3627 - Trump's Epstein Strategy; ICE March Through the South

Summary

The Majority Report with Sam Seder

Episode 3627: Trump's Epstein Strategy; ICE March Through the South
Date: November 18, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this engaging Tuesday edition of The Majority Report, Sam Seder and the crew dive deep into two central developing stories: Donald Trump's shifting strategy around the upcoming House vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, and the alarming surge of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) activity sweeping through Southern metro areas, notably Charlotte, North Carolina. The team provides characteristically irreverent, insightful commentary, explores political infighting and fallout, and highlights grassroots resistance against draconian immigration tactics.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump, Epstein, and Congressional Maneuvers

• Trump’s Flip on Epstein Files

  • The House is poised to overwhelmingly vote for releasing the Epstein files, an action hastened by Trump’s sudden public support—effectively a strategy to “give up the ghost in the House.”
  • Trump’s reversal is framed as damage control, attempting to appear in favor of “transparency” while controlling the fallout (10:55–12:29).
  • Sam's analysis:

    "Trump shifts strategies, calls for everyone to vote in favor of releasing the files...the real problem we had with this [was] it doesn't offer the protections we want." — Sam Seder (12:29)

• Mike Johnson and GOP’s Stalling Tactics

  • Republican leaders, notably Speaker Mike Johnson, appear to be deliberately engineering a legislative ping-pong: pass the bill, let the Senate amend it, kick it back, and potentially stall or dilute the impact (11:52–14:33).
  • Johnson claims concern for victims, but, as Sam notes, “all of the ones who have spoken publicly are in support of this bill.”
  • Strategic Delay:

    "The idea is we're kicking the can down the road...they can maybe just punt until the next government shutdown." — Sam Seder (13:28)

• Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Calculated Break

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene positions herself as an outsider, casting Trump as out of touch and herself as a rogue patriot for pushing the Epstein files' release against establishment opposition.
  • She uses Trump’s own 2016 “drain the swamp” populist language and accuses him of betrayal (16:35–18:40).
  • Quote:

    "A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves. A patriot, an American that serves the United States of America and Americans like the women standing behind me." — Marjorie Taylor Greene (19:18)

  • Commentary notes her rhetorical echo of earlier Trump outsider appeals.

• Wider Republican Fractures

  • White House unable to whip votes as the Epstein issue becomes toxic; prominent figures like Thomas Massie worry about their career branding:

    “Do I want, as Thomas Massie said, my name on a vote to protect pedophiles for my future political career?” — Matt (14:40)

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2. ICE Surges Through the South—The Case of Charlotte, NC

• On-the-Ground Fear and Resistance

  • Multiple segments and recordings illustrate the climate of terror and resistance amid ICE surges.
  • Local small business owners like a bakery owner in Charlotte shuttering in fear:

    “The amount of fear that we have right now is no good. It's not worth it to take that risk. We need to protect our families and family separation, man, this easy. They have taken maybe around 20 people today around in Charlotte.” — Bakery Owner (40:14)

    • He expresses heartbreak, closing for the first time in 28 years due to ICE's indiscriminate racial profiling.

• Racial Profiling and Tactics of ICE

  • Audio and descriptions detail ICE officers driving through neighborhoods, stopping and questioning brown-skinned residents and workers about their place of birth, often on private property (43:08–45:02).
  • Sam:

    “If those people are working on your house, you have every right to go tell those ICE agents to get the F off your property.” (45:02)

  • Profiling is carried out with little regard for actual due process. Sam urges listeners—particularly property owners—to assert their rights and not cooperate with ICE fishing expeditions.

• Community Organizing & Rapid Response

  • Churches and activist networks like SAMBRA, N.C. mobilize rapid response and training:

    "They watched what happened in LA, they watched what happened in Chicago, all here to be trained about how to get their neighbors and their friends and their co-workers safely to work and safely to school." — Jacob Sabroff, Charlotte reporting (53:31)

• Public Defiance & Confrontation

  • Highlighted is a viral, defiant confrontation between a local resident and ICE agents, where the resident refuses their intimidation and physically blocks their presence.
  • Memorable lines:

    “Who builds the places that we live in, huh? ... What you gonna do about it, huh? Wanna find out?” — Community Member confronting ICE (57:20–58:27)

  • Crew celebrates such moments as vital and courageous, but emphasize the potential risks of escalation.

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3. Polling: GOP and Trump Cratering with Latino Voters

• Harry Enton Poll Analysis

  • Trump’s approval among Latinos plunges, with net approval dropping from -2 to -34 in under a year—a massive swing. Immigration, the very issue on which Trump tried to gain ground, now significantly erodes his support (32:01–35:52).
  • Harry Enton:

    “On the issue of immigration, Latinos despise, hate Donald Trump, 38 points underwater. In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong...” (34:13–35:01)

  • Broader polling trends show similar Republican declines among Asian American voters and young voters—a pronounced realignment away from the GOP coalition built up for the 2024 election.

• Matt's Contextualization:

  “The denial of the economic reality people are experiencing is just like absolutely toxic and totally self inflicted by Trump himself with the tariffs and everything.” (36:42)

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4. Analysis: Republican Party Unraveling

• Trump Weakened, Factions Emerging

  • The Epstein scandal reveals significant splits within the GOP, with opportunists like Marjorie Taylor Greene and others abandoning Trump’s personal defense while seeking to maintain Trumpist “America First” policy posture.
  • Sam repeatedly emphasizes the importance of unity for Republican effectiveness, noting their policies are “cruel, revanchist, retrograde...very hard if they're not on the same page for them to have success in society.” (64:04)

• Democratic Opportunities—and Warnings

  • Democrats have a chance to solidify gains, but Sam warns their success depends on how wisely they govern and whether they respond to underlying economic and social issues, rather than simply benefiting from Republican fractures by default.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Legislative Stalling:

  “This is all going to be about delay, delay, delay, delay.” — Sam Seder (62:46)

• On the ICE Surge:

  “They're not your friend. They should have no friends...They should be completely socially isolated. They should be pariahs in whatever community they are from.” — Sam Seder (46:30)

• On Community Defiance:

  “I love anybody who can create an awkward situation and sit in it like that. Oh my God, I love that.” — Matt (59:18)

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Important Timestamps

• 10:55–14:33 | Trump’s reversal and Mike Johnson’s legislative tactics on the Epstein files.
• 16:35–20:17 | Marjorie Taylor Greene's press conference, breaking with Trump and adopting anti-establishment/outsider rhetoric.
• 32:01–35:52 | Harry Enton breaks down dramatic shifts against Trump/GOP in Latino polling.
• 40:14–41:33 | Charlotte bakery owner on the chilling impact of ICE raids.
• 43:08–45:02 | Description of ICE racial profiling; Sam’s advice to residents and property owners.
• 53:31–54:31 | Jacob Sabroff reports on community rapid response and training against ICE.
• 57:20–58:27 | Viral confrontation: Charlotte resident stands up to ICE agents.
• 62:46 | Recap of Republican delay strategy around Epstein bill.

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Tone and Style

• Conversational, irreverent, deeply informed, laced with political sarcasm and gallows humor.
• The crew deploys personal anecdotes, real outrage about cruelty/injustice, and frequent interjections to contextualize or underline broader themes.

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Summary

This episode of The Majority Report showcases Sam Seder and company at their best: blending sharp political analysis and larger systemic critique with real-time reporting and activist insight. The conversation masterfully weaves together the national ramifications of the Epstein scandal, calcifying inner-Republican fractures, and the urgent, ground-level stories of immigrant communities resisting government terror in the Trump era. Listeners are left with practical information, a sense of outrage, solidarity, and, crucially, hope—driven by community action and an unraveling GOP.

Transcript

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[Michael]

Little air out of that.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

Ice moving from Charlotte, North Carolina to Durham and to New Orleans. New poll Republicans are cratering with Latinos. Democratic socialist Katie Wilson wins in Seattle. They finally counted the votes. She's Seattle's new mayor, the second acting FEMA director gone in just 10 months. Of the Trump administration, this is the one who didn't know that it was hurricane season.

[Michael]

No, didn't know there was a hurricane.

[Corey]

Oh, yeah, just joking about that. I totally know it.

[Sam Cedar]

Classic. Didn't know the hurricanes.

[Whitney]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

Democrats lead a discharge petition to restore collective bargaining for most federal employees. Chiassi announces run against Hakeem Jeffries. But New York progressive electeds are hands off. Lastly, NIH. NIH cuts have left almost 75,000 patients completely abandoned. All this and more on today's Majority Report. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. It is Tuesday, News day. News day Tuesday.

[Matt]

It can go either way.

[Sam Cedar]

I mean, it's, it goes both ways. Somebody's a little rusty. Trump's Friend Bubba.

[Matt]

You messed it up.

[Sam Cedar]

No, I didn't. I said it was Tuesday and you could say News Day.

[Matt]

Okay, all right. Just, just, just move on.

[Sam Cedar]

Trump's friend Bubba says been a member since the A Majority Report. When Sam got Covid. When are you all going to work on winning that sixth award? They were not eligible for any more of those awards because when you win five in the. It's called the People's Choice Podcast Awards, we won five, like in the first, I don't know, six, seven years it existed. So what they did is they. Because we kept winning, they basically said, you're not eligible anymore, but we're going to name the award after you. So if you go to the. I think it's Podcast awards dot com, you will see that all the nominees. I don't know where they are in the voting cycle. They're competing for the Majority Report News and Politics Award.

[Matt]

Right.

[Michael]

It's like a slaughter rule. A little League.

[Sam Cedar]

Right, exactly right. Yep. There you go. All right, Al, Conniption says ICE is also in San Antonio. We will get to all of that, but let's deal with this before we get into some of the specific stuff I want to deal with. The Mama Fistoffeles says, are you all going to talk about Bubba Gate today?

[Matt]

I talked about that with Francesca Fiorentini on her show. I mean, I just don't think Trump is capable.

[Sam Cedar]

What it is.

[Matt]

There is an email, I guess that was a part of the emails that were released by the House that includes an insinuation that Trump.

[Sam Cedar]

Well, it says. No, it says Trump.

[Matt]

Blew baba and Bubba is a nickname for Bill Clinton.

[Sam Cedar]

Okay. And it is not. But Mark. Mark Epstein already came out that it's not. I. Here's my theory.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

It's a euphemism.

[Matt]

Right.

[Sam Cedar]

And I saw a thread where somebody suggested there's a picture of Donald Trump with two younger women on his lap, and he's pointing to a stain in his pants. Now, supposedly this picture exists. I don't. I don't know. And that blowing blue. Blue Bubba is a euphemism for having a male orgasm.

[Corey]

A stain.

[Sam Cedar]

Thank you.

[Matt]

Wow. Everyone is so classy here. But I just knew that that couldn't be the case because. Because Trump probably has never given head in his life to anybody. Anybody, Anybody.

[Sam Cedar]

Right.

[Matt]

He doesn't exert physical energy on the golf course because he's worried that. I mean, can you imagine if his jaw had to deal with that? Like his battery life for his life would go all the way down.

[Sam Cedar]

Yeah. I mean, I think it's unlikely. I think it's more likely a euphemism in that way. But with all that said, I think.

[Michael]

As I possibly could be through that.

[Matt]

Hands off the merchandise.

[Sam Cedar]

With all that said, I think it's important that the speculation continues.

[Matt]

I agree.

[Sam Cedar]

Please. People should be speculating as much as possible about that until we have Donald Trump address it. I think he should come out and address it.

[Corey]

Make him deny it.

[Sam Cedar]

All right. But let's get in to what's happening today. Faced with the prospect of a discharge petition forcing this bill to the floor and the idea that at least. At least those Republicans that defected to sign the discharge petition, we're going to. We're going to vote for the legislation and perhaps even more because nobody wanted to be up there voting against the release of the Epstein files. Donald Trump shifts strategies, calls for everyone to vote in favor of releasing the files. And here is Mike Johnson with perhaps a clue as to what this new strategy is. Now, it's not prevented from passing in the House. Now it's Mike Johnson.

[Whitney]

So what am I to do as a leader in a situation like this? I call my counterpart in the Senate, Leader Thune, and I talked him through this with him and shared our deep concerns. And of course, they share those concerns as well. And so I'm very confident that when this moves forward in the process, if and when it is processed in the Senate, which there's no certainty that that will be, that they will take the time methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in the House, to amend this discharge petition and to make sure that these protections are there. The authors of the discharge did not allow us to do that here. That's the rules here. But in the Senate, they can correct it.

[Sam Cedar]

Okay, so what he's. What he's outlining here is one of Mike Johnson's lies about this legislation was that it did not protect the victims, Epstein's victims. In fact, Epstein's victims, all of the ones who have spoken publicly, are in support of this bill, the specific one in the discharge petition. Johnson's new strategy, and I imagine this was done in consultation with the White House, is to say, okay, we are. The real problem we had with this, it doesn't offer the protections we want it to. We're going to send it over to the Senate, and if it gets a hearing in the Senate, which it sounds like their plan is that it will, they will write another bill. Right, because they're going to amend this. Now, once they pass a different bill, then it's got to go back to the House for another vote. And so the idea is we're kicking the can down the road. And I suspect there's also ways in which the House doesn't necessarily have to take up the bill immediately. And then you're back at square one again, because the speaker of the House would schedule this bill. So and it's perhaps they can do it. They can maybe just punt until the next government shutdown. Remember, January 31st is the date of the end of the continuing resolution which passed the other day. Greg Abbott has scheduled the election for the special election for a Democratic congressman who has been that seat has been unfilled for over, I think like 365 since March. So it will have been 350 days or something like that, 320 days. That election is scheduled to happen January 31st, the government shutdown. We may go through this again.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Sam Cedar]

And so who knows? This is all, how do we kick the can down the road?

[Matt]

And Trump coming out and basically saying, I support the release of these files is also a way to kind of create oxygen for that to happen. Right. Because he looks incredibly weak in this past week or so or a few weeks in a way that I don't necessarily know if he has so far in the fact that, like, they were the White House was whipping votes against, you know, when they knew basically that they had enough signatures for the discharge petition, they were hoping over to the Situation Room. Yeah, they were. And that failed. But now it's even more of a failure. And they can't hide from it here because there's apparently going to be dozens, if not hundreds of Republicans who sign on for the release of these files because they're thinking about what comes next. And the way Marjorie Taylor Greene has been thinking about what comes next after Donald Trump, the reality is, is that he has a -18 approval rating. I doubt it's going to get better. He may be in lame duck territory already. And it's not even the first year, the first year of his first term. Second term isn't even over. And so they're like, do I want, as Thomas Massie said, my name on a vote to protect pedophiles for my future political career? And the White House could not use the Trump cult to whip votes against that future. And I think that tension with Trump is something that I hope it continues to cause the party to spiral.

[Sam Cedar]

Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene out at a press conference that Massie and Ro Khanna had, I believe, with standing behind her are some of the Epstein victims who have come out publicly. And here is more evidence of. At least some people are finding that or have decided that they're going forward outside of the Trump halo, as it were.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

That's what we did by fighting so hard against the most powerful people in the world, even the President of the United States, in order to make this vote happen today.

[Sam Cedar]

Wow.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

I was called a traitor.

[Matt]

I'm sorry, can you just pause it really quickly? I just have to remark, because this is what she's been doing, and I just can't. It's. It's shocking how smart this is from. From, you know, female dog, the bounty hunter. That the fact that they are. That. That she is positioning herself as the outsider here is exactly what Trump did in the lead up to 2016. I am standing up to the most powerful people in the world. And in 2016, in that race, Trump was saying, I'm the guy that's been in the room with Hillary Clinton's donors, and I know how she gets bought. And she's doing a version of this. So sorry.

[Sam Cedar]

Soon she's. She's just moments away from saying, drain the swamp.

[Matt]

Yep.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

Happened today. I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for five. No, actually six years for. And I gave him my loyalty for free. I won my first election without his endorsement.

[Sam Cedar]

Hold on. I just want to highlight, too. She gave her loyalty for free. And, you know, six years is about.

[Corey]

As much loyalty as I want from any single woman.

[Sam Cedar]

Yes. You've sort of aged out. I'm sorry.

[Matt]

That's what he meant when he said that her green grass turned brown.

[Sam Cedar]

Yes, Brown, rotting grass with you. Yeah, sorry, you aged out. Go back a little bit.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

And I gave him my loyalty for free. I won my first election without his endorsement, beating eight men in a primary. And I've never owed him anything, but I fought for him for the policies and for America first. And he called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off.

[Sam Cedar]

Posit. I would like to know. Wait, what policies? Was it the immigration policies? I just think people should be explicit so that people understand. She clearly supports a lot of Trump's policies. I'm curious what those are.

[Matt]

Yeah, it's. It seems like the. There she. I wonder if Steve Bannon's in her ear. That's my other theory about. This is like, where with all of the. The bombings in Venezuela and the threatening of wars and things like that, if, like, she's trying to take up the true America First Mantle, Another theory I have bandying about in my head seem.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

To take my name off the discharge petition. Let me tell you what a traitor is. A traitor is a, is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves. A patriot, an American that serves the United States of America and Americans like the women standing behind me. And I want to tell you that this only became possible today because the American people whom we serve as representatives here in Congress demanded that this vote happen. And they put more pressure on every single alumni elected politician in this city than has ever been put on them. And today you are going to see probably a unanimous vote in the House to release the Epstein files. But the fight, the real fight will happen after that.

[Sam Cedar]

I mean.

[Matt]

She'S insinuating there too that the COVID up of this is on Israel's behalf as well with the foreign country thing. Right.

[Corey]

I thought that.

[Sam Cedar]

I don't know if she's saying that it's necessarily about Israel, but she's saying that he is.

[Michael]

I think she's including Argentina, all that stuff.

[Sam Cedar]

Yeah, yeah. There's a broader, and I think the, the idea about being this sort of general is also on purpose. Again, what are those policies that she supports at Donald Trump's? Best not to actually say.

[Michael]

I'm sure she'd agree that ICE is America first.

[Matt]

Oh yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

Oh yeah. We've got a lot more to cover, particularly ICE and what they've been up to in Charlotte. Charlotte, the folks in Charlotte have really, they have organized very quickly like there does. There is a sense that Chicago learned from LA and that Charlotte is learning from Chicago and so on. Now, I know there's ICE in other places, but talking about the Earth surges, I'm talking about where Bovino goes. We'll talk more about that in just a moment. I got a couple of words from our sponsors and I will read those. Now. Just a reminder, when you become a member of the Majority Report, you get the free show free of commercials. So have at it. First sponsor today. If you're dealing with hair issues like thinning or shedding, but feeling totally stuck on what to try next, I definitely get it. There's a ton of products out there. You don't know which ones are actually going to do anything. Maybe you don't want to take some thing that's been formulated with drugs. That's a big reason why I was willing to give Nutrafol a try. It's not just hype. It's physician formulated. It is clinically tested, even recommended by dermatologists. I've told this story a million times. But we had a couple bottles in here from years ago when they wanted to sponsor the program. Michael wasn't interested in trying it. Okay. I thought like I don't need it. And so that was that. But a couple years later I'm starting to feel like I'm starting to thin a little bit up top and I don't have too many things going for me except for, you know, being my age and having, you know, full head hair. And I figured I'll give it a try because why not?

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[Sam Cedar]

Yeah, it honestly it's the most social I've been in ages. It's just like I've been to like socialite now. I've been to like three functions in the past six weeks. This is the most social I've been to and I'm really getting to the swing of things nice and but I, I, I drink a Zbiotics pre alcohol probiotic drink beforehand and next day I don't feel a thing. I'm feeling good. It was invented by PhD scientists to tackle rough mornings after drinking. Here's how it works. When you drink, alcohol gets converted into a toxic byproduct in the gut. It is the buildup of this byproduct, not dehydration that's to blame for rough days after drinking. Pre alcohol produces an enzyme which breaks this byproduct down. All you gotta do, make the pre alcohol ZBiotics your first drink of the night. You drink responsibly, you feel your best tomorrow and that tomorrow is today for me. And I do. Look at how much, look how much energy I have.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

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[Matt]

Exactly.

[Sam Cedar]

And then you are all set. All right, let's get into. I want to talk about this poll first that just came out. Here is Harry Empton. What is his name? Harry.

[Matt]

Harry Emden.

[Sam Cedar]

I honestly don't remember his real name anymore, actually.

[Corey]

Harry Enton.

[Matt]

Enton. But God in our hearts, he's Harry Emden.

[Sam Cedar]

Watch Harry Emden. Donald Trump is at his lowest approval rating, basically amongst everybody. Right.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

And as well it should be. But he particularly overperformed with a couple of different cohorts in the 2024 election. Latinos was one of them. So much so that Texas Republicans got very confident in their redistricting.

[Matt]

Yep.

[Sam Cedar]

Their gerrymandering that they did very recently. Again, I don't want to get too remedial here, but if you have three districts and two of them are Republican and they are, let's say just for the sake of argument, plus 10 Republican districts, in other words, that a generic Republican is going to outpoll a generic Democrat by 10 points. And then you have one district that's plus five Democrat. What the Republicans will do is they'll take five, you know, like, excuse me, like three points from one Republican and three points from the other Republican, or I'm sorry, five from each, and they'll put it into that district and they'll make all three plus five Republican districts. So I'm taking five from one that has 10, five from the other has 10 putting it into the Democratic one that is essentially minus five. And now they're all three plus five Republicans. But what happens.

[Matt]

Yep.

[Sam Cedar]

If things turn so quickly that those plus tens that you were counting on were actually plus sixes, let's say. And then all of a sudden the Latino vote that you counted on for that plus, you know, extra four or five points in those districts completely turns on you. Well, we may find out here is Harry Enton, the Latino vote.

[Harry Enton]

What are we seeing among the polls there? Yeah, what are we seeing? You know, one of the big shifts in 2024, from 2020 was that shift, shift towards Donald Trump. Right. Immigration played a key role in that. I want to start off with Latinos on Trump and immigration. You know, back a year ago, what did we see on the issue of immigration? Latino voters trusted Kamala Harris more than Donald Trump, but by just two points. One, two. Look now, at Donald Trump's net approval rating on immigration among Latinos, he is 38 points underwater. That is a 36 point shift essentially from where we were a year ago on immigration. Immigration. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are basically tied on the issue of immigration. And now on the issue of immigration, Latinos despise, hate. Donald Trump, 38 points underwater. In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong when it comes to immigration.

[Sam Cedar]

What about the Latino vote overall?

[Harry Enton]

What about the Latino vote overall? All right. How do Latinos feel about Donald Trump overall? Let's take a look here. This, I think, sort of gives the game away.

[Whitney]

Yeah.

[Harry Enton]

Oh, my goodness. I mean, that is the first raise of the day. Trump's net approval rating among Latinos in early February, again, he was just two points underwater. Look at where he is now, late October, minus 34 points. 34 points underwater. A shift of 32 points over the course of this year. I should point out, this is the CBS News. You got Paul, but I was looking at the average of polls. I was looking at our own poll. Very similar shift. 20, 25, 30 point shifts on the net approval rating away from Donald Trump among Latinos overall. Again, whatever Donald Trump is doing in office, in the minds of Latinos, it is not working. They have turned against him in massive, massive numbers.

[Sam Cedar]

I was the new. That's stunning.

[Matt]

Yeah. And I'm also reading here, strength in numbers is a great substack. People can read. This is from last week, but it was about the vanishing Trump coalition. You know, you're seeing now that there's a pronounced shift of non white, lower income and younger voters back to the Democrats at above average rates, where we saw that that was also significant for Trump. In the last race, GOP's vote margin fell by over 40 points among Asian American voters, 20 points among Hispanic Latino voters, and 22 points among 18 to 29 year olds, which is literally the exact coalition that the Republicans were trying to juice with their podcast bro thing. And then of course, even in taking those numbers and redistricting around them. And the numbers are staggering. In New Jersey, like Union City. I've cited this before just because I'm familiar with it. Also from growing up around there, it's a heavily Latino City, over 80%. And it swung by over 50 points from where Kamala Harris performed, where Mikey Sherrill did in that race. Now, again, like general election numbers, we always talk about this. It's a very different story when Trump is at the top of the ticket, but presumably he won't be again. We should probably note that unless, you know, obviously something horrible happens and these Republicans why this Epstein fissure is so important is they're thinking about that race in 2028 and when say he's not at the top of the ticket. How are the Republicans going to perform in if he can't do his celebrity thing and drive out those non low propensity voters like this. So it's. And also like the denial of the economic reality people are experiencing is just like absolutely toxic and totally self inflicted by Trump himself with the tariffs and everything.

[Sam Cedar]

I would also say though, you know where you see the Republicans cleaving from Trump, it is all around this Epstein stuff and it all is all very personal. And so what they're doing is they're trying to maintain the policy set and the issue set.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

Nobody's. Nobody's breaking apart from Trump on the tariffs. Nobody. You know, the only thing is this sort of like vague America first slogan. They're saying that he deviated from his own policy. So they're staying true to all that thing. So this is an important thing to you know, going forward. Which is why it's so important how Democrats win and how they govern is going to be so as relevant as to whether Donald Trump is, you know, walking amongst us or you know, a distant memory or whatever. But what's going on in places like Chicago and LA and now in Charlotte, North Carolina and of course other cities. But Charlotte seems to be where the surge is, as it were. This is where Bovino who was, I think he was with. With customs and border patrol and I.

[Michael]

Think now he's El Central, El Centro.

[Sam Cedar]

But here is. Let's do number 16. This gives you a sense of sort of like how under siege. No number 16. How under siege people are feeling in Charlotte just literally days after ICE has sort of like, I guess they call it a surge there. Which incidentally is the exact same verbiage they used when they talked about putting in new troops in Iraq.

[Matt]

Iraq. They called it Charlotte's Web because you know, they. Operation Charlotte's Web opera, you know, because of Charlotte. Is that the first thing that came to mind?

[Sam Cedar]

Yeah.

[Michael]

I was noting to Sam, who's the main character in Charlotte's Web.

[Matt]

That'S apt.

[Sam Cedar]

But here is. This is a. A guy who owns a bakery talking to I believe a reporter from the Charlotte observer.

[Bakery Owner]

And I'm getting ready to close my bakery today. Man, the amount of fear that we have right now is no good. It's not worth it to take that risk. We need to protect our families and family separation, man, this easy. They have taken maybe around 20 people today around in Charlotte and they have been in a parking lot several times today.

[Sam Cedar]

So has it affects your business?

[Bakery Owner]

Of course, you know, and I'm gonna close the doors. I don't know when I'm gonna open back.

[Matt]

Thank you.

[Bakery Owner]

Thank you to all the community and to all the people that have support me that has come. But I need to protect my customers. I need to protect my immigrant community and even myself because they are not even approaching people to us. They are just jumping on them and throwing them to the floor. That's what I saw this morning. So they're lying, man. They're not chasing criminals. They're chasing anyone who speaks like me and has an acc.

[Whitney]

Me.

[Bakery Owner]

I look like me.

[Sam Cedar]

Are you opening tomorrow?

[Bakery Owner]

No. No.

[Sam Cedar]

Is that normal or is that abnormal? Normal.

[Bakery Owner]

I never close when Ever.

[Harry Enton]

Never.

[Community Member]

You are closing tomorrow?

[Bakery Owner]

Yeah, I'm closing tomorrow. I think this could be the first time in 28 years and I'm going to be closing the doors of my baby. Okay, but thank you for being here, brother.

[Sam Cedar]

When are you reopening?

[Bakery Owner]

I don't know. When. When we. When we start the division, when we start the race profiles and we solve.

[Sam Cedar]

And we're going to show you plenty of clips of the racial profiling that's taking place. Like literally, we have multiple clips of these ICE thugs going up to people who are. Who look Mexican to them or look brown or look Central American or look South American.

[Matt]

Sanctioned by our Supreme Court and our.

[Sam Cedar]

You know, maybe they're doing a job like they're working on somebody's yard or maybe they're working on somebody's roof or maybe they're waiting for a bus. We've got clips of all this. And the interesting thing here is, you know, and again, I know ICE is in many cities. I mean, I know I've heard of plenty of stories of them being upstate as well as sometimes into the outer boroughs. But this is one where they have actually put like a surge of ICE officers in. And this is a city that is probably like a quarter or less of the size of Chicago. Certainly, like, I don't know, an eighth of the size of la. I mean in terms of land mass, I would maybe even say probably much smaller.

[Michael]

Yeah, it's just under a million population, 900 and something.

[Sam Cedar]

Thousand and. And so you got 900 some odd thousand people. And this is going on in the community. It is been fascinating to watch like how many, how quickly this stuff is getting disseminated but here is a. Here is a. Here's number 15. This is a perfect example of them just literally driving around neighborhoods in Charlotte, apparently, and just stopping. When they see someone with a brown complexion working on a house, they just literally stop in this neighborhood and listen what they ask, L.A. you know, you remember which hospital? Lakeside or lake views over there. We started at the beginning.

[Community Member]

I appreciate.

[Sam Cedar]

Start all the way at the beginning, L.A. that is, you know, you remember which hospital? Lakeside or lake views over there. I appreciate you chatting with me, man.

[Corey]

I'm just.

[Matt]

Do a job.

[Bakery Owner]

So you guys.

[Community Member]

I got you. How about you, sir and a half.

[Bakery Owner]

What's your name?

[Sam Cedar]

Caleb Hunch.

[Harry Enton]

I was born in St. Joe's Hospital, Newland.

[Bakery Owner]

Okay.

[Sam Cedar]

All right. And you, ma'?

[Bakery Owner]

Am?

[Matt]

My name is feminine. Gabriel. Okay.

[Sam Cedar]

Where were you born at?

[Community Member]

Ecuador.

[Whitney]

Ecuador. Yes, sir.

[Sam Cedar]

Do you have a passport visa?

[Matt]

Yes, sir.

[Sam Cedar]

Would you mind if I take a look at it?

[Bakery Owner]

Yeah, no problem. Okay.

[Sam Cedar]

Awesome. Okay. So there they are. Now, I will say this. If those people are working on your house, you have every right to go tell those ICE agents to get the F off your property.

[Corey]

Almost an obligation.

[Sam Cedar]

They're asking questions as to where people were born or what their name is. Then they don't have enough information definitionally to justify entering your private property.

[Matt]

100%.

[Sam Cedar]

And also, based upon what I've watched, like, you know, what folks are telling folks who are immigrants. Nobody on that roof has an obligation to answer a single one of those questions. You want to know what high school I went to? It was fu. High. It was suck it right here High.

[Matt]

Right.

[Michael]

It's actually a vocational tech school, but.

[Matt]

Yeah, or just say like the.

[Sam Cedar]

Exactly.

[Matt]

Yeah. Or you could just say, that was.

[Sam Cedar]

My junior high, my senior. I mean, you. You have. Now I can understand why people. I'm also, you know, like, you don't want to hassle. You're just doing your job, and you don't want a hassle if you don't. But understand that you don't have to do that. You don't have to answer any of those questions. And if they're acting friendly with you, I have news for you. They're not. They're not your friend. They're not anybody's friends. They should have no friends, actually. They should be completely socially isolated. They should be pariahs in whatever community they are from. They should be pariahs.

[Matt]

Show me your papers. I mean, when people want to talk about. Are we being hyperbolic by calling them a version of the Gestapo? I don't understand where the hyperbole lies there.

[Sam Cedar]

Here is speaking of pariahs and people who honestly, like, when. If we get to a day when this ends, I hope this guy literally has to leave the country. I hope he self deports. What number is this? Yeah. Okay, so here's Greg Bovino, the leader of the ice, this sort of, like, titular head.

[Michael]

Celebrity Nazi.

[Sam Cedar]

Yeah, he's the celebrity nazi of the moment.

[Corey]

Sort of the lockjaw. If you saw one battle after another.

[Matt]

Yeah. And forced to also, I think, be more public because they've had to put, you know, that. That mastiff bulldog. What's his name? Tom Holman. Well, in a closet because of the scandal.

[Sam Cedar]

But Bovino was sort of getting out there because he was the first, I think, like cbp, cpb, Customs, Border patrol to get moved into ice. He was one of the first leaders. And of course, he doesn't wear a mask because he's had to go to court so many times for lying to judges that it would be useless for him to wear a mask at this point. People would know him. And so here's this aging guy who clearly couldn't get to those paintball parks enough. And to feel like he was a real man and it just wasn't. Didn't hit in the same way. So he had to put his. His outfit on and get into his fatigues, you know, his green fatigue, so he could blend in in downtown Charlotte, which of course, is famously, you know, different hues of green. It makes it much harder for.

[Michael]

It's very similar vegetation to Hanoi.

[Sam Cedar]

Exactly, exactly. And so here is Bovino just walking around deciding, I'm gonna go harass the next brown person. I. She's tay. She's. She's telling him that you don't have to answer anything. And Bobino's just waiting. The best thing for this guy to do in this instance is to say nothing, because if Bovino says. If the guy speaks Spanish, it becomes some measure of probable cause for him. If the guy says anything, it becomes some measure of probable cause. You just look at them and you just.

[Corey]

It's interesting that Bovino, inspired by autobiographies of former agents, joined border patrol in 1996. That was when Bill Clinton was running hard on the border, trying to take the wind out of the Republican sails and all that investment, hired people like Bovino. And when we continue to throw money at the sort of militarization of that and at ice, it is just growing pigs like Bavino. It's a farm for pigs like Bavino, and we need to Defund them to stop, you know, growing them.

[Sam Cedar]

Let's go to number 17. This is an example again. Now, remember, ICE has these huge bonuses to hire people. And they are taking. And they are not giving them the training that people have had in the past. They are not vetting them nearly as much as they used to in the past. And they're just giving. Giving these people gear, sending them out there into minivans, and they have no idea what they're doing. Here is a ICE officer who can't handle being videotaped. And it is perfectly legal for people to be videotaping them. Again, you can't obstruct. But if you are out of their way and you're videotaping them or you're behind them, you literally can't obstruct from behind.

[Michael]

What if they're camera shy?

[Sam Cedar]

Even if they're camera shy, that's part of the job. So you're representing the completely decked out Buffy uniform. So here is this patriot.

[Community Member]

This is an illegal traffic stop. No, this is. No, no, I do not. I can stay here. I have the right to report. I have the right to record. I have the right to record. This is how illegal traffic Stop.

[Sam Cedar]

They're all pointing their guns right in their face.

[Community Member]

Illegal traffic stop.

[Sam Cedar]

Look at that. They're pointing guns. Look at these Nazis. Here is a an example of.

[Michael]

And real quick, those weapons are like called less than lethal weapons. Remember, they used to be called non lethal, but when the Red Sox won the World Series in 04 and they were doing crowd control, one of those non lethal weapons killed somebody. And now they're changed to less than lethal.

[Sam Cedar]

And they're a lot less than, less than lethal when they're like a foot and a half from your face.

[Matt]

Yeah. And it, at the very least, it can really harm people physically, no matter what. Even if, like the worst case scenario doesn't happen there.

[Sam Cedar]

Here is an absolute patriot. This is number 14. This is not safe for work. And God bless this guy. Well, actually, you know what? Let's go to. Before we go to that, I'll give you a chance to hold your kids ears. Here is a report from Jacob Sabroff in Charlotte, North Carolina. And just to give you a sense of like, how quickly this community.

[Bakery Owner]

Is.

[Sam Cedar]

Banding together and to protect their fellow citizens, in some instances, their fellow community members, in other instances, their family, their friends.

[Jacob Sabroff]

But check this out. Hey, I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina. I have to talk very quietly because I'm in a church. But check out this.

[Michael]

This Out.

[Sam Cedar]

Yeah. So we'll go over that a second and then we'll have a signal chat during the shift.

[Jacob Sabroff]

We're asking you to please post the details. This is not a church service. This is a training being run by SAMBRA, N.C. it's called safe to Work, Safe to school. All those people are here because they do not want Donald Trump's masked arms of federal agents on the streets of Charlotte. They watched what happened in la, they watched what happened in Chicago, and they're all here to be trained about how to get their neighbors and their friends and their co workers safely to work and safely to school to push back on the Trump administration and what they are doing. It's a Monday night. We are at the Dilworth United Methodist Church in Charlotte and the turnout is incredible. I'm going to show you again.

[Sam Cedar]

Putting people in the meat area. This we are worried about. There have been there. There was at least one reported raid of a church that happened the other day. They took one guy. You could see. I know there's video going around the aftermath. You can see some kids crying. I mean, just. They're absolute animals. And supposedly the word is that they're going to up their raids on churches as we get closer to the holidays.

[Matt]

It's, it's, it's the party of Christ.

[Sam Cedar]

It's psychopathic. It's psychopathic. And, you know, the only upshot is that it's not going unnoticed. You have folks like in that church who are organizing. You got folks organizing all around, I think, in different cities as they're anticipating, anticipating ICE coming there. And, you know, you see it in the public polling.

[Matt]

And community is just such a threat to what this administration is trying to do. I made this point before, but it's the same reason that they're obsessed with cities, too, is that there's just a general kind of community there, especially one that's multicultural, that's very threatening to their project. But as we've spoken about, like people have written in saying, what can we do? How can we resist? And getting involved locally is like a really productive way to do that. And you can see that right there.

[Sam Cedar]

Todd from Raleigh says ICE arrived here this morning. We're nervous to ready to stand by for our comrades in our community. We'll talk about that a little bit. But I want to show this is two days ago, three days ago, now, nations forward. That must be a road in Charlotte, maybe. And look at this patriot. Again, not safe for work. You know, I think everybody can choose their own language when they Confront a nice person. You know, if my son was talking like this, I would tell him to be a little bit more. A little bit more polite. Not so much polite.

[Corey]

The form is good. It's just the content, you know?

[Sam Cedar]

Yes.

[Matt]

I mean, it's a little funny when the kid says it, but, you know, we'll let it go.

[Sam Cedar]

Well, this is not a kid, but I don't think. This guy drove by some ice guys, and the ice guys were like, move along. And he said, I don't think so.

[Community Member]

What you doing, bro?

[Sam Cedar]

Moving.

[Community Member]

What do you think I'm doing?

[Harry Enton]

Why?

[Whitney]

Keep it moving.

[Community Member]

Why are you getting the people?

[Matt]

Huh?

[Community Member]

Why you getting the people?

[Sam Cedar]

Why am I getting them?

[Community Member]

Yeah, they're here illegally. But who builds the places that we live in, huh?

[Sam Cedar]

Or what?

[Community Member]

What you gonna do about it, huh? Wanna find out?

[Matt]

Do it. Come on.

[Community Member]

Come on. Let's do it.

[Michael]

It.

[Community Member]

I'm about papers. What's up?

[Sam Cedar]

Telling me you're not going to move?

[Community Member]

What you want?

[Sam Cedar]

We need to leave. You're going to continue to block the roadway. Is that what you're.

[Community Member]

You're not leaving right now. What's up? What you going to do about it? Well, when I do, I'm about favors, buddy.

[Sam Cedar]

Make sure you don't block the road.

[Whitney]

All right?

[Community Member]

We'll see if this truck goes on top of you.

[Matt]

What's up?

[Community Member]

What's up?

[Sam Cedar]

So what are you saying? I don't know.

[Community Member]

You take it however you want. Take it. What you going to do about it, huh? You think I'm scared of you? Keep moving. What?

[Sam Cedar]

There's.

[Community Member]

There's a lot more of us coming right now.

[Sam Cedar]

Good.

[Community Member]

Yeah, we'll see what. What we're about to do right now.

[Sam Cedar]

Charlotte about to find out, right?

[Community Member]

You about to find out about Charlotte. You don't know what's up about Charlotte. This ain't Chicago.

[Sam Cedar]

Keep it moving.

[Corey]

Or what?

[Community Member]

What you going to do about it? Find out. Come on, find out. I want to find out, buddy. What's up? What's up? What you gonna do about it? Hey, I'm talking to you.

[Whitney]

Come on.

[Community Member]

So what's the up?

[Michael]

He's fake looking around.

[Whitney]

I know.

[Corey]

Trying to act busy. Oh, look at my. Let's look at my.

[Whitney]

Hey, you.

[Community Member]

You want to check my plates? I don't got papers.

[Sam Cedar]

There you go. Good for that guy.

[Matt]

You love anybody who can create an awkward situation and sit in it like that.

[Sam Cedar]

Oh, my God, I love that.

[Matt]

I got social anxiety from that interaction.

[Sam Cedar]

My new adopted son is freaking fantastic.

[Matt]

All of.

[Sam Cedar]

All of your interactions if you engage in that way are not going to work out that way necessarily. You got to be prepared to deal with what comes after that. But if you get on video, you will be in line to be one of my adopted children. That is.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

So awesome. I can't. I can't get down. I can't. I can't. I can't get over that. I've watched that video, I would say, like, half a dozen times. I love that guy. What do we have anything else on there?

[Matt]

I'm not sure.

[Sam Cedar]

That's it. I guess we're gonna have to head into the fun half.

[Matt]

I guess in the free half, we should say that. It seems like Schumer is saying that they're gonna move if it. I just lost it.

[Sam Cedar]

Oh. They're going to go for unanimous consent in the Senate, which means that they're going to try and pass. Remember, Johnson's strategy, and I would assume this is also the White House's strategy, is to take the bill that's going to pass in the House and may have already passed by now, certainly is about to, and send it to the Senate with the complaint that it doesn't protect the victims, Epstein's victims, even though they support this bill.

[Matt]

Yep.

[Sam Cedar]

And the idea was either that they won't take it up in the Senate, but it appears they definitely will, or that they would try and amend it in the Senate, pass a different bill, slightly different bill than the one in the House. Then the House ostensibly would have to pass it again, and it might give more time for delay. So everybody can say that they voted. Who wants to? I voted for that bill in the House when the Senate sent it back, it was not the same bill.

[Matt]

Right.

[Sam Cedar]

And like, you know, the idea here is they're not going to convince anybody. The only thing that they think they can do in this situation is to make things murkier and cloudier and less clear. And so by attempting to pass this bill by unanimous consent, it puts less pressure on Republican senators. They don't have to say that they did or did not vote. They could basically choose whichever one they want after the fact, And it cannot get bogged down by an amendment. Now, remember, if they pass it in the House and they pass in the Senate, it has to go to Donald Trump to be signed.

[Matt]

Yep.

[Sam Cedar]

And he still has another card to play, and that is that. What's her face, Pam Bondi can come out and say, we just started an investigation into this and we refused to release. Then it goes to the courts. I mean, this is all going to be about delay, delay, delay, delay.

[Matt]

Which is great for us in terms of creating a slow bleed out for Donald Trump.

[Michael]

I mean, I mean obviously more crumbs come out.

[Matt]

Not to. Not of course, but not to. I mean even if they don't. Not to. To belittle the victims, but the COVID up being this elongated process in and of itself. Even if we get no new information about Donald Trump, I don't know, feels like a real political loser for him and the Republicans.

[Sam Cedar]

There is a quality. And we'll talk about this in the fun half because there's a new report out about Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation. And this is, I mean.

[Michael]

An atomic bomb.

[Sam Cedar]

It's an atomic bomb. But the sort of like what is it? The cows are out of the barn.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

On this like whether there's more information or not more information. Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and the. This is all pulling apart at the conservative infrastructure which is not to be mistaken for Democrats have their act together and know exactly what they're doing.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

But at least things are a little bit on similar footing. And remember they really need unity because that's the one thing that they always have had is a aligned incentive structure because they don't got much else. Their policies don't help people. Their policies are cruel, Their policies are revanchist, they're retrograde, they are misogynist and racist. And so in general, like it's very hard if they're sort of, if they're not on the same page for them to have success in society. But of course also we're in cornered rat era.

[Matt]

Yep.

[Sam Cedar]

Folks, just a reminder, your support is what keeps this show alive and thriving. Aliving and thriving. And if you want the show without commercials, it's holiday season. So the next two months we got a lot of commercials. You can get rid of those commercials when you listen to it as a podcast afterwards because we cut them out. And we're working on a members video feed too which would also have cut out the commercials. I think we might free that. I think so. I think that would be free. It certainly would be ad free relative to YouTube on there and. But we're working on that. But it's your support that makes that possible. Also just coffee, co op, fair trade coffee, hot chocolate. Use the coupon code. Majority get 10% off. Folks, check out our Discord majority. Discord. We got over 17,000 people in that discord. It's incredibly active Discord. Great community. Also the AM quickie. You get three free emails A week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday from Whitney and Corey. They, they switch off. Whitney is like one of the premier writers at the American Prospect. Corey has written and an amazing book and I think he's working on a second one. Maybe I don't want to speak out of turn, but they give you all the stories you need to know from a decidedly progressive perspective. And for a couple of bucks more, you can get all five days a week, every, all month. So check that out. What is it? The amquickie.com Matt left reckoning and Jacobin.

[Corey]

Left reckoning today after a majority report. Over on the Left Reckoning YouTube feed, we have Daniel Boguslaw talking about these Epstein documents, particularly Larry Summers. And we get into Trump as well as his theories on the lack of evidence for a formalized blackmail operation, which I think might be interesting to folks. Formalized, I would emphasize. But yeah, check that. Right after the show today, I think.

[Matt]

We, I'm gonna word search here because there's a nice IM about your show. Polly Marxist said. Just wanted to say I watched Matt's Jackman show and have to say it was very well done and informative. I look forward to tuning in again this Friday. Congrats again, Matt.

[Corey]

Brendan James of Blowback is going to be on this Friday show and Robin Wansley, the independent socialist in Minneapolis is going to talk about how she's starting a caucus up in the Twin Cities for socialists so out fry. You think you won now?

[Sam Cedar]

All right, folks, see you in the fun half. Three months from now, six months from now, nine months from now. And I don't think it's going to be the same as it looks like in six months from now. And I don't know if it's necessarily going to be better six months from now than it is three months from now, but I think around 18 months out, we're gonna look back and go like, wow.

[Corey]

What?

[Sam Cedar]

What is that going on? It's nuts. Wait a second. Hold on. Hold on for a sec. Emma. Welcome to the program.

[Harry Enton]

Matt.

[Sam Cedar]

What is up, everyone? Fun hack. No, me. You did it. Fun half.

[Matt]

Let's go, Brandon.

[Sam Cedar]

Let's go, Brandon. Bradley, you want to say hello? Sorry to disappoint everyone. I'm just a random guy. It's all the boys today.

[Matt]

Fundamentally false. No. I'm sorry. Women.

[Sam Cedar]

Stop talking for a second.

[Matt]

Let me finish. Where is this coming from, dude?

[Bakery Owner]

But.

[Sam Cedar]

Dude, you want to smoke this? 7A.

[Matt]

Yes.

[Sam Cedar]

Hi, me.

[Whitney]

This thing.

[Sam Cedar]

Yes. Is this me? Is it me? It is you. Is this me? A lot of us may think it is you. Who is you. No sound. Every single freaking day. What's on your mind?

[Matt]

Sports.

[Sam Cedar]

We can discuss free market and we can discuss capitalism. I'm gonna go smell like libertarians. They're so stupid. Though common sense says of course.

[Matt]

Gobbledygook.

[Sam Cedar]

We nailed him.

[Matt]

So what's 79 plus 21?

[Sam Cedar]

Challenge. Matt, I'm positively quivering. I believe 96. I want to say 8, 5, 7, 2, 1 0, 35, 5 0, 11 half.

[Corey]

3, 8, 9, 11. For instance.

[Matt]

$3,400. $1900. 5, 4.

[Sam Cedar]

$3 trillion dollars. Sold. It's a zero sum game. Actually.

[Matt]

You're making me think less.

[Sam Cedar]

But let me say this. Call it satire. Sam. Goes with satire.

[Matt]

On top of it all, my favorite.

[Sam Cedar]

Part about you is just like every.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

Day, all day, like everything you do.

[Sam Cedar]

Without a doubt. Hey, buddy. We see you. All right, folks, folks, folks.

[Matt]

It's just the week being weeded out. Obviously.

[Sam Cedar]

Yeah. Sun's out, guns out. I. I don't know. But you should know, people just don't.

[Corey]

Like to entertain ideas anymore.

[Sam Cedar]

I have a question. Who cares?

[Corey]

Our chat is enabled, folks.

[Sam Cedar]

I love it.

[Matt]

I do love that.

[Sam Cedar]

Got a job. You gotta be quick. I gotta jump. I'm losing it, bro. Two o', clock, we're already late and the guy's being a dick. So screw him. Sent to a gulag.

[Matt]

Outrageous.

[Sam Cedar]

Like, what is wrong with you?

[Matt]

Love you. Bye.

[Sam Cedar]

Love you. Bye. Bye.