IHIP News: 🚨 Trump TORCHED in NYC! Met With MASSIVE PROTEST After His DISASTER STUNT!

All right.Joining me today on IHIP News is the creator and host of the Majority Report live here in studio on Game 3 Day.Sam Seder, how are you?

I'm well.I'm very well, thanks.

Well, you know, he was strolling into New York to rain on everybody's parade.They're shutting down Midtown Manhattan.Pop this up.NYPD news starting at 4 p .m.Uh vehicular and pedestrian traffic will be closed from west 30th street to west 35th Yack, yack blah blah and he's already being met with a lot of pushback first They had to build a wall around msg, which is so stupid.

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I hadn't seen that that's ridiculous And so what's so sad about that is so many people, I live pretty close to there, like celebrate in front.They can't afford to go, but they can at least get close.

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Well, of course, New York is already greeting him appropriately.Pop this up.So this is in the subway.Go Knicks.Fuck Trump.And then there's sidewalk talk all in front of Madison Square Garden.

Go Knicks.Fuck Trump.And I love this for him.Now, predictions.Do you think they're going to put his face up on the Jumbotron when he went to the U .S.

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They did not.I can't imagine they're going to do that, because they have to know.Someone in his entourage has to know, because I think Mamdani is going to be there.I think he's going to be in the nosebleeds.

He's going to be in the nosebleeds.

And I suspect they won't put his face up on the Jumbotron, because then people will be like, why didn't you put Trump's face on the Jumbotron?But if I had to bet, and I don't I actually have a problem with how easy it is to bet on these things.But that if there isn't a F Trump chant that happens at one point, I'll be shocked.

I would be too.Okay.Okay.True serum polygraph.Do you think Trump deep, deep down is hoping he runs into Zoran?I mean, the happiest I've ever seen.

I think he's just like chasing him around.I do.You know, he texts him.He gets all fluffed up in his bed and texts him.Like, he texts him frequently.

I, you know, I have no idea, but I wouldn't be surprised.He's a, he's a very demented guy.I mean, I think like literally and sort of like,colloquially speaking, I think he's a very demented guy.I think he's just so excited that he doesn't have to deal with the war that he has lost.And, you know, just all of the planning about got to go to New York and I'm going to see the game.

I mean, the best is going to be if it's a tight game when he leaves.with like 10 minutes left in the game because he doesn't really care.No, he doesn't give a shit.He doesn't give a shit.

All right.Speaking of not giving a shit, I came across this tweet on Twitter and this is Congressman Ted Lieu.I mean, this is just really revealing and I want us to analyze this.Pop this up.I endorsed Xavier Becerra.That's why I hope Republican Steve Hilton remains in the top two.

The latest vote updates show Hilton will likely beat Steyer.So let's dissect that.Here is a Democrat rooting for a Republican.And we see this right now.This is at the epicenter of the Democratic Party, where you have corporate Dems.And I have a question.

Do they hate Progressive Dems more than they hate MAGA because why wouldn't he want two Democrats in there making us a stronger party?

I mean that's the I mean his his tweet doesn't hold up because it's not going to be Steyer versus Hilton It would be Steyer versus Becerra if if if Steyer got in there because Becerra is clearly going to be the candidate You know, there was a writer, Kevin Drum from the Washington Monthly, who years ago wrote about the iron law of institutions, which was that people would rather have the institution fail and not lose their position in it than have the opposite, lose their position, have the institution succeed.And I think there's a lotDemocrats who feel really threatened by the the energy behind the more sort of progressive wing of the Democratic Party.And I think that's a big fear.And I think, you know, Lou doesn't understand that he's telling on himself in that instance.This is not a choice between, you know, a Democrat and a Republican.

It's a choice between a Democrat and a Republican.uh, Hilton and Steyer.It's a choice between Becerra and Steyer, if Steyer gets in there.I mean, we see it like, you know, that's the funny thing about what's going on with the, um, uh, the, the democratic, uh, or, or the, the conspiracy theories around the, the mayor race, because the establishment, which ostensibly would be in charge of, you know, uh, faking the ballots, they want Bass.I think it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a uh in the uh, the the platner race, I think we're seeing it I mean the the level of desperation there is is intense Uh, I think there was you know, this goes back to like the abundance stuff.Um, there was a sense that the establishment and the corporate influence could influence harris and that they were gearing up for that and They were gearing up from it, like, you know, trying to demonize Lena Kahn.

They were trying to undermine some of the more progressive things that the Biden administration did.And when Harris lost, they were not ready for it.And you're seeing, I think, like, you know, progressives don't have the strength, they don't have the money yet that the corporations have.does.And frankly, like the AIPAC money that filters in through derivatives.But there's, you know, Chris Robb in Pennsylvania.

We have others, Mieja.Joelle Syed.Well, they're worried about Syed and they're worried about Platner because it's in the event that these guys make it to the Senate, it's going to be a very different Senate caucus.uh than we've seen in the past without a doubt and I think we're going to see a more progressive uh democratic caucus that doesn't necessarily mean that it's like dominated by them right won't be but It's it's headed in the right direction from my perspective.

Anyways, I agree.It's like baby steps but I think at the epicenter of ted liu's tweet where he's cheering for a republican to win because he wants a republican versus a democrat is really telling and it reminded me a lot of the mayoral race here And you had all of these headlines You know, everybody's going to leave new york crime's going to go 25 I think was the prediction 25 percent and then so his accomplishments In 2026, major crime is down 8 % citywide.He secured over $1 .2 billion in a partnership with centrist HOKL, so they work together.He secured more than $9 million in restitution for workers and small businesses.He expanded protected time off for 4 .3 million workers and filled 100 ,000 potholes in his first 100 days.And here were the headlines before.

Let's look at these.Electing Zoran Mamdani, New York City Mayor, would spur huge cop exodus.Rising crime straight out of Gotham City.Zoran Mamdani's success is a warning.Escape from New York.Researcher predicts New York City business exodus of Zoran Mamdani wins.

Well then he does the Pieta tear tax.and everybody's like, oh, luxury real estate's going to tank.It's up.

Are they scared that once somebody like him shows us - 100%.You know who didn't leave?who promised he would is Andrew Cuomo.He's supposed to be in Florida right now.I honestly, like, I don't know.Like, the idea that this guy is still even in New York state is an abomination.

But yes, they are scared.And I think like this is, you know, and I think to some extent, this is what scares them about Platner.With New York, and remember, they also compared him to Spanberger.right, like in Virginia, like they were trying to make it like both Spanberger and Mamdani, after Mamdani won, they were trying to make a comparison there.Her approval rating is in the toilet now, and Mamdani's has soared.It has increased by, I don't know, 25 % since he's, not 25 percentage points, but maybe 10, 15 percentage points, but since he's gotten an office.

And there's also, like even from an intangible standpoint, there's, he's worked on like creating a spirit about the city and about what government can do.And I think to a large extent, that's very threatening because, you know, part of the reason why a corporate wing of the Democratic Party wants to get out there and say, there are certain things you can't do.You just can't do them.Well, I would love to, but we can't do them.And to see Mamdani have this success, they said he's never going to get the money for universal child care.They're not going to do anything with the buses.

You know, like you say, people are going to leave, et cetera, et cetera.And then their fallback position is like, this is New York.The rest of the country is not like New York.And then you start to see Platner build a movement up in Maine and really just destroy the establishment candidate.I mean,it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's There's there are people who are responsible for the immiseration of the american public like we are making up the country has huge gdp Somebody's getting that money and it's increasingly in the hands of a smaller group of people And I think that is very threatening and then once it happens in in maine I think there's even a fear like what if it happens in nebraska?

um, and then you know This is something that begins to undermine the narrative that we've been told that, like, you don't understand in New York what people want in the heartland of the country.And it's true.I mean, there are states that there's a lot of conservatism.A lot of it is like social conservatism and cultural conservatism.And that's what's most important to those people, as opposed to sort of like a material benefits.But at the end of the day, I think they're very threatened by an economic populism.

They are.And every time it succeeds, they've got to find something.And now in New York, the complaints against Mamdani have gotten increasingly sort of like narrow and just bizarre.I mean at one point they were trying to push that he had cursed the Mets.

How much do you think the through line with the hysteria over Zoran, the hysteria over Mamdani, the hysteria over Abdullah Syed has to do with AIPAC and Israel and the optics for somebody like me who grew up in middle America, Muslimbad terrorists multiple wives kill white people with impunity and that's that's the propaganda and then you see this.Muslim man in New York that has the trans flag and he's fighting for workers and never really talks about religion ever, where the politicians where I come from are using religion to control.How much do you think these people bashing that stereotype, a senator named Abdul Al -Sayed bashes that stereotype.How scared do you think the propagandists that keep all of that intact, the Israel dream intact, how scary is that for them?

Well, I think from a Zionist perspective, it's very scary because much of what, having grown up in a Jewish family where I don't know that we perceived ourselves as Zionists back then, it was just you supported Israel and there was a narrative about Arabs and maybe not till after 9 -11 from like a Muslim perspective.And I think like without the ability of demonizing Arabs or Palestinians or whatnot, things become a lot harder.And I think, you know, what has happened over the past couple of years, we saw it with Cori Bush, we saw it with Jamal Bowman, is that the corporate forces found a way to basically launder their money to run against these progressives through dmfi or apac and their their and and then also combined with uh democrats who are also zionists and they all sort of found like a common home like these these are the these are the same people that we're going to go after so I think like a lot of that money has co -mingled and yeah I think there's a tremendous amount of fear that these things are being normalized and it's hard tootherize people who are of Arab descent or Muslim.And that's a problem.I mean, it's and it's a problem that is happening at such a rate for them.

I mean, it's it's stunning.The popular opinion has changed both in the Democratic Party, for sure, and amongst independents, but even younger people in the Republican Party no longer sort of knee jerk support Israel, and I think they're going to get increasingly desperate, frankly.And I don't know how that plays out, but it's scary.

Don't you think that desperation is playing out a little bit right now with Netanyahu knowing, okay, we have this idiot?in america right now trump we can go all gas no brakes this is our moment this is the time to balkanize iran this is the time for the greater israel product project and and not only is it netanyahu but it's all of these tech oligarchs everybody's just sucking out of him and he doesn't give a shit he's just worried about his you know vanity projects absolutely i mean i think that's the dynamic i mean i think uh it netanyahu knew this was his last bite at the apple I mean, also for him personally, probably, too.

I mean, he's, you know, he's in his 80s.And I think Trump allowed him.And I think Trump was is, you know, either of not sound mind enough or easily convinced or I mean, I I'm convinced that there's a dollar that he feels like he's going to make from this, or at least initially.I don't know what that was, but that's usually what.And so, yes, I think they're going full force.There's a real quality.

And I think amongst the Republican Party in general, and we're seeing it like, you know, with like guys like Russell Vought and the Heritage Foundation, there's a real quality of like,we're in the getaway car.Like this is it.I mean, you know, so, uh, polling be damned, uh, politicize, you know, uh, trying to trim our sales in some way to try and maintain, uh, be damned.We need to get everything we can.And we're seeing that like on a daily basis, like the Supreme court, the shadow docket, but Just the other day, you remember Schedule F from the end of the first Trump administration, and this was a plan.

There's about 40 ,000 civil servants in the government, and there was a plan that Russ Vogt and the Heritage Foundation and the whole Project 2025 people had to get rid of the civil service protection.They wanted to do it for 40 ,000.you know we've got a lot of people who have done it and they've done it now just the other day for 8 ,000 of the top level of civil service so.These jobs are going to be in that we're talking about this has been in something that's been in effect for you know a 150 some odd years.In this country.Trump is going to replace us with a political patronage system, and he's going to make people take a, you know, some type of loyalty test and whatnot.

And this is, you know, when we when I came in here, like, how are you doing?I'm like, this is the thing that's really keeping me up at night, because there's there's things that a new Democratic administration in twenty twenty nine can change.Right.And there's, you know, stuff that's more obvious and there's policies that you can reverse.But my biggest fear is, regardless of who wins that election in 2029, and hopefully it'll be a Democrat, is that there's only so much bandwidth.There's only so much resources an administration has.

There's only so many bodies.There's only so much money.And the destruction of our administrative state is so extensive.nobody coming in in their first four years is going to be able to fix everything.I mean, it's going to take two terms, three terms, four terms to fix this stuff.And you don't start in the destruction that's happening today, you don't see for years.

And so five ten years from now as we start to see like the uh degradation of uh of of sciences I I had uh on the program today.We had jonathan cohen who had written this piece about there has been a incredible discovery or um the development of a Treatment for pancreatic cancer one that like caused like all these oncologists in the middle of a presentation to get up and like spontaneously, uh, uh standing ovation, but the mechanisms That led to that like, you know, it doesn't happen overnight.You're talking about 20 25 years of government funded research That has led us to this moment.Well now that pipeline is done Like we've destroyed it.We've destroyed the grant making.You've got people, you know, you've got a somewhat of a brain drain.

You've got people going into other professions and not pursuing this stuff.We're not going to feel that as a population for five, 10 years down the road when all of a sudden there's just nothing in the pipeline.None of these things are being built on because we've lost a generation of scientists.And I don't know how many people are going to say like, oh, well, The reason why we haven't had this progress is a function of what happened 5 -7 years ago.And this is the case with the EPA, the FDA, with climate change.There's a whole host of the SEC.

The next financial crisis we have, if it doesn't happen immediately, the seeds are being planted down the road.whether it's from like deregulation and crypto, I mean, on and on.And this is the part that really keeps me up at night because this is, we're undermining the structure of things in such a way that even a candidate that we would love, pick your favorite coming in, they're not gonna be able to fix all this quickly.And I don't know, What kind of patience the american public is going to have for this?I don't think there's a broad understanding of it We don't even cover it because there's so many other stories like, you know that what would have been a Top -line story, you know five years ago is like 12th story of the day type of thing.

It's scary It's really scary and it brings everything always brings me to how the democrats are messaging And that's why when I come across ted lewis tweet i'm like Our number one mission should be anybody who is a Republican we want to defeat, period.We don't care if it's a primary where, you know, like in the ranked primaries like they have in California.And the patronizing way that corporate Democrats treat the electorate really bothers me.And so here's a video of David Brooks, who was married to a woman for 28 years, and he left his wife to marry a research assistant who was 23 years his junior.And I don't give a shit if he does that.Free country, whatevs.

What I hate is are hypocrites.I can't, because I grew up in the Bible Belt, and always the most sanctimonious people are always the biggest fucking hypocrites.Twelve times out of ten.So here's David Brooks talking about Graham Platner.Play the clip.

To a public office, a person of basic integrity, and second, do I agree with them?But if you haven't, if you've gotten rid of the first criteria, then you have weakened your credibility.And Republicans clearly did that with Trump.And now Democrats, really, if they side with Plattner, I don't want to hear too much about Trump in the future and his moral degeneracy.

Jonathan, to that.OK, so here's my thing about this.Susan Collins has a record of being a fascist, period.She is it's no longer fascist collaboration.I called her a fascist the other day and we have a decades -long Record her rat fucking women in states where i'm from in oklahoma where she voted to give rapists More rights and more privacy than a rape victim.She has enriched herself, you know millions upon millions of dollars She votes with trump over 90 something percent of the time.

She voted for all of these uh unqualified dipshits to be in his cabinet that are dismantling all of the stuff that's keeping you up at night.She is an absolute fascist and this guy gets on here and lectures us And I think it was James Carville who said, look, we got a fucked up candidate, but he's got to win.Right.And that's kind of where I think we are in this fight for democracy.What's your take on all that?

Well, David Brooks is a Republican and nobody's taking him seriously.And the thing is, he's not had a constituency for years.You know, the the New York Times would hire people like David Brooks ostensibly to represent the conservative perspective on things.But he's not a conservative.I mean, he he is hated by the conservatives.He is he is the corporate Democrats.

Um fantasy of what a republican is honestly, and yeah, and you know part of the problem has been and it's changing slightly But we still have some holdouts starting in 2016 The democratic party had the opportunity to tie donald trump to the republican party Like if you go back in october and september of 2016, they were not attacking paul ryan They were not forcing paul ryan to say like what is your perspective on this guy?They were not saying it to mitch mcconnell.You hadyou're going to do a repatriation of overseas taxes.And we're going to do an infrastructure bill.We're not going to do an infrastructure bill.

We're going to do a repatriation of overseas taxes.And we're going to do a repatriation of overseas taxes.And we're going to do an infrastructure bill.and they wanted to protect like you know, and we've had this over and over again.Obama Biden.The fever is going to break the Republican Party is going to return to the mean.

Nancy Pelosi we need a strong Republican.They rhetorically and I would argue also even legislatively in some respects protected the Republican Party instead of tying Donald Trump to it.He was not a Republican.He was not the Republican Party.He was MAGA.And then he wasn't just manga, he was extreme manga, like, I mean, they constantly add these qualifiers to take him away from the Republican Party.

In fact, you know, Kamala Harris going around the Republican Party and I, represented by Liz Cheney and I, we're, you know, we're the normal people.He's this outsider.No, he, the Republican Party was this party.They had created a suit and he walked into it.He was exactly what the Republican Party had been building.

They incubated him.

They incubated him.Well, they were waiting for a guy like him to come along.Totally.And the the Democratic leadership refused to sort of acknowledge this for years.Now, even Democrats who I don't agree with from an ideological perspective, younger ones of a different, or I should say of a different political generation, recognize that you need to be partisan, that the Republican Party you can't, but we still have a little bitI mean, I think it's it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it this is not the messaging that is helpful and I think the Democrats are going to underperform now we they very well may do.

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They were talking about Dr. Seuss.They were talking about two books that Dr. Seuss were not publishing.So you have your opponents completely flailing around.Joe Manchin at that time, if you go back to what Joe Manchin was saying in March and April of 2021, he was saying that the Build Back Better bill, while Bernie was saying it should be $6 trillion, Joe Manchin was saying it should be $9 trillion.And instead of taking this momentum,Joe Biden says, I got to show the American public that we're bipartisan.

And he invites the Republicans in, and they dick around for two or three months because they have no interest in doing this.I mean, come on, how many times do you have to learn this lesson?They have no interest in voting for any of this.And then when they don't come up with anything, he allows Portman, And meanwhile, just around that time is when Joe Manchin's on tape with his donors finding out like, oh, I shouldn't vote for this.And that's when Joe Manchin becomes a problem there.that's when that expires.

I mean all of the benefits that came that the Republican Party is still a legitimate, good faith partner in governing, and it is so clear they are not.

It's so clear they are not, and it's so clear that when we're talking about Schumer, that he isn't really a good faith actor in our government.And here's what I have to say as a person who lived 51 years in a red state.Republicans love rat -fucking Democrats, and when they rat -fuck Democrats, everybody gets fucked.And I wish that Democrats would rat -fuck Republicans, because what that ends up looking like is a lot of the way that Zoran is governing here.They will hate it so much, so you get to satisfyyou know, just fuck you, you fascist pieces of shit.

We're going to govern well, but it trick, it actually is trickle down.The only thing that trickles down in Republican policies are lies.They are pathological liars.The branding that they have done, marching into red sites saying wealth will trickle down and you know, we have to, we, we have no regulations at all.And the, you and I talked about this one night at a party.over Christmas was how the Democrats abandoned all of these rural states.

So where I live right now in Oklahoma, you have the primaries tomorrow.These Republican gubernatorial candidates, Sam, they are out anti -transing each other so bad.One of the candidates has a banana on a butcher block.and talks about, we're going to get rid of the trans ideology in school like he's castrating the banana.And it's such a race to the bottom.And one of these nuts is going to win.

But what happens is the electorate gets crazier and more unhinged.So this idea that Biden or that Obama has, we have to work with Republicans, The Republican Party and their media ecosystem is incubating something worse than Trump.And I know this because I saw the Tea Party become MAGA.And I just know these people, MAGA is now going to become the Groepers or the Tucker Carlson thing.And it's not good.The Mormons are finding out right now just how welcome they are in that tent.

I mean, the failure of the 50 -state, or I should say, to maintain the 50 -state strategy, Rahm Emanuel resented it and shut that down when Obama got elected in 08.I mean, it was sort of like you were starting to develop an infrastructure.You're not going to necessarily win, not necessarily, at least in the short term.Maybe the long term, you'll hit some places and you'll win.You'll also draw resources.I mean, I don't know if Talarico is going to win, but I do know that the Republicans are going to have to pour a ton of money into that race.

Same with Dan Osborne in Nebraska.I don't know.And it's going to I think it's been an abject failure of the Democrats.you're going to build one person.You don't know if there's a you know a particularly talented politician in one of these.The states that could become national, I mean, you know, here's one of the things about at least once the places like where no Canada's have gone in a long time.

Maine's a small state.I mean, it's physically big, but it's, but it's, you know, not many people, people know each other, but he's getting people involved.And the value of that is not just like whether he can win in the fall.I think that's going to help him.And hopefully he can, but again, call it, you know, Collins is like, she's survived a lot of these things, but, um, you know, If he does win not only has he built an infrastructure to support him from a legislative perspective going forward Um, but you know angus king is 81 82 years old I think he's I don't know if he's up for re -election now.I can't remember in 28 or 30 But the the fact is is that like that infrastructure?

Yes that platner is going to build Gives us a much better shot than just I mean just as how flawed that mills was as a candidatelike you know she's one term like yeah first of all that would have hurt the democratic party because then they get a restart again right yeah um a typical manor would be like wait a second we're we're trading the seniority of one 80 year old in collins for an 80 year old who's not going to have the seniority and then it's going to go and we have to start the clock again but if platner builds this infrastructure and can win that's an infrastructure that is going to get us a much better candidate when Angus King goes, and you know, he's 81, 82, I don't.

because I see the rot at what happens in a red state where Republicans are the only operating party and all of the electorate is pathologically lied to and propagandized to and they end up, you know, they're capitalists with no capital that go and vote for Elon Musk and all these people have all these tax breaks.It makes for a better electorate.Texas keeps trending and trending and trending and it's helping people realize what the fundamental problems with unregulated capitalism and the fundamental problems in the United States, what they are.Because in Oklahoma, when you just hear these two nut jobs, I'm talking everything that everybody thinks a Muslim is.Those people exist, and they're Christians, and they are in the Bible Belt.It is the scariest shit ever, and it keeps a healthier electorate for the electorate to hear two different sides of what's going on.

If it's only Republican politics, these people get incubated and so mad and so crazed.Oklahoma, in the early 2000s, we had a Democratic governor.Brad Henry.We were ranked 17th -ish in education.Since then, we've had Republican supermajorities, state House, state Senate, Supreme Court, and governorship.We went through

Mary Fallin and now Kevin Stitt.We are ranked 50th in education.

And there's nobody there.There's no infrastructure there to remind people of this and point it out.Exactly.I mean, had we kept that 50 -state strategy in the aughts, I think about Kansas, when Sam Brownback came in and brought in Arthur Laffer of the Laffer Curve, and they did their big experiment.They got rid of the regulations.They got rid of income taxes.

They let the S -Corps essentially run wild there.And it took about, I think it was two or three years.They had full control of everything.They imposed the Laffer Curve and the whole theory that if you're not taxing, then you're going to get more revenue.Well, it turns out if you don't tax, you don't get more revenue.They start cutting the education system in Kansas, including the higher education, which was like the jewel of Kansas.

And there's no Democratic Party.The Republicans voted to increase taxes.because they were in such dire straits.And you don't have a Democratic Party there that's functioning in a way that can articulate this to people in the real time, in local media markets.It makes people sick.It makes for a sick electorate.

They took Brown back in the first Trump administration and they literally made him ambassador to faith because they wanted to get rid of this guy so quickly, like shot him into the ether.because this was a perfect example of like, you got everything you wanted.You followed the Laffer curve, which is like their Bible, right?The less we tax, the more people are going to make money.It's going to trickle down.This is where trickle down or voodoo economics came from, as George Herbert Walker had said to Ronald Reagan.

And we had the perfectdo that.We're not going to be able to do that.We're not going to be able to do that.We're not going to be able to do that.We're not going to be able to do that.

We're not going to be able to do that.We're not going to be able to do that.We're not going to be able to do that.We're not going to be able to do that.We're not going to be able to do that.We're not going to be able to do that.

We're not going to be able to do that.We And that opportunity was completely missed.You never hear any reference to Kansas, and it was a perfect example.I mean, Arkansas, when they did the, when they did in Georgia also, when they did the means testing or the, you need to work if you're on Medicaid, complete failures, complete failures.But there's nobody there locally.There's not enough infrastructure there locally to communicate this.

And that's the thing, my husband always says, because people in Oklahoma are like, you know, Oklahoma is just in such a bad place, blah, blah, blah.And he always says, if there were a Democrat here to say, if you're upset with the way things are being run, it is a Republican's fault.They control everything and they have for over 20 years.This is what Republican policies look like.You have it live and in real time.OK, I want to play one final video for you.

This is Tom Homan fuming to Lara Trump.Play the clip.

When you keep using those, you know, Nazis, secret police, racist, that instills violence.That's why death threats against ICE officers are up 8 ,000 percent.When a U .S.senator or a congressman or a governor or a mayor can come out and call us the Nazis, racist, secret police, that encourages these protests that turn violent.

And that small percentage of I mean, what do you call a police force that they're all in masks?

They're all in masks.Yeah.And they can kill people and there's no investigation.They get just relocated to another place.

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I mean, that's the only thing that like, you know, gives me some encouragement, whether it's like the people going after Mamdani at this point.They're just talking to an increasingly smaller king.Now, granted, it's making them more rabid.It is.And making them more intense.But it's an increasingly smaller group of people, and they're not even trying to extend their message.

And the trouble they have, and maybe this is hopeful thinking on my part, is that the more they talk toa great point.I think that's a great point.I think that's a great point.I think that's a great point.I think that's a great point.

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I think that's a great point But she's talking to the tea party camera.So the cnn camera is looking at her and she's talking like this And it looks like you're just seeing that going like wait Who is she talking to and it just seems like you and the point is like increasingly you can't talk to those people Simultaneously.Yeah, because you if you're talking to normal people on that camera the the Maga people or the republican party says like what that's crazy but if you're talking to the Republican people, the majority of the country go, that's crazy.And so they are talking to a smaller, increasingly smaller group of people.And, um, it's scary because, you know, I don't know what Trump is going to do.I mean, if the, if the Democrats are able to take both houses of Congress, at least there's going to be some, you know, leverage there, uh, less so if they just take the house, but, um, it's going to get a lot uglier.

It's getting uglier and he's already completely rat fucked jd vance.I mean he has completely Rat fucked him.He sent him to pakistan.He sent him to an erika kirk thing.He sent him To uh campaign with victor orban.He made him the fraud czar He said he could if jd doesn't get enough job with as the frauds are he'll clean up the national devs It's such intentional rat fucking

and I love it.But I'm on a Marco Rubio rat fuck watch because right now they need Marco because Marco is the only one that actually knows how to govern that has an idea because the rest of them are such dipshits.But Trump doesn't have the decency to be like, all right, Marco, you take on the MAGA movement.He doesn't have that in him.He's a petty old queen.So I'm on this.

Marco Rubio rat fuck watch because I think it's coming because he doesn't want to think about anybody being the heir apparent and now Marco Rubio is like going up in the markets the bed at Cal sheer whatever all that shit is and As soon as that gets on Trump's feet the rat fucking and Marco is gonna happen and I cannot wait and the only thing I can imagine is that Susie Wiles is saying that Marco can help with the Senate in a way that Vance can't and If the Senate is you know 51, 49 after this election.

I mean, if the Democrats take control, then Marco is useless.Yeah.Right.I mean, he's just useless.But if it's very tight, then Marco probably has some utility to to Trump.So we'll see.

But I think, yeah, he just gets like he has, you know, he wants to see which one is going to be you know, more sycophantic to him.And I think on some level also Trump is in the realm like, I'm not going to run again.I don't need Peter Thiel's money.I don't need this money.All I need is I need to have my beak wet by whatever is going on at any given point.They're just literally in the getaway car and just grabbing as much cash as they can and that's it.

So my grandmother before she died, she was in a nursing home and I'd go see her and she'd go, Jennifer, come here, darling.I got this wheelchair from the lady across the hall.Make sure you take it right out to your car, honey.You can have it.then she had stolen some other people's clothes.And there was all this drama at the nursing home going on where they were gossiping about each other, stealing shit from each other, stealing vouchers, and always just take it up to the nurse's station.

But that's what I imagine Trump is doing right now, except for it's our federal government.And we have these impotent losers, degenerates, Republicans.And that's why it makes me so insane.When I hear like Obama recently said, I want a strong Republican Party.

And I'm like, my God, we have that's the point is that they should be blamed for every single thing.It doesn't like, you know, it's fine to blame Donald Trump.He's despicable.But in terms of like any type of like political salience and balance going forward, you need to blame every Republican for every horrible thing that Donald Trump does because they're enabling it.They could have hearings tomorrow on all the pardons.They could have hearings tomorrow on the slush fund.

They could have hearings tomorrow on the idea that He's got a free pass from the IRS.They could have hearings on all of the millions of dollars from the detention centers.They could have hearings on every single thing.Every time we don't, it should be the Democrats saying, They're standing in the way of this.

Well, they're the pro -crime party, pro -corruption party over and over again.

It's not that Trump owns the Republican Party.The Republicans own Trump.That's the dynamic that has to happen.Republicans own Trump.And you've got to every day remind people that Donald Trump would not be able to do anything.He wouldn't be able to tweet.

He wouldn't be able to build whatever he's going to build or whatever it is that you find obnoxious or disgusting.about Donald Trump, he's able to do that because the Republicans are okay with it.You put them on the spot, you make them deal with it.Part of the problem is this notion of the Senate collegiality and John Thune really wants to do the right thing.No, he doesn't.No, he doesn't.

He Donald Trump is because of John Thune.I agree.That should be the that should be what is articulated by Democratic leaders at this point.And we don't hear it.We don't hear it.

No.And we need to.Sam Seder, thank you.I hope that you as always.This is so it's the best.Watch the majority report every day with Sam and my friend Emma.

And it was so great to have you in person.Thank you.

It's great.I love the news.

Thank you.