The MeidasTouch Podcast - GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED

Episode Date: December 21, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Speaker Mike Johnson getting more bad news from his own party as they can’t pass a budget. Soul: For 30% off your order, head to https://GetSoul.com and use code MEIDAS. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the government would be shut down. MAGA Mike's being attacked from within. Other MAGAs. MAGA Republican Andy Biggs posted on December 16th. He goes, government funding expires Friday. We're now expecting to vote on a 1,500-page short-term omnibus on Wednesday. We still don't have the text of the bill. The D.C. cartel loves to operate in the shadows. The swamp is deep and must be drained. You controlled a majority, bigs. Who's the cartel? Is MAGA Mike the cartel? Y'all literally run the government and you're soon to run, unfortunately, all three branches. Yet all y'all do is whine that it's the Democrats. it just to me goes back to when they're all like oh the the democrat deep state on january 6 trump was in power it was his fbi director who was a republican but you have andy biggs now attacking mega mike johnson right there and so now you get headlines like this

because by friday there would be a government shutdown. A government shutdown would usher in probably a depression. And because MAGA Mike can't pass an actual budget, they do this with what's called stop gap measures to basically stop the bleeding versus actually function and do their jobs because they can't form a coalition to actually govern. So Congress is scrambling for a stop gap sprint. Why? Just do your job the right way. And by the way, what is it like 75, 80% of Americans don't approve of the work of Congress yet because of gerrymandering, elect the party that they hate back into power. Make that make sense. Gerrymandering. Here is Melanie Zanonis' post. Johnson's Mike Magamike says at the presser,

they are almost there on a continuing resolution deal. We'll go until mid-March, said initially it was intended to be a clean stopgap, but said other events intervened, such as hurricanes, struggles in farm community, etc. So we have to add that so it's no longer a clean continuing resolution. And now they just push the goalposts a few more months until March. And can I ask an honest question here? I mean, this is a question for Akeem Jeffries and the Democrats. Look, I definitely understand. I hate the, I don't like the F around find out stuff where we the people suffer. Friends, family suffer.

Community members suffer. But Democrats have bailed Republicans out over and over again on these continuing resolutions. Why? Why? Just they're in charge. They have all the branches of the government. Why don't you just show them? Why help them? They didn't help you. They stopped a bipartisan immigration bill and then ran on immigration when y'all were trying to solve the problem so why help them when they already are saying they want to inflict economic hardship on the people shouldn't we just expose them am i being petty for asking that question i don't know you could tell me in the comments right there. This is what Politico is reporting. Congress strikes a deal on $100 billion in disaster aid and punting funding until March. They're punting the funding until March. Just do your freaking jobs. Just solve it. Pass a budget.

What are you even doing all day? What do you do with your day in Congress? And the ultimate irony here, right, is that the MAGA Republicans attack federal workers. We want to slash these jobs. We want to get rid of these jobs. We're going to, you don't do your own job. Have you ever looked at a congressional calendar before? Like these people don't really work. What do they work like? Like half the year, if that, a quarter of the year. Maybe you work, maybe all of you who mock people who work from home, but are actually working, I don't know, maybe y'all work from home and you could go through like an Excel spreadsheet or whatever you got to do, do a Zoom meeting and perhaps you can, I don't know, pass a budget. But instead,

you'll probably go with your cowboy hats to the border and say, look what we're doing here. Look how tough we are versus actually doing your damn job. So I like that Congress member Robert Garcia out here from California. He talks about this exactly. He's like, so you want to bring in a conspiracy theorist rfk jr who's going to cut jobs at the national institute of health just think about cut cut help cut jobs that help people's health while the republican members of congress can't even get a budget here watch this i rise today to call our colleagues in the senate to reject donald trump nomination of RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Now, RFK has proven himself for decades to be a conspiracy theorist, and we cannot

allow the critical work by the HHS and the doctors, the medical professionals there, to be undermined by someone with his record. Now, for those not familiar rfk jr first has no scientific or medical credentials instead he spent his career fueling anti-vaxxing movements around the world including one in samoa that contributed to a measles outbreak that killed dozens of people and made almost 6 000 sick most of them children and infants. Now, RFK Jr. has falsely claimed that vaccines cause autism and suggested that COVID health measures were worse than the Holocaust. He's also peddled in conspiracy theories that chemicals in water are making children transgender and gay. Now, this is someone who has threatened to gut the National

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Kristen, and this is something I feel very strongly about, and it's not talked about enough. We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few billionaires, so few people, had so much wealth and so much power. Never before has there been so much concentration of ownership, sector after sector, power of Wall Street, and never before in American history, and we better talk about this, have the people on top had so much political power. We can't go around the world saying, oh, well, you know, in Russia, Putin has an oligarchy. Well, we got an oligarchy here too. And in this last election in both parties, billionaires spent huge amounts of money to elect their candidates you

know here in the state of vermont we believe we have town meetings one person one vote that's democracy not billionaires buying elections those are the issues we got to focus on we got to rebuild the middle class 60 percent of our people one more clip here of bernie sanders let's play you know when trump talks about uh sending to jail people who are on that January 6th committee, that sounds like being a tin pot dictator. So I would hope that we have an FBI and a Justice Department that protects the civil liberties of the American people and does its best to protect American democracy. Well, we know the White House is considering potential preemptive pardons of those who've clashed with President-elect Trump. In light of what the President-elect said to me that, yes, he does think that members of the January 6th committee should go to jail.

Do you think that Mr. Biden should issue preemptive pardons for the entire January 6th committee? Well, I think he might want to consider that very seriously. Look, that is an outrageous statement. This is what authoritarianism is all about. It's what dictatorship is all about. You do not arrest elected officials who disagree with you, who undertake. Meg and Mike, why help this guy? Why help him in March? I mean, I mean it. Why bail him out? Democrats have bailed them out over and over again. Let them sit in their own stew of dysfunction, disorder, and denial. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.

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