1/2/25: This new year is already outrageous

The David Pakman Show

David Pakman

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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-- On the Show: -- The first 48 hours of 2025 confirm that this year is going to be absolutely insane -- United Healthcare is accused of denying coverage for a woman in a coma in the ICU because it might not be "medically necessary" -- Donald Trump is doing it again, planning to hold a rally in Washington DC the day before the inauguration -- Donald Trump bows down to Elon Musk again on H1B visas and MAGA is increasingly humiliated -- Despite the New Orleans vehicle attacker being American-born, Donald Trump takes to Truth Social to claim he was right about foreigners posing threats to Americans -- A look at how corporate media normalizes authoritarianism -- A Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel and casino -- Police seem impressed with the Tesla Cybertruck's ability to withstand explosions -- On the Bonus Show: How Mike Johnson could lose the speakership, unlawful border crossings drop to four year low in November, police identify woman who was fatally set on fire on NYC subway, much more... 🔊 Babbel language learning: Get up to 60% OFF at https://babbel.com/pakman 🥐 Wildgrain: Use code PAKMAN for $30 off & free baked goods at https://wildgrain.com/pakman 🛡️ Incogni lets you control your personal data! Get 60% off their annual plan: http://incogni.com/pakman 💻 Sponsored by Aura: Try it free for 2 weeks! See if your data is safe at https://aura.com/pakman 💻 Private Internet Access: 83% OFF + 4 months free at https://www.piavpn.com/Pakman -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- Pakman Discord: https://davidpakman.com/discord -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow -- Leave a Voicemail: (219)-2DAVIDP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to 2025, everybody. I hope that your New Year celebrations were, how do I put it,
0:14.8	exactly what you would want. I'll admit, I was asleep by 1045 and it was great.
0:21.9	We are going to have an insane year.
0:24.6	And I know four years is what a lot of us are thinking about because of the incoming Trump
0:28.8	administration and that's completely reasonable.
0:31.4	I understand why that's your expectation.
0:33.5	It's mine as well.
0:34.6	But I want to talk specifically about 2025 because it's very clear based on the
0:40.5	first 24, 36, 48 hours of the year and based on everything we were observing from November 5th through
0:47.2	December 31st last year, it's abundantly clear that this is going to be a particularly bonkers year. We've been trying to prevent it.
0:57.8	Many of us voted in ways that we thought would make it less likely. But I don't think at this
1:04.0	point it's possible. 2025 will be nuts. Just in the first 36 hours of the year, we saw a Tesla cyber truck loaded to the
1:16.2	gills with what appear to be fireworks, explode at a Trump hotel. And then we saw police
1:22.9	supplicate about how lucky we all are that it was a Tesla cyber truck. We'll get to
1:30.6	that later. Maybe it's sort of a metaphor for the MAGA movement. It's flashy. It's chaotic.
1:36.0	And it's bound to blow up in everyone's faces. We had an absolutely terrifying attack in, uh, New Orleans, Louisiana on Bourbon Street, which we
1:47.7	will talk about.
1:49.3	We saw in this nascent stage of the year, Donald Trump doubled down on being completely owned
1:57.1	by Elon Musk again on the topic of H-1B visas at his New Year's Eve party and he's
2:06.9	now pretending he never had a different position except he's on video clearly having different
2:12.7	positions and in the last few hours we have learned that Donald Trump is going to be holding a rally
2:19.4	just before his inauguration on January 19th.
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