Under the weather a bit but good news is here

Got the bug but the fight goes on and the show does too

COVID is still a thing

As it turns out that bug is still bouncing around and I managed to catch it for Christmas this week. I was hoping to do a whole show for the end of the year on the incredibly positive note we are carrying into 2024 as Americans are finally feeling the good economy and showing their positive outlooks at the cash register. As polls show Biden climbing and Trump’s legal woes continuing to spiral.

Looking a little rough this week!

That was the plan but then that whole COVID JN1 virus dropped by and all I’ve done is lay around with watery eyes, stuffed sinuses, and a very angry throat. So, I wanted to run this amazing interview with MSNBC’s Katie Phang that we shot in February but never published on the MeidasTouch Network. Sadly, much of what she predicted has come true and we remain locked in the battle for justice.

We are winning

My former guest Simon Rosenberg says it very well that I would rather be on our side than theirs right now. The numbers are impossible to ignore. He wrote a piece for MSNBC that says it better than I can. Here is the key excerpt that says it better than me that he highlighted in his newsletter the

Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg

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First, President Joe Biden has kept his central promise in the 2020 election: that he would lead the nation to the other side of Covid, successfully. The pandemic has receded. Our economic recovery has been better than any other G7 nation. GDP grew at an annual rate of 4.9% last quarter, and more than 3% for the Biden presidency. We have the best job market since the 1960s and the lowest uninsured rate in U.S. history. The Dow Jones broke 37,000 this month for the first time. Wage growth, new business formation and prime-age labor participation rates are all at historically elevated levels. Prices fell — yes, fell — last month. Rents are softening, and gas prices and crime rates are falling. Domestic oil and renewable production are at record levels. The annual deficit, which exploded under Trump, is trillions less today. 

Consumer sentiment has risen sharply in recent weeks, and measures of life, job and income satisfaction are remarkably high. There is no doubt that recent years have been hard — Covid, an insurrection at the Capitol, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, repeated OPEC price hikes, global and domestic inflation — but it is increasingly clear that America is getting to the other side of this challenging period, and are in a far better place than when President Biden took office. 

Second, the strength of the president’s record is only matched by the strength of his party. I don’t think it is widely understood how strong the Democratic Party is right now. The party has won more votes in seven of the past eight presidential elections, something no party has done in modern American history. Over the last four presidential elections, Democrats have averaged 51% of the popular vote, their best showing over four national elections since the 1930s.

In both 2022 and 2023, Democrats prevented the historical down ballot struggle of the party in power and had two remarkably successful elections. In the 2022 midterms, Democrats’ statewide margins were greater than the 2020 presidential margins in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania — all recent battleground states. That showing led the party to pick up a Senate seat, four state legislative chambers and two governorships, and helped keep the House of Representatives close, making it far more likely Republicans lose it in 2024. 

So, the numbers are rolling in and the real measure is electoral success. This is a no hand wringing zone and we can’t end the year any other way.

The Show

I loved this interview with Katie Phang. She doesn’t hold back at all and her insights are second to none. I hope you’ll watch and subscribe to our YouTube channel while you are there.

Have wonderful New Year!

I hope you had a good holidays and it continues into the new year! We have lots of exciting things coming!

Fred