Rep. Moskowitz Responds to MAGA Mike’s Humiliating Presser

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Wow, these MAGA Mike press conferences have been total disasters.

I mean,

if it wasn't such a serious issue, it may be funnier than an SNL skit.

I mean, this is the most embarrassing thing to watch this train wreck.

I mean, look, it's deeply serious what these MAGA Republican Congress members are doing.

But when I watch MAGA Mike up there every single day, I'm like, what in the world is going on?

So the new line that he rolls out every day now, this is not just like a one-time thing.

He talks about, I want to be be a happy warrior.

I'm going to be happy warrior.

You don't want me to be mad.

I'm going to be happy warrior.

Okay.

Here, just play this clip.

This was him on Friday.

Let's play it.

Day like this at the end of another long week.

I just feel like we ought to apologize.

I hate that we have to do this.

I don't want to be here any more than you do talking about this subject.

It is so difficult to be a happy warrior when you know that so many millions of American people are suffering, being made to suffer unnecessarily.

As one person says, he's one sentence away from, we're all trying to find the guy who did this you're doing this mag and mike and then on thursday mag and mike's like i don't like being mad mike i want to be happy i just want to be happy mike here play this clip

i don't like being mad mike i want to i want to be happy i want to be the happy warrior but i am so upset about this god bless america we're done thanks

a weird crew it's weird

these are we these are weird humans i don't know

i i go watch that clip over and over again then you have Democratic Congressmember Moskowitz posting the following magic mic because after Mad Mike comes, magic mic right there.

And then one of the things that Mag and Mike says, I guess as part of these press conferences is,

aren't we all just happy?

Don't you have more freedom right now than ever?

Haven't we and Trump delivered to you the freedom that you wanted?

He's doing this at his press conferences regarding the Trump government shutdown while massed ICE agents are out there disappearing people as Trump's invading American cities with National Guard troops from other states.

What the hell here, play this clip.

Beauty of America.

They are decrying the country that allows them to engage in this activity.

And the last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over and ended the years.

of having millions of Americans' voices systematically silenced during the COVID pandemic years and the left's cancel culture.

It is the Republicans that restored your right to share and speak your mind.

And that's the first and most obvious irony of the hate America rally.

The second and even the hate America.

He was like, he was like laughing at himself.

I don't even know what's going on.

Let's bring in Democratic Congressmember Jared Moskowitz.

Congressmember Moskowitz, it's great to see.

You posted the Magic Mike meme because after Mad Mike comes Magic Mike, why'd you post that?

And is it having the impact you intended?

I mean, I just thought it was a magical moment the speaker was

having

at the microphone.

And look, in that meme, I'll have you know,

I gave James Comer the hat.

He looks good in the hat.

I mean, look, Mike Johnson up at that microphone, he's like, look, I want to be happy, Mike, but don't make me mad, Mike.

And I'm like,

that's the same tone, Mike.

That's the same tone.

There's no real difference.

He's like, watch, you're going to.

I'm going to become the Hulk right in front of you.

Right now, I'm Bruce Banner.

I'm happy.

And now I'm going to be mad, Mike, watch.

And now I'm the Hulk.

See, aren't I really mad?

I mean, he's literally like Derek Zulander.

He's got one look.

But I mean, it's crazy, right?

We're in a shutdown.

We have a disagreement over policy.

That's fine.

But the idea that he will not let Congress come back into session, to be clear, he will not allow Congress to come back into session, never happened before in the history of the country, where we're in a shutdown.

And the speaker is like, you are not allowed to come back to DC we are not going to hear any bills we are not going to do any policy and you know what it's elongating the shutdown if the speaker is like I want to get out of the shutdown then get us back to Washington right keep us away from our homes and districts and families and eventually we'll get a deal but see that's not what he wants he doesn't want a deal he doesn't want his members and Democrats to be talking and working out a deal.

He doesn't want that.

That's what the American people want, of course, but that's not what the speaker wants.

He doesn't want Republicans coming to town and saying, Look, we probably should help people afford health care.

He doesn't want that.

He doesn't want Democrats coming to town pointing out the fact

that he didn't want to bring us back to Washington for three weeks because he didn't want to have an Epstein vote.

He doesn't want to have that Epstein vote.

They're trying to get Republicans' names off that list while they're making sure they don't swear in

the Democratic new member that would be the 218th vote, Grahava, that would force the Epteing vote.

So this is,

I'm getting very mad, Ben.

I'm getting very mad.

This is my mad tone.

This is my mad tone.

This is my happy tone.

Here's my mad tone.

You don't want me to be mad, Ben.

I'm so mad.

God bless America, Ben.

God bless America.

You know,

you wonder why Donald Trump.

Even when I'm mad, Ben, I bless America.

Trump has bankrupted company after company after company, and it's not a shocker why when you decide just you know what there are problems there are issues that we have to address i'm not going to confront it though i'm just going to compound the issue because all these issues with every day that passes it gets worse like that's even how do you deal with the issue and it's even crazier than that right like i want to take you back

seven or eight months for or let me take it back a year okay first of all look i'm let me just like give you like a parallel uh i'm happy that

there's a there's a deal in the Middle East, right?

I want that war to end.

Everybody wants that war to end, but I want to juxtapose that with what's going on here for a second.

Like if I told you the guy who wrote the art of the deal, right, that guy who's a, I'm the deal maker, I wrote the art of the deal, I'm the best deal maker ever.

The guy was willing to make a deal with Hamas.

But he's not willing to make a deal with Democrats on healthcare.

You would be like, no, that'll never happen.

He'll make make a deal.

He'll make a deal on health care.

I mean, we need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these health care subsidies, which allow Americans, Americans, not illegal American citizens to afford health care.

And the president's like, we don't have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend.

in Argentina.

I mean, literally, these things are happening simultaneously, yet we're not allowed to go to DC.

We're not allowed to sit down across the table.

We're not allowed to make a deal on healthcare.

It is the wildest thing ever.

And the Republicans are like, well, healthcare is too expensive.

Well, welcome to the dance, guys.

You've been voting against all changes to healthcare, okay, since 2008, even before then, okay?

You're still in the concept of a plan stage.

It's been nine years stuck.

in the concept of a plan.

The product is never coming to market.

Breaking news.

And so listen, they can either help us, and I'm sure we can figure out some things that they want, some things that we want, there's some bipartisan agreement to help Americans afford their healthcare.

Everything's more expensive, okay, since Donald Trump has become president.

It's all more expensive.

It's not a lie.

Every American knows it.

Everything is more expensive, everything you do, okay?

But healthcare is something that is going up exponentially.

Prescription drugs, exponentially.

There's bipartisan support to do something.

But first, the speaker has to let us, like, I don't know, be a Congress.

I didn't think that was something that, you know, wouldn't be the case where the speaker is like, you're never, you're not going to come back.

Because though Trump and MAGA just live in their right-wing talking points, it's like they think that what the Democrats are saying here about health care, ah, that's your thing.

Like, our thing is free the January 6th insurrectionists.

And our thing is, you know, we're bringing in $20 trillion, which they're not.

Your thing is Americans Americans are dying if they don't get health care.

And the Democrats like, that's not our thing.

Like, that should be your thing.

That should be independence thing.

Like, this is real, and we need to do something about it.

Because if you go back to your districts, you'll see that people are terrified that their Affordable Care Act plans are about to go up 3x, 5x.

Nobody can afford that.

Their groceries are way up.

Nobody can afford it.

Their utilities are up.

Their insurance is up.

Nobody can afford these things.

And people are going bankrupt, companies are going bankrupt, farmers are going bankrupt, deal with these issues.

And Megan Mike's like, you don't want me to get mad, Mike?

Like, it's like, like a weird personal, like, it's like a, it's like a WWE.

I'm so mad, Ben.

Ben, I'm so mad.

I'm very mad.

This is, this is my mad face.

I'm mad for you.

Okay.

I mean, listen, this is, I love when they come on TV and they're like, Democrats, how dare Democrats do this over healthcare?

Right?

This has never happened before.

I feel like I'm in the matrix.

I mean, literally, Republicans voted against the CR, okay, over Obamacare and wound us in the same situation before.

So this is not new territory.

They didn't want to help people's health care.

They didn't want to lower the costs.

They were willing to vote against the CR to keep the status quo, okay?

And we're obviously trying to make sure that we can extend these subsidies to bring down the cost of health care.

If we don't do that, people are going to lose their insurance come November 1st.

Other people will have to change coverage, won't have the same coverage.

And that's not going to save America money because the people are still going to go to the emergency room.

We're still going to bear those costs.

That was the whole point of this, was to try to shift those costs out of the emergency room to bring down the whole part of health care.

And so, look, I would say to my Republican friends, if you have an idea to make things less expensive, we would love to hear them.

We've just been waiting since 2008 to hear those wonderful ideas you have.

And think about the other things they've been doing this week, though.

So while Magamike has said to his members, the Republicans, don't show up.

Do whatever you want.

Just don't show up.

We talked about the golden ballroom this week, 90,000 square foot ballrooms.

First, it was a $20 billion bailout.

Did you just do like bar mitzvahs there?

Like it will be rented out for like bar mitzvahs and weddings.

You'll be able to rent it.

Maybe if you're Zuckerberg's son perhaps but i don't i don't think for i don't think for the rest of us there mosquitoes i think you gotta be as i think you gotta be a zuckerberg or uh one of his right-wing oligarch friends um the you know ufc fights in front of the ufc fights in front of the white house 40 billion dollars to argentina triumphal arch uh that he wants to build he's been holding up these arches he's talking about all the gold in the oval office you don't think that looks tasteful i thought it i think it looks very tasteful the golden bordella that is the oval office

every time the president is watching i think more gold quite frankly

i think

there's still some spaces on the drywall for more gold there was those memes where before you know it it's just all gold and then like you you can see donald trump's you know eyeballs through just a big golden bar

maybe golden arches where where where does this end i mean look there's no end in sight to this at all you know i mean the democrats want a resolution democrats want to talk and negotiate.

Republicans don't want to talk to them saying we're not talking.

So play this out, Mosquitz.

Where does this go?

Well, I think this will wind up being the longest shutdown in American history.

It seems like that's where we're going.

I mean, if you can't even get Congress back, which the speaker is not doing, I don't even know how you get to an end.

I mean, look, the president has the power to negotiate an end to this if he wants.

He seems disinterested.

It's unfortunate.

There are a lot of Americans that are going to get hurt.

A lot of federal workers that are going to get hurt.

Our folks in Homeland Security are going to get hurt.

The folks that work in the Capitol, right, that keep Congress running are going to get hurt.

You know, FBI, TSA, FAA are going to get hurt.

Our military, it's not clear yet if they're getting paid or not.

I know the president signed an executive order.

I hope it happens.

So, you know, this isn't going to hurt a lot of Americans.

It is indicative of where we are at the moment that we literally can't even get to a table to talk.

Like,

we can disagree for two hours, but we can't even come to Congress to have the conversation together, right?

I'm taking my ball and going home.

I will not speak to you because I'm very angry.

So angry.

Oh, I've never been this angry then.

Magic Mike, and I am so angry.

I will not talk to you, Jared.

I mean, it's like, what are we going to do?

How are these grown-ups?

You know, I try to simplify this stuff on the mind.

I'm just like, how is this adult behavior the way Magic Mike and

adult behavior?

I mean, we're, we, you know, we're putting some, keep putting some breros on.

But there should be a floor like of leadership.

Like, okay, start off.

Oh, the floor.

We thought we were at the floor and then they were like, no, no, dig a coffin six feet down.

We're, we're like through, like, we're through the, we're like almost at magma.

Okay, like, we're, we're, keep keep going.

Like there's no, there's no floor, Ben.

Eventually, we'll get to the core and we'll just, we'll just melt.

We'll, we'll, we'll leave it at that.

Congressmember Moskowitz, great magic mic meme.

Appreciate you.

Appreciate you.

Go angry, Ben.

Ah, I'm the angriest I've ever been.

Very angry.

Very, very angry.

What shall I do with my anger?

Everybody's going to become the Hulk.

Don't make me be the Hulk.

I'm the Hulk right now.

Here it is.

This is the Hulk.

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