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torpedo wing of New York's

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congestion pricing plan Also

1:07

on the show breaking news and it's

1:09

good news. Finally the Supreme

1:11

Court unanimously Uphold's

1:13

myth of Christone access a

1:15

sigh of relief for abortion advocates

1:18

I Meanwhile

1:20

Southern Baptist the US's largest

1:22

denomination of Protestants votes

1:25

to condemn IVF yesterday

1:30

The US claims Hamas has rejected

1:32

the ceasefire Israel keeps rejecting

1:35

sources tell NBC Hamas

1:38

wants a firm timeline for Israeli

1:40

troop withdrawal Israel

1:44

strikes yet another designated safe zone

1:46

in southern Gaza and

1:49

the who Issures dire warnings

1:51

of famine again The

1:56

ACLU sues Biden over his asylum

1:58

ban at the US border.

2:02

Biden and Zelensky signed a 10-year security

2:05

deal between the US and Ukraine as

2:08

the US widened sanctions on Russia.

2:12

Hillary Clinton endorses yet another

2:14

primary opponent of Jamal Boman's.

2:18

Apex very own George Latimer, she did

2:20

that with the Elliott angle, did not

2:23

work out so well, so let's hope

2:26

that holds true.

2:31

The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses a

2:33

lawsuit brought by Tulsa race

2:35

massacre survivors, likely

2:38

the last opportunity for them to

2:40

receive reparations. House

2:43

Republicans vote to hold Merritt Garland

2:45

in contempt of Congress, that'll

2:48

go nowhere. So

2:50

they didn't turn over audio from Biden's special

2:52

counsel interview, the one Biden is, like,

2:56

I don't know, pretty triggered about. I think it's not

2:58

a big deal, but. A

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new AP poll finds over half of

3:04

US adults approve of Trump's felony conviction.

3:08

Elon Musk is being sued for harassment

3:10

by former SpaceX employees in

3:12

the least surprising headline ever.

3:14

He's a recidivist on that

3:16

front. Yeah. And

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lastly, police crackdown on citizens in

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Argentina, protesting Malay's

3:24

extreme austerity and privatization bill

3:26

that just passed the Senate. Very

3:29

scary times in Argentina. We should

3:31

be talking even more about that, honestly. All

3:34

this and more on today's

3:36

majority reports. Welcome

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to the show, everybody. It is a

3:41

majority report Thursday. I am joined now

3:43

by Matt Lech and

3:45

Bradley Alsop. And in the fun half,

3:47

we've got Brandon Sutton. We've got Matt

3:49

Binder. Hello, my friends. Hello.

3:52

Hello. So let's

3:54

get right into this breaking news here. The

3:57

Supreme Court has unanimously rejected and

3:59

it's attempt to ban

4:01

mifepristone. That is great

4:03

news for abortion advocates, for women's

4:06

health advocates. Mifepristone, for people who

4:08

are not familiar, is one of

4:10

two drugs that are used in

4:13

a medication abortion. It's

4:16

mifepristone and mifepristol that are

4:19

used together. Sorry, my

4:21

allergies are out of control these days. I

4:23

don't know what's going on. Anyway, mifepristone,

4:26

one of two drugs used

4:28

in a medication abortion, mifepristone

4:31

and mifepristol are combined. Mifepristone

4:35

is the one that

4:37

basically blocks a hormone

4:39

called progesterone, which is

4:42

necessary for the pregnancy to

4:45

continue. Then, mifepristol contracts

4:47

the uterus. The person who's

4:50

pregnant expels the

4:52

pregnancy in the form of

4:54

a miscarriage. You

4:58

can actually use mifepristol, that second

5:00

drug that expels the

5:02

pregnancy on its own. It's available

5:04

over the counter in Mexico and it's

5:07

80% effective on that

5:09

front. Combined

5:13

with mifepristone, it's

5:15

extremely safe, extremely

5:17

effective, widely used,

5:19

the most common method in this

5:21

country to end a pregnancy, which

5:24

makes sense because an overwhelming

5:26

majority of abortions happen in

5:28

the first trimester. Around 90%

5:30

of abortions happen within the first

5:32

12 weeks. That's when the pills

5:35

are used before surgical abortions

5:38

are necessary, particularly when

5:40

complications rear their heads

5:43

potentially later on in

5:45

a pregnancy. It's so safe,

5:48

but that didn't really

5:50

prevent the plaintiffs here

5:52

from making the case that it wasn't. Kaiser

5:55

Family Foundation found that when those two

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drugs are used together, It

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terminates a pregnancy successfully 99.6% of the time, and

6:04

there's a 0.4% risk of major

6:06

complications. The mortality rate is less

6:08

than 0.001%. It

6:13

is an extremely

6:15

safe way to terminate

6:17

a pregnancy. These

6:20

lawyers wouldn't use the umbrella of

6:22

safety to, you know, try

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to seek some other ends of, you know,

6:27

winding down women's right to, you know, access

6:29

to different types of healthcare, would they? You

6:32

would be wrong in your

6:34

naivete there, Matt. No, that

6:37

is exactly the argument that

6:39

they used, but the Supreme Court was

6:41

not buying the fact that these doctors

6:45

who brought the suit had standing here.

6:47

There were 11 anti-abortion

6:50

doctors. One of them

6:52

is a Republican state senator from Indiana

6:54

who have a history of

6:57

being anti-abortion, and their

6:59

claim to the court was that they were

7:01

materially harmed, that's what standing means,

7:04

or harmed in some way, by

7:07

having to prescribe this

7:10

drug to their patients. And

7:13

Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote and delivered the

7:15

unanimous opinion here by the court, said

7:18

that standing didn't pass the smell test.

7:20

This was an excerpt that our

7:23

friend Mark Joseph Stern found

7:26

in the opinion this morning. And

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Kavanaugh says here, consider some examples. EPA

7:30

rolls back emission standards for power plants.

7:32

Does a doctor have standing to sue

7:34

because she may need to spend more

7:36

time treating asthma patients? A local school

7:38

district starts a middle school football league.

7:41

Does a pediatrician have standing to challenge

7:43

its constitutionality because she might need to

7:45

spend more time treating concussions? A

7:47

federal agency increases the speed limit from 65 to 80 miles

7:50

per hour. Does an emergency room doctor have standing

7:52

to sue because he may have to treat more

7:55

car accident victims? The government repeals

7:57

certain restrictions on guns. Does a certain

8:00

have standing to sue because he might have to

8:02

operate on more gunshot victims. That's the

8:04

point here, right? If you're

8:06

basically working in a field

8:08

that is affected in some way by

8:11

a federal law or a statute that

8:13

may alter the way you do your

8:16

job or cause you to do your

8:18

job in a different way and

8:21

you may not like it, but does that

8:24

mean that you are the party that is harmed

8:26

by said law or are you

8:28

just in a field that has to respond

8:30

to the knock-on effects of said law? So

8:33

that's what the court unanimously found. I mean, from

8:35

Clarence Thomas to Alito to

8:37

Kavanagh here who wrote this majority opinion.

8:40

And if you're a

8:42

little bit concerned by the fact

8:44

that even these psychos like

8:46

Alito and Thomas signed

8:48

on to this and you're waiting for

8:50

the other shoot-a-drop, well, I do think

8:53

that you are justified here

8:56

because the court was clear

8:58

that this was a standing argument as

9:00

I keep repeating. The doctors had

9:02

no right to bring this case. They were

9:04

not harmed. It makes no sense. It opens

9:06

a Pandora's box, as Kavanagh was alluding

9:08

to here. But the fight is

9:10

not over because what this signals is

9:12

what Fox's Shannon Bream said, reacting

9:15

to the breaking news and

9:17

saying, this is probably

9:19

not over. Now,

9:22

here's the twist to this. There are a number

9:24

of states who tried to intervene in this case.

9:26

They wanted to be parties to the case. The

9:28

court did not allow that to happen. Those states

9:30

have said, if this case went the way that

9:32

many of us thought it would, they don't get

9:34

past the standing issue and don't get to the

9:36

merits of the case. Those states

9:38

say they are now standing by ready

9:40

to file their own challenges to the

9:42

way that the FDA has regulated mithropristone.

9:44

So this case is over. The doctors

9:46

didn't have standing access remains for the

9:49

drug, but now watch for two or

9:51

these three of these states to say that

9:53

they are going to now file their own legal challenges

9:55

and try to prove they do have standing to actually

9:57

get to the merits of how the case has been

9:59

handled. The drug has been handled by

10:01

the FDA. I've called that a boomerang

10:03

case, then Shannon. Shannon. It could be coming

10:05

back, all right? Stand by in

10:08

case there's more coming up momentarily, Shannon. So

10:10

that is the point here, which means

10:12

that the Republicans and the conservative activists

10:14

on this front are not done. They

10:17

have other states that are going to

10:19

try to challenge this from a different

10:21

perspective, maybe not from a doctor's harm

10:23

perspective, but from, I don't

10:25

know, maybe they'll be able to

10:28

find somebody who was harmed

10:30

in the process of getting

10:32

an abortion, and that will be the way

10:35

that they take it to the

10:37

Supreme Court. As I mentioned, those cases

10:39

are incredibly rare. But Dave Weigel, also

10:42

a friend of the show, had this point

10:44

this morning that I think is especially scary,

10:47

where he was essentially saying this

10:49

also allows for those

10:51

challenges to come up in conjunction with

10:54

Donald Trump getting elected, and he

10:56

could appoint someone to lead the

10:58

FDA as the FDA commissioner, that's

11:00

a presidential appointment, who

11:02

rescinds the approval of the drug. And

11:05

the Supreme Court does not preclude that in the way that

11:07

they ruled on this. So that

11:09

is the roadmap going forward. This is good news

11:12

in the moment, right? But

11:14

as I'm trying to reiterate, we will be

11:16

back here at some point. If I'm

11:18

a political activist for the conservatives, I

11:21

find with having a little bit of,

11:23

you're not giving the anti-abortion movement a

11:25

more sort of cause for energy ahead

11:27

of an election. And that really

11:29

could have been part of why Alito

11:31

and Thomas, who vote for everything that

11:33

conservative activists want, part of why they

11:35

stood down here. Yeah, find another day.

11:39

We saw this in Arizona, too. They

11:42

kept their secondary, more restrictive

11:44

abortion law in place, but

11:46

the Republican, like two or

11:48

three Senate Republicans

11:51

in Arizona moved to the other

11:53

side and rescinded the Civil

11:55

War era, pre-women's suffrage

11:58

abortion bans. that made

12:00

it extremely restrictive. So

12:03

they were, they're cognizant there of

12:06

the electoral implications for them.

12:09

And do we think that the Supreme

12:11

Court justices are above electoral concerns? I

12:14

certainly don't. And I also don't like him actually, now that

12:16

I think about it, mention the EPA like that, but anyway.

12:19

Oh yeah, well, right. It's

12:22

like an Escher painting, right? You get, you look and you

12:24

see new things. I'm

12:26

not an art person, that's the right. But it's also one

12:28

of those- Escher painting, right? Yeah. Sure. But

12:31

it's also one of those rhetorical devices of being

12:33

like, hey, if we give

12:35

you this, it could be used against

12:37

us in a way that's not, but

12:39

like he's making a cogent point, but

12:42

also in a way that's like self-serving

12:44

to Republican interests in a Republican administration.

12:46

Yeah, and that's the

12:48

fight that we will see in

12:51

probably the coming months and years. Another

12:55

reason why this election is so terrifying. All

12:58

right, with that folks, we are gonna take a quick

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break, but just a reminder,

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joined now by Greg Stoker former US

15:27

Army Ranger with a background in special

15:29

operations and military Intelligence he is now

15:31

an activist political and military analyst and

15:33

host of the colonial outcast podcast Which

15:36

I couldn't recommend more highly Greg. Thanks

15:38

so much for coming on the show

15:41

Thanks for having me. So um tell

15:43

us a little bit more about your background Why

15:47

or where did you serve for how long

15:49

and I guess how did you kind of

15:52

come to an anti-colonial? Perspective

15:54

or a perspective that was critical

15:56

of US Empire after your

15:58

time in the army All right.

16:01

Well, I mean, it's not a unique

16:03

story. I joined the United States Army

16:05

to get the heck out of wherever I

16:07

was. And it was the

16:09

easiest way to do it. Paid for college, stuff like

16:12

that. I was never like a huge gung-ho Captain America

16:14

type. But I did go into the Ranger

16:16

Regiment, which is a United States Special Operations

16:18

Unit. And I did four combat deployments to

16:21

Afghanistan. Started off as kind of like an assault

16:23

position. I was a fire team leader. And then

16:25

I transitioned more into a human human collect. Oh,

16:27

sorry. A human intelligence. And

16:30

I think what I started really questioning what was going

16:32

on when I got exposed to targeting kinetic strikes, I

16:34

drone strikes under the Obama administration. And there just really

16:36

wasn't a standard of proof for who we were dropping

16:39

in terms of kinetic strikes. If you're on the wrong

16:41

contact list, it could be green lit. As long as

16:43

you didn't destroy infrastructure, it was good. You could be

16:45

a baker. You could be a

16:47

baker who, you know, was had

16:50

like fourth

16:52

degree connections to

16:54

like the Taliban or the Connie or proto Islamic

16:57

State, you're still gonna potentially eat a missile. So

16:59

that was problematic. And

17:01

it didn't work. It was strategically stupid. And

17:03

then I got out started studying post-colonial studies

17:05

at the International

17:13

Relations and spent a 10 year journey to get

17:15

to where I am right now. So that's it

17:17

in a nutshell. Yeah,

17:24

I mean, and that that that

17:27

is part of what you bring to

17:29

your analysis, particularly of what's happening in

17:31

Gaza right now that I really appreciate.

17:35

Because for you

17:37

talked about how the under the

17:39

Obama administration, there really wasn't the scrutiny

17:41

that should be having a that should

17:43

have been there in terms of the

17:45

who the targets really were and what

17:47

their ties were to terrorist organizations. But

17:50

I mean, the United States Army looks

17:52

practically, I

17:54

guess, buttoned up compared to

17:56

what we're seeing in Israel. What

17:59

is that context? like, even though you had

18:01

those concerns as a part of the army,

18:03

and then it's on steroids

18:06

with how Israel's handling Gaza. I

18:08

mean, I will never be an apologist

18:10

for US Empire, but like, it's so bad

18:12

we're looking, I wouldn't say good, but like,

18:15

all right. So when,

18:17

apparently Israel is supposed to be fighting

18:19

a counterinsurgency, right? And since we brought

18:21

the US Army, the US military into

18:23

it, a US counterinsurgency doctrine is kind

18:27

of effective. It was more effective in

18:29

Iraq than it was in Afghanistan. Afghanistan

18:31

had a major foreign fighter problem.

18:33

So the fighters were coming in

18:35

from like Pakistan and Iran and

18:37

other parts. So complicating the situation,

18:39

but it's called COIN, counterinsurgency doctrine.

18:41

And one of the main pillars

18:43

of counterinsurgency doctrine is if you're

18:45

an occupying force, there's

18:48

an acronym called SWEAT MSO. It's

18:50

sewage, water, electricity, academics, trash, medical

18:52

safety and other. And

18:55

it holds that if you're an occupation of a

18:57

people and all of those sectors aren't up to

18:59

code and you cannot

19:01

live in a modern standard of living,

19:03

people are going to want to kill

19:05

you. So if you're looking

19:07

at it, so we would try to

19:09

protect all these sites. Hospitals, I mean,

19:12

Obama signed up on essentially bombing a

19:14

hospital in 2015 in Kunduz province. But

19:16

aside from that, we didn't have the

19:18

state policy of bombing hospitals. And

19:21

we'd protect roads. So if we look at

19:23

Gaza, they have destroyed the sewer pipes. A

19:27

lot of the J dams, the 2000

19:30

pound bunker buster bombs have an

19:32

unclassed penetration depth of six feet

19:34

of concrete, which isn't going to

19:36

collapse a tunnel, a hardened tunnel

19:38

50 feet underground, but it will

19:41

collapse sewer water pipes. Electricity

19:43

they hit power relay stations in

19:45

October. So that's always been a

19:48

problem. Academics, they've

19:50

destroyed every college or university

19:52

in Gaza. Trash, there is

19:54

no trash. Everything's rubble. There's

19:56

no civic infrastructure. Medical, there's

19:59

like one. to two trauma

20:01

surgeons left in North Gaza,

20:04

as a matter of state policy, they've

20:06

gone and destroyed hospitals as much as

20:08

they could while keeping their propaganda machine

20:11

alive. Safety, there is no

20:13

safety, and there's about to be a massive

20:15

biological event any time now.

20:17

So yeah, they actually destroyed

20:19

our own counterinsurgency doctrine that

20:21

we advise them on because

20:24

it is somewhat effective, but

20:26

no, they're not even pretending

20:30

to fight a counterinsurgency. It's just straight up

20:32

ethnic cleansing to make Gaza strip unlivable. Right,

20:35

and so, I mean, as you

20:37

describe that, that counterinsurgency doctrine that

20:39

the United States adopted, and supposedly

20:42

Israel, I guess, for some time

20:44

had been trying to follow to

20:47

keep up appearances, but I mean, I don't

20:49

know, I'm being overly generous there. Like that

20:51

is an explicit doctrine because

20:54

it's in the interest of the

20:56

party there, whether it

20:58

be the United States Army or Israel, like

21:02

to basically control the way that

21:05

they respond to something so that they can

21:07

have some sort of victory. But

21:09

when you abandon that, and it's really

21:11

just killing for the sake of it,

21:13

that runs a fly, I would imagine,

21:16

over some in, say, the United States

21:18

intelligence community or in the military brass,

21:21

who are less ideologically

21:23

genocidal and more interested in

21:25

maintaining empire or power. We've

21:29

noticed on this show how there's a

21:31

difference in how, say, Lloyd Austin or

21:34

Burns of the CIA talk, not

21:37

that we hear too much from Burns, but approach

21:40

Israel as it relates to how

21:42

they've been handling Gaza versus how

21:45

Blinken and Biden have stood

21:48

so steadfastly behind

21:51

Israel. Is that discrepancy

21:55

kind of laid bare there? Well,

21:58

well, first of all, Lloyd Austin. Israel

26:00

will end up having a victory because they

26:02

get Hamas to agree to a ceasefire, even

26:04

if it's not true at all. Yeah. And

26:07

so now they're trying to reframe this

26:09

whole thing is Israel has degraded Hamas

26:11

so much they're no longer a military

26:13

threat. And now they're willing now that

26:15

they've achieved their pseudo objectives, which were

26:17

never their objectives, they're now being gracious

26:19

and, you know, presenting Hamas with this.

26:21

But the thing is, Hamas doesn't need

26:23

to accept it because they can keep

26:25

fighting according to Israeli intelligence veterans and

26:27

like Marie, why net news, their

26:30

own intelligence officers say that they couldn't

26:32

defeat Hamas before 2026. And

26:35

personally, I believe that to

26:37

be completely optimistic. Right. Well,

26:41

Hamas is recruiting, we know, right? And

26:44

there is, there are some

26:48

insurgent Hamas fighters, I guess, in the north

26:50

who have been giving Israel

26:52

some grief. And

26:54

so the the hostage

26:56

rescue operation, how did that play

26:59

into the ceasefire talks? Because from

27:01

Israel's perspective, that's Netanyahu in the

27:03

far right getting to say, see,

27:07

we need to continue this

27:09

war genocide war for

27:11

to release the rest of the hostages

27:13

when we know, though, the overwhelming number

27:15

of hostages that were released were during

27:17

the temporary ceasefire. They only rescued four

27:19

in this instance and killed over 270

27:21

Palestinians. Now

27:24

there have been rumblings that the United

27:26

States may have provided intelligence

27:29

support for this operation. Oh, we do.

27:31

Oh, we did. OK. So

27:34

we provided intelligence support for an

27:36

operation that saved four hostages and

27:38

killed over 270 Palestinians as we're

27:40

trying to get this ceasefire over

27:42

the hump. Do you

27:44

think that that affected Hamas's position

27:46

here? Because they probably are

27:49

like, you guys are not honest brokers

27:51

here. You just you just OK this

27:53

operation. That was a slaughter. Right.

27:56

So no, it doesn't really

27:59

affect Hamas's. would

1:02:00

be 65 by the time the MTA

1:02:02

subway system was fully accessible.

1:02:05

And this throws a massive wrench into

1:02:07

that. Because now we are

1:02:09

pausing all of these elevator

1:02:11

work, all of this elevator work until we can figure

1:02:14

out what is going on. I mean, that lawsuit

1:02:17

sounds like it has a lot of

1:02:19

merit. You're not allowed to. This is

1:02:21

that was one of the more successful,

1:02:23

honestly, regulatory moves that

1:02:25

the federal government has ever made,

1:02:28

which is to make every place

1:02:30

handy, handy, accessible. And

1:02:33

it's just not the case in New York City

1:02:36

whatsoever. And as you say, a majority of the

1:02:38

state, a majority of the stations, 69% don't

1:02:42

have elevators. That's a violation of

1:02:44

the federal statute. Absolutely. Yeah.

1:02:47

So that's, that's what we're now adding into

1:02:49

the mix. And also Second Avenue Subway, which

1:02:51

is supposed to move 150,000 people

1:02:55

a day once open is

1:02:57

completely told to stop work. Because one

1:02:59

of the things that we didn't realize,

1:03:01

or people don't realize, is that when

1:03:03

the federal government comes in and says,

1:03:05

Hey, for Second Avenue Subway, we're going

1:03:08

to give you three point something billion

1:03:10

dollars, that's a match to the state's

1:03:12

funding. And so when the state does

1:03:14

not have that funding anymore, the federal

1:03:16

monies that were earmarked

1:03:19

to it are now in flux and are not

1:03:21

kept. And so now we have to figure out

1:03:23

of like, are we have to going through this

1:03:25

whole funding process again, to fund

1:03:27

something that we've already started working on.

1:03:30

This is this is the Kathy

1:03:32

Hochul transportation plan

1:03:35

right now that we're that we're seeing.

1:03:37

And one thing she said was in

1:03:39

her speech, which was crazy about face

1:03:41

was, this will hurt small

1:03:43

businesses. And her was to add a payroll

1:03:46

tax in lieu of a usage tax for

1:03:48

that was going to be my

1:03:50

next question. Can you explain that?

1:03:52

Because the pay roll

1:03:54

tax is a tax on people making wages

1:03:57

and or, you know, like Like,

1:04:01

not everybody, right? But I don't know

1:04:04

how they would structure it, but like,

1:04:06

it's lower to middle to maybe even

1:04:09

middle upper income people, or it's a tax

1:04:11

on their paycheck to pay for this. But

1:04:14

it also, if you were to just

1:04:16

say, okay, that's the funding mechanism now,

1:04:18

we'll tax New Yorkers more. That

1:04:20

money was also supposed to go out

1:04:22

to train lines in the suburbs to

1:04:24

help improve them as well. So that's

1:04:26

money getting taken out of the pockets

1:04:29

of regular New Yorkers to help the

1:04:31

suburbs double. 10

1:04:34

percent of the 10 percent of the congestion

1:04:36

pricing in the law is that it

1:04:38

has to help Metro North, which serves

1:04:40

Connecticut and upstate New York, as well

1:04:42

as Long Island Railroad, which

1:04:44

serves Long Island. And so with her

1:04:47

idea, New Yorkers

1:04:49

would get taxed to

1:04:52

then pay for the suburban transit

1:04:54

systems and train systems of

1:04:58

drivers who would come in, still not have to

1:05:00

pay anything. And we would

1:05:02

have to pay their improvements for that. Right.

1:05:05

And while also not disincentivizing them

1:05:07

from coming into the city via

1:05:09

car, which is also

1:05:11

harmful for our environment, which should not get

1:05:14

lost in this discussion, is this also has

1:05:16

been endorsed by environmentalists, as you say. And

1:05:22

as we kind of wrap up here, Hayden, transit

1:05:26

or I should not transit congestion

1:05:28

pricing has happened in other cities in the world. It would

1:05:30

be this would have been the first of its kind in

1:05:32

the United States. But this is not

1:05:34

like New York is making this out of whole

1:05:36

cloth. I know London has congestion

1:05:39

pricing and it's really it's it's taken

1:05:41

effect and it's had some good results.

1:05:43

Can you talk a little bit about

1:05:45

that? Sure. You were

1:05:47

bringing a pedestrian and traffic

1:05:49

deaths. Traffic deaths since 2019

1:05:51

in London have gone down

1:05:53

40 percent since it was

1:05:55

implemented. Traffic's

1:05:57

gone down. in

1:06:00

the last London elections. I think it

1:06:02

happened, I wanna say maybe two months ago

1:06:04

was there were London elections for

1:06:06

the mayoral race. And the Sadik

1:06:09

Khan, who is the mayor

1:06:11

of London, who is a major

1:06:13

champion for congestion pricing, this

1:06:17

was a referendum on do we still

1:06:19

want to have congestion

1:06:21

pricing because this man wants to expand it.

1:06:24

And the places in which he wanted to

1:06:26

expand it were the biggest swings towards him

1:06:28

in this race. People see how good it

1:06:30

is. And I understand it's not popular to

1:06:33

think like, oh, I'm gonna get taxed to

1:06:35

live my day-to-day life. But once

1:06:37

it's actually implemented, these plans

1:06:39

have been super popular. And

1:06:42

it's just one of those things where it's really sad

1:06:44

because San Francisco has been thinking

1:06:46

about it and other cities have been thinking about

1:06:48

it as a way to make their transit better. And

1:06:51

if New York City is not gonna do it, it

1:06:54

really spells doom for the rest of all of

1:06:56

the cities who might potentially wanna do it. If

1:06:59

it's not good for New York City, then it's not good for anywhere.

1:07:02

And so that's kind of what Kathy Hochul

1:07:04

is doing. And also one last thing is

1:07:07

the political idea or like the

1:07:09

political thought to then three days

1:07:12

after canceling congestion pricing, go to

1:07:15

a car dealer fundraiser

1:07:17

for yourself. That

1:07:19

was called- A little on the nose. Dealer association

1:07:21

at $5,000 to $10,000 a head. The

1:07:24

math ain't mathing. You need

1:07:27

to fire your team and rehire

1:07:29

better advisors because that is

1:07:31

a crazy optics. Yeah,

1:07:34

it's a little much Kathy,

1:07:36

just toning down slightly. Well,

1:07:39

Hayden, really appreciate your time today.

1:07:41

And thanks for that wonderful explainer

1:07:43

about this. Hayden Clark in

1:07:45

the transit guy, you can follow him on Twitter.

1:07:47

Where else can people find your work, Hayden? I'm

1:07:51

on threads and Instagram, the transit guy.

1:07:53

And then on Twitter, the underscore trans

1:07:55

underscore guy. Elon will not give me

1:07:57

that. Will not

1:07:59

let me remove those unders- scores. All

1:08:02

right. Well, I appreciate you. Thanks

1:08:04

so much. Have

1:08:06

a great rest of your day, Hayden, and talk to you

1:08:08

soon. Thanks so much. Okay,

1:08:12

with that, we're going to wrap up the

1:08:14

first part of this program, the free part

1:08:17

of this program. Head into the fun half. The number

1:08:19

is 6462573920. We

1:08:22

will take your

1:08:24

calls, read your IMs. Matt, what's happening on

1:08:26

Left Reckoning? Yeah, Left Reckoning,

1:08:28

we had Ben Fong on, talk about the Odd Fellows. We

1:08:30

also talked about AOC

1:08:33

a little bit, and some outreach

1:08:35

to Zionists about hate, which

1:08:37

is not what I would do. And

1:08:39

we talked a little bit about what

1:08:42

happened in labor after Jimmy Corbin

1:08:44

was took over. So check that

1:08:46

out if you want. David and I discussing that. People

1:08:48

keep it high marks. And

1:08:50

so yeah, patreon.com, just Left Reckoning. We also

1:08:53

talk about what Jimmy Dorf hands are doing

1:08:55

these days. Oh my God. Which is stalking

1:08:58

Jill Stein for not going

1:09:00

on the Jimmy Dorf show. Ever increasingly

1:09:02

niche that they never,

1:09:04

they just keep narrowing that audience. On

1:09:07

ESVN, we talked a little bit about both

1:09:10

the championship series and our analysis for

1:09:12

the Celtics and MAV still holds now

1:09:15

that the Celtics are up 3-0. We

1:09:17

talked about the Panthers against the Oilers

1:09:19

also still holds because the Panthers are

1:09:21

up 2-0. And then we

1:09:23

did a pretty bit,

1:09:26

pretty deep dive into the WNBA

1:09:28

and media figures reaction to Caitlin

1:09:30

Clark being left off the Olympic

1:09:32

team and why

1:09:34

it's ridiculous. youtube.com/ESVN show. And

1:09:37

we have Brandon Sutton, like magic.

1:09:40

Hello. How are you, Brandon?

1:09:42

And what's happening on the

1:09:44

discourse? I'm doing

1:09:47

well, Emma. On the discourse this week,

1:09:49

we'll be talking about Hunter Biden's conviction,

1:09:52

Trump's hunt for his VP in

1:09:54

the upcoming presidential debates. There's

1:09:58

some double. Is your

1:10:00

audio doubled? Oh, I don't

1:10:03

know. Try it, Brennan. Hello. Hmm.

1:10:07

Okay. I don't know what I'm hearing. Um,

1:10:10

that might be me. Well, it

1:10:12

sounds good to everybody else, but check, check

1:10:14

out, uh, the discourse and we are wait,

1:10:17

we're waiting on Matt Binder. We'll see

1:10:19

him soon, but check out, uh, left reckoning

1:10:21

and every night. Jeez. Uh, check out skid,

1:10:24

left reckoning to scam economy and, uh, leftist

1:10:27

mafia and doomed. All

1:10:29

right, guys, we will head into the fun half 6 4 6 2 5 7 39 20. See

1:10:33

you there. Okay. Emma, please.

1:10:35

Well, I just, I feel that my voice

1:10:38

is sorely lacking on the majority report.

1:10:40

Wait. Look, Sam is

1:10:42

unpopular. I do deserve a vacation at Disney

1:10:44

world. So ladies and gentlemen, it is my

1:10:46

pleasure to welcome Emma to the show.

1:10:49

It is Thursday. I

1:10:51

think you need to take over for Sam. Yes,

1:10:53

please. No, no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna

1:10:55

pause you right there. Wait, what? You can't encourage

1:10:57

Emma to live like this. And

1:10:59

I'll tell you why. So it was offered to work

1:11:02

sushi and poker with the boys. Sushi

1:11:06

and poker with the boys. It was offered

1:11:08

to work sushi and poker

1:11:10

with the boys. Sushi

1:11:13

and poker. Tim's upset. Sushi

1:11:16

and poker. Sushi

1:11:19

and that's what we call it. Sushi

1:11:23

and poker. Sushi.

1:11:29

I just think that what you did to Tim

1:11:31

Poole was mean. Free speech. That's

1:11:34

not what we're about here. Look at how sad

1:11:36

he's become now. We shouldn't even talk about it

1:11:38

because I think you're responsible. I

1:11:40

probably am in a certain way, but let's get

1:11:42

to the meltdown here. Twerk. Sushi

1:11:45

and poker with the boys. Oh my God.

1:11:47

Twerk. Wow. Sushi. I'm sorry, I'm losing

1:11:49

my fucking mind. Someone's offered to twerk. Sushi

1:11:52

and poker with the boys. Logic.

1:11:54

Twerk. Sushi and poker with

1:11:56

the boys. Twerk. I

1:12:00

think I'm like a kid. Twerp? I think I'm like a little

1:12:02

kid. I think I'm like a little kid. Add this debate 7,000

1:12:04

times. I'm a little kid. I

1:12:06

think I'm like a little kid. I'm a kid. I

1:12:08

think I'm like a kid. Twerp? I'm losing my fucking

1:12:10

mind. Some people just don't understand. So I'm not trying

1:12:12

to be a dick right now, but like, I absolutely

1:12:14

think the US should be combining me with

1:12:17

life and kids. That's

1:12:20

not what we're talking about here.

1:12:22

That's not right. It's

1:12:24

not a fun job. Twerp? That's a real fit.

1:12:27

That's got to feel fit. Feel fit. Really, won't

1:12:29

work? That's a real fit. That's got to feel

1:12:31

fit. That's got to feel fit. Feel fit. Child

1:12:33

Action Show Twenty Ten That's

1:12:36

got to feel fit. Feel close. That's got to feel

1:12:38

fit. Real feel close. That's got to feel fit. Women's

1:12:40

Memorial Day Okay, ladies and gentlemen, church organ has done

1:12:42

it again. That's about it. What?

1:12:45

I think he might be blowing it up representative. What?

1:12:49

That's about it. Take

1:12:56

it easy. Twerp? You've

1:12:59

really gotten out of hand. Sushi and

1:13:01

poker with the boys' original. Deluded. Sushi,

1:13:03

you don't have a clue as to

1:13:05

what's going on. Live YouTube.

1:13:07

Sam has the weight of the world on

1:13:09

his shoulders. Sam doesn't want

1:13:11

to do this show anymore. He can't

1:13:14

do it anymore. It was so much

1:13:16

easier. When the majority report was just

1:13:18

you. You're happy. Let's change the subject.

1:13:20

Right. Rangers and Nick's doing great. Shut

1:13:22

up. How long do people

1:13:24

sing records things on your program? That's one

1:13:26

of the most difficult parts about this show.

1:13:29

It's a pro-killing podcast. I'm thinking maybe it's

1:13:31

time we bury the hatchet. Left is best.

1:13:33

Twerp. Don't be foolish.

1:13:35

And don't fucking tweet at me. And don't

1:13:37

bitch. The way I'm on this cocktail. These

1:13:39

people love it. That's from my hardest. So

1:13:42

I wrote my honors thesis about it. Oh.

1:13:45

Sorry. She wrote an honors thesis.

1:13:47

Yes. I guess I should

1:13:49

hand the main mic to you now. You

1:13:52

want to go right up to me on foreign policy. We already

1:13:54

phoned Israel, dude. Are you against us? That's a tough question. I

1:13:56

don't have an answer to it. I'm going to get it. Yeah.

1:14:01

That's an incredible theme song.

1:14:04

Hi, Bumbler. Emma Viglen. Absolutely

1:14:06

one of my favorite people. Actually,

1:14:08

not just in the game, like period.