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Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
Yeah, I mean, it sounds like that would be more attractive to you. I mean, I just don't understand why you want to play these games. Like, we met in real life. I thought you were a good person.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
And how busy are you right now? I mean, I'm kind of busy. I'm not totally busy. I mean, I... Jeff, ask him again. Ask him again, Jeff. You're super busy, right? You're slammed. Okay, like, look, I'm looking to get busier.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
That's not what she wants. She doesn't want that, Brooke.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
Look, Harper, let's rewind and pretend I didn't call you for two weeks. Are you turned on now?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
So I met Harper at this German bar, actually. I was playing bocce ball. Do you guys know what that is?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
No, no, no, no, no. She was super cute. And I mean, she was super helpful, too, because I actually had to have this like long talk with her to tell her to cut off one of my drunk friends.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
Exactly. It's like watching Jerry Springer. It's like, you look better than those people. Oh.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
How did you get Harper to agree to a date?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
Well, I just simply asked her on the way out. I was like, look, are you single? And she said, who's asking? And I said, I am.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
Yeah. And I just said, I'd love to take you out sometime. And she actually gave me her number. Oh. That's good.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
We went out for drinks, a little food. You know, she looked amazing. I mean, when she was like out of her waiter outfit.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
I mean, I did have one embarrassing moment on the date. We tried to order some quiche Lorraine, and I said, quickie Lorraine. I mean, I didn't take French in high school. Like, excuse me.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
That's a tough word. What was her reaction? She totally laughed it off. It was a little embarrassing. But after that, like, I think it kind of lightened the mood a little bit. And from there, like, the date was great.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we actually, like, kissed at the end of the date. So that was nice. And she was the one who texted me that night saying that, She got home safe and let you wait to see me. So like, it seems super clear, right?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
There's no way to read that wrong. No, no, it was in English, I think.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
Yeah. I mean, there was one time where I thought one date was going to work, but then she asked about a different date. So I don't know. Hmm.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
What's his theory? Might be.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
I mean, look, Harper's a really cute waitress. She probably has a lot of... Guys asking her out.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
But, like, look, guys, if that's it, if that's the thing where she has another guy, like, just convince her that I'm a good guy.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
Just a little bit. Just a little bit? Barely. I heard you call me a loser who has too much time on his hands.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
You think I'm a loser because I want to go out a second time? Like, that part doesn't make any sense.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Red Flaggy Much?
To be totally clear, I didn't want to hang out with you three nights in a row. I gave you three options. See?
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Well, let's just keep appeasing him just so we could pay our shareholders and our board stays happy and our people, everyone stays happy. No. People are showing their cards right now. The corporate media in general is just showing their cards right now of who are actually going to be fighters in this movement and who are going to hold truth to power right now.
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and who are going to be the first ones to just bend over and say, I don't want anything about this, even if it's standing up for the truth and what's actually happening.
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How about MAGA just having one policy discussion in four years and then just combusting into a MAGA civil war over it, like the first time they try and not have a culture war issue? And I guess to a certain degree, you could say – you could almost put this as a culture war issue. Is it white Americans? Is it Americans that are – who are we talking about here?
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But this feels at least more like a policy discussion here that turned into just the party sort of –
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i'm stoked to get into the show brothers it's so great having everybody together again benji where do you want to start off can i just say new year it's like new year's eve already almost this is absolutely great what what a year fellas huh
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And it's also why, Brett, to your point earlier in the show about there not being any sort of honeymoon phase for this incoming administration. It's like everybody just knows what to expect with this unhinged lunatic. It's chaos. It's disorganization. It's bully-type behavior on a global scale that just, quite frankly, embarrasses America at large daily.
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And so that's why his approval ratings coming in are already so low. It's frankly because everyone knows what's going to happen. I liken it to this. We're all brothers here. When we would start new years of school or whatnot, yeah, every one of us would go in with a fresh slate, right?
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Now, I was fortunate too because what I got was, oh, a lot of the teachers that had you guys would be like, are you Ben's brother? Are you Brett's brother? Oh, Jordan, I'm going to like you even more. See, the issue would have been if they had me first and then they had you guys after, then also they would already have this sort of idea of systematic behavior that comes along with
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having one of us in their class. Now, that's not to say I wasn't a great student, but maybe you guys were a little bit better and sort of helped me there.
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Yeah, maybe. But the American people and quite frankly, the global community at large already knows that this guy is a clown and he's just going to continue to embarrass us in a large scale.
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It's a great point. I clearly didn't flesh it out fully. Like I really like the idea of that going into what I was saying. And I need to workshop that and I'll come back on Thursday's episode and we'll have that down.
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Never, never, never obey in advance. And just to see Donald Trump, this schoolyard bully, it's like when the schoolyard bully, he takes your lunch money and you just give it to him, right? Because you don't want to mess with him. Next day, guess what he's going to do? He's going to take your lunch money. Maybe he'll take your shoes too, right? That's what bullies do.
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They're going to keep pressing and see how much they could get away with until you actually stand up for yourself. I wasn't surprised by the move from ABC because it's so corporate of them, right? Let's not wrinkle the feathers on this one, guys. Let's just appease Don here. Let's appease him here and maybe he'll leave us alone. Oh, no, he's going to do this to us now?
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Jordy, tariffs are a tax on American companies. So what Trump is saying is, I got so offended at what Columbia did. I'm imposing taxes on American corporations. It's like... That's what you're going to be doing.
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And let's talk about strength, the weakness for a second as well, because you have all of these countries, whether it's Mexico, whether you go more south to Central American countries or South American countries, they're all standing up. to Donald Trump.
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I believe it's the president of Honduras is calling an emergency meeting of Central American, South American and Caribbean countries to join forces together about how to respond and collectively retaliate against Donald Trump. You have Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, whose approval rating is 80%. She's saying you will not send military planes into Mexico.
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You've got the president of Brazil also saying that he intercepted one of the flights to Brazil by America of Brazilians who were also kind of shackled and treated like crap. And the president of Brazil is out there making a lot of statements as well and investigations being called into the United States treatment of Brazilians. actually gaining so much power right now.
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Everything Trump touches dies. E-T-T-D. So, over the weekend and today, what's Donald Trump pretty much been doing all day? Golfing, golfing, and more golfing. And while he was golfing, guess what he was killing? Our stock markets. The NASDAQ tanked today, and so did the S&P. Remember last week when Donald Trump brought those AI tech bros, the broligarchs, to the Oval Office to announce Stargate?
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China, Xi Jinping, you have the Chinese ambassadors to all of these countries. The moment Trump does something, they're out there saying, China just wants to reinforce the fact that we respect the sovereignty of Panama, of Honduras, of Peru, of Colombia, of Brazil. We think our relations have never been better. This is a relationship of mutual cultural respect.
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This is a bilateral relationship where we respect the sovereignty of the nations. We look forward to investing more and being shoulder to shoulder. And in these countries, you literally, while they're burning the American flag, while they're holding protests against us, they're doing events with the Chinese flag and the Brazilian flag side by side.
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And Xi Jinping's being invited to all of these countries, strengthening the relationships, all of these countries, Central American, South American, they want to join the BRICS block, which is Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, because they know that America is not protecting them and they want to be part of alliance that is protecting them. So you have all of that happening as well.
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And then our media here is reporting on Trump's behavior like WWE wrestling and acting like this performative nonsense is somehow tough while America's strength is decreasing more in a week. than 80 years, I think Trump threw out in one week with our international relations. It couldn't have gone worse.
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And do you hear any corporate media at all saying it could not have been worse for America what went down this past week. China didn't have to fire a single shot And it has achieved hegemonic influence of its wildest dreams as these countries like, yeah, we're not going with crazy. You know, whether you're on the North or the South, this is a meth lab. That's what they look at us like.
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We need someone who's at least a little bit more stable. That's how they're viewing this right now. Brett Jordy and Midas Mighty. And by the way, don't look at the statements coming out from these countries. They're literally saying it. And our corporate media like is like, I don't know, I guess Donald Trump is powerfully doing the, oh my God.
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a $500 billion so-called investment into American AI, despite the fact that a lot of that was being built over the past several years anyway. Well, all of a sudden we heard that China was releasing its own AI. They released something called DeepSeq, which was an open source based AI. And because it was open source, the American proprietary version
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Make no mistake, the way China rolled out this deep seek AI model, open sourced it to undermine American AI industry's right after Donald Trump invited the AI tech bros into the Oval Office was a shot across the bow. It was an effort to humiliate Donald Trump. And it's because they smell blood in the water. They sense the weakness. And had there been some level of mutual respect,
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and there would have been a broader diplomatic channel, they would not have done it in such a way, in my view, that absolutely was humiliating. And one of the things, though, that's so wild is the way our corporate media reports on things so ignorantly and the way Trump and this administration is just so freaking dumb
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they could be utterly humiliated and not even sense the power dynamic that just shifted. But I'll tell you who recognized it. The markets did. Because remember all those days with the Biden administration, where I would go a new record with the NASDAQ, up another 2% today, a new record with the S&P, and then Fox would try to downplay the success of it. Well, now it's
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A new record, a pretty crappy day on the NASDAQ, down almost 3%. That wasn't a record, but we got hit pretty easy.
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of the AI and all of the companies that spent billions of dollars investing in it, they started to tank. So look, that visual image right there of the AI roligarchs in the Oval Office and now China just very subtly but powerfully undercutting everything that took place. E-T-T-D. Everything Trump touches dies. How about Trump's meme coin? Well, that continues to crash.
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Well, here's the thing. The broligarchs were spending all of their time in Mar-a-Lago. They were out there sucking up to Donald Trump while the people in China who were developing the counter technology were out there outworking them, basically, and outsmarting them while they spent all this time at Mar-a-Lago with their knee pads kissing the ring of Donald Trump or whatever else.
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Look, we've got a lot to discuss on this episode. I want to talk about what's going on with prices not being lower. I want to talk about The litigation against Donald Trump for his unlawful Friday night massacre of the inspector generals and now his firing of all of these DOJ civil servants, all while Donald Trump is out there playing golf all of the time.
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He had the MAGA Republicans fly out to him in Doral in Florida. which he now just, again, uses his Trump properties to hold all of these events, grifting more of the American people. We've got a lot to discuss, folks. A reminder, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. There's a secret link. If you want to meet me, Brett, and Jordy afterwards, click the link. We'll see you there.
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It'll probably take us a few minutes to get there after the show ends, but we'll see you there soon. Ask us any questions. We've got a lot more show, though. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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It's lost over 50% of its value. Who would have thought that when you look at Trump's stock, Trump's failing businesses, Trump's failing meme coins, that when he would start touching our economy, which he already screwed up the first time, it would screw up again. Epiphany, wow, that was so hard for us to all figure out. Come on, people here, everything Trump touches dies.
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So he invites them into the Oval Office and he invites them onto Air Force One. And they're always there asking them questions. And he's always speaking all of the time and just kind of just stream of consciousness. Here's the thing. There's a reason why you shouldn't do
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your mere words as the president of the united states move markets right regardless of whether the tariff is actually imposed on colombia or if colombia imposes tariffs on us or any country that almost isn't the point. The mere statement of it moves the markets because the markets have a futures component to it. And that disruptive behavior causes chaos and harms the economy.
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The economy abhors chaos. International relations abhors chaos. The media loves it because they're like, oh, this is great. This is a reality show. Oh my gosh. And it's like, no, that's not what If you want to get that, if you get off on that stuff, then maybe watch those reality shows. Watch movies. This is the real world where you need to behave at a bare minimum like a grownup, like an adult.
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Speaking of which, a literal person died, a January Sixer died, who was someone who was pardoned by Donald Trump in Indiana. Someone who attacked police. Guess what he did when Trump released them? He attacked police. And guess what happened? The police shot and killed them.
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Then maybe we can take a step up and behave like a professional. And then maybe we take a step up and say, behave like a leader. And then maybe you take a step up and then it's like a leader of a large organization. And then maybe we can just graduate to behaving like the leader of a major company and then like a leader of the country. Maybe we do that.
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And so, you know, we'll show you clips in a bit, too, of Trump's speech in Doral earlier where he's like, I'm doing tariffs on semiconductors. okay so you've now like screwed the whole market already when it comes to like coffee beans already this deep seek is impacting uh american corporations very negatively and now you're doing tariffs on the semiconductors and
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As President Biden was shifting strategically the semiconductor industry here to the United States, now Trump's announcing tariffs on American corporations that are already being hit by this bad news of deep seek undermining them from China. This stuff is idiotic.
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And again, the corporate media, you turn it on for a second, I turn it right off because I'm like, what are they even, focus on what is actually happening right now, people. And we'll get into it in a little bit. Prices are not getting lower. They're going up and they're going to go crazy high because of Trump's psycho behavior, bruh.
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Who would have thought that if you release people who kill police and attack police and try to do it, they would do it again? I don't know. Maybe everybody with common sense. Literally, ETTD, everything Trump touches dies. You had that Friday night massacre where Donald Trump unlawfully fired all of those inspectors, generals, somewhere between... 14 and 17 of these inspector generals got fired.
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So many people are losing track. Like, was it 12? Was it 14? Was it 17? Was it 20? They're saying, look, we ain't leaving. You violated the law in how you terminated us. So prepare for litigation, Donald. Also, Donald Trump unlawfully firing all of these civil servants and Department of Justice prosecutors who were in any way involved with any of the Trump cases. Trump has fired them.
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she goes like i got coffee who wants coffee like it's like just i'm watching absolute craziness like on there they're saying now we shouldn't have like we don't even need coffee let's just grow our own coffee like why do we need anything you know you know why don't we under trump just be entirely self-sufficient who needs any goods right we should all just be like nomadic individuals
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Who needs homes under Donald Trump or apartments? Who needs anything actually at all? Let's just figure it out. Let's survival of the fittest. Let's just figure it out. By the way, did you notice they're saying the dumbest freaking things in the world that they're injecting into the arms of their audience and the audience look
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If you read the bottom Chiron, what did it say? It said Columbia president. caves to deportations. Let's be clear. Colombia is a sovereign nation. Why are you mocking your trading partners? They didn't cave to anything. They embrace what the status quo was under Biden, and they act like, look, Trump dominated them. Then you have all these other MAGA Republicans out there being like, we are
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the apex predator nation and its manifest destiny for us to crush them. Like that's literally what these MAGA Republican members of Congress, they're calling themselves the apex predators of the world. And that manifest destiny means we should crush these other nations. And meanwhile, All China's out there doing is saying, hey, we respect your culture. We respect our bilateral relations.
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Can we help you build something? And whether you're like that CCP propaganda or not, How do you think Colombia is looking at this right now? On the one hand, they're being nice. On the other hand, you're talking about crushing us and being a predator towards us and just beating us into the ground while we're a sovereign nation. Like what in the world are you talking about?
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But what's Donald Trump doing? all is happening. Golfing, of course. He's posting memes of himself. He posted an AI meme of himself looking like a mobster because that's normal behavior. I mean, again, you won't hear any of this from corporate media. That's Trumpian Trump. He posts photos.
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How about Donald Trump posting not the American flag, but himself on the American flag saying, save America 2024. Dude, it's 2025. Are you going to keep running the 2024 campaign? It's over. Biden's not the president anymore, unfortunately. Kamala is not the president, unfortunately. It's you. You were running it. So all of these things that are happening, guess what? They're your fault.
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He's also ordered the Department of Justice to do a, quote, special project. Where's he borrowing that name from? Putin with Putin's special operation. I mean, do they only have like one move, these authoritarians? The special project. And what's your special project? It is investigating and criminally prosecuting the prosecutors who were involved in January 6th cases and in Trump cases.
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And they're quite literally your fault when you're out there making these absurd and ridiculous statements like this. When we go back, I want to talk about that. I want to talk about the chaos that's there. I want to talk about Trump's Friday night massacres of these inspector generals embroiled in all of this litigation now. By the way, these people who Trump fired,
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They were the people who Trump hired. They're Trump's people. Like, I don't think that's getting enough attention. Biden couldn't fire these people because Biden followed the law and Congress passed laws saying you can't fire these people. MAGA wanted them in because they're like Trump appointed them. So these inspector generals will hold Biden's feet to the fire. Trump fired him.
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without giving them the 30 days notice under the law that's needed, and without providing specific justification to Congress in writing, that is very clearly stated in the law if you're going to do those terminations. Trump fired his own people because he said his own people weren't sufficiently loyal enough. Okay? That's what went down. We'll talk about that and more.
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But guys, how about them lower prices? Low Lower egg prices? Is housing more affordable? Are groceries more affordable? No, quite the contrary. Egg prices are rising and through the roof. That's if you can even get them. Housing is less affordable. Mortgage rates are through the roof. Quite literally, every one of his promises about prices was a total and utter lie. And then what does he do?
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Welcome back. Welcome back. I think Geordie got a little bit disconnected from the Wi-Fi, but we wish Geordie the best. And let's let's get right into it. We've got a lot to discuss and special thanks to our pro-democracy sponsors. So a few pieces of news that I think are really important, of course, by now. You've been watching the Midas Touch YouTube channel.
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You've seen our reporting on Donald Trump terminating somewhere between 14 and 17 inspectors general. These are individuals who are appointed by a president confirmed by the Senate. They can only be fired under specific instances. You have to, for circumstances that require some sort of justification that you have to state very specifically and you have to give justification to Congress.
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These are individuals, they're sometimes called watchdogs. They're embedded in different agencies and departments, and they're there to investigate crimes within the agency, fraud within the agency, waste within the agency. Many of these individuals were appointed during Trump's term, and they remained on because Biden couldn't fire them because there was no reason
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that you had to give you had to follow the law you had to give specific justification and these individuals despite being brought on by donald trump they were taking their jobs seriously and you know not all to the what we would like but they were at least handling it enough with the job description that Trump said, we got to get rid of these people.
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So Trump basically fired his own people on Friday night after Hegseth was confirmed. It was notable that he waited until after Hegseth was confirmed because you had certain inspector general hawks, whatever the heck that means, Republicans, certain Republicans like Chuck Grassley, who may have voted another way. Who knows what these Republicans, they have literally zero spine.
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But on the Hegseth nomination, which was a 50-50 tie, first time that ever happened with a defense secretary. Defense secretaries are always like, usually like overwhelmingly agreed to because you don't pick somebody with zero experience who's never like led an organization before or never led a military command. I think he led a
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nonprofit exit, but then was forced out of both due to a lot of serious issues in his judgment. That's an understatement right there. But anyway, Trump fired them, then they fired back and they said, okay, well, we're not leaving. We're going to sue you because you didn't follow the law, which required 30 days notice, and you never provided any justification to Congress.
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So these are unlawful terminations. And we're not leaving, to which I think Donald Trump's going to say, Supreme Court gave me absolute immunity. I can do whatever. You can't sue me for any of this stuff. Good luck. And they're going to go file litigation, I think, soon for their wrongful terminations against the government. We'll be fighting that. And by the way,
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He has Maga Mike Johnson do interviews and J.D. Vance do interviews and they go crazy. We never said that or look, it's going to take a lot of time. We never said it was going to happen right away. On Fox, they're saying, look, this is good. We want higher prices. All the MAGA influencers. Yeah, for our freedom, we want higher prices. This is great.
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They have massively valuable lawsuits. So even if they're forced out, they're going to get tens of millions of dollars, I think, in verdicts when they sue the government because it's a patently on its face, unlawful termination. And they're going to sue for money and they're going to say, you fired me illegally. And I think they're going to win that.
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Also, Donald Trump has fired all of the DOJ prosecutors who were involved in his cases, January 6th related cases as well. And he's ordered his Department of Justice to investigate criminally All of the prosecutors were who were involved. So he wants to prosecute the prosecutors. So he's actually implemented that. Talking about these January 6th insurrectionists.
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I don't know how you could view the past week objectively as not the biggest failure ever. From starting unnecessary trade wars, ceding America's role internationally, to pardoning Oath Keepers and Proud Boys like actual terroristic groups and individuals who tried to kill police. And we're hearing all of these stories now about people who tried to kill the police. Guess what?
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They tried doing it again. And because that's what happens when you let out cop killers on the street. So this guy, Matthew Huddle, a 42-year-old who served time for his role on the January 6th Capitol attack and was pardoned by Donald Trump, was shot and killed by a Jasper County sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop in Indiana following... An altercation with the officer.
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Police say Huddle was armed and resisted arrest. Who would have thought that armed people who were going after cops on January 6th would just continue to go after cops? And that's the thing. With all of these, you know, like the... fraternal order of police that supported Donald Trump and all of these police groups that, you know, that supported Donald Trump.
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It's like, first off, Trump hates unions. Okay. So for all of these unions, I know that president Biden didn't bring you cold pizza and president Biden didn't color the American flag blue, you know, and do performative crap like that. But he gave you the resources and tried to give you more resources and more money to which Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans blocked.
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All we have to do is pay more for groceries and then we can kick out all them illegals. That's literally what they're saying. That's their shift right there. Trump started a trade war with Columbia. He then made a fake deal and pretended they came up with some great solution, which was basically the prior status quo.
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Like imagine being a union where your goal is to have more overtime, more money, you know, more rights, more safety, more protections. Biden was giving it to you, but Trump gave you cold pizza while taking away it. And you're like, oh, I'm going to go with the cold pizza. I guess I'm going to go with the cold pizza because he painted the flag blue and he said thin blue line.
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So I guess because he said thin blue line, I'm, I'm with him. And because Trump like supported some of the cops who engaged in acts that I think other cops should objectively look at as problematic, but because Trump was like, we're with them. So he's with us. He's with us. It's just a very strange. It's a strange concept to me. Like what,
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When you're like a lawyer or you're a doctor and there's another lawyer or doctor who behaves horribly in your profession, you usually have your organizations try to get rid of them from the professions, not make them the heroes of your organization. But I'll save that for a completely different topic and a whole other rant, by the way.
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And no one supported the blue or firefighters or first responders more than President Biden. Quite literally anything he can do, he did. But again, Trump gave him cold pizza. Donald Trump pardoned the people who tried to kill him. That was enough for a lot of these groups.
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Oh, by the way, I think we have this clip of Trump on Air Force One going from Vegas to Miami for all of the Muslims who voted for Donald Trump and the Palestinians for Trump. Trump talked about what like we need to we just need to clear it all away. He said that's what he said about clean it out. Just clean it all out. Just get rid of it. Clean it all out.
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And he's given other speeches about how he thinks it's like a great place to build things here. I think we have that clip just so you can all hear it. I don't like showing a lot of drum clips, but there's some stuff you just got to hear so you know I'm not blowing smoke. Here, play this clip.
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clean out that whole thing. I think using the language of ethnic cleansing is probably a massive red flag, but folks, that red flag was there before. And every time vice president Kamala Harris was out there saying, look, We need to make sure we give all of the aid to Gaza. We need to make sure we do whatever we can. We want a two-states solution.
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All I heard from a lot of people were, they're just the same. They're really just the same. And let's face it, they were not the same. I'll leave it at that. Let's show you this. This is from Doral in Florida. This is Trump's resort where he now has all of the Republicans kiss the ring, put on knee pads and show up to his hotel, pay his hotel.
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But that's still going to impact the prices of things like coffee and your landscaping and other things as well. But what's Trump doing? Don't worry, folks. He is out there golfing, giving unhinged speeches, wearing brown high heels to meet with Gavin Newsom as Gavin Newsom shook his hand so hard he didn't even know what to do and then got embarrassed and then Kind of tilted over.
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And here Donald Trump announces he's putting tariffs on on semiconductors so that'll i'm sure i'm being sarcastic here that's going to be great for all of these american tech companies they're the ones who are going to have to pay this massive tax now and whether trump implements it or not this is going to rock the markets here play this clip plans put together
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OK, so now he's attacking the CHIPS Act. where President Biden is giving $55 billion for people to move the semiconductor industry back to the United States so the United States can lead the industry. Because even though Taiwan is our ally,
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we realized during Donald Trump's mishandling of COVID that if you have the semiconductor industry overseas and supply chains break, and you don't have the semiconductor industry here, you literally can't transport the materials that are needed, the liberal chips and the infrastructure. You need to build it here in case something happens. And so Taiwan is our ally. So if you're now going to tariff
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at what point does Taiwan just say, We're going with China. I mean, at what point do they say you broke us? Like you were supposed to be our ally. You're now screwing. You're going to impose more tariffs on Taiwan than you are on China because Trump has some weird fetish for Xi Jinping. I mean, just think about the reckless words spewing out of this idiot's mouth.
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The whole thing was very weird. Oh, and by the way, is Elon Musk, is he still in the White House? Did they kick him out of the White House? There's all this reporting that Susan Wiles, who they call the Ice Maiden, the Ice Maiden, that she kicked Elon Musk out and made him work across the street at the old executive office building. This and more. This is the Midas Touch podcast. What in the world?
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I'll show you just a few more of these super quickly. Donald Trump referring to his bloody mass deportations as, have you ever seen the movie Con Air? Well, I'll let you hear it for yourself. Play it.
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Look, these deportations were happening so much so under the Biden administration that Biden had less border crossings than Trump did, or right around the same that Trump did in April of 2020 during COVID. These types of deportations, though, were happening via plane before on commercial flights or less expensive military planes.
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I think the cost for some of these planes is like close to $852,000 for Trump's, you know, trying to show in these kind of propaganda images. It's costing us like literally millions of dollars to send 80 people. And when you speak about who they're targeting for these mass deportations, like everybody agrees. criminals, terrorists should be deported. That's always been the policy.
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It's never been, let's bring the criminals and the terrorists here. That's not what it is. By the way, Americans commit crimes at a higher rate than migrants, like at a significant higher rate, right? The issue here is you've got Donald Trump and Tom Homan and his whole crew, they're out there targeting elementary schools. And then when they're asked, OK, well, why elementary schools?
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You got Tom Holman saying, well, there's MS-13 in the elementary schools. And I'm not suggesting that that may never be the case. I don't know. But what I am suggesting is they are specifically doing worksite raids right now. They're at shopping centers. They're at locations where migrants hang out. And they're trying to hit quotas. And they're not just targeting the bad guys, OK?
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They're targeting anybody who they think doesn't have papers. And one of the things we have to be very vigilant about is this plan that they have, and I want to start talking about it now, where Trump and his administration is trying to create this deal with the leader from El Salvador
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And El Salvador has all of these jails and this guy does this relentless propaganda videos where I'm sure he's got a lot of gang members in these jails. And a lot of the people look tattooed and have tattoos all over them. And they certainly look like bad people. If you look at these images of El Salvador.
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What I'm saying, like the way that people like the visuals of it with how the the with like the jail guards and the people, the images make it look like, well, there's this must be just all of these bad people here.
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Brett and Shorty, how are you guys doing?
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When you start hearing from people from El Salvador, the story starts to shift a little bit that sometimes people are taken without their rights and they're thrown in there and they never know if they're going to get a family member back again. But Trump wants to bring People not from El Salvador and then bring them into the El Salvador jail system.
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So what if Trump doesn't like you or Trump thinks you look a certain way or whatever? He sends you on a trip to El Salvador.
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Yeah, and that plan, we should highlight what that is, how dangerous that is, and kind of outsourcing to these things that look like concentration camps over there. I think it's a big deal. I think it certainly needs to be discussed. I'll say this as well. You just see weird nepotism stuff as well, Brett, like Tucker Carlson's son, Buckley. It's funny that Tucker Carlson's son is Buckley.
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He now is working for J.D. Vance. I mean, like, these are the people who attack DEI. So they attack a black four-star general who was leading the Defense Department, bring in Hegseth with zero experience, and, you know, now bring in, like, Tucker Carlson's kid gets a job at the VP's office. I mean...
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you're gonna see things like this all over you know over and over and over again i don't think i think people get the clip there's all these clips of donald trump talking about elvis and the beatles and i'm like elvis and the beatles and trump saying you know on a speech where he's supposed to talk about no tax on tips you've got trump saying things like you know he does the same story that he would do on the campaign trail there's a beautiful waitress and she was so beautiful
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And I want to call her a beautiful girl, but they say I can't call her beautiful anymore. It's like, dude, just, are you going to do the policy? You're not going to do the policy, but notice Trump's pivot with no tax on tips, because that's not really what his focus was on. He doesn't really give a crap about service workers. He cares about their bosses.
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And as I said, during the first Trump administration, Trump's policy was literally no tips. It was that the business owners own the tips of the service workers. So people just paid a little bit of attention.
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what he was doing they would have figured that out and i said this whole no tax on tips thing is a tax avoidance scheme so that employers can then claim the tips of their workers and then people can say these are my tips i don't guess i don't have to pay the taxes on it but notice what he's saying now he's like but what if we did just no taxes in general no taxes and everything came from brett you said it the fascist wind-up doll
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tariffs. We don't need taxes anymore. Why should anybody pay taxes? We can just deal with tariffs because he says America was at its most powerful in 1870. In 1870, he says, that's when America was at its most powerful. Look, folks, all this stuff is ridiculous, but I want you to know this. We're not scared. We're not backing down here at the Midas Touch Network. We're going to keep reporting.
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And Brett, anything else you want to say?
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Can I tariff? Can I tariff? We tariffed. Tariff free. No, you don't have to worry. We're never going to do a Midas meme coin. You don't have to worry about any of that. Okay. Thank you to our mods. They put in a lot of work. I want to just tell them we appreciate their effort in trying to keep these chat rooms above board. So thank you to all of them. And Midas Mighty, thank you.
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We'll be with you every step of the way. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I want to just, again, wish you all well. Make sure you subscribe. Make sure you turn notifications on. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. Thank you so much for watching.
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quick programming reminder after this show ends, we will be holding our live Zoom meeting on patreon.com slash Midas Touch. If you ever wanted to meet me, Brett, and Jordy, meet us at that Zoom meeting. The secret link is at patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Check it out and we will see you right after the show. It may take a few minutes for it to load so we can actually get into the room.
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We don't have outside investors, so it helps our network grow and you get to meet us. Why don't we start with what Donald Trump and corporate media is trying to distract us from. Let's bring right into focus what should be leading everything, that all of Donald Trump's campaign promises were broken. There's been no peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. That's not even a talking point.
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They're not talking about it even at all. They want us to just pretend that that was never something that happened. We're not going to pretend, and we're going to bring it up at the top of the show. Also, lower prices. They said instantly. That's what Donald Trump said, not You're going to have to wait for it.
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He goes, on day one, the prices are going to be so low, you're not even going to know what to do. You're not even going to want them to be that low. Well, that's not happened, actually. The contrary. They're now rising and rising, and they're heading to the direction where they were when inflation was at its top.
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And they're moving there pretty, pretty quickly, even quicker than most people suspected. Not us. We told you this is what was going to happen. You have egg prices are soaring, and You have grocery prices soaring. You have mortgage rates soaring.
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And here's the thing, because people don't necessarily understand that these goods are traded as commodities on commodities marketplaces. There's commodities marketplaces for tomatoes. for coffee, for soybeans, the same way like oil is traded. And when you create instability in the market, say by starting a trade war with Colombia, because Colombia said, look, we'll take the migrants back.
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Just don't put them in handcuffs on military planes. You have to treat the people with some modicum of dignity. And then we'll take the migrants who are Colombian back. But just don't trot them out like they're criminals and put them on military planes and bring your military jets onto our sovereign territory, to which Donald Trump said. Trade war. How dare you trade war? 25, 50% tariffs.
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We're sanctioning your bank accounts. We're throwing out your diplomats from the United States. By the way, those measures sometimes don't even happen when you're literally at war with the nation. You would keep some of the diplomats there. So Trump, based on...
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feeling disrespected over whether it was military jets or commercial flights imposed that, that then Columbia responded with its own tariffs. And then they tried to like figure out a solution. To be honest, it's still a little bit unclear where it even is. Is it here? Is it there?
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They claim to have reached a deal and the deal is basically the same thing that was happening when Biden was in office. So there's really no actual change in the status quo, which is a typical Trump move to say, I did it. Look what I did. It's like, OK, you literally did nothing different other than you now caused chaos and causing chaos wholeheartedly.
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harms the futures market for coffee beans, and it impacts the price of it, regardless of whether the tariffs hit or not, because the market is pricing in the instability into the cost of it for the future. So it's anticipating what the cost will be, and that causes volatility. So Brett, to your point, even if the tariffs don't get implemented, the act raises the price.
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Brett, that Usha Vance video, that is giving Senator Katie Britt vibes. Remember the RNC rebuttal? I mean, that is that. What did we just watch? But Brett, time and time again, you're proven to be 100% correct. We're not living in a democracy. We're living in a cacistocracy, Brett. Your favorite word, right? A government run by a person. and least qualified people.
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That's what we continue to see play in and play out every single day. I don't say it lightly like this. All of our lives are in danger because these people are at the helm right now. They have the wheel right now. How far off the road are they going to go? Well, how far will we let them? And
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Going back to how we introed it, that's why I'm so excited to see the fight of the Dems, Brett, coming forward over the past weekend. Because once again, the fighters are showing themselves right now. And quite frankly, now more than ever, that's exactly what we need, not just as a party, as Democrats, but as a country.
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We need people who are going to push back against this just lunacy that we're seeing play out.
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ainting him genuinely one of the craziest posts i've ever seen when i saw it last night i like couldn't even believe that this i mean let me just read it just so people wait then before you read it were you guys familiar with this like trump made this a story like nobody was even talking i want to just talk about this vote?
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It looks more like him than the weirdo Rambo Photoshop six-pack things. And the weirdo Elvis comparison. He's just kind of like looking into a mirror. Look, I guess if you're Donald Trump, you don't like looking into a mirror because that reflection would be scary, both mentally and actually what you look like. But that is unbelievable.
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What are you doing with your thumb? I don't know. You're making me uncomfortable. No, this is Donald came to the podcast today. In real life and also in that photo in here too.
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Two quick things, Brett, because I know we're wrapping. Hegseth, in that clip for the video watchers, and if you're on audio, go check out the video of that. He looks like an unhinged lunatic, like from the deep breath that he takes before he answers. He's like psycho. Smugness on his face as he's delivering the answer. Okay, now the other thing, the answer. All he did...
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That was the worst strategy ever to try and discredit a story that's, one, already been confirmed by your people, two, a story that has receipts. There are screenshots of the text. Did he just fabricate those screenshots? So all he did with that argument was now further confirm that Russia, Russia, Russia, both sides...
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all those stories are even more true than ever because if that's the crux of your argument hexa well you've proven to be a fool once again because in this instance there are receipts that are printed what are you doing buddy you look like he's he's relying on the fact that the corporate media
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Great to be here, everybody. Excited to get into the show. I just want to say this, but I agree. First off, people want fighters. That energy over the weekend really energized me again to start my Monday, my Tuesday, my week. I'm excited to dive right in. People want fighters. As I said on the last show, folks are going to start separating themselves from the packs.
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They're going to be very easy to identify who are the cowards and who are the ones that want to stand and fight. It's going to be very easy to see. to Hegseth really quickly before we toss it back to Ben. I mean, beyond just the blunderbuss, this is a full-blown scandal at this point.
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And given Hegseth's history, I don't say this lightly or a way of mocking it, but it actually has to be asked at this point. Was he drunk? We know his abuse of alcohol in the past. It's very well documented from his time at Fox. This is the person. This is what we feared. This isn't just like, aha, I added this person on a group to...
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no these are war plans are you kidding me like this is exactly what everybody feared or or or at least we knew could have happened just this reckless abandonment this totally just oh man is that just frustrating this is why qualifications yeah and character matters when you bring in a fox host
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No, I was going to say absolutely, B. The energy is palpable right now from people, and it's important that we keep the momentum up. I just wanted to say this, too. The Trump is a businessman thing, I mean, it just gets me every time I hear it. This guy's not a... Okay. Fine. I'll give you that he was literally a businessman.
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But voters who came out on that issue saying, you know what, no, Trump's going to be good for the economy. He's a businessman. That is gaslighting 101. I almost find it less offensive when it's the folks who would tell me like, no, I support Trump for X, Y, Z, horrible issue. But are you kidding me that he's a businessman? That is absurd.
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This aligning themselves with Elon Musk, too, continues to just be outrageously offensive to every American. Because why would we allow an oligarch like an Elon Musk to field questions in the Oval Office and let him continue to operate the sham, whatever you want to call it, doge, It is so bizarre what's happening right now. And you as the viewer, none of this is normal.
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Don't be gaslit by the media into thinking that any of this is normal. It ain't, Ben.
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Brett, but real quick, but these talking points, they work so well on X. He got 10,000 retweets on that talking point. He thought that was a home run. He got booed? Didn't have an answer. No. Interesting.
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At the risk of being made fun of by you two, what were they declaring victory over? Did I miss something? I'm not being ironic.
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That played so well. That talking point played so well over X. It got 17,000 bajillion views. What do you mean people were mad about that? That's not what my X algorithm said.
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Ben, we don't want to offend those fifth grade petulant bullies. Definitely not a segment of our audience that you would want to offend. So I'm glad you cleared that up.
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And you know another thing here? You could tell how and when Trump and his MAGA cabinet don't want to answer a question by how ridiculous and bully-like they can be. When a reporter is close to figuring out the truth and really getting to that sensitive subject, that's that reflex that we see from Hegseth there, just acting like a total lunatic. Who
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Who behaves like that in any setting, let alone the setting that he was in just there? I mean, truly bizarre. And the same thing with Trump earlier. I'd rather not answer that question. Well, too bad. Answer it and defend it. Answer it.
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Yeah, more so than a net loss, a net negative, absolutely. And to your point, just the overemphasis there on credibility, like what's happening right now, I don't know how we start digging ourselves up from where Trump and Musk has positioned us within the respect of the world, because frankly, it's declining at a rapid pace. we've lost the respect of the world.
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I guess aside from Putin and Kim Jong-un, but they don't even respect Trump. They're just using him. They're making fun of him too. So where do we go from here as a society, as a country? That's going to be the biggest hurdle now going forward, as long as we can all preserve democracy in these last or next four years.
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Well said, B. I'm excited to get into the show today. I just want to say this, and I'm really not being funny about those first set of clips that we watched. These are ramblings of a person who needs to be 5150. He's forgetting the deals that he's involved in, and this is the person who has the nuclear codes? And then let me just say this, too. I don't want to make this a corporate media thing.
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I know I say it a lot, but the media in the room with him, come on. When you ask the question about siding with the axis of evil over our allies and Trump says, you know what? I'd rather not explain it. Self-evident. And the reporters give zero pushback, like just crickets. You're in that room. Like you have a responsibility to not fanboy over you being in that room.
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You have a responsibility to get the truth. And if Trump... true social posts about you and gives you a mean nickname? Really? That's what you're scared about? Come on, you can't let them off the hook.
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Donald Trump continues to tank the economy, defy Supreme Court orders, make deranged all-cap posts all day, lose in a reckless trade war against the world that he initiated, cover up his Secretary of Defense text messaging war plans to his wife, break the US bond market, cause tourists to avoid the United States like the plague, promote a health department that's actually pro-plague, betray our alliances, crash the dollar,
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Well, put yourself in the shoes of a foreign country or just someone doing business right now with the United States. You take a look. You're like, well, what's our adversary in the negotiation or partner in a negotiation doing right now? So you take a look at the official White House account.
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And the official White House account, they're posting memes of a United States senator, AI images with like MS-13 tattoos on the person's head and mocking Democratic senators. You see posts like this on Easter breaking. This is from the official White House account. breaking. The White House is no longer a nursing home. And then it goes, hashtag White House Easter egg roll.
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This is a video that the White House and Trump posted. They think that this video makes Trump look good. I don't even know what Trump is saying in this video. Like, Jordy, to your point, he looks not well. They're trying to mock former President Biden. Donald Trump's basically right around the same age as former President Biden.
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And just watch, they think that this is Donald Trump at his peak right here on Easter. And again, it does not look good. Here, play this clip.
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Remember when the bunny took Joe Biden? What are they even talking about there? So put yourself again in the shoes of somebody looking at the United States right now. You see something like that. And then you see Caroline Leavitt, who's asked a question about disappearing. migrants to concentration camps in El Salvador.
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You're seeing a United States Supreme Court that ruled 9-0 to return Abrego Garcia, facilitate his return. You are seeing even recently in what was, I guess, a dissenting opinion in the recent Supreme Court order at 1 a.m. to block Trump from sending the next group of victims, migrant victims, from Texas to the concentration camps in El Salvador. It was seven to two.
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But even the two, they were against Donald Trump. They just said, we trust that Donald Trump won't do it until there's further orders from the court.
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because the trump regime said don't worry we're not going to deport these people as they were loading up the buses the seven other supreme court justices were like you know what we can't even take the word of the executive branch anymore when they tell us that they're not going to do something so we have to issue an order that's why it was 7-2 verse unanimous the two
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still said that trump shouldn't send the people to el salvador they just said we don't think he's going to do it it was clarence thomas and alito and it was like really you don't think they're going to do it they're literally loading up the buses right now they're they're lying to you so then you have caroline levitt donald trump's chief propagandist she's on fox this morning and so whereas the trump doj wrote in multiple briefings that it was a mistake to send to brego garcia she now goes out and says it wasn't a mistake
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It wasn't a mistake. We did it on purpose. Of course we did it on purpose. He's a terrorist. Here, play this clip.
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Just think about the middle finger they're giving to the United States Supreme Court. A nine to zero opinion, bring Abrego Garcia back. A 2019 immigration judge said that Abrego Garcia has no criminal history, put a withholding order in place saying you can't send him to El Salvador. If you want to deport him to another country, you can deport him to another country, but not El Salvador.
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He got a work permit from the first Trump administration, a work permit. right so he was able to work and he just had to show up once a year check in with ice and he could work in maryland right that's what was happening and then you see donald trump in office A felon, a sexual predator, someone found liable for sexual abuse, a fraud, engage in this behavior and engage in fraud.
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We never made a mistake. We never did this. And now you're hearing all of the stories, Brett and Jordy, about other people, of course, American citizens who are being detained. Yeah. You're hearing stories about people who are backpacking in the United States, who are put in ICE detention centers, strip searched.
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They spend days in a detention center before they get deported back to their countries. And it's a real no wonder that there is what Goldman Sachs is predicting. Ninety billion dollars in tourism will be affected by this. I think it's going to be more.
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But it's like Donald Trump has now destroyed the dollar, destroyed the bond market, destroyed tourism, prevents the United States from getting labor that it needs, destroyed our markets.
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uh and went after uh migrants with no criminal history and guess what with the whole thing here former president biden deported more people monthly than donald trump did more people under biden ended up getting to work he just didn't do it like a maniac he focused on people with criminal records actual criminal records and just did the hard work quietly
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We have a lot to discuss on this episode. When we come back, we got to talk about the breaking news from this weekend that Pete Hegseth involved in more classified signal communications of war plans on this other text thread that we learned about, communications with his wife.
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His brother, his personal lawyer, also some of the top people who work at the Department of Defense getting fired by Hegseth. Hegseth's spokesperson, a Trumper, resigns. And then Hegseth blaming the deep state and all these deep state leaks when it's actually the people who he hired. Like these Trumpers who are now saying they're thinking about doing wrongful termination lawsuits against Texas.
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I mean, who would have ever thought that if you pick a Fox News Sunday host to lead the Department of Defense, someone whose background was absolutely appalling, that they would get into power and do appalling things? Who could ever predict that? We've got a lot to discuss on the episode, on this episode of the Midas Touch Podcast.
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Well, in terms of the Department of Defense, a senior official working there who's close to Hegseth describes the situation as, quote, a complete and utter meltdown taking place. So Hegseth's core team is chief of staff, senior advisor, deputy chief of staff, deputy secretary, chief of staff.
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They were all fired on Friday or pushed out as Hegseth and others, I guess, were accusing them of leaking information. And these are like Hegseth's people. They deny it. I think that Some of them are threatening litigation against Hegseth for the way in which they were fired. You have a spokesperson who was the top spokesperson at the Department of Defense.
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Again, like a friend of Hegseth, a guy by the name of John Elliott. He came out with an op-ed for Politico basically saying that Hegseth needs to go.
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And that was before we learned that Hegseth was involved in having other classified communications on signal text message threads with his wife, who doesn't work at the Department of Defense, his brother, who he got a job at the Department of Defense. But why is he having communications with them, his personal lawyer?
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And also, if you go back with Hegseth, his whole shtick, remember, during the confirmation hearings
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was he would say you know when it would be people who would accuse him of doing horrific things right you know accusations of sexual assault accusations of drinking on the job i mean i mean the worst of the worst accusations out there credible accusations what would he say he would go these were all disgruntled former people And it was like, dude, your mom wrote a letter also.
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And your mom said that you were like incompetent in her letter and that you have abusive personalities towards women and the way you treat people. Like we read the mom's letter. Remember then the mom went on state regime media, Fox, and she was like, I didn't really mean what I said at the time. There was just such a mountain of evidence.
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I mean, then the fact that this guy had never led like a military command before. He has no experience working at the Pentagon. I mean, the organizations that he led, these two organizations, you know, smaller nonprofits. He got pushed out because of the way he handled things. This is the guy you make the Secretary of Defense.
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So again, it was not a shock to learn that he was involved in more inappropriate conduct. But also the way the White House is handling it just shows you, again, the lack of competence. Foreign countries must be looking at this and going like, what? What the hell is going on here?
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You know, there was news that broke exclusively from NPR that the White House was looking to hire another secretary of defense. And then the White House reposted the NPR article, seemingly agreeing with it. The rapid response White House account reposted that the White House has begun a process of looking for a new secretary of defense. Then they deleted their repost and then they wrote wrong.
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fake news okay then you had their chief propagandist caroline levitt go out and uh you know she was just spewing it was like a a fire hose of lies today here watch what she said about hegseth let's play this clip from page of the new york times secretary of defense pete eggseth back in the news about staffers had to be dismissed and a uh and a second signal chat that took place where's the president stand on this
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I want to comment on that, but let me show you what Hegseth said at the Easter egg event at the White House. And whenever Hegseth, whenever Hegseth is like interviewed, it's so entirely unhinged, right? I mean, you're the secretary of defense. I mean, it's shocking that he is, but like conduct yourself with some like composure. I mean, every time he speaks, it reminds me of like a
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like the like the no offense to the ultimate warrior from dub or maybe offense i'm not sure sometimes when i throw out these references to the you know wwe when i grew up ww like it's like a rest let me tell you let me tell you what's happening right here okay i'm standing i'm fighting i'm fighting for the fighters and it's not true it's not true okay okay it's here's why they're smearing me i mean it's so it's so unhinged i mean just his presentation of
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of facts here. Just watch for yourself. I mean, you'll see that my impression was not far off. Watch Hegseth today. This is what the media does.
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By the way, do you see that they had the talking point almost word for word of what they were going to say? And here's the thing, Brett. They may think that makes them look tough, but that is a sign of utter weakness from Trump and the White House, that you are saying you stand behind that conduct. They're not even really like, what are you denying?
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I mean, they're basically saying, yes, we did it, but it's also smears from disgruntled former employees. who were Trumpers. You control the government. Y'all are in charge now. These are your people in place. You fired all the other people. So this is your team, but this is the deep state going after you.
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I think before we talk about Trump tanking the economy, some context is helpful, as this account at TripleNet Investor says, people don't realize how good we had it in January 2025. The stock market was near all-time highs. The housing was near all-time highs. Inflation was at about 3% and going down to hit that Fed target of about 2%. Unemployment was at 4%.
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know because the way like a caroline levitt the press secretary i call her chief propagandist or pink dress lady the way north korea has this pink dress lady propagandist the way state regime media fox treats these things like it's all like it's all a game like we're dealing with human beings lives here brett like to your point four american soldiers died in lithuania donald trump said absolutely nothing about it right
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Two American soldiers died when Donald Trump sent troops to the border by New Mexico and Mexico, and Donald Trump said nothing about it. Another person was critically injured. As we've seen, you know, major weather events that have resulted in dozens and dozens of people being killed in the United States, Donald Trump has said nothing about it.
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What Donald Trump has done, though, is stop FEMA funding to North Carolina that needed for important kind of cleanup work that was needed, that former President Biden approved the FEMA aid. Same thing, Donald Trump stopped emergency FEMA aid to Georgia after the Trump regime, again, treated everything like a game, lied about what former President Biden's FEMA was actually doing to help people.
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There was about a 5% return on cash, risk-free. Real GDP was growing at about 3% a year. We were leading the world in GDP growth. 16.2 million jobs created. Again, record low unemployment. unemployment, 40,000 infrastructure projects going up. We were energy independent, the most oil production in the world happening in the United States.
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Donald Trump shut off aid that was needed. I mean, he sent letters of denial in North Carolina and in Georgia, but he's not making statements about aid. human lives. Even the way Donald Trump talked about the death of Pope Francis, Donald Trump's post was so weird.
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While world leaders were describing in heartfelt ways authentic memories of Pope Francis and their interaction with him, Donald Trump was making it about himself. I look forward to going to Rome. I look forward to being at the funeral. I mean, you look forward, you're excited to go.
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There's no attachment to the fact that at a basic level, the role of governance and the role of being a public servant is about serving the public and that's human lives. And there's this attachment from it with the oligarchy, with these billionaires who don't give a crap if people don't have health care or Medicaid or Medicare or Social Security.
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They don't care if people live paycheck to paycheck. They don't care about the suffering of people. are unable to get health care. They don't care about the fact that housing is less affordable. It's a game to them that prices are up. Donald Trump just will make a post saying we solved inflation. It's done. It's solved. We're good. And we resolved everything.
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And the only problem right now is federal is the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. He's screwing it up. But we solved it. Egg prices are down, he'll say, when they're actually at record highs. You talked about it, Brett, this complete detachment from the truth. And the Trump regime, Caroline Levitt Trump, they'll just constantly lie, lie, lie, lie, lie about everything.
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But their execution of things is as bad as you get. When we get back, I want to talk, for example, about when we talked about the Hegsits. I mean, you could talk about the RFK juniors.
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I mean, what they're covering up E. coli outbreaks that killed people, measles outbreaks across the country, RFK juniors saying the most horrific things about people who have autism, saying old people don't get autism. He's saying if you're autistic, then you can't like find the love and have job like the most like ridiculous, horrible things in the world, bringing anti-vaxxers on board.
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shock shock you bring an anti-vaxxer and they start bringing on anti-vaxxers and these quacks who basically do very harmful things within the health department so you have these kind of clowns but then even people like marco rubio behaving just as bad as as all the others right and what's there there's there's the expression i think it's an old turkish expression that when you
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Bring a clown to the palace. The palace doesn't all of a sudden become or the clown doesn't become royal. The palace becomes a clown show. No offense to clowns. And that's what's happening. It's infected the whole thing. These are not serious, smart people. The international community knows. It's why people are pulling their money from an economic standpoint away from the United States.
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empower China and capitulate to Russia and brag about Trump Gaza. Do you feel great? Say thank you. All the while Donald Trump just goes and golfs wearing these bizarre Gulf of America hats on the taxpayer dollar. We've got a lot to discuss on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben My cell is joined by Brett and Geordie. I want to wish everybody a happy Easter at the outset.
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It's why people aren't traveling abroad. to the united states because they see what's going on we're going to talk about all of that and more i want to take our last quick break of the show i want to remind everybody about store.midastouch.com check it out store.midastouch.com we've got great pro democracy gear including the maple midas gear right there you can check that out
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Also, you should check out MidasPlus.com. That's where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, really cooks up some great daily summaries. Check that out. We're going to take our last quick break of the show, and we've got a lot more to cover.
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And as this account says, and I agree, what's happened over the last few months has been nothing short of unnecessary and tragic, but it was Donald Trump and Musk taking a wrecking ball to the economy. This was a summer-
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Yeah, well, it's a great point. And it's why I even wanted to frame it that way in terms of if you don't want to listen to what I'm saying, even though I think we're coming with the objective data, that was, to your point, Brett, a Trump supporter. Or just take a look here. This guy, Spencer Akimian, he was not a Harris supporter or Trump supporter.
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Benji, where to next? Harvard University just filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump regime in the Federal District Court in Massachusetts. This after the Trump regime admitted on Friday that its letter to Harvard
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where the Trump regime said that it wanted to take over the admissions process, the hiring process, to eliminate all diversity at Harvard, to, among other things, audit the political views of students and faculty at Harvard to make sure it conforms with how the Trump regime wants people at Harvard to think. That was literally in the letter sent by the Trump regime to Harvard.
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Harvard responded and said, no, we're not doing this. Harvard was represented by and is being represented by some very prominent Republican lawyers, including one who worked in the Trump administration. But the Trump regime said that that letter was a mistake. but they still blamed Harvard for responding to it the way they did.
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And the Trump regime said, we didn't mean to send this letter, but Harvard, you should have realized that this letter was a draft and that it wasn't the final letter that we were going to send. So you now embarrassed us by publishing the letter that you received and then publishing your letter back to us.
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So now we're going to have to retaliate against you because you made us look bad by your response to the letter that we mistakenly sent you. So the Trump regime began end of last week. saying we're going to take away $2.2 billion in federal funds. Then they upped the ante over the weekend saying that there's another billion dollars in funds.
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And again, mind you, the Trump regime had said that this letter was a mistake, like it wasn't supposed to go out. But they're pissed that Harvard didn't recognize that it was a mistake. So Harvard had enough. They filed the lawsuit. The president of Harvard University, Alan Garber,
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announced the lawsuit and basically said moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it's unlawful and beyond the government's authority. And it goes on to say the government has cited the university's response to anti-Semitism as a justification for its unlawful action. As a Jew and an American, I know very well there are valid concerns about rising anti-Semitism.
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To address it effectively, we've dealt with that before. And then they go on to say, we've been dealing with it. It goes on to say the consequences of the government's overreach will be severe and long lasting.
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Research that the government has put in jeopardy includes efforts to improve the prospects of children who survive cancer, to understand at the molecular level how cancer spreads throughout the body, to predict the spread of infectious disease outbreaks, and to ease the pain of soldiers wounded on the battlefield. And it goes on and on and on from there.
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We'll be doing a full breakdown of that lawsuit. But I just want to get this straight, Brett and Jordy, and might as mighty. So the Trump regime says sending that Harvard letter was a mistake, but now they have to go after Harvard because Harvard responded. to the letter that was a mistake. The reciprocal tariff formula was a made-up erroneous formula.
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He was certainly not a Biden supporter, this guy. know and i remember his post being like very anti-biden and he posts things like this it's a summary of the bloomberg article from today markets are discovering the real trump trade is sell america the u.s financial dominance is being challenged with the dollar and treasury bonds losing appeal and the country's role as a consumer of last resort
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The Trump regime fired researchers working on Ebola. They fired people who work with nuclear weapons. They said that was a mistake. They are involved in classified communications on signal chats, inviting reporters onto these chats. They say that was a mistake.
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The Trump DOJ admitted that sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was a mistake, although now they're saying that's not a mistake and it was on purpose. Again, it is gross incompetence, or you can say willfully malicious at this point, but it is this raw incompetence that pervades this Trump regime. Mistakes are made is an expression that my wife uses.
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Sometimes they happen, but mostly mistakes are made. There's a reason why Trump has bankrupted all of his businesses or I should say many of his businesses, not quite all of them, but many of his businesses in the past. It is because he makes these exact same moves over and over again, and he doubles and triples down on the errors. He covers them up. Mistakes become catastrophes.
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Catastrophes become bankruptcies. And you see that's how he's handling everything right now, just a complete and utter disaster. I mean, you just take something even like Donald Trump promising peace in Ukraine. in 24 hours, right? That was the Trump promise. We will bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. I guarantee you it will be very easy to do. Now, what are they saying? At the end of last week,
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The negotiations are too tough for them. They're tired of the negotiations. The parties aren't coming to an agreement quick enough. We tried. It's not our fault anymore. We didn't do it. Blame it on Biden. Blame it on Zelensky. They don't blame it on Putin who actually did the unlawful invasion. We made this clip showing what Trump promised. and what Marco Rubio and Trump are now saying.
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And again, they set some fake deadline for themselves. We're going to do it in 24 hours. It doesn't happen. Then they make more fake deadlines. It doesn't happen. And Putin looks at it and Putin's like, all right, these people are not for real. And then the rest of the world looks at it and says, oh, got it. These people are pathetic. And so Europe forms its own alliances with Ukraine and
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Australia and Canada. And America now just finds itself isolated economically, isolated geopolitically when it comes to, you know, our alliances for foreign protection. Here, just watch this clip that we put together.
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We're going to say you're foolish, you're fools.
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you fool and we're gonna take a pass then even marco rubio he's like no one said it's gonna be done in 12 hours but we're gonna do it in a few days like again why are you continuing to create a made-up deadline for yourself do you see how they keep on doing that over and over again and jake sullivan said it to me perfectly go watch that full interview he said because the
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and military linchpin being questioned. Trump's tariff war and threats to fire the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are causing investor confidence to plummet, and the US's reputation as a stable economy is being damaged.
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their whole thing is winning the news cycle in a day versus actually, they just wake up, how could they hog attention in the day versus actually come up with a coherent strategy because they're so used to the disinformation when former President Biden was leading and it was like, okay, let's just watch it and then just flood the zone with lie, lie, lie, lie. but they can't plan ahead.
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Guys, even with stories like this, it's telling. The story about Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's bag, including $3,000 in cash, was stolen from a DC restaurant. Like, how does that even happen? You're the Homeland Security Secretary, which means you obviously have Secret Service and people who are there with you. Why do you have $3,000 in cash in your pocketbook at a DC restaurant?
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That doesn't sound like a great deal of competence right there that that's happening, but it's just every day with these people, it is a unmitigated clown show. And then not to mention, you have Trump, He was at his Virginia golf club.
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Like he lies to the press and pretended that he was at like Easter services and like intentionally left like his schedule vague while he had like his faith team go out and say, Donald Trump's like, you're doing all these services, total BS. Trump was golfing all day wearing this weird Gulf of America hat and then just posting the weirdest messages in the world. Just post after post after post.
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I don't even want to read all of these things, but it's just these incredibly deranged posts. Like this one, it goes, since our announcement of Liberation Day, many world leaders and business executives have come to me asking for relief from tariffs. It's good to see that the world knows we are serious because we are. I mean, what serious person goes and posts, we are serious.
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And they go, they must right the wrongs of decades of abuse, but it won't be easy for them. Like what, you're doing a scavenger hunt? I'm going to put you through a challenge because we're serious people and I'm writing. We're serious people. Then he posts like in all caps, the businessmen who criticize tariffs are bad at business, but really bad at politics.
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They don't understand or realize that I am the greatest friend that American capitalism has ever had. And happy Easter to all, including radical left lunatics. fighting and scheming to bring home murderers then he calls today this morning the chairman of the federal reserve jerome powell he calls him a major loser
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The shift away from US assets could have a significant consequence, including a decline in the value of the dollar and a rise in interest rates, which could have a major impact on the global economy.
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What president calls the chairman of the Federal Reserve a major loser and just mocks him and bullies him and harasses him? It's just not normal behavior. It reflects someone who is erratic, unstable, not serious. And the world sees that. The markets see that. Our adversaries see that. Our allies see that.
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and akimian also posts people are not appreciating what a horrendous message the bond market is sending us yields are 20 basis points higher than november back then we had three back when we had three percent real gdp growth we are having a substantial growth scare with stocks down like 20 from peaks and yet bonds have gotten zero bid whatsoever our credibility is shot and you will pay for it for decades to come
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I want to remind everybody, we've got store.midastouch.com. Get that pro-democracy gear. For those in Canada and the United States, we got the Maple Midas gear. The Maple Midas gear, of course, is 100% made in Canada. Canada, manufactured in Canada, distributed in Canada. We can still get it in the United States.
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There's a bunch of other great Midas Touch gear like you saw at the protest as well at store.midastouch.com. Check out midasplus.com and patreon.com slash midastouch as well. We got some great content. And I just want to thank everybody as well for staying in this fight. As Brett says, the resistance is growing. The opposition is growing stronger. Trump is looking weaker by the day.
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And that's a testament to everybody here committing that we're in this together. And it's so great to see the Midas Mighty community thriving. Of course, everybody in Canada knew about it. The early voting period taking place, those snap elections conclude on April 28th right there. So I think there's been record turnout so far in Canada when it comes to the early voting.
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and i think when you see what donald trump is doing it's not just the short-term pain he's inflicting long-term credibility damage to the united states economy which was not being abused the way donald trump has this mentality of everybody was laughing at us everybody was going after us every No, America was the richest nation in the world.
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And of course, we've been covering all of the Canadian news here on the Midas Touch Network on a daily basis as well. to all the maple midas out there elbows up and thanks for your support um into the entire international pro-democracy community it's an honor that you've entrusted us with the news in your countries as well thank you jordy take it away shout out to the midas mighty standing strong
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We were leading the world as the place where money would go to as the most stable economy. And like Trump's done with his businesses in the past, he's taken a wrecking ball to it. He's broken it. It's breaking the dollar, breaking the bond market, treasury yields going to levels that they should not be at at all, Brent.
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Of course, I also want to recognize some tragic news today that Pope Francis passed away at the age of 88. So our hearts and thoughts and prayers go out to, of course, the Vatican himself, everybody who's practicing and everybody in general.
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point that you makes a great one pro publica did an expose on friday about how one of the things that the trump regime is focused on is destroying all of the data so they can replace the true facts with their fake facts and fake news and then replace that and just have the propaganda prevail brett it's the exact same playbook that donald trump ran during covert with basically the exact same players
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except it's jerome powell the chairman of the federal reserve instead of dr fauci but similar concept right renowned expert following facts following science so you attack an expert and then a foreign enemy right and then the foreign enemy here that they go and attack is china and so over the weekend too donald trump would make posts like uh china is now interfering
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with the united states talks with europe and it's china's fault now that donald trump can't get these deals done it was funny i spoke with jake sullivan earlier uh in the day former national security advisor under former president biden and in addition to speaking to him you know i teach
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negotiations at law school and i've been involved in negotiations not the type that jake sullivan as a national security advisor was involved in with foreign leaders but one of the things that you know in negotiations is you don't set arbitrary deadlines that you can't meet because you end up trapping yourself
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in your own deadlines if you can't meet it and then you lose your credibility in the negotiation when your adversary now knows that you're working under a time constraint so because donald trump tries to dominate the news cycle in a specific day but has no long-term thinking or no thinking at all he wakes up he rage posts he comes up with some ludicrous claim We're gonna solve it in five days.
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We're gonna do it in 90 days. 90 deals, 90 days, right? And it has this like headline impact that the media loves to run with, but then you ultimately can't follow through with the plan. And when you can't follow through with the plan, the world sees, oh, wait a minute, we can play this out. He's going to get desperate. Let's just wait it out into the deadline.
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And then he's going to have to, you know, push the deadline back or he's going to have to do a deal that's not a good deal for the United States. I mean, when you're seeing like the prime minister of Japan, Ashiba, saying, you know, no, we're not going to do a new deal. We did a deal with you, Trump, in 2019. There was a deal with you.
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so we're not going to renegotiate that deal um and then uh prime minister ashiba says that japan has graves concerns grave concerns about the u.s overall approach to these tariffs and he added that he won't rush to visit washington in the coming days to strike a deal with trump as you know they feel that their dignity has been attacked they feel that their honor
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has been taken away and you know especially when you look at a lot of foreign cultures and it should be in all cultures frankly trust in deal making good faith is a very important aspect and trump has destroyed any form of good faith i mean trump couldn't cut a deal with president scheinbaum of mexico i mean the deals that were supposed to be the easy ones trump is struggling there and meanwhile
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you have china asserting itself in very strong ways so for all of the things that donald trump was saying last week where he was lying of course i'm speaking to china of course i'm doing this of course i'm doing that china is sending the exact opposite message and i'll just show you what china is saying so you can have a a real perspective but china firmly opposes
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any party, any country reaching a deal with the United States at the expense of China's interests. If this happens, China will never accept it and will resolutely take countermeasures in a reciprocal manner because Trump's plan now is, all right, everybody, now you join us and isolate China. And the other country's like, you declared a trade war on us. Why would you join us?
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Why would we want to join you in anything at all? And China's perspective is, look, you want to cut a deal with the U.S.? Do it. But don't cut a deal that screws us over. If you do that, we're going after you. So Trump's created this entire mess of a situation that's
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not just an unforced error, it's an obvious kind of malicious move that if your plan was to wreck the United States economy, you would do this.
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nice benji worth mentioning real quick it was 25 degrees like it wasn't dangerously cold caitlyn collins like that's a weird like framing for for due to the dangerously this is what cnn said due to the dangerously cold conditions we're moving the inaugurations being moved indoors it was not dangerous it was 20. it's colder here in pittsburgh it's eight degrees it's free i i've walked mellow three times today i don't wanna i don't want an award for it i'm just saying like
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And I don't want to belabor this too long because one of my superpowers that I like to say I have is I could read someone instantly. I just need literally a minute tops, if that. And when I saw him on the RNC, it was like the first time I really saw him. I'm like, oh, this this guy. But you know why? Because it's also disingenuous.
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Like that whole crew actually rubs me the really like a really wrong way. That whole network NBC crew. crew. And again, I don't want to believe, but like the Savannah Guthrie, the Kristen Welker, Haley Jackson, Lester Holt, Tom Lomas. I haven't been thinking about this all day.
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It upsets me because it's like a poison pill, if you would, like a hidden poison pill where just the everyday American is just tuning in for news updates. And all of a sudden they're getting the WWE-fication of politics in our world. They're not getting the news. They're not getting facts. They're being entertained quotes around that because...
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I made the mistake of tuning in earlier and just I was ripping my hair out watching this, just screaming at the TV. And then fortunately, we were doing the puppy stream. And so I went immediately back to that because it was on watch. What they were doing, their coverage was unwatchable.
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And honestly, it's worse than Fox, because at least with Fox News, you know what you're getting is bad and those players are bad. But what NBC has been doing, it's scary. And frankly, it's upsetting.
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Can I just say, brothers, that Scaramucci, especially when we refer to it as a negative increment of time, it's just my favorite measurement tool to measure anything time-related. So, yeah, tough for Vivek there, lasting a negative Scaramucci. Impressive almost.
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Ben, you're being a little bit of a hypocrite here because I don't remember you having the same energy when Biden released his crypto Bitcoin. Oh, wait. No, Biden never released a meme coin. That's not something that actual presidents really do or first ladies. What are we living in? How is this just going completely unchecked?
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This is one of the greatest grifts of all, not great like this is all, like this is one of the biggest grifts of all time happening and playing out in real time right in front of everybody's faces. And what does corporate media do? Okay.
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Excited to get into the show, but Brett, I just wanted to emphasize that again. That's why I always shout out the Midas Mighty at the end of the show. This community is unwavering. This community is here for the long haul. In the face of darkness, which was today, this community continues to be a beacon of light. raised over $80,000 during our stream earlier today.
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Again, the goal of that was 10,000 and all the proceeds going to the Humane Society Emergency Animal Relief Fund. Like shout out to the Midas Mighty Man. Unbelievable, undefeated. I love y'all so much. It was amazing to see and I'm glad we're keeping it going during tonight's show.
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That was WWE. So that's my guy, Tom Llamas. Not my guy. That's Tom Llamas doing all that nonsense. If you guys remember, Tom Llamas is the guy that I keep bringing up because he seemingly keeps continuing to do these ridiculous things. Just like at the RNC, when he told America, he said, Hulk Hogan just gave one of the most passionate speeches that I've ever seen.
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Tom Llamas, you got to chill out, man. If this is how America is going to be getting their news from Tom Llamas over these next four years, we are cooked.
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as a society i'm sorry but that's why i'm so grateful again for the mightiest mighty and i only have 30 000 strong we had during our live stream today you know showing up and it's just it blows my mind even from the camera angles for the audio listeners what we just witnessed right there was the wweification of politics plain and simple courtesy of tom lamas
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The social distancing hat.
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My wife likened the hat to the Hamburglar, and I thought that was, shout out Lex. I thought that was funny.
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when donald trump was asked about it he acted like he didn't even know what the person was talking about in the oval oh what even when people died well what are you talking about and that's his move if you've noticed his move is to just totally act oblivious to everything just anything that could look bad he goes i never even heard of that what i don't know and then you have people like even sarah huckabee sanders in the last storms right she was begging trump to do something
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Do something. Help us out. What the hell are you doing, man? And he refused, and he refused then, and he refuses now. And the amount of shit that he and all those MAG influencers, I think back to when there were the storms in Georgia, when there were the storms in North Carolina. And what did President Biden do at the time? He picked up the phone instantly. He declared emergency declarations.
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He immediately got on the phone with people like Brian Kemp. He went into action. And that's not even something that deserves, oh, wow, he went into action. That's what you're supposed to do as the president of the United States. And Donald Trump is not even doing the bare minimum here. pick up the damn phone, contact the officials, see what they need, do what people need from their government.
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It's just basic governance right here that is completely getting swept under, and nobody is speaking about this as a scandal, when to me, this is like the biggest scandal imaginable. This is like, imagine if during Katrina, Bush just totally even ignored it. We talk about his bad response. Trump has no response to these storms. It's honestly outrageous.
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On Russian state TV media. Unfortunately, we have to clarify. What did I say?
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You just said state regime media. And so I just want to clarify, we're not talking about our state regime media, the Russian state regime media. And for the audio listeners, I mean, they literally, they run, and they do this like all the time. They show like nude pictures of Melania and they like mock her. It's insane. And like, this is all top down from Putin.
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Like this isn't just a random producer deciding to run this thing.
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Yeah, I hear there was a lot of outages that day also and still outage. I mean, it's like every day we're hearing of new outages at the FAA, everything in total chaos. But Ben, you listed all the top news of the day, but I want to make sure we're focusing on one of the biggest stories of the day. That said, it's your birthday, Ben. Happy birthday to Ben and not just any birthday.
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It is Ben's 40th birthday. Thank you for spending it with us here on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm really excited about this episode. We've got a lot to talk about, so I know we're going to get right into it. But I want to thank everybody also because last week, as Ben mentioned, it was an exciting week.
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Is this the one where she's asking about Moody's? Yeah, yeah. Do we have that one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see if this is it. Edward. Yes, thanks.
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You're awesome. I want to get the president's reaction to Moody's downgrading the credit rating of the United States.
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It was also a very grueling week for all of us doing all the things that Ben said and more and then keeping this thing afloat. And we couldn't have done it without all of you and all the support out there. So thank you.
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so much and that youtube charts thing man it's really cool youtube is now having a podcast charts where they show you the top podcasts on the platform it's an honor to be the top news podcast on the youtube charts and thanks everybody remember to subscribe to the Midas Touch podcast listen also not only on youtube and watch on youtube but listen on the on apple podcasts on spotify leave a five-star review jordy what's the latest i'm just gonna say this before we dive in benji happy birthday big bro i love you man where do you want to start off today
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They always find the dumbest whataboutism to try to go to, to try to normalize his behavior. And there's nothing normal about this behavior. And the fact that you have Donald Trump in any other media environment, Trump threatening to hold military tribunals to imprison President Obama, former President Obama, I think that might be like a big deal, right?
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Trump ignoring calls, people begging in these states for help. Help, please just help us a little bit. Please activate FEMA. Do something. And ignoring them completely. And I used to go on and on, you know, we're just talking about the tariffs and throwing the global economy into chaos, all that stuff, right?
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You could talk about that for days, but apparently the media wants, they want to make sure you know that Joe Biden's old, okay? That's what's top of mind for them. All that stuff could go to the side because folks, I'm not sure if you've heard it, Joe Biden, old guy. That's what the media wants to focus on right now, which is ridiculous.
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No, well, I was going to say, like, you know, anytime I see like this, you see that force of the media, right? You see when the media machine kicks in, right? You saw it after the debate, which we, of course, here, you know, we're very honest about, very critical of, you know, but you saw the outsized media response after the fact and how they didn't stop punching, right? They just did not stop.
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And now you see they have this book release. And so they're cranking it up, right? They're going nonstop about Biden, right? And sometimes I just feel like I'm being constantly gaslighted by this machine out there. Because I think too, like you said, Jordy, your direct interactions that you had with the person. And you know that there's a phrase that's something like, you know,
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You may not remember every word somebody says, but you remember how they make you feel, right? And every time we've been with President Biden, he has been incredibly present with us and gracious with his time and made us feel very welcome. When we did that interview with President Biden, he – It took much longer than we were actually scheduled for for the interview.
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He then, after the fact, told the Secret Service to push his meetings and stuff. He showed us around the Oval Office. He told us stories. It was very interesting, very unique, very special kind of moment. And I even think back, Jordy, when you interviewed him in Pittsburgh and did a little social media with him in Pittsburgh –
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I recall what was one of the first things he said with you after you finished recording. He said, how are your brothers doing? You got their number? Could I give them a call? And then you called me and Ben with the president of the United States on the phone. Ben was not near his phone. I was teaching. Ben missed the call, but I picked up and he was like as gracious and as nice as could be.
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Oh, Brett, so good to hear from you. How's it going? How's your family? How's your wife?
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so when i see the stories that are being presented and the way as if there was like some mass cover-up right exactly there's some massive cover-up that was going if they were trying to cover anything up uh they gave us a little too much access because we would have freaking known you know we we've known fast all right we had one one-on-one conversation we would have known very quickly if they were trying to cover it up they did a very bad job what were you gonna say then
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We're still waiting on the health care plan, by the way. And his lies are like the same. They're always the same. And so I don't understand how anybody's falling for them. It's always, oh, we got something. It's actually really good. It's really great. It's the best. It's going to be there in just two weeks. Two weeks to unveil it. Oh, it's just going to be a couple of weeks.
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Oh, we just need a little more time. It's going to happen. You know, we're getting them together. It's going to happen. Just give it a few weeks. It's the same. He just constantly kicks the can down the road and then his lie gets parroted. Oh, Trump says he has a huge plan that's going to change everything. It's going to solve this problem, solve that problem.
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By the way, I would love for this problem to be solved, right? I would love for this war to be over. I will celebrate the day that that happens. But I'm not going to preemptively buy Donald Trump's bullshit when he has a track record for lying not about one thing here or there, but literally everything.
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leave a five-star review if you go into on apple you go into the show you scroll down you'll see it says write a review you could hit the five stars you could write some nice words it just really helps get the show out and the most important thing for us um right now is to get these messages out to as many people as possible people need to hear the truth people need to see and hear what is actually going on and stay focused on the biggest issues of our time i know we are committed to doing that and so thank you all for spreading the word and on that note
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I'll toss it over to Jordy. Jordy, bring it home.
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And not only that, Ben, it seems like we're also hearing anytime Donald Trump leaves, right, he makes these big announcements, right? We got a deal here. This country, we did this in this region, in that region. And then he gets all the headlines. The press runs with everything he says verbatim no matter how ridiculous the numbers are.
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And then inevitably one of the countries comes out and they go – That wasn't what we talked about at all. And in fact, Donald Trump completely offended us. Like we're watching even what happened in India where the Trump administration was trying to take a credit for this ceasefire between India and Pakistan. And India is like furious at Trump right now.
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They are absolutely pissed and they think that Trump's trying to take credit and that Trump had nothing to do with this. It's an embarrassment. It's an international embarrassment to see him go to these countries, then lie, have our press write these headlines without any discernment whatsoever.
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and then have to have these other heads of state and whatever correct him and correct the record all the time. But Trump has understood that our media is so propagandized that all he has to do is just say whatever he wants. And it's just basically going to be repeated. And they're going to focus on things that aren't really important.
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They're not going to focus on the fact that Trump isn't sending FEMA into these states, that he hasn't even activated them. They're not going to focus on the death toll as a result of Trump and what's going on with the National Weather Service. That should be a major scandal. We're going to get into all that here as well.
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But the things they're focusing on to run these 24-hour-a-day stories on Biden and to be focused on all these other things, to me, it's just a disgrace. And you're missing the mark of the serious things that are going on in the country right now. My message throughout all these deals is that his announcements constantly follow the same pattern. He declares a major breakthrough.
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only for the details later to reveal that nothing has really changed. And in the meantime, the press is just doing his bidding for him. And it's just a complete embarrassment to our entire system, to be honest.
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And it could sound like a conspiracy theory, right? Oh, the media is coordinating with Trump and they're trying to do his bidding, right? But then you hear these stories that show that it is very much true. Like, today we were hearing the story about Wendy McMahon, the president of CBS News, and she is resigning because she was
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on the side of bill owens the 60 minutes executive producer who recently resigned because for the first time ever the the higher ups at cbs and the ownership of cbs was saying that they had to adjust their programming about donald trump to appease donald trump like that was coming from the top
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And these executive producers, these well-respected people at these networks who have been doing these jobs for a very long time, they are now backing out. They are now saying, I refuse to be complicit in what is happening right here.
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I understand that they want to do this merger, that they want to do this buyout deal, and that they know that Trump is the one who's able to either accept or deny that deal. But I'm not going to be complicit in selling out our country in order to give beneficial treatment to Donald Trump. I mean, it's just a complete abdication of the role of the fourth estate.
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And that's why I want this media to succeed. I really do want them to do well. I want them to be able to do their job. But it so pisses me off when we learn about what's going on.
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And, you know, shout out to Wendy McMahon for her courage in calling this out, in coming out in public and speaking out about what her network is doing behind the scenes to these shows, which are supposed to be able to call balls and strikes. But right now they are trying to appease Donald Trump.
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I'd like to just point out a pattern as well, Ben, and that's in all these situations, like we've seen now multiple deadly storms, fatal storms occur under the Trump administration. We're seeing the storms that we're speaking about right now. And just a few months ago, if you remember, there was like, there were storms that had at least like 40 deaths in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma.
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No fee made to those states too. No fee made to those states, too. And Donald Trump, again, did not even speak out about those issues, did not even say any words of comfort, not even like for all of his posts. He's posting about wanting to arrest Bono and freaking Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce and people for speaking out against them. He's saying Taylor Swift isn't hot.
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He's posting QAnon memes about military tribunals for Obama, all this crazy stuff that we'll get to in a little bit. And he can't even –
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do one post saying listen i i hear you i'm with you i'm going to use the weight of the united states government to ensure your safety to ensure you are okay even with uh our our troops our troops dying right we saw our the death of our troops both near our border um right here who were sent on this mission to secure the border by donald trump we also saw our troops die in lithuania donald trump did not release a statement
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It's so infuriating to me to watch the person who sits at the highest chair of leadership as POTUS in this country do literal victory laps at the Daytona 500 or show up to the Super Bowl and have Fox do a zoom in on him. Trump is the ultimate me guy. I've never seen someone make any situation more about them
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then what people are there and gathered to do other than Donald Trump whenever he shows up and sticks his face, well, frankly, quite everywhere. He's not working. This is the misconception that I think might be out there that I'm excited to sort of dispel on the show.
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Just because he's doing these weirdo victory laps and the beast at the Daytona 500 showing up at the Super Bowl, that's literally the opposite of working. He's just putting his face out there.
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Thousand percent, Brett. You want to talk about weaponization of the government? You remember when Republicans were crying in that every day or every second? Look no further than what Elon Musk is doing. He quite literally bought his seat at the table, and that table just so happens to be in the Oval Office.
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I mean, when you look at Elon Musk taking questions from corporate media in the Oval Office, standing next to Donald Trump as he did earlier last week, that's a terrifying sight. People... Look, they may have voted for Donald Trump, right? Not by 50%, less than 50%. But sure as hell, nobody voted for Elon Musk.
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And now Elon Musk is seemingly making every decision that's impacting every single American and is, quite frankly, having devastating ramifications on this country and people's lives. It's terrifying to see play out. It's absolutely disgusting. And this has to be an indictment on the oligarchs and on Elon Musk. It's absolutely awful.
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Audio listeners, Brett has been down on his Uplift Desk right there.
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That's the disingenuous argument of Trump's a great businessman. That's the one for me that has always fallen flat. If you're saying, oh, no, he's a businessman. I mean, I guess technically he does business, but not well. Yeah. Your argument can't be like, oh, he plays quarterback. Yeah, well, he played peewee quarterback. Don't start him for Kansas City.
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Okay, let me make it clear. Bullying is allowed when YouTube is saying that I can't vote.
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That's fair. He also looked like his head is photoshopped on his body.
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now we're just seeing this play out with politicians globally and these meme coins ben and brett they do work that people do get rich off of them you know who though the people doing the scamming and the people with the base that is foolish enough to all buy in and then they pull the rug and they make all the money and they're like how did that happen i can't believe what happened with this coin next time we're gonna get it right we're gonna get it right next time just trust me smolania gonna be
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And then finally, what's really going on, Jordy Serkis? And to your point, exactly. Sorry, this is move fast and break things. That's the expression. And to your point, exactly. Doge, right? This isn't Twitter. This isn't when Elon Musk bought Twitter and then cleaned house and then Twitter, the replies weren't working. You couldn't link in tweets and you couldn't share things properly because...
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The people weren't installed to operate because he got rid of everybody. This is the government. And now this is what happens when you let the oligarch buy their seat at the table that happens to be the Oval Office and the seat in the Oval Office. And it's unbelievable, again, to see play out on such a global scale that's having real world ramifications.
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Thanks, B. Yeah, no, stoked, excited to get into the show. I mean, it is just bananas, right? As we say, Donald Trump is the weapon of mass distraction, Ben. I like that term that you use. As people's attention spans continue to get shorter and shorter, I think it's more important than ever that the receipts that we bring to the table are presented in a way that is just clear as day.
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It's unbelievable to see play out. And quite honestly, it's just frankly upsetting to me as someone who deeply loves this country to see our quote unquote leadership act in such a way that just makes a mockery of our constitution, that makes a mockery of our country and of the great people that make up this country.
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And then Ben, where do you want to go next?
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The closest he got to criticizing Putin was saying, he's not an angel. He's not... That was it. Then he spent the rest of that answer criticizing Zelensky, criticizing former President Biden. And I just sincerely ask the reporters in that room, I know you care about that access. I know you do. I know you hold this as a high regard. And look, I appreciate your craft. I genuinely do.
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but please for the love of this country you need to push back on the guy you need to say you are president right now what are you going to do about this what are your thoughts about this and don't let him escape on i didn't know about that or or or oh i i i haven't read that yet stop it stop it this isn't a freaking game this isn't a game show you know
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these are real world consequences these are people's lives people are dying he's the leader of the free world whether we like it or not hold his feet to the goddamn fire and ask him some questions i gotta disagree with you that he's no longer the leader of the free world like let's be very clear like he's not
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Absolutely, Brad, and continue on with that. You can't cede any ground. You give a guy the inch, you give the guy the inch, he takes your life. We've said that multiple times throughout this podcast, a bunch of episodes. Don't give him anything because what he's doing right now is disgusting.
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and there's no other way to to even talk about what's happening right now and the way he's he's quote unquote leading this country it's a disaster what he's doing right now and don't be gaslit by by corporate media into thinking that what's happening is normal none of this is normal continue to stay strong in the fight don't give him an inch benji where do you want to start
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It's so perfectly said, Brad, right? What's one of the expressions we say on the show? ABC, always be campaigning. And now we get to see that play out in real life. And it's not campaigning just for campaigning sake, right? These are good ideas. These are ideas for the people. They're timely ideas. It really matters to people.
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And you can't just show up, Brett, to your point, three months before an election and expect that folks just have your back because you're the Democratic Party. No, the Democratic Party, it's truly the party for people. It's the party for the working class. It's the party for America. Hands down.
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But the ideals and ideas constantly get lost in the shit show that is our politics because the Republicans like to grab the microphone and just spout all this MAGA nonsense and frankly lie, lie to the American people. To get out in front of crowds, to go to states, to go to red states as Democrats and hear your message resonate and hear it loud and hear people understand, like, I get this.
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I am for this. Yes. And not be concerned that the next election is two and a half, three years away. No, you've got to get those ideas. You've got to get the movement going now. Let's show some of those ideas, because here's the thing.
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And the Trump regime, they lie as easy as people breathe. I mean, this is why we say you can't trust anything that comes out of the Trump regime because, well, what we're showing you right now. I mean... It's so upsetting to me that these people have so much control over the lives of the American citizens, and yet they're the most despicable and hateful people. It's cruelty for cruelty's sake.
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Okay. All right. Sounds good. All right. Thanks, guys.
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Exactly that, Brett. It's horrifying to me that MAGA and the MAGA party has made the political calculation because that's what they're doing. They're making a political calculation that is in their best interest, in their best political interest, not to help people.
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not to get resources where they need to go, but to spread misinformation and disinformation actually put Americans' lives more at danger by not doing the things that any normal person would do. I always think about our counterparts overseas right now who are just witnessing the United States politicizing such a horrific event.
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and seeing MAGA time and time again just spread these lies and not want to help fellow Americans, it is mind boggling. It is terrifying. It is upsetting and it needs to stop. And I'm glad Newsom is doing what he's doing, Brett, because you laid it out perfectly in real time. He is putting this disinformation to bed.
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but it's also at the same time horrifying that he has to spend even one second thinking that there are people within this own country that are trying to get other Americans killed.
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Brett, it is so great to have you back. I see everybody in the comments right now saying that they're glad that you're back, doing well. And yeah, my heart goes out to everyone still being affected by these fires. I know we have a huge, mightiest, mighty constituency out there in California. So please just know, as I said last week during the podcast, we're in this together.
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We're here for you guys. Please let us know how y'all are doing. Excited to get into the show. and really dig in. And it does just amaze me that as Newsom is literally, and I know we're about to jump into it, but as he's literally fighting for the people on the ground, not even like, not Democrats, right?
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Just fighting for the people of California on the ground right now, trying to get them resources, trying to get them help. The fact that he has to push back against Donald Trump and these MAGA Republican lies about how the fire started or or this person did it or there's not enough resources like the maga lies right now specifically it is putting the lives of Californians in the greatest danger.
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And the fact that Newsom has to spend one second, even just one second of his time trying to just get the truthful information to combat the misinformation out there and the disinformation, it's ridiculous that it even needs to be done as people's lives are literally on the line, Ben.
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So, all right, what about water availability? Was water availability, I understand that was not an issue in Malibu, is that correct?
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Okay. My understanding is that along the – correct me if I'm wrong – in Malibu along the coast, there was no shortage of water. In the Palisades, there was a shortage of water at a certain point. Or is that not accurate?
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Exactly, Brett. He's serious enough about Canada to bring it up during the Super Bowl interview with Bret Baier when he said, yeah, no, I want Canada to be the 51st. Absolutely. I want to go back to that Bret Baier interview where we started with J.D. Vance not being his successor. Trump saying, no, I don't view him as my successor.
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I mean, in what world are we living in that that's actually a step up from what he said about his previous vice president, who he wanted to have murdered, if we all remember. So I can't believe JD actually that that's a bonus for JV that he doesn't want him to be the successor. But in all seriousness, what we're looking at here is it's what dictators do, right?
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Trump is laying in the groundwork to install who Don Junior or Eric install his kids next, right? Keep the lineage going. That's what Trump wants. He just envisions America being run by Trumps for the next 100 plus years. It's absolutely insane to continue to play out. And now moving on to his Gaza comments, he wants to treat Gaza like a real estate deal.
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Well, we all know his track records with the real estate deals, and they're not too great. So it's an interesting turn of phrase that he used there. And then lastly, tariffs. When the reporter's asking him, is aluminum going to be included with that? Doesn't it just sound like he's shooting from the hips? He's like, oh yeah, aluminum too, and 25%.
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It just feels like he's coming up with these ridiculous things on the spot. And I know they're ridiculous, and I say they're ridiculous, but they have real world consequences as we continue to see play out.
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It's the same thing that they do with the egg prices, Brad. Trump said he was going to get into office and bring prices down. Now eggs are more expensive than ever, $10 to $15. And what do these MAGA influencers do? They go... I'd happily pay more. I'm happy to pay more if that means keeping the immigrants out.
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We want to talk about editing, Ben, too. I was saying we want to talk about networks editing that Fox interview with Trump with all those hard cuts. Now, that is something that should be looked into and actually investigated because the That's just straight up propaganda.
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We saw the night of the Super Bowl with that interview of how they were making him sound like he could complete any sentence whatsoever. But to a skilled eye and honestly, you don't even need to be a skilled editor to know these tricks that Fox was doing. The hard cuts were just so apparent in that interview with Trump and Brett Baier. It was it was disgusting.
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Nothing much over here, but you're exactly right. I think what we've established at this MAGA, you know, this Republican Party does at this point because it's the entire party here now. is that they're just beholden to oligarchs. They don't lead for the country. They're not leading for all Americans. They're leading for the oligarchs and the billionaires.
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And I'd say it's chaos for chaos sake, but it's not. It's chaos for the oligarchs. They love what's happening at the expense of the American people. It doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or if you voted for Trump as just a Republican or a MAGA Republican or whatever. It doesn't matter. He's benefiting the oligarchs and the billionaires. That's plain and simple.
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Perfectly said. And I just want to react really quickly to the CBS lawsuit because I think it's important here as we close out the show, something we say here quite often about Trump and this regime. If you give the guy an inch, he'll take your life. So it was widely reported a few weeks back now that CBS's parent company, Paramount Global, was –
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They were talking about settling the $10 billion lawsuit, gaming out options to reduce friction with the incoming administration at the time. And this was reported in the Wall Street Journal. Trump gets wind of this. What does he do? He takes your life. He says, oh, they're going to settle at $10 billion. Huh. I wonder if they'll settle at $20 billion.
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And we'll see what we can get from them there. Like we say. this guy is just an awful human being at, at its core, just terrible person. And you cannot appease him. You cannot work with, Oh no, let me just do this. Cause then maybe he'll just, he'll leave me alone and he'll go on to the next. No, that's not how he thinks. That's not what goes on in his mind.
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He's going to continue to press and continue to be the bully that he is. He's going to take and take and take until there's just nothing left. It's just wild to see it continue to play out. And CBS just fell right into the trap of this one, Ben.
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Exactly, Brett. The coverage that mainstream media and congressional Republicans, the Republican Party at large is giving Trump right now is utterly ridiculous. And it should light a fire just under every single American because they are gaslighting you. They are all gaslighting you at once. And they just hope you don't care enough.
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They hope that they could distract you with the trans volleyball player on San Jose State or this issue or that issue and not look at your 401ks.
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The Republicans in Congress have absolutely zero backbone. And this is going to go down as just one of the biggest stains on the Republican Party forever. As long as there is a country, everyone's going to remember where these Republicans stood.
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at this moment in time when the stock market's crashing when businesses are terrified everyone will remember where these republicans stood and it's going to make a difference and you know why it's so infuriating too we just actually have to ask the question donald trump's cognitive ability it Can you even call it a cognitive ability? He's not all there.
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And I'm not saying that to be dramatic or just, you know, for the clicks and the likes. It's very obvious by his speech and what he cares to put out in public that he's not being a very serious person right now. And the only thing that I can conclude is that he is simply just not all there.
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there he wants to talk about his golf game he wants to talk about going to these golf tournaments and that he competes he's not jack nicholson what are we talking about we just accept that this guy competes in these like senior golf championships and he hoists the trophy that they give him and they give him every putt like this is some really sick stuff that we're witnessing this is the guy that has the nuclear coats okay and the republicans in congress are just covering his ass why
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why we need to ask the questions here because at the end of the day it's every single american and future americans who are going to be paying the price for this disgusting ridiculous behavior like the journey said he's not jack nicholson i think he meant jack nicholas but you know i always confuse them and i'm just i'm so thrilled that you called me out on that because you know everyone picked up on the difference there
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Fed the F up, man. This is unlike anything we've ever seen before. I mean, I'm motivated after watching everything go down over the weekend. I love seeing all the signs, just like you said, Brett. Thanks to everyone for tagging us in all of those posts. And just shout out to everyone on the ground this weekend. That was freaking awesome. Benji, where do you want to start us off?
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Shout out to our sponsors. Links in description of both the YouTube and the audio. Click the links. Use the codes. Let them know we sent you. Benji, you mentioned it really quickly. I think it's just worth touching on one more time that Trump is planning a military parade through the streets of D.C. to celebrate his 79th birthday. I mean, that's just an insane sentence to even say.
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And back before Bill Maher went sideways, he used to warn that this is something that he wants to bring to the states, these military-style parades.
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So whether or not he's going to do this or not, I think the obvious answer is yes. He's going to do this. And this is going to be one of the most bizarro things to take place in the streets of D.C. that we've ever, quite frankly, seen.
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Here's what I don't like. It upsets me because I think it's misguided anger and I think it's really unfair to certain people, to be honest. Because I saw today after Kamala Harris did her constitutional duty here, I saw a lot of anger directed towards Kamala Harris. To me, that just reeks of blaming the victim.
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And I think that is so incredibly screwed up to blame Kamala Harris for doing her job here. She is doing what she is mandated to do. And like we've been saying, there was no other option. There was zero other option. It didn't exist. So you're asking her to do an impossible thing, and then you're getting mad at her for not doing that impossible thing. The person who fought so hard
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for all of us these past few months, the person who threw it all on the line, who put all of her chips on the table during this election. I mean, she deserves, I think, respect for the job that she's done here, respect for the campaign.
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Sure, and you could go back and you could say, hey, maybe we could have done X better or Y better, or maybe we could have done this, or maybe we could have combated this propaganda in this way, or whatever it is, there's certainly... can certainly do your Monday morning quarterbacking, so to speak.
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But to blame the victim here, to blame Vice President Harris for just simply doing her job, to me, I just think that's – I think that's an unfair direction of people's anger at this time, personally.
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Trump thinks it's a show of strength, but it couldn't be further from it at the end of the day. When you see Trump sending these messages out, when you see the way that he's interacting with world leaders, it is quite honestly the opposite of strength. It exudes weakness in every single way. If he thinks he's being tough towards these countries, these countries are all laughing at us.
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They are all looking at the United States of America right now, going, what the hell is going on over there? Who is this maniac who is about to come in? And so he's really putting America in a bad situation. He's alienating us from our allies every single day.
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He's causing all these other countries to be in kind of a defensive position against the United States, which is something that your allies shouldn't have to be concerned about. to put it lightly. It's just absolutely disgraceful.
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It's no surprise that it's exactly what Vladimir Putin would want to be happening right now to our country, that everything that he does happens to align exactly with what Donald Trump is putting forth.
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Doing well. You know, it's a day that brings about a lot of emotions, I would say, for many reasons. I mean, we had the certification, of course, today and the four-year anniversary of the January 6th attack. I can't believe that was four years ago already at this point. Jordy and I were speaking about it earlier.
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But I remember that day we were like about to be interviewed for some podcast or NPR show or something like that. And the insurrection had begun like right at that time. And I emailed the host and I was like, I think we're going to need some time before we do this interview. And the host was like, why? But you said, I'm like, could you turn on the TV, please? He was like, oh, okay.
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Then we just watched those horrific events unfold on live TV. I think we're all still feeling the effects from that as a country. Just to see now Donald Trump getting back in there, it's difficult for a lot of people. I'm just reflecting on all that. It just means we have to double up, quadruple up all of our efforts now to do everything we can to hold Donald Trump accountable.
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Yeah. I was going to say, I tried watching a little bit of it and I watched some other clips of it and it was just a disaster. You realize, how do I put this? I don't know. I'm just going to say he sounds like he says the things that Vladimir Putin would be saying if he had a podcast. I will say it like that.
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And you just get a really interesting sense of how warped their mindsets are that they think – Putin is the good guy as they go through this interview. And over and over, you had the Lex Fridman guy speaking to Zelensky in this historic interview, acting almost like Zelensky was the aggressor. Why don't you want peace? Why aren't you doing anything to get peace?
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And Zelensky pushed back strongly on these statements, which were just the entire time felt just so misguided. I even saw the folks who watched his podcast and listened to I saw the comments and even they were like, what the heck was that? Like, what kind of questions are these even? I mean, if you go through it, it was just so misguided. completely bizarre.
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Here's one of Zelensky's responses to Friedman. He said, do you think Putin wants to end the war? It's very naive. I'm sorry. And over and over, Zelensky needed to correct him because Friedman's approach would be basically like, well, Vladimir Putin, he really loves Russia. He really loves the people of Russia. He's a good guy. Good guy.
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So why don't you just sit down and just give him what he wants? And Zelensky's like, do you understand anything? Do you know who this guy is? It's the same, and it's very generous if I use this word, and I really don't mean it, but it's the same naivete that Trump approaches these issues with, which really isn't naivete.
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It's really being in the pocket of Vladimir Putin of Russia and doing their bidding with all this messaging and the way that you approach the world, the way that you attack American allies, the way that you treat Ukraine in this situation. And I just think it's honestly just horrible.
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in these next few years. We need to confront this head on. We need to do everything possible to turn this Trump presidency into a lame duck presidency even before day one and render all of his attacks to be ineffective. That's what we all need to be doing. That's what we all need to be dedicated to do every single day. Jordy, how you feeling?
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Yeah, and one of the things that I would say the oligarchs want, one of the things that MAGA wants, and one of the things that they are quite effective at, and it's one of their kind of keys on how they get things done in many ways is by dividing people. by leading by division, by fracturing groups, by fracturing coalitions. That's a very specific goal.
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I mean, we saw that during the election, the way Elon Musk's shady PACs operated by sharing one message for Kamala Harris about Gaza in one place and sharing an opposite message about Kamala Harris and Gaza and Israel in another place, purposely to try to grow these rifts and grow these divides.
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And I think we are seeing that continue every single day, new outlets, new areas where you see folks and you see these forces trying to say, okay, here's a wedge issue where we could tear people apart, where we could separate people.
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And so when I look to the past kind of few days and the lead up to the certification, I think you saw that in a lot of ways of people pushing this idea that Congress has to do something here about the 14th Amendment. They need to do something now. And if they don't do something, shame on them. If they don't do something, then they are not doing their duty here.
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The thing is, is that when you put people in an impossible situation, something that the Supreme Court has ruled on, something that they literally have no power over, despite what some people may want to tell you, they really have no control over it. What's happening there is you are building animosity towards a group of people who are actually powerless to act in the situation.
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who are just doing their duty. And you are doing the bidding of these dark forces, and they are distracting you from the things that really matter. You're getting distracted from the hard work that needs to be done. I mean, Ben went through all these clips and the real dangers that we are facing in the months and years ahead.
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And that requires a united front to move forward in order to protect the democracy that we all love, in order to protect and uphold the values that we all love, not to be sidetracked by impossible issues, not to be sidetracked by things that cannot happen. And so it's all important that we keep our eyes on the ball here.
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We've got to keep our eyes on the ball and to stop turning everything into a circular firing squad. We can't be getting angry at the people who are trying to help, right? You can't be getting angry at the leaders who have stepped up to try to move this country forward. We need to be directing our passion. We need to be directing our platforms, our voices at stopping this deluge of propaganda.
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That's what we need to be doing. whether it's from Elon Musk, whether it's from foreign sources like Russia or Iran. We need to be pushing back against that. We need to be growing the pro-democracy ecosystem to make sure that we're not only competing with those lies, but that we are surpassing those lies, that we are crushing those lies, that we are flooding the zone with unfettered truth.
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That's what we need to be worried about. And we can't be always doing Putin's bidding here and doing the bidding of MAGA by furthering divisions within coalitions and trying to divide people at every step of the way because that is simply unsustainable. I think everybody wants the same things here. Everybody wants to protect this country.
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Everybody wants our families to succeed, our families to be healthy and live happy lives. freedom, all the things that we value here in this country and around the world. So we need to come together in order to do that. And so we're counting on you for that. We're counting on really everybody out there. Now is the time where we all gotta be stepping up. We gotta be putting in the work.
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We gotta be sharing these messages. We gotta be doing everything that we can day in and day out, using the power of our voice to speak out loudly and to be pushing for action that is feasible and action that will actually make positive change for the betterment of our country and this world.
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Hold on. Let's start at the other end just because I got to pull that one up still. That's okay.
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Yeah, it's hard not to watch these clips. And, you know, I saw the other clip also the other day of her with Senator, now Senator Ruben Gallego's son, you know, who was very upset about Vice President Harris losing the election.
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And she was comforting this kid in such a way that, you know, when you see these clips of her swearing in these senators, when you see these clips of her today doing the certification, it's hard, at least for me, not to look at it and go, wow, America, we really screwed up this one up. Just flat out really messed this one up.
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And obviously not the folks who watch the show, but the country at large. It's upsetting that enough of the country went with this horrific guy in every single way, this convicted felon, this just awful human being.
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uh to be the leader over somebody who's actually competent and experienced and cares for the country and cares for people um but you know as president biden has said repeatedly over the past few years since probably day one of his presidency you can't only love your country when you win you can't only accept the results of an election when you win
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And that's easy to put into practice when you're on the winning team. It's much easier to put into practice in that case. When you're not, it's harder. It's harder to accept some of these things. And I think it actually takes courage to be able to do what Vice President Kamala Harris did today, which is get out there, do her job, do what needs to be done.
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And I think she deserves a lot of respect for that. I think she deserves a lot of respect for the incredible campaign that she ran in such a short period of time. And not hatred directed at her based on something that, quite frankly, she has zero control over whatsoever. I just want to be clear that the vice president has zero say over the certification process whatsoever.
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They've never had any say over it. Mike Pence didn't have say over it when Donald Trump did. And Republicans were pushing him to overturn the results of the election in 2020. Kamala Harris doesn't have any say in 2024. And in case there was any even discrepancy about that, the Electoral Count Act, which was passed in a few years ago after the January 6th insurrection.
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made it clear that the vice president has zero authority to do anything at the stage whatsoever. It is strictly a ceremonial job of her reading the vote count to the public. And that's what she did, despite not having the outcome that she would have liked, that we all would have liked. Kamala Harris did her job. She did it with dignity, how a statesperson is supposed to do it.
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And I have a whole lot of respect for her, not only for the way she ran her campaign, but for the way she's handled herself. in these past few days, for sure.
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But what they didn't account for, Brett, in this administration is this community, is the pro-democracy community, the Midas Mighty, independent media really putting their flag in the ground and saying, uh-uh, we know how to report on this shit and we're going to do it every single day. And we're going to meet the moment every single day and call this stuff out, right?
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You'll get those people out there. Oh, Alcatraz, it's just a distraction from this. Don't pay attention to that. Uh-uh. Pay attention to
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all of it because it's utterly frigging ridiculous and people are smart enough to walk and chew gum at the same time and they could care about multiple issues and call Trump out for his utter complete incompetence and also what he does to our economy and also what he does to Albrego Garcia and also this and also people are fed up and you should be angry at every single thing. Period. End of story.
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Why is that? Because you're good at everything you do, man. Like those reads, it's like you're an expert sponsorship read. Everything you do, Ben to an extent kind of, but more so you, you pick up anything and you're just like a pro.
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Benji, you look like you took that personally, what I said. Don't worry. You're great at a lot of things.
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Here's my thing, and I don't want to feel like I'm bullying Kristen Welke here because I'm not, but here's my issue. She holds his hand so much through this interview that she starts to try and interpret his words for him to sanewash what he's saying. She's treating him like any normal president or any normal person or that she's having a conversation with someone who's intellectually all there.
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When at the end of the day, you just put up that transcript simply of what he says and His brain's mush. This person has the nuclear codes. and we're just okay with this? Kristen Walker, don't interpret. So what you're saying is there could be a trade deficit. No, actually ask him what he's trying to say. Have him physically articulate it because he can't.
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Going back to the Air Force One, he was extra unhinged on Air Force One yelling at those reporters. And by the way, everybody knows a sick burn really lands when you have to be like, hey, did you hear what I said? Do you hear my sick burn? Do you hear what I said? The guy's a complete fool, but...
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My theory on why he was extra unhinged on Air Force One, he's still not over the Terry Moran interview. That now he's back on his home turf, right, when Terry Moran made him look like a fool in the one-on-one interview. Now Trump feels like he's back in his home turf on Air Force One. He gets to bully these reporters. He's got his friends to back him up.
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He's got his friendly reporters in there to back him up. He can act like a total jagoff. And every single day, this guy gets more and more unhinged. And corporate media treats this like it's normal behavior that we're supposed to and expect to see from someone who holds this high of an office, the highest office in America.
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Okay. So here's why I have a hard time watching SNL sometimes. It's that James Austin Johnson who does the Trump impression. He does a good of a job. I mean, I think we need a new segment. Was that James Austin Johnson or Donald Trump? How does this guy speak? He doesn't. What in the mush brains are we listening to?
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And if former President Joe Biden got up there, if he got up there and started talking like this, he would be put in an assisted care facility the next day by corporate media. Where is that? Where is the pushback there, Ben?
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Might is mighty. Anyone in Western PA, shout out to y'all. We're going on day seven right now without power. You know what? It's all right. We're not going to complain. There are plenty of worse things that happen than being without power. Jordy's doing the pod by candlelight. Shout out to my relatives out here. Thank you guys for letting me use this room to do the podcast.
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Hey, they were like day one Midas pod, like pro-democracy, all in on us from day one. So shout out to them. Drop in the comments if you've used ZBiotics or if you... I've outfitted my whole house with MiracleMade sheets. So let me know. Links in the description of both audio and the YouTube. Use the links. Use the codes. Let them know we sent you. Benji, where to next?
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Which is the brilliant point. He's exactly right.
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We should 100% do this. Let's hit up our guy, Adam Mochler, and next Trump rally that he appears at, he should do that exact question that you just posed, but President Biden just did this, or President Biden did this during his administration, the $1,000. What do you think about this? And just get the responses.
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I just wanted to say this before we show that clip. Laura Ingraham basically – not basically. Laura Ingraham – dictates policy on her show because she knows Trump is watching and she knows that she could kind of handhold, hide the medicine, get these points through to Trump every night on Fox. I just got to go back. For our audio listeners, please head to the YouTube.
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We're at 4.8 million subscribers on our YouTube, brothers. We're about to hit 5 million. Let's go. Subscribe to the YouTube channel if you haven't. Sorry, quick aside there. Audio listeners, if you go to the YouTube and you watch that clip of Roger Goodell and that shit-eating grin, It'll just make you want to throw your laptop or your phone or whatever you have in your hand.
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Because, Brett, I'm going to say this way less eloquently than you did. What is the point of having fuck you money if you can't say fuck you? Like, that is such... He's just got to eat that. He's just sitting back there eating whatever Trump is saying, talking about the fake news media. Catholics aren't offended. I didn't post the image of me being the Pope. I mean, it's lunacy. And you got...
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By all means, a relatively smart guy, or at least someone who's perceived as the commissioner of the NFL, big, strong, tough, brilliant business mind, just sitting back there, bright red, chuckling, Donald, you're so funny. Donald, this is the fun. Dude, you are such a pathetic, spineless individual, Roger Goodell.
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So military parades, brothers, this is just something that's normal. Like in our political discourse, this is what we're just going to do here in the United States. You know, before Bill Maher went sideways, he used to warn about this type of stuff with Donald Trump. He used to say, hey, I don't stand for military parades. That's what authoritarians do. That's not what we do here in America.
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And so the gaslighting from that Kristen Welker interview, like genuinely my heart is pounding watching that because not seeing any sort of pushback in the respect of, do you think this is just a normal thing for a president to do?
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Like just ask like the most simple and basic question, please, because it's just infuriating and scary as someone who loves this country to see our military being used as a prop in this despicable way.
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It's the fallacy once again of this Trump is a businessman and that's why I'm going to vote for him argument. Those folks, those voters, so much more disingenuous than the voters that would just tell you straight up, no, I like Trump's racist rhetoric and I like his awful policies.
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If that's why you voted for him, it's disgusting and I don't agree with it, obviously, but at least I could begin to understand, okay, you're just a shitty person. But Trump is a good businessman and he's going to do great things for the economy. I mean, you're lying to yourself. You are lying to yourself, and now you get to reap the benefits. And I'm not spiking the football. I'm an American.
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I have to reap the consequences of this alongside with you. So thanks a lot.
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Absolutely. And what do we say about Donald Trump? He's a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction. It might work early on. It might be cute for your most loyal of loyalists, Donald, right? Oh, what are we going to do? We're going to rename it Gulf of America. Look over here, everyone. We're going to take over Greenland. We're going to make Canada the 51st state. Everyone look over there.
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Keep looking over there. Sooner or later, people are going to stop looking over there and start looking back at their 401ks and realize that they're also out of a job at the same time. The chickens are going to come home to roost sooner rather than later, and we are seeing that play out. We're seeing it right now.
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And let's be clear, there's nothing that Zelensky could have done in that meeting that would have actually appeased Trump or Vance because they were full on Russian propaganda talking points from jump. You know, they wanted Zelensky to go in there and to use a Trump verbiage here, like beg like a dog. That's what they wanted him to do.
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And even then, because we all know this, when you give the guy an inch, he takes your life. It still wouldn't have been good enough. But at least for them, they would have had documentation of it. So that would have helped flatter their egos a little bit more and a little bit better.
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going back really quick because i just want to address these two clips that we played earlier the keith self clip from texas brothers please explain to me those talking points they play so well over over x for for keith they do so well over x why when he's talking to real people in real life they don't they don't they don't work as well that's so befuddling to me i just truly don't understand it
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You understand it when you look at a guy like Swazi in New York talking to his people and just standing up for democracy, standing up for normalcy and how the people of New York's third actually love that and how they stand up and they say, yeah, that's our guy. You know why? Because he's not kissing the ring of some oligarch because he's actually standing up against that nonsense.
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know roganites or the these people with uh the trump fanatics were leaving these bad comments on our stuff it's a little bit frustrating if i have to you know be honest i appreciate y'all coming and having our backs and leaving that five-star review and commenting so thank you it means a lot no absolutely jordy uh let me show you a few things you know because look what
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Yeah, I couldn't find them out here. One of the crazy things I've been seeing too with the local shops around me, Real quick thing. The local breakfast shops, because I try and go weekly with my son and my wife, empty. So much more empty because they rely so heavily on an egg first menu that folks just aren't showing up because they've had to increase the prices.
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So now imagine at a scale what that's doing to local shops and restaurants.
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I am super excited to get into the show. What's up, everybody? Yeah, Brett, these fake protesters, this is their new Antifa. It was Antifa January 6th. That's what they're doing there. And it's even worse than you remember, Brett and Ben, about the economy. As the economy was soaring under Biden and we were hitting record stock market highs day in and day out, remember what they also said.
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Oh, this is because Donald Trump is getting ready to take office. So how can it be that the Biden economy, that the legacy of it is what is happening right now under Trump's leadership? However, when Biden was actually in office and the stock market was hitting record highs and you could actually look at your 401ks without wanting to vomit, it's unbelievable what's happening.
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October 2022. So this kind of coincides with around that time.
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how to play trump's game at this moment and they're meeting the moment whether it's trudeau in canada or claudia scheinbaum in mexico i'm very impressed with how they're handling this and they're making it seem for for to just just to trump and trump alone that he that he won whatever he wanted to win that he gets to spike this imaginary football but when you actually dig into the details and the rollout of everything they could not have played this more perfectly
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Ken, I like when you pull up from half court and call your shot. That was nice.
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Donald Trump's brain, Ben, is total mush. You're exactly right. And I just want to take a second to talk about that because it needs to be looked into. Like corporate media, please, please,
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just this is really important the guy can't think he can't get a coherent sentence out of his mouth when joe by when president biden would speak to y'all corporate media i'm talking to you directly and he'd give you guys answers right and he'd take a second to collect his thoughts because he wanted to give you an earnest response a dignified response you know an important response from the president of the united states
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Y'all crushed the man. Crushed him. Jumped down his throat every chance you got. And now when Donald Trump's up there answering your questions, or I should say trying to answer your questions, and he's talking in three-word sentences, if you can even call what he's doing a sentence, and you're not going to push back. This man has the nuclear coats. Okay?
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This man has access to our top secret documents. What are we doing here when we're going to let this go completely unchecked? Uh-uh. Not here. Not here. His brain is mush.
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okay sorry real quick back to mush brain we did it a very rough way i didn't want to have to do it a rough way we shouldn't have to do it a very rough way ben what is he saying see spot run spot run fast spot right i mean could you imagine again i won't give the examples all right enough saying could you imagine no you couldn't imagine but let me tell you the facts let me tell you the new reporting though and then this is reporting now that like basically every organization has done
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And that's the real thing. It's not that he's just making things up. It's what he's making up is having real world consequences and truly affecting the lives of the American people. As a leader, you should want to lead for all Americans, not just the ones who voted for you. But very clearly, that's not how Donald Trump wants to lead.
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And it's quite frankly, incredibly disappointing, but we knew that that would be the case.
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hey i'm doing great i just want to hey brett shout out man brett came through uh this week before we get into all the news uh for my son's birthday so he flew out here that was awesome elijah's first birthday party been out to hold down the fort in california so i'll let him slide plus he's got his his four or five month old by now uh but it was brett it was so awesome to see you man thanks for coming by that was really special benji benji where do you want to start off today
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What did you say? You were teacher's pet. So you can't knock – you can't be like, oh, what's nicest to bring home? That's an interesting one. You were literally – you were voted teacher's pet.
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I'm hearing a lot from you guys that you were nominated for these things, but I'm not seeing the hard way.
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This is what Ben does. Then he brings in these other things. All right. Enough teasing.
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All these negative influencers, Brett, to your point exactly, they think they're like Genghis Khan. They think they're just taking over. They're going to conquer everything. And they're just such keyboard warriors at the end of the day. The messaging from Tim Walls, when he called them weird, should have never been turned away from. I think that was really sharp and on-the-nose messaging.
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These MAGA influencers are weird. The MAGA culture is weird. And when you look at one of their dear leaders, an Elon Musk running this Department of Government Efficiency, Doge, what is he doing when he gets the opportunity to actually do things? He's making things wildly inefficient.
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i mean you see it time and time again and we saw it again today bro with exactly what you just laid out it's it's really it's spiteful and it's just all based on vengeance for vengeance sake and again not in the spirit of helping out the american people or making their lives easier
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Absolutely. A few things there, Brett. One, all very astute and incredible points. Couldn't agree more with them. I like the use of your hand gestures throughout that for our audio listeners. Brett was very emphatic with his hands moving. I really like that. We're big talkers with our hands. I think one of the things that we talked about earlier in the week, Brett, is also...
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how these world leaders, they know Trump's playbook now, right? You got to treat him like the petulant child that he is. If you give him an inch, he's going to take your life, right? We talk about that all the time here on the Midas Touch podcast. And so what are these leaders doing? They know exactly
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And that's exactly what they're doing. They're stealing from the American people. And they're also grifting off the American people. That's what Trump and Elon continue to do. I think one of the biggest misconceptions out there, just because people aren't loud enough about it, this community is, and I'm proud of that.
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But it's just this misconception that the Republican Party is for the working class and the Republican Party is for the American taxpayer. That can't be further from the truth. Just because they go on Fox News and spout all these lies and give people scripts and fake talking points to use at their dinner parties doesn't make them true. Here's what we know.
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America's more chaotic under this Trump regime. Americans are less safe under the Trump regime. These prices are more expensive under the Trump regime than they were under Biden's presidency. And federal spending, as Brett just said, is higher under the Trump regime and the Elon Musk regime than it was under Biden at any point. So this is what we're dealing with.
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We're dealing with facts, receipts, and data here. And what we need to do as this pro-democracy community is just remind people of what is happening right in front of everybody's faces. Trump is not for the American taxpayer. Trump is not for the American person or the American citizen.
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Trump is for Trump and his rich buddies, and he's going to grift off the American people as much as he can until...
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four years comes on and then we'll see if he'll run for his third term that he's trying to throw out there right now but unbelievable stuff here i'm proud of this community for pushing back and bringing those receipts and data points to the table every chance we get which would be by the way unconstitutional absolutely and a dictatorship and that's what he wants to set up and maybe try to use even
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Elbows up emoji. This is so cool. Thank you, guys. This is... They're just simply the best. And as Ben said, Canada is leading the way. So this is awesome now that it's in our arsenal that we could just throw up elbows up. Brett, you want to drop it from the Midas account so folks could see it? Oh, it's dropped. I love it. Benji, where to next?
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Brothers, I'm so stoked. Midas Mighty, I am so stoked. Maple Midas, I am so stoked. Tonight, we're going to do something special, y'all. We're going to have a little bit of fun. It's been a while since we've done this, and I just love the lead. the leadership that Canada is just ruling with right now. They're not backing away, elbows up all the time.
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It's been a while, brothers and mightiest mighty, since we dropped a new emoji in the YouTube for our YouTube members. So we're gonna do that tonight. And it's gonna be a special nod to our Canadian listeners. a little elbows up emoji. It's pretty sweet. We already created it. We're going to unlock this emoji if we could get 300 memberships tonight on the YouTube. So try and do that.
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You're not wearing pants though? I'm doing the shorts.
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You could gift memberships to people. You could join if you're not. You get access to the whole barrage. As you all know, we're not funded by outside investors or any billionaire oligarch type. So this is a fun way that we get to keep the good vibes going. So let's unlock that elbows up emoji. We need 300 members and we'll do it. Benji, where are we starting tonight, big bro?
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It's a vibe shift for sure. And I think everyone's feeling that right now. Because the more, frankly, this reminds me of when DeSantis was running and the more he got in front of people, like the less people liked him. This is happening on a 10x, 100x scale with Elon Musk and Trump right now.
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The more they're in the media, the more they're in people's faces, the American citizen is just constantly reminded just how awful these people are.
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Trump, the great unifier. Yeah, he's unifying everybody against the United States. Way to go, Trump. Way to go, buddy.
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I was in the chat. I didn't see what Brett did, but I'm assuming he brought up the photo. It was probably my excellent, again, leg day today. Yeah, I'm proud of those calves. That's some good branding right there. The Cubs is getting some love tonight.
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Okay, we're only the number one podcast in the country, but you keep doing you with your internet. I think it's part of the card. I'm going to keep doing it.
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And that's what we are seeing. And this is becoming an ongoing theme, Brett. So Trump seems to not know a lot. When the war plan leaks, when he was first asked about that, he said he didn't know. He wasn't briefed on it. He had no idea. And the missing American troops, same thing. This seems to be a crutch of his, whether done intentionally or not. He seems to not know a lot.
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for the leader of the free world. And it's a scary thing when you think about it because people aren't holding his feet to the fire enough around this. Had this been Biden and back to back days, you don't know, you aren't briefed on these incredibly high level situations.
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You know the conspiracies that would be flying around right wing Twitter or even quote unquote mainstream Twitter would be, oh, he's not really the president in charge. Someone else is leading everything. It's a scary thing when the leader of the free world cannot even lead.
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Look at that. Thanks, but yeah, store.mystitch.com. Let's go. Excited for today's show. And Brett, you're exactly right. That's why last show when we talked about Hegseth claiming that the text, it was a hoax. What is he even talking about? We have screenshots. People have eyes. People are smart, Hegseth.
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Whether you want to believe it or not, people see right through your lies, the administration's lies, time and time again. They back themselves into a corner that, to your point exactly, Brett, the cover-up is seemingly becoming worse than what they did with Signalgate. This is really, really wild stuff.
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And real quick, before we toss it to Ben, Ben, Usha Vance right there, she put together such a nice little video for the folks over at Greenland. I'm shocked with all the hype. high-quality production value with all the time she took to make that video that they rejected her, big bro? Why would they do such a thing? Oh, shit.
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I want to show this is panicked right now. Let's not forget that word. They're simply panicked. The Stefanik move, it's a panicky move, what they're doing right now. There's no ifs, ands, or buts around it. And for better or for worse, the one – I hate to even say it, like this one bright spot of where we stand now is we know the Donald Trump and the Trump regime playbook.
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Unfortunately, everyone knows it from his first term. And now we see it play out again. So I just think folks are way more...
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energized and readily available to call out the bs they've seen it before the playbook there's only so many times you can run that pick and roll before you you know you adapt and change and so what donald trump is doing is simply it's exhausting don't get me wrong but what i love to see is this community this pro-democracy community coming together and just pushing back with truth with facts with data with receipts time and time again and so i just wanted to say another a special shout out to the midas side here for
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That's what that was? I was wondering what that was. I'm like, what's that? Fighter jets literally.
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I mean, can I just say this real quick too? The PC small group, that insinuates also that there's a larger group text chain. You know what I'm saying here?
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Jordan. Your job as a reporter, as a journalist, is not just to echo the MAGA and right-wing talking points. It's to get to the bottom of them and to make sure that what you're reporting and putting into the world is actually factual, not just whatever bullet statement that they want, that they, these MAGA Republicans, Mike Johnson, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, want you to just regurgitate.
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It's a dangerous thing. I don't like bashing on the fourth estate. Absolutely not. Are you kidding? I need to defend it at all costs. But I'm just urging every single reporter out there, please just don't be a mouthpiece for this administration. When it comes to Elon Musk, he is an egomaniac, Brett. He does truly think that when he tweets, everybody sees it. All the federal employees,
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everybody on earth, everybody in America. He thinks his tweets basically serve as law. You know, look no further than the five bullet points of what you did this week that he sent out last week that sent mass chaos throughout this country. You know, once you start ruling, dictating by... Twitter, it's a scary place to be.
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I mean, just like the malignant narcissist in chief, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, who's actually the president. Sorry, Donald, you ain't. Elon's the one in control now, buddy. And they're just such babies, too, when it comes down to it. Because when you do call them out for it, Brett, and these reporters do a nice job, and they try to get to the bottom of it, all of a sudden, transparency...
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Not a thing. They don't want to be as transparent with you, Brett. When they're in charge, Elon Musk is in charge. He wants to fudge the numbers. And if you start to question his numbers, you're fake news. Uh-uh. That's fake news. Just like when it comes to comedy, right? When you start making fun of these people, what do they say? Oh, that's not funny. That's mean. That's hurtful.
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Oh, the tolerant left. What about? Uh-uh. Uh-uh. We all have to play by the same set of rules, you MAGA crybabies.
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Just in the chat, how many photos pop up of Joe Biden standing next to Jeffrey Epstein? Oh, you can't find any. Okay. Same question. Now for the chat, for the listeners, Google Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein. The photos go on and on and on. And for our audio listeners, Brett just put one up. Trump's arms totally all around Epstein. They're having the...
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what seems to be a very happy, cordial conversation between the two. God knows what they're talking about right there. The video of that moment, if you look at it, is repulsive. Trump is doing like a weird like dance move thing where he's bobbing his head. The whole thing is really awful. Licking his lips. He's grinning his lips. It is disgusting, like absolutely disgusting.
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But here's one more for you. Jeffrey Epstein's own brother has come out and said that Jeff stopped hanging out with Donald Trump when he realized that Trump was a crook. Imagine being too dirty and too crooked for Jeffrey freaking Epstein, man.
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honestly screw screw her it's that's one thousand percent brett when did it become okay to to talk like this to to to anybody to this behavior wouldn't be uh acceptable in in the high school let alone within our government it is just so deranged upsetting and and appalling and i'll tell you when quite frankly it's when
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Well, it's Trump, yes, but now all these MAGA Republicans are sticking their chests out, you know, walking strong. They got Big Daddy Elon over there, Elon the oligarch, right? They got Elon, man. They got all this money. They could talk down to you, American worker. They could talk down to you, working class folk. They don't give a damn about you. They got Trump.
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They're going to go to Mar-a-Lago. They're going to kick it there, eat their lobster. They're laughing at you. The people that voted for you, they're laughing at you and in your face.
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I'm excited to get into it. There's just too much to cover. So with that, I just want to say, what's up, Midas Mighty? Can't wait to get in today's show. And Benji, where do you want to start us off?
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By the way, we have a talk for that one. What'd you say? I said Bill Popock for that one. On a totally separate note, though, I did just kind of want it because I know we're coming close to the end of the show. And I just wanted to say this. Look, Dems in Congress, there's Dems in politics across America. We need you to show up.
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And, and some of y'all are in like doing incredible, like rep Jasmine Crockett. I just, I see her all the time and she, she's doing it right. She's getting the message out there. We need fighters, more fighters like her. No, we have the expression on the Midas touch podcast, ABC always be campaigning. Look, the democratic party, it's truly the party.
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for the american people their policies and the data it all backs that up but if you're not an effective communicator and you're not effectively communicating your messages where these voters are at all times you know you just may as well be screaming into the void what are you scared about you scared about some trolls on the internet that are going to be mean to you you know for what for fighting for democracy and not kissing the feet of of an oligarch or a guy that wears orange makeup
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You know, I see some fight. I need to see more fight, though, out of our Dem leaders. And I know they could get there because we have some rock star talent, especially the younger ones.
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It's just so bizarre to me that the MAGA base, it will never not be bizarre to me with the MAGA. I'm not even talking about the politicians out there. I'm talking about the diehard Trumpers. Dude wears orange makeup. I mean, just like, what's alpha about that? What's alpha, you know, Trump supporters, about kissing the feet of billionaire oligarchs?
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These people wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, and yet you're going to go to the grave defending them? They are the most anti-American, anti-democratic people to ever exist and to ever walk this country. What is it, Ben?
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And Trump is such just the epitome of a schoolyard bully. Because if you've noticed too, he's really, I think, let up a bit on Mexico because the Mexican president, Claudia Scheinbaum, is a straight up G. And she just keeps like just annihilating the guy for every one of his most ridiculous moments.
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So now he's what, trying to pick on Canada because Trudeau's on the outs and there isn't necessarily like the leader on top there that's going to buckle him like that but here's the thing we've had charlie angus on the show like there are so many leadership level people in canada that are speaking out and we and the community is coming together brett to exactly your point i just think it's very
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on brand for Trump once a strong female is standing up for not just herself but her people, her country in such a powerful way that he immediately backs off.
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You think anyone told her, like, hey, it looks like it says Smelania? No.
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do you guys you know what this reminds me of a bit is do you guys remember the the jesus loves commercial that was during the super bowl and it was really just like a lot of messages about helping your neighbor and helping people you know in need and coming together as community and the maga these same blue checks were attacking that commercial and then uh oh what was the surprise reveal it was
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It was for Jesus. It was just a Jesus commercial. And they hated all the values at which they pretend that they so dearly want to uphold. And it couldn't be further from the truth. If they actually met Jesus in person, they would think the dude was woke as fuck. They would just think he's woke, man.
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Zuckerberg and Musk and all the all the like they have no tact about it. And so obvious. I just have to imagine and hope. And it's very clear, too, that it is happening already with Trump's approval rating this early on, like just where it is, how terrible it is that the American people are are going to be upset with this weird relationship that he's got with his billionaire buddies.
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It's disgusting. It has no place in this country as far as how government should run. And yet Donald Trump seems to not care. But you know who does care? The person trying to go to the grocery store and make ends meet. You know who does care? The single mother who's trying to get her son through the week and make sure there's meals on the table. You know who does care?
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Just the average American person who's looking at this. And there's just that wide gap, to your point, between Donald Trump and his oligarchs and them on their private islands and their mansions and their boats versus the American people who are just disgusted with this filth.
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I mean, look, I'm not trying to make- He released the Epstein files too, right, Ben? He released those?
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Great point there, Brett and Ben. The thing here, too, is the MAGA talking points are going to dry up really quickly if they haven't already. You know, it's easy to wage culture wars, if you will, when you're not the party in charge.
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But all of a sudden, when you have the Senate, when you have the House and you have the presidency, you're going to ultimately have to make decisions other than, well, Joe Biden did, well, Joe Biden did, but Biden, here's the thing, MAGA, Biden's not the president anymore. So it's time to look inward.
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And as, you know, unfortunately for this country, as the decisions, you know, become more and more chaotic and the leadership or lack thereof at the top becomes more disjointed. Ultimately, this MAGA party is going to have no one but, you know, to blame but themselves. Now, they won't, of course, but the American people are smart. And they will start to see through their shtick.
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And, you know, you can't be blaming Biden anymore, Trump. You can't be blaming Biden anymore. Congress, you know, MAGA congressman, it's not going to work. You guys are in charge. What are you all doing for the American people? Nothing. You're grifting off of them. That's what you're doing.
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on point brett absolutely what does charlie angus say what does he say elbows up all the time people want fighters they don't want cavers i want to throw out a sports term here the dems right now have a deep deep bench heading it to 28. I mean, just think about that stage, Ben, to your point exactly. Moore, Pritzker, Whitmer, Shapiro, Bashir, and AOC, Jasmine, it goes on and on.
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And these are people. genuinely care they actually want to fight for the people they understand what's at stake they're not going to cave they're not going to do what we've seen other politicians do trying to align themselves with this maga light nonsense what's happening right now in this moment there's a clear separation happening Fighters are separating from the pack.
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Everyone can identify what a fighter looks like, right? It's just that you see it, you understand it in their speech and how they carry themselves. At the same time, the cavers are continuing to cave and we're seeing exactly what that looks like as well.
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The Dems have a deep bench and I cannot wait to see this continue to unfold because it's giving me hope and it's motivating me every day seeing the fight in these Dems right now. It's awesome.
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That's a good one. I haven't heard that one yet. That's A+.
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I'm excited to get into the show. We could just get into it, but I do just want to say this before. Howard Lutnick, man, the Commerce Secretary. Howie, howie, howie, howie.
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all right we're just gonna what do the kids say ben glazing i think that's what he was doing elon musk over there just glazing musk i mean what in the heck were we just watching there as we all know the tesla stock too is nose diving over the course of the last month or so and that's just because people are disgusted with the face of tesla Elon Musk, be careful.
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So I was just saying, the more this MAGA crowd tries to boost Elon's stock with the public, Tesla is going to continue to nosedive. He can't escape it at this point. There's no turning back. If you run a committee where you allow big balls to go and fire grandpa, you know, I'm going to be fucking mad. I'm going to be really, really pissed. Sorry, I swore. I'm going to be mad.
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And it's gross to have this guy going in there cutting social security, cutting government jobs, completely unchecked. It's unlike anything we've ever seen. The whole Tesla thing, it has to do with Elon Musk being a piece of crap human being that should be nowhere near government, let alone acting as a de facto president.
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cowardly cowardly count this administration is the most cowardly administration imaginable and we need to continue to call them out and expose all these moves and how scared they actually are of the american people of the press of you and they're absolutely humiliating like it it is gross to me that i have to be adjacent to a donald trump as a fellow american that this is the person that's supposed to be representing you know my interest and my you know well-being and the health of all americans
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Because it couldn't be further from the truth. Trump is a fool. And this plays out time and time and time again. He takes the bait every single time and looks like a complete lunatic on the global stage, not just here in America, but globally across the world. I mean, it is utter buffoonery what we're seeing play out right now. Quite frankly, it's embarrassing and disappointing.
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But what did we expect, you know, other than this chaos?
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one thousand percent brett one thousand percent and i would i just want to go back to your point about these uh these these mega npcs right how you're talking about how they're all must be reading from the same script well in many cases they are right because where are they getting their news from all the same sources right they live on elon's x formerly twitter they eat that stuff up daily everything that that algorithm continues to push the algorithm controlled by the owner elon musk
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And then if they're not on, say you're not on X or a social media outlet, then where are you? Well, if you're a right-wing MAGA, you're probably on Fox News, digesting those same talking points, which lend themselves, if we're doing concentric circles here, a magnificent overlap of what you see on Fox to what you see on the talking points being pushed out on social media.
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And that's why it feels like a regurgitation of a script that we see from these NPC MAGAs. It's because day in and day out, they are getting... hammered with these talking points. And they only know that to be true because they don't care to do any other sort of thinking outside of that.
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I don't blame them necessarily because you have to understand this is a billions, trillions of dollar operation to just propagandize these people. It's hard to pull them out of the bubble. I understand once you're sucked into it, how quickly you could go down a rabbit hole and truly understand, or at least think you understand that what you're watching is the truth. It's a scary thing.
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But here's the thing. This Republican Party, this MAGA Republican Party that we see in 2025, they're not the party for the average American. Uh-uh. No, they're not. No, siree. They are the party of oligarchs and billionaires and the ultra 1%. They are not the party, this MAGA Republican Party in 2025, they are not the party for the working class.
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And we have to continue to hammer that point home day in and day out, Ben.
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For any new listeners, just want to say thank you for tuning in. Excited about that. This is an egoless movement. You know what I mean? Like we at the Midas Touch Network, it's not about us, the brothers, Ben, Brett, or Jordy, who may have founded it. We're the vehicle to get out the pro-democracy voice and the ideals.
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We always say it's this community, the Midas Mighty community that makes us want to get up every single day and get the truth out there. And it's up to y'all to continue to run with the receipts that we bring to these podcasts to show your circles. So I just wanted to thank you for tuning in. We're going to keep this thing going. Benji, where to?
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And people are pissed. It's very clear. People are angry. I mean, they are taking to the streets. We cover the protests here just like we showed right there, Brennan, that shot. What's happening here is this entire administration is just gaslighting the entire American people. Gaslighting the world, right? Donald Trump, no tax on tips. Where is that? Oh, no. Look at this shiny object over here.
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Look at this over here. Everything that he essentially campaigned on that got people excited, I mean, the no tax on tips one is like the most infuriating one to me because that was such a staple of his campaign. But yet he dodges every question when asked about it. It's an unbelievable thing. You look at Duffy on Fox News. I mean, gaslighting 101.
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There's more plane crashes under the Biden administration than the Trump administration. Y'all have been in office now for three weeks. I'm hearing about a plane incident every other day at this point. What are we talking about? And then the stats that Duffy threw out, I'm not going to go point by point, but just completely made up, like just completely falsified.
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And this goes back to our conversation earlier about the NPC scripts, right? Because now that's the Fox News touchpoint that are getting the MAGA talking points and the scripts out there. Actually, did you know there was more plane crashes under Biden administration than the Trump administration? And that's what they roll out.
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And it's just an unbelievably gaslit administration that is infuriating the American people. And that's why we are seeing such an energized community here, the Midas Touch Network, and taking to the streets all across the country.
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Excited, excited for the show. A lot of ground to cover, but Brett's your point exactly. When Elon says that, you know, Americans are just going to feel a little bit of pain at first. He he's not talking about Elon and the oligarchs and the billionaires. He's not. He's talking about the Americans at large who aren't the top 1%, who quite frankly make up way more than the majority of the country.
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It's absolutely disgusting to see Elon Musk continue to do these just bizarro interviews with Donald Trump on Fox News, acting as a de facto president. Make no mistake, Elon Musk is just as much the president as Donald Trump. And don't be gaslit by those around you or corporate media into thinking that anything that you're seeing right now is normal. None of this is normal.
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And it's okay to feel that this isn't normal because quite frankly and very directly, it's not. So we're not going to let anything slide here. We have a lot of ground to cover. Benji, where do you want to start?
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Oh, we should definitely do that graphic, 100 percent.
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Shout out to our pro-democracy sponsors, y'all. I love those reads. Brett, you definitely do look younger and more well-rested with that one skin, so I love it. Links in description of both YouTube and audio. Please use the links, use the codes, let them know we sent you. Benji, where to next?
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Perfectly said, B, and I just want to piggyback on that. I just want to say your descriptor was perfect. It was a palate cleanser type of interview because I felt that it was a more informative interview than I've seen in the past four years of people trying to be combative and making themselves the center. It's something...
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You know, we make a conservative effort here if not to do is really put ourselves at the center of the attention, at the center of the stories, because it's not about us. We're a conduit for pro-democracy voices. So although you see Ben in the chair and Ben, you did such a wonderful job, it was incredible. I must have watched it like three or four times today. Really spectacular job.
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Although you see Ben in the chair, it's the Midas mighty in this pro-democracy community that's in the room asking those questions. And I think you see that reflected in the questions and the pushback that Ben gave during the interview. This interview, again, does not happen without this community, without the pro-democracy community, without the Midas Mighty.
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Y'all are the engine that keeps this thing going. So thank you very much. And we're here, again, to just be amplifiers of the voice of pro-democracy. And that's what we're going to do every damn day.
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Let's go. Shout out to our pro-democracy sponsors. Links in description of the YouTube and the audio. Use the codes, use the links. I'll let everybody in on a little secret too. Manicora, Enzybiotics, they're coming on again next year. That's right. So friends of the network, definitely check them out. We are big fans of theirs. Y'all will be too. Benji, where to next?
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doing great i can't wait for today's show and again i just want to start off and saying how truly humbled you know i am for this community once again just stepping up uh not a shocker here the brothers and i are not billionaires nor do we know billionaires this network isn't funded by billionaires or oligarchs we're not calling bezos to you know hey can you can you help us score this big interview we're not calling murdoch obviously for hey can you can you help us get this we're not doing that and it's not about us
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It's the collective we hear, this pro-democracy community that made that interview with President Biden in the Roosevelt Room possible. Why? Because truth is golden, because facts matter, because this pro-democracy community is relentless every single day and your voices are being heard louder and louder and louder every single day.
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And it's because of you that we were able to have that interview. So I just want to start off from the bottom of my heart. Thank you, Midas Mighty. Let's get into the show. Benji.
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I'm doing it intentionally. I don't respect him enough to say his name correctly.
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Absolutely. And look, I know I'm usually a bit critical on the press corps, not asking tough questions, but I have to give this reporter a shout out. I couldn't exactly see who was asking it, but look, you see what happens when you just apply a little bit of pressure. I mean, the guy, to Ben's point, all of a sudden his tells start coming out and the lies just start coming for everybody to see.
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Go the 60 minutes route, Brett. Give him an inch, he'll take your life. We say it all the time.
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i'm sure it goes boom boom boom of the youtube and the audio clicks click the link use the codes let everybody know that we sent you and benji before we move on i just wanted to make sure i got that george w bush quote right because it's a pretty famous one so i i checked it out it's actually fool me once shame on shame on you fool me you can't get fooled again classic that was me reiterating yeah benji where to next
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What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty? I'm happy to be here. Benji, before I toss it to you, I just wanted to give a special shout out to all of the live stream viewers that are watching us now on YouTube or Facebook, wherever y'all are watching us. Thank you, guys. The stream has just been growing and growing, and it's all thanks to y'all for sharing it.
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And a special thank you to all of the audio listeners. Our audio numbers have just been crazy lately. And it's all thanks to you guys, again, for sharing this. The coolest thing was, I think when we started the year, we had about like 12,000 to 15,000 reviews on Apple Podcasts. I look today, we're over 30,000 reviews on the audio podcast. So that's all thanks to you guys listening.
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Go right now if you haven't. Download the audio version of this show. Give us a five-star review and leave a comment. I read all of them. You can say hi to me. It'll be really fun when I read it. And thanks. Benji, where to next?
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Use the links. Use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let they know that we sent you. Wildgrain has been my go-to. Definitely check that out. Link in description. Benji, where to next?
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There's also a rumor that Pete did not wash his hands.
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Really? In every scenario he would wash his hands?
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Exactly. One sec here. The naming conventions, Brad, that's a brilliant point. Fox and Friends. We're your friends. We wouldn't lie to you. We're friends. Fox and Friends. Fox News. We're news. You got to take us seriously. Oh, we have the graphics. We have the breaking news chyrons. We're news. Yikes. I mean, really just some pathetic stuff.
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On a side note, and I know it's not the point and I'm not, just how many times do you have to drop the bagel on the floor to be known as the guy who consistently drops the bagel on the floor and eats it? It seems like that was a staple. He seems kind of like a gross guy. He's not washing his hands. He's eating stuff off the floor. He's a gross guy. I mean, they're gross people, Jordan.
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Because you know what else? It's their continuation on the attack of experts, right? We talked about this before. The MAGA cult, they've decided to make an expert, the term expert, a dirty word in their eyes. But when experts are presenting them data that conflicts with their own internal feelings, no, Trump's president, this can't be happening under Trump. The expert must be wrong.
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They lose their shit. They go crazy. Powell is this version, this term's Fauci. Brilliant point, though.
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The first 15 seconds wasn't even a sentence.
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It's a long bit. It's a long bit. You're in.
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That's my issue with the hearings at least this day. Given the makeup of the Senate – didn't force out the nominees up until this point, they're confirmed. I hate to say, there's nothing that any of these folks could say up when they're being questioned, aside from I hate Donald Trump, that would get them removed from the cabinet position that they're going for. And so I do want to say this.
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I like it for the Bernie Sanders moment. And I think Dems in general need to get more pointed with their questions instead of these open-ended, more ambiguous questions. Because if this is just a, hey, let's get this person on record so we all can hear it and see it, then let's get real frigging pointed with how we're asking these questions because everyone here is going to get confirmed.
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It's so MAGA. That whole moment is just so MAGA because the fight ensues or the flop ensues. He falls. It looks ridiculous. And he gets up and they both go, it's gone too far. It's gone too far. And then they try to have some sort of civil conversation. It's like, y'all can't just throw down on the house floor like lunatics and then try and have a conversation.
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No, you're going to get arrested, buddy.
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You cannot come in.
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It's the most ridiculous thing.
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Thanks for that update, B. That was a really, really solid one there. I agree that streaming puppies versus the inauguration is the route to go.
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Super, super excited to get into the show today. Ben, excited for you to talk about how Donald Trump is this great unifier against Donald Trump and MAGA. Just so incredible to see what's happening over there in Canada. By the way, new friend on Blue Sky. We're on Blue Sky for everyone who has been asking. At Midas Touched. and then at all of our regular handles that you all know.
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My buddy Jarv came up with the Maple Mighty. He's a fellow Canadian. And he's like, Maple Mighty love y'all out here.
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And the oligarchs just sit back, laugh as they count their money. It is so pathetic.
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I guess, why don't we just dive in today, Benji?
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Can we just pause for one second? These clips that we've shown are psychotic. There's no way you can sugarcoat it. You ain't seen nothing yet. He had Charles Schwab in the Oval Office and he was bragging about how many hundreds of millions of dollars he made. That's an insane clip. And then you go to... Then he's bragging about putting out his own fire. But here's the kicker.
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He didn't put out the fire. The fire's still raging. And then corporate media just glazes him and takes his words. And Donald Trump brags about how the stock market increased.
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Because what in the glaze was that? This is a cult. This is a cult. And you shouldn't feel bad saying it. You shouldn't feel bad saying this is weird shit, man.
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Mr. President, can you give us a reaction to today's stock market drop and also give us a sense of the next steps with China?
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Brett, you talk about this collective trauma that we're all going through. And I just want to say that that's exactly what it is. Like, you're so right. It's just so deeply pathetic watching Trump field these questions. He's barely getting out sentences as he's responding. But is corporate media going to push back on that and say, hey, are you cognitively all there?
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I don't know if they will, but we certainly will hear. And you got Nutlick in the background, just chuckling it up. Like, it's all just so honestly dystopian. And like, what in the North Korea are we watching?
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You know it's a fake laugh. It's like, okay, you're doing fake laughs.
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That's so funny that you were saying. I was thinking of an analogy. That's exactly what that is. It's the Dr. Evil when they're all around the circular chair like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. But it hurts. I wish it was funny, but it genuinely hurts me as someone who deeply loves this country. And I know the Midas Mighty and this pro-democracy community, it hurts you too.
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You see these losers up there, these completely incompetent fools who are just destroying the country that we love. And they're laughing about it on their way. And they just look so evil and manipulative. And it's just all so pathetic.
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You mean, Brett, you don't think we're getting accurate information from the slow the testing down guy? You don't think he's giving us up-to-date details on everything? I'm going to say probably not. I'm going to say probably not.
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They just say phrases. You don't have the cards, Zelinsky. You don't have the cards. He had to fold. He didn't have the cards. They're going to eat it. They're going to eat the tariffs. They just say shit. Their words don't have any meaning.
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Excited to get into the show before I toss it over to Benji. I know everyone's on the edge of their seats. Yes, I do finally have power back after eight days. So super excited. Again, shout out Western PA, man. Us Yinzers, man, we're a different breed. We're tough. We're tough out here. Benji, where do you want to start?
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What do you want him to do? What do you want him to say today?
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By the way, real quick, that's what indoctrination looks like. I feel for those girls. And they're just given talking points by their parents to say these things at these rallies. It actually breaks my heart a bit. I haven't seen that clip. Holy cow. There truly is a clip for everything. Un-frigging-believable.
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Links in description of YouTube and the audio. Use the links. Use the codes. Let them know we sent you one sec. With those ad reads, like a quick aside that's kind of funny. The hardest part for me is when you have to spell out the link sometimes. Like on the scripts, it's like spell out each individual letter of the vanity of like the special URL. Trouble with letters?
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i really like i you could see me in the read i am hyper focused on making sure i hit every letter in order benji's looking at me like i'm so ashamed of you a little bit it's okay sometimes you nail the read and then at the very end you've got to do the letters and then you're like and then you miss i'm like i gotta do i gotta do it all again i didn't realize i had to spell during the reads that again it's like it's like an nfl player who's like running to the end zone he like does great 90 yards and then 10 yards he like drops the ball right before the end zone so speak to
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So wild. I don't know if this is going to come out correct, but it's just like MAGA attacking the Pope It's chef's kiss, like just pure comedy. What timeline are we living in? These people are so sick. Like, please, MAGA, go touch some grass. Go outside. Take a breather. You're attacking the Pope?
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Donald Trump. But you did nail it. The MAGA, their God is Donald Trump.
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Yeah, exactly, Brett. You look around, you look at all these buyouts for government officials. I mean, it's exactly that plan. How terrifying is that? It's happening right in front of your eyes. Look, there's no other way to put this. The Republican Party is pro-oligarch. They hate you, American citizen. MAGA base, they hate you. They want to make you suffer. You heard it.
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You heard it right there from the horse's mouth. That's one of your elected officials saying that you need to feel pain in order to then later feel better. But that's not even truly what he's saying. You need to feel pain so the oligarchs, so they can feel good. That's what this Republican Party wants to do. It is unfreaking believable. We're not going to let it happen.
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Not this community, not this pro-democracy movement. No chance.
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Exactly, Brett. Trump is providing a permission structure to allow these world leaders, these dictators, to live out their worst ideas. He has provided that permission structure for them. And then just on a lighter note, if we're still bullying Marco Rubio, his ears are gigantic. I mean, for such a little guy.
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I am. You guys bullied me a ton. You guys bullied me a ton growing up, and I think it really built some character. It really did.
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hiring you know lara is probably going to end each show singing her hit singles brett it's going to be when i watch i hope i hope those fox viewers get all the singing they asked when i watch those i'm going to borrow a word uh i'm going to borrow a nice yiddish word putz McEnany putts, Hannity putts, Will Kane putts, Levitt putts, Hexa putts. They're such losers, man.
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It's unbelievable watching them with these same talking points, these tired ass talking points. And then you get the sense when you watch the Carolyn Levitt clips very specifically, she's doing like a bad book report in school. Like it feels like when she's reading from her notes, like even just the way that she tries to deliver the information is just awful and super incompetent.
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Let them know we sent you if there's an exit survey. Benji, where to next?
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What's up, Midas Money? What's up, brothers? I'm excited to get into today's show. And Brett, to your point exactly, you know, happy Liberation Day. You guys feeling liberated yet? Feeling liberated from what? From your 401ks? From, as you said, Brett, so perfectly, your sanity? I mean, what we're continuing to witness, it's not normal.
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So listening to McCrone and Carney speak, you could just – it pains them. Like they're not happy about this, this move that's happening right now. It pains them what's happening. And they just – they see the field and now they have to kind of just play with what's in front of them. And it's incredibly disappointing just to see this. I've never –
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I've almost never been more disappointed, you know, to be here, to be an American right now because of what Donald Trump is doing and making our brand, our America look like. We look like fools. We do. We look stupid. We look insane. We look insane on a global stage. And it's super frustrating.
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And I'm just so happy that we have this vehicle, this engine here where we could continue to hold truth to power because, damn it, We're all patriots here. We care about this country. We love this country. And we don't want to be seen to be made a laughing stop in the world.
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And then, by the way, Brett, to your other point there about the business community, no community has been more exposed over the last eight months
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than the business community than those in the business community who who are purported business experts who told you no i'm voting for donald trump because you know he he's a businessman he's a businessman and he's going to get this economy you know back on track first of all what do we even talk the economy was doing you know it was doing fine we we were leading the world with with where we were and all of a sudden trump comes in and just
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fucks everything up. And it goes so beyond that. It is so devastating the impacts that Trump has done to this country. And then he's going to hold up a Trump $5 million card with his face on it and talk about how y'all could come into this country now because I'm going to do... He's making us look like fools at the expense of the American taxpayer and the American citizen. And it's distressing.
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Like, don't be gaslit by maybe some people around you, but especially corporate media, into thinking that what we're witnessing right now is normal, because it ain't. None of this is normal. Call it out every step of the way. I'm so happy that we have this community here. Benji, where do we want to start off today?
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Ben, real quick though too, and not to bang on this drum too much here, but Corporate media, and I don't want to pick on this person asking the question. I don't even know actually who that was who was asking it, but it's just like, what are you doing? Don't let yourself get played like that. You have a question. It's a legitimate question. I know you want the access.
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I know you want to be on Air Force One so you could tell your family members and you could brag about it to your circle. I'm on Air Force One with the president. I guess I got to play by his... Your job is to get those answers, not to just roll over the second you get just a little bit of pushback. What are we doing here?
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And that's why, Ben, I'm so glad that you brought that up and were able to show that clip here.
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I mean, when you look at Hassett, Ben, I've never seen a guy with such a small mouth lie so big. It's unbelievable watching this. I mean, when you look at Fox News, it's just state-run television. It is truly chaotic watching that. And it's just...
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Oh, man, it frustrates me watching this, knowing the lies that they're spewing are hurting so many Americans and especially the Fox viewer, the lies that they're spouting to their own people. And we know we know from the massive lawsuit what they think of their listeners and their viewers. They don't care about them. Right. We've all seen those texts.
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And so to see continue to play out, it's just an evil thing.
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They torpedo this, these GOP, these MAGA Republicans torpedo so much, Brett, even beyond just what you're talking about, the student loan. The PACT Act, do you got like one of the images that stands out to me? So it's just so clear in my mind is when Ted Cruz was fist bumping on the floor after the Republicans voted no against the PACT Act.
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That right there, and that's why they do this whole narrative building, Brett and Ben, it's to distract you. They don't want you looking at the real issue. The person from Las Vegas, for example, Brett, who blew up the Tesla, he was also a veteran. I think there needs to be a deeper understanding here of what's going on with
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our veterans here and a true love and appreciation, admiration that the Democrats genuinely have for our veterans versus what the Republicans are trying to do, which is distract you from these issues and try and make you look over here, look at the border, look at the border, look at this. Don't ask these questions.
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When Democrats actually truly love and care about our veterans and actually want to make sure that there's enough resources for them to go to if they need them. Right. That's what that's the bigger issue that I'm seeing here. The through line of New Orleans and Las Vegas right now is how can we help our veterans who very clearly, you know, need help at times?
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And we want to be the party that helps them. And the Democrats are actually the party that genuinely cares, not Ted Cruz fist bumping after he votes no to the burn pits.
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I'm doing great. Two quick things. One, shout out to the Ohio State Buckeyes. We're in their playoff game. I know we have a huge Ohio listenership right now. And I like to, you know, we split the audience sometimes. A lot of people say, I didn't know you were an Ohio State fan. I love the show even more. And some people are like, oh, OSU fan? I'm not watching anymore.
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So love to divide the community to start. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. And then the other thing is you might notice my shoulder. I got some, let's call it some baby liquids on my shoulder right now. And you could have just said like, why didn't I just change before?
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Because we're a family here, the Midas Mighty, and we have to record when we're recording and didn't have time to change the shirt. But I think that's just what being a parent is, is you just always have gook on your shoulder when you have to hold a baby all day. Benji, what's up?
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from you and it's a lot and it could be exhausting at times but what i'd love to see bernie do is now go go on the offensive here hit a podcast go on the sunday morning shows go go do an interview you know with your local like just get out everywhere it's one of the things we do here at the minus touch network is we're not we're on youtube right now right we're live on youtube but guess what we're also streaming to facebook we're also streaming to twitch and then we also have other channels on you name it instagram and and blue sky and yeah we're on x and it's like
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Do we love being on all the platforms? Is it exhausting? Does it take a lot of energy? Yeah, it does, but we do it because based on where you're talking, you're speaking to a select group of people who exist on those platforms. It's important to make sure your message now resonates with each person that lives on the other mediums of communication. And in 2025, that knows no bounds.
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You have to show up ABC, always be campaigning every second of the day and scream it from the rooftops because to your points exactly brothers, we have the Democrats right now, they have the right positioning on these issues. It's damn well time that the American people know and realize, oh, the Democrats are the ones that care about our veterans.
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Oh, the Democrats are the ones that care about our students. Oh, the Democrats are the ones that care about X, Y, and Z issue because nine out of nine times, 10 out of 10 times, they are the ones who genuinely care.
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Perfectly. Because it's not even about the truth for them. Just like you said, it's just narrative building. What narrative can we push? Because by the time, and we see this all the time, by the time the truth does come out, people don't care. They're already on to the next culture war issue that they're trying to write the narrative for for their next one. These are deeply unserious people.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump, all of these folks in the GOP right now are deeply unserious. But unfortunately for this country and the world, they have very serious roles in government.
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I give that guy a tremendous amount of credit. And Ben, to your point earlier, All Trump had to do, I mean, this is what an egomaniac narcissist in chief he really is. All he had to do with the market is not do anything. He wanted to take credit for the Biden market when Trump was coming into office, when Biden was still president. All Trump had to do was literally nothing.
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But he is such a psycho and a sicko that he can't control himself at all, that he needs to put his fingerprints on everything. And everything he touches, well, we all know that expression. And look no further than the markets. Unbelievable.
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Yo, his face. The cut. I mean, that was something from the, that's what I noticed too. The cut back to Moran. I mean, that was great. That was great.
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it's it's also because if you're actually thinking about it it's super disturbing thank you for bringing that up for that photo upright because what more likely than not happened was one of trump's inner circle people showed him the photo said you know look donald look donald this says ms-13 right here And they were trying to sort of tell him about the code and what that could be perceived as.
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But Trump, he only registered the MS-13 part of that. That looks very much typed on if you have ever looked at a computer. That is like the most obvious thing ever. It looks like it was done in the Apple Photos app. As they were trying to kind of show him whatever they were trying to see. And so Trump sees that and is like, oh, yeah, I see it. It does say that right there.
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And so he couldn't get off of it because in his brain, he's just perceived that as showing just wonderful Photoshop. Sorry, legit Photoshop's right now. When Donald Trump is in this interview, his cognitive wherewithal, it's not there at all. And I'm not saying this to be rude or, again, for dramatic effect.
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But when you see him there sitting with Terry, Terry, whoever edited that interview, by the way, was brilliant because at a certain point, Trump shows his knuckles, but it's off camera. And so they go to a wide shot of Trump showing his knuckles to rep. Anyway, when Trump is in that interview, he's not...
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he's not well and i think the the footage really speaks for itself but terry at times is treating donald as if he's in an old age home and he doesn't know where he is or or what the topic is that he's talking about i think that's kind of the strong through line of this entire interview and to see it played out in such just like here's the whole clip everybody like we're not clipping things to make things look weird like this is it
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So it infuriates me when corporate media just gaslights people into just showing bits and snippets here and there. That's why I'm so glad we have this long form show, the Midas Touch podcast, subscribe on audio, where we could show these clips in its totality. Unbelievable stuff.
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Look at the shot. This is the shot you were talking about too with his knuckles out. Exactly the shot. Yeah. A thousand percent.
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And by the way – By the way, how about the juxtaposition, if you will, between former President Biden, never bet against America, and Mr. Nutlick over here, never bet against Trump? Yeah. It couldn't be more clear who these folks are rooting for. And it's not America in the case of Nutlick. It's not. It's to line his own frigging pockets.
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I'm doing great. I'm excited to dive into the show. But Benji, I just want to echo Brett's sentiments there, man. Great job moderating that town hall. Midas Mighty, thank you all for submitting questions. They were fantastic questions. The governors absolutely loved it. We're going to have to do that more. That's it. We're going to have to do more. The response was overwhelming.
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Thank you all so much for tuning in. I'm excited to get into the show tonight. Benji, where do you want to start us off?
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even my hat has a hat what in the kim jong-un glaze are we witnessing with this meeting right now i mean what is going on like they're forced think think about what you're watching they're forcing themselves to laugh at elon musk hat on a hat joke and like at ridiculously high levels like it was like the greatest eddie murphy stand-up of all time what are we doing here what what are we doing here
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Judges. The whole tone of it too. It just sounded like a child. He's like, like his whole inflection point. Like I was, I was waiting for him to say, I'm rubber, you're glue. Like, like do one of those because it was just so utterly ridiculous what we were watching.
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Absolutely, Brett. Spot on. Absolutely. Because what this interview showed is pretty much exactly what you just said right there, is when confronted with the facts and then followed up with more facts, Trump folds. He folds time and time again because he has nothing— he has no facts or data behind him.
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His only purpose is to surround himself with yes people that then pick up all of the messaging for him and allow the Trump message and the MAGA message to get out there for everyone to sort of just eat up. But when a one-on-one setting, you present the guy with facts and stand strong, like this is the fourth estate at its peak right there. That is good journalism right there.