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3/21/25: Tesla facing disaster as GOP town halls torched Mar 21, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- David explores the difference between symbolic and operational politics and the inherent hypocrisies we all live with

-- Tesla recalls 46,000 Cybertrucks because they are falling apart in the latest blow to Elon Musk

-- Mark Levin makes it clear during a Fox News interview that Trump supporters simply do not care about law and order

-- How to build real, robust opposition to the Trump administration

-- Republican voters absolutely crush Republican Congressman Mike Flood at a town hall

-- Consumed with revenge, Donald Trump simply cannot stop

-- Another Republican town hall goes wrong, this time for Congressman Chuck Edwards

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: Newsmax's misleading Trump third term segment, More Trump market downturn excuses, and much more...

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3/20/25: Karoline Leavitt in shambles as legal losses mount Mar 20, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- New York Governor Kathy Hochul joins David to discuss how she will resist the directives of the Trump administration, including on mass deportations and and ICE roundups

-- Senator Bernie Sanders drops the hammer on the failures of Trumpism, explaining that the modern Republican Party has nothing to offer the average American

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's Press Secretary, gets brutally fact-checked once again during a press briefing

-- Donald Trump suffers multiple legal blows within 24 hours, but will they make any difference?

-- In the second part of his interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump completely falls apart

-- Looking at whether the end of Tesla has begun, and whether it is reversible

-- Fox News host Maria Bartiromo crashes, losing it over the shifting explanations for Donald Trump's harebrained tariffs

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump will order plan to shut down of the Department of Education, Steve Bannon admits MAGA operatives working on third Trump term, Republican Andy Biggs wants to hear from Republicans only, much more...

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3/19/25: Putin embarrasses Trump, Elon's nutty interview Mar 19, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) joins David to discuss the growing constitutional crisis created by the Trump administration, and much more

-- Russian President Vladimir Putin humiliates Donald Trump, keeping him waiting an hour for a phone call while Putin laughs on stage

-- A deep dive into what it would take to really get Americans protesting in their streets against their government

-- Donald Trump cracks, demanding the impeachment of a judge who ruled against him

-- After Trump says a judge should be impeached, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issues a warning

-- Fox News host Laura Ingraham interviews Donald Trump and it goes as poorly as one would imagine

-- Elon Musk is interviewed by Fox News' Sean Hannity, and Musk claims to be a great person in the interview

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump pulls Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden and also fires both Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission, "segregated facilities" are no longer banned in federal contracts, much more...

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3/18/25: Global war explodes, constitutional crisis is here Mar 18, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Despite claiming to be the antiwar president, Donald Trump is presiding over a new escalation in Gaza, has launched attacks in Yemen, and still hasn't solved the Russia-Ukraine war

-- A true constitutional crisis is here as Donald Trump's White House blatantly ignores a specific court order with regard to deportations

-- Donald Trump announces he will be releasing JFK files, in addition to a number of other disoriented comments

-- Donald Trump speaks from a balcony, channeling Evita, while attacking journalists

-- David explores the connection between a chapter in his book "The Echo Machine" and the lack of a shared agreement on facts and problems in modern politics

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, melts down when fact checked during a press briefing

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, humiliates herself during a Fox News appearance

-- Joe Rogan launches overt white national talking points

-- On the Bonus Show: El Salvador's president taking advantage of Trump deportations, Tesla board members selling their stock, heat ages people as much as smoking, and much more...

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3/17/25: Tesla collapsing, Trump declares Biden pardons void Mar 17, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- 94% of Germans say they would not buy a Tesla as Elon Musk's company is in serious trouble globally

-- Tesla has reportedly stopped Cybertruck deliveries because the vehicles are falling apart as they drive around

-- Donald Trump unleashes authoritarian insanity during a speech at the Department of Justice

-- Donald Trump declares media outlets adversarial to him "illegal"

-- A new report finds that the right wing is dominating the left in the online news space

-- A man votes for Donald Trump and his Peruvian wife is subsequently detained and thrown into a detention center

-- In a middle of the night meltdown, Donald Trump declares Joe Biden's pardons "void" and "vacant"

-- Supposedly "anti-war" Trump launches new attacks in Yemen

-- A confused Donald Trump delivers a series of disoriented statements while flying on Air Force One

-- On the Bonus Show: US deports hundreds despite court order, Republicans push to make "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a mental illness, students wonder why college tuition costs more as online enrollment grows, much more...

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3/14/25: Economic panic as Republicans are out of ideas Mar 14, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- MAGA and Donald Trump are terrified as consumer panic is rising as consumer spending declines precipitously

-- CSPAN caller is in tears over what is happening to the economy

-- Republican Senator Mitch McConnell turns on Donald Trump's tariffs, much too late to make any difference

-- Donald Trump is creating a recession out of thin air, a rarity in the history of recessions

-- Europe is specifically targeting red states with its retaliatory tariffs

-- Right wingers melt down because a contestant on the reality show Love is Blind rejected her fiancé over his political views

-- The real reasons that Trump an MAGA cannot accept basic facts

-- This week's Friday Feedback

-- On the Bonus Show: Right-wing media reacts to Trump destroying the economy, and much more...

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3/13/25: Fox & MAGA now admit it will get bad, Tesla protests explode Mar 13, 2025

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-- Ritchie Torres, US Congressman representing New York's 15th district, joins David to discuss Donald Trump and Elon Musk's destruction of the US government

-- Fox News host Jacqui Heinrich suggests it might be time for Donald Trump to tell the American people that the economy will be difficult for some time to come

-- Peter Navarro throws a tantrum when Fox News host Will Cain admits that economic hardship appears to be coming

-- Tesla protests explode nationally against Elon Musk

-- Donald Trump falls apart during a press event, saying "everybody is transgender" and other nonsequiturs

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, doesn't like being asked for the date on which the economy becomes the responsibility of Donald Trump rather than Joe Biden

-- Unable to control himself because other countries aren't laying down for Donald Trump, Trump explodes on Truth Social

-- Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr mispronounces everything while trying to claim certain food elements are unhealthy

-- On the Bonus Show: Who will lose the most if Social Security breaks, Trump threatens 200% tariff in European alcohol, Congress reignites effort to ban hair discrimination, much more...

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3/12/25: Trump's Tesla infomercial implodes, Europe hits red states hard Mar 12, 2025

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-- Donald Trump, desperate to save Elon Musk's Tesla, does a bizarre and humiliating infomercial on the White House lawn during which he says he will buy a Tesla

-- No matter what MAGA tells you, not buying a Tesla is not "cancel culture," it's capitalism

-- Is Fox News starting to turn on Donald Trump?

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's weaponized Press Secretary, gets brutally fact checked over her tariff lies

-- MAGA is slowly shifting to "cutting Social Security is good"

-- An examination of how, in just 35 days, Donald Trump has taken the American economy from totally reasonable to being on the verge of a recession

-- Out of options, Republicans are changing the definition of inflation

-- Fox News host Laura Ingraham delivers a brutal impeachment warning to Donald Trump

-- On the Bonus Show: Inflation at 2.8% in February, Katie Porter running for California governor, Utah to ban fluoride in water system, and much more...

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3/11/25: Trump recession dominates, Elon destroying everything Mar 11, 2025

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-- Ruth Ben Ghiat, internationally acclaimed historian, speaker, and political commentator, joins David to discuss America's worrying descent into fascism under Donald Trump

-- The stock market continues to tumble over Donald Trump's trade war and broader economic uncertainty

-- Tesla stock continues to plummet, losing over half of it's value since December

-- Bernie Sanders exposes Donald Trump and Elon Musk's plan to destroy the working and middle classes for the benefit of the rich

-- Donald Trump is using the short stairs on Air Force One, which was considered a warning sign under Joe Biden

-- Donald Trump is buying a Tesla in a desperate attempt to help out Elon Musk

-- Elon Musk talks about "white replacement theory" in an interview gone wrong

-- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about making American healthy again while at a Steak 'n Shake

-- On the Bonus Show: US added to civil rights watchlist, Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony, British Columbia bans US alcohol at government stores, and much more...

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3/10/25: Recession prep starts as corporate media ignores Bernie Mar 10, 2025

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— Senator Bernie Sanders is holding massive rallies in the Midwest and corporate media simply does not care

— Billionaires Donald Trump and Elon Musk have decided that the average American must sacrifice in order to enact their outrageous tariffs and layoffs

— Fox Host Maria Bartiromo is now admitting that a recession is likely, but makes clear that she would blame Joe Biden, not Donald Trump for it

— Donald Trump doesn't deny, and appears to admit, that a recession is coming

— In a bizarre event at the Oval Office, Donald Trump says "they" rigged it and he won, chastised a reporter for asking the "wrong" question, and generally made no sense

— On Air Force One, a disoriented Donald Trump is unable to answer basic questions, choosing instead of attack reporters

— After failing to reduce egg prices "on day one," Donald Trump now shares and article telling people to "shut up" about egg prices

— Despite expectations from some on the left, Donald Trump confirms that there will be no defense spending cuts or cuts to the military

— On the Bonus Show: Canada's next prime minister, DC Black Lives Matter mural will be erased, Trump establishes Bitcoin reserve, and much more…

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