Michael Gold
speaker
875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 2.
Appearances
All it takes is us truly boycotting for shit to really change.
What is it going to take for people to get out of their bubble and actually react?
Because No Kings was cool, but that was 8 million people, which is a lot, but it's way more people in the country.
Thank you for having me.
I think that's a good way to frame it.
This was not a shutdown about the TSA.
This was not a shutdown about America's airports.
When this started, everyone knew that the airports would likely be affected at some point.
But Democrats were really resolute that this was about immigration enforcement.
And they don't want to come to a deal that doesn't address their concern that federal immigration agents are out of control, they need to be reined in, and that there needs to be legislation that can address what Democrats see as abuses by the system.
And Republicans still maintain that Democrats are asking for too much and that it's time to do something about what's going on at the airports.
Look at these TSA agents who have not been paid for weeks, and they say it's time for us to do something about this.
And I think as we've seen these lines get out of control in airports across the country, a lot of Democrats are looking at this too and saying, okay, the pressure's on.
It's time for us to reach a deal.
Let's see if we can come together and make something happen.
And so you're seeing these negotiations, which had been kind of happening at a snail's pace for the last few weeks, really start to pick up steam.
Yeah, I want to be careful here.
And I should say it's Wednesday afternoon as we're talking.
And as is often the case with any negotiations in Congress, they're both very loud and very fragile at the same time.
So just—
Showing 401–420 of 875 · page 21 of 44
← Previous
Next →