The MeidasTouch Podcast - LOL! Republicans CRUMBLE Quicker than EXPECTED

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

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because for some reason they believed there was going to be this, quote, reconciliation agenda and bring the five families of the Republican Party together. Turner being fired and pushed out. He's been a Congress member since 2003. Very well-liked, kind of a bipartisan guy. I didn't like Turner, but having Turner in the intelligence community or in the intelligence committee and chairing it was something that was beneficial for all Americans, regardless of what your politics are. But now the MAGA Republicans are fractured

totally. You know, what they keep trying to sell to their base to keep them going are the gimmicks, right? Like what Donald Trump say he was going to do in the past 48 hours. He goes, oh, now I'm going to create an external revenue service when I tariff all of these nations, even though tariffs are taxes on American companies. Donald Trump says we're going to have the external revenue service collect that has huge potential for the American people to prosper, to which the comments, even from MAGA people, were like, when are the eggs going down? You're not in his tax bracket. Other MAGA Republicans are waking up to this as well. For example, Charlie Kirk is out there bragging

how on the stage with Donald Trump during the inauguration will be Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos sitting together right next to Donald Trump, right next to Trump's cabinet picks, to which MAGA people were like, what? These elite billionaires? What does that have to do with what Donald Trump promised us? We're seeing a lot of that. Take a look at this moment as well.

This is on Fox. They bring in Charlie Kirk to talk about this, how everybody wants to be Trump's pal. And you're going to hear what goes down here. Listen to this. I mean, now someone who knows a little bit about this, Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder. Charlie, it's great to see you. You hear the producer there in the background going, oh, S-word right there, wild. But folks, this is what's going on at Mar-a-Lago. Can't you all

relate to this? I'm being sarcastic, of course. Trump is now selling Trump burgers at his golf courses, and you can get Trump's face on your burger. That's completely normal. I'm being facetious right there. Take you to the floor of the House of Representatives, which this is what MAGA Republicans are talking about. During a hearing on telework, you have MAGA Republican Nancy Mace talking about penises and vaginas. Here, play this clip. Can you, a candidate to be chair of the Democrat Party, define what a woman is for me today?

Madam, or Congresswoman. Can you define what a woman is? Oh, yes. What is a woman? You're going to ask me to define what a woman is? Yes, I am right now. Well, I'm talking... You just said you could. Explain it to me. I'm talking to a woman right now, distinguished woman. What is a woman? What is a woman?

I think you're kind of denigrating the purpose of this. What is it? You can't define what a woman is. All right. I'm married to a woman. In an effort to be fair and unbiased, can you define what a man is for me? I have two sons that are men. Yes, I have a serious.

Over here, we have as part of the questioning of Martin O'Malley, who stepped down as Biden's Social Security Administration head. He's running to be the chair of the DNC. More questions from Nancy Mace about genitals. Here, play this clip. No. Is this in reference to allowing men and women's bathrooms? No. Is this in reference to forcing women and girls to undress in front of men in the locker room? Oh, come on. Yes or no? Congresswoman. This is your party's platform. You understand what I'm laying out for you. Do you understand English?

I understand what you're trying to lay out, but our party's platform is the economic security and the well-being of every man, woman, and child in the United States of America. That's our party's platform. I'm going to reclaim my time. It's Mrs. Macy's time. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene got in on the action because this is what Republicans are talking about. This is how they're trying to distract.

Let's play. I'd like to ask you another question. Since you're very interested in being DNC chair, you are, after all, a lifelong Democrat politician. I don't even know if you had a job in the real world, but you have been an elected politician for years. Mr. O'Malley, you're also a Catholic, are you not? You're also a Catholic, are you not?

I am. Do you serve God or do you serve the Democrat Party? I serve God. Okay, then Mr. O'Malley. Mr. Chairman, as a Roman Catholic, I take offense at the suggestion that somebody has to choose between God and their service to country as a Catholic. Mr. O'Malley, will you be supporting the murder of the unborn up until the day of birth like your party does? As DNC chair, will you be supporting the murder of innocent unborn people? Is that in line with your faith in God and the Catholic Church?

I trust the judgment of women and doctors over the judgment of government. Now, do you trust God's judgment? Do you trust God that he loves and has created every single human being? Do you support the murder of unborn children? And are you going to uphold that evil practice that the Democrat Party wants to continue? You see, abortions, over 95% of them are unintended pregnancies. They use abortions as birth control. So are you going to continue the birth control practice of murdering the unborn children as chair of the DNC? Will that be a policy you'll be supporting? I am pro-choice, and I trust the judgment of women and their doctors over the judgments of government. Well, thank you for

letting God know where you stand with the murder. I talk to God every day. Yeah. Well, you might want to talk to him a little bit more, Mr. O'Malley, because you're definitely in the wrong. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back. But while they're doing that, what are they doing? They're trying to condition aid to California on getting rid of the debt ceiling so Trump can hook up the billionaires with more tax cuts? My cat is part of the family, plain and simple. So I want them to have the best food that money can buy. And I didn't realize that for years, the cat food that I was buying had questionable ingredients. This podcast is sponsored by Smalls. Now, if you're a listener of the show, you know that my cat cannot live without Smalls.

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disaster aid to an increase in the debt ceiling. My friends, this could be your state. Never in our nation's history has the federal government placed such politically driven conditions on disaster aid to its own citizens. We can have good faith debates about water policy and infrastructure deficiencies, and we should, but that's not what this is about. This is a bad faith effort to use California as a punching bag. This is about the promotion of half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies, not to mention it's a way out for House Republicans. They can't raise the debt ceiling on their own. So they want to tie that to disaster aid. It's unconscionable.

To my Republican friends, it's unacceptable and downright shameful to use the suffering of Californians in need or anyone in need to solve your internal political disputes. Please stop. Stop playing games. Let's get the disaster aid to the people who need it. And let's do it now. Thank you. And by the way, take a look at this. You may have seen this already. This was the sign behind the MAGA Republicans during the Senate confirmation hearings. D-E-I-N-R, military, M-I-L-T-A-R-Y. I don't even know how to spell. Let me show you this clip of AOC from the House floor here playing. Here we are today, Republicans who have voted against consistently against the Violence Against Women Act, who have taken away the right of all women to choose and have control over their own body, who, as women are bleeding out in parking

lots across the country, standing there, allowing us to die, now want to pretend today that they care about women. And why? To open up gender and, yes, genital examinations into little girls in this country in the so-called name of attacking trans girls. And to that, today, what we have to say are two words, not today. The majority right now says there's no place in this bill that says it opens up for genital examinations. Well, here's the thing. There's no enforcement mechanism in this bill. And when there is no enforcement mechanism, you open the door to every enforcement mechanism. All right, tell me what you think there, everybody.

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