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- MAGA Is Officially Dead - Blue Wave Is Sweeping America
President Donald Trump said he is planning on meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Trump has repeatedly bashed Mamdani, calling him a communist and endorsing opponent Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic New York governor who lost in the primary and ran in the general election as an independent. But Mamdani, a 34-year-old state assemblyman from Queens who identifies as a Democratic socialist, won the race with historic voter turnout.
“The mayor of New York, I will say, would like to meet with us, and we’ll work something out. But he would like to come to Washington,” Trump told reporters on Nov. 16. "We want to see everything work out well for New York." White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed to USA TODAY that Trump meant Mamdani (The current mayor is still Eric Adams).
Related Article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/17/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani/87315642007/
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00:00 - Start
1:00 - The Death Of Dick Cheney
6:09 - Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Mayor Election
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36 min - How Israel/Palestine Changed My Thinking About The Democratic Party Forever
I sat down with Chuck Corra of @Appodlachia to discuss his views on how the genocide in Gaza have completely changed his views on the Democratic Party.
We also break down our feelings on the future of the party & it's current leadership.
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48 min - Donald TRUMP Plans On Being The President Again In 2028 - “I would love to do it.”
Last week, Steve Bannon, the far-right provocateur and one-time Donald Trump adviser, said in an interview with the Economist that the president would seek an unconstitutional third term. “Trump is going to be president in 28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that,” Bannon said. “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is.”
Like clockwork, Trump commented on the idea soon after, telling reporters following him on Air Force One as he flew from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo: “I would love to do it.”
Initially, he said: “I haven’t really thought about it. But I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.” (This is not true; Trump’s approval has sunk considerably, with a new poll released this week showing him at a net -19 point approval rating, the lowest of his second term.) Still, Trump said he would be legally able to run again in a scheme in which he was placed on the ticket as a vice-presidential nominee, only for the puppet placed in the presidential slot to resign once taking office, thereby granting him the presidency.
Related Article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/31/trump-third-term-constitution
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00:00 - Start
1:22 - Donald Trump Floats A 3rd Term
6:22 - Trump Brings Medical Debt Back To Credit Reports
15:00 - ICE Uses AI To Surveil Social Media
22:30 - Donald Trump Threatens War With Venezuela
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35 min - MAGA Blames Government Shutdown On...No Kings Protest???
Ahead of last month’s “No Kings” protests, Republicans launched a remarkably aggressive effort to slander Donald Trump’s critics, repeatedly insisting that the activists participating in the events “hate America.”
The smear campaign apparently didn’t work. NBC News reported on the results of its latest national poll: The high election interest and focus on Trump also come as millions of Americans have participated in ‘No Kings’ protests against the Trump administration. In this survey, 43% say they consider themselves supporters of the No Kings protest movement — with the group largely composed of Democrats but also including around 4 in 10 independents.
If the goal was to persuade the public to reject No Kings, the NBC News poll suggests those efforts haven’t gone especially well.
Related Article: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/poll-shows-no-kings-protest-movement-topping-maga-public-support-rcna241803
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00:00 - Start
1:55 - MAGA Blames Government Shutdown On No Kings Protests
10:13 - Trump Threatens Missile Strikes In Russia
18:00 - Taiwan Preps For China Invasion
32:37 - Minnesota To Sell Electric Rights To Wall Street
44:16 - Movie talk (Get Out Review)
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1 hr 2 min - Why Did Kamala Harris Lose The 2024 Election? Is Zohran Mamdani The New Face Of The Democrats?
Former Vice President Kamala Harris' new memoir, 107 days, is out Tuesday with a mix of insights and unanswered questions about her historically short run for president after former President Joe Biden dropped out.
Harris has largely been out of the public spotlight since losing the election to Donald Trump last November, but the book release kicks off a cross-country tour.
Related Article: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5550250/kamala-harris-book-107-days-highlights
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00:00 - Start
0:45 - Why Did Kamala Harris Lose The 2024 Election?
9:36 - Was Tim Walz Misused In The Campaign?
14:35 - Will Kamala Run In 2028?
16:00 - Did Gaza Negatively Impact Her Campaign?
21:00 - WIll AOC Run For President In 2028?
25:33 - Is Zohran Mamdani The Future Of The Democratic Party?
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35 min - Reaction To The Death Of Charlie Kirk
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk predicted his own assassination in chilling text messages to friend and former colleague Candace Owens — years before he was assassinated in Utah.
Owens posted screengrabs of a text exchange from April 6, 2018 on her podcast in which the person she identifies as Kirk predicted he would be killed because of his work with Turning Point USA.
“If I tell you the true prophecy I know in my gut it’s really sad,” Kirk wrote, adding, “But I hope its wrong.”
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40 min - Trump Promises Prison Time For Burning The American Flag
President Donald Trump, writing on Truth Social, informed “ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military” that “from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison” in accordance with a previous executive order.
Trump’s executive order instructing the immediate arrest and one-year imprisonment of individuals who burn the American flag has sparked debate over free speech, patriotism and the limits of executive authority.
The order challenges decades-old Supreme Court decisions that upheld flag burning as a constitutionally protected form of expression, placing the issue at the intersection of law-and-order policy and First Amendment rights.
Related Article: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-issues-ultimatum-american-flag-burners-10828800
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00:00 - Start
2:45 - Trump Promises Prison For Flag Burning
9:10 - Trump Wants To End Cashless Bail Nationwide
16:39 - Congresswoman Denied Access To ICE Detention Center
30:08 - Trump Considers Banning Covid Vaccine
37:36 - Israel tries to recruit Americans into the IDF
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1 hr 2 min - DEMOCRATS Still Haven't Endorsed ZOHRAN Mamdani - Does It Matter?
He’s the hottest politician in the US, who managed to attract thousands of young and first-time voters to the Democratic party in his unexpected win in the New York City mayoral primary.
With the Democrats suffering from historically low approval ratings, one might have thought the party would rally round Zohran Mamdani, to learn lessons from the media-savvy 33-year-old and bask in his soaring popularity.
That hasn’t happened.
The most influential political figures in New York state politics have instead studiously avoided any public endorsement of Mamdani, the self-described democratic socialist who has a 22-point lead over his nearest challenger.
Related Article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/zohran-mamdani-democrat-endorsements-kathy-hochul
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00:00 - Intro
4:33 - Zohran Mamdani Wins Democratic Primary
12:42 - Republicans & Democrats Openly Racist Towards Zohran Mamdani
21:29 - RFK Jr Gets Challenged By The Medical Community
32:44 - Israeli Investigations Shows IDF Openly Firing On Civilians
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51 min - 🚨BREAKING: TRUMP Considering AMERICAN TROOPS In IRAN To Help Israel
President Trump said Wednesday that he had not yet decided whether the U.S. military will join Israel's ongoing attacks on Iran, and he didn't believe it was too late to reach a deal with the Islamic Republic on its nuclear program, though he warned it was "very late to be talking."
"I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I'm going to do," Mr. Trump told reporters when he was asked about the U.S. taking part in the strikes on Iran's nuclear and military facilities.
The president told reporters later Wednesday in the Oval Office that, while some don't want the U.S. to become involved, "it's possible that you're going to have to fight for them not to have nuclear."
Related Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-israel-war-us-trump-nuclear-sites-risk-all-out-war/
00:00 - Intro
1:02 - Will Trump Drag U.S. Into Israel's War with Iran?
21:49 - 62% Of Democrats Want New Party Leadership
39:30 - ICE Protests Around The Country
1:04:24 - Why You Should Be Concerned About Palantir
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1 hr 18 min - 🚨BREAKING: Donald TRUMP DEPLOYS More TROOPS Into American Cities
About 50 U.S. Marines squared off against hundreds of protesters in front of a federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, with the crowd yelling in unison for them to go home.
The Marines had been sent to the city by U.S. President Donald Trump along with federalized members of the California National Guard earlier this week over the objections of the state governor and the city's mayor, as anger over immigration raids drew thousands of demonstrators into the streets.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and local leaders have called Trump's move an inflammatory provocation for the protests over the past week - demonstrations that the local sheriff on Friday said were 99% peaceful, with a only a handful of people engaged in violence and vandalism.
Trump summoned 700 Marines from California who were trained to help in the L.A. mission, including de-escalation and crowd control.
Related Article: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/los-angeles-protesters-tell-us-marines-leave-la-2025-06-15/
00:00 - Intro
3:01 - Trump Regime Updates/ICE Protests
27:21 - RFK Jr Replaces Everyone On CDC Vaccine Panel
36:54 - Israel & Iran Enter A War
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Independent Thought is a podcast hosted by Desmond Price. The podcast covers current political events, life events, & everything in between. If you’re looking for a way to drown out the monotony,…
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