3/6/25: Inflation and job losses starting, Fox & MAGA panic

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David Pakman

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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-- On the Show: -- Bill Adair, Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University, founder of the fact-checking site PolitiFact, and author of the new book Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do it More and How It Coudl Burn Down Our Democracy, joins David to discuss the book. Get the book: https://amzn.to/43p8tEd -- Ryleigh Cooper, a Trump voter, gets fired by Trump and Elon Musk after voting them into office -- Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick renames inflation to "higher prices" in the latest attempt to pretend there will not be inflation -- Fox News host Larry Kudlow, a former economic advisor to Donald Trump, says he is hearing February will end up with job losses in the latest sign of an economic downturn under Donald Trump -- Fox News host Maria Bartiromo panics as she has no choice but to admit that jobs numbers are worsening -- Donald Trump ejects another tonsil stone from his mouth while speaking to a global audience -- An absolutely nuclear mind-loss on Truth Social as Donald Trump cannot stop posting and antagonizing American allies -- On the Bonus Show: Producer Pat encounters "rude Americans" in Mexico, much more... 🥦 Lumen lets you master your metabolism. GET 20% OFF at https://lumen.me/pakman 💻 Sponsored by Aura: Try it free for 2 weeks! See if your data is safe at https://aura.com/pakman ☕ Beam's Dream hot cocoa: Use code PAKMAN for 40% OFF at https://shopbeam.com/pakman 💵 Sponsored by Ridge Wallet: Get up to 40% OFF at https://ridge.com/pakman 🩳 SHEATH Underwear: Code PAKMAN for 20% OFF at https://sheathunderwear.com/pakman -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -- Get David's Books: https://davidpakman.com/echo -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- David on Bluesky: https://davidpakman.com/bluesky -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody.
0:08.3	We start today with a Trump voter who has been fired by Donald Trump and Elon Musk's
0:15.7	Doge.
0:16.9	And it's really a cautionary tale about when the theoretical becomes reality.
0:24.8	We talked a couple of weeks ago about a man who voted for Trump and then his wife was
0:30.5	deported.
0:31.5	And then when his wife was deported, he said, I didn't think they were going to come for
0:35.0	us for the people who supported him.
0:37.7	And of course, the theoretical becomes very real when all of a sudden the ICE officers
0:42.5	are in your house, proverbially or literally in that particular case.
0:46.9	We now have learned about Riley Cooper, who CNN interviewed.
0:51.5	We tried to find contact information for Riley.
0:53.8	I would love to talk to her.
0:55.2	We were not able to do it.
0:57.1	Riley explained, I voted for Trump, meaning I voted for Trump to select Elon, which meant
1:04.0	Elon got to do Doge and then Doge fired me.
1:07.7	Let's take a listen and truly a cautionary tale.
1:17.6	Riley Cooper joins me now. Riley, welcome. Thank you for sharing your story. And I wonder,
1:22.5	what was it like for you when you got the news that you were being let go?
1:34.2	It was really hard. I was on the phone with my best friend, Kaylee, at the time, and we were just discussing her life and how things were going.
1:36.3	And I looked at my phone and I had gotten a text from our union rep.
1:41.8	And he told me that I was going to be fired the next day.
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