Michael Popok
speaker
611 appearances
19 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 22 Jul
Michael Popok’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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how to keep their party together in opposition she's been in opposition before she's still speaker emeritus she's going to help um believe me nobody has sharper elbows and knows how to uh run that uh halls of congress better than her donald trump knows that and the reason he's so rely he's going to be so reliant this is a good thing for the legal side of the show.
He's gonna be so reliant on executive orders, but executive orders are the weakest of power for a president. They're easy to write and they're easy to sign, but they're hard to defend.
because you have to make sure that you haven't crossed over and breached the separation of powers, that it aligns with a law that's already on the books by Congress, that it's within your wheelhouse of a constitutional power, and Donald Trump screwed it up the first time around, and he's gonna screw it up again, which gives us an avenue of attack, an angle of attack, to take these executive orders into Democratic-controlled federal judges and federal circuits,
yes it all times out at the united states supreme court but we can tie him four years is not a lot we can tie his policies and him up in knots over the first two years as we come into the midterms crush him at the midterms and make him as as quickly lame duck as possible and then it then the third year of his administration will be the mad scramble between jd vance and
And Nikki Haley and people we haven't even thought about and Ron DeSantis and everybody else and Joni Ernst to try to get the mantle and run against whoever the Democrats are. And we have a very strong bench, a very young, nice bench of 50 and early 60-year-olds who are ready to run, including Kamala Harris, should she try again.
I mean, I saw him on- But Trump doesn't like to be shown up either. He doesn't like to be- Well, that's why J.D.
And those in favor of democracy and the lawyers around them, we had a dress rehearsal for four years in 2016 to 2020. Yeah. And we know what to do. Now, the federal courts are a little bit harder these days because, you know, Donald Trump got a lot of MAGA right-wing federalists, especially in certain places.
Biden's got a whole bunch of fresh ones. There's some that are unretiring. We'll talk about that after we come back from a break. I love that. There's three judges who basically said, I'm 70. I thought I was leaving. But now that you're screwing around with my appointment for my replacement, I'm going to stay. And it's driving MAGA nuts. You know what else drives MAGA nuts?
The Midas Touch Network. They love attacking us. They love, you know, you get a lot of comments on Substack from Ben when he writes these great Midas Plus things. By the way, numbers of ways, people always ask me, and it's in the chat too, how do we support you guys, you people? How do we support the network? How do we keep it up and running? There's a number of ways.
One is you're here already on the Midas Touch Network. Take a moment if you haven't already and hit that subscribe button. It's free. Most of the things I'm going to talk about here are absolutely free. That's one. Support the contributors like Anthony and me and our shows that are on the network. Anthony, plug the shows that you have on the network.
How did I get on that? How did I get on that show? You've been on a couple of times.
Yeah, that's true. Then we've got Legal AF in various versions. We've got the Wednesday edition I do with Karen Freedman-Ignifilo. Karen Freedman Ignifilo in the news for very good reason. She's defending Luigi Mangione, the person who's been accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO. I'm hoping she'll do midweek with me this week.
I think she's going to, and I think we're going to be able to talk about parts of it. So tune into Legal AF Midweek for Karen Freedman Ignifilo, fresh off the... the press clamoring for more KFA. We got her exclusively on the Midas Touch Network. On Saturdays, I do Legal AF with Ben Mysalis, who I co-founded the show with.
We got a Legal AF YouTube channel called Legal AF MTN for Midas Touch Network. And then I'm curating a lot of stuff over there, six or seven videos a day and some new shows that we're doing. So you can go over there, help us build that pro-democracy channel. We've got, Midas has a sub stack, which
called Midas Plus, where you can get a version of this show without ads and the version of Legal AF without ads over there on Midas Substack.
Of course. I just started it.
You're one for one. And then, of course, we've got our sponsors. And I don't want to make too light of this, but the sponsors... are part of the lifeblood of what keeps our lights on. There's no other way to put it. Without them, this whole thing wouldn't happen. And so we test out these products, we get these products, we turn down advertisers that we don't think fit.
We fire advertisers like Washington Post that we didn't want on here any longer for various reasons. And so listen to the ads, listen to the products. If you can afford them,
you know try them out if you can't you can't I understand that I'm not trying to I'm not a huckster but they are and they know what we do here on Midas Touch uh and they know what on legal AF and and weekend and all the shows and they're like we're in we want to talk and address that audience and we're a very unique audience we're very respectful of our audience so that's a long-winded way of saying here's a word from our sponsors
Now, for all I know, that moink ad read by Ben may have caught the eye of the Biden administration and led to the interview. I'm just spitballing here. I'm spitballing. Yeah.
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