Fear, failure, and decline in America
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Today, we have a show about a political movement that is increasingly driven by fear, failure and decline.
How high have grocery prices risen and what does that mean for Trump's promise to lower costs?
Donald Trump's promise to make life affordable has collapsed as food prices are at their most expensive in 50 years. There's a former top MAGA ally who is now saying it's time to impeach Donald Trump. And even the hosts of Fox and Friends seem stunned by the president's incoherent answers. Trump then couldn't stay awake during Lindsey Graham's funeral and new reporting suggests that he is privately obsessed with his own death. And speaking of death, Iran has now put out a video indicating that they have a plan to assassinate Melania Trump and Baron Trump. It's a very dark situation.
Why is Alex Jones calling for Trump's removal over the Iran conflict?
And then speaking of darkness, Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump's top policy people, is using Mussolini style rhetoric straight up, just classic authoritarian rhetoric designed to make political violence feel like they're just defending themselves, even though they're suggesting violence. And at the same time, more demands for real, believable proof of life for Mitch McConnell. What can Kentucky Governor Beshear do and what can't he do? All of that and more today.
How are your grocery prices doing lately? I've been talking to a lot of voters recently, including some right wing voters, and they're all talking to me about I go to the grocery store, I spend one hundred and ten dollars and it feels like I get nothing. Now, remember that Donald Trump promised to bring grocery prices down right away. He made endless promises of just that your corn will be so afraid of me that when I win, it'll automatically go down in price and related promises. And what we actually have, if we look at prices, is Americans confronting the largest grocery price spike in half a century with the right wing New York Post warning that there is no relief in sight. Even the New York Post is reporting it.
What did Trump claim in his Fox interview about stopping wars and tariffs?
And this is part of a bigger story I've been covering, which is that Fox News and the New York Post, both publications, media outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, are preparing for a situation in which even Republican voters are no longer aligned with the MAGA wing of the Republican Party. Food prices are up 33 percent over the last seven years. Not all of that includes time that Donald Trump is president. Ground beef reached almost seven bucks a pound in June. That's 79 percent higher than in 2019. Food prices projected to rise another three point one percent this year, another three point one percent next year. Now, I always say hold elected officials accountable to their promises.
Trump said grocery prices would come down while also saying the entire concept of grocery affordability is a scam. But he said the prices would come down and instead they're going to go up. Now, the reporting is not from MS now. or MSNBC or CNN or some left wing group trying to change or damage Trump politically.
Why did Trump appear to fall asleep and sweat at Lindsey Graham's funeral?
It's The New York Post, a reliably pro Trump newspaper admitting that grocery prices have effectively reset at a permanently higher level and are going to keep going up. Now, I you all I don't know how other shows out there are doing it, I try to just be very transparent with you on these economic numbers. Trump didn't cause the entire 33 percent increase over the last seven years. Some of it was during the pandemic. Some of it was during the Biden administration. Covid disrupted supply chains. Russia's invasion of Ukraine affected grain markets and cattle herds are smaller.
How is Stephen Miller framing the midterms as an existential threat?
That does relate to the Trump administration. But then you've got labor and transportation costs that have gone up. But Trump ran on saying, I will fix it and I will fix it quickly. We're going to get the prices down, groceries, cars, energy, everything. And he repeated it and promised that on day one, these prices were going to start to come down. And he attacked Kamala Harris for not immediately owning food costs and telling voters that she would get them down. She was being a little more realistic about what presidents can and can't do.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:09
2
How high have grocery prices risen and what does that mean for Trump's promise to lower costs?
0:09–0:47
3
Why is Alex Jones calling for Trump's removal over the Iran conflict?
0:47–2:17
4
What did Trump claim in his Fox interview about stopping wars and tariffs?
2:17–3:22
5
Why did Trump appear to fall asleep and sweat at Lindsey Graham's funeral?
3:22–4:01
6
How is Stephen Miller framing the midterms as an existential threat?
4:01–4:36
7
What does the Iranian state media video say about threats to Melania and Barron Trump?
4:36–5:01
8
Is Trump showing anxiety about his own mortality after Lindsey Graham's death?
5:01–1:10:50
Speakers
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