2403 - Trump, Musk, & Immigration Incoherence

The Majority Report with Sam Seder

Sam Seder

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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The MR Crew is back from the break with the first live show of 2025! First, Sam and Emma discuss their outlook for 2025, from the perspective of the show itself, as well as what to watch for when it comes to Congress (House gridlock, grim Senate judicial appointments), the courts themselves (upcoming SCOTUS decisions, the John Roberts annual report), and the new Trump administration (immigration hawkishness). They then check in on the right's response to the truck attack in New Orleans, where Trump and his allies are desperately trying to peg the violent attack to illegal immigration when, it turns out, the perpetrator was a U.S. citizen and an Army veteran. Sam and Emma then discuss the right's dust up over H1B visas, with the tech side (Vivek, Elon) advocating feverishly for visas for skilled foreign workers against the nativist side (Charlie Kirk, Bannon), who believe Trump's mandate rests upon curbing all kinds of immigration. It seems interesting, Sam and Emma contest, that now, after the extreme bankrolling of his campaign by Elon Musk, Trump has surprisingly taken kindly to H1B visas, something his 1st administration tried to crack down on!

And in the Fun Half, Sam, Emma, and the MR Crew discuss Chuck Schumer surprisingly endorsing Ben Wikler for DNC chair, the discourse around what it means to be "anti-establishment", and Patrick Bet-David's frustration with Twitter's Community Notes function for calling him a scammer online. Plus, your calls & IM's!

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0:00.0	You are listening to a free version of The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:04.8	To support the show and get another 15 minutes of daily program, go to majority.fm.
0:11.5	Please.
0:13.6	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:19.1	It is Thursday, January 2nd, 2025.
0:25.4	Yeah.
0:25.6	My name is Sam Cedar.
0:26.8	This is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:30.2	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravage Kiwanis Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:41.7	On the program today, it's 2025, happy New Year.
0:48.8	Investigators searching for potential links between the Vegas and New Orleans attacks.
0:56.2	Meanwhile, Israeli strike kills 12 more in Gaza, including children.
1:05.2	Trump issues a warning to Hamas.
1:09.2	This after Israel has destroyed all healthcare facilities in total in northern Gaza, nearly across
1:17.8	all of Gaza.
1:20.5	And at least eight babies have now died in Gaza of hypothermia.
1:28.2	Also on the program today, House Republicans
1:30.6	just changed the House rules to avoid motions to vacate
1:35.5	and also to eliminate ethics.
1:40.1	Oh, they had those still?
1:41.7	Mike Johnson to seek speakership in a vote tomorrow.
1:45.7	Roy Cooper, outgoing governor of North Carolina, commute sentences of 15 men on death row.
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