The MeidasTouch Podcast - MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/20/25

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down Donald Trump’s latest alarming moves, from selling out to Russia and calling Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a “dictator” to his increasingly weak and erratic behavior. As markets reel from Trump’s reckless tariffs and economic instability, his approval ratings are plunging fast. Meanwhile, MAGA loyalist Kash Patel is confirmed as FBI Director, and former Fox host Pete Hegseth is set to fire a storied U.S. general in yet another power grab. We also cover how Trump is betraying labor and how Democrats are ramping up efforts to fight back against his chaos. Ben, Brett and Jordy break it all down! Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Watch Ben’s interview with President Biden: https://youtu.be/TJfOAjUleTc Deals from our sponsors!  Trade Coffee: Get 40% off your first order with Trade at https://drinktrade.com/MEIDAS Mosh: Try Mosh today and use MEIDAS to save 20% plus free shipping at https://moshlife.com/MEIDAS Qualia: Head to https://qualialife.com/meidas and use promo code: MEIDAS at checkout for 15% OFF your purchase of Qualia's products. Manukora Honey: Head to https://manukora.com/meidas to receive $25 off your starter kit today! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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sinking as inflation is once again rising. The markets took a battering today as they were spooked over rising inflation and Walmart put out a pretty bad financial report as well. Trump's approval is specifically tanking as well with black Americans, Hispanic Americans, young voters and voters overall. And as inflation is once again on the rise, Donald Trump is trying to blame it on former President Biden, Donald Trump and his puppet master, or should I say co-president or whatever you want to call Elon Musk. I guess they're trying to call him in the White House, President Biden, Donald Trump and his puppet master, or should I say co-president or whatever you want to call Elon Musk. I guess they're trying to call him in the White House, the tech guy. Now they went on Hannity and Donald Trump said it was Biden's fault why inflation is back right now.

And then Fox tried to supplement that with a chyron saying, Donald Trump is bringing us out of the disaster. Here, play this clip. Yeah, we inherited it. Yeah. And inflation is back. I'm only here for two and a half weeks. That was January. Inflation is back. No, think of it.

Inflation's back. And they said, oh, Trump, I had nothing to do with it. Oh, I had nothing to do with it. Actually, Donald Trump was the original cause of the inflation that former President Biden fixed because Donald Trump added $8 trillion of debt. He completely mishandled, or I should even say not handled at all, COVID. And then Donald Trump said, like a miracle, it was all going to go away. In addition to saying that inflation's back, Donald Trump also spent the past few days threatening President Zelensky, threatening our NATO allies, saying that he would not support

any statements to go out by the G7, which calls Russia the aggressor of Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. But let's play this clip of what Donald Trump said about Zelensky. Play the clip. Like a fiddle. He played him like a fiddle. That's an expression we use, yes, sir, to say that he's pretty easy, pretty easy. A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. Got to move, got to move fast. So as Donald Trump destroys our economy, destroys our alliances, tries to establish alliances with Russia by sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to have direct negotiations with Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, cutting out Ukraine and Europe. What Donald Trump wants to distract everybody with is that he says that he and Elon Musk are

going to go searching for gold in Fort Knox. They're going to start investigating if there's gold inside Fort Knox, everybody. They're going to start investigating if there's gold inside Fort Knox, everybody. They're going to go into the mountains with their shovels. This is how they want to distract us. So ridiculous. Play this clip. Do you know what they're looking at specifically at the Department of Defense right now? They're looking at everything. And are they going to cut Fort Knox? They're looking at, we're going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there. You know that we're going to go into Fort Knox. Do you know about that?

That was a bad bump. Are they going to eliminate more national security positions, civilians there? We'll see what happens. But one of the things we do want to look at, I mean, we hope everything's fine with Fort Knox, but we're going to go to Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, to make sure the gold is there. Where would the gold have gone? If the gold isn't there, we're gonna be very upset. See, Donald Trump was asked, hey, what is Doge doing? Because we hear they're cutting critical FAA jobs. We hear that Doge is cutting critical jobs that are protecting against the bird flu. They are cutting funds that are going to 9-11 first responders.

They accidentally keep firing people like people who oversee our nuclear arsenal. And they are just firing, what, 4,500 people in the forest services that work in our national parks and just gutting our government and people who work hard every day to keep us safe and to keep things running. But Donald Trump goes, I'm going to find some gold. Did you hear about Fort Knox? Did you hear about Fort Knox? Because he thinks people are stupid. He thinks that he can distract you with that crap right there, when in fact, the things that Trump and Doge are doing is taking away money from people like 9-11 first responders. Let's play this clip. The 9-11 health program taking a heavy hit from the Department of Government

Efficiency. The fund provides health care for thousands of first responders and civilians. Well, new staff reductions could put lives at risk. John Mueller has a closer look. More than 137,000 people are enrolled in the 9-11 health program. First responders and everyday New Yorkers exposed to the toxic dust, battling health ailments and cancers. The program created to keep them alive is now the latest target of budget cuts under Elon Musk and Doge. It's repulsive. It's reckless and it lacks empathy. That was John Feal, a 9-11 survivor and advocate, talking about how reckless and lacking in empathy it is. But before I bring Brett and Jordy in, let me just tell you all what the plan is, though, if you want to even call it that. So part of the meeting

between the United States and Russia was about trying to form an alliance between the U.S. and Russia instead of the U.S.'s traditional role in NATO and leading the free world. And then Marco Rubio says the quiet part out loud about how he's looking forward to prosperous economic relationships between the United States and Putin. That's what Marco Rubio announced from Saudi Arabia. Play this clip. The diplomatic one is one we think we hope to move pretty quickly on because this involves the treatment of our respective missions. The second one will be difficult, which is the question of Ukraine and the end of that conflict. But I think that's essential in order for the third piece to even be possible, which is our ability to work together on other geopolitical

matters of common interest, and of course, some pretty unique, potentially historic economic partnerships as well. The key that unlocks the door for those opportunities, however, is the end to this conflict. Bring in my brothers, Brett and Jordy. Did you ever think that you would see the day in your lifetime where a United States president would become a Russian bootlicker, send your secretary of state to Saudi Arabia to kiss Russia's ass and to capitulate to Russia and threaten our NATO allies and engage in that reckless and dangerous and malicious behavior? No, the answer is no. It's great to be here with you guys. First of all, what's going on,

brothers? What's going on, everybody watching, listening? No, I mean, it's complete betrayal of American values and everything that we have ever stood for. I want to be clear, and I'm not going to sugarcoat it to folks out there right now. America is no longer the good guy, right? And I'm not saying America was always the good guy at every point in history, but I'm saying right now that the United States can no longer be viewed in the world as a good guy. Our guiding star right now is no longer towards the good of the free world. We are now allied, and this is horrifying, but we are now allied with autocracies. We are now allied with dictatorships. We are now allied with Russia and our own government right now, including the way they are treating the press, including the various policies, if you want to call them that, that they are implementing are all straight out of Russia or even Nazi Germany. like a Hitler come to power in a democratic country. I always wondered how the hell is that possible?

How could the people alongside him let that happen? And then you see videos like that of Marco Rubio and you see all these cowards who are subservient to Donald Trump and do everything that he asks and treat this like it is a game when there are people's lives on the line, when there are people's livelihoods on the line,

people's health on the line, when there are people's livelihoods on the line, people's health on the line, all the above. It is an absolute disgrace and an utter betrayal. And that's before we even get to Doge, which I got to say is probably the biggest scam in United States history right now, what they are doing. And we're going to get into all the details, but it is all smoke and mirrors under the guise of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. And it is just fake. The whole thing is fake. It's all BS that's wrapped in these Russian talking points to act like, look, we're making things more efficient as they ruin people's lives, as they don't even cut a lot of money. You know, Doge's website, get this, Doge has this new website up, right? It says that they've cut over, I think, $50 billion or

something. NPR looked into it. They've actually cut under $2 billion total. They just make up the numbers and they inflate the numbers. That's 0.003% of the federal budget last year that they've actually cut. And that's not even getting into what is Doge actually costing? What's the cost benefit analysis? How much do lawsuits that go against what Doge is doing cost the United States and things like that? I'm willing to bet that Doge is costing the United States far more money than it's actually saving because it's not really saving money. And what it's going to do is it's going to cause devastation in this country. We're already seeing shaky markets, instability in the markets every single day. Dow's up, Dow's down 600, Dow's up a little,

Dow's down. We're seeing our allies freak out over these endless tariff wars that just make zero sense. And then we see Doge mass firing federal workers, people who have worked in some cases of their whole lives in the federal government, acting as civil servants, treating them like they're trash, treating them like they're garbage. I'm talking veterans. I'm talking longtime civil servants. And what we're going to see in these economic reports as we, these next few months develop, is a mass loss of jobs, possibly a massive recession, if not a depression, as the result of what they are doing. To put it simply, we're going to see exactly what Elon Musk promised we would be seeing

right before the election when he said that we would be experiencing pain. We're going to break it all down in much more detail. First, I got to check in with Jordy. Jordy, what's up, man? How you doing? Excited, excited for the show. A lot of ground to cover, but Brett's your point exactly. When Elon says that, you know, Americans are just going to feel a little bit of pain at first. He's not talking about Elon and the oligarchs and the billionaires. He's not. He's talking about the Americans at large who aren't the top 1%, who quite frankly make up more than, way more than the majority of the country. It's absolutely disgusting to see Elon Musk continue to do these just bizarro

interviews with Donald Trump on Fox News, acting as a de facto president. Make no mistake, Elon Musk is just as much the president as Donald Trump. And don't be gaslit by those around you or corporate media into thinking that anything that you're seeing right now is normal. None of this is normal. And it's okay to feel that this isn't normal because quite frankly and very directly, it's not. So we're not going to let anything slide here. We have a lot of ground to cover. Benji, where do you want to start? By the way, before Ben comes in, can I just say, do you remember the shit that MAGA, Trump, all these people gave to Tim Walz and Kamala Harris when they did their first joint interview together after they selected.

And by the way, Trump had done one with J.D. Vance. Where the hell is J.D. Vance, by the way? He just tweets and goes to CPAC and stuff. What was that guy doing? But anyway, they gave them so much crap for doing that one sit-down interview, which is a tradition that all presidents have done in modern history on TV. Meanwhile, Donald Trump as president is showing up on TV with Elon Musk. And when you watch these interviews, you're right, Jordy, Elon's the one who's in control. And Hannity almost doesn't even take Trump seriously. He like kind of shoo-shoo's Trump while he's trying to speak, lets Elon ramble right over him. At the end of the day, I think their hubris will be their downfall. And I think we're starting to see that actually very quickly when you look at the polling,

when you look at people taking to the streets, that they are viewing that they have this mandate and no such mandate actually exists. And the people then, they are fed up. They treat people like they're stupid. I mean, the question was, what is Doge doing? And can you explain it, Donald? Like, let us know. And he's like, do you know about Fort Knox?

We're searching for the gold. We're going to find the gold for all of you. I see like Nicolas Cage in National Treasure. It's happening. And it's just trying to distract and dangle. Maybe you'll get rich. I've got some snake oil. Maybe we'll find some gold.

Then you all get rich. One of the other scams that I see them talking about right now is with all the money we're going to find from Doge, we're going to give you rebates. You want money? We're trying to find you your money right now, which Brett, to your point is they're using all of these fake numbers and fake data, and then they're dangling over to people. You may get rich quick if you just let us do what we're going to do. And then they publish things like, this is one of the things that Doge published where they're like,

we just saved you $8 billion from DNG Support Services, LLC. Me and my brothers actually reached out to DNG Support Services, LLC. Me and my brothers actually reached out to D&G Support Services, LLC. Their government contract was for $8 million, not $8 billion. But then it looked like someone in the government systems then changed the number also from $8 million to $8 billion after they were caught and they tried to change it. And they said, oh, there was just a mistake that was made in the system and it was everybody else's fault. And they said, oh, there was just a mistake that was made in the system and it was everybody else's fault. And they keep repeating that over and over again.

They say tens of millions of deceased people are getting Social Security. The lie spreads. It gets debunked, but it doesn't matter. Donald Trump just repeats the lie over and over again. The same way he repeats that Hamas is getting condoms to make bombs from USAID, which is false. Even when you debunk it, they keep on doing it over and over again because they know that they've got their supporters trapped in this kind of right wing disinformation echo chamber. But I want to bring it back, though, to the facts. I want to have the receipts.

I'll use Donald Trump's own words here for what I'm though to the facts. I want to have the receipts. I'll use Donald Trump's own words here for what I'm about to show you. The first clip I want to show you is Donald Trump saying as it relates to Russia's unlawful invasion in Ukraine, although Trump never used those words, that Trump would end the war in 24 hours. I'll just show you two quick clips right here. It's back to back here. You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, I could. How would you do that? I know Zelensky very well.

I'll end that war between those two countries in 24 hours. It won't even take that long. It won't even take that long. Well, here we are. And your plan is to what, extort Zelensky? That's kind of what he was doing, right, in the first Trump administration. Now definitely more overtly as he threatens Zelensky and said, you better act quick, you better watch out, he's a dictator. And Donald Trump was posting all on social media referring to Zelensky as a dictator, saying that he's just some has-been comic who stole from the United States. And he's parroting Putin's talking points, how Zelensky needs to hold elections right away.

Trump's lying and saying Zelensky has a 4% approval rating. Zelensky's approval rating is above 50 percent. And I think the approval rating is going to rise as I think Zelensky's been standing up to Donald Trump and to Marco Rubio and the bullying and the intimidation Ukraine is rallying as well. Let me show you this other clip as well. And here Donald Trump says that immediately prices are going to go down. This is what Trump said during the campaign. Let's play this clip as well. And here, Donald Trump says that immediately prices are going to go down. This is what Trump said during the campaign. Let's play this clip as well. So when I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one. We will end Kamala's war on American energy and we

will drill, baby drill. We're going to drill. Well, the prices were going down under former President Biden. It was anticipated that we would have hit 2% inflation. We were actually leading the world in inflation reduction. We were also leading the world in energy production. We were drill baby drilling, but also we were focused on climate change and our environment, and we were energy independent at the same time. You don't want to believe me. Why don't I show you a Rupert Murdoch property right here? The Wall Street Journal said that

the U.S. economy was the envy of the world. U.S. economy expected to keep powering higher. Economists lift their growth forecast in the latest Wall Street Journal survey. That was April 14th, 2024, and the economy finished stronger, referred to as a Goldilocks economy during the handoff from Biden to Donald Trump. And Trump immediately then started to gut and destroy the economy with tariff threats, reckless and malicious behavior. But Brett and Geordie, who could have warned us of this? Who could have told us about this? Perhaps in 2016, was it Hillary Clinton? Let's play that clip.

Putin, from everything I see, has no respect for this person. Well, that's because he'd rather have a puppet as president of the United States. No puppet. No puppet. And it's pretty clear. You're the puppet. It's pretty clear you won't admit that the Russians have engaged in cyber attacks against the United States of America, that you encouraged espionage against our people, that you are willing to spout the Putin line, sign up for his wish list,

break up NATO, do whatever he wants to do, and that you continue to get help from him because he has a very clear favorite in this race. Or how about former Vice President Kamala Harris? And when you watch the split screens of these debates, it is eerie how both of these powerful women who are so much more qualified and would have been incredible leaders, and we would never be in this mess, were speaking to the American people in logic, in full sentences. They were warning us and they were telling us what was going down. But of course, America was not going to go there in both cases because, well, I'm sure you know why.

Play this clip. Putin would be sitting in Kiev with his eyes for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch. He is eating Donald Trump for lunch right now. During that event that whatever you want to call it in Saudi Arabia, where they cut out Ukraine and Europe. Russian propaganda was through the roof with Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. You had Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former leader, saying, if you would have told me that a United States president would be saying these things about Ukraine, I would have been laughing in your face. But Brett, we see right here just

complete utter weakness. Putin's eating Trump's you know what, and what do you make of it? Yeah. And you know what? I think Zelensky's eating his you know what as well right now. I think he's kind of getting it from both sides. I think Donald Trump is really working from a place of extreme weakness right now. I think he's incredibly cowardly. You know, there was a meeting that was scheduled this morning between Kellogg, the U.S. envoy to Ukraine, and President Zelensky. And so that happened without a hitch. We've seen clips of them meeting each other, look friendly. And by the way, Kellogg is like, probably the most pro Ukraine guy on this entire in this entire Trump administration. Like he's actually a good person for that job.

But because he is actually a good person for that job, Donald Trump despises him. And we've been speaking about this for weeks now on before Donald Trump was even like, after he was elected, but before he even was inaugurated, we were speaking about Kellogg and we were saying, he's going to be the first to go. Like this guy is going to be early out because this is not going to work with Donald Trump. And we're already seeing tension right now because as Donald Trump sends his people to Saudi Arabia to suck up to Vladimir Putin, he basically sidelined Kellogg and Zelensky this morning. After their meeting, he actually canceled the planned joint press conference because he did not want them to speak to the press about what they

were talking about. Why? Well, I think first off, he's a little nervous about what Kellogg is going to say. Probably good things about Zelensky. The press would definitely ask him if he agrees with Donald Trump's comments about if Zelensky is a dictator, and he would certainly say no would be what I would think or make clear that he does not believe that. And I'm sure he's also afraid of what Zelensky is going to say. Cowardly, cowardly, this administration is the most cowardly administration imaginable, and we need to continue to call them out and expose all these moves and how scared they actually are of the American people, of the press, of you. And they're absolutely humiliating. It is gross to me that I have to be adjacent to a Donald Trump

as a fellow American, that this is the person that's supposed to be representing my interest and my well-being and the health of all Americans, because it couldn't be further from the truth. Trump is a fool. And this plays out time and time and time again. He takes the bait every single time and looks like a complete lunatic on the global stage, not just here in America, but globally across the world. I mean, it is utter buffoonery what we're seeing play out right now. Quite frankly, it's embarrassing and disappointing. But what did we expect, you know, other than this chaos? Look, you've got the White House posting things like this.

Congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan and all of New York is saved. Long live the king, President Donald J. Trump. And it's a fake Time magazine cover with Donald Trump wearing a crown, and it says, Long Live the King Trump. Then Donald Trump was repeatedly posting, Long Live the King, because he tried to interfere with New York's congestion pricing plan, which New York just said, okay, we're going to keep our own plan that's actually helping New York City. You can't interfere with this. You can't retract a

deal that's already taken place. But Donald Trump posting that he is a king. Also, Donald Trump further attacking Canada all day as well, saying that he invited Prime Minister Trudeau to the governor's meeting because he views Trudeau as a governor of an American territory. But as Donald Trump does all of this, I mean, again, Brett, to your point and Jordy, the level of weakness that this shows, he is positioning himself not from any power of strength. I mean, he looks weak. He looks desperate. And everything he's done so far has only been causing harm and damage to the United States of America. But he wants to distract you with all of these different stunts. Got a lot to discuss on this episode for all of our new viewers and listeners here. Welcome to the Midas Touch

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Donald Trump made these promises, right? He promised prices were going to go down on day one. He promised housing was going to be more affordable on day one. He promised there were going to be so many jobs on day one, You weren't going to even know what to do with all of these jobs. He promised that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Even before he took office, he said there would be a deal because he's that good of a dealmaker. That wasn't hyperbole. We shouldn't try to extrapolate, oh, he really meant this. No, he's a liar, period, full stop. So you just can't get distracted by the whack-a-mole of all of the things that they try to say and do. They use USAID the way QAnon uses QDrops, right? Where they try to distract you and get you focused on all of these things that are almost all false

to get you to chase that so that you're distracted from the fact that they're breaking their promises, that they're hurting the economy, that they're hurting our alliances. And then like the abusive mentality that they are, the abusive mentality they have, they then try to make you more promises and lies on top of it. Oh, we're going to search Fort Knox and we're going to find all of this great gold for you. Or, oh, maybe we're going to give you these rebates when Doge finds all of this money. It's all part of the Ponzi scheme scam. And a Ponzi scheme is you keep on lying and you stack lies on lies until basically you run out of time, Brett.

And then the lies catch up and then boom, it implodes. And that's the direction we're heading in. I just want everybody to reflect on these lies. Can I just give one example, Brett, then jump in, which is they go back and they'll say, even though it's been debunked, Hamas is not getting condoms. It's false by USAID. That didn't happen. It doesn't matter though. They'll just go and say it again, like 100% false, but Trump will say it's a hundred million, 50 million, 50 million, 100 million. And the numbers don't even matter.

They just make up numbers. 3 trillion, 5 trillion, 8 trillion, 100 billion, a quadrillion. But also because they are so rich that the numbers don't matter. All that matters is that they're manipulating their sheeple. Here, play this clip. Money. And in another program, $50 million plus another $50 million for condoms for Hamas. You know about that? $100 million for condoms.

Condoms. Does everybody know what a condom is? For Hamas, $100 million. And these are just some, I could read this list all day long. I just don't want to bore you. There's a concept that's frequently talked about on the right that comes from gaming culture. And you see a lot of MAGA people

speaking about NPCs, right? Non-player characters is what that stands for. An NPC is basically, you know, like you're not the main character, right? You're just like a sheep, ultimately. They try to use that to describe anybody who doesn't like Donald Trump when they themselves are the NPCs. Like they are the ultimate sheep. They are the ultimate NPCs. And I'm not going to sugarcoat it, but every time that Donald Trump speaks and shovels this bullshit, they open their mouth and they eat it all the time and regurgitate it. And it's frankly embarrassing. It's horrible for the country. But you see, Trump could say anything, 50 million condoms, whatever, and they will repeat in unison, 50 million condoms in Gaza. And this is about everything. It's the same thing with everything. One of the things that I've noticed that people will often say, because we've been putting out a lot of content all over the place.

Shout out to everyone who's following us on Instagram and TikTok and all the other places as well. But I notice whenever I do stories there about Doge, people are like, oh, another person who doesn't want the government to find waste, fraud, and abuse. What are you afraid of? You're upset that they're finding all this fraud and abuse. Give me one example. Give me one example, one example of fraud and not things that you don't like that the government spends money on, but give me one example of actual fraud because so far, literally every single thing that Elon Musk has spread on his propaganda platform has been fake, has been 100% fake. But the NPCs in MAGA just repeated ad nauseum every single time. And they say the same lines to me. It's like they're reading from

a script and maybe a lot of them are Russian bots. I don't know. But I think a lot of them are just sheep. I think a lot of them are just MAGA NPCs who just regurgitate whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump say, and they just spout it back to you. And it's frankly embarrassing. We see this now across every lever of government. And there are issues, there are literally agencies in the government that are designed to identify waste, fraud, and abuse. Inspectors General are also there to identify waste, fraud, and abuse. Guess what Doge's first move was to try to get rid of them or to get rid of them that's not what you do if you're actually

targeting waste fraud and abuse the entire thing is a scam the people are getting scammed on this and people need to really wake up and stop buying the bullshit that billionaires are shoveling their way by the way you think you're going to see any of that money? I'm telling you, you're not. You know what you're going to see? You're going to see they right now are trying to, this whole doge concept right now is just so they could try to justify when they give their four and a half trillion dollars in tax cuts to billionaires. They're going to say, but look, we saved all this money. So now we're giving these big tax cuts when the numbers that they're saying they saved are fake. And the actual addition to the deficit to the national debt is going to be astronomical. They say they care about the national debt, the economy, inflation. They're making it all worse. And we are right now on a

very terrifying trajectory for our economy and for the country as a whole with these people in charge. 1,000%, Brett, 1,000%. And I just want to go back to your point about these MAGA NPCs, right? How you're talking about how they're all must be reading from the same script. Well, in many cases they are, right? Because where are they getting their news from? All of the same sources, right? They live on Elon's ex, formerly Twitter. They eat that stuff up daily. Everything that that algorithm continues to push, the algorithm controlled by the owner, Elon Musk, right? And then if they're not on, say you're not on X or social media outlet, then where are you? Well, if you're a right-wing MAGA, you're probably on Fox News, digesting those same talking points, which lend themselves as a, you know, if we're doing concentric circles here,

a magnificent overlap of what you see on Fox to what you see on the talking points being pushed out on social media. And that's why it feels like a regurgitation of a script that we see from these NPC MAGAs. It's because day in and day out, they are getting hammered with these talking points. And they only know that to be true because they don't care to do any other, you know, sort of thinking outside of that. I don't blame them necessarily because you have to understand this is a billions, trillions of dollar operation to just propagandize these people. It's hard to pull them out of the bubble. I understand once you're sucked into it, how quickly you could go down a rabbit hole and truly understand,

or at least think you understand that what you're watching is the truth. It's a scary thing. But here's the thing. This Republican Party, this MAGA Republican Party that we see in 2025, they're not the party for the average American. Uh-uh. No, they're not. No, sorry. They are the party of oligarchs and billionaires and the ultra 1%. They are not the party, this MAGA Republican party in 2025, they are not the party for the working class. And we have to continue to hammer that point home day in and day out. They're losers. Let me just say, sorry, you go, Ben. I was just going to say that many of the inspectors general were actually people who were brought in by Trump that former President

Biden kept on because that's what the rules and norms usually call for. And again, Brett, as you said, those were the people who detected the tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud. There's a transparent process. They prepare reports. They actually show up in front of Congress and they work with members of Congress. They don't try to hide behind executive privilege and they're transparent. The thing about Elon Musk, I want you to all know, and you may be confused, like, why is it a big deal, guys, that Elon Musk is saying that he has all of these different positions and on the one hand, they say that he's the administrator of Doge or a special advisor. Why are they doing that? Well, what they want to

try to do is make him immune from oversight. They don't want him to be called into Congress. They don't want him to have to respond to FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests. So when they call him, and you see right here for those who are listening on audio, our viewers can see it, it was him, Elon Musk, running around at CPAC today with a chainsaw. They don't want this guy in front of Congress. So why they say he's a special advisor to Donald Trump and not the administrator of Doge, even though they said he's the administrator of Doge, is to claim that all of his information is protected by the Presidential Records Act, executive privilege, and other immunities. So he doesn't have to testify.

He doesn't have to actually make his numbers public. He doesn't have to justify his numbers. So he can just post different things on his social media platform. You know, like one of the things that he posted on his social media platform, I'll just give you an example of today, where the commander of the International Space Station called out Musk for lying about the plans to bring those astronauts who have been in space home. So Andreas Mogensen, who's the ISS commander, International Space Station, by the way, responding to one of the people at Midas Touch who was playing a clip where Elon Musk said that Biden left these astronauts in space for political reasons. The commander of ISS says that's a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.

So I want to just give you a trigger warning because Elon Musk uses the R word, but then Elon Musk, and I want to say it because I want to educate you on what's being said. Elon Musk then goes to the commander of the International Space Station, you are fully retarded. And then he goes on to attack him more. And then he says, return was for political reasons, idiot. To which the commander of ISS says, Elon, I have long admired you and what you have accomplished, especially at SpaceX and Tesla. You know as well as I do that Butch and Sonny are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home. They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on the International Space Station since last September. And then Elon Musk makes a post about him wanting to abolish the International Space Station after that, after getting into a fight simply because the commander was being respectful and said, what you're saying is not the truth.

One other point I'll say as well, that press conference I was showing you with Donald Trump, where a lot of those clips were coming from. And this is Brett, to your point, like I call him the sheeple or NPCs, whatever. Like Trump is giving this press conference from a Saudi Arabian financial event that he's hosting at his resorts. So Saudi first, he's got the negotiations in Riyadh with Russia first, cutting out our NATO allies. And at this event, again, while inflation is rising, while our economy is now struggling, once again again after former President Biden got it back on track after the damage caused in the first Trump administration. Objectively, Donald Trump is at

a Saudi event at a resort bragging about how rich he is and how great his properties are with the United States presidential seal behind him. Here, let's play this clip. I've actually built a lot of great buildings with the Dezer family and some others. We've had tremendous success in Miami. We have Trump Towers and Sunny Isles Beach. It's four beautiful buildings right on the ocean. The Trump Grande, put the little E in the end for a little class it up a little bit. Trump Grande and the 700 acre Doral. It's a tremendous country club. And it's actually the most successful country club in the U.S. where I was just given approval to build 1500 units. And I couldn't care less about building units when you're president.

Who the hell wants to build units? I've been building units all my life. I don't want to build units, but they gave us permission to do it. Well, you're talking about building units there. That's how you're using your time and you are screwing over Americans. By the way, Brett, you showed that clip before of the video that you played of Elon Musk just running around with the chainsaw and i believe it was the leader of argentina javier male yeah that's javier malay right there who's embroiled in his own crypto scam in argentina now people are calling for him to be impeached there's formal charges that are like being brought against him in argent for telling people to buy the Libra crypto,

which turned out to be a massive rug pull, causing people to lose lots of money. And it was actually the same person who was involved in the Melania dollar sign, Melania coin as well. And so for Donald Trump to say, I don't really care about these things. Well, you're selling like your own meme coins and you're doing deals. This whole event you were doing in Riyadh was a business event with the presidential seal behind you. It's an entire movement. And I'm speaking even beyond MAGA. I'm speaking there's an entire international movement of grifters and con artists who are taking over these countries. Millay is just another example of that with his coin, which was a total rug pool, and now he may actually be charged over it. And you see what they do is they take advantage of the most needy

people. They take advantage of the most desperate people who ironically are often their followers. And so we see that play out in all of these areas that they promise these desperate people, these things, these people just taking the information and they regurgitated, as we've been saying through these episodes. And we just have to understand the war is far greater than even politics. It crosses borders. And what we're facing right now is truly an information war right now what we are facing. And we are up against a ton of money. We're up against a ton of garbage, billionaires who control algorithms on various social media apps, basically state-run TV in many respects. And so that's why it's really genuinely more important than ever that we continue to band

together, push back with the truth, push back with pro-democracy media, and call out the BS every step of the way. Because what they've learned, and this is why they say the condom thing and why the numbers change and always go up, is not only is lying an effective strategy for them, but the bigger and the crazier and the more absurd the lie, the more likely their NPC people are going to repeat that lie. They've learned that it's a loyalty test and the people are happy to do their bidding. And so what do we got to do? Well, we got to counter it. We need to call it out and we need a full on opposition every single day to inform the American people.

And I want to let you know also, because I'm sure a lot of you folks spend a lot of time on social media and I'm sure plenty of you spend time on Twitter. I know a lot of you don't know a lot of time on social media, and I'm sure plenty of you spend time on Twitter. I know a lot of you don't. I know a lot of you quit. But to the people that do, you get a very skewed sense of the world on those apps because the algorithms are controlled by people who want to feed you a certain message. That's not necessarily the message of the public, which is why I actually like seeing what these polls say about what people are feeling, because it reveals a simple fact that there is far more of us than there are of them. That was true before the election. It is true now. They are trying to pretend like they have this mandate, this massive majority. BS. It is garbage. We have the energy. We have the momentum. We need to be hammering

these messages home every single minute, every single hour, every single day. I think that's why the story broke through about the Midas Touch podcast beating Rogan in the ratings because it shows that people want to hear the truth. And it shows that there's hope out there to get out this information. When I speak to people, when I see people in the chat, when I see people out and about, they say, Ben, just tell me where I got to show up. I'm ready to take to the streets and peacefully protest. You just tell me where and when. And we're seeing the protests start to grow organically. We cover them here on the Midas Touch network, unlike corporate media, which tends to suppress these. You're seeing a huge rally, tens of thousands of people over this past week in New York, and people took to the streets across the country.

And one of the things that we're going to do here as we build this network and we get to 5 million and 10 million people subscribed. And then we keep connecting our subscribers internationally, standing in solidarity with peace-loving pro-democracy people in Canada and Mexico and Europe and Australia and New Zealand and South America and Africa and across the globe. We're going to have to band together to stop these forces of disinformation. That is one of our priorities. And we're going to be helpful in that process, especially as I think and I expect there to be a democracy spring, a democracy summer, where our voices will be heard in a massively historic way as people are mobilized and activated. We still have a lot to discuss.

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This is an egoless movement. You know what I mean? Like we at the Midas Touch Network, it's not about us, the brothers, Ben, Brett, or Jordy, who may have founded it. We're the vehicle to get out the pro-democracy voice and the ideals. We always say it's this community, the Midas Mighty community that makes us want to get up every single day and get the truth out there. And it's up to y'all to continue to run with the receipts that we bring to these podcasts to show your circle. So I just wanted to thank you for

tuning in. We're going to keep this thing going. Benji, where to? And look, we have a lot of other voices on the network as well. We have people like renowned former prosecutor, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who's on the front lines of handling some of the biggest cases in the country as we speak. We've got great hosts like Michael Popak, and I can go on and list all of our hosts, but you should check out the list also on our website. These are experts who have got the facts. They're former federal prosecutors, former politicians, people in the weeds who deliver the information with a level of expertise. So we try to give you that perspective as well. I should say also, if people want to get really into the weeds on The Legal, we got a great legal

show where Ben likes to nerd out on The legal with our incredible legal experts like Karen and Michael Popock and Dina Dahl. You can check out the Legal AF podcast as well on Apple and Spotify and goes live on YouTube. Check it out. I'm sure you guys will really love that show as well. You know, could you imagine what that testimony of Elon Musk would look like before the Doge subcommittee? I just want everybody to think about this concept, though, that every time the Democrats try to subpoena Elon Musk, it gets blocked by the Republicans in the House of Representatives. They won't even allow debate to take place to subpoena Elon Musk, to have him show up at his own quote unquote subcommittee that's being led by

Marjorie Taylor Greene called the Doge subcommittee. How do you not appear before your own subcommittee, right? Like the FBI director has to show up, right? Like the attorney general has to show up, right? The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has to show up and testify before Congress. It's called a public servant and you're doing public service because you have to be accountable. Being accountable doesn't mean spreading disinformation on social media and then saying, oh, there,

and then calling people the R word and picking fights with people and having baby mamas appear and then attack you on social media. And then you block your baby mamas with 13 babies like Musk or whatever. Like that's not what being a public servant is about. It's about serving the people. So you should want to testify and justify it and let the Congress or the congressional members ask you questions this is elon musk a little bit earlier today at cpac i truly can't understand what he's even really it's kind of just gibberish here play this clip if you got to protect the first amendment it's not much more important than

that yeah i mean i i got a lot of criticism and people said well that proves he's a huge idiot from a you know like look you know he bought it for whatever, $44 billion and now it's worth like eight cents. It's not worth eight cents. But, you know, it was essentially to, you know, by freedom of expression. So I just want you to remember, you can go back earlier to the episode where I showed you the clip of Donald Trump when he was asked about Doge and he was like, oh, did you feel that bump? Oh, do you want to search for some gold in the mountains in Fort Knox? And the people were asking him questions like, but are you firing FAA officials?

Because there's been nine plane crashes already while you've been golfing in Mar-a-Lago seemingly every single day. Like what are you doing with FAA officials? What are you doing with the people who work at our national parks? What are you doing with Department of Labor? What are you doing with the crisis hotline that is so necessary for our veterans? What are you doing with the crisis hotline that is so necessary for our veterans? What are you doing with 9-11 responders? And they're just there giving a bunch of gibberish because they know what they're doing is wrong. Otherwise, they would go in front of Congress and they would talk about it and they would do actual transparent reports and not this crap that we're seeing. And one of the things I've noticed that they've been doing as well, the same way MAGA Republicans have tried to normalize school shootings, and they're like,

it's just part of living. You have to have school shootings. No, it's uniquely an American thing based on the warped interpretation of the Second Amendment by our far right-wing Supreme Court and Republicans. 70% of Americans, 75% of Americans want common sense gun reform. It's because these MAGA Republicans are in the pocket of gun companies. And also, I think just death. I think they're in the pocket of death. It seems that everything they want to do is somehow, you know, they can have all the money in the world. It just seems like sometimes they just want people to suffer too, in addition to being in the pocket of the gun line. They just want to see suffering because I think a lot of these people are just sick people.

But anyway, the point I'm making is the same way they've normalized, you know, weapons of war proliferating and school shootings. They're trying to now normalize plane crashes. And they're like, yeah, airplanes crash. That's just what happens. More happened under Biden, which is false. Also, Donald Trump's been in office now for just about 30 days, too. And there was never a commercial plane crash while former President Biden was running the country. Here, play this clip of Duffy. But again, air crashes happen, but they were more under Biden

than Donald Trump. But the point here is we want to get to a place where we have zero crashes. We don't want people to die in aircraft, which is why what I've done is focus on how do you upgrade the system? But Will, you look at what's happened. The airspace around DCA, that was allowed to stay open under the last administration. The inspections that were done of the aircraft that have crashed, that was done under the last administration. So it is rich that they would come at this administration for the mistakes that they've made and blame us for the crashes. We're going to fix what they refused to fix over the course of their four years. And that's the mission of this department. Do you sense the pattern here? Because when they were not in power at the executive branch level, every day they blamed

everything on Biden as Biden tried to fix the dumpster fire caused by Trump being the arsonist who imploded our economy. Now, if you just want to know the facts and the data, Donald Trump objectively added $8 trillion in debt. Donald Trump printed money recklessly, surprise, surprise, ran up the debt, and then screwed up our supply chains. He was not prepared for COVID. He said, like a miracle, it was all going to go away. And then Biden had to fix it. It took time to fix. And every time Biden tried to fix it, despite all of the media saying that there was a, remember the Bloomberg headline, 100% chance of recession. Biden got a soft landing and then America's GDP surge.

We led the world in GDP growth. We were beating China in GDP growth. 16.4 million jobs created, 40,000 infrastructures. The CHIPS Act brought the semiconductor industry here to the United States, bringing more jobs. The Inflation Reduction Act, the American Recovery Act. President Biden was not attacking veterans the way Trump is. Instead, President Biden had the PACT Act, which increased services to veterans. Former President Biden did not try to gut Medicaid and Medicare. Quite the contrary, he tried to make, and he did make prescription drug prices more affordable. He capped prescription drug prices. Every day was just fighting for how

you help people and use the government to give people things, not use the government to bludgeon and hurt people. But now that the Trump administration's in power and they made all of these promises, and right away they're causing devastation with our economy, they blame everything on Biden, Biden, Biden. There was not crashes every day taking place under Biden. We were headed for 2% inflation under Biden, which is right around where you want him. Interest rates would have dropped even lower, and now interest rates are not dropping because inflation is back up. And now the American people believe that inflation is going to rise 3.5%, 4%, 4.2% or even higher. Americans have a very dim view of the economy. Americans are now spending less

because they're hoarding money, believing, I think rightfully so, that America's economy is now on a crash course with Donald Trump's reckless behavior. And one of the patterns here we see over and over again is Trump is firing the smart, qualified people, and he's bringing in the worst of the worst, corrupt and stupid people. Case in point, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, is a former Fox News host. He's not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. Former President Biden, we had a guy named Lloyd Austin, four-star general who was our Secretary of defense, who respected our military. Now we have Pete Hegseth out there who talks about conquering Gaza, sending the United States military into Gaza and all of these countries. And now what we learned today, courtesy of NBC

breaking the story, is that Pete Hegseth, again, a Fox News host with a history of alcohol and sexual assault allegations and never ran something is considering firing a slate of military generals as early as this week, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who got overwhelming support from the Senate, C.Q. Brown. And I'll show you this video right here just so you can see it. Just take a look. You'll see C.Q. Brown sitting behind chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Pete Hegseth. And this was from about a few weeks back or two weeks ago. It seems like an eternity ago, though this is when they were talking about occupying Gaza, which followed them occupying Canada and Panama and Colombia and other countries. This was the Gaza occupation day. But watch behind Pete Hegseth here playing this clip. Mr. Secretary, do you have a plan to send troops to Gaza? Are you

working on options for the president right now that would involve U.S. troops in Gaza? The president is involved in very complex and high level negotiations of great consequence to both the United States and the state of Israel. And we look forward to working with our allies, our counterparts, both diplomatically and militarily. Do you see the chairman of the Joint Chiefs stand behind him kind of like, like wince, like when he was saying that, like, oh my God. So they're trying to get rid of that guy. Kash Patel got confirmed today. So that's the new FBI director by a vote of 51 to 49%. You have this United States attorney, this guy, Ed Martin, who's now sending letters to Congress that he's using the United States attorney's office in DC to criminally investigate like Democratic Congress member, Robert Garcia, because he didn't like how Robert Garcia told

that people should protest. So he told Garcia he wants clarification because Garcia's words may be criminal. I mean, that is it's corruption. Stupid sandwich is this Trump administration writ large with the dumbest people, Sean Duffy's, who got famous on real world road rules challenge. Give me one point, but then I'll throw it over to you because I've got this train of thought right now. Even the person who they said was the pro-labor moderate person, right, like Chavez de Reimer, a Republican congresswoman from Oregon. And her whole thing was that she claimed she supported the PRO Act, which would help union workers. And so she branded herself as pro-worker. But now that she's in the Trump administration, when she testified as to be the labor secretary.

Well, let me just show you the questioning by Bernie Sanders. You support the pro act. Thank you, Ranking Member Sanders. And I appreciate the conversation. I support the American worker, President Trump. OK, I don't mean to be rude No you're not rude I'm gathering that you no longer support the proact

is what I hear, that you support the American worker that's what everybody here will say What do you feel about the Butch Lewis Act? I support the Butch Lewis Act and protecting their retirements You will go to the mat supporting it? I do support protecting people's retirements. Do you support raising the minimum wage to a living wage? Ranking member Sanders, you know that that is an issue for Congress

to determine and raising the minimum wage. As the Secretary of Labor, I cannot weigh in on that. That's determined by Congress. If they want to negotiate that, I will fully and fairly enforce the law as a labor secretary. Are you concerned that we do not have a functioning NLRB now? Well, again, I have not been read in with President Trump, but he has a right to exercise his executive power. And I do believe the NLRB has an important role independent of the Department of Labor. And I respect their position as an independent agency. The question was, are you okay with the fact that Trump, you're the labor secretary, are you okay with the fact that he gutted the National Labor Relations Board that recognizes unions and hears grievances? What's your view on a living wage?

You're the labor secretary. What's your view that labor should be able to live? What's your view of the PRO Act, the right to unionize? Can't answer those questions, but I got to tell you, you know, you got Sean O'brien over at uh the teamsters you know who's went to mar-a-lago thumbs up he thought that was great the leader of the teams i don't know how the rank and file you know can deal with this guy but there's a whole nother topic in a whole nother video but brett sorry i just wanted to show you even doreen mershavez who people like oh she when she goes there, these people are all spineless clowns. Yeah. And I got to admit, my own fault here, because for a while I was told that she was

like the pro-labor one. And I was like, oh, well, at least Trump put somebody pro-labor for this position. It turns out she's reversed everything that she ever said she believed in for Donald Trump. And the head of the Teamsters apparently loves her for it. And shame on that guy, right? Sean O'Brien. Honestly, what a traitor to his union to back these people who are destroying unions, who are destroying workers, who are going to lead these people to slaughter. It's quite frankly disgusting. But when I watch all of this,

when I see people like Bernie Sanders out there bringing the heat during those hearings, when I see people like, I'm not sure if you saw J.B. Pritzker's speech yesterday in Illinois, phenomenal, fantastic, exactly the kind of fighter that we need right now. And when you see these voices out there, whether it's Jasmine Crockett, an AOC, an Auchincloss, whoever it may be, the people who are out there who are throwing punches and are doing a good job. I think that's great. And I think we need to continue to push members of Congress to do as much as possible every single day. I think there

are some people doing a fantastic job. A lot of them are not meeting the moment. I'll say that happily, not happily. I'll say that honestly, definitely not, but some of them really are doing a great job. But at the end of the day, I've been thinking about the famous words of JFK a lot in the past few days. The most famous thing he's ever said probably, ask not what your country could do for you, ask what you can do for your country. And I think right now those words are resonating with me more than ever because we could look to all these institutions, right? You could look to the courts, you could look than ever because we could look to all these institutions,

right? You could look to the courts. You could look to politicians. You could look to whoever. But I don't think that's where we need to be looking right now. I think we need to be looking at ourselves and what we could all be doing, the ways we could be organizing, protesting, speaking out, demanding that members of Congress do what they promise they do,

that they actually put up a fight. And I think if we're able to coalesce and build this coalition and continue to knock down Donald Trump's approval ratings by exposing him the way we are, I think the power that we are going to see of the people is going to be the thing that saves this country ultimately. And that's why I love when I look out, not on the news, but when I see on social media and on the Midas Touch Network, when I see these why I love when I look out, not on the news, but when I see on social media and on the Midas Touch Network, when I see these protests forming, when I see the people speaking up, speaking loudly, loudly, and demanding action. And I want to see more of that. And we all need to be thinking every single day, what could we be doing? Do we have a skill? Maybe you're an artist.

Maybe you write songs. Maybe you want to make phone calls. I don't care what it is, but every day we should be thinking, is there something I could do today to try to save my country? Because we need to take the responsibility and ownership of this as much as it sucks, as much as none of us asked for this. But I don't even think this is not a partisan thing at all. This is about democracy. This is about our country. This is about democracy. This is about our country.

This is about normalcy. And what we're seeing right now with Trump and Doge, this operation, which I think is a whole kind of foreign influence operation, kind of both from within and from overseas, it's horrifying. And we should all be united in pushing back against that, regardless of whether you consider yourself the leftiest of lefties, the most conservative person on the planet, moderate. I don't care where you are, right? This is an existential crisis that we're all facing. So it's time to come together. And people are pissed. It's very clear. People are angry. I mean, they are taking to the streets. We cover the protests here, just like we showed right there, Brennan, that shot.

What's happening here is this entire administration is just gaslighting the entire American people. Gaslighting the world, right? Donald Trump, no tax on tips. Where is that? Oh no, look at this shiny object over here. Look at this over here. Everything that he essentially campaigned on that got people excited. I mean, the no tax on tips one is like the most infuriating one to me because that was such a staple of his campaign. But yet he dodges every question when asked about it. It's an unbelievable thing. You look at Duffy on Fox News.

I mean, gaslighting 101. There's more plane crashes under the Biden administration than the Trump administration. Y'all have been in office now for three weeks. I'm hearing about a plane incident every other day at this point. What are we talking about? And then the stats that Duffy threw out, I'm not going to go point by point, but just completely made up, like just completely falsified. And this goes back to our conversation earlier about the NPC scripts, right? Because now that's the Fox News touch point that are getting the MAGA talking points and the scripts out there.

Actually, did you know there was more plane crashes under Biden administration than the Trump administration? And that's what they roll out. And it's just an unbelievably gaslit administration that is infuriating the American people. And that's why we are seeing such an energized community here, the Midas Touch Network, and taking to the streets all across the country. Well, what they're telling their people is on Fox and they're saying, why wouldn't you trust the billionaires? Look, billionaires, this is what they say. Billionaires are so rich that they don't need your money.

They don't need, they're doing this out of the goodness of their heart. Let the billionaires go through your shit. Let them have your social security. What are they going to do with it? You think they're going to do something bad with it? Let them have your social security. What are they going to do with it? You think they're going to do something bad with it? Let them have your medical records. What are you afraid to show the billionaires? Just give it to them.

What your social security data, just what do you think they're going to do? Give the billionaires that data, that access to your tax records and the payment processing systems of the IRS. What do you think they're going to do? Try to avoid paying taxes and then go after their enemies with the IRS? Come on, these are billionaires. These are the best of the best. That's what they're trying to sell to their audience. And Brett, to your point, that's why you say this

shouldn't be a Democrat thing to say that's crazy it should be a human being thing if you're not a billionaire you should even if you are kind of a billionaire and you're not the must type whatever even you're just a worker and you're and you're trying to support your family you should not want these billionaires doing this crap and hurting you and hurting your family that's what they are doing. And that shouldn't be a partisan issue. So I think, Brett, to your point, power to the people is the mantra. And this is a people-powered network. I think that's one of the reasons or the main reason this network grew is that it is people-powered and it's fueled by you,

the Midas Mighty. And again, I'm humbled and honored that me and my brothers can host this program and speak to millions of people. I think it was close to 59 million downloads for the month or what the number was. That's incredible. But what really matters to me is the reach of growing people and having an impact and making a difference and getting this information out to more people. And then having all of you share this information with people that you know, because I want an America that's caring and empathetic and loving, and that cares about democracy and supports our allies, that cares about future generations, and that where we have respect and we have our democracy back. That's what I want.

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to 5 million subscribers. Let's try to hit that 5 million mark soon and i can't wait to speak to you now at patreon.com slash might as touch p-a-t-r-e-o-n.com slash might as touch we'll see you there thank you everybody for watching thank you mods thank you might as mighty thank you everyone uh we're so appreciative and grateful for you jordy shout out to the Midas Mighty! The Midas Mighty standing strong Against the fascists we sing our song We will get it right whenever

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