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We've got a lot to discuss on today's. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. We. start with this weekend when Donald. Trump announced a fake ceasefire between. Russia and Ukraine. And then you had. Zalinski and Putin both saying, "We. never really heard about this." Zinsky. said, "Well, we'll agree to it if Russia. stops striking our energy. infrastructure." Russia continued to. strike Ukraine's energy infrastructure. hitting a major plant in car key and.

then Donald Trump blamed Zinsky for it. and said you see you should have done a. deal and you shouldn't be the president. anymore. Okay. Now this follows what. Donald Trump did on Friday announcing a. Russian oil deal for Russian diesel. which violates multiple laws. a 2022 law. which is literally called the end. Russian Importation Oil Act. Then. there's a 2017 law that Donald Trump. signed. Trump violated all of those. laws. And you have the 2026 Lindsey.

Graham Russia Sanctions Act which. sanctions countries for doing diesel. deals with Russia which Trump just did. So, we'll talk about all of that and. I'll talk to you about Donald Trump. sadly has absolute immunity from the. Supreme Court, but Treasury Secretary. Besson doesn't and Mark Wayne Mullen. doesn't. And so, Trump will probably. need to pardon them. And so, we'll we'll. get into that. Um, you have numerous. strikes in and around the straight of.

Hormuz by the IRGC in the past 24 to 48. hours. We believe there's at least six. tankers have been hit in the straight of. Hermuz and also in the Gulf of Oman in a. very short period of time. The IRGC was. releasing videos of all of these tankers. that it struck and then earlier UK MTO. confirmed at least uh six of these. strikes. I believe it may be more than. that. Over the past 12 days or so, Iran.

seems to have struck close to 20, maybe. even more tankers in these trade horos. So, you have diesel obviously continuing. to surge over $107. a barrel. The markets not buying Donald. Trump's market manipulation play with. Putin about this Russian diesel deal. If. you look at the deal and break it down. as we've analyzed it at the Midas touch. network, it's actually a very small. quantity of diesel and Russia also. doesn't have a diesel surplus that it's.

really even able to export. If you break. it down, it's like two to three and a. half million barrels, maybe slightly. more of oil. We're talking about diesel. We're talking about one and a half to. two tankers full of diesel, right? Not. all that much. You think about it, Canada is able to provide about 1. million barrels of diesel a day while. Donald Trump attacks Canada. Though he. had to pull back that attack on Canada. was like, "Oh, maybe we do need your.

oil. Maybe that's where the trade. surplus is actually coming from." So, we'll talk about uh that as well. Um. we'll talk about the attack on James. Tollico that was exposed. We'll talk. about how Donald Trump's press secretary. is reposting QAnon stuff in the past and. some really deep QAnon stuff that's, you. know, we'll talk about the Houthis. continuing to strike Saudi Arabia. Uh. the King Khaled air base uh was hit.

Lots of casualties. 12 people were. killed, including I believe an American. citizen was killed in King Khaled. 300. plus injured. I think the death count. actually is now 14. and it keeps on. increasing and uh the injured about 350. um we'll talk about that. Saudi Arabia. apparently is arresting American. citizens there who are taking video. footage of the Ansurala strikes as they. continue to cover up what's happening. there. Donald Trump also had the. Department of Justice raid Congresswoman.

Elon Omar's Washington DC home as they. try to uh arrest her or they're going to. try to investigate her for jinned up. charges. They haven't done that yet, but. that's obviously where they're moving. Um, apparently based on nothing, but. they're saying, "Oh, well, her dad. filled out forms when she when they. moved here." Anyway, we we'll we'll. break this all down on this episode of. the Midas Touch podcast. Brett, Jordy, good to see you as always. >> Good to see you, too, Ben. Good to see. you, Jordy. A lot to discuss. I am just.

at my wit's end with all of these media. channels that decide to take Donald. Trump's claims at face value and then. send them out and push alerts to all of. their followers and act like they're. real. I got multiple push alerts from. very reputable. news organizations yesterday. I won't. call all of them out by name uh right. now, but they all the instant Donald. Trump posted on Truth Social and said.

that we have a deal, energy ceasefire. agreed to on all sides, they were. quickly out with their articles and. their push alerts to everybody's phones. saying that we have a deal, energy. ceasefire, Donald Trump says it. And I. was like, what are you doing? Why? We're. like what, 10 years into the Trump era. or something like that right now and you. are still falling for this crap? Then of. course, Ben, as you said, you had. Zalinski come out and say, "It's the. first time I'm hearing of this, but if. Russia agrees, I'm happy to agree as. well." You have Putin in Moscow just. mocking Donald Trump, calling him out.

for market manipulation. Just the whole. thing is so pathetic. And this is what. happens when you have a president of the. United States who is a gaslighter, a. fraudster. This is what happens. All he. has is the ability to make things up, not actually build things, only to. destroy things and to lie. And we've. seen so many instances of this um even. in just the past 24 hours. It's good to. see. I I gotta say I'm a little uh upset. for other reasons beginning the show. But right before we went live, uh, I was.

going to adjust my camera because it was. a little dark. And I threw my headphones. on my table and got back here, put them. back in my ears, and then I realized. that I must have thrown my headphones in. my coffee mug in front of me. And then I. put the coffee uh drenched earphones in. my ears. And then all of a sudden, it's. like the worst feeling having like wet. in your ears. I had wet coffee smelling. earbuds in my ears. And of course, I. broke them. And so I switched to the big. headphones for for the show and now my.

ear ears feel weird. I'm a little thrown. off. I got coffee in my ears. I I don't. know, brothers. What What am I I don't. know. I'm just going to toss it over to. Jordy. Jordy, what's. >> You hazed yourself. You Why did you You. hazed yourself before we started the. show. [laughter] I I would argue that. wet like socks on your feet is a way. worse feeling than wet ears. But also, you gave yourself a coffee wet willie. before we start. Weird. So, I'm so sorry. that happened to you. >> I'm excited to get into today's show. When you realized that Donald Trump is. sort of this this byproduct, right,

though, of a media ecosystem that wants. access over accountability, those push. notifications, Brett, that you're. talking about start to make a whole lot. more sense. It's really frustrating and. really awful that we live in this era. where it's like, you know, I like a. fourth estate. Let me just start with. that premise. We need a strong fourth. estate here. But when our media. counterparts in corporate media care. about cozying up to power rather than. holding power accountable, I think. that's a real issue. That's a real big. problem that we're seeing day in and day.

out. And so I'm excited to get into. today's show. There's a lot of wild. misinformation out there that I'm. excited for you brothers and us on the. show here to debunk. And so just like. with that, Benji, where are we starting. off today? A lot to get into. Yeah, look, a little later in the show, I'll. show you some clips of an interview that. Steve Bannon just gave because he. basically gave the strategy. If you. basically flood the zone and put all. this information out there, the. corporate news and media doesn't know. how to uh deal with it. He also said. that you're going to see all of these.

impeachments and all of these. investigations if and when Democrats. take control of the House and Senate, but we'll save that for a little bit. later in the show. Let's begin as Donald. Trump is heading to Ohio again. He'll be. giving one of these deranged speeches uh. this evening. Uh Donald Trump was asked. as he was leaving. He goes, "You said. that Russia and Ukraine agreed to a. ceasefire, but both sides have said they. have not." I mean, Zalinski said that he. would be agreeable to one, but there was.

no discussion. There's no details about. it. Putin and the Russian Duma said that. this is just kind of Trump doing the. market manipulation thing. So, nobody. knows what you're talking about. So, you. want to explain like what that means? Let's listen to this. >> Well, we're looking at it. Yeah, we're. not happy. >> You said you said Russia and Ukraine. agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides. say they have not agreed to that. >> Well, they agreed. You know why? Because. I said you agreed. That's why. >> They agreed. Uh because I said they.

agreed and that thing has to get. settled. That war is a disaster. Did you. see the numbers that just came out this. month? 30. >> Yeah. They agreed because I said they. agreed. And isn't that everything? Doesn't that just sum it all up? There. was a ceasefire because there is a. ceasefire. We control the straight of. moose because I say we control the. straight of her moose. Everything out of. the guy's mouth is a complete and utter. lie. And brothers, we were talking about. this when he said it. Just like how.

humiliating is this for the United. States that this is where we're at right. now where you literally have the person. who has the most powerful position lying. about some lies about everything. Let's. be very everything is lie. We'll talk. later in the show as well where the. Trump regime DOJ lied to a federal judge. that they weren't going to destroy the. trees at a golf course, the East PTOAC. public golf course. Um and then they. destroyed the trees and the judge said. so you just like lie to me about it.

They lie about everything but lying on. matters all and that's by the way very. serious. I don't want to downplay you. know lying to the judge over something. like that but then lying about I spoke. to Putin and I spoke to Zalinski and. they agreed to a ceasefire as Putin is. striking the power plants in Kkefe and. the energy grid throughout Ukraine and. then Zalinsky has to respond. So, Zillinsky responds and he's like, "Okay, well, I would be agreeable to it, but I.

want to also be clear. We don't have. diesel refineries in Ukraine. We have. energy grids. We have one diesel. refinery, but the big issue is Russia. striking the energy grids here. So, in. order for us to inflict pain as well on. Russia in response to what they're. doing, we're hitting the diesel. refinery." So Zalinsky said, "We're open. to if it's on energy broadly, we will. stop striking diesel refineries if. Russia stops striking the energy sector.

here." And Russia just continued to. strike the energy secret sector. And. then you had these leaks from the Trump. regime to Oxios and others that were. like, "No, no, what Trump actually meant. is it's a it's a refinery for refinery. deal." In other words, Putin can stop. striking Ukrainian refineries. to which. they don't there there really aren't. any. Right. But then Zalinsky, you have. to stop striking the Russian refineries. because they're now part of a deal that. Donald Trump claims that he made with.

Putin to bring in Russian diesel. And. then, you know, the Ukrainians were. like, well, that doesn't make any sense. at all, but you know what's Putin say? And then Putin Putin wouldn't even agree. to the refinery for refinery deal by the. way. And so I'll throw it back to you. Brett and Jordan, but you have that. behavior taking place. >> Yeah. It's just genuinely sad to watch. I mean, this is the president of the. United States we're talking about, and. he is so weak and incapable of actually. making a deal with anybody that his.

strategy has just been to post fake. deals on his social media account and. then hope people believe him. And then. inevitably every party who he's kind of. said this deal involved has to come out. and put out statements calling Donald. Trump a liar. I don't think we've ever. seen weakness like this in the Oval. Office. Uh I would say in my entire. life, but I would say in the history of. this country. It's absolutely pathetic. And it is that uh you know strong men. you know or or weak man masquerading as.

a strong man. It really just exudes. weakness uh when he does things like. that. And to Zalinsk's credit, Zalinski. is very good about kind of calling. Trump's bluff on these things. Zalinski. was like, "Look, I last night I didn't. strike any of we didn't strike any of. the Russian refineries." You know, Donald Trump said, "Let's do the. ceasefire." And guess what? We're very. amenable to this concept of an energy. ceasefire. So, we'll put our cards on. the table. No ceasefire. We we we won't.

be doing this stuff. Let's see what. Russia does. And then what does Russia. do? Russia struck six uh energy centers. in Ukraine, showing that once again they. are the bad actors and they have no. intention of stopping. It's the pattern. that we've seen time and time again. where then stuff like that happens and. what does Donald Trump do? Does he then. go, "Oh, Vladimir Putin, how could you. do something like that? I thought you. saw what I was trying to do with my. tweets." No. Uh, instead he goes and he.

blames Zilinsky and he gets further mad. at Zilinski and he has his uh, you know, mouthpieces go out to places like Axios. and say things like, "Daddy Trump is. very mad at Zilinski. He thinks he's not. being appreciative enough of Donald. Trump." It's like, who the hell do you. think you are? Who the hell do you think. you are? This is a guy who said that he. would deal with this war within 24. hours, not even of getting into office, but of being elected. But I'll give him. being in office. And it's of course just. gotten worse and worse and worse. And.

he's always just looking for an easy way. out. And everything that you have to you. have to look through every one of Donald. Trump's actions right now, especially as. the midterms approach as how is he. trying to manipulate the markets? How is. he trying to man manipulate the outcomes. of these elections? And don't fall for. this crap. He knows that he needs a big. win, right? because he's a freaking. loser and he's lost at everything and. he's completely destroyed the country. and quite literally every one of his.

initiatives, everything that he has. attempted to do has completely been an. utter failure uh of this term. And so. he's looking for a win. Could I end the. war between Russia and Ukraine? Could I. end this, right? Could I solve this. issue? Could I solve that issue? Could I. solve Iran? And he's flailing. And when. he's flailing, he just reaches for these. kind of hail Marys. In this case, it was. just tweeting out some BS that he had. solved this thing and that there was. this energy ceasefire that was just a. lie, just made up, not even a little bit.

true. >> He just makes things up. He is weakness. personified. It is so frustrating to. see, you know, play out day after day. after day and be like, "Yeah, that's the. president of the United States over. there. He's behaving like a absolute. lunatic." Also like a child. And I don't. mean to like downplay his behaving. like a child. When he's like, "Oh, it's. a deal because I said it's a deal." It's. very I know you are, but what am I? Like. it's so ridiculous when you actually see. it and and hear it with your own eyes.

and ears. And then for me too, it's like. we're not dealing with a fantasy. football trade. It's a deal because I. said it's a deal. What are you talking. about, bro? Lives are on the line. We're talking. about a ceasefire, Brett, to your point. that you said that you would end within. 24 hours of you being elected. You went. back and you said, "Oh, those I was. being sarcastic." It's not sarcasm. anyway, but you've said it over a. hundred times. I have to imagine by now. that you said within 24 hours this war. between Russia and Ukraine would be. over, that you would end it. And now you.

just outright declaring the war is over. Again, very very MAGA uh office of I. declare bankruptcy. like there. You got. to actually follow through here, Donnie. And you know something about bankruptcy. Going back to that, you bankrupted. endless companies left and right. That's. the other thing. You're not a great. negotiator. You actually have no idea. how to negotiate. You're not a great. businessman. You're absolutely not. Who. bankrupts casinos? Losers. Literally, the one rule with casinos is the house.

always wins. And you've yet somehow. found a way to lose at that. And now. you're bankrupting our country and. you're bankrupting the world by just, I. don't know, planting your flag and. saying things are true when they're not. Yeah, you could say it and maybe some of. these mouthpieces over at Axios or. wherever they'll repeat it and try and. run cover for you, but at the end of the. day, lives are on the line, right? People are actively dying. And to me, that is the most upsetting part about. this is he just seems that he doesn't he. just he doesn't care about that.

>> Yeah. And then so as Donald Trump again. is at this press conference before he. was speaking in Ohio this evening, he. says, "I actually think that Putin wants. to make the deal more than Zalinski. does." The real problem is Zalinski. He. says here, play this clip. >> So anything that could help our farmers, our ranchers, I like. And I do think. this Zalinsky has to focus on making a. deal. Not talking about that. How are you going to make Putin uh abide.

by the ceasefire? >> I think I think what's happening is he. wants to make a deal and we have to get. Zolinsky to want to make a deal. How. >> where are you from? >> Poland. >> How how is he? >> You know your president's a good friend. of mine. >> You know I endorsed him and he won. You. know that. >> I know that. But but how. >> so it can't be too bad. >> Do you see do you how where do you see. his willingness to make a deal when he's. striking Ukrainian striking ships? You're going to make a deal. >> I think actually Putin wants to make a.

deal more than. >> he was speaking to a reporter from. Poland and Trump was bragging about the. right-leaning president of Poland. But. also Trump doesn't know the way politics. works in Poland, that they actually have. a prime minister who has more power than. the president. Polish Prime Minister. Donald Tusk, who earlier this morning at. the Warsaw Security Forum said, "Anyone. who for reasons of betrayal, stupidity,

or money wants to weaken Ukraine in its. defense against Russian aggression in. acting directly against their own. nation, the security of their own. country, and its sovereignty." He goes. and pulls out anybody who would be, he. said, so stupid to do that. And. obviously he's referring to uh Donald. Trump right there. And then, you know, >> and then real quick, I know you caught. that. Sorry to interrupt, but did you. hear the the mafioso threat there, too, as he's going back and forth with the.

reporter? Oh, you're you're president. I. I good friend of mine. Good friend of. mine. I helped get him elected. So, the. question can't be that bad. All right, let's hear it. Can't be that bad. I'm a. good friend of your if it's a bad. question, I'm going to let them know and. he's going to he's going to do something. with you. That that's the insinuation. That's the insinuation. >> Also, look, also though Trump's whole. view about, you know, when he said, I. had the words for Zalinsky and Putin, the words were this. Zalinsky, you. should surrender and you need to give.

all of Eastern Ukraine to Putin. That's. what Putin wants. Give it up. And if you. don't give it up, we're not going to. support Ukraine. We're not going to give. Ukraine interceptors. We're not going to. give Ukraine weapons. We're not going to. give Ukraine access to Starlink with. Elon Musk in order to target the Russian. ballistic launchers. We are going to cut. you off. And you know, the Trump regime. originally cut Zalinsky off and cut.

Ukraine off right away. NATO created. this. It was called this Pearl program. This kind of prioritized Ukraine weapon. program. You may have heard about it. P. URL is the acronym. And then the Trump. regime would very slowly give US weapons. even for purchase by NATO and European. countries. Those weapons would lag. And. then Donald Trump would tap Zinsky. along. We'll get you interceptors. We'll. get you interceptor licenses. And Trump. never gave that to Zalinski. And Trump.

is just baffled. and he is angry at. Zinsky for not surrendering because. that's what Trump figured would happen. and Putin's been saying look we we're. winning on the front we are beating. Ukraine you you know Zalinsky should. surrender and that's Donald Trump's. whole perspective is informed by Putin's. perspective now it's important to know. that when Putin and Lavrov and Russia. say that they want a deal and they. believe a deal is achievable what they. mean is that their view is that most of.

Eastern UK Ukraine bel I mean I think. it's all of Ukraine but for now they say. the deal is basically give us all of. eastern Ukraine we'll take that and then. we'll do a deal that's the deal and so. and Zalinsky saying no you haven't. achieved it on the battlefield you said. you would take over all of Ukraine in. three days there's basically a stalemate. on the battlefield and there's this. drone trench warfare taking place if. anything Ukraine's been able to with a.

counteroffensive push back against some. of the uh Russian encroachment on the. front. Which is why what Putin is using. right now is the Garen 4 Garin 5. jetfueled versions of the Shahi drones. The Garin 5 is a cruise missile. Russia's really built up cruise missile. and ballistic missile stockpiles that. Zalinsky doesn't have an answer for. There are no Patriot interceptors at all. pretty much in Ukraine to stop the. ballistic missile strikes coming into. the Ukrainian city. So Putin's able to.

strike with however he wants to and but. Zalinski is striking back also and we've. been covering how you know uh he was. striking these diesel refineries. 51% of. Russian diesel refineries have been. struck and are offline based on. Zalinsk's, as Zalinsky calls them, the. long range sanctions, but really the. FP1, FP2, these fire point firepoint. drones or there's the flamingo cruise. missiles and ballistics that are now.

being built. But Sinsky's targeted that. also we've been talking about the. logistical centers. One of them is. called Wildberries that's been struck. And now when Sinsk's been targeting are. the data centers. The most recent one is. in the Vladimir city in Russia. Um a. data center there has been hit belonging. to a company called Yandex. Yandex is. like the Google of Russia if you will. and they have all the different they. have a fintech company and the search. company and the car companies like all.

of the stuff are under Yandex and um you. know and the big data centers that have. all of the servers connected to it. So, three major Yandex data centers have. been hit. And one of the things that we. noticed right away, and other people. commented as well, is it dramatically. decreased Russian bots on X and on. Reddit and throughout social media in. general. a massive decrease in bot. traffic once these data centers were.

hit, which shows you a lot of this stuff. is being centralized um as well and. coordinated, you know, as well in the. United States, in Europe, and across the. world. Um and so you have a massive. escalation taking place and Donald Trump. is just like, eh, ceasefire because I. declare it and you know what? I'm going. to now import Russian diesel and that's. going to be to the benefit of the world. When we come back, I want to talk about.

that. I want to go through the laws with. you about why it's unlawful. Um, I want. to explain to you in detail why this. so-called Russian diesel deal also isn't. for a lot of diesel. Like, it's actually. a small quantity of diesel. I also want. to talk about how it seems like it's. probably Iranian diesel. It's probably. not even Russian diesel. It seems like. if you actually look at what's. happening, Iran may be sending its. diesel either through the Caspian Sea or. through a land route to Russia because.

Russia's out of diesel because Zalinsky. struck it. And now they're just selling. us Iranian diesel. And if you think. about it, where did the meeting between. Putin and Peskian recently take place? Turk Menistan at the CIS uh meeting. right before this was announced. And I. wouldn't be shocked if what was. coordinated was that. >> Can't you picture also like Putin being. like, "Look, I could watch I I bet I get. this freaking idiot over here to buy. Iranian oil. Watch watch Pesky and watch.

this move." And then boom, the next day. Trump is bragging about potentially. buying oil from the Iranians. I mean, if. anybody else did this, like first off, the United States would sanction them. uh like there'd probably be like you. know calls to have them prosecuted like. this is traitorous stuff that we're. seeing. >> let me give the undisputed fact it is. undisputed that Russia is getting diesel. from Iran that's we you can see the. Iranian oil trucks were filled up with.

diesel heading into you know in Russia. so the only question is is that the. diesel and the reality is is I mean you. know whether it is or isn't it's part of. the supply that Russia has of diesel. that may be coming over. We'll talk. about that and more. Let's take our. first break of the show. Um, a reminder, the book comes out next week that Brett. Jordy and I wrote. It's called WTF. America: The Way Out of This Hell and. Back to Democracy. I can't think of a.

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y'all. Links in the description about. the YouTube and the audio. Use the. links. Use the codes. If there's an exit. survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, before I toss it back to you, Brett, how are your ears? Have they. dried up? A lot of people are concerned. >> They feel quite uncomfortable. >> Really? Still? >> Yeah. Yes. >> Terrible. I'm so sorry. >> It's not. Don't haze yourself before the. show. >> But it's But it's I'll be okay. I'll be. all right. >> Yeah. Yeah. Benji, >> outside the White House, Trump was. asked, "So, what's your comment about. Russia violating the ceasefire and that.

Russia was striking Ukrainian energy. infrastructure, thermal power plants, and Kkefe and elsewhere. If anything, escalating strikes on Ukraine's energy. se sector after Trump announced the fake. ceasefire. Let's take a look at what he. said. >> That war has to be over with. >> Your comments on the fact that Russia. violated the ceasefire tonight. >> Well, I'd have to look at it and see. because there's been violations on both.

sides. >> We've been there attacks in. >> have to go and see. There have been. violations violations on both sides. Both both. I mean, that's. >> they're both sides. Look. So then the. question at the end I'll I'll play his. answer. The question was um about the. Houthis and what do you make of the. recent strike the Houthis also known as. Anser Allah in the region. Um they've. been escalating their strikes on Saudi. Arabia as they warned that they would.

As Saudi Arabia and MBS have escalated. their strikes on the Ansarali capital of. Sana. The Houthis said, "Well, we're. going to strike the airport. We will. strike the airport. That's where we're. going to strike everybody, the airport.". And so MBS and Saudi Arabia actually. stopped issuing the warnings to. civilians. The defense department would. always issue these warnings if there. were ballistics. They stopped like. issuing them. And then they went on.

about everything at King Khaled airport, the main airport in Riad, like things. were normal and that this was, you know, some prior era where maybe Ansarala and. the Houthis would be all talk or all. bark but no bite. But things are. changing right now. I mean, we're seeing. with this new weaponry, the new. ballistics, the new cruise missiles, the. new drones, right? the Shahid styles and. then the smaller FPV type drones, right?

the unmanned submersives, everything has. kind of changed and it is something that. you know the United States has not. adapted to and the United States proxies. have not adapted to because they get. their weapons from the United States. which are kind of antiquated and. outdated based on the new way war is. being fought which you can see how. Russia's war against Ukraine is being.

fought. So Trump has asked, well, what. do you make of Di Houthi striking King. Khaled? Now, one American died, 13. others, about 14 people were killed at. Terminal 3. In terminal 4, there was a. strike the other day. There are more. strikes on Riad happening right now by. like as we're recording this. Um, hundreds of people were injured. Um, so. what's your response, Donald, to what's. going on with the Houthies in Saudi. Arabia? Here, play this clip. I like the. horses.

>> Well, the hoodies are misbehaving very. badly. >> They're misbehaving very badly. No good. >> They're misbehaving very badly. No good. No good. No good. No good. I mean, that's that's the president of the. United States statement. I mean, there. was one s I mean, don't do the press. conference. You know what I mean? People. like, well, he speaks to the press all. well. He lies about everything. Who. cares? Who cares what the perceived. access is? If he's lying all the time,

then if he doesn't like your reporting, he bans you unconstitutionally. And then did you see going into this. weekend there was the reporting how the. Trump DOJ is now doing an antirust. investigation against the media. companies that would not be the White. House pool reporters after Donald Trump. banned CNN, MS Now and Politico from the. White House. Then other news companies. like, "Well, we're not going to be the. the White House pool reporting and cover.

what you're doing because we don't want. to be complicit." also in unlawfully. banning these other media outlets. So. then the Trump regime uses the DOJ to. say, "Aha, antirust violation for not. covering me." What? Anybody? What are. you talking about? Like have Newsmax or. have one of these other state regime. outlets cover you as the pool reporting. But this is the behavior. This is the. emmo of the of the Trump regime. What. one thing I want to um uh point out as.

well, and this is what I was talking. about um before the break, a few things. Number one, going back to Saudi Arabia. for a moment and what Trump said about. um what he said about the Houthis, the. State Department issued an alert about. Saudi Arabia and saying, you know, to. Americans who are here, be alert, be. aware. There may be strikes in the. region. It was actually not an alert. that I think had the I don't know the. severity of what's actually taking. place. It was kind of a pretty mild.

alert. But then as you read deeper into. the alert, it was like, "And Saudi. Arabia is currently arresting American. citizens who are videotaping and. photographing the incidents that are. occurring in the region. So make sure. you abide by Saudi Arabian law and don't. videotape or uh don't photograph the. strikes by ansurala otherwise you can be. subject to arrest from Saudi Arabia.". And it's like, okay, Saudi Arabia is. arresting. How how many American. citizens have been arrested? What's.

going on there? Like, what the like what. the but Trump's response to all this? They're misbehaving. They're very bad. Very, very bad. For those who are. listening on audio, for those who are. watching, we posted just so you see what. the exact alert is. American citizens. have, this is a alert from the US. embassy in Riat. American citizens have. been detained for taking photos of. recent events. Visitors and residents. are subject to local laws while in Saudi.

Arabia. I mean recent events. You care. to say what those recent events are? In. any event, things are escalating. obviously between Saudi Arabia and the. Houthis. I guess what NBS thought is. that he was part of the Trump mafia. protection racket and that you know he. could strike on Ssala and there wouldn't. be any response and that the Patriot. interceptors would be able to stop. Ansarala's ballistics and Ansarala the. way the IRGC has has developed tactics.

and strategies um that frankly are able. to evade this kind of antiquated Trumpus. US technology that has not adapted as. Trump launched the catastrophic IC war. in Iran. It's exposed deeper systemic. issues. I'll talk to you. But just even. think about this. Think about it from. this perspective. All of the US military. bases in the Middle East are above. ground. They're exposed. Also, you have. these data centers and other major. infrastructure. It's all exposed. It's. all above ground right now, right? How.

does Iran keep its bases? It's under the. mountains. It's all underground. It's. all hidden and concealed. So Iran was. able to destroy all the US military. bases in the region. Like one by one all. those military bases are destroyed and. now the Trump regime is preventing. sitting United States senators from even. looking at the bases because most of. those bases have been destroyed. And. then you have Iran's top advisor to. Ayatollah Mojaba Kmeni. His name is. Moshin Razi. And he said if you escalate.

this war, this was his warning this. weekend. If you escalate the war against. us, here's what we're going to do. We've. identified$ two trillion dollars worth. of assets in the Middle East linked to. the United States and the Arab nation. royal families. Data centers, cables. underneath the straight of Hormuz. You. strike us, we cut the cables, and we. will destroy all the data centers in the. area. We know exactly where they are. Don't test us right now. And so I want.

to point out what's also I'll throw to. you Brad in one second, but Iran. launched ballistic missile tests and. drone tests and they had an F5 and MiGs. and all these uh uh planes. These Air. Force jets were being tested over the. weekend. These massive military. exercises were taking place as well. They have their military like it's it's. there. As Donald Trump's like, "Oh, no, that's not the case." And recall there's. been a cover up ongoing since the very.

first days of this war all across the. region uh between our our regional. allies o over there. If you remember uh. you know was one of the first things. Iran did. They were striking Dubai a lot. right and this actually plays into a few. of the things that we've seen and. applied to other things that we're also. going to talk about uh later in this. episode. First uh there was first the. the strikes in Dubai and then there were. the laws. There were the arrests that. were happening there for anybody who was. showing the public what was happening in.

Dubai because that's their golden goose, right? That's they've hyped this up as a. place where rich people could go and you. know it's an oasis in the Middle East. and go there and be safe and spend your. money and live lavishly. I mean this was. the whole pitch of Dubai, right? and it. was being destroyed because Sanran was. attacking Dubai and was showing that it. was not a safe place. So they were. arresting all these people who were. actually showing what was going on over. there. Now we're still seeing that. We're seeing that in Saudi Arabia um as.

they don't want actual images to come. out of the destruction of what's. actually happening. We're seeing it from. the United States government and. covering up the the injuries and the. deaths. Even just over the weekend, the. Pentagon quietly added more deaths uh to. the list. I still believe that the. deaths are far higher than what they are. even telling us. Um but it seems like uh. when they get into kind of longer. weekends, holiday weekends, you know, slower news, you know, when when the. news might not be as on, they'll.

suddenly just add to the death toll a. little bit and hope that people really. kind of, you know, don't catch on. And. then of course there's the. disinformation efforts out there as. well. One of the things we saw early on. with the uh war when Iran was striking. places like Dubai is they had all these. influencers and bot armies and all these. people putting out videos. They say, "Don't you feel safe?" Uh, you know, how. could you feel safe in Dubai? Because. I'm being protected by these incredible. men. You know, they they had all these.

influencers putting stuff out. They had. people like the Andrew Tates of the. world putting out videos of them smoking. cigars and like throwing money around in. Dubai and acting like everything was. great. And this is a pattern that we are. seeing um and it extends not only in the. Middle East but extends here to the. United States of these really these. disinformation campaigns these SCOPs um. and these cover-ups um you know. meanwhile uh going back to NBS and Saudi. Arabia what's happening Donald Trump has. put the monarchy in Saudi Arabia in a.

very precarious situation and here's. just one example of that I'll pull up. this story from the Wall Street Journal. the Saudi crown Crown Prince Muhammad. bin Salman is now apparently moving. cautiously between heavily guarded. palaces equipped with bunkers. accompanied by handpicked security. guards as the Houthi attacks intensify. Saudi officials say that the kingdom is. running low on interceptor missiles and. struggling to protect its energy. infrastructure and royal palaces. So now.

you have people like MBS who have tied. themselves to Donald Trump in these. efforts. Tied themselves to Donald Trump. in this war. thinking that he would have. this United States security umbrella. Now he's dealing with the eye of his. people. And I feel like the Saudi. monarchy today is closer to being. overthrown than ever before because. people are so angry in that place. And. they're trying to do what they can now. to keep all of that under control. So.

there is so much more instability that. could still come from all of Trump's. actions in the region. But hey, at at. least at the end of the day, they still. got to live golf. Oh, wait. No, they. don't. You know, I think it's macro. More and more people around the world. are finding out just what happens when. you get close to the Trump family, right? Everything Trump touches turns to. eventually. That's very clear from. all of his failed businesses to. everything that we've seen surrounding. him with all the lawyers that always get. fired and the it he turns on everybody.

and the proximity to power, at least how. people might view it as Donald Trump. being the power and they just want to be. close to him so they could, I don't. know, use him use him to get things done. in their own governments or or or. whatnot is is never worth the bite. That. that bite out of that apple is. absolutely never worth it because it. always comes around to just screw you. I. also just like on a separate note, I. just feel like our adversaries in in. general smell blood in the water. like. the the the sharks smell it and that. blood is the weakness that is Donald.

Trump. They know that he is cognitively. just adultled at this point. He know he. knows what he is doing. Don't I'm not. trying to give him an out. But what I'm. saying is he is not equipped enough. mentally or physically to really. navigate us out of this situation that. we never we being the US never needed to. be in in the first place. So now what's. going on? Well, everyone's looking. around making fun of the United States, making fun of our leaders, making fun of. Donald Trump because once again, he is.

proving to be an absolute failure. That's just that's just a fact. He is. failing this country. He's failing this. country uh at the pump. He is failing. this country's troops right now with the. death tolls rising and rising again that. we know of. Sentcom has increased it to. 21 deaths. I I I personally think it's. going to be much much more when we're. able to actually do some research and. digging into this and Donald Trump. continues to fail us on a macro scale. Just utter weakness. That's what we're. exuding right now. And it frustrates me.

as someone who loves this country. >> I agree, Jordy. And I think it's, you. know, it's it's it's beyond mental, you. know, incapacity, you know, which sure. that's that's one thing. I think it's. far worse what what the people see on. him, and that's somebody who is just. easily influenced. Um, it goes back to. what uh, you know, Hillary Clinton said. back in 2016 when Donald Trump had far. more of his mental uh, you know, capabilities and that's you can't trust. a guy who you could bait with a tweet. All these people know that they could. bait him whether with a tweet, whether. with their actions and they know how he.

operates and they know kind of uh, what. he's looking for in a lot of these. things, right? Donald Trump, he wants to. be flattered. Uh, he wants to get these. wins. He feels the pressure of the. electoral cycle, the midterm elections, things like that. And so they know that. um you know, Oram knows right now that. they have, you know, Trump completely. against the wall because he's flailing. and his approval rating is completely. crashed and and he everything he's doing. right now is a complete disaster. But,

you know, when you look at people like. Russia, they know that it's easil easy. to manipulate Donald Trump for their. ends. Um, everybody knows kind of how. what they need to do in order to. influence Donald Trump because the guy. is very easy to manipulate. Uh, and and. our adversaries who are, by the way, far. smarter than Donald Trump. I mean, you. have Vladimir Putin who is an exKGB. agent who like quite literally this is. the kind of thing he did, right? Studied. psychological profiles on people,

understood how to manipulate people, understood how to take advantage of. people. I mean, this is a this is a. cakewalk for a guy like that. >> Yeah. And it's why when Witoff and. Kushner are in Moscow and why they've. showed up to Moscow nine times and only. uh Kev one time, what what's being. discussed there? It's all business deals. that could benefit the Trump family. Luke oil, foreign assets. If Trump, you. just remove the sanctions, you and your.

MAGA billionaire friends and some of the. royal families in the Middle East, you. can get your hands on some of this. lukeil Russian money. Or how about the. Nordstream pipeline? Can we entice you. with that? There's trillions of dollars. to be made if you do deals with Russia. trillions, Donald, you know, and Putin. just says that, you know, and Zalinsky. doesn't go there and they have a. different uh kind of uh prerogatives and. different ways that they have to govern, of course. And so, you know, people like.

Zalinski and Prime Minister Carney and. European leaders, you know, they don't. do the things that Putin does in order. to uh ingratiate themselves with Trump. And then Trump views the kind of. gangster mafioso style as being. something that he looks up to and that. he um admires. I mean Brett and Jordy, you're talking about, you know, how. easily Trump is to manipulate. I mean, just look at the Russian diesel deal. Trump announces it 300 thou I mean.

someone wrote the tweet for him or the. expo or the uh the post on Truth Social. 300,000 tons this month, then 500,000. tons next month. then maybe one million. tons will follow. And then it's like you. break that down, it's two and a half. million barrels of oil or that's, you. know, three and a half, four million. barrels of oil, you know, total. We're. talking about that fits in two tankers. That's it. You know, every time we talk. about Iran striking tankers, right? Like.

they struck six tankers in the past 24. hours. there was more oil or diesel or. whatever was on those tankers than is in. this entire Trump Russian deal, right? And um and so we're talking about three. million barrels of oil in terms of the. global oil market. I don't know, a few. hours max. A few hours max of diesel. Um. less than a day's worth. And that's what. Trump's bragging about is somehow going.

to bring the diesel price down. No, it's. not. And the prices are going up right. now. The price of diesel, the price of. gas, the price of crude. And it's. important that when people talk about. the price of crude as well, they're. talking about a futures contract. So. Brett, I don't know if you can pull this. up where, you know, the price of uh. Brent right now, Brent crude is $107 a. barrel. That's a futures contract for. December. If you want to buy dated.

Brent, also known as spot Brent, like. right now, it's like $150 a barrel if. you if you need to buy it urgently right. now. And there's not just a shortage of. oil, not just a shortage of uh refined. um the refined stuff like diesel or gas. there's a shortage of ships because. every time we talk about Iran striking.

ships, those ships are gone. And then. less ships want to go into the straight. of Hormuz and take that trip even if. they're getting paid $1.5 million a day, which they are getting paid for it. And. then the way these ships are trying to. sneak out of the straight of Hormuz, the. ones that do use this shipto- ship. transfer method where smaller ships kind. of link up with a bigger ship, a VLCC, a. very large crude carrier which is in the.

Gulf of Oman. The smaller ships, which. are still big, which carry like 750,000. barrels, they hug the Oman coast. They. link up next to the VLCC, the larger. ship. There's a hose that gets hooked up. and then multiple smaller ships fill up. the bigger ship and then the bigger ship. leaves. Now Iran is striking ships in. the Gulf of Oman, the bigger ships too. And the bigger ships were already. reluctant to go through the straight of. her, but Iran's like, "If you take your.

uh detect your AIS detection off or you. turn it off, we're going to we're going. to view you as a hostile vessel and. we're going to strike you." So we've. seen strike after strike and tankers. being hit east of Fujera you know. basically Gulf of Oman outside of you. know already outside of the straight of. Hormuz and we've been seeing an uptick. in those strikes as well you know and. then we learned the following as well I. think it's like 120 or 130 Russian.

employees of Rosatam the kind of Russian. uh state company is working at the. nuclear plant in Bushir. That's the. nuclear plant. It's a JV between Russia. and Iran for civilian nuclear, which you. know the Trump regime says are really. civilian nuclear, but the Busher plant. is a JV between Russia and Iran. Russia. is saying it's investing billions of. dollars more in building new Iranian.

nuclear facilities. This isn't some. state secret. Like they're they've. announced it publicly and they're. sending more employees into Iran to do. that. And then we know that Iran has. been sending its diesel either through. the Caspian Sea or on land routes into. Russia. I mean, go look at a map of. where Iran is, where Russia is. And when. the Trump regime's like, "Well, we're. blockading the Straight of Hormuz, and. we're blockading right by the Arabian.

Sea, right outside the Gulf of M." Okay, well that's one exit, but you don't. think Iran can figure out ways. They can. it's less efficient, but they can send. smaller ships in the Caspian Sea. They. can send trucks that go around. And it. seems that there were thousands of. trucks, quite literally thousands, filled up with diesel, filled up with. oil, with other oil products that made. its way to Russia, that makes its way to. China and elsewhere in addition to the.

original Iranian tankers that used the. brief ceasefire under theou to get its. uh oil out uh to the various. marketplaces. And so it is possible that. the because Russia's diesel capacity has. been severely harmed. It is possible. that the diesel that Russia is that may. be supplying to the United States as. part of the so-called diesel deal as I. noted before the break because of the.

way Iran is supplying Russia with diesel. because Russia is lacking its own. diesel. So where's the surplus that it. can actually provide the United States? It's possible it's coming from Iran and. that that's where Russia's getting. diesel and they're sending the diesel to. the United States. So, I just want you. to think about that. I'll make this. legal point, but I've done a lot of. deeper analysis on it before. There is a. 2022 law, end importation of Russian oil. act, which ends importation of Russian.

oil. So it is against that law unless. you certify under penalty of perjury. that the war between Russia and Ukraine. is over and Russia no longer poses a. threat to NATO, then you can't do any. deal with Russia for uh diesel or any. type of uh oil. And then there's a 2017. law called Katza, which Donald Trump. signed into law in his first term, countering America's adversaries through.

sanctions act, which requires 30 days. notice before doing a deal with either. Iran, North Korea, or Russia. And then. Congress has the ability to basically. reject or veto the trade deal if you do. a deal with one of those countries. So, it violates Katza, the 2017 Trump law. that he signed into law. It violates the. 2022 EndRussian Importation Act. And. then the Lindsey Graham sanctions act.

says any countries that buy basically, and it's a group of countries that buy. uh diesel or any product from Russia, they get sanctioned. So, what does Trump. do? He buys the diesel. And by the way, he sank. He said that he was imposing. the tariffs on India because they got. their diesel from Russia and they were. getting oil from Russia. Then Trump goes. around and does the same thing. Now, the. Supreme Court gave Trump absolute. immunity, but Bessant and Mark Wayne. Mullen don't have absolute immunity.

Trump will likely pardon them. Now, Customs and Border Patrol agents who. bring in this diesel, in my opinion, a. future DOJ could charge them as part of. a racketeering enterprise if they're. bringing in Russian diesel. It'd be like. bringing in drugs, right? If you're. unpacking Russian diesel, you're. violating the law. So, anybody in. Customs and Border Patrol, they would. have to get the pardon also. And when. Treasury Secretary Bessant gave a. general license to Russia to export its.

diesel, I believe that that is a clear. violation of the law as well for which. he would have to receive a pardon from. the Trump regime. So I wanted to tie. this all together and point all of that. out. Imagine being Darlene Graham and. you know Donald Trump is just taking a. huge crap all over your brother's legacy. and right after signing this kind of BS. law named after your brother, he goes. and the first move that he does is. remove sanctions on Russia, cut a diesel.

deal with Russia, and do all the rest of. the stuff that he's doing right now. And. then you go out there in your debate and. you have to be like, I'm just going to. do what Donald Trump wants because he's. my guy. It's like just it's it's just. the these people just have no souls. It's really truly uh just it's it's just. so disgusting. I think we got to take a. break right now. Uh but we got a lot. more to talk about. I want to get into. this Torico story, too, because man, this thing completely blew up in the. face of all of these MAGA influencers.

Maybe because they didn't have their. Russian bots to help them out in. uplifting this stuff, but man, this they. really stepped in it. And I think their. whole kind of bombshell that they. thought was going to take down Terico's. campaign, they ended up stepping on a. rake and this ended up actually hurting. Paxton even more and discrediting all of. these MAG influencers. I didn't even not. that they had any credibility to begin. with. Um, but you know, if you had any. questions about their credibility, I.

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comprehensive understanding of all this. And I just uh I like giving people their. flowers, you know, when you can. And you. guys explained every facet of this to me. in such great detail that Well, I'm. excited for you all to to talk about it. here. Did I Did I make you nervous? But. no, you gave it you did it justice. I'll. I'll pass it over to Brett, but it. reminded me when you had those MAGA. influencers back in February of 2025. holding the binders and saying these are. the Epstein files and they all pushed it. out. We got the Epstein files directly.

from Bondi and these are the people who. push anything the regime says. They're. regime propagandists and on platforms. like X where Mus controls the algorithm. and where these other tech oligarchs who. work closely with Trump on the data. centers and all of the stuff that they. entrench their wealth, they put their. not just their thumb on the scale. I. mean they fully um manipulate the. algorithms in order to distort and.

poison the information environment. And. we talk a lot about in WTF America. creating healthy information. environments and spreading the truth and. how these right-wing oligarchs are. destroying our democracy. I mean you saw. the report even guys about it's not just. Elon Musk's control of the kind of. algorithm on X and other things. Um what. he spent close to $300 million since. July on the midterm elections pouring. that amount of money. And remember where. a lot of the money comes from also and.

also comes from government contracts and. you know the SpaceX deals and all of. that is used to leverage the stock value. of SpaceX. And a lot of the money also. came from these royal families which. purchased the original debt to acquire X. to begin with. And then they were given. preferred equity stakes in the launch of. the Space X combined company so that. they got richer while SpaceX merged all. of these companies and then put into it.

a lot of these companies that have. government contracts as well. And so. there's all of that at play I want to, you know, talk about as well. But Brett, talk about the tolero because this thing. lived and spread and was born on X and. pushed and it was absurd and defamatory, debunked, but talk about it. >> Yeah, it's and it's the perfect. encapsulation of the entire uh GOP. messaging strategy, propaganda strategy, whatever you want to call it. As Ben. said, we have a whole chapter about how.

this works in WTF America and it really. fits perfectly into the exact plan that. they tried to execute here with Taller. Rico and failed. You know, and I think. we uh, you know, as a source of good. information. One of the things that we. try to do is try to flood the zone with. actual good information when these bad. actors are flooding the zone with bad. information. But I want you to remember. when Elon Musk bought uh Twitter now X. for far above market value, everyone is. wondering why would he do that? You.

know, this thing doesn't make money. Like why why would how is this a good. idea? Well, I think you got to realize. he did it because of this. Like he in my. opinion wants to have a tool where he. could spread his propaganda, reach. people in the media, reach politicians, reach world leaders. X is the place. where all of these politicians live. Um, and he also made the oligarchs a ton of. money by doing this um, with with his. various deals. And so, let me just show.

you now. Um, you know, I'll break down. kind of what happened with this Terico. situation. Um, because it was so. transparent and frankly doomed from the. start. Um, but the whole thing was just. incredibly ridiculous. And as you guys. know, you got James Terico right now. He's in this race against Ken Paxton in. Texas. It's the first time in a long. time where Democrats have a real shot of. winning a statewide race in Texas. winning a a US Senate race. A lot of. these polls recently including Trafalgar. which was which is like a MAGA poll have. Taler Rico up right now. Um Paxton.

though part of one of the important. piece of context here is that Paxton. also has been trying to avoid Taler Rico. at all costs. It's been like over 85. days now since Terico asked Paxton to. debate him. Paxton refuses. He keeps. making up all these various excuses. Um, and uh, Telerico's even like, I'll. debate you on Fox News. Like, I've. agreed to do it on Fox. Brett Bear could. be the host. Like, what are you afraid. of? You're not going to go on Fox News. Like, I'll go on Fox News. Who who who. cares? Paxton still no. And so, you. know, these MAGA influencers, and in my.

opinion, I think this was highly. coordinated with individuals in the. Trump campaign, um, Trump aids, uh, Trump, uh, adjacent officials, uh, people in the Telerico campaign, and. these online influencers. the uh as as. Ben said before, the uh the binder. class, right? The people who were there. uh faking that they had the Epstein. files, folks like that. And so this all. started a few days ago. You know, James. Terico was out. He had the flu. He said. he had the flu. James Telerico is also.

diabetic. He's was recovering from the. flu. Um, this exac account that was. called like tickle or tickle texts or. something started circulating this. random claim that there was a private. flight that went from Texas to Ohio. And. then she said that that private flight. was carrying James Taller. Like no. evidence about this at all. Like. literally all she saw was that there was. a private flight that went from Texas to. Ohio. And then she made up this entire. fiction uh that James Talerico was on.

this plane and this is how the story. began. Absolutely insane. And so then. they basically make up that there is. this mental hospital. Well, there is a. mental hospital in Ohio as there are. across the world. Um but they made up. that there's this mental hospital in. Ohio, the Lindner Center of Hope. And. this psychiatric facility is where James. Talerico decided to go because he had a. mental breakdown and he is unable to.

recover and he's unable to continue with. his campaign. So of all the places James. Talerico who is in Texas, lives in. Texas, has been campaigning in Texas has. decided to take a private jet to Ohio to. go to this random psychiatric facility. Right off the bat, none of this makes. any sense, right? And so they hone in. and and oftentimes they do this, right? they will hone in on some innocent. place, right? And then just like torture. the people who work at that place with. their deranged conspiracies. I mean, remember comet pingpong uh back like in.

2016 when they shot up the place based. on these deranged conspiracy theories? They don't care about the truth and they. don't care about the lives that they. ruin that along the way. And so there's. this MAGA operative, this guy, and I'm. going to probably butcher his name, but. who cares? His name is like Ryan. Amateur. Ryan Amacher. Amateur. And he. claims that he contacted the Lindner. Center of Hope, this facility, and he. said that at first he tried, but he. couldn't get through because they. required a confidential fourdigit code. for certain patient inquiries, and he.

had an unsuccessful call. But he had an. idea that he was going to call back, and. he was going to make up a fourdigit. number and get them to give him the dirt. on James Terico. And so then he. circulates like this one minute of a. phone call um on the internet where the. person's like yeah you know this very. confused person on the other lines like. yeah the a person got discharged I guess. at the end of the day today I sure I. don't know what you're talking about. they present this like this is proof.

that Terico was discharged from the. psychiatric facility immediately the. timeline doesn't make any sense because. they say that Tarico was discharged on. October 10th was literally at the Austin. Music Festival on October 9th. He was. with Casey Musgraves at the festival on. the 10th. Like he was already out and. about on the back on the campaign trail. when they say that he was just getting. discharged from this hospital. So right. away this didn't make sense. Then you. know the full call eventually gets. released and you see that a million. times like the person's like I don't.

know what you're talking about. This. person isn't here. Like I don't know. and and then like finally after like. badgering them for many minutes they're. like I don't know maybe they were. discharged [laughter] and then they use. tried to use that as like proof of this. grand conspiracy and I also just want to. show you like all these people I think. just have severe um uh personality. disorders uh psychiatric disorders in. their own right let me show you the two. people I've talked about thus far and I. want to show you their appearances on. the internet the way they present. themselves in the internet and their.

appearances what they look like in real. life just to show you the deception. This just an example of the deception. more than anything, right? And so here's. a picture right here um of Ryan Amacher. for those listening. You see he has like. an AI image of himself where he looks. far better than he actually does in real. life with his triple chin over here on. the left. Looks like a sloppy sloppy. guy, dirty, you know. And then you see. over here uh the tickle account that I. was talking about, she uses an AI.

avatar. you could see her picture. I. don't know if that's a mug shot or or. what this picture is of this woman who's. supposedly behind the account, but then. you could see um over here uh a an image. of someone who looks much younger and. it's clearly an AI image. And if you run. it through an AI generator, you see that. it's a fake image of a of a fake person. So, these are the people off the bat. spreading this thing. And then they. enlist this guy Nick Sorder, who's also. one of these MAGA operatives, who's been. arrested numerous times, to then spread. this BS. They try to get these MAG. outlets to cover it. They try to get the.

Blaze to cover it. Uh they even try to. get the Daily Mail to cover it. All them. look into it and they go, "This is not. going to never going to pass legal. muster in us." So even these MAG outlets. and the Daily Mail are like, "We're not. touching this with the 10-ft pole. It. seems like BS." And by the way, the guy. admitted this when he was talking about. it in in a space. But that didn't stop. them from continuing to try to amplify. it, right? And so you saw all these. accounts. You saw the Nick Sorder, you. saw uh the people I was talking about, and then you saw all the people from. Trump world jump in, right? the Rick.

Renell's uh you see Elon Musk and Elon. Musk will respond with like exclamation. points and he'll retweet the posts. because he knows as the biggest account. on a platform like X that when he. engages with the post when he replies to. it and retweets it then boosts it. entirely in the algorithm and helps. spread the false information. So Elon. Musk is very much a part of this scheme. and all of these other mag influencers. out there on X start immediately go into. this is a bombshell. Tyler Rico needs to. drop out. This is ridiculous. This is.

what they've been hiding from us. I. can't believe it. And even people like. Megan Kelly who used to present. themselves as serious people even after. being shown that this was all BS are. like but this doesn't make sense. Telerico still not being true. still. going deeper and deeper and deeper in. their deranged conspiracy theories. And. so eventually the timeline doesn't. match. The whole story doesn't make. sense. Uh the facility comes out and. releases a statement saying, "James. Terico has never been a patient here. Has never been here. We don't know what.

you're talking about." James Terico. comes out with a statement. He's like, "Guys, not only have I never been to. this facility, I've never even been to. the state of Ohio. I don't know what the. hell you're talking about. I'm in Texas. I was at the festival when you said I. was at this place. None of this makes. sense at all whatsoever. And then after. the fact, you know, you would think, oh, would these people admit fault? Would. they say that they were wrong? No, of. course not. They double down. They keep. going deeper and deeper. And part of the. some of the things they said I found. deeply, deeply, deeply revealing. And.

that guy Amacher, I was looking through. his posts. One of the posts that I found. of his when somebody started to. criticize his kind of scheme that he was. trying to unleash on James Terico, he. said the point of this, he said public. humiliation is the end goal here. Really. revealing his hand, not the truth. His. goal was to publicly humiliate James. Terico and try to tank his campaign. Then you had other people on these X. spaces discussions. It's kind of like. where they all speak to each other. And.

one of them made a very revealing. comment by saying the following and I'm. going to quote it exactly. He said, "Whether it's true or not, whether it's. true or not, people deserve to know the. potential of this." And then another one. of these MAGA operatives says it. genuinely doesn't matter if he was in a. mental health hospital or if he had the. flu. I think it's actually kind of your. whole thing is that he was in a mental. health hospital and now you're admitting. that your whole goal was just to spread.

disinformation, lie to people, hope the. story stick, and hope that you were able. to tank this person's campaign because. they are beating your preferred. candidate. And so that whole scenario. really exposed this operation. And I. think as we continue to pull the thread. on the MAGA propaganda operation, I. think we're going to continue to learn. more and more and more because I noticed. some accounts out there also who were. tweeting and boosting this stuff. Like. one of the individuals, one of these.

MAGA operatives is literally in prison. right now. He's in jail right now and he. was still tweeting about this and. boosting the stuff. So you wonder how. was that account part of this operation? What what could that be? My theory, my. working theory is that a lot of the. accounts that are responsible for. spreading the bulk of disinformation on. on websites like X are actually all run. centrally by individual firms run by. people connected to Trump world or in. the MAGA space. And I think there's a.

lot of evidence when you look to back it. up. The way with the speed in which they. respond to each other, the way they all. uplift themselves, the way they all kind. of tweet in the exact same style. I. mean, you could tell. And there are some. folks out there, you know, and I'm I'm. not going to say specific names, but. you'll see there are some like MAGA. influence influencers out there who are. like 85 years old, have Twitter. accounts, and they're very active, and. they tweet, not like an 85year-old, and. they are very sophisticated in the way.

they use Twitter and things like that. And it's my theory that these people, many of these MAGA people aren't even. controlling their own accounts. They're. all run by centralized firms who are. pumping out this stuff and are using it. to spread proTrump propaganda. And I. think we're going to find out a lot of. this stuff kind of as we go um and as we. continue to learn more as Democrats take. back the House. One of the things that I. hope they do quite frankly is subpoena. these folks and get to the bottom of. these influence operations because these. this is to me in my opinion election.

interference that we're seeing right. here. I think a lot of it is coordinated. with government officials. Um I'm. curious if taxpayer money is involved. I'm curious if foreign bot networks are. involved because one of the things that. I did notice and I know there are some. people out there saying yeah but the. Yandex facility taking that out. I'm not. sure it would actually affect you know. the kinds of bots that are affecting uh. discourse on the internet. I anecdotally. I have noticed it tremendously online.

and I've seen a lot of these MAG. accounts trying their similar tactics. over the past few days to go viral to. get engagement to comments and getting. like a fraction of what they normally. get. And I think it's quite telling and. even in our own comments on a website. like X a lot less hatred quite frankly. than we were getting just last week. because in my opinion a lot of those. bots are not operational right now. So. there's some sophisticated propaganda. going on right now. I think it's.

controlled by some of the most powerful. people and we see a lot of those people. publicly joining in whether it's Elon. Musk or Rick Grenell in boosting all of. this stuff and we know their ties to. people like Paxton. We know the efforts. that Musk is going to um by putting in. hundreds and hundreds of millions of. dollars into boosting the Republican. party. If you think he's not doing that. with his algorithms on his app and the. way other things that he's doing behind. the scenes, then I don't know what to. tell you. Um, but the point is so much. of what we're seeing right now is.

astroturfed. This attempt to try to take. down uh Terico completely backfired. It. showed that it showed that these people. are completely not credible whatsoever. It showed that they are complete hacks. And I hope that it is revealing and at. least opens the eyes of some of the. people who may have followed these folks. thinking that they were these trutht. tellers on the internet telling you what. the libs didn't want you to hear and. shows you that these people are just. political hacks, hired hands, all that.

>> Such a great breakdown be I don't have. much to add. I just want to say that it. also shows just how scared MAGA is of. this Texas race, right? Like they've. been trying to just throw things at. Tarico hoping it will stick. He's a. vegan. Trump Trump says vegan. He's a. vegan. He hates meat. Oh, we need to. hold our convention here now. Let's hold. Let's hold our convention here. Normally. that we hold in swing states when. there's big elections coming up. Let's. hold it here in Texas. Yeah. Oh, he's. having a mental breakdown. He's in a. mental facility. Also, just side note,

like I just I feel for the people even. more so who are in that facility getting. treatment. like they've just become. targets in the backs of all of like MAGA. and this right wing red pill outrage. like that facility can't pick up and. move. That location is there. It's. stationary. The people getting treatment. there are now all targets subject to. this smear campaign against Tar Rico. It. it it it's awful. But again, I just want. to say they've been spiraling out. MAGA. has been in total disarray. This isn't. 2016 MAGA. It's not 2018 or 2020 MAGA,

right? Yes, they get all of these. talking points and now the Musks of the. world own these platforms and everyone. puts their fingerprints on it. However, the messaging as coordinated, Brett, as. it obviously is, I also feel like is. having a harder and harder time. sticking, which is why it's so obvious. to a lot of people that they're working. overtime to try and force it. Try and. try and for it's not as natural as it. came to MAGA back in 2016, at least to. me. >> Because here's why. Because reality,

okay, their altered state of reality is. so divorced from reality. Okay, people. are not living a golden age unless. you're Trump and a select few of. right-wing oligarchs like Elon Musk and. Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg and people. like that. The it's not a talking point. that the American people are suffering. right now and are struggling to get by. daytoday. You have diesel and gas prices.

that are record highs and the Trump. regime to go Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden. It's Biden's fault. You can't expect us. to make a change in two years. And it's. like people are like, "No, that's not We. Trump made it worse. We're aware. We. We've existed. We existed during Biden. We exist during now. We're doing way. worse right now." And Trump promised he. would end the war in Ukraine in 24. hours. It would be super easy. There. would be no more neverending wars. It. would be so-called America first, that. everybody would be able to afford.

housing, electricity prices would be cut. in half, gas would be $2 a gallon, there. would be a health care plan, and people. would be doing much better. And people. are suffering right now. And people are. like, "What you're telling me is not. happening. So, it's having this impact. when you keep shoving it down people's. throats that this is great. It's. actually pushing people more away." And. it's like, ah, get away from me, zombie. Like, get away from me, crazy people. Like, things are not great. I mean, I. don't need to show all these clips, but.

you have MAGA Mike Johnson today saying. that the economy is an A and that. everything's an A. And you can't blame. MAGA Republicans for what's actually. happening in these straight of Hormuz. because the MAGA policy, the Trump. policy worked, but then this other thing. just happened. And so, we can't be. blamed for that. You had Darlene Graham, whose last name really isn't even Graham. anymore, who's changed her name so she. can try to get votes in South Carolina. She was like, "You know who started the.

war in Iran?" The Democrats did. They. started the war. We We can't forget it's. their fault right there. And do we. really want free health care, government. free health care? No, we don't. It comes. from somewhere. We don't want to pay for. that. And we need data centers. everywhere. And so she was delivering. I. did a whole video on this. the Trump. talking points with this kind of. milktoast barely there delivery where. and so she was saying the things that. Trump said in her own and it's like what.

what you want data centers in our. backyard that we need to put Netanyahu. and Israel's interests above the United. St. What what what are you saying we. need to blame the Democrats for the war. in Iran? That doesn't we we shouldn't. have free healthcare? We don't Yeah, we. want that. We want we want that more. than $1.5 trillion dollars going to the. militaryindustrial complex which then. the Trump regime goes and loses the war. to Iran that we should never have been. involved in and we run out of weapons. Yeah. We we we would prefer the money be.

spent here in America like that. Like. that's what we want. And if you actually. look at the campaigns that a talo or a. Dr. Abdul Alied they're running, they're. actually running a campaign saying let's. put the interest of actually America. first. Let's actually do that. And. here's how we're going to do it. Here's. what America really wants. We don't want. to give our money to billionaires and. trillionaires while they screw our. lives. No, we want to help Americans. out. And here's specific everyone. Okay. And. here's specifically what we can do in.

order to in order to make that happen. Let me let me toss it over to you Brett. and Jordy. >> Yeah. No, absolutely. And and you see. that difference in the messaging right. now. One of the most brilliant things. that I thought Dr. Will say did in the. debate with Mike Rogers the other day is. every time Rogers tried to reframe the. debate and say things like try to kind. of make it a personal battle between him. and uh you know Abdul Elsied Elsa would. go see what he's doing it again right my. opponent right now he's doing it again.

he wants us to make this about personal. squables between me and him but I want. to make this about you I want to make. this about affordability I want to make. this about uh you know no data centers. in your backyard I want to make this. about uh making your life better. And I. thought that was just a really brilliant. tactic to uh deploy there because right. now, you know, what you're seeing is a. lot of the Republicans, they don't know, they don't really have anything to run. on. So, all they have to run on is this. blind allegiance uh to uh Donald Trump. and so they're just getting further and. further and further away from what the.

people actually want when Donald Trump's. approval rating right now is like an. average of like 30% or or something. I. saw a crazy poll over the weekend and I. really despise these polls and please. don't believe these polls at all as we. head into election day. Go out there and. vote. Um but I I saw a pretty stunning. poll the other day that show. >> It was a balloon that popped. >> Oh my god. It's just scared me for a. second. [laughter]. >> It was a balloon that popped over there. in the other room, but I hear never know.

what's going to happen. But I I was just. saying there was a a poll over the. weekend. just 5% of independent voters. support the way that Trump is handling. inflation. And it seems like the only. kind of line that they have right now is. to just continue to say, "Oh, but Biden, but Biden, but Biden, but Biden." Let me. tell you, people right now would be. absolutely if if we went back to the. prices when Biden was president, people. would be like, "Thank you. [laughter]. Thank you. Things are so much cheaper. right now. things have gotten far more.

expensive than them then. Again, the. peak of the inflation then was like what. 2021. 2022ish. Um, and Biden's whole term was fixing. the problems that were caused by the. previous administration. And by the time. Biden's terms were up, inflation was. down and and continuing to come down, interest rates were coming down, there. were expected cuts at the Fed. And. Donald Trump came in and he reversed all. of that with his own actions.

>> The but Biden people, man, it just. cracks me. He's not president. But. Biden, he's not president. The caravans. are coming. Trump is president. If the. Democrats win, we'll be in a recession. and a depression. Trump still president. regardless of what happens during this. midterms. like the lack of. accountability that MAGA, the Trump. regime, Republicans in general are. willing to take or or not take, I think. also is speaking volumes to more of. those sort of a-olitical people where. it's like, hey, buck stops with me type. of leadership. Does anyone care about.

that anymore? Because that's what a lot. of folks genuinely do care about and. appreciate. And so when constantly we. see MAGA sort of offload issues on. where's Joey B right now? Hopefully he's. on his couch eating some vanilla ice. cream. Who? He's not the president. He. can't fix anyone's problems now. Trump. has been the president for two years. Not only that, the Republicans have. controlled all three branches of. government for these two years. And what. do they have to show for it? Ice on our. streets terrorizing and murdering our. citizens. An endless, needless war that.

we don't need to be in that's getting. our troops killed. Gas prices out of. control. Inflation out of control. The. Republicans and Donald Trump own all of. that. >> Yeah. Well, look, their logic makes no. sense because it's not logical. Let's. just I there were things that Biden did. that I liked. But let's say let's say. you hate Biden, right? Let's say they. despise Biden and they're like, "But. Biden did this." Okay, but you disliked. him. Biden Biden didn't win. Biden. dropped out of the race, so you're.

comparing your guy to the guy you hated. Like, how does that even make sense to. you at all? Like, it literally makes no. sense even if you do. But I digress. I. just want to talk about this quickly. though before the balloon popped and. scared the crap scared the crap out of. me. You held it together really well. I. was. >> What did you say? >> You held it together really well. >> I you know I had to be calm. I wasn't. sure what was going on and then I had to. deal with it. Um in any event, so the. new press secretary um let's just say. her background when some of her posts. have been on Earth. Jud Leam did a.

really good job. Others did a good job. as well. Um, she she would respond to. like deep QAnon stuff like this. Did you. notice Trump drinking bottled water last. night during his announcement? He drank. at least two to three times. I've not. seen him do that at his speeches or. rallies. It reminds me of QOS 765, 767, and 847. Or was it a signal for. something else? By land or by sea? And. Katie Zakaria, who's the new press. secretary, she goes, I was wondering the.

same thing. And then she reposts, "How. Prague guru John Podesta isn't a. household name as worldclass underage. sex slave opper. defending unspeakable dregs escapes me.". And she repost that. She's like, "Why. isn't Fox covering this?" She's also. posted that um former President Obama is. gay and Michelle Obama has a penis. She. posted that Putin fights the secret. network of powerful elites. Um, and she.

says, "The radical left Hollywood. elitist are sick pedto cannibals. Changed my mind." These are there's like. a lot more of her past uh posts, but. that's the type of stuff that she posts. I wanted to talk a little bit about. Bessant, but I'll throw it to you before. we go. Bessant saying that Iran's going. to cry uncle. And we don't need to show. the clips. You know, this weekend he was. like Iran's gonna cry uncle. How do you. how do you say cry uncle in Farsy? And. he said that in September. That's his. new line. Like they're going to cry. uncle. And then I talked earlier about. it, but Bannon says look, we have to. flood the zone, get the media to just be.

overwhelmed and not know how to handle. all of this. Brett, I'll let you take. that. I. >> I was saying yesterday that Bessant is. like the walking embodiment of the. Dunning Krueger effect. Like he's the. worst. Like objectively the worst. You. know, borrowing cause surging and his. response to like people criticizing him. is to always be just as like snobbish. and as vile as possible and as cocky as. possible. It's like, dude, you you. realize you're like the worst, right? It'd be one thing if you were like. crushing it and you wanted to smack down.

the haters, right, with your oneliners. and your zingers and whatever, but like. you're objectively the worst, but you're. acting like you're like the greatest. It. is absolutely ridiculous. But, you know, at the end of the day, I think one of. the tough things is like there's still a. government to run and there are are real. problems that we have and we have real. unserious, dangerous people at the helm, including this new White House press. secretary who just seems like she's. absolutely insane. And I I'm looking at, you know, the things that we need to for.

government to survive, you know, for to. survive and rely on government on even. in our own state here, uh, Ben, in in. California. I mean, I I'll just take a a. slight detour for a second because I I. do want to mention something important. to me. You know that I I I try to talk. about important climate issues and I. I've been looking right now at what's. been going on in Southern California. over the past uh few days and we've been. seeing I don't know if you've seen these. images coming out of like Newport Beach. and and Long Beach, Newport Beach Friday.

over here uh declared a local emergency. And when you saw these images and videos. on the Balboa Peninsula, you saw like. water up to people's knees in some. spots. You saw like cars underwater, full streets underwater. And it it was. really honestly kind of scary to see. And one of the things that I'm worried. about is not even what we're seeing. right now, but what is being projected. in the next few months because. forecasters are saying there's like a 63. chance that we're going to get this. really strong El Nino this winter that.

they're calling the super El Nino. And. it's going to be one of the biggest. since they started tracking this in. since 1950. Like one of the biggest. ever. And so it's supposed to peak kind. of right now around November through. January. And it doesn't even just mean. more rain because we didn't even see. like a lot of rain here in Southern. California over the past few days by, you know, seeing what we by witnessing. all the water levels kind of rising. But. it pushes the ocean higher on the coast. at like 6 to 13 in, which is a ton. And.

so around Christmas, you could get these. king tides stacked on top of that and it. could be a very danger dangerous. situation. And like El Nino, it's like. it's a totally natural thing. It's been. around forever. But because of climate. change, everyone is now starting from a. higher ocean than the last one did. And. a lot of people don't really realize. that. And so as we're looking at this. unserious leadership that's out there, I'm trying to think like who is going to. help us here in California? um you know, if this comes to be, right, if more.

danger comes as a result of these higher. ocean beds, these higher uh you know, these high water levels and the effects. that they're going to have on our. communities here. Uh Trump has been. trying to constantly cut all of these. people from FEMA. He's been saying that. he doesn't want to have FEMA at all, that he wants states to basically do. everything himself. He's been blocking. FEMA aid to blue states constantly while. giving a little bit of aid to red. states. And so right now, I think we're.

just looking ahead to a potentially. dangerous situation, a lot caused by. climate change, which which folks in the. administration continue to deny even the. most basic existence of. And uh quite. frankly, I don't see any world where. California, if the worst comes to. fruition, gets help from these Trump. officials who have proven themselves uh. to be completely, you know, unhelpful. and uh and malicious quite frankly in. the way that they approach these issues.

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