Molly Jong-Fast
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans · 24 May 2025
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These are things that really help the poorest of us. And they're why the federal government sort of exists. They're the social safety net. And what Trump did in his second term was he was able to get sort of lower information voters to get out and vote for him. And they were people who didn't necessarily vote. They're not even lower information.
That is true, but there are also these low-frequency voters. That's why the polling is always so off for Trump, is because he gets people who don't vote to vote for him. But the problem is a lot of those people who don't vote tend to be people who really are, who benefit from the federal government, as well they should, a lot of them.
You know, one of the most disturbing things about this big, beautiful bill, and look, this bill is going to go to the Senate and it's going to get totally changed. But one of the things that's the most upsetting about it, this really is, this bill is set up to make good a lot of Trump's campaign promises, many of which are, I think, pretty undoable, like no tax on tips.
How are you going to say what's a tip, what's not a tip? How are you going to, you know, make it so that people can't just say everything I do is a tip now? I mean, it's, I'm not sure how you can structure that. But more importantly, Trump, What you're seeing now is these – it's just these Republicans – are going after the people who put them in office.
And a great example of this is the SNAP benefits. So this will be the largest cut to food assistance. I think in history, I think that I had read it was in history. And I mean, it'll be a seismic shift in the way we give money to children. It will mean more hungry children. This cut will mean more hungry children. important to mention that this bill also grows the deficit.
So it both cuts services for poor children, more hungry children, and also more government debt. I don't know how it manages to both do two of the things you don't want, And, you know, starve children and also grow the deficit. But it does. And look, by the way, the bond market isn't happy. You know, the bond market is sort of the last thing we have putting Trump in check.
And it's foreign investors saying, like, is the U.S. credit good or bad? Do we even really want to be in this thing? And the bond market is freaked out by this as well. It should be because this is a budget of sort of. It's just a very, you know, it shows a certain lack of responsibility that the Republican Party doesn't they are not worried about the deficit.
And they're also not worried about serving children, which these are two things they should be worried about.
So, you know, my generation is, and I think it may also be your generation, we're Generation X. We're young Generation X. So like at the very tail end of the generation. But we are a generation that has we are the least written about the least, you know, people don't, aren't really interested in us, but we are this generation that really does.
It really does just sort of, we have this moment where we have children and parents and we're taking care of children and parents. And, and I wanted to write about this experience of being in the sandwich generation and having and having, I'm going to go. and having to care, here it is, it's very beautiful, having to care for your parents and also your children.
And I was glad that I got to write it. And, you know, I also wanted to talk about sort of what it's like to have a spouse who has cancer. My husband had cancer, though he is fine. But I got to write about that. And that was really clarifying. And it's funny because now, you know, Joe Biden just had this terrible metastatic cancer disease.
diagnosis and I write, you know, almost a third, actually even more than a third of Americans will get diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. That's a humongous group. And so I write a lot about how to be able it's not a political book, but, you know, in the fact that science is political and and these things are all political.
But it's it's really about this kind of how to talk to the people around you and take care of them.
Thank you.
I totally disagree This is thought policing 101.
This is not okay.
The truth is and I say this is a Jew This is this is not they are using anti-semitism as a cloak.
Right.
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If this administration really cared about anti-Semitism, there's a lot of stuff they could do.
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