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The Democratic establishment is finally starting to listen to the people. We want a Democratic party that is not beholden to corporate interest, that does not take AIPAC money and we've proven that we can win that way. Look at Zoran Mamdani in New York. He took on the billionaire class, didn't take a cent from them. They spent millions upon millions of dollars fear mongering and race baiting and Islamophobia. And guess what happened? He won. And he whipped their asses twice by double digits. Finally, the consulting class is starting to take note of this. Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville, who at the beginning of the year said what Democrats should do is just play dead. Let the Republicans make a mess of everything. He's finally starting to see the light. Let me show you how much this has changed in such a micro period of time. Here's James Carville in April of this year. James Carville says Democrats need to stop letting Bernie Sanders and AOC define the party. April 26, 2025. Here's James Carville now. Carville, how about a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished platform of pure economic rage? This is what I'm talking about and I think they're finally starting to get it. The base moved before the strategist moved and you might remember that he got into a little bit of a kerfuffle with David Hogg. And David Hogg is a Parkland shooting survivor who has gotten into politics. He's a progressive voice and he has a pack where he raises money to fund young Democratic progressives and endorse them. This is a generation that went unprotected with all of these ridiculous gun laws and now they're completely active. James Carville called him a little twerp and said that he shouldn't be in politics. And they kind of got into this fight and this was just a few months ago and now look at where we are. Aaron Regenberg talks about James Carville moving And here is an excerpt. This offers Democrats the greatest gift you can have in American politics, a second chance. This is from James Carville. I'm now an 81 year old man and I know that in the minds of many, I carry the torch from a so called centrist political era. Yet it is abundantly clear, even to me, that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression. It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic, and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss. And David Hogg retweets it and says, times are changing and this is absolutely the way that the Democratic Party has to forge ahead. You cannot present to the American public, like a lot of Democratic establishment candidates do, that I take money from the same people that wanted Trump to win more than they wanted Kamala to win. Then you just look like you are a controlled opposition party and we have to unshackle ourselves from these corporations because unregulated, incremental capitalism has harmed the working class. And the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class. And it left a huge void that a populist dictator like Trump, who is a liar with the worst intentions ever, was able to come in and capture. Because there's one thing that Kanks can't spin. He can't spend. When somebody goes to the grocery store and they're paying more for something, you can't spend that, you don't get a raise. You can't spin that all of a sudden your health care premiums quadrupled, you can't spin that. People feel that. People see that it is an economic pain that the Democrats have got to advocate for fully and completely. The data is showing that this is going to work. And I just. My entire life, every time there's a Republican president, the economy has always tanked. And the biggest myth that the Republican Party has perpetrated on Americans is that they are fiscally conservatives, that the Republican Party are fiscal conservatives. And oh no, I vote that way because I'm in business. I vote for my pocketbook. Well, the Republicans always tank the economy and then they bail out corporations. They don't bail out working class people. They always bail out the corporations that they unregulated the market for and then they built the. Those corporations get this big bubble and then it bursts and then, quote, they're too big to fail. So let's look at what Republican policies are doing for us right now in 2025. Play the video, your costs are up.
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Versus a year ago. Groceries 85%. Utilities 78%. Health care 67%. Housing 66%. Gasoline 54%. The bottom line is this. Americans feel like prices are rising in each and every single part of of their lives, rising ever climber. And they just don't feel like Kate Baldwin, that they can catch a break.
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The Treasury Secretary in new comments kind of dismissed the impact tariffs is having on inflation. Also saying that prices are going to be coming down in weeks, some of the prices are going to be coming down in months. What do Americans think about that?
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Yeah, they think he's full of it. That's exactly what they think. I mean, just take a look here. Tariffs rise, raising prices. Are raising prices right now. Click over Kate's side of screen. 71%. How dare I do that? 84% of Democrats, 74% of independents and even a majority of Republicans. When you can get a majority of Republicans to agree with majority of Democrats, you know that the pain is being felt by the American public right now. The Treasury Secretary can try and tell the people something, but they can feel in their pocketbooks, they simply put don't buy what he and this administration is selling them.
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When it comes to tariffs, the gig is up. And the Secretary, the Treasury Secretary who delivers all of this bullshit, this propaganda on cable news all of the time is a billionaire. He's a billionaire that sucks up to Donald Trump who doesn't know what the hell he's doing. They have driven the economy into the ground for working class Americans, but the richest Americans have gotten $800 billion richer in just 10 months. The gig is up. You can't spin those prices. So to all of these fiscal conservatives and these country club Republicans that just say, well, I'm, you know, I'm conservative because of the finances and I'm in business or I'm a banker, I'm in oil and gas, or I'm this. It's every single time Republicans drive the economy into the ground, wake up, you've been lied to. The lie from Ronald Reagan, the trickle down economics, it never came to fruition. They are liars. They've been lying to you. And then to get your eye off the ball, they scapegoat black and brown people, gay people, trans people. And the Democrats need to have an economic populist message that says our message is for every American. That includes trans Americans, that includes gay Americans, that includes black and brown Americans, that includes women, that includes everybody. The economy should be for everybody. And moving along, Trump is flailing so much right now and no one can hide it any longer. Put up this headline, Kylie. Really? Okay. New York Times reports that Republicans are quietly looking beyond Trump. We've been reporting on that for two or three months, but that's neither here nor there. Axio says red alert time for Trump in the gop. Politico reports MAGA culture, culture war is now failing. The culture war, people aren't buying into it. People don't like it. People don't like the cruelty. Trump clearly declining in many polls. Trump is a weak, failing president in the media is finally starting to say so because you cannot hide it. This man goes on these crazy dementia rants. He is so razzle dazzled in the office after trying to, in the Oval Office after trying to scare everybody for months of Zoran Mamdani. Zoran Mamdani has him praising fdr. This is the easiest guy on the planet to dog walk because he's got dementia, he's got malignant narciss, and everybody can see his health is completely flailing and moving along. Here we have how is Kings going to deal with this? How does, how does he deal with low polling numbers? Rule number one, he lies. So a couple days ago he was on Air Force One and he was saying that he had the greatest polling numbers ever in the history of his life, which we all just saw. They're like the lowest they could ever be. But then rule number two is he starts throwing ketchup. And by that I mean he starts fighting, firing people. Put this up. Paul Sperry tweets developing story. Senior White House aides and Cabinet heads are bracing for major personnel shakeup as insiders tell me POTUS is growing increasingly unhappy with, quote, economic messaging. Among other things. Shake up could include chief of staff in New Year developing. And so this is what he did in Trump 1.0. He if somebody disagreed with him or tried to uphold the rule of law, he fired them. And he's been able to keep this Cabinet together for about 10 months. But as their policies keep wreaking havoc, pain, abuse and trauma on the electorate, he's going to have to start blaming somebody. And so he's going to do what he always does. He's going to flood the zone. He's going to probably fire Susie Wiles. He, maybe he'll fire Pam Bondi or somebody, but he's going to start shaking it up. And here's what's so disturbing about this whole thing is he will bring in even more incompetent people. It's not like he's all of a sudden going to be like oh yeah, I want to hire somebody that is going to disagree with me. I want to get here everybody's opposing views. It's going to be an absolute shit show. In order to report on this political climate, how you receive and read your news is so incredibly important and I'm happy to share that. Pumps and I always go to our Ground News app and we both signed up for the Vantage Plan. Ground News is basically like the spot 5 news listener telling you who owns each outlet where it leans politically and if what you're reading is even true or not. Here is a prime example of a right leaning headline versus a left leaning headline. The left leaning headline says Trump gloats over Trader MTG's decision to quit as MAGA. Left reeling my Ground News Vantage Plan tells me this is a left leaning publication and that this article has very high factuality. Right leaning publication reports it as follows. Trump celebrates MTG's resignation while AOC scrutinizes the timing. American Newswire tells me that this has a very, very low factuality. Join us by going to groundnews.com ihip to get 40% off the ground News Vantage Plan that we use every day. They're subscriber funded and female founded. By subscribing, you're not only getting a tool we all need today, you're also supporting our work. That's ground gr o u n dnews.com forward sl I hip we've conveniently pinned the link right below in the show notes, but I want to remind you in the background of all of this, this chaos, this incompetence, the crimes this administration is committing, the shakedowns, the enriching, all of the billionaire class abandoning and on all of these working class people who supported him and believed in him and thought that he loved America. Real Americans are still here and we still care about democracy and we know our country has so many problems, but it's something we want to fight for because we're American and we like it here and we don't want to give it up to these depraved imbeciles. And the Republican party has always exploited the military in such a disgusting way in my opinion, and that continues to this day. You have a draft dodger Kanks who's never served. All he's ever done done is disparaged people, combat vets who were wounded in battle, disparaged them and thought they were weak losers, suckers, etc so now they're going after Senator Mark Kelly, who was in the Navy, was in NASA, an astronaut, and now he's a United States Senator. And they're going after him because he told his fellow service members, do not follow an illegal order because Trump has immunity. The Supreme Court, as corrupt as they are, made sure that he could be the tyrant that he is. But these service members don't have immunity. And one day there will be a reckoning. And so Mark Kelly, ever the patriot, ever the empathetic person to fellow service members, gave them words of encouragement. Do not follow an illegal order. You have taken an oath to the Constitution. Now, Pete Hegseth, because everything he does is for a party of one, for a guy who blew a guy named Bubba and Vladimir Putin has information on it. Pete Hegseth, who texts war plans with emojis. This guy claims the moral high ground and now he's wanting to investigate and recall Mark Kelly to some military tribunal because that's what these people like to do. They like to humiliate the good guys. Put up this tweet. Mark Kelly tweeted the following. When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an ensign in the United States Nav and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple, multiple deployments on the MSS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, Test Pilot School, four space shuttle flights at NASA. And every day since I retired, which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents in combat. I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets at NASA. I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much. Secretary Hexa's tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President's post saying I should be arrested, hanged and put to death. If this is meant to intimidate me or other members of Congress from doing our jobs and hiding this and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution. So I leave you all with this so that you can remember that as they have tried to get us to hate everything about America, there are good, great people here. And the MAGA base is about 30%. 30% of depraved freaks who have been propagandized who are in this cult who massively need deprogramming. They have been sold a bill of lies their entire lives. They have been served racism daily and they eat it up and they bask in it. But that isn't the majority of us. The majority of us are good. The majority of us us know that the president of the United states cannot call for the hanging of u. S. Senators and congress people. This man doesn't give a about you, maga. He doesn't care about the military. He doesn't care about this country. This is our fight. This is the fight of our generation. This is a worthy cause and I want to thank each of you for helping us build this community. Maga has had a 10 year start on building a media ecosystem outside of cable news and the democrats are playing catch up. So you're watching here and on other pro democracy channels is a part of building a community and fighting for our country. I know you feel helpless. I know it feels overwhelming. But things are happening and we have to stay motivated, we have to stay engaged and we have to hold these elected leaders accountable. All right, subscribe to our channel like this video, leave a comment in the algorithm and we'll be back later for more news. Ra.
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan | Date: November 28, 2025
In this passionate and comedic episode, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan dissect major political stories from a progressive perspective deep in red state territory. Key themes include the Democratic Party’s overdue shift toward economic populism, public backlash to rising costs under Republican leadership, the unraveling of Trump’s influence over the GOP, and the heated clash between Pete Hegseth and Senator Mark Kelly. The hosts stress the importance of grassroots engagement and media literacy amid America’s fraught political atmosphere.
Angie Sullivan on Democratic strategy:
“The base moved before the strategist moved." ([01:35])
James Carville’s Dramatic Reversal:
“It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic, and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage.” ([03:20])
On the futility of Republican economic myths:
“The biggest myth that the Republican Party has perpetrated on Americans is that they are fiscal conservatives... The Republicans always tank the economy and then they bail out corporations. They don't bail out working class people.” ([04:23])
Jennifer, on Trump’s style under pressure:
“Rule number one: he lies… Rule number two: he starts throwing ketchup. And by that I mean he starts fighting, firing people.” ([08:00])
Senator Mark Kelly’s Stand:
“I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.” ([12:18])
This episode lays bare the fault lines of modern American politics: the brewing populist groundswell inside the Democratic Party, widespread economic anxiety, Trump’s personal decline and its ripple effects across the GOP, and the moral clarity of leaders like Mark Kelly in times of constitutional crisis. With trademark humor and candor, Jennifer and Angie urge listeners to both stay alert and active as the nation teeters at the edge of political transformation. Their parting message: engagement and community are vital weapons for democracy in an era of disinformation and division.