The GOP’s ongoing spiral into chaos took center stage in a new interview between MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL). From ethical cover-ups to Trump’s alarming policy proposals, the interview focused on today’s Republican Party, which is more focused on serving Donald Trump’s ambitions than governing responsibly.
During the interview, Krishnamoorthi didn’t mince words about Trump’s cabinet picks, calling Matt Gaetz “seriously flawed” and unfit to lead, especially as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. “The only reason he’s being put forward is his loyalty to Donald Trump,” Krishnamoorthi said.
Krishnamoorthi also sounded the alarm on Trump’s labor policies, particularly elements of “Project 2025,” which seek to erode worker protections. One proposal would eliminate overtime pay by “averaging” hours worked over weeks—a move Krishnamoorthi called “astounding” and deeply unpopular among labor groups. This, combined with Trump-appointed judges blocking pro-worker initiatives like expanded overtime eligibility, underscores the GOP’s anti-labor priorities. “The idea of people voting against their own pay is baffling,” Meiselas added.
The conversation turned to Trump’s broader economic and policy agenda, including tariffs that could trigger another wave of inflation and plans to slash federal agencies like the Department of Education. “A lot of people don’t believe Trump would actually do these things,” Krishnamoorthi warned. “But we are about to see exactly what happens when you give power to someone this reckless.”
Krishnamoorthi outlined a roadmap for Democrats to hold MAGA accountable. Drawing on lessons from the first Trump administration, he stressed the importance of transparency and messaging that connects with working-class voters. He highlighted the sunset of Trump-era tax cuts as a key opportunity to expose GOP favoritism toward corporations and the wealthy. “We have to ask, why does Donald Trump believe corporations should pay less than middle-class families?” he posed.
The interview ended with a call to action. Quoting Martin Luther King Jr., Krishnamoorthi warned against “sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity,” urging voters to stay informed and hold the GOP accountable in future elections. Meiselas reinforced the need to amplify this message across platforms to combat media narratives that falsely equate Democratic solutions with Republican failures.
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We know all that shit, sir. The issue is the CLEAR and Present Danger that exists at this moment to dismantle our government and eliminate the Constitution that many thousands of us over the years have sworn to "PROTECT AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN and DOMESTIC WITH OUR LIVES"!
It is the responsibility of our dear POTUS, as Comander-in-Chief, to step in NOW and arrest all these traitorous thugs whose aim is to destroy our nation for the benefit of Vladimir Putin, our known enemy.
That is what they scream loudly is their intention. WHAT GIVES? SCOTUS gives him full permission to carry out an official act, legal or not. I believe saving our Nation from Domestic enemies is as legal as from a foriegn attack. Does a shooting war have to happen? 1860 is not that long ago.
With the aid and encouragement of Hitler, the Republican Party attempted a coup to overthrow our government in 1939. Senate Majority Leader Robert Taft and several others were acught in action and indicted. It was only the mistrial that set them free to try again. They are still at it.Do we need any more than Jan. 6, 2021 to know that these people attempted coup once again.
What more do we need to know??
trump and his band of evil doers are every bit as dangerous to the future of our country as any enemy we ever went to war to defeat. They should be treated accordingly. Protect America from this attack by those who refuse to follow the Constitution and the laws and who violate their oaths of office, misusing their power to defy what the people want. (At least half of Americans abhor what trump promises to bring to pass.)
Call the White House and demand action. Thousands of calls might wake someone up.
Yes, they are. I am very disappointed that our POTUS is not lifting a finger to protect the Constitution that he swore to protect!
Exactly...no more of this jollifying "Welcome back!" shite, after Biden spent nearly 3 years going on about "tRump fascism", then suddenly - no problem, he's the guy!
Time to organize a CIA or SEAL Team 6 "black- ops" effort to remove permanently this unprecedented internal threat to US national security. Joe, the Supremes have your back, now buff up your legacy by taking the shithead out.
Call the White House and demand action. Thousands of calls might wake someone up.
Amen to that! Joe has all the tools that he needs. Democratic leaders, including him, seem to be under the misapprehension that this is "business as usual" It's definitely not.
I really don't get it. We warned these people repeatedly, both about the treason and the anti-labour policies. I don't know how others feel, but IMO, January 6th should have been a wake-up call for our government. That event was nothing less than treason, incited by a sitting president. I am aware of the Business Plot and thank God for Gen. Smedley Butler! The ReTHUGlican Party has long been the un-American Party and the party of treason. Where is OUR Smedley Butler?!
Our government should be scrambling to arrest these traitors and Christian Nationalist extremists. Instead, Biden is sleepwalking us into fascism, mouthing platitudes about "the peaceful transfer of power" and hosting TFG at the White House as if he'd just stopped by for tea and petit-fours. What in the name of all the Founding Fathers is wrong with this picture??!!
It isn't as if Biden is having to work in the dark. DJT has come out and said the quiet part out loud--many times. It is also very obvious that Trump is a Putin stooge, a "useful idiot"., a moral weakling who admires dictators and longs to be one, with a list of crimes too numerous to list, amongst them treason and espionage. The Democrats appear to be under the misapprehension that this is business as usual. It's not.
Putin has a perfect candidate for a puppet in DJT: morally-weak ,a megalomanic who needs to avoid prison, and ridiculously easy-to-manipulate. Putin blames our country for the fall of the Soviet Union and to judge from various events, wants revenge for imagined wrongs by the United States (those two are the most vengeful individuals I've ever seen). Pictures of Donnie and him at Helsinki tell me all I need to know. Donnie looks like a whipped puppy. Classic dom/sub and it's very clear that DJT is NOT the "top".
When he was elected the first time, I said that he was going to turn us over to Russia. He didn't in his first term, but he may this time. I'm elderly now (age 71) and I remember Khrushchev banging his shoe on the podium and saying "We will bury you!" That has always stayed with me, even almost 70 years later. Not in person, of course, but certainly via many historical documentaries. I pray I'm wrong, but at times I get the sickening feeling that I'm not.
I'm already seeing that BS on YouTube. I swear, if there was a viable progressive party to vote for, I would. We have people just as dumb or unwilling to face facts because "bad optics" (or whatever) as the MAGAts (take your pick).
Not only is Trump NOT going to do that, he will pardon and turn lose the scum that crawled all over the Capitol bldg and trashed it in his call for an insurrection. And this is what some of our "fellow Americans" support and put back into office. Stupidity is an understatment.
It absolutely is. It's not like there is MAGA for public consumption and an "esoteric" MAGA (for lack of a better term). MAGA is very out there and in-your-face. They say the quiet parts out loud so no honest MAGA voter can feign ignorance.
As for the pardons, of course he will. Don't be surprised if these traitors form themselves into some sort of Sturmabteilung clone. Only they are unlikely to be as disciplined, which is reassuring and frightening at the same time.
Sounds like Bernie Moreno's tricks stealing overtime pay of employees. Just baffles the mind that ppl want this to be forced to work overtime and not get paid for it. Are ppl that ignorant?
Unfortunately, yes.
I hope that Democrats and Republicans work together to block his Fascist agenda. I realize that may take a miracle. But miracles do happen.
I hope so.
Trump et alia are determined to make the USA a failed state. How is it possible to believe his lies and ignore his “promises”?!
He hates the same things he does.
Will MAGA voting workers ever unite against Trump when they find out they’ve been so badly betrayed?
They'll go into serious shock. Will the actual medical community (not the Oz-y one) then have to help them?
Trump and company do not want the report released or have cabinet members be vetted by the FBI because none of them are qualified and have suspicious backgrounds. The people deserve to know. They MUST be consistently told "YOU WORK FOR US!!!!!" Stop your anti worker agenda. The billionaires don't need any more money. And STOP scapegoating Immigrants.
That’s the whole idea. Trump doesn’t care and the Supreme Court gave him all the power. He wants to be a dictator and he’s going to go full on. Hopefully, a handful of Senate Republicans care about the country and stop the lunacy. I can only hope.
I mean, his parents and grandparents were immigrants. His wife (and all her relations that xcAme here by what he himself calls "chain migratio." Makes no sense.
His first wife was an immigrant too.
The difference in the immigrants he's after are not white as his family and all his wives. The immigrants he's after are dark skin Latinos. He's had it out for them ever since he got in politics, maybe even before. Last term he took children of immigrants, separated from their parents. To even make it worse they the children were put in seperate holding areas similar to kennel fenced in areas. Often children were then put in the foster system. Older children were taking care of younger, even babies when separated from the parents. Children had mental and emotional issues following. I expect even worse situations this term because he seems like this is the mission and is wanting to use marshal law this time. I feel for the people because the majority are just wanting to make a living to care for their families. I pray this time it doesn't involve brut force and injuries.
When he and his father owned apartments in NYC, they did not rent to brown skinned people.
Absolutely 💯 correct. His grandfather also fled Bavaria to avoid military service. He was a emigrate vs immigrant. Difference is Emigrate” is often used with “from”, while “immigrate” is often used with “to”. He started with a restaurant and hotel but was known to be brothels. Those were on another's property. He then went to the Yukon gold rush opening a restaurant and hotel but again was really a brothel. Kind of ironic his grandfather making money on sex and his grandson being convicted of sexual assault. Bottom line the entire family are or were not upstanding people and made their riches by corruption and or at the expense of others for their pleasure.
Trump is Doing everything to destroy America
I know that's why we have to protest his agenda and fight
Isn't it illegal to prevent the first Transgender congresswoman from using a women's bathroom? Isn't this a human rights issue?
It should be..,call your Congressperson and tell them!
Elected Republicans would do well to remember that their constituents voted for higher wages, lower taxes, lower prices on things like eggs, and a better overall economy including much lower inflation. They did not vote to sit by while Donald J Trump forces the Tattooine Cantina down the throats of Congress and the people..
Best description og his Cabinet picks I've seen! Tatooine Casntina indeed!
Good Points ALL here,Ben, your in Good Company this evening, Thank You for sharing and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
Trump is a sociopath and career criminal.
We have to unite, everyone discussing the best way to fight against the CORRUPT MAGA TRUMP supporters. Resist, Fight like your lives depend on it, because they do!
The white house has become a criminal enterprise for DT and his unlawful cabinet of unlawful lying criminals to run this country. what a disgraceful Joke the USA has become.
As long as Fox News exists, MAGA is under their spell. The sanewashing continues.
We knew what this administration was capable of doing. Their agenda was ALWAYS to twist, pull, and shred our beautiful Constitution and burn the remains. It is without question an act of treason, and the most egregious act of any American president since the beginning of our great Republic. The grief and sadness is profound. Let them think that they have won, but in the end, they will be exposed for their lies and the traitors that they truly are.
May God have mercy on their souls—probably not!
Ben, Please! Great journalism for sure, but do not miss the issue as MSM always has. TREASON is THE issue. Incompetant Cabinet appointments are the smoke screen to divert all from the CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER closing in upon us and our vulnerable nation as time runs out. That is alwys the Trump plan. Run out the clock.
It is the duty of the POTUS, our Comander-In -Chief to stop these traitors NOW!! They tell us that they are going to destroy our nation and Jan, 6, 2021 was evidence enough. The treasonous Republican Senators let him off the hook and the wishy washy Merrick Garland did absolutely nothing. The drunken rabble was not the problem to prosecute. The proof was clear who was resonsible and they are about to pull it off for sure this time if Joseph Robinett Biden does not perform his required duty to defend The Constitution of The UNited States of America against all enemies, foreigh AND DOMESTIC!!
I hope I am not beating a deaf or dead horse.
I don't have amnesia, I have PTS.
Can someone explain to why MAGA want to dismantle the federal government…. What’s the goal… anarchy?
I don't know for sure. But I think he wants to break everything so we are too distracted by the chaos and are too dysfunctional to fight back. He wants to disempower our system of government and our agencies. He wants to be king, a dictator and put his cronies in charge so that they do what he wants for his benefit, financial and otherwise, and not for ours.
Trump has never had morals & ethics & has drawn many on Capital Hill to him. He should have made elon vp, they are joined at the hip by big money. I wonder if too many of our legislatures have an ethical, moral & honorable character left. It's a given this new WH won't be working for ALL Americans... They're being invited in the back door. FBI VETTING? Laws & rules? Senate confirmation for all? 🤔 We'll see. Four years to see trump sentenced in NY? I hope & 🙏 so. Nobody is above the law... Let justice prove it.
Elon can't run, even for VP. He is an immigrant.
I'm aware.
But I do get the concept of "the power behind the throne".
Well let's deport him too... He no better maybe richer but still an immature immigrant.
I'll drink to that!
But, *45/47 IS going to be different. He will have control of the Executive, Legislative, & Judiciary. And because of the corrupted Supreme Court, he has almost 100% immunity. We should not gloss over any of this.
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I say let the shit hit the fan. That is the only way the disillusioned Trump supporters will get an accelerated wake up call. Inflation, chaos, loss of workers rights etc. Then we can flip back those lost seats in 2026.
HOW?
It acquainted to slave labor. The rich don't care.
The democrats will do nothing to save democracy, even while they have the power to do it. They have a well deserved reputation for spinelessness. A squirrel should have been able to win against Trump. A billion dollars raised and still couldn't get the message out. It wasn't politics as usual - 1/2 of the country is comfortable with insanity, including Dr. Phil and the slow slide into fascism inside a cult of criminality.
The citizenry is most likely better armed than the actual armed services. This may have been the GQP's plan all along with their refusal to pass common sense gun laws. This party has been deteriorating for the past 25 years into a lawless, useless body, enabling the worst to rise to power, now with the help of over 1/2 of Americans.
The only hope now is the 60 vote majority keeps the house and senate ineffective, as usual, and packing the lower judiciary with democrats, who can only gum up the works for so long. The SCOTUS is limited in the damage it can do given the amount of cases that actually make it there, but the damage they do is wide reaching and profound. Promises of Stare Decisis allowed 3 right wing judges onto the Roberts Court, which will go down in history as one of the most corrupt courts in SCOTUS history. The republicans, led by the craven Mitch McConnell, had chance after chance to take Trump out - they declined. We can only hope that under Trump and his appointees (whose only qualification is loyalty to HIM) the country survives. But I guarantee you, we will be 100% changed, and not in a good way.
I will never understand how people can vote so blindly. They focus on one issue and don't worry about the fallout from others. Most of the people who voted on the economy probably don't even know how the economy works or what causes inflation. All they want are lower prices. Don't we all. The problem is that companies are not going to lower their prices when they are making record profits and getting away with it. The best that we can hope for is prices to not go up, but with Trump's economic plan, prices will rise, the national debt will explode, and we will end up in a recession. It's a shame that all of us are going to pay for the MAGA cult shooting themselves in the foot.
After nine years of that fascist traitor speaking the quiet parts out loud , and people wanted that a-hole as president is beyond belief . This worthless demented man must be stopped or America is history . I don’t care what it takes we need to just do it.
We are essentially powerless to prevent Trump from running the country into the ground, at least for two years. The mid-terms may give us one or both Houses again, and if Trump proceeds with the blueprint we've seen his approval rating will be far down the toilet. That doesn't mean he won't be able to do enormous damage, but it means there may be an end in sight!
I Love You're Optimism ! I Pray God ! Our Enemies Allow Us Enough Time To Correct This Mess ! Or This Could Go Wrong In So Many Different Ways !!
If Matt Gaetz gets AG WE SHOULD ALL GO ON CRIME SPREES AND SAY HEY THE PRESIDENT AND MATT GAETZ GET TO BREAK THE LAW AND NO PENLTY SO WE GET SAME DEAL OK !! Lol
Don’t stop any policy that will affect those who voted for the orange menace. Those who voted must feel pain even if we have to share that pain. It’s the only real way to end the madness.
I don't know. I have been shaking my head in disbelief.
Looking forward to more interviews with Mr Khrishnamoorthi. Thank you!
Like I said The Pain Is Coming And After These Screw Ups !! Mess things up it's going to take 20 Years To Fix !!
We are swirling around a giant hopper and going down fast!
MAGATs believe Trump’s lies but refuse to believe what he said he would do.
I'm sorry, but you , Mr. Krishnamoorthi, are the problem. You are talking policy. It isn't working! Seriously! The basic people don't give a rat's ass about educating themselves or actually understanding policy. They just want easy, digestable sound bites. This is the reason we lost this election. We are fooling ourselves by actually expecting the people to take the time to understand how policy works and what will actually be beneficial to them. But keep on talking....
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Please Restack. How we can sort out all of Americas problems MAGA style
my Congressman
My Congressman!!
Mike is finallybo e of the cool kids!?