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Unemployment is low. Wages are rising. Normally those are indicators that the economy is going well. But inflation, gas prices, rising rents, and a housing crisis have taken an immense toll on the psyche of most Americans. Politicians like Biden are laying lip service but offering no real solutions. Meanwhile, it seems like things are just getting worse. Watch the Majority Report live Monday – Friday at 12 p.m. EST at http://www.youtube.com/SamSeder or listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM #MajorityReport SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://www.jointhemajorityreport.com/ Download our FREE app: http://www.majorityapp.com Find TMR merchandise on our website: http://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com Spread the progressive message! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to bring attention to the stories that matter to you. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with The Majority Report’s video content! Support The Majority Report by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3jIAlnQmbbVMV6gR7K8aQ Follow us on Social Media: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/ It is like I've had more conversations. I feel like in the past I didn't know six weeks about this general sense of everything being like this beyond Malaysia. like there is a pre-apocalyptic feeling that is out there. and it's strange in some ways. because you know you got Jamie Dimon I don't listen to Jamie Dimon that much as you know. but I mean he was saying like there's a hurricane coming. you know I guess financially speaking. there is a broad sense of like you know we don't know what's going to happen with inflation. We don't know what's going to happen with a recession. there is a sense that people are pulling back on spending. In particular, you know low-income folks. because they're running out of money. yet we're also seeing almost 400,000 jobs. I've had four conversations with four different people like running from mechanics to you know guys who drive trucks to haul stuff. about the lack of jaw or I said the lack of people for jobs. and people getting offered jobs. guy, I know hull stone and he's like I can't go to a quarry without getting offered a job. It's crazy. and what's going on? and what are the people who are questioning why people have lost faith in our institutions. What are they doing about it? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G3adNWVv-U

Griffin from Florida calls in to discuss Sam's take on Kyle Rittenhouse and gun rights. He contends that demonizing guns or banning certain types of firearms and firearm accessories only alienates voters that the left could potentially win over. We stream our live show every day at 12 PM ET. We need your help to keep providing free videos! Support the Majority Report's video content by going to http://www.Patreon.com/MajorityReport Watch the Majority Report live M–F at 12 p.m. EST at youtube.com/samseder or listen via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Download our FREE app: http://majorityapp.com SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://jointhemajorityreport.com We Have Merch!!! http://shop.majorityreportradio.com LIKE us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/SamSeder Griffin: My name is Griffin. I'm from Florida. The “Gunshine State” if you will. and we have concealed carry banned here. or no not concealed carry my bad. open carry. And that's that was most likely due to some racism with the black panthers. But I had some issues with your kyle Rittenhouse takes. And let me just start this off by saying I don't think he should be he should have been there. I think we're definitely on the same side when it comes to his white supremacist adjacent. You may think he's a white supremacist. Sam: I mean I don't know I don't know whether he's a white supremacist or not. Griffin: I think he's in the wrong crowd. Sam: Well look, I mean that his ideology is not important to me in the context of this. But yes. I would say we should not have been there. but go ahead. Griffin: Yeah so I guess my issue with your sort of like on your show you know like calling him a murderer and other things like that. Sam: I didn't call him a murderer. That's a legal term. He's a killer. He killed two people. Griffin: Okay then maybe I was misremembering it there. While I agree that it was immoral for him to be there, I think that the framing of the language, if you're trying to move people over like to the left, there's a lot of voters that are every single-issue voters. And I don't agree with being a single-issue voter. But there's a lot of people, especially from the military, that I know that are very gun rights heavy. But the left could tone down its stance on trying to ban specific kinds of firearms. Sam: Wait a second what has this got to do with Rittenhouse. I mean look, I just think that the legal principle of if you take a gun and put yourself in a position where like you I mean and and and the law is structured in such a way I guess in this instance that it's not the case. I happen to believe that if you take a weapon like that ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozeIEJ0RAKw

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