Ben Meiselas released the following video on the MeidasTouch YouTube channel and we are excited to bring it to you ad-free exclusively right here on Meidas+.
It focuses on the fight for power occurring right now between Republicans in the Senate, where Senator John Thune (R-SD), Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) are vying to be the Senate Majority Leader.
Meiselas reports on how the MAGA faction of the GOP thinks that Senator Mitch McConnell scheduled the leadership vote as a secret ballot as part of a “deep state coup” to take down Donald Trump before he gets into office by trying to get Thune or Cornyn as the leader.
The MAGA faction considers Thune and Cornyn deep state “liberal spies,” whereas they believe Rick Scott, who was involved in the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history, will dutifully obey any command by Donald Trump. Watch the full report now and consider becoming a paid subscriber to keep us going!
I would like Musk to be deported. He's an immigrant and I think he has done many illegal things.
He did come to this country and work as an illegal…he should be the first to go.
Ah, but he's white! and rich! Trump would never cut off that sweet cash flow for a little illegality.
While I can't support anything Moscow Mitch does, this infighting is great to see.
I want Cornyn! Rick Scott, another fkn criminal…of course he’ll do anything Trump asks of him. His lips are orange already.
I don’t get why these extremists call Dems, radical. Who’s the radical brainless twits?
The more criminal indictments the better for trump’s MAGA comrades.
I hope they lay in the beds they made!
I became a diehard MeidasTouch listener in 2020. #Truth and #facts were your media weapons against MAGA Fox propaganda. However, you made Biden this super person, a "Dark Brandon". It was fun for awhile but he didn't have the energy and verbal gymnastics to deal with T***p's malignant, vicious lies, which wereveasily embraced by the MAGA cult followers. I truly thought that you guys would've quietly advised Biden’s team to drop out in early 2024 where we know that Kamala would've won handily. I'm still crying from her loss and, as a senior on Medicare depending on my social security, I'm worried and scared. If there's a God, I truly hope he does something because the Dems failed miserably.
Imagine my surprise, as a Texan, to be told Sen. Cornyn is considered "liberal." Wow.
Who will win? Mitch or Maga? I see no winner for Democrats.
Establishment GOP is better than maga GOP. What a time to be alive.
Please, NO RICK SCOTT!!! Need I say more?!
OMFG!!! These assholes would eat their young. I met Thune once 19 years ago at an American College of Surgeons (ACS) advocacy summit in Washington, DC. He had just assumed his seat in the Senate and the geniuses in the leadership of the ACS were intensely focused on lobbying Congress for Tort reform and "sensible" medical malpractice claims limits. He thoroughly impressed the leadership (me, not so much🙄). I would never vote for Thune to represent us in any capacity but I AM rooting for him against Scott.
I'm winding down a 35 year career in Surgery and in my opinion the single best thing done for "every day Americans" in the past 20 years is the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The next most consequential piece of legislation passed is the Inflation reduction act; its impact on ameliorating climate change may be years in bearing fruit but will have an impact equal to the ACA on healthcare access. Universal healthcare coverage and climate advocacy are my "things worth fighting for." If Rick Scott assumes the role of Senate Majority Leader he will work to gut any progress we, the sane ones, have made on these fronts. Scott, and all he represents, is an existential threat to the very people who voted him in. Let's hope that minority in the Senate, especially since the appeasers Manchin and Sinema are gone, recognize the need for strategic, persistent, and progressive resistance to the entire Republican Senate caucus. (We may need to start by elevating someone like Senator Gary Peters of Michigan to Minority Leader over Chuck Schumer. Just sayin'.)
How did someone commit fraud AGAINST the US and manage to get a job working for the US???
They’re all just a bunch of idiot MAGATS. Let them cannibalize themselves.
It truly is astonishing how many things these clowns refer to as a "coup", it's like the only thing they *don't* refer to as a coup is the *actual* coup they attempted.
What I know in my core, even after a 7 day reprise from ANY politics, something went wrong, really wrong and now we are strapped with a 34 count Felon President ELECT! It's our new reality, and by the way, how does a Felon get whitehouse security clearance?
How many years will it take to stop blaming their mess on President Biden?
I honestly don’t understand how a person who’s been involved in criminal conduct can run as a politician. 🤷🏼♀️
Scott is another greedy corrupt power hungry Magat. He fits right in. This is what the dopey magats support.
I believe the MAGA Republicans cheated. There are 20,000,000 fewer votes than last year for Joe Biden and the Democrats. Donald Trump had placed election deniers where they were counting the votes. The election deniers could throw out some of the votes if they thought something wrong with ballot. I believe they threw them out because of their zip-codes where black people and others lived. Why else would election deniers be working there? Why are you giving up? You are still the President of the United States. Can you challenge the vote count because things are not adding up. Are all of the ballots still available to recount? You can appoint your choices of judges before you leave too, like Donald Trump did when he left. Finish your term for the American people please. I think that you are the best President ever!
Look to the sudden bro-mance with the tech genius and satellite access Weirdo... why did Crooked Trump himself (who can't keep a secret) blurt out, don't worry about your votes, I don't need your votes? Was Trump giving away secrets again?
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Right on + I would have to pay in Canadian which adds another 35%
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I love when they (republicans) fight each other.
Could this (Senate infighting) be the civil war MAGA’s been predicting - GOP infighting? Let them tear their whole party down! Fallout’s gonna suck but them destroying themselves seems worth it…..thoughts?
Hey Ben, is it possible that you'll could please stop showing pictures of DD? We all know what he looks like, and I am so triggered by him that I have been covering up his image whenever it appears for 10 years, with my hand like a little kid shutting one eye. Please!
I know Chump absolutely loves this infighting. I am sure it makes him feel like they are fighting over him. The only thing I look forward to with this fight is that maybe a fist-fight will break out on the Senate floor. After all, it's mainly a bunch of low class thugs with no intelligence fighting to lick the king's boot (or butt).
MAGAnoid = PARAnoid...
This is my second post. PLEASE, MTN, make it cheaper for us retired people living on fixed incomes to join your cause as paid prescribers!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
We need to prepare ourselves. Beginning on January 20 we will begin to see the total destruction of what had been, the greatest country on earth. When other countries start seeing "little Mario" as trump described him, as Secretary of State we will become the laughingstock of the world. Add child sex abuser Matt Gaetz as Attorney General shows where we are heading. I
This is going to be a complete clown shoe!!!
Oh, he wants all his criminal friends all doing his bidding. Ugh!! I can’t stand him!! 🤮🤮🤮
Britain and European allies fully expect NATO to becomr a transactional pawn upon the world stage. Too many comments I read about cheating. Too easy it is to accuse and be believed without evidence, or have the enemy of my enemy co-operate whether righteous or not. I'm preaching to the converted here, but mankind is weak and foolish and all of us shall lie in the beds we made for ourselves.
I am saddened by events across the pond, there's not much we can do about it however, we have seen the aspirations of the good people of the U.S. and urge you to continue to be the loving, compassionate people we know you are. We see you and love you back.
Let none quit in our direction because, like a hero of this white Brit, Dr Martin Luther King Jnr. has said, we shall overcome.
Bring it on, bring it on.
I believe the MAGA Republicans cheated. There are 20,000,000 fewer votes than last year for Joe Biden and the Democrats. Donald Trump had placed election deniers where they were counting the votes. The election deniers could throw out some of the votes if they thought something wrong with ballot. I believe they threw them out because of their zip-codes where black people and others lived. Why else would election deniers be working there? Why are you giving up? You are still the President of the United States. Can you challenge the vote count because things are not adding up. Are all of the ballots still available to recount? You can appoint your choices of judges before you leave too, like Donald Trump did when he left. Finish your term for the American people please. I think that you are the best President ever!
Is it just me, or is the audio in this video super fast?!? The lack of closed captioning makes it even worse. It's not to the level of Alvin and the other chipmunks, but it was very hard for me to follow! Surely I'm not the only viewer with hearing loss - there must be at least a few others like me. Please, Meidas Touch, take us into consideration when publishing your videos.