WEBVTT - Mehdi Hasan & Rep. Jared Moskowitz 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:08.200 where we discussed the top political headlines, and Fox News' 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.320 own Brian Kilmead says Putin is a bad guy, which 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.400 for some reason he needs to say. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.360 We have such a great show for you today. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:25.520 Ziteo's own Maddi Hassan stops by to talk about Trump's 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:31.400 promises to the American people and his current presidency. Then 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:37.159 we'll talk to Congressman Jared Moskowitz about his long feud 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.720 with Congressman James Comer. But first the news. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.840 So my Elon musk Stoge has been sued after using 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:50.760 US marshals to take over the US African Development Foundation. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.240 I think the interesting data point here is that the 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.960 head of the US African Development Foundation is actually a 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:04.720 conservative Republican. So the current chair Ward Woke Ward as 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.800 we call him, by the way, I just want to 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:12.520 point out this administration is so crazy. Here's Ward Bream. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.440 He is a Massachusetts based businessman. I just want to 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.160 have two seconds here. He has a photo with George W. Bush, 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.120 you know, famous leb w. He gave the keynote address 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.759 at the National Prayer Breakfast in two thousand and eight. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.920 You're going to be shocked to hear this. But this 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.240 guy ate no lib. Does it need to be said, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:36.559 if you give the keynote address to the National Prayer Breakfast, 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.800 you're probably not going to be a liberal. He was 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.680 the named the us ADF President. This is like yet 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.200 again another case of just mind blowing stupidity. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.360 So he wrote a letter that. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:53.320 States, in my absence, I have specifically instructed the staff 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.680 to adhere to our roles and procedures and not allow 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.480 any type of this kind of meeting without my presence. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.760 I look forward to working. So let me just point 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:08.400 out these guys did not let the young DOGE employees in. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.919 They did not let them go into the computers. Again, 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.359 remember these DOGE employees ranged from Big Balls you'll remember 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.000 Big Balls, to the guy who got fired for racism 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:25.000 but then rehired because racism should not be disqualifying in 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:30.440 DOGE because if it were, hahaha. This is all about 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:36.520 trying to disrupt, trying to cut off aid, trying to 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.840 neoter the federal government, make it not work, make everyone afraid, 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.120 and that's what they're doing. So Elon is going to 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.800 be met with a lot of lawsuits, just like he 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.880 was a Twitter. I mean, in some ways, watching him 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.240 do this in federal government, it's a little bit. He 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.800 just is exactly using the same playbook he did in Twitter. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.480 You know, remember in Twitter when he showed up with 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.440 the same let that sink in You know, we saw 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:08.000 him on the floor of seapack with a chainsaw saying. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.960 I am meme. I have become meme. You know. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.440 It's low comedy followed by corporate malfeasans. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.720 Yeah, and it really is hilarious because anyone who's ever 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.639 met people who work in these agencies knows that these 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:28.520 people are largely very conservative people. Them pretending that these 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.679 are all woke liberals who are like marching in BLM 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.520 Plaza is the one of the most silly things I've 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:34.000 ever heard. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:35.240 It's ridiculous. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.920 So, speaking of very silly things, MAGA is very concerned 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.760 that Justice Amy Tony Barrett is now Justice David Suitor 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.600 part two and has gone woke. 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.080 Yeah. I want to point this out. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.800 When someone does something that displeases MAGA, it doesn't matter 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:53.440 what it is. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.080 If you step out of line at all, you get. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.840 The hail of hate and threats if you are one 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.280 of their people and you step out of line, you 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.240 get it ten times more. So, for example, there's a 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.560 reason that MAGA hates Bill Crystal. There's a reason that 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.119 Trump is like tweeting about Bill Crystal. It's because they 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.880 think these are their people. I mean, not anymore obviously, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.760 but there's a reason that MAGA turned on someone like, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.360 you know, the people who they consider to be their people. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:26.560 There's a reason that Trump. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:31.159 Hates John Bolton so much, right, because he dared to criticize, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.880 to not deliver, to not sign off on the most 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.440 craven of Trump's orders. And so here we go, Amy 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:44.120 Coney Barrett. She was unwilling to vote for some of 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.680 the more craven Trump ideas. There were two different rulings 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:49.680 that Trump World. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:50.680 Did not like. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.839 One was they were mad that she's one of the 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.760 only checks on the administration's efforts to freeze federal spending. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.640 So she had ruled against Trump in these efforts. So 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:08.080 now Musk posted the only way to restore rule of 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:13.040 law to the people in America is to impeach judges, right, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.080 because of course, so look, you know they want her 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.719 to just sign off on whatever it is they want 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.840 to do in Trump World, And so she is going 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.080 to catch a lot of ir She did, remember overturned 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.000 Roby Wade, so there's quite a lot of reason to 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:34.880 think she ain't no lib. But the Trump world's angry 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:42.080 influencers are furious. DEI judge influencer Jack Pasobiac posted on 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:47.920 ex diversity, Equity and inclusion higher as opposed to DUI, 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:54.360 which is more of Trump's administrations. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:54.640 To say Mike Johnson's staff. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:59.520 Yes, Amy was a DEI appointee, said Laura Lumer, who 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.520 is always trying to get back and probably by the 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.320 end of this admin will be Trump's chief of staff. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.159 Again. They're very mad. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.760 You know, you can never make these people happy because 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.760 they really are so completely you know, they just demand 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.720 complete and utter Fieldy. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.400 Yep, speaking of Fielty, What are the funniest things to 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.920 watch on Keeople news these days? Is everyone trying to 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.040 justify these stupid tariffs. Trump's best buddy, Elon Musk, is 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.000 now one hundred and eleven billion dollars from them. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.440 Yeah, that's the one bright spot here is that Elon 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:39.120 Musk is destroying his wealth for some reason. It turns 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.640 out that destroying the federal government does not make you popular. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.880 Basically Elon Musk on Wednesday the world's richest man, with 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:51.320 his pockets one hundred and ten billion dollars lighter than 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.840 his peak networth of four hundred and sixty four billion. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.680 Here's what happened. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have made 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:03.159 the stock market plummet because of two things likely. I 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.599 mean again, you know, there's a lot of factors, but 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.680 the two biggest factors are the incredible instability of watching 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.040 someone take a chainsaw to the federal government and then 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:17.720 the incredible instability of tariffing our closest neighbors and allies. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.600 Tesla stock, which makes up a lot of Elon Musk's 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:26.679 enormous wells, took a hit from this market downturn. Musk 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.640 lost a billion dollars in one day, one point five 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.760 billion dollars. Here's the thing you have throughout the country 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:39.960 and throughout the world, people burning down Tesla showrooms. By 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.640 the way, no one should be doing anything violent, but 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:47.320 we're seeing that. We're seeing a groundswell of rage at 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.880 the richest man in the world. And also he is 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.680 losing money as it's going, which is you know, one 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.760 of the things that happens when you do that. I 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:01.120 think it's important to remember that he's also doing SpaceX 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:07.119 recently had some interplanetary trash raining down from the sky 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.280 in Florida. Again, you would think there would be some 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.560 legal would be some legal recourse. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:15.560 Yes for that. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:24.280 Maddie Hassan is the founder and editor of chief of Ziteo. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.760 Welcome to I don't know. Have you been on? Have 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.440 you not been on? It doesn't matter. Hi, Maddie, I've 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.079 been on this show. I know. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.040 Was I not forgettable by medical. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.760 Well, it's because honestly, you were a fancy cable news 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.000 host and I had to go through PR That's true. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.319 Now I'm a non fancy formal cable well as. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.800 Someone who is not a host of anything but her 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:52.679 own home. I host my canine friends in my own house. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:53.520 When I do. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.160 Something to be proud of exactly, can we just talk. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:00.120 We're the United States of Amnesia. We know nothing, we 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.480 remember nothing, we learned nothing, discuss. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.360 We have the memory of goldfish. 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.400 We memory hold everything, and therefore we at shot, surprised, 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.520 credulous when Donald Trump does things either a he told 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.120 us he would do or be did before. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:14.640 So, yes, we are in. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.480 This mess because people don't remember shit in this country. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.200 America in general has a lot of problems because we 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.920 don't remember anything from our history or anyone else's history. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.800 And now Donald Trump has obviously weaponized that for his advantage, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.520 to the point where he said in a press conference 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.160 with Kirs Starmer last week, did I say Zelenski was 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:33.760 a dictator? 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.439 And it's kind of like, I'm sure there. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:35.920 Are many of ems. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.120 Y did he say that? I'm sure he had a 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.040 receptive audience of people, like maybe he didn't. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.600 I mean, I'm telling you my favorite was I'm old 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.560 enough to remember nine to eleven. And Trump was amusing 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.840 in the office that Europe never came to our aid. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.160 Right, Okay, America went to war. I don't know if 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:57.920 you know about this. I feel like you may not. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.480 In numerous countries had nothing to do with Saudi Arabia, 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.880 right done under that right, stunned because we were mad 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.120 about terrorism. And look as someone who smelled the smoke 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.280 and flew over the ashes, like I get it, man, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.199 but also like NATO has actually worked out pretty well 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:18.280 for America. 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:18.800 Oh very well. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.560 All of the post war international architecture was basically constructed 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.040 to boost American primacies. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:24.760 There's a great irony. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.840 While some of us on the left, you know, have 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.319 had our criticisms of NATO, had our criticisms of view 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:30.280 n security. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.079 Care Chatrian Act. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.800 My point being, like even the liberal international architecture that 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.920 now the Republicans want to tear down. Elon Musk is 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.000 talking openly about withdrawing not just from NATO, but insanely 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.800 from the United Nations. All of that has been a 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.120 great benefit to the United States and its role in 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.280 the world as the sole superpower post Cold War. And 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.439 it's interesting that he's tearing this down because it makes 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.800 people ask questions whose interest is in It's clearly not 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.640 in the US Empire's interest. It might be in Donald 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.440 Trump's personal financial interest. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:57.480 It might align with his. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.400 View of the world, where the world is just a 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.839 kind of group of warring autocrats and he's just one 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.200 amongst many, alongside Shi Jinping and Vladimir Putin and the 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:05.720 rest of them. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.360 That's how he sees the world. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.040 And by the way, on the memory front, there's a 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.360 bunch of Americans who can't remember stuff, and then there 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.520 are a bunch of Americans who are just ignorant of history. 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.120 And Donald Trump is obviously in that second group. He 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.800 just doesn't know anything. Remember when he went to the 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.079 grave the cemetery with John Kelly and said, you. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.640 Know which side were we on in in the World Wars. 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.120 In fact, he said in the Oval Office just this 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.000 past week, Molly, why does. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.400 Japan not have to defend us? And we have to 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:31.160 defend them. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.679 Because we freaking run their constitution that way them in 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.600 a horrible world war and said you need to be 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.480 pacifist and we'll guarantee your security. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.400 And Trump's like, why did we do that? Who did? 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.239 My favorite is USA? 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.440 Because it was like they were like, we must staff 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.480 USA it And I'm like, isn't that just a front 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:50.200 for the CIA? 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.960 Hasn't that always just been a front for the CIA? 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.200 But that's what's so funny is that some on the 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.200 far left and some of the far right and be like, yeah, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.360 goodwinness to USACA. And I'm like, yeah, USA, I did 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.840 did some horrible stuff in terms of foreign governments pushing 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.800 American propaganda, but it also saved a bunch of babies 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.200 lives who are now going to die because Donald Trump 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.560 has basically gutted this department and what should have been 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.600 a bigger story was the former Acting Assistant Administrative USID 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.760 who published a memo to his superiors was then put 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.560 on leave. The New York Times and other outlets got 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.960 the memo, and it's stunning. It talks about your quarter, 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.120 I think, quarter of a million kids getting polio. It 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.120 talks about how many people are going to die from 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:27.560 malaria and HIV. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:28.560 It's horrific. 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.280 It's just it's mad Max predictions, and this should be 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.320 the biggest story in the US, but it's not. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:39.880 In MAGA world's defense, American children are also getting measles. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.480 So yes, all the children can suffer together before we 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.000 send them down the mines, right. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.880 I mean, there is a sort of call back to 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:53.200 Victorian America that is meant to be nonpartisan. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.040 When they say make America great again, I always say, well, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:56.800 what date. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.320 What year you want to go back to? Though it 0:12:58.360 --> 0:12:58.680 was great? 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:00.959 Really, we're getting more and more intel here from there. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.560 It's not nineteen fifties. It's more like eighteen fifties. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.760 One of the things that I think is the most 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.400 impressive about where we are right now is that the 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.120 federal government well not as decimated as it will be 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.360 if this administration ever ends, it's still pretty fucking decimated. 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.720 We know there are measles right now in Texas, New Mexico, 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:22.160 and Pennsylvania. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.319 What we don't know is. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:29.959 Whether or not there are measles in everywhere else. I'm 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.760 pretty convinced that measles are going to be the next 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.600 thing we're going to have to fucking deal with because 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.560 it's wildly contagious and we don't have the vaccination numbers 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.040 to get us where we need to be to prevent 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.400 another pandemic. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.400 I mean, get in line measles with bird flip. In 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.760 terms of what's coming back, you saw a couple of things, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:47.200 I would say. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.040 One is you saw Donald Trump literally push the autism 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.800 bullshit in his fake State of the Union in his 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.040 addressed to Congress. That might I mean, I don't know 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.880 how many people have pointed this out, and maybe I'm 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.640 wrong here, but surely, surely that is the most the 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:05.520 singular high profile platform that an anti vaccination talking point 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.360 has reached in modern world history. The President of the 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.840 United States using an official speech to Congress to basically 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.680 push this idea that vaccinations are causing orders. He didn't 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.840 say very cleverly said we don't know why the rates 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.360 are going up. We do know why the rates are 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.880 going up because of better information, better awareness, but clearly 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.840 not to do with the vaccine, as every single study 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.480 is shown. But he wanted to push that talking point 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.720 in the RFK junior sitting in the crowd loves. It's 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.640 a deeply dangerous talking point. It will end up killing kids. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.640 My biggest objection to Donald Trump's return to office was 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.840 the memory holding of the pandemic. Next week, thirteenth of 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.840 March is five years since we went international emergency mode. 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.880 Here we have memory hold the pandemic. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.240 I had people telling me we survived one Trump term, 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:46.120 we can survive another. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.720 Actually, no, four hundred thousand people didn't survive the first 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:49.360 Trump term. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.400 About two hundred thousand of them, according to the Lance 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.720 and Medical Journal, could have survived if Donald Trump hadn't 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.840 been president. So he literally oversaw the mass death of 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.280 Americans in his first term. We memory hold a Now, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.760 God forbid is you say we could see the deaths 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.040 of more children from diseases like measles that are easily 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.040 preventable and were preventable. But here's the worst, worst part 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.160 of it. Here's the real dystopian point. And I don't 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.160 want to leave your listeners hopeless. That this really really 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.840 makes me kind of darkens my mood. Is The evil genius. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:16.040 Of Trump and co. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.240 This time around is that they have found a way, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.480 unlike every right wing predecessor, to avoid any accountability by 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.120 basically destroying all the methods we have of knowing what 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.760 the fuck is going on. So you say, measle spaces, okay, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.200 but how do you know there are any measles cases? 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:32.520 The Department of Health's not counting. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.160 If a tree falls in a wood and no one's 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.640 around to hear it, does it make a noise? 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.560 If there are lots of meus cases. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.200 And the Department of Health and the CDC and the 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.200 NAH say there are not or aren't counting, And how 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:42.640 do we know? 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:43.400 You know? 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.880 And every in every aspect of government, he's destroying the 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.800 ability to document and examine whether in the past, whether 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.640 we had a Republican president or democratic president. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:52.280 And George W. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.760 Bush tried to do what Trump did in terms of 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.840 undermining the statistical collection of basic data. They're trying to 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.800 destroy the Weather Service, right, So when climate change carries 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.960 on destroying our country with more natural. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.760 Disasters, who's going to know, because they won't be an. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.080 Official count of how many natural disasters there are right now. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:12.640 It's not great now. The good news is no, there 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.520 is no good news. What is the good news? 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.840 The good news is that so far, in the short 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.200 period of time he's been president, most people have seen 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.240 through this bullshit, some people in his own base who 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.480 are quickly getting economically. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.520 Harmed in a way. We didn't realize it would be 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.120 this quick. I knew who's going to harm his own base, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:29.560 but I thought it would be a bit slower. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.320 I think that that kind of move fast and break 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.800 things is costing them popular support. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:34.960 Now. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:36.040 You could argue they. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.080 Don't care about popular support because they have no interest 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.320 in winning free and fair elections in the future. But 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.280 clearly that polling shows he's more unpopular than any president 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.160 at this point in their administration. Two months in, you're 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.680 seeing Muscus super popular. You're seeing Republicans at town halls 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.760 shouting at Republican members of Congress, and they'm now canceling 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:53.560 all town halls. 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.960 So I think in that sense, people are not that befuddled. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.320 I think most people outside of the magabase get it 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.440 that this is bull shit. Firing veterans across government is bullshit. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.399 But how does that translate into actual political costs for him? 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.120 I don't know yet, because this is not a normal 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.639 political party in a normal country. Worried about normal consequences. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.679 Yeah, no, I think that's right. I would also add 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.920 that yesterday I was at a dinner and I looked 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.200 at my phone. The woman next to me was giving 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.000 me a hard time about looking at my phone. I 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.600 had like literally had it away for like an hour, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.440 and then find she was like, you're not supposed to 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:28.879 do this here, and I was I wanted to like 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.080 punch her, which I know is not how you're supposed 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.960 to act. So I didn't, but I did think to myself. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.199 Well, the good thing is that woman doesn't go on 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:37.680 her phone, so she can't hear you saying this. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:38.879 Yes, let us pry. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:40.760 But the point of this is I looked at my 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.800 phone and there was a that they had closed the 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.359 airports in various parts of Florida because of space dust 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.800 debris coming from a SpaceX launch. Now you'll remember that 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.920 the man who is currently pruning the federal government despite 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.920 having no elected office, is also the man who is 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.639 launching these rockets into space that are closing these airports 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.480 in the state that is governed by Ron DeSantis, who 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.880 is sort of Trump's, one of Trump's sort of mini 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.280 Me's slash rivals. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:13.760 Kind of incredible. 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.000 I mean, you're very generous in referring to it as 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.800 pruning the federal governess more like flattering and burning a 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.959 federal government. Yeah, Rondi Santis is a pathetic figure who 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.600 is even more pathetic than he was when he ran 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.439 in the primaries and then pulled out like he's like 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.359 Roonder Sanders was the white knight of the Republican Party 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.679 who was going to save them from Trump. Some of 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.399 us said at the time that was bullshit. The man 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.240 has a glass jaw, he's got the of a chair, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.320 and he you know, he crashed and burned very quickly. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.640 Donald Trump mocked him and said that he grew fingers. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.440 I mean, Donald Trump suggested that Roondes Sanders was secretly gay. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.800 He suggested that Rondes Sanders was cheating on his wife. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.320 He suggested that Ronder Sanders had groomed high school girls 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.720 when he was a history teacher. And Sanders just took 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.280 it all and endorsed Trump for president. I don't know, 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.960 if you saw Megan McCain this week, Molly saying thank 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.240 you Donald Trump for something he said in his beach 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:01.879 that she liked, and you know, you have to think 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.600 about Meghan McCain and Meghan Kelly, and Ron De Santis 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:09.639 and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio publicly humiliated, but you 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.640 have to think about who are up against it. These 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.960 people have no spines, they have no shame. They have 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:18.760 been publicly humiliated and beaten down either directly or indirectly 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.479 Viya their families by Donald Trump, and yet they are 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.040 part of his praetorian guard. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.120 Right now. They are his strongest defenders. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.600 Marco Rubio is going out in the media and defending 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.840 his Russia policy, even though Marko Rubia does not believe 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:31.639 in his Russian policy even one percent. 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:33.720 Marko Rubia spent the past ten. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.640 Years being a hawk on Russia, warning against any appeasement 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.480