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MAGA Mike Johnson
The House stands adjourned until noon on Tuesday. Next for morning hour debate.
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Maga Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House, shut down Congress once again. You heard it right there. The next time Congress gets back into session tomorrow, they just don't do any work under Magamike Johnson. Now Maga Mike was panicking because the Senate parliamentarian knocked out the $1 billion in funding that the House was going to give in the reconciliation bill for Donald Trump's Golden Ballroom. So Maga Mike shut down the House of Representatives in order to regroup and figure out how to loot and pillage a billion dollars from American taxpayers to now the Golden Ballroom. And so because this was a reconciliation bill, the magazine were trying to do an end run around the 60 vote cloture requirement in the United States Senate. Otherwise it would be subject to a filibuster because they really wanted to get Donald Trump that $1 billion for his golden Ballroom. But you see the Senate parliamentarian, it's this little known position but has a lot of power when the Senate tries to pass things through reconciliat with the House versus needing the kind of 60 vote marker in order to avoid a filibuster. But the Senate parliamentarian made a ruling that this reconciliation bill Cannot have the Golden Ballroom, $1 billion of funding in it. Here's how it was announced. Senate parliamentarian just knocked out the provision and the Republican bill to spend $1 billion on Trump's ballroom. Per the Budget Committee Dems. They challenged it and they won the challenge in front of the parliamentarian. We expect Republicans to change this bill. Senator Markley says this bill to appease Trump. Democrats are prepared to challenge any change to this bill whatsoever. Midas Touch Networks chief DC correspondent Scott McFarland says tough break for Donald Trump's ballroom. The Senate parliamentarian rules that the $1 billion project would require 60 votes for approval per Senate Budget Committee Democrats. A very, very steep climb. It cannot pass with 50 as the mag trying to jam this one in. So what are the MAGA Republicans doing right now? In addition to shutting down Congress, shutting down the House of Representatives? I mean, you probably like, pen, is this deja vu. You told us in the last video last week they shut down Congress then you did one, two weeks before. This is what MAGA Mike is doing because he runs the House like the Russian Duma. A rubber stamp for dear leader Donald Trump. It's so sickening. But in addition to shutting it down, the MAGA Republicans over the weekend held something called rededicate. 250. Rededicate. 250. Where it basically was this, you know, kind of right wing, kind of phony Christian nationalism, like Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. But not actually living the values. Just like treating Jesus like it was like, like a football game. He's like a football game or something. And they're like, they bring up these like, so called pastors and these so called religious leaders and they're like, and God blessed us to give Donald a ballroom that's golden, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to give him a golden ballroom. I'm serious. This is, that's my impression. Right there. Right here is one of these pastors. God wants him to have a ballroom. So as the ballroom has been struck down by a court and by the Senate parliamentarian, here's what's going on here. Play this clip. It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man, to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand. It's extraordinary.
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We only had to wait 200 years.
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Then you have MAGA Republican Senator Tim Scott give a speech and he's like. And everybody, when I say Jesus, I want to hear you shout Jesus. And it's like, okay, like y' all are covering up The Epstein files. Like you're covering up child sex trafficking rings. Okay? Donald Trump is like the. I don't care if you're religious or not religious. Donald Trump's the most low class, low character, immoral, sicko that frickin ever existed. Or at least one of them here. But we can play this clip so you can hear for yourself. Jesus says Tim Scott. Let's play it. How many of you love Jesus? I can't hear you.
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I said, how do you love Jesus?
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Oh yeah. Then they bring on Reverend Franklin Graham. And Reverend Franklin Graham says, we need to stop gay marriage. We need to stop the transgender, we need to stop people from loving people and we need to hate in the name of Jesus. We need to hate each other. This is what. I'm serious. This is what Franklin Graham says. It's a hate. It's a Christian nationalism hate rally on the National Mall. Here, play this clip.
MAGA Religious Speaker/Trump Supporter
America has become morally rotten, completely sick with sin. Transgenderism, same sex marriage, opening women's locker rooms to men are just the tip of the iceberg. Why do we need to rededicate ourselves? When God sent the flood and destroyed the earth, it was because man's heart had become so evil and violent. In the news we see unimaginable violence. Rapes, murders, mass shootings. On YouTube, there's so much violence. Movies, video games are full of violence. We have an insatiable appetite for violence. And I believe this grieves the heart of God and will bring his judgment if we don't repent as a nation.
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And then you had another so called pastor, a MAGA Pastor Robert Jeffress tells the people gathered that if the founding fathers were around today, they would call themselves Christian nationalists also. Here, let's play this clip. These leaders who loved our country and loved our God would be called Christian nationalists today. And it is a title they would have gladly embraced. By the way, if being a Christian nationalist means loving Jesus Christ and loving America, count me in. Then you have J.D. vance. He appeared via prerecorded video at this thing and he's like, pray for me, will you? Will you pray for me? I ask you from the bottom of my heart, pray for me. I need your prayers right now more than ever. These people are the biggest con artists in the world. And like you know J.D. vance's history, right? In high school, J.D. v said that he was gay and then he said he got gay conversion. His name wasn't even JD Vance, it was another name. And then he said that he's not gay because he got Gay conversion. And then he came out as like an Appalachian. I'm an Appalachian, one of the Appalachians, like from the suburbs of Cincinnati. And he was trying to act like, I'm an anti Trumper and Donald Trump is Hitler is what he would say. And then he became like an anti gay, like Trump sycophant, like this guy's. And then he's involved with three different names. So he goes, pray for me. Here, play this clip. And just as I pray for all of you, I ask for your prayers for me, for the President and for the entire Cabinet. I always ask people to pray for wisdom and for courage for their leadership. Pray for wisdom that we know the path God wants us to walk. Pray for courage that we have the ability to walk that path. You'll be in my prayers, as I hope I'll be in yours. May God bless you all. Then Mag and Mike Johnson, who shut down the house, he gives a speech and just goes, and it's time we rededicate ourself and say, God, God, we know what you need to do. I mean, it's just stop with this, you know, stop with this stuff. And again, if you're religious, if you're not religious, if you. If you're no religion, I want you just to be a good person. And I don't want you to use the Bible or any religion as a pretext to harm people like these Magas. How dare they use the Bible and religion in order to engage in such sickening, disgusting behavior. Here's what Maga Mike says. Let's play it.
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Lord, today we pray that you grant us that same devotion to these United States. Give us courage, Lord. Make us worthy of all those who devoted and sacrificed their lives so that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. Almighty God, we ask that you hear these solemn petitions. Just as we in the beginning dedicated this land to your most holy name. Today, here, lord, in this 250th year of American independence, we hereby rededicate the United States of America as one nation under God.
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And then they bring on Marco Rubio. And Marco Rubio is like before the west, in the United States, history was filled with all of these other civilizations that went nowhere because they didn't have the right religion. But because we've got the right religion, we are thrive. It's like, okay, dude, shut the heck up, you idiot. Like, you're a clown, you're a fraud, you're a phony. Nobody's buying your shtick. Here's what Mark Pathetic. Marco. He looks sweaty too. He looks all sweaty and freaking gross. Here, play this clip.
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It is no coincidence that America from the very beginning has occupied a unique and exceptional place in world history. Before the Christian west, most societies and civilizations, for that matter, thought in stagnant cycles. The flooding of denial, the return of the rains, the cycle of the harvest. History for them was a wheel to nowhere. It turned and turned, only to end up back where it began. But our faith calls us outwards into the limitless darkness of the unknown. It tells us to go for forth and preach the gospel to the world as a witness unto all nations, unto the ends of the earth. From that command came America. Our nation, more than any other in history, was shaped by this Christian idea
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MAGA Religious Speaker/Trump Supporter
And in his own house he prosperously affected. And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven, that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people, if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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But he did post lots of bizarre memes like, coming soon. The reflecting pool. This is going to drive the libs angry, man. We're going to paint the reflecting blue, the reflecting pool blue and turn it into a real pool. And when it grows additional algae, and you'll see it more because it'll be bright blue. So you'll see all of the green. And as it continues to leak, that's going to own the libs, man. That's what we do. What do we stand for on the right wing? We own the libs, man. Americans are suffering. They can't afford anything. Groceries, gas. We have the highest credit card delinquency in generations. Student debt delinquencies, the highest in generations. You've got people who can't find a job, they can't buy a home, they can't pay their rent. But we're going to own the libs with reflecting pools, man. Okay, guys. He's so stupid. And then MAGA Mike Johnson, shutting down Congress and talking about the issues that I know are on the top of Americans mind banning mifepristone. A big deal for maga. Mike, let's play it.
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This other legal big case that came out of Louisiana, which is you guys essentially down there, have been fighting the use of the abortion pillar mifepristone because Louisiana has basically outlawed nearly all abortions. But people can get this through the mail. It went to the Supreme Court about whether it would pause in order. That meant you had to at least have an in person visit. The court's not going to do that while the case plays out. There were objections by Justices Thomas and Alito saying essentially by allowing these pills to flow into states where abortion is not widely available, it's going around the Dobbs decision and there are calls for the administration to do something more about it.
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Thomas and Alito are exactly right. It's an end run around state laws and you have a number of states who have acted it through our small the democratic process to address that issue. And by mailing the drugs to women across state lines, you go around the state laws and they're exactly right. It's a serious problem. Abortions have increased in number since Dobbs overturned Roe. And that's a great concern to us. The mailing of this drug is a very dangerous thing. You're sending it to young women without physician oversight or assistance and people are being harmed in more ways than one. And so I think it's a big issue. You know, I'm encouraging the administration to, to assist with that and I think there's a lot of evaluation on how they can handle it.
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Yeah, I know there's pressure that the FDA could be doing more potentially to oversee how that moves through the system. Okay, I want to ask you, we're obviously here at this faith event and
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so Mag and Mike, what do you say to black voters about redistricting? Here, play this clip.
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So what is your message to black Americans, black voters, about this redistricting?
MAGA Mike Johnson
The Supreme Court issued a long awaited opinion and I think it was long overdue. And they stated the obvious, that drawing congressional lines must be fair. You cannot draw lines on the basis of race. And that's what was done in Louisiana. So they declared it to be an unconstitutional gerrymander. And it was. This is brings back fairness and certainty to the system. And I think a lot of states are looking to make sure that their maps are not unconstitutional like Louisiana's was,
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as you invoke the word of God. Maga. Mike, that's exactly what disenfranchising black voters and gutting the Voting Rights Act. So when are we going to get back to talking about, I don't know, kitchen table issues? Maga, Mike, you want to talk about the suffering of the American people? Nah. Once we deal with Hormuz, we'll deal with it. Here, play this clip.
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So CBS News had some polling out this morning showing 76% of people are concerned, 67 say they are stressed about their own personal financial situation. You know that generally the incumbent is punished in the midterms and people are feeling very uncertain about how they're doing personally. How do you campaign against that?
MAGA Mike Johnson
Well, this relates to the last segment. We're talking about the street of Hormuz. Really. All points lead back to that. Gas prices are too high because of that. And then that has an effect on how goods are transported to the grocery store and all the rest. So as soon as we get that straightened out, we will get back to the kitchen table issues, the economic issues that we put in place to make the economy grow.
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I know, so utterly pathetic. But you know, if you take a look at Donald Trump's approval right now, you see record lows. The latest CBS YouGov poll, April was the last one that was taken. Donald Trump's approval was 39% in that one. Now it's at 37% approval, 63% disapprove on the issue of immigration. Donald Trump's net negative, 14. On the Iran, net negative 32. On the economy, net negative, 34. On inflation, net negative 46. These are historically bad numbers. And MAGA's gearing up right now. This is how CNN reported it. MAGAs are already planning to run the same playbook across the country, but specifically in Ohio, attacking Democrats as being out of step on immigration and transgender rights. They're just going to attack the transgender community. And so, so the MAGA Republicans are like Sherrod Brown, who's the Democratic candidate running for Senate there is the absolute perfect political cicada. This is a guy who comes out of the ground and pretends he's moderate working class American and then comes here to Washington D.C. and he's a hardcore liberal, man. You know, he's such a hardcore liberal, you know, it's like giving people fair wages and healthcare and fighting for people to have affordable homes and supporting unions and work with just a hardcore liberal, man. You support marginalized communities, man. Like, come on, get with the program, man. I mean, these people are, again, we just have to mock these people. They're so damn pathetic. They're all a bunch of losers. Truthfully, there's like the biggest losers in life. And here's finally what they're as they shut down Congress, here's what the big thing they were talking about. This is Maria Bartiroma bringing on Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche like Todd. Tony. Tony, Are we going to be able to Are we going to be able to prove that the 2020 election was stolen? This is what the American people want. Can we prove that the 2020. Wait, that's what we talked was the 2020. Still? That's my Maria Bartiroma impression.
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Let's play it so you believe there will be at some point a definitive answer to whether or not the 2020 election was stolen?
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I don't. I'm not going to promise there's going to be a definitive answer that wouldn't be fair to you or anybody else. But we are looking at it and we're hoping to get one. There you have it folks. Let me know what you think Hit subscribe if you like this video. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching everybody. New Midas merch head to store.midustouch.com today and get yourself the best pro democracy gear and show your support. That's store midas touch.com
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In this episode, the Meiselas brothers dive headfirst into the latest dysfunction in the U.S. House of Representatives—specifically, Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson's abrupt congressional shutdown after the Senate parliamentarian struck down a $1 billion "golden ballroom" earmark for Donald Trump. They dissect the ongoing efforts of MAGA Republicans to merge politics and extreme Christian nationalism, lampoon far-right religious rallies, and highlight the contrast between the religious rhetoric and the actual policies impacting everyday Americans. The show is rich with incisive commentary, biting humor, and a recurring theme: MAGA priorities are wildly disconnected from genuine kitchen table issues.
The hosts maintain a trademark blend of sarcasm, exasperation, and deep concern for American democracy. While the tone is comedic and irreverent, the substance is squarely focused on exposing the performative, out-of-touch, and, in their view, dangerous priorities of MAGA leadership and their religious allies.
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This episode is a firehose of political analysis, humor, and critiques aimed at the House GOP, MAGA’s fusion of politics and extreme faith, and the growing disconnect between MAGA priorities and the actual crises facing regular Americans. With legislative dysfunction as the backdrop, the Meiselas brothers show how grand culture war distractions and religious spectacle are being used to deflect from both policy inaction and real-world hardship.