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DOGE Staffer Resigns After Being Linked To Racist Twitter Account

2/8/2025
One of the top staffers at Elon Musk's DOGE office has resigned after he was linked to a Twitter account that had posted racist screeds against people from India multiple times. The account was previously registered under the staffer's name before it was changed a while ago and then completely abandoned once he took the job at DOGE. This is what happens when you have an unvetted person hiring unvetted employees in the government. The federal court system is actually doing a pretty good job of keeping Donald Trump in check at the moment, and their rulings against him are a reminder that he is not a dictator. Trump suffered yet another loss late this week when a federal judge paused his "fork in the road" offer to buyout federal workers who choose to resign, and this came after a federal judge barred Elon Musk and his team from accessing the Treasury's payment system. Donald Trump, Jr. recently went on a hunting expedition in the country of Italy, and he didn't leave a great impression. Politicians in the country are now wanting the President's son prosecuted for killing an endangered species of duck, which he posted on his hunting website. This would be a big move for a foreign government, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility at this point. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:15:30

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Nancy Mace REPEATEDLY Shouts Anti-LGBTQ Slur During Unhinged Meltdown

2/7/2025
During a House hearing on USAID programs this week, Republican Representative Nancy Mace was so enraged about being called out over her use of an anti-LGBTQ slur that she decided to quadruple down on it and began shouting the slur repeatedly. Mace then became even more outraged when Democratic Representative Gerry Connolly asked if this violates the decorum rules, and she trashed him for being a man lecturing a woman. The whole thing was beyond insane. Donald Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt has not had a great start to her career, and she made it worse this week with a linguistic flub that left critics mocking her across social media. But in their haste to attack her over the flub, the critics missed the context of her remarks, which is what they should have been paying attention to because it was nothing but lies and deflection. Fox News announced this week that they are adding a new host to their weekend lineup: Lara Trump. The daughter-in-law of the president will be hosting a show on Saturdays going forward. This is a blatant conflict of interest for both Lara and the network, but conservatives had nothing but praise for the move. Fox is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Donald Trump went completely bonkers after he fell for a thoroughly debunked right wing conspiracy this week, and he took to Truth Social to make the problem so much worse. Conservatives alleged this week that the USAID office had given $8 million to media outlet Politico, but that never actually happened. But Trump's tirade about the alleged misuse of funds didn't come until AFTER the story had been debunked by multiple different media outlets, and he's going to use this rage to go after outlets that he hates. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:22:03

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Trump Appears To Be Suffering From Paranoid Delusions

2/6/2025
To say that Donald Trump is unwell would be the understatement of the century. There is clearly something wrong with him, mentally, and the media seems to have no interest in talking about it. But his latest move should have everyone questioning his mental state as it appears to be a glaring symptom of someone who is suffering from paranoid delusions. The Trump administration, including Donald Trump himself, have tried multiple times this week to convince the public that Elon Musk can't do anything without Donald Trump's approval. But behind the scenes, a very different story is playing out. One source from the administration told The New York Times that "almost no one" is able to control Musk and that he does appear to be doing whatever the hell he wants without prior approval. Both before and during his meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, Donald Trump suggested that all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza and sent elsewhere. This is ethnic cleansing, and Netanyahu wasn't closed off to the idea. Trump claimed that this was for the good of the Palestinians, but he gave up the game when he then suggested that the US could invest in the land and build beautiful homes and resorts. He wants to carry out a genocide to build condos. The Trump administration is rescinding protections for Venezuelan refugees that have been in the country under protected status to prevent them from being deported. This is a group of people who, even though they couldn't vote, overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in the election, and now they are furious that he "used them" for political gain only to ship them out of the country at the first opportunity. This is a classic "I never thought leopards would eat MY face" moment. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:24:10

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Trump Got Completely Rolled By Canada And Mexico

2/5/2025
Donald Trump has officially paused the 25% tariffs on both Canada and Mexico just days after implementation. Trump claims that he spoke with leaders of both countries and was able to secure concessions from both that allowed him to pause the tariffs. What he didn't tell the public, however, was that ALL of the concessions from both countries were things that they had ALREADY agreed to do, so they didn't have to concede anything to win. The Trump administration suffered another crushing blow from a federal judge this week, as the restraining order that was put in place against his spending freeze was left in place. Trump's DOJ argued in court that he didn't have to abide by the court's original restraining order because they only addressed the memo from the Office of Management and Budget, and NOT Trump's executive order. It didn't matter in the eyes of the law, and that argument failed. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced this week that her DOGE Subcommittee in the House is going to be holding hearings with PBS and NPR to demand answers about their so-called "biased content." Greene specifically mentioned that neither outlet covered the "Hunter Biden laptop story," but a quick Google search proves that both outlets covered it extensively - and have provided updates for nearly 5 years! Donald Trump may have temporarily paused the 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico, but there are still more tariffs to come in the near future. And his blissful ignorance about who pays those tariffs could come back to haunt Republicans for years to come. A new poll has found that most Americans are NOT ok with their prices increasing as a result of his trade war, and they are well aware of who will be responsible when it happens. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:24:05

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Trump Freaks Out And Admits He's Causing "Pain" To American Families

2/4/2025
Donald Trump had a meltdown over the Wall Street Journal editorial board calling him out for launching the "dumbest trade war in history." In an attempt to defend his idioitic move, Trump got on Truth Social and blasted the paper, but then admitted that everything they said was true by telling us that the tariffs are going to cause "pain" for American families. He campaigned on lowering prices, now he's conceding that he's doing the opposite. Over the weekend, Elon Musk announced that he and his thugs at DOGE were preparing to "kill" the USAID department which helps fund disease cures and preventions as well as many other humanitarian causes across the globe. Musk has been ranting like a lunatic on Twitter about how much he hates the department, and his thugs essentially raided the building over the weekend, accessing areas that they weren't allowed to access. Everything about this is clearly illegal, but we can't depend on anyone to hold these people accountable. Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem refused to rule out sending migrant children and pregnant women to Guantanamo Bay as part of the mass deportations taking place right now. Noem was asked twice if that would happen, and both times she insisted that this is nothing new and that they were only going after the "worst of the worst." But we've already had confirmation that children and pregnant women have been rounded up, and the likelihood that they'll end up in Gitmo is through the roof. Donald Trump appeared to threaten to go to war against the country of Panama if they didn't give the Panama Canal back to the United States. While talking to reporters, Trump said that we (the US) are "going to take it back, or something very powerful is about to happen." IT is hard to interpret that any other way than threatening military force against the sovereign country. The man is an insane tyrant, the world is on notice that he is unstable. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:22:44

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Trump Officially Owns The Economic Destruction From His New Tariffs

2/3/2025
Donald Trump's trade war officially kicked off on Saturday, with tariffs being put in place on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China. His own aides tried to talk him out of it, as did Republican Senators, but Trump was hellbent on making this happen. Trump inherited a strong economy (on paper) and the gains of the last four years are about to be completely wiped out with this move. He'll try to blame others. A memo sent out by the Department of Transportation is directing the agency to send federal funds for infrastructure projects to areas of the country with higher birth rates and marriage rates. This is absolutely insane, and there's really no other way to put it. These statistics have no bearing on infrastructure needs, and it is also ridiculously creepy that Republicans are so obsessed with how many babies people are having. Lara Trump defended her father-in-law's claims that DEI was somehow to blame for the deadly plane crash in D.C. last week, but the way she made her point left critics howling with laughter. Lara claimed that only "competent" people should be hired at ANY job in the country, which is coming from someone that isn't qualified or competent enough to hold any job at all, yet she somehow was put in charge of the Republican Party last year. According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, aides to Donald Trump are scrambling to repair his image after his first two weeks in office have proven to be a complete disaster. The chaos that the administration has caused along with the dangerous incompetence is already wearing on the American public, and Trump's aides know that they have to fix the problem before it gets completely out of hand. But it may already be too late for that. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:20:04

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Republican Senators Freak Out As Trump's Tariffs Threaten To Destroy Their States

2/2/2025
Republican senators are freaking out and trying to warn Donald Trump that his tariffs are going to hit red states - THEIR states - the hardest. Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota said that the thought of the tariffs is giving him "heartburn" because he knows how devastating that is going to be on the agriculture industry in his state. But this is what they all supported, and it is hard to have sympathy for them at this point. The Trump administration has sent out a memo ordering senior FBI officials to quit, retire, or otherwise resign or else they will all be fired on Monday. This is straight out of the Project 2025 playbook, which Trump adamantly denied he would be implementing upon taking office. Yet here we are, and nearly every single order Trump has given mirrors the plans laid out in Project 2025. In a post on Truth Social this past week, Donald Trump announced that "very soon" he would be dismantling the public education system in the country and "returning it to the states." This is a disaster waiting to happen, as most states don't even come close to having enough money to fund public education, and if they are given discretion with federal money, it will go to other projects instead. Farron explains the likely outcome of Trump's pending moves. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:13:41

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CBS May Pay Trump MILLIONS To Settle His Idiotic Lawsuit Against Them

2/1/2025
Paramount, the parent company of CBS, is reportedly in talks with Donald Trump's team to settle the $10 billion lawsuit that he filed against them for allegedly editing the 60 Minutes interview that they did with Vice President Kamala Harris. This lawsuit is easily winnable by Paramount, but like so many others, they want to kiss the ring to avoid upsetting Trump and feeling his wrath. This type of capitulation represents the complete death of the media. Donald Trump is refusing to let anyone blame the chaos that his administration has caused for the deadly plane crash that took place in Washington, D.C. this week. And in order to make sure he doesn't get blamed, he signed an executive order on Thursday that effectively places all the blame on former President Biden and his so-called "DEI policies." That's not even close to what happened, and the preliminary FAA report on the incident proves it. Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville took time during the Senate confirmation hearing of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to boast about the fact that his granddaughter is not going to be vaccinated because, as Tuberville put it, her parents "did their own research." The "do your own research" crowd is exceptionally dangerous because they don't know HOW to do research, and they are just reading conspiracy pieces online written by quacks and freaks. Scientists do research in labs, not by Googling things with a confirmation bias, as Farron explains. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:16:39

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Trump Lays Out Inflation Plan That Doesn't Address Inflation At All

1/31/2025
As more and more Americans have begun questioning whether or not Donald Trump was going to do anything to address inflation, the President released a statement this week (via Truth Social, of course) of how he plans to bring down consumer prices. The only problem is that there is nothing in the plan that would actually lower prices, and most of his proposals would actually cause MORE harm to consumers. The Trump administration's freeze on federal loans and grants was put on hold by a judge this week and then immediately rescinded by the Office of Management and Budget that issued the freeze. Ordinarily, this would put an end to the lawsuit before the judge, but thanks to Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, the lawsuit is still alive with fresh ammo against the administration. Leavitt had fired off a social media post explaining the "secret" plan of the administration, and lawyers immediately added that to the lawsuit. Donald Trump has taken the GOP's assault on transgendered people and teachers to a new level this week by signing an executive order that allows the Department of Justice to begin prosecuting teachers who support transgender and nonbinary students. But the order is much darker than it would seem - if a teacher uses pronouns for a student that do not correspond with the gender assigned to them at birth, they will be prosecuted. This is about to lead to all sorts of chaos in the education system. The Trump administration has said multiple times in the last two weeks that they are currently only rounding up immigrants who pose "security risks" to the United States and that their raids were focused on removing violent criminals from the country. That was never true, and now we have confirmation of it. According to officials in Colombia, the flights that they are now accepting from the US have not contained A SINGLE CRIMINAL, but there have been plenty of children and pregnant women aboard that have been deported. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:25:55

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Trump Managed To Completely Wreck The Government In Under Two Weeks

1/30/2025
Donald Trump's spending freeze has been temporarily halted by a federal judge, but the freeze on the freeze is only going to last a few days. But prior to the judge's order, this simple move by Trump threw the entire country into chaos, wrecking states' Medicaid systems, causing massive confusion within the Pentagon, and sending America into a panic. And this happened only 8 days into his administration. Republican Congressman Rich McCormick has no sympathy for children that don't have enough money to buy food, and he believes that these children are simply trying to "sponge off the government." In an interview with CNN this week, Congressman McCormick made these shocking remarks while defending Donald Trump's spending freeze that threatened to do away with school lunches for needy children. House Republicans went back to work this week after their "Winter Retreat" at Donald Trump's Miami golf resort, but not all of them were relaxed and rested. Immediately upon her return to Washington, Marjorie Taylor Greene ran to reporters to whine about the fact that the retreat didn't accomplish anything and they didn't make any progress on the bills that Trump wants them to pass. She's effectively admitting that Republicans don't know how to legislate. An incredibly enraged Alina Habba went on Fox News this week to attack Democrats who have said that this administration is "lawless," specifically with regards to Donald Trump's spending freeze. The angry Habba told Fox News that Democrats don't get to decide what the "law" is - the attorney general does that. But that's actually NOT what the Attorney General does, and shortly after Habba told the world that the AG interprets the law, a judge smacked down Trump's order, once again proving Habba wrong. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:21:28

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Pardoned Capitol Rioters Keep Getting Re-Arrested

1/29/2025
Multiple Capitol Rioters that received pardons from Donald Trump last week have been either re-arrested, are currently "at large" and will be soon arrested, or, in the case of one man, killed by police. These are clearly repeat offenders that have learned nothing from the consequences of their actions, and they should not have been allowed to go free. On Monday, Donald Trump suggested that we could start deporting actual US citizens - people born and raised in this country, regardless of race or cultural background - as a form of punishment for "heinous" crimes. Trump said that we could send them to other countries to be held in prisons (for a small fee) and then we'll "see how they like it." This is getting very insane very quickly. Donald Trump is still ripping off his followers with his worthless "meme coin" cryptocurrency that is completely useless, and now he's getting called out for grifting these people out of their life savings and retirements. Professor Scott Galloway used a recent episode of his podcast to call out the president, along with his wife Melania Trump, for scamming people so brazenly when they know these people have nothing left to give. The Trump White House issued a memo on Monday of this week that boasted about all of his so-called "accomplishments" that he achieved in the first week of his second term. The list is filled with falsehoods and outright lies, most notably the claim that he did more in his first week than most presidents do in 4 years. This is how the next four years are going to go - no REAL accomplishments to speak of, just bragging about things that don't matter to anyone. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:21:40

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Republicans Terrified As Trump Clearly Breaks The Law In First Week In Office

1/28/2025
There's no question that Donald Trump's firing of the inspector generals on Friday evening violated federal law (which requires him to give Congress a 30-day notice of any potential inspector general firing.) Multiple Republicans have already spoken out about the measure, with Lindsey Graham even admitting that the move was illegal. The only problem is that there are no enforcement mechanisms to do anything about it. Officials at the Trump White House have issued a "threat" to all Republicans who might be thinking about voting against Trump's cabinet nominees - confirm them, or else! The "or else" part is that "outside groups" may withhold campaign cash in the future and use it to instead fund primary challenges to any Republican that doesn't completely fall in line with Trump's agenda. That may not work out the way that Trump thinks, as Farron explains. Donald Trump's obsession with appearances has apparently rolled over into his mass deportations. According to new reports, the Trump administration has instructed the people carrying out his immigrant raids to "dress for the camera," making sure that they are wearing their official uniforms with logos visible everywhere. They want this to look as clean as possible on film so that people ignore the cruelty of what's actually happening. Donald Trump has now admitted that he doesn't really care about dealing with inflation, saying over the weekend that it isn't his biggest priority. These sentiments were echoed by Vice President JD Vance on Sunday, when he told NBC's Meet The Press that prices would eventually come down, but it'll take some time. These two men won the election due to economic concerns - that was the top issue, no matter what the administration tells you - and they are already admitting they aren't doing anything about it. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:25:26

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Republicans Terrified As Trump Clearly Breaks The Law In First Week In Office

1/27/2025
There's no question that Donald Trump's firing of the inspector generals on Friday evening violated federal law (which requires him to give Congress a 30-day notice of any potential inspector general firing.) Multiple Republicans have already spoken out about the measure, with Lindsey Graham even admitting that the move was illegal. The only problem is that there are no enforcement mechanisms to do anything about it. Officials at the Trump White House have issued a "threat" to all Republicans who might be thinking about voting against Trump's cabinet nominees - confirm them, or else! The "or else" part is that "outside groups" may withhold campaign cash in the future and use it to instead fund primary challenges to any Republican that doesn't completely fall in line with Trump's agenda. That may not work out the way that Trump thinks. Donald Trump's obsession with appearances has apparently rolled over into his mass deportations. According to new reports, the Trump administration has instructed the people carrying out his immigrant raids to "dress for the camera," making sure that they are wearing their official uniforms with logos visible everywhere. They want this to look as clean as possible on film so that people ignore the cruelty of what's actually happening. Donald Trump has now admitted that he doesn't really care about dealing with inflation, saying over the weekend that it isn't his biggest priority. These sentiments were echoed by Vice President JD Vance on Sunday, when he told NBC's Meet The Press that prices would eventually come down, but it'll take some time. These two men won the election due to economic concerns - that was the top issue, no matter what the administration tells you - and they are already admitting they aren't doing anything about it. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:17:57

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House Investigation Falls Apart Because Republicans Tried To Sleep With Witness

1/26/2025
Republicans in the House of Representatives have been wanting to investigate the January 6th Committee for years, but their attempts hit a major snag this past summer, according to a shocking new report from The Washington Post. Republican Representative Barry Loudermilk was prepared to issue a subpoena to former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, as Republicans believe she is the key to bringing down the former Committee. However, he was told NOT to do it because it could reveal "sexually explicit" text messages that Republican lawmakers had sent to her. Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's press secretary to begin his second term, is already embroiled in a major campaign finance scandal. Leavitt ran for Congress in 2022 and failed to win her race, but she managed to rake in tons of cash. Unfortunately for her, according to reports, hundreds of thousands of dollars were given to her over the legal limit, and she was found to be in violation of campaign finance laws. More importantly, she also FAILED to disclose these debts for YEARS until filing an amended statement just days ago. Donald Trump's worst nightmare came true for him last week, when his second inauguration failed to pull in a significant amount of television viewers across the country. In fact, it was one of the least-watched inaugurations in nearly 20 years! Trump is all about ratings and appearances, and so far his second term is off to a very pathetic start. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:13:25

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Price Of Eggs Skyrockets As Trump Fails First Major Test As President

1/25/2025
Donald Trump campaigned on bringing down the price of groceries for American citizens, specifically citing eggs when he made his promise. He hasn't even been President for a full week yet and already the price of eggs has skyrocketed under his watch. The reason is due to bird flu causing entire flocks to be culled, but Trump has no plan in place to help deal with the growing crisis. Republican Representative Andy Ogles has put forth a Constitutional amendment that would allow Donald Trump to seek a third term in office after his second term ends. The measure has absolutely no chance of success, but that's not what matters. What matters is that Trump hasn't even been in office for a full week and he's already failed every major test that he's faced, yet Republicans still want him in office forever. Recently-pardoned leaders of both the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers are promising "retribution" against the prosecutors that successfully locked them both away for years. It isn't clear what sort of "retribution" they are promising, but this is quickly becoming a trend amongst those that were released from jails or other punishments this past week following the pardons by Donald Trump. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:15:30

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Idiot Trump Signs Order Declaring Everyone In The Country Is A Woman

1/24/2025
One of the executive orders that Donald Trump signed this week was an attempt to "legally" define who is a man and who is a woman. However, due to the basic lack of scientific understanding of the President, his order declares that anyone who had the "large reproductive cell" at conception is legally a "woman," which means that ALL people are now women under his order. Sexual differentiation doesn't happen until weeks after conception. A local CBS affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has fired a weather reporter after she made comments about Elon Musk's "hand gesture" on her personal Instagram account. She posted a meme that had Musk on one side giving his salute and on the other side was a quote from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia." But the post caught the attention of a right wing broadcaster who amplified it and brought massive attention to it. Experts that have analyzed the text of Donald Trump's executive orders from this week say that he "obviously" used artificial intelligence (AI) to write some of them. They pointed to the repetition and odd language that is frequently associated with the use of AI in their analysis. Not only do we have an incompetent buffoon running the country, but now we have to put up with him possibly using technology that is in its infancy and frequently screws things up. Donald Trump appears to be suffering under the delusion that tariffs are going to magically solve all of his problems. Whether it is immigration or the budget, Trump's answer is always "tariffs." And now he's trying to use the threat of tariffs to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict by threatening to impose tariffs on Russian goods. He still doesn't understand how anything works, and our enemies are going to use that to their advantage. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Duration:00:20:50

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Trump Causes Years' Worth Of Damage On First Day In Office

1/22/2025
Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders on Monday, and by doing so he likely set the country back by years. His actions will cause drug prices to increase, inflation to rise, and create massive humanitarian crises both here and abroad. The amount of damage he accomplished in just one day is nothing short of mind-blowing, and it is a terrible preview of what's to come. Marjorie Taylor Greene just put a target on the back of every Democrat in this country by lying to her rabid base and telling them that Democrats want to line up Republicans in front of a firing squad and execute them. This obviously never happened, but Greene is determined to turn Democrats and everyone on the Left into the enemy so that the most unhinged among the MAGA base will take matters into their own hands. The three richest men on the planet - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg - all had front row seats for Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, which meant that there wasn't enough room for actual elected officials. Because of this, multiple Republican governors were forced to watch the event from the "overflow room," and they were denied seats at the main event. Trump is showing us who he cares about, and it isn't the people. Just three days ago, Donald Trump was being heralded as the "savior" of TikTok, with the app coming back online and thanking Trump for taking action. But that note of thanks was clearly premature, as Trump has already changed his tune and said that the app is likely "worthless" and may not even be worth saving anymore. This shouldn't actually come as a surprise to anyone that was paying attention. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

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No Honeymoon For Trump - He Owns Everything Now

1/21/2025
Donald Trump is not going to get the benefit of the doubt during his second term that began on Monday, and that means that every mistake will be greeted with anger and animosity and he'll own every bit of it. He has no margin for error, and even his base is on edge wondering what the second term is going to do to them, personally. The only hope is that people learn from this, as Farron explains. Just a few days after her husband launched his own crypto coin, Melania Trump got in on the action and created her own coin. The irony is that Melania's coin launch ended up erasing 40% of the value of her husband's coin, which caused him to immediately lose billions of dollars after initially gaining over $14 billion at launch. Irony aside, this is the biggest grift Trump has ever pulled, and both he and his wife did it days before the inauguration. According to a new report from Politico, National Guard troops across the country are worried that they are going to get called upon by the new administration to act as the "deportation gestapo" as Trump has suggested that he will use them to help round up immigrants in the country. These soldiers understand that they are supposed to be the "Good Guys" in America, and being seen on camera dragging people into vans to be shipped out of the country isn't going to sit well with American citizens. According to a new poll from the Associated Press, most Americans don't believe that Donald Trump is going to make their lives any better during his second term. This includes a majority of Americans who no longer have faith in him to bring down prices for consumers or protect healthcare. In other words, Trump hasn't even been president for a full day yet and people are already lowering their expectations. But that actually works to Trump's benefit Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

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House Republicans Demand $4 TRILLION Increase In Debt Limit After Whining About Spending

1/20/2025
Republicans whined about government spending during the entire four years of the Biden administration, and drove the country to the brink of a government shutdown more than half a dozen times over spending issues during the last 2 years. But now that Trump is coming back, they are suddenly demanding a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit - something they repeatedly refused to do for Biden. A farmer in Florida that voted for Donald Trump in the last election is warning that his crops will be left to rot in the fields if Trump follows through with his plans for mass deportations, according to what he told Bloomberg News. All over the country, farmers - many of whom voted for Trump - are sharing similar concerns about the man they put back into The White House, but those concerns are a day late at this point. They knew what they were voting for, they just didn't care at the time. Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller has a plan to prevent some of Trump's most disastrous and disturbing policies become the law of the land without getting much attention from his political opponents or the media. Miller says that the idea is to "flood the zone" by doing as much as humanly possible all at once, which won't give the media or critics enough time to be outraged by everything. His hope is that eventually everyone just gets tired and stops paying attention. More than a dozen of Donald Trump's cabinet picks are billionaires, and 26 of them have net worths well over $100 million, and others have spent decades working in politics. In spite of this, the corporate media continues to tell us that these people are "outsiders," when in reality, they are the elite that have ruled this country for far too long. These are not people who are going to "shake things up" or bring "change" to DC - they will consolidate power to line their pockets, as Farron explains. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

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Fox Host Downplays Threat Of Misinformation While Spreading Misinformation

1/19/2025
Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones took issue with President Biden warning the country about the rise of misinformation in his farewell address. Jones decided to downplay the threat of misinformation by actually spreading even more misinformation by claiming that the tech industry "sat out" the 2024 election. Elon Musk alone poured more than $200 million into the election to get Trump elected, which is hardly "sitting out." Donald Trump has long been jealous of the fact that Democrats have much better and far more popular celebrities on their side, so he's trying to tip the scales in his favor by appointing three "MAGA" movie stars to serve as his ambassadors to Hollywood. They are Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone - three actors that haven't been tearing it up at the box office in decades. More and more Trump voters are starting to wake up to the fact that those campaign promises he made aren't going to help anyone. A new report says that some of these voters are now starting to panic over the proposed cuts to education, and this includes a number of teachers who voted for Trump who are now afraid of losing their jobs. Again, Trump was very open about the cuts he was going to make - one of the few times he was actually honest - so these voters were given ample warning. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron’s content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalanced Follow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

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