LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 10/19/26

A lot to discuss on this episode of the. Midas Touch podcast. Donald Trump. continues to try to force Ukraine's. President Zelensky to surrender, constantly attacking Zelensky, throttling Zelensky's usage of the. Starlink or Starshield terminal, also. once again preventing Ukraine from. accessing the early alert systems that. would indicate when ballistic missiles. would be striking Kyiv and other major. cities. We'll break down what's the. latest over there in the catastrophic.

war in Ukraine. Diesel and gas prices. are continuing to surge as Donald Trump. is saying we need to rename New Mexico. to New America, and that'll make things. great everywhere, and then he blames the. Democrats for affordability, which he. also says is a hoax. This is Donald. Trump is now in Kansas. He was. previously in Kentucky, where he spoke. in front of a very small crowd there. He's going to deep red states where MAGA. Republicans are uh losing uh as of now.

We'll uh talk about the latest updates. regarding the upcoming midterms. We're. in the home stretch over there. Big No. Kings protest this weekend. The Midas. Touch network was the first to break how. Meta seemed to also be doing some. throttling of its own, actually. temporarily took down the No Kings. Instagram account while the protest uh. across the country was taking place. They then restored it and blamed it on a. glitch that there was just too much.

traffic in the algorithm, and that's why. they said the No Kings account was taken. down during the key moments when the. protests were uh taking place. We'll. also talk about a court hearing today in. Washington, D.C. federal court, where. federal judge Reyes moving closer to uh. contempt against Trump DOJ lawyers for. continuing to lie to the court in a case. involving Trump's destruction of the. East Potomac golf course, where Trump. has already ripped to shreds. all of the trees there basically or most.

of the trees, the oaks, the maples, the. cherry blossoms in violation of a prior. agreement with the court and we'll talk. about what's going there. It's obviously. bigger implications than just the East. Potomac golf course which is still a big. deal but it just goes to show you how. Donald Trump is a lawless crook. After. all, he is a felon, he is a sexual. predator, he is a bankruptor and a loser. and we're seeing that on display. throughout Also, Donald Trump gave a. major endorsement to Netanyahu this.

weekend and said that he needs Netanyahu. to win the election in Israel so there. can be further escalation in the war in. Iran. Then Netanyahu has cut numerous. videos telling the American people it's. a small price to pay that we now have to. deal with higher gas prices for this war. in Iran and then he said that he and. Donald Trump are going to further. escalate the war in Iran. We'll talk. about Iran continuing to strike more. tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. There. may have been as many as 60 to 70. tankers that have been destroyed by Iran. already in the month of October and Iran.

is now saying that if the Trump regime. and Netanyahu regime escalates, they. will start to target all of the data. centers. and US related infrastructure in the. Middle East and also cut the cables, fiber optics and other internet. connectivity lines that are underneath. the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian. Gulf. We've got a lot to discuss. Let's. bring in Jordy and Jordy and Midas. Mighty, it is a big day for the Midas. Touch Network. Brett's out there helping. promote the book as well so that's why.

Brett's not on but WTF America is out. now. Jordy, I'll let you talk about it. because we've. even though it officially arrives. tomorrow which is Tuesday or if you're. watching this or listening to this on. Tuesday, it arrives Tuesday. We're. recording this live on Monday and there. has already been a number of people who. have got this book. Benji, Benji Midas. Mighty. I Sorry to cut you off. I'm no. longer using the word pre-order. I The. book is out, everyone. The book is out. WTF America, The Way Out of This Hell.

and Back to Democracy is out now. Please. go pick up your copy. We are so thrilled. about it. Look, you know we've been. talking about this endlessly here at the. MidasTouch Network. It's because we've. poured our heart and soul into this and. we've dedicated it to you guys. Seriously, what's going on right now, I. think we all wake up every day. >> And Ben's intro was a perfect example. And we do a big sigh like. >> WTF. Let's just make some sense of this. all together. Let's figure out how we. could not go back to the old version of.

what democracy, you know, maybe used to. look like, but how can we make. generational change in the positive. direction for not just us, but our. children, our children's children, and. this country going forward. It's It's. too important. WTF America, available. anywhere you purchase books. Check it. out. Buy your book today. And let me. know in the comments. I'm in the chat. right now. Let me know in the comments. if y'all have gotten your books and. definitely keep sending them on social. media. We love reposting everything. It's just seeing this community really. rally and come together and just show.

the power of what independent media, you. know, really, really is. So, excited to. get into today's show. Really excited. about this. Uh Benji, that intro. all of these intros. are just again a big WTF, man. It It is. bonkers to me on a day-to-day basis what. we are all collectively like living. through like this collective trauma is. is is insane. I I have a theory about. Donald Trump and all of this, you know, chaos. Not to put myself sort of in his.

head here, but as we get closer and. closer to these midterm elections. I can't even say that MAGA and the. Republican Party are limping to these. midterms. There's There's no pulse. Like they're. It doesn't even seem like they're trying. anymore. None of the policies that. they've put in place, none of the. policies that they They haven't even. worked, right? Congress has worked a. total of less than 20 days when we run. all the actual calculations over the. past year. It's absolutely insane to me. Donald Trump right now, Benji,

I I have a working theory here that he. actually wants the Democrats to take. power. And where I'm getting at with. this is he has shown nothing. They have. controlled every branch of government. over these past 2 years. And the only. thing that we have seen, we, the. American people, is chaos, murders on. our streets from his Gestapo force that. comes out and literally takes our. citizens off our streets and and and. murders them, this endless war, an. affordability crisis that he again. refuses to acknowledge. And I'm just.

looking around and I'm seeing him try. and I stump for for Paxton or or. whomever. And it doesn't even seem like. his heart is truly in it because he. doesn't even care about his own party. All he cares about was using the office. to grift for himself, for his children, and those point-oh-one percenters that. get to hang out with him at Mar-a-Lago. Now, look, I I'm not saying Democrats is. a sure thing. In fact, I I'm actually. pretty curious to see, you know, will. Dems snatch a victory from whatever. I I.

I think, you know, there there's a real. rallying cry here for people who are are. absolutely fed up. And even in this. moment, like. there's nothing that can be done at this. point to reverse the course of just how. badly Trump has mishandled this. I don't. want to get cocky. Definitely get out. there and go vote. But ultimately, I. wonder, Ben, as we go forward, is like. does Trump even, you know, does does he. even want to be in the position of power. anymore? Because I think this gives him. an out if Democrats were to retake the.

house that he can now start blaming the. Democrats for things once again. That's. his favorite thing. He doesn't like to. lead, he likes to blame. And so, if the. Democrats now are in, you know, are in. position of power in the house and they. regained the seats there. Can he go, "Oh, well, I was going to pass my agenda. this whole time, but the Democrats, they. blew it for you. Look at them. They're. ruining it for you." And meanwhile, Trump has shown his cards. He's shown. you what he has done when he has all. three branches of government. And that's. chaos, that's instability, that's an.

affordability crisis, and it's murders. on our streets, man. >> Yeah, I was waiting just to kind of get. to I wanted to hear your theory because. I was very skeptical until you got to. the he wants to blame the Democrats as. everything falls apart. I mean, look, they close there for my theory. Who has. throughout his life bankrupted. everything, pretty much, right? Casino. after casino, company after company, and. then he goes and blames people. His. entire campaign in 2023, 2024 was about.

blaming Fauci, blaming Biden. Everything. was going to be perfect. And then, all. of a sudden, COVID hit, and then. everything was never his fault, and he. ran a campaign where he was the arsonist. saying that he would be the firefighter. By the way, what we talk about in WTF. America a lot is that's kind of the. playbook for these right-wing fascist. authoritarian Russian-leaning parties. also across the world. They are the. arsonists. They caused the problems,

right? Whether it's Brexit in the UK, whether it's the pain and suffering. Bolsonaro inflicted in Brazil. They. cause a lot of the issues. Not to say. all of it. Not to say that there's a lot. of other problems that other people. could deal with better or do a better. job. And to your point, Jody, not take. for granted that people are going to. support There's a lot of deeper issues, certainly, you know, at play. But this. is about arsonists causing panic, chaos, and catastrophe, and then pairing up. with the oligarchs who control the.

algorithms to kind of swamp everybody, you know, with just a glut of. disinformation. during chaos and catastrophe where. people are very vulnerable and. susceptible to a lot of disinformation. And a lot of our thesis in WTF America. is building an independent media network. that spans internationally that is a. firehose for truth to combat the. firehose of lies, which is why it's so. important that we.

continue to grow the Midas Touch network. in Canada, in Europe, in Australia, in. Africa, Central America, and South. America, all throughout Europe and Asia. Um going back to WTF America for a. moment, um the first page for the Midas mighty. and everyone else who wakes up, checks. the news, and can't help thinking WTF. And we uh in this book go through, you. know, this important uh thesis about how. we make generational change, how we. fight back uh against the uh Trump. regime. I mean, I think that, you know,

at the end of the day we're dealing with. a malignant narcissistic lunatic, a sex. predator, a truly evil piece of trash in. Donald Trump. And so, there's instincts, you know, where he wants to blame. everybody. You know, I think he still. obviously craves the power. I mean, that's the most important thing. So, I. don't think he wants to lose. He wants. to blame, and he has a plan of how he's. going to blame everybody. Um but I do believe that there's a level. of desperation that is setting in, that, you know, here we are 2 years in. The.

people have not broken. A lot of. institutions have broken, but the people. are rebuilding it. We talk about. independent news as one way to kind of. rebuild it. And he's staring down the. midterms in 2 years where there will be. robust oversight, whether it's in the. House Oversight Committee, the Judiciary. Committee, all of the committees, frankly, where these Trump cabinet. members are going to all be called in. and have to testify, and not for these. kind of phony sham hearings that the.

Republicans have been holding where you. get like five minutes where a Trump uh a. cabinet member or staffer can. filibuster, but where the Democrats set. the rules where these can be multi-days. and you're going to start seeing these. Trumpers plead the fifth. You're going. to start seeing the law firms that Trump. brought in starting to get scared. The. oligarchs getting worried. There was. lots of reporting including even from. Wall Street Journal, which is usually a. little bit sympathetic, you know, to you. know, the Trumpers and and Republicans. They've done some good push back on.

certain uh stuff, financial stuff and. Ukraine stuff and and other stuff, but. they've been talking about how a lot of. Trump staffers, um mid-level staffers, cabinet members, they're out there hiring lawyers right. now preparing for the type of oversight. that Democrats are going to be. conducting. So, I think there's a lot of. fear, a lot of loathing, a lot of blame, a lot of uh you know, a lot of people. there are really nervous and scared and. Trump runs around and does this routine. and it's you know, we've seen Donald.

Trump, of course, at these speeches talk. about the cognitive exams and how he. could remember five words, you know, the. new stick that he does is, you know, and. I think this is. um homosexual disinhibition. Like it's. actually a form of disinhibition where. he projects where he'll go around in his. speeches, in campaign speeches, and. he'll talk about male senators' asses. You know, and Senator Eustace's ass. particularly is something he talks about. all the time. And so, he'll give a. speech not just in Ohio where Eustace is. actually a senator, but he'll go to.

Kentucky. You know, he'll say, "I saw. this guy and I examined his ass. I don't. usually do that with men, but I saw that. ass and I said, 'Oh my god, look how. firm it is. Look how great it is.'". And then I saw his jawline and I shook. his hand. He's such a good-looking man. And throughout his speeches he kind of. looks at the men in the audience and he. frequently is like, "How handsome are. you? This is so handsome. Look how. good-looking you are. This is a. good-looking group. I got home at 4:30. a.m. in the morning and I saw this. soldier who's so muscular and handsome.

and I asked him, I said, "Uh what'd you. say?" And he said, "4:30 a.m., sir." And. I said, "Why'd you say that?" He said it. was the time. I said, "Oh man, you're so. good looking." And so Jordy and me, we're seeing all of that, but like. there's with all of that taking place, look at what's happening throughout the. world right now. Um the world is. literally on fire. I mean, you have. regional war regional wars everywhere. and I think it was actually someone I. heard in Qatar. Not sure if it was their. foreign minister or one of their.

ministry level people today though who. said, "You know, during World War II, for the first 2 years, people weren't. calling it a world war." And this is. kind of what you and I have been saying. I mean, there's so many There it is. right there. Qatar's foreign ministry. spokesperson, Majed Al-Ansari, a. colleague said, "People living in 1940. or 1941 didn't realize they were in the. second or third year of a World War II. until years later." So, we could be in. the first year of World War III today if. we fail to address these different. crises. And as the Trump regime rips.

apart the post-World War II architecture. and it basically becomes the law of the. jungle in terms of international affairs. where might makes right or tries to make. right in terms of what the. authoritarians feel and they impose. their will, whether it's Trump invading. Venezuela, Trump and Netanyahu's. invasion of Iran, whether you have. Russia invading Ukraine, whether you. have regional wars spreading throughout. the Middle East as well, Saudi Arabia. striking the Houthis and Ansarullah. Ansarullah striking back over there.

You've got Trump mercenaries all. throughout South America, not only Trump. regime doing election interference in. Brazil and virtually every other country. in South America. We've got forces. We've got troops on the ground, by the. way, in South America, in Africa, and. elsewhere. And so, I want to highlight. that in this episode as well, but um you. know, I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. when I say, it seems that we are in a. world of wars, a world of regional wars, whatever you want to call that, you can. call that. But, a lot of it also.

emanates from Donald Trump's utter and. complete weakness there, Jordy. So, what. do you what do you think about that, Jake? >> Absolutely, Ben. How dare you think of. calling it a World War III that we're in. right now, despite all of the wars that. are happening all across the globe? How. how dare you? You you are so hyperbolic. I'm of course. kidding over here. It's just, you know, it's ridiculous when we really just talk. using the facts, data, and receipts, and. and there's like a visceral reaction. when we say it. Uh. Nothing says, Ben, going back to an. earlier story that you were talking.

about, the White House staffers sort of. preemptively lawyer- lawyering up, nothing says that you have been a beacon. of of truth and honesty in your role. within the regime that that is the Trump. regime. as you're already panicking and looking. for lawyers. just because you just assume that people. are going to be asking questions about. maybe some potential illegal activity. that you had been doing while you were. serving under the Trump regime. It It's. frustrating to me on a macro level as. someone who loves this country, and I.

know obviously a lot of our audience. here, you know, loves this country. We. want to be operating at all cylinders, that we have people in the government. right now. And quite frankly, we likely. and you know, usually always do, who are. just in it for themselves. It literally. drives me insane. Like everything that. they had tried to accuse former. President Biden. of doing. It It's like Trump and his. family are are genuinely doing. Right? Donald Trump has made over 3. billion dollars off of his crypto. earnings just this during Trump 2.0.

alone. That we know of, by the way. That. was reported. We know that they're. underreporting the deaths in Iran. It. wouldn't surprise me if they're also. underreporting other things here that. are happening with Donald Trump and his. personal finances here. And so, take. that for a moment. If you believe that. 3 billion dollars is the floor of what. Donald Trump has been making. And I. fancy that number to be much, much, much. higher. It is so incredibly disgusting.

that the president of the United States. would use his power in any capacity to. enrich himself and his friends and his. children. And by the way, I say children. lightly. Kids are 40, 50, whatever years. old. They're grown adults who are also. who are also knowingly going along with. this grift. It is disgusting. And it should piss off every single. person who loves this country the way. Donald Trump has so bastardized the. position of the president of the United. States and how illegitimate he has made. his position here across the globe. People look at us like we're an absolute.

clown show. >> Yeah. >> Like we are scum of the earth. And I don't think they're wrong. That's the upsetting part. Because I'm. looking around and I'm seeing our action. or or lack thereof action in certain. instances. And so, where's the. leadership? Whatever happened to the. buck stops with me? That's not Donald. Trump. He's not the guy that's going to. take accountability, try and put the. best people in office around him to help. make informed decisions, to lead this. country in a better path. No, we've seen.

this. We've seen 10 years of Donald. Trump in this country. We know who he's. in it for and it's not you, the American. people. It's for himself and his. children, his grown adults, and the. point of 1% again in Mar-a-Lago. And it. pisses me off, Ben. >> Like we had Dr. Bandy Lee on Anthony. Davis's weekend show. She's a. world-renowned clinical and social. psychiatrist. And one of the. observations that she's made in her. research has demonstrated is that when. you normalize someone who's an actual.

lunatic or psychotic or a malignant. narcissist, it actually breaks down you. So, like if you're in a family and you. have to normalize somebody who has a. very severe type of, you know, social. behavior and that's just at a micro. level. It eventually translates to you. and to your family members and to others. who have to make accommodations and so. you start to say, "Well, that's just. that's just Timmy or that's just Danny.

or that's just that's just who they. are." No offense if your name is Timmy. or Danny. Um so I'll try not to say. names. But, you know, that's just who. they are and so what she describes is. you know, a very similar to what you saw. in kind of a a Nazi Germany if you will. Although fortunately here, there's a lot. more resistance that's grown whereas a. Hitler took over in a very short period. of time, which is in my view what Trump. and Musk wanted to do. Here, we have, you know, this kind of socialization and.

normalization of actually psychotic. behavior that then gets filtered as, "Well, that's just that's just Uncle. so-and-so." And it's like, "No, no, no.". And when you do that, it to your point, Jordy, all things are rendered having no. meaning. Words don't matter. If at the. very top, the presidency and what. emanates from it is all fake and nothing. matters and the words are just that's. just what he says. He announces a.

ceasefire, he doesn't really mean it. He. announces a deal, that's not really. true. You know, in the court proceeding. today, his lawyers are out there, "Yeah, he did the social media post that he. wants to take over the East Potomac golf. course, but that's not really what he. means. He just posts things. That's just. what he does, you know?" And that whole. aura around that is deeply cancerous and. problematic to a functioning society.

So, as we talk about in WTF America and. as we'll talk about through the rest of. the show, what we are neglecting to talk. about, at least corporate news is and. the broader societal apparatus, is some. basic stuff, which is we need to be. serious. Right, you need to have a floor. as a country. Are you a serious country. or are you a fascist clown show? Are you. serious? Are you competent? Are you. sophisticated?

Are you exercising judgment and reason. and logic and science behind actions? Right, like we often get so focused on. the horse race of who's up and who's. down in an election that we need to pull. back and realize this deeply unserious. weak behavior where he claims and the. regime claims, Trump regime, we control. the Strait of Hormuz. It's ours. We're. getting more oil out there than ever. Everything is great. What he say in his.

most recent speech? You know, we beat. the out of Iran. We didn't. We. really didn't. Okay, Iran won the war. And if the Trump regime and Netanyahu. regime escalates, it's going to cause. more catastrophic damage. Let's just. talk about the reality of what is. actually happening here. You know, and. then when the Trump regime does things. like throttle or cap Ukraine's ability. for drones to link up to Starlink or.

Star Shield and say the drones can't go. faster than 161 km/h, whereas the. Russian drones travel 450 km/h. Ukrainian drones, which all go above 161. km/h, otherwise they're easy to. intercept by Russia, that the drones. will be disabled by Starlink and Star. Shield. We know that that's happened. How? Because it's happening. It's It's happened. It's not a fictional.

thing. It's happened. The same way yet. again, the early alert satellite system. was shut down and Ukraine couldn't. access it. So, Russia was able to strike. even harder in Kyiv and Zelenskyy. doesn't have interceptors to begin with, but now Zelenskyy doesn't have early. alert access to even warn the people. that it's coming, yet alone being able. to intercept it. He can't even warn the. people. But, what does the Trump regime. say? That's not happening. That's not. what happened. There was a glitch. It.

was something with the weather. That's. not really what happened. And we'll talk. about when we get back. It's like, what. did Meta say when the No Kings account. was shut down during the No Kings. protest this weekend? Ah, it was a. glitch. There was a high volume traffic. event and so it just shut off on its own. with the algorithm and that's what It's. just We say the technology is infallible. and we have all these data centers to. deal with it except when we want to.

throttle you, then we'll say it's a. glitch and you just don't know what. you're talking about. So, let's take our. first break of the show. Let's come. back. Let's bring receipts. Let's talk. about what Trump has said, what others. are out there saying. A reminder, WTF. America is out now. Order today. Tomorrow you can go into a bookstore and. get it as well. You can download the. ebook. Go download the ebook. You can. download uh the audio as well, but get. the hard cover or the ebook if you can. Um and when we come back to, I want to.

show some of the people who have. received the book and they're posting. photos with the book and I want to. highlight some of those people who have. posted their messages, so we'll do that. And so, when you get the book, if you. take photos and tag us, we'll do our. best to show your posts on the show. There may be a lot of them. >> up, by the way, by me. Instant follow. and and absolute repost if I see it. 1,000%. >> Let's take our first break of the show. We'll be right back. You know that extended service they try.

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photo getting the book. Can't put it. down. Sounds just like the boys. A must. read. Adam Skillin a day early. We've. got Paisley. Look what just came in. Thank you. Um we've got uh another one by OSPREX. Arrived today. Hot off the press. Good. luck to you guys. I really want you to. be brutally honest when you read it. Give me your reviews. We spent a lot of. time uh putting this together. Uh we. outlined the way the Midas Touch Network.

started, how three brothers with no. political or media background built this. independent network. We talk about the. challenges we all face in this. environment of disinformation, how we. fight back against it. We give very. specific examples in the book of the. type of disinformation tactics. We then. broaden our conversation to. international dynamics and how. authoritarianism internationally. is what is uniting to try to destroy the. kind of liberal democracy growth.

post-enlightened thinking and what that. actually means, how a disparity in. information that existed throughout. humankind, if you think the lord-feudal. dynamic for example, actually now exists. with so much information. The oligarchs. poison the information pool and create. massive education disparity, which we. talk about. We talk about how you cure. that and then we talk about the way out. of this hell. We give lots of shout-outs.

to everybody affiliated with the Midas. Touch Network. We're just so excited. that the book is finally out and that we. can share it with you. It's dedicated to. you, so tell us in the comments if you. got your copy of the hard cover, the. ebook, or the audio. Let's get back into. some of the day's news as well. So, you. had Donald Trump heading off to Kansas. where he's giving a speech and Donald. Trump when he was leaving, he said, uh, "I think it's time." He said this, we. repeated this again, "that we find. somebody else to negotiate with in.

Ukraine other than Zelenskyy. I just. can't negotiate with Zelenskyy. I can. negotiate with Putin, but I just can't. deal with Zelenskyy." He says. Here, play this clip. >> Ukraine could have this thing settled a. long time ago if he would have listened. to me. And you remember the Oval Office, he would have had this settled a long. time ago. Maybe it's time for Zelenskyy. to get somebody else to negotiate. >> So, Donald Trump went from I will. resolve the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. when he was campaigning in 2023, 24.

hours from after the election, he said, "But I'll give him 24 hours after you. were sworn in." To now October 19th, 2026, "I can't negotiate with Zelenskyy. He. should have just done what I said when I. saw him in the Oval Office originally. What was that? Surrender? Turn over all. of Eastern Ukraine to Putin? Was that. the plan? Was that your game plan right. there? Then Donald Trump outside of the. White House continues to yell at.

Zelensky and he says, "We've given so. much to Ukraine. They've given us. nothing and we give them so much." Here, play this clip. >> You know what? We've given a lot to. Ukraine. They've given nothing to us. Remember that. We've given hundreds of billions of. dollars. I gave the Javelins to Ukraine when he. knocked out. That was me. Obama gave. them pillows. You know the expression, Obama gave them sheets and pillows. Trump gave them the Javelins. So, don't. tell me about Ukraine. We've given a lot.

to Ukraine. They've given us nothing. >> That was me. That was me. Look what I. did. I'm just going to make up an. expression and say that it's a real. expression also that actually isn't. Also, it should be noted that what. Ukraine's been trying to do is say, "Okay, well, why don't we give you our. drone technology? Why don't we give you. our unmanned submersibles, our FPVs, the. flamingos?" That's the way war is fought.

right now and what Europe says about. Ukraine is in many ways we now need. Ukraine more than Ukraine needs us or at. least it's fairly mutual because Ukraine. knows how to fight a modern war and. let's face it, the Trump regime don't. They showed that very clearly with the. catastrophic war of Iran, but even. originally Russia wasn't able to fight. the modern war. They've actually worked. with Iran and North Korea to adapt to.

modern warfare, which is something that. is a bit of a scary realization because. while Russia is investing hundreds of. billions of dollars in their defense. industry, they're focused on a lot of. the modern drone technologies, which. they call their Geran 5s, their Geran. 4s. They work with North Korea for these. Iskanders and other types of cruise. missiles and cutting-edge ballistic. missiles. Whereas, the United States. still is only capable of making about.

2,000 interceptors like those PAC-3s and. THAADs a year. Russia can make 36,000. of the drones, those Shahed the Shahed. jet-powered drones, which are now called. the Geran 4s and Geran 5s. Russia makes. 36,000 of those a year, while the US can. only make 2,000 interceptors. 36,000. versus 2,000 interceptors. I just want. you to think about that. So, Zelensky's. been trying to say, "Hey, you want us to. work with the defense industry? Look.

what we can do." And Trump's like, "Nah, we don't want any of that." And instead, you've got situations or allegations. where you have like Don Jr. doing drone. company deals with companies in the. United States that like don't really. have a strong background like Zelensky. does, you know, in in this type of. stuff. In any event, um. Donald Trump then says uh that Russia. actually is being great when it comes to. Iran. He says, "Russia could have done a. lot more to help Iran, but they've done.

very little." He said, "Same thing with. China. They've barely helped Iran at. all." Which he goes, "I appreciate." So, after attacking Zelensky, Zelensky, Zelensky, "I can't work with Zelensky. They give us nothing. They don't do. anything for us at all." Then he goes. and praises Putin and praises China's. President Xi Jinping for not helping. Iran in the war against and and Trump. and Netanyahu's war against Iran. Here, play this clip. >> That's right. Russia could have done a. lot more to help if you if put it.

bluntly, Russia could have done a lot. more to help Iran. Russia's done very. little for Iran. China could have done a. lot more for Iran. They've done and I. remember that. When China does not that. much, maybe nothing almost, but very. little for Iran and Russia does very. little for Iran, I view that as being a very positive. thing. Yeah. >> Okay, first off, go back to what I was. saying about Dr. Bandy Lee. Let me bring. in Jordy here for a second as well. So,

I mean, obviously, like we're observing. a lunatic. And perhaps, you know, there. are some people who go, "Hey Ben, you. know, you're doing the name-calling.". No, no, you have to every time you see. it, you have to say that's a psychotic. individual. That's a lunatic. That's a. sex predator. That's a felon. You have. to say that's a bankruptor and that's a. loser. Cuz every time you see it, I'm. doing that to fortify our, honestly, like our defenses against becoming. susceptible to the kind of mass. psychosis that's created where you have.

a lunatic leading or leading us into the. into the abyss. And then you take a look. at the content of what he's saying. He's. saying Russia is doing nothing material. to help Iran. Literally today, while he. was saying that, Jordy, you know who's. meeting with who? Russia's Foreign. Minister, Sergey Lavrov, is in Tehran. today meeting with Iran's Foreign. Minister Aragchi talking about further.

expanding nuclear capabilities together. in terms of. nuclear power plants, which they say is. civilian. Russia's Foreign Minister. Lavrov says, "I'm convinced." He says. this in Tehran today standing next to. Iran's Foreign Minister sitting next to. Iran's Foreign Minister. Russia's. Foreign Minister Lavrov says, "I'm. convinced that Iran's cause, just like. Russia's cause, is a just one. Russia's. Foreign Minister Lavrov goes on to say,

"Russia has no intention of abandoning. the implementation of its agreements. with Iran in the economic and investment. spheres. Our specialists are gradually. returning to the Bushehr nuclear power. plant. There are also major prospects. for cooperation in the extraction and. transportation of hydrocarbons. And. let's be clear, of course Russia is providing. intelligence and military equipment to.

Iran. We know they are. Of course China. is providing intelligence and military. equipment to Iran. And the way they. often package it is these dual-use. components that you can build a lot of. the drones when the parts are kind of. shipped separately and say, "Ah, they're. just for consumer purposes." But both. Russia's Foreign Minister and China's. Foreign Minister Wang Yi have said very. publicly they wholeheartedly reject. Operation Economic Outcast against Iran.

They stand in strong solidarity with. Iran. They both have invited Iran to. major international summits, whether it. was BRICS, whether it was the Shanghai. Cooperation Organization, whereas the. recent one involving older, now. independent Soviet nations in. Turkmenistan. And by the way, I believe. a lot of the Russian. diesel that may be sent over to the. United States if it And it's not a lot. It's like a very small amount. It's not.

going to actually change the market in. any material or meaningful way. In fact, diesel's going up since Trump announced. that. I think a lot of that diesel's. probably coming from Iran because, guess. what? There's something called the. Caspian Sea. There's something called. trains. The trains can take Iranian. supplies to China. Not as efficient as. the Strait of Hormuz, but there are. other ways for Iran to move goods around. and by the way. didn't Besson tell us Jordy that Iran. was once again supposed to their economy. was going to blow up right now and they.

were going to be destroyed again. Wasn't. there another two weeks like they told. us in. >> What was Besson's line Ben? Like we own. them? What was it? It's the checkmate. for them. What was his line that he. always said? >> Besson then said I'm going to make him. I'm going to give him noogies. He goes. he said I'm going to make him cry uncle. >> It it it's Ben it it is unbelievable. when you witness this play out. I want. to go back to the aesthetic of the Trump. ramble and rant really quickly. Not not. even the substance of what he said which. you great you know great breakdown. there. He looks like a maniac. Like for the.

audio listeners I'm not saying this like. to be funny and to get clicks. I'm on the East Coast. I'm not far from. DC. It was a cold day today. He's in. that clip like. almost profusely sweating. Like I don't. even know what's going on. He's. screaming at the reporter and then he. says something to the effect of like. Russia's not helping out in any. meaningful way. Donald Trump was the no. new wars slash I'm going to end Ukraine. Russia day one. That's what he ran on. Like that that was supposed to be his. presidency. We're two and a half years nearly into. this damn thing now and the war still.

rages on. Not only that Donald Trump. will look back at those clips and those. interviews and every time he said he. must have said it over a hundred times. on the campaign trail and interviews. that that day one he's going to end that. war. That he that now he was being. sarcastic in those clips. Did y'all the. sarcasm went went over your guys' head. too. Went over my head. I'm I'm pretty. good at picking up on sarcasm because it. wasn't sarcasm. It wasn't sarcastic. There was no sarcasm around it. It it it. is it's crazy. It it's crazy to see when.

you watch this play out like right in. your face that he's just lies. like with impunity to everyone and. especially his followers. Like if you. were a MAGA three time voter for Donald. Trump man it's. crazy to me that you would be okay with. any of this. But I think we're sort of. getting to a point where we're a little. bit on the other side of that. I don't. want to count my chickens before they. hatch here, but his his poll numbers. within his own MAGA base now. have plummeted. Like I think like people.

who are core MAGA have a 50% approval. rating of him. And it's because he lies. He lies to you. He's promised you check. after check after check. 5,000 doge. dividend check. 5,000 vote Republican. check. A 3,000 check here and there's no. money to be had. There's an. affordability crisis that is ruining the. lives of Americans across this country. And you have Donald Trump up here making. $3 billion off of his crypto. And then on top of that, there's a war.

between Russia and Ukraine that Donald. Trump seems to actively be just allowing. to go on to this point cuz. the mishandling of it from a leadership. perspective cannot be overstated. Then. you talk about again within the Trump. family himself. You have Don Jr. Who is. you know, a part of these drone. companies making money off this whole. situation that that. seems like to me. You also have a. Russian oligarch who then is paying for. Don Jr. Parts of Don Jr.'s wedding? And. now you have Donald Trump up there.

saying, "Nah, someone else is going to have to take. over the negotiations. Can't do it. I. got my clip of Zelenskyy in the Oval. with me and Vance when we really we we. had it out with Zelenskyy. That was. great that was great for all the people. that needed to support me. I don't I. don't really have any skin in this game. anymore. I don't I don't care what. happens. I was being sarcastic. Let the. war wage on.". Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. And a. failed leadership at every level of. government. And it's also the issue Ben. real quick before I toss it back to you. When you just put yes-men around Trump. When you just allow this maniac to to.

continue to be a maniac. Like this isn't. comedy. This isn't a TV show. It's not. It's not The Apprentice, right? Where. you know, you put all these bumbling. idiots who also happen to be his. children on The Apprentice around him. and you you let you like funny things. happen, you get ratings. This is a. country. These are people's lives. People are. actively dying and you have people like. Bannon up there who doesn't know his. right from his left, who lives in his. Malibu Barbie Dream House. It's It's. absolutely crazy to me. And that's why. we titled the book WTF America. Because.

when you start to talk about all of this. at such a wide scoping range, man, it is. just just W T F, man. >> Like when you see how he casted, and. casting's the right word, how he casted. Apprentice, not all of the time, but. overwhelmingly it was people whose. careers were either towards the end or. their careers had failed or they took. some detour and he felt very comfortable. in that room to kind of mock and to.

pressure and to bully and then to bring. people, you know, who needed to be. rehabilitated into his orbit. And frankly, what he did with his. cabinet and his staff is he just he. casted and he says this, "I try to find. people who are central casting." And for. him, the central casting though was very. frequently, you know, people who are. much bigger losers and bankruptors than. even him. Cuz that's who he feels the.

most comfortable around and he's a. bankruptor and a loser and so his crew. is all of these just actually horrific. people who have done really bad things. in life and they've also not just been. involved in lots of scams and engaged in. lots of wrongful con I mean, that these. are people who have caused great harm to. others. And that's who he surrounds. himself. It's a charity. I mean, you. talk about Don Jr.'s new wife, Bettina,

just for example, and how the Russian. oligarchs were helping to pay for their. wedding. But then Bettina's father was. Epstein's banker. I mean, there's always. these connections over there. Then Don. Jr.'s ex-fiancée was in Greece, apparently, asking people to pay her Amex bills, you. know, and sending messages. And then you. have people in Trump's orbit who she's. asking exposing her and what she was. doing over there. And she ran around in.

Greece, apparently, with some. 39-year-old Greek lobbyist who people. thought was her chief of staff. And then. you even look at like what's going on. with like Trump's former lawyer who was. the United States attorney, Alina Habba, marries this purported Turkish. billionaire guy who who even knows what. this guy's real status is. But then she. accuses one of the other kind of Trump. inner circle people, Rick Grenell, who. used to lead the Kennedy Center, of.

taking donations from her new Turkish. husband. Her new Turkish husband's. alleged to be 29 years old. There are. some people who say he's not even. actually that amount of years old. And. there's a whole question about who this. guy's background. And they accuse Rick. Grenell of taking the. of taking the money that Alina Habba's. new husband, this Milan, this Turkish, apparently, billionaire guy gave to the. Kennedy Center. But then Grenell comes. back and says, "Actually, it was $17. million that came from the Congo that.

was wired to some Texas shell company. And then that's what was actually sent. to the Kennedy Center. And was it really. supposed to even be a donation to the. Kennedy Center? Or where's the And. there are so many issues, which is why. we need oversight. And it's why Trump's. approval is at the historic lows, the. worst in presidential history since the. invention of polling. Trump's approval. by far is the worst. And when you look.

at even the Fox poll, um, heading into. the midterms, and you see what the. public feels are the biggest issues, number one is corruption. Number two is prices, but they're. inextricably intertwined. And the person. who shows you how inextricably. intertwined they are, I think the best, is Senator Ossoff in his speeches. Cuz. his speeches always follow kind of this. pattern, where he talks about the. corruption that Trump is engaged in, or. the lunatic behavior Trump is engaged.

in, the cover-ups that Trump and the. regime is engaged in. And Ossoff's. speeches are is usually a version of, while they're doing that, here's what's happening to you. Here's. what's happening with diesel and gas. prices, record highs. Here's what's. happening with mortgages, the 30-year. fixed that are record high, housing is. unaffordable. Here's what's happening to. your healthcare. Here's what's happened. to the rural hospitals, they've been. shut down. Here's what's happening to.

your ability to, you know, fill in the blank. And so, that to me is a very kind of powerful, uh, accurate description of everything. that's happening right now. And it's not. like I'm even like a messaging thing, it's just. accurately shining a mirror to what. people are saying, and people are. saying, "W T F is What the hell is this right. now?" Think our last quick break of the. show, a reminder, WTF America is out.

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and using code midas at checkout. Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors. Links in description of both the YouTube. and the audio. Use the links. Use the. codes. There's an exit survey. Let them. know sent you. Benji, nice beard. Really solid beard you got going on. today. Yeah. >> We'll see. >> to do no shave November? >> No, I'll probably uh I'll probably make. some alterations soon. >> you going to be for Halloween? >> Um I'm going to be Kristoff from Elsa. >> Nice. You guys doing a family costume this. year?

>> Yeah, I'm going to be Kristoff. My wife. is going to be Anna and Jimena is going. to be Elsa. >> Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf. >> Maybe Katie will be Olaf. We'll see. >> Love it. Love it. Katie, your your niece Katie, not not. niece Katie. >> Not Katie Fang from the mind. >> Not Katie Fang. We won't mention Katie. >> Yeah, just wanted to make that clear. >> As as Olaf. >> All right, let's get uh right into it. So, you had Treasury Secretary Bessant. He speaks to Zelenskyy and Ukraine the. same way he speaks about Iran. And, you.

know, and he does this like tough guy. act. Here's the thing. When you had. Janet Yellen as the Treasury Secretary, Jordi, did you even. Did you even know that Janet Yellen was. the Treasury Secretary? I mean, you you. you may I I won't put you on the spot. You may or may not know. >> I did. I did. But, only because. we do this. >> If if it was 2017, Jordi, >> Probably not. >> But, here's the thing. You wouldn't hear. Janet Yellen all that frequently other. than with very careful remarks.

because the words of a Treasury. Secretary need to be precise. They require a level of meticulousness. Just because you feel something doesn't. mean you go and say it because the most. important resource that America had, which we lost, is frankly something that. Prime Minister Carney always talks. about. It's trust. Trust is one of the. most important resources you can have as.

a country, as a company, as a person. And predictability and stability of the. United States markets was one of the. major hallmarks of the post-World War II. architecture. Now, whether you thought. the United States post-World II. architecture was successful, whether you. have criticisms, whether you have strong. criticisms, okay. What would be hard pressed to actually.

argue is that the types of chaos, of. transition of power, the types of chaos. involving economic markets, not to say. that never happened in the United. States. I'm not going to ignore the. Watergates and disruptive times and high. inflation of other errors, but generally. the US was viewed as a predictable and. reliable entity in a architecture.

created by the United States. So, the. Treasury Secretary's words picked very. carefully. It would be okay. You wouldn't even have. to go extemporaneous. Sometimes you read. it. Read it because those words Every. word is important. As I said it. originally, part of this WTF America is. the US not just seeding trust, but. seeding purpose. Seeding not just moral. authority, seeding authority, seeding. meaning, seeding that anything matters, and that nihilism, that anarchy is.

manifest. in terms of wars, which Trump says is. peace, right out of 1984, and anarchy that we see in protests. throughout the world right now as well, with instability. that is partly or fully, depending on. certain areas, also fueled by a lot of. the Trump regime stuff. I don't want to. suggest that all of the stuff we're. seeing internationally is just Trump. Trump Trump Trump Trump, but it is.

arsonists. lighting the flame and not having. solutions. It is also It is also I don't. want to leave Democrats off the hook. I. want to be critical too of of of of lots. of, you know, and it's not just. Democrats. I we think internationally. We also need bold decisive action and. leadership. Now, I think there are a lot. of great Democratic candidates right now. who show some of the attributes of. leadership that is exciting and.

compelling from all different stratus of. the party. It's exciting to see in my. view different people on I I I don't. like the framing the far left and this. and that and this and that because in my. view Trump's the biggest authoritarian. communist there are. You know, so I. don't like the framing, you know, there. is and the Trump regime is. If you look. at the behavior of of authoritarian. communist regimes, Trump is that while. also ripping away your healthcare, too. So, to me, I try to even avoid the.

framings of oh, that's on the left, that's the far, you know, and all of. these things. Um but I think that there. needs to be bold leadership, confident, strong leadership in order to deliver. for the people and not simply return the. status quo. I digress on that tangent, but I wanted to show you Bessette. That's where I was going with all of. this because I could show you a number. of clips of this guy and they're all the. same thing. I'm going to give Iran. noogies. He didn't say that, but he. said, "I'm going to make him cry uncle.".

Or this is what he said about Zelensky. Zelensky should be very careful when. what when Kristen Welker on Meet the. Press said, Zelensky said there was a. break in intelligence sharing, cuz there. was. And watch the response by Bessen. Let's play it. >> President Zelensky just said he believes. the US government slowed the speed. Now, President Trump said he had nothing to. do with it, but can you definitively say. no one in the Trump administration. ordered restrictions? >> I. Pre- President Trump and Secretary Rubio.

have categorically said that no one on. the Trump administration did that, and I. think it is very reckless there- for. President Zelensky to make such a. charge. >> I think it's reckless for him to make. such charge. Now, let's play the other. clip. Very similar. Let's play the other. one, too. >> How did it get slowed down? How were. these disruptions caused? Because. President Zelensky also said there was a. break in intel sharing, as well. Why did. that happen? >> The uh again, I don't know anything. about that, but we've been very clear, and President Zelensky uh should be very.

careful about making statements like. this that aren't true. >> Donald Trump is out there basically. saying it's true. Trump is out there threatening Zelensky. with these things, and then these things. are happening. We talking about? We don't think we. don't know where it's coming from. You. know, it's like when people were talking. about this the case that was in federal. court with Trump destroying all of the. maple and the cherry blossoms and the. mature oaks, and just they were like.

destroying the golf course uh in East. Potomac, and then people were like, where did the order come from? It came. from Trump. Where do you think it came. from? And by the way, it's why the DOJ. is asserting privilege and objecting to. every communication with Trump. The DOJ. in this case is saying, executive. privilege, we're not going to allow the. lawyers to even talk about it. Of. course, I mean, you had Katie Zaccaria,

Trump's press secretary, who the former. press secretary, who lasted what 0.4. Scaramuccis. She was four days. As. Zaccaria is a new time frame for five. days or four days or whatever it is. She. took a photo. You saw the East Potomac. golf course. And this is what this. maniac is focusing on, ripping to shreds. golf courses and making the order to. National Park Service to rip up trees. while the American people are suffering.

for yet another vanity project while the. Trump DOJ has represented to the federal. judge previously that there were no. plans. Trump implements a plan that was. in violation of the court order and then. posts about it to brag about it and then. the DOJ files a brief to the federal. judge and says, "That's just his post. That's not what actually is happening. That's not a final plan. That's just. what the president of the United States. posts on social media. We have to.

discount that. We represented to you. what we hypothesized. could be the president's. philosophy or whatever, and it was not. ripping down the trees. So, we we we, you know, but we're not going to tell. you what he actually told us cuz that's. subject to a privilege." It's this kind. of cowardly dissembling, this. just weak behavior that we see. permeating everywhere. And as I said, look, the golf course is more than about. the golf course, but it's enough It's.

still serious the same way the. reflecting pool's more than the. reflecting pool. It's still serious that. they're engaging in destruction of. landmarks and the fact that they. destroyed the reflecting pool after. making it their cause of celebration and. said they were going to paint it blue. I. mean, it is serious what they did to the. golf course, but it speaks of a. fundamental. defect intrinsic in all Trump bankruptcy. behavior. This is a loser mentality that. rules don't apply. He rips to shreds.

order and doesn't replace it. And then. in the vacuum of disorder, he blames. And then when people try to fix it, they. become the scapegoats. And then you. rinse and repeat. And that is a recipe. not for stability and predictability. It. is a recipe for anarchy and it begets. more authoritarians because they come in. and then blame anybody who tries to fix.

it because doing the surgery, doing the. fix is messy. It's difficult. It's hard. to acknowledge problems. It's easy to. say, "$28 trillion, we brought it in. I'm going to give you $5,000. Oh, it's the Democrats who did it. Dr. Fauci did it." I mean, imagine you ask. me every question, I just made something. up. What what what is it? Yeah, yeah. I'm going to give you the a million. dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's that's Brett's fault. Oh, yeah, that's Jordy's. I mean, it's you know,

just blame everybody is ridiculous. And. then you have Kevin Hassett. Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's top. economic advisor. I'm not going to show. you multiple of his clips. I'll just. show you one. He's asked about the. economy right now. The economy right. now, he says it's a boom. He says it's. booming and things are amazing. Listen. to what he has to say. Play this clip. >> Tell you this, that if the economic. polls that you're talking about were. correct, then people wouldn't be taking. trips to nice hotels. They wouldn't be.

flying. They wouldn't be buying cars. They wouldn't be doing all the things. they do when they're feeling good about. the economy. And so, uh sentiment uh. like true sentiment is best measured by. what you see that people are doing. And. what people are doing is they're acting. like we're in a boom. And the reason. they're doing that is because this. despite what the polls say, we are in a. boom. >> We're not in a boom. What Mar-a-Lago. bubble. is Kevin Hassett living in? The guy. looks like Chicken Little. I'm sorry. I. know people get upset sometimes maybe. when I comment on on people's.

appearances here, but he looks. ridiculous. And the frustrating part, he's giving this shit-eating grin as. he's telling you that you're able to go. on these luxurious vacations. How many. luxurious vacations have y'all gone on. this year? Last year? It's. It's insulting is what it is. Because. who he's talking to there again are the. 0.01% that hang out with him and Donald. Trump and the whole Trump regime of. Mar-a-Lago that that that that. Epsteinish class, Ben, of people who are. not the American base that that not the.

American folks who who are the heart and. soul of this country. It's a slap in the. face and you see him up there just so. damn smug saying that life is great. Affordability crisis? What affordability. crisis? We're going on a luxury. vacations. It's insane. It's insane, Ben. >> Yeah, you know, and. what was, you know, one of the taglines. of Trump? America first, America first, America first. What was this weekend.

filled with as well? It was Donald Trump. bragging about his endorsement of. Netanyahu. "I strongly endorse Netanyahu," he says. "Bibi and I. are going to go back and escalate the. catastrophic war in Iran." "To the. people of Israel," he says, "we need you. to elect Bibi so that I and Bibi can. finish the job," Trump puts in a post. "Finish the job." And then Netanyahu. posts over and over again to the United. goes, "To the American people, it is a.

small price to pay that your gas prices. and diesel prices are so large. Think. about how bad it would have been if Iran. got a nuclear weapon, Trump saved you. from that. So, stop complaining. We got Trump and Netanyahu telling us to. stop complaining about gas prices here. >> I'm sorry, I don't mean to be giggling. on the side of the screen, but your. Netanyahu is like ridiculously good. Like. eerily too good. Sorry, go ahead. >> And then he posts his phone call with.

Donald Trump this morning. And this they. were just like reposting each other, you. know? And it's like America doesn't want. to be in this never-ending catastrophic. war in Iran. We we we don't. Trump. promised that he would end the war in. Ukraine, there would be no more. never-ending wars. There has been war. everywhere right now, which he claims is. peace. Which again, you you it's like. literally out of 1984. War is peace, peace is war.

Let me show you what Netanyahu said, and. he videotaped his phone conversation. about finishing the job. Oh, there's two. clips of it. We'll just play the first. one. >> So grateful. for this incredible endorsement. You've. been an incredible leader of the free. world of America. [clears throat] By. far, the greatest friend Israel has ever. had and will have in the White House. And all of civilization. is emboldened by your boldness. Donald, we have a job to finish. You said it and. we'll finish it together.

We'll finish it. And no one else will do it. >> Actually, I actually crafted that one. myself. That wasn't one that was put out. by. some guy writing something. That was a. That was a good one. >> He said, "I crafted that myself." Trump. said. "Not some guy writing it." Look, Natalie. Harp, "I crafted that myself." About. finishing the job, about more war. More war as Trump and Netanyahu drop. bombs on hospitals and elementary. schools and sports halls. That's where.

our taxpayer dollars are going to, not. to build hospitals in the United States, but to destroy hospitals abroad in the. Middle East and to kill innocent people. It is horrific. I'll show you this one. other clip of Netanyahu from earlier as. well that Netanyahu posted him and. Trump. Let's play it.

He said, "You're a warrior. We're going. to show them soon. We're going to prove. it soon." And he's talking about further. invading. Iran and and escalating the war in Iran. And by the way, let's just say you are some neocon war. hawk which I would be very much against. you. You know, to watch them try to justify. that this is the war we wanted.

Trump ran out of weapons. He ran out of 19 years of interceptors. in. the first month of this catastrophic. war. The United States military bases in the. Middle East have all been destroyed. There are 21 to 22 deaths that we know. about. I still believe the number is. more than that. Over 800 service members. that we know about have been injured. I. still believe there are a lot more than.

that who have actually been. catastrophically injured and suffer from. traumatic brain injuries that are being. covered up as well that we'll learn. about. The United States security umbrella in. the Middle East and throughout the world. has been destroyed. Donald Trump every day demonstrates more. and more how he bends the knee to Xi and. Putin and to Kim Jong-un. So, like even. if you were this like neocon would like. this was your vision or are you all just. And there's the answer. Just a bunch of.

frauds. That really all you were looking for was. the United's I would say the US version. of a Kim Jong-un, but honestly I believe. Trump is far crazier and even more. deranged than a Kim Jong-un. You wanted. your whatever deranged authoritarian. to create chaos and you believed in the. chaos that it would line your pockets. That's what it's all about for you. That's That's your That's really what. you wanted. It was never about states'.

rights. It was never about originalist. interpretation. It was never about pushing back against. big government that treads on people. It. was never about debt. It was never about government. efficiency. It was never about America. first. It was never about no more. never-ending war. It was never about any. of this. It was about you all wanting a.

dictator that you felt that you would be. the oligarchs surrounding him where you. could not accomplish in a meritocracy. what you believed you could in an. oligarchical system that resembles. authoritarian communist systems across. the world and you believed that based on. your deceit, based on your life of. fraud, that you would be one of the. chosen people who would get the wealth. because you weren't able to achieve. success in a meritocracy. And if you.

were an oligarch, you're so worried. about actually performing in a. capitalistic society with competition. that you wanted to use the executive. branch to stomp and pound down on. competition and also to protect you. against. charges and investigations of market. manipulation and criminality. We talk. about these concepts a lot in WTF. America. I hope that you will get your. copy of WTF America, the way out of this.

hell and back to democracy. Put in the. comments if you've got your copy. Jordy, that's all I got today on this episode. We've got a lot more. coverage. Of course, I'll do a full. video on Trump in Kansas. Um, anything. else you want to say, Jordy? >> I'm just so grateful for this community, Ben. Seriously, this is the greatest. pro-democracy community that frankly. exists. Thank you guys for stepping up. every single day. Thank you for meeting. the moment. There's more ahead, and. we're just so excited to be in this. fight with y'all. Thank you guys. Please.

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