LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 7/27/26

We've got a lot to discuss on today's. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. The. Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The Bob. Elandab straight effectively closed by. the Houthies. Zero ships leaving from. the straight of Hormuz through any route. other than the IRGC route. And even then. you have the US blockade in the Persian. Gulf and the Babel Mandabra. The Saudi. tankers are effectively blockaded by the. Houthis. You have what appears to have.

been a major drone strike by Iranian. drones in Airbiel, Iraq, by the Airbal. International Airport. You have strikes. escalating between Russia and Ukraine, each striking uh each other's. infrastructure, often refinery related. infrastructure, but also cargo ships. And you had Donald Trump over the past. 24 to 48 hours following that disastrous. White House correspondence dinner. debacle posting AI images of himself uh.

attacking Car Island, engaged in war. crimes, weird AI cartoons of Bruce. Springsteen and Chris Christie, mocking. Chris Christie for being fat, saying. that we're the guardians of the world as. he post weird AI slop of the United. States destroying civilian. infrastructure in Iran. Weird AI images. of himself standing next to JFK. I mean, deranged post after deranged post all.

throughout the day. Then weird post from. the White House account where it's like. a cartoon of an actual alien uh being. like uh looks like like assaulted and. touched in the chest area by border. patrol while Donald Trump frolicss. Cartoon Trump frolicss. And it's like, the hell is even going on here, America? I mean, seriously, WTF? And uh while all. of this is going on, Donald Trump said, "We hit the hell out of Iran. We hit him. hard." So they asked, "Can we do a.

deal?" They they're begging me for a. deal. We're doing that time. They're. begging me. They're begging me. And I. said, "Time is of the essence." And I. may blow the hell out of them again, but. I'm going to wait and see. I'm going to. wait and see. This as we learned over. the weekend what we've been reporting. here now for weeks at the Midas touch. network that the US is running very low. on munitions. Some of the precision. munitions have been 80% exhausted. Others in that range the US air bases.

nearby to Iran basically do not have any. defenses at all. So Iran's been able to. really hit hard when it comes to the. early warning detection radars and a lot. of the equipment and uh planes and uh. containerized barracks and other things. that are there. It's why the US moved a. lot of its equipment to Israel right now. where there is that Iron Dome in Israel. but uh no security umbrella really.

anymore for the other Arab nations. Uh, one of the reasons we believe that. Donald Trump stopped the escalation that. he threatened to do, although you know. who the hell even knows this is a guy. posting weird AI slop is because China. has been getting involved in a more. robust way. Xi Jinping through his. foreign minister Wang Yei uh conveying. uh to the Trump regime uh China stands. behind Iran. They've always said that. before. Politically, militarily, economically, and if Trump unleashes.

hell on Iranian infrastructure, China. could get involved. And since the United. States doesn't have precision munitions, that would be a uh very big deal and. very problematic. So, we we're a lot of. this is uh being uh a lot of updates. happening uh moment by moment here. And. then Donald Trump gave a speech in a. Michigan uh General Motors plant where. he was actually protested uh by data. center anti-data center activists which.

mo that's basically most people right. now are anti-data centers as Donald. Trump keeps pushing that he wants more. data centers every in every community. also people calling him a pedto. protector and then Trump calling someone. who called him a pedto protector a. communist you're a communist you're a. communist and then Donald Trump told the. crowd I'm better than your parents are. for you. Remember that I'm better than. your mom and dad. Remember that. And. we're in a golden age right now. So, we've got a lot to discuss. In other. words, Brett and Jordy,

how are you hanging in there, brothers? Very, very normal intro, Ben. Very. normal things happening uh in the world. I I got to say it's good to be here, Ben. Good to be here, Jordy. Good to be. here, Midas. mighty man. What is it. called when you know you have all these. various countries entering a war like. China and Russia and Ukraine and Iran. and the United States and they're all. kind of fighting each other in this. massive what do they what do they call. that? I feel like they have a name for. something like that. The escalation we. are seeing is honestly incredibly. frightening right now. And Donald Trump.

continues to deny reality as he does. We'll of course get to that in a moment. We do not have unlimited munitions. We. do not have unlimited interceptors. And. I think our generals and the actual. military experts are trying desperately. through the press and to Donald Trump to. warn him that this isn't a video game. You can't just keep going and going and. going. You got to actually account for. all that stuff. And I man, we haven't. got as brothers. We haven't been able to. speak about the White House. correspondents dinner, which honestly. just first of all, like what a what a.

shame for journalists to even like be. there in the first place and and be. there and laugh along to such horrendous. jokes, if you even want to call them. that. But it was really just a bizarro. world like event. Like the whole thing. was so strange. Trump was just like the. worst like standup comedian you've ever. seen in your entire life. Like I've. never seen him bomb so hard. It was so. unfunny that I like couldn't even. believe what I was seeing. There was. that moment where the Wall Street. Journal journalists won the Epstein won.

the award for their Epstein reporting. and Trump like shrugged it off and like. shook their hands and it was I felt like. I was living in bizar world watching. this stuff and it was just so. horrendously unfunny. Like the guy could. not land a single joke at all. But. something I did find funny was I woke up. this morning to a lot of comments on the. Midas Touch YouTube channel and. everybody was saying that it looks like. Ben has a mohawk. Ben's in a new. location right now recording this. And. then I looked at the [laughter] I. started cracking up. For the audio.

listeners, Ben was recording uh the. earlier podcasts with [laughter] a plant. behind his head. And I guess he didn't. realize that the way he was sitting. It. it does look like you have a mohawk. here, Ben. And [laughter] I saw so many. I got like more emails about this than. you could even imagine about the about. Mohawk, Ben. But I wanted to share it. with anybody in case anyone was unlucky. enough to miss this real comedy right. here. >> I I guess I see the. >> it's doing it right. [laughter].

>> I moved it. I moved it because of the. comments. I wasn't gonna [laughter] I. wasn't going to lean into that. >> The funny thing is I I I told Ben Ben. goes I I've seen the comments. I moved. it. I've seen the comments. >> Ben knew right away. >> Ben knew right away. I I I guess I see. the mohawk. I mean it it kind of looks. more like like like gift wrapping paper. like when you put. >> he's got it coming out of the right side. of his head too. It looks like the mom. from Rugrats. I doesn't she have hair. like the on top bottom. >> or the doll Cynthia I think the doll. was. Anyway, we're very millennial Bob.

>> Sideshow Bob. [laughter]. >> Brothers mighty. I'm excited to be here. Benji, I know we have a whole lot to. talk about. Brad, I just wanted to. comment on this. Maybe we'll get into. more of the White House correspondents. dinner during this episode, but what a. just a shameful event that was just in. general. I mean, the guy's out there, Donald Trump, he's out there like. arresting journalists. And so, you're. going to show up to that dinner. Like, y'all are going to show up and, you. know, dress your finest. And again, to. me, it all comes back to the same point. is all of these journalists care about.

is access. Like that ultimately, to me, that's what it feels like. And I don't. want to bash corporate media for the. sake of just bashing it. Again, I'm. someone who feels like there needs to be. a strong ass fourth estate in this. country if we want to build back better. here to borrow a phrase from Joey B. Exactly. >> And so like when he's up there and he's. not being funny and he's just dragging. along and and like there lot the whole. thing. What a mess. What a mess, Benji.

A lot to get into. Where are we starting. off today, big bro? >> Right. But when it is, what a mess. The. easy. way to critique it is just to be like, look, this is a psycho. This is a loser. This is a deranged individual. All very. true, right? And then you compound it. or, you know, you add to it by those AI. posts, post after post after post. All. right, I get it. A post after post after. post all day. And you know, and you can say, look,

this is actually a psychotic human. being. All true. The broader point. though is is what's going on in the. world and is this behavior is his. focus or lack thereof on whatever the. hell this AI slop is, this disgusting. behavior, I is is it impacting the world. or is it impacting your lives and how? And the answer is yes, in a very.

catastrophic way. The world is on fire. The world is at war. The stability and. predictability. of America as a global leader. and all of the things that came with it. has been flushed down the fake golden. Trump toilet. It's been destroyed in. record time. And what you're seeing is. the fallout as [snorts] a new world. order is being formed with the US losing.

its influence in the world. Um and not. to suggest the US was always on the. right side and did everything far far. from it. Okay. Um but the idea. predictability, stability, alliances, all of these things has just been. utterly destroyed. And we're seeing the. fallout right now. And you know it makes. me reflect you know in World War II did. they call it World War II when World War. II was happening like you know or was it.

a reflection after I mean and I was a. reflection okay that this was a war. involving the entire world and when. you're in it you know you don't. necessarily give it the name in real. time. I don't know. Um, but I do know. Brett to your point right now the entire. world in one way or another is involved. in a war and we see this conflict right. now whether it is in the Middle East. obviously with Trump and Netanyahu's. catastrophic war in Iran but also uh.

Israel's uh uh genocide in Gaza, the. attacks and genocide in Lebanon, Israel's occupation of certain areas you. know in Syria as Well, um, what we see. in all the proxy wars going on in. Africa, uh, right now, obviously, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and, uh, the escalation taking place there, and, you know, Donald Trump wants peace.

prizes, right? He goes around and says, "I stopped all of these wars." We we've. never since World War II had this. situation as we have right now. same way. Donald Trump goes in the General Motors. plant that this is the golden age and. he's turned the country around in 18. months he says and and everybody's doing. amazing. So when Donald Trump says we. have more munitions than we need and we. have more weapons than we could possibly. want, you know, that's the biggest tell.

that quite the opposite is happening, right? And that the reporting is. accurate that top US military. commanders, whether it's General Kaine. chairman of the joint chiefs or the head. of SentCom, Brad Cooper, told Donald. Trump, "We're running very, very low.". And one of the concerns is if China is. drawn into this war, and China's clearly. made clear through diplomatic speak that. that's what they would would happen if. Trump further escalates in Iran, you may.

be able to cause some more damage to. Iran. You're not going to accomplish. regime change or anything that you've. thought you can do. Far from it. Iran's. showed that it's incredibly resilient. But if you draw China in right now and. Russia in in a bigger way, then you. you've got to be prepared, Donald, to. have allout war with hundreds of. thousands of American service members. being killed. And you're not going to be. able just to change the name of the war.

so that you can claim there are deaths. and casualties that didn't take place in. Epic Fury, but now took place in. overseas conflict. Right. All of a sudden this weekend, the. overseas conflict category saw a huge. increase in the number of injuries. And. when you add those injuries with Epic. Fury, you get over 624 injuries, which I. still think is underounting the amount. of injuries and casualties in this. horrific and unlawful war in Iran. And.

then the Trump regime shifted the four. deaths into other casualty events. They. wanted to move it to enduring freedom, the ISIS uh the ISIS war. Um and then. they moved it from epic fury to enduring. freedom to other miscellaneous. I mean, just think about that miscellaneous for. the service members who died in this. catastrophic and unlawful war. And so, as I noted, part of the reason Trump. backed out of the escalation that he was.

saying he was going to open up the gates. of hell was indeed the munitions. I said. the other part was uh China saying that. it would be involved in this war on. behalf of Iran if the Trump regime. escalated the way Donald Trump. threatened. You know, then we woke up. this morning um Iran spokesperson saying. do not believe the United States when. they say there's a deal or there's. negotiations. Iran spokesperson, we're. not negotiating with them. We want to be. very clear. We're only talking with Oman.

regarding Iran's control of the Strait. of Hormuz and working out arrangements. with Oman and how we're going to handle. that because part of the straight of. Hormuz is in the Oman territorial. waters. We're not speaking to the US. We. don't want to do a deal. We view the. blockade as escalatory. We reserve all. of our rights. So, just ignore what. Trump's going to say today. And sure. enough, Trump gets out there and what. does he start to say? There's a deal. Iran's begging. They're desperate. I'm.

going to give them a little more time, but then I'm going to unleash hell. The. same exact stuff we're hearing over and. over again. But as I say, stop listening. to what this idiot psycho is saying. We. can listen to it for purposes of. criticism and calling them out as a. liar, but not for paring because I'm. looking at what's going on throughout. the rest of the region. And I'm waking. up and I'm seeing a massive column of. smoke rising from yet another refinery. facility in Saudi Arabia. This time the.

Saudi Aramco's Abquac. processing facility, the world's largest. and eastern hub of Saudi Arabia's east. west pipeline with multiple impacts in a. few hours. And then I was looking at the. Abquac facility, the Yanbu facility, the. Jazan facility. These are the some of. the three biggest facilities in Saudi. Arabia. And when you look at it, it. connects the Persian Gulf to the Red.

Sea. It's one of these pipelines that's. used by Saudi Arabia to try to divert. around the straight of Hormuz with Iran. shutting that down. So, have you heard. people going, "Well, Iran's overplaying. its cards because Saudi Arabia and UAE, they're just going to build pipelines to. get around it." You don't think Iran's. thought about that? You don't think the. Access of Resistance, the Houthis, Hezbollah, groups in Somalia and others. have? Of course, they've thought about. that. So now they're going to blow up. the pipelines that try to do any end run.

around the straight of Hormuz while also. choke choking off um the per off while. choking off the Red Sea through the. Babel Mandab straight and that's what. we're seeing happen now. Remember Saudi. Arabia struck an airport Sana which is. controlled by the Houthis in western. Yemen and the Houthies control is mostly. this big area a lot of Yemen but western. Yemen and the the area closest to the.

Babel Mandab strait. The Houthis said. we're going to attack Saudi Arabia and. they did. They attacked. um those three refineries. uh they. started about 72 hours ago or so and. then hit the uh that that refinery. earlier this morning. So all of these. refineries are on fire right now. And. notably as well, I'm looking at the. statements coming out of Saudi Arabia. They were blaming Iranianbacked militias. in Iraq and the Iranianbacked militias.

in Iraq that wasn't us. And the Houthis. were saying it was us. We did it. And. Saudi Arabia was not directly going. after the Houthis, but going after the. Iranianbackedback backed militias in. Iraq, which I found fascinating. And. what that's telling me is that actually. Saudi Arabia is very worried about the. Houthis or seeming to their population. within the kingdom that they remain kind. of defenseless to the Houthi attacks. because they said they could stop the.

Houthi. So that's why they're saying, "Ah, it was just a rogue Iranian militia. group in Iraq." And while all of this is. going on, you've got Trump out there. just doing a bunch of doing the AI. images. Car island, you know, AI image. slop. Strike on Car. I've got your Rosie. O'Donald, you know, AI slop. Uh Trump. being a pirate and being on an Iranian. ship saying my ship now. And just think. about it. The proud US Navy is been. reduced to Donald Trump, the president.

of the United States, posting AI slop as. a pirate with these kind of racist. images of Iranians wearing these like. white garbs. And and that's and that's the United. States military. That that's what's. going on. Let me pass it. I just want to. situate us with what's going on in the. world right now. >> No, you're exactly right, Brent. the. throw off her order that we typically go. in, but I'll be quick here. That's the. part I just want to emphasize Ben's. point there. That's the part that scares.

me the most as someone who deeply loves. this country that that the worst people. that could be in charge right now are in. charge. What Donald Trump is doing, he's. making Americans less safe. He's making. our troops less safe. And he's. continuing to escalate and prolong this. war, his war of choice. It frustrates me. to no end. He is not a serious person. This is a very serious matter that we. need to handle with grace, with tact, with skill, and he's got absolutely none.

of that. Sorry, Brett. No, it's it's. almost like Trump views this whole thing. as like a video game. Like I was saying. earlier, like you just have unlimited. munitions, you have unlimited. interceptors. Uh, you know, you're going. to defeat the big bad boss. Except now. the issue is that Donald Trump is the. big bad boss and he's the one who's. being defeated. And the only way that. he's kind of crawling out of it right. now or or thinks he could crawl out of. it is through AI. like he literally he. he he is having so much trouble creating. this alternative reality because the. reality is so harmful to the United. States to him to our troops that he is.

now literally going beyond that and he. is using artificial intelligence to. create his own reality where he's. actually winning the war where he's. taking Car Island. It looks so. incredibly desperate and makes us look. so incredibly weak. And meanwhile, we're. stuck in this sort of groundhog day Iran. war loop where every day we wake up and. the guy is saying the same things. And. if you notice, everything that Donald. Trump and Marco Rubio and all the people. in the Trump regime have been saying,

everything they've been saying has been. actually uh the opposite. You know, we. always talk about the psychological. projection, but you know, there was an. example the other day that I feel like. didn't get nearly enough attention, and. we had played the clip of Rubio on on. the Mightest Touch podcast, and Rubio. had said uh something along the lines. of, you know, Iran, they're trying to. reach out to us desperately for a. ceasefire. They're going through. intermediaries, and we're just not. ready. We're not ready for it. Not ready. for it. Not us. We We need to pound them. a bit more or whatever the hell he said.

And then the report came out like 24. hours later that it was the United. States that tried to reach out to Iran. through intermediaries through the Iraqi. prime minister. And the Iraqi prime. minister delivered Donald Trump's. request for a ceasefire and that was. rejected by Iran. Iran said, "No, we. don't want a ceasefire with you. We're. not done with this right now. So stop. Stop." So everything they say is. actually the opposite. which is why, you. know, when Donald Trump gets out there. and goes, "We have unlimited munitions.

and we're looking at the data, we know. that it's the opposite. We know that. that is a huge pain point right now. because that's what our military leaders. are saying." If you notice in the past. few weeks, there's been an increase in. leaks. I feel, you know, not leaks maybe. is not the right word, but you know, anonymous sources, US officials saying. things that, you know, don't present a. good picture of what's going on right. now in the Middle East. I feel like a. lot of that are these military officials. and US officials like trying to warn the. public and and trying to get this. message out into a broader space that.

like we're in a lot of trouble right now. and Donald Trump's trying to act like. everything's all rosy and great, but. things are actually really really bad. and this maniac is going to get even. more people killed. >> Also, this whole notion of we're going. to bomb them to the negotiating table. You guys were hip to it, you know, early. bread and Ben. I give you guys a lot of. credit, but also again just following. the data here. No, bombing more and. escalating the war further is seemingly. only emboldening Iran. >> And Jordy, to that point, there was a.

report that came out and it said it was, you know, sourced from multiple US. officials and and military officials. And and what did it say? It said exactly. what our analysis has been on the Midas. Touch podcast over the past few weeks, if not few months, that these bombings. are actually having the opposite effect. Before that was my opinion. Now, I could. say that this is a substantiated fact. via US officials and military officials. who are speaking to outlets like the. Wall Street Journal and the Washington. Post. They're saying this was meant to. weaken Iran. It's having the opposite. effect because all it's doing is it's.

having all the people in Iran now rally. around the Iranian regime. It's giving. them a cause to rally behind. It's. having the opposite effect and it's not. making them want to come any closer to. the negotiating table. It's making them. want to run away from the negotiating. table. >> Bombing a little girl school is going to. be like, "Okay, now yeah, let's go. Let's go and negotiate now. They just. bombed a little girl school. Oh, let's. go negotiate. They just killed more of. our civilians." No, it's infuriating. them. And we're getting further and. further away from from ending this war.

Sorry about it. Oh, no. And here's the. thing. The US, want to talk about. transparency, has banned private. companies here in the US from releasing. satellite footage of the Middle East. Right? So, I have to get satellite. footage from the Chinese, what they're. putting out. There's a satellite called. Sentinel 2, which still exists. We'll. see how long uh that I think comes out. of Europe. And then Iran often shares.

the satellite footage from China and. Russia of the American bases in the Arab. nations that it's striking. And so what. we've been following since Trump. escalated even more this catastrophic. and unlawful war over the past two weeks. or so is we've been looking at the. photos the before and after of King. Fisizel air base of Muafik Salty Air. Base of uh of Ali Salam air base um of.

an air base in Herbiel aloud over in. Qatar you know so we're looking at. Jordan we're looking at looking at Qatar. we're in Syria and Iran is releasing. these and one of your instincts, right, is come on, maybe they're putting out. the AI, right? Like you almost don't. want to believe it. And then you've. learned by covering this war for the. past five months is that usually almost. always that satellite footage is.

accurate. And they show the before and. afters and we see the US air bases where. the hits are happening, where they're. being destroyed. And the US hides it for. a few weeks. Then we learn what actually. happened. The US through the president. of the United States is posting not just. AI but AI slop. And so, you know, we. didn't need, although I'm glad we got it. finally, the New York Times and Wall. Street Journal and other reports saying. that we are having a big issue with our.

US air bases being hit and our. interceptor struggling. We knew that for. weeks though, because we've been. following the underlying source data um. that exists. And ultimately as we pull. back and we in this episode share with. you what's Donald Trump saying about the. US economy right now, what are the MAGA. Republicans saying as we're now 100 less. than a 100 days out before the midterms? Um what's going on here in the United.

States? You know, more broadly, I. Trump regime now saying the biggest. threat is communists and they're a. bigger threat than ISIS and al-Qaeda and. Nazis and World War II. Why? Because. we're in a dire situation. A dire. situation caused by Donald Trump's. catastrophic and unlawful war and his. tariff war against the trade war against. the world. He's creating a fake AI. reality that doesn't actually exist. here. And every day where he goes and.

defrauds us rather than solves the. problem and roll up our sleeves with a. with a level of maturity, which. obviously is he's incapacitated to even. come close to that. The problem gets. worse and worse and worse and worse and. worse and harder to dig out of. And. that's what's going on right now. Every. day it gets worse. right now today. If. you turned on corporate news earlier. today, you would think, oh, major.

advances were made and we're getting. closer and things are looking better and. oh and and and you know the the Dow. Jones went up today and you know and. this was doing better and we may be no. this is this is it is all fraudulent. It. is all is not what's happening. That's. why I start by saying Red Sea Persian. Gulf effectively shut. There's war. everywhere taking place right now. Supply chains are shot right now. And. Trump keeps raising tariffs everywhere.

still coming up with new justifications. to tariff, you know, 60 countries at the. end of last week saying that they're. involved in supporting involuntary. servitude and the US isn't. So that's. why the US will be tariffing Australia. and the UK and all these countries. I I. I I want to queue us into what's. happening right now so we can have a. real sober understanding of of of the. situation. Okay, let's p and by the way. WTF, right? That's why we call the book.

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remember back in January at a Ford plant. where there was uh that courageous. person who called Donald Trump a pedto. protector. True. Trump was Trump is a. pedto protector. That's what Trump and. his DOJ are doing right now. Well, we. heard that again at the General Motors. plant when Trump gave a speech in. Michigan today. I'll get to I'll get to. that in a moment. And when I show you. that clip though too, I think it's. notable because, you know, Donald Trump. immediately responds when when Trump was. at the Ford plant in January, he gave.

the guy the middlefinger, the guy who. was saying pedto protector. And so now. because the whole stick with MAGA is. they call anybody who they don't like. communist and that's their whole thing. communism. You're a communist and you're a. communist and you're you're a bullshik. You're a bullshik. And this is what. state regime media pushes. Notice notice. they used to call their enemies pedto. protectors, right? They called their enemies pedop.

That was the whole thing. They accused. everybody else of being Epstein's. person. Well, now because the Trump. regime is literally. old people, communists and boleviks. The. Bolsheviks. And I just want to say this, I you know who handles it the best when. they when when media tries to like you. know do this you know um AOC because. when they go AOC oh what are you. democratic socialism and communism and. AOC like laughs AOC you know and it's.

the reaction that I have to I'm like. dude what the hell are you talking. about? What we I don't have time to buy. into your stupid [ __ ] Excuse my lang. I. don't have time for that. Okay, the. American people are suffering right now. Okay, Donald Trump starting neverending. wars with Netanyahu. He is destroying. our economy. He is causing endless. suffering right now. He's out there. building himself, you know, golden ballrooms or whatever the hell.

he's doing. He's making billions of. dollars while American people are. psychologically tortured right now. He's. ripping away health care. So, I'm sorry. I I I don't want to I don't want to I. don't need to have discussions with you. about oh dude what do you think about is. that person a socialist is that you know. what I care about right now I care about. what the American people are going. through with this regime who has. promised that they were going to make. everything amazing and things would be. free and incredible and you'd get Doge.

dividend checks and you'd be richer than. you ever wanted. And what they did. instead was the regime took control of. the modes and method of production. Sounds familiar. Took over companies, enriched themselves, helped the. right-wing oligarchs while screwing over. everybody else. Sound sound sounds a. little communist to me with the people. in power right now. But I don't have the. time. I don't care. That's not the. that's not a debate that's that most. Americans are having. It's a.

manufactured one. Most of the debate the. American people are having is what the. hell is going on right now because I'm. being psychologically tortured by by. this regime. And I'll just share with. you, I mean, these are people in. Michigan right here. Um, as Donald Trump. speaking at the General Motors plant, you've got people out there who are. protesting Donald Trump, rightfully so, because he wants data centers in every. community. If it was up to him, he would. put data centers in every person's. backyard that he calls it liquid gold.

Let me show you what this protest looked. like. Let's play it. And if you go, "Well, Ben, are you being. hyperbolic by saying he wants data. centers in every communities?" Who would. want that? We know how unpopular it is.

because it destroys communities and it. eats up their power grids and it has all. of these horrific environmental and. health impacts and it's loud and it. destroys communities. So there's no way. that he says that I wanted it every. Yeah, this is what he said at the end of. last week that the smart communities are. the ones that have data centers and the. Brett, I'm not maybe.

>> sorry, we we we lost you for a second. there. The smart communities are the. ones that have data centers and these. stupid ones are the ones that don't. Here's the clip. >> And even communities compared to other. communities. You have some communities. that really want this. This isn't all. negative stuff. This is you have. communities that really want the data. centers and frankly those are the smart. communities because it means tremendous. numbers of jobs. uh very little actual. disruption. And the ones that don't want. it, you know, the happiest people in the. world are foreign countries, number one,

and number two, other communities within. our country because they're begging for. them to be there. And some of them are. great communities, very very uh. forwardlooking. communities, very smart communities. >> Can you see? >> They're begging. They're begging. Begging. >> Everyone's begging for a data center in. their backyard. Ben right now is He. froze at a great time actually. Ben is. >> Do you have Cynthia? Do you have the. Cynthia Rugrats I sent you on the side? >> You mean this one? It's I mean it's. uncanny when you [laughter] pulled it up.

like that. >> Right now you got Ben with the We're. pulling back up the image not to digress. for a second. Um of of Ben with the hair. uh plant behind him and to the side of. his head. And it does indeed look like. the mom Tommy Pickle's mom from Rugrats. and the what is it? Cynthia Dolly. That's right. That is that's what Turkey. looks like. Yeah. I mean, it's it's just. so, you know, because even the Trump. voters, this is a very passionate issue. for them. This is a passionate issue for. most people. You know, we spent a lot of.

time kind of during the the Biden. administration where um the kind of MAGA. folks and and the media would be like, "Look at the Democrats on the wrong side. of another 8020 issue. On the wrong side. of another 8020 issue." This is what. Trump is doing right now. and he's doing. it with increasing frequency. This is an. issue that most Americans agree with. Most Americans do not want these data. centers in their backyards. There have. been mass protests when people have. tried to build these massive structures.

inside states like Utah like a Kevin. Olirri. The communities pushed back. Kevin Olirri accused them of being. Chinese agents. He had to he's now being. sued for defamation over it. This has. become a a big battle right here. And it. is really like the kind of clearest and. most physical representation right now. of the kind of class divide in our. country of what billionaires are doing. and what billionaires want to force on. the people and what the people actually. want. You know, we had uh Justin Pearson.

uh state representative from Tennessee. um on a on an Instagram live with our. Dena Dah the other day and Justin. Pearson said something like you know. they want us to pay for these data. centers which are being built so that. they take our jobs away from us like. like no we don't want that and I think. that's why you're seeing such rage. This. is really one of the ultimate tests of. kind of Donald Trump's cult of. personality for his people because he is. trying to get them to kind of drink the.

Kool-Aid in in a big way. You know, it's. metaphorical, but not so much because he. is basically telling them to put aside. your life, put aside your livelihood and. let us build these monstrosities in your. community that are going to take your. jobs. And they don't really bring any. jobs to the community. >> And that's the biggest thing too here is. like what we see. This is another one of. those moments where it's like like don't. piss in my mouth and tell me it's. lemonade. You know that expression guys? Maga's like hey even this lemonade. tastes a little funky. Even MAGA even. his core like most core MAGA folks like.

>> I don't really like his lemonade. And. that's because this is such a hard cell. So many people have so many questions. rightfully so about these data centers. and communities. And it's just important. that that these questions get answered. before we just so quickly rush into. putting them everywhere. And Donald. Trump just so blatantly lying, saying, "You have people begging, begging for. data centers." I mean, I I I don't know. a single person that's ever been like, "We need one. Please, sir, put it here. Please put it here." It's unbelievable.

to me just the the lengths he's willing. to go to and how easy it is for him to. just so blatantly lie like that. And, you know, I guess it is believable. because we've seen it. We've seen it. time and time again. He says it's liquid. gold. Yes, Donald. liquid gold likely. for you because who knows what type of. back-end contracts that you or your sons. may have with these come. Who knows? Who. knows? But I'll tell you who it's not. liquid gold for and that's the people. living right up against the data center. that don't want this that are concerned. about what it does to the water quality.

that are concerned about what it does to. the air pollution in their in their. communities. There are very legitimate. questions that people are asking and I. think it's right to be skeptical of. putting data centers in every community. as Donald Trump so obviously wants to do. seemingly to line his own pockets with. this liquid gold while people have. really legitimate questions. Well, you. take a look at what was going on in this. Michigan speech that he gave as well. Someone there protesting him calling him. a pedophile protector. That's. objectively true, right? I mean, they're.

covering up the Epstein files. So, if. you cover up the Epstein files, that is. protecting Meadows. That's seems to me I. mean, I'll express that as an opinion, but you tell me what your opinion is. That's my opinion. That's the opinion of. this person who was there that it was. objectively true. And then Donald Trump. calls the person, you're a communist. And doesn't that also reveal the whole. game? someone protesting him that makes. you look at if you just disagree with. him, you're you're you're a communist.

and you're worse than Nazis and al-Qaeda. and ISIS. Here, play this clip of what. went down. Let's play it. >> And companies were coming in and just. robbing us blind and it was causing. tremendous problems for your jobs. But. now all of that is changing because I. placed historic tariffs on foreign. producers and manufacturers, including a 25% tariff on foreign.

automobiles, something that no other. president had the courage to ever do. [applause and cheering]. >> He's a communist. He's a communist. He's a communist. He's a communist. Then, >> by the way, Trump was like, he had said. after like he's like, I didn't even hear. what he was saying. I didn't even Oh, he. heard Oh, he heard it. He heard it. >> Absolutely. But but then what Trump.

wanted the audience to know, I've done. more for you. Like this this is like. some sick stuff. Some real sick stuff. He goes, I've done more for you than. your parents. I won't knock your. parents, but I'm He's not saying this as. a joke. He's saying it's I'm better for. you than your mom and dad were in your. life. And this is his cult. This is. derange, strange, disqualifying. Lock this person up in a mental sicko.

institution and how anybody normalizes. this stuff. have Mary I hate to say you wouldn't. have an auto industry right now if they. got elected you wouldn't have an auto. industry. >> but I don't know what happened to the. guy somebody said he got fired but I can. tell you the people that count those. people love Trump. >> because I've done more for you than your.

parents okay your parents are good I'm. not going to knock your parents but I. have been better to you than your. parents. that I can tell you to and they would. agree with. wherever they may be, they would agree. today. I'm proud. >> Also, I mean, not to read too deep into. this, but we know that like he likes. when his followers refer to him as as. daddy. They've done it on Fox News. They've interviewed people before. We've. heard the phone calls of his most loyal. followers and and Congress people.

referring to Donald Trump as as as. daddy. That's how he sees himself. like. he truly does see himself as a cultlike. champion to this MAGA base where he can. do no wrong and they will just blindly. follow whatever he does. And I mean, look, for the most part, he's not wrong. They they do there's always that 30%, right? It's that number that we always. see, the 30% from the Republican party. on like the most radical issues is. always that MAGA base that will just. kind of fall in line with Donald Trump. It's gross to see. And and it's even.

grosser to hear him like like he just he. he despises them. He despises his most. loyal support. Like he hates them. I I'm. better for you than your parents ever. were. Like he just like loves talking. down to them, man. >> Right. Then his message on. affordability. Let's play the clip of. what he said about affordability. LET'S. PLAY IT. >> BUT I HAD NOTHING to do with it. You. know, they have this term. So here I am. I'm one day in office and the fake news. goes, "Affordability.

Affordability.". I said, "What's affordability? What's. that all about?" "Prices are too high.". I said, "I'm here for less than 24. hours, but we've brought down prices.". >> I wonder who said that in 24 hours, I. would make your electricity half the. price. I would bring down gas prices in. 24 hours to under $2 a gallon. I would. end the war that Russia started in. Ukraine in 24 hours and that everybody.

would be amazing in TW who who who was. it who said those things but now Donald. Trump with okay objectively. most Americans are far worse off far. worse off. And that's borne out by all. of the polling data across the board. I. mean you take a look at the latest CBS. poll, state regime media CBS. Donald. Trump's policies are making you better. off, worse off, the same. Only 13%.

13% of Americans say that they are. better off today. >> That's a wild number. >> Only and it's accurate mo because. objectively everybody is worse off. But. what's Donald Trump out there saying? What's he uh what's what was he pushing. uh at Michigan? He says, "We've had the. single greatest year we've ever had as a. country." Let's play it. We got that clip of the single greatest. year as a country. >> No, I'm not sure we have that one.

>> Okay. What about Donald Trump saying the. Iran war is like playing a banjo? Do we. get that one? >> Got that. >> Down faster than at any time in the last. six years when when the fuel comes down, which it did for a little while. Then. they didn't behave and I had to go back. and now they're behaving again. You. know, it's like playing a banjo, but. every day we're fighting to put more. money in. >> It's like playing a banjo. They stop behaving. Now they're behaving. again.

Again, this world that he creates, this. fictitious world isn't the real world. It's not reality. And he may bend. reality in the minds of his cult that's. increasingly dwindling every single day. And he may have state regime media. parrot this stuff. But it isn't the. world that exists. And in the actual. world that exists, he's flailing. The US. is out of munitions. The US has lost the.

war repeatedly. Multiple times we've lost the war. against Iran. He continues to go through. these open the gates of hell iterations. and then oh they're coming begging for a. deal and they're out there saying no. we're not we're not begging we're not. talking we don't we don't want a deal. who controls the straight of Hormuz. right now it's that simple and Donald. Trump may have SenCom continue to claim. we do that ain't reality who controls.

the Red Sea right now what's up with Bob. El Mandab straight what's going on in. Arabiel Iraq What's going on in Saudi. Arabia? Why do we have all of our. military equipment in Israel right now. where there is an Iron Dome but nowhere. else right now in the Middle East where. those bases have been destroyed? Why. does Iran keep on striking our bases. repeatedly in those in the Arab nations. there? What the hell is going on? WTF? I. mean, we have to take a look at what the.

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have no idea what he's talking about. But again, but again, that's another. that's a not to get too serious here, but to get a little bit serious, that's. just another way of him making light of. this war and the real life ramifications. that this war has had. There are 18 dead. troops as we know that that that's been. allegedly reported right now that we at. least know of that the Trump regime. acknowledges. 18. And he's out there. saying stuff like like a banjo. I had to. go back. I had to go back. It's it it's. really disturbing disturbing stuff. I.

mean, and from the perspective of our. coverage, when I say the president of. the United States is referring to the. war in Iran as a banjo and he continues. to say that we control the straight of. Hormuz and that Iran is begging for a. deal and everything is amazing right. now. And I go, that's what and Sentcom. says navigation. free. Everything's perfect as you see.

tankers getting destroyed that use the. nonIRRGC. route, right? When you see what's. happening in Bob El Mandab straight, when you see that, that's the United. States and SenCom. And then I I have to. like report. I'm like, well, on Tasnim. Iran Media, they've got a show with two. podcasters who have said the following. 21 billion in US losses in two weeks of. recent war against Iran. So, why did the.

US temporarily back down from largecale. attacks on Iran? Many reasons are cited, these two Iranian podcasters on Tasnim. say, uh, many reasons are cited for the. US once again pulling back from the. attacks on Iran. From the rise of US. Treasury bond yields above 5% to oil. prices surpassing $100 a barrel. These. are the reasons that we suppose in Iran. the US is unilaterally backing out. And.

I read that and I go, are US Treasury. bond yields? Were they above 5%? Yes. Was the price of oil surpassing $100, which was then manipulated again. So. it's lower than that now based on this. idea that we're now back in a ceasefire. when I'm telling you what's the status. of this trade from moves. That's why I. start with this that Bob Meland and I'm. seeing what Tasnim is reporting. Then I. see Donald Trump saying everything is.

great. we've got more munitions than. ever. They're begging. Then I see the. Iranian general on whether it's Mars or. Kasnim or Fars. And he's like, "Here are. all the bases we've hit. Here's the. satellite images that we have." And I'm. like, "Dude, is the Iranian general on. Fars or Mayors or Tasnim. uh telling me more accurate information. than Donald Trump and Sencom?" And I'm. like just the even idea that I'm asking. the question is disturbing in and of.

itself. Now don't even get me started on. the fact that the answer is what they're. providing is more accurate information. of what is happening. Now I understand. that in wars there is massive propaganda. and in peace there is propaganda. I. understand that when Iran puts out the. Lego videos, which clearly get under the. skin of Marco Rubio and that when they. say certain things that they are. propaganda. I get it. But ultimately, I. want the objective damn facts of what's.

happening in this war. And when I see. three Saudi Arabian refineries that are. destroyed right now, that are destroyed. in Yamu, in Jazan, in um and and and the latest. one that was just destroyed uh as well, which is their biggest refinery in uh. Obcake, the Obcake oil abquake oil. refinery. I I say that seems to be there's a lot.

of issues going on right now. Then. Donald Trump aboard Air Force One and. Donald Trump says Iran took a beating. over the last four days, 14 days. So. they asked us very nicely, "Please, please, sir, can you please stop? This. is Trump aboard Air Force One. Here, play this clip.". >> Well, Iran took a beating over the last. 14 days and they asked us very nicely, "Please stop. Let's meet." And that's. where we are right now. We'll see what. happens. If we don't make a deal, we go.

back to the same thing. >> If we don't make a deal, we go back. deal. You're going to do a deal. I did a. deal. I do deals. Deals. Deals. Here's a. deal. There's a deal. Dude, shut up. again with the stupid deals. And he's a. li I mean, he's a liar about everything. he says. He's asked, "Have you been. frustrated with Secretary Hegsith. because of the advice he gave you early. on in the war and how it turned out? Do. you think this is a great job right now? I mean, do you you you all promised that. this war would end in days, then four to.

five weeks. We're now five months. Iran. and its proxies control the Persian Gulf. and the Red Sea. They're striking Saudi. Arabia right now. You have China. basically getting involved. Things are. escalating. Uh people are suffering. Inflation is surging. Is this is you you. believe this is a good job? Here, let's. play this clip. >> Yes. [clears throat]. on the Iran war. Have you been. frustrated with Secretary Hegsets. because of the advice he gave you early. on in the war and how it's turned out?

>> I think he's done a great job. We've. pretty much destroyed their military. They want to meet and we're meeting. We'll see what happens. There's a chance. we can make a deal. Without what we did, they wouldn't even be talking to us. Uh. they requested a meeting through their. surrogates and directly. and we're meeting and you know good. things can happen. I guess oil dropped. very big today. Uh stock markets as of. about an hour ago was like through the.

roof but no they requested a meeting. They would not have requested the. meeting and we were doing poorly. The only reason they want to meet is. because we've been hitting them very. hard. Yeah. >> How much patience do you have left with? >> I have plenty of time. Plenty of time. The only reason they want to meet is. because we've been hitting them so damn. hard and they requested a meeting. They. begged for it. Now the market's doing.

good. No, you are manipulating the. market again. Iran began the day. Just. think about how embarrassing this is, right? that Iran begins the day with. their foreign ministry spokesperson. saying today Donald Trump is going to. get out there and say we want to we. don't want to meet with him we're. meeting with Oman there's no meetings. taking place just look who controls the. straight of Hormuz look at it I I got to. find this quote from the Iranian. spokesperson because it's so damn.

devastating and and painful as an. American to read but this is what we've. this is what we've gone through as a. country here. Let let me find this quote. >> as as you pull it up. I'll just say like. it's it's so wild how much he gives away. the game on when he speaks about the. war. Like the war, if you're going to. enter into this war and this campaign, you don't want to let everybody know. that your biggest concerns are the. markets. And Donald Trump, every.

opportunity he gets, he's like, "Look, we stopped and look the the oil's coming. down, right? The oil oil. You see that. oil?" And in the stock market, it's. going up. It's going up. It's like. that's all he really cares about. And. so, you know, when you give that sort of. leverage to your uh adversary in a war, you're giving them a whole lot of power. because they know exactly your pain. points to hit. >> Okay, let me just let me read for you. the these points. Ready? This is what he. says. Don't pay attention. This is the. Iranian foreign spokesperson early this. morning. Like when I wake up at 5:00. a.m. to do my videos, I'm looking at.

what he's saying. What SenCom saying? SenCom says, "We control the straight of. moose. Things are great. Everything's. amazing. We're obliterating them. Never. been better. Iran, they're saying, "Do. not pay much attention to these media. speculations. We have no negotiations. with the United States. The negotiations. we are having, which may sometimes be. subject to different interpretation, are. the ones we are holding with Oman, focused on making necessary arrangements. regarding the Strait of Hormuz." Then. the Iran spokesperson goes on to say, "I.

don't know how you think that they, Trump and the United States are managing. the war. A war that was supposed to lead. to Iran's collapse within 3 days, forcing Iran to surrender, and yet now. after five months, they are stuck in a. quagmire of their own making. This is. not war management. committing war. crimes every once in a while while. taking pride in them is merely flailing. in a disgrace created by their own hands. and tempted by a Zionist regime. Naturally, they must pay the price for.

it. Then regarding the United States. announcing it was going to do a nuclear. deal with Saudi Arabia and then less. than 24 hours, Donald Trump then says, "Well, actually Saudi Arabia has to join. the Abraham Accords." And if they join. the Abraham Accords and become allies. with Israel, then we may do it. But then. they can't enrich uranium even though. even civilian nuclear uh plants enrich. uranium. And this is what the guy says. about Trump's Saudi Arabia deal that. broke apart in 24 hours. Regarding the.

matter itself, according to the usual. behavioral habit of the United States, this agreement apparently did not last. more than 24 hours and they raised. conditions. That's that's that's a you know and. they're mocking Saudi Arabia for. believing that they did a deal with the. with the United States. So you you got. you've got that going on and then I'll. show you the clip that I was talking. about earlier. I know Brett you found. it. So do you all feel objectively right. that we had the best year? That this. year for our economy was the best we've.

ever had. I mean objectively I mean I. don't care what political party you're. from. Do you feel that way that this. year was great? It was amazing. Everybody thrived. What a great year. Well, Donald Trump does. So, this is the. reality he inhabits. Is that the reality. you trust? It was a great year for him. He made $4 billion, maybe more. Probably. more. Four billion we're aware of, right? Did you Did you make more money. or are you struggling right now and. suffering? Here's what he had to say.

Let's play this clip. >> We had good years, bad years. We're. having the single greatest year we've. ever had as a country. We're not going. to let these people destroy it. Brett, we're having the single greatest. year. And again, when you see that. deranged and psychotic behavior, that's. the individual who is the. commanderin-chief, the commanderin-chief. of the United States armed forces. And.

you want to know why we lose over and. over again? Why we're put through this. humiliation ritual? because he's a. loser. He's a bankruptor his whole damn. life. And now we're all losers because. that's, you know, the reality is in. Trump's America, we're all losers other. than him. And for short periods of time, the right-wing oligarchs do well, but. once they lose favor, they're the next. target. Brett Jordan, I. >> I don't I don't think anybody would. agree with Trump's statements there. I.

think it's ridiculous. And you know, it. makes me think about during the uh Biden. administration, all the kind of think. tanks and think pieces and everything. that was released when when Biden was. dealing with the inflation, which was a. legitimate issue. And people don't like. to say that it was caused by Donald. Trump, but it was caused by Donald. Trump. It was caused by the COVID supply. chains. It ended up reverberating and. ended up actually hitting during the. Biden administration which was then made. worse during the oil crisis uh when the.

Russia Ukraine invasion happened. Uh. which you know the markets reacted. wildly different to than what we're. seeing right now apparently for some odd. reason. But I remember when Biden was. trying to approach the subject because. he wanted to tout his accomplishments. but also wanted to acknowledge that. people were feeling pain. He would try. to kind of weave, he would try to kind. of walk the line on this issue, right? He would say things like, "I understand. that a lot of people out there are still. not feeling the success in the economy,

though, and we need to work to make sure. that every American is feeling the. success of the economy." He would he. would say a lot of things like that and. get with these endless think pieces. written about him that Biden just isn't. caring enough about the American people. He's just not he's just not saying. enough. He's lucky. He he touted the. stock market. How could you tout the. stock market? Okay. Yeah, he said the. other thing, but how could you possibly. say that? Trump says this stuff all day. and people are like, "Oh, yeah. What are. you going to do? What are you What are. you going to do about it?" It It's so.

offensive to just regular ordinary. people to see this and this sort of. rhetoric every day. >> The single greatest year. I mean, he. just like says it with no shame and then. you hear the lemmings clap saying. [clears throat] some G lemonade, Donald, thanks for that lemonade in my mouth. It's. >> [laughter]. >> I I hope it is graphic, by the way, because that's how frustrating and. ridiculous the time that we're living. through really is. And Ben, again, big. on giving you your flowers, Brett. I. want to give you your flowers. But Midas. Mighty specifically, the pro-democracy.

community that watches this, I want to. give you guys your flowers because day. in and day out, I read all the comments. I see all of your posts, whether it's on. on threads or blue sky or X or Facebook. or Instagram, like wherever you are, we. are. And we're constantly seeing you. guys push back against all of this. madness and calling this stuff out in. real time. And for us, I mean, that that. that's half the battle at least. Real. time turn like like speaking up and. saying this is a lie. This is BS. We're. calling it out together collectively. We're going to make some noise about why.

this is such BS as Donald Trump loves to. brag about the greatest time we're all. living through. Ridiculous. Let me tie. this all together though because. something that got almost no attention. which to me was the biggest tell was one. of the random posts that Donald Trump. made earlier today where he was. seemingly attacking John Thun, the. Senate majority leader, but Trump was. giving you the tell of how he's going to. cast blame when even more economic.

catastrophe takes place. So he makes. this post, John Thun should not allow. the United States Senate to leave town. until it passes the Save America Act or. far better still terminates the. filibuster where Republicans can then. quickly pass everything they ever. dreamed of including a full and. deepthroatated Save America Act, the. budget, and the everlooming debt sealing. disaster,

1929. exclamation point. the Democrats will do. it on day one and can't believe how. lucky they got. Dot dot dot dot dot dot. I've highlighted the point I want people. to focus on. First off, again, what a. sicko mind referring to the Save America. Act as like deep throat, like full and. deepthroatated. Why why would that be. full and deep throatated? It's like very. >> very like Yeah, that never it's just. bizarre bizarre phrase. Um, but the. everlooming. debt sealing disaster,

1929 exclamation point, the looming debt. stealing disaster. Donald Trump has added more debt than. anybody by far. I mean, trillions and. trillions of dollars have been added to. our debt. Our deficit is increasing. massively right now. Our debt will soon. hit over what what. $30 trillion, you know, 40 trillion 40. trillion dollars soon. 40 39.5 trillion.

40 trillion soon. Um, and 1929, Great. Depression, right? And so what Donald. Trump is setting up as as a dynamic. right here where he knows the Save. America Act, which he labels save. America Act, which has nothing to do. about Saving America. It's a voter. suppression act, but he calls it Save. America Act. If you don't pass Save. America Act, debt sealing crisis, 1929,

exclamation point. Do you see what he's. doing? What he's doing right now is he. doesn't care when there is an economic. great depression, which is coming. He. doesn't care because he got rich. In. fact, he probably wants there to be an. economic great depression. As long as he. gets rich, that's his whole life. Bankrupt company A, bankrupt company B, take the money for himself, blame people. for the bankruptcies, and move on to the.

next one. Right? This is what he's. actually good at. He's good at being a. fraud and he's good when people are. suffering to blame people because. very few people other than the worst. scumbags in human history use suffering. to cause. to lie about it and that's what he's. going to do. So what he's saying is. because you didn't save America. that's what's caused 1929 Great.

Depression. I had it all figured out. I. was going to fix it. We had the greatest. year ever. Everything was going amazing. Things could all not true, right? That's. how he also casts his first presidency. before COVID. All lies, right? All lies. But I was the best. Then COVID hit and. no no. And so what he's setting up is. the dynam is the dynamic his whole life. has been. I was about to be there. We. were in the golden age. I told you.

everything was right around the corner. 2025 set the stage. 2026 was the. banquet. It was about to happen. Then. the Republicans didn't pass the Save. America Act. The Democrats came into. power. And it's a fictional narrative. where he now has his bad guys and he. fixed it and now it's all destroyed. When what I'm trying to convey to you is. right before our eyes, everything's. destroyed right now. All of the. preconditions, everything is a fugazi.

and a fraud and a lie. We are currently. living in right now a horrible time with. war everywhere, with health care being. ripped away, with treasury yields at. record highs, with mortgages rates so. high no one can afford homes or rent. right now. But he's going to repeat over. and over again and with compliant. oligarchy corporate media, they're going. to keep saying, "We're there. Things are. Donald Trump said, Donald Trump said, Donald Trump said. And what I want you. to be aware of, and I know you know it,

but don't let them gaslight you. Is he. did it. He did it. He did it. And all of. these scumbags around him did it. They. were the ones who did this to you. These. are the scumbags who hurt you. These are. the scumbags who hate America. These are. the scumbags who are not patriotic. These are the scumbags who hate you. They hate you. They hate this country. and this is what they do because they. hate you. I want you to know that. And. they're taken from you and they're.

ripping you off every damn day. And. let's be very clear where it is coming. This isn't a Democrat or a Republican. thing. This is a good versus evil thing. And this is who the Trump regime are. Evil, evil humans, demons amongst us. And we've got to call them out for what. they are. And that's what we're going to. do every damn day here. So, I'll I'll. leave you at that point, Brett and. Jordan. Anything else you want to add? >> Well said. I certainly don't have. anything to add to that, but I I I just. I do want to highlight, you know, the. power of private citizens stepping up.

and taking action. And, you know, at a. time when our institutions are failing. us, when you see corporate media failing. us, when you see the courts failing us, I could go on and on. You see examples. of folks who actually are able to get. stuff done. And so I just do want to. give a shout out to Katie Fang here at. the Midas Touch Network for her. incredible work. She has been tenacious. She has been relentless uh in pressing. the Trump regime to release the Epstein. files. Uh the court has continued to.

agree with her arguments and is telling. Todd Blanch now that I believe it's by. this Thursday. I may not have the date. right, so don't quote me on that. But. Todd Blanch basically now has to show. the judge. The judge said, "Todd Blanch, I don't believe you for a second." You. know, when you say, "Trust me. Trust me. that our redactions are all good. I'm. not going to show you, but but just. trust me that I redacted everything just. for the right reasons." And the judge. said, "You're going to show me, the. judge, you're going to show me all these.

redactions, and I, as the judge, I will. determine whether you are lying or. you're not lying." This is a huge phase. of the Septin investigation. It would. not have happened if Katie Fang didn't. file this lawsuit. So, shout out to. Katie Fang. Um, and it it just really. shows you, you know, every when Katie. Fang filed that lawsuit, everyone was. like, "On what standing, on what. grounds?" They were saying it was going. to get thrown out of court, but no, this. is moving ahead. So, shout out to her. Uh, Katie, obviously, make sure you're. following Katie on her her YouTube.

channel, Katie Fang News. And Katie has. a podcast, too, which is great. And. Katie has been breaking down all the. updates in her case for her podcast. listeners. And it's really worth a. listen. And she does so much other. reporting, too. It's called Sidebar with. Katie Fang. So you could search for that. on Apple Podcast, on Spotify, and all. the apps. Sidebar with Katie Fang. Add. the show. I just am I'm so impressed. with Katie Fang. Huge shout out to Katie. Fang. Such an honor to have her here on. the Midas Touch Network. And I I'll just.

leave on a you know, on a light note uh. with with the book. Uh, you know, first. I want to thank everyone for your. support of the book WTF America, but you. learn a lot about this process as as you. go through it. And so before I got on. this episode, it's funny we I had like a. legal call about the book because they. go through every single word of the. book, right, to make sure that you're. not saying anything, you know, over the. line about somebody and it's just I just. want to share this because it was so. funny to me. You know, they'll go like. on page whatever you call Cash Patel a.

doofus. Yeah, that's uh you know, that's. okay. that's your opinion. So, they go. through one by one every single line. said about everybody and it just, you. know, it's just it's a funny process. It's it's been surreal. I'm grateful. that for the support. We have the QR. code on the screen if you want to. pre-order. Pre-ordering really, really, really helps. And there's also a link in. the description to this podcast. So, you. can check the link, pre-order the book, let us know in the comments if you. pre-order the book. If you're watching. on YouTube live, do those WTF America, there's an emoji. You could uh let us.

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