'Screams his freaking head off!' MSNBC's Rachel Maddow floored by Dem's searing takedown

The epic fist-pounding rant unleashed by Rep. John Larson (D-CT) left MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow celebrating the explosive takedown of DOGE head Elon Musk’s efforts to dismantle Social Security – and the surprising result.

Maddow devoted the opening minutes of her primetime show on Wednesday to the top Democrat’s outrage over Musk’s absence during a committee hearing where Larson, the ranking member of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, shouted and pounded his fist.

He expressed outrage over what he sees as the tech billionaire’s plans to privatize Social Security.

“Veteran Democratic Congressman John Larson of Connecticut just ripping the bark off today about Social Security and what Republicans are really doing here,” Maddow said. “And indeed, as he was ripping that bark off in Congress, look at what the Washington Post was posting just down the road.”

She told viewers that a Post report later Wednesday revealed that Social Security was weighing “a proposal to end telephone service for claims processing.”

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“This is what they're doing,” she proclaimed. “This is what's going on,” she added as she highlighted the timeline of the day’s events.

“Congressman John Larson, who I just showed you, screams his freaking head off in Congress about it this morning – screams at them – and then at noon, the Washington Post publishes this horror movie script about their plan, indeed, to rip the guts out of Social Security beyond firing everybody – which they're already doing – right, beyond closing the field offices. They're now making it so that old and disabled people literally cannot call anyone to find out what's going on.”

But Maddow added: “They caved. “They decided not to do it.”

The result left Maddow with two messages: “Don’t let anybody tell you that pushback doesn't work. Don’t let anybody tell you that yelling and making a fuss doesn't matter, or that journalism doesn't matter.”

And, she added, about Larson, “May I suggest you get out of his way?”

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