3142 - Trump Racking Up Indictments & DeSantis’s Deep Sleep w/ Heather Digby Parton
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
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🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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It's Casual Friday! Sam hosts Heather Digby Parton, contributing writer at Salon.com and proprietor of the blog Hullabaloo, to round up the week in news. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on Donald Trump keeping his criminal charge numbers up, Mitch McConnell’s future in the Senate, ramping heat waves across the US, environmental and fuel efficiency standards, and Elon’s continuing fraud, also watching Ron DeSantis attempt to defend his white supremacist curriculum. Digby then joins as she helps parse through Trump’s attempt to repurpose the “Crooked” and “crime family” monikers from Hillary to Biden, and touch on Ron DeSantis’ floundering campaign and why his attempt to out-flank Trump on the right was ridiculous. Digby, Sam, and Emma then attempt to assess what the hell his message is going into 2024, and what the greater GOP message is (and is it anti-Social Security?), before wrapping up with coverage of the ongoing strife between McCarthy and… the rest of the House.
And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma discuss Jack Smith’s Hall of Fame pace with his Trump charges, explore the spiraling campaign of RFK, and tackle why the UFO story isn’t actually worth the coverage right now. Sandy from Ontario reflects on the recent terror attack at the University of Waterloo, Moody from Minneapolis dives into a recent public school data breach, and Vivek Ramaswamy shows off his hot bars. The MR team also watches Steve Deace’s recent meltdown, and a heartwarming story of organizing against fascists, plus, your calls and IMs!
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| 0:00.0 | The majority report with Sam Cedar, where every day's casual Friday, that means Monday is casual Monday, Tuesday, casual Tuesday, Wednesday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual Thursday, that's what we call it, and Friday, casual Shabbat, the majority report, with Sam Cedar, Wednesday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual hump day, that's what we call it, and Friday, casual Shabbat, the majority report, with Sam Cedar, where every day's casual Friday, that means Monday is casual Monday, that means Monday is casual Monday, Tuesday, Tuesday, casual Tuesday, Tuesday |
| 0:30.0 | It is Friday July 28th, 2023 My name is Sam Cedar, this is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gwannis Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 1:00.0 | On the program today, from the Uber blog, Hullabaloo, Digby, we'll be joining us. Maybe you know us, Heather Pardon, from salon.com. Also on the program Trump, |
| 1:19.0 | charged with two new obstruction and one new espionage charge in his stolen document case. And in other Trump criminal news, |
| 1:31.0 | the January 6th grand jury is about to vote on newer charges for him. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell insists he will remain Senate leader through 2024. |
| 1:46.0 | Half of the caucus, the Democratic caucus has vowed they'll remain in the Senate until 30-33. |
| 1:57.0 | Senate passes a massive near $900 billion defense bill. $900 billion, that's an annual bill. |
| 2:11.0 | Meanwhile, as July on track to be the hottest month in recorded human history, Supreme Court clears the way for the mountain valley of pipeline. |
| 2:23.0 | Incidentally, 60% of the U.S. population today will be under a heat advisory, 60% of the U.S. population. |
| 2:36.0 | Offering a bandaid, the Biden administration announces the Labor Department, a new Labor Department regulations to protect workers in the extreme heat, |
| 2:48.0 | and titans fuel efficiency standards for U.S. car sales. |
| 2:55.0 | Emmys to be postponed because the studios are so greedy, and John Federman proposes repeal of snap restrictions on striking workers. |
| 3:08.0 | The OJ opens a civil rights investigation of Memphis police in the wake of the Tyree Nichols killing, |
| 3:20.0 | and HUD to begin issuing grants to increase affordable housing. Meanwhile, the Biden administration sets up an interagency task force to convert commercial buildings into more housing. |
| 3:37.0 | We'll see about that, and lastly, Tesla created a secret team to suppress driving range complaints because they had lied about how far their cars would go when fully charged. |
| 3:55.0 | All this and more on today's majority report. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, it is yet another casual Friday. |
| 4:06.0 | It's been a while since I've driven Sam since I've moved here to Brooklyn, but is it important? I don't know, you guys, is it important to know how far your car can go? |
| 4:16.0 | Well, all right, to be fair, now Matt is, I was just about to introduce Emma, but he was so... |
| 4:23.0 | I mean, it's just the patriarchy once again. |
| 4:25.0 | It's the business first cars, we need to talk about cars and trucks and man stuff before the girl weighs in. |
| 4:32.0 | I mean, to be fair, to be fair, it's not so much Matt feeling his manly oats. |
| 4:41.0 | It is just the intense hatred he has for Elon Musk, that overpowering his like social... |
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