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Chapter 1: What reactions occurred at the town halls regarding Trump and Musk?
Power to the people at these town halls. Americans from all political parties are having their voices heard. What you saw there at the beginning of the video was a town hall held in Wisconsin by MAGA Republican Congress member Representative Scott Fitzgerald. And you heard people there who were pissed.
that he was enabling and allowing Elon Musk and Donald Trump to go through their personal data and have access to their social security information and medical records while they gut and destroy the government and take and tank our economy. Let me just show you a longer clip from that town hall. And then I want to show you that from Wisconsin to Georgia to New York to
Chapter 2: How are citizens mobilizing across different states?
To the West Coast, people are rising up right now and having their voices heard. Red states, blue states, purple states, all of the colors. People are angry. People are pissed. People demand action. Watch this right here from that town hall. Let's play it.
They didn't like some of Scott Fitzgerald's answers.
The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered already. No.
Michael Wittig is concerned with Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration. He held up a sign that read, Presidents are not kings.
Are you going to subpoena him at some point after you're done with the budget or whatever? Are you willing to use your subpoena power to say, Trump, sorry, Musk, come in here, stand in front of Congress and answer some hard questions?
Congressman Fitzgerald insists Musk's efforts to find waste and fraud are working and Congress will eventually have budget oversight.
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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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Paul Tonko's town hall?
So now I want to share with you what was going down in New York and Representative Paul Tonko's congressional district, Democrat Paul Tonko here at this town hall. A huge ovation as a teacher encourages Congress member Paul Tonko, who is pushing back to do more. To work harder, even if that means getting arrested for civil disobedience. You're in public service right now.
You cannot sit idly by as Elon Musk and these billionaires take away all of people's rights and freedoms. Watch the energy in this room in New York. Play this clip.
I'm a 20-year veteran teacher. As I said, I've been behind you in local stores. You came to the Albany, the 100th anniversary of the Albany Library branch celebration where my band played inside, okay? I saw you on TV at NOAA. I saw you on TV at the Department of Education. What I'm saying is this. Somebody asked you what your red line was and you said that the time is always right to go.
Does that mean the red line has already been crossed? Because I think it has. If you ask us to show up, Congressman Tonko, we will show up. But it cannot be. We have to take the bluff out. We can't live for protocol. They're not playing by the rules. When I saw you at those races and I saw you next to Maxine Waters, I was so proud that my representative was on the front line right there.
But I thought about Jimmy Carter and I thought about John Lewis. And I know what John Lewis would have done. He would have gotten arrested that day. Make them outlaw you. We will stand behind you. We will be there with you. I will get arrested with you.
So then one of the things that we're seeing is that a lot of Republicans, surprise, surprise, because they are spineless MAGAs after all, they are not even showing up at town halls. So here, Democratic Congress member Mark Pocan, he points out that these MAGAs are not even showing up to town halls. This Congress member, the Democrat goes, I just held the town hall with Wisconsin's Farmers Union.
They invited all elected officials in the area. Unfortunately, not a single Republican showed up, including Representative Van Orden and Representative Tiffany. The farmers I spoke to are worried about Trump and Elon Musk cutting their federal funding and contracts. To all of our Wisconsin farmers, I hear you and I have your back. Let me just play you this video.
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Chapter 4: Why are Republican representatives absent from town halls?
Let's play it, then let's talk about it.
This is Representative Mark Pocan from Wisconsin. I'm here in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin right now. We just had a town hall that the Wisconsin Farmers Union put on. They invited all the elected officials from the area, both in federal and state office. Unfortunately, no Republicans showed up.
Chapter 5: What concerns did farmers express at the Wisconsin town hall?
Derek Van Orden, Tom Tiffany are no-shows, as well as the state legislators who are Republicans in the area. But we're talking to farmers about studies, talking to people about what they're seeing. They're worried about cuts they're seeing. They're worried about what's going to happen to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for the neediest because it's all food that they're growing.
They're concerned about funds that have been stopped and loans that they are using to get their crops out. They're concerned about the immigration and staffing they're going to have on farms. They're concerned about a lot of things around Medicaid and cuts to education as well in the rural areas.
So we've had a great conversation, and I just hope that more people will hear about the Republican ripoff, which is this $4.5 trillion transfer of wealth from the middle class and those aspiring to be in the middle class, the programs we talked about today, to a tax cut for the wealthiest. Because at the end of the day, that's who gets the money. It's Elon Musk, it's Donald Trump, and others.
I'm just really glad we had a lot of farmers sharing their very real stories and a lot of emotion today. I hope more Republican members of Congress will be listing their constituents like the Democrats were here today.
And that's the thing. They are crushing farmers. By the way, they crushed farmers with Trump's failed trade wars during the first term. And now it's going to be. far worse devastations about to hit farmers across the country. If you look at Trump's budget, it's $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
There's close to $300 billion in cuts for farmers, close to $400 billion in cuts in education. And who are the people that they're attacking most with Doge? The most vulnerable, like the group they pick on the most, Farmers, disabled veterans. Disabled veterans are their number one group that they pick up.
Disabled veterans who served our country now working in the federal government because disabled veterans are often probationary employees because they go to different jobs and they travel and also military spouses also travel a lot. So they're technically probationary. These are the people who are getting fired the most. But tens of thousands of people are being let go.
And my thing with these spineless maggots, show up. Show up and hear from your constituents. What? You just want to live in your Twitter, which is now ex-Elon Musk's bubble, which is not real life? Because in real life, people freaking hate you.
And you need to hear how angry you've made us at you for your betrayal, for your support of Putin, for your support of traitorous policies, for your support of destroying our country every day, for letting billionaires down. have access to our tax records and our social security information and our medical files, invading our privacy.
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Chapter 6: What controversies surround Elon Musk during this period?
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This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.
Chainsaw.
Now, going back to MAGA Republican Congress member Rich McCormick, this was his town hall where he compared his own constituents asking tough and fair questions to being January 6th insurrectionists. Play this clip.
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.
I'm not going to give you my best foghorn, leghorn response to that. But what I would say, you can go ahead and sit down. Thank you. When you talk about tyranny, when you talk about presidential power, I remember having the same discussion with Republicans when Biden was elected. The funny thing is, the funny thing is,
The funny thing is, you're sitting here and a lot of you would probably say those January 6s who are yelling just as loud as you, who are upset just like you.
A C-SPAN caller from West Virginia reached out and said, hey, you realize that all of a sudden I'm diabetic and on Medicare and now my insulin was $6 for a 28-day supply. Now it's back up to $80. Well, yeah, because Trump reversed what Biden did on everything. Here, play this clip.
Yes, ma'am. I'm calling from West Virginia, which was a red state for Donald Trump. And they have a place called down here, Public Debt. And a lot of my neighbors were going for Trump. They walking around scared, crying, nervous. And they were forever Trumpers. But on a personal note, I'm a diabetic and I'm on Medicare. And when Joe Biden was in there, my insulin was $6.50. for a 28-day supply.
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