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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
latest attempt to push our experts, federal workers and others out and replace them with political hacks. This is Jerry Connolly's statement from the Oversight Committee. Donald Trump is trying every trick he and his Project 2025 cronies can think of to circumvent established civil service protections so they can purge the civil service of experts and replace them with political loyalists.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
The victims here, as is always the case with Donald Trump, are the American people who will see government services and benefits allocated not by nonpartisan civil servants, but by partisan hacks. But more... over, Donald Trump is also, I think, trying to con and fraud the federal workers. You signed your resignation. You think you're going to get the money from Donald Trump and Elon Musk?
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Or do you think you're going to get the old bait and switch? Democratic Senator Tim Kaine gave a powerful speech earlier where he said the buyout idea is another Trump scam. Quote, he's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept the offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed other contractors.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Folks, if you have friends, family, or you, or you know people who work at the federal government, make sure they know that this is likely yet another Trump and Musk scam. Don't be fooled. Here is Senator Tim Kaine on the Senate floor making this impassioned case. Let's play it.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Here, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, she goes, Trump is offering a fake buyout to federal workers with no guarantee he won't screw them the minute they accept and then replace them with unqualified, inexperienced loyalists the second they leave. This is straight from the pages of Project 2025.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Want to share this with you because Democrats going on the offense and calling Donald Trump out. Here's Governor Tim Walz. This is his interview he gave recently on MSNBC. Here's what he had to say about the Trump roligarch. Play this clip.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
You know, when I watch that clip, I get a little frustrated because that's the governor walls. that Vice President Kamala Harris picked. And he seemed to be holding back or the advisors were holding him back during the campaign. He came out so strong. He was calling Trump and J.D. Vance weird. And then I guess they were saying, don't say that. I thought that was powerful as could be.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Speaking of powerful as can be, Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman, here he talks about how Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are basically allowing Trump to impound all of legislatively prescribed funds that are out there going to all of these people who need it. All of these federal programs Trump is not allowing to reach.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
its final recipients, people who rely on this for life or death matters here, watch this.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
So Donald Trump and Elon Musk just offered a fake buyout to all federal employees saying that if they resign before February 6th, they are going to get paid all of their salary through September of 2025. Well, Congress hasn't appropriated that money. There's no authority to do it. And it's likely another bait and switch by Donald Trump, which he did to stiff contractors his entire career.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
I think Senator Tim Kaine makes a great point here as well on MSNBC where he says, look, if you want to make cuts to the budget, then pass a law. You control the House, you control the Senate. Don't do it unlawfully via impoundment. If you want to do this, go through the process. That's what laws are for.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Laws are on the books that allow, that require, that mandate these funds, these government funds go to their destination. You can't just be like, no, that's called being a dictator on day one. Here's what Tim Kaine has to say playing this clip.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
But if you want to know what they're talking about on Fox, the WMD, the weapon of mass distraction, What are they trying to do here? Know their playbook, folks. They're talking about, oh, Trump's going to do an Iron Dome in case Russia nukes us. Iron Dome. I thought Donald Trump had great relations with Putin.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
I thought him and Putin were buddies in that the war in Ukraine was going to end on day one. I thought Trump promised us peace. In 24 hours after the election, oh, that failed. 24 hours after the inauguration, that failed. And now you're saying that we need an iron dome to protect against nuclear weapons in the United States from Putin, who's Trump's buddy?
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
What in the world are y'all talking about? You can't even get your WMDs, your weapons of mass distraction, out. consistent at all. And now your WMDs are actual WMDs, weapons of mass destruction. You're running that playbook right now? That's the playbook you're running to try to distract us? Isn't it so obvious, folks?
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
That's just what Donald Trump does. Democrats are forcefully calling Donald Trump and Elon Musk out for this scam. You have the Democratic Oversight Committee saying the following, there's a fork in the road, all right, and Trump, Musk, and their Project 2025 cronies are going down the wrong path again. Read Jerry Connolly's statement on the Trump administration's
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Like Lucinda, who goes, you are betraying your followers, Donald Trump. You are betraying us. I'm an elderly woman and you're taking away food stamps. You're taking away all of these programs for children. Who are you? You're letting us down and we put you there. How about this person who goes, A week in and now my Medicaid portal is shut down in my state. I voted for him too, but Jesus.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
This next person goes, the bank just called and told me that my USDA rural development loan that I was approved for is now canceled. Apparently, Trump has frozen all federal loans and grants. We were supposed to start construction on February 1st. I voted for him to bring down grocery prices, not this.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Well, I guess if you consider that a lot of groceries are no longer even making it to the grocery store, perhaps that's how you could say he's bringing it down the same way. I guess he brought down toilet paper during his first administration because bye-bye, there was no toilet paper and there were mass casualty events. Do y'all remember what happened in Trump administration?
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
One with mobile morgues, he said like a miracle. All of this COVID is just going to go away. Just inject yourself with bleach. Do you have collective amnesia, Trump voters? You know that men in black wand that they used to have and they would just erase their memory? Is that what's going on here at all? Okay, let me pull out some receipts, then I'll share more stories.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
So this is Elon Musk right here, who's basically as... top of the food chain of Trump. He's almost a co-president at this point. So during the election, he was saying what his plans were. He said that he needs to inflict temporary hardship. He said, we need to inflict immediate hardship on people, let them suffer, and then we can build after the people are suffering. This is his words.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Okay, so you have Elon saying that. And now, as we share more F around and find out stories, yesterday, we also learned that Donald, and this one pains me because I stand in solidarity with unions worldwide. with Teamsters brothers and sisters, with other union members. So this one hits me hard.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
I don't take delight in reporting on this, but Teamsters, you know your president, Sean O'Brien, what he did. He ran to Mar-a-Lago with that thumbs up and he spoke at the RNC and he was telling y'all and everybody, Trump's gonna be great for labor. I was like, Trump's going to be great for labor. What are you talking about? His whole life was ripping off labor and screwing people.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
That's literally Trump's entire MO. Screwing labor, hating unions. Well, surprise, surprise. What happened on Tuesday? The National Labor Relations Board's powerful, well-respected general counsel, Abruzzo, she got fired by Trump.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
unlawfully I might add also Donald Trump ousted NLRB member Gwen Wilcox unlawfully they fired her despite the law forbidding firing board members absent neglect or malfeasance and the reason they fired her by the way she was the first black female member of the NLRB Now the NLRB is deadlocked for the entire term, so the unions can't advocate for even the formation of unions.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
The union busters love this and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump's broligarcs, the people who were invited to the inauguration, who sat even in front of the cabinet, they've been trying to destroy the NLRB. So to all of the Teamsters, your president, Sean O'Brien, who was out there palling around with Trump, what's he saying about the fact that Trump just gutted the NLRB? And by the way,
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Here's the audio of Donald Trump and Elon Musk laughing about firing striking union workers. This existed before the election. We were sharing this clip. Play it.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
But, you know, if you look at Arjun... And by the way, Elon Musk, who's basically running the government now, we know that Elon Musk has planted his lawyers and his team to run... OMB's back end, the Office of Management and Budget. And they're out there, you know, I think my opinion is scamming people in the federal government saying, if you resign now, we're gonna pay you X amount of dollars.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
If you resign now, we'll give you a buyout. Trump doesn't do buyouts. Trump is a con artist. He is a felon. He is a adjudicated fraud. He was found liable for fraud. You're gonna trust this guy? Anyway, here's Elon Musk out there saying, that he doesn't even believe in the concepts of unions because he says unions are the lords and the workers who are members of the unions are peasants.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Think about the gaslighting and the lies, talking about a lord v. peasant dynamic. That's the Broligarchs and the rest of us. The lords are Elon Musk, the Bezoses, the Zuckerbergs, that whole crew, and then the peasants is everybody else, and now they gutted union protection.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
We're hearing from all of these Trump supporters and Trump voters who are now like, Donald, you're betraying us. We depended on federal aid and now you did this federal aid across the board freeze and now we can't get the services that are keeping us alive. How could you do this to us?
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Let's just take a look as well at some of this other data that's out there. This person, I'm a facility director for a collection of churches who supported Trump, currently have about a million dollars in projects between all of the churches through federal grants. We can't pay these bills if the money doesn't come in.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
We were offered this money by the federal government for various safety upgrades and maintenance. Most of the grants are reimbursement loans. Parishioners are already texting and calling scared. I don't feel good. This person goes, my parents are conservative and own a business whose sole purpose is writing federal grants. Their entire income is now completely gone because of Donald Trump.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
This person goes, what the hell? While I agree we need to cut down on federal spending, this will immediately harm food banks, suicide hotlines, farms, and dozens of other things that are essential to this country. There's really no good way to defend Trump's federal government freeze. Even if you say we should cut back on government funding,
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Cutting things cold turkey like this with everything is absolutely ridiculous. Even Louisiana's far, far right. Governor Jeff Landry says we need to have clarity as to the depth. He says he goes that he's concerned that Trump's actions, quote, jeopardize financial stability.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
You think it jeopardizes financial stability when Trump's order looks like it is freezing federal loan and grant programs like SNAP and TANF and WIC and federal student loans and more. But folks, Folks, guess what MAGA's doing? They're doing cosplay. You've got your puppy-killing Homeland Security director, Kristi Noem, dressed up like an ICE officer doing the arrests herself with Dr. Phil.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Here, watch this. You're in New York City this morning. We are getting the dirt bags off you. Don't worry, also the zero-star general, the zero of a person, Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, he announced his first action will be revoking General Mark Milley, a four-star general security clearance, and investigating Milley to potentially take away one of Milley's stars.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
So Hegseth, who has zero stars, gonna take away a decorated military veteran's stars. and harm his retirement and take away his security detail because that's how Donald Trump treats the troops like absolute crap. And it absolutely crapped on the troops by putting Hegseth there.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
And by the way, the veteran suicide hotline gets funded with these grants that have now resulted in the veteran suicide hotline being taken down and so many programs that fund veterans being cut because of this. And by the way, you think about some, you know, no one's even talking about this.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
I'm going to share some of this F around and find out content, also known as leopards eating my face or your face content. But I come with receipts as well. What I want to share with you is the type of coverage we had warning you about what was going to happen. So let's take out the receipts and let's also share some of these stories. First, let me share some of these stories.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
A lot of our aid, you know, helps like kids with AIDS, kids with HIV, people even abroad that have AIDS and HIV who are going to die. We're gonna die now because of this. It's literally killing people like he did in COVID, just killing people with this stuff. And so, yeah, you're effing around and you find out the leopards are eating your faces. You voted for that. We didn't. You voted for that.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
We didn't. And the people in the rest of the world who are going to be impacted, who are going to freaking die because of this or be seriously injured because of this and suffer because of this is because of all of you. So, yeah, it's an F around and find out you're finding out you're screwed up, but you screwed everybody's life in the process. And we warned you about this stuff. We warned you.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
And you were talking about transgender volleyball players. And that's what was getting you all angry. Your culture war issues. You wanted to bully marginalized communities. Shame on you for doing it. Seriously. Me saying shame on you isn't enough. Horrific. Wake the hell up. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
Here, Governor Walz says the following about MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer and the other MAGA Republican Congress members who are ceding their authority as members of Congress as a co-equal branch of government to allow Donald Trump to engage in what's called
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
And here's Minnesota Governor Walz one more time talking about how Donald Trump is the worst manager ever. Let's play the clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
There were other powerful statements by governors throughout the country as well. This is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. This is how it's done. He looks at the camera and he says, Donald Trump's administration is lying to you. Here are the facts. Here's what happened. Here, play this clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
Here's Governor Walz, Governor Pritzker rather, once again slamming the Trump administration for the federal funding crisis. Let's play it.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
While all of that was going on, you had the MAGA Republicans in Donald Trump's cabinet doing cosplay. This is now the Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, puppy killer Kristi Noem. Here she is dressed up in her cosplay gear saying she's going after the bad guys herself after being sworn in. Here, play this clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
And folks, it should also be noted that Donald Trump has tasked Dr. Phil. Yes, the washed up television personality, Dr. Phil, who nobody likes anymore, apparently other than MAGA. He's doing a TV show about the bloody mass deportations. Now, when Donald Trump's press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, was asked about
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
That's Minnesota Governor Tim Walz laying the smack down to Donald Trump. after Donald Trump issued a federal spending freeze, basically stopping all federal spending to key government programs, sending our country into chaos yesterday. Civil rights groups had to rush into court, federal court in Washington, D.C., to block Donald Trump's spending freeze temporarily.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
And again, it should be noted that what transpired is blatantly illegal. Impoundment, Trump impounding stealing, he knows a lot about stealing Donald Trump, stealing funds for himself and seizing it, entirely unlawful, it is dictatorial. And the fact that MAGA Republicans in Congress are okay with it tells you all you need to know about how weak and pathetic they are.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
I'll show you this one more clip right here of Caroline Leavitt. Here she is when she was asked, so what about Medicaid? Because the Medicaid portals in all of the states were shut down right after the Office of Management and Budget, controlled by Trump, issued the edict to shut it down. So what's going on with that Caroline Leavitt? Here's what she had. She goes, I don't really know.
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I don't really know. Here, play this clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
By the way, you have Democratic senators speaking up as well. Here's Senator Patty Murray. Here's what she has to say from the great state of Washington. Play this clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
And by the way, these cuts affect all of the departments and agencies, whether it's the Department of Education, whether it's the Department of Agriculture, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Labor, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
The EPA, Department of Veterans Affairs, for example, the Suicide Crisis Line shutdown, Department of Commerce, Department of Interior, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Small Business Administration, National Endowment for the Arts, Department of Health and Human Services, all of these programs, let's think of like our shutdown, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, for example.
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um hiv aids program maternal and child health care services lunches for kids in school defense education outreach national guard and reserve equipment grants creative writing and arts education grants indian housing block grants education and human resource directorate grants veteran housing assistance
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public works, environmental justice small grants program, superfund remedial programs, fire prevention and safety, port security, victims of crime act, juvenile justice and delinquency prevention grants, energy efficiency and conservation block grants, low income energy assistant grants, shut down because of the federal spending freeze by Donald Trump, who wants to torture the people.
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which a judge granted there will be another hearing next Monday. Let's go back to what Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had to say, and he was not holding back. Here, Governor Tim Walz talks about how Trump threw our country into a crisis while he was out golfing. Play the clip.
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Let's just call it what it is. He wants people to feel pain to help the billionaires. That's it. That's the game. We don't have to overcomplicate what this is. He hates Americans, unless you're a billionaire. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Also, we are learning from the French foreign minister that he spoke with other European Union leaders as well, and other European Union leaders And ministers of defense also talked about deploying their troops into Greenland to make sure they have Denmark's back, which is part of the European Union. So Donald Trump threatening our NATO allies, our NATO allies now responding to Donald Trump.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
This follows the prime minister of Denmark, Meta Frederiksen, having a meeting with European leaders this week. Here's an article about that. Danish Prime Minister Meta Fredriksen says the country has received substantial support from fellow European nations as she seeks support to counter the United States President Donald Trump's threats to take control of Russia. Greenland.
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Fredrickson visited three European capitals on Tuesday, meeting French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, she says. I want to play this for you right now. This is the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barotte. Here he is talking about how if the sovereignty of Denmark and Greenland is threatened, France will step up.
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Here, let's play the clip, and I'll just note this is in French, so we did an AI voice to translate what he was saying into English for our English viewers.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Now let me show you Denmark Prime Minister Meta Fredriksen. Here's what she said after meeting with European leaders. She called for, quote, a stronger and more resolute Europe against the United States, which is now threatening to attack the sovereignty of Europe. Let's play it right now.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
And so all I can say to you is that we here at the Midas Touch Network stand in solidarity with you. We do not support the actions of Donald Trump and his threats. I want to share with you this video right here. This is of President Zelensky. This was back on November 19th of 2024. So this was after Trump's election.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
And here Zelensky is talking about what a great ally Denmark has been to Ukraine, how grateful Ukraine is to Meta Fredrickson. Let's play the clip right here. Let's play it. And Zelensky says, a thousand days of full-scale war is a very difficult path and we are enduring it because we have friends like Denmark by our side and leaders like Prime Minister Meta Fredriksson.
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Share this with you as well. You can just see how the people of Denmark now absolutely just despise Donald Trump. What a grotesque character he is. He is, I know the people of Denmark, we have a strong connection with the pro-democracy Americans here and so this is so difficult for us, you know, to have someone like Donald Trump doing this here.
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A bakery in Denmark starts selling bright orange Donald Trump
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moron cakes right now quote Denmark should send a box of these cakes to Trump so they're selling moron cakes of Donald Trump in Denmark I think by the way that is a brilliant idea and by the way I agree with you that he's absolutely a a moron but folks things are escalating quick we previously reported again that Denmark had invested another two billion dollars into its military capabilities in
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Greenland, I'll play this for you right now. Again, preparing for a possible American invasion. I mean, that's where we're at right now. And by the way, I'll show you two clips right now. One clip I wanna show you is of this MAGA Republican Congress member. who's out there. And this is how they talk right now in the United States.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
It's crazy for me to see saying that America is an apex predator and we have to conquer others. We need to be predators is what these MAGA Republicans sing. Play the clip.
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Now, let me show you this clip of people in Greenland when Fox showed up and they were, I guess, surprised that the people of Greenland did not want to be attacked by nations that call themselves apex predators like the United States. Surprise, surprise. Here, play this clip.
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Well, that's where we are folks right now. We will keep you posted as we learn more here on the Midas Touch Network. Now hit subscribe, help us get to 4 million subscribers. We're getting there pretty quick. Please subscribe right now. And thank you to all of our international viewers as well. This is an international struggle. And we here at the Midas Touch Network, we're in it with you.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Relations between the United States and Europe are absolutely falling apart and falling apart quick. We are now learning that France is prepared to send troops into Greenland, which is part of the kingdom of Denmark, in order to protect against a possible invasion by the United States, which is what Donald Trump has threatened.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Donald Trump is playing with toy planes in his office, the Oval Office right there. Take a look, though, at that mirror behind you. Zoom in right there. That's real. That's Elon Musk right there watching Donald Trump play with toy planes as Musk is really running the show and just destroying our government.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I want to show you this, Congress member. There was a press conference held earlier in the day with Caroline Leavitt, the press secretary. She was asked a question about who is the Doge administrator? Is it is it Elon Musk? Who's who's running this thing that's inflicting so much pain on the American people? And they just they just gaslight. I want you to watch this.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
We just learned this as well, that Doge quietly has deleted its purported five biggest spending cuts that it was celebrating, or perhaps the headline should be lying about last week. So those are now removed from the site.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I'm not going to reveal it. We've been incredibly transparent. I mean, this is...
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Well, I think you're also seeing independents, Republicans, people who are not political also rising up. I mean, this is touching everybody in some way, whether your 401k is down right now, whether you've lost your job, whether a friend or someone you know.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
has lost their job and is worried about being homeless, whether you're on Medicaid and you're about to lose your Medicaid because of this GOP budget scam that's gonna help the billionaires, whether you have essential services that you rely on, whether the Department of Education was actually providing you services. It's like everyone's been touched, it seems, already in such a destructive way.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
And here's what we're learning about as well, about 20 to 21 people who worked within the United States Digital Service Office, an office established during the Obama era that's supposed to help with all of the technology and the data. and all of that, they're resigning. They're saying the reason for their resignation is because that they're unable to basically perform their functions.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I'm seeing these Republican town halls even where Republican constituents are standing up and saying, what the hell is going on here now? Are you seeing the word vibe shift is the right way, but are we reading too much into these Republican town halls or is something happening now that that feels and looks and is different?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
You know, let's talk about the attack on you by the Department of Justice, which is what now referring to itself as Donald Trump's personal lawyers. I mean, that guy, the United States attorney from the District of Columbia, who had no federal prosecutorial experience ever before getting this position. He represent the January Sixers. He called them heroes.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
That's what he was known for before getting this very distinguished position. I mean, the United States attorney for D.C. is like the The people who are usually the most experienced federal prosecutors of the most elite, and they give it to this guy. But he came after you.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
He wrote a letter saying that he was basically criminally investigating you because you utilized your free speech rights to criticize the Trump administration. And then he's out there saying as president, this is what Martin writes, as Trump's personal lawyers. He goes on and talks about how he's Trump's as Trump's lawyers. We're proud to do this. We're proud to do that.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Talk to us about these attacks on you. You know what that letter was to you, what what your response is going to be. Is there any information that hasn't been reported? I mean, are they are they what's the status of that investigation? Tell us what do we know?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Maybe if you can, we know that a lot of the MAGAs watch this. Musk may be watching this now. Would you direct a message? A lot of the constituents are saying, Why isn't Musk testifying before Congress? Why isn't he showing up before oversight or any of these hearings?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
So if he was watching this now, what would your message be about testifying before the House and letting the American people know what the hell he and Mr. Big Balls and his crew of 19 to 25-year-olds are doing?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the constitution across presidential administrations. And we are basically being asked to violate our oath of office by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. So they resigned. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member, Robert Garcia.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Congressman Garcia, please join us again. At this point, it doesn't feel like, at least amongst the American people, as a Democrat, Republican, independent thing. It really feels like a bunch of tech billionaires are running the show. Literally, you saw that first photo I showed you with Musk in the background, like pulling the strings as Trump's playing with like a toy.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
you know and they're like just screwing the people and people like what that what the hell is this like this isn't what i learned about in government class this isn't checks and balances this is some idiocracy authoritarian crap anyway thanks for thanks if you want to say anything else i'll i'll let you get the final word no just thanks for keep reporting the story we gotta we gotta continue to expose you on musk and uh you know turn this around so thanks everybody hit subscribe let's get to five million subscribers and thanks for watching
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
You know, we saw mass resignations, I think, last week or the week before at the Department of Justice, both at SDNY as well as Maine Justice. We're seeing more mass resignations here. These are important people as well because they kind of hold the infrastructure together across presidential administrations. Just what are you making of all of this, the chaos, the cruelty?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi. Congressman, what do you make of that?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
So Congress member Swazi, you're from New York's third congressional district. That's actually the area where I grew up in. That's in your district. I know that area very well.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
sounds good my my mom will love to uh would love to hear that i think she's still living in the district as well so my question for you though is uh people on long island people in your congressional district and across the country do they like that elon musk and these 19 to 25 year old doge workers who call themselves big balls are going through their tax records and their social security information and their medical records what do
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
you hearing from your constituents, Democrats and Republicans?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
So this budget that's providing massive tax cuts for the billionaires, cutting $880 billion in Medicaid, it's unclear what's going to happen. The MAGA Republicans, some of them are very outspoken even against this. You've got Republican Congressmember Thomas Massey.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Yeah, I think chaotic, irresponsible, and I think to your other point, just cruel, like just treating human beings like trash. And a lot of these people who work in these government departments are veterans, disabled veterans.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Now, Musk is what refusing to testify and or the a lot of the Republicans are blocking every single time oversight tries to issue a subpoena or the Doge subcommittee issues a subpoena. The Republicans are at leadership are blocking even the debate about whether Musk should have to show up. I mean, when I've been following a lot of these town halls and Ruby Redd,
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
moments ago saying that this is going to increase the deficit by at least $328 billion just this year if you take the best case scenario that's part of the Republican talking points. This is what Republican Congressmember Massey just said moments ago on C-SPAN. Play it.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Republican areas, the Republican constituents, they're just also saying, in addition to being pissed that Medicaid's being gutted, their services are being taken away, infrastructure projects are being dismantled. They're just saying, why not just do your job? You're a member of Congress. Oversight. Bring Musk in and ask him the questions, or what are you trying to hide from us?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
You know, I got to ask you as well, 3rd Congressional District, like all the other congressional districts out there, but I know growing up there, how proud, patriotic the 3rd is, supporting our veterans, supporting our armed forces. So yesterday, when we saw the Trump administration side with North Korea, Russia, Belarus, and Hungary, bringing the United States as part of an access available
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
to vote against a United Nations resolution that simply condemned Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine on the third anniversary. To me, it felt like a gut punch. What do you make of it? And what are your constituents feeling?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Congressman Tom Swasey, as always, thanks for making me look good in front of my mom and your congressional district. I appreciate it.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
Also, this whole inauguration was like probably the weakest, most pathetic and humiliating inauguration in history, not just from the perspective of these very low, small, teeny tiny ratings, Donald, but also Donald Trump blamed cold weather as the reason why he was bringing the inauguration from outside, inside, into the rotunda. Guess what, Donald?
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When President Obama had millions of people show up for his inauguration after the 2008 election, it was basically the same exact By the way, when John F. Kennedy was inaugurated in 1961, the weather was much colder, significantly colder than it was on Trump's inauguration.
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So Trump had it inside the rotunda where he gave this really bizarre unhinged speech where he talked about attacking Panama and he talked about all of this weird stuff, never mentioned bringing prices down, never mentioned healthcare. And then we saw all of the oligarchs and their spouses because they were allowed to bring their spouses. Others weren't allowed to bring their spouses.
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The billionaire tech broligarchs were all sitting right there and they were making like weird, like tweaking face stuff. It was so bizarre to see Bezos' face and Musk's face. And then Bezos' wife showed up and she was like basically wearing an open blouse and just like exposing her chest with a bra. And then... Zuckerberg was like looking at her chest. The whole thing was so bizarre.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
This is Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Some of the worst inauguration ratings in history. We're getting these numbers now. Not only were his ratings terrible, President Biden's inauguration ratings were terrible.
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It shows that these people may have billions of dollars, but they are classless. They are clearly yearning for attention. And it's just so utterly powerless as they're there as props, as stooges for Donald Trump's utterly pathetic speech. What I want to talk about as well, though, is that a lot is very teeny tiny for Donald Trump.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
I mean, he also had some of the lowest inauguration approval ratings like ever. This is supposed to be the honeymoon period. And for Donald Trump, America already wants a divorce, and a lot of America actually wants a restraining order against Donald already, just based on him being a little bit facetious, or maybe not, based on how he's handled things.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
So this APNORC poll basically said that Donald Trump's favorability leading up to the inauguration was only 41%. In contrast, President Biden's was like 67 to 72. Obama was in the high 70s. Clinton, George W. Bush, the low to mid 70s. This is supposed to be a time where the nation unites if someone's elected to the presidency, regardless of what political party they're from, but not Donald.
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And folks, Put your foot on the gas right now to expose this fool, to expose this corrupt administration. Now's the time to put your foot on the gas and expose him. I mean, take a look at some of these other numbers. When it comes to Donald Trump pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists, the violent insurrectionists
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Those convicted of seditious conspiracy, only about 15 to 20% of Americans from the APNORC poll ever favored that. About 80% to varying degrees did not approve of pardoning violent, seditious individuals who engaged in terroristic behavior and tried to kill cops. Americans hate that. As you go through other polling data, this is a Wall Street Journal poll. I mean, they're right-leaning.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
76% of voters reject Donald Trump's unconstitutional push to seize Congress's power of the purse for himself. Americans actually believe in checks and balances. Also, more than two-thirds of Americans oppose using economic coercion or military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
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Two-thirds of them, all from, this is from the Wall Street Journal poll, two-thirds of Americans oppose annexing Canada and making it a 51st state. More than half of Americans say, what in the world are you doing with this Elon Musk who you're giving an office in the West Wing? Take a look at this.
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Only 17% of Americans approved of Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense's sister-in-law came out with a declaration saying what a horrific human being he is. Here's a guy. who never led any military command before. He's never led a large organization. The nonprofits he was leading, he was pushed out of.
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Working for nonprofits that you were pushed out of for behavioral issues, that doesn't give you the qualifications to lead the Defense Department and have access to the nuclear complex. I mean, I just want you to think about this and then his personal behavior, but this is who Donald Trump is rallying behind.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
Also the Congress, Republican Congress, it's a disapproval rating is over 75% right now. I mean, some really bad statistics and it's only gonna get worse from Donald Trump. I mean, this weird, he had the new village people, not even the original village people, doing the weird dance. You have Melania wearing the Pizza Hut hat and selling meme coins and Donald Trump selling meme coins.
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You got Elon Musk raising his hand and doing this. You've got Trump taking down the Spanish version of the White House webpage. In addition to pardoning the insurrectionists, you also had Donald Trump engage in Other very, very serious pardons as well, pardoning individuals who were convicted of aiding and abetting sex trafficking and engaged in just horrific behavior.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
And he said because the libertarians wanted him to do it. You've got Donald Trump saying that birthright citizenship in the United States should not exist, even though it is ensconced in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Donald Trump
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failing to get peace into ukraine in 24 hours as he promised he promised peace in ukraine in 24 hours and get this this is this is true what donald trump said in his first press conference is he was delegating he said he told xi jinping to negotiate the peace in ukraine Xi Jinping, who's forming an alliance with Putin to destroy America.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
Donald Trump now says he wants Xi Jinping to negotiate peace in Ukraine. How utterly pathetic can you be? But Donald, those ratings, some of the worst ratings ever. And I think Mediaite just did a remarkable story calling it out. And by the way, lots of people weren't even watching corporate media. A puppy inauguration, the kitten inauguration right here on the Midas Touch YouTube channel.
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Thanks to you, we raised $90,000, approximately $90,000 for the Humane Society. And I spent the four hours of the time, the inauguration talking about puppies, kittens, goats in coats, stampedes of guinea pigs, otters wrestling. That's what we were doing. I hope you enjoyed. I thought it was fun to watch the puppy and kitten inauguration, but maybe, I don't know, that's my sense of humor.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
But sorry, Donald, you're off to a pathetic start with the lowest ratings ever. President Biden kicked your you-know-what in the ratings. millions of more views than you, and then you continue to do things that are just gonna make you more and more unpopular as Americans see your chaos, your sicko behavior, all your deranged social media posts. But what about the lower prices?
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You wanna talk about the Gulf of Mexico being the Gulf of America? How about the Gulf of lower prices, lower egg prices? Well, prices are up, egg prices are up, housing's not more affordable. And Donald Trump goes, I don't think Americans really care about inflation. He goes, I think they care about the mental institutions and people coming in from the mental institutions. Get this, Donald.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
Border crossings were down under President Biden to the levels where it was when it was at your lowest in April of 2020 during COVID, which was low for you because of COVID, President Biden brought the border crossings down, but everything Biden did, the MAGA Republicans would blame on him.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
There was not a single crisis, a single natural disaster that they wouldn't blame on Biden when it was Trump's fault. But guess what? Now you're in charge. And the American people hate you. They didn't even tune in for the inauguration. Worst inauguration ever for, I think, the worst term in a presidency ever. Utterly pathetic, Donald. Utterly pathetic. Everybody, hit subscribe here.
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Remember where we had those really small crowd sizes and his press team tried to act like this was the largest inauguration in history. you had lower ratings than that, Donald, and President Biden beat you.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
well. So you said that there would be peace in 24 hours. So what about that? To which Donald Trump continues to lie and defraud the American people. The ultimate rug puller is Donald Trump. This is what he said yesterday. He goes, well, this has only been a half day. I still have one more half day to do it. Well, the half day has passed now and you have not done it. How utterly pathetic.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
So what does he do? He sends his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to go on CBS, which tries to act like it's just a straight down the line media network. And so then they want to inject disinformation. So watch what Marco Rubio, Secretary of State Rubio, says when he's asked about the promise that there would be peace in 24 hours. Rubio says, oh, no, no. Trump kept the promise.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
What Trump said he was going to do is simply say that it is official U.S. policy to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. And he said he wants that. So therefore, he kept his promise. The ultimate rug down. Polar folks, this is Rubio.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
And folks, you may remember the clip I showed of Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, about a week and a half, two weeks ago, where we were reporting here on the Midas Dutch Network. Look, They are telling you that this promise will be broken.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's special envoy, said that they would need at least 100 days, so not 24 hours, 2400 hours to develop a framework. to discuss potential peace and ceasefire in Ukraine. Well, that's not what Donald Trump said, but watch Donald Trump's special envoy, Keith Kellogg, walk back Donald Trump's promises, or should I say, admit that it was a lie.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
Fortunately, former President Biden was prepared for this. So one of the things that President Biden did before leaving is try to give as much aid to Ukraine as possible so it could be as best funded as it could possibly be in 2025. Also, the United States transferred leadership over Ukraine initiatives away from the United States over to NATO because we realize that if
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Trump and our military was leading it, that would be an absolute disaster. So here is the chairman of the NATO military committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, explaining that NATO is now assuming responsibility for coordinating military aid to Ukraine.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
And some of the mechanisms previously that were being organized by the United States have been transferred over to NATO and Europe because President Biden rightfully knew that Donald Trump would be a complete and utter disaster. And he was trying to proof this, stop this, protect this from happening. So watch what the chairman of the NATO military, Admiral Rob Bauer, has to say.
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Here, play this clip.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
By the way, even a few weeks before that, one of the things President Biden did was transfer control to NATO of air defenses surrounding Russia, where the U.S. was in control of it in places like Poland. made sure that NATO would have control over that, which was an important move to try to trump proof assistance, not just to Ukraine, but to Eastern Europe as well.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
Now, if you want to see how our adversaries are maneuvering right now, Let's take a look at what happened yesterday. So at the exact moment that Donald Trump was inaugurated, President Xi Jinping declared a readiness to bring China and Russia ties to new heights in a call with Putin. So Trump's being inaugurated. Xi Jinping rejects Trump's offer to show up at Trump's inauguration.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
One of Donald Trump's biggest promises has officially been broken. Donald Trump said there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Frankly, he said after the election, there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. But if you want to say 24 hours after the inauguration, well, it's 24 hours after the inauguration. There's no peace in Ukraine.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
Xi Jinping then calls up Putin and here's what goes down. Just think about what's going on geopolitically here and the message that Xi Jinping and Putin are sending to Donald Trump. and other nations as well. Chinese President Xi Jinping declared readiness to lead China-Russian relations to a new height together with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
The Kremlin's press service reported on January 21st after a video call between the two leaders. By the way, timed to embarrass Trump. inauguration. The call took place shortly after the inauguration of Donald Trump.
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China has deepened its ties with Russia since the start of Kremlin's full scale war against Ukraine has become Moscow's leading source of dual use goods that feed the Russian defense industry. Beijing has nevertheless denied accusations of supporting Russia's military effort. In the call with Putin, Xi added that China is ready to stand with Russia
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to, quote, face external uncertainties based on maintaining the stability and stress resistance of China-Russia relations for the prosperity of the two countries, international justice, and equality. In other words, F you Donald Trump, but Trump is too stupid to realize the message and the maneuvering going on by our adversaries who smell Donald Trump's stench of weakness.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
The Chinese president stressed that bilateral cooperation between Beijing and Moscow is gradually expanding and that joint trade is trending upward. Putin in turn noted a 7% increase in trade between the two countries, which amounts to more than $220 billion. The Russian president also called China's Russia's leading trading partner. China is the largest consumer of Russian energy resources.
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We hold the first place in terms of oil exports to China. Five years ago, together with you, we launched the power of Siberia gas pipeline. And today, Russia has taken first place in natural gas supplies to China. So while Russia and China
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are making alliances and strengthening alliances across their borders, you have Donald Trump saying that on February 1st, there will be 25% tariffs placed on Canada and Mexico. Now, as I've reported before, during the G20 Summit in November, The Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum was not supposed to meet with Xi Jinping because of what Donald Trump was doing.
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President Claudia Scheinbaum met with President Xi Jinping and took photographs with Xi Jinping. Again, it's subtle or should not be all that subtle, but she was sending a message, perhaps Trump too stupid to recognize it, that if you push us, United States, this is the alliance that we're going to form as China builds out its Silk Road number two program.
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We will form alliances there as China and Russia are expanding the BRICS block while Donald Trump attacks our NATO allies. It should be noted as well that Donald Trump has put a 90-day moratorium on foreign military aid, which would impact Ukraine.
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We did this montage that I'm not going to play because I don't play Trump audio or video clips here on the Midas Touch Network during my videos, but I have about 15 different clips of Donald Trump promising during his campaign that he would bring peace to Ukraine.
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However, President Biden did try to get as much aid to Ukraine as possible to ensure that when Trump would make maneuvers, it wouldn't sting Ukraine right away. It was called the re-evaluating and realigning United States foreign aid executive order right there. But that's what's going on geopolitically, okay?
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So I want you to think, if Trump does impose these tariffs on Canada and China, which I expect he'll do, I want you to think about will, sorry, on Mexico and Canada, but he's also gonna impose tariffs on China and Europe. Think about the alliances that are going to be formed to isolate the United States. There you have it. Hit subscribe.
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Let's get to 4 million and let's stay focused on Trump's promises broken. These aren't minor promises. These were central to his campaign. Lies, lies, lies. But what would you expect with a liar in chief?
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In 24 hours, he said he would go to Zelensky and he said, Zelensky, I would say this and I'd go to Putin and I would say this and I'm such a good dealmaker that there would be peace immediately. There would be so much peace. You're not even going to want all of that peace because there'll be so much peace. Well, that is a promise broken. Yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump was asked to
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But Donald Trump did not attack Vladimir Putin at all today. He was notably silent. Also, Donald Trump did not bring peace to Ukraine in the first 24 hours as he promised. He also didn't attack Kim Jong-un. He praised Kim Jong-un and said that North Korea would be a great place. to build condos, is what Donald Trump said.
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As it relates to peace in Ukraine, Donald Trump was like making a joke about his broken promise. And he was like, well, I guess I still have half of tomorrow to do it. So we'll see what happens tomorrow. So utterly pathetic. Donald Trump was asked about Doge when he signed an executive order. that allegedly made Doge a thing.
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It should be noted that the executive order really isn't capable of doing that. This is all kind of a make-believe exercise that Donald Trump is doing, but nonetheless, he's giving Doge an office right by the White House, and Elon Musk will have an office in the old executive office building, which is basically attached to the White House. So in other words, the oligarchs literally have offices
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in the White House right now. And it should be noted, I talked about this in a video I did yesterday, during Donald Trump's awful inauguration, you had one of the oligarchs, Jeff Bezos, there with his wife. His wife was wearing a shirt that her bra was showing and her chest was exposed and Mark Zuckerberg was like looking at her breasts. Like the whole thing was incredibly strange.
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But Donald Trump said, yes, Elon Musk will have that office right by the White House. It should be noted as well that Democracy Forward, this civil rights organization, filed a lawsuit against Doge saying that it violates the Administrative Procedures Act. It violates the Freedom of Information Act.
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And it violates numerous other laws that require that things like Doge that are quasi governmental agencies actually follow a process and that they have to make their records public. Donald Trump then talked about Gaza and he seemed to describe first and foremost, he said, it's not our war. He said it's their war.
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And I'm not confident that there will be a that the ceasefire in Gaza that President Biden worked so hard for. is going to last. Then Donald Trump talked about how Gaza is now rubble and Donald Trump suggested essentially that it would be a great place to build things over because he says it has great weather and it's near the water.
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So for anybody who was saying that you thought that Donald Trump was going to make this a peaceful situation, Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen. And his words today suggest that as well. Donald Trump then signed some executive order called Protecting Women from Radical Transgender Ideology. just a way to bully marginalized communities.
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And what Donald Trump wants is people to, you know, listen to him and get involved in culture wars over penises and vaginas. And while he bullies the transgender community, who, by the way, we will always stick up for here on the Midas Dutch Network. And then Donald Trump wants his base to forget about the fact that he said things like there would be peace in Ukraine in the first 24 hours.
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Donald Trump said that there would be lower prices, voila, magically right away. Housing would all of a sudden become more affordable. and accessible and all of these other more jobs would be created right away. So Donald Trump wants to distract with a culture war, as I've said before, WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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Don't be distracted when Donald Trump does things like say, I'm changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. which is one of the executive orders he signed in one of his proclamations today, say, how about the gulf of lower egg prices, bro? That was one of your promises, but that's another promise broken. Prices are going up, up, up.
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And one of the things that Donald Trump was asked about were tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Now, earlier in the day, The Wall Street Journal had reported that Donald Trump was not going to immediately implement tariffs on Canada and Mexico and seemed to suggest that he was just going to explore and study it. But when asked about it, Donald Trump said February 1st.
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will be the tariffs on Canada and Mexico. He also said horrific things about Canada and Mexico as well, like really demeaned and defamed those nations while praising Kim Jong-un and saying that North Korea is a great place, great place for condominiums. So utterly disgusting.
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Then Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the definition of birthright citizenship, by the way, which is patently unconstitutional. Basically, Donald Trump says in this executive order that it will deny the legitimacy of U.S. citizenship of the child, even of someone who has temporary status. If you were born here, you go on in the executive order.
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I mean, obviously ex post facto retroactive laws are invalid and this doesn't purport to be that, but who knows what they're going to do. But birthright citizenship is within our constitution. But Donald Trump is claiming that no longer exists as part of a broader plan to basically purge our country of whoever it is that Donald Trump doesn't think belongs here.
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Let me show you what Donald Trump did in the Oval Office on day one. May have been the most disastrous day of any president in the history of the United States of America. Just a reminder, I don't show Trump audio or video on this channel during my videos. I describe what happened, but I will spare you that.
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January 6th insurrectionists who were convicted of seditious conspiracy. So the leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, commuted, no longer going to be in jail. As you go look at like Stuart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, people who the Department of Justice said, engaged in terrorism against the United States.
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The worst of the worst, the most violent January 6th insurrectionists all being released, their sentences commuted, and Donald Trump saying that as it relates to some of the most violent ones, they've served enough time. He may even explore a full pardon.
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totally declaring them basically to have committed no wrongdoing at all but they're being released regardless they're getting their sentences are being commuted and they're going to get released forthwith and no more january 6th insurrectionist in jail the worst of the worst will be free now Even the Republican federal judges, the ones that Trump appointed, warned Donald Trump against doing this.
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But one of the first moves Donald Trump did was empower the worst of the worst January 6th insurrectionists. He said, look, regarding the violent ones who beat and tried to kill cops, Trump said they've been in jail for a long time already. And he said that the FBI was involved spreading lies and conspiracies. Donald Trump was then asked about TikTok. and cutting a deal with TikTok.
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And then Donald Trump said, maybe I won't do a deal with TikTok. TikTok is worthless without me, he says. He then describes some kind of bizarre deal that he's conceived or concocted in his mind whereby the United States government would take a 50% interest in TikTok. So you're gonna have the government, you wanna increase the government so the government becomes a shareholder
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of TikTok at a 50-50 JV. And then I would assume, based on the position that Donald Trump gave to Carrie Lake, that this would be something, what, that Carrie Lake would control. So Trump wants to control TikTok through the United States. government and says that he may not cut a deal.
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Also, Donald Trump kind of shortened the potential length of the deal-making period, the extension from 90 days to 75 days as well. And so just a very kind of bizarre plan that Donald Trump has there. I guess a few other things to discuss about what went down over the past 24 hours. As well, Vivek Ramaswamy resigned from Doge. He goes, it was my honor to help support the creation of Doge.
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He's going to be announcing whatever his next plans are soon. You had Kid Rock go on Fox and he talked about how Trump's enemy's heads should be put on a guillotine. word for word. Some people's heads should be put in a guillotine. That's what Hattie and Fox are platforming right now. And then Donald Trump revoked three executive orders that are noteworthy to discuss, a bunch of others.
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If you want to watch that elsewhere, you can do that, but let's just discuss what went down. Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. And when he would get these executive orders and sign them publicly, he would say things like, ooh, going to withdraw us from that one. It was very weird.
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He revoked an executive order establishing the United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime. In other words, he's pro-crime. He rescinded an executive order lowering prescription drug costs for Americans. And he also rescinded an executive order for the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence.
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Oh, and another executive order Trump just signed gives the White House counsel the full authority to give interim top secret security clearance to whoever Donald Trump wants for up to six months. So regardless of if you pass any background checks and Trump wants you to have top secret security clearance, you get it right now. So that's a roundup basically of what went down in the Oval Office.
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As I said, the worst day in the history of the presidency potentially in the United States. I don't play Trump audio. I don't play Trump video, but I give you all the data. Asin, one of our senior producers here, posts the videos on social media.
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So if you just want to see it for yourself, if you don't believe I've accurately narrated everything that happened and you need to hear Trump say it, go follow Asin. You can see the clips. He has them all listed there. I don't show those anymore. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Check out MidasPlus.com.
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Also, he was like kind of like bright orange in the Oval Office as well. Then Donald Trump threatened Spain with 100 percent tariffs. He believed that Spain was part of the BRICS bloc. It is not. Spain is part of the European Union. Donald Trump didn't know that. The BRICS block is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. That's the S, as well as a number of other nations as well.
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Those bold statements, those aggressive statements, now verbal but also threatening, of intervention by force, the people of Panamá must have a message for them.
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Tonight, finally, are you definitively getting rid of the penny?
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All right. Let's go to other not broken promises, outright fraud. Remember Donald Trump's statements during the campaign that he was going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, he said. He said 24 hours. after the election. He said he wouldn't even have to be sworn in. Remember what he said? Here, play this clip. You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, I could.
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It won't even take that. Well, Donald, you now sent your secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to Saudi Arabia to meet with the Russian delegation led by Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, to, what, normalize United States-Russian relations as Russia's trying to destroy the United States of America, you idiot?
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And you were trying to sell out Ukraine and force Ukraine to capitulate without even any plan, without bringing Ukraine to the bargaining table, without bringing Europe to the table. That was your plan. And guess what? It wasn't resolved in 24 hours. When Donald Trump was vacationing in Mar-a-Lago yesterday, as he was playing golf yet again, here's what Donald Trump told the press about Ukraine.
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It's not broken promises. It's outright fraud. All of the things that Donald Trump was saying on the campaign trail were lies. We were trying to warn you. Let me show you the admission that Donald Trump made last night on Hannity, where he said, folks, inflation is back. Here, play this clip.
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Play this clip. Yeah, please.
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You've had a seat at the table for three years? Donald, you told everybody that you were gonna be this great negotiator, you were going to figure it out. Or were you just going to totally capitulate as we told everybody you were going to? So take a look at the spineless Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, with the U.S. delegation.
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And they seemed giddy over the idea of normalizing economic relations with Putin. and empowering Putin. Watch this.
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All right, let me show you more, not broken promises, but outright fraud. Remember what Donald Trump said on the campaign trail? That he said that on day one, he was going to start the largest mass deportation in history. He said it was going to happen on day one, right away. That's what was going to happen. Here, play the clip of what he said.
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Well, do you remember what he said on the campaign trail? As inflation was actually going down based on former President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, the inflation being caused by Donald Trump adding $8 trillion to our national debt in his first administration. Here was the promise Trump made on the campaign trail. I have hundreds of clips like this. I'll just show one short clip here.
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Well, Fox tried to pump it up with propaganda. On January 22nd, 2025, Fox said this. Here, play this clip.
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I'm going to prioritize the criminals first. Well, Donald Trump was asked about that at that press conference as well. Hey, Donald, you've actually been sending a lot of people to concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay who... were not part of gangs, who were not criminals.
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You're deporting your own supporters, Venezuelans whose family members were under TPS, temporary protected status, who were not criminals. You cut deals with the Venezuelan dictator Maduro, who was voted out of power, but like the authoritarian you are, is clinging to power the way you want to. You're sending your Venezuelan supporters back to be killed.
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by Maduro or throwing people who are not criminals into concentration camps. Donald Trump was asked about it and he didn't deny that he sent non-criminals. He was like, oh, well, we'll move them back to their countries of origins. Here, play this clip.
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And as my friend Pablo Monriquez also says, actually, fact check, zero of the transferees to Guantanamo have been confirmed to have criminal records or gang ties. It should also be noted that on day one, there wasn't the largest number. mass deportation in history.
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In fact, the level of deportations are actually less than in the Biden administration significantly, except the Biden administration deported criminals more than innocent people or people who were not engaged in crimes, while more people who Trump is deporting and sending back to countries where they could get tortured and killed are are actually people who were not engaged in crimes.
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But, you know, they are doing their propaganda shtick, their tough guy act, because cruelty is the point. So they're sending their border czar, Tom Homan, this, I don't even want to go where I'm about to go with that. But anyway, he goes on the various news networks where he threatens
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AOC, Democratic Congresswoman AOC repeatedly because that gets to rile up the MAGA base while they lie about all the stuff that they said they were going to do. Let's just attack AOC. Here, play this clip.
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And then they announced what we need to do because they're incompetent and cruel. Let's do a marketing campaign. $200 million, right? Because they claim they care about government waste. $200 million we'll throw behind ads. in English, with Kristi Noem cosplaying the governor who shot her dog. Yeah, Kristi Noem cosplaying. She's now the Secretary of Homeland Security. Say, you go home, illegals.
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You go home, illegals. And then as part of this marketing campaign, the White House. This is from the official White House account. This is how ghoulish and disgusting and monstrous these people are. This is what they posted from our White House account. Shame on on these goons. Here, play this clip.
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But then let's talk about what Donald Trump is trying to do to distract you, folks. He's getting rid of the penny. Ooh, the penny. He wants to get rid of that. That's what you get. No, goodbye, penny. Here, play this clip of Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. And he knows, like, what am I even doing here? Here, play this clip.
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And while all of this is going on, it seems like every day we learn that Doge accidentally fired the people who are stopping the bird flu. Doge accidentally fired the people working in the nuclear plants. Doge is firing FAA workers and critical workers, not accidentally. They're getting rid of tens of thousands of government workers who we rely on.
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It seems like every day there's like another plane crash taking place and it's horrific. And what does Donald Trump do? Oh, While there's devastation in terrible storms in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Donald Trump goes to NASCAR and drives around in circles in his motorcade over and over again. But hey, Donald, let me ask you this question.
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While 12 people or more died in Kentucky from the storms and you said nothing while posting stupid selfies of yourself from a Daytona 500 NASCAR race, hey, Donald, whatever happened to no tax on tips? No tax on overtime. No tax on Social Security. Whatever happened to capping credit card interest rates and capping credit card penalty fees? What happened to all of those promises that you made?
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You are a two-bit snake oil salesman, con artist, pathetic weak fool. An American needs to know that about you because you lied, you betrayed Americans, but that was the purpose. You're a con artist. You are a fraud. You are a criminal. You are an adjudicated felon. You are despicable. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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As Donald Trump becomes more unhinged and his approval plummets, Fox, which is just state-run regime media at this point, gets more desperate. It's so utterly embarrassing. Let me just show you what went down in the past 24 hours. I'll use to show you what they're doing. So they bring in Lara Trump, who now Fox has given a TV show to.
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They are suppressing information. So by the way, didn't he give away the whole game right there? I thought that was a wild moment. And then finally, after doing all of that, then they try to inflict the fear. So then they call the border czar, Tom Homan, to basically once again threaten AOC. that he's urged the DOJ to prosecute her for telling migrants about their rights.
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He goes, when do you cross the line?
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So I wanted to break down the anatomy of the Fox propaganda. You can see how desperate they're getting. And remember that moment there when Jesse Waters, in my view, just gave it all away. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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What? This data is public. I mean, Elon tried to make some posts today to show, look, there are millions of people or tens of millions of people over the age of 110 who are dead and getting Social Security. This stuff is public. It's not hard to find. I think there's only, what, 89,000 people or so. above the age of 99 who are receiving Social Security. These numbers are not hard to find.
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But then again, the purpose of Fox is to lie. And I want to show you this next methodology they use, which is once they're caught in the lie, just to laugh it off and be like, well, that's how we own the libs. Watch what happens when the pro-democracy voice on Fox named Jessica Tarloff calls out Jesse Waters and other disinformationists.
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for lying and saying that USAID was sending condoms to Hamas in Gaza. Here, play this clip and watch what happens. Play it.
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Did you see what Jesse Waters did there? Jesse Waters was like, yeah, I'm the one who made up that lie. I lied about that. I'm the one who spread that one. What they're trying to do is desensitize their audience so that once they're caught lying about something, they've already achieved their agenda. So then they're like, well, we own the libs, so we can lie, right?
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And they want their audience to think that that's normal. That lying is just kind of funny. And at first they try to get the lie through. And then when they're exposed, they try to act like it's just funny here. Jesse waters then goes on this strange rant about, uh, Like Canada's angry at the United States and they shouldn't be.
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So Lara Trump is now going to get paid a huge amount of money by Fox to host Fox shows to run part of the state-run regime media. And here she is introduced by Sean Hannity, who accidentally calls her Laura shit. Here, play this clip.
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And now Canada's booing America and networks are cheering for Canada. Look, Jesse, Donald Trump threatened to annex Canada to conquer it. And you and others have mocked Canada consistently and said it should be a 51st state. Canada just wants to exist with its sovereignty.
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And so of course you're going to piss them off when you say you want to conquer them and then attack them and mock them every day. But play this clip.
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But you see what Jesse Waters is trying to do there? He's trying to convince his audience that, and this is typical abuser behavior. He's trying to convince his audience, look, Canada's the bad guy because they're now booing the United States.
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Well, perhaps the reason they're doing it is because you're talking basically about enslaving them and conquering them and taking over their country and taking over their sovereignty and forcing them to be part of a country that they don't want to be a part of. Maybe we could give some context there, Jesse Waters. In this next clip, I want to show you. Now you have Hannity.
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who basically is, you know, he's trying to vouch for Musk and Trump and say, look, I've seen them together and I know that they know who's the real president here. Like their relationship is so good. It's just, again, this is what the ultimate propagandist does. Like you're masquerading and pretending to be news, but you're like, I know the real deal here and I know that they respect each other.
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Again, it is so utterly pathetic. And by the way, all of this is taking place at a time where yesterday evening, the White House submitted a declaration in one of these cases that's trying to block Elon Musk's access to these agencies. And this is how they described it.
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They said, Elon, this is in the declaration, that Elon Musk is a senior advisor to the president and he is not actually part of Doge. That's what they're trying to play off that happened right there.
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What was that? So then Fox brings in Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's press secretary. And here she just literally makes up fake numbers where she goes, and I think we've already found with Social Security that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are getting Social Security. Elon Musk told us, and we know Elon Musk and Doge never lie, right? Right? Here, play this clip.
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Here, they then have the interior secretary, Doug Burgum. He goes on, and this is just like pure North Korea, Pyongyang stuff right here, where he goes, where Doug Burgum, who's in Trump's cabinet, goes, oh, and when we saw Donald Trump circle around that track over and over again at Daytona 500 in the motorcade, we knew America was back. Here, play this clip.
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Because notice what they're trying to do here. They're trying to distract their audience from the fact that prices are going up. Inflation is going up. Housing is not becoming more affordable. It's becoming less affordable. Trump did not get peace in Ukraine in 24 hours as he promised. Trump promised that prices were going to go down on day one.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
And Trump continues to take actions which are hurting red states, perhaps even more than blue states. But he's getting rid of jobs in all of these locations and causing absolute havoc. So what do they do on Fox? How do they deal with this as well? And how do they try to justify the xenophobia?
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
How do they try to justify the fact that one of the Trump policies are also going after hardworking people, hardworking migrants who are doing jobs in agriculture and hospitality and construction? So they go on this tirade in the morning where they're like, look, Elon Musk and all of these technological people who are part of the Trump administration, they're just so smart.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
These are such smart people that we're going to be dealing with quantum computers. So we don't need actual people who are doing the work as laborers because let's use a big word, quantum computers. quantum computers are going to figure this out. So why would we need all of these millions of people who are here doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do and can't do? Quantum, quantum.
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Do you see what they're doing? I'm just trying to cue you in on their propaganda tactics right there. So I guess we should deport everybody's what they're saying, even if they're doing key jobs, because don't worry, Donald Trump and Elon Musk quantum. They'll figure it out with quantum. We'll make big words for you right there.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
And then right here, I love this part where Jessica Tarloff then makes, and you can see that she struck a chord there because a hit dog, a holler. Watch what the panel does when she says, could you imagine for a second if former President Joe Biden was driving around on a race car track while a number of states, including red states, were suffering? Kentucky now we know dramatically.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
12 people died in Kentucky from the horrible storms. West Virginia, Virginia suffering. Donald Trump made no statement at all about that while he was driving around the Daytona 500. Watch this.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
So part of what Fox then does as well is because Donald Trump is suing CBS and Paramount, you have Fox goes after both CBS and Germany at the same time. They attack CBS on Trump's behalf, and they attack Germany because, one, Trump's suing CBS, and two, Germany is being targeted by the Trump administration as they try to get the AFD, the neo-Nazi party, elected.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
But fortunately, I think the people of Germany are seeing what's happening in the United States and saying, Elon Musk trying to support this neo-Nazi party in Germany to cause the exact harm he's inflicting on the US here in Germany. But watch this, let's play it.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
I thought this was a very telling moment right here where Jesse Waters, to me, gives it all the way. Where Jesse Waters basically says, you know what? We're waging a 21st century information warfare campaign against the left. And he spells, this is where he just lets it slip. And he's like, we've got Elon Musk tweets it out. Then Joe Rogan podcasts about it. Then Fox broadcasts it. Watch this.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Congress member Jared Moskowitz, just want to start off by asking you how you holding up there in Washington, D.C. How are things going there?
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Well, we'll have you back on. You got to keep us posted on all the developments in your state. You can see from my shirt how I feel. Show me the shirt.
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You're too cool for me. I just record YouTube videos all day from my living room. So I don't get out of... You don't know about a capybara? Oh, man. Come on.
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Thank you for your time, Congressman.
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I want to talk about the 12 individual spending bills that Speaker Johnson claimed that he was going to bring, but he's not. I want to talk about clean CR, clean continuing resolution and what that means. But we know that it's possible Elon Musk is going to be watching this interview. These clips circulate far and wide. So maybe you speak to him right now and make that invitation
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for him to show up in the Doge subcommittee? Why would you tell him to show up if he's watching this right now? And you could speak to him directly.
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You know, I'm sure. You seem to be a-okay, but Congress member, we... We absolutely.
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You know, it's not normal. I think we should let our viewers and listeners know that this constant use of continuing resolutions to keep the government going and funded is Explain to people in layman's terms why that's not how it worked, usually when Democrats were in control and the way the budget process.
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And I'm not asking for our lecture, but break it down in a quick way of how the process is supposed to work. So people see why this CR approach is kind of a cop out. and how it's not really addressing what Congress's main function is, like the most basic function of what it is. And Johnson and the Republicans can't do the most basic stuff. Explain that if you can.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
that we absolutely need you in the fight? So let me start off by asking you this question, though, which is Elon Musk. There was a declaration that was submitted either on his behalf or by the federal, by the Trump White House, basically saying Musk is not running Doge or he's not an employee of Doge, but he's an advisor to the White House. You sit on the Doge subcommittee. What is Elon?
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So if they were to propose a CR, though, and not the individual spending bills, and it was just the status quo, how would you vote on that?
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What's his role if he's saying that he's not actually working for Doge?
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Well, look, your constituents, many of them maybe thought that no tax on tips was going to be the first priority, which it isn't in the budget or no tax on social security. We don't see that in the budget or no tax on overtime. And, you know, the priorities seem to be, how do you help the billionaires and the, you know, deca millionaires and how do you focus on them? But like,
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You know, do you think, though, it is a little bit breaking through to some people that, whoa, even if they're now waiting, whoa, whoa, whoa, what about these things? Do you see at all, you know, people in your district starting to call your office and ask questions like we feel a little bit rug pulled here or not yet? I'll give you the final word.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Yep, not big Donald Trump and MAGA fans there in Greenland. Now, this comes at the same time that these MAGA podcasters went to Greenland. That followed Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk going to Greenland. And it's been the same story over and over again, trying to create this astroturfed support for MAGA. Again, they're trying to distract us. This is from a Greenland digital paper. Here's what it says.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
MAGA, Mystic, and Nuke, YouTube stars hand out dollars and caps. The police have received a report about the incident, writes this magazine, this digital article. According to the Greenlandic media outlet Sermistjak, a number of citizens in Nuuk received a somewhat strange visit on Tuesday.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Here, people who, according to the media, are believed to be Americans have knocked on doors to private homes where they have handed out American money and merchandise in the form of caps and the like. The media has been in contact with several citizens who have wondered about the visits.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
They say there have been American men wearing clothes with the American flag pattern and that they have carried Donald Trump posters around. The police have been called. They're confirming that Sermstyak has been in contact with police in Greenland who confirm that they have received a report that American dollars and caps are being distributed in the city center.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Furthermore, one of our patrols saw the incident in connection with a drive on the way to another assignment, says the chief of patrol at the Greenland police. The chief of police cannot answer questions whether there is anything illegal in And what these suspected Americans are doing.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
He points out that the police can advise the Americans to notify the police in advance if they are doing anything resembling a demonstration. And the group that's there is called the Nelk Boys. And at least the leaders of the Nelk Boys are right wing podcasters from Israel. And they were the individuals who were campaigning with Donald Trump. I think Barron likes their podcast.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
And they were the ones talking about how they want Trump to legalize a form of like chewing tobacco, Zin or something that it's called. So that's what's going on there. Meanwhile, the MAGA Republicans in Congress, they've now put forward legislation, make Greenland great again. That's what they're calling their bill. Trump's House GOP unveil a bill to authorize the country's purchase.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat, says Representative Andy Ogles. It goes on to say how Trump's plan to conquer and annex Greenland got a boost by the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives. Representative Andy Ogles from Tennessee, MAGA Republican, he's leading a bill to authorize Trump to enter negotiations with Denmark to purchase Greenland.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
This bill is titled Make Greenland Great Again Act, according to a copy of its text. And Ogles goes on to say, Joe Biden took a blowtorch to our reputation these past years and before even taking office. Trump is telling the world America first is back. American economic and security interests will no longer take a back seat.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
And this bill is backed by 10 fellow House Republicans who are publicly co-sponsoring it. And according to the legislation text, quote, not later than five calendar days after reaching an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark relating to the acquisition of Greenland by the United States,
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
The president shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees the agreement, including all related materials and annexes. And so I want to be very clear here. When I was in high school, I was part of a club called Met Monk.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
mock United Nations, I think Metropolitan Mock United Nations Club, where you would kind of cosplay international diplomacy and you would go into all of these kind of theories. Now, look, I'm not suggesting that this is purely a adult or they don't behave like adults.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Another version of kind of the Met Monk stuff, because again, Donald Trump has the resources of the American military that these threats are actually meaningful threats. But let's take a look at what the MAGA Republicans are trying to distract us from, right? They want to talk about make Greenland great again and turning Canada into the 51st state and invading Panama.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
That's where they want our attention to go. The old bait and switch. Why? Because Americans don't care about changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. What about the Gulf of lower egg prices? Egg prices are going up. Mortgage rates are expected to continue to go up where they were going down under President Biden.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Donald Trump's threats of tariffs are going to have severe economic consequences. The premier of Alberta, a conservative by the name of Daniel Smith, she came to try to cut other provinces out in Canada. And she was basically begging Donald Trump to do a deal with Alberta directly and screw over the other provinces. And there's a lot of big oil companies in Alberta.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
that kind of squirm their way into getting a lot of government benefits in Canada. So you had Daniel Smith in Mar-a-Lago, and then she returned to let people know, not only am I not bringing you anything, but Donald Trump just further threatened us, said on day one there will be 25% tariffs on everything, no exemptions, including on crude oil. And Canada imports a lot of oil.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
a lumber, a lot of other things that we rely on. So Trump's gonna start that trade war on day one.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Donald Trump, MAGA, and Fox just got a rude awakening when a Fox reporter went to Greenland to see how popular Donald Trump was there. And it turns out that the people of Greenland do not like MAGA and do not like Donald Trump. I want you to watch this, but then I want to talk more broadly about what's going on here. Remember what I've been saying, WMD.com. weapon of mass distraction.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
What else is Donald Trump distracting us from? He's distracting us from the fact that he said there would be a peace deal in Ukraine in 24 hours after he was elected. That didn't happen. And there's not going to be a peace deal 24 hours after he's inaugurated. Keith Kellogg, his special envoy to Ukraine, confirmed that they need at least 100 days to build some sort of framework for peace.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
And again, that Donald Trump is lying. Meanwhile, All the Trump propaganda out there, like the New York Post, they are saying, oh, the Don Roe doctrine, the Don Roe doctrine. Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, was saying that he would not rule out invading Greenland and essentially going to war with Denmark. our NATO ally.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Keith Kellogg looked very uncomfortable during his appearance on Fox, where he was talking about Donald Trump's plan to take over Greenland. J.D. Vance was on TV saying the same thing as well. But remember, folks, again, we need to take it seriously. But WMD, weapon of mass distraction. You always got to ask yourself, OK, cool, bro. But what about lower prices? Cool, bro.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
What about affordable housing? Cool bro, what about lower interest rates, mortgage rates? Cool bro, what about the peace deal that you said was going to happen in Ukraine? Cool bro, what about the jobs that you said were miraculously going to appear? Where are they? Don't fall in. We should take seriously the threats, but always bring it back to WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Tell me what you think. I could play you those clips of J.D. Vance and Trump saying things I know you appreciated here on this network when we don't play that stuff. If you want to watch it for yourself, I invite you. You could find those clips and figure it out. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers and have a wonderful day.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
That's exactly what Trump is trying to do when it comes to Greenland. We need to take what he says seriously, though, because the threats are real and they're uniting our allies against us. First, let me just show you this clip and then let's chat about it. Let's play it.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Gentlemen, stop. So go on the offense, Dems. Go on the offense. Be loud about these. The American people are with you on these issues. But you're seeing the deluge of propaganda and lies from MAGA. You got to be able to rebut them. It's a fire hose. Of lies. Over and over and over and over again. That's all they've got. You got to combat it. You got to be ready to debunk it right away.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
But you also have to go on the offense. And going on the offense doesn't mean responding always. It means saying that the MAGA Republicans support the oligarch billionaires who are stealing your jobs, who are giving your jobs to others, who are taking away your money and enriching themselves. You have to go on the offense too here. Can't always be defense. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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Thanks for watching.
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Point of order. Point of order. Order, order, order. Jasmine Crockett is not done. Congresswoman Crockett says that you're here trying to somehow make an argument about transgender people. What are you even doing, MAGA? Here, watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Would you yield back? I'll yield. More from Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. And here she is talking about how MAGA Republicans are creating their Doge subcommittee instead of a subcommittee on civil rights and actually doing things for the American people. And then she mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene. Watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Here's Democratic Congress member Garcia, California, right here in the Long Beach area. Here he says, I don't think we should be listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene on fire safety. I mean, she's the Jewish space laser woman.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Okay, speaking of the Jewish space laser conspiracy theorist who grabs cardboard cutout crotches of Donald Trump and attacks victims of school shootings who survived, Marjorie Taylor Greene. By the way, we sued Marjorie Taylor Greene and she settled with us. Cut us a check, I think, for about $10,000. And then we took that check and donated it to groups that focus on responsible gun ownership.
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Just a nice little way to troll her back. You know that story. It's a funny story. Anyway, I digress. Here's MAGA Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, You don't like Elon because you're jealous of him. Here, watch this.
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Okay, Marjorie. Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene blaming the Los Angeles fires on no water in the fire hydrants and not cleaning up the forest floors. There's not a conspiracy theory that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not... willing to spread. That's just what she does. Play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
You go from Marjorie Taylor Greene to Marjorie Taylor Greene 2.0 Nancy Mace. Here's MAGA Republican Nancy Mace. Here she is again talking about the only thing that seems to be on her mind. This is how she gets attention to go on Fox.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
By the way, you may know this about me. I'm a professor at USC. One of the courses I teach is a course called sports law. So one of the things I often teach my students Now, you know, this whole attack on transgender people in sports, do you know how many transgender athletes there are in the NCAA? Under 10.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
And in some states where they spend millions of dollars to try to keep transgender athletes out, sometimes there's one transgender athlete in the state. But this is all MAGA talks about. Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene right here talking about bathrooms and pee-pee and vagina. What are these people? They want to distract you with this stuff. Here, play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
All right, folks, it's gloves off for these Democrats. I appreciate these House Democrats going on the offense against the MAGA Republicans. Leading the charge, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Watch her call out Nancy Mace, MAGA Republican, then MAGA Republican. Nancy Mace says that she wants to fight Jasmine Crockett and says, let's take it outside. Here, watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
And you know, one of the things I've been saying, WMD, weapon of mass distraction. They don't want to govern. They can't deliver the things that they claim they're going to. They can't even come close to it. So they want to divide Americans against Americans.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
They want to get the factory workers and the 99% who are getting screwed over by the actual MAGA policies, which go to help the billionaires and the DECA millionaires. And they want to convince the factory worker, the union worker, Blue collar worker. It doesn't have to be workers. I mean, just people who are just working hard, multiple jobs.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
They're trying to convince them that they should be more pissed off about some transgender athlete from San Jose State on the volleyball team than against their own interest in their own family's interest. It's it's ridiculous. Here, MAGA Republican representative Derek Van Orden says we're very close to World War II. Here, play this clip.
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There's a bunch of Navy... What do you mean, Van Orden? First off, okay, World War II happened a while ago, the 40s. But a little bit before then. But second off, I thought that your whole thesis... was that Trump was going to get elected and then the world would obey. And then things would be all of a sudden great right away on day one.
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But now Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, says there's not going to be a peace deal in Ukraine for at least 100 days. That's what Keith Kellogg's saying. Also, Donald Trump apparently wants to be the bad guy in World War III. threatening to annex Canada, Panama, Greenland, Mexico, whatever country comes to his mind. But I digress.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Here's Democratic Congresswoman AOC talking about while the fires are burning, the number one priority of MAGA is to prevent 10 transgender athletes from playing in sports. Here, play this clip.
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Thank you and I yield back. take when nancy mace was threatening jasmine crockett and saying let's take it outside comer's like but it could have been it could have been take it outside for a cup of coffee playing the clip what the gentle lady said was we can take this outside if you want and so that could mean you could go outside and have a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer or
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I'm going to appeal the ruling of the chair. And finally, we have Congress member, Democratic Congress member, Garamendi, who calls out MAGA Republicans for trying to impose conditions on on aid to California. One of the things that MAGA Republicans are demanding is that there be a increase of the debt ceiling or an elimination of the debt ceiling in order for California to get aid.
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You're tying together the debt ceiling and aid to California in a disaster? Watch what Congress member Garamendi has to say.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
But he will be making posts like this, having the American flag over the United States and Canada. You have Trump supporters like Benny Johnson saying, welcome to the Gulf of America. And then it says greater American empire right here. The Northern colonies are Canadian provinces. Then the Greenland protectorate, the United States and Mexico are all controlled by the United States under that map.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
Donald Trump making other posts, relentlessly posting about conquering Canada and again saying, oh, Canada. Let's take a look at what some of these Trump supporters are responding and MAGA supporters like this person over here, Malam Suprati goes, so is this supposed to be cool? Or maybe you're just too young to remember, Benny.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
For years, true conservatives have opposed the CFR's advocacy for globalist North American Union, the NAFTA superhighway, the SPP, and the Amerocurrency. Now, all of a sudden, it looks like it's being rebranded as trendy? And we're supposed to believe it's a good thing. This is straight up CFR and Rockefeller globalist nonsense. This is not America first. Do your research diligently.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
Chris Rossini goes, globalism steps towards one world government. That's what Trump will give us. Wow, America first turned into new world order pretty quickly, huh? Another person responds, it's unreal. And I'm genuinely shocked at how many conservatives don't see what's happening and are loving every bit of it. Ah, there you go. I thought I was the only one seeing it.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
They painted globalism and nationalism and hardly anyone raised a question. Or take a look at this meme that's circulating right now. I have a feeling this meme format is going to get a lot of use over the next four years. Donald Trump's like, we should invade Greenland and Panama and Canada. And the person wearing the MAGA hat's like, hell yeah. than you have below.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
We should help Ukraine defend itself. And then the person wearing the MAGA hat goes, no, that's pro-war. Didn't Donald Trump say that he was going to be stopping World War III? He said World War III is about to happen. He promised he's going to stop World War III. No, it seems like you're going to be the one to start it and you want to be the bad guy in World War III.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
did an interview with Corey Hargraves, who was a United States Army sniper. He did two deployments in Iraq, and he told his story about the horrors of war. He talked about what it really means to be sending American military abroad and to risk their lives and to have American soldiers die abroad. And he told me his experience there. He's a poor kid from a Native American reservation.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
Trump voters and supporters are livid that Donald Trump is proposing a new world order globalist regime where he will have the United States of America purportedly conquer Canada. and Greenland and Mexico and turn it into a United States empire? I mean, Donald Trump is making these statements.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
And he's like, if you're trolling or whatever you're doing, what you're saying is that you want to send American soldiers, young Americans to die fighting our NATO allies while you're not even talking about Russia, North Korea, China, Venezuela. You're out here attacking our allies with these memes and these maps. where you're saying 51st state owe Canada.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
Here's another account that goes, do we really want to start connecting vast land masses together? I feel like it's a slippery slope to a one world government. Other people are MAGA supporters. So this is the new world order? Not sure this is good. Ha ha, Benny Johnson, all in for globalism now? Yeah, let's bring in far left countries to destroy the tiny remaining pieces of our constitution.
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WHOA! Trump Voters REVOLT AGAINST Him FOR HIS PLAN
At times like these, I always like to hear from my buddy Charlie Angus from the New Democratic Party. Here's what Angus says. He posts this photo right here. It says, Jim Parks of Winnipeg Rifles was in the very first wave at D-Day. He was blown overboard and attacked the beach without a rifle. He didn't stop.
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75 years later, he was honored by young Dutch and French who never forgot the sacrifice. Unlike Trump, Canadians will always fight for freedom. Angus also says, January 6, the sequel where Donald Trump scores a hat trick for the world's dictators, sending his dumb ass son to Greenland while threatening Canada is a deliberate provocation of NATO. Step forward, Vladimir Putin.
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Then there is validating China's designs on Taiwan. The chaos idiot goes global. Powerful words by Charlie Angus. He also says, so I'm standing in the grocery store parking lot and it's freaking cold. A very classy old woman sees me and walks the entire distance across the lot. Quote, you give that man shit, she says, then walks away. That's Canada. The criminal might buy off porn stars.
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He'll never force Canada to bend. Just take a look here, by the way, of Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk. It looks like Charlie Kirk is wearing, he's cosplaying as like a military guy or whatever the heck he's wearing. I think he's wearing the outfits of the bankrupt or defunct Trump Airlines crew. You see them there.
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Meanwhile, powerful words from the leader of Greenland and others saying, you're not going to buy Greenland. Also strong words from our allies in Denmark pushing back against this ridiculous treatment of them by Donald Trump.
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As I've said on other videos, I believe this is part of Donald Trump's weapon of mass distraction tactic to cover up the fact that prices are not going down, that the war in Ukraine from Russia's unlawful invasion is is not going to end in 24 hours. In fact, that time's elapsed already. And also Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine and Russia has said that he will be canceling his trip in January.
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Now, all of this is happening as well as Senate Democrats have delayed the Tulsi Gabbard nomination and her confirmation hearing because she's not providing the required vetting material. So one of the things that Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, is basically saying is that she's not turned over her FBI background check, her ethics disclosures, or a pre-hearing questionnaire.
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Now MAGA Republicans are blaming it somehow on the snow. I guess you can't send emails when it's snowing according to them. MAGA Republicans are saying that, oh, after terrorist attack on New Year's Eve and New Year's, it's sad to see Democrats playing politics. So you see how they're trying to use these terrorist attacks where it was a domestic terrorist in Texas.
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And then if they want to call the Cybertruck incident that, but that was a MAGA Trump supporter who made a pro-Trump manifesto. But basically Trump is, I mean, just, just look at the idiocracy here. You've got Donald Trump making posts of going like people like this in Greenland are the true people of Greenland and they're super MAGA, ultra MAGA. Greenland wants to go MAGA.
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Okay, the person who Donald Trump posted was a convicted drug trafficker. That's who Donald Trump is making the face of his deal with this deal or this conquest of Greenland. The Danish press reports that Timothy Zeeb served prison time for drug smuggling and violent crime. So there you have it, folks.
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I have a lot more to report on this, but you see how Trump's own supporters are turning against him as a result of this globalist approach. and how he's alienating our allies abroad as well. Hit subscribe, help us get to 4 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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Housing will not be more affordable. The stock market will not be going higher than it was under President Biden. Things look grim, so Donald Trump needs distraction. So it's post after post after post about conquering our allies.
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Mind you, not a single word from Donald Trump about Venezuela, where the actual democratically elected leader's son-in-law was just kidnapped a day after Edmundo Gonzalez, who actually should be the leader... Venezuela was with President Biden in the Oval Office. His son-in-law just got kidnapped, but you won't hear Donald Trump talk about that.
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Hence, we need to increase the H-1B visa program, according to Donald Trump, which he said that he was either going to eliminate or phase out to get Americans those jobs. It's lie after lie. Oh, and then the other lie, that within 24 hours, he was going to negotiate peace in Ukraine.
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Well, now Donald Trump's liaison, his envoy to the Ukraine crisis, the Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine, has now pulled out of any peace negotiations in January. And he did that because Putin and Russians and Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, have been... mocking Donald Trump, mocking the United States.
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And so rather than be forceful with Russia or Xi Jinping or Venezuela, especially as within 24 hours of the actually elected president of Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalez, who's in exile, going to the White House and meeting with President Biden. Edmundo Gonzalez's son-in-law was kidnapped in Venezuela.
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You won't hear a peep from Donald Trump on that, but what you will hear him talking about is invading Greenland and that Denmark shouldn't have a right to Greenland. But folks, I want you to remember WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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And anytime Donald Trump makes these statements and starts threatening this group or that group, I want you to think about what Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar said, like when Donald Trump was like, we're going to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene amplifies that and she goes, This is off to a great start.
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We're renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, Democrat from Texas, goes, cool. but how does this lower costs? I want you to think about that. Cool, but how does that get Americans housing like you promised? Cool, how does that get Americans jobs? Cool, how is that going to lower the price of eggs and lower grocery prices?
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Cool, how is that going to lower mortgage rates? Cool, how are you going to do anything you promised? Oh wait, it was all a lie. So folks, I'm not saying that we shouldn't take Donald Trump's threats seriously when he talks about invading Greenland like he did repeatedly at that Palm Beach press conference.
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I'm not saying that we shouldn't take it seriously when he says he wants to make Canada a 51st state or invade Panama and take over the canal. But what I am saying is we have to be smart in our opposition and recognize that
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Donald Trump is a weapon of mass distraction, a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction. His press conference on Tuesday shows you what his plan is, right? Say you want to invade Greenland, talk about invading Panama. say all of these outlandish things, talk about faucets and water and drip, drip, drip, and the windmills are killing the whales, and try to distract the American people.
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That he wants to create all of these issues and we need to be laser focused on Donald Trump's promises to his base, to the American people, to the 49% of voters who actually voted for this guy. That he is a liar. And why is he lying? Because he represents the oligarchy. It's him and the billionaires who are actually not eating your cats and dogs or geese like he claimed migrants were.
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They are eating your lunch money. They're eating your checks. They are hoarding the wealth. for the, not just the 1%, but the 0.01% who are getting monumentally richer at your expense. Why is there issues with housing supply?
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Because Trump's billionaire friends, his oligarchs who run private equity companies, have bought up all of the homes, reduced the supply of homes, and have made it incredibly expensive just for regular Americans to afford homes. Why are prices so high? Well, number one, Donald Trump added $8 trillion in debt. That's the cause of inflation.
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That's what Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley said during the primary debate. And duh, when you add $8 trillion in debt and then you print money as recklessly as Donald Trump did, that's going to cause inflation. And when you break down supply chains like Donald Trump did, who had no clue what he was doing in his first term at all, That's going to cause inflation.
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President Biden got it under control, but the prices are still high, yes. But where's that being caused from? Also from price gouging from Donald Trump's billionaire friends who collude together and raise up the prices. Biden was trying to stop the price gouging. So what's the source of these things? It's Trump and his billionaire oligarchs. So Democrats need to get smart.
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Don't get distracted by all of these things. Say, okay, all these things are serious, but what are you doing about the prices? What are you doing about homes? What are you doing about health? What are you doing about education?
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Just take a look at the things that Donald Trump has said to try to distract. The reporter asks him, can you assure the world as you try to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, you're not going to use military or economic coercion? Trump's response, no, I can't assure you on either of those two. You're going to send our troops to invade Greenland and Panama.
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By the way, the question normalizes it. As you try to gain control over Greenland and Panama, guess what? Greenland does not want to be owned by the United States. Denmark does not want to sell Greenland to the United States. Canada does not want to become a 51st state. The leader of Panama said, get out. And all this is helping is President Xi Jinping and China and Vladimir Putin
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He's a weapon of mass distraction from the fact that, guess what? He lied during his campaign over and over again. Folks, Egg prices aren't going down, they're going up. Grocery prices aren't going down, they're going up. The stock market is far more volatile as a result of Donald Trump's statements and behavior before he even is inaugurated.
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in their agenda in expanding the BRICS block to become a more powerful block than American alliances. More comments about Donald Trump attacking Greenland. The windmills are driving the whales crazy. Obviously, it's the windmills. Gas heaters are much less expensive than the heat is better. It's much better heat, as the expression goes. You don't itch.
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Does anybody have a heater where you go and you're scratching yourself? It's called rain. It comes down from heaven. And they want to do no water. It comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. You can all have the water you want. It makes no difference. This stuff is stupid. That's why I don't show his videos or audio anymore.
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In addition to other reasons, I don't show his audio or video anymore. Weapon of mass distraction. It's trying to distract you from the fact that he's screwing you and the Republicans are screwing you. How else are they trying to distract you? Trump and MAGA Republicans like
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Nancy Mace oh their attack on transgender people oh my gosh there's a transgender volleyball player in San Jose State we want you to care about that and what and not the fact that these MAGA Republicans are making your lives actually miserable that they're taking away workers protections they're taking away your health care they're preventing you from accessing health care
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They want to abolish the Department of Education because they want to keep you dumb and stupid so they can get cheaper labor from overseas and then say that you're too stupid to work the jobs. I hope that you're just so ignorant that you fall for their stupid propaganda. Do you see what they're doing to you? Do you see what they're doing to you? But yeah, egg prices are up. Mortgage rates are up.
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The New York Post article, it's Joe Biden's fiscal time bomb is set to explode just in time for Trump to take office. Excuse me? Joe Biden's fiscal time bomb? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? President Biden's stock market up 55, 60% over Donald Trump. Unemployment at record lows, 16.2 million jobs created. There was never a month where America lost jobs.
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Your 401k, if you have one, is probably up under President Biden. I mean, 40,000 infrastructure projects, the most pro-union president. And you want to compare what President Biden is doing as well versus what Donald Trump's doing? Well, as Donald Trump's a weapon of mass distraction, this is what Biden was doing yesterday. Did you hear it reported anywhere on the media?
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The Biden administration announced a rule change which requires companies that compile consumer credit data to remove medical debt from their reports.
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More than $49 billion in medical debt from the credit reports of millions of Americans across the country will no longer negatively affect their credit score, and lenders will no longer be able to consider medical debt when evaluating whether or not to give someone a loan.
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As a result of this rule change, Americans could see their credit score skyrocket by an average of 20 points, and more than 20,000 new mortgages can now be approved each year. year. Also, President Biden previously did the same thing when it came to forgiving student loan negative credit reporting. He extinguished a bunch of that if you applied on the right time.
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So while Biden's been doing things, he signed into law the Social Security Fairness Act over the weekend. Donald Trump is talking about threatening our allies. It's a weak little man who talks about threatening our allies, but won't dare talk about Venezuela kidnapping the opposition leader who should be their president, and Mondo Gonzalez's son-in-law.
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Won't talk about that, won't talk about Putin, won't talk about Xi Jinping, but talks about Canada heinously, talks about Denmark heinously, talks about Panama heinously. a weapon of mass distraction. And folks, I think it's important that we cover it. We can talk about this stuff that Trump's saying, but I want to focus more on why he's saying it versus just saying, here's what he's saying.
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Here's what he said. He's an idiot. No, I want to focus on the distraction that he's doing. Why? Because he's playing you. He's trying to screw you. He's the reason why Trump We as Americans, the 99%, have not been able to obtain the economy that the people deserve, the healthcare that people deserve, the education that people deserve, the housing that people deserve.
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So his friends, Jeff Bezos, whose Amazon company just paid Melania $40 million for the rights to her horrible documentary with Brett Ratner, who was someone who has all these accusations of... Sexual misconduct against him during the Me Too movement.
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Donald Trump has completely frightened the bond markets. Donald Trump will not be able to help people get housing. Donald Trump has betrayed his base by saying, with Elon Musk essentially, that white Americans are too dumb. Americans are too dumb to have STEM-related jobs and to do jobs in technology and engineering and mathematics and science. That's what Donald Trump said.
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He's the director of the Melania film and Bezos paid him $40 million so that he could get close to Donald Trump while they're buying their yachts and their private jets, their Bombardier jets, their Gulfstream 600s. Americans are struggling to buy housing. But Trump's like, oh my God, we're going after Greenland. We're going, we're going to name the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.
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Oh, the volleyball player from San Jose. Stop it. Focus, focus. Weapon of mass distraction, focus. And go back to what Veronica Escobar said. Okay, cool. But how is that dealing with my life and the prices? Cool. What does that have to do with me right now? Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Jagmeet, we've been speaking for about 17 minutes or so. And I want to introduce our audience though, to just who you are. Of course, I would love to have you on more in the future, but I'd love for people just to know your background. I mean, How do you go to lead the NDP? Your background was a very compelling story when I learned about it.
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I'd love for you just very briefly to just share that story with our people here.
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You got a great story that we'll get into a little bit later as well. But one standing up to Trump in the first place, but to your overall reaction to this barrage of threats from the United States, from Trump specifically, not all of us against Canada.
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Finally, Jameet, we know that Donald Trump watches this show. He frequently cites it in his court filings. He blames us for things and it's all meritless, but we know that him and his team watch this. So if you had a message for him today, what would your message be to Donald Trump, the president elect of the United States?
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not we don't need to be bullying each other and we're going to fight facts my message is don't pick a fight with canada it's not a fight that's worth it jagmeet singh leader of the ndp in the house of commons thank you so much for joining us appreciate it thank you everybody hit subscribe let's get to four million subscribers by next month thank you
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Canada NDP Leader STRIKES BACK at Trump’s THREATS
You know, you have this Maple MAGA thing going on in Canada, as it's been referred to, embodied in the Conservative Party there, led by their opposition leader, Pierre Poliev. You know, Pierre Poliev recently went on this far right wing podcast by Jordan Peterson, where he seemed to mock
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I'm joined by Jagmeet Singh, member of the House of Commons and leader of the NDP in the House of Commons. We've got a lot going on in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the Liberal Party just announced his resignation. His government was held together by an alliance, tenuous one, with the NDP. Mr. Singh, you had called for his resignation a few weeks later. He did indeed resign.
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all of the social programs in Canada, from healthcare to dental to pharma, and started saying it's a way that distribution goes from people who don't have a lot of money to the people in power. In other words, that The social programs in Canada are benefiting the wealthiest and not the people. It seems to be the message that he was spewing on Jordan Peterson and before.
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And you've confronted him about this. You know, he seems to be someone who's more supportive. of our failed healthcare system here in the United States. Let me just show this brief portion of that interview from the Jordan Peterson podcast. The fact that he was on that podcast to me says a lot in and of itself, but what he said, I thought was horrifying as an American.
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I wonder what Canadians think about this. Let's play this clip.
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What's your response to him being on that show, what he said on that show, and what's your message to Canadians, especially as we're in this pro-Rogue period? And I assume there'll be elections sometime after March.
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You know, before Trump won the election and started doing all of these threats against Canada, and frankly, even before Prime Minister Trudeau resigned, if I were to even talk to some of my Canadian buddies, somewhat off the record or just as friends, you know, they would think, though, you know, look, it's likely that this guy is going to win Pierre Poliev.
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And there seemed to be I don't want to call it defeatist because I don't want to project an Americo centric view of my conversations with Canadians. But there seemed to be a fait accompli that that we were that Canada is just going to be pulled into this Maple Maga thing and that inevitably that's where it's being just drawn into. And I would say
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But I just spoke to Jagmeet Singh, and he's saying this guy is so clearly articulating things that to me would go against foundational principles in Canada. So what am I missing here as an – are people really going to vote for this guy? Do people – I've seen this guy speak on the House floor. He's obnoxious. He gets kicked out. He's –
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First and foremost, I want to welcome you to the Midas Touch Network. We had some other NDP members on, but welcome. Thank you so much. I'm honored and excited to be here. Thanks so much. You know, when Donald Trump was elected and he first started attacking Canada, there was a lot of confusion, I think, within Canada about how to respond. but not from you.
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He seems to be everything that cuts against my American view of Canada. So, so why, what do you think is going to happen? I mean, can this guy be stopped? Can the conservative party truly, you know, truly be stopped after this pro rogue period ends?
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You know, one of the things you see with far right wing movements internationally, same thing here in the US, probably Canada, you know, everywhere is this divide and conquer approach, though, because they can use wedge issues to divide people. But sometimes the default ends up being. picking really flawed and harmful people who are actually attacking you.
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So I see you on Canadian media appearances and often you get asked the question, which is basically like, well, what could the NDP be doing here? Is it forming alliances again with the Liberal Party? I mean, you've been asked, well, look,
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you know you've been you called for trudeau's resignation and to and to basically disband the government that led to his resignation does that fall into the hands of the far right does that fall into the hands of pierre poliev and you get asked that a lot so what what's and oftentimes you get cut off when you're trying to give your answer when i've been watching uh canadian media but if you can explain that because some people are saying well look we don't want pierre poliev
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We didn't like Trudeau, but now what do we do? So what do you say to those people?
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You immediately responded right away and said, you will not bully us. And after that, I thought it gave others the confidence because you're seeing it now with a lot of other politicians out there in Canada who are saying that. But Donald Trump has been relentless. Just yesterday, he made the following post as well. Once again, referring to Canada as the 51st state.
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You know, talking about the friends of Pierre Poliev, Elon Musk seems to be amplifying the interview with Jordan Peterson and everything Conservative Party over and over again, you know, to see kind of foreign intervention in your elections so brazenly like this. I want to get your thoughts on that and your message to the Canadian people there. We're seeing this internationally, though, right?
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I mean, we're seeing Elon Musk with the Reform Party in the UK, with the AFD in Germany. There's not a far right wing party that this guy Elon Musk is not propping up. even more far right wing than even Nigel Farage is like, all right, you're getting a little too far there, which tells you a lot.
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But it's that alliance that Musk is trying to create, right, with Poliev, AFD, Reform Party, MAGA, and bring this together to help the billionaires and the oligarchs. Do I have that right? Or what's your response as Canadians are seeing, why is Elon Musk there? coming into Canada? Why is he messing with us?
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And he said that Canadians would love for Canada to be the 51st state and that this is something that they want. What a great nation it would be essentially if the United States conquers Canada. I want to get your response to that for those who don't know you, too. You got a background in jujitsu. You went to law school. You got it.
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He goes... We don't need their lumber. He goes, we don't need their aluminum. He goes, we don't need their oil. He says, we don't need their resources. They just rely on us for military protection. So they need to become the 51st state of the United States. Donald Trump then said,
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People really don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to Greenland, but if they do, they should give it up to America because we need it for our national security. First off, we don't need it for our national security. And number two, Donald Trump is threatening Denmark. Donald Trump is threatening our NATO ally, as Greenland is a territory of Denmark.
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I'm gonna do a whole other video of this, but yesterday Donald Trump reposted a video of someone who purported to be from Greenland who was saying that he wants Greenland to be part of the United States. It was a heavyset man who ended up mocking the United States for having fat people, he said in the video, and he put on a MAGA cap. It turns out that individual was a well-known drug trafficker.
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from the area. But I digress. I'll do a whole other video on that. Great reporting by our team, and they looked at some of the reporting out of Copenhagen to report on that for all of you. Donald Trump then goes, the windmills, the windmills, they're driving the whales crazy. Obviously, the windmills are driving the whales crazy, he says. Then Donald Trump says, what is really important is
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Donald Trump held a press conference on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida that was demented, delusional, and dangerous, but it was particularly very demented and delusional. Look, folks, I don't play Donald Trump audio or video clips anymore, but I want to share with you what went down at this press conference so you can understand how Demented, delusional and dangerous he is.
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is that we will be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Keith Oberman says, Donald Trump then says, they also want to go back. They have already started that too. When you buy a faucet, no water comes out. Even in areas that have so much water, you don't know what to do. It's called rain. It comes down from heaven. It's called rain.
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It's what Donald Trump said at the press conference. Trump goes on to say, they want very little water, very little water to go into your dishwasher, almost none. And you know what people do? They just keep pressing, pressing, pressing, keeping it going. They end up using more water, like washing machines. He then goes on to say, gas heater is much less expensive. The heat is much better.
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It's much better heat. As the expression goes, you don't itch. Does anybody have a heater where you go and you're scratching? That's what they want you to have. They don't want you to have gas. Again, what the heck is he even talking about? Who is they? What's he talking about? Itchy and scratchy. This is bizarre, folks. He goes on to say, the Panama Canal is a disgrace.
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What took place at the Panama Canal, Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to treat us well. He then goes on to say, if those hostages aren't back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break loose.
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And when he finished the press conference, he said, I want to remind everybody all hell is going to break loose. So I'm just trying to get this straight. Wasn't he supposed to be the master negotiator and just be able to solve all of this? Weren't all the MAGA folk telling us, oh, he's going to stop World War III.
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He's threatening to be the bad guy right now in World War III and go after Greenland and attack Canada and Mexico and Panama. And by the way, you know what he's not talking about? Russia. China because he's terrified of Vladimir Putin. He's terrified of President Xi Jinping. I thought Donald Trump was going to bring peace in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Oh, I guess he wants to distract from that now by saying he wants to attack our NATO allies. We don't forget here at the Midas Touch Network. So you're not going to do the thing that you said, bring peace to Ukraine, but you are now threatening military force. against Greenland.
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And as one commentator wrote, and I agree with this, just think about the lack of respect this shows our troops where you are for just utter stupidity and your own ego now threatening to use American troops to attack a NATO ally in Greenland.
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He's talking about windmills, killing whales. He's talking about not ruling out sending our military to conquer Greenland and go to war with Denmark. He's whining about his court cases. He's talking about how heaters make him itchy. He's talking about water dripping from faucets and he's going like drip, drip, drip. It was very strange. Let me explain what went down.
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As this account says, Rotimiadio says, Iran war, also along with the Greenland war and the Panama Canal war, also the war with Mexico when we blow up cartels. Am I keeping up with all the wars this guy wants to start? And also notice what a weak person Donald Trump is. Oh, I need all of this to be done before I get into office.
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Remember what Donald Trump did to President Biden in Afghanistan, where Donald Trump cut a deal to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners who then took over Afghanistan. And then when Donald Trump did not even do a transition and President Biden took over, President Biden had to deal with the crisis that Donald Trump created.
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And now Donald Trump wants President Biden to solve the problems for him before he takes office. Pathetic.
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As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes, Trump ran on a platform as a peace candidate who would stop endless wars and would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, but now concedes that is not going to happen while he threatens Mexico, wants to invade Greenland and Panama, and wants to take over Canada through economic warfare.
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Donald Trump has then asked the following question about Meta or Facebook, because Zuckerberg, Trump announced he will not be doing fact checks and he will be moving a lot of his team that deals with content moderation to Texas because California is too woke. Donald Trump is asked, so Meta announced they will stop doing fact checks. Trump says, I think they've come a long way.
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The reporter goes, do you think he's responding to the threats you've made in the past? Donald Trump responds, probably. Aaron Parnas writes, oh look, meta rolling over for Donald Trump. Color me shocked. Why Donald Trump doesn't want fact checks is because when we fact check his lies, his heinous behavior, his just disgusting being, he looks like a fool.
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When he says stupid things like this, Jack Smith will do a 500 page report and it will be a fake report. Like the investigation was fake. If they're not allowed to issue to the report, that's the way it should be. Why should he be allowed to write a fake report? It's fake. Everything is fake. I mean, all of the witness testimony is fake. The videos are fake. The photographs are fake.
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Your statements are fake. The audio recordings are fake. No, I would like to see the report about you taking classified information and hiding it at Mar-a-Lago. I would like to see that data and that information, especially if it includes nuclear secrets, which it is believed to include. Donald Trump then says he's asked a question about January 6th, 2021.
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And Donald Trump says that it was the FBI who were involved. And he says Hezbollah, we have to look into Hezbollah, that somehow Hezbollah was involved in the January 6th insurrection. Again, now you have Meta, Facebook, too afraid to fact check that. Move their crew to Texas so we have to say Hezbollah caused the insurrection. Are you kidding me?
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Donald Trump was asked by a reporter, can you assure the world that as you try to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, You are not going to use military force. You are not going to use military coercion. Donald Trump says, no, I can't assure you on either of those two that he will not use military or economic coercion.
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I mean, honestly, if there are any Trump supporters watching this, do you realize how stupid this looks? And by the way, go watch the if you think I'm just giving you the tidbits, go back, watch the full press conference. If you go and watch that and you're like, oh, that's my guy. Well, do some deep reflection right there.
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A reporter asks Donald Trump, Elon Musk is drawing criticism for some of his statements about foreign affairs in Europe. Is that appropriate? Trump's response is you mean where he likes people that tended to be conservative? I don't know the people. Well, let me be clear, Donald. Elon Musk is now your top advisor. He's someone who's either pulling your strings or right by your side.
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He's running a fake government agency which has significant power over life and death of Americans and nobody elected that guy. So you're attached at the hip to this guy now. He's not just saying things about conservative people.
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He's saying things that even the far right extremist party, the Reform Party in the UK, is saying Musk is being too extreme for us by supporting people who have essentially been accused of inciting like domestic terrorism, people who are corrupt. criminals, people who have sympathies for white supremacists, people who are white supremacists.
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And even Nigel Farage is like who is a far right wing extremist in UK is like, OK, Musk has gone too far. It's not conservative people. Elon Musk is supporting a party in Germany called the AFD, which basically sympathizes with neonauts. They're basically neo-Nazi sympathizers. So, no, it's not just he likes conservative people. And Trump knows what he's saying right there.
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He knows the gaslighting. Again, he's asked about using military force on Canada. He says probably not military force, but that he will use economic force against Canada to try to annex it and acquire it and make it the 51st state. He goes on to complain about Canada more. He goes after New York Judge Juan Merchan and says that he's a crooked judge. I'm under a gag order while attacking the judge.
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Doesn't... All Donald Trump wants to be able to do, apparently, is to attack the judge's daughter, because that's what a weak little man Donald Trump is. That's the only remaining part of the gag order. Just don't attack the judge's daughter, who's a private citizen. And then Donald Trump praises Judge Eileen Cannon, the judge who he appointed, who...
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made a ruling that no other judge has ever found in the history of America, that special counsels don't exist. So she dismissed the case where Donald Trump took nuclear information on the basis of special counsels don't exist, but apparently they just don't exist for Donald Trump because special counsels exist for everybody else, like Hunter Biden was prosecuted by a special counsel, for example.
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But Judge Cannon ruled on Tuesday that the report that's being prepared by the DOJ about their findings regarding Donald Trump can't be released. She issued an injunction stopping Merrick Garland and Jack Smith from releasing their report. Again, you want to talk about weaponization? Take a look at what Judge Cannon's doing as Donald Trump's praising her from this Palm Beach press conference.
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Donald Trump is then asked about the police officers and other people who were injured on January 6th. And Trump response is basically, look, all I care about is Ashley Babbitt. She's the only person who was killed and he blames the police for killing her. when she was an insurrectionist who tried to break into the secure area with a mob of people who were trying to kill members of Congress.
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He will not rule that out, meaning that he's open to going to war with Greenland. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, says... This is where we are at, folks. The president-elect is not ruling out using military force to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal. Then Donald Trump goes on a rant saying that Canada should be a state. He says we really don't need a lot of stuff from Canada.
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And many of those members of Congress, Republicans are so spineless that they go along with all of this crap. We're not going to normalize this behavior. I'm not showing the audio of him. I'm not showing the video of him, folks. I'm just letting you know what went down.
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And if you want to go watch it, there's lots of places you can find it for yourself to verify that everything I said was accurate. But that was a summary of this, as I said at the outset, delusional, demented, and dangerous press conference. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 4 million subscribers.
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Trump's tariffs against Canada are backfiring as Canada stood up for itself, issued a firm and powerful and forceful response, and it has Donald Trump's administration reeling. Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was reportedly nervously calling the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and saying, Doug, please don't do this retaliatory tariff stuff. Please don't cancel the Starlink contracts.
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It seems like this Trump regime is in panic mode as stagflation fears bubble up as the Trump tariffs take effect. Now, economists believe that there will be stagflation, meaning rising inflation and a recession when it comes to GDP growth.
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Remember, the Atlanta Fed is now predicting basically a 3% plus contraction in the economy where it was supposed to be a 4% growth if Donald Trump didn't do a thing and just let former President Biden's economy roll on. There you have it, folks. Canada standing up powerfully to the United States. And we're not even talking about the boycotts, the boycott of U.S. tourism, the boycott of all U.S.
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referring to the unity of mostly all of the premiers of the provinces in Canada aligned at the federal level with Prime Minister Trudeau. Doug Ford goes on to say, as a first step in our response, Ontario will rip up our contract with Starlink. Take U.S. alcohol off of LCBO shelves and ban U.S. companies from government procurements. Prime Minister Trudeau issued the following statement.
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goods. Think about the tourism hit when that shows up in our economic data. That's in the Atlanta Fed model in addition to other things. That's why they're predicting like a three and a half to four percent contraction of our GDP recession territory in the first quarter. Trump took a perfectly stable Good economy and crashed it into the ground.
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And you see how weak and pathetic he is, like a quartered rat that he is. No offense to quartered rats. We're frankly more likable. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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The moment U.S. tariffs came into effect this morning, so did the Canadian response he wrote yesterday. Canada will be implementing... 25% tariffs against $155 billion of American products, starting with $30 billion worth of goods immediately and the remaining $125 billion in 21 days time. You see right here, the LCBO halted the sale of all American alcohol.
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The LCBO is the world's single largest purchaser of alcohol. A loss... right away, of $1 billion to American companies. Like that, Donald Trump did it. Here's what LCBO posted. For the good of Ontario, for the good of Canada, in response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, products produced in the U.S. are no longer available until further notice. Looking for an alternative?
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Ask our team about our extensive range of Ontario and Canada-made products. And you saw right there, All of the American alcohol being taken off the shelves. Also, lumber futures soaring to its highest price in recent memory as well, making it very difficult for new homes to be built in the United States. So here's the play by play of what went down as I talked about it earlier.
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Laura Stone got the scoop. So the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, he had to call Premier Doug Ford of Ontario after the press conference by Doug Ford, basically saying, look, your response is too tough. It's too aggressive. You got to tone it down. You're making Donald Trump sad. You're making Donald Trump sad. And Ford told Lutnick, Lutnick, Howard, I ain't backing down. You punched us.
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You went after us. We have to respond. You have to understand, Howard. You come after us. We're coming after you. We were prepared. Your people weren't ready. What you going to do about it? So then Howard Lutnick runs on Fox, American state regime media. And then he's like, all right, we're trying to work out a deal. We're trying to figure something out with Canada and Mexico.
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You know, Trump's a good dealmaker. This is... It's all going to plan, everybody. It's all going to plan. Here's what Lutnick said here. Watch this.
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Just to clarify, I told you- Yeah, you see, when Canada smacked These losers down, you see how weak and pathetic this regime is. This wannabe authoritarian regime of freaking losers who are in charge in the United States right now. These snake oil salesmen, con men who are just trying to screw up the international order to benefit Putin.
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Please tell all of your supermarkets not to take the American bourbon and American whiskey off of the shelves. Please don't do that. Let's try to do a deal. to which the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, said, you punched us in the face, Howard. We have to respond this way. And Howard was like, look, we're going to try to do a deal. Donald Trump needs to kind of get out of this.
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Yeah, when you screw over Canada, Canada goes over the boards. When you screw with Canada, Canada goes elbows up. Canada's a peaceful nation, as many of our allies are, unlike Russia. But you screw with them, you poke them, they stand up. Here is the Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the speech that he gave yesterday that really scared the crap out of the American regime. Here, watch this.
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And here he is again from the day before that even, Doug Ford saying, we're going to cut off your electricity next too. We're going after you. You come after us, we're coming after you. Watch this.
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We're going to come back twice as hard. And here he was on CNN saying how livid Canadians are. Play it. How upset, how mad are Canadians?
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Erie is saying that Canada will not hesitate to use every tool in its toolbox, play this.
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Thank you, Miracle Made, for sponsoring this episode. and Prime Minister Trudeau's speech yesterday, pitch perfect. You know, he's acting like a wartime president, because it is a declaration of war essentially against Canada by the United States. Here's what he said.
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Here he is again. Let's play it.
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So Doug Ford, the conservative premier of Ontario, who used to be Maple Baga, this guy used to be kind of supportive of Trump, but that kind of was supportive of Trump until he said Trump stabbed him in the back with the tariffs. Here's the message that he posted yesterday. Canada and Ontario didn't start this trade war with President Trump, but Team Canada is ready to win it.
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Now, all of the MAGA Republicans had to go on state regime media in the US, Fox, and had to be like, well, look, Short-term pain's okay, right? Short-term pain's okay, right?
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And then Donald Trump at the State of the Union, you may have seen, or the joint address, whatever the hell they're calling it, was like, we're good with pain, right? We'll suffer a little bit. Everyone's okay with some short-term suffering. Here, watch this.
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Well, if you take a look at the Dow Jones yesterday, it crashed yesterday. Over the past month, it's down over 2,000 points. Over 65% of Americans believe the economy is doing very bad.
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right now that's what they're saying very bad but folks the big mega influencer cat turd wants you to know that these tariffs are going to hurt canada a hundred times more than us and the canadian leaders know it they can't hide their panic really because now you It doesn't seem like they're panicked. It seems like they're prepared.
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The day began with Donald Trump crashing the markets after imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. It concluded with Donald Trump giving the worst joint session speech in American history. And right before he gave that speech, He gave his old buddy Chief Justice John Roberts a pat on the back saying, thank you, thank you. I won't forget what you did, John. Take a look at this.
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How uncertainty from Trump's tariff is rippling through the economy. Trump's tariffs cause chaos in auto industry. The two-headed monster stalking the economy has a name, stagflation. Tariffs have stoked fears of a dreary combination of weak growth and inflation. The Atlanta Federal Reserve believes there will be negative 3% GDP in the first quarter. When if Donald Trump just did nothing,
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and let former President Biden's economy go on auto drive, literally do nothing. The expectation was that the growth would be 3% to 4%, not a contraction, not minus 3% to 4%. Oh, and here's the other headline from the Wall Street Journal from yesterday. This is a Murdoch-owned property. This tilts conservative. Tariff war risks sinking world into Great Depression.
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International Chamber of Commerce warns the world economy could face crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. And by the way, it wasn't like Donald Trump assuaged the fears last night. He said tariffs. There's going to be a little bit of a disturbance. There'll be a disturbance, but we're okay with disturbances, right? Everybody's okay with disturbances. Here, play this clip.
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Everybody's OK with disturbances. Look, we did tell you that he and Elon Musk said that they wanted to inflict hardship upon Americans. They said they wanted to break it down, kind of crash it down. And then they said they would build it back up once they took the whole system down. I mean, that's actually what they said they wanted to do.
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Listen to what he says here in the joint session from last night. Donald Trump says to Speaker Maga Mike Johnson. Get rid of the CHIPS Act. Get rid of anything left of the CHIPS Act.
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Just to remind you, the CHIPS Act was a bipartisan piece of legislation that was signed into law by former President Biden that invested over $50 billion in the semiconductor industry in the United States and created hundreds of thousands of jobs. Red states, blue states, ruby red areas. led to a manufacturing boom that Trump is destroying. Listen to him. Listen to him.
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Remember, Chief Justice John Roberts issued the ruling that gave Donald Trump absolute immunity so he could escape criminal accountability. Look at the raw corruption after Donald Trump crashed our markets earlier in the day. Just watch it. Thank you again.
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And look for Donald Trump, who said that he's going to stop World War III from, remember, Donald, I'll stop World War III. There's no World War III. In fact, America's alliances were stronger than ever under former President Biden. NATO was stronger than ever. But now look at what the Chinese embassy in the U.S. posted. This is the Chinese embassy in the U.S.
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They're seeing how weak Donald Trump is. This is their post. If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we're ready to fight until the end. That's the Chinese embassy in the U.S. saying any type of war, we're ready to fight until the end. Let's go from China.
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Let's go to the United Kingdom, where the Daily Star has on its front cover this photo of J.D. Vance, Trump deputy's vile slur on Brit heroes. Vance slams us, the incredible, brave United Kingdom armed forces who had valiantly fought in many, many wars. As a random country who hasn't fought a war in 40 years, you see Donald in the background.
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These are like little babies, these people, Donald and J.D. But 636 of our troops died in Afghanistan and Iraq fighting alongside the U.S. I mean, you have J.D. Vance and Donald Trump attacking our closest allies like the U.K., like Canada, like Mexico. But, you know, Canada and U.K. fought by the U.S. 's side all of the time. Prime Minister Trudeau posted the following yesterday.
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The moment the U.S. tariffs came into effect, so did the Canadian response. Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155 billion of American products, starting with $30 billion worth of goods. And the Premier of Ontario said, Doug Ford posted, Canada and Ontario didn't start this trade war, but Team Canada is ready to win it.
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As a first step in our response, Ontario will rip up our contract with Starlink, take U.S. alcohol off of LCBO's shelves, they're the biggest purchaser of alcohol, and ban U.S. companies from government procurements. That sent the United States stock market into the crash yesterday.
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And then Howard Lutnick, Trump's commerce secretary, called up Doug Ford and others to beg them, please don't be mean to the U.S. Donald, can we just make up a fake deal again to give? Just don't be rude to Donald. Just pretend you like him. And Doug Ford said, nah, you punched us. You gut punched your ally and now we're gut punching you back. Canada was prepared and ready for this.
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They outmaneuvered the US. Canada's going to have economic difficulties. But as we've been saying on this podcast and on this YouTube channel, they prepared in Canada. And all of a sudden, the US is like, oh, what? They did this? They retaliated? Yeah, we said they were going to do it. They said they were going to do it. And good for them.
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This ridiculous, idiotic Trump regime is driving the United States into the ground. Take a look at this poll from Civics. How would you rate the condition of the national economy right now? Negative 38. 65% of Americans say the economy is very bad or fairly bad right now. But you know,
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Man, Chief Justice John Roberts will go down as the most pathetic chief justice in American history. And that's saying something. So as we sit on the Midas Touch account, is this what they all meant? By the red wave, the stock market is down or the Dow Jones is down over 2000 points, close to 5% in the last month alone.
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The MAGAs are focused on all the important things on people's minds, like they're fighting with themselves over the release of the Epstein files, right? We know that Donald Trump was like Epstein's close friend. And so we told you Trump never wanted the Epstein files released. But for some reason, the MAGAs were like, we're going to release it. Trump's like, nah, can you not release it? Like, no.
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He kind of trafficked the girls from Mar-a-Lago, like Virginia Giuffre, and I kind of was friends with them and Ghislaine Maxwell. I mean, right? So here was the reporting yesterday from ABC. New. Attorney General Bondi blindsided the White House by handing out the Epstein file binders to MAGA influencers last week.
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Bondi told staff not to tell the White House the plan, apparently thinking the surprise would be well received. Surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise. I mean, they're idiotic. Go look at the photos. Go look at the photos. Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side.
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Donald Trump held beauty pageants where he said that he looks at the women naked without their consent because as the owner of beauty pageants, they let you do it. Donald Trump held beauty pageants with teenage girls, 12-year-old girls, 13-year-old girls, younger than teenagers. Trump was photographed on these boats with these young girls. The whole thing is like disgusting. It's disgusting.
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Trump was found liable for sexual assault. What are we talking about here? He's on audio bragging about him. But folks... MAGA Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace focused on the important things like this. Women want someone who will go to battle for them. I am your lion. Hear me roar, as our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes. That's a male lion. That's not a lioness.
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So for someone fixated on women, she picked a lion, a male, not a lioness. The cosplay continued yesterday. A new outfit was unlocked. Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Secretary. She does all this like cosplay dress up. Sometimes she's a cowgirl and then sometimes she's SWAT team. And then here she is. Here she is in in Arlington, Virginia.
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This is cosplaying in Arlington, Virginia, like, you know, five, 10 miles outside of D.C. property. The whole thing is ridiculous. Oh, and then you have MAGA Republican Congress member like Brandon Gill. This is real. They introduced the Golden Act to put Trump's face on the $100 bill.
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Alina Haba, Trump's top advisor, saying that veterans who have been fired from government jobs are not good workers and the veterans deserve to be fired. Let's play it.
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And then finally, here you have Donald Trump blaming everything on former President Biden.
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Looking awfully like Donald Trump's stocks and his companies that went bankrupt. As former Congress member Adam Kinzinger, who was a Republican, posted this meme. Listen up, liberals, as Donald Trump crashes the economy. But look, listen to what the Wall Street Journal is saying. This is four different articles from the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Here are the headlines.
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Do a good job. But of course, Donald Trump has to end with the fundraising blitz. I'm launching an ultra mega fundraising blitz, he says, because the Democrats are watching our numbers like hawks ready to pounce. If we don't shatter records in the hours before my address to the nation, they'll be claiming victory. Oh, victory over what? What the hell are you fundraising for? What are you doing?
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The election's over. As you destroy the economy, as you pummel your supporters to the ground, as you take away their Medicaid, you're doing a fundraising blitz to take their remaining dollars. You pathetic grifter. You're the most despicable person ever. Wow, wow, wow. Anyway, everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Speech Becomes Full Disaster Only Halfway In
So we're not even halfway through Donald Trump's joint address to Congress. It's already off the rails and one of the worst speeches I've ever seen. We are not broadcasting it live because I don't need to show Trump propaganda. I want to show you the lowlights, however, in summary fashion. So we're only halfway through. I'll do a full review of what went down. But here's what's happening so far.
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Then Donald Trump blames the surging prices of groceries and surging prices of eggs, the surging inflation and the terrible economy right now and the markets crashing. He blames it all on former President Biden. You can hear the audible groans in the crowd. Let's play it.
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Then Donald Trump mentions an African nation and the word trans and Republicans find this to be hilarious. Here, play this clip.
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$32 million. Then Donald Trump talks about sports team with trans women losing their funding. This is one of his biggest priorities as Americans are suffering from the markets crashing from cuts to Medicaid to cuts to our government. This is their main issue. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump attacked the Democrats for not applauding him for achievements that he did not actually do. But he's upset that they're not applauding him for hypothetical achievements. Play this clip.
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and to make things very clear where Republicans stand on these issues as Elon Musk and his team of 19 to 25 year olds are going through your personal and private data, social security information, medical information, tax information, and gutting critical programs, FAA jobs, social security administration jobs, national park jobs,
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other government jobs that are very, very, very important and treating people so cruelly. Elon Musk gets the biggest standing ovation from Republicans as Democrats. Stay seated. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump lies and says that he's found probable fraud in the social security system, which is basically just code for they're going after your social security just as they're going after your Medicaid.
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And I've already played clips in other videos that I've done where Elon Musk, who you just saw get the standing ovation, who's basically running the government, says that social security is one massive fraud, one big Ponzi scheme. So when they're saying that, they're basically saying, They're going to get rid of Social Security. Here, play this clip.
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Believe it or not, government... Now, they're already targeting about 7,000 or so Social Security Administration workers to be fired. They're shutting down Social Security offices. I saw an individual, 80 years old, she called the Social Security Administration today for applications, and they said the wait time is somewhere in the range of 200 to 300 days.
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based on staff reductions i'll do a whole other video of that in the morning over here as donald trump says that people need to be hired on the basis of skill and competence the camera cuts to lauren bobert here watch this we believe that whether you are a doctor an accountant a lawyer or an air traffic controller
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Then Donald Trump says, after what, crashing our economy in just 40 days or so, that this has been the most successful presidency and that George Washington is number two. This is what the psychopath is saying. Here, play this clip.
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George Washington. Then Donald Trump says that the country is woke no longer. I'll let you watch this. Let's play this clip.
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Earlier in the day, you'll recall that Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba, who was his former lawyer, said that the reason that all of these veterans are losing their jobs is because they're probably not fit to have a job at this moment. She says, we love veterans, but they're probably just not good workers. Here, listen to yourself.
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Another horrible day in the markets as Donald Trump's bragging about the economy. In the past month, the Dow Jones has declined by over 2,000 points. You see it right there, down 4.57%. As our markets were crashing today, Donald Trump was fundraising off it. And he's saying, I'm launching the Ultra Mega Fundraising Blitz, he says. The Ultra Mega Fundraising Blitz, just give him some money.
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Before the speech, our Gen Z correspondent Adam Mochler had the opportunity to interview DNC Chair Martin. Here's his message to Donald Trump. Let's play it.
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Here's Democratic Congresswoman Clark's message to Donald Trump. Let's play it.
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And just so I can share with you the receipts, this is what Donald Trump's promise was when he said on day one he would lower prices immediately. Let's play it.
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And here's Donald Trump promising that he would bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, which he has not done either. Here, play this clip.
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There you have it, folks. That's the halfway mark, halftime of the speech. Tune in in about a half hour, 45 minutes. I'll give you the full recap. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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They won't do it, no matter. Then Donald Trump brags about the gold card that he is introducing, that he's selling for $5 million, where Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs can purchase citizenship in the United States. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News GOES INTO PANIC MODE over Trump’s FATAL MOVE
So Fox was in panic mode after Donald Trump held a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, where Donald Trump said that he wanted to occupy Gaza with America forces permanently and turn Gaza into the. Riviera of the Middle East and then force out all of the Palestinians to destinations unknown, aka ethnic cleansing, which Donald Trump was saying on camera.
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So Fox in panic mode, they had to cover it up. Right. So bring in Sean Hannity and Sean Hannity starts to basically say, look, He didn't really say that. He said he wanted to rebuild destroyed buildings. He didn't really say what you actually heard him say. This is actually four-dimensional chess right here. Watch pathetic Sean Hannity play this clip.
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By the way, I'm so happy that the Midas Touch Network is currently beating Fox in digital views. Thanks to you. Make sure you subscribe, by the way. We're currently number one. Fox is currently number two. ABC, CBS, CNN, they are trailing far behind. Anyway, I digress.
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So then what Fox does is they have their former host, Pete Hegseth, who has zero experience to be the Secretary of Defense, but he's now the Secretary of Defense. ostensibly in charge of the ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, as well as all of the other wars that Donald Trump wants to get us into. And so here's what they do on Fox.
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They do this segment where they like go on a helicopter safari together because it's all like cosplay with them. Here, play this clip.
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Our generation has spent 20 years guarding other people's borders while watching an invasion of our own. I mean, it's so utterly pathetic. And by the way, did you see that press conference they held with Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Director? And she wears the different outfits. Sometimes she's cowgirl. Sometimes she's ice agent. Sometimes she's park ranger. The whole thing is so bizarre.
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Oh, this was just in last night. The United States Postal Service is announcing a temporary suspension of international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong until further notice. So You can't get products from China anymore. Great work, Trump administration. Oh, Fox did report as well that the CIA has offered buyouts to every CIA agent, every CIA employee.
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In other words, Trump looks like he's shutting down the CIA. Another Christmas present for Putin. All right, back to Fox freaking out and panicking on just being overall weird. They then have Byron Donalds, MAGA Republican, who he claims the drug cartels, the drug cartels are running the northern border in Canada. Here, play this clip.
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You know, Congressman, as Jason Kendrick says, Byron Donald, it goes Winnipeg forecast clear, cold and windy with a noticeable lack of drug cartels. Here you have Byron Donald's talks about Trump doing absolutely nothing vis-a-vis Canada. Let me just show you this. Play this clip. No tariff diplomacy. Quite remarkable, don't you think?
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Oh, MAGA loves a good fake Donald Trump deal to stroke his ego. These people are the most pathetic people. And the people who are watching this just vile propaganda, they go, okay, we did a good deal, America. Like, you realize that America... is being laughed at by all of our enemies and our allies hate us and are disgusted and horrified by us. But Fox, you could keep doing the Hulk Hogan.
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Oh, yeah, the WWE America. We look stupid because of you and exit and Trump and this whole maniac regime. Then Fox has their border czar Tom Homan on, who talks about the Mexican cartel shooting at American troops. He goes, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Because one of the things Trump wants to do is to militarily attack Mexico.
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It's one of the reasons that the Trump regime, the authoritarian Trump regime, is now calling the drug cartels terrorist organizations. Because watch, In the next 180 days, they'll find some pretext and they will drop bombs in Mexico. That's what they're setting up here. It's obvious. Play the clip. The most powerful military in the world will not be intimidated by anybody, let alone cartels.
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And then Fox calls in Trump spokesperson one, their press secretary, Caroline Leavitt. And Leavitt talks about, isn't this so great? We're sending people to concentration camps today. The first flights are out to Guantanamo Bay. It is weird, though. Why don't you just deport them to their countries? I mean, if you're really going to do it. I mean, I don't know what you're doing in general.
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It makes no sense. And you're taking non-criminals and you're attacking – your own, your own supporters like Venezuelans who were once on TPS, temporary protected status. But why, why, why? Why are you sending him to a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay? Oh yeah, cruelty's the point with these people. Here, play this clip.
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And then you have MAGA Republican Senator Britt. Remember, she was the one last year who delivered that like super cringy response to former President Biden's State of the Union address. And she goes, on the one hand, Biden was draining Guantanamo, removing people. We're filling it back up. We're filling concentration camps up with innocent migrants. Oh, yeah, we're winning. Hulk Hogan. Oh, yeah.
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This is just stupid. It's just it's just the dumb. It's like watching something even more idiotic than idiocracy. But play the clip.
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And then here you have Steve Witkoff, special envoy to the Middle East. They have him on Fox to try to further talk about what Trump really meant. Let me tell you what he really meant. Here, play this clip.
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Oh, yeah. Then Jesse Waters has on Donald Trump's very special friend, Alina Haba, who's Trump's senior advisor to the White House. Alina Haba. And Alina Haba says that Democrats should support spending taxpayer dollars to annex Gaza. And then she pushes the debunked lie about government spending millions on condom bombs for Gaza. The condom bombs, which don't exist.
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I think it was Gaza Mozambique. which got a little bit of money for contraception as part of the USAID program that Elon Musk has totally dismantled and will allow or contribute to about 150,000 kids getting AIDS as a result, like HIV AIDS, like that's what they're doing. But anyway, here's what Alina Hobb has to say. Condom bombs, play this clip.
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Just so you can see for yourself and hear for yourself, here's what Donald Trump said about the Gaza Strip. Play this clip.
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Yeah, there wasn't really any mincing words there. Like, the city wants to level it, take it over, own it. ethnically cleanse it. So despicable. Hit subscribe. We need to get to 4 million subscribers. Let's keep growing quicker than Fox. Hit subscribe. Thanks for watching.
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maniac who is trying to annex Canada and to destroy all of our alliances and destroy NATO and to conquer Greenland. And so, aha, this epiphany from these Trumper groups that are like, and these organizations that were supportive of him, like this group right here, the National Association of Home Builders, a bastion of liberals and progressives. I'm
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Joking, of course, they represent builders in the construction industry, and they were very supportive of Donald Trump. I'm sure not the whole organization, but at the high level, they were very happy when he got elected. They'd say nice things about him. They're saying, oh, his America first policies look amazing.
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Well, now they're sending a letter to Donald Trump saying that our country is already facing severe housing shortages and affordability crisis, which we thought you recognized in one of your executive orders. But right now, by imposing these tariffs on Canada and Mexico, you're going to harm and already increase challenging housing market, you're going to make things far more difficult.
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Since January 2021, inputs to residential construction saw price increases of just over 30%. Our sector relies heavily on a diverse and cost-efficient supply chain for building materials such as lumber, steel, And it lists other elements.
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And it goes on to say, your tariffs will lead to higher material costs, which will ultimately be passed on to home buyers in the form of housing price increases, which is going to make housing far less affordable, not more affordable. And you will be betraying one of your campaign promises. But... All of his campaign promises are being betrayed.
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Other than he's imposing tariffs, which everyone pretended, oh, that's not going to do a big deal. Well, it's crashing the economy and it's going to make prices skyrocket and make housing far less affordable at all. But you let the leopards eat your face, National Association of Home Builders. We're seeing the same thing with the National Association of Manufacturing.
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Also this lobbying group, you know, Republicans are great for business. Trump ain't a Republican. Trump's a psycho. He ain't a Republican. He's not conservative. By the way, I don't buy the premise that Republicans are better for business. Democrats have created
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Of the 50 million jobs created over the past 30, 40 years, or whatever the number is, like 48, 95%, 96% of those jobs were created in Democratic administrations. Trump lost jobs. He was the only president. other than Herbert Hoover to lose jobs during his first term.
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And if you want to know why those housing costs for the National Building Association or the manufacturers, costs were going up because in Trump's first administration, he added $8 trillion to the debt. And because he mishandled COVID, he destroyed all of our supply chains. So when President Biden had the American Recovery Act,
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and had to fix it he was it was the equivalent of biden being the fire department putting out the fire and then ultimately you were blaming the fire department for the fire of course when you're putting out the fire there's still going to be fire but who caused it who started the fire it was donald trump's mishandling of covid adding eight trillion dollars of debt
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And how Donald Trump's come in and he's done cataclysmic catastrophic damage in just two weeks to our economy and our alliances that are going to crush your industry. And it was just so predictable. Look under Biden and Harris, the stock market was up 55 to 60%. America's economy objectively was the envy of the world.
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People's 401ks were going up and Trump administration one, you couldn't get toilet paper. Now we're going to be back in that timeline of not being able to find toilet paper and eggs and all this other stuff that's not going to be available. This was so predictable. But here, the National Association of Manufacturers says that their CEO, Jay Timmon, said, look, they try to act nice about it.
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Manufacturers understand that there's a need to deal with any sort of crisis that involves illicit drug crossings in our borders. OK, let's be very clear. America is not handling the fentanyl crisis the way it needs to itself internally. And American consumers are consuming the fentanyl. Synthetic drugs are not being consumed in Mexico or Canada the way they're being consumed in the United States.
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And most of it's coming from China, who only got 10% tariffs, less than Mexico and Canada. And most of the fentanyl and opioids are happening here inside the United States by Americans. And you're saying Canada's the one who's bringing the fentanyl. It's just absurd.
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Then it goes on to say, at the same time, protecting manufacturing gains that have come from our strong North American partnerships is vital. The success of Trump's landmark trade agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, has strengthened the North American supply chain and bolstered economic power across the region. Thanks to this agreement, one-third of critical U.S.
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manufacturing inputs now come from Canada or Mexico, rather than from competitors like China that often engage in unfair practices. However, with essential tax reforms left on the cutting room floor by the last Congress and the Biden administration, Manufacturers are already facing mounting cost pressures.
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A 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico threatens to upend the very supply chains that have made U.S. manufacturing more competitive globally. The ripple effect will be severe, particularly for small and medium-sized manufacturers that lack the flexibility and capital to rapidly find alternative suppliers to absorb skyrocketing energy costs. Look...
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By sucking up to him here, you're still part of the problem. Just enough, okay? Trump's a psycho. Just saying, he's a psycho. He doesn't know what he's doing. There's a reason he bankrupted most of his businesses, why he bankrupted his casinos, screwing over all of the contractors. He was born with a golden spoon in his mouth from his daddy, and he screwed it up his entire life.
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And now he's made most of his wealth from stupid meme coins and Trump sneakers and grifting off of the Oval Office, despite his meme coin now crashing. And y'all still act like, based on your incredible deal making, he's a horrible deal maker. He is an idiot.
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And make sure you use our promo code Midas so they know we sent you. Thanks, Filter Easy. And by the way, take a look at what these shelves look like right now at supermarkets. If you could even find eggs, if you could find dairy products, if you could find things. Here we go again. By the way, the FAA's main warning system for pilots, well, that was gone for like a day and a half.
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Great work done. After two plane crashes, the main warning system was also down. Most people didn't know about that. People don't want to fly planes anymore. Listen to this comment. I spoke with the owner of a small New York manufacturing firm. Most of his sales are exports. Biggest markets, Canada, China, and Europe. He never thought Trump would actually impose tariffs.
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Figured it was just campaign talk. If they go into effect, which they have, he fears he'll have to lay off most of his 65 employees. Well, they're going to. This one. My friend is a crypto investor and voted for Trump. The crypto community was so happy when Trump got elected and my friend snubbed me for voting for Kamala.
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Then after Trump Melania launched their meme coin, my friend's crypto portfolio went down 60 to 70 percent, even though he did not buy the Trump nor Melania means. He lost 60 to 70 percent because people sold their crypto, which he was heavily invested in, to buy the Trump Melania means, which caused the value of his own crypto investments to take a nosedive.
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When Trump's inside traders sold their crypto, All the investors in the Trump meme lost billions of dollars combined, and there was no money to invest back into his crypto projects that they were originally in. Trump's inside trading was problematic and caused lots of issues. There's more right here. This is from Millennial Conservative.
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This is a conservative message board who's saying, there's plenty of government agencies that need to go, but OSHA? Now Trump and Musk are trying to get rid of OSHA? We need the OSHA. It saves lives. You have Republican Senator Susan Collins talking about how the tariffs are going to hurt her state of Maine. Remember, Susan Collins is the one who goes, I am shocked, I tell you.
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I'm so shocked and I am hurt. I'm going to say how surprised and disappointed I am at this. Okay, really? I mean, come on. Carmack55 on these message boards saying, dozens of female Republican officials who have been fired by the Trump administration's anti-DEI policies. They're complaining that Trump's firings were supposed to be according to race, not gender.
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More people on the Fox YouTube channel and the Fox message boards are saying this. I supported him for lower prices, and they were a lot like me. We will never defend this. This is the worst decision he has ever made with the trade war. No one wins in trade wars. Just means higher prices. I will never vote Republican again if they don't speak out. What happened to lower prices?
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Then someone goes, Trump and his cabinet full of billionaires care less about the cost of living for normal people, but at least he's renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. More from the small government conservative message boards. what's the point of taxing Canada like for real? This is the definition of a pissing contest. What the F man? What's the goal of all of this?
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I'm worried this is going to bite us hard causing prices to skyrocket. I'm in the construction industry would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous on this roller coaster. Here, we have more conservatives realizing that Trump's tariffs on Canada may not be the best idea. So wait, Canada's putting retaliatory 25% tariffs on over $100 billion of American imports?
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So all these Trump voters and organizations that supported Donald Trump are having deep regrets today and over the weekend as Donald Trump imposed the tariffs that he said he was going to impose. I guess they thought that he was joking or that this was all part of some negotiation scheme when in fact he's actually a psychotic person.
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It won't hurt America as much as Canada, but it will hurt. This is just the stupidest timeline. We're allies. Asking Canada to pay more for NATO makes a ton of sense. Asking Canada to secure the borders only fair, although I'll point out much more crime actually moves from America into Canada than the other way around.
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And maybe a few trade concessions like changing some trade policies related to agriculture and dairy goods might make sense. But this is getting into a fistfight with a country that for 100 years has wanted nothing but friendship and free trade. Wild. No, what's wild is that you bought what this con artist Donald Trump was selling. Wasn't this so obvious?
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More people who are saying, you know, oh, this is, you know, woe is me, how horrible this all is. And by the way, I think in South Dakota, you have the Lutheran Family Services Organizations. I think tends to, you know, in South Dakota vote a certain way. And now they're saying that these payments are illegal. And Elon Musk is saying that he's shutting down unilaterally.
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He's deciding that he's going to shut down payments, to which I show you this meme right here of former President Biden, who I had the honor of interviewing in the Roosevelt room of the West Wing of the White House. And he goes, wasn't so, we wrote this, wasn't so bad when shit was sleepy. Now, was it? Let's try to get to 5 million subscribers. Hit subscribe. Thanks for watching.
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And look, Trump no longer has the upper hand. I think maybe he took some of these world leaders by surprise during his first term, but now everyone's used to his shtick, except corporate media who just falls for the press releases every time and just reports it as fact.
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people are suffering because of trump's actions he's too emotional to lead and you know who's paying the price the american people time and time again i mean these tariffs are no joke what just happened over the last 24 hours and now you're going to be seeing this play out time and time again and what trump then gets to spike the football and say he won and he did something great and just corporate media is going to run with that headline and meanwhile it just can be further from the truth it's absolute insanity i'm glad we're here where the collective weed might as mighty everyone here to call it out
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Absolutely. When in any moment in history has isolation been the North Star? It's absolutely pathetic what Donald Trump's doing. It's not even that we're not taking the bull by the horn and leading as America. No, it's we're completely isolating ourselves from these other countries. And as we go further into this presidency, That's what Trump wants to do.
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He wants to keep us isolated and insulated in this MAGA madness. And all of his MAGA cohorts are going to just go along with the nonsense. It's bizarre to see it play out the way it's been playing out for only a weekend.
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And you get hit from it, Ben. You get hit from it in all three aspects, right? You have the chronically online influencers, the DC Dranos polluting everyone's feeds on their phone. You have MAGA, Fox News, propaganda arm just injecting it, Ben, into the TV sets. And you have MAGA Mike Johnson just going unchecked. He's sounding an awfully lot like Kevin McCarthy these days.
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I'm talking about the tone, that soullessness of his voice leaving his body every time he speaks, trying to defend Donald Trump and bending over backwards. And he just... it's just getting absurd, man. Like cooked as a nation, unless people could just stand up to these bullies, weirdo, like just call it weird. Like what they're doing. It's like, and they're being so frigging weird about it.
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Excited to get into the show. Just first off, got to say shout out, Elijah. Elijah, my son turns one today. Happy birthday, buddy. I love you. I can't believe it's been a year. It flies by bonkers. Yeah, I echo all those sentiments and more, Brett. So why don't we just dive into the show? Benji, where do you want us to start off tonight?
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41% when you won the presidency, that's not popular. That's not conquering. That's not achievements. And CNN, stop with the freaking normalizing. Oh, he's been known to bend the Constitution. You mean violate it? We'll talk a little bit in the show about this meme coin thing.
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I mean, when you are going to be signing executive orders on crypto and the day before your presidency or 48 hours before you're dropping a shit coin, as they're called, because these things are so grifty. and scammy, it's like what the Hak Tua girl, you are doing in the presidency what Hak Tua girl did, whose name is based on a sex act that got her famous.
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Then Melania dropped a meme coin, and then it started losing billions of dollars. And then Donald Trump's pastor, or the pastor who spoke at the event today, he dropped a meme coin. They're all dropping meme coins, apparently. The grift gets bigger, and I guess a new mark is made every day in MAGA. We'll talk about that and more. But I don't want us to ever be distracted.
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And your allocation is basically the same as Hak Tua girl. We'll talk about that, but that's what you're doing? That's so demeaning to, I don't care what political party you're from, you should be like, ugh, gross, this is just absolutely disgusting. But folks, I always need to bring it back to WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Because notice what Trump did say today.
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And again, I don't show the audio and video. Don't worry, you're not going to hear his voice. Trump goes, they all said inflation was the number one issue. I said, I disagree. I think people coming into our country from prisons and mental institutions is a bigger issue for the people that I know.
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Really, because the whole thing that was spewed seemed to be about inflation, grocery prices, egg prices. He did talk about Hannibal Lecter and he did lie about Haitians eating cats and dogs, but let's be clear. Border crossings under President Biden were lower than under Donald Trump. That's the objective data. They were as low under Biden as they were under Trump in April 2020.
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Do we know what April 2020 was? COVID, the reason border crossings were down under Trump was the same reason that gas prices were down in 2020. People weren't driving, people weren't crossing the border because there were mass casualty events
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taking place in the united states where there were mobile morgues where there were food lines in the united states because trump said like a miracle it's all gonna go away but notice what he's saying here that he's saying that inflation's not the number one issue or the big issue right there
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it absolutely is president biden was getting it under control it was caused by donald trump adding eight trillion dollars to the debt that's what caused it and trump's mishandling of covid so it's a shock to the system when you have to restart the economy with the american recovery act which is what president biden did but now donald trump's like oh that's not a big deal not inflation
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why weapon of mass distraction he's not going to be able to get inflation under control what's other what else is donald trump doing as a wmd a weapon of mass distraction during his inauguration speech talking about conquering other countries we should take it seriously because trump has the ability to do it now um but trump on the panama canal quote we didn't give it to china we gave it to panama we're taking it back excuse me first and foremost it was a lease
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It wasn't give, it wasn't we're taking it back. You're talking about conquering a nation? The president of Panama responded and said, no, you're not. We are a sovereign nation. Get the hell out of here. I'll do a whole other hot take on that. Then Donald Trump spent time saying, Henceforth, it is official policy, penises and vaginas. That's what we're gonna talk about.
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Penis and vagina inauguration. It's the same stuff they do. There are only two genders, male and female. Okay, what do you want me to say? What do you want me to say? You want to spend your time attacking the transgender community, marginalized community, and say, male, female, biological. We're not going to fall for that fake up. First off, do not attack marginalized communities.
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It doesn't make you an alpha to behave. It makes you freaking pathetic. to bully marginalized communities. But I'm not going to be distracted focusing on a transgender volleyball. We're gonna stand up for the community, but we're not gonna get distracted. Oh, the outrage, the transgender volleyball player from San Jose State.
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No, we're gonna hold you accountable and say, where's the peace in Ukraine? Wasn't that supposed, excuse me? What time is it? Wasn't there supposed to be peace in Ukraine today? Didn't you say you're such an excellent dealmaker that you would? By the way, that was supposed to happen after the election. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't give you any benefit of that.
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i'll say you meant today what time is it right now there's no peace in ukraine didn't you say i'm gonna go to putin with your accordion little tiny fingers and accordions then you go to putin here what i'm gonna do putin and here what i'm gonna do is the linsky all right all right you do this And then you do this and boom, I'll get it done. It was not done.
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What did Donald Trump promise? He said, peace in Ukraine today. Well, that didn't happen. So that's a promise broken. Didn't Donald Trump also say on day one, there's going to be so many jobs. You're going to be so upset because there's going to be so many jobs. Well, that's not happening. Donald Trump said prices were going to be lower. That's not happening.
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So, Hey NBC, instead of reporting on booze at a Trump event of Obama, that's not exactly breaking news that that's going to happen. How about you go and report the facts?
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like there was no peace in ukraine today which was also one of his promises and also jobs aren't being magically created like a miracle like he promised how about you do your damn job corporate media or just cut your own cords because people are going to cut it because you are absolutely pathetic right there
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You know, Jordy, did you notice what they did today also? What they did. Which I'm not even going to take their bait and do it here. It's not worthy of our time. But they were praising Trump, doing the whole boo coverage, and then still attacking President Biden, now former President Biden. That's what they were spending their time doing over – Hey, guys, you know what? I get it.
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Trump's in office. We're going to magically fix all of the things that you claim you are going to fix. Ain't happening. We're laser focused. Corporate media, I guess, is focused on kissing the ring. We've got a lot more show, folks. Let's take our first quick break. One thing to remind you all of as well, you've got patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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We got a massive surge of patrons during the puppy inauguration. So thank you to all the new people who join our Patreon. Also, we have MidasPlus.com. That's where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, does some incredible daily reviews of all of the news. I also write a bunch of articles there. That's MidasPlus.com. Check that out. We'll be right back after our first quick break.
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The prices of goods and other things are increasing. Housing's not more affordable. And so it's important that we not get distracted by Donald Trump's WMD. weapon of mass distraction. We'll talk about what went down in some of the weekend shows as these MAGA Republican leaders like MAGA Mike Johnson and Byron Donalds were just incredibly weird and creepy.
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MAGA Republican Congress member Byron Donalds referred to Donald Trump as his, quote, daddy and says, Daddy's home. Daddy's home, everybody. That's really strange. And then Maga Mike Johnson was asked a pretty basic question on Meet the Press about lowering prices. And are you going to put anything in some of this legislation to help the billionaires that may lower the prices?
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Look, NBC is owned by Comcast, right? Comcast has its corporate agenda where it feels it needs to suck up to Donald Trump. They feel that they need regulatory benefits from Donald Trump and they're going to behave the way they do rather than stand up. Then by appeasing him all of these years, they've now again basically taken away all of their own power in doing that. It's counterintuitive.
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As I said in one of my MidasPlus.com posts, when Donald Trump was calling these media companies failing, They weren't failing, actually. That was the thing. They were not failing media companies. But then they took on that persona and became failing, right? Everything Trump touches dies. And now they actually are failing now. And they weren't before. And independent media is growing now.
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because they embrace the Trump loser mentality by being afraid of this guy. It's ridiculous. Anyway, let's go back to what was going on in this inauguration. I'll give you a few more data points here, and then I want to talk about this Trump shitcoin situation, this rug pull. That's one of the big words. I think we're going to call this the rug pull presidency.
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The main word, the word of the year in 2024 was brain rot. which I think is a precursor to rug pull, right? 2024 was the rot which gave way to 2025 as the rug pull. And just so you know what that term means, if you don't know rug pull, the rug being pulled from under you, conning people and then removing the rug and then they fall flat footed or flat on their face after they're conned.
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I think that's what that means, anyway. Now Trump goes, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries and we're going to create the external revenue service. All right, let's see how you actually implement that. It makes no sense. And again, tariffs are taxes on American corporations.
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I don't know what you're talking, it's just ridiculous what you're even saying. It'll only make prices higher. It'll result in retaliatory tariffs. So that ain't going anywhere. More distraction from Trump. We will not forget God. Can't do that. Well, apparently the pastor at the inauguration view of that is I must create a meme coin. God wants me to create a meme coin.
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And Maga Mike's like, well, it's very complicated. You say very, very complicated. But speaking about the billionaires, how weird was it that they were sitting right next to the cowboys? of Donald Trump, who many of them are billionaires as well. Trump has like his billionaire cabinet next to the actual cabinet. It was very strange. You had Bezos's wife, what she was wearing was a bit unique.
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That is true. That's a great point. Yeah. So for those wondering or who watch the puppies and want a little bit of information about what went down, Trump did not place his hand on the Bible.
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And then the day before, one of the individuals who Trump is involved in that company that sells the Bibles said that Trump would place his hand on the Trump Bible that they were going to then sell limited edition Trump Bibles that he was going to use at the inauguration. I mean, honestly, like if you're a religious person, you know, or even a non-religious doesn't make a difference.
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But like for those who are like, you know, the symbolism of the Bible is so important, like Really? Just imagine if Obama or Biden didn't do that. It would be the front page of Fox and every corporate media network. Donald Trump then went on to attack Nancy Pelosi and he called Adam Kinzinger a crybaby, just stupid stuff. He then went on to attack General Milley, former four-star general.
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One of Donald Trump's first acts to show how big and tough he was is he took down the portrait of General Milley that was hanging in the Pentagon. Real strong gesture to get rid of that painting. I'm sure Milley's like, oh, my gosh. I worked and gave all the service so that my painting could be hung in the Pentagon. But it's just a petty, silly, loser move that that's what he was going to do.
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And then you had Zuckerberg taking a peek at what was a bit unique. What? Photo speaks a thousand words. I guess we'll cover that. And also that weird TikTok scheme that Donald Trump was trying to pull where TikTok shut down for 24 hours. And it was like, we are working with dear leader Donald Trump to try to fix this. Praise be, praise be, he's trying to fix it.
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Keep that energy when you're looking at things like this. You had Elon Musk giving a speech at one of these inauguration events. You can judge for yourself what this hand gesture was that he did twice, but this is what Elon Musk was doing. For those who are just listening on audio, you may have seen our reporting on this otherwise. Look for yourself also.
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As soon as that event was done, Elon Musk arrived at the White House right away. He's got an office right there, literally in the executive building that's attached basically to the White House. This is where he is. He's an unelected billionaire and never in the history of the United States would you ever have a situation like this, that the oligarchs are actually in the White House
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influencing and basically serving as a shadow presidency and a shadow government, just taking up the position right there. I mean, just think about that. I mean, think about McCain-Feingold, a bipartisan piece of legislation that was intended to try to keep this exact situation from happening. Bipartisan, right?
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And then they took it down for 24 hours. Then it went back up in 24 hours. They were like, Donald Trump, President Trump, he saved us. He saved TikTok. And by the way, there was no reason for them to take that thing down. The funny thing is, is that All these billionaires, they probably thought they were like so smart with this scheme, but it seems like people are seeing through it.
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And then the right-wing Supreme Court in the Citizens United case said, actually, we got to protect corporations and their First Amendment right to buy presidencies. That's what the Citizens United case basically said. They have a First Amendment right to spend their money however they want to spend their money. And there's cause and effect that that then leads to this situation.
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And again, that was a bi think about bipartisan efforts, the ability to get Democrats and Republicans to agree on anything. They agreed that that was needed. Then the right-wing Supreme Court struck that down and then you got this MAGA mutation developing then from the Tea Party movement springing into MAGA and this is the state that you have right now.
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Speaking about Elon Musk, he's supposed to be leading this fake government entity called Doge and that was actually hit with a lawsuit. One of the first lawsuits that were filed were filed against Doge. By the way, if you go back And Brett and Jordi, you may remember this. In some of my reporting about a month ago, what I was saying is, remember I was calling Doge a quasi-governmental entity?
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And I was saying that it's still, based on how it's being represented, now falls under all of the federal rules of government agencies. You can't just be like, We're not going to recognize federal labor laws and government laws, but we're going to be this kind of government agency. So what the lawsuit said is, look, you're violating the Freedom of Information Act.
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You're violating all of these other federal agency acts. You weren't created through the Administrative Procedures Act. And so this lawsuit, which I think is very meritorious, is basically looking to shut down Doge, number one, but also we want all of the communications
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relating to doge all of elon's text all of elon's emails vivek ramaswami's that should become public um as well and this entity needs to be shut down i think whether you're in front of a right-wing court or a left-wing court whatever
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it's a strong lawsuit against doge one of the other things to mention as well as Vivek Ramaswamy see you later bye-bye he's done he's gone he lasted negative scaramuchis they pushed him out remember Vivek Ramaswamy was basically saying the same thing Elon was saying like they weren't saying really different things and they were basically saying that Americans
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can't do STEM jobs, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, because the culture in America
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is dumber and americans are stupider than people from india so we need to expand the h-1b visa program because americans are too dumb and too stupid to hold stem jobs they literally almost said that kind of word for word inferior to stem workers from india and then donald trump was like i actually always loved h-1b if you look back The entity of Trump that used H-1B was Trump Modeling Agency.
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That's how they got the models here, that they were all geniuses and got H-1Bs and Einstein visas to basically bring the models into the United States. But Vivek basically said, Americans are too busy watching Boy Meets World and they would not like Steve Urkel. They would like Stefan. And that's the big problem with American culture.
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Frankly, it seems like people are seeing through a lot of this crap. And it's just so important. Again, WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Let's focus on what's happening. Let's not make the same mistakes of the past. Let's call him out and let's make this a sophisticated resistance where we're calling them out each and every day on the right things. Brett Jordy, how are you guys doing?
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And then Elon Musk was basically saying the same kind of stuff, but money talks and Elon Musk. is in. Vivek Ramaswamy is being pushed out. Negative Scaramucci's. I don't even know what's going to happen with this doge. The whole thing never really felt like it was a well thought out other than kind of a gimmick to begin with as just a pretext to get Elon that office right next to the White House.
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But the oligarchs are in the White House, literally, not figuratively. They are actually in the White House right now. And Elon has an office there. Just think about that. And again, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, that should piss you off. And if you're a MAGA voter, if you're a Republican who voted Trump, right, you got the rug pulled. That's ultimate rug pulling.
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You got the oligarchs running the show right now and prices aren't lower and there's no peace in Ukraine and housing's not affordable. Focus, focus, focus. Let's take our last quick break of the show. Reminder, patreon.com slash MidasTouch, MidasPlus.com. Thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors as well. Thank you for everybody who watched our puppy inauguration. We'll be back.
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We'll talk about that rug pulling with Trump's meme coin, what these MAGA Republicans are saying on the weekend shows, trying to justify the rug pulling, the promises broken. We'll talk about that and more. Let's take our last quick break.
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A complete inauguration fail. Donald Trump tried to pretend that it was too cold to do the inauguration outside the Capitol. The reality was that he was afraid of those teeny tiny crowd sizes that he draws, or I should say doesn't draw. But what a weird event. We'll break it all down, but of course we don't show the audio or video of Donald Trump.
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Impressive, not impressive. I'll tell you what is impressive, though. The Daily Star, this UK tabloid, their front page was, we're not 100% sure they're right, but one in 25 Brits insist. The orange man baby is a zombie. And that's kind of how you have to deal with him and talk about him, especially when he does things like this.
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Look, even the crypto community was confused when Donald Trump dropped a meme coin on Friday and they thought it was, he must have been hacked. Like, how could this be real? You're dropping a meme coin and then you look at the allocation of the meme coin and about 80 to 90% is owned and controlled by insiders, 10% liquidity on the actual market of these meme coins.
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And by the way, Trump tried to claim it's not like a meme coin because he didn't want it to be considered like a security. So they wanted it just to be like, this is a meme and all you're showing, if you buy this meme, is that you love the symbol dollar sign and the letters, T-R-U-M-P, and you're showing affection for the community that likes numbers and symbols and letters.
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So here's how it went down, Trump posts, my new official Trump meme is here. It's time to celebrate everything we stand for winning. Join my very special Trump community. Get your dollar sign Trump now. Go to Get Trump Memes, then you go to it. And it's like you buy these things with a debit card or you buy it with crypto.
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Then you take a look at the fine print and it says, Trump memes are intended to function as an expression of support for and engagement with the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol dollar sign T-R-U-M-P and the associated artwork and are not intended to be or to be the subject of an investment opportunity, investment contract or security of any type.
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GetTrumpMemes.com is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign or any political office or government agency. See terms and conditions. And when you look at the terms and conditions, it's all of these liability waivers that basically say you can't sue Donald Trump or you can't sue Trump memes.
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And so basically it's this thing that actually looks like a security that like the same thing as like almost like a stock. but it's unregulated. So it has all of this. You hype it up. People say, this looks like a pump and dump. You hype it up. 80% to 90% is held by insiders, meaning they're not the ones who actually buy this thing. They just have 80% to 90% of the supply.
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When I'm saying that there's 10% liquidity, that means the public basically gets around 10% or maybe slightly more of this So if they're all buying this and they're increasing the value by buying and selling this thing and the value is increasing to say $60 for one or $70 for one. Well, then you look at the allocation and you go, what's the quantity that's out there?
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And then you go, okay, the quantity that's out there, meaning the liquidity that's actually now trading on the market. But Trump's trying to claim, oh, it's actually not trading. It's just people selling these memes. But that then gets a value.
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So then you can say, OK, if the value of the 10% is being sold at X dollars and Trump or the insiders control 80% to 90%, you can actually be like, holy crap, Trump's net worth just increased at one point by like $60 billion. 60 billion with a B, became one of the wealthiest people in the world and in America on this meme coin thing. And then his other wealth comes from Trump media.
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But get this, Trump media never made more than close to $3 million in revenue a year or $4 million in revenue a year. It's not making significant profits, but he's making huge amounts of money holding securities or paper that people are investing in because it's him. And again, it's this murky area of crypto. Are foreign governments buying it? Who are the people who are buying this?
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And it's all clouded in crypto wallets. This one crypto wallet holds this. This other crypto wallet holds this. And then here's the thing. Biden's SEC was trying to regulate this stuff and say,
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these memes are securities they should be regulated no different than the stock market because let's be clear what's riskier a meme meme coin or ibm stock why is ibm stock or apple stock regulated by the sec as a security that's on a market that has all of these requirements but meme coins aren't.
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The whole reason why there's an SEC is because once upon a time, people ran all of these scams with things like meme coins, but they were stock certificates and papers that were not regulated. That's why there was this experience that created the SEC. So these meme coins are end run around it.
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Frankly, if there is a place for crypto, and I think there's a place for crypto, I'm not anti-crypto, but this type of crap gives it a horrible name. And then Melania got into the action. She created her own meme coin called Dollar Sign Melania, which looks like Smelania. That's...
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And then when Smolani came out right around that time, it also, whether it was coincidence or whatever, then it started driving down the price of the Trump meme coin. And at one point that Trump meme coin was down like 60 plus percent, meaning the rug was pulled. Lots of people lost massive amounts of money. Imagine buying that at the top of the market and then losing money.
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and putting your life savings into this thing, thinking that you're gonna get rich because all these people are making all of this money. And then boom, it falls like crazy. And then you don't have the ability of the DOJ or SEC to do anything because Trump controls it now. And you can't go after Trump because he now has immunity as the president.
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It is a nasty, I don't care what political party, this was a nasty game. that Donald Trump pulled on the people. It screwed up. And again, are your prices lower? No. Is there peace in Ukraine? No. Is housing more affordable? No. Was he spending time doing that? No. Him and Melania were releasing meme coins that should piss you off regardless of your political party.
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I want to mention two things. First, I think it's important that we also mention developments with Donald Trump's pardons and commutations. When it comes to commutations, that basically just means reducing the prison sentences of individuals.
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So one of the things that Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, sentenced to 22 years, the DOJ called for terroristic enhancements, someone who's literally one of the most dangerous people out there. And whether you were a Trump-appointed judge, a Democrat-appointed judge,
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a Republican appointed judge, they made it very clear over the past few weeks, do not commute or pardon these types of people. Stuart Rhodes, Enrique Tarrio, these violent people. Enrique Tarrio's mom saying that Tarrio's been released and Trump's commuted that sentence. We're hearing about a lot of other violent insurrectionists as well.
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whose family members are talking about them being released. It does indeed seem that Donald Trump's going to, whether you are violent, you get a commutation. And if you are nonviolent, you get a pardon. But this is one of the first acts that he is going to clearly be doing. We'll get you more details on that. I'll do a full take on this as well.
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And this is coming from the family members of Tarrio and other individuals as well. And again, while this is vile, disgusting, despicable, dangerous, pick your word. This is a wake-up call, I think, to Americans that this was someone convicted of seditious conspiracy, convicted. Juries saw this and they said sedition. And Donald Trump said, I'm pardoning them. They get to go.
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It should be noted that Enrique Tarrio was in the White House, hanging out in the White House, in the residency area back in December of 2020, which I know corporate media was too afraid to talk about then. But again, we're not dealing with lower prices. We're not dealing with peace in Ukraine. He's out there pardoning seditionists and commuting the sentences of seditionists.
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It is absolutely, absolutely despicable and vile. Next thing I want to mention, Martin Luther King Day. It is a time for reflection on Martin Luther King's legacy. And as his daughter, Bernice King, also talked about, enough just quoting Martin Luther King, especially by people who don't understand what his legacy really is about mass, strategic, nonviolent protest were the words that she used.
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She goes, if you want to honor Martin Luther King Jr., remember what his real legacy is about. You don't need to do empty quotations of him. And I think it's important that we all reflect on that here today as well. His actual legacy and when we, the people, will be called upon as well to –
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do mass strategic nonviolent protests and how with the incoming that's going to be taking place, we remain united and we make it clear that our voices be heard. I'm not going to pretend that the next four years are going to be puppies and kittens. I think it's helpful that we did what we did today And the fact that we raised $80,000 plus for the Humane Society, I think was a helpful thing.
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Look, we're not showing video or audio of Donald Trump. We're still going to explain what went down. I mean, we are a news network after all. Let me explain to you why I think it's so important, though, that we have independent media. May I show you Exhibit A right now? And this was brought to my attention by others who they tried to dabble with the coverage.
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And by the way, I'm open to doing that once a month and on other special occasions. It's a fun way, I think, to bring this community together. But again, life isn't all puppies and kittens. The network and the news we do and our work here goes on.
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And it's important that we remain fearless, unapologetically pro-democracy, and we stand strong no matter what is thrown our way, that we never obey in advance or ever, we never kiss the ring, and we always stand up. We always stand up for peace, for love, for compassion, for freedom, for our democracy. And that's what we're gonna do here each and every day with you, the Midas Mighty.
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We're going to fight by your side every step of the way. As we did today, as we'll do tomorrow. So thank you very, very much. We appreciate you. Jordy, you want to take us out?
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And they chose NBC because they're like, yeah. Obviously, Fox is an issue, ABC, Stephanopoulos, or as Trump calls them, Slopidopoulos, who has settled the case, so I don't want to watch it. Maybe NBC is a safe place to try to watch this. Maybe they'll give actually some decent coverage and function like The Fourth Estate. If you turned on NBC, this is what you saw. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, what the hell was that? I mean, truthfully, is that the definition of media malpractice right there? You are at a MAGA event and you are... for reporting on their boos and reporting on their boos as though you're reporting on a car chase. It almost had that tone of this live event. And here they come. They're turning right. They're going on the highway. Boo. OK, you are hearing more.
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But we'll talk about how pathetic and low energy it was, talking about pathetic, low energy disaster doge. What's going on with that dogey thing, that fake governmental agency? Well, we do know Vivek Ramaswamy is being pushed out. I guess he's incompatible with the fake agency. That lasted negative Scaramucci. See you later, Vivek.
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What do you expect this MAGA crowd that is literally in a stadium to watch the inauguration. How do you think they're going to respond? Why is that striking to you? And why is that something that you're even reporting on? So I feel very comfortable and confident that the puppy inauguration was the absolute right way to go.
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And that's how they're going to report on things going forward, gamifying, propagandizing. I don't even know what the hell that was, Drew.
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I don't understand why in general, the idea of like being a billionaire and having like so much money just kind of feels a little bit gross to me in general, but whatever, I set it aside. But what's the point of being a billionaire, like if you're a Bezos or a Zuckerberg, if in reality you have like zero power?
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Like, wouldn't part of the evil billionaire kind of thing or whatever, like, to then have the power to like, here's how I'm going to do it. So you have all of this money.
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it's it's a really great it's it's a great point and you know it's like okay what the stock market went up 55 to 60 percent under president biden like objectively those are great returns right if you told me hey if you invest in this over the next four years you'll get a 50 to 60 return right so like they're criticizing that as like whoa things were so bad It's like, really?
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ramaswamy who's going to be the next to fall on the trump see you later bingo card or talking about who's latest latest to fall you've got the trump meme coin falling this meme coin madness at this inauguration party for the crypto community at around that time trump dropped a meme coin and then it quickly made billions of dollars and
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Like you think it was that bad? I mean, look, I don't believe the stock market should be the metric for our economy. There's other metrics that Biden should be rated on, which were, I think, all pretty good. I mean, 16.6 million jobs created, never consecutive months where jobs were lost. You had record GDP growth.
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His Inflation Reduction Act was bringing our inflation down more than any other country. I mean, it was doing a pretty good job until Trump started giving all of these threats and doing the whole Trump shtick, 40,000 plus infrastructure projects. I could go on and on and on. But now these MAGA billionaires needed to have like, it wasn't enough to have 50 billion. It had to be 300 billion.
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And then that wasn't enough. It had to be more like, what are you doing with all of that money? But then you have zero power. And then you're just kind of like sitting there under Donald Trump's thumb. And like, they were all like, really, it was just like a weird thing to see them there lined up. I mean, look, just take a look at them right there. Like we go objectively a weird group.
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these are objectively really weird like really weird people like let's just be real here and then you have like like bezos there you know with his wife and i mean like wait what can like what is this like what you see how she's she's like dressed with the shirt open and then you have zuckerberg standing or sitting right there like just kind of looking like down at
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at her shirt or, you know, what she's, what he's looking at. I mean, the whole thing is very, very strange there. You have Melania wearing this like weird funeral hat. It looks like she's, it looks like her hat is like the roof of Pizza Hut. That's what she's wearing.
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The whole thing, I'm like, what are you wearing? Weird vibes. Weird vibes. It was in the rotunda. It felt very small. It felt very pathetic. I felt like a funeral, honestly. As all of the corporate media, too, was trying to be like, this was an actual headline from the Washington Post.
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how's donald trump conquering dc i think a headline from cnn was donald trump is known to push the boundaries of the constitution i thought there was another headline this may have been from nbc how is he more popular now than ever it's like he isn't he objectively isn't He is the least popular president, I think, in history leading up to an inauguration. It's supposed to be a honeymoon period.
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And for Donald Trump, the nation already wants a divorce from this guy and many want a restraining order. I mean, the AP poll has his pre inauguration approval rating at 41%. This is supposed to be when it's like 70%, right? Obama's was like 78%. Clinton, George W. Bush were like 72% approval. Biden was somewhere between 67 and 72%. That's popular.
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After vacationing in Mar-a-Lago this weekend once again, Donald Trump went back to Washington, D.C. and said, you know what, I'm going to just further tank the markets in the United States of America. The Dow was down 1.48 percent, the S&P 500 down 1.76 percent, Nasdaq down 2.64 percent, and it started crashing significantly when Donald Trump held a press conference talking about how
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I'm really glad you showed the receipts there too. So people know I do a painstaking job to bring you the actual facts and the evidence. And I really try to avoid hyperbolic rhetoric. And it may seem sometimes, whoa, they said 100% or 0%. Brett, I'm really glad that you showed people those actual articles because they were shocking to me.
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And when former President Biden was in office, despite there being like record GDP growth, energy independence at the end of the Biden administration, the lowest border crossings really in a very, very long time, the largest job growth ever, the constant barrage of disinformation made people who were actually living in a time where a lot of the economic data was trending in the right direction.
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feel like they were in a recession or a depression. I understand. I don't want to undermine the fact that prices were up, but we have to also be real about who lit the match that started that fire with the higher prices. It was caused by the first Trump administration. Again, I don't do hyperbolic rhetoric.
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You can go back and watch a lot of the videos that I do where Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, MAGA guy, said that that's what caused higher prices. Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, she said that in the Republican debate because Trump added $8 trillion in debt. That's inflationary. Trump printed money recklessly after handling or I would say not handling at all COVID and
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And then you have to fix it. So when you fix it, that causes a shock in your economy and you have to deal with it the way Biden dealt with it. And that was inflation. That was inflationary. And so right now, Brett, you had all the corporate media. They were doing all they can to help Trump with all of this propaganda about how great his policies are. And I'm like, what are you talking?
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I guess Donald Trump just thinks this is all one big game. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Federal Reserve is now projecting a GDP contraction of about negative 2.8% in the first quarter. It was expected to grow about two and a half, three percentage points, and now it's expected to contract. Many economists believe we are heading into a significant recession and perhaps something even worse right now.
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Here's what I want to do. I was just going to say, when we come back after our first break, I want to pull out some receipts to that point, Jordy. I want to look at Donald Trump's filing that he made recently with the SEC because he has a publicly traded company called Trump Media that runs Truth Social that lost –
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$400 million last year and only made about 3.7 million in total revenue, not profit, in total revenue. Your local boba shop, your local coffee shop is probably doing more revenue than Donald Trump's Trump Media Company that controls Truth Social. I'll show you. I'll show you the amount of bankruptcies that he's had. You can see it It's difficult to do so many bankruptcies.
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I'll show it to you in his own words. So if you have someone in your life who's like, but he's a good business man, I'm going to say, show him this right here. I want to talk about that. I want to talk about the reaction that we're seeing in Europe.
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to uh donald trump's uh support of vladimir putin i want to show you brett to your point i want to talk about all of these scams that they're doing now the trump gold card sell to russian oligarchs five million dollars for visas and citizenship and if you said 10 million out of 5 million dollars you will get 50 trillion dollars hey you know and they just keep doing these ridiculous scams because
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they realize they're about to add $20 trillion to $50 trillion to the deficit. So they're going to act like, but we're going to make it up and trump gold cards, like literally snake oil crap. Talk about that and more. I want to remind everybody about a few things. We have MidasPlus.com, which is our sub stack.
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All of this follows, by the way, we've covered it a lot on our channel, of course, this horrific meeting between Donald Trump J.D. Vance and President Zelensky, where Trump and J.D. Vance humiliated the United States in front of all the world media by wagging his finger at a war hero, President Zelensky, attacking Zelensky, just doing Putin talking points over and over again.
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Let's talk about the things that we know about Donald Trump. He bankrupts a lot of things. He hates paying contractors. He hates Ukraine. He loves Vladimir Putin. He loves talking about himself. He does a lot of scams. So he's kind of acting consistent with the way he's acted his entire life. Like this shouldn't be like, oh my God, he's doing a trump card scam. That's like all he knows how to do.
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It's like, you know, if you, the basketball players out there, right? There's some players when you're growing up who only know how to dribble with their right hand. So you go, there's going right. That's all they know how to do is go right. Trump only knows to do one direction and he's just doing the same routine that he knows how to do over and over again, which is to like destroy things.
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I mean, look, this is from his own 10K. I just want you to see it. I'm not going to read the whole thing. You could take a screenshot of this so you can see. This is Trump's disclosure that says a number of companies that were associated with Trump have filed for bankruptcy. So there are no assurances that the Trump media will not also become bankrupt.
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So it talks about all the companies that went bankrupt, like the Trump Taj Mahal filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991, the Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle and the Plaza Hotel, all owned by Donald Trump, filed for Chapter 11.
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in 1992 then another company called thcr which was founded by trump in 1995 that filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and then you had a new name that was giving to it uh declared bankruptcy in 2009 trump hotels and casino so bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankers like it's right there Did the deep state go back in time using a time machine to achieve this? Is that what happened?
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Dmitry Peskov, who's basically Vladimir Putin's Caroline Leavitt. Peskov is Putin's press secretary, says the United States foreign policy and Russia's policy are directly aligned right now, that the U.S. and Russia will vote together on everything. And the U.S. policy now matches Russia's policy. From that same press conference earlier today where Donald Trump was
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And then it goes a number of companies that do licensing deals with Trump also failed. So there are no assurances that Trump Media will also not fail the way these companies failed. So it talks about Trump Shuttle, Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump Stakes, Trump Mortgage, GoTrump.com, and so on and so forth, ceased operations and failed over time.
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So between the bankruptcies and the business failures, look, I get, you know, sometimes things don't always succeed, but this whole idea that this guy had like good business acumen, I mean, you see right there that he didn't.
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so he brings in this guy howard lutnik as his commerce uh secretary howard lutnik a billionaire guy wall street guy um and and is treating our economy in my opinion like like a pump and dump scheme now i just want you to i'll show you this clip of howard lutnik the commerce secretary as he kind of goes on tv and it looks like he's selling No offense to like a sham wow. Yes, offense to my pillow.
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But he's out there like it's like an infomercial. All right, so here's what we're going to do, everybody. Okay, we got the truck. I know the economy may be in the tank right now. I know that everything's going in the wrong direction. Okay, but I got a secret for you, everybody. If you order a Trump card right now, Russian oligarchs, here's what we're going to do. Watch.
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Like, I'm not really exaggerating that much here.
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Let me tell you how we make America great for the simple price of $5 million. If you are a Russian oligarch and you are watching this, Chinese oligarchs welcome as well. If you would like to purchase your citizenship here, buy a Trump gold card now. A Trump gold card comes with a very fancy picture of Donald Trump.
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And you could even get a picture of Donald Trump golfing everybody or Donald Trump doing the YMCA dance. Nothing says America like an oligarch purchasing a Trump YMCA Trump gold card. Right. I mean, it's it's it's it's the stupidest shit that excuse me. It's the stupidest stuff that we're watching play out. Like, it's just dumb. It's just dumb.
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tanking our economy here in the United States. Donald Trump says that he thinks Zelensky just needs to be more appreciative and thankful. Here, play this clip.
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such a great point jordy because people have been living in their rage algorithms instead of their actual real life right the manufactured rage and the propaganda was so powerful and you've talked about it jordy that to some extent
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You feel bad for some of the people who have fallen prey to it because it's tens of billions of dollars or even trillions of dollars being used by corporate media and right wing media to infect their minds and get them pissed off about things that frankly really aren't impacting them directly. So what you kind of see and look, I think they'll be 20, 25% people who will be MAGA until the very end.
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But for another group of people, it seems that the spell is like wearing off like a little bit. And when you see some of these town halls, when you see what's happening in Ruby red districts, like you don't get more Ruby red than Texas's third congressional district. I mean, Keith self like this, this guy, I think one by like plus 30, like this is a, a massive Republican district.
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And I'll show you what went down when he held his town hall recently. Let's play this clip.
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And then there's another clip where they were yelling, do your job, do your job. Here, watch this.
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Let's take a look, too, at New York's third congressional district at Hofstra University, which is a plus five Trump congressional district. It's actually represented by a Democratic congressmember. The Democratic congressmember won the district, but then Trump beat Kamala in this district in a plus five, you know, Trump district. Tom Suozzi, he held a town hall in this area.
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And when Suozzi talked about, he goes, look, you know, I'm in a reddish district. I'm a Democrat, so you know that I'm someone who tries to bring everyone together. He goes, what I saw in the Oval Office with what Trump and J.D. Vance did to Putin, I'm not ever going to try to find common ground with that. And then the crowd gave him a standing ovation. Watch this.
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You know, and now the line that's coming from the White House, from Trump, from J.D. Vance, from, you know, anybody from the NSA director is Zelensky needs to apologize. Zelensky needs to say thank you. Have you said thank you? Have you said thank you? Here, we got this photo of JD Vance that you made, Brett.
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As the economy is crashing, you know, I think this kind of perfectly sums it up, this meme that you created of JD saying, have you said thank you once? Have you said thank you? You know, you just need to you need to apologize. You need to go on TV, Zelensky, and you need to say how thankful you are to dear leader Donald.
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And you need to and you need to just just say how great he is and how important he is to you in your life. And Zelensky is like, look, I've said thank you a hundred times. I mean, by the way, Trump's given Zelensky like no money at all, like he's basically cut off all the money. So let's be clear.
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he was going to impose the tariffs on canada and mexico and other places he was a total mess during this press conference and let me just show you a clip right here watch what's happening at the the stock ticker as he's talking here play this clip the united states has been taken advantage of for 40 years
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Europe gave more money than the United States of America. Every single thing that Donald Trump says is false and is a lie. And just it. Utterly pathetic. We'll talk later in the show about some of these town halls and ruby red Republican areas where people are just so livid at Donald Trump supporting Vladimir Putin and bring the United States to join the access of evil with Putin in North Korea.
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Former President Biden gave Zelensky and the American people and our government, and frankly, before Trump made this a pro-Putin government, it was largely bipartisan. A lot of the MAGA Republican Congress members and about a dozen or so MAGA Republican senators were very pro-Putin. But this whole idea of like, Zelensky always says, I'm thankful, I'm grateful, thank you, I'm grateful.
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Like, what else do you want the guy to like? What else do you want the guy to do or say? And all they want is that it's a pretextual way to beat down on an ally, the same way Trump wants to beat down on Canada and Greenland and Denmark and Europe and Mexico. And Trump never says anything negative about our allies. I mean, this is Pete Doocy from Fox.
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Here's what he's hearing from senior White House aides and that Trump won't even start any type of discussions at all until Zelensky goes on TV and says how sorry he is here, Clinton.
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First off, he behaved himself exactly as he should. You should apologize for nothing. Also, what are you, five years old? You need to apologize to me. And then also, what the hell are we even talking about? A minerals deal? The United States wants to steal their mint. That's what this is about. They want to give most of Ukraine to Russia.
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And then the rest of it, United States wants to steal theirs. the minerals of an ally that's under invasion from a invading force in russia what trump said on day one is that prices would go down that there would be a peace deal in 24 hours and in this weirdo demented sicko wannabe fascist mind of his he's warped this whole thing into if you want the deal
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where America steals your minerals, you need to say you're sorry to daddy. You need to, like, the hell are you talking about? And Zelensky's like, I'm not going to say that Putin is good. Like, he's killed, like, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people and lawfully invaded. I'm not saying Putin's a good guy. Like, don't you want the minerals deal? No, I don't want this.
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You said you were going to think, you said you were a great negotiator. I don't want the minerals deal. Why would I want you to steal our minerals for? What are you doing?
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And of course, people are pissed with Donald Trump. taking away their Medicaid. You had Elon Musk over the weekend going on the Joe Rogan show to say that Social Security is a massive Ponzi scheme. They're gutting workers in the government and, as you see, destroying our economy. But folks, Melania Trump was on Capitol Hill.
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You know, a few things. The way that Zelensky would have done what Trump and J.D. Vance wanted would have been to give up and just said, I'll give up Ukraine to Russia and I'll give you the mineral deal. That's what they wanted. Anything short of America steals the minerals, Russia steals the land.
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would be insufficient for trump and jd vance and putin because that's what the access of evil wants that's why zielinski says there needs to be security guarantees that's why they held an emergency meeting in london shout out to the uk prime minister kier starmer for arranging this i think he's shown to be a statesman of the highest caliber in history bringing all of these countries together
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She had an important message about who wants to stop all of that bullying going on in digital spheres. Here, play this clip.
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prime ministers and presidents to stand with Ukraine. I think it sent a really powerful message that you ain't cutting Europe out of this. Europe has Zelensky's back. Brett, to address something you said, the only reason why the Afghan withdrawal is sloppy is Trump cut the deal with the Taliban and then didn't do it himself. He cut a deal with the enemy. He cut the
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out the actual afghan government at the time released 5 000 taliban soldiers and then they conquered and took over uh afghanistan and then trump was too big of a coward to make the move to move american troops out after essentially getting the troops surrounded because trump shut down all the other bases and basically had the united states troops surrounded on all sides and former president biden was left to hold the bag and try to
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figure out a solution finally um what donald trump is also doing as well is threatening to send your kids to go to war against canada against the european union against our allies against mexico when donald trump and uh jd vance and pete hegseth make these threats about sending military into mexico or making canada the 51st state these are war words
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These are things that are being taken seriously. This is the language of Vladimir Putin.
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And what that means is that when Trump's saying Canada's gonna be the 51st state, what Trump's saying is he's gonna take your kids, anyone of fighting age, and he's gonna send them to fight Canadians in a war, and people are going to die, what we're seeing in Ukraine and Russia from Russia's unlawful invasion.
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So spare me this is someone who's trying to do peace while talking about annexing countries. No, Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator. His corruption is matched by his cowardice and his incompetence as well. That's what we're seeing. When we come back, I wanna show you a few things. You have the agriculture secretary announced the plan to bring the prices down.
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You need to buy chickens and harvest your own crops, and you need to get your own eggs. But you gotta do chickens in your backyard. I'm not making this up, that's what they're saying. Elon Musk says that social security is a Ponzi scheme, and more. We'll take our last quick break of the show. I'll remind everybody as well, to go to MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com.
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It's just so funny that these people, like the Roganites or whatever these people are, it's like you have Elon Musk. You guys like my branding on that? I like that. Well, maybe. You have Elon Musk show up on Rogan and he calls social security a Ponzi scheme. And we know Elon Musk.
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right objectively as someone who's running our government now whether he's a co-president pulling donald trump strings as a puppet whatever it is right like this language needs to be taken seriously it's like what i said at the outset of the show when he said he was going to inflict economic hardship he's doing it right so when he says that social security is a ponzi scheme and it's a fraud
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you know then where do you think they're going next after they got your medicaid where do you think they're going i mean he's he's telling you so so then to have like roganites go yeah man get rid of social security it's like okay like are you that brainwashed that now you're gonna get rid of you like like you're gonna take everything from you like like literally you're just gonna kind of be there like all all alone you're gonna be like but
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but there's no transgender volleyball player in san jose state well yeah and it's like that's that's your motivating factor that's kind of weird you know that's that's kind of a weird thing that that's what's your your energizing focus that you're gonna now go on to our comment section and write negative reviews i mean look it was a three hour and 11 minute incredibly boring interview but i'll just show you the portion where elon musk uh refers to social security as a ponzi scheme here let's play it
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Yeah, well, you can tell me better than anybody.
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All right. So you heard him there. I mean, I don't need to hear him go, they told you good.
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fake women and Taylor Swift endorsing him when she never endorsed him. And then Donald Trump also attacked Ted Cruz's wife and said that she was a very ugly person. And that's why Ted Cruz was with her. But Ted Cruz was fine having Melania there. Let me show you how Fox is trying to spin this all.
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And there's nothing funny about that. I mean, you're gonna lose your social security because of that guy, because of those billionaires. I mean, their new line as they're tanking the economy is the American people need to buy chickens. That's how you can get your eggs. You need to do chickens in your backyard. That's their plan.
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Here's Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, saying the solution to high egg prices is for Americans to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard. Here, play it.
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Yeah, I mean, these people are actually crazy. I don't say that like this is Looney Tunes idiocracy. You thought, oh, Ben, you're just saying that, right? No, no. They're saying that the solution to the fact that inflation is going to be soaring again in egg prices, you can even find eggs, which I can't anymore. Maybe you can find them. I couldn't this weekend. You couldn't find them this weekend.
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And take a look at what these MAGA Republicans are doing. I mean, you have Darrell Issa, MAGA Republican. Today, I will nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. No one deserves it more. You've got Congressmember Brandon Gill. I'm introducing the Golden Age Act to put Donald Trump on the $100 bill. America is experiencing an historic rebirth under Donald Trump.
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His legacy deserves to be immortalized. Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Trump, it's time to make history. And by the way, I wonder what Ronald Reagan would think of Donald Trump.
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doing whatever vladimir putin and and russia wants i think reagan was atrocious in most respects there's one thing that he did was he said uh he stood up to gorbachev at least in a public speech tear down that wall so i mean so trump's like the exact uh the exact opposite and by the way if you got deja vu and you're like come on guys i thought you reported on this last week no
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Last week we reported on one of the Republican Congress members, Joe Wilson, who introduced the $250 bill with Donald Trump's face on it. And that post said that you need to have the most valuable bill with the most valuable president on it. I think we have this – I mean that's what they're doing. And then you have MAGA Mike Johnson who was on Meet the Press this weekend.
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Larry Kudlow, I mean, again, the Fox state regime media at this point would make North Korea's state regime media and Russia's state regime media blah, blah. Blush. Here's Larry Kudlow saying that the reason that it's all crashing is we're seeing what is left of the Biden economy slumping so badly.
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And MAGA Mike Johnson with a straight face said, here's what we're doing, everybody. We've got Elon Musk, who's crawling through the social security information with his algorithms. I think we've got this clip. Let's play it.
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Don't put that fraud in my mouth. Don't put those words in my mouth that came out of my mouth. You said those words. Let me try to make this very simple. We all agree that fraud is a crime, right? So where are all of the arrests, right? I mean, the tough guy, FBI, DOJ, with all of this fraud that Elon has found, where are the fraud arrests happening since Doge found all this fraud?
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Oh, wait a minute, there are literally zero. zero fraud-related arrests. And if you look at the types of people who've, in the past, been investigated and who invoked the Fifth when it comes to things like Medicaid fraud and other fraud like that, I mean, you wanna know the biggest one in history, pretty much?
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The MAGA Republican Senator from Florida, Rick Scott, invoked the Fifth Amendment close to 100 times. Biggest Medicaid fraud, I think, in American history, He then like left that company, got a massive golden parachute, hundreds of millions of dollars. What he got paid and he invoked the fifth. And I think the company settled a criminal case and for the biggest Medicaid fraud scam in history.
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So that's who's actually doing it. And so when you start to look a little bit deeper, You know, what's one of their scams, Brett, that you talked about? The crypto, this crypto scam? Yeah. What they're talking about, you want to talk about that, Brett, that it's just coincidentally is the crypto czar's portfolio of crypto? David Sachs. Of coins that are being bought?
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I mean, so utterly. I mean, I'm not going to even play the rest of it. It's so pathetic. Let me bring on Brett and Jordy. Brothers, welcome to the Midas Touch podcast.
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Yeah, I'll talk about this as well. Two things to focus on as we head until tomorrow, where these tariffs on Canada and Mexico will be in place. The Premier of Ontario, Premier Ford, says he will be cutting off electricity exports to border states if Trump's tariffs go through tomorrow.
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If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything, including cutting off their energy with a smile on my face. And that's just on the electric grid. We're not even talking about auto manufacturing lumber right now. The futures markets for lumber is at a record high, which means homes aren't going to be built. So remember, Trump promised housing would be more affordable.
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Remember, Trump promised prices would go down on day one. that he had such a great relationship with zielinski and putin that peace was going to happen in 24 hours the guy's a con artist he just is he is a con artist so snap the hell out of it if you're still under this trance he is a con artist okay and everything he does is a lie we're learning tonight as well of course that he's ordered
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and obviously this was coming, the pause in all further military aid to Ukraine with a senior administration official telling Fox News that the aid will be halted until the Ukrainians show a commitment to good faith peace negotiations. The Ukrainians were invaded by a hostile invading foreign force by the Russians who are the bad guys. This isn't a hard equation to figure out.
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Russia was the bad guys who invaded our allies, Ukraine. And you're attacking Ukraine and saying that they're not involved in good faith negotiations because they're not saying they like Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's infantile, hostile, vile mind. Again, that's why all of these people were meeting in Europe, all these world leaders to stand up for Ukraine. They know where this is headed.
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They're not the United States corporate media, which tries to sugarcoat this. They know that Trump is allied with Russia, that Trump has put the United States in a group with North Korea, Russia, Belarus, and Hungary. I mean, it's the most despicable thing imaginable. And you want to know who knew this as well? Let me show you who knew this as well.
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Let me show you a montage of, first I'll show you J.D. Vance. I think this is a good way to kind of sum this up nicely. This is what J.D. Vance, by the way, not like 20 years ago, J.D. Vance said these things like five or six years ago before changing his identity to run for the Senate seat in Ohio and then be Donald Trump's VP. This is what J.D.
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Vance had to say about Trump during the first administration and thereafter until he ran for the Senate seat. Let's play it. I'm a never Trump guy. I never liked him.
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I'll show you Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. Here's how he once compared Donald Trump to a third world strongman. And I'll just let you hear it in his own words.
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I think that sums it up where we're at and how cowardly and spineless those individuals are. When you go back and you look at history and you wonder... How did someone like Hitler rise? How did someone like Mussolini rise? Where were the people standing up? How could human beings just sacrifice their own free will and their own logic to a strong man or want to be strong man?
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I think you see the psychology play out right there. And I don't want history to repeat itself, and I don't know or don't think there is any analog to what we're trying to build in independent media during the times of the past to what we're trying to do now.
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I want us to be that other variable that didn't exist then, because if you look historically, corporate media is one of the first to fall and kiss the ring. It followed that pattern here. when all the corporate media leaders went to Mar-a-Lago, kissed the ring, entered into their deals or settlements or pacts with Donald Trump or whatever, and gave away the game.
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But here we stand, the Midas Mighty together, stronger than ever, growing, educating the American people about what's up, coming with the receipts, and letting you see for yourself. That's what we're going to do here each and every day. Brett, unless you want to say anything.
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I love to see Michael Popak be entrepreneurial. And I know he's taking big catastrophic injury cases. And I'm proud of him. I know it was a big risk for him to start his own firm. And he's one of my best friends. And so I want to give him a nice shout out here too. You go to thepopakfirm.com or his number is 1-877-POPAK-AF. So shout out to you, Michael Popak.
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I'm glad you're doing something you always dreamed about. And to our mods, thank you. To the Midas Mighty, stay strong, stay tall. We're here with you every step of the way. We're grateful for you. And thanks for being there by our side as well. I know you got our back. We got your back. Jordy, take it away. I think Brett wants to chime in real quick.
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For those listening on audio, it literally just started going down at a rapid pace. At one point, it was down close to 1,000 and ended up finishing really, really poorly. Here, Donald Trump talks about the tariffs on Canada. 25 percent, 25 percent on Mexico here. Play this clip.
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I think what you have to look at sometime are any of the corporate media's predictions and just say the exact opposite is going to happen, right? Under former President Biden, what were the headlines? They literally said 100% chance of recession under Biden. That's what they said. You remember the headlines when Trump took office?
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They were basically saying the headlines literally said 0% chance of recession. That's actually what the headline said. And I was saying, well, that's interesting because if he imposes the tariffs like he says he's going to do, if he implements Project 2025,
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if he does what he and Elon Musk said they were going to do, which was literally, this was their words, inflict severe economic hardship on the American people to break the country down and then rebuild it in the image of Elon Musk. Musk said that. I said, well, I'm going to tell you what the outcome of that's going to be.
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The outcome is going to be recession or more likely even depression because that's what happens when you do these things. Then even right now while you're seeing a lot of headlines predicting really bad things now happening in the economy because they're actually now happening, they still try to like normalize it.
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They go, yeah, but with all of this, we still see potential for – no, no, no, no, no, no. Donald Trump is a freaking madman. He's literally a crazy person. He was at Mar-a-Lago golfing and doing weird YMCA dances over the weekend while Europe held an emergency summit of presidents and prime ministers throughout Europe.
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The leader of Turkey show up, the leader of the prime minister of Canada showed up because they recognize that the United States has now become an ally of Vladimir Putin and that they need to join together and create a strong security apparatus because they've already recognized, although they're not going to say it out loud yet, that NATO is basically done. Trump's destroyed NATO right away.
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He's destroyed all of our alliances. He's destroying our economy. He's destroying our federal government. He attacks our closest allies and neighbors. He attacks Taiwan. Whether Donald Trump is actually an agent of Russia, a useful idiot of Russia, whether Russia has something over Donald Trump or for something else that is not one of those three, I don't know.
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But what I do know is everything he's doing seems to be directly benefiting Russia the way Russia would want to script it for them. So in many ways, even if you don't have the paperwork to be an official agent, if you're out there promoting Putin over and over again and attacking Zelensky and attacking NATO, does it even matter if you're an official agent? You are doing the work of one.
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That's who all of these things seem to benefit from.
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That's not what they're going to do. These factories are going to shut down. It's going to be devastating for our economy here, although Donald Trump is making posts like this today to the great farmers of the United States. Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold inside the U.S. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. have fun.
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Protests against Donald Trump have been now taking place across the country. This as internationally America under Donald Trump is now getting booed. We see that in Canada during the national anthem. Donald Trump did the usual fake deal thing that he does, those stunts that we predicted he was going to do where he creates all of this drama, this weapon of mass distraction conduct.
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look we called what was going to happen i think one of our responsibilities and running this media network is to be several steps ahead to because you know we've studied his pathology so you may recall last week um wednesday thursday friday when all of this was going down remember my reporting was let me tell you exactly what he's going to do
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and we predicted it exactly and by the way it wasn't all that hard to predict and if i'm predicting it i promise you that claudia scheinbaum and trudeau and the others know where he's going with this um so let me just just so you can see so our audio listeners know um
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these clips are from january 30th and january 31st of last week and so our people who are watching this on video they'll see that that's when i was making these statements to our audio listeners that's when these two clips that we put together are they were from last week when i was saying here's exactly what's going to happen it's exactly what he did here let's play it
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Is Donald Trump setting up for yet another fake deal to take credit for just imaginary things that aren't happening so he can get the propaganda headlines that he won? Ooh, Donald Trump made a deal, but in reality, it's just the status quo because he doesn't know what the heck he is doing. So what do we really see here and what do I think President Claudia Scheinbaum is alluding to?
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Donald Trump's going to create all this chaos, a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction, and then ultimately he's going to create the problem and then he's going to try to fix it and say, look, I made Mexico submit. I made Canada submit. But in the end, it's just going to be a press release. And I think that's what she is alluding to. And look, I think we all hope it's just a press release.
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No one wants economic catastrophe. But this is just the chaos agent that Donald Trump is and President Claudia Scheinbaum. And I think other world leaders are almost treating him and putting him in his place like the pathetic little petulant child that he is. Oh, OK, Donald. You want to do that to us? We'll retaliate against you. Okay, Donald, calm down.
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And by the way, Xi Jinping, you want to give us a call? By the way, should we create alliances against the United States? That's what we see happening. By the way, so that's from last year.
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That was really nice. That was precisely what happened. But I was also watching what he's doing. And look, it wasn't just in Canada and Mexico. He did the same thing in Panama. And by the way, his threats were, I want to conquer the nation. I want to conquer Canada, make it the 51st state. And Donald Trump settled on a fake fentanyl czar. I just want you to think about that.
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And a deal that already took place two months ago. So just think about how weak they see him in Canada after threatening to take over. I mean, could you imagine if Vladimir Putin made these threats to Ukraine. And then ultimately, Putin was like, you know what? Actually, we said denazification. We said we were going to invade Crimea. We're going to do all of these things. But you know what?
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Give us a fentanyl, czar. We're OK about it. Trump is using the language of Putin, but then settling for a fentanyl czar, which gets you the worst of all of the worlds. I mean, I clearly don't want imperialistic conquest of Canada, but it just makes us look like a stupid idiot. The whole thing just looks dumb. And the people in the other countries look at us, and they're not Fox propaganda.
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take it over without authority. We saw some Democrats show up at the USAID building, hold a press conference there to call it out. And then you have Elon Musk tweeting about it or putting it on X, whatever you call it these days, talking about like deleting government groups, destroying government groups, like the way we had free tax filing. under President Biden.
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When Fox is like, look what we did. Hulk Hogan, man, Rob, you ripped off my shirt. They're looking at us in other countries like, it's so pathetic. Look, you talk about he sends Marco Rubio to Panama. Do we have the clip of him even today saying that he wants to conquer Panama from the Oval Office? This is what this is today. So let me just show you. This is what he said today.
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And then let me tell you about the Marco Rubio piece of it. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, first off, let's acknowledge that his brain is mush. Like the guy can't even speak. Like you can't even speak in sentences. Like, could we just address the fact that he can't even find the words? And if any other person was behaving like that, you'd probably declare a doubt and need a 5150 cycle. But let's be clear.
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what senator rubio settled for the the deal was made also a fake deal and the deal was that the u.s navy gets to send its ships through the panama canal oh yeah usa and then that panama will consider studying the issue of whether it should continue being part of the silk road deal which There's no real Silk Road deal.
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China's making investments in Panama beginning in 2017 during the first Trump administration when Trump's eye was off the ball, and then Panama stopped its alliance with Taiwan, made the alliance with Beijing during Trump administration number one, and then China's made investments in Panama. There's no Silk Road deal that just gets ripped up and shredded. So that's that.
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But then the reason why US naval ships don't go through the Panama Canal is because the ships are too big. The ships are too big for that. You can't send U.S. naval ships through it. Our aircraft carriers and our ships, they just don't fit through it.
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So the deal, after threatening to take it back, the deal with Rubio is that our naval vessels can use it, which they always could, but they're too big to use it. then his deal with Columbia is like, OK, we are going to make sure we can deport people back to Columbia. OK, that's what was happening in the Biden administration. So it's just fake deal after fake deal, Brett and Jordy.
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That's one of the things they gutted. Say goodbye to free tax filings. Say goodbye to USAID abroad. Say goodbye to a number of other programs here in the United States. And all the while, they're like pretending now that there isn't the government freeze of funds anymore because there's court orders saying they can't freeze the funds. But Elon Musk is clearly doing that.
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Well, Jay, I appreciate you calling out the corporate media. You know, the reality is, though, they're kind of don't even see the corporate media as being a major. I mean, they're the corporate media. I got it. But to me, they're becoming so less relevant every day. I mean, you know, the latest play board charts had Midas as the most watched digital channel. Fox was number two.
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Number three was Forbes. And then ABC was like number seven. And so the reality is we're going to lead by example and we're going to call it out here and we've got the platform to do it. So Thanks for everybody who subscribed. We're on our way to 4 million subscribers. There it is right there. That's Playboard. Most watched YouTube channels in the country. And Midas Touch 1, Fox 2, Forbes 3.
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And I expect this number to be higher. I mean, it's been like 26, 27 million views every 48 hours right now on this network. More than all of the top Fox shows combined. You're getting out the word. You're getting out the message. You're the difference maker. And so this community relies on you. So thank you for that.
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know and then with just the firing of fbi agents the firing of doj officials america's really never been less safe the firing of faa officials the firing of key people working in government positions to just keep americans safe americans never been less safe um and at the same time prices are going up up up through the roof and so all of these stunts this drama this uh chaos
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You know, to me, it's just the opposite of what government should really be. I think Americans are just getting utterly pissed off. Trump supporters have to be like, yeah, tariffs. Oh, actually, no tariffs. Yeah, tariffs. Just the whole thing is one gigantic gong show. It's ridiculous. Brett and Jordy, how are you guys doing?
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You know, someone recognized me on campus today when I was teaching at law school and we were having a conversation and I gave this example and I hadn't really thought of it like this before, but I thought it was worth bringing to the show, which is I think about sometimes the government, the way I would think about getting on an airplane, which is when I get on an airplane, I really, other than maybe the captain telling me where I'm going,
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I really don't need to hear all that much unless there's something serious going on. But my hope is to have the least amount of drama, not trying to think about a bunch of crazy stuff. I just want to get from point A to point B. I'd like for the plane to be comfortable. I'd like for the plane to be safe. I'd like for it to have what I paid for in the example of government.
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When you pay taxes, you'd like to have certain things. But you don't need to hear the captain flying your plane going, oh, and we're going to make a left. Should I make a right? Should I make a left? Should I go up? Should I go down? Should I go right? What should I do, everybody, with this plane? Aren't planes crazy? No, that's not the way it is. And to me,
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The leader of government at the highest office should be steering the plane or the ship in a stable way. Yes, you want to hear from them at certain times, the beginning of your trip, at the end of the trip, maybe to let you know when you reach cruising altitude, but you don't want the drama. I thought that example
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was appropriate given the fact that in Trump's America, I think we're all feeling a lot less safe right now, whether it's also getting on an airplane or whether you're consuming food or whether we're going to be able to deal with things like tuberculosis and measles, whether we're going to be able to have allies abroad.
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One of the things going back to 2016 among many that I just so despised about Donald Trump is that his abusive personality never ceases he brings that abuser mentality into your lives and that every day during his first term and now we're seeing it again that that it's in it intrudes in all of our lives in bad ways in obnoxious ways in loud ways in attention seeking ways. And I don't want that.
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I mean, you would think for people who consider themselves conservative, who consider themselves small government people, you wouldn't want a constant barrage of shit coming in your face from the president of the United States. But that's what Trump does. It's always, it's constant, the post, the obnoxiousness, the meanness, and all of that.
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And to me, whether you're a Republican or Democrat or independent or red state or blue state, you should just not like that. It's overall gross. is just an observation. And again, we see it now over and over again. So, you know, and I've been referring to it as a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction.
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In a little bit, we'll talk about what the government's doing with Trump's announcement of a sovereign wealth fund, because you always have to follow the money when it comes to Donald Trump. And he and Elon want to start a sovereign wealth fund where our money's going to go to the slush fund to be used by oligarchs. No, no.
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Usually, by the way, sovereign wealth funds are used in countries that have like budget surpluses in nations to just invest their excess money. You may remember the conversation. It seems like it was 50 years ago. That was a pretty long time ago. It was 25 years ago when Al Gore and George W. Bush were talking about the lockbox issue. What do you do with the surplus under Clinton?
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And then George W. Bush kind of ran that into the ground. And then there were deficits. Then he crashed the economy. And Obama had to save it. Then Trump crashed it. Then Biden saved it. Now Trump's crashing it again.
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and then that was handed over to the republicans who just destroyed it forever it's never never recovered you remember that debate i mean just think about how times have changed like in 2012 sorry in 2000 i said let's say 2020 in 2000 was when the debate was between al gore and george w that's the first fun fact uh snl skit i remember i think it was a memory for geordie the lockpicks
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I'm going to do this with the lockbox. And then George W. Bush would be like, yeah, and I'm going to do this with the lockbox. And then, you know, and what they were talking, just think about that. That was the drama. What do we do with the surplus of funds that there's a budget surplus and where does it go? And ultimately, you know, George W. Bush had the Supreme Court push him into power.
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And by the way, the people who fought for Bush to do that are now the people on the Supreme Court, like Justice Brett Kavanaugh and others. And they kind of put it. Could you imagine what the world would have been like in another time frame if we actually counted the real votes and not had the Supreme Court stop, like literally stop the count?
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And then those people became Supreme Court justices anyway. But I digress. That's what we were talking about in 2000, whereas now Donald Trump's talking about invading this country, invading that country. So then he moves on, knowing that this is, this was, by the way, this was not Trudeau blinking. This was not Scheinbaum blinking.
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This was Trump blinking and submitting to them, but trying to pretend, oh, look, the threat of tariffs makes me a master negotiator. This is so stupid. But then what does Trump do? He moves on to the next one and then he threatens Europe. So now, okay, I did that, I did that. What other chaos can I cause today? Europe, let's do Europe. Let me talk about Europe here, play this clip.
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I mean, don't you see what a tired playbook this is? Like, it's the same. It's the same. He doesn't have a lot of moves. So when I showed you the clip of me predicting it, I'd like to be like, oh, you know, what a great predict. He has the same moves. So now he goes, he does it to Europe.
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And then, you know, in Europe, the leaders there, whether it's the chancellor of Germany or whether it's Macron in France, they're like, all right, he's going to threaten us with tariffs. And then he's going to impose. He's going to say he's going to do it. And then he's going to call it.
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call us the day of, the markets are gonna crash and then we'll let him tweet something out and then we'll just kind of go like that. That's how they think of him. And then meanwhile, they're thinking to themselves, oh my God, this guy is so weak and crazy. Like this guy's a psycho and he's weak. We can't rely on them. They're the worst. We got to form our own alliance.
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That's the only thing Trump's projecting is weakness. And then he mixes it up with this crap where he's like, look what I did with the water. I turned on the beautiful water in California. Here, play this clip.
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You just think about, though, the totality of all of this stuff that he's doing. And, you know, it's like, okay, Fake trade war against Canada and Mexico, you're kind of pissing them off. You're weakening your alliances abroad. You're playing right into Putin's hand. All of these statements that you're making to, oh, I'm going to tariff Taiwan and their semiconductor industry.
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He says that there are going to be tariffs placed on Mexico and Canada, and then ultimately Donald Trump folds when he crashes the market.
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All of the things he's doing there and then the things he's doing domestically as well. I mean firing any FBI agent without due process if they were involved at all in any January 6th case. So you have the January 6th insurrectionist he refers to as hostages or heroes. They get pardoned. The bad guys get celebrated.
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But the FBI, like the law and order people – who by the way, don't just handle January 6th cases. I mean these are the people who are investigating and arresting terrorists.
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getting you know cartels off our street here and dealing with all of these things these people um you know are fired without any process at all i mean you have donald trump you know gutting all of these agencies i mean just think even as we talk about us aid if you just take a look at one of their programs which is providing medication to pregnant women who have hiv and aids
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in order to help stop the transmission to their babies, to try to stop kids getting HIV and AIDS. And then by the way, as we know from COVID, Pandemics are global in nature. There's a reason why it's important for America to lead abroad when it comes to things like stopping the spread of HIV and AIDS, when it comes to things like Ebola, when it comes to investigating all of these things.
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USAID is like one of the main agencies, if not the main agency that would do that and also provide humanitarian aid. Again, them saying, oh, this is a leftist, whatever. I mean, they're quite literally killing people and they're also creating a void internationally for China to step up in and fill the void and provide aid to countries and to provide soft power and to build alliances as America.
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It's not just even stopping the funding. and announcing it through some streamlined process. It's doing it so cruelly. It's the cruelty also, from stopping this funding to destroying people's lives who work at the government. No notice, no process, no nothing. Just see you later. You're screwed. In some cases, you die. That's what they're doing.
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When we come back, I wanna talk a little bit about, you know, Musk having his teams go into all of these government buildings and seizing control of servers and payment systems and, you know, the Democrat response to that. We should talk about protests that are now happening across the country against ICE targeting. Let's be clear who ICE is targeting now.
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They're targeting way more people who have no criminal record than criminal record. Actually, Biden still, as you look at the stats, was deporting more people than Trump has even now. But Biden has been deporting people with criminal records. Trump is like specifically cruelly targeting people with no criminal record
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and focusing on them and not the criminals at lower amounts, but also making it very stuntified and WWE, where they're playing dress up and you have like literally Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, you know, who's got the full Mara Mara Lago look. She like wears a new outfit and a new Halloween costume every day. She like dress up as like cow girl.
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And then she'll dress up like in the vest. Like she's the one there like SWAT team style. And then she's like dressed up and like, You know, her park ranger outfit, like the whole thing is like, it's like ridiculous, the ridiculous things to watch this. And I'm like, oh my God, I'm just like the best. I'm just cringy. It's like, I'm so embarrassed. It's so embarrassing.
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By the way, for those looking, that was Kristi Noem 2019 before full Mar-a-Lago. And then here she is now doing the Mar-a-Lago dress up thing. You evaluate it for yourself. I would leave it at that. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. We're going to take our last quick break of the show. Reminder, patreon.com slash Midas Touch is a way to help us.
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i was nominated for best eyes and that's cool nicest to bring home nominate it's cool you know nominated winning nicest to bring home nice to bring home so you can't you can't knock nicest to bring home
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Yeah, not even just the nomination. I was also number two. Also number two and most likely to succeed and also student government president.
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I was student government president of the entire high school.
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Take it easy. This is how decisions have been being made at the government lately. One of these far right wing Twitter or X accounts will make some statement like this ALX account that goes something about, I don't know, the person will say like, I don't even understand the language that they use. So I'll try to read it, but it's like basically reading gibberish.
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Anyway, it's a far right-wing count attacking the IRS direct filing program. And then Elon Musk responds, this group has been deleted, to which the Midas Touch Network account goes. So Elon Musk is now bragging about getting rid of the team and that put together the direct file tax filing system, which allows citizens to easily file their taxes for free.
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Direct file is a big target of the for-profit tax prep industry. And then as Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell states, until today, you could file your taxes for free. Trump just took that from you. And it's just such a strange thing to take from people. It really did make things easy and convenient. And that's the type of stuff that they're targeting.
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And then they target it and say, TDI, far leftist. OK, so you're getting rid of that. You're getting rid of USAID. Literally, they go after, this is part of their playbook as well, the most vulnerable. and the most peaceful and the hardest working. That's their foreign policy as well. Let's go after...
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You know, and as Prime Minister Trudeau's like, what American, other than Donald Trump, like wake up and like, let's attack Panama or like let's attack Greenland. But see, Trump just sees like peaceful people who aren't trying to have like massive military establishments around them on the surface. Let's be clear though. Canada was fighting in World War II.
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Before anyone else really was fighting in World War II. And Canada was with us side by side after 9-11. Canada has been one of America's biggest allies on everything. So has Denmark. But Donald Trump looks at these countries that, you know, are trying not to, they're just trying to live their nice, peaceful lives and go after them here domestically. He's like, let's get rid of USAID.
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Let's get rid of FAA. Let's get rid of things that are really needed. Let's get rid of FBI agents. Let's get rid of the tax filing system. It's ridiculous, Brett.
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Well, look, the issue for me also, Jordy, is I teach during the week in addition to my- I get it, you're a professor.
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So with the teaching, I have to get back on a certain day. But I'm glad Brett was there holding down the fort and representing. You know who's loving this, though, by the way? Vladimir Putin is. Vladimir Putin is basically out there. And I'm not going to play the clip because it's in Russian for our audio listeners. But Vladimir Putin basically says, and Donald Trump is very going to-
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So as the market was crashing, then Donald Trump had to run to the president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, and then to the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, with his tail between his legs, and then basically do a fake deal, just basically announcing things like the status quo and claiming that that's a deal. And then he goes, look, what I did America.
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very powerfully and strongly make the European countries submit and kiss his feet. And Putin knows how he's manipulating and playing Donald Trump there while all of this is taking place. Let me share this with you though as well, just so everybody can get the context of it. So the trade deal with Mexico and Canada is called USMCA, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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Look, I want to give a shout out to all of the government workers out there. Yes. These are people who are grinding every single day in difficult jobs who have been degraded by Republicans forever, basically, and they take it.
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Like, imagine if every day, you know, someone just think about your job, if you're not working in the federal government, if every day some of the people with power just would say, what a horrible job, like what you're devoting your life work to.
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how horrible it is and how bad you are and how lazy you are and that you don't work good and that you're just a terrible worker and a terrible person, right? And you're working really hard, whether you're working at USAID to stop the spread of Ebola, whether you are working within a government agency that deals with safety protocols on railroads and you
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Make sure that you're studying every day just the way the machinery works and ensuring that the tracks are certain specifications because if you're not there doing that and making sure there's compliance across all new projects, there could be train derailments and people die. Imagine like you're working to ensure that certain food dies don't get into consumption and
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But for you and your research and your studying, there could be mass casualty events taking place. I could go across so many government agencies where these jobs are so necessary and Elon Musk and Trump are treating these jobs like they're crap. But here's the thing, a lot of these jobs,
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are also incredibly hard to fill with people retention of these jobs is very difficult and who in the world once these jobs are gone are going to want to work there and look you know for elon musk when Twitter's down or when it doesn't work well or when he makes one of his ridiculous Twitter changes.
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And by the way, turns Twitter into X and makes it into this hellscape where there's all this hateful and racist and misogynistic and pornography and profanity. It's a gross place to be. And it's hard because you want to check in occasionally because what was there and some reporters and journalists are still there. It's like, ugh, whenever you go there.
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And now if that becomes the government, what that means is huge problems. If Twitter's down or the posts aren't happening or the videos don't work and that's the government, that could mean planes are crashing. Salmonella is spreading. So that's why these issues are just so...
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and it basically in and of itself was a little bit of a fake deal too because trump basically took nafta which was negotiated in the 90s which by the way he and the republicans pretended to hate so they basically just rebranded it and called it the usmca and trump said this was the greatest deal the greatest deal ever so just so you can see for yourself I think we have to have the context, right?
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You know, I want to also mention the Dems, Democratic senators, Democratic members of Congress went in front of the USA building today. They were, you know, it was good to see them here. I think we have a clip of it. Brett, just pick whichever one you like and let's play.
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That was Democratic Congress member Jim McGovern, who's appeared here on the Midas Touch Network. Democrats need to do stuff like that. I think they need to then use all the legal instruments they can, maybe seek an injunction barring Elon Musk from entering these buildings. I think I'd like to see that. Why not?
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Why not file a temporary restraining order saying that he should be limited from going into the buildings and that he doesn't have the appropriate security clearances? He's not somebody who's been appointed and confirmed. You can't just have random strangers go into the building, even if they work in other agencies. See if you can get a Washington, D.C.
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federal judge to literally issue an injunction banning it. That's an option. Why not at least try something like that? But you need to be out there and you need to have those visuals. You need to show people that you're out there fighting and you need to fight. You need to do both. And I think too much Democrats just assume that people get it. You got to be out there and lead on the front line.
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So it was good seeing them there. But also, I would have liked to see them out there last week in the heart of a lot of this. But they need to be out there every day. I know it's tough. I know it's tiring. But you've got some really
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uh great democratic leaders and they and they can be out there messaging this it's where the a lot whether i don't even think it's that even political anymore you've got your maga people but who's really cheering on elon musk getting rid of like osha like and lowering safety stand like like it's a popular issue for you to take on but it's also the right thing for you to do so do both and go out there and fight for the people i'd like to see that
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When Trump is attacking the deal, it's his deal that we're operating under, the USMCA. And so here he is talking about it during his first term saying, what a great deal this all is. Here, let's play this clip.
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one of the things brian shots a senator from hawaii democrats doing is he's imposed a block on all of trump's nominees from being confirmed until elon musk stops meddling with usaid and usaid workers are restored any single senator one of those weird quirks in the senate can hold up the confirmation hearings of people and so he's placed a hold on it which i think is uh you know yeah for the state department nominees and and we um
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Brett's been doing a great job on TikTok. And thank you, everybody. We'll see you soon. Jordy? Shout out to the Modest Money!
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So you get the point. He was saying that the USMCA is he negotiated. That's the current deal. And he now says that deal is incredibly unfair. And so he was asked at the Oval Office again today, you know, tell us about, you know, is there anything Canada can do in order to stop these tariffs? This was Trump. what moments before the announcement that he would not be imposing the tariffs on Canada.
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Here, let me just play this for you.
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And then some of our right wing propaganda media and then corporate media is like, look, he did the deal. It's like the arsonist causing the fire and then trying to put out their own fire, but not really putting it out and then taking credit for
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So then shortly thereafter, Donald Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau make an announcement that, oh, actually there's a deal that was struck and Canada's gonna put $1.3 billion in border security and Canada's going to appoint a fentanyl czar, even though there's basically zero fentanyl coming into the United States from Canada.
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So the important thing to note is that the one point three billion dollar border border deal that already existed well before this, like that was already something that was in place. A fentanyl czar is basically not going to do much because. There's not really fentanyl coming in from Canada.
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And then earlier in the day, Donald Trump announced also Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, a fake deal with Mexico where they said, well, Mexico is going to add 10,000 additional troops to the border. 10,000, not even additional, 10,000 troops to the border. Well, there's already 10,000 troops to the border when President Biden requested without this drama tariff policy.
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that and acting like they should be applauded the thing is that donald trump is now pissed off the entire world with these tactics like even though canada and uh mexico have pushed off their so-called tariffs for like 30 days i mean the people in canada are living in piston like You can't trust America under Donald Trump, period. And that's how the entire international community is feeling.
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And at the same time, domestically, while Trump's involved in that WMD weapon and mass distraction, you have his co-president, Elon Musk, an unelected oligarch, having his tech teams go into various agencies, seize control of the Treasury Department payment system, seize control of sensitive classified information from USAID and other government agencies, literally just
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Now, I want to show you this clip first to show you Kash Patel is a liar. Some may call that committing perjury. Others may say lying, but I'll leave that distinction or determination up to you and your opinion. But here, Kash Patel appears repeatedly on a show called Stu Peters, which spread some heinous conspiracies and lies and lies. bunch of toxic, dangerous, dangerous stuff.
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I want you to watch him first appear because then I'm going to show you a clip where Kash Patel says, Stu, I don't know this guy. So first, let me give you receipts.
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Thank you for that montage, Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chief now. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin asked Kash Patel, do you know who Stu Peters? Are you familiar who that is? And Kash Patel's like, nope. Watch this.
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So Republicans scheduled three confirmation hearings today to try to jam them all through of the most unqualified, dangerous people. You had Kash Patel, who Donald Trump put to lead the FBI. You had Tulsi Gabbard, who Donald Trump put to be the Director of National Intelligence. And you have anti-vaxxer RFK Jr., who Donald Trump put to run Health and Human Services.
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Now I want to show you RFK Jr. He goes, I've never said anything wrong about science. Play this clip.
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Okay, you want me to show you receipts? Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, bring in the receipts.
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Next up, Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders. Here he goes right here. Let's play the clip.
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The hearings went off the rails awfully quickly today. We try to keep track of them all here on the Midas Touch Network. Here, Kash Patel, who Donald Trump once appointed to lead the FBI, is asked, can you simply say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election? Kash Patel refuses to do so. Play this clip.
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Go to selectquote.com slash Midas today to get started. That's selectquote.com slash Midas. Next up, we have Senator Murray talking to our Democratic Senator Murray, responding to JFK Jr. right here. Play this clip.
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Here is Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Let's play it.
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Democratic Senator Murphy, let's play it.
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I want kids. Democratic Senator Hirono to Patel. Let's play it.
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And finally, here's Democratic Senator Adam Schiff from the great state of California. Let's play it.
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Next up, you have Democratic Senator Dick Durbin asked Kash Patel about creating a musical with the January 6th insurrectionists and a song called the J6 Choir, which was used to replace the national anthem at Donald Trump campaign events. Play the clip.
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Whether you were in a red state or a blue state, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, governors throughout the country, people throughout the country, were outraged that federal funding was so abruptly cut off with a vague memo Now Donald Trump and the White House is basically saying they didn't even get to review the memorandum.
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They said they didn't see it and it went outside of the protocol through the Office of Management Budget, which we now know is also being led not just by Russ Vogt, the author of Project 2025, but also Elon Musk has stuck his lackeys to basically run and operate the Office of Management Budget.
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They also were the ones who gave that fake severance offer to the 2 million plus federal workers, which if you actually read the fine print, seems like a total fake offer. Now, look, Trump is throwing Musk under the bus, throwing the Office of Management Budget under the bus.
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But let's reflect on what Elon Musk literally said with Donald Trump during the campaign that we tried to repeat over and over again here. on the Midas Touch Network. This is a headline. Elon Musk sees Trump's economic plans causing temporary hardship, is what he said. He goes, there would be an initial severe overreaction in the economy and then hopefully sustainable growth.
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It's like a direct quote from Elon Musk and Donald Trump during the campaign. Or how about this headline? Musk says Trump win would result in hardship to some Americans. The world's richest man promises big spending cuts if Trump gives him a job. Says people taking advantage of government are going to be upset. By the way, we've got the receipts. We've got the audio.
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Here was the unearthed audio of the richest man in the world and in America, Elon Musk, saying that Trump's agenda will cause hardship, will inflict hardship right away. Trump was saying this. Musk was saying this. Russ Vogt, the author of Project 2025, who worked with them, was saying this. Here. Play the clip.
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Now, this is from the Atlantic. I hope this title is being ironic here. The memo that shocked the White House, the directive from the Office of Management and Budget that froze most federal funds on Monday had not gone through the usual approval process. Now, look, Ashley Parker is the author, and Ashley, I just think that Donald Trump probably was aware of this.
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You think that, does it make it worse if he wasn't aware of this? That he's so grossly incompetent and negligent or he's intentionally or malicious. But they're saying what? That there was a secret process, a shadow government, the deep state of Elon Musk and Russ Vogt and the Office of Management Budget. Did Donald Trump, did your own deep state of Elon Musk do this? I mean, come on here, look.
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Donald Trump intended his flood of executive orders to shock and awe his opponents. But on Monday night, a memo from the Office of Management and Budget instead shocked the Trump White House. That memo, with its call for a temporary pause to all federal government grants and loans,
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set off widespread panic and confusion within the federal government and among the millions of individuals and institutions reliant on federal funds. But it was released without going through the usual White House approval process. Ashley, what are the usual White House approval processes? Is it when Donald Trump makes posts of right-wing influencers named Cat Turd? with cats wearing glasses?
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Is that the standard protocol? Or how about when Donald Trump reposts QAnon accounts like this one and others saying, let it flow. Trump sends in the military to turn on the water flow in California. Or this one, this is actually the QAnon one. At spiritual fighter, watch the water. And then when you actually click on it, it's someone who goes, thank you.
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Thank you with the letter Q for Donald Trump posting this and her whole accounts like where we go, when we go all. So explain to me, Ashley, what the diligent processes and protocols are. Or is it as Midas Touch correspondent Mike Sachs has said, I wouldn't be surprised if the White House had trusted votes people.
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And I'll add on top of that, Musk's people who are now at the Office of Management and Budget as well, including OMB's incoming general counsel, to have just proceeded as they saw fit carte blanche. without needing the White House approval because all of the appointees were supposed to be the competent ones and they were supposed to execute the Project 2025 plan. We've got more receipts.
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We always come with receipts here on the Midas Touch Network. But let's recall then what happened. Right. Then you had the White House and the Office of Management Budget put out another memo that purported to rescind the prior memo, which stopped all of the funding and says we hereby rescind it.
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Meanwhile, the various state attorney generals had been filing lawsuits throughout the country and in a Rhode Island federal court. And in the Rhode Island federal court, they were saying, Well, one of the things that Trump's lawyers were saying is, look, we rescinded it. We rescinded it.
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But then Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt, said, this is not a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It's simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The president's executive order on federal funding remain in full force in effect and will be rigorously implemented.
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So you're saying it's not a rescission on the federal funding freeze, which is the OMB memo. But then you say, what's really happening is it's a rescission of the OMB memo, but not the federal funding freeze in the memo. I just think that Caroline Leavitt doesn't know what the memo is. Donald Trump may not know what the memo is.
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They're getting a lot of grief from right wing governors, Republican governors, former Trump voters who are saying, what the heck is going on? Well, the federal judge, federal judge, Judge McConnell was saying, I wasn't sure how I was going to rule. Because if the order was rescinded, then it would be moot. I wouldn't need to issue injunctive relief.
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But because Trump's own press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, says it's not a rescission of the freeze, I'm going to order an injunction. Trump, you lose. And Trump was a loser in court. The freeze is blocked by the federal judge in Rhode Island, Judge McConnell. Trump was a loser. People are pissed. Republican governors are pissed. People are pissed. So what's Trump doing?
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Must have gone through some other process and channel. Was Russ Vogt the one involved? Well, let's check in on Russ Vogt. Before doing that, let's check in on Donald. Because Donald...
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You were asked, can you take a quick question on government funding on the freeze that has scared people to death, that has ruined people's lives, that has turned the country into chaos in the worst week and a half in presidential history? You want to tell us about that? Trump goes, yeah, I don't think it's appropriate timing. I don't want to talk about it. Play the clip.
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Trump want to talk about? WMD, weapon of mass distraction, of course. He wants to say, oh, we discovered that Biden was trying to do $50 million in condoms to Hamas. Did you know that he was doing... And Hamas, they were using the condoms to make bombs. Hamas condom bombs because of Biden. WMD, weapon of mass distraction. None of that's true. There weren't even condoms sent to Gaza.
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The whole thing is made, every aspect of it is false. There's nothing true about it. The whole thing is false. But this is what they do. They want to distract you because they are losing. They are harming the country and prices are going up, not down. And none of the things they said were going to happen are happening.
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So finally, let me show you Russ' vote. So we all are on the same page. Russ' vote said that they're ready to go. They were going to implement this stuff. This isn't a shock. So Trump can try to throw Musk and vote and others under the bus and say, I didn't know about this. You did. You did. Play the clip.
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Donald Trump is now throwing Elon Musk under the bus. Trump is also throwing Russ Vogt, the head of the office and management budget, under the bus for the memorandum, which froze federal funding to departments and agencies, which was incredibly unpopular.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
So is Donald Trump setting up for yet another fake deal?
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to take credit for just imaginary things that aren't happening so he can get the propaganda headlines that he won oh donald trump made a deal but in reality it's just the status quo because he doesn't know what the heck he is doing let's go over the facts folks so right here i want to show you this clip first it's canada's minister of foreign affairs melanie jolly and here she says
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What Canada should do is coordinate a joint response with our EU allies, with Canada's EU allies, to retaliate against Donald Trump. Here, watch this.
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Strong words by Melanie Jolly. Now, that follows a meeting with the prime minister of Denmark, Meta Fredricksen, and European Union leaders as well, and European leaders as well, like Macron and others, and the chancellor of Germany as well. And they all agreed that they were going to coordinate a response.
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Even France said that they could provide military weapons and military aid and troops to Greenland to help Denmark if there was an invasion by the United States. Now, I want you to take a look at this because this is how CNN interviewed Canada's ambassador to the US. And what you'll notice about how CNN and Jake Tapper kind of frame the issue. They're like, well, Colombia backed down.
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So do you think Canada is going to give in to Donald Trump's threats and back down like Colombia? I'm going to show you the clip. But Colombia didn't back down. Colombia preserved the status quo. They didn't want military jets treating migrants like trash. and sending them in that way. Columbia was fine with what President Biden was doing.
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So Donald Trump created this threat, this trade war that was about to take place. And then Donald Trump claimed he made a deal and he said, Columbia submitted, Columbia gave in and they liked it. Look what Columbia did, but nothing changed.
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That's part of Donald Trump being a con artist, a weapon of mass distraction to try to take our minds away from the havoc and chaos that he's creating and to claim victories that aren't real victories, just making them up. I just want you to be aware of the hustle because corporate media ain't reporting it this way, but this is what happening.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
So here's Canada's ambassador, but notice how Jake Tapper asks the question.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
All right, so now I want to share with you the confirmation hearing of Trump's Commerce Secretary pick, Howard Lutnick. Now, Howard Lutnick basically said, look, Canada and Mexico, they can avoid tariffs before Saturday's deadline. They just got to stop killing 100,000 Americans. which they're not. You want to know where fentanyl mostly comes from? China.
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You want to know where else it comes from? America, where 99% of the deaths are occurring are from Americans taking these synthetic drugs. That's what is happening. It is a serious issue.
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within America that states in America should be dealing with, that we should be funding, that we should be properly educating people on, and we should be addressing, but which Trump and MAGA want to scapegoat as they defund all of these programs to try to help it. They want to scapegoat it on other countries.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
So Howard Luttnick saying, look, if these countries just give in, here's what's going to happen. We may not impose those tariffs.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
What's really happening is that Howard Lutnick, who is a Wall Street banker, one of Trump's billionaire, he's a billionaire, billionaire broligarcs, they know if Trump imposes the tariffs, just look how the threat of tariffs on Colombia has harmed the American economy and how coffee prices are up significantly. and gas prices are going up, and how prices are going up in general.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
If that happened with Colombia, imagine a trade war with Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. So Trump and Lutnick need to save face. They're scared of a united Europe, Canada, Mexico. They didn't see that happening. So now they need to figure out a way to save face. Now, Canada may help them save face. Certainly Canadian media is trying to help Trump save face.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
You notice some of the headlines in Canadian media, Canada launches fentanyl crackdown to convince Trump tariffs aren't necessary. That's how you're reporting it, CBC. We need to convince Donald Trump that we won't kill Americans anymore. Canada isn't doing that, okay? It's built on a foundation of lies. So it's ridiculous that that's how Canada is reporting it. Will Trump not give it?
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
Will we submit to Donald Trump? I mean, that reporting right there is pathetic in my opinion as well. Let me show you what Lutnick said. Let's play this clip.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
Canada is not backing down to Donald Trump in the United States. Canada is standing firm. It's standing on business. By and large, Canada and its provinces have united against Donald Trump. And they've united with their allies across the globe to coordinate a strong and powerful campaign. and painful response if Donald Trump imposes tariffs or sanctions against Canada.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
And he's really, really weak. Here, play this clip.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
And by the way, with how horrible of a job Hegseth is doing already, Donald Trump's posting this. Recruiting numbers are up. The army now is scheduled to meet its goals. All woke base names are gone. Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Trump saying like the military is perfect and he fixed everything in 24 hours. And then he makes posts like I made, he pretends he made it rain in California.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
Let there be water. That's what he's posting. I mean, you know, we're talking about a real sicko here, but let's be real about the facts about what's happening. And by the way, I hope there aren't tariffs. If Canada wants to pretend they made a fake deal with Donald Trump and Mexico claims they made a fake deal with Donald Trump and there are no tariffs.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
I'll tell you who seems like they're backing down. It seems like Donald Trump is backing down because now we're seeing headlines like this. Canada and Mexico can avoid tariffs before Saturday's deadline, says Donald Trump's commerce pick, Howard Lutnick. They just need to agree to stop shipping their fentanyl and killing 100,000 Americans, which Canada isn't doing.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
I mean, I'll ask you, do you think that that's a net win to have fake deals and then Donald Trump doesn't impose the tariffs? And then he makes social media posts that say they submitted. I mean, I'll let you answer that. That it's just incredibly bizarre and brazen and strange. But I want you to know what the hustle is here.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
And while now Americans are suffering under his policies, while prices are going up, he can't solve the war in Ukraine. And you see how our media reports it like Jake Tapper. Well, Columbia back down. What are you talking about? They did none of that. But now you know the facts. We're going to arm you with the truth here at the Midas Touch Network with the objective data.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Donald Trump has pretended or lied that he sent the United States military into the state of California to turn on a faucet in the Northwest. which is entirely false. And Donald Trump and some of his QAnon cult are now saying that Donald Trump was responsible for the rain. Donald Trump was reposting an account called Spiritual Fighter, which is a QAnon account.
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She then responds, if it is a she, who goes, thank QAnon. At Real Donald Trump for posting the link to my reply on your Truth Social post. It's a great honor. And her account is literally a QAnon account that says where we go one, we go all, the QAnon slogan. But she thanked Q for Donald Trump reposting it, Donald Trump just reposting QAnon stuff. More posts by Donald Trump saying, let it flow.
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Trump sends in military to turn on the water flow in California. Again, that never happened. The mental breakdown, the lies, the delusion, the insanity here is omnipresent. Next, Donald Trump, well, they're advertising on his social media platform. When you look through his posts, we're giving away free Trump second term gold coins to everyone who clicks this. Also, at the same time, RFK Jr.
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's confirmation hearing was taking place. They were also advertising on Donald Trump's social media platform. 10% off. Ivermectin. They're still selling that crap on Trump's social media site. More weird posts by Donald Trump referring to himself as the G-O-A-T, the GOAT. And he claims that America's now great again in one week. Frankly, we've never been weaker than before in our history.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
And then Donald Trump finally gets to this press conference and he's asked a question. He's talking about all these other things in the press conference. He's talking about lies that America sent. $50 million bomb condoms to Gaza that we sent bomb condoms, condoms that became bombs used by Hamas. 100% false, not a single dollar went to Gaza for condoms. There was aid that went to Gaza.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
America sent internationally about $60 million of contraceptive aid internationally, but there were no condom bombs or condoms. But Anyway, Donald Trump and MAGA will lie about everything. The bigger, the more outlandish is their WMD, their weapon of mass distraction from the fact that egg prices are not down, grocery prices are not down, gas prices are up. The economy ain't better.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
The Federal Reserve refused to lower interest rates because of Donald Trump's chaos, to which Donald Trump then started attacking the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Chairman Powell, and saying that they're too focused on DEI and green stuff and don't care about the economy. Anyway. Trump was asked, can you take a quick question on government funding?
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Like, you've created mass pandemonium and chaos in this country. What's your response? Trump goes, I don't think it's appropriate timing to talk about that. It's not appropriate. Here, watch this.
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But what was Donald Trump talking about? Lying and saying that they stopped $50 million to Gaza to buy condom bombs. But to be very clear, as Josh Rogin makes sense, according to comprehensive reports issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, not a penny of the 60.8 million in contraceptive and condom shipments funded by the U.S. in the past year went to Gaza.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
But here's what Trump said. Let's play it.
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Then Donald Trump talked about his threats to Colombia and the fake deal he made with Columbia, which preserved the status quo that existed when President Biden was in office. But then Donald Trump said to Columbia, Donald Trump goes, I told them you're gonna take your migrants back and you're gonna like it.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
By the way, that's what abusers, that's how abusers talk. And look, Donald Trump is someone found liable of sexual assault. He is someone who was separately convicted of 34 felony counts in New York. He talks like a mobster.
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Then Donald Trump talks about how he's basically going to be opening up what appears to be a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. They're calling it a migrant facility in Guantanamo Bay.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
And then Donald Trump posts the following, a photo of Pete Hegseth, who is the former Fox host, someone entirely unqualified to become the defense secretary who the MAGA Republicans confirmed. And now Donald Trump and Hegseth are just lying about the numbers and they go, recruiting numbers are up. The army is now scheduled to meet all of its goals. All woke base names are gone.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
He's getting more unhinged and bizarre each and every day. So Donald Trump's Wednesday freakout was a sight to behold. Donald Trump was supposed to sign into law the Lake and Riley Act, which he did. Took him seven days to do that while he's been playing golf and shutting down government funding to go to where it's needed, and then rescinding a memo, shutting down the government funding.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Fort Liberty's back to being Fort Bragg. Oh, yeah. You just solved everything. Recruitment's all of a sudden up. Everything's great, folks. This is Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin-style propaganda. This is the epitome of weakness, by the way, in addition to freezing. government aid being shipped out. This is why they did a freeze on government communication. They don't want to report disease numbers.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
They don't want to report the real economic numbers. They don't want to report recruitment numbers. Why? They want to do this Kim Jong-un crap and just lie. They think that's strength. Remember what he said during COVID? Like a miracle, it's all going to just go away and they expect us to buy into the propaganda. Pete Hegseth then posted, we don't want criminal illegals on our soil.
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They need to go home. Using Gitmo will facilitate that. It's the perfect location, he says. And by the way, there's also a recent study showing that most of the people or majority of the people they're rounding up are not criminals. They don't have criminal records. They're not terrorists. They're migrants who are contributing to the economy. Don't get me wrong.
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There are some criminals, but Biden was deporting criminals. Biden had less border crossings than Trump did at the end of Biden's term. Oh, and then there's this piece of news while all of this is going on that you have Zuckerberg's meta is agreeing to pay Donald Trump $25 million. million dollars. Donald Trump filed some ridiculous lawsuit for being blocked by Facebook in 2021.
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And the way Donald Trump had ABC kiss the ring and pay him $15 million, well now Donald Trump using the office of the presidency to have the Broligarcs pay him money, which they say $23 million or $22 million is going to the presidential library that's not built, 3 million going to legal funds. And by the way, so what we told you is going to happen.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Trump was going to go to those billionaires who kissed the ring and say, you have to pay me money. So while your gas prices are not lower, while your egg prices are not lower, while your groceries are not lower, while your housing is not more affordable, while the government freeze may have thrown you and your family into an utter panic.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
and has crippled our country while we are weaker internationally than we've ever been in the history of the United States. Donald Trump's out there asking his broligarcs to pay him legal settlements to enrich himself, to enrich his lawyers, and for future presidential libraries. I'm wink, wink, I'm sure about that. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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The truth is so critical now more than ever. I want to thank my friends at Snapstream, by the way, for helping with those clips. Thank you. And go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch. And let's go to MidasPlus.com as well. Thanks for watching.
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But then his press secretary said it wasn't rescinded, so states had to go into court to get another injunction to block Donald Trump from depriving people of emergency and necessary and critical government funding. But while all of that was going on, what was Donald Trump doing? Well, he was sitting around and making posts like this. Watch the water.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
You want this? It's good for people in Kentucky. But while the MAGA Republican Congress members do things like this, Republican Congress member Joe Wilson has announced a proposal for a new $250 bill featuring Donald Trump's face on it. Quote, I'm drafting legislation to direct the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
to design a $250 bill featuring Donald J. Trump, the most valuable bill for the most valuable president. This is cartoonishly clownish. I got to get the take of Congress member Jake Auchincloss, who's been very outspoken about how disastrous Doge has been and these cuts are in this horrific budget. Congress member, what do you make of this all?
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
The Congress member, I mean, you're telling me that people in red states are not rooting for things like this, like Trump Gaza. They're not focused on whatever this image is of I don't even know what I'm looking at that Donald Trump is posing. You're telling me that they're not focused on Elon Musk at a beach throwing money in the air and seeing Donald Trump post that.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
You're telling me that the American people are getting pissed? that their Medicaid is getting taken away, that essential services are being gutted, that they're waking up feeling less safe.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
The MAGA Republicans are pushing forward what may be the most devastating budget in the history of the United States of America. We're talking about $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. We're talking about adding $19 trillion to the deficit over the course of 10 years. We're talking about gutting infrastructure. We're talking about gutting important resources to farmers. What are they doing, though?
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
know uh donald trump is he was saying today he was blaming uh the egg prices on the administration but he was acting like he wasn't in charge he was just saying you know these egg prices are going up i i got to go speak to the head of the department of agriculture and just see what's going on here i'm i'm pissed about this but wasn't he the one who promised that on day one
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
he was going to bring down prices housing was going to be more affordable there was going to be all of these there's so many jobs you weren't going to know what to do with all of the jobs and you know i think what we're seeing in the kind of consumer sentiment and as donald trump's approval is plummeting that despite donald trump's efforts to try to distract and corporate media kind of buying into the distraction framework
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
I think it's hitting people hard and they're going, wait a minute. I can't even find eggs. My grocery price up. What are you seeing across the country in town halls in your district? Is this a Democrats, Republicans, independent? What are you seeing?
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
Congressman, I got to push back on you because one of the things that Trump is saying in addition to Trump Gaza with giant golden statues of him and him and Benjamin Netanyahu with their shirts off hanging on the beach and whatever the heck, again, those photos were that he's been posting. He's got... He's got gold cards. He's going to change the immigration system.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
He's going to replace what we have. And he says he's going to sell immigration. It's 5 million a pop. People have a black card because a lot of Americans can relate to having an American Express black card. He's like, I'm going to give you a gold card. So he said this word for word. Russian oligarchs, for example, you Chinese oligarchs, you buy in for
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Five mil, you get your visa, you become an American citizen, and bang, $50 trillion. 50 trillion is what he's saying.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
I mean, they are just outrageously glazing Elon Musk and Doge in like the weirdest way possible. I mean, you got this MAGA Republican Senator Roger Marshall out there saying, go, Elon, go, go here. Watch whatever the hell this is.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
You know, one of the areas where we're seeing a lot of cuts in as well is health, NIH, CDC. And, you know, the same way I feel like Republicans tried to normalize and like school shootings and just be like, it's the second amendment. So, you know, That's what that's just what happens.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
I saw the secretary of transportation, Secretary Duffy, also doing this with the plane crashes and a lot of the things like, you know, planes, planes crash. That's just, you know, what we get used to it like that. That's what happens. And I saw you had RFK Jr. today basically trying to say, you know, there was that death caused by measles in Texas. That doesn't happen.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
Measles outbreaks like this because of low vaccination, that's not normal. But you have the secretary of HHS going up there and saying, this is normal. Measles outbreaks, this is what we're used to here. Just play this clip if we have it, because it was a shocking moment.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
I think we'll leave it on that note. We'll bring you back as well. And Keep checking in with you. Your leadership on the Hill has been a great thing for us to watch. And I just like that you're bringing the facts. You're going on Republican territory also. And you're speaking to their voters and their turf also. And you're doing a great job. So thanks, Congressman. Thank you, Ben.
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Yeah, it's not worth twice as much. It's, I think, worth a fraction of it. He ran it into the ground, essentially. Then you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Barr on the Medicaid cuts. They're like, yeah, we need these Medicaid cuts. People are lazy, you know, lazy people. You don't deserve your Medicaid. This is what the MAGA Republicans are going with. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Major Cognitive Glitch During Awful Presser
Donald Trump had numerous cognitive glitches during this disastrous Oval Office press conference with the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. Donald Trump is asked if he thinks that Zelensky is still a dictator. Donald Trump said, I don't remember saying that. Did I say that? Here, play this clip.
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Okay, and then we can see what he said 24 hours ago. Again, receipts are important. This is where Donald Trump said that the EU was formed to screw the United States. That's the purpose of it. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Has Major Cognitive Glitch During Awful Presser
That's the purpose. You know, going back to the press conference that Donald Trump held today in the Oval Office with Keir Starmer, Donald Trump then asked Starmer if the UK could take on Russia on its own. What, like...
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As Kelsey Taggart says, this is the quote, oh shit, look, if I've ever seen one, what the hell is this guy doing? Donald Trump then is asked a question. If Russia were to attack the UK, would you help out the UK? To which Donald Trump says, I don't think they need much help. Play this clip.
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have been incredible so donald trump then says that ukraine should never join nato play this clip the europeans want ukraine to be part of nato as part of this deal are you willing to budge on that at all or is it well i could be very nice and say oh well we'll work to it look it's not going to happen it's just not going to happen that's what started this whole thing
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Trump Has Major Cognitive Glitch During Awful Presser
Yeah, please. Again, so utterly dastardly, this press conference. What a despicable person Donald Trump is. Here, Donald Trump says that he thinks that Russia's acting very well. It should be noted that Russia continues to bomb Ukraine. And in fact, they've been having their biggest drone swarms recently. Russia's been actually behaving worse than ever. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Major Cognitive Glitch During Awful Presser
Yes, Donald, you did say it and you did post about it as well. More on that in a minute. In addition, Donald Trump was asked about comments he made 24 hours ago where he said the European Union and Europe in general was created to screw over the United States. He was asked about those comments. He said, did I say that? Did I use those words? Here, play this clip.
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Say this, as I said yesterday,
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Trump Has Major Cognitive Glitch During Awful Presser
Donald Trump then says he would not oppose Eric Prince and Blackwater and other private military contractors rounding up for mass deportation. Migrants play this clip.
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Go to selectquote.com slash Midas today to get started. That's selectquote.com slash Midas. While that was taking place, Elon Musk is making posts like this. Here's a meme posted by Musk. Ladies, it's time to start thinking whether the guy you're dating has post-apocalyptic warlord potential. This is the individual who's accessing
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Your social security information, your medical records, his access to taxation records through Doge and who knows what the hell else he has. That's what he is posting as he destroys our government, cruelly firing federal workers, including veterans and throwing people on the streets. A reporter asked Donald Trump about, to that point, veterans make up 30% of the federal workforce.
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You're destroying their lives. Trump goes, no one's ever been better to the veterans than me. Play this clip. I didn't know anything about it.
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Donald Trump then is asked what you would be willing to do if Putin did not stick to the terms of a deal with Ukraine, to which Trump says Putin always keeps his word. I've known him for a long time. He says that they went over the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax together. Play this clip.
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Next, Donald Trump is asked about why the individual named Andrew Tate, who was arrested on alleged sex trafficking charges in Romania, was traveling back to the United States after reports that the Trump administration pressured Romania officials to let Tate into the United States. Here, play this clip. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to keep that one.
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And we're not talking about, we happen to have a great relationship with you, but we did have, and we do have problems with the EU because- So folks, either he is a liar or cognitively declining right before our eyes rapidly, or just an evil menace. I think it's all three. Just so we can see what he said, let's just pull out the receipts here, play this clip.
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I didn't know anything about it. Well, Donald Trump doesn't know about it, but I wonder if his top advisors do. But also Donald Trump doesn't know a lot of things or misremembers a lot of things. This is Alina Haba, Trump's top advisor. Play this clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Donald Trump humiliating the United States again on the world stage. What a horrific press conference there with Keir Starmer to our friends in the UK and Europe and Canada and elsewhere watching that. You should know that there are more Americans who don't support that crap than do. Our voices are growing louder each day.
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It's why the Midas Touch Network and our podcast is now beating Joe Rogan and all of these right wing podcasts. And we're going to make sure our voices are heard. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
Appearing for the first time on the Midas Touch Network, Senator Elizabeth Warren. Welcome, Senator.
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What do you say to people, though, in red states or red areas that go, but this is Senator Warren saying that she's a liberal. She's saying all of these things. What's your response?
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Well, look, you've got all of these Republicans who are gung ho about this. They are saying this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And they're out there, I think, also misrepresenting what's in the bill itself. I mean, I don't know if they're gaslighting the people or if they're just not reading it, but they're saying this is everything we promised.
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No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. It's all there. And the Democrats are opposing all of these things. Now, I I've looked through the bill. I didn't see that language anywhere there. I saw the cuts to Medicaid and the Energy and Commerce Committee. I saw the cuts to farmers. I saw the cuts to infrastructure and I saw the 4.5 trillion in tax cuts.
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So are the Republicans just gaslighting people or what's happening?
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Do you think people are already starting to feel these cuts, what Doge is doing, what Musk is doing in the red state areas? I mean, we're seeing what's going on in a lot of these town halls in ruby red areas. Do you think it's already beginning to set in, maybe even earlier than expected?
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Let's talk about the CFPB that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are gutting, although I think they're now gaslighting the courts or lying to the courts and claiming, oh, this is just part of a streamlining effort. So what happened was, right, was Elon Musk posted CFPB, RIP, he posted it. Then they started gutting it, destroying it, dismantling it.
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Lawsuits were filed, injunctions were ordered to slow it down or to stop it. Now they're making arguments basically because I think they realize how unpopular it is to gut and destroy the CFPB, which brought tens of billions of dollars back to consumers from corporations that defrauded the consumers.
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And so now the guy, the architect of Project 2025, I think he's submitting declarations saying, oh, you have it all wrong. This is just part of a streamlining effort that we're doing. What do you mean we're gutting it? What do you mean Elon Musk is posting on it? We don't know what you're talking about. What's going on here, Senator?
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
Why are the Republicans just like babying Elon Musk and they're like babying Donald Trump as though the rules don't apply? We don't know what they say. You know, they just they just say all of these things. Like when I see these town halls. What I hear over and over again from Republican people as well is Elon needs to testify. This is a government. There's something called oversight.
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You don't just get to post things on social media and then say, oops, I made a mistake there. You show up, you testify, you're transparent with the people. Now, I know you held a CFPB forum where you invited Elon Musk. He refused to show. I know the Democrats have tried to subpoena Elon Musk a number of times.
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The Republicans usually try to quash the subpoenas or even stop debate about whether a subpoena should even be sent in the first place. So Elon may be watching this. We know Trump's press team watches these things. So what would your message be to Elon Musk if he's watching this about why he should testify before the Senate?
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I think they're scared. Do you think he's character?
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, we'll see if he responds to that challenge and shows up. We'll see if he's scared of you or not. We'll find out. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate you joining us on the Midas Touch Network.
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All right, let's get into it. So the House Republicans this week passed their budget blueprint, tax cuts for the rich, cuts to Medicaid, $19 trillion added to the deficit at least, I think, over 10 years. How much harm is this going to cause the American people?
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
Donald Trump keeps poking and poking Canada. Big mistake, Donald, that ridiculous cabinet meeting he had yesterday. Here's what he said. Let's play it. It's not fair for us to be supporting Canada. And if we don't support them, they don't subsist as a nation. Don't subsist as a nation. I'm here with Canadian Member of Parliament, Charlie Angus.
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to form a government potentially, which no one thought if you went back two or three months ago was a possibility. Have you ever seen anything like, you've been in Canadian politics for a long time, have you ever seen anything like this?
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Talk about this petition to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship in Canada that you've been supporting. I think it's going to be one of the most widely distributed and signed petitions in the history of Canada in general. Tell us about what's going on there.
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You saw what he was saying yesterday at the cabinet meeting. What's your response to him?
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The Midas Touch podcast is now the number one most downloaded podcast in all of Canada, beating all of the Canadian news channels and entertainment channels. So where can people find? We know we have a lot of Canadian listeners and viewers. If they want to join this petition and they're not already signed on, what do they do?
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Let's talk about Wayne Gretzky, who used to be a friend of Canada, used to be beloved, used to be Canada's golden boy. And then he went full MAGA, would hang out at Mar-a-Lago, became a Trumper, not just, he wasn't Maple MAGA even, he was like America MAGA. He was rooting to be 51st state type stuff.
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And then Donald Trump was saying that Gretzky should become basically the leader of Canada to become his puppet and then basically run it the way Putin runs his nations in his orbit, like Belarus. It would basically be that version. And Gretzky was all into it. Then Gretzky started showing up to hockey games and was in Canadian gear. By the way, NHL doing that.
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I'm not sure that was a great decision, but we know why they did that. But then Gretzky would get booed by Canadians and Gretzky can't walk around Canada now without getting booed and one of the most detested people. So Donald Trump had to post this because I'm sure Gretzky's like, hey, I need you to write this for me. I need some cred back. So Trump just wrote this.
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He goes, Wayne Gretzky is a fantastic guy. They call him the great one. He could run for any political office in Canada and win.
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Wayne is my friend and he wants to make me happy and is therefore somewhat low key about Canada remaining a separate country rather than becoming a cherished and beautiful 51st state paying much lower taxes, a free and powerful military, no tariffs and having a booming economy. Wayne and Janet, his wonderful wife, love Canada and they should only support Canada.
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Whatever else makes the Canadian people and Governor Trudeau happy. He's the greatest Canadian of them all. And I am therefore making him a free agent because I don't want anyone in Canada to say anything bad about him. Charlie Angus, your response to that?
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Now, finally, we usually end our interviews with this. We know that Trump's press team watches that. They clip this stuff and whatever. So if you wanted to direct a message to Donald Trump right now, what's your message to him as we're recording this, as we are starting to head into the month of March?
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Charlie Angus, thank you so much. Thank you. Everyone hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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As Jeremiah Johnson said, this is one of the most astonishing polling charts I've ever seen. Trump's impact on Canadian politics is insane. You see the support of Maple MAGA crashing. That's the Pierre Poliev Conservative Party. And now you see under a Mark Carney Liberal Party, your NDP party, but under the Carney Party, the Liberal Party now seems like they're on the verge of being able to
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Trump in Cover-Up Mode Over His Dark Past
It's not the art of the deal, it is the art of the cover-up, and we're seeing now the Trump administration orchestrate a cover-up of the Epstein files, which they claim they were going to release.
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Yeah. And also we have audio of Epstein. Share it with you here. I mean, here's audio of Epstein talking about Trump. Let's play it.
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I think we have a snippet from one of the conversations that I recorded with Epstein. And I think this was in a restaurant in 2017.
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I have more than dozens. I probably have a hundred hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his longstanding deep relationship with Donald Trump.
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And here's a compilation MSNBC did I thought was great about Trump and Epstein's connections and how they would party together. Play this clip. You're going to get great ratings in your show.
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But those flight logs have Donald Trump's name at least seven times. Repeatedly, Donald Trump is mentioned. So if you release those flight logs, we're going to see Trump almost more than anybody on that chat. And get this too, after Epstein died under circumstances that let's just say are more than curious,
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So what are we talking about here? What are we talking about here, Pam Bondi? What I want to see happen is I'd like for you to release the files. You can easily redact the names. Isn't this all about government efficiency? What about Doge? You're telling me how efficient you are and AI and algorithms and all of these things. You're telling me that by now, within what, over a month?
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You'll note our reporting yesterday where the MAGA influencers were basically saying the Epstein files are being destroyed by the deep state, even though Donald Trump wanted to release them all, they're being destroyed.
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We're going to be two months soon. You couldn't redact the names of the victims and release all of the files? It's that hard for you to do? I thought y'all were efficient. I just wonder with these Republicans, though. Who go, oh my God, they released the flight logs. Are y'all being serious? Or you know that you're covering up for Trump? I'm just trying to make sense of it.
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I'm trying to make sense of it. There's almost no one closer to Epstein out there who's living now than Trump. And we know about it. And y'all are out there saying that there's this, you're looking for your guy. Okay. We'll keep covering this though. And we'll keep letting the public know what's happening. And they could judge for themselves. I showed you the depositions.
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I showed you the flight logs. I showed you Trump's words. I showed you Epstein's words. So judge for yourself. Okay. That's all you can do. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Donald Trump got Epstein's jet to use for his campaign from an intermediary who purchased the jet from Epstein's estate. And then Trump put the Trump 2024 logo over Epstein's jet and was flying that around to different campaign stops. So let's just talk about what went down. Let's go through the different permutations. Let's bring out our receipts right here.
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The right-wing influencer named DC Drano responds to MAGA Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. She goes, my office just received a formal response from the DOJ on the Jeffrey Epstein JFK MLK and RFK files, to which Drano, who's a right-wing MAGA influencer, goes, The DOJ has officially halted release of the Epstein client list. They did not give a date when they would release it.
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Not sure why they don't just release it in accordance with Donald Trump's executive order. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, what a surprise. MAGA has been screaming for the Epstein client list for years, and for some reason, Donald Trump's DOJ doesn't want to release it. They might need to do some redactions first. Now,
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It should be noted that Donald Trump and Epstein were very close friends. They hung out in Florida all of the time. Donald Trump is quoted as saying that Epstein is a, quote, great guy who likes women on the younger side. Some of the women who were trafficked by Epstein were found at Mar-a-Lago, for example, and one of Epstein's more well-known victims, someone by the name of Virginia Giuffre.
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She was homeless. She got a job at Mar-a-Lago. That was the first job that she got after being homeless. Then Ghislaine Maxwell found her working at Mar-a-Lago, brought her over to Epstein, had her massage Epstein, and then Epstein began to traffic Virginia Giuffre. That was one of the kind of modus operandi that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell would do together.
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Then earlier today, the Department of Justice sent a letter to Anna Paulina Luna, the MAGA Republican congresswoman who's running a subcommittee whose mission is to, I guess, release the Epstein files, the MLK files, the JFK files.
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And again, Trump's name is repeatedly on the plane list. deposition testimony from the various Epstein cases that have already been released publicly has Donald Trump's name on it. Victim of Epstein's trafficking says that when she was on the plane with Epstein, he called up Trump and then they landed in Atlantic City to go to Trump's casino and
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Indy Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking trial where she was found guilty and put in jail for the rest of her life, prison. where she belongs. A woman who was 14 years old at the time, she was a girl at the time, but she's testifying when she was older, talked about how when she was 14 years old, she was brought to Donald Trump by Epstein. She's a pseudonym Jane Dope.
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That's what she testified at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. And Donald Trump, I mean, in the early 90s through the 2000s, I mean, he would... hold beauty pageants for teenage girls. He would do girl beauty pageants, and then he would invite the girls on yachts. He's photographed with very young girls on the yachts, looking at them in very creepy ways.
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The Guardian wrote a whole piece about one of these yacht trips where it was described that these little girls were dancing on men old enough to be their grandparents. or their granddads, and it was disgusting. And then the old men would be like, get me one of these girls, get me one of these girls. A disgusting article. I mean, you see the photos of these girls right here.
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And look at Donald Trump with the girls right there. I mean, Trump and Epstein were very, very close. So here, let's take a look at the DOJ letter, which rejected the request for immediately releasing the Epstein files. Here it is right here, just so you can see for yourself. It's a response to Anna Paulina Luna.
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It says, thank you for your letters to the Department of Justice dated February 11th and February 19th, 2025. We are sending an identical response to other members who joined your letters. to every component of the department's mission to uphold the rule of law, keeping our nation safe and protecting civil rights.
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Trump in Cover-Up Mode Over His Dark Past
the rfk files and also ufo files all of that's under her purview the doj basically said we're not going to release it we are doing our due diligence to look through all of these documents and then we're not turning it over and then that caused chaos in maga world because they all said i thought you were going to release it are you trying to cover it up
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The department remains committed to meeting its legal record-keeping obligations as it pursues that mission. We are reviewing your request and look forward to engaging further to accommodate your oversight and legislative needs. We hope this information is helpful.
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Please do not hesitate to contact this office if we may provide additional assistance regarding any other things related to this matter. And notice that it's also signed not by Pam Bondi. but by a guy named Patrick Davis right there. So let me share this with you first.
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So this was before, this was Pam Bondi, I think a week or two back, where she talked about how the files are on her desk and she's reviewing them and she was gearing up to release them. Here it is right here.
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Well, we'll check back with you. So then Pam Bondi went on Jesse Waters last night. And, you know, after all of this outrage within the MAGA community, hey, we thought you were going to release these files. Here's the video where she says, I've got breaking news. We're going to drop some of the files, some of the flight logs. Here, watch this.
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And then Donald Trump paraded out his attorney general, Pam Bondi, and she tried to basically put out some red meat for her base. And she was like, we're going to release the flight logs. We're going to release some of the flight logs. We can't release a lot of the other stuff, but the flight logs. And so I was like, you mean the flight logs that were released back in 2021?
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MAGA Republican Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna, whether she's just gaslighting everybody or whether she just doesn't know or she's ignorant of these facts, she goes, well done. This is the transparency the American people asked for. We already have the flight logs. I mean, here it is right here. Government Exhibit 662-RR, 118 pages right here. We have them.
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Trump in Cover-Up Mode Over His Dark Past
The flight logs were already released in the 2021 Ghislaine Maxwell trial. We see Donald Trump's name. We've circled it there. It's at least seven times right there. We have depositions. Jeffrey Epstein said, great, we'll call up Trump. We'll go to, I don't recall the name of the casino, but we'll go to the casino. We've got depositions. We have Trump's own word.
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Trump in Cover-Up Mode Over His Dark Past
Here he is, where he wished Ghislaine Maxwell well before her trial. Play this clip.
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We know that Epstein traveled on Trump's plane frequently. We have that data. Here are some of the major revelations from the bombshell Daily Beast article from Michael Wolff's book. Epstein showed me photos of Trump with topless young women sitting on his lap. That's what Wolff claimed. Jeffrey Epstein described himself as Donald Trump's closest friend for about a decade.
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Epstein claimed that Trump liked to F the wives of his best friends. Epstein alleged Trump and Melania first slept together on the Lolita Express. Epstein suggested Trump was a serial cheat and loved using his power to pursue women. Trump reportedly had scalp reduction surgery and referred to himself as the Trumpster. We have other audio of Donald Trump.
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I mean, here he is saying that he would inspect the girls naked or the women naked, depending on which beauty pageants it was, because he did uh, beauty pageants for, I guess, uh, adults. He also did the teenage beauty pageant. So I'm not sure which one he's talking about here, but he said that he would inspect them naked without their consent. Um, because he was the head and they had, uh,
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Let him do it. Here, play this clip.
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And so I sort of get away with things. I think this is when Lindsay Lohan had either just turned 18 years old. She may have been 17 years old here. He said that he liked that she was psychologically damaged and that he liked having sex with psychologically damaged women because they're better in bed, he said. Here, play this clip.
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Do you think people are so stupid that they forgot that the flight logs were already released? They were released during the Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking trial, where Donald Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein's trafficker, Trump wished her well before that trial and basically hope that she did well. He goes, I wish her well during the trial.
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And here he is recently. This was Donald Trump giving a speech about a year ago before the young Republicans, high school and college age Republicans. And Trump said the most courageous thing he's done, according to a general, was calling the when he would grab women by their genitals, locker room talk.
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He said that was the most courageous thing, far more courageous than what people in the military do, defending our country. He said labeling molesting women, locker room talk, he says, was a very courageous thing, he says. Play this clip.
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Trump Throws Tantrum as Bad News Grows
I had to see this photo. I can't unsee this photo, so you now have to see this photo. The ridiculousness of this all when you have this individual who is gutting our Medicaid, who is attacking our government institutions, who is sucking up to Putin, who is making posts on his social media platform.
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So, you know, if you're saying that Doge is finding all of these, you know, fraud and abuse, then why would you support a continuing resolution to keep the government funded with fraud and abuse? Here, play this clip.
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And then we fired the Ebola people. I mean, I'm like watching this. I'm like, what the hell are these people talking about?
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Should be noted that the doge amongst the American people is like the number one entity that Americans want to see abolished by far. Oh yes, then there's a new proposal that was released yesterday by a MAGA Republican Congress member, Wilson, to make Donald Trump the first and only living current or former president to be featured on Currency. They want to put him on a $250 bill.
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And they said it's the most valuable currency. And they said he's the most valuable president. That's what the MAGA Republican Congress members are spending their time to as Elon Musk and his team raid your private information, gain access to your social security tax records, medical information, as they gut our government services, as our markets are so volatile that
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I mean, as they're firing central government workers, government workers, veterans, spouses of veterans, people who have just sacrificed in general for us working for the government and then lied and said they were firing people for cause, for performance reasons when it was not based on performance reasons. Here, take a look at this. This is from the cabinet meeting.
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right now, as Donald Trump is posting about Trump, Gaza and having the having America join in access of evil of Russia, of North Korea, Belarus to oppose United Nations resolutions condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. Like, what are we what are we talking about here, folks? Anyway, there you have it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Here is Donald Trump blaming the rising costs of everything and like egg prices on the administration. But Trump's like pretending that he's not the president and he's attacking a phantom administration. Here, play this clip.
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Then Kim Jong-un style, Donald Trump assembles this kind of cabinet of the most spineless men, a few women, but mostly men, and the most spineless people. And he goes, let the cabinet speak. Raise your hand right now if you are unhappy with Elon. Here, just watch this clip.
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referring to Gaza now as Trump Gaza and trying to distract Americans from the fact that prices are surging, inflation is surging again, the markets are doing bad right now. This is what Trump posted before holding a cabinet meeting yesterday. This is a real post. It was a video, he was calling it Trump Gaza, and it was an AI video where they had golden statues of Trump and
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This is like some North Korea stuff right here. Elon Musk would make multiple posts yesterday where he would mock the federal workers who were fired and celebrate their terminations. It's ghoulish behavior. But back to that cabinet meeting here, Elon Musk, this is where he says, I'm going to make mistakes, you know, like Ebola. I will sometimes fire Ebola people, but it's OK.
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We will just sometimes, you know, fire people who do nuclear weapons, you know. Here, play this clip.
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Well, that's my Elon Musk impression right there. Tell me what you think. As our friend Greg Sargent says, another mistake they made was firing USAID people who oversee contracts like the one that supplies life-saving treatments for kids who are suffering from extreme malnutrition or on the edge of starvation.
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You know, it should be noted as well, though, that last night, right before a deadline where federal governments ordered the Trump administration to have to make the payments to USAID contractors, John Roberts, chief justice of the MAGA Republican right-wing Supreme Court, jumped in and blocked the order compelling Trump to fund USAID contracts.
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the Supreme Court over and over again has blood on their hands. How many kids, how many people are going to die because of the cruelty of having their funding ripped away? And then when other federal courts order that that funding be paid,
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By midnight last night, Chief Justice John Roberts, the same person who took away women's reproductive rights, basically changed the law to stop the separation of church and state. The same Supreme Court that basically celebrates AR-15s by schools, that gutted climate change legislation, that gutted voting rights.
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Chief Justice John Roberts said, we're going to temporarily stop this order requiring the funding to USAID. Here, Donald Trump says this country has gotten that America's bloated, fat and disgusting. Play this clip.
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Are you looking in the mirror? Is that what you're referring to? Then they had a conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr., who's the secretary of health and human services. He then talks about how there are that the measles outbreak right now, which has killed somebody in Texas. This is like one of the biggest measles outbreak in recent time because people aren't getting vaccinated for measles. RFK Jr.
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Elon Musk was on the beaches in Gaza throwing up money in the air. And then after committing genocide, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were at the Trump Gaza hotel together in this AI that they created. And then here on the Gaza beach, There are these bearded men with big chests. And, well, you can judge for yourself that Trump actually posted that.
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at this cabinet meeting was like, this is normal. This is what usually happens. There's measles outbreaks like this all the time. There is not. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump insults Canada and says, Canada can't subsist or exist as a nation without America. Play this clip.
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Boy, people are pissed in Canada. That boycott of all things American in Canada is still going strong and it'll start showing in our economy.
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As Christopher Webb points out as well, not too gross y'all out, but it's not just the bruise on Trump's hand. These are not the fingernails of a healthy man. And the White House issued an official statement yesterday saying that the all of these bruises and and the discoloration on his hands and what that looks like is because he shakes so many hands every day is what they're saying
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Cue in Marjorie Taylor Greene, MAGA Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is too scared to allow Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz at the Doge hearings. She rejected his request to attend. So here she talks about, though, how federal workers need to get real jobs. They don't deserve their paychecks. They're not really working real jobs, she says. Play this clip.
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Again, when did it become so normal to just insult hardworking Americans? I don't get it. I mean, what? Just because you're not on TV, that doesn't what? That means that someone who works at our national parks is not good enough for MAGA? The person who works in the Department of Education or Department of Labor or
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So when I go and show you that photo of him, what he looks like without his orange plaster on his face, I mean, like, what the hell is going on here? Then let's go to that cabinet meeting that took place yesterday, which Donald Trump essentially had Elon Musk lead, where Elon Musk's like, I'm going to be making mistakes a lot, you know, like we made a mistake about Ebola.
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or Department of Agriculture, or USAID, or the people who work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or whatever government entity. Why? They don't get on TV, so they're not glamorous. That means they're not real workers. I mean, who talks about human beings in that way? Oh, MAGA. The same MAGA that is shaking down President Zelensky of Ukraine for a rare earth mineral deal.
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So we've been covering on the Midas Touch Network all of Donald Trump's fake deals. where Donald Trump said that he got this great deal with Canada to avoid the initial tariffs Donald Trump threatened. But then he says he's bringing tariffs in a few days anyway against Canada.
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But remember the deal where Canada said, OK, Donald, we will put whatever it was, a billion dollars in border security and we'll give you a fentanyl czar. There was already the border security deal in place under former President Biden and a fentanyl czar, whatever they were calling it, that's There's really no fentanyl coming from Canada to the United States.
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10 pounds or something like over the whole year. Like there's not a lot of fentanyl coming in at all. And then the deal with Mexico, the fake deal where Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico is like, okay, Donald, we'll put 10,000 troops at the border. And Trump's like, deal, look what I've achieved. There were already 15,000 troops at the border. 15,000 is more than 10,000.
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Then Donald Trump made the fake deals with like Columbia and Panama and so on and so forth. So now, so Donald Trump was like shaking down Zelensky for this rare earth mineral deal where, you know, the rare earth minerals from Ukraine would be shared with the United States with no security guarantees. But here's what we know about the deal now.
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Ilya Pomeranko from the Kiev Independent says it perfectly. It's like a fake deal. So essentially, the rare earth agreement is just a memorandum on how the U.S. and Ukraine are intended to invest in Ukraine's mining industry and mineral resources and jointly get profits at some point. There's 0% certainty on whether this will ever be a real big thing.
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The document doesn't even require parliamentary ratification at this moment now. Donald Trump will declare a grandiose victory as soon as Zelensky signs this in front of cameras in D.C. And essentially, that's it. Pomerantz goes on to say this is all so grotesquely dumb and so surreally opposite to basic human morality that one can't believe it's even real.
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It motivates many to try to look for a second agenda to try to read between the lines and make it to a far larger truth. But I'm afraid the answer is very simple. Maga Mike Johnson on CNN is being asked here. This was a good question by Caitlin Collins. She asked Maga Mike Johnson.
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This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run. Mirror, mirror on the wall. That was Donald Trump apparently talking about himself during his first cabinet meeting of his new term. Donald Trump was joined by his puppet master, Elon Musk, who led much of the meeting, which was completely bizarre, full of lies.
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And because we always show receipts here at Midas Touch, let's pull this up. Consumer Confidence has registered the biggest monthly decline since August 2021 as inflation fears take hold. The latest evidence comes from the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for February, which was released this past Tuesday morning.
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The index fell to 98.3, falling for the third straight month and marking the largest monthly decline since August 2021, as expectations for inflation in the year ahead climbed. And that coincides with the trends that were reflected in the University of Michigan's consumer survey for February.
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Trump then turned the meeting over to Elon Musk to tell people what is happening, because apparently he doesn't know what the heck is going on. And Trump said that Elon probably found fraud, but he won't be able to prove it.
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And at times, Donald Trump didn't even seem to acknowledge that he is actually the president. My name is Brett Mycelis with Midas Touch. I'm going to walk you through the lowlights and fact check it all. But first, remember to hit subscribe and help us get to 5 million subscribers. The meeting began with a prayer where they thanked God for President Trump. Just completely bizarre stuff.
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Elon Musk then admitted that he, quote, accidentally canceled briefly funding for Ebola prevention. Watch this.
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By the way, for some perspective on how Doge is actually going, NPR's recent data show that while Doge has said they cut $55 billion in spending, they've actually only reduced about $2 billion with all this chaos, just $2 billion.
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And the New York Times reports that the top five biggest cuts that Doge claimed to have put forward, they've now been removed from their website because they were all fraudulent claims. They were just completely made up. factual errors.
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And while they're causing all this chaos under the guise of cutting the deficit, they are currently pushing through this budget bill in Congress that would add $19 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. $19 trillion with a T.
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So even if NPR's data is somehow wrong by 100x, and even if Doge somehow found a lot more savings since that report came out, it's still not even a dent in what the Trump GOP tax plan is about to cause. And also they could give $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to the richest Americans.
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And you don't have to believe me, here are the deficit numbers as listed in the GOP resolution that passed last night. Take a look at this. And by the way, all these Republican politicians and influencers are now lying about the resolution, saying that they've ended tax on tips, tax on social security, tax on overtime. just a flat out lie.
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And you could see these posts like this one by Republican Representative Ana Paulina Luna. It got fact checked on Twitter of all places. It says on the bottom of the fact check, quote, House resolution does not include provisions for no tax on tips or no tax on overtime. It's a budget resolution setting fiscal targets, not a tax or labor law.
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And Trump's proposals on tips and unmentioned overtime would require separate legislation. Also, to reiterate what was just said in that note, this is just a resolution providing the framework of the budget. The bill itself has not been passed. They are literally making up benefits for the working class out of thin air so that they could push forward these tax cuts for the rich.
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It's absolutely abhorrent. Well, back to the cabinet meeting Trump threatened Canada again by calling them the 51st state. Watch this.
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And if they had to pay their way, they couldn't exist. Trump then threatened Ukraine and said they could forget about ever joining NATO. Watch this.
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Then Trump refused to say if he would ever let China take Taiwan by force.
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Trump was then asked about the message it sends to China if he allows Russia to keep territory they claimed by force. And he once again showed his weakness or rather subservience towards Russia. Take a look.
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Oh, okay. You try and take it away, right? Trump was then asked about his plan to sell $5 million gold cards in order for rich people to be able to buy citizenship to the United States, including Russian oligarchs. The country is literally for sale right now. Trump claimed the country could make $50 trillion on selling gold cards if they could find 10 million people willing to pay the $5 million.
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The guy just makes things up. Watch this.
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Trump then encouraged China to invest in the United States. As I said before, the country is literally for sale under Trump watch around this table.
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Trump then didn't even seem to know that he is president right now. And he said that while egg prices are a disaster and are really high now, they were low with him.
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Trump was also asked if he could guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will not be touched. And he said he's going to find the fraud. And then he repeated these lies about 200 year old people getting checks completely made up.
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But you have a lot of fraud. If you remember, Trump and Musk were previously saying 150 year olds were getting checks. Now that number has magically moved to 200 year olds. This is all based on Elon Musk and his 20-something-year-old doge kids not knowing how to read government data. And I want you to have your guard up anytime. I'm just going to say this here.
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Have your guard up anytime Trump and Musk or any Republicans say that they are going after waste, fraud, and abuse. They are using that lie to go after crucial government programs and to fire employees. But as you've seen at these town halls lately, people are already catching on to this lie anytime Republicans try to use that line. And finally, RFK Jr.
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was asked about the measles outbreak that's going on in Texas. We just learned this morning that an unvaccinated young child just died of measles. It's the first measles death in over a decade. RFK Jr. was asked about this and he said, it is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year. Watch this. Bobby, do you want to speak on that?
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I mean, it is unusual. This is the first time this has happened in 10 years, and this is a deadly outbreak right now in West Texas due to people not getting vaccinated. As a reminder, RFK Jr. 's lies about vaccines during his visit to Samoa in 2019 have been linked to a massive measles outbreak there, which ended up resulting in 83 deaths, mostly children.
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So there's a track record of this with RFK Jr. Oh, and I have to show you this. This was an AI video that Trump posted on social media last night depicting the Gaza Strip as Trump Gaza, showing gold statues of Trump in a resort-like setting in Gaza with bearded ladies, Trump dancing with a woman who isn't his wife, Trump shirtless with Netanyahu having drinks by the pool.
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This is just completely disturbing. I'm sorry to even show this to you, but people need to see what he is posting. Take a look.
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Trump was then asked about consumer confidence, which is absolutely plummeting right now. People are very unhappy with the Trump economy and how he is handling it, or probably the lack of how he is handling it right now. Trump then argued that confidence was high after the election. I mean, when Biden was still president. Play the clip.
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Trying to bully Panama into saying America is going to conquer it or take back over the Panama Canal. President Biden shaking the hands of firefighters. Notice that Donald Trump doesn't do any of that once the election is over, right?
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Donald Trump would always do those stunts where he'd like bring pizza boxes to the fire department during the election, but then after would never deliver on the things he said he was going to do. President Biden's been a steady hand and has been constantly on the side. Workers, firefighters, first responders, unions, the American people, red states and blue states.
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Remember what President Biden said to me during the interview we did in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing? By the way, watch it and share it with family members if you haven't. He said, I'm a president for all Americans. And a lot of my policies helped out red states even more than blue states where the red states had really bad infrastructure. We brought them good infrastructure.
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We brought them jobs. And I don't care who they voted for. I cared about their Americans and my job, my duty as the president of the United States is to help them. President Biden goes, this holiday season, Jill and I are thinking of the brave first responders and frontline workers who keep our communities and families safe. Our nation is stronger than ever because of them.
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And that stands in contrast to the firefighters union in New York who are absolutely pissed that Trump and Republicans stripped funding from the 9-11 healthcare program and the continuing resolution. Today's episode of F around and find out. Let's play it.
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New York City Fire Department unions are calling for the restoration of funding to the James Zadroga 9-11 Health and Compensation Act after it was left out of Congress's funding on Friday. The act guarantees medical treatment for first responders, firefighters and survivors who helped with their recovery efforts following the World Trade Center attack.
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It also provides financial compensation for those who suffered injuries, illnesses or death as a result.
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Now, also in stark contrast to Donald Trump's behavior, President Biden's been releasing videos about how he's helped the American people. I'm not showing you any Trump videos. I've made you that promise. I'm going to stick by that. No Trump videos, no audio. I hear you. We're not going to show you that, especially not on Christmas.
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I do want to show you, I'm not going to show you Trump, that's not the but. This is a video that Rudy Giuliani released, dressed up as a Santa suit with a woman on his lap selling Rudy Giuliani coffee. Why? Because Trump's selling Trump guitars, Trump coins, Trump watches, Trump, Trump, Trump. Giuliani, Giuliani, there's Rudy, they're in it for themselves. Watch this, then we'll show the contrast.
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All right, and now the contrast. Three videos of President Biden. These are lovely videos and it's so important that you watch all three of them because I think it highlights a lot.
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This first video right here, President Biden talked about how his administration announced that another 55,000 public service workers are approved to have their student debt wiped out, meaning nearly 5 million borrowers have received forgiveness including 1 million public servants. Contrast that to Trump whose PPP program waived the debt, eliminated the debt of rich people.
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Biden focused on public sector workers who gave back. Here, watch this clip.
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Now, in contrast to the Trump guitars, the Trump watches, the Trump coins, the Trump NFTs, all the stupid crap that he sells, President Biden, again, this is after the election. The election's over, okay? But what's President Biden talking about? What was he talking to me about? Stuff like this. Thanks to my Inflation Reduction Act, we've made historic progress lowering healthcare costs.
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$35 for insulin, $35 for inhalers, a $2,000 a year cap on prescription drugs for Medicare recipients, and more. Here, watch this.
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On Christmas, President Biden is reminding the American people of what a dignified and compassionate president looks like. Someone who cares about the people in contrast to Donald Trump. And folks, the contrast cannot be more clear here. President Biden posted this lovely image of a little kitten, one of my favorite Christmas tales.
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God love you. Lovely video. It's a beautiful video. President Biden also posted this video right here. I am proud of the work we have done to make the Affordable Care Act more accessible and more affordable for folks like Phoenix's grandmother. Just take a look at this. Here, play this clip.
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Another beautiful, lovely video right there. And again, you take a look at President Biden's accomplishments, 12.6% GDP growth, 16.2 million jobs created, 1.6 million jobs created in construction and manufacturing, lowest average unemployment rate, incomes are up.
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lowered costs for families 20 million new business applications workers filing for union representation has doubled one trillion dollars in private sector manufacturing and clean energy investments have been announced and a lot of that will happen during trump's term too but when i asked president biden i said are you going to regret when the other guy takes crediting us no i'm not going to regret if the american people benefit that's what i care about most
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So in President Biden's final days, as we all sit around the table with our families on Christmas, whatever holiday you celebrate, or if you don't celebrate holidays at all, remember the dignified, humble, public servant who worked for the American people. That's how I view it. In contrast to the bumbling, mumbling fool, as I see it, in Donald Trump's
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Threatening Greenland, threatening Panama, threatening Mexico, threatening Canada, bullying this, bullying that. So deranged, so unhinged. Trump made other posts as well. I don't want to show you his other posts. They're just stupid. Dangerous. I'm going after this person. I'm going after that person. The January 6th committee Stalinist. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Seriously.
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We need to reflect on what dignified, humble, public servant leadership, service, is all about. Service. Service. Reflect on that this Christmas. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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Contrast that to Donald Trump's post, now available, gettrumpguitars.com. By the way, Trump was previously hit with a cease and desist letter by the Gibson Company for purportedly taking their design and intellectual property and selling it with his own guitar line, whatever the heck you want to call it. Donald Trump posts an image of the United States of America flag in the Panama Canal,
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Yeah, and Senator, that extends to other Trump nominees, Pete Hegseth for defense, Tulsi Gabbard. This unbelievably crazy nomination was made by the same person who's making these other nominations.
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I love that AOC's been doing these kind of ask her anything type videos that she's been making. Really good stuff right here. Here she is talking about the MAGA Republican oligarchy and that it's here already. Here, play this clip.
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Democrats in Congress finally going on the offense, speaking plainly, loudly, and clearly, led by Democratic Congress members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and in the Senate, Sheldon Whitehouse. Let's show you what they're doing. Also, MAGA Republicans don't know how to react and they're exposing their true pro-oligarchy agenda during their public appearances because Democrats are pushing back
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And here AOC is again talking about how Trump wanted the debt ceiling lifted so we won't realize his tax cuts for the rich will explode the deficit. Watch this.
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He or she is again answering if Elon Musk is really the shadow president. Play this clip.
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pushing them into a corner and MAGA Republicans exposing what they're really trying to do with Project 2025. Let's take a look here. Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, let's play this clip.
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Powerful stuff right there. Now, contrast that to MAGA Republican Congress member Tony Gonzalez, who goes, no, we need Elon. Elon's like our prime minister. No, he's not. Elon Musk isn't our prime minister. What are these baggers talking about? We don't want Elon Musk. He doesn't know what he's talking about here. Play this clip.
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And by the way, this is Elon Musk saying that he hates unions. He thinks unions shouldn't exist because Elon Musk says that unions create a lord versus peasants dynamic with the union leaders as the lord and the members as the peasants. Play this clip.
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Yeah, no, Elon, you're describing yourself and the American oligarchy. Y'all see what's going on there? The Lord Peasant dynamic is the Elons, the Trumps, the Bezoses against the workers. You see what they're doing right here?
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By the way, Donald Trump's out there posting about conquering Greenland and taking back the Panama Canal, which was never ours, it was Elise, but stealing Panama Canal and conquering sovereign nations. You've got Marjorie Taylor Greene posting things like Canada and Greenland should have never been given away in the first place. I have no clue. Just take a look at this.
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What in the world is she even talking about here? But now on Fox, as Donald Trump's talking about conquering nations, they're having guests show up, like the chair of the Republican Party. And they're like, yeah, this is a good idea. We're going to have to buy it. Greenland will cost $1.5 trillion, but a good acquisition. Here, play this clip.
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And then earlier on Fox, they had a guest who says that, or the Fox host goes, Greenland is not for sale, but sometimes they aren't until they are. Here, play this clip.
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By the way, while all of that's going on, there was that breaking story from some great local journalism how the Texas Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger was missing since July. No one knew where she was, but no one was asking questions. MAGA Republicans covered it up and pretended that she was still around for her constituents. She was not. She has dementia.
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And she is in full-time, round-the-clock care because of her deteriorating mental condition. She lived at a dementia care home. And video from her surfaced. This is from earlier in this year. You see her right here. This was before she kind of disappeared. Play this clip.
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Now, I do think it's worthwhile, too, though, quickly to showcase a senator-elect from Utah, Senator-elect John Curtis, who does say, look, I'm going to push back against Trump. He's what he said. He said, I want to highlight him here. He said, I don't think Trump has a mandate. Play this clip.
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And here he is, again, talking about what his constitutional responsibility is. Again, Republican, Utah Senator-elect John Kurtz. But I think I showcase him here because this is what he says. I'll probably disagree with him on a lot of things. But here he is speaking sensibly, at least by the clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Doesn't that video give you a little room for hope, I think? Well, it gives me a little more than a little room. That's what I want to see. What AOC is doing, what Jasmine Crockett's doing. Just take your message out. Be strong about it. Call out these MAGA's. Call out their support of the oligarchy.
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You know, MAGA's were always like, oh, Democrats are eating cats and dogs. You're eating your cats and dogs. No, they weren't. But Republicans are literally eating your lunch, right? The oligarchy is literally taking away your paychecks. They're looting and they're pillaging. It's a real threat. It's not an imaginary boogeyman. It's what's actually happening.
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So folks, let's focus on the real threats, what's happening, what we can do to stop it. Don't buy into the MAGA boogeyman, okay? Democrats, be clear, plain, repetitive over and over again. If you want to get your message out, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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Next up, I want to show you Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. And here he talks about really Donald Trump was going to appoint Matt Gaetz as the attorney general. Seriously? We now seen the report. We know what he was up to. That's what the Republican Party is supporting and covering up. Watch this. Play the clip.
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and impose very serious tariffs on them if they didn't become a state," he said. And then when he was asked if by next year's World Economic Forum in Davos, you expect there to be a peace deal in Ukraine, Donald Trump, who previously promised there would be peace in 24 hours, He then said that he was not able to do it. He then said that you should maybe have Xi Jinping negotiate it.
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Here, when Donald Trump was asked, will there be peace next year, what Trump's response was, well, you're going to have to ask Russia. Now, here's the thing, folks. I think this is so newsworthy. I have to show you the clips. I'm only going to show you two clips, though, of Trump. So you have to be able to see it and hear it. I can't have us turn a blind eye to it.
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So here's what Trump said about Russia. Let's play this clip.
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I mean, it's utterly horrific. And here's what Donald Trump said about Canada. Let's play it.
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All right. No more clips of him. You get the point. Let me just report on the rest of what went down. Donald Trump then said one of his big initiatives is stopping transgender. He says he says transgender operations have become all the rage. And now they will occur very rarely, he says. He then goes on to say, with oil prices going down, I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately.
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And likewise, they should be dropping all over the world. Interest rates should follow us. As we wrote on the Midas Touch social media accounts, every time he opens his mouth, he shows he has no idea how anything works. Can't demand that interest rates drop. I guess you can say anything you want, but that's a function of our Federal Reserve. than what you're gonna demand that the world follow it.
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And also the price of oil is not related there too, but everything he says just shows he's got absolutely no clue what he's talking about. He then says this in front of the crowd in Davos, he goes, I'm pleased to report that America is also a free nation once again. On day one, I signed an executive order to stop all government censorship.
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No longer will our government label the speech of our own citizens as misinformation or disinformation. I just want you to understand the context of how utterly humiliating this is for the United States of America. Our enemies are laughing. Our allies are horrified. He's going that we were not a free nation before. I mean, think about how he's undermined
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the real freedom here in the United States. And he's basically saying that, you know, one of the things he's going to encourage are lies, lies about diseases, lies about international affairs, lies about him, and that there shouldn't be any fact checking to those lies. And the fact that he said America's not a free nation before him, just so utterly dystopian.
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He then goes on to say, heap more praise on President Putin. He goes, in fact, with President Putin, prior to an election, which was frankly ridiculous, he's referring to the 2020 election, we were talking about denuclearization of our two countries, and China would have come along. And I will tell you that President Putin really liked the idea of cutting way back on nuclear.
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So again, I want you to see what's going on here. So Donald Trump is attacking our ally, Canada, threatening to annex it. And then he's buying Putin propaganda and praising Putin and Xi Jinping that they want to denuclearize. But he just couldn't get the deal done during his four years. And then he's again lying about the 2020 election and
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complaining and whining and saying, frankly, it's ridiculous. And again, now he's doing this on an international stage. which is, again, just incredibly humiliating for our country. More attacks on Canada. He talks about a tremendous deficit with Canada. He talks about how we don't need you. We don't need your lumber. We don't need your oil. We don't need your gas. We have our own forests.
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He says that's that's how Donald Trump is talking about this issue. And by the way, to the premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, he's mocking you here as she keeps on posting. We're going to do deals with the United States. She's the right wing conservative leader of Alberta. She's Maple Maga.
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But it's just so humiliating because Trump just keeps on showing how pathetic it is that she's like begging and begging and begging like this. Then Trump says this to the Bank of America CEO. Trump goes, I hope you start opening your bank to conservative. By the way, this is in front of the economic forum. Like again, how embarrassing.
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I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank And that included a place called Bank of America. They don't take conservative business.
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And I don't know if the regulators mandated that because of Biden or what, but you and Jamie, referring to Jamie Dimon, and everybody, I hope you're going to open your banks to conservatives because what you're doing is wrong. What the hell are you talking about? Banks are not closed to conservatives. Again, are you talking about felons? Are you talking about banks debanking terrorists and felons?
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Is that what you're saying here? And by the way, yesterday, Remember what Jamie Dimon said? Jamie Dimon said that a little bit of inflation, inflation doesn't really matter anymore because what we really need to focus on is national security and not inflation. Well, you're going to end up hurting both. Very shameful statement by Jamie Dimon right there. Absolutely pathetic.
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Donald Trump attacks Canada even more. Donald Trump attacks the EU on behalf of his tech broligarcs. He then says like the EU, they took these cases with Apple and Google and these other countries, and the European Union won 15 or $16 billion from these companies. And now they're going after Facebook for billions of dollars. These are American companies, stay away from them, EU.
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praising Putin, attacking the European Union, our allies. As Aaron Rupert says, Trump carps for Zuck and others days after they bankroll and attend his inauguration. Then Donald Trump says, my administration has taken actions to abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense.
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And that's what he's saying to an international audience that any type of diversity, equity and inclusion, that it's a bunch of nonsense. That's how he's representing America internationally. And then he goes, and the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, MBS, fantastic guy, fantastic guy. He's going to give us a trillion dollars. I want him to invest a trillion dollars.
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By the way, you remember what happened yesterday as well, where Trump brought in these like executives who handle AI and Elon Musk then attacked it and said... He brought in Matayoshi's son, Larry Ellison, and Sam Altman, tech bro AI people. And they said they were going to invest $500 billion. And Elon Musk's like, they don't have $500 billion. This is just made up numbers.
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Why don't you say a trillion? So Trump's like, bet a trillion. MBS is going to give us a trillion. Here's what happened. That's what went down at the Economic Forum today, folks. Let me know what you think. And subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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The audience was gasping. They were repulsed as Donald Trump gave a speech at the World Economic Forum, which took place in Davos, Switzerland. Now, Trump appeared virtually when he gave his speech and answered questions. During Donald Trump's speech, he talked about annexing Canada, making it the 51st state, or else he would punish Canada
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Watching Donald Trump put these spineless Republicans through humiliation ritual after humiliation ritual is a sight to behold. I mean, he breaks these people and for what? He's so utterly weak, they're afraid he's going to post on social media. I mean, what does he have over them? I mean, oh, mean tweet, mean post alert. It's like grow up and stand up. but they don't. I mean, here, watch this.
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350 billion dollar cuts to education Nothing about no tax on tips Nothing about no tax on social security Nothing about no tax on overtime 4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts For the billionaires For the billionaires We told you that was going to happen It's all the project 2025 agenda Screwing over hard working people Sad to see Sad to see We got to make our voices heard America
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Then you have your Republicans like your Lisa Murkowski or your Susan Collins, and they're like, I am so shocked and offended. And then they don't do anything. And then they support Trump's chaos and rampage and destruction. This is what Lisa Murkowski said after Donald Trump called President Zelensky of Ukraine a dictator. We all heard what Donald Trump said. Murkowski goes, quote,
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I would like to see the context because I would certainly never refer to President Zelensky as a dictator. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, notes, the context is that Donald Trump is Putin's little bitch. That's the context. What context? You want me to play it for you? I'll play you what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip.
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You need more context than that, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, or are you clutching your pearls? Oh, my gosh. Grow a spine, Republicans. What are you doing? Here, going back to Republican Senate leader, Senator Thune, he's asked, okay, this is a good question by the reporter. You talk about saying that agriculture is the lifeblood of your state, South Dakota.
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Well, the budget guts billions of dollars for farmers and Donald Trump's doge attacks affected a lot of jobs globally. Of farmers, Donald Trump's tariffs are going to hurt the farmers. You're selling out your state, dude. And he's like, what are we talking about here? Here, play this clip.
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You've got the MAGA Republican Senator. I wouldn't say he was MAGA, but he is now. The Senate Republican leader, Senator Thune, here he's asked about Ukraine. Are you concerned that Donald Trump is calling Zelensky a dictator and Trump is blaming Ukraine for Russia's unlawful invasion? Senator Thune used to be viewed as like a A moderate guy, more of a centrist, a quote-unquote normal Republican?
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I mean, look, then you go to MAGA Republican, ultra MAGA Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville. I mean, And you don't expect anything from this guy. I mean, this guy is a total clown. And here he goes. Look. I just feel bad for what the American people are about to go through. Things are going to start to get even harder for the American. Why are you going to make it harder?
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Things were going in the right direction at the end of the Biden administration. And these Republicans constantly keep talking about inflicting the hardship on us. Every day they're like, we need to inflict hardship. Look, we got to make sure the billionaires are doing good. We got to hurt the working class Americans. Why? Why? Play this clip.
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Then you have Ted Cruz go on Fox and Ted Cruz's version of events is not that Donald Trump is literally parroting Putin talking points and Donald Trump is talking about what removing troops, American troops in Baltic states and basically collapsing NATO and Donald Trump's talking about what, just totally capitulating to Russia, letting Russia do anything that Russia wants.
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Not anymore. Watch this word salad of a response he gives. Here, play this clip.
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But for Ted Cruz, it's Biden's fault. As you know, we all know it's Biden's fault. No, not Russia's fault for unlawfully invading Ukraine. They go, it's Biden's fault.
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I mean, these people are pathetic. I mean, you had a former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev statement. He goes, he quotes Trump here, and he goes, a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. That was Trump's, he's quoting Trump. If you'd have told me just three months ago that these were the words of the U.S.
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president, I would have laughed out loud, he goes. They're mocking us in Russia. And these spineless Republicans are like, we stand firmly with Ukraine. You don't if you're allowing Donald Trump to do this. If you're enabling Trump, then you have over here MAGA Republican Senator Tim Scott, who's literally just making up numbers at this point.
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He's like 10 trillion, 2 trillion, 4 trillion, 18 trillion. Here, play this clip.
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free news for the america people free at last free at last not quite yet but we'll see who knows where they are in six months so wild then you have the trump pick as labor secretary remember who that like maga teamsters head what sean o'brien was the guy's name you know who would give the thumbs up and said donald trump so great we love donald trump or whatever that would be ridiculous
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I mean, throwing the Teamsters under the bus, geez. But here's the labor secretary, Trump's pick, refusing to answer if any American can survive comfortably on a minimum wage that Trump supports because they refuse to support living wages. Here, play this clip.
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And I got to play this because in my view, this guy's basically MAGA at this point. Sean O'Brien, the Teamsters president. The damage this guy has done. To the Teamsters rank and file, one of the greatest betrayals, I think, in labor history. It's, in my view, one of the most shameful things. You can't see it over there. I have the Teamsters magazine. I love Teamsters.
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I just can't believe that this guy's leading it. Here, Sean O'Brien goes on Fox, goes on the propaganda network, and he downplays Trump's reckless firings of federal workers. Play this clip.
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Right. All of this is taking place. Donald Trump is posting photos of himself wearing crowns, saying long live the king on fake Time magazine covers. While all of this is going on, you've got another plane crash yesterday, the ninth plane crash. Nine plane crashes. I think four were lethal. This one was lethal. Maybe five. Nine plane crashes since the Trump administration started.
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And this one was in Arizona. But folks, you have people like this MAGA Republican from Florida, Ashley Moody, who goes, everybody, the grownups are back in charge. The big boys are back in charge. Here, play this clip.
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And then over here, you have Speaker Mike Johnson, who previously said, one of my promises is we're going to have single subject legislation. And then Donald Trump said, nope, I want one big, beautiful bill. And then Mike Johnson was like, we're doing one big, beautiful bill. I mean, again, these people, they're not a co-equal branch. They're just utterly pathetic.
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You got Mike Johnson saying, this is what he said on January 9th, 2023. He goes, the House GOP instituted the most positive reform in generations. Some highlights, a truly open legislative process. Bills must be about one single subject only. No new votes on a bill without at least 72 hours notice.
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And then Donald Trump, though, sends a post yesterday, February 19th, saying the House and the Senate are doing a spectacular job. However, unlike Lindsey Graham's version in the Senate, the House resolution implements my full America first agenda. Everything, not just part of it. We need one big, beautiful bill. So what does Mike Johnson then say?
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House Republicans are working to deliver Trump's full agenda, not just a small part of it. Let's get it done. By the way, you know what that agenda is? $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, $250 billion in cuts to agriculture.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
I'm joined by Charlie Angus, member of the Canadian Parliament, who is part of a delegation right now in Brussels as part of the NATO parliamentary meetings, which came after the disastrous Munich conference for the United States and, frankly, for all of Europe, where J.D. Vance attacked the European democracies, where you had Pete Hegseth in Europe saying horrible things about Ukraine and Europe.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
There was an altercation or I don't want to overstate it, but there was an incident between you and a Republican member of Congress who approached you and tried to, you know, he thought he was like joking around with you with your Canadian pin. What happened?
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So, Charlie, what's going on there? What's your message right now to the United States?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Charlie, earlier this morning, Donald Trump made a post where he said Zelensky is a modestly successful comedian that talked the U.S. into spending $350 billion. He calls Zelensky a dictator. He says a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. And so what's your message to Donald Trump?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Are you seeing that in Canada right now? We were talking before about the boycott in Canada of all things American. Do you see it picking up, slowing down? Is the prevailing view in Canada at this point that you're basically dealing with a Putin of the South?
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Charlie Angus, please keep us updated on all of the developments. If anything else is happening out there, let me know. We'll have you back on right away. We appreciate your leadership in Canada and across the world, bringing people together to stand up to the authoritarian regime we have here right now in the United States. Thanks, Charlie.
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Tell us what's going on behind the scenes. It still seems like, at least publicly, while we are seeing a lot of European leaders speak up against Trump and what happened, they're still trying to be diplomatic. But you're there right now in the inner circles. What's really happening, Charlie?
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
This is what I like to see. You've got Democrats, you've got Senator Bernie Sanders and others going on the offense and saying to the people, it's time to go to the streets. It's time to protest. It's time to stand up against authoritarianism. Go on the offense. Then you've got these MAGA Republicans and their propaganda machines on the defense. This is what I like to see.
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It is so utterly, utterly ridiculous. So may I just compare right there, John Roberts, who you saw with Jim Acosta. Jim Acosta was recently on the Midas Touch Network. We've been collaborating a lot with Acosta since he left his other network. Let me show you what Acosta said to me when I interviewed him yesterday. Play this clip.
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So good right there. Well, let me know what you think. It's fight time, folks. It's fight time. You ready? You ready? I'm ready. I'm ready to do it with you. Let's go. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
And here, Bernie Sanders says there should be co-equal branches of government. But with the way Congress is right now with the Republicans in control, they've given up their authority to Donald Trump.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
I want to highlight what's going on with some of these stronger pro-democracy voices. And I want to show you what it looks like to see MAGA Republicans on their heels. So here we have Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont. saying this struggle against authoritarianism is going to require we the people to take to the streets. Play this clip.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
You know who I think has been doing a really good job lately? Senator Chris Murphy, I think, has been doing a really good job. Here he is talking about Pete Hegseth.
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And here you have Senator Murphy again explaining why Donald Trump wants to steal Ukraine's rare earth minerals, then kind of put it into his own sovereign wealth fund for him and the billionaires to divvy up. Here, play this clip.
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Don't hold back. Don't mince words. And you know who doesn't hold back and who doesn't mince words? Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. He or she is. Let's play it.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
Next up, you have Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen. Here he is saying, you realize... Just think about what Donald Trump, Marco Rubio are doing by going to Saudi Arabia and trying to cut deals, begging Putin to cut deals with America while Ukraine is fighting for its life.
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Could you imagine what that was like if in World War II you had FDR in the middle of it saying to Churchill, I'll just let Van Hollen says it better than me. Here, play this clip.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
So let me show you some of these MAGA Republicans on the defense. Here's MAGA Republican Senator Katie Britt saying... We're doing oversight. This is great. Play this clip.
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And then you have the MAGA Republican Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, who then tries to blame all of the plane crashes that have been taking place under the Trump administration on former President Biden. Play this clip.
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So utterly pathetic. And here's Sean Duffy again. Again, Trump's Secretary of Transportation lying. and saying that there were more plane crashes under Biden than under Trump already. And he goes, planes crash. That's just air crashes happen. Could you imagine if Pete Buttigieg says, yeah, air crashes just happened. Here, play this clip.
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Exactly, Bernie, exactly. Then Bernie Sanders talks about how we're not just dealing with this move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America. Yes, politicians have always lied, but the way we are seeing the big lie every day
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And by the way, what Duffy's saying is false. And also, Trump's only been in office for a month. There was no commercial jet crash when former President Biden was in office. Absolutely not. And again, here's how the MAGA Republican mouthpieces like John Roberts are trying to justify Elon Musk going through all of your personal files and your records. This is what they're saying on Fox.
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This is how they're trying to brainwash their audience of sheep. They're saying billionaires should be trusted. Billionaires are so rich that why would they care about your information? Billionaires are the most trusted people in America. That's what they're saying, and they're pumping this into the arms of their sheeple. Watch this clip.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
I'm joined by House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Congressman, yesterday Donald Trump held a press conference while he was once again on vacation. He threatened President Zelensky of Ukraine and he called Zelensky a dictator. I want to play the clip and I want to get your response to it. Let's play it first.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
Well, I know that there are tens of millions of Americans who are ready to show up to peacefully protest when we're told where we go. We see the protests, peaceful protests starting already. So we're ready to show up. You tell us when and where, and you will see that positive spirit, peaceful protests throughout, and we're ready to go. So
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, we're grateful for the work that you're doing and sharing some time with us here. We know how busy you are on the Midas Touch Network. For everything that you do. Great to be with you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
And so speaking of not letting them off the hook, but what if you can't get the three because they're afraid that Donald and Elon are going to do a mean post? Look, Donald Trump's approval rating right now, it's sinking. It's down in the 40s. But, you know, let's face it. Congress in general has a low approval rating. House Dems on recent polls don't have a great approval rating.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
People want to see fighting. I mean, they want to see Dems out there, peacefully protesting, but out there fighting for their rights. So let's just assume the three people don't come on board. I understand that Dems don't control the House, don't control the Senate. I get that. But people, I think, are saying, what can we do, Congressman? What can we do?
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
You know, when people approach me when I'm out and about, they often say some variation of this. You know, Dems are, though, acting like it's business as usual, Ben, while Republicans, the MAGA extremists, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they go, Ben, They're playing dirty out there. They're not following through with court orders. They've gerrymandered this. They're doing all of these tricks.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
And then Democrats are like, well, we got to go through the motions. We got to go through the rules. We got to go through these things. They go, Ben, It's asymmetrical warfare. So how do you even compete with that? You must hear some variation of that as well. I'm not sure if the implication is that, you know, Democrats need to be equally as dirty as Republicans.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
But what's your message when people are out there? You know, I think you hear that. I hear that a lot.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
Let's talk about that GOP budget scheme right now. What, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires and the oligarchs, $880 billion cuts in Medicaid, $250 billion cuts in agriculture to farmers, $350 billion in cuts to education. I could go on. There's nothing about no tax on tips, nothing about no tax on social security, nothing about no tax on overtime. So what are
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
What will the Democrats do when Republicans try to ram through, as Donald Trump says, my one big, beautiful bill, which is the Project 2025 playbook? So what do Democrats do when they push this thing through and they say, and what if we can't find those three people? I mean, do Americans need to mobilize? We need to go to the street. What do we do?
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
And so finally, Congressman, let me ask you about this. So every day it seems that we wake up and we find out that Doge is in some other government agency firing people. It feels just incredibly abusive, I think, to the American people as well. Doge is now in the FAA. Doge has entered the Treasury Department and they're gaining access to the payment system. They're in the IRS.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
What's going on with your Republican colleagues, though? They pretend that they support Zelensky, but then when it comes down to it, they're spineless and they're supporting Donald Trump, who's, you know, doing what you just saw there. I mean, is there a way to what can we do? Is there a way to shame these Republicans? How do we call them out whenever they're asked about it?
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
They're getting access to your tax information. They're in Social Security. They're getting access to this. As Elon Musk is kind of morphing into these like different roles. I'm the administrator of Doge. I don't work at Doge. I work in the White House. I don't. I'm here.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
I think people also want to know, how do you make how is it possible that in America you've got an oligarch going into different office buildings of the government and just taking our stuff?
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
As we close out this interview, we'd love just to know your final message. We have over 4 million subscribers now and growing. They really wanted to see this interview. You got people out there who are worried, who are scared, who just wake up not knowing what to do. Is Trump going to post this? Is he going to declare war on that? Is he going to tariff this?
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
So just what's your kind of final closing message out there to everybody, you know, right here in the middle of this week and on February 20th?
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
They're always like, oh, we never heard what he said.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
As Donald Trump's approval plummets, state regime media known as Fox is doing everything it can to try to convince we, the people, that we should just trust billionaires with all of our data, with all of our information, and they keep hitting this message that If you're going to trust anyone, don't you trust the billionaires for real? This is what they're saying. Here, play this clip.
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I think one of the things that I like about this network, and I like doing these videos like this, is to know when I read your comments, I'm like, okay, we're not alone. These people are crazy. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
It's so pathetic that people can fall for this stuff. I mean, you realize that they're not talking about no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. Egg prices were supposed to go down, not planes going down. You realize that they're pickpocketing you and they're doing the bait and switch to give a 4.5%.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
trillion tax cut to the billionaires while they're cutting $880 billion from your Medicaid, $250 billion from farmers, $350 billion from education. I can go on, but I think you get the point here. Then you got to call in Alina Haba.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
I think she kind of botches the line here, but she's supposed to kind of repeat that same line that I can't believe people are getting in the way of the billionaires who are trying to just help you, who are working for free. Well, let the billionaires work for free. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
The billionaires aren't working for free. They are working to shut down the entities that regulate them so that they can make many more billions of dollars by ripping off we the people. And they have a cruel desire to make we the people suffer. While they just get richer and richer while screwing over the people. That's what's really going on here.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
I mean, look, Donald Trump says he goes on Hannity last night. He's like, inflation is back, baby. Inflation is back. But it's not my fault. But inflation is back. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
They were cognitively addled. Are you watching this? So then Jesse Waters, Jesse Waters goes, you know how I know Doge is doing it right? Because the math never lies. Math, math, it doesn't lie, people. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
And like, I know that, what, it's like 55 to 60% of Americans have below a fifth grade education. I know it's an astounding fact, but then again, 49% of the population voted for Donald Trump. But like, All this USAID stuff that they're dropping, it's like QAnon drops. You know what I mean? Like they're talking about, oh, condoms to Gaza. Eh, false.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
They're saying literally millions of deceased people are getting Social Security. False. They're saying, look, we found another $8 billion in fraud here. And if you actually look at what the number is setting aside, whether it's fraud or not, it's like Eight million. They can't like read the comma right here. They don't know the way the coding systems work.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
So that's why they're getting a lot of this data wrong. Anyway, they then bring on Sean Duffy, who leads the Department of Transportation. This is the guy who got famous on the real world and the real world road rules challenge. reality TV shows and Sean Duffy goes on Fox and he's like, look, I know you're seeing a lot of air crashes lately, but air crashes, they happen. You're playing this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
They're such liars, too. He goes, there were more air crashes when Biden was in office than Donald Trump. Well, first off, let's be clear. Donald Trump's been in office like for a month. OK, Biden was in office for four years. And you're wrong. What? There were four lethal plane crashes in the past month. One day.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
commercial jet plane that was coming into Washington, D.C., that a helicopter crashed into right above DCA Airport. That didn't happen since 2009. They lie about everything. And the same way they were trying to be like with COVID, oh, you have nothing to worry about. This is it's just death. Like, what are we talking about? You see what they're trying to do here? You see what they're doing?
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
As they're firing all of these FAA officials, they want to normalize plane crashes. And they're trying to brainwash their viewers to be like, oh, I guess that's just normal. Planes just crash. No, it isn't normal. That wasn't happening when former President Biden was in office. You idiots. That was not happening. I just wasn't sorry for ad hominid attacks. I'm just like, ugh.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
Even I sometimes am just like, ugh. And then they call on Senator Roger Marshall, MAGA Republican. And he's like, look, what we really need to do here when it comes to Maha, make America healthy again, we need to do reeducation. We need to do reeducation camps for the American people. They're talking about the MAGA Republicans are talking about reeducation camps. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
Then they have Caroline Levitt on Fox. And then they say, hey, Caroline, so... What's Elon's role? Because you're filing a lot of documents in court now saying that Elon Musk doesn't run Doge. So what's his role there, Caroline Levitt, press secretary? Here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
Mm-hmm. They kind of continue this message at all times during the day. So on their morning show, they have this like fantasy, like imagine when Elon returns all the money to everyone. Imagine when the billionaires give you all of the money. Things are going to be so special on the other side of this. Just you wait here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
I just want you to know why they're saying, you might be like, that's a weird thing. Why are they saying that he's not the administrator of Doge? Because they are frauds, okay? But what they're trying to do is say he works as a special advisor to Donald Trump in the executive branch because they want to declare the Presidential Records Act executive privilege and presidential immunity illegal.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
They want to claim all of those privileges to block transparency. That's why they're doing it. And so when Elon Musk, who has not testified before Congress, he's not responding to Freedom of Information Act requests FOIA. They're doing this and hiding him and saying he's a special advisor and is not running Doge so that he doesn't have to be transparent.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
And he can just post his things on Twitter or X and be like, look. I did another dropping for you. I did another dropping for you. Anyway, here was Caroline Levin on Fox the night before spreading the lie that tens of millions of deceased people were on Social Security. This is false. But notice what she says also. She goes, we haven't looked at the books yet.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
We haven't looked at the books, but we know that there are. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
you should probably stop talking when you say we haven't looked at the books yet. Because before you form an opinion, you might want to look at the books. I mean, maybe you do that. And then there wasn't tens of millions of deceased people on social security. You just don't know how to read the coding, which would have been a very basic thing.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
So by the way, Donald Trump was asked what Elon's role and he's like, Elon's role is he's a patriot. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
So they're trying to normalize plane crashes, like normalize the spread of diseases. They want to normalize dictatorship, normalize billionaires going into your private information. It's just a billionaire. You don't trust billionaires like going into your private data like you don't trust them. Come on. What's going on? I mean, that's what they're doing over here.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
So here they try to normalize Elon Musk implanting chips in your head. Play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
You get the hustle though by Fox, right? You get what they're doing. You see it for yourself, right? My God. My God. This shouldn't be a political thing. That's the thing.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
Stupid, stupid stuff. Just be freaking normal. Just being, why can't we just, I want to boil down this network and the reporting that I do is like, can we just be normal, please? Like, and not this like weird crap. I just don't want you to feel alone.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
His rhetoric, what he's done, what he's threatened.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Let me ask you this. As you prepare to leave the White House, any other regrets that you have? Anything you wish you would have done differently?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
That's not who the hell we are.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
I'm not going away. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network reporting from the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House. That's right, we have a very special interview for you today with President Joseph Biden. We will talk about his time in the White House. We will talk about his legacy. We will talk about what he intends to do in the future. We will talk about what is NATO,
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
You think you reach a deal in Gaza before your term ends?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
What do you say to Americans who are understandably very nervous right now, who didn't vote for the other guy, who are fearful of the threats, the rhetoric, the idea of retribution? What do you say to them who are looking at you, who admired your work? What do you say to them right now who are watching?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
You've said before that Project 2025 would cause major economic harm. It's in contrast to your bottom-up, middle-out. How dangerous do you think Project 2025 is?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
So you were the youngest senator? I'm the oldest president. I didn't say it. You're very nice to say it. I didn't say it. What's that been like, having those two perspectives?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
our NATO allies saying to him. We will address all of that and more on the Midas Touch Network. Mr. President, I want to thank you for this interview today. And we're here in the Roosevelt Room right now in the West Wing of the White House. You have a few more weeks here in the White House.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
And so as you look back over the past four years, what do you believe are your biggest accomplishments that you're most proud of?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Any kind of formal organizations that you're thinking about starting? With these Republicans that you're talking about, is there going to be some sort of group that's going to be working towards those goals, Democrats, Republicans, to try to... Well, there's some working on specific issues together, but I think it's more about...
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Final question. When history is all told, how do you want to be remembered? What do you want your legacy to be?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
in the right place i really really do we just got to keep fighting mr president thank you so much for this interview thank you for what you've given this country over the past four years and i really appreciate it thanks pal appreciate it thank you marketing is hard
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
And look, you mentioned all of these accomplishments that you just listed, and you focused on bottom-up, middle-out economics to help workers. Infrastructure Act, Inflation Reduction Act created over 16 million jobs more than any president.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
But here's the thing, though, and I really want to get your insight on some union leaders and even some kind of rank and file workers ended up voting for the other guy with all of the benefits you delivered. How do you square that?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
What are you going to do when the other guy goes out there bragging about accomplishments under you? The Medicare $2,000 cap is going to kick in in 2025. He's going to be out there saying, I did this. How is that going to make you feel when that happens?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Let's talk about foreign policy. Our NATO allies, what are they saying to you right now? You know, Trump's out there threatening allies. Mexico is threatening Canada with tariffs. Obviously, NATO countries very concerned right now Are we going to stand up to Putin in 2025 the way you did? What are they saying to you?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
You're going to be at the inauguration?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
That's what I want to talk about, because he obviously did not make the transition easy for you would be putting it as delicately as I can. You've made the transition smooth. You've invited him to the White House. How do you square that with his rhetoric, what he's done, what he's threatened, to invite him here, sit him in the Oval, smile? How do you do that and why?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Let's talk about the media coverage of your presidency. We talked about all of these accomplishments, but very rarely did you turn on the TV and hear about 16 million jobs. Very rarely did you hear about the Biden stock market up 50% from Trump. You weren't out there bragging about your stock market. I mean, the other guy would be doing that every day. Yours was up 50%, 55%.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
What's your overall view of, I think, the media coverage? Do you think there's anything you could have done differently in interacting with them? What's your overall perspective on that? Were they too busy covering the horse race of politics?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Mr. President, you're going to be at the inauguration. Some union leaders and even some kind of rank-and-file workers ended up voting for the other guy. How do you square that? You think you reached a deal in Gaza before your term ends? As you prepare to leave the White House, any other regrets that you have? Anything you wish you would have done differently?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
What are you working on right now that you hope to accomplish before the end of your term? Is there one thing that you're hoping to get done?
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
Let me show you what he said about retaliatory tariffs as he was next to Prime Minister Trudeau and the other premiers of the various provinces. Let's play it.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
So you see right there the hat he's wearing now. Canada is not for sale. In a press conference that he gave shortly thereafter in Ottawa, here is what he had to say. Here, play this clip.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
Now, I thought this was a powerful moment of this meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. That's at the federal level. Prime Minister Trudeau from the Liberal Party. And then you had the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and the other premiers who are there at the provincial level. Kind of like the governors, if you will, from my American counterparts. in Canada.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
And here's what Doug Ford says. He goes, look, you're never going to see in America what you're seeing here right now in Canada. You're never going to go and see in the Oval Office Democrats and Republicans uniting with Trump to attack Canada. He goes, we're uniting here to fight back against Trump's threats. No matter what party it is, he goes, whether you're the Green Party, NDP,
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
Orange Party, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, you name it, BQ, whatever. We are uniting against Trump. And this is a powerful move from someone who used to be very favorable to Trump. Listen to what he says here. Play this clip.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
Now, one of the things, though, that Doug Ford pointed out as well, and I'll show you these clips here as well, is that there was one of the premiers of Alberta, Danielle Smith, who humiliated herself. A total disgraceful move. She went to Mar-a-Lago trying to divide and conquer against the other provinces in Canada. She was trying to cut a side deal with Donald Trump just for Alberta's
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
the oil industry there, and her people to screw over the other provinces. So she's someone who Donald Trump's trying to use to divide and conquer. But get this. First off, she told the press that she was going on vacation with her husband. And then it turns out that she was actually at Mar-a-Lago.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
But when she read, oh, and then she was hanging out with Kevin O'Leary and far right-wing podcaster Jordan Peterson. It was, oh, you mill, embarrassing, pathetic. And then when she returned, it was more pathetic because not only did she not get a deal, but Donald Trump told her, go pound sand, get the hell out of here, essentially.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
And so she then said, actually, he's going to do 25 percent tariffs on us and he's going to do it to everything, including crude oil. No one's exempt. Yeah, exactly. Duh. That's what we tried to tell you before you made a fool of yourself going there. Ridiculous. So this is from this meeting, though, where you have Doug Ford. You have Prime Minister Trudeau.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
Let me share with you what goes on here. First, let me play this clip. Let's play. You know, Donald Trump.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
Well, Donald Trump sure knew how to unite Canada against him and against the United States in Ottawa in an unprecedented showing of unity. You had the premieres with the prime minister, Justin Trudeau. all joining together and talking about things like retaliatory tariffs and how to hit back hard against the United States when Donald Trump imposes 25% tariffs across the board.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
This is an Ottawa unprecedented unity here we're seeing from these Canadian leaders to fight back against America, to fight back against Trump. And look, on day one, Trump does 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and Europe. They're going to hit us. freaking hard here in America. I mean, Trump literally all he has to do is just coast on Biden's economy right now.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
He could play golf and just take credit for things. That's all he had to do. He's not going to do that. He's going to implement his idiotic tariffs, have trade wars against our allies. They're going to retaliate. Our industries are going to suffer here. Then he's going to go, oh, wait a minute. So you're telling me tariffs aren't taxes on them? They're And then what's he going to do?
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
He's going to have to give government handouts to these various industries to try to prop them up after their markets are shut down internationally. And then what's going to happen? The debt's going to balloon. We've seen this story before in Trump administration one with not the same level of tariffs. And he wants to do that on day one. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
Let's get to 4 million subscribers. And I'm glad you like that our Canadian coverage is increasing here. Keep watching for more. Thanks for watching.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
Now, even Conservative Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, was actually one of the people leading the charge. Now, Doug Ford previously said that his support of Donald Trump and MAGA was unwavering. He said that during the first Trump administration, but now he's wearing a new hat, quite literally saying that Canada will never be America.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
House Speaker Mike Johnson is removing House GOP Representative Mike Turner as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Madhu Raju explained Jim Himes' Top Democrat, the ranking member on the House Intel Committee, just told a group of us that removing Turner, quote, of oversight and trying to protect our country from Russian propaganda.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
That's why Donald Trump ordered MAGA Mike to get rid of Mike Turner. Again, someone who's had a very successful career, someone who's very qualified, someone who didn't bend the knee, although... You know, he spoke in favor of Donald Trump.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
If you watched him before, you would see that he would still say things that are favorable to Donald Trump because he had to, but generally viewed as someone who was at least competent and qualified. So a bad sign that he is gone. We'll see who replaces him. As Melanie Zanona says, Trump was a big factor here. What we're actually hearing was Trump was the factor.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
People in Trump's orbit thought Turner was too close to the intelligence agencies, and others didn't like how Turner was handling a lot of issues, including the fact that Turner was pro-Ukraine and pro-NATO. Norman Ornstein says, I will reserve judgment on Mike Johnson and the Intelligence Committee until we see who he picks for its chair.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
But I can say now that no one is more happy by this than Vladimir Putin because Turner on the Intelligence Committee was a check against Putin. So Donald Trump doing Putin's bidding right here. Margaret Brennan reports the following. I spoke with House Intel Chair Mike Turner, who told me that Speaker Johnson fired him as chair of the committee overseeing the intelligence community.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
Johnson cited, quote, concerns from Mar-a-Lago. as justification for firing Mike Turner from being the chair of the Intelligence Committee. Representative Jim Himes tells CBS that it sent a shiver down his spine, which I just read. As Andrew Desiderio writes, wild. Turner is one of the biggest Ukraine supporters among Republicans on the Hill. and is also very involved with NATO.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
Much more hawkish than Trump aligned ours would like. Hawkish meaning he believes that Russia should not invade a sovereign country of Ukraine the way Donald Trump is threatening Greenland and Panama and saying he wants to annex Canada. Let me show you this from last year where Mike Turner went on CNN
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
and basically said that some of his house GOP colleagues had become useful idiots for Putin and Ukraine. Let's play it.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
Now, here is Mike Turner talking about Tulsi Gabbard, that he does not think that she was someone who should be appointed to a significant cabinet position. Certainly not the director of national intelligence. But he goes on to say that he trusts the Senate process. Watch this.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
Donald Trump has chosen Tulsi Gabbard, the former congresswoman, former Democrat, now Republican, to be the director of national intelligence, overseeing 18 intelligence agencies. She not only went and met with Assad, she publicly doubted high-confidence assessments by U.S. intelligence that he did what we showed you pictures of him doing, using chemical weapons there.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
Do you trust that she could actually represent the intelligence community, lead it, and be trusted to brief the commander in chief?
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
Well, this is a community that you also have oversight of, so you may not vote in the Senate, but it sounds like she doesn't have your confidence.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
The civil war inside the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives continues. Donald Trump ordered MAGA Mike Johnson to fire the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Turner. Mike Turner was a fierce opponent of Vladimir Putin and Russia and a big supporter and proponent of Ukraine. Mike Turner also spoke his mind about the Russian propaganda
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
And here's the thing, though, with people like Mike Turner. You'll see in this clip as well how he tried to... appease Donald Trump. He tried to hold back his criticisms and ultimately that always comes back to burn you. If you Don't forcefully stand for something. You'll lose everything in Trump's orbit. You can't be in the middle ground. You can't think you're going to appease the guy.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
Honestly, you just either you got to you got to leave Congress if you're not going to fight the guy or stand up to him. Or, you know, if you're a full fledged cult member, you bend and kiss the ring, which is utterly despicable. And I think completely. The opposite of what our Constitution calls for, for a co-equal branch of government. But here's Mike Turner. This is April 14th of 2024.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
So again, Vladimir Putin clearly celebrating this. Donald Trump making a move directly helpful to Putin.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
against nato's interest um and look i'm no mike turner fan but he's at least the guy you'd want to chair that committee if you had to pick somebody and now maga mike johnson fired him because the entire co-equal branch of government the house of representatives they just would literally whatever donald trump says maga mike does because otherwise maga mike gets removed the
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
Because he doesn't stand up. So basically, none of these MAGA Republicans in the House have any power. They just do what Trump says. We'll just keep you updated every step of the way. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
that infected many of the MAGA Republicans. So he has been fired from his position. He's been a member of Congress since 2003. Ohio's 3rd Congressional District became Ohio's 10th Congressional District in the Dayton area. area. That's his congressional district. CNN was the first to report it along with Punchbowl, rather. And here's what we learned.
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
Speaker Mike Johnson suggested additional aid might have to come with certain conditions. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso said he expects funding to have strings attached. Senator Tuberville even said California doesn't deserve anything, saying, quote, unless they show us they are going to make some changes. You have been here on the ground in communities for the last week.
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
What is your reaction to the response from leaders in Washington?
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
More interested from you and how damaging it is when you have somebody with that type of a platform who is next week going to be the president of the United States is injecting inaccurate information about a the worst wildfires in American history.
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BUSTED! GOP Gets CAUGHT Scamming with FAKE INJURY
This is the state of the MAGA Republican Party right now. You have MAGA Republican Congresswoman of South Carolina, Nancy Mace apparently faking being attacked by a trans activist who turns out not to be a trans activist, but a foster care youth activist who simply shook Nancy Mace's hand. And then she exaggerated being injured by a handshake.
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BUSTED! GOP Gets CAUGHT Scamming with FAKE INJURY
and then proceeded to go on social media and claim that she was physically assaulted by a trans man activist. And it seems that she then went on her burner accounts to engage with her own pity party over an event that really didn't occur. According to witnesses, can you really get more pathetic than this? I guess you can with MAGA, but let's just break it down.
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So over the past few weeks, MAGA Republican Nancy Mace has been going on Fox and all the right-wing news networks. Her whole thing right now is because there is a Democratic trans woman, Congresswoman, who's now in the House of Representatives from the at-large District of Delaware, Nancy Mace, over and over again. I mean, I'm talking quite literally hundreds of posts a day.
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attacking transgender people, attacking her transgender colleague in the most discriminatory of terms over and over again. And by the way, three years ago, MAGA Republican Nancy Mace was a completely different person. And she made public statements supporting the LGBTQ communities, supporting transgender people. But now she sees this as a culture war issue ticket for her to get on Fox. Also,
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Her South Carolina congressional district was gerrymandered. So it's pretty much comprised mostly of MAGA people right now, and it became less moderate. So she just changed her personality like 100%. Let's take a look at some of these headlines right here, and let me break this all down for you. So here's the headline.
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This Republican representative may have lied about trans activist attacking her. Can you think of any more MAGA headline than that? I don't know. Maybe Donald Trump says that Mexico should be 51st state as well as Canada. Anyway, here's what we posted on the Midas Touch Network as we were looking at her post. It was post, post, post, post, post. Oh, and then by the way,
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She then started to wear like a cast and like a sling and acted like her arm was broken. We'll get to that in a second. This is what we wrote on the Midas Touch Network. When you forget to switch off your burner account. So Nancy Mace keeps saying, yes. I was physically accosted tonight. More to come. Hashtag hold the line. And then it goes, oh no, what happened?
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And then Nancy Mace responds, a pro-trans guy out of Illinois assaulted her. Assaulted her? You mean assaulted you? Forgot that you weren't on your burner count and you were on your official congressional count? There's a lot more of these like this one. Yes, I was physically accosted tonight. More to come. You okay? She's in pain. That's what Nancy Mace is saying about herself.
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She's in pain, but she will survive as she always does. And she's not well right now. I mean, this is some bizarre stuff. Nancy Mace previously posted, I was physically accosted at the Capitol tonight by a pro-trans man. pro-trans man, one new brace for my wrist and some ice for my arm and it'll heal just fine. The Capitol Police arrested the guy.
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Your trans violence and threats on my life will only make me double down. F around and find out. Hashtag hold the line. She got this guy who shook her hand who, again, is not even a trans activist. He's just a foster care youth activist named James McIntyre. He simply said, hey, it would be nice if you respected the trans community more. And then she went, ow, ow, you heard me. You broke my arm.
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Oh, no. And then she had the Capitol Police arrest him. And then all of the corporate media were doing these stories on violence against members of Congress. By the way, there's real violence taking place against members of Congress, mostly MAGA people against Democratic Congress members. But there's also violence. Marjorie Taylor Greene's been targeted before. Violence is never the answer.
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Let me be very clear, regardless of political party. But faking this crap is some real serious, serious, it's a real serious problem. Here's what we wrote about on MidasPlus.com. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, put it thus. Witnesses are now disputing Nancy Mace's claim that she was physically assaulted at a foster care event in the House of Representatives.
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Several say that longtime foster care advocate James McIntyre, who Mace had arrested by Capitol Police for assaulting her, simply shook her hand. The imprint is a magazine or newspaper which covers foster care events, interviewed witness Elliot Hinkle and others.
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Quote, from what I saw, it was a normal handshake, an interaction that I would expect any legislator to expect from anyone as a constituent. Nancy Mace alleges that she was assaulted by a trans activist. For some reason, the drama never ends with Mace. She said that Trump called to check on her. I'm going to be just fine as soon as the pain and soreness subsides.
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She walked into Congress in an arm sling, looking like she just did three tours in Iraq. More from Mace, quote, I never want to hear the left call themselves the party of love and tolerance again. And then we get the police report. There are police reports.
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And as it turns out, the most that happened, according to the police report, if you accept Nancy Mace's version of events, is that the guy held the handshake longer than Nancy Mace wanted. So the guy did to her what Donald Trump did to President Macron in France the past weekend, but not as bad.
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If you believe Mace's version, which as Ron Phillip Cowsey says, I don't, then a MAGA Republican representative, Tim Burchette, told the MAGA party line, quote, where's the outrage in the media from the left on the assault of Nancy Mace?
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Every time Mace falls out of the news for a few days, some incident seems to happen, as Ron Filipkowski says, which he plays it up for all it's worth in her never ending quest to get on Fox and Newsmax and other right wing media to get as much attention as possible. Emily Brooks from The Hill writes, A disputed handshake is at the center of Tuesday's incident involving Rep.
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Nancy Mace that resulted in an Illinois man's arrest, according to her police report of witnesses who spoke to the Hill. Here is the police report, with Mace's accounting to officers that relays a more contentious interaction. Said... Subject began to aggressively and in an exaggerated manner shake her arm up and down.
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The victim stated that she attempted to pull her hand away from the subject but was held in place by the subject. But a witness at the event, Elliot Hinkle, told me, quote, James McIntyre met her by the door where people could see her and him and say trans youth are in the foster care and they need your support and gave a handshake and then walked back to his seat and sat down.
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adding that it seemed like a pretty normal interaction. James McIntyre, who's been arrested for assault, has now pled not guilty to being charged with assault. Nancy Mace posts photos of herself as Wonder Woman. She goes, I'm Stan with Nancy Mace. War pink tonight. Celebrate all my real womanhood. A woman being bullied for weight for it. Protecting woman is the height of gaslighting.
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I'll drink your tears in my Pinot Noir. Cheers. Just so you see, Here's what Nancy Mace posted back on June 4th, 2021. The pandemic, this is from Nancy Mace back then. The pandemic kept all of us from fully celebrating pride in the low country in 2020.
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But hopefully as we finally begin to open back up, we can all come together to celebrate the challenges our LGBTQ plus community has overcome and the bright future ahead. Hashtag pride month, hashtag pride 2021. So what, she just reinvented her whole personality? That's the thing with these magas. All of this stuff is so performative. It's so phony over and over again. These stunts, this crap.
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That's why I just want normalcy here at the Midas Touch Network. And by the way, May I just share with you this short video here of Congresswoman McBride, transgender woman, Congresswoman from the at-large district in Delaware. And she says, look, I don't talk about being transgender. She goes, I talk about representing the Delaware people. You don't want me to use your bathroom?
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OK, I'm here to represent the people. Can you stop turning me into some culture war issue? That's not why the people of Delaware elected me. Watch Democratic Congresswoman Sarah McBride act mature, play this clip.
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I wanted to highlight all of this. There's a broader story here about this MAGA, what would be the opposite? It's a form of virtue signaling, MAGA signaling, whatever this is. And they live in their own fictitious gonzo MAGA world. That this fictional world is then spread through corporate media as a reality. It's ridiculous, dangerous. Gotta call it out.
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We'll go through it one by one the way we do here on the Midas Touch Network. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
And then on the right, you have, at least on a provincial level too, I mean, you have people who were once kind of MAGA Canada, like Doug Ford, who's out there saying, why don't we conquer America? Why don't we take Alaska, Minnesota? And there are some other states that we may want as well. You also had someone in the Green Party. I did a video on her yesterday as well, saying the same thing.
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So they're all uniting in Canada. The world is uniting against the United States of America. America went from a uniting force, NATO and all of our alliances, to now the world uniting. Now we're a pariah state. Now the world is uniting against us. It is humiliating here.
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And as long and until I still have my ability to make YouTube videos and speak my mind freely, and as long as until they lock me up, I'm going to just call out this Trump regime for the wannabe fascist, the weak, pathetic individuals that they are. I'm going to use my voice here. and call them out. I'm gonna do what corporate media refuses to do here in the United States.
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And I'm not afraid, not afraid at all. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together. Let's keep growing this platform, folks. Thanks for watching.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
Yeah, as Ian Bremmer says, file that under. Two can play at that game. Donald, you heard her right there getting out that old map. to show Mexico's territorial claims on the United States. And I've been covering Claudia Scheinbaum's responses to Donald Trump. When Donald Trump first threatened Mexico and Canada with 25% tariffs, President Claudia Scheinbaum said, if you do that to us, Donald,
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We're going to make it hurt for you. We're going to make you feel pain. And by the way, Donald, perhaps you shouldn't be spending all of this money on military and weapons of war and your designs of conquest and perhaps deal with a comprehensive immigration solution versus just blaming everybody else. And by the way, don't blame Mexico for synthetic drugs.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
We here in Mexico don't have a synthetic drug problem. It's actually from the United States where that problem originates and that 95 to 99% of the casualties and deaths are coming from inside the United States. And she goes, also, by the way,
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
You know, a lot of the violence in Mexico is caused by the fact that America has a rampant gun culture and your weapons of war get exported across our border. So let's have that talk, Donald. And by the way, do you realize that some of your biggest car manufacturers are based in Mexico? So put some tariffs on us and we'll make sure that you feel pain as well.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
And then Donald Trump spoke to her and Donald Trump tried to claim like a victory in the negotiation. And she responded right away. She goes, no, I didn't change any of my positions. I made it very clear where Mexico stands on these issues. Donald Trump knows that he can go pound sand. And again, it's not just Mexico who's standing up to Donald Trump. We're now seeing this internationally.
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We're seeing it with the EU. We're seeing it in Canada. We're seeing it with the UK. We're seeing it in countries like Panama. Heck, we're seeing it in countries like the Bahamas. But here's some of the other headlines just from the past 24 hours. France warns Donald Trump against threatening EU sovereign borders.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
The Foreign Minister of France hits back at Donald Trump after Trump refuses to rule out military control over Greenland. And the Foreign Minister of France reminded Donald Trump that we in the European Union have a mutual defense agreement. So if you intend to pursue territorial conquests of Greenland,
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President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico strikes back again at Donald Trump in her latest press conference. She took out a map of Mexico from 1607 and she said, look, Donald, if you're going to start threatening to conquer this nation or that nation, how about what we really do? is rename the United States Mexican America.
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Then we're going to defend Denmark, who's not just a member of NATO, by the way, if you're going to attack your NATO allies, but we here in Europe owe a defense duty to Denmark and we will defend Denmark against you, Donald Trump. So that's one headline. Then you have Germany's chancellor warning Donald Trump over threatening to take control of Greenland on Wednesday.
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German's chancellor calls out Donald Trump over his threats to seize control of Greenland. saying the inviability of borders applies to every country. Borders must not be shifted by force, said Germany's chancellor. This principle applies, and it is a foundation of our peaceful order.
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Again, Scholz was reacting to all of Donald Trump's statements, and Scholz said he had discussed the issue with fellow European leaders on Wednesday, reporting a certain lack of understanding regarding current statements from the U.S. among European partners. The principle of the inviolability of borders applies to every country, whether it's to the east or west of us.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
and every state must abide by it, whether it's a small country or a very powerful state. It is a fundamental principle of international law and a core component of what we call Western values, Donald. Germany's chancellor also highlighted the importance of the Western Defense Alliance, NATO, calling it the central pillar of the transatlantic relationship.
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During his press conference this week, Trump made more attacks on NATO, to which German Chancellor said, "...one thing is clear. The security situation in Europe will remain very tense for the foreseeable future. We must respond to this in a calm and resolute manner." And then they go on to basically say, look, there is a mutual defense agreement.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
It is out of the question that the EU allows other nations of the world, whoever they are, and I would even say starting with Russia, to attack its sovereign borders. And that one came from Russia. French's foreign minister, who I referenced before, Jean-Noël Barrett.
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Barrett said that European Union must wake up and strengthen itself militarily and should not be intimidated or made to feel insecure by Donald Trump. If you're asking me whether I think the U.S. will invade Greenland, the answer is no, he said. But have we entered an era in which the law of the jungle is returning? The answer is yes. Here's page one from the Financial Times.
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Europe's leaders warn Trump against meddling with its sovereign borders. Greenland threat sparks backlash. EU defense pact covers the island. Musk's support of the AFD right-wing extreme neo-Nazi party in Germany adds to concerns. And this article talks about how European leaders are warning Donald Trump, do not meddle with our continent's borders. German Chancellor, who I just referenced.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
It goes on to talk about, in addition, the French foreign minister who I mentioned. And it says, the EU treaty contains a mutual defense clause that specifies if a member is a victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other states have an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power. In other words, you touch Greenland, which is part of Denmark, just part of the EU.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
We're going to fight you, United States, and you want to trigger a war with Europe? By the way, everybody, check out the interview I did. I've done two interviews actually now with Corey Hargraves. He's a former army sniper. He was sent on two deployments in Iraq. as in connection with being a sniper. He's someone who grew up on a Native American reservation to a single mom. He was very poor.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
And let's redraw those borders from 1607 if we're going to start talking about territorial expansion. I love this. This is how you have to kind of just mock Donald Trump back and show strength. I want you to watch this. And we translated her voice with AI. Here, play this clip.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
He said the only pathway available to him to do anything was join the military. And he has a very unique perspective here as well that he shares. about someone like Donald Trump who's never served in the military and a lot of these chicken hawk mega Republicans who, by the way, were out there saying, oh, Trump's going to stop World War III. Trump's going to stop World War III from happening.
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And he goes, now you're going to send young men and women to die in wars against our allies to attack a NATO country like Denmark or other countries in the EU? or attack Canada. And just watch that interview. But you know who's loving all of this? Russia. This is being reported in the Denmark papers, this out of Copenhagen. Russian cheers for Trump.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
Quote, he will dismantle the remnants of the old world order much faster and more effectively than we could. We do it from the outside. He does it from the inside. Here's another Google translate of another headline there. The mood is good in the Kremlin. Trump has just fulfilled Putin's greatest wish.
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They can already imagine how Russia can now lay claim to Estonia, Finland, Poland, and other nations nearby because of Donald Trump's laying claim to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Well, then Vladimir Putin says, of course, that's why I want all these other nations. That's why President Xi Jinping of China says, that's why I get Taiwan. That's why I get this nation.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
By Trump merely saying. that he's going to be doing these things and that he won't rule out military force. He has created the permission structure for countries like China to invade their neighbors, for countries like Russia to keep on invading. And Trump has already, already before day one, destroyed our international allies and alliances. He's already destroyed it before day one.
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This is from CNN. Danish officials fear Trump is much more serious about acquiring Greenland than in first term. And it goes on to say the ecosystem supporting this idea is different now, according to a Danish official. This seems much more serious. And, you know, they're taking the threats like they're beefing up their military and may be ready to go to war.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
With the United States, we got to handle business. If you're going to attack us, we're going to build up military to get ready to defend ourselves. And if we have to go to war and Europe's going to go to war with the United States and that's what you're going to do, we'll go to war with you. We'll do it. We hope that you're trolling, but we're ready to go.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
By the way, this is a meme that we created at the Midas Touch Network voters. Can we get lower prices? Trump. Best I can do is invade Canada. Think about that right there. And then all these other MAGA idiots, I mean MAGA members of Congress, then gave all of these interviews and they were being kind of normalized by the corporate media. You have Representative Brandon Gill saying,
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
Trump is bringing us into the golden age of America. This is the new manifest destiny, reacquiring the Panama Canal, acquiring Greenland, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This is the light of America expanding.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
I mean, seriously, this is some... You then have Benny Johnson bringing MAGA Republican Congress members on, showing them a map of the greater American empire, which involves conquering Mexico, Canada, and Greenland. And you've got all of these... you know, American MAGA politicians out there saying, no, we're going to conquer it. This is what we want to do. This is what we're going to do.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
We're going to go to war with Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Panama, everybody. We're going to war with everybody, apparently, according to these MAGA idiots. And world, this is not all of America. This is not all of America. in some of America, but we don't support this. And if this ever happens, we will make sure our voices are heard here. I want to assure you of that in the biggest way possible.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
We're not running away from this. We will confront this head on if this is what they're going to do, okay? By the way, you have a situation where in Canada you have everybody from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying the following. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.
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Mexico President PUTS Trump TO SHAME in Public
Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other's biggest trading partners. So, Liberal Party... Justin Trudeau, prime minister, although he resigned. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh saying, we're going to stand up to the bully. We are going to make sure that... And Trump's going to pick a fight. It's a fight that we're ready for.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Hey everybody, Brett from Midas Touch here. My brother Ben and I just had such an incredible conversation with Anand Giridharadas on the Midas Plus substack. Anand is a brilliant journalist and best-selling author, and he has been warning about the oligarchy and the threat of billionaires in the United States for years.
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Here's my question, if I could chime in. I think what Ben was about to say also, that if you want to subscribe to all of our substacks here, that you could follow. There's a follow button right up here. It takes two seconds. You could quickly subscribe to all of our substacks, make sure you're getting all the information.
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You've been, by the way, if people want to jump on that fad, jump on it because it's true. But you've been warning about it really since day one. All of your books have really been focused primarily on that topic and this class war that's being inflicted by these oligarchs, but also the way they were doing it, almost shapeshifting and pretending that they were doing it. And you said...
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So the thing I wanted to ask you about on this topic is, I think the thing that has maybe surprised me the most over the past year or two is how willing the kind of general public is to go along with whatever the billionaires are saying.
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I feel like there used to at least be a little bit of kind of whether you want to call it class solidarity or something else where we view these billionaire people as assholes to, you know, for lack of a better word. But now it's like Elon Musk says something and you just have all these people. Yes, Mr. Musk. Yes, I'm with you. And it's been just disheartening to see. Really?
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You're going to do the bidding of this guy who doesn't give a crap about you? I'm just curious to get your thoughts on that. Do you think that's why they view with such importance to control the kind of flow of information? Why Elon Musk bought a platform like Twitter, overvalued, and then sunk the valuation? Why Bezos bought the Washington Post? Are those things all linked? And I guess...
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Sorry, I'm throwing a lot of various things at you, but is that also tied to them appearing on these Joe Rogan podcasts and kind of laundering their image? You got Zuckerberg there with his new weird haircut and acting like a bro and talking about boxing and all this stuff. What's your take on kind of all that? I know that's a lot.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
They're waiting for this mask off moment. Just you wait. They're hiding behind their philanthropy and winner takes all. You said they're hiding behind their philanthropy, but they'll have this mask off moment once they amass enough power and they're going to let you know who they are. And it was such a prescient book, you know, 2018 to where we are today.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
That leads us to, I think, the final question that I see so many people asking, which is, you know, the natural progression of a discussion like this. And I'll call it the 19 trillion dollar question, because with the four point five trillion dollars in tax cuts that Trump is going to be giving to the billionaires, it looks like our deficit will increase at least 19 trillion dollars.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
His work has actually informed a lot of what we do here at the Midas Touch Network. and I found his comments today to be incredibly illuminating. We've been hosting live conversations with incredible guests like this every Thursday on Midas Plus. That's the Midas Touch sub stack. So make sure you visit MidasPlus.com now and sign up so you could be the first to hear conversations like this.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
over the next 10 years. But that $19 trillion question is, what do we do about it? Well, here, we're taking your thesis and we're trying to put it into action by creating a network like the Midas Touch Network, where we talk about these ideas, where we rally people, we let people know where the rug pull is happening, which we think is an important service.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
We can break it down with our respective backgrounds, me as a former litigator, Brett, as a former digital rapid responder, Jordi, as a marketer, and then our great hosts who have all of these backgrounds, us also bringing, you know, your voice, you know, to our audience and making sure that we let people know about your substack, the Inc., and your works as well, so people get acclimated with it.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
But tell us all what you think is, what do we do? I guess is that $19 trillion question. What do we do?
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
So first off, I wanted to let everybody know. And I am someone who appreciates your work. I am a consumer of your sub stack. And you and I had been talking over the past six to nine months. So I'm glad we can collaborate and find some time to work together. Yes, I love it.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Well, that makes me feel mighty. Wow. The mightiest mighty. What do you all think about that? And I'm here just so everybody knows I'm taking a ton of notes, right? I take a ton of notes.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
So when I do these speaking series, you know, it's it's a class for me where we do a lot of learning and reflecting here about how we could be better with our media network and what we need to focus on and having on and in conversations. is a perfect way for us to learn.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
And I think we all have to be open to learning more, doing better, being better, homing in on our message, and getting it out to as many people as possible. Anand, I want to thank you so much for joining us today. I want to remind everybody about your sub stack, The Ink. You should all check it out if you enjoyed this conversation.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
You're going to enjoy what he's writing over there on a daily basis. Remember to subscribe here as well. You see it right up there at the top to the Midas Touch sub stack. We're going to keep on growing. We're going to keep on having this speaking series. Hey, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
So thank you. We appreciate it. Day by day, generational. We're in this together. Thank you, everybody. Keep checking in the sub stack for new and updated content. And we'll be back with your normally scheduled programming here on the Midas Touch Network. Thanks, everybody.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Well, I'll say this. The warnings were heeded by us at the Midas Fetch Network. And intellectually, they formed part of the intellectual infrastructure in terms of what we felt that we needed to build, especially your latest book where you say that liberals were getting too insular, progressives or whatever. whoever's not the right-wing fascist at this point, whatever you want to call him.
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I call him George Democracy Movement. Exactly. I often get asked that. But we were building what we thought could be that infrastructure brick by brick. So you've laid the intellectual foundation, right? So as J.D. Vance was looking to, what's that guy's name? Garvis or Jarvis or who is his right-wing guy? We were looking to people like you who've been informing us.
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And so what do you think, though, right now, here we are, 2025, the state of journalism as you see it?
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Without further ado, enjoy the interview.
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All right, welcome everybody to our weekly Midas Touch Network speaking series. I'm here with Anand Giridharadas. You all know him from the ink right here on Substack. And Anand, on your Substack today, I saw also... celebrating, what, two decades from when you first wrote at the New York Times. The article is still up right now.
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Someone asked this question and on Substack's I'll I'll I'll curse. But someone says, why are they scared? What are these billionaires actually scared about? And this is where I'll curse. You know, you've heard the expression, fuck you money, you know, and that's what the billionaires like to say that they have that they've got F you money.
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But in theory, these people who say they have F you money are scared of their own shadow and have given away all of their power for the appearance of power to the fake billionaire who's become a real billionaire over them in a Trump. So so what? you've studied them. What's their worry? What's their fear? As far as I know, I'm only going to live once.
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I'd rather live my life courageously than die a thousand embarrassing deaths every single day the way some of they do. So what's your assessment of that?
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And you wrote this piece today reflecting back on what it was like to start as a journalist and then what it's like now, kind of the mixed feelings that you have, but the importance of being an independent reporter and keeping your independence. And
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You know, one of the things I've always respected about your work, in addition to the content that I agree with your thesis that you've been talking about, especially as it relates to the dangers of the oligarchy. But Anand, you've been calling this out now since the beginning of your career. This isn't you're jumping on the oligarchs are bad fad.
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And that's why their priorities are often a form of socialism, but just for the billionaires where the billionaires get the benefits and have, you know, and then what that actually is called is not socialism for billionaires. It's actually called oligarchy. And then you start looking like what you have in Russia and in Soviet states of the past. And we used to look at that in a certain way.
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And what your thesis there is, you know, also perfectly explains why they do the most illogical things vis-a-vis the market. We all know that tariffs would result in the outcomes we're seeing now. We all know that these threats against our allies would result in the markets tanking.
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We all have seen in the history where, no, America wasn't economically most successful, as Donald Trump likes to believe, during the years of the Great Depression. We remember those years as the Great Depression for a reason. So if you're looking for some sort of pseudo-capitalist idea explanation of why they're supporting this. It's actually because these billionaires are not capitalists.
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They are oligarchs, and they actually want to undermine the whole system. And if we, the people, suffer, that's not a bug. That's actually their design, as long as their proximity to power is preserved, which for them, they'll buy into all this bullshit about the tariffs here and this, and it's going to make us great and gold cards. They're like, and they can see the markets tanking.
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And for them, it's like, are we just going to be close to power? It's fascinating, but I think it explains everything.
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Let me show you this right here. This is the premier of Manitoba saying, I am signing a big, beautiful order today, pulling all of the American booze from our supermarkets. And that followed what went down in Ontario with their premier Doug Ford. Here, watch this moment. Let's play it.
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And then finally, here is one of Trump's trade advisors, Peter Navarro, fresh out of jail. You get the trend here. And here, Peter Navarro is big man at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling Donald Trump Donald. Donald, Donald, play this clip.
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So utterly weak. And the comparison between Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus and the weakness of Donald Trump, it couldn't be more clear. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. And let's get to 5 million subscribers. The truth is more important than ever.
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Man, Charlie Angus does not mince words. I hear there's a movement in Canada, Draft Charlie Angus, but he's been an incredible unifying voice throughout Canada, and it's been an honor to become such close friends with him here at the Midas Touch Network. We got the Maple Mighty or the Midas Maple, whichever you prefer, standing strong.
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Over here, we have next up, Member of Parliament Charlie Angus talks about how the century of America's leadership is now over because of Donald Trump. Here, watch this.
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That was Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus in a powerful speech he just gave in Ottawa. As he says, elbows up. The Canadians are fighting back against the Trump regime. And already we're seeing the Trump regime cave. the Trump regime pulled back some of those auto tariffs that they imposed and Canada gave nothing for it.
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Now, if I can, let me share with you the whole speech. It's only about seven minutes long by Charlie Angus in Ottawa. I think it's incredibly powerful. One of the best speeches I've heard recently. You're going to want to watch every single word. So first watch this. And then when we come back, I want to show you the Trump regime squealing. Watch Charlie Angus's press conference. Let's play it.
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Canada said, we're going to continue our reciprocal tariffs based upon the fact that you keep on attacking Canada. You want us to remove our reciprocal tariffs? You want us to stop banning your American booze from our supermarkets? Well, then get rid of the tariffs, treat us with respect, and then we can have a conversation, Donald.
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And then some of Donald Trump's trade advisors like Peter Navarro was like, can you not call him Donald? Let me show you another part of this incredible speech by Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus in Ottawa. Here he says, look. Maybe there's a deal that Donald Trump wants to make. Maybe he doesn't. Who cares? Donald Trump doesn't know what the hell he's doing. And he keeps attacking us.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
I told you you were going to want to watch that full press conference right there. So what happened in the past 24 hours? Well, Donald Trump was summoned by the big three auto manufacturers in Detroit. The CEO of General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, gave him a call and said, what the hell are you doing?
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Do you realize, first and foremost, that you were the one who negotiated the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement? So now you're breaching your own agreement, idiot. And you're about to cause numerous auto manufacturing plants to shut down, moron. And Canada's standing strong. I don't know what the hell you're doing, Trump.
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What Donald Trump then did is he paused because he has no clue what he's doing. The same way with Donald Trump's cases, when he files the lawsuits, he always tries delay, delay, delay. He now moved back the tariffs just as it relates to auto to April 2nd. All the other tariffs are still in place.
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The auto trade between US, Canada, and Mexico, I don't know, that makes up about what, like 15% to 20% of the trade. It's so... A lot of the other tariffs are still there and it's still going to have a crippling effect. But Canada is standing strong.
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I want you to watch this moment where Caitlin Collins of CNN asked United States propagandist from the White House, the Trump regime, Caroline Leavitt. So what is behind your calculus of giving a one month reprieve until like April 2nd on the tariffs as it relates to auto manufacturing? Here, play this clip.
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I mean, truthfully, there's no clue what she is doing there. Here is Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary from the Trump regime, already walking back the tariffs, going on Fox to do it. But then he's like, well, we haven't decided yet, but we're doing it. Just watch how flustered this moron looks, let's
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And he's not going to go away until we stand up, go elbows up, go over the boards and knock down this bully. Here, play this clip.
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Give me a break. But then, of course, Caroline Leavitt has to once again insult Canada, demean our ally in Canada. Disrespect Canada. And Canada sees what's happening. And here Caroline Leavitt with that smirk on her face is like, we feel strongly that we want to make it our 51st state. We want to conquer it. Aren't I so funny? I mean, it's so ridiculous. Grow up. Play this clip.
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French President Puts the Dagger in Trump to All of France
European leaders are meeting in Brussels today to forge a new military alliance and a new military relationship likely that does not involve the United States of America as the Trump regime has pulled the United States of America into an access of evil with Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un of North Korea as well as Hungary and Belarus voting against our NATO allies attacking Russia.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thank you for watching.
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europe of defense which we have been advocating for eight years is therefore becoming a reality powerful words right there we had that of course uh translated from french using ai into english for our english speaking audience to our french speaking audience i apologize for that i'm sure you would want to hear it in its original i just am trying to spread this video as far and wide as i can let me show you this other clip
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from this address to the nation by French President Emmanuel Macron. You can see how seriously they are taking the ultimate betrayal by Donald Trump and how seriously they're taking that in Europe to get Zelensky's back. Here, play this clip.
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our allies like Canada and Mexico. It is utterly despicable. But French President Emmanuel Macron delivered an incredible speech to the people of France yesterday, where he talked about the new way forward. Let me share with you what French President Emmanuel Macron said. Here, play this clip.
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Another notable speech that I've seen that just has recently gone viral is a French senator by the name of Claude Mallorette. And let me show you what he says. He calls Elon Musk a ketamine jester. he refers to him as.
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And he talks about how Trump and Musk have brought the United States into the depths of depravity, into an alliance with Putin and North Korea, and that America can no longer be relied upon with respect to anything at all. These were powerful words. We translated it as well using the AI software so you can hear it. Let's play this clip right here.
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Now, I'm sure by now you are aware that the United States has cut off all aid to Ukraine. That's a major benefit to Vladimir Putin, a slap in the face to our NATO allies, a slap in the face to the people of Ukraine. Something I want to point out, though, that was perhaps equally important
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if not even more dastardly by Donald Trump delivering a major win to Vladimir Putin, is that the United States stopped sharing any and all intelligence with Ukraine over the past 24 to 48 hours. So the United States was still providing logistical support to Ukraine with respect to the
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targets both offensive and defensive to help with the HIMARS, for example, and the weapon systems, to help Ukrainians know about the drone swarms that are coming in, to have access to our sophisticated satellite systems here. So the United States cut that off, all of that intelligence, to basically leave Ukraine on its own. Russia has been exploiting that. Putin has been exploiting that.
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And Trump's basically given the green light for Putin to go and launch attacks that in the past Ukraine would be able to defend itself with. So the cruelty there is something that I think is worth pointing out because we hear a lot in the news, and we've been reporting on it too, about the aid, military aid being cut off.
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But it's the intelligence as well that I think is even more of an FU to our NATO allies than A new poll out of France, by the way, shows that 73% of people in France no longer even consider the United States of America an ally anymore. I've showed you polling that's very similar in Canada. where I think it was only 25%, 30% that actually views the U.S. positively in Canada.
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And we're seeing this across Europe in our former allies. I mean, I wish they were still our allies, but how could they ally with us when Donald Trump is making alliances with Putin and saying all of these nice things about Putin. Now, meanwhile, what else is happening geopolitically?
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French President Puts the Dagger in Trump to All of France
Well, you have Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary, who was a Fox News host, who should never have been a Defense Secretary. So he's making major cuts to the American military budget. Now, I actually believe there probably should be cuts to military spending, but... Donald Trump's threatening wars with everybody. Now is not the time for those cuts.
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French President Puts the Dagger in Trump to All of France
My views, there should be a lot more priorities spent on health care, on education, on providing resources to people, supporting our veterans. helping people get better jobs. I mean, that's where I, you know, the Republicans believe that that money should go to the billionaires, make them even more billionaires and make them even richer.
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French President Puts the Dagger in Trump to All of France
But we have our defense secretary cutting our military budget while picking wars. with people. You see what they're doing? Like, who does this benefit? It benefits Putin. So as HEGSIF, American Secretary of Defense says, we're lowering it about 7% to 8% per year. So then that on the aggregate keeps on increasing.
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French President Puts the Dagger in Trump to All of France
Well, in China, after the United States is declaring this trade war on China, China goes, if war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we are ready to fight until the end. That's the official message from China's embassy to the United States. Now, Donald Trump also showing world leaders
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how people like Secretary of State Marco Rubio is really just a neutered little nobody. Trump, did you see the moment in the State of the Union where Trump mocked Marco Rubio? Here, play this clip.
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And then finally, another message about just the idiocracy, the lack of attention to details, the stupidity of this Trump regime. So during the State of the Union or the Joint Address Session, did you see this where Donald Trump said that, and USAID, through the Secretary of State, under Biden and others, they were giving... They were doing transgender mice surgery. Transgender mice, everybody.
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The word was transgenic, and it was about trying to cure forms of cancer. Not transgender, transgenic. And I know Donald Trump doesn't read things like he doesn't read the USMCA, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which he was the person who negotiated, which he says, we're ripping off, we're being ripped off. But this just shows the world how stupid this regime is.
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Here, I'll play this clip.
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Now, the gong show going on in the press room with American chief propagandist Caroline Leavitt here. She was asked, well, by Peter Doocy from Fox asked this question, asked her. So we see that some officials are miffed. that Zelensky showed up without a suit, but Elon doesn't wear a suit. I mean, this is what they're talking about and they're making jokes. Well, Elon this, Elon that.
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Look, Ukraine is at war. Ukraine is at war because Russia unlawfully invaded it. Russia, bad guy. Ukraine, good guy. Zelensky, war hero. Putin, authoritarian dictator. Can we get this straight, please? But for the White House, this is all one big laughing matter. Pathetic. Play this clip.
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And then finally, a hat tip to our Gen Z reporter, Adam Mochler. When he was on Capitol Hill, he asked Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi about this powerful moment during Suozzi's town hall, where Suozzi said, look, we stand, by the way, Suozzi's district is a plus five Trump district.
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And Suozzi said, look, I'm usually someone who's viewed as a problem solver who brings Democrats and Republicans together. He's like, you There's nothing to bring together when it comes to that. What I saw there when Donald Trump attacked Zelensky, the way Donald Trump treated Ukraine, it was beyond pathetic. Here, watch this.
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The world is recognizing how utterly weak and pathetic Donald Trump is. Donald Trump is caving with respect to the tariffs that he imposed on Mexico and Canada after he crashed the American economy and world economies. Donald Trump got a talking to by the big three auto manufacturers and Donald Trump said, can we do an auto manufacturing carve out Canada?
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And if you just sold 10 million Trump gold cards and give citizenship to what, 10 million oligarchs, You can make trillions of dollars, quadrillions of dollars. By the way, take a look at how long it took these presidents to reach net negative approval ratings. Donald Trump's reached a net negative approval in 44 days, whereas it took former President Biden 224 days.
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All of the services in these contracts, about $2 billion or so, can be sent to where it belongs. So a 5-4 decision with Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts, right-wing justices. And Amy Coney Barrett was appointed by Trump. So you have all these right-wing influencers like, she's a DEI judge, DEI judge. It's so ridiculous. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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It took Clinton 132 days, Obama 520 days. Yes, Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, plummeting, plummeting like the American economy. We now see headlines like this. Beware a recession that could be triggered by a chain reaction of tariff risk. Wall Street executives say, you think Donald Trump crashing the economy and also crashing the lives of people who served our country so courageously.
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It seems that Donald Trump is focusing his attacks on marginalized groups, on vagrants, veterans. I mean, just take a look at this. The Trump administration is firing, as you know, thousands of veterans, as well as the spouses of armed service members who work in the government.
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And Donald Trump, we now learn, is planning on firing about 70,000 people who are part of the VA staff that serve veterans. And we previously reported that that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are basically gutting the entire Social Security Administration.
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Remember yesterday I played you an audio where the wait time was like hours and hours and hours just to try to get a human being on the call and then to process a disability application. They were saying it would take close to 300 days for it to even first be processed to potentially even get a contact back.
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Donald Trump destroying our national parks, Donald Trump destroying the Department of Labor, gutting the Department of Education, gutting our weather services, gutting all of the federal government every single day. But Donald Trump is blaming the fact that we're heading into a potential government shutdown on Democrats because Donald Trump just thinks that everybody's just so stupid.
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to which Prime Minister Trudeau was like, do whatever you want to do. We're going to keep retaliatory tariffs until you stop putting us in this yo-yo cycle of abuse and tariffing us every 30 days. Do what you want to do, Donald. We're going to keep the retaliation going. Also, you have French President Emmanuel Macron delivering a powerful address to the people of France where he said, look,
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that will just believe anything that he writes. It's like 1984, right? Just they tell you what to believe and they tell you two plus two equals five and you believe it. So here's what Donald Trump posted yesterday evening. He goes, government funding runs out next week and Democrats are threatening to shut down the government. Can we pause there for a second?
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Donald, you control the executive branch. The House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans. The Senate is controlled by Republicans. You're blaming Democrats for trying to shut down the government. Here's the thing. You can't normalize this behavior. The level of lying here is stratospheric. Democrats don't control any branch of government. They don't control the executive.
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They don't control either the House or the Senate in Congress. And Donald Trump's blaming the Democrats. Excuse me. So Trump goes, government funding runs out next week and Democrats are threatening to shut down the government. But I am working with the great House Republicans on a continuing resolution to fund the government until September to give us some needed time to work on our agenda.
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Conservatives will love this bill because it sets us up to cut taxes and spending and reconciliation, all while effectively freezing spending this year and allowing us to continue our work to make America great again. Very important. Let's get the bill done. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, goes, Democrats have no power to shut down the government.
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Even when Republicans control the presidency, the House and the Senate, every legislative committee, they still try to blame Democrats for their failures. Pass your budget, Republicans. Oh, sorry, you can't figure out how to do that. Pass your CR then. And you notice they're still using the budget? from Nancy Pelosi back in 2022.
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So while they claim all of this fraud, all of these things that are going on, they're still using the budget when the Democrats were in power in the House of Representatives back from, what, 2022 before the midterms? Because Republicans have been unable to do their most basic function, which is to freaking pass a budget. Donald Trump then writes the following.
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He goes, for anyone who is interested, I also told Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada that he largely caused the problem we have with them because of his weak border policies, which allowed tremendous amounts of fentanyl and illegal aliens to pour into the United States. What, from Canada? These policies are responsible for the death of many people.
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See, this is why, even if the tariffs eventually become resolved, why Canadians are boycotting all things American. You're calling Canadians our closest ally before you, Donald Trump, took a wrecking ball to our alliances. You're calling them murderers. You're calling the most peaceful people murderers based on abject lies. It is utterly, utterly disgusting.
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And Donald Trump's saying this because he got his— you know what, handed to him by Prime Minister Trudeau, by the premiers of Canada like Doug Ford, by the premier of Manitoba and others who said, you know what, Donald, you want to see our big, beautiful laws that we're passing? We're banning all things American. We're taking American booze off of our shelf.
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We're taking American products off our shelf. You know, government procurement, no more for American companies, Donald. Oh, And you're going to send your commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, that freaking snake oil salesman into Canada to say, can we please make a deal? The American economies are crashing.
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United States is basically done. We need to lead Europe along with the UK and others. We need to create new security alliances. And we have to realize that Donald Trump is pretty much with Putin at this point. And we've got to realign America becoming isolated and weaker than ever. But what's Donald Trump doing? Well, here's what he's spending the day doing. You want your free Trump?
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We weren't prepared for this, even though Canadians, you prepared your people for a trade war. We just declared trade war. We don't know the ramifications here in the United States. And you know what? Prime Minister Trudeau and the premiers of Canada said, go pound sand, America. If you want to take away all of your tariffs, we'll take away our retaliatory tariffs. But do whatever you want.
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So you know what the United States does? Donald Trump caved right away. And Donald Trump said, OK, we're going to remove the tariffs for the auto and maybe we'll remove the tariffs for... Agriculture, the agriculture hasn't been removed yet. The auto has. Why? Because Trump's destroying all of these industries in the United States. But Trump's like, all right, 30 more days.
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Let's do a 30-day extension, which, by the way, is creating an absolute mess. Here's Donald Trump's trade advisor, Peter Navarro. saying, though, Canada, it's been taken over by all of the Mexican cartels.
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You need a spectographer to do it. So utterly stupid. Then Donald Trump makes this post yesterday. He goes, Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye. It also means peace. You can choose, release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered or it's over for you, Hamas. Only sick and twisted people keep bodies and you are sick and twisted.
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I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job. Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don't do as I say. I have just met with your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed. This is your last warning, Hamas, for the leadership. Now is the time to leave Gaza while you still have a chance. Also, to the people of Gaza, A beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages.
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If you do, you are dead. So he's just threatening all the people who live in Gaza. Make a smart decision. Release the hostages now or there will be hell to pay later. Okay, this is different though than on what, February 10th, when you threatened to unleash hell by the following Saturday if all of the hostages weren't released and then you did nothing? Or how about you rewind before that?
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How about on January 7th, 2025 from Mar-a-Lago while you were golfing? You took a little break and Donald Trump said, this is January 7th, 2025. He said, if all of the hostages aren't released by the time he gets into office, because remember by January 7th, that's before the inauguration, He goes, all hell will break loose. January 7th, 2025 play.
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Okay, now here's February 10th, 2025, where he says that the following Saturday, all hell would break loose and he would unleash hell. The following Saturday was February 15th. Here's what Trump said on February 10th. Play it.
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2024 gold bar. Grab yours today. This is what's being posted with Donald Trump's name, image, and likeness on his social media platform. And by the way, Donald, it's also 2025. But to be clear, this is a free Trump gold bar as opposed to the Trump gold card where Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs can buy citizenship into the United States for $5 million.
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Okay, and Donald Trump didn't unleash hell. The same way Donald Trump has caved, he's caved on the trade wars, and because he's a weak and pathetic, and the same way strong men know how to bully Donald Trump. I think one of the things that Our allies, unfortunately, are realizing is you just can't be nice to this vile, despicable, pathetic, and weak person.
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This reality huckster, you got to treat him like the piece of crap that he is. You can't treat him with respect. If you treat him like crap, if you act like a strong man to him, he's a weak, pathetic, little imbecile. And I think that's why Donald Trump looks up to strong men. He mistakes kindness and empathy and friendship and alliance for weakness when it's actually strength.
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Because he's such a pathetic little person who goes after, what, veterans? He sends Alina Haba. Alina Haba, who like lost his cases and got sanctioned in federal court, who's now his top advisor. And she goes that veterans are not fit for their jobs at this moment. Here's what she said.
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Starting to think about maybe some of those veterans who worked for the federal government and maybe what the administration can do to at least help salvage their lives.
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Oh, and by the way, did you see this news as reported from the Wall Street Journal? The U.S. suspends costly deportation flights using military aircraft. Okay, how about this headline? Trump administration ordered to reinstate thousands of fired United States Department of Agriculture workers, all of those probationary workers that were fired.
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A blow to the Trump administration's effort to drastically and quickly shrink the federal bureaucracy. It could lay the groundwork for further rulings reinstating tens of thousands of other probationary workers from whom the Trump administration fired.
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And basically the merit systems board said, you unlawfully said that these probationary workers were fired for cause because they were fired without cause. You had to develop some sort of like plan to provide at least some notice to them, which you did not. Oh, by the way,
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Hayden Haynes, the chief of staff of House Speaker Maga Mike Johnson, was arrested late Tuesday night for drunken driving after his car struck a Capitol vehicle. Johnson's office confirmed the incident. And let me take a look at this. Oh, from Barron's. No, Mr. President, there aren't millions of dead 100-year-olds. collecting social security. I like this person's post.
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Dark Macron, Emmanuel Macron assembling leaders throughout Europe. We also saw Prime Minister Keir Starmer do it and Emmanuel Macron standing up to Donald Trump and basically saying, we have prepared a peace plan for Ukraine. May not involve the United States. Europe is entering a new era. The threat from Russia extends to us all. Peace cannot be concluded on Russia's terms.
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We must prepare for the fact that the U.S. will not be by our side. Peace cannot be signed in Washington or Moscow alone.
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You also had MAGA freaking out that Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the liberal judges in a five to four decision by the Supreme Court yesterday against Donald Trump, ordering that the billions of dollars in contracts that have already been made under USAID actually be paid so that like the food that's rotting and all of the
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Donald Trump is waking up like a little cornered rat after that disastrous speech he gave to a joint session of Congress. You have China standing up to Donald Trump, saying that they are ready for an actual war if that's what Donald Trump wants.
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After addressing the nation last night, millions are saying Trump was right about everything. That's why we made the Trump was right MAGA hat so you can wear it proudly as we make America great again. Shop now. So as he's harming the economy, as he's destroying the lives of his own supporters, he wants to make sure that they buy a mega hat that says Trump was right about everything.
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The Des Moines Register, they post the following. With tariffs looming, Trump urges farmers to have fun selling their products domestically. And Donald Trump reiterated that message at the joint session where he said, have fun, everybody. These tariffs, isn't this a great deal of fun? Just take a look at the various headlines that America woke up to. I'm the Wall Street Journal.
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How uncertainty from Trump's tariffs is rippling through the economy. Trump's tariffs cause chaos in the auto industry. Tariff war risks sinking the world into a new Great Depression. The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. This is the Wall Street Journal headline, okay? This is Rupert Murdoch's own paper, The Wall Street Journal.
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You have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers of Canada standing together saying that if you're going to continue to bully us with these piecemeal tariffs and then pull the tariffs off and then put them back on, we're just not going to stand for this yo-yo chaos as you destroy our country and attack our people.
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I'm just being clear what I'm reading right now. The two-headed monster stalking the economy has a name, stagflation. This is from The Telegraph. China says it's ready for war with America. Beijing boosts its defense spending by 7.2% and warns Washington that it is prepared to fight until the end. The Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson says, intimidation does not scare us.
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Anyone using maximum pressure on China is picking the wrong guy. If war is what the United States wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we're ready to fight until the end. And by the way, as China is announcing a 7.2% increase in its defense spending for 2025,
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The United States of America, under a former Fox News host named Pete Hegseth, is talking about major cuts to the defense budget in the United States, cuts by about 8% each year, while China will be increasing theirs basically 8% as well, while America is through all of these wars across the world. Let me be clear. I'm for decreased defense spending. Let me be clear about my position.
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I'd like to see more spending when it comes to health care, when it comes to education, when it comes to supporting our veterans for building infrastructure. But if you're going to start picking wars with people and saying you want to annex this country and annex that country while lowering your defense spending, do you realize how stupid you look?
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You look like the orange blob occupying the White House now. And that's how all of these foreign leaders see it. This orange, idiotic, pathetic, weak blob in the White House. Greenland's prime minister responds to Donald Trump, quote, We are not for sale and we can't just be taken. Our future will be decided by us.
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In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not open to lifting Canada's full package of retaliatory tariffs if U.S. President Donald Trump leaves any tariffs on Canada in place, according to a senior Canadian government official. I'm sure that probably sometime after I'm recording this, Donald Trump will try to announce some fake deal and declare, look how great he is.
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But ultimately, I want you to know what Canada's position is and how they've forcefully stood up to Donald Trump. Prime Minister Trudeau. the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford. They've been doing a great job standing up, I think. Take a look at what also happened this morning that Trump woke up to.
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The Supreme Court declined the Trump administration's request to pause the lower court order that required it to pay out roughly $2 billion in foreign aid funds to USAID. You had the right-wing justices, Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Trump appointed Coney Barrett. They joined Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson. to form the five to four.
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So you had the right-wing justices, Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett. They joined the liberal justices, who I consider the pro-democracy justices, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson. You can even see last night, though, the disgust that Amy Coney Barrett had on her face when she saw Donald Trump. I'll throw up some of that B-roll last night from the joint session.
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you have the leader of greenland responding to donald trump talking about annexing it and conquering it saying it is not going to happen and then you have economists saying that donald trump is leading the nation right now or not leading the nation right now but
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So what this means is that the Trump administration was ordered to pay the contractors, Who did the work? You know how Donald Trump hates to pay contractors, right? That's always what he did his whole life is not pay contractors. So to pay the contractors who did the work so that the aid can go to where it's supposed to as part of the money that was already appropriated by USAID.
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So a massive Supreme Court loss. for donald trump unfortunately i don't know how many lives were lost by the delay in getting the that aid to people but at least that aid's going to go to people by the way the four justices the right-wing justices who were in the dissent issued a scathing dissent saying that trump should basically be a dictator or do whatever the hell he wants to do
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Look, these Washington Post columnists, I got to give them a hat tip. I think some of this stuff's pretty good right here. Take a look at some of these articles today. As Peter Segal writes, somewhere Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking the track shipment to see what happened to his new editorial page.
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That's why I got to separate the Bezos and the billionaires, I think, from some of these writers who are... having their own resistance, I think, within the Washington Post. Just take a look at some of these headlines. What the numbers say about the erosion of American freedom by Philip Bump, George Will. This is American greatness only if you have a magnifying glass.
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Mark Fisher, Virginia spurned Trump three times. Why do his... Why do its politicians idolize him? A classic Trump speech rich in showmanship and at odds with reality. The crypto reserve isn't even good for crypto. How to lose a century in 43 days. The White House's risky cyber offense stand down. I don't like that headline that much. Sorry, David.
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I'm not sure if you did the headline, but they're not enforcing cybersecurity against Russia anymore. I think we know the outcome there when you're saying that Russia is not involved in hacking U.S. stuff and you'll allow Russia to infiltrate U.S. systems. In just five days, Trump has set the country back nearly 100 years, was the headline by Dana Milbank. That's a good article.
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Jason Leopold explains new how Elon Musk muscled his way into the FAA. FAA employees are on edge. They were told that anyone who impeded progress of the new FAA SpaceX partnership would be reported to Musk and risk losing their jobs. jobs.
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bringing the nation towards stagflation low gdp and high inflation and you actually have a lot of newspapers throughout the country that are actually publishing things like whether it is the time now for you to buy chickens live chickens for your backyard because there may not be eggs anymore. This is what it means to live in America under Donald Trump.
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Also, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Doge alerted the court, as Kyle Cheney points out, of Donald Trump's remarks at the State of the Union, calling Elon Musk the head of the office, as we predicted, because The Trump administration was trying to claim that Doge isn't its own department. It was just a rebrand of the digital services that already existed.
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And that in any event, Elon Musk is not its head. Why were they saying that? Well, the White House was saying that because they don't want Elon Musk to have to testify about what he's doing. And they don't want to have him respond to FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests to turn over his emails. and his communications.
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So the White House wants to hide Elon Musk and say that he's Trump's special advisor so they can claim, which they already have, immunities, Presidential Records Act immunities, executive privilege, to avoid Elon having to actually be transparent to Congress or to the public.
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But Donald Trump said at the joint session that Elon is the head of a new department called Doge, so the plaintiffs are now bringing that to the attention of the courts, and we'll see what the courts ultimately do there.
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As I'm sure you saw last night, a Democrat Congress member by the name of Al Green got thrown out of the State of the Union, and a former Republican House candidate named Laverne Spicer says that she is giving her followers the N-word pass. She goes, y'all can call him whatever dirty name you want. Y'all got the N-word pass tonight, is what she's saying.
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I mean, that is a horrible thing, horrible thing to say. And that is, I mean, I don't know how you get more horrible than that. And she was a Republican House candidate, a major MAGA influencer. You saw that the S&P was wiped out yesterday. And then finally, I'll play this clip for you as well.
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So the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives, they're about to do another continuing resolution to fund the government, meaning they're using Nancy Pelosi's budget, which they rail against. and they keep continuing her budget. Because at least when the Democrats controlled Congress, the Democrats were... They were able to pass a budget. Republicans can't pass a budget.
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They can't get their appropriation bills through. So what they're doing is they just keep doing these what are called continuing resolutions to kind of kick the can down the road. But as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, points out, here's MAGA Mike Johnson in November 2023 saying that he's done with CRs and they're not going to do anymore.
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But all he's done was CRs over and over again, continuing resolutions. Play this clip.
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You know, the ultimate irony there too is they're saying that there's all this fraud, there's all of these problems, but you're doing a continuing resolution. Why don't you do your job in Congress then? If you think there are all of these issues, right? Like let's, if you think that Elon's found these things and all of these things exist, I have two questions.
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One, if there's all of this fraud, where are the people being arrested for the fraud? Because fraud's a crime. That's not happening because there's not really this fraud that Elon's saying he's lying about most of it. And then secondly, then why don't you all come together as a Congress? You have control of the House and the Senate and the executive branch.
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And then just come up with your priorities. Just do it. Just do it yourself. It should be easy then if all of these things exist, but they don't. Instead, they use Pelosi's budget and her appropriations from 2022 because it was the last one that was passed. And the Republicans know that all the stuff they're spewing is crap. Why else would they not pass their own then? That's what I ask.
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I mean, it's simple logic, right? Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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And to me, it kind of brings me right back to all of the flashbacks of what it was like in March and April of 2020 during COVID when Donald Trump was saying, like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Let's take a look at what Donald Trump is sending to his supporters today. This is real. Donald Trump sent the following email. Trump was right.
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unions which you claim which you actually don't support unions but you claimed you supported unions we're going to put you on the spot and we're going to introduce legislation and we're going to use your exact words from the campaign in the legislation and we're going to show that you actually don't support these things and we're going to go one by one and say here's the promise okay we're just going to draft that
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We have to educate the public who's blocking the priorities that matter to the public. A lot of these issues are complicated or could be complicated. How does a bill, it shouldn't be all that complicated. How does a bill become a law? How do agencies work? Which judges are appointed by which president? What are the priorities of the president? and what actually went down.
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So when Trump says, hey, labor, I'm with you, but then dismantles the National Labor Relations Board, which is the forum that allows labor to be recognized as having rights as a union and to file grievances, you go, you're lying. We know you're lying. You've come out and you've made all these statements against the rights of unions to even exist.
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Heck, your buddy Elon Musk said that unions shouldn't exist because they create a lord versus peasant dynamic. That's what Elon Musk and Trump think about unions, that they create a lord. That's actually what they say to manipulate your thought process about unions.
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The lord v. peasant dynamic are the billionaires at Mar-a-Lago, the lords, and the peasants are the people who they're keeping making less than a living wage with bad healthcare, without access to education, without the ability to advance. I see other Democrats following this tactic, this strategy, and introduce the legislation.
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We've seen, I've interviewed him, Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna, Americans' outstanding credit card balances jumped 8.1% higher over the past year. Still, the average credit card interest rate is 21%. Americans are in need of a chance to catch up. We need 10% federal caps on credit card interest rates. Trump said he was going to do that. Let's call him out for it.
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Congress member Tom Swasey from New York's third congressional district. I'm going to interview him soon. He did a guest essay in the New York Times, The Wake-Up Call America Needs, and what he's saying is, okay, Trump went out and said he was gonna do all these things, He basically stole issues that Democrats have been actually fighting for.
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And Trump's saying these things because he's lying to his audiences. So, okay, let's show that he lied the same way, you know, he's going to get exposed with, I'm going to stop the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Introduce it. And if the bill becomes a law, that's a win. If Americans can get the things I outlined before, that's a win. It is. But we know what's going to happen. Call their bluff.
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Call their bluff and say, let's do it. And when they block it, call them liars. It's simple. And don't over intellectualize it. Just say they're liars. They lied to you. They rug pulled you. Pulled the rug right from under you. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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And we're going to submit that to Congress to see if Congress will pass that and see if you'll sign it. And ultimately, when Donald Trump doesn't sign it, Democrats will be kind of setting this up. They're setting the trap for the midterms in 2028 to say, look, he's a liar about everything. We've already seen Donald Trump showing that he was a liar about his position on H-1B visas.
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Donald Trump's whole position on the campaign trail in 2016 and in 2020 was that he was going to make sure that Americans get those jobs. He said, I'm going to make sure America goes H-1B visas and I'm gonna come up with a way to get rid of them.
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I'm not gonna show you the clips of him, but we did a great comparison of what he said in 2016, what he said in 2020, and what he said at New Year's, and it's just very different things. He went from saying these are American jobs, we're gonna get American jobs in these STEM jobs, science, tech, engineering, and mathematics. And now he's saying Americans can't do these jobs.
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And the thing is that there's a nuanced approach to this. There's a lot of American engineers who can actually fill these jobs. Just people like Elon Musk and the tech bros don't want to pay American talent. There is American talent to fill this job. Now, there may also be a need for for H1B talent as well from India and other countries. But there is American talent there as well.
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There's a smart, nuanced way to have conversations without just constantly saying, they're eating cats and dogs, or they're coming for, you know, they're gonna take over your house, or the fear mongering and all of that. So here's what a Democratic Senator, it's what Bernie Sanders said, actually. Bernie Sanders says the following.
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Sanders goes, during the recent campaign, Donald Trump proposed a 10% cap on credit card interest rates. Great idea. Let's see if he supports the legislation that I will introduce to do just that. To be clear, it's more of an independent, but caucuses with Democrats. But here he's saying, okay, you want to do the 10% cap on credit card interest rates? Then let's do it.
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The other thing that Bernie Sanders is saying, and he penned a entire op-ed in The Guardian, is, all right, you're having RFK Jr. say, make America healthy again. Let's talk about health. And I think Bernie realizes, Senator Sanders realizes, that Americans are focused on health. housing, education. Those are top of the mind issues to Americans and Trump's not going to deliver on his promises.
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So it's important though that Democrats put him on the spot right away on these issues that frankly are actually democratic issues that Democrats didn't message as powerfully or as directly as they should. So here's what Bernie Sanders says. We should be leading the world in terms of life expectancy, disease prevention, low infant and maternal mortality, quality of life, and human happiness.
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Here is how we actually make America healthy again. So you see there, okay, you want to make America healthy again? You want to maha? Okay, let's do it. So here's how we reform our dysfunctional healthcare system, Bernie writes. He goes, Over the past year, I've had the privilege of serving as chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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As I leave that position, let me reflect upon where I think our country should be going in healthcare and the obstacles we face. We are the wealthiest nation on earth. There is no rational reason as to why we are not the healthiest nation on earth. We should be leading the world in terms of life expectancy, disease prevention, low infant and maternal mortality, quality of life and human happiness.
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Sadly, study after study shows just the opposite. Despite spending almost twice as much per capita on health care, we trail most wealthy nations in all of these areas. So if we're going to Mahatma Gandhi. If we're going to make America healthy again, RFK, let's do the things that actually people want. Let's make America healthy again. So Medicare for all. Health care is a human right.
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The function of a rational health care system is to guarantee quality health care to all, not huge profits for the insurance industry. The United States cannot be the only wealthy nation that does not provide universal health care. It's not acceptable that while spending almost 18% of our GDP on health care,
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Millions of Americans delay going to the doctor and 60,000 Americans die each year because they can't afford the care they need. I just want you to think about that number. What's the function of government at all if it's taking away life? I mean, government should do things.
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for people right it shouldn't be used as a tool to torture harass and harm it should be a tool to help 60 000 americans are dying each year because they can't afford health care just think that's a huge freaking number that should be addressed by the way even like in canada
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Their right wing party, the conservative party, Pierre Polivet, Doug Ford, you know, at the at the federal level and at the provincial level, PP at the federal level, Doug Ford at the provincial level. They still believe in universal health care, at least for now. Lower the cost of prescription drugs.
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As Americans, we should not be paying by far the highest prices in the world for lifesaving medications. It's absurd that while the pharmaceutical industry enjoys huge profits and benefits from US taxpayer research, one out of four Americans can't afford the prescription drugs their doctors prescribe.
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We must cut prescription drug prices in half by making sure that we pay no more for medicine than Europeans or Canadians. Why are we paying more for the same exact drugs?
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that are in canada and europe we should pay the same price why to line the pockets of pharmaceutical executives so that they can buy 10 private jets instead of one private jet it's ridiculous and so bernie and democrats are saying okay donald you want a maha Here is what we support.
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And as I've said, if you've been watching my videos lately, in these episodes of the Midas Touch podcast, I said a few things. One, Democrats need to do ABC, always be campaigning. You can't just wait until an election and then be like, hey, everybody, we're here. You gotta start now, meet with the unions, meet with people, go into the towns, shake people's hands, go face to face.
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Just don't do that 90 days out. Campaigning should start now. And then also Democrats need to be Democrats. I mean, these ideas that I'm reading, if Republicans want to say this is socialist or whatever, let them say it. People like these ideas that I'm sharing with you. So don't buy into the Republican framing and Democrats shouldn't become like Republican light on these issues.
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paid family and medical leave. Workers should not have to go to work when they are sick. I mean, could we just think about these concepts? 60,000 Americans die each year because they can't afford healthcare. One in four Americans are unable to afford their prescription drugs. Just think about that. And people are forced to go to work sick and then they get other people sick.
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Mothers and fathers should have ample times to stay at home with their newborn babies. A parent should not get fired when they stay home with a sick child. We must guarantee at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave to every worker in America. And if MAGA wants to say this is woke, let them say whatever they want to say. This ain't woke. This is what Americans want, by the way.
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It looks like Democrats are adjusting their strategy to call out and expose Donald Trump. And what they're doing is, I guess, a form of reverse psychology or just setting these traps along the way. And they're saying to Donald Trump, look, Donald, you made all of these promises to people on the campaign trail. So what?
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Reform the food industry. Large food corporations should not make record-breaking profits making children addicted to processed foods, which make them overweight and prone to diabetes and other diseases. As a start, we must ban junk food ads targeted to kids and put strong warning labels on products high in sugar, salt, and saturated fat.
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longer term we can rebuild rural america with family farms that are producing healthy and nutritious food raise the minimum wage to a living wage millions of workers should not have to worry about how they'll pay the rent or buy foods for their kids working class americans live far shorter lives than the rich because of the stress of trying to survive on a paycheck to paycheck existence
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Stress kills, stress makes us sick. We must raise the minimum wage to at least $17 an hour. By the way, that's at least, whenever people have this debate too, they're always like, that's gonna be bad for the economy and CEOs are gonna have to fire workers, so this actually has the opposite effect, bull crap. Bull crap, okay?
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No one has that same discussion when the CEO's salary goes up by tens of millions of dollars. There's never a discussion. Yeah, but now you're going to have trouble hiring people. No. There's this culture of idolizing CEOs making hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. And look, this is a capitalist society. You can make money, but you got to take care of all Americans.
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And Trump lied to people and claimed he was going to do that. So Democrats, own your issues that are Democrat issues. Why are you letting them, the Republicans and MAGA, take your issues, but then use them to defraud people and lie to them about it? So I like this strategy.
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introduce the legislation, but then message the heck out of it over and over again, and then go into the communities and say, look what we tried to do, look what they blocked.
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We're going to hold you to those promises and where these promises, whether it's things like no tax on tips or whether it is capping interest rates on credit cards or whether it is automation versus non automation at the docks, whether it's your support of
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Lower the work week to 32 hours with no loss of pay. People will live longer, healthier lives if they can spend more time with family and friends and have the opportunity to enjoy leisure time. Advancements in technology, automation, and AI must benefit workers, not just billionaires on Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
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We can make those things actually coexist and work together, and workers will be more productive if they're not stressed and if they can actually spend time with their family. Combat the epidemic of loneliness, isolation, and mental illness. Too many Americans are struggling with intense anxiety and disease of despair, alcoholism, drug addiction, and even suicide.
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Not only do we need to greatly increase access to mental health care, we must rebuild our sense of community and create a culture in which we better enjoy and appreciate each other as human beings. We must also take a very hard look at the impact smartphones and social media are having on our mental and physical health. He goes on to talk about address climate and environmental crisis.
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Every American is affected when the Earth's temperature rises and the air we breathe is polluted. Climate crisis and extreme weather disturbances will cause more widespread suffering and disease, economic disruptions, and population dislocation. By the way, when I grew up, remember what the most popular show was or a popular show? Like Captain Planet.
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You know, people weren't like, oh, that's such a woke issue and green new deal socialist. If Republicans want to frame helping the planet and environment as a bad negative thing, defend it, stand by your principles, Democrats, and put forward legislation and show where you stand, show where your priorities are. Stop existing in the Republican framework of issues.
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Sanders goes, create a high quality public education system. Lifelong education is a human right and should be obtainable for all in a wealthy nation like ours. Health, life expectancy and economic well-being are often tied to educational attainment.
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Instead of spending $1 trillion a year on the military, we should make certain that all Americans, from childcare to graduate school, are able to enjoy free, high-quality education and job training. Let's be clear, the way forward to creating a healthy society is not radical or complicated. And many of the components that I've outlined already exist in countries across the world.
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And this is something that we need to address together. So they're putting Trump on the spot. Now, when it comes to the caps on interest rates for credit cards, I'm sure you didn't even know this happened. But back on May 2024, a judge, one of these MAGA judges, blocked the Biden rule to cap credit card late fees at $8.
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I think it's a bad thing. But don't you realize Trump just says whatever he wants you to hear him say when he leaves a meeting? Because what did Elon Musk just do? Who's running the show? Who's the real puppet master here?
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who we saw actually is controlling Donald Trump's economic policies, for example, when it came to the H-1B visa mega civil war, Elon Musk posted like a six to seven minute video trashing automation at the docks. So take a look at what Elon Musk posted. You see Elon Musk repost. And here's the post by a guy named John Stossel who says, not a single American port ranks in the top 50 worldwide.
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How is that possible? One reason is that while other countries welcome automation, American labor unions ban it. As one commentator notes, a few weeks ago, Trump came out in favor of banning port automation. Now, Elon is reposting a video that stakes out the exact opposite position.
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I don't know what it sounds like when Donald Trump was saying that he's against expanding the H-1B visa program and that he would help Americans get those STEM jobs in science and technology and engineering and mathematics. But then Donald Trump said, no, we actually need STEM. engineers from India.
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We have to expand the H-1B visa program because Donald Trump and Elon Musk are now saying there's simply not enough college-educated Americans to fill these STEM-related jobs. So we have to get the talent from India. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are calling to abolish, yep, you guessed it, the Department of Education. So
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Let's just take a look at what Donald Trump's statement was back on December 12th, just so you see it's directly at odds with what Elon just posted. Trump, and then the media runs with it. Trump comes out against port automation. Trump is against unions. Get that through your head. The guy hates unions. The guy screwed over all of his contractors.
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He screwed over all of the workers or most of the workers. He's bankrupted a number of companies. He has left a trail of ruin when it comes to workers. He's on audio recording with Elon Musk, mocking, I don't play audio of Trump anymore, video of him, but the audio recording, which I played for you multiple times, he praises Elon for firing striking workers.
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Okay, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, you think they're your friends, union workers? You think they're the man of the unions? You think they're man of the people? They're the people who are hanging out at Mar-a-Lago while also filing briefs. before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to eliminate the National Labor Relations Board.
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You're not going to have a place to bring your grievances or that will recognize the right of your union to exist. It's not even gonna matter if your labor secretary in terms of Republicans is somewhat pro-labor if you don't have a forum to assert your grievance. Just so you hear, here's Donald Trump's post December 12, 2024.
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Just finished a meeting with the International Longshoremen's Association and its president, Harold Daggett, the executive vice president, Dennis Daggett. I guess they're all related to each other, right? I guess there's a bond, a nepotistic bond right there with the Trumps and everybody named Daggett apparently in this union at the leadership level.
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There has been a lot of discussion having to do with automation of the United States docs. I've studied automation. No, you haven't. and know just about everything there is to know about it. The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American workers. In this case, our longshoremen.
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Foreign companies have made a fortune in the US by giving them access to our markets. They shouldn't be looking for every last penny knowing how many families are hurt. They've got record profits, and I'd rather these foreign companies spend it on the great men and women on our docks than machinery, which is expensive and which will constantly have to be replaced.
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Okay, the video that Elon Musk released, who's going to be running Doge, the one making these cuts, who's, as we see, is running the show before, is exactly against what Donald Trump just said. I mean, union workers, you think a guy who's selling fake $2 bills for $19.95 is has your interest at heart. I mean, heck, Donald Trump is still out there trying to raise money right now after the election.
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He goes, unlike sleepy Joe Biden, Trump would never lie to you. So I'm going to, do you think someone who speaks like that tells the truth? So I'm going to share the great news from our finance team and the bad news. The great news, thousands of patriots nationwide chipped in and is getting us within striking distance of our FEC goal. The FEC goal of what? The election is over.
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Now, you do remember, though, back on October, October 3rd, 2024, The Biden administration helped ensure that there would not be a strike at that time by the Longshoremen's Union and was advocating for the union workers and getting the union what it wanted. As Heather Long reported, the dock workers are heading back to work. Washington Post reported a 62% wage increase over six years.
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The union had initially requested 77%. Negotiations will continue on automation, but workers agree to work until at least January 15th. In other words, President Biden led, not by words, but by deeds with the Biden administration and his support of unions. And I can go through literally all of the unions whose pensions Biden saved. Biden was the most pro-union president in history.
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on the picket lines with union workers. Biden actually delivered 62% wage increase over six years with his labor department overseeing those negotiations, okay? But a lot of you, and I think including Daggett, who seemed to be kind of very Trumpy in my understanding of him, and a lot of union workers, a lot of longshoremen ended up being very Trumpy.
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So you pick the guy who basically showed up to your docks, with cold pizza and made you a bunch of empty promises over the guy who quietly delivered for you and got you the things that you were actually looking for? Seriously? And now you're supporting the guy who's got Bezos and Musk, basically, or Musk particularly, living at Mar-a-Lago? It's
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$2,000 a night cottages in Mar-a-Lago, who's referring to non-college educated MAGAs using the R word, which I don't even want to repeat anymore, and other words to that effect. Just remember what Vice President Kamala Harris said regarding the International Longshoremen Association strike back in October. She said, deserve a fair share of these record profits.
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Donald Trump, on the other hand, wants to pull us back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize. As president, he blocked overtime benefits for millions of workers. He appointed union busters to the National Labor Relations Board. And just recently, he said striking workers should be fired. Trump makes empty promises after empty promises to American workers, but never delivers.
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He thinks our economy is should only work for those who own the big skyscrapers not those who actually build them as president i will have workers backs and finally pass the pro act and i will fight for an opportunity economy where every person has the chance not just to get by but to get ahead look i think that opportunity economy line did not really work for the Harris campaign.
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People didn't know what she was talking about with opportunity economy. But if you go into the words, she's laying it out there though. We're actually delivering for you and we did deliver for you. Trump comes with empty promises like he did before and then just lies to you and you keep on falling for it over and over and over again.
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Let me leave you all with this video of the guy who's going to be controlling the policies likely with the National Labor Relations Board and labor policy, Elon Musk. So Elon Musk in this interview said that the reason he thinks that unions shouldn't even exist, he says.
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He says the reason unions shouldn't exist is because it creates a lord versus peasant dynamic amongst union leadership and rank and file union members. Listen to what Elon Musk says here. Let's play it.
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I want you to think about that. And I want you to think about why he's saying that, because it's all projection and confession from these oligarchs and billionaires. Wake up. The lord versus peasant dynamic is Elon Musk and you. The lords are the billionaire oligarchs who have all this money and are hoarding more of it, and they're treating the rest of us as peasants.
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That's what's actually happening. And they want to rile you up to get angry about the transgender volleyball player from San Jose State or make up that immigrants are eating cats and dogs and geese and all these things that... You shouldn't actually be mad about cause they're not really impacting your life.
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What's impacting your life is that the real Lord peasant dynamic is Trump hoisting up his oligarchy is billionaire bros who are actually screwing you. They're taking away your education. They're taking away your healthcare. They're taking away your housing. Literally, they're taking away your supply of housing. That's what's actually happening.
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They're taking away your Social Security and Medicare right before your eyes, but they have you distracted on stupid crap that you shouldn't even be concerned about. Stop bullying people. Stop bullying and punching down on the 10 transgender athletes who just want to live with dignity in the NCAA when there's 550,000 athletes. Stop punching down and bullying people. Enough of that.
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They're bullying you and they're distracting you to make you pissed off about things that don't actually impact your lives. Do you see it? Or do you just like the leopards eating your face? Hmm. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million together. Thanks for watching.
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Union workers who supported Donald Trump just got a rude awakening, although The awakening should have been what Trump's done his entire life to you, screwing over workers and mocking union workers, but I guess that wasn't enough. Well, Donald Trump recently met with the head of the Longshoremen's Union, and Trump came out with a statement, and he was like, I am against automation at the docks.
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Intends to try to use military force against Denmark and Denmark and the European union need to now prepare their military to try to counter whatever the hell Donald Trump thinks he's going to do this as Donald Trump has continued to reiterate that he wants to annex Canada, turn it into the 51st state or else he will impose severe punishment on Canada.
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Donald Trump has turned the entire world in just one quick week. against the United States of America. America finds itself literally right now with zero friends. If you take a look at the World Health Organization map showing all of the nations that are part of the WHO, you'll see that the United States is the only nation.
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Maybe there's two others, Iran and one other, that are not part of the World Health Organization. And that basically sums up where America is in the world right now. Alone, detested, despised as the entire world stands in unity in different alliances against the United States. Whether you have a Russian-China alliance against the U.S., whether you now have Canada-European Union
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and other countries against the United States, whether you have South American unity against the United States, Latino immunity against the United States. What a disaster this is. Let's just take a look at this article. This one, for example, is from the Financial Times. Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark's prime minister over Greenland. U.S.
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president insists he wants to take over the Arctic island. It said that Donald Trump insisted that this was serious. He wants to conquer Greenland. He had this phone call with Denmark's prime minister, Met Frederiksen. She's the Danish premier for the call lasted about 45 minutes.
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The White House has not commented on the call, but other people who were familiar with the call have described what went down. Donald Trump said, I want it. She goes, okay, it's not for sale and said, we understand that that's what you're interested in, but we're not giving it to you. It belongs to us. It's part of our kingdom.
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Five current and former senior European officials who have been briefed on the call said the conversation went awfully. They added that Trump had been aggressive, confrontational, and just outright rude following the Danish prime minister's comments that the island was not for sale, despite her offer of more cooperation on military bases and mineral exploitation.
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So the prime minister met Fredericks and she was trying to be nice. He said, look, we're always down to improve our alliances and to strengthen our relationships. But this is how people described it went after she said that quote, it was horrendous, said one of the people. Another and another added he was very firm. It was a cold shower before it was hard to take it seriously.
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But I do think it's serious. I do think he is serious. and potentially very dangerous. The details of the call are likely to deepen European concerns that Trump's return to power will strain transatlantic ties more than ever, as the US president heaps pressure on allies to give up territory. I mean, do you realize even as I read that sentence, as he heaps pressure on allies to give up territory?
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Who the hell does he think he is, this freaking treasonous? I mean, as I talk about it, Trump has asserted in his second term, musing about potentially taking over Greenland, Panama and Canada. Great job, everybody in America who voted for this guy. You got your own Vladimir Putin, who is absolutely despised and hated by the world.
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And by the way, we now have zero allies in the United States of America in one quick week. As our neighbors up north in Canada said, it feels like we're living above a meth lab is what they've told me. Many European officials had hoped his comments about seeking control of Greenland for national security reasons was a negotiating ploy to gain more influence over the NATO territory.
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Russia and China are both jostling for position in the Arctic, but the call with Frederiksen had crushed hopes, deepening the foreign policy crisis between NATO allies. Quote, the intent was very clear, they want it. The Danes are now in crisis mode, said one person briefed on the call. Another said the Danes are utterly freaked out by this.
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A former Danish official said, quote, it was a very tough conversation. He threatened specific measures against Denmark, such as targeted tariffs. The Danish prime minister's office said it did not recognize the interpretation of the conversation given by anonymous sources. Greenland, home to just 57,000 people, is an entry point to new shipping routes gradually opening up through the Arctic.
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It also boasts abundant but hard to access minerals. Why are these ship routes now opening up around the Arctic? I don't know. Maybe because of something called global warming as well. Then it goes and says that Trump is demanding that he conquers it. He's threatening to take it over. Now, I want to share this with you.
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You've seen this clip, but it's, I think, appropriate in this context right now. Here's how the people of Denmark are feeling. This is Anders Vitzen, a Danish member of the European Parliament, offering this blunt message to Donald Trump about his obsession to take over Greenland. Let's play it.
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We are learning about a disastrous phone call that took place recently between Donald Trump and Matt Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Denmark. Donald Trump re-emphasized that he wanted to conquer Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. He said he was serious, hand it over right now, to which the Prime Minister of Denmark said, no, it belongs to us.
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But the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate continued to say that this is our manifest destiny. America, we are predators is what they say. I'm not making this up. This is, for example, Andy Ogles, MAGA Republican.
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He's the one who introduced the resolution or introduced a proposal to make Donald Trump a dictator for life within the first week and to amend the Constitution. He and other MAGA Republicans are out there saying this. America, they go, we are the dominant predator, so we need to impose ourselves over others. Just watch it.
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And just so you go, oh, well, that's just, you're just showing me ogles, Ben. Show me someone else. Okay. Well, here is MAGA Republican Brandon Gill. And he says that the golden age of America means that it is our manifest destiny. We need to take over these nations. We need to, we need to acquire them. We need to own them. Here, play this clip.
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And by the way, while all of this is going on, America is already in a crisis domestically, massive labor shortages called by Donald Trump's mass deportation threats. Our egg supply right now is severely strained as a result of Donald Trump. Although Fox wants to say, It's because of the bird flu. It's because of the bird flu. No, Donald Trump's in power now.
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The same way you blamed everything on Biden when Biden actually improved the economy and got us out of the trash bin that Donald Trump created. You blamed every single thing on him. This is Trump's fault. All of this chaos is Trump's fault. Now we are alone, isolated, mocked, by the world, laughed at by our enemies, looked on with horror and disgust by our allies.
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to which Donald Trump said, we'll see about that. Multiple people who were familiar with this phone call said it was an utter disaster, that Donald Trump was rude, that he was yelling, that he was trying to bully the prime minister of Denmark, that she stood her ground.
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Thanks to all of you MAGA Republicans and all of you who voted for this freaking idiot. You happy that you did this is what you wanted? Are we great again or are we really? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. We speak the truth on this YouTube channel. Hit subscribe right now. It's free.
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But anybody who was on that phone call that thought, oh, this is some negotiation ploy by Donald Trump, they left that call saying, no, Donald Trump
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Someone, a 31 year old female just found out that their husband, a MAGA guy, 34 year old male lost $600,000 in Donald Trump's stock and his memes. How can I get him to stop? Before he loses everything. And it talks about how Donald Trump took his grandparents inheritance around a million dollars, put it all into Trump related stuff. It started to crash.
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He then started borrowing and borrowing even more money. going into even more debt. And eventually this lady left her husband. She goes on to say they're in a hotel. The husband won't talk to her since her post went absolutely viral. The total losses her husband's incurred is about $700,000 and says that he refuses to talk to her, but is happy to speak to his fans.
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I mean, this definitely does not sound like someone who is Well, I'll just leave it at that. I want to share this with you as well. Those people in red states who voted for Donald Trump, those who were in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, well... You know when that next hurricane hits you? Well, you're on your own.
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Donald Trump took a trip to North Carolina where he was supposed to tour some of the devastation that was caused by the hurricanes there. But when there, Donald Trump said that he basically wants to eliminate FEMA. He was very, well, I wouldn't say he was very specific, but he basically threatened the states as well. He was like, well, look, when...
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something happens to Florida or North Carolina, the states can deal with it themselves. Just let the states handle it. There's no role for the federal government in dealing with this. Well, we hope Floridians enjoy all the FEMA they got from Milton because it will be their last
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There's a reason why Ron DeSantis or the governors in all states, including red states, why they declare an emergency situation, because then the federal government's supposed to step in. Never before in American history were we like, we're not going to give this state emergency aid because it's a red state or a blue state. First off, let's be clear, too.
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The blue states, by and large, are the ones funding this. the entire federal government in the United States. Most of the red states, most of them, not all, most of them take, take, take, take, take and rely on federal government aid, but then turn their backs on the federal government and then threaten us here in Los Angeles and threaten the blue states elsewhere.
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Just so you can hear it, I don't show a lot of Trump clips, but I think it's important because this is a message directed at all these people who have suffered and will suffer in red states with Donald Trump saying that the whole concept of FEMA isn't good. He goes, we're going to have to revisit the whole concept and just let the states take care of it.
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So all of you Floridians and Georgians and people from Louisiana and elsewhere who voted for Trump, this is what you get. Let's play it.
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Also, one of the things we're learning about as well is that Donald Trump's various policies cutting Medicare, Medicaid, which they say they're not going to do, but they are. This is going to impact most also the red states where there are more people on these programs. I don't like F around and find out content because I feel bad for people.
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I don't want them to have to find out that the leopards are eating their faces, but The leopards are eating your faces. Here's a story that we're learning as well about a MAGA supporter who is being absolutely mocked by his fellow workers after voting for Trump by other MAGA voters. Let me be very clear. So this is what we are learning about. Hispanic Trump voter getting turned against at work.
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This isn't specifically electrical, but just a story of what I heard at work today. As we all know, Trump won the election. The union plumbers at my job actually wore Trump 2024 shirts the day he won to work. One of these plumbers is Hispanic. They looked like one big happy family that day. Today at work, I heard his foreman calling him the most racist names and speaking to him in mock Spanish.
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They're arguing back and forth a bit before his white foreman said something along the lines of, shut the F up, go back to work, you Hispanic slur. Can't wait till your ass gets deported, the guy said. I have a feeling that guy might be regretting his choice. And by the way, we're now learning about workplace raids in Newark, potential raids in schools, elementary schools in Chicago and elsewhere.
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Donald Trump sending the United States military to the border to have these G.I. Joe PR stunts and also lying about the fact that border crossings are up. In fact, when President Biden left office, border crossings were basically at an all-time low based on the cooperation with Mexico.
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And look, Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans tried to kill, they did kill, the bipartisan border deal, stopping President Biden from implementing a bipartisan piece of legislation that would have been helpful so that Trump can say, look at the chaos, look at the emergency, look at the things that I want to, what we need to do immediately. And that's what Donald Trump is doing.
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But folks, maybe it wasn't about the egg prices because, as Justin Wolfers points out, those folks who are obsessively posting about egg prices over the past few years have gone strangely quiet as egg prices now hit an all-time high. Yeah, strangely quiet all of a sudden. But the reality is, is that...
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It's only been one week and Donald Trump is ruining people's lives. He's ruining the lives of his biggest supporters, people who entrusted him. I'm not just talking about voters in red states. I'm also talking about voters across the country who got grifted by his meme coin scam. By the way, his meme coin is absolutely crashing. Melania's meme coin is crashing. Let me just talk
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This is what Trump is going to do now when Donald Trump implements tariffs on Canada, Mexico and starts these trade wars. Combined with the fact that we're learning, for example, in Bakersfield, which is a red spot in a blue state of California, but Bakersfield, very right wing, very MAGA. We're learning that the workers in Bakersfield aren't showing up to the farms there.
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It's citrus season there. And they grow pistachios there and other things that are very important to the economy not showing up there. We've shared stories about Nebraska, the meat industry there. The workers aren't showing up there. And this story is repeating over and over again. There are labor shortages going on right now. And the issue is that Americans aren't doing those jobs.
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And the people who work at these farms, and we've heard the stories of the MAGA farmer in Florida, the tomato grower, for example, who was sharing the story. Americans don't want the jobs. The Americans aren't taking the jobs. OK, instead, the Americans are a lot of them taking in these red states on federal government assistance, which they then say is socialist.
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And they want to eliminate the programs that are going to screw themselves. But the Americans aren't working the tomato farms. The Americans aren't picking the grapes or working on the on the citrus farms. They're not working and doing any of those things. And now you're deporting your own people.
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workforce and labor force, rather than creating a pathway to citizenship for those who are contributing to our economy. That's what you're doing. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals attacking DACA and saying that DACA is unconstitutional.
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You know, and you've heard these stories of like nurses who work in the state of Texas, for example, who've paid taxes their entire life, unlike Donald Trump, who hasn't. And now they're being told they have to like leave the state or else. I mean, this is what's going on in now Trump's America right now. And for anyone who put their money in the meme coins, the stocks,
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whatever, the leopard eating your face now. I just don't get it. But I'll leave you with this too. There is this, and I want you to recognize it, there's a psychological phenomenon of people who are in groups that humiliate them. Some to cults. Sometimes they go deeper in the rabbit hole the more they get humiliated because they can't bring themselves to admit to others how devastating it was.
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They've created this persona. They've told the public that they're MAGA or they're this and they're that. So for them to all of a sudden say, wow, I got screwed, the leopard ate my face, I'm finding out, this is terrible, is hard for them because they know the damage that they've caused their families for all of these years saying that they're with this guy who conned them.
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It's the hardest part about getting out of cults or groups is is feeling that you're going to be publicly shamed for it. So for those out there who are watching this, who may have a family member who's in the find out stage or in the leopard ate their face stage, I'll just leave you with this one thought, which is maybe try to give them a soft landing out of it.
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And let them know that what they did is going to be very hard to forgive. But that, you know, you need to admit it and you need to stand up against it before you cause more people pain and hurt more people. Consider it. Maybe. Maybe. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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to you about different ways Donald Trump has destroyed the lives of people who voted for him and who entrusted him. So remember last week he released this meme coin and it shot up and he was going to make all this money, but then his meme coin crashed and Melania's meme coin crashed. I mean, crash crashed. Here's a story that we're hearing right here.
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Mexico President DESTROYS Trump and REJECTS HIS ORDER
The Mexican government has criticized Trump's unilateral immigration actions and said that trying to land your military airplanes here, that requires our assistance. You're not going to do it unilaterally. We are not permitting you to do that. in our airspace and on our airfields. NBC is reporting what went down. Mexico denied U.S.
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military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily, frustrating Trump administration's plan to deport migrants to the country. This according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation. So two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s carrying about 80 people apiece, flew deportees out of the U.S. This was on Thursday night, the source said.
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The third flight slotted for Mexico never took off because Mexico said, we are not letting you land those planes here. Absolutely not now. Claudia Scheinbaum, we've been talking about her for a lot of months here on the Midas Touch Network right now. She was elected recently, but then after Donald Trump was elected, she stood up to him right away. She had a plan. She was ready to go.
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She knows Donald Trump's type. She has about an 80% approval rating in Mexico. So when Donald Trump threatened those sanctions against Canada and Mexico, she responded right away with just an incredibly powerful letter in response. And she said, look, we're happy to work together. But let me be very clear, Donald, we will retaliate against you and make you feel equal pain.
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if you try to harm the sovereignty of Mexico or if you try to impose tariffs on Mexico. She reminded Donald Trump about the auto manufacturers and other business vital to the United States interests that are based in Mexico. She reminded Donald Trump of the trade agreements between the United States and Mexico. And she also said, how dare you try to act like synthetic drugs is a Mexico problem.
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Ninety nine percent of the people who are getting killed in the United States from synthetic drugs are Americans and Americans are the ones bringing synthetic drugs into the United States. And she said, you can look elsewhere. China is. But we're not doing that here in Mexico. And she also said in that letter, you remember China.
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And while we're at it, maybe if you spent less time on wars and trying to build up your military and more time on comprehensive immigration issues, you'd be able to sort through all of this.
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She also reminded Donald Trump that border crossings were actually at an all time low with President Biden, that there were no caravans that Donald Trump and Fox kept on talking about because that was actually addressed by Biden and Scheinbaum when there were bilateral relations and communications taking place to actually stop the caravans.
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And then she also told Donald Trump and y'all are sending guns into Mexico and you're harming us here. So you should deal with your own problems. Focus on that. Then she's continued to say, you know, if you claim that you want to take over Mexico, well, maybe we take over the United States. Let me show you the map. of what the United States actually once was, which was a part of Mexico.
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Maybe we should just refer to the United States as actually part of Mexico. We want to go down this route. So she's always been standing up to Donald Trump. Now, she held a recent press conference after Donald Trump talked about renaming, this just happened, the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And after all of Donald Trump's executive orders, Let me share this with you now.
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We translated this for you in AI. It uses her voice, but it's an AI translation, which does an incredible job. This was from her most recent press conference this past week where she stood up to Donald Trump. This is incredible. Let's play it right here.
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How great was that? President Scheinbaum also standing up for the sovereignty of other nations, like when Donald Trump attacks Panama. This is from a few weeks back where she says that Mexico stands in solidarity with the people of Panama. Here, play this clip.
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And also one of the other moves that she did that I thought was just... It was subtle, or maybe not that subtle, but sent a powerful message, although maybe Trump's not smart enough to see the message. So President Scheinbaum was not supposed to meet with Xi Jinping of China, the leader of China, during the latest G20 meeting.
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But after Trump won the election and Trump said all the things he was saying, not only did Scheinbaum meet with Xi Jinping, but But she was photographed with Xi Jinping. So anybody who knows what goes on in diplomatic circles knows that Scheinbaum was sending a message there. And again, Trump and his team may be too ignorant to understand the message, but the message was, OK, you do this to us.
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we have other people who we can have relations with, that we could build our relationships with China and elsewhere if you are not going to be our allies anymore and you're going to attack us and treat us this way. I thought that was a powerful thing by Scheinbaum as well. So anyway, let me know what you think right there. But Scheinbaum going on the offense and she's saying,
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We must have a level head. We must be clear and not overreact. Meanwhile, you have Donald Trump, Mr. Accordion Hands, overreacting and just behaving in such a barbaric, chaotic, just a way that's so unbecoming of a leader. That's me putting it gently. Tell me what you think about President Scheinbaum's actions. Put it in the comments below. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Mexico's powerful and popular president, Claudia Scheinbaum, is striking back right away to Donald Trump and saying, do not mess with our sovereignty. A few things went down this week. First, Mexico refused to accept U.S. deportation flights into Mexico.
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Donald Trump has been firing thousands of federal workers every day. Tens of thousands of workers have been fired. And now these workers are speaking out in public. A lot of them are disabled veterans. Veterans make up about 30-40% of our federal workforce.
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And he basically says, oh, I guess people who get fired never say they perform bad, right? Here, play this clip.
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Just so you see as well, I'll leave you with this. There are other programs that they're cutting. They're cutting jobs at the Veterans Affairs crisis hotline that deals with suicidal veterans who are calling and need help or are in crisis. They're making cuts there. They're making cuts to 9-11 first responders. Here, play this clip.
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You know, no wonder that we're seeing Republican voters as well show up at town halls being held by Republican members of Congress. Democrats, Republicans, independents are pissed at what Trump and Musk are doing to our veterans, to our hard-working government workers who have worked every day to keep us safe as well.
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They're trying to take away your Medicaid and Medicare, and they're going after your Social Security. And what about just privacy? Privacy, right? We all value our privacy. Why are they trying to tell us that Elon Musk and billionaires get to go into our bank accounts, get to have our tax records, get to look at our medical records, get access to our Social Security information?
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Get access to all of the private data about our families? Why? Why do they get that? And then Trump and Elon Musk and J.D. Vance and these right-wing media networks, they want to tell us, oh, because these people are so rich, they would never do anything bad with it? Come on, what are we talking about here? That's not America. We should not be okay with that, regardless of political party.
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So stand up and make your voice heard, okay? We're in this together. And my heart goes out to all of those veterans, disabled veterans who I showed you in this video. who lost their jobs, but also whose dignity was attacked as well. And that's an attack on the dignity, I think, of all veterans and all hardworking government workers, all government workers. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe.
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The next clip I want to share with you is just so sad, and it's Chelsea Milburn. She's a disabled veteran sharing her emotional story about being fired from her federal job that she worked so hard at by Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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After sacrificing on the battlefield and across the country for our military, oftentimes our veterans get work within the federal government to serve for their lifetime. Donald Trump is tearing their lives apart, firing them and treating them like absolute trash. They're now speaking out about it. Let me share some of these stories with you.
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Yeah, that one brought a tear to my eye. Here is another veteran fired by the Trump administration. Here's what she had to say about what happened to her. Play this clip.
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And I'm one of them. And folks, there are tens of thousands of stories just like this. I'll just share a few more with you. And I've went through them all. And if I kept on showing these over and over again, I think you you get the point. I just I want to give these individuals a voice on this platform as well. And I want you to see how cruel and unusual this.
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The treatment is by the Trump administration, by Elon Musk, against people who have sacrificed their lives for the United States of America. It's so horrific. Here is a veteran by the name of Andrew Lennox. He's speaking out after his job at Veterans Affairs was terminated in the Doge Purge. Let's play it.
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And as you'll see at the end of the video, some individuals were even Trump supporters and didn't think this was going to happen. But let's just show you at first some disabled veterans who have lost their jobs. For example, here's a disabled veteran who lost his job with the Salt Lake Veteran Affairs Department. This is from Fox 13 News in Utah. Play this clip.
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Here is another fired Army veteran speaking out about the federal layoffs. Let's play it.
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Yeah. You know, and a lot of veterans. They end up working at, it shouldn't surprise you, the Veterans Department and Veterans Affairs, which is just getting absolutely gutted. There could be about 50, 60, 70,000 veterans who are going to be losing their job based on what the Trump administration is doing, each with a story like the one I just shared with you.
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As I said at the beginning, I wanted to share with you a video of a Trump supporter. And here's what this Trump supporter, I don't know how the other people voted in the beginning of this video, but this is a Trump supporter right here, is a FEMA civil servant and disabled military veteran voted for Trump. Now he's out of a job.
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American veteran fired from FEMA told WTOP, quote, I voted for Donald Trump, but this is not what I was expecting. We didn't think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug. The man said he was a Trump voter. He was fired by a White House. official and said in TV interviews that contradicts what White House officials have said, that these are like far left people.
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He was dismissed as part of a widespread purge. Yet the form email reads, quote, The agency finds based on your performance that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest. The government blames his firing on him. WTOP says it reviewed his positive evaluations as a leader. The man and his wife accepted that the U.S.
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needs to save money, but assumed that as a veteran of long service, he would have been safe. They're calling their reps in Congress. They thought it wasn't going to happen to them. This nastiness, this devastation would just happen to others. We tried to warn you that it was going to happen to you, and it's going to happen to others if you don't stand up. Look, Americans are pissed right now. U.S.
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consumer sentiment is plunging. Trump's approval ratings are plunging. The University of Michigan's latest consumer survey shows American sentiment declined in February for the second consecutive month. And it was a double digit decline from the month before. Inflation already surging.
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And to that comment from the Trump supporter who said he didn't think that they would take a chainsaw to a silk rug. May I show you this video of Elon Musk at CPAC? Here, play this clip.
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or how about stephen miller blaming you blaming our hard-working veterans and federal workers as well just federal workers in general who work every day for our government you know they're not seeking attention on social media they're not out there you know seeking the limelight like trump and these magas they're out there working hard you
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chopping wood every day to make sure that you and I and others in this country are safe and secure. And then you have Stephen Miller saying things like that. Horrible. And here is Donald Trump's National Economic Council director, Kevin Hassett. And he basically blames Trump. that these federal workers were bad workers, is what he says. And he mocks them.
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Oh, and here was Donald Trump on Friday attacking the governor of Maine, Governor Mills, and saying that he was going to not fund her state because she wasn't complying. He goes, I'm the federal law. You don't listen to judges. You listen to me, he says. He goes, I will defund your whole state. And she's like, no, I'm going to sue you. And she stands up to him. Democratic Governor Mills in Maine.
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And of course, you probably saw this, the stock market absolutely crashing, unfortunately, on Friday, caused by Donald Trump. As Donald Trump sends his followers emails like this, I'm dark MAGA, I'm dark MAGA, I'm dark MAGA. Elon Musk is dark MAGA, weird stuff. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash
Power to the people at these town halls. Americans from all political parties are having their voices heard. What you saw there at the beginning of the video was a town hall held in Wisconsin by MAGA Republican Congress member Representative Scott Fitzgerald. And you heard people there who were pissed.
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So now I want to share with you what was going down in New York and Representative Paul Tonko's congressional district, Democrat Paul Tonko here at this town hall. A huge ovation as a teacher encourages Congress member Paul Tonko, who is pushing back to do more. To work harder, even if that means getting arrested for civil disobedience. You're in public service right now.
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You cannot sit idly by as Elon Musk and these billionaires take away all of people's rights and freedoms. Watch the energy in this room in New York. Play this clip.
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So then one of the things that we're seeing is that a lot of Republicans, surprise, surprise, because they are spineless MAGAs after all, they are not even showing up at town halls. So here, Democratic Congress member Mark Pocan, he points out that these MAGAs are not even showing up to town halls. This Congress member, the Democrat goes, I just held the town hall with Wisconsin's Farmers Union.
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They invited all elected officials in the area. Unfortunately, not a single Republican showed up, including Representative Van Orden and Representative Tiffany. The farmers I spoke to are worried about Trump and Elon Musk cutting their federal funding and contracts. To all of our Wisconsin farmers, I hear you and I have your back. Let me just play you this video.
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Let's play it, then let's talk about it.
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that he was enabling and allowing Elon Musk and Donald Trump to go through their personal data and have access to their social security information and medical records while they gut and destroy the government and take and tank our economy. Let me just show you a longer clip from that town hall. And then I want to show you that from Wisconsin to Georgia to New York to
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And that's the thing. They are crushing farmers. By the way, they crushed farmers with Trump's failed trade wars during the first term. And now it's going to be. far worse devastations about to hit farmers across the country. If you look at Trump's budget, it's $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
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There's close to $300 billion in cuts for farmers, close to $400 billion in cuts in education. And who are the people that they're attacking most with Doge? The most vulnerable, like the group they pick on the most, Farmers, disabled veterans. Disabled veterans are their number one group that they pick up.
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Disabled veterans who served our country now working in the federal government because disabled veterans are often probationary employees because they go to different jobs and they travel and also military spouses also travel a lot. So they're technically probationary. These are the people who are getting fired the most. But tens of thousands of people are being let go.
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And my thing with these spineless maggots, show up. Show up and hear from your constituents. What? You just want to live in your Twitter, which is now ex-Elon Musk's bubble, which is not real life? Because in real life, people freaking hate you.
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And you need to hear how angry you've made us at you for your betrayal, for your support of Putin, for your support of traitorous policies, for your support of destroying our country every day, for letting billionaires down. have access to our tax records and our social security information and our medical files, invading our privacy.
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You, MAGAs, spineless idiots, you need to hear how angry we the people are when we show up at these town halls. And I encourage all of you, Midas Mighty, call them, call them cowards, call them spineless MAGAs, call up their offices, tell them what you think about them, and show up at these town halls and demand they hold these town halls. Not this stuff right here.
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This is what Elon Musk was doing during the week while he was destroying people's lives. This is what he was doing. I was on the stage with Javier Millay, who's embroiled in a massive crypto scandal right now in Argentina, where he pumped and dumped a Libra crypto coin, causing people to lose their life savings. Sounds familiar. This is what Musk was doing. Play this clip.
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To the West Coast, people are rising up right now and having their voices heard. Red states, blue states, purple states, all of the colors. People are angry. People are pissed. People demand action. Watch this right here from that town hall. Let's play it.
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Now, going back to MAGA Republican Congress member Rich McCormick, this was his town hall where he compared his own constituents asking tough and fair questions to being January 6th insurrectionists. Play this clip.
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A C-SPAN caller from West Virginia reached out and said, hey, you realize that all of a sudden I'm diabetic and on Medicare and now my insulin was $6 for a 28-day supply. Now it's back up to $80. Well, yeah, because Trump reversed what Biden did on everything. Here, play this clip.
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And then we also learn more about just how despicable and creepy these MAGAs are. Like here's this MAGA Republican Congress member, Corey Mills. Look at this creep right here. D.C. police confirmed that they are investigating an alleged assault in D.C. by this MAGA Republican, Corey Mills. He represents the Northeast District of Orlando.
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And it turns out what it's about is he apparently assaulted a woman, 27 years old, who's like his girlfriend, even though he's married. And then he told her to lie about the origin of her bruises. That's what's being reported there. Do you remember, though, the types of town halls that maybe when we showed you these videos to all the magas out there who are now watching this?
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Because I know there's a lot of you coming over and saying, hey, we're sorry we were wrong. But I want to I want to share this with you. Go back to our videos where we would say to you, hey, this was Trump at his town halls that he would hold meetings. During the campaign, when he would be asked questions about Project 2025 or the economy, he would say, let's not do questions.
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Who wants to watch me dance? Who wants to watch me hear music? Play this clip.
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By the way, a little bit more from that MAGA Republican Congress member McCormick's town hall. Let's just play a minute and ten of this. Let's play it.
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We are hearing from a lot of Trump supporters who are now having their lives destroyed by Trump's policies. Many actually even worked for the federal government and they said they were trying to help the government become more efficient, but Donald Trump fired them and made everything less efficient. I want to give a hat tip. to NBC 10 Philadelphia. Support your local news.
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He bankrupted most of the companies he touched and owned bankruptcy after bankruptcy. and then companies that he lent his name to did horrible, and many of them went out of business. Now, just look at his most recent company. Just take the most recent company, Trump Media, which lost $400 million last year and only earned $3.6 million in revenue. So in terms of that guy in Philadelphia,
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You know, a Philly cheesesteak restaurant probably does more revenue than Trump media in a year. I'd be willing to take a bet on that. And Trump lost $400 million last year. And by the way, when you go through Donald Trump's financials, You take a look at it. This is what he filed. This isn't me saying this. This is what Trump filed.
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There's a section because when you're a public company, you have to list all of your bankruptcies and you have to list all of your businesses that went out of business and failed. It's a requirement if you have a publicly traded company. So here it is, February 14th, 2025. Just take a read at this. I'll show you the screenshot.
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I'm not going to go through the whole thing now, but it lists Trump Plaza, Trump Hotels and Casinos, TMTG, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Bankruptcy. Then it lists all of his businesses that failed right here. This is his filing. Trump shuttles, Trump vodka, Trump mortgages, Trump University, Trump steaks. Just go through it. He failed in everything. All right, back to this guy right here.
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Here's the Trump supporter, now former IRS worker. Here he talks about how he got fired and what went down. Here, play this clip.
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Here's a former IRS worker who supported Donald Trump speaking out to NBC 10 Philadelphia after being fired by Donald Trump while working at the IRS. I want you to watch this.
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and cancel your unwanted subscriptions today you know it's interesting how you know these spineless republicans also like when they try to stand up to trump they then like get like threatened and then they like go back on what they say like this guy right here republican congressman troy balderson who reps an R plus 18 district in Ohio. So plus 18 Republican.
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He says that Trump's executive orders are getting out of control. Congress has to be the one to decide whether or not some of these agencies and departments get abolished. like the Department of Education, not the president, not Elon Musk. Congress must decide. Then obviously somebody got to his ear after the Columbus dispatch. Again, support your local journalism for this reason.
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The Columbus dispatch wrote about it. And then Congressman Troy Balderson responded to the Columbus dispatch. I fully support Trump's agenda to rein in bloated federal government and put America first. Now it's time for Congress to act. It's up to us on Capitol Hill to make permanent his executive actions, ensuring continuity in public policy from one administration to the next.
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continuity he's literally ripping apart america america hates this right now donald trump's approval is plummeting democrats generic democrats versus generic republicans in congress democrats are up like plus 12 plus 15 right now if an election were to be held elon musk's approval is in like the low 30s when you go to republican districts by the way people at these town halls republicans
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are letting their legislators their representatives know what the hell are you doing you're giving elon musk access to our private data you're letting elon musk and these billionaires gain access to our medical files and our tax records
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and our social security information, and have access to the Treasury Department's transaction payment system, and you're firing all these veterans, and you're destroying the lives of veterans. I'm doing a whole other video of disabled veterans who have just had their lives gutted by the Trump administration. People are pissed.
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Here's a Trump voter realizing that Trump is pro-Russia and regretting the decision to vote for Donald Trump. This guy goes, supporting Trump was not a popular thing that many of my friends and family members, when I told my friends and family members, but I did it nevertheless. If Trump really said that Ukraine started the war, I feel deeply ashamed for my naivety.
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I strongly assume that most decent people feel the same way. Yes, he really did say that Ukraine was responsible, and he said that he trusts Vladimir Putin, and he called Zelensky a dictator this past week. Here's another one from WTOP News. This FEMA civil servant and disabled veteran voted for Trump. Now he's out of a job. Quote, this American veteran told WTOP, care of Steve Inskeep.
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Quote, I voted for Donald Trump, but this is not what I was expecting. We didn't think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug. The man said he was a Trump voter. He was fired by a White House whose officials have assumed and said in TV interviews that federal employees are almost all far left. He was dismissed as part of a widespread purge.
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The forum email reads, the agency finds based on your performance that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest. The government blames his firing on him. WTOP says it reviewed his positive evaluations as a leader. The man and his wife accepted that the U.S.
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needs to save money, but assumed that as a veteran of long service, he would be safe. They're calling their reps in Congress. So he thought it would happen to other people, not him. By the way, military veterans make up, I mean, 25% of the newly hired workforce in the government as of 2023. Veterans make up somewhere between 30 plus percent of people who are in the government.
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Let me show you this. This is from Georgia's 7th Congressional District right here. This is MAGA Republican Representative Rich McCormick comparing his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions. He calls them January 6th insurrections. These are Republicans in a Republican district saying, why are you giving Muscar stuff? Here, play this clip.
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More stories again of leopards eating faces. Supporting Trump was not, here's another one, sorry. Another day, another MAGA voter betrayed by the felons she voted for. MAGA federal worker from North Virginia shocked. that the fat felonious leopard ate his face. He's also a disabled veteran. That didn't mean shit whatsoever. I'll say it again. We told you so.
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Trump voter, disabled military veteran, value member at FEMA fired. And Herb, how about this one? I didn't know my daughter-in-law would be targeted. A Missouri woman who voted for Trump now says she is ashamed to be an American. after her daughter-in-law, a Mexican immigrant who had been in the U.S. for nearly 20 years, was deported.
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Shirley Stiegel told Associated Press that while she supported Trump's campaign promises to deport more criminal immigrants, she did not think her son's wife fell into that category. We told you so. Here's someone else who says, I voted for Trump. I don't like what's happening. My aunt also voted for Trump, but lost her government job.
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I'm on Social Security and I'm now nervous about that being taken away. I want a better America, but my groceries are still high and people are losing their jobs. I didn't sign up for this and I did not vote for Musk. I feel my freedom is being taken away. I'm not happy. A lot of Americans are not happy. It's why Donald Trump's approval rating is sinking. It's why people are pissed right now.
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America is a pressure cooker as a result of what Donald Trump has done and what a con artist and utter fraud he is. I want you to make sure you're subscribed to this network, though, because I think in the coming weeks and months especially, I think you're going to see big, growing, peaceful protests and We'll be with you there every step of the way.
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So hit subscribe, help us get to 5 million subscribers. We appreciate you so much, Midas Mighty. We appreciate all that local journalism as well. They did a great job digging up some of those stories. So thanks to them too. Hit subscribe here. We appreciate you.
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Right now, this individual, you heard him say that he thought that because Donald Trump's a good businessman, that Donald Trump would go in there with a scalpel and not a chainsaw and fix things. Donald Trump was never a good businessman. We tried to tell you that here over and over again on the Midas Touch Network. He bankrupted his casinos.
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Hey Midas Mighty, Ben Mycelis here from the Midas Touch Network and the Midas Touch Podcast. Since the news broke that the Midas Touch Podcast is now getting more audio downloads than the Joe Rogan Show, we've got a lot of new subscribers. So I thought I would spend the time to Welcome you all to the Midas Touch Network, to the Midas Touch Podcast as well.
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Once again, that's at MidasPlus.com. I'd like to just spend a little bit of time with you, if I may, to read you a message that I posted online. on our sub stack at MidasPlus.com on Saturday morning. I'd like to read it to you so you can hear it to all of our new podcast listeners and older podcast listeners and everyone else. I just wanted to share with you this entry.
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It's been really popular on sub stack, so I thought I would share it with you. I call it a message from the Midas founder. Let me read it for you right now. Hey, Midas Mighty, it's Ben Mycelis, co-founder of the Midas Touch Network and host of the number one most downloaded podcast in America with my brothers, Brett and Jordy.
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Yes, we officially dethroned Joe Rogan this week in monthly podcast downloads. Thank you to all of our Substack subscribers for fueling this organic growth. Please subscribe to the Substack if you can. Then I go in and I say the following. Let's not mince words about what is taking place, okay? Trump and Musk now lead a repressive and authoritarian regime.
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America is no longer a democracy under them. Trump and Musk are engaged in a constitutional coup to shred our founding documents and remove the separation of powers. They are tyrants. Republicans in the House and Senate are complicit co-conspirators in the coup. These are evil people who hate our democracy and hate our freedoms.
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They want us to be sick, weak, poor, starving, angry, begging, and Russian. Let's be clear-eyed and not talk around this. Why are they doing this? Because they are sick and cruel people. That's why. For them, money isn't so much even a measure of wealth. as it is a tool to inflict suffering, which gets them off. In Putin, they see the ultimate manifestation of evil that they relish.
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The torture, pain, and hate are not a bug, it's their desire and their final solution. Once we identify the problem with clear language like this, we can solve for it, just as one must identify the disease before devising the cure. We cannot normalize the behavior we are witnessing or treat it as business as usual.
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You'll see here on the Midas Touch Podcast that we have a show that I do with my younger brothers, Brett and Jordy, that I am super excited to do each and every week. Make sure you You check out those podcasts. Also, throughout the day, we will drop other podcasts on this feed.
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And I believe one of the reasons the Midas Touch Network has been growing is because we call it what it is. Even if that pisses people off, so be it. This is a time for fearless resistance. Trump and Musk did not believe America was capable of mounting an effective resistance to their shock and awe campaign of government bulldozing.
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For the first weeks, Americans seemed frozen in place, expecting politicians and institutions to do something, anything at all. Americans were used to checks and balances and guardrails working. That didn't happen. But recently, something clicked. People realized that they had to take matters into their own hands.
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People saw Trump and Musk gutting our government, destroying our institutions, destroying our international standing and alliances, and intentionally crashing our economy. Trump, Musk, and their authoritarian regime are inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on us, the people. This past week, it seems that Americans made a major breakthrough in our shared resistance.
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Trump, Musk, and their MAGA ghouls poked and prodded you. They diced and sliced your hopes and aspirations. They used and abused you. They trashed veterans and disabled Americans. They went after the most vulnerable. They came for your Medicaid. They came for your healthcare. They came for your dignity. They came for your happiness. They tried to break you. but you didn't break.
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The will of the American people solidified this week. People stopped looking for a superhero and realized that they were the fighters they were looking for and people started rising up. When history is written about the downfall of Trump, and it will be written, this week will be viewed as the start of an energy not seen before in American history.
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It's an energy that hasn't been felt before because Americans have never had to confront an overtly authoritarian regime on our soil. When our history is written, I believe this week will be remembered. as the moment when the real silent majority of Americans understood the assignment. We know that what is to come won't be easy, but we see a path to victory.
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It is not a coincidence that this week the Midas Touch Network dethroned Joe Rogan on podcast downloads and Fox on digital platforms. We've been trying our best to keep people in the fight against Trump and Musk and not give up. And it really felt like this week people got it and collectively said enough.
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We've been following the town halls in red and blue districts alike where real patriotic Americans of all political parties are letting politicians know how angry they are about how Trump and Musk have destroyed America.
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So make sure you keep checking back since we do some breaking news hits on this podcast feed, as well as deliver other news. Of course, you can check out our YouTube page as well, which has over 4 million subscribers and is quickly growing to 5 million subscribers. You can also check us out at MidasPlus.com. Just make sure you spell Midas correctly, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com.
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People are livid that Musk and his team of 19 to 25 year olds have been invading our privacy, taking sensitive records, destroying government departments and agencies, and firing people in the most cruel ways imaginable. People are livid at Trump's press conferences where he blames the surging inflation and crashing markets on former President Biden.
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We know that under Biden, our 401ks were up, prescription drug prices were down, jobs were plentiful, and we didn't worry about daily chaos or planes crashing seemingly all the time. Trump, the perennial con artist and fraud, has lied about everything.
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and people know it now people of all different political affiliations are uniting trump's approval ratings are crashing and are now the worst in the history of the gallup poll for this time in a presidency trump is compounding the hatred of him with his sick and twisted stunts calling himself a king using tens of millions of our tax dollars to vacation to golf or ride around in a racetrack in his motorcade
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Trump is a sick, demented, evil human who deserves zero respect. We will show him none since he shows our country none while running around to promote our enemies like Putin. Trump and Musk believed all resistance would be crushed by now and they are getting more desperate as the pressure cooker they created, or should I say the dam they defunded, is ready to burst.
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There are no historical analogs to this moment in American history. Instead of viewing this as some curse, let's consider ourselves fortunate that history has brought each and every one of us here together. We have each other. We still have the ability to fight together. Our numbers and momentum are growing.
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We are fortunate because we have the opportunity to deliver the decisive blow against a movement of hate and destruction that has taken root in America. It's a spirit. It's a fervor. It's an energy. It's the discombobulated stew of splattered remnants of the melting pot of the American dream that once was yearning to find its equilibrium again. It's the patriotism. It's duty.
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It's a calling, it's all of these things and more, and it's here right now. We didn't choose to be here in this moment in history, but we are being called to action now, right now. When I watch Trump's speeches these days, I see weakness, not strength. How about you? I see a pathetic and scared person yearning to be a strong man, but who knows he's just a two-bit con man
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with Putin imposter syndrome. He is terrified of us, we the people, and his house of cards is collapsing fast. I expect a bunker boy spring if we can keep this momentum up. We are lucky to have you on our team in this moment of history, Midas Mighty. We need you on our team. The growth of the Midas Touch Network is because of you. It's that simple.
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You've shared our videos on YouTube, on Instagram, and TikTok. with everyone you know each day and you share this sub stack with everyone as well. You are telling others about the Midas Touch Network. You are having others subscribe to our audio podcast. We are gaining hundreds of thousands of new subscribers each day because of you.
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And in those numbers are patriotic Americans who want to save our Constitution and our democracy. You have made the Midas Touch Network the leader of all independent media, and we hope we are making you proud by fearlessly meeting this moment to stand up to the authoritarian Trump and Musk regime each and every day.
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From the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep, I promise you I will put it all on the line each day. I want our country to once again experience love, shared empathy, happiness, success, true patriotism and objective truth once again. I will fight and I will use this network and I will use this podcast to sacrifice everything I have to get our constitution and our democracy back.
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That's our substack where we post daily articles and where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, provides what I think is the best daily recap of the events of the day. And he posts that almost every single day. The only days he doesn't post are Wednesday and Saturday. He does a full weekend recap on Sunday, and then every other day of the week, you will get a post from Ron Filipkowski.
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This is what the moment calls for and we will answer that call. I wanna thank you all for listening to that. You can go to our sub stack at midasplus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. You can subscribe there. Make sure you're subscribed across all of our platforms. And please, after this recording is done, it would be a huge help if you shared this audio recording with anyone and everyone you know.
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Just text message people, post on your Facebooks, on your social medias, tell people who you meet with over the next few days to listen to that speech and to subscribe to the Midas Touch Network everywhere. That would be the biggest help to us. One more time, you can go to our sub stack at midasplus.com. We appreciate you so much. We're in this together and we are going to prevail in the end.
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and i want these videos regardless of what happens to us to be a living testament of what we're going to do here in this moment in history so we're in this together let's fight together okay make sure you hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers the truth is more important than ever check out our new truth over lies collection at store.midastouch.com all 100 usa union made
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And I say this as an American, you know, when I do these interviews with Canadian politicians, the friendships I've built with people like Charlie Angus, it just, it warms my heart to see this. This is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau celebrating the moment Canada won the four nations face off ice hockey tournament against the United States. Let's play it.
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know one of the great joys about running the Midas Touch Network has been the relationships that we've built with our Canadian colleagues and it was great to see Canadians celebrate a big victory in the four nations hockey championship where Canada beat the United States and
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And then to see in Canada the way they were all singing the Canadian anthem together, standing shoulder to shoulder, the way Canada has stood up in history in the face of authoritarians and tyrants. Now, I know Donald Trump doesn't read history at all, but you go back and read the history of when Canada gets provoked.
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Canada makes sure they go over the rails and they fight authoritarians and they've won over and over again. Here, this is Prime Minister Trudeau in the crowd of a prior game in this tournament when the Canadian national anthem was played. Let me show it to you.
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And so now after Canada beat the United States in that hockey tournament this past week, after Donald Trump and his press secretary, they tried to get involved and they tried to make it about themselves, right? The same way Donald Trump tried to make the Super Bowl about himself. And Trump said that he was supporting the Kansas City Chiefs and they had the absolute worst Super Bowl imaginable.
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Donald Trump then got involved and said that he was, you know, he was there with the United States team and then everything Trump touches dies. Now we're just seeing Canadians out there like this. As we wrote on the Midas Touch Network, Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province. As Tricia from Canada writes, of course we did.
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Our 11th province needs to step their hockey game up. We see memes like this and photographs like this throughout Canada. Welcome to the USA, Canada's 11th province. or this Kendrick Lamar photo of Kendrick Lamar looking at the camera and basically, hey, Drake, basically, hey, Donald, take a look at me in this Canadian jersey. Memes like this as well. And let me just share this with you as well.
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You know, here's a video, and this was done by our friends at The Recount. And here they asked Canadians about Donald Trump saying that he wants to annex Canada. And they just went up to people in Canada and said, what do you think about that? And Canadians are like, wow, what the hell? This is from recent. Play this clip. Canadians have a message for Trump.
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It would be ludicrous and hilarious if it was John Goodman saying it in a movie.
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I mean, I think it's pretty dumb on America's part, but I feel like it's kind of stupid to like exile your number one alliance.
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And it's a weird thing for me as an American to watch that video of Canadians celebrate beating the United States, but to appreciate the national pride that they have in Canada, standing up to a bully, standing up to Donald Trump and standing up to what the United States of America has become under Donald Trump. As Donald Trump continues to threaten Canada over and over again with
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And to just see what the United States has become, it's very tough for me as an American here to see, to live in an authoritarian regime, to be here with this microphone, with this platform, knowing that America is now a dictatorship. That's a strange concept. We're past the stage of constitutional crisis here. We're in the stage where there's an authoritarian regime.
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And the question is, will the people rise up? Will the people peacefully march and take to the streets and stand up against this? We see those protests growing. I've predicted in the spring and summer, you'll have a spring or summer of democracy here coming soon as Donald Trump's crashing everything. Our economies are crashing right now. The stock market crashed. Inflation is rising.
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And some of the economic effects, all of the economic effects of Trump's reckless stuff really hasn't even kicked in yet. That was supposed to kick in later. It's already kicking in right now. And you just see stuff like this, like Donald Trump fired our top general here via social media post. I mean, how cowardly.
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and dastardly didn't even tell the guy, just posted that I want to thank General Charles C.Q. Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, and then just says that he's getting rid of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, General Charles C.Q. Brown Very serious general. He was the top of the Air Force. Donald Trump actually appointed him to be the top of the Air Force.
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Received overwhelming support in the Senate. Then he became the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Overwhelming support. I mean, this guy had a legendary career and now getting pushed out by a former Fox News host. Pete Hegseth, who runs the Defense Department, who was too chicken shit to do it himself. Donald Trump was also too chicken shit to do it himself via like bringing him in.
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So he posts about it on social media. I mean, it's just so utterly pathetic. Oh, and then we get guys like Kash Patel in to be the head of our FBI. And as he gets sworn in, he's like, oh, man, this is effing crazy. Can you believe it? I'm the FBI director, everybody. It's effing crazy. You don't believe me? Here, watch this. Thank you for entrusting me.
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And so all of that's going on. I mean, you have about 27 to 30 percent of Canadians now view America as an enemy state, as literally the enemy. Only 30 percent of Canadians right now still view the United States of America as an ally. So 70 percent don't view America as an ally. 30 percent of Canadians view America as an enemy state.
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with annexation the way Putin does with his neighbors. It was great to see an underdog nation or a nation that has been so bullied and brutalized by Donald Trump stand up and feel this sense of real, authentic love of country. And to see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who just months ago was pretty unpopular, now
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as a and i'm surprised frankly it's not more but only 30 see america as an ally and with donald trump making statements statements like this it's no wonder here's donald trump again this was um right around when the hockey game was about to take place and donald trump again calls prime minister trudeau a governor and keeps talking about canada as the 51st state play the clip etc and
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We gave the Panama Canal to Donald Trump's press secretary. Caroline Leavitt goes up every day. They're not joking. This isn't a funny joke. They really want to annex Canada, and Prime Minister Trudeau said as much as well. No, they're being serious about this. Play this clip.
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But Prime Minister Trudeau has been standing up for Canada and Canadians. I think he's done an excellent job and he's basically become a wartime president. Here's Prime Minister Trudeau saying there's not a snowball's chance in hell Canada will become the 51st state. Let's play it.
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Here's Prime Minister Trudeau again. Let's play it.
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Hear Prime Minister Trudeau saying how just perplexed Canadians even are that like our closest friend would do this to us, play this clip.
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And then this is when Prime Minister Trudeau said, okay, you tariff us, we tariff you. Play this clip.
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You know, and then seeing, you know, the news last night as well that was broke, that Reuters broke the U.S. as part of U.S. 's desire to seize the rare earth minerals from Ukraine and to seize their natural resources. The United States of America is now threatening to cut off the Internet of Ukraine because Starlink provides internet to Ukraine.
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So that's part of the way America is now extorting Ukraine. We're turning off your internet. It is shameful. And I just want, I know we speak to a large international audience here. And I say this, I don't know I don't know what's going to happen to us here in the pro-democracy community. I know that we can't run from this.
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Rally the nation, rally the liberal party, build this coalition, pass the baton on to likely Mark Carney, who will likely be the next prime minister if things can hold and to stand up and resist. what America has become.
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I know that right now in this moment in history, we've been able to grow this platform on the Midas Touch Network, and it's our turn in history to meet this moment, and we need to stand up. We live in an authoritarian regime. There may come a time where they throw us in prison. There may come a time where they try to kill us. There may come a time where they come after us.
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I fully expect that that's a possibility based on where they're going. But I want everybody to know that we're not scared. We're not going to back down. And I want to...
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do videos like this where I let the people in Canada know, let our friends in Europe know, let our friends in Australia, let our friends know in Africa, let our friends know in South America, in New Zealand, Australia, everywhere, that there are more Americans that are pro-democracy than Trumpers right now. People are pissed and livid.
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It is a pressure cooker here in the United States because of Trump's actions. And Americans are ready to explode. It's gotten very bad very quickly here. And we're going to meet the moment. We're going to resist. OK, we're going to continue to grow the protests that you're seeing and we're going to stand up to this and we're going to meet the moment in history.
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We're not going to let this authoritarian define the future. He's already an authoritarian. We're not going to let him define the future of what America is going to be for my daughter and her daughter.
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House Republicans TANK Trump and Musk Bill and SHAME THEM
Now, you remember the sequence of events right here? There was a continuing resolution that was agreed to by Democrats and Republicans. Then Elon Musk started posting yesterday, kill the bill with samurai swords. He called the bill criminal. He said that anybody supports it is going to be primary.
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Then Trump swooped in and said, look, we could only support a continuing resolution to stop a government shutdown if Trump the debt ceiling is abolished.
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So Donald Trump and all the MAGA Republicans who previously said that the debt ceiling should not be raised when President Biden was trying to raise it and then a deal had to be struck with Kevin McCarthy are now saying not only should the debt ceiling be raised, they're basically saying the whole concept of the debt ceiling should be abolished. And so even MAGA Republicans like Chip Royer, like
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So wait a minute, this whole Doge thing about reducing the deficit and cutting back on debt. So the MAGA Republican plan was to kill a bipartisan continuing resolution and to change it based on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's request, something that was going to increase the debt immediately by $5 trillion.
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This right here is a MAGA Republican, Chip Roy, who's on the House floor saying, what in the hell are you doing, Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Watch this.
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But then Donald Trump and Elon Musk started attacking MAGA Republican Chip Roy and saying that he was a phony and he's just in it for himself. But it wasn't just Chip Roy. There were 38 other Republicans who voted against this new version of the continuing resolution. Then MAGA Mike Johnson gave a press conference and MAGA Mike Johnson said, OK,
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Don't be fooled by Republicans wanting to increase the debt limit because this is actually something that we're trying to decrease by increasing.
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And here, MAGA Mike Johnson just looks absolutely terrified. And he's like, this is just Washington. This is what you do. No, MAGA Mike. This is what Elon Musk is directing you to do, who's controlling our government, a billionaire, unelected bureaucrat who's ordering and basically running the government. Take a look at MAGA Mike Johnson here. Play this clip.
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Here's House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Hakeem Jeffries wrote, the Musk Johnson government shutdown bill has been soundly defeated. MAGA extremists in the House GOP are not serious about helping working class Americans. They're simply doing the bidding of their wealthy donors and puppeteers. Got to give credit to Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz, who calls it out so perfectly right here. Let me bring you Moskowitz.
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Give Mudwater a shot and save big because our listeners get up to 43% off your entire order, free shipping, and a free rechargeable frother. Head to mudwater.com, that's M-U-D-W-T-R dot com forward slash legal AF. When the survey asks, please support our show and tell them that we sent you. And then here is Democratic Congress member Hakeem Jeffries talking about this as well.
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Let's play the clip.
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Democratic Congressmember Jamie Raskin says, this holiday season, House Republicans want to break a bipartisan deal and furlough millions of hardworking federal workers, including 50,000 in my district who placate the richest man in the world, President-elect Elon Musk and his VP, J.D. Vance. I voted no.
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And as Jake Sherman, who covers the comings and goings on Capitol Hill, he says the following, look, House Republicans are a long way from solving this problem that they created because samurai sword-wheeling Elon Musk and Donald Trump said kill a bipartisan bill. As Jake Sherman says, House Republicans are a long way from solving this. A technical point to mention, as of now, 8.05 p.m.
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when he wrote this, the House GOP leadership has not given itself same-day authority. This means it will be difficult for them to pass a bill tomorrow under the simple majority threshold. And as you heard, Congressman Jared Moskowitz said, look, we've bailed you out before. Good luck. You do it on your own right now. If you want to be adults and have conversations with, we'll help.
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But if you want to be samurai sword wielding maniacs and just try to give all these handouts to your billionaire oligarch friends, we are not going to be there to help you. Finally, Democratic Congress member Garcia, here's what he's got to say. Play the clip.
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Absolutely. I mean, I think we are beginning and witnessing the start of the Elon Musk presidency. There is no question. And Donald Trump has been regulated as now the vice president to Elon Musk's new administration. The Republican Party here in the House completely bent the knee to Elon Musk. He says something, they jump.
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And it's just insane and crazy that a deal that had been negotiated by Speaker Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries and the Senate was completely tanked because of Elon Musk sending out messages on X and his social media platform. And so this is complete insanity. There is now this new administration developing at the head being Elon Musk. And the fact that we have now the richest man on the planet
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Utterly humiliating for Donald Trump and Elon Musk right there as 38 Republicans voted against the Trump, Musk, and Maga Mike Johnson Frankensteinian bill that replaced the a bipartisan agreement to stop the government shutdown. You saw it there. That was the moment where 38 Republicans stood up and said, you are not bullying us, Elon Musk and Donald Trump. The bill failed 174 to 235.
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Dictating what the United States Congress should be doing is completely insane, dangerous, and Americans should be very concerned.
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So there you have it, folks. A humiliating defeat for Donald Trump and Elon Musk after they killed the bipartisan bill had this thing get put in instead. And again, this thing, like, you know, basically, what did it add? It added... It lifted restrictions on investment in China. I wonder who would benefit from that right there.
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And they wanted to remove the debt ceiling so that Donald Trump could do tax cuts for billionaires. Okay, guys, didn't work. Democrats standing up and pushing back. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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MAGA Mike LOSES CONTROL of GOP…Shutdown IMMINENT?!!
Well, earlier this week, and I'm sure you probably have seen my reporting, MAGA Mike Johnson said, finally, there's a continuing resolution that has been prepared. He said that he's giving it to everybody to read.
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But now Elon Musk, an unelected bureaucrat who's basically a co-president, and Vivek Ramaswamy, who run this fake government agency called Doge, they're saying kill the continuing resolution. Nobody should pass it. This is what Elon Musk's actual post is. This bill should not pass.
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And Vivek Ramaswamy goes currently reading the 1547 page bill to fund the government through mid-March, expecting every U.S. congressman and senator to do the same. OK, good for you. You're reading it. But then Elon Musk says this bill should not pass. So what do you want to do? You want to just torch the entire American economy?
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I think Elon Musk said that we should all suffer some form of economic hardship. That's the language that he used. What, do you want us to be like Javier Millay in Argentina and we should suffer Trump and Elon Musk austerity measures while y'all are partying in Mar-a-Lago and on private jets and Bentleys and Rolls Royces and whatever that we the people suffer?
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You know, Donald Trump's proposed tax plan adds more taxes to everybody but the billionaires. Is that what you all wanted? Is that what you all voted for? Elon Musk, you certainly didn't vote for. I mean, he's not an elected official. He writes the following as well. Ever seen a bigger piece of pork? and he takes a photo of the bill.
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Now look, okay, 1,547 pages, whatever it is, is long, but you need a functioning government. I think it's ridiculous that MAGA Republicans literally dump this thing two days yet again before the government shut down. But that's what they've done before. Note, when the Democrats were in charge of the House of Representatives, you know what happened?
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There was a budget that was passed and you didn't have to do continuing resolutions every year and go through this again. Remember going back, what, three years ago or so or two years ago? At this point, Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling. We're going to send the country into a Great Depression. Remember they said that? And Biden had to fix that. And they didn't pass a budget.
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Continuing resolution, continuing resolution. What else is Elon Musk posting? He's using his artificial intelligence on his social media platform to post images of over here Elizabeth Warren dressed up as Pocahontas. So that's also what he's doing in addition to telling MAGA Mike Johnson and the MAGA Republicans to kill their own bill.
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And again, this is where some understanding of civics is important. Who controls the House of Representatives right now? The Republicans, not the Democrats. Who put this forward? The Republicans. MAGA Mike Johnson. The party that you support, Elon Musk, put this thing together. And if you just want to destroy it, I'm being serious. Why do Democrats continue to bail them out?
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I understand that nobody wants a recession or a depression or to go through any of this. But why are we why are Democrats constantly swooping in to save the day and make MAGA Republicans look semi-competent? Just let them torch it. And then you can go look. They don't know what the hell they're doing. Look at Elon Musk's post. He said, kill this bill, kill it. This is what ABC is reporting.
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Total dumpster fire. Republicans fume over Speaker's spending plan days from shutdown deadline. The Republican speaker, your own person. Mike Johnson under fire as House Republicans torch his funding bill. You mean their funding bill, the new Republican? The Republican funding bill. You're in charge of the House of Representatives. Here are some statements as well. This is like...
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This is from Eric Burleson called the continuing resolution a total dumpster fire. By the way, a lot of the things that Republicans don't like in this is the disaster relief portion as well to bring disaster relief to areas hit hard by the hurricane. because they still want to spread all of those conspiracies for Donald Trump. MAGA Republican Eric Burleson goes, I think it's garbage.
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This is what Washington DC has done. This is why I ran for Congress to stop this, Burleson told a nonprofit broadcaster C-SPAN. Sadly, this is happening again. I think that it's shameful that people that celebrate Doge coming in and yet we're going to vote for another billion dollars be added to the deficit. It is ironic. You know, when Trump was in power the first time,
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You know how much you added to the deficit? It didn't start with a B. It started with a T. And it didn't start with a 1. It started with an 8. $8 trillion you added in debt. $8 trillion. More than anyone before. Why? Because this is all a sham. All this is is a power grab for the billionaires and the oligarchy to loot, plunder our economy here in the United States. So what are you whining about?
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This is your party. This isn't Washington, D.C. The Republicans are in power. Since we've been given the majority again, we're adding $30 billion and literally totally unpaid for additional deficit spending. Just since November 5, Chip Roy, another MAGA Republican, says, I don't see what's doing what we're supposed to be doing. I don't know. do what you're supposed to do, do your job then.
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The conference itself owns this. The conference needs to decide whether we're actually serious about spending, we're just fundamentally unserious about spending. The main thing that you're supposed to do in Congress is you have the power of the purse.
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So when you say we're unserious about spending, just redact the word spending and just say, or cross out the word spending and just say, we're unserious. By the way, you wanna know what's in the continuing resolution? a pay raise for Republicans and an Obamacare opt-out.
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MAGA Mike LOSES CONTROL of GOP…Shutdown IMMINENT?!!
That's what they decided to put in this continuing resolution, where if it doesn't pass in two days, the government is going to shut down. So as Sam Stein says, the Speaker of the House, second in line of presidential secession, groveling with leaders now.
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of a fake government entity called Doge, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to get them not to torpedo a government funding bill, which if they torpedoed could send us into a recession and depression and shut down our government. As this other account says, just in case there are any questions about who's in charge. So MAGA Mike Johnson goes on Fox News this morning.
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And he's asked the following questions about the Doge directors. The Fox and Friends hosts asked Mike Johnson to respond to that Elon Musk tweet I read for you at the beginning of this video live on air. Here, watch this.
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MAGA Mike LOSES CONTROL of GOP…Shutdown IMMINENT?!!
And this is the thing too, remember I've been saying this over and over again in the videos, the whole Republican philosophy is as follows. Be the arsonists, destroy, plunder, take whatever you can as the arsonist, and then blame the firefighters for putting out the fire. Have people reelect the arsonists by destroying education and taking away any understanding and how civics works.
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MAGA Mike LOSES CONTROL of GOP…Shutdown IMMINENT?!!
And then literally have people reelect the arsonists who burnt it down to begin with by blaming the firefighters for not being able to fix the arson quick enough. That's essentially their philosophy. And in the chaos, in the suffering, they hoist up a strong man. And they said, only he can fix it. He's going to be able to bring so much stability. It's why we need a steady hand right now.
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MAGA Mike LOSES CONTROL of GOP…Shutdown IMMINENT?!!
We are less than 48 hours from the government shutting down because the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives don't do their job. They're dependent on Democrats once again to try to bail them out because all of the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives want to torch their own continuing resolution. They've never actually passed a budget.
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MAGA Mike LOSES CONTROL of GOP…Shutdown IMMINENT?!!
You're in charge. What are you even talking about? You need to have Daddy Trump help you out, Maga Mike. This is why these people are so freaking pathetic. Here's Maga Mike saying, look, we need Donald Trump. He's going to help us from the drones. He's going to help us from the drones. And he's going to help us from ourself. Here, play this clip.
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All right, good luck the next 72. So utterly pathetic, folks. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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So we basically go month to month or every other month or so, and then there are All of these procedural maneuvers that are done, and then we have to pass continuing resolutions. And then the day before, there's all of this crisis, and then Democrats bail the MAGA Republicans out.
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Trump IS HUMILIATED by Stock Market with WORST STREAK
The stock market in the United States economy does not like Donald Trump. Look at this headline yesterday from Yahoo Finance. stock market today dow s p 500 nasdaq clobbered as federal reserve chairman powell signals fewer rate cuts in 2025 which he did as a result of donald trump's inflationary measures like bloody mass deportations and tariffing our allies and trade adversaries alike
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Now, we also know that when Donald Trump showed up at the stock market in the past two weeks, he was asked a question by Jim Cramer. Should American workers invest in the United States stock market? Trump botched that question and said, I don't know, because there may be a dip. There may be a dip.
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You're the guy who went around during the election with your accordion hands and said you were going to just make everything a miracle and it was all going to be so much better, despite the fact that President Biden brought the stock market up about 55 to 60 percent higher than than when you, Donald Trump, were an office, or approximately that amount.
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The Biden stock market far better than the Trump stock market. Just take a look at this headline from Yahoo Finance. Stocks were clobbered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve, despite slashing interest rates by 25 basis points, signaled it would cut fewer times next year than previously projected. All three major indexes reversed gains following the decision to end with steep losses.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down about 2.6% or over 1,000 points, clinching its 10th straight down session, the longest losing streak since 1974, over 50 years ago in reaction to Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 fell roughly 3% and tech heavy Nasdaq composite slid more than 3.5%.
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Quote, The slower pace of cuts for next year really reflects both the higher inflation readings we had this year
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and the expectation inflation will be higher federal chair jerome powell said why do you think that they have those expectations because of donald trump's threats meanwhile americans across the country are now stockpiling on goods and americans across the country believe prices will be higher under donald trump you know americans you didn't have to vote to inflict pain and suffering on yourself but i don't know that's just me
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You take a look at the sector breakdown of percentage losses. Consumer discretionary down 4.74%. Real estate down 3.9%. Communication services down 3.16%. Financials down 3.03%. Infotech down 2.99%. Materials, industrials, energy, utilities, healthcare, all down one by one. And as Carl Quintanilla posted, the Dow is on pace for the longest losing streak since October 4th, 1974.
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As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, says it's been a hell of a week since Trump rang the opening bell at the stock exchange. I mean, some serious stuff, folks. Donald Trump went around the Pied Piper of broken promises during his campaign. I'm going to make it better. If you elect Kamala, there's going to be a depression, the biggest depression you've ever seen.
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With Donald Trump, all that stuff is always projection and confession, in my opinion. Just think about this New York Times headline. U.S. unemployment is worst since depression. You know when that headline was? When Donald Trump was in office, that US unemployment was worse since the Great Depression. But what does Donald Trump do? He's got a social media platform where he's posting
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I've got or he's having ads that post with his name, image and likeness on him. An IRS loophole that could save your retirement during Biden's recession. There was no recession when Biden was in office. Unemployment was down. Record jobs were created. The inflation was brought down because of the Inflation Reduction Act, which Trump is going to bring back up. GDP was highest of the G7 nations.
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Average pay was up 19%. There was a manufacturing boom in the United States. Go back and look at the interview I did with President Biden where we talked about facts. It wasn't a gotcha interview. We talked about what he did. He talked about what he did for red states and turning red state economy around. And by the way, you know, the magas are always like drill, baby, drill.
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There was more domestic oil drilling when Biden was in office than when Trump was in office and Biden cared about climate change. Just showing you this graphic here as well. This goes over the GDP growth, the jobs created, construction and manufacturing boom, $1 trillion in private sector manufacturing and clean energy investment announced.
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Can you take a look right here at the JP Morgan report here? When JP Morgan is saying things like this, you know there's an issue. When they're being snarky like this. Daily economic briefing. Walking into a dark room full of furniture. And yes, already based on the stock market losses since Donald Trump went to the stock exchange. This is what Bullrunners reported yesterday.
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Over $2 trillion has been wiped away. from the US stock market. One month of stock market gains has been erased in a single day. The US stock market has lost over $2 trillion in valuation. Think about that.
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Meanwhile, you've got our billionaire oligarchy with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy killing a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown, further plunging our country into economic turmoil. As Dean Baker goes, pretty cool how a billionaire has decided to shut down the government. That's how we can tell the Republicans are really the party of the working people. Good times.
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It's pretty neat that an unelected billionaire like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy get to shut down our government. It's very MAGA to leave this call to our favorite billionaires being sarcastic. Uh, Senator Bernie Sanders writes the U S Congress this week came to an agreement to fund our government. Elon Musk, who became $200 billion richer since Trump was elected objective.
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Our Republicans beholden to the American people are president Musk. Uh, this is the oligarchy at work and you see Elon Musk, uh, posting all of these photos, kill the bill, kill the bill, kill all the bill. Now, just think about what Donald Trump's also said over the past two weeks or so. He went on Meet the Press. He told Kristen Welker he will not guarantee lower prices.
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Now, most economists expect that the prices on all kind of normal goods are going to be significantly higher or higher than as a result of Donald Trump's policies, right? I mean, Donald Trump's mass deport, I did a whole video on this, Trump's threats of mass deportations would cause catastrophic harm in the construction industry, in farming, in hospitality,
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and in other areas where migrant labor is really kind of relied upon, that would cause significant job losses and a significant decline in the economy. If they keep engaging in these government shutdowns and trying to, you know, screw the government that way, that's going to, and just screw government employees, that's going to slow down the economy as well.
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I mean, I just think about if like services are now shut off. I mean, look, you had Elon Musk and Donald Trump out there saying that they wanted to inflict economic hardship on the American people. They said that there will we will feel pain is what they said. You got to feel pain. And then they said things will get better after you experience the pain.
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The billionaires, they'll party at Mar-a-Lago. We all will suffer pain, they say, but that's for our own good. The billionaires are telling us that we need to suffer the pain because that's a good thing for us while they're on their private jets and while they're out there with golden toilet bowls and the like.
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One more time, go to lumen.me slash Midas, L-U-M-E-N dot M-E slash Midas and get 15% off your purchase. Thank you, Lumen, for sponsoring this episode. Donald Trump has, in addition to saying that he can't guarantee prices will go lower, he also says it's very hard. He said in his Time Magazine article interview, very hard, very, very hard to bring prices down once they're up.
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He says he's not sure he can do it. It's very, very hard is what he says. Very hard. Your whole campaign was going around and making these types of promises. And then I think Americans are now finally who have Googled, okay, well, what's a tariff? What's this? What's that? Are now saying, oh, wait a minute. You mean that this is going to cause our products to be significantly higher? And you...
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going after Canada and Mexico, our allies, and then also going after China and all these other countries, going to go after everybody, have everybody hate the United States, and they'll all form trade deals together and cut the United States out and ultimately screw the United States. And you think that's going to be beneficial to we the people? I mean, just take a look at who they...
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Who's like one of the main leaders that MAGA Republicans look up to? Javier Millay, right, in Argentina. The poverty rate there is 53%. 53% and they look up to Javier Millay, the president of Argentina. It's ridiculous. But Donald Trump, congrats, buddy. A 10-day losing streak of the Dow Jones. No one's done it. No one's done it since 1974.
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You brought back a 10-day losing streak the same way you had the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, the same way you were the only president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs. But you alone do it. You alone do it. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network. And subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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That justifies our unlawful invasion of Ukraine. And while we're at it, why don't we take Poland? We can take Finland. We could take Sweden. We could take Norway. What else should we take? By the way, it enables Xi Jinping to say, well, Taiwan is ours. By the way, even Venezuela is getting in on the action. And Venezuela is saying, we want to conquer Puerto Rico. Why don't we join with Brazil?
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And then we can use our forces and let's take over Puerto Rico, everybody. What are you going to do about it, Donald? This is the chaos and havoc that Donald Trump is already causing. So let me show you just a minute or so from this Russian state TV propaganda. I want to give you the disclaimer that that's what it is. We have the captions on the bottom.
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It's just important that we show you here what is actually happening so you can see it for yourself. That's why I give you the disclaimer. This is where they go on their primetime show. calling Donald Trump gramps this, gramps that, and they use Donald Trump's words against him to support Putin's agenda of conquest. Watch this.
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now we've been reporting again on these various appearances on this russian propaganda tv like we were talking about them showing them balania nudes where they would say it is your body your choice milani i guess this is what you want to do with your body also Putin knows that Donald Trump is weak and will be terrified of threats.
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So Vladimir Putin just continues to brutally mock Donald Trump on Russian state TV, like we previously reported how Putin was just showing nudes of Melania over and over again as his handpicked hosts would mock Melania and Donald Trump. Well, in the past few days, one of the things Putin's been doing is he's been calling Donald Trump gramps, and he's been having his propagandists who host
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So Putin made a deal with Belarus, one of their neighbors, giving them nuclear weapons and saying that nuclear weapons are going to be positioned facing Europe. Putin just cut a deal in the past 48 hours with Iran, a 20-year partnership with everything on the table.
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And we're seeing a lot of already kind of international deals, shifts in alliances as countries are scrambling to deal with the fact that America will no longer be a leader in the world under Donald Trump. For example, I talked about how Mexico, their President Scheinbaum, did a public meeting with Xi Jinping at the G20 a few months back after Donald Trump won the election to send a message.
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We'll just work with China, Donald, if you're going to try to screw us. We have other options. China's expanding the BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and they want us to join BRICS. We said we weren't going to join it before. We wanted to be good neighbors with the United States. But Donald, if you're attacking Canada and you're attacking Mexico and Panama, you're
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I guess we're gonna have to look at new alliances.
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You have Mexico also forming a doing another deal recently in the past 48 hours with the president of Guatemala sticking up for Panama as well as their sovereignty is under attack. And while all of this is happening, remember what Donald Trump's promise was. Donald Trump said in Ukraine there would be a peace deal in 24 hours. He said after the election, that didn't happen.
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So even if you assume Trump meant 24 hours after the inauguration, well, that's not going to happen. Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, was on Fox, and he said we need at least 2,400 hours. like 100 days, give us 100 days, and then maybe, just maybe we'll start to create a framework for something.
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Their version basically of the Hannity show say, okay, it seems like we need to help Gramps. Let us help you, Gramps. You're not going to be able to conquer Greenland, Gramps. We'll conquer it for you. And so what these propagandists on Russian state TV are saying, it's exactly what we warned against here on the Midas Touch Network and others did as well.
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But again, just showing how utterly weak and pathetic Trump is already, breaking the key promise that he would bring peace right away. Here, play this clip.
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While all of this is going on, there was also a trade deal between the European Union and Mexico. This trade deal was put on hiatus for nearly a decade, and they're renewing their relations in a big, robust way. So... A lot of people now or a lot of countries are saying, look, Trump is weak, pathetic, rambling. He's going to cause a lot of damage. He wants to isolate the U.S.
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Let them be isolated. Trump's bluster, bravado, his threats against allies. We need to create a new international structure. You also had Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau right before the weekend. He gave an impassioned speech as well. Maybe I'll do a whole other video just on his speech.
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And in Prime Minister Trudeau's speech, he said, all options are on the table in terms of our retaliation against the United States. And if you make us feel pain, we want to make it clear to Americans, you will feel pain. We will inflict pain on Americans. Your prices will go up. And we're ready for a trade war. You want to come after us? Bring it. You shouldn't, but we'll be ready for them.
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That when Donald Trump's talking about annexing Canada and Greenland and and attacking Denmark and attacking Panama, it will be used as pretext by Russia and other authoritarian regimes to say, actually, we're going to conquer these places. Why don't we conquer our neighbors like we're already doing? Look, America is saying they're annexing Canada and all of these countries.
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Dems Finally go ATTACK MODE on Republicans IN PUBLIC
Let's go, Democrats. Who's gonna lead? Who's going to take charge? We see some Democrats going on the offense and pointing out that Donald Trump and his cabinet of oligarchs, who are worth over $500 billion combined, plan to pickpocket the American people and exploit we, the people, to further enrich their oligarchy. Here is Austin-based Congress member Greg Kassar, Democrat.
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Here's what he has to say. Watch this powerful message.
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Look, that's the type of messaging that's needed right now. I mean, just take a look at this new Echelon Insights poll. Among Democrats, Democrats should lean harder into economic populism, like breaking up big corporations and preventing workers from being exploited. 70% of Democrats are saying they should do that. Frankly, it's consistent with President Biden's middle-up, bottom-out economy.
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Let me show you this as well. This is Democratic Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut. Here's what he's got to say. Play the clip.
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And then Senator Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, raises this point as well. that Donald Trump's administration is compromised, right? They've taken all this money from the Middle East. You have Jared Kushner who got like $3 billion from the Saudis, UAE, Qatar, and others, making him millions of dollars in fees every year. You've got the Trump family.
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having their name plastered on buildings in Saudi Arabia. They're bragging about it. You've got Eric Trump bragging about his buildings that are paid for by Saudi Arabia, not his buildings, the Saudi buildings. They put the Trump name on it, give the Trump family tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars. Why? To buy them off.
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Look, MBS, the leader of Saudi Arabia, previously said that Jared Kushner is in his pocket. Here's what Senator Murphy had to say. Let's
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but more so he's going to put his wealth and his family's wealth first the national security of the country second and look these are the messages that need to get out you put those messages in contrast with indiana senator-elect jim banks right here who says we need to re-evaluate vaccines in general this is a senator spreading vaccine dis info with rfk jr on things like
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polio and measles that could result in the deaths of tens of millions, and especially children.
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Just ask him some basic questions about corporate contributions he received. Watch how he treats these students. With utter disrespect, play this clip.
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Meanwhile, what's Donald Trump doing? Well, he's posting images of people who tattoo Trump's name on their arms. Can you say cult? Donald Trump is also saying mystery drone sightings all over the country. Can this really be happening without our government knowledge? I don't.
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think so exclamation point let the public know and now otherwise shoot them down d j t who's going to start shooting in the air that is that the game plan or how about donald trump saying this the republican party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight savings time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't.
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Daylight savings time is inconvenient and very costly to our nation. As Aaron Rupert said, did standard time donate a million bucks to Trump's inauguration? Or what's going on here? You want to keep standard time where it gets darker earlier? Anyway, I digress. What Trump wants to keep, though, and what Congressmember Kazar and
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Senator Murphy are pointing out, which we've been talking about here at the Midas Touch Network all along, though, is this message of Donald Trump literally lives in a golden palace in a golden country club with golden toilet bowls. I mean, look how soft this guy is. I mean, just. This is what he was doing when people were fighting in Vietnam. He claimed that he had bone spurs.
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Just look at him on that bed right there. He's got golden toilet bowls while Elon Musk and other MAGA billionaires in Trump's cabinet talk about taking away vaccines and taking away your health care, getting rid of your Social Security, getting rid of veteran benefits, getting rid of Medicare, making sure that people are suffering. It's a real issue. But Democrats keep going on the offense.
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Sharp, strong, loud messaging on the economy. Please hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Voters SUFFER Instant Regret as TRUMP SPIRALS
And oh, now you're saying you always supported the H-1B visa program? No, your policy and your ideas have just completely changed, a.k.a. you are a liar. Take a look at here some of these other Trump supporters. I voted for bro. I voted for Trump. I voted for bro. But Gulf of America sounds so crap. What the F does renaming the Gulf of Mexico have anything to do with anything?
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What are you talking about, Donald? I'm worried about how I'm going to be able to afford to live with my two children. I'm worried about...
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policies get the f out of here donald and here's the way you need to respond when donald trump does all of these wmds weapon of mass distraction stuff okay cool bro but how is this going to lower prices cool bro how is this going to make housing more affordable cool bro you said you were going to eliminate inflation president biden was bringing it down with the inflation reduction act but
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What are you going to do to reduce the prices of things? Cool, bro. Egg prices are still going up. Cool, bro. Housing is not affordable. Cool, bro. All of your billionaire oligarch buddies are like mocking and laughing us. How is that supposed to help us? Cool, bro.
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So Elon Musk's entire strategy with you to derail the continuing resolution is because you wanted to get rid of a provision that would have created more restrictions from American companies. to do business in China? I thought you said you were going to be tough on China. Oh, wait a minute.
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You're just trying to help your corporate oligarch buddies from Mar-a-Lago do more deals with President Xi Jinping? Cool, bro. Didn't you say you were going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours? But now you've already canceled the meeting with Ukraine. And you have some now undefined timeline with Vladimir Putin and when you're going to meet with him.
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But Putin said he's not going to do a deal unless there's complete and total capitulation by Ukraine. So, cool, bro. It seems like you've lied. So, bro, cool, bro. You said you were going to stop World War III from happening, which isn't happening. But now you're going to start sending our troops. You're going to start sending...
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young americans and other americans to fight wars in canada denmark greenland panama that that that's what you're doing that's cool bro that that's your plan bro here's some additional posts um from trump supporters h1b and his disgusting rhetoric about mexico canada greenland and panama The more he spews that imperialist nonsense, the more I regret my vote for him.
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He didn't say any of this bullshit during the campaign trail. I wonder why. Oh, yeah, because this shit isn't popular with Americans. We want an anti-war and pro-peace president that will work with nations, not threaten annexation and attacks. Trump isn't even president yet, and I'm slowly regretting my vote now. Even with a comment like this, you're slowly regretting it?
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Trump voters are in the find out stage and Donald Trump hasn't even been inaugurated yet, seeing posts all over like this. The Gulf of Mexico becoming the Gulf of America? Donald, what are you even talking about? How about the Gulf of... How does this lower prices, Donald?
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What would make you quickly regret it? Because all of these things that he's doing seem to be kind of deal breakers, right? I mean, he's gonna what, do drafts to send you to war against Denmark? That's slowly making you change your opinion, or I don't know, to me, it pretty quickly, I don't know.
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Trump kind of lost me back in 2012 and 2008, or maybe before that, he lost me in the early 90s when he bankrupted most of the companies and he said horrific things about women. And I was paying attention, you know? Aren't you guys like, do your own research? I did my research about this guy's background in business.
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And when I did my research, it turns out he screwed workers his whole life, that he was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, still bankrupted most of the companies he touched, was a complete and utter failure, hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, used Mar-a-Lago or had Mar-a-Lago as a location where Epstein found the woman who Epstein eventually trafficked.
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Trump would talk about going into the locker rooms to look at girls naked during his beauty pageants. I think we knew who the sicko was. That was the deal breaker to me. But it wasn't a deal breaker to you in 2016 when he would mock disabled reporters. It wasn't a deal breaker to you after 2020 when he led an insurrection, mishandled COVID, said like a miracle it was all going to go away.
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weren't deal breaker things when he added $8 trillion in debt. And for all of you who are saying, oh, but Donald Trump is promising no tax on tips. But do you remember what happened during the first Trump administration? Or was there this collective amnesia by you where you forget that Trump's policy during Trump administration one was no tips, that your tips belong to your boss.
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So perhaps when Donald Trump was saying no tax on tips, There were no tips. And perhaps this was a way to allow bosses to take your tips and then claim it as a way as tax-free income. I don't know. I mean, a little... You guys do your research. So what happened with your research? You think the billionaire Donald Trump who brags about his money...
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who hates workers, who has screwed unions, is now going to be pro-union and like workers? Why? Because he brought cold pizza to firefighters? You think he likes you when he screws firefighters from getting the money they deserve from 9-11? Really? You think he's going to support you as a veteran when he mocks John McCain and calls veterans suckers or losers?
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I mean, the comment here about you're slowly... He's regretting your vote. Maybe it should be more quicker. He goes on to say, other people are like, you were warned. Trump never spoke about these topics until after he was elected. How was I supposed to know? It's not true. We talked about all this stuff.
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The Trump supporters are saying, we never heard you talking about annexing Canada or Greenland or taking over Panama or changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. You promised to lower prices. Oh, wait a minute, Donald. You're now quoted in all of these interviews saying that you can't lower the prices, that that's not going to happen.
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Oh, another person goes, I regret voting for you. Next election is time, time to go blue. You are no man of God as God respects building bridges. You're an imposter. I pray that God forgives you because I won't. You are a two-tongue snake. And by the way, this anti-Harris professor, his name is Hassan Abdel Salam at the University of Minnesota.
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He said to people, do not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. Do not support other people. And so now he's like, well, you know, maybe it wasn't a good idea to support Trump because perhaps Trump's cabinet is more extreme than I thought. By the way, have you heard what Trump said? Trump saying that if President Biden.
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does not bring the hostages back from Gaza before Trump takes office, that Trump will unleash hell in Gaza? How much more hell can you unleash in Gaza than has already been unleashed in Gaza? Okay, Donald Trump doesn't support a two-state solution. Donald Trump picked as his ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, a guy who says Palestine should not exist. Is that a slow deal breaker to you?
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If you support Palestine and you have options, right? On the one hand, Vice President Kamala Harris, who I get, you could say, certainly by no means perfect or great as it relates to the issue for you. But I think you can say she supports a two-state solution. She is trying to rein in Netanyahu. Or do you want to vote for Trump who put someone who says Palestine shouldn't even exist?
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So you just completely lied and mortgage rates are going to go back up, which they already are because the bond market sees volatility with Donald Trump. Wait a minute, Donald, you're not going to make housing more affordable. Wait a minute, you're not going to bring jobs here. Wait a minute, you're doing a complete shift and change.
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Or do you want to go with Kamala who says two-state solution? Which one are you going to go? Someone like Trump who says he'll do anything that Netanyahu says? What do you think anyway? I digress even more. Also, now Americans are waking up to how bad Trump's universal tariffs will be.
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From the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey, now the share of consumers who are worried about the prospect of tariff hikes continues to rise. Nearly one-third of consumers spontaneously mention tariffs as a major concern. And now there's also a big jump in inflation expectations for next year.
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So people think that tariffs will be a major problem and people think Trump will cause more inflation. Now, by the way, so do the feds. So does the Federal Reserve, rather. Federal Reserve officials are worried about Trump's inflation impacts. from Trump's policies, the minutes show.
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Federal Reserve officials at their December meeting expressed concern about inflation and the impact that Donald Trump's policies could have, including that they would be moving more slowly on interest rate cuts because of the uncertainty, minutes released Wednesday showed.
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Without calling out Trump by name, the meeting summary featured at least four mentions about the impact that changes in immigration and trade policy could have on the U.S. economy. Since Trump's November election victory, he has signals plans for aggressive punitive tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada, as well as other U.S. trading partners, which he says he's going to put in on day one.
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So on the one hand, you have that. On the other hand, you have President Biden, who on Friday announced the U.S. added 256,000 jobs in December, surpassing expectations, bringing the total for 2024 to 2.2 million jobs. Unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%. Wages grew 3.9% over the past year, far outpacing inflation. And President Biden created 16.6 million jobs during his term in office.
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But on the other hand, Donald Trump held a press conference on Thursday where he said Jeff Bezos came, Bill Gates came. Mark Zuckerberg came. Many of them came numerous times. The bankers have all come. Everybody is coming. That's what Donald Trump said about all of his friends who are visiting him at Mar-a-Lago.
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So you think when Donald Trump's talking about all these billionaires coming at him in Mar-a-Lago that he cares about the workers? The people who want to destroy the workers? are coming on Trump or coming to Trump and they're saying that, I mean, and you think, huh? Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Leopards are eating your face, y'all. Leopards are eating your face.
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On your view of H-1B visas, didn't you say that you were going to get America these type of jobs? But now you're saying Americans are too dumb to do the job. So you need the H-1B visa program to be expanded to bring in talent from India because you say Americans are not smart enough to be engineers. Didn't you promise Americans these jobs, Donald?
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Very different than when Trump was in office. Here's President Biden's response to this great news. With today's report of 256,000 new jobs in December, we've created over 16.6 million jobs during my administration, the only in history to have created jobs in every single month. Despite inheriting an economic crisis, we built back our economy from the middle out and bottom up.
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Even Fox had to report that this was good news, that Biden is leaving on the highest note possible. The jobs report came out, Maria Bartiromo and Fox, who've always wanted to root for a bad economy and bad reports. Once again, didn't get that here. It'll be interesting to see how they will try to spin when Donald Trump tanks the economy. Oh, wait, they're already trying to do it.
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In Murdoch's other rag, the New York Post, one of Murdoch's writers, Charlie Gasparino, a right-wing guy who says he's a business writer, this is what they're pushing in the New York Post. Joe Biden's fiscal time bomb is set to explode just in time for Trump to take office. It would be laughable if it wasn't so crude and outrageous.
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Frankly shocks the conscious that this is what they're going with. Biden, who inherited disaster, turned our economy around. And every month has produced jobs and most months exceeded expectations on the jobs report. Stock market up 55, 60 percent from when Biden took over. Now that Biden's giving a seamless transition to Donald Trump, MAGA is already making those excuses.
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Look at that photo of Charlie Gusper. very serious guy Gasparino he just knows that Trump is a loser that it is the grifting season right now for all of these right wing greedy people and they're going to ruin the economy let's just Let's go to our playbook and let's try to blame Biden for everything. By the way, take a look at the charts. You'll see for yourself.
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Biden will go the entire term without a single negative jobs month. The last time the economy lost jobs. Oh, wait. December 2020. Who was in office then? I don't know. The guy who added $8 trillion of debt. I don't know. The guy who... probably destroyed your 401ks. The guy who said, like a miracle, COVID would just magically disappear. Then people couldn't get toilet paper.
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There were mobile morgues and food lines that looked like Argentina. where there are lines going into Chile for the people there to try to get goods because Javier Millay, who MAGA and Elon love, there's currently a 53% or 54% poverty rate there. I don't think we want a 53% or 54% poverty rate here. Anyway. I digress. President Biden also posts the following.
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Take a look at these final parting messages that President Biden's sending to Donald Trump. It's a thing of beauty. It's photos with himself and President Zelensky. It's photos of himself with our NATO allies. It's photos of himself with Justin Trudeau. the former prime minister of the UK, a leader of South Korea, the leader of France, international allies. Just take a look.
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Then you've got him meeting here as well with the Quad, and you see him right there having meetings with the leader of India, Modi, and other world leaders. He goes, American leadership holds the world together. Our alliances and partnerships are what keep us safe, and our values are what makes us a partner that nations want to work with.
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I'm proud to say that the United States partnerships and alliances are stronger today than ever before. By the way, how much do you love when I do videos on Biden and highlighting the good news that you don't hear anywhere else, and I don't play audio or video of Donald Trump? Isn't it refreshing? I don't know. I digress. It's refreshing to me.
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So you got President Biden talking about domestic jobs, Biden talking about international alliances stronger, and he's showing how you lead in crisis. or crises, President Biden writes. I'm surging every federal resource possible to Southern California, including hundreds of federal firefighters, 30 firefighting helicopters and planes, eight DODC-130s, and 500 military ground-clearing personnel.
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We're working with the Department of Defense to identify what more can we surge. But What kind of questions do you think our corporate media here was interested in asking him? What do you think that they wanted to know? Well, their question when they had a press conference with President Biden was, have you ruled out a pardon for yourself? That's...
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That's what they were, that they wanted to know if he was gonna pardon, for what? Watch President Biden's response in his face though. Like, what? Like, what are you asking me here playing this clip?
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president biden is giving a master class in how to leave the office with dignity and how to show the contrast between the success of your administration and the likely anticipated failures of the incoming Trump administration. Now, big news on Friday. You may have heard about this. The United States added 256,000 jobs in December.
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On a more serious note, President Biden talked about the disinformation being spread on social media. and how billionaire oligarchs are using their wealth to undercut the truth and facts. Here, President Biden's talking about how Mark Zuckerberg has eliminated fact-checking at Facebook, is allowing language and rhetoric to attack transgender people, marginalized communities.
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And now you could just say the most hateful and disgusting things. By the way, it wasn't exactly like Facebook was a bastion of civil discourse before, but also Mark Zuckerberg is now moving his whole content moderation team to Texas because he says California is too woke for them. I mean, I'm going to play you this clip, but can we think about this for a second?
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You've got all of these whiny billionaires who, by the way, during the Biden administration, their wealth has grown dramatically. Go back and look at Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk, and a lot of these billionaires, their wealth It's grown dramatically, 3x, 5x, 7x times, billions and billions of dollars more. Why? A lot of it because the stock market was up 55% to 60% under the Biden administration.
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So with all of the wealth that they've gained in the Biden administration, while Biden was focused on lifting up other people, Right. Lifting up the 99 percent others. And Biden's just saying, look, guys, billionaires, you could be billionaires. Biden says, I'm a capitalist. I'm OK with you making money. But can you just pay your fair share of taxes? You're thriving under my economy.
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But it's unfair that you're paying less in actual dollars, not even percentages, dollars than a teacher, a firefighter, a construction worker. That's unfair. And the billionaires who made all this extra wealth are like, no, even though we're thriving even more, we don't want to give any money back to you. We want to hoard it. We want generational wealth forever.
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And it's not just enough that we're rich. We want to make sure that the workers suffer. We want to stop their unions. We want to dismantle the National Labor Relations Board, the NLRB. We want to make sure that they don't get a
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raise in the minimum wage to a living wage we don't want to pay overtime we don't want to do any of that you know how sick is that it's like the billionaires get off in the suffering of we the people and they can make all this money in the world but that's not enough for them how many private jets yachts
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Once again, exceeding, surpassing expectations and bringing the total for 2024 to 2.2 million jobs. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1% and wages grew 3.9% over the past year, far outpacing inflation. President Biden's final gift to the United States of America, Joey Jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs. How many times have you heard each month these reports exceeding expectations?
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homes mansions that do you actually need while americans suffer and they can't buy it's so strange to me anyway i digress i say i digress a lot here's what president biden says about um facebook's policies play this clip telling the truth matters i mean it's uh
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I think it's really shameful. And here's what President Biden asked when he's asked if he regrets his decision to run for reelection. Again, what a weird phrasing of the question. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, so... President Biden making, I think, a compelling argument for his closing statement that I inherited disaster. I left the economy strong. Our international allies are strong. I'm responding to I'm responding to emergencies and I'm not going anywhere. It's powerful stuff. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back on Fox After Trump Meltdown
Ukrainian President Zelensky just gave an interview with Fox where he addressed the Oval Office meeting where Donald Trump and J.D. Vance laundered Russian propaganda to attack and yell at Zelensky in the Oval Office in front of the world media where Zelensky held his ground. pushed back against Trump and J.D. Vance and strongly defended Ukraine, as well as democracies across the country.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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And Zelensky said, let me just be very clear. Putin is a killer. I'm not going to say nice things about Putin. Play the clip.
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Now, while that was taking place, Donald Trump wanted to hog the media attention. And Donald Trump then told the media what would have made him happy is if Zelensky would have said nice things about Putin. Donald Trump says, why is he saying mean things about Putin? He needs to be nicer to Putin. This is what Trump just said. Here, play the clip.
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He doesn't Then Donald Trump attacks Zelensky while Zelensky is basically doing this interview on Fox and Donald Trump tries to like mock Zelensky and Trump's wearing the MAGA hat. This whole thing is just so humiliating for the United States. And Donald Trump's like, what? He thinks he's a big shot here. Play this clip.
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Back to Zelensky's interview on Fox. Zelensky says he's thankful for Americans. Play this clip.
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Zelensky was asked by Bret Baier of Fox if he would apologize to Donald Trump on camera, to which Zelensky said, no, what am I going to apologize for? I did not do something bad. Watch this. During all these years, 10 years,
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You helped us to How many more times do you want to hear him say that? And before I've heard him say that he was thankful for Donald Trump, even though he shouldn't have to even say that, I've heard him repeatedly make those comments. What did Donald Trump want him to do at the Oval Office? I think Donald Trump said it before. Praise Putin, which Zelensky would not do. That's what Trump and J.D.
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Vance were trying to bully him to do. That's what they thought the art of the deal was when it was really the art of the steal and the shakedown trying to extort Ukraine into some ridiculous rare earth mineral deal when Donald Trump promised that he was going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. But what was Trump's plan the whole time to steal the rare earth minerals from Ukraine?
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What the hell is even going on right now? Here is President Zelensky saying how he respects the soldiers and the people of Ukraine too much, again, to kiss Putin's ring in the Oval Office.
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you mentioned when i tried then donald trump outside saying that putin needs to i mean uh he goes putin is is right and we were saying before or zielinski needs to stop the fighting with putin here play this clip you're gonna keep fighting you're gonna get the war done or let them go and see what happens let them fight it out
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Then Donald Trump keeps talking about the cards, the cards, you can't embolden somebody that doesn't have the cards. Play this clip.
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Then you had Ukrainian parliament member right here, Rudik, and he or she talks about the American people don't tell Ukraine who should be their leader or not. Play this clip.
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And here the Ukrainian parliament member says, we hope Zelensky knows that he had the full support of the Ukrainian people in parliament. Play this clip.
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Now let me show you what Donald Trump was saying as well, how the meeting didn't work out well. Let's play it.
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Folks, President Zelensky is standing on business. He talks about how he respects America. He respects the American people, but he's not going to capitulate to Vladimir Putin, who's trying to wipe Ukraine off the face of the map. Here, Bret Baier asks Zelensky if he thinks his public spat in the Oval Office, that's how they're framing it on Fox, would serve Ukrainians well.
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We want peace. More from Zelensky right here.
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And by the way, here was Donald Trump several months ago during the election saying that he would bring peace in 24 hours and he would get a deal done. But it seems the only deal he's been focused on is stealing Ukrainian rare earth minerals or material and doing that deal. What the hell is even going on here? Play this clip. You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Dear MAGA, did Trump's tantrum in the Oval Office with President Zelensky of Ukraine successfully make you forget that he didn't deliver on the Epstein files, which he claimed he was going to turn over this past week, but instead he gave like
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Many of the MAGA influencers were seen posing and smiling and some dancing with their Epstein binders, which contain potential evidence against those who sexually abuse children for their own pleasure. It should be noted Donald Trump's name was in there. And also these documents had been released in 2021. This was not the, quote,
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Epstein files that were supposed to be released, which would have included grand jury testimony, witness statements, photographs, videos. That is what they are not releasing and trying to cover up. The optics of what went down at the White House this past week was so bad that even MAGA and pro-Trump accounts were blasting that influencer group and the White House on social media.
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Charlie Kirk posted, the Epstein files phase one, it is happening. I mean, so sickening. One of the personalities invited to the White House and given a binder was someone by the name of Jessica Reed Krause, a pro-Trump individual and self-described independent journalist who has been granted access into Mar-a-Lago Trump campaign events and even into intimate Trump family gatherings.
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Krause on Instagram. stated that he had earned the Epstein binder, which drew further criticism. Pro-Trump journalist Jessica Reed Krause, with her copy of the Epstein files released by the White House, you can see it right there. Krause, who has a large following on Instagram and Substack, covered the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a partner of Jeffrey Epstein, who helped groom his child victims.
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10 MAGA influencers, a binder with Epstein's phone list that was already released back in, let's say, about 2021 that also contained Donald Trump's name on it because Trump and Epstein were buddies. Did you forget about that? Are you moving on to the next distraction? Because we're not forgetting about it. In fact, we put our investigative team at the Midas Touch Network on it.
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That is Ghislaine who helped groom the child victims. As the criticism over the binder continued, screenshots of Krause wearing a free Ghislaine shirt began appearing on Twitter. Laura Loomer posted, it gets worse. This is Jessica Reed Krause. She was invited to the White House to get an Epstein binder and spread Pam Bondi's lies.
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Here's a photo of Jessica allegedly wearing a shirt that says free Ghislaine that she posted on her Instagram account. Ghislaine Maxwell serving prison time for the sex trafficking. Laura Loomer is a MAGA person. She is a Trumper as close to Trump at one point as anybody was.
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So she's calling out this stunt, though, by Donald Trump, by Trump's attorney general, Pam Bondi, for giving these binders to MAGA influencers that were not actually the Epstein files and trying to act like, oh, we're releasing everything, which they did not. Now we put our team at Midas Touch on it.
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Midas Touch has been able to independently confirm that the screenshot of Krause circulating on Twitter by Laura Loomer and others showing Krause wearing a Freaky Lane shirt is indeed authentic. On her Instagram account in August 2024, Krause posted a picture of herself wearing a Freaky Lane shirt during a trip to cover the DNC. According to an archive of Krause's Instagram stories,
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She implied her, quote, Freaky Lane shirt was her favorite controversial T-shirt just before posting a picture of it to her Instagram stories. Hey, kids, grow up and work as an independent journalist and you can lay on the floor and eat fried chicken and watch politics and write whatever you want. while wearing your favorite controversial t-shirt.
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Another picture of Kraus wearing the Freaky Lane shirt appeared on the Reddit channel Our House on Fire. The picture shows Kraus wearing the shirt outdoors while with RFK Jr. supporters at the DNC. Some members of the group you can see right there. In June 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors.
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Krause wants Ghislaine set free in exchange for revealing who the Epstein clients were, calling her conviction, quote, absurd when the clients are still free. She writes, my readers are very familiar with my stance on Ghislaine. Freaky Lane convict her clients. That's my stance.
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I find it absurd that one woman is serving Epstein's 20-year prison sentence while all of the men involved are free and unbothered. I've spent three years explaining this. Don't you have single mothers to harass Laura, attacking Laura Loomer? Calling for freedom of an unknown abuser of girls is quite the position to hold, but not one that bars a person from access to the White House, apparently.
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During her White House visit on Thursday, Krause posted a picture of herself with Trump, J.D. Vance, and RFK Jr. behind the desk in the Oval Office. While leaving the White House, Krause was pictured holding a binder and wearing a Trump-was-right-about-everything hat.
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nothing shouts independent journalists quite like wearing a hat like this one of trump's white house invitees someone who the administration via pam bondi is willing to hand off potential sensitive information about sexual abuse victims advocated to free the person who groomed them for abuse Don't they do any basic vetting in the West Wing? Shout out to J.D.
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Wolf for writing that story right there. But by the way, I mean, Donald Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell well before her trafficking trial. Remember when Donald Trump said this? Play the clip.
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And we learned that one of the influencers who was at the White House, influencers and quotes, of course, this MAGA propagandist was someone who was previously at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial wearing a T-shirt that said free Ghislaine. Who's Ghislaine Maxwell? She was the sex trafficker who worked for. Jeffrey Epstein. She was Epstein's co-conspirator. She's basically serving life in prison now.
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And by the way, the information linking Donald Trump to Epstein is plentiful. Trump is on those call logs. Trump is on the flight logs. Trump is in the deposition. Trump's been, you know, lots of depositions. Trump was photographed with Epstein all the time. Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side.
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I played you audio before of Trump saying at his beauty pageants, he inspects the women naked without their consent. Donald Trump, uh, was found liable for sexual assault in New York in federal court by a unanimous jury, and then found liable for defaming a sexual assault victim. Here, just take a look at this tape. It shows some of Trump's connections with Epstein here. Play this clip.
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I was not a should be noted as well that Ghislaine Maxwell would find girls to traffic. for Epstein at Mar-a-Lago. For example, Virginia Giuffre, a victim who's been in the public as well a lot. Virginia Giuffre used to be homeless. Then she got a job at Mar-a-Lago. After being homeless, she gets the job at Mar-a-Lago, in swoops in Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Maxwell finds Giuffre, brings Giuffre to Epstein for a massage. Epstein then traffics Giuffre at the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. you had, uh, uh, you had a 14 year old girl. Well, at the time that she was a woman now, but at the time of the incident, 14 years old, she testified that, uh, uh, she was brought, uh, to Mar-a-Lago by Epstein.
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And so one of the people who the White House gave an Epstein binder to was someone who wore a free Ghislaine Maxwell shirt, which We wrote about it at our website. You should check it out right here. Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of grooming underage victims for Jeffrey Epstein. Here's what we write at our website.
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Um, those are the types of documents that need to get out there though. Like her police reports from her, her testimony, grand jury testimony and stuff like that. Um, but look, they're all trying to distract us right now as well. I mean, this is what, uh, FBI Director Kash Patel. I can't believe I'm calling him FBI Director. Here's what he just posted.
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The American people will get an FBI that's transparent, accountable, and committed to justice, just like when I exposed grotesque violations and fraud leading to the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Crossfire Hurricane, calling out corrupt actors. I will equally defend those attacked falsely, especially as your new FBI Director.
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A female agent was falsely referenced in the media this week as part of an alleged whistleblower disclosure. She was not a honeypot. I have reviewed the matter again, and she did the limited job assigned to her. These actions were also reviewed by special counsel John Durham, and he found no evidence of any wrongdoing.
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This agent has dedicated her life to public service, and I will have her back for it. I think he's talking about the person who, what, Fox hosts? Like Jesse Water was accusing? They're all just accusing each other now, because I'm pretty sure this is the story. I could be wrong, but is this the story? Here, play this clip.
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I think that's the story that they're talking about. How about here's the letter that Pam Bondi wrote, Attorney General to Patel. Dear Director Patel, before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts, and a list of victim names and phone numbers. I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request. and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents.
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Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI field office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files. When you and I spoke, you were just as surprised as I was to learn the new information. Then she goes, by 8 a.m.
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tomorrow, the FBI will deliver, February 28th, will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office. It's not going to be thousands. It's going to be millions of pages. It's going to be terabytes of documents.
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It's going to be video, audio, text messages, emails, photographs, police reports, witness statements, grand jury testimony, under seal testimony, because that's the way the law works on cases like this. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or an experienced lawyer to have to figure out what these documents are going to be. And we know Trump's name is repeatedly in a lot of this stuff already.
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On Thursday, the Trump administration invited a bunch of MAGA influencers and pro-Trump journalist types to the White House. While they were there, Attorney General Pam Bondi gave them a, quote, phase one binder of Epstein documents.
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So one would assume he may be mentioned again, like with the 14-year-old girl at Mar-a-Lago. That may be an example of it. MAGA Republicans like Annapolina Luna are saying, get us the information we asked for. What you turned over is not the information that we wanted. So, I mean, MAGA's in complete disarray on this issue. They gave the binder to someone wearing a free Ghislaine shirt.
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I mean, they're accusing each other of honeypotting each other. I mean, what the hell is going on? We're going to be diligent. We're going to keep reporting it here at the Midas Touch Network. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 5 million subscribers.
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Here, Carney is again talking about Pierre Poliev. That's why I wanted to give our non-Canadian viewers and listeners the context of what's going on in Canada with recent polling and who Poliev is.
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Now, I want to go back and share with you more of that clip from Prime Minister Trudeau in his speech about the likely tariffs that Trump has said he will impose on Canada. But first, I got to play a Canadian member of Parliament, Charlie Angus, a good friend of mine now. Here's what Charlie Angus had to say to me when I spoke to him recently to play this clip.
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A powerful speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and a powerful response in general by Canada to the bullying and despicable behavior by Donald Trump and his administration now leading the United States of America. As you heard, Prime Minister Trudeau say that Canada will strike back hard.
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Yeah, Charlie Angus does not mince words. Now, here's the full speech, about a minute, 30 seconds or so, of Prime Minister Trudeau when he talks about these tariffs that Trump now says he's threatening again. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah, you know, I think that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been, I think, pitch perfect since Donald Trump had been threatening Canada. I think Prime Minister Trudeau has been someone rallying all Canadians and inspiring Canadian pride. Let's go back right now to Charlie Angus. a Canadian member of parliament from the NDP. Here's what he has to say. Let's play it.
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If Donald Trump does implement these tariffs that he's saying will be implemented on March 4th after making that fake deal 30 days ago. I wanted to share this clip with you as well. This is Mark Carney, who many expect will be the next leader of the Liberal Party and many expect will be the prime minister and will.
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Now, while all of this is going on, you have a powerful boycott. taking place in Canada, of all things, United States of America, a boycott of travel to the United States, which I know is wreaking havoc on our tourism industry here in the United States.
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I know some of that data has been percolating, but I think I have a stronger sense of how damaging that is based on a lot of the research I've been doing and my communications with both Canadians and American companies involved in tourism. The boycott also of all American products. Newsweek's reporting U.S. companies could take a hit from the buy Canadian boycott. Here's what it says.
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According to the office of the U.S. trade representative, the United States exported $34.9 billion in goods to Canada in 2024, making Canada its largest export market. Let me be clear, Canada's the largest export market of these goods from the United States. Should the boycott of American products in the country gain significant momentum, it could harm U.S.
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potentially go on, I think, to defeat the Conservative Party coalition in an upcoming elections. The Conservative Party under Pierre Poliev had previously been polling ahead of Prime Minister Trudeau's led Liberal Party. But given the fact that Pierre Poliev is maple MAGA and they've been sucking up to Donald Trump, the Conservative Party in Canada has been
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producers economically and potentially prompt a reconsideration of the new administration's aggressive approach towards its main trading partner. Now, Some of the data we have as well is that I think it was like 85% of Canadians. Let me repeat that. 85% of Canadians say that they are readjusting their purchasing habits to not buy American.
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So if that holds and 85% of Canadians are participating in this boycott, not just readjusting their purchasing habits to not buy American. Do 80% of $349 billion and you'll see the devastation that could be caused to the American economy right then and there. And then you hear individual stories just like this from The Guardian. This is a Canadian pizza shop.
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And when you hear just stories like this, think about this extrapolated at large. I decided I was done. Canada pizzeria boycotts U.S. ingredients in tariff dispute. Graham's pizza owner and chef is boycotting U.S. products after Trump threatened to add 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods.
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Tucked away in a former garage space in Toronto's West End, Graham's Pizza is usually packed with diners hankering for anything from classic pepperoni to vodka and Hawaiian pizza. Sounds pretty good. Lately, however, owner and chef Graham Palmeter has made some changes on how he makes his pizzas. After Donald Trump threatened to slap 25% tariffs on Canadian goods,
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and even to annex the whole country, Paul Meter decided to banish U.S. ingredients from his restaurant. Quote, I just decided I'm done with the U.S. I wanted to move away from American companies. Canadians know Americans pretty well, and we don't always agree with the choices that they make. A lot of us are disappointed, to put it mildly.
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Making the switch has not been the easiest task, he says, but they are making it work. Look at that pizza. It looks pretty, pretty good right there. By the way, this is a previous story we did back in early February that the Canadian travel boycott of U.S. could cost two point one billion dollars to the U.S. Travel Association. The U.S.
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Travel Association warns to our tourism industry if just 10 percent. of Canadians reduce their tourism purchasing in the United States. And so I think it's going to be far more than 10%. So I think that number will actually be much higher. Canadian soccer coach blasts Trump's ridiculous comments on nation becoming the 51st state.
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Trump reiterated his desire this week for the United States to annex Canada. And to his credit, the American coach, Jesse Marsh, of the Canadian men's national soccer team in Canada blasted Donald Trump on Wednesday amid icy geopolitical tensions. Donald Trump also humiliated the United States in the Oval Office earlier in the week, of course.
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with his attack on Zelensky and, of course, Prime Minister Trudeau in Canada, which also houses one of the largest Ukrainian community in the world outside of Ukraine, was strongly in defense of President Zelensky and democracies across the world, unlike the United States under Donald Trump. Because here's what Donald Trump was saying with his red hat outside. Play this clip.
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And then, of course, here was Donald Trump bashing Canada, saying that if we don't support Canada, they can't exist. Let's play it.
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tanking and a liberal party with Mark Carney potentially as its next leader will be likely to form a government in the next elections. Here's what Carney has to say. Let's play it. But let me start by being clear.
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He puts that in caps. both with regard to trade, crime and poisonous drugs. He puts all of that in caps that are allowed to so freely flow into America. Those days are over. That's in caps. The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico and China and almost all countries. Exclamation point owes thirty six trillion dollars. And we're not going to be the, quote, stupid country any longer because
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this is in caps make your product in the usa and there are no tariffs why should the united states lose trillions of dollars in subsidizing other countries he puts that in caps and why should these other countries pay a small fraction of the cost of what usa citizens pay for drugs and pharmaceuticals as an example question mark now he puts all of this in caps
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This will be the golden age of America, exclamation point. Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe and maybe not. But we will make America great again and it will all be worth the price that must be paid. We are a country that is now being run with common sense and the results will be spectacular exclamation point exclamation point folks.
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We are now being run by a psychopath frankly a wannabe authoritarian someone who's behaving like an authoritarian right now who is creating an authoritarian regime. in the United States of America as spineless Republicans refuse to stand up to him as our spineless media here in the United States refuses to stand up to him. That post right there, one of the most psychotic posts I have ever read.
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But then I read the next post that he made on Sunday morning as well. Here's what he writes. We pay hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize Canada and subsidizes in caps. Why? There is no reason. We don't need anything they have. We have unlimited energy, should make our own cars, and have more lumber than we can ever use.
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Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable country, harsh but true. Therefore, Canada should become our cherished 51st state, much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada.
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and no tariffs exclamation point folks despite the fact and everything that Donald Trump said is utterly false notwithstanding all of the fact that it's lie after lie after lie take a look at the language when he uses language like Canada ceases to exist as a viable country harsh but true it should become the 51st state and then no tariffs This is not a joke.
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Donald Trump is using the language of conquest, of warfare. These are fighting words that he is saying. And I know Canada is a peace-loving nation and Canada was our biggest ally. Canada, we here in the United States respect and love Canada. We have this madman psycho that 49% of the voting votes people in our country chose. This is embarrassing. This is humiliating.
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I have disturbing news to report this morning about the tariffs that Donald Trump has imposed on Canada and Mexico starting a trade war. Donald Trump has made two posts on Sunday morning regarding the tariffs. In one post, Donald Trump said that there will be pain in America, yes, Maybe not, but it will be worth the price that will have to be paid by Americans in the form of suffering, he says.
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There's nothing funny about statements like this. By the way, remember our reporting back on October 29th, 2024, before the election? Here's what we reported at MidasPlus.com. Trump ally Elon Musk warns of a necessary economic collapse if Trump is elected. Musk says everyday Americans must embrace the pain if Trump gets back into the Oval Office.
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This was a story that we wrote with many stories that we wrote trying to warn the American people. here's what elon musk posted he reposted this account flasher king who said the following if trump succeeds in forcing through mass deportations combined with elon hacking away at the government firing people and reducing the deficit there will be an initial severe overreaction in the economy.
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This economy is propped up with debt generating asset bubbles and artificially suppressed wages as a result of illegal immigration. Markets will tumble. And then this person goes, but when the storm passes, you're going to love it. After we inflict the pain, abuse you, break you down. you're going to love it. And Elon Musk's response then was, sounds about right.
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Also, there's a bunch of other audio clips we played of Elon Musk saying that there needs to be economic hardship. Here, I'll play it. I'll show you another example so you hear it in his own words. That there will be short-term economic hardship that he wants to inflict on we the people.
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But by the way, as we pointed out in that article back from October of 2024, we wrote, Meanwhile, under the Biden-Harris administration, the U.S. economy has seen record growth. This month, the Economist called the U.S. economy the envy of the world amid historic growth, low unemployment, and the lowest inflation of any nation in the G7.
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The major stock market indices continue to hit record highs on a nearly daily basis. Yet Trump and Musk want to replace this prosperity with pain. By the way, not just them, the oligarchs, all of the other oligarchs as well, who wanted to inflict this pain, the corporate leaders who sold us out, the Republican politicians who sold the United States of America out.
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And now what we're learning too is that Donald Trump's buddies, the oligarchs, A new Goldman Sachs assessment of shorting stocks shows this, that there are all these oligarchs right now who are betting on an economic collapse. They're shorting our market. Their whole plan was to short the market, destroy our lives and then try to buy the dip. That was their game plan. Horrific.
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Charlie Angus, a member of parliament in Canada, says the following message to the grifter king from Canada. And it's a quote from Winston Churchill. We will have no parlay with you or the grizzly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best. We do not expect to hit without being hit back. And we intend with every week that passes to hit harder.
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Charlie Angus also says Canada is ready. We will fight. I thank the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, for his powerful statement in response to the thuggish attacks by Trump. We are unified as a nation. Our American cousins are divided. We will kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.
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Prime Minister Trudeau from yesterday saying, look, Canadians are a little bit complex why our closest neighbors would do this to us. Here, play this clip.
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Here's Prime Minister Trudeau as well announcing the 25% retaliatory tariffs last night, let's play it. Tonight,
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And then second, Donald Trump says that the tariffs will remain in place until Canada is annexed and becomes the 51st state of the United States of America. So for anyone who thought, oh, he's just saying that he's just joking. No, he's trying to impose economic warfare on
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And here Prime Minister Trudeau talks about how this problem is going to impact Americans as well. And Americans will feel pain. Here, play this clip.
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I like this post right here. So what's Trump's economic strategy? Threaten 25% tariffs on America's closest allies. impose them without any negotiation. Remember, Donald Trump refused to take Prime Minister Trudeau's phone calls over the past several weeks. Three, receive retaliatory tariffs back, get really angry and then increase the tariffs more and then threaten actual war.
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Here is Mark Carney, many believe is one of the frontrunners to be the next prime minister of Canada. Here he says, Trump thinks we're pushovers. He doesn't know Canadians. Here, play this clip.
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on our once closest ally, Canada, to make them submit so that he can try to annex it the way Putin annexes countries or goes to war with them. Let me just read for you Donald Trump's posts, and I have an important message at the end of this video about what we can do. I was asked a question last night at dinner. What can I do, Ben? I want to share it with you. Here's Donald Trump's post.
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Folks, and while all of this is going on, you have Donald Trump's various cabinet picks going on weekend shows and cosplaying in their, like, Halloween outfits, their positions. It's so embarrassing. I'll give you an example. Kristi Noem, Donald Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security,
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refuses now to rule out detaining women and children at a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay as part of their deportation sweep. They're open to putting women and children in concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Let's just be very clear what that is. Here she is in her little cosplay outfits. This weekend, she dressed as a cosplay cowboy.
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She was cosplay ranger, and then she was cosplay police ice officer. So utterly embarrassing there. Final point I want to make, this is what I was asked. I was asked, Ben, what can I do? At dinner, I said, the first thing you can do is a simple, small thing. Do not normalize this. When Trump makes posts like that now from that office, this is not funny. This is not humorous.
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It pisses me off to no end that corporate media is treating that like, you know, it's just Trump being Trump. Right now, unfortunately, he is... the running this country. We have a psychotic individual, a demented individual, a dictator running the United States. You just have to use that language.
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The way those messages are being perceived right now in Canada, in Europe, in Mexico, and across the world that I just read for you, that's fight language. That's the language where militaries are going to get involved. Wasn't Donald Trump supposed to create peace in Ukraine in 24 hours? But now he's bringing the world closer to the brink of a World War III and with our closest allies against us?
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Let me say this to the international community as well. There are tens of millions of Americans who do not support that. And there are tens of millions of Americans who are ready to fight with you against that. We don't support that one bit. Until they rip this microphone from my very hands, we are going to speak truth.
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What we're seeing in those posts with those statements and his psychotic, disgusting, despicable, foolish, dictatorial actions every day do not represent the views of so many millions of us Americans. It is horrific. It is the most vile thing imaginable. We stand in solidarity with you against that crap. We want peace. We don't want that crap. Others need to speak up.
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Corporate media needs to grow a spine. Republicans, you need to grow a freaking spine. Wake the hell up. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Please subscribe now. It's so critical we grow right now.
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The biggest mistake first was bringing Donald Trump in the first time. Donald Trump's policies were an utter disaster. His isolationist policies and weakness even allowed China to establish diplomatic ties with
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nations in central america south america africa and across the world let's not forget that china established diplomatic ties with panama during the first trump administration and panama rejected its relationship with taiwan so for donald trump to now be complaining about oh well panama is being so influenced by china well donald trump that was
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all happening during your administration trump administration one that america brings trump back what does trump do instantly he starts attacking all of our allies threatening the sovereignty of nations like denmark which greenland is part of the kingdom of denmark donald trump continues to say he wants to make canada the 51st state or else donald trump threatening to invade and attack panama
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Donald Trump threatening to punish and tariff Mexico. Donald Trump pulling the United States out of critical international organizations that look to the United States as the leader. The United States has withdrawn from the World Health Organization. The United States has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States is weakening NATO as it threatens its NATO allies.
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Who is this all benefiting? It is benefiting China. When you see maps like this of the World Health Organization map right now, and America is like the only country that's not part of it. It is deeply humiliating and China knows what's up. They're putting out statements that are just going above and beyond to say, we believe in all nations' sovereignty.
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We support the sovereignty of this nation and that nation. We want to establish real, respectful, diplomatic, international relations to empower the cultural significance of these nations. And they're also saying, we are so committed to the World Health Organization and we're so committed to building bridges across the world, both literally and figuratively.
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And they're doing that because it is the perfect juxtaposition to how erratic and harmful Donald Trump is being with the sledgehammer he's using to try to harm international relations. This is the exact moment China was waiting for and they're taking advantage of it.
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So for example, China responds right away when Donald Trump withdraws from the World Health Organization and says China is committed to leading the World Health Organization. Quote, China will as always support the WHO in fulfilling its responsibilities and work towards building a shared community of health for humanity. said foreign ministry spokesperson.
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Quote, for China, the role of the WHO should only be strengthened, never weakened, he added. And then China's minister says, quote, climate change is a common challenge faced by all of humanity. Quote, no country can remain unaffected or solve the problem on its own. China will work with all parties to actively address the challenges of climate change. You see that language right there?
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Now you may go, well, that's just CCP propaganda. Well, China is at least playing the game. However you want to view it, China understands the importance of international relations, to be very careful with your language, to be respectful of other nations, and to not look like a barbaric, ignorant, zombified nation. imploding from within the way the United States looks right now with Donald Trump.
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So however you view these statements, they're speaking the language of diplomacy and international relations, and they're doing in a profoundly overt way. to also stick their thumb in the faces of the United States, who's losing international credibility. Look, right now, China is leading the world in green energy production. President Biden saw what was going on.
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That's why we have the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS Act, which brought the semiconductor industry here to the United States.
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Under Biden, the United States economy was actually growing faster than China because we were focused on alliance building and bringing these industries here and growing them, unlike the MAGA Republicans and Trump, who, if anything, has the word green in front of it. They go, oh, that's socialism, that's Marxism, green this, green that.
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That's big business and it was actually helping red states almost more than blue states as well. And so Trump's policies are going to screw up red states.
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Let me just show you the language of diplomacy right here so you can see it. So this is China's minister right here, foreign minister. And here's what foreign minister spokesperson. And here's what she had to say about the Panama Canal. So as Donald Trump is threatening to invade and take over Panama.
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Listen to the language of China, which, by the way, established diplomatic relations with Panama during Trump's first administration. This is what they're saying. The Panama Canal is a great creation of the Panamanian people, and China has always supported their just struggle to maintain sovereignty over the canal. Chinese Foreign Minister spokesperson Mao Ning said.
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on Monday, commenting on President-elect Trump's claim that the canal is an important national asset of the U.S. China will continue to respect Panama's sovereignty over the canal and recognize it as a permanently neutral international passageway, Mao said. Let me show you this. Donald Trump said he hoped that China will play a major role in ending the conflict in Ukraine.
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Donald Trump bizarrely ceding authority to China and saying Xi Jinping should do it. So when asked about it, this was the response. Dialogue and negotiation is the only viable way to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. Meanwhile, as Donald Trump is doing that, Xi Jinping says,
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is having conversations, private conversations with Putin while Donald Trump was being inaugurated with Xi Jinping and Putin announced 24 hours later. Remember Donald Trump said that within 24 hours of the election, he said there would be a peace deal in Ukraine. He said he would call up Putin and he would call up Zelensky and he would get them to do a peace deal. Well, he lied about that.
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But 24 hours after the inauguration, you know who made a deal? Xi Jinping and Putin reinforcing their relationship as their favorite trade partners of each other and talking about strengthening their relationships into the future. So what do you think message, what do you think the message that they're sending there
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That they are trying to build a new world order without the United States where they're going to be the power players. And again, going back to that Sun Tzu quote I talked about at the beginning, don't interrupt your enemies when they're making mistakes. And then Donald Trump's like, well, let Xi Jinping negotiate with Putin.
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While Donald Trump is out there saying that he's going to have zero tolerance of Iran and all of these things, guess what's also happening? Putin makes a deal with Iran for a 20-year alliance, military alliance, power, powerful weaponry, drones, all of these things. That just happened as well since Donald Trump was elected. Now I want to show you these two things so you can see them side by side.
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So right here, I want to share with you, this is what the foreign minister spokesperson for China says about Donald Trump threatening trade wars on China and other nations. Just watch the language of diplomacy used here. Here, play this clip.
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Right. And that's in response to Donald Trump saying, you know, we're going to tariff China. We've got a big weapon against China. We're going to hurt. We're going to make them some more, you know. And they're like, well, we believe in diplomatic relations, but if you're going to come after us, we're going to come after you. I got to show you this so you can see it for yourself.
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Right here, this is Trump saying that he thinks that Xi Jinping should be the person who negotiates the peace in Ukraine. He says that he told Xi, you need to get the war settled in Ukraine. So that was Trump's plan. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah, and while all of that's going on, you have Donald Trump going back to his social media posts in all caps, erratic, chaotic posts. Who's the beneficiary of all of this right now? Why do you think it was that President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico was photographed with Xi Jinping at the G20 summit when she wasn't even supposed to meet with him recently?
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Why do you think she wanted to be photographed? What do you think the overall message being sent is that China is going to fill these voids? And they're going to try to build these relationships when United States does whatever it's doing. And as Trump's alienating and isolating the United States from everyone. Who's a friend of the United States right now? I mean, seriously.
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I mean, it's just different degrees of alliances against the United States. Well, judge for yourself. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Right now, China is outmaneuvering Donald Trump so thoroughly, so completely. I would say brilliantly, but really what they're just doing is listening to the advice from the legendary Chinese philosopher and military strategist Sun Tzu, who said, don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake. And boy, is the United States making the biggest mistake ever.
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Trump BLOWS UP his OWN Team who QUIT ON HIM
Well, He's gone. He lasted, what, half of a half of a Scaramucci? Look, better than Vivek Ramaswamy, who got forced out of Doge, the other supposed leader. It was Elon Musk and Vivek. Vivek got pushed out. Vivek lasted negative Scaramucci's. He didn't even make it through inauguration before Elon Musk pushed him out. But McGinley at least lasted two days or three days. And then he left. He quit.
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He resigned. He left. And he said, I'll make some announcements about what I'm doing in the private sector soon. But I'm not dealing with this. I'm going into the private sector. This was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and others like The Independent and us picked it up. Getting out of Doge, government efficiency agency sees another top leader bolt as lawyer follows Ramaswamy's exit.
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Bill McGinley, who was appointed as Doge's legal counsel by the president in December, announced his decision on Thursday, right? So he lasted, what, three days, maybe? Now, I just want you to think about this. This is not normal, right? Imagine if President Biden appointed somebody to an agency or a cabinet position. I get Doge is not really a...
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Although Donald Trump's trying to rebrand some existing digital administrative thing as Doge. I know he's trying to do that. But could you imagine if President Biden appointed somebody to a top position and they quit right away or they were forced out or fired before inauguration or they left three days after? Yeah. You know why that didn't happen? Because President Biden was a leader.
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Former President Biden picked people who would last and then they behaved normally. But all you have to do is go back through Donald Trump's various failed businesses, his current failed businesses, his current crypto grifts, his meme coin grifts. Everything is a grip. He is an awful business leader. People left all the time. It was always chaos. That's how he ran things into the ground.
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It was one of my biggest complaints. His moral character is so low. Yes, he's a felon. He's a sexual assaulter. The worst of the worst. But he sucks as a business. He's the worst. He can't lead things because real leaders wouldn't let this happen. And so we previously reported as well that Vivek Ramaswamy was fired and he was forced out again before day one.
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Think about the chaos within this Doge thing. But what are they focused on? Elon Musk came up with a plan, everybody, about how he's going to cut the $2 trillion. You want to know what his plan is? He's going to kill the penny. Yeah, you heard that right. This is Doge's big, brilliant idea. They're going to get rid of the penny.
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But you see what that would actually do is maybe that would cut 0.02% of Musk's trillion dollar goal. I should mention they're no longer talking about two trillion, although the magazine, the House of Representatives haven't got that memo yet. They still are lying to the American people and saying it's $2 trillion. Elon Musk is now saying $1 trillion.
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And eliminating the penny would be 0.02% of that. This is real. They want to eliminate the penny. Doge said on X... Let me just think about this sentence. Doge said on X that penny costs over three cents to make and cost U.S. taxpayers over $179 million in the 2023 fiscal year. Quote,
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The mint produced over 4.5 billion pennies in 2023, around 40% of the 11.4 billion coins for circulation produced. The Post read in part, the U.S. Mint in 2023 reported it circulated around 4.1 billion pennies. In fiscal year 2024, the U.S. Mint said its annual report that the U.S. penny cost about 3.7 cents to produce and distribute up more than 20% from the previous year.
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So what are you talking about? I'm not like a lover of the penny, okay? I don't know one way or the other. I don't have like strong feelings, but $179 million doesn't even make a dent in a trillion dollars, but they promised $2 trillion. But as I've said before, this is WMD, Weapon of Mass Distraction. And I think when it came to Vivek and others, They just didn't get that memo.
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I mean, Vivek said the quiet part out loud. Vivek said the American culture is a mediocre culture. Remember when Vivek said that? And by the way, Elon agreed with Vivek, although Elon just got a lot more money than Vivek. So for Donald Trump, and he basically paid for Donald Trump's campaign. So Donald Trump's not doing anything with his puppet master, Elon Musk.
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But remember what Vivek said a few weeks back, American culture is mediocre. We focus so much on Boy Meets World or Zack and Slater over Screech, and the culture is dumb. And therefore, because Americans are too dumb to do STEM jobs, science, technology... Engineering and mathematics that we need labor from India to fill the STEM jobs and therefore the H-1B visa program needs to be expanded.
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By the way, Donald Trump has said over and over again, I love H-1B. H-1B is the greatest. My waiters, my maitre d's. H-1B, there's some great staff. Okay, that's not what H-1B is, Donald Trump, number one. But number two, your whole campaign promise was to do the opposite, was having these jobs filled by Americans. But with Donald Trump, it's always promise broken.
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Donald Trump's staff is furious at Elon Musk as well. for further fueling this broligarch war taking place. Remember one of Donald Trump's first announcements that he had in the Oval Office? He brought in Sam Altman. He brought in Larry Ellison. He brought in Masayoshi Son, these three big broligarch AI people.
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And they said, we're going to announce Stargate and we're going to do this $500 billion that we're going to put into AI technology. And then Elon Musk started reposting crack pipes and crack and saying, okay, Altman and all these people, you don't have $500 billion. This is a made up number.
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You may as well say $1 trillion because you are just standing in the Oval Office and lying about investments. that are being made in AI. You just don't have that money. So then Altman then tried to show that these investments were being made. So he posted, he's trying to appeal to Donald Trump. Altman posts, look at this big, beautiful building. This is what we're building right now.
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OK, and as I posted this in response to the response to this guy, I'm like, OK, that factory was probably built three years ago. A factory doesn't get built in 24 hours. So you're just what you're doing is you built this thing when President Biden was in office. And now you're trying to pretend that you somehow are investing this money now for Donald Trump. I mean, it's utterly, utterly pathetic.
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And then you have the Steve Bannon crew and that contingency within MAGA World saying that Elon needs to go and Elon's undermining Trump's agenda. by attacking the AI program. And then Donald Trump said, you know, Elon can say whatever Elon wants to say. But I mean, who would have predicted this? I mean, this video right here, I'm being sarcastic, of course.
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This video right here is Ann Coulter and Vivek Ramaswamy. And remember what Ann Coulter said to him? Here, play this clip.
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And that's why I brought on today somebody who I think has some thoughtful perspectives on the future direction of our country, of our conservative movement, and on this question of nationalism and national identity, somebody who I've been fascinated by for a long time and have interacted with on social media, but for the first time we're having at least a live-form conversation in the offline sense of it.
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It's Ann Coulter. So, Ann, thanks for coming on, and I'm looking forward to our conversation today.
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When we geek out for a minute on something, I think it's going to be helpful for you. It's called Fatty 15. Its co-founder, Dr. Stephanie Van Watson, discovered C15 as the first essential fatty acid to be found in 90 years while working with the U.S. Navy to improve the health and welfare of aging dolphins. It's pretty simple. Essential nutrients keep our cells healthy, which keeps us healthy.
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So if you want to get science-y about it, studies show that C15, it works by strengthening our cells, improving our mitochondrial function, and protecting us against damaging free radicals.
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So if you feel like, how could I stop aging faster, or I'm sleeping poorly, or feeling sluggish, the bottom line is that many of us are deficient in C15, which results in weaker cells, which results in those things. So fatty 15 is the Science Fact Award winning vegan and pure C15 supplement that steps in and helps. It works in multiple ways. It repairs age risk.
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So it comes in these gorgeous reusable glass bamboo jars and refill capsules. that are shipped to your door quarterly in pouches made from recycled materials. I love that. Fatty 15 is on a mission to replenish your C15 levels and restore your long-term health.
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And while all of that's happening, Donald Trump's out there selling his scammy meme coins from the White House. I mean, which is just which is just utterly pathetic. The Patriot takes account, though, posted this, and I think it's important. It goes, Trump promised to rapidly drive prices down starting day one to make America affordable again. But egg prices are now skyrocketing.
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Look at the side-by-side image that Patriot takes posted here. Play this clip.
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So left and right, people quitting, people getting fired, total disarray. This is not what's supposed, this isn't normal stuff. But let's not forget, Trump promised to lower prices. That's not happening. He promised to make housing more affordable. That's not happening. None of the things he said are happening are happening. He is a... L-I-A-R, but you all know that. Thanks for watching.
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This is a sign that William McGinley probably felt very, very uncomfortable about the things he was seeing happen there. And this is a kind of guy who would want to protect himself. That's my opinion why he left. This is a guy who's been at big law firms his whole career. His name is again William McGinley. Donald Trump sent this message saying this guy is going to be the main lawyer of Doge.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
The lawsuits are here. One, two, three, four, at least five major lawsuits that are being filed by state attorney generals throughout the country. Five filed by the state attorney general of Arizona, Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays. Let's welcome her onto the Midas Touch show. Attorney General Mays, five lawsuits.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
So what do you do when there's a coup that is violating the structure, the express language, the spirit, all of that of the Constitution? And we pro-democracy law and order people are playing by the rules. They're not playing by the rules. And they're the federal government and they run the Department of Justice.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
So if a federal judge orders them in contempt, what are they just going to pardon their people? I mean, how do you combat a situation where, as in your words, a lawless coup is taking place?
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
Tell us generally what these are about, these lawsuits against Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
One of the aspects of fighting in the context of litigation after a lawsuit is filed, after a TRO is or isn't granted, you get into the discovery phase and document requests, depositions, interrogatories. Can you tell us a little bit about that? I know a lot of people who speak to us say, why isn't Elon Musk being deposed? We want to see him subpoenaed. He's running around.
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at these conferences with chainsaws, talking about how he's a meme and mocking the American people and posting all of these lies on social media. And people are like, get this guy under oath. If spineless Republicans in Congress aren't going to bring him before their own Doge subcommittee, what are the attorney generals going to do there?
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
Let's talk about something you mentioned there too, because the Federal State Drug Task Force to stop the cartels relies on federal grant money that was part of this freeze. So when Trump and MAGA Republicans talk about stopping the cartels,
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What they were doing in your state, and I think people in Arizona very much know this, was they were actually promoting the cartels while hampering federal resources. Do I have that about right?
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
What do you say to them or what does your office communicate to them? I mean, look, everyone knows your background. You're a former Republican. You left the party because Trumpism no longer represented your values and views, especially with the abandonment of law and order, you know, a Democratic prosecutor. And so for you, yes, you're a Democrat. Obviously, that's your party.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
But I would say, and correct me if I'm wrong, when I think about Attorney General Chris Mays, I think about law and order as the kind of primary foundational principle. So when people are, then when I think about Arizona from being there, litigating cases there in my past, privacy, privacy, privacy, and kind of keep the federal government away from these things.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
So now they're giving billionaires access to people's data and tax records and medical files across the country. And then they're saying out loud, Trust me, bro. We're billionaires, billionaires. We don't do anything. We're so rich. Why? Why would you not trust us? So what do you tell the people of Arizona? What's being communicated about what's being done?
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
You're hearing it from everyone. I mean, I want to make sure I'm not living in my own bubble. You tell me from Arizona, because what I'm seeing are town halls across the country in Republican areas, too, with people saying, what? And I see Republican members of Congress communicating back to them like they're on the platform X or like a social media. And in the real world, people are like,
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No, no, no, I'm not OK with this. Tell us about, you know, as we conclude this interview, like, what are you seeing? Is it bipartisan at this point in terms of the people? What's going on?
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
Attorney General Chris Mays, we hope you come back on and keep us updated on the status of these lawsuits. And if you do take that deposition of Elon Musk, maybe break that news here. But I don't want to get into your legal strategy. As a former practicing lawyer, I get it. You can't reveal the strategy. Thank you so much for joining us.
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Look, Trump needs a distraction. His approval numbers are tanking fast. Americans, whether they're Democrats, Republicans, or independents, are showing up at town halls and letting it be known how much they despise this administration, how much they despise Elon Musk. So Donald Trump and his administration, what do they do?
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As I said, until they rip this microphone from my very hand, we will stand up here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. We're marching to 5 million subscribers. Rise up, America. Rise up the world against this crap.
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I don't know if that's true or not, but that's one of the things that Epstein said. Epstein knew intricate details. They're at parties together in Mar-a-Lago. I mean, there's a lot of data here. The Trump's all over Epstein's flight log. So they dangle this thing and just expect that their base will not know those facts. But guess what, Donald?
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Your base, a lot of them are now starting to watch this show because they know you're full of shit. So for those who are first watching the Midas Touch Network, too, and of course, all of those who have been here. We come with receipts here on the Midas Touch Network. So let's come with receipts. So first, let me show you the distraction.
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Donald Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi goes on Fox as our markets are crashing on Friday. And she goes... Epstein, right? I'm going to release that and maybe MLK and maybe RFK files. And what else? The JFK files. I'm going to release it here.
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Not yet. Well, we'll check back with you. To be clear, what she said is she was reviewing it. Do you think for a second this fascist authoritarian Trump regime is going to release it with Donald Trump's name in it? Do you think so? We know Trump's name is on things to begin with. I mean, look, Trump's name is all over the flight log of Epstein's Lolita Express. We have it here.
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Let's talk about Epstein and let's say we're going to release the Epstein files and the Epstein client list. Maybe that will distract the American people and maybe they won't remember that Donald Trump was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein. Maybe the American people won't remember that Jeffrey Epstein would find the girls to traffic.
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Almost no one's flown as many times on that jet than Donald Trump. Trump, heck, Trump liked the jet so much that when Epstein died and... You could form your own opinions about the circumstances of how that took place. But Donald Trump was flying around during the election, during the campaign, in Epstein's jet. You go, what do you mean he was flying around in the jet? I thought Epstein's dead.
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Yeah, Epstein died. Then his estate sold the jet to somebody. And then Donald Trump was given that jet for the campaign. He rapped Trump 2024 on the Epstein jet and flew the same jet around to go to places when he was not flying his other bigger plane, because his other bigger plane was slower and more expensive and a pain in the ass, so he would fly on that Epstein jet a lot. Also,
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Epstein would fly on Trump's plane when Epstein was alive. Here is one of the articles from New York Magazine. Quote, they did board Trump's jet with a young woman of indeterminate age. I wouldn't be able to tell if she was 15 years old or 20. She was quite dressed up and quite made up. So it was hard to tell.
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During the first Trump administration, Epstein's trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was on criminal trial for trafficking. She was found guilty, thrown in jail for the rest of her life. Trump was asked about Ghislaine Maxwell during her trial when Trump was in office the first time. Do you think Trump said, oh, she's disgusting. I condemn it in the strongest terms. She's a trafficker.
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I wish the worst for her. He wished her well. He wished the best for her.
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And just so you can see it for yourself, here's a direct quote from Donald Trump to New York Magazine 2002. Quote, I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It's even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do. And many of them are on the younger side. Epstein liked girls, underage girls that he would traffic, you sicko, you disgusting person.
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I mean, Trump is filthy. This is a disgusting individual who, by the way, was found liable for sexual assault. We should not forget that. And at his trial for sexual assault, Trump fled and went to Scotland and Ireland because he was too chicken shit to sit there as E. Jean Carroll's lawyer deposed him or cross-examined him rather during the first trial.
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Here's Donald Trump is with his kids and Epstein here. Trump is partying with Epstein. Here's a deposition transcript where a woman Epstein was trafficking. This is what she said at our deposition while they were on Jeffrey Epstein's plane. Jeffrey said, great, let's call up Trump and we'll go to, I don't call the name of the casino, but let's go to Trump's casino.
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Also at Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, the one where Donald Trump wished her well, wink, wink. One of the things we found out there was Jeffrey Epstein introduced a woman. At that time, she was 14 years old when she testified she was a woman. Jeffrey Epstein introduced this person, Jane Doe, to Trump when she was 14 years old, Ghislaine Maxwell accuser says.
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at Mar-a-Lago like Virginia Giuffre who was homeless and then got a job at Mar-a-Lago and then Ghislaine Maxwell who was trafficking for Jeffrey Epstein found her working at Mar-a-Lago and brought her to Epstein and demanded that she massage Epstein and then Epstein started trafficking her.
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Testifying at Maxwell's criminal trial in New York City, the woman, identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe, said she met Donald Trump in the 1990s at his Mar-a-Lago resort. By the way, it's not unique to Donald Trump. RFK Jr., Lolita Express, friends with Epstein. His wife was friends with Ghislaine Maxwell. This is what these people do. Here he is right here. RFK Jr. talking about it.
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Maybe the American people will forget that Donald Trump said that Epstein is a great guy who likes women on the younger side. Maybe the American people will forget that Donald Trump's name is all over depositions involving Jeffrey Epstein, is all over Jeffrey Epstein's plane log that Jeffrey Epstein audio with the reporter emerged before the election.
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All right. Now you want to hear Donald Trump in his own words, where he said that the most courageous thing he's done in his life, according to a general, was when he referred to grabbing women by their genitals as locker room talk. Donald Trump said that was the most courageous thing he did, according to this general who saw wars. When Donald Trump said locker room talk,
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That was the most courageous thing, according to this generalist, what Donald Trump's saying. And Donald Trump told the story I'm about to share with you in New York City before the young Republicans in front of kids. Donald Trump told the story you're about to see in front of kids, high school students and college students. He's a sick play the clip.
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And here's Donald Trump at his deposition at the sexual assault trial where he was found liable. And Donald Trump was asked about his comments about grabbing women by their genitals. And here's what he said. Play the clip.
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Here's Donald Trump talking about Lindsay Lohan. I believe she was either 18 years old or 17. I think she was 18, maybe just turned 18 at this time. And Donald Trump said that he wanted to have sex with her because he thought that she was mentally ill. And he says that having sex with the mentally ill is the best, he says. Here he is. You can hear him in his own words. Play it.
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And it seemed like we in the Daily Beast were the only people who were covering it, where Epstein knew intricate details about the first Trump administration and talked about how Donald Trump and Melania, the first time they did you know what, was on the Epstein jet. And Epstein talked about how Donald Trump liked to have sex with his friends' wives is one of the things that Epstein said.
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I mean, this is a sicko. This is a sicko who's destroying our country right now, who's destroying our economy, who's having Elon Musk and other and guys, 19-year-old guys who call themselves big balls go access your private data. They're looking at your social security information, your medical information, your tax information, and they're admitting it.
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They were just saying because they're billionaires, they can do it. When you're rich, they can do it. That's what they're saying. And they're saying, why wouldn't you trust us? We're billionaires. Billionaires should be able to do this stuff.
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Here's Donald Trump, a billionaire, saying that one of the reasons he bought beauty pageants is so that he can inspect the girls naked at his beauty pageants without their consent. This is him in his own words. Play this clip.
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Now, may I share with you some of the beauty pageants that Donald Trump ran? Donald Trump hosted this one, the look of the year competition. Here are some of the people in his beauty pageants. And they would go on yachts. traveling around New York. The Guardian wrote a whole story about this.
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Describe the girls gyrating on men old enough to be their grandparents as the men said, bring me another, bring me another. It's called the look of the year competition. So why don't we do this? I know they're trying to distract us with the Epstein stuff, but let's check back. Let's see if they really release The whole DOJ files. All of them. Let's see them all. I know what's on the files already.
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Trump Stunt Backfires in His Face as Past Resurfaces
I know what's on the ones that have been released. So release them. Release them, Pam Bondi. Put them all out there. And I want you all to see this because I want you to know the sick degenerate in the Oval Office. I want you to know what a despicable person he is. As he does all this other crap right now to our country. I just want you to forget this is a evil, awful person.
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And sometimes you're like, why would these people do it? Because they're evil, awful people sometimes. Cruelty is the point. And they've lived disgusting, vile lives forever doing the sickest shit to people. Sickening stuff. And we will stand up to it here and we will call it out fearlessly.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
Donald Trump woke up and called Fox in a panic and said, everybody stop blaming the economy on me. It's not my fault. It's not my fault. Here, watch what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip.
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Just so we're all clear here of the Donald Trump bait and switch. This is his new line. You can't blame me on the economy. You can't blame me. It's Biden's fault. It's Biden's fault. Here's what he said just earlier in the week when he was on Hannity as well. Play this clip.
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trying to cover up what a horrific and disastrous presidency this is already. Take a look at data. We like looking at data here at the Midas Touch Network. From the University of Michigan Consumer Survey, long-run inflation expectations rose over the course of the month and climbed from 3.2% in January to 3.5% in February.
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This is the largest month-over-month increase since May 2021, exceeding expectations. Lots of Americans believe inflation is going to hit in the mid-fours or even higher pretty soon. Economists expected that Donald Trump was going to cause massive problems to the economy, but this soon is even exceeding their expectations. More emails from Donald Trump last night and this morning.
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well it takes a period of six months to a year really donald and by the way this follows last night donald trump trying to email his supporters with the following message they want me to fire elon musk and when you open it up i subscribe to this so you don't have to It says urgent stand with Elon. Doge is tearing through Washington's corrupt bureaucracy like a tornado.
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Elon Musk is dark MAGA. Ben, are you ready to join him and go dark MAGA? I don't know what the hell are you talking about? Am I ready to go dark MAGA? No, I'm ready for you to lower the prices, make housing more affordable, make healthcare more accessible, make education more accessible. assault the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
Russia's unlawful invasion, which you did not do and not attack Zelensky. That's what I'm ready for. Not going dark MAGA. More grifty emails from Donald Trump about immediate, immediate action required. Click this link right now. By the way, Donald Trump made this post last night of the Team USA versus Team Canada game. Everything Donald Trump touches dies.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
Of course, Team Canada won after Donald Trump intervened and tried to make that game about himself the same way he did with the Kansas City Chiefs. Donald Trump reposting Matt Gaetz. And now we all know the report on Matt Gaetz and the underage girl. And we know about Matt Gaetz and drugs. But Donald Trump wants to post Matt Gaetz as his hype man.
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But of course, Donald Trump was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein. And Epstein recruited girls from Mar-a-Lago to traffic. So we know this crew. And there's a reason why I don't think you're going to see those Epstein files released anytime soon. Here's what Matt Gaetz says. From cutting bloated budgets to renaming the Gulf of America. Oh, yeah. The Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Yeah.
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Who cares if Donald Trump is destroying our economy, destroying the federal government, making people less safe, less healthy, destroying our alliances. All that matters is Gulf of America. Yeah. And by the way, this is what currently at CPAC, they've gone from Project 2025, the right wing people from Project 2025 to now they're calling it. You want to get this? The third term project.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
This is from today at CPAC. Trump is speaking at this conference tomorrow, but this is what it looks like today, where attendees there are promoting the, quote, third term project, which calls to override the Constitution to let Trump hold on to power indefinitely. Their signage depicts Trump as Julius Caesar, who declares himself dictator for life. Going back to Donald Trump's call with Fox News,
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this morning here's donald trump uh during his call and he refuses to say that the invasion was putin's fault of ukraine he says that he's not going to go there i'm tired of hearing people blaming putin hear it for yourself let's play it but look what you have you have a man who's led a country that had the most beautiful cities that they demolished
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Democrats are in full meltdown modes. First they sued me, then they threatened to impeach me, and now they want me to fire Elon Musk? Well, let's be clear. You're firing hardworking government employees now. You're firing disabled veterans.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
Then Donald Trump says he doesn't believe Zelensky is very important in negotiation meetings with Russia. To be honest with you, he says. Anytime someone's like that says to be honest with you, you know they're a liar. Play this clip.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
And then what was Donald Trump doing at 6.32 a.m. this morning? This is what James Carville really got in Donald Trump's head. So James Carville went on Hannity and had the facts. And James Carville's like, let's be clear. Donald Trump's approval rating right now is the lowest it's been In the history of polling groups at this time in the presidency, he said that Americans hate Elon Musk.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
Americans are aggravated as hell over Donald Trump. So what did Donald Trump do? He goes, I won the election in a landslide, which he didn't. All seven swing states, the popular vote. All 50 states shifted Republican, a record. And now I have the best polling numbers I ever had.
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The Democrats run by broken down losers like James Carville, whose weak of mind and body are going crazy and just don't know what to do. Weak of mind and body are going crazy? You may want to look in the mirror, bud. I I think you're talking about yourself there. It's always projection and confession with these guys. Donald Trump's poll numbers are horrific.
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As I said, the worst in American history right now. But let's let James Carville say it. This is what is getting Donald Trump all worked up right now. Play this clip.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
You're firing people who have dedicated their life to helping because you and Elon Musk want to give $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to billionaires and other billionaires. And so it's not just Democrats who are upset at what Elon Musk is doing.
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That was pretty good right there. Well, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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It's Democrats, Republicans, independents are upset that they're invading our privacy, taking our tax records, our medical records, our social security information, getting access to tax payment systems. People are pissed. Your approval rating, Donald, is absolutely plummeting right now. The worst in Gallup polling history for this term or this time in the presidency. Horrific stuff.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
But let me just bring some receipts, Donald. This is before the election, just to be clear. When you said that you will immediately bring down prices starting on day one, play this clip.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
So does Maga Mike even have a majority at all? Could we be ushering in soon somehow? Majority leader Hakeem Jeffries, still doubtful, but Maga Mike needs Hakeem Jeffries desperately here. Otherwise the government would be shut down. Maga Mike's being attacked from within. Other MAGAs, MAGA Republican Andy Biggs posted on December 16. He goes, government funding expires Friday.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
We're now expecting to vote on a 1500 page short-term omnibus on Wednesday. We still don't have the text of the bill. The DC cartel loves to operate in the shadows. The swamp is deep and must be drained. that you controlled a majority, bigs. Who's the cartel? Is MAGA Mike the cartel? Y'all literally run the government and you're soon to run, unfortunately, all three branches.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Yet all y'all do is whine that it's the Democrats. It just to me goes back to when they were all like, oh, the Democrat deep state on January 6th, Trump was in power. It was his FBI director who was a Republican. But you have Andy Biggs now attacking MAGA Mike Johnson right there. And so now you get headlines like this because by Friday there would be a government shutdown.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
A government shutdown would usher in probably a depression. And because MAGA Mike can't pass an actual budget, they do this with what's called stop gap measures to basically stop the bleeding versus actually function and do their jobs because they can't form a coalition to actually govern. So Congress is scrambling for a stop gap sprint. Why? Just do your job the right way.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
And by the way, what is it like 75, 80% of Americans don't approve of the work of Congress yet because of gerrymandering elect the party that they hate back into power? Make that make sense. gerrymandering. Here is Melanie Zanona's post. Johnson's Mike Magamike says at the presser, they are almost there on a continuing resolution deal. We'll go until mid-March.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Said initially it was intended to be a clean stopgap, but said other events intervened, such as hurricanes, struggles in farm community, et cetera. So we have to add that So it's no longer a clean continuing resolution. And now they just push the goalposts a few more months until March. And can I ask an honest question here? I mean, this is a question for Akeem Jeffries and the Democrats.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Look, I definitely understand. I hate the... I don't like the F around find out stuff where we the people suffer. Friends, family suffer. Community members suffer. But...
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democrats have bailed republicans out over and over again on these continuing resolutions why why just they're in charge they have all the branches of the government why don't you just show them why help them they didn't help you they stopped a bipartisan immigration bill and then ran on immigration when y'all were trying to solve the problem so
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Why help them when they already are saying they want to inflict economic hardship on the people? Shouldn't we just expose them? Am I being petty for asking that question? I don't know. You could tell me in the comments right there. This is what Politico is reporting. Congress strikes a deal on $100 billion in disaster aid and punting funding until March. They're punting the funding until March.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Just do your freaking jobs. Just solve it. Pass a budget. What are you even doing all day? What do you do with your day in Congress? And the ultimate irony here, right, is that the MAGA Republicans...
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
attack federal workers we want to slash these jobs we want to get rid of these jobs we're gonna you don't do your own job have you ever looked at a congressional calendar before like these people don't really work or they work like like half the year if that a quarter of the year maybe you work maybe all of you who mock people who work from home but are actually working i don't know
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Maybe I'll work from home and you could go through like an Excel spreadsheet or whatever you got to do, do a Zoom meeting and perhaps you can, I don't know, pass a budget. But instead, you'll probably go with your cowboy hats to the border and say, look what we're doing here. Look how tough we are versus actually doing your damn job.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
So I like that Congress member Robert Garcia out here from California. He talks about this exactly. He's like. So you want to bring in a conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr., who's going to cut jobs at the National Institute of Health. Just think about it. Cut jobs that help people's health while the Republican members of Congress can't even get a budget. Here, watch this.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Mega Mike, why help this guy? Why help him in March? I mean, I mean it. Why bail him out? Democrats have bailed them out over and over again. Let them sit in their own stew of dysfunction, disorder, and denial. I don't know. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
MAGA Mike Johnson getting more terrible news. I mean, the dude can't even pass a freaking budget, the most basic function of Congress. And now he's getting attacked from within. A day after, by the way, another MAGA Republican from Indiana, Victoria Spars, says she's out. She's not caucusing with Republicans. She doesn't want to be on committees. She may not even vote with Republicans.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
The stock market absolutely hates Donald Trump, his erratic behavior, his threats, the ridiculous cabinet picks. I mean, what? There were eight straight days where the Dow has been down. That hasn't happened since, oh, wait a minute, when Trump was in office in 2018. And if it's the ninth straight day, what's that like since the 1970s? Great work, Donald.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Even when Donald showed up at the New York Stock Exchange last week, He had his whole propaganda crew. His cabinet was there. All of the major indexes were down when Trump was there. I thought he said that he's got the golden touch. Nope, he's got the Midas touch, not the Midas touch at all.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
let's just take a look at what's going on here so you can see for yourself and this happens at a time where treasuries 10-year yields may climb to six percent for the first time in more than two decades As people like T. Rowe Price and other financial analysts are saying that they expect the United States fiscal woes to accelerate and that Donald Trump's policies will keep inflation elevated.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
This comes at a time where the Wall Street Journal's main headline is Americans are stockpiling to get ahead of tariffs. Consumers are snapping up computer parts, vacuum cleaners, coffee and olive oil before the levies take effect. Folks, you realize You didn't have to do this to yourself. I mean, do you enjoy the pain? You wanna inflict pain? It didn't have to actually be this way.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
And so now you have to stockpile your toilet paper and all of these things because the prices are gonna go up. But wait a minute, I thought your whole central premise was that on day one with his accordion hands, like a miracle, it was all gonna go away. Well, didn't he say that before? That was about COVID. He said it again like a miracle. He's going to get the prices down.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
And now he goes on Meet the Press and goes, oh, it's very hard. He tells Time magazine, very, very hard. Not sure I have the ability to do that. Remember, he went to the New York Stock Exchange and he was given the softball of softball questions by propagandist, bogus business host Jim Cramer. Should the American workers, Mr. President, invest in the stock market?
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Should they be putting their money in the stock market? You're at the stock market clearly he wants you to say yes your entire campaign was even though biden's stock market 60 better than your first term that you were going to miraculously what make it even better than it was trump's response is i don't know if workers should invest in the stock market huh
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Trump goes on to say, well, what if there's a dip and then people lose their money? You're talking about a dip in losing their money. You're also telling Kristen, Kristen Welker that you don't think you can get the prices down. You also don't have a healthcare plan. Huh? I don't know, maybe this should be what corporate media is focused on each and every single day.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Dow heads for the ninth straight loss. Stock futures fall as Fed meeting kicks off. Yeah, the Fed's looking at inflation and go, wait a minute. All of Donald Trump's threats to Mexico and Canada and the BRICS block of Brazil and...
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
india um and south africa you know the china that's gonna make inflation high we can't lower interest rates um if inflation's gonna keep on rising just think about that um let's just take a look at what tiro price is saying about the treasury yields may climb to six percent here's what tiro says they say the following
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Treasury 10-year yields may climb to 6% for the first time in more than two decades as U.S. fiscal woes worsen and Trump's policies help keep inflation elevated. The benchmark yield may first reach 5% in the first quarter of 2025 before potentially climbing further. Arif Hussain, chief investment officer of Fixed Income wrote in his report,
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Hussein is doubling down on calls for higher yields, citing persistent U.S. budget deficits as Trump cuts taxes during the second presidency, as well as potential tariffs and immigration policies that would sustain price pressures. Is a 6% 10-year Treasury yield possible? Why not? But we can consider that when we move through 5%, wrote Hussein, who helps the money manager oversee $187 billion.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
The transition period in U.S. politics is an opportunity to position for increasing longer term treasury yields, he says. So I told you the other Wall Street Journal headline, right? American stockpiling to get ahead of tariffs. Consumers snapping up computer parts, vacuum cleaners, coffee and olive oil before the levies take effect.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Tariff conscious consumers are stockpiling goods and rushing to upgrade old cars and appliances to get ahead of potential price increases. A quarter of Americans surveyed said it was a good time for major purchases as they expect prices to go up next year, up from 10% a month prior and a record high, according to the University of Michigan's monthly survey of consumers.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
And a third of the 2000 people surveyed recently by creditcards.com said they were buying more now because they feared tariffs. Y'all voted for the guy to inflict suffering on you, and you said you were voting for him for the opposite reason. Now you put him in charge, and now you're saying that you're suffering, and you're upset about that, and now you have to stockpile.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Can someone please somehow make this make sense to me? But it's okay, everybody. Guess what? Because Elon Musk, oh, he's going to fix it. I'm being sarcastic. Elon Musk writes, there is a large graveyard filled with my enemies. I do not wish to add to it, but will if given no choice. Those who pick fights with me do so at their own peril. But maybe this is their lucky day. What the hell is this?
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
That's someone who's acting as a co-president right now, just out there making threats like that each and every day. But guys, guess what, everybody? Republicans are optimistic for 2025. To me, the biggest red flag is that Republicans are optimistic for 2025, where it seems prices are going to go up.
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Trump's mass deportation plan could hurt the country more than the Great Recession report says. Mass deportations could lead to a 7.4% drop in the GDP, meaning the U.S. economy would not grow at all during Trump's second term, the report says. I don't know. What is something that hurts more than a great recession? I don't know. Does it start with a D? Could it be a great depression?
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Is that the words that you're trying to say? Let's just take a look at some of these reports. The American Immigration Council estimates that if the US deported 1 million people each year until the country no longer had an undocumented population, it could lead to a 4.2% to a 6.8% loss in GDP. To put this in context, the economy shrank by 4.3% during the Great Depression. Here's another one.
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Estimates from the Peterson Institute for International Economics showed an even grimmer economic consequence after analyzing how the deportation of 8.3 million undocumented immigrants would impact the US economy. The think tank found that the GDP would be 7.4% lower by 2028.
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This 7.4% reduction in GDP over four years would likely mean that the US economy would not grow at all during the second term. Employment would also be 7% lower. By the end of Trump's term, the Institute found and 44,000 U.S.-born workers would lose their job.
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So if you want to talk about specific industry sectors like construction, agriculture, healthcare, and hospitality, Trump's proposed mass deportations would remove up to 1.5 million workers from the construction industry, 225,000 from agriculture, 1 million from hospitality, 870,000 from manufacturing, and 461,000 from transportation, warehousing. Seriously? Seriously.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
So I wonder why Wall Street looks at this and goes, wait a minute, things may be grim. But then why is it that they're saying all these things and trying to pump it up? Because they want to pump it. They want to dump it. They want to tax shelter it. They want their tax cuts. And they want to keep us in this loop. Have a Democratic administration fix it.
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But then blame the Democratic administration that fixed it. Blame the firefighter for putting out the fire. Bring back in the arsonists. Plunder. Pillage. Rinse. Repeat. That is the strategy of the oligarchy. And that's what we call out here on the Midas Touch Network. People are pissed, but direct your pissedness in the right direction. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Just think if you're an adversary of the United States and you're watching someone melt down like this and handle it so much like just a freaking toddler. Here's what Donald Trump writes. He goes, breaking. What do you like? You're a news source? Breaking.
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In a completely illegal, psychotic order, the deeply conflicted, corrupt, biased, and incompetent acting Justice Juan Merchan has completely disrespected the United States Supreme Court and its historic decision on immunity. But even without immunity, this illegitimate case is nothing but a rigged hoax.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Mershon, who is a radical partisan, wrote an opinion that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and if allowed to stand, would be the end of the presidency as we know it.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Mershon has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your president and president-elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family's disqualifying and illegal conflicts. I am the only political opponent in American history not allowed to defend myself, a despicable First Amendment violation, exclamation point.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Mershon took the Manhattan DA's witch hunt that, according to all legal scholars, including Jonathan Turley, Eli Honing, Andy McCarthy, Alan Dershowitz, Greg Jarrett, David Rivkin, Elizabeth Price Foley, Andy Tchaikovsky, Paul Ingrassia, so all Fox hosts, other than Ellie Honan.
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Great job, Ellie, by the way, in lending your name to that because you're a federal prosecutor and were apparently jealous of the New York District Attorney's prosecution. Barred by the statute of limitations, the case was and should never have been brought. through his fraud and misconduct gave it a semblance of life.
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While deranged, Jack Smith was sent packing back to the Hague after losing all of his politically manufactured cases against me. Mershon, who is far worse and even more corrupt than Smith in his fight for my hopeless political opponents, just cannot let go of his charade. Is it because of his conflicts and relations that he keeps breaking the law? This has to stop, exclamation point.
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it is time to end the lawfare once and for all so we can come together as one nation and make america great again the whiniest message in the world i mean for real we should all be embarrassed by this message first off the special counsel jack smith cases were not dismissed on the basis of the merits he's a federal prosecutor donald trump is now the head of the federal government
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Therefore, it is DOJ policy to dismiss the case. And Jack Smith made it clear, not at all on the merits, but simply because of the election. The conviction in New York predates the election. You are convicted on 34 separate felony counts.
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The United States Supreme Court issued its order on absolute immunity, which said core constitutional functions, official acts, and evidence relating to official acts cannot come into play when it comes to the executive branch. The case in New York involving the 34 separate felony counts against you, Donald Trump, as found by Justice Bershon and found by a jury involved hush money felonies.
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That was what the case was basically called. It was a fabrication of business records case. And then there was a cover-up thereafter. That's what Justice Vershawn put in his ruling. That is essentially what the jury's finding was in finding 34 separate felony counts. The conduct preceded predates when you are in office.
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What Justice Merchant said in his 41-page order is, he said, look, I've reviewed what the Supreme Court has said on absolute immunity. I've reviewed what the Supreme Court discusses in terms of what the outer limits are.
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Justice Merchant says, if there is a hypothetical example of something you should not get absolute immunity for, it is essentially making hush money payments to an adult film actor. and a quid pro quo payoff. That does not constitute absolute immunity at all. That's what Justice Mershon put in his very detailed order.
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Justice Mershon also said in his ruling that your lawyers fail to assert on most claims the appropriate objections to even assert absolute immunity in the first place. But he goes, look, even though your lawyers did not do their job the right way, essentially, if you wanted to make these claims on most of the claims, he goes, I'll analyze the absolute immunity claim regardless.
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So he analyzes the absolute immunity and says, no, this does not fall within the Supreme Court's ruling, does not fall within the outer limits.
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And then he goes on to say, even if you did get absolute immunity for certain testimony regarding Madeline Westerhut, Michael Cohen, some of your tweets and ho picks, what Justice Merchant said, the evidence of criminality was so overwhelming that any introduction of any of these other facts would be harmless error such that you should be found liable anyway for the crimes that you were convicted of.
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Regarding your whining about a gag order and saying that, oh, you're not allowed to defend yourself, you're literally posting a whiny message attacking the judge. In this message, you're attacking the judge's family. You're attacking the judge as a radical partisan. Let's be very clear. The judge himself is excluded from the gag order.
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You can attack the judge, which you are doing now, and you are a convicted felon, according to the judge. There are some limitations. The fact that you think that you need to attack a judge's daughter when you are a president-elect, again, shows the depths of depravity that exists with you. You could go on and read this order. I could debunk more of this stuff.
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Completely illegal and psychotic order. So you're saying what, Justice Merchant, a New York state court judge, committed a crime by following New York state law? Weren't these MAGA Republicans, weren't they all states' rights people? But now they're not for states' rights when it doesn't involve a ruling that they like. He goes on to call it a rigged hoax, really?
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Because a jury of your peers in New York found you guilty on 34 separate felony counts. Regarding the reference to Ellie Honing, didn't Ellie Honing say that Michael Cohen blew the case? I thought Ellie Honing said that you were going to win the case, the juries hated Michael Cohen. So I guess Ellie Honing was wrong again there.
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You say that Mershon has so little respect for the Constitution, he's keeping an illegal gag order. I mean, you could essentially say whatever you want. I just read your freaking statement that you said right now. You said this is a despicable First Amendment violation. Well, by the way, the United States Supreme Court, the federal United States Supreme Court, they've said the gag order is valid.
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So what do you say about that? New York's highest court, United States Supreme Court, all said the gag order is valid. And on the Supreme Court side, those are judges who you appointed. Then your statement about Jack Smith losing his cases, he didn't lose the cases on the merits. He dismissed the cases because you won. Your Supreme Court justices, the same ones who say the gag order is fine.
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They made a ruling that delayed justice in time, and then you won the election, and now the case gets dismissed. I mean, it is what it is. Jack Smith had to dismiss the cases under DOJ precedent. That's just what the DOJ does, because you're going to be appointing Pam Bondi to lead the DOJ. So clearly she's not going to pursue the prosecution against you.
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And then you go, is it because his conflict and relations that he keeps breaking the law? This has to stop. So you're again saying that Justice Mershon is a criminal. You're talking about lawfare, but you're out there literally saying, suing everybody. You sued the Iowa pollster because they wrote a poll that you didn't like under Iowa consumer protection statutes.
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But you're upset about lawfare where a criminal jury in New York convicted you on 34 separate felony counts. And then he goes on and just, again, mostly it's just whining. It's whining and it's using the presidency as a pulpit not to lead, but to be a whiner in chief, a little baby who behaves like this. Anyway, let me know what you think, but that's Donald Trump's freak out. Hit subscribe.
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Donald Trump is losing his mind right now after the New York judge, Justice Mershon, ruled that Trump does not have absolute immunity following that Supreme Court ruling. In other words, the 34 felony count conviction against Donald Trump in New York stands. Here's what Donald Trump posted the opposite of presidential as he has a public meltdown, a public freakout.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
I want to show you how President Biden has outmaneuvered Donald Trump in the closing days of the Biden administration with grace and dignity and a patriotism and love of our country that's quintessential Biden. So just take a look at this. These are the types of posts that Donald Trump has been making over the past 24 hours.
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Donald Trump goes, if there's going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now under the Biden administration, not after January 20th, under quote Trump. This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will, exclamation point.
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And this says Donald Trump and Trump's boss, Elon Musk, are telling bag of Republicans to kill the continuing resolution, as they did earlier in the week, that would have prevented a government shutdown. Donald Trump wants the debt ceiling to be totally abolished. so he can enact his Project 2025 agenda. Donald Trump creating chaos during the transition to himself.
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And of course we know the chaos that Donald Trump caused during the transition to President Biden. Trump is also posting the following. Congress must get rid of or extend out to perhaps 2029, the ridiculous debt ceiling. Without this, we should never make a deal. Remember, the pressure is on whoever is the president. In other words, blame, blame, blame.
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In a moment, I'm going to contrast this to President Biden, but I think it's important to show you the contrast. So hang in there. Don't worry, I'm not showing Trump video content. Or audio, you know that's my latest policy we've enacted since the election here on my hot takes.
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Trump goes, I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large-scale purchase of our oil and gas. Otherwise, it is tariffs all the way! Exclamation point. Threatening our allies in Europe with some nebulous blackmail. Who made this coin? He posts. Then on his social media platform as well. This is what's being sold.
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This is what he's profiting off of because these are ads on his social media site. Get your ivermectin from All Family Pharmacy. Allfamilypharma.com. Ivermectin hydroxychloroquine. And it's RFK Jr. pitching Donald Trump's selection to be the Health and Human Service Director, pitching products like that.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump's boss, I think the actual president-elect, Elon Musk, is mocking the physical appearance of female Congress members. Turns out that Washington, D.C. swamp creatures are real. And he's mocking Rosa DeLauro right there. And he has spent the morning mocking her because she criticized him. How dare you criticize Elon Musk? So he's out there using a social media platform to...
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mock her physical appearance. So that's Donald Trump. And I've referred to Donald Trump as having the small stick or micro stick policy, which is use the accordion hands, threaten, huff and puff, but when it comes down to it, have no real power and just being obnoxious.
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On the other hand, when I interviewed President Biden, I believe that not only did he reflect grace and dignity, but also I think that's what real strength looks like. We did the interview in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing of the White House. named after FDR and Teddy Roosevelt. Now, Teddy Roosevelt said, his famous expression is, speak soft, but carry a big stick.
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It's called the big stick policy. In other words, a true leader doesn't go and make all of these threats all over the place. Their true leader is dignified. is a true statesman, but when it comes down to it, exercises real power when necessary. And I think that's what President Biden is and Biden reflects.
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And I know that doesn't fit into a nice cute sound bite for TikTok or whatever, but to me, that's what real leadership is. So contrast Donald Trump making all of these threats, the bluster on his social media, and contrast that to President Biden here. So when I asked President Biden, hey, you know, Donald Trump's going to try to take credit for all of your stuff. What are you going to do?
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Watch this response from President Biden. And by the way, you can watch the full interview on our YouTube channel. It is a must-see. And sometimes I get asked by you how you can help the Midas Touch Network. If you can share that full interview with 10, 15, 20 people, you know it helps us so much.
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And if you could put in the comments that you shared it with 10, 20, 15, however many people you shared it with, Let me know in the comments. It goes a long way to help us out and have more people see that video. Here's what President Biden responded. Play this clip. What are you going to do when the other guy goes out there bragging about accomplishments under you?
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The Medicare $2,000 cap is going to kick in in 2025. He's going to be out there saying, I did this. How is that going to make you feel when that happens?
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That's ProlonLife.com slash Midas. Check it out. Then I asked President Biden what he wants his legacy to be. And here's what he said. Let's play the clip. When history is all told, how do you want to be remembered? What do you want your legacy to be?
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And finally, I'll show you this one clip where I asked President Biden, what do you say to Americans who are nervous right now? Here, play this clip. What do you say to Americans who are understandably very nervous right now, who didn't vote for the other guy, who are fearful of the threats, the rhetoric, the idea of retribution?
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What do you say to them who are looking at you, who admired your work? What do you say to them right now who are watching?
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So take that and contrast that to this NBC report that Trump is unconcerned about government shutdowns because it doesn't matter to him because he's not in charge yet. Play this clip.
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Now, judge for yourself what true leadership is. You know, go watch that full interview with President Biden. I think it will stand the test of time. I do. I would love for you to watch it. Check it out. Hit subscribe now. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. We appreciate you as always, Midas Mighty.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
I want no bills passed until I take over, unless, remember what Donald Trump's position was this past week? unless you attach to the continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown, a provision that says the debt ceiling will be abolished, or perhaps the debt ceiling debate will be pushed to 2029, or perhaps 2027, or perhaps can you just give me something so I look like a winner?
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But it was totally ignored. The final continuing resolution looked a lot like the original one that Donald Trump and Elon Musk said was terrible. But this is a pattern with Donald Trump. He goes out there, bluster, bravado, and then folds. Our enemies know that Trump is not a good negotiator. This is the pattern. Let's watch what this pattern is because it's ingrained in his very weak pathology.
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So the government's going to be funded. Elon Musk and Donald Trump folded like a cheap napkin and Democrats held their ground. You heard it there. What ended up happening on this continuing resolution to stop a government shutdown The House passed a bill to avert the midnight shutdown. The bill passed 366 to 34. One person voted present. 170 Republicans voted yes. 196 Democrats voted yes.
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So Donald Trump makes posts like this. Congress must get rid of or extend out to perhaps 2029, the ridiculous debt ceiling. Without this, we should never make a deal. Remember, the pressure is on whoever is president.
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34 Republicans voted no. Zero Democrats voted no. Once again, as Jake Sherman reports, Democrats saved Republicans. Another big point after Donald Trump has been saying that he would not support a continuing resolution to stop a government shutdown unless the debt ceiling was abolished or unless the debt ceiling was increased or unless an extension on the debt ceiling for several years was done.
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was his post by the way weird post to uh extend out to perhaps 2029 who negotiates like that then donald trump also posted the following if there's going to be a shutdown of government let it begin now under the biden administration not after january 20th under trump this is a biden problem to solve but if republicans can help solve it they will
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And so do you remember when Donald Trump was bragging that he forced Maga Mike to have a continuing resolution that included pushing the debt ceiling back a few years or raising the debt ceiling right now, but Republicans didn't support it?
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That did not happen in this continuing resolution. In other words, what Donald Trump and Elon Musk were asking for, all of the theatrics, all of the drama, all of the wild behavior ended up being for naught. None of that happened. No debt ceiling was even addressed in this continuing resolution. After all of that,
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Republicans rejected it and it failed earlier in the week before they basically brought back the same resolution that Elon Musk was like doing samurai sword pictures with and saying, kill the bill. Donald Trump posted this. Success in Washington. Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come to a very good deal.
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House Republicans weren't at all moved by Trump's demands to lift the borrowing cap to add more debt, which increased the deficit. Trump effectively asked for one thing. He didn't get it. Now on to the Senate, which is expected to pass. this continuing resolution.
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Then it goes on to say a very important piece vital to the America First agenda was added as well. The date of the very unnecessary debt ceiling will be pushed out two years to January 30th, 2027. Now we can make America great again very quickly. Do you remember when Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans were like preventing President Biden for raising the debt ceiling and they said,
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As Mr. Capra puts it, on Wednesday, here's the post, Trump threatens, I'm going to primary any Republican who votes for a clean, continuing resolution without a debt limit extension to keep the government funded. Let's get ready for a shutdown, Trump said. But then on Friday, moments ago, 170 Republicans voted for a clean continuing resolution without a debt limit extension.
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how fiscally irresponsible. Well, Donald Trump wants to do precisely that now when President Biden is still in power. Sounds a bit contradictory, doesn't it? But this is when Donald Trump thought that he was going to get this, but Republicans voted against Donald Trump's provision and what finally went into the bill that was ultimately passed in the House of Representatives had none of that.
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The bill passed overwhelmingly defying Donald Trump. But in Donald Trump world, you got to take credit for things. You got to act like, oh, this was all part of the plan, exactly what I wanted. This is why Donald Trump is the biggest pushover ever. When it all comes down to it, he always folds like a cheap paper napkin from a fast food restaurant with filthy grease on it.
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And what did Donald Trump do? Like the weak and pathetic loser that he is, nothing. He just accepts it. He has his proxy, Mark Wayne Mullen, the MAGA Republican Senator from Oklahoma, go on Fox and say, He's not thrilled about it, but he understands that this is what you're supposed to do. Here, play this clip.
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Sorry, I extended that one a little bit longer. MAGA Mike Johnson, here's what he goes. He goes, I was in contact with Trump through all of this. This is what we wanted. Y'all got bailed out by the Democrats because Democrats essentially got everything that they wanted. Here, play this clip.
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So after all the bluster and bravado, Elon Musk posting kill bill memes, Elon Musk saying just close down the government until January 20th. defund everything. We'll be fine for 33 days. No bill should be passed until Donald Trump takes office. All of those memes, by the way, that are out there by Democrats like Jasmine Crockett with the showing Elon Musk as the puppet master of Donald Trump.
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By the way, the Democrats posted this AI image right here. This isn't real. In case you were wondering, this is an AI image. Just want to be very clear. This is what the Democrats, the official account opposed to they're enjoying trolling Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The White House says that President Biden supported this because Democrats got mostly what they wanted.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
And then the official Democrats account putting this one, Elon Musk walking Donald Trump like a dog. That's a That's an interesting one right there. But Democrats called Trump's bluff and they said, bet, okay. We're just gonna go back and pretty much do the continuing resolution that does not include raising the debt ceiling or moving the debt ceiling out. Trump, we're going to ignore you.
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The Republicans removed a few things from it. I'll tell you what the Republicans removed from this continuing resolution to make themselves feel good about it. But Biden got what he wanted because Biden's actually playing chess while Trump is playing, I don't know, checkers with M&Ms or something. I don't know. This is what the White House says.
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What you gonna do about it, tough guy? What you gonna do about it? And Trump did nothing. Here's Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, calling him out. Play this clip.
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While it does not include everything we sought, it includes disaster relief. The president requested for the communities recovering from the storm eliminates the accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires and would ensure that the government can continue to operate at full capacity. In other words, Democrats held their ground.
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As Jeff Stein from The Washington Post reports, six bipartisan policies taken out of the spending bill after Musk torched it. So this is what Trump and Elon Musk removed from the original bill. Otherwise, it's virtually identical. Let's take a look. Provision aimed at ensuring food stamps are replenished for Americans whose benefits are stolen, possibly as many as 300,000 affected per the CBPP.
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A series of changes to the operations of pharmacy benefit managers, middlemen in the medicine business that negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. For example, an attempt to end spread pricing where PBMs charge a health plan more for a drug than what they pay for the pharmacies that dispense it. Three, pay hikes for members of Congress, 4% or so increases.
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Four, transferring control of the land in Washington, D.C., where RFK Stadium sits, to the district. No new funds here. The Ted Cruz-Klobuchar bill aimed at cracking down on revenge porn and deep fakes.
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republicans took that out of this a bipartisan bill aimed at cracking down on revenge porn and deep fakes that's no longer in this great work republicans for getting rid of that i'm being sarcastic six new and expanded restrictions on u.s investments in china yes the bill is much shorter about 900 pages or so shorter
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It funds the government and provides aid to farmers and natural disaster victims. It does not include the debt ceiling lift that Donald Trump said had to take place. Also, the pediatric cancer funding did not make it in this bill as well. They removed pediatric cancer funding. Ted Cruz using this as an opportunity to plug his podcast.
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On my podcast verdict, I answer for you the questions and explain what the heck is going on. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, naturally, Ted Cruz views this whole shit show as an opportunity to promote his podcast. And then on Fox. They are trying to spin this like Trump got what he wanted when quite literally the opposite took place.
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reminding Donald Trump, this was a brilliant moment, okay? So I guess if you shut down the government, idiot, she didn't say idiot. I guess if you shut down the government, you know you're not gonna be able to have a transition. You know that you're not gonna be able to certify the results of your election. You know that the inauguration will not be able to be funded.
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Watch this guest on Fox go, yeah, this is what we want to do the whole time. Here, play this clip.
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You know that all of that will shut down as well. Here's what she said, and that shut him up pretty quickly. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, well, to pretend they had a victory though, you know what Elon Musk and Donald Trump and the Republicans took out of the prior continuing resolution? It's virtually identical, but what they did take out right here is a provision aimed at ensuring food stamps are replenished for Americans whose benefits are stolen. affecting up to 300,000 people. Let's go after the food stamp recipients.
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Also, they got rid of a bill aimed at cracking down on revenge porn and deep fakes. They took out that bipartisan piece of legislation, and they also took out pediatric cancer care. But ultimately, the bill passed and what Trump wanted in it was not in it at all. Trump was ignored. MAGA Republican Tim Burchett was filmed leaving the Capitol building for the long weekend as we head into Christmas.
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And finally, you had this MAGA Republican, Mark Alford, give this night before Christmas rhyme. Here, play this clip.
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And MAGA Republican Burchett's like, I kind of think we lost here. I think the Democrats just outplayed us once again. Here, let's play this clip right here.
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Anyway. You think, oh, and here's MAGA Mike saying, no, I was in touch with Trump. Trump likes this. This is what Trump, Trump really wanted this. Here, play this clip.
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
Let me just, I don't know what that was. Just let me say this though. This is one of the things I point out about Donald Trump over and over again. He goes and he makes these demands. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. And then he folds. It's a constant behavior in his pathology. It's all bluster. It's all bravado. He's not a competent operator.
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He was just exposed again right here as all bluster, all bravado. I'll do a whole other hot take on that. But he said, I'm not going to support this unless you extend the debt ceiling limit, expand it. That didn't happen and he supports it. What does that tell you? He got nothing that he wanted in this. Wait, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thank you for watching.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
Okay, let's zoom out, if we will, for a second on a broader concept right here. Now, when Donald Trump threatens tariffs on foreign countries, when Donald Trump posts these things, don't you realize that both our allies and enemies alike view him as a paper tiger? that he's basically all bark and no bite.
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He's the ultimate example of the loud, obnoxious person who wouldn't even throw a grape in a food fight, right? Like that's Donald Trump. He's a weak, weak person when you really break it down. And he showed yet again, all the bluster and bravado and social media posts was for nothing. No, I still think he's a very dangerous individual. I'm not wanna minimize the threats that he poses,
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But I just want you to think about what a weak negotiator that is. And you see in his social media posts, all right, let's do it at 2029. All right, let's do it at 2027. All right, I'm not thrilled, but I like it. Okay, actually, whatever, I don't care. Let's pretend that I wanted this. Anyway, tell me what you think. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers together.
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All of the bluster, all of the bravado, all of the social media posts by Donald Trump, didn't work yet again. Democrats called Donald Trump's bluff when it came to the continuing resolution, and once again, Donald Trump folded. It's a pattern with Donald Trump. Remember, Donald Trump said, I am ordering Republicans, you shut down this government.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
MAGA Mike Johnson, what happened? You were on the airplay with Donald Trump and Elon Musk. You were at the UFC events and you even pointed at Donald Trump. You thought you were a cool kid. Well, now you're getting booed at the big MAGA Republican conference in Arizona. It's referred to as AmFest, American Fest. It's one of these right-wing events put on by Charlie Kirk.
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And Mike Johnson was supposed to speak at the event, but after Donald Trump and Elon Musk undermined his bipartisan compromise with the Democrats earlier in the week to pass a continuing resolution and threw MAGA Mike under the bus, the MAGA Republicans, duh, spies MAGA Mike Johnson at this point. They want MAGA Mike Johnson gone.
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So MAGA Mike Johnson was afraid to even show his face at AmFest, at this big MAGA Republican convention. But that didn't stop the MAGA Republicans in attendance from booing MAGA Mike Johnson. He got booed ruthlessly over and over again. Here is a MAGA Republican, an actress named Leigh Allen
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Baker, and here she is saying a bunch of things that aren't true about the continuing resolution, but going after MAGA Mike Johnson, who again refused to show his face at this conference where he was actually supposed to speak. And you'll hear the people in the crowd going, boo, here, watch this.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
You know, one of the interesting things is that Maga Mike Johnson tried to act all tough.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
He tried to act like when the Republicans brought back up the continuing resolution that did not include anything to do with eliminating the debt ceiling or putting an extension on when the debt ceiling would have to be addressed, which was exactly what Donald Trump was saying that he wanted in the continuing resolution, or else he said, shut down the government.
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And MAGA Mike Johnson said, look, I was speaking with Donald Trump the entire time. Trump absolutely loves this new continuing resolution. He loves it. He says that this is a great thing. Look how weak MAGA Mike Johnson is as he basically brings right back to the floor the thing that he withdrew. He removed certain other things from this ridiculous stuff.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
But Trump's main thing that he wanted in this bill never made it into the bill. Here, watch this.
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And again, MAGA Mike looking so weird and just so weak. I meant to say weak, not weird, but weird also works as well. Meanwhile, all these MAGA Republicans on social media are just ruthlessly trolling MAGA Mike Johnson. If you just look at the replies to any of his posts, they all look like this. MAGA Republicans posting AI memes like this one. I was bitch slapped yesterday on X.
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Mike Johnson has betrayed the American people. Gosh, I would be so embarrassed to show my face if I was you, another MAGA Republican influencer goes. Speaker Johnson, my first reply was trying to be nice. I realized my mistake afterwards. We don't want you as the speaker. We want someone who will listen to the people also. MAGA Republicans posting polls like this one.
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Has Mike failed us as the speaker? 85% of the MAGAs who respond say yes. Other responses to MAGA Mike Johnson's social media posts like, you already failed. The best for America is a new speaker. Just take a look at these photos one more time. Maga Mike with RFK, Maga Mike with Kid Rock, Maga Mike giving the pointy finger to Donald Trump next to Dana White as well at the UFC match.
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Fox is already basically writing the speakership obituary. for MAGA Mike Johnson. Take a look at what Fox is posting. Names floated to replace Johnson as speaker. Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy. Nothing says man of the people like unelected billionaire bureaucrats or Jim Jordan, Byron Donalds, or Tom Emmer. Right there. Let's take a look here. Let's take a look at this one.
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This is Tommy Tuberville basically saying the problem with MAGA Mike is he's been flying on these planes in first class with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and he hasn't been doing the work of MAGAs. Play this clip.
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Next up, you have Victoria Spars saying, and again, I'm not really even sure what she's saying. It's really hard to actually understand what she's saying with such a thick accent. But she goes, Megha Mike Johnson dragged Donald Trump into the circus. It's Megha Mike's fault. Play this clip.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
See how Donald Trump threw Meg and Mike under the bus? Like, Meg and Mike already had a bipartisan deal worked out, no drama, but then Elon Musk started posting, kill the bill, kill the bill, this bill is criminal. And Musk started posting things with himself like samurai swords next to the bill. and all this ridiculous performative stuff.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
And then Donald Trump said, under no circumstances do we allow this to be passed unless we attach a elimination of the debt ceiling to the continuing resolution. Well, that didn't happen either. Here is MAGA Republican Senator Mike Lee saying, look, MAGA Mike's lost control. It's time we bring in Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to be the Speaker of the House. Play this clip.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene echoing those sentiments at well. She says that she supports Elon Musk to be the Speaker of the House. I mean, folks, these are not serious people. They really are not serious people. Here we have MAGA Republican Dan Mouser. And here he's saying, look, here's the thing. What we need.
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in the House of Representatives, even though we're a co-equal branch of government, is we should just be the board of directors that rubber stamps what the chief executive does. We need to make sure that we're like a board of directors who reports to the chief executive. Newsflash, Mr. Mauser, maybe a little lesson on corporate governance. That's not the way it works.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
The board is superior or senior to the chief executive, but who cares about facts? Here, play this clip.
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So there you have it folks, MAGA Republicans booing MAGA Mike Johnson, even when he doesn't show up, even in his absence, MAGA Mike Johnson gets booed. Tell me what you think in the comments below. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching and have a great one.
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Trump voters FREAK OUT on Him over CANCELED INAUGURATION
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Donald Trump knew there was going to be a very teeny tiny crowd at his inauguration outside. And Donald Trump now canceling the outside portion of the inauguration on Monday and blaming it on cold weather has rubbed the MAGA base who traveled to be there outside the wrong way. We've received video. Of a lot of these MAGA people saying what it's cold, but OK, we can wait outside in the cold.
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One more time, go to policygenius.com slash Midas. Make sure you spell Midas correctly, M-E-I-D-A-S. And by the way, here's Donald Trump when he was bundled up in Aberdeen in Scotland. I think he was pretending to build something there. But let's remember the crowd size from, say, 2009, former President Obama's inauguration, 2017, Donald Trump's inauguration.
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Remember Donald Trump had to pretend it's the biggest crowd size ever. Can we talk for just a second, though, about the weather? Yeah, it's going to be cold, okay? It's cold in D.C. in January, and it's particularly cold. But you take a look at the forecast for Monday. It's 24 degrees Fahrenheit. It's going to be a low in the evening hours of about 9 degrees Fahrenheit.
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But when John F. Kennedy was inaugurated and sworn in many, many years ago, It was 22 degrees Fahrenheit, negative six degrees Celsius with a wind chill of seven degrees Fahrenheit, negative 14 degrees Celsius right around noontime. And take a look at John F. Kennedy right here. He didn't even wear a jacket.
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Democrat senators are trolling Donald Trump for canceling the outside portion of the inauguration and bringing it inside the Capitol at the Rotunda. Democratic New York Senator Chuck Schumer uses this photo and said, It took place outside. It was so big. There was so many people right there. It was wild.
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You have Democratic governor and former VP candidate Tim Walz has this photo of himself from Minnesota. He goes, There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. Here's another photo right here of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy walking from the White House to the Capitol for his inauguration, whereas Donald Trump moved the inauguration into the rotunda because it's too cold.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene and a lot of other MAGA people think that there must be some conspiracy going on here. Maybe Donald Trump's safety is being threatened. no, I just think Donald Trump can't handle the cold, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene posted.
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She goes, I've personally attended countless rallies where President Trump spoke in extreme weather conditions from cold to rain to heat. Is there a security threat other than extreme cold temperature, not only for him, but for the people? Our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski goes, father time is undefeated. Trump is not in any shape to stand out there in the cold.
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Got to give the old geezer some credit for understanding his limitations. Filipkowski also wrote. Trump claims he's moving his inauguration inside from the cold because he's worried about the health of attendees.
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Meanwhile, he had people dropping like flies at his outdoor rallies over the summer in places like Arizona and Nevada and other locations because he didn't want to spend the money to do them inside. Also, Donald Trump held events at very cold places like in Nebraska, I think in 2020, and left people stranded there as well.
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Aaron Parnas, who works with the Midas Touch Network, posted this photo of Amy Klobuchar in the snow. And Parnas goes, Donald Trump is afraid of cold temperatures. Democrats aren't. David Axelrod, Democratic consultant, posted the photo of John F. Kennedy from 1961 inauguration and says in 61, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated on the Capitol steps in wind chills of seven degrees.
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It was almost as cold for Obama in 2009. In fairness, Trump is more than three decades older than JFK and Obama were, or did he just fear the very small crowds? Again, one of the things that we knew as well is that when Donald Trump held other events like in Omaha that I was telling you about, hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally.
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What do you mean you're canceling the inauguration? Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, though, puts it best. He goes, folks, this is a metaphor for the next four years. Yeah, the weather made it worse. But it was going to be an embarrassing crowd size no matter what. So Donald Trump had to cancel it because of his ego.
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Seven taken to the hospital. This one account goes, Trump supporters, we don't care how cold the inauguration is. We're used to being left out in the cold. Donald Trump to Trump supporters, well, I don't want to be too cold. I got to keep my billionaires happy on the dais inside. We'll do it inside the rotunda. You just take a look at Donald Trump's ridiculous statement right here.
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He also tries to say, look, I'm doing this to protect all of the people. I want to protect the first responders and the canine dogs and even the horses. I'm trying to protect the horses, everybody. Donald Trump goes, everybody's going to be celebrating this. There's going to be so much people who are going to be there.
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And now you can watch it at the Capital One Arena on Monday for live viewing, he says. Don't worry, all the parties are still going to be taking place, he says as well. He goes, this is an Arctic blast sweeping the country. I just don't want to see people hurt or injured. Sure, Donald, that sounds like you. You don't want to see people hurt or injured.
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By the way, Donald, I know you've been talking a lot about annexing Canada and Greenland. You are aware that those locations are much colder than what it's going to be like on Washington, D.C. throughout most of the year. Like you are aware of the way the weather patterns work. But I go back to what I read at the outset of this video, folks.
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And it's from the Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who says, we know what this is all about. We know what this is about. Trump and the billionaires inside warmth. All of the supporters who show up. Yeah, you ain't getting in. You ain't going to Mar-a-Lago. You ain't getting into these events. You ain't the Mar-a-Lago oligarchs. You ain't them. By the way, guess what?
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Trump ain't lowering the prices. He ain't making housing more affordable. You ain't getting those jobs that he promised you. But he will talk about changing the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America because America, right? Yeah. We will try to distract you while he breaks every single promise. But we told you so. We told you so. I'm Ben Myselis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe.
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But the billionaires, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and others, they're going to get the indoor seats. And the regular people who paid thousands of dollars to travel to be in Washington, D.C., they're going to get screwed. So let's show you this right here. Here's a video from NBC. This is the MAGA people in Washington, D.C.
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They're being told in this clip that Trump just said the inauguration outside is canceled. It's going to be inside. Watch their reaction. It's priceless. Let's play it.
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Trump CAUSES even MORE FELONS to Lead Republicans
The fact that Donald Trump as a convicted felon was elected is actually not unique to the Republican Party in this election cycle. There have been other felons who have been found criminally responsible for serious crimes, people who have pled guilty.
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who have been elected in other states as well for example in monroe county a commissioner who was elected there pled guilty to serious felony drug charges in indiana a republican who won a county seat has pled guilty to sexually assaulting his own daughter a guy by the name of john jessup
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And in Missouri, they are introducing a law, the Republicans are, it's called the Trump Law, to allow felons to run for office in the state of Missouri. So the fact that Trump as a convicted felon was elected, that's now par for the course for MAGA Republicans and they are normalizing it and encouraging it in their laws as well.
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The same way they are passing these abortion laws to take away women's right to choose, they're also passing pro-felon laws to allow individuals who say sexually assault their own daughters to run for office and win. I'm not making this stuff up, folks. Let's go to what? Let's go to Indiana first. Take a look at this article from The Guardian.
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Republican who won county seat pleads guilty to sexually assaulting his own daughter. John Jessup to resign as commissioner in Hancock, Indiana, and faces prison after guilty plea over incident in Las Vegas. And while this was all known to the Republican voters, they voted for this guy anyway. who's pled guilty to sexually assaulting his own daughter in Las Vegas.
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I'm gonna show you what went down in Monroe, Michigan as well in just a moment, but let's take a look at this story first. Days after winning elected office, a Republican politician in Indiana pled guilty to trying to sexually assault his own daughter in Las Vegas and now must resign his position.
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John Jessup, the commissioner of Hancock, Indiana, was charged in Nevada in June in connection with a sexual assault that occurred in January. reported the local Greenfield Daily Reporter's newspaper and KLAS. But he remained in office as county commissioner.
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He ran as a Republican for the seat on the Hancock Council after people knew the allegations against him, a distinct elected body, and he emerged as one of the victors after collecting about 15,000 votes. Records show that Jessup 49 pled guilty in Nevada court on November 13th to attempted sexual assault, which is a kind of felony that can carry multiple years in prison, according to state law.
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Indiana prohibits convicted felons from serving in state or local elected offices, though a decisive majority of its voters on November 5th helped vault Donald Trump to a second U.S. presidency just months after Trump was convicted of felonies. Therefore, Jessup must resign, unlike Trump, who has also faced multi-million dollar civil penalties for a rape allegation that a judge determined to be
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Substantially true. That's why now in these Republican states, like in Missouri, they are enacting laws to allow people like Jessup to run for office, even if they are felons, say convicted of sexually assaulting their own daughters. It goes on to say Jessup on Monday told the Guardian that he must fill out certain paperwork before he can step down.
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The county council chair had mailed him those papers, but they had not immediately arrived, said Jessup, who is awaiting a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for April. According to what Jessup told the Daily Reporter, he was prepared for prosecutors to argue that he deserves between eight and 20 years in prison.
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Jessup reportedly said his attorneys were going to seek a sentence of probation. Quote, it's been my greatest honor serving the people of Hancock County.
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and i'm deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry for the shame i brought to the county jessup told the daily reporter an affidavit obtained and reported on by the outlet said jessup's criminal charges came after he flew to las vegas with a woman in january the affidavit did not identify the woman but in an article on tuesday the daily reporter wrote that jessup was charged with assaulting his youngest daughter rachel on a trip to las vegas intended to celebrate her 21st birthday
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I never dreamed it would have ended up the way it did, Rachel Jessup reportedly told the outlet. Multiple witnesses allegedly told authorities that John Jessup got Rachel, his daughter, intoxicated. Allegedly, as Jessup repeatedly said the slogan, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, she became so intoxicated she needed a wheelchair to get back to her hotel room.
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There, she said she recalled showering while clothed and her next recollection was waking up naked as Jessup, her dad, sexually assaulted her. Authorities wrote in the affidavit cited by the Daily Reporter, should be noted as well, in states like Indiana based on the abortion bans in their states, you would also not be able to get abortion care in situations like this in many red states.
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The woman reported the assault to police in just a few days and authorities arrested him in Indiana in June before extraditing him to Nevada. According to the Daily Reporter, during an interview with investigators, Jessup acknowledged that he, quote, and spoke of suicide, yet also said he had not done anything criminal.
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Jessup posted a $100,000 bond to await the outcome of the case against him under house arrest in Las Vegas area. In a statement to the Indiana News outlet, a Republican Party official in Hancock County denied that her organization had any role in Jessup's case until the legal process concludes or he resigns. In other words, the Republican Party was like,
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I guess it's just gonna have to be up to him to resign. We're not involved in that decision. We take no position. Rachel Jessup, now 22 years old, told the Daily Reporter she was disappointed voters elected her father despite the charges against him. She reportedly said she spoke out publicly because I want it known it's okay to come forward. And while it's hard, it's good to share what happened.
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She also discussed her plans to pursue graduate-level degree work in social work. Hancock County is part of a region that includes Indianapolis, the state capital. It has a population of about 80,000 people. The purpose here of sharing that one story with you as well is that when you're saying, How could this be? They elected Donald Trump.
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This is what they're doing, the Republicans, across the country as they've been radicalized to this Taliban style, okay with sexually assaulting behavior. It's horrific. By the way, we wish the victim
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well and um you know we're so sorry for what happened to you it's absolutely horrific we wish you well in your graduate studies all right let's go to michigan in the republican area of monroe county who elected a convict and here the republican convicted felon is going to be serving his term as an elected official from behind bars he pled guilty he's receiving
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An 18-month sentence for renting out land to an area that illegally grew marijuana and was selling it against the law there. Pled guilty but ran while a convicted felon, was elected with 90% of the vote after being a convicted felon, and will be doing his job from behind bars. Here's the article.
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Newly elected County Commissioner Mark Brandt says he's eager to serve his constituents in Monroe County, Michigan, but first he has to serve time. Brant is scheduled to report to federal prison in Morgantown, West Virginia on Friday, making this a Thanksgiving he will always remember, even if he'd rather forget.
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Brant was sentenced to 18 months in a federal prison, fined $500,000, and agreed to give up more than $300,000 to the feds found in his Monroe home after he pled guilty to maintaining a drug-involved prostitution. premises. It goes on to say that he was elected in 2012.
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He basically hid from the other commissioners what was going on, but it says this Republican was still elected with a staggering 90% of the vote. His popularity contributed to his decisive victory, but he also benefited from running in a district that's so overwhelmingly Republican that no Democrat dared challenge him by trying to get on the ballot before the filing deadline in April.
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Add to the fact that Brandt had been elected three times before and that most folks had no idea he was in the Fed's crosshairs, but apparently didn't care at all. He goes on to say, while I'm gone, he goes in jail, he goes prison, my phone will be available.
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I have somebody who will be taking my messages and my fellow board members have all volunteered to handle all of my constituent concerns that I won't be able to handle. As for his salary of about $15,000, Brand said he had no choice. By law, I have to take the payment while I'm in prison, while I'm not there. So he's gonna be making money while in prison as well.
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Finally, let's go to the state of Missouri. Proposed Trump law seeks to allow felons to run for office in Missouri. And this is the type of laboratory for autocracy my friend David Pepper talks about where they are cooking these horrific things to say, look, we're the pro-felon party now. Let's call this law the Trump law. For real, this is what they're calling it.
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The Trump law says, if you're a felon, you should be able to run for political office. A Missouri representative is proposing a repeal of a state law that currently prevents citizens with a felony history from running for a local and state office Republican. It's a Republican, of course. Representative Michael Davis of Belton, a suburb of Kansas City, pre-filed House Bill 318 on December 3rd.
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The bill named the Donald J. Trump Election Qualification Act would make it possible for those who have been guilty of a felony charge to run in a Missouri office if otherwise qualified. While Missouri allows convicted felons to vote, After completing their sentence and to run for federal office, it prohibits them from becoming candidates for local and state offices.
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Davis calls this discrepancy within the qualifications of running for different offices. I believe that we should punish those who do wrong, but once they've completed the terms, we should allow individuals to reintegrate into society. They are citizens. They have the ability to work and pay taxes.
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And one of the aspects of being a citizen is being represented by your government and deciding who should be who should represent you. Then it goes on to talk about Donald Trump's felony conviction. So let's be clear, folks. This is who the Republican Party is now. This is going on across the country.
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They're electing felons while they go and say they're the party of family values and while the evangelicals support them. They are electing people who have pled guilty to sexually assaulting their own daughter. I mean, just think about that while then also passing abortion bans to prevent access to reproductive health care.
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And you see these men who are pushing these laws, what's actually going on behind the scenes as well. And it's despicable and disgusting and something that we need to call out and we will call out here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together.
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Go figure, after all of the demeaning language Donald Trump has used about Mexico and Mexicans and people south of our border. But overwhelmingly still, Americans don't support tariffs on Mexico and Canada. which Donald Trump says he will do on day one. Next question. Do you think martial law could be necessary under any circumstance in the United States?
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40%, 45% say no, 20% say yes, 35% are unsure. Donald Trump has threatened that he's going to invoke the Alien Seditions Act and invoke martial law to do his bloody mass deportation. So,
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americans there again don't support something donald trump said during the campaign he was going to do next one do you support eliminating the cfpb the consumer financial protection bureau 44 of americans oppose it 19 support it 37 are unsure so still here in this poll the majority people oppose something
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that Donald Trump and his Doge committee and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and other Republicans say that they will do, eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Approval for the Affordable Care Act, something Donald Trump says he will repeal. You'll recall that over the weekend, last weekend that is, Donald Trump went on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker.
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She asked him, do you have any plans when you repeal the Affordable Care Act of what you're going to replace it with? Trump said that they have concepts of plans and Republicans throughout the past few weeks have been attacking the Affordable Care Act over and over again, which prevents insurers from
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from discriminating against people on the basis of pre-existing conditions and it brought tens of millions of people health care who didn't have it before now look there are serious flaws in our health care system that need to be fixed But having healthcare versus not having healthcare at all is the difference between life or death. How can we improve the system?
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Something that President Biden was focusing on. Here, 54% of Americans approve the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare. 38% disapprove, according to the Gallup poll. Next one, this is big, right? Donald Trump's whole thing is cryptocurrency. His SEC director is gonna allow anybody to do whatever they want with cryptocurrency. We've done all of the reporting.
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Donald Trump owns a crypto company, World Liberty Financial. He cut that deal with that guy, Justin Sun, who runs the Tron blockchain, which has been under the investigation by the SEC for engaging in fraudulent trading, Justin Sun.
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denies all of the allegations justin's son was that guy who bought a 6.2 million dollar banana at an art show and then ate it to flaunt his wealth cryptocurrency should it be more regulated no change less regulated or unsure the you gov poll says 42 percent of americans think cryptocurrency should be more regulated 18 say no change 10 less 30 percent unsure
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Donald Trump's plan would make it far less regulated or not regulated at all. Next poll. Echelon Insights, support for deporting a grandmother who has been in the U.S. for 20 years after originally entering illegally with children and grandchildren who are U.S. citizens. 51% oppose, 30% support, 13% are neutral out of 1,001 people who were asked this question.
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So overwhelmingly people oppose bloody deportations or deportations of your grandma who's illegally here. Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Tom Homan have made it clear that precisely what they're going to do is not just get rid of grandma, but also potentially get rid of the whole family and revoke birthright citizenship.
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So again, Americans not in line with what Donald Trump says he's going to do. Look, I'm going to protect my family and I'm going to protect my family safely. That's why I use Stopbox. Let me tell you what Stopbox is. Keep your loved ones safe while ensuring instant access to your firearm. It's one of the biggest challenges that gun owners face. Most storage options force you to fumble with keys or
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They're also going to give you a buy one, get one free offer on their Stopbox Pro. That's 10% off and a free Stopbox Pro when you use code MIDAS, M-E-I-D-A-S, at stopboxusa.com. That's stopboxusa.com. Use the code MIDAS. Yeah, we could be gun owners too. How about approval for Congress, right? Congress, House of Representatives in America, previously controlled by Republicans.
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75% of Americans disapprove of Congress. Only 17% approve based on this Monmouth poll. Well, okay, you literally put the same party back in power next term that you disapprove of by 75%. That's a factor here in our country of gerrymandering and how Republicans have carved out these districts in a way so that they never lose and screw Democrats. Just wanted to read this, too.
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This is according to a Joint Economic Committee report. Trump's mass deportations would reduce our real GDP by as much as 7.4 percent by 2028. reduce the worker supply for agriculture and construction, push prices up to 9.1% higher by 2028, cost 44,000 Americans their jobs for every 500,000 immigrants removed from the labor force. Think about that.
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So they're not even really giving you the top line number or the bottom line number there. They're just giving you one data point. So if Trump says he's going to deport 20 million migrants, do the math of how many jobs that would cost Americans, right? It would be a massive, massive hit on our economy. Here's the next question. Under Trump, prices for food and gas
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Most people believe it will increase. 41% of the applicants say the prices will increase now under Donald Trump.
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And wait a minute, the whole point of the election that you all claimed, not you watching this, but that they all claim was that this was about the price of eggs and the price of gas and inflation that was, by the way, caused by Donald Trump's first term where Trump added over $8 trillion in debt, screwed up our supply chain,
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ran our country into the ground during COVID, which was the cause of inflation, and printed money recklessly during the PPP program where he forgave the debt of people who were already rich whose debt was forgiven, whereas student loan debt isn't forgiven under Donald Trump, but his wealthy millionaire friends get their debt forgiven. No problems, no one's angry about that.
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I'm angry about it, you're angry about it, but no Republicans are. So people believe that Trump will increase the costs of goods. Okay, great, I'm being sarcastic. Support for eliminating the Department of Education, which Trump says he's going to do. 54% of Americans oppose it. 30% support it. 10% are neutral. Donald Trump's position is eliminate the Department of Education. Next one.
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Americans who were not paying attention at all during the election are now responding to some polling questions and they are shocked at what Donald Trump says he's going to do. And Americans, by and large, do not support almost anything that Donald Trump says he's going to do. Still, Americans simply don't believe he's going to do the things he says he's going to do.
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Do you approve or disapprove of Elon Musk serving as a close advisor to Trump? The majority of Americans, 50%, disapprove. What about approval of Trump granting pardons to the January 6th rioters, which Trump says he's going to do in the first nine minutes? 62% disapprove, 34% approve. And then this is the question that I wanted to show you.
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Do you think it is likely that Trump will invoke martial law? 48% say unlikely, 34% say likely, 19% unsure based on the YouGov poll. When you say unlikely, what are you basing that on? Trump says he's going to do it. And I think with a lot of these questions too, people are like, yeah, I just don't think he's going to actually do it. This is all fantasy world.
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Until it actually happens because there's this collective amnesia when Donald Trump told people to inject bleach in their arm during COVID. And like a miracle, he said everything was just going to go away and everything was just going to disappear. Now, one other data point I'll give you as well. When Donald Trump rang the bell at the stock market earlier last week,
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He was asked by Jim Cramer, a business propagandist, a basic softball question, as softball as you get. Should American workers put their money in the stock market? That was what Jim Cramer asked Donald Trump. Trump was there at the New York Stock Exchange. You would think the answer would be, I have a lot of confidence in this economy. Yep.
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Donald Trump's response was, I don't know if the stock market goes down and there's a dip that people can lose their money. Donald Trump went from in his campaign saying he was going to make the stock market the greatest ever, even though the stock market is now up 60% with Biden than it was when Trump was in office. Wait a minute, now Trump's saying there's going to be a dip?
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Donald Trump's saying the prices are going to be higher? Or he's not guaranteeing he'll make it lower, which is what he guaranteed? Trump's saying with healthcare, he only has concepts of a plan? That's what he's out there saying? I don't know, corporate media, maybe this is something you should be covering. Don't you think that's kind of what... Your job is, I guess, forget it.
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but they don't support the things he says he's going to do. They just think he's making it up, apparently. What does that say about our country and the electorate right now? Take a look at this YouGov poll, for example. The net support for imposing tariffs on Mexico, negative 9%, on Canada, Negative 18%, so more Americans appear to be okay with Mexico.
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So as Donald Trump is trying to denigrate Mexico and act like Mexico's a horrible place to live, by the way. My wife's Mexican. Her family's from Mexico, from Guadalajara. When I visit, it's beautiful. The people are incredible there. President Scheinbaum's appealing to Mexico's pride in their country and saying, okay, you want to go after us? We're going to go after you. Watch this.
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I think it's brilliant. I want to know your thoughts. Let's play it.
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You see what President Scheinbaum is doing there? It's very tactical. She's not just doing that for no reason. She's essentially saying, all right, Donald, you're saying that we're a crappy place to live? We think that the United States is right there. Let me show you what she did as well.
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Again, earlier in the week, I referenced this in the video where she showed that map from 1607 saying, actually, the United States is Mexico. You can't conquer us. The United States belongs to Mexico. So we're doing this game.
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Mexico's president, Claudia Scheinbaum, continues to outmaneuver Donald Trump. I had played earlier in the week a video where she showed a map from 1607 where the United States was actually labeled Mexico-America. And she said, all right, Donald, you want to talk about real territorial boundaries? You want to try to troll us? Well, perhaps the United States should be renamed Mexico.
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Now look, the key message that President Scheinbaum has been pushing is for countries, specifically the United States, to respect the sovereignty of other nations. that independent nations should not be bullied, coerced, militarily, economic, or otherwise, by other nations.
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Respect our sovereignty, and respect the sovereignty of other nations, and President Scheinbaum, in this next video I'm gonna play for you, Sticking up for Panama, because Donald Trump says that he's considering and not ruling out military action against Panama to conquer the Panama Canal or to acquire the Panama Canal, which, by the way, was a lease. It never belonged to the United States.
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But here, President Scheinbaum says, look, people of Panama, we stand in solidarity with you. Mexico stands in solidarity with Panama. Let's play this.
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There's a broader geopolitical situation taking place here. A realignment situation.
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of power if you will so one of the most important things that you need to remember and i've been covering this a lot is that china has been increasing its influence whether it's in mexico or go further south to central american countries go further south to south america or you talk about just other countries throughout the world in africa and elsewhere in europe
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China has its second Silk Road program, its Belt and Roads program, where they go around and they say, look, we respect your sovereignty, we want to invest billions of dollars in your industry, and we wanna be a reliable ally with you. Now it's CCP propaganda, but President Xi's been pushing this and trying to undercut
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One of the things that President Claudia Scheinbaum also did this past week is she showed the people of her country a video of the people in the United States who are addicted to fentanyl, the people here whose lives have been ravaged by fentanyl.
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America by saying, look, you can't rely on America as an ally because just look at the things that they're doing. So One of the things that happened is that President Xi Jinping, before the G20 that took place about two months ago, requested a meeting with President Scheinbaum of Mexico.
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President Scheinbaum at first declined to have that meeting because it would be viewed potentially as a slap in the face to the United States of America. But after Trump won the election and after Donald Trump started doing all the Trumpy things, Not only did she agree to meet with President Xi Jinping during the G20 summit, but she was photographed with him in multiple photographs.
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And if you know the message that's being sent, if you understand the geopolitics here, she's sending a message to the United States saying, okay, you want to abandon us? We'll find other allies abroad who we can work with and who we can export our products to. Okay, you want to put tariffs on us to try to harm our industries? Look what happened with...
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soy farmers in the United States in the first Trump administration when Trump imposed tariffs on China. China retaliated by shutting down imports of soy from soy farmers in the United States. And what happened? Brazil became the beneficiary as part of the BRICS bloc. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and this really screwed over the soybean farmers.
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So what did the Republicans have to do? You know, they all say, oh, we hate government handouts. Well, What ended up having to happen is massive government subsidies from the Trump administration had to go to farmers, not just soy farmers, other farmers as well, to basically pay them to basically destroy their own crops for the surplus that they couldn't sell.
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So quite literally a government handout because otherwise the farming industry would die. And then the government, the Republicans say, okay, we want to cut social security, Medicare, Medicaid, all of these programs, veteran stuff.
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but you don't want to cut the subsidies to the farmers in your red states that you had to create and give the government handouts because you prevented the farmers from exporting their goods abroad with your tariffs. Just think about what's going on here. So President Xi Jinping's
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The point President Scheinbaum was powerfully making is that, Donald, you can go and attack Mexico for all of these things, but 99% of the consumption of these synthetic drugs It's taking place in the United States. The consumer of these drugs are in the United States. And the country that's largely responsible for distributing fentanyl, well, that's in Asia, right?
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Meeting with Claudia Scheinbaum, but met with the leader of Panama, met with the leader of Honduras and all these countries, Panama in 2017, Honduras in 2023. They're cutting off their diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of Beijing. And they are developing these relationships. And so it is emboldening these countries to stand up as well to the United States.
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I finally want to play you this one right here. This is President Scheinbaum as well. And here she is with her initial response when Donald Trump started threatening tariffs against Mexico. Remember this? This was the original response from Scheinbaum where she's like, Donald, we're not playing around here. Remember this one back from a few months ago? Let's play it.
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That's China and other countries, not Mexico. So you've got your facts wrong. And she played this video in the context of a public service announcement to Mexico and to Mexicans saying, You got to be careful here. We don't want to be like the United States. Look at all of their problems. We need to make sure we don't fall victim to what's going on there. So as you notice what's happening here.
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Well, there you have it folks. Powerful stuff by Gavin Newsom. Say to my face, in other words, is what he's saying. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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This is how you have to deal with Donald Trump. You have to stand up to him. You have to call him out. And you have to be willing to have these very public discussions. debates and discussions and show that ultimately Donald Trump backs down. Have you ever seen Donald Trump in a deposition? He's scared of the lawyers who aren't Governor Newsom. Trump backs down.
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Have you seen Donald Trump in any type of setting with other world leaders? Trump is scared of them. don't even get me started on seeing Donald Trump next to Vladimir Putin. He like shrivels up. He is a scared person because he's got imposter syndrome.
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He knows that this whole thing is a fake shtick that works on, as he says, I love the uneducated Americans who he lies to, but he knows that he is a complete fraud. Let me just read for you the letter of Governor Newsom right now. Sorry, I went on that rant, by the way. I wanted to read.
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i wanted to read you this letter here's what it says it's from governor newsom the office of the governor to donald trump dear mr president-elect it was just six years ago that we toured the devastation of the campfire in the town of paradise the deadliest wildfire in california's history that day you also visited the woolsey fire near malibu which took the lives of three residents and displaced tens of thousands
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communities, traditions, places, wiped out in a matter of hours. You witness firsthand the heartbreak and destruction that all too many places across this nation have faced from more frequent and more severe natural disasters, fires, hurricanes, and floods. Now, California is again facing one of the most destructive fires in our history.
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On Tuesday, January 7th, a massive windstorm hit Southern California with hurricane force gusts nearing 100 miles per hour in Los Angeles County. Southern California has seen virtually no rain this winter. And when those winds swept through the parched landscape, tiny ignitions became raging wildfires.
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Those fires, including the Palisades, Eatonhurst, Lydia, Woodley, and the Kenneth fires, have devastated the greater Los Angeles area, even in the face of Herculean work by legions of experienced firefighters. Tens of thousands of acres have burned. Thousands have lost their homes and businesses. At least 10 people are reported to have died. The loss and devastation are horrific.
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We are thankful that President Biden has swiftly approved our major disaster declaration, a strong indication of the partnership California needs and appreciates with any federal administration. However, the threat to lives and property remains acute.
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Higher than normal winds of up to 70 mph are still forecast for the next several days, and more extreme winds are likely early next week, with no change to dry conditions. As you prepare to assume the presidency once more, I invite you to come to California again to meet with the Americans affected by these fires.
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Gavin Newsom is telling Donald Trump, you want to talk about me? Say it to my face. Come to California, stand up here and say it to my face, Donald. Governor Gavin Newsom of California knows that when it really comes down to it, Donald Trump is a paper tiger. And Gavin Newsom's willing and ready to debate anyone. So he's like, let's do it in public. You want to brawl? You want to come after me?
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See the devastation firsthand and join me and others in thanking the heroic firefighters and first responders who are putting their lives on the line. In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines.
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans displaced from their homes and fearful for the future deserve to see all of us working in their best interest to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild with respect and an open hand. That's exactly what you gotta do, folks.
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At the same time Governor Newsom was doing that, he was also thanking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada. Justin Trudeau said, I spoke with Governor Newsom last night. We both know that Canada and the United States are more than just neighbors. We're friends, especially when times get tough.
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And then Justin Trudeau went on to talk about the close relationship between California and Canada and Canada offering some of its incredible firefighting resources to the state and to Los Angeles. Within the state, Governor Newsom responds, grateful for our Canadian neighbors as they lend a helping hand.
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our time of need because that's what you do with allies you don't threaten them and say we don't need them or we're gonna make them the 51st state you work with your allies I want to share with this with you as well this was during our the fire.
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As the fires were raging, Governor Newsom was asked by Anderson Cooper to respond to Donald Trump's various lies and attacks, where Donald Trump right away was saying, this is all Newsom's fault. Newsom didn't sign a water restoration act. Note, there's no such thing. Newsom did not agree to sign anything like that. It was total and utter BS by Donald Trump.
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Trump kept on referring to Newsom as new scum, said that Governor Newsom cares more about smelt than people's lives. All total BS. But then you saw all the right-wing trolls and even like right-wing people parroting the disinformation while Governor Newsom was just trying to do his job. I want you to watch this moment right here. Let's play it.
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I'm here. Say it to my face or shut up. And here's what Governor Newsom wrote. He posts, Okay, Donald Trump, as you prepare to assume the presidency once more, I invite you to come to California.
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Governor Newsom has never shied away from a battle. He's never shied away from a debate. He goes on Fox. He goes on and speaks to Sean Hannity, and he gives it back. I want to show this moment to you because to me, you know what I've been saying a lot lately, right? You know my acronyms. I go ABC, always be campaigning. And one of the other ones I use is DBD, Democrats be Democrats.
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And progressive policies work. While all these MAGAs want to attack California and attack other states that are led by Democratic governors, they usually have better education, better quality of life, lower mortality rates, longer lifespans, much more wealth.
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And one of the things that Gavin Newsom talks about here is, look, Sean Hannity, first off, you know, what are you trying to, you realize that blue states pretty much fund the red states? Here, I want you to watch this moment right here because this is what we're going to need in the next four years. Play this clip.
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The hundreds of thousands of Americans displaced from their homes and fearful for the future deserve to see us all working together in their best interest, not politicizing a human tragedy and spreading disinformation from the sidelines. That's brilliant right there. That's how you handle it.
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I'll show you a few other portions of, I think, highlighting Governor Newsom's debating skills. Here, Governor Newsom, this is, you know, this was back in November of 2023-ish. And here he is in this debate with DeSantis defending Biden's policies that actually worked And, you know, and Biden fixing the issues that were caused by Trump. Watch this.
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Let me move on. That was a lightning round.
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And when Governor Newsom was asked during this debate and saying, oh, well, you know, there's all this crime in California, watch his response.
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Donald Trump making all of these false and defamatory statements about Gavin Newsom focusing on smelt fish over dealing with fires, all BS, all bogus internet troll behavior, and Governor Newsom saying, I'm not an internet troll, okay? I am someone who is a leader. And you want to say this stuff? Say it to my face in front of the people of California.
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You put up the... And finally, after Donald Trump was elected, Governor Newsom was very quick to come out with a statement and say, California is not going to sit by if Donald Trump tries to threaten our state rights. If he's going to violate the Constitution, California is going to stand up. I'll play for you this clip. I want you to remember, too.
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that Governor Newsom held a special emergency session of the legislature in California to approve funds to file lawsuits and to ensure that the Constitution is protected against Donald Trump and that the people of the state of California are protected. Watch this.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
I'm joined by Maryland Governor Wes Moore. Governor Donald Trump's creating a ton of uncertainty, would be putting it nicely. Perhaps the word is calamity with respect to the American economy while he and his regime try to gaslight us that this is normal, that we're just detoxing is the word that they're using. Are we just detoxing? What are you seeing, Governor?
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But also, I just see a weak and pathetic man, whatever we're going to call him, from the White House just oozing weakness. What do you make of it all?
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
As a veteran yourself, as someone who served the way you did, I gotta get your take on Donald Trump's attack on veterans, on the armed services. His layoffs in the federal government are disproportionately impacting veterans who work
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30 to 40% of the federal government was made up of veterans, cutting 70,000 jobs from Veterans Affairs, which means that veterans are not going to get the services that they need. I know that Donald Trump previously called veterans and people who sacrificed their lives suckers and losers. I think he's showing that's how he feels about it. What do you make of what he's doing?
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
There was a story in the New York Times on Friday that there was this heated cabinet meeting where these cabinet officials really started to voice objections to Elon Musk. I think that you're seeing also MAGA Republicans across the country hearing this in their town halls.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
you know, allowing Elon Musk, this unelected bureaucrat, although Donald Trump said at the State of the Union that he's gotten rid of all of the unelected bureaucrats, except the person, I guess, who's now pulling his puppet strings and running the government. But I think MAGA Republicans are hearing about
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
uh how much people they want to abolish any government entity or thing it's it's doge and how much doge is causing uh destruction i mean do you think we're gonna see this fracture continue um i mean what are you seeing in in your state i mean i'm sure you hear not just from democrats i'm sure you also hear from independents and republicans about their views of what doge is doing
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
Let's talk about the humanity, values, and other priorities in your budget. Let's talk about what you're doing in the state, one, to kind of, as much as you can, Trump-proof Maryland, but two, contrast your budget, your priorities to what you're seeing now with this kind of chaos and mess at the federal government. I mean, let's show what you're doing.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
I want our audience to look at the answer you just gave, and I want to contrast it to when Donald Trump was asked the same question by our competitors at Fox about predictability, about not creating instability in the business markets. Just watch this, Governor. I think you'll get a kick out of it. Here, play this clip.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
I got one more for you, Governor. I got one more for you, Governor. So in the Oval Office on Friday, Trump was asked about large-scale federal government layoffs. Let me show you his response.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
A president who doesn't know what he's talking about says, what? I mean, how could you, like, what? Like, what is that? What in the world is that? Let me get your final remarks. You know, we know that the Trump people watch these views. They have their rapid response. Trump 47, who's watching all of our
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
There's a trend here, right? Beating down on marginalized communities, beating down on people who serve, beating down on our allies, but trying to suck up to authoritarian regimes and strong men who really aren't all that strong. I mean, to me, if these past 60 days feels like in eternity, have shown anything. I mean, to me, it's actually shown complete and utter weakness, incompetence, yes.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore, thanks for joining us. Thank you. And subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
MAGA Republican leaders in red states are starting to get more vocal about how Donald Trump's policies are hurting their states. Yep, Trump's policies are not only hurting blue states, they're also hurting red states where former President Biden's policies were actually contributing a lot to the economies of these red states.
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I want to share this with you. This is from the Kentucky Distillers Association. And here they're talking about how Kentucky bourbon. is getting hit hard. You know, Canada is not only or not only put on retaliatory reciprocal tariffs. Canada also has a boycott of all things American. If you look at some of the provinces, they've been removing all of the American booze from their shelves as well.
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And we're hearing from some MAGA Republican leaders who you might find somewhat unexpected. For example, MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, MAGA Republican Senator Tillis. Let's hear what they have to say. Let's play it.
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And also Canadians in general are not buying American. Here's what the Kentucky Distillers Association's president put out. Kentucky bourbon is a great American success story. Distilling is a $9 billion signature industry in the Commonwealth responsible for more than 23,000 jobs and $2.2 billion in salaries and benefits. Unfortunately,
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The return of retaliatory tariffs on American whiskey will have a far-reaching consequences across Kentucky, home to 95% of the world's bourbon. That means hardworking Americans, corn farmers, truckers, distillery workers, barrel makers, bartenders, servers, and the communities and businesses built around Kentucky bourbon will suffer.
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As a distinctive product of the United States, bourbon cannot be made anywhere else in the world. It truly is America's only native spirit. Bourbon jobs are American jobs, and we grow bourbon jobs by opening markets across the globe. Retaliatory measures against bourbon harm these markets and jeopardize growth for years to come.
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including unjust and disproportionate removal of American spirits from retail shelves and prohibition on new purchases of alcohol from American companies. Kentucky Bourbon brings people together and we hope it can be a uniting force in this situation.
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In the meantime, the Kentucky Distillers Association will continue to remind leaders of the far-reaching impact of our signature spirit and our concern for the loss of American jobs. It should be noted that that the KDA, the Kentucky Distillers Association, gave a lot of money to the Republican Party. You can see it right there.
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And by the way, they are still too cowardly to call out Donald Trump by name. It's not hypothetical leaders who are doing it to you. It's Donald Trump's chaos, Donald Trump's grievances and grudges, and his decision to unilaterally start attacking our allies that is doing this to you. So why don't you step up and actually call out who's doing this to you?
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Because it's not some amorphous hypothetical leadership entity. It's Donald Trump. Jack Daniels makers are also saying that The fact that the Canadians are boycotting American products and American booze and taking American booze off the shelf, in many ways, that's even worse than Canada's reciprocal tariff.
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The CEO, Lawson Whiting, calls Canada's move a disproportionate response to levies imposed by the Trump administration. Seriously, Jack Daniels, you're whining about Canada responding to the fact that Donald Trump essentially declared war on their country. Canada didn't decide to impose tariffs. Donald Trump and his regime decided to impose those tariffs.
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Canada didn't start talking about annexation. Donald Trump talks about making Canada the 51st state, calling their prime minister a governor, consistently threatening Canada over and over again. That's why Canada responded the way it did. And you're lucky Canada is not responding even stronger than it is, quite frankly.
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And millions of Americans support what Canada is doing, including me right now, because we are disgusted by what the Trump regime is doing. By the way, take a look at some of these Wall Street bankers. who were very supportive of Donald Trump, were now seeing headlines like this. The recession trade is back on Wall Street.
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Bank stocks and the Russell 2000 have slumped on growth concerns, while treasuries and gold have rallied. Wall Street is having another growth scare. Investors entered 2025 optimistic that an already strong U.S. economy can get an extra boost from an administration pushing market-friendly tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks instead.
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Trade tension and signs of slowing growth have driven major indexes lower in recent weeks. It goes on to say the declines accelerated this week as Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports. They continue Thursday, even after the White House paused tariffs on a large portion of those imports until April 2nd, with investors still uneasy about the broad direction of U.S. trade policy.
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You think? Since February, losses in the markets have been particularly acute in sectors that investors view as sensitive to a slowdown, such as banks and smaller companies. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite has fallen around 10%.
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from its recent peak oil prices have slipped havens including gold and u.s treasuries meanwhile have rallied quote i think a lot of people were just assuming the tariffs were just a bluff and now there's more uncertainty around that said keith lerner co-chief investment officer at truest advisory services the move show investors struggling to gauge of the conditions
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underpinning two straight years of near 25% stock gains have deteriorated significantly. Let me answer the question. The answer is yes. And by the way, the International Chamber of Commerce, a right-leaning think tank usually, Tariff war risks sinking the world into new Great Depression.
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The ICC, the Chamber of Commerce, warns the world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. You think maybe if they're doing the exact same things, that's what's causing it? But look, folks, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, he's got a plan and his plan is just to say that Donald Trump is doing it hard. He's hitting them hard. You got to love how hard he does it.
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Here, play this clip. And Donald Trump is going to stand up for American families and he's going to do it hard and he's going to do it strong. And that's why we love him as our president.
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Next up, I want to show you MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy of Louisiana saying, look, Trump promised to bring down prices and what he's doing with these tariffs, it seems to be causing inflation.
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Well, all of that's taking place. Donald Trump gave that whatever you want a speech at the joints before a joint session of Congress. And here Donald Trump talks about you need to get rid of the CHIPS Act. MAGA Mike, get rid of that CHIPS Act. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, get rid of the CHIPS Act, the act that invested over $50 billion in America, bringing the semiconductor industry back to America in red states and blue states. You're going to cause the loss of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of jobs made possible by the CHIPS Act.
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As former President Biden had previously written, the CHIPS and Science Act invests $52 billion to supercharge our efforts to make semiconductors here in America. Our actions have attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in private sector investments across the country. It is a game changer.
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I'm going to show you this clip right now, and I think you're going to get a little emotional when I show it to you. Here was a speech by former President Biden when he was saying how strong our economy was, talking about his accomplishments and warning what Trump and MAGA was going to do with the Chips Act. Play this clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. I told you you were getting it a little emotional when I showed you that. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers together. Thank you.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
I'm joined by Alexander Vindman, retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel. Mr. Vindman, what do we just watch unfold in the Oval Office with Donald Trump attacking President Zelensky? It was maybe one of the most shameful moments I think ever in American history. You're Ukrainian. You have unique experience in this area as well.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
I'll show you. They're trying to spin this now on Fox a certain way. They had Lindsey Graham, Senator Graham, MAGA Republican, go on moments ago. Let me show you what he said and get your reaction to it. Let's play it.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Again, I'll ask you. Alex, do you think that Putin is more afraid than ever? Is China more afraid than ever? Is Iran more afraid than ever after watching what just happened in the Oval Office?
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Your background, of course, you were in the European Council. You were a leader in this area, United States National Security Council for European Affairs. Your background, being born Ukrainian, what's your message to Ukraine right now, to the people of Europe who are seeing this? Yeah.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
I'll show everybody the book right here. It's called The Folly of Realism, How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine. I read this before doing this interview. I'd encourage everybody to read it because it gives a roadmap of even how we got here.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
And I don't want to give away what you say in the epilogue, but literally you predicted exactly what happened today, almost word for word, It's in the epilogue, so I'd ask people to read this, and it's important to understand how we got here. Again, make sure you all check it out, Might is Mighty. I'll leave with this.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Obviously, this is a very devastating time right now if you're in Europe, especially if you're in Ukraine. We see Europe, you know, the new chancellor of Germany, for example, and others even talking about just pushing away from the United States, totally just building a Europe first security force and basically may not even show up at NATO in June when the next major kind of conferences.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
So what do you think is going to happen? And just what's your message to, I guess, our former allies in Europe and Ukraine?
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
You know, so Graham, other magas are saying what needs to happen is Zelensky needs to go to Mar-a-Lago and apologize and say, I'm sorry, that was a big misunderstanding. I don't know, doesn't that play right into kind of Trump's God complex? And has Trump doubled down or is that a smart geopolitical move to pretend and keep the folly going?
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Well, if Zelensky was watching now, what would your advice be?
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Alex Vindman, thank you for joining us. I know a difficult day for for you and so many. Everybody, make sure you get this book, The Folly of Realism. I read it. I hope you read it, too. It's always right here, right on my right on my desk. Finish it up before the interview. Alex, thank you.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
I'm joined by Senator Adam Schiff. Senator, I want to get your reaction to that travesty in the Oval Office today where Donald Trump was attacking Ukrainian President Zelensky in the Oval Office with J.D. Vance laundering talking points, seems directly from the Kremlin. You had President Zelensky, in my view, kind of holding his ground, defending his country and, frankly, all democracies.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Your colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, he spoke after the meeting and he said that he thinks that after that, Moscow will be more afraid than ever. Let me show you what Senator Graham had to say and I'll get your reaction to it.
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Senator Schiff, do you think Moscow is more afraid than ever after what they observed in the Oval Office earlier today with Trump and Zelensky?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
I want to get your reaction to what you observed.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
So what do you think is the reaction that's going to be? I'm not sure if you've heard anything from some of your colleagues, perhaps on the other side of the aisle yet. That's what Lindsey Graham had to say. There was, you know, tended to be bipartisan support for Trump. By and large, I mean, I would say there are a lot of Republicans in the House who are in support of Ukraine.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
But in the Senate, there was more bipartisan support of Ukraine and Zelensky. What are you hearing now? Are Republicans so afraid of Trump that they're afraid of his tweets and Elon Musk posting things on X and Doge? I mean, what's going on?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
So after that Oval Office meeting, Donald Trump canceled press conference that was supposed to happen and then announced that he posted on his social media platform that he was also just canceling the peace talks. I mean, it feels like what a petulant child would do in a situation like that.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Then he went outside of the White House and he was wearing the like the red MAGA hat and he was basically asked by the press. So what would Zelenskyy What should Zelensky have done in the Oval Office? And Trump is like, well, he shouldn't have stood there and been like, Putin's bad, Putin this, Putin that. Why was he talking about Putin that way?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
I mean, you could hear for yourself what Trump said. I'll get your reaction to it. Let's play it.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Trump's saying he doesn't have to say negative things, Putin this, Putin that. I mean, I'm watching that and I'm thinking to myself, this is crazy. This is crazy stuff.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Well, Senator, this week as well, Donald Trump said he would be selling Trump gold cards for $5 million a pop to Russian oligarchs. He said, yes, Russian oligarchs, they could buy into the United States if they wanted to be citizens. They didn't have to buy a Trump gold card. I won't get into that. I've covered that before.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Final question, which is it's obviously a dark day, a day that's going to live in infamy in American history, world history, and especially in Ukraine. So first, as a senator from California, you know, as someone who is a leader in the United States Senate and generally in our body politic right now, what is what do you want to say to the people of America right now?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
And then what do you want to say to the people of Ukraine in the world?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Senator Adam Schiff, thank you for joining us this evening. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump LOSES IT as Presidency FALLS APART QUICK
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Trump LOSES IT as Presidency FALLS APART QUICK
As there were two plane crashes this week, as the world braces for Trump tariffs, as Donald Trump's government funding freeze has put our entire nation into chaos, as Donald Trump literally tried to divert water in California to a wrong area that was already subject to flooding so he could somehow claim he turned on a faucet by further flooding an area. By the way, farmland
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with farmers who actually voted for donald trump and who tilt republican voters trump screwing their farms even more while all of this was going on as our nation in the united states as we are totally suffering and weaker than we've ever been as americans don't feel safe To even like fly on airplanes or to do anything relating to the government. This is what Trump was doing.
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He was selling his meme coins. So as prices continue to skyrocket, as housing is not more affordable, it's less affordable. As mortgage rates go up, as there's no peace in Ukraine, as Donald Trump promised, he's selling memes. meme coins once again. He goes, I love dollar sign Trump. Go get gettrumpmemes.com. The guy is selling meme coins still right now from the Oval Office as this is going on.
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As you see another plane crash two in one week from This one's in northeast Philadelphia. Earlier in the week, a United States military Blackhawk helicopter crashed into an airplane from Kansas, killing 67 people. As Donald Trump was selling meme coins, he then wrote this. So sad to see the plane go down in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More innocent souls lost. Our people are totally engaged.
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First responders are already being given credit for doing a great job. More to follow. God bless you all. First responders are getting credit? What are you even talking about? Here's what Donald Trump posted earlier in the day. Two separate plane crash posts. I'm not going to ever normalize this behavior. Meme coins, two separate posts about plane crashes. And here's what he wrote in the morning.
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The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That's not really too complicated to understand, is it? Look, folks, it's why character so matters, right? Donald Trump has zero character. This is a convicted felon, a sexual assaulter, a broken human being, a disgusting human being, someone who has bankrupted multiple businesses.
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He's a total abject failure as a person. And this is why you need moral character. Is that too complicated to understand? People are in mourning. Our nation is in mourning. Bodies are still being located. What the hell kind of post is this? And then he goes and posts the following weird lie.
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photo of beautiful water flow that i just opened in california today 1.6 billion gallons and in three days it will be 5.2 billion gallons everybody should be happy about this long fought victory i only wish they listened to me six years ago there would have been no fire and He's saying there would have been no fire. He was taking credit for the rain.
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He believes that in northwest California that we border Canada and that you turn on a faucet. You want to know what actually happened? Acting on Trump's orders, federal officials opened up two California dams. State officials were not part of the decision-making, quote, I don't know where this water is going, but this is the wrong time of year to be releasing water from these reservoirs.
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California is not missing water. That was not the issue. It was that we had hurricane-style winds with fire, basically a fire hurricane consumed California. So you can't fly helicopters and it's hard to bring water when you have that type of wind and that type of catastrophic event. As we wrote on the Midas Touch Network, wrong valve, Donald.
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Your action rerouted water to the Tulare Lake bed, not to Southern California, by the way, where there's not fires anymore and where there is water. The reservoirs are full. Trump stopped the pumping after concerns from farmers, many of whom are conservative Trump voters, who feared it would trigger new flooding in a region that's still recovering from the devastation of 2023.
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He was pushing water to the wrong area, further devastating farms and people who voted for him. You know what they say, you F around and you find out, but I don't like people suffering. So what else was going on? Donald Trump inflicting more suffering. Here he was from one of his ridiculous Oval Office interviews or press conferences that he holds.
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And here he says that there's nothing that's going to stop him from tariffing Canada, Mexico and China. Play this clip.
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And here and with respect to Donald Trump, just like firing all of the federal workforce, getting rid of all the federal workers like the head of the FAA. was pushed out. Safety committees for the FAA pushed out. This is across all government agencies, by the way.
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The same time we learned that Elon Musk pushed out the top Treasury Department person because Musk and Trump and others wanted to seize access
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to the payment system that releases trillions of dollars from social security and medical billing and payments they wanted access to this information so now the oligarchs have all of our information our payment information who gets the money they have access to the funnel of money being released and the head of the treasury the acting head who's a bipartisan person not a political guy
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He was forced out to resign, but you have Donald Trump saying everybody is replaceable. It doesn't make a difference. Everybody's replaceable. Here, play this clip.
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This also comes at a time where Donald Trump forced the FCC to initiate a investigation into CBS, which is owned by Paramount, because 60 Minutes did an interview of Vice President Kamala Harris before the 2024 election. Donald Trump didn't like. So now the FCC is retaliating against Paramount and basically threatening their merger that they're trying to engage in with another oligarch company.
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Donald Trump has a personal lawsuit against CBS. He wants them to pay him money the same way or pay for a library the same way ABC and Meta $15 million payment by ABC, $25 million payment from Meta. He wants CBS to pay as well. Using the FCC to chill First Amendment speech. And look what they're doing.
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They're painting over any words that have the word like fairness, leadership, compassion, diversity. They're literally painting over it. How Orwellian, how dystopian. Speaking of which, He then has all of his like the people who work for him like this is Kristi Noem, the puppy killer. And she now is the secretary of Homeland Security. And she like goes on Fox.
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Look at this photo of her cosplaying as though she's like, I don't even know what this outfit is, like a Halloween costume. It's not how you need to dress if you're the Homeland Security secretary. It's like ridiculous stuff right here.
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And at a morning meeting, Trump officials have told staff at the Office of Personnel Management to draw plans to cut that agency's staffing programs by 70%, expected to disable federal retirement services program, federal employee health benefits, and more. It's destroying the government and destroying our alliances and destroying our economy in two weeks. and making us far less safe.
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Donald Trump has caused a crash in the American auto industry with the tariffs. Even Fox News had to explain how the tariff announcement prompted a stock market sell-off when Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's 27-year-old press secretary, who wears shirts that like, MAGA blondes do it better. That's the shirts that she wears. MAGA blondes do it better. Here's what they said on Fox. Let's play it.
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Don't know. And this is what they're going with now. This is what this is what Trump's press secretary is saying. When you're flying with your loved ones, Do you pray that your airplane lanes safely and gets you to your destination? Or do you pray that your pilot is a certain skin color? Here, play this clip.
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When I used to get on an airplane in the Biden administration or the Obama administration or others, I would just – I wouldn't be thinking twice, is my plane going to crash? Now we have two crashes in one week in Trump's America and Trump's talking about meme coins and you've got the Pentagon now run by Pete Hegseth, a former Fox host. refusing to allow celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Day, Black History Month, Holocaust remembrance, refusing to acknowledge that at the Defense Department, Elon Musk sleeping in the White House in the Lincoln bedroom. Anyway, I'm reminded of this. Everything can kind of have a Freudian root, right? I'll just leave you with this. Gavin Newsom in high school, Donald Trump around the same age. Just leave you with that image. Sorry. Hit subscribe.
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So let's be clear, as egg prices are shooting up higher than ever, as groceries are going higher, as gas prices are going on, as unions are being screwed, as Elon Musk is taking over federal agencies, seizing potentially government data
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freezing federal employees out of their own systems, gutting key agencies, forcing out the head of the FAA as we're seeing like now what plane crashes happening almost on a daily basis. Donald Trump has now ordered the FCC to open up a formal inquiry against CBS and 60 Minutes, which is owned by Paramount, demanding they comply with a series of requests by the government.
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So Donald Trump is in a private lawsuit against CBS in federal court in Texas. He and CBS, which is owned by Paramount, asked that Trump, that pro-Trump judge in Texas to delay proceedings in Texas. while so-called settlement talks are taking place. So Paramount is trying to sell itself to another oligarchical company for tens of billions of dollars.
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And they know that that requires DOJ approval of a merger or acquisition Trump and the DOJ are likely indicating they will block that merger. And also CBS and Paramount think that if Donald Trump pursues investigations against them from the FCC, that will also work to stop the merger that the parent company of CBS that Paramount is trying to engage in.
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So while these private settlement talks are taking place, Trump has the FCC send a letter to Paramount ordering that they turn over information about the interview with Kamala Harris that Donald Trump was afraid to do. And what we're learning from the New York Times is that CBS News is set to hand over now the transcript of the 60 Minutes interview to the FCC, which it previously would not do.
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Now, obviously, Donald Trump has forced meta interviews. Previously, Facebook to settle a personal grievance lawsuit that Donald Trump filed against them for $25 million. Purportedly, $23 million is going to go to a future library. Trump got ABC to settle for $15 million. And now his latest target is CBS. and he's obsessing over Kamala Harris right now.
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So as again, planes are crashing, okay, as America is far less safe. We all feel less safe as a result of Donald Trump. He's having the FCC pursue some that he felt humiliated by Kamala Harris. What a pathetic, weak individual. But if you were following the campaign, As we were reporting on this, Trump consistently said that this is what he was going to do.
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October 21, 2024, Trump says he wants unchecked power to take CBS off the air because he doesn't like 60 Minutes. Play the clip.
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October 6th, 2024. Trump says he's going to make 60 Minutes apologize to him for fact-checking his lies.
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Here was an interview we played. This was of Howard Stern and Vice President Kamala Harris, where they talked about the 60 Minutes issue. This is October 8th, 2024. Here, play this clip.
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That was on the campaign, and former Vice President Kamala Harris said Donald Trump was afraid to do an interview with 60 Minutes on CBS. Donald Trump refused to sit for that interview. Kamala Harris sat for the interview. And then right before the election, Donald Trump sued CBS for $10 billion. Donald Trump judge-shopped for a pro-MAGA federal judge in Texas, a judge named
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And this is October 20th, 2024, Donald Trump played the clip.
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Now, one of the things that FCC commissioner who is livid at the fact that the Republican now the Republican led FCC is pushing a formal investigation of CBS. Here's what Anna Gomez says. Let's be clear, this is a retaliatory move by the government against broadcasters whose content or coverage is perceived to be unfavorable.
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It is designed to instill fear in broadcast stations and influence a network's editorial decision. This is an FCC commissioner, by the way, a whistleblower saying this is what's going on. During these last two weeks, the FCC has shown a concerning pattern of implementing the will of the administration on issues that go far beyond our core responsibilities.
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These actions disregard longstanding norms and ignore the mandate granted by Congress to the FCC to act as an independent agency. They also set a dangerous precedent that threatens to undermine trust in the agency's role as an impartial regulator. This latest action to weaponize our broadcast licensing authority is no different.
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It revives a complaint that had been previously dismissed by FCC experts due to lack of evidence and because it fell far short of the high standard needed for for agency action.
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She goes on to say, let's be clear, this is a retaliatory move and the Communications Act clearly prohibits the commission from censoring broadcasts and the First Amendment protects journalistic decisions against government intimidation. We must respect the rule of law, uphold the Constitution and safeguard the public trust for broadcasters.
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One of the things I believe that's happening behind the scenes is that the people who work at 60 Minutes are pissed that their oligarch bosses at Paramount that want to sell everything to a new company are forcing their editorial hand
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and making them look utterly pathetic, while Paramount wants to do the settlement, kiss the ring, so that they could make billions of dollars by selling to another oligarch. It's all about the money for these fools, for these pathetic oligarchs at the expense of we, the people, while prices go up, while we get screwed, and the oligarchs sit front row at the inauguration.
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Matthew Kaczmarek, Trump filed the case there. And then when Trump won the election, he pursued his petty grievances against CBS because he believes CBS embarrassed him by doing an interview with now former Vice President Kamala Harris. and then wanting to fact check Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump claimed that CBS selectively edited their interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, which was and is entirely false. But Donald Trump filed the most bogus lawsuit saying that it was an unfair business practice in Texas, and that's why he was judge shopping there. Well, let me tell you what Donald Trump is doing right now, something I believe is in my opinion, entirely unlawful.
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That video was from June of 2024, so I'm shocked. I'm shocked I tell you that now Trump voters are learning that they are screwed. that these tariffs that Donald Trump's imposing on Mexico and Canada and Europe and Asia and basically everywhere. When Donald Trump gets bad, he imposes a tariff. And guess what? It's an economy killer. It's causing prices in the United States to skyrocket once again.
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It's inflationary. You know why? Because tariffs are inherently inflationary. They are a tax on United States corporations.
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that are importing things and they pass on the cost to consumers by increasing their prices also it results in retaliatory tariffs by foreign countries making the overall economic situation very very grim you didn't have to be a nobel economist to see this coming but 16 nobel economists during the election did say that trump would cause a quote inflation bomb
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But I guess corporate media told us that we weren't supposed to listen to experts. And I guess the MAGA Republicans have made experts like a curse word to even say the experts feel a certain way. So for whatever reason, voters didn't listen to them. Trump voters were like, that ain't gonna happen. We're gonna, let's tariff them and let's tariff them.
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Well, the inflation bomb has now come to our shores. Like a miracle, it ain't going away. and just take a look right here. If you could even get some groceries right now, because if you're going to grocery stores and you're trying to get eggs, to the extent you can even find them, the prices have reached all time highs. Gas prices are going up.
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Coffee prices are going up, reaching an all time high. We're seeing the automobile industry tanked down massive amounts on Friday after Trump said, nope, these tariffs are definitely coming. And when you listen to some of these Trump voters, and they're all on their conservative message boards trying to scramble and figure this out, and people are like, F, F word.
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I hope they get the deal worked out with Canada and Mexico. This is going to wreak havoc on everything. Hold on to your butts, everyone. This is going to be bad. Why? Tariffs are now taxing. Tariffs are taxes on Americans. This isn't what I vote for. This is what you voted for. We kept on saying it over and over again.
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When Donald Trump said America is at its wealthiest in the 1800s, we need to go back to 1870. I was telling you we're not at our wealthiest back then. By the way, Trump is still saying that now, that that's when we were at our wealthiest. Here, play this clip.
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Oh, you got people saying things like this. You've changed, Donald. F you. It's from some of the Trump voters. You have another Trump voter saying, you know, I like the Don, but I'm starting to get a bit worried about him. He's starting to act more like a dictator than a leader. Why does he think that threatening everybody is going to work? Is it just the America way or is he power tripping?
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I hope not because he's actually in a unique position to do some good, not only in the U.S., but the world. He's not going to do good. Do we realize what's happened over the past two weeks? America objectively has never been weaker. We've lost essentially all of our alliances. Our adversaries are in a stronger position than ever. Prices are not going down here. Our federal government is a mess.
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There were two plane crashes. This past week, one taking the life of 67 people as the tower control didn't have the appropriate staff, as the head of the FAA was pushed out and constructively discharged, meaning essentially fired, as Trump's gutted all the key safety committees, as Donald Trump has...
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utterly destroyed the federal government and now there's just complete and total chaos within the government as there was like a and this still is just no one knows what's even happening is there a government freeze what types of government aid can people access or not It's like the worst situation possible. And the only people who are loving this are the broligarchs, the oligarchs.
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They're loving this right now. You're seeing headlines like this. Trump tariffs stoke US food inflation despite pledge to lower costs. Y'all are still doing this, Reuters? You're still printing the, the pledge was to lower costs. Do Donald Trump lies about everything? His pledge was a lie. He said that he was going to bring down costs on day one, he said. Remember that? Let me play this for you.
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He said, day one, play the clip.
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Well, now we warned you. We said, no, that wasn't going to happen. Business shoppers brace for higher prices. NPR oil ticks up after hours on tariffs. Egg prices shoot up even more. Oh, by the way, there's Elon Musk dancing in his Wario outfit. The billionaires, the oligarchs, they think this is one big joke as we the people suffer. Do you feel, let me ask you this. Do you feel safe right now?
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Do you feel, in Trump's America, for real, like, do you feel safe? Like, would you want to, I mean, put this in the comments. Would you want to get on an airplane right now in Trump's America? I hate to say this, but like, he's broken the government. I mean, these are key positions. Donald Trump has caused a crash in the American auto industry with tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
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This is what the media was saying, though. For a brief second, the media was like, we're so back. We're back. We've got the access that we want. But by the end of these press conferences, the media is saying WTF. About 63% of all of our vegetables come from Mexico. When we look at fruits and nuts, about 50% come from there.
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If we look at Canada, most of the meat that we consume comes from Canada as well. A study this month by Warwick McGibbon and Marcus Nolan of the Peterson Institute for International Economics concluded that the 25% on Canada and Mexico tariffs and the 10% on China would damage everybody's economies involved. Consumers can now expect to see price increases on everything.
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Avocados, berries, tequila, beer, cooking oil, meat, and meat products. And consumers should brace for higher prices at the pump. By the way, are there going to be more plane crashes? In one week, we're seeing two plane crashes with the United States military Black Hawk copter. By the way, that's under Pete Hegseth's line of command. I was going to say, can you imagine if Biden was in office?
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But you get the point. By the way, the firefighters in Utah, they showed up to the Utah Senate as their Republican Senate voted to take away their collective bargaining rights. The National Labor Relations Board has been gutted by Donald Trump.
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So all those unions who voted for Donald Trump, union workers, the head of the Teamsters, Sean O'Brien, who's been like kissing Trump's ass, excuse my language, screwed over his rank and file. The National Labor Relations Board is gutted. Unions won't be able to be recognized. Grievances won't be heard ever.
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You know, Trump's using the FCC to destroy media that he doesn't like, that the FCC regulates. Also, the federal agents union that represents the FBI agents. They're pissed because Trump's fired any FBI agent who was involved in a January 6th case.
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And this is after the FBI agent union supported or said very nice things about all of Trump's new acting FBI heads who then turned around and fired them all. And we're just hearing these stories about leopard eating faces, F around and find out all over. Here's another one here. My cousin got let go and now my family is mad because I voted for it to happen.
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My cousin works at the VA as a specialized doctor and today got the letter to resign and get her pay through September. Because of this, I became an immediate target by my family because I voted for this to happen. I mean, as I'm watching all these people who are voting against this, their own interest over and over again. They screwed themselves. They screwed everybody else in this country.
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And these tariffs are going to hit everybody really, really hard. I mean, all Trump had to do was basically nothing. He could have just played golf, took credit for Biden's economy, put it on autopilot. It was all he had to do. But he's a maniac. He's literally a psychotic human being. F'd around and found out. Unfortunately, all of us have to feel that pain too. Hit subscribe.
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World leaders are ready to stomp on Donald Trump. They are prepared with detailed and meticulous plans to inflict pain on the United States of America as Donald Trump says that he is absolutely imposing those tariffs on Mexico, on Canada, on the European Union, on Taiwan. Noticing a trend here? Our allies, our friends.
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Now let me show you the response, a powerful response here, and a measured one as well, by Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Here he talks about a purposeful, forceful, immediate response to Donald Trump's tariffs. Let's play it.
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Next up, the very popular and powerful president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, talks about the detailed plan to retaliate against the United States of America. Let's play it.
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Next up, our friend, Charlie Angus, a member of parliament in Canada. He was in Ottawa on Friday, where he was bringing together political leaders, cultural icons, musicians, chefs, entertainers, you name it, bringing all of Canada together in solidarity against Donald Trump and the United States of America. Here's Charlie Angus. Let's play it.
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Next up is Mark Carney, who's looking to be the leader of the Liberal Party and to try to be the next prime minister, former governor of the Bank of England. Here he talks about how tariffs are no win for anybody. Play this clip.
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And here's what Donald Trump said when he was asked if there's anything that can be done at all to stop the tariffs. Donald Trump says no, nothing, and then proceeds to lie about the fentanyl deaths in the United States caused by Canada and caused by Mexico. Let's be very clear, fentanyl deaths are horrific. It needs to stop.
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We need to have the strictest penalties possible for those who bring it here. But you know who brings it here the most? Americans. You know who are the consumers of synthetic drugs? Americans. They don't have synthetic drug problems in Mexico or in Canada. It's happening here in the United States. And the United States is exporting its guns.
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Here's Trump attacking our EU ally, saying that he's absolutely going to impose tariffs. Let's play it.
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And you can tell that Donald Trump doesn't even really have a plan here. He's being asked, will the tariffs include Canadian crude? So is Donald Trump gonna make the price of gas and oil skyrocket? And Donald Trump's like, I don't know, I may reduce it to 10% here, play the clip.
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While all of this is happening, the oligarchs like Elon Musk are dancing and making a big joke about it. But just take a look at the way the market reacted to this. And folks, it's going to be a bloody market next week, that's for sure. And take a look at this. Donald Trump caused a serious crash in the American auto industry on Friday.
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following the announcement of tariffs against Mexico and Canada. Here's the press secretary for Donald Trump, Caroline Levitt, 27 year old, entirely inexperienced. Hey liberals, as she crashes the economy, Donald Trump was asked a very simple question though. Look, you promised Americans you would try to reduce costs. And then Donald Trump lies and says, tariffs don't cause inflation.
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Okay, they absolutely do cause inflation. By their very nature, they're inflationary. The fact that corporations were supportive of this guy or thinking, oh, he may not do what he says he's going to do, it's just utterly ridiculous. But listen in his own words, play the clip.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. It's good to see across the world leaders stepping up. Again, you have Macron in France offering to send troops to Greenland against the United States, potential invasion. That's what we're talking about. United States in about two weeks, very isolated, as weak as can be. This has helped China. This has helped Russia.
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The European Union is going to have to form an alliance essentially without the United States, devastating to the United States power. All the goodwill the United States has built since World War II, trash, trash, done. Hit subscribe, let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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fraud, waste, mismanagement, and now apparently the MAGA Republicans in the Senate and the House think there should be no guardrails at all. Trump should do whatever he wants.
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Next up, I want to share with you MAGA Republican Senator Lindsey Graham also justifying anything, essentially saying, yeah, Donald Trump should be able to fire the inspectors general, despite the fact that there is a law that quite literally prevents Trump from doing it. The law states that Donald Trump would have to provide 30 days notice to the House of Representatives and the Senate
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prior to a termination of the inspectors general. And in that notice, give a very detailed reasons why there's a termination with specific instances, what the inspectors general did to justify a termination. Now, if you are a Senator or a House of Representative member, you are a co-equal branch, co-equal.
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And our founders expected you to protect your turf, not with these MAGA Republicans, watch this.
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So as you see, folks, there is no law, no anything that they actually care about at all. In my opinion, they're fine with dictatorship, authoritarianism. Speaking of which, here's Tom Homan, Donald Trump's border czar, and here he's asked about these raids that are taking place in schools. Mass deportation raids in elementary schools, high schools, middle schools.
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That we're now learning about across the country. And what Tom Homan says here, Donald Trump's borders are as well. They may be MS-13. They may be gang members, these people. Here, play this clip.
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Look, we all agree that gang members should be deported, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That was the Biden policy. Donald Trump killed a bipartisan border deal that would have provided more funding two cops, more funding to border patrol agents to deal with this. They killed it because they wanted to say that there's this emergency and that there's all of this chaos.
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By the way, border crossings were down under President Biden. Objective data. We still care about that at the Midas Touch Network. Just as low, if not lower, than they were under Trump's first term. Trump's border crossings down the lowest in the Trump term, April 2020, because of COVID. Otherwise, Biden had lower border crossings than Trump at the end of the Biden administration. I just...
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I gotta show you this and perhaps it's me being a little bit petty. But this is a Latino who voted for Trump, saying that he's against Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric and his mass deportation. But he still was rooting for Trump even though he doesn't like mass deportations and he may get deported. Here, watch this.
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I mean, you're going to have to explain that one. You're going to have to go down to the depths of psychiatry to explain that one pathology. Going back to this mega Republican Senator J.D. Vance. Here he justifies the pardoning and commutations of. January 6th, insurrectionists, many who tried to kill police officers. And J.D.
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Watching these MAGA Republican senators and Congress members over the weekend shows try to justify Donald Trump's unlawful orders and Donald Trump's unlawful behavior, it just goes to show you there's no depth to their depravity. they will justify anything for their cult leader. I want to give you some key exhibits here to show you what went down.
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Vann says, look, violence against police officers is not justified, but... He has a but. And if you're law enforcement and you're watching this, but... But there may be sometimes if it helps Trump, but here, play this clip.
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How, I mean, how pathetic is that? Then as part of this interview with JD Vance on Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan did a good job in this interview. She said, okay, well, your campaign promise was lowering prices. Are you going to do that, JD? You're going to lower the prices? And what's JD's response? JD goes, we've done a lot. And she's like, like what? I don't see any executive orders.
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And JD goes, it's going to take time. We need time. It's going to take time. Here, play the clip.
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So now the goalposts are changing because Donald Trump said it was going to happen on day one, right away, instantly. Just so we all know, I mean, here's what Trump said about that. Play this clip.
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Oh, but I guess just like peace in Ukraine, that's now pushed some indefinite timeline in the future. Lowering prices, that's pushed to some indefinite timeline in the future. But like Donald Trump has time to sell meme coins. Isn't that what y'all wanted, meme coins? And Donald Trump has time to post weird AI images of himself. Also, you have J.D.
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Vance attacking the Conference of Catholic Bishops. And J.D. Vance says that, oh, the fact that they're out there trying to protect LGBTQ and marginalized community and migrant rights, that really what they're doing is that they're greedy and they're money hungry, the Conference of Catholic Bishops. And J.D. Vance goes, he converted to Catholicism.
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For example, MAGA Republican Senator Tom Cotton justifying Donald Trump terminating the inspectors general from the various agencies and departments, many of whom Donald Trump appointed during the first Trump administration. These are the watchdogs who are supposed to guard over crimes,
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He goes, as a devout Catholic, I am ashamed of these groups that are saying that we need to show mercy. Here, play this clip.
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And finally, right here, JD Vance has asked, okay, well, you've always said that big tech needs to be broken up and big tech needs to be stopped. but you had all the big tech broligarchs there after they gave money to you and Donald Trump, hundreds of millions of dollars, they're there. So you're with them now and watch J.D. Vance's word selling.
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And folks, I want to highlight these videos. I could have showed you more, you get the point. Because these are promises broken by MAGA Republicans, and they're not looking out for the interests of we the people, objectively. Their focus is on the broligarchs. Their focus is on authoritarianism. Their focus is on breaking our constitution. And we need to highlight what they're doing here.
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Latino Trump Voters SOBBING IN TEARS as Trump BETRAYS THEM
We're hearing stories like this. Now, guess what? They are saying that the countries Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti that were allowed in the U.S. through the Biden humanitarian parole program are at risk of being deported, too, even though they technically came in legally. It's just that most don't have their resident card yet, which can take years, by the way.
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and this makes them at risk of being deported or detained. Also, ICE is even trying to detain immigrants who are legal. My dad, since he became an American citizen, thought he was safe. No, sweetheart, you're still not white. This feels amazing.
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because he thought this would never happen i warned them this is what happens when you backstab la raza latinos for trump more like latinos for discrimination and we're seeing even within maga a lot of the white maga members are trying to get ice to deport hispanic maga members and just hispanic people in general this was a major story that was just reported on this is in the new york post
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Texas teacher invites ICE to raid his school. Quote, I have many students who don't even speak English. Y'all should come to Fort Worth, Texas to Northside High School. I have many students who don't even speak English and they are in the 10th to 11th grade. They have to communicate through their iPhone translator with me.
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And he says, basically, the United States government should totally overhaul our school system in Texas as well. This video right here went viral of a Latino woman who voted for Donald Trump breaking down. She says, now I'm so scared. Why did you do this to me? God, please protect us. God, protect me, please. Here, watch this.
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Well, I can't speak for God, but I can show you a video clip of Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, who says that they're going into elementary schools, they're going into middle schools. He says because there are a lot of MS-13 members in elementary schools, specifically many of them, he says, are in these elementary schools. And again... They're using criminals and terrorists as pretext.
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Criminals and terrorists were never allowed to be here. The Biden administration was very strong on that. Biden's border policies actually led to the least crossings since April of 2020 when Trump was in office. The reason why it was low when Trump was in office was because Trump mishandled COVID. So Biden got it lower than that. There was no chaos with trade wars and tariffs.
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Things were normal, not chaotic and utterly just disastrous as they are now. But here's what Tom Homan has to say. Play this clip.
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And as I think about what the borders are, Tom Homan has to say, I'm always reminded of clips like this, like this Latino voter who voted for Trump. but says that he was really against Trump's immigrant policy and his policy of mass deportation, but he disliked him and so that's why he wanted to vote for him. Here, play this clip.
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Latino Trump Voters SOBBING IN TEARS as Trump BETRAYS THEM
Well, all of this is going on to what's Donald Trump doing. Trump was golfing and selling meme coins, making posts like this one of a sandstorm sweeping over a city. With the dollar sign Trump, which is the ticker to his meme coin, which by the way is crashing down about 60% over the past 70 days or so. I'll show you this clip right here. This is from Sherry. This video is going viral.
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This is her message for the Cubans in Miami who are now being targeted as well by ICE-related raids and by Donald Trump's policies. Here, let's play this clip.
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Here's a report also talking about some of these workplace raids that have begun. None of these people are the criminals or the terrorists. Here, play this clip.
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Well, we tried to warn these Latino voters for Trump. Again, F around and find out videos are a very difficult thing because I hate seeing people suffering, even if they voted for Trump. We're all suffering now under Donald Trump is the reality.
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But you need to take a hard look in the mirror at what you did, what you enabled by voting for this sicko, by putting in this authoritarian regime that hates you. And now the rest of us have to deal with this because you... You made a horrible decision for the rest of us.
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And so it's shameful that you would do such a thing and support such an idiot, criminal, felon, sexual assaulter in Donald Trump. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thank you for watching.
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Latino voters are feeling utterly betrayed by Donald Trump. Well, we told you so. We're hearing stories like this of a MAGA dad sending a text message to his daughter saying, Hi sweetie, keep a pic of your passport in your phone. And this lady goes, A text I got from my dad today. He's a Latino who voted for Trump. I'm just numb at this point. I really tried to tell him.
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This also follows Donald Trump's pick to be the ambassador of Israel, Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas. who said that he also holds a biblical view that he believes that Palestine should never exist, that it never existed, and he considers himself to be a Christian Zionist, is how he refers to himself. Also, Donald Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, holds views like this as well.
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Also, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was previously quoted as saying that he would be OK or he would encourage basically all of Gaza and the West Bank to just be totally demolished so that condominiums could be built there.
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Also, this follows Donald Trump saying in the Oval Office last week when he was referring to Gaza, he was referring to it as a great piece of land where things can be built. And he was talking about it as though he was considered building condos or apartments there. He says it's got great waterfront properties. That's how Donald Trump was talking about it.
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So now with all of that, we have a lot of Muslim voters who voted for Donald Trump who are now regretting their vote. But you effed around and you found out this is who Donald Trump has always been.
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And also there were Muslim voters who said, look, Trump and Kamala are basically the same and there's really no difference, despite the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris would say things like this, like this was the statements that she was making. She would go, the UN reports that no food has entered northern Gaza in nearly two weeks.
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israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid to those in need civilians must be protected and must have access to food water and medicine international humanitarian law must be respected and then you would have palestinian voters and muslim voters here in the united states who would whether they voted for trump or her they would say things like
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If you think that your activism is doing nothing, just look at how these hypocrites' messaging changes as November 5th approaches. And then they said, well, at the end of the day, they're both the same and there's not really going to be a difference between either of them at all. I mean, take a look at this post right here.
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On March 6, 2024, Kamala Harris's, quote, six-week ceasefire stunt right before Super Tuesday failed. The hypocrisy is astounding. They are determined to continue aiding, abetting, and committing a genocide. And you would see all of the people who would be booing Vice President Kamala Harris and protesting her. And you never really see the protest when it came to Donald Trump.
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On the other hand, you had, for example, leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, Muslim leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, standing with Donald Trump and strongly endorsing him during the campaign. Remember when this took place? I'm just going to show you a short clip of it. Let's play it.
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You know, and now again, we're hearing from a lot of Muslim voters, oh, you picked Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth got drunk and he was in a bar and Hegseth was saying, you know, to kill Islamic people. And that's what he was saying, to kill Muslims when he was drunk in a bar. That's what he was saying. And all these people are so bad. Yeah, well, this is who the people are. Let me do this.
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Let me first show you what Donald Trump said. You can hear it for yourself aboard Air Force One, where he said, you know, we need to clean that whole thing out. Just let me play it for you. Let's play it.
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Now here's Elise Stefanik at our confirmation hearing at the end of last week saying that she holds this biblical view that really the West Bank and Gaza just don't exist. Here, play this clip.
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And I should also let you know, while all of this is going on, Donald Trump also is bringing back a Muslim ban that's going to be worse than the one in the Trump administration won. His executive order already indicates that it's going to be far more expansive. Donald Trump rescinded.
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Quote, we just clean out that whole thing. We just need to clean that whole thing out. That's what Donald Trump said aboard Air Force One flying from Vegas to Miami about Gaza. He said that he's going to be calling his friends in Egypt and in Jordan and basically ask them to take all of the Palestinians so that there's no prospect at all of a Palestinian state.
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an executive order by President Biden and rescinded sanctions by President Biden, where President Biden imposed sanctions on Israeli settlers who would be blocking aid into Gaza and those Israeli settlers who would burn down homes. of Palestinians. And so Biden imposed sanctions on that group of Israelis, this group of settlers, and Donald Trump allowed those individuals to not be sanctioned.
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And a lot of those individuals then started burning down homes and blocking aid fairly soon thereafter. And also, while I guess the media is pretending there's a ceasefire. I mean, we're seeing still a lot of death and destruction in the West Bank. We're seeing a lot of death and destruction in South Lebanon as well. 11 killed, dozens wounded in South Lebanon.
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So it doesn't even like... I guess the corporate media is pretending there's a ceasefire still, but I guess that they're limiting it to just... Hamas in Gaza, but there doesn't really seem to be a ceasefire at all taking place. There seems to be kind of a war zone and they're pretending it isn't happening. Let me just share this with you as well.
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This is Mike Huckabee, so you can hear it for yourself, Donald Trump's ambassador. Let's play this clip.
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And look, folks, the thing that I was saying is President Biden was trying to get the ceasefire deal about a year ago, a year and a half ago, a sustainable ceasefire. And Netanyahu said, didn't agree with it. And Netanyahu said he had his own reasons, but Netanyahu was visiting Mar-a-Lago.
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And if we know anything about Trump, we know that Trump killed a lot of bills and a lot of things that would have been beneficial and beneficial to Biden, like the bipartisan border deal, because Trump viewed those as winning issues for Trump. So just think about that you had Netanyahu hanging out at Mar-a-Lago,
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All of the, you know, multiple times he was there, the same way Victor Orban would visit Mar-a-Lago, the same way Javier Millay would visit Mar-a-Lago to undermine Biden's foreign policy. I mean, it was so obvious. So for all of these, you know, Muslim Trump voters or. voters who said Kamala and Trump were the same. They were not the same on this issue.
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It wasn't even a close call, in my opinion, of where they were on these issues. But here we are. Here we are. And I mean, that call from Trump was just horrific. I mean, he's literally saying ethnic cleansing in the phone call. So in such clear terms, but we don't really hear corporate media saying it like that. Like that's what he's calling for. It's horrific. Hit subscribe.
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This should not be surprising because This is what Donald Trump has always felt. This follows Donald Trump's pick to become the United Nations ambassador, Elise Stefanik. She said during her confirmation hearing last week that she holds, quote, a biblical view that the West Bank and the Palestinian state should simply not exist.
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Colombia Prez THROWS Trump into TOTAL TANTRUM
You need to show Colombians dignity and respect. We're a sovereign nation. If you want to send Colombians via commercial flights, as had been done before, not in handcuffs, but done with at least a modicum of dignity and respect, Colombia would be open to that. Colombia stopped two American military planes from coming into Colombia. So what does Donald Trump do in response?
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Donald Trump then declares economic warfare on Colombia, and he basically says he's going to impose war. a 25% tariff immediately, and will raise that to a 50% tariff. He also says that he will have a visa ban, kicking out any Colombian leaders and Colombian nationals and Colombian politicians and diplomats and business people from the United States.
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Essentially what you would do when you're in an actual war with a country. And then Donald Trump also talked about other sanctions against Colombia, Bank accounts of Colombians. And so Trump escalated this pretty much to the highest form of economic warfare right before you get to like an actual war. So then Colombia responded. Its president basically said, look.
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All we said was that we don't want military planes, so we will send a presidential jet. Our presidential plane will go and pick up the nationals, and we will deal with it ourselves, to which Donald Trump viewed as wrong. I guess, a win and him being a tough guy. So then Donald Trump posted an image of himself in AI form looking like a mafia person, like looking like a gangster.
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And then it says F-A-F-O, F around and find out. Folks, the only people who are F-ing around and finding out is the American people. This doesn't make you look like a tough guy. And as all of these MAGA people like Matt Gaetz were saying, don't F with us on this dude, referring to the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro. You will be taking your criminals back the easy way or the hard way.
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This is not the fight with America you want. We want friendly relations with our neighbors, but friends don't leave their own shit in each other's homes. referring to the migrants as trash, as shit, as subhuman is the language that Gates and other MAGAs were using. I think it should be clear that we all agree that criminals, terrorists should indeed be deported.
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I don't think that's who Donald Trump is actually focused on as well. He's doing worksite raids and raids of schools and others. We've learned, for example, that in Brazil, Donald Trump put people on commercial flights to be sent to Brazil. But there, the people were treated who were sent to Brazil horrifically.
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And Brazil's President Lula found out that Brazilians were being handcuffed, treated like criminals. And President Lula of Brazil was saying, these aren't criminals. I'm not sure why you're treating these individuals this way. were launching a national investigation into the way these individuals were sent back on commercial flights into Brazil.
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And Brazil actually intercepted the Brazilians on their trip back. There was some issue with the flight as well. It was supposed to stop somewhere else. And Brazilians are absolutely livid right now. This also follows President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico telling Donald Trump, you will not be allowed to deport Mexicans using military aircraft into Mexico.
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If you want to engage in bilateral discussions, I'm open to having discussions, but I'm We will not be okay. Mexico's sovereignty is too important with you in America taking unilateral action, sending military planes filled with Mexicans and not respecting the dignity of this country or the human dignity of the people that you are deporting. Who is being benefited by all of this?
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It's not the United States of America. These deportation flights cost about $852,000 for Trump to use these military planes and to – and that doesn't even include all of the propaganda videos – Donald Trump has sent United States military armed American military to the southern border. He's got these, you know, very expensive helicopters flying all around, which really aren't doing a lot.
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But he's taking video of them. So it looks like there's a war taking place. And he's got these massive military airplanes who are taking like 80 people on these massive planes. Now, it would normally cost. about $8,000 an hour to transport individuals, how it used to be done. So you figure three to four hour flight, $25,000, $30,000. It's now costing about $850,000.
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And the Trump administration doesn't care about the prices. They care about the optics looking like an authoritarian, looking all powerful. That's what they want people to see. So again, who's benefiting from this all? The biggest beneficiary is China. First off, China is trying to expand the BRICS block. The BRICS block is the lead countries are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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Brazil being one of them. In the Trump administration one, when Donald Trump tariffed China, China responded by stopping its Chinese companies from accepting a lot of American farm products like soybeans and other products. And then China enhanced its relationship with Brazil.
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American farmers were getting screwed as a result because they had all of these surplus crops that they now couldn't sell anywhere because they They would export it to China, but China wasn't accepting it. So then the government had to come in and give massive handouts, massive subsidies, many of which still exist today. And so that's the type of thing we're going to see happen.
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China strengthening its relationship with Brazil. China strengthening its relationship with Colombia. China strengthening its relationship with Panama. A lot of the changes that we saw happened. in diplomatic ties of Central American and Latin American and African countries away from Taiwan towards Beijing, the acceleration of that happened a lot during the first Trump administration.
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So Donald Trump sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama as Rubio's first diplomatic visit, although I wouldn't call it diplomatic, after Donald Trump has repeatedly talked about conquering Panama, taking it back, even though Panama's never actually belonged. To the United States, there was a lease over the Panama Canal. Panama is a sovereign nation.
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But just think, if you're Panama, America's threatening to conquer you and take you over. What has Panama done in advance of this? And we've seen this with a lot of Latin American countries. they've enhanced their relationships with China. In 2017, they established formal diplomatic ties. 2018, Xi Jinping went to Panama, big diplomatic visit.
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Colombia, big diplomatic visit in the past year and a half, where Xi Jinping was in Colombia, for example, and the Colombia's enhanced its relationship. And in November, Colombia announced right around after the election that Colombia was accelerating its process to become a full member as part of the BRICS bloc. Let me just show you this, for example. This was the meeting between Xi Jinping and
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the leader of Columbia. So you can see for yourself the difference here. While Americans under Trump and people like Gates and others are saying, don't F with us, dude, don't F with us. China, the CCP, although it's propagandizing things, they're out there saying, we respect the sovereignty of these nations. We're here as part of a way to build together. Can we invest?
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We respect the cultural heritage. They're using the language. They're playing the game of diplomacy while Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to America's leadership in the world. Let me show you this clip right here. of Xi Jinping and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro. Play this clip.
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And in terms of kind of the cultural and heritage celebrations that China is focused on in places like Colombia, Brazil, Panama, go down the list. Peru, we're seeing this all over. I'll just show you an example. Like in Brazil, they have these parades with... with Chinese people and Brazilians celebrating each other and their relationship.
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You've got the Chinese flags, the Brazilian flags waving side by side because they're trying to build versus destroy. At least that's the language being communicated, is playing a diplomatic game at a high level while Trump is posting AI memes of himself. Here, play this clip.
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You know, and then I'll give you this example right here as well. You've got Marco Rubio making posts like this. This is what he posted over the weekend. He said, There should be retaliation on the Taliban. No one likes the Taliban here in the United States. I should take that back. Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo seem to like the Taliban.
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They invited the Taliban to show up at Camp David on the anniversary of September 11th during the first Trump administration, and they freed the 5,000 Taliban soldiers who ended up taking over all of Afghanistan.
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The country of Columbia caused Donald Trump to freak out over the weekend like a petulant two-year-old. No offense to petulant two-year-olds, nor is it that hard to get Donald Trump to freak out like one. So here's what went down. Columbia told Donald Trump, You cannot land military planes in Colombia when you are deporting Colombians in America to Colombia.
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And then Donald Trump did not withdraw, as he said he was going to, and President Biden then had to withdraw from Afghanistan after the Taliban took over as a result of Donald Trump releasing the Taliban terrorist prisoners. But like what Rubio is saying here, this again is their social media diplomacy. I mean, he's saying if this is true, we will have to immediately place a very big bounty.
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You're the secretary of state, dude. Are you waiting for Twitter username Jack159733462 to inform you whether this is true or not. Does Daddy Elon Musk need to explain to you if it's true or not? What do you mean if this is true? You're the Secretary of State. Use your resources.
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And also, as the Secretary of State, are you going to try to get us back into a war with Afghanistan that Biden got us out of? Is that the way y'all are handling these things right here? So, look, I think it's important that we reflect on this awful, awful diplomacy or lack thereof by the Trump administration.
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But ultimately, this is, you know, Trump posting memes, FAFO, look what we did to Colombia. I mean, Columbia just said don't send military jets and you're going to screw we the people. I mean, like Columbia provides a lot of coffee and a lot of other goods, too. So let's just say you tariff Columbia. OK, yes, it'll hurt them. It's also going to make coffee prices here go up.
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significantly because a tariff is a tax on the importer. So all of the coffee shops that got their coffee beans from Columbia, they're going to be the ones who have to pay more for it. And then they're going to raise their prices on their menu. That's what Americans would end up seeing. So this is the ordeal with Columbia. And this is what's going on.
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Trump's just creating a greater sense of solidarity amongst Americans. Latin nations. We're seeing that and their further push to be allied with China. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
Yeah, we're past the F around and find out stage. We're kind of at the take to the streets and peacefully protest stage. Take matters into our own hands stage peacefully. Of course, you have all these people in red districts and red states up to Ruby red who are saying, what the hell is Donald Trump and Elon Musk doing? You betrayed us.
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And this is what he said on November 4th. It's time to take out the trash together and vote Trump. Trump 2024. And then recently, Rodney posted, thanks to Elon Musk, I am now out of work. I've had a tough time finding a job these past few years. I worked for a company for almost six years and was let go. They decided to reorganize their company after another company bought them.
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So I was unemployed between January 2023 and June 2023. And I was hired by another company. Eventually, he says he was hired by the IRS in October 2024. He started working with them. But Elon Musk and his, quote, Doge gang decided to enact the reduction in force for the federal government, and he was laid off. How about this one right here?
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Voter doesn't believe in Project 2025, votes for Trump to get rid of the deep state, but he was employed by the feds for 29 years and now says bye-bye to his job, President Biden. Former President Biden posted the following back on December 12th, 2024. I pray to God that the president-elect throws away Project 2025. I think it would be an economic disaster.
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I believe the only way for a president to lead is to lead all of America, to which this guy responds, stop lying. And then Elon Musk gave one of his directives over this past weekend, although Trump and Musk claim that Elon Musk is actually not running Doge because Musk doesn't want to testify before Congress.
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So they say he's just a special advisor to Donald Trump so they could claim executive privilege, Presidential Records Act privileges, and other immunities to avoid having Elon Musk actually have to answer to you and we, the people. Then this guy responds to Musk, I voted for Trump. I'm a government employee working for 29 years. The disrespect has come over the years from both sides.
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This time it's out of control. We are political punching bags. We're not the deep state. We have been treated like crap, then he says to Trump. I voted for you three times. Why are you allowing Elon to abuse federal workers? Doge doesn't need to fire 200,000. They just need to fire one. We are not the deep state. We protect this country with technology.
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You promised us lower prices and you promised us making housing more affordable and peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. And you're doing the exact opposite. And Now they're losing their jobs. They're losing their Medicaid. They're losing their health care. They're losing their benefits. They're losing critical federal aid. They're losing the support that their special needs kids were receiving.
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If you continue down this path, this country will have no future. How about this Trump supporter who goes to Trump? We need to cut waste, but just because you or Elon have money doesn't mean you know how to do it if you're doing it wrong. You need someone with common sense, not money or ego. I voted for you to fix things, not do stupid things.
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By the way, should we check on some of those farmers for Trump? All of those farmers, by the way, who lived through the first Trump administration, so they knew the trade war that Trump started with China, then screwed them over, and now they are being brutally screwed by Donald Trump. With all of these cuts, it's hitting farmers in red areas very hard. Let's check in with them, shall we?
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Take a look at this montage, if you will. Play this clip.
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More comments, messages to Trump like this. I could show you literally tens of thousands of these, just showing you a few here. Janet McClure goes, I'm all for cutting government waste. My concern is the ramifications of people who have lost their jobs. They still have families to feed and support. The USA unemployment will skyrocket. What's the plan for them?
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Hey, Janet, you want to know the plan for them? The plan is to make them homeless. The plan is to screw them. The plan is to screw their families' lives. The plan is to make them suffer. You know why I know that? Because that's what Donald Trump and Elon Musk have said. They said they want to inflict hardship on Americans to destroy America.
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And this is what they said, to turn America basically into rubble. so that they can then rebuild it in their image. They need to destroy us all to then rebuild it. They said they want to inflict hardship. That is not a bug. That is the goal of what they are doing. Oh, and by the way,
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With a lot of those, with not a lot of those, with basically all of the federal employees who are being fired, they're being fired for cause, not being like just like laid off and then getting benefits or being able to get unemployment. They're being fired for cause. So they can't even qualify in many cases for unemployment based on the status for which they're being fired.
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They're losing it all. Trump is cruelly taking it from them. And they're saying, Donald, why did you betray us? Are you seeing these stories? I did a lot of videos on those town halls. A lot of those town halls were talking about, Oklahoma's fifth Oregon's Oklahoma's first Oregon's fifth congressional district. We're talking about the Ruby red areas in Wisconsin.
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It is heinous, cruel and disgusting stuff.
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from billionaires screwing over hardworking americans and that's why right now americans are taking matters into their own hands which we see happening at the town halls at the protests and i always say make sure you do this peacefully i always say that make sure you do it peacefully but people are peacefully showing up and protesting and these are growing i expect there to be a democracy spring an awakening i'm seeing
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happening right now. Here's an unhappy MAGA spotted in a news article comment section. Lori goes, I voted for Trump from Howell, Michigan. I voted for Trump and I don't like what's happening. My aunt also voted for Trump, but lost her government job. I'm on social security. Now I'm nervous about that being taken away. You should be nervous. He's going to take it away. I wanted a better America.
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My groceries are still high and people are losing their jobs. I didn't sign up for this. I did not vote for Musk. I feel my freedom is being taken away. I am not happy. Just take a look at this. Eggs are up 23%. Gas is up 17.4%. Price of sugar up 16.7%. Wheat up 8.4%. Lumber up 4.6%. Oh, that's going to soar when some of those tariffs kick in. The price of corn is up 3.4%. Gas is up.
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Electricity is up. Soybeans is up. Cheese is up. Is this what you voted for? The stock market's down. If we're talking about things that are down, stock market crashed on Friday. So that was not a good look. Stock market is very volatile and doing poorly right now under this Trump regime. Take a look at this one from Great Lakes Now.
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Dozens of workers focused on Lamprey control were among scores of Michigan federal workers fired without notice in the past week, including a Trump supporter. Let's find this guy in this article who I saw. This guy talks about how he voted for Trump and then now his life has been screwed. So
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It goes on to talk about how just months ago, Great Lakes fish advocates were celebrating a victory in a decades-long campaign to save lake trout populations from extinction at the hands of invasive sea lamprey. I know this stuff is very boring to Elon Musk and Donald Trump. This stuff bores them. They think that these aren't real jobs that actually focus on our Great Lakes and
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keeping people healthy, not exciting enough for Mr. Rocket Man and Donald Trump, right? Too boring for them, too boring for their Mar-a-Lago lives. Now they fear the progress could slip away as Trump's vow to downsize the federal government threatens to derail all of their efforts. Then it says, Here's this guy, Graham Peters. He goes, I want to ask why, why are you doing this?
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And if they even understand what they're doing, because it doesn't seem like they realize who they're getting rid of and the impact it's going to have. Peter's job included replanting forests with young saplings. And he said he put in 100% effort all the time. Supervisors were apologetic when they called to fire him, but said, Trump wants to fire you. The Office of Personnel Management
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Peters feels betrayed by politicians he helped put in office. It goes on to say that he voted for Donald Trump and he says it's the ultimate betrayal. If I had known this was going to happen, I wouldn't have voted for him. Really? You didn't know that was going to happen? Okay.
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Elon Musk then posts, consistent with Trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. to which this account writes, great, I've been a skilled trade federal employee for over a month and I'm still unable to access my emails.
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We're talking about Georgia's seventh congressional district. I mean, we're talking about red areas where Republicans are showing up at these town halls and saying, well, What in the world are you doing to their members of Congress? You are just enabling Elon Musk to snatch up our private information and our private data and gut our country.
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I'm a conservative who voted for Trump, but this is just getting too much already. This is people's lives here. I get you want to get rid of all the pointless DEI stuff, But I now regret leaving my secure job for this rollercoaster of uncertainty. I had never been more excited for a job in my life. Now I'm suddenly worried about suddenly being jobless over an email that I just can't access.
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How about this person right here who's got the Trump 2024 is her logo, Pamela's logo. And then she goes, what in the whole wide world? Linny and Brinny both depend on these programs. I think our kids, teachers help me understand this. Is this the IEP program? The Trump administration is giving schools a deadline to end DEI programs, which guess what?
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DEI, they consider IEP and helping special needs kids as well. And that's what they're eliminating too. Yes, they are. And then he has got a lot more stuff. I could go on for days showing you stuff, but I think you get the point here. As I said, though, I think we're past the F around and find out. People find out. The hatred of Donald Trump is massive right now. And again, it's not just liberals.
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It's human beings who are being treated like shit by Trump and Elon Musk, having not just their jobs taken away, their dignity taken away, their health care taken away, their rights, their freedoms being trampled on by billionaires right before their eyes. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Let's grow this channel. Let's keep the momentum.
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Y'all are forming alliances with Putin and you're throwing Ukraine under the bus and you're pulling America out of NATO. You're taking away our Medicaid. You're coming after our Social Security. What the hell are you doing here? Take a look at stories like this. This right here. This is Rodney in Nashville. Didn't expect his job to be trash that was taken out.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Germany's new chancellor, Frederick Meyers, did not hold back in his acceptance speech over this weekend in his condemnation of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance, and the American government under those individuals. There were elections held in Germany.
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And by the way, Russia loves all of this as Julia Davis, who monitors all things Russia propaganda, give her a shout out. She does great work. She goes, Trump and his team are gladly spreading Russian propaganda and Moscow is showcasing their subservience. Why blame Russia for its genocidal expansionist invasion?
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when you can blame nato and that's what russia is showing that the trump administration's doing and playing the trump clips over and over again here's the special envoy whitcoff again talking about his great discussions with putin let's play it the meeting ended i looked at my watch and it was close to three and a half hours that we were in there and hopefully that uh that suggests that a lot of good things got accomplished
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And then finally, here is Democratic Congress member Jim Himes, who I think has been stepping up a lot lately. And he says, when you watch the language of Trump and Besant and Musk and Vance and all of these magas, it's like watching a bad episode of The Sopranos with their shakedown. Oh, give us your rare earth minerals or else. Here, play this clip.
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US have some kind of guarantee or return on the billions of taxpayer dollars that have flowed into that conflict.
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One of the things also that we've been reporting on that's worth mentioning as well is that there have been lots of credible reports that the Trump administration, Musk and others have been threatening Ukraine to shut off their Starlink connection, even though it's already been fully paid for by Poland.
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the polish government has fully paid for ukraine's starlink but nonetheless you have the trump administration still threatening that elon musk will shut off their starlink if they don't submit and give america all of its rare earth minerals materials like seriously what the hell is going on here folks um
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Been seeing lots of polling lately as well showing how unpopular Donald Trump's attempted alliance or alliance with Putin is here in America. It's a shameful thing. It's embarrassing to be an American while Trump is sucking up to Putin like this and making America subservient to Russia, helping the Russian stock market soar while he crushes the American markets.
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This is a pathetic authoritarian regime we have here in the United States. Let's not mince words when we call it out. And again, powerful words there. Talk about not mincing words from Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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Musk, Trump, JD Vance, and the MAGA movement in America were supporting the German neo-Nazi party known as the AFD, which was also aligned with Russia. The AFD did worse than what they were expected to do in some initial polling. They came in second. The CDU, CSU came in first. They are going to be able to form a government forthwith.
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Now, in this next clip, Chancellor Meyers talks about a united Europe that can no longer rely on the United States. He talks about his role leading Germany, a strong Germany that no longer has the United States as an ally or a friend.
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And Chancellor Maersk continued to reiterate as well that he doesn't know what's even gonna happen in June when there's supposed to be a NATO summit because it clearly seems that Donald Trump, Musk, and JD Vance are pulling the United States out of NATO such that there needs to be a new European Common Defense Alliance. Play this clip.
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Folks, we are watching historic developments rapidly progress with new security arrangements where America under the Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance fascist regime is being isolated and now just pushed out rightfully so by Europe, also by other countries like Canada, Mexico, and elsewhere as Donald Trump tries to create alliances with Vladimir Putin, which most Americans don't want at all.
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Embarrassingly, Donald Trump does not know anything about German politics because Donald Trump tried to act like this was a victory for him, even though he supported the AFD, the neo-Nazi party in Germany, because Donald Trump was like, look, everybody, The conservative party in Germany won, everybody. That's because of me. The CDU, CSU, conservatives, everybody, they won. It's like us.
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Absolutely not. To be clear, the CDU, CSU is probably much closer to being like the Democrats in the United States of America, and Donald Trump again was supporting the opposite party, the Putin party, which did not win. But Donald Trump wrote the following, looks like the conservative party in Germany has won the very big and highly anticipated election.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
And over here, the new chancellor, which is the leader in Germany, Frederick Meyers, did not hold back. He lumped Donald Trump, Musk. J.D. Vance together with enemies like Vladimir Putin and Russia. He talked about the election interference, the malicious and wanted interference that was engaged in by Trump, Musk, J.D. Vance, and other magas in America, similar to what Putin was doing.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Much like the USA, the people of Germany got tired of the no common sense agenda, especially on energy and immigration that has prevailed for so many years. This is a great day for Germany and for the United States of America under the leadership of a gentleman named Donald J. Trump. Congratulations to all. Many more victories to follow.
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And again, it just shows you that not only is Donald Trump just dangerous, he is a complete and total idiot by claiming that as a victory. You clearly heard Chancellor Mayer's or future Chancellor Mayer's speech there, which was condemning Donald Trump and also condemning
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In terms of like energy policy, for example, the policies embraced by the CDU, CSU would be more analogous to all of the things that are ridiculous MAGA parties here in America would call the Green New Deal scam or whatever it is. Now, Europe is uniting right now, and we're seeing people stand up to Donald Trump.
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For example, here's French President Emmanuel Macron saying that, look, Ukraine has had legitimate elections, and all of Donald Trump's statements about Zelensky not being legitimate is Putin propaganda and false. Play this clip.
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While all of this is taking place, the Russian propaganda shows, Russian state regime media is loving all of this. Here is a clip from Russian state TV praising Donald Trump and Musk and J.D. Vance for being, quote, in total alignment with Putin. Let's play it. Trump.
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Going from Germany to France and now to the UK, the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, he gave a speech saying that Ukraine must be at the table for any talks on its future following the US-Russian alliance. Play this clip.
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Chancellor Meyers also is providing a very strong defense of Ukraine and also spoke about a strong Europe. Let me show you this part of Chancellor Mayer's acceptance speech where he called out Donald Trump, Musk and Vance and compared them to Putin.
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And while this is taking place, the former Fox News host turned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked on Fox shows on Sunday, is it fair to say, can you just admit that Russia attacked unprovoked into Ukraine, to which Hegseth refused to call Russia the aggressor? Play this clip.
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But fair to say Russia attacked unprovoked into Ukraine three years ago tomorrow.
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Okay, we'll leave it there.
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And everybody in the Trump authoritarian regime now refuses to call Russia the aggressor. Here is another US special envoy to the Middle East right here, Envoy Witkoff. And here he is asked a basic question and he says, the war didn't have to happen. It was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by Russia. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah, and as Sir William Browder says, this guy was also talking about his friendship with Putin after spending 3.5 hours with him at the Kremlin. He really should read Red Notice and learn about what happened to Sergei Magnitsky and me. Another comment right here from Anders Aslund says, the Trump administration and Musk are now the leading liars in the world, possibly even worse than Putin.
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Ukraine did not provoke Russia's assault. Russia attacked Ukraine for no reason. There was no discussion about Ukraine joining NATO. Ukraine suffered from neutrality. By the way, here's Pete Hegseth again saying that the firing of top military lawyers was and top military brass was necessary to make sure that there don't exist roadblocks to anything that's about to happen.
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What the hell you're playing?
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For people who may not know, I mean, they give advice to the military about what is lawful and what isn't. Not surprisingly, there's been some backlash to those who are worried about their removal. One Georgetown law professor says this. Trump also firing the Army, Navy and Air Force Jags. In some ways, that's even more chilling than firing the four stars.
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It's what you do when you're planning to break the law. You get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down. Your response to her.
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Then you had Donald Trump's treasury secretary talking like a mobster. Scott Besant, the treasury secretary, is talking about how he's really just doing his best with Donald and Elon to try to extort Ukraine for their rare earth minerals. Play the clip.
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Trump Loses Control as Approval Rapidly Crashes
Americans are rising up against Donald Trump. Trump's approval is tanking fast. Donald Trump, I think, realizing that he is a cornered rat. Let's talk about what happened over the weekend. Russian state regime media continued to talk about how Donald Trump and Putin are now fully aligned on their attacks of NATO, Ukraine, and Europe. Take a look at what happened on Russian state regime media.
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In his acceptance speech after becoming the next chancellor, the presumptive chancellor, Frederick Mayers said that Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Washington were now, quote, no less radical and outrageous than that of Moscow. Germany now views America basically no different than they view Putin. That's what Donald Trump has done to the United States and how Donald Trump has turned Europe and NATO
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and Canada and all of our traditional allies against the United States. Furthermore, over the weekend, Donald Trump appointed the podcast host and conspiracy theorist who never worked a day in the FBI as the deputy director of the FBI. I'm talking about Dan Bongino. FBI agents are absolutely furious at this appointment.
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Donald Trump posted the following, great news for law enforcement and American justice. Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our country, has been named the next deputy director of the FBI by the man who will be the best ever director, Kash Patel. As Ken Delanian of NBC writes, traditionally, the deputy FBI director has been a career FBI agent.
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That is particularly important when the director has no experience at the FBI. Donald Trump tonight announced he is appointing as deputy director Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and prolific conspiracy theorist. He has never spent a day working at the FBI, but he has spent many hours spouting baseless falsehoods about the bureau.
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such as that the FBI lied when they said they don't have a suspect in the pipe bombs as outside the RNC and DNC on January 15, 2021. Current and former FBI officials are appalled and extremely concerned for the national security of the country. And I would say the biggest reason, though, that Americans are pissed, even though those ones are young,
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Hugely, hugely a reason why as well is that Donald Trump has gutted the federal government, attacked people's Medicaid, tried to remove people's healthcare, and is doing everything he can to try to destroy our economy. We saw the markets crash at the end of last week.
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When you take a look at Trump's approvals from the latest Ipsos poll and the approvals of MAGA's, it is so underwater on just about every issue. Let's go through it. Here was a question in the latest Ipsos poll from February 18th. I imagine the next Ipsos poll is going to be even worse. Would you rather see the next Congress controlled by Democrats or Republicans?
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Voters by a 54% to 41% margin say Democrats. Next, voters were asked, Americans were asked about various policies that Donald Trump is pursuing like ending DEI or banning trans people from the military or making it easier for Trump to fire longtime federal workers. on basically every single issue Americans are against and strongly against.
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Everything that Trump and his authoritarian regime are doing and people are livid and pissed, especially at Elon Musk. Net support for ending DEI in government, negative 3%, meaning people don't like Trump's DEI policies. whatever that even means other than it's clearly racist pretext. Banning trans people from the military, negative 11%.
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Making it easier for presidents to fire longtime federal workers, negative 21%. Shutting down USAID, negative 21%. Blocking health agencies from communicating without approval from Trump appointee, Negative 43%. Describe the nation's economy these days. 52% of Americans say not so good. 21% of Americans say poor. Almost 80% of Americans believe we have a bad economy.
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Contrast that to the conclusion of former President Biden where consumer, rise Biden's term, where consumer confidence was growing, where inflation was supposed to shrink to about 2%. Former President Biden created about 16.4 million new jobs. There was never a month where jobs were lost. Unemployment was at record lows. Employment was at all-time highs. Wages were rising.
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Interest rates were being cut. The stock market was up 55%, 60%. Your 401k was doing great under former President Biden. And I'm sure if you even had the courage to look at it recently, It is in the tank once again, thanks to Trump, the same way it was in the tank in the first Trump administration. But it's getting even worse right now. Other polling questions from this Ipsos poll.
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Support for pardoning those convicted of violent crimes related to January 6th as Trump did. 83% of Americans oppose. Approval of Elon Musk shutting down federal programs, he decides are unnecessary. Only 26% of Americans approve. It has a net negative 26% rating. 76% of Americans say gas prices are too high and not good. The income of average Americans, 72% of Americans say not good or poor.
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92% of Americans say food prices are too high and not good. Only 35% of Americans say that Donald Trump can be trusted at all. While all of this is going on, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making posts like this. Trigger warning, Elon Musk frequently uses the R word over and over again. He posts memes like this. They always say, okay, retard. They never say, are you okay, retard?
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Then the United States Secretary of Defense, who has no experience to hold that position, former Fox host Pete Hegseth, who never commanded any military before holding this position, Pete Hegseth said that he refused to say whether Russia was the aggressor or not in Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine, quite literally spewing Russian propaganda. Let's play it.
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This is the type of person who is somehow controlling our government, who's gained access to your medical records, your social security information, your tax records, him and a bunch of 19 to 24 year olds who refer to themselves as Mr. Big Balls. They're getting your records, others from these 19 to 24 year old cohorts. saying all this like racist and horrific stuff.
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Why do they have access to your stuff? Why are they firing all of these hardworking government officials, dehumanizing them, lying and saying they're firing them for cause to prevent them from even getting unemployment and some of the most despicable stuff imaginable taking place right now.
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One thing to mention, too, is that Donald Trump's dangerousness is also matched by his incompetence and idiocracy. Donald Trump celebrated the fact that the conservative party, the CSU-CDU, won in Germany, even though Friedrich Merz, the new chancellor,
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hates Donald Trump and gave his acceptance speech saying that Europe is going to break away from Trump, that Trump can't be trusted, that Trump to him is no different than Putin because Trump's an idiot and he's like, oh, the conservative party. Donald Trump's preferred party was the AFD, which is the neo-Nazi party, and they were the ones that lost the election. But Donald Trump pretended that
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that he was the big victor in this, that Donald Trump got the conservative party that literally ran against him to win. This is how stupid it is also. You also had Donald Trump's special envoy showing up on CNN and other networks, again, spouting pro-Russian propaganda.
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Here's Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, who for some reason now has become the special envoy to Ukraine, apparently, because Donald Trump doesn't like Keith Kellogg, the original special envoy. Here, play this clip.
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by the way as a rachel matto posted this from the new york times one of mr trump's claims about ukraine offers a case study in his myth making he said that the united states has provided 350 billion dollars in aid to ukraine three times as much as europe but that much of money is missing and that mr zielinski admits that half of the money we sent him is missing in fact
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The United States has allocated about a third of what Trump claimed, even less than Europe, and none of it is known to be missing. Literally everything Donald Trump says is a lie. Donald Trump also posting memes like this, terrorizing the federal workers who he is firing and who he is treating like absolute crap. He mocks them.
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He mocks our federal workers like they're not hardworking people, like they're crappy people. These are hardworking Americans. that Donald Trump and Musk and these billionaires just treat like trash, dehumanize. It is despicable. Trump, this is a real post from Donald Trump. I mean, could you ever imagine that the president of the United States would make posts like this? It's a SpongeBob meme.
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And then it says, got done last week. and he's mocking the federal workers. Cried about Trump, cried about Elon, made it into the office for once, read some emails, cried about Trump and Elon some more. I mean, it's just nasty and despicable stuff right there as well. Also, Donald Trump sending emails like this. Buddy, have you seen the only official Doge shirt? Here it is.
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It's the Doge shirt right here. Let me show you this one other clip from Pete Hegseth here. He says the reason that he's firing all of the top military lawyers, in addition to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, C.Q. Brown, is because he wants to make sure there won't be roadblocks to anything that happens. Let's play this clip.
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So we're going to open. They're not even hiding anymore their fascist designs. Oh, and by the way, this clip resurfaced recently as well. This is Elon Musk ignoring his human shield child prop. You can see it right here. This was from an event that he spoke. I think this was the Madison Square Garden event. But here, play this clip. There you have it, folks.
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Over the weekend, folks, there were elections that were held in Germany. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, and the MAGAs supported Germany's neo-Nazi AFD party. The AFD party came in second. They did not win. the CSU-CDU party led by Frederick Mayers, who will become the next chancellor. They prevailed in the election. Mayers will become the next chancellor.
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But then Melania or Smelania, Smelania gets in on the action. She releases the Smelania coin. And then, boom, kind of right when that happened, thud. The Trump meme coin, boom, crashes. The Smolania meme coin, not doing well. A cascading effect takes place where then even Bitcoin is going down. The crypto markets start to crash. The crypto markets look to be suffering as a result of this.
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And it is the oldest tale in the books for Donald Trump and Smolania meme. The greed, the greed, the greed. You couldn't even wait. You had to exploit that position before day one, you two freaking grifters. What else would you expect though with a convicted felon like Donald Trump and a sexual assaulter like Donald Trump?
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What else would you expect when it comes to Melania, who was out there saying, oh, this is just locker room talk. I'm not really sure what accent that is. This was just locker room talk when Donald Trump was bragging about sexually assaulting women and non-consensually grabbing their genitals. This is who they are. She would sell crypto stuff before. She would sell the scammiest things.
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And they're going to keep on. They're just going to sell crap. And trinkets, like Melania would sell like Christmas ornaments, Mother's Day stuff. Then she would say some of this stuff goes to charity. But there was no public indication, at least with most of this stuff, which charities this thing is going to. She would sell, she would use these symbols.
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She would sell like on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. She would use the image of our troops. and sell the photos of like our troops for $150, $200, $300 each. And it was just a massive grift that we would see. We saw this with Trump. I mean, you know, Trump with the NFT collection, the Trump sneakers, the The Trump, the watches that he was selling for $100,000. The Get Trump guitars.
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I mean, this stuff was so unbecoming of someone who held this august and dignified office. Yet it was so normalized. We have to deal with all the headlines from CNN. Oh, Donald Trump's just pushing the limits of the Constitution. The Washington Post, Donald Trump conquered Washington, D.C. All of these ridiculous headlines. This is just a grift, a whole grift and nothing but the grift.
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And using the White House, using the office of this is the presidency, people. This was the office held by George Washington, by Abraham Lincoln, by John F. Kennedy. And if you're Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, this was the office that was held by freaking presidents and Trump is using it to sell shit coins. I mean, there were so many people who said, wait a minute, all right, Trump must be hacked.
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Melania Trump had to get in on the grift. She had to drop her own Melania meme coin. When you look at it, it was dollar sign Melania, so it looked like Smelania. So she drops her own meme coin after Trump drops his meme coin. And if you looked at all of these allocations, they favored insiders so much.
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This must be a hack of Trump. And then they were saying, as it relates to Melania, Is this a hack? Melania is now doing one. Like lots of people in this space thought this was so grifty and so that they couldn't even fathom that Trump or Melania would do this. But then Melania drops her own meme coin and then Trump's meme coin starts to crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash.
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Her meme coin's doing terrible and it's impacting the whole markets. This is at the same time that Donald Trump is set to issue all of these executive orders about the crypto industry and one of the ones that he's going to do. And again, you want to talk about the conflict of interest when he signs the executive order
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that says that the treasury department will add to our strategic reserves massive amounts of bitcoins and solano and all of these you know crypto tokens to add to our strategic reserves trump's now going to try to artificially prop up this market that he's the poster child for what you don't do trump's rug pull what we're seeing here at least as of the recording of this video with trump and melania this is worse
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Then the Hak Tua, where the Hak Tua girl, the girl who got famous for talking about a sexual act, Hak Tuing, and then she became like a podcaster and then did the ultimate rug pull. No one's heard about her. really since December or no one's heard from her since December when she did her own shitcoin meme coin. Think about this, your business established in 2025. It has a nice ring to it, right?
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Go to shopify.com slash Midas, lowercase, M-E-I-D-A-S, to start selling with Shopify today. One more time, that's shopify.com slash Midas. My opinion is that the Trump meme coin would crash regardless. It looked scammy. It had all of the markings of what you should not do.
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So you had Melania or Smelania and Donald Trump just grifting billions and billions of dollars using the office of the presidency to do it. They then had all these liability waivers. No one said, actually, this isn't about the presidency or politics or anything. Just if you want to show that you love the letters,
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This is exactly what the SEC commissioner under Biden, who all of the MAGA people hated and the whole business community hated because he was for regulation. He wanted to regulate crap like this that gives the entire crypto markets a horrible name where Donald Trump and Melania just say, oh, oh, you're just investing in dollar sign Trump and dollar sign Melania.
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And so therefore, this isn't a security, wink, wink. This isn't about increasing the net worth of the insiders. Look, the Securities and Exchange Commission has insider trading laws on the books for securities. Gensler, Biden's SEC commissioner, wanted to apply those to shit coins and meme coins and this whole grifty market. MAGA didn't want that.
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A lot of the business community didn't want that and said, oh, Gensler, how dare you do this? How dare you infringe upon our rights? This regulation is bad. Maybe, just maybe, Gensler had a point here. when it came to these shit coins and these meme coins that what?
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Because Donald Trump and Melania say these are not securities and that you're just showing your love of the letters Melania and dollar sign Trump that we can't be sued for insider trading. We can't be sued for, um,
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fraud we can't be sued for all of the types of things that you could for the stock market which is heavily regulated you just think about that the bitcoin crypto shitcoin crew was fighting to stop uh these shit coins from being regulated the way stocks are regulated you need to have efficient markets with accountability for things like insider trading
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But here, for this precise reason, the rug pulling, Melania comes in, announces her coin, boom, triggers this crash. All these people are losing their money. You know who made money? People who were tipped off about this from the outset.
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people who control the wallets that didn't even have to buy this, that just had the allocations as insiders given to them and having a vesting schedule that's favorable to them. I can't even begin to tell you how utterly despicable this conduct is. And the broader point I want to make here, though, because we should expect this. I mean, look, Melania did nude modeling before.
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No offense to nude models, but Melania claimed to have an Einstein visa. She came here under very odd and peculiar circumstances in terms of how she met Donald Trump and She met him at the Kit Kat Club, where rich Manhattan men would meet Eastern European women who were brought in from modeling agencies. That's how Donald Trump met Melania in the early 2000s. He would go to these clubs, right?
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It was around the time that he was hanging out with Epstein. It was around the time that Ghislaine Maxwell was finding Trump women. And then just separately and aside from that, but in this time frame, he would go to the Kit Kat Club and then there would be
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or if you want to show you love the letters, S symbol, S symbol, money sign, T-R-U-M-P, then be a part of this great community where we honor letters and symbols. Why are they doing that? Because they don't want to consider it a security. So they're trying to avoid getting sued for the ultimate rug pull. So here's what goes down though, right? So Donald Trump's meme coin
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separately modeling agencies that would make introductions, separate from Epstein, would make introductions to women from Eastern Europe and to these wealthy men. That's how Donald met Melania. Then she got an Einstein visa and boom, she accelerated here. She marries Donald and she gets citizenship here quicker than anybody else. Look,
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The final point I want to make is, is peace in Ukraine on day one? I don't think so. Lower prices on day one? I don't think so. Housing more affordable on day one? I don't think so. Donald Trump is a weapon of mass distraction. We should get pissed at what Melania is doing, what Trump is doing, but we got to always bring it back to weapon of mass distraction. What about the lower prices?
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What about anything you promised? And these freaking morons, they couldn't even wait until he was in office to pull this crap. Horrific stuff. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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is going high, it's increasing, it's increasing. We were warning everybody, this looks like a scam. This looks like the Haktua pump and dumpy thing. And 80%, 90% of the allocation is going to insiders, which means that Trump is probably making billions and billions of dollars. But we said, watch out, be very careful. And then, look, I thought that was going to dump and crash no matter what.
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I mean, President Biden said that he was not going to enforce any ban because he was leaving office. He'd leave it to Donald Trump. But TikTok wanted to deliver for Donald Trump a win so they can say Trump was our savior. Look what Trump did. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, points out, So TikTok shut down their app for one day, then turned it back on, thanking Donald Trump.
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What an obvious scam this was. Disgusting on the part of TikTok owners, Trump and all his sycophants who reversed their position on it one second after he did it for no other reason. then he didn't. So when you would access TikTok, when they took it down for the day, again, this is the Kim Jong-un CCP style propaganda that you've seen places, but this is what they put on TikTok.
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Um, when you, when you go on, it says a law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U S unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now, by the way, you could have still used TikTok. Again, Biden said he was not going to enforce the ban. He would leave it to Donald Trump to decide. But TikTok did this to play the victim and to say, look, Donald Trump saved it.
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Look, he's our savior of TikTok. Daddy Trump did it. It's ridiculous. This is what they wrote. This is when you signed on to TikTok, the 178 million Americans who signed on got this message. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned.
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Okay, let's take a look at what the headlines were in 2020 when Trump instituted the TikTok ban. So to be clear, where did this all come from? Where did this originate from? Whatever your view is on TikTok, let's just stick with the facts. Who was the arsonist who burned down TikTok originally? It was Donald Trump. Trump says he's banning TikTok in the U.S. These are all headlines from July...
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May, June, July, August 2020. Trump on TikTok. We're banning them from the United States. Trump says he intends to ban TikTok from the United States. Here are all the right-wing headlines too from like Breitbart. Trump says he'll ban TikTok. Fox. Trump says he'll act soon and make sure TikTok is banned on Saturday. Trump will ban TikTok. And then there's an ABC headline.
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Trump threatens to ban TikTok. Let's take a look at some other just posts from Donald Trump and Don Jr. So this is less than two years ago what I'm about to read. Trump bragging that he tried to ban TikTok three years before, but Democrats stopped him. Look, this is March 8th.
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of 2023, March 8th of 2023, Trump goes, has anybody noticed that everyone wants to go after and destroy TikTok due to China influence in national security? When I wanted to disable TikTok three years ago, I was met with opposition from rhinos to Democrats to everyone else. They actually went to court in an effort to stop me. Now they realize I was right and have changed their tune.
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How utterly pathetic. TikTok has announced that dear leader, Supreme Leader Donald Trump has saved TikTok, even though Donald Trump was the one who declared that it should be banned. Let me really break down this whole TikTok thing so you understand it. Donald Trump was the person who demanded that TikTok be banned. He issued an executive order back in 2020 when he was still in office.
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Sadly, I've been right about everything. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes, Trump gets in bed with the Chinese owners and suddenly TikTok isn't evil CCP compromised anymore. These people believe nothing. MAGA, the Trump influencers. What Trump decides today is what they believe in today, which changes tomorrow if Trump makes a deal with someone else to enrich himself. Case in point.
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I could show you dozens of these, more than dozens of these, but you'll get the point.
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Charlie Kirk, one of the big MAGA influencers, writes, President Donald Trump just announced on Air Force One that he will be banning the evil CCP-compromised app TikTok. America can't continue to allow our citizens to be surveilled by Xi Jinping and his terroristic cronies. I have long advocated for this. Fight back. July 31st, 2020."
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evil CCP it talks about surveillance on the United States of America but then here's what Charlie Kirk just posted two or three days ago TikTok is officially banned for all users in America Biden had a chance to keep it alive but he wanted this to happen to overshadow Trump's inauguration Trump could bring it back online then broker a historic deal let's see what Trump does on Monday
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And then the CEO of TikTok posted a video of Charlie Kirk in a very favorable way. So the guy who was saying that this is an unlawful surveillance tool by the CCP, the CEO of TikTok is now posting videos of Charlie Kirk promoting Kirk in a favorable way as someone who's helping TikTok because Donald Trump said that that's what should happen. Take a look at Don Jr. 's post.
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Don Jr., this is February 5th, 2023. Again, this is less than two years ago. Don Jr. writes, if you guys think the Chinese spy balloons was bad, just wait until you find out about TikTok. While I understand the outrage about someone violating our airspace, the Chinese government has been doing this, for years on millions of phones throughout our country. Wake up, America. This is March 7th, 2023.
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All of the Republicans in the Senate pushed for TikTok to be banned. They asked for some Democrats to join him. They made findings. that TikTok could be conducting counter surveillance against United States citizens. They could be breaching data security, that the algorithm posed a danger. I'm just giving you the facts. That's the findings that were made by the Senate.
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Again, less than two years ago. While we're going hardcore on TikTok regulations, how about no American data flowing through China for any social media company? No letting Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or anyone else off the hook for data security and privacy and whatever ends up happening.
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And then he also wrote, while we're worrying about the communists in China manipulating people with TikTok, let's not forget about the communists that Facebook and in the White House doing it here right now. That was July 29th, 2023. You take a look at the lawsuit that TikTok had to file against Donald Trump. TikTok v. Trump, December 7th, 2020 was when it was decided.
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And this is the federal court. Why is it TikTok v. Trump? Because Trump was the one who started this. And this is like everything that they do. And again, it's one of the things is that our corporate media is just the worst. whether it's the Washington Post or CNN or New York Times, right? They are Trump fanboys. I'll show you here.
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I mean, the Washington Post headlines, Donald Trump has conquered D.C., the CNN headline. Donald Trump pushes the boundaries of the Constitution. Push the What are we doing here? By the way, that's why sign up for MidasPlus.com right now. We're going to grow this media company bigger than those. M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com, MidasPlus.com. Sign up right now. Here's the court opinion.
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On May 13, 2020, the president—this is referring to Trump in 2020— renewed the declaration, stressing the unique threat posed by China-based technology firms with close ties to the government of the People's Republic of China. TikTok, a short-loop video sharing app presently used by over 100 million Americans, was identified by Trump as a technology firm that posed a risk to national security.
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Trump, the president, determined that TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including internet and other network activity information, such as location data and browsing search histories.
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Trump concluded that because TikTok is owned by a China-based company, ByteDance, the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, might be able to access Americans' personal and proprietary information, potentially allowing China to track the location's federal employees and contractors build dossiers of personal information for blackmail and conduct personal espionage on Americans.
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Again, I just want you to think about that. So what are Trump's posts leading up to, you know, TikTok takes it down for a day and even though they didn't have to take it down for a day because Biden said he wasn't going to enforce anything, so that people would be like, oh, man, TikTok's down. I can't believe it. Biden this, Biden that. We need you to save us.
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TikTok then sends the message, don't worry, we're working with Donald Trump to save this. We're going to have him save this. And then Trump says, save TikTok. He posts that on his social media account.
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And as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, as I've predicted every day for the last two weeks, a prearranged scam between Trump and the CCP to deceive the American people, enrich himself and fool users. And it will work because there are plenty of rubes and suckers in this country. And Trump has had their number for years. TikTok goes along with it. They then post, we're back up.
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This was pushed by Republicans. And as recently as about a year and a half ago, You had Donald Trump and Don Jr. again saying that TikTok needs to be banned. It should be banned. And now somehow Democrats were getting blamed for it and Donald Trump was being praised by TikTok for saving it. This is incredibly dystopian. This would make 1984 George Orwell. Be like, what are we talking about here?
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Thank you, Donald Trump. And then Donald Trump posts this. I'm asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark. And he goes on to say, I would like the United States to have 50% ownership position in a joint venture. By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands, and allow it to stay up. Without US approval, there is no TikTok. Without our approval,
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It's worth hundreds of billions of dollars, maybe trillions. Therefore, my initial thought is a joint venture between the current owners and our new owners, whereby the U.S. gets 50 percent ownership in a joint venture set up between the U.S. and whichever purchase we so choose. And so what Trump's saying there, too, is replace the word U.S. for Trump.
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or replace the word one of Trump's oligarchs for US. Trump sets it up with an American company. And the American company is then the one. And Trump picks who it is. And we'll see what he's going to do. But based on the meme coin stuff that he did, which is now valued at like $55 billion, where he's enriched himself, now he's going to insinuate himself and likely figure out a way
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to benefit himself and make himself additionally wealthy here. And so I just wanted to break it down what went down. They took it off for a day, not because they had to, in my opinion, but because they wanted to say, look what we're delivering for Donald Trump and look what Trump gave us. Thank you, Trump, for saving this thing. I hope you're smarter than that. I hope you see what happened.
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I hope you know the hustle. And one of the things we're gonna do here over the next four years, we're gonna explain these things to you and you can let other people know what's up. And then ask yourself, are your prices lower? Is there peace in Ukraine? Is housing more affordable? Are you getting paid more for your jobs? Is your healthcare better under Donald Trump?
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Let me just break down what happened here. OK, so this is what TikTok posts. They go, thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump's effort, TikTok is back in the U.S. You can continue to create, share and discover all of these things that you love on TikTok. So TikTok basically took itself down for 24 hours. even though there was no reason to do that.
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A secret meeting between an ABC executive and Donald Trump's team seems to have precipitated the awful settlement whereby ABC engaged in a total capitulation, giving Donald Trump $15 million arising out of a defamation lawsuit. Donald Trump filed a $15 million to go to a future presidential library of Donald Trump's and also ABC and Disney agreeing to pay, Disney's the parent company,
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agreeing to pay Donald Trump's attorney's fees and costs and issue a written apology. More on that in a bit. Let's talk about the secret meeting that took place last week, the Monday before ultimately that settlement took place that following Saturday. Here's what's being reported and ABC and Trump's team want us to believe, oh, they weren't discussing the settlement at that point in time.
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All right, sure. Add insult to injury and try to treat us all like we're stupid. That's what corporate media thinks about us anyway. Here's what we're learning from the New York Times and reporter Michael Greinbaum. Deborah O'Connell, who oversees ABC News, dined with Susie Wiles in Palm Beach on Monday, per two people briefed.
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Greinbaum goes on to say in his report, the meeting was part of a visit by ABC News execs to meet with the Trump transition team. Another person familiar says the purpose was to talk transition, not the defamation case. Okay, sure, we're supposed to believe that the ABC News exec, who shortly thereafter settles for $15 million to a future Trump presidential library,
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When the ABC News exec is going to Palm Beach to meet with Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, to kiss the ring to obey in advance. Oh, I'm sure they didn't talk about that settlement. Oh, I'm sure that's not what happened. But what if I told you this?
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that actually all of this, all of what you're seeing now with Mika and Joe from MSNBC kissing the ring at Mar-a-Lago, with Zuckerberg going there, with all of these people showing up at Mar-a-Lago, Tim Cook from Apple, what if I told you that this was all part of a broader plan that we had reported. And frankly, Politico had wrote about who was there.
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They didn't talk about the conspiracy that was taking place. Well, I don't want to even use the term conspiracy because that makes it seem like a conspiracy theory. Just what actually was happening, the collusion that was going on in front of all of our eyes back during another secret meeting in Milwaukee on August 23rd, 2023.
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right around the time when there was a Republican primary debate, which Donald Trump refused to participate in, but Do you remember our reporting back from August 23rd of 2023? It was after Politico wrote the following in its Politico playbook. There was a secret meeting that took place at a restaurant at a steakhouse in Milwaukee. Super fancy steakhouse.
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The Trump team invites all of the media there, buys them steak. gives them all of this lavish stuff right there. They were plotting, they were planning, they were whining and dining and devising this then. Here it is, August 23rd, 2023, spotted in Milwaukee. Team Trump whining and dining with a number of top reporters at a steakhouse called Rare and passing out pudding snacks.
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A swipe at Ron DeSantis' pudding finger story. as well as debate bingo cards to troll the Florida governor. Squares included dismisses polls, wipes not, red ears, de-Santis, de-Santis, flip-flops on social security again, woke and pudding mentions. See the pictures here and here. So who was at this meeting? Reporters, Dana Bash,
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Shane Goldmaker, Kristen Welker, Bob Costa, Finn Gomez, Dasha Burns, Rachel Scott, Rick Klein, Josh Dawsey, Rob Crilley, Mario Parker, and David Chalian. Basically, all of the top reporters and execs from all of the major networks meeting, colluding. in front of our eyes at a fancy five-star steakhouse called Rare in Milwaukee.
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And they were there with Chris LaCivita, one of Donald Trump's campaign managers, and Jason Miller, and Stephen Chung. Politico goes, we're assured. the reporters picked up their own tabs. Isn't it funny how the people we love the most are often the hardest to shop for? You know what I mean. Luckily, there's one gift that everyone on your list and my list is sure to enjoy.
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I'm sure that's what was going on. and across the restaurant, feet away, members of Team DeSantis. In other words, the media believed the cool table was with Donald Trump and they were talking and plotting and doing everything right there in front of our eyes.
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By the way, now that we know about this meeting between Deborah O'Connell, who oversees ABC News, a few days later, five days later, a $15 million settlement happens. I wonder how the people who work, what are the employees at ABC, what do they think about this, right? Because you know, there have been budget cuts and layoffs and things like this.
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Well, according to Yashar Ali, ABC News talent and staff that he's been talking to over the past few hours are stunned and furious about the settlement. Their anger primarily stems from the fact that they have faced repeated budget and compensation cuts in recent years, experienced layoffs, and yet the network even if insurance paid it, has paid this huge sum of money to settle this matter.
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And I'm not quite sure that insurance paid it because why would insurance pay it if they're classifying it as a political donation to a future library, which sounds like a tax deduction to me or a tax write-off to me. And often if you're admitting to engaging in defamation and issuing taxes, an apology like that publicly.
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Insurance doesn't necessarily cover intentional acts where you're apologizing for what you did like that. But you know what's interesting here? Look, it's true. Significant layoffs have hit ABC News. For example, $19 million in cuts were made to Good Morning America last year. Think about that.
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19 million in cuts, people lost their job, dozens of people get fired, and all of that money that would have saved those jobs was now given to a Trump presidential, a future Trump presidential library. So I understand that, but it's still, when you think about it, the ABC News and Talent, what made them most pissed
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is the compensation issue and not the obeying in advance to authoritarianism issue, because to me, that's the bigger issue right here. I mean, look, if you're talent, if you're a journalist, I understand your compensation is important, and I understand how frustrating it must be if your company's reducing it, but don't you want your integrity first? more than anything here.
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I mean, just think about it over here. When you have Mark Zuckerberg, who Donald Trump has called, you know, I'm coming after you, Zuckerbucks. And Trump's called him all these names standing there at Mar-a-Lago next to Donald Trump. By the way, Tim Cook of Apple went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring as well. Joe and Mika, we've reported, I just realized this now, in that political playbook report.
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Guess who it's brought to you by? Zuckerberg, it's brought to you by Meta, The signs, the stamps of the oligarchy all staring us in the face. But remember all the statements that Donald Trump would make about the media and that he would post over and over again during the election and over the past four years and when he was in office. The media is the enemy of the people.
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The media is the enemy of the people. These long all caps. They're almost all dishonest and corrupt, but Comcast, with its one-sided vicious coverage by NBC News, in particular MSDNC, often correctly referred to as MSDNC, Democratic National Committee, should be investigated for country-threatening treason. They're the enemy of the people. Fuck, the fake news is the enemy of the people.
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Posting memes like this of the news networks holding Vice President Kamala Harris up and saying enemy of the people. Post after post, enemy of the people. So all you gotta do is go on social media, call people enemy of the people, just threaten the media, and the fourth estate, boom! Folds like that, folds like that. And you see talent, they're worried about compensation over integrity.
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You've got the corporations, the oligarchical corporations that run these media networks want to kiss the ring. It's all a money grab, it's a race for money. Put your integrity first over all of this. You could have integrity and make money too. And if they come after you, if they go after you, so be it. That's life, stand up for yourself.
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But no, secret meetings at lavish steakhouses behind our backs, focusing on their bottom line, not the bottom line of our democracy. And you see it right there. You can go and look at the hot take that I did, you know, about the settlement where I've been very critical of this settlement.
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You know, just the worst settlement that makes zero sense, in my opinion, other than if you're kissing the ring. Go watch that. The Legal AF I did, I did another video about it that I'll post. Go to the Substack. I wrote a whole article. I call it Shame on You, ABC. Go to MidasPlus.com or just go – that will take you to our Substack or just go on Substack and then take a look at –
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search Midas Touch on Substack and then look for it and you'll see the article I did on it where I'm very critical and I break down why the settlement legally makes absolutely no sense. If you're ABC, you had Donald Trump cornered, in my opinion, in that litigation. Trump was set to have his deposition taken this week.
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It would have been under oath, where Donald Trump's whole position would be, you defamed me because you used the word rape, when in fact a jury found me liable for sexual assault. In other words, using a finger to do digital penetration without consent versus genitals. And Donald Trump says, therefore, that defamed me and harmed my reputation and character.
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That was the thrust of Donald Trump's case. And you settle that case before Trump's deposition? Like it literally is inexplicable. Go look at the broader recap that I do on it. I think you'll appreciate it. Anyway, thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Fortunately, we still have this platform here on YouTube and at the Midas Touch Network. to tell the truth, and we're going to use our voices loudly and proudly here. So let's use the United States Post Office as our first example, and then I'll show you some other examples of what's going on here.
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So who is the Postmaster General of the Postal Service who has utterly destroyed its ability to function? Oh yeah, it's a guy named Louis DeJoy. Louis DeJoy was appointed by Donald Trump, and back in May of 2020, When Donald Trump made that appointment, we and others were calling that out.
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We were saying, look, Louis DeJoy has never worked for the United States Postal Service before, but he is or at that time was an investor in numerous entities and contracting companies that competed directly with the United States Postal Service. In fact, Louis DeJoy's entire job was basically to compete with and bring down the United States Postal Service before becoming the postmaster general.
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We discussed that and what did he do as soon as he got that job? Oh, what were his qualifications other than wanting to destroy the entity he would lead? Well, he was one of Donald Trump's biggest donors. Surprise, surprise. Donated a lot of money, contributed a lot of money to Donald Trump. So what does he do when he takes over? He systematically rips it apart from within.
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Frankly, even Republicans have called out the way Louis DeJoy has handled the Postal Service. But that's not a quirk. That was the actual purpose of it, and it was the purpose to do that, to then privatize it, and then to hand it out as a favor to one of the oligarchs who show up at Mar-a-Lago and kiss the ring.
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I wonder, are people like Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg and Tim Cook and others who go to Mar-a-Lago, give $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration, are they lining up and trying to position themselves, for example, to be a privatized version of a postmaster general and to take a billion dollar contract or more as a favor? The way it exists, for example,
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in oligarchical countries like authoritarian countries like Russia. Is that one of the things that is taking place? So you take a look, for example, at the post service where Trump's guy destroyed the post service from within, used that as pretext to privatize, hand it over to the oligarchy, let the oligarchy run it and profit from it and exploit we the people.
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But take another example of it, right? The IRS. Look, nobody likes the IRS. Nobody likes the time when they have to go and pay taxes. But we all recognize that's something that we just do. And we want the IRS to be efficient and to go about its job correctly. And we don't want the decamillionaires and billionaires to cheat on their taxes.
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and pay less in taxes, not just even as a percentage, but less actual dollar for dollar in taxes than a teacher, a bus driver, a construction worker. And that's what's going on as the very wealthy create all of these tax shelters and hide their money overseas and do all of that.
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The MAGA Republicans work for the oligarchs, so they want to help the billionaires do that and break down and crush the IRS. So President Biden tries to hire more people at the IRS. Republicans say, oh, all these people are going to knock on your doors. The IRS is coming for you, you, you. which is not what actually happened at all. The efficiency of the IRS increased greatly.
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In addition, the new IRS commissioner who was hired by President Biden and picked by Biden, he's a bipartisan guy as well, just coincidentally went to my high school many years before I graduated. He graduated many years before that. And then they created efficient systems like free tax filing online so people don't have to use
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software or go to like super pricey accountants if they can't afford it or they don't want to because there's an efficient online system. Think about that, bringing technology to bear on government. One of the things that the IRS also did was improve the call time.
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So if you had an issue with the IRS, you could resolve that right away, get a hold of an IRS agent or operator right away, fix things, deal with things because people were frustrated that You couldn't even get a hold of someone while they were making demands. The Biden administration fixed that. But take a look. Who does Trump bring in to run the IRS?
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A former Congress member named Billy Goode and former Congress member Billy Goode's job before being at the IRS was he was a sorry, Billy Long. Billy good, Billy bad, Billy Long. Billy Long's job was a member of Congress, MAGA Republican. And one of the things that his whole purpose was is abolish the IRS and replace income taxes with a 23% sales tax. That was MAGA Republican, Billy Long.
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So Trump is gonna fire a guy at the IRS now who's pretty efficient in doing what he, the guy's name is Danny Werfel, pretty efficient operator running the IRS efficiently. No one likes the IRS, but he's running the entity efficiently. Trump's gonna fire that guy and replace him with Billy Long, who wants to abolish the entity that he's now going to lead.
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Also, you've got MAGA Republicans reaching out to Donald Trump and saying, look, you need to get rid of On day one, the direct tax filing system, because TurboTax, which is owned by Intuit, is lobbying the MAGA Republicans to stop this free tax filing system so that it could be always done with private software and private hands, because this is hurting the bottom line for Intuit.
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By the way, if you want to use TurboTax and Intuit, great. It's a good software. No one's saying don't use. But at the same time, it's great that the government is creating an efficient way for people to do the same task for free themselves online and save themselves some money. Not a bad thing. MAGA Republicans want to stop that because they want people to be pissed off and hate government.
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And here's where the media oligarchy comes into place because they don't report on any of this crap. So people are frustrated at things. They're angry, they're pissed, but they don't know where to vent it. And so they're being told by Fox to vent it at the Democrats, vent it at Deep State, vent it at these people. Here's who's doing it to you. Trans people, migrants are doing it to you.
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Libs are doing it to you. And people start to believe that. Then corporate media in general doesn't report on these things. So you have this loop. You have this cycle taking place. Now, why? Who is it internationally that Donald Trump and his team looks up to? Who are some of the main people? Vladimir Putin, right? Who else?
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Viktor Orban, who's Vladimir Putin's stooge, who is the authoritarian leader of Hungary, who visits Trump frequently at Mar-a-Lago, right? Viktor Orban of the Hungary, the entire GDP is under $200 billion a year. That's less than some American corporations. So why are you looking up to a country who had like 17 to 20% inflation and its entire GDP is $200 billion? Like, think about that.
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It is now being reported that Donald Trump wants to privatize the United States Postal Service. These reports don't really cite to the United States Constitution, which says that Donald Trump couldn't do that on his own by way of an executive order. Congress has the authority and is the only entity charged with the authority to regulate the post office.
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Who does MAGA attack? California, which would have like the fourth largest GDP, not in the United States of any country. So attack California, which is funding the United States, the fourth largest GDP. If California were to be a country in the world, attack California. But let's prop up The new Argentinian leader, Javier Millet, right? They love that guy, Javier Millet. Why?
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He poses for photos with chainsaws. He literally says, his quote is, my contempt for the state is infinite, meaning rip down everything, rip down all these regulations, rip it all down, tear it down, and prop it up with an authoritarian style austerity measures where people are kept down. Right. Just look at Javier Millet's Argentina right now. This is objective data right now.
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The brutal austerity measures has deepened Argentina's recession, with consumer spending falling 20% in the past year and poverty rates soaring to a two-decade high of 52.9% in the second half of last year. So the Argentinian austerity measures have led to poverty rates soaring to 52.9%. Think about that. That is who Trump wants to bring here. Now you go, Ben, back that up with facts.
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You say Midas touches fact base, back it up. Okay. Well, here's Vivek Ramaswamy who runs the Doge, which is in charge of the Trump austerity measures. imposing Trump austerity measures on us. Vivek Ramaswamy says the following, the American version is called Doge. In response to somebody saying, at Mar-a-Lago last week, I spoke to Javier Millay.
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He's a leader on a mission to free his country from decades of socialism and mismanagement. And Vivek Ramaswamy goes, the American version is called Doge. Let's be very clear under President Biden, 16.1 million new jobs have been created. That's fact one. Our GDP is the fastest growing GDP basically in the world. Our inflation is like one of the lowest inflation in the world right now.
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Unemployment is at an all time low. We're energy independent, more oil drilling under Biden than under Donald Trump. Our stock market is up 50% under Biden than it was under Donald Trump. 40,000 new infrastructure projects created under President Biden. So you take all of those facts, but they're saying the guy who goes, my contempt for the state is infinite.
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And I've described this before on a Substack post at MidasPlus.com as the authoritarian loop is what I call it.
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I call it the authoritarian loop, which is how is it that in a state like Oklahoma, which is 49th in health, that's not a good stat to be like almost last, 49th in wealth, 49th in education, or close to that, you know, the worst stats in health, wealth, education, standard of living, all horrible. but they vote red, they vote Republican, all of like, why wouldn't they go, huh?
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If we're last in everything, maybe we'd wanna get better. Maybe it's the people who are running this that are keeping us down. In contrast, a state like Massachusetts, one of the top in wealth, health, education, standard of living, they were basically voted totally blue. So how do you see this disparity here kind of happening? And I've described that as the authoritarian loop.
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So it would require a bill to be introduced and that bill to become a law. But corporate media will propagate Donald Trump's wannabe authoritarian propaganda. But there's a broader issue that I think we should discuss here with Donald Trump saying he wants to privatize the Post Service, citing financial losses.
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We see this, for example, in authoritarian countries where if you can train your people to believe they're worthless, if you take away their education, if you take away their healthcare, if you take away their rights, if you take away their freedoms, if you take all of that away, And then you start handing out breadcrumbs. When people feel worthless, they accept the breadcrumbs.
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And then, you know, you come in as the authoritarian, I alone will fix it. You create the boogeyman. You have this being pumped out on the media. And then you say, I'm going to fix all the things where you're the arsonist.
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you know that's one of the things here that i always talk about like if you want to know the source of inflation where do you think it came from trump added eight trillion dollars in debt the most ever uh you had trump mismanaging coven mismanaging supply lines uh printing money recklessly the ppp program that he oversaw gave money to billy to millionaires printing money let millionaires get their debt forgiven but how dare you ever forgive the debt of students who are
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under an economic cap threshold as well so you do all of those things that creates inflation that creates the economic problems that have to be solved but the trick is and the right wing is great at this trick and this is this goes back to the post service the irs all of this thing they become the arsonist you break it down You burn it down.
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And then when the firefighters come in, you then blame the firefighters. The oligarchy tries to get their bailout on the way out. But then you blame the firefighters and you call them the arsonists. That's the sleight of hand. That's the trick. You call the firefighters the arsonists. You make the people believe that. And then the people reelect the arsonists back into power to burn it down again.
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Donald Trump and the MAGA playbook is to destroy the agencies, to destroy the institutions, and then use their own destruction as a pretext for privatization and then enriching their fellow oligarchs. end blaming Democrats or deep state or whoever, and then using those oligarchs like those who control Fox and other corporate media to propagate the lie.
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There he is once again. That's Member of Parliament Charlie Angus, just speaking truth to power right there. He was calling out the Conservative Party in Canada for getting an endorsement by Alex Jones. That's how you do it. I frankly would like to see more of that combativeness style in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. which you see there in the House of Commons.
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Let me just, by the way, that was from a few months back. And of course, we've been profiling Charlie Angus here. I did a one-on-one interview with him after we did a report on his previous House of Commons speech where he appealed to Canadians' pride in their country and said, do not let Donald Trump bully us here in Canada.
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Do not let America export disinformation and lies and authoritarianism here in Canada. And I saw that speech that Angus gave a few days back. It's getting close to 2 million views here on our YouTube channel. What you just saw there was another House of Commons speech by him recently that, again, I wanted to applaud and highlight.
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because that's the type of courage I'd like to actually see from politicians right here in the United States. Now, one of the factors that Charlie Angus and I talked about that is corrupting, eroding, destroying our politics here in the United States, which is not the case in Canada, and I think it's important
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to have this international perspective on things is that number one, they don't have big money in their politics. People who run for their congressional races, their version to become members of parliament in their communities, It's like $100,000 at most. There's not huge billionaires funding campaigns. There's no political action committees there. That's number one.
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Number two, their Supreme Court is not politicized. They are kind of nonpartisan people who are focused on the interests of Canada. Watch how Charlie Angus describes the contrast between those bulwarks that preserve democracy in Canada and preserve their system there and stop the authoritarian encroachment as compared to what we have in the United States. Watch this.
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Now, there was another part of the interview that I think is important. It's what I say here all the time on the Midas Touch Network, that the threat of authoritarianism is international in its scope.
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And to combat it, the pro-democracy community, we all need to be international in our scope because these authoritarians, regardless of what their ideology is, their ideology they recognized is a mere pretext for what they truly care about as authoritarians, which is their wealth. The oligarchy, right?
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So whether you are an authoritarian wannabe in the US, whether you're Putin, whether you're Kim Jong-un, whether you're President Xi in China, whatever it is, ultimately at the end of the day, it's power and wealth. And the ideology is a subterfuge that is used by these authoritarian leaders as a way to kind of control the people.
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So they go to themselves, hey, let's all unite at the money, wealth, power level and repress the people. Let's join together. So we need to combat that with a pro-democracy movement of the people. Here, watch this.
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You know, and then finally I asked a member of parliament, Charlie Angus, about what's your message to the people of Canada as they're hearing this horrible stuff from the United States? And he's like, think about what our ancestors did. Think about what our elders did for us. Here, watch this incredible moment. Let's play it right there.
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I thought that was another great part of that interview with Charlie Angus. And, you know, here at the Midas Touch Network, we are expanding our coverage internationally because I think we truly need an international perspective to appropriately have the framework of how to deal with Trumpism. MAGA, and recognize that these ideas are ideas that permeate the international zeitgeist, right?
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I mean, we see this over here, for example, with people in Argentina, like Javier Millay, 52% poverty right there. He's like, we need to end the state in total. He's propped up in kind of this MAGA triumvirate mindset. You've got Viktor Orban over in Hungary. You've got Lukashenko in Belarus. You've got Vladimir Putin.
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You've got Kim Jong-un giving troops, by the way, to Russia to fight in Ukraine, right? You have all of that. And you have Donald Trump not saying negative things about Putin. Has Trump said one negative thing about Putin ever, yet alone in the transition? No. But who does he attack? Trudeau, Canada, who does he attack, Mexico?
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So he attacks our allies, says nothing about our literal enemies, and that tells you all that I think you should know about this too. And so we're gonna highlight international perspectives, by the way. Feel free to tag me on Blue Sky. If you have other international speeches in your home country that you want me to see, hey, here's a member of our parliament. Here's a politician in my country.
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But, you know, we've been featuring a lot of Canadian politicians here on our show because the pro-democracy movement is international in scope. in order to combat the anti-democracy, pro-authoritarianism movement, which is international in scope, where you see Elon Musk and MAGA also having their tentacles in Canada with their right-wing Pierre Poliev, with Germany and the
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AFD, in the UK with the Reform Party, whether it's in Austria, in France with Le Pen. I can go on and on here, but an international effort is what's called for right now. Let me read for you first Jean Chrétien's incredible op-ed. You're going to love this. And then I want to share with you connecting Chrétien to Prime Minister Trudeau had actually
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actually a pretty powerful appearance on some of the weekend shows. You're going to love that. And then I'm going to show you some of the Canadian voices we had recently on the Midas Touch Network. So here's the op-ed by John Cretchen. Canadians will never give up the best country in the world to join the U.S. Today is my 91st birthday.
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It's an opportunity to celebrate with family and friends, to look back on the life I've had the privilege to lead, and to reflect on how much this country we all love so much has grown and changed over the course of the nine decades I've been on this earth. This year, I've also decided to give myself a birthday present.
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I'm going to do something in this article that I don't do very often anymore and sound off on a big issue affecting the state of the nation. and profoundly bothering me and so many other Canadians. The totally unacceptable insults and unprecedented threats to our very sovereignty from US President-elect Donald Trump. I have two very clear and simple messages to Donald Trump.
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From one old guy to another, give your head a shake. What can make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world? Make no mistake, that is what we are to join the United States. I can tell you Canadians prize our independence. We love our country.
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We have built something here that is the envy of the world when it comes to compassion, understanding, tolerance, and finding a way for people of different backgrounds and faiths to live together in harmony. We've also built a strong social safety net, especially with public health care that we are very proud of.
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It's not perfect, but it's based on the principle that the most vulnerable among us should be protected. This may not be the American way or the Trump way, but it is the reality I have witnessed and lived my whole long life. If you think that threatening and insulting us is going to win us over, you really don't know a thing about us.
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You don't know that when it came to fighting in two world wars for freedom, we signed up both times, years before your country did. We fought and we sacrificed well beyond our numbers. We also had the guts to say no to your country when it tried to drag us into a completely unjustified and destabilizing war in Iraq.
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On his 91st birthday, former Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien, wrote an op-ed directed at Donald Trump. He says, What could make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world? And make no mistake, that is what we are, to join the United States. Now, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was the Prime Minister of Canada, member of the
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We built a nation across the most rugged, challenging geography imaginable, and we did it against the odds. We may look easygoing, mild-mannered, but make no mistake. We have spine and toughness. And that leads me to my second message to all our leaders, federal and provincial, as well as those who are aspiring to lead our country. Start showing that spine and toughness.
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That's what Canadians want to see, what they need to see. It's called leadership. You need to lead. Canadians are ready to follow. I know the spirit is there. Ever since Mr. Trump's attacks, every political party is speaking out in favor of Canada. In fact, it is to my great satisfaction that even the Bloc Quebec is defending Canada. But you don't win a hockey game by only playing defense.
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We all know that even when we satisfy one demand, Mr. Trump will come back with another bigger demand. That's not diplomacy, it's blackmail. We need another approach, one that will break this cycle. Mr. Trump has accomplished one thing. He has unified Canadians more than we have ever been before. All leaders across our country have united in resolve to defend Canadian interests.
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When I came into office as prime minister, Canada faced a national unity crisis. The threat of Quebec separation was very real. We took action to deal with this existential threat in a manner that made Canadians, including Quebecers, stronger, more united, and even prouder of Canadian values. Now there is another existential threat. And once again, We once again need to reduce our vulnerability.
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That is the challenge for this generation of political leaders. And you won't accomplish it by using these same old approaches. Just like we did 30 years ago, we need a plan B for 2025. Yes, telling the Americans we are their best friends and closest trading partners is good. So is lobbying hard in Washington and the state capitals, pointing out that tariffs will hurt the American economy too.
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So are retaliatory tariffs. When you are attacked, you have to defend yourself.
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But we also have to play offense. Let's tell Mr. Trump that we too have border issues with the United States. Canada has tough gun control legislation, but illegal guns are pouring in from the US. We need to tell him that we expect the United States to act to reduce the number of gun crossings into Canada.
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We also want to protect the Arctic, but the United States refuses to recognize the Northwest Passage, insisting that it is an international waterway, even though it flows through the Canadian Arctic as Canadian waters. We need the United States to recognize the Northwest Passage as being Canadian waters. We also need to reduce Canada's vulnerability in the first place. We need to be stronger.
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There are more trade barriers between provinces than between Canada and the United States. Let's launch a national project to get rid of those barriers. and let's strengthen the ties that bind this vast nation together through projects such as a real national energy grid. We also have to understand that Mr. Trump isn't just threatening us.
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He is also targeting a growing list of other countries, as well as the European Union itself. And he is just getting started. Canada should quickly convene a meeting of leaders of Denmark, Panama, Mexico, as well as the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, to formulate a plan for fighting these threats. Every time that Mr. Trump opens his mouth, he creates new allies for all of us.
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So let's get organized to fight back against a big, powerful bully. You need strength in numbers. The whole point is not to wait and dread for Donald Trump's next blow. It's to build a country and an international community that can withstand those blows. Canadians know me. They know I'm an optimist. that I am practical and that I always speak my mind.
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Liberal Party from 1993 to 2003. He first became a member of the House of Commons, get this, in 1963. So he's coming with a very strong historical political perspective right here. And he penned this op-ed to the Globe and Mail in Canada on his 91st birthday. Now, You know, we here in the Midas Touch Network are expanding to Canada. You'll hear more about that over the coming weeks and months.
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I made my share of mistakes over a long career, but I never for a moment doubted the decency of my fellow Canadians or of my political opponents. The current and future generations of political leaders should remember they are not each other's enemies. They are opponents.
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Nobody ever loved the cut and thrust of politics more than me, but I always understood that each of us was trying to make a positive contribution to make our community or country a better place. That spirit is more important now than ever as we address this new challenge. Our leaders should keep that in mind. I am 91 today and blessed with good health.
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I am ready at the ramparts to help defend the independence of our country as I have done all my life. Viva la Canada. So let me show you this right now. First, let me show you Prime Minister Trudeau over the weekend during one of his appearances. Let's play it. Radio reporters.
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I wanna ask you about- Okay, next, let me show you, again, Liberal Party, Prime Minister Trudeau, let me show you New Democratic Party leader from Ontario, Merritt Stiles, here on the Midas Touch Network. Let's show you.
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And now let me show you Doug Ford, the provincial leader and the current provincial leader in Ontario, Conservative Party member, what he has to say about Trump. Play this clip.
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And folks, I could show you, I did a video on one of the Green Party members as well, but we're running out of time in this video and you get the point. Whether you're the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party, the Conservative Party there, they're all basically saying the same thing. And you connect it with that historical precedent and perspective that I just read for you. Canada is pissed.
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As I said many months ago, we are expanding. The Midas Touch Network is expanding into Canada. We have a lot more Canadian coverage. And I think it's important that they know that they have allies here also in the United States. We're not all MAGA. Less than 50% of voters voted for Donald Trump. I think that's an important fact.
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There are lots of Americans who regret voting for Donald Trump now that he's talking about invading Canada or annexing Canada and invading Panama and Greenland or whatever. They thought they were voting for lower prices, I guess. I'm not sure why they would think that, because Trump lies about everything, essentially. But whatever.
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So it's important that we form alliances here that can withstand generations. That's what we're going to build for the future. That's one of the things we're building this platform to do, thanks to your help. I thought it was worth reading, again, that incredible op-ed on Prime Minister Gretchen's 91st birthday. There you go. Thanks for watching and hit subscribe.
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Taxes would go way down and they would be totally secure from the threat of Russian and Chinese ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great nation it would be. Trump's writing that on the same day that Prime Minister Trudeau officially resigned. And now there will be a process to pick a new Liberal Party leader in Canada.
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Angus goes on to say, again, the member of Parliament who we've had on here, who has been very critical of Donald Trump and very strong in a way. I think we all wish more politicians were like, especially here in the United States. Angus says, what struck me about the latest Trump's tweet is that he's just seriously not fit for public office. His nemesis, Trudeau, resigned.
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I was expecting him to do a victory dance. Instead, we got fed this moron slop that not even MAGA dimwits could take to the bank. Putin must be thrilled at the state of America. And again, Trump is doing this on January 6th, the four-year anniversary of the insurrection. Not only that, but Donald Trump has also sent Don Jr.,
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to go to Greenland, which Donald Trump has also expressed a desire to conquer and take over Greenland and make that part of the United States. Again, reflecting this kind of imperial conquest. And you've seen other videos I've done on this. Russia is thrilled about this because for Russia, they're like, well, That's what we want to do with Finland. And that's what we want to do with Norway.
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Donald Trump is getting absolutely wrecked by a Canadian member of Parliament after Trump went on this bizarre social media spree attacking Canada. You've seen this member of Parliament from the New Democratic Party, Charlie Angus, on our program before. Here's what his message was to Donald Trump on the day the electoral votes were certified on January 6th. Charlie Angus writes the following,
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And that's what we want to do with Poland after Ukraine. So, you know, this is an age of conquest, I guess, again. And Trump is saying he just wants to do the things that Putin wants to do with his neighbors. So they're loving this disarray, especially as Donald Trump is attacking NATO allies. So Trump sends Don Jr., to Greenland after talking about conquering it.
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And it was a particular slap in the face to the Kingdom of Denmark and Denmark because the leaders in Denmark actually had a meeting that was going to be scheduled on Wednesday with the ruling party in Greenland, which is a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. And so this move right here by Don Jr. was intended, this was a message to piss off our allies in Denmark who are, was a member of NATO.
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I mean, it's intended to piss off our NATO ally that we're going to conquer one of your territories. That's the message that's also being sent on January 6th. As Niels Fester writes, confirmed, Trump Jr. is on his way to Greenland to meet key Greenlandic politicians, shortcutting Copenhagen. This could be seen as pretty hostile by the Danish government, but certainly delicate to handle.
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The leader of Greenland's government was scheduled to visit King Frederick of Denmark on Wednesday, and that has now been postponed because of Don Jr. flying into Greenland. So really giving the middle finger right here to Denmark, again, one of our key allies in NATO.
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At the same time all of this is going on, you have Elon Musk making posts as well regarding the territorial expansion and also just making a bunch of other horrific remarks. Elon Musk, Donald Trump's closest advisor, says the people of Greenland should decide their future. And I think they want to be part of America. And he's responding to this post by a MAGA account that says Trump Jr.
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is reportedly in Greenland. It's a population of 57000. What's stopping Trump or say Elon Musk from creating economic relations and nudging the entire population towards demanding annexation by the US like Texas did? This needs to happen. And again, Elon Musk is one of Donald Trump's top advisors and aides and is running a fake cabinet post. So this needs to be taken very, very seriously, folks.
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As I've said before in other videos that I did, if President Xi Jinping of China said that he was going to take over Japan and said it would be great for Japan to be part of China and then started posting AI photos of himself on top of
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buildings in Tokyo with the Chinese flag, and then if he made posts that leaders in Japan should be members of the CCP, the whole world would be taking that very seriously. They wouldn't be saying, oh, that's just President Xi Jinping being a troll. That's why it needs to be taken seriously. But also, when Donald Trump does not back up his threats of conquest,
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The story in the Washington Post, quoting so-called anonymous sources which don't exist, incorrectly states that my tariff policy will be pared back. That is wrong. The Washington Post knows it's wrong. It's just another example of fake news. And so the message he's also sending right now to Mexico, to Canada, are those 25% tariffs, massive tariffs on our allies in the European Union as well.
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And I think what we'll see a lot more is America will become increasingly isolated and This plays right into the hands of Vladimir Putin, who wants America to become isolated and weaker. Vladimir Putin is not interested in doing any peace deal in Ukraine. Putin made that extraordinarily clear over the past few weeks.
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I've covered Putin and Sergei Lavrov, his foreign minister statement saying there's no deal that doesn't involve total capitulation by Ukraine and, you know, just utter destruction like that's. what Russia sees as the deal, and Donald Trump's not going to be able to get that done.
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While all of this is going on too, Donald Trump on January 6th was posting photos from the January 6th insurrection back in 2021. I mean, just think about that. He's celebrating what happened on J6 2021. And then he's lying in post and he's saying, Biden is doing everything possible to make this transition as difficult as possible. I'm not even gonna read the rest.
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If you wanna go read the rest, read it yourself. But Biden invited Donald Trump to the White House, offered all of the resources to Donald Trump that Donald Trump could have, gave every resource imaginable to make the transition smooth.
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Unlike Donald Trump, who not only led an insurrection to overthrow our democracy, but refused to sign the General Services Administration paperwork to even allow just like basic things to happen, like the supplies to be transferred over, the offices to be transferred over responsibly,
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He did not allow any communications between cabinet positions and and wanted to create a situation to cause chaos on day one when Biden. would take over. It should also be noted as well that on January 6th, you have Donald Trump filing motions in a case where he was criminally convicted.
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Michael Popock, our friend at the Legal AF YouTube channel, and a Midas Touch contributor, he did a hot take on it, so I'm not gonna go into much more detail other than to say that Donald Trump filed an emergency motion to try to stop his sentencing, which is scheduled to take place in New York on Friday by New York criminal judge, Juan Merchan, who presided over the criminal case of Donald Trump.
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And Trump saying that the transition period confers him absolute transition immunity, that presidential immunity applies to even before you are inaugurated. That's essentially his argument right there. Should be noted that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned earlier in the day. Now we are in a process where the Liberal Party is going to try to pick a new leader.
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FED UP Canadian MP WRECKS Trump ON JAN 6
And I think Prime Minister Trudeau did that, resigned. His popularity was very low, was like under 20%. And I think he wanted to give the Liberal Party an opportunity to try to find a leader in order to take on the Conservative Party in Canada, led by Pierre Poliev, who is more sympathetic or very sympathetic to Trump.
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In the past, Poliev just did that interview with the far right wing podcaster Jordan Peterson, where they even talked about things like getting rid of health care in Canada and getting rid of the kind of public health support that kind of defined in many ways kind of the Canadian way of making sure health was a human right. I think Poliev wants to take that away. There you have it, folks.
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Here's what Donald Trump wrote. Many people in Canada love being the 51st state. The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this and resigned. If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no tariffs.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Crashes Markets
Donald Trump just wrapped up a press conference where he literally crashed the stock market based on what he was saying. Donald Trump threatened Canada and Mexico, said tariffs will indeed take place tomorrow. Then Donald Trump posted on his social media platform, tariffs will be fun, he told the farmers. Have fun based on what?
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Yes, this press conference was an absolute disaster. Donald Trump then decides to attack our ally, Taiwan, and he says all these horrible things about them. Play this clip.
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It's awfully suspicious, eh, that Donald Trump seems to always just be attacking our allies and never saying anything negative about our enemies. What does that tell you about him, huh? Here, Donald Trump doesn't answer a question asking him if he's bringing U.S. policy in alignment with Moscow.
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all of the greatness he's going to bring when he's actually going to devastate them. At the close of the day, the markets were down as such. The Dow was down 1.48%. The S&P 500 was down 1.76%. The Nasdaq was down 2.64%. You can literally see the market crashing as Donald Trump is speaking at this press conference and talking about the tariffs. Play this clip.
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You can watch this also over here. You can literally watch the stock market tank in the bottom corner of Fox's broadcast as Trump keeps talking about the tariffs. Play this clip.
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Here, Trump doesn't deny that his foreign policy is in line with Putin, but instead rants about Biden, he says, Biden, here, play this clip.
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As the market is tanking, Fox then reports White House will suspend or may suspend or cancel all Ukraine aid. Well, that's not really a shocker based on the fact that Donald Trump is essentially doing Putin's bidding at this point. While that's taking place as well, you have a Melania Trump holding a press conference with Ted Cruz, who Donald Trump bullied Ted Cruz and Ted Cruz's wife.
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But Ted Cruz loves to take it like that. And here Melania Trump said, really, the widespread abusive behavior online is a big problem that she's working on. Here, play this clip.
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Yes. As Aaron Rupert points out, she says this while sitting next to Ted Cruz, whose wife was the target of the Trump tweet below. Also, Donald Trump consistently posts deep fakes of women. Like, I don't know. I mean, how ridiculous is this?
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That during the campaign, Donald Trump posted these fake AI images of Taylor Swift and fake Swifties pretending that the Swifties and Taylor Swift supported Donald Trump. We called it out. during the campaign. I know corporate media was like, oh, that's just Trump being Trump, everybody. We're like, no, he's doing deep fakes and AI of Taylor Swift, who he's mocking at the same time.
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I mean, it's despicable behavior. Then you have Melania there with Ted Cruz. Like, are you kidding me? I'm not, though. Also, the crypto markets crashing as well. Crypto markets plunging right now. And this follows Donald Trump announcing that he was creating a crypto reserve with A lot of shit coins.
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It was his announcement that he's going to use your taxpayer dollars while cutting your Medicaid, while cutting critical social services to buy meme coins and stuff like that. But even after announcing that, he's now tanking the crypto market, as CNN and others have reported. The stocks tumble, as Trump's confirms. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada are coming. Just hear Donald Trump is saying it again.
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And at one point during his speech, the Dow was almost down 1,000 points. Donald Trump was then speaking about President Zelensky. He praised Putin again. He talked about how, yes, America is aligned, essentially, with Russian foreign policy, with Putin policy, and said Zelensky should be more appreciative of him. Here, play this clip.
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More Donald Trump rambling about tariffs.
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Then you have Donald Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnik, as Shashank Joshi says, these Trumpers are toddlers with scissors. Play this clip.
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Welcome to the situation. And then finally, you have Ducey on Fox. Here, he's talking about how the issue is that Zelensky needs to go on TV and say how sorry he is to Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump, as I said, was posting on social media for Americans. Have fun, everybody. Have fun. And by the way, this is a funny AI image that we posted here on the Midas Touch social channels. It's J.D. Vance saying, have you said thank you to me once? These people are literally screwing our economy. They're crashing our markets. They're tanking our 401ks. This stuff is outrageous behavior.
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Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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World Leaders Destroy Trump at Emergency Meeting
UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer held an emergency meeting in London over the weekend and invited world leaders to support Ukraine. President Zelensky was there. You had the Prime Minister of Canada there. Prime Minister and presidents throughout Europe and the European Union were there. It was a powerful meeting.
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Also, President Zelensky met with King Charles III. King Charles didn't have any issues with the way Zelensky was dressed as a wartime president. Of course, we know that Winston Churchill, when he visited the White House, was dressed in the war attire during
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Here is, again, an incredible video that Prime Minister Keir Starmer put out talking about how we are at a crossroads in history. It is time to act. I mean, his speech was incredible. This video was incredible. Keir Starmer is stepping up right now. This is statesmanship at the highest level.
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I reminded of this video right here by Marco Rubio or this photo of Marco Rubio from the meeting, the horrific meeting that will go down in infamy between Trump when Trump was attacking Zelensky from the Oval Office. And then finally, you know, after showing you that incredible statesmanship or statespersonship from from the from these incredible world leaders that I was just sharing with you.
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I want you to contrast it with how petty and weird American Secretary of the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is, who here says, this was on this week, ABC's This Week on Sunday, where Rubio's like, you know, look, The issue is that Zelensky is too busy Ukraine-splaining to Trump. Why is he Ukraine-splaining? I don't know, maybe because he's the leader of Ukraine, you idiot.
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Maybe that's why he's Ukraine-splaining that Russia is bad. Russia is bad, okay? Here, play this clip.
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Well, folks, there you have it. Let me know what you think. Powerful world leaders stepping up. Would love to get your take. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and have a wonderful day.
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Here's a video as well that Keir Starmer posted. He wrote, we must meet this moment together to guarantee the best outcome for Ukraine to protect European security. and to secure our collective future. It's a video of all of the world leaders who Prime Minister Keir Starmer has now been referring to as the new coalition of the willing. Also implying that not only is the United States unwilling.
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I want to show you what they were doing to show support for Ukraine and also how they've at this point just
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But at this point, Putin's puppet, part of the access of evil, essentially what Donald Trump's doing by voting with Putin and North Korea to oppose something as simple as a United Nations resolution condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. Let me share with you this powerful speech that United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave.
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And he said, look, as part of any deal with Ukraine, he says that the United Kingdom would be willing to put boots on the ground to serve as peacekeepers. to secure a lasting peace, to give these security guarantees. And that was an important term that was used over and over again at this emergency meeting, real security guarantees, because they know what's Donald Trump trying to do.
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Trump is trying to carve it up and give it to Putin. Watch this incredible speech by Keir Starmer. Let's play it.
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isolating the united states of america you know although their language is still careful the message has been sent ukraine we have your back donald trump and the trump regime is utterly pathetic i mean while this emergency world meeting on how to fight back against russia and protect ukraine was taking place courageously organized by united kingdom prime minister kier starmer
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World Leaders Destroy Trump at Emergency Meeting
Also, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a powerful speech. And in answering questions from the press, Prime Minister Trudeau talked about how, I stand with Zelensky, I stand with the people of Ukraine. Watch this.
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Donald Trump was golfing and he was doing weirdo events at Mar-a-Lago like he was doing this. Play the clip. Back to the serious world leaders who are protecting our ally Ukraine and President Zelensky. Take a look at this photo right here as the Associated Press reported.
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More from Prime Minister Trudeau right here. Let's play it.
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From the European Union, here's Ursula von der Leyen. Play this clip.
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And President Zelensky posted the following as well. He said, as a result of these days, we see clear support from Europe, even more unity, even more willingness to cooperate. Everyone is united on the main issue for peace to be real. We need security guarantees, real security guarantees. And this is the position of all of Europe, the entire continent.
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the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Turkey. Of course, we understand the importance of America. We're grateful for all the support we receive from the United States. There hasn't been a day when we haven't felt gratitude. It's gratitude for the preservation of our independence. Our resilience in Ukraine is based on what our partners are doing for us and for their own security.
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World Leaders Destroy Trump at Emergency Meeting
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told leaders gathered for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine that they need to step up and continue to support Kyiv and meet a once in a generation moment for the security of Europe. Here is a full list of all of the prime ministers and presidents who attended. You can see right there a list of these leaders. You saw the photograph there as well.
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What we need is peace, not endless lore, and that's why we say security guarantees are the key to this security guarantees. And then President Zelensky posted these photos of the summit in London that was very successful. And here's how Zelensky says it. The summit in London was dedicated to Ukraine and our shared European future.
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We feel strong support for Ukraine, for our people, both soldiers and civilians, and our independence. Together we are working in Europe to establish a solid foundation for cooperation with the United States in pursuit of true peace and guaranteed security. Europe's unity is at an exceptionally high level, one that has not been seen in a long time.
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We are discussing with our partners security guarantees and the conditions for a just peace for Ukraine. A series of important meetings and decisions are being prepared for the near future. I am grateful to all of our friends and partners for their efforts in bringing about a stable and guaranteed peace in Ukraine. Joint strength can protect our future.
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And I think that's kind of the key message over here. Security guarantees and joint strength and negotiating from a power of strength where Donald Trump just wants to wag his finger and bully. Here's a video of Zelensky as well, just so you can see it. Let's play it.
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Democratic Leaders Destroy Trump in Red Districts
Democratic leaders are finally pushing back aggressively. They seem to be getting their footing now. We're seeing Democrats also go into areas that are like plus five or plus 10 Republican districts that have voted for Trump before. And they're speaking to people who are They're pissed off because their Medicaid's being taken away.
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Next, I want to show you Democratic Congress member Garcia, who goes on Fox, calls out Trump on Fox in enemy territory. Here, watch this.
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And then let me just reinforce what Elon said there with – I'll show you Mike Johnson's interview from this weekend where Mike Johnson says that, you know, there's all this fraud and social security, which, by the way, they're they're they're. isn't really all this fraud.
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I mean, I think it's less than 1%, which needs to be addressed, but you don't address it by getting rid of your FBI agents and your Department of Justice and replacing your FBI with UFC fighters, which is what the plan is from Kash Patel and Dan Bagino, whatever the guy's name is. But here's Maga Mike Johnson saying it. Let's play it.
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So there you have it. I mean, it's pretty clear what their agenda is, is it not? That's why people are pissed. Democrats need to keep speaking loudly about what's going on. Americans want fighters right now. Americans want people who are fearless right now. So be fearless. Be a fighter. Don't hold back. Go into red districts. Go into purple districts. Speak to the American people. Hit subscribe.
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Now take a look at the interview I did with Senator Schiff. This was a powerful moment. Let's play it.
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They're seeing veterans get fired and having their services taken away. They're seeing the cruelty with which Elon Musk and Trump and Doge are gutting the federal government, are patrolling. propping up the billionaire oligarchs, let me show you some Democrat leaders who are standing up and getting standing ovations doing so as well.
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Here's Governor Josh Shapiro.
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Next up, you have Senator Chris Murphy, who's been doing, I think, a good job pushing back against the Trump regime. Let's play it.
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Talking about Democrats going on Fox, Democrats going into Trump districts. Take a look at this. Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi over the weekend got a huge standing ovation in in a Trump plus five congressional district at Hofstra University in Hempstead when he was talking about Trump's despicable behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky. Let's play this clip.
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Here's Congresswoman Crockett again.
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Now, can we just contrast for a moment what you're seeing there with which MAGA Republican Congress member should we do? Let's do a clip of Ronnie Jackson, MAGA Republican Congress member from Amarillo, Texas. Here's what he has to say about Zelensky. Here, let's play it.
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Now, contrast Ronny Jackson to Democratic Congress member Levin. Let's play this clip right here. This is Mike Levin from California. Let's play it.
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Let me show you one more clip right now of Senator Chris Murphy. Powerful moment right here where he said, look, I shouldn't have supported Marco Rubio. I thought Rubio would act normal. Rubio clearly isn't acting normal. Here, play this clip.
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Just so we can see, too, what Rubio said this weekend. Rubio attacked Zelensky this weekend because he said Zelensky was too busy Ukraine-splaining Ukraine to Donald Trump. He said, you can't Ukraine-splain. Trump knows more about Ukraine than Zelensky. This is what Marco Rubio, America's Secretary of State, shameful I even have to say that, is saying. Play this clip.
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And by the way, while all of that was going on, what was Donald Trump doing? Donald Trump was doing some weirdo dance things in Mar-a-Lago as he was, again, destroying people's lives. Play this clip. And finally, I want to share this clip with you. This is Elon Musk from this weekend. Joe Rogan, I think, is trying to compete with our podcast. It's beating Joe Rogan's show right now.
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So Rogan had Elon on. And when Rogan had Elon on, Elon called Social Security a Ponzi scheme. And Elon then also posted that we need to get out of NATO. So just these are their own words. So when people say, oh, you're just fear mongering and saying they're going for your Social Security. Well, we all agree that Elon is wrong. Running the government right now.
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I mean, Trump email, you know, Trump puts emails, Elon this, Elon that. I'm telling Elon. And Elon's saying Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Here, play this clip.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
I'm joined by Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus. Since we last spoke, Donald Trump says these tariffs are going to happen. Charlie, they're supposed to happen on Tuesday, although now you've got people in the Trump administration saying, well, it's possible that if Canada does this or that, what's going on? What's the vibe in Canada right now, Mr. Angus?
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Charlie, paint the picture. If these tariffs were to be implemented, what are you hearing on the ground in terms of factories closing, businesses shutting down? What kind of economic devastation do you anticipate would be inflicted on America? I mean, I know that Canada is prepared, has been preparing. This is part of the national discourse there because of the threats.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
In America, I don't think people are taking it as seriously. So what do you think will happen?
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Well, it seems like that's why Trump's secretary, Scott Besant, Trump's commissary, Howard Lutnick, they seem to get it. But of course, they're spineless, so they're not going to ever stand up to him. That's why they say things like, oh, well, this is a fluid situation. And to your point, well, can't you just make it seem like Trump's got a win here? But I think the point that you're making is,
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as this happens again, here we go again. We were here 30 days ago and here it is. It's like at this point, the Canadians are not buying American stuff, right? The Canadians are not traveling to America. I mean, also it's like a measles outbreak in Texas and Musk has gutted our agencies, but like almost regardless of what's happened, a lot of the damage has been done.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
I mean, not quite like if the tariffs are implemented and retaliatory, but right, a lot's happened already.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
You and I have talked about some Canadian phrases, and I think as you are adopting me as an honorary Canadian for purposes of our pro-democracy stance, we talked on a past interview about going over the board's And what that means when Canadians go gloves off and they're saying we're peaceful people.
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But once you poke us like that, there's a point where go look at the history of when Canadians fight, Canadians win. There was this moment on SNL with Mike Myers where he was wearing the Canada is not for sale shirt. But then he also gave a gesture that Canadians understood what it means to
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pointing to his elbow and whispering, elbows up, which I know our Canadian audience saw, and it may have been lost on the American audience. Tell us about that rallying call and what you're hearing in Canada.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Finally, I want you to send a message right now. You know that the Trump administration and their team are watching this show. They're probably watching it more now, given a lot of the coverage that you've seen out there, that this show is beating the Joe Rogan show. We're also the number one podcast in Canada and America right now. So a lot of people are listening and watching this.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
So what is your message to Donald Trump, Charlie Angus?
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Charlie Angus, Member of Parliament in Canada. Appreciate you as always.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
We stand in solidarity with the people of Canada. There's more of us in America than Trumpers, and I want everyone in Canada to know that. We're here in America fighting back against this authoritarian regime, but we know you've got to go elbows up. We know that you've all got to do what you've got to do, and we don't blame you for it. We don't blame you for it here. Elbows up.
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Sickly Trump Hides as His Entire World Burns
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Donald Trump golfed at Mar-a-Lago with his limpy leg. Take a look at what Donald Trump was doing over this weekend as he set the world on fire with his disastrous behavior. Play the clip. And we could have had her. We could have had Vice President Kamala Harris. Here she is and her husband, the former second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, goes Oscar watch party prep.
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Look, Donald Trump's basically an 80 year old person. Donald Trump is elderly. I understand that he paints his face orange because he would really look like this if he didn't paste his face orange. Yeah, I had to see that. So you have to see it, too. That's what his face would actually look like, at least according to that rendering right there. But OK.
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Remember when Donald Trump dressed up like a garbage man during the campaign because he called Puerto Rico garbage? And so then he dressed like a garbage man. Maybe that was a sign you shouldn't have voted for the guy when he called Puerto Rico garbage and then dressed like a garbage man. But anyway, take a look at his walk during the campaign. Play this clip.
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But yes, folks, as the markets were tanking last month, as I'm sure your 401ks are probably down like mine are, although they were up significantly under former President Biden. As Donald Trump's gearing up to put the tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as Donald Trump is kissing Putin's ring and attacking our allies, Ukraine and Europe and NATO.
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As Elon Musk is making posts, America needs to get out of NATO, is what Elon Musk is basically reposting, messages like that. As there's an emergency meeting that took place over the weekend in Europe called by UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer,
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He's done an incredible job as a statesman bringing all of the European countries, or most of them other than Hungary, and bringing Canada into the fold, although Turkey showed up as well, and showing solidarity with Ukraine, having President Zelensky there. Donald Trump was dancing around at Mar-a-Lago to like the YMCA. That's what Trump was doing over the weekend. Here, play this clip.
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But folks, all the right-wing influencers want you to know that what Donald Trump was doing there was an absolute boss move. That's what bosses do, yo. Absolute boss, man. That's what Benny Johnson wants you to know. Benny Johnson wasn't one of these MAGA influencers who were at the White House on Friday who got the fake Epstein binder, but he's of that ilk.
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Like Donald Trump brought a bunch of like ridiculous, dumb MAGA influencers to the White House and they were given binders that said, transparency, these are the Epstein files. They were like the call log from 2021 that was already released back in 2021 during the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. And they were like dancing with it. We got the files. We got the files. the hell is even going on?
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Aren't the files number one? They're clearly not going to turn over the files because I'm sure Trump's name is likely on them. It was on a ton of other documents, depositions, flight logs, call logs. Trump said Epstein's a great guy. I do the Epstein takes a lot, so you could watch the other videos I do there. But people are making their voices heard.
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Also, in a stunning display of strength, protesters arrived at Elon Musk's Tesla showroom in New York to protest his and Trump's efforts to dismantle our government. Play this.
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Even Marco Rubio's like, what the F? More on him in a moment because he's a spineless coward. Donald Trump then at Mar-a-Lago as his poll numbers continue to crash. His support among independents is almost in the 30s. I think it's at 41 based on a new poll that CNN just released. Here, Donald Trump is again dragging his leg at Mar-a-Lago. Let's play it.
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You also saw it in Tucson, Arizona. Let's play it. So while this is going on, what else is what's what was Trump posting about as he was frolicking on stage with his orange pasty face? He was posting this. A U.S. crypto reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden administration, which is why my executive order on digital assets today.
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directed the presidential working group to move forward on a crypto strategic reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA. I will make sure the U.S. is the crypto capital of the world. We are making America great again. Notice in that, there's no, he didn't even list Bitcoin in the first iteration. So he's talking about a lot of these like shit coins.
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I'm not saying that all crypto is scammy, but a lot of it is. We've seen that repeatedly. But isn't it just so interesting that Trump has his crypto, the Trump coin and the meme coins and all of this, and now he wants to use our taxpayer dollars? which can't be spent on healthcare. Like they were like, you get what's going on here, right? Like they're cutting your Medicaid.
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They want to go after your social security. I've showed you a lot of videos where Elon called it a Ponzi scheme. I'm not going to play it again. Go back and watch the video. I'll do more videos on that, but he called it a Ponzi scheme. They're cutting essential government services. Like they're firing people who are doing the research to create the next flu vaccines and,
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They're getting rid of NIH, CDC. They're getting rid of FAA people. They're getting rid of people who work at national parks. They're getting rid of government workers. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of government workers are being fired. Your Medicaid's getting gutted. Farmers are getting destroyed. But they want to use your taxpayer dollars. to buy up shit coins.
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As Armin Domoluski says, Trump, we simply can't afford to pay park rangers and cancer researchers. Also, Trump, we must spend billions on shit coins. You take a look here in terms of a lot of these coins and as Deva Hazarika goes, wow, what a lucky coincidence that Trump's crypto czar is part of this company Bitwise that has a lot of these meme coins or whatever the hell it is.
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Sachs company Kraft Ventures has been investing in a startup called Bitwise since 2017 and And it goes on to say Bitwise is celebrating because the main crypto coins going into this crypto strategic reserve fund, as Derek Martin points out, just so happened to be Bitwise's top five crypto holdings, would you? Whoa, oh my gosh.
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So you're telling me the crypto czar is now doing a strategic reserve with the coins that he owns while you're like, again, how could you be? Unless you're like an evil billionaire, how are you rooting for this? Like, they are screwing you.
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No matter what party you are, in the ruralist red area, are you, yeah, they're gonna buy up Solano Bitcoin while they're getting rid of your freaking jobs and gutting your Medicaid and taking away your healthcare and taking away the programs that help you live? Like, what are we talking about here? Even this guy, Jason, who's... One of the co-hosts with the Crypto Czar guy. He's one of these.
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This is like a pod bro. These are like pod bros. Everyone talking about the pod bros. This guy. Only one conservative Trump supporter has come out and said what an insane grift the crypto strategic fund is as far as I can see. But 99% of them are thinking it but are too scared to disagree with Trump. Let's pause.
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If you're too scared to challenge the president when he makes a mistake, where do you think that will lead us? What does that say about you? Any other Trump 2.0 supporters want to stand up against this grift? Or is it just me and this guy JT Lonsdale who went, Taxation is theft. It should be kept to a minimum. It's wrong to steal my money for grift on the left.
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It's also wrong to tax me for crypto bro schemes. Efficient defense courts, national parks should fund themselves, prisons, etc. Fine. Cut it out with these schemes, guys. What the hell is going on here? What's this guy even talking about? I mean, you don't want national parks? What are we even talking about here? I like this from Justin Wolfers, who makes a great and easy point.
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It was reposted by Carl Quintanilla. So you know how Trump and Musk are saying they found all of, Doge has found all of this fraud, right? They're calling it fraud. Fraud is criminal. If people are engaged in these crimes, who's being arrested for the fraud? Huh, right? Show me the Doge arrests. Who's been, you're saying all this fraud. Well, who's the crime? Zero, right?
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Number of arrests attributable to Doge uncovering actual fraud within the federal government, zero. Love this as well. J.D. Vance showed up in Vermont where he got a nice Vermont welcome, the two-finger salute. They called him an effing traitor and he left his vacation early. You know who is not vacationing? The Prime Minister of Canada and the leaders in European democracies.
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But by the way, everybody, this community note on Twitter now X wants you to know that this is how people walk all the time. It's called turning. While Trump doesn't lift his leg very high, he is doing a maneuver known as turning. He does this to face the person he is talking to. Whoa. OK, you know, I always come with receipts here. It's look, it's OK.
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer held an emergency gathering in London to support Zelensky, to support Kiev, to support Ukraine. Take a look at this list of dignitaries, presidents, prime ministers who attended. Meanwhile, RT, Russian state-run media, is quoting Dmitry Peskov, who's their chief propagandist. He's Putin's Caroline Leavitt. And he said, this is amazing. The new U.S.
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authorities are changing political configurations in the world. The U.S. is now voting with Russia in the U.N., which was previously unimaginable. The new U.S. foreign policy largely matches Russia's. Donald Trump, meanwhile, posting photos of Elon Musk in emails that he's sending to his supporters.
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Dancing on stage with Elon Musk while they gut your Medicaid and destroy your lives and destroy our government. And I'll just leave you with this. I always love these political cartoons. You see this one right here? Trump. The art of the kneel with Putin's boots on Donald Trump's head. I think the next image would be Trump licking those boots. Traitor. Hit subscribe.
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Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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and maliciously, in terms of our geopolitical interests, right into the hands of China. So take a look at this. The Philippines president offers a deal to China, stop sea aggression, and I'll return the missiles to the United States, the Typhoon US missile system. So the Philippines president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., offered at the end of last week on Friday to remove U.S.
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missile systems from Philippines if China halts what it called aggressive and coercive action. The U.S. Army installed these Typhoon mid-range missile systems in the northern Philippines in April last year in the Biden administration to support what the longtime treaty allies described as a training for joint combat operations.
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Now, however you feel about it, this was part of a geopolitical arrangement of the United States and frankly of NATO. in Asia as also part of America's support of Taiwan and in an effort to try to check the growth of China, which was also building a lot of bases in the nearby areas. This is what the US geopolitical policy was or geostrategic policy was.
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But now one of the things that we're learning is that Trump's new Pentagon appointee on Southeast Asia has argued for negotiating a, quote, cooperation spiral with China, whereby the United States will unilaterally, quote, remove U.S. military forces or weapons systems from the Philippines in exchange for CCG executing fewer patrols. One of the things that's being asked, can the U.S.
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and China forge a cold peace right here? Well, the interesting thing about this is that it undermines everything Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at his confirmation hearing. What's interesting, if you listen to Rubio in the clip I'm about to show you, it actually kind of echoes what the Biden policy was in a prevailing view.
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there's very little consistency with anything donald trump is but if you take a close look the one thing that seems clear is he is attacking and weakening our alliances and strengthening our adversaries let me give you another case in point with these tariffs you notice that the 25 tariffs Well, that's what our allies get hit with. But the 10% tariffs, those are for our adversaries, right?
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amongst international strategists, those in the State Department, those in the Defense Department, that what you have to do is to kind of check China's expansion, you have to make your own kind of maneuvers. Military bases, military maneuvers, and diplomatic maneuvers, U.S. aid maneuvers, to various countries and then, you know, enhance kind of military support.
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But already America's so weak, Philippines is going to China. Hey, can we do a deal? Let's make a deal, Xi Jinping. As America's Pentagon official who has to report to Hegseth, Pete Hegseth, who's never led any military thing before, really, other than a nonprofit, which pushed him out. but never led a large organization. This is what's going on. Here's what Marco Rubio said.
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Secretary of State Rubio, let's play this clip.
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So when you see that, you can see how Trump's actual policies undermine what Rubio is saying. But that's what Trump wants, right? Trump will have his attorney general, Pam Bondi, at the confirmation hearing say, we're going to respect the rank and file FBI directors and FBI staff. Everybody's going to get due process.
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And then Donald Trump fires any FBI agent who had anything to do with investigating January 6th insurrectionists and terroristic acts on January 6th and Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. So Trump pardons All of the January 6th insurrectionists, they get treated like heroes. But then law and order, the FBI, they get fired. My point, though, here is that Pam Bondi said the opposite.
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So my point about Marco Rubio is that Marco Rubio said one thing and then the policy was undermined.
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Now, how else was the policy undermined as well? Let me give you other data points. So Donald Trump's recent press conference, he says that he's going to put tariffs on Taiwan. Taiwan's our ally. So Trump's talking about putting worse tariffs, more damaging tariffs on our ally Taiwan, while then having this cooperation with China against Taiwan.
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So less tariffs on our adversaries. As some have said, the administration is demented. But I think there is something deeper going on here. You take a look at the ripple effects. For example, the president of the Philippines has now offered a deal with China. You want to talk about deal-making. It's deal-making that weakens the United States' geopolitical interests.
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And then when Donald Trump was asked about DeepSeek, which is China's AI that really destroyed America's AI industry, was so far more advanced. One would look at China's foray into AI as a direct economic attack and assault on U.S. industry. One would think, did China steal? Did China take the billions and billions of dollars in development from U.S.
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AI companies and basically appropriate it for their own use, undercutting U.S. interests? But Donald Trump's like, actually, you know, maybe a good thing. Here, play this clip.
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And remember how I said before that, you know, the U.S., internationally as kind of the quote unquote leader of the free world. It was post-World War II exercised in a lot of ways. So one of the ways it was exercised was through aid, supporting other countries, building bridges, alliances, and the other way was military. Now the United States is pulling out all of its aid.
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We're attacking everybody, threatening countries. Donald Trump's arbitrary, capricious, malicious mind. You don't know what's going to happen one day or the next. Threatening everybody, saying America doesn't need anything. We don't need allies. We don't need anybody. I mean, you couldn't be weakening us more if you tried. That's why it feels intentional. And also from a military perspective,
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We are enhancing the power of China. We are enhancing the power of Russia. We are weakening Taiwan. China may not have to fire a single shot with all of the kind of former American allies. They just start making deals with Xi Jinping because... They can't rely on America and America is so weak. They see the writing on the walls.
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Look, even the president of Mexico, the very popular and powerful Claudia Scheinbaum at the G20 summit a few months back, she was not supposed to meet with Xi Jinping. She met with Xi Jinping, took photos with Xi Jinping. Why to send a message? We could try to find other power structures outside of the United States if you force us to.
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But even without Claudia Scheinbaum, I mean, the head of the president of Panama, Peru, Honduras, Colombia, all had state visits with Xi Jinping over the past Five, seven, eight years, Panama established strong relations with China during Trump's first term. China's giving billions of dollars in aid.
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They're giving statements about respecting sovereignty of nations, the types of statements that used to emanate from the United States. And what's Trump doing? Just acting like a blabbering fool. That's my point. My thesis here is that either he's the biggest idiot and moron ever, which could be true.
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The most incompetent, dumbest, you know, I'm not trying to name call, just trying to be objective. Or this is intentional to help China, to boost China, to help Russia. China and Russia are talking. They're making deals with each other. Russia and Iran are talking. They're entering into alliances. and America's breaking all of its alliances.
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So if you wanted to execute a plan, how do you weaken America? It's this, and this example in the Philippines is a perfect exemplar of it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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And I'm going to show you this first, and then I want to show you what Marco Rubio was saying about the Philippines. And you can see how China is outmaneuvering Donald Trump quite easily. But either Donald Trump is the biggest idiot ever, which may be the case, or he's playing right into the hands, intentionally,
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I think he's signaling to January 6th insurrectionists who he pardoned. I'm going to need your help now because I am despised and detested and I'm going to need your back right now. as I am hated right now here in the United States and abroad. So I think this is a message in my view that he's signaling to his extremists, to his gang, the same way authoritarians in the past have done that.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think about all of that. That's what Donald Trump's doing, posting day six stuff. Crazy. Oh, he's also posting this. He's making more posts about claiming that he turned on California's water. By the way, he did it. What he did was he diverted water from an area not to where the fires were, but to a flooded area, harming farmers.
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Many of them were right wing farmers as well. He did that, screwing them over. Then the water management had to stop because he was about to further destroy farms, not even. And he ordered the federal government to move water to areas it didn't belong. It rained a week and a half ago, two weeks ago. So he's taking credit for the rain. This is an insane, delusional individual.
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OK, and I just want the rest of the world to know that most of a lot of us here in America, at least 75 million people or so voting for Vice President Kamala, do not support this. OK, this is embarrassing, humiliating for us. And I know scary for you and for us as well. We're going to do everything we can here on this platform to resist. So anyway, hit subscribe.
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Until they take away this microphone from my mouth, we ain't going anywhere. We don't have outside investors. So we grow with you. You're our stakeholders. We'll keep building this together. Thanks for watching.
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And you know who I'm talking about. Then Donald Trump makes posts like this. Anybody that's against tariffs, including the fake news, Wall Street Journal and hedge funds is only against them because these people or or entities are controlled by China. or other foreign or domestic companies, anybody that loves and believes in the United States of America is in favor of tariffs.
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They should have never ended in favor of the income tax system in 1913. The response to tariffs has been, and he puts this in all caps, fantastic. This is how psychotic this individual is. This is an individual who, if he wasn't in this position, would need to be wearing a straitjacket right now, an involuntary psychiatric 5150 hold. And we need to talk about it in those terms.
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This is a psycho-demented individual saying the response has been fantastic, by the way. Rupert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal, which supported Donald Trump. For Donald Trump to now say the fake news Wall Street Journal, notice that Donald Trump has made all these other media corporations and media companies wear their knee pads and bend the knees.
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And now he's saying fake news, Wall Street Journal. Why? Because Wall Street Journal is literally providing definitionally what a tariff is, which is inflationary and an economy killer. And then Donald Trump's talking about we need to go back to 1913 before the income tax system. Look, I know that Donald Trump didn't pay his taxes. We know that. that he is a tax cheat. We know that he is a fraud.
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We know that he is a convicted felon. And so Donald Trump says 1913, Let's be clear. All you've inspired right now is to unite the world against us, to isolate the United States, to unite former allies of the United States against us, to unite enemies against us, and to look like the pathetic weak loser that you are. By the way, Donald Trump's
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A meme coin because he's out there still selling meme coins. While all of this is going on, he's selling meme coins from the Oval Office. Well, his meme coins are crashing right now. As of this recording, they're at $17.91. I'm sure they will go lower. The Melania, which has that dollar sign in front of it, the dollar sign symbol. So it's Melania, Melania coin. That's at $1.44.
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That's basically crashed to almost $0, a complete crash. So many people have lost, Trump supporters have lost their life savings with his scammy meme coins that we tried to warn you about. And as predicted, as of last night, the stock futures were a train wreck. The Dow was down 1.5%. S&P down 2%. NASDAQ 2.6%. The Russell down 3.2%.
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Donald Trump's psychotic meltdown and psychotic behavior is accelerating. He's making post after post on his social media, bizarre posts about January 6th insurrectionists, reposts of Marjorie Taylor Greene. This says Donald Trump has initiated a trade war that has crashed the American economy.
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Obviously, more carnage today would be an understatement about what's going on. But you see it right there. The futures last night were down 662 points. By the way, Donald Trump, the Bitcoin, he's called him the Bitcoin president with all of these Bitcoin people and crypto people saying Trump's going to be great.
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Well, the volatility in the market right now is in an already volatile market, especially with Trump hawking meme coins. For those who actually say there's a legitimate place in crypto, Trump's showing why people who believe crypto is scammy. He's validating people who have those views for those who are like, there's actually a good place for crypto.
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$2 billion was liquidated in 24 hours from the crypto market. This was more than the COVID crash, more than the FTX collapse, a massive record in a bad way. Bitcoin slid towards $90,000 after Trump's tariffs. But what else has Trump been focused on during all of this time period?
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Well, an individual by the name of Darren Betty, who was fired as a speechwriter by the first Trump administration when it was revealed that he had spoken at a conference tied to white nationalists, is now the acting undersecretary of diplomacy and public affairs. in the State Department.
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This is somebody who said back on May 24th, 2024, so not that long ago, this is someone who's got a top leadership position at the State Department. Taiwan will inevitably belong to China. It's a matter of time. It's not worth expending any capital to prevent it. A visionary statesman will recognize this and make a deal in exchange for acknowledgement of this basic reality.
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Get some serious concessions on Africa and Antarctica. Big deal to be made. You have to wonder, too, though, why Donald Trump's tariffs on China were less severe than than his tariffs on Mexico and Canada, by the way. You wonder what Donald Trump, by the way, we knew that Donald Trump previously had secret bank accounts in China. Remember that was discovered after the first Trump administration.
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By the way, Trump's new State Department appointee in a leadership position said, the following on December 7th, 2021, our staff at the Midas Touch Network, we have an impeccable research team that digs this stuff up. This is what Darren Betty said then. Imagine the whining from the globalist American empire if Putin invades, and he puts that in quotes, Ukraine.
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I love it when our national security bureaucrats fail. That's a Trump appointee right there. By the way. This individual spent January 6th telling various black people, including Tim Scott, to learn their place and take a knee to MAGA. This is what Darren Betty said. Tim Scott needs to learn his place and take a knee to MAGA. Black Lives Matter must take a knee to MAGA.
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that is crashing global economies and this says donald trump continues to threaten to invade nations he threatens the sovereignty of canada he's threatening to invade panama and greenland Here's what Donald Trump is reposting now on his social media. He's reposting a post from Marjorie Taylor Greene from two weeks ago. It's a drawing of a January 6th insurrectionist in prison.
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They must learn their place. You get the point. Donald Trump talking about Panama talks about we will either take it back or something very powerful is going to happen. This is what he said last night threatening to invade Panama. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump whined and said Canada is very abusive to the United States of America, which literally nobody thinks other than Donald Trump and perhaps his deranged cult of MAGA followers. Psychotic individual. Play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump talks about inflicting pain on Americans, and he wants Americans to feel the pain, he says, and then it will get better. But we need to feel pain now, he says. Here, play this clip.
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Now, we previously reported on October 29th of 2024 what the plan was. We dug up tweets and reposts from Elon Musk and Trump. Wasn't all that hard to dig it up, to be honest with our research team. But Elon Musk talked about necessary economic collapse that he and Donald Trump.
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wanted to inflict and they claim what they needed to do was they needed to that markets will tumble to kind of crush the economy to just make people feel so much pain and then once everything is destroyed and everything is devastated then they want to rebuild it in the image of musk and trump once they destroy everybody's lives and then make all of us beg for them.
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By the way, right now, as we speak, Trump's, he wants to talk about hedge funds. They supported Trump, okay? The oligarchs literally sat front row. Donald Trump's Treasury Department Secretary, Scott Besant, who previously stated that tariffs would be devastating and inflationary and now is going along with the tariffs, he was George Soros' hedge fund manager. He then started his own hedge fund.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote, tomorrow as promised, President at real Donald Trump will sign a significant number of January 6th pardons. Soon the nightmare of the politically weaponized government will end. And the healing can begin. So why is Donald Trump reposting this right now as he started a cataclysmic trade war? Why is he posting this now?
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Trump's whole team is made up of hedge fund guys. His commerce secretary, you name it, they're all hedge fund people. And by the way, other hedge fund people and these private equity people, they are shorting the American economy. They shorted the economy, meaning... Trump's friends betted the American economy would crash. Why? Because you see, they're talking about economic collapse.
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That's what we were trying to say here at the Midas Touch Network. That's what they're calling for. So all these Trump billionaire oligarchs, they bet against the American economy in favor of a crash. So when it goes down, they make all of this money. Then they take that money and they buy it when it's low. And then they try to make money on it again. That's what the Trump oligarchs are doing.
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By the way, here's audio that was unearthed months ago that we tried to show you all of Elon Musk's talking about inflicting hardship on we the people.
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And by the way, who's loving this? Who's benefiting? In addition to Xi Jinping in China, Putin. Here's an interview that Putin gave on Russian TV talking about how Trump's going to make Europe submit. And by the way, I want to be clear, when Putin is saying this... He knows how to psychologically manipulate Donald Trump. Putin knows Europe is going to stand up to Trump.
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He wants to pressure Trump to now attack Europe, which Trump, by the way, says that he's going to now do tariffs on Europe. So Putin knows what he's doing here and how to play Trump like a fiddle, by the way, as Hillary Clinton warned in 2016. But play this clip.
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Finally, I'll leave you with this. Here's a clip of Kamala Harris talking about what she would have created. Americans could have gotten $25,000 to buy their first home, but instead they're getting tariffs that will make homes even more unaffordable and harder to buy, all to feed Donald Trump's ego.
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Or Donald Trump's intent and desire to destroy America because he is a broken, disgusting, despicable, convicted felon, sexual predator, sexual assaulter, someone who's a horrible businessman who's bankrupted a ton of his companies. Anyway, play this clip.
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I thought Donald Trump put out a press release saying that he got rid of the imaginary DEI boogeyman on January 22nd. He said it was restored. Excellence was restored. He fought with his imaginary DEI boogeyman. He claims he won the fake battle with the DEI boogeyman, and now he's blaming DEI still. Do you see these Putin-esque tactics here? I know, Brett, you do. I know, Jordy, you do.
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I know the Midas Mighty, you do, Brett.
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Yeah, I mean, they could not be more out in the open when you see these clips. The irony, of course, of the DEI thing is that Donald Trump's, all of his nominees and candidates, everybody who he surrounds himself with are DEI. They didn't earn it. They are all the worst people that you could possibly see filling these roles. I mean, it's just laughable when he uses DEI excuse.
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And then you have Pete Hegseth, who has his history of allegations against him for sexual assault and his history of all the photos of him drinking on the job and his reports of alcoholism and reports from his own mother about abuse and all of these various things.
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Never led anything in the military.
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Never led anything in the military, and you have him speaking down and trying to remove the stars of respected generals like Mark Milley. It is the complete flip where you now have a kakistocracy in place in addition to the oligarchy. That is a government that is led by the most incompetent among us, and that is what he tries to act like DEI is and what diversity is.
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He tries to act like that means you have incompetent people when we're seeing what Donald Trump's hiring process is like.
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it's bringing on the most incompetent people imaginable because he just wants lackeys the same way vladimir putin just wants lackeys the same way kim jong-un just wants lackeys it's the same thing different country happening right here in the united states and i feel like nobody like defends diversity anymore because they're too afraid because republicans have made such an offensive
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So let me defend it for a second, because what diversity with the Republicans want to act like it is, is it's you're picking people for their skin color and that's it. And you're trying to fill quotas, but that's not what it is.
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If you actually want to speak about what diversity is, it's saying, instead of just looking at this narrow group of people that you surround yourself with, like the Pete Hegseth, like the guy from the real world MTV show, you know, those people.
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Maybe reach out outside of your bubble and see all these other groups out there, all these other people who have these lived experiences who may actually be a lot better than those people. But the fact is there are a lot of people who are far more qualified than the people who have Donald Trump have chosen. And so they have to look down on them.
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So what Trump is now saying in all these press conferences is basically, and this is going to happen every single incident. If there is a woman who's flying the helicopter or the plane, that's going to be what they try to make the story. If there's an African-American who flew the plane who's involved, that's going to be the story.
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If there's someone in the LGBT community, that's going to be the story because they need to deflect blame from what is really happening here, from their own failures.
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Absolutely. Diversity is their new buzzword, too. It's like, during COVID, what was it? It was experts, doctor, activists. Those are the things that they attacked. Now they're attacking the word diversity.
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They've evolved, right? They used to be CRT. And then they've slowly gone, honestly, at a pretty quick pace. But they've gone more towards from these words that were code words for it to now they're going closer to it. And the further we get, the more it's going to get really,
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Well, when you look at the Hegseth comments, I mean, he just flat out said, I don't want women in the military is basically what Hegseth had said on tape there. They say the quiet parts out loud. It's disgusting. When you look at Donald Trump during these press conferences, does he work? Or is he just holding court for corporate media and they just eat it up? They go, yeah, Donnie.
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point guys on tv all day and then they broadcast them all day like from from morning till evening he's in a press conference he's in the oval office and i get that reporters like the access they like being in there with the cameras but at some point is somebody going to ask like dude do you do work or do you go from this to the golf course and then you let elon musk and his crew just cause chaos throughout our government
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Donald Trump engaging in Kim Jong Un like conduct and Putin as conduct as well. He had Meta, which used to be Facebook, enter into a settlement agreement with him to pay him $25 million for some ridiculous lawsuit Trump filed back in 2021 because Facebook exercised its discretion with a platform that it controlled to block Donald Trump back then.
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Corporate media is having the time of their lives right now. They don't want to do anything to get in trouble with Donnie over there, B. They're having so much fun at the expense of people's lives. Again, it's disgusting. When you see Donald Trump up there talking to these reporters, This isn't a person who wants to lead for all Americans. It's just so obvious.
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Up there blaming Biden and Obama, DEI. Ben, weapon of mass distraction. Exactly that phrase. He's up there just spewing utter nonsense that... Again, the corporate media and his mega followers just eat it up time and time. He doesn't want to lead for Americans. He wants to lead for the oligarchs while grifting off of the American people. It's like the reverse Robin Hood, right?
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He wants to give money to his oligarchs at the expense of Americans and American livelihood. It's disgusting.
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What do you think MAGA Republicans were focused on today? What do you think their top issue was? Of course, what all Americans are worried about right now is their prices are going up as eggs, if you can even find them, are skyrocketing as your coffee prices are.
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going through the roof as you're worried because of the war that's taking place in Europe and Ukraine that Donald Trump said he was going to fix in 24 hours and the war spreading to Europe as people are worried that Trump's going to impose these tariffs on Canada and Mexico and we're going to be embroiled in a devastating trade war against countries that should be our closest allies as people are worried Donald Trump's saying he's going to impose tariffs on
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on the semiconductor industry in Taiwan, our ally playing right into China's hand. Americans, I know, are very focused on whether or not Donald Trump will appear on Mount Rushmore. I'm being sarcastic, of course, but that's the MAGA Republican's priority. MAGA Republican Anna Paulina Luna introducing legislation to put Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore, quote,
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His remarkable accomplishments for our country and the success he will continue to deliver deserve the highest recognition and honor on this iconic national monument, Mount Rushmore. It's a timeless symbol of our nation's freedom. He deserves to be remembered along the greats like George Washington. Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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That's what they're doing at the same time of this national tragedy, while Donald Trump is also making QAnon posts and reposting QAnon accounts. Donald Trump posting the, yeah, this is the QAnon one. And it is like if you go and look at Spiritual Street Fighter 17, WWG1GA where we go on, we go all. Donald Trump is reposting her. Donald Trump is also making – there it is right there.
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Watch the water by the way. There was a Q drop this week. I saw this. It was Q occasionally, the mysterious figure who leads QAnon released a drop and they said, watch the water. It was about Donald Trump turning on the rain in California, the big faucet in California that all the water came from.
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I mean, the stuff is like – They think that Canada borders California on the north. That's what they think. And that right there in the northwest where California borders Canada, this is what they think. There's a faucet. And Trump turned the Trump order.
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This is what Trump's followers, this is what 35 percent of America, at least 35 percent of America believes, sent the military and they turned on the faucet. And then there was rain and the water was delivered and the fires were put out. By Donald Trump, you know, 60% of Americans have under a fifth grade education. And I guess they're into Donald Trump making posts like the goat, the G-O-A-T.
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They're making posts like this totally and utterly absurd. This is what they're focused on. And it's important that we point out that this is their behavior and contrast it with what we need to be focused on.
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So they're now paying him $25 million, $23 million purportedly, to a Trump presidential library, right? It had a double price. what ABC was paying and then $3 million for legal fees. I guess this is a bribe by another name. Some may have an opinion of that, but I'll leave it to your opinion ultimately to make that determination.
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we go to the oval office next and let me show you what was going on there and brett to your point i know corporate media you know they salivate uh for this this is what they live this is what they live for it's a great point by me it was definitely my point Well, by the way, I mean, you know, Brett's new TikTok emergence as- Really good. As one of the best TikTokers out there.
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Let me show you what went down. So Donald Trump needs to be explained the things that he's signing, which is kind of just a weird thing in general too. They need to tell him what it is. He's obviously doing it for theatrics.
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Or maybe he needs it actually explained to him because one of the things that we were learning as well was that the White House was blaming the Office of Management and Budget, which is now also kind of controlled by Elon Musk as well as Russ Voth, the author of Project 2025 for the government freeze memo. Right. They said and the Atlantic reported it so odd.
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They were like the memo that shocked the White House. OK, the memo that shocked the White House. I mean, Donald Trump's plan was Project 2025. The directive from the Office of Management and Budget that froze most of federal funds on Monday had not gone through the usual approval process. Now, look, I the Atlantic is usually they're usually on the Fed.
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I think they usually write better articles than most, but what's the usual approval process? The usual approval process for Donald Trump, let me post QAnon all caps letters.
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It was an informative article.
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What's the usual approval process? What does that even mean? It was an informative article that had a lot of good information in it and I think the biggest issue was the headline and I want to be clear about that. It's not Ashley Parker.
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Ashley Parker probably didn't write the headlines.
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Yeah, oftentimes they're different, the people who write the headlines. But here's the underlying thing with that and with what Trump does and what we see every single day. What was that?
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I said, sorry, Ashley. You wrote a good story.
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It was informative. She did a good job. Yeah, that was good. If you wrote the headline, I have some notes. But I'm sure you're great. But no, honestly, the thing, though, is there's always like, this has been a thing with Trump going back to like 2015. It's always been like, not Trump's fault. It's always someone else. And he often blames somebody else.
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And oftentimes the media goes, oh yeah, it was this guy, it was that guy, it was that guy. It's never a buck stops here moment to bring this episode full circle to the beginning. And that's what drives me crazy. And so anytime that the media gives credence to that idea of like, oh, it's just this person who went rogue and destroyed the entire system.
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And again, to me, whether you're from a red state, blue state, Democrat, independent, Republican, whatever, you should want qualified people, not Hegseths or Gabbards or RFKs or Kash Patels. dangerous incompetent people also the federal reserve did not lower interest rates given all of the uncertainty right now in the economy caused by donald trump and that government freeze
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I'm like, okay, so is he the president or is he not the president? Like, what are we doing here? We need to hold them to the same standards that we'd hold anybody else to, not less standards, that's for sure. And that's why I want to make sure that everyone's doing that.
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So to them, President Biden was responsible for absolutely every single thing, everything, no matter what. Local Trump issues. Donald Trump responsible for absolutely nothing, literally nothing. He could be in office, but like we're still going to pretend that it's Biden and Obama and somehow Buttigieg is involved in it as well. And Trump can never be. It's absurd. But that's why.
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You know, more people are watching this network now than any other cable network, including Fox. I mean, that's just why we crave the facts. I'm intellectually curious to know what's really happening. And that's why I don't read other corporate media at all.
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I just go to the source documents and I look at the clips and I watch it and I read the orders and I form my own evaluation of it because I'm just trying to read and grapple with what's before me. So that's why I showed you earlier in this episode about all of the things that Donald Trump did to the FAA, the federal government forcing out the FAA head, gutting these key safety committees.
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So what does Trump do? And this is part of his playbook. You go on the offense and then you blame others. And normally that would just mean you go on Fox. Well, now Trump goes on Fox in the Oval Office. And then signs an executive order declaring, declaring like this. This is stuff that Kim Jong-un would be like, ooh, I should maybe learn, take some lessons here.
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Declaring that the plane crash was the result of Biden and DEI. And that's what caused flight dangers. Here, watch it for yourself.
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Elevating competence over... In other words, what you're trying to say here is... competence huh like corporate media is so stupid that they you know like the tricks look like like they're out of like a like a 1945 like like disney cartoon where like the good guy or the bad guy tries to set the trap for a good guy you know and trump's like you know it's just it's such corny crap
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In other words, competence. Sir, we've got an order here. We're going to remove the woke from it that you've already said you've eliminated two weeks ago, but now you're blaming it because you were the one who gutted the FAA. So now let's blame Obama and Biden and Buttigieg. So what you're saying is competence. And then the corporate media reports it.
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How not to handle a national tragedy, Donald Trump rolling out the playbook after gutting government agencies, telling government workers to resign and take this fake buyout package after Elon Musk forced out the head of the FAA. What is Donald Trump now doing? Donald Trump is blaming the horrible tragedy that took place in Washington, D.C., when an airplane that came from Kansas into D.C.
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executive order eliminating you know it's like come on stupidest stuff in the world the biggest argument against everything they say is themselves like the biggest argument is exactly the way they run these things and you could even go you could go person by person of the people who they're bringing on i mean i keep going back to pete hegseth because he's like one of the most important people now in the country controlling our military controlling our budget uh he's responsible for that helicopter being uh wherever it was that day and that's his helicopter
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And so Pete Hegseth just wants the people to forget that he's in charge of this now. They're going to try to blame other people. And the giveaway is when they go, and we're not going to look at these other factors, but we're just going to look at competence.
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And then you look at who they view as competent, people like Pete Hegseth, and who they look at as incompetent, people like General Mark Milley, people like Lloyd Austin.
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lloyd austin is like the former secretary of defense under president biden one of the most decorated military generals like of all time um this guy like has a military career that is to be revered unbelievable human being and they view him as incompetent why because he's black that's it like the dei this all all this language that they use it's all just another way of them to get around saying racial slurs
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even though it was blocked by a federal judge, another federal judge in Rhode Island after Trump purported to rescind the OMB memo. But then his press secretary said, no, we were just rescinding the memo, not the freeze. So Caroline Levitt, 27-year-old Trump press secretary, had to say the judge was like, so you mean you're not rescinding it?
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That's the big, not so much of a secret, but it's the whole thing. We're seeing this white supremacy in action, and you see it whether it's Elon Musk doing the gestures that he's doing or the way they're running the White House. They use all these other words, and they use all this other framing to try to play it coy, but it's very obvious what they're doing.
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Let me show you this. Donald Trump in the Oval Office was asked about those 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Here's what Donald Trump says is going to happen. Let's play it.
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You know, I should note that Donald Trump is making those threats at the same time that Howard Lutnick, who is his pick to be the head of the Commerce Department, says Canada and Mexico can avoid tariffs before Saturday's deadline and basically comes up with a way to try to create a fake deal with Donald Trump. And during his testimony, he blamed Canada
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for killing 100,000 Americans a year with fentanyl and saying, Canada is shipping this in. Again, that's just false. There's literally nothing. There's no aspect of that statement that is true. So they basically want Canada to admit that it will stop doing something that it's not doing
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And the plan would then be, I guess, to make a fake deal and say Donald Trump made Canada submit and bend a knee and kiss the ring and then hope our media propaganda reports it the same way they kind of did with Colombia, which was a test run for that, where Donald Trump threatened to 25, 50% tariffs. Then Columbia said they're retaliating against it. And then Donald Trump said, we made a deal.
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And the deal is basically the exact same thing that happened when Biden was in office is now happening still. But he acted like they're agreeing to take people back, but they were taking people back under President Biden. What Columbia said is they didn't want military planes with people from Columbia being shackled like prisoners. And
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It's like there was no problem with the deportation. No problem. You caused the problem and then you came up with your fake solution and now you're spiking the football and the media is like, oh, look at how tough he was. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. Nothing happened.
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And by the way, Canada – has been reaching out to its european allies by and large other than the premier of alberta which she's like maga maple canada is ready to impose very harsh retaliatory tariffs against america to try to cause pain mexico's wildly popular president claudia scheinbaum has been rallying not just those in mexico but all throughout
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Latin America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, they held a meeting today as well. They're ready to go and they're going to be turning more towards China for help, who's the big beneficiary of this all.
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You have France meeting with the leader of Denmark and France and other European allies within Denmark are committed or floating at least, but likely committed to sending ground troops into Greenland to protect it against an American invasion. The world is uniting against Donald Trump. And the thing there, too, is those populations have been prepared for the assault on them by Donald Trump.
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So we're going to issue a restraining order against you. But chaos has ensued across the country. This is the Midas Touch podcast. I'm joined by Brett and Jordy.
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So they're ready for shared sacrifice because they've been learning about this. They understand the threat by and large. in america because our corporate media has bent the knee kissed the ring put on their knee pads what have you people here are not ready i think by and large those who watch the midas touch network are for what's about to take place the mere threat
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of Colombia's retaliatory tariffs and tariffs on Colombia led to a skyrocketing of coffee prices and also gas prices. And the tariffs didn't even happen. Trump made a fake deal. If these tariffs get imposed and we're in a massive trade war, and then we impose tariffs on Taiwan as well, this is going to have massive economic impacts. And Brett Jordy, might as mighty,
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What is Donald Trump gonna do when that happens? Three letters, D-E-I, and one name, Biden. Donald Trump, they're all gonna roll out there. We're going to have to sign. This is the executive order, sir, sir. And this says that the economic catastrophe that just occurred was caused by Biden. I hereby decree DEI and Biden caused a depression.
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And at some point, let me be very clear, we the people are not gonna take it. And it's happening rapidly. It's happening rapidly that we the people at some point when this shit keeps on happening, It's going to be enough, enough. And that's what he wants, though, right? He wants the people to have a reaction to this.
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And he is what he said he was going to do before, martial law, and I'm going to declare the Insurrection Act. This is part of the Project 2025 agenda. Elon Musk said, we, this was during the election. I did, how many reports Brett and Jordy and MidasMoney did I did on this? I said, folks, they're saying that they want to cause economic hardship.
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Crazy week. I was going to say, how far through this week are we? Okay, it's Thursday, at least. But it's been a crazy week, and this week has really highlighted the incompetence of the administration. I mean, the willful, malicious incompetence.
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They're saying, literally the quote was, we want to inflict economic hardship. Hey, union folks, Elon Musk's literally saying he doesn't believe in your existence. He said unions create a Lord peasant environment and that they should be abolished, period. Sorry, Brett, for that one.
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No, Ben, real quick. There's only so many times Trump could really go to the Biden well, at least so I thought. And then all of a sudden today he was rolling out that it was Obama's fault, that the plane crash was somehow Obama's fault. So it doesn't look like they've advanced their talking points at all, at least Trump and these MAGA Republicans, on how they're going to deal with disaster.
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They're sure as heck never going to take accountability. But to your point, Ben, there's only so many times you could really blame Biden and DEI. Again, when you are the party in charge, when you have the House, the Senate and the presidency before corporate media, hopefully one day pushes back on him and say, uh-uh, not going to take it. Because, you know, unfortunately, it's not up.
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We can't wait for corporate media to do that. That's why we're doing it here, the Midas Mighty and the pro-democracy community. And it's freaking working. But I just, you know, I just want to see somebody have the stones one day to finally push back on them.
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Here's the thing. You're assuming an electorate that uses common sense. You're assuming a rational electorate. And it's just not what we're dealing with. It just isn't. So yes, they're going to go back to the same well every single time. And the same people are going to parrot the same shit every single time. And they're going to try to play this like it's football or something.
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They're going to play it like it's sports. They're going to just... do exactly what they've been doing. You're gonna have all these people, the Charlie Kirks, the Tim Pools, the you name it, they're all going to be spouting this BS and turning everything into these same wars. It's the same game they play every single time.
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And so our goal is to be louder megaphones than them and to find the people who aren't so entrenched in that cult
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and to pull them out of it gradually right so we already saw because there are a lot of people who voted for trump this time who aren't just the maga cultists and we have to understand that there are people who voted because you know like a lot of young men this is something that we were raising the alarm on quite a lot a lot of them voted because they viewed their lives as they were getting stiffed you know in their life that they had this promise of america of the american dream that
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We've said on this show numerous times throughout Biden's administration that when crises happen, you want somebody in charge who's able to handle them appropriately, who's able to manage the situations, who's able to look at them clear-eyed and be honest with the American people and make the right decisions about how to actually make these situations better.
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you are going to live a better life than your parents and you are going to be richer than them and you are going to have more opportunities and they grew up in an environment where that's not the case and turning to donald trump sounds counterproductive and i agree it's the opposite of what you want to do if you want to solve those issues but they found some sort of camaraderie in this that made them feel powerful
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That made them feel like, okay, I, this is a community that accepts me and they actually make me not feel like a piece of crap, right? There are people out there who are still persuadable who voted for Donald Trump. So I think it's the goal of, of us, uh, of this entire community to be in full persuasion mode every single day and highlighting the chaos.
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And we already see the more people see what Donald Trump's action cause campaigning is different than governing. And the more people see what Donald Trump is actually doing, especially now because his actions are not going to only be seen by his people. They're going to be shown on these networks, right?
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Whether the networks give them good coverage or bad coverage, people are going to be seeing these crazy actions every day. But we saw in one week, his approval rating go down like quite a bit. And we saw a big backlash to like all of his signature policies. We saw this right off the bat. And so, Ben, I don't want to step on you because I know you wanted to get into this also.
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So let me know if we should show some of this data or if we should hold on it. But the point is, when people actually are seeing what Trump is doing, a lot of people will not like it. But they will only not like it if we don't give up, if we don't quit. And there are so many people right now, I'm not saying this community, but like a lot of people in the Democratic Party are out there, right?
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Who just sort of seem defeatist or seem like, oh, in order to win people over, we need to be more like them. And we need to make our policies more MAGA and things like that. And it's just such the wrong way to work about it. Have your values speak loudly and proudly about them and actually fight for something. That's what people want. People want fighters.
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And we all need to be fighting for our country. If that cavalry is not going to come from this party infrastructure and from leaders like that, we're going to be the ones who have to take it on.
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Let's take our last quick break of the show. Ben, I can't hear you right now.
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I'm not sure if you're on mute. I just wanted to add this there, Brett. Dem leadership needs to step up, like to your point exactly there. Dem leadership needs to figure out a way to combat the Biden, the DEI, which is strong frigging messaging. This community is doing amazing. The pro-democracy community is doing great speaking out and putting that down. But I need to see it out of Dem leadership.
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Unfortunately, we have a guy right now in the Oval Office who does the complete opposite of that, who rushes to judgment, who tries to blame the other side. It's the complete opposite of what we always liked about our presidents throughout our history. I mean, I think to Harry Truman, what was Harry Truman's famous line? The buck stops here, the buck stops with me. I think it's the buck stops here.
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Yeah, you're good now. Perfect. Well, why don't we take our last quick break of the show? Brett, we'll go over that data. We'll go over Donald Trump being asked a question about, well, you said you were going to, what, cleanse or clear out or just get rid of the whole Gaza situation, that you were going to cut this deal with Egypt and Jordan. But it turns out that they're saying, There's no deal.
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We're not doing that. We don't know what he's even talking about. And Donald Trump's like, they're going to do it. Just trust me. They'll do it. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about some data. Reminder, patreon.com slash Midas Touch is where you get to do Zoom. meetings with us, secret links, get to meet with us. And then MidasPlus.com, led by our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski.
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Let's take our last quick break of the show.
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And Donald Trump is the opposite of Truman in that regard and the opposite of what a leader is supposed to be. I mean, blaming President Obama about What are you talking about? Blaming President Biden, blaming diversity for this horrific tragedy that we watched unfold last night. I mean, my heart is absolutely breaking for this. It is such a horrifying scene.
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So Trump's ambassador to the United Nation, Elise Stefanik, was asked at a confirmation hearing whether she espouses a biblical view that Palestinians and Palestine should simply not exist. And she said she agrees with that biblical view.
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You had Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel, say the same thing, that he has a Christian Zionistic view, as he refers to it as, and a biblical perception that Palestine should not exist. And then Donald Trump Also said that he wants to clean it away or get rid of it and just get rid of the whole damn thing.
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And then he said he's got a deal with the King of Jordan in Egypt where that's where he's going to move all the Palestinians. Then he implied that he was going to. build like condominiums. He says it's a great place for building great waterfront property. And by the way, several years ago, Jared Kushner made very similar remarks.
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I still remember where there were these Muslim leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, and others who were saying that Donald Trump was going to be just great. He was going to be great for all
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of the muslim issues well donald trump is now going to be imposing a muslim ban that's worse than the first one perhaps when he banned your entire people i don't know that may have been a rat flag red flag the first uh administration um and we were saying that donald trump is very is it's not the same thing when it comes to trump and kamala when it came to issues of palestine
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And to see Donald Trump take that and try to blame Trump. Biden and Obama and diversity. It just honestly, it makes me so angry to see. And it makes me so angry that there are Americans who could look at this and support this evil guy. It really, really, really disgusts me. I know we're going to get into it all. We got a lot to discuss. So I'll toss it over to you, Jay.
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And Kamala wanting a two-state solution and Donald Trump not. But Donald Trump's being asked about – he says he's got this deal. But the president of Egypt and the king of Jordan say that we know nothing of this deal. The same way Donald Trump made up a lie that he was going to have a peace deal in Ukraine in 24 hours that he now –
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WMD, weapon of mass distraction, wants us to forget about as Putin and Russia are literally mocking him on Russian state TV every day. But here's what Trump had to say about Gaza. Let's play it.
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I mean, it's literally the stupidest loop of timeline that they're going to do it. They're going to do it. They're going to do it. Now, the question should have ended after he said the Egypt president and the King of Jordan said that they're not going to do it. Did you notice the reporter though there, if you were listening carefully, like, are you going to use things like tariffs?
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The question almost implies tariffs. It doesn't. It doesn't almost. It is embedded with the fallacy that these tariff threats are having an impact and are going to make Egypt and Jordan change their behavior in a material way and it's loaded with this idea that tariffs make sense. Tariffs are. a tax on American corporations. You need me to say it again slow.
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Tariffs are a tax on American corporations that import to try to disincentivize them from bringing in foreign goods. And sometimes it does that. And the tax is then passed on to the American consumer if the American company still imports from the foreign country. The foreign country gets pissed because it's an economic weapon against them. So then they impose retaliatory tariffs.
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Then a trade war starts. Donald Trump believes that America was its richest in the 1870s, which is just the blatantly most stupidest thing you can possibly say. We were not the most powerful in the 1870s. And so this whole concept that we should be more like 1870 America is quite literally the dumbest thing. But also, just going back to that video,
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You've got Donald Trump, again, this is his latest lie. They're gonna do it. Why? Okay, they're gonna do it. We do a lot for them. He has no sense of the geopolitical environment while Russia and China are feasting. They could not be happier right now. For similar end dip, they could not be happier. China's reaching out to all these countries saying, let us help you, let us invest.
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Yeah. I mean, Brett, just building on that real quick, it's just beyond pathetic, right? I feel like we talked about this earlier in the week, or maybe last week too, when I'm like, all Trump and these Republicans keep doing, but Biden did this, but DEI, here's the issue. Donald Trump is president. Biden's not president. Obama sure as hell isn't president. DEI, Trump, you're the president.
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We'll be the new leaders. WHO, let us help you, let us help you, let us help you. And Russia's like, This totally justifies all of our territorial ambitions to take Ukraine and to take Europe. Putin doesn't believe for a second that he's going to broker any deal that is in total capitulation, and he thinks that Donald Trump will allow that to happen.
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ukraine is banking on and i've been reading a lot of stuff from uh from kiev journalists out of this is that somehow donald trump just gets so frustrated that he looks like a bad negotiator that maybe he will get frustrated with putin that's literally what ukraine is banking on now finally let me show you this clip though where donald trump says that um
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So they announced at another event that they were going to launch a Guantanamo Bay concentration camp. Let's call it what it is, a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay as like a point where migrants will be sent and I guess potentially Americans too because they're rounding up people who aren't even migrants and people who are here lawfully.
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Donald Trump says he's asked about it, and he goes his concentration camp is not going to cost anything. It's not going to cost a lot of money. Here, watch this.
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You said that confidence may have played a role. Are you
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As you know, I don't know. A lot of the structures there, look, I think you could probably ask Donald Trump any question about any topic and he will respond with a ridiculous answer. I mean, I think you can literally ask him, There have been reports that Russia has highly trained unicorns that are – what's your view on that? And he would respond, I think we have unicorns. They have unicorns.
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I think you can ask him anything and he will respond with some sort of lie that is – utilizing the framing of the question. It's absurd what he's saying there, that it's not gonna cost anything. Like a miracle, it's all gonna go away. Was this COVID? All of this is like, what we predicted here conservative estimates were that Donald Trump was gonna add five to $7 trillion in debt.
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I was saying, well, that's what he did last time, $8 trillion. So this time I'm putting a five X multiple on it. So I was saying between 30 and $50 trillion. in debt that he's going to add. Just think about it. One of these flights is like a million dollars with 80 people on them that he uses the jet and he makes the films about it.
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He is the most reckless with the spending and wait until they push forward their billionaire tax cuts. That's going to be their main thing that's working its way through right now, Brett.
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You got rid of DEI when he walked in the door. He signed all those executive orders, big guy. These excuses just fall on deaf ears when all of a sudden you are the party in charge. You control the House. You control the Senate. You have the presidency. It's gross to say. I hate saying it, but you do. It's not Biden. It's not Obama. It's not DEI Trump. It's you, Republicans.
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Everything that he's lining up right now with the tariffs, with the spending, with everything he's doing, it's setting it up for honestly just like an economic disaster. That's all designed to funnel money obviously to the richest people in the country and the people who operate private prisons and things like that.
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Who do you think is going to – and I can't believe we even have to speak about this crazy Guantanamo idea in the realm of reality, but we have to. But who do you think is going to be going down there to create these massive prisons in Guantanamo Bay? It's going to be some Trump lackey who runs private prisons, some billionaire who's going to get all this money.
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And just to put it in perspective also, I think Guantanamo Bay at its peak. And Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba. It's an area of Cuba that we've taken control of. And we put a lot of people who are dangerous war criminals. But a lot of people have also been there because they've been in the wrong place, wrong time. These are people who haven't got a due process.
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At its peak, there was like 700 prisoners that got to Guantanamo Bay, 700 at its peak. Currently today, the last time I checked, there was 15 people in Guantanamo Bay. So he wants to go from 15 people, and right now the 15 people who are there are like the most dangerous people in the world who did 9-11 and things like that. He wants to go from 15 people who are prisoners of war.
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And he wants to now, in a place that shouldn't exist, quite frankly, he wants to now bring in 30,000 migrants and treat them as war criminals, basically, and bring them into this area designed for up to like 700 people. There's no way to do this in a way that's not going to be absolutely just dehumanizing. And it's really, Guantanamo has been a stain on our country since it's been open.
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This takes it to a whole other level. It's just completely abhorrent. And it's just another step in this crazy kind of Trump chaos where he's just showing us that there is no bottom.
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So here's their... way to cover up the government freeze, right? So everybody was pissed, red state, blue state, Democrat, independent, Republican, government freeze, it probably impacted you or somebody you knew in some material way, the chaos.
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I mean, I had friends who were saying that they had procedures and they weren't sure if they were gonna be able to have a life-saving procedure taking place. And whether you were talking about any of these government programs, people were impacted. I saw statements from the governor of Louisiana, a far right-wing governor, the governor of West Virginia, far right-wing governor,
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saying that they were caught off guard and they're like 45, 50% of like their budget comes from the federal government, which by the way, blue states help fund them. Think about Tennessee, for example, all these red states are funded by the blue states with federal funds because they can't really fund themselves by and large. And then they want to rail against the federal government.
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What's Trump's current version of they're eating the cats and dogs? What red meat can he throw to his base knowing that a lot of people who support him have less than a fifth grade education and that there are about 50% of our country or 60% has under a fifth grade education and that's the electorate. So what they came up with
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was that they needed to do this because Biden was putting $50 million or tens of millions of dollars and sending it to Hamas. So Hamas can build bombs made with condoms. Condom bombs, devastating condom bombs by Hamas, $50 million worth. I kid you not, this is what they went with. And it's so outlandish, it's so out there. Condom bombs, $50 million to Hamas.
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It's you guys that are causing this chaos and hysteria, and it's getting people killed. Benji, where do you want to start?
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So even when I heard it at first, you have to think to yourself, okay, maybe they're not condom bombs, but were we sending $50 million of contraceptives to Hamas? Were we sending, were we doing that? Like you start trying to go down. Okay, there's a lie, but some of it must be true, right? Because people don't lie about everything. No, they lie about everything.
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Like literally from USAID of the $60 million of a much bigger budget that was sent internationally
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uh regarding contraceptives because you don't want internationally the spread of aids to occur in hiv for example which then finds its way back to here pandemics as we've learned are global in nature so the fact that they may start in country wide doesn't mean they end up back in the united states but none of that went to gaza None of that went into the West Bank. None of that went there.
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Why don't we start with Donald Trump posting a fact sheet? Let's start with last week. where Donald Trump posted a fact sheet on January 22nd, 2025 about the Federal Aviation Administration. And Trump says, fact sheet, President Donald J. Trump ends DEI madness and restores excellence and safety within the Federal Aviation Administration.
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So literally, this whole concept of condom bombs, why? But Trump's supporters feast on this stuff. They love that this hits them. And then they're enraged. And then they're so pissed about condom bombs. Here, play the clip first of Trump talking about condom bombs. So people are like, man, what are you talking about? Here, play it.
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How about that? It's a lie. How about none of it is true? But that's the thing. Like, when I... When MAGA people reach out to me, if you want to even call it that, they send me memes. Like they don't engage in actual discourse. Like they have a meme that they send you for everything. And then they start, then the new meme is like a photo of Biden with Hamas and then condoms.
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And then it's like a meme like that. And this like really hits them. I don't know, in their reptilian brain or whatever. And people run with this thing. And it's literally all a lie. And as I said, it's a WMD, weapon of mass distraction. So you can ignore the fact that none of Donald Trump's promises are true.
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But perhaps when he said he was going to free all the January 6th insurrectionists, by the way, to have the episode come full circle when Kash Patel was testifying at the confirmation hearing and California Senator Adam Schiff was asking him, hey, Patel, You were bragging that you came up with the J6 choir song with the most dangerous insurrectionists, many of who tried to kill police.
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Patel goes, I didn't do that. Senator Schiff goes, well, you went on Bannon and you said we produced this and you talked about all the things that we did, meaning you. And then Patel goes, yeah, but I said we. And then Senator Schiff goes, so you don't include yourself in we, meaning you and Trump and others? Yeah, I don't know what that was referring to. That's where they're going with this.
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They created songs with the insurrectionists. They created musicals and choirs about this. But this is the WMD weapon of mass distraction that they're deploying to get you to forget about all of these things that none of Trump's promises are true. Brett.
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One of the strategies also, and whether you call it a distraction or not a distraction, one of the moves that he does is just flood the zone with shit. That's literally a phrase taken from Steve Bannon from Donald Trump's first term. That's a coordinated strategy by them to do so much chaos that it's hard to even keep track of it all, even in the way that they handled
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These hearings today where you had Tulsi and you had Kash Patel and you had RFK today, all going at once, the three most controversial nominees. That's designed to put a lot of shit out there in order to divide your attention and make it so it's hard to focus on any one of them. It's hard to cover him and all of that. So we are going to see a lot of this flooding the zone from Trump.
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We are going to see more chaos. But I think the one bright spot of this week was that it showed that our voices matter. When it came to this funding freeze and the rescission of the funding freeze and the chaos around it, the judge ultimately ruling against them, the reason for all that chaos and uproar was because people made noise.
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And so we have to understand that we still need to use our megaphone and make noise at these things. and do what we can to ensure that people realize how dangerous Donald Trump's policies are, how dangerous these funding freezes are, because they're going to try to position all these as good ideas, right?
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The same way they try to position their attacks on diversity as good ideas, the same way they try to frame all these attacks on staffers who deal with our airline safety as they were just cutting the budget. Don't you want a more efficient government?
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sure i want a more efficient government i don't want to get rid of the person who controls the air safety for our planes that's for sure um i got a i got a plus symbol in my video um so you know just keep eye on this where did that come from keep keep your eye on the ball everybody and understand that your voice your voice has power got ben and jordy not making fun of me making the thumbs up for the audio listeners
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Your voice still has power. Our voices still have power. It's why we need to continue to spread these messages. It's why we need to continue to speak out. And it's why we can't let them get us down and drive us into like this submission and this like, okay, well, it's just so much. I got to tune out because I can't focus on it. That's exactly what they want you to do.
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And that's exactly why we're going to do the exact opposite of that every single day.
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Folks, whether you're a Democrat, Independent, Republican, Red State, Blue State, Do you see excellence over the past 24, 48 hours? Or do you see tragedy? I see tragedy when an airplane, a commercial plane struck a military Black Hawk helicopter flying over Washington, D.C. What else are we learning? The FAA administrator had to quit on January 20th because Elon Musk forced him out.
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That's why this community is getting defeated, busting their butts every single day, coming out, sharing the videos, talking about it, making noise in the right way. And I just want to say thank you guys. It doesn't go unnoticed. None of this reach is possible without y'all here. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Look, we hit about 22, 23 million views or so every 48 hours. By reference, that's more than the three biggest Fox shows combined. Bigger than Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Jesse Waters all added together. And that's thanks to you, the Midas Mighty. Our choir needs to sing loud and we need to be proud about our views and values and principles.
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Also, Donald Trump put in place a very dangerous FAA hiring freeze such that the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the ranking members who are the Democrats on the committee before this incident, put out a statement how dangerous this was. Donald Trump
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also cut back and removed key air safety committees as well i'd also just like to jump in for a quick second to explain briefly why uh elon musk forced out the head of the aafaa right there It was because the FAA was trying to fine Elon Musk around $600,000 for safety violations committed by Elon Musk's company, SpaceX.
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I just want to bring that up because it is the complete problem with having this oligarchy set up right here and having these billionaires who have these other interests that they have to deal with because it makes their decision making by its inherent nature corrupt. Because Elon Musk cares about his companies. He doesn't care about the country.
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So Elon Musk had a personal tiff with this guy because this guy wanted to enforce what? What's the issue that we're all talking about right now? Air safety, aviation safety. And Elon Musk pushed back and made this guy quit because of that, pushed him right out. I just wanted to bring it up because it is like the epitome of the entire issue with this administration, Ben.
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I think it's a great point. Also, Donald Trump appointed Sean Duffy as the Secretary of Transportation. He got famous because he was on the Real World and then competed on the Real World Road Rules Challenge. You see him right there. He then parlayed that into a career as a MAGA Republican Congress member and then a Fox host who was hawking crypto a few weeks ago.
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crashed into a helicopter, taking the lives of more than 60 Americans. Donald Trump actually in the Oval Office signing an executive order blaming diversity and blaming President Biden for it, even though Donald Trump's gutted federal agencies will talk about that.
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Let's talk about some of the facts. Some of the facts that we're learning is that staffing was not normal at the airport tower in Washington, DC, where the crash took place, according to a preliminary FAA report. While that news was breaking earlier, it was not shocking. Donald Trump and his administration have been torturing
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federal employees that's what project 2025 is all about to destroy their morale to break them and to force them out that's why they did a government spending freeze and then they did what i think is a fake and also likely unlawful severance package telling government employees all of them
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that if you resign immediately, you will be eligible for a buyout of your contract through next September, which I don't even think is a lawful use of appropriation expenditures, number one. Number two, do you trust that Donald Trump is actually going to pay that? And three, when you look at the fine print, it seems to suggest
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that all that really does is say that you can still work remotely, but not that you're not allowed to or that you can stop working, period. So there's a lot of shadiness there to begin with. But the overall point is you have all of this strain and chaos and pressure being exerted on the federal government.
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And, you know, a buddy of ours, Brett Jordy, said, you know, when Elon Musk was destroying Twitter, and there would be outages and delays and problems with it, it was Twitter. At the end of the day, it's a social media app. But when you do that with the federal government, which regulates railroads and airplanes and food safety and health, well, then you get global pandemics. You get air crashes.
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You get railroad derailments. You get food shortages. And that's what's at stake. I want to show the clips, Brett, but I want to reflect on that for a moment.
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Yeah. And, you know, there's this whole kind of The playing field is not even when it comes to these sorts of things. Because last night I saw a whole lot of these MAGA Republican types, these MAGA influencer types. When people started to bring up and realize, oh wait, Trump got rid of this aviation safety board last week. Oh wait, Trump pushed out the head of the FAA.
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Trump did all these things to intimidate staffers and drive staffers out. And now there are shortages at all these organizations where we need them. Like there was one individual who was in charge of both the helicopters and all the planes that were coming in at that airport. We normally have multiple people monitoring both.
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And when people started to bring that up, you saw these MAGA influencers online who were like, how dare you? These are these liberal scum scum. How dare you speak like that? And how dare you rush to politics? And I agree, you shouldn't rush to politics in these situations. There are people's lives.
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It's important that you reflect on what is actually happening and that you are trying to act in the best interest of humanity. I agree entirely. But these are the first people out there, every single tragedy, to try to exploit it and take advantage of it. If someone as little as farted on a plane or a train during the Biden administration, these people would blame Pete Buttigieg. They blame Biden.
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They blame DEI every single time. That was their whole shtick. That's what they did for the past four years, blamed Biden for everything, including the things that he managed very well. So now people bring up legitimate points about what is going on and what do they want to do. They know the effectiveness of calling him out. quite frankly, this is honest information. This is real information.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump's been reposting QAnon accounts, taking credit for the rain in California, saying, release the water, watch the water, over and over again. No, Donald, what I'm watching
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This is information that could have truly had an effect on this situation and led to this incident. So they want to what? It's a threat to Trump. They want to silence you. So they want to try to mock you. They want to try to deride you. They want to try to act like you're a horrible human being. And that's part of their strategy as well.
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And so you have this uneven playing field where the second you start to speak out, these people are like, how dare you? How could you do it? And even, you know, a lot of kind of journalist types and And, you know, people like that speak out like it's too soon for that. It's too soon for that. I'm sorry, it's not. We need to be speaking out about these issues.
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We need to be clear eyed and we need to understand that the actions that Donald Trump takes, it's not just a TV show. This ain't reality TV. This ain't the real world, Sean Duffy. I'm sorry. This is real life. This affects people's lives. And that's what enrages me so much.
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You can't just willy-nilly go, I'm going to get rid of the people at the FAA because those people watch the planes and ensure that this doesn't happen. And this is going to continue to happen in various industries. There's going to be food incidents with health safety. It's going to affect everything because Donald Trump is incompetent and all he cares about is his bluster in front of the camera.
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And so we have to be calling it out every single day and we can't let people silence us.
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So now he uses his position in the White House, the biggest microphone in the world. and the history of mankind to spread his vicious lies, his blame game. The irony is that he's speaking from the main position of power while taking zero accountability and blaming others. Dude, you are in charge. You're in charge. And not only are you in charge, your actions actually led to this.
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So let's take a look at what happened. So here is Trump during a press conference on the helicopter plane collision, blaming Biden and others. Let's play this clip.
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is you i'm watching the fact that prices are not going down they're going up housing is not more affordable it's less affordable there's not peace in ukraine in 24 hours and your threats of tariffing anybody on any given day based on your arbitrary, capricious and downright dangerous emotions has led to things like coffee reaching records high and other commodities are getting there as well.
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As he's putting politics at levels that nobody's seen, do you see the gaslighting right there? And doesn't that give you the vibes of his COVID press conferences? Folks, you've got nothing to worry about. Like a miracle, it's all gonna go away. Actually, It's actually great. Things are good. Did you see the stock market? It bounced back. Just inject yourself with some bleach, everybody.
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This is all good. All good. It's China's fault, everybody. It's the China virus. Remember when he would do that routine? It's just the same iteration. Perhaps worse. So then a reporter goes, so are you saying that this crash was caused by diversity? Because Donald Trump and his office were saying DEI, DEI, DEI did this. Then Donald Trump goes, it could have been here. Watch this clip.
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that on day one, he was going to lower prices of things. That was basically the winning message, which was all based on a lie. He didn't say how he was going to do it. He just said, like a miracle, this will happen because he said he's got all these magical powers and so many people just believe he knows what he's doing.
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And he claims he was a good business person, despite the fact that he bankrupted like literally almost every company he touched in the past, not all of them, but most of them. And he said he was going to fix it. Let's talk about what's happening right now. Mortgage rates are going up past 7%. At one time last week, they were above 7%. They're at like 6.85% now.
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Didn't you say that on day one you were going to fix this all and these were going to be American jobs? Are you lying to us? Is this the F around and find out stage right now?
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The Treasury yields 10-year note are reflecting a serious instability caused by Donald Trump's threats of tariffs and bloody mass deportations. That's already having a negative effect. We saw top real estate companies thought that mortgage rates would be going below 5%. And now they're saying that, nope, this is likely going to go up maybe even higher than 8% right now.
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We've got the Federal Reserve, which was... anticipating it would make numerous additional rate cuts in 2025, now saying that they don't think that's going to happen because they don't see inflation getting under control like it was going in a downward trajectory under President Biden because of Donald Trump's threats. So, oh, and by the way, the prices of eggs, that's all I heard.
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The price of eggs, the price of eggs, the price of eggs. Well, Donald Trump is unlikely to handle the avian flu the right way. I mean, heck, he wants RFK Jr., who basically believes that there shouldn't be
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um any type of vaccines um and and he's someone who like helped you know who's you know would be okay with polio spreading um so when you've got people like that out there and he wanted there to be what like an eight-year moratorium on research into serious infectious diseases so when you have all of that as background i'm just i don't think the prices of eggs are going to be going down and i'm sure you've seen already
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In your own experience, price is actually going up and not down. And also didn't Donald Trump say that before he even took office, all of these wars would end. And instead he seems to be starting new wars now with our allies. every single day provoking territorial sovereignty disputes.
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So at some point, this is going to boil over with the American people saying, wait a minute, this is not what you promised us. And I think we're already seeing that already. Before day one, we're seeing the F around and find out stuff as people start Googling the stuff that you probably should have looked into before.
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We will break that all down here on this episode. Also, you've got foreign leaders calling out Donald Trump for attacking the sovereignty of other nations and Hunter Biden gets his revenge on Matt Gaetz.
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before you actually cast that vote for someone who is a congenital liar, someone who literally basically has engaged in fraud and has lied over and over in his entire life. So one of the things we're seeing as well, though, and we saw this civil war taking place right now as well, MAGA Alliance, if you will, has these kind of far right-wing people who hate immigrants, all immigrants.
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And they're basically like they expect America to just be a white nation is their perspective on on America. And so they love Donald Trump's rhetoric about bloody mass deportations and his anti-immigrant rhetoric. On the other hand, MAGA is also made up of these tech bros kind of led by Elon Musk and then more behind the scenes, Peter Thiel. And this is like the PayPal mafia they've been called.
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And, you know, Musk and Thiel started at PayPal and then they've gone on to kind of spawn this whole kind of tech bro movement, which has turned kind of right wing MAGA. And now this kind of right wing tech tech bro contingent, by the way, they're the reason that JD Vance became the VP.
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I mean, that was Peter Thiel's pick and part of the, hey, we're going to give you all of this money is we want our guy, JD Vance, who worked for Peter Thiel to be your VP. So that was one of Donald Trump's first steps of submission to the tech bros and taking their money. But now the tech bros are out there.
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And by the way, those tech bros, especially with the platforms like formerly Twitter, they've been instrumental in amplifying hateful rhetoric against immigrants, against the other. I mean, you've seen Twitter, now X, turn into a cesspool
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But now what we're seeing are the tech bros, whether it's Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, who run this thing called Doge, just like made up entity, which is pulling the puppet strings for Donald Trump and the magas in the House of Representatives. They're now out there saying, actually, we need labor engineers from India. That's critical for us. We specifically need foreign talent.
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In other words, we need the type of immigrants who we think are helpful to run our tech companies. We don't want the other immigrants, the tech pro say, the ones that are instrumental in helping America's economy and agriculture and hospitality in construction. Now, yeah, you could do the bloody mass deportations there. We don't want them, but we need talent. from places like India.
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I wonder if... When Matt Gaetz was engaged in some of that illicit drug activity, which was found by substantial evidence in the bipartisan House Ethics Committee report, he was a gun owner. Did he fill out one of those ATF forms and claim that he was not a drug user when he purchased that gun?
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And so one of the people who Donald Trump just appointed to be a senior policy advisor, and he comes from that tech bro world, is a guy named Sri Ram, Krishnan, who was born in India. He's a venture capitalist, of course, because they're all venture capitalists who work for Trump now.
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And he worked at a company called Andrasen Horowitz, and they were largely supportive of Donald Trump as part of this tech pro support of Donald Trump. So when he was picked, and by the way, he worked at former Twitter when it was not owned by Musk, and he worked at Microsoft.
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Microsoft and Yahoo and Snap and all of these companies before working as a venture capitalist in Andrasin Horowitz, then Laura Loomer, who's big in MAGA, started saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, we don't want this guy. He believes in visa programs that we simply don't support. We can't have these visa programs here that bring in the HB1 visa programs. We can't have that, the H1B visa programs.
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We can't have that. We thought these were American jobs. Donald, weren't you going to build the schools here and universities and make these jobs the high-paying American jobs on day one? Wait a minute. You want to kind of further support the H-1B program and bring in more foreign labor to replace? I thought this was the exact opposite of what you said you were going to do.
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So now we saw this epic clash. within MAGA itself. I want to talk about that. And you have to see, this is something that I know corporate media is not paying attention to, but we here at the Midas Touch Network have been predicting that this was going to boil over and become a massive thing.
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Thought it may have happened at least a few weeks once Trump took over, but it's happening now during the transition. And people are out saying, Elon's gotta go, Vivek's gotta go. Elon and Vivek are saying, no, these guys gotta go. And people are saying, we're the MAGA base. No, we're the MAGA base. And all of that fighting is happening already right now. I want to talk about that and more.
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And don't worry, we're going to, all we need is me and the Midas Mighty for this episode. Let's get into it just right away, right away, folks. President Biden making posts like this on Christmas. He posts, there's a true selflessness in giving up a seat at your Christmas table to defend your country.
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before we took a break, between the MAGA tech bros whose interests are very different than the other MAGAs who want no immigrants and thought that Donald Trump's whole policy was going to be anti-immigration. So you have Laura Loomer, who's on the anti-immigration faction.
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of trump um and remember she was traveling with trump throughout the campaign and she's been with donald trump's or been by donald trump's side you know almost every step of the way for years and years and years so much so that like lots of other people in the maga world you know got jealous of their close relationship here's what laura loomer posted today the elephant in the room is that elon musk who is not maga
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This Christmas, Jill and I spoke with service members serving around the world to share just how grateful we are for their courage and sacrifice. President Biden posts a picture of a little kitty cat.
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and has never been MAGA, is a total effing drag on the Trump transition. He's a stage five clinger who overstayed his welcome at Bar-a-Lago in an effort to become Trump's side piece and be the point man for all of his accomplices in big tech. to slither into Mar-a-Lago. Shots fired. Laura Loomer calling Musk Trump's side piece for big tech to slither in to Mar-a-Lago.
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Let's take a look at what Elon Musk was saying, though, on his social media platform, where again, Elon Musk had encouraged a lot of this anti-immigrant, hostile, hateful rhetoric on his platform. So one of his followers and a MAGA person goes the following, There are over 330 million people in America. Surely there must be enough of them to build your ultimate team.
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Why would you deny real Americans the opportunity by bringing foreigners here when there's enough among the 330 million Americans to do these jobs, these tech jobs, these engineer jobs? Take a look at Elon Musk's answer. Your understanding of the situation is upside down and backwards.
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Of course, my companies and I would prefer to hire Americans, and we do, as that is much easier than going through incredibly painful and slow work visa processes. However, there is a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America. This is not about handing out opportunities from some magical hat. You don't get it.
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This is blindingly obvious when looking at NBA teams, as the physical differences are so obvious to see. However, the mental differences between humans are far bigger than the physical differences. So in other words, is Elon Musk
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calling americans genetically dumber than other people because that seems to be what he's saying right there um someone responds uh open a school we have brains come on elon bring it to america wasn't that the whole campaign american schools american factories american manufacturing
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One of my favorite Christmas tales, aw, so cute, President Biden posts, Rabbi Sachs said, a people that can walk through a valley of shadow of death and still rejoice is a people that cannot be defeated by any force or fear. That capacity for faith is the light of the Jewish people. As Hanukkah begins, May it shine from the menorahs around the world. President Biden sends this Christmas message.
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by the way let me just add all of the things that president biden actually did with the inflation reduction act the infrastructure act and the chips act investing i think like a trillion dollars in all of those things to build that up to make these things actually in america as president biden said to me he hopes his legacies I kept my word. I said I was going to bring it to America. I did that.
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I was investing in America. Red states, blue states, I invested in infrastructure. I invested in America. Elon Musk's response to this person saying, why don't you open up schools, Elon? You got billions of dollars, Elon. Open some schools up. Elon goes, if you need a school, you've lost already. to which a MAGA follower goes, incredible.
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At this rate, you're actually going to make me side with the leftists who want you treated like a hostile foreign agent. Laura Loomer then responds, don't worry guys, the divorce is coming soon. Referring to the divorce from one group of MAGA and the MAGA tech bros right there. DC Drano, a well-known MAGA account goes,
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How did Doge go from let's cut wasteful government spending to here's why we need to import more immigrants almost overnight? Did I miss something? What's next? Gun control? No more oil drilling? Back the truck up here and you'll get back to the main mission. Elon Musk continued on with this. He goes, there's a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent.
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It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley. So again, Elon Musk is saying, we need certain type of immigrants here. We need the immigrants from India. So they work the tech jobs, they work at the Teslas and for X and for the tech bros, for our companies, we need them, but not the immigrants that work the agriculture, hospitality, construction, and other jobs, right?
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Elon saying, this is what I need. So just when you see Elon and these tech bros talk about America, just replace America with I or me, and you see what their intentions are. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski said that as well. And then Elon Musk also posts, it comes down to this. Do you want America to win or do you want America to lose?
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If you force the world's best talent to play for the other side, America will lose. End of story. Now, this is the exact opposite message that Donald Trump was making during the campaign, quite literally the opposite. The opposite. Now I want to read this for you. And again, as Ron Filipkowski and I just said before, replace I or me with America when you hear these things from Elon.
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And he's saying that it's beneficial to him. And that's the thing with these tech bros. They're like, yo, Trump. We gave you all that money for that campaign. We bought this White House for you. So now pay up. This is what we want. And then the other MAGAs are like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't buy it. We're the real MAGAs. We're the real ones. And that's creating the civil war.
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I want to read for you what Vivek Ramaswamy wrote. He's the other co-head of Doge, this made-up agency pulling the House Republican strings and Donald Trump strings right now as well. Now, when I read this to you, I just want you to think for a second. Imagine if President Biden said this. Imagine if any Democratic cabinet member said this. Imagine if Vice President Kamala Harris said this.
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Imagine the outrage. Imagine what you would hear everywhere from Fox to CNN to MSNBC, all of the corporate media. They'd buy into the right-wing outrage. Oh my God, can you believe they said this? Now, because it's all hypocritical and just at this point controlled by right-wing forces and the oligarchy, they're not going there. But again, let me read to you what Vivek Ramaswamy says.
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He goes, the issue is the American culture is all about mediocrity and you need to bring in people from India and immigrants from India because they just work harder. than white Americans. White Americans are too busy watching Boy Meets World and Saves by the Bell, and they're not as smart and dedicated as the immigrant Indian families. So that's the problem. Let's be honest about it.
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And if you go, Ben, whoa, Did he really say that? That would seem to be something that would cause outrage in MAGA world. Let me read it for you. What Vivek Ramaswamy, who's like the key person in the Trump administration said, he goes, our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long, at least since the 1990s and likely longer. That doesn't start in college.
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Merry Christmas. For the last time as your president, it's been my honor to wish all of America a very Merry Christmas. My hope for our nation today and always is that we continue to seek the light of liberty and love, kindness and compassion, dignity and decency. May God bless you all. Here's his happy Kwanzaa message.
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It starts young. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ. or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates Corey from Boy Meets World or Zack Slater over Screech in Saved by the Bell or Stefan or Steve Urkel in Family Matters will not produce the best engineers.
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Fact, I know multiple sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates.
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More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of Friends, more math tutoring, fewer sleepovers, more weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons, more books, less TV, more creating, less chilling. more extracurriculars, less hanging out at the mall. Most normal American parents look skeptically at those kind of parents. More normal American kids view such those kind of kids with scorn.
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If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, then normalcy is what you will achieve. Now, close your eyes and visualize which families you knew in the 90s or even now who raised their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest. Normalcy doesn't cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent.
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And if we pretend like it does, we'll have our asses handed to us like China. Kind of sounds like, isn't that what they were referring to as globalists and globalism and all of these things? As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, goes, MAGA has suddenly realized that the tech bros are globalists.
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I'm not going to read to you some of the stuff by Nick Fuentes, Ashley Sinclair, John Cardillo, and some of these other kind of right-wing MAGA people because it's really kind of xenophobic about Indians and people from India and foreign cultures and things like that. Um, you know, but it's, it is interesting to see right now that Trump ran an entire campaign on attacking immigrants.
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And now you have at least the tech bro saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, we need him for us. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski says, Elon is just saying what every other Republican employer is about to say in 2025 deport everyone else's employees, but not mine because I am. really need them. Look, we're going to follow up more here about this civil war taking place.
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But again, could you imagine if what Vivek said AOC wrote or if what Vivek said Bernie Sanders said or of course Biden? Just think about it. It would be every single day, every second, the top coverage. You know, it's why it's important we have an independent voice to let you all know what it is that's happening and what is being said right there. Wild stuff, right? Wild stuff.
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I'm not quite sure as wild or comparably wild to this whole Matt Gaetz ordeal. I'm not going to go through the entire House Ethics Committee report, which made these findings by substantial evidence that Matt Gaetz engaged in statutory rape, illicit drug use, receiving gifts, obstructing the congressional investigation.
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President Biden writes, this week millions will gather with their families to light the seven candles and commit themselves to the seven principles from unity and self-determination to faith. Jill and I hope that your Kwanzaa is blessed with peace and light this season. Now, that's what President Biden's posting, but Donald Trump is posting, I just left Wayne Gretzky.
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Matt Gaetz's defense since this report has gone public is like it is the height of privilege. I mean, I just want you to think about what he's doing. So here's an example of what Gaetz is doing. He posts a selected portion of one of the depositions of one of the women. And here's what he writes.
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He goes, another one of the ethics witnesses who was an alleged, quote, prostitute claims she was indeed not when actually pressed in a deposition. This won't be in the ethics report because, of course. And this was a lawsuit, I think, brought by a Republican lobbyist, who was alleged to have been at a place where some of the conduct that was described in the ethics committee report was occurring.
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So here's the deposition testimony that Gates claims is like good for him. Question, were you escorting, working? What were you doing?
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a lawyer does an objection and then the answer from the woman was i wouldn't consider it any of those there was a lot of times where i did not get paid for being there in that time i thought a lot of these people were my friends question okay all right so you wouldn't characterize anything you did in 2017 as sex work objection you can answer and then she says no
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To be clear, what she's saying here is that there was a lot of times where I did not get paid for being there, which means there were times where apparently she did get paid. And this deposition transcript, if you were wondering, is not the 17-year-old statutory rape one. This is a different individual.
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What Matt Gaetz would do, according to the Ethics Report, though, is his close buddy Joel Greenberg, who ended up taking a plea for sex trafficking, And Greenberg would find the women or in the case of the girl, they'd find them on a website called Seeking Arrangements, where implicit in the relationship was that there would be payment for sex. So the woman wouldn't charge the money.
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It would just be part of what would take place is that you would make the payment.
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um and that was clear in some of the other text messages between greenberg and the woman where he would show the photographs of matt gates and he would even say all right the usual 400 for the meat they'd say 400 for the meat and then they'll go 400 for the meat and that's how they would call it but like gates is like looking at this like like these were my girlfriends like these were i was just giving gifts to girlfriends
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Just think about that as his defense. And this is another post that he made. Gates goes, giving funds to someone you are dating that they didn't ask for and that isn't, quote, charged for sex is now prostitution? There is a reason they did this to me in a Christmas Eve report. And here's what he claims is helpful to him. Question.
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So it wasn't that the amounts charged did not depend on how attractive a guy was. Is that fair to say? And then the woman responds, I never charged anyone anything. Like I said, it was just given. Question. Okay. Answer. And it wasn't spoken about.
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Gates views that as his strongest evidence right there, where the woman is saying, I didn't have to charge because the arrangement that was sought on seeking arrangement was just given what this was all about. Gates is like, dude, didn't do anything. Look, how great is this? Okay.
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Matt Gaetz was who Donald Trump picked to be attorney general, the top law enforcement officer in the United States, the most powerful legal position essentially that there is. Matt Gaetz was was a member of Congress entrusted with a public position. Again, I don't care about private sex lives of members of Congress or private individuals.
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The great one, as he is known in ice hockey circles. I said, Wayne, why don't you run for prime minister of Canada? Soon to be known as the governor of Canada. You would win easily. You wouldn't even have to campaign. He had no interest. But I think the people of Canada should start a draft Wayne Gretzky movement.
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By the way, with all of the stuff against Hunter, the stuff with Hunter was consensual sex while Hunter was a private citizen. He wasn't picked to lead a governmental agency or the attorney general or to run anything in the Biden administration. Hunter's conduct was when Biden was not even the VP and not the president. In between, he hit rock bottom because Beau, his brother, died of cancer.
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And he went into a serious drug addiction to which Hunter took full responsibility for. Hunter was not out there saying, well, they said this, look at the deposition. Hunter said, I did it. He said, I made mistakes in my life. I was at the lowest point in my life. I take full accountability for what it is I did. And what did the MAGAs do?
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They found ways to charge Hunter with things that nobody other than Hunter has ever actually been charged with. And the irony is that you have someone like Matt Gates, who's out there, abolish the ATF, the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Agency, abolish it, that there shouldn't be any of these ATF forms at all. Let weapons of war proliferate. There should be no common sense gun control as well.
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But Gates and the Magnus went after Hunter because when Hunter was under the influence of drugs or when he was suffering from drug addiction, he purchased a gun that he only had for a few weeks where he signed a form. That said that he was not under the influence or was not consuming drugs or was not addicted to drugs on the ATF form.
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Now, there was substantial evidence in the Congressional Ethics Report that Matt Gaetz was on drugs during the relevant time period. Matt Gaetz is a known gun owner. Matt Gaetz is someone who called Florida, not the sunshine state, the gun shine state. And so, you know, Gaetz is photographed with AR-15s.
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And so did Gaetz fill out that form that Hunter filled out, that Hunter was charged with, that nobody else but Hunter was charged with? Gates gets a pass there. Why is Gates getting a pass there? Wouldn't Hunter's ultimate revenge be that Matt Gates should ultimately be charged with the things that he's alleged to have done in this report that's made public?
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Also, I did a Google search of other people in Florida who were charged with statutory rape of a 17-year-old. And I saw the story of a former police officer who was, I think, 28 years old, I think younger than Gates was, who met a girl on Tinder. And she said at first she was 23, admitted she lied and said that she was actually 19, but it turned out that she was 17 years old.
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And this guy, Jose Robel Hernandez, who met someone who he thought was 23 years old on Tinder, He was a former police officer. He was prosecuted for statutory rape. Matt Gaetz wasn't. And I want you to think about the ultimate kind of, and Matt Gaetz is out there making posts with deposition transcripts about other women.
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would be so much fun to watch oh sure donald interfering with the sovereignty of one of our favorite and best and long-standing allies canada in an un in a border that does not have military they're an unguarded border yeah that's going to be fun just for you to interfere with their sovereignty and mock canada and call it the 51st state donald trump also posted the following he goes
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Although let me be clear, the 17 year old's a girl, but he's making posts about other people. And he's like, they didn't charge me anything. What are you talking about here? And then he's posting Donald Trump's support of him after all of this. Gaetz is saying, I got a great note from President Trump. And then Trump's like, Matt, very unfair exclamation point.
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After the ethics report came out, Trump had Matt Gaetz's back. So when you put all of this together, folks, though, you have to go and ask yourself. Again, one of the things we try to appeal to on this show, there it is right there for those watching, you see what Trump said to Gates. Matt, very unfair. We try to appeal to people's common sense right here.
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I try to take away the political tribalism that exists and I just try to appeal to logic. That's why I show you what Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are saying. I show you what Matt Gaetz is saying. We go through the ethics report in a strong amount of details. We go through what Trump is posting on Christmas, what the reaction to it is by the international community. what President Biden is doing.
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Because to me, one of the biggest corrosive plagues, the biggest corrosive forces in politics is treating politics as some game with different teams and both sides-ism and a horse race. And this team did that, that team did that. It elevates these things as one side's doing this, one side's doing that. You could watch the 30-minute interview that I did with President Biden.
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And President Biden had all the opportunity, if he wanted to, to say all of these things about the red states and the people who were effing around and finding out now who voted against their interests. And I asked President Biden these questions and he's like, look, He goes, if Trump took credit for my accomplishments and that meant American people were benefiting, go take credit.
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He goes, this isn't a credit game. My job was to deliver on promises I made. And if those promises are delivered, then I feel I did my job and my duty. My view and the view of the Midas Touch Network, I believe, is that that is a statesman with dignity in President Biden.
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To me, when we talk about Teddy Roosevelt, and it's fitting we did that interview in the Roosevelt room, the big stick policy, walk soft and carry a big stick. You don't have to go and be loud and obnoxious, but you should back up what you're doing by delivering results. If people get in your way and try to undermine your vision to be helpful, you respond with audacious power.
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You don't have to wield that power recklessly and carelessly. I've said you have the big stick policy from Roosevelt to Biden. Now, with Donald Trump, we've got that micro stick.
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policy he's got that micro stick complex or the tiny stick policy act loud and obnoxious but you're a paper tiger you're ultimately not backing it up with real force and real power and all you're doing is energizing the world against you and making you weaker i'm sure if we reflected on the lessons of machiavelli or sun tzu or whoever like trump does the opposite
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when we teach negotiations or I teach negotiations, I mean, everything that Trump's doing is what you don't do in a negotiation. It screws over your bargaining power and ultimately exposes you and just makes you look dumb. I mean, look what happened with the continuing resolution. Trump demanded something or else. And then when that thing didn't happen, the debt ceiling wasn't added to it.
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There wasn't a removal or elimination or extension of the debt ceiling. He didn't do anything. He just moved on and played golf and then moved on to attacking Canada or attacking
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greenland or attacking these moves on to the next one and people see that as weakness i promise you putin sees that as weakness president xi sees that as weakness our allies see that as weakness they know the force and power of the united states they know that it could be wielded they have to take trump's threat seriously But they view him like they would view like a mad king.
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Merry Christmas to all, including the wonderful soldiers of China who are lovingly but illegally operating the Panama Canal where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago. Always making certain that the United States puts in billions of dollars in repair money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about anything. Just pause there for a second.
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They view him as someone who's kind of crazy and unstable and illogical. And they have to deal with it in that way. And that type of instability in a global world order, as Charlie Angus, the member of parliament from Canada said, that allows Putin to feast. That allows President Xi to feast. That allows our adversaries to take advantage of that. And that's not strength. That's weakness.
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That's weakness. I think it's important that we point that out. We point out Trump's broken promises that are going to inevitably happen on day one that I've talked about already on this show with prices not going down but up, mortgage rates not going down but up. the tariffs and bloody mass deportations causing real harm, real problems.
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And I think it's important that our opposition to that be rooted in logic like this. And that's what we're going to do. We're going to be passionate. We're going to be ferocious. We're going to be logical. We're going to be fearless. And we're going to support democracy, not just here in America, but abroad. The ramifications of this are international in scope.
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that's why we're focusing a lot of our attention to what's happening in canada in the uk in germany as elon musk is supporting a party there that's known the afd which is known for supporting neo-nazi views and why that's so dangerous or elon musk potentially giving 100 million dollars to
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nigel farage and um in the uk and we need to focus on what's happening in australia what's happening in mexico what's happening in austria what's happening with all these far-right movements taking place and pro-democracy coalitions and government forming to try to stop that and ultimately a lot of these far right-wing parties they're supporting putin's agenda and then there are these pro-democracy alliances which are supporting
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or to the people. So we'll keep talking about that. Do me a favor. Make sure you're subscribed right now to our YouTube channel. I want to really get 4 million subscribers. So if you can help us, please hit subscribe right now. Also, if you want to check out MidasPlus.com, I think you'll enjoy the coverage there from Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chief.
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Such an honor, and I hope I really made you all proud in how we handled that interview and showed that, look, you can be tough in the interview, but also dignified and respectful and actually get answers. What a novel concept to actually get answers from the politician and not make it about you, the host, make it about the country and make it about what President Biden's responses was.
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Do you all know when Panama ditched its ties with Taiwan in favor of Beijing? It happened in 2017 when Donald Trump was originally in office and when Trump was too busy tweeting all caps things and too busy inviting Putin's top foreign advisors like Kislyak and others into the Oval Office. Yeah.
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We're so grateful for you and we'll see you next time. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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At around that time, that's when China established formal diplomatic ties with Panama and started investing in Panama. It hasn't taken control of the Panama Canal, but it has invested billions of dollars into the country. Also, President Xi's first formal diplomatic visit to Panama took place
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in 2018 when very weak Donald Trump was in office and allowed China to establish a foothold in Panama, which I don't believe would have happened if you had, say, Hillary Clinton or someone else who was actually being tough on China and not just saying that they would be tough on China. But let me go back to Donald Trump's statements. He also writes the following.
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Also to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose citizens' taxes are far too high, But if Canada was to become our 51st state, their taxes would be cut by more than 60%. Their businesses would immediately double in size and they would be militarily protected like no other country anywhere in the world.
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Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for national security purposes and who want the United States to be there, and we will. And then he goes on to say, then he goes on to attack lunatic leftists. And then he says to everybody, go to hell. And then he says, Merry Christmas.
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Now, unfortunately, here in the United States, with our horrific corporate media, we've become all too numb to Donald Trump making posts like this, where he goes, go to hell, left lunatics, I'm coming for you, in all caps. But now Donald Trump has done that, but also included foreign countries in those posts as well, sovereign nations in those posts as well that have their own trauma.
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For example, Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which was invaded by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany in 1940 when Denmark was just trying to stay neutral, which is why Denmark became part of NATO. Adolf Hitler basically used a Sharpie and he circled the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark and basically said da. In other words, it's the German word for it and said, this is our land.
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So when Donald Trump makes statements like this, attacking the territorial sovereignty of a place like Denmark that has a history of being invaded, they take it very seriously. And now Denmark is has to upgrade its defenses in Greenland against a purported NATO ally of it, the United States of America, which is supposed to be leading NATO. So I want you to understand the ramifications of this.
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Also, when Donald Trump attacks Panama, it has a reaction as well of other nations, whether it's Mexico or South American nations, all coming to the defense of Panama and saying, how dare you go after the territorial sovereignty of Panama? The Panama Canal belongs to the people of Panama. The fact that you even need someone like Claudia Scheinbaum to come out and have to say that
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Panama Canal belongs to Panama, I think tells you a lot. Let me show you first what Claudia Scheinbaum had to say on Christmas to rebut Donald Trump saying that Panama should belong to the United States. Here, play this clip.
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President Biden showing what a real leader looks like on Christmas, actually just also showing what an adult looks like on Christmas, contrasted to Donald Trump telling people to rot in hell and talking about conquering other nations. Meanwhile, MAGA is at war with itself. On the one hand, you've got the MAGA tech bros versus the right-wing extremists who don't like immigrants.
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The president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, saying our solidarity in Mexico is with the people of Panama. The canal belongs to Panama. It is a sovereign nation. By the way, did you hear President Claudia Scheinbaum like yelling or screaming or doing accordion hands? No. She was behaving the way a leader does. I mean, frankly, that's how President Biden talks.
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But I know for our corporate media here in the United States, you want to see a carnival barker, WWE wannabe fascist type character go out and just say the dumbest crap imaginable. And then I know you want to normalize that behavior the way the CNN headlines were like
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Well, this would be the largest purchase or the largest territorial acquisition since the Louisiana Purchase if we conquered the Canada and Greenland and Panama. That would be quite the acquisition right there. Donald Trump is teasing it. He's just teasing it. It's not teasing, okay?
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That's conquest language that's used by people like Vladimir Putin, that's used by people like Mussolini in history, that's used by people like Hitler. That's conquest language, and that language is very traumatic to sovereign nations who now have to beef up to defend against an entity, the United States, a country that's supposed to be an ally. Now,
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who benefits from this all obviously number one vladimir putin does because putin's on the ropes right now putin has to go to north korea in order to get their troops that just goes to tell you and he's putting them through the meat grinder in ukraine right now i mean we're hearing about fifteen hundred two thousand of these russian allied type of troops from north korea and others getting killed each day from russia's unlawful invasion right there but we see
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Pro-democracy protests everywhere from Belgrade to Tbilisi in Georgia. We see the Bashar al-Assad regime falling in Syria, which Putin propped up. We're seeing Putin actually looking very weak internationally right now. And notice that Donald Trump is not attacking Putin. He's not out there attacking President Xi. He invited President Xi to the inauguration. President Xi's like, nah,
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Nah, I'm not going to come to that thing. Kind of clowning Donald Trump. Donald Trump ain't attacking Putin, but Russian state TV, they were showing nudes of Melania and saying, oh, it's your body, your choice. I mean, they're punking Donald Trump on Russian state TV controlled by Vladimir Putin by showing nudes of Donald Trump's wife.
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I mean, just think about what Putin is sending a message to Donald Trump. And by the way, Donald Trump was like at that speech he gave over last week. And he's like, Putin has summoned me. Putin wants to speak to me. So I will be speaking to Putin soon. I mean, how cowardly and weak do you look? Trump's attacking our allies and not attacking our adversaries. So it's helping Putin.
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And it's also helping President Xi. Because President Xi goes around and says, hey, we've got this belt and bridges initiative, the second Silk Road, and we're going to go into countries in South America, in Central America, across the world, in Africa, you name it. America is not a reliable ally to you. Look what a destabilizing force they are.
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You don't know if one day you're going to wake up and they're going to make a social media post mocking you. But we here in China, we're going to help you. What can we invest? How can we respect your territorial sovereignty and help you grow? And even though that's CCP propaganda, of course,
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It certainly is more likely to appeal to nations being mocked by Donald Trump, who puts the American flag in the middle of the Panama Canal or in the Swiss Alps and pretends it's Canada. Think about what these nations who are looking for an ally are looking at. Do you want China's belt and bridges or Donald Trump's bluster and erratic behavior?
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Look, I had Charlie Angus, a member of the Canadian parliament on earlier today. Let me show you what Mr. Angus said about how he found out during his Christmas meal that Donald Trump was telling Canada to go to hell. And once again, talking about making it the 51st state here, let's play this clip.
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You've got Elon and Vivek trying to say why they need to have talented engineers from India work for their companies, but not other immigrants. Then you have others in the MAGA base saying, Donald,
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One of the things that Charlie Angus also said is, sure, we may pay a little bit more taxes, but we have universal health care here. We don't have to worry about sending our kids to school and there being mass shootings every single day. And he just said, respect our sovereignty in Canada. Remember all these MAGA folks who are like, Donald Trump's going to stop World War III from happening.
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Or Donald Trump would always say, Without me, there's going to be World War III. Immediately, all those people flip now and they're like posting maps that show America conquering Canada, Mexico, and Greenland and saying, wouldn't this be so great if we conquered all of this territory?
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So the we're going to stop World War III folks are now, we're going to become the bad guy in World War III and we are going to start conquering sovereign nations. Let me be very clear. There's over 70 plus million Americans and so many millions more of Americans who simply didn't vote, which frustrates me to no end. But Donald Trump came in by lying to the American people.
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He did bring together Putin and Xi Jinping, who called each other and said they were going to strengthen their alliance. He also brought Putin closer to Iran, who announced a 20 year overall relationship to provide each other with military weapons and drones and other things. So great work there, Donald. But he did have time to attack Canada. during his speech at the World Economic Forum.
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And I want you all to remember, this is an international audience. So while I guess 30% of the American population's like, yeah, Gulf of America, yeah, man. This is now in front of an international audience. They don't take kindly to threats of annexation and reshaping of the world order. But here Donald Trump said, I'm going to have to tariff Canada unless they agree to become the 51st state.
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This is what he said at Davos. Here, play it.
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He gave this speech at the World Economic Forum where he was just like, you know what, we're probably just going to have to leave it to Russia. We'll see what Russia wants to do. He's been giving a bunch of these press conferences and these unhinged speeches. Each one looks worse than the next. I mean, this guy needs like a 5150 involuntary psychological hold.
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By the way, just a bunch of words, Sal.
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that would is referring to annexation or literal conquest but leave that aside we don't need their lumber um because we have forests etc etc etc we don't need their gas etc etc etc like it is the world's stupidest speech like if the corporate media had a shred of credibility which they don't and they're basically just completely irrelevant now you would be like i mean imagine if biden was like
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We need to annex Canada, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And we don't need Canada, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, they would go – it's like this is like crazy. The kid gloves they treat –
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If I didn't even know who he was, even if I know he was, I think he deserves one. Even Hannity, who interviewed Donald Trump, was like,
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I think it's a great point, Jordy. It's also why he picks on like Greenland because he views them as weak and vulnerable and he thinks that he can create disunity with Denmark. He tries to pick on peaceful people but he always sucks up to Xi Jinping. Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. It's why I always say you just have to stand up to Donald Trump. You cannot show any sign of weakness at all.
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You can't give him an inch. If you give him an inch, he takes your life. Look at the Alberta premier, Daniel Smith, who just looks ridiculous. She's right-wing conservative, maple MAGA. She shows up to Mar-a-Lago and she's just been trying to social media post through all of this. She's always like, We've made progress today. We've had some great progress. It seems that they really understand.
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No, they don't. No, they don't. Alberta, you're trying to protect your gas and oil industry. Trump's literally saying, we don't need you, Alberta. And then for her to be like, what can we do, Donald? What can we do? When he sees that weakness, That's when he takes advantage of you more. And he's like, oh, that person's weak. That person's going to break.
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What the heck are you even talking about when Donald Trump was boasting about pardoning the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and other violent insurrectionists and talking about how he likes to make sing songs with them and he likes to record songs that go to the top of the Billboard charts. I mean, how vile and weird. Also, federal judges already fed up at Donald Trump.
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It's why you just have to stand up to him and make this unified front. Want to share this with you as well. Donald Trump also in this Oval Office interview talked about how he wants to get rid of FEMA. He doesn't think FEMA should be a thing. He wants to leave emergency relief to the states, which
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By the way, states have their own emergency services, but then they rely on FEMA because that's literally the job of the federal government. To Trump and MAGA, the federal government's what, like policing penises and vaginas, right? Like for them, it's like, who's in the bathroom? Who's in the bathroom today?
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There was a story in the House of Representatives where Lauren Boebert was like screaming. She's like, oh, there's a guy in there. There's a guy in there. And like, there was just four women in there. And then she's like, I was wrong. There was a rumor that there was a rumor that there was a guy in there. You know, it's like, we've stopped the woke. I mean, okay, okay. Just shut up.
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Like literally what the federal government is supposed to do is like, I don't know, like help people, like do federal relief, you know, do things like that. Here's Trump basically saying, we're going to have to look very thoroughly at FEMA. We're going to have to look very thoroughly at it. Here, play this clip.
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49th in education, 49th in health. They're like the most impoverished of all of the states. I would say Oklahoma is the exact example of what it shouldn't be like, where meanwhile, a state like Massachusetts and California are on the higher end of income, health, wealth, education, you name the standard.
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But again, imagine if President Biden, in the interview I did with him, imagine if President Biden made a comment. It would literally be the front page everywhere. And because Donald Trump doesn't make a duty in his diaper or whatever, the MAGA people are all like – I mean the corporate media is like, what a day. It is a changed world, everybody. And there he did.
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He accomplished an incredible thing and it's like – What are we talking like any one of those things? And I could show you a thousand of them and I'm not because why you get the point would be the biggest crisis ever if it was any buddy else. But as the movie, Captain Phillips, my favorite quote, was when the pirates took over the ship and they said, we're the captains now.
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Well, we're the captains right now of the media. You, the Midas mighty. And we're going to shed light on what these things are. We're going to have the real headlines. We're going to have the real news. We're going to show you the facts. I don't want to show you a lot of Trump clips, but I feel like I got to show you some of these. So you're like, oh, oh, wow. He really did say that.
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Trump lost a major court ruling in federal court in the state of Washington, holding that his birthright citizenship ban is egregiously illegal and a violation of the Constitution, the most clear-cut example. This Reagan appointed federal judge said he's ever seen in his entire career of something that violates so clearly the United States Constitution.
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Trump's billionaire tech bros are at war with each other. That thing they call Doge is falling apart. Vivek Ramaswamy was basically fired and pushed out. The top Doge lawyer quit. Donald Trump tried to distract us today by releasing a bunch of other files on Released in the MLK file, the John F. Kennedy file, the RFK file. What he was not releasing were the Epstein files.
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You know, Jordy, I think when Trump voters went to the ballot box, they were saying, you know what I really hope for? Meme coins. I hope that Donald Trump releases a Trump meme coin. I hope Melania does a dollar sign Melania that looks like Smelania. I love meme coins.
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I am Smelania, I am Smelania, I Smelania. I think the American voters really were like, we wanna meme coin rug pull, just make the price like $75, claim it's not a meme coin, then let's just crash it. And then we'll be like, cool, dude.
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And then everyone will be happy and great because, you know, look, it wasn't like, you know, while that's happening, by the way, Trump's rolling back efforts to lower Medicare and Medicaid drug costs and executive order halting an effort to cap the copayment of generic medications at two dollars for Medicare beneficiaries.
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trump's federal hiring freeze raises fears about medical care at the va i'm sure all those veterans who voted for trump are going to appreciate having far worse veterans benefits and care how about trump gutting key aviation safety committees firing the head of the tsa and the coast guard how about pulling us out of the world health organization
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So now the map of the countries that are part of the WHO is basically every country other than us. But it is a good way to find out which countries just entirely lost its mind. And look, the 2024 word of the year was brain rot. And I said 2025 is going to be rug pull. Brain rot equals rug pull in 2025. Trump's trade battle, spiking food prices, likely helping China as well.
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Prices are not going down. Food prices are going up. You know the cost of eggs have already been significantly higher, about 37% higher. But you know, look, Donald Trump's focused on the important things like demanding an apology from the bishop at the National Cathedral who simply asked him, can you please just have mercy?
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You say that you're a man of God, then okay, have mercy on those who are weaker than you. Turn the other cheek. Remember hearing those things? Have mercy on the LGBTQ plus community. Have mercy on the migrant community to which Donald Trump felt entirely offended and they made faces while the bishop was saying that. But let's talk about what's actually happening.
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Those weren't being released. His tax returns, those weren't being released. His medical records, those weren't being released. So in other words, Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, We've got a lot of news to discuss. Welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Myselish, joined by Brett and Jordy. And I don't know, perhaps it's just the optimistic side of me. I feel fired up.
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Well, Jordi, I think it actually turned out, though, that that was run by a right-wing group that was actually affiliated with MAGA. That's right. And they started saying, oh, wait a minute, like they were trying to appeal to us.
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And it was like a big backfire because MAGA got pissed, but it was actually a way to try to encourage people to be MAGA and to actually go against women's reproductive rights, I think was the arc that that one took. Oh, wait, wait, wait a minute. We're on each other's sides here? All right, all right, all right, all right.
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By the way, Trump didn't put his hand on the Bible when he took the oath of office. And it's also notable, too, that one of Donald Trump's defenses in the 14th Amendment Section 3 case was that he never actually took an oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution. He was like, my oath is actually different than the oath that's in the 14th Amendment Section 3.
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I remember reporting on it then. But Let's talk about the actual ramifications of these Trump initiatives. 75% of immigrant farm workers didn't show up yesterday in Bakersfield because of fears of ICE raids under the new presidency. America's rural and agricultural regions will be hit the hardest from Trump's immigration policy. Food prices, which are already increasing, are poised to skyrocket.
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He's wrecking the food industry. If you just want to know what happened today as well, we're just getting word of this high profile workplace raid that took place in the blue city, in the blue state in Newark, New Jersey. This comes from the mayor of Newark. Quote, today, U.S.
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immigration and customs enforcement agents raided a local establishment in the city of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens without producing a warrant. One of the detainees. is a US military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation question.
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This egregious act is in plain violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which guarantees the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and defects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized.
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I will be holding a press conference in alliance with partners ready and willing to defend and protect civil and human rights. Details to come. We're going to be hearing about a lot more high profile workplace raids, Donald Trump raiding churches, Donald Trump raiding schools, Donald Trump raiding all these places where people are just working hard to help our country.
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I don't think my optimism is coming from a place of naivety. I think I have a real politique vision of what this dystopian mess is but i just feel that this community this country the world pro-democracy communities are banding together and he's failing he looks weak he's gonna look tough his plans to distract not working i don't know that may be just me brett jordy how are you doing
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And again, for all of those Latinos who voted for Trump and said this wasn't going to happen, he was going to just go after the criminals and the terrorists. Wake the hell up. because President Biden was going after the criminals and the terrorists.
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Border crossings were down under President Biden to the low in the Trump administration, which, by the way, was in April 2020 during COVID, because people weren't crossing the border because of COVID. But it was at an all-time low under President Biden. Of course, he was going after criminals and terrorists, but you bought into the stupid, idiotic, brain rot rhetoric
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that, oh, Biden's harboring the terrorists and the criminals. Every time there was a terrorist attack or some natural disaster, these magas would flood the zone with all the lies and disinformation, and you bought into it, and now y'all are being deported.
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Your family members are being deported and basically put into freaking concentration camps like we warned you against the leopards eating your face. You effed around and found out. Whatever it is you want to say, y'all screwed up and screwed your family members up. Big time, because these workplace raids are happening now.
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The broligarchs and the people who own private prisons, they're sure as hell making a lot of money. Oh, and by the way, the oligarchs are telling us we shouldn't even care if this causes us inflation. Inflation's not a big deal, they're saying. First off, Trump was asked, and he goes, people don't care about inflation. He goes, people care about the mental institute.
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They care about how to belecter. That's what Trump was saying. And then he's got his oligarchs like the...
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a chair the ceo of jp morgan chase jamie dimon he goes on and he goes yeah who gives a crap if it's inflation or we don't really care about inflation get over it he goes he goes get over it here watch jamie dimon let's play this clip yeah look i look at tariffs they are an economic tool that's it
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I mean, look, to the American people, would you rather have your prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients capped at $2,000 a year, allow Medicare to negotiate to lower the overall price of prescription drugs, have the PACT Act, which helps veterans?
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Would you rather have 40,000 infrastructure projects across the country, 16.6 million jobs created, bringing the semiconductor industry here to the United States, thriving economy? GDP growing faster than China, our economy growing faster than China, never a consecutive month where jobs were lost. Or you get Donald Trump in the Oval Office going, half pipes. You see them all the time.
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The half pipes. People live in half pipes. You know? You know what I'm talking about? The half pipes? You got homeless people. They're in half pipes. I Call them half pipes. And it's like, dude, what the hell are you talking about? What is this? WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Don't get distracted every single day. Say, what about the economy? What about the prices? What about housing?
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What about education? What about health care? We're going to stay laser focused here as corporate media has made themselves irrelevant and swirling the drain. We are the captains of the ship now. And we're going to focus on what needs to be focused on. Reminder, next Monday, we're going to hold our live Zoom meeting. exclusive for Patreon members, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. Join us there.
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Ask us any questions, no questions off limits, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. Also join MidasPlus.com. By the way, it's free to join MidasPlus.com. There's paywalled content there though, once you start, but you can test it out. Do I like it? Do... We don't have outside investors. We got to grow this thing. I want to be bigger than Washington Post. I want to be bigger than the New York Times.
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I want to be bigger than Fox. Our ratings are better than most of them. Fox is slightly ahead now. We were always beating them before. We're going to get ahead again, but we need your help. MidasPlus.com. Let's take our last quick break of the show. We've still got a lot to discuss. It's 2025. Why aren't my blinds smart and automatic like the rest of my home? Are your blinds still from 2025?
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except for right there because my neighbor's a Midas Touch fan and she likes to see her green friends when I do these hot takes. Look, if you're not very handy like I am, just go trust them. They come into your house, they figure it out for you, and you're not going to regret it. I am so happy I have three-day blinds. Look, it's 2024. I have so many smart gadgets and gizmos in my house.
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WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Everybody, Donald Trump's released the MLK files, the JFK files, the RFK files. Ooh, is there going to be some conspiracy hunters? You got what you wanted.
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Oh, no. Oh, you mean ones where he's all over the flight logs? You mean how- Epstein found the women at Mar-a-Lago. Yeah. Did he release those? Like Virginia Giuffre. I mean, you mean the fact that Donald Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side. You mean Donald Trump who was found liable for sexual assault. You mean Donald Trump who wished Ghislaine Maxwell well.
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You mean Donald Trump who hosted
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like preteen teenage beauty pageants you mean the guy donald trump who said that he would inspect women at beauty pageants naked without their consent i mean the guy who says he grabs women by their new you know what um because when you're rich they let you do you mean you mean that you mean the guy who's spoken and let me also specify because there are a lot of guy the guy who epstein's brother said was best friends with with jeff everyone says desire brett sorry
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I also would like to see those tax returns, his medical records, the records from the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. I'd like to see Trump's crypto wallet. That matters a little bit more to me than a concept of a plan to release other things. But I digress. Let's talk about the broligarque civil war taking place.
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Who would have thought that billionaires who hate each other, who are so greedy and selfish and are all suing each other, They're not getting along? I thought that Donald Trump says everybody's getting along swimmingly here.
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So Donald Trump has a bunch of broligarcs, including Sam Altman from OpenAI, the SoftBank CEO, Masayoshi Son, brings them into the Oval Office, and they roll out this program that they give a name, like a Space Force name, and it sounds like really cutting edge, and they're going to, they call it the Stargate Project. And also from Elon Musk's perspective, he's like, I'm Starlink.
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So you're calling it Stargate, right? And they're all just kind of petty with each other. And they say that they're going to be investing $500 billion or they intend to invest one day $500 billion into Stargate to invest in AI concepts of $500 billion. And Elon Musk's like, they don't actually have the money.
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soft bank has well under 10 billion dollars secured i have that on good authority and look elon musk's wrong about mostly everything but when you do look into these companies they really don't have 500 billion dollars to deploy on their balance sheet if you look at their cash flow like they don't have that money
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SoftBank has an investment in Alibaba that's worth a lot of money and another company, but they would have to divest literally everything and then they'd still only be one-fourth of the way to $500 billion. OpenAI is losing money. Then Elon Musk starts further mocking Trump's first major initiative in the Oval Office with these OpenAI people. Then he reposts
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leaked image of the research tool OpenAI used to come up with their $500 billion number for Stargate. And it's a crack pipe with like literal kind of crack, the photos are cracked. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Elon Musk's beef with OpenAI is look, You launched OpenAI as a nonprofit that was supposed to then help all of the other tech companies and you were not supposed to make money off it.
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I invested $100 million because you were gonna share all of your technology with us for the other tech companies, but then you converted it into a for-profit and then you didn't cut me in and Sam Altman did a rug pull. Then Microsoft helped them and others helped them. This is like a vicious billion, billion-dollar lawsuit that's going on.
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So now they're all like suing each other and then Elon Musk is basically insinuating that Sam Altman goes to Epstein Island and he dug up Sam Altman posts from 2021 that congratulated other people for going after Donald Trump. And he goes, oh, interesting, interesting stuff. So there's this whole civil war developing. Then the Bannon thing. kind of contingency within the Trump White House.
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They hate Musk. They think that Musk is basically giving the middle finger to Trump. But then there's nothing that Trump can do because Trump's afraid of Musk. Meanwhile, that whole Doge thing is like absolutely falling apart. The Doge top lawyer, Bill McKinley, like the general counsel for Doge, the top lawyer, like the person who puts this thing legally together. He quit. He departed.
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Vivek Ramaswamy got fired or pushed out. Elon Musk has a office in the West Wing now, like literally right there. And many just suspect Elon Musk really just wanted access to classified information. By the way, one of Donald Trump's executive orders gave Trump the ability to declare anybody having access. to top secret security stuff.
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So like just by Trump saying it, you can now have access to top secret security information like our nation's most highest and guarded secrets. So you have all of that going on. Meanwhile, you have Trump MAGA people like Andy Ogles They're suggesting that the Constitution should be amended. The 26th Amendment should be amended so that Trump could basically become an emperor.
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Not making this up, folks, literally. The MAGA Republican Congress members, this is what they're focused on. Again, stay focused, not lower prices, not ending the war in Ukraine, which Donald Trump didn't do. Literally, the MAGA Republicans are putting forward an amendment to allow Donald Trump to become a dictator. They're doing that in 72 hours.
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let me show you this too i thought this was a telling moment where even sean hannity was fed up at donald trump where hannity was saying so why did you pardon like the violent insurrectionists like why did you pardon the oath keepers and the proud boys like the people who try to kill the cops like you're being criticized and hannity tried to ask it in a very hannity suck up kind of way.
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But he's like, but the violent ones, you sure about that? You sure you should have done that? Because remember, Trump pardoned the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys. And then I'm not going to show you these other clips, but in other clips, Trump bragged about making musical songs with them and that they're great people. And he's thinking about bringing them to the White House.
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And maybe there's a whole ceremony for these people. But watch this moment right here. Let's play it.
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He goes they were very minor incidents. He claims the 2020 election was rigged. He said they've been treated very unfairly. He later in the interview brags about making a song with them, which he says gets better ratings than Taylor Swift. And again, corporate media wants to treat that as some normal thing, not here on the Midas Touch Network. What I heard was treasonous.
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What I heard was traitorous. That's my opinion that I'm sharing, but it's an opinion that's also shared by federal judges who are not just Democratic appointees. I mean, we're talking about Reagan appointees, Democratic appointees, Trump appointees, Obama appointees who are out there saying – in no uncertain terms that – and this, for example, comes from Amy Berman Jackson.
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Patriotism is loyal to country and loyalty to the constitution, not loyalty to a single head of state. Then you had Judge Chutkan basically saying, Trump, you may have done this, but you're not going to whitewash the blood, feces and terror that the mob left in its wake as these people tried to kill cops.
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Judge Beryl Howell blasted the decision saying this is a grave national injustice and talked about how dangerous and lawless these people are. And this sole justification was that these people like Donald Trump. And then also another federal judge struck down. Just think about this. As MAGA Republicans are fighting today to have Donald Trump be a dictator for life,
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and amend the 22nd Amendment, which has term limits, a federal judge in the state of Washington made the following ruling, temporarily blocking Donald Trump's order, ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship. This judge, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, Judge Koh-I-Noor, says, quote, I've been on the bench for over four decades. I can't remember the
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Another case in my entire career where the question presented to me is so clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order by Donald Trump and struck down Donald Trump's executive order. I think we're going to be seeing that with most of these executive orders as well. And again, that is a Reagan appointed federal judge from the state of Washington who made that ruling.
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And, you know, as Donald Trump tries to turn the United States of America into Russia, you know, Russia has a history with strongmen. Right. I mean, they've had kings. They've had dictators. You know, America doesn't have that experience. I mean, America was born a democracy and we've been a democracy. And thanks to corrupt democracy.
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um propagandist media like fox and corporate media owned by oligarchs they pushed americans to uh flirt with all of this stuff and now america is getting the shock therapy after flirting with this stuff and we're seeing it this is what they're trying to do yes the things he said he was going to do dictator on day one all the stuff he's he's doing it He's screwing up the economy.
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He's screwing up our international relations. He's not bringing peace. He's doing all of these awful things. You're feeling it at home. He's screwing you over. This is the find out stage. This is the leopards eating your face stage.
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And we here at the Midas Touch Network, though, need to be at the front lines of helping us all get through this with you, the Midas Mighty, and reminding people that this is not who we are as Americans and that we need to be better and we need to survive this period. We will survive this period together. And we never can ever go back to this ever again.
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It's only day three and a half at the time of this live video. By the time you listen to this tomorrow, it'll be day four. And the amount of carnage that he's caused on our country in a short period of time is really striking. But we're going to band together. We'll be in this together every single step of the way.
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His approval ratings are at basically all-time lows for someone who's just became the president. His ratings from the inauguration, 10 million less views than Biden, down 27% from Biden. He couldn't even hold it outside. He had to blame it on the cold weather because he wasn't going to be able to get a crowd that even looked anywhere near the 2020 results. won the 2017 crowd, rather.
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And so he said, oh, it's so cold out. This is a pathetic, weak individual. He is a criminal. He is a felon. He is a sexual assaulter. He is a horrible businessman. He's the worst dealmaker. And we just have to be very clear and precise with our language. Brett, I'll let you take the last strike now.
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Reminder, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. On Monday, we will hold our Zoom meeting for patrons. We don't have outside investors here. We're 100% people-powered, 100% independent. So if you want to meet us, it's a fun way to do that in a Zoom meeting. And it helps us grow. Jordy gets a lot of Funny questions his way too. You could ask him questions, ask me, ask Brett questions.
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And then MidasPlus.com, that's where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, leads the way. MidasPlus.com. I want to try to grow that subscriber base as well to a bigger subscriber base than The Times, The Washington Post.
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hopefully one day we can get there so please subscribe to MidasPlus.com Ron's daily reviews or reports on everything that happened it's the best in the biz by far he spends the whole day writing it meticulous helps you catch up on every single thing then you get to hear from me occasionally in the morning as well thank you Midas Mighty we're in this together we will fight this one together we will prevail in the end I make you that promise let's go Jordy take it away
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Look, they literally have a billionaire car wash where they try to take off the dirt of the billionaires. I call it Joe Rogan washing. It's like, all right, let's try to make Zuckerberg look cool. All right, Zuckerberg, do that perm with your hair. And then let's have Rogan ask you about hunting. And Zuckerberg's like, yeah.
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Trump's inauguration ratings were absolutely awful, the worst ever. His approval rating is abysmal, maybe even the worst ever. His loathsome executive orders are despised almost universally by Americans. His
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It's like, what in the world is even going on with these people? But I digress. I guess the point is they are the establishment. Look, I don't want to show a lot of Trump clips because you get the point, but he's so psycho, so demented. This is newsworthy stuff. The reality is that we can't cover our eyes or close our ears. We have to see literally what's happening.
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So I won't show too many, but I think it's important that we say this is ridiculous. Because I want to show you specifically the pivot of what happened. So even Hannity's like, All right. So let's talk about the economy. And Trump's like, I don't want to talk about the economy. Let's talk about Biden. Why didn't Biden pardon himself? That's pretty crazy, right? He didn't pardon himself.
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What about Biden? And Hannity's like, yeah, but it's time to talk about the economy. And Trump goes, I don't care. I don't care about the economy. I want to talk about Biden. Watch this moment. It's incredible. Play this clip.
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They wanted to take care of me. Yeah, but Sean, they wanted to, I don't care. They're yelling at me. This is more important. He goes, I don't care. When he even had it, he's like, let's talk about the economy. Brett, to your point. He said, this is more important.
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So then Donald Trump speaks at the Economic Forum. He appeared virtually. The forum takes place in Davos in Switzerland. So he's asked a question during the Q&A portion about when you're back here next year, do you think there will be peace in Ukraine next year? Because you promised 24 hours. Take a look at what Trump says. Let's play it.
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He goes, you're going to have to ask Russia? Russia's leading this? By the way, 24 hours ago, Donald Trump said that it would actually be Xi Jinping. who would be leading the negotiations. He said he was going to delegate it to President Xi. And then Trump rolled out his great plan, everybody.
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Remember, during the campaign, he said first it was going to be 24 hours after the election, but it was super secret. Super serial secret stuff, everybody. So just give him the benefit of the doubt. We shouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt ever, but just whatever. For the sake of, you know what, and giggles, let's allow him to say it was 24 hours after the inauguration.
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By the way, he had the audacity when he was asked the day of the inauguration, hey, This is what a big liar is. They're like, hey, you didn't do it yet. There's no peace. Should we expect that to happen? He goes, well, there's still – this is half a day. Like he still lies until the very moment that it's a lie.
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term is spiraling even quicker than we expected his attempt to distract us all has failed prices are not lower they're higher housing is not more affordable it's less affordable there's no peace in ukraine trump's plan to do uh social media posts as a way to uh handle the Ukraine lawful invasion by Russia. Just very odd.
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Yeah, then he has Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, start giving news appearances. And Rubio's like, actually, he did what he said he was gonna do. He goes, what Trump said was that he was going to say that there would be peace in 24 hours, not that he would actually do it. And so he said it, therefore, mission accomplished. Okay, Rubio, first off, that's why you can never work for Trump.
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just look like an absolute idiot having to even go and say that like you have zero credibility now on day one as the secretary of state by the way the same way pam bondi as attorney general has zero credibility right during her confirmation hearing she said that she would not be okay with pardoning the violent january 6th insurrections right she made that distinction
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She said that the other January 6th insurrectionists should be pardoned, not the violent ones. What does Trump do? He undermines her. So now she's not even speaking as an attorney general anymore. So he makes the people right away powerless around him. And now what Donald Trump is saying is you're going to just have to ask Russia.
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Oh, and then his secret plan that he released was a social media post. in in lots of all caps and this was his plan everybody he goes i'm not looking to hurt you russia i love the russian people and always had a very good relationship with putin and despite the radical left's russia russia russia russia hoax
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must never forget that russia helped win the second world war losing almost 60 million lives in the process let me just fact check it that's not true it was around 24 million lives actually a lot of those lives were ukrainian 60 million is the total loss in world war ii but he says to lie about every number and then he has his revisionist history where he ignores that russia was our sworn enemy
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every single year after World War II during the Cold War to the present. And then he goes, hey, Russia, you better stop it for real. This is literally what he's saying. You better stop it because it's going to get worse for you, Russia. And he says that we're going to institute tariffs on you, Russia. Well, you're going to institute tariffs on Russia.
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You realize that there are sanctions right now against Russia where there's basically zero trade, zero trade between Russia and the United States. Tariffs are a, he doesn't know what tariffs are. Tariffs are a tax on American companies importing. American companies can't import from Russia or else they're criminally prosecuted for felonies.
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So if what Trump is saying is he's going to loosen the sanctions by imposing tariffs, that would actually be a benefit to Russia since they can then have access to the American markets and then American citizens will be taxed by the American company that's importing the Russian goods. But it just shows in the most basic stuff he doesn't know.
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Let me show you this as well, because while he praises Putin, this was his strategy. I'm going to do not a semi mean social media post. And I was talking to others about this. It was like, What do you think Putin was like when Putin's, when like Lavrov, Sergei Lavrov goes to Putin, Putin, I've got bad news for you. Please don't tell me he did a social media post. Yes, yes, Mr. Putin, he did.
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Brilliant strategy by him. We didn't expect this, but he did unleash the all caps. It's like, what in the world? You want to know what Putin did? Putin called Xi Jinping the day of the inauguration when Donald Trump claimed that he was going to call Putin and Zelensky and bring them together.
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Donald Trump's approval is sinking as inflation is once again rising. The markets took a battering today as they were spooked over rising inflation and Walmart put out a pretty bad financial report as well. Trump's approval is specifically tanking as well with Black Americans, Hispanic Americans. young voters and voters overall.
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in the latest wall street journal survey that was april 14 2024 and the economy finished stronger referred to as a goldilocks economy during the handoff from biden to donald trump and trump immediately then started to gut and destroy the economy with tariff threats reckless and malicious behavior but brett and jordy Who could have warned us of this? Who could have told us about this?
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Perhaps in 2016, was it Hillary Clinton? Let's play that clip.
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Or how about former Vice President Kamala Harris? Now, when you watch the split screens of these debates, It is eerie how both of these powerful women who are so much more qualified and would have been incredible leaders, and we would never be in this mess, were speaking to the American people in logic, in full sentences. They were warning us and they were telling us what was going down.
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But of course, America was not going to go there in both cases because, well, I'm sure you know why. Play this clip.
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He is eating Donald Trump for lunch right now. During that event, that whatever you want to call it in Saudi Arabia, where they cut out Ukraine and Europe, Russian propaganda was through the roof with Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
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You had Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former leader, saying, if you would have told me that a United States president would be saying these things about Ukraine, I would have been laughing in your face. But, Brett, we see right here just complete utter weakness. Putin's eating Trump's you-know-what. And what do you make of it?
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So as Donald Trump destroys our economy, destroys our alliances, tries to establish alliances with Russia by sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to have direct negotiations with Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, cutting out Ukraine and Europe. What Donald Trump wants to distract everybody with is that he says that he and Elon Musk are going to go searching for gold in Fort Knox.
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Look, you've got the White House posting things like this. Congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan and all of New York is saved. Long live the king, President Donald J. Trump. And it's a fake Time magazine cover. with Donald Trump wearing a crown, and it says, Long Live the King Trump.
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Then Donald Trump was repeatedly posting, Long Live the King, because he tried to interfere with New York's congestion pricing plan, which New York just said, okay, we're going to keep our own plan that's actually helping New York City. You can't interfere with this. You can't retract a deal that's already taken place. But Donald Trump posting that he is –
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A king, also Donald Trump, further attacking Canada all day as well, saying that he invited Prime Minister Trudeau to the governor's meeting because he views Trudeau as a governor of an American territory. But as Donald Trump does all of this, I mean, again, Brett, to your point, and Jordi, the level of weakness that this shows, he is... positioning himself not from any power of strength.
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I mean, he looks weak, he looks desperate, and everything he's done so far has only been causing harm and damage to the United States of America, but he wants to distract you with all of these different stunts. Got a lot to discuss on this episode for all of our new viewers and listeners here. Welcome to the Midas Touch podcast.
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And it is I should just acknowledge the news you probably all heard, which is that, yes, the Midas Touch podcast is beating the Joe Rogan experience in downloads for the month.
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um but to me what that means while it's great to beat rogan yes it's important that we get the facts out that we get the truth out and that this pro-democracy pro-love pro-empathy pro-truth and facts movement is growing and to me that's what that data most reflect and this is a shared accomplishment and give a shout out to all the og mightiest mighties who were with us from day one
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a shout-out with the mod to the mods who keep things here civil, and a shout-out to all of you, the Midas Mighty. We know all of the hard work that you put in as well. Again, we have a lot of show. After this show ends, we're going to be holding our Patreon Zoom meeting at patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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If you wanted to meet me, Brett and Jordy, go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch, and we have the secret link there. Again, we have a lot to discuss on this show. Let's take our first quick break.
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They're gonna start investigating if there's gold inside Fort Knox, everybody. They're gonna go into the mountains with their shovels. This is how they wanna distract us. So ridiculous, play this clip.
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I just think it's important that we try to keep things simple. You've ever heard of KISS, keep it simple, stupid, right? Sometimes you just got to remind people Donald Trump made these promises, right? He promised prices were going to go down on day one. He promised housing was going to be more affordable on day one. He promised there were going to be so many jobs on day one.
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You weren't going to even know what to do with all of these jobs. He promised that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Even before he took office, he said there would be a deal because he's that good of a deal maker. That wasn't hyperbole. We shouldn't try to extrapolate. Oh, he really meant this. No, he's a liar. Period. Full stop.
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So you just can't get distracted by the whack-a-mole of all of the things that they try to say and do.
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They use USAID the way QAnon uses QDrops, right, where they try to distract you and get you focused on all of these things that are almost all false to get you to chase that so that you're distracted from the fact that they're breaking their promises, that they're hurting the economy, that they're hurting our alliances.
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top of it oh we're going to search for docs we're going to find all of this great gold for you or oh maybe we're going to give you these rebates when doge finds all of this money it's all part of the ponzi scheme scam and a ponzi scheme is you keep on lying and you stack lies on lies until basically you run out of time brett and then the lies catch up and then boom it implodes and that's the direction we're heading and i just want everybody to reflect on these lights guys give one example brett then jump in which is
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they go back and they'll say, even though it's been debunked, Hamas is not getting condoms, it's false by USAID. That didn't happen. It doesn't matter though. They'll just go and say it again, like 100% false, but Trump will say it's 100 million, 50 million, 50 million, 100 million. And the numbers don't even matter.
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They just make up numbers, 3 trillion, 5 trillion, 8 trillion, 100 billion, a quadrillion. But also because they're so rich, that the numbers don't matter. All that matters is that they're manipulating their sheeple. Here, play this clip.
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See, Donald Trump was asked, hey, what is Doge doing? Because we hear they're cutting critical FAA jobs. We hear that Doge is cutting critical jobs that are protecting against the bird flu. They are cutting funds that are going to 9-11 first responders. They accidentally keep firing people, like people who oversee our nuclear arsenal. And they are just firing, what, 4,500 people in the
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I was just going to say that many of the inspectors general were actually people who were brought in by Trump that former President Biden kept on because that's what the rules and norms usually call for. And again, Brett, as you said, those were the people who detected –
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the tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud there's a transparent process they prepare reports they actually show up in front of congress and they work with members of congress they don't try to hide behind executive privilege and they're transparent the thing about elon musk i want you to all know and you may be confused like why is it a big deal guys that elon musk
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forest services that work in our national parks and just gutting our government and people who work hard every day to keep us safe and to keep things running. But Donald Trump goes, I'm going to find some gold. Did you hear about Fort Knox? Did you hear about Fort Knox? Because he thinks people are stupid.
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is saying that he has all of these different positions. And on the one hand, they say that he's the administrator of Doge or a special advisor. Why are they doing that? Well, what they want to try to do is make him immune from oversight. They don't want him to be called into Congress. They don't want him to have to respond to FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests.
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So when they call him, and you see right here for those who are listening on audio, our viewers can see it. It was him, Elon Musk, running around at CPAC today with a chainsaw. They don't want this guy in front of Congress. So why they say he's a special advisor to Donald Trump and not the administrator of Doge, even though they said he's the administrator of Doge,
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is to claim that all of his information is protected by the presidential records act executive privilege and other immunities so he doesn't have to testify he doesn't have to actually make his numbers public he doesn't have to justify his numbers so he can just post different things on his social media platform you know like one of the things that he posted on his social media platform i'll just give you an example of today
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where the commander of the International Space Station called out Musk for lying about the plans to bring those astronauts who have been in space home.
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So Andreas Mogensen, who's the ISS commander, International Space Station, by the way, responding to one of the people at Midas Touch who was playing a clip where Elon Musk said that Biden left these astronauts in space for political reasons, the commander of ISS says, that's a lie.
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from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media so i want to just give you a trigger warning because elon musk uses the r word but then elon musk and i want to say it because i want to educate you on what's being said elon musk then goes to the commander of the international space station you are fully retarded and then he goes on to attack him more and then he says return was for political reasons idiot he
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to which the commander of ISS says, Elon, I have long admired you and what you have accomplished, especially at SpaceX and Tesla. You know as well as I do that Butch and Sunny are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home.
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They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on the International Space Station since last September. And then Elon Musk makes a post about him wanting to abolish the International Space Station after that, after getting into a fight simply because the commander was being respectful and said, what you're saying is not the truth.
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And as inflation is once again on the rise, Donald Trump is trying to blame it on former President Biden, Donald Trump and his puppet master, or should I say co-president or whatever you want to call Elon Musk. I guess they're trying to call him in the White House. the tech guy now. They went on Hannity and Donald Trump said it was Biden's fault why inflation is back right now.
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One other point I'll say as well, that press conference I was showing you with Donald Trump, where a lot of those clips were coming from, and this is Brett, to your point, like I call him the sheeple or NPCs, whatever, like Trump is giving this press conference from a Saudi Arabian financial event that he's hosting at like his resorts.
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So Saudi first, he's got the negotiations in Riyadh with Russia first, cutting out our NATO allies. And at this event,
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He thinks that he can distract you with that crap right there, when in fact the things that Trump and Doge are doing is taking away money from people like 9-11 first responders. Let's play this clip.
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Again, while inflation is rising, while our economy is now struggling once again after former President Biden got it back on track after the damage caused in the first Trump administration, objectively, Donald Trump is at a Saudi event at a resort bragging about how rich he is and how great his properties are with the United States presidential seal behind him. Here, let's play this clip.
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don't want to build units but they gave us permission to do it well you're talking about building units there that's how you're using your time and you are screwing over americans by the way brett you showed that clip before uh of the the video uh that she played of elon musk just running around with the chainsaw and i believe it was the leader of argentina javier malay yeah that's javier malay right there who's embroiled in his own crypto scam
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in argentina now people are calling for him to be impeached there's formal charges that are like being brought against him in argentina for telling people to buy the libra crypto which turned out to be a massive rug pull causing people to lose lots of money and it was actually the same person who was involved in the melania dollar sign smolania um coin as well and so for donald trump to say i don't really care about these things well
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You're selling like your own meme coins and you're doing deals. This whole event you were doing in Riyadh was a business event with the presidential seal behind you.
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I think that's why the story broke through about the Midas Touch podcast beating Rogan in the ratings because it shows that people want to hear the truth. And it shows that there's hope out there to get out this information. When I speak to people, when I see people in the chat, when I see people out and about, they say, Ben, just tell me where I got to show up.
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I'm ready to take to the streets and peacefully protest. You just tell me where and when. And we're seeing the protests start to grow organically. We cover them here on the Midas Touch website. network, unlike corporate media, which tends to suppress these. You're seeing a huge rally, tens of thousands of people over this past week in New York, and people took to the streets across the country.
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And one of the things that we're going to do here as we build this network and we get to 5 million
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and 10 million people subscribed and then we keep connecting our subscribers internationally standing in solidarity with peace-loving pro-democracy people in canada and mexico and europe and australia and new zealand and south america and africa and across the globe we're going to have to band together to stop these forces of disinformation
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That is one of our priorities, and we're going to be helpful in that process, especially as I think and I expect there to be a democracy spring, a democracy summer, where our voices will be heard in a massively historic way as people are mobilized and activated. We still have a lot to discuss. I want to remind everybody, if you want to meet Brett, Jordy, and myself, patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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There's a secret link there where we will have our Zoom meeting as soon as this episode ends. Give us a few minutes to sign on because sometimes it takes a few minutes, but then we'll start. Ask us any questions that you want. You could ask particularly tough questions to Jordy if you want as well. Let's do it. Remind everybody, subscribe on both the audio podcast and the YouTube.
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That was John Thiel, a 9-11 survivor and advocate, talking about how reckless and lacking in empathy it is. But before I bring Brett and Jordy in, let me just tell you all what the plan is, though, if you want to even call it that. So part of the meeting between the United States and Russia was about trying to form an alliance between the U.S. and Russia instead of the U.S.
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And look, we have a lot of other voices on the network as well. You know, we have people like renowned former prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who's on the front lines of handling some of the biggest cases in the country as we speak. We've got great hosts like Michael Popak, and I can go on and list all of our hosts. But you should check out the list also, you know, on our website.
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I mean, these are experts who have got the facts. They're former federal prosecutors, you know, former politicians, people in the weeds who deliver the information with a level of expertise. So we try to give you that perspective as well.
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You know, could you imagine what that testimony of Elon Musk would look like before the Doge subcommittee? I just want everybody to think about this concept, though, that every time the Democrats try to subpoena Elon Musk, it gets blocked by the Republicans in the House of Representatives. They won't even allow debate to take place to subpoena Elon Musk, to have him show up
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's traditional role in NATO and leading the free world. And then Marco Rubio says the quiet part out loud about how he's looking forward to prosperous economic relationships between the United States and Putin. That's what Marco Rubio announced from Saudi Arabia. Play this clip.
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his own quote unquote subcommittee that's being led by Marjorie Taylor Greene called the Doge Subcommittee. How do you not appear before your own subcommittee, right? Like the FBI director has to show up, right? Like the attorney general has to show up, right? The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has to show up and testify before Congress.
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It's called a public servant and you're doing public service because you have to be accountable. Being accountable doesn't mean spreading disinformation on social media and then saying, oh, there, and then calling people the R word and picking fights with people and having baby mamas appear and then attack.
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you on social media and then you block your baby mamas with 13 babies like musk or whatever like like that's not what being a public servant is about it's about serving the people so you should want to testify and justify it and let the congress or the congressional members ask you questions this is elon musk a little bit earlier today at cpac i truly can't understand what he's even really it's kind of just gibberish here play this clip
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So I just want you to remember, you go back earlier to the episode where I showed you the clip of Donald Trump when he was asked about Doge and he was like, oh, did you feel that bump? Oh, do you want to search for some gold in the mountains in Fort Knox? And the people were asking him questions like, but why?
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Are you firing FAA officials because there's been nine plane crashes already while you've been golfing in Mar-a-Lago seemingly every single day? Like, what are you doing with FAA officials? What are you doing with the people who work at our natural or national parks? What are you doing with Department of Labor? What are you doing with the crisis hotline that is so necessary for our veterans?
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What are you doing with 911 responders? And they're just there giving a bunch of gibberish because they know what they're doing is wrong. Otherwise, they would go in front of Congress and they would talk about it and they would do actual transparent reports and not this crap that we're seeing.
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And one of the things I've noticed that they've been doing as well, the same way MAGA Republicans have tried to normalize socialism. school shootings. And they're like, it's just part of living. You have to have school shootings. No, it's uniquely an American thing based on the warped interpretation of the Second Amendment by our far right-wing Supreme Court and Republicans.
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want common sense gun reform it's because these MAGA Republicans are in the pocket of gun companies and also I think just death I think they're in the pocket of it seems that everything they want to do is somehow you know they can have all the money in the world it just seems like sometimes they just want people to suffer too in addition to being in the pocket of the gun line they just want to see suffering because I think a lot of these people are just sick people but anyway the point I'm making
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It's the same way they've normalized weapons of war proliferating in school shootings. They're trying to now normalize plane crashes. And they're like, yeah, airplanes crash. That's just what happens. More happened under Biden, which is false. Also, Donald Trump's been in office now for just about 30 days, too.
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And there was never a commercial plane crash while former President Biden was running the country. Here, play this clip of Duffy.
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Do you sense the pattern here? Because when they were not in power at the executive branch level, Every day they blamed everything on Biden as Biden tried to fix the dumpster fire caused by Trump being the arsonist who imploded our economy. Now, if you just want to know the facts and the data, Donald Trump objectively added $8 trillion in debt.
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Donald Trump printed money recklessly, surprise, surprise, ran up the debt. and then screwed up our supply chains. He was not prepared for COVID. He said, like a miracle, it was all going to go away. And then Biden had to fix it. It took time to fix.
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And every time Biden tried to fix it, despite all of the media saying that there was a remember the Bloomberg headline, 100% chance of recession, Biden got a soft landing and then America's GDP surge. We led the world in GDP growth. We were beating China in GDP growth, 16.4 million jobs created, 40,000 infrastructures.
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The CHIPS Act brought the semiconductor industry here to the United States, bringing more jobs. The Inflation Reduction Act, the American Recovery Act. President Biden was not attacking veterans the way Trump is. Instead, President Biden had the PACT Act, which increased services to veterans. Former President Biden did not try to gut Medicaid and Medicare.
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Quite the contrary, he tried to make and he did make prescription drug prices more affordable. cap prescription drug prices. Every day was just fighting for how you help people and use the government to give people things, not use the government to bludgeon and hurt people. But now that the Trump administration's in power and they made all of these promises,
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and right away they're causing devastation with our economy they blame everything on biden biden biden there was not crashes every day taking place under biden we were headed for two percent inflation under biden which is right around where you want him interest rates would have dropped even lower and now interest rates are not dropping because inflation is back up and now the american people believe that inflation is going to rise three and a half four four point two
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or even higher. Americans have a very dim view of the economy. Americans are now spending less because they're hoarding money, believing, I think rightfully so, that America's economy is now on a crash course with Donald Trump's reckless behavior.
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And one of the patterns here we see over and over again is Trump is firing the smart, qualified people, and he's bringing in the worst of the worst, corrupt and stupid people. Case in point, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, is a former Fox News host. He's not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
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Former President Biden, we had a guy named Lloyd Austin, four-star general who was our Secretary of Defense, who respected our military. Now we have Pete Hegseth out there who talks about conquering Gaza, sending the United States military into Gaza and all of these countries.
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Bring in my brothers, Brett and Jordy. Did you ever think that you would see the day in your lifetime where a United States president would become a Russian bootlicker, send your secretary of state to Saudi Arabia to kiss Russia's ass and to capitulate to Russia and threaten our NATO allies and engage in that reckless and dangerous and malicious behavior?
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And now what we learned today, courtesy of NBC breaking the story, is that Pete Hegseth, again, a Fox News host with a history of alcohol and sexual assault allegations and never ran something, is considering firing a slate of military generals today.
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as early as this week including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who got overwhelming support from the senate cq brown and i'll show you this video right here just so you can see it just take a look you'll see cq brown sitting behind chairman of the joint chiefs of pete hegseth and this was from about a few weeks back over two weeks ago it seems like an eternity ago though this is when they were talking about occupying gaza
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which followed them occupying Canada and Panama and Colombia and other countries. This was the Gaza occupation day. But watch behind Pete Hegseth here playing this clip.
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Do you see the chairman of the Joint Chiefs stand behind him kind of like, like wince, like when he was saying that, like, oh my God. So they're trying to get rid of that guy. Kash Patel got confirmed today. So that's the new FBI director. by a vote of 51 to 49 percent.
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You have this United States attorney, this guy Ed Martin, who's now sending letters to Congress that he's using the United States attorney's office in D.C. to criminally investigate like Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia because he didn't like how Robert Garcia told that people should protest. So he told Garcia he wants clarification because Garcia's words may be criminal.
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I mean, that is it's corruption. Stupid sandwich is this Trump administration writ large with the dumbest people. Sean Duffy's who got famous on real world road rules challenge. Give me one point, but then I'll throw it over to you because I've got this train of thought right now. Even the person who they said was the pro-labor moderate person, right? Like Chavez Dreamer.
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a Republican congresswoman from Oregon. And her whole thing was that she claims she supported the PRO Act, which would help union workers. And so she branded herself as pro-worker. But now that she's in the Trump administration, when she testified to be the labor secretary, well, let me just show you the questioning by Bernie Sanders. Do you support the PRO Act?
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The question was, are you OK with the fact that Trump, you're the labor secretary? Are you okay with the fact that he gutted the National Labor Relations Board that recognizes unions and hears grievances? What's your view on a living wage? You're the labor secretary. What's your view that labor should be able to live? What's your view of the PRO Act, the right to unionize?
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Can't answer those questions, but I gotta tell you, You know, you got Sean O'Brien over at the Teamsters, you know, who's went to Mar-a-Lago. Thumbs up. He thought that was great. The leader of the teams. I don't know how the rank and file, you know, can deal with this guy. But there's a whole nother topic in a whole nother video.
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But Brett, sorry, I just wanted to show you even Doreem or Chavez who people like. Oh, she's when she goes there. These people are all spineless clowns.
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Well, what they're telling their people is on Fox and they're saying, why wouldn't you trust the billionaires? Look, billionaires – this is what they say. Billionaires are so rich. that they don't need your money. They don't need, they're doing this out of the goodness of their heart. Let the billionaires go through your shit. Let them have your social security. What are they gonna do with it?
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You think they're gonna do something bad with it? Let them have your medical records. What are you afraid to show the billionaires? Just give it to them. What your social security data, just what do you think they're gonna do? Give the billionaires that data. The access to your tax records and the payment processing systems of the IRS. What do you think they're going to do?
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Try to avoid paying taxes and then go after their enemies with the IRS? Come on. These are billionaires. These are the best of the best. That's what they're trying to sell to their audience. And Brett, to your point, that's why you say this shouldn't be a Democrat thing to say that's crazy. It should be a human being thing.
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If you're not a billionaire, even if you are kind of a billionaire and you're not the must type, whatever, even if you're just a worker and you're trying to support your family, you should not want these billionaires doing this crap. and hurting you and hurting your family. That's what they are doing. And that shouldn't be a partisan issue.
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So I think, Brett, to your point, power to the people is the mantra. And this is a people powered network. I think that's one of the reasons or the main reason this network grew is that it is people powered. And it's fueled by you, the Midas Mighty. And again, I'm humbled and honored that me and my brothers can host this program and speak to millions of people.
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I think it was close to 59 million downloads for the month or what the number was. That's incredible. But what really matters to me is the reach of growing people and having an impact.
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and making a difference and getting this information out to more people and then having all of you share this information with people that you know because I want an America that's caring and empathetic and loving and that cares about democracy and supports our allies, that cares about future generations and that where we have respect and we have our democracy back. That's what I want.
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And we're going to be in this with you every step of the way, shoulder to shoulder here. We will keep growing this network with you. For all of our new listeners and viewers, it's so great to have you here. I hope you like this programming and it's different than what you've kind of heard anywhere else. We're trying to re-envision, deconstruct and reconstruct technology.
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and what we think the media should be fact-based unapologetic pro-democracy fearless that's what we're going to stand for here each and every day make sure you're subscribed we're on our way to 5 million subscribers let's try to hit that 5 million mark soon and i can't wait to speak to you now at patreon.com might as touch p-a-t-r-e-o-n dot com slash might as touch We'll see you there.
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Thank you, everybody, for watching. Thank you, Mods. Thank you, Midas Mighty. Thank you, everyone. We're so appreciative and grateful for you. Jordy, shout out to the Midas Mighty!
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And then Fox tried to supplement that with a Chiron saying Donald Trump is bringing us out of the disaster. Here, play this clip.
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don't think of it inflation's back and they said oh trump and i had nothing to do with it oh i had nothing to do with it actually donald trump was the original cause of the inflation that former president biden fixed because donald trump added eight trillion dollars of debt he completely mishandled or i should even say not handled at all uh coven and then donald trump said like a miracle it was all going to go away in addition to saying that inflation's back donald trump also spent the past few days
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They treat people like they're stupid. I mean, the question was, what is Doge doing? And can you explain it, Donald? Like, let us know. And he's like, do you know about Fort Knox? We're searching for the gold. We're going to find the gold for all of you.
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And it just trying to distract and dangle. Maybe you'll get rich. I've got some snake oil. Maybe we'll find some gold. Then you all get rich. One of the other scams that I see them talking about right now is with all the money we're going to find from Doge. We're going to give you rebates. You want money?
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We're trying to find you your money right now, which, Brett, to your point is they're using all of these fake numbers and fake data. And then they're dangling over to people. You may get rich quick if you just let us do what we're going to do. And then they like publish things like this is one of the things that Doge published where they're like, we just saved you $8.
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billion from D&G Support Services, LLC. Me and my brothers actually reached out to D&G Support Services, LLC. Their government contract was for $8 million, not $8 billion. But then it looked like someone in the government systems then changed the number also. from 8 million to 8 billion after they were caught and they tried to change it.
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And they said, oh, there was just a mistake that was made in the system and it was everybody else's fault. And they keep repeating that over and over again. They say tens of millions of deceased people
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are getting social security the lie spreads it gets debunked but it doesn't matter donald trump just repeats the lie over and over again the same way he repeats that hamas is getting condoms to make bombs from usaid which is false even when you debunk it
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they keep on doing it over and over again because they know that they've got their supporters trapped in this kind of right wing disinformation echo chamber but i want to bring it back though to the facts i want to have the receipts i'll use donald trump's own words here for what i'm about to show you the first clip i want to show you is donald trump saying as it relates to russia's unlawful invasion in ukraine although trump never used those words that trump would end the war
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in 24 hours. I'll just show you two quick clips right here. It's back-to-back here, play it.
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It won't even take that long. Well, here we are, and your plan is to what, extort Zelensky? That's kind of what he was doing, right, in the first Trump administration. Now, definitely more overtly as he threatened Zelensky and said, you better act quick. You better watch out. He's a dictator.
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threatening President Zelensky, threatening our NATO allies, saying that he would not support any statements to go out by the G7, which calls Russia the aggressor of Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. But let's play this clip of what Donald Trump said about Zelensky. Play the clip.
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And Donald Trump was posting all on social media, referring to Zelensky as a dictator, saying that he's just some has-been comic who stole from the United States and he's parroting Putin's talking points. how Zelensky needs to hold elections right away. Trump's lying and saying Zelensky has a 4% approval rating.
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Zelensky's approval rating is above 50%, and I think the approval rating is going to rise as I think Zelensky's been standing up to Donald Trump and to Marco Rubio and the bullying and the intimidation. Ukraine is rallying as well. Let me show you this other clip as well. And here, Donald Trump says that immediately, Prices are going to go down. This is what Trump said during the campaign.
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Well, the prices were going down under former President Biden. It was anticipated that we would have hit 2% inflation. We were actually leading the world in inflation reduction. We were also leading the world in energy production. We were drill baby drilling, but also we were focused on climate change and our environment, and we were energy independent at the same time.
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You don't want to believe me. Why don't I show you a Rupert Murdoch property right here? The Wall Street Journal said that the U.S. economy was the envy of the world. U.S. economy expected to keep powering higher. Economists lift their growth forecast.
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An awful press conference just unfolded in the White House after a disastrous day on the market. It seems this press conference was called to try to distract the public from seeing Donald Trump crippling our economy, and they also wanted to dangle magical rebates, money that's going to magically enter people's pockets that won't be inflationary from the work that Doge is doing.
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Now here is Sean Duffy yelling at the protesters. Here, play this clip.
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Wild stuff right there. Going back to the press conference at the White House, here's again Mike Walsh, National Security Advisor. Let's play it.
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Let me just get you the fact sheet about California high rail, just so you know. Here's a reason or a few why Duffy was getting booed out of the building today. This project has generated more than 14,000 good paying jobs in California. The route from San Francisco to LA is fully environmentally cleared, meaning it's shovel ready. The track laying phase has begun.
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And of the $13 billion spent, $10.5 billion is has come from the state of California, and $2.5 billion has come from the federal government, not the exaggerated hundreds of billions that are falsely claimed in a lot of these jobs in central California, helping people who are there. So there you have it, folks. We'll keep you posted. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Next, you have the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz. And Mike Waltz here says that even though he previously said that Putin is to blame for the war in Ukraine because Russia invaded Ukraine. Here, Mike Waltz said, it shouldn't surprise you that my assessment has changed because now I do what Donald Trump tells me to do. He literally says that. I'm not using hyperbolic language.
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you some clips of kevin hassett kevin hassett is the uh national the internet the national economic council director and just so you know who kevin hassett is how he got famous well he wrote a book called uh dow 36 000 published in 1999 predicting the stock market boom Right before the internet.com bubble burst of 2000, this guy gets it wrong every single time.
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We literally have the worst people up there at this press conference and in this administration. Here he is being asked, well, if the goal of the spending cuts has been to reduce the debt, why are you imposing the deepest cuts on the IRS that collects revenue? Here, play this clip.
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Just don't be distracted on the havoc that they are causing to our country. Let me show you what went down in this disastrous press conference. Here you have Caroline Levitt saying that she looks forward to Canada becoming the 51st state.
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Here you have Mike Walz, the national security advisor, talk about, oh, we call it here, Trump warp speed. We're going into warp speed mode. Here, play this clip.
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Back to Kevin Hassett, the National Economic Council director. Here he says that now that inflation is surging, Once again, the way they're dealing with that is they've hired Elon Musk as their IT consultant, and he will make sure that tax cuts are restored and an inflation that's now surging because of their policies maybe will go away. Here, play this clip. How did they do that?
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Back to Stephen Miller again. North Korea is feeling that this is a little bit over the top. Here, Stephen Miller says, no president has done more than Donald Trump. Here, play this clip. No president comes close to what Donald Trump has achieved over just the last 30 days. Okay, Stephen Miller, bet.
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I guess no president has done more than Donald Trump to literally crater the United States of America, destroying our economy, destroying our alliances, destroying the bond between states in the United States, spreading lies, hatred, and just being overall disgusting every day. Let's continue to talk about what happens here in this ridiculous press conference.
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After all of that, you then have Mike Walz, the national security advisor, say, what Trump really is focused on is stability. We need to restore stability. Play this clip.
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And also Donald Trump sent a message inviting Prime Minister Trudeau to the governor's meeting in the United States saying that he should be a governor of a state in America. Play this clip.
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Restore stability. Every day it seems like there's another plane crash. The markets are crashing. Donald Trump is calling Zelensky a dictator and blaming Zelensky for Russia invading Ukraine. Donald Trump has destroyed our alliances with NATO. Stability is the word you really want to use right there.
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And here, Mike Walz says, look, there's no one who can stand up to Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong-un like Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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There's no one who is a bigger bootlicker of Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un than Donald Trump, who's turned America into some bizarro North Korea isolated country that is a pariah state to the world. Our former allies despise and hate America under Donald Trump. Massive boycotts have been underway and are underway. In Canada, I saw a recent poll out of Canada.
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Only 30% of Canadians still view America as allies. About 30% of Canadians view the United States of America as an enemy combatant, as an enemy state right now. And then the remainder just doesn't view the U.S. as an ally anymore. That's the state of Canada, to be clear, that only 30% view America as an ally. Going back to Kevin Hassett right here.
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Here, Hassett is asked, so Trump has spoke about replacing income taxes with tariff revenue. Is that something that you're really going to do? Try to not collect income tax, but try to raise money off of tariffs? Play the clip.
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I mean, these people are quite I don't know how else to say it. Like they are legitimately stupid, cruel, arrogant, every bad quality. And it is shocking to me that there are people who fall for this crap still to this day. But I'll tell you one of the plans that they have. It's this right here.
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This is part of their propaganda machine where they say that the government is going to give Americans $5,000 in rebates from Doge based on everything that Doge is collecting. And we all know that Doge ain't really doing anything. It's just lying about data and just making stuff up over and over again. But they say the government will not actually be spending this money. It will be Doge doing it.
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Make this make sense. Here, play this clip.
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So he says inflation happens when government spends money, but government won't be spending money to give money to people. And they just dangle this stuff the same way they dangle no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, the same way they say that they're going to do all of these things.
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And what they really do is they cut $880 billion in Medicaid, $250 billion from farmers, $350 billion in education. They go after Social Security. It should be obvious what they're doing. And $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires. That's going to increase America's national debt to over $25 trillion in debt over the next 10 years, according to conservative think tanks.
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They predict that if the spending bill goes down this way, increase the debt by $25 trillion. Bringing you down to this press conference that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was holding in California. Here, Sean Duffy, who got famous off of the Real World Road Rules Challenge, and now he's the Transportation Secretary, and he's overseen over nine plane crashes in the first 30 days.
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about four lethal plane crashes, some staggering numbers right there. He says that the reason that he's fired a lot of these FAA workers is because they're actually not the highest skilled members of the FAA. Here, play this.
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You take a look here as people in California were booing Secretary Duffy and he and the MAGA Republicans in California, they were showing up in California today to announce that they wanted to investigate the high speed rail project. and they want to dismantle it. And I'll talk about that project in just a second.
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But the same way Donald Trump posted about himself and showed that he said that I'm a king regarding New York, like he literally posted a photo of himself wearing a crown and said long live the king or something like that. And he's screwing with New York's projects to help congestion trapping there, which was actually working.
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Next up, you have Stephen Miller, and as Aaron Rupert says, Kim Jong-un thinks Stephen Miller is laying it on a little thick here. Here, play this clip.
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Trump wants to screw over the high rail project in California, which actually a lot of Republican people like red state. I mean, in California, the red areas, red counties, especially the Central Valley, has been helping their economy. Just watch the people boo and play this clip.
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This time it's going to be worse, but we actually know the playbook. So what we always want to warn you about is do not get distracted by the shiny objects. Focus on what we need to focus about. It's why let's talk about what I think are some of the most important clips from some of these confirmation hearings that are actually not getting the attention they deserve.
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Look, we've covered the Hexeth hearing. Hexeth's completely unqualified. The guy's got a horrific past. His moral character is garbage. I would just describe it as just consistent, perpetual moral turpitude is what this guy's engaged in. He's unqualified. He's never led anything before.
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The fact that Republicans want to make this guy the Secretary of Defense just shows you there's no depths to their depths of depravity and frankly, in my opinion, hatred.
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of the united states of america if you're willing to make that guy the secretary of defense you hate this country because why else would you pick somebody who would do such damage to the country so stipulated we get it that's who the republicans are i can go on for hours about what how dangerous this guy is we've done other videos on i want to show you clips that you're not seeing though.
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We'll break down not just the Hegseth hearing, but we should talk about Trump's Treasury Secretary pick, Scott Besson. We should talk about Pam Bondi, who Trump wants to be Attorney General. We should talk about Russ Vogt, the Project 2025 architect, who Trump wants to run the Office of Management and Budget. We will talk about all of that. Also, we'll talk about the world uniting again.
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We should raise that federal minimum wage, right? Because you want to help the billionaires. How about bringing the minimum wage up from $7.25 to something a little more? Watch the exchange.
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Mr. Besson, just think about that answer right there and then juxtapose that to this clip where Besson says his top priority, the biggest priority, how he thinks he's going to be judged is by ensuring that the billionaires get their tax cuts. Here, watch this.
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that Trump has proposed that will increase prices for families. Hint, hint, tariffs. Hint, hint, bloody mass deportations. Hint, hint, and then Besant. By the way, let me give you Scott Besant's background. You know how all the MAGA Republicans are like, this is a George Soros plant, which it's never true and it's always like some –
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attempt at being like anti-Semitic to link people to like a Jewish banker and like that's the whole concept. This guy was literally George Soros' money manager. This guy ran George Soros' money and then launched his own hedge fund after rising the ranks for Soros. And then he became basically the tool of the oligarchs to implement their agenda. That's who this guy is here.
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So watch this next question, though. And then just listen carefully at the end where the senator says, so let me get this straight, though, because if the prices go up then, because we all know the prices will go up under Trump, they're already going up in anticipation. You'll agree that it was a failure, though, because you're saying that because prices went up under Biden, Biden was a failure.
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And then he goes, I just don't think I can say that. I don't think I'll be able to say that at all. Here, watch this.
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against Donald Trump? Who said Donald Trump can't bring people together? Well, here in the United States, he can't. But when it comes to the world, he's finding a way to unite countries against the United States. We're seeing that, for example, in Canada where a big meeting was held in Ottawa where mostly all of the premiers and the
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President Trump? I cannot respond to the hypothetical. It's a complete aggregate mosaic. It's a mosaic. Let's face it. I need to do the mosaic.
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at the provincial level and then the federal government regardless of the political parties joined together there was one premier from alberta her name is daniel smith she took the pilgrimage of shame to mar-a-lago where donald trump just further shamed her and said that 25 tariffs
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Hey, Brett, ask me a question. Let's pretend that I'm one of Trump's cabinet officials or picks who he's picking. Ask me a question about how I would handle matters in the administration.
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Well, I haven't spoken at this stage to the president-elect. I cannot answer a hypothetical of that nature. I will say that I have full faith that the president will engage thoughtfully. He will build a composite structure with the right team. There will be synergies in place. I am confident that Ultimately, a solution will be reached that will be complementary to the overall operation.
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But that's what they do though, right? It's a long bit. You're right. We got to go to our first hand.
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across the board no exceptions are happening on day one but other than her canada is fairly united against the united states ready for retaliatory tariffs ready to inflict pain on the united states in retaliation for the united states and inflicting pain on that also Mexico is ready. Europe's ready. Basically, everyone's ready to inflict pain on the U.S.
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Oh, and it was a long bit. We got to go to our first ad break. I want to remind everybody to check out patreon.com slash Midas Touch. In the next week or so, we'll hold another meeting. If you ever wanted to meet Brett, Jordy, and myself in a private meeting, sign up for patreon.com slash Midas Touch. We don't have outside investors, so it's one of the ways we grow. Let's take a quick break.
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on day one when Trump goes through with the executive orders he's threatening and promising. There's a MAGA civil war taking place. You have MAGA Mike Johnson basically firing Republican Mike Turner, who heads the Intelligence Committee or did head the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives. Turner had been
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They have seven minutes. And so you, but I was showing how it's, this is not like complicated stuff, but the funny thing is, is, and I think they've done this intentionally. It's not all that funny. Kash Patel, who the, who Trump picked to be the FBI director, I think the Republicans like that he's not going right away. They're having him watch all of these.
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And they're saying, this is how you do it. They're going to get asked these questions. When you get asked these questions, just don't give real answers. OK, that's all you have to do. Just don't answer the questions. Just say other crap or just say you don't know and you never heard about it or you can't recall or you don't remember, which, by the way, is pathetic.
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That shouldn't be the case, right? I think when our founders created our constitution, and I think over time, unfortunately, so much has been based on good faith and norms, the ability that co-equal branches of government will protect their turf. that even if you're a Republican senator, you will respect that you're a senator and not just do anything that the Article II president tells you to do,
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That's unfortunately, though, what this Republican Party has become. They gave Trump an inch and he took their life. Here's Pam Bondi, Trump's pick for Attorney General. She was asked a very basic question about, have you heard that audio recording where Donald Trump said, find me the 11,780 votes? As Trump's Attorney General pick, what do you think about that he was
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threatening and intimidating a Republican secretary of state in Georgia to commit fraud. And her response is, I've never heard that. I've never, I've heard of it, but I need to see the transcript. I don't know. Here, play this clip.
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a Republican congressman, represents the Dayton area of Ohio since 2003, a fairly respected guy on a bipartisan basis. He supported Ukraine. He supported NATO. So Donald Trump told MAGA Mike, you got to fire the guy. MAGA Mike fired the guy. The Republican conference is pissed. They like Turner. We're seeing it at the state level as well, where a MAGA Republican state senator was literally beat
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You need to listen to it. That is my understanding. That is not...
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he i mean it literally is what he asked him to it's it's on the audio recording and you know look i know that people aren't people are more focused on the hegseth one but i did think it was important to show you um scott besant and bondi and then also you had the head of the omb russ vote literally the guy who authored project 2025 who's put in the position to implement project 2025
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in terms of all of the budget priorities for the deca billionaires. I did a whole video on that. It's on our YouTube feed. You should go take a look at that as well. But I want to talk about this MAGA civil war taking place right now at the state and federal level. At the state level, like it's literally Republican on Republican violence.
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You had the state of the state speech, kind of like the state of the union, but within the state of Georgia. Republican Governor Brian Kemp was delivering the speech and he banned the pro-Trump state Senator Colton Moore. Colton Moore was always out there saying the most cultist stuff about Donald Trump, which is really weird.
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He's like a Marjorie Taylor Greene type guy, that same level of derangement. But Brian Kemp banned him from showing up. So what did Colton Moore do? He shows up and then he got pushed. But look at it. It looks like he took a dive.
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um watch for yourself as a republican on republican violence and then i'm not even going to show you after because then afterwards he gets arrested and then like he takes a photo a video of himself in the hospital and he acts like he like broke his arm and it's like all right relax dude like it looks like you literally just took a spill on the floor yourself like uh watch this
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vibes of nancy mace uh wearing a sling after she uh after she took a handshake uh rough hands but then they go around i mean the whole thing too is like oh the alpha bros like this is alpha i'm like okay i i i i that framing is so weird but this is like the least alpha ish stuff i've ever seen i mean he's like a big guy i just want to talk about one more time because he seems like like he seems like a big guy and then he just falls in the most hilariously awkward way
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beat down by other republicans because he was banned from showing up to republican governor brian kemp's state of the state speech he still tried to show up anyway and then he was like literally shoved to the ground and he got arrested republican on republican violence right there now we'll talk about president biden's farewell address to the american people from the oval office where he warned about the oligarchy
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And then this photo at the hospital. Anyway, you have a guy named Mike Turner, Republican Congress member from Dayton, Ohio, was the chair of the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives, had been a member of Congress since 2003. a respected guy on a bipartisan basis. He said a bunch of stuff that I disagree with.
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But overall, he was viewed as a very kind of competent guy, a competent actor. You know, you'd be happy that if any of these Republicans were the head of the Intelligence Committee, that at least it was this guy. But he was very pro-Ukraine. He was very pro-NATO. He was very anti-Tulsi Gabbard. So he had to go.
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Donald Trump gave the order to Maga Mike Johnson to get rid of this guy from the Intelligence Committee because Maga Mike is the Speaker of the House. He gets to pick who leads the committees. And Maga Mike takes his orders from Donald Trump. So he fired Turner and then replaced Turner with a guy by the name of Congress member Rick Crawford. Let me do it in reverse order.
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Let me show you Rick Crawford first. He's an Arkansas GOP Congress member. This is what he said on July 31st, 2021 about COVID. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, the fact that that's a political issue is the most ridiculous thing. The fact that that guy is now chairing the intelligence community, that was the least intelligent thing I've ever heard. He's also opposed aid.
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to ukraine and he's now leading the intelligence committee let me contrast him with mike turner and here rep turner says that it's absolutely true congress member turner says it's absolutely true that russian propaganda has infected the gop this is from april 7th of 2024 let's play it
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ukraine needs our help and assistance now and this is a very critical time for the u.s congress to step up and provide that so republicans got rid of that guy because donald trump ordered that they get rid of that guy he's still a member of congress but all his seniority his entire career right working up through the ranks to chair the intelligence committee trump just said not you i want the guy who thinks that covid is the same as the cold
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that's the problem i mean one of the biggest problems to me is just the basic facts right just the basic character basic qualifications and the fact that any of this stuff is political especially out here in los angeles the way they've politicized the fires and but that's not just unique to us not just politicized that lied about it the moment it started
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He warned about the tech bro industrial complex. And then he also talked about how he wants to make sure there is a constitutional amendment banning presidential immunity. We'll talk about all of that and more. This is the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellas, joined by Brett and Jordy. A lot to discuss, brothers and Midas Mighty.
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It was a hurricane of lies, as California Governor Gavin Newsom had said in the recent interview with Brian Tyler Cohen. That's what it was, but it wasn't unique to California. Any tragedy, any situation over the past four years, they pumped the disinformation. With Elon's acquisition of Twitter, now X, it just gets pushed out with such force that
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It's a full-time job of a governor who has to deal with a crisis to deal with the crisis of disinformation. That's the unfortunate reality that we inhabit in the MAGA world that's removed the norms and good faith, and we're all Americans, kumbaya, let's lock arms, let's do things together. That's not where we're at. And I think Democrats are playing by old school rules
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while the MAGA Republicans are playing an entirely different game built on lies and propaganda. I want to share with you when we come back President Biden's farewell address. I want to talk about the state of the economy. Brett will break that down as the handoff is made from Biden to Trump. And we'll talk a little bit about Canada uniting against the U.S. Let's take our last break of the show.
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One of the other things to mention is that on the dais next to Donald Trump during the inauguration, there will be the physical manifestation of the oligarchy. You're going to have Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos sitting together, the richest people in the country. They're sponsoring all of the events. They're going to be right there. Just you're going to see it.
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So if you want to know who is screwing you, it's right there. Then the cabinet basically that they bought and then the MAGA Republicans who they bought as well. Michelle Obama is not going to be there. Nancy Pelosi is not going to be there. Others will be there on the Democratic side. And we're not going to stream that there.
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The interesting thing is like when you have Charlie Kirk, who previously didn't like You know, these individuals posting like, this is great. Look who's going to be there. Even some of like the MAGA supporters are like, these are the billionaires that you told us that we were supposed to hate. Like, what are you talking about?
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You know, and I think it's important, again, WMD, Weapon of Mass Distraction, any time that Donald Trump tries to bring our attention to, oh, Mel Gibson, I'm appointing to become the ambassador of Hollywood. We go, okay, cool, bro, but what about egg prices? Okay, cool, bro, but what about the costs of groceries? What about making housing more affordable?
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What about all of your promises about workers and all of these things? Oh, wait a minute, you're not doing that? And look, I think on day one, here's the thing. And Brett, I'll let you do this economic update. President Biden had things in the right direction, just objectively. It's not like, oh, you like Biden, you interviewed him.
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I mean, just look at the charts and the graphics and where the market was. It was up 50 to 60 percent. from where it was under Trump. You had great job reports every month, never a single month where jobs were lost. 16.6 million jobs created. All Trump like actually would have had to do is basically nothing, just coast on it and take credit for it. But pathologically, Trump can't do that.
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And now we're already seeing before day one, the market reacting to it. Brett, take it away.
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Stay tuned. All right. WMD, weapon of mass distraction, one of the things that Donald Trump is promoting at his Palm Beach golf course. He's now doing, I guess, his mugshot, which is basically his portrait now. His portrait is his mugshot photo. That's where we are in the United States, international.
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It's the same exact pose. The same exact pose. That's what I meant. Here he is though. He's doing his face on burgers. If you eat the burgers, his face appears on your burgers at all of his properties now, which is very weird. It looks like Putin. Don't get distracted by that. Let me show you what's going on in Canada, though. This is Doug Ford. He was Maple Maga.
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You see right there projecting unity, the various different parties, provincial level, federal level. Ford is a conservative leader, the premier of Ontario. You see Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister, he's resigned. Canada's in the pro-Rogue period right now as they pick their new leader, their new prime minister for the Liberal Party. Then we probably will have a vote soon.
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I've seen a lot of people call for a unity government there. parties need to unite against Trump, but they're projecting unity as well. Here's what Doug Ford, again, this guy was maple MAGA. This guy was a Trumper. He said his support for Trump would never waiver. Well, not only has it wavered, he removed his MAGA hat and now wears the Canada is not for sale hat.
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And here he is describing this meeting where he says, You're never going to see what you see right now here in Canada. You'll never see Democrats and Republicans meeting in the Oval Office united on stuff. He goes, here we all are. He goes, I don't care if you're the Orange Party, Green Party, NDP, Liberal Party, Conservatives. We're united.
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The one wrinkle to that, though, is that the Premier of Alberta, she's still Maple Mag. Her name is Danielle Smith. She showed up at Mar-a-Lago with Kevin O'Leary. You see them right there. And then I mean, Donald Trump just utterly humiliated her. I think she like lied to the press too. And she said she was on a vacation with her husband, but she ended up being in Mar-a-Lago.
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And Trump said to her, no, we're doing tariffs on day one. You're not exempt. There's no Alberta exemption, 25%. Well, we're going to do it on crude oil as well. Screw you, basically. And she's been really odd. She's been like, attacking this unity government from Alberta saying, no, you're going to screw us over in Alberta.
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The issue with Alberta is that they have a lot of big oil companies there. And so she's a shill for the oil companies. That's what's taking place. But anyway, let me show you Doug Ford from Ontario. Again, this guy used to be a Trumper, but here he is now saying that we're united to cause pain to the United States and have retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. when they come after us. Play this clip.
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And by this done, he's talking about uniting to inflict retaliatory tariffs on the United States, which, by the way, Mexico would do on day one as well of Trump when Trump imposes the tariffs. You know, for all these people out there, too, you know, who are like, well, we still need to see what he's going to do. He's going to do it. He's going to do it on day one. He said he's going to do it.
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So like when all of a sudden all of these analysts are like shocked. You're like, oh, he did it, and then the markets are impacted by it. Yeah, he did it. He said he was going to do it. We warned you about it. What else is it that you need? What other things do you need to be shown? It's a wild thing. If you were to tell me, hey, Ben, I got a great investment for you.
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Over the next four years, we can increase your income by 50% to 60%. I would go, that's a great return on investment, right? That's good. That's what President Biden did with the markets. It was up 50 to 60%. But he was like excoriated and attacked by all of these so-called finance bros or finance people. Oh, we're gonna do it better. Are you gonna do it better than a 50 to 60% increase?
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Are you gonna do it better than 16.6 million jobs? I'm just so sick of this prevailing narrative that, Oh, the Republicans are better on the economy. Look, over the past three, four decades with 50 million jobs created, 48 million of those jobs were created during Democratic administrations. The big recessions that took place, right, were under Trump, were under George W. Bush, Reagan.
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I mean, it's such a strange thing to me.
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what what they're really saying is that these billionaires want deregulation so that they can basically rip people off and that they can have not just 10 yachts but 20 yachts and then they get bailed out by the government while we the people get screwed and we don't get the bailouts they get the bailouts and so there's zero risk and they just you know snatch up all the money and
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and view it as a zero-sum game, it's really screwed up. But it's what President Biden warned about in his farewell address. He gave a few warnings. And I thought it was great. I thought it was substantive. One thing he was very critical of is the Supreme Court, a ban on stock trading in Congress, and also he wants a constitutional amendment to say no to presidential immunity. Here, play this.
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Powerful, powerful stuff. And then Brett. He talked about remembering your oath. I know you wanted to share that.
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band of brothers together all those years ago powerful powerful stuff right there and brett as you said very deliberate and you know i'll i'll leave everybody with this thought because we see it with california governor uh gavin newsom right now who he wasn't ready for the at first for the deluge of the lies and disinformation right he just
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Then it hit, and he was about two days late, not because he was negligent or anything, quite the contrary. He was head down, focusing on the crisis. He was solving the issues. He couldn't fathom that as he was doing that though, there would be all of this disinformation and lies that were harming his ability to handle the crisis.
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Then he's like, oh, we need to create a whole website that debunks the lies. I got to be out every day. I got to do videos and highly produced pieces every single day. The thing is, He's doing such an effective job at it right now.
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You have even Speaker Mike Johnson, MAGA Mike, saying instead of making highly produced clapback videos with social media influencers, you should get work helping Californians, which he is. But you see how effective Newsom is, but you have to do it relentlessly. You shouldn't have to do it. Be clear. This was not – the country that President Biden grew up in.
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Well, it stands in contrast to Maple MAGA. The issue was a lot of the Conservative Party was overtaken by all of these MAGA extremist views, and they were kind of proudly declaring themselves as MAGA Maple or Maple MAGA. A lot of them stopped that because they felt betrayed by Donald Trump. They were like, dude, we were your team. What are you doing?
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Their homes to the land developers. So now you're screwing the people to which Gavin's like, wait, Ted Cruz said that. So now you're a shill for predatory land developer. It's they're not consistent things, but it doesn't have to be when it's a lie. It's just everywhere. And then whoever gets it gets it's easy to lie about everything. That's what it is.
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I mean, the person you see there on the left, Doug Ford, the Conservative Premier of Ontario, He would like wear MAGA hats. Now he's wearing hats that say basically Canada, you're not touching. I mean, United States, you're not touching Canada. Canada is not for sale. And so, you know, he's done a complete 180.
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You still have this conservative premier from Alberta, Daniel Smith, who's very problematic. And she tried to divide and conquer, but got humiliated. But let's start here domestically in the United States where Donald Trump's Favorability rating is like the lowest ever going into an inauguration.
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Yeah, look, you've got Biden's approval rating heading in was about 65%, 70%. Donald Trump's approval rating is like 41%. I mean, just think about how underwater that is right there. And I think Americans are realizing... That Donald Trump is a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction. I don't know, like all of the crazy stuff that he's posting doesn't hit the way it did.
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I know corporate media wants us to chase it. The good news is that our platform is just as big, if not bigger than corporate media now. So when Donald Trump wants to try to distract us, we'll cover how serious some of these bizarre and dangerous and threatening statements that he make are.
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But we're going to always bring it back to egg prices are at record highs, mortgage rates at record highs, the price of goods record highs. We showed previously on the last episode that Trump's envoy to Ukraine.
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Keith Kellogg is saying that he'll need at least 100 days before even a framework is developed for trying to discuss a peace deal there, where Trump said it would be 24 hours after the election, or just even assume he meant 24 hours after inauguration, which is not what he actually said. That's not going to happen. So it's Lie after lie after lie.
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Trump's approval rating is in the toilet bowl right now. Some of the worst approval ratings in the history of pre inauguration, only 41% of Americans approve. This is supposed to be the honeymoon period. It's turning out to just be more of the same for Donald Trump, Donald Trump, the American people. hate you. When you take a look at those confirmation hearings, you get confirmation why.
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And Americans who have now been Googling what are tariffs, you probably should have done that before the election. And also Americans and corporations that rely on labor from foreign sources, including undocumented labor and construction and hospitality and agriculture and other areas.
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In red states like Texas and Nebraska and elsewhere, they're saying, well, wait a minute, so you're actually going to deport all of our workers and do workplace raids? Why are you going to do that? We need those workers. Can we do some sort of comprehensive immigration plan? I don't know.
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The one President Biden introduced that Donald Trump killed, which would have had the strongest border, as well as a comprehensive plan to make sure that the bad guys were prosecuted, which, by the way, they are. And those contributing have at least a pathway towards citizenship where they don't have to hide in the shadows. And we can actually fix a broken immigration system.
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Oh, yeah, but Donald Trump... intentionally killed that bill because he said it was a winning issue for him to create chaos at the border and to create chaos in our immigration system. So look, when Donald Trump makes a post like this, remember, he's just trying to do a bait and switch.
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Okay, really? I mean, you're creating, you're making up an ambassadorship to Hollywood, California. Okay, Donald, cool bro, but what about lower prices? Cool bro, but what about the prices of eggs and groceries? Cool bro, how are you gonna make housing more affordable when the 10-year yield on the bond market is pricing in the chaos you're about to cause, and now mortgage rates are up past 7%.
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Oh, and by the way, those billionaire oligarch bros of yours, the guys like Scott Besant who run hedge funds and private equity companies, yeah, they're the people who are scooping up the supply of housing.
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and making it so uh expensive because the supply is diminished because they are commoditizing housing and buying it up so regular folk can't buy homes oh those are your buddies what are you doing there donald trump says i am hereby creating the external revenue service
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Dude, what are you even talking about? This is a real post from an external revenue service. OK, tariffs are a tax on American companies, the importing company in America to try to dissuade them from getting goods from abroad. That's what it is.
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I mean, you got some of the most unqualified people avoiding answering the most basic questions, whether they'd follow the Constitution, whether they have basic competence and qualifications for the job. When they did answer questions, they made it very clear their priorities are to help the billionaire oligarchs And screw over, we the people.
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Well, you know, it's that first scene or one of the first episodes of the new Squid Games. I'm not going to try to ruin it on Netflix. And by the way, I really couldn't get through it because I really can't watch anything on Netflix in general. Like I can't – there's nothing I can – No attention span? Yeah, zero attention span.
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But to watch that type of stuff, like there's so much real world stuff that I just can't get into like – fake worlds personally I don't know that's my own thing but the guy who won the actor who won in the fictional character who won Squid Games 1 comes back to Squid Games 2 and then tries to like warn all of the people how the games work Look, here's what's gonna happen.
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They're going to shoot you if you do this. Hold the line and stop. Do not be distracted by what they're about to say. I'm telling you what's going to happen. And so in the scene, as he's warning the people about what's going to happen, For most of it, he's able to do it. He goes, you see, that's the hustle. I'm proving it. Look right there. This is what they did in the first season.
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This is what they did when I won it. And then as he's trying to tell people, the people still couldn't resist it. And they're like, I don't know about it. I'm going to go and try to run anyway. And then they would get shot basically. We've played the Squid Games before with Donald Trump or the Hunger Games. We've been through it once before.
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I didn't like Turner, but having Turner in the intelligence community... or in the Intelligence Committee and chairing it was something that was beneficial for all Americans, regardless of what your politics are. But now the MAGA Republicans are fractured totally. You know, what they keep trying to sell to their base to keep them going are the gimmicks, right?
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Like what Donald Trump say he was going to do in the past 48 hours. He goes, oh, oh. Now I'm going to create an external revenue service when I tariff all of these nations, even though tariffs are taxes on American companies. Donald Trump says, we're going to have the external revenue service collect that money. What are you even talking about?
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So you've got MAGA people like this guy on Twitter saying, Trump to abolish the IRS and create an external revenue service. This has huge potential for the American people to prosper. To which the comments, even from MAGA people were like, When are the eggs going down? You're not in his tax bracket. Other MAGA Republicans are waking up to this as well.
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For example, Charlie Kirk is out there bragging how on the stage with Donald Trump during the inauguration will be Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos sitting together right next to Donald Trump, right next to Trump's cabinet picks, to which MAGA people were like, what? These elite billionaires? What does that have to do with what Donald Trump promised us?
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We're seeing a lot of that happening. Take a look at this moment as well. This is on Fox. They bring in Charlie Kirk to talk about this, how everybody wants to be Trump's pal. And you're going to hear what goes down here. Listen to this.
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You hear the producer there in the background going, oh, S word right there. Wild. But folks, this is what's going on at Mar-a-Lago. Can't you all relate to this? I'm being sarcastic, of course. Trump is now selling Trump burgers at his golf courses and you can get Trump's face on your burger. That's completely normal. I'm being facetious right there.
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Take you to the floor of the House of Representatives, which this is what MAGA Republicans are talking about. During a hearing on telework, you have MAGA Republican Nancy Mace talking about penises and vaginas. Here, play this clip.
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Over here we have as part of the questioning of Martin O'Malley, who stepped down as Biden's Social Security Administration head. He's running to be the chair of the DNC. More questions from Nancy Mace about genitals. Here, play this clip.
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And then Marjorie Taylor Greene got in on the action because this is what Republicans are talking about. This is how they're trying to distract. Let's play.
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But while they're doing that, what are they doing? They're trying to condition aid to California on getting rid of the debt ceiling so Trump can hook up the billionaires with more tax cuts?
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The entire Republican House conference has been thrown into utter chaos. As I reported earlier, Donald Trump ordered Speaker of the House, Maga Mike Johnson, to fire Mike Turner, Republican congressman who chaired the House Intelligence Committee. Turner was a big supporter of NATO, a big supporter of Ukraine. Trump wanted him gone.
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This is Democratic Congress member Mike Levin. And here he's like, you know, conditioning aid to a disaster relief on Trump agendas. That's what's unheard of in American politics or just in our system. We help people who are going through emergencies. Here, listen to this.
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Thank you. And by the way, take a look at this. You may have seen this already. This was the sign behind the MAGA Republicans during the Senate confirmation hearings. D-E-I-N-R, military, M-I-L-T-A-R-Y. They don't even know how to spell. Let me show you this clip of AOC from the House floor here playing.
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This sent shockwaves throughout the Republican conference in the House of Representatives because for some reason they believed there was going to be this, quote, reconciliation agenda and bring the Five families of the Republican Party together. Turner being fired and pushed out. He's been a Congress member since 2003. Very well-liked, kind of a bipartisan guy.
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so i was forced to be evacuated as a result of the la fires i'm not sure the status of my home right now but i'm reporting from you from a safe location my family is safe my dogs are safe That's really all that matters, and what matters to me is that as many people are safe as possible, that everybody is safe. My heart goes out to everybody impacted by the devastation that's occurred.
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And so when you're pushing back, you're like, no, that's not true. That's a lie. That's not happening. It already sounds like, well, so you're just saying they're making all of this up to undermine you? Yeah. Who does that? Who would make up such vile facts? They do. MAGA does on all of these things. No matter what it is, MAGA makes up this stuff.
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When it came to the hurricanes recently, MAGA said FEMA's not giving you resources. FEMA was. The migrants are taking all of your resources. They weren't. They blamed the Democratic governor at the time from North Carolina. The whole thing was politicized. during the recent terrorist attack in New Orleans. MAGA immediately said, migrants, it was Eagle Pass.
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When there was the thing on the Canadian border where there was like someone who crashed their car in like Buffalo, they said, oh, this is a terrorist attack. This is like, you know, like Muslim terrorists who are coming in through the borders and they would just, they'd make up things that are 100% false. So now you have to like disprove a 100% falsehood.
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And then you have to do things like, actually, let me explain to you the budgetary process and why it isn't true that Karen Bass cut $17 million. She actually increased. You're just looking at a budget item that shows one form of the appropriations, but actually she added $50 million to the budget. That's the truth, right? Karen Bass actually did not cut the budget.
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It was a complicated budgetary thing you have to look at. The budget increased. But I was getting comments even from my own wife saying, while we were escaping, how do I defend this? And it was all of the lies that MAGA was spewing and people in LA and people who she knew were reaching out to her saying, wait a minute, are Democrats causing this? Is this happening?
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And she's asking me, how do I defend? Like, you don't have to defend anything. Like, there's nothing to defend. Like, let's be safe. Like, I'm sure these are all lies. I don't even want to think about it right now. But then again, those lies are spreading while the fire is spreading. And people are trying to put out the fire and they're using it as a wedge issue to divide.
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And we see that over and over again with MAGA, not just as it relates to these fires and the devastation, but if there's a hurricane, if there's a terrorist attack, They'll blame Democrats. They'll blame migrants right away. I just want to talk about that because I'm not okay with that. And I can imagine the fear that my brother's going through, the fear of other people as they were escaped.
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I mean, take a look at Trump. I don't want to read all the Trump posts because it's like, why even give it that much?
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Let me just say this really quickly though. That video of Newsom, man, it breaks my heart every time I look at that and watch that video. I actually also get angry and angrier every time I see Newsom having to defend himself as he's trying to govern, as his... area is burning, is literally on fire. He's got to be asked questions about Trump and Trump's statements. And that's the thing too, Ben.
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It's not even just pushing back on the lies and then getting out the new information, right? All these leaders are doing this as... they're trying to do that, lead, right? They're trying to get their people safe. They're trying to get their resources there.
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And now there's an onslaught of just misinformation and lies that they have to react to in live time where that couldn't be the furthest thing from his mind at the moment. All he wants to do is get the truth out there and make sure his people are safe.
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And so just seeing all this information, Ben, and it breaks my heart too, what you just said about Soja, about your wife, that she's getting all these texts, how am I supposed to defend myself here? It's like, you guys are literally... on the move for your life. Like it's gotta be the furthest thing from the point.
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But again, there's just so much bad information out there that it's so intentional that it's actually deadly. Like it is, it is making the situation a hundred million times worse off than, uh, dude, it is just so frustrating to see play out. And again, just so helpless being on the other side of the country, watching you guys have to deal with all of this. It's nuts, man.
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This is not what the norm was in our country. When there were disasters, we used to unite together, whether it was a terrorist attack, whether it was a natural disaster. It was kind of an unspoken rule because it was basic human morality that we didn't have to speak at who we are as Americans. We would try to rally around each other in disasters, no matter what it was, pull through together.
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And we were all one America. That's what we were. And part of my frustration, would be putting it lightly, for this whole MAGA movement is that it's taken away that kind of fundamental fact of who we are even as a country, that everything, the moment it happens, it's used as a political wedge to divide, and then it becomes a political football, every single thing. And I remember when
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You had John McCain during the campaign when lies would be spread about former President Obama, that time candidate Obama, Senator Obama's background. McCain would take away the mic and say, that's not true. That's not who we are. If I'm going to win this, I want to win this on facts. You're not saying true things. And the fact that that's viewed as like weakness.
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When it happens from someone like the late great Senator John McCain, who risked his life in Vietnam fighting for our country, and it's being directed at him by someone like Trump who claimed bone spurs to get out of Vietnam to divide us. And I think, you know, we have to think through this though, because During disasters, people are at their most vulnerable.
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If you think about scammers, who do scammers go after most? Two types of people, elderly and people who are going through disasters. That's the two groups that are the most vulnerable to scammers. Why? Because they tend to be vulnerable. When you're going through a tragedy, when you're feeling all of these emotions, you are more susceptible to be polluted by lies.
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Every event, everything MAGA turns into a political thing. Every aspect of it, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. And you don't have to think about disasters. You don't have to think about, I mean, think about international boxing and the boxer from Algeria.
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who was a woman, who MAGA was like, oh, that's secretly a man and somehow Democrats, like Democrats and Bidens were somehow involved in the Algerian boxer. And you're getting mad at the Algerian boxer in the Olympics where there's an Olympic, no matter what it is, you can't go anywhere without MAGA doing these things. I want to check on Brett. We'll take our first quick break. We'll come back.
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I know the fear that me and my family went through as we got an alert on our phones, escape now, your lives are on the line, whatever the thing said, get out of your house right now. And we got out just in time. And then to immediately, like immediately see Donald Trump and MAGA say, this is all Newsom's fault. This is all Democrats' fault. Democrats this, Democrats that.
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And then they do these lies about, oh, it's because Karen Bass cut this from the budget. I mean, that's false. She didn't. That's not what happened. Actually, $50 million was added for firefighting. But we'll talk about all of that and more here. I'll talk about some other topics.
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in la is wild um unlike anything i've i think is i've ever seen quite frankly um and just shout out to the super brave and incredible first responders just helping out unbelievable
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Here's the thing, too. We've got first responders from all over Canada. First off, all over California. Then in Canada, they're helping out as well. In Mexico, they are sending support as well. And then neighboring states. So I just want you to think about that because while Donald Trump tries to divide and he threatens Canada and Mexico, all throughout Canada, they're giving resources to
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to help in California. Also, one of the things that Governor Newsom did as well in advance of the fires was he called into action firefighters from Northern California who also came to help and were prepared with their truck. So this is a monumental effort right now. And this is a fire the likes of which, you know, It's no longer once in a lifetime because of global warming and climate change.
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I wish it was once in a lifetime, but given the winds, given the dryness, given all of the conditions, it aligned to create this cataclysmic natural disaster. It didn't matter if you had... a bajillion gallons of water at that time. I mean, if you've seen those fires, it would be practically impossible to contain despite all of the best efforts.
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And so there are ways to try to deal with it and mitigate it, but to somehow blame that on um oh there's there's not enough water when there are literally millions of barrels of water and then one of the things you have to be careful with as well is that if you keep the electricity on and you don't shut down electricity
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you then become susceptible to additional fire starting based on the electric grid that's in place. And then it could spread even more rapidly and quicker. And that grid can serve as kind of a conduit to then force that fire to rapidly spread into additional residential neighborhoods that it might not otherwise do.
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So there are complex considerations of how you deal with it, but those need to be actively considered. discussed in a bipartisan way and dealt with. But the moment a tragedy strikes, boom, MAGA Republicans are there to blame it on Democrats, to blame it on transgender people, to blame it on migrants, to blame it on whatever group, but there's always a blame right away.
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And again, I don't want to read all of Trump's posts. By the way, I appreciate that our audience likes that I no longer play Trump videos or audios. It's a great, it's like a great policy that we don't share.
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It's a really good policy.
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Because here's the thing. I hope by now I've established enough trust over the last four years that you know he says when I say he says something, he says it. But also, if you want to go, you can watch the clips. It's still on our social media. It's just not on our YouTube videos. You can always verify. Wait a minute.
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Elon Musk, for example, said that Doge, that made up agency or cabinet position that doesn't really exist, that claims it was going to cut $2 trillion from the budget. Well, Elon Musk says it probably won't even be able to do half of that amount. So yet another lie. And when we talk about these lies, And also, I've been talking about with you this concept of WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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Let me check the Midas Blue Sky account or the Midas Blue whatever the account is and ultimately check it out. But here's one post where he goes, Governor Gavin Newsom refused to sign a water restoration declaration because he cares more about a fish called smelt. Like all of that's false. There's nothing true about it. There's no such thing as a water restoration declaration.
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So if you try to, what is this water restoration declaration that he refused to sign? That's not a true thing. He didn't prioritize smelt over the people in California. That's false. And he's not to blame for this, but that was one of their angles of attack. They also say that it was because of Ukraine. I mean, Don Jr. goes, oh, look, of course, the L.A.
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Fire Department donated a bunch of their supplies to Ukraine. They then go on to blame it on Ukraine.
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uh dei elon musk repost libs of tick tock and then this stuff gets millions and millions of views because elon musk amplifies on the algorithm himself and all this right-wing nonsense they prioritize dei over saving lives and homes and they show this thing which was like oh you karen bass cut 17 million dollars from the fire department she didn't There was actually $50 million added.
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They're looking at one budget item that was removed, but they didn't look at the full context of the budget that actually there was not a reduction. There was actually an increase that was made. And by the way, even if there was a reduction, I would still want to know you'd have to explain to me in terms, well, then how would that have impacted a cataclysmic fire?
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I mean, Republicans are the ones who cut fire departments, everyone. They're the first essential services. So even if you accepted their argument, which was false and accepted their premise, you have to then articulate to me how a cataclysmic fire would have been stopped with an additional $17 million? And the answer is it wouldn't, but it's BS anyway and just not accurate and not true.
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You have additional posts by Elon Musk who is amplifying Alex Jones posts. Alex Jones goes, destroyed by Biden, Los Angeles fires are part of a larger globalist plot to wage economic warfare and de-industrialize the United States before triggering total collapse.
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Alex Jones is the guy found liable for defaming the parents who lost their kids in school shootings by saying that the kids who died didn't really die and that they and their parents were crisis actors who made up the school shooting and are faking their kids' deaths. This is who Trump and MAGA and Elon Musk pal around with.
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And by the way, if you go and look at the post from Gavin Newsom's team that tries to correct the disinfo and you look at the bottom, you'll see like how many views that gets on X. And it's like, it gets like, 30,000 views, 25,000 views. Oh, this one from Brandon Richards, 6,000 views where he actually lays out the facts that all of this is a lie. Here's the fact, here's the budget item.
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Here's the amount of local government fire engines. Here's all of the things we did, right? So that gets 6,838 views. Look at the bottom right there. You can see that. But this Alex Jones post about a globalist plot to deindustrialize, take a look at that. 3.8 million views qualified by Musk. So the question is, is... When you have that thing taking place, you see how dangerous it could be.
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And by the way, there was once a time where the algorithm was neutral and actually truthful facts would do better. You can complain what you want. Was Twitter run perfectly before Elon Musk bought it? No, there were lots of issues with it, but it was a pretty... The best content rose to the top. Now it's artifice.
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Everything they accuse Twitter of doing is what Elon Musk's ex is now actually doing for the right-wing mob. It is absolutely bonkers. It is vile.
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to be spreading so much any at all but all of this misinformation right now when people on the ground there are literally looking for resources and facts and just trying to survive and what are you gonna do you're gonna you're gonna post on x oh the dems oh the libs oh ukraine what are you doing like it is absolutely bonkers and other countries must be looking at us like
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Y'all are politicizing fires? Y'all are politicizing natural disasters? And it's not even going to come as such a shock to them because, well, the right wing mob did it for the hurricanes not too long ago. This is what they do. They don't care about the citizens of this country. They really don't.
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What they care about is shitposting and spreading disinformation as long as it puts forward their agenda, whatever agenda, hate-filled agenda that is. It is bonkers. It is sad. It is disgusting. And frankly, it has to stop. And that's why I'm so glad that we get to do this show, Ben, and get people the facts and get the information out there.
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I think it's important that we take Donald Trump's threats and behavior seriously when he threatens Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, Mexico, you name it. We need to take it very seriously because... He does have the power and means with the United States military to attack and threaten. But I also think it's important that we not lose focus ever.
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So now the Midas Mighty in this community could take the information that you've shared, Ben, and thank you for sharing all of that stuff to their circles because I'm sure they're getting asked, oh, did they really donate all of that to Ukraine? Why are we even talking about this right now? People's lives are on the line, first of all.
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And just thank goodness that there, again, is this community that exists. Because, again, my head's a little bit all over the place thinking about Brent and thinking about you for this episode and everybody out there. And I just love and appreciate this community so damn much and just so grateful that we have this, the collective we. And so, Ben, what say you?
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There's just this brain rot, if you will, that has...
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really caused so many people who have perpetually lived in digital spaces and have not connected with the outside world and outside communities that their minds have been so wired into these conspiracy portals that move them deeper and deeper and deeper into this madness and hate and divisiveness.
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One of the crazy things that I was just experiencing too is even when I would type in the name of my town to try to get accurate information about what was going on, and it's not like a well-known town that's out there that lots of people talk about. you know, I would see people ostensibly who live in my town or near my town.
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And I would like look at their profiles because this is where I would have to go on X to look at it. And I would see the, where we go one, we go all stuff. And like all of this, like, like, like just wild stuff. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, I don't know. Is this my name? These people live near me. Like, like what, what, what is even, what is even going on? I mean, You're QAnon?
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How are you functioning? You're buying this QAnon stuff while the leader of your party was found liable for sexual assault, but you find that not believable? I mean, he hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, but like, that doesn't, that doesn't like bother you.
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Like women who were trafficked by Epstein were at Mar-a-Lago, like they worked at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump, DeWish, Ghislaine Maxwell, like that, like that doesn't bother you. Like there's the Matt Gaetz report, the ethics report, which talks about how they found substantial evidence of statutory rape of a 17 year old while he was on all these drugs. And,
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Trump appointed him to be the Attorney General, and then he backed out of Attorney General. But he's like a hero of the MAGA movement. I'm thinking to myself, are you reading these messages? All of the MAGA Republicans, other than those in the Ethics Committee pretty much, tried to cover up for Gates. I mean, they were the party that was going to try to cover up statutory rape.
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And it's like, you're okay with this? I just think about the double standards. If Democrats are getting, put it this way, Democrats are getting attacked for things that are made up and don't exist, like that aren't even happening. And that's like disqualifying.
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Yet alone, if Democrats actually did any of these, I mean, could you imagine if President Biden was out there posting about going to war with Denmark to use the military against Panama? put it this way, if President Biden said it, no one would be like, oh, he's trolling. People would be like, oh, he's ready to go.
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Because when a leader speaks, you should speak with clarity when you say things like that. It's incomprehensible to me that you would do that just to troll. It has real ramifications. When we talk about what's going on,
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in the international community, think about from the perspective of Russia and China, where Russia's territorial ambitions, not just of Ukraine, but of other neighbors, whether it's Finland, Poland, whatever neighbor. Donald Trump, by saying he thinks it's acceptable to annex Canada
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and take over Greenland and Panama gives by itself justification for Russia to say, yeah, we're going after this country, that country. Why is it wrong for us? Trump's going after Greenland and Mexico and Canada. This is just what you do. It's no longer the law of international law. It's the law of the strong.
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on the fact that Donald Trump wants us to just pay attention to these shiny objects every day and his personal immorality and his personal putrid behavior while he fails to deliver on promise after promise. Always ask yourself, okay, cool, but how does this lower our prices? Okay, cool. How does this help me get affordable housing? Okay, cool.
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And I'm telling you in a law of the strong international geopolitical realm, you need allies, idiot. You need allies. If you're going to go that way, you need allies. Okay. And in the law of the strong. The guy who claimed bone spurs to avoid fighting in Vietnam ain't going to win the law of strong versus a former KGB agent in Vladimir Putin. Let's be very clear there, okay?
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Donald Trump invited President Xi Jinping to his inauguration and Xi Jinping said no. I want to be clear. And don't you think that it justifies China's one China policy? And for all this talk that Republicans, oh, we're supporting Taiwan and we need to stop China. All their tough talk on China.
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Like y'all realize that by Donald Trump just spouting this stupid rhetoric and this dangerous rhetoric justifies China taking over Taiwan because they go, why don't we get Taiwan? You're saying Canada and Mexico and Greenland and Panama. So we say Taiwan and we say, think about what you're doing and the way you're destabilizing China.
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Yeah, let's talk about some of Donald Trump's threats internationally. When I do this, though... I want to go back to a theme I've been talking about, which is weapon of mass distraction. WMD is we always, we need to take what Trump says seriously when he threatens foreign countries, because it has serious implications and we're seeing serious reactions from serious people in foreign countries.
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Okay. It has a serious impact. And the fact that it's just a troll, I don't buy that, but I do think it's part, I think he's just reckless outrageous. Um, but it's dangerous. And I think you, how do you, you have to assume if you're a foreign country that.
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He may do the things he says he's going to do, which is why the European Union's joint defense agreement is essentially being triggered, right? They're saying, okay, they've had meetings.
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European leaders are basically saying, look, if Trump's doing this, we need to make clear that we will support each other in a war against the United States of America if he tries to take over the sovereignty of a nation, that we will go to war with America.
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Moments ago as well, we learned that a fire had broken out by Brett's home. brett's home had not been the subject of any prior fires but a fire broke out right near where his direct exit is and so he had to flee um and he had to escape and so our hearts are with brett right now during this chaotic moment as well and
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I can't even believe I'm saying those words, that our allies in Europe have to now think about using their military in a war against the United States because Donald Trump is threatening war against Europe right now while attacking Just all of our allies? I mean, this reckless attack on everybody? You're just going to go it alone?
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Don't you think that's going to play right into the hands of Putin and China? And then you just hear these MAGA Republican Congress members, and it's like,
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know do do they make this brand of idiot in a factory like a maga factory i mean who who uses language like that i'm not going to show you the videos but i'll just tell you what they said the imago republicans are saying things like this this is brandon gill trust me you don't want to hear this guy's voice anyway He goes, President Trump is bringing us into a golden age of America.
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This is the new manifest destiny, reacquiring the Panama Canal, acquiring Greenland, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This is the light of America expanding. If you all have an opportunity, watch the interview I did with Corey Hargraves. who, when he was 18 years old, he left the Native American reservation where he was living, grew up poor, single mom.
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And he was, he joined the army. He became an army sniper. He served two tours in Iraq in very, very serious war zones. And he shared with me one specific moment where he took another human's life at close range. And he shared what that experience was like. This is an individual who, as a sniper, saw things in war that I don't even need to say.
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And he came back to the home front and dealt with things that I don't even need to say, but you could imagine what he dealt with. Got in trouble with the law, but turned his life around. And I speak to him because he's the type of person, he shares with me a story, that will be going to wars that Donald Trump is starting on social media.
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Weren't you supposed to solve that one first, like you said? So I don't want us to ever lose sight about that. I want to also talk about some updates in the various Trump court cases. We'll talk about Donald Trump's emergency appeal to the United States Supreme Court after Donald Trump lost
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That Trump is picking these wars with Canada, with Denmark, Mexico, and he's going to send... This wasn't the whole thing from MAGA that he's going to stop a hypothetical World War III from happening. But no, he wants to be the bad guy in World War III. He wants to be the conquering nation in World War III. That makes sense to you, MAGA? But it does. For MAGA, they're into this.
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You take a look at Ansley Earhart on Fox. These are just exemplars. I could show you so many more of this, where she's like, it would make sense that we take Greenland for war purposes. Would it make sense that we take Greenland for war purpose? What are you talking about? Here's a meme that we posted. Voters, can we get lower gas prices?
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And it's from the pawn shop store, Pawn Stars, whatever it's called. Trump, best I can do is invade Canada, right? I mean, the whole thing was lower prices, egg prices, housing, all of these things, right? That's what corporate media was telling us. This is why they voted Trump.
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now but now if you notice too when democrats are going on like cnn and corporate media maybe you're even watching it anymore they'll be they'll be saying yeah but what is what about lower prices what about this and the corporate media is like but people like donald trump because he's braggadocious they like his bravado they like the negotiating it's like what are you talking what the hell is this invading greenland
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Again, imagine if Biden talked about invading Greenland. He would be impeached immediately by Democrats, may I add. I want you to think about that. And this is somehow a normal discussion even. amongst corporate media that this is something that's going to happen. There's all these articles about how Russian is cheering for Trump.
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He will dismantle the remnants of the old world order much faster and more effectively than we could. We do it from the outside, he does it from within. For Russia, they're like, great, now we can lay claim to Estonia, Finland, Poland, and other nations. The chancellor of Germany has to warn Donald Trump about taking control of Greenland.
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The foreign minister of France has to warn Donald Trump about attacking European nations. You have Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, kind of just trolling Donald Trump with the map of Mexico from 1608 and basically saying, maybe we should rename this Mexico and Mexican American or Mexico America, basically.
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And Claudia Scheinbaum knows that a lot of these nations, whether it's Mexico or if you go towards Central America or if you go towards – I'm getting this. We'll cut this show short soon, actually. Do you have to go? I could go for like two or three more minutes because I hope it's not coming into the area where I moved to, but everybody heard. uh, that one right there.
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Um, but I want you to just think about, you know, they'll, they'll lean towards China. They'll lean towards, you know, other nations and just new alliances, um, you know, are going to be formed, uh, as, you know, as, as a result of that. Um, We'll try to get you more clarity from Brett. I know Brett's been trying to leave. We'll post something.
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At the trial court, intermediate division, the appellate division, and New York's top court, which happens to confusingly be called their court of appeals. You would think New York's top court is called their Supreme Court. Actually, their trial court's called the Supreme Court. The highest court's the court of appeals. They just want to, I think, throw us off there a little bit.
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Maybe we'll post something on MidasPlus.com or Patreon. We'll post something there to try to give people an update there. And look, we appreciate you all for watching this. I'm going to go and figure out what this is. Go for it. Keep me posted. Anyway, everybody, we'll close the show anyway. I mean, I think we've said everything. I mean, the only updates on the court cases is that...
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New York's highest court rejected Donald Trump's appeal, and we'll see what happens ultimately with this sentencing. So we'll figure that out. But Trump lost over and over and over again. He lost at the trial court, the appellate division, and then the top court, which is called the Court of Appeals there. So he's a triple loser there.
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all right everybody thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors the links are in the description below hit subscribe here help us get to uh four million uh subscribers we appreciate you greatly and uh thank you for watching all right shout out to the night is mighty
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But Trump lost at all levels. So, of course, he goes to his buddies at the Supreme Court. And then Donald Trump called... Justice Alito, one of the right-wing extremist judges who flew an American flag upside down, showing fealty to the insurrection or showing sympathy towards the insurrection.
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So he calls Alito under the pretext of they're talking about one of Alito's law clerks who's looking for a job. in the Trump administration, right as Donald Trump's filing his brief to the Supreme Court before Justice Alito? Can we talk about a conflict of interest there? How is that being normalized?
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We'll talk about the international solidarity that's growing against Donald Trump, how the EU is now talking about its defense pact to protect its own members, that if America is actually threatening to invade, that Europe is ready to use its military to defend against the United States.
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So now not only is Donald Trump not solving Russia's unlawful invasion like he claimed he would do 24 hours after his election, but now we have our allies talking about using their military to stop us. from invading them. I mean, seriously, this is where we're at. Also worth noting, we talked about Trump's disastrous press conference earlier in the week.
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I don't want to give him more attention or time there, but we also learned that Fox, and I put this in quotes, Fox News gave Donald Trump all of their questions in advance. So everything that Donald Trump accuses what President Biden or Kamala Harris or Democrats are doing, which they don't. Trump's like just getting the questions and corporate media is like, Oakley, Oakley, we're cool with that.
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Anyway, that's what we're going to talk about today. Again, my heart goes out to everybody suffering from these devastating fires, everybody who suffers from natural disasters, whatever you're going through, my heart is with you. I wish there were ways I could help more than just having a show and having this network, but I think it is an important function
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we get out truthful and accurate news and um you know as i'm doing this intro my mind's wandering a little bit more than normal because i'm literally thinking about moments ago learning that brett has to escape for his life. So I'm thinking about Brett right now as well. So you'll have to pardon me perhaps during the show as my mind wanders in that direction.
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But thank you, everybody, for all of the wishes that you've sent my way. I have so many emotions right now. I'm thinking about Brett. I'm thinking about everybody who lost their homes, people who are still in the line of danger. And then I'm thinking about Trump's statements. Anyway, Jordi, let me bring you in.
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It's not the episode I wanted to be doing at the beginning of the year, but I want to be here with them.
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We'll do our best to keep you updated on Brett's status, but he had to go immediately when he learned about the most recent fire. I want to talk about Donald Trump's despicable, dastardly, and divisive conduct as it relates to these fires.
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No, Benji, great intro, man. And I hear you. My heart goes out to everybody being affected by these fires. And it was wild right before we did the show, but we just thought, go, like he's got to go. Man, I mean, it's just my heart goes out to everybody impacted by these fires. What's happening right now?
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You know, it's interesting perspective being out of state, Ben, and having you and Brett there and getting the minute by minute updates on how you guys are doing and what's going on and you families are safe and things like that. And, you know, try and find a place of safety. And it's such a feeling of helplessness. I don't know how much I'd be able to help even if I were there.
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But just being here in Pennsylvania right now, my heart just breaks for you guys and seeing what you've been through and just the bravery that you and your families have shown over these last 24, 48 hours. It's amazing. And then to see the devastation on such a large scale, it's brutal. It's brutal. And I know we have a lot of Midas Mighty out there, and I hope you all are safe.
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Genuinely, my heart aches for you guys right now. I can't imagine what you're going through. And just know it's times like these is why we have this great community of these pro-democracy warriors out there that I've always said it's the investment in this community which sets us apart from everything and everything. We're not just a stagnant network like the Midas Mighty.
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It's a real thing of people who are just truly like a family. And so to just know that there are so many being impacted who are a part of this community too, my heart breaks and just know that we are all here for you right now. And we're going to be here for you tomorrow and next week and next month. And so please, you know, keep us posted on your well-being and how you're doing.
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I'm excited to get into the show. We're going to update you guys on on Brett the second we know more and just keep everyone as up to date as possible on that. But Benji, great, great introduction, man. And I think I think you're excused if your brain wanders a little bit during this episode.
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look i i don't um i don't feel brave there's nothing brave that i did let me be very clear i'll tell you what bravery is are the first responders who are on the front lines risking their lives that's who's brave i mean my i i got a message on my phone. Like it kind of looks like when you get an Amber alert and it said evacuate now.
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So all, all I did was pack my stuff up, make sure my family was good. Make sure my three month old was good. Make sure my wife was good. make sure I had my dogs, took my laptop, a few other things, some clothes, and left. So I don't view that as bravery at all. I view it as trying to survive. I view what the first responders are doing as brave and I wish I could do more. I mean, this is my job.
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I think there is a usefulness to getting out accurate information, debunking falsehoods with the platform that we have. I was weighing, honestly, should I be going to some of the fire shelters and centers? And is it a helpful use of my time to do that? Or is it a helpful use of my time to do the show because I have to get out
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constant lies about the fires, constant lies about Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass and how it's the responsibility or the fault of DEI or ESG or wokeness and how that has been amplified on right-wing media, on ex-formerly Twitter. And I want to just talk about how Never before really in American history would natural disasters like this be used as wedge issues to divide we, the people.
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accurate info because corporate media is not getting out the accurate info or they're both sides in the issue. So I don't, I feel a lot of emotions. I feel I'm being as a human. So I'm not trying to act like I'm a tough guy or I'm brave. I feel guilty. I feel sad. I feel, I feel a bit nervous. I'm thinking about Brett. I'm wondering, should I be doing, I'm just being open with you.
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Should I even be doing this show in the first place? My house, I don't know what's... Last time I checked, and I'm not getting a lot of updates, but my house is still... You'll hear dogs. I'm in a place that's small, so we'll deal with it. My house, as far as I know, has not been burned down, but I've had friends whose homes have been devastated.
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And so there's a new set of winds that are coming tonight. hearing the news about Brett. So there's so much going on in my mind right now. I'll show you this. This is Gavin Newsom. Let me play you this clip of Newsom, though, because he was trying to marshal resources. He's marshalling the resources. He's on the front lines.
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He's doing what you expect of a governor while Donald Trump's attacking him. I want to share with you what Governor Newsom was asked by Anderson Cooper. And you'll see the fires right behind Newsom and Newsom's trying to govern from the front lines. By the way, something Trump would never do. Watch this interaction. Let's play it.
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Finally, your message. didn't play politics, didn't try to divide us, referring to President Biden. And when I interviewed President Biden in the Roosevelt room of the West Wing of the White House, President Biden said, I don't care if you're red state, blue state, I represent you. I'm going to get you the resources you need, whether that's infrastructure, healthcare, whatever.
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I'm the president of all Americans, even if you hate me, even if you don't like me, whatever, I'm going to deliver for all Americans.
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And the fact that during a crisis, while Newsom or Karen Bass and others are trying to govern, they're trying to be operators and deal with things, get this resource here, there, their goal isn't like, oh, I'm going to be an online troll and I need to start saying, oh, you're calling me new scum? Dumpy dump, the liar, dumpy. That's not what leaders do.
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But by not doing that, there is an information vacuum, right? Because the disinfo is coming in one direction, the governing is coming from one direction, but there's really no one pushing back on the disinformation. But then even when you're pushing back, Pushing back inherently means you're on the defense. There's already a narrative that you need to push back on.
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What makes that extra cruel is she knows what she's doing. Right? Like, Hannity knows what he's doing, Jesse Waters, Laura Ingraham. We've seen their text messages before about what they've been saying about Donald Trump behind their back in connection with the Dominion case. We know they hate their viewers. They call their viewers stupid when they're privately texting.
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So they are directing all of these lies at their viewers, and it is so utterly dangerous, pathetic,
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banana republic-esque breath it's why that trump's entire presidency everything he does is run on creating an alternate reality creating a a version of reality where reality doesn't exist where facts don't exist and where whatever donald trump says is the truth um they do that because uh the reality is not so good for him often and they need to be able to pump out this propaganda in order to set the narrative
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And so you have, and Jesse Water said this himself on his show about last week or a couple of weeks ago. He said, how could he even beat it? How could they even top this? Elon tweets something out and then we talk about it on Fox and then it gets pushed out. By the time they even fact check this stuff, I mean, we've already covered it. Millions of people have seen it. Like he said that out loud.
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And this is their strategy with everything. It's just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. It comes at people with such ferocity at such a rapid pace. And the people who are watching this stuff do not realize what they're watching is bullshit. And it is bullshit 100% of the time. You could track exactly what Maria Bartiromo is saying about the economy.
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Congressman, should Doge be firing veterans?
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You could see that about a month ago because they do this weekly, the Atlanta Fed. They do their predictions or their estimates as to what the economy is. You could look to a month ago.
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and see that in the beginning right when trump took over when it was actually biden's economy you know what they were predicting like four percent gdp growth for the quarter four like about four percent that's really damn good uh four percent you know what's happened since donald trump has actually started implementing his policies making these executive orders making these tariff threats implementing these tariffs you've seen things go down down down down each week to the point where we've seen a swing of about negative six percent in the quarterly gdp directly tied to donald trump
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So how dare they try to attribute this to Joe Biden? And this was, by the way, the same exact propaganda and lies that they pumped into people's homes every single day regarding Biden when things were actually doing quite well with the economy, when we were hitting stock market record after stock market record, when we were hitting months of record job growth after months of record job growth.
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they would pump the opposite lies. But now it's all now to protect Donald Trump, who is quite literally doing the things that they accused President Biden of when President Biden was in office.
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Let me read this for you. Federal Judge Beryl Howell just came out with a powerful ruling finding that the firing of the National Labor Relations Board member, Gwynne Wilcox, was illegal. This is what she says about Donald Trump in her order. She's a Washington DC federal judge.
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She goes, a president who touts an image of himself as a king or a dictator, perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article 2 of the US Constitution. In our constitutional order, the president is tasked to be a conscientious custodian of the law, albeit an energetic one,
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to take care of effectuating his enumerated duties, including the laws enacted by Congress and as interpreted by the judiciary. A powerful ruling there as Donald Trump continues to lose in the courts.
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He also lost in a 5-4 decision in the United States Supreme Court, which ordered that $2 billion, which was already appropriated by Congress to USAID and extended by these continuing resolutions by the... Republican Congress who can't pass a freaking budget because they can't even do anything right at all, even pass their own budget. The Supreme Court ordered that $2 billion go to USAID.
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And it was interesting because the three liberal justices were joined by Justice Amy Cohen, Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts. And now all of the kind of right wing influencer spear, as well as a lot of the MAGA leaders are saying Amy Coney Barrett, by the way, she was instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade. They're saying she was a DEI hire, a DEI hire, wah, wah, wah.
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because she ruled that money appropriated by congress should go to where the money was appropriated to go and that elon musk an unelected bureaucrat although donald trump said during that horrible joint session the days of unelected bureaucrats are gone
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You literally have a billionaire who has access to your social security data, your medical records, your tax records, who's basically unilaterally gutted key programs, destroyed the lives in such a cruel manner as well. of hardworking Americans, many veterans, the spouses of veterans. But according to Donald Trump, the days of unelected bureaucrats are gone. Snap the hell out of it, America.
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Stop living in right-wing frameworks where they want to rage bait you into talking about shit that doesn't matter to your life. Your money is being impacted. You're living probably... in a situation right now that is far worse than when Biden wasn't on.
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Ask yourself, are you better off right now with chaotic posts every day, with the markets crashing, and then Donald Trump saying, well, what do I do? I guess I'm going to
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stop the tariffs for another 30 days and then maybe it goes back up a little and then it crashes the next day again where donald trump threatens our allies where he humiliates the united states from the oval office where he attacks our allies on a daily basis he attacks nato i mean is are you you feel better off right now you think america is more respected right now absolutely not
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MAGA has perfected the reverse Oprah. Layoffs for you, layoffs for you, firing you, firing you. Here is Donald Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba, on veterans who have been fired from their government jobs. Here's what she just said. Starting to think about maybe some of those veterans who worked for the federal government and maybe what the administration can do to at least help salvage their lives.
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right now and it seems that the beneficiary of almost everything trump does is pretty much one person which is vladimir putin i guess maybe the other person is elon musk we've got a lot more to talk about want to take our first quick break of the show i want to remind everybody midasplus.com is where our editor-in-chief ron philip kowski cooks
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He does an incredible daily summary of all of the day's events. Make sure you check that out. Also, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. We don't have outside investors, so it's a good way to help our network grow. Next week, me and my brothers will be doing a secret meeting. Not really that secret. We're telling you about it.
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But a meeting that there's a secret link for at patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel and to our audio podcast. We know Joe Rogan's doing everything he can to try to reclaim the number one spot. So please make sure you subscribe on audio as well. We've got a lot more show. We'll be right back after our first quick break.
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Thank you to those pro-democracy sponsors. We appreciate them greatly. And the discount codes are in the description below. Still got a lot to talk about. Brett, did you see the press conference that Donald Trump held in the Oval Office where he attacked Democrats?
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our NATO allies, where he said that farmers are going to love what they're experiencing, this short-term pain, these short-term disruptions. Let me show you some of the clips, Brett, from earlier in the day, then let me get your reaction. First, here's Donald Trump being asked by Peter Doocy.
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Notably, I think Fox stopped covering at this point, which is interesting, when Doocy asked a lot of these questions.
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They cut away, yeah. from NATO. But here it is saying, are you considering, you know, changes in how America deals with NATO? Let's play this clip.
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You said, oh, he's violating NATO. Also, during that Oval Office press conference, Donald Trump made a statement saying that he doesn't believe that the NATO allies would actually help the United States if the United States needed their help. I mean, quite literally, NATO has helped the United States and stood with the United States when the United States has gone to war over and over again.
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The Canadians have bravely fought with the United States historically, as well as all of these NATO countries. So
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trump has no historical perspective either um and his obsequiousness to putin and his attacks on nato are just so obvious and ridiculous and causing major disruption to our alliances but donald trump also says that um look short-term disruptions to our economy that's to be expected and farmers you're gonna you're gonna love it right everybody short-term disruptions yay
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by the way for our audio listeners he's standing by like a stupid poster board that says gulf of america i mean because right everybody that's what you really wanted google to change gulf of mexico to gulf of america while he makes things way more expensive makes housing less affordable tanks our markets arbitrarily and capriciously wakes up and says, you're tariffed, you're tariffed.
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I'm giving you a tariff. Oops, I changed my mind. I changed my mind. I mean, literally Prime Minister Trudeau and Canada did nothing. They just stood up to Donald Trump to make Trump even change his mind other than powerfully push back. It wasn't like they gave any concessions to Donald Trump. Trump on his own imposed this trade war, and then Trump first took away the auto tariffs.
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Then Donald Trump said that things that are covered by the USMCA, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, would not be subject to the tariffs until April 2nd, although energy, I don't think Donald Trump realizes, which is one of the major forms of trade between US and And Canada, for example, that's not part of the USMCA. So I don't think Trump realizes that.
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First, he started with auto, then said USMCA. And so he was asked about this conversation that he had with the big three auto manufacturers who were probably saying, dude, what the hell are you doing? You're going to make us all go bankrupt. So what Trump did is said, 30-day extension, 30-day extension on the tariffs, which he already extended once before.
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We've already gone through this gong show routine before, over and over again, but I'll play this clip.
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The official message from the White House to veterans, you are not fit for your job and you are not fit to show up to work. You may have sacrificed your lives for the country, then sacrificed it again to work for the government. But as Donald Trump says, you ain't fit, so you're fired. That's the message from the Trump administration.
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It's April 2nd now, okay? It's April 2nd. It was March and now it's April. And then before that, it was the other day. I mean, Brett, isn't this just the show's so much weakness over and over again? I mean, you're going through this routine. You just can't take him seriously.
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You can't take this guy seriously at anything. The entire world is laughing at us right now. We have a whole lot of Canadian fans. Shout out to all of our fans in Canada. Shout out to all of our fans in Mexico. Thank you for standing strong against all this BS. We're sorry. It's not me and Ben's fault, but we're sorry that you're dealing with this. But we stand in solidarity with you.
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But I think everybody's just laughing at us, judging from these comments also that I'm seeing. When Donald Trump plays these games, he doesn't necessarily realize the ripple effects that he's having also. He thinks that he could just toy with people and be like, okay, the tariffs are on, the tariffs are off.
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But guess what's happened since Donald Trump implemented this new round of tariffs before he pulled it? You had the LCBO, who's like the biggest purchaser of alcohol in the world in Ontario, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
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they pulled all american spirits from their shelves they're already gone they're gone not not happening anymore they're not selling any more american liquor no more american spirits and they also distribute to like all the various bars across the province uh same thing happened in manitoba we saw the premiere of manitoba uh it was very very funny video i don't have it right here but i did a video on our tick tock about it um he signed an order also to pull the american liquor from the shelves and he did it mocking trump like just laughing at him making fun of him
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Wab Kanu, I believe is his name, and he was holding up the big order the way Donald Trump does it. He goes, I got a big, beautiful, the best order you've ever seen in the entire world. He did a whole Trump thing and it was funny. And then you have Canadians boycotting American products, not purchasing anything.
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They've divided the sections in the Canadian supermarkets to put the American items on the side so people know not to buy them. You've got people checking labels in supermarkets where that's not the case. You have tourism greatly affected. People are saying they're not going to travel to the United States.
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So this is billions of dollars already just ripped straight out of the United States economy just based on Donald Trump's threats on a daily basis. And not to mention the threats of the 51st state stuff, which is just the most offensive thing that you could ever say to a sovereign nation.
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And, you know, the thing like, you know, you were talking about right wing framing before, Ben, and like, don't fall for it and all that stuff. I just think these people are so freaking pathetic. Honestly, everyone should just mock them because they like to position themselves as like, oh, we're the free speech party and the Democrats don't like free speech, but we're free thinkers.
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We are original thinkers. We all have original thoughts. We're okay having original thoughts. And then what's your original thought? Donald Trump says something and then you parrot it like a robot, like an NPC robot. Donald Trump says 51st state and then you go 51st state, Canada, 51st state. Donald Trump says fentanyl is coming in from Canada when it's like, what, 42 pounds, Ben, or something?
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But does it surprise you from a guy like Donald Trump who's literally spent his entire life
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I think more fentanyl goes from the United States into Canada than from Canada here. They go, we need tariffs because of the fentanyl to Canada. Like, you just spread this bullshit just because Donald Trump says it? I mean, how fricking pathetic, Donald Trump of the State of the Union. We're spending all this money on transgender mice, transgender mice.
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You then see all the various MAGA people on TikTok and on Twitter and on all these apps. going, I can't believe we're spending this money on transgender mice. Can you believe it? It's like, no, actually, that's transgenic mice, genetically engineered mice, so that we could test diseases and find cures for diseases like Alzheimer's.
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That's what Donald Trump canceled when Donald Trump ripped that money away from research that was going to actually cure diseases, nothing to do with transgender mice. These people simply cannot think for themselves. They just repeat and parrot everything Donald Trump says.
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screwing over contractors the your fire guy the guy who's run most of his businesses into the ground bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy is this really a shocker that he surrounds himself with the worst of the worst scum and this is what they're doing speaking of scum Marjorie Taylor Greene let's see what she had to say about our hard-working federal workers play it
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And it is so completely pathetic while Donald Trump is basically stealing their lunch every single day, while Donald Trump is ripping them off, while Donald Trump is laying off their relatives, laying them. The whole thing is just so embarrassing that they are kowtowing to this loser in the Oval Office. How do you live with yourself, honestly?
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They didn't know the difference between transgenic and transgender, but Stay with me. Assume for the sake of argument, there was transgender mice research being, I don't know what that would look like, but assume that's being done. Brett, whose budget are we operating under? Who controls Congress? Who has the power of the purse?
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Who continues to pass continuing resolutions where money's being appropriated? Because the last time I checked, despite the Republicans always pretending that they're the victims of things,
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don't they control the house and don't they control the senate and don't they control the white house and since 2022 wasn't it the republicans who were unable to pass a budget so instead they passed continuing resolution so let me get this straight They're Congress. They appropriate the money for the things.
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Then they claim there's fraud in those things, which, by the way, where are the fraud arrests if there are all these things? Then it's always like retracted because it's not actually fraud. But aren't we operating under their CRs and under their budget? And by the way, they're unable to pass a budget now. My question's rhetorical, by the way. We know it's the Republican budgets.
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These are their things. But I want you to realize that they're complaining about their own things throughout this process. And then, of course, they can't- So now we're operating with Donald Trump's post this week is we're going to do a big, beautiful CR.
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You mean you're going to take Nancy Pelosi's budget from back in 2022 and you're going to keep on passing that and then claim that your own budget is filled with fraud and then have Elon Musk go through people's data and then say, oops, oops, you know, I may have taken away the Ebola.
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I mean, you know, what the hell? That impression's getting really good. That impression's getting really good, Ben. I got to say, A++. I know you've been working on it, you know, offline. We're still waiting on that RFK impression. Maybe we'll get it later in the show.
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But... Just so everyone knows, we say that because Ben doesn't actually have one and that just messing with him. Oh, I have one. I got one. I was trying to save you. The fact that they're continuing to pass these continuing resolutions or even struggling to, And then you have Trump tweeting or posting whatever the other day. If the government shuts down, it's the Democrats' fault.
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It's the Democrats' fault. The Democrats don't have a majority in Congress. Pass a damn budget. Stop with those damn CRs. Pass a damn budget. What are you doing? It's like the most simple job of a Congress to pass a budget. It's literally your job. What the heck are you doing? It is so incredibly embarrassing what we are watching. And your plan is just to blame the Democrats on everything?
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Oh, God. Shalom, Shalom, Hamas. This is what Donald Trump posted. I mean, Shalom, Hamas. It means hello and goodbye. You can choose. It also means peace, by the way. Release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered or it's over for you. Only sick
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As Donald Trump is crashing the markets here in the United States and crashing our overall economy, as Donald Trump is capitulating on these trade wars that he's initiating with Canada and Mexico and then pausing and saying, I need 30 more days. The MAGA Republican proxies of Donald Trump are on the hill. Attacking our veterans today.
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and twisted people keep bodies and you are sick and twisted exclamation point i'm sending israel everything it needs to finish the job not a single hamas member will be safe if you don't do as i say i have just met with your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed this is your last warning for the leadership now is the time to leave gaza while you still have a chance
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Also, to the people of Gaza, a beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages. If you do, you are dead. Make a smart decision. Release the hostages now, all caps, or there will be hell to pay later. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America. This is how he does his view of diplomacy. He makes social media posts.
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Yes, the hostages should absolutely have never been taken in the first place.
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He just said shalom. It's an invitation to negotiate via shalom on Truth Social. We all know that's how we're, I mean. And by the way, of course, Hamas should turn over the, they should never have taken the hostages. What went down is one of the most dastardly acts in all time. It's despicable. It's absolutely despicable what went down.
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And also the travesty that we see in Gaza every day is absolutely, absolutely despicable. But this right here, when Donald Trump posts his AI images with like bearded men with cleavage hanging out, dancing in Trump Gaza, He says he's going to take it over. How many times has Donald Trump made this threat? Because I've counted them all.
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I think he did one on January 7th where Donald Trump said, hell will break loose if the hostages are not released by the time I'm sworn in. He made that threat. Then on February 10th, he made the threat saying, by Saturday, by noon, if you don't release all of the hostages, I'm unleashing hell. And then the day came and Donald Trump said, well, I'm going to let Netanyahu do what he wants to do.
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Then March 5th happened and he posted Shalom Hamas. And this message right here, you realize that every time you make fake deadlines for yourself, the same way you promised there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours, as we showed you at the outset, and then you don't execute or when you say there's going to be tariffs and then you backtrack when the markets crash.
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No offense to clowns, because I'm talking about fascist clowns right here. And no offense to cornered rats here, because I'm talking about Donald Trump here. But every time he becomes a cornered rat, he folds like a coward. And people just look at him now. World leaders look at him like, what the hell are you doing? And I think Prime Minister Trudeau knows the game.
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I think our allies know the game. And I think when they're meeting, whether they're meeting in Brussels earlier today with the French President Emmanuel Macron kind of giving an incredible speech to the to the nation, to all of France yesterday, what we saw in the UK with the emergency meeting called by Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the UK, the way we're seeing Prime Minister Trudeau.
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Now I think even our allies are like, okay, you know what? If you stand up to this guy, he backs down. So you stand up to him. You can't be nice. You give him an inch, he takes your nation, he takes your life. Okay, we get it now. And I think that's what we're seeing, but it's utter weak. I don't know how else you can view this as anything but weakness, weakness, weakness.
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It's absolutely pathetic. And Donald Trump believed that the fact that our allies were nice as weakness, that wasn't weakness. That's how allies are supposed to treat each other nicely, you idiot. And now it's like, okay, game on. We understand what this is. You're Putin's puppet. We'll get stronger together. We got Zelensky's back. We understand the game. Good luck with your markets.
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Good luck with all of this. I think that's what we're seeing right now. We'll talk about this some more. I want to take our last quick break of the show. A reminder, MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S, P-L-U-S.com. Check it out. Patreon.com slash MidasTouch as well. Check those out. We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show.
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This is what Donald Trump promised though, right? In his campaign, according to Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick, this is what Trump ran on. Federal workers, you don't deserve your jobs. Veterans, you're unfit to hold employment. Right. Right. Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania. I think you got a lot of veterans in your state. Say it to their faces.
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Thank you. Thank you. I just want to, I should come with receipts. Right. When I when I make bold claims, I got to back it up. It's the Midas Touch podcast. That's what we do here. So let me show you from January 7th, 2025, what Donald Trump said to Hamas. He didn't say shalom. He didn't go shalom, Hamas. But here's what he said on January 7th. Let's play it.
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all hell is gonna break out and i don't think they're gonna do okay you got y'all get the pattern here about what he does and then saturday came and then it didn't happen and then march 5th and then it's shalom Ridiculous. And he does this with everything. The threats with Greenland at that horrific joint session. It's Greenland. I'm taking over Hamas. I'm annexing you.
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It is a twisted, warped reality TV show, as I said, that we are now non-consensual participants in a show that we don't want to be. I just want to go about my life. I really do. I want to raise my daughter. I want to go through it. I don't want to think about... This stuff, when former President Biden was there, I wouldn't wake up and say, the markets crashed today.
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You know, are we threatening Ukraine today? Are we now revoking temporary protected status from Ukrainians or are we not? Because it's reporting that you did it and now you're not doing it and now you're doing it. is the United States, which they are doing, cutting off all intelligence to Ukraine.
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You all heard that the United States is stopping aid to Ukraine, has stopped aid and military aid, but they also cut off intelligence to help Russia with their drone swarms and strikes and to stop Ukraine from being able to block it. I think that's equally as significant as cutting off the aid is cutting off the intelligence. How cruel can you be?
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trump level cruel thinks he's a tough guy but here he is from the joint session we're taking greenland one way or another we're taking you over we're conquering you here play the clip and i also have a message tonight for the incredible people of greenland we strongly support your right to determine your own future
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We will keep you safe. People are laughing. They're laughing like it's like a stand-up routine as he's talking about annexing it.
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He's a sicko. Here he is calling Elizabeth Warren, Senator Warren, Pocahontas. Here, play this clip.
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Either way, let me just... Oh, sorry. I think you were about to say maybe exactly what I was about to say. You look behind Trump and see J.D. Vance and you see Mike Johnson with the smarmiest looks on their face, giving the fakest laughs anytime Donald Trump says everything. Like, they know better. Both of them are two people who know better.
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Both of them are people who have sold their soul for this guy. And it is just so incredibly pathetic to watch J.D. Vance in the background be like,
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good one Pocahontas great one Donald and you see Mike Johnson with his little smirk on it just like these people are just so pathetic they're so ideologically inconsistent like if this was a Democrat they would obviously be like this person's a maniac this person's like severely mentally ill and should be nowhere near the presidency but because they're getting their their power because they've made their sort of devil's bargain here they are okay with all this chaos and it's just like these people are a disgrace to the country quite frankly every
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single one of them yeah jd vance and maga mike johnson look like an elementary school student who's hearing one of their friends say a curse word in class for the first time and they're like
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you know i mean it's just so weird and then here he attacks like emasculates his secretary of state uh marco rubio in front of everybody and he's just like you're gonna do it right marco and then in the marco rubio's face is like the face of a humiliated and defeated man You know, he's got to just watch his face carefully.
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And for our audio listeners, the only best way I can describe it is the face of a defeated man. I apologize. I don't have better descriptive words than that.
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It's just a strange thing to even say. We're going to know who to blame if things go wrong at a joint session about your secretary of state. But by the way, that's how Donald Trump ran his businesses into the ground, because he would treat his management like absolute crap. And that's what he does with his people. He just makes them feel he degrades them.
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But here, Donald Trump says that what he's really going to be focused on is forging the most dominant civilization ever.
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Can you just start before becoming the most dominant civilization ever? Can we start with just lowering the prices, which you promised to do? And I don't know, making housing more affordable and maybe adding jobs versus reducing jobs. And I don't know, maybe not sinking our economy into a recession. I know you want to be the most dominant ever. I'm going to rip off my shirt like Hulk Hogan.
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Yeah, man. but maybe just i don't know have the gdp growth be like in a like in a positive direction like it was under former president biden maybe job growth you know the way former president biden added 16.4 million jobs maybe you can start with just positive job growth can we can we treat you like a toddler that yard maybe just We'll set the bar pretty low before that.
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But here he is during his speech, talks about getting rid of the CHIPS Act, which brought the semiconductor industry to the United States, $50 billion plus of investment in the semiconductor industry, which, by the way, is helping red states even more than blue states. It's creating hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of jobs.
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And during this joint session, Donald Trump says, get rid of it. Mega Mike Johnson, get rid of it. Here, play this clip.
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Standing ovation. The Republican standing ovation.
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We're taking our constituents' jobs. Yes. Yes, we're taking away your jobs. Yes, China will be a world leader in chips. Yes. Oh, great. We aren't we fantastic. You know, and the thing that really, you know, drives me crazy with all this is, like I was getting at earlier, if there was some ideological consistency, I would at least be able to say, well, they must really believe this crap.
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But they obviously don't because you're getting rid of these essential programs, many of them that don't even cost that much money in the span of a budget, like $8 million or something. That might sound like a lot of money. It is a lot of money. But in a budget, that's not a lot of money. But you know how these people are full of shit?
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Because what's the big thing that they are trying to push right now with their big plan? $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich. $19 trillion added to the deficit over 10 years. $19 trillion with a T. It's an unfathomable amount of money.
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that they want to add to our national deficit over 10 years because they really don't care about the deficit because they really don't care about the debt because this actually has nothing to do with government spending or being efficient it's all one big scam to redistribute wealth from the working people of our country to the richest people in our country you know what a ponzi scheme is
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You want me to show you what a Ponzi scheme is? You want me to show it to you in real time what it looks like when a government becomes an authoritarian Ponzi scheme regime? Well, here's Donald Trump at the joint session saying, here's how we are going to deal.
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with the fact that giving billionaires 4.5 trillion in tax cuts, cutting 880 billion in Medicaid, 400 billion from farmers, 300 billion, 400 billion from education, billions from infrastructure, you wanna know their plan? Here it is right here where they talk about the Trump gold card, everybody. The Trump gold card. Here, let's play it.
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I think the total amount of fentanyl from Canada is less than what would fit into a small backpack. I mean, to blame, to call Canadians killers and murderers as the subterfuge and protectual grounds to launch an economic war or just all outright war on Canada and threaten to annex them. That's very Putin-esque. But let me tell you what Donald Trump campaigned on, because we actually have receipts.
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There's going to be a gold card for Russian oligarchs, Chinese oligarchs. If you've got $5 million, you can buy citizenship in the United States. By the way, there's a U.S. code section which specifically actually says selling citizenship is a crime punishable by more than like 10 years, but I'm sure they've calibrated that somehow in the code.
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But the whole thing is like a Ponzi scheme plan where they're saying, look, the way we're going to do reconciliation and deal with the $19 trillion deficit is we're going to sell Trump gold cards to Russia and Chinese and other oligarchs.
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we're going to sell 10 million of them which is going to bring in 50 trillion dollars into the united states and then we're all everyone's you're going to be super wealthy remember they were doing this as well with doge but they kind of backed off it doge is going to find so much waste that you're going to get a doge dividend everybody and you're gonna you're gonna be rich or remember donald trump saying i'm gonna go into fort knox
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me and elon we're gonna go into fort knox and we're gonna find all of this gold gold gold gold it's a new gold rush everybody it's a scam it's a scam it's a scam to help the billionaires while harming you unless you are a billionaire this stuff is going to screw you it's transparent It's obvious. It's before us right now. We can see it all.
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And we're going to call it out each and every day here on the Midas Touch Network and on the Midas Touch Podcast. We have to keep up. with this frenzied pace of this fraud from this Trump regime. We have to call it out. We have to deconstruct it. And we have to remind everybody about what his play is. His play is to bring attention to himself, help the billionaires, and screw the workers.
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He promised that he was going to lower prices, not rise, not raise prices. They didn't talk about that. He said there would be peace in Ukraine. He lied. But his whole life is being a liar and a con artist. He's been found liable for fraud. He was criminally convicted for 34 felony accounts. We see it over and over and over again. We're not gonna back down here at the Midas Touch Network.
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Brett, I'll let you take it away, and if you have any questions, Final words before giving that shout out to the mighty. I'll just end it.
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Donald Trump said that he will lower prices immediately on day one, not short-term pain, not inflation surging. Here's what he said. We have the clip.
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We're going to drill. You know, not only are prices surging right now, but we're now heading into something called stagflation, where GDP growth is plummeting, according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve. Whereas if Donald Trump just did nothing and let former President Biden's economy roll on in autopilot, We probably would have had Q1 GDP growth of somewhere around three to four percent.
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Now the Atlanta Federal Reserve is projecting stagflation, surging prices, lower GDP, about negative two point eight to negative three percent. And they're expecting disastrous job numbers tomorrow. You know what? Donald Trump also promised though, by the way, that he was such a good deal maker and a negotiator, despite never actually negotiating anything good in the first place.
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Just listen to him because he said he negotiated the USMCA, which he says is the worst deal ever. And that's why he's doing all of these things. But he promised that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. In fact, he would get it done sooner than that. Here, play this clip.
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Let's bring my brother Brett in. Brett, how are you doing, sir? I wanted to start off with all of those receipts. Why? Because facts matter. Fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. That's how you have to deal with this climate, I think.
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Yeah, you got to show the receipts. You got to show that this is the things that they are saying. I am just so appalled. when I hear all those statements by these Republicans about our veterans, about our federal workers. And before I get started on this, Jordy is out on daddy duty. We all miss Jordy dearly, and he will be back next episode, don't you worry.
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But I've never in the history of living in this country have heard politicians speak with such disdain towards the citizens of this country and towards the hardworking of federal workers of this country and towards veterans. These were always positions that were revered. These were always a pathway to living the American dream.
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Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Brandon Gill on veterans getting fired by Trump and Doge. Let's play it.
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And to hear Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, say that these federal workers don't deserve their paychecks. It's Marjorie Taylor Greene who doesn't deserve her paycheck. She is the useless one.
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These federal workers work hard and do the tough jobs of our government, in many cases, even choosing to go into public service rather than going into into the private system in order to actually help our government in a way for far less pay. They deserve our respect. They deserve our admiration. And this push that I continue to hear, like we have the jobs report coming out on Friday morning.
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The Trump administration is already trying to get ahead of this. They are terrified about what these job numbers are going to be. And I've seen a lot of these people in the Trump administration and in the Republicans in Congress who are already saying things like, well, they should release a report that they should take out anything to do with government workers.
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Government workers don't count as jobs. They don't count as people. They don't count as... In what world do those not count as jobs? What are you saying? And I think this is the whole problem When people say our government needs to be run like a business, it's got to be run like a business. That's why we need Donald Trump.
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First off, if that's your businessman that you want to put in charge of this business, you have put the world's worst businessman in charge. And you're right. He is running it like a terrible businessman, which is absolutely terrible for our country. The government has a different purpose than a business. It's not about maximizing shareholder value. It exists to serve citizens equitably.
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It exists to provide people with the things they need to make sure that they do not fall through the cracks. Businesses are prioritizing shareholder value. Businesses are trying to do things as cheaply as possible. That's not what the federal government is. So when you are just going around slashing jobs without a care in the world, you're actually ruining people's lives.
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You are stripping away services from folks who need them, and oftentimes the people you are affecting the most are the most vulnerable in our society. The people with disabilities, our veterans, people on SNAP, people who need extra help. You are just screwing them in order for what?
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Like, what is the point of all these trade wars and Donald Trump's bluster and his actions and his constant pulling back? Oh, we're doing the tariffs. We're not doing the tariffs. All of that in and of itself is screwing up the economy tremendously, is causing prices to rise, is causing instability in the market, is causing people to lose their retirement savings.
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Every single day, it is a new disaster from Donald Trump when he could have just really sat there, rode this thing out, rode Joe Biden's economy to success and taking credit for it if he really wanted to. But instead, it's just destruction every single day, destroying everything our country was built upon.
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Look, Donald Trump has two objectives, and sometimes they're at odds with each other. They frequently are. You make the rich richer. You help the billionaires or the decamillionaires, and you try to benefit them. But even more important is to keep the spotlight on Donald Trump. And when he keeps on doing these trade wars and then sets the deadline 30 days,
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He kind of keeps himself in the news cycle and keeps the drama going. But at what expense? The expense is now our economy is crashing. There's instability in the markets. Consumers are not spending because this dystopian hellscape that Donald Trump has created for his sicko reality TV show that we are all nonconsensual participants in is is not a good way to run a country and not good behavior.
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And you see why he's crashed most of his businesses before. He was never a good deal maker. Just go through his own SEC filings. You'll see all of the casinos he bankrupted, all of the products he bankrupted before he ever got in politics. What, did the deep state Democrat Soros machine go into an actual time machine, go back in time and screw up? up all of Donald Trump's businesses.
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Is that why he bankrupted all of them before? Or maybe he's just a shitty businessman who was never good at making deals in the first place. Whose entire career was just based on you fired, you fired, you fired. Maybe that's not a good way to pick someone and put him in positions of power. But look, he's got state regime media trying to hold strong behind him.
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He's got Larry Kudlow, who used to work in his first administration as parting the revolving door of, you work at Fox, then somehow you become the Secretary of Defense. You work for the Trump administration, you then work at Fox. You're related to Trump, you get a show at Fox. You see the pattern right here. Here's Larry Kudlow saying, but we all know This is all Biden's fault, right?
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It's not like Donald Trump. We all know that what we're experiencing, it's because of Biden, right, right, right? Here, play this clip.
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nothing to do with the guy who's actually running nothing to do with him brookie brookie by the way that secretary of agriculture brooke rollins being called brookie she was the one who what this past week also said americans need to deal with the rising prices of eggs or the fact that eggs aren't available by all americans should buy a chicken buy some chicken we should
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buy some chickens and put some chickens in the backyard. That's how you'll deal with the situation and get eggs. Kind of reminds me of inject yourself with bleach, like a miracle, it's all gonna go away. The only time machine that's actually taken place is I feel like I'm right back into April of 2020, but potentially even worse.
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when Trump was running the country into the ground then, not actually running at all. But here's Maria Bartiromo. She was also chilling in the White House today. I think they gave Donald Trump an award. He signed an executive order today declaring that he's great for women. I'm not even gonna play that one, but they're like, We're giving you an order that hereby says you are great for women.
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And he goes, I'm great for women, right, Maria? And she's like, you're great for women, Donald. Like, what the hell is even, this is the weirdest Kim Jong-un stuff going on imaginable. But here she is earlier, again, basically saying, we know this is Biden's fault, right? This isn't Trump's fault. Here, play the score.
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There's a twofer right there attacking Social Security and our veterans in under 30 seconds. Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Rich McCormick from Georgia defending Doge and Trump firing veterans. Let's play it.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
Donald Trump just finished up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office. At the same time, he was crashing our markets. Donald Trump, during this press conference, talked about pulling the United States potentially out of NATO.
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He's asked again, and just to make the point very clear, here's what he says.
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He didn't use those exact words, but judge for yourself here when Donald Trump was asked if he thinks that NATO would help the United States if the United States was attacked. Let's play it.
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Then Donald Trump talks about short-term disruptions, meaning inflation surging, but Donald Trump says this is perfectly normal and farmers will be very happy about all of this inflation. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
let's just be very clear donald trump said that on day one prices would come down they were coming down anyway under former president biden inflation was going to hit about two percent which was the target by the federal reserve but now there are other targets by the federal reserve like targets involving recessions indeed the atlanta federal reserve said that the united states is
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
Q1 GDP is likely to be negative 2.8 to potentially negative 3% GDP. Again, meaning we're heading into recession, great recession, and even potentially depression territory. But Trump's saying, just have fun, everybody. Here, Donald Trump is asked about removing the tariffs temporarily. on auto regarding Canada and Mexico, but then he also removed other tariffs when he backed down.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
But Trump says, I'm super serious this time. April 2nd, it's really going to happen. We're going to put those tariffs back April 2nd. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
You know, it's just yo-yo chaos with Donald Trump. I mean, how many times has he said, there's going to be tariffs, I reverse it. There's going to be tariffs, I reverse it. There's going to be tariffs, I reverse it. He's causing havoc to our economy just based on that, and he's declaring economic warfare, if not outright warfare, on our allies.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
Here in an unusual move, Fox cuts away from Trump as he's taking questions from reporters, notably the questions that followed were those ones you heard Ducey ask. about withdrawing from NATO. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
In perfect Kim Jong-un fashion, Donald Trump signs an executive order saying that he's great for women. Yes, Donald Trump, who's been found liable for sexual assault, who has bragged about grabbing women by their generals, sexually assaulting them. And then Donald Trump, who has been friends with Epstein before.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
Yes, he's saying that he's great for women and he signs a declaration proclaiming him great for women. Watch this.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
Then Donald Trump says the following about his cabinet members that he and Elon will be watching them closely. Play this clip. We want them to keep the good people.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
Then Donald Trump says that Elon and Doge have not been moving too quickly. He actually would want to see them move quicker in their termination of federal employees, getting rid of veterans, cutting social security, gutting critical infrastructure. Play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
Then Donald Trump suggests that the two stranded astronauts in space might fall in love. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
You got to get them out. Again, while this was going on, the markets were absolutely tanking today once again. Other news that just came out as he was doing that press conference, the Congressional Budget Office says Congress can't cut the $880 billion the House budget calls for. without taking hundreds of billions from Medicaid, which we told you they were cutting Medicaid.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
And I love Japan. Yeah, quite literally, NATO has very recently come to the defense of the United States. And that just gives you that Donald Trump's perspective of the world is perfectly aligned with Vladimir Putin's, our enemies. And that's why Donald Trump wants us to join the axis of evil and has already pulled us into it with Putin, North Korea, Belarus, and Hungary.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
That's what they were absolutely doing. And then a federal judge moments ago just issued an order. Federal Judge Beryl Howell says the following in her order, ordering the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board board member
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
Gwen Wilcox, she goes, a president who touts an image of himself as a king or a dictator, perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role of Article 2 of the Constitution. In our constitutional order, the president is tasked to be a conscientious custodian of the law.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
albeit an energetic one, to take care of effectuating his enumerated duties, including the laws enacted by Congress and interpreted by the judiciary. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Makes Everything Worse
Here, Donald Trump is asked by Peter Doocy if he's considering changes to NATO or not helping out NATO. Watch his response. Let's play it.