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-- Exposing and explaining the Republican Social Security scam

-- Republican Congressman Andy Barr wildly claims that the American people voted for Elon Musk to get as much power as he is currently getting from Trump

-- Hakeem Jeffries has no idea whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk are in charge of the Republican Party

-- Donald Trump resurfaces at Mar-a-Lago with a bizarre mullet, looking very run down

-- Donald Trump voters are about to get what they deserve, and it's nothing to gloat about

-- Users continue to flee Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, and Bluesky continues to grow as a viable alternative

-- Exploring the important media differences between independence, bias, neutrality, and objectivity

-- This week's Friday Feedback

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-- New polling from the Washington Post reveals that most of the country dislikes Donald Trump's promised agenda, yet he still won

-- The upcoming "I told you so" situation that is about to develop will be devastating to Trump and Harris voters alike

-- Former Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz panics over news that the ethics investigation into him will be released

-- Detailing the upcoming Republican and billionaire assault on Social Security

-- Democratic Senator Dick Durbin snaps at CNN's Manu Raju when asked about a forthcoming proposal to increase Congressional salaries

-- The Donald Trump vs Elon Musk drama appears to be starting

-- Question as to whether Elon Musk is really in charge surface again after Trump caves to Musk on a funding bill resolution

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-- David talks about his meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House discussing the online creator ecosystem and media environment

-- A disoriented Donald Trump holds a bizarre press conference at Mar-a-Lago, riddled with lies, distortions, and confusion

-- Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene fully embraces the vaccines-cause-autism conspiracy theory

-- Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville parrots anti-vaccine propaganda in the context of RFK Jr's nomination by Donald Trump to be Secretary of Health and Human Services

-- A deep dive into why trickle down, supply side economics, including the sort of tax cuts favored by Donald Trump, cannot possibly work to help the economy

-- As the US Tiktok ban looms, questions rise about what might stop it, and the future of the platform in the United States

-- On the Bonus Show: Police ID 15-year-old girl as Wisconsin church shooter, AOC loses key vote for committee leadership, DC cafe banning people under age 30, much more...

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-- Donald Trump and RFK Jr will consider ending the childhood vaccination program

-- Steve Bannon calls for the prosecution and imprisonment of media figures, and suggests Trump run again in 2028

-- Senator Bernie Sanders concedes that the US is indeed already an oligarchy, and getting worse

-- A recent clip of Donald Trump talking about buying apples at the grocery store reminds us that the elites have no idea what normal people are going through

-- Donald Trump's deportation plan, if carried out, will destroy the American economy

-- David announces that he will stop deliberately mispronouncing the names of people he does not respect

-- Widespread reports claims that Donald Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is bombing during her meetings with Senators on Capitol Hill

-- An ABC news affiliate is the latest to promote "things in the sky" fearmongering, this time struggling to identify Venus

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump suing Des Moines register, fake electors from 2020 casting his 2024 votes, DC woman fired for saying she wouldn't serve Trump officials, and much more...

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-- A new Trump "resistance" isn't going to cut it this time, and what is truly needed is an enduring opposition

-- ABC News settles defamation lawsuit for $15 million with Donald Trump, a disastrous move that Trump will tout as a huge victory over the "fake news media"

-- Donald Trump admits that bringing grocery prices down, an important pillar of his campaign, is unlikely to happen

-- Reversing his campaign rhetoric, Donald Trump admits that he does know about Project 2025 and that some of it is "very good"

-- The MAGA agenda likely to be ushered in during Donald Trump's second term is likely to destroy the Republican Party from within

-- Governor Larry Hogan posts a warning to Twitter about "drones" that he saw over his house, which are actually merely stars in the sky

-- Elon Musk is slowly taking control of Donald Trump's incoming government

-- Peter Thiel gives what is possibly the worst answer of any interview ever during a conversation with Piers Morgan

-- On the Bonus Show: Senator John Fetterman joins Truth Social and calls for a Trump pardon, Trump selects his own Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes to lead intelligence advisory board, overdose deaths in the US fell 17% in 1 year, much more...

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-- Trump supporters are way too confident about the control they have of government now, as history shows they'll lose it after a few years

-- Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth is backtracking on previous comments as his nomination hangs by a thread

-- Fox News host Sean Hannity interviews Pete Hegseth in an attempt to help him get confirmed by the Senate

-- Donald Trump is named TIME's "Person of the Year" and backtracks on his campaign promise to lower grocery prices

-- Trump picks Kari Lake to lead Voice of America (VOA)

-- The Friday Feedback segment

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-- Brittany Page, host of The Page Perspective, fills in for David. Check out her YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@brittanyepage

-- Texas Senator Ted Cruz gets called out on his contradictions during a CNN interview with Kaitlan Collins

-- Outgoing Senate leader Mitch McConnell gives a tepid response to Trump returning to power

-- Anti-Trump strategist Sarah Longwell dunks on former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the DealBook Summit

-- Florida State Representative Susan Valdes changes her party registration from Democrat to Republican, growing the GOP's supermajority

-- Congresswoman Nancy Mace claims she was “physically accosted” by a transgender youth advocate who shook her hand

-- During Trump's first term, the Justice Department obtained records of media figures and elected officials who opposed them

-- Representative Sean Casten, a Democrat, calls out Republicans for protecting Matt Gaetz and blocking the ethics report from getting released

-- Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is expected to become the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, signaling a new generation of Democratic leadership

-- Daniel Penny, who was found not guilty of manslaughter this week for his involvement in the death of Jordan Neely, says to Fox News's Jeanine Pirro he has no regrets

-- On the Bonus Show: Jesse Dollemore joins Brittany Page to discuss RFK Jr.'s agenda in the Trump administration, prominent Democrats acquiescing to Trump, and much more...

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-- Andrea Chalupa, host of the Gaslit Nation podcast, joins David to discuss effective ways to push back against authoritarianism, and much more

-- The alleged assassin of United Healthcare CEO Brian Johnson has been identified as Luigi Mangione, who has been arrested, and his social media history is now a focus of attention

-- 28 seconds of pure cognitive dissonance from Fox News about Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny

-- The secret about Donald Trump's policies that his followers appear to have no idea about

-- Harmeet Dhillon has been nominated by Donald Trump to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, and this is a dangerous nomination that is getting very little attention

-- Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, runs away from questions about Bashar al-Assad after making a meaningless statement about her views on Assad's fleeing to Russia

-- Donald Trump spits out a word salad when asked by NBC News' Kristen Welker whether he will raise the federal minimum wage as President

-- A disoriented Trump puts up a bizarre Truth Social post about Democrats wanting to eliminate the popular vote

-- Jason Miller, Donald Trump's press flunkie, appears to whitewash everything Trump said about imprisoning members of the January 6 House Committee

-- On the Bonus Show: The danger of 3D printed ghost guns, only 22% support Biden pardoning Hunter, Trump chooses another family member for ambassador, and much more...

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-- Millions of Americans are about to feel the pain of Donald Trump's victory

-- Multi-billionaire Elon Musk met with millionaire US Senators to talk about reducing Social Security and Medicare benefits which average $1700 per month

-- Donald Trump's first list of people he wants imprisoned is told to NBC News interviewer Kristen Welker

-- Donald Trump says that RFK Jr will be investigating the link between vaccines and autism, which has been debunked for decades

-- Donald Trump admits that it's possible consumer prices will go up as a result of his planned tariffs

-- The allies of MAGA are preparing for a total takeover of Donald Trump's lame duck presidency

-- Alina Habba, the failed former lawyer of Donald Trump, is being hired as counsel to the President

-- A deep dive into the continued right wing lie that red states are better off -- they're not

-- Fox News gives Donald Trump a sycophantic, fake award, "Honorary Patriot of the Year," and it's humiliatingly pathetic

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-- Donald Trump resurfaces for an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker during which he reveals new authoritarian policy ideas and is generally clueless and confused

-- The incoming Donald Trump administration is clearly planning to generate chaos and disorder to create a pretext for seizing emergency powers

-- As JD Vance continues to be missing, Elon Musk travels to Paris with Donald Trump, raising questions about who is really in charge

-- During a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump humiliates the United States once again

-- A woman who lives on the border explains in a mere 60 seconds why the Trump/Republican deportation plan will simply not work

-- Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski melt down and attack their own audience over critical reaction to their visit with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

-- Alina Habba, failed former Trump lawyer, reminds us during a Fox News interview that she still cannot be trusted to tell the truth

-- Melania Trump takes the family grift to a new level, promoting vile $90 Christmas ornaments on Fox News

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-- Marjorie Taylor Greene sends out a tweet suggesting she's interested in getting a pardon from Donald Trump

-- Right-wingers are contradicting themselves on whether blanket pardons are a good thing

-- Former staffers for Tulsi Gabbard claim she regularly consumed Russian propaganda

-- Many Trump cabinet picks are accused sexual predators or people accused of covering up sexual misconduct

-- Donald Trump's margin of victory in the popular vote keeps shrinking

-- Senator Josh Hawley goes after airline CEOs during a congressional hearing

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