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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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-- Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist (D-MI), also a candidate for Michigan Governor, joins David to discuss Medicaid cuts, due process, and much more… https://garlingilchrist.com/
— Even MAGA is turning on Trump after learning he’s building a centralized surveillance database of American citizens with Peter Thiel and Palantir
— Trump announces a new travel ban after the Boulder attack—then bans 19 countries except the one the attacker came from
— Trump’s Education Secretary faceplants in a brutal hearing, unable to answer basic questions about DEI, history, and Holocaust denial
— Trump brags about coordinating with Putin on Iran while parroting Russian propaganda and taking foreign policy cues from the Kremlin
— Trump reemerges with a mess of confused lies about gas prices, planes, and imaginary timelines
— Speaker Mike Johnson confirms Trump is furious with Elon Musk, as the right-wing billionaire civil war explodes into the open
-- On the Bonus Show: Momentum stalls in the Senate for Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” Karine Jean-Pierre announces she’s leaving the Democratic Party, and Karoline Leavitt quietly ditches her cross necklace after a Jon Stewart segment, much more...
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. |
0:08.7 | We have a very interesting situation here where we are starting to see a slice of MAGA turn |
0:16.2 | on Donald Trump because of this tech bro citizen database that Donald Trump is trying to get Peter |
0:22.7 | Teal to build for him. |
0:24.8 | We talked about this a little bit on a bonus show earlier this week. |
0:27.8 | It's getting more attention. |
0:28.8 | It's becoming more prominent of a discussion within the maga space where there are all sorts |
0:34.6 | of people who say this is a betrayal by Donald Trump. |
0:37.5 | So let's talk about it. |
0:38.5 | But big picture. |
0:40.0 | You know it's bad when even some of Donald Trump's most diehard supporters start to say, this |
0:47.4 | is not what we signed up for. |
0:50.3 | Not because Donald Trump compromised, not because Donald Trump went woke, but because he seems to |
0:57.7 | be crossing a line that even some of MAGA simply can't stomach. |
1:03.6 | What Trump wants to do and what he's moving forward on is building a centralized surveillance |
1:09.2 | database of American citizens, American citizens in this particular |
1:14.0 | case. |
1:15.3 | And the tech bro that's going to help him do it is Peter Thiel, born in Germany, relevant |
1:21.1 | because despite the rhetoric, two of the most important sort of clingers to this administration's second term have been |
1:31.5 | South African Elon Musk and German Peter Thiel. |
1:36.5 | And Peter Thiel and Palantir, his company, are now going to be building the architecture |
1:43.0 | of this digital authoritarianism right here |
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