The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3677 - SCOTUS Upholds Birthright Citizenship; Trump Bored by Housing Bill; Big Colorado Primaries

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

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On the program today, Supreme Court upholds states trans athlete bands. Also, in a different decision, reaffirms birthright citizenship, but it was a squeaker the same day. Supreme Court blows away what's left of campaign finance restrictions. And a retracted story from NPR saying that Sam Alito is resigning. Trump says negotiations with Iran to start today. Iran says, uh, new. Meanwhile, back at home, Trump quashes yet another offshore wind farm with a hundred and thirty million dollar payout. It's primary day in Colorado, and it very well may bring down more of the Democratic establishment.

Colorado Supreme Court, meanwhile, strikes down Democrats' redistricting plan. Mike Johnson's plan to attach the SAVE Act to the defense authorization bill. That's a must-pass bill, they call it. Moves forward out of committee. New report, food insecurity amongst. military triples in the past couple of years. 42% military families suffering some amount of food insecurity. AOC introduces an amendment to the defense authorization bill that would halt both offensive and defensive weapons to Israel.

All this and more on today's majority report welcome ladies and gentlemen it is newsday Tuesday says Emma Vigland ladies and gentlemen just got an I am saying that a lot of Kuros's campaign made a hundred thousand calls yesterday we'll have more to talk about that yes that is Colorado vote today vote vote vote vote vote today and you can still phone bank as well listen to the show and phone bank we will give you special special and phone bank we will give you special dispensation if you miss today's show because you're phone banking. Exactly.

We'll put a link to her phone banking in the episode description, I think, right? And in fact, Brian can do that right now. I'm on it, boss. Okay, great. We will talk more about that Colorado in just a moment. The Supreme Court, yesterday, of course, we spoke about rulings that took place. Yesterday, tomorrow we'll have Ellie Mistel on to go deeper into these cases. But the headlines are, essentially, Supreme Court has upheld state transgender sports bands.

It was a six to three decision, surprise, surprise. It doesn't impose bans, but there's about now at least 25 states, I think it is, maybe 26, that are, have some form of a ban of student athletes who are transgender. This specific case had to deal with challenges to sports bands in Idaho and West Virginia. the conservatives on the court said that restricting sports eligibility based on biological sex assigned at birth does not violate Title IX anti-discrimination protections or the U.S. Constitution. A couple of things I would just say is that it does violate Title IX. Yes. There is plenty of precedent where any type of reference. to sex under the precedence that in cases dealing with Title IX would have made this case,

they would have found these bans to be at least illegal, if not unconstitutional. I would also add that people should keep in mind that the reason why you have sports in schools is to educate people and teach them things. Yeah. This is just othering trans kids, and this case obviously gratuitously focused on girls' sports because of the interlinking homophobia into transphobia. But yeah, it's supposed to be about full participation

in the educational experience, and that has been now the Supreme Court says it's okay for states to do that, for trans kids in their states. During Pride Month, by the way. And of course, you know, this is not going to in any way. I mean, despite the fact that all we heard on this now multi-year assault on trans people was this is all about protecting the kids, they're just going to keep moving on

and attacking trans people regardless of age. You see also that public attitudes towards same-sex marriage have gone in the opposite direction since the assault on trans rights began just to show how interlinked those things are. And by the way, we should see people celebrating in the streets after this decision because I've been told by the Democrats that this is the issue that decided the election. finally our high school sports are going to be legitimate again the supreme court also struck down some major campaign finance restrictions and i think we'll probably have somebody on over the next couple of days or in the next week or so to talk about the implications of this in terms of like what it's going to do to our politics but the short story is that the ruling remove spending limits on the party's ability to coordinate expenditures with the candidate.

And essentially, you can't give a huge amount of money, an unlimited amount of money to candidates but you basically can now to parties and the parties are then can turn around and give it to the candidates so that's basically where we're at that of course was surprisingly a six three ruling uh... the third ruling

was on birthright citizenship one would think that this would be a rather uncontroversal a ruling because of that what's that thing? Oh, the Constitution. Yeah. That's what it is. The 14th Amendment is a pretty

dang clear. And the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a 6-3 ruling. Roberts and Kavanaugh defected and

but the But Kavanaugh did his, joined his, and Amy Coney Barrett. But Kavanaugh also said it was more statutory and didn't buy into the actual, like, on the 14th Amendment was 5'4. Right. He said that it didn't violate the Constitution, the 14th Amendment, but that it violated a federal statute, which is a really hilarious way to split the base. here. And the language so people are aware, it's very clear, Fourth Amendment Section 1, all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside, which begs the question,

how did Trump trying to revoke birthright citizenship not violate the 14th Amendment in Kavanaugh's eyes? It's ridiculous. Here is Mike Johnson. responding to that ruling this morning. Is children born in the United States' parents unlawfully or temporarily present are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and our citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment citizenship clause? What's your reaction to that, Mr. Speaker? Well, I need to read the opinion, okay? But obviously that's, I mean, you could say that's a textualist, originalist view.

However, I do think that this has been grossly abused in recent years, okay? And that is the case that was being made by the plaintiffs in the case. And we're very sympathetic to that because it is a serious problem. We have, we have, you know, it's become a tourism, birthing tourism, they call it, you know, a trend where people would just come and you just come. come on to the soil and have your child, and then they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else. It's been abused. Pause for a second. Okay, so let me see if I could get this. First off, the idea that it's

being abused. Like, it's just so many people, like, for instance, like, so many people are using the First Amendment, we should roll that back. What about, like, people buying so many guns? Maybe the Second Amendment is just being abused, being overused. It's a trend now to get the gun. Here's what he's asking us to believe that tourists come in, travel to the United States, and have babies just so they can avail themselves of the welfare state. Yeah, which is interesting because if you were to say be in a different country, your birth process, having a child would be completely paid for in most countries in the West.

But apparently it's an epidemic of people coming to the United States so that they can have children here and then have to pay all those medical costs as well. Well, that's my point. I mean, these wealthy tourists who are coming in to have their children so that their children can be eligible for the, you know, food stamps. It's absurd. I have no doubt that there are wealthy people who are bringing their children here so they can get citizenship. tax them and yes that's all I care about

why do I care about like the demographic or whatever this is this chicken little stuff about there's so many immigrants in or even on the voting side of things oh there's all this illegal voting on none of these are real issues no of course not

this is all well it is an emergency for some of these people because the country is becoming less pure yeah this is one step away from great placement theory essentially saying that all these black and brown people are out breeding us and they're able to get around it by having their children on american soil elin musk who explicitly says this stuff all the time and he's bankrupts the republican party let's continue just come and you

just come onto the soil and have your child and then they're they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else it's it's been abused it's one of those things that was intended to serve a noble important purpose and has been thwarted and and overused and abused. And so I'm sure that we'll continue... Well, I'm an originalist, so sorry. Look at that. I mean, I'm sure the conclusion from this opinion is going to be

that you've got to amend the Constitution to fix that. As we all know, it's a big challenge to amend the Constitution. It's only happened 27 times in our whole nation's history. And the reason is, because you've got to have two-thirds of both chambers of Congress and three-fourths of the states to ratify. It's usually at least a many-year-long process and very complex. complicated. We'll see. I'm sure there's going to be lots of discussion about that. I will say I'm very disappointed in that outcome. I think it subjects the country to serious challenges going forward and we'll have to deal with it as a Congress. Last one. Yeah, God forbid we have more people paying it to Social Security tax. That's just Mike Johnson really honestly play acting for Donald Trump. That's what's going on there. You didn't buy that groan at the beginning.

And he's literally, literally the whole walking through the constitutional amendment thing was specifically for Trump. Yeah. And he also. This is going to be really hard to do. We're not going to be able. It's going to take a multi-year level. Like he's out there pretending he's telling the American public. And he's really his way of saying it to Trump. He wouldn't say it to his face because he's terrified. And he's just saying it's Trump with the hopes that Trump doesn't go like, let's start doing that, Mike. No, secretly he's happy because the court is going as far as they can without just being a complete rubber stamp for Trump. This is a fig leaf because what they were asking for to just overturn the plain text of the Constitution was so flagrant and ridiculous that it gives cover for all their other extremist decisions. That's also true. The idea that in any way to be upset about it because any Republican that isn't a total like, you know, dementia laden petio maniac like Trump understood the reality of what was going to happen here.

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today is a big primary day yes it is one of your favorite candidates yes milot keros is the real deal in Denver and if you're out in Denver and you haven't voted for her already I would highly encourage it she is challenging an incumbent

Diana DeGette who has been in Congress since 1997 so she's approaching you know she's closer to 30 years than 20 years. And, you know, she got a last-minute endorsement from one of our favorites, Primalogia Paul, which I was discouraged to see. But it's degette did. And you'll see this often, though.

Unfortunately, sometimes you can't rely on other members of Congress to support insurgent challengers because they have a working relationship with that member of Congress. And DeGette, I think, is technically in the Progressive Caucus, but it's one of those things where it's like such a why if you could if you don't mind just clarifying that for me brian but um but she's she's really very senior i think that's part of it as well but she's accepted apac money through their united democracy project shell uh uh shell organizations i should say yes she is in the progressive caucus as well as um big tech money that has been funneled into that race spending on her behalf so the israel lobby and

big tech understand who's on their side and who is not. Melot resigned or lost her job for speaking out about Gaza early on as a lawyer, and that was one of the things that informed her decision to run against to get. And there was an axiose item this morning about how Democrats are really worried about this race. So this is just another opportunity for a DSA-endorsed candidate to be the presumptive member of Congress in a very blue district. You have Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you have now Darius Shaboyer, Claire Valdez, all three in New York, but then Chris Robb as well in Philly and potentially a fifth DSA elected with Maylott. That race is really important and it's gotten a lot of attention

including from this show. But I feel like I've almost dropped the ball on the Hickenlooper primary. So there are now indications that Hickenlooper, the senator from Colorado, is in significant trouble. This is a much more difficult climb here because this is a statewide primary. Obviously, when you're running in a really blue district in Denver, the more progressive you are, it's easier to have success. But state Senator Julie Gonzalez is challenging Hickenlooper from the left. She's a labor organizer. She supports an arms embargo on Israel. She's to Hickenlooper's left on ice.

And there was reporting that came out that showed that Hickenlooper's team sees the race as a dead heat in terms of their internal polling. This would be so seismic that it's almost like difficult to express. I think an under-discussed part of this story is that it's not just in Colorado a general discontent with the national Democratic Party, which we're seeing across a variety of different states. But Jared Polis, their governor, has been a complete disaster, you know, one of the abundance bro's favorite guys. He's essentially like a libertarian center-right Democrat who helped free Tina Peters, one of the election on Trump's behalf, an election denier who was unrepentant and tried to literally physically obstruct the voting process in Colorado.

So I think there's a lot of Democrats in that state that are sick of their kind of centrist representation and perhaps dissatisfaction with their governor, poll, is driving some of this enthusiasm for the primary challenges against other Democrats. We should say there's also a competitive race for Attorney General. Yes. David Seligman being the most progressive running in that race. And so And even governor I was seeing that You know

It's perhaps I'm going to get this guy's name wrong While maybe you talk and I'll pull it up But Michael Bennett is running for governor And they're a little worried That that that's not a sure thing as well That's right Bennett is running against

Oh gosh Now I can't remember his name Right that I'm having the same issue It's Wiser Yep And I've seen people writing that it's a at the very least the toss up maybe even lean wiser in this so

and Bennett you know the the relevance of that is just the there's a there's a problem with the democratic brand and um this is not a function of of the DSA it is a function of the Democratic the democratic leadership that exists. And the DSA is stepping in as an alternative, you know, which is basically like it's no different than a reform element in a union that is there because there is such dissatisfaction with the establishment. You know, if you look at the polling on Plattner that came out yesterday, I think it was, Platner's up on Collins by about four points. People are worried about that because Gideon was up around, I don't know, six or seven points,

maybe in the same poll, had different numbers with men at that time. But of course, that was six years ago during COVID. And so, you know, it's not exactly apples to apples. But if you look into these cross tabs, you will see that Collins is getting 96% of, Republican support. And Platner is only getting 80% of Democratic support. This is the rump of the establishment of the Democratic Party angry that they have failed and the voters have said you have failed.

I mean, the fact of the matter is if you are a Democrat and you are upset in Maine or frankly, wherever you are, that the establishment, candidate hasn't won, the blame is not on the people who beat them. The blame is on the Democratic establishment who put those candidates up and failed to read the moment. I mean, the idea that espion lost is such an indictment of espion. Not just because the voters got sick of it, but like they are so out of touch with every single indication that there could have been a they were there late. And Jet is the exact same thing in Colorado. Yeah, it's the same thing. I will just add that I do think that the, it's different this time with DSA than it has been for other, say, primary challenges where you'll get a progressive win here, a progressive challenge that scares an incumbent there. And then that energy may still linger for a bit, but it doesn't have the discipline and organizational structure and the internal damage.

democracy of DSA that I think makes it so formidable and resilient in the way that like perhaps candidates who had the right stuff but were running more as an individual isolated campaign doesn't necessarily have the goal here is to build up a sizable internal faction within the Democratic Party of DSA that can not just push the Democratic Party to the left because of the discipline that it that it has but push even the progressive caucus to the left so um i mean at this point it's almost like replacing a democratic party that is an absolute free fall and can't be honest about it like why all these establishment people are in hotter water than they figured and what is their response to blame the left for not playing fair you are collapsing in front of

everyone's eyes figure out why you don't have credibility with voters anymore they don't think you can win and they don't think you can govern. That's, but that's the problem. Like the, they've lost credibility in elections and they've lost credibility on delivering for people. And that's a pretty toxic stew if you're trying to actually take power back from. And culturally, everyone hates you too. Yeah. Um, Kristen from, uh, Colorado, Phil Weiser isn't that amazing. Um, I don't know much about him, but I guess my point is that the idea that Michael Bennett might be in jeopardy,

that guy has been a stalwart of Colorado politics for ages. And so that's the point. People are sick of this establishment. Juniper J. sounds like

you've all ignored the Colorado primary until the last day. If the left wins there to F up the conservative Democrats' talking point, the left cannot win in non-coastal America. that's correct but amma uh interviewed amela akiros three times yes which i think is it might be a little excessive excessive yeah i mean to be honest with you but uh nevertheless they were all for three different topics the last one was because her hosan rally got canceled okay that was a big story yes no

but my i think i think it's hard to argue that we've ignored it ignored it um i think maybe uh we slept a little bit on the Senate race. I'm admitting that. But, you know, uh, you know, the, we will fire the,

um, the director of our newsroom and, uh, you know, we'll see maybe by, Barry Weiss wants to take over. Barry Weiss will be taking over and, uh,

everything will work out there, uh, with that. Um, let's move on. Uh, good chance. Uh,

I'll hop on YouTube tonight. And if, uh, Emma decides that she wants, uh, authorization to get on the YouTube. Yes. By the way, I'm taking it easy going forward now. I hope people realize

that I've had quite a June. It's time to relax. So I can go on YouTube live, for sure. Well, you mean by taking easy, you won't be so drunk that you can't be. Exactly. I won't be partying like I was basically all of June's from the Knicks on. Yeah, when Emma's drunk on election night, she can only go on

Hassan's stream. Exactly right. I want everyone to see it. We'll hop on for that. Right now, the National Defense authorization is up for a vote, or I should say, has cleared the Republican-controlled committee in the House. And Mike Johnson has attached to it the SAVE Act. They have been trying to pass the SAVE Act. Donald Trump is extremely interested in the SAVE Act. Here he is just yesterday being asked if he will sign the Housing Affordability Act,

and this was his response. Will you sign that housing bill? It hasn't been sent to me yet. It's coming, I understand. And then I'll make it different. Here's what I would like to say, much more than. a bill, a big deal. It's a yawn. Because it's wonderful.

To me, compared to the Save America Act, just about everything is a big yawn. I'm bored. Well, this is the thing. He is obsessed with the Save Act. Play number four. We got it? You have honest elections.

What are your plans for the housing bill, Mr. President? I don't know. I think it's so unimportant by compared to the Save America Act. I think the Save America Act is exactly what it says. It's saving America from crooked elections. And the housing bill is a bill that can get approved. They worked on it long and hard. It's very bipartisan.

That means the Democrats like it. I think it's maybe even, it's probably, maybe more that way beginning things that I would necessarily agree to. Nobody knows more than housing in the history of the presidency. Nobody, well, like me in housing. I made a lot of money. I made a lot of money with housing. But when I look at that bill, it's a bill. But when I look at the Save America Act, it's about.

saving America and I'd like to have to save America Act Ed. You know what happens when the guy who builds housing makes a lot of money on housing? Everyone who... The opposite of an affordable housing bill. Right. He knows so much about housing that like just reading the text of the bill, it's just not intellectually stimulating enough for him. Well, the bottom line is he is obsessed.

with the Save Act. What is the Save Act? We've talked about it in the past. It is the technically the Save America Act. It is essentially a multi-pronged effort to disenfranchise enough voters so that Donald Trump could overcome the deficit his party sees themselves in now. One, it requires a government-issued ID, either a passport or a license to register. to vote. Half of Americans don't have a passport. Half of Americans don't have a passport. About 20 some odd

million voters say that they don't have a government issued ID because they don't drive or they couldn't find their birth certificate. A lot of people don't have that. It also requires in-person

presentation of these documents. It also requires showing your voter ID as you vote, both registration and voting. So this is for people that can't, if they can't drive or if they don't have that ID, or if they're disabled and they're in a rural area, they're not able to participate in our elections. It also makes it harder for married women who have changed their last name. Now, look, I am of the mind that these provisions definitely. suppressed the vote. I'm not convinced that they overwhelmingly suppress the vote for one party or the other. I don't think Republicans are convinced of that, and that's why John Thune, in part, doesn't want to take this up. But the other point is that there's no cause for this, because you've

had multiple over the past really 20 years. Multiple, multiple, like, state audits and investigations, Utah, Louisiana, and I think Nevada, maybe I did, like,

forensic audits on their voter rolls and found virtually no voter fraud. Like, you know, a couple, and it's almost never fraud. It's almost always somebody thought their eligible vote and didn't uh and and weren't um on top of those voter ID things it would require every state to hand over their voting data to the federal government for what we don't

know um the the DHS has these sort of like a databases that are completely error prone we've seen this before Florida in the 2000 election a disenfranchised um tens of thousands of people simply because they had the same name as a convicted felon. Yeah. What's interesting also if you're, you got the Save Act down just to return to the housing piece of this. Well, let me just finish this. It also requires purges of state's voter rolls. And all of these things put together make it something that, again, even the Republicans don't necessarily want,

of course, has attached it to the National Defense Authorization Bill. It's unclear whether it will maintain itself. There'll be amendments probably offered to strip it. We shall see. In the meantime, AOC is offering amendments to this same bill. Yes, yes. But just on the housing thing really quickly, because I am interested in this piece of it. Do you remember how this even came to be when the...

Elizabeth Warren called out Trump. Trump had said that, you know, issued some toothless executive order about private equity or talked about it buying up all these single family homes. And Warren responded publicly and was like, okay, bet, let's put this into legislation. And she fought really hard to get, and the Republicans were trying to strip it out, a piece of the bill that would put a limit on the number of homes that private equity could purchase. the Republicans were trying to get it out. But in the end, it ended up passing 3508 to 32 in the House and 85 to 85 in the Senate.

And that means that if John Thune wanted to like really corner Trump on this, which he doesn't, they could send it to his desk. He could veto it and they have the votes to override his veto easily. It's unclear. I mean, he's sort of just like brushed, literally brushed it off his desk and said maybe bring it back. Yeah. So he's got a certain amount of time before he becomes like, I guess, a post. pocket veto. So we'll see. Here is Randy Fine on the housing bill on Newsmax. I'm shocked he even

has anything to say about this because it doesn't involve Muslim people being blown up, which is his favorite thing. I guess the big thing for this guy is like I don't need to read a bill. I just need to know whose name is associated with it. Start with the housing bill. So once Congress officially sends this to the White House, the president has 10 days to either sign it, veto it, or do nothing here. So where it becomes a law without his signature. Now, the president tweeted that he doesn't like some elements of this bill. You were one of 32 House Republicans to vote against the Senate version.

So if he vetoes it, what do you think happens here? Well, I don't know. I mean, look, my issue was if Elizabeth Warren thinks a bill is great, then it probably isn't. And that's sort of how I looked. But the enthusiasm with which Democrats had for this bill got me spooked. Much easier for me not to, much easier for me not to read the bill and come up with an actual complaint about it. Embarrassing. It's really not that.

Oh, sorry. Sort of how I looked. But the enthusiasm with which Democrats had for this bill got me spooked. And I didn't come to Washington to work with Democrats. I came to Washington to beat them. So that was where I was. As for the president, he'll do what he thinks his best. and I trust the judgment.

I certainly hope if he chooses to veto the bill, Republicans will not choose to override him. And certainly, I won't be one of those doing that. So I get it. The president. I get it. Yeah. That Warren part is basically one of the only, like, really more progressive elements of the bill,

because a lot of it is just abundant stuff, removing regulatory and environmental barriers. And then they have this $200 million grant program for municipalities, local governments, for housing, construction, but other than that, like, this is as bipartisan, moderate, middle of the road as it gets.

I would, regardless of the good or bad of the bill, this, that's basically him saying my constituents are stupid hogs, like, that can only see things in the, like, the basest of partisan lenses. You know what? Liz Warren. I think there's a lot

of evidence. If you send that guy to Congress, that's probably the case. Exactly. I'm just, you know, underlining that that's the point here. He's King Hug of his district. And he represents like an area outside of, in between Jacksonville and Orlando in Florida, which I would guess is a lot of people who own homes, right?

Like Trump's talking about how he's concerned that any new housing supply is going to reduce the value of his core voter base, which is 50-year-old and over homeowners, basically. There are a lot of Republicans that just care about that constituency, too. In the meantime, as this, defense authorization bill makes its way to the floor of the house, AOC has introduced an amendment that if passed, would more than likely halt all offensive and defensive military aid to Israel, assuming Israel didn't radically change its behavior. The

proposal would require all U.S. defense articles and services to be used in accordance with international law consistent with 6201 of the Foreign Assistant Act, which essentially says

countries that restrict U.S. humanitarian aid are prohibited from getting any military stuff. I don't know how else to our articulate that. I think it's 620I. Just a 620. And the, the fundamental difference in this amendment

versus, let's say, the Leahy law is the responsibility of the administration to affirmatively issue a clearance and also the Congress's ability, or I should say, requirement to specifically authorize the transfer. So the point being that with the Leahy law, you needed to have some, like, the administration itself come to some finding. Yes. It gives the president power. Is the executive branch the power to determine whether or not Israel's violating international law?

This goes further than that. The requirement for the president was like, the executive branch was like, if you find a problem, then you are compelled not to sell. Well, it's easy not to find a problem if you don't look. In this instance, the bill would require an affirmative, or I should say an affirmation that, none of the military equipment is being used in violation of humanitarian law or that there's and that would be much more difficult, of course, all things taken for, you know, as is. We should say this is both offensive and defensive. It'll be interesting to see if Marjorie Taylor Green, who I think it was, had a more

limited amendment, will vote for this if it hits the floor. Oh, wait. She resigned. Yeah. Because she cares so much. Well, it'll be interesting to see if she goes on a podcast and talks about it. That's what's important. And I say that as a podcast.

But obviously, I mean, that's part of why we're criticizing her in general, Marjorie Taylor Green, not like the history of anti-Semitism, hatred, bigotry, conspiracyism in general. It's just that she hasn't been on our show. As a reminder, Marjorie Taylor Green. October 26, 2023. Breaking news, I just introduced my resolution to censure Rashida Talib is a privileged to force a House vote in two legislative

days. Talib led a pro-Hamas insurrection into the capital complex has repeatedly displayed her anti-Semitic beliefs and shown her hatred for Israel. She must be held accountable and censured. That is the anti-Zionist queen outflanking AOC on this issue, like Tucker Carlson is outflanking, you know, anybody on the left, according to internet influencers who get to go on his show. If I remember correctly, Marjorie Taylor Green's amendment would have cut off defensive aid,

which was weird. But be that as it may. That's where we're at with that. And I think she actually also, I will say, introduced kind of a flurry of amendments as well, AOC. DropSight had reported on this. It's not just that that she's introducing. There's one that would require the Pentagon to be more transparent about using military facilities in Puerto Rico, condemnations about these civil rights violations in Peru, banning Pentagon cooperation with Ecuador until they comply with human rights.

There's a lot of asking for unclassified documents on the U.S. and Brazil military partnership from the 60s. 70s and 80s. I mean, some of this stuff is really interesting. I mean, if you look at this, it's hard to really know. But like you say, yes, she wants a report on past violations in Colombia. She wants a report on U.S. government involvement in Chile's 73 coup, where Allende was essentially killed with the helps of the United States. She also wants unclassified report on U.S. Brazil, a military partnership from the 60s to the 80s. A new stuff prohibit Pentagon funds from being used to enforce U.S. sanctions on Cuba. What I take from this is that with all of the Trump administrations sort of reinvigorated, I guess, desire to reimpose

U.S. dominance in Central and Latin America that she is gearing up to hold hearings in some fashion around these issues and this information coming to light will be relevant in the context of asking like, because look, I think it's very likely in the wake in the wake of the election, the midterm election, and very possibly during the lame duck session, we're going to see some form of attack on Cuba. I think they have backed off it because they got nervous. Iran was too much and they're worried about getting involved in another conflict in the run-up to the midterm election. But I will be shocked if we do not see something more dramatic with Cuba in the, wake of the midterms.

And then this is going to become, you know, this is a throwback to when I was in college and a little bit older when U.S. involvement in Central America in particular was, I know if it was peaking, but probably. We've had a long history of it, so it's hard to say. But there you go. This is the actual deep state, by the way. the 20th century being completely marked by assassination attempts

in the overthrowing of dozens of governments that were democratically elected to serve U.S. capital interests. That's what the CIA served. It's not, you know, about DEI. I hate to break it to people. Well, you know, part of the problem was that people were putting all our bananas

in some of these countries. And so... You can't put all your bananas in one well it's just like why are all our bananas in Honduras like what the F

we gotta get those things out and they had all our sugar and all sorts of resources not to mention that canal yeah interesting that she also

just to the the Chile coup people should look up also you know like say Israel's involvement in that as well in the arms that were sold there if this is in conjunction with some of her her amendments targeting

you know or trying to curb the amount of money we're sending to Israel it's also going to be instructive to look at some of those arms transfers in the 20th century to Latin American governments all right we are going to head into the fun half ladies and gentlemen

This is the first time I think we've done less than an hour In a long time Yeah, this show was supposed to be 45 minutes long And then it just grew in metastasized Yeah, that's when we launched Never, not once. No, no, no, it hasn't been for years. Years and years.

We did have a period of time. Matt will remember this, although he's decided to step out for whatever reason, that we used to do a Tuesdays teasers where we would do like 20 minutes of the free half. I mean, I was able to sort of land that maybe twice. I have a fun half teaser.

I just found a video of Michael Knowles debating a child about the Salem Witch Trials at the Great America State Fair in front of about eight or nine people. How old is this child? Reports are saying 10. Not confirmed. That's so great. I was so happy that it was not young.

You know what? That's so annoying because, There was one version of Ken, Ken and Ken that we did where I debated Saul in a change my mind with Saul when he was like six. Still in your whole flow. Yep. Folks, it's your support that makes this show possible. You can become a member at join the Majority Report.com. When you do, you not only get the free show free of commercials, but you also get the fun half.

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right after like crashes his car into like a strip club or something. And also Juan David Rojas talking about Columbia and the rise, re-rise of the far right in Colombia. Also I am about 250 follows away from 10,000 on Instagram. So at Matlack on Instagram. Did you know that Tiger Woods is dating Don Jr.'s ex-wife? now. Is that what he said?

There's a politics tie-in then. When he's like, you know, get the president on the phone when he got busted. God. Pathetic. What? He said, what? He said, get the president on the phone. Yeah, he was like driving out of the influence had a little bit of issues.

For like the fourth time. He drove into a ditch or something. In the sobriety test, he told the cops like, hey, let me call Trump. No, he did call Trump. There's video of him on the phone with Trump. Yeah. And he's like, to the cops. Excuse me.

He was so good, Tiger Woods. I mean, there was a couple years there. It was just like, this is one of the most exciting things to happen in U.S. sports. And I love that comeback when he won again. I mean, like, that was exciting. But golf has literally not been interesting except when Tiger Woods is good. It's 100% true. Well, 100% true.

I mean, if you put money on it, it's a little different. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah, for degenerates. Well, yeah. degenerates, I mean, if you drink really heavily, anything can be that. It's somewhat interesting. So I just want to say, my family's getting worried.

This isn't the real thing. This is not a real thing. It's not a real thing. Maybe. Maybe not. Any, you know, ants listening or anything like that. I'm not, it's not a real problem. I just want to put that out there.

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