Actor Hugh Grant expertly trolled the UK's conservative government. While watching coverage of Boris Johnson's resignation he tweeted to protesters to play the Benny Hill theme song, Yakety Sax. The song was blaring loudly in the background during a live interview with a conservative MP. Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12 p.m. EST on YouTube OR listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm #MajorityReport #politics SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://www.jointhemajorityreport.com/ Download TMR's FREE app: http://www.majorityapp.com TMR MERCH: http://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com OTHER LINKS: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/ All right let's talk about what's happening with Boris johnson. It's Friday folks. We're gonna try and make this fun. So Boris Johnson resigns. He's staying in office until the conservatives figure out who's to replace him. And appear like they had a bunch of like conservatives come up and be interviewed conservative MPs being interviewed in front of was it in front of 10 downing street? Yes in Westminster. Okay. And so what's his face? I've seen this clip and I didn't know that Hugh Grant was the best guy ever. Like for anybody growing up in the 90s if thought you thought Hugh grant started this. Yes. And from Twitter so Hugh grant I must have been watching this on the news saw it on and saw these interviews on the news and then got on Twitter and told people to go down and blare some music behind the interviews. And here is the music he told them to play. Yeah, this is sky news's chris Phillip speaking right now. Or after they could throw him here. Interesting stuff Adam. Thank you very much. Well, I'm told we can now return to chris Philp. Hopefully, you should be able to hear me a little bit more clearly this time. So I guess my question to you this morning is do you accept that Boris johnson can carry on as a caretaker leader until the autumn? Or do you think that he does actually need to step aside and let someone else do that? Well, I think there are a couple of things first. We need to make sure that we keep the basic functions of government going. That's really important. there are for example no ministers in dfe at the moment. That needs to be sorted out. Secondly, I think we need to try and select a new leader as quickly as we reasonably can. and obviously, we need to make sure they make the correct choice. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8mGBOilpLI

Author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris joins the program to discuss how the government and military-industrial complex hijacked innovation in Palo Alto California. Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12 p.m. EST on YouTube OR listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #politics #news #progressive #leftist #democrats #liberal SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://www.jointhemajorityreport.com/ Download TMR's FREE app: http://www.majorityapp.com TMR MERCH: http://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com CHECK OUT MORE from the MR crew: Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton DISCOURSE https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning OTHER LINKS: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/ Check out more from the MR crew: Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton THE DISCOURSE https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning One thing that really struck me too is the just turning back to the railroads and their role in the foundation of California. I wrote about corporate personhood and things of that nature in college. And the railroads in California birthed the Supreme Court's notion of corporate personhood in Santa Clara County Railroad versus Southern Pacific writer. I'm forgetting the exact case name that was longer. But that was the origin of the notion that corporations could be treated as human beings under the 14th Amendment. Which is you can know the first step in what we saw culminating in the case as citizens united. Where now they have free speech rights that also equal money. Which was established in Buckley v. Vallejo. But like in terms of California or Palo Alto being a laboratory for American capitalism that's also one of the pillars of that. absolutely and not just the legal precedent of corporate personhood which you're right comes out of Southern Pacific B Santa Clara County. Which is an aggregate aggregation of cases around the Southern Pacific and whether they could act like a person or whether they were entitled to rights. But even the concept of the corporation, the capitalist entity as a personality as something or even an impersonal personality as something larger than any family or group of people is also of this period right? And so we have the acknowledgment of impersonal forces as controlling and dominating society. And it's dominating the relationship of people to society through these impersonal forces. That is then personified in people like Leland Stanford. and we can see this in cartoons where Leland Stanford is constantly represented in various super personal forms like the octopus being the most famous one. Where right we still represent Capital as an octopus right. But it comes from the Southern Pacific and ideas of these corporations as entities right? Like acting entities as opposed to just collections of people. Let's turn to the 20th century. where California is getting Hollywood right? but they're also getting the military-industrial complex. and a bunch of Cold War money kind of just explodes. and California is at the center of that. How was Palo Alto kind of positioned in this military-industrial complex boom? And how did that become what we know as or feed into the big Tech Center that it is today? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAM4iqD_sc0