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We've got a lot to discuss on this. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. In. the past 48 hours, somewhere between. four to five tankers were struck in the. straight of Hormuz by the IRGC. One. tanker was struck in the past few hours. Donald Trump continues to claim that he. controls the straight of Hormuz and it's. the straight of Trump, but the actual. facts tell us the contrary. We'll talk. about that. We'll talk about how we're. seeing Russia escalate its strikes.

within Ukraine. Putin right now using. these Garin 4 and Garin 5 drones. The. Garin 5 is more of a hybrid cruise if. you will, but they're striking bridges. right now in Kev and power plants. This. is exactly what we were warning about in. the Midas touch network. Things are. going to escalate. And Donald Trump. tapped Zalinsky along promising. interceptors, promising all of these. weapons, didn't deliver it. and Putin. has been stockpiling a lot of weapons. We will give you an update on everything.

that's going on in that war that Donald. Trump promised he would resolve in 24. hours after the election in 2024. Yes, he is an absolute liar. Diesel and gas. prices continue to surge and hit record. highs. The price of gas is also going. up. The crack spread difference between. gas price and diesel and gas is. continuing to increase as well. We're. learning that China is shutting off a. lot of its diesel exports right now as.

it looks to try to become more resilient. with these shortages taking place. That. caused the price of gas to spike as. well. You have Donald Trump threatening. France and Germany and other countries. and Europe that they need to release. their emergency stockpiles or the US. will do an export ban on its diesel. Again, things that were very. predictable, things that we warned. about, but Donald Trump prefers to just. engage in fraud, like when he claims, "I.

spoke to South Korea and they promised. $54 billion to Alaska." Well, interesting. The AMA Republicans are. trailing in Alaska heading into the. midterms and now South Korea doing a $54. billion deal for LNG there. Wow. And. then we find out 24 hours later from. that press conference where Donald Trump. spent most of it sleeping while Lutnik. and others like you're such a good. dealmaker. This is going to save Alaska. South Korea says 100% false. We're not.

even in preliminary discussion. So yeah, we are not doing that. But I'll tell you. what is happening with LNG and with. other oil pipelines. Canada doing a. massive LNG deal um nation I mean in. terms of putting out LNG to the rest of. the world and also building this. pipeline that would be able to bring uh. oil uh right to Asia and to avoid US. refineries. There was a press conference.

held in Alberta that Prime Minister. Carney talked about that. So, the world. continues to move on. And then you have. Trump and Netanyahu now blaming Iran and. the IRGC for that incident that took. place at the Royal Air Force base, a US. base in the UK in Fairford, which is a. lot lot of strange things happening. there. The individuals were released on. bail. And so we're trying to understand.

that they apparently called the police. themselves. There were no explosives. found, but Trump is saying that this is. probably Iran and the IRGC. By the way, so is the prime minister of the UK. Burnham, I'm trying to think what the. hell's happening there. And then the. Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime. and the UAE, all part of the Abraham. Accords, seem to also be blaming the. IRGC for this incident in the Fly Dubai. uh airplane. I talked a lot about it on.

Ben on Breaking News. I'll cover that as. well. But Trump's like, because of these. incidents, now we have to massively. escalate the war. And what we've seen. take place in the past 24 hours is very. concerning. 10,000 more troops likely. committed. United States troops. committed to the Middle East. We saw the. USS Theodore Roosevelt now heading out. to the Middle East. We will have three. carrier strike groups after the midterm. elections in the Middle East and a lot.

of other amphibious assault groups that. accompany them there as well. And again, about 10,000 more service members, thousands of Marines and Navy and other. uh service members are going to be. there. And Donald Trump is basically. saying after the midterms, we're going. to escalate and we're going to get back. to this uh catastrophic war as he. continues to manipulate the markets. And. uh in other words, we've got a lot to. discuss. Brett and Jordy, good to see. you. Um, every time I do these intros,

uh, you know, it it it shocks me a. little bit. Shouldn't shock me, but as. I'm doing the intros and I kind of have. an idea of what I'm going to say. >> Yeah. >> Like, oh, man. Really? And then this. really, really, this is what we're. doing. Really? Really? Wrap. >> Well, it's a day that ends in Y. So, of. course, we got a lot to discuss here. Good to see you, Ben. Good to see you, Jordy. Good to be good to see you, Midas. mighty. You know, I think it's. interesting that we're seeing right now. the Trump regime threatening countries.

like France and Germany and telling. them, "You need to release your. emergency diesel stockpiles or we are. going to implement an export ban here in. the United States." And they're saying. that out of one part of their mouth, while out of the other part they're. saying, "Oh, actually diesel is at. levels like they were before the war. We. actually don't even need any more diesel. because we've been so successful in the. Iran war." It's like, "All right, which. is it? We're not stupid people. We're. not stupid. And now Trump's new thing. As we approach the midterms, which are.

getting awfully close, people, Trump's. new thing, everything actually is. amazing. It is a golden age. Everything. is perfect. The war is going great. The. economy incredible. Our poverty numbers. incredible. Everyone is happy. The. problem, Donald Trump just isn't. bragging enough about it. He just isn't. bragging enough about it. If we know. anything about Donald Trump, humble guy, not bragging enough. That is the issue. Okay, Donnie. Well, if that's his plan. leading up to the midterms, I think. that's why we're seeing Republicans.

right now in dire straits. We got a lot. to talk about. Jordy, what's the latest. on your. >> Donnie? Keep spiking that football. Spike it as much as you want because you. got nothing to spike, man. It's it's. unbelievable. Brothers, mightest mighty, it is so great to be here. Yeah, Donnie, you and Dan Scavenino might be popping. champagne over in Mara Lago having a. great time with your 001% folks who like. to hang down there with you. the. American people feel something. differently, so to speak. Uh, I'm. excited to get into tonight's show. We. have a lot to get into. Uh, every time. that Donald Trump and the regime open. their mouth, they're lying. Anytime they.

speak, like literally, Brett, to your. point, right? They say one thing over. here, next breath, they say the exact. opposite. It's because they don't have. like a singular belief or conviction. other than to cause chaos and make the. wrong decisions. So they're like, "If I. just start saying everything, I'll have. like broken clocks and all that, I'll. have to be right eventually." The issue. is he's seem seemingly never right. And. all of his decisions are just leading to. more chaos and more of our troops. getting killed. And it's horrific to.

see. And Ben, I I hear you with the. intros, big bro. It's like deep breaths. as we kind of go go through these. But. again, that's what that's what they. want. That's what the Trump regime. wants. They almost want us to get in. this perpetual sort of exhaustion where. it just feels normal. But we all know, brothers, mightest mighty, that that we. can't look away, especially right now, especially as we head into these damn. midterms over here. And it's just like. we just got to lock in and just get. through the craziness here together and. report the truth every step of the way. So with that, big bro, where do you want.

to start us off today? You look in past. presidencies, I didn't really have to. think all about the straight of hormuz. or the Bob El mandab straight. I didn't. have to think about crack spreads or 10, 20, 30year treasury yields. You know, I. didn't have to think about the process. for refining oil and how the distillate. is distributed. I didn't have to you. know think about a lot of these you know. issues that out of the basic survival.

instinct I think we've all the mightest. mighty have had to build a resiliency. here because we know that every word. sound syllable and utterance from this. regime is a lie and knowledge is power. and it helps us build this resilience. where we can trust a single word that. comes out of this Trump regime. We'll. talk more about that throughout this. episode. I think that will be a theme. that we all know by now. But when you.

see Donald Trump in Texas and you're. saying, "Well, what is the MAGAR. Republican message?" And you want to see. how desperate they are. I mean, Donald. Trump says, you know, the thing about. James Talerico. is he's a freak who vomits in his mouth. after eating the beef. He's a freco beef. vomiter and you're watching a freo beef. vomit. What the hell is happening? But.

this is what they're running on because. the magnas realize people like James. Tollerico are delivering concrete plans. about the cost of living. Concrete plans. about how we can fight back against this. fascist Trump regime. concrete plans. about stopping data centers, which the. Trump regime wants to rename SI centers. And now we're going to put SI centers in. your backyard. Or as Donald Trump said.

in that deranged Time magazine article, I don't want them in my backyard, but we. need them in the country. We need them. in your backyard. But I'm not believe he. literally said that in the Time magazine. article. All these maggas got are when. he eats the beef, he vomits in his. mouth. Here, watch what Trump says. Let's play it. >> Veans, you know what a vegan is? Vegans. don't do well in Texas. Okay, so now he.

goes to a barbecue. He eats meat. You. know what he does after he eats? He. says, "Excuse me, just for He goes. behind the tent and he throws up." He. throws up. He gets rid of the meat. He. doesn't want meat. No, this guy's not. the right guy for Texas. I know it well. Remember? >> Oh, that's it. Got it. Got it. Got it. And then Donald Trump says as he was. heading to Texas, we have the best. numbers of any president in history. He. says the best economic numbers, the best.

inflation numbers, the best numbers on. trade, the best numbers, the best in. history. He says, "We just need to get a. fair shake from the media. The media is. treating us bad, but everybody knows. this is the best presidency ever." Watch. what he says. Here, play this clip. >> Well, that's true. We have to get the. message because we have the best numbers. of any president in history. The one. thing we don't do, you know, we don't.

get a fair shake from the media if they. report him. They just don't report the. numbers. So, >> I mean, and the people around him are. just as vile as he is, complicit. And I. hope history remembers those images when. they remember what a vile piece of trash. he was and the damage he did. I hope we. have those snapshots. I'll certainly. make sure that as the Mightest Touch. Network continues to grow, all of those. traders around him do not get to wiggle. out of accountability. Then Donald Trump.

says, and here's the thing, though. If. Democrats get in, it will be 1929. Watch this and let's talk about it. Let's play it. >> I think if the Democrats get in, we will. end up in a financial depression. We. will go into a depression the likes of. which we've never seen before. It'll be. 1929. That's my opinion. They're grossly. incompetent. They have no idea what. they're doing. >> Now, you would still sadly be the. president in that case. you would be the.

one to take care that laws are. faithfully executed. Sadly, you would. have veto authority unless it was a veto. proof majority that was reached, which I. hope is the case. But I just want you. all to be aware of what the plan is. here. It's just like his plan after. COVID, which they were able to execute. with the support of complicit fascist. media pouring in trillions of dollars in. order to get this message out. The. arsonists then want to blame the.

firefighters for the problems they. created. And their message is going to. be, we have to preview it. We have to. get ahead of it. Things were about to be. so great. Look how amazing it was at the. beginning of 2026, which by the way, it. wasn't. But this is what they did back. in 2020. Also, things were so good right. before COVID and then COVID hit. Things. were so amazing. But then we had to stop. Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And.

then we had to deal with that. But we. were still resilient and things were. going to be amazing. But then the. Democrats won the House, the Democrats. won the Senate. And as a result, we are. now suffering. And it's like these were. all your policies. The tariffs against. the world, the catastrophic war. And. I'll say this because Donald Trump's. pathology is a bankruptor and a loser. You know, it's almost as if his safe. space goes back to the blame. It's.

almost like the Iran war provides him. with where he's most comfortable losing. because he's a lifelong loser to then be. able to say, "I was going to do a great. job." But now it's the fault of Iran's. nuclear weapons. I had to make a safe. The Democrats then screwed it up. And. folks, as I've always said, this vile. piece of trash is a lifelong loser. This.

isn't my political message. I'm not. trying to spin you to vote this way or. that way. I'm providing an objective. fact that if there was a Guinness Book. of World Records for someone who's. bankrupted things as many times as he. had and the size of said bankruptcies, in my opinion, he'd probably be at the. top of the list well before he ever even. got into politics. And we're seeing it. play out over and over again. fake. deals, fake this, w the whining, the. complaining, the blame, loser behavior.

Brett, >> the irony is is that if Donald Trump. took office and did basically nothing, say he got in there and his one thing. was, I'm shutting down the border. I'm. going to take that really seriously and. then he just kind of hid in his bunker. and never came out. we'd actually maybe. be like in a golden age right now. because the trajectory of the country at. the end of the Biden administration was. actually very good. Uh inflation was. coming down, mortgage rates were coming. down. Uh interest rates were projected.

to uh decrease. Multiple uh decreases in. the interest rates were projected at. that point. Everything was heading in a. very good direction. And then Donald. Trump, to Ben's point, it was his. specific decisions that ended up blowing. up everything and causing all of the. havoc that we have today. And now Trump. just believes that he has a messaging. issue. That everybody actually loves. what's going on, but the message just. isn't getting out to the American people.

in the right way. And that's because the. media is corrupt. The media is fake. news. No, the media is actually telling. the truth about Donald Trump. Frankly, they're not even going far enough about. how bad uh Donald Trump is. You think. that the media would be silent if Joe. Biden was falling asleep in the Oval. Office at every event for minutes on. end? Absolutely not. You would have. anchors like Jake Tapper and others. They'd be calling endlessly for Joe. Biden to step down, saying he's unfit.

for office. But here, Donald Trump does. it. You don't even get like a story out. of it on the mainstream news. They don't. even speak about this stuff, which is. just absolutely mind-blowing to me. Like, it should be a major story that a. president of the United States is. falling asleep in the middle of the Oval. Office basically on a daily basis right. now. Like, this is not normal behavior. And the irony of it all as well is that. while Donald Trump complains that.

everything is just all fine and great. and everybody loves everything, but the. media isn't doing enough to get his. message out there and so there's just. some issue right there. That's kind of. actually what was happening under the. Biden administration. There was actually. not I'm not saying anything was perfect. There were certainly high inflation and. all the things that really happened. under the Biden administration. Most of. them were caused by these external. factors like Russia invading Ukraine, by. the supply shocks as a result of Trump's. mishandling of the CO 19 pandemic. A lot.

of external factors that President Biden. had to deal with at the time and the. media treated every little thing that. happened under the Biden administration. as a hair on fire moment as this is it. This is a catastrophe. And so, you know, ironically, what Trump is describing is. much more apt for, like a Biden to. complain about than for him to complain. about. If anything, Donald Trump just. has it too easy right now. People are. going too easy on him with all the. corruption and they want to try to.

normalize this behavior and pretend like. it's normal and pretend like he's not an. authoritarian who is actively subverting. the Constitution and taking over our. institutions and everything that he's. doing. And I think that is an absolute. disgrace. I think it needs to continue. to be called out. It's not a messaging. issue. It's a Donald Trump issue. It's a. corruption issue. And it's a corruption. issue where you have Donald Trump of. course at the top of it here. And then. you have all of the people around Donald. Trump, the employees around him who are.

enabling this. And then you have the. kind of corporate structure of the. United States when you see those CEOs. going to the White House and fawning. over Donald Trump and going, "Oh, you. said SI, sir. Yes, it's SI. Oh, sorry. I. shouldn't have said as I It's like, dude, what the heck are you doing? Can. you grow a goddamn spine? You have. You're a billionaire. I I always thought. when you became a billionaire, that was. supposed to imbue some sort of sense of. you have FU money, as you call it, and. you don't have to be a marionette for.

somebody like a Donald Trump. You could. do your own thing. But these people are. just absolutely pathetic everywhere you. look. >> It's because one yacht's not enough for. these CEOs, Brad. They need seven. yachts. They need 14 yachts. So, they. have to keep Donnie happy, man. They. have to keep him happy so they won't go. after they won't look into his company. A lot to unpack here. I want to start. off with Vegan. Can I tell you what's. happening there? Like, >> he's trying to say vegan. Obvious. >> So, he's reading from a teleprompter. He.

can't read, right? So, he doesn't know. the word vegan. So, what's happening is. they they have it spelled out. phonetically. I This is what I'm. guessing here. And when you spell it out. phonetically, it's ve e. And that's how. he's getting Vay. Like that's why he's. saying he has no idea what he's saying. in this moment. His closing argument to. win Texas is that Tyler Rico is a Vega. gun. Like something that not even a. word. This is truly an utter like we. haven't seen just a level of. incompetency at this level of. >> Sure, Ken Paxton is an actual criminal.

Sure, he's somebody who is a serial. philanderer whose own wife divorced him. on biblical grounds. Sure, he misused. his office in the one of the biggest. corruption scandals in Texas, but did. you know that James Telerico throws up. his meat? It's. >> that's the other thing. What is he call. he's like also calling him bimic? Like I. I I just don't understand where this is. appealing to and and like how this is. truly the closing message other than. like I could just like maybe he just. really doesn't want Paxton to win. But.

I'm I'm not I'm not theorizing that. But. I'm just saying like he's called the guy. ugly. He said like you hate the guy but. you got to vote for him. He is the worst. campaigner that you could be or have on. your side. Now I want to go to the 1929. thing. So Donald Trump is the president. right now. Yes. He's also going to be. the president two years from now. unfortunately. But this just how it. works, right? Everyone gets four years, right? That that that's that's it. So. Donald Trump is already sort of um. putting into the world that under his.

presidency like we're going to live. through this great depression. Should. the Democrats win in November? Should. they like regain the House during the. midterms? Tell me like what sense that. genuinely makes when you as the. president, when you as the Republican. party have controlled all three branches. of government and in theory could have. put the necessary precautions in place. if you were truly scared of the the. scary Democrats coming into office. I. don't know, to maybe hopefully hold. y'all accountable from the MAGA grift. that y'all are doing, from the $3.

billion, Donnie, that you and your. family have grifted since you've been in. office this time around. Yet, the thing. is, and the fear is, oh, Democrats take. power over the midterms. Now, now I'm. going to run on this campaign that the. economy is so bad because of the. Democrats. I my agenda was going to be. fulfilled. Everything was going so. swimmingly. Now, I'm gonna spend the. next two years campaigning for my third. term or whomever the next Republican. candidate is going to be, saying the. Democrats ruined the golden age. Look. around. Affordability is terrible and.

it's all the Democrats fault. Again, Ben, to your point, exactly. He's the. arsonist trying to put out a fire, but. he's not even putting it out. He's. actually making more fire just for the. sake of campaigning on it. He's using. the midterms as essentially how he would. use, you know, a tax loss harvesting. strategy for one of his, you know, companies I was going under so he could. avoid paying taxes. He's trying to do. that for his presidency, saying, "Oh, don't blame me for this. It's all the. Democrats fault. Let's write that off. and blame the Democrats as we go forward.

so I could win again in 2028. Just keep. it going, y'all.". >> He's like a Ponzi schemer, right? And so. it his only move is scapegoating. And he. always needs to find the next scapegoat. And he scapegoats one Ponzi scheme with. the next Ponzi scheme with the next. Ponzi scheme. So you have uh liberation. day, right? Then you have you have Iran. war. You have blame the Democrats. You. just keep stacking all these things up. to blame. So that hey, it's it's not me.

I'm not the reason for all of it. It's. the media. It's this person. It's that. person. It's not Donald Trump. >> Yeah. And look, it's the biggest cell. phone, which is why I always talk about. leadership beyond really even ever. talking about the day-to-day politics of. this person and that person. I think. it's important, Brett, we point out what. an absolute awful, vile piece of crap. Ken Paxton is, and how I actually. believe that James Tollerico is an. honorable person. I think that's.

important. I also think it's important. that we ask a broader question about how. are Americans doing right now? How are. people in Texas doing right now? Because. even if you took away all of those. horrible personal attributes of Paxton. and even if you took away what I think. are the great attributes of Terico, but. if you remove that, the question is, is. your life better or worse right now.

under the Trump regime and under. Republican control? They had the. opportunity to show you what they can. do. Do you actually like their. performance? If your lived experience is. you think it's great, I really need to. meet you because most people I speak to. and most people other than some of those. AI billionaires who are out there at the. White House who have made a lot of money. under the Trump regime, most Americans. are doing significantly worse right now.

And that's when I also talk about. leadership. Donald Trump sadly would. still be the captain. You would be the. leader of the team, which is what the. executive branch is to take care that. laws are faithfully executed if. Democrats took control of one house or. both houses, the House and the Senate, which I think they're going to do. So if. you are saying that you as the captain. would not be able to steer the country.

in a direction of prosperity or success. and that by having members of the team. who you disagree with would send us into. a depression. Think about any sports. team, the QB or think about a sports. team, a basketball team with the best. player. If you can't work with your. teammates and you believe that just not. having the perfect teammate not only. means you won't achieve your best. success, but means that you will.

automatically lose, you're also calling. yourself the biggest loser ever, that. you can't navigate that situation. Now. the situation he's creating is a total. fabrication and a way to blame others. But I just want to put it in those terms. as well because just even removing the. politics which is hard to do. It's the. most loser quality to say things like. this like that's not how winners behave. And I hope when we elect people to the.

highest office, we elect people who are. serious, competent, sophisticated public. servants who are then acting and the. highest levels to benefit us. Let's. never forget that. By the way, it's what. we talk about a lot in our book WTF. America: The Way Out of This Hell and. Back to Democracy. And one of the things. I've been learning is we probably should. have told everybody about the audio book. because people are really excited that. there's an audio book to it as well and.

that we're all reading the audio. So Ben. So Brett, Jordy and I, we all read it. Ben, we all read the audio together. And. um and it's not AI, it's it's us. reading. We spent a lot of time doing. that. And once I said that, everybody. was really excited. So I saw the audio. book, you know, start to, you know, rise. And it's the same it's the same. link by the way that you get the same. and then there's an ebook and then. there's a hard cover as well but yes we. all read the audio and once we told that. to be like why didn't you tell us that.

to begin with anyway because we were. working on it probably because we were. in the studio recording the audio book. all right we have a lot more show to. discuss I want to talk about what's. happening right now in Saudi Arabia Yan. Buu is on fireak. other areas seem to have been hit um by. anala the Houthis also So, we're seeing. St. Petersburg in Russia burning. We're. seeing the main bridges in Kev burning. I mean, war is escalating throughout the. world right now. Putin's talking about.

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Donald Trump is out there right now. James Toller Rico in the latest Fox. Yeah, state regime media Fox and Beacon. Shaw poll. Taler Rico leads 53% to 46%. there. I also have been looking around. Nebraska and South Dakota and Alaska and. of course Michigan and Ohio. I've been. looking in Maine and I've been looking. in Florida. I've been looking in a lot. of these states and you're seeing MAGA.

Republicans just losing ground. I mean, heck, you know, even in Florida, I'm. seeing Democratic registration there, beating Republican registration. Now, look, that's. >> the first time last month since 2021 did. Democrats surpass. And I'm not going to. act like it's a significant amount, but. it is significant that Democrats for the. first time since 2021 had more voter. registrations last month in Florida. You. know, it's interesting because we've. been speaking about this for months, how. Donald Trump is a drag on the Republican.

party and how everybody wants to run. away from him. Um, but Donald Trump of. course has felt the need to try to get. his stink over as many of these. Republican candidates as possible. uh. including Ken Paxton who was his guy, right? Like they they could have had um. John Cornin who would have been much. more palatable to the people of Texas, but instead Donald Trump had to do what. he did and he had to get the corrupt Ken. Paxton in because corrupt people stay. together. And uh and it's been a. disaster for them. And I think one of.

the most telling things was that leaked. audio that came out on Wednesday uh. where you actually heard Ken Paxton say. on tape that Donald Trump was a drag not. only on his own candidacy but on all. Republicans. And when you look at the. actual data like I was looking at Nate. Silver, he has a silver bulletin average. of of polls and you could see the line. and it goes, you know, kind of steady. clip. you see uh the Democrats uh. percentage uh increasing and increasing. as the midterms approach. Then you hit.

that midterm convention which we had. said was likely going to be an utter. disaster for the Republican party. Just. a fatal mistake. And we were actually. commending the Democrats for not trying. to do a kind of rebuttal midterm. convention. Just let them, you know, hang themselves with this one. And sure. enough, the day that that midterm. convention happens, it goes from just. kind of a straight lineup to like a. vertical lineup for the Democrats. And. remember, that was the night where. Donald Trump tried his Hail Mary. I'm.

going to give $5,000 out to the American. people. That ended up being so mocked. and derided not only by Democrats, but. on all sides of the political spectrum. People looked at that as an act of. desperation. And it also just reminded. folks that this guy is a freaking liar. This guy has been promising me money now. for years with the Doge checks, with the. tariff checks, now with this. And he's. not given me my money. So fool me once, fool me twice. F you, Donald Trump. I.

ain't falling for this crap. And so it. is really just a slap in the face when. Donald Trump does it. And a lot of these. attacks, these c these culture war. attacks, when they try to put down trans. people because they think they could. bully marginalized communities for. votes. What an absolute disgrace. When. they try to attack stupid stuff like. veganism, which there's nothing wrong. about veganism. Shout out to vegans. When they do all that stuff, it might. work if the economy is actually good or. people are feeling comfortable in their.

lives. when people are suffering, people. they don't have time for that. They. don't have time to get in those. factional arguments. So, what. Republicans do, and the reason why they. always go to this, and it's been before. Donald Trump, it's been going back, if. you look at, uh, you know, President uh, Bush back in the day when he was running. for his second term, uh, very unpopular. They leaned very heavily into gay. marriage back then. That was a big thing. that they made an issue of the, uh, of. that election. And so, they always do.

this. They try to latch on to these. culture war issues because they know. they're failing on the things that. actually matter to people and the things. that people actually care about, the. things that people will rank as their. top five, 10, 15, 20 issues, and they go. to the bottom of that list to an issue. that they know that they could get. clicks on and they can know they could. rile people up on and they try to do. that. It's their only move. It's been. their only move. Donald Trump just does. it in the stupidest, most overt way. imaginable. I think we have to though. recognize.

how are people susceptible to it, not. just Americans, but people across the. world and people historically. How do. you have this uh dynamic where there's. these information gaps or poisoned. information and how are people riled up. against each other and then against. their own interest? And what can we. learn from, and I mean this sincerely,

you know, what I think is an incredible. uh mayor uh R uh the way Zoron Mdani is. running New York City and kind of always. in a constant campaign mode of getting. out the information of here's how. government's actually working for you. Not a day goes by where he's not. releasing a video of addressing the. potholes to the tennis courts in the. Bronx to saying here is what we are. doing. And.

I think that that is something that lots. of people need to understand that in. this information age, it's not enough to. just believe that people get it or. people are seeing it. Um, you have to. make sure that you build a connection. with the people you represent. Show. people you're fighting for them, regardless of what political party. they're from, that you are fighting for. them, that you stand with them, and that. you're willing to take on these other. forces that are out there. And so while.

I see a lot of this uh news of the vote. um now shifting very blue, very. Democratic in the House and the Senate, I think that it's going to be now. incumbent upon Democrats if and when. they take control of the House and. Senate to not squander the moment and to. learn and to see what's happening in New. York City and gain lessons from it, to. see how someone like a Taler Rico was.

inspiring people, you know, in Texas to. see the broader dynamic out there of and. listen to what people are saying, what. they're going through. Why is it that. these people even voted for Trump in. 2024? I mean, the promises made about. electricity prices being cut, no more. neverending wars, and I know he said a. bunch of lunatic stuff and he would talk. about Hannibal and M like he said he. said so many hateful, deranged things.

He's a sex predator. He was found civily. liable for sexual assault. He's a felon. He engaged in the January 6th. insurrection. Everything he did was. should have made it very disqualified. from the outset. Let me be very clear. But when you listen to what voters were. saying about the no more never- ending. wars and that affordability was crushing. them and they were feeling left behind. in this broader environment, you know, the Epstein class, these oligarchs were. there trying to convince the people that. they were the ones who were going to.

help them when they were the ones. causing the problem when they were. making this problem in the first place. and exacerbating it. And now the people. see. So you can't just go back to the. status quo. You have to show that you. will actually create major change. Now, I know. >> you got to be a doer, right? You gota. you got to be able to get stuff done. And you could speak in flowery language. and you could message test and say, "What did Zoron Donnie say that helped.

him get elected?" And and why did those. videos make him so popular? Is it. because they were edited nicely or were. they slick? Was it the filter they put. on the video? Was it his how in. charismatic he is? I mean, yeah, that's. that's a large part of why those videos. worked, for sure. But then if he came. into office and he said, "I'm. implementing a tariff on all New Yorkers. and I'm going to make all your stuff. more expensive and I'm going to go to. war." Obviously can't do that as a New. York mayor, but you you get the analogy. I'm making here. Then people would be. like, "F you. You said all that stuff.". He wouldn't be at a 60% plus approval. rating in New York City. And that's what.

Donald Trump did. He sold all of that. stuff to these people. Now, a lot of. people like you all who are watching, a. lot of you who are watching because we. do have a lot of, you know, former Trump. voters who watch this as well. You'd be. surprised. Um, you know, a lot of people. saw past it, but the people who voted. for him believed that he was going to be. the anti-war guy, that he was going to. be the I'm going to make your things. cheaper guy. And then he got into office. and he did the exact opposite. Mani is a. great example of getting into office and. then you see every single day it's like.

we filled 200,000 potholes. Boom. Right. We got money, hundreds of millions of. dollars going back to door uh Door Dash. drivers who were ripped off by the. company. I got this settlement. This. money is going back to the people who. were screwed over. Boom. I'm holding. landlords accountable. And I see videos. all the time of people in their. apartments now in New York City. And. I've heard all these stories of people. in New York City who go, I had this. issue with my apartment for years and my. landlord never did crap for me. Now all. of the sudden that there's actual.

consequences behind them not doing stuff. for me. All of a sudden things are. getting fixed awfully quickly and. >> universal child care. >> Universal child care all this stuff. right prek when you deliver for people. it builds trust and especially on these. tangible issues. It was something I. actually heard Mayor Mamdani speak about. recently. Uh I forget where he was but. that's beside the point. But he was. saying there were people were asking. him, you know, why do you think these. things are are so important to be. filling potholes and to, you know, be.

letting people know that you're clearing. the snow and doing stuff like that? And. his response, I'm paraphrasing, was. something like, well, people have to. know that that you have to build a trust. with your community and you have to be. able to let people know that government. works for you. And when people see that. government is working on their block on. their literal street, when they see that. the people who they once could not get. on the phone to fill a pothole or help. them out are actually doing the work.

that they're supposed to be doing for. them, then you could actually move on to. these bigger initiatives. People go, I. trust them to do this, therefore I could. trust them to do that. It's one of the. criticisms you often see that. Republicans levy on uh programs like. universal healthcare, right? They go, "Oh, you mean the government who runs. the DMV? They're going to run your. healthier, right?" They point to. something that isn't very efficient. often. And then they try to say, "That's. why the government can't work for you at. all." And then they do everything.

possible to make sure that government. doesn't work for you at every stage. so. that they could use that as an excuse in. a cycle of saying, "Look, government. doesn't work." And so, we can't do these. big things. So, we're going to spend all. our money on all these endless wars. because that's the one thing we actually. do good. Not the actual fighting of the. wars part apparently, but the spending. the money on the wars and keeping them. going, this military-industrial complex. And so, that's the dynamic you have. And. also I think it's incumbent a little bit. on people to also understand civics at a.

basic level and understand what folks. can do and what they can't do. Like you. shouldn't expect Democrats winning the. House and boom, everything's going to. change overnight. You know, everything's. going to get better. It's that's not. going to happen. But what you should be. doing is demanding that these people do. what they say, that they hold this. regime accountable, that we see an. intense uh confrontation between these. Democrats if they were to take the. house, uh interrogating, uh.

investigating, holding these folks. accountable, at least making the case. against all these folks so that when a. Democratic administration comes in on. the future, there's been all this work. that's gone into holding folks. accountable. >> And that's it right there, Brett. Because at its core, that's what people. just want. They want government to work. for them. They they want government and. their electeds to actually work for them. and deliver on their promises. Right? We. have too many politicians that quite. frankly exist that just want to grift. off their position of power. And it's,

you know, it's disgusting and it's not. good for it's not good for this country. But when you see someone like a Zoron in. in New York doing what he's doing, when. you see someone like a Shapiro out here. in Pennsylvania, bridge collapses, he. has it back up in 12 days. I mean, that's a defining moment in someone's in. in someone's elected career right there. What we're seeing is that time and time. again, people are uh approving of the. elected officials who are actually. getting stuff done, who are those GSD. types who get it done day in and day out.

and just don't give folks lip service, but actually deliver. And that's what. that's what we see. I think that that's. what I think separates a lot of people. in the pack of, oh, this is actually a. good leader. By the way, I mean, you're. seeing it at the prime minister level in. Canada where you have Prime Minister. Carney taking tangible steps, not doing. fake deals. You know, you know, just. think about the contrast over here. You. have Donald Trump in the Oval Office. yesterday saying that he's got this $54. billion N LNG deal with South Korea and.

South Korean companies are going to be. investing in Alaska and it's going to be. amazing. And you've got all of these. people, these Alaska MAGA bootlickers of. Trump, the governor, and you know, people like that who were like, "It's. going to be, you know, this is we need. this. This is so big." Then South Korea. says today, their ministry, their. industry ministry says, "Not happening. It's just we never agreed to this. You. know, we're in very preliminary talks, very preliminary, so this isn't.

happening at all." So, you've got that. And then you contrast that with Prime. Minister Carney who's already announced. major actual LNG deals and he's now. diversifying their oil market away from. the United States. I mean, just think. about that. I mean, it was such a. obvious benefit to the United States and. Canada, but Canada, okay, we are rich in. resources, so here's what we're going to. do. So, Prime Minister Carney goes into. Alberta. By the way, their premere is.

Danielle Smith, Maple MAGA. She does. everything she can to undermine Prime. Minister Carney. And he's there and he's. just, you know, standing up. Look, I'm. it's it's it's like I'm going to. Alberta. I'll go to British Columbia. I'll go to Ontario. Uh you you tell me. where should I go? I'll go to Quebec, you know, and I'll and I'll speak to the. people about what we're doing tangibly. And here's what he says in Alberta. Here, let's play this clip. A pipeline. to the West Coast is part of our mission.

to transform our economy. to double our. non- US exports over the next decade, to. create tens, in fact hundreds of. thousands of good jobs, to unlock the. full potential of Canada as a global. energy superpower, and to catalyze tens. and tens of billions of dollars of new. investment into the Canadian economy, to. make Alberta in Canada. more prosperous, more independent, and to do all of this. in the right way.

Today, 90% of Alberta's oil goes to the. US. Pacific Link will materially reduce. that dependence by allowing us to export. an additional 1 million barrels a day to. growing markets in Asia. That means more. customers, more choice, higher prices. for all Canadian energy producers. And. it means greater long-term security of. demand. >> Greater long-term security of demand. In. other words, US is unreliable and so we.

need greater long-term security. Not. just Trump destroying the United States. short-term, but long-term. And when we. look at the long-term bonds, the. 30-year, 20-year, 10year Treasury. yields, how they're seeing the United. States, how that market is seeing the. United States. It's a very grim picture. I mean, there's a world where the. 30-year yields could hit 6% very soon, and the 10-year yields had its worst.

quarter, its worst run since. 1994 or so. We had inflation data that. came out yesterday and it seemed, whoa, it was actually pretty decent. And then. we learn that the Trump regime has just. changed the PCE inflation formula. basically to rig the formula. So it. drops inflation by about 30 to 40 basis. points. And that's why we saw it drop 30. to 40 basis points from where we.

expected it to be. But you're not. fooling anybody long term. I mean, you. may trick the market for short periods. of time where Trump and others seem to. be buying the dips that they create, but. if you look at the bond markets, they're. now believing that there's going to be. four to five interest rate hikes. Brett, as you mentioned before, there were. supposed to be three interest rate cuts. So, we're talking about a swing of about. 225 basis points in the direction of. interest rate hikes versus cuts where we.

were expecting it to be. And you're. seeing countries and companies that hold. US debt dumping it unless the Treasury. Department provides these very high. yields, which ultimately means we the. taxpayers are paying to service the debt. somewhere in the range of $1.35 trillion. a year. It's like basically the biggest. line item right now of our budget is. paying the debt which actually causes.

more debt because the Ponzi scheme. continues and the debt that the United. States has accumulated was never. sustainable but it was at least. continuing to be able to be sustained on. the basis that the postworld war II. architecture was created by the United. States. So all of the oil money was in. dollars. The equity markets really the. United States was paramount. The bond.

market, United States, everything was. conducted in dollars. The US would be. able to wield that so you could print. more money. We shouldn't have. It's. reckless, but it was at least somewhat. able to continue the Ponzi because the. US created the architecture and created. the rules. Heads I win, tails you lose. But what happens when you destroyed the. rules-based order and made the United. States weaker? That's when the overall.

Ponzi scheme actually collapses. And. this is what Trump is doing. We'll talk. a little bit more about what's happening. internationally when we come back. And. this is what we talk a lot about in WTF. America. What I'm excited about this. book is for it to last beyond this. election, the next election, the next 20. elections because it is the mightest. might kind of flag if you will in the uh. United States, you know, literature of. here is the way out of this. And I hope.

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If there's that exit survey, let them. know we sent you. Benji, I like your. glasses today. They're very clean. The. new glasses were inspired by the. mightest mighty saying that the old. glasses were very dirty and foggy. And. I'm a creature of habit. It was true. They were dirty. They bent. They were filthy. >> Like smudges everywhere. It was crazy. >> Did you just think the world looked like. Do you think you needed new glasses. because you couldn't see out? We're. being mean, Brett. You're being too.

mean. >> I mean, look, I don't get out of the. house that much. I spend a lot of time. working. You know, the idea of even. going. >> Oh, sorry. You work too much. The idea. of even doing an eye exam. >> It's like the job question. What's your. biggest weakness? I just work too hard. >> You know, a little more selfare. >> In defense though, I mean, he doesn't. stop working. So, >> no, he really It's true. Yeah. The funny. thing is the the way I found out that I. needed glasses was we were watching like. Finding Nemo in the auditorium in like. middle school. I don't know why that was. even a thing, but we were. And my friend.

who was sitting next to me gave me his. glasses. I put them on. All of a sudden, the movie looked crystal clear, like it. was HD. I thought the screens, like all. screens, like projector screens were. blurry. And then I put the glasses on. and I had a huge revelation. Oh, it's. not the screens. >> It's me. And I'm glad that Ben had a. similar. >> Fun fact, Brett's also color blind. >> This is true. >> I never even knew that you're color. blind. >> You didn't know that? It's like are you.

badly color blind or. >> It's like a m No, it's it's like a mild. thing, but they're like uh if if people. out there are color blind in the way. that I am, it's red, green, color blind, and there are certain shades of red and. green that when they're side by side, my. eyes can't tell the difference. So, I. see color, right? I see I see colors. I. could point to blue, right? I I I see. colors. However, um those specific. shades I can't see. So, they have these. number tests they give you where like. there are these circles with these dots. in it and they'll be like, "What's the.

number in the dot?" And I'll be. >> Fred's like Brett's like, "What number. it's. >> there's no number in there." And then. they'll be like, "What number is there?". I'll be like, "27." And and they'll be. like, "Oh, that's interesting." Because. the number is actually 72, but. colorblind people are able to see 27. And I go, "Okay, I get it. Whatever.". >> You learn something new about your. brothers every show. Ben, >> you do. But I'll somehow link this to. the show, which is. >> Let's do it. to it. >> Moral clarity, clarity in general, being. able to see the truth is all very.

important. Well, and I'll just I'll just. say this. >> Never would I ever think that when the. United States government says that there. are protests in Iran where 12,000 people. were killed. And I see images on a TV. screen of seemingly the protests back in. January and people seem to be killed or. there seemed to be, you know, a location. where people were killed. I when that. incident happened, despite me believing.

Donald Trump lies about everything, you. know, my view was it was clear, you. know, from what I observed, I thought I. mean it's being honest. I'm being. vulnerable with you right now. That's. what I thought happened. And you know to. this day I still believe that there was. a protest and I believe people were. killed in the protest. Although the. number of people who were killed in the. protest, whether the real number is. 3,000, 5,000 or 10,000, um I don't know.

But what I do know is that the Trump. regime on an issue like that went from. saying 12,000 to 30,000 to 50,000 to. 60,000. And then in this derange Times. magazine interview that Donald Trump. gave that was released today where he. was like, I've got high IQs. Do you know. my uncle is MIT? Very high IQs, very. high IQs. You know that Donald Trump. said 72,000 people. He goes that was the. number 72,000. So if you're going to.

make up 12,000 and then go to 72,000 and. just do it so cavalerely and. nonchalantly and that this is just what. you do and make up a number like that, you know, it's just like I don't know is. is that like literally every like is. everything you say an absolute lie? What. really went down? And it makes it very. difficult when this regime lies about. quite literally everything of what's. going on over there, right? Then you. hear about the Royal Air Force Fairford.

incident and the information that came. out. That's the US air base that's been. used to uh strike Iran. There were. apparently people who were involved in. terroristic activity. That's the news. that was coming out. And as soon as it. happened, I had to say this is what's. being said. I don't know what's. happening. So I just want to tell you, we have to be very careful in how we. report this. I think we handled it very. responsibly in how he reported it. But. now they were but now we know that the.

five people are out on bail that. apparently one of the people or two of. the people in that group were the. individuals who called the police on. themselves that there were not any. explosives. They weren't like right by. the air force. they were, you know, in a. town that was close by and they had, I. guess, empty petroleum cans or kind of. tanks that weren't filled with anything. And then the Trump regime and even the.

prime minister of UK and now Netanyahu. are saying that was Iran, that was IRGC, they're probably behind it, and now. we've got to make Iran pay for it. And. I'm thinking, all right, if you're. saying it's IRGC and it's terrorists or. whatever you're saying, why would you. let the people out on bail? like what am. I missing here? And they called the. police on their own. And so there's that. one. You know, then there's the Fly. Dubai incident, which again seems deeply. serious. I mean what they're telling us. is that this plane that had a Indian.

pilot and Omani co-pilot was traveling. to Tel Aviv and it was um traveling from. Dubai and then the co-pilot from Oman, this is the story, stabbed the pilot and. tried to take over the plane and then. the pilot opened up the cockpit and then. the plane started a descent uh straight. down descent 17,500.

ft. And then a guy with no pilot. training who's a plumber who was on the. plane, he rushed into the cockpit and he. had seen television shows about airplane. crashes. And so he took the yolk, the. control yolk of the plane, pulled it up. as it was descending 17,500. ft to the ground, and then pulled it up. himself, stabilized the plane with no.

training as an Air Force pilot or a. pilot at all. And then there were two. other individuals on that plane who were. uh pilots off duty and they helped land. the plane. And then now the Trump regime. and UAE and Netanyahu are saying it was. IRGC backed and Trump's like, well now. that's a reason that we've got to make. Iran pay this, right? As we learn about. the USS Theodore Roosevelt uh with uh. this aircraft carrier strike group now.

heading to the Middle East about 10,000. more service members heading to the. Middle East and Trump saying he wants to. escalate after the midterms. And then I. reflect on the F-15 story where they. said this F-15 pilot, Dude Bravo, we. apparently saw the purported guy on 60. Minutes. He's probably like 50 years. old. When the F-15 was shot by Iran, he. apparently fell without a parachute onto. the ground. He says 70 to 100 miles per. hour. And then he fell to the ground.

And then he broke some bones, but he was. okay to run five to 20 miles to the. 7,000 ft mountain. And then he climbed. the mountain to the very top. And that's. where he was rescued, the 7,000 foot. mountain. And then he was saved and he. was rescued there. And then they're. going to be making like a Hollywood. movie about it. And then, oh, and then. in the Fly Dubai incident, the plumber. who apparently saved the flight, he was.

waiting in his in a bloody shirt, they. didn't have him change. And so when. Netanyahu was there, he and Netanyahu. hugged each other and he was in the. bloody shirt. And you know, then. Netanyahu, I don't even want to play the. Netanyahu, but he went on, you could I I. showed it in the morning. Netanyahu then. goes on state regime media Fox. This is. you couldn't even believe this if they. wrote it in Hollywood. You couldn't even. believe this thing. And just the very. fact, you know, I I have to report on.

this. This is news. This is breaking. news. And this is now being used by the. Trump regime, Netanyahu, UAE, even the. prime minister of UK apparently as a. justification for potentially escalating. a war. As you have Pete Hegsith, and I. don't want to show any more Hegith. clips. Whenever I show the Hexith clips, I see the chat. They go muting it now. But Hegsith is saying the book of Isaiah. told him that we need to send our young. men and women and people to war just.

based on whatever God tells Hegsith and. Trump. Send me, send me is what Hegath. said. And Hgsith takes great delight in. cutting 20% of our ad admirals and. generals. He said they're unworthy of. their positions. And so he bragged about. it while he says God and Isaiah told him. that we comm service members send me. into war. And then I see this is now. being used as the justification. So I. have to be circumspect and I have to be.

responsible in my reporting on all of. this. But I put these pieces together. for you in that way. And I just never. thought and being candidly, you know, going back to the beginning where I was. like, I never wanted to talk about. straight of horm moves and crack spreads. and treasury yields and things like. that, but that this entire narrative out. here seems to be filled, I'll just leave. it at this, with many a question, with. many a question. And the American people.

like, just get us out of this war. We. don't want to be involved in this never-. ending war. The US doesn't want to be. working with Netanyahu to do, you know, all of these horrific wars. And as. Netanyahu continues the genocide in. Gaza, we just we don't just stop it. We. don't want to be spending taxpayer. dollars slaughtering little children in. Iran or in Gaza or elsewhere in Lebanon. or elsewhere. We we want to spend that. money to build schools in the United. States and to help people here and to. and to build hospitals here, not to blow.

up hospitals there. What are we what are. we doing? And so I, you know, I I I hope. piecing that together for you. And then. this last piece and I'll throw it to you. Brett and Jordan because that's really, you know, this is my international beat. that I always talk about, you know, then. you just see the mass escalation in. Russia. Um, Russia escalating on Kev. rather, and then you see the response of. of Ukraine in Russia, bridges blown up. and refineries blown up and logistical. centers blown up. And this thing is.

escalating in a way that is um. absolute, you know, people are often go, well, why do you call your video all. hell breaks loose? Because if there was. a bigger word that I could use than the. apocalyptic scenes, I would want that. word. If you help me find that word, but. what we're observing is the closest I. think we can observe to hell. So you. like that's what we're seeing. So that's. what it is.

when you see destruction and. devastation. Brett Jordan. >> Yeah, I think it's a quite the apt. description and uh you know when we. speak about all these uh when we speak. about all these things and we speak. about the the kind of propaganda that we. see out of governments and I'm not. saying this in specifically tying it to. any of the stories that Ben mentioned, you know, and honestly I just don't have. all the details on these. We don't have. all the details on these stories. We. don't know what's true. We don't know. what's not true. But we do know that the.

government has lied to us continuously. and it's not new in the age of Trump. And I think that's also important to. point out that while Trump is the kind. of loudest force of lying and propaganda. and he's just so overt with everything. he does, this has been going on for an. incredibly long time. Uh, of course. happens across many governments, all. governments, but it's been going on in. the United States for a long time. One. of the examples I always think about. first there's the whole weapons of mass. destruction which brought us into Iraq.

and why did we go into Iraq uh after the. uh World Trade Center attacks never made. any sense to begin with but we were lied. into that war. Everybody knows and. acknowledges today that that was a. complete lie and if you said that back. then people called you a traitor and. they said that you were a conspiracy. theorist and whatever names they wanted. to give you. Um there were also other. things that happened even back then that. are worth revisiting today. Um be. because in times of war the propaganda. that's used is is potent propaganda and. they do it for a reason. Back in the day.

uh there was a guy named Pat Tilman and. he was a NFL player. I believe he played. for the Arizona Cardinals at the time. Uh chiseled jaw big dude look like Mr. America, right? Like stereotypical look. like Mr. America. >> Captain Captain Yeah. Well, I'm not. saying Captain America specifically. like I'm saying like he looks like the. embodiment of like you know America. tough guy, army military guy, right? And. so he uh is uh you know in in the army.

and he gets d he gets deployed to Iraq. and he's against the war. He actually. opposes the war and this was the guy who. was supposed to be like this NFL player. who was going to fight and he was going. to be this hero. They were going to use. him as propaganda, but he was against. the war. And he ended up getting killed. And he, it turned out that he got killed. by what they call friendly fire, also a. name used to diminish what actually.

happened. He was killed by Americans. He. was killed by American soldiers, theoretically accidentally. And the. government covered it up. Uh, and they. used his death as propaganda. And this. is well documented. It's not like this. is my opinion on what happened. It's. well documented that this is what. happened. They used his death for. propaganda to push the war despite the. fact that he was against the war and his. family had to try to speak out and say. he actually hated this war. He was. against it. He thought it was uh. unlawful. He didn't want to be there.

And there's a movie about it called The. Tillman story which came out like in. 2010 which is really really good. And it. just shows you how all these people in. our government lied every step of the. way. uh Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, right? All that entire administration. back then just lied in order to make. this individual's death war propaganda. And we're seeing today how they use uh. these horrifying situations and how they. embellish stories and make up stories.

and use whatever they can to push war. propaganda. It's the same machine behind. the scenes, right, with a different face. out front. It's been going on for for a. long time. I do. I if you haven't seen. that movie, it's a really powerful and. horrifying movie. But even today, uh the. NFL does, I believe, ceremonies where. they, uh, honor Pat Tilman, um, and they. do it in a kind of very war propaganda. way to honor soldiers and things like. that. Basically, the exact opposite of. what Pat Tilman's message actually was.

back then, but they've turned his death. into this kind of propaganda scheme. that's now in NFL broadcasts that's. feeding war propaganda to people via. that. And it's just it's just you have. to be aware of it, right? And in the. moment, you often don't it's often. impossible to know what's going on, right? Because there are cover-ups, there are actual conspiracies happening. And oftentimes, it's not until later on, till there's investigations, till uh. documents leak or unclassified or. whatever, till you find stuff out. But.

my point, just to wrap it up, it was. happening then, it's happening now. And. technology is much more sophisticated. now than it even was back then, even. though that wasn't all that long ago. And so we have to kind of take each. story as it comes and look at it through. a very critical lens and not immediately. try to yell at somebody if they express. skepticism at something there. Especially when you have an. administration, in this case a a regime. that has quite literally lied about.

everything, even something as stupid as. the reflecting pool. And by the way, I. could say that David Hearn, his case. dismissed with prejudice today, meaning. the government cannot bring that case. again against him. Donald Trump wanted. to lock up a former Olympian uh blaming. him for the reflect the the reflecting. pool disaster that was caused by Donald. Trump's own incompetence. And so just. putting the pieces together once again, it happens. It happens every day.

There's a whole documented trail of it. And so I thought I would bring it up. No, thanks for that B. And I just want. to add this really quick, Ben, is Brett. to your points exactly. It's why I'm so. honored to be walking side by side, brothers with you guys, but also might. as mighty with you guys, interacting. with y'all in the chats when we can, obviously, and just hearing what's. impacting your lives and what's on the. top of your minds. And so, it's just I. know we're all collectively going. through a lot. Uh I just wouldn't want. to be going through this with anybody. else. And in times that are difficult,

you know, it's good to lean on. communities. And I'm just so honored to. have this incredible community with you. all here in this shared space as we. march forward, as we continue to be. truth seekers and truth tellers and. trying to just unearth, you know, all of. the madness that we're witnessing day in. and day out. So truly from the bottom of. of my heart, and I know for my brothers. as well, thank you guys for staying so. plugged in every single day. God knows. we're going to need it, especially, you. know, post midterms and and all of that.

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