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Progressive Commentator
Donald Trump's big beautiful bill is a heaping pile of dog. Senators on the Senate floor are calling it a crime scene. It is the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the oligarch ruling class. It is immoral. It is egregious. It is a horrific, horrific bill. And Elon Musk just can't help himself. He has to chime in to this like he gives a crap about working class people. He says the latest Senate draft bill will destroy million jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country. Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future. That last part is the part that he cares about that this bill doesn't curry enough favor for him personally. It is a horrific bill. Elon Musk pretends like he cares about the national deficit. That's why he created that oh, I care about this because he wanted to go in and create this phony criminal department called DOGE so that he could shut down investigations and regulations into his companies. The American democracy is failing and if this bill passes, the irony is red states suffer the most in the senators from these red states are out championing the destruction of the working class people in their very states. And you have senators like Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts who is fighting for all American Americans and other Democrats. This is horrific. They're gonna have a big vote of Rama today, so keep your eyes on this. It's not as sexy or as entertaining as a lot of the regular Trump, but this is at the core of who we are. Are we going to dick over poor people? Because that's what MAGA is. MAGA is an attack on poor people. It attacks the most vulnerable and the most marginalized unapologetically and with impunity in their Christian followers. They don't call them out for it they go along with it because this is a party of abject cruelty.
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Political Analyst
I completely agree with you. And some of the unspoken things that we don't hear about as much are what this will do, this bill would do to undermine the courts. Courts could no longer stop Donald Trump from defying orders, and that is by design, because consolidation of power is what he's looking for. And I just find it so rich that Elon Musk is, you know, out there going on and on about the bill because you're completely right. He doesn't give a. About anything other than he will lose subsidies personally.
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Progressive Commentator
Yeah. And here is a protester that made their way to the Senate floor last night. And I thought the message was really good. Watch this clip.
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Senate Sergeant at Arms
The sergeant of arms will restore order. The sergeant. The sergeant of arms will restore order in the galley. The sergeant of arms will restore order. Sergeant of arms.
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Progressive Commentator
So what the protester is saying here is, how do you guys sleep at night? How can you do this? You are awful. And at the core of all of this is just the American public has been propagandized for years to champion for corporations. And I just want to point out something. Israel, their citizens get health care. They get higher education, and we subsidize that. Meanwhile, working class Americans don't get either. And then if they need assistance because the Congress will not raise the minimum wage because they're too busy giving, giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, then they're called lazy. And this, this party, this MAGA movement is an attack on the poor at every single turn. The overturning of Roe v. Roe v. Wade isn't an attack on pumps's daughter because pumps could fly out of this hellscape MAGA state and take her daughter to a state where she could receive medical care. It is an attack on poor people, specifically black and brown people. And when Republicans get untethered from Donald Trump, the truth starts to drip out. North Carolina Senator Tillis goes rogue yesterday, announces that he will not seek reelection. And here he is, untethered on the.
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Senate Sergeant at Arms
Senate floor, escapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made in the Oval Office or in the Cabinet Room when I was there with finance, where he said, we can go after waste, fraud and abuse on any programs. Now, those amateurs that are advising him, not Dr. Oz, I'm talking about White House health care experts, refused to tell him that those instructions that were to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, all of a sudden eliminates a government program that's called the provider tax. We have morphed a legal construct that admittedly has been abused and, and should be eliminated into waste, fraud and abuse, money laundering. Read the code. Look at how long it's been there.
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Political Analyst
I look at all of these senators and I think, and in U.S. house of Representatives, for that matter, they are more terrified of Donald Trump than they are willing to work for their constituents. And Thom Tillis has made a calculated decision to. Trump's going to primary. Primary me. That's okay. These other elected officials need to understand that there will be elections again. And counting on the inactivity and ignorance of the electorate is going to bite them in the ass. That I believe, because it is going to hit them exactly where it hurts.
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Progressive Commentator
Yeah, but I, I hope so. But you see people like Ted Cruz that gets reelected and reelected and reelected because middle America has been so propagandized to fight for corporate America. They feel like there is this worship of capitalism and the people who execute and benefit the most from capitalism. I hope you're right. But you know, I had faith that maybe the Supreme Court would step in and start to limit Donald Trump's power. They didn't. At the core of the MAGA movement, they have had a hard on for Medicaid, for Social Security, for all of these things for decades that have convinced their very religious, racist, Christian base that people who are on these programs are lazy and undeserving in them. Even our own governor sent out a tweet this weekend that said about SNAP, that it was a supplemental program and that he didn't want anybody getting candy or soda with their food stamps. And I wanted to tweet him back and say, yeah, my favorite part of the Bible is where Jesus said no soda or candy for you poor people, you lazy idiots. Because that's the way, that's the disdain that this party treats them from. I don't commend or applause Tillis. All of these people have been a part of this demonization of other human beings that have been decades long. And people do this with impunity and nobody stands up for the marginalized. Just. I mean, Bernie Sanders always does. He's beholden to no one and there are a few others. But when it gets to American politics, it's all this jockeying and playing and I'm going to get primaried and I'm, you know, a PAC gives me money so I can't be honest about Israel. Big Oil gives me money so I can't be honest about climate change. Big Pharma gives me Money. So I can't be honest about addiction. It's disgusting. In the system, is untenable and unsustainable. Next up we have Senator Murphy, who I believe from the jump has been telling people the truth about what they're seeing. The gaslighting nature of maga, the cruelty of maga. And here he is.
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Healthcare Advocate
Oh, what they're doing behind closed doors when they have these secret meetings with each other, they are talking about how many people they're going to throw off of health care. Whereas in the public, in it's like, no, it's just about Medicaid inefficiencies, cutting waste and abuse. But behind closed doors, they're literally handing paper to each other, which they're talking about. Yeah, yeah, we totally know that. We're throwing millions of people out there.
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Progressive Commentator
So let's do it fast, let's do it in the middle of the night and let's do it with no hearings, no public data, no discussion of this, and let's not talk about it. These three senators are blue state senators and their constituents are not going to be as directly impacted from this heaping pile, pile of dog of a bill. And they fight for everybody. They fight for human rights and they fight for decency. And these MAGA politicians, these MAGA senators, these MAGA constituents are so full of this game and jockeying and dicking people over, dicking over other Americans and then demonizing the poor, demonizing marginalized groups, being homophobes, being racist. I'm so sick of it. I know all of you all are so breathtakingly sick of it. It's just abhorrent what this country has evolved into.
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Political Analyst
Well, and you have elected officials like Mitch McConnell saying, oh, they'll get over it, Right? You have Mike Johnson, who is the speaker of the house. Up to 35 to 40% of his constituents will lose care and benefits because of this bill and he doesn't give a shit. And he stands up there and he lies and says there would not be cats at the same time telling everyone he's the biggest, biggest Jesus person on the planet. They are all duplicitous and bankrupt and cruel and that.
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Progressive Commentator
But. And I think that gets to a core component of how what the MAGA does, the Christian signal. They accuse liberals of virtue signaling, but the real crime is this Christian signaling that Mike Johnson does that. All of the women in the MAGA movement, they wear a cross as they sit in gaslight and demonize and demoralize. They fellow citizens lie to them, tell them they're lazy. And the reason they can't get ahead is because of these trans people or these immigrants. The reason you're never going to get ahead is because nobody in Congress fights for you to have a livable wage. And they constantly fight for the billionaire class to get more and more and more. And then you have all of these people in America that sit at home and watch Fox News and buy into this narrative that somehow people that aren't the same skin color as they are the same gender or maybe somewhat gender fluid are somehow trying to destroy their lives. The problem is this, Elon Musk Jeff Bezos reap all of the benefits of taxpayer paid money. The faa, their private jets take off and land safely because our taxpayer money sees that it does Amazon, all of those trucks that drive on all of those roads, our taxpayer money has made sure that Jeff Bezos delivery trucks can deliver everybody's shit that they buy on Amazon, yet he pay very little taxes. But who do they want to blame for this? They want to blame the people that work for Amazon that don't make enough money, who then have to get subsidized and then Jeff Bezos won't even allow them to unionize. Same with a bunch of other of these corporations. And it's just abhorrent. And the Democrats have got to take an economic populist message all the way into the midterms because if you look at the New York City mayoral race, Mamdani won districts that Trump won. And that shows you that there is a vacuum that Trump filled. Filled. He filled a vacuum of people that have been demonized and demoralized and dehumanized and told that they're not worthy of livable wages. Think about that. American politicians telling their fellow citizens, yeah, you may work 40 hours a week and then you might have a side hustle, but you're not worthy and you're not good enough to make enough money. But this billionaire is. But yeah, by golly, we're going to raise your taxes and we're going to make sure he doesn't. And then we're going to tell you this trickle down stuff, it's just complete depravity. But while all this is going on, while this massive, horrific, immoral bill is moving and advancing through the Senate, this is what Trump, who sounds like a second grader, this is what he says.
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Donald Trump
On Fox News, that I helped China. I helped China. So by reducing it, we still don't know, we don't have the clarity on what you're going to do with These expiration of these pauses. July 9th. No, I think I just thought I just said it. You ready? You're going to send letters. I'm going to send letters. That's the end of the video. I could send one to Japan. Dear Mr. Japan, here's the story. You're going to pay a 25, okay?
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Progressive Commentator
Dear Mr. Japan had Joe Biden in an interview last year at this time said, Dear Mr. Japan, Jake Tapper, Fox News. They would all be losing their goddamn mind. You wouldn't be able to see straight. The fact that this man gets away with speaking like a second grader, acting like he has full blown dementia. Confusing. Hannibal Lecter is a real person. And the real issue of amnesty, it's just in asylums and insane asylums. It's just utterly, utterly insane. But I want to show you all in pumps. This is an AI image and this to me is exactly the mega base. And to our listener, it's two people at a trailer park with maga hats on, with a, with a sign that says help the billionaires.
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Political Analyst
That's exactly what they're doing. And I don't know if they're so ill informed or don't care enough about themselves that magus voters are the ones that will suffer the very most. And Donald Trump could give two shits.
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Progressive Commentator
And you know what's so crazy is they've been propagandized to tell you deserve this suffering. And they take it. And they fight for Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, who wasn't even born in this country. They fight for those guys to pay zero in taxes. And you know what they think? They think they're smart for somehow not paying taxes. All right, that's all we have for today. We'll see you all later. Sam.