The MeidasTouch Podcast - Republicans SHAME THE USA on LIVE TV for Trump

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on GOP leaders making fools of themselves and the United States to bring further disgrace and shame to the USA for Donald Trump. Go to https://Ground.News/MTN and save 40% OFF unlimited access to Ground News. 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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Bernie Sanders, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. Let's just take a look at what went down. So this is Kristi Noem back on January 11, 2019, from the Argus leader. She's the former governor of South Dakota. She's now the secretary of Homeland Security. This was an op-ed she wrote back in 2019 before she went full Trumpian and Mar-a-Lago, but she was heading in that direction. So we've been talking about how she would do cosplay dress-up as a ranger and cosplay dress-up as an ICE police officer with the bulletproof vest. Well, over the weekend, she was wearing the cowboy hat inside because, of course, you need to protect yourself from the sun and lots of sun in those eyes. So you needed that cowboy hat.

This is her latest costume that she was dressing up in. Very nice costume, Kristi Noem. And here she is. Again, one of the things that she was talking about over the weekend is that she's going to be okay with rounding up mothers and children and putting them into concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay. Here, play this clip. These countries have an opportunity to get on board with the president of the United States and to partner with us to deal with illegal immigration, to take back their individuals that have been in our country illegally. We want to repatriate them home and they can be partners. So economically, yes, they will feel pain. So over here, you now have Donald Trump's made for TV head of the Department of Transportation. His name is Sean Duffy. He's the one who oversees the FAA. Remember,

the former FAA head was pushed out by Elon Musk. All of the Federal Aviation Administration leadership was pretty much pushed out before the horrific plane crash over Washington, D.C. Now, Sean Duffy right here became famous on the Real World Road Rules Challenge. members of the real world, which makes him perfect for Donald Trump's reality TV idiocracy, fascist regime that he's compiled. Here's Sean Duffy suggesting that if you change the names from cockpit to flight deck, that's one of the causes of the plane crash. And that's something that he's powerfully looking into. Here, play this clip. So, Shannon, the mission of DOT and FAA is safety. That has been the historic mission of this agency.

And over the last four years, when they're having a conversation in the last administration about changing names from cockpit to flight deck or notice to airmen to notice to air mission because it's too gender specific. They're focused on social justice and in the environment, racist roads and EVs. They've lost sight of the mission of this department. And so we have no place for anything other than the best and the brightest. And so when you look at what went wrong, you got to look at the people that you have in place at the DOT and the FAA and the leadership and the direction that leadership gives them. And it's been misplaced over the last four years. We're back on mission. We're focused on safety and having the best people delivering that safety.

And I don't care your race, your religion, your sex, your sexual preference. That doesn't matter. Just the best and the brightest. I mean, so utterly ridiculous. Here is Bernie Sanders, senator from Vermont, talking about the oligarchy. Let's play this clip right here. growth of authoritarianism and i fear that we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well and i'm going to do everything i can to work with my supporters all over this country to stand up and fight back to make sure we have an economy that works for everybody not just elon musk and that we maintain american democracy and a bunch of other clips I want to share with you. I want to talk briefly, though, about one of my research tactics that I use. I do this with a sponsor called Ground News. Let me just tell you a little bit about them and let me tell you why it's

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And we had heard from Trump's supporters, the OMB director, for example, that he wanted to traumatize federal workers. Well, that is happening. And these workers are the folks that inspect our fruit, our milk, our eggs. You know, what happens if they all quit? Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, let's play this clip. Let's get to what you'll be doing serving on this committee. It's led by Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene to provide oversight to Doge's efforts. Do you know why they went after Axe? Here is what Brian Mast, MAGA Republican Congress member who leads the Foreign Affairs Committee. He's talking about leading a purge of the State Department. Have you spoken to Marco Rubio about that? Although we all know Rubio doesn't have any power at all. Rubio, though, was sent to Panama to demand

that he seize the Panama Canal back. But anyway, let's play this clip of Congress member masked. Let's play it. Let's get to what you'll be doing serving on this committee. It's led by Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene to provide oversight to Doge's efforts. Do you know why they went after Axe? Here we have J.D. Vance, vice president, talking about conquering Greenland. Let's show you that clip. The president has so many bold ideas from the possibility of acquiring Greenland,

putting up this Iron Dome in America, taking back the Panama Canal, renaming the Gulf to the Gulf of America. Do you expect the U.S. to acquire Greenland? I think it's possible, Maria. So here's the thing that I think a lot of folks don't appreciate about Greenland. It's really important to our national security. There are sea lanes there that the Chinese use, that the Russians use, that frankly, Denmark, which controls Greenland, it's not doing its job and it's not being a good ally. So you have to ask yourself, how are we going to solve that problem, solve our own national security? If that means that we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do because he doesn't care about what the Europeans scream at us.

He cares about putting the interests of America's citizens first. There's another angle to this whole Greenland thing, Maria, that people don't realize. You've got probably 55,000 people living on Greenland who are not actually happy with Danish government. They've got great natural resources there. They've got an incredibly bountiful country that the Danes aren't letting them develop and explore. Of course, Donald Trump would take a different approach if he was the leader of Greenland. And the odds of the- Here is Tim Kaine, Democratic Senator from Virginia, spitting common sense right here, talking about how, wait a minute. So Donald Trump signed an emergency order saying that we desperately need energy,

but now he's going to be imposing sanctions on Canada in the form of tariffs to get that energy. Play this clip. Attacks on Virginia consumers. Prices went up. And then when those nations retaliated, they retaliated against critical Virginia industry sectors, especially agriculture and forestry. I remember going out during the Trump first term to talk to my farmers and foresters, who by and large were Trump supporters. And they were saying, for God's sake, Senator, help us. This is hurting our businesses. So look, here's what Americans are

going to see. Higher prices for energy, higher prices for groceries. That's what they're going to see. Businesses are going to get hurt when the retaliatory tariffs tick in. And I'm struck by the irony of last week the president signed an emergency order regarding energy. There's an energy emergency. And he just put a 10% tariff on energy from Canada, he is increasing prices at the pump. And you'll start to see it within the next couple of days. At the same time, he's saying there's an energy emergency. The emergency is self-created. Now, Senator Kaine, I think, has been on a roll lately. Let me show you one more clip of him right here. Let's play it. I'll tell you, I had a suspicion about why he did that. Why race bait at a moment like this? I think the president didn't want to be asked tough questions like, why did you let Elon Musk force the FAA administrator to resign? When this crash happened, there was no FAA administrator because he had clashed with Elon Musk. Why did you scrap an aviation safety advisory committee within DHS on the second day of your presidency saying that it wasn't related to national security?

Oh, air safety is not related to national security? Why did you issue a buyout offer to include air traffic controllers when we're already short of air traffic controllers. I think the president was nervous that he was gonna be asked questions about his own administration's policies that were de-emphasizing air safety. And so he decided to have everybody chase down a rabbit hole of his DEI allegations with no evidence. But I do-

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