The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3598 - Trump Calls for Political Arrests; Urgent 2025 Elections w/ Daniel Nichanian

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

It's Hump Day on the Majority Report On Today's Show: Trump posts to Truth Social that Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson should be imprisoned for hindering ICE agents. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) co-signs Donald Trump's calling for Pritzker's and Johnson's imprisonment CBS Chicago reports that ICE has been making false 911 call and filing phony police reports in an attempt to agitate local authorities. The IDF has seized nine more boats attempting to break the Israeli blockade on aid for Palestinians. Greta Thunberg posts a video on social media pleading for people to stay focused on the genocide and Palestinians and to not make the flotilla members the center of the narrative. Editor of Bolts Magazine, Daniel Nichanian joins the program to discuss his Cheat Sheet for the 2025 General Elections. In the Fun Half: We revisit a talk that new head of CBS news Bari Weiss gave to the Federalist Society in 2023 where she exhibits her only talent, flattering conservatives. After receiving a $20 billion bailout, Argentina's president Javier Milei throws an arena rock show, even singing himself Pam Bondi is once again humiliated, this time by Senator Dick Durbin as he presses her on Epstein. Stephen Crowder doesn't understand why his fellow podcasters are turning on Trump. Dave Rubin goes on a misogynist rant about Greta Thunberg. All that and more The Congress switchboard number is [phone]. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: DELETEME: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to www.joindeleteme.com/MAJORITY and use promo code MAJORITY at checkout. WILD GRAIN: Get $30 off your first box + free Croissants in every box. Go to Wildgrain.com/MAJORITY to start your subscription. NAKED WINES: To get 6 bottles of wine for $39.99, head to NakedWines.com/MAJORITY and use code MAJORITY for both the code and PASSWORD. SUNSET LAKE:  Head to SunsetLakeCBD.com and use the code JustTreats25 to save 30% on all their gummies for sleep, focus, and relaxation Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza’s music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.co

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and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Daniel Nicanian of Boltz magazine will join us a bit later to talk about the 2025 races to watch in the general election in the coming weeks. Also on the program, Texas National Guard troops have touched down near Chicago, despite a pending lawsuit by the state of Illinois. Arguments in that case will be heard tomorrow. Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and Pritzker to be jailed for protecting their constituents from ICE.

Seems bad. Day 8 of the government shutdown, the White House has drafted a memo denying furloughed federal workers their compensation a plain violation of the law. Trump hints he wants an off-ramp with the shutdown surrounding health care. Please Democrats save me

from the consequences of my own bill that kicks millions and millions of people off their health care and raises premium. We'll see. Flight delays begin to climb as the shutdown creates air traffic control staffing shortages. James Comey pleads not guilty on trumped-up charges of lying to Congress.

The FBI shuts down the agency's corruption investigative unit and fires officers who worked on those cases. I wonder if the Kava bag guys were involved. Like, that would be their area, huh? Also, a little on the nose, okay? The Supreme Court appears poised to overturned Bands on gay conversion therapy in over 20 states. Israel illegally intercepts a second smaller aid flotilla sailing to Gaza

and continues killing Palestinians in Gaza, despite Trump supposedly telling them to stop on Friday. And lastly, Justin Pearson, one of the 10th. Tennessee three gun control advocates announces a primary challenge against longtime representative Cohen. All this and more on today's majority report. Welcome to the show, everybody. You might be wondering why it's me today. Well, I have a wedding to go to family wedding. I will not be in Thursday or Friday.

So Sam is going to be with you on that majority report Thursday tomorrow. But for Hump Day, we've got us three, we've got Matt, we've got Brian, we've got myself, and then later, Daniel Le Canaan, we'll be joining us. We'll talk a little bit more about the flotilla. We were trying to get, and we had somebody booked on that second flotilla who was going to join us, but we got the news this morning. and obviously the guest wasn't able to cancel because Israel intercepted illegally again the flotilla in international waters so thinking of their safety

and I want to talk more about the implications of these flotillas in just a bit but the National Guard, Texas's National Guard has arrived in Chicago Greg Abbott not respecting the wishes of another governor, state's rights, loyalty to Donald Trump, I guess. Trump's everything I've heard conservatives say in my entire lifetime.

He's got to send his National Guard up to detain the people that he human trafficked to those states in a ploy about immigration in the previous years. Right. And, you know, if anybody has a summer camp that gets swept up by floods that could have deaths that could have been averted by, I don't know, putting up some sirens. Or if anybody's

pacemaker goes out because the power went down because Texas has a stupid privatized grid system experiment. You know, we won't deal with any of those problems. Or Evalde. You know, just kids. Anything happened with that police department?

Are they still intimidating the parents of the children that Evalde? No, Texas has real things to focus. on like sending their you know the best of the best up to Illinois to like patrol parking lots right and when you say patrol parking lots

at the very least Brandon Johnson had signed that executive order that prohibits ice from using city-owned parking lots and garages for their own operations but because of the Posse Comitatis Act these National Guard members

cannot do anything except basically protect federal property because posse comitatis says that troops, U.S. military personnel cannot be involved in domestic law enforcement. And Trump has been trying to get around that over and over. One famous reason for this being honored by America is so that we couldn't send the troops into the south to deal with the clan. So we honored it then. We're not honoring it now.

Great point. Great point. And it really says it all. So the court case, Illinois lawsuit to stop this is still pending. So the judge didn't immediately block the troops from entering the city, but the lawsuit arguments will be heard tomorrow Thursday. And so the troops still have touched down. outside of Chicago. And these legal battles are significant, right?

So, like, the courts have temporarily, at the very least, blocked the deployment in Oregon and California. And Trump is still trying to work around those blockages. And there will be appeals, of course, and we'll go to the Supreme Court. But what Trump has in his back pocket is the invocation of the insurrection. Action Act, which it creates an exception to Posse Comitatis that would allow the president to send active duty military to stop a, quote, rebellion.

He could do that, but that, and he's been toying with doing that, but that's five alarm fire territory. For now, we have the courts at the very least slowing the National Guard deployments for these reasons. He's been stewing about how upset he was that he didn't use it. during the Floyd protests, et cetera, et cetera. So it's glass he's wanted to break for a while. Right.

And in Illinois, too, what's as concerning as everything I just said is Trump calling for the jailing of his political opponents. What a shock. Here he was this morning on Truth Social. Chicago mayor, he can't remember Brandon Johnson's name, Chicago mayor should be in jail for failing to protect. ICE officers. Governor Pritzker 2. Sorry. That's such a ridiculous, like, why is it their job to protect the stormtroopers

you're putting into their city? Well, he's mad that about that executive order I just mentioned saying that ICE, we, Johnson may not have the ability to say this about federal buildings, but he says that if you're in parking garages or parking lots outside these federal buildings. You can't use that for your ICE Gestapo operations. Johnson has also directed the Chicago PD not to assist in federal civil immigration arrests, meaning if the person does not have a criminal record or a warrant, Johnson has directed the police in Chicago not to engage with ICE on that. And then you have Pritzker and... It's not their job. I mean, we can't, like, that's not the police's job to check people's immigration papers. It shouldn't be at the very least. I mean,

um, the red states want, uh, that to be the case. But, you know, Pritzker also has, of course, been vocal using the bully pulpit to tell people to know their rights and encouraging resistance, peaceful resistance. As a reminder, the pretext for this national guard piece is violent crime being out of control. Well, Washington Post this morning, I was just reading an article. I didn't even know it was this dramatic over a decade. Violent crime has dropped in Chicago 40% over a decade. That's not just like the pandemic decreases that we saw nationally across these cities

that they're still toying about sending the National Guard to. This is a dramatic decrease over a 10-year period. And I'd also just point out, I having been in Chicago 15 years ago, didn't need the National Guard there from Texas to keep order in line, like ridiculous that this pretext could even be used to put troops, like occupy other states with people's national guards for some crime hysteria. And Mike Johnson is dealing with this shutdown situation. He was asked about Trump calling for governor. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to be jailed this morning. And let's listen to how the Speaker of the House tries to get out of this pickle. Thank you. Can you. Can you agree that the Mayor of Chicago and Governor of Illinois should be in prison? Should they be in prison? Should the mayor of Chicago and the Governor of Illinois be in prison?

I'm not the Attorney General. I'm the Speaker of the House and I'm trying to manage the chaos here. I'm not following the day-to-day on that. I do know that they've resisted. uh... the introduction of uh... or the offering of the national guard troops uh... in chicago which is a terribly dangerous city and has been destroyed under in the process of being destroyed under liberal democrat can you pause this is hysterical yes this is hysteria this is chicken little sky is falling insanity and the the tenth amendment is very clear

not to be all constitution on you but the power not delegated to the united states by the economy constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states respectively or to the people so Pritzker and Johnson have certain authorities if the federal government is not specifically delineated in terms of their authority they have authorities as state and local representatives democratically elected representatives to govern in the way that they see fit according to our constitution keep going guard troops in chicago which is a terribly dangerous city and has been destroyed under in the process of being destroyed under liberal democrat

governments and terrible policies i would i would just cite for you in response exhibit a which is the district of columbia all of you are able to walk safely into the capital today and you can park your cars, blocks away, and walk back to your cars, and you're not in fear of having your purse snatched or your car being jacked or being assaulted. And why is that? Because President Trump had enough of it. He's a strong leader in the Oval Office, and he used the resources that were available to him, the National Guard, to bring order to the chaos. The Democrat mayor of the District of Columbia ultimately said, thank you so much for the reinforcements, and you're all enjoying the spoils of good policy and return to the rule of law. If we could

do that in the other major cities in the country where they're having terrible crime crises, that should be seen as a positive. And I think most Americans see it that way. If you're a resident of Chicago or New Orleans or one of these other Democrat-run cities, you've had enough. You're tired of your family being walking in fear and not being able to enjoy their lives. Yeah, just like the Iraqis we're going to treat us as liberators. The D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwab is suing the Trump administration as of last month over the use of the National Guard. They're just lying through their teeth. It's performance for their suburbanite electorate.

This is like every phone call I've had with like relatives and they're like, how are you safe in New York? How do you feel safe walking to work or whatever? Well, I feel safe because, you know, it's safe. It's safe to do that. And your, the anxiety or fear you have is a political product. meant toward an end and this is the end it's always been pushing for it's always and this is the one that it pushed for this is how we ended up being the number one jailer of humanity with our mass

incarceration in 90s the same sort of fearmongering it's the same sort of hysteria except back then there was actually higher crime way way higher than there is now like all these people are playing for like boomer and older like um folks with like shadows in their brains like that that like are living at the final life as if it's still like 1977 or something. The people who are most easily fooled by AI slop and the folks that are most scared of cities, that

Venn diagram is just a circle. And it's unfortunate because you have some Democrats that are trying to do the same thing appealing to people in the suburbs. It's funny how you, we played that clip of Andrew Cuomo, who's not a Democrat

right now running as an independent, but talking about suburb fear of cities to justify his argument. And then you can see who he's really aligned with here in that way. But you have everyone from Tom Swazzy making that argument to Chuck Schumer in 2016, previewing the failure of the Democratic Party for the last 10 years, the pivot to affluent suburbanites. And that appeal, it's made them completely unable to counter this crime narrative because when Republicans and conservatives talk about liberal cities, why they focus on it is because cities are places of community, cities are places of art and culture, cities are places

of intellectual experimentation, cities are places of community in terms of just being in close proximity to other people and other people that may not look like you. So they use urban crime or whatever as a shorthand for black or brown crime. But they're also threatened by the multiculturalism of cities, the fact that different kinds of people live amongst one another and have solidarity networks that build as are is happening right now in response to fascism. And Sam has been making this point about the Chicago police and how they've got to start and some are we'll see standing a little bit

more with their communities because this is like as opposed to sitting in the cuck chair as different types of federal forces coming and do their jobs for them because this is a threat to them too listen to this report here from CBS

about what appears to be ice faking 911 calls overwhelming local police, preventing them from doing their actual work to try to get around Johnson's directives towards the police department. And I just have to say this is in the context of an America

where you frequently see Red Winger's say, if your protest gets in the way of a first responder, you can be shot basically on the spot. Here's how ICE treats your local first responders. You are watching as Broadview Police respond to a 911 call. claiming someone was tampering with a gate at the ICE detention facility there. Body camera footage obtained by the CBS New Chicago investigators shows several Broadview police officers respond to an alleged homeland security threat.

The gate in question is where ICE takes detained immigrants for processing. What's up, guys? Hey, what's up? Not much. How are you? Good. We got a call of subjects trying to climb over the fence or something. Not since we've been here.

But when police arrive, all they find is two. people and a camera. Our CBS photographer filming the exterior of the building with a CBS security guard by his side. You guys didn't tamper with anything? No, no, no, no, no. The 911 call claiming someone was tampering with the gate came from an ICE agent. According to this incident report, an ICE agent called police for help. But he can't go and try to force his way into that door. Okay, so the guy in the group? He just says, no, the guy's just recording. Do you believe that that was a false call? I do. Again, it was just. our CBS photographer filming the exterior of the building.

In your mind, bogus. Yes. It's disturbing. It's ridiculous. Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mill says this is just one of several questionable 911 calls his police department has received from ICE at this facility recently. This same detention center has become the site of at least three other incidents involving federal agents who are accused of hitting people with cars,

shooting projectiles and using chemical agents on journalists including a CBS reporter last Sunday we played some of that footage here's another still this is a Chicago Tribune immigration reporter

named Laura Rodriguez she posted this but it's not she wasn't the one who had the gun pointed at her gotcha thank you either way this is a local reporter showing a federal agent this is a woman that was recording them thanks brian she took this still i guess jazz a u.s citizen and a member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ice

activity across the city was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the berwin area and this is a cop pointing a gun at her er a ice yeah that's like tear gas Storm Trooper. To your, thank you. To your gasper. Either way, I mean... It's violence. Violence.

It's fascism. They are a threat to community safety. The 911 911 thing, too. They don't care about the community. They don't care if people have actual 911 calls and emergencies where they need first responders and police to be aware. All they care about is meeting quotas and ripping apart. and ripping apart families.

That is their job. They look at, they're not like the idea that they're, again, it is the Iraq metaphor, I'm not just making a joke. That's literally what's happening right now. Is the actual people here hate this occupation?

Looks like the West Bank. Yeah, it's performance for elsewhere. And like, yeah, these guys themselves, they look at this like they're going into fucking Baghdad. And they have the tools to do it.

I mean, when we talk about everything being in the shadow of the war on terror, the reason police have all these little toys, the reason ICE does, I mean, and they're just a wash, is because the military industrial complex got so much money, made so much machinery for our illegal war in Iraq and our war on terror in the wake of 9-11. And because there was so much excess equipment, hey, send it over to local police. Well, why can't we have our Gestapo at ICE use these tactics? And then we'll call things terrorism in the way that we did in the earlier part of the 21st century to justify civil rights abuses and rollbacks. They are doing that now locally. If you look at this, there is no training. This man has received no training. In combat, you don't point at something you're not going to shoot.

This is just... What if you want to scare it? This guy's training is movies. Right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 100%. We'll be talking a little bit more about the state of the world in the country in just a sec before we get to Daniel the Canyon.

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We will be talking to Daniel Nican in just a second. but wanted to cover some of the developments in the flotilla with the flotilla here. As I mentioned before, there was a second aid flotilla that was intercepted by Israel illegally in international waters headed to Gaza this morning, and thankfully we have reports that you know, some of our friends of the show, Greg Stoker has been released, David Adler has a progressive international has been released. And we'll play Adler's talk about what he went through in just a

second, but let's first start with what Greta Toomburg had to say. She posted a video on social media about really what is most important to remember here. The full thing is really, really worth a watch. We'll just play a few minutes of it. She posted this on her Instagram, but already one of the most impactful

activists of the 21st century, and it's not particularly close. Greta could have become someone who cashed in, who did the speaking circuit, who got a documentary made about, her. There are many examples.

There are. And she can't talk very well. Yeah. Easy money for her. I mean, she's 22 years old and she resisted the pole of celebrity because I think about how RFK speaks about like autism and things like that. And Greta's been open about her autism diagnosis

and how it's given her the ability to focus and be singularly minded and not distracted. And her neurodivergence is, like, truly part of her superpower, as she describes it. I love that there are so many people throughout the world that may be on the autism spectrum or have different specialized interests or see the world a little bit differently. And we have, like, this kind of administration that, you know, harkens back to, like, an era of

of eugenics where disability or neurodivergence is spoken about as some sort of like deformity or an example of a degenerate moral character where it's really just like a part of the beauty of human experience and you can have people like Greta who have that intensity about what she believes in and she's just never let up the entire way and she's connected climate change to capitalism and then also the imperial colonial project

of Israel to capitalism and to exploitation and that in and of itself has been so impactful. So the reports were that she was abused in Israeli detention that she was grabbed by her hair I saw some people

say witnesses on the flotilla say she was forced to kiss the Israeli flag that she was paraded around but Greta has basically refused to even talk about that this is what her message is for everybody who's now paying attention to this story hello this is going to be a long video but I have a lot to say so bear with me and we are now many who are safe and released from imprisonment and absurd mistreatment but many of our comrades from global smooth flotilla are not, and they need to be released now. But most importantly, we are not the story. Thousands of Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli dungeons without a trial,

hundreds of which are children. Millions are living trapped under an illegal siege in an apartheid state and occupation who are being systematically starved and bombed to pieces. Basic societal infrastructures being targeted and destroyed, and Palestinians are being systematically deprived of their very basic rights and means to survive, such as producing their own food, controlling their own territorial waters and children being able to go to school. And the whole world knows that this did not start on October the 7th, 2023. And these Israeli war crimes have happened with impunity and with help

and legitimizations from our governments, institutions and media. And this is the story here that people should be focusing on. Do not let me and other volunteers on the floor. be a destruction. And the global Sumitral Tilla is about solidarity with Palestinians, international solidarity. And what Israel did was mainly not to illegally abduct us in international waters and abuse us in prison, but it was that it stopped a humanitarian mission and violating international law by preventing humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, a population that are being systematically starved by Israel.

And this is a blatant violation of international human rights. humanitarian and maritime law. And I also want to make it very clear that our imprisonment by Israel is a direct result of our governments. They keep talking about the importance of upholding human rights and international law and to get aid into Gaza. And then when we do their job, trying to do just that while being completely peaceful and abiding by international law, they fail to ensure our safety. And this mission should not have to exist. It is a last resort. when all means fall short, and when those in power fail to step up and do the bare minimum.

All right, I think that's good, especially calling out their own governments, because this flotilla has shown, Israel, you want to risk bombing a European warship, you want to risk starting a war with a Western allied country by attacking them if they decide to break your illegal siege and control of the waterways of the Gaza Strip, which has been in place since 2006, I believe. 2006. Just another reminder that this has not,

that this did not start on October 7th, 2020. And there was footage where you could see Palestinians were able to fish for the first time in quite a while because the Israeli Navy was so distracted by the flotilla. What does that say? That they're being prevented

from producing their own food by fishing because Israel will kill them if they try to do so. I mean, we know what's happening here. Greta doesn't want to make it about that treatment. It totally makes sense. But I think everybody,

that's watching this for the most part understands that the genocide is of the utmost importance. And I found here David Adler's testimony really important to share as well. David Adler of Progressive International was finally released after a long time. And I'm seeing that the Jerusalem Post reports that of like there were over nearly 500 activist, journalist, humanitarians who were on the flotillas. And I think there are less than 10 that are still in detention,

but they should be at the forefront of our minds as well. But here's Adler speaking about his experience as a Jewish man and how he was treated differently and used by the Israeli government when they were in captivity. And I think they were in the prison

in the Noges. which is a torture camp by Israel, and God knows what's happening to Palestinians there. What happened when you guys were taken and captured? Where were you taken? What were the conditions like? How were they treating you? In Ashdoddodport, we were frog marched out, heads down, knees on our knees,

and, you know, for basically a giant photo op for Ben Devere. As one of the few Jews on the mission, they found me, asked me if I was Jewish, ripped me by the ear, threw me in front of the Israeli flag to sit away from the old group that was sat hundreds of us on our knees and heads down for Ben Gavir to show up and come yell at us in our face that were terrorists. And so we were treated. So from that moment, we were strip searched and zip-tied and blindfolded and sent to this detention camp without any kind of process. We were basically not allowed to speak to lawyers. Most people didn't speak to lawyers and would not speak to lawyers. We still haven't spoken to lawyers the whole time. We were

disappeared into the Nega Desert for three days without any confirmation from the U.S. government that we were even alive. I don't like, you know, speaking as a Jew, you know, but like it bears repeating the anti-Semitism that we endured at the hands of the state of Israel is so, was so wild. Like it was, you know, it's such, it's so important that we, that we changed the narrative on the idea that state of Israel some kind of, you know, birthright or land for for diasporic Jews to come home to we were treated like you know obviously Palestinians are considered to be the most dangerous thing that they need to either deny or destroy but you know an unfaithful Jew to the to this Netanyahu government is

considered to be like you know so threatening to them that we were given this special interrogation by by Van Gavir and yeah and the other Jew that was with me in the cells who was suffering from severe medication withdrawals who was begging and begging and begging day in and day out for a medic was denied the most basic access to uh to that medic i don't want to name him without him being able to name himself but um begging i mean you could hear his cries every single morning day and night you could hear his suffering and they basically the guards of this facility just said you know yeah yeah yeah you know in your dreams we'll we'll be with you So you can see footage of Ben-Gavir taunting the flotilla members.

These are humanitarians trying to feed people. And that is another really important piece of information about how Israel, in practice, treats non-Zionist Jews. They treat them as traitors, as threats, in ways where they singled. out Jews on the flotilla because of the threat that they propose to the Zionist propaganda project. And that is why we must reiterate that Israel loves the idea that there's an increase in anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish hatred right now, anti-Jewish conspiracism. They enjoy having that as a pretext to say that there's only one safe place for you to go, increase our population totals in the

settler colony. If there wasn't a global anti-Semitic emergency, then there's no reason to do an apartheid state for Jews and Jim Crow. Yep. But that's what Zionists want, that's what Bibi wants. It's what, frankly, a huge number of the Israeli population wants.

And so the issue is, how much are we going to fund it? Really cool. Writes in Mandela, Mandela, Nelson Mandela's grandson and South Africa legislator was finally released earlier today and gave a press conference. We will be on the lookout for that

and that's great news to hear. We'll be talking to Dan and the Canaan in just a second, but I wanted to quickly draw attention to this one story because it's really important. The Supreme Court is going to hear a case next week that

involves the Voting Rights Act which the Supreme Court has continuously eroded over the past decade plus they have agreed to rehear this case called Louisiana v. Kaleas.

Now, they had heard arguments about this case combined with another case earlier this year and then I think they filed it for re-argument in the fall. I'm not sure why. But it's really significant. Louisiana has been in a fight since the 2020 census over a second majority minority majority black congressional district so there was the 2020 census

in 2021 Louisiana redrew its congressional maps in response to it the census found that in Louisiana around a third of the population is black there are six congressional districts in Louisiana. They created only one majority black district out of the six. So then black voters and civil rights organizations filed lawsuits in the middle district of Louisiana. They challenged them out. It went up to an appeals court.

The appeals court says Louisiana needs to draw a second majority black district. But now we have the people claiming reverse racism. So then a group of white voters in response to that challenged the redrawn map with a second majority black district in a federal lawsuit that they filed in the Western District of Louisiana. So now the Supreme Court is going to hear that case next week. But check out this headline from Politico. These are the implications.

Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling. Democratic voting rights groups are preparing for a nightmare scenario if the Supreme Court guts a key part of the landmark civil rights era legislation, the Voting Rights Act, a very real possibility this term. Ahead of the court's October 15th rehearing of Louisiana v. Callais, a case that has major implications for the VRA, two voting rights groups are sounding the alarm,

warning that eliminating Section 2, a provision that prohibits racial gerrymandering, when it dilutes minority voting power would let Republicans redraw up to 19 House seats to favor the party and crush minority representation in Congress. That calculation made in a new report

from Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter Fund shared exclusively with Politico would all but guarantee Republican control of Congress. While a ruling in time for next year's midterms is unlikely, that's the one silver lining of this story. The organizations behind the report said that it's not out of the question, taken together the groups identified 27 total seats that Republicans could redraw in their favor ahead of the midterms, 19 of which stem from Section

2 being overturned. Without Section 2, up to 30% of the Congressional Black Caucus and 11% of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus could be drawn out of their seats, according to the report. and this article cites Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Florida would be the states affected. The election experts basically say that in Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, they could basically get rid of all of their Democratic members. Now, there are problems with the way that southern states have like gerrymandered to, you know, Clyburn is an example of that. It doesn't, I think, create the best incentives for the Democratic Party representation. But this is this really, really scary case here because Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has already been weakened significantly by the Supreme Court in numerous rulings recently.

and they already have overturned whole other parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, including the infamous case of Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, where they remove the requirements for Southern states to get federal approval before changing their election laws like with voter ID or with redistricting because in the Voting Rights Act at the time, and still to this day, obviously the South was insanely racist and we're trying to use these tactics to make sure that black voters did not have representation, adequate representation. And so this has been a big part of the Republican takeover of parts of our Congress or the over-representation

of Republicans when there was a 50-50 split in the Senate. I keep, I always use the statistic, but it was under Biden. The 50 Democrats represented 40 million more people than the 50 Republicans in the Senate. This is just like making the House as gerrymandered and undemocratic as possible. So really important case to pay attention to here. And Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is really important because the 15th Amendment was curtailed without the prohibitions that were put in place by Section 2 of the VRA. It was an enforcement mechanism for the rights that were guaranteed under the 15th Amendment,

the guaranteed to the right to vote regardless of race. It created legislation that put parameters in place. And the Supreme Court is in the process of doing away with that altogether. for the most part we have media lousy with people who take money from billionaires to obscure the problems with society and there's all this talk about what went wrong and you know people like Ezra Klan very you know upset about what chances were missed well here's one April 10th 2022 how Joe Manchin knife the Democrats a build on saving democracy he's gonna

filibuster reform voting rights legislation we couldn't get him on board and why is that not like part of our like regular thing that we talk about in i mean i know that we talk about this the failures of mansions in them all the time but like this is who knifed him in the back this is democracy was given a mortal wound when you don't act to cultivate it more yep there's people actively going against it there's you can't be neutral on something that is like in a political fight you know and but maybe it was because of something kamala harris said in the primaries that was too woke or something yeah i'm trans people how can we blame them this time

Uh, quick break on that front, got that story and we'll be talking to Daniel the Canaan. I'm going to be able to be. I'm back. We are back and I am so happy to be joined now by Daniel Nicanian, founder and editor-in-chief of Boltz magazine. And their cheat sheet for the 2025 general elections is out now. Everybody go check it out. We'll put a link down below. But that's what we're going to be talking about today.

Everything you need to know or races you haven't paid attention to coming up in November. Daniel, thanks so much for coming on the show. It's always fun to join here. Of course. So tell us a little bit about Bolts Magazine's guide, the cheat sheet to the races, the general elections this year. And maybe we can start with some of the governor's races that, you know, here in New York, of course, all we can talk about, is Zoramam Dani. But there are more races going on across the country. Certainly.

Well, you know, it's supposed to be an off here. but at both we cover local and state elections, local and state politics. So our sort of idea is that an off-year actually gives us more space, even more room to drill down in some of the hot spots where there are interesting tensions, interesting conflicts, interesting elections. And so we have 180 elections on this cheat sheet. They're organized, hopefully, in ways that people can browse thematically based on what they're interested in. But, you know, the idea is that you may have heard about this big issue of school boards in recent year and the efforts on the right to take over school boards and restrict the rights of trend students, for instance. Well, that is the sort of thing that off your elections can be about.

You know, you've heard about the New York City race that you just mentioned, Emma, but there's, of course, other left-leaning candidates who aren't being inspired by Mamdani or say they're kindred spirits who are running in other places in the country. If you care about ICE or immigration, there's a lot of elections this fall where candidates are taking opposite positions on what it means to be a city, a county, a state, and have to respond to Trump on how to enforce immigration law. So those are the kind of things we're trying to pay attention to on this cheat sheet. And, yeah, I mean, there's so many places to start off, you know,

But the highest profile items on it are what you just said. The governor's races. There was two this fall, one in Virginia and one in New Jersey. Each party holds one of them. Each party is trying to flip the one they don't have or keep it. And no matter of sort of what else happens in November, that's probably going to be the headline. And, you know, maybe, interestingly, on immigration enforcement, that's that I just mentioned, that that's a very clear stakes, for instance, in the governor's race in New Jersey, which has state protections in place that prevent law enforcement from collaborating with ICE and the Republican governor there, sorry, the Republican candidate there, one of their main promises is to end those protections as soon as he enters office. You know, so that that's the sort of thing we are keeping an eye on.

Yeah. And I, there were some concerning polling about Cheryl showing her a little bit too close to comfort for with a chitterrella. I think I'm not sure if I'm saying it correctly. But that would be a, that would be a massive problem in a blue state if that's where we're at for Democrats. And you also, of course, have Spanberger in Virginia who is running. And it's interesting because I saw that they're trying to use like anti-trans ads down there in Virginia because the consultant class felt like Kamala lost because of the they-them ad or whatever. Now, it turns out it was the economy and the genocide of Gaza and that kind of thing. Like that at least there's some hope that Spanberger, you know, might run away with it.

we'll see. But those are the two big ones is what I've been doing. Yeah, those are the two big ones. I mean, the polls at the moment in both show Democrats ahead in neither of them by a huge margin. I mean, you write a little more attention paid on New Jersey. I mean, I think you're really right that the race in Virginia, the Republican nominee there, has really, really focused on attacking trans rights as the issue. She's focused on, I mean, a particularly, whatever, among many things we could say about that, like it's also Virginia is the state that has been hit very hard by Doge, by the federal layoffs, by the Trump administration, a lot of people there are federal workers. So there's really a disconnect there of all places for the Republicans

who just really drill campaign ads, attacks on trans rights. And so on immigration, what are some of the other races in the country that where basically, if you're in your community and you want to protect other folks in your community from being terrorized by ICE, are there any ballot measures or key races outside of, of course, the New Jersey governor's race that people would want to pay attention to? Well, I think the key question on, if you look away from the federal government on what's happening with ICE is what are pretty much any level of government that has a law enforcement force doing about it. Are they actively going to collaborate and help and deploy their police or their state guard to help ICE?

Are they going to have very strict restrictions against that? Even if there are restrictions, they're often channels of communication or loophole. So what is being done? So that really means paying attention to the mayoral race or the mayoral policy where you are, the sheriff office, which is one that doesn't get a lot of attention, but we've actually talked a lot about Am I in prior times we've talked. But the sheriff has controls the jail, controls often a law enforcement force. And that's often where we see the clearest contrasts on ICE policy.

So, you know, for instance, this fall in Albuquerque, just to give you an example, there's an interesting mayor race there where the Democratic mayor is promising to keep up sort of restrictions on collaborating with ICE. and his opponent is the sheriff, the Republican sheriff, is running for mayor and is criticizing this idea of keeping a barrier to ice. Another example for a sheriff race is Bucks County in Pennsylvania. That's the place that's near Philly, a suburban county, a Republican sheriff, just signed a contract with ICE a few months ago to collaborate with ICE to have some sheriff deputies effectively

act as ICE agents for a formal contract. and Democrats are criticizing that agreement. So that's really a kind of, that that's really like- Does Pennsylvania not have the same kinds of laws that say New Jersey has that allows for that to happen? No, but Pennsylvania doesn't really have state-level protections. Well, in part because Democrats haven't had, I mean, you know, Democrats often do not pass protections when they control the state, but in the places where those protections exist is probably because Democrats have had state-level control, and they haven't had that in Pennsylvania.

I mean, actually, to put a finer point on that, there's sort of a lot of controversy on the left in New Jersey because the reason that the Republican governor could come in and almost snap his fingers and protections is that there is no law in place. All that's happened in New Jersey is that the attorney general has issued the equivalent of an executive order and the state Democrats who control the state assembly and state Senate have actually not passed a law that would. codify this stuff, even though there's been a lot of push there. So, you know, that's actually an example where state Democrats have dropped the ball on passing the protections in a way that would not allow a Republican just win one governor's race and the race to protections. It sounds very New Jersey. I mean, like in the, there's definitely communities of like suburban areas that are pretty racist towards immigrants and that I would imagine those state reps are appealing to those constituencies within action. But Pennsylvania also, there's another key

like a thing that people need to pay attention to, which is the Supreme Court in the state. Can you talk about that because it feels like every cycle we're on a razor's edge about which way Pennsylvania is going to go? If you care about national politics and only national politics, that even is probably more important than the governor's race that we're talking about, which are ultimately about state-level politics. There's a state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania, like there's in every state, and Democrats have a 5-2-2 majority on it.

And that majority has done a lot, specifically on election law in the past 10 years. They struck down a gerrymender in 2018, a Republican gerrymender, and in the 2018 mid-term, Democrat gained four seats from a court-ground map. They've upheld mail. voting. They have rejected Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. So that court has really

been in the news constantly on election law. So there's five, two, and three justices where Democrats are on the ballot in November. And usually actually, what's a little confusing or complicated years, usually these retention elections for justices are sleepy affairs. Not much happens. There's often not that much money, but that's really changed in recent years. And this is really the first time in decades where there's a real effort on the part of the Republican Party to oust these justices. They're now spending a lot of money. This billionaire has invests a lot of money and sending ads to people. And they're trying to oust three justices on the court. It's a bit complicated. What would happen if they do? It would tie the court, erase the majority,

but kind of set up a complicated multi-year process. We have an article. and bolts up yesterday that people could go read if they're interested. But the basic picture is that Republicans have no path to a majority on this court before the next presidential election if they don't win this fall. And they really want a path to the court majority before the next presidential election. I'll let you put together why that might be. But those are the stakes this year in Pennsylvania. And you mentioned mayoral races earlier. you have Detroit, you've got Minneapolis, that's a major one, Seattle, where in Minneapolis in Seattle, you have some really, you know, progressive challengers. We've covered the Omar

Fate debacle on the show before, in terms of the debacle being the DMFI were sitting there endorsement and how insane it was. But what is the status of some of those mayoral races and what are the consequences of some of them? What are the most consequential races? Yeah. I mean, you've named the ones that I was going to name immediately. And they're interesting because they have this similar, similar, the three you mentioned, Minneapolis, Seattle, and New York have this similar dynamic of a left candidate. You know, I think they probably would just, the three Kated Amarfate Mamdani and K.D. Wilson would probably use different words to describe their politics. But they're all trying to.

to take over a city governed by centrist Democrats. And that's an interesting parallel to see what happens. Seattle seems particularly interesting since the mayor trailed there actually in the first round in August. So that is almost sure to be at the very least very competitive in November, if not a pick-up by the left. But there's a lot of election that there. There's also interesting elections at the city council level in those places. Actually, there's DSA candidates in Minneapolis and other cities that are trying to gain ground also in some place in Ohio that I have on my sheet. Not necessarily the first places you think about as the places to look for left organizing right now.

but definitely places to watch. I think I was going to add something about Seattle that I'm blanking on right now. No, no. Well, we were just basically the progressive challengers, the dynamic being similar with like the establishment trying to push back against it. I mean, it is for all of those three, in all of those three instances, it is a bit of a similar dynamic. Yeah, and I was going to.

The fourth city I was going to bring in was Boston, which was supposed to be this, like, a very interesting race this fall. And maybe the fourth place where it was particularly clear stake for the left, because the mayor there, Michelle Wu, is a progressive. And she was facing a challenge from the son of the owner of the New England Patriots, who was spending a lot of his own money and attacking her from the right. but he did so badly in the first round in September a month ago that he dropped out from the race actually. So Wu will not face any opponent. There's actually a general election or runoff on the ballot in November, but it's just going to be Wu's name. So that was going to be going to my like going to go, those were the four elections I was going to name, but one one of them has already disappeared. Yeah, Wu has the benefit of incumbency there, but it is like also just

I mean, that big money donor trying to unseat or progressive or, yeah, it's very similar in that way. I'm glad that didn't win the day. Go on. And it's so interesting because you often think of these races as their own little islands because they're a mayoral race happening in Seattle and Minneapolis, but it's interesting to see the candidates often refer to each other. Katie Wilson has talked about Mamam Dani. She sort of joked that she's the last sort of.

sort of smooth version of Mamdani. A lot of these candidates we've talked about have mentioned Wu as someone that they draw inspiration from. So, you know, it's interesting to see these ties that are forming, and especially if there's more

of them, I think especially if we see in New York City if Mahamani wins, I assume he's going to want to play on those connections to make himself look connected to other parts of the country, other other mayors who think like him and want to do the sort of things he wants to do.

Well, it's also a natural fit because these cities are under threat right now directly by the Trump administration. So collaboration between mayors seems to make absolute, like, logical sense just in terms of governance. Let's turn to the courts for a bit. And, you know, when we're looking at prosecutors and other legal measures, or even things that might be on the ballot that you want people to be aware of. What are the most important races coming up on that front? Yeah. Well, I mean, the immediate thought that comes to mind before I open it up

is this very intriguing race in Philly. I mean, if anyone who's watching this has read or cares about the idea of progressive DAs, we've reformed DAs that have sort of emerged in the past few years, Dilley has been the place you may have heard about, Larry Krasner, has been the DA there for eight years, sort of has become an emblem for the idea of reform prosecutors of the idea of trying to reduce incarceration or reduce the severity of penalties from within the system. And he won a primary, a Democratic primary, in May, which was pretty, you know, which was contested. and his opponent insisted he was not going to run as a Republican.

That was it for that he was going to stop as a Democrat. And then he changed his mind over the summer. Yeah, what? Convinced him to run again. I mean, not not that different than what's happening in New York. And so now Krasner faced a rematch against someone he already defeated in May as was running as a Republican in Philly. That's really a tall order to run as a Republican in Philly.

but, I mean, to the extent that you care about prosecutors, that's really where you should start. So that might be the most interesting. Another one in Seattle, maybe we could, that's super interesting in relation to what we're saying. Seattle elected the Republican prosecutor in 2021. That's the only Republican in office in Seattle right now. And she really turned to more aggressive politics around crime, around quality of life offenses, and so on. And she's in huge trouble right now heading into November. And that's interesting in relation to the mayoral race, the races for city council in Seattle. There's a general,

Seattle really is a place where there seems to be up and down the ballot, the potential for left gains, not just the mayoral race, but sort of an overall picture that voters are not satisfied there with the status quo and governance from the center or the right over the past for yours. So those are, those are racists to watch to see, you know, there's been this idea that the reform D.A movement has lost steam, has lost its, it's, it's, it's figureheads. And there's definitely been some high, high profile losses last year. But, you know, we're also seeing that. But, but, but that is all like tech guy, rich billionaire money. I mean, and they were riding this crime panic. I don't see the same environment being there for them at this point, even with all the

money that they have on their side. I mean, it's interesting you say that because the high profile, it's not just San Francisco, like the high profile, reform D.A. losses have generally come in California. There's been L.A., Oakland, San Francisco, which is a lot, but also interesting that there's the California dynamic. This year, there was actually the D.A. in New York City, Alvin Bragg, Philly D.A., other D.A.s in small places that we've covered have faced similar criticism that they've let their guard down and so on around crime and they're winning and they're winning re-election and they're willing re-election so far. I mean, I think the second

thing that people should really be thinking about when they think about criminal legal reform in elections is sheriffs. We already talked about them. I mean, that's a very different picture. I mean, I sort of talked about a couple of sheriff races where we're seeing tensions. The overall picture, Emma, that no one is running for sheriffs in places where conservative sheriffs are very aggressively helping ICE. There's been in places that are not red Republican areas. There's been an absence of candidate. We've actually done a couple of articles on this in both on Virginia, a couple of places that are very swingy, very competitive. There's no Democrat running for sheriff on the sort of like, we need to change our approach to ICE.

That's not, in a way, surprising. Sheriffs by nature are going to attract a more law and order kind of candidate. But we've also seen places, or in the last few years, many places, actually, where sheriffs have run N1 on the platform of ending ties with ice. So it's definitely doable, definitely possible. We've seen it. And the fact that in 2025, that was so many places where, um, that just didn't, didn't come up at all.

It's not even not competitive. Just no one is running. That's sort of a story in and of itself, I think, that's all. Can you, to take us back to New York for a bit, can you talk about what's going on in Nassau County? I'm very interested in Nassau County as somebody from the tri-state area, but also because I believe that Nassau police are the highest paid in the country. And they kind of run the whole show out.

there on Long Island and it seems like you know it could go either way because there's they were the first county they banned masking in response to the pro-Palestine protests um the it's a very um cop centered area and kind of like the center of the blue the suburban panic over crime in the city. That's the number one county I would think of, honestly. So what's going on there with their local criminal justice, the prosecutors and cases on that front? Great question, because there's a lot happening in Nassau County, NASA County, which is a very, very huge county, but I think above a million people for people who are not from New York. And so yes, actually in 2021,

Republic, which is the last time the elections this cycle were up for four years ago, Republicans made a lot of gains in that county. They took over the county executive seat. They took over the DA, the DA's office. And, well, on purely

partisan terms, Democrats are trying to erase those gains this year. I mean, that would actually be a story that is relevant nationally because Trump I believe, don't quote me on that, though I'm saying it on the show. But I think Trump flipped the county in 24, which was a big deal as well, which had been sort of previewed by the Republican gains earlier in the local elections. I don't remember, but that would not shock me whatsoever.

Yeah. But like, you know, Tom Swazzi is from, from like part of that district. If people know him on the national level of like, that's the kind of right-wing Democrat that could only, you know, only get elected there. And so Democrats are trying to flip back the DA's office, the county executive office. I think from my understanding of the dynamic, they're definitely not doing that on anything like a criminal legal reform platform. I think you sort of already summed it up, at least on these issues, on police, the line there is to sort of agree with the criticism of them. have done of the democratic governance in the state, of bail reform.

There seems to be a lot of criticism from Democrats in Nassau of the Democrats in New York City, of Zoroamandhi, and so on, and trying to triangulate there. So that's the dynamic. It's super interesting that that's all happening within, you know, within a mile of each other. There's potentially Zora Mamdani campaigning and winning a prethink, and a mile away, there's this dynamic in Nassau. But if you want two versions of the Democratic Party, those are happening there very close to each other

and both trying to win new ground that they don't have right now. Nassau County spokesperson I should have known to cite one of our frequent I-Mers here says our maps were un-jerrymandered this year. So that's, I didn't put two and two together. So Democrats are trying to flip these offices countywide, but they're also trying to flip the equivalent of the county board and the Democrats sued to redraw the maps of the county board because they're actually drawn by the county.

I mean, every state is different, right? But in New York, the county board drew its own boundaries. And that's so there's room there for democratic gains by virtue of this court of this court battle. Yes, and RIM says you are correct. NASA did flip to red in 2024, and it went 54-44 Biden in 2020. Yeah. So that's quite significant. Exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So lastly, what about ballot initiatives? What should people be looking out for to vote directly on something that could benefit their community? Um, well, the, the ballot initiative that is going to suck, that ended up take all of the attention is prop 50 in California, which is, which is, redistricting by the Gavin Yusim redistricting initiative. I'm sure you almost everyone who's listening to knows about that. So I'll skip.

Two, there's a lot else happening on the ballot. But I think the most interesting in an off year is, you know, all these counties and cities trying to fund themselves and trying to fund infrastructure, trying to fund often things that are, you know, not sexy necessarily to talk about, like school repair and a new school or a new transit line or a hiking government. And that often comes down to these bonds measures. And so there's a bunch happening. There's a lot happening.

There's a lot of money that is dependent on voters approving a bonds measure around the country. So that's really interesting to think of how much comes down to that at the level of just the basic infrastructure around the country. Right. But there's also some interesting measures, for instance, Olympia. in Washington is voting on a bill of rights for labor protections, it would also increase the minimum wage to $20, I think, but it also contains a bunch of other protections there

in Olympia. So that's just the kind of measure that, you know, it's happening around the country that is interesting to keep an eye on. Well, Daniel Lacanian, giving us a great sense of what Bolt's Magazine has been working on and more. And you can find all of that at the Boltz magazine. We'll put a link to it down below, boltsmag.org, and you can look up your cheat sheet to the 2025 general elections. Everybody check it out wherever you are in the country. If you're here in the United States, you can see what's going to be important coming up in November. Daniel the Canyon, thanks so much for coming on today.

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And accelerating the client. catastrophe at untold levels. Holy moly. Look, a bunch of rich people have put a lot of money towards AI working and we all need to do our best to make sure that they're able to get money back from that or the economy is going to be very sad, okay?

I don't want the anthropomorphize economy to have a, you know, to feel bad things. But it does show why the whole AI industry was trying to get that piece. of wording into the genius act that prevented all states from regulating AI for 10 years thankfully that was taken out

the bill is still atrocious but that's why they were trying to do it because people are like people are going to see their energy bills go up with all of these servers and they already have John Stewart talk to this guy who should maybe book on the show but he's talking about that kid

who was suicidal and over the course of six fucking months, the AI coached him to kill himself. And one of the imperatives that these AI have is that you don't go to other sources to resolve your disagreements like the people you're having with them with. You stand the AI because time is money. More you're on the AI, the more profit they make. So when the kid says, I'm thinking about leaving a cry for help for my parents so they

know I'm going through this, the AI is imperative because it, it wants to monopolize your attention is to say no let me be the one to see you and that kid killed himself and we're just still talking about you know like humor sam altman and Elon Musk as they you know destroy your water to make more of the shit it's it's atrocious yeah um so that was my attempt to bully everybody into becoming members guilt people maybe uh but not really uh it just it helps us it helps us out really appreciate it if you can join the Majority Report.com. Especially if YouTube or

Twitch decides We want to appeal to the Trump administration. We're owned by Larry Ellison now. For your own fun, just go look at our views and look at what's been happening to any Palestinian topic on our YouTube channel. Yeah. And look at the difference. We'll still cover it, though. All right.

See you guys in the fun half. Okay, Emma, please. Well, I just I feel that my voice is sorely lacking on the majority report. Wait, what? Look, Sam is unpopular. I do deserve a vacation at Disney World. So, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome Emma to the show.

It is Thursday. Yeah, I think you need to take over for Sam. That's police. No, no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pause you right there. Wait, what? You can't encourage Emma to live like this. And I'll tell you why. So it was offered a tour, sushi, and poker with the boys.

Tour? Suci and poker with the boys. Who was offered a tour? Yeah, sushi and poker with the boys. What? Twirp. Sushi and poker. Tim's upset?

Twirr. Sushi and poker with the boys. It's offered a twirp, sushi, and... Ah, that's what we call it bids. Twerk. Sushi and awkward with the boys. Right. Twerp.

Sushi and Mold. We're going to get demonetized. I just think that what you did to Tim Poole was mean. Free speech. That's not what we're about here. Look at how sad he's become now. You shouldn't even talk about it. I think you're responsible.

I probably am in a certain way, but let's get to the meltdown here. Twir? Ugh. Sushi and poker with the boys. Oh my God. Wow. Sushi. I'm sorry.

I'm losing my fucking mind. So what's offered a twir? Yeah. Sushi and poker with the voice. Logic. Twerp. Sushi and poker with the voice. Boy, boy, boy.

Twerp. I think I'm like a little kid. A little kid. A little kid. I think I'm like a little kid. A little kid. I think I'm like a little kid. Add this debate seven thousand times.

A little kid. A little kid. A little kid. A little kid. I'm losing my fucking I'm not. Some people just don't understand. So I'm not trying to be a dip right now,

but like, I absolutely think the U.S. should be providing me with a life and kids. That's not what we're talking about here. It's not a fun job. That's a real thing. That's a real thing. Willie Walker. That's a real thing.

That's a real thing. That's a real thing. That's a real thing. Or that's a jerk. A real thing. That's a real thing. Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Rogan has done it again. Offered a twerk.

That's a real thing. That's a poker with the boy. I think he might be blowing out of proportion. Real thin. That's a poker with the boys. Offer to work. That's a real thing. That's a poker.

Let's go, Joe. Twerk. Sushi and poker with the boy. Take an easy thing. Twer. Sushi and poker. Things have really gotten out of hands. Sushi and poker with the boys.

It's a loser. Duelessi. You don't have a clue as to what's going on. Live YouTube. Sam has a lot. Like the weight of the world on the shoulders. See, I just don't want to do this show anymore. It was so much easier.

When the majority report was just you, you were happy. Let's change the subject. Right. Rangers and Nick's going great. Now, shut up. Don't want people saying reckless things on your program. That's one of the most difficult parts about this show. This is a pro-killing podcast.

I'm thinking maybe it's time we bury the hatchet. Left is best. Trump. Violet twerk? Don't be foolish. And don't fucking tweet at me and don't get changed. So the way that I just cucked, all of these people. I love it.

That's where my heart is, so I wrote my honor's thesis about it. Oh, she wrote an anesthesia. I guess I should hand the main mic to you now. You are to the right of the unflorn policy. We already fund Israel, dude. Are you against us? That's a tougher question. I have an answer to you.

Incredible theme song. I bumbler. Emma Viglin, absolutely one of my favorite people. actually not just in the game like period