Fox News Collapse on Live TV as Trump Awful Plan Goes Sideways

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2:27Ben Meiselas:Wow, state regime media known as Fox is collapsing live on air. The Fox message about the shutdown is like blowing up in its face. People aren't buying what it's selling. People aren't buying what Donald Trump is selling. So let me show you what state regime media is doing. They're bringing on like MAGA Republican Senator Ron Johnson to say, you know, the biggest threats to democracy right now that we're facing, it's Obama and Biden. This is what they're doing right now as the government's in a shutdown, blaming Obama and Biden for real. Here, watch this. This doesn't surprise me. It should shock.

3:07It should outrage every American. Quite honestly, by now, it should be obvious to every American that it's not the Republicans that are a threat our democracy. It's President Obama. It's President Biden. It's the radical leftists that have served and support them. This is outrageous.

3:24Ben Meiselas:Then they bring on Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, and he goes, the real issue we have to deal with right now, it's marijuana. We cannot be legalizing marijuana. This is a major problem right now. This is, again, what they're talking about on Fox. Even the hosts are like, what are we doing here? Why do we got why do we have sean duffy on your play this clip here's the here's the problem with alcohol i can look at brian i can smell brian if he's been drinking in the car there's telltale signs and then i can get my breathalyzer right and then i can take a blood test later it's hard with marijuana we don't have the systems in place to tell if you're smoking marijuana before you got in the car so the systems aren't there at a time when culture is pushing and celebrating the use of marijuana we're not talking about the risk we lose 40 we lose 42 000 people on the roads every year.

4:14But way too many. So do you think that we should legalize it? That's where the president's thinking about changing its ranking, its schedule. I think it would be a huge mistake. Listen, I understand a lot of pressure to do it. I understand he's getting pressure. Listen, I've got nine kids. I see what these drugs do. I'm not I'm not a supporter of the advice. And I was a prosecutor. We didn't send people to prison for a quarter ounce bag or an eighth ounce bag of marijuana. They got a city citation. We're not going to prison for this. But to legalize it and to say it's OK for our kids and our young people to smoke it and it's good for them.

4:49Then they get behind cars. It's dangerous. And listen, it's taking lives. It's addictive. Something else is really addictive. And by the way, it's not the 1960s marijuana. Right. This is way more dangerous stuff. And then they're lacing it with other materials that are incredibly dangerous.

5:02Ben Meiselas:And then they bring on Tommy Tuberville, who starts attacking the 2020 census. Yeah, the 2020 census that was done under Donald Trump. And they're like, this was the fraudulent census. Trump was the president in 2020. These people are so deranged and unhinged here. Play this clip. What do you know about the 2020 U.S. census? Well, it's all game plan. Well, the Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going. It was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged. And you just go back, look at all the numbers. Look at the look at the job numbers that the Biden administration pushed out there.

5:46We've we've we put four or five hundred thousand more people in the last quarter in the jobs, which was totally wrong. They lie about everything. They stretch everything. If we don't get this corrected, this country is not going to make it. It's going to be torn apart. But it's it's all about numbers when it comes to the census. And President Trump said he's going to redo the census, which God help us. there's no telling what it'll end up being.

6:09Ben Meiselas:By the way, other stories from Fox during the day spied on lawmakers, question mark, with former President Biden and Jack Smith. Or how about this one? GOP senators press Pam Bondi on DOJ weaponization against the GOP, as Aaron Rupar says. In a totally alternate reality land on Fox today, the DOJ is somehow being weaponized by the ghost of Joe Biden. And the real victims today are the Republicans. This is what they're trying to sell the people. So then you have Jesse Waters, one of the chief propagandists on state regime media. And he goes on this weird monologue about how Stephen Miller is a high value male and he takes risks and he's like this great male, high value.

7:01Ben Meiselas:As Mike Nellis says, who is this for? like what that maybe it's for steven miller here play this clip he is a policy savant i mean this guy is confident he battles cnn with grace and with class and he provides wise counsel to the president of the united states this is what aoc doesn't get about man miller is a high value man because he has power and influence because he has vision and he's on a mission to save this republic and protect Western civilization. He speaks with confidence and flair. And he's unafraid of anything. Now, AOC may have someone that's taller like Gavin or may someone has more distinguished characteristics like Adam Schiff, the senator, who talks like this.

7:52Or someone with more wealth like Soros the Younger. But those men are not brave men. Those men did not protect the country when the country needed it. We had tests throughout the last couple of years, tests on crime, tests during COVID and tests with immigration. And all of the men that AOC seems to value, they all failed the test and they failed it miserably. Men who are high value men like Stephen Miller take risks. They're brave. They're unafraid. They're confident and they're on a mission. And they have younger wives with beautiful children. I think I just gave him like a dating recommendation.

8:31I don't know, man. That was pretty creepy. I love Stephen Miller.

8:36Ben Meiselas:And one of the reasons that state regime media propagandist Jesse Waters was doing that segment was the night before you had Laura Ingraham bring on Stephen Miller and made Stephen Miller respond on air live to AOC calling him a clown. and a four foot 10 clown who is a utter loser. And AOC is like, I cannot believe that they aired this and made him listen to what I was saying about him live. I'm literally crying right now. Here, play this clip. Steven, AOC is your, your her favorite target, apparently on Instagram. Check this out. He looks like he is angry about the fact that he's 4 '10 And he looks like he is so mad that he is 4 '10", that he's taken that anger out at any other population possible.

9:32Like, laugh at them. Laugh at them. Like, laugh at them. Laugh at them. I wish I had a hoodie on. I mean, are we trying to play sorority sister as this elected official? I don't know. I was at a sorority over the weekend over in Texas. I feel like I was back in the sorority house, except they had more sense. Steven, quick response. Well, we knew that her brain didn't work. Now we know their eyes don't work. So, I mean, she's a mess, right? What a train wreck. What a train wreck. I think you should just get a hoodie. You should just wear a hoodie from now on and respond to her in a hoodie. She should be hoodie to hoodie.

10:12Steven, thank you so much. Yeah, go ahead. I think the important point is that is that every time she's on TV, Republican approval ratings go up. Democrat approval ratings go down. That lady is a walking nightmare. And you're and you're you're about I know you for 20 years. You're about five, five, five, 11, about five, 10. So four, 10. I don't know what you can say. All right, Stephen, thank you very much.

10:36Ben Meiselas:So then state regime media propagandist Jesse Waters says the real issue here, he claims, is that AOC wants to sleep with Stephen Miller. Just so misogynistic and disgusting. That's what they're doing. AOC wants to sleep with the grotesque creature. What are you even saying? How dare you even talk about AOC like that? So weird. So gross. Here, play this clip. Do you think that MAGA men are insulted by AOC? No, I think AOC wants to sleep with Miller. It is so obvious and I'm sorry you can't have him. Miller is the best. I know him well socially and the man is not overcompensating. Dana, I know when people are overcompensating.

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12:57Ben Meiselas:Then you had Laura Ingraham say, you know what the big problem right now is? And she was saying this with Ted Cruz on air. The big problem, it's these billionaires inheriting their wealth and throwing around reckless rhetoric. Yeah, like J.B. Pritzker and Gavin Newsom. That's what they say. It's everything they do is a projection. Here, play this clip. This from a man who was one of the early favorites for the Democrats' 2028 run. Look, he's a billionaire with inherited wealth. He throws around rhetoric like it doesn't matter at all. He's not the only one. Gavin Newsom is doing the same thing.

13:34Akeem Jeffries is doing the same thing. They demonize ICE relentlessly.

13:39Ben Meiselas:And as Edward Isaac Dovere says, Ted Cruz on one of the people who has become a leading political opponent for Trump on what he says makes that person not credible. Then you had Kristi Noem going on with Jesse Waters, and she's got to play the victim. And so she goes, Senator Padilla, the California senator who got attacked and thrown to the ground by DHS and ICE agents when he was attending a press conference being held by Kristi Noem. She goes, Senator Padilla attacked me. Kristi Noem says, I was attacked by Senator Padilla. These people are sick. These make up things. He attacked me. He didn't attack you.

14:24Ben Meiselas:You sent your goons to attack him. They always play the victim. Here, play this clip. Have it on video. Yeah, he absolutely did storm at me. Yes, I know. He absolutely did storm at me. In fact, he hit the ground because of how he attacked me that day. So it's hard to deny the video evidence. And here's Kristi Noem saying, you know, the problem with Portland, it's a bunch of pansies. I mean, like the cosplay here is so ridiculous. It looks like some bad 1980s movie of the smokers at the bump. You know what I mean? At the high school. Yeah, you see, man, there are a bunch of pansies here. A bunch of pansies.

15:05What? Play this clip. And that is what is shocking to me about these leftist politicians, just how they ignore the people who elected them, jeopardize their safety and continue to disrespect our law enforcement officers. So one of the things I've been dealing with all day here in Portland is a bunch of pansies that are elected into political office who won't make a decision to keep their citizens safe.

15:25Ben Meiselas:And again, she's cosplaying right before our eyes. And I like this. Jesse Waters then made Kristi Noem listen to Governor Pritzker call her a little girl playing dress up. And Waters made her respond to what do you make of J.B. Pritzker calling you a little girl wearing playing dress up here? Play this clip. All right, Secretary, you just heard the governor call you a little girl playing dress up. What do you say to that? He keeps throwing out insults. I wish he would just offend the people that he's responsible for. And that is what is shocking to me about these leftist politicians, just how they ignore the people who elected them, jeopardize their safety and continue to disrespect our law enforcement officers.

16:06Ben Meiselas:She is a little girl playing dress up, a dangerous one like the like the little girl playing dress up at, you know, at universal Hollywood nights of horror and that horror movie. You know, the one who does like the, like the, like the dance thing. Anyway, I don't know. I'm not sure the reference I'm even making. Then you have department of Homeland security, a spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin. And she goes, it's utterly disgusting for Democrats and for governor JB Pritzker and others to smear us and say, we're racially profiling. Ice is not racially profile and here play this clip. And is it totally divisive to suggest that just going on black and brown people introduces a ridiculous racial element into this?

16:45That is outrageous what this governor is saying. It's blood boiling. It is a disgusting smear to say there's racial profiling going on. Our ICE law enforcement are targeting criminals and they're targeting those who are in this country illegally. Race has nothing to do with it. And for him to do that upon all these attacks on our law enforcement is just despicable. We will continue, though, to surge resources to protect the public in Chicago since J.B. Pritzker refuses to do it. And might I add the fact that J.B. Pritzker refuses to walk his own streets. Secretary Noem was just down there two days ago.

17:19She saw the rampant violence, the rampant crime, and J.B. Pritzker needs to step up and actually do his job.

17:25Ben Meiselas:Tricia, hate to break this to you, but I think you know this, which is that the Department of Justice literally argued that they should be allowed to racially profile based on skin color and the location and where people work. And the Supreme Court said, yeah, you could racially profile now in the United States of America. That was the argument that was made. The right wing Supreme Court blessed it and said you can do it. But you still you still don't own up to what you're doing. Why? Because the American people hate it because the American people are fed up and disgusted with your crap, with the fascism, with masked ICE agents disappearing people, with masked ICE agents walking around city streets with weapons of war being pointed indiscriminately.

18:07Ben Meiselas:Maybe that's why you don't want to own what it is that you're doing. Fascism on the streets of New York. Then you have Maria Bartiromo. She brings in Senator Thune, the leader of the Republicans in the Senate. And Senator Thune's like, here's the deal. The Democrats are either just going to have to sign on to our continuing resolution or they're going to do it the easy way or the hard way, basically. That's the only choice for them. Here, play this clip. But there are reasonable Democrats out there who are having conversations with Republicans, and I'm hopeful those are going to yield some results.

18:42I mean, at the end of the day, all these things that they want to do and that we're talking about, we're happy to have a conversation about, but that can't happen with the government shutdown. So it's it's, you know, open up the government and or or else. I mean, I think that's really the choice that's in front of him right now.

18:57Ben Meiselas:No, the way we do government in the United States of America, Senator Thune, is the parties are supposed to work together when you need the votes of the other parties. and when the other party here is specifically advocating something that actually is more pressing for red states than blue states, but frankly impacts all Americans in an existential way, no matter where you are, healthcare, extending affordable care, subsidies, protecting people's Medicaid, okay? Maybe that's something that you should address with people. Maybe that's the way government works, that you should be talking to the other side and come up with a deal so that Americans don't die.

19:35Ben Meiselas:Speaking of, this is Rick Scott, MAGA Republican senator from Florida. Before becoming a politician, he was involved in the largest Medicare fraud in the United States history, multiple criminal cases, civil cases. He invoked the Fifth Amendment hundreds of times, over 75 times. He invoked his Fifth Amendment. He left that company with a golden parachute. And that company admitted that it was involved in or was involved in the one of the largest Medicare frauds in history. It's how this fraudster made his money. Here play this clip. Is the Wall Street Journal right that Republicans are starting to get worried that if this all goes haywire and people's health insurance costs go up at the end of the year, Republicans could wind up being blamed.

20:24No, healthcare costs are going up. Whatever we do on these subsidies, healthcare costs are going up. Healthcare costs are going up because of Obamacare, right? The question is going to be, are we going to subsidize everybody's healthcare? I mean, right now, we're going to make sure, Republicans are going to make sure we have a good healthcare safety net. This doesn't change at all about the people that are on Obamacare.

20:49Ben Meiselas:But got to give a hat tip to Democratic Senator Kelly from Arizona. He was on Fox yesterday. And here's what he had to say. Play this clip. The majority leader in the Senate, John Thune, talks about, well, we'll have conversations. We need more than conversations. We need a real negotiation. The president met with the four leaders of Congress about a week ago on Monday. And it didn't even seem, the feedback we got, it didn't even seem that he understood what these premium tax credits were. So the first step here is the president has to understand what's going on. And when you look around the country and you see who this affects the most, it's folks in rural areas.

21:29He won rural parts of this country in almost every state. So this affects his voters. And it should never be about that. I mean, I get that. But I think we both know that, you know, this president pays a close attention to his base. This is going to impact them significantly.

21:46Ben Meiselas:And that did not make Donald Trump happy. that Fox appearance. And then you had Sean Duffy as he was whining about marijuana and legalizing marijuana. Here, he basically tries to blame the Democrats for all of the shortages that are happening at the US airports when we all know that it was Donald Trump and people like you, Duffy, and the MAGA Republicans that are causing the shutdown. Y 'all control all branches of government. You refuse to protect people's health care. It's on you, Duffy. As California Governor Gavin Newsom writes no air traffic controllers for six hours at Burbank Airport yesterday.