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A big episode of the Midas Touch podcast. coming up after a big victory on. election night. The historic night that. we all had been hoping for. Did it meet. your expectations? Did it exceed your. expectations? We told you to prepare for. that blue tsunami. And oh boy, did a. blue tsunami hit this country. First. headline, Democrats win big and the wins. just keep on coming. We'll talk more.

about some of the latest wins. Mississippi finally going to be called. for Scott Cologne. What's going to. happen with that Lauren Boowbert seat in. Colorado? Is that about to be called? More Democrat wins being wrapped up. We'll talk about that. Meanwhile, you. see Donald Trump's aids resigning. Har. Dylan, the civil rights chief or the. anti-ivil rights chief, whatever you. want to call her, at the Department of. Justice, she has resigned. We believe.

that's just the beginning. There were. rumors that Secretary of State Rubio was. contemplating his resignation. He claims. he isn't, but he also lies about every. damn thing. You had Marco Rubio saying. the catastrophic war in Iran is to blame. for the catastrophic loss that MAGA. Republicans faced. Let's talk about. what's going on with the turmoil in the. Oval Office. Lots of people saying Susie. Wilds needs to go. Pete Hgsith, is he. about to get impeached next week when. the House comes back into session? A.

lame duck with lots of angry ducks. Lots. of angry lame ducks. These MAGA. Republicans are coming back pissed off. They lost their jobs. Trump cost a lot. of them their jobs. So, are they finally. going to find that spine or are they. still going to talk about men's behinds. with Donald Trump? We'll see. We'll see. But Democrats seem very confident that. they'll be a things I have to say in. this Trump regime marriage. Just. freaking wild. But Democrats feel very. confident, especially a lot of the.

veterans I've been talking to, that. they're going to have him impeached. early next week. You have SenCom's. Admiral Brad Cooper making a big. announcement. SenCom launched a podcast. where Admiral Brad Cooper talks about. how he's a French fry guy. He loves. those French fries. He thought that he. would share that right now as this. catastrophic war in Iran comes closer to. even more escalation. Donald Trump says. it's actually not a war. It's a US-led. occupation of Iran to seize their oil. and to subjugate their people. The exact.

words Donald Trump just used in the Oval. Office. This is a US-led occupation, everybody. and they're going to welcome. us in and we're going to win this. catastrophic war. With Trump's psychic. injury that he's such a freaking loser. and the whole entire country has rebuked. him, there is this idea um even within. the psychiatric community that that's. when we're at the biggest risk of Donald. Trump lashing out and doing a World War. II style event. So, we're very focused. on that while SenCom is focused on. launching a podcast. You also had the.

top Russian aid or one of the top. Russian aids to Putin, Caril Demitri. He. was in the Oval Office with Melania. Trump. She praised Russia as being this. great humanitarian country. And she both. sides the issue and basically said. Ukraine was stealing all of these. Russian children. And yeah, Russia took. Ukrainian kids, but she's the one who's. doing these swaps. And meanwhile, you. have Ukraine's president Zullinsky. saying, "Actually, Russia stole our. Ukrainian children and now they're. fighting in war against Ukraine and.

they're getting killed in the war when. they're Ukrainian kids who were. kidnapped." But Melania is out there. praising Russia and she's, you know, and. she's like, "Look what I did. I was. Oleski. Look what I did in Oleski." Um, you have really the only Trump surrogate. right now defending this regime is like. Lara Trump. She's out there saying some. deranged stuff. and Donald Trump's two. public events in the past 48 hours. One. was in the ballroom where again he just. looked deeply sick and unwell. And then.

today he held a press conference in the. Oval Office declaring the Oval Office a. historical landmark so that it couldn't. be touched so that future presidents. would have to exist in his piss. essentially whatever the hell that uh. the Cheesecake Factory meets Saddam. Hussein's uh Iraq. We'll talk about that. and more on this podcast. Brett, my. Celis, good to see you, brother. Brett, how are you? >> Good, good to see you, too. Jord's uh. doing some family stuff tonight. So, it's just going to be me and Ben, I am.

doing well. We're witnessing the crash. out right now of Trump and MAGA, this. whole regime, and they're all looking. for people to blame. And they never want. to blame the person who deserves all the. blame and the person who clearly has not. gotten the message of the midterms, Donald Trump. Because even today, you. know, his first move yesterday, of. course, was to do the tour of the. ballroom and to be talking about the. ballroom. Today he's talking about the. Oval Office and the ballroom and all of. his other projects. I mean, speak about. not getting the frigin message uh from.

the midterms at all. These Republicans. have to be cringing. And while Donald. Trump is in the Oval Office going in the. Oval Office, we're going to make it gold. and we're going to keep it this way. forever and this is my biggest and most. important focus right now. When he's. saying that, I just can't help but think. like this guy is almost trying to push. forth an extinction level event for the. Republican party. Like it's not learning. any of the lessons and it's leaning into. all the things that have pissed people.

off so much. you know, leaning into the. distractions of the ballroom and all. this other crap, leaning into more war. It's like he has every horrific instinct. right now. And you get a sense that the. guy really doesn't know what to do. Like. he's really, really, really been beat. down by these results. You know, look, the gerrymander that Trump and the MAGA. Republicans did proved to be a dummy. mander. Every single gerrymander. district, the MAGA Republicans lost. And. I think it's important to note that. we've said this before that Donald.

Trump's fascism and authoritarianism. fortunately is matched by his other. utter incompetence and gross. recklessness as well. He can't implement. the authoritarianism because he's also. an idiot. Um but that also has massive. ramifications internationally as well. where he gets you involved in a. catastrophic war in Iran with Netanyahu. and you see our military bases in the. region destroyed. Our entire military. has been depleted. Our interceptors have.

been depleted. Um, you know, our. ammunitions in general have been. depleted. And, you know, you see other. countries organizing in ways to create a. new security architecture in the Middle. East. And so, Donald Trump who couldn't. do a gerrymander architecture. Donald. Trump who threatens 10 billion dollar. lawsuits then runs scared when his. deposition is noticed by the BBC. This. is the same loser who bankrupts casinos, who got us involved in a catastrophic. war, and he's a loser. He's easy to.

defeat. And sadly, that means the United. States power um abroad is just utterly. destroyed. I mean, look, I think that we. should be utilizing that power in ways. that are helpful to humanity. But Trump. can't even utilize it the right way with. all of the postw World War II. architecture that was created. And so I. mean you're looking today and you got to. pay attention to world events that lots. of people are not covering like the fact. that the top adviser to Ayatollah Mojaba.

Ket is in the Kremlin is in Moscow right. now meeting with Putin. Mojaba Kmen's. top adviser Moshin Razi is there with. Putin. You see him right here in this. photo. And they talked about expanding. and creating a new gas pipeline together. um that will connect Russia with Iran. They talked about building out their. railway system from Russia to Iran and. connecting it through some of these. other countries. They've already been. doing work for further cooperation on.

nuclear plants, the Busher facility and. other facilities. Today also Iran struck. multiple tankers in the straight of. Hormuza, at least five. They struck more. US drones, MQMs, MQ9s, MQ1s. basically. two to three tankers are hit by the IRGC. every day in these straight of Hormuz. and um you also had a lot of phone calls. and activity taking place between. countries in the Middle East um were on. the phone with Iran's foreign minister. Arachi while they had motion razai.

um in the Kremlin with Putin and this. follows all of them meeting with Wang Yi. uh China's foreign minister in Beijing. the other day and They're actively. working for a new security architecture. where China and Russia become kind of. the guarantors where the regional powers. assert more authority in the region. The. US gets pushed out and then then today. you have, you know, Melania Trump in the. Oval Office with Carill Demetri who's.

Putin's, you know, head of sovereign. wealth fund for Russia and they're. praising each other and that's what's. going on in the Oval Office. Also, while. Russia did a deal to improve Iran's. ability to use helicopters in the war. against the US, I mean, they did like 90. new, you know, cutting edge helicopter. devices um that will help Iran kill. American service members if Donald Trump. escalates this catastrophic war. And so, you know, Donald Trump's out there today. occupation. We're blowing Iran up.

They're they're they don't know what. they're doing. Not even really a war. And it's like Iran has more ballistic. missiles than before. It has more cruise. missiles and they've improved the. capabilities. Same thing with the. drones. And you know, I would say. Trump's playing with fire, but that's an. understatement. And he he's an idiot. He. doesn't he he's he's incapable. He's not. fit to be anywhere near this office. And. the American people are sending that. message as well. Brett, I just want I'll. start off. Let me just show this clip of.

Donald Trump talking about, you know, what we're doing there is occupation. This is what it's not a war. It's an. occupation that we're doing in Iran. Then we'll go into the election. But to. me, the important things is all of this. is inextricably intertwined with the. election results with basic competence. as well um with the message that the. American people are sending with the. cost of living. It's all this is all. related and we need to understand that. Here, play this clip. >> Those are wars. Somebody said a war with. Iran. No, we have succeeded with the.

blockade tremendously. and we have destroyed somebody men told. me today that it's from the area a. neighboring country that'll take them 25. to 30 years right now to rebuild their. country and you know so we'll see how. that all works out. I think it's working. out very well. Somebody else called, you. know, they say it's an occupation. Remember, we're because it it is. virtually an occupation. And we're not.

looking to be wise guys, but uh it it is. an occupation, >> Brett. We're not looking to be wise. guys. It is an occupation. The blockade. is working. You said this war would end. in four to six weeks back in March 1st. Okay. This should be a war we never got. involved in in the first place. And now. there's different news. Is the. escalation happening now? Is it about to. happen? The American people rebuked this. war. They rebuked him. And you know,

also the fact that we have someone so. unfit, someone fragile, someone so. pathetic. It's it's a real it's real re. really dangerous, Brett. And in healthy. democracies, um you would have a change in. government. this would be a no. confidence vote and there would be a. snap election in mostly any other. country because that's the message the. American people sent. >> Trump's solution to every problem and I. I not saying actual solution but the way. Trump views solutions to problems is not.

by actually doing the work. He views. everything and it goes back to who he's. been you know what what his life has. basically been about. Everything is a. branding exercise to him. So now he. thinks that he could go and just change. the name. I'm just going to say it's not. a war. So let's say it's not a war. Yeah. Okay. People are dying. There's. explosions. The ships are getting hit in. the straight of Hormuz every single day. I'm just going to say it's not a war. I'm going to actually hide all of our. combat uh combat operations from the. American people. And instead, I'm going. to call it a an occupation, which I it.

might be the only one thing less popular. than a war is calling something an. occupation. And so, like, it's a. branding exercise, but it's a feudal. branding exercise that is actually going. to even just make things worse for him. The American people don't like. occupations. The American people have. seen occupations throughout the last. decades uh in the Middle East. It's. something that people are vehemently. against. It's worse. And it's not true. because we don't have troops on the. ground there. Of course, not true in in. any way. But that branding just makes.

things worse. And it shows that Donald. Trump has not learned any lessons from. the midterm. If you think, oh no, the. Democrats are going to get be going in. there. He's going to be this whole. different guy. No, he's going to be the. same Donald Trump. He cannot control. himself at all. >> Who I do think will be different guys. and gals. Although you can check me if. I'm wrong. I think a lot of these. quacking lame duck MAGA Republicans as. the MAGA brand has been totally killed. I tend to think that we're actually.

going to see some cooperation now next. week with Democrats when it comes to. impeaching Hexith when it comes to. releasing the Epstein files and in other. areas. We've seen before when these MAGA. Republicans leave their office, they. find a spine or pieces of the spine. We've seen that over and over again. Now, what happens when Donald Trump. affirmatively costs them their jobs and. they see that there's a future without.

Donald Trump and they have to think. about their survival in the future. That's why I think actually you're going. to see I'm not suggesting there's going. to be a massive like all of a sudden. level of cooperation. >> And by the way, I I agree with you on. that because people are looking at. Donald Trump right now and they're like, "Mother Effer, like you cost me my job. Like what the hell?" like you said that. you'd got you get our back or whatever. You just made things worse by going out. there. And I think people are going to. feel that people these people actually. want to be in these positions. They want.

to have the job. They want to have, you. know, that power what despite not doing. anything with it. Um and Donald Trump is. costing them their livelihood in these. respects. And so there will start to. build this resentment towards Donald. Trump. And that's why I think it's. interesting that you even see what's. playing out in the background. Not even. in the background. JD Vance making that. super long post on X on Twitter uh. basically saying, "Oh, I spoke to a lot. of people and they said that it's the. war and it's the this and it's we didn't. uh hear them out on the economy and it's.

like well freaking duh. Everybody knows. that." Um, but I think it's interesting. that Vance felt that necessary to make a. long Twitter post to try to distance. himself from something that he was quite. literally in the room for and. responsible for and something that while. he's writing that on the internet, him. and his regime are doing the exact. opposite still and are planning for. increased war operations. And it just. shows you JD Vance is a fraud. And it. gives you a little bit of insight into.

what he's going to do when Donald Trump. is gone. He's going to try to rebrand. himself once again as the guy who stood. up to Trump in the Oval Office. The guy. who really wasn't into all those crazy. things that Donald Trump did, but he. just had to do it his as his VP. He's. telling you what he is. He's a fraud. He's a chameleon. He's changed who he is. throughout his entire life. And he's. still changing who he is today. But he, as Josh Shapiro said in that incredible. postelection special that she did with. him, he has the stink of Donald Trump on.

him. And once you get the stink of. Donald Trump on you, you can't get that. off. >> And the American people though want that. stink off the United States of America. right now. It's why oversight and. accountability and impeachment. And I. say, send these war criminals to war. crime tribunals. Like to me, impeachment. doesn't go halfway far enough. These are. war criminals and they should be put in. war criminal tribunals for the war.

crimes they committed. Slaughtering. little children in La Mer and Manab in. Iran. Also, uh slaughtering people on. fishing boats without any evidence or. due process. And even if you believe. they were narot traffickers, you don't. just get to kill people. It's not how. you're able to that's not a response to. um to human beings. Okay? And they're. war criminals. They should be sent to. war crime tribunals. If people want to. run for Democratic leadership positions, I mean, like to me, like on my like. impeachments like here, I mean, you.

know, where I think we should set the. bars, send them to war crime tribunals. because they're they're war criminals. Look, there's a lot of attention that is. put on, you know, some of these big. numbers and rightfully so. I mean, all. of the seats that Democrats are taking. in the House of Representatives, um, you. know, when all said and done, what could. we be talking about? 260 like you know a. ton of seats over there. We're still. getting some results in but huge amount. of seats there. Um when we're talking. about the uh Senate I mean what are we. talking about over there at this point?

56 55 56 of Scott Colom. We got to wait. and see what's going on in Mississippi. and Alaska. Um but we could be talking. about 56 seats. >> Scott Cologne. And by the way, we had. Scott Colom on September of 2025 and we. did a video that said MAGA is getting a. rude awakening in Mississippi and all. the Midas haters were like, "That's a. hyperbolic title about Mississippi. >> You'll never win Mississippi. >> You'll never win Mississippi. You're. getting our hopes up in Mississippi. Why. are you talking?" We were talking about. Mississippi back in ear, you know, late.

mid mid to late 2025. >> We had him on in 2025. We had him on. again late October right before the. election. And one of the things I I. found really interesting about him and. you know that there hasn't been an. official call there, but I do think that. he's on a trajectory to win that seat. Um we had him on I think the day after. we had him on I think he did an event. with Bill Clinton. Um which I thought. was interesting and I was like okay well. I don't think Bill Clinton's going to. waste his time in Mississippi if there's. no shot here. I mean, you know, and so.

Midas Clinton and then he did that. [laughter]. he did that uh event uh I think either. right before he was on with us where he. like he went to the Trump rally that was. in Mississippi and he spoke to the. people and I thought that was a really. interesting strategy and you know I. think for too long uh there have been uh. people running for office in these. states who have thought who have written. the states off. Ah it's Mississippi, we're never going to win there. Ah it's. South Carolina. we're never going to win. there. Don't don't send your money to.

this state. Don't send your money to. that state. And I think what this. election shows you is that when. especially when people are pissed off, people are looking for people who. actually have their back and have their, you know, actual concerns in mind and. aren't worried about uh how good John. Houston's ass looks that day, but are. looking about afford looking to hear. about how you're going to help them with. affordability issues or their health. care or their Medicaid or or or you name. it. And you had a guy like Scott Cologne. there who was actually speaking to those. issues. And we saw that really. replicated all over the country. And so.

I think we should never write any state. off the table at all and always be. speaking to those things that people. want out of our politicians. >> And so we talk a lot about the massive. victory in the House of Representatives, the massive victory in the Senate. We. talk about the massive victory in these. state races. I mean, Gina Hinosa winning. the governor of Texas, right? Kesha. Lance Bottoms now the governor of. Georgia. You talk about Dr. Amy Actton. in Ohio. I mean, there are these major.

victories, you know, that are there. Um, then in these state legislative races, I'll talk about that in a moment as. well, where Democrats are getting the. trifecta in so many states. They had the. trifecta now in Pennsylvania. They have. a trifecta in Michigan, in New. Hampshire, they have this super, they. went from down like 46 seats in the. House to like a 200 seat supermajority. like in the House in New Hampshire. And. you look at all of these state races. Democrats won every statewide race in. Texas. Every single one of them. They.

now control the Supreme Court chief. justice seat in Texas, the Texas House, every like everything. Every. >> It's really incredible. To put it in. perspective, I think the only remaining. state official right now in Texas is Ted. Cruz. He's surrounded by. >> and he's, you know, he's a federal, too. I mean, he's federal level, but yeah. I. mean, at at the high. >> at the Yeah. at the at the Yeah, it's I. mean it's it's really crazy. Broke the. uh Republican supermajority in the. Indiana State House. I mean, this was. there was such a a a force of nature.

The Texas uh uh um board of education. flipped. I mean, we this was seismic. Like it those things are almost even. more important than like the national. picture. And you know, I think the thing. is Ben, did you even see this? Republicans almost even screwed. themselves more. Remember the Indiana. gerrymander that they tried to do? I. thought this was so fascinating because. I think the current makeup of Indiana. with the congressional races I the. Democrats won all the seats I think it's. six to3 right now if I'm not mistaken.

but remember Indiana they tried to pull. that whole redistricting scheme remember. and and it was this whole back and forth. and then ended up not going through. right so if that redistricting scheme uh. went through rep uh Democrats would have. had uh every seat in the district except. one um which I think is absolutely. stunning. And so by that not working out. for the Republican party, it ended up. actually saving their ass because one of. the things and the reason why so many of.

us were calling it a dummy mander in all. these states going into it, in order to. gerrymander a district, that means you. have to weaken a district. You have to. dilute the support of the district. because you need to put it somewhere. else. And so Republicans were so overly. confident from 2024 that people were on. their side and that demographics have. shifted per permanently that they. counted on these districts to remain. strong Republican districts. And if they. diluted those districts in that way, they would have had even more of a. reckoning than they had. No, no doubt.

about it. I mean, look at this stat. Democrats won the Senate popular vote. across former Confederate states. Democrats won the combined Senate. popular vote across 10 former. Confederate states, securing 20,782,000. votes. To Republicans, 17,888,000, a margin of nearly 2.9 million votes. right over there. And so, look, when we. come back, I want to talk more about. [snorts] that, but I want to also talk. about why we win, right? It's not just.

winning for the sake of winning. It's. winning to make people's lives better. And what does winning mean? I mean, we. have to make sure we reckon with the. fact that we have treasonous traders, disgusting, vile creatures in the Oval. Office who have harmed our country. There needs to be real oversight. There. needs to be accountability, not a. slogan. Real aggressive everyday, ruthless, relentless, and then of course. there has to be a focus on people's. lives and improving people's lives and.

using the government to make things. better. then of course being a check. against this authoritarian regime. So. we're talking about that. >> And could I just say also a huge shout. out looking at that the graphic that we. pulled up before about uh these wins. across former Confederate states. A huge. shout out to the black voters across. this country. I mean the honestly the. real heroes of this election. There's no. blue wave without black voters. mobilizing, going to the polls, showing. up in big numbers and showing people.

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State Elect Penny Brown, State School. Superintendent Elect Lydia Powell, Agriculture Commissioner Elect Katherine. E. Joan Arnold, labor commissioner-elect. Nikki Porsche, insurance. commissioner-elect, Kesha Shawn Weights, public service commissioner-elect, Sheila Edwards, right over there. Other. kind of notable races. There's so many. races that we can talk about right over. here. But how about Democrat Major. Richard O'Hada defeating the MAGA. Republican extremist Richard Hudson? Now, Richard Hudson was basically in.

charge of the national Republican. campaign committee, ran the the. countrywide uh Republican congressional. races, and he lost his own congressional. race. You know how like the Democrats. have the DC and Susan Delen is the. congresswoman who runs that, the. Republican version of that, their leader. lost that race. >> Feels like a good representation of the. whole race, right? The guy responsible. for getting Republicans elected doesn't. get reelected himself. We remember when. uh in Canada whenever something you were.

gonna say go for. >> well Pierre Polyv was the head of his. party and and he lost his writing and uh. it was it was a similar situation and I. I think it's actually uh I think it. speaks to the sentiment in the country. when uh something like that happens. whether it's in Canada or here in that. case remember Pierre Palv he went and. ran and begged somebody else to get out. of their seat so he could steal their. writing essentially. Um uh but but but. yeah a very similar situation. I was. thinking. >> and in Australia Peter Dutton their.

Teimu MAGA when he lost. >> that's why the international connections. man it's all you know it's all it's all. connected it's all it's all. >> it's all connected but the reality is is. that you know what what makes our system. here in the United States different and. I think actually in a bad way is like in. Canada you're forced to do a budget as. the government and if you don't get a. budget passed and you can't bring a. coalition it triggers a snap election. So then you have to do a whole new the.

government dissolves. I mean, how wild. of a concept is that, right? And they do. that in parliamentary systems. Um, and. then there are other events also that. dissolve like governments, right? You. know, if you can't keep the coalition. together, you have to then elect a new. government. And there's a whole race for. who's going to, you know, who's going to. lead. And it's just, you know, here the. message being sent by the American. people is we need to get this sex. predator out of the Oval Office. like we. need to clean this trash out of.

Washington, but you're still kind of. stuck with the trash for two more years, which I think we have to think a little. bit deeper about some of the, you know, gaping holes in our constitution and the. system that when you have a criminal. cartel take over the country, they can. exploit a lot of these things. You know, especially as we talk about in WTF. America, the take care clause in article. two, which defines the executive branch. that they'll take care that laws are. faithfully executed. Well, what happens.

if they don't? And then the Supreme. Court gives the executive absolute. immunity and then they say, "I'm not. taking care that the law is faithfully. executed." and just come up with some. national security pretext for everything. to violate the law to give themselves. immunity under a Supreme Court's. decision. That can't exist. But then I. think we have to have a robust debate. Given that that exists, when a. Democratic president takes power, should. we wield the power strong and go, "Oh,

we got absolute immunity, too. We're. going to fire everybody. We're going to. do we'll have our own project 2025. we'll have a project 2029 and we'll. we'll carry it out competently. or do you say well now we got to close. the loopholes and now we got to do this. and now to make sure there isn't a. future uh dictator that rises in the. Trump form and fashion the authoritarian. style. So I think that's a robust that. that that that needs we we need to be. thinking generationally. We need to be.

thinking internationally. Um so many. veterans, so many doctors, so many great. Democratic candidates. I mean, we could. spend the whole show literally going. over every one of them. But let me just. show you the two different approaches. right here. Let me show you the MAGA get. out the vote approach with Scott. Pressler and his crew. And as I've said. before on another show, I you know, I'm not like a I'm not like. the game guy. I'm not like the tactical. election. I'm not like the operative. guy. That's not my That's not my lane. I'm ideas, news, objective reporting,

international reporting. But if you. wanted me to get a little Machaveli in. there with the elections, here's my. plan. You take Scott Presler and these. two guys he's with, you fund them and. you tell them, "Tell people to vote. Republican in MAG. Send them everywhere. and fund this operation. Let them go. everywhere, knock on doors, and tell. people about how great MAG is. Let them. be the ambassadors. Let me show you. their approach here. Play this clip. >> Hey everybody, this is Scott Presler.

I'm here with Davis and Brandon of. Turning Point Action. Now, we just. wrapped up an high energy electric event. here in Manchester. And so after the. event, we're knocking on doors, making. sure that everybody is coming out to. vote for our Republican candidates. and. Davis. Who is running for the United. States Senate here in New Hampshire? >> Johnny Cenounu. >> And who do we have for Congress here? Brandon, in this district, we have. Anthony Dorenzo. So, New Hampshire, I.

stopped what I was doing in Pennsylvania. coming to your state because I believe. in you. Make a plan to vote by Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026. Game on. >> You You could do like a. >> Can't believe that didn't work. >> You could do a whole SNL skit on that. Like it's hard to believe that that's. actually real. >> It's one of those things that's like so. beyond even parody. Like how how do you. parody [laughter] a parody? >> What What's the name of that fake band. on YouTube and they all like dress I. think in like pink and they had the one. guy come from India and they like.

connect. You know what I'm talking. about. I have to go find this. >> You watch crazy stuff. I don't know. >> No, it's not crazy. They they [laughter]. maybe it's on Instagram. I'm going to. find they they did like a boy band and. it's a whole thing. I'm going to go find. out who they are. But you know, Democrats ran people like Bo Bai, right? I mean, political dynasty of Indiana. And he carried a lot of those Democrats. on his shoulder in Indiana. I mean, you. know, this guy's 30 years old, military. vet, Harvard law. I mean, like literally. they created a president, a future. president like in like a laboratory, you.

know, in [laughter] Indiana. I'm like, >> I'm gonna tell you right now, remember. this guy's name. Remember me remember Bo. B's name because he will be a figure in. politics for years to come and I'm sure. he has a very very very bright future. Should we play his ad first and I'll. play the press conference after? >> Most politicians are weak bought and. paid for by special interests. I'm Bo B, a captain in the Marine Corps, a seventh.

generation hooser. I'm running for. Secretary of State [music] because I'm. disgusted with the corruption in that. office. I'll end it on day one. No more. wasteful spending for politicians. getting rich while Hoosiers struggle to. pay for food and gas. I'll stand up to. anyone who clean this mess up. I'm a. Marine and we never backed down. >> Republicans lost young men and that was. a major kind of focus of the MAGA. coalition and the podcast. Yeah, the. bite. Yeah. By like like Democrats won. young men by like 70 points. I mean I I.

I'm not I'm no longer a young man. I'm a. bit of an older man. I'm over 40. But. one of the things that really, you know, pissed me off was what the MAGA was. messaging to young men and what all of. these MAGA podcasters, the misogyny, the. hate, the bullying, the attacking the. marginalized communities, just all of. that to me was, you know, such an. affront, you know, to like when I grew. up. I mean, like what I thought, you. know, how how young men should come of.

age. And I mean, it should be all. people. Let me be very clear. just. obviously I was once a young man. So. thinking about that I'm like what a. horrible message are being sent by these. awful despicable you know Trumps and. Vance and it's just gross. >> Look at the people they were throwing. out there right like the tape brothers. you know having people like Russell. Brand who were just convicted of rape. like really despicable people who done. really horrible things they were holding. up as kind of this is what masculinity. is and this is what you should aspire to.

be. I think it's an absolutely horrific. message when you see uh something like. that. And I think after a while, well, first of all, I think they misread the. moment. I don't think that Republicans. were ever cool, so to speak. Um I think. they thought they were cool because they. won young men then. But I think they won. young men because a lot of young men. were getting out of college and trying. to get jobs and they couldn't get jobs. and they were being priced out of the. market because of inflation and things. like that and they were just looking for. any change possible. And then you saw. this just incredible double down and. them just continuing to push this crap.

at people to try to hold on to the. stuff. But when I was watching kind of. the Tik Toks that uh the White House was. doing, when I was watching just right. before the election, the stuff they were. doing bringing like Jake Paul up to the. sites and and things like that. Even. just like yesterday, I think like Vance. did this really cringeworthy freaking. video uh with Jake Paul. >> Hey Jake, it's like, "Hey Jake, good to. like, hey Jake. Good to see you buddy.". And I'm like, I know I'm not, you know, as young [laughter] as, you know, I'm. not a Jenzir. Uh, you know, I'm not I'm.

not that young. But when I look at that, I'm like, this is corny as You. know, this is like lame stuff that. they're pushing. >> I mean, I got I mean, you've got JD. Vance wearing his eyeliner like he. clearly pre-recorded whatever this even. was. And he was like, "Hey, Jake, baby, what's up?" And then Jake's like, "I got. a fight coming up. I got a fight coming. up." And then Jake's like, "Oh, you're. gonna like like you're going to fight. hard." I'm like, "Watch." I'm like, "What are we like?" I'm like, what am I. even watching right [laughter] now? Like, what? Like, what what is this? And. this is what they're pushing out. And. then Jake Paul's like, I gotta fight in.

Dubai in the UAE. And it's like, you. know what I'm thinking about right now? I'm thinking about whether or not. there's going to be a catastrophic. escalation in this war right now because. it seems like we're moving closer to. closer, you know, to that right now. And. like what are what I don't need content. right now from this regime. Like, you. know what I mean? like I'm I'm not. looking for them to bring on Russell. Bren. I mean again this guy was. convicted of rape today and these.

serious allegations against him. Now. there's a conviction but these. allegations that were very very serious. and Russell Brand was you could bring. anybody to host this special with RFK. Jr. and with Dr. Oz when they were. pushing whatever they pushed. whatever their thing is that it doesn't. even matter what they push because you. know it's all a lie anyway when they. were reducing health care cost by 800%. or whatever stupid most favored nation. whatever dumb they're saying of. anybody in the world to pick out they.

either say it's going to be the tape. brothers or it's going to be Russell. Brown. what's similar about them and you wonder. with this Epstein class that is the. Trump regime just think about it it's. all connected right who were the first. people they killed in the catastrophic. war in Iran. Little girls, little. children in Manab. Little girls in. Manab, little girls in Manab. What do. you think they were doing in the EP? I. mean, these are these are sick demonic. people. So, look over here. This was. from what, a month ago, Brett?

>> Yeah, it was like a month ago. And so, and the guy So, the guy was convicted of. rape today. And this is a month ago. And. not only do they have him, but then like. he makes a joke about consent on stage. next to. >> the first thing he says to the crowd was. making a joke about touching girls. backstage before coming on stage at an. official government event that our. taxpayers are funding that that our. taxpayer dollars are funding. Let's. play. >> Russell Brown was backstage hugging the. Secretary of Agriculture. But here he. is.

>> Yes. Took Maha to a whole new level. initiated that contact. I shall make. clear, doctor. >> Actually, you initiated it. >> No. Um, thank you for joining us. Should. I be the host? >> That individual was convicted of rape. today. >> It's funny because he's a rapist. [laughter]. >> Get the joke. I mean, like, this is just. it's despicable stuff. And if we have. any young people watching, that ain't. cool. That that is not cool. That is the. opposite of cool. You do not want to be. that, >> right? Then you have the SenCom, Admiral.

Brad Cooper, the SenCom commander, and. we've talked a lot about him where I. think there hasn't been a lot of. coverage on him. We've been like laser. focused on this guy because I'm like, "What the hell's going on with this. guy?" And it really started not right. away in the war, but about a month and a. half, two months in because everybody. was telling me, "Hey, this, you know, fortunately, we got a good guy at Sencom. and despite all the craziness and then I. think he started seeing HEGs firing all. the four stars, three stars, two stars, one star." And then he started like and.

and you can see what you he he he he. he's he's he's he wants attention and. you can see with this podcast what it's. about and you know with him and why he's. the worst guy for this role. And then he. started posting we hope we control the. straight of her moves. Before you knew. it, the SenCom account basically became. this massive like Russian propaganda, a. US version of it where it was like we. control it and he would do these weird.

videos. I'm like what's he saying? And. then there was the I remember I did a. whole video where he was called into. Congress and the Democratic members when. he was called in, especially the. veterans. I think that they didn't start. off thinking that they were going to be. cross-examining the guy, but the guy. started lying through his teeth and then. they had to, you know, Congress member. Crowe and Congress member Ryan and. others, you know, they had to start. grilling the guy and and they never. thought they had to be adversarily with. the commander of Sentcom who just kept.

on lying over and over again. They're. still covering up the Pentagon report. about the war crimes in Manab and La Mer. and with everything that's going on. As. I said today, five tankers struck in the. straight. Well, four ships, one tugboat, be very precise with my language, hit in. the straight of four moves. Multiple US. drones destroyed. Two of those Lucas. drones. Uh Iran used electronic jamming. systems to get two of these Lucases to. lose altitude, and they took photos with. the two Lucas drones. There's all of the.

stuff going on that I described earlier. in the episode with Moshin Razi, the top. adviser to the Ayatollah in Moscow. all. of the deals being announced between. Iran and Russia right now. What happened. last week with all of these countries. including Iran's leadership going to. China. Um, you know, we we know. Netanyahu who is losing power right now. Uh, the new prime minister is likely. going to be this guy Gaid Eisenat who's. forming a coalition with the Arab block. that would push Netanyahu out of power.

So Netanyahu is more desperate than. ever. And so with all of this going on, it's like SenCom is doing a podcast and. it's like, okay, look, you want to do a. military podcast and get really in the. weeds to engage people about military. tactics and strategy and start to. showcase in a way that wouldn't impact. national security, our weapons. And like. I mean I I I think it's still very. tonedeaf in a catastrophic war. But if. you were to do a military podcast, I.

guess I don't know. Like when I do my my. military takes, you see how much I. research it and study it. I try to get. the engines and the parts and really get. deep and I speak to experts and and and. I think that there's there could be. something interesting. Maybe not while. you're engaged in a war that you're. spending your time doing that, but they. did like a Between Two Ferns podcast. where they're talking where they're. talking about the guy liking French. fries. And I'm watching I'm like, "No. one cares about your French fries.

You're the SenCom commander. Who who is. this audience for? Or is it to really. showcase to the world how weak you are?". Because that's what it it shows it shows. real mental fragility here. Like, let me. show you. This is real. This isn't AI. This is really what the Sencom released. today and posted this to show the world. this. This is what they wanted us to. see. Let's play it. >> So, you're more of a salad, chicken. Caesar salad person. But here's. something that people might not know.

about you. You are the original, in my. opinion, my thoughts. You are the. original fry guy. You like French fries. Uh, most people don't know this, but I. did not know this. When we stationed. together years ago, my lunch would come. and I always had French fries. You know, bad on me. But you would see my French. fries coming on my plane and you at. least take one or two and they would. tell me and you never knew. I don't. think you ever knew that. I knew you. took my French fries. So, is that your. favorite food? French fries. We should. let the world know. For years I've been. eating your French fries. The secret is.

now out. But yeah, I never met a French. fry I didn't like. Uh, and thus the need. to exercise frequently to balance that. out. >> Wow. >> So relatable. Fleet Master Chief Compton. was the person asking the questions to. Sentcom Commander Admiral Brad Cooper. He look my day is so busy personally. that if someone wanted me to do a. podcast to ask me questions about, you. know, whether I like chocolate ice cream. over vanilla ice cream or whatever. And.

we were going to spend an hour talking. about that. I mean, I'll show you sides. of my personality when we do the show. and we and and we'll we'll intersperse. our lives because they come up. Um but. if someone were to tell me that, I'd be. like, "No, no, no. I'm sorry. There's a. lot going on in the world. I apolog. and and and then it gets worse. Here, sh. there there's more there's more to it. Here, show this. >> question that on my mind. Let's say you.

only did your four years over at the. academy. What do you think you would be. doing now if you only did four years in. the military? >> I'm pretty sure I would own a bar on a. beach somewhere. >> A bar on a beach? I thought you was. going to tell me you'd be playing in the. NBA shooting free throw. >> Well, the the you know, NBA is only a. couple months uh a year and uh because. the contracts haven't been worked out. yet, I'll negotiate that. But uh you got. to start with your own small business. Uh and uh I like the sun. I like the. beach. That's a good start. The thing.

with basketball, that'll be a little bit. of a part-time. He likes the sun. He. likes the beach. He wants to open up a. bar. That's the life that he always. wanted. I mean, again, someone who's. clearly not fit for that position, but I. suppose fits in in this regime in this. awful, incompetent, terrible Epstein. class supporting regime. We still got a. lot more to discuss. >> Hold on. Hold on. Let me I didn't talk. about that for a second. Let's. [laughter] leave Let's leave the.

podcasting for the podcasters, okay, folks? like we don't need the Sencom guy. doing that. And if you are going to do. it, I'm not even just upset about or or. against the idea of a podcast. To Ben's. point, if you're giving the people. information that people want in a. transparent way, the podcast could be a. good medium about it. Right? If you want. to go in and and speak honestly about. the war and the efforts and the fallen. troops and pay tribute to them and say. what strategies are, you're looking at. nothing confidential, of course, but if. you want to go out there and you. actually want to speak about real stuff,

then by all means do your podcast and. communicate with the people. But they've. shut out the press from the Pentagon. They don't do any press briefings. anymore and now they do this podcast. And if you think, oh, but you guys just. cherrypick moments where they had these. aside. No, it's the whole freaking p I. watch the whole thing. I'm one of the. I'm one of the 12 people who watched it. That's all they talk about. They talk. about his basketball. They talk about. French fries. They talk about I don't. even know. Just all dumb stuff. They. think it's like Call her Her Daddy but. like really lame.

That's not what we want from our. military leaders. We want people who are. serious people and we want people out. there who are communicating with the. people and being actually transparent. with the people about what's going on. and not lying to us, especially in. situations of life or death. >> Look, the Iranian leadership are deeply. serious people. >> Imagine Mo Taben and and Mo Razi and the. pod. >> I mean, they're deeply. >> talking about French fries. And and the. issue is if you underestimate them the.

way Donald Trump has it's ah they're. destroyed and they're basically like. they're cavemen is like how he portrays. you know these are top level engineers. these are all people with technical. backgrounds. Moshin Razi is a doctor's a. doctoral. is a doctor. Their president Pazeski is. a worldrenowned cardiovascular surgeon. I mean the the these are all highly. technical skilled people. Iran has some. of the top engineering base in the.

world. Okay? You can't underestimate. that. And so when you act like they. don't have weapons, they don't have. this, they're destroyed, they're begging. for a deal, they're not. They're not. They're not. And you're out there doing. these podcasts and what you've exposed. to the world is that you're actually. stupid. Like at first I think people had. to figure this one out and it's like is. this part of I remember in the early. days with Treasury Secretary Bessant. when early at first it wasn't clear what.

a psychotic individual he was also and I. think he called like the behavior of. what they were doing like the the crazy. Ivan behavior like they don't know how. we're going to approach and so it. creates this tactical ambiguity and to. some extent because of the postworld war. II architecture that the US created. because what because what the US meant. to the world after World War II and. during the Cold War and generally I. think people were still and leaders in.

other country still were like okay is. this crazy Ivan is this just some crazy. tactic that is kind of part of a lure us. in and then they're gonna and then. they're going to do that and now it's. just become very clear that it's just. crazy stupid it's not crazy Ivan or. whatever it's crazy. So the world is. like okay we have four years now two. years to rewrite the overall global. architecture uh to reduce the US uh.

strength globally um to really minimize. and diminish US power which also. translated into economic. uh benefits that would flow to the. United States. um where the US wrote the. rules and so there were certainly lots. of negative consequences. I don't want. to paint this picture. Oh, it was such a. great everything was great every far. from it. Let's be very clear. But the. way these rules were written often. whether it was the the the strength of.

the dollar and the petro dollar and our. treasury markets and our equity markets. and you know US bonds and US assets. It. was a safe predictable place to put. money in and the flows of the money. would often would circulate back around. but the final destination would be back. in the US. US sanctions existed because. the US controlled the banking system so. they could cut you out. And Trump's. destroyed this whole system. And not.

only is he losing the war, but he's. losing generationally. this architecture which creates a lot of. third, fourth, fifth level consequences. that I always keep trying to point out. in my videos because no one's talking. about it. And that's why I say paying. attention to the election's importance, but focus on what's going on globally. here because the global architecture is. being rewritten by very savvy, smart, top level, actual geniuses who evil gen.

it could be whatever you want to think. about evil, horrible, but they're being. rewritten and there's a tension taking. place. There is a middle powers alliance. being formed with people like Prime. Minister Carney with the European Union. Associate membership Carney now forming. trans-Pacific, transatlantic. relationships, a new leader of the free. world. You've got blocks like that. forming European, you know, figuring out. this kind of pro-democracy identity,

then having other countries join that. may not be democracies, but there may be. strategic ways to work together. And. then you have this kind of other. grouping of alliances of kind of the. China and the Russia and the North Korea. and Iran a fundamental player in that. and what BRICS is looking like and. Shanghai cooperation organization. looking like and there are overlaps and. contradictions but there is a. sophisticated doesn't mean I'm. applauding it just a high intelligent.

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oligarchs who try to insert themselves, the consultant class who pops up and. tells us, "Oh, independents will never. vote for Dr. Abdul Elsed. No, they will. never vote for that. Jewish people will. never vote for Zoron Mamani. That will. never happen. Uh this people will never. vote for that. Those consultants have. been shown to be very very wrong. And if.

I think we started listening to. principled approaches and values-based. approach, we may have been able to. rebuke and not have this Trumpism define. us for so long. I know it doesn't define. us, but how the world perceives this. country now and the taint in our. country. So I think that's an important. message to. >> I think it goes to the thing that we. were speaking about that when you speak. to voters around the country they don't. view things as well am I left or am I. right or am I where do I fit in this.

hypothetical scale that they uh have. labeled everybody. People aren't. thinking that. And when people when the. media thinks about independence, I feel. like they think they're like people like. right in this mythical center who have. uh very reserved opinions on things and. are extremely, you know, moderate using. their terminology and whatever. And. that's just not the case. Remember the. whole thing with uh Dr. Abdul sayed, uh. the media kept pushing over and over. again, he's never going to be able to. win independence. You know, Haley.

Stevens uh you know, she's the one who's. able to win over independence. You need. a more, you know, moderate. Once again, I'm using their language here. You need. a more moderate to win over. independence. That's just not true. The. things that Abdullah was speaking about. were the things that a majority of. people wanted. And Medicare for all, right? Money in your pockets. No more. foreign wars. That was what the. independents wanted. That is what. actually inspired people to come out and. vote for him. And I thought your. conversation Ben with New York City. Mayor Manni on that post-election. special. I think he did a good job at.

kind of threading between all the kind. of different candidates out there and. saying like you can't view like oh you. know well the progressive didn't win in. this state or that's it just like it's. not what it's about. And mom Donnie said. to to Ben in this interview I recommend. you you check it out on it's on our. Substack on our podcast. Um you know he. was like James Telerico was pushing for. universal prek. Dr. after Annie Andrews. was pushing for ending endless wars. Kesha Lance Bottoms was about. streamlining affordable housing. Like. all this stuff was in the fabric of what.

people were speaking about across the. country. So stop painting people with a. broad brush and start treating people. like they're actually intelligent and. they will reward you. And while the. media was like, "Do you condemn this. podcaster? Do you condemn that. statement? Do you condemn this ad? Do. you condemn this?" Like I look, I'm not. the podcaster. It's not my ad. You You. need me to just go and condemn this? I I. I have to Do you condemn this? Do you. condemn that? >> It has to make your life better to. condemn this or that. It's It's all a.

scam. It's all astroturf. So many of. these narratives were determined to be. Democrats for Mike Rogers. Are you. freaking kidding me? There were no. Democrats for Mike Rogers. Mike Rogers. even got less support in Detroit than he. did the last time in in his last. election. His support decreased. And. they were pushing. How many times did. the media push Democrats for Mike. Rogers? What's the investigative piece. that I did with AS on our staff right. before the election? The Fox held a. event on their television that was. supposed to be we picked some random.

voters in Michigan uh to give you your. the Michiganers thoughts on the election. so you get it real and unfiltered. And. every single person just about four out. of five were part of the uh the. Democrats for Mike Rogers coalition on. his website. They were with the campaign. and it was a completely astroturf. movement. You know how else you know. it's an astroturf movement? Because this. Democrats for Mike Rogers thing, you. know, they had all this engagement on. Elon Musk's app, right? So, it's like, oh, this must be a real thing. People. must really not like Dr. Right. Well,

they had an event in Michigan and nobody. showed up. It was empty. Like, they had. videos and pictures and stuff. It was. empty. So, so much of this is. astroturfed. And there are so many. narratives that are just driven by. corporate media and pundits that just h. have just want to spread these different. narratives. So, they keep asking certain. questions to try to instill that. narrative, even when it's complete BS. I. want to just share a stat with you right. now that I think is going to blow a lot. of your minds because it blew my mind. when I saw it, but it shows you just.

what an absolute reckoning this was for. Republicans. Ben, I don't even know if. you've heard this. Ready? Here's how big. the early vote was for the Democrats. Okay. Roy Cooper in North Carolina, James Terico in Texas, and John Oaf in. Georgia all had more early votes than. their opponents had total votes. More. early votes than their opponents had. total votes. And so, I'll put that. another way. They could have received.

zero votes on election day. None. Nobody. could have showed up to the polls on. election day. I'm happy everybody did. show up. Don't take this as I don't have. to show up next time, but their voters, none of them could have showed up on. election day and they still would have. won. That's how big a margins they won. That's an astonishing stat. I mean, James Tarico won by like 12 in Texas. We. just don't see those numbers, right? And. people were just so fed up and I think. we had they Democrats had really good. candidates out there that people.

gravitated towards the people who were. speaking to the people and not this. offensive Annie disgusting. rhetoric. this racism, the Islamophobia, calling Dr. Abdul El Say uh, you know, Muhammad and a terrorist and all this. stuff. People rejected that crap. People. said, "Get the hell out of here. While. you're doing that, Dr. Elsed is talking. about Medicare for all. He's talking. about ending these endless wars." The. contrast to me there just couldn't be. more different. >> Yeah. And it's why though we have to.

understand the globalist authoritarian. network, their strategy that they work. together, the Trumps, the Netanyahus, the Bolsinaros, the Javier Malaise, the. reform parties in the UK, the Maple. MAGA, the Teimu MAGA in Australia. I. could keep going on and on and on. Okay? And what they want to do is be the. arsonists, create the chaos, inflict the. trauma, spread the lies, and then say.

that they're going to fix it. And then. they just open the fire hose of. disinformation. They pour in all of. their money in order to manipulate their. Musk money. The real Zuckerbucks, not. what took place before, what took place. here. They unleash all of that, their. crypto money. They're this, they're. that, they're that. To manipulate, to. rig, to push these narratives, to lie, to cheat, to steal. And then they try to. overwhelm people because people people.

are busy and people have families and. people have lives and people struggle. and people don't watch politics all of. the day. And when you have traumatized. people, their plan is to take people's. loaves of bread, dangle a breadcrumb in. front of them, don't give them the don't. give them the breadcrumb, and then. promise them that they got the. breadcrumb after they didn't, and then. just kind of rinse and repeat over and. over and over again. And so when I talk. about fortifying our minds, I really try.

to be a student of 2024 and a student of. international elections and say, well, what was Lula doing in Brazil? How did. he mobilize 10 million people on a. WhatsApp chat to break the algorithmic. manipulation of Meta? How was it that. Donald Trump and MAGA would push these. narratives? You know, just think about. it right here in California with the. fires, right? As soon as the fires were. taking place, watch what they do on. MAGA. They said, "Oh, it was Gavin.

Newsome was trying to protect the smelt. fish. It was all about smelt and they. didn't have any water and he didn't turn. on the hose." And they pushed that and. pushed that and then people were like, "Okay, that's crazy. There's no You. can't respond to these crazy people.". But then people who you viewed as normal. started saying, "Well, why didn't Gavin. Newsome turn on the hose?" You're like, "Turn on the hose? What are you talking. about? There's no hose? There's there's. no faucet from Canada that goes into. California. There's no this smelt isn't. a real thing. And then you go, "Got it.

I see what they did here. Here's how we. do rapid response. Here's how we get out. the information. Here's how we point it. out." So then we don't think in terms of. election. We think in terms of. structures and systems and building a. decentralized network which is what. we've done here at the Midas Touch. Network where we have veterans groups. We have young people with massive Tik. Tok followings like you know Aaron. Parnes who has his own company but works. with us on the Midas Touch Network and. has his incredible Tik Tok following. You know it's how do we you know you. have Katie Fang and and all the great. work she does the Scott McFarland's the.

legal AF channel. You know, you have so. many. I keep going on and on and on on, but then you get out the truth every. day. Every day we're on. It's not just. 60 days before an election or 90 days. before an election. That's what's so. important, you know, and and now now we. build more. Think about it. Right now, you have Donald Trump ranting and raving. like a lunatic, but who's out there. supporting him, right? Who's out there. right now on TV saying that that they. that he did good, right? Who's the. surrogate? There are none. Oh, there's.

one. There's Lara Trump. There's like. that's it. He's got Lara Trump. There's. no surrogate. Everyone's out there. saying these people need to be fired. That should be fired. That person should. be fired. As I said at the outset, Harmy. Dylan quit today. I mean, all the sur. there's no surrogates defending that. this was a great election. Except Lara. Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law. Donald Trump's daughter. That's it. Let. me show you what she's doing over here. She says, she says it takes long to. rebuild from the Biden years. That's. what's happened here.

>> The way this president has set things up. will not take uh effect immediately. It. takes a long time to rebuild from the. Biden years, from the destruction the. Democrats themselves caused to to this. country. And so the the long-term play. of all of these things is very tough in. a society where you have a clickbait. culture where people need instant. gratification. Nonetheless, I appreciate. what the president has done and I think. Americans down the road will as well. >> I do. Uh I do too. But I made.

>> also Lar Yeah. So awful. And then she. said actually we should applaud Trump. He had a lot of courage for what he did. A lot of courage. He said here play this. clip. >> But he's also said Brian I would do it. again. And I think you have to give. President Trump a lot of credit. He knew. that this would be politically. disadvantageous for him. That this was a. political loser for him and he did it. anyway because he thought it was in the. best interest of the safety and the. security of the American people. >> But what's the it? I mean, obviously.

what she said is so crazy, so I can fact. check it, but you all know it's just. demented. The it is the catastrophic war. that we lost. He would do it to what? We. would do another war and lose and commit. war crimes and lose. That's the it. That's what you say we should do more. of. Do do it again. I mean, you know, they're acting like we we didn't win the. war, we lost the war. Not only we lose. the war, we lost like global hijgey like. we lost the broader global power, too.

We we we lost the postworld war II. security architecture. We lost our. alliances. We we we lost all we we. didn't just lose a war which is bad. We. lost the very foundation of the American. alliances globally right now you know. and obviously stock market crash today. I mean, one of the worst days in stock. market history uh today and the. fundamentals of our economy are bad are.

bad and we've been saying that and all. of this AI bubble we've been warning. these are all Trump's this is Trump's. crew. Trump took stakes and intel and. all of these companies and propped it up. propped up this phony stuff that we've. been calling out from day one. All of. this manipulation, by the way, including. the way they they the way they've. manipulated these Trump accounts, there's a way to do it where you. actually can give money, you know, to. kids at a young age. Um, that that that.

that could be done the right way. We. could have a debate about it. The way. they did it was to prop up Donald. Trump's AI balloon bubble that burst. And so now this is the statement that he. says today. The stock market suffered. one of the worst days in history based. on the results of the election. Such a. sad thing to watch. It took so much work. to get us to a level that no one has. ever seen before than this. Your 401ks. have therefore dropped. Remember it. wasn't Republicans, it was Democrats. Do. not fear. However, we will soon one way.

or another be bigger and stronger than. ever before. Make America great again. Donald J. Trump, you're the president, bud. You're in charge right now. These. are all of your AI tech bros. That's. where that's what was hit. And it's. because the fundamentals are. and people saw what was actually going. on with it. And this type of message. right here is the arsonist. This is what they do. They destroy. They're like, "Let me fix it. Let me fix.

it." And that's why I say fortify our. minds against these con artists. They. are the Epstein class. They are the. fraudsters. These are the sex predators. These are the horrible human beings. These are the demonic people who got us. into this hell. The way out of it is to. recognize who they are, their tactics, the globalist authoritarian network. that's at play. They tell you their. playbook a lot with their projection is. confession. And that's usually sometimes. one of the ways you could find out. what's really going on here. But then.

it's also leaning on each other. We the. people recognize they want to pit us. against each other so that their 1% can. feast on us and destroy us and ruin our. lives while they're the ones out there. who are causing the problems and we need. to stay united. That's I think a broader. lesson of this election. Brett, well. said. Well said, Ben. And I'm just going. to say this is going to be the first of. many times that Donald Trump uses this. tactic. Anytime things go bad now, and. they're going to go bad a whole lot. because guess what? We're still in this.

disastrous administration and Donald. Trump has broken every aspect of our. system. Things are going to continue to. break and his move is just going to be. like it was the Democrats. It was the. Democrats. and that's going to be a strategy and I. just don't think it's effective, right? And that's also one of the reasons I. think you know as Democrats go in there. like I said in the you know previous uh. show that we did together uh Democrats. just should be really aggressive too. with just like just keep pushing forward. stuff. Let Trump if he wants to be Mr. Veto, let him be Mr. Veto. Keep passing. Shoot for the stars, right? Universal.

healthcare, just any universal prek. Shoot for the stars. Try to pass as much. legislation as possible and then let. Trump be Mr. Veto. Let Trump be the guy. who people see every day ruining. people's lives. Do that every that's. that's all you got to do. It's one of. many things, but in terms of. legislatively, just do it. Let Trump be. the bad guy because nobody's buying this. Nobody's buying that it's the. Democrat's fault and he's going to do. this every single day. Democrat. I mean, it's it's again, he's the dumbo. I mean, you know who's who uses that language. I.

mean, again, you are the you shouldn't. be, but right now you're the captain. Okay? You need to act like a grown-up. As I've said before, we need to have a. baseline of seriousness and competence. He fails that basic test. We can go up. from there of sophistication, levels of. sophistication, but you have to be. baseline serious. You have to be a. grown-up. You have to be an adult. You. have to exhibit uh certain levels of. behavior to interact to interact with.

civility. Like and then we and then. we'll go up and then we can have certain. debates. But he's not that. He's not. that. You know, you go into the doctor's. office and the doctor starts going. like what are you doing? You go into an. airplane and your pilot goes, "Hi. everybody. Oh, look at my like orange. face, hair everywhere, crazy looking.". you know, you know, talking about, "Oh, do you like the blues? Do you like blue. sky? Oh, can you imagine? Do you know. this plane works? I'm so much better. than the other pilot." You'd be like, "Get me off this plane." Right? Your.

lawyer goes into court and goes, "Paper? Have you seen paper?" And it starts. ripping it up and throwing. You'd be. like, "What? Why are you behaving this. way?" Right? The engineer, you know, starts, "You like my Sharpie? You like. my sharp? Like, what what are you doing. right over there?" I mean, there there's. countless exam. I could go every. profession. is like this this behavior. is abhorrent to just being a being a a. human interacting with others. Dr. Bandy.

Lee go back I did a interview with her. today you know she says his arrested. development is such that he hasn't. developed past the age mentally of about. two two and a half years old and behaves. worse than a really bad two and a. halfyear-old. That's her psychiatric. kind of diagnosis of him. and and I. wanted to try to understand a little bit. deeper the behavior. Go back and watch. that interview. I think it's an. important interview I did with her this. morning as well. So, check that out. But. but that behavior is not acceptable. And.

what happens normally like with a. 2-year-old who behaves like you say no, you set limits, say stop it, and then. you rein it in. And we now had this. batter nation syndrome as a result of. enabling it and letting it go on. And so. there's a way, but we have to recognize. these broader thefts. >> I I think one of the interesting things. too in in watching that election night. play out was just how defeated Donald. Trump was. And it goes to what we say. all the time. You just got to punch a. bully in the effing nose, right? Punch a. bully in the nose. Don't back down.

Don't submit. Don't don't go and go to. Mara Lago and be like, "Mister, can I. please help you?" I mean, this is just. like basic stuff that we've been saying. for a long time. I pulled this clip in. because I just want to play like it. sounded like Donald Trump was crying on. election night. and just listen to how. big of a freaking loser it is. And I've. even noticed when he does all these. tweets and we have Stephen Chung doing. all these stupid tweets being like he's. still your president and trying to act. like tough guys. I'm like yo y'all are. some losers. You're a loser and this.

just isn't it's not hidden the same. I'm. telling you that. But watch Donald Trump. like in my opinion kind of near tears on. election night just being a loser on Fox. News. >> And then I read at Fox that I'm not. popular. You know I mean the Fox polls. are terrible. You ought to get yourself. a good pollster cuz your pulse is the. worst. >> But tonight actually the results are. pretty close to what the Fox polls. showed. >> Well, I don't know about that. I can. just tell you about speaking for myself. and uh the results with Fox with me were. wrong for 12 years. I mean, they've.

gotten me wrong for 12 years. But I. don't care. It doesn't matter. people, you know, people see when you when you. look at the pollster recently that. admitted they weren't even doing polls. and they gave the information to the New. York Times and they weren't even a legit. there. It wasn't even a question of. legit. The one that just went out of. business, they announced. >> we never. you said I'm not popular. You said you. tell I'm popular and you p them popular, but I'm promise that people like me. I.

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