The MeidasTouch Podcast - MAGA Mike Gets BAD NEWS about LOSING HIS JOB

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Speaker of the House MAGA Mike Johnson now on the verge of losing his Speakership after pissing off Elon Musk and Trump. Miracle Made: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/MEIDAS and use the code MEIDAS to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF. 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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Let me talk about how the MAGA Republicans are all lined up to fire MAGA Mike Johnson. But can we just show some of these photos of MAGA Mike Johnson on the jet with Donald Trump and Elon Musk or at the UFC match with Donald Trump and Kid Rock and Don Jr. And should I do it to a song? Yesterday, Megan Mike, your troubles seem so far away. She's supposed to put the photos like a montage. Don't worry, I'll spare you the song. But here's the thing, folks. I think the MAGA Republicans are gearing up to fire MAGA Mike Johnson. So he had put forward this continuing resolution to stop the government shutdown. He entered into a bipartisan deal with Democrats because guess what? In politics, you got to work with the other side sometimes. But how dare you do that when

you've got Elon Musk, the essentially de facto president of the United States who Donald Trump takes his orders from now. And Elon Musk said that the MAGA Mike Johnson continuing resolution bipartisan deal was criminal and that it was a horrible thing and anybody who votes for it should not be reelected and be voted on. And then Elon Musk posted photos of himself with samurai swords and said, kill the bill. So then on Thursday night, MAGA Mike Johnson tried to put together some other continuing resolution. And Donald Trump was saying, look, you got to get rid of the debt ceiling, MAGA Mike. I know that we've been saying that you shouldn't raise the debt ceiling when President Biden was in I know that we've been saying that you shouldn't raise the

debt ceiling when President Biden was in charge. But for me, just can you get rid of the debt ceiling right now and tie that to the continuing resolution? Because I got Project 2025, Maga Mike, and I got to give tax cuts to billionaires. And that's going to skyrocket our debt by trillions of dollars. And those mass deportations aren't going to pay for themselves. Like I lied to the American people about. So can you just get rid of the whole debt ceiling thing? And MAGA Mike's like anything for you, Donald, anything for you, Donald. But other Republicans were like, wait, wait, wait, what? So you said that this other continuing resolution was bad because it had all these other things in it and it wasn't a clean one and it had all these benefits and had

all this spending, but now you want to increase the debt by $5 trillion essentially by removing the debt ceiling? Oh, and let's read the fine print right here wait a minute in this new continuing resolution that mega mike johnson has introduced it basically lifted all restrictions with doing business in china potentially for people like elon musk and wait a minute it removed 190 million dollars in pediatric cancer research cancer research for children. Right before Christmas, let's remove the cancer research to help children get well and heal from cancer. That's what they are doing. MAGA Mike's like, let's freaking do it. And now there's a civil war brewing.

The MAGA Republicans pretty much all hate MAGA Mike Johnson. You've got the Elon Musk faction. It was basically the president at this point. You got Elon Musk speaking out against MAGA Mike Johnson. And then you've got on the other side, you know, all of the other MAGA speaking out against MAGA Mike Johnson here. Take a look at this, for example, right here. Let me show you this clip. This is MAGA Republican Mike Lee um Senator from Oklahoma he's like you know we got to replace MAGA Mike Johnson with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy uh this is like cloudish buffoonery here play this clip well I I don't think Johnson likes you now

next time you guys see each other walking through the calls of Congress, he's going to probably kick you in the leg. He is a good man. He's a friend. He's been a friend for a long time. Great person. He's lost control of this process. Okay.

And he's, this is, I don't know how he can remain in power. We need Elon or Vivek as speaker. He's a friend and you just threw him overboard. Man, politics is tough, Senator Lee. Well, it is, especially when you try to jam an entire country with a 1,500-page bill that nobody's read and you try to trick them and bully them into doing it. Some of us take that personally, Jesse.

Yeah, no, I don't like it either. I think it's terrible and we got to stop doing it and it's got to stop now. All right. You got other MAGA Republican senators weighing in as well. Here you got MAGA Republican Josh Hawley saying, I think we need to have a serious look at who's leading Congress.

Play this clip. Why would you saddle Donald Trump with this terrible spending bill before he even gets into office? And Sean, the worst part is, it dumps it right back at his lap in March. In March, under this bill, they'd shut the government down again, have to do this all over again have to raise the debt ceiling again later the same year

it's ridiculous it's a horrible plan i can't believe that republican leadership ever cooked it up clearly they didn't talk to trump about it and i tell you what we need to have a serious look at who's leading this congress because if this is the best they can do, I mean, it's just it's total incompetence. This is a disaster. By the way, MAGA Mike Johnson looks just so utterly weak. So after their own bill got killed, this Frankensteinian thing that Elon Musk and Donald Trump entrusted with MAGA Mike to push through in Congress on Thursday night, right? That failed. 38 Republicans defected and joined with Democrats to vote against. And Democrats are like, we ain't helping bail you out this time. We bailed you out all those other times

before. But MAGA Mike Johnson's like, this is Washington, everybody. This is how it's done. Here, play this clip. Here's House Speaker Mike Johnson. This is Washington. This is how the lawmaking is done. It's a long process. Sometimes it takes a while to reach consensus, but we're going to do the right thing here tonight. Here's another clip of MAGA Mike Johnson as well. Here, let me show you this. We know what we are to do. We're determined to do that. And even though this vote would push the debt limit to 2027, it in no way reflects any lack of enthusiasm on our part to get about those serious cuts for the American people. We have to have fiscal responsibility as a core principle of our party. So that's what the House Republicans are committed to, every single one of them. We will get together and do that

work. And it begins in early January. To be clear, Maga Mike Johnson, that's not how it's done. Maga Mike Johnson never really had leadership positions before he was given the speakership. I mean, he's looked at right now as just one of the weakest people and he's unable to bring the caucus together. Here is Democratic Congress member Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the Democrats. And here he's saying it's all he goes. This is laughable. You know what? MAGA Mike and Elon Musk are trying to push through is freaking laughable. Watch Hakeem Jeffries right here talk about them. The Musk-Johnson proposal is not serious. It's laughable. Extreme MAGA Republicans are driving us to a government

shutdown. And by the way, they have people in their own caucus. I mean, here's MAGA Republican Chip Roy on the House floor calling out MAGA Mike Johnson and others. Here, play this clip. Fact of the matter is $330 billion. Congratulations. You've added to the debt since you were given the majority again on November 5th. It's embarrassing. It's shameful. Yes, I think this bill is better than it was yesterday on certain respects, but to take this bill, to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's shorter in pages but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine. And that's precisely what Republicans are doing. I am absolutely sickened by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to

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I'm not. Look, we have a unified conference. I've talked with every single individual at great length, and all of us collectively are ready to take, using our football metaphor, to take this proverbial football and run it right back up the field. And to do that, you've got to have cohesion in your team, and you've got to have all that predetermined, and it is. So I think we'll have a smooth transition, a smooth election as Speaker, because we don't have any time to waste. To that point. But things have changed. Now, here's a question though. I'll do a whole other video on this for the weekend. You need a speaker of the house to gavel in on January 6th to certify the results of the election. So what if they don't have a speaker on January 6th to certify the results of the election? Think about it. This is MAGA chaos

for you folks. This is on the Republicans. This is on Elon Musk and Donald Trump right here. The billionaires, the oligarchy, they think we're stupid. They think you're stupid. They think that, oh, we're going to blame this one on the Democrats. No, you're not going to blame this on the Democrats. There was a deal to fund the government. By the way, y'all are in charge of the House of Representatives. Maybe you should have passed a freaking budget. That sounds novel. Instead of doing these continuing resolutions every few months and actually do your jobs. How about that? But y'all are in charge of the House of Representatives. Blaming this on the Democrats. Put your team together. Put your coalition together and vote. See what you can do. Lead. Be a real party. Democrats ain't bailing you folks out anymore. And Mega Mike, I hope you enjoyed your job. I'm not really sure that my audience enjoyed that singing at the beginning, but here's what it is. See you later, Mega Mike. Bye-bye. I don't think you're going to last as the speaker anymore. Anyway, thanks for watching. Did you watch my interview with President Biden?

Have you seen it yet? If you haven't, it's on our YouTube channel. Just watch it. It's great. It's half hour long. It's important. It's an important interview, I think. Hopefully you watched. Anyway, thanks for watching this. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.