Who’s in Charge of this Shit Show? A Conversation with Simon Rosenberg

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s first cabinet meeting was basically run by Elon. Republicans voted for a budget that would cut Medicaid and SNAP to ensure billionaires get even more money. Republican representatives are choosing to forego town halls after realizing they can’t answer for their party’s actions. Trump put out the disgusting Trump Gaza video and showed the world America is now Russia’s ally in the Oval Office. So, how do we look at all this and still have hope? Well that’s why we’re talking to Simon Rosenberg the author of Hopium Chronicles. To see what we can do to not only protect our country, but protect ourselves. Our country’s under attack and our media isn’t even talking about it. Which is why, now more than ever, we need to support those doing independent work to tell the truth, when it’s increasingly hard to find. Help create a counterweight to the lies and propaganda by supporting the show and SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, the rants directly to your inbox, and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/simonwdc Twitter: @SimonWDC YouTube:@SimonWDC As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl THANK YOU to today’s sponsors! https://wildgrain.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl https://3DayBlinds.com/politicsgirl https://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl https://faynutrition.com/politicsgirl https://publicrec.com code: PoliticsGirl

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0:00.0	Musk is not a reformer. He's not shrinking government. He's breaking it. He's a criminal. He's a
0:05.5	serial criminal. He's a betrayer of the country. We have to get the word criminal and crimes into
0:11.4	the discourse associated with his brand.
0:28.6	Hello. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:35.5	So who is in charge of this shit show at this point? We just watched Trump's first cabinet meeting and it was basically run by Elon.
0:38.0	Republicans voted for a budget that would cut Medicaid and snap to make sure billionaires got even more money. Republican representatives are
0:42.9	choosing to forego town halls moving forward after they had their asses handed to them this past week.
0:48.1	Trump put out an outrageous and disgusting Trump Gaza video on social media and were apparently
0:53.1	selling citizenship and hats for cash
0:55.2	money from the Oval Office. How do you even look at all of that and have hope? Well, that's why we are
1:00.4	talking to Simon Rosenberg, the author of the Hopium Chronicles this week. Simon is a highly regarded
1:06.0	political strategist and commentator, with more than 30 years of experience in national politics and
1:10.8	television news. Simon has served in senior roles at the DNC and the D-Triple-C and was a leading
1:16.2	candidate for DNC chair in 2005. Simon has worked on two presidential campaigns, including as a leadership
1:21.9	role in the Clinton War Room, and was instrumental in founding the new Democratic Coalition,
1:26.7	the donor advisory network Democratic Alliance.
1:29.8	After a career in television news, Simon built a new home for his political analysis,
1:34.2	commentary and live political discussions at Hopium, an amazing and informative project on the
1:38.9	substack media platform that not only gives everyone the information it needs, but actively
1:43.9	helps candidates win across the
1:45.5	country. So to give us a little hope, without further ado, please welcome my guest, political
1:49.9	strategist, commentator and creator of the Hopium Chronicles, Simon Rosenberg. Welcome back, Simon.
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