With All Due Respect

Marcus Flowers / Madeline Summerville
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With All Due Respect... for Americans who refuse to surrender the country we love to two-bit tyrants and wannabe dictators. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 22h ago

    What the Senate Should Actually Be Investigating Before Recess

    if the Senate actually wanted to investigate something useful before heading out for recess, what should it be? Madeline has two answers, and they're connected. First, the MAHA movement — specifically RFK Jr.'s promise to get rid of forever chemicals, which got quietly reversed, and the backdoor deals with Big Agriculture and the EPA that she believes explain why. It's a bipartisan issue with a paper trail, and it's sitting there unused. Second, AI regulation — not the self-regulation that the tech giants are currently selling to Washington, but real laws with teeth. She draws a direct line between the Chevron deference ruling, the death of subject matter expertise in regulation, and the current situation where the fox is being asked to write the rules for the hen house. Marcus adds the compliance lens: you need subject matter experts to inform policy, but the moment you let them write it themselves, you've handed over the keys. The through line, as Madeline puts it: in both cases, this administration made promises it didn't keep, money changed hands, and the people who were supposed to benefit got left holding the bag. That's an investigation. That's a hearing. That's what 40 days before the midterms could look like if anyone in the Senate wanted to use their time that way. Marcus Flowers and Madeline Summerville confront the chaos, hypocrisy, and misinformation plaguing our country while amplifying the voices of tomorrow’s leaders. This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a call to action.  Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to join the fight for truth and accountability. Your voice matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. 4d ago

    Senator Schmidt Went to the Jack Smith Hearing to Launch His Career. He Left With an Eigentor.

    Marcus and Madeline are back with a news-only episode — no guests, just two people who watched the Jack Smith Senate Judiciary hearing live and have a lot of thoughts. The hearing was designed to be a political performance: Senate Republicans, with the midterms 40 days out, trying to generate viral moments and remind Trump's base that somebody's doing something. What they got instead was one of the most spectacular self-owns in recent Senate history. Senator Eric Schmidt — floated the day before as a potential 2028 running mate for J.D. Vance — built an elaborate conspiracy theory around Jack Smith attending an Atlanta Hawks game the night after the Fani Willis affair went public. He implied collusion, accused Smith of perjury, flashed documents he refused to share with the witness, and declared victory. Then Amy Klobuchar looked it up. Smith was at an Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball game. In Maryland. Watching Caitlin Clark score 30 points. Marcus calls it an Eigentor. The German soccer term for scoring on your own goal. It fits. They break down what the hearing was really for, how the political media loop is designed to work even when the underlying facts are wrong, and what it says about a political culture where admitting a mistake is treated as career-ending weakness. They also trace the broader pattern — Russia, the Epstein files, January 6th — of Trump running out the clock on accountability and what it means that two of his own U.S. attorneys have now walked away from prosecutions they couldn't make stick. Marcus Flowers and Madeline Summerville confront the chaos, hypocrisy, and misinformation plaguing our country while amplifying the voices of tomorrow’s leaders. This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a call to action.  Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to join the fight for truth and accountability. Your voice matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3. Sep 28

    Hegseth Is Hiding the Death Toll — and ProPublica Just Explained Susan Collins

    Pete Hegseth standing up a new 20-member Homeland Defense Board that he personally chairs — because apparently he can't get independent advice from his own staff. Then a clip from a recruiting stop at Texas A&M, where Hegseth used a transphobic slur in front of future military officers to applause. Marcus draws the contrast plainly: whatever happened to "be all that you can be"? To serving something larger than yourself? To pride in the cloth you wear? Madeline calls it what it is: Hegseth is trying to turn the United States military into a college fraternity, recruiting disaffected young men through a manosphere pipeline that has more in common with historical authoritarian recruitment tactics than anything resembling American military tradition. Then the story that cuts through everything: the Pentagon quietly removed four American troops from the official Iran war death toll, then restored them, with no explanation. Fourteen Democratic veterans joined Rep. Pat Ryan in accusing Hegseth of a cover-up. Marcus connects the dots directly back to the press ban — if you're hiding the death toll, you don't want cameras anywhere near this war. The official count is at 19. Nobody trusts it. Madeline confirms that her war crimes brief — the legal argument that Hegseth bears criminal negligence liability for civilian deaths in Iran through conscious disregard of his duty — has now landed with both Chris Cuomo and Mehdi Hassan. The piece the media keeps missing, she says, is that Dario Amodei at Anthropic explicitly warned the Pentagon what would happen without human oversight of AI targeting. Hegseth said no. The school got bombed. They close on a ProPublica story that finally explains something Marcus has been puzzling over for years: why Susan Collins has spent a decade wringing her hands about dangerous Trump policies and then voting for them anyway. According to the reporting, the FBI had her dead to rights on a defense contractor bribery case — and Trump shut it down. The compromise is the vote. Marcus says it's time to get rid of Susan Collins. Madeline agrees. Troy Jackson, Maine. Write it down. Marcus Flowers and Madeline Summerville confront the chaos, hypocrisy, and misinformation plaguing our country while amplifying the voices of tomorrow’s leaders. This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a call to action.  Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to join the fight for truth and accountability. Your voice matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. Sep 25

    Trump Bans the Press, Threatens to Annihilate Iran at the UN, and Anthropic Draws a Line

    Marcus and Madeline get into the news — and the news is a lot. They open on Trump's unilateral ban of CNN, Politico, and MSNBC from White House coverage, which by Monday had produced a lawsuit, by Tuesday had the Justice Department in court arguing that press access is a privilege and not a right, and by midweek had produced a clip of Trump telling Kaitlan Collins at the UN General Assembly that she shouldn't be there covering him. Madeline notes that the administration invented something called "post-deprivation due process" to justify acting first and providing process later — a legal theory she has never heard of in her life and describes as made-up BS. The judge assigned to the case is Trump-appointed Judge Timothy Kelly, the same judge who presided over the Jim Acosta access case in 2018. Marcus thinks this gets laughed out of court. The more important point: the press ban and the Iran war are not separate stories. Then the UN General Assembly speech — Trump threatening to either rebuild Iran into one of the greatest countries in the Middle East or "drive them into hell with no chance of survival." Marcus, who spent a decade serving in that region, says Iran doesn't believe him and has the upper hand in this war. Madeline traces the Board of Peace grift through Trump's own words at the UN: Morocco, Bahrain, Kazakhstan — countries whose names he can't pronounce, all lined up for the rebuild. It always comes back to the money. The final stretch is about AI — and it goes deeper than the usual conversation. Trump has hundreds of millions invested in AI companies and is not motivated to regulate them. The Chevron deference ruling gutted the ability of subject matter experts to enforce meaningful regulations, which is exactly the point. Madeline draws a sharp distinction between Anthropic — the good guys, who refused Pentagon contracts without human oversight guarantees — and OpenAI's Sam Altman, who stepped in when Anthropic walked away. Pope Leo's alliance with Anthropic against the Peter Thiel/Marc Andreessen war profiteer tech bloc is not an accident. These are people who understand what's at stake if this technology ends up in the wrong hands without guardrails, and they're saying so out loud. Marcus Flowers and Madeline Summerville confront the chaos, hypocrisy, and misinformation plaguing our country while amplifying the voices of tomorrow’s leaders. This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a call to action.  Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to join the fight for truth and accountability. Your voice matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Sep 24

    Democrats Had These Voters the Whole Time

    Marcus is back from the Congressional Black Caucus Retreat in Washington, where the energy around the midterms was, in his words, uplifting. He met candidates from across the country, sat with Georgia state legislators, and caught a moment with Senator Warnock. The mood in the room: stoked, focused, and locked on affordability as the message that cuts through. Back on the show with Madeline, he translates that energy into actual numbers. The CNN independence polling is striking — Trump was plus 15 with independents right before his reelection. Now he's minus 71. That's an 86-point swing, and even if you discount it heavily, the math still points toward a wave. Marcus is thinking an eight to ten seat House majority. One member he spoke with is thinking closer to 30. The Senate is where Marcus stays cautiously optimistic — with one specific nightmare scenario involving John Fetterman and a 51-seat majority that immediately stops being a majority. They're going to need a cushion. Then there's Georgia. Rick Jackson has spent $83 million and is still within the margin of error against Keisha Lance Bottoms. He's about to spend another $87 million. If you're not running away with it at that spend level, Madeline says, earned media is a thing and it costs zero dollars. Marcus has been making up Rick Jackson attack ads in his head for fun, riffs on The Pit and the hospital staffing crisis Jackson has profited from, and gives a shoutout to Marcus Farrell — Marcus for America — whose AI cartoon content has been quietly doing real damage to the Jackson campaign. The episode closes on a point that both Marcus and Madeline keep coming back to: if Trump voters are switching to Democrats in November, it means they were always reachable. They were never gone. Democrats just stopped talking to them the right way. Marcus Flowers and Madeline Summerville confront the chaos, hypocrisy, and misinformation plaguing our country while amplifying the voices of tomorrow’s leaders. This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a call to action.  Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to join the fight for truth and accountability. Your voice matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. Sep 17

    Joe Walsh on Democratic Weakness, Principled Apostasy, and Why Ideas Don't Die

    Former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh joins Madeline Somerville while Marcus Flowers is at the Congressional Black Caucus in D.C. — and the two waste exactly zero time getting into it. Walsh breaks down what Democrats must do the moment they take back the House, why he has deep doubts they'll actually do it, and what Republican insiders used to say about Democratic weakness behind closed doors. Then the conversation takes a turn: Walsh and Madeline disagree directly and substantively about Israel — and model exactly the kind of exchange they've both been arguing American political culture needs more of. Plus: what it cost Walsh, Kinzinger, and a handful of others to say no to Trump; why Democrats surrendered the flag to Republicans without a fight; and the one thing Walsh wishes his former party had never figured out how to do to the left. Marcus Flowers and Madeline Summerville confront the chaos, hypocrisy, and misinformation plaguing our country while amplifying the voices of tomorrow’s leaders. This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a call to action.  Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to join the fight for truth and accountability. Your voice matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Sep 14

    Rewriting History, Trump's 9/11 Story and What Giuliani Suppressed

    Marcus and Madeline open on two stories sitting side by side that tell you everything about what this administration believes. The DHS official X account tweeted at Haitian doctors, lawyers, scholars, and engineers suggesting they'd be better off taking $3,000 and a flight back to Haiti — this, while the same administration is fast-tracking refugee status and government benefits for white South Africans, some of whom left because the benefits weren't generous enough. Marcus connects it to the physician shortage crisis. Madeline says she's writing the article. Then: the Pentagon quietly rewriting its military history curricula to replace accurate accounts with Lost Cause mythology and more "sympathetic language" about Confederate soldiers. Marcus knows exactly what that's about. So does Madeline. And then Trump's 9/11 story — which keeps changing. The version circulating this week has firefighters physically lifting him off the ground and carrying him from the rubble before a building came down on him. Marcus was in Germany on September 11th, on an airbase ramp, and heard Trump on the radio that same week talking about how the towers coming down meant he now had the tallest building in Manhattan. He remembers exactly what kind of man was in front of that microphone. Marcus Flowers and Madeline Summerville confront the chaos, hypocrisy, and misinformation plaguing our country while amplifying the voices of tomorrow’s leaders. This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a call to action.  Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to join the fight for truth and accountability. Your voice matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  8. Sep 10

    Danielle Butterfield with Priorities USA on Winning the Digital Game

    Marcus and Madeline sit down with Danielle Butterfield, President and Executive Director of Priorities USA — the Democratic super PAC founded in response to Citizens United that has spent the last decade becoming one of the most sophisticated digital voter outreach operations in American politics. Find Priorities USA at priorities.org. Marcus Flowers and Madeline Summerville confront the chaos, hypocrisy, and misinformation plaguing our country while amplifying the voices of tomorrow’s leaders. This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a call to action.  Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to join the fight for truth and accountability. Your voice matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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With All Due Respect... for Americans who refuse to surrender the country we love to two-bit tyrants and wannabe dictators. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Marcus Flowers / Madeline Summerville
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    105
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Marcus Flowers
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