Bernie's Union SURGE Hearing Goes OFF THE RAILS, MS-DNC Biden Slobbering Hits New Low

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Trump says he would use the DOJ to go after political opponents and calls the prosecutions “a witch hunt.”

1. Status Coup Podcast focuses on Jordan Sheridan’s November 13, 2023 live stream, which moves from his Flint water cover-up book to the 2024 election and Gaza. 2. Jordan Sheridan is the host, and Peter Hager of Generational Change joins as the recurring political foil who helps push the argument about Biden, Trump, and labor. 3. The episode asks whether Biden, Trump, and the Democratic Party can still claim momentum when polls, wages, Gaza, and labor disputes point the other way. 4. Sheridan says he finished the early manuscript of his first book, "Exposing the Flint Water Cover-Up," while still reporting, researching, and calling sources. 5. He says the publisher will send edits and that the book is scheduled for next summer, which he frames as both stressful and exciting. 6. Sheridan says Dana Nessel is dropping the Flint water crisis investigation, which he describes as protecting politicians from prison. 7. He cites a Politico survey of about 15,000 people and says Trump would beat Biden 292 to 246 in the Electoral College. 8. He says Biden would still win the popular vote by one percentage point, while Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin would return to Trump. 9. He points to Nevada and Michigan as projected Biden states and says the battleground map is extremely close. 10. Sheridan ties the Georgia numbers to Atlanta, Cop City, Democratic city leadership, and turnout among Black voters in the city and suburbs. 11. Peter Hager says Biden’s weakness is linked to low wages, rising costs, and the failure of the administration to improve working-class life. 12. Sheridan cites a Latino voter interview from Dalton, Georgia, where one worker says, "I work in three jobs" and another says gas and food were cheaper under Trump. 13. The episode argues that inflation is global but that Biden failed to confront oil companies, grocery chains, and utilities with stronger federal pressure. 14. Sheridan says Kennedy confronted the steel industry in 1962 and suggests Biden could have used similar leverage against corporations raising prices. 15. The discussion says Biden’s temporary child tax credit, promised $15 minimum wage, and COVID relief could have been made permanent if he had used the bully pulpit. 16. Sheridan and Hager say the Democratic Party is relying on Rose Garden campaigning, staff gatekeeping, and older power brokers because Biden cannot campaign like a younger incumbent. 17. The tone is confrontational and unscripted, with Sheridan interrupting, riffing, and moving quickly between poll data, labor politics, and foreign policy. 18. The format is a live political monologue with an in-studio guest, impersonations, audience prompts, and long digressions into campaign strategy. 19. People following U.S. elections, labor fights, and Gaza politics. 20. Listeners wanting apolitical interviews or light commentary.

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A live, sharp read on Democratic panic and the Gaza-Clinton material the show keeps circling.

Status Coup returns live as a blunt political dispatch about Democratic panic and the party figures Biden's allies keep reaching for. Jordan Sheridan starts by talking through the strain of finishing his first book on the Flint water cover-up while still reporting and…

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