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US POLITICS ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (AOC) MeidasTouch: Ocasio-Cortez DESTROYS Trump in PACKED ARENA…IN IDAHO!!! PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_42t8GLOx8 Peter Burgess COMMENTARY I like AOC ... a lot! She makes a lot of sense ... and she is authentic! She has a heck of a lot more 'brain' than most of the people that get alected to Congress! A collaborating with Bernie Sanders has been an important win-win for both Sanders and AOC! Peter Burgess
Ocasio-Cortez DESTROYS Trump in PACKED ARENA…IN IDAHO!!! MeidasTouch 4.7M subscribers Apr 14, 2025 MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Congresswoman AOC delivering the speech of the year that ripped Donald Trump to shreds in Idaho. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: https://go.snapstream.com/affiliate/m... Support the MeidasTouch Network: / meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Buy MeidasTouch Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Follow MeidasTouch on Twitter: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Facebook: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Instagram: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on TikTok: / meidastouch Transcript 0:00 donald Trump is a criminal who was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud liable for sexual abuse of course he's lying and abusing and manipulating the stock market too when he talks about rapists and criminals he should look in the mirror and that is how you do it aoc brought the house down in Nampa Idaho she sold out the arena 12,500 people were there in the arena in Ruby Red Idaho to watch AOC and Senator Bernie Sanders for their fight the oligarchy tour this AO speech I think was one of the best speeches if not the 1:02 best speech of 2025 let's take a look just at the capacity crowd in Nampa Idaho making the arena shake for AOC here watch this yeah heat now after AOC talked about Donald Trump looking in the mirror she had the following to say about MAGAR Republican Marjorie Taylor Green play this clip we saw it just happen with Trump's corrupt and disastrous and rushed tariff scheme we 2:06 saw Marjorie Taylor Green buy that dip i got one question for her how much did you make how much did you make off of people's despair how much did you make off that panic how much did you make off of that suffering no more we can't accept it then AOC says 'People ask why am I here in Idaho?' Here's what she has to say it's funny i was hearing that earlier uh today on the television there was someone saying 'Why why is why is AOC where are AOC Bernie going to Idaho?' Um and I'll give you one simple answer it's because you matter she then talks about how bone chilling every single day is with this Trump regime and what they're doing let's play it you know it's it's bone chilling 3:04 every day uh there's something new and today we just saw President Trump express openness to taking US citizens and sending them off without due process to foreign prisons it's anti-American next AOC talks about how only 2% of people on Medicaid are ablebodied and MAGA Mike Johnson's trying to use that 2% to take Medicaid away from everybody and so is Donald Trump and that's what their budget proposes right to gut to eliminate Medicaid 880 billion in cuts for Medicaid while the billionaires get $4.5 trillion in tax cuts watch this medicaid i want you all to know Medicaid is one of the most efficient government 4:01 programs with the least amount of waste only 2% 2% of people on Medicaid are able-bodied and looking for a job only 2% and I saw Mike Johnson on the television saying 'We got to stop all these ablebodied men from being on Medicaid.' First of all like it's a crime for someone to have health care in America health care is a human right in America and everyone should have it everyone should see a doctor we must end the indignity of not being able to afford medicine a doctor's appointment now this speech was so good i got to bring you the full speech right here you're really going to want to watch the full thing because Congresswoman AOC she does not mince words she's direct and her message of course it translates in Idaho it'll translate across the country 5:05 because Americans are suffering under the Trump regime and as we've said here on the Midas Touch Network Americans are looking for fighters right now aoc v Bernie Sanders they are fighting right now and meeting the moment and talking about things that are under attack by Donald Trump and things that we as Americans should all want and we all want to fight for here watch this then let's talk about it at the end of the speech let's play it what are we doing tonight are we ready to win that's what I thought thank you thank you thank you so so much for welcoming me boise Nampa Idaho thank you so so much and I want to take uh the the the opportunity and I want to thank love you right back i want to thank each and every one of 6:08 you for making the effort to be here today for taking the time to join together you know it's uh it's funny i was hearing that earlier uh today on the television there was someone saying 'Why why is why is AOC where AOC Bernie going to Idaho?' Um and I'll give you one simple answer it's because you matter it's because we matter my name is Alexandria some of you may know me as AOC and again from the bottom of my heart thank you for welcoming me 7:00 you know we're here together today because we share all of us share in the frustration and the heartbreak that comes from watching those in power actively tear down or refuse to fight for everyday working Americans like us and we're here together because an extreme concentration of power greed and corruption is taking over this country like never before you know it's it's bone chilling every day uh there's something new and today we just saw President Trump express openness to taking US citizens and sending them off without due process to foreign prisons it's 8:03 anti-American but this concentration of power greed and corruption is oligarchy it's oligarchy in America and we must acknowledge the terrifying moment that we are in right now and that what we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is in fact happening we are watching as our neighbors students and friends are being fired targeted and disappeared this is real people we love are being targeted and harassed just for being LGBTQ our workers our co-workers US citizens and immigrants alike are being disappeared off the street by men in vans with no uniform educators are being fired for teaching American history accurately 9:07 and activists are being detained with no charge or evidence for using their first amendment rights especially if they are being used to end the war in Gaza in fact the Trump administration admits that it has jailed Mahmud Khalil a young husband and father from where I come from in New York without any evidence or charge of a crime they openly admit that they have thrown him in a cell thousands of miles away because he attended a protest and they did not like the content of his speech and Donald Trump's detention of Mahmud Khalil for his speech is anti-American too and we demand his release along with the release of Ruma 10:01 Osurk who he is also jailing for writing an op-ed in her school paper you know Idaho I am so touched being here i'm a girl from the Bronx and to be welcomed here in this state all of us together seeing our common cause this is what this country is all about don't let them trick us into thinking we are enemies don't let them trick us into being weak and being se into thinking we can be separated into rural and urban black and white and Latino we are one and we make these demands because we do have power in this moment all of us 11:02 do everyday people do and it will never this is important it will never be just institutions and politicians and officials alone that uphold our democracy it will always be the people the masses who refuse to comply with authoritarian regimes who are the last and strongest defense of our country and our freedoms it is you it is you Idaho we know that a better world is possible and we are willing to do something about it but to get there we need to be honest about how we got to where we are right now because this moment did not come out of nowhere it has been a long time coming the destruction of our rights and 12:03 democracy is directly tied to the growing and extreme wealth inequality in America that has been building for years and it is not a coincidence that billionaires like Elon Musk dumped billions into this election to elect Trump and he sure as hell ain't doing it out of charity idaho for years we have known that our political system has slowly but surely become dominated by big money and billionaires and time after time we've seen how our government and laws are more responsive to lobbyists and corporations than the will of everyday people and voters and we also know that the agenda of dark 13:04 money to keep wages low and loot our public goods to give to the rich is deeply unpopular with the people Democrat independent and Republican alike but just look at what Republicans have been quietly doing in Congress voting to advance cuts on hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid and veterans benefits so they can take that money and give it to billionaires in the form of tax cuts and sweetheart government contracts to their own companies like SpaceX and I'll tell you you know I' I've seen Mike Johnson the speaker of the house talking about Medicaid first of all Medicaid I want you all to know Medicaid is one of the most efficient government 14:01 programs with the least amount of waste only 2% 2% of people on Medicaid are able-bodied and looking for a job only 2% and I saw Mike Johnson on the television saying 'We got to stop all these ablebodied men from being on Medicaid.' First of all like it's a crime for someone to have health care in America healthc care is a human right in America and everyone should have it everyone should see a doctor we must end the indignity of not being able to afford medicine a doctor's appointment being able to take care of one another but that aside that aside we must know that that that these cuts are exactly how they are trying to loot it's 15:01 not about waste it's about what they're trying to give to the billionaires who pay them and you know who voted you know who from Idaho voted to gut Medicaid for everybody by the way both of your senators Jim Ris and Mike Grapo and your House members Russ Vulture and Mike Simpson you deserve better idaho they know that that's not what you want they know it is deeply unpopular they know that it hurts the working families of Idaho but they are not here to serve working families they are here to serve themselves and the billionaires who pay them and they know that the only chance they have to get away with such an unpopular and hurtful agenda is to stoke deep divisions along race identity and 16:04 culture to keep us fighting and distracted it's not going to work anymore but this has been this has been the big money playbook not just now but it's been their playbook for decades and that is why Donald Trump is not an aberration he is the logical inevitable conclusion of an American political system dominated by corporate and dark money and if we are to defeat him we must defeat the system that created him america we are at a crossroads we can either have extreme wealth inequality 17:00 with the toxic division and corruption that it requires to survive or we can have a fair economy for working people along with a democracy and the freedoms that uphold it oligarchy or democracy you know Boise I grew up in a workingclass family my mom cleaned houses and my dad worked on a small business and my parents worked themselves to the bone so that my brother and I could have a shot the American dream like so many of us here in this room and for a moment there it looked like we were going to make it we had a home bills were getting a little less stressful to pay to pay and I was doing well in public school and what may have looked like a modest life to others 18:01 was a dream come true for us but suddenly when I was a teenager my dad was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and after a long fight we lost him my dad actually passed away in September of 2008 just as the economy crashed in the Great Recession and millions of our jobs vanished across the country it felt like the world of my family was falling apart just as the larger world was falling apart too overnight my mom was left to figure out how to provide and put two kids through school keep our house pay off medical bills all on a house cleaner salary and that's how I became a waitress because it was millions of innocent working families back then who 19:01 paid the price while the billionaires and thieves who defrauded our financial system got off richer than ever before and not a single one of them went to jail and that is the story that Republicans like to mock not mine but all of ours when they say a waitress or a working person is unqualified to serve in Congress when the fact is many of us here in this room today are far more qualified to know what real life is like than any of them ever will and I tell this story I tell this story not because it is special but because of how common and normal it is while the details may differ so many of us know what it feels like for life to be one bad day one 20:06 piece of bad news one major setback from everything falling apart and I'm here to tell you today Idaho we don't have to live like this anymore we can make a new world a better country where we can fight for the dignity of all people and that dignity looks like living wages Idaho it looks like stable housing it looks like guaranteed healthc care and respect for all of our differences no matter who we are or where we come from oligarchy or democracy biden we are here today because we choose democracy we choose freedom we choose justice and that means we must choose to out organize the 21:03 oligarchy we must do away with the power of big money and that is why even as a waitress with a longshot campaign for Congress I decided right then and there that I would never take money from lobbyists and corporations and I never will and you know what Boise we ran against millions of dollars we ran with with no support we ran with just the people and the people won and the people can win here too you know when I first got to Congress I was genuinely shocked by how the place worked even having run against dark money in the first place the 22:02 everyday influence of corruption and dark money was astonishing and we in Congress have somehow conditioned ourselves to believe that it's normal for elected representatives who have sworn an oath to the people of this country to day trade individual stocks and make millions with the sensitive information that we are entrusted with for the purpose of governing just look at what happened this week but how can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare energy or war when their own money is tied up in pharmaceutical oil and gas or defense company stocks you can and we saw it just happen with Trump's corrupt and disastrous and rushed tariff scheme we saw Marjorie Taylor Green buy that 23:04 dip i got one question for her how much did you make how much did you make off of people's despair how much did you make off that panic how much did you make off of that suffering no more we can't accept it it was all I hope we see now that it was all about manipulating the markets so that he could quietly enrich his friends who bought the dip before reversing it all in the morning boise this is a matter of fact donald Trump is a criminal who was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud liable for sexual abuse of course he's lying and abusing 24:02 and manipulating the stock market too when he talks about rapists and criminals he should look in the mirror but back to stocks to be clear I don't care what party you are Democrat or Republican it doesn't matter how powerful one is or the position that one holds members of Congress holding and trading individual stock is wrong it is corrosive it is destructive and it needs to be banned i'll give you another example of something that I found so surprising just this year I happened to be named to the Energy and Commerce Committee in 25:02 Congress now This is one of the most powerful committees in all of Congress it controls twothirds of the American economy healthcare energy trade technology communications manufacturing and for years lobbyists fought to keep me off that committee because they don't like what they don't control then an interesting thing happens the day that the announcement went out that I was named to this committee our phones rang off the hook and our inboxes were flooded by every corporate lobbyist under the sun who suddenly wanted to be my best friend but you know what Boise because of your support because of you all showing up because you allow me to not 26:01 take a dime in corporate money you free me to say no and we can free others to say no too we have to free others to say no too because I've seen how these groups bully and intimidate members of Congress threatening to take money away from them or spend the it against them if they don't do what they want and what they want is for our lives to be as expensive as possible on the lowest possible wage and I want us all to understand that this constant pressure that we are feeling in our lives of the water rising up to our throats of the impossibility to afford anything easily of the bitter divisions driven more by online algorithms than the truth of the fear of speaking up uh for or for being who we are in public the crumbling of our 27:02 rights and protections understand that all of this right now is what it feels like to be governed by billionaires this is what oligarchy feels like not someday not in theory right now and the first step is to open our eyes and our neighbors eyes to it because of course it is a system that depends on division to enable inequality that will favor a president who is the best at dividing us and most skilled at his corruption and it will also reward the Republicans in Congress who support that agenda no matter what crimes are committed big money is how we got Donald Trump his whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery meme coins and cryptocurrencies to fleece normal 28:03 people and move money in the dark extortion settlements from media companies and the law firms who gladly pay them the removal of dulyeleed officials i'll tell you even Republican the removal of Republican officials from where the inauguration was happening in order to make room for who Trump really wants in charge which is the billionaires that were standing behind him Jeff Bezos Mark Zuckerberg Elon Musk and all of this has one central economic mission to make billionaires richer at the expense of our country and so it does not surprise us that their first economic priority has been to target Medicaid Medicare Social Security the firing of our federal workers and the cutting of our veterans for hundreds of billions of dollars in budget cuts so 29:02 that they can hand that money off and Idaho i know that looking around here it can feel impossible for Republicans out here to be defeated but we are here for a reason because that's not true it's simply not true and from the waitress who is now speaking to you today from this podium I can tell you impossible is nothing miracles start with mustard seeds and that is what each and every one of you represent today small miracles of faith in ourselves in each other and in the refusal to give up so we are here for the long haul Idaho we're here to flip this state we not 30:00 giving up from the most impossible place we will try for school boards and community associations for small business groups and town councils for public art and gestures of inclusion and we will build from there it begins today the work to give Russ Vulture and Mike Simpson the boot and replace them with a brawling Democrat who will stand up for the working people of Idaho if West V places like Tennessee and Kentucky and West Virginia could be blue and go to red Idaho can go from red to blue 31:00 beyond elections our task is to build community block associations volunteer groups church groups PTAs because community is the most powerful building block we have to defeat authoritarianism and root out corruption so when they try to take our school boards and rip down the rainbow flags we say no protect our kids here it's up to you and on a larger level this is the path to guaranteeing health care to every American to establish a living minimum wage to take on skyrocketing rents and mortgages to tackle the climate crisis and establish a country where the American dream is actually possible for all of 32:00 us so I'll end where I began we might all come from different places but we share so many of the same experiences and so to all those who come here today unsure of whether or not this is where you belong I want to say that you do you do no matter if you have all the right words to say no matter your race religion gender identity or status no matter even if you disagree with me on some things you saw some Trump supporters were protesting outside no no see the thing is the difference between us is that we want their lives to be better too we want them to have healthcare too we want them to have a better wage too but the only way that we do that is 33:01 showing them that hate has no home here so if you are willing to fight for someone you don't know you are welcome here if you are willing to fight for working people regardless of who they are how they identify or where they come from you are welcome here because here everyone is valued but we have to stand together idaho we cannot be tempted to turn in our neighbors or be fooled into thinking that what who that that we are really that much different than a trans kid who just wants to be accepted by the people around us we can't be tricked into thinking that we're that much different than the dreamer who wants to come here and fulfill this country's promise because hate is a trap that sinks us all and it is standing together without 34:02 exception just as you all are doing today to reject division that and this is the only way that we can win so I hope that you see that this movement is not about partisan labels or purity tests but it is about class solidarity the thousands of youth who came out here today to stand here together and say our lives deserve dignity and our work deserves respect no matter who we are so we are here to make a sacred promise to one another our goal here today is to commit to building the kind of country that we all deserve and we will make that promise to take care of each other on our worst days and to sh and to share in the successes of our best and with that I want to thank you 35:03 Idaho for welcoming me here today yes see as I told you I really think that's probably one of the most powerful speeches thus far of the year if not the most powerful and I thought it was important I bring you the full speech cuz we sure as hell know that corporate news is not going to do that they're going to try to glaze naive Blly and Donald Trump's uh goologs in El Salvador and try to normalize it not here on the Midas Touch Network hit subscribe let's get to 5 million subscribers thanks for watching new Mightest Merch drop check out the latest Pro Democracy sticker packs t-shirts hats sweatshirts and more all at store.mitus.com

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