. And the minute I read that, I went, well, of course, she's the one who does this the best. She's the one. Mom Dani does it too.

These are people who know how to speak in a way that sounds like, you know, well, like a normal person and are also able to speak in, you know, complex terms about important issues. This is extremely important. And just going back to Bill Clinton, say what you will about him. He also had that ability to sort of reach people on this sort of normal person, you know, level. And, you know, more people, I don't know if that's an innate talent. I don't know if it's something that can be learned, but I know it's something. I mean, it's vital that we have to have. And I think, you know, I take the criticism of my, you know, criticism to heart about Spanberger because what Rick was saying to me was, you know, this is the soft bigotry of low expectations. Yeah, well, that's what I was saying. This is all you want.

But my expectations are pretty low. But I'm, you know, increasingly I'm looking for that other, the response to the, you know, The third response is really sort of like the response I'm measuring. And there's some type of like holding pattern happening with the Democratic response. But yes, I mean, just look, the idea that you have two CIA, past CIA agents in a row, the Slotnik did it the year before. I mean, this is Chuck Schumer's pick. Chuck Schumer is the leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate.

So, you know, until we get rid of him, we're going to. get these people who are sort of religiously afraid of like actually addressing things head on. And, you know, we're seeing in the context of Iran, too, just to pivot to that for a moment. And then we can get back a little bit to the Democrats. Don Trump is out there, you know, talking all blustery. You and I went through this with Iraq, although there was like a three-year buildup. to the invasion of Iraq. They tried at least. They lied. They had had the, you know, had enough respect for the American people that they actually created a reason, you know, for doing it.

Trump isn't even trying. There is no reason for this. This is, this is completely evacuous, you know, emergency that he's created here. There's not what. He said he obliterated the nuclear capability. And now we're back and Steve Whitkoff says last week, Oh, they'll be up and running in a week if we let them. What? You know, how is that having anything? What is the reason for this? I mean, do you have any idea?

Because I don't. I don't have any idea why now, why this. What does this mean? Other than Netanyahu sees an opening. He wants to have, you wants to take this opportunity, I guess, to wipe out the Iranian leadership, which seems short-sighted to me too, because all the experts say, well, you know, be careful what you wish for. because the people who were standing in line to come next are not exactly great.

And all the protesters are out there. This is an absolute nightmare for them. They're killing them in vast numbers in Iran. This is not going to help. There's absolutely no way it's going to help. It's unclear to me. I mean, my sense is that he just is afraid to say no. And I don't think he has any interest.

in getting in a protracted war. I also just think that he's too weak to say no. So I think he wants a Venezuela is what he wants. I think that's exactly it. Get her done. Exactly it. But this is his theory of a foreign policy is a maximalist like punch in the face and then we can negotiate.

Now he's talking about how Delci Rodriguez is just so wonderful and working with him. But it's all. That is his theory. Yes. I mean, I think it's all basically, there's probably one. one thing he wants from the Iranian regime that has to do with somebody's oil contracts, somebody where, that's somebody his, you know, and that's what they'll get. And then they'll pretend like, we won. We won. We did it. And he'll get the Nobel Peace Prize. And that's,

you know, that's somehow or another. That's where that all is going to end up. You're right. It is, I think, his idea. You know, he has two things that he believes that he can make the world bend to his will. Tariffs got a little bit pushback on that, but he's not giving up. He's going to continue on that road. And the U.S. military. And those two things. I mean, he's threatening Greenland. He's threatening, you know, half the world with this stuff. He showed what we can do in Venezuela, so now he wants to do it in Iran to, or something like that, you know, the Iran version of Venezuela. He doesn't want to really have to do anything. He doesn't want to have to actually take any positive or negative action that's going to put him at risk.

and he's under the impression that he can get away with it. I mean, you know, look, megalomania, that is the word to describe him these days. He no longer has any restraint, and he believes that he can do all these things, and he has these economic and military tools at his disposal with no restraint whatsoever, you know, by Americans or anybody else, to stop him. And I find this terrifying, to be honest with you. I mean, this kind of thing, doing this thing, doing this thing, Iran, maybe he can just go and, you know, and blow up a few things and, you know, call it,

call it a day. I don't know. But this kind of stuff can go sideways like that. You know, you start playing around with this and you don't know where it's going to go. And he's fiddling in the Middle East. It's one thing to take out, you know, Maduro go in and kidnap Maduro in Venezuela. It's another thing to be messing around in the Middle East with massive military might. We've been there, you know? Yes, indeed. And let's, I mean, let's talk about the sort of like the the you know we've mentioned this sort of polling that shows that um democrats are um that republicans are considered extreme and out of touch and that democrats are considered out of touch only because and brian see put this up there if you can um uh just put this up there uh if you

can about the uh extreme yeah this graph uh the republicans are considered cruel extreme and uh Democrats not so much but Democrats are considered weak by you don't need to put it up we got Matt now he's got it he's got it

um this is from G. Eliot Morris this is a really good polling substack that people should check out it every day should get that it's vital actually strength and numbers yes Democrats are perceived as being empathetic they're there

but it but they're also And the funny thing is like they're also perceived as weak. You know, as weak. They're perceived as somewhat both competent and ineffective. Yes.

And principled but weak. And so, you know, there's a lot of, it's, there's a lot of like cross currents here. But when, when they are said to be out of touch,

it's not because, I mean, if you're empathetic, you're in touch. It's, it is, there is a concern that Democrats don't fight. And I think like this example of Chuck Schumer, let's play this. It's in the eye, in the, yes. This is just incredible. I mean, now that we're on the subject of Iran, I sent this to Sam with a,

we played this the other day. And, and, and because of the pushback from this, we're seeing that Schumer and, Jeffries have agreed to sort of like not prevent the War Powers Act resolution from coming for a vote as hard as the way before. Very big of them.

But listen to this. Like, you know, now I know Chuck Schumer is desperate to attack Iran. He has telegraphed that for ages. He voted against Obama's a nuke deal. He doesn't want side deals. He doesn't want tough talk. He's a communist.

Yes. I mean, he's doing this. because the internet and Yahoo's told them that that that's what they want. But this comes off as incredibly weak. Play this clip. Right. Closed door briefings are fine, but the administration has to make its case to the American people as something as important as this. That was his statement on the potential of Iran strike.

So this is where I lose my mind. This is a process-based argument about war crimes. He is not talking about. about the substance of strikes on Iran. He's talking about the fact that Trump's all over the lot. That's what he said last summer when we went through this over and over again. It's just like Trump's character. It's the way he's doing it. Not the substance of striking Iran and maybe getting us into another war in the Middle East. That's apparently our leader in the Senate. Well, I hate to break the news, but this is a longstanding democratic problem. This idea of using

the process, you know, critique, it goes, I mean, I'm remembering having flashbacks, painful flashbacks of the Iraq War resolution and going up to that, the run-up to that. I mean, granted, the, you know, George Bush and Jick Cheney did try to make a, you know, give a rationale for what they were doing. And they lied and made up a bunch of stuff, you know, about WMD and the rest. But the Democratic response to that over and over again was, well, you know, the problem is, is that he needs to go to the UN. And if the UN has to approve it, and if they approve it, well, then maybe, you know, but then he's got to come to the Senate and we have to have a debate. And he needs to persuade the American people and went on and on like that. And we're all just standing there screaming for a year. You know,

no, I don't care who he gets the approval of. It's wrong. And no, this is ridiculous. and they're lying. And this is something they come to over and over again, particularly in these war situations, and I'll take even back further than the Iraq War in 2003. Back to 1992, that scarred these old guys. This is one of the reasons why we need to get rid of all the guys, because they have too much muscle memory about this kind of stuff. In 1992, they did stand up to it, and they did, they were up until the very final days. the first Gulf War. The very final days, the Democrats were not there. They barely eeked out an agreement for the authorization to go in. And, you know, I mean, it was people like all the

presidential candidate people were all kind of, you know, wringing their hands, should I or shouldn't I, as per usual. And, you know, gosh, I just don't want to. And they ended up approving it barely after a big Sturman wrong about whether it was wise to go in. And the war was a absolute, you know, crushing success, right? They went in, they went in and out. They went in, they defeated, you know, they got the Saddam out of Kuwait. They did it.

So I think, of course, it ended up being just a prelude to the next Iraq war. But at the time, it was triumphant. George Bush, Sr. was marching around, you know, strutting around. They had done this thing. And the Democrats really felt like they'd been duped. And that they had been, that they had lost the argument and that they looked like losers and everything. And that was the muscle memory that they took into the 10 years later when George Bush Jr.

wanted to go into a rock again. So this is what happens. You know, they've got this kind of idea. And I don't, I don't think it's so much with the younger ones. I don't see this as much with the younger, with the younger, you know, representatives and senators where they're not sitting, they're not making those same arguments about process. I mean, some are, you know, that's just their temperament. but here's the thing i my sense is is that there were two types of animals at that time uh one who are using the process is a way of avoiding the question and and one who was actually thinking like

oh this is we've got to maintain the institution and the and the balance of power and the checks and balances and so these process things are important i feel like that latter group if they are savvy they now they're done done with that. They understand you can't go out there and argue process. You've got to argue what that's not the ends. That's a means. And you've got to argue what the ends are, which is we can't go into Iran. When Schumer is talking about process, he's doing it to avoid having to own his desire to attack Iran. And he knows that his base is against that. And I think that's the difference between now and 20 years ago when, you know, if Russ Feingold was still in the Senate, he would not be as

institutionalist, I think, as he was then, because he genuinely believed in the institution. But I think he was also the type of guy who would have a sense of like, that, we need to talk about ends. It'd be a Chris Murphy, you know, one of those guys who were up there going, no, we're not doing that. Probably more sincere. But be that as it may. Okay.

But, I mean, I think that's. I don't know. I'm looking at what Mom Dani was able to do this week with Trump. I'm looking at Mom Dani's poll numbers and what we're seeing, you know, North Carolina, that Nid alam race is going to be really huge to give us a sense of like, is this another example of the Democratic base, understanding that they've got to get more aggressive? across the board in terms of like policy positions and the way that we articulate these things

because well even if you look at the Spanberger thing you know as as you know maybe disappointing as as as we might have found it at least me in retrospect that the policy shift is pretty profound yeah for for for someone like her for the centrist the centrist are you know have moved and you know granted it's not enough but you know if if you believe in the overton window and whatever, it's wide open right now. I mean, it really seems to me like this is one of the best opportunities for progressives to make a case. People are listening. They're open to it. Donald Trump has inadvertently sort of, you know, given a, given an opening for the progressives to just boldly lay out their own agenda and say, look, it doesn't have to be like this. I mean, you know,

and that's actually new, I think, in this second term of Trump, because up to now, we've been, been in total defensive posture, where we've just been going, God, help us, you know, and we are in a defensive posture. Don't get me wrong. I mean, this is a fascist authoritarian attempt, and we have to be, you know, very careful not to go too far. But one of the things that I think is very interesting is that the woke critique that was just rampant, I mean, remember the Ron DeSantis campaign, which was woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, every other word. I don't, that's not, that it has lost its salience. I just do not feel that, you know, Trump said the other night is going on about how, you know, this whole transgender thing.

I mean, I don't even, do you know what that, that was about that one person? No, my understanding is that states can't kidnap people and take them across into other states. I don't think that was a big thing that was happening. I really don't think that that's been happening. But regardless, that stuff is just, it does not have the same salience that it had fairly recently. it's because of what he's done. It's like, open up, wait a minute. You know, now we're talking about things in much bigger, more profound, you know,

principal terms about values. And, you know, look, we're not those, we're not, you know, people are kind of waking up. Wake, excuse the vernacular, waking up to the idea that, you know, we're not a people or we shouldn't be a people that just loves to, you know, torture vulnerable others. I mean, that's just one of those things. And you see that in the streets of Minneapolis. as you see it around the country where actual, you know, regular normies are kind of going, wait, no, that was, I didn't, you know, we're not, we're not going to do that. And that's a huge opportunity for progressives. It really is. I mean, hopefully, you know, they walk into it and

use the opportunity wisely. Because, you know, be the tendency to be, you know, to be kind of stupid, too. Let's not, let's face it. Digby from your mouth to whatever entity could make it possible. Heather Parton, always a pleasure. Thank you so much. Of course, we will link to your salon pieces and to the Uber blog. I don't know how people wouldn't have that link already, a Digby's blog. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Thanks so much. Have a great weekend, everybody. You too. Bye-bye. You too. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick break. We're going to go into the fun half. I think so, right? And are you going to? Well, I am going to have to skedaddle. I've got to run.

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And I don't know. If you want to do a freebie Friday, it's up to you. It's your call. It's all on Emma. All right. I will say goodbye. How the fuck am I been supposed to sell this property?

Bye. Bye, Sam. Bye. Have a good weekend. I think I am going to do a freebie Friday with all of the power. What you are seeing is actually a display of estrogen. Yes. Can't you see?

Can't you see the estrogen emanating from me into the screen? The estrogen takeover commence. I still need to fix my soundboard. I need the thunder drop right now. I had a lot of estrogen. before I was kidnapped by the state and brought over to a mother place to have been transgendered. And aren't you grateful for that forcible kidnapping? It made you the person you are today. They're transing everybody. Never mind that your aunt is, you know, hungry. They're transing everyone,

including the basketball playing teenagers. I don't know how AOC is going to win in 2028 with her platform of having her version of secret police kidnapping children. transing them without their parents knowledge. And making that, yeah, kidnapping and put them a bag over their head and say you accept different pronouns now. We are going to have to work around some of some of that and brand it effectively. We'll read some IMs and then we'll get into some clips here. Jesus says the most normal sounding politician was Jamal Bowman. I agree that Jamal Bowman sounds normal.

We were actually, he just came up this morning because he had a pretty righteous about Lamar Jackson on on Instagram. Doku Pilled says, it's no accident that the multilingual AOC and Mamdani are simple communicators. They bounce between languages at times. Yeah, that was a great video that they did jointly,

explaining in Spanish, AOC joined Mamdani about the eligibility for universal child care in the city. And, you know, I mean, also I think Zoron is such a phenomenal speaker because he's a rapper. too. Like, like, he's... And you know, no offense to people from his background,

but they're not lawyers. Like, yeah. Like that, for so long, my entire life, like, you needed to go to be a lawyer to be a politician. And now people are sick of that. Right. And lawyers, and we've talked about lawyers and their psychology and what the institution rewards. They're institutionalists in, like, every sense of the word.

That's literally what case law functions as, as it compatible. I mean, that's stare decisis as, like you have to take in the culmination of precedent to make your decisions. It's like quite it's institutional. Yeah. And I would say this is the same thing that's going out in the UK with the Green Party

versus Kier Starrmer, who is like the embodiment of that sort of like 2000s professional class liberal that has no connection with real people. That they just go to like fancy meetings and suits and get like driven everywhere. And you know, they, They meet with leaders of trade unions out of some legacy, but they don't have any connection to the actual workers. Kamala Harris, lawyer, Barack Obama, lawyer, Hillary Clinton, right?

Lawyer, Chuck Schumer, lawyer. Corporations, yeah. It's... Which is not to say that, like, you know, of course, there's probably even some very good candidates we support who have, like, a law background, but, like, you need to be, generally speaking, and what Emma said is about the sort of status quo type mentality and the fealty, to something that is, I mean, being driven. Trump is doing like donuts, like in ATV over law for the past like 10 years. Yeah.

Yeah. LXH. Pinky says the Dems are using British keep calm and carry on attitude. Now that we're here, just because Matt brought it up, this is pretty significant. And I want to get a guest on who's a little bit more familiar with British politics to talk about this. I also want to kind of like correct myself because. because we had had an IM months ago about like Corbyn's party and and people basically saying that the green party was more of a promising vehicle for left-wing politics in the UK right now and I think I maybe was a little too dismissive of that.

So whoever I am in about that, you were right. I was wrong and maybe wasn't paying enough attention. So there you go. I mean I 100% concur. Like I would much prefer your party and Corbin and Sultana to have gotten their acting. They have messed up massively and it's a huge, huge shame. I think it would be better to have a more socialist, explicitly socialist party developed, but they don't have it together. And I have a lot of respect for Polanski and the Greens for capitalizing on this moment, because it's go time now with especially reform doing as well as they have been,

and the Labor Party collapsing because it was taken over by corporate Zionists. So yesterday, the UK's Green Party won in this parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton. This is, I guess those are places. I wrote it down. It's the Manchester area, from what I understand. Okay. Thank you, Brian. I've only been to London, so I don't know too much.

But Kier-Starmarmer's Labor Party, which is just, you know, after excommunicating, Corbyn and other leftists purging them essentially from the party. They had held that seat for years and they ended up finishing in third behind the Greens and then the far right reform UK party, which is led by Nigel Farage. Stop me if you've heard this before. The centrist party is neoliberal party is falling out of favor and you have the rise of the far right in the UK. And so Kirstarmer, I think, is at historic unpopularity right now. But here is a clip from the victory of what number is this here?

I don't have it in front of me. Oh, here it is. Here is a clip of Hannah Spencer speaking after this victory and talking about how they will support the Muslim community in the UK. To our Muslim communities who this week suffered an attempted attack during Ramadan, whilst I was being welcomed by women at a mosque in long sight, someone just down the road walked into a mosque carrying an axe. And whilst we were gathered and eating together,

an act of terror could easily have taken place. And I can and won't accept this victory tonight without calling out the politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapego and blame our country. communities for all the problems in society. My Muslim friends and neighbours are just like me, human. And of course, to our white working class communities, the background that I have become so proud to be from,

we know how it feels to be looked down on, maybe because we didn't do well at school, maybe because we do dirty manual jobs, because we are shut out of places we should be in, to people here in Gorton and Denton who feel left behind, isolated, I see you and I will fight for you. Because whilst our communities may sometimes be labelled in different ways, the thing everyone seems to have underestimated here, especially over the last few weeks, is how similar

we all actually are. How we have common ground, how we get along, how we stand up for each other. The cracks that we're starting to show can be healed. And I believe that it is through offering people hope and a chance to do things differently and do things better. So she's the first ever Green Party MP in the north of England. She entered politics just two or three years ago and was a plumber when she's speaking about her job there.

So very much a working class centered campaign and her standing up for her Muslim neighbors there is obviously really needed. She has taken out, staking a claim on the, the genocide in Gaza and, you know, had a moral stance on that as well. So it's really great news. I mean, it's not a claim, staking out a position, I should say. There's a right-wing global, um, basically a fascist propaganda campaign about the other in society. Whether it's Steve Bannon in America, who is, by the way, a fucking banker, um, who wanted to be a Hollywood elite, uh, blaming all of society's, problems which are caused by people like him on immigrants or Nigel Farage who's also a banker. I think both are tied to Goldman Sachs. I could be wrong about Farage.

Both from the class of people who have actually destroyed these communities. They are weaponizing it against the other in society and it is really, really vital that we have people like Polanski and Hannah Spencer in the UK or people like Zohraamadani, Al-Han Omar-Talib, AOC, like speaking against that now, because it is, it's very potent if there's nothing standing against it. And unfortunately, in the leadership of the Labor Party and the leadership of the Democratic Party, they're bought off by pro-Israel money, which necessitates and demands Islamophobia. And so, yes, this is really important.

And I am very happy that she took time out of her speech to go at that head-on instead of avoiding it or like trying to like coddle that bigotry or something because that's something that's something that people do from the lawyer class well how can I relate to these people that I don't have anything against I know it's the I'll just feed into bigotry yeah well that's it's a very very elitist yeah exactly how can I how can I appeal to these hogs well I'll like that in their minds well let's just let's just feed into the bigotry but like that exists in everybody it would also exists in everybody is a desire for a better a world that's not based on hierarchies. And I think we're seeing now across these, whether it's in America, like Taylor Remit down in Texas,

like people see through this and they want a better vision that people can fight toward. Well said. Well said. Let's cover, because we kind of talked about it for a little bit. I want to cover the Zoron. meeting. So Zoran Mamdani had a previously scheduled meeting with Donald Trump yesterday. It was going to be centered around Zoran's request

for $21 billion to help with affordable housing in Sunnyside. And I think it would be like 12,000 affordable apartments. This would be a really significant win for

the construction of affordable housing. Yeah, go to, I think it's the image here, three and four. So he had already had this meeting scheduled. But earlier this week, there was, let's just put it up. I mean, like, so Zoron smiles all the time, but he makes a point not to with Trump, but he brought him prop daily news, fake articles, which we know that Trump has fake time magazines with his face on it at these golf courses, being man of the year. So, uh, he loves a fake newspaper that inflates his ego. He can only see himself through the press. Yes. Making fake newspapers that flatter him is like, that gets directly to his heart. I mean, that's amazing. So it's like a, it's a, it's a, it's a play on an old, uh, article here.

Yeah, forward to city drop dead. Um, there's a book called Fear City that goes into the, uh, budget standoff by Kim Phillips find that people should read about it. They want to hear about that period of time. But yeah, Zoran explicitly countering Trump with Ford. Like, you don't want to be a loser like Ford. Right, right, right, exactly. Look, look, and giving him like a child, a visual contrast. And look at the picture they chose for him, too.

It's like he's all big and strong. That's, I think that's his, maybe his presidential portrait. Oh, yeah, yeah. He loves that one. He loves, like, leaning into his villain aesthetic. It's not difficult. Yes. Bad ass.

And I'm saving New York. I'm like Gerald Ford. I don't want to be like Charles Ford. I mean, he really, he looks like a child holding up the present that he got for Christmas. Brand new at N64 in 1996. So we don't know what the status of that request is. It seems like, even in the same. of the union, I was laughing because he calls him a communist, but then he calls him a nice guy

immediately. And you see J.D. Vance behind him and just you can tell in his mind, God, I wish he would off the cuff say something nice about me like that, because he can't even help it. He can't even help it. And so we'll see if Zoron's able to secure funding for this significant project. But within hours of this meeting, he was able to secure the relationship. He was able to secure the police of an Azerbaijani undergraduate student who was taken into ICE custody and like basically disappeared. Let's play a little bit of the Columbia president here. Claire Shipman, who explained what happened because ICE entered the premises under false pretenses. They pretended that they were looking for a missing child and kidnapped this student who is.

like I think in a part of Columbia that's more geared towards older students, I believe she's 29 years old. It's like the General Studies Department. So she had previously been at Columbia, then had re-enrolled. And she had her visa revoked because she ended up, she was not at Columbia during that time period. She wasn't attending classes in 2016, so it, yeah. But she's married.

Yeah. So that was the premise as to why they were kidnapping. So better send in Department of Homeland Security. Exactly. She restarted her education and they lie to the people on Columbia's campus and go in and take her. And Zoran got her out immediately after meeting with Trump just to show Democrats like, this is possible. You can try to actually make a change here. But here is the explanation from Columbia.

Good evening. We are all so relieved. that our student, Elia Gaeva, has been released from federal custody. Let me give you some details about what happened this morning. Shortly after 6 a.m., five federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security without any kind of warrant

entered an off-campus Columbia residential building. The agents gained entry by stating they were police searching for a missing child. They made their way to the apartment of the student they were targeting with the same same story. Our security cameras captured the agents in the hallway showing pictures of the alleged missing child. Once inside the apartment, it became clear they had misrepresented themselves. A public safety officer arrived, asked multiple times for a warrant which was not produced,

and asked for time to call his boss, which was not given. The agents took our student. This was a frightening and fast-moving situation and utterly, unacceptable for our students and staff. We started work immediately to gain her release. We are so grateful for the help and support we got from the mayor and the governor. Let me be clear. Misrepresenting identity and other facts to gain access to a residential building is a breach of protocol. All law enforcement agencies are obligated to follow established legal, ethical standards. Can you pause it? We don't really need to hear too much more because that's actually not true of ICE.

ICE can lie to you and they continue to lie. They claim that they can just use these administrative warrants, which are nothing. They are ICE permission slips to themselves to enter these residences. That's where it's true. That is not, it's a Fourth Amendment violation. This is going to need to be hashed out in the courts. But on its face, it's a clear Fourth Amendment violation. But ICE does use the tactic of lying repeatedly.

to get into people's homes, to access folks who they can kidnap. So I guess we can let this run if there's anything more. And I just want to make a note. No, obviously ICE is doing all this. This is Department of Homeland Security. These are DHS agents, not even ICE. Right, right. The in our administration has ever provided any assistance to DHS or ICE

as regards arresting or taking any of our students. Quite the opposite, we have labored often intensively behind the sea. scenes to see them supported. We understand the fear and anger this situation is caused. We've shared additional guidance and resources with students, faculty, and staff, and we'll continue to do so. Thank you all for your support of this institution and the people who make Columbia what it is.

All right. And I know our thoughts are with. Yeah. So that, they did take the student and within a few hours of that meeting, as I mentioned, so Ron Mom, Donnie was able to Get her out of custody. Here's a little more from Mandani at the press conference talking about this just today. We also discussed the immigration cases I know are front of mind for so many New Yorkers.

I shared my concern with the president about ISIS detention of Colombia student Elmina Agayevah yesterday morning, as well as the detention of four additional New Yorkers in relation to the university. Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, Yun Say-O-Chang and Nekakakor-Dh. I ask that their cases be dropped. I'm grateful that shortly after our meeting, the president called me to inform me that Elmina would be imminently released, and indeed she was. He's grateful to the president. That's all I needed to hear. I want him so badly.

He's so charming. He queens out with him. He's the hottest mayor in the country. Hotest man. And hottest mayor. And he's a good-looking guy, too. I like women, though. There it is.

Amazing stuff. Amazing stuff by Zoramandani. Whatever. I still see some snow on the side. Definitely not Cameron. Is misrepresenting yourself, including ICE, as a breach of protocol? Or was it what we plebeians call a crime? Well, technically, it's just a breach of protocol for them because they are a DHS.

is not beholden by the rules of traditional law enforcement. I mean, that's the systemic problem that we're speaking about here. Biden, my time to... They lie. They dropped... Ice agents dropped the blind guy off.

He fucking died. And they said that they... They just lied about how they dropped him up. They said they dropped him off at a coffee shop that was warm. We're going to get to that... It's murder. These are murders. I mean, that's a thing.

Just people need to step back a little bit where we are in this country. The clip we all... in the show with. That is happening. The starvation of our, of elderly people and poor people in general is happening in this country every day. So you think these, the political class that would allow that and not have any kind of urgency about that? You don't think, you think that they're going to limit themselves to like the age of consent? Yeah. Saturn girl, don't forget Mercury and retrograde right now, which means bad news, deceptive announcements, delayed messages and people from your past coming back to bother you.

Luckily for me, it's boosting my aura. I'm totally Saturn maxing and mommy-mogging right now. Great block party song, also Mercury. Go off, Saturn, girl. Benny from Jersey, did you see Anna Kaye unironically talking about the Goyam waking up? She's so far gone. Yeah, we're getting like a ton of IMs about it. I mean, I did see that.

It is... And then immediately citing, oh, I got, I like my... I get my poor policy advice from Glenn Greenwald and... I mean... Well, let's just put this up because, you know, why this show started covering Dave Rubin was because, and why she was quite critical about this at the time, was because he was representing himself as the last liberal and representing himself as a part of the left, but saying really right-wing things. And, you know, giving a permission structure for certain ideas, ideas that was undercutting solidarity. undercutting the leftist movements and also just like genuinely really dumb and this obvious grift that is oriented towards money that this show on to call out. And, you know, you see that

she is still being presented as a progressive, but saying things that are just like genuinely anti-Semitic. We didn't cover this, but the meme of doing the anti-Semitic meme on air, I also saw that and it's like okay perhaps she was ignorant about that kind of thing but you see something like this and it's clearly not the case. This is just

straight up anti-Semitism. She said in the original, just the original tweet here like this is in defense of Tucker Carlson. So it starts off with a tweet from Joel Berry. Notice the left isn't attacking Tucker or Candice. It's interesting to Anna considers itself part of the left

given who she cites about her foreign policy stuff later, but we'll get to that. And she responds to this, make the goium un-wake-up post- No, I know it's not. I'm telling the story about how this goes. So she responds to that with two crying-face emojis and then goes back and forth,

which I would say, like, make the goym wake up. That's not phrasing I would use because I would recognize that as anti-Semitic, just for folks falling along at home. So they go back and forth for a little bit, and this person says, and here, Anna is a response to the obvious anti-Semitic,

Semite, I would agree. About the goyam waking up. Only anti-Semites talk like that, hey, bitch, the goyam are waking the fuck up deal with it, Anna says. And then she says, I do not regret this comment. I don't apologize. Israel is evil genocidal and has destroyed our country. They're about to drag us into another war and all we hear from Israelis and their brain dead supporters is anti-Semite. If you disagree with Israel's agenda, they smear you and silence you, blah, blah, blah, we get it. Jasper Nathaniel's response to this, which is like, none of that is. terribly apocite to saying the goyum are waking up. Yeah, I mean, I think that it is genuinely harmful that she has built up a multi-decade at this point career of being associated with the progressive movement and with the left

and is now espousing talking points that are anti-Semitic. Talking about the goyam waking up is just explicitly, I mean, it sounds like Candice, Owens. It sounds like Tucker Carlson. She's Canada's Maxing. Yeah. And and it also is anti-Semitic because when you say that non-Jews essentially, I'm not going to use that term anymore, are waking up. What does that mean? The implication of that is that it is Jewish people that are behind the genocidal policy of the Israeli government. That is an anti-Semitic conflation. And it fits in with the previous statement that we had covered from her on the I've Had It Podcast, where she said that she doesn't believe that Tucker Carlson is anti-Semitic because he previously supported Zionism. So in her mind, she truly seems to associate Zionism with Judaism.

Now, we have repeatedly on this program tried to make that distinction because we know what this was going to lead to as Israel's genocide continued unabundated. which is the complete overlap in people's minds of Judaism, which is an old religion that had a beautiful religion that is a peaceful religion, just like Islam, is a peaceful religion when practiced the right way and not with fundamentalism. It is one that obscures the reality that Israel functions as America's colony. Even in that apology, can we just go back to it about how Israel is even. genocidal and has destroyed our country is a fundamental misunderstanding and of the dynamic here, which is that the Israel began as a British colony. And then in the wake of World War II, as the United States kind of became the superpower, we took over that responsibility. And it, the expansionist aims of the Israeli government fit into our colonial ambitions, and we funded Israel

over and over again. We gave them diplomatic cover. And it has become an outpost for the United States. It's not controlling us. We are responsible here for Israel's crimes. And the construction of it being the reverse is why we talk about anti-Semitism on the right all the time is because what what Tucker Carlson and what Candace Owens want you to think is that it's a small group of Jews that are controlling our foreign policy in this manner when we know that Israel is an outgrowth of American empire and not and and and nationalists it's nationalists. It's nationalists. Exactly. That's what Zionists are. Exactly. So, um, I just want to zero in on this thing she says later, which I think is especially embarrassing from somebody who

Was given a show on Jacobin to talk about things like foreign policy to say here's so to just trot this out Jeffrey Sachs norm Finkelstein Glenn Greenwell Dave Smith all Jewish Americans I admire on foreign policy now look I like a lot of norm Finkelson's books I think Glenn Greenwell's done good work I don't know why you're saying Dave Smith Dave Smith Smith the guy who said fucking Trump is gonna be anti-war Dave Smith's a fucking moron that he has some kind of clarity about Israel being bad and happens to be Jewish is enough to cite as somebody you admire on foreign policy. I think that's somebody just grasping for Jewish figures to hide behind after you said the word goyam. I would be interested. Do any of those, what do they explicitly say about you saying the goyam are waking up? That's a, that's a anti-Semitic phrase.

You should apologize for it and you're not helping Palestinians by jumping in and And honestly, and honestly, here's the big problem with Anna. Anna made a pivot in the past couple of years. And that's why she's not citing anyone really left wing in that. She's made a pivot away from the actual left. And she didn't do it because Kamal Harris supported a genocide, which is what she says now. She ended up because of trans people and immigrants. And that's fucking disgraceful.

So now she's rehabilitating herself on an issue like this. And then immediately, like frankly, doing down. to it by this sort of dumb undisciplined bullshit. I don't care. Well, yeah, I don't care if she does damage. She can do damage to her own career if she wants to do so, but the reality is that she's doing damage to the pro-Palestine movement by a so, by the, the, the, the, having that track record of being associated with the left

and now engaging in anti-Semitism, even if she can cite Jewish people that she likes, the reality is, is that she's at, best being incredibly careless with her language and doing damage to the credibility of the pro-Palestine movement, the effort to liberate Palestinians from the Israeli apartheid, the genocide, etc. By not being careful with language like that. And this is, I'm giving like the best faith interpretation here. It is, it gives an opening for the right, for Zionists to, to attack the movement for Palestinian liberation as anti-Semitic. They can't wait for it.

I mean, it's happening in DSA, there was an event for Tax to Rich. And David Lurie, who is 46th in the area city council of San Francisco, said at this event, a group of individuals who were chanting Tax to Rich began to shout Tax the Jews. Now, those people were immediately challenged by the actual people in that group. They were there to disrupt it. What Anna is doing is the exact same people that went into the taxis. the rich DSA thing and started saying taxed the Jews. It's the same

thing. It's the same gift to people who want to discredit the left broadly. She basically just did that. Yeah. Yeah, I I literally, I saw Jake Tapper. The reason I saw it on my feed is because Jake Tapper, who's a massive

Zionist, was retweeting I think it was actually Jeep, accurately calling it anti-Semitic. But the fact that that can be given to Tapper, the fact that a guy like Tapper can use that as another, like, as

a piece of information to discredit the left and say it's just the, it's, in the anti-Semitism is a major problem among the anti-Zionist left because of that being her brand is, I know she's not paid opposition,

but that's what someone who would be paid opposition would do. It's a massive gift to Zinists to do this sort of show. Let's, uh, let's Let's actually quickly talk about this is really important, this race in North Carolina. Just wanted to mention this because it's on Tuesday. What number are we at here? Yeah, I think this is 11.

Let's do 11 and 12. So we had Nita Alam on this show a few weeks ago, a week or so ago. And she is running in North Carolina's fourth. district. She's primaring a Democrat who had received a bunch of APAC support previously. This race, by the way, is on Tuesday. So get out and vote everybody if you're in North Carolina. But the incumbent is Representative Valerie Foucher, and she was bullied really into saying that she will no longer take any more money from APAC. But we have this really great report from sludge showing that Hakeem Jeffries and the D triple C, which is the Democratic

Congressional Campaign Committee, it is the arm, the fundraising arm of the House Democrats, is funneling money to Foucher from just like the same sources, but not calling it APEC. Let's just read the first few paragraphs of this article here. Scroll down, please. A mysterious super PAC tied to a billionaire APAC donor has popped up in the high-profile House Democratic primary in North Carolina's fourth district to support Representative Valerie Foucher, a past beneficiary of millions of dollars in APAC spending. The PAC, called Article 1 PAC, has only disclosed one donor, an obscure nonprofit named the Guzman Foundation that gives its address as a nonprofit tax firm in Virginia. but it is also linked in FEC records to Robert Granieri, whoever, the reclusive co-founder of the trading firm Jane Street Capital,

and a major donor to Apex SuperPack United Democracy Project. A trading firm. Graniary is to, once again, another front for APEC. The idea that this is legal, that you can create pop-up super PACs that hide that it's A-PAC money. Well, I mean, I know this is a little bit. different, but there's just no sunset and disclosure here.

Can you scroll up a little with my, it's blocking. Yeah. Granieri's list is the sole donor to Article I's affiliate. Wait, I lost my place here. Only disclosed one donor. Oh, here it is.

Okay. On February 24th, the new super PAC spent $600,000 on media supporting Foucher joining a race that has already been flooded with outside spending by the AI industry, a David hog run pack and more. So this is basically

Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats having APEC money go into this race without it being called APEC. Which is to say Republican money. Which is to say the leadership of the party is working against the desires of its base in a conspiratorial fashion.

And then you also have this poll from Gallup, which is really significant, just to show how politically toxic Israel support is becoming. Look at this graph. American sympathies with the Middle East situation. This is the first time in the history of Gallup polling on this issue that Palestinians are now the more sympathetic group in the eyes of the American public. I don't know why they did the green line for Israel and the blue line for Palestinians because it really should be the

that's just not good color coordination. Gallup. Now you have 41% say that they are more sympathetic with the Palestinians and 36% say Israelis. And that's not even splitting out through Democrats or Republicans. Well, we can do that if you want to scroll down. Independence, this is, I mean, this is really important. This is the cohort, the growing political constituency in this country. More and more people are associating as, or identifying as independence over a Democrat or Republican.

There you go. That's an 11-point gap for independent sympathies, sympathies with uh... uh... Palestinians winning out there of course democrats sixty five percent sympathize with Palestinians more uh... than the Israelis seventeen percent sympathize with the israelis they should leave the Democratic Party

um... people need to the Republicans people need to uh... demand that look at that I was really happy that um... look at that sorry I just want to quickly quickly point out the Republicans before you jump in that but like The Republicans are dipping a little bit, but again, it's so overstated. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are really making a difference there with their anti-Semitism.

That's their disguising as anti-Zionism. Go on that. Sorry, I forgot what I was going to say. My bad. I apologize. Well, by age group, we don't need to show it, but I have it written down here. So it's like plus 48 for Democrats for Palestinians, plus 11 for independence with Palestinians. the cohort of 18 to 34-year-olds,

Palestinians are plus 30 with sympathies. 35 to 54, Palestinians are plus 18. It's all being driven by senior citizens who love Israel. And, yeah, so... The New Yorker had Ben Shapiro on their radio hour a week ago or two ago, two weeks ago, I should say,

because, and I know that because over the two weeks, despite having Ben Shapiro on the Kua Kids philosopher, they've only got 39,000 views about it. And it's about this split in the right and how Ben Shapiro is trying to keep the right, not anti-Semitic, but what they mean is pro-Israel. And what I think people like Zionists, liberal Zionists who read the New Yorker need to hear is that it's over. The support for Israel is over in both parties. It's coming to an end. So if the, main priority, if your main priority is anti-Semitism, there is no time to waste trying to prop up fucking Israel. And shame on the world for deciding that the solution to anti-Semitism in Christian Europe was a settler colonial project in the Middle East. It was always a bad idea.

We are living with the consequences of it now. And enough is enough. And the people have seen enough is enough and this can go two ways. And the Candace Owen's Tucker Carlson way of saying that it's all just because anti-Semitism is back like it's the 1930s in Europe is going to self-perpetuate that. Or we can have an actual view of the world that isn't hierarchical. That doesn't depend on maintaining borders with guns and taking land and throwing over international law, whether it's stuff the UN decided, like, hey, you can't take land in conquest.

Something we try to get Russia for now because they're doing the same thing, but we've never enforced on Israel. Or, hey, this law we have on the books that says if a country is doing war crimes, you can't continue fucking arming them. That doesn't say anything about offensive versus defensive weapons. People need to get serious about the type of world that we're allowing to unspool in front of our fucking eyes. Well, now that we're in the depressing part, let's just cover this story.

And then we'll move on to fun things. Okay, I promise you guys. So border patrol agents left this man, this mostly blind refugee, basically in a parking lot in Buffalo. And they left him on February 19th. And five days later, he was found dead. This is a thread, a very helpful thread by Evan Hill of the Washington Post, who I just got to say has been, is one of the reporters you should be following. He also has done some really good forensics in the genocide in Gaza. He goes through a timeline of all of the evidence here of what happened in this instance.

So scroll to the top and we'll go through it how he explains. We obtained footage showing a man who appeared to be a refugee to be refugee. Nirol Amin Shah Alam being dropped off by Border Patrol outside of Buffalo coffee shop after 8 p.m. The shop locks its door at 7 p.m. He never made it inside and was found dead five days later. And he goes into the background on this story. We don't need to watch this really, but you can see that there is now like footage of him being dropped. That's him there. Walking through an after hours drive-through. And this is Buffalo, New York. So the amount, how cold it must be up there.

can't be overstated. Let's go to the next tweet. This video, you can see him here trying to get into the Tim Hortons, but it had closed and

it'd been closed for over an hour. But this is where he... It's very hard to see, but he's in one of the window reflections on the right. Right. Now, next tweet here, from Evan Hill. Shaw on pace for a few minutes outside the Tim Hortons after being dropped off and then around five minutes after Border Patrol left him, he leaves

and walks slowly across a parking lot towards the family dollar where he disappears from view. So that's the last that was seen of him. Now, keep going. Remember he's blind. It's winter and it's night. So we will play. Let's play this footage here a little bit, a minute of it. Now, this is disturbing.

I just want people to be prepared for this. But the reason he was even in custody was because of this arrest. This arrest happened around two months after he came into the United States. So a little bit of background on him, Shah Alam entered the United States as a refugee, fleeing a genocide in December 2024. The Rohingya Muslim in Myanmar from Myanmar, where? Right. And he is mostly blind, as I mentioned.

He didn't speak English. Two months later, he walks into a backyard wanders. Once again, he is visually impaired. He's using curtain rods as walking sticks in this clip. He doesn't speak English. Police will tase him in this video. And as he's convulsing, he bites them. And you know what they did?

They charged him with a felony. Here's that clip. Drop it. Drop it. Drop it. Put it down. Put it down. you're going to get tased. Okay.

Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. Down. On the ground. Put it on the snow. And the snow, you're going to get tased. You're going to get tased.

I'm going to tell you one more time. I'm going to tell you one more time. I'm going to tell you one more time. No. I'm going to shoot you, dude. Put it down. Put it down. Delta 280 radio.

Give me more courage. Yeah. Put it down. Okay, okay. So he's freaking out. I don't want to play the rest of the footage. People kind of get it, right? He's tased.

How does this fucking cop not understand that he doesn't speak English? And by the way, I just want to return to, I was reminded of Haley Stevens when we played that clip of her saying that we need more female ice agents. These are female cops. And he was- No difference. He was carrying curtain- to help him walk because he's blind.

And apparently in this footage, let's go to Evans next tweet, in the footage, Shah Alam can be heard speaking in Rohingya and Malay. He asked for God's help and tries to explain to the uncomprehending officers that he lives nearby and was going to the store. He pleads with the officers not to throw away his phone.

Shah Alam was booked on a felony and six misdemeanors, which a grand jury then indicted as felony, assault, burglary, and criminal mischief charges, and he was arraigned in June. Border Patrol issued a detainer on him on the grounds that he was deportable. Good reason to not skip jury duty, folks. Shame on that, jury. I'll weigh in after this. Per I post news reporting, Shaw Lam's family opted not to bail him out of the Erie County Jail for fear. He would be immediately deported upon his release. eventually the Erie County DA agreed to offer Shalam a reduced plea to misdemeanor weapons possession and trespass.

Let's pause for a sec here and just reflect on that. They gave him a plea deal. They offered him a plea deal. He was holding curtain rods and they were claiming that that was a weapon. This is how plea deals are used to further the poverty to prison pipeline. over 90% of convictions in this country are plea deals. It's because of things like pre-trial detention and bail where you can't get out if you don't have the money to pay it

and it forces people into plea deals for things that, if that went to trial, do you think that that, that Shah Alam, that perhaps the jury would have had some reasonable doubt about that situation given what we just saw? Lock up the blind guy, yeah. Yeah, I think so. I think so.

But we put people who are impoverished, who are refugees, who English isn't their first language, into a cycle of incarceration and poverty and over and over and over again. And the Erie County police there, they had an option. They didn't need to cooperate with the federal government here. That's why you have things like Zoron going out there and talking about sanctuary city policies and how important they are. That's why every city should have a sanctuary city policy because it prevents the ICE Gestapo from coming in and essentially kidnapping their citizenry.

But basically what the Erie County police dig was like, yeah, it's all right. So when you have the federal government and the Trump administration begging for more collaboration with ICE and even Chuck Schumer saying that that should be the case, this is what they're talking about here. All right, let's put this thread back up. So he got a reduce. He took a plea deal. So he pled guilty because he wanted to get out of detention, but also because they were concerned here, as Evan explains, Shah Alam sentencing was set for March 24th,

and his family posted bond on February 19th. Rather than being transferred to ICE and then released, as his attorney reportedly expected, the Erie County Sheriff's Office released Shah Alam to Border Patrol. per his original detainer. There you go. That's the police collaborating. After taking custody of Shah Alam, Border Patrol appears to have decided or realized that as a Rohingya refugee whose immigration to the U.S. was not facilitated by Jewish Family Services of Western New York. He was not amenable to removal. So then, next tweet, that's when they drop him off.

Border Patrol didn't notify Shah Alam's family or attorney, and he no longer lived anywhere close to the Tim Hortons where they left him. He lived with his wife and kids more than six miles away. Now he was alone without proper shoes and in 37 degree weather. What happened to Shaw-Alon between the night of February 19th and the evening of February 24th is still not known, including how and why he ended up on the street nearly six miles away outside. So there you go. We don't, he- Murder by those cops and ice. He obviously was blind. He obviously had a hard time getting. home. Did he have a phone? Did he have the ability to contact anybody? I mean, you know,

it's just his life already was so difficult that he had a disability, that he had to come to the United States to flee a genocide. And this is how our country treated him. And the blood is on their hands. And I'm, you know, you see like Kathy Hochel's demanding an investigation. That stuff is really good, but this is incredibly shameful. This is incredibly shameful. And I mean, and like, the charges initially, you guys saw the, I mean, this could have all been avoided. This could have all been avoided. This is why we talk about policing reform and don't just, just, you know, Neil and Kente cloth, there needs to be something that changes here. The fact that, like, they can make a claim that he had a weapon because he was using curtain rods to walk.

There needs to be more, there needs to be more of like a community safety response so that you don't have a situation where cops are coming up to this man who can't speak English and who has a disability hurting him. And then when he has a reaction convulsing and I guess bites them, they put him. him into the like prison industrial complex and it's resulted in his death. So um, it is just a, there's about 15 people that need a homicide charge. Yes. Yeah. And this is a tactic that they were using in Minnesota to, um, dropping off people after detaining them many miles from their home with no ability to get home. It's, it's sadistic. Catlex says they dumped him like they,

that intentionally hoping he would die. Yeah. Um, I don't think. they intentionally did anything. I think they just don't give a fuck. Yeah. Yeah. Angela from Alberta sounds like they were taking notes from the Winnipeg police who did starlight tours. Indigenous people usually male for supposed drunkenness or disorderly behavior, but sometimes without cause were taken outside the city and left often to die in freezing conditions. Yep. Chicago letter carrier F these pigs. Future reactionary. I was going to go to the

slacker convention, but I don't know. I just don't feel like. it anymore. Sam with Layers. I'm in full agreement on the segment about Anna, but you don't need to carry so much water for any Abrahamic religion. Slavery is still condoned prescribed and encouraged in the Old Testament of the Bible. Yeah, I mean, but I, I, I, it's funny to say slavery is still condoned by the Old Testament.

I mean, yeah, they didn't do any revisions. They haven't had a biblical amendment that's been proposed yet. I mean, like, I, I don't believe in God. I'm not trying to, you know, justify it. I just, I think that it's important to point out peaceful traditions in, like, I'm not going to really make that case about Christianity right now because it is like the dominant, because it's a different power dynamic here. Islam is demonized.

Judaism is also now, you know, demonized. There's a return to that. and it's important, I think, to emphasize the more peaceful traditions in those religions in these times of,

you know, hatred. So I hear your point, but, um, Carl Dem Sock, the C-SPAN caller apologizing for crying because she's being starved

by a narcissistic pedo rapist, billionaire, moronic, wannabe monarch is heart-wrenching. I hate how we have to be conditioned to think we can't express emotions in the society

that seems ever less caring. Surprise, surprise. eyes. Saturn Girl, why does Matt have to cuss so much? I'm sorry. We'll do some bleeping, maybe. I'll tell him to cut the shit.

Yeah, yeah. Now it's just Brian and I, Matt had to run to an appointment. So what are we going to do? Go crazy? Should we go into some of these women's issues? Oh, yes. Casey Means? Oh, yes, yes.

Let's do that. So this is absolutely insane. Trump's pick for Surgeon General is this woman named Casey Means. I'm not going to put the doctor in front of her name like she likes to do because she's not supposed to have it in front of her name. She graduated. We talked about her before and I forgot about this. This is the woman that she graduated from the Stanford School of Medicine. but she had dropped out of her residency

and is still using the doctor term, even though she doesn't have an active medical license. So she is not authorized to practice medicine. She's not authorized to prescribe you anything, but she is now Trump's pick to be the literal top doctor in the country. That is what the surgeon general is. So I saw, I was reading this morning an AP article about this, and they described her as wellness influencer, author, and entrepreneur. And I think the entrepreneur part is the most operative piece here.

Like, she comes out of the MAHA RFK school. And they are just snake oil salesmen, just straight up. One chapter in her book is apparently entitled, Trust Yourself. not your doctor. Oh, wow. So, here she is trying to be the top doctor in the country that is just going to be somebody

who's like, just shrugs for three more years? I'm not sure. Oh, oh, and I should set this up. This is Tim K. Yeah, there you go. Tim Kaine, there was a Senate confirmation hearing. And it doesn't seem like as of right now she has the votes because you have Murkowski

and Collins being very concerned. But that coward Bill Cassidy, who's a doctor who confirmed RFK and now says he regrets it, won't comment on what he's going to do here. I bet you're a coward again, buddy. I bet you're a coward again. Yeah, right. I mean, like, the regret is, oh, I regret this later on is somehow worse than being perpetually concerned like Collins and Murkowski. It's, it's honestly more cowardly. But here is Tim Kane questioning her about the flu vaccine.

I'm going to set the quote aside. I'll introduce for the record an article CBS News. RFK Jr. says it may be better if fewer children receive the flu vaccine dated January 7, 2026. Without objection. Let me set aside the quote and set aside Secretary Kennedy and set aside the article. Do you believe that there is evidence that the flu vaccine prevents serious disease and prevents hospitalization or deaths in children? I believe that all patients should talk to their doctors.

And so do I. And that's not what I'm asking you. Your qualifications have been much discussed. There is a mountain of evidence about this. Do you believe that there's no evidence that the flu vaccine has efficacy in reducing serious injury or hospitalization? I want to be here to believe.

This is an easy one, doctor. This is an easy one. Reboot. I support the CDC's guidance on the flu vaccine. And I will always be working with the CDC, ASIF, and the agent's- So you believe it is an efficacious vaccine to reduce hospitalization? Is or is not? Is, you believe it is.

As I said, I support the CDC's guidance on the flu vaccine. Let me just say, do you think the flu vaccine reduces the risk of hospitalization or serious injury? You're a doctor. I believe vaccine saves lives. The flu vaccine. of a public health strategy. The flu vaccine, does it reduce the risk of injury or hospital? At the population level, I certainly think that it does.

Let me introduce for the record, if I can, Mr. Chair. CDC seasonal flu vaccine effectiveness studies dated May 30, 20, 25 from the CDC that goes into this in some detail. Without objection. All right, let's pull that up, actually. I sent that CDC efficacy stuff because she's deferring to it. it, but she does not want to be on the record and endorsing it. As Brian pulls this up, did I send this? I could just read it here from the CDC site.

Here it is. Flu vaccine effectiveness for children and older adults. I'll just read it. 2022 study showed that flu vaccination reduced children's risk of severe life-threatening influenza by 75%. A 2020 study found that flu vaccination reduced flu-religious. hospitalization by 41% and flu related emergency department visits by half among children. And then 2017, study in the journal Pediatrics showing that the flu vaccination also

significantly reduced children's risk of dying from flu. The study which looked at data for four flu seasons between 2010 and 2014 found that flu vaccination reduced the risk of flu associated death by half among children with underlying higher risk medical conditions and by nearly two-thirds, 65% among healthy children. These are comprehensive studies. There are across multiple time frames from different journals, from different doctors, from different scientists, all concluding obviously that the flu vaccine is highly effective for older adults, for children, preventing hospitalization, preventing death. It is established fact.

I feel like the reason why she's saying I will always stand by the CDC is she anticipates the CDC is just going to be reducing vaccine schedules and getting rid of flu vaccination recommendations. Right. And then that'll look like she told the truth. Exactly. She doesn't want to be on the record endorsing it

because they want the flexibility to take down this site that I'm reading from and be like, cross it out with the big X. Just kidding. Maybe some more testosterone replacement is help. And on that point, this is her on Joe Rogan from this quack, a clip of her that's being recirculated from around a year ago speaking about birth control pills. This is her opinion on

women who use birth control. We've got a huge percentage of American women on birth control pills. That's, of course, hopefully post-puberty. But we're putting women on exogenous just estrogens for acne, for PCOS, for menstrual regularity, sometimes, of course, for actual birth control. But it's like it's very ubiquitous now in the environment. And it's like when you kind of know this stuff, you're like, how are we allowing this to happen? And then of course it's affecting boys too, right?

You know, and so how kind of just think about this world we're living in where it's going to keep his audience engaged. Yeah. It's not like there's a bunch of exogenous testosterone, right? It's not like the plastics are all. Right, you're involved too. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Boys are affected.

Oh, shit. I'm still totally a boy spiritually. I may be a third. Joe was probably falling asleep on the other side. Girls. So when she says hopefully post-puberty, I mean, the reason I got on birth control pills was because I was really loose now. Um, it was because, I was, when I was a teenager, I was, I got ovarian cis and it was immensely painful.

And you know what helped? Going on a low level of birth control. There are a bunch of different uses for birth control pills that are important for women and girls' health there. But you can see how the anti-trans agenda fits into what they're talking about here. I wonder if she is. as adamant about puberty blockers that are used for cis children as she probably is for puberty blockers and hormones that are used for trans kids. They never talk about how oftentimes there are situations where there are kids that are entering into puberty too quickly and doctors say,

hey, this is better for their long-term health if we slow it down and we use puberty blockers. cis kids are prescribed that all the time. But of course, it's the overful. focus on trans people that they're fixated on. And the idea that there's, it's a major problem that women are on birth control for other reasons, is not supported by any evidence as just like a general vibe that you should be only eating leaves and I don't know, something that they deem as natural. I still don't think that like the testosterone that RFK is injecting into himself is like, I guess that's different because men do it.

And he's an adult and a senior citizen. And it's a man being more manly. Yes, right. All of the birth control, it's making you a little bit too womanly. But like, Maha, it rebrands itself as something that's separate from the conservative fundamentalist agenda, but they literally have the exact same goals to reduce contraception that women have control over or people who can get pregnant. They're obsessed with the birth control pill.

They're obsessed with IUDs. They're obsessed with the morning after pill because that is where women have more agency about whether or now they can get pregnant. They can control that. The other stuff is kind of on the men. And you could maybe hide things from your husband if, God forbid, you'd like want to take a morning after pill because you're not ready to get pregnant. These influencers and snake oil salesmen are just making the same case without the religious undertones. They're just using it as moral panic to say hormones inside of you, scary, scary, scary. So it's very, it's very silly.

But we'll see if she gets confirmed, this non-doctor to be the top doctor, non-practicing doctor. I am enjoying the bottom of the barrel for all these nominees. I remember that white nationalist bag of cafeteria milk? Couldn't get nominated. They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I know. I mean, but they led in with such. characters too like cash Patel is the FBI director sometimes I think about that and and it

just freaks me out but yeah they don't have a big talent pool to begin with um yeah either way uh total nut case total nut case um dump trump dems need to start building legal cases against these fascists yes sy m one thanks for making me cry y'all that poor man I got it out before the show. Haunting Specter. Anna Kasparian's post yesterday was shocking, but unfortunately over the past year on social media, I've been seeing an increase in trends of Marxists

using slurs to insult fascists like Nick Fuentes. I've even seen an alarming amount of self-proclaimed communists openly calling both Nick Fuentes and Adolf Hitler the F slur. Has anyone else noticed this? I have not. Apparently the audio clip was a little quiet, by the way. I'm going to have to deal with that. Matt's gone.

Yeah. I'll do my best. Well, we'll fix that in post. Glenn Beck ate my dad says, we women, are viewed as nothing more than a vessel for birthing children, yes. Gulf Coast grit. Emma, that's twice this week. You've caught me off guard with these sly jokes. I can't tell if the birth control joke ranks above the blue balls comment, but it's damn close.

I'm glad that those are the competing instances. Shock, jock. Yeah. Emma Stern. Always going blue. That's what they say about me. Saw that socialist. Great job on Doom Scroll, Emma.

Thank you. Yeah, people check that out if you would like. What should we get to? You never got to your girl, Caitlin Collins, grilling J.D. Vance on Iran. Oh yeah, yeah. Let's do that. Let's do that.

So I had one more thing I wanted to get. to but maybe let me no let's just do that um so uh trump has been openly musing about bombing iran for what feels like three weeks we already did this last year and the administration claimed that they had obliterated their nuclear enrichment program so if they had done so how can they make the claim right now that they're just minutes of away from having a nuclear weapon, which Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel lobby and the defense industry, or guess, defense industry associated elected leaders have been saying they're minutes away from a nuclear bomb for like 30 years.

The day after the Oppenheimer tested his bomb. Yeah, they were just like. It's been like a week away. How can we channel this energy? Yeah. Also interesting, you know, Oppenheimer's views on, on I think Zionism were, I might be misremembering it. I don't want to go down the tangent. Regardless. So, here's Caitlin Collins asking J.D. Vance about that, that very question. Well, I'm not going to make any news on Iran today. Caitlin, I'll let the president make those

announcements. As you know, he is sending two of his best negotiators to Geneva tomorrow in order to continue to try to strike the best deal possible for the American people. But the principle is very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. If they try to rebuild the nuclear weapon, that causes problems for us. And in fact, we've seen evidence that they have tried to do exactly that. So the president sending those negotiators to try to address that problem. As the president has said repeatedly, he wants to address that problem diplomatically. But of course, the president has other options as well. So didn't answer the question at all. Now maybe Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator will answer. Also asked here by Collins. This is just a good question as Brian's pulling it up.

It's so farcical here. Here she is with, you know, similar line of questioning with with Mullen. Arabia out of UAE out of Kuwait. I think people see the risks for sure, obviously, on nuclear armed Iran. I think it's just hard sometimes to get your head around that we were told last summer it was obliterated. and now we're saying a strike might be necessary if the talks don't work. But obliterating is much different than they're rebuilding it. They are perfectly trying to rebuild it. Why do you think China and Russia is silent on this? But how do you think China and Russia is?

How can you rebuild it if it was obliterated? I've already explained that. How do you rebuild your legs after you shadow them? How do you rebuild a house after it's been locked down by a tornado or a hurricane? You can rebuild things. The foundation may still be there. You can build a lot back on a foundation once the top of it's removed. And so the structure, if the structure of the foundation is there, they can start rebuilding it.

We'll see what the president decides. I do want to ask because. All right. So then I don't think you should use the term obliterated if they were able to rebuild it in less than a year. If I obliterated my leg, I would need a fake leg. Yes. There's no rebuilding my obliterated leg. Right, right. Does he mean broken in many places? Okay, then you would need a cast or something to bring. it back. Like, they know

that they have to work backwards from Trump's braggadociousness about the efficacy of those strikes. Hey, guys, if you wanted to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, all Trump had to do, he didn't just have to send Whitkoff and his son-in-law, you know, one of

his two best negotiators, as J.D. Vance put it, to Geneva to have these talks. You could have just stayed in the JCPOA, the Iran deal, which was Obama's best foreign policy achievement, in my opinion, and we've spoken about it positively on this show, especially when we look at it with hindsight and we see how the Israel lobby has so effectively gotten, you know, from Chuck Schumer to the entire Republican Party, you know,

many, like, captured leadership of both parties on this issue. Obama's and John Kerry and that foreign policy team did something that the Israel lobby really hated, which was the peace deal with Iran, which was essentially we lifted certain restrictions on them. We unfroze assets that we had taken from them and in exchange for them agreeing to a United Nations monitor to go in and make sure that they weren't building a nuclear weapon. That was what it was. That was diplomacy at its finest, and it was working really well. But Trump came in, also with a bunch of Zionist money on his side after Obama's second term and just scrapped it, scrapped it for more militarism. So when we hear about how Trump is so anti-war, please, please. I mean, war, perhaps like he

doesn't want boots on the ground, but he's as bloodthirsty as anybody. And what's better than being anti-war as being pro-diplomacy, pro-international cooperation. That is not his thing. His version of diplomacy is kidnapping heads of state, bombing countries, bombing fishing boats in the Caribbean, and thinking that if he can inflict enough damage that they'll come to him with terms that are amenable to him. But he doesn't have the object permanence, the stamina, nor like the vision to see anything through in that regard. So it's really just sadism for sadism's sake because, you know, Trumpy likes big thing go boom. He has no patience.

And that's the best thing about him is that he goes through EOs instead of legislation. Right. It would be the best way to undo his damage. Yes. He can't, he doesn't have the patience for legislation. Exactly right. Katlek. Caitlin Collins has an unmatched year full of shit expression.

It's great. You know, she is very, very talented. She's really good. And we didn't even touch on this part, but the, I wonder how this impacts CNN, this, if this goes through, Paramount, Paramount acquiring Time, sorry, Warner Brothers, which it's not a done deal. California's Attorney General still has something to say about it, but like, that is a huge problem when you have CBS being gobbled. up by the Ellisons and then like the top news nation news station in this country 24 hour news station being bought by them too if that ends up happening my dad all get invited on and in that situation anymore the whole media landscape will just be a.m. radio it'll all it'll all just be

a m radio I mean a part of me also is just like are they accelerating their own irrelevance like who cares about CBS anymore the designers have nothing. left except to go whale hunting and to acquire existing large media conglomerates to neutralize them because the truth, they've lost the argument. So, I mean, if they've already lost the argument and you can't brute force your conversation or like the propaganda that you want, I mean, they bought TikTok too, I should say. Um, like, I just, I wonder if, you know, it just, it accelerates their own irrelevance in the eyes of the public. Like, who's going to even pay attention?

Who watches CBS with Tony Docapul and the Whiskey Fridays? Like, seriously. You look good for this show. Yeah. Right. Right. But that is where people are turning. And I, and you notice that I talked about this on Doom Scroll too.

There are still those elements of people that want to buy up influence. It's just a lot cheap. If you're buying up individual content creators on the internet that they're supposedly independent, then it is to, you know, buy or launch large-scale media companies like the Daily Wire or purchase Warner Brothers. So Kentucky left that says, Silver lining to Paramount buying Warner Brothers. MR. MR. will get massive boosts and views and subs.

I don't know about massive, but we'll see about that. Those CBS people? Yeah. Yeah. All the CBS diehards that we have so much overlap with. But, I mean, from your mouth to God's ears, Spocko, Mark Wayne has watched too many $6 million man episodes. I don't know what that means.

We're everywhere says the bones are the money, the world are their dollars. Bones are their money, the world are their dollars. Is money not dollars? I don't know what it's referring. I'm sure you're right, whoever wrote that. I'm just an air hit. I don't get it either. Bonzo beans.

We mean, we meant completely obliterated except for the foundation, winky face, got him. Granite counter tabletop issues says, I watched Annihilation the other night with Natalie Portman, financed by Skydance. After audience test scores, David Ellison decided it was too nerdy and needed a new ending and re-editing to make it more audience-friendly. The director had final cut approval in his contract

so they couldn't force him. They released it in cinemas for a week and then straight to streaming. These guys would rather sync their own project than not get their way. I didn't know that backstory about that film.

I didn't know that either. I had heard that director has gone on to do other things. I was thinking about it came up oh no, that was gosh,

that was Alex Garland? Wow, that was Alex Garland. Other things. Alex Garland has made like three dozen films. But yeah, that's, that says it all, right? Yeah, there's nothing worse than an executive giving note. I wish Sam was here because I'm sure he's got a million stories about that. I'm sure he does.

I'm sure he does. They want to be the artist and the CEO. It's disgusting. That's what Jeremy Boring was all about at the Daily Wire. All right. Do we have one more clip here? we get to i pull up this uh texas primary thing if we played this yet oh no we haven't um so uh this like there's something happening in texas right now in terms of voter enthusiasm it can't be a bad thing um at the very least

it means that there is an an engaged population that is going to raise the floor of democrats chances to have an upset and defeat Cornyn in the fall. Still quite a long shot. My viewpoint is that Jasmine Crockett is not the best candidate to go up against Cornyn. She's done some very bizarre things recently, including kicking out an Atlantic reporter from covering her event. She didn't have an issues page on her website for many months. she has been like focusing on almost like twittery beefs with advisors that are associated with

Tala RICO. It's just, it's quite self-serving. And I don't think Tala RICO was a perfect candidate, but I think his message is potent in a place like Texas. So I'm hopeful that this enthusiasm is about Tala RICO's campaign. He's been campaigning for a while and he's been also kind of borrowing some of the better parts of what better or work did, which is that going to multiple, going all across the state, Colin Allred, the candidate for Senate last time around, was much more of like an establishment Democrat micro-targeting guy, just going, let's do the least amount of work possible, going to the districts that our data shows are going to be most beneficial to us. That is not how you create turnout, enthusiasm.

I like the Talariko approach a lot more. And it seems to be having an impact. Here's our friend Harry Enton in his wonderfully theatrical fashion explaining how this is going. Mind blown to quote the show, Blossom Joey. Whoa. I mean, look at this. I love it. Share of Texas midterm primary ballots at this point in the cycle.

Cast in Democratic primaries or Republican primaries. In 2022, the last midterm, overwhelmingly, the votes were being cast in Republican primary, 62%. But look at what's going on now in the 2026 cycle. More votes are being cast on the Democratic side. What a shift from where we were four years ago at this point. More people in Texas picking up the Democratic ballot. More Democrats are voting in Texas than Republicans. I mean, how unusual is that?

Just how unusual? Well, you see the massive shift from 2022. But look at history. go all the way back. When was the last time that more people actually picked up a Democratic ballot, cast a ballot in a Democratic primary in Texas in the midterm, you have to go all the way back to 2002. So this could break an over 20 years stretch, my goodness gracious, whereby more people are actually

voting in the Democratic side. And I will note, it really hasn't even been close since 2002. Overwhelmingly, more people have been voting on the Republican side in Texas. And this year so far, more people are voting on the Democratic side. democratic side. This is different. So that is really important, as we keep saying here. I mean, I saw Greg Kassar pointed this out that Trump's big, ugly-ass-bill, the pro-millionaire tax cut bill cut four million Texans health care, just completely like obliterated it, let alone the Latino population in Texas where if we are to see the swings that we have seen with in Latino

areas across the country replicated even a even you know 80 percent 70 percent of what we've seen in like 50 points swings in New Jersey for example in the governor's race in a very Latino areas like if we are going to see that kind of shift uh to vote against Republicans like this is really in play here because as we continuously mention, the Republicans gerrymander effort that redrew lines in the state based on Trump's 2024 victory, which included an overperformance with Latino voters. There were many people who were dissatisfied with the economy and there was depressed in turnout for the Democrats.

because of like, you know, the whole genocide thing, because of the way Kamala Harris ran the campaign because of the economy as well. And so there is a, they made these districts maybe like less deep red and deep blue, more pink districts. So red leaning pinker, but still having some like democratic advantages there. And if Latinos are going to move over to the Democrats and actually vote, you know, with enthusiasm like these numbers indicate, there's a lot of more, more of house seats in play than you might think in Texas. Now, I think Talarico is a good candidate in the fall. The crop beneath him of people running against Republicans is not good. We were just talking, I was just talking about this with David Griscom. So the, the Democrats here are not going to

be our favorites. But I, taking back the Senate in a year that is not favorable for the Democrats on paper would be an enormous step in curbing the Trump administration from the worst authoritarian abuses that it's been engaging in. So there have been other graphs showing that like even the Redis counties are seeing massive Democratic turnout in Texas. It's, it's, there's a lot of enthusiasm backlash to Trump, but I don't think it's just that. I do think that Talarico's strategy and also how high profile that. this race has been is going to play a significant role. So, all right, guys, we're going to read some IMs and get out of here.

Appalachian leftists. Let's go Southern Progressives. If we can get a bunch of progressive Dems in the South, we can push the Dem party left. Main Postman, I've always felt weird about Jasmine Crockett since that Butchbody MTG comment, don't get me wrong, MTG is a ghoul, but something about the verbiage there turned me off, uh, verbiage there, turn me off and made me look at her a little different. I hear you. It's it's I still think that might be funny in my mind, but I would say that's her strength. I wish we could elect her to just you know the way she handled Pam Bondi right just put her in hearings. She's unbelievable there. Well I mean she's like I the Texas redistricting thing screwed her but she is like you know I don't know seems to want to abandon public service altogether if this doesn't work out like I could see her going into media and she would probably be. be decent at that because she's good at the theatrics of of the hearings and stuff.

And she was good in the hearings. I think she is a lawyer too. So she has like, that's where that one skill of being a lawyer as a Democrat is good. It's like the only thing I think Kamala Harris shined at as a sender was when she was in hearings because they know how to like prosecute things obviously and make arguments. Um, protect or, uh, protector of frogs. The purchase and cobble up is not just for news. Paramount and Warner Brothers own the largest IP. The goal will be the control culture. My point is like, good luck. Genova Witness says, I could be watching Tony Two Cuts right now. Carly Chirk. Abby Martin is doing a tour across the country with her new documentary Earth's Greatest Enemy. Everyone should watch this film. It played in New Orleans last night,

and I went with the local org, no ship, and watched her give. give a Q&A afterwards. It was amazing and she needs the help to get off the ground and make it more widely available. Please screen it if you can. Well, we had Abby on to talk about it a few months ago, so I'm happy to see

that you want to see it. Slut for Justice said, modern cardio weight regimes are not really natural either. There are many recorded instances of people getting heart attacks or having other health issues because of working at in two working out in two restrictive diets.

They literally named a new type of eating disorder for people who are too obsessed with perfect health. Taken that to the extreme, Maha is the opposite of health. And that's before looking at the largely unregulated supplement market and all the harms that it has caused. Yes. That's absolutely correct. Jay Tingle.

Sarah Silverman had a gag. I'm taking birth control bills because I'm doing a lot of fucking, yes. I remember that from Jesus is magic, I believe. Yes, it was. That was one of my, that was, I had that purchased on iTunes and I must have watched that special

as a kid like 20 times. Big Sarah Silverman fan. Don't look up when she came on the show and I got really, really red. And I said something that she didn't think was funny and I'll think about it for the rest of my days. Glenn Beck, ate. My dad said birth control was the only thing that controlled my acne in my early 20s.

Yes, that's a common thing. Ramona Frankenstein. Emma, I can't believe you're taking down another woman on this bad bitch freebie Friday. Not very girl's girl of you. Real women stick up for the anti-vax dipshits among us. All right, five more.

Majority report peace prize. Don't let Republican Senator John Barrasso off the hook. He, too, is a physician, vote to confirm RFK. Sunset Lake, PBD, says, cautionary tale for self-serving Democratic Electives. In 1976, Minnesota Governor Wendell needed someone

to take Walter Mondale Senate seat. He made an arrangement with his Lieutenant Governor where Anderson would resign. Lieutenant Governor would become governor and name Anderson to the Senate. In the next election, the DFL lost governorship both Senate seats and I think 99

people in the State House. It was called the Minnesota Massacre. How Bizar by OMC says, are you guys planning to have anyone on from any of the postal unions about their contract expiring this year yes yes been talking to Sam about it already yes uh gigabbiologist I know you know but I must say the camera you all use is absolutely awful thank you we know I know at least and the final I am of the week no cue for it I forgot yeah Kentucky leftist this is why I admire

M.R., Kyle Kalinsky, Hassan, and other like-minded leftist media figures. Even though the consolidation of media to be more Zionist and right-wing will probably help your numbers, you guys would all rather see a good, unbiased media because you want what's best for humanity, not what's best for you personally. That's a nice compliment. I just want to say that, like, I just don't even think it's, that it might help. Genuinely, I don't know how much it's going to help us, but we're just going to do what we keep doing. Appreciate you all. Thank you so, so much. Have a wonderful weekend. We will see you tomorrow. I mean, Monday.