The MeidasTouch Podcast - GOP Leaders Freak Out in Public as Support Crashes

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

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Thanks to all of you. The Midas Mighty just won the Webby podcast of the year. These MAGA Republicans are changing their tune. Joe Rogan, you laundered the oligarchy and normalized it in the 2024 election. You are literally the oligarchy guy. Oh, and then they have Nancy Mace. Remember yesterday, I was showing you Nancy Mace going around grocery stores with her cell phone and picking fights with random people and saying, you're in Daisy Duke shorts. Then she'd record and go, I'm being harassed. I'm being harassed. Well,

she just made a video of herself. This is what the MAGA Republicans are doing. She made a video of herself reading these statements, which she say are names that people call her. I'll show you just a small portion of it here, play this clip. So here you go. Listen up. Nancy Mace is a nasty bitch. I would pay money to see Mace get fucking decked in the mouth. And look, nobody should be harassing members of Congress. Nobody should be engaged in behavior that's threatening or intimidating at all. Nancy Mace is someone who harasses and intimidates marginalized communities and discriminates against the LGBTQ community and trans people, in my opinion. But what do you do? Why are you

reading this? That goes on, by the way, for minutes. I'm showing you eight seconds because she goes on and just spends the whole time reading it her own voice and cursing and cursing. Anyway, this is from an Associated Press headline. As controversies pile up, Trump allies increasingly are turning on another. Yesterday at the White House, they were walking Tim Pool, the kind of MAGA Republican right-wing podcaster around. And he was dressed with his weird beanie that he wears. And he was wearing a zip-up sweatshirt. This whole thing was weird.

Then he emailed. Then he interviewed Kristi Noem. I thought this Brendan Dilley guy, I think, is a MAGA podcaster too. And here's what he's mocking the other MAGA podcaster, Tim Pool, who he thinks is not real MAGA. He goes, Christine Ohm is such a badass that she sat down this morning and confronted the homeless man that stole her purse last night at dinner. And then Tim Pool goes into the White House press room yesterday. And as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, goes, podcaster Tim Pool got the invite to the White House press briefing in the new media seat. And his question is to ask Caroline Leavitt, the chief propagandist

of the White House, to comment on why everyone is being mean to the people in that seat for asking stupid questions. Here, play this clip. On an effort from the White House to expand access to new companies, you've created this new media seat. So I'm wondering if you can comment on following this expansion, you've had numerous outlets disparage the companies that you've had sit here as well as the reporters. I'm wondering if you can comment on the unprofessional behavior. Also yesterday, we learned that Vladimir Putin got Donald Trump a gift, that Donald Trump and Trump's special envoy to Russia absolutely love. Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia unveiled this incredible painting that he says it was incredible that Putin gave them and said that Donald Trump was touched by this painting. What timeline are we living in?

You were touched by the painting that a war criminal, genocider, Putin killer, literally an enemy of the United States. I'm glad that you were touched by it. So then you had Pete Hegseth make his rounds yesterday. Like this is wacky, like zombie stuff though, right? Like this is some Twilight Zone stuff. Pete Hegseth then went on Fox because Pete Hegseth was a former Fox host. So he goes on Fox morning.

He was the Fox Sunday morning host. And like he's so utterly unhinged and he's talking about how it's not a bad thing that he gave the classified war plans to his wife and they're not really war plans here. Watch this. Why would it surprise anybody, Brian, if those very same people keep leaking to the very same reporters, whatever information they think they can have to try to sabotage the agenda of the president or the secretary. So once a leaker, always a leaker. And at night on CNN, you have Scott Jennings, who's like the Trump propagandist who goes on CNN. He's like, yeah, I think maybe Pete Hanks should have shut

up and just maybe be quiet for a little bit. Here, play this clip. A learning curve, Scott, in this meritocratic administration, a learning curve at the Pentagon? Yeah, I have some public relations advice for these folks. If I were Secretary Hegseth, I wouldn't do any more media interviews right now. The best way to prove you can do the job is to do the job. Wow, I can't believe it, but my little girl is seven months old right now. Now, as soon as she was born i had to stop procrastinating and avoiding something that i knew i had to do i had to get life insurance i was avoiding it i'm glad i got it i now learned that 40 of people wish they got life insurance when

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Charles Gasparino, a MAGA guy, business guy, writes for the New York Post. And here he's on Fox and he's talking about how Vance is now going to be the major executor in trade negotiations. Here, play this clip. What is interesting is that I heard that VP Vance, now we know he's in India right now, he's become, and this is how they described it to me, people close to Vance, a major executor in the trade negotiations. I don't know what that exactly means. It means he has a gun. Does he have a gun in his hand? I doubt it. But apparently he's going to be part of these part and parcel of these things with Scott Besson, with Howard Lutnick to make this work. And they are scrambling to do deals. And then

finally, to kind of, you know, top it all off, the MAGA Republicans then bring on this Congress member right here. And this MAGA Republican Congress member, he talks about how he wants to gut Medicaid. Austin Scott from Georgia. And here he talks about like, yeah, what we want to do in our budget is we want to transfer the federal obligations of Medicaid. Right now, it's 90% feds, 10% state. We want the whole states to handle it. They're telling you their plan is to cut Medicaid. I mean, just listen to what they're saying. Here, play this clip. FMAP is the federal medical assistance percentage, and it ranges from 50% in the country to 76.9%. Now, when the Dems expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, they made that percentage match 90-10. So, the federal government is paying 90%

of the Medicaid expansion. And so, what we have talked about is moving that 90% level of the expansion back towards the more traditional levels of 50 to approximately 80% instead of the 90-10, 90% being federal, 10% being state match. And nobody would be kicked off of Medicaid as long as the governors decided that they wanted to continue to fund the program. And so we are going to ask the states to pick up and pay some additional percentage of the Medicaid percentage. And as American Bridge 21st Century says, if Republicans cut federal funding for Medicaid expansion, millions will lose their health care. There's a number of states with trigger laws that automatically end Medicaid if the federal funding is cut. So everywhere from Arizona to Arkansas to Idaho to

Illinois, they have these trigger laws. And so it's effectively destroying Medicaid. And that's their plan, right? With Trump's plan is, well, we'll have, you know, we don't need FEMA. The states will do FEMA. No, the federal government needs to do federal emergency relief because the states don't have the resources. The very reason why there's a federal government is to deal with these things. They're like, oh, we don't need a Department of Education except when it comes to garnishing wages of students who are defaulted on their loans, right? You had McMahon, Linda McMahon, the Department of Education secretary, destroy the Department of Education, but go after students.

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Here, play this clip. About due process. No, fuck that. Well, here's the problem with fuck that. The problem with things that are going in a radical direction, then there's an overcorrection. The overcorrection is lack of due process. The overcorrection is round them all up, ship them to jail. That's some things that you say when you're not thinking things through.

What do you do about all the criminals? Take them all, fucking send them to El Salvador. What about due process? No, fuck that. Here's the problem with fuck that. What if you are an enemy of, let's not say any current president. Let's pretend we got a new president, totally new guy in 2028. And this is a common practice now of just rounding up gang members with no due process and shipping them to El Salvador.

You're a gang member. No, I'm not. Prove it. What? I got to go to court. No, no due process and shipping them to El Salvador. You're a gang member. No, I'm not. Prove it. What? I got to go to court. No, no due process. That's dangerous, Joe. That's dangerous.

That's dangerous. That's dangerous. That's we got to be careful that we don't become monsters while we're fighting monsters. I think due process exists for a reason. And the reason is it is horrific for someone to be accused of something they didn't do, be imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit, and then live in a cell, live in a cage with a bunch of people who did commit shit. should suffer that that is wisdom yeah that has survived hundreds of years it's incredibly accurate and it is the foundation of freedom like we have to make sure that these people are actually guilty otherwise we become monsters you can't like what is that when you fight monsters be careful that you don't become one become one yeah yeah that's very important it's very important you know you can't

do that you know it's one of those things where to support one side of this you have to deny some like basic human values either way like to support just rounding people up and just assuming they're all gang members i'm not saying they're doing that but this is the worst case scenario right they get a bunch of people in a room they rope them all in and one guy's just someone's cousin picking someone up to give him a ride home that's possible and now you're back on the one innocent person with now you're right back and what if that dude is not doing anything wrong and he's got some stupid tattoos and they decide that this guy's a gang member and now now you're in a prison in el salvador and you're not even from el salvador and now you know you were just a hairdresser or you're a tattoo artist you came over here and maybe you got a green card and maybe you don't maybe you were just given

asylum because a lot of people from venezuela were given asylum in america yeah and then you get shipped to el salvador where you're not even from El Salvador. So the fact that that exists scares the shit out of me. And then Elon Musk on an earnings call whining about tariffs here. Let's play it. I just want to emphasize that the tariff decision is entirely up to the president of the United States. I will weigh in with my advice with the president, which he will listen to my advice, but then it's up to him, of course, to make his decision. I've been on the record many times saying that I believe lower tariffs are generally a good idea for prosperity.

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