MAGA Failing To Rig Midterms And Losing At the Polls, Trump Breaks Record Low Approval

0:04Trump and MAGA started all of this gerrymandering stuff and the Democrats were like, okay, hey, if this is what y 'all are going to do, you're going to cheat. We'll tit for tat. So the Democrats secured a massive victory last night that could be the key to taking back the House in the midterms. MAGA is stage five, spiraling, melting down. Pop this up. Midas Touch reporting, we can now project that the yes vote will win Virginia's redistricting referendum, handing Democrats a major victory with huge national implications. The amendment allows Democrats to redraw congressional maps ahead of the midterms, potentially shifting the state from six to five to as many as 10 to one, a net gain of four seats that could help decide control of Congress.

0:53Just one caveat here that I want to mention, Pumps and Josh, is that the Republicans just do this. Trump calls up Abbott in Texas and says, do this. He says, yes, sir, I'll do it. The Democrats take it to the voters as they did in California and now Virginia. Pumps. Well, you know, what's interesting is, like you said, Donald Trump started it. Greg Abbott fell in line. The first person that I came out, saw come out and have an absolute meltdown about Virginia's new redistricting plan was Ted fucking Cruz. I knew you were going to say that. So I immediately knew this is a great thing, but I'm like, why are you wetting the bed?

1:35This is what you wanted. This is what you said you wanted. The Supreme Court was like, okay, you can do it. The Democrats did it legally in accordance with the rules. So go fuck yourself, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump and everybody that thought they could cheat their way to the midterms. And I think bedwetting is a default setting for MAGA men, particularly Ted Cruz. Josh, what do you think about Ted Cruz? Well, gosh, that's a loaded question. Ever since Cancun, I don't think much of Tech Cruise, but this is one of those situations where be careful what you ask for because you just may get it. And the people put this to the vote and it sounds like Virginia is going to have up to possibly 10 spots, seats in that particular state up from five.

2:25So, and like Pam said, they put it to the people, whereas we don't just call governors in our states and say, hey, do this or do that. We let the people decide. All right. And Barack Obama has responded, pop this up. Congratulations, Virginia. Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven't done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back. And just an interesting thing. Obama has been creeping back into politics a little bit. He was with Zora on this past weekend, I think signaling to the Democratic Party, work together.

3:03If you're a progressive, if you're a leftist, if you're a moderate, whatever, work together. This is a people first party. And now he is jumping in on the midterms, which we all need to be laser focused on building coalitions to get a Democratic majority. Once we have that majority, we can push politicians, threaten to primary them if they're too corporate-ish. But I think we have to really push for huge, huge blue tsunami-like returns. Josh. I think that Obama's a huge part of the Democratic Party in uniting the base. And if you remember in our lifetime, he's the last great leader that we've had.

3:44And I know a lot of us were frustrated for a period of time. It seemed like he had gone silent. He had gone dark and you can't go dark in a time like this. Like, I think it's good to see him back. It's good to see him being active. And I think the party relies upon him a lot as we move forward to the midterms. I completely agree. He is beloved. And I think he understands what's going on with the electorate. He is a he is a past president, but he is beloved in our party. And I love that he is jumping back in this and sending us signals as to how to manage the fissures in the Democratic Party, how to come together and how to beat Republicans, because that's the point of this.

4:24We must beat these fascists. Pumps, I want to get your take on this. Trump tacoed again yesterday, extending a ceasefire with Iran that he promised. He promised Pumps that this was his final deadline and then posted this on Truth Social. Pop this up. Iran doesn't want the Strait of Hormuz closed. They want it open so they can make$500 million a day, which is therefore what they are losing if it is closed. They only say they want it closed because I have it totally blockaded, parentheses, closed, exclamation point, end parentheses. So they merely want to, quote, save face. People approached me four days ago saying, sir, sir, Iran wants the straight open immediately.

5:12But if we do that, there can never be a deal with Iran. And I just want everyone to know, deal with Iran is capitalized. Unless we blow up the rest of their country, their leaders included, President Donald J. Trump pumps. Okay, a couple things on this. Number one, I read that Iran was going around the blockade and using other export methods for their oil. Here's the thing. Donald Trump is a bully. He has been able to bully Republicans. He has been able to bully Americans and get his way. This is the first time that you see a continued go-fuck-yourself attitude. And as a bully, he does not know what to do with that.

5:53He knows he's getting his ass kicked in Iran. He knows that the American people hate this war. It's costing a ton of money. And I just want to remind everybody, before he went into Iran. The strait was open. Iran did not get money for it. He has taken a non-problem and made it so much worse with no clear avenue on how to stop this. Every single bit of this is on him. And hours after Trump extended the ceasefire, Iran fired at three ships in the Strait of Hormuz. And there's also been reporting that Iran will not, repeat, will not negotiate with J.D. Vance. They want him nowhere near, which I can certainly understand with all of the couch rumors and what happened in Hungary.

6:40Everything that J.D. Vance touches, including the former Pope, drops dead. And so this guy has the opposite of what I would say is the Midas touch. So good on Iran. I wish that he could get over there and Pakistan or somebody could just keep him because he is a deficit on the American public. And aides say that Trump is wary of continuing the war with Iran. New reporting from the Wall Street Journal is telling us that this isn't the same Trump they're seeing in private. Let's pop this up. As negotiations with Iran broke down Tuesday before they had even begun, President Trump asked aides whether the U.S.

7:19should resume attacks on the country. Even as Trump asked about resuming the bombing campaign, officials said he seemed wary about restarting hostilities and prolonging a conflict that is deeply unpopular with the American people. Josh? Well, for Trump now to become wary of things that are unpopular in America, seemed to be a little bit ironic. I don't even know where to start. I mean, when we started this segment, I was reading Trump's truth social, I don't know if you call it a tweet, but I was thinking to myself, this couldn't pass a fifth grade spell check. Like, and this is the way that our president communicates with us about being in a war is that we go to this truth social and have to read this garbage.

8:05I think we become immune to that every day because we see this, but this is not normal reading stuff like that, blowing stuff up. None of this is normal. So I just, it's crazy. Okay. And all of this stuff is happening. You guys, all of this is happening with Trump's approval ratings hitting a record low. Pop this up. New AP poll. Trump's job approval rating falls to 33%. Huge warning sign for GOP. Trump's approval on handling the economy has tanked to 30%, falling by nine points since February before he launched the war. And although this is good news. I have to ask you both, Josh and Pumps, who are these 30 %?

8:52Yeah. When I saw this yesterday, I thought what we really need to do is go in depth and talk to this 30 % of people and find out what is so broken with them and get them some help. Because if you can see what's going on, your gas prices are higher, your energy prices are higher, everything costs more money. And you say, yeah, he's my guy. After just this debacle in Iran, I need to know how we can help you. I think there's a certain element to the base. It's just you're never going to move, period. And those numbers are going to stay there and it just isn't going to change. And that's unfortunate.

9:30Yeah, I think that we just all have to accept that 30 % of the electorate are dipshits. And no matter what happens, they're always going to be dipshits. And Donald Trump could literally stand on Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and they'd be like, fuck, yeah, let's go. I mean, they don't give a shit. They have tripled down on this. They fall prey to propaganda. And I think these people operate out of fear. I think they're really scared people that are easily triggered. And they think, sadly, like he's their idealized version of a tough guy. And I think that calling them a dipshit has been somewhat kind at this point.

10:06Thank you. All right, moving along. The US is spending$2 billion a day on the war with Iran, but Trump's Pentagon doesn't think that that is enough. Think about that. We are told constantly we can't afford shit in the United States. We can't afford air traffic controllers. We can't afford to have education. We can't afford to have healthcare, but we can spend$2 billion a day on an illegal war. Pop this up. Trump's Pentagon has requested$75 billion for drones and related technologies. This is the same amount of money Trump budgeted for the entire department of education, Josh? It's always struck me as being almost criminal.

10:56What we pay our teachers and the money we allocate to things like education. And then you see anytime we get into a conflict internationally, you see this flood of money, this funding, these resources that are so plentiful. But when you need them in day-to-day life, when you have kids in small towns that need to be able to get on a school bus or need to be able to have a lunch paid for at their school, they're nowhere to be found. Like there's no resources. And it just baffles me. And a lot of people should be mad about this because day-to-day lives of Americans that are trying to just simply wake up, get on the school bus, go to school or go work, beat a family of two or three or four people should be mad about this, this money being spent like this in a war that is so unnecessary.

11:43And I would just point out, Pumps, that trans people, gay people, immigrants, black people, women are not the reason that we can't have these things. It's these warmongers, these profiteers, these bloodthirsty capitalists. There are people profiting off of this war. And I would mention that a lot of the people that are profiting off of this war are Steve Witkoff, Trump's golf buddy, and his sons, dipshit and dipshitter, Donald Trump's sons, dumb and dumber, Jared Kushner, who's made billions of dollars, not to mention the military industrial complex. And that's before we even get to the insider trading that is obvious that right before Trump makes some bullshit announcement about this war, his buddies, his country club Golf Buddies at Mar-a-Lago are gaming the stock market.

12:36And then all of these people in America that are just trying to make ends meet, the Republican Party diabolically and insidiously serves up these trans people and these queers and these women, these white liberal women, they're why you can't have nice things. Meanwhile, it is the people who are pulling the levers of power. And I wonder if you go to middle America and ask people, well, why are we at war with Iran? What would people say? Do we know? Does anybody know? Other than a lot of people are profiting and a lot of money is being spent when it could be spent domestically helping Americans.

13:15Well, you know what I think they'd say, and I want both of your take on this, because we all grew up in Oklahoma. This propaganda that the Republican Party has used, that they are a Muslim country and they're terrorists and they want to kill everybody. that and they hate freedom. That is what I think the average American would say. And they have bought into this propaganda. What's your take on that, Pops? I agree with that. I also think that it would be, well, you know, they had nuclear weapons and they were dangerous. And then they would, if you went back and said, okay, but in March, the president came on and said they obliterated all ability to create nuclear weapons.

13:54How do you square that? I think that they would then kick into what you said, the Muslims, Sharia law, like all of that. Sharia law. Yeah, that's a big one that they're, I think Ted Cruz is on. I do think this, a lot of people are so busy having to make ends meet to work that they don't know this stuff. They don't know these things. They're not tracking it like this. And a lot of people don't understand this war. Okay, meanwhile, while all this is going on, our quote-unquote ally, Israel, led by war criminal, homicidal, genocidal, murdering, child-killing maniac, Benjamin Netanyahu and his IDF, are continuing to terrorize Lebanon.

14:40Pop up this video. This is from DropSite News. The Israeli army sets fire to the homes of residents in villages in southern Lebanon. Israeli forces carried out multiple large detonations in Shema, a border village in the Sur district of southern Lebanon. Hertz cited senior IDF commanders describing an ongoing plan to raise Lebanese border villages several miles inland in an operation referred to internally as silver plow. And so while all of this is happening, while Benjamin Netanyahu is dog walking our dementia ridden dipshit president, while the Iranians are trolling us online with these Lego videos, and Trump doesn't know, come here from Sikkim, literally, that's what bad shape we're in.

15:32Israel has this plan to create greater Israel. And in order for them to execute this plan, they have to displace civilians, kill civilians, carpet bomb civilian homes. And a lot of this, if not all, is subsidized by the aforementioned American taxpayer who is told, tough titties, no social security for you. You did everything right. You voted, you paid your taxes. We want to privatize it. You lazy MF an American, you should have gotten a better job. No social security for you, but blank check to an IDF in a country who it seems to be a feature of killing children. I just look at this and what Israel is doing with the backdrop of the genocide in Gaza.

16:26And I think killing people, killing children, hurting women, making generations unable to continue. Like, I cannot see it as anything but trying to, like, get rid of the whole population. They don't want anyone other than Israelis to exist. And I find that to be so vile. Josh. Yeah, it's really disturbing when you see these images and you see what Israel's doing to Lebanon. But it's also consistent with what they've done in the past, too. And it's a lot of day-to-day Americans don't really understand it. I can say I don't to a certain extent other than it makes me sick and disgusted that our country, that we're aligned with them, that we're somewhat complicit with what they do.

17:20And I think that it's something that all of our leaders need to take a look at. And we need to, when we get new leadership in, we need to sever this relationship that we have with Israel. And it needs to be a completely different platform and agenda. Well, you teed that up perfectly, Josh, because let's do a little check in with the Democratic leader of the Senate, the opposition party to all of this. One chuckles Schumer. Let's see what he has to say about all of this. Pop this up. Manu Raju just asked Schumer if he is on the wrong side of public opinion within his own party on Israel after being in the minority on arms sales votes and amid comments by candidates in Michigan Senate race.

18:04He cited Iran instead. So Manu Raju asks a pointed question about Israel and the Senate leader of the Democratic Party says, look, our caucus is united and focused on ending the war in Iran. And this is what I have to say to all democratic, independent voters. I don't care if you're a centrist. I don't care if you're a corporate dem, a leftist, progressive, whatever. You can do two things at one time. You can want Democrats to win, to win robustly like what happened last night in Virginia. But we must not be in a cult. We must call out the war crimes and the genocide that Israel and the United States of America are committing.

18:53Full stop. And the audacity of the government of Israel, these far right Israel groups like the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, Chuck Schumer and others to say if we are morally outraged that little kids are getting targeted here and here. and white phosphorus is being dropped on civilian populations in Lebanon, and we say, I am morally outraged by this, this is a war crime, then you think you can call us bigots? This type of diabolical, psychological gaslighting is so messed up, and it needs to stop now. And Chuck Schumer has got to go. What do you all think about that? Well, remember, we just talked about how the Republican Party is under attack by trans people.

19:44And then we see stuff like this and you mentioned the word gaslighting. We have to get Democratic leaders that are clear with clarity and a sharp voice on issues like this that don't waffle, that don't waver. Every time I see something that Chuck Schumer has written or a quote that he's given just like that, he doesn't even address the issue. uh there's so much uh inaction and word salad and bullshit and it would be refreshing to get a leader that would stand up and call a spade a spade when it's good it's good when it's bad it's bad but have some balls stand for something have conviction don't take a check from someone if you're going to have to do something for them that maybe compromises your values just until we get that kind of clarity, we're going to have to put up with more and more bullshit word salad stuff like this from Chuck Schumer and other people in the Democratic Party.

20:44Completely agree. All right, you guys, that's all we have. We'll be back later. The trifecta pumps Josh and me all day today on IHIP News. Make sure you like, comment and subscribe and I would be remiss if I didn't point out our, the star of our show, Pumps in her dynamic, spark a pride, glittered it up. I love it. You look fantastic. All right. We'll see you all later.