The John Mason Talk-Walk
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The John Mason Talk-Walk
The John Mason Talk-Walk, August 8, 2025
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I speak today about trump's behavior, his mental decline, and of fighting back against the republican war on our freedoms.
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Hello, hello, hello. How is everybody? This is John Mason. Tomorrow is Mother's Day. And that is a time we pay our respects to all the women in our lives, our mothers and our wives, and our girlfriends, and our sisters, and every other woman that we come across. Happy Mother's Day, ladies. And if we want the best for the women in our lives, we must protect the reproductive rights. There are all these states go around that places the most onerous restrictions on abortions. Like you only have an abortion after so many weeks before you even know the woman even knows that there's a fetus inside of her. And you remembered uh Katie Brett, a senator from Arkansas, who had this very ham bad case of ham acting after Biden's uh State of the Union address. Is that the best Republicans can do? Well anyway, she has this bright idea of a database. She's proposing this bill that would establish a database for all women who are pregnant. Hello, hello, hello. John Mason, how is everybody? Hope you're all well. And I wish our country well too. Trump never ceases to find a lower low to sync to you you've seen the pictures of Trump partying with Epstein, laughing, sm laughing, smiling, looking at the girls, dancing. They're having a great old time. And now Trump all Trump all of a sudden is calls him a creep and a terrible person because he wants to distance himself from Epstein, you know, with the file with the files about uh how he's how Epstein pimped underage girls along with Gilane Maxwell. And you know Trump isn't loyal to his loyalists. He'll be your friend in the next minute uh dump you He is definitely Trump is definitely in uh Epstein's list. And Pam Bon, his his own uh attorney general said so after uh after an FBI uh research into the files. She said that Trump Trump's name was on there uh several times, a several dozen times. But then all of a sudden she says, nope, nothing here. He's not on the list, nothing to see here, move on. And another fun fact about Trump. He he um he has ordered the paving of the of the rose garden that Jacqueline Kennedy organized when she was the first lady. It was this nice long beautiful uh patch of green, and now he's paved it over. So you can build on top of it a big 200 million dollar ballroom, and this comes after the big beautiful bill, the big beauti uh beautiful budget bill that that is out to cut Medicaid, and the next target's gonna be Medicare and Social Security and VA benefits, they'll get to them soon enough, don't worry. Well, giving billions of dollars of tax breaks to people who already have billions of dollars. How much is enough for these guys? And since Donald Trump thinks that the White House is one of his own personal uh uh uh uh resorts or golf courses, he's doing this ballroom with all kind of gold filigree. Gold everywhere. I know I know some Peter hospitals and food banks could do with that some gold. But that's just me. And Trump says that private uh donors, private billion dollar donors are going to donate to the construction of this edifice to Trump's glory. Which is another bribe, which is another uh way for billionaires to attach themselves deeper and deeper into our government. And of course, uh the recent jobs report last that was released last Friday, which showed a very ine not just a lot of job losses, but anemic job growth of 73,000 jobs due to highs and lows of Trump's tariffs. Trump doesn't have any sense of the economy, particularly the effect of tariffs. Trump has no sense of the importance of maintaining good relationships with other nations. Trump has no sense of the rights and freedoms that Americans are supposed to enjoy. Trump has no sense of the history of this country, the long struggle of fights for freedom from so many marginalized groups. No sense of the importance of the White House in American history. He has no sense, period. And I am starting to believe these stories about his mental decline, his stories about his senility. I mean, how else do you explain uh Trump standing on top of the White House roof to conduct a press conference? But we're gonna get more of this if Texas goes through with its pl their plan to uh actually Greg Abbott, the governor, if Greg Abbott goes through with his plan to jerry gerrymander three more seat Democrats out of their congressional seats and give give a majority to and rewrite the the boundaries of the congressional districts uh to benefit Trump. That is that's the plan. And fortunately, the Democratic Party leadership has finally realized that to get along to go go along to get along this idea of trying to work in work in congeniality with uh but people from the other side ain't working. It ain't working. I mean, it's no longer the party of Eisenhower or even Nixon or or Reagan or the Bushes where you can just sort thing sit down, sort things out and and come to a positive agreement. Those days no longer exist. And that it's not that uh kind of of Republican Party. So we can't deal with them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was was right in that town hall in uh in upstate New York that we gotta vote out every Republican from office from senator all the way down to doll catcher. Vote them all out. I know there's might be some good honorable Republicans out there disgusted with the with how the parties uh become uh the plaything of Trump. But where are they? How they speak out you have so many so-called moderates, like Lisa Murkowski of of uh of Alaska and uh Joni Ernest of Idaho, I believe Iowa they want to cut a deal, just not too happy with Trump, Trump's appointees, but they vote for them anyway. They gotta go too. So I I and what's really cool is that uh the Democrat governors like Kathy Holkeshul of New York and Gavin Newsom of California realizing that uh two can play that game of gerrymandering. They're playing the gerrymander, uh the uh congression their congressional district so to exclude the Republicans. And J.D. Prisker is playing is hosting the the Democrat legislators from Texas who had to leave their state in order to prevent a quorum from from uh a quorum that would vote on the gerrymandering bill. And of course, Pennsylvania's own sweetheart, Josh Shapiro. And so that's what we gotta do. Stand up for ourselves. Realize that as a whole the Republican Party is now a fascist cult of Trump and we can't deal with it. We have to fight it. Are we up to the fight? I am. So let's go. Okay, now advertisements. All this work I do in my media. My my podcast, my YouTube channel, my blog, my poetry, fiction, etc. They're all work. 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