MAGA Mike In Terror as Trump Takes Away his Job!!
2/22/202621 mincomplete
0:00Say goodbye to your job, MAGA Mike Johnson, the worst Speaker of the House in
0:06American history, frankly, a Speaker of the House in name only, a Trump sycophant.
0:12And MAGA Mike Johnson, MAGA leadership in both the House and in the Senate are
0:17panicking as they see the prospects of them losing their jobs increasing by the day
0:24as midterms approach. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans are unable to cover up the
0:31Epstein files. I mean, they may be hiding 50 terabytes or so of documents, but
0:37the American people know that what's already been produced is utterly grotesque and horrific.
0:44And MAGA Mike and Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans can try to pretend that
0:49Donald Trump is vindicated. But quite the contrary, what is said about him in those
0:54files is utterly disgusting and grotesque and horrible.
0:59And it shows a pedo protection racket, in my opinion, for this Epstein class right
1:05there. Then, of course, you have Donald Trump's tariffs against the world being struck down
1:11by the United States Supreme Court on Friday.
1:13And then what does Donald Trump immediately do?
1:16He unlawfully invokes another so -called tariff power from the Trade Act of 1974, Section
1:25122. Donald Trump imposed 10 % tariffs on the entire world.
1:30And then he also revoked the exemption on de minimis tariffs, tariffing everybody who purchased
1:37this thing. Now, $800 or less vindictive, horrible, despicable.
1:42That sums up Trump and MAGA right now.
1:45Now, MAGA Mike Johnson posted the following message yesterday.
1:48He goes, no one can deny that president's use of tariffs has brought in billions
1:54of dollars and created immense leverage for America's trade strategy and for securing strong, reciprocal,
2:03America -first trade agreements with countries that had been taking advantage of American workers for
2:09decades. Congress and the administration will determine the best path forward in the coming weeks.
2:16You might want to read the Constitution there, MAGA Mike.
2:20There's a little something called Article 1, Section 8, which talks about the power of
2:25taxation belongs to Congress. You're supposed to zealously guard that as a co -equal branch
2:32of government. MAGA Mike, not behave like the Duma in Russia for Vladimir Putin.
2:38But MAGA Mike, this is why you are going to lose your job.
2:41This is why the MAGA Republicans are going to lose their jobs in the midterms.
2:46And the voters are absolutely pissed.
2:49I mean, just take a listen to this Republican caller on C -SPAN yesterday who
2:55talks about Donald Trump's massive loss before the United States Supreme Court.
3:00Paul, an Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey Republican.
3:02Paul, your reaction to the Supreme Court's decision on the president's tariff policies?
3:08Well, I'm delighted. Tell us why.
3:12I think it's about time that President Trump was told that he just can't arbitrarily
3:17say that there's an emergency and I have to be the one to cure it.
3:23And I think that I'm happy to see that it was a six to three
3:28decision. And it shows me that there is hope for the Supreme Court in the
3:33future. And we're hearing from small business owners like this across the country.
3:37Play this clip. The president just ruled that, I mean, excuse me, the Supreme Court
3:42just ruled that the president can no longer impose tariffs moving forward.
3:46How do you feel about this?
3:48Well, you know, I was bracing for the worst.
3:50And to get that, the ruling today was such a relief.
3:56I'm nearly in tears and I'm shocked at how relieved I am.
4:02This is big. It's very big.
4:04That's fantastic. And as Harry Enten explains, Donald Trump is underwater on every single issue.
4:10His worst issue is the Epstein files, but on everything, whether it's inflation, foreign policy,
4:16the economy, tariffs, negative 60, negative 20, negative 20, negative 25, negative 39.
4:22Here, play this clip of Harry Enten.
4:24Here, play this clip. ABE, anything but Epstein.
4:26Take a look at Google searches for Epstein.
4:28In fact, in the month of February, it is higher than it's ever been.
4:32Up like a rocket, up 900 % versus a month ago.
4:35And the top name associated with Googling for Epstein, well, it is Donald Trump.
4:41What is the worst issue for Donald Trump of any of the major issues?
4:45Look, he's underwater on immigration, foreign policy, the economy, and tariffs.
4:48The Epstein case, though, is on another planet.
4:51Look at this, negative 39 points.
4:54The Epstein case is not the story.
4:57The Trump administration, and Trump in particular, and Republicans at large, won in the news
5:01because it is a big political loser.
5:04I mean, here's the latest.
5:05A third American death linked to ICE crackdown that was uncovered by Newsweek on the
5:11morning of March. We're 21.
5:11And the workload's gonna be 3 .6 Já es additionally.
5:1115, 2025, you had another American citizen who was murdered by Donald Trump's Gestapo.
5:20They covered it up. And now we know yet again that the Trump regime, this
5:26is what they do. They cover up more killings, more murders of Americans and migrants.
5:31Just so, again, utterly despicable.
5:34San Antonio man was killed last year and they just tried to cover it up.
5:37With all that going on as well, I just think that as I look to
5:40the midterms and people talk about blue wave, blue tsunami, is it going to happen?
5:45But I think that there is something bigger that potentially can happen, a bigger opportunity
5:50for the Democratic Party to be actually fighting for people, to be fighting for workers,
5:57to be fighting for equal rights and dignity and fair wages and housing and really
6:04stand for something, not just stand against Donald Trump and his despicable regime, which we
6:10need to do very forcefully, but to stand for something and to really give a
6:15vision. And I actually think that vision is aligned with where the people are right
6:21now. And so I want to bring on a congressional candidate who's running in California's
6:2611th congressional district. That's going to be Pelosi's old district, Shoykat Chakrabadi.
6:31And he, to me, is one of these candidates who doesn't just represent a potential
6:37way the Democrats take control of the house.
6:39Because what does control mean if you don't do things with your control?
6:44Like Maga Mike Johnson is the speaker of the house.
6:48He doesn't do anything. He doesn't have control other than destroy things and answer to
6:52Donald Trump. So Shoykat, it's great to have you here.
6:55I want to go over your background in a bit, but I want to start
6:57by saying, I think there's a bigger opportunity and lots of people see hope in
7:01you and a number of other candidates across this country as representing that.
7:06Yeah, I absolutely agree. I think what people are looking for right now is yes,
7:11in the short term, we do need people who are going to stand up and
7:13fight this authoritarian regime that is taking control of our country and they want Democrats
7:18with real fight. But beyond that, it's about what do we do after that?
7:23We can't go back to a pre -Trump status quo because that's what got us
7:26Trump. The economy as it was before wasn't working.
7:29Working people were working longer and longer hours to afford less and less.
7:32And so people want some sort of bold sweeping change.
7:35And I believe right now we're in our New Deal moment.
7:38We're at the point where we have to envision a new society, one that puts
7:42working people first. And it's all really coming to a head.
7:45I mean, with a combination of like the Epstein files coming out, showing how there
7:48is this cabal of wealthy elite pedophiles running the world, which is absurd, but it's
7:53true, it seems like. But at the same time, you have AI popping up and
7:57these tech oligarchs and crypto billionaires gobbling up more and more of the wealth in
8:02our society and trying to create a permanent underclass.
8:04People do not want this Mad Max dystopian future.
8:07And I think we as Democrats have to offer the alternative for how do we
8:11actually create something way better than what we had before out of the carnage that
8:15we see right now. You saw this, right?
8:17You were, if everyone doesn't know, you were AOC's campaign manager.
8:20You were her chief of staff through about 2019.
8:23Then you ran new consensus.
8:25So you've been embedded in these types of campaigns, speaking to people, seeing on the
8:32front lines what it's like.
8:34And it's just so fascinating to me.
8:36And this is what Senator Sanders always says to me when he comes on the
8:39show, is he goes, Ben, the biggest issues out there are the ones that are
8:43being least discussed in the media, but most discussed by the people.
8:48Like if you go to a fight, the oligarchy rally, if I go to a
8:51rally, you'll hear what the people are saying.
8:53It's just fascinating. This is where our network came along.
8:57I'm like, but we realize that everybody's actually talking about these things, not these things.
9:01And so the people are out there saying these things at your rally, their fear
9:05of AI, their hatred of these data centers popping up and stealing their energy, that,
9:10you know, these fears are out there and we, and I think we got to
9:15channel it and harness it in a way that provides solutions.
9:18Yeah. And I think the thing that the Democrats often miss is these fears and
9:22challenges. People recognize that they're huge.
9:25They're these big country defining era, defining problems.
9:29And often the democratic party wants to try to figure out how to triangulate and
9:33say the exact right thing to different populations.
9:36But what people are really craving, and this is what I'm seeing in my campaign
9:39is people want to hear ideas that are as big as the problems that, that
9:43you want to tackle. So, you know, when it comes to something like AI, the
9:47regulations that politicians, I mean, most politicians aren't even talking about other than Bernie Sanders,
9:51but the regulations most politicians are proposing, everyone knows they're way too small and they're
9:56not going to tackle this challenge of something that might wipe out half of all
9:59our jobs or wipe out humanity itself.
10:01Right? So we have to be talking about the future of the country in a
10:05way that scales. And I think it honestly is forcing this bigger conversation about what
10:10is our country for? What is our economy for?
10:12What are the values we have as a nation?
10:14The right actually has that conversation.
10:15They have their view of what direction to take this country.
10:18And I think on the democratic side, we don't grapple with those larger philosophical questions,
10:23but we have to present big ideas, bold ideas.
10:26And that's something that the party sometimes just seems too scared to do.
10:29I think right now with everything we're seeing, as you mentioned, with the Epstein files,
10:35seeing the sex trafficking ring, but seeing the cover.
10:39up in the cabal and all of these, you know, all of these people in
10:44the files with Epstein as the middleman playing, you know, basically master of the universe
10:50and whether it's propping up a Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, leading Brexit in the UK,
10:56knowing about the annexation of Crimea beforehand, seemingly insider trading on crypto and proposing crypto
11:04strategies to Vladimir Putin. You know, these people were puppeteering behind the scenes the destruction
11:11that, frankly, led to Trump.
11:14But viewing it just as Trump, to me, is myopic and is small.
11:19I mean, this is manifest, frankly, internationally with Nigel Farage, with Orban in Hungary, with
11:25Malay in Argentina. There are broader forces, to me, that are sweeping the world and
11:31broader forces need to exist to fight back against it.
11:35Otherwise, I'm like, you're bringing a butter knife to an F -35 fight if you
11:39think that petty domestic politics are going to be the solution to these authoritarian goals.
11:48Yeah. And I think what is showing very clearly from the Epstein files is there
11:53is an Epstein class, you know, and they are the ones that are the problem.
11:58It's really not progressives versus moderates or even left versus right at the people level.
12:03It is the bigger problem is this class of people who are trying to run
12:07everything, trying to take control, consolidate power, allying with the oligarchs in our country.
12:14And then there's the rest of us who are trying to fight back against that.
12:18And the rest of people hate this.
12:19I mean, this is why the Trump administration is trying to avoid everything about the
12:23Epstein files right now. But frankly, you know, other than a few Democrats and people
12:27like Ro Khanna and, you know, Tom Massey on the Republican side, a lot of
12:31Democrats are kind of avoiding it as well because they're worried about some of their
12:35own who might be in those files.
12:36I think we have to have accountability across the board.
12:39There's going to be a big reset.
12:40I think this is going to be the question of our time of do we
12:43hold rich and powerful people accountable when they do heinous, heinous crimes or do we
12:48not? And if the answer to that is no, I do think that's an existential
12:50threat to our democracy and our way of of being our entire system.
12:54We have to have the rule of law for everybody.
12:57And this is going to be one of the deciding cases for it.
12:59You know, I saw protests at town halls regarding data centers in Trump country, Oklahoma
13:10yesterday. I saw, you know, and frankly, across the country, we're seeing as people want
13:17to put either these data centers or frankly, even the ICE detention centers.
13:23I mean, you start to get a not in my backyard moment, even from kind
13:28of the Trumpers. And so you have this don't do that here, but also the
13:34kind of abundance argument also of why are you why are you putting stuff in
13:39here that takes and leeches and destroys when really you could be doing this stuff
13:46is is is build. You know what I always like to say on the show,
13:49what I loved about your campaign is I love campaigns.
13:52And to me, you know, one of the things that I think about your campaign
13:56is just the word imagine, like imagine a world where dot dot dot instead of
14:01having ICE and Border Patrol masked agents going around torturing and terrorizing individuals and those
14:08destroying industry, taking away and firing and crushing those exact same resources were harnessed to
14:15build housing and all. And rather than seeing masked agents, we saw new houses developing
14:20and services being provided to homeless people, you know, and house people like to me.
14:25Imagine that Trump would be super popular and anyone who does that would be super
14:29popular. Yeah. I mean, we've basically have created a federal jobs program to terrorize people
14:35through ICE. Right. But what if we use that instead to actually develop things, build
14:39things people want? I mean, there's the same thing when it comes to our foreign
14:42policy, right, where we are spending, you know, we had a $900 billion defense budget
14:47that just passed a few months ago and about 115 Democrats voted for that, by
14:50the way. And we are spending all this money on dropping bombs in other countries
14:54and doing these endless wars.
14:56But no one wants that.
14:57If you do the look of the polling, only about 3 % of Democrats and
15:01only 16 % of Republicans want a larger defense budget because that argument of we
15:06could be spending all this money and all these resources developing our own means of
15:10making a living, that really works.
15:13But, you know, when it comes to AI and the data centers, you're absolutely right.
15:18It's a completely bipartisan issue, both on the data centers themselves and the energy they're
15:22gobbling up and how it's, you know, driving up people's home and energy prices.
15:26But the larger question here of, you know, right now we have this technology that
15:31might be wiping out half of our jobs and basically determining the future of our
15:35society. Why should a handful of tech CEOs get to determine that future?
15:40Why should they have all that power, right?
15:43And it's a technology that fundamentally was trained off of the sum product of human
15:48labor, of the things we produce.
15:50That's how these LLMs get trained.
15:51So I believe that we should have an ownership stake of it, on it, right?
15:55We should, we as a people, democracy should be able to determine the future of
15:59our country, not just a few tech oligarchs.
16:01And that is a message that I think the vast majority of people agree with,
16:05Democrat and Republican. We do not like the idea of a small cabal of powerful
16:10people determining the fates for everybody else.
16:14So when people know about your background, they know about AOC, they know about some
16:19of the organizations you've run, but also you were in tech before.
16:24I mean, you started a company, Mockingbird.
16:27You were one of the first engineers at Stripe.
16:30But you didn't fall into this.
16:33You didn't go the way of some of the tech bros right now who have
16:38used their wealth and their resources to destroy and harm.
16:44And so I'm just interested kind of in your reflection on that moment because you
16:49don't have to go the way of these kind of tech bros who, you know,
16:54by the way, you know, what do they used to say?
16:56Like, like, yeah, they want to brag that they have F you money or whatever,
17:00but they just have to do whatever Donald Trump tells them to do.
17:02And now their legacies are like hard hurting people.
17:06So, you know, talk to us a little bit about that for people just to
17:08know what your background is as well if they haven't heard your story.
17:11Yeah, I honestly don't understand how you go down that route.
17:15I mean, I, you know, I didn't come from money.
17:18I grew up middle class in Texas going to public schools and my parents, frankly,
17:22grew up quite poor. They're from India.
17:24And my dad was a refugee during partition in India, which was a terrible event
17:28where they cut the country up along religious lines.
17:30So he grew up with his family at 12, this tiny one bedroom apartment, often
17:34having no idea where his next meal would come from.
17:37But he came to his country with literally $8 in his pocket, was able to
17:41achieve the American dream, you know, got a job and a single income, got me
17:44that middle class life. So when I came out of San Francisco, as you mentioned,
17:48I worked in Silicon Valley, was an early engineer at Stripe, I was a second
17:51engineer there. And just because I was in the right place at the right time,
17:55I ended up making a lot of money from that.
17:57And that was a radicalizing experience because I don't come from money.
18:01And I got this insight into just how inequality works in our society, where the
18:05rich can keep getting richer without ever lifting a finger while everybody else just struggles
18:10to hang on. And yeah, I mean, I worked hard at Stripe.
18:13I'm proud of the stuff I did.
18:14But I didn't work harder than a teacher or a nurse or the janitors cleaning
18:18our offices did every single day.
18:20I just hit the startup lottery.
18:21And in an economy like that, where either you hit the lottery and you can
18:25have it all, or you'll never be able to afford a home or a secure
18:29retirement, that's fundamentally broken. That is a broken system.
18:33And I believe it's a threat to our entire way of being.
18:37If we can't get to a country where 40 honest hours of work a week
18:41is able to forge you a life, then our country is doomed.
18:47So, you know, that's frankly why I quit the tech industry.
18:49I mean, I worked with some of the people that are now, you know, in
18:53this oligarch class, you know, running companies like OpenAI.
18:57I saw their vision of the future, and it's not the vision of the future
18:59that I want anything to be a part of.
19:01And so I quit, and I joined the Bernie campaign in 2016.
19:04And I've spent the past 10 years trying to fix this fundamentally broken economy and
19:09to put taxes on people like myself, because I think we need to have way
19:13higher taxes on the billionaires and the richest in our society.
19:16Where can people learn more about the campaign and any final words you want to
19:20say to our 6 million subscribers out there?
19:22Sure. Yeah, please go to my website.
19:24It's shaykat .us, S -A -I -K -A -T .us.
19:27We have a massive volunteer grassroots army here that's running the campaign.
19:31We've got over 2 ,000 people volunteering.
19:33We're knocking doors all over the city.
19:35If you don't live in the district, you can always phone bank.
19:39But I just want to say, like, I know that times seem really dark right
19:43now, and everything is kind of at an end of the year.
19:45But there is this huge movement happening.
19:48I've been working on this for 10 years.
19:50I've worked on a ton of insurgent campaigns from Bernie to AOC to a bunch
19:53of the squad campaigns back in 2018.
19:56I have never seen an appetite for change like what I'm seeing today.
19:59I believe we can have a movement that completely sweeps in and changes the entire
20:04course of the Democratic Party and the entire course of this nation.
20:07In fact, that's the only way we get out of this.
20:10That's the only way to actually defeat authoritarianism is if we can prove that democracy
20:14can work to improve people's lives.
20:16And that's what we're going to do.
20:19So I got truck body running for Congress, California's 11th congressional district.
20:23Thanks so much for joining.
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