Unnamed Town Hall Participant 1
Appearances
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP Leaders Freak Out in Public as Support Crashes
Yeah, I have some public relations advice for these folks. If I were Secretary Hegseth, I wouldn't do any more media interviews right now.
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GOP Leaders Freak Out in Public as Support Crashes
FMAP is the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, and it ranges from 50% in the country to 76.9%. Now, when the Dems expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act,
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GOP Leaders Freak Out in Public as Support Crashes
uh they made that percentage match 90 10. so the federal government is paying 90 of the medicaid expansion and so what we have talked about is moving that 90 level of the expansion back towards the more traditional levels of 52 to approximately 80 percent instead instead of the 90 10 90% being federal, 10% being state match.
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GOP Leaders Freak Out in Public as Support Crashes
And nobody would be kicked off of Medicaid as long as the governors decided that they wanted to continue to fund the program. And so we are going to ask the states to pick up and pay some additional percentage of the Medicaid percentage.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
There is no organized protest, but in this deep red congressional district, those here have deep-seated concern about President Trump and Elon Musk.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
So are we going to sit at home on the couch and let these billionaires control the country?
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Hell no. I almost kind of want to cry. It's just I don't see any hope. Okay, where are you from? Columbus. Come on. Contrary to some Republican claims that outside groups come to disrupt. He's from the congressional district. All of you are from the congressional district. Has anyone been paid to be here?
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
I'm losing money to be here. We are the boss, not the president. We are their constituents. You don't have to follow all of us, but we have to have a voice. I know that some of you in this room are angry.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Okay, let's talk about this. Let's talk about this. So your proposal to solve this is to tax the rich.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
And combined, we have voted religiously for over 100 years, the two of us together. And this is the first time a ballot's ever been challenged. And I know that my daughter had spoken a lot about recognizing voter suppression when she sees it. I can tell you. This does not feel like election integrity.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
Personally, this feels like voter suppression when it involves us and a very important election to us personally. It involves our daughter.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/25/25
one question. Can you share how your information about war plans against the Houthis in Yemen was shared with a journalist in the Atlantic? And were those details classified?
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/25/25
When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
I thought he was going to, like, change things with affordability and make things cheaper, but by, like, putting these tariffs in and terrorizing the world, now things are just getting more expensive. Everything I believed was going to happen, I think, is going to go the opposite direction.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
I feel like a lot of his actions have just been disruptive and creating chaos.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
He didn't come out and be real with us and say, hey, I'm going to cut, you know, hundreds of thousands of jobs and you could possibly your bills are going to go up like that wasn't campaign.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
You voted for Trump in 2024, but you've been very critical of him so far in our conversation. Someone watching this might say, why did you vote for the guy?
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
Sure. I think what he campaigned with and compared to what he's doing is pretty opposite.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
Yeah, I just didn't I didn't see this coming. I didn't think he was going to take these these points of views that he's taking.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
I thought that his first 100 days like he talked about would be so much better than they are. It's a little frantic.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
A show of fingers. Who approves of what Elon Musk has been doing in the Trump administration? None of you. Who disapproves? All seven of you.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
See, he wasn't elected to do anything. Like, I don't understand his position. It's a made-up position that they made, department or whatever. And he's been going through with a sledgehammer, just actually dismantling everything with the approval of Trump. So I'm almost at the point where, did he actually buy the election to do what he wanted to do?
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
He was president for four years. You knowingly chose to put him back in office, having watched him in office for four years. How can you be surprised?
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
I don't feel like he was this aggressive last time, so I don't think anyone would have voted for him if they expected to see what we're seeing now.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
I don't understand the need to piss every other country off. Like, Canada. Like, we love Canada, don't we? Like, I just, my whole life, there's never been a problem with Canada.
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Wow! Fox News Gives Up on Trump in Shocking Twist
Well, you know, he keeps pounding Zelensky and saying it's harder to deal with him than it is with Putin. Putin, so far as I can tell, hasn't agreed to much of anything, except, yes, he'd love to annex Crimea, which is part of the proposal that's before him now. That's no concession. All that is is taking a gain. Zelensky resists that because Crimea, up until the Russians invaded it,
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Wow! Fox News Gives Up on Trump in Shocking Twist
10 years or so ago, was part of Ukraine. So I'm not exactly sure what the president is talking about when he says that Zelensky has been more difficult to deal with than Putin. There have been a series of ceasefire proposals. Putin either hasn't agreed to them or has immediately broken them.
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Wow! Fox News Gives Up on Trump in Shocking Twist
I'm not sure what concessions Putin will ever be willing to make, but he certainly hadn't made very many so far.
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Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets
The president is involved in very complex and high-level negotiations of great consequence to both the United States and the state of Israel, and we look forward to working with our allies, our counterparts, both diplomatically...
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Panicked Trump Screws Himself as Term Collapses
Just like in 30 days. I mean, domestically, he's tanking the economy singly-handed with the tariffs. And I just got a new heater today. I'm already affected by the tariffs.
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Panicked Trump Screws Himself as Term Collapses
just in parts for the heater. So I ended up getting a new heater.
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Panicked Trump Screws Himself as Term Collapses
Yeah, and this is for every kind of part from outside the country, no matter what it is. I mean, that includes everything that comes to the United States through these tariffs that is imposed.
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Yikes! Fox News Loses It as Trump Tanks Bad
Right now, probably $11, $12, $13, $14. Rich ones, you want brown eggs, you want free-range eggs, etc., etc. But they're in the low teens right now.
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Yikes! Fox News Loses It as Trump Tanks Bad
They're killing the chickens. Yeah. and and because of bird flu right before the bird flu now let's ask the the 64 trillion dollar question uh is this a no another covet crisis to to greet uh to greet president trump wow and we don't know this i'm getting anxiety already with your finger in it january 25th okay so that pisses donald trump off so now fox has to recalibrate its entire programming so
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Yikes! Fox News Loses It as Trump Tanks Bad
wasted so much of their own money that they put themselves in this position.
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Yikes! Fox News Loses It as Trump Tanks Bad
They're all over the Doge website.
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
I didn't see the interview, but I'll just say that I think what the president is trying to communicate is, as he mentioned with the tariff policy and with all the things that are happening, we had to disrupt the system and we're going to have the desired results.
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
I mean, as you know, by some measures, more than 100 countries now renegotiating trade agreements, which would be much more fair for the American people. And that is exactly what we were hoping and trying to achieve. What the president was trying to achieve with that tariff policy is more free and fair trade relations. And I think that will be the result. So whatever short-term...
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
disruption there is or discomfort. I think what he's trying to say there, I think, is that it will well pay off in the long run. And I think that will happen sooner than many people anticipate. So we're waiting to see and we'll hold the line. But reconciliation is on track. And if anybody tells you otherwise, they're not in the room with us.
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
Look, we have an obligation to do what we said we would do. The president said we should get our deficits under control and balance the budget. He recognizes that Medicaid needs to be reformed. He said so. His office has put it out. We should deliver.
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
We should deliver responsibly so we can deliver on the tax cuts, the growth that we need, but also the health care reform so that we're not leaving the vulnerable on the outside looking in and we're delivering deficit reduction for the American people rather than propping up a failed program. Republicans need to find the willingness to fight.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
We have held six meetings with the Secretary of Commerce and the head of USTR to ensure that if we are going to a system of such high tariffs, what we need to seek is a preferential treatment. for Mexico so that we have conditions to protect our jobs.
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Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash
And they didn't like some of Scott Fitzgerald's answers. The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered already.
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Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash
Congressman Fitzgerald insists Musk's efforts to find waste and fraud are working and Congress will eventually have budget oversight.
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Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash
certainly the discussion in and around those and with the probationary moves that have already been done they're going to have to be scrutinized at some point.
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Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash
Tyranny is rising in the White House and a man has declared himself our king. So I would like to know, rather the people would like to know, what you congressmen and your fellow congressmen are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House.
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Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash
They didn't like some of Scott Fitzgerald's answers.
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Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash
The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered already. No.
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Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash
Michael Wittig is concerned with Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration. He held up a sign that read, Presidents are not kings.
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Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash
workers, the NNSA, our nuclear stockpile, and CDC workers working on the bird flu being fired by DOGE and then having to be rehired when someone realized oh gosh we need those people. Why is a supposedly conservative party taking such a radical and extremist and sloppy
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
You know, I think everybody saw yesterday, and we have this very low IQ representative named Mai Zong, probably one of the dumbest ones in the legislature. And I saw this video of her, and she's like, the House Speaker is not here today. We need to have session. You know, we need to work for the people of Michigan, Macomb County. Well, where was I?
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Trump Runs to Golf Like a Coward as USA Rises Up
I almost kind of want to cry. It's just I don't see any hope. Where are you from? Columbus.
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Trump Runs to Golf Like a Coward as USA Rises Up
He's from the Congressional District. All of you are from the Congressional District. Has anyone been paid to be here? No.
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Trump Runs to Golf Like a Coward as USA Rises Up
No one. I'm actually taking work off to be here. You're taking work off to be here. I'm losing money to be here. We are the boss, not the president. We are their constituents. You don't have to follow all of us, but we have to have a voice.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as MAGA Crashes Abroad
Look, it's always important to distinguish want from reality. What someone wants and what is reality and what the Canadian people clearly have stated, virtually without exception, is this will never, ever happen.
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
Let's play it. My question to you is, why do you believe that President Trump is above the law? And I'll just reinforce what other people have been saying here. Why have you not spoken out for it? And we have trusted you with our votes. We have sent you to Congress for decades. We expect you to follow through on what we Iowans really want our government to do and not to have a federal government
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
that is being dismantled by this President Trump and Elon Musk. Please, stand up for what's right and do your job.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
UNRWA is part of the United Nations.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
remember a time when Republicans were very careful about and worried about the government, particularly unelected people. We can't trust the government anymore. Having access to personal data.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Oh, absolutely. You are the government.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
But now Elon Musk has access to it.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Not focusing on it, but he has access to it.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
I cannot attempt to subvert the statutory and constitutional rights afforded to these non-citizens in the U.S. by transferring them to an offshore prison and holding them incommunicado. without access to counsel or any means of contact with the outside world. First of all, can you speak to whether that is an accurate characterization?
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
And what do you say in response to their claims about legal rights for these folks?
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
My next question, because your colleague Jeff Merkley basically said he's prepared to try to shut down the government over some of these sledgehammer actions that he's seeing by Elon Musk. Are you prepared to shut down the government to join Democratic colleagues who want to stand in the way of keeping the government open?
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
So just to be clear, Senator, you are open to voting yes to shut down the government, to make this point.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Elon Musk said, quote, FEMA is broken. And he said so in response to the suggestion that he shut down FEMA entirely. FEMA is, of course, funded by Congress, has repeatedly been authorized in statute, including by laws you voted for when you were in Congress. Can and should Donald Trump shut it down?
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
What's your recommendation to him?
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
If the president came to you and said, you're my DHS secretary, do you think I should get rid of FEMA? Excuse me, get rid of FEMA. What would you say?
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Reporting that Musk and his Doge team have access to FEMA's sensitive disaster data, which includes personal information about tens of thousands of disaster victims. Have you authorized Elon Musk and his team to have access to Americans' personal data that is housed inside DHS?
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
So yes, they have access.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Right, but that's different from him having access. to personal data that is housed. The president has authorized him to have access. And you feel comfortable? Absolutely. I remember a time when Republicans were very careful about and worried about the government, particularly unelected people. We can't trust the government anymore. Having access to personal data. Yeah. Oh, absolutely.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
You are the government.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
But now Elon Musk has access to it.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Canada in a closed door meeting with business leaders. Outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned that President Trump is serious about annexing Canada to make it the 51st state. Is he right? Is President Trump serious about planning to annex Canada?
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
I think some Canadians would disagree with you, but just yes or no. Is he planning to annex Canada?
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
The U.S. government does not fund sex change operations. operations or fund Hamas. You know that, though.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
And frankly, what we found is that we've been funding... Do you have any evidence that the United States government is funding a terrorist group?
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
So Trump just destroyed my business. Trump announced his massive tax plan on items coming from other countries. He says that the countries are going to pay that. That's false. It's the person bringing it in. And I own a small business.
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
And I think from policy institutes on both sides of the aisle, the methodology that was used has been universally derided as being non-serious. I don't know whether you know exactly who came up with the formula, but it allowed you to at least characterize most of these countries as being
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
their tariffs well above the reality of the situation so that when you say that we're going to do half on them, it was much higher than anyone anticipated. I think you'd have to concede that this was not the market reaction you were looking for. There's a way of maybe incrementally trying to accomplish some of the things that the president wants to do in a reasonable, serious way.
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
And this just almost across the board has caused what you're seeing in the stock market and a lot of head scratching and head shaking on whether anyone really knows what they're doing in this case.
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
Peter, can you acknowledge that? Sure. No, I can't. Because here's what I'm seeing. You throw a lot of stuff at me. First of all, the methodology was perfectly sound. It was done by the Council of Economic Advisers based on long-term studies that are in the academic literature. And the people taking pot shots at us are the same people that always take pot shots at us.
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
American Enterprise Institute, Peter. Of course. Larry Lindsay. Of course. Joe, come on. The American Enterprise Institute.
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Massive Protests Take USA by Storm
He gave us the right to speak freely, to publish freely, to worship freely, to assemble freely, and to petition government for a redress of grievances. Yeah! As Dr. King said, we've got the right to protest for what is right without being arrested, deported, or fired.
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Massive Protests Take USA by Storm
We've got the right to read the books we want, including 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, even if they now belong in the non-fiction section. We've even got the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying six trillion dollars of wealth and turning my 401k into a 201k.
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Massive Protests Take USA by Storm
I love you guys. Fire who? Keep up the pressure and I promise you
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Massive Protests Take USA by Storm
Thank you for being part of the resistance.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/16/25
Here, play this clip. Tree comes down also, by the way.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/16/25
And we think we know who that system is. I mean this sincerely. What the hell did he just say?
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Trump Spirals in Morning Over Terrible News
I want him to lower prices and lower the taxes and make Barbies cheaper.