Republicans Losing the Shutdown & Fearing No Kings | Heather ‘Digby’ Parton | TMR

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Heather Unknown

Summary

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Columnist at salon.com, proprietor of the Hullabaloo blog and Majority Report favorite, Heather ‘Digby’ Parton joins the show to wrap up the week’s news. Live-streamed on October 17, 2025. Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12pm EST on YouTube OR via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.fm Check out Salon: https://www.salon.com/ Check out the Hullabaloo: https://digbysblog.net/?trk=public_post-text Send us IM messages during the live-stream with our free Majority Report App: http://majority.fm/app Subscribe to MR's daily AM Quickie newsletter: https://am-quickie.ghost.io Find all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com Become a Majority Report member: https://fans.fm/majority/join More from the MR crew: Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton DISCOURSE https://www.youtube.com/@Th3Discourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning Our alt YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive

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What was discussed

Government Shutdown US Politics Healthcare Policy Trump Administration Political messaging Congressional Dynamics

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Names dropped in conversation

AO

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“We just played a clip of AOC and Bernie from their town hall Wednesday night”

BS

Bernie Sanders

“We just played a clip of AOC and Bernie from their town hall Wednesday night”

DT

Donald Trump

“the nature of the um of Trump administration 2.0. the assaults on our government, our laws.”

DT

Donald Trump

“Donald Trump going out in front of the standing behind the podium and screaming, "Don't take Tylenol."”

RJ

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“I think there's something bigger than that. I think a lot of this is just the dysfunction, shouldn't even say call it dysfunction because it's really not. The chaos of the Trump, you know, administration so far is starting to fe make its way into the public consciousness. People who aren't paying a lot of attention, people who are just they're going, "Wait a minute." You know, what the hell is going on here? And I think that some of that when in terms of health care has to do with what I'm calli”

DO

Dr. Oz

“what they did yesterday with with Dr. Oz and Trump out there saying have more babies”

SB

Steve Bannon

“what Steve Bannon used to call the dismantling of the administrative state”