Brett
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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
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Did you read the books?
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
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Do you all remember Wizard of Oz 2? With the wheelers and how scary that was?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 208: Fat Kids = Child Abuse? Afghanistan Alternatives? Is DCFS Abusive?
I'm from Florida, actually. And I have to say you guys have been a great inspiration. First person I've actually subscribed to. So thank you for everything. Thank you. It means a lot.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 208: Fat Kids = Child Abuse? Afghanistan Alternatives? Is DCFS Abusive?
Since we've already won so many things, the House, the Senate, executive branch, the Supreme Court, we talk a lot about macroeconomics, a lot inflation, things that we can't control. What I'm wondering is how do we get the administration and Congress to prioritize and consider legislating a combined package of fiscal policies that address non-life essential costs of the typical American budget?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 208: Fat Kids = Child Abuse? Afghanistan Alternatives? Is DCFS Abusive?
For example, tackling the out-of-control property taxes across the country. There's a movement in several states that are doing that. Florida as well. Home insurance, property taxes make up almost the same amount as a mortgage in many cases. Interest rates and then also fixing the entire credit card industry is terrible in the way they're doing things. It's skewed against the consumer.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 208: Fat Kids = Child Abuse? Afghanistan Alternatives? Is DCFS Abusive?
And a lot of people can't get credit that probably should in the way they do it. So I'm thinking, like, how do we get down to kitchen table economics where they actually put together a bill that has direct impact on people's lives?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
It seemed like it was more of a resetting, a going back to zero in this situation. And so I just want to caution everyone I would say this to the media, but they're not going to listen. But I'll say this to all of you. I hate that this is true. We can't trust the press releases that come out of the White House anymore.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
We need to treat them like we would treat any other truth social posts, and I'm sure many of them are just dictated by Donald Trump like truth social posts. So when Donald Trump goes, runs out to spike the football, to announce a victory, to put something out there, your first kind of interpretation needs to be, okay, what is this propaganda? What am I looking out for?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
I need verification before I believe this to be true. and you need to look at all sides of it. And so it's going to be a tough thing to approach in this administration, but it's going to be something we're going to have to readjust to, that these messages coming out of the White House are probably not true at all times.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
President Biden used to always say something, I think he even said it in the interview that you did with him, I'm paraphrasing, but something along the lines of, if America isn't there to lead the world, then who is?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Well, we're finding out who is, because during Donald Trump's plan to be, quote, America first, I say that with the utmost sarcasm, of course, what he is really doing is he is just, he's not putting America first, he's removing the United States from the conversation entirely. Once that vacuum is there, once that void is there, you know what? It needs to happen. Somebody needs to fill it.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
So these countries that have previously been able to rely upon the United States as allies, as trading partners, you name it, they now need to find other sources for those things. And then China comes out with an outstretched arm and they say, hey, We're fans of you guys. How can we help? What can we do for you?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And these countries are more than happy to take their support, whether it's Mexico, whether it's Colombia. And I saw the messages being shared by these world leaders from China, by these ambassadors to the people of Colombia, to Mexico over these past few days. The United States of America under Donald Trump is already completely abdicating its leadership on the global scale.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And it's amazing how quickly, after Donald Trump decided to take office, that China now has this reemergence, this resurgence of power in the world that we have never seen before. I mean, think back to President Biden's presidency. It seems like a while ago. I know it wasn't that long ago. Under President Biden, remember,
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
the pace of the American economy was growing faster than China's for the first time in over 40 years. That had never happened before. And that was because of President Joe Biden's steady hand, his global leadership, him bringing together these allies, his increasing the power of NATO, his investments in technologies like semiconductors.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Trump comes in, all of a sudden, China has like the top AI model. The entire industry is in collapse like overnight. Everything is kind of suffering. Our allies are going to China for help. China has established itself as a global leader. And it's just really, really stunning the long-term damage that Donald Trump is already doing in this short period of time.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
I'll put it this way. The tech stocks in particular, because of this new Chinese development in AI, got hit really, really hard. That sector got absolutely destroyed on Monday in a big way. Again, NVIDIA, I could probably look it up now, but they lost incredible amounts of market share. Their stock went down nearly- 17%, nearly a trillion dollar market share in the tech industry.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Boom, poof, gone overnight because China released this DeepSeek. And why? I'll just explain it very briefly. This DeepSeek app, this new AI company that China did, first off, they developed it in like two months, which is like completely unheard of. And they did it with, I think, fewer than 200 employees and for something like $10 million.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
I want to remind you, and I'll pull back up the screenshot of Donald Trump and this AI investment that the US was touting just last week with Sam Altman, who founded OpenAI, who does chat GPT. They were touting this investment by Sam Altman by these... tech companies of $500 billion in AI infrastructure.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Well, China just developed a platform, an AI platform that by all accounts, people are saying is better, more effective, more efficient, uses less computing power, requires less people to operate, requires you could do it on just gaming instead of those big graphics processors that Nvidia makes that people thought you needed these really expensive GPUs in order to conduct AI.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
They did it for like $10 million while the US is talking about this $500 billion investment, which now seems just absurd and ridiculous because you see how efficient that the Chinese are doing this right now. And the technology seems like leaps and bounds above what any company in the United States is doing.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
I mean, it's totally egg on the face of all the people who are involved in these AI investments because they were blinded by doing whatever they were doing that they didn't even see this coming. They just got completely sideswiped. And whether it's Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg, Or people like David Sachs, who's what Donald Trump's AIs are or cryptos are and all these people.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
I mean, they look like fools. They look like incompetent morons right now. They look like they are setting the United States back. If this is like the modern space race, China just leaped ahead of us. Leaped ahead of us. Donald Trump allowed it to happen. David Sachs allowed it to happen. Elon Musk allowed it to happen. Sam Altman allowed it to happen.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And then doing it open source, basically saying, check my work, you know, in a way. You could see the code for yourself. You could modify the code. That's what open source means. We're going to put the code out there. See it for yourself.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And all of these companies who have relied on AI as the foundation for their business models and these high-powered GPUs and everything looked at it and they went, oh, shit. oh, this is way better than what we're doing, way more efficient, way cheaper, like we're screwed.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And so there was panic in the tech industry, which I think is going to persist because now they got to catch up to what they're doing out there.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
This is going to destroy the tech industry. His comments alone, after the stock market today with those tech stocks losing a trillion dollars in value, to then go around when the thing that these AI companies, the companies like Nvidia, these companies rely on parts to build semiconductors. or they rely on getting the semiconductors.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And most of the semiconductors, despite all the investments that we've made and we've been making great progress, most of them still come from Taiwan and other places overseas, but mostly Taiwan. So if Donald Trump is now making it more difficult for those companies and more expensive, for them to get their hands on materials to make semiconductors or semiconductors.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
He is now giving China yet another massive leg up in this AI race. It's just so baffling. And what we're realizing kind of every day is that Donald Trump's like a fascist loser wind-up doll who has one thing programmed in him. You pull the string and he just goes, tariff. Tariff, tariff. And it's like all he knows how to say.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And so like no matter the situation, he comes up with the same solution, and I say that in quotes, to the problem. And it just ends up screwing United States businesses every single time or the United States consumer every single time. These are going to add up because yesterday –
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Ben, the one thing that was crazy that I was showing you yesterday were these comments from MAGA influencers, comments from people like MAGA Mike Johnson and Fox, and they're all now trying to shift the propaganda. So the new lines are they're basically trying to put it in people's heads, starting with the MAGA people, that, you know what, higher prices are actually good.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Higher prices, that's patriotism right there. You got to pay some higher prices. That's America. Are you not American? You got to pay those higher prices. And it is just so obvious, this propaganda, and especially after the past four years where they blamed everything on President Biden. you know, they, they blame bird flu on president Biden. They blamed, uh, you know, COVID on president.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
They would, they blame everything that affected prices on president Biden. But now that prices are literally rising as a result of Donald Trump's direct actions, all of a sudden it's, it's patriotics, good stuff. This is exactly what America needs. So let me just show you like some of these comments, uh, that we saw, um, over the past couple of days. And these are just like a few of them.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
There are plenty more than, uh, just this. Um, but we're seeing these comments from MAGA. I got a,
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
got to find it's hard to produce and speak at the same time it's very impressive that you are able to do both um but i'm looking at them right here so here are some like the top mega influencers who you know these guys always support trump no matter what you know they're i'm sure they are group chats together coordinating stuff like this because their messages are always the same and here's like this gunther eagleman he writes i'd rather have lincoln riley alive than cheap colombian coffee
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
They're just acknowledging now that they're going to have higher prices. This person, Scott Pressler, who Ben has done numerous videos about, he did a lot of those get-out-the-vote efforts for Trump in Pennsylvania. He wrote, I'm willing to limit my coffee consumption if it means deporting criminal legal aliens for our country. I voted for safe streets and a secure border.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
This DC Drano character wrote, I think this guy was at, I think all these people are pretty much at all of Trump's inauguration parties today. You're at, wait, you're telling me all I have to do is pay an extra dollar for my coffee and all the illegals get deported. I'll take it. And so you see this new messaging kind of filling the MAGA ecosystem that high prices, we're great with high prices.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
We want high prices and MAGA Mike was asked about. So like any of the things that you're doing now, I, Are they going to target lower costs? Like, what's your plan here? Because this is kind of what you guys tried to run on, right? So what's going on here? Here's what Maga Mike had to say when he was asked about lowering costs.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And, you know, it's obviously not just MAGA Mike, right? It's we started with the MAGA influencers. You got MAGA Mike. And of course, you need the propaganda arm. You need the state TV. You need Fox News and them pushing this sort of stuff. So let's hear what Fox had to say. Spoiler alert. They said, you know what? Maybe Americans should just be making their own coffee.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
They should be growing their own coffee beans.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Okay, let me just make it clear. As the resident coffee nerd, I just got to do a little fact check for Fox on this. More than 99% of the coffee consumed in the United States ain't from the United States. It's from Colombia. It's from Ethiopia and other places in Africa. A very small percentage. I think it's like 0.35% or something actually comes from the United States itself.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And so if you think that's going to be enough coffee to satiate Americans' coffee habits, take that argument to the people. Let's see how that works out for you.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
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That's what the media was saying after President Biden issued pardons for people like Liz Cheney and other people on the January 6th committee and the officers who testified. And that was what had us here pulling our hair out going, are these people just like idiots? Are they doing this on purpose? What is their deal?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Because he has stated quite plainly throughout the campaign that he is going to make these people's lives hell. That at minimum, he will investigate them in order to bleed them dry financially. And at the worst case scenario, he literally wants to lock these people up who are just doing their jobs, following the law.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
But Donald Trump has stated for months and months, if not for years, that he wants to inflict retribution on his political enemies. So here we are. Donald Trump is now doing that against all these people. And I feel like the people who are criticizing President Biden for the few pardons that he did are silent on this issue, treating it like it's normal.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Sorry, I just had to jump in because it just enrages me so much.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And I want to remind everybody, too, that the CHIPS Act is like one of the most successful pieces of legislation from the Biden administration that people now from both parties acknowledge that is a very good piece of legislation. The CHIPS Act is what remember Mike Johnson was asked by a reporter. I believe he was in Buffalo. It was a Syracuse reporter who asked.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
who asked Mike Johnson about the Chips Act, and he said that he was going to get rid of it and immediately got a whole ton of backlash right away. Why? Because a lot of these factories that are building these chips are in Republican districts, Republican states. And so Mike Johnson got massive backlash.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
He very quickly came out with a statement saying, you know, pathetic Mike Johnson, typical empty vessel, soulless, tiny man saying, oh, I guess I didn't hear the question when it was asked. I didn't mean that. I I didn't hear the question classic Mike Johnson move, but he needed to back away from that line because the chips act is popular. It's helpful.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
It's bringing tons of jobs to the United States, and especially in Republican areas. And Trump's strategy here, it's so dumb. It's one of the reasons why we're already seeing the US lose the AI race so quickly into his administration. And as he does actions like this, the US is only going to fall further and further and further behind.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
And those brologarchs, as you call them, Ben, these tech brologarchs, who are sucking up to Donald Trump and are spending all their time rather than focused on their companies, but hanging around Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump. They're taking their eye off the ball while all these other countries overseas are completely dominating us with China leading the pack.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Not the tattoos make you look like bad people, but maybe.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
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I, you know, you know, I kind of feel like I entered the upside down. Nothing quite makes sense. But, you know, we're working through it. We're working through it, people. But here's the thing. When Donald Trump does all these crazy things.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Americans, like not even not even illegal immigrants or anything. You know, he's talking about sending Americans away. who are in jails instead of putting them in american jails deporting them to el salvador and putting in these prisons that's literally what trump said today and part of the one in one of these speeches
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
as these republican politicians just so brazenly go along with his most illegal actions the most important thing that we could all do as a community is hold the line and stay strong and not buckle to these authoritarians by the way the one thing that the media is absolutely failing at and a lot of politicians are completely failing at right now but if They're not going to protect us.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
um including you know ron will paywall his uh daily recaps but you could still see a lot of them even get a taste for him and all that um they're really good they're honestly like the best bulletins of like if you just want to be like all right at the end of the day you know i'm not gonna i'm not gonna be watching the news all day but at the end of the day i just want to catch up on everything that happened those bulletins nobody does it better than ron on midasplus.com
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Ben, you know how I know the views are getting up and going out there and how this is reaching a lot of people? When MAGA starts targeting us with cyber attacks, that's when I know that this is really reaching a lot of people. That is a true thing that happened. You can read about it on MidasPlus.com. Something fun we got to deal with over the weekend.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS - 1/27/25
Can we do tariffs? Does that help us? No.
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We need to be the ones here on guard, doing the work, putting it in every single day, calling out this BS, calling out the lies, calling out the propaganda, because it's right now at its largest level that we have ever seen. And not only that, we now have a complicit corporate media who parrots Trump's propaganda as the truth. And that's probably the most dangerous part of all.
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So we need to be beacons of the truth here. We need to be the protectors Of all of that, we need to be fighting back, and it's great to be able to do that with everybody here on the Might of Such podcast. Jordy, what's new on your end?
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Coffee prices soaring, Ben. And that especially pisses me off as a coffee guy. Very, very upset about these coffee prices spiking right now.
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Yeah, Arabica coffee beans reached their highest levels in history today because of this, and that's without the tariffs. So imagine if this fight continues to develop and Trump does impose the tariffs and the Colombian president does impose his tariffs. say that all happens, then you're going to see just a complete, a massive escalation in the prices.
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But we're already right now at the highest point. I mean, the previous highest point happened because of a bad harvest, like because the beans were destroyed in a bad harvest, not because of a self-inflicted wound by the president of the United States causing instability in these markets.
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And this is the one thing I want people to take out of this, because this was a fast moving situation yesterday. There was update. It And like Ben said, we still don't know exactly where this even quite landed out. But I'll say this. This is maybe page one of Donald Trump's playbook. It's like his go-to move every single time. And that is create a problem.
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create a fake solution to that problem, immediately spike the football and declare victory and have the messaging be that you solve some sort of problem that you created. And so I want to be clear about this as well. We have been doing deportations in this country forever. President Biden did a lot of deportations in this country. President Obama did a lot of deportations in this country.
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I think even more than Trump, actually. But the difference here is that Trump is running into trouble with these deportations, his signature policy. He's actually the one president who's unable to actually execute these deportations. Why? Because he is going about it in this showy way where he is treating the people like they are not people. He is treating them inhumanely. He is shackling them.
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He's putting them in cuffs. He's treating them like they are criminals and like they are garbage. And so these countries are rightfully offended to see citizens of their countries being treated in this sort of way. And so they are pushing back. So yesterday, as we saw this kind of story unfold, the first story was, it felt a little like the Colombian president had bent the knee a little.
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But when you looked into it, what he was really saying was, I'll send my plane because I want to watch over these people. I want to make sure you're not treating them like crap because these people deserve to be treated with dignity. Then he imposed the 50 percent tariffs on Trump, which are not in effect. I just want to be clear currently because they worked out this this deal.
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Then there was all this chaos, this back and forth, the saber rattling between two leaders. And, you know, it just all basically back to zero at this point. But the thing that ended up happening was Trump immediately.
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Once he basically got the Colombian president to go back to what we were doing under President Biden, like the same things that we've been doing forever, just treat the people with dignity and you could send them here. When he got back to that, Trump spiked the football and the media ran with that instantly.
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They treated Donald Trump's press release – by the way, many of his press releases didn't even spell the country of Columbia the correct way. They spelled it like Columbia University, like when he initially did his social media post with the press release on Truth Social and all of his people posted it and tweeted it out. But what you see here is the media initially grabs onto Trump's narrative.
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They then parrot that out. That becomes the story even before you heard the Colombian side of the story. And so when the Colombian president, when they released their statement, their statement was quite different than Donald Trump's statements. Didn't quite say that they agreed to all the things that Donald Trump said that they agreed to.
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By the way, I think you say his name Yamas, but I'm going to allow the – I say it. I'm going to allow the mispronunciation because of his disrespect to our – but here's something else though. I mean, you got to remember, right? NBC is the reason why Donald Trump is president. It's just a fact.
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NBC built this mythical persona of Donald Trump which is not reflective of reality by creating The Apprentice, by editing Donald Trump to look a certain way, by putting this image into people's minds of him as a successful businessman even when the facts do not match that to say the least. And so NBC is the reason for all this.
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And I think they get a pass, you know, because they have MSNBC and people think that's like, you know, a network that is on their side. The truth is, none of these corporate networks are on your side. Like, it's just it's just the fact it's not to say that there aren't people I, you know, I think do great work at these networks like there certainly are.
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But all these corporate structures are all designed to just make as much profit as possible. And they've done so by building up some really villainous people, including Donald Trump.
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How about the fact that Trump is maybe like the only president to not actually have his hand on the Bible while he was being sworn in? Noticeably forgot to do that part despite all of the talk that he has out there.
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Everything he was doing was so petty. I mean, the inauguration speech was – I think we all expected it to be dark. I mean, this is the guy who –
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uh led the first time with american carnage and this was a version of american carnage um and the speech was not a speech that a president gives it was a speech of a very petty very small very tiny individual very vindictive uh the opposite of gracious uh just absolutely disgusting from start to finish
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felt more like a trump campaign rally at its most deranged than a president of the united states actually taking the oath of office and those immediate actions uh relating to millie are a perfect example of that trump's comments about nancy pelosi um where he said that she's a criminal i mean he said that nancy pelosi is guilty and that she's committed criminal offenses
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It shows you the vindictive nature and the presidency of retribution that we are about to see. And that's why I get so frustrated by the media's endless bashing of Biden to the very end. And I'm sure they're going to continue to speak about this too over the next few weeks because once they get started on a Biden topic, they can't shut up about it. They need to talk about it all the time.
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Of course, not the accomplishments, just, you know, when they want to hate on it. And so obviously, President Biden today did his last minute pardons. He pardoned members of his family and he pardoned the January 6th committee. He pardoned the officers who spoke at the January 6th committee and. The media was very vicious on Biden for this. They were like, oh, yes, we get to attack him.
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How dare you? And I saw some other kind of online networks and stuff rush to be like, this is disgusting. How can you be pro-democracy and do this? What a vile person. What a vile thing to do. How dare you, Joe Biden? At a certain point, you have people who are like, why is President Biden, why is he treating Donald Trump like a normal person?
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Why is he even meeting him with grace, inviting him into the Oval Office, shaking his hands, having tea with him in the morning? Why is he doing that? And President Biden is a guy who believes in tradition. He believes in the office. And we asked him about that. He explained it to us in Ben's interview with him.
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But then he goes and he does the things that actually show that he does view this incoming Trump administration as a threat, that it's not just bluster, that it's not just campaign rhetoric.
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And when you see President Biden issuing these last-minute pardons to people like Liz Cheney, to people like the other people on the January 6th committee, the officers, his family, et cetera, you can't help but feel –
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That's like an ominous very ominous thing and that President Biden is doing that because he, I think rightfully expects the absolute worst from this incoming administration, and he wants to while he has the power, he wants to protect those people who actually stood up and defended our democracy.
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rather than look back and see the Trump administration at the very least bleed these people dry, torture them for the rest of their lives in legal paperwork and money and bills, destroy their lives because that's what Trump's plan was here. And so President Biden goes, I have a way that I'm going to prevent this harassment.
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i'm going to prevent this these acts of retribution i'm going to take it and then in the same day while you have all these media networks yelling at biden for doing this by the way i hate that biden had to do it i hate that he had to do it and i had mixed feelings on the idea of doing it because none of these people are guilty these are all patriotic americans who serve their country in the best way possible but i understand a hundred percent why he does it but while president while the media is bashing biden
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What is Donald Trump saying? He is calling the people who Biden did not issue pardons to criminals. He is hinting that he is going to prosecute them. He is carrying out his retribution against people like General Milley, who President Biden did pardon in other ways by removing his painting. So you're seeing the actions of retribution. You're seeing the rhetoric.
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You are seeing even all these officials in the Republican Party. And I saw their tweets even last night. Some of these Republican Congress people
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tweeting like buckle up democrats we're coming for you you better lawyer up we're about to bring the hell of the legal system on you you put it all together you have to realize that what we're dealing with here is serious it's not just rhetoric we have to take donald trump at his word when he says that he is going to enact retribution
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on his political enemies and so president biden did take him on his word and honestly like enough of the media jumping on every single move i wish i wish president biden did not have to do any of this and it makes me sick that he had to do it it doesn't make me feel good that he had to do it but i completely understand the need because these are not normal times and i don't understand why these networks cannot accept that fact it is maddening
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doing well it's great to see everybody um you know very dark day certainly but i want to thank um everybody out there for joining us earlier today for the puppy and kitten inauguration and we opted as a network here to not air the inauguration live um and we opted instead to go head to head with the inauguration with some counter programming with some puppies and kitties.
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And then that evolved into having some cute goats and pigs and a bunch of all sorts of animals. And you all submitted your animals. But even more importantly than that is that this incredible community raised more than $80,000 for the Humane Society, who they're doing incredible work helping animals affected by the fires here in Los Angeles. I want to thank you all.
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I mean, that was beyond our wildest expectations. We set our initial goal at $10,000 saying, you know, maybe we'll be able to raise $10,000. Wouldn't that be incredible? And then we had to keep increasing the goal. And you could see that we have it going during this live as well. People could still donate to the Humane Society.
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They treat it like a joke. I saw the way they reported it. They were like, oh, look at this wacky dude. It's a meme. He's selling it. I mean, it's, in my opinion, pretty clearly a scam, what we're seeing. And we're just seeing corruption and scams and grifts at their highest levels that we've ever seen in our entire lives. And just the message this sends in so many different ways.
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First off, Ben, I agree. I think crypto is obviously here to stay. And I think that there are folks out there who want crypto to be viewed legitimately. These meme coins do everything but that. These meme coins delegitimize the entire cryptocurrency industry. But people, like the people who are standing behind Donald Trump at the inauguration today, love this because it's completely unregulated.
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They can move money around basically secretly in large sums of money and transfer wealth and create fake wealth out of nothing, despite having zero benefit to the economy whatsoever. It's also got to be just...
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We figured why not just leave it going for whoever else wants to donate. But thank you for turning what was a dark day, bringing some light to it here, doing it for a good cause. And we're very grateful. That being said, we got to report the news. We got to stay on top of everything. And we need to make sure that we are all prepared for what's ahead.
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Honestly, I know we're so far past this point, but just think of kids growing up today and in the past when you tried to teach a kid the value of a dollar and that you work hard, you make money, and then you see these people who they may look up to basically scamming their way into becoming billionaires overnight with these get-rich-quick schemes. Do you think they're going to value...
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actually working hard and trying to contribute to our society? Or are you going to create this whole new generation of people trying to grift and scam their way to the top and do what people like Elon do, what people like Vivek, like Trump? They're going to view it in that mold. They're going to think that this is how you gain success. And quite frankly, at this moment in time, they're right.
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And I think that the issue is that
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the president biden the former sec all them they just wanted to regulate these industries like ben was saying before but the reason why these oligarchs who are hanging around donald trump like them and it's not just because you you know you know the stock market's up they've had record profits over the past few years like they should love them but now all of a sudden
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they're getting a green light to just smash through any regulate regulations don't exist anymore rules don't exist anymore they could just become richer and richer and richer and screw regular people over with no consequences and they appreciate having that ability having that open season as long as they're nice to donald trump they get to do whatever the heck they want and we see that with this tick tock situation as well with the ceo of tick tock
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the way he was sucking up to donald trump as we saw this entire tick tock situation emerge where tick tock decided that they were going to go dark um before donald trump took office after uh you know the ceo had had a meeting with donald trump recently and was at the inauguration today and of course the it was a bipartisan bill that had banned tick tock actually this started of course back in 2020 when donald trump wanted to ban tick tock not for national security reasons donald trump wanted to ban tick tock because tick tockers were being mean to him
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And TikTokers, remember, they reserved all the seats that Tulsa, Oklahoma rally, and Trump gave a rally in front of like an empty crowd during his 2020 campaign. So Trump was butthurt by that. And he decided that he was going to ban TikTok because his feelings were hurt. And, you know, there certainly are actual national security implications of TikTok.
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And when this Ukraine funding bill was coming and the Republicans were holding it hostage and saying, no, we're not going to fund Ukraine, ultimately Republicans put into this bill
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this i would call it a poison pill but it didn't end up poisoning the bill but they put in this tick tock ban in this bill so if you want ukraine aid then you also got to vote for this tick tock ban that's how this all started and i think a lot of people forget about that are democrats on the hook for this also yes 100 but at the end of the day also more republicans did vote and end up voting for this and uh the bill passed uh tick tock was under this ban and divest they took a very firm stance that they were not going to divest
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which quite frankly, and as someone who enjoys TikTok a lot and likes the app and thinks it's a great place for expression and small businesses and creators, I do think it's quite suspicious that TikTok refused to dish off the algorithm to an American company when it would have enriched them a lot. I think that speaks a little to their intention.
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And so I'm excited to go through the news with you. And on that note, I'll turn it over to Jordi.
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But then to pull this and run around to try to put... held Donald Trump as a savior in order to curry favor with Donald Trump and save the business. To me, that was, it made me feel almost dirty going back on TikTok and seeing those messages that they had basically just fawning over Donald Trump, playing to Donald Trump's ego in a way that I thought was quite manipulative
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You know, and quite frankly, just straight up propaganda coming from China through to TikTok in order to heap praise on Donald Trump because her adversaries certainly know how to, you know, how Donald Trump operates. So we saw these messages on TikTok.
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um that were just fawning over uh trump like the first one um saying that uh tick tock has been banned and unfortunately this means you can't use it we're fortunate that president trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution and then when it came back um not even 24 hours later they said as a result of trump's efforts tick tock is back in the us you can now do all the things you love well trump wasn't in office yet
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President Biden had already told them that he wasn't going to act on any sort of enforcement for this law. Trump had already said that he wasn't going to do anything for TikTok. So they just tried to give Trump this kind of savior complex, give him this win for no reason other than to just try to save their company and to just manipulate the public in this very kind of devious way.
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The funny thing that I've noticed, because I'm on TikTok quite a lot, I post a lot on TikTok, follow us there. I like TikTok as a platform, I do. But the TikTokers I think were a bit smarter than they were anticipating. And the TikTokers are pushing back and they see the open propaganda. And I know a lot of them are disgusted.
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And so a lot of the people, the TikTok creators I know have also taken kind of brief hiatuses from TikTok and protest. One of the funny memes that have been going around TikTok are people praising President Obama for saving TikTok just as an FU to the owner of TikTok and to Trump to say, thank you, President Obama, for saving this because it's just so ridiculous, obviously.
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And so you see this sort of resistance happening on that app as well. But this is what the birth of this presidency has brought us. just endless scams, endless grifts, endless psychological operations. It's all designed to confuse.
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At the end of the day, it's all designed to make those people who sat behind Donald Trump at this inauguration and the people like them and the people who work with them, the oligarch class, the billionaire class, it's all designed to make them richer. It's all designed to take away
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The things that are designed to protect you, the laws that are designed to protect you, the regulations that are designed to protect you, all under the guise of freedom, right? They're going to use the iconography. They're going to use the language. Oh, we need more freedom here. We're going to need less regulation. Look past the BS.
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Look past, as Ben says, the weapons of mass distraction and look at what Donald Trump is actually doing. Look at what these people around him are actually doing because their actions, sure as hell, speak a lot louder than their words on all these issues.
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NBC liked that clip so much also that they put it on their social media accounts. They were proud of that. The clip we just played was from their TikTok. So they reported the inauguration in that way. And then they were like, this is great. This is gold. Let's now post this on our social media account because this is what folks have to be seeing right now.
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And it's just such an indictment of the media as it stands right now. And I think one of the most disheartening things that we've seen in this sort of Trump 2.0 era has been the – immediate capitulation. And that is honestly even putting it nicely to call this capitulation of all the powerful people who you would expect to be actually pushing back against people like Donald Trump.
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So whether it is the the owners of corporations and companies who have employees that they should be worrying about protecting and policies and values that they claim to uphold, or whether it's the fourth estate, the corporate media, whose job quite literally it is to hold people
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like Donald Trump and those in power accountable, or whether it's those like TikTok, you know, all these various people. You see this just complete and utter capitulation to Donald Trump. And right now, there are very few voices out there who are standing strong, who remain unafraid of to actually report what's going on, unafraid to actually counter and challenge this incoming administration.
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And that's why independent media is so crucial at this time, because on the other side, you have the NBCs of the world, the ABCs of the world, the Washington Post of the world, you name it, who have just completely bowed down to fascism.
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And they used to call it FU money, right? Like, they used to be like, I want so much money. I want FU money. What's FU money if you can't say FU? Like, I don't understand.
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The hat seems quite strategic though, if you look at it. Because Trump here in this picture that we're showing from this video clip, Trump tried to greet Melania with a kiss on the cheek. As he got within proximity of Melania, the hat acted as a blocker, blocking Trump, so he had to give this air kiss.
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Yeah, yeah. Perhaps it was strategic from Melania to ensure that there was at least about eight inches of separation at all times.
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Yeah, it's every single time. And also, by the way,
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i want to reiterate this too the beginning of all the deals like the i mean like the beginning of all these problems when donald trump explains the reasons why he's imposing tariffs on these countries or wants to get it's always predicated on just fake information it's always predicated on just lies like he talks about when he talks about these massive trade deficits with canada and he says all this fentanyl is coming in from canada and he says that they owe us all this
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money. You look under the surface of all these comments, it's like, what are you even talking about here? There's no anything that makes any sense to all of this. We'll get to this a little later, probably, but it reminds me of what he did out here in California with the water issue, just making up
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what was going on with the fires inventing a fake solution claiming he solved it while actually making the problem worse what i think is going to be interesting in this situation is that and one of the things i'm so impressed by too and we have a lot of canadian listeners here i want to say shout out to canada you guys have been incredible you guys have stayed strong it's because of you
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by the way, Maple Mighty, Maple Midas, it's because of you that Donald Trump folded. I mean that genuinely, because if you folded, Donald Trump would have taken that as an opportunity to actually move ahead with his plan to try to make Canada the 51st state. I think he's serious. about that stuff. I actually do.
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But because you all united, I guess, except for Ben, who's that politician, Danielle Smith, because everybody else except Danielle Smith got together and they said, we're not going to give up our national sovereignty. And I thought that was a really powerful statement to see across party lines.
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to see NDP leaders, to see liberal leaders, to see conservative leaders coming together and saying, you ain't doing shit to Canada, Donald Trump. I love what Charlie Angus had to say. I think he basically paraphrases it like, hey, we're sorry in Canada till we're not. Don't mistake our kindness for weakness here in Canada. And it's true. I mean, we saw that in full swing.
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I thought that was incredibly cool. And the ripple effect, though, is going to be vast. I've already seen the stores in Canada, pictures of the stores in Canada. that now have made in Canada signs over all their goods. They're relegating the American goods to other sections. People keep telling us people are checking all the products to see if they're made in America so that they don't buy them.
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We're getting a lot of comments on our social media about this that says, well, that's too late that Donald Trump reversed this. You don't talk about our country like that. We are still boycotting American products. We've seen those by the thousands, thousands and thousands of comments like that.
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We saw Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, come out and cancel their massive multi-billion dollar contract with Starlink over this, saying we're not going to support companies who are owned by people who want to destroy our country. Let's see if that cancellation of those contracts remain. But those are all... devastating effects already against the United States from Canada, all for what?
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For nothing, to announce a deal that happened under the Biden administration, to announce things that were already going on. For what? For what reason? Why crash the markets? Why do all this? Just because you want to soothe your ego like a maniacal madman. It's just so ridiculous. It's so insane. But shout out to Canada for standing up and standing strong, I got to say.
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And Ben, I want to add this. There's a new energy right now. I could feel it. I know you all could feel it out there. And I think these last few weeks have woken a lot of people up. And I think looking at Canada, I think we could take a lot from their example that they just showed us up there, right? They showed us how to fight.
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They showed people how to rise up, how to fight back against fascism, how to push back against authoritarianism. Same thing with Mexico and Claudia Scheinbaum. This is an example that we all need to take, and especially our politicians. They need to take it also. And I think they're starting to wake up just a little bit, maybe slowly. the yawning stage. Oh, we've got to get enough of the bed.
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But we actually are starting to see finally some fight in them, like with this USAID issue. We saw them. We'll talk about that in this show also. But you see people waking up. You see people taking the streets. And I think our energy right now is at such a key point. And so we got to keep up this momentum and keep going because Donald Trump's weakness is showing right now more than ever.
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And it's because of you. It's because of you.
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Eggs were way too expensive under Biden, but actually paying a lot of money, it's actually very patriotic. And we all have to pay more to support dear leader Trump, Ben. You know what I'm thinking? I'm liking when things were sleepy. You know, they tried to say Sleepy Joe as a little bit of an insult. I would like it when things were relaxing, when I could go to sleep at night.
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Can you even imagine having a surplus? It seems like such a foreign concept. We had a surplus in the United States in the 90s. I know it's kind of long ago at this point, but it's not that long ago.
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That's what I like to consider Sleepy Joe. When I could go to sleep knowing that our country was in good hands. And right now it's just chaos, chaos, chaos every single day. Stunt after stunt after stunt. And it's sad because it has real world ramifications.
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When he plays these games like he just did with the tariff, he obviously tanked the market initially when he made the initial tariff threat and said they were going into effect. But he also ruined our relationship with our allies very quickly.
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There's been a new story on this every week. CBS was the latest one to do this. They did the reporting on Trump's turning on the water valves today. So CBS reported that Trump almost flooded. You heard that right.
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Trump almost flooded the Central Valley of California by instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in California's Central Valley. Get this as well. If farmers did not talk the Army Corps into stopping the water flow, so they had to stop it, He turned it on. They had to stop it. There would have been serious flooding.
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Farmers are now worried that the water they rely upon for the dry summer season has now been wasted, and the farmers are, quote, they say it is assumed to be lost, that Donald Trump just took the water that they were relying upon for later seasons when it gets drier, and he wasted it. He basically flushed it down the toilet. And now they're not able to use it in the future when it gets drier.
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And it's very disheartening to me to look at these images coming out of various countries to see Canada booing us or booing Trump, at least, and booing what's happening to our country at these sports arenas. And by the way, I stand in total solidarity with them on that. I want to be clear about that.
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So he screwed over the farmers and he almost destroyed all their farms and the entire town by flooding it. Not only that, none of this, 0%, 0.0000% of this magical water that he's talking about turning on comes anywhere near California. It's not even in the same vicinity of California. It's not even the same region of California.
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There is not a single way to even get it from where it is to California. To Los Angeles. Sorry, to Los Angeles. Yeah, it's in California. See, Jordy, sometimes you get brain mush. What are you going to do? But to Los Angeles. And the thing is, all the firefighters are looking at this and they're going, we couldn't use this water for the fires. What are you doing? Like, this is the stupidest thing.
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Anybody who knows even a little bit about like the water policy in california or firefighting in california anyone has an expertise in in anything around those areas is speaking out loudly and going like this guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about i've seen memes about like elon musk and And I think probably about Trump too.
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It's kind of one of those rehash memes about people that says like – this one was I think specifically about Musk. But it was like when he talked about cars, I thought he was a genius because I don't know anything about cars. When he talked about coding, I assumed he was a genius because I don't know anything about coding.
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When he talked about my specialty, I realized, oh, this guy is a freaking moron. Knows nothing about anything. And I think that's always a big wake-up call to a lot of people this time when he's talking about this issue that actually a lot of people know quite about and deal with here in California and in Los Angeles. And you see that the guy is completely just making things up.
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And not only that, worse, making the problem worse and making a dangerous situation that later on might be a devastating situation, quite frankly, for California, which he then blames on Gavin Newsom and Democrats and then does this whole big scheme again.
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But then looking across the world and seeing what the people of Greenland are saying about us, looking at what people of Denmark are saying about us, looking at what the folks down in Panama are doing, burning American flags, burning American dolls and effigy.
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And you see the resentment that Donald Trump is creating with his bluster, with these stunts, with the nonstop drama that we just didn't have. America was the beacon of the world. We were a global leader. Donald Trump has removed our status as that, and he has allowed China, quite frankly, to fill the void and has really abdicated our leadership. I think it's very sad.
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But, you know, we could also cover everything, right? We got to keep our eye on the ball of what Donald Trump is doing, the destructive nature of what he's doing right now in our federal government. And so we're going to be keeping our eyes on that, everything Elon Musk is doing at Treasury, at USAID, at all these organizations, at all these agencies. We're going to be keeping track of all of it.
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We're going to break it all down on this show. First, Jordi, how you doing?
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Ben did win president of the school.
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Yeah. And I want to be clear about one thing. The tax filing, it still exists. So if you need to file your taxes this year, e-file still currently exists as of this moment.
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but we don't know what's going to happen to it and it's certainly not a good sign that elon musk is saying that he quote deleted the team who's responsible for it and who built it and you know this is also probably just a shot at elizabeth warren as well he hates elizabeth warren because elizabeth warren has gone after him in the past for his uh business shady business activities and um and elizabeth warren ushered in the direct file system of the legislation a few years ago and this is like an extremely bipartisan
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Like people like it. Americans should be able to file their taxes for free. They should be able to do this in an easy way. And it's ridiculous that it took this long for it to happen. But it finally did happen during the Biden administration. And to rip this away from people, it's really absurd.
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It's it's something that, you know, literally I'm going to sound like that viral Biden line, but helps nobody hurts nobody. You know, it's. It's true. It helps. I mean, it helps everybody, hurts nobody. This is something that is just an asset for people to help them out, to pay their taxes to the government, to help them pay the government money. It should be as easy and streamlined as possible.
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Our tax system is already as complicated as could be. In regards to the other language you were speaking about, Ben, the language of conquest that Donald Trump is using towards these countries who just want to live.
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um it's the language of an abuser you know when he's calling eu when he's saying they're abusive towards us when he's saying canada they are abusive towards us never has anybody in the history said you know who's really abusive towards us the the united states of america you know who really needs to get what they deserve Canada. Yep, Canada. That's right.
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Never been said ever, maybe until Donald Trump said it, and now his brainless minions who follow him parrot his everything. The last point I want to make is how quickly the messaging changes from MAGA, depending on what Donald Trump says. He could literally say anything and they just go along.
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For the past few years, this whole MAGA movement pretended like they were this anti-interventionalist movement. You know, we should do our own thing. Other countries should do their own thing. You know, we shouldn't be helping other countries. We shouldn't be doing hurt another. We should just be, you know... Other countries' problems are their problems.
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We're just going to do our thing and we're just going to let everything be. Oh, wait, you want to help Ukraine by helping them not even getting into the war but helping them buy weapons, US weapons, which is going to actually make America more money? But you want to help out an ally so that Russia doesn't take over all of Europe? Oh, you're a warmonger. You're a warmonger.
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oh, but Donald Trump gets into office, all these people are like, like the way they speak, there was like a, I don't even know if I have it, but there's like a Tim Pool tweet out there that's like, Canada's gonna see the vengeance of the United States when we prevail in our imperialist ways and crush them underneath the wrath of a thousand fires. Like it's like a, that's not it.
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I'm like paraphrasing one of his like crazy tweets, but it's that ridiculous is my like exaggeration of the tweet because all of a sudden now they're like, we're conquerors, right? We need to conquer the world. They went from America shouldn't intervene in any other country even just with aid and acting like Biden is some warmonger.
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Well, by the way, Biden, even though there's this public perception that he did, didn't get us into any wars. The United States did not enter any wars. No American troops entered any wars and, in fact, was maybe the first president in –
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decades to actually get us out of wars by getting us out of afghanistan which ironically was the thing that kind of sunk his approval rating and he never recovered from and he got a whole lot of crap from um biden took us out of wars now donald trump is trying to spark confrontation with our allies like not even with people who are threatening us with canada with panama with columbia with greenland i mean with mexico you could go with the eu you could go on and on about the people that he is targeting right now and this whole mega movement now is all like yeah
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we're going to conquer them all and America's going to manifest destiny this and, and it's just, they're all frauds. When you really look at it, they're all frauds. They believe nothing except raw power. And so you need to throw raw power back at them. You need to stand up to them because it's the only way that they are going to back down.
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It's the only way you got to stay strong and you got to understand that really in these cases, the emperor has no clothes and we are going to see that time and time again.
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Here's the thing that bothers me, just to say very briefly. I'm going to put aside the fact that we already have an actual organization, or office rather, department within the government right now that is responsible for...
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way the money's managed and making sure there's no fraud and making sure that federal spending is happening appropriately and u.s government accountability office literally exists that's the real doge already exists doge is actually by its nature is inefficient but let's let's put that aside for a second if somebody like an elon musk actually came in and was like you know we're going to review things we we think that there's inefficiencies a lot of agencies have grown quickly and and we think that we could curb the bloat and see if there are any redundancies and and we're gonna we're gonna dig in and do that
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I would be like, okay, that sounds fair. But that's clearly not what he's doing. He's taking political vengeance and personal vengeance against certain agencies that he views as scorn to many people believe that one of the reasons that he's going at USAID with such force right now is because they played a pivotal role in ending apartheid in South Africa.
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So a lot of people think that Elon Musk is furious about their actions then, helping to eradicate apartheid, and so he is now trying to fight back against them there. And then it's also the language that Elon Musk uses, right?
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When Elon Musk is trying to investigate these agencies, if you were being an honest broker of the issues right here, you would say, okay, I'm gonna look in, I'll check the budgets, I'm gonna make sure, we'll do an audit, we'll make sure the numbers line up, we'll make sure everything's cool. Make sure that it's as efficient as possible.
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But what Elon Musk does is he goes online, he goes on Twitter and three, four, five, six, seven times a day calls the hardworking employees at these organizations criminals. He uses that word. He said, these are criminals. You are criminals. They are criminal. And that to me is such an escalation and it is so inappropriate. And it really...
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It shows his ulterior motives here, that they're really not in good faith at all. And he's also setting it up to try to use the government to weaponize the judicial system against people who disagree with them, to arrest people, to lock people up, and to do all sorts of things like that.
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So they say one thing, but when you look at what they're actually doing and the way they're actually carrying things out, you always have to actually look at that because the way that Elon Musk is going about this, it's very fashy. It's very fascist. It's very authoritarian. And it's not something that you see in developed countries.
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It's not something you see certainly in the United States of America, you know, I guess until now.
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You know, we remember the Republicans taking those actions, you know, all throughout the Biden administration, holding things up. And of course, you know, the thing that we always also have to remember, because, you know, it's we don't also become the people who just say do something, do something, do something, do something, do something when things are maybe impossible to be done.
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But we need to do everything that can be done, you know, and go up to that line at all times. And this is a tactic that is important because we have to realize what this tactic is. This is a good example right here with this tactic, right? It's going to delay Donald Trump's state nominees. It's going to frustrate the hell out of Donald Trump.
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It's tactically a very smart thing that they should be doing. Republicans would 100% be doing it if anybody was pulling something one hundredth of what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing. We have to understand at the end of the day, those nominees will still probably get through, right? The Democrats don't have the majority, but Democrats need to flex their power where they have it.
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If they have the ability to delay these nominations right now, Take it. Look for every opportunity that you can right now to make these people's lives hell. Take it. Show that you're defending the American people. Show that you're defending these federal workers. Show that you're defecting the humanitarian aid. People view these things positively.
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As Ben said, popular issues and good policy, and it's the right thing to do. So do it. Don't be afraid.
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trade war war threats they added another 10 to 15 000 troops across the border you better take a look at this look at look what i was just able to find look at this on the canadian government website from what's that date let me let me squint at that date for a second december 17th 2024 the government of canada announces an investment of what the exact amount of this deal
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From Donald Trump, $1.3 billion to bolster border security and strengthen the immigration system and contribute to Canada's future prosperity to help detect and disrupt the fentanyl trade. And what the language matches exactly with Justin Trudeau's tweet that he put out about the deal with Donald Trump. How did he time travel back to December 17th to post, oh, the deal was already in place.
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Donald Trump, literally made a deal to return us to the status quo of the things that were already happening. This is the dumbest thing ever. He needed to declare a win. And when you like go through exactly what Trump did here, it is just like the most pathetic thing. I'll recap it for you. We recap things here at Midas Touch, right Ben? Did a quick little recap. Trump announces the tariffs.
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Our allies turn against us. They launch boycotts on U.S. products, which, by the way, are still ongoing in Canada. We'll get to that again and we'll get to that some more in a second. They boo us at events. You saw the clips yesterday and today in arenas and the Toronto Arena and the Calgary Arena and the Ottawa Arena and more of Canadian fans booing the U.S. during the national anthem.
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because they are outraged over the way that our government is treating them, booing our government, I should say. Canadians like the people of the United States, at least the ones who didn't vote for Trump. And then the markets nosedive today. We saw a huge crash when the markets opened. We saw the futures market absolutely devastated. Trump gets nervous. Trump caves.
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Trump rushes to call the president of Mexico. He rushes to call the prime minister of Canada to make a deal. He needs to show something. He needs to show a win, right? It's the same things he did, by the way, back in when he won in 2016. Same exact strategy. So how does he show a win? Well, he has to say that he got them to concede on these issues.
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And so what are the concessions, the concessions that are made? Mexico agrees to do literally the same things they always do at the border.
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the same things they always do things they did under biden and biden didn't have to cause an economic um and political crisis in order to do this he just spoke to them and they agreed to do this you know like normal allies do and so here's one of the interesting things also though
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President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico actually pulled one over on Donald Trump because in addition to her saying that she is going to do the things that Mexico already does, she got Trump to agree. And Trump's word isn't exactly worth anything, but she got Trump to agree that the United States was going to look into weapons trafficking from the United States into Mexico.
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Now, what's interesting about that also? Well, when you read the two sides of the deal, Claudia Scheinbaum, by the way, the most brilliant move, and Justin Trudeau did this as well, got out in front of it before Donald Trump announced this side of the deal. So they took to social media right away when the deal was made. They announced exactly what was in the deal.
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Claudia Scheinbaum mentioned all the components, right? She mentioned the 10,000 troops, which were always there. She mentioned the 10,000 troops. She also mentioned the weapons trade, the arms trade from the United States into Mexico. Donald Trump writes up his little post on his app. He fails to mention the weapons trade. He fails to mention that Claudia Scheinbaum got him to agree to her terms.
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that was mysteriously left out and so i think as we see all these things and it was one of the things you guys that we were talking about actually on this very show last week it was the need to understand that donald trump's statements and press releases from the white house are not to be trusted and you have to view these as if they are truth social posts oftentimes they are true social posts like this one was a truth social post and so what the media needs to do and what
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listeners of news, what consumers of news need to do in order to be healthy consumers of news is to understand that what Donald Trump's saying is probably not the truth and not to buy his spin and to understand that whatever he is putting out is simply his propaganda and that there is always going to be a truth underneath it, likely that refutes exactly what he is saying.
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So in this case, he tries to act tough, say he got these concessions when in fact, He got actually absolutely nothing. And he is now just repeating deals that were already negotiated during the Biden administration and trying to claim them as a win for himself. You know, it's just the same old scheme every single time. And at the end of the day, I mean, you got to just tell it how it is.
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Like Trump caved here. He totally, totally caved.
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The kid gloves they treat these people with, like him and Elon Musk, it's like, what are you doing? They're technically the most powerful people and rich people. They can handle a little bit of pushback. I'll also just say the facts here because all of Donald Trump's numbers were wrong, I will specify, because he said we had a $250 billion deficit with Canada.
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It's $54.999 billion and that's driven only by the fact that we do have to import Canadian oil and gas. if you remove those energy imports, we actually have a trade surplus with Canada if you remove those key imports. But there's a reason that we import oil and gas from Canada. And you see these countries, whether it's Canada, whether it's Mexico, you see them not buckling over.
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And he's actually uniting factions in these countries who wouldn't ordinarily come together for a common purpose. That common purpose, striking back at the United States of America.
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And this is wholly unprecedented in our history where we have our allies coming together, all their different political factions, to actually try to oppose the United States, to try to inflict pain on the United States as they defend themselves. And it just shows just such utter weakness from the White House that we are now embroiled in all of these kind of foreign countries in this way.
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Let me just say, those moments to me are the most revealing moments for Trump and the MAGA movement and the right-wing media because they choose very carefully about what they cover and how they go about it.
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And when there's a moment like that, a religious figure speaking out, and by the way, not speaking out against Donald Trump, but speaking out about the actual values of the religion, speaking out about mercy, speaking out about kindness, speaking out about treating your neighbor with care and love.
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When that message hits and goes viral in the way it did, that is the biggest threat imaginable to this entire house of cards that Donald Trump, MAGA, Fox News, the whole right-wing propaganda has built. So what do they have to do? They have to attack it like an immune system attacking a virus in your body. And you just see them all at once
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go into immediate mode okay how do we take this message of love and unity and the teachings of the church and make it so it's repulsive and that our people don't want anything to do with it okay let's call it woke let's call her a woke lib let's call her uh nasty and rude and this and that and you very clearly see the moments that they fear the most And I think that says a whole lot about it.
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I know we posted the clip of this bishop on our social media, received something like over, last time I checked, over 150,000 likes, something like over 10 million views.
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and that's just instagram right and then we got hundreds of thousands of likes on the other platforms it's insane um the response that you saw from people online all those like kind of blue check people on twitter and all that were that was satanic satanic There couldn't be anything less satanic than a bishop of a church preaching kindness and loving thy neighbor.
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These people need to pick up a frickin Bible and actually understand what their religion is supposed to be about, because clearly they are not worshiping their God. They are worshiping Donald Trump, and they've gone way astray at some point over the past few years, and they should be ashamed of who they become.
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I know we could say this with just about everything, but imagine if Joe Biden or somebody that close to the Biden administration was asked about inflation and they said, how are we going to deal with this inflation issue? A lot of American consumers are suffering out there. Egg prices are through the roof. People are really, they're taking two jobs, three jobs.
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They're really trying their hardest right now to just stay afloat and to live. I tell them to get over it. Get over it. So be it. Get over it. I mean, what a let them eat cake moment right there from Jamie Dimon and from the Trump administration.
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And once again, going back on all of the rhetoric that was stated throughout the entire campaign, I guess it's easy to get over it when you are worth approximately $2.7
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billion dollars last time I checked, but there are families out there who are struggling, and when egg prices go from being $1.99 for a dozen, $2.99 to 13 bucks, that affects people's ability to do other things, to pay their rent, to pay their mortgage, to send their kids to school, to do even just the very basics, to put shelter for their family, to actually help their families.
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This is serious stuff that people are dealing with. And the broligarcs, the oligarchs, all these people, Donald Trump, all the people around Donald Trump, They just seem so out of touch to me when you're making comments like that and are just so brazen about it while people are in pain.
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And while I'm sure a lot of the people who voted for Trump were also hoping that one of his first day actions would be to do something to help prices, not to help drive all the prices up on everything like he actually did. I mean, he's screwing people over. in such a huge way while he lines the pockets of people like Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon and Mark Zuckerberg. It's atrocious.
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Like I've said on the show numerous times, it's the most obvious contrast to be made right now that this is really a battle of the working class versus the oligarchs. And the oligarchs think they could openly mock
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Well, I have two feelings on it, Ben. I say, first, this feels like the world's longest week we've ever had. I mean, this week feels like it's been 10 years somehow. But we're getting through it, folks. At the same time, I also share your optimism here. I also think that Donald Trump really does look weaker than ever. Trump
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you i mean that's what jamie dimon is doing in that clip he's basically spitting in your face like are you gonna really take that because you want a simp for donald trump like seriously guys i just really they're not even sly about it to your point they're so overt with it and like they have no tact
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Here's the one small area where I'm going to differ from you because I'm just not going to pretend like I know what the American people are going to think about policies. They're going to think about things the way they consume information. The problem is Donald Trump is out there doing all these distractions in order to make people look the other way.
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So that's why I think it's our ultimate job, and when I say our, I mean this entire community, is to get out this truth in a world where Donald's distractions rise to the top of the algorithms and are pushed out by the same oligarchs who are taking advantage of the American people so that they don't hear
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that comment by Jamie Dimon so that they don't see that Donald Trump is raising prices, so that they don't see that their workplace was just raided by ICE. That's up to all of us to be shoving these images in people's faces.
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That's why I think it is important that we occasionally, in these circumstances, show Donald Trump saying this stuff, because people need to be seeing right now what is actually going on. Trump's gonna continue to throw everything out to see what sticks, right? He's gonna see, he's the master of distraction, as Ben says, a weapon of mass distraction. He's gonna use that tool to his advantage.
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And I've seen comments by journalists in the media And they freaking love him. They love him. I've seen all their posts. They're giddy. They're giddy that Trump is back. I'm just telling you the truth. I've seen them. I've seen comments that they made to each other. It disgusts me. Why are they giddy? Because, oh, we get to go in the Oval Office and we get to shout things at Donald Trump.
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we get to go in the oval office and you look it's so cool in here because we get to yell questions at him and he gets the spews and back at us and we get to be in here and it's so cool you guys we didn't get to be in here as much under president but i don't care about your access to the oval office i care about are you getting the true uh information there was an article that came out over the past 24 48 hours or so um that said that were these reporters for these corporate media stations
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We're very happy that Trump is back because during the Biden administration, instead of getting shouted at by President Biden in the Oval Office and in these impromptu press conferences, they were given data from the experts about what is actually going on. And that bored the hell out of them. That was very boring for them to get the actual updates about
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probably is at his safest when he is campaigning because that's when he could just lie without consequence and he could do his bluster and he could do everything he wants. When he actually has to lead and he actually has to say things that are consequential and affect major issues going on in the world, you realize quite quickly, and I'm not saying I know all of you,
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how policies were impacting people's lives and what the moves are at the administration. But now they get the show. If their reporter gets yelled at, guess what? That's a story. My reporter got yelled at by Donald Trump. I'm going to talk about that. We're going to show that moment. It sickens me that they like this so much for all the wrong reasons.
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It's not because they're going to be able to deliver more accurate information to the American public. It's because simply they are able to kind of be in the fray and be part of the story, which I think is exactly what you do not want to be doing at this stage.
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all know this but you realize quite quickly how completely and utterly incompetent he is how he doesn't understand how anything works how his uh actions are being blocked left and right by the federal judiciary um he's not even able to get around that because his actions are so egregious and you really see uh kind of an emperor has no clothes kind of situation
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happening right now when Donald Trump's biggest promises that he made, whether it's with Ukraine or anything else, all of a sudden those are all falling to the wayside. I haven't heard Donald Trump say one thing about prices, nothing about egg prices, nothing at all. It's like he's simply trying to distract from all that stuff because he knows right now, oh crap, I actually got to do things?
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Well, let me just also hit the people with some facts here about this executive order because it's the ultimate distraction. Fred's coming in with the facts. Let me come in with the facts. Let me come in with the facts haymaker right here, brothers, okay? The executive order, when you actually read it, it just requires the DNI and the AG to offer a plan within 45 days. to release those documents.
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It doesn't actually release the documents. It requires them within 45 days to come up with a plan to release them and has zero actual time. Is that the concept of a release? It's a concept of a release. It's a concept of a release of these files. So there's literally no timeline on the release of any of these files.
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it's like i say on every episode trump is the king of uh of doing the uh you know the squirrel the the you know waving the keys in front of the dog or or saying squirrel to the dog in the movie up um he's able to distract his people as he picks their pockets uh by putting these um you know things that attract their attention like like this and a move like this which really doesn't in its current stage
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have really any meaning, but also avoids the real fact that he's hiding the Epstein files, which he could release if he wanted to release them, I presume, and doing this to distract his people because they all jump on this stuff right away. It's just such an obvious pattern that we've seen. And I'm all for transparency. I'm all for release. He released everything. Who cares?
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But I think what he's not doing is really the story in all of this. And it's important that people don't take the bait of what he's trying to do. The announcement of Trump is him waving the keys to the dog. Don't get distracted by the jingle jangle. Look at what's actually going on behind his kind of sleight of hand.
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Well, I don't know how to do things, so let me distract them and throw a bunch of other stuff out there to try to give the kind of impression that I'm doing a lot while I'm actually doing nothing to help people's lives. In fact, what I'm doing is I'm doing everything I can to enrich the billionaires around me, to extract more money from my followers and give it to the richest people in America.
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That's what we're seeing right now, folks. I mean, that's the one thing that I think he is succeeding at. It's enriching his billionaire buddies, enriching himself through illegal schemes. That's what we see kind of forming at this point, in my opinion.
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And we're going to see him completely fail at the actual job of being president because, quite frankly, he doesn't want the job of being president. He didn't run because he wants to help people. He ran because he wanted to stay out of prison. Mission accomplished there. But he didn't run to actually help the people. He ran to stay out of prison.
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He ran to make himself and his billionaire buddies richer. That's what he's actually going to focus on. So we need to focus on Donald Trump's actions and not the distractions. Jordy, great to see you as always. What's new on your end?
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I don't have much else to add. I think you summed it up perfectly.
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I think one of the things that we're all going to have to kind of figure out going forward here as a community is we have to understand that every single day, in addition to the real tangible stuff that is going to happen and is going to affect people, Donald Trump and his allies are also going to throw out a bunch of things to distract you.
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These might be outlandish statements to get you focused on the shiny object.
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this may be what andy ogles is doing right here with this amendment right oh trump's going to be there for a third term and that's not going to go anywhere i promise you but they're going to throw out all this stuff every single day to try to spark outrage to try to get a news cycle to try to make you kind of lose it feel defeated and all of that
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What it's our job to do here when we report the news and as part of a community that considers itself to be pro-democracy is to figure out how to parse and separate what is real and what is BS. What do we need to be worried about? What is somebody trying to take our eye off the ball? What is actually happening to our country as a result of these actions?
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And what is Donald Trump saying is going to happen to our country with his rhetoric? And that's, you know, I think one of the main goals of this community right now is to figure that out and make sure that we remain focused. And I know that this community is.
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is intelligent i know that this community is more geared up for this task than anybody out there and so i'm so grateful uh to have this opportunity even in these dark moments to be in this with you to be fighting with you all and to be able to get out the truth in this way with these sorts of numbers with the strength that we have and i feel the strength in this community right now as we come together i feel you all with this energy
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right now, coming together in order to protect what we've got of our democracy. It's just such an honor.
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Jordi, to piggyback off that comment, I think one of the interesting kind of dynamic switchups that we are already seeing is that MAGA had presented itself the last few years as the voice of the anti-establishment, right? They position themselves as we are the counterculture. We are the counterculture and we're coming after the establishment.
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There is nothing more establishment than the MAGA movement right now. mean y'all are in power and every branch of government you are literally like the party of the billionaire oligarchs you run social media you run the news media guess what you are the establishment you are the man so all you people are
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All you right wing propagandists out there trying to still act like you are some anti-establishment type. You are just out there simping for billionaires and for the elite. And I find it so utterly embarrassing when I see you licking those boots every single day. It's embarrassing. You are embarrassing the hell out of yourself. And we all see it.
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This is more important. My vendetta against Joe Biden and my threats of prosecuting Joe Biden for nothing, because he didn't do anything wrong, is more important to the American people than the economy. That's what Donald Trump is trying to tell people in that clip.
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i just love this idea that they're cutting waste and then the things that they end up they actually end up just adding more uh debt in the new bills that they keep creating and they just remove things that the oligarchs don't like this is the biggest scam that we are seeing and it's just happening right in front of everybody's face
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And then you have all of these internet people, all of these people who are in Elon Musk's replies, people like MAGA influencer Cat Turd. Yes, that is the real name of a MAGA influencer chiming in on these bills, fighting for Elon Musk, fighting for the billionaire. And it's just such a sad indictment on our current politics.
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But specifically on the Republican Party under this Trump and Musk sort of framing, where The government is really right now – these Republicans are petrified of random right-wing MAGA influencers on Twitter. Like that's who they are taking their orders from. That's who they're afraid of getting – they're afraid of mean tweets.
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They're afraid of mean tweets from random people like people named capitalists. turd on Twitter. That just shows you how far this party has fallen and how unserious it is. And then you have a cat turd. You have these people literally fighting in the benefit of billionaires over the benefits of actual people under this complete scam of cutting government spending, which is not what's happening.
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Yeah, and I think he did a great job. I think we got to hear President Biden like we never heard President Biden before. And let's face it, he's not the kind of guy who's loud and boisterous like a Trump who's out there on TV every day posting all cap tweets and videos and all of that. So if I have one regret, it's just that President Biden wasn't doing anything.
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these like weekly um over the past few years because i think it's great when the american people can hear from him directly ben i think you did a fantastic job i think you asked the right questions i think you uh asked tough questions but did it in a very respectful way where it felt like a conversation between two people about the state of the country about his presidency about his legacy about his accomplishments about the future felt a lot more conversational
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than most interviews. And quite frankly, when I was watching it, it was like a palate cleanser in a way for me, because so many of the interviews that we have seen in these past few years have been so combative. And I think a lot of these people think they're going to get more information out of people by being like that, by being so cutthroat with everything.
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And then what you end up doing is you actually don't let the individual speak. But there are ways of pushing back. There are ways of asking the right questions where you get the answers. And we were able, you were able, Ben, to get President Biden on the record, really reflecting on his presidency in a way that I have not seen anywhere else.
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And I really haven't seen the president speak like this anywhere. I also, you know, I got to give a huge shout out also to this White House for understanding the value and the importance of independent media like no other White House has in history. The fact that they worked with us to do this interview in the first place, coming to the Midas Touch Network over one of the corporate networks.
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I think that says a whole lot. Their engagement with creators, their engagement with independent media, no other White House in history has done that, especially at the scale that they have done that in this administration. So I have to give them credit as well for being very forward thinking.
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And this is something that the president expressed to us both on camera and off camera, that he has a real belief in independent media being the kind of vanguard of truth going forward and playing an important role in our society when we see these news networks so fragmented, when we see these news networks really shift away.
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from the old days, from what their mission used to be at uncovering the truth and instead at chasing the ratings, chasing the drama, chasing the palace intrigue. And so I think it's very cool that somebody, President Biden, especially at his age, can see the value of digital and see the value of what we're all doing here and what all the other creators are doing. in the space.
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I got to give a shout out also to all the other creators who sent in their kind words about this interview and helped promote the interview and told their followers to watch from people like David Pakman and Adam Mockler and just all these incredible pro-democracy voices. I think it's important in these moments that we're just building up independent media,
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as a whole, because we certainly do not have the resources, the money that these corporate networks have. But we have something that is far more powerful than that. We have a community. And if we band together these communities and grow all together, I think that is a powerful thing that cannot be ignored.
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Let's face it, after a night with drinks, I don't bounce back the next day like I used to. Hey, I gotta be honest with myself, right? It feels like I have to choose between having a great night or a great next day. That is until I found pre-alcohol. ZBiotics pre-alcohol probiotic drink is the world's first genetically engineered probiotic.
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It was invented by PhD scientists to tackle rough mornings after drinking. Here's how it works. When you drink, alcohol gets converted into a toxic byproduct in the gut. It's this byproduct, not dehydration, that's the blame for your rough next day. Pre-alcohol produces an enzyme to break this byproduct down.
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Just remember to make Z Biotics your first drink of the night, drink responsibly, and you'll feel your best tomorrow. Every time I have pre-alcohol before drinks, I notice a difference the next day. For example, after a fun night out with friends at like a local bar or wherever we go, I could still get up the next morning and hit the gym.
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And I'll admit, I was skeptical at first, but I tried it at a dinner party with some friends. The next morning, I felt great, ready to tackle the day, ready to do more videos here at the Midas Touch Network. I kept hearing about pre-alcohol and wondered what it was actually like. Now that I've tried it, I get the hype.
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Plus with their GMO technology, Zbiotics is continuing to create probiotics that tackle the challenges of modern living. Go to zbiotics.com slash Midas to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use code Midas at checkout. Zbiotics is backed with a 100% money back guarantee. So if you are unsatisfied for any reason, they'll refund your money. No questions asked.
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Remember to head to zbiotics.com slash Midas and use that code Midas. It's M-E-I-D-A-S at checkout for 15% off. Are you looking for something simple and delicious to add to your wellness routine? Here's the thing. I used to put regular honey into a lot of my foods, breakfast, tea, protein, but then I was introduced to Manicora. And Manicora puts that regular honey to shame.
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I love the flavor, richness, creaminess, and all the health benefits Manicora honey brings to the table. The best way to use Manicora is straight from the spoon first thing in the morning, letting the creamy texture melt in your mouth and coat your throat. Manicora honey is rich, creamy, and the most delicious honey you've ever had.
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It's ethically produced by Manicora's master beekeepers in the remote forests of New Zealand. Manicora honey contains powerful nutrients to support immunity and gut health. The bees collect the nectar from the Manuka tea tree in New Zealand. The nectar is packed with bioactives, and the honey that is produced has three times more antioxidants and prebiotics than your average honey.
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A special bacterial compound called MGO also comes from the nectar of the tea tree. Manicora third party tests every single harvest for MGO and makes these results available through their QR system. It's a game changer and all you need is one heaped teaspoon each morning to get the most out of the amazing bioactives in Manuka.
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Additional usage throughout the day is completely fine, especially helping to cut out other sweeteners. It's a honey with superpowers. Now it's easier than ever to try Manicora honey. Head to Manicora.com slash Midas to get $25 off the starter kit, which comes with an MGO 850 plus Manuka honey jar, five honey travel sticks, a wooden spoon, and a guidebook. That's Manicora.com slash M-E-I-D-A-S.
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I'm happy to share this too. After the cameras were off, that was actually a subject that President Biden continued to speak to you about when we were there in the room. And we were in the historic Roosevelt Room, which is right across from the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House, which is just incredible.
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President Biden emphasized after the interview also, I remember him saying to you something along the lines of, I just want the people to get these programs. I just want the people to be able to succeed. I want them to feel the positive effects of these things. And at the end of the day, I don't care who is getting the credit as long as the people are being taken care of.
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I thought that really shows the difference in styles between somebody like a President Biden and a Trump who is all about me, me, me. He was very much more focused on how are these policies going to impact people's lives and ensuring that they do in fact positively impact people's lives.
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Doing great. Good to be here with you guys. Good to be here with all the listeners, all the viewers. Thank you so much. Thank you for all the incredible feedback on that interview with President Biden. Ben, incredible job. What a historic moment, and not just for us here at Midas Touch, but I think it's a historic moment for independent media in general.
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Well, let's talk about the economy in what I know is everybody's favorite segment here on the Midas Touch podcast. This is the NetSuite by Oracle Know Your Numbers Minute. That's right, folks. It's time for another NetSuite by Oracle Know Your Numbers Minute. And Ben, let's talk the economy, shall we? So the Federal Reserve on one day did make some cuts to its overnight borrowing rate.
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to a target range now of 4.25% to 4.5% for context. That is back to the level that it was around December 2022. It's a cut of 25 basis points. And while on the surface, that should be good news for borrowers, right? The interest rates are coming down. This is something that everybody was hoping for.
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The comments that the Fed made about the future, I think, are far more important, and the markets thought they were far more important, too, because the Fed said that they would probably only lower rates twice more in 2025, which is far less than they were originally planning for. Why? Over fears of inflations due to potential tariffs and trade wars that could be coming in the coming year.
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So we're already seeing the impact of these future government policies under the future administration having an impact on the way the Fed is setting rates, on the way that economists are perceiving economic growth in the country for the year ahead, and how it is already beginning to impact the markets.
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NetSuite helps you stay on top of all of the government economic policies in a very convenient way. And you could always be assured you'll have a quick adaptation to any new policies through their agile system updates. And so, as I was saying, after the Fed made that announcement, the major stock market indexes all dropped like crazy.
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If you were watching the tickers as it happened, all of a sudden they just went way down just went down and so people who saw the initial headline that the fed lowered rates were like why why why would the why would the stock market come down shouldn't it be spiking up no because of those forward-looking indicators um where you have economists in the fed worried about
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inflationary policies hurting Americans in the future. And so the Dow tumbled more than 260 points yesterday. The markets may have covered a little bit today, but it's been a pretty large losing streak over the past couple of weeks in the stock market since these policies have begun to kind of take hold in the markets as people start to think about what the future is. is going to look like.
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And NetSuite also, they provide customization, which gives you customizable dashboards so that you can monitor specific economic indicators that impact your businesses. So that's the latest. That's what I got for you here on.
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The fact that such a major interview was landed not by the corporate media, but by the independent media, not a billionaire funded network, but by people who are pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, supported by the emojis in your chats, your Patreon, your sub stack, all that stuff. Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts. I'm excited to talk about that experience as well.
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And Ben, as I reflect on that information, I think back to what you said earlier in this episode where we were speaking about how not only is President Biden providing for a smooth transition here, but Trump is once again kind of interfering and destroying the transition process. And we are seeing the effects of Donald Trump.
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even before he takes office, the effects that his statements, his threats, his posts, his economic plans are having on markets, are having on people's 401ks, are having on people's cancer funding in the case of this bill, this continuing resolution. And so that's kind of a rare thing for a president to kind of throw away all of his political capital that he has before he even steps into office.
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And that's what we're all witnessing. And it's going to get worse. You know, the important thing is that the American people understand where this pain is coming from. And that, I think, is the job of independent media and all of you out there to explain how Elon Musk and his billionaire buddies and Donald Trump are inflicting this suffering, which they said would happen on the American people.
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And we need to truly, you know, understand kind of what's important out there in our politics and and not chase these shiny objects like the media wants to chase a far too often because there is information that needs to get to the American people. And they may think that that's all that tension, all that yelling and putting people in a room and having them scream at each other and all that crap.
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They may think that that is good for ratings and for clips online, but it doesn't inform the American people at the end of the day. And I think you want to walk away having learned something. You want to walk away getting a sense of who an individual is.
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But man, it was quite the experience being out there in D.C., quite the experience being there in the White House face to face with President Biden. And if you haven't seen the interview yet, make sure you go and watch it now. Go, go. It's on our YouTube channel. It's the main video. Go watch it. Share it with a friend.
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And Ben, especially in an interview like that, which is really an interview about legacy, really a reflection on the presidency, on President Biden as a person.
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you know because you could have asked about the spending bill you could you know there's a million other directions but this is something that is going to stand the test of time um you know because it's not it's not linked to this specific uh week or few days in time that are going to be gone um you know in a couple days and never remember it again this is going to be there for the record for history as who president biden is was what he is all about what was on his mind
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in the final days of his presidency. And that's why I think that's such an honor and so cool.
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When you compare the calm, cool, collected President Joe Biden to the chaos of this Republican Party torpedoing their own bill today and – Just having an utter embarrassment. I mean, it shows you the difference between what an actual statesman looks like and what just a chaotic mess looks like. And President Biden is truly one of the last of his kind, in my opinion.
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Ben, I just want to ask you while while while we got you here, just a personal question about the interview. Right. You were face to face. with President Biden? What was that experience like, even conducting an interview like this, sitting in that historic room, sitting in the Roosevelt Room, just feet away from the President of the United States?
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Just give some insight to our audience on what that experience was like, because I think so few people in history have had that opportunity, and even fewer, obviously, with President Biden.
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Let's make sure that as many people as possible see President Biden unfiltered, reflecting on his legacy, his regrets, his accomplishments, what he's going to do in the future and more. Check it out. Pass it around. It's also, of course, on the Midas Touch audio podcast, Apple podcast, Spotify. Check it all out. Jordy, how you doing?
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I'm happy for them to expose it as all BS because the debt ceiling is the most annoying thing ever. I'm happy they finally realized that came around to what a lot of Democrats have been saying for a long time, that the debt ceiling has been used to hold these things hostage. So that Republicans can come in and then try to demand these cuts.
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Remember, the debt ceiling is the things that have already, spending that has already been approved. This has been spending that has already been approved in legislation. So the debt ceiling really has just been a block. quite frankly, to actually being able to get our bills paid at the end of the day. It's been used as a cudgel by the Republicans.
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I think it's awfully convenient that now that Donald Trump is going to take office, that he is now pushing for the elimination of that debt ceiling, which was raised, by the way, I believe at least three times under Donald Trump, and we remember how the Republicans have weaponized this debt ceiling over the past few years under President Joe Biden.
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But it just goes to show you that their interests, their beliefs are very malleable, and there's no such thing as them being consistent at all with any of these things. It's all, how is it going to benefit me right now? And right now, Donald Trump sees it in his benefit to remove this thing that, quite frankly, a lot of Democrats have been calling for for a very long time.
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Meanwhile, they're pushing through all these really unpopular, putting all these things in this spending bill that are just wildly unpopular or rather removing things that are going to be very unpopular with the American people. We'll get into all of that.
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But surprise, surprise, what's happening here is this is a very self-serving behavior by the House Republicans, by Elon Musk to benefit their own pockets, to benefit their own bottom line while screwing everyday Americans. I'm glad, though, that all this kind of Doge stuff is quickly being exposed as a complete and total scam this quickly. And you know what?
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Public opinion is shifting on this issue as well. When you look at some of the recent polling out there about Elon Musk, I believe only like 41% of Americans right now, per a new poll, say that Elon Musk, that they like that Elon Musk is being involved in our government assets. at this level. That is a big drop off from what it has been.
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And I think we're going to see that because the idea of a billionaire, an unelected bureaucrat who, by the way, unelected bureaucrats are who Elon and Vivek Ramaswamy have been yelling about all of this time. Now, ironically, they are the unelected bureaucrats and they are the shadowy billionaire figures who are coming after the American people.
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And I think the American people are finally feeling and going to wait. I didn't vote for Elon Musk. I didn't vote for this guy. Who are you to tell me that I can't get this health care, this food stamp system, this whatever it is, whatever benefit it is. A billionaire is telling people that they have to suffer, that they have to experience hardship.
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it's things like wait it's not like there's a uh it's not like there's a billionaire car company owner who relies on those sort of foreign investments and oh wait a second now i think i understand why elon musk has sent hundreds if not thousands of tweets about this to sink it
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He's clearly coached to say as little as possible in these hearings. By the way, I feel like all these people are kind of coached to say as little as possible. You kind of have to assume that most, if not all of these nominees are going to get through now that they've made it to this stage. It's just the makeup of the Republicans, the makeup of the Senate, of the Congress.
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And then they're going to vote along party lines. Some of them will be much wider margins than others, depending on if they're more serious candidates or if they're people like a Hegseth. But Besant's going to get in there easy. But it's still good to get these folks on the record with these questions, which I think why that line of questioning was so important.
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even if he didn't give a straight answer there. But he did give a straight answer in that Bernie Sanders clip, and I thought that was very telling to hear him say adamantly, no, I'm not interested in a federal minimum wage. That's a state issue. The federal minimum wage, it's a federal minimum wage. It's absolutely not a state issue. It's been $7.25 for decades now.
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It's quite frankly an embarrassing minimum wage that our country is at. But what I think that folks who want to oppose this administration and this party need to continuously emphasize is the fact that this is the party of the oligarchs. And that's why I was very excited to hear President Biden make that stark warning during his speech, which we'll get to later, his farewell address. But
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One of the things that I've been pulling my hair out, and I know I've said it on the show, maybe every episode since the election, is like, isn't it so obvious? Look at the people who are running this party. You have Vivek Ramaswamy, who in my opinion, by all accounts, basically scammed his way into becoming a billionaire with the way that he basically did this pump and dump scheme to get rich.
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You have Elon Musk. You have Donald Trump. You have people like Scott Bess. You literally, you have all the oligarchs coming together right now. You have all the kind of big tech people coming together. You have the Zuckerbergs. You have the Bezos. It couldn't be more clear, and the contrast couldn't be more clear.
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So it's like you have something to run against here, and you have policies that are very popular amongst the people. I mean, there's a reason, love him or hate him, there's a reason that Senator Bernie Sanders has something like a 69% oversight. approval rating. I saw this earlier today, 69% approval rating in his state, highest in the entire United States Senate. His disapproval is just that 27%.
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Those are unbelievable numbers, unbelievable approval numbers to have in the Senate. And why? It's because he is speaking to these issues. Now, more people should be speaking to these issues that actually resonate with working people. Ironically, many of the people who voted for Trump for whatever reason,
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But these are the people whose policies, the policies of Trump, are going to ultimately end up hurting. And it's like they're laughing in their face when they have Elon Musk up there kind of mocking them and mocking government workers. And you have the Bezos and all these people. It couldn't be clearer. You have such an opportunity for clear, concise messaging on this topic.
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Don't let that slip away.
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So how would you handle matters relating to tariff policy, what Donald Trump's going to do by imposing blanket tariffs on every country basically across the world? Will that raise prices? Is it going to create hardship for everyday Americans?
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When it comes to cookware, I've always struggled with choosing between the performance and durability of stainless steel pans and the easy cleanup of non-stick. But then I discovered Hexclad and let me tell you, it's completely revamped my entire kitchen and it's made all my friends pretty jealous. With Hexclad, you don't have to choose.
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Their pans combine the performance of stainless steel with the convenience of non-stick in one incredible design. So whether I'm searing a steak, making a delicate omelet, or whipping up a quick stir-fry, Hexclad handles it all beautifully. In cleanup, it's a breeze. These pans are dishwasher safe and wipe clean effortlessly. It's seriously the best of all worlds.
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One of my favorite things about Hexclad is how durable they are. I don't have to worry about scratches, even when using metal utensils, thanks to their patented hexagon design, plus they're oven safe up to 500 degrees, making them perfect for finishing dishes in the oven. I've even tried their Japanese Damascus steel knives, and they're a game changer.
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razor sharp, they make slicing and dicing feel effortless, and they stay sharp much longer than your average knife. Here's the kicker, Gordon Ramsay himself uses Hexclad in his restaurants and at home, and we all know he's the toughest critic on the planet. If it's good enough for him, it's definitely good enough for me.
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It was a good bit. I mean, Ben knew how long the senators actually have to ask questions. He was going to fill that whole time.
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So he just takes a big spill right off the bat, just nose dives backwards.
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Yeah, to remind everyone, he gets arrested after that.
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He gets arrested after that and then ends up in the hospital and takes a picture in the hospital. You can judge for yourself if you look up the picture whether this injury is legitimate or not.
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Whole lot going on, folks. It's great to be here with everybody. Quick update here from Los Angeles. It feels like things are stabilizing here, which is good. Hopefully things stay that way. Hopefully these winds don't knock anything back up. Thanks again to everybody for all your support over these past few crazy weeks. Oh my gosh, so much in the news right now.
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Are you looking for something simple and delicious to add to your wellness routine? I used to rely on regular honey for my breakfast tea and even salad dressings. But then I found Manicora and let me tell you, it puts all other honey to shame. Manicora honey is rich, creamy, and the most delicious honey I've ever had. The best part?
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It's ethically produced by master beekeepers in the remote forests of New Zealand. These bees collect nectar from the Manuka tea tree, which is packed with bioactives, giving Manicora three times more antioxidants and prebiotics than your average honey. Each morning, I start my day with a heaped teaspoon of Manicora, letting the creamy texture melt in my mouth and coat my throat.
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And it's not just a treat, it's packed with powerful nutrients to support my immunity and gut health. And here's something that sets Manokora apart. It contains a special antibacterial compound called MGO, which comes from the Manuka tea tree. Manokora tests every harvest for MGO, and you can see the results yourself through their QR system. It's a honey with superpowers.
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Whether you're adding it to your food or enjoying it straight off the spoon, it's a game changer. Now, it's easier than ever to try Manicora Honey. Just head to Manicora.com slash Midas, that's M-E-I-D-A-S, to get $25 off the starter kit, which includes an MGO 850 Plus Manuka Honey Jar, five honey travel sticks, a wooden spoon, and a guidebook.
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That's Manicora.com slash Midas for $25 off your starter kit. Start your mornings with Manicora. You'll never go back to ordinary honey.
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We made a big announcement on our social media as well this week. that we will not be airing the inauguration here on Midas Touch. We've decided, our editorial staff came together, and we have determined that it is in the best interests of our audience, of the country, for us not to be streaming the inauguration live. We will be having some alternative programming.
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Well, first, I just want to pitch, before we get into the economic updates, I just want to pitch our idea for the inauguration. I want to see what the folks think in the comments. So you can let us know in the comments. What if instead of airing the inauguration, because we're not going to air the inauguration, what if we just air videos of puppies throughout the inauguration?
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I'm not even exaggerating. What if throughout the inauguration- We just do a stream of a loop of a bunch of videos of adorable puppies the entire time. If you like this idea, let us know in the comments. Let us know here in the live chat. I want to hear your thoughts. I'm not kidding. We will go ahead. And you know what would be hilarious as well?
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If our stream of watching puppies gets more views than the streams of the inauguration. Just an idea. Just an idea, folks. We're throwing it out there. If you like it, Let us know. Okay, time for everybody's favorite segment. Let's get right into it. This is the NetSuite by Oracle Know Your Numbers Minute. All right, it's time for the NetSuite by Oracle Know Your Numbers Minute.
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Let's get into the latest economic updates here. As everybody knows, NetSuite provides easy access to economic data and trends through integrated analytics. So let's break down some of that data, shall we, folks? We're seeing some news on mortgages and mortgage rates right now. The 30-year mortgage rate is back above 7% for the first time since May. Freddie Mac says the average rate is now 7.04%.
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This is quite frankly one of the least affordable times to buy a home in the past 40 years. And it's going to be hard to spur a lot more buying or building with rates this high. And I want to be clear, rates were coming down quite substantially leading up to the November elections. That all changed following the results of the elections.
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In fact, just a few weeks ago, the CEO of Compass was interviewed on CNBC. And they said that prior to the election, it was Compass's view that the mortgage rates were heading to the fives either next year or the following year. But then we had these fears of new tariffs and other inflationary policies.
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from Donald Trump, from the incoming administration that have now changed the court's course of rates. Now we're seeing them come back up to historically high levels in the past few decades. Honestly, I think it's a huge bummer because, as Ben was saying before, things were heading in the right direction.
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Everything was on the up and up, and then we had this huge reversal over these past few months, just the sign of more things to come. In inflation news, we had a new inflation report come out. Inflation was a mixed bag in December. In the report that came out this week, the Consumer Price Index, the CPI, showed some relief in core inflation, which was definitely some positive news.
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But the threat of those sticky high prices continue to loom. Although inflation has been slowing, it still remains above that 2% level by the Federal Reserve. the consumer price index increased to seasonally adjusted 0.4% on the month, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.9%. That number was exactly in line with the forecasts of what the experts thought that it was going to come in at.
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The core CPI annual rate, and for those who don't know the core CPI, it excludes food and energy prices because those are much more volatile. So this is a more stable way to measure the underlying inflation trends, though slow to 3.2%, which was a notch down from the month before, so slightly better than the 3.3% outlook that analysts had predicted. That excited investors quite a bit.
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We could get to that maybe a little later or give you some of our ideas, see what you think about it. I think we could still have fun on that horrible day. Int, int, lots of puppies. He's not kidding. It's supposed to be a surprise. Come on. I was trying to do the deep tease over here. Let me tell you exactly what it is. That's not how hints work. Yeah. Ben's not good at the deep tease. It's okay.
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If you all saw the various markets, the stock market indices rise in a big way on Wednesday, that was why, because the markets reacted positively to that number. NetSuite offers tailored reporting features that allow businesses to focus on specific stock market indicators relevant to their sector. That way, your business can always be ahead of the curve no matter what happens.
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Shelter prices, housing, which comprise about one third of the CPI weighting rose by 0.3%, but we're up 4.6% from a year ago. That's the smallest one-year gain since January 2022.
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The stubborn inflation numbers are going to present an interesting situation, I'd say, for the Federal Reserve in the coming year because, as you remember from our reporting, the Fed was getting ready to do a lot of aggressive rate cuts. over the next few years. And we saw the beginning of that happen kind of prior to the election and kind of just after.
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But now as Trump's policies are expected to contribute to higher prices, and this is how you can kind of separate the BS, the bluster, the messaging from what's actually happening. You see how the actual, how the feds are reacting, how the economic experts are reacting. because these policies are expected to contribute to higher prices.
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Markets aren't expecting the next Federal Reserve rate cut to come now before June, despite the fact that we've had this better than expected economic data. So there's my economic update. That's where things stand. That's where things are heading. Obviously, things could change, but we always think it's important to bring you the latest updates as we have them. Thank you to NetSuite by Oracle.
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People seem to like the puppy idea, I gotta say.
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confident that the puppy stream is going to get more than any inauguration stream so that's really what i want to know could we get more like if we look at the midas touch puppy inauguration stream and then we compare it to like msnbc yeah name your name name your stream can we get more viewers on videos of puppies and ben could come in and narrate the puppies too and do some voiceovers you know tell you what's going on with the pups right they're super adorable super cute
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Could we get more views? Just an idea, folks. Just an idea.
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Well, he basically replicated the photo. I want to be clear. It's not the same exact photo, but he basically replicated the post.
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It's okay. There's more. We'll get into more of that after. But that's it for me for now. I'm excited to get into the news. Jordy, how's it going by you?
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I love Maple Mighty. I've also seen people, because we have a lot of people in Canada who listen to and watch the show, which is super cool. We've obviously been entering Canadian politics a bit and covering Canada, and we will in this episode as well. I also saw the Maple Midas, which I really like as well. I love our Canadian fans. I love all of our fans.
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Yeah, I thought this was a powerful clip. And I think President Biden is obviously, he's always very deliberate in his language. And so, you know, these warnings carry a lot of weight to me when he says these things. I think we need to take it to heart. So earlier today, President Biden was speaking.
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He gave a farewell address as commander-in-chief to the United States military, and he gave them this message.
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Our Canadian fans have been so awesome, so welcoming as we do the coverage. So shout out, Canada.
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This was not part of the job not too long ago. It wasn't you had to be a social media influencer yourself in addition to being a governor or a president. But that's where we are now. And you could tell it's effective, quite frankly, exactly because of what Speaker Johnson there – Speaker Johnson responded –
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That was a response to one of the clips that Brian Tyler Cohen, Brian Tyler Cohen, by the way, did a fantastic interview with Governor Newsom. And I think it's very smart that Governor Newsom is doing these interviews on site and is getting the message out to people in unique ways. It's one of the things that folks need to be doing. It's one of the things that Republicans have excelled at.
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And so now that Speaker Mike Johnson, Elon Musk, these people are seeing that, oh, shit, Democrats are wising up. Look at them going on, getting their message out in ways that they're supposed to be the way we've been doing. They're like, oh, no, no, no, that's our thing. You're not allowed to do that. That's what we do.
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And so now we're going to demean you for doing exactly what you need to be doing in this era because we don't want you to counter our bullshit. We don't want you to counter our lies or disinformation. We want to be able to do this and just run
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over you with these lies every single day while you're out there trying to do your job but newsom realized you know i'm talking he's like i'm talking to people out there these first few days and they're coming to me and they're saying uh oh this is to uh to form a uh the democratic cabal pedophile ring and all and he was like where are you getting this stuff from like what are you even talking about right now and they would be like twitter elon musk you know and that's the problem with this with this new ecosystem
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these lies spread so quickly and i think yeah i've even made the mistake in the past of thinking that this was insulated into this online bubble the fact is these lies go beyond that bubble they reach normal people and by the way people who are pretty smart people i hear echo all out of these lies It gets to them. They think it's fact. They then spread it.
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They tell it to their friends, their family. Next thing you know, there's a whole large section of the population that believes these lies are the truth no matter how outrageous they are, no matter where they started from because they even lose where they – people don't know this started with Donald Trump or started with the –
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They just know the information that their friend told them that this is what's happening, even when it's the complete opposite of the truth. Like I saw this post that was saying that Gavin Newsom was trying to – this is all part of Gavin Newsom's plot to sell off the land to speculators on the cheap so that he could give all the land away in Los Angeles to these speculators.
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was actually like when you actually played the clip that they were referencing it was gavin newsom saying the opposite that he wanted to make sure that the people of the city were protected from vultures trying to swoop in and take their property it was the up gavin newsom signed like an executive order right to that point but then maga then attacks him and says well now you're screwing over the people because they should be able to sell yeah
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And let's face it, all of this right now is also coming from a place where Republicans are looking ahead in politics. They're looking to 2028. They see that Governor Newsom is clearly going to be one of the top contenders for the Democratic nomination. They view this as a moment where they could weaken him politically. And we can Democrats politically in the state of California and nationally.
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That is part of this whole plan. It's sick. It's devious. It's cynical. It's in the middle of a crisis where people are suffering. And it truly hits home for me and all of us here because we are living in that. Well, not you, Jordi, but me and Ben. and so many people who work with us live in this city, live in this state, and it is just so abhorrent to see this kind of behavior.
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But all in all, watching this, I actually think that Gavin Newsom has done a remarkable job. I think he has risen to this occasion. I think despite all the shit that they've thrown at him, that Newsom has proven himself to be a very effective leader in a time of crisis. I think he's been very effective at getting the truth out. I think he's been very effective at
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consoling people in this state and the city. I think he's been very good at kind of telling people where we go next from here, dealing with the crisis in real time and being an effective communicator. And that is one of the reasons why MAGA hates him so much. That is one of the reasons why they try to spread all of this crap about him. And I'll definitely defend him.
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I think that he's doing a fantastic job during a very difficult time. And shame on the people. And by the way, I'm not saying that anyone is above reproach. I'm not saying that anybody is beyond receiving criticism. But what they are doing to Newsom right now is possibly even more than what they've done to Biden over the past few years in a truncated time period.
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The lies they are spreading, the disinfo they are throwing at this guy, the way they are doing this in the middle of a crisis, it is absolutely vile. Vile stuff, inexcusable stuff. But thankfully, I think he's equipped well to handle the situation and the climate.
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If you're not reading Ron's recaps of minusplus.com every day, you're missing out. I'm just going to be honest with you. You're missing out. You're missing out. You got to read Ron's recaps. It's today in politics bulletins that come out every day.
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they are fantastic and i think i followed the news all day sometimes i look at these recaps and i go i didn't even know half of these things happened oh and we're also doing ad free episodes of the midas touch podcast we release them the following day on the midas plus as well so check that out make sure you also subscribe on audio to the audio podcast so wherever the midas touch podcast is available on audio even if you don't like listening to audio podcasts and you always get the video
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I got to say, this shocked me. I'm not going to lie, Ben, this really surprised me because like you said, usually you're in this period and you think you're having this honeymoon period where your ratings are going to be high. And some of the initial approval polls of Trump were in the positive territory. I mean, some of the best polls that he's received.
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And by the way, while being in the positive territory, still lower historically than most presidents, if not all presidents when they actually enter office, but positive nonetheless. So it's been interesting to see over the past few weeks that these numbers have shifted so strongly.
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And I think it's because folks are finally, or already rather, seeing what a Trump administration means and are seeing that a Trump administration is quite literally an administration for the billionaires, for the oligarchs. So I'll pull up this poll, Ben, while you speak about it.
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Do you notice, by the way, that everything that he says, like the whole thing in the beginning, right, was Doge, right? We're going to create this department of government efficiency, which is like a fake pseudo department. And then the first hint that this wasn't going to be super efficient was him assigning two people to run Doge, two people run the departments. So we had two people run it.
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Not very efficient. Now it seems like every announcement, he's just making government bigger. I don't know if people who consider themselves conservative realize the irony of this. We already have departments that collect tariffs. That's already a thing that we have. The Custom Service, the Custom and Border Patrol, they handle tariffs. So now Donald Trump wants to put a duplicative...
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department in the government thereby making the us government even larger just doesn't sound super efficient but what i've noticed about a lot of the things that trump says is that and i don't mean to sound demeaning to people but a lot of things probably sound really good to really dumb people and i and i've noticed the people the people who get excited about this are always the same kind of suspects and i see them on the other apps too i see them on tick tock i see them on the various
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Exactly. Gulf of America, bro. We got golf. I'm like, this is the dumbest shit on the planet. What are we doing here? People like and you know what? That's the weapon of mass distraction. Right. Because like the dog in the movie Up, Donald Trump is able to go.
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gulf of america gulf of america wave the keys where it's a squirrel scroll over there and then his followers like the ones i'm speaking about they go squirrel and they look over there and then meanwhile all the stuff is damaging their lives raising prices raising mortgage rates really screwing them over while they're they're pumping their chests and pumping their fists over the fact that he wants to rename something gulf of america or has created another department that is useless and has no point i mean it's the same thing every time i think this every time the
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Can I read one thing before you read this? Let me read this, okay? Before Ben reads what Donald Trump said in this Time Magazine article that was released today, here is what Donald Trump said in September in front of his followers. And he said this at multiple rallies, many rallies, many events. Many phone calls to Fox News. Here's just one example from September.
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Quote, vote Trump and your incomes will soar. Your net worth will skyrocket. Your energy costs and grocery prices will come tumbling down. With that in mind, Ben.
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I at least appreciate that they didn't edit it for clarity. He didn't answer it for clarity. As he said it, because it's one of those ramblings that it's nearly impossible to read. But I mean, just a stunning admission right there, right? And you see how he's already trying to sort of get out of the responsibility of the very problems that he is going to cause.
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And those same issues that he wrote to Victory, by the way, the same issues that have been improving, year after year after year, and many of those issues, including especially the supply chains that he was talking about, that were completely devastated by COVID and Donald Trump's handling of COVID.
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He's once again trying to put that blame on the Biden administration, who actually went in and fixed the problem. I mean, people really seriously, and I know it's a late message, but we've said it all throughout the campaign also. People really don't remember what it was like in January 2021. People really are unable to put themselves back in that place. But things were grim, folks.
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Things were very grim. There was many people dying a day. Everything was completely falling apart. Companies were decimated. People were out of work. Things were as bad as it gets when President Biden dies. You remember that first Time magazine? I think back to that, the cover. It was President Biden.
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It was that desk that was filled with papers and just the White House and utter chaos, such a complete and total mess. And I forgot what the message was, but it was something like his turn to clean up or something to that effect. I'd have to look it up. Um, but, but that's how the Biden administration began.
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And then you look at the metrics that we have here, that if you looked at these things on paper, you'd be like, oh, of course that guy would win a second term or, you know, whoever his successor is, because this is undeniably the best in the world. And could things be better? Of course. But, you know, the hole that we had to dig out of this Trump hole was absolutely devastating.
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And and Trump managed to ride his own destruction back to the White House. I think it's the the irony of this entire thing.
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Yeah. Can I just get serious for a second? I just want to honestly, I know Bezos is going through some hard times. I know Zuckerberg, they've fallen on some hard times. Just being strangled, strangled by the regulation. So I just want to send my heart, my thoughts and my prayers to them during these very difficult times. I
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I'm so sorry that you've gained hundreds of billions of dollars during this administration, but I maybe wanted more. I don't know. I know times are tough, but you'll get through it, guys. You'll get through it, okay? I believe you.
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Yeah, it's so incredibly stressful because the last thing on the planet I'm going to say is that the Democrats are perfect and that everything they do is great. I'm not gonna say that. But what I will say is at least a majority of the time, they're at least trying to push the country in the right direction.
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And they are at the whims of the obstruction of the Republicans who have brilliantly figured out this plan to obstruct and not only to obstruct, but to use the means of communication to propagandize and to convince people that Democrats are the cause of your problems. To convince people that transgender people are the cause of your problems.
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To convince you that gay people are the cause of your problems. Migrants are the cause of your problems. I could keep going down the list, but they have devised and executed this scheme quite brilliantly. the Republicans, where you have so much of the country, quite frankly, going, oh, Democrats, Republicans, oh, they're all the same. It's just not true.
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And I understand that folks are looking for a bit more radical change right now when it comes to certain things, that people are pissed off that these programs are not working for the American people. And I totally get it. And I totally agree. But you have the Republicans, quite frankly, trying to take us backwards at every step. Do you think, Ben,
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Do you think that these Trump voters, many of whom are working class, do you think that one of the priorities they wanted Donald Trump to tackle on day one is to remove the IRS's direct file system that made filing taxes easy for them? I can guarantee you that is not something that they were eager about, right? That's not something that they were hoping for with this administration.
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Do you think they wanted billionaires to get exclusivity to the government, to get extra rights for the government? I just don't think that that's the energy that we're seeing in this country right now. I think people were hoodwinked in many ways into believing that Donald Trump is a guy who's going to help the working class. And I think as we see day in and day out,
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Donald Trump doing everything he can to empower these billionaires. And then this billionaire group, this billionaire oligarch group of people like Jeff Bezos, of people like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. You see Bezos and Musk now donating each a million dollars. to Donald Trump's inaugural fund, just kissing the ring like this, right?
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And you start seeing what's going... It becomes so obvious, I think, to me, who is kind of in control and who is trying to get special treatment and who wants a seat at the table in this administration. And it has never been more transparent who this administration is for. And I can guarantee you that so many of even these Trump voters, that this is not what they were voting for.
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They were not voting for the billionaires, but we all knew that this was going to be an administration for the billionaires. Hopefully, as things progress, they will soon find out. They will reach that fine. I know some of them have. I've seen a lot of comments. I've seen a lot of reports on this.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
But I think a lot more of them are going to start to realize, oh, wait, why is Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos and Elon, why are these people making decisions about my life? Wait, they get priority over me while they tell me that I have to cut back? Wait, Elon Musk is getting...
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
new grants and new government programs and new government contracts, but I need to cut down on my social security payments. And I'm not able to use this free government IRS filing service anymore because Intuit and TurboTax want me to use their service. And so they lobbied their friends in the Trump administration. That doesn't seem super fair. And reality is going to hit.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
And when it hits, it's going to hit pretty hard.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
I just want to do a quick compare though while we're on the subject of messaging because the one thing that I will say Trump is good at is he's marketing, right? He's good at getting the message out. He says things very kind of dumbed down and very clearly.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
And so I'll go back to that, the quote that we were speaking about at the beginning of this episode when Trump was speaking about bringing down prices. Now he's admitting that that was a total lie, but this was his comment from September. I read it earlier, but he said, vote Trump and your incomes will soar. Your net worth will skyrocket.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Your energy costs and grocery prices will come tumbling down. It's a very direct affirmative statement for people to hear. And so the folks who bought into that were like, oh, that's exactly what I want to hear.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Now think about comments from Vice President Kamala Harris, where she couched it in this terminology that would sometimes feel like it came from a marketing firm, like a professional or a PR firm, when she said, I'm going to create an opportunity economy.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Like people don't really understand what opportunity economy means, but people understand what your income will soar, your net worth will soar, your prices will come down. Like that's something that people understand. And I think Democrats in general need to kind of take that lesson and they need to be as direct as that. That's why, you know, even we in the past when we were speaking about
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
things like the Inflation Reduction Act and all these bills, we said, let's stop calling them by these lofty names and let's just say what the thing is, right? Like Biden's doing right now. Say, I'm going to cap your prescription drug prices at $2,000 a year. I'm going to negotiate with the drug companies. Your drug prices will come down. Your health will go up.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Just be very straightforward about it and stop couching it in this political language because we need to be direct with the people. All right. We got a lot more to talk about, Ben. I know we'll be right back after this break. Do not go anywhere. See you in a second. Let's face it, after a night with drinks, I don't bounce back the next day like I used to. Hey, I gotta be honest with myself, right?
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Something I want to add to our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, every single day during the week.
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is doing these breakdowns these recaps of the day on our midasplus.com that's our sub stack and you should check him out he releases them around uh sometimes like around 4 p.m or 5 p.m a pacific time each day and it's like you could not watch the news all day and then read ron's recaps and you'll be all caught up and me as somebody who is a news junkie
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
and is tuned in to everything throughout the entire day. Even I, reading Ron's recaps, I'm always finding new nuggets of information that I haven't seen before. I mean, he really sees it all. And I've read hundreds of these kind of newsletter recaps in my day. I got to say, Ron's is easily, by far and away, the best, easy read, easy to digest. You can check it out. It's at MidasPlus.com.
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I post every day in the evening. Go check it out.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Canadian Parliament talking about us.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
a good dad what a good you guys are both such good dads great to be here uh midas mighty um what a week as always the news certainly uh is not slowing down anytime soon and ben as you discuss the things that we're going to talk about on this episode as you break that down i can't help but think that those individuals who voted for donald trump and a republican congress are soon going to learn firsthand
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Like Doug Ford was like – I think he said like, I'm MAGA. He was like the number one Trump fan in Canada saying that he would support everything that he did.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
what that actually means for themselves. And I think as we've seen this kind of anger that's been out there in the public about certain things over the last few weeks, I don't think we see that folks want less of the government helping them out. I don't think they want less health care. I don't think they want less ability to get their prescription drugs.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Yeah. And I also want to emphasize the fact that when you look at the Saudis and what they're doing there with Eric Trump and you see all this, you realize that this whole kind of billionaire group that comes together, it's not just limited to the United States. I just want to make sure that that's clear.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
um the country is for sale right now to the highest bidder anywhere in the world and that is one of the issues that we are currently facing um and it is so obvious who this government is for it is so obvious who is running this government under donald trump it in fact could not be clearer and when you see these world leaders speaking out like doug ford like
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Dude, like literally I pulled up some articles about Doug Ford from before the past few weeks. And here's just a couple headlines from the Washington Post in 2018. Doug Ford could bring Trumpism to Ontario. New York Times 2018. Will Canada elect a tin pot Northern Trump? This is from a YouTube channel. MAGA hat wearing Doug Ford supporter is all cringe. That's something making fun of him.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Here's Bloomberg, Canada's Donald Trump wins over, Canada's Donald Trump. Well, how did that work out for you, Doug Ford? How did that work out for you? But it's good to see that there are people out there who are standing up to Trump like this. And I hope to see that sort of clarity and more of our leaders here.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
I think far too often these past few weeks, it has felt like the United States has not even had an opposition party. It has felt that a lot of these Democrats have simply rolled over. And this is a time where they need to be loud about their values. This is a time where they need to really be making their case.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
This is a time where they need to be listening to the American people and their concerns and say, listen, I hear you on health care. And here is our plan on how to move forward. Here's how I want to get health care to all Americans. Listen, I hear you on the housing crisis. Here's the Democratic plan. And they need to speak loudly about these plans and then have the Republicans oppose it.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Have the Republicans say, now we don't want to give that to the people. We instead want to give our giveaways to the billionaires. Now we don't want to help housing. And in fact, we want to just help the billionaires to buy up more housing and use them as commodities and grow their wealth that way. We prefer it that way. Put these Republicans on the defense.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
I don't think they want billionaires to get everything. And I think they're soon and quickly finding out that Donald Trump is building this oligarchy around him and that he is doing a making a government campaign. That is for the billionaires and by the billionaires. And that is what we're going to see. That's where we're going to see the results.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
I don't know why this is so hard and I don't know why there are so many running away from this or worse. rushing to kind of embrace Donald Trump and embrace the people around him. It's simply not what you have to do. And frankly, I do not believe personally it's what the American people are looking for. The American people are looking for fighters.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
The American people are looking for people who are going to stand by them and stand up for their values, stand up for the things that they are screaming about. The American people are being quite clear, in my opinion, about the things that they want.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
now are you going to answer the call it's your time do it or don't do it but i hope that you do it i hope that you pick up on the message because it's coming through loud and clear
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
And you already see Trump already backtracking on like every major promise that he made to folks that probably were the promises that helped get him elected. Like, I'm going to bring down prices. How many times have we heard Donald Trump say, and the prices are going to come tumbling down the day I get into office. They're going to come tumbling down. Now he's like, yeah, you know, about that.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
As Elon Musk's net worth skyrockets from $200 billion to $400 billion since the election. That's what's happening while they're complaining about the volleyball player or whatever it is.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
I'm not so sure. And now Trump, of course, always says we're gonna be respected on the global stage. And Ben, I love that we've been keeping track here of all of these world leaders who are actually standing up to Trump. I have to say, in many cases, stronger and more effectively than the leaders that we have here, unfortunately.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
But it's great to see these world leaders standing up to Trump and openly mocking him now, talking about Donald Trump saying we'd be respected. We are now back to being the laughingstock on the global stage. And it's a shame, but we're going to break it down. We're going to go through everything that's going on. I'll toss it over to you.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Can I just translate that message for a second, the Trump post that you just read there? Trump is essentially saying that you could pollute the environment, you could destroy the United States, you could bypass all of our regulations. You could actually get an expedited path to bypass all of our regulations as long as you invest at least a billion dollars or more in the United States.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
It's quite literally the definition of selling out our country to billionaires. It's screw small business, screw any sort of regular kind of investors. These go into foreign investors, foreign persons, foreign corporations and saying, come invest in the United States and you don't even have to follow play by the rules as long as you have at least a billion dollars or more.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
This is just the very foundation of the oligarchy that he is creating. And it's no wonder that somebody like Elon Musk is like, oh, this is awesome. This is so cool. Elon Musk, I believe today it was announced that he had $400 billion in net worth. Just think about that sum of money. And no matter how much you think about that sum of money, it's an unfathomable, obscene amount of money.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
It's impossible, I think, for anyone's brain to truly wrap around just how much that is. But Donald Trump is saying, if you're Elon Musk, if you're Mark Zuckerberg, if you're Jeff Bezos, if you're one of these foreign billionaires in Saudi Arabia, whatever country, we don't care. As long as you have money, you have a voice in my government. Working class, we don't need you.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Regular kind of companies, small businesses, we do not need you. That is what Trump is saying with these posts. and they're just being so explicit about it.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
And when Eric Trump is just flaunting these investments in Saudi Arabia, I mean, you just think now going back to past presidencies like Jimmy Carter with his peanut farm, you think through the lengths that people had to go to divest from their businesses, no matter how big or small. And this was even an issue back in 2016, right, Ben?
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
People actually tried to push, they tried to pressure Donald Trump didn't work, to divest from his businesses. Remember, Trump made up that he had a plan. I think this is one of the times Trump brought out the fake sheets of paper and says, here's my plan to divest from my businesses. All BS, 100% BS. Well, no one's even asking him this time around. But why aren't we asking him?
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
Why are we just accepting the fact that he's allowed to be intermingled in all of these foreign business deals that are going to have an impact on the way that he governs? It's just absolutely insane, Ben.