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2/21/25: Pence turns on Trump as simpler explanation surfaces Feb 21, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Amy Klobuchar, Democratic US Senator from Minnesota, joins David to discuss the early days of the Trump administration

-- Donald Trump's approval in February of the first year of his term is worse than any other President, other than his own during his first term

-- Finnish writer Mikko Marttinen has a simpler explanation for what is happening with Donald Trump, arguing he's simply not intelligence and declining quickly

-- Former Vice President Mike Pence publicly turns on Donald Trump, attacking him over his claim that Ukraine started the war with Russia

-- Donald Trump signs a terrifying order expanding presidential power

-- What happens when red states, disproportionately the takers of federal funds, run out of money?

-- Piers Morgan links antidepressant SSRI medications to mass shootings in his latest tirade

-- This week's Friday Feedback

-- On the Bonus Show: A third of Project 2025 has been implemented, and much more...

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2/20/25: Another plane crash, another demented rant, another terrifying day Feb 20, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, joins David to discuss what went wrong in 2024, the disaster that is the Trump-Musk presidency, and the path forward for Democrats

-- Yet another plane crash takes place as Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy flippantly says "air crashes happen"

-- Out of ideas, MAGA-world begins to transition into claiming that everything not going well today is the fault of former President Joe Biden

-- Lawyers have started to warn us exactly how a Trump administration would go after independent left wing media

-- Donald Trump stops pretending and goes full Putin in a deranged Truth Social rant

-- Part 2 of the Donald Trump / Elon Musk interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News reveals that Musk is the one holding the real power, not Trump

-- An addled Donald Trump glitches badly during a speech to "investors" in Miami, Florida

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump declares NYC congestion pricing dead, Brazil's former president faces charges over alleged coup plot, Trump's death penalty order sparks huge Luigi Mangione donation, much more...

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2/19/25: Trump running out of energy as Bernie goes nuclear on oligarchs Feb 19, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Donald Trump is running out of energy, and it's showing every single day

-- Egg price go nuclear, now up 30% in under a month under Donald Trump's stewardship

-- A new measles outbreak in Texas can be tied to vaccine hesitancy, despite the measles vaccine being very safe and very effective

-- Elon Musk babysits Donald Trump during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity that despite being a softball interview still went horribly wrong

-- An agitated Donald Trump loses it multiple times during a harebrained press conference

-- Senator Bernie Sanders clearly explains the oligarchy and authoritarianism rising in and thanks to the Trump administration

-- Stephen Miller, an adviser to Donald Trump, suffers a meltdown when asked basic simple questions by CNN anchor Brianna Keilar

-- On the Bonus Show: Elon Musk's DOGE website is off to a bad start, as legal sports betting has increased, so has gambling addiction, Trump administration pressuring Romania over Andrew Tate, much more...

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2/18/25: The future for Democrats, Elon's job may be illegal Feb 18, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Evaluating fears that Democrats will never win again

-- Donald Trump laughs while Elon Musk complains to Sean Hannity that liberals don't like him anymore

-- Fox hosts are visibly confused as they wrongly claim the money Elon Musk is saving will go to people to help them buy houses

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's Press Secretary, wildly claims that "tens of millions" of dead people are receiving Social Security money

-- Elon Musk's job appears to be illegal

-- Tom Homan, Donald Trump's deportation czar, says twice on national television that he has asked the DOJ to investigate Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

-- Tim Pool and Milo Yiannopoulos suggest, without evidence, that The David Pakman Show is receiving money from USAID potentially through shadowy non-profit organizations

-- The US National Anthem is once again brutally booed in Canada

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump suggests no laws are broken if he's "saving his country," Milei accused of crypto pump and dump, Elon Musk says team behind CBS's 60 Minutes deserves a "long prison sentence," much more...

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2/17/25: The fascist takeover begins, Hegseth & Vance falter badly Feb 17, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Donald Trump's fascist takeover is happening in real time, and many are completely missing it

-- Elon Musk will be babysitting Donald Trump during a forthcoming prime time interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News

-- Vice President JD Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference sounded like it could have been written by Russian President Vladimir Putin

-- Exploring the lack of mass rallies in opposition to the authoritarian takeover of Donald Trump

-- Egg prices hit another new record under Donald Trump, who now blames Joe Biden and the bird flu

-- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's global debut went horribly wrong

-- Elon Musk is doing in reality what the right has accused George Soros of doing for years

-- On the Bonus Show: Democrats turn on Eric Adams, army base name changed back to Fort Bragg, DOGE is targeting the penny, and much more...

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2/14/25: Egg prices up more, RFK confirmed, Trump deranged Feb 14, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Egg prices continue higher, now up 25% since Donald Trump became President

-- A reporter asks Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth a simple question about the Russia Ukraine war and Hegseth drops the ball

-- Linda McMahon, Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education, lays out a dystopian vision for the department during her confirmation hearing

-- During yet another demented rant, Donald Trump talks about "tic tac" when referring to TikTok

-- Trump bizarrely slams Mitch McConnell and suggests he is suffering from cognitive decline while doubting that he ever had polio

-- Fox News host Larry Kudlow, a former Trump adviser, is thrilled that under Trump, he can get hit hard with water pressure in his shower

-- Donald Trump holds a disastrous press conference alongside Indian Prime Minister Modi

-- At his swearing in, Secretary of Health and Human Service Robert F. Kennedy Jr says that God sent Donald Trump to him

-- This week's Friday Feedback

-- On the Bonus Show: Report finds Cybertruck is dangerous, Milo feuds with Tim Pool over Russian money, and much more...

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2/13/25: Trump surrenders to Putin, Tulsi becomes DNI Feb 13, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Attorney General Pam Bondi announces lawsuits against Trump adversaries including Letitia James as the targeting begins

-- Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed as Director of National Intelligence, a major victory for Vladimir Putin's Russia

-- Donald Trump completely surrenders to Vladimir Putin after a phone call with him

-- Donald Trump is so disoriented at a press event that he leaves without swearing in Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence

-- Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary, waves randoms papers around while trying to make a point

-- Trump's staff is increasingly treating him as if he had dementia, much the way Fred Trump was dealt with years ago

-- MAGA's plan to destroy "woke culture" is likely to backfire if it continues

-- Elon Musk's son tells Donald Trump to "shut up" and that he is "not the President" in a wild Oval Office moment

-- On the Bonus Show: X gives Trump $10 million, CFPB in shambles, egg purchases restricted at grocery stores, and much more...

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2/12/25: Inflation UP, egg prices RECORD HIGH, Elon takes over Feb 12, 2025

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-- The first inflation report under Donald Trump is in, and inflation is up and more than expected as Trump's campaign promises fail to materialize

-- Egg prices reach yet another all time record high despite Donald Trump's promises to immediately reduce egg and grocery prices

-- Donald Trump looks defeated sitting in the Oval Office a Elon Musk takes over while his son picks and eats boogers out of his nose, wiping one on the Resolute Desk

-- Donald Trump tells Fox host Bret Baier that he does not see Vice President JD Vance as his successor

-- No longer hyperbole, it appears that Elon Musk is genuinely in charge of the federal government

-- Tesla sales are collapsing globally as political fallout and technological fallout are plaguing Elon Musk's company

-- Donald Trump is once again obsessed with toilets

-- A total meltdown takes place on Donald Trump's Truth Social

-- Trump 2.0 has become the golden age of fraud

-- On the Bonus Show: Travel stories from David's trip to Europe, and much more...

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2/11/25: Judges strike down Trump orders, JD Vance doesn't care Feb 11, 2025

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-- Farron Cousins, host of Farron Balanced and Ring of Fire, fills in for David. Subscribe to Farron on YouTube: youtube.com/farronbalanced (David returns tomorrow)

-- A federal judge says that Donald Trump is ignoring his order to resume federal funding

-- A federal court prevents the Trump administration from sending immigrants to Guantanamo Bay

-- JD Vance writes "judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power"

-- Trump gets booed at the Superbowl and claims Taylor Swift was booed out of the stadium

-- Trump allies suggest they will target New York Attorney General Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump's business

-- Trump again threatens tariffs against Canada and Mexico

-- A Trump voter is shocked to learn that Trump is purposefully damaging the economy

-- A Minnesota law firm is suing Mike Lindell over unpaid debts

-- Farmers are reporting missing millions of dollars from the Department of Agriculture

-- Republican senators are largely silent over Trump's abuses of power, in fear that Trump and Elon Musk will retaliate

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump fleeced supporters out of billions with meme coin, Democrats already want to impeach Trump, measles outbreak hits Texas, and much more...

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2/10/25: President Musk's power grab continues, Biden's clearance revoked Feb 10, 2025

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-- Farron Cousins, host of Farron Balanced and Ring of Fire, fills in for David. Subscribe to Farron on YouTube: youtube.com/farronbalanced

-- Donald Trump reverses a Biden policy phasing out plastic straws

-- Attorney General Pam Bondi instructs the DOJ to investigate DEI, not white-collar crime

-- JD Vance convinces Elon Musk to rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned after his racist social media posts surfaced

-- A current DOGE staffer was once fired for leaking company secrets

-- Trump purges the prosecutors investigating Elon Musk's businesses

-- Trump revokes Joe Biden's security clearance just to spite him

-- Donald Trump gets triggered by "President Elon Musk" appearing on the cover of TIME Magazine

-- Trump speaks to reporters and exhibits signs of cognitive decline

-- Republicans are gutting the Department of Education, which will disproportionately harm red states

-- Democrats are desperate for a new party leader and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez may be the pick

-- On the Bonus Show: Another Capitol rioter going back to prison, Bernie and Josh Hawley team up to help consumers, Trump trying to eradicate "anti-Christian bias," and much more...

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