LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 8/10/26

We've got a lot to discuss on this. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. Remember at the start of last week when. Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary. Besson assured everybody that there. would be a deal with the Iran in the. next 48 hours. Well, of course, that was. a lie. Then on Sunday, Donald Trump. said, "We're not even doing negotiations. with Iran anymore. Instead, we're just. going to low-key it. Maybe we'll just do. semi-negotiations, but we'll just let it run its natural. course." That's what he told his. personal stenographer for Barak Ravid.

over at Axios. This followed Iran. standing firm on all of the demands it. previously made back in March and then. in the memorandum of understanding. And. they said they were not going to open up. the Strait of Hormuz until those demands. were met. Meanwhile, Iran continued to. strike tankers that were trying to. transit under the US direction through. the Oman route in the Strait of Hormuz. We'll cover all of the updates that are. taking place in this still ongoing. catastrophic war. And the latest is.

Donald Trump saying, "You know what? We're going to charge Iran reparations. right now because they want reparations. from us. We're going to charge them. reparations." Well, the price of Brent. and WTI crude went up dramatically about. 5% in the past few hours since Donald. Trump thinks this is all one big game. while the American people are suffering. Donald Trump held a deranged press. conference in the Oval Office as well. earlier today where he put his own.

medical disinformation and deadly. conspiracies in place of what scientists. actually say about the child vaccine. schedule. Donald Trump just saying lies. about the cause of autism and how he. wants to spread out certain vaccines. And he's saying what he thinks should. happen with hep B vaccines. It was. really deranged stuff. He also looked. awful and he continued to like fall. asleep throughout the press conference, a very bizarre scene in the Oval Office. You've got Trump regime cabinet.

officials saying that we are in a golden. age because they are showing bronze. statues in the Washington D.C. area that. have now been basically painted gold and. they go, "You see, we're in the golden. age. We took bronze statues and we. gilded it gold, everybody." In the real. world where we're not in a golden age, not only are the American people. suffering. Um it should also be noted. that our service members as well, in. addition to the families back at home,

are suffering also. Um we're hearing a. lot from military families uh who have. sailors still on the USS Abraham Lincoln. who aren't even being given the most. basic of things like they can't get a. shower, the plumbing and the toilets. don't work, they're not getting food. There's a lot of very serious just basic. fundamental issues taking place on the. Abraham Lincoln supercarrier that's. right outside the Strait of Hormuz. And. we were following this as well with the. other supercarrier, the Gerald Ford,

which was out at sea for about 326 days. The Abraham Lincoln out on sea for about. 263, 264 days. Both kind of setting. records at this point as the morale is. at an all-time low. So, you have morale. on these supercarriers at an all-time. low. You have the strategic petroleum. reserve at an all-time low, less than. 300 million barrels right now in the. strategic reserve, something that we've. been warning about here consistently.

And you have our munitions at an. all-time low. Who would have thought. that the guy who bankrupted casinos. would blow through $1 trillion in a. military budget to shame and humiliate. the. states. Um Donald Trump's polling should not be. surprising, the worst since like 1953, like when the polling really kind of. first began in earnest. At this point right before a midterm. there's never been any president with a. lower approval and you go to any.

demographic like even including. non-college educated white people. Trump's like net negative eight there. across all demos. I mean Trump is. plummeting people hate this regime and. we'll zoom in on what's going on in. Michigan right now, what's going on in. Texas as we are following the elections. there as we are throughout the country. because we're getting pretty close folks. to the midterms and whether it's Abdul. El-Sayed in Michigan, whether it's James.

Tallarico in Texas, whether it's the. incredible candidates in Iowa. I mean. we're really seeing I think something. special happening right now as people. say enough is enough. So we've got a lot. to discuss. Brett and Jordy great to see. you looking forward to this episode. >> Looking forward to it as well. Great to. see you Ben, great to see you Jordy. Great to see you Midas mighty. Have you. guys seen this viral meme that's been. going around now for I forget like. probably like the past year or so. It's.

called the theory of everything and that. everybody's basically like 12 now. Everybody acts like they're 12. I think. it really sums up Donald Trump and and. everything we're seeing right now. I'll. I'll pull it up because I think it sets. the stage for the comments that we're. going to see with Trump on this episode. But here this guy Patrick Cosmos came up. with this. He said I'm working on a new. unified theory of American reality and. calling everyone is 12 now. I'm strong. and I want to have like 50 kids in a. farm. Of course you do, you're 12. I. don't want to eat vegetables. I think. steak and french fries is the only meal. Hell yeah homie, you're 12. Maybe if.

there's crime we should just send the. army. Bless your heart my 12-year. 12-year-old buddy and that's what it. feels like every time we get Donald. Trump in a room. Donald Trump's. decision-making even with things as. serious as war are as if a 12-year-old. is doing that and I almost feel like I'm. insulting 12-year-olds when I say this, but you even see it with the latest. comments from Donald Trump when Iran is. making the demands that they've made. quite frankly from the beginning now. about compensation for the war, and. Trump does the 12-year-old thing of "No,

you give me compensation. You give me. compensation." Yeah, you're 12, buddy. You're acting like you're 12. We got a. lot to go through this episode. Let me. toss it to Jordy first. Jordy, what's. the latest on your end? >> Brothers, Midas Mighty, excited to get. into tonight's show. Just a heads-up for. everyone. I I think I'm going officially. on baby watch, guys. We're about 3 3 and. 1/2 weeks until the due date. Our first. one came early, and so who knows it. could happen during the show. You guys. might just see me jet out. I don't know. I'm not making any predictions. Not the. game I'm in, but we'll see. We're. getting very excited on our end. I know.

the Midas Mighty have been asking for an. update, so wanted to let you guys know. it's it's happening real soon. Benji, where we starting off today, big bro? >> Well, Brett, with that 12-year-old. unified theory of the downfall of the. United States, I mean, we talk about. that a lot. We don't call it that per. se, which is an interesting framing, but. we talk about Trump bending reality, and. then through a trillion-dollar corporate. media ecosystem pushing this bizarre. behavior and trying to normalize it such.

that the debates are taking place within. a deeply sick and unwell kind of fake. reality where all of the debates are. completely divorced, separated from what. the American people are actually. feeling. And I think it's why networks. like the Midas Touch Network are growing. at the pace that we are because while. all the media ecosystem kind of again. has debates within Trump's fake reality, we're talking about consistently what. the American people are going through.

That people can't afford homes. They. can't afford groceries. They can't. afford gas. They can't afford anything. They have had their health care ripped. away, and they have to make decisions. like, I don't know, can I add the food. that I need to not be hungry to my. refrigerator or should I not see the. doctor and not get a checkup? And if I. don't get the checkup, that could result. in something that may be wrong with me. um continuing to, you know, grow. And so. these are in the real world, these are.

issues that the American people are. facing. I mean, and every day Donald. Trump does something just so incredibly. cruel, whether it's, you know, the end. of last week talking about going after. endangered species, right? Or a few. weeks before that, continuing to go. after nurses. Or in the past. uh you know, week, we saw bulldozers at. Big Bend National Park in western Texas, this beautiful national park. You got. bulldozers building like a wall and and.

all of this bizarre drone stuff. And the. people there, on a bipartisan basis, are. like, "Why are you drilling and. bulldozing. the Big Bend? What are you doing? This. is our national park. It's a beautiful. area. And you're separating uh the. people from the Rio Grande. Like, what. what what are you even doing?" And it's. just one cruel thing after another. And. you got to keep up with it. But we also. have to connect it to the experience. that the American people are going. through. Like, even right now, Donald. Trump is continuing to try to invade.

Greenland's sovereignty. I mean, just. because that gets covered more saying. January, it doesn't mean the issue just. goes away. I mean, you've got these. Trump regime uh linked companies that. are going in there without the approval. of Greenland. And they want to try to. start drilling. And they're like, "Well, we've got a trillion dollars of liquid. gold in here that we need to drill." And. the Greenland the Greenlandic people are. like, "No, you can't drill here. Like, what in the world are you doing?" So you. have to also keep up with everything.

that's going on. You also have to make. it very clear that what's happening is. not normal. But it's not enough just to. call out Trump's bad behavior. You have. to highlight what the American people. are going through as we just did there. at the beginning. You have to tell the. stories, for example, of those military. families whose Navy SEALs are suffering. aboard the Abraham Lincoln as Donald. Trump's out there bragging about a. blockade and pretending that we control. the Strait of Hormuz. What we can't.

forget is that there are people who are. really suffering aboard the USS Lincoln, just like the Gerald Ford, just like the. George H.W. Bush. And now they want to. move the Teddy Roosevelt there come. December. These are people's lives, you. know, when we talk about health care. being ripped away, it's not an election. talking point. It's something that you. experience. And when Donald Trump is out. there saying, "What's the worst that. could happen if we change the child. vaccine schedule?" The worst that can. happen is children can die. That's.

that's the best that's the worst thing. that can happen. And all of the. professionals who I've been talking to, they explain what Trump and RFK and all. these, you know, Trump bootlicking. sycophants in the Oval Office are. saying. And then there was like a random. lady standing behind them and she was. like touching her stomach the whole time. and I didn't understand why she was even. like in this Oval Office press. conference. What they're doing is deeply. dangerous and deranged and it removes. what science says is actually needed and.

why we've had such medical advancements. for Donald Trump just kind of doing a. version of, "Hey, let's just paint it. blue. Hey, let's just inject yourself. with bleach. Hey, just do that." And we. have experts. We have people who have. looked into this. Does that mean the. experts always get it right? No, but you. know, but the reality is is that they're. working with the best science to try to. figure things out and that system has.

been a system that has worked in this. Not perfectly, imperfectly, but it's. working. You know, I did a video about. this group called the steady state made. up of former CIA officials this morning. And one of the things that the leader of. this group said is that the reason. authoritarian regimes kind of fall the. way they do is kind of what we're seeing. with Donald Trump is that it's filled. with such malignant narcissism that they. think they have the answer to. everything. Oh, I don't like windmills, so we're not going to do windmills. I.

don't like the idea of green energy. I'm. going to call it the green new scam, so. we're not going to do that. I think that. you know, we're just going to go in. there, beam Donald Trump's face and Benjamin. Netanyahu's face in Iran, kill their. spiritual leader and the spiritual. leader of hundreds of millions of. Shiites across the world, and then. they're going to want Benjamin Netanyahu. and Donald Trump to be the leaders of. Iran. You know, it's the it's the most.

incomprehensible kind of dangerous view. And you could go to any single topic and. Trump is just not just wrong, he's. fatally wrong. And it's often why I use. that word fatal. He's fatally wrong on a. lot of these things. And I mean, just. think about what's also going on in the. past 24 hours. I mean, just you could go. anywhere. You had an announcement from. Sean Duffy of the Real World Road Rules. Challenge. That's the guy who leads our. Department of Transportation, Sean. Duffy. And by the way, this morning he.

was saying in two weeks, that's the. Trump regime speak for everything. In. two weeks, you're going to see my my. reality show that I did. He said, we did. a reality show. Me and my wife, and we've talked about. this, but we're going to see my reality. show that I can't wait to show it. I. don't want to see your reality show. What do you like why why we don't want. to see any of that. And then you had. like the weird videos being made of the. Department of Homeland Security. Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen and Lara. Trump on state regime media Fox doing. like weird workout videos. The whole.

thing is just so we don't want to see. any of that. I just want to know how. you're going to help the American. people. Anyway, I digress. Sean Duffy's. like game changer. He says game changer. We launched a new campaign to recruit. video gamers as air traffic controllers. and supercharged the entire hiring. process to get the best and brightest in. faster. The results are historic. 94% of. hiring goal met, fastest time ever to. reach the target. 2,000 hired, the most. in a single year.

I mean, they're bragging about. I mean, don't get me wrong. I think that. it is it's a great, you know, I think. that just because you play video games. doesn't mean you can't do other stuff. But we've removed the people who went to. school for a very long period of time to. be air traffic control specialist and. they're hiring literally gamers. I. thought this was a parody, Brett and. Jordy, but this is real. >> actually act to look at it and and you. know what? It's just the it's the same. way they hired people for my ICE also, you know, they they lowered the. standards. They actually took away the. expertise of it and said we're just.

going to take people who respond to us. on Twitter or something like that. And. it's not a hit on like you said, not a. hit on gamers at all. I'm sure there are. a lot of gamers who were who are very. qualified for these positions, but. that's not the point. They're trying to. find these little ways of kind of. they're recruiting their people and to. me it's all very disturbing and it adds. up and inevitably dangerous situations. happen when they continue to move these. people up the ladder and then they get. people who are wholly unqualified and. that's why every time I turn on the sort. of legacy news or if I which I honestly.

rarely do at this point, but I see, you. know, so many clips online and even as I. see, you know, some of these podcasters. and you know, you you expect it from the. right, right? You expect it from Fox, you expect it from Newsmax, you expect. it from OAN that they're constantly. going to be ranting about communism and. socialism and all this crap. What you. kind of aren't prepared for is the rest. of the media ecosystem focused on all of. this crap while we are literally staring. fascism and authoritarianism in the eye.

as we speak. And they all want to say, "No, no, no, no, no. Let's not focus on. that. Let's worry about this fake. problem that doesn't actually exist. You. should actually be afraid of the rise of. communism, the rise of socialism coming. to this country." Just feeding into. Donald Trump's deranged version of. reality as he installs the most radical. people in every position, purges all of. his positions, and implements loyalists. everywhere across the board in the. government, in these long positions, in.

these positions that were normally. reserved for actual civil servants. This. is the real threat that's in front of us. right now. The threat of the Iran war, the complete disaster, the complete. depletion of our munitions, of our. defenses. We are right now in a crisis. We don't have to start creating or. imagining fake crises because we are. staring one in the face. And the fact. that people cannot focus on what is. right in front of us right now really. drives me up the wall. But I think.

that's why so many people, you know, in. this Midas Mighty community come here as. well because we're like, "What are we. doing with these dumb distractions? Can. we please focus on this maniac right now. that's in the freaking White House?". >> It's such a legacy rot like that just. playing out in front of so many people. And again, and I I think it's meant to. gaslight y'all. But fortunately, we have. this incredible pro-democracy community. here that doesn't get gaslit by the. mainstream nonsense because they tune in. to to to independent media, which is so.

vital in this time. I just really want. to quickly go back. Just, you know, cover our butts here with the gamers cuz. I know we have a lot of gamers in the. chat that I speak to quite frequently. And it's it's nothing against the. gamers. That's not the issue in these. situations. But the situation here is. they're lowering the standards once. again, it feels like. And it's just such. a weird thing to spike the football. specifically at the speed of which. you're hiring such a critical position. You know, I tell people this all the time. I don't. care how long it takes, I just want to I.

I want to make sure it's done right. And. I just feel at the bare minimum that. should be the level of competence and. approach that our government takes to. filling very crucial roles that keep. people alive, quite frankly. Not, "Oh, we filled these positions in expert in. record time." It's like, I'm sorry. I I. but I I want the experts to actually go. through the process. I want it to be a. rigorous process with standards to. ensure that it's the most qualified. people being hired. Like, is that a. crazy thing to say, Ben and Brett?

>> No, look, to be fair, I think I did. praise the gaming community. And and I. think they understood that, but I double. protect our bases and give a shout-out. to gamers for it by for sure. But, you. know, I mean, look, I think that they. would even want to acknowledge, "Okay, we should still go through the same. process as as as everybody else." Brett, I want to pick up a point that, you. know, you were saying also, you know, which is also how is it that after. seeing all of this, which appears to be. so obvious, that it's not just the.

right-wing media, but it's just that. seeing everybody kind of fall for the. bait and bite the bait so obviously, the. trap is so obvious, and so frequently. you have the corporate media, and then. even just others chase the narrative. that is being set and the bent reality. as we started this episode from Trump. and Fox. And the moment you start even. debating with this phantom fake Trump.

bent reality, you've already moved the. Overton window so far that even if you. win the debate, you've already lost. because you're arguing in this kind of. fake trap world that the American people. aren't even in. And sometimes, you know, it's like when you look at a fish and. you see the bait just kind of right. there and the fish is come on. It's like. you know it. Didn't you see your brother. fish? You know, what if you go and do. that? You know it's going to We've done. this before. And then the fish is like.

He's like, "I told you. It's right. there.". >> The issue though with the broader like. information system right now though, I. feel like everybody always feels the. need. that they need to be talking about X, Y, and Z because other people are talking. about X, Y, Z. You don't just need a You. don't need to follow, okay? You need to. actually report on what's going on. And. when there are threats as grave as what. we are seeing right now, you got to be. able to stay focused on that and not be. the second fish that comes along.

>> You know, it's like, "Oh, so we got to. agree about Hasan Piker?" Dude, I'm like. I'm What are you even talking about? I. don't even understand what you even. mean. He's a streamer. Who cares? Look, focus on the fact that the American. people are unable to get healthcare. right now. Focus on the fact that Donald. Trump makes up every day that we're. going to do deals with Iran and then. says, "I'm going to blow the effing S. out of them." Oh, "I want them to give. me reparations.". Or that Treasury Secretary Bessen says, "Well, you know, the Strait of Hormuz is. just some water.".

It's just It's just water. Like we don't. even need it. We're. We're just going to build pipelines that. are going to Who's going to buy it? Who's going to build these things? >> Ben, they're low-keying it, bro. They're. low-keying it. They're low-keying Ben, you can't. I know they said that they were going to. have the deal done last week. They're. The deal was imminent, right? They They. said that He's being sarcastic. You. can't You didn't pick up on the sarcasm. And now this week, Ben, don't worry. They're They're low-keying it. They're. low-keying it all. >> Well, look, you know the 30 rule, right? That if you take over 30 private. companies, that's not communism. Once.

you hit 31, then maybe we can have the. conversation. Trump's literally taken over like. The United States has significant equity. stakes in over 30 companies where I. don't know if if if that's not a form of. taking over the methods and means of. control, I don't know what else is. And. Donald Trump behaves more like an. authoritarian communist than anybody. It's happening right before our eyes. It's the exact behavior in my opinion of.

the Stalins and you know, and everybody. and everybody like that. Yet, these. debates are happening like, well, what's. happening in New York City with Mum Don? I don't know lowest crime in the. history. Sounds pretty good to me. Will. you disavow? Will you disavow what Hasan. said in episode 200? See, I. it's it's enough. We've made the point. and now I want to spend time talking. about what the American people actually. care about. I mean, and just look, the price of oil went up 5%. Think about. the volatility, 5% in the last few hours.

because in response to Iran doing what. Iran has done since March. That's why I. report on it every damn day and say, here's what they've said. Their demands. have remained the exact same since. March. When it was a 10-point plan, when. it was in the 14 points that added to it. from the memorandum of understanding, which actually ended up being more. friendly to Iran that the US signed, to. what they've stood on afterwards. It's. been the exact same exact stuff. They.

want unfrozen funds. They want Israel. out of Lebanon. They want US out of the. bases in the region. They want a $300. billion fund for reparations for the, you know, for the attacks on them. You. know, this is what they've consistently. want to be able to keep their ballistic. missiles. They want a nuclear program. They said it won't be weapons grade. We'll do what we did in the JCPOA, but. you can't it's the exact same. >> is why when Trump did his post earlier. today where he did like the no, you do. comp, you compensate us is his.

12-year-old thing. Like he acted like he. was surprised by this. He's like, I see. that the representatives of the Islamic. Republic of Iran are asking for. compensation for the damage done to. them. They've been asking for this the whole. time. They've been asking for this from. the beginning. The fact that if this is. indeed a surprise to you, then. somebody's not telling you things that. you should know. Either way, you should. not be in this position of power if you. did not know on your own or did not know.

via people telling you that this was. what they've been asking for the entire. time. Like, say anything you want about. the Iranian regime, they've actually. been remarkably consistent in the terms. that they've been demanding from the. United States. So much so that we can. name them off the top of our head here. on the Midas Touch podcast. And if we. know them, the president of the United. States should know them. And right now. we see Iran consistently saying, "Hey, at this point we're hearing from sources. close to the Iranian regime, close to. the speaker of parliament, advisors to. the speaker of parliament saying, 'Like,

we're not going to even deal with this. guy until 2029. Like, like, why why even. bother? Like, this guy can't be trusted. We'll just wait you out. We're just. going to ice you out. We'll we'll just. wait you out. Good luck with your. straight-up removes. Good luck with your. economy. Good luck with your oil. reserves. See you later. Goodbye.'" And. then you see some other folks saying, "Like, if if you want to abide by the. MOU that we signed, we could go back to. those terms, but we're not going to go. less than those terms. Like, we we. hashed this out already. We had an. agreement. Like, the ball's kind of in. your court here, but Trump just cannot.

be trusted throughout any of this. And. he's not only lied to them, but he's. lied to the American people throughout. the whole process.". >> Trump acting surprised about what's in. the MOU, too. I mean, "What? Like, it's the first thing I. heard of it. What? I never heard of this. before. What are you talking about?" Of. course, buddy, cuz you're 12. You don't. pay attention. You're not listening. Stay focused here, okay? Stay focused, buddy. Try and try and focus here. And. the real issue is the longer this drags. out, the worse it is for our troops. Like, it. Iran has made it clear that, "Hey, we.

have these positions that we've already. agreed to, the MOU. This is how we're. going to move forward here." Donald. Trump has since gone back on that. multiple times in multiple posts and. just acting very confusing and erratic. is typical behavior. And it's at the. expense of our of our troops, quite. frankly, right? When this started, there. weren't 18 known soldiers dead that at. least they were willing to admit, the US. government. Who knows how many that know. like how how big that number actually. is. In in my opinion, I believe it to be. more, but that's neither here nor there. right now. The longer this drags out is.

the point that I'm trying to make here. The longer this drags out, the more. troops are going to die. And it's all. because Donald Trump's sheer. incompetence of trying to actually. behave like an adult. It he's getting. our troops killed. He is. There's no. other way to say it. >> Remember. when this all began and Trump said, "It's going to end in a few days. It's a. few weeks. I don't like to say we won, but we won." What we were preparing. everybody for, this is them who are. going to end. We said this will just be. like COVID. There's not a lot of things that you can.

say fortunately when it comes to COVID. or any of these things, but at least. there was an election in 2020 and. somebody had to fix it. And the. firefighter, in that case, Biden, was. blamed as the arsonist who had to. actually roll up his sleeves and fix it. The unfortunate thing right now, even. though we have a midterms, which I. believe there will be a massive. repudiation of Trump, is that Trump will. still be in the Oval Office, sadly. And. so, I don't see how this ends for the. next few years in Iran. Threat to your. point today through Embigallabob's. advisers, uh a few things happened.

Number one, they said, "We don't believe. that there's ever going to be any way to. negotiate with him. He's incapable." So, we have a 2029. time clock right now. But also, less. reported, but should be reported a lot, I had told him Mojtaba, he's been a. little bit more public lately. Um he met with President Paseski and. recently the president of Iran, and he. announced high-level appointments of all. of the main Iranian military positions. and they're all IRGC kind of hardliners, you know, who have no interest in doing.

any type of, you know, deal anymore with. the United States. So, they're prepared. that this is going to be a struggle and. they're sending a message, you know, through um, you know, through 20 through. 2029, you know, but, you know, you just. think about, you know, these things too. Like, remember, this is one of the most. ridiculous ones. You You all remember. April 26, 2026, Donald Trump calls state. regime media Fox. He says, "Iran's oil. infrastructure and pipelines are going. to explode in 3 days and all of Iran's.

going to be naturally wiped out because. the blockade is so effective. The. pipeline The pipes get congested." He. says, "And then it's going to blow up. So, they have 3 days left to live.". Okay, it's it's. These are the most ridiculous things. In. a normal, healthy media environment, if. the president of the United States says. that and that doesn't happen, or just. says that, or we can talk about what he. did in the Oval Office today, he's. removed. End of story. We We We don't We. don't go, "Well, you No, no, no, no." We. go, "That's a psycho. That's a psychotic. human, whether it's 25th Amendment or.

whatever, the tsunami of coverage should. be this is a sick, sick, sick, you know, what? And And this person's got to go.". That's it. It's not a Democrat position, it's not a Republican position. This is. This is a sicko. And, you know, whether. it's fake 90 deals in 90 days, whether. it is what, 2 weeks ago? "We did another. deal with the board of peace in Gaza. Netanyahu has agreed. Hamas has agreed. I did it." So, what he posted 2 weeks.

ago and I was thinking, "Isn't this what. they said last October?" And then. there's been thousands of uh people in. Gaza killed by Netanyahu since then. But. what what what's the Okay, but you're. saying it again? Okay. Uh so, what's. going to happen? Netanyahu says, "No, we're not agreeing to that at all. I. want to be precise. Israel rejects the. 15-point document." And what what that's. what Netanyahu said. We're supposed to. move on. What what you got for me, Donnie? You. got some memes of some bronze statues.

painted gold, Donnie? Okay. Okay. I'll. see what you're doing. You're going to. do some weirdo hair, Donnie? Okay. You're going to do a little weird wig. for me, Donnie? You know, no. I'm not. distracted by that crap. I'm going to. call it out as weird, but we're going to. say this is sick. This is rotten. This. is demonic. Not to mention they're. covering up child sex trafficking rings. out of the Oval Office, and they swore. in the guy who's leading it with Donald. Trump Todd Blanche today. And then. you've got. people like these MAGA Republican. senators, you know, who were complicit.

in all of this saying, "Well, you know, I don't like RFK. She She He's lying, and I almost voted against Todd. Blanche." Sick and rotten to the core. But, we have to understand the core. rottenness that leads to a Trump. How. the system is broken, and that's what. causes Trumps to to rise to begin with. And Trump's a vessel when you have these. people who are so weak and pathetic and. who stand for nothing and fall for. everything here in this country, and why. we need to stand up to that. By the way, it's what we talk about in WTF America.

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>> Let's talk about what went down in the. Oval Office, but first let me show you. what uh Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican. from Louisiana, who is no longer going to be the senator. after the midterms because Donald Trump. didn't endorse him and uh his career is. over because of Trump. He's a doctor, Senator Bill Cassidy. He's an MD. Uh he. was the decisive vote that voted in. favor of RFK Jr. to become the health. secretary even knowing that uh the. answers that were given to the committee.

at the confirmation hearing by RFK Jr. went against all medical science and. this guy was a doctor. But he's like, "Ah, let's give him a shot." You know, it's also cowards like that who voted. for Todd Blanche to become the attorney. general and also made it like a whole. show like, "What am I going to do? And. I've decided despite my deep concerns. that I'm going to give him a shot. because everything's weaponized. So, what else can we do?" And so today after. this deranged Oval Office presser with.

Trump and RFK and Bhattacharya, the NIH. director, uh where they said that. they're changing the childhood vaccine. schedule and just said everything that. was false. Like like just everything. that was false. That that children are. getting Coke cans of vaccines, these. vats of Coke cans injected into them is. what Donald Trump and RFK were saying. What do you What are you talking about? That's not a thing. That uh it's only. safe to get the hepatitis B vaccine when. you're 14 or 15 years old, which goes.

against all of the science there. That. uh the vaccines actually explode and can. kill you if you do you know if if you do. it the way it's currently being done, making false links to autism, uh that. people were much healthier many decades. ago and now they're much sicker as a. result of vac- I mean, real serious, dangerous disinformation. But this was. Cassidy's post. "I'm a doctor. This executive order is wrong,". referring to what Trump signed today.

"The president does not have the. expertise to make these changes. Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines do not. cause autism. Breaking up vaccines will. mean children have to get more shots to. get the same protection, not fewer. shots. It will increase hesitancy and. make children less safe. Parents should. listen to their child's pediatrician. about vaccines rather than listening to. an inaccurate executive order. This is. so wrong." Go on to say.

what you also are implying there. Say. what's explicit. This will kill. children. This will lead to children being killed. Right? When you rip healthcare away from. people, people die. I mean, the stat. isn't reported, but how many hundreds of. thousands or perhaps millions of. Americans have died already since Trump. has ripped healthcare away from them cuz. they couldn't see a doctor. I've heard a. lot of stories from people, and I'm sure. you've heard it as well. They didn't go. to the checkup because they can't afford.

it. They didn't go get this checked out. and it turned out it was something bad. In the United States of America, the. wealthiest nation in the world, the. priorities from the regime are 1.5. trillion dollars to the military. industrial complex to aid and embed. genocide and war crimes and slaughtering. little girls in Manab. That's where they. were. building Trump class battleships in an. age of drones, unmanned submersives, anti-drone interceptors, where we see. what modern warfare looks like. Donald.

Trump wants to spend hundreds of. billions of dollars from that 1.5. trillion dollar military budget on a. Trump class of nuclear battleships. because Donald Trump likes the. aesthetic. He likes the way battleships. look between the 1920s and the 1940s. Thinks it looks good. Doesn't like the. way stealth looks. So as a result, that's where our. taxpayer dollars are going while the. American people are suffering. But it. takes real complicit bootlickers, real.

sick real weak humans like Bill Cassidy. who go along with this. And one of the things, and again, I. won't. I'll just plug the book quickly but then. move on, but it's an important point. from WTF America. But an important point. that I make that Trump is a vessel. He is a horrible blob. A blobfish. Do we do we do that video? Something like a horrible blob vessel. for authoritarianism. And that we see this authoritarian.

blobfish throughout the world. Trump's. the vessel in the United States. But. what we used to have here, to use the. medical analogy, is we used to have an. immunity built up through the strength. of our democracy to that authoritarian. virus. Where we would look at sickly. countries across the world and see that. authoritarian virus rear its head. We. would call it out. In some cases, the. authoritarian would be such a ridiculous.

person, we would mock it. Baghdad Bob. and this or that and the other. But now. it's here and our immunity. has been eroded to allow the vessel, the. virus to infect. And the point we make. in WTF America, but that I talk about is. this has been decades and decades of a. project by the right-wing oligarchs to. achieve this. And so we need a. generational immunity to this. We need. to build up our defenses and purge the.

virus of authoritarianism and build up. the immunity to stop it again. But it's. weak people like Cassidy who go and say, "Well, there's nothing I can do." What. do you mean? You're a senator. You are United States senator. You know, or people. like Thom Tillis of North Carolina. Well, what do you expect me to do? He. met with Todd Blanche, met with the. Epstein survivors. Well, he tormented. them. He went to the victims of child. sex trafficking whose names he outed and.

who he's already caused more PTSD. And. he met with them because you told him to. meet with them and then he caused them. PTSD by treating them rudely and. abrasively and mocking them. And that's. what the And And then you vote for him? You know, or you go to John Cornyn of. Texas. We talked about earlier in the. show, Big Bend National Park. I could I. could give you a myriad of examples of. how Texas is suffering right now under. the Trump regime. I mean, they literally.

in Texas gave no taxes on electricity to. data centers. They to attract the data centers, they. incentivized it with no tax on the. electricity by the electricity-guzzling. data centers to go in their backyards. And now Greg Abbott, the governor of. Texas, is like, "Well, we're going to. audit them. We're going to study them.". What do you mean audit them? You did it. You told them to all come in, and Brett, you made that great super cut in Ohio, super cut in Ohio with Vivek Ramaswamy,

whose whole thing was data centers, data. centers. Like, I never said data said. yes, you did. You did. And by the way, the way we're calling them out and. focusing on the issues that matter to. the American people, that's hello, that's what you focus on, not what Hasan. is saying, or are you a democratic. socialist or this? No, cuz there is an. authoritarian communist in the Oval. Office right now. So, stop the BS about, "Ooh, well, does this person do do do do. do?" Look at the results. Look at the. action. All I know is I see violent.

crime record lows in New York right now. I see businesses staying in New York. right now. I see someone who's a deeply. empathetic mayor in New York who's. responding to the people of New York. well, Brett Jury. >> Enough Yeah, enough of the. fear-mongering, and honestly, the people. like Bill Cassidy make me absolutely. sick. I quite frankly prefer probably. the most radical of the Republicans. hardliners where you actually know, you. know, that that's who they are, rather. than this spaghetti human being who. bends at every whim. I mean, just look,

I'm going to pull up this picture. I. pulled it up a second ago, but I don't. know if I describe it for the uh for the. audio listeners. This is Bill Cassidy. right after he announced that he was, after he did that very apprentice-style, "Tune in at 11:00 a.m., and you'll find. out. Will I vote for the guy who's going. to weaponize our Justice Department and. cover up for Jeffrey Epstein, or will I. not? I'll see you at 11:00 on the floor. of Congress." Well, this is him walking. out, and like he looks like a tormented. individual. And quite frankly, I hope.

that he is a tormented individual. I. hope he understands at least a little. bit of what he's done. And like you. said, Ben, he's a medical doctor. To me, he's violated his Hippocratic oath of do. no harm. He did like the most maximum. harm on the planet. He could have. stopped RFK. He didn't. He made excuses. then. Well, he assured me that he. wouldn't do anything. And then when when. RFK and and Trump and them start. spreading all this disinformation about. vaccines and and there's a measles. outbreak and Cyclospora and everything.

else that's going on. He's like, "Oh, I. But he promised me. He promised RFK, you. promised me." And then in that same. moment, he has the ability to at least. be like, "You know what? I was wrong. I. learned from the RFK fiasco that I can't. just trust people. I should actually. look at the overwhelming amount of. evidence that is laying in front of me. right here and make an honest informed. decision." And then he does it again. with Todd Blanche. And then he wants the.

credit when he goes on TV during the. Sunday shows this past weekend to be. like, "Well, you know, I almost voted. against them. Don't I get a pat on the. back for that?" These people are. horrific and there is not a Donald Trump. unless there are Bill Cassidys along the. way propping up the Donald Trumps. And. that's true throughout the entirety of. history, how these autocrats come to. power. And I am sick, probably most. sick, of the people like the Bill. Cassidys, like the Susan Collins, like.

the Lisa Murkowskis. And yes, I know. they voted against Todd Blanche in the. scenario, but I'm telling you it's all. orchestrated. They coordinated all. They. know exactly how many votes they need. They do it based on the calendar often. so they could be like, "Look, I'm a. moderate. I vote for me. I'm a moderate. See, I voted against this." Even though. they knew that they was going to pass. anyway. They're playing games. They're. gaslighting you. And they frankly don't. give a damn about the consequences and.

the consequences are enormous. The. amount of medical disinformation and and. I I think we're going to get Dr. Vin. Gupta of Midas Health on the on the pod. soon, so look out for that. The amount. of medical disinformation coming from. the White House today, when they were. speaking about autism and they were. speaking about vaccines, I mean, horrific horrific horrific stuff to see. the president of the United States. saying stuff like that. I think we're. lucky that this is just like an. executive order that at the end of the. day really. doesn't have much meaning, but it's.

going to lead to people believing him. and questioning things that are set in. order to make sure that their kids stay. alive, so that their kids are healthy. And what they did today is just so. irresponsible. Reminds me going back to. like the big Tylenol rants that Donald. Trump did. But there is no more. dangerous, you know, people than we. could possibly have in the in the Oval. Office than the people who are there. right now. >> Absolutely. Look, I think from my. perspective, too, from brothers our.

perspectives here, we all have young. children. As I mentioned at the outset of the. show, I've one on the way in a couple of. weeks. When I went to my pediatrician. here, a couple months ago for my son's. vaccinations, you know, we we were. talking about all of this chaos. And I. just I just asked the doctor, I'm like, "Doc, what do you like what do you think. about this?" And. like just the exacerbated. like sigh and look on the doctor's face, I just know everyone in the medical. community who has studied like this. stuff, who's become an expert in their.

field, has practiced for many years. following the science, following the. data, like doing their, you know, best. to just put their best foot forward to. to help children, they're exhausted. right now. They're exhausted by this. Trump regime because, Ben, as you so. bluntly put it and as Cassidy so. cowardly tap-danced around, this type of. action from the Trump regime of mixing. up these vaccination schedules what just. for the heck of it, who knows, it's. going to lead to the deaths of children. There's no other way to sugarcoat it.

And the medical professionals know this. And now they're out there doing their. best, having to work under certain. guidelines, and it's exhausting. And I. can only imagine what they're going. through. As a parent, it's horrifying. and scary, right? I I didn't study this. I I don't know. I lean on the doctors, and I lean on the guidance to better. inform my decisions, right? That that's. the best that we can do here. And when. our quote-unquote leaders are seemingly. self-sabotaging us and our families and. our loved ones, it becomes a horrible.

situation to to to be in. It becomes. stressful for the doctors. It becomes. stressful for the parents. You know who. it's not stressful for? Donald Trump. He. doesn't give a damn. He does not give a. damn. And this is another thing. As we. go forward here as a country, I mean, it. is just so important that we have. leaders who actually want to lead while. they are in a position to do so, right? like Cassidy's on his way out over here, and he he doesn't care anymore. And so I. I'm glad he's speaking up in this. instance. He did vote to confirm Blach, which is horrible and horrendous. And. Brett, as you astutely pointed out last.

week, we knew that was all orchestrated. and was going to happen. And it's just. It's awful that all of these people just. behind the scenes here are doing what's. best for for their party, right? And. like Look, I'm not like a. Democrat-Republican type of guy here. Dems have their own issues that they. obviously have to work out. Like it's. just politics of it all. But time and. time again, the Republican Party is so. obviously at the forefront here. Their. politicians, their senators, their. congresspeople, they're not working for. the American people. They are not. working for the American people. They.

are working so they don't receive a mean. tweet, a mean statement from their dear. leader Donald Trump, so they continue to. get invited to the party, so they. continue to get invited to XYZ event. Why? Because I That's what they care. They care about their access here. And. holding these positions is only. important to them to further advance. their lives, I guess, professionally, but also monetarily. And so they don't. want to lose that. And so something's. got to give when when they don't want to. lose their access and their money. And. that's the people. They don't care about. the people. And it is so obvious every.

single day and it's just frustrating. It's it's it's absolutely disheartening. I do believe that we could get back to a. place in the society where we actually. are electing leaders who care about the. people and I think I I I think we're. kind of at a moment here where where. pavement's going to meet the road. And it's just going to be you know, what. it is and how we figure our way out. through this. But we can no longer elect. the bell capacities like like it is just. so obvious to me that the Donald Trump's. that like Donald Trump man, he's an. issue obviously. Trumpism though, that's.

the thing that has so metastasized like. within our politics that has trickled. down to so many politicians especially. in the Republican party where just. hatred and vitriol and making money and. status symbols rather than helping. people and just frankly being kind but. helping the American people and actually. doing your job. That's take that that's. taken precedent for whatever reason and. we have got to get that out of our. politics. >> You think about every area of subject. matter expertise, the economy.

Donald Trump, "Tariff, it's a beautiful. word. Everybody loves the word. It means. we get richer and it means we tax the. other countries." which is just not what. a tariff is. Everybody warned it's going. to cause more inflation. It did cause. more inflation. You know, when it comes. to health, Donald Trump, you know, spreads all of these lies about the. vaccines and "Here's what I think we. should do." or you're putting Coca-Cola. bottles of vaccines in babies. Like. that's that's not happening. I don't. know what you're even talking about.

Like when it comes to energy, uh we need. big beautiful coal and windmills are. horrible. Right? When it comes to war, you know, it's like we let's change the. name of the Department of Defense and. then let's say that our war fighters. need to be groomed better and that's. what we need to do. And and and then we. can we control the Strait of Hormuz. We're doing all these fake deals. Trust. me, Iran's going to treat us like we're. heroes. They're going to fall in two.

days. You can go to any area. And he and. this is what the the guy who runs that. organization with the CIA officers. steady states that he. it is Trump's wrong about everything. And and is and you know that cuz he says. I'm right about Trump's right about. everything means he's wrong about. everything, right? Cuz that and it's. always the it's always the opposite. about every topic. And again, it's not a. Democrat or Republican thing. It's just. are you are you are you right? Are you. wrong? You know, and then you I could do.

every topic. Immigration, you know, killing a comprehensive immigration and. then lying and saying you're going after. criminals, but going after hardworking. people. and also harming the economy and just. being cruel. You know, destroying our. national parks. It's. everything. Every single thing the guy. does is cruel, unusual, and incompetent. Let's take our last quick break of the. show. Reminder, pre-order WTF America. It's the book I wrote with my brothers.

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Shout out to our sponsors, y'all. Links. in the descriptions of the YouTube and. the audio. Use the links, use the codes. There's an exit survey. Let them know we. sent you. I didn't want to interrupt Ben. cuz you were on a flow. But, you know, Trump bringing back What was it? The the. World War II style submarines? Was it. Was that Was that what you're Just. because he thinks it looks cool? Cuz he. doesn't like stealth? >> Yeah. >> Of course. He's 12. You're 12, buddy. That's why. He thinks it looks cool, so. we have to spend some money and. Uh just on like. >> Did you guys see these photos of Trump, by the way, golfing? Like Trump is. genuinely terrified of like getting.

killed by Iran and I don't know if like. everybody has seen these pictures, but. now when he goes around who's on like. his golf course in Bedminster over the. weekend and he had missile interceptors. next to him on the golf course in. Bedminster. And I feel like like I've. never seen this before, so I don't know. if this has ever happened with another. president. It seems very peculiar to me. and also peculiar that this isn't even. like a bigger story than it is, but. here's a photo of of Trump. When I first. saw this, I was like it's a it has to be.

AI, right? It has to be AI. And then I. found video graphic proof that it was. legitimate. And these are. they appear to be AN/TWQ-1 Avenger. short-range air defense systems. And throughout the entire weekend while. Donald Trump was at his golf course at. Bedminster, like the they were also like. intercepting all these planes. They had. F-16 fighter jets intercepting like two. or three planes who flew near the. restricted airspace.

around Donald Trump because as the war. goes on and on and on, Donald Trump is. becoming increasingly paranoid. I mean, remember even just a a few weeks back. when he did that last-minute swap of the. Qatari jet, swapped the Qatari jet for. the old Air Force One, and then he made. really weird comments to the press on. the plane where they were to ask him. about it and he'd be like, "Hey, if if. they get me, they get you, too." Like. this has been in his head for a while. He's really been haunted by it. I think. seeing the intelligence that is.

theoretically out there and also the. signs that people have up in Iran and. just the way the war is going. But, you. know, I think just a a really kind of. fascinating sight to see. these interceptors. And, you know, also. contrasted with the fact that our. interceptors and munitions and. everything are running low overseas, but. now we're using these interceptors to. protect Donald Trump while he goes. golfing over the weekend. I I just think. I think it's a metaphor for something.

there. >> For for the audio listeners, Brett's. playing the video right now. The the. interceptor is literally behind Donald. Trump as he's taking his backswing. I. I'm not being sarcastic. This isn't AI, either. And I don't say this on the show. because like I'm being funny. This is a. guy Brett and Ben might as mighty. He. He's deeply concerned about his own. mortality. He He He is. That's why he's. doing the funny wig thing these days. where he just looks preposterous with. his new wig that he wears. It's why he. covers his hand when he speaks cuz he's. deeply embarrassed that he's rotting.

from the inside out. It's why he wants. to name things after himself and build. the golden arch and rename the the. Kennedy Center the Trump Kennedy Center. It's because he knows that he does not. have a legacy to leave in the United. States that is any somewhat positive at. all. And so what is he trying to do? He's trying to manipulate what that. legacy looks like by taking all these. alternate routes to to to just put his. footprint on there. >> You know, Trump gave defense companies a. 21-day ultimatum to come up with. immediate plans how they're going to.

build back interceptor stocks also and. ATACMS and HIMARS and all of the weapons. that Trump depleted with poor. management. Sometimes a lot of this. though is also, you know, it it it gets. debated on corporate news through these. partisan lens and this and that and this. is this side and this is that side. No, no. Objectively, the United States ran out. of weapons. in the war in about a 40-day period of.

time. And we knew that before the reporting. because we would look at the. surveillance footage and the satellite. footage and we would see that the. interceptors were not stopping Iran's. ballistics. So Iran's ballistics would be able to. shoot the US bases in the region with. relative ease such that the US had to. abandon most of its bases in the Middle. East other than Israel. The US has. basically abandoned all of the Middle. East bases. Do you know that?

>> Like in Bahrain, the Fifth Fleet. abandoned. One of the reasons also why our sailors. on the Abraham Lincoln USS Abraham. Lincoln supercarrier struggling, they're. not getting their mail, they're not. getting supplies. A lot of the supplies. were routed through, you guessed it, Bahrain and the Fifth Fleet and then it. would go to the supercarrier, but that. supply route has been shut off by Iran. I can talk about Kuwait, I can talk. about Jordan, I could talk about Al. Udeid in Qatar, I could talk about the.

bases in UAE or Beal in Iraq. Iran. obliterated those bases. At least 12 to. 13 billion dollars in damages, probably. more there, and that's in addition to. the US running out of weapons. So, Donald Trump has now ordered defense. companies, you figure it out. Dude, you. had a one trillion dollar defense budget. last year, one trillion dollars. And now. here you are blaming Biden. You blame. Biden for the economy, you blame Biden. for this, Biden for that, Biden for.

this, Biden for that. Truthfully, Biden. should have been blaming you for the. things that you did cuz that was. actually real when Biden came in. But. Biden didn't, he acted like a leader. And he took it and he said, "I'm going. to fix it. That's what I do. I'm going. to put my head down, I'm going to fix. it." And then, two rough years, um but. then we noticed manufacturing booms and. things were getting better and inflation. was decreasing. And then Donald Trump. screwed it all up all over again. And. that's just what we see repeatedly. I I. want to point this out as well.

So, you understand some of the. developments. It was also announced. recently. that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, who. already have a defense alliance, they. are they just brought in Turkey and. they're calling it the Mecca Pact. And. we believe Egypt is going to be joining. soon. And so, what's actually. significant, and by the way, Iran kind. of applauded it, but also is wary of it. because Iran's like, "Well, at least. you're learning that Arab nations, Muslim nations need to form alliances.

with itself." It was a funny comment by. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson. He. was like, "We're not worried about this." And you. could tell they're not worried about it. because the Houthis, who are aligned. with Iran, continue to strike Eastern. Saudi Arabia and in Aramco facility. uh today. Which is also a contrast at. Bedminster over the the where Donald. Trump put those interceptors. It was. sponsored by Aramco with a legacy deal. while the Houthis were striking in. Eastern Saudi Arabia and also striking. within Yemen in areas by the Saudi back.

government. So, the Houthis weren't. afraid of that announcement, but that. announcement was made because the US. security umbrella is broken and China's. going to move in and they already have. moved in and it's going to basically. replace the US though with a more Muslim. nation Arab nation forward. um security alliance in the region. That's I think an important thing to. point out. Another thing I want to point. out cuz it's not getting enough. attention or it's being framed the wrong. way. I don't know if you saw this. We. We've been talking about how Trump has. been depriving Ukraine of the.

interceptors that it needs uh in order. to shoot down the Russian ballistics and. as a result Russia's been able to really. strike hard in Ukraine cuz Ukraine. doesn't Ukraine can strike down the. drones, Ukraine can strike down cruise. missiles, but Ukraine struggles can't it. struggles it can't strike down. ballistics without PAC-3 or THAAD. interceptors. Trump promised that they. would sell the US would sell it to. Europe and Europe would sell it to. Ukraine and then Trump went back on. that. Trump promised they would give. Ukraine a license. Trump went back on. that. So, Trump lied. Tab Zelenskyy.

along uh the entire time, but now I. don't know if you saw this. Raytheon The story is that the reason. that Ukraine can't get the license is. that Raytheon and Lockheed are worried. that Ukraine may develop better versions. of the interceptors if they get that. technology so that it's an IP issue by. Lockheed and Raytheon. Let me just say. it now clearly so when it's proven to be.

correct we can say let's go back and. roll the tape. In my opinion as part of. Donald Trump giving. 50 60 billion dollars more to Lockheed. to produce interceptors and giving. billions and billions more to Raytheon. he's having them say that so that it. could be blamed on them as an IP issue. versus a Trump issue because it. literally makes no like let's use common. sense. How easy would it be for Donald Trump to.

say to Zelensky if he actually cared, "You can have the license, but for the. next 50 years any. interceptors that are made by Ukraine. become the ownership of the United. States.". And Zelensky would agree to it in -5. seconds, right? He'd be like, "Of. course, we need the interceptors. What. do you want?" That would actually be a. deal. And Trump could do that in a. second. So, you're you're telling me. it's an IP issue that they're worried. that Zelensky is going to make better. IP? If anything, if if you're If you're.

Lockheed and you're Raytheon, you can. get a windfall. If they make better. weapons, just claim ownership of it. And. that's an actual deal that, you know, you would be like, "Okay, that was a. smart deal." But I obviously that's. being used as the excuse, in my opinion, to help Putin. So, I want everybody to. pay attention to these international. developments because they have important. ramifications. And and and and I I just. want to talk about this, too. Um the Pew. Research poll, we talked about at the. outset, that Trump's approval rating.

before the midterms is the lowest of any. president after 1953. Nine And that's like when this polling. first started. Okay? And. I think Aasim from our network did this. analysis, which was which we got to do. this analysis every day. because it focused on what state regime. media was spoke Fox what they were. focused on. So, between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. the main topics on state regime media,

Fox, the WNBA was mentioned 34 times. Sophie Cunningham 15 times. Hong, the. Wisconsin uh governor candidate, 32. times. AOC 20 times. Al Sayed 35 times, Hasan 12 times, Obama 14 times, Mondani 24 times, Fauci 45 times. That's. like their main coverage right now. >> It's something about. >> Focused on the Focused on the important. things. >> And how there are these two 6'10 and 7'1. NBA players, Royce White and Enes Kanis.

Enes Kanter, who they they they say that. they're trans now, so that they can mock. trans people and they want to join the. WNBA draft, so they go on Fox like. wearing wigs and they're like, "Look, we're trans now. We're doing the draft.". And then Fox is like, "OH, THE DEMS ARE. BEING GOING CRAZY by this." It's like, "Dude, no one's going We don't know what. the hell What are you doing? What are. you talking about? What is this?" You. know, they're like, "THE DEMS ARE GOING. CRAZY OVER his hair." Like, "Dude, no. one cares. It's just It's weird. It's. just objectively strange.".

>> I think. people just want health care, all right? People just don't People want to be able. to get take out food. >> Exactly. Take out food or make dinner. for their family and not spend a. fortune. People want to be able to go to. the doctor. >> go bankrupt. They don't care about your. ridiculous stunts. They don't care about. all this other BS. They They really. don't. They care that there's a fascist. that's been taking over our country and. an entire class of people around him who. have been enabling him. Uh that's, you know, these are the. things people care about, but that's why. they want to keep people distracted with. all this other garbage. So, you know, I. think. so much of like when when we're speaking.

about these topics, like almost as. important as what you speak about is. also the things that you don't speak. about. And that's why And Fox knows that. and the right-wing media knows that. And. that's why they often try to push all of. this BS at you because they'd rather you. talk about that garbage than the stuff. that's actually impacting your lives. Because if they actually speak about the. stuff that's impacting their lives, inevitably their viewers are the ones. who are probably getting effed over far.

more than even most of the country. Uh it's just the the the facts of the. matter here, but they don't want them. focused on that. They want them focused. on this other garbage. And and by the. way, I I want to go to this other story. too quickly before before we get out of. here because it's it's just a crazy. story and it really goes it it it sums. it up a little bit because. before I was talking about Donald Trump. being afraid. of these attacks against him. And every. day we're learning more and more and. more about Donald Trump's panic and. Donald Trump's fear. And and then, you.

know, that's why when you start your. videos or you do a video about Trump. panicking or or Trump being terrified. and stuff, sometimes you get comments. that are like, "No, he's not. He's not. panicking. He's not scared. He's not. terrified." And they buy into the image. that he's trying to portray. And then. the actual substantiated evidence is so. far to the contrary. And so there was a. Washington Post story out tonight that. is worth bringing up because it fits. into this bucket. And what the. Washington Post says, here, let me pull. up the headline right here.

"Contradicting public statements, Trump. took secret flight from Turkey amid. Iranian threat. Secret flight from. Turkey amid Iranian threat." And this is. goes back to exactly what I was speaking. about before. when I was talking about how Donald. Trump ended up switching planes. He he. had that Qatar jet and then all of a. sudden he was on the old Air Force One. And so what this article is saying, I'll. just kind of summarize it quickly, is. that that assassination threat against. Trump.

there was an a secret operation that had. to take place because Donald Trump was. so terrified of that assassination. threat that he publicly boarded the Air. Force One, the legacy Air Force One that. he had, you know, switched to, or so we. thought. He was then secretly moved by. an airport catering truck, like a. shuttle, a catering truck, moved. secretly to a smaller military aircraft. while journalists and then White House. staff flew on this decoy plane. And they.

thought that a most of them thought that. Trump was still on that plane with them. They thought he was still on that Air. Force One with them when he actually. flew in a nondescript plane to Britain. on a nondescript call sign with the. tracking systems disabled concealing his. location for hours and hours while they. publicly claimed that Trump was on this. other plane. If that doesn't just sum up. what's going on in Donald Trump's head. and the reality that he is kind of. having to grapple with. And to Jordy's.

point, the mortality that he is now. grappling with and the fear that lives. with him every single day then I don't. know what else is. What a crazy crazy. crazy story. >> Yeah, you know, it's fascinating because. I would say, you know, being self-aware. the criticism that I frequently get is. he's not panicking. Melania didn't. disappear. The the polls aren't crashing. I'm like, I would.

you try to. you use other words. I think the issue is. underplaying it and not using the right. words for the moment. All I can do is. observe what's happening. And it's not. hyperbolic when Donald Trump is doing. things so overtly catastrophic. So it is a catastrophe. Yes, when you're. in the Oval Office and you're telling 14. and 15-year-olds to get the to wait.

until you're 14 or 50 to get the HPV. vaccine and lying about babies getting. Coca-Cola vats of vaccines, 72 jabs that. kill them, and I say it's a disastrous, you know, event. It is it is. That That. doesn't mean there can be there could be. multiple disastrous events, but I think. using a headline that says, you know, questions are raised about it, you know, is is missing what this is. This is a. three alarm, five alarm, 10 alarm fire.

You know, what what whatever whatever. word you want to say, this is an. emergency situation in our country and. to meet the moment you have to use the. language of the moment and you have to. be descriptive about what's actually. happening. Yeah, where the hell is. Baloney? You know, I mean, she has to. where she she's gone. Am I you know, what the hell is she doing? You know, yes, Donald Trump is panicking. He's. flying on other planes while having. freaking drone interceptors follow him. around on a golf course while he lies.

and claims he's doing deals and then. says, "I'm not doing deals." or "I'm. going to blow the effing" said, "I'm. going to blow the effing S out of them.". And now the plan just by the way, I. mean, the plan is. according to him, we're going to we're. going to low key it. We're going to semi. negotiate it and we're not going to do. anything. Okay, well, Iran's going to strike the. tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. They've. been striking one or two tankers a day. The price of crude went up about five to.

six percent. By next week on this path. we will probably hit close to $100 a. barrel again. The only reason why gas. prices, the paper price of gas was in. the 70s is the market is obviously being. manipulated by and I'm not they're not. me speculating or being hyperbolic. Like. the market is being manipulated. It's. happening before our eyes. There's a. part of it that's being done a little. bit more surreptitiously by having, I.

think, these kind of. well short shorters working with Bessent. to short. crude and to try to keep it down, but. they're timed also with Donald Trump's. statements and Bessent's statements. where Bessent goes on CNBC financial. programs to affirmatively manipulate the. markets. Like that's actually happening. But in the real world, we are at tank. bottom. We're less than 300 million.

barrels of oil right now. And you have. the price of oil going up up up up up. That's what's happening right now in the. real world. And that means prices are. going to stay up for a while. And if. Trump's plan is, I'm going to low key. it. I'm just going to do nothing. I'm. going to pretend it's not happening. Brett, to your point and Jordy, to your. point, that's also the tactic of the. 12-year-old. And so we'll have this. episode go full circle. And no offense. to 12-year-olds cuz they behave more. maturely. But when we talk about.

leadership, when we talk about. um patterning behavior to adult, to act. like grown-up, you know, just saying, "Nah, I'm not even going to deal with it. anymore. Oh, you're going to do it? I'm. going to do it, too. Or I'm going to. blow the effing s out of you." Like. that's the behavior of deeply disturbed. 12-year-olds who we probably knew. growing up. You know, that behave the. 12-year-old deranged bully. You know, who's frequently put in their place. And. that's like what we're in and we can't.

accept that reality. We can't accept. that reality. And then I'll toss it to. Brett and I'll leave you with this cuz. some people are like, "Well, you guys are saying it, but what are you. doing about it?" Well, first off, building a media network that does this. the right way is important. Would you. all say that Fox is ineffective cuz all. they do is talk about it? No, of course. not. So, we have to build something that. sets the narrative about the things that. people are talking about. We need to set. the narrative, set the framework, set.

the conversation, set the language, set. the tone so that it is aligned with the. people, not disaligned with. disinformation by Fox. But then I got to. give a hat tip to the people who are. doing things. People like Katie Phang. and Allison Gill and so many others at. this network that don't just talk the. talk but are in there and they're. fighting every day. to do more than most politicians are out. there doing right now. And so creating a. support structure that allows that to.

happen is something that is an important. thing. But you have to build. infrastructure. You have to build an. institution. You have to then build an. ecosystem around the institution. Right-wing fascist media has been doing. this for 60-70 years to build it. And to. counteract it you have to build the. remedy. You have to build the antidote. You have to stop it. And that's what our. focus is on here to do that hard work. And that's what we're going to keep on.

doing every damn day here. So I'll leave. you with that. Brett and Jordy, if you. want to say anything else. >> I'll I'll just posit one quick theory. for people to chew on before we go and. that's Donald Trump we're just talking. about his trip to Turkey and how he did. the secret voyage away. Donald Trump goes to Turkey, few weeks. later, new hair. Coincidence? I'm just saying I'm just I'm just saying. folks somebody might want to dig it. somebody might want to dig into that. Okay, I end on a stupid note, but a lot. of serious stuff discussed on this.

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