Amanda Carpenter
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Aug
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The ads that Kristi Noem is putting out with taxpayer dollars to thank President Trump, that is not an exercise in political persuasion. That is propaganda designed to promote the idea that Donald Trump has gifted this border enforcement upon us or what have you. And I'm getting a lot of these ads on Hulu
weirdly in in part of the tell for me in a way that i think i can explain to other people is that if you see the other ads that are being putting out on the campaign side from chump aligned groups you know people like chris elizaveta running it etc you can't tell the difference you can't tell the difference between what's like a government psa and what is a campaign ad other than
if you would know that Kristi Noem is actually a cabinet secretary. And so I think we really need to have a discussion about how the communication tools are being exploited in ways that are really malicious and go beyond what should be acceptable.
Yeah, to say the least.
Well, here's I think any discussion about how this is getting bungled, because it is to start with the fact that, oh, wait, where's Elon Musk? I thought he had this handled, right? Like, that was the whole reason he came in to do the Doge rescission, send it to Congress and... We got the cuts. We're good. And somehow his 70 bazillion trillion in cuts dissipated to 1 billion to 150 to nothing.
To where is it? So, number one, I think we need to evaluate that the guy that Trump brought in to take care of this has failed. Otherwise, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. But also, it's an all Republican Congress. What's the problem there? These guys can't solve it.
And so I think that is also a mark against a key economic promise of the Trump 2.0 presidency, which was supposed to be so much better, so much more efficient. Isn't the Project 2025 thing rolling? No, it's not. It's not. And one thing I am in particular watching and think is extremely interesting, just as a baseline, the Trump budget cuts more than the Hill wants to. The Hill wants to spend more.
And the secret weapon that Russ Vogt and others have always wanted to deploy is something called impoundments, which I know you've talked about before, which is essentially Donald Trump unconstitutionally, unlawfully saying, you know, Congress, you can pass all the money you want, but I'll just cut where I want. This is how we held up the Ukraine funding in Trump 1.0.
But now Republican senators are sort of onto that fact, because I do think there is a contingent of people thinking, well, okay, the Hill can do what they want. We can let them pass the budget, but we can knife it later through impoundments. But there was an interesting story in Politico, I think published two days ago, where it quoted Republican appropriators.
Simpson of Idaho, I think, essentially said, you know, we see impoundments and we think it's illegal and there's going to be a challenge on that. Murkowski was weighing in. And so that to me is a very positive development when it comes to. to how the budget process will be used and how Trump could potentially be constrained on some level.
But one other really interesting development is that there's talks about cutting Medicaid funding. And Josh Hawley, who he has been out there, he's the number one mega populist, essentially, and I haven't really seen, maybe JD Vance got close to it, but making the case that the president, you can't cut this funding for our people.
You know, this recognition about how this would deeply impact the red states and impact Trump voters. So people are hearing about that.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, wait, so he's against crypto coins and meme stuff?
Yeah, if people want to see a sign of how badly is going, Kash Patel testifying on Capitol Hill this week. So he had to go to the Hill to talk about the FBI's budget.
Now, there's probably not any part of me that feels sorry for me about Kash Patel, but I would feel sorry for him in that moment if I... was not familiar with his record and had not like read his coloring books about Trump, but like just how uncomfortable was that?
I agree, but I'll keep watching it even though it was super cringe. And the Chris Murphy and Kristi Noem.
Yeah, this is a long story, but a great story. Yeah, we had a lot of Protect Democracy folks working on this case, but long story short, there was a Republican candidate, a judge. He was actually a sitting judge named Jefferson Griffin, and he lost the election in November, but this thing has gone on since then. He fought it and fought it.
He lost the race by a little over 700 votes, but then tried to challenge and disqualify 65,000 votes. So they were really just kind of going after everything and like, okay, you know, there's jockeying, even a judge who should know the law shouldn't be doing this. But what was really concerning was that the North Carolina Supreme Court let it go on.
And one of the most outrageous things that he was doing is that he was trying to disqualify military ballots because they didn't have a photo ID, even though no photo ID was required. So, like, you know, the fact that it continued for so long, even on the basis of these just really ludicrous claims, was a big deal because it was essentially leaving this open. But great news.
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