Podbit · The MeidasTouch Podcast
When asked by reporters about truckers at risk of losing jobs to AI, Trump insisted they're fine — 'we have the highest job numbers ever.' The very next day, the jobs report showed only 57,000 new jobs, less than half of what economists expected.
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With the July 4th holiday approaching, Ben Meiselas dives into the data on Trump's political standing in Pennsylvania — and the numbers are brutal. The Economist's latest poll puts Trump's net approval at negative 22 points in the state. Franklin and Marshall College's survey is even more pointed: overall approval at 29%, down from 39% in March, with the poll director describing it as a 'sizable decline.' Foreign policy approval dropped from 42% to 29%. Inflation handling — the issue voters care most about — collapsed from 31% positive in October to just 17% today. Thirty-five percent of voters name the economy as the state's number one problem, and that sentiment cuts across party lines. As a counterpoint to Trump's culture-war agenda, Meiselas highlights that 72% of Pennsylvania registered voters support anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ people in employment and housing.
Trump's overall approval rating in Pennsylvania has dropped to 29%, a 10-point decline from 39% in March, per a Franklin and Marshall College poll.
Trump's positive rating for handling foreign policy in Pennsylvania declined from 42% to 29% between March and the latest Franklin and Marshall poll.
Trump's positive rating on handling inflation in Pennsylvania fell from 31% in October to just 17% today, his largest single decline.
The Franklin and Marshall poll found the economy — including unemployment, housing, and higher costs — is the most important problem facing Pennsylvania for 35% of voters across all partisan groups.
Seven in ten (72%) of Pennsylvania registered voters favor a state law making it illegal to discriminate in employment or housing based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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