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3535 - Trump and Hegseth's War Crime on Top of a War Crime
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That's their affordability response.
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Mm. DOJ caves to RealPage, invites future price fixing in the real estate markets. It is World's Aid Day. Excuse me, world's AIDS Day. And the US now refuses to acknowledge it. Lastly, Donald Trump will release his mri, but he doesn't know what it was for. Oh, all this and more, including tomorrow. Big election in Tennessee's 7th. Yes, Afton Bain running a long shot race, but not that.
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Not as long of a shot as you might think.
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Not as long as of a shot as it should have been.
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I mean, did you see that? They're blasting the airwaves in the district with negative ads about her being a radical, which means they're a little panicked and AOC is heading down there for a get out the vote event. So that's, I mean, that means it's close. That's what polling has shown.
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I also, I want to mention, you know, Emma Viglan. I hope your Thanksgiving was good. Yes, mine was fine. Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, we got through that.
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B
Yeah.
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All right, so. But I did, when you were mentioning that about aoc, I was. I think we failed to mention this last week. And this is an important note. You remember when AOC donated money to, I think, Abigail Spanberger's campaign? That was, I guess, a request from Spanberger. And we should note this, and we should also note that Gavin Newsom had requested AOC's help in the Prop 50. Prop 50. And apparently tests that were done on her, her ad that she ran showed that hers was significantly more successful in terms of the way that it resonated with people than any other ad there. This is relevant because, you know, we've been noticing for a good year or two that AOC has been trying to play the inside game on some level, which is developing a power Base not just with. Because she's a wildly popular politician, but also creating relationships across the party.
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B
Using her fundraising juggernaut driven by her popularity in order to help out Democrats across the country. It's transactional, but it's also politics.
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Exactly. And so this is just, it's worth noting these three things that she's being brought down to Tennessee or is helping out in Virginia or is the most successful spokesperson in California because at the very least, what it shows, people can disagree with whether she should be doing this or not, but it shows at least that what she's been doing has been effective and is working. And whether people want her to gain that type of institutional power or not, I guess, you know, people can have different preferences, but at the very least, we can see it working. And so that is good to see or at least important to note, I should say. But also, how was your Thanksgiving?
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B
It was fine. We did this already. Let's get it over with.
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All right, great. That was great.
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It was fine.
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Brian Feels like divorced parents had a child pickup. Yep. Yeah, it's fine. Let's move on. Go ahead. Okay.
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B
We're here to talk politics. We're in this for the love of the game. I don't know if you know this about this show, but we're passionate about this stuff.
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A
I really wanted to talk about Thanksgiving, but I guess I'll have to hold.
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B
Until we can talk about the football.
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C
There's something you have in mind about Thanksgiving you want to get off your chest?
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Yeah, no, I'll. I'll save it for next year. I'm sure. I'm sure it'll be the same. So let's, let's get to this. The. I guess it happened on Wednesday evening or Wednesday afternoon, 2 o'. Clock. So we had not noted this on the show as of yet, but two National Guards. Two National Guard were shot in D.C. reminder. A court had found them to be deployed to DC illegally and this was on appeal. They were shot by a. We should say their two names. Sarah Bextrom, Andrew Wolf. Sarah Beckstrom went on to die. She's, I believe, 20 years old and she was. She died from her. Her wounds. Both of them were from West Virginia. The shooter, a guy named Ran Mullah Rahman Ullakanawal had been brought over from Afghanistan as part of the refugees in the wake of the Taliban taking over in Afghanistan. He was a member of something called the Zero Unit, which was an Afghan militia that was organized, trained to some extent by the CIA. They had a lot of relationships, particularly with The Northern alliance in Afghanistan in the wake of the Russian, or I should say the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. And so they had long standing relationships with a lot of the people in the Northern Alliance. I imagined some poppy growers, et cetera, et cetera, over the years.
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CIA wouldn't know anything about that. Right?
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Not, I mean, I can't imagine. And the suspect was apprehended by other National Guardsmen at the, at the time. He's going to be charged with first degree murder. Murder Wolf is, is still in the hospital in critical condition.
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Here is.
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The Trump administration tried to make this about asylum seekers and refugees and the failure of the Biden administration to vet those people coming in. This set of people, and I think we mentioned this in the past, is one of the most vetted of all folks coming in because, you know, they have to apply and they're coming from a very specific situation, particularly in the wake of Afghanistan. It was the Trump administration that it turns out, though, did the vetting on this.
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Well, he came in in terms of.
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Like a more permanent.
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Yes, but the asylum claim was granted earlier this year by the Trump administration.
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Correct. And here's Donald Trump being asked about it. This is. Let's start with. Let's start with number seven.
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It's in the early stages, obviously, but.
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Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
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I haven't thought about it yet, but it certainly is something I could conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere. And it's, you know, these are great people. I love the people of West Virginia, I love the people of our country. But I haven't given it any thought, but it sounds like something I could do. Yeah, it's very raw.
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Yeah, there he is. He's very raw. The emotion, obviously, you can see he's very raw about the emotion.
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He's not sure he'll be able to attend because he's going to be so distraught.
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I mean, you know, that part at least was honest. And then the other honest part is I did well in West Virginia, so I would go to her funeral because I did well there. Classic Trump. Here he is, however, snapping a little bit at the idea that their narrative about who did the vetting for this murderer is falling apart.
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The suspect worked very closely with the.
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CIA in Afghanistan for years that he was vetted and the vetting came up clean.
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He went cuckoo. I mean, he went nuts. And that happens, too. It happens too often with these people. You see him. But look, this is how they come in. This is how they're standing on top of each other. And that's an airplane. There was no vetting or anything. They came in unvetted. And we have a lot of others in this country. We're going to get them out. But they go cuckoo, something happens soon.
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Your DOJ IG just reported this year.
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That there was threat vetting by DHS.
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And by the FBI of these Afghans.
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Who were brought into the US So why do you blame the Biden administration?
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Because they let them in and did.
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Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn't be here, and you're just asking questions because you're a stupid person. And we. There's a law passed that it's almost impossible not to get them out. You can't get them out once they come in and they came in and they were unvetted, they were unchecked, There were many of them. And they came in on big planes. And it was disgraceful. And if you look, you'll see there was a law passed. It makes it almost impossible not to let them in, not to certify them, so to speak, once they come in. And they came in and they shouldn't have come in. And frankly, the whole thing was a mess. The whole Afghanistan situation was a mess. We shouldn't. It should have never taken place if we're going to go out. And we would have gone out because I had everybody ready to go. We were going to go out with strength and dignity and precision, and we would have left from Bagram and we would have kept Bagram, by the way, because of its very close relationship to China and where they make their missiles. But when you let.
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Yeah, there's him saying the reason we should have stayed in Bagram is so we could surveil China.
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Right.
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Again, sometimes he lets out just a little bit of the truth about, like, yeah, earlier on, our Middle east policy was very much about oil extraction pretty explicitly. And now it's mostly to keep China from getting into our territory.
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Sure, we can do over there.
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We do defensive things like fund a genocide.
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I mean, I would also argue, though, that our war in Iraq was very much about not letting China get to the oil. You know, not just our getting it, but rather, you know, you want to be in charge of the keg, as it were. But so Trump there has gone through the whole list of. Incidentally, the very big plane that they came in and they were standing was probably like a C30, C131, 30 transport. So it sort of explains why they were rushing out of Afghanistan was because the whole thing was collapsing. It was a deal that Donald Trump had done but did not attempt to execute. And the idea that we wouldn't have let these people in is absurd.
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Oh, not only did he not attempt to execute it, he timed it so he would have the opportunity to get out of it so that the deadline would fall if he lost the election under Biden's purview.
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Right.
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And he punted it basically. And then, you know, Biden did the right thing and did withdraw from Afghanistan, which was our longest running war. And the supposed anti war president has this critique of that also. Another female reporter. It's just such a weird coincidence. You can't help but disparaging female reporters like this.
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Silence from the rest of the crew too. Just nobody stands up to say, like, hey, maybe stop calling our colleagues stupid.
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Look, stone faced, there's nothing stopping somebody from saying like, screw you. Like, I mean, free speech. I mean, I don't know, just exactly.
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They're not supposed to be kings. We supposed to live in a republic. Sorry to get all like 1776 about this, but we should not. The press should have on some equal footing to the whoever's in charge of the executive and they shouldn't be able to like call him piggies and say, shut up, are you stupid? Without the rest of the press having some kind of a response to it.
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I just also wanted to note, like you mentioned, that he was a part of this, you know, CIA program for zero unit vets. Rolling Stone had an article that came out this morning where they spoke to some of the people that knew the suspect, basically saying that he had been going through some mental illness issues. He was sad, he was depressed. He had lost his job. He was fired from his job at a laundromat because he lacked a work authorization card, despite being approved for asylum and authorized to work by the Trump administration. According to his former unit mate, who fought alongside him for more than a decade, he was looking to relocate because he was struggling with the language barrier. But this part was just very sad to hear. About a month ago, Lockenwall told his unit mate that his inability to work due to missing immigration paperwork meant his family couldn't afford rent or food. He resorted to borrowing money from friends and former unit members. And during the conversation, he broke down in tears from frustration and desperation. His unit mate said every time, like, looking for somebody to help for documents, somebody to Help pay the rent. He's not going to work, the Afghan unit made set said. His unit mate said Lockinwall sought help in June from a CIA program designed to aid Zero Unit veterans with immigration issues. Rolling Stone reviewed a screenshot of the group chat in June where Zero Unit veterans shared information with a CIA representative about ongoing issues. Lockenwall posted messages asking for help. His last post went unanswered and was deleted by the chat's administrator. So we basically ruined this guy's life throwing this young man, and we don't know how young he was when he was recruited into this CIA counterinsurgency effort. And then when he came to this country under asylum, the CIA handler that was assigned to him basically ignored his pleas for help. So that's how the US Imperial state treats the people that we use in our different areas of the world for our own interests, even when they need, just like basic needs here in the United States.
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Blowback.
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Yeah.
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We'll have more obviously to talk about that in the coming days as that becomes. As that shooting ends up becoming an alibi, if you will, or an excuse to send National Guard and other cities.
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Kristi Noem saying he got radicalized since he's been in America is kind of funny that a guy who worked for the CIA in Afghanistan was well adjusted, but then came to America and that's what got him.
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Yep. There may be some truth to it, frankly. A couple words from our sponsor and then we will talk a little bit about what's going on with these extrajudicial killings that we've been doing in the Caribbean. Finally, somebody found an angle in which they decide to question it. Been going on for weeks and months and nobody said a word. But I guess it takes a story in the New York Times. Was that what it was? Well, we'll get to that in a minute. Couple of words from our sponsors today. I literally just bought towels from these folks yesterday. It's December. You got the hustle, the bustle, You're gonna have to buy presents, etc. Etc. For me, all I think about really starting in like, September is Christmas vacation. Do nothing. Some people like to cozy up and just be present. Well, who deserves a gift that helps them relax? Could be anybody around you right now. Cozy Earth is more than a gift. It's a way to recharge Cozy Earth. It's got. They've got pajamas, they've got joggers that are. They've got all sorts of different types of loungewear that is fantastic. But they also have amazing Bedding I got my sheets. I got my pillowcases from Cozy Earth. They are fantastic. They are temperature regulating. They are incredibly soft and comfortable and I just bought more towels. I got a mixture, they've got a ribbed to towel but that's soft and just a really super soft one and I got both because that's the way I roll. Cozy Earth Bamboo sheets are crafted from viscose which is from bamboo for a soft feel that helps you keep cozy without overheating. And they have a bubble cuddle blanket. I'm not fully familiar with the bubble cuddle blanket but it sounds bubbly and cuddly. Sounds right up your alley actually. I feel like honestly give this to Saul and I would never hear from him again. He loves stuff like this. It combines comfort and style with its distinctively tetra to bubble design and ultra soft faux fur feel. Features an extended plush pile in a midweight construction perfect for snuggling by the fire, movie nights with family or adding a touch of luxury to any room. Gift that makes every day feel like a special occasion. And Cozy Earth purchases are risk free with their 100 night sleep trial. Try them out. If you don't love them, return them. Hassle free 10 year warranty because once you feel this level of comfort, you're going to want it to last a decade. Thanks to Cozy Earth for sponsoring this episode. Give the gift of everyday luxury this holiday season. Head to cozyearth.com use the code majority report for up to 40% off. I should have waited one day just to be sure to place your order by December 12th for guaranteed Christmas delivery. Listening after the 12th. Don't worry, code Majority Report still works year round for 20% off. And if you get a post purchase survey, be sure to mention that you heard about Cozy Earth right here. Give the gift of comfort that lasts beyond the holidays and carries into a cozy new year. Why didn't somebody tell me this was happening? I literally bought the towels yesterday.
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The hexa stories. Washington Post.
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Was it Washington Post?
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Yes.
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Okay. And it detailed how hegseth. How the first killing of 11 men in a boat in the Caribbean Sea went down. And apparently Hegseth was just like kill them all. They fired on this boat. They had determined from afar that they were behaving in a way that one would expect a drug dealer to behave. Now, again, there's no authorization for this whatsoever. This is. For the life of me, I don't understand how this is not considered just a war crime, or at least a U.S. crime. The president cannot willy nilly decide we're just going to kill people with no authorization. They shot at the boat. They thought they had killed everyone. Apparently two men somehow did not die in that first strike. They were hanging on to like shards of the boat. I don't know how else to describe that. And the SEAL Team 6, because that's why we need these guys, the elite of the elite, who are basically just operating A video game that has real world consequences, then says, well, we were told to eliminate all of them and killed them. And that part apparently is what folks in the Senate are starting to hang their hat on, because that is a flagrant war crime. We're not engaged in a war with these people. Not only is there no country associated with these people, there's not even a group associated with these people. Even if we believe the Trump administration that they know who these people are, they're the only thing that makes them similar is that they're supposedly engaging in the same activity.
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Yeah.
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The idea that we are that people, Americans are dying from Venezuelan drugs. What is the percentage of drugs that come into this country? Something like one. Less than 10%. Less than 10%. It's just absurd. Here is. You wanna say.
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Well, no, I mean, let's just let. Do you wanna do a Van Hollen or Mullen first?
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Let's start with Mullen first.
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Yeah, you'll hear then this Republican senator try to justify this in this interview with Dana Bash. But on the other side of it, we can talk a little bit about the legal implications of this for. For Hegseth. I do think it's notable that we're getting reporting about this September strike and who authorized it these days, just because it's always everybody's fault but Trump's. But the fact that Hegseth is at the top of this is interesting.
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As the president and the Secretary of War has been very clear. They're going to use lethality against our enemies home and abroad. This has been very clear what's going on right now, that the drug organization that is considered a terrorist organization that is flooding our streets with drugs that's killing Americans every single day. They're being proactive on it. Good on them. Are we doubting that these drug dealers are actually drug dealers? Do we think they're just out there fishing? Do we doubt that this is a terrorist organization that's killing thousands and thousands of people in our streets? What are we questioning here?
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Positive. I would just say. Do you doubting both of those things?
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Because one, when he calls it the terrorist organization, has he named. I haven't seen this full interview. The name, the organization that he's accusing these 11 people of being a part of also that's notable.
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But they're not a terrorist organization.
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But two. Right. Exactly. A terrorist organization is supposed to have a specific classification in that area. And also, you don't just get to murder people extrajudicially if you feel that's the case. You it's illegal. What is being reported that Hegseth did is illegal both in international and domestic law. Because we have something called the U.S. war Crimes act, which codified much of the Geneva Conventions into US Law, even though of course we don't follow it, obviously. But still you're not allowed to do a no quarter, which effectively translates to no prisoners. So what Hegseth authorized, there was a no survivors strike. And then you have to beg then that you. Let's go back to what Mullen said there. Do we have any doubt the fact that he's saying that so aggressively is preemptive, is defending the action because the action shows that they were afraid that those two survivors would speak and say what they really were doing on that boat and that they weren't a part of a narco terrorist organization. That is pretty much Occam's razor. Simplest explanation as to why you would kill everybody. Like he's like frickin, you know, a Batman villain.
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C
There's circumstantial evidence to say that. Yeah, that was not a drug smuggling operation. Just the number of people on board. If it was any kind of a trafficking operation, it was probably human trafficking. So what probably happened was you blew up a bunch of people that were being human trafficked at the very best. So well done.
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D
Our streets. What are we questioning here? These individuals don't care about the lives of our friends and families. Why do we care if we take them out in international water? It is a war. Because they have declared war on our streets. And the President and Secretary Hegseth is doing exactly what we should be doing. Being proactive against our enemies. And that's what they're doing here. And I applaud them for doing something because the past administration did absolutely nothing. Why thousands of Americans died on our streets.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And I just want to point out that again that it's the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Republican chair of the House Armed Services Committee who said that they want to look at the whole operation which you just described. Okay. All right.
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D
Whoa.
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B
What a follow up. How about this? Congress grants Congress. The Constitution grants Congress with the authority to declare war. So has Mark Wayne Mullen as a senator been a party? Has there been a secret bill that has passed? Has there been some sort of declaration of war that's been formalized that I miss in the headlines? Because you can't just call it a war and say that those strikes are authorized. If it's not a war, it's just straight up murder. If it is a war. It's a war crime. Based on what I just mentioned, the fact that they did the double tap.
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A
I mean, no one has declared war. Not only do the people in the boats not declare war on the United States, the United States not declared war on people in boats, which is really the only classification that you could do at this point. I mean, we're striking people in boats on both sides of Central America. We're both in the Pacific and in the Caribbean.
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B
I thought Trump.
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A
There's no.
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B
Remember the boat rally in 2020.
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A
Here is Pete Hegseth, though, bragging. Put that back up. I'm sorry. Pete Hegseth bragging about. A kid's book for Franklin the Turtle.
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B
What's the. What's the significance?
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A
Big fan of the franchise.
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C
I think it's the last book Pete ever read, and it has a lot of meaning for him.
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A
I mean, this is obviously like an AI mock up parody. I don't know. I would imagine it's not a real book. I mean, at this point. Right.
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B
Prager.
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A
Prageru has already written the thing up. I mean, I guess. Where is my.
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C
Oh, yeah. Where's your.
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B
I see it's on the floor really far down there.
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A
Do I need to go get it? I mean, this is real.
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B
Yeah.
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A
This. This guy right here, the wizard right here, he's now our FBI head, just in case you were wondering. But before that, he was an author and he wrote the book the Plot against the King, and he did there, so. And that's what it takes to get made head of the FBI. Here is Chris Van Hollen, hopefully.
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B
Senate leader. Oh, my goodness. I mean, it seems like that's. It's possible. We'll see.
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A
But here he is speaking to the idea that we're engaging this. And again, this has been going on for months. I don't know why it took this one piece. And it's clear that, like, I think there. There's a sense that there is other constituencies, whether it's in the military or in the Senate, to get rid of Pete Hegseth. And so anything that focuses this on a decision that Pete Hegseth made makes it, I think, more inviting and attractive for these politicians to jump on.
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D
Not to the Constitution of the United States. So let me ask you about that Washington Post report on the attack on that Venezuelan alleged drug boat. What do you make of what happened there? Do you think there was a war crime committed? Oh, I think it's very possible there was a war crime committed. Of course, for it to be a War crime. You have to accept the Trump administration's whole construct here that we're at war, which is we're in armed conflict, at war with this particular, with the drug gangs. Of course, they've never presented the public with the information they've got here. But it could be worse than that. Right. If that theory's wrong, then it's plain murder. The first strike is murder in that case. That's correct. You're alleging that's correct. Well, I'm saying that it's, it's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong. And I think, you know, the weight of the legal opinion here is that they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept their legal theory that it is a war crime. And so I do believe that the Secretary of Defense should be held accountable for giving those kind of orders.
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E
And this is happening, as of course.
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A
You have the Secretary of Defense also, when the Democrats take the House and if they take the Senate in the fall, I think you're going to see a max exodus, a mass exodus of a lot of these people because they're going to be afraid. But this is the type of thing, incidentally, where the video that was put out by those seven Democratic lawmakers, as much as it's a little cringe in my mind just because of the nature of it, but it resonates because that SEAL Team Six guy.
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D
I don't know.
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A
What information he needed other than what he had to know that what he was doing was a war crime.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Like the idea that those people in that boat were a, represented an imminent threat to the United States in and of themselves is obviously a joke. But that they're part of a larger network of small passenger boats that represent an imminent threat to the United States is also a complete joke. It's a tiny, tiny Navy. The same SEAL Team 6, by the way, who murdered those three fishermen in North Korea under the last Trump administration, if you remember right, cowboys.
- [45:49]
B
They're trying to create a pretext basically for all out war with Venezuela, or at the very least they were trying. Trump's version of diplomacy is punching them in the mouth, he probably feels like. And then they'll come to the table and if they don't, then they'll use that as a pretext. But they're just like much, they're lazy about it too. They don't. And they're incompetent. So they're not able to create a pretext in a way that I don't know justifies the gravity of the action they're trying to take. And the administration is deeply unpopular and it runs counter to what he was trying to say about being anti war.
- [46:32]
A
It's all, I mean, it's all a crap show. And, you know, again, he spoke to Maduro, I guess, at the end of last week or at one point last week to talk about potential talks. Meanwhile, they're floating the idea that there's going to be a ground invasion of Venezuela. I mean, it just seems highly unlikely to me, but it's hard to know where they will stop. And really, like, who is, who in the administration is this excited about this? Because it's very hard for me to imagine that Donald Trump is this keyed into it, although, I mean, he pushed Guaido quite a bit last time, and he's certainly oriented towards oil and whatnot. But this, this seems very aggressive for a guy who feels like they're teetering on the edge of having any awareness of what's going on in their, in their administration. Here's Donald Trump with his Thanksgiving message.
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B
Oh, do I need my tissues? I ran out.
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A
This is going to be very heartwarming if you missed this on Thanksgiving. Here's an opportunity for you. A very happy Thanksgiving salutation to all our great American citizens and patriots who have been so nice in allowing our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged and laughed at.
- [48:16]
C
Most of all, left at is the part that hurts the most, along along.
- [48:19]
A
With certain other foolish countries throughout the world for being politically incorrect, politically correct, and just plain stupid when it comes to immigration.
- [48:31]
B
So he was being sarcastic about great American citizens and patriots.
- [48:36]
A
Yeah, I think Stephen Miller wrote this, by the way. I don't know. It's tough to come up with, like, a long sentence like that, but I guess if you're really trying. But, Stephen, this rivals what he said at that turkey pardon thing. Maybe we should pull up that. But the official United States foreign population stands at 53 million people. Census.
- [49:01]
B
I do not think that's true, by the way.
- [49:04]
A
I would not be surprised. Tweet. I would not be surprised. But. But it depends on what you mean by foreign population, because it's around.
- [49:12]
B
There's like, what, 14 million, 12 million immigrants who are undocumented in this country.
- [49:18]
C
I mean, it's not. But he's talking about people who are documented, too.
- [49:21]
A
He's talking about documented. Right? He's just talking.
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B
No, I get it. I'm just making, making it clear that this is about ethnic cleansing.
- [49:27]
C
He's absolutely talking about 30 million who.
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A
Are here on green cards or residents or whatnot. That wouldn't surprise me. Most of which are on welfare. That is a lie. From failed nations. I don't know what that means, but. Glass houses.
- [49:46]
C
Yeah, exactly.
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A
I was going to say. Or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs or drug cartels. That, of course, is a lie. We can look at just the numbers, frankly, of the roundups that we have seen by the ICE and Customs Border Patrol. And the numbers are extremely like. The percentages of people who have any type of criminal record that's even remotely associated with gangs or drug cartels is infinitesimally small. They're getting people for like, DUIs arrests, but not necessarily convictions. They're getting people for, you know, didn't pay a parking ticket. And even then, the numbers are small relative to the people that they have detained. Let's go pop this back up. They and their children are supported through massive payments from patriotic American citizens PACs. PACs, who because of their beautiful heights, do not want to openly complain or cause trouble in any way, shape or form. So he's saying that there's a deep question, quiet resentment amongst the American public for doing something that he's pretending they're doing. Majority, the silent majority also with the invisible thing that they're doing. They put up with that. They put up with what has happened to our country, but it's eating them alive to do so. A migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly 50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. That's absurd. The real migrant population is much higher.
- [51:38]
B
Higher than the 53 million, which is like, what, a sixth of the country?
- [51:43]
C
You mean second generation?
- [51:44]
A
Now this refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America.
- [51:51]
C
I mean, if you believe that folks, and not.
- [51:55]
A
We could just take Springfield, Ohio, as an example, right? Instead of Haitians eating dogs and cats there. We know that the Haitian immigrants in that community have raised the value of property from slum lord level into decent housing stock. They have created an enormous amount of economic activity in a city that was dying on the vine before they got there. So it's literally the opposite of what he's talking about.
- [52:32]
C
All of these places that are now struggling to keep people. Rural America, the Rust Belt, they were most vivid not when they were all white, but when the white people were like, speaking different languages because they were fresh off the boat themselves.
- [52:45]
A
This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America. Something that did not exist after World War II. Parentheses, failed schools, high crime, urban decay, Overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages and large deficits. Well, first off, they fixed the hospital crowding by just getting rid of everybody's.
- [53:08]
B
Yeah, right. Then you die on the side of the road. No more hospital hospitals for you.
- [53:12]
A
The failed schools, incidentally, back at that time were segregated. We only counted basically white schools as failing or not failing.
- [53:22]
C
What was the tax rate after World War II?
- [53:24]
A
The tax rate at that time when we did not have large deficits was 90% on every dollar that you earned over $470,000, which would be today's money, $3 million. So if you made $4 million, your first 3 million would have been taxed at something in the 30s, let's just call it 35%. And that last million from 3 to 4 million would have been taxed $900,000. You would have been taxed.
- [53:58]
C
I think that we don't do that anymore is probably a bigger issue than the immigrants.
- [54:02]
A
We should also say in terms of racist enough high crime. Crime and urban decay. Crime is largely across most major American cities Now at a 30 to 35 year low. You know what? We didn't have too much in the 1940s either was 20 years of people just sucking up all the lead in the air from high density in high density places like cities with enormous amounts of car traffic, spewing leaded gasoline particles.
- [54:48]
C
In the air, giving people brain damage that leads them to be prone to violence.
- [54:51]
A
Twenty years after that was made illegal, of course crime drops not just across this country, but internationally 20 years after in every instance that that has been outlawed. Anyways, back to Trump as an example. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great state of Minnesota.
- [55:14]
B
Okay, there's 61,000 Somali refugees, right? Somali residents.
- [55:19]
A
Take it over. Taking it over. You can't see Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for prey.
- [55:27]
C
This is just Nazi stuff.
- [55:28]
A
As our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses, hoping against hope that they will be left alone. This is definitely Stephen Miller.
- [55:39]
C
Yep.
- [55:41]
A
This is where it becomes clear that it's Stephen Miller. Just. He can't help the flourishes in the way that Trump just. It's too boring. The seriously R word. Governor of Minnesota. He doesn't say R word.
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C
I do.
- [55:56]
A
Tim Walls does nothing either through fear, incompetence, or both. While the worst congresswoman slash congressman slash woman in our country.
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C
Are they doing.
- [56:08]
B
No, it's not that he's saying that. Ilhan just doesn't want to write Congress.
- [56:14]
A
Yeah, no, he's. He, he's Being he's saying the worst Congress per member of Congress. Yeah.
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B
Yes.
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A
But he's doing Congressman or congresswoman. He's doing a Republican version of gender neutral. Exactly. You can't just say member of Congress. Yeah, well, the worst congresswoman. Congresswoman in our country. Ilhan Omar always wrapped her in swaddling Hibi job. What? Swaddling hijab. Who probably came into the USA illegally in that you are not allowed to marry a brother does nothing but hatefully complain about our country, its constitution, how badly she's treated when her place of origin is a decadent. Decadent. Trump does it meant.
- [57:02]
B
He meant desolate or something.
- [57:05]
A
Trump doesn't use the word decadent. No, he. Well, he does, but in a good way. Yeah, yeah. No, back at Studio 54, it was awesome. Backward in crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of government, military, police, school, etc.
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B
Happy Thanksgiving.
- [57:26]
A
I forgot. Enjoy your turkey. Yes, very happy Thanksgiving salutation.
- [57:32]
B
So basically that prompted that insanely racist screed, prompted Tim Walls to respond to him, which then Trump responded to Tim Walls. Yeah, here he is. I guess we can play this. But he reacted to this and pointed out some of the reporting on Trump's health issues that the New York Times had put out, showing basically that he comes into work at around 11am he typically works between 12pm He. They included this video in the Times article of him dozing off. Remember in that, in that press conference with RFK and Dr. Oswer, that other guy passed out and Trump was like kind of looking confused as he stood up. And they also showed a calculation of the fact that his public appearances have decreased by 39% this time around.
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A
And I don't think that's, I don't.
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E
Think there's a problem there.
- [58:36]
A
What are you talking about? I'm doing this is Trump Ron covering his right hand.
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B
You'll be happy to know that the Times piece also included a close up photo of the hand which. So they're, they're doing some digging on it, but I think it bother. It's, it's. Trump does not want to look weak. And I think that this is where he starts to unravel a little bit about this especially because that's why I.
- [59:03]
A
Play golf so much. So my strength.
- [59:06]
B
And there was a, gosh, there was a photo of him over the weekend at Mar a Lago looking rough. But here's Tim Walls doing what he does best in this area is like needling the Republicans and seem to piss off Trump.
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D
Well, here we Got a guy on Thanksgiving where we spent time with our families. We ate, we played Yahtzee, we cheered for football or whatever. This guy is apparently in a room ranting about everything else. This is not normal behavior. It is not healthy. And presidents throughout time have released a couple things. They've released their tax returns. Not Donald Trump. And they've released their medical records. Not Donald Trump. And look, the MRI is one thing, but I think what's most concerning about this is as your viewers out there are listening, has anyone in the history of the world ever have an MRI assigned to them and have no idea what it was for, as he says? So, look, it's clear the President's fading physically, I think the mental capacity, again, ranting, you know, crazily at midnight on Thanksgiving about everything else. There's reasons for us to be concerned. This is a guy that randomly says the airspace over Venezuela is closed. He's ruminating on if you could win a nuclear war. Look, this is a serious position. It's the most powerful position in the world, and we have someone at midnight throwing around slurs that demonize our children. At the same time, he's not solving any of the problems. So I'm deeply concerned that he is incapable of doing the job.
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B
Fun. Like.
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A
All I did was say Happy Thanksgiving to people. It's crazy that Trump's sober, too, doing this stuff.
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B
I know, I know.
- [60:46]
A
Has never not been how sober, though.
- [60:49]
B
Well, okay.
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A
He's not boozing. He's not boozing.
- [60:52]
B
Yeah, yeah, he's amped up.
- [60:55]
A
Here he is on this now. Is this a throwback, right? No, this is from. Yeah, this is from the same day ten days ago. No, this.
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B
No, this is today.
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A
Yesterday.
- [61:06]
B
Yesterday. This was at. In the evening after that Tim Walls.
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A
Appearance in the morning.
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C
This isn't. Shut up.
- [61:12]
A
He's still talking about his MRI. And again, the MRI came around the 10th, which is when he goes in for his monthly annual health inspection about three weeks ago. It's my third one. I've. Third annual I've gotten this year. I'm super healthy.
- [61:36]
C
They calibrate the machines on me.
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E
Mris are very waltz.
- [61:44]
A
Asked you to release the. Will you tell us what it was?
- [61:48]
E
Governor Wal. You mean the incompetent governor. So if they want to release it, it's okay with me to release it. It's perfect.
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D
What was the number?
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B
They.
- [61:56]
E
It's like my phone call where I got impeached. It's absolutely perfect. So if you want to hear about it or if you want to release it, you would have it released.
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A
News Nation.
- [62:05]
E
Failing. Failing News Nation.
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B
Can you pause it? I'm sorry to. I just want to chew on this just for a second. First of all, he refers to his MRI as perfect. Like his phone call to the Georgia governor, which if people recall. Or was it the lieutenant governor or the governor?
- [62:23]
A
I find me votes.
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B
Yeah. Where he said, you just have to find me X number of votes so I can win Georgia. Nailed it. Yeah. That's the fact that he's comparing his MRI and his health issues being perfect. Just like the very imperfect and incriminating phone call that he was engaged in and trying to overturn the election means, oh, my God, this MRI must be so imperfect that we can't even imagine it. If he's like. That's where his brain's going.
- [62:53]
A
I mean, it's perfect. As in the call that got me impeached. That's. But he just hears the word perfect. He hears himself throw out perfect, and then he's like perfect tangential before perfect. Perfect word association. It. I mean, it's honestly, it's just like a weird psychological test. Perfect.
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B
Yeah.
- [63:17]
A
I remember when my dad said that that bat was perfect over there. And it was just as he was beating. This would be perfect to hit you with, Donald. Wait. Okay. Oh, and all of a sudden, there's Brad Raffensperger pitching the ball to me.
- [63:33]
B
Yeah. And he. His turning on News Nation now. God.
- [63:38]
A
Daily News Nation.
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D
God.
- [63:40]
A
Yeah.
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B
I mean, who's left?
- [63:42]
E
I got it beached. It's absolutely perfect. So if you want to hear about it or if you want to release it, you can release. Failing. Failing News Nation. News Nation is doing lousy, by the way. But if you want to have it released, I'll release it.
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A
Tell us what they were looking at.
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E
Releasing.
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B
No, no, no.
- [64:01]
A
What part of your body was the MRI looking at?
- [64:04]
E
I have no idea. It was just an mri. What part of the body? It wasn't the brain. Because I took a cognitive test. Which you would be incapable of doing by everybody.
- [64:15]
B
Another.
- [64:16]
E
Thank you, Mr.
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A
So point right in their. You'd be incapable of doing. You would never be able to take a cognitive test.
- [64:25]
B
Wait, what?
- [64:25]
A
You wouldn't even be able to get into the room.
- [64:27]
B
Are you trying to say that he's trying to invade a woman's body personal space. Bet he would never do that.
- [64:33]
A
You weren't here, but we administered the cognitive test to Sam.
- [64:36]
B
I. I did end up actually watching that. I watched it cuz I saw that. I was like.
- [64:41]
A
I couldn't see this Perfect incident. You would know a piggy if you saw.
- [64:45]
E
What piggy?
- [64:46]
A
Wasn't there animals on there? Sorry, Emma. Looks like I did perfect on the cognitive test. I'll be here for a long time. You ducked it. You. You avoided it. I wasn't afraid for the cognitive test. Maybe I should take a cognitive. I'm too emotional since I did so great on it. To be honest with you, I don't remember a single question.
- [65:10]
B
And that's why you're not eligible for the most perfect mri.
- [65:14]
A
It starts off easy with the lions.
- [65:15]
C
And the zebras and stuff.
- [65:17]
A
What kind of MRI did he get?
- [65:20]
C
Because I don't know, but it wasn't my brain.
- [65:27]
A
They did it. They just did it around my foot. And I said, why are you doing this around my foot? And then I said, don't answer that. I don't want to even know. I'm gonna make it like I don't even know what the MRI is for.
- [65:41]
E
La, la, la, la.
- [65:42]
D
Don't tell me.
- [65:42]
A
La, la la, la, la, la. Listen, they just tell me. They just tell me to get into this machine for a period of time. I don't.
- [65:54]
C
The perfect brain. I ace the cognitive test.
- [65:56]
A
I think it's actually possible. I think it's actually possible that they send Jared in there or Ivanka with him, and they're just like, dad, you need an mri. Okay.
- [66:10]
B
Okay. No, but just like, he's deeply neurotic, though, right? I mean, isn't he? Very. He's a germaphobe. Donald Trump.
- [66:18]
A
I'm sure that's why you need a vodka there.
- [66:20]
B
Yeah.
- [66:20]
A
First off, I'm not sure I believe all that.
- [66:23]
B
Okay.
- [66:23]
A
I think that, you know, that, to me, feels like stories that were put out to avoid other stories, like the old germaphobe thing and whatnot. That just sounds like to me. Stories that they put out to explain some of his behavior that may not be explainable by other things. But even if that's the case, the idea that he goes in there and they just tell him to do something, and he doesn't ask anything, they have to have a handler there, like it really does. The MRI is golden. We painted it golden for you.
- [66:54]
B
No, the mri. This is the prototype for the med bed. This is. You are going in for healing, and you can't tell people about it. You can't tell anybody about it, but it's curing.
- [67:06]
E
You will soon receive their own med bed card.
- [67:09]
A
I wonder if. I wonder if they have to tell him stuff like that to. To keep him. Listen, we don't want to talk about the med bed technology, so just pretend this is an mri. If anybody asks, I think the most.
- [67:24]
B
Likely explanation is him just being such a liar that this is how the mode he slips into. No matter what. It's super easy. He knows what he's getting and getting an MRI for. He knows what he's getting an MRI for.
- [67:36]
A
He must. He must know. What's the pointy thing in my hand for?
- [67:42]
B
Yeah.
- [67:43]
A
What's the drippy dripping.
- [67:45]
C
It's a little bit of a giveaway when you can say it for sure. Wasn't my brain.
- [67:51]
A
Other than that I got no answers for you.
- [67:54]
B
That's what I'm saying.
- [67:55]
A
His intrusive definitely wasn't because I'm getting Alzheimer's.
- [67:59]
B
Yeah.
- [67:59]
A
And I have no idea where I am half the time. It's definitely wasn't for that parallel thinking. And you're gonna have to come up what it was for though, because I can't come up with a fake lie.
- [68:11]
C
Oh, I would love to tell you what it is. I'm not going to, but I'd love to. I could if I want.
- [68:15]
A
Don't. Wouldn't you like to know like you. Like you'd think you'd be able to. It was my Achilles heel.
- [68:22]
C
Oh yeah.
- [68:23]
A
My.
- [68:24]
C
I tore my AC airplane basketball.
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A
I was tossing the pig skin with my sons as playing golf still with my ankle twisted. So let's. Let's go to the fun half and then we'll. We'll show his polling numbers also seemingly in the toilet. Another Republican announced Texas Republican this time announced his retirement, not resignation. So he's staying on until the end of the year. But it's getting late for retirements. People announcing that we are probably six months off from primaries in most states, maybe a little bit less in some places. It's going to be interesting to see if we hear more over the next couple of days. I would imagine we might hear one or two more, but we shall see. In the meantime, it's your support that makes the show possible. You can become a member@jointhemajorityreport.com don't forget we got Trump slump stickers in there in our merch store. It's a great time to go buy gifts for people. Shop majorityreportradio.com also check out am quickie am quickie.com email with all the top stories of the day. Corey and Whitney doing a great job writing that up. People are loving it. A couple of bucks gets you five days a week. And again, your support you want to become a member of this program, join the majorityreport.com and don't forget Just Coffee. Use the coupon code Majority, but they've got a 30% discount this year, this month. So this is a great time. If you've been wondering about Just Coffee, this is the time to try it. You can try the Majority Report blend. You can try any of their single origins or their other blends. But you've been thinking about trying Just Coffee for months and months and months and months. Go check it out today. Just Coffee Co Op. Just Coffee Co Op. And Matt, what's happening in the Mac? The mlu. Yeah.
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C
A big Jacobin show Friday with Kurt Hackbarth and Jose Luis of Sobra Nia podcast talking about Mexico. A lot of literary stuff on Left Reckoning for The Patron Sunday patreon.com leftreconing I talked about George Orwell's Notes on Nationalism, which Noah Smith recently recommended, which is you should not hold against that essay. And also tomorrow I'll be talking about Shadow Ticket with Devin o'. Shea. I can't wait. We talked to Devin about One Battle after another in Vineland earlier. So now we're going to talk about the new Thomas Pynchon novel.
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A
It's like a literary hangover. Hangover a little bit.
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C
David's. David's finishing up his book and on a little break. So I'm making while the cat's away.
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A
All right, folks, see you in the fun.
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D
Half.
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A
Left is best. Jamie and I may have a disagreement.
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B
Yeah, you can't just say whatever you want about people just because you're rich.
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A
I have an absolute right to mock them on YouTube.
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D
He's up there buggy whipping like he's the boss.
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A
I am not your employer. You know, I'm tired of the negativity. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. You're nervous. You're a little bit upset. You're riled up. Yeah, Maybe you should rethink your defense of that, you fucking idiots. We're just going to get rid of you. All right, but. Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude. You want to smoke this joint? Yes. Do you feel like you are a dinosaur?
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C
Good.
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A
Exactly. I'm happy now. It's a win win. It's a win, win, win.
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B
Hell, yeah.
- [72:23]
A
Now listen to me. 2, 3, 4, 5 times 8479-065014-57238, 56, 27. One half. 5, 8. 3.9 billion.
- [72:39]
B
Wow.
- [72:40]
A
He's the ultimate math nerd. Don't you see? Why don't you get a real job instead of stewing vitriol and hatred?
- [72:45]
D
You left wing Limbaugh.
- [72:46]
A
Everybody's taking their dumb juice today.
- [72:48]
D
Come on, Sammy.
- [72:49]
A
Dance, dance, dance. Grandpa, I had my first post coital scene with a woman. I'm hoping. God, more moves to my repertoire. All I have is the dip and the swirl. Fine, we can double dip. Yes. This is a perfect moment. No, wait. What? You make under a million dollars a year.
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C
You're scum.
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A
You're not paying. Excuse me? Fuck you, you fucking liberal elite. I think you belong in jail.
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E
Thank you for saying that, Sam.
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D
You're a horrible, despicable person.
- [73:22]
A
All right, gonna take a quick break. I want to take a moment to talk to some of the libertarians out there. Take whatever vehicle you want to drive to the library. What you're talking about is jibber jabber.
- [73:35]
B
Classic. I'm feeling more chill already. Good.
- [73:40]
A
Donald Trump can kiss all of our asses. Hey, Sam.
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D
Hey, Andy.
- [73:46]
A
You guys ready to do some evil Hitler?
- [73:49]
D
With such an idiot?
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C
I think I might be a Nazi.
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B
Agreed.
- [73:53]
A
No. Death to America.
- [73:57]
C
Do.
- [73:59]
A
Yes.
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B
Wow.
- [74:03]
A
Wow. That's weird.
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D
No way.
- [74:07]
A
Unbelievable. This guy's got a really good hook. Wow.
- [74:19]
D
No worries.
- [74:20]
A
I want to just flesh this out a little bit. I mean, look, it's a free speech issue. If you don't like me.
- [74:26]
B
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
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D
Shut up.
- [74:28]
A
Thank you for calling into the majority report. Sam will be with you shortly.