LIVE: Trump CRASHES OUT in SELF-INFLICTED DEATH SPIRAL!!! 4/30/2026

Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben. Mycelix and this is breaking news. Let's. get into it, folks. Donald Trump right. now experiencing an unprecedented. death spiral when it comes to American. politics at least. You wouldn't know. that if you turned on corporate news. They still want to talk about how heroic. Donald Trump was regarding the alleged. White House Correspondents Dinner.

incident which has. so many red flags. It's not even visible. which flag from the next. It's just one. gigantic kind of red screen at this. point. We learned that the alleged. suspect's lawyer was saying that the. lawyer wasn't even able to meet with the. suspect in a private and confidential. place. We're going to keep you updated. there, but uh.

there's not really a clear explanation. about whether the alleged suspect was. actually the person who uh shot one of. the Secret Service agents or whether it. was friendly fire. They're saying that. the alleged suspect had a shotgun and it. seems that it would be pretty easy to. run a quick ballistic to determine if it. was a shotgun residue or shotgun spray. versus a handgun, but we'll set that. aside because I think you all have the. same red flags and questions that we do.

Um but the reality is is that Donald. Trump is historically unpopular. Right? The latest AP-NORC poll has. Trump's approval at 33%. nationwide amongst all uh respondents. Uh the latest Reuters poll has Trump's. approval at 34%. In terms of standard of living, 8%. approval amongst independents, 8%. amongst independents. that's a very low. number right there.

When it comes to Trump's approval on the. economy and the AP NORC poll, it's at. like 30%. Overwhelmingly, Americans don't support. this catastrophic and unlawful war in. Iran. New polling data as well over here that. we're posting from Washington Post ABC. Ipsos, showing that Americans despise. that Donald Trump's priorities right now. are golden ballrooms and 250-ft arches.

and putting his face and signature on. currency. Overwhelmingly, the support. for these things is anywhere. uh. Top support for the ballroom is 28%. The. ballroom is the most popular amongst. this cohort. 28% approval. And all the other stuff that Trump wants. to do, it's like 12% approval. He just. thinks people are stupid. Like, nobody wants UFC fights at the. White House. Nobody wants him to keep.

posting about reflecting pools or golden. ballrooms or arches or putting his face. on passports. No one wants any of this. stuff. People are struggling here in. this country. Uh for most Americans, this economy is in a great recession. And you may be saying, "But no one's. reporting it's a great recession." I I. understand that the GDP The technical. definition of a recession is having. successive quarters of declining GDP and.

declining growth. The issue though is is that with the. spread of wealth. being so disparate at this point and. rich people being so rich and the rest. of the kind of 98% of the country. struggling and the rich hoarding all of. this money, that props up the GDP. So, in theory, the GDP is like, "Ah, you know, it's 2%. still slow and sluggish." The estimates. were that the GDP was supposed to be. about 2.3%,

but the same way the economy is not the. GDP, the economy is not the stock. market, the economy is are people. getting jobs, right? The economy is can. most people afford things. And. overwhelmingly there the answer is no. I. think when we looked at past recessions. and great recessions because the wealth. gap was less wide and less severe,

collectively the country experienced the. pain and suffering. a little bit more as a collective. enterprise, if you will. Um whereas now you have the super rich. uh and rich doing very well. They call. this K a K-shaped economy. Um but in terms of that K-shape, that's. a very small amount of people who hoard. most of the wealth, and most Americans. are experiencing great recession or. depressionary.

uh environments right now. I mean, this. is the reality. People can't afford. their mortgage or their rent. Lucky if. they can have a mortgage, meaning they. have a home to begin with that they. technically may own, but people can't. afford rent, they can't afford. groceries, gas is at all-time highs. I. think the average. nationwide now is somewhere close to. $4.50. If you're in California, that's. above five bucks. Other states, uh $4.99, five bucks on on on average. Um but nationwide we're looking at, you.

know, I think it was 4.23, then 4.29. The futures, when you talk about Brent. and WTI crude, that's where you're. looking at like $120 per barrel, but the. spot price, meaning what it's actually. being sold at right now, not in the. future, not a futures market, which is. manipulated. by the kind of jawboning techniques of. Trump and. leaking information to sycophantic. stenographers who call themselves.

reporters, but the spot prices, you. know, meaning if you What What does it. actually cost right now to buy a barrel. of oil? Like, you know, it's like $250 a. barrel of oil right now. And that's. translating into higher prices for you, and it's only going to get higher and. higher. And all of this, I guess Donald. Trump's plan is indefinite naval. blockade. Just keep this going on. forever. On the one hand, he doesn't want to. escalate with a ground invasion. On the other hand, he doesn't want to. negotiate with Iran, which would require.

actually making concessions and. recognizing that Iran won the war if. indeed the objectives of the war were. regime change and. obliterating ballistic missile and drone. capabilities. And. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. So, I I I understand that it is a fact that. the US and Israel dropped a bunch of. bombs on Iran, including bombs that. killed a lot of innocent Iranians,

including little schoolgirls who. attended the Mina Elementary School. And yes, we also struck the navy and. conventional military equipment of Iran, but Iran in this so-called ceasefire. period, trust me, they've been able to. very quickly ramp up production and. replace the drones and replace the. ballistic missiles. and replace, you know, all of their most. of their arsenal. It's cheaper for them.

to make it. But in terms of, you know, who controls. the Strait of Hormuz, right? It's It's. It's Iran. Today's Persian Gulf Day in. Iran, where they celebrate. uh forcing out uh European colonizing. forces in the. uh 17th century as uh their parliament. leader MB Galibaf writes, "In the year. 1622 AD, after 115 years of occupation, we expelled the European colonizers from. the Persian Gulf and we celebrate.

Persian Gulf Day in honor of this. victory. Today as well, Iran by. exercising control over the Strait of. Hormuz will ensure that it and its. neighbors enjoy the precious blessings. of a future free from the presence and. interference of America." So, clearly uh. MB Galibaf is not showing any signs of. surrendering. Iran's not showing signs. of surrendering to Donald Trump uh and. his regime. We heard from uh the new. Ayatollah Mojtaba uh who posted on.

social media today after um not really. speaking out for a number of days. And. uh in addition to talking about Persian. Gulf Day, he also had a lot of strong. words about, you know, if the US. continues its blockade, it's only going. to find itself at the bottom of the sea. and that Iran is never going to. surrender. And, you know, Donald Trump. thinks that uh this naval blockade is uh. is this cure-all, is this panacea, that.

it's going to solve everything. But, I. think Donald Trump. like he's lived his entire life. He wants somebody to try to bail him. out. He thinks if he just waits it out. as things get more precarious and more. catastrophic, this is how he's lived his. life. Uh whether it was with the casinos, whether it was with failing companies, whatever it's been, either his daddy has. bailed him out or, you know, he's had. someone else bail him out or he blames. people for it. And I think that's what.

sadly, you know, he's trying to he's. trying to do here. And I I guess he just. thinks he's going to post on social. media like a maniac over and over and. over again and that's the plan. Keep an. able blockade and then post like a. maniac on social media. You have MB. Galabaf also. Iran's parliament leader. He posted a. map of the United States and he said if. you build two walls, one from New York. City to the West Coast and another from. LA to the East Coast, the total length.

will be 7,755. km, which is still about 1,000 km short. of Iran's total borders. Good luck. blockading a country with those borders. P.S. for Pete Hegseth, 1 km equals 0.62. mi and we've been hearing how there have. been a number of tankers that have been. able to get through the US blockade, but. you know, in addition to those tankers, it does seem that Iran, working actually. with Pakistan,

has been able to come up with a number. of land routes in order to. take some of its oil and some of its. supplies to break the. to break the blockade by working with. Pakistan in order to. move a lot of supplies on land and you. know, we've been seeing a lot of maps, a lot of overhead visuals that suggest. that that's going on right now as well.

Remember on Sunday Donald Trump was on. state regime media, which calls itself. Fox and. he said, "Look, Iran's got 3 days left.". Which would be Wednesday based on when. he said it on Sunday. He goes, "They got. 3 days left. The. oil is filling up in the pipes." This is. how Donald Trump understands. in his words mechanical engineering. The. oil fills up in the pipes and because of. the blockade, there's really no ships that can come.

and take the oil from the pipes, put it on the ships, and then take it. out. So, the pipes fill up, fill up, fill up, fill up, and then they reach. this over-pressurization point. This is. Donald Trump's explanation. And then, because there are no valves that deal. with over-pressurization, as Donald. Trump puts it, everything blows up, and. then you win the war. And so, Trump said. that was going to happen by Wednesday, and so, you know, that didn't happen, of.

course. And we know that's not going to. happen. But, you know, Trump never gets called. out for any of these things. It's just. is, "Ah, you know, that's Donald being. Donald. He makes up these things, and he. just lies about it." But but the reality. is is that the American people are. suffering throughout all of this. Like, it's not when will the consequences hit. The consequences are. hitting now, and they've hit before this. catastrophic and unlawful war. Americans don't feel that we're in a. golden age or a period of great.

prosperity. People do see rich people. getting much richer, and their net worth. increasing to the point where we may. have a trillionaire soon, and everybody. sees these billionaires are getting more. billions and more billions and more. billions. And meanwhile, just regular. folks aren't able to afford anything at. all. And Trump's saying that this is the. golden age. Republicans are saying this. is the golden age, and and things are. amazing. Like, they can't even. acknowledge the reality that people are.

struggling. One of the things that we've been able. to do as the Midas Touch Network expands. is as you I'm sure you all know, we have. a Washington D.C. bureau, and it's led. by Scott McFarland, right? Veteran. reporter, formerly with CBS. He leads. our D.C. bureau. We've also got Pablo. Manriquez. Pablo also veteran reporter on the hill, who's just incredible. And he asks. uh. the questions that. regular folk, regular people want to.

have answered. What a novel concept. To ask politicians the questions that. you want answered. That's what we're. doing on Capitol Hill every single day. And so, when we all huddled up this. morning in our, uh, company meeting, we're like, "Well, what should we ask. people?". And we said, you know, look, let's not. be a Let's not even approach this. in an accusatory way with Republicans. And don't, you know, we don't need to be. yelling or aggressive or say,

"Obviously, your constituents are. suffering." We just said, "What if we. went up to a bunch of Republicans and. just asked them a very basic question, which is. what would you grade Donald Trump?". If you had to give him a grade, an A, a. B, a C, a D, an E, an F, what would you. grade him in terms of his handling of. the economy? And just, do you think he's. kept his promise of bringing prices. down? Like, do you think, right? We all. agree, Donald Trump promised on day one he was. going to bring prices down. That was one.

of his promises, right? And so, I think. it's fair, regardless of what political. party you're with, whether you're. Democrat, Republican, independent, whether you don't like politics, you. don't identify with anything, whatever, right? I think it's a fair. question for us to ask. It's just to. say, did he, you know, are our prices. down? And. I think that. even if we didn't, let's just say we. all, I think we all in this chat, uh, think that Donald Trump is a is a.

terrible, vile creature. I mean, I think. we all feel that way, that he's a. horrible human being, that he's a war. criminal. But just put that aside for a. moment. I think we still, even if all of. that, you know, I I think we all feel that, undisputed. But if prices were actually lower, I think that. we would we should say, "You know what? There are all of these things, but but. prices are lower.".

And then. we should probably still say, "You know, all that other stuff, you know, ice and. war crimes doesn't justify bringing. prices lower, but I still think we would. have to live in reality and say prices. are lower if that's what happened." When. I have debates with MAGA people, they. often say, "Even if Donald Trump cured. cancer, you would not. say that he cured cancer. You would find. some way to criticize it.". Have you seen the debates that I've had. sometimes where they they've used that.

rhetorical thing on me and you would if. he if he cured cancer, you wouldn't say. he did a good thing. That's how much you. hate him. I said, "No, that's not true. at all. If he cured cancer, I would say, 'Oh my. gosh, great work. He cured cancer. That's a. That's a big deal.' Except Donald Trump. has defunded. uh cancer treatments and cancer. research. Uh he's he's actually created. a situation and he's defunded.

experimental treatments and he's. destroyed people's health care. So, when. I get that question, I'm often like, "But that's actually If you want to use. that example, he's his actions have. actually led to it being more difficult. to treat cancer. But if he helped it. out, we we we'd all say it." And look, when it comes to prices, objectively. everything is more expensive. It's. objectively things are worse. That's just the way it is if we're if. we're living in reality. Now, if you're. a MAGA person, you may say.

Look at the What if you said, "Hey, prices are up. and he did not keep his promises and. things are bad, but you may you may try. to make the case, I guess, that you. think it's worth it, but don't tell me. that the prices are down or things are. better or things are much better. Um that's that's not a normal I mean. this is why people are so disenchanted. with politics generally because it's. like we're just sick and tired of of. freaking liars who lie about everything.

It's like no no no, people are. struggling. You have to you have to. recognize what people are actually going. through right now out there especially. if you're a politician and you're. representing constituents. If all you're going to do is be someone. who blames others, you you are you. Republicans are in charge. Right? They control the house, they. control the Senate, they control the. executive branch, they control SCOTUS, they control they control everything.

So, we're in April or almost in May. 2026, right? So, you can't keep on saying Biden Biden. Biden Biden Biden and then also lie. about about Biden. Under Biden inflation. was going down and was less. than what it is now. That's just an. objective fact. You may not like Biden. You can well, early on in Biden's term. inflation was high. I understand that. I. would counter with the fact that when.

you rip a. when you actually have to address. systemic problems that Trump caused. during his first term when Trump added. 30% of our national debt with that PPP. program he ran which basically funneled. money to rich people and didn't actually. help. lots of regular day Americans. And lots. of want to talk about waste, fraud, and. abuse, the PPP program like literally. lost like what hundreds and billions of. dollars, maybe trillions of dollars were.

just flat out lost. What do you think when you print all. that money and basically lose it? Um. where do you think inflation is going to. like where do you think it's it's it's. going to be coming from? It's the way. Trump mishandled or didn't handle at all. COVID. And a responsible grown-up. administration has to deal with it. But. I couldn't be like, "Actually, inflation. was low under Biden." No, it was high, and then it was low at the end. And it. was going to head to 2%, and if Donald.

Trump just did nothing and allowed. things to go on overdrive and literally. did nothing, the stock market, I know he loves it, would be like crazy booming right now. The Dow would probably be at 70,000. right now if Trump literally just did. nothing. One of the things that I noted. when you look at last year, and you say, "Well, America's market was up whatever. percentage it was, 12, 15%, whatever it. was." Not an insignificant amount, but. compared to the rest of the world, actually America's market was far lower.

than most other countries. We weren't. first, we were actually towards the. bottom in in market growth. But I know. Trump loves the stock market. If he did. nothing, the markets would just be. ripping every day and probably be in the. 70, maybe even 80 and he could have. taken credit for all of the stuff that. Biden did and he. you could have had that. But setting. aside that, Biden was creating. manufacturing jobs, Biden was creating. all different types of jobs. You know,

Donald Trump likes to disparage. uh a lot of the infrastructure. investment that Biden was making, especially in lots of areas of clean. energy. One of the major growth areas. that has led to China's economic boom is. that they've actually focused a lot on. clean energy, solar, wind, and. dominating in that area, and that. creates jobs. You know, I know that Donald Trump wants. to disparage climate change and pretend. it's not real and say, "I like when. there's more beachfront property.".

Whatever the stupid stuff that he says, but from a pure economic standpoint, that's more jobs to be created. So, Trump's a job killer. We're in a job. recession. The markets are not where they should be. anyway. And his tariffs against the. world have also been inflationary. And. they've also created great animosity. between. between us and our allies. So, all all. of all of that is objectively, you know, bad things. And I just don't know how we.

could ignore the very reality of these. things. And we could have grown-up. conversations. I mean, that's the thing. Like. we can dis- we we can disagree about. policies and how we get here and how we. get there and should interest rates be. cut or should they not be cut? But we. have to agree to basic truth and basic. objective data and basic facts. Tariffs. are inflationary. Tariffs aren't taxes. in other countries. They're taxes on. imports that get passed on to consumers. That's That's Once we acknowledge that, we can then say, "Well, how much of a.

tax is it going to be?" Well, if you. look at uh inflation regarding produce. and groceries, it's up about 10%. Certain types of produce is up like 90%. I know you feel it when you go to the. gro- Whoa, is that double? Is that Is that Is that double what I. spent? We we we can have, I think, adult. conversations about the best way to. reduce the price of health care, right? I believe in single payer. I believe in. universal health care. I believe the.

government as is a basic human right, it. should be provided by the government. That's one of my That's my view. Everything Everybody should have health. care. It should be free. The way I think we're able to pay for it. is we reduce military expenditures by 50. to 60% maybe even more, right? They're. doing a $1.5 trillion budget. My. military budget, if you elected me. president, which I'm never going to run. for, so don't say I don't want to run. for anything. Um is yeah, $400 billion.

We'll will lead the world. That's a lot. of money for the military, you know, and. now I've saved us $600 billion over. there. I tax the rich about 1% 1 and. 1/2% more, maybe may maybe even 2%. Add. that to the federal tax. I probably just brought us another, you. know, I don't know, close to another. half a another half a trillion dollars, may maybe more. I By the way, I think it. should be more than that, but I'm I'm. just going to give us. a conservative plan right now, right? I.

mean, I I found a trillion and a half. dollars right there, maybe more. I put. that to healthcare. And people, you know, peo- peo- peo-. people have healthcare. If you think. that that there's a market force or. technology or other things that can do a. better job than universal healthcare, it. hasn't been created yet, so. I'm happy to have that discussion, but. don't tell me that right now healthcare. costs are lower, right? That's what the Trump regime does. and and the Republicans do. They act. like a healthcare is cheap right now. We.

did it. We did the most favored nations. clause. What do you mean you did the. most favored nations? Right now in. America, right? This is what the Trump. and the GOP will say to you. Right now. in America, if you buy a drug, it is the same price. as the lowest price for that same drug. in any other in any country in the. world. So, if the lowest price for drug. A is being sold for a dollar in Canada, in America, you can buy that same drug.

for a dollar. If drug B, the lowest price all across. the world, let's say, is two bucks in. Sweden, in America, the drug manufacturers have to match. Sweden and sell it it to Americans for. $2. Trump and the Republicans claim that. that's what exists now. That doesn't. exist. That's not a real thing. We don't. have most favored nations, and your. Trump RX thing isn't that. It's It's. literally restating, repackaging. the same types of direct-to-consumer.

discounts that pharmaceutical companies. are already offering on their websites. It's It's It's It's It's It's Stop Stop. with the gimmick. Stop with the trick. Stop with the two weeks. Stop with the. Oh, we've done it. We brought in $21. trillion and $28 trillion. You know, if. if if you look at the first quarter GDP. numbers. and you say, "Okay, the estimate was. 2.3%.". GDP growth came in at 2%, which even though that was below the.

estimate, is 2% was not a terrible. number. Um not a great number, but not a not a. terri- not a I mean, objectively, it's. not a terrible number. It should be much. higher if Trump didn't uh stall out our. economy. But, if you told me that there. was 21 to $28 trillion of outside. investment into the United States, and. let's just say you then. brought that uh. to to $21 to $28 trillion, and let's. just say you divided that into different.

quarters, right? So, that each quarter. you're going to add another $7 trillion. of CapEx into the United States, right? Our GDP would be like 8% or 10% or 12%. That's not what the results are. So, just stop, right? Stop lying. Stop. saying you've turned over all the. Epstein files when you didn't, and. you're covering it up. You know, stop. saying, "Ooh, the Clintons." The Clinton. I don't want to hear about the Clintons. I want to hear about Pam Bondi because. Pam Bondi's the former attorney general.

And she's the one who's at the center of. the cover-up, not the Clintons. Stop. talking about the Clintons and Hunter. Biden and Stop it. You know, it's really. a time where we need grownups. And I. think when you look at the data, Americans are. are are are expressing the sentiment, which there is this anger, there is this. resentment, there is this furiousness. that exists. But it's it's it's like we. need grownups, we need smart people. We. don't want drama. You know, I don't want.

the government treading on me and you. every damn day. Remember those signs. with the snake, don't tread on me? Every. day they're treading, whether it's. physical tread of ice and border patrol. Gestapo killing folks off the street, detaining people, throwing people into. concentration camps. You know, but it's. also just the government's intervention. and Trump trying to throw himself into. your life like a freaking stalker every. damn day. You know, uh just get out. Like just stay away from us. I don't. want to hear you. I don't want you to be.

around. In general, from a president of the. United States, I want someone who. behaves normal. I don't want someone who. at 12:30 a.m. is posting QAnon memes. Like and I bring it up because I know it. gets no attention like uncorporate. I. know no one will talk about it if I. don't talk about it. And I know we have. a bigger audience than corporate news. And so when Donald Trump at 12:30 a.m. makes a post like this, "The storm is. coming. Nothing can stop what is. coming." And if you're everybody's.

watching that, look at this photo. You. see on the left that there's a Q. Do you. see that? This is a QAnon meme right. here. You know, and and you're posting QAnon. memes at 12:30 a.m. Then you're posting. no more Mr. Nice Guy with a AR-15 style. rifle in your hand. And you're saying uh. Iran can't Iran can't get their act. together. They don't know how to sign a. non-nuclear deal. They better get smart. soon. DJT. And it's like a weird AI.

photo of himself holding an AR-15 style. rifle. Why are you doing this? Why this. isn't funny, dude. This is This is war. and peace. This is life or death. Our. American people struggling right now. Most American people are struggling. And. what is that crap? And of course the. Iranians are mocking it, but it just. makes you look, you know, deeply. unserious. Well, well, well, one of the. interesting things, too, you know, as. I've been studying international affairs. and just seeing what's going on across. the country, you know, well, one of the.

interesting things is that, you know, even these kind of right-wing MAGA. parties in other countries are coming. out against Donald Trump right now. Um you have the. the the French Le Pen party with that. guy. Bardella from the What's that party. called? The National Unity Party or. um Jordan Bardella, which is Le Pen's. party, basically, and he's and he's. their leader. I mean, you got I mean, this is the This was like the.

MAGA-aligned party in France, and and. dudes like Donald Trump's policy is now. completely erratic. No one is able to. predict what he wants. By definition, when you change your position very. regularly, when you're not consistent, you no longer provide certainty, especially as the leader of an allied. country, and obviously, the situation. harms the reliability and credibility of. the United States on the international. stage. So, what like. the far-right wing French party, that's. That's like their MAGA party is out. there and said, "I don't need to promote.

the guy anymore, but, you know, you you. you you got and the reality is is that. there is no reliability or credibility.". We all grew up, and I hope you thought. like. you. have to be a person of your word, right? And trust is everything. And, you know, Donald Trump's whole life, he's been a. con artist and a scammer. Like, that's. his whole thing. Like, the whole Trump. thing is being a scammer. I saw, you know, with this visit by King. Charles recently,

um some uh articles from the 1990s. surfaced. of. uh Donald Trump would make up all of. these lies about the royal family buying. a apartments at Trump Towers and the. royal family begging for memberships at. Mar-a-Lago and and all of these things. He would say He would say really weird. and creepy things about Diana and like. going on a date with Princess Di. You. know, you know, and and and you know,

and also he made some very crude remarks. about her as well. And then the royal family back then. would like have to like deny it and and. you would say, "No, he's lying. He's. lying." This This This guy has been a. You got to understand like the guy has. been a liar and a con man his entire. life objectively. And And my big problem with it all is. that we need facts. We need the truth. And going back to what I was saying too. about the economy in our Washington D.C. bureau before I took this circuitous.

path, which is our Washington D.C. bureau people were asking these. politicians questions about the economy. And so I'll show you for example when uh. our D.C. team spoke with MAGA Republican. Congress member Babin. He gives Donald. Trump an A or a B on the economy. I. mean, what do you mean you're giving him. an A or a B on the economy? That's. stupid. Come on. First, he walks past. our camera and like dodges it and then. he's like, "All right, who you with? Who. you with?" Watch this MAGA Republican. Congressman here play this clip.

>> Congressman real quick, has Donald Trump. kept his promise to lower prices? No, I know. I know. Uh. Congressman, has Donald Trump kept his. promise uh minus touch. Who you with? Minus touch. >> Okay. >> I just has Donald Trump kept his promise. to lower prices? I'm asking all your. Republican colleagues. >> We saw the prices come down. dramatically. But we're in a We're We're. involved in a in a conflict with the. worst regime terrorist exportation. regime and probably in the last 100.

years. And. this is going to be over soon. We'll get these prices down. I live I. live in my district is in the epicenter. of energy in Southeast Texas the greater. Houston region. You're going to see. prices come down as soon as we get. through with this. >> If it was a report card. >> The president keeps his promises. >> If it was a report card what grade would. you give him on the economy? >> I'm sorry I couldn't. >> If it was like a report card say what. grade would you give Trump on the. economy then? >> On the economy? >> Yeah. >> I think he's got to be he's got a B.

average right now but he had an A it. went to a B and it's going to go back to. an A. >> Thank you Congressman. >> So I'll show you Byron Donalds MAGA. Republican Congressman from Florida. who's running for governor there. Let's. play this clip. >> Congressman, do you think Donald Trump. has delivered on his promise to lower. prices? >> Yeah, he actually has. I know gas prices. are a little bit higher because of. what's happening in Iran but. across the country a lot of prices. actually have stabilized. I think you. know inflation's hard but.

I remember where we were. with the Biden administration. You know. airline tickets jumped 50%. It was. insane. So he's doing a great job. We. need you know the other side of the. aisle to come and help us just do common. sense business but the president's doing. great. >> If it were a report card what grade. would you give him on the economy? >> Oh, he gets an A. >> An A? >> Yeah. Got it. Thank you Congressman. >> What about Senator Tim Scott when he did. an appearance earlier today? What about. Senator Scott? Let's play it. >> That's great news by the way. The fact.

of the matter is that all of the. cylinders are kicking. It is good news. You can even feel in our environment how. good things are getting. Gas prices. continue to come down which means that. your groceries will come down a little. bit as well. We've got a lot of good. signs in the economy. We just need to. continue to execute and have confidence. in the choices the American people have. made by making President Trump their. president and keeping majorities. Republican majorities in both the House.

and the Senate. >> I mean, come on. It doesn't it just like. it's such a transparent. con. and scam and like a little bit. impressive. Like. if if if if if if. I. don't even I just genuinely don't know. how you lie like that with such a. straight face. And go, yeah, yeah, of course, things. are amazing. Things are great.

But like they must think again, they. think we're stupid. They think that they. can say that. They're like, oh, I guess. uh he said it's amazing and an A. So, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe all of the things. that I'm feeling are are incorrect right. now and uh in fact uh things are they're. they are saying things are great. They're not. Enough of this crap and. this is why people hate politics. And. this is why I think regardless of. political party or anything, what we. need to be focused on, all of us here,

just objective facts, okay? And we need. to make sure that we center everything. in the people. And yes, we're a network, a news network, so we talk, right? News. networks, we talk. But. we need to listen. And I think the most important thing. that we can be doing right now is just. listening to what people are actually. experiencing and and and talking about.

uh those things. Not this kind of constant gaslighting. that you hear over and over again. All right, I want to also talk about the. Pete Hegseth uh. cross-examine the uh hearing that took. place before the House and the Senate. How atrocious was Hegseth? I want to. talk about the Supreme Court ruling, the. Voting Rights Act ruling, what that. really means. I want to I want to break. it down for you in a way that you. understand Uh because I want to explain.

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Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. passed in the mid-1960s, one of the crown jewels of the Civil. Rights Movement. Section 2 of the Voting. Rights Act of 1965 prohibits voting. practices or procedures that. discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the. various minority groups. And it was. specifically enacted because uh.

the history of racism in states and what. states would do is they would work and. as we see now um they would not say, "Hey, we're racist states. Everybody. look at us. We're the racist state of. this." But they would uh implement uh. voting maps and strategies that would uh. significantly dilute the vote of very. frequently it was of black majority. congressional districts. So, in a.

specific state where say there's 35%. of the population is black. a uh state that may have a 65% white. population would say, "Okay, rather than ensuring that the black. community had congressional. representation, we will draw maps that. basically dilute the black population's. voting power by carving up the 35%. into various districts and moving those.

into majority white districts so that. there would be no majority black. districts in a state or maybe one where. the representation, if it was fair and. say it was 65/35 or 60/40, you know, if. there were 10 seats, you would expect. there to be, you know, at least four seats that would be. reflective of. the black population in the state or or. or closely reflective of it so that.

there could be the right representation. for the community. So, the way the Voting Rights Act dealt. with this is they had different. procedures to ensure that states would. not impose racist maps. And part of the. Voting Rights Act required something. called pre-clearance. So, when a state. would do a gerrymander, we all know. about gerrymandering, so when a. legislature would want to change their. maps, the pre-clearance meant that a.

state had to submit it to the DOJ and. then frequently to a three-judge federal. court panel and had to be approved and. analyzed before it could become an. effective map. It wasn't presumed to be. the right map. It had to go through a. DOJ review and then a three-judge panel. review. That was called pre-clearance. Well, there was a case in 2013. as a concerted movement was taking place.

by the Federalist Society and other. right-wing forces. They put before a. right-wing Supreme Court that had a. slimmer right-wing majority in 2013, a. case called Shelby County versus Holder. And there, the Supreme Court struck down. the formula. for coming up with a pre-clearance. determination. And by striking down the. formula, it basically struck down the. very nature of a pre-clearance.

requirement in the first place. So, what. that meant is when the new census would. take place in 2020, and then thereafter, when a legislature. would create new congressional maps. based on the new census, that map would. automatically be deemed to be a valid. map because you didn't have to pre-clear. it. So, you can challenge that map by a. lawsuit, but the initial presumption is.

that a state map was valid, and then the. lawsuits would have to come, and you. know, lawsuits take a lot of time. But. and then, if you were preserving the. status quo, you could be preserving the. racist map. So, then what states. realized is, "Look, we're not going to. say we're diluting black votes. We're. just going to say this is a political. gerrymander because there is no law. against political gerrymandering.". Democrats. have tried in the past to put forward. federal legislation that bans all.

gerrymandering, political gerrymandering. and all forms of gerrymandering. The. Democrat position is no gerrymandering. at all. Let's just come up with a system. where it's fair across the country, okay? And that districts don't look like. salamanders or whatever, or look like. all over the place. Republicans fought. against that and blocked that piece of. legislation from becoming law. So, now we have this uh this system. So,

now, if a state says, "Haha, we're doing. a racist map." It would then be struck. down under Section 2, but the state. said, "We're not going to say that. because then we'd run a foul of Section. 2. Even if we put forward the invalid. map, it would be challenged. We'll lose. if we say it's a racist map." So, they. just say, "It's a political map. We're. just We're bringing in political. interests." So, the way. uh you know, the Texas map, we weren't.

carving it out to put this population or. do it based on race. We're just doing it. based on political considerations cuz. we're trying to get more Republicans in. districts, not less black people, more. Republicans. Which, as you know, often. equates though to protectually isolating. certain uh certain racial groups. So, what Section 2 was still interpreted to. basically mean is, "Okay, we can look.

beyond a state saying that they're not. or the legislature saying they're not. racist, and we can look at its impact. and see, "Okay, is the impact of what. they did clearly. uh racist or have a racist effect or. effect in the end of the day?" And then. we can determine, "Ah, when you were. saying it was political, it's really. protectual. We know the reason you were. doing this, you wanted to dilute the. black vote. It's obvious. Look what you.

did and how you specifically targeted. black voters, right?". And so, we can still look at the. implications even if your expressed. words were that you were not doing a. racist map. And so, what this Supreme Court case was. basically saying. is that you challenging the racist map, you saying that we should have. uh majority black congressional. districts.

That you even saying that that should. exist is a racist thing. You being an. anti-racist. to challenge what you believe is a. racist map. When the legislature says. it's political, in essence what the. Supreme Court saying is, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, you're being the racist for saying. you want a majority black congressional. district. We've moved beyond racism in. this country." That's literally what. Justice Alito essentially writes in his.

opinion, that we should overturn our. prior Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. precedent because we've moved beyond. racism at this point. So, there should. be nothing that allows people to even. ask for a majority black congressional. district because that in and of itself. is factoring in race. And actually the Voting Rights Act says. we shouldn't be factoring in race.

So, aren't you violating You see how. warped this is? Section 2 by promoting. anti-racism, by even focusing on racism. at all? And the non-racist are the. racist because they're just being. political and you're making accusations. against them and we shouldn't pry into. anything other than what they say their. map is. So, what this ruling basically. enables a state to say is, "Look, just say that it is a political.

gerrymander and you're good. We're not even going to look beyond. that. So, any state, feel free to dilute. congressional black majorities, just. don't say you're doing it for that. purpose and we're not going to look into. its impact or its consequence or. anything like that. We're just going to. look into what what legislative. pronouncement is. I'm oversimplifying it. slightly, but not by that much. So, as a. result of this, the question is is how.

big of a shift can we have? To the. extent there's good news, it's that this. decision has been made late in the. process and it's going to be hard for a. lot of states to. these Republican state legislatures to. all of a sudden change their maps when. there's lots of primaries coming up. And. so, and and this Florida was going to do its. gerrymander anyway, and the Florida. gerrymander that DeSantis is working. with Trump on maybe a dummy man there as.

well because it's based on Latino voting. behavior and the Latino voting. population has moved away from Trump. And so, if they're going to now create. plus eight to plus 10 Trump districts, we're seeing in Florida and elsewhere. plus 12 to plus 20 Democrat. over-performances in special elections. But, the Florida thing was coming. regardless. But, in 2028, we're now. going to see all of these Republican. states. or these state legislatures, they're no.

longer going to feel constrained by. Section 2 and they're going to do racist. maps. And so, and they're just going to say I. was political gerrymander. So then, the. Democrats are going to have to respond. where the Democrats can't unilaterally. disarm. And in states that have. constitutional amendments that prohibit. political gerrymandering, that's going. to have to be amended. There's going to. have to be referendums put on. And then, those other states are going to have to. now change their dynamic. And so now, we're going to have an entire country.

that's going to be completely. gerrymandered and it's going to be one. off. Republicans are going to do this. and Democrats are going to do this. And. then, it's just going to be a. gerrymander fight. It's going to I think. create a country that's far more divided. potentially. But, I don't know about. you, but I think that people are. absolutely sick of this. And this is. what the Supreme Court This is the. result in more divided country, a more. racist country, a more. um you know, what what why would we want. any of these things? I you know, what we.

should do is have none of this. gerrymandering, right? We we should have. I mean, just think about. all of the ways these these right-wing. Supreme Court have butchered our. Constitution. Butchered the. Constitution, right? I mean, whether. it's the Citizens United decision, which. allows these unlimited corporate. expenditures with super PACs and all of. that, you know, to flood the zone with. money where Elon Musks and other people. are trying to buy elections, where. Miriam Adelson is saying, "I'll give you.

a hundred fifty billion dollars or. half a billion dollars, but you have to. promise to do this and that for Israel. and my agenda's here or or Elon Musk. saying, "I'm going to do this and that, but you have to do this for Tesla and. this for X and this for my companies.". Or you know, whoever the companies are, right? You know, citizen We had. McCain-Feingold. That's bipartisan. McCain, Republican. Feingold, Democrat. McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. Democrats, Republicans came together.

The legislatures. Let's think about this for a second. Pull back. This is what I teach my law. students and undergrads. And maybe I. won't get into the Hekset stuff because. I'll just focus on the type of lectures. that sometimes I give. And I This isn't. political. It's actually apolitical what. I'm saying right now. Just think about. it. Campaign finance reform. Democrat and Republican come together. McCain and Feingold. They pass this. incredible piece of legislation that. would reduce corporate influence on.

uh our campaign uh you know, which we. know is so horrible today. They saw the. problem because it was building and. building and building, and they created. something to stop the problem. They. diagnosed it, they created and they. created the medicine and on a bipartisan. basis, we worked together. and we created a great piece of. legislation and then the Supreme Court. goes, "That violates the Constitution." Why? Why does it violate the Constitution?

Explain that to me. Why does it violate. the corporations are people. What? They're people. They have a First. Amendment right. What What are you. saying? Corporations should do whatever. they want because they're a human being. A corporation's a human being. Yes. That's my Supreme Court voice. I'm not. sure why, but yes. Really? Yes. Okay. I'm not really sure Show me where. in the Constitution says a corporation. is a freaking human being so you're. going to overturn what Article 1 did and. and was signed into law by Article 2?

You right-wing Supreme Court just you're. going to say that the Constitution says. something that the Constitution doesn't. Yes, we're going to say that. Clearly. corporations are human. I don't I don't I don't know about Think. about all of these laws, you know, the. Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, right? The Voting. Rights Act of 1965. was passed on a bipartisan basis. You had Democrats, you had Republicans.

You had during that era Lyndon B. Johnson pushing through a lot of this. legislation as well based on his. background as a lawmaker as a unexpected. person to be a champion of a lot of this. civil rights legislation. I mean, heck, the environment the EPA was created. basically under Nixon and expanded, you. know, and expanded under some other. Republican administrations. I mean, just. think about. envi main some big environmental. protections in California were done. under Reagan in California.

Nixon signed the EPA. These weren't. actually con. These weren't controversial things. They've been made this way, but that's. not actually the way it has been. And you know, I I often ask my students. and I and I ask you. I'll ask you in the. chat. Like how many of how many people. believe. that the Civil Rights Act of 19 or the. Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil. Rights Act, Title IX, all of this civil.

rights legislation, right? Do you think. that in 2026. the Voting Rights Act could be passed in. 2026 with our Congress? Of course the. answer is no. Right? Do you think that. McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. could be passed in 2026? Of course it couldn't be. Do you think. Title IX, which you know, respects men. female. equality in sports, um.

you know, or another educational institutions in. general, and also prohibits like sexual. harassment and discrimination at a. federal level in education institutions. that take federal money. Do you think. that could be passed? Of course it. couldn't be passed. Not none of it could. be. I mean, look. And and and a major part of it is Trump. Is what Trump and Trumpism and MAGA, what this cancer has done to our body. politic. And it's all, you don't like Trump, you.

don't like Trump. I'll give you an. example. I'll give you an example on a. bipartisan basis. Biden worked with Lankford. A. really right-wing Republican senator, Lankford. Right? And Biden worked on a. bipartisan piece of legislation for. immigration reform. And it would have had strong This is. what Biden was trying to do during his. term. It would have strong borders, pouring.

millions of dollars. At that point it. was to ice and border patrol for the. borders, not to invade the places and go. after Americans and people who were hard. working people to stay at the border. A. lot. the border patrol border, not go and. invade Minnesota or California, this. place, and throw gas in people's faces. and torture them and terrorize them for. the freaking border. It would have invested hundreds of.

millions in immigration law judges. It. would have expedited asylum proceedings. to ensure that. uh only meritorious asylum claims could. get through the system quickly. Um it. created a pathway to citizenship that. was compassionate, uh recognized that. your country got to have borders, but at. the same time we should. come up with a pathway for citizenship, people who have been living in the. shadows, so they can pay taxes and. continue to contribute and they raise.

families, so they're not scared. It. would have actually addressed a lot of. these issues. But what did Donald Trump. say? Trump said it out loud. He said, "Immigration is a winning issue for me.". I get to win by creating chaos, and I. want there to be problems because I can. use the issue to divide. Now that is a tactic that actually is. not unique to America. We've seen that.

with Putin in Russia, Orban in Hungary, going back to in you know, in in France. that national so-called national unity. party. We see it in the tactics that are. used by Nigel Farage. We saw that that. in in the reform so-called reform party. in the UK. They all have names like. that, by the way. We saw Maple Maga. uh right with Pierre Poilievre, who was. before Trump and before. Prime Minister Carney ascendancy, you. know, Poilievre probably would have been.

the Prime Minister of Canada and he was. dragging Canada into a big maple Maga. Daniel Smith kind of direction over. there, which would have been disastrous. and catastrophic cuz catastrophic for. the country. But using the same divisive. tactics and masks and no masks, it's. about finding issues that divide you. know, and this is what the Russians or. great out there, you know, their. intelligence services and and and and. and and others are are able to kind of.

find the cultural. division points that it that naturally. exist and then just push right on those. things as ways to divide us. And that's. kind of the very right reason for. existence of of Maga of of what it's all. about. Find ways to divide, you know, bathrooms, male, female, sports, bully. trans gender, eating cats and dogs, you. know, blame the immigrants. Let's talk. about Somalians. Let's do this, that,

you know, it it's it's always creating a. crisis, finding division points, accentuating divisions, pushing hard, and preventing actual results from. happening. Right, we could have had. bipartisan immigration reform. And that would have been great. I mean, you know, there was lots of legislation. coming out of the Biden administration. that Trump is undoing right now, you. know, which invested in clean energy and. all these things. That's jobs. Clean energy equals jobs, regardless of. what you view about climate change. In.

my view, you should believe it's a real. damn thing. Of course it is, but it's. also economically it's it's it's. creating it's creating jobs. They're. like, I don't like windmills. I don't. like solar. I don't like What What do. you mean you don't like those? You don't. like creating jobs? What are we What are. What are What are we talking about here? What are we doing here? So, I know I veered off a little bit and. talked about some of these topics. instead of getting you know, showing you. the heck the clip and this and that and. the other, but I think it's important to. reflect on that there was a time when we. were able to talk about these issues and.

we were able to bring people together. and have bipartisan legislation and then. ultimately whether it was the Supreme. Court or Trump or whatever would cause. divisions in bipartisanship. I still. believe. that there's about. uh most issues are actually 70/30 or. 80/20 issues on some of the biggest. issues that Americans mostly agree on. things. I think we all agree on. common-sense gun control and gun reform. I think we all agree on common-sense.

climate legislation. I think generally. people overwhelmingly believe as I do of. course in women's reproductive rights. and bodily autonomy. I think we all. believe in equality. I think we all. believe. um that America is a country of. immigrants and that we should have Yes, there should be strong borders, but. there should be a compassionate policy. uh regarding immigration. I think we all. agree that there should be a more fair. tax code that addresses the fact that.

billionaires and decamillionaires are. not paying their fair share and have all. of these loopholes. I think we all agree. that some of the critical issues. impacting people are issues like um. people needing to needing to be paid. wages with dignity and that the. corporate CEO should not be paid you. know, uh 1,000 x of what the workers, you know, are making. People should be. able to I think we all agree generally. that people should have health care and. it should be free or at the very least.

very affordable and I believe free. I. think we all believe that health is a. human right. I think we all agree that. um. you know, these data centers and uh. unrestrained AI poses very serious uh. risks and that we could recognize the. importance of technological innovation, but that there needs to be a balancing. of interests to make sure that the. significant. the significant. natural and job-related consequences are.

not catastrophic. I think. you know, I. I think that there are very basic things. that we agree on and I think that it's. the plan of Maga and the right-wing. Supreme Court often to find ways to. break that. And in breaking that hoist up a. strongman proxy for the right-wing. oligarchs ala Putin, ala what Orban was. doing in Hungary. And if you're all been. following Hungary, right? You all know.

that those oligarchs in Hungary, they've been fleeing. They've been. trying to push their money into the. United States and hide their money here. and there and elsewhere. And Peter. Magyar, their new prime minister, keeps. on aggressively calling out what's. happening there. But, you know, that's that's. to me, it's just fascinating when you. hear, you know, all these right-wing. people talk about capitalism and this. and that and and rail against socialism. I mean, right now there's socialism for.

the billionaires. That's what exists. There's socialism for the billionaires. and they're getting all the benefits. I. mean, I mean, you know, I just I'll give you an I'll give you an. example right here because something. that I teach him as as my semester wraps. up. It's it's it's something that I. teach as well. So, if if you're a. billionaire. and you buy a sports team, your. purchase price of the sports team is. 100%.

deductible over the course of like a. 10-year I forget if it's a 10- or. 12-year period under the tax code. So, if you're a billionaire and let's say. you buy the Carolina Panthers, and I. think this is a real example, for $2.6. billion. Over the next 10 to 12 years, you can. deduct that purchase price to reduce. your tax basis generally by the purchase. price. So, while the asset appreciates. and you're not being taxed on the.

appreciation of the asset of your sports. team, right? Go what what's the Carolina. Panthers valued at right now? Five to six billion, seven billion. dollars, right? Until this there's a. sale, and then there's schemes to not. actually pay the tax on that. Um but you're not being taxed on the. increase in the valuation of your team, and in fact your purchase price is then. deductible. So, if you're making, like a. wealthy person like that is say they're.

making a. billion dollars a year, and you purchase. the team for $2.6 billion. Do the math. You divide 2.6 into 12. separate parts, whatever that number is, you you get like a $200 million. deduction or one whatever it is, uh every year for because you bought the. sports team. So, your tax basis is. already decreasing, and you apply that. over the next 12 years while your asset. is appreciating, and then you have the.

municipalities buy the. uh the stadiums for you, and and so it's. a way to shield your money ultimately. from the taxes, and then ultimately when. you make a sale, you have it at a lower. tax bracket based on the capital gains. or however, you know, they've structured. it. And so, you you just think about all. of these things, and it's so detached. from the everyday experience. of what Americans are experiencing what.

Americans are experiencing, uh you know, and and I just think. it's it's it's so to benefit all of. these right-wing oligarchs while people. on a day-to-day basis are just getting. screwed. And I think people get it. I. think people see it. I think people are. sick and tired of the lingo and the. design you're socialist. you're a lefty that you're like people. just let's just be normal. Let's be. fair. I don't think anybody's saying, you. know, we want to.

you know, not have people who reach. levels of success make money. I just. think we're saying make the system keep. the system fair. Don't rig the system. Keep it fair so people and if we keep a. fair system then everybody benefits. We. all live in a better place with better. services. Everything's better. Anyway. That's my that's my spiel. That's my. spiel for you before I go. Watch the. brother show tonight. I didn't even show. you any of the clips. I just ranted.

I hope you're okay. I didn't even do the show I was supposed. to do. I just went off on that tangent. What can you. What can you do? Next time. Watch the brother show. I'll. go over the stuff that I was supposed to. cover. I'll save it save it for the. brother show. Exactly. You're going to. get a very different brother show than. this show. This is the show where I just. start talking about something that end. up uh that end up talking about this. All right. There There you go. That's. been on breaking news. and me ranting about whatever I just. ranted about. Hopefully you liked it.

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