I was born, baptized, and grew up Catholic. I would never and never have voted for Trump! He's disgusting, and I have always thought that for as long as I can remember and I'm 65.

@luzsanchez3050

6 күн бұрын

Same here!! I never for a second would have even considered voting for him!

@gasovensforqcult

6 күн бұрын

Yeah, I would never vote for a Presbyterian. JK, jk. I wouldn't vote for a Southern Baptist though

@user-wb7ss9ji3y

6 күн бұрын

I’m 80, raised Catholic and my conscience told me to stay away from apprentice. Who enjoys watching someone get fired. Disturbing! Trump’s reputation for incompetence and immorality were known all the way to my state of NE. No excuse for a one ever voting for him. Ever!

@user-yu6gl3xd6j

6 күн бұрын

Same.

@user-yu6gl3xd6j

6 күн бұрын

I’m so depressed. Between the tension between family members who actually believe the Q stuff and watching America being abused by trump and coup plotters who remain in office, my heart is so full of sorrow. 💔 ❤️🤍💙💛

As a Swede I absolutely love that a Republican like Kinzinger is way more on our side than Trump's pro Putin side. And I'm way to the left of him

@ykalon

6 күн бұрын

But even though Sweden is to the left of USA, we srill know that USA is our ally, unless Trump is the president

@bunny_smith

6 күн бұрын

He's really not on your side. Scandinavians (so I've heard) actually believe government exists to provide services to the citizenry to make their lives better. In the US, Republicans believe government exists to make it easier to funnel the wealth of the working and middle classes to the top 1% using corporations as the channel to do so. After that job is done, Republicans believe government should be dismantled or hobbled into impotence.

@toddsteward1596

6 күн бұрын

I could actually consider voting for him. As a progressive I’m listening to these conservative yet rational voices like I never would have before.

@mikeamarilio

6 күн бұрын

​@@toddsteward1596he voted with Trump 96% of the time. Voting record matters a lot more than what he's been saying now that he's on MSNBC's payroll

@Frenchblue8

6 күн бұрын

​@@mikeamarilioI think it might be CNN and this Bulwark channel. I don't care if someone's a Democrat, a Republican or Mickey mouse. As long as therefore preserving and defending our democracy against all enemies foreign and domestic, are pro Ukraine (again anti-putin and pro democracies around the globe) and pro reproductive Rights and decisions and freedom for one and all. If they stall out on reproductive Rights than I don't care how liberal and rational and reasonable they might sound. But I can give them credit where credit is due. I don't know where kinzinger stands on reproductive freedom.

Mad respect to Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for continuing to call out the Trump and MAGA incompetency and criminality and not selling their moral compass like so MANY MANY Republicans have by turning rogue and covering for Trump's fascism and crimes!! 💙💙💙VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY💙VOTE FOR FREEDOM OF CHOICE💙💙💙VOTE FOR EQUALITY💙💙

Jimmy Kimmel recently said that if someone offered trump another reality show for the right money, he would do it in a minute.

@alexyoussoupoff888

5 күн бұрын

Trump would pay for another reality show...lol

@user-cz5lj2vx1f

4 күн бұрын

If only there was a Hollywood patriot who would green-light such a project.

@PhillyFrank1

3 күн бұрын

Seems like that was what Trump really wanted in 2016. He neither expected nor wanted to get elected. He would have been much happier playing “alternative president” on TV, yammering about what he would do differently from and better than Hillary Clinton. Too bad for all of us that the Electoral College ruined his plans.

@kiki19822

3 күн бұрын

Sadly, Trump's been appearing in his own reality show for the last 8 years. He needs to be permanently cancelled this November.

@johnbolton2149

2 күн бұрын

Sam Bankman-Fried offered him $5 billion to NOT run for POTUS. At the time, SBF had the money too. That guy isn’t all bad.

When you travel oversea, you'll notice that the whole world mocks Trump. Trump is embarrassment to USA

@ttacking_you

6 күн бұрын

Yeah?! Well, so do we!! And WE ARE EMBARRASSED!!! SO THERE!!

@richardbierman9856

6 күн бұрын

I concur!

@alaine57

6 күн бұрын

Yes I experienced that personally in Canada and elsewhere 🇨🇦

@Tahir_Ali

6 күн бұрын

I was a never Trumper from the “Mexico isn’t sending their best” line.

@blackphillip2393

6 күн бұрын

America should be ashamed of Trump and MAGA in general.

Joan Rivers would never vote for Trump. Thats what would upset Trump more than homelessness in America.

@beth3575

6 күн бұрын

lol. I think he imagined she did. All those dead people voting you know.

@jennifer60515

6 күн бұрын

Oh, she would have. She was one of those “Mike” Obama nuts. Very disappointing.

@tonisodano5472

6 күн бұрын

Orange does not k Give a poop about ANYTHING if it profits for him

@user-zd2uv3ss9z

6 күн бұрын

Plus, it’s really tough to vote when you’re DEAD!

@seabreezecoffeeroasters7994

6 күн бұрын

Maybe this is where his 'brain' found the dead people voting?

For the SS and Medicare issue, just get rid of the cap. EVERYONE should pay into SS and Medicare on all their income. $169k/year is way too low!!!

@browneyedgirl6050

6 күн бұрын

Especially in today's environment.

@jenniferziegenfuss3719

6 күн бұрын

Exactly!!!! That $169k was set at a time when that was considered A TON and effectively be like $500k now. So just increase the cap for contributing to a million/year. Then no need to cut ANYTHING from SS.

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

@@jenniferziegenfuss3719 Why should there be any income cap on Social Security and Medicare taxes? Whether the cap is $169K or $1 million, most CEOs will be done with it by the end of January or February.

@jenniferziegenfuss3719

6 күн бұрын

@Don-md6wn The maximum amount of earnings subject to Social Security taxes in 2024 is $168,600. Which means anything over that is not subject to SS withholding. So everyone is earning more than that...e.g. $400k, that extra ~$200k is not included. If it was, say the cap was 1 million dollars... then SS would be funded and completely solvent.

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

@@jenniferziegenfuss3719 Uh yeah, I get that. I'm saying there shouldn't be any income cap at all on Social Security or Medicare taxes. And I question your math that raising the cap to $1 million would be "funded and completely solvent". It's currently funded and completely solvent, but the more taxes you bring in the further out the date where it is fully funded moves.

23:42 You can take the man out of the Republican party but you can't take the Republican party out of the man. Raise taxes on the wealthy and lift the income cap for SS contributions. Problem solved!

@jenniferziegenfuss3719

6 күн бұрын

Basically it's like telling these bozos to go back to Eisenhower republican era when top tax rates were still in the high 80s. These people are still way too obsessed with Teagan and the myth of trickle down economics.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Imagine that right?

@RANDALLBRIGGS

6 күн бұрын

You can confiscate every penny of the very wealthy and it will barely make a dent in our debt. And you only get to do that once.

@marcstreiff6067

5 күн бұрын

No, not really. The problem still existing concerning SS is the amount Congress borrowed but never paid back into the system. This should include appropriate interest dividends... SS should be one economic fund which cannot be borrowed from & where every working person pays into... The concept is quite simple but the reality of Congressional members not knowing how to wrap their brains around domestic fiscal policy is the tipped over oil drum in the hallway.. SS should not be on the wy to bankruptcy in less than 10 years. Everyone of us crunch our own monetary numbers & figure out how to navigate so tht down the rod in the future we are solvent with surplus economy resources... Congress needs to listen to the financial math people & realize policy decisions solely based on partisanship loyalty is the recipe for insolvency throughout our entire future economy...

@lawsonj39

3 күн бұрын

@@marcstreiff6067 That's not how economics actually works. You're still stuck on that 2000 campaign nonsense about a Social Security "lockbox." In reality, Congress creates money by allocating it; it doesn't have to depend on tax receipts. If it creates too much, you get inflation, but as long as the economy continues increasing production, creating money--or credit--isn't a problem. And rmszucs1's point is correct: raising taxes on the wealthy is a vital part of solving SS solvency.

Trump must never be allowed in the Oval Office again. Vote like our lives depend on it, because they do 💯💙💙💙💙

@margiesporrer9031

4 күн бұрын

Absolutely 💯

@Mikejamiew

4 күн бұрын

Perfectly put!

I'm sorry Adam, I'm glad you left the dark side but I just can't listen to you talk about the deficit and not own the major role that the then Republican party played in the creation of this problem. Tax cuts to the wealthiest 1% ( Excuse me. I have to take a break here to extinguish my hair on fire! ) and now who needs to pay for this? The poorest and most vulnerable Americans. Your messed up for profit medical system eats up more of your GDP than any country with Universal Healthcare. Your Welfare system is a disgrace. Your for profit prisons are quasi-criminal and nothing but a place to turn petty criminals into hardened criminals. The National Debt is not being created by poor people. It is being driven by the policies that favor the Super Wealthy over the average American. This is why we have ended up with a criminal like Trump. You need to look much deeper into your understanding of what creates wealth in a country. Kleptocracy, the credo of the Republican Party, means some people and their friends get very rich and everbody else gets by on the crumbs. You know as does Tim that dark money has rotted the political system from within. Until there is a thoughtful historic reform we will keep on falling into this morasse over and over again. Think before you advocate policies that will damage the fabric of American society even further. The poor are NOT the villains here. Think again!

@cindyspear5763

6 күн бұрын

Yes yes yes! You are absolutely right!

@hollandanish5557

6 күн бұрын

@@cindyspear5763 🙃Glad to have your support.

@browneyedgirl6050

6 күн бұрын

I was glad at the very minimum, they acknowledged that tariffs would hit the bottom 90% the most. The very least.

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

Yes, yes, and yes!

@hollandanish5557

6 күн бұрын

@@browneyedgirl6050 And lest we forget the tarif war Trump engaged in with China is why we had to step in and rescue American farmers who could nolonger sell their crops in China. The unintended downstream consequences of tarif wars are too numerous to list here. There are many ways in which the American manufacturing landscape would need to be restructured to compensate for the loss off producers of say microchips. This is one area where I actually think we might be better to have a robust domestic production but we would also have to be willing to pay a higher price for goods that rely on this technology. I know that for security reasons this is an area that the Biden administration is working on and investing in. It takes time however building the facilities and training the work force and creating a stable market for these products. I suspect more and more it will be important to develop these homegrown industries for reasons of national security. We learned this lesson during the pandemic.

3 words: TAX THE RICH!

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Over a THOUSAND BILLIONAIRES living in America!

@badluck5647

4 күн бұрын

The 1% pay 20% of the federal taxes.

@peekonsandy2773

3 күн бұрын

@@badluck5647 And they possess 30 percent of the wealth. Increase their taxes by 50 percent.

@badluck5647

3 күн бұрын

@@peekonsandy2773 So we take 0% when they leave the country?

@OldHollywood-xh8cl

2 күн бұрын

That makes perfect sense. That’s why it’ll never get done.

Did you know that Social Security is only paid on the first $160,000 you make in a year? So, if I make $10Billion/year and you make $160,000 we pay the same amount in Social Security Taxes. I can see a real easy fix, can you???????????????????????

@browneyedgirl6050

6 күн бұрын

Why is this NEVER a thing on the right? Is it the donors? You can't even call $160,000 rich. (More than I make, but still.) Even bringing it to $200, 000 (Trump likes even numbers) and see what happens. A little experiment if you will because all of the charts and data points are too tough for people to grasp.

@pozelenore880

6 күн бұрын

Have you looked at the mothly max you later get back?

@AZbluedot196

5 күн бұрын

@@pozelenore880 yes, and it is not enough to live on.

@MarionKordich

5 күн бұрын

@@AZbluedot196 Social Security was never established to cover full retirement.

@user-cr4vb4zb6w

5 күн бұрын

@@browneyedgirl6050the goal of the 1% to to have all the money, not some. ALL. They do not want a government. The billionaires are dividing up the countries for themselves to run and play chess with. They will compete for resources, but 3,300 billionaires with no morals or ethics control 7 billion people. The Supreme Court is an example of what happens when you can’t resist bribery. This is mafia. The world will be mafia. They think it’s their world and we’re just serve them to live. This ends or we die. It’s that simple.

Still defending the tax cuts and now complaining about the debt. Typical Republican

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

That's everybody on the Bulwark.

@valjean76

6 күн бұрын

ikr. then he says that progressives need to take their medicine. please. we need to form a coalition with these guys to beat trumpbut its hard at times.

@teresaparnham9780

6 күн бұрын

I was thinking tax the super wealthy, generational billions and corporate profits. Undo some of Reagan policies. Perhaps not allow stock buy backs. Maybe penalize corporations that make significant profits but whos full time employees qualify for government assistance programs. Stop baling out the corporations that wreak havoc on our economy. Cut the military budget. It's outrageous. There's many things we can do to cut the deficit. They aren't motivated. They like to complain about it. I'm 58, have been hearing it my entire adult life.

@randibgood

6 күн бұрын

​@@teresaparnham9780 I agree with everything except the military. I really want us to maintain the strength and vastness of our military, but they need to be much more responsible with their funding.

@tbowers8398

6 күн бұрын

AGREED!! Obviously cares more abt wealthy folks... bec THEY are the only ones who benefitted!

“Garbage talk” is a very apt description of Trump’s speeches.

@andysozio8556

6 күн бұрын

Garbage is an apt description of trump.

@TheMrGoat799

6 күн бұрын

🎯

@kittybluett8887

6 күн бұрын

It’s word salad

@mzkarmageddon2

6 күн бұрын

​@@kittybluett8887 trumptydumpty loves himself too much

From Hawai'i here. My Japanese speaking and Cuban/Castillian Spanish speaking friends tease me mercilessly about Trump ! In their worlds, Trump is Castro, Franco, Tojo.

@user-rr1jw9cz1u

6 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing that. Enjoy your days!!🤗

@lisadeak5723

6 күн бұрын

Ah so what are friends for but to pile on the problems of the country. Just promise them that they will pay. 😉

In a sane world, Kinzinger or Cheney would be the GOP nominee.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Less Facist yes but still Draconian!

I am glad to see a real American Patriot like Adam Kinzinger on the podcast.

@James-hd4ms

6 күн бұрын

He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.

@XHobbiesPrime

6 күн бұрын

@@James-hd4ms He put his country over party and sacrificed his political career to do the right thing. Buys him a lot of goodwill with me.

@James-hd4ms

6 күн бұрын

@@XHobbiesPrime meh

@karinwallace3031

6 күн бұрын

This man helped trump just like Cheney and now they cry ! Sickens me that party will be responsible if we lose democracy ! I try and listen to this BUT ffs they cherry pick what suits them .

@jenniferziegenfuss3719

6 күн бұрын

Not really at all. He STILL likes to boast he voted for and believes in the Trump tax cut that only helped the top 1% and corporate interests....while putting a couple trillion dollars in the national debt....INCREASING taxes on people making less than $75k....AND eliminating normal people federal tax breaks like for moving expenses, teacher expenses, and student loan interest. He is milquetoast when it comes to shit. I'm honestly not impressed with him. Does not care about average people and instead LOVES corporate goobers and now is banking on living high off the hog with being a "consultant" (lobbyist).

He has never been mentally sharp ever

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

He's always been a con man, but if you watch a clip of him from 20 years ago, he could speak in complete sentences and even paragraphs and he didn't have to repeat the same words and phrases over and over to fill space.

@frogdogink4415

6 күн бұрын

He's a life time Wannabe! 😂

On the debt, Tim and Adam, lest we forget: 1. The Bush Tax Cuts 2. The Bush/Chaney War debt AND OTHER SPENDING. (Clinton left a surplus) 3. Tarp that was signed in by Bush. 5. Bank Bailout under Obama 6. The Trump Tax Cuts 7. The Social Security and Medicare costs could be offset if the Reagan caps were adjusted for inflation in current dollars.

@michelleladd7394

6 күн бұрын

Kingzinger is a Reagan Republican

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

Any competent person could turn Kinzinger into a puddle in a debate on economics.

@barbaraaguttman8854

5 күн бұрын

Reagan Taxed Social Security; plus Reagan’s Failed Policy of “Trickle Down Economics” in Reagan’s day was the downturn of the American Working Middle Class upward Social Financial Mobility. That Failed Policy made Wealthy Individuals; much more Weathered; caused Middle and Underprivileged Classes; much poorer. •Reagan also accelerated Deregulation Policies; the Policies that allow Companies•Industries•Corporations•Conglomerates to Gouge the American Consumer. Allow Pollution in Communities, Waterways, Aquifers,Oceans, Ecosystems, National Parks and Forests… causing Cancer Clusters, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Infectious Diseases,Viruses plus Hazardous Chemicals and Fertilizers in our Food Chain… without any accountability or responsibility for their actions. •Reagan’s Administration had the earliest “Inklings” of The Heritage Foundation 2025 Project Agenda… he installed the infiltration and influence of Evangelicals throughout all aspects of our Governmental Agencies and Institutions. •Reagan also tried to abolish Women’s Healthcare Rights with dissolving Roe VS Wade. •Reagan only catered to the Top 1% of Wealthiest Individuals and Corporations, with huge Tax breaks and credits. •Reagan had Dementia during the end of his Administration; had Nancy facilitating her Psychics and Ouija Board to create important Policy and Legislation Decisions. •Drumpf revered Reagan; he even copied his Slogan; only adding “Again” to it. •Reagan’s “Trickle Down Economics”; destroyed the American Middle Class Dream. •Also; Republicans purposely and systematically underfunded Public Education; since 1980-present day(Red States•Red Districts) in order to Dumb Down future generations of their Constituents; to have uneducated Vote against their own interests. •Combine that during Reagan’s Administration; he abolished the FCC Fairness Doctrine; for Truthful and Factual Journalism; in 1987.., that allowed the Right Wing Oligarchs•Billionaires to acquire the Majority of all American Media Conglomerates; which facilitate Division,Distraction, Disinformation and Discrimination(actual Military Tactics) for their Billionaire self serving interests and agendas.., Propaganda, Lies, Gaslighting… to Sway the uneducated Masses to Vote(Right Wing) then the Billionaires never have yo Pay a Higher Tax Rate; when the Drumpf Tax Policy Ends in 2025. 💙VOTE💙 Republicans have been working to undermine our Federal Constitutional Republic with Reagan onward.

@eottoe2001

5 күн бұрын

@@barbaraaguttman8854 to sell the economics of Milton Friedman, Heyek, & Buchanan and the Chicago School of Economics you had to hate black people, brown people, gay people, trans-people, non-christian people, etc. You have to promote vilest most regress protestant and catholics to get the policies through. They had to project their damage to people on Democrats and Liberals rather than on an unregulated economy. You have pollute everything. One thing people do get is that neoliberalism from Friedman and Heyek is proto-fascism from the outset starting with the America First in the 1940s, the John Birch Society in the 1950s, and Goldwater Young Republicans in th3 1960s, AND when was implemented first is Chile.

Those trump taxes sure didn’t help

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

He shorted the US budget.

Maybe Joan Rivers was one of the many “dead people” he said illegally voted. 😂

@kimberlyjohnson5923

6 күн бұрын

HAH so funny!

@lupemora6266

6 күн бұрын

I was absolutely thinking the same thing.

@micheleconner5083

6 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@chrystya

6 күн бұрын

Ha😊😊

@user-zd2uv3ss9z

6 күн бұрын

😂😅😂😅😂

The transition from Kinzinger saying he was proud of the Trump Tax Cuts to the debt is out of control bc of Entitlements and we are the only serious voices on the issue was head-spinning. The Trump tax cuts did not create the growth they said it would and blew up the debt!

@dondumitru7093

6 күн бұрын

We have many years of hard data that says that just giving money to poor people does far more to stimulate the economy than tax cuts do. And in other contexts, these two talk about how reality doesn't seem to permeate into MAGA-world. Hello? Do you hear yourselves talking?

@irenafarm

6 күн бұрын

Won’t it be nice when we can discuss these principles in good faith and find some common ground? Imagine arguing over the top tax rates and margins and not whether we should keep the Constitution?

@micheleconner5083

6 күн бұрын

Ah,yes,the trickle down theroy! Give the rich guy more money and he'll share it with the lesser people. Didn't work in the Hoover administration, in the Reagan administration, and the Bush administration. It never works because the people at the top are greedy. Like a kid with a new toy: mine! Mine! Mine!

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

@@dondumitru7093 Yeah, they draw a wall around all the myths they continue to believe in despite 40 years of data disproving them.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Once a Corporate loving Republican always a Republican!

I used to think Trump was just conning the base by saying "we're taking in so much money from China on tariffs." I now believe he honestly thinks this is how tariffs work.

@cindyspear5763

6 күн бұрын

If you think that's bad, I'm sure that Trump's complaints about NATO not paying their share is partially coming from Putin, but is also because Trump thinks that the other NATO nations have been paying into a general account that Trump can raid as his own piggy bank once he gets back into the White House.

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

The things he doesn't know would fill several sets of encyclopedias.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Laughs!

It isn’t that no Dems are concerned about debt, but when we hear (prime example was this podcast) that the only area to cut is from poor people! Instead of from wealthy people paying their taxes …. We don’t want to hear it. Student loan forgiveness is a prob, but the PPP forgiveness never gets mentioned. Social security needs nixed, but we can afford TRILLIONS for a corporate tax cut. Give me a break.

@browneyedgirl6050

6 күн бұрын

Thank you. Building from the bottom up seems to be working. Record profits for corporations, still have lots more work to do for lower and Middle class, but it's getting there.

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

And then there's medical debt, which is the #1 cause of personal bankruptcies in this country because we've chosen to spend the most money per capita of any country in the world on a for profit healthcare system instead of treating healthcare as a human right and driving the cost of it down like virtually every other industrialized country does.

@QuiltLady

6 күн бұрын

I remember when in ‘70s the 18% interest didn’t stop any Republicans I knew from buying houses and muscle cars. We had gas rationing, it was inconvenient, yes but we knew it wouldn’t last forever. In WWII people were willing to do anything for our troops and the war effort. They knew like today, keeping Democracy was the only game in town. Sugar, flour, butter, chocolate, and other foods were rationed, so the troops could have what they needed. And gas was rationed too. Women learned to make airplanes. No silk stockings for women, sacrificed for silk needed for parachutes. Front yards were tilled for Victory Gardens. No whining like today. But we had a government totally backing what was needed for our troops. When we get a “working” not whining House and Senate again, then we can talk the money. No body seems too bothered about what Trumps whole administration stole from the Americans who needed it most. Republicans don’t mind running the deficit to the moon. Be fair Americans have had very little to work with on the other side. And the good Republicans that want to do their best work are treated like crap, threatened, and that is not right. Biden has done a great job so far, is he perfect? No, but he would never hand our country to our enemies.

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

@@QuiltLady Remember when Bush 43 said the best way for Americans to support the war in Iraq was to go out and shop?

@hollandanish5557

6 күн бұрын

@@Don-md6wn Amen. America must have a solid Universal Healthcare Program!

"At some point can we as Americans say if nobody take what the guy running for president says seriously maybe he shouldn't be president?" Yes, thank you!

If you cut taxes on the rich over and over for decades, it might increase the debt… As JVL likes to point out, we’re having record high yacht sales. Maybe it’s time to consider a modest luxury tax.

@dondumitru7093

6 күн бұрын

Yes, Kinzinger says he will defend the Trump tax cuts, and then the next segment is the growing national debt, which Tim opens with "I want liberals to take a bit of medicine." SMH

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Restore the "Inheritance Tax"!

I paid into my social security for 47 years. I am old now and can't work. SS is not an entitlement

@christinebenson518

6 күн бұрын

My brother's dad worked from 16 to 42, full-time when he hit 18. Then in his mid 50s he had a few part time jobs after my mom divorced him. He told my brother last October he'd get a part time job soon. Still hasn't. He can't work full-time because he won't get his social security. He can't be getting that much. I feel sympathy for anyone who actually worked and paid in.

@margiesporrer9031

4 күн бұрын

Absolutely 💯 we earned it!!!

Thank you for having Congressman Kinzinger on your show. I just love him for standing for Country over Party.

I cannot wait for the day when Sweet Potato Mussolini is no longer at the top of every single fricking news cycle.

@ameliapond1916

6 күн бұрын

I'm stealing Sweet Potato Mussolini, if you don't mind?

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

The media loves Trump! They hope he's in power forever or until the US falls, whichever comes first. Media and the justice system have really let us down.

@MagpieOnTheMoon

5 күн бұрын

@@ameliapond1916 use however you like, ma'am. ;)

Imagine hanging on the every word of an mentalcase, that's Maga in an nutshell

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Laughs! Or a Fox News addict!

Is spending a problem? How about we make the biggest corporations and the wealthiest people PAY TAXES then implement programs that can benefit average Americans? Republicans and conservatives have never given a damn about average Americans, but that is the answer. I think that we should RAISE TAXES on the wealthy and then we can effortlessly pay for programs like student debt relief. Yet, Donald Trump is running on giving more tax cuts to the rich.

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

What we really need is an annual wealth tax on the top 0.5% or so. They don't need much income to live. Somebody like Warren Buffett has tens of billions in accumulated capital gains that have never been taxed, while he lives on maybe a couple of million dollars a year of income.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Exactly! ... and RESTORE the Inheritance Tax on the wealthy. Alot of those rich bastards just inherited thier wealth.

@janetblanc7658

5 күн бұрын

I simply don't understand why a high percentage of the American people don't get it that taxing corporations and the ultra rich fairly would improve the lives of the less well off.

@cherryorchard5600

4 күн бұрын

Restore taxes to pre Reagan levels

Adam Kinzinger is a decent human being who is not a Donald Trump bootlicker unlike the MAGA lot!

He’s a confused, pathological liar.

@zeeaurora6264

5 күн бұрын

Facts.

@TuesdayAfternoon-tm9vc

5 күн бұрын

He speaks the truth. Something you MAGA lackeys don’t understand.

@kedyjr16

5 күн бұрын

'Trump lives in a bubble' not reality. He does not have the caliber to run the country.

You two are so good together. I am a Democrat all in for saving this Democracy! I enjoy this show.

If we go back to the pre-Reagan tax code, the rich would pay their fair share, & social sec & Medicare would be funded forever, or we could tax the whole yearly income instead of capping it at $160,000/year. There are solutions to fully fund ss & Medicare, it's just that billionaires don't like them. VOTE BLUE 💙 to protect OUR retirement benefits!

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

Saw this quote: The problem is not that we can't feed the poor, it's that we can't satisfy the rich.

Kinzinger says he is proud of his vote for Trump’s tax cut which cost $2.3 trillion, then immediately turns around and complains about the deficit, typical. It’s one of the things that make it hard to take the Bulwark seriously. Then he complains about Social Security and Medicare which are separate spending piles. Just disgusting.

@hemlock40

6 күн бұрын

Yes, Adam is a conservative that wants smaller govt, lower taxes and lower spending. It's also an economic philosophy of supply side economics which has been debunked as failure for long term success. I might agree with Adam on maybe 15 pct of policy votes but at least he wants to keep American democracy intact.

@barbaraaguttman8854

5 күн бұрын

The problem is the Oligarchs•Billionaires that don’t want to pay the proper Tax Rate; plus Deregulation Policies that were greatly accelerated during Reagan’s Administration have ruined our Nation.

10 minutes of the Apprentice was too much for me!!

@michelleladd7394

6 күн бұрын

Same here. I never watched it but my old roommate did.

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

Never watched it, never will. Trump has always been a boring boor.

@monamattfeldt5439

6 күн бұрын

I NEVER watched 1 episode...I've hated trump and "reality" shows for decades

@sueramer790

4 күн бұрын

Never watched it

Though I swing to the Democratic Center , I am so impressed with you guys even though I have a difference on social and fiscal issues. Congressman Kizinger is an honest, ethical, bright man. I would definitely give him my vote. Very COURAGEOUS. He is Presidential material.

@lhoward9593

6 күн бұрын

These 2 men and other never-Trumpers are very courageous to have left their life-long Republican tribe.

@toddsteward1596

6 күн бұрын

If we get through this these are the voices and leadership we can find consensus with.

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

@@toddsteward1596 I can't find consensus with people who keep championing the intellectually bankrupt supply side economics tax cuts of Reagan, Bush 43 and Trump which have exploded income and wealth and inequality and the national debt, then turn around and say we're going to have to cut Social Security and Medicare. My bar is a little higher than not being a fascist.

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

@@toddsteward1596 Not as long as they're defending tax cuts for the rich and talking about how Social Security and Medicare have to be reformed, i.e. cut.

@karinwallace3031

6 күн бұрын

This crying about trump when they backed him all the way - sickens me . Now they cry and point what’s wrong with the Dems ! Ffs if we didn’t have the Dems we would be in a dictatorship already !

I strongly disagree with this framing of the debt issue. The central problem is we've taken the effective federal tax rate for those at the top down from around 60 percent in Eisenhower's time to less than 20 percent now, while the effective tax rate for average Americans has gone up. There's literally no political space and no ethical space for average Americans to take a haircut on Social Security and Medicare -- none; they've already taken one in the shift from defined benefit private pensions to 401k/403b. People count on the Social Security base in retirement planning and are advised to do so when talking it over with firms like Fidelity, and it's the one safety zone they have from a system that has otherwise served as a massive incentive for corporations to cut ordinary peoples' pay and put all their eggs in the C-suite's basket. Taxes on the rich have to go up if the ship is to be righted; it will bring in significant extra revenue at the top (we've left $50 trillion on the table the last 50 years) and ideally incentivize corporations to redistribute their pay towards ordinary Americans and away from the C-suite, and then, and only then, can we realistically talk about something like increased contributions towards retirement security programs.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Preach!

Mr. Kinzinger you disappoint me with your adherence to the Trump tax cuts. The CBO estimated in 2018 that it would cost $1.9 trillion over ten years.

Kinzinger needs to come over to the good side. For good.

@Ozymandi_as

6 күн бұрын

So long as he tells people to vote for Joe Biden, that's enough. He no doubt disagrees with much of Biden's policy agenda, but nevertheless, America cannot be entrusted to Trump. That's more powerful than saying I'm a Democrat now.

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

After he admits supply side economics is a fraud.

@browneyedgirl6050

6 күн бұрын

This is why we need two sides or more. There are actual things ton compromise on.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

His love of Republican Tax Policies will never let that happen!

Come to Michigan!! Adam you need to talk to these Republicans here and set them straight

@browneyedgirl6050

6 күн бұрын

They won't listen to him. They voted Karamo as the chair. We are way past those days.

Let Billionaires pay their fair share

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Not 13% or less! The average is 8% after ALL the tax loopholes.

As someone who cared for 2 grandparents with dementia, and someone who has worked in senior care, Trump's joy about The Apprentice is a typical presentation. Clear memories about something he loved followed by anger for what he no longer understands. #VoteBlue 💙 #BidenHarris2024

My dad had dementia and he would think he had to go to work as a salesman years after retiring. Scary but of course he was not running for president.

If the government hadn't borrowed our money we paid into social security it would work. It wouldn't be a drain on the system. Pay social security back!

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

Taxes run the US. It makes no sense that only the poor and middle class pay taxes.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Tell that to Ronald Reagan!

@user-zd2uv3ss9z

6 күн бұрын

Paying it back to SS would HELP!

Invest in the IRS. Get investigators to audit billionaires and make them pay their share. Solve lots of problems.

@browneyedgirl6050

6 күн бұрын

This part too.

@davidobriend8560

6 күн бұрын

The 4 most audited zip codes in the us are the 4 poorest zip codes in Mississippi.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

Biden tried that! Republicans cut the IRS Budget! Go figure!

He didn't know what being president entaled. He was under the impression that being president meant he'dsit around and just be a figurehead. He didn't know that one had to actually have to do something. He didn't know it was actually a job and there was work involved.

@cindyspear5763

6 күн бұрын

Trump treated the presidency as just another fake performance.

@mor1814

6 күн бұрын

But he knows what the position is now. Why does he want it back?? I get that he doesn’t like to lose, but his followers would accept any excuse he’d come up with anyway. Why embrace the misery?

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

He never had to work before.

@janetblanc7658

5 күн бұрын

​@@mor1814Power. As a dictator he certainly wouldn't have to work and he'd amass great wealth. What is there not to like?

@ElectrocutionorShark

5 күн бұрын

​@@mor1814One reason he's running is that, should he win, he will be immune from accountibility for his Federal crimes.

26:08 here’s an idea on how to fix the debt: repeal the tax cuts for corporations and ultra wealthy people that for decades Repubs proposed and implemented.Vote blue!!$ 💙💙💙

This is awesome. Good to see you at the Bulwark Adam.

According to Setoodeh, in the course of one interview, Trump actually uttered the words, from his own mouth, "...when I lost the election..." How did THAT lede get buried?

@user-rr1jw9cz1u

6 күн бұрын

Bob Woodward has that on audio tape & does NOT SHARE IT!!!!!!! I wonder why he doesn’t!! Everyone on this planet has a right to know!!!!!!! N

Millions of people were like Well That does it right there!!! If Joan Rivers voted for him he’s the man for me!!! 😂

Tim and Adam,great combo 😀

There should be a novel called Malice in Blunderland.

@ttacking_you

6 күн бұрын

How about Phallus in underman?

I appreciate repuglicans who dont worship dumbty anymore but i want an appology for bringing him into the whitehouse in the first place. Yall know you voted for him twice and propped him up all the way.

Love to hear Adam Kinzinger speak. Informed, articulate, smart.

Biden should ask him in the debate, "What exactly about the Afghanistan did you have to deal with?"

Thank you, Adam Kinzinger, you are 100% correct in saying that Trump set the USG up for failure in Afghanistan. We were never going to be able to pull out in an organized fashion. The Trump administration slow rolled the issuance of visas for Afghans that assisted the USG so no surprise why we had so many people that were left behind. His administration negotiated with the Taliban and left out the Afghan government and women through the whole process.

@browneyedgirl6050

6 күн бұрын

He says that often and I do appreciate that.

@annecassidy4448

3 күн бұрын

DID DJT reference needing to go upstairs to deal with “the Afghanistan” as a euphemism for needing to go upstairs to use a restroom?

Wonderful wonderful to see Adam on The Bulwark. We need Adams voice MORE THAN EVER.

Maybe a network could offer Trump a sweetheart deal for a tv show if he will agree to drop out of the presidential race?

@sharonwalberg5438

4 күн бұрын

No TVshow would want Diaper Don or Dementia Don on any show. They would have diaper duty and have to tolerate nefarious smells all day. We all know Trump farted and slept through all the court proceedings!

Adam!!! Social Security?!! 😂😂 SCRAP THE CAP!!! Do that and we’re solvent.

Lying steals your reality . . . that's scary stuff.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

The MAGA Mantra!

Marjorie’s workout videos are Mike Johnson’s son’s only outlet.

Democratic socialist here and I appreciate you! Welcome to Adam K.

@irenafarm

6 күн бұрын

Oh hey me too! I like to listen to these guys and imagine a day when we’re arguing on opposite sides of immigration and tax reform!

@melissalarigan325

6 күн бұрын

Same.

I would love to see "I'm with stupid" photoshopped onto whomever he picks for VP.

@monamattfeldt5439

6 күн бұрын

That would be 👌!

Because I know more about the Orange Loser than I care to, ever, his history includes his happiest work experience as a producer of an off-Broadway show which flopped. And Fred Daddy put the kibosh on any future productions. Think about it: if unfettered, Donald J. Trompe could have been Harvey Weinstein. 💙💙💙

@tommarney1561

6 күн бұрын

There should be a remake of The Producers, with Trump the genius behind "Springtime for Hitler."

@user-zd2uv3ss9z

6 күн бұрын

Without the talent!

Please keep having Adam on, he's an amazing potential co-host.

I really appreciate you both! Thank you so much for your service to our country.

The problem is a lot of lower income, less informed voters think tariffs are great. The "america first" mantra has a lot of naive appeal.

@michelleladd7394

6 күн бұрын

Some of these Trump fans are extremely ignorant

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

Lower income people and Donald Trump don't understand that WE, the consumers, pay the tariffs.

@martusialuba

4 күн бұрын

@@michelleladd7394 MOST. If not all…… you’re correct!

@annecassidy4448

3 күн бұрын

And, above all, they VOTE without being well-informed. That should give anyone pause for thought.

Joan Rivers was on the apprentice... so he for sure thought she wanted him.

@cindyspear5763

6 күн бұрын

Not if she caught a whiff of his diaper...

@RadCenter

6 күн бұрын

I wonder if he was thinking of Melissa Rivers.

@user-zd2uv3ss9z

6 күн бұрын

But, he wasn’t running for POTUS then!

Adam Kinzinger is a great contributor! I love hearing his perspective! Thanks Tim!

I'm very glad to see that Adam Kissinger has a good source of income by telling the news like it is.I have a lot of respect for him. Men like him make me proud to be an American.

Donald Trump pointed out that sharks are one if our main problems, especially in Nevada and Wisconsin, Luckily he solved it for us! 🤣

@joanfregapane8683

6 күн бұрын

Thank God that he did! I have friends who were afraid to visit Lake Como! /s

@irenafarm

6 күн бұрын

Wut, seriously? 😂

@annakingry9157

6 күн бұрын

He asked which ocean Wisconsin is on--Pacific or Atlantic. And the rally attendees were still cheering him.

@michaeldpa1333

6 күн бұрын

The ONLY Sharks in those two states are "Local State Republicans"!

Adam Kinzinger is fun to listen to . He makes some real interesting observations with details .

@James-hd4ms

6 күн бұрын

Would be so much better if he wasn’t stupid.

@Don-md6wn

6 күн бұрын

Until he talks about economics and exposes himself as an idiot.

As someone who leans left, the difference between old school Republicans and anyone MAGA or brainwashed to vote towards MAGA, is I can spend 41 minutes listening to an old school Republican.

Thank you for Fighting to Save American Democracy 🇺🇸 🇺🇲 🇺🇸 💙 💙 💙

What scares me about “the Afghanistan” is that I wouldn’t put it past him, even with cognitive issues, to use his stolen classified documents for no good. As if a nefarious meet-up was taking place and the cognitive mistake was that he mentioned it.

Tim please have Stephanie Kelton on the pod. She’s an brilliant economist.

Jareds family is good friends with Netanyahu. I have a feeling netanyahu is trying to help Trump.

@micheleconner5083

6 күн бұрын

That's Ben obvious from the start. And especially when he said no cease fire until after November.

To address the deficit, which does matter, raise the marginal tax rate AND make sure that our corporations pony up to pay their fair share, since both benefit them more than it benefits the poor and middle class. The Social Security cap should be abolished and to draw from the trust fund, it should be means tested.

@James-hd4ms

6 күн бұрын

We are not communists.

@irenafarm

6 күн бұрын

@@James-hd4msCommunists don’t do taxes since all means of production and all profits go to the government.

@reneeparker7475

6 күн бұрын

@@James-hd4ms That isn't communism, unless you're calling Dwight D. Eisenhower a commie. You must be a Trump lover.

👍🏻this is great! Love Adam and Tim

Let's set aside the reality that it is impossible to sustain your economic analysis without ignoring decades of accumulated evidence. (Since it is unlikely that it will ever be resolved.) The immediate question is why those who are looking at proposals that would cost lower and middle class incomes 20-25% think that business will just chug along as usual when millions of their consumers can no longer afford to buy anything but the barest of necessities. How does that seem like smart policy to them?

Thank you Tim and Adam! Honesty is always the best policy so you don’t need to keep track of your previous lies.

Amateur Trump decoder here. "Deal with the Afghanistan" is Donald-speak for diaper check.

@James-hd4ms

6 күн бұрын

That makes more sense.

Yay Adam!

I love Adam Kinzinger. He's an articulate man and we need to hear more from him.

Whenever Adam is on the podcast, it’s must watch! Adam is looking good … tanned and well-rested. Leaving Congress has agreed with him, but we miss his voice there. Great conversation. Thanks, Tim.

Thank you.

HELL YES! DALLAS! I'm glad i watched this in time. I didn't get an announcement text.

Hold on there now, inflation was out of control from feb 2021 to june 2022, but has been 3%, a totally acceptable number, since july 2022. There is a group of economists that think 4% is an optimal target. Inflation is not a problem now, it is the residual high prices that the mainstream media won't let go of, 2 years later. Social security is easy to solve, remove the cap and apply the 3% to all income. The top 1% won't miss the income and it will have the benefit of moving unused wealth from the top, to the middle, where it will grow the gdp. I know, this is a political impossibility, but it is how you should frame the problem.

@micheleconner5083

6 күн бұрын

That Jerome Powell said he won't lower intrest rates until inflation is at 2%! Intrst rates need lowered now. That Jerome Powell really irks me,but not as much as Alan Greenspan did! That guy was nuts!

@browneyedgirl6050

6 күн бұрын

​@@micheleconner5083agree! Even a tiny 10th of a %. Something... lol

Tax the wealthy.

I think Trump was confusing Joan Rivers with Roseanne Barr.

Love Adam Kinzinger!!! ❤🥰

Always great to hear from Mr. Kinzinger!

Adam tells it like it is. If Joan Rivers voted for Trump from the grave, so did Robin Williams, Sam Kinison & Chris Farley...his lies never stop and that's no laughing matter.

There is a third alternative other than "lying" or "confused" although they both may be part of the toxic mix. The third alternative is "bullshit". He is unmoored from what is true. He couldn't care less about what it true and he has been doing it so long that he wouldn't know what's true if it walked up and slapped him repeatedly in the face. "On Bullshit" by Harry S Frankfurt is a great delineation of the difference. Bullshit is performative.

We need more Kinzingers!

Glad Mr. Kinzinger is onboard at the Bulwark.

These two are wonderful together. Thank you both.

Maybe "The Afghanistan" is dropping a deuce into the gold plates crapper?

@Badgersj

6 күн бұрын

Hmm, British military slang is "The Afghan". Perhaps it's the same in the US military, and Trump overheard/misheard it somewhere? I'm not defending the idiot, he's an idiot, either way he got it wrong. It's either "Afghanistan" or "The Afghan".