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We've got a lot to cover on this episode. of the Midas Touch podcast. More US. military strikes against Iran. This. time, the US hitting purported rocket. launchers on Laric Island in Iran. Iran. responded by striking US military bases. in Jordan, in the United Arab Emirates, and in Qatar, apparently striking and. damaging targets in those military. bases, which the Trump regime denies. We'll cover the latest developments.

there. more US attacks against Canada in. the form of a catastrophic trade war. launched by Donald Trump against a. country that had always been our. greatest ally here in the United States. Weak, pathetic individuals in the Trump. regime, attacking Canada and saying. Canada treats us more unfairly than any. country in the world. We saw whiny, whiny Trump regime officials this. weekend and throughout the day. The US.

continues to attack basically the rest. of the world other than Putin and she. and Kim Jong-un who Donald Trump. continues to lick their boots while they. mock Donald Trump at the Shanghai. Cooperation Organization in Kyrgystan. And then in a week or so there will be. another meeting in New Delhi, India as. part of the BRICS meeting. Donald Trump. weakening our alliances while other. alliances forming and strengthening. abroad. Then you had Donald Trump's.

announcement of that dirty, fraudulent, fake Venezuela deal. And I say dirty for. a lot of reasons as well. The actual. deal itself, one of these phony uh. corrupt Trump purported deals, although. we haven't actually seen it in writing. Surprise, surprise. But also the. Venezuelan oil, the kind of tarry, sour, viscous, dense oil is not something that. can easily be refined anytime soon. So.

when Donald Trump says, "We're going to. use this to fill up the strategic. petroleum reserves." False. That oil. can't even be used in the salt caverns. in the United States. Strategic. petroleum reserves in Texas and. Louisiana. just doesn't work here. And. so we will expose that. Um because I. think we need to pay a lot of attention. that that's just another market. manipulation scheme. You had the MAGA. Republican Congress returning for what.

five hours today? And then they're like, "Yeah, could we leave?" And so MAGA Mike. Johnson's like, "Yeah, we're going to. just probably just recess again and just. go home. We don't want to actually do. any work here." So we'll cover that. But. I'll tell you what, when you saw some of. these MAGAR Republican fascist clowns. today on the various networks and trying. to defend what Donald Trump's been doing. to destroy our country, they looked, and. I don't know if you caught this, visibly.

shaken. We'll cover that. I mean, it. just looked almost like a parody, like. an SNL skit. It was so freaking. embarrassing what they were doing. Um, on a serious note though, you have the. Supreme Court showing you once again how. supremely corrupt and illegitimate they. are with these right-wing fascists that. dominate the Supreme Court. They. basically said Donald Trump's Golden. Ballroom probably not legal, but there's. just no standing for anybody to block. it. So, the historic preservation group.

that filed the lawsuit, we just don't. think that they have standing. most. likely what Trump is doing. Very. illegal, but you know, wrong plaintiff. Well, who would be the right plaintiff? The Supreme Court. Maybe the fact that. our Constitution requires that the. president take care that laws be. faithfully executed. So under your. paradigm, there's literally nobody in. the world that could ever block a rogue. president who you give absolute immunity.

to because no one will have standing. other than the executive branch, which. is not using the good faith to take care. that our laws are faithfully executed. We'll talk about that. And then there's. other things. I mean, the defense. department continues to unravel. We. learned that they have a network of MAGA. influencers who are all over X who are. actually feds. They're actually the deep. state, right? Isn't it just so. fascinating that the people who warned.

about the Epstein cabal, right? They. were the Epstein Cabal. The people who. warned about the deep state and the feds. are actually the deep state feds. I. wonder how they did that. Um, and so. there's this network of special. government employees who just spew the. defense department propaganda and they. pretend that they're like these big. influencers. They have big accounts and. they're actually getting paid by the. taxpayers and they work for the defense. department and they don't disclose it. We'll talk about that. And then there.

was a massive leak. the Secretary of. Defense order book, the SDOB, a highly. classified document that actually showed. that all other than the SenCom Brad. Cooper guy who's an absolute clown. This. guy has like destroyed his credibility. I mean, the way SenCom's behaving, but. all of our other top generals and. admirals all gave a non-concurrence. regarding the defense department's war. plans generally, meaning that they don't. support the current strategy or future.

strategy, all of them have a. non-concurrence. And while maybe. non-concurrences here or there have. occurred, when they all say we don't. concur with your war plan, that's a big. big deal. We'll talk about that and. more. Brett and Jordy, how are you. doing? Great to see you. >> Great to see you too, Ben. Great to see. you, Jordy. Great to see you, Midas. Mighty. Wow. That reporting about the. Pentagon paying these MAGA influencers. was such a snap into focus moment for me.

because it's something that we've. speculated on for a long time. We knew. there was something behind this. I I. always assumed it was more of like a. dark money operation, you know, kind of. hiding payments and and things like. that. And by the way, I'm still sure. that a lot of that is still going on as. well. But the fact that they're. literally bringing these people into the. federal government, hiring people who. have followings on X in order to spread. government propaganda while they act. like they are the people against the. establishment and against the man when.

they are quite literally feds. Not much. could be more on brand for the Trump. regime. And this is the people who. called, remember the the people they. were like January 6th, it was all feds. who did it, right? These are the people. who were the KQ Anon people who would. say that uh they were going to uh. blow the lid off this entire sex. trafficking ring. They ended up being. the ones who ended up defending the. Epstein files and and and fighting hard. in order to protect Donald Trump and get.

Donald Trump elected. So I think I'm. seeing a little bit of a theme here. develop. I'm excited to get into all of. it. We got a lot of news today. Jordy, what's the latest on your end? >> Brothers Mattis mighty. I am so excited. to get into today's show. Uh, personal. note, Benji, I'll toss it to you. Uh, the answer is no. Uh, baby has not. arrived just yet. And I'm actually under. strict orders where I can say I might. even get a text during the show that it. might have. Some people in my universe. are saying that I'm jinxing it by saying. it and and actually delaying it further.

by hinting that it could happen. So, it's definitely not going to happen. during the recording of this show. So, I. just want to say that Benji pumped to. get into today's show. I mean, what a. laundry list that you rattled off there. to begin with. Where are we starting off. today, big bro? >> We'll take you to Tel Aviv, where one of. Donald Trump's chief propagandists now, one of his newer chief propagandists, who's been reporting from Tel Aviv for. quite some time. Not sure why he needs. to actually be there, but his name is. Trey Yinst over at State Regime Media. Fox. This morning, Donald Trump told Mr.

Yinx that uh the US is going to start. ramping up some attacks on Iran. We're. going to start it back up again, he. said. And that was after the US struck. rocket launchers apparently in Laric. Island in Iran last night. Iran. responded by striking US air bases uh in. the region in Jordan. There was two. bases there. Um one that we know has. been hit over and over again. Mufic al. the Salty uh air base over there in.

Jordan. Um another the Hussein air base. over there in Jordan. aloud over. inQatar, an air base in the UAE. Of. course, all these countries said, "We. intercepted everything." But the um heat. images that come uh from some of these. surveillance footage and companies and. some of the satellite footage actually. show that there were uh indeed lots of. successful strikes from Iran. In. addition, it seems that there were. dozens and dozens, perhaps even a. hundred of those Pack Three interceptors.

that were used, $4 million each. So, you. could do the math of how much money was. spent by the Trump regime, further. depleting our interceptor stockpile in. the past 24 hours. But Donald Trump, Russia's calls up state regime media, and here's what Trey Yinst has to say. Play this clip. >> Yeah, Lawrence. Good morning. I just. spoke with President Trump who told Fox. News the United States will respond to. the Iranian attack on US forces.

overnight in Jordan. The president said, "We're going to hit them hard. there. will be a response. >> It's not Groundhog's Day. Um although it. feels like it for sure. That's actually. new footage, but you could probably say, "Didn't he just say that like four weeks. ago and six weeks ago?" And yeah, that's. what's going on. So then after calling. Trey Yinst, Donald Trump and other Trump. officials then reach out to Barack. Ravid. These are the two top. propagandists who spread this news.

usually at the same time. So you've got. Trey Inks, State Regime Media Fox out of. Tel Aviv. And then you have Barack Ravid. also reporting from Israel as well. He's. with Axios. He's one of Donald Trump's. uh chief kind of stenographers as well. And this is what Ravid posted. Trump has. been considering a sencom plan for. waging limited strikes in the straight. of Hormuz to prevent Iran from. reconstituting its radar and missile. capabilities to attack ships. According. to three US officials, it's always that.

According to three US officials, I. wonder who the three real officials are. >> It's always three same US officials. >> It's always same people. It's probably. Trump, Kushner, and Whit or some. variation of that as well. >> It's like sources are telling me that. the most good-looking brothers on the. planet are Ben, Brett, and Jordy. Three. sources. >> Three high level sources. [clears throat]. >> Three highle sources that might touch. >> So, this is this is how Barack Ravid. says was told to him though. One US. official said the idea behind the plan.

is to reduce the risk of Iranian attacks. on oil tankers, US Navy ships, and Air. Force aircraft to mow the lawn, as this. person put it. First off, mow the lawn. is a genocidal term. It's a war criminal. term. I just want you to think about. what that means. Mow the lawn literally. means just demolish areas. Mow the lawn. It's also an idiotic term in addition to. being genocidal because perhaps not the.

Mara Lago lawn or other lawns that. Donald Trump doesn't upkeep, but kind of. like the reflecting pool. If you paint. it blue, the algae always comes back. The thing about mowing the lawn every. two weeks, you got to do it again. Okay, so even saying that that's what you're. going to do probably something that you. may want to reflect on. It's an. admission of a we're just going to mow. the lawn. the lawn grows back. You mowed. the lawn. And what they're talking about. though also is war crimes and genocide.

is what they're actually saying. So then. Donald Trump holds a Oval Office presser. and Donald Trump says that he's going to. smack them. Iran, I'm going to smack. them. He says, and look, this guy, you. have to understand, he's a predator, right? If you think about Venezuela, when we'll talk about in a bit, how it's. a fraudulent fake deal, but what's it. actually about? It's about dominance. It's about submission. It's about. humiliation rituals. That's what it's.

really about. Fundamentally, the deal is. total It's made up. But it's. about humiliating yourself to Donald. Trump. He's a predator. What is his. intention with Canada? 51st state. It is. predatorial. It is about submission. It is about. dominance. And the fact that you have. northern border country that's happy and. diverse and has health care. Trump sees.

that and the sickos around him and. they're predators. That gets them angry. They hate that. That's why they say. Canada's the worst country to them. because they see happiness and these. predators hate this happiness and their. mindset is always if we just hit them. harder. If we just make them suffer even. more, then they will stop saying no and. they'll finally say yes because they're. predators, the Trump regime. They're.

criminals and they're predators. And you. have to view everything through that. perspective. So, here he is saying he's. going to smack them. They're going to. smack them hard. Here, play this clip. >> Air Force is gone. Their uh surveillance. equipment is almost entirely gone. Uh that doesn't mean we won't smack. them. We'll see what happens. But uh we. have the straight of Heramus in. extremely good shape. You know, we're. taking over. Many many ships got through.

last night as you know. >> But then what's it actually happening? Let's be clear. Okay, we obvious, you. know, I don't do I need to fact check. that. I just will for the sake of. diligence. We don't control the straight. of Hormuz. Another super tanker was hit. uh by a mine last night. There have been. multiple tankers hit in the past few. days by Iran. The actual amount of oil. coming out according to uh tank.

trackers, uh it's probably closer to 4. million barrels a day. Before the war, we were talking about 20 million barrels. a day. I don't want to act like. nothing's coming out, but we're talking. about fractions of what was coming out. before. And obviously, if you look at. these strategic petroleum reserves and. these salt caverns that we have here, where the strategic petroleum reserves. are kept, they're like these there are. these salt caverns that are used with. this mixture of crude that's been.

developing with water and then you kind. of extract it. And I I go into detail in. a lot of videos. I won't bore you with. all those details now, but there's a. reason why those petroleum reserves here. in the United States are going lower and. lower. Okay? If you look at what's. happening in one of the main hubs where. lots of the pipelines connect here in. the United States in Cushing, Oklahoma, you're also seeing all of the evidence. that the supply of oil has been. depleted. Um, and also you can obviously.

evaluate the gas prices, supply and. demand. If there was this huge amount of. supply as the Trump regime claims, then. what we could expect is the prices of. oil, the gas you use, and the diesel to. start going down, but they keep on going. up because the supply shock is real. And. when we talk about in the next segment, the whole Venezuela fraudulent deal, it's to have Donald Trump say this is.

going to be used to fill the strategic. petroleum reserves. When people who. understand the most basic aspects of uh. oil know that that Tari oil doesn't go. in the strategic petroleum reserves, it's like the most basic thing. It's. basically Trump saying inject yourself. with bleach and you'll get rid of CO. It's like a variation of of that. But. what Trump has been doing um is posting. deranged AI videos striking Car Island,

which hasn't been hit, via AI videos. Car Island being blown to smitherines, DJT. And it's this AI video of war. crimes being committed, mowing the lawn, if you will, to use their genocidal war, criminal term, uh, in Car Island. That's. why Trump needs his data centers. He's. got to he's got to crank out the AI. slop. He's not winning the war in real. life, so he needs to win the war in the. fictional world of AI. It's a really. pathetic strategy. And part of it I. wonder if he's trying to kind of pull.

one over his own supporters who maybe. don't know the difference between real. life and AI. Like he posted that he. didn't say this is AI. He didn't you. know there was no disclaimer on it. And. if you're scrolling past and you're you. know I assume if you're an older person. who's not used to seeing AI videos every. day. And why would you think what the. president of the United States, someone. who you trust and this guy, I don't know. why you trust the guy who's lied, lies. to about everything, but this is the. person you decided to put your trust. into, once again, don't understand how. that works. And he's posting videos like.

this during an actual war. I think he. almost wants his people to believe it. Like, oh, look, see, he is actually. doing damage. Look, he did strike Car. Island when he obviously didn't. This. didn't happen. It's just an AI video. just so much AI slop coming from him. like every single day and it's just a. it's it's become a bizarre kind of. aspect of the kind of proliferation of. AI and and his insistence on doubling. down on just unfettered data centers in.

your backyard everywhere like the way. this is being used for warfare and the. way this is being used for messaging and. in particular kind of messaging for an. authoritarian regime the way all the. White House accounts are using it it's. all just a very disturbing kind of. development and use case of it to me. >> Absolutely. And look, I'll even go a. step further, Brett, you know, posting. this to to confuse his followers whether. or not this happened. I'm like. convinced, and this is my own personal. belief here, that Donald Trump thinks. this h like I don't think he realizes. it's AI. I think when he gets a lot of.

this stuff, the AI slop from his people, it's to appease him, right? Maybe he's. getting antsy about how how are we doing. in the war? How are we doing? And so. they send him these like videos to just. kind of like, you know, make him like. calm down or whatnot. I'm not convinced. He has not shown me any of the mental. fitness for me to be like, "Okay, he's. posting this to, you know, put one over. on his followers to I think he thinks. it's real." I I that that's that's where. I'm planting my flag here. >> By the way, it's Look, the theory is not. outrageous. I mean, he's the same person.

claiming that our strategic petroleum. reserves are about to be filled up with. tarry Venezuelan oil and that that's. going to save the day when it's. absolutely the what's not going to. happen. And then I mean, if you go. deeper into what went down in the. Venezuela thing, no private companies. really came into this investment group. So the Trump regime created through the. Pentagon a Trump oil company basically.

to do business with a very corrupt. person in Venezuela. Um who comes from. they call him like a bully chico. These. rich young chistas who are very much. aligned with Yugo Chavez. his name is. Bentacort uh aligned with Yugo Chavez. and the uh regime in Venezuela right now. where the US is basically pretending. through its own state-owned oil company. that I guess we're creating that. Congress didn't approve which is. patently unlawful but perhaps our United.

States Supreme Court's going to say but. no one has standing to sue to block it. you can't who's going to be able to sue. I mean we'll talk about the standing. issue but that may be an issue where the. Supreme Court goes but there's no. standing nobody can stop it. And it's. like, okay, well, it's clearly patently. unlawful and against everything about. our separation of powers, you're not. Supreme Court put in anything. He's also. the same guy who was convinced that. Kilaro Brago Garcia actually had MS13. tattooed on his knuckles when it was.

literally put there by his government. and not even AI by like probably MS. Paint or something just literally. writing the letters on the knuckles and. he kept remember when he held it at uh. who's the the ABC reporter who's no. longer there and was like yelling at him. like that was that was bonkers. >> And then an Iranian general Muhammad. Resa Nakti today said this. He goes, "So, we expected victory because we were. certain and confident in God's promise. and his support that Iran would. ultimately prevail. Uh, but we didn't.

expect victory to come this easily.". He's he's mocking us. I mean, they're. just saying we didn't really expect it. to become like this easy. He he gave. another quote during this interview, which was actually um an example that I. I gave, which is, you know, you could. have some of the best players on your. team. uh like if this is a World Cup. team. Um but ultimately like if your. captain is giving you like incorrect. instructions or telling you to play a.

different game like you could have the. best team but you're going to lose. Like. you can still put out and they're like. look the US clearly has a bigger. military. They're far more powerful and. strong, but they don't know what the. hell they're doing. And we have a. strategy. And that's why we've been able. to, you know, uh, h take the strategic. initiative, whether it's controlling the. straight of Hormuz or developing a level. of strategic deterren as the US depletes. its missiles and its interceptors and, uh, we run out of weapons. Um, so JD. Vance was asked about it on his way to.

Michigan where he just gave one of the. weirdest speeches ever today. Uh, but. Vance was asked, um, so on Iran, Donald. Trump tweeted this AI slop. Like, what's. your view about Donald Trump tweeting. fake war videos of Car Island being. blown up that didn't happen? Like, you're cool with that, JD. Here, play. this clip twice. >> On Iran, the president tweeted um some. AI generated video of bombing of Car. Island. Was that meant to be a warning. or what was the messaging there? Why did. the president tweet that? Well, you.

know, like the president likes to switch. it up on social media a little bit. Uh. he would be the first to say he doesn't. make announcements about military. actions on social media, but I think. that he's sending a message to the. Iranians. Look, we know that they. continue to shoot a commercial shipping. We continue to have a lot of uh tools at. our disposal to prevent them from doing. so or at least cut down on them from. doing so. And that's what the president. is saying is look, you guys are shooting. at commercial shipping. You guys are. behaving like a terrorist country. You've got to stop and there going to be. some consequence.

>> Oh, that's what he was doing with the AI. slot video of Carl interpretation by. >> By the way, he does announce military. action on his social media account all. the time. He goes at my direction like. all the time. All the bombings he does. all the time. >> JD's JD's excuse was, "Ah, Trump that. rascal." I mean, that that's that that's. what that just summed up. It is. unbelievable that we have a. commander-in-chief right now who is so. clearly cognitively added like Donald. Trump is that we can't even really come.

to a strong conclusion whether or not he. knows what he's posted is AI and mean it. like that's the scary landscape that and. then you have JD trying to run cover for. him and he goes rascal you know he. wouldn't you know you know how Trump is. Trump being Trump. >> that's to me why the Natalie Harp story. is such an important story you know. beyond the kind of palace injury. kind of, you know, is it an affair? Does. she do his diaper? You know, you see all. the all the various things. >> But the fact that this unelected.

individual is controlling what goes on, the most powerful person in the world's. social media account that could move. markets, uh that could lead to insider. trading, uh that could start wars, that. could announce wars, that could cause, you know, a whole number of issues. this. person has so much power over Donald. Trump and she's just putting these. things in front of him whether it's you. know this AI video or you know a tweet. of him on Mount Rushmore whatever stupid. thing it is and then they're posting it.

out and so this person act this. unelected individual actually has an. outsized amount of power in this country. and I think it's important the same way. that we're now just kind of finding out. the very tip of the iceberg about who. the Trump regime is paying as these. maggot influencers that you see on. Twitter and other social media. I think. it's important that we have a greater. understanding of what is this person. putting out? Um what are the approval. protocols? Uh like how how is this.

entire thing working? Because contrary. to what JD Vance is saying, Trump does. announce a lot of stuff from his social. media account and he has made that a. means of communication uh with world. leaders uh threatening Iran with total. obliteration. And so when those are the. kinds of messages we're seeing, I think. it's actually extremely important we. know uh you know who's who's behind him. >> Of course, but to two points. One, obviously the buck stops at the top. I. mean, Donald Trump surrounds himself. with these people. He's unfit. Yes,

Jordy, he is cognitively and physically. addled and deteriorating rapidly each. and every day. Um but look, this guy's. been a loser his whole life. He's been a. bankruptor. He's never been a builder. If you just go through his life, he's. scared. He's weak. He's pathetic. He. hides. He runs. He never had the fitness. to be in positions of leadership. He's. always been a fraud and a phony. And. these qualities are now pronounced even. more. And they're really destroying this. country. They they have destroyed uh.

this country. But this guy's always been. a loser. And it's now at a geopolitical. level where, you know, he's he's a. weapon of mass distraction, but a weapon. of mass destruction also against the. United States. I mean, the damage he's. causing is irreparable. And frankly, it's just embarrassing. Like, I don't. know how any self-respecting American, any person who wants to call themsself. patriotic or who loves this country can. look at this and on matters of war and. peace, see someone in the Oval Office. behave like such an utter buffoon, like.

us, like such an utter clown. You know, really sick stuff. All right, let's take. a break right now. We'll come back, we've got a lot more to discuss. A. reminder, our book's called WTF America. It comes out October 20th, but pre-order. it right now. The pre-order momentum is. great, but we got to keep up that. pre-order. If you intend to buy it in. October anyway, and you're able to buy. it now, it really helps if you buy it. now versus waiting until October. Um, so. just wanted to highlight that. All. right, let's take a quick break. We'll. be right back.

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Interesting. because the Iranian. president Pzkian is currently in. Kyrgystan, which Trump probably doesn't. even know where that is on a map, but. he's been meeting with everybody from uh. Xi to Putin to Modi, you know, he's. like, you know, like Iran is getting a. um heroes welcome at this Shanghai. Cooperation Organization meeting and. they're going to have a prominent role. also during the uh bricks meetings that.

are uh going to be taking place. I'm not. being facicious, but but Ben, objectively, I I do not understand what. Donald Trump's strategy right now in. this war is. Other than tweeting that. Iran has lost the war or posting AI slop. of himself bombing Iran like like I. don't even I don't even get the strategy. at this point. It's just just he just. wants to pretend like it's it's just so. pathetic. >> It is a market manipulation play. What. you have to recognize is he doesn't care. about national interest, right? He.

doesn't understand it. That's why he. can't fathom why sovereign nations will. stand up to him, right? He can't fathom. why Canada's not submitting. It's sovereign. It's proud. It's. independent. Prime Minister Carney is. not working for Prime Minister Carney. He's working as a public servant for. Canada pursuing national interests over. there. You know, similarly, you know, when it comes to a country like Iran,

they have their own national interests. If you attack and go after them, they're. not going to be like, "Oh, that actually. makes us want to now work with you.". It's like it makes any ability of ever. wanting to do with you um or deal with. you not going to happen. And Trump is. not trying to make America great again. You have to recognize that everything. the guy says is always the opposite.

Right? I've rebuilt the military. What. does that mean? He destroyed the. military. Make America great again is. make America as weak as can be. His. interests are purely himself. So he's. just trying to find the arbitrage, the. deltas between the dips that he creates. in the market and when it goes back up. with his other market manipulations so. he can grab for himself. So Brett, two. points. Jordy, you're right. The guy's. cognitively deterior. Both can be true.

at the same time, right? So there is. that aspect of it. But Brett, to answer. your question, it isn't about the United. States because this everything that he's. doing couldn't be more damaging, right, for the United States, but it's not it's. not supposed to be, you know, you know, in in our interest. It's it's whatever. he's doing to steal from us, to take. from us, to pillage the United States. That's what this is all about. So then. he goes on to say Iran is a failed. nation. It's dead. It isn't. They have.

no military. He goes on and says that, you know, then he goes and says the only. thing they have is fake news from USA, a. willingness to kill their protesters now. over 100,000 people dead. They must be. tried for war crimes against humanity. and a good line of Thank you. for your attention to this matter, Donald Trump. A good line of I. mean, what are you even talking about? But then this exaggerated death count. number. First, they said it was 30,000. in the protests in uh January where.

Donald Trump says, "We're gonna help. you. We're gonna send our troops to save. you." And then Trump didn't do anything. when there were these protests. And by. the way, what Iran had said is that. these protests were actually done by the. United States and Netanyahu. And there. were a lot of people who were like, "Come on, that's getting into. conspiratorial territory. Don't go. there." You know, and then the Trump. regime put out the number and they said. 30,000 people got killed. And that was a. number that was kind of accepted. Okay, there's 30,000. You know, that's what.

everybody was saying. There's 30,000. people that the Iran regime killed. 30,000. And then Donald Trump said it. was 42,000. Then he said it was 50,000. Then he says it's 100,000. And then you. have to go and ask yourself these very. serious questions. You know, no doubt. that there were protests. We saw the. protests. We're aware. And they appeared. to be protests leaning towards. democracy. It's also I've spoken with. people who are professors in Iran. You've seen my interviews. There's no. doubt that there had been a movement in.

Iran towards younger leadership, a more. openness to the West, to the United. States before Trump and Netanyahu. launched their second invasion in late. February. So there's no doubt there was. a sentiment. the Ayatollah uh Kane who. the Trump regime killed along with his. daughter, his granddaughter, his. son-in-law, his whole family while they. were eating dinner at their house on the.

first night of of the war. And then the. Trump regime proceeded to engage in war. crimes and slaughter little girls in. Manob and little girls playing. volleyball. That's kind of the MO of. Donald Trump. Little girls killing the. killing little girls. And the cover up. as it relates to the Epstein files. What's the cover up about? The cover up. involves what Epstein was doing with. little girls. I mean, that's part that. So, is it shocking that when you say, "Oh, that's what you're covering up and. this is who you're going after over. there." But in any event, you make up a. number 100,000, it's like, "Oh, got it.

This is you're you're a liar." And then. it calls into question the whole thing. It call right and it's like actually. >> Yeah. How am I supposed to believe any. of the numbers if you're making up the. numbers? And unfortunately, I guess you. got to look through independent uh you. know, independent sources. Uh, and when. you look at independent sources, and. it's not that it's competition, and of. course I'm not defending this in any. way, but the numbers are far lower than. anything Donald Trump has ever said. They're far lower than what Trump said. months ago, and they're far lower than. this 100,000 number. So then you. realize, okay, so this guy is shoveling.

propaganda down our throats as well, while he accuses the other side of. spreading fake news and Um and. and he's doing so in order to accept the. fact that we're in this prolonged war. where American soldiers are dying, where. we're bombing innocent people and all. the other disasters that are happening. right now. And I think it's just really. really foul. Not to mention that I think. it's a betrayal to those people uh to. the protesters that Donald Trump uh you. know has completely abandoned them after. uh telling them to take to the streets.

and everything that they did. And we'll. get into this when we speak about uh you. know Venezuela. But you see that's the. theme of Donald Trump. The theme of. Donald Trump is use these innocent. people uh who may be fighting for their. freedom or for their country. Use their. stories and use that narrative in order. to justify US intervention. In order to. justify Donald Trump coming in there and. bombing a country, killing innocents, and then what happens? Does Donald Trump. end up helping those people? No. Donald.

Trump then tries to take as much as he. can for himself. And that's what we're. seeing in Iran. That's what we're seeing. in Venezuela. That's why Donald Trump is. comfortable with the Madura regime. remaining in power in Venezuela. That's. why Donald Trump is seemingly okay with. the Iranian regime remaining in power so. long as they basically relinquish. control to him and try to cut deals with. him. Remember a few months ago, Donald. Trump was like, "Oh yeah, we're doing a. JV. We're going to do a joint venture. Me and the Ayatollah. We're gonna work.

something out together. We're gonna have. a business together. That's all he cares. about. It's not about these other. people. It's about himself. It's about. enriching himself. It's about lining his. own pockets. It's about enriching his. family. That's what it's is now. That's. what it's always been. >> And there it is right there, Brett. Exactly. Once you start to view things. through the lens of why, Donald Trump, this isn't going to help America. Obviously, right, Donald Trump is doing. things to help him. The top. 0% that. hang out with him at Mara Lago and his. children or his adult children I should.

say and that that that's how he leads. How can this in my best interest benefit. me Donald Trump? That's what he's. thinking. You know, I want to take a. quick step back looking at this. political landscape at large, right? So. you have Donald Trump just lying, throwing random numbers out there, right? Hyperinflating things, making. things very confusing where, you know, you look, you're like, well, he said 100. thousand, so the truth has to be. somewhere, you know, in the middle, right? So it's it's got to be a lot like. like he he went lie about 100 thousand. That's an egregious number. Well, he is. he's lying. Then you have Fox News who.

carries his water also and starts to. report on their end. Then you have uh. other Murdoch properties like the New. York Post who who do stuff over there. Then you have Barack Rav be his. stenographer. And then you have literal. feds on Twitter who are tweeting and. amplifying Donald Trump's messaging as. if they're I don't know independent. journalists or independent voices who. are literal feds again carrying the. water for Donald Trump. I can understand. why people are so damn confused and so.

you vulnerable and susceptible to the. misinformation and the propaganda. At a. certain point, people have to take their. own damn accountability though and look. into things just a little bit further. But like for example, in the case of. literal feds operating on like that's. that's evil, man. And not disclosed like. all of this stuff right now. >> And again, why is Twitter the preferred. platform? Because Elon Musk bought it. and control the algorithms. He's able to. boost people. I've been around people, friends, family members. Um, and you.

could do this test for yourself if you'd. like. I don't recommend it, but you. could do this test to show that I'm. telling the truth here. If you make a. Twitter account and like don't use it, but keep your notifications on. You know. what notifications they send you? They. send you the notifications of the of the. feds. They send you the notifications of. these MAGA influencers as if they are. legitimate breaking news because they. see, oh, this is an a-olitical person. This is somebody who, you know, maybe. they're looking at reality TV stuff. Maybe they're talking about music. Maybe. they're not talking about anything at.

all. they're just lurking or they just. have the app and they are beaming these. messages at them so that when they read. the headlines, they see the headlines. that are now, ironically, we're finding. out, are crafted by the Trump regime, not independent news or influencers or. anybody and they're being beamed into. people's phones. It's it's just really. effed up. >> I want you to think about this though, too. The number 100,000 as it keeps. creeping up. What is that number right. around the amount of people who were.

killed in Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza, right? Where that's actually a real. number, right? And so when you have the. real number, right, which may be even. more than that, but when you have the. real number and then you have this other. 100,000 number which they're saying, well, Donald Trump, there's 100,000. here. when numbers don't mean things in. war and peace in major issues regarding. the economy, right? Um what happens?

Everybody is lost. And that is the. vacuum that the strong man wants to. fill. You're just making up numbers. about a 100,000 people who were killed. And when there actually is a hundred. 100,000 people who are slaughtered as. part of a systematic genocide taking. place, it's like that didn't happen. No, that's not that's not the right number. And then you find out it is the right. number. Or we knew it's the right. number, but then it's like no, no, it's. just it's just it's just a number. And. when Trump announces the Venezuela.

situation, it's not even it's not even a. real deal. I for me to see a deal, I. need to read it. I need to see it on. paper. I need to know what the players I. need to know the terms. Then there's a. deal. Whatever this fake fraud framework. is, what do they do right away? Boom. Shocking all you with big numbers. 65. million barrels of provable potential. reserves. Provable potential reserves. right there. Red flag. Okay. What does. that really mean? Prov. Can you extract.

it? Can you refine it? Wh what does that. look like? Then you learn the history. and you go, "Got it. It's tarry. It's. bad." Donald Trump once said that it's. really bad oil that nobody can actually. do anything about. It's why nobody he. once made that comment um when he was. saying that they're narot traffickers. and they're a terrible country and now. he's like today it's great. This is the. best oil. You know what you can do with. it? You can make asphalt with it. You. can you can replenish the strategic.

petroleum reserves with it. No you. can't. No you can't. like 65 billion. barrels, 100 billion dollar in. investments. He said uh in Venezuela. they said it will bring $220. billion of economic uh recovery to. Venezuela. Okay, let me ask everybody. this. What the hell has happened since. the Trump regime has taken over. Venezuela? Where has the money gone to. already? It's gone to a Qatari bank.

account with no oversight. No one knows. what what's actually going. Is that. Donald Trump's bank account in Qatar. right now? That's where eight billion. dollars has gone in terms of the actual. production of oil since the Trump regime. has taken over Venezuela. It's either at. the same or it's less than it was the. previous year. Okay? So, there's not. some massive oil gushing kind of taking. place right now. And as you look deeper,

what you find out, and I'll just address. the Venezuela situation right here, is. that this tar dense, it's called sour. because of its sulfur level. It's. interesting if you go back and look at. the history in the 1800s of oil. People. would taste it and the sulfur content. would tell you, is it sour or is it. sweet? But this very high sour, dense, tarry stuff, it's almost unusable. Okay? And is it certainly certainly can't go.

into our strategic petroleum reserves. which are in salt caverns which mix this. kind of water with more of the light. sour to kind of medium sweet kind of oil. that that's brought in to replenish it. And so this stuff doesn't go there. Now, you can build potential refineries that. deal with this issue or you can deal. with technology that could make it. capable of going into this the salt.

caverns or to be refined for other uses. But that would cause billions and. billions and billions of dollars and. it's violative of the US Constitution. Okay? and you're when there's a new. administration, this is not going to be. a deal that people are going to abide by. that corporations know that right now. that once Trump's this this deal is. done. Um, and then on the Venezuela. side, um, it's against their. constitution. You can't give access to a.

foreign country with this level of. degree of control. So, it's against. their constitution. Also, what does this. do for all of the people who pretended. that there was going to be democratic. elections, which we knew is not going to. be the case? If there ever was an. election and the opposition party takes. over, this entire arrangement will be. voided right away. So all this deal does. if you're Deli is it entrenches your. power because if you lose power and and. this incentivizes Trump to keep her.

power the deal would the fake deal would. obviously go away too because it's. unworkable. It should also be noted that. Venezuela owed billions of dollars to. China and Russia when they went in there. and tried to have somewhat heavy-handed. arrangements with Venezuela. that did. not work out because of some of the. issues with the oil and so they are fine. to now deal with their spheres of. influence. Why haven't you heard a peep. from China or Russia about this? because.

don't you think that the unwritten rule. or the unwritten deal or you know or the. framework in Trump's mind is China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela and Russia and. China know that this is tar oil that. they can't even utilize anyway. So. they're like take it. I mean that's what. you want to do. And it undermines US. legitimacy and it strengthens their. claims on Taiwan and on Ukraine because.

if it is now the the world is the the. jungle law prevails then the United. States can't step up with moral. authority or moral clarity and then you. just take a quick look at like who we're. even doing this purported deal with and. is this guy Bentacort part of the bully. chicos these people who got really rich. under Yugo Chavez, he did this. electricity deal is how he first kind of. got rich and what if you know some of.

the basic stuff about the electrical. grid in Venezuela, it didn't work. They. rolling blackouts while this guy got. rich and he was under investigation um. in Europe and elsewhere and uh this is. the kind of guy that Donald Trump wants. to you know that that is he's doing. business with. So the Pentagon is. entering into a the Pentagon is forming. a Trump oil company to do a deal with. this bentacort guy, you know, who's this. shady, you know, not good guy in.

general. And they're going to extract. hypothetical oil that, you know, is not. the kind that can be refined. And what. is Trump saying? This will replenish the. strategic reserves. Gas prices are going. to go down. Absolutely freaking not. Even I'll leave you with this on this. point without totally geeking you out. further on on oil and gas um. discussions. Even if everything Donald. Trump said was true and we had 65. barrels and it was light sour, you know,

kind of like the Middle East stuff and. it was stuff that we all could, you. know, it could be utilized easier, it. would take 5 to 10 years before we were. able to really even utilize that even if. it was true. And it's not true. So this. is never gonna happen. It's all bogus. It's all a fugazi. And it's about. dominance. It's about market. manipulation. It is about raw power. And. it's about Trump and people like.

Bentacort enriching themselves at the. expense of Venezuela, at the expense of. the US, at the expense of a more stable. world order. All right, let's take our. last quick break of the show. >> Wait, while we're on this, let me say. let me say I want to say two things. about it before we lose the before we. lose the plot here. Uh, one, I worry. about something like this creating such. instability in a country like Venezuela. because I think nothing creates more. instability, anger at leaders, and uh,

overall chaos and potential civil war. than kind of a humiliation like this. Basically saying that no, you're not. even like a sovereign state essentially, but you are a vessel, a vessel of the. United States in our pocket. And the. fact that you have a leader in Deli. Rodriguez who was going along with all. this, I kind of view there being I kind. of have a feeling that when these people. who, you know, you may have seen images. of them dancing in the streets when uh. uh you know, when when Deli took over, I.

don't think they're dancing anymore. And. I think they're going to be furious. about all this. Also, I think Donald. Trump is setting himself up for just. another failure and another thing for. people to point back to as we head into. the midterms by saying in his post and. saying how quickly now gas prices are. going to shoot down, oil prices are. going to shoot down. We've literally. only seen them go up even since Donald. Trump made this announcement. If anybody. viewed that with any legitimacy, you. would have seen a sharp decrease in the. oil prices right away. And this is going. to just be another thing that people. campaigning for the midterms are going.

to be able to hang over Donald Trump's. head. And it's another kind of uh you. know phony promise, another lie heading. into the midterms. >> Let's By the way, this is why when that. thing was announced right away, we. pounced on it. I mean, we did the story. right away, dissected it, and I wanted. to create a permission structure for. other people to rapidly respond and say, you know what, we don't just regurgitate. and we're not stenographers. When. there's a deal like that, call it out.

So within what 30 minutes of the deal, we were out. Now we're seeing people who. are far more knowledgeable than oil than. me. And I study them. I want to know. what they're saying. That's how I give. you the analysis. But um I think it's. been actually to the extent there is a. refreshing aspect that right away this. normally you would just have the lies. spread and there was boom like a barrage. of truth calling this out right away for. what it is. And it was a powerful. tsunami of information also that was out.

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familiar with the matter. It's probably. Driscoll who's the source familiar with. the matter. He's been leaking or people. around him have been leaking that he was. going to leave sometime in the next few. months. I just think the last straw was. when uh it was exposed that Hegsith was. running this influencer scheme where you. had all these big Twitter right-wing. influencer accounts were actually feds. They were actually the deep state and. they were on the payroll of the United. States government at the defense.

department. So while Hegsmith purged out. all of the kind of top reporters from. being near him in the Pentagon and he. declared the press room and the area. surrounding him a perpetual skiff, a. sensitive compartmented information. facility to try to block reporters from. being near him. And then he brought in. those propagandists. They went a step. further. Not only did they bring in. right-wing propagandists to replace the. actually really good defense reporters.

who have been doing a great job even. though they've been pushed out of the. Pentagon. Separately, you had all of. these MAGA influencers who were actually. feds undercover basically pretending to. be influencers and writing stories like. this one from Cynical Publus. Publius, the war on Pete Hexith. HGsith is facing. a calculated smear campaign because he. threatens the entrenched establishment, reshaping America's military into. something weaker and more political. Fed.

Fed deep state people work. This guy. works for the He's a He's a government. employee. He's a special government. employee. People like Kurt Schlickler, Rob Mannis, the data republican account. We talked about. >> by the way, let me say, Ben, and these. are a lot of the people who go after us. online all the time. All the time. Like. these are the people who will quote. tweet us, who will try to like slip into. our DMs, to try to quote unquote fact. check us, to try to slam us, to try to. whatever. And finding out that these. people who are actually Trump regime uh.

cronies, Trump feds here who are. attacking the mightest touch network. It. really just really just once again it's. a moment of clarity and I'm telling you. and I am uh speculating here. However, I. am I feel pretty sure in my opinion that. this is just the tip of the iceberg here. and that the more you start peeling the. layers of this thing, the more you're. going to find that virtually all these. people virt virtually everybody pushing.

this stuff every single day, every. single minute of every single day are. paid by either the government or are. paid by dark money forces. More is going. to come out. Just just you wait. I want. everybody at the macro level though to. understand what Musk did, right? His. acquisition of Twitter was funded a lot. with foreign money and foreign debt. He's able to take it over. It's losing. money. It seems like it is failing. On. the other hand, he's got Space X, right,

which is getting a lot of money. He. spends all of this money on the. election, like the most ever to help. Trump get elected. There are all of. these government contracts that work. their way to SpaceX. Then Musk does this. IPO where he basically merges and I. believe this was going to be the plan. all along. SpaceX with X, right? Then. why why Twitter rename X? Well, you had. SpaceX. Think about what the plan was.

And so he had SpaceX and X. He merges. them together into one entity. And then. they change the rules for NASDAQ so that. immediately it gets put into the NASDAQ. 100 so that mutual funds and ETFs are. required to purchase it based on its. pumped up valuation on day one. So. whether you like it or not, your fund. may have had to purchase it to keep it. elevated. It then pays off all of the.

people who funded the acquisition in the. first place when it took over Twitter. And then it's being used with a rigged. algorithm to pump up all of these. accounts to spread this disinformation. Folks, it's at a very sophisticated. level. I don't want us to lose track of. that diagram though that I just built. out because on the daytoday level you. have these people who are feds, right, who are pretending though that they are.

these influencers. Their accounts are. getting supercharged. They're pushing. out all this stuff that's going super. mega viral about all these things and. these people are working for the regime. That's how it's being done. And so it. was interesting because earlier in the. day and I give a hat tip to the. Washington Post here because the defense. reporters that is their editorial board. >> not great right now under Jeff Bezos. Let's be very clear.

>> That's the guy's name Dan Dan Leo I. think is but there was there was cops. there was a bunch you know that whole. that whole team is. >> that whole team. >> the editorial stuff is horri is great. So they broke a story in the morning. about this highly classified report that. Hegsith, you know, and all uh defense. secretaries put out, the secretary of. defense orders book and how in it all of. the top admirals and generals had a. unified not concur, do not concur with. the war plans currently and future in.

this catastrophic and unlawful war. Some. people have said, well, do not concur. has happened before. Yes, on minor. things. You know, I don't think we've. ever seen a unified do not concur on the. actual war. Okay? Like Persian Gulf War. or Operation Deserts or do not concur. That's not what happens. It may be do. not concur. Should we do this weapon. over this weapon or that not the overall. war strategy? So people actually do not. concur. It's not like and not unified in. that way. So they reported on that. Then.

all of these MAGA influencers swarmed. and then the Washington Post dropped. their story and said, "Ah, you're all. fed." And they were all caught. It was. actually kind of a brilliant chess play. and they waited and then they dropped. it. Turns out the Washington Post had. gone out for comment though earlier in. the week to these people. So it wasn't. just like they dropped it because the. attack so happened. But once that attack. happened, I just think the Washington. Post people. >> by the way. Yeah. And look, by the way,

can I just say this, too? It's it. shocking but not shocking, right? Like. we we've seen the Trump regime do this. throughout the entire administration so. far in the second Trump term here, right? What was the one of the first. things they did? They brought in those. right-wing grifters uh to the White. House, gave them all the white binders. with the Epstein files. Oh, look at us. We got the EP. Well, that didn't work. That didn't work. The egg on all of. those people's faces. What utter. buffoons that Whitebinder crew. ultimately is. We already knew they.

were, but oh my goodness, looking at it. through it now, too. Like, you absolute. shill. And then the press briefings, right? What do they do? They get real. media out of the press room and and what. do they do? They bring in all these. right-wing propaganda mouthpieces to to. there to get more favorable questions, to get more favorable, I don't know, whatever, out into the ecosystem. And I. guess take some of the pressure off of. having to answer real questions. And so. it doesn't surprise me that there are. feds on Twitter working with Donald.

Trump and the regime. I want to get on a. mountain on a on a roof and just scream. it so everyone could just understand. like this is crazy but it's actually. happening and it's all the all the other. stuff is happening right in front of. your face. And it wasn't until this. report came out that that everyone now. gets to see it and read about it and. fully understand the depths that it. goes. And Brett, to your point, it is. just the tip of the iceberg. All of. these people are astroturfed. I am. telling you, it's all astroturfed. It's. all BS. And I I know there are some.

people with very close connections to. Trump world, people who have worked in. the White House, people who have worked. in Trump kind of campaign space who have. these kind of dark money firms and they. act as intermediaries and what happens. is somebody wants to get a message out. Remember people were caught doing this. also. remember those influencers, those. other mag influencers were caught being. paid like by a Russian company uh that. the Tim Pools and them in the world they. they claimed that they, you know, didn't. know that's where the money was coming. from, but they were getting an an. exorbitant amount of money uh literally. from Russia uh to push certain messages.

Benny Johnson was one of them. There was. like a handful of them. Um, well, there's another operation that's going. where there are these firms run by Trump. world people and they take big money. from people who want to get a message. across. And the message could be to. influence uh a politician into voting a. certain way. It could be to influence. other officials in the White House. It. could be to spread propaganda online. just for the masses. They get a lot of. money. They pay this intermediary to. post about this topic in a specific way.

That influencer does it. they promised. them x amount of impressions or whatever. and that kind of repeats and repeats and. repeats and you've also seen you know. some of these figures online uh because. people have exposed them in this ways. where people uh reach out kind of. pretending to be some of these special. interest groups to the MAG influencers. and ask them you know how much is it if. you want to if I if I how much does a. retweet go for these days you know how. much to post about my whatever and they. will do these undisclosed posts you know.

they're they'll post about things, not. say it, and they'll say, you know, some. people might charge 500 bucks for a. retweet or 5,000 bucks for a retweet or. whatever it is. But this is a whole. financial operation that's happening. right now in MAGA world. And it's just. coming at you in all these different. ways, whether directly from the. government, whether from dark ra whether. it's from dark money organizations, whether it's from foreign money like. Russia or just people, you know, doing. this as their own kind of little side. business or main business. if you look. at how many how much these people tweet.

on a daily basis. But it's it's it's. it's something and it's something that. really like I I think this is actually a. super important issue that if Democrats. were to take control of the House uh in. the fall, I think they need to subpoena. all these people. Quite frankly, I think. we need investigations. I think we need. to kind of blow up this entire operation. and see who's really pulling the strings. here. See what's really going on. But I. think all these influencers need to be. subpoenaed, brought into Congress, questioned about all these arrangements. Dan Driscoll, interesting guy, veteran,

who's friends with JD Vance and Usha. from Yale, private equity guy, lived out. in California, spoke out at first against Zalinski. And. then when he got this position as army. secretary, he became very impressed with. the Ukrainian military and the drones. and the anti- drone technology. So he. went from being a critic of Zalinsky to. actually saying that the US needed to.

innovate the way they've innovated in. Ukraine. And he was working very closely. then with people like Randy George, the. former army chief of staff, uh General. Donnu, um and and others who were. spearheading these types of. modernization. uh uh things. And then Randy George was. pushed out. Beloved, Randy George and. his wife Patty were like the most. beloved people in our military.

Four-star general, like literally like. the the best the best of the best our. military have to offer. He was pushed. out and basically fired by Hegsith. We. learned one of the reasons for that is. he wanted to keep the investigation. ongoing into the Apache helicopters that. flew by Kid Rock's home. And also, uh, Randy George um was objecting to the. fact that Hegsith was refusing to. promote black people and women to.

one-star generals and then allow them to. rise through the ranks based on merit. simply because they were black and. women. that's who Hgsith was targeting. and Randy George wasn't cool with that. and Driscoll wasn't cool with that. Um, and so ultimately Hgsith wanted Driscoll. gone and saw Driscoll as a rival and. ultimately Hegsith won that battle and. pushed out all of these top generals. Um, you know, we only have at this point.

less than half at the of the fourstar. generals um that we've had right now. We. had the best team. We had the all-star. team of generals and military leaders. and the top people were pushed out in. their place are hegsithicants. Um I'm not not to s there are still some. good admirals and generals out there. I. don't have there's none. Um but you know. you have some shady people like this. Lever guy who was working with Hegsith. to fire Randy George because of the Kid.

Rock situation. And what's one of the. first things that Lever is pushing? Basically the equivalent of Japanese. bushidto which was one of the main among. many critiques of the actual fighting of. Japanese of the Japanese during World. War II. It was so rooted in the samurai. spirit and bushidto and the code and the. warrior ethos versus modernizing. Lots. of people said they lost an edge to some.

of the Western military that had focused. on technology. And so what's fascinating. is to see history repeat itself in the. form of this imperialistic. Trump regime who were like, we need to. restore the warrior ethos in the United. States, the World War II's warrior. ethos. And it's like, okay, I mean, we. get that, but like, stop saying the word. lethality over and over again and. recognize that war has fundamentally. changed. We are in a situation of.

drones, anti- drones, unmanned. submersives, robotics, and this is the. future. Um, and there needs to be, you. know, investments on that versus Trump. class battleships, nuclear battleships. and things that are are where hundreds. of billions of dollars are being wasted. that could be going to things like. health care could be going to things. like making things more affordable and. programs that help people, but they're. going to these horrible uh catastrophic. wars and uh weapon systems that aren't.

relevant to today. Um, and we're just. flushing taxpayer money down the toilet. as the debt increases to over $40. trillion. Um, all of Bessin's market. manipulation schemes have failed. You. know, he failed to bail out the Japanese. yen. His bond buyback scheme is a. complete failure. He's been a, you know, lots of these people, most of these. people around Trump have the loser mag. arc and they've all found each other.

because they're losers when they went. out on their own. Bessant is one of. these people who was a loser. He had uh. like 90% redemptions or so from one of. his funds. He had a $5 billion fund. Very unsuccessful. He worked decently. when he was with smart people who. oversaw him. But when he was on his own, he flouled that he was a loser. And you. can see why. He's got loser qualities. And I'll just give you an example of. Bessant from today. Um so Bessant is at. the G20 finance summit meeting. It's the.

G20 meeting, but of the finance. ministers and the Treasury Secretary. He's banned the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal from. being at a lot of the meetings. Um, he. was asked a question about Canada, and I. want to show you how he answered this. question about Canada. I could show you. so many other Besson clips, and they're. all equally bad. U, but I'll just show. you this one because I think it. highlights um what just an arrogant uh. loser he is. Here, play this clip. What. was the setup for this one?

>> Oh, just while we do it, Brett, you can. keep on talking, but I'll I'll find it. in a moment. It was It was the one on It. was Bessent on Canada. Um I I'll go and. find it though and give you the better. setup. The question was. um Anyway, you go talk, Brad. I I'll go. and find it. I don't have it in front of. me, but it was the one on Canada. >> Yeah. I mean, but what you're seeing is. over and over again, you're seeing. people like Bessant and Trump trying to. gain control over a situation that they. don't have any control of. And the. problem is they're just not being honest.

with the American people. And uh they. think that they could continue to trick. the markets. The thing is like there's. really only so much that you could trick. only so much time that you could trick. the markets for until things really. start to unravel. And that's why we're. seeing all of this um volatility, you. know, in the regular markets, uh you. know, despite the fact that they are at. highs. But the oil markets, you know, are something to watch. The bond yields. are something that you really have to. watch. This is something that is a huge. huge huge huge problem. And I think as.

you see people uh you know continuing to. uh now deal with afford the. affordability crisis and they're trying. to figure out you know what am what am I. going to pay for a mortgage rate? What. am I going to pay when I take out a. loan? What am I going to do when I go to. a grocery store? Those problems continue. to get worse and worse and worse for. regular people. But it seems like. despite all of that that you have, you. know, Donald Trump and Scott Bessant and. and all of them still trying to pretend. that everything's great, that the war is. going great, that the economy is going.

great. And the problem is people just. know that that's not true. And the more. they lie about it, what worries me is. that there it's kind of building up. almost like a pressure valve, right? Just [clears throat] building up a lot. of pressure in these pipes. And the. pipes, yes, they keep expanding with it, but eventually what's going to happen? The thing's going to the thing's going. to pop. The thing's going to implode. It's gonna explode. [clears throat] saying markets are. wondering Ray Canada if that helps you. out Jordan answer. >> I was gonna say and those pipes are. going to explode Brett and and not with. oil. And I just want to emphasize kind.

of what you're saying there too is they. could only run this scheme so many times. Trump and Besson and the entire Trump. regime here trying to run this uh. groundhog day uh play on the economy on. the stock market until you know sooner. or later things are going to get really. bad. And you know who's going to be left. holding the bag? the American people. That's who's going to be left holding. the bag. Sorry. What' you say, Brett? Here. Here's the clip. >> Guess market's wondering if we're now in. a tip or tat trade war with Canada. >> Well, I don't think you can be in a tip. for tat with someone who's 13 times.

larger than you are. >> They say they're doing okay. >> What else are they going to say? You. know, look, I I think this is very. unfortunate that Prime Minister Carney. has turned this into the uh a political. shouting match. I mean, we're not at war. with Canada. How are we going to be at. war with Canada? What? They're going to. take their two sub submarines from the. Edmonton mall and sick them on us. >> Okay, I just want you to see how. what a loser quality that is, right? You. you wonder how these people are such. losers. And you see that behavior right.

there. It's rude. It's abrasive. It's. disrespectful. It's filled with lies. And by the way, Canada has seen. increased employment. Canada has. actually seen GDP growth. Canada has a. leader in Prime Minister Carney unlike. Bessant who has been a very successful. central banker who's done major moves. during very difficult circumstances and.

Carney is a very accomplished person. outside of being the prime minister. The. guy ran Bank of Canada and Bank of. England during two separate crises and. got him out of it. And Bessence only. found his way into crisis. And just in. general too, even if what I just told. you wasn't the case, you know, you. underestimate. people and entities at your own peril. It's this level of just unmitigated. arrogance. And what you saw right there, which is setting, it's not like a.

political thing that I'm even saying. It's just it's right out of like Asop's. fables, right? It's like right out of an. Edipus, you know, Homer's Odyssey, like. to to see the le Shakespeareian, if you. will, right? And you see the it's such a. parody of the human defect that's so. obvious in him and Trump and all of. these people. It almost feels so. poetically tragic and it would have this.

parody quality and almost this surreal, you know, aspect if the people weren't. suffering. the the the pain that. American people are feeling now is so. damn real because you have these. malignant narcissistic stupid humans who. have hijacked the United States of. America dividing with these culture wars. and they're trying it again. I mean I'll. show you right here like what are they. talking about at these rallies today in. Michigan just so you can see it for.

yourself. I mean, you've got people like. Mike Rogers out there saying, "Here's. what we're going to do. We're going to. get the trans flags out. That's what. we're going to do. We're coming from the. tr We're going to get the trans flags. out." Here, play this clip. [applause]. So, when you all help me get to the. United States Senate, I'm going to make. sure that we bring costs down. We're. going to pass the SEAB Act. We're going. to get trans flags out of our classrooms. and American flags back in. American.

flags are in classrooms. What are you. talking about? Get the trans flags out. You see what they're doing? And you had. the opportunity to lower costs. You're. the ones who raised the cost. Or what. about what about what's Lisa Mlan. saying? MAGA Republican congresswoman. from Michigan. Michigan's particularly. hit hard by Trump's dangerous trade war, an idiotic trade war against Canada. Checking in on the Republican midterm. messaging right here. Let's play. The. Democrats who are running for for. Congress are flatout communists.

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