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Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben. Marcelis. This is your breaking news. The world is in flames right now. Donald. Trump promised he would end the war in. Ukraine in 24 hours after the election. in 2024. Of course, that was a lie. We're seeing massive escalation there. We're seeing Russia's new drones strike. in areas like Odessa, which you just saw. over there. In Kev, we're seeing Russian. drones strike the main northern bridge.

and other infrastructure. We're seeing. Zalinski strike back. I'll show you in a. moment what's going on there, hitting. refineries in uh Moscow and in some of. the surrounding areas. Also, we're. following what's going on with that uh. plague in the Siberia re region. A. second lab technician has died as a. result of this pneumonic plague. Donald. Trump refers to it as the pneumonia. plague. Uh we're monitoring the. situation there. Of course, we're seeing.

war spread throughout the Middle East. Uh we're seeing the kind of uh regional. war, if you will, now uh unfolding as. Saudi Arabia has invoked its defense. pact with Turkey and Pakistan, known as. the Mecca Pact. And apparently they say. at least they're providing defensive. support to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia. backs the PLC forces in Yemen. Ensural. or the Houthis continue to advance east,

appearing to encircle Thai city as they. keep on getting more territory in Yemen. after taking control of western Yemen. Saudi Arabian backed forces claim they. took over Aloka in the west, the port. city right by the Babel Mandab Straight. Although we're not seeing that. We're. seeing Houthy control still of that. area, but we're monitoring what's taking. place there. With the world on fire, Donald Trump is very cavalerely just. talking about, yeah, you know, it would.

be a small price to pay, you know, for. higher gas prices if uh Iran just, you. know, struck Los Angeles in San Diego. with nuclear weapons. You know, go and. do it, Iran. Go and do it. Uh, Governor. Nuome's responding to Donald Trump's. statement that he made at this expo. center in Nebraska where Trump was. speaking in front of a relatively small. crowd last night. Governor Nuome says. Donald Trump's remarks and these are the. remarks where Donald Trump says, "Yeah, you know, whatever. Iran, nuclear bombs,

San Diego and Los Angeles, you know, small price." Uh, Governor Nuome says, "Donald Trump's remarks were dangerous, if not treasonous, putting a target on. two of our biggest cities and one of. America's largest naval hubs." Referring. to the naval hub in San Diego. I'm. directing the State Threat Assessment. Center to actively monitor the situation. in the event that foreign actors. interpret the president's remarks as an. invitation to target California. And.

look, I don't believe these statements. by Governor Nuomo are alarmist or I. don't think it should just be we should. understand that's Donald Trump rally. speak. We just need to be attuned to it. You know, it's just the president of the. United States saying that uh yeah, whatever if nuclear bomb strikes s San. Diego and Los Angeles. What Donald Trump. really meant to say is that because we. went to war with Iran that is stopping.

the nuclear bombs in Los Angeles and San. Diego. Donald Trump meant to say that he. protected San Diego and Los Angeles. That's why he said it in front of the. crowd in Nebraska, the MAGA crowd that. found it so funny. It's like, stop. interpreting what you think the guy. meant. We shouldn't have to interpret. the ranting and ravings of a lunatic as. the president. He said what he said, and. if other presidents said that, this. would be a front page story that.

everybody would be talking about every. day. It would be an impeachable offense. And just stop with the I wouldn't even. call it a double standard. It's the. infinity standard that Donald Trump says. whatever. It's just Trump rally speak, you know, bullshitting about nuclear. weapons, right? Like we all do that, right? What are we talking about? It's. the president of the United States. You. pick your words carefully and when. you're speaking publicly, it's not funny. to make jokes about nuclear annihilation.

of two major cities in the United. States. It's not a punchline. It's not. funny. And one of the things that Donald. Trump has done, which has been. incredibly catastrophic for the United. States, is that he's made it so words. don't matter. Words from the presidency, words from the United States, they're. just words. It's just, you know, like. when Donald Trump says James Tarico is a. vegan who who vomits in his mouth after. he eats beef. No, when Donald Trump.

speaks, it's vomit in his mouth. He just. vomits words. And so I can't normalize. that behavior where the president of the. United States just vomits things and we. go, "Just the president speaking. It's. just he says crazy [ __ ] so it doesn't. matter." Well, what's really happening? Okay, you want to know what's really. happening? It's actually worse than some. of the things that he's vomiting out of. his mouth. Yeah, but let's just give it. some time. Let's just see what happens.

Actually, let's believe some of the. vomit and just be like, "Sure, more oils. coming out of the straight of Hormuz. than before the war. That makes sense. That's why we are drawing down these. strategic petroleum reserves by 40. million more barrels in the United. States and drawing down the strategic. petroleum reserves in Europe by a 100. million more barrels. That makes a lot. There's such a glut of oil, such an. abundance that we need to continue to. draw down emergency strate strategic.

petroleum reserves. Makes a lot of sense. right there. And things are so normal, right, that tankers, those very large. tankers are charging $1.5. million. per day right now where the full voyage. could cost 30 $35 million to transport. crude from the straight of Hormuz to. whatever destination it's going because. it's that dangerous. Even if you had.

100%. of oil getting out through these. straight of Hormuz, if it now costs $1.5. million a day to take a tanker and bring. it to wherever it's going, and before. the war it was $30 to $50,000. Guess. what happens? I know the Trump regime. doesn't like to acknowledge things like. tariffs are actually a tax on consumers. and it adds to the money and it gets. passed down. When the tanker costs $1.5. million a day, it means that when the.

refinery is actually acquiring the. barrel of oil, about $33 additional. dollars is being added to the cost per. barrel of crude based on the shipping. alone. And there's far less tankers. leaving the straight of Hormuz. You. know, like there's actually things. called satellites and satellite imagery. shows us what's happening in these. straight of Hormuz. So, we can like see. it. Like we saw today that there were.

maybe five tankers that were getting out. of these straight of Hormuz. So, I'm not. saying it's nothing, but before the war, it was a lot more than five tankers. getting out of the straight of Hormuz. And in the past 10 days, Iran likely. struck anywhere between 12 to 15 tankers. in the straight of Hormuz. Yeah, those. tankers that are charging $1.5 million. per day, a lot of them are getting hit.

And that's why they're charging $ 1.5. million a day in case they get hit. And. so we have war spreading throughout the. world. Donald Trump making jokes about. nuclear weapons and nuclear annihilation. in Los Angeles and San Diego. The media. saying, "Don't interpret Donald Trump as. being literal. Don't." He didn't really. mean that. He meant he wants to protect. Los Angeles and San Diego. We've got a. plague that apparently took the life of. another person in Siberia right now. And.

we have very little clarity about what. the hell is going on there. And you have. Ukraine's President Zalinski posting the. following message. We've get we've got. updated intel on Russia's preparations. for a massive strike. I ask you please. to take care of yourselves and respond. to missile threat alerts. Ukrainian. services and our air forces are ready to. respond as much as our defense allows. And a lot depends on our partners. Every. country in the world that has the. defensive capabilities we need and can.

provide them to us. It's very important. that there be the political will to do. this, particularly in the United States. and in Europe. This as Russia is. engaging in hybrid warfare in Europe. right now, breaking some of the resolve. of European countries. I mean, I'm. looking in Germany at the rise of the. more pro-Russian party over there. I'm. looking in France at the rise of the. more pro-Russian party uh over there, parties that are against the European. Union. You know, I'm observing, you.

know, obviously Donald Trump is more. interested in doing deals with Putin, uh, and wants to do a deal with Luke. Oil, Russia's major kind of state oil. company, if you will, and their foreign. assets abroad. And a Trump MAGA. billionaire maybe plans on acquiring. these assets with some of the Middle. East royal family members because at the. end of the day, this is all about grift. and money for them while the world. suffers. Apparently, that's what Putin. was speaking to Kushner and Witoff about.

when they were in Moscow on September uh. 5th. You have Zalinsky. He's He doesn't. have any interceptors. He doesn't have. Pack Three interceptors. He doesn't have. the THAAD interceptors. He doesn't have. the license to make interceptors. He's. got pretty good offensive capabilities. that Ukraine's had to develop on its. own. Some of those new FP1, FP2, FP5, even the FP9 drones. and the FP9 is a. ballistic. Um, but Ukraine's been able. to strike pretty deep in Russia and.

Moscow. They've been able to actually. strike as far as some of the areas in. Siberia, 3,000 kilometers away. And so, we're seeing though Russia strike. infrastructure in Ukraine, particularly. lately, the northern bridge in Kev has. been hit over and over again. We're. seeing strikes in Odessa. We're seeing. strikes um in Kkefe. We're seeing. strikes uh the strike you see there is a. ship in Sochi in Russia that was uh. struck by uh Zalinski but you see you. know the world lit up right now. Um let.

me go piece by piece and bring you some. of the photos footage of what's going on. right here. Um you've got major power. outages in Kev right now. So as we're. recording this lots of the power is out. there. I'll show you the Russian Shahid. drones. Um unclear if this is a Garin. floor or an older style Shahed drone. attacking a civilian convoy of vehicles. on the Odessa highway as these vehicles. were heading towards the border of.

Europe according to local media heading. towards Poland here. Let's play this. clip. now. I'll show you the footage in. Russia. This is fire from a ship near. Sochi, which was apparently hit by a. Ukrainian drone. Let's play this clip. over here.

Also, earlier today, Ukrainian drones. attacked a Moscow oil refinery, the. Bullard Skaya linear production and. dispatch station as well on fire in the. Moscow region. This is the largest oil. depot and a major pipeline transport hub. in the Moscow region. It is connected by. product pipelines to the Ryzen and. Moscow oil refineries as well as to the. major airports of the Moscow region. Let.

me show you what went down there. Let's. play this clip. show you what it looked like on the Kev. Northern Bridge that was struck this. past weekend. An insane close-up footage. right here of Russia. They've struck. this Northern Bridge over and over. again. Let's play it.

And just to show you what it looks like. both in Ukraine and in Russia in from. Moscow to Kev, you know, they've got. these uh members of their military. who've got these man pads mounted on. their shoulders, you know, and it's very. hard to strike down some of these new. drones and you got to be pretty close to. it. I'll show you what it looked like in. Moscow as some of the Ukrainian drones.

uh were being launched at Moscow. As you. can see, someone in the military for. Russia uh with the man pad uh shooting. uh the and trying to intercept the uh. Ukrainian drone. Here, play this clip. >> Yes.

Now, it's hard to get a lot of. information about what's actually. happening in Saudi Arabia as the Saudi. Arabian Interior Ministry and Defense. Ministry, they're not publishing updates. really about what's taking place. You. know, some of the information just kind. of trickles out. I mean, uh, you know, I. mean, some of the laws they have in. Saudi Arabia, um, if you publish some of. the videos and photos in Saudi Arabia of. the strikes by Ansurala, that could be.

viewed even as like a form of treason. and put you to jail uh, for the rest of. your life or perhaps, you know, even. more severe penalties uh, than that. And. so, it's rare to get the these images. out. Um you had uh Senator Murphy from. Connecticut was actually in Riad as part. of a Middle East tour. First he was in. Qatar, then he went to Riad and he said. when he was there he posted that there. have been uh a number of uh notices. I.

mean he's seen over there uh the impact. of some of these Ansarala strikes while. he's been in Riyad. This is what came. out from one of the Saudi Arabian kind. of interior ministry alerts. Important. alert from the Ministry of the Interior. Photographing or publishing or. circulating any information related to. missile and drone interception. operations or the location of their. falls exposes you to legal. accountability which I think is uh an.

understatement of what the uh. consequences of that are. But we have. been seeing Ansarala strike in Jedha um. kind of western area uh of Saudi Arabia. Yanbu another western port area. Abiak. eastern kind of port area. Um Riad right. by the King Khaled airport over there. Um an Aramco facility that's right there. as well um was struck. And by the way,

the Aramco, you can be like, Ben, you. know, I don't know, you sound hyperbolic. about all of these things. Look, the CEO. of Aramco, Saudi Arabia, Aramco, Saudi Arabia's. stateowned oil agency, says as a result. of the Trump war in Iran, the world has. lost, get this, three billion barrels of. crude. Let me just repeat that for. emphasis. The world has lost three.

billion barrels of crude over the past. seven months which will never be. replenished. Just so you are aware, right, the US strategic petroleum. reserve right now has around 250. million give or take million barrels in. it at the strategic petroleum reserve in. Texas. China's strategic petroleum. reserve, they've built it up over a.

period of time had right around like a. billion barrels over there. Um, and so. we've lost three billion barrels of oil. And so what does that actually mean? It. means tomorrow, let's let's even be more. optimistic. Sue Margowendo, everything. resolved today. Everything purportedly. went back to normal and there was this. great deal between the United States and.

Iran and everybody was happy, right? It's not going to happen. We will only. see a stabilization of the price of. diesel and gas 2029 the earliest. So no. matter what, this dumpster fire will be. handed off to whoever becomes the. president next to deal with. And every. day that passes, the situation continues to get worse and. worse and worse. And what the Trump.

regime has and what you know, I guess. some of the Trump regime, I guess, allies in the Middle East have is they. just lie. Yeah. The East West pipeline, it's doing fine. Things are going great. Things couldn't be better. Really. couldn't be better. seems to be. contradicted by the price that the. refineries are. actually selling diesel and gas at. You. know, crude doesn't go in your car. I.

know, right? You know, crude doesn't go. in a truck, right? Crude has to go into. a refinery and then it has to be. refined. It's it's a process and the. process is broken. So focusing on one. aspect of the process and not the full. process is is a meaningless analysis, right? I mean there were I saw the story. this morning, but I could analyze this. in every single freaking state, but in. Maine, right? Uh the price of heating.

oil has basically doubled. So people. started looking at their heating oil. bills in Maine and they're like, "Wow, the fuel is now averaging $5.96. a gallon, up about 80% from last year.". That implies a cost of around $1,500 to. fill up a standard residential tank that. typically will have to be replenished a. few times to make it through the winter.

And this is what's so dastardly about. Donald Trump's schemes where he lies to. people. If you vote Republican, I'm gonna give you $5,000, but you got. to vote Republican. I really mean it. this time. This time I'm being so I know. I told you I was going to do that with. those dividends and tariff rebates, but. this time I really mean it because the. sick thing is he knows that people. really need it. And as I've described it. before, what Trump does is what.

communist authoritarians have done. throughout history. That's why I think. Donald Trump is the number one communist. authoritarian he is. And it's why he. loves communist authoritarians. He takes. your loaf of bread, hoards it, takes. 99%.9%. of the bread for himself. Then he. dangles the breadcrumb in front of you. That was your loaf of bread anyway. He. dangles it in front of you and says, "You want it? Here it is. Here it is.

Come and get it. Oh, there it is over. there. Oh, you couldn't get it. It's. over here now. It's over here." That is. what he does. And he never gives you the. breadcrumb when the loaf of bread. belongs to you anyway. He's the. arsonist. He created the problem and now. he's like, "I'm going to give you a. fraudulent way that I plan on fixing. it." That he's not actually going to fix. it. But I think when you look at the. polling across the country, the American. people aren't buying it. When you see, for example, Governor Abbott of Texas, the MAGAR Republican extremist governor.

of Texas, does not want to be on a stage. next to Donald Trump when Trump travels. to San Antonio. When Rick Jackson, the. MAGAR Republican candidate running for. governor in Georgia, is removing Donald. Trump from the website. When we see this. repeated over and over again across the. country, MAGA Republicans know that. Donald Trump is toxic. And frankly, when. Donald Trump goes to the high school. gyms in Dayton, when Donald Trump goes. to the expo centers in Nebraska, he just.

reminds the people in those states what. an absolute freaking lunatic he is. And. we should never be in a position ever. where we're like, "Oh, he's joking about. nuclear. That's just how you know that's. just his rally speak. Do y'all remember. when someone who wouldn't spell potato. right? Former Vice President Dan Quell. That was it. Do you remember when Howard. Dean was like, "And we're going here and. we're going there. Woo!" Right. He did.

woo. And that was that was it. We're. like, "Yo, did you do woo? You are out, Howard. We're not going to let you. become the president. presidents don't. go woo, you know, and now we've got the. kind of doublefisting Trump whatever. nuclear. and we're like, oh, what he really meant. to say when he was jerking off the sky. and doing the nuclear. nuclear, he really was saying, folks, that he wanted to protect Los Angeles in.

San Diego. How dare you call that out? That was the double jerkoff of. protection. What are you doing? Come on, Midas touch. We got get with the story. All right, on that note, that's why I. called the book WTF America: The Way Out. of This Hell and Back to Democracy. The. audio book is um I think really popular. People are saying, "Did you read the. audio?" I read the audio with my. brother. So, go and get the audio. Um. also, there's an ebook. You see there we.

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use my promo code midas. Welcome back to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben Marcelis. This is your breaking. news. About an hour ago, Iran's. parliament leader MB Galab posted the. following message directed at US. Treasury Secretary Bessant. Buu, are you. ready? And it is a uh image of a ghost. And you can see what's going on over. here with junk bond spreads, dated. Brent, the 10-year yields, diesel prices.

going up and then going down, consumer. confidence, hyperscaler, free cash flow, foreign net purchase of. treasury bonds, housing affordability. index over there, and other metrics that. matter to uh consumers. Now, MB Galabath. is a PhD. He was also a member of their. army there. And I'll just say this. I. mean, the Trump regime is all made up. of, you know, a bunch of, you know,

losers, incompetent people, people who. are failures, people who are trolls, people who should nowhere be nowhere. near the positions that they hold. We. don't really have any engineers uh in. the cabinet. We don't have people with. kind of high level technical skills. We. just have a bunch of kind of if you made. an apprentice style show and you picked. a bunch of deranged lunatics and you put. them in the boardroom, you have a. dystopian show that looks like The.

Apprentice where we are all. non-consensual extras. Now, I'm not. saying this as a way of like applauding. Iran or saying look how great they are. or anything like far from it. What I'm. simply observing is is that most of. their leaders are people like their. president, a world-renowned. cardiovascular surge. They have doctors, they have PhDs, they have engineers at. the highest level and mostly all PhD. engineering experts who are.

outmaneuvering the Trump regime. We. should never have been involved in this. catastrophic and unlawful war in the. first place. As I've repeated over and. over again, Trump is a war criminal. Pete Hexith is a war criminal. Everybody. in the chain of command who ordered. things like the slaughter of children in. Manab and Laame Mer are war criminals. In my view, the tactic of having. blockades regarding civilian blockades. like the Trump regime does in Iran and. in Cuba. This is not an endorsement of.

the regimes there. My view is when you. do civilian blockades and you provide. you deprive people of food and medicine. and basic essentials to live and you. view that as your way of forcing regime. change by torturing and starving people. I also view that strategy as a war. crime. You could disagree, but that's my. own personal view about it as well. But. regardless, the the Trump regime is also.

grossly incompetent. And so we removed. an aircraft carrier from the Pacific, the George Washington. We moved that to. the Arabian Sea. We just moved the USS. George HW Bush out of the blockade. that's now in Phuket, Thailand because. it's been out for a very long time. And. so we just have one aircraft carrier. more than a thousand kilometers away. from Iran in the Arabian Sea. By the. way, the first time this has happened in. like over 120 years where the Just think. about it. We're in a war with Iran. We.

no longer really have military bases in. the Middle East because they've all been. destroyed. Imagine if this happened. under Biden or if this happened under. Obama. Okay, we are in a war without. military bases in the Middle East. We. only have one aircraft carrier that. can't get into the Gulf of Oman. certainly can't get into the Persian. Gulf or anywhere near the Strait of.

Hormuz. Folks, if we controlled the. Strait of Hormuz, our Navy destroyers. and our aircraft carriers would be in. it, not 1,000 kilometers away. That's. the USS George Washington. We don't have. the other aircraft carrier strike group. anymore. That's in Phuket, Thailand. Another aircraft carrier strike group, the Theodore Roosevelt and an amphibious. assault group that arrives in mid. November. But by that time, uh, duh, the. USS George Washington is going to be, um, pretty much exhausted. It's going to.

be out to sea. So, that one's going to. need to probably go to Phuket, Thailand, and it's going to do whatever the hell. goes down there. So, they'll bring that. to Phuket, Thailand, and then we're not. going to have any ships anywhere. basically, and we're just going to have. the Theodore Roosevelt there. And then, and then what? And then what's the. thousand kilometers? And then are we. going to escalate after the midterms. without bases in the Middle East because. they've all basically been destroyed? And then did you see, hat tip to the. folks at Associated Press, did you see.

the story I covered it earlier where at. least nine service members who were. injured in Kuwait during that strike. that took place at the beginning of the. catastrophic war. They spoke on the. record. Do you know how rare it is to. have active duty troops speaking on the. record? That's so rare. And they were. basically saying, "We warned about this. specific base in Kuwait. We told.

everybody that it was going to be struck. by Iranian drones. We all knew it. And. it was being used as a logistical hub. when it could we could just have. logistical hubs further away. We didn't. need the logistical hub to be right. there in Kuwait. It wasn't like even. being used to launch weapons. So, we. were doing work on our computer. And. then the day of March 1st when the uh. facility was struck by Iran, you had.

lots of service members who were there. A lot of them I think by the way came. from Iowa. And they were saying, "Look, we see these Iranian quadcopters and we. see these drones like they're scouting. the area. Could we be in the bunker, please? We. don't we don't want to be in the. building that the freaking quadcopters. are over because they're they're going. to strike it." And then this came from. the top. This came from Sentcom and this.

came from Twostar Generals as well. They. said, "Nope, you got to go in that. building." like let us stay in the. freaking bunker. And then to the. surprise of nobody, an Iranian drone. struck the building that they were in. and killed six people, injured many. others. And then there was no evacuation. plan. The person responsible for. evacuation was moved to Jordan. So the. person who was like responsible for what.

you do in an emergency wasn't even. there. So the grievously injured service. members have to start googling where the. hospital is in Kuwait. So they Google where it is. They go on. their own to find the hospital. themselves. No medevac. They find the hospital. And. then they weren't getting any. communications from Sentcom or from our. military. So they were hiding out in. residential homes in Kuwait awaiting.

what the hell they were supposed to do. And then afterwards, people who were killed, service members. who were killed, well, a lot of their. family members weren't getting the. benefits allowed because some of these. deaths weren't being classified. appropriately as combat related deaths. And then people who were injured, it. took them months before they could get. MRIs and before they could get tested. because the Trump regime was saying a. traumatic brain injury is not a serious.

injury. That it's just a headache. Get. over it. Get back to war. What the hell. are you talking about? And so these. service members who were then. catastrophically injured had to fight. months to even get the MRI. So the fact. that they're out there speaking to the. Associated Press is significant. And by. the way, it comes on the same day that. who did Donald Trump have in the White. House today? Gold star families going. back to Vietnam. He positioned them. And. this is just he and here's the thing. My.

heart goes out to all the gold star. families. Absolutely. But Donald Trump has called your loved. ones suckers and losers. Like he said. that about your loved ones. And you. could be I never heard of he he acts. like that every day. He talks like that. every damn day. And he talks about how. the Congressional Medal of Honor should. be not as significant as the awards that. he gives to civilians. And he says that. I should be the one getting these Medal.

of Honors. Like what I do was much more. courageous. But he's using you as props. So he puts them in the White House. stairs while he does this press. conference earlier in the day where he. refuses to answer the question, "What. did you mean when you said it's a small. price to pay for war if San Diego and. Los Angeles were struck?" What did you. mean? And he refuses to answer that. question over there. He refuses to. answer the question. and while having.

the gold star families positioned in a. way so that they would get in the camera. shot and and and he positions them on. the stairs going down the stairs and you. know that to to me that says it all. right there. No, Donald Trump in. Nebraska was at the expo center at the. state fair campus and they were trying. to also like there's 6,000 people there.

There wasn't 6,000 people there. He was. he was at he was at an expo center. You. can see it. And I'm like that's fine. You know, James Tarico is drawing bigger. crowds. Gina Hinahosa is drawing bigger. crowds right now, you know, but you know. the but the media the crowds I saw it. was a CBS reporter I think who was like. the crowd went wild. This were referring. to the Dayton, Ohio. I'm like it's a. gym. He's playing a high school gym in.

Dayton. Okay. I mean, yeah, the high. school gym went wild for him as he. talked about taking aspirin and how he. loves the aspirin and how data centers. in everybody's backyard. It's just wild. to me. Like, we've been going through. this for 10 years now. 10 years, you. know, of of or more since he came down. the stupid escalator, you know, all of. that, right? and more if you include all of the stuff.

he was doing during Obama, you know, when he was doing the birther crap and. the lies and all of that. And it's like. they go out of their way to just. normalize, you know, to normalize the. guy. I mean, let's let's take a look. Do. do you have And it's, you know, do do. you have what Daniel Dale said about him. there, Jeremy? there. Daniel Dale was. responding to uh the headquarters. account which literally just quoted. Donald Trump and they said Trump on. Iran, let him take out Los Angeles in.

San Diego. It's a small price. That's. what Trump said. So then Daniel Dale the. fact checker goes this isn't a direct. quote from Trump and I very much don't. think it's a correct paraphrase. Trump. has repeatedly argued that the. consequences of the war, like higher gas. prices, are a small price to pay. compared to what an unchecked Iran could. allegedly do. It's Trump's fault. You.

kind of have to be steeped in Trump. rally speak to know what he's saying. last night. I don't want to be steeped in Trump. rally speak. I heard what he said. I. don't know. Perhaps if you want to do a. fact check, you fact check Trump because. Trump said in 2025 he obliterated Iran's. nuclear capacity. And so if he. obliterated it in 2025, it's gone. Obliteration, that's a word. Or wait, when Donald Trump speaks, it means.

nothing. So he says obliteration. But every other politician, oh my god, when Democrats speak, every word's got. to be analyzed. That's such a microle. Did you mean this? Did you mean this? Oh. my god. Did you appear on a podcast that. once had a guest that was once on. another podcast that once had a guest. that knew Hassan [ __ ] Oh my Oh, just. you're disqualified. You're You're out. of it. You're out of it. Donald Trump. talking about nuclear weapons on San. Diego and Los That's not what he meant.

at all. I mean, what are we talking. about here? Do we have Jeremy the video. of Trump saying, "Let him take out Los. Angeles and San Diego. It's a small. price to pay. If we've got that video, can we play that? >> See a tremendous victory because it. verifies all the things we did. And. again, remember with the war, it's just. artificial. It's a little bit high. It's. a small price to pay for keeping the. world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take. let it let them take out Los Angeles.

Let them take out San Diego. That's this is a very small price to pay. and it's going to be over very soon. It's essentially almost over with. I. essentially almost over with. It's. almost over soon. It's essentially. basically basically one. We finished in. one day and now I'm just doing it for. fun. It's like a hobby. It's like a. hobby to me. It's just this is just how. I have fun. Or how about when he said. the word affordability? I've never even.

heard such a word. What What is this. word? Afrai. Afra. What's afraability? This is not a word. This is not a word. Here, play this clip of him saying I'm. in office one day and they're saying a. fragabali. Not not a word. Not a word I know. Here, play this clip, sir. Affordability. And they try and pin it. on me. These people, the one good thing. they are, they're good on politics, but.

they're really bad on management. And. they're really, really bad on policy. Their policy is crazy, but they hit me. with affordability. And that's the first time I ever heard. the word used. It was meant to demean. So now every time I go in front of the. fake news, sir, this is about. affordability. I said, they're the ones that caused the. problem. But unfortunately, we have some. Republicans that don't say it very well, and they're trying to, oh, well, we're.

doing this, we're doing that, and we. are. We're bringing it way down. Look at. the prices. They're coming way down. We're bringing them way down. All of the. No, they're What world do you live in, [ __ ] What world do you live in? And. the prices are going all up. And I'm not. sure if you notice some of the kids who. are behind him, you know, and they're. doing his expressions, you know. And. again, this is we're not this isn't. supposed to be like watching Shamu at. SeaWorld. Oh my god, he did he catch a little. sardine? Oh,

that should not be what our politics is. Look, if you want to watch Shamu. catching sardines, I'm not a fan of what. goes on in SeaWorld, so I'm not going to. encourage, you know, you may like it, you may not like it. I'm not a fan of, you know, small confinement of gigantic. whales and places, but whatever. I'm not. going to judge you for it. Um, but, you. know, let's just say if you want to. watch some bizarre drama, you know, Hunger Game, just go watch it on TV.

This is supposed to be government. governance, you know, it's like could you imagine um. you know, we're watching the uh Major. League Baseball playoffs, right? You. know, imagine like Otani, you know, he. shows up, you know, uh to play after, you know, gets a big contract for the. Dodgers and he's like, "They asked me. to hit. They asked me to hit the ball." I've.

never heard such a word. Hit the ball. What are we talking about here? I They. hit me. They hit me with the hitting. What is this? Yeah, you're the freaking. president. The main issue is cost of. living. We expect you to address the. issue. Yeah. Yeah. And then could you imagine to use that. example? you know, the season progresses. and you keep on losing and losing and. losing and rather than being like, man, maybe I gotta do a better job, you know, and this is you go, could you believe.

what happened two seasons ago? How horri. like seasons now? You're playing, you're. in the game. Shut the f up. The hell are. you doing? This is this is real. Stop. Stop this crap. And I think so much we. focus on the gamified politics and you. know and you get these freaking weirdos. I mean the Javier Malay with the fat. Elvis stupid hair and you get these you. know dictators who are these like.

clownish fascists who put on a stupid. show while ripping you off and stealing. from you and quidd proquoing and. covering up the Epstein files, you know, because they it's like no, we need. freaking leaders. We need grown-ups. We. need to be a serious at a threshold. level. We need to be a freaking serious. nation. You know, when I watch someone. like Admiral McCraven, I don't even know. what his politics are. I probably. disagree with him on some things. I. agree with him on some things. I.

disagree with him on some things, but I. watch somebody like an Admiral McCraven. and I'm like, that's a real person. That's a serious dude. That's a that's. the kind of person who should be making. decisions. And if we want to watch. fascist clown shows and laugh at it, let. it be weird TV shows and I could have. the option if I want to play it or not. play it on Netflix or whatever. I don't. want to have This is going to be people. running your life and my life. That's. part of the WTF. get the hell out of. this thing where we're trying to elect.

circus clowns to entertain us who end up. stealing from us and making life. miserable and making it feel like we're. in some escape room every day trying to. get the hell out of here. By the way, it's why the book's called WTF America. Get the audio. I didn't read the audio. as somebody said in the comments. I. auditioned the audio. I spoke the audio. I'm not sure what the right word, you. know, but get the audio and or the ebook. or the hard coverver book comes out. October 20th. The pre-orders are super.

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the Danish artist Jean's Golshot is. displaying a statute of Donald Trump in. the EU Parliament. Stark Naked uh and. it's uh the name of the work is Orange. Plague. How it came about is what. they're calling it over there. And. that's actually being displayed in the. EU Parliament uh right now. H how are. MAGA Republicans trying to um message. all of this? Right. I mean, as we're. seeing uh what's actually happening with.

gas and diesel prices, as we're seeing. uh heating oil now that we're in the. winter, people are starting to feel that. a little bit more as they're saying, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. What is that?" It's. $1,500, $2,000 to fill up for the What. are we talking about here? Well, energy. secretary Chris Wright, he continues to. push this message. Let me show you what. uh Chris Wright's message is. Let's play. it. But we're in a crisis right now with a. shortage of diesel because of a conflict. between Russia and Ukraine. Uh China.

deciding not to export diesel anymore. And we still have reduced flows of. refined products out of the Middle East. Although they're on their way up and. they're on their way up. Everything is. going good. And it's actually caused by. simply because of refinery capacity is. only and this is a blue state issue. Blue states over the past decade. It's. really been an issue in blue states. Look, they want to skip over, you know, Donald Trump was in office sadly for.

four years from 2016 to 2020. We skip over that period where why. didn't he build out the refining. capacity then? Was it the blue states? Was it Dr. Fouchy? Do they get him? Was. it Dr. Fouchy and blue states prevented. him? Did he have a brilliant plan and. then it was suddenly stopped by Dr. Fouchy and the blue states? Is is is. that what happened? Or is he just full. of crap with everything that he did? If. you want to actually talk about. increased refining capacity and you want.

to talk about the United States becoming. a net exporter, you can talk about Obama. lifting basically a ban that allowed the. US to export a lot of its diesel. worldwide. And it was actually under. Obama. It was an Obama policy. Um, but. you know, the media won't cover that and. Trump will just say, uh, jewel baby. drill. Have you heard of a Jill baby. drill? Or do you know in Venezuela we're. getting 65 billion barrels of.

hypothetical oil? We'll never get, but. I'll just say 65 billion and just say. it. I'll say 21 trillion. I won't. actually ask you to do some basic common. sense like if we brought in 21 trillion. then why did the debt increase to over. 40 trillion? Why is the debt going up? Why is the deficit expanding? Why is. federal spending increasing? If we. brought in 21 trillion, why is it that. last month we only created 29,000 new. jobs which will probably be revised down.

next month to probably a net negative. job creation. Why is it that the GDP is. not? We brought in 21 trillion. Shouldn't we have like 8% GDP growth or. 12? Oh, that's not happening. Well, maybe we didn't bring in $21 trillion. Maybe it's totally false. If we're. bringing out all of this oil from the. straight of Hormuz, then maybe we would. expect not to have to take out more oil. from the strategic petroleum reserves, the European strategic petroleum.

reserves. Maybe we'd have it. Um, you. know, maybe if we controlled the. straight of Hormuz, then tankers. wouldn't be charging $1.5 million per. day to take oil out of the straight of. Hormuz and risk that they will. potentially be struck by the IRGC. I. mean, what are we even talking about. here? I just, you know, this this this. rejection of a reality and this creation. of fraudulent worlds when the answers.

are so obvious is so freaking Trumpian. and it's like there's so many people who. go along with this just complicit. narrative and this complicit behavior. You know, I was looking during the break. and you know something like this will go. super viral. Let me know who this guy. is, but it goes viral on Elon Musk's. algorithm where it says the US has. basically won the battle of Hormuz and. then they use, you know, this data. It's. a chart and then it's like, you know, um, okay, like what what are you even.

showing me here? And then, you know, this one person commented, I find it so. strange that people are willing to. destroy their professional reputation. for just pushing a narrative or worse. showing so weak analytically. Let's. assume even these numbers are absolutely. correct and you can take them to the. bank. As I said yesterday, what matters. for Iran is that A the cost of this. operation stays high enough for the US. so that it eventually is forced to. abandon it. B US forces leave anywhere.

near Iranian territory. C everyone in. the world knows once the US leaves, Iran. is dictating terms in the Persian Gulf. and the straight of Hormuz. The basic. takeaway here is that what matters for. Iran is raising the cost for the US in. such a manner that it has to abandon and. leave at some point. The cost can come. in the form of budget spent running the. aerial escorts, personnel loss, military. equipment and readiness loss politically. and electorally and losing elections.

because of voter dissatisfaction or. economically because of higher gas. prices. the claimed increased barrels of. oil leaving the Persian Gulf aren't. going to affect any of the above if. they're coming at enormous cost. And. then you have another person saying, I'm. going to keep it blunt. No, there's not. a single word, number, or line in this. post that it presents factual. information. And if you charge people. money for this quality of anal quality. of analysis, you're committing economic.

malpractice. I know contrarian trust me. bro analysis is your shtick but. attempting to draw any naval maritime or. military conclusion by misrepresenting. the work of others is a few thousand. miles out of your depth. Kepler's actual. preliminary rolling average from 28th. September to October 5th is under 15. million barrels per day. And that is. with Kepler publicly acknowledging that. they have changed how they count. transits which has increased an.

artificial upward movement in their. numbers. The real number is. significantly lower. More importantly, export flow does not matter because as. long as ships continue to get hit on a. near daily basis, we are up to 12 in the. last week, the cost of exporting that. oil will remain exorbitant. This is. before we even get to the collapse of. the region's refining capabilities, Saudi Arabia's complete inability to. consistently defend the East West.

pipeline, and the tanker shortage. because of how long individual ships are. tied up shuttling out for STS transfer, shipto- ship transfers, often as long as. two weeks for one round trip. But other. than that, dude, yeah, the battle to. open the waterway that was completely. open and unobstructed in any way eight. months ago is basically won, right? It's. a basic analysis right there. We didn't. win the battle of hormuz like what? And. this is the stuff that gets pushed on.

the algorithms. The algorithms are. controlled by the oligarchs who. manipulate the market. You see stock. prices go up while the American people. suffer. In fact, on days where there are. bad job reports, the worse the job. report, the more the MAG 7, the. Magnificent Seven stocks and the tech. stocks crash it, right? They crush it as. jobs get lost. You could almost look, you're like, "Bad jobs report. The. market must be doing bad." No, the. market loves awful job report numbers.

That shouldn't be the case. There should. be a congruity between good jobs and. good markets, right? Where markets. celebrate job loss. That shouldn't be. something we spike the football for. There's something wrong with that. Okay? You know, and by the way, during the. break also, I saw this. The US State. Department has issued a level four. travel advisory for Americans not to. travel to Russia after another pneumonic.

plague death. US citizens currently in. Russia should depart immediately. US. citizens planning travel to Russia are. again strongly advised not to travel to. Russia and again under the Trump regime. Are we going to have to deal with. another. I don't even want to say it. Are we. going to have to deal with another. and have him do the inject yourself with. the this and the that and the stuff?

It's enough. Everything that they were. warning and attacking Biden for, they. are doing right now thousands of times. worse. And by the way, for all of our. people in the Florida panhandle who are. watching, our thoughts are with you. right now. There's a major storm system. moving over there. We expect uh there to. be a hurricane uh soon. It's a 90%. chance of a hurricane, a 36% chance of a. significant hurricane hitting the. Florida panhandle. This as the Trump.

regime is spiking the football that it. gutted 50% of FEMA right now. And one of. the things that I'm noticing also, did. you all even know about this? Like I'm. not suggesting that nobody is reporting. this, but it's Tuesday and it's expected. to hit fairly soon and I don't see. people in FEMA speaking about it, holding press conferences, talking about.

it, letting people know right away. evacuation plans or anything that we. would normally see before. And so my. hope is that this doesn't become, you. know, a major category three, you know, any major category of uh hurricane. But, you know, last uh hurricane season, fortunately, there was no major. hurricane that took place in the United. States. And that's when the Trump regime. initially gutted all of FEMA. And so.

that's expected to hit pretty soon. we're going to be keeping an eye on uh. what's going on there. Um you know, and. Donald Trump's plan again when he speaks. in Nebraska or speaks wherever is. $5,000, $5,000 to you. I'll produce. $5,000 easy. I'll produce it. I mean, how pathetic is this is where we're at. with all of these issues I described. happening in this episode. I want to see. a leader, even if they're a Republican, you know, get up there and just be.

competent and be normal. Right. I mean, I think Republicans have disqualified. themselves for generations after. propping up MAGA personally. And that's. not me giving standing ovations to. Democrats, although I think there have. been Democratic candidates who have run. excellent campaigns. I mean, I think. James Talerico has run an excellent. campaign. I think the Democratic Senate. candidate in Nebraska, an excellent. campaign. I think the Democrat I think. Dr. Abdul Elsa in Michigan has run an. excellent, strong, fearless campaign.

You know, I think uh Nixon in Florida. has run a great campaign. I think in. South Carolina. uh a excellent campaign uh over there by. the de I mean I I I think um you look at. uh you know even some of these you know. independent candidates you know who are. going against these MAGA Republican. extremists. I think they're running in. Iowa. I think Turk's run a good. campaign. I mean, I I can go across the.

country obviously. Um I think I think I. think what needs to happen in the. Democratic party or any opposition party. though is there needs to be. a coherent leadership structure and. coherent messaging like out of any. strong opposition. And look, I think the American people. clearly want checks and balances and. accountability and they want to vote.

these crooks and traders, these MAGA. Republicans out. And so Democrats have. an opportunity to aggressively pursue. oversight, I think, to regain the trust. of the American people. But there has to. be a broader communication strategy. And. I think they have to lean on some of. these younger members who are doing some. who are running these really powerful. campaigns of how you engage with the. public and how you message and bring.

people together and talk about what you. can accomplish and also limitations. given that you're the legislative branch. and not the executive branch. warn about. the Trump regime's efforts. That's going. to be to blame everybody for what Donald. Trump does because Trump's not a. builder. He's a destroyer. He's not a. dealmaker. He's a deal breakaker. So, you got to start getting in front of. that. And. you know, and and and and I think that.

again, that there's this major. opportunity, I think, to push back in. this rare moment while Donald Trump's. out there saying, "I'm going to give you. $5,000. I'm going to give you this. I'm. going to give you that. And you know, I'm I'm. I think that that I think you can't take. for granted. I think there's going to be. a. um a a big landslide in this midterms. I. think it's going to be bigger than. anybody even expects right now. It just. seems like it's all lining up for that.

Just how vile and crooked Trump and. these maggas have been. But then you got. to lean in and you've got to earn. people's trust and you got to speak. directly to people and you got to do it. every day and you got to speak to people. where they are. And you know we we we we. will see. We will see what happens. But. Donald Trump's out there. I'll produce. $5,000 easy. It's a dividend. It makes. me proud to do this. You got to vote. Republican though. Here. Let me show you. what he says here. This clip. >> No. Just to show you that I'll produce.

I'll produce the 5,000. Easy. Actually. easy. The Trump dividend as an example. is approximately. what? Think of that. We'll call this a. dividend. It's a dividend to the people. of our country for putting up with these. morons and horrible four years of. horror. You put up with four years of. stupidity and horror. You've been in charge for two years. You've been the putting up with these. stupid. You control all branches of. government. and the Supreme Court.

And that's what you're saying. I'm gonna. give you the dividend for dealing. What. do you think your job is? And again, this is what I mean. This is just this. is not a Democrat Republican thing. It's. just loser behavior to watch this. And. then he's like, only I can make this. promise to you. You control all branches. now. If you can do it, do it now. You. control the House. You control the. Senate. You control the presidency. You're certainly not going to have more. seats after the midterms because this is.

just all about blame. This is all about not taking. responsibility and not taking. accountability. And frankly, shame on. the parents who brought their kids. there. Oh, look at him. We're going to. see Shamu catch sardines in his mouth. No, this is going to destroy your kid's. life right here. This type of crooked crim. He's not. giving you F. Are you that stupid? Like. you almost have to ask sometime, right? Like are are the people at that barn.

where he's doing like are you and I'm. not trying to be rude. Like I'm. genuinely curious like are you that. stupid where you think he's going to. give you $5,000? Like can some How do. you do you brush your teeth in the. morning? Like how do you get up and do. things? I wonder like what do you do. with your day? Do do does does C can. anybody go up to you and just say to. you, "Okay, I'm gonna give you a million. dollars, but you have to go into your.

ATM and then will you hand me the. whatever you have in your life savings. and then I'll give you a million. dollars. I promise you. I'm not going to. sign, but I promise you. Will you do. it?" Sure. Okay. Thank Thank you. appreciate. I mean, like I'm just trying. to understand like what world are you. living in that after all this time, after all of the lies he's done to you, you know what you're paying? You know, you think you're paying less. Like, I'm.

just flabber I I am flabbergasted. Not. in a political way. I'm flabbergasted. that there are human beings who can. allow themselves to just be fed this. [ __ ] and eat it and eat it up. because some orange monstrosity. clown looking thing is funny to watch. and in an otherwise mundane existence.

blah blah is just appealing and you like. hearing [ __ ] It's just very strange to. me. Only I can make you this promise. Here, listen to what he says over here. Let's play this clip. >> And our country is doing so well under. Republican leadership that only I can. make this promise to you. This is a big. promise. But I've met it so many. I've. met all my promises. All my promises. If. Republicans win the House of. Representatives and the Senate, I am. going to give all adult citizens in the. United States of America $5,000.

D. He's really gonna do it this time, Mommy. Son, we're really going to get that. $5,000 this time. I promise you. I. promise you this. Did you see how he. said it this time in the barn? He really. meant it this time. And we really. controlled the straight. We're kicking. Iran's ass. Absolutely. Yeah. Oil prices. are going down. Inflation. It's It's all. artificial. Yeah. We We We What do we.

want? We Does he say we want data. centers? Were there SI centers? Yeah. Si. centers in our backyard. Yeah. I mean, how these people go through their day? I. mean, I'm genuinely curious. I'm. genuinely curious. They wake up in the. morning. What What happens? I should take me. through your day. Setting aside. Just. take me through your day of of the world. that you that you see occurring right. now around you.

Wild, wild stuff. In any event, I mean, the good news is is that it does seem. that there's going to be a major major. shift coming in these midterms. But I. said, don't take it for granted, Democrats. It's not a it's not a wild. endorsement of the brand. There are. candidates that have run great. campaigns, and people want to see. action. People want to see action, and. you got to deliver. You got to deliver.

accountability. You got to be fearless. You can't be, you know, trying to you. you can't look like uh who's that guy. like like the the guy who runs the. secretary general of NATO, Mark Route. Oh, Donald, you've actually made NATO stronger, Donald. It's like these people are like, "Aren't these people like cartoon. characters out of like, you know, it's. why I can't watch any fictional things. anymore, right? Like Treasury Secretary.

Bessant is like Will Ferrell. You know, you have uh you know, the guy Mark Rut. Oh, Donald, you are so good. You're. bringing us to he's good by destroying. NATO." Like the fact that NATO is just a. pretty much a European alliance right. now and the US attacks NATO and makes it. difficult for NATO to invoke article. that that makes NATO stronger. What are. we talking? So don't do that Democrat. Don't be like, "Oh, we are going to do a.

deal with the guy. You're going to do a. deal with the guy who's covering up the. Epstein files. Got it. You're going to. do a deal with the guy who claims we. brought in $21 trillion and we didn't. You're gonna do a deal with the guy. who's saying that if Democrats win, while he's in charge, there will be a. great depression. While he's the. executive, he's gonna blame you for the. depression that he's anticipating, even. though he'll be technically still in the. executive branch. Ridiculous. Ridiculous.

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how I talk." They're like, "Yeah, but. that's not how you say that word." I'm. like, "I know. Well, I'll do my go. How. do you How do you say the word? And they. would teach me how to say Oh, god. That's I guess I've been saying the word. wrong for 41 years of life. Anyway, thanks everybody. Appreciate. you. We'll put new videos up throughout. the day. Shout out Midas Mighty. We're. grateful for you. Have a good one. everybody. Thanks. Want to stay plugged in? Become a. subscriber to our Substack at. midasplus.com. You'll get daily recaps. from Ron Filicowski, ad free episodes of.

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