2/23/23: Train derailment sideshows go horribly wrong, Pence admits to the whole thing
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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-- Kelly Weill, reporter at The Daily Beast and author of "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything," joins David for another discussion about the last year in conspiracy theories and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3SmpwiN
-- After weeks of Republicans denying they would ever consider cutting Social Security and Medicare, Mike Pence appears on CNBC and says they should consider cutting Social Security and Medicare
-- Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker brutally slams Ron DeSantis for his recent stunt in Chicago
-- Emily Kohrs, a member of the Trump Grand Jury in Georgia, has been on a bizarre media tour that some worry could endanger a possibly forthcoming indictment of Donald Trump
-- Failed former President Donald Trump goes to East Palestine, Ohio for an event related to the train derailment and it goes horribly wrong
-- Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating January 6
-- Fox News is now openly running Ron DeSantis propaganda specials
-- Another voicemail caller confused about David's political orientation
-- On the Bonus Show: Texas bill would ban nearly all gender-affirming care including for adults, lawyers for Steve Bannon sue over legal bills, Florida lawyer argues pregnant inmate's fetus is being illegally detained, much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Let's start today with a sort of thick and meaty policy segment. |
| 0:21.4 | And let's talk about social security and the context of this. |
| 0:24.8 | And it's been much requested by many of you is the absolute apoplexy from Republicans |
| 0:31.4 | at the mere suggestion that over the last few years they've hinted at and even sometimes |
| 0:35.8 | overtly said, maybe we should cut social security. |
| 0:39.5 | Maybe the cuts would be lower benefits. |
| 0:41.4 | Maybe the cuts would be you have to work longer, meaning raise the retirement age or whatever |
| 0:45.1 | the case may be. |
| 0:46.4 | But when Joe Biden said at his state of the union address a couple of weeks ago, some |
| 0:50.7 | of these Republicans want to cut social security, they went crazy and started saying Joe Biden |
| 0:57.3 | is a liar and we would never do that and on and on and on. |
| 1:01.4 | And then yesterday on CNBC, incomes, former vice president Mike Pence and he says, oh, |
| 1:10.2 | we should definitely put on the table that we might cut social security and Medicare. |
| 1:14.7 | They've spent weeks saying we would never do that. |
| 1:17.9 | Stop accusing us of maybe wanting to be open to considering the possibility of ever cutting |
| 1:24.7 | social security and Medicare. |
| 1:26.5 | And then here's Mike Pence saying, oh, yeah, yeah, no, like we should definitely think |
| 1:29.5 | of that because of the debt is that well, I respect the speaker's commitment to take |
| 1:34.8 | social security and Medicare off the table for the debt ceiling negotiations. |
| 1:40.4 | We've got to put them on the table in the long term. |
| 1:42.9 | And right now, President Biden's policy is insolvency. |
| 1:47.4 | I mean, we're looking at a debt crisis in this country over the next 25 years that is |
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