The MeidasTouch Podcast - MAGA Mike Runs Off of House Floor as He Finally Cracks

Episode Date: November 2, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson running off the House Floor as he cracks in public and is summoned by Donald Trump in Florida. Dose: Save 30% on your first month of subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/MEIDAS or entering MEIDAS at checkout. Visit https://meidasplus.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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And just like that, Maga Mike ran away from the House of Representatives. with all the MAGA Republican Congress members. You can't make this up. You heard for yourself. They gaveled out until November 9th, 2025, and then what are they going to do when they show back up on November 10th? Maga Mike's going to have them gavel out again

for another two to three weeks, I suspect through Christmas. They want to shut down the House of Representatives forever. So what's Maga Mike, the MAGA Republicans, and Donald Trump doing? We know they're vacationing, but what's specific? are they doing on vacation? Well, at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump and the Maga-Republicans

through a great Datsby Halloween-themed party. And the theme of the party was called A Little Party Never Killed Nobody. That's the Maga-Republican Party with their billionaire friends. They're calling it a Little Party Never Killed Nobody at Mar-A-Lago. Of course, it's a song for the soundtrack to the 2013 film The Great Gatsby. And this was a roaring 20s themed party. What happened at the end of the 20s? What happened at the end of the roaring 20s? Was it the Great Depression? You can't make this stuff up, folks. And so while Maga Mike, ajorne, got out of Congress, fled with the Maga Republicans to their Great Gatsby themed. A little potty never killed nobody while Americans are suffering. Maga Mike made his rounds earlier in the day on state regime media known as Fox

and others. And he was presented with some polling like, hey, Maga Mike, we're a little worried here on state regime media. Americans are blaming Republicans by wide margins. What do you think about that? Maga Mike here play this clip. So the Washington Post ABC poll says that by a 45, 33 percent margin, they blame Republicans more than they do Democrats for the shutdown. It was 40. 3730. So what's your response to that? Well, I'm not buying that poll because there's a lot of others who say, including a CNN poll that became pretty famous a couple days ago, saying that the Republicans are winning, and we're winning over independence and even Democrats who understand the reality of this whole situation. So look, it's very clear where the blame

lies. The Democrats admit themselves that they are the one shutting the government down, and they're having a hard time justifying that. So I do think the public pressure is, is building. You have a real pain that's going to be felt by many Americans, millions of Americans every day that this goes forward. And if we get past November 1st, it's a very serious situation for a lot of people. Oh, you don't believe that, Maga Mike. You don't believe, you don't believe those numbers. Maybe you want to have your Republicans hold some town halls in their districts. And maybe we can see how the people really feel about them. Then Maga Mike says, no, no, no, no chance we bring the House back into session until he says the government gets reopened. He goes,

we're not even going to speak to Democrats. Well, the whole reason it's shut down is because you're depriving 20 million Americans of the Affordable Care Act subsidy extensions, and you're going to kick him off of health care. So you don't want to talk about that, Maga, Mike. Here, play this clip. What circumstances has you bring the house back? What are you looking for before you do that? Brian, we are anxious to get the House back to regular legislative session. but we have to get the lights turn back on Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate have got to reopen the government. Again, it's the most fundamental responsibility of Congress is to have the government operate and work for the people. And that's the number one priority right now.

And we cannot deviate from that. That is the goal that is the mission has been done. Not until it opens. That's exactly right. And Maga Mike dismisses Democrats criticizing Trump's lawless strikes, his war crimes on Venezuela boats because Maga Mike's a godly man. and as a godly man, you know you have to kill individuals just right on sight, just kill them, just drop bombs on them.

That's what Jesus would want you to do, right, Maga, Mike? Here play this clip. They're upset, Mr. Speaker, because they say there's no legal basis. There's no evidence to prove what the president is saying. What's your response? To the shock of no one, House Democrats are not satisfied with the briefing from the Trump administration. I mean, give me a break.

If they came out and said they were satisfied, they would be pilloried by their own supporters. Again, they're motivated out of fear. And as you said, Ainsley, Trump derangement syndrome. Look, I've been to a briefing with the Secretary of State himself, the gang of eight, and we heard what was going on there. I'm not going to say the classified parts, but I will tell you, we have exquisite intelligence on exactly what we're doing, who is being targeted.

They're bringing massive amounts of deadly narcotics into the country. Fentanyl was a leading cause of death from Americans age 18 to 49 during the Biden years. We have a president now who is protecting the American people, and they ought to be applauding that instead of criticizing it. Mike just basically admits that the reason why the MAGA Republicans and Trump were refusing to allow SNAP payments to make its way out to people or to just do a stand-alone snap bill is because they view it as a leverage point. They view it as a way to own the libs, he says.

Here, play this clip. The reality is that this has been a stalemate for 30 days. And it's not just Democrats. You also have one of the most conservative Republican senators, Josh Hawley, who says at least, please move money around to feed people. Why not consider that? Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire government, Chuck Schumer and the radicals over there will continue to play games with people's paychecks, their livelihoods. And if you do just part of this, it will reduce the pressure for them to do all of it,

to do their basic job, and that is reopen the government. This is very real and very serious, and they can end it today. They can do it right now. All they have to do is we just need five more Democrats in the Senate to help us reach the 60 vote threshold. We don't have enough Republicans to do the right thing on our own. We need them to do the right thing. But you see, the Democrats had to file lawsuits to make a federal court force the Trump regime and Maga Mike and the Republicans and particularly the Department of Agriculture to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as they're legally obligated to do. But Maga Mike was claiming earlier that the lawsuits, which two federal courts found that those lawsuits were meritorious and that Trump was violating the law

right before those judges ruled against Trump and Maga Mike in the Department of Agriculture, Maga Mike said, why did the Democrats even file these lawsuits? Everybody's saying it's frivolous. Here, play this clip. I'll just add to that. The Democrats are lying about that, and I think they know that. Some of the ones who are out saying it are actually attorneys that can read the black letter law themselves. They didn't file a lawsuit you saw to try to do it. Why? because they wanted a talking point. They know that's a frivolous piece of litigation. They know what they're going to lose,

but they also know it'll take many weeks or months to have that ultimately determined by a court because of the way the justice system works. So they're using it as a talking point to try to claim. They know, I believe they know for a fact that what they filed in the court is false. You know, they're lawmakers. They're supposed to know how the law works.

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democracy forward that brought this lawsuit, they could have actually just simply used the legal opinion that was on the Department of Agriculture website before you removed it and before Donald Trump's Department of Agriculture removed it because they wanted to starve people to death. The federal judges were like, why is the Trump regime starving people? You have a contingency fund for this purpose. Go feed the people. What the hell are you doing while you're at your great Gatsby party? And they were not frivolous, Maga Mike.

You lost the lawsuit, you idiot. And then Maga Mike over here says, but I want everybody to know, Donald Trump's so angry. He's so angry. He's doing a great Gatsby party. Your play this clip. The president's been very busy. He was in, you know, Asia doing all these trade agreements. I've been a little busy, as you know. We haven't spoken since he returned. I sent him a text earlier this morning. I saw that as well. What you're seeing is an expression of the president's anger at the situation. He is as angry as I am and the American people are about this madness. And he just desperately wants the government to be reopened so that all these resources can flow to the people who need it so much. Look, I'll just say this in general. As I've said many times about the filibuster, it's not my call i don't have a say in this it's a senate chamber uh issue we don't have that in the house more maga mike here let's play this clip we did that in the one big beautiful bill and the working

family's tax cut with medicaid we went into that and we eliminated the fraud waste and abuse we got able-bodied young men without dependence off the program they were never intended to be there they're sitting around on their couch is playing video games yes that's an actual study and they're siphoning the resources away from elderly people disabled people and young women who desperately needed. And so the funds were being depleted. We shouldn't go for that. And illegal aliens were never intended to be on any of these programs. They're for U.S. citizens only, law-abiding citizens. This is the team. The Republicans will fix that and save those programs for the country. And the Democrats will continue to abuse it.

Then Maga Mike says over here that it's the Democrats who have skipped town. The Democrats have abandoned their post. I mean, Maga, Mike, you are the biggest liar. You may be a bigger liar than Donald Trump. You and him both seem to just love to lie. It's like you get off online. Everybody, I showed the clip at the beginning. Everybody knows that you're refusing to open the House of Representatives so y'all can like, I don't know, Donald Trump can renovate the bathrooms in the Lincoln bedroom and he can, you know, talk about the expensive rugs that he's bringing in and golden ballrooms and great Gatsby parties. But here's Maga Mike saying, where are the Democrats? I don't No, Maga, Mike, when you shut down the House of Representatives, you think people are so stupid here, play this clip.

The limits have been reached here. And what are the Democrats doing today? Where are the Democrats? Are they in the Senate today? No, they're out campaigning. While critical snap benefits run dry, the Democrats have skipped town. They've abandoned their post in the Senate. And the reason that's so important and noteworthy for the American people is the Senate is the only place where this can end. The last hope of reopening the government before millions of Americans, Americans go hungry. They've abandoned their post. More from Maga Mike here who says that the real problem

we've got here are people sitting on their couches playing video games. Huh? Here play this clip. This is a stark contrast between the two parties, the two major parties in this country. We talk about the split screen in here very often. On this issue, with regard to reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in government, we're,

look, America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. We're the most powerful, most successful, most free, most benevolent nation that's ever been. Part of our benevolence, part of the spirit of America is that we do have these safety net programs. We support that. We have an extraordinary cabinet like Brooke Rawlins here, Secretary Rollins, who is handling and administrating SNAP program is a good example of that. Medicaid is a good example. Why were they designed and why are they so important and why do we all support those ideas?

Because sometimes people really can't take care of themselves. You know, you have the elderly to the disabled, young pregnant women, for example, who are single and they're down on their luck and they need some help. Snap and Medicaid and these other programs were intended to be a temporary safety net to help people to get back on their feet. But they have been abused, abused. And there are some big government advocates like the Marxists, like the socialist, who want the government to take over everything and supply everything for everybody. But guess what? If the government can give you everything, it can take it away as well. And your freedom is sacrifice.

Socialism, don't get me started, has been a great scourge on humanity. and Mike says, but what's so incredible while all of this is going on, Democrats want to blame us. Here, play this clip. Democrats are now, now this is the incredible part, they're now trying to somehow blame Republicans for cutting off SNAP when Republicans remember the ones who have voted 14 times for the SNAP benefits to flow. It's the Democrats who voted every single time to turn that off. The same Democrats who've been perfectly fine with defunding SNAP and,

WIC for over a month now are suddenly claiming to be outraged that Republicans and President Trump can't just wave some magic wand and fix the mess that they themselves have created. If they're suddenly waking up to the pain their reckless decision is causing, then there's one simple way to fix it. They can come back in here and vote to reopen the government, but we don't think they're going to do that. I mean, maybe because you control all branches of government and you're refusing to open the government, I don't know.

How about that? then maga mike blames congresswoman greehalva the congresswoman elect from uh arizona seventh congressional district who he's refusing to swear in she goes it's her fault and she's a victim of the democrats a victim of the democrats maga mike i mean again maga mike's like sociopath like serial killer sociopathic mindset right like he's a crazy like he's like a wacko man here play this clip Rep-Gra-Holva, rep-elect Grahava, is also a victim of the Democrats' political games. As soon as we return to a regular legislative session, we will do that. I'm following the Pelosi precedent, as I've explained on CNN many times.

Similar circumstances, I can name you the members of Congress who were elected in special elections, and she waited, like, for example, when two were elected during an August recess, she waited until Congress came back. You're blaming Grahalva and Democrats for not swearing in Grahalva, when you're the one not swearing her in, because you're hiding the Epstein files. I mean, aren't these, I mean, am I wrong? Like, these, like, you get it, right? Like, these people are like, despicable.

Then Maga Mike defends Trump restarting nuclear testing. We're going to start launching nuclear bombs, apparently, and do underground nuclear testing. That's a, sounds like a safe move. Here, play this clip. I also want to quickly talk about something that the president said, pretty remarkable, actually, that he said. He said that he instructed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons, again for the first time in more than 30 years. It hasn't happened since 1992.

Have you been briefed about this? Are you okay with this move? I haven't spoken to the president in about 48 hours, so I did not know he was going to say that, but I think it is an important thing for him to have said. Why? Because we have demonstrated, even in recent days, that the only way to maintain peace is to show strength.

It's peace through strength. That's one of our principles that we try to advance here every day. We learned that during the Cold War. We know it's certainly true now. America is the last great superpower in the world. We do not have a peer-to-peer adversary. China is trying to become that. But in this dynamic that we have now on the world stage,

America has to show strength. And I think it is an obvious and logical thing to ensure that our weapon systems work as their design. And that right there is what these MAGA Republicans are doing. Great Gatsby party. A little potty never hurt nobody. Yeah, as Americans are starving right now, as Americans are psychologically tortured

living paycheck to paycheck right now, as you're ripping away health care from people depriving them of education, people can't afford their frickin' rent right now. Donald Trump promised he would make everything affordable on day one. You promised doge dividend checks. You promised tariff rebates.

Donald Trump's talked about bringing in $22 trillion, which is all a lie. And as the American people suffer on this Halloween weekend, you say to them, A little party never hurt nobody. Sick humans, these Republicans, sick. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers.

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