MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republicans struggling to figure out how to message the disastrous government shutdown as Trump effectively throws them to the wolves while he’s on his Asia trip and Meiselas interviews Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren who has been a Congresswoman since 1995 and offers her unique perspective about Trump’s disastrous shutdown.
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Republicans LIE all the time
I guess they go by the saying that the bigger the lie the more convincing. Pretty sure it was Hitler who said that.
It is intentional
Judges siding with ICE against Innocent people should not be judges. We The People and states unite with huge lawsuits Americans and our streets cannot put up with this
Steve Scalise is one of the most vile hypocrites of all. He survived a horrific shooting because he had access to the best medical care in America, and he had taxpayer funded insurance as a member of Congress to cover his expenses. Yet he wants to take away health insurance from millions of Americans.
What a vile hypocrite.
And members of the news media I need to ask him that very question or point that out to him. I’m sure he will react with indignity.
“The pain is the point�!?! These MAGA republicans aren’t even capable of gaslighting based on their own (false) accusations. Just take whatever the Dems are justly accusing them of doing and accuse the Dems of doing that thing, verbatim. It’s brain-breaking
"SHUDUPP!!"
– free speech absolutist Repedocans whenever you criticize them
So are they like literally copying popular democrat speeches against republicans and swapping the blame cus i havent compared the two but they literally sound the same- sans the crocodile tears fron the republicans that sounds different than real emotion
Whenever i hear the phrase 'they say the market is up so everything's great' i realize just how much bigger the problem is than many people can realize because the stock market isn't a good metric to use for economic health.
Right now, we have an AI bubble that is 14 times larger than the .com bubble and 4x larger than the subprime bubble. This is due to companies like Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Alphabet, OpenAI, Twitter (lol), basically trading money back and forth between themselves like 2 guys on an island trading $20 back and forth for favors and creating 'infinite growth'.
There's two major problems i see as a polymath: First and foremost is that that immense amount of market volume has ZERO velocity of capital. That means, the money isn't going anywhere, paying anyone, feeding anyone, etc. It's just frozen in this downward spiral of insane greed and future regrets. When you account for this, the market is already in a freefall and we have about 1% actual market growth. When we account for other companies that do the exact same things, then we are already in a major recession. And that's just the first problem.
Problem 2 is that this bubble is so insanely large that there is no way for any government to bail out businesses that they WILL say are too big to fail. Maybe this isn't such a huge problem… maybe some of these businesses that make billions disappear from the real world market by leaching everything away from the rest of the world SHOULD fail.
Lie after lie after lie
The Republicans are the one's. They are the biggest liars liars.
Thank God for MTN she telling the truth about how are representative don't represent black people
She is telling the truth about the people in Mississippi
Illegal aliens and other liberal causes… Such as a different healthcare system, such as sustainable energy, a cleaning out of the election system, etc Maga morons. Sick and tired of them.
Oh, Kelly Loeffler is relevant again? EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS PROJECTION AND CONFESSION! If they say something is happening, it's most likely their fault.
THE THING IS THAT SO MANY ARE NOT UNDERSTANDING IS TRUMP HAS ABSOLUTELY ZERO INTENTIONS OF LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE EVER!! I KEEP HEARING PEOPLE SAY THATS ILLEGAL HE CAN'T DO THAT BUT IT DOESN'T APPEAR THAT ANYONE IS ATTEMPTING TO STOP THE LAW BREAKING THAT HE IS DOING ALREADY
It's pronounced so-see-AHP-uhth-ee.
These people think we’re as stupid as tRUMP supporters.
Trump needs to release the funds
45 you are on the wrong side of History. Leave and Get Out of the WH now!! No Kings; Get Rid of the Fascist Greedy Dishonest Treasonous Violent Corrupt American 45 era Leaders!! The axis of power: Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation. Russel Vought who authored Project 2025. Stephen Miller and tRump the puppet and all his scared, yellow fascist greedy Maga maggots willing to go along with this Corrupt Greedy Violent Dishonest Destructive Mean spirited regime!
When are the 77-million MAGA voters going to relize that the "pain" they are feeling is their own fault for voting for a traitor to his own country!
😢 I'm pretty sure there's some children that go to school with empty stomachs.
You are wrong the MAGA't side of the House & Senate aren't 'embracing' the public programs they are going to destroy with the BBB they are using it to get their base blaming the Dems for the lack of food & kids programs because they KNOW most of the American Public has NO idea what's in the BBB. So they can lie, pull this BS & hope 'the people' will pressure the Dems to cave & sign their so-called clean CR then they can continue to keep NOT talking to Dems until the BBB kicks in
They are banking on people being to ashamed of themselves for being broke to say anything to anyone else or they are thinking that most people will think it’s just them struggling not the entire country 17:32
Thought there MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF CRIMINAL ALIENS
Kamala was RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!! now we see why Trump was scared of a second debate
I can't wait til the midterms. these Republicans are committing political suicide and they know it
Why aren't you organising another nationwide demonstration for Saturday November 1st, specifically to protest the slashing of Health and Welfare benefits which become effective that very day? During coverage of the last and highly effective demonstration last? weekend, I heard one brilliant slogan being chanted, sadly not repeated, and not mentioned in later coverage, or anywhere since, which would galvanise support in opposition, and terrify the crooked regime….
WE DON'T WANT A PEDO IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
Or are you all chickenshit scared of blowback from the PEDO's ass-lickers? Really? Afraid of Miller, Bessent and Hegseth? Caricatures of real men. Where's Millee? Where's Tillerson when you need them? Shame on you!
The Emperor has no clothes!
IT'S ALL A FRAGILE ILLUSION WHICH YOU PERPETUATE BY DOING NOTHING EFFECTIVE!
Make him look ridiculous, as the only alternative is to continue to look ridiculous, ineffectual and pathetic yourselves!
I watch from GB, a long term Conservative voter, though I'd vote Democrat if eligible, appalled by the devastation being inflicted upon a nation and a people I've mostly admired, by a draft-dodging, incontinent, stupid, vindictive, crooked buffoon without any redeeming features, unless you regard BULLSHITTER as a compliment. Having elected the ba5tard twice, it's probably true.
Good luck. You're going to need it.
The Democrats need to hold a lot more press conferences than the maga party.
We do not want the Republicans cheating. When it's time to vote, I say people for the sake of our democracy needs to get out and just swamp, the streets so big just like on, no kings day, there were no ICE present, and why because the crowd was too big and it scared them, make the crowd so big and keep these cheating Republican auditors away, until all votes are legally done. so they can't cheat. There thinking that people will come and go just like normal but if the crowd is exceptionally large enough, that will put fear in them.
Since our representatives are not doing anything let the people vote!
All lies the people who voted theses nuts back in office everytime the republicans get in office they mess over the American people then try to lie and say it’s the democrats smh but no surprise
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