Episode Details

This week, on a little-known Louisiana radio show, a clue was given that shows just how devious the Trump administration plans to be if they pull off a midterm victory. In a short interview, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson let us all know exactly where his priorities, and the priorities of this entire administration, truly lie. "Entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and then things like Social Security. They have to be adjusted and fixed." And then he told us the schedule: next year. After the midterms. After it is too late to do anything about it at the ballot box.

Based on the events of 6-9-2026

The Breakdown:

• Mike Johnson on the Moon Griffon Show, a friendly conservative Louisiana radio program, admitted there is a plan to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
• His own words: "They have to be adjusted and fixed. We have a plan to do that next year, and it's critical because we're at 40 trillion, plus"
• He closed with the most concerning line of all: "desperate times call for desperate measures"
• Why he said it there: a comfortable room where a man says what he actually believes, because he is certain only friends are listening
• In March of 2025, Johnson looked the country in the eye on Meet the Press and said cuts to these programs were off the table
• Why "mandatory spending on autopilot" is a lie of omission: Social Security is funded by a dedicated payroll tax, deposited into a legally separate trust fund. It is earned money. Deferred wages
• The Congressional Budget Office found that under last year's law, resources go down for households at the bottom and up for households at the top
• The Medicaid cuts and the tax cuts for the top 1% each amount to roughly a trillion dollars
• The estate tax threshold was raised so inherited fortunes worth up to fifteen million dollars now pass without a dime of tax owed
• Why to the people writing this plan, a senior's suffering does not register as suffering. It registers as savings
• Older Americans are already the fastest-growing group of homeless people in this country
• Nearly 9 in 10 Americans over 65 rely on Social Security, and for most it is their main source of income
• UCSF researchers found people who first become homeless after 50 are about 60% more likely to die
• The decades-old strategy: cut taxes first, drive up the debt, then point to the debt you created as the reason the programs must be cut
• The Pinochet's Chile parallel: hollow out what belongs to the people, funnel what is left toward the top
• The cruelest part: the seniors most exposed have been told their benefits would never be touched, and they believe it
• The story from the Orange County computer store: a cashier blaming Gavin Newsom for prices driven up by Trump's tariffs and inflation
• Why the truth only wins if we are willing to say it as often as they say the lie
• Democrats have been overperforming in special elections, in deep red places, even in districts Trump won by double digits

Johnson told on himself. And every time one of them does, another person wakes up. The plan he is bragging about does not actually exist yet. It is scheduled, not done. If we do our job between now and November, if we keep talking and keep telling the truth, he does not get to do it, because they lose the House, and maybe the Senate, too.

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