The MeidasTouch Podcast - MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/27/26

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down the accelerating fallout from the Epstein Files, including the stunning resignation of the World Economic Forum’s CEO and new revelations about the DOJ burying deeply troubling allegations involving Donald Trump and a minor. We also cover the chaotic closed-door Clinton deposition that was briefly derailed after Republicans leaked images to a MAGA propagandist while continuing to block public transparency. Meanwhile, JD Vance’s latest attempt to sell Trump’s economy goes off the rails, Trump’s wellness influencer–turned–Surgeon General nominee faces a brutal hearing that raises serious concerns, and Netflix pulls out of its bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery amid Paramount’s hostile takeover bid. Plus, key updates from Ukraine and more from Ben, Brett, and Jordy. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors!  Found: Open a Found account for FREE at https://found.com. Found is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Lead Bank, Member FDIC. HexClad: Find your forever cookware @hexclad and get 10% off at https://hexclad.com/MEIDAS! #hexcladpartner iRestore: Reverse hair loss with @iRestorelaser and get exclusive savings on the iRestore Elite, use code TRUTH at https://irestore.com/TRUTH! #irestorepod American Giant: Visit https://american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code MEIDAS Ultra Pouches: Don’t sleep on @ultrapouches. New customers get 15% Off with code MEIDAS at https://takeultra.com! #UltraPouches #ad 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan 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 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's been catastrophic day after catastrophic day for Donald Trump and his collapsing regime. And good, this is the karma that they deserve. They tried to have Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton get embarrassed during depositions earlier in the day. Hillary Clinton's deposition was up first. She said, let's do it in public.

Let's invite the press. Let's do it in a public hearing to which MAGA Republican James Comer's like, no way. Let's keep it secret, everybody. And then during the deposition, you had MAGA Republicans like Lauren Bobrick, like taking photos of Hillary Clinton from the side and sending it to MAGA. influencers. Then Hillary Clinton's like, if you want to dig, let's just have the press come in. If you're going to be weird about it, then James Comer's like, no way. And they started asking her about UFOs and Pizza Gate and all of these things. Well, we'll cover what went down there. But yet again, it backfires in James Comer and Donald Trump's face. Now the Democrats are like, great. You set

a precedent. We would like Lutnik's deposition next. We would like Donald Trump's deposition next. Oh, and by the way, Donald Trump and his despicable sycophantic Department of Justice is now covering up. We know now basically for a fact that they're covering up these 302 reports, these FBI reports, and we believe that one of them is from some of the great reporting out there is an accuser of Donald Trump, who says that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor. That's among the 302 reports that have been concealed. And we also know that back on January 4th, Todd Blanch, the number two at the Department of Justice and Donald Trump's criminal defense attorney before that sent a memo telling the FBI agents to flag those 302 reports and set them aside and also to not produce documents on the basis of privilege claims, even though the Epstein Transparency Act does not mention you can withhold documents on the basis of privilege claims. We'll go over that. Also, you've got, uh, potential war with Iran breaking out at any moment right now. Apparently, Iran rejected each and every one of the demands by the Trump regime. They view Donald Trump as weak. And so we'll see what happens there. And they said, well, Donald Trump threatened that he was going to attack Iran the moment they killed a single protester. And then Donald Trump let Iran massacre 30,000 protesters. So I think Iran views Donald Trump and his regime is not wanting a war that

would be more than any kind of strategic strikes in Iran saying, do it, do it. And that's what it looks like when Donald Trump goes it alone. His only ally is Israel. No one else in the world wants to help the United States anymore. America's isolated and weaker than ever. And our military is overextended right now. That's clear. Talk about that. America may be going to war with Cuba. There was apparently a very big international incident that no one in the Trump regime is even saying what happened where individuals from a United States titled boat went to Cuba, started opening fire apparently on Coast Guards in Cuba, Cuba then opened fire on the individuals in this boat, killing four, capturing six individuals. And no real story. Like, who are these people

from the United States? Like, like, what's, what's a going on there? But the Trump regime is saying, we need to strangle Cuba. Let's strangle it. Also, no, North Korea, Kim Jong-un's leader there in North Korea. He said, we're expanding our nuclear arsenal. We're going to make it bigger and stronger and more powerful, more nuclear weapons. No response by the Trump regime because, you know, Donald Trump likes Kim Jong-un. We'll talk about all of this and more. We'll talk about, oh, that hearing in the Senate, the confirmation hearing of Casey Means, who the Trump regime wants to be the surgeon general. And she's the lady who said that she heard the whispers in the air that told her she needed to do psychedelics. And that that's what she bases her being a surgeon general around. I'm not saying, look, psychedelics may or may not work for you.

I'm only suggesting that when she heard the whispers and she says that and then she sells supplements as well and doesn't disclose conflicts of interest and that she's making money. And that, oh, she never passed her residency. She is an inactive physician. I don't know. You know, she believes that vaccines cause autism. She's RFK sycophant. Maybe not the best person to be surgeon. Doesn't believe in birth control and says that, you know, it will kill you.

Not the best surgeon. All right. We'll talk about that and more here at the Midas Touch podcast. Yet again, the number one podcast and all of the. United States on the new YouTube charts. We were number one this entire month. And oftentimes we go back and forth. We're number one or Joe Rogan's number one.

But for the past three weeks, Midas Touch has been number one, thanks to all of you. And make sure you subscribe to our audio podcast as well. Even if you just like watching this on video, it helps us so much when you subscribe on audio. And we hit six million subscribers. Thanks to you here on the YouTube channel. Brett, how you doing it?

And Brett, the people state of the union we threw here with Move On was also a huge hit. It was a huge head. I know you have had a chance to speak about it with the folks, but I want to, you know, just mention it for a second up top and thank everybody for tuning in. I mean, everybody who watched live, everybody who watched after the fact, there was a record-setting night. It was a history-making night. And the thing I love about it the most is that we got to counter the state of the union that was filled with grievances and lies with the stories of real Americans, actually highlighting the issues that are actually facing people in this country. highlighting what's important. And so I want to thank everybody for tuning in. I remember the last episode,

I said, this is the moment, right? We need you guys to step up, right? I'm calling on you, okay? And you all stepped up big time. I mean, that was such a huge success. We all made history. You all made history. Thank you so much for being part of this. And I think it's just a sign of the power of this network, the power of this community and of people power in general and the thirst for pro democracy. content and messages and the truth. I think we made such a powerful statement that night, and we are just getting started here. So thank you so much. Really, really, really, really appreciate it. I'm excited to get into today's episode. We've got a whole lot to discuss, but you know, I always got to turn over to Jordi and just see, you know, check in. How you doing?

Little brother, what's going on? What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas, Mighty? Now, I want to elaborate on that a little bit, Brett, with some just concrete numbers here, too, just for the folks, just so y'all know. The People's State of the Union, huge success. I mean, truly, as Brett said, what an honor to be able to bring that to the world with you guys every step of the way. We had over 170,000 consecutive live viewers at one point on the stream, which is just absolutely insane for any stream. By the end of the stream, it had over 2 million views and where we stand today across all of the various streams, over 4.5 million views on the People's State of the Union. So huge success, huge shout out to the Midas Mighty.

This is all thanks to you guys. And we're going to keep doing this. We're going to keep doing this absolutely. And obviously, a huge shout out to our partners, move on. Incredible stuff. Benji, where do you want to start off today, Big Bro? Well, let's start off talking about how this deposition by MAGA of Hillary Clinton backfired in their faces as we expected it would.

Let me just show you what Hillary Clinton said herself after the deposition. position concluded and she answered every question while the MAGA Congress members like Lauren Boeuvre were like taking photos of her and sending it to like MAGA influencers like Benny Johnson. Here's what former Secretary of State Clinton had to say, let's play it. I don't know how many times I had to say. I did not know Jeffrey Hepstein. I never went to his island. I never went to his homes. I never went to his offices. So it's on the record numerous times. It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about PizzaGate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated

on the internet that was serving as a basis of a member's questions to me. Ridiculous. So when the Congress members arrived in New York to take that deposition, it was notable because no MAGA Republican Congress members showed up to Les Wexner's deposition. They didn't want to be at that one. The guy who funded Epstein, Epstein's co-conspirator, but they all wanted to be at this one of Hillary Clinton, so they could take photos of her. But the good news is that when they were there, they were asked questions by members of the media. And some of them asked them good questions. For example, James Comer was asked, are you concerned about all the news out right now that Donald Trump and his DOJ and FBI have been covering up interviews of witnesses

or at least one accuser we know of potentially who accused Donald Trump of sexual abuse when she was a minor by Donald Trump, that these documents based on what we see in the document manifest are missing, and this was an accuser who mentioned being sexually assaulted by Donald Trump. That's the accusations. So where are these? Comer, what say you? Are you concerned that there has been a cover of a sexual abuse of a minor, my President Trump, that are missing FBI records that appear to the...

No, we're looking into the accusation by the NPR. We don't know that. The answer to that, we know what the administration says. We're still looking to get a definitive answer on that. I don't even know what that means. You're looking into the accusation by NPR. No, it's the accusation by the individual who says she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump. Look into the accusation there.

You're the house overcycling. You read the NPR article. And by the way, hat to that reporter, Roger Sullenberger as well. He broke the initial story. Then NPR also broke additional. facts about that story than other people covered, Wall Street Journal covered at CNN others. And of course, we've been talking about it here on the Midas Touch Network for some time, but there's not much to look into there. I mean, here's the document manifest. You can see

the highlighted documents are from this accuser. And you, those are being concealed. We know that there are probably at least 90, probably more FBI 302's being concealed. I did a video on this earlier in this morning, a January 4th memo that Todd Blanche sent to FBI agents when they were reviewing the files saying, make sure you segregate the 302 interviews and any types of communications that are internal within the DOJ and FBI, those shouldn't be produced. Any communications between Epstein and Geelaine should not be produced. Let me repeat that. we know for a fact they are withholding documents and they're redacting documents of Epstein and Glein communications because what they're saying in this memo, what Todd Blanche is saying,

they had what's called a joint defense privilege. This is what the argument is, a joint defense privilege so that their attorneys were sharing information with each other. And so therefore, it's all attorney-client privilege and should not be produced. How is there a joint defense privilege when Epstein allegedly died, when he died allegedly by suicide, which nobody believes? What explained to me was, was Geelaine being criminally prosecuted at the exact same time where they arrested together at that exact same time? They had a joint defense privilege for 20 years?

What are you talking about there? So, to me, just produced the die. documents. We're looking into NPR's accusations. We know what the Trump has stated and respond. What have they stated that he's been vindicated? The hell is that even mean? And why are we at a deposition of Hillary Clinton and not Howard Lutnik? Why isn't Lutnik being deposed? Like shouldn't the people who were on the island, like, and New Epstein and lied about it? Don't you think we start there? We start there, right? Before Hillary, Lutnik maybe would be at the top of the list, right? Here's what Comer says.

here plays this. But spirit of bipartisanship, would you then ask the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik to come testify? It seems like he has some information. That's very possible. And I think it's a good possibility that his name will arise in some questioning today. It'll be on my list. And I have an email. I printed off for Hillary to ask about Howard Lutnik today. We're asking again, and I want to remind everyone, we've already brought in Alex Acosta and Bill Barr for depositions. That's two Republicans.

Republicans in the Trump administration. So this isn't just about Democrats. This is about anyone that has any knowledge of Epstein, the investigation. I think we all agree the government failed. The government failed the victims. And what our role is we can't, we can't prosecute anyone. But what we have been doing is getting transparency of the American people. So you're going to ask Hillary Clinton about Howard Lutnik. That's how you're going to address Howard Lutnik lying about not being on the island. is to ask Hillary Clinton, who was never on the island and never spoke to Epstein, questions about Howard Lutnik? Like, do you all just think that we're the stupidest people? Like, what does that even mean? And then you're telling us that you've called people in the administration, Alex Acosta and Bill Barr? Not in the administration right now. You have Alex Acosta, he was Donald Trump's Labor Secretary. And when he testified previously in a deposition, we know he lied through his teeth. And there are lots of instances where he said,

They were never investigating financial fraud. He didn't know all of these things. I mean, look, the files clearly show that the guy lied about everything. There should be a referral of perjury against Alex Acosta, if anything. And then Bill Barr, the guy, Trump's hatchet man, who literally covered up everything for Donald Trump during his first term. That guy, you're saying that guy's in the Trump administration right now. What are you even, what are you talking about? Now, contrast that to what Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia said,

outside of the deposition about the precedent that has now been set by the House Oversight Committee by deciding to depose Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. Here, play this clip. Lastly, I want to also add that this committee has now set a new precedent about talking to presidents and former presidents. And we're demanding immediately that we ask President Trump to testify in front of our committee and be deposed in front of oversight. Republicans and Democrats. And that should happen immediately. He is the person that appears almost more than anyone else in the committee and it needs to happen right now. Mr. Chair, do you distinguish it all, do you distinguish it all between the president and a former president and a sitting

president? I mean, is there something in there? Because they will say, wait a minute. We know what the court ruled on his immunity. We should we should oppose the person that is mentioned in the FECD files almost more than any other person next to Galeigh Maxwell. And that's Donald Trump. Ranking member Garcia has done a fantastic job, I think, throughout this entire process. He's remained steadfast despite the Democrats being in the minority. He's been on point with his messaging. He's been out there trying to get the truth. He's been subpoenaing the Epstein estate.

He's been actually doing everything he can to get this information out there. And I think he deserves to be commended for that. And you contrast that with the way the Republicans have handled us every step of the way and the way the Trump regime has handled us. And every action they've taken has made them. seem guiltier and guiltier and guiltier. And I wonder why. I say that sarcastically, obviously. But we've seen every step of the way now from the very beginning of this, Trump fight the release of this. Ultimately, he had to be forced by the discharged petition. It was such an overwhelming

vote that it would have been an embarrassment and his veto would have been overturned. So he was essentially forced into signing this. And then the DOJ stonewalling every step of the way. and now what's he doing? He's bringing out his peto protection racket, these House Oversight Committee Republicans, to run these sort of sham depositions to try once again, to try to deflect from Donald Trump and to try to put it on other people like Hillary Clinton and others.

What they're doing here is incredibly obvious, and they are just acting as Donald Trump's personal law firm rather than an actual oversight committee trying to get to the bottom of things, trying to get to the truth here. And we're dealing with one of the most serious issues imaginable, child sex trafficking, and a ring that involved very powerful people and extended far beyond even the sex trafficking scheme, but to also the way power was manipulated and how power worked with each other

in order to kind of manipulate the public and move markets and overthrow governments. I mean, this is the most serious stuff that we're dealing with. And they've taken this to a place where they've just debased themselves, debase the, debase the whole process because ultimately they want people to believe nothing. They want to throw fake stuff out there. They just want to muddy the waters constantly. And today, I think, was another example of that. You know, Hillary Clinton, you know, when she got out of this deposition, I think she also said something incredibly revealing about kind of the best exchange that she felt that she had with the House Oversight Committee. So let me just play these words from Hillary Clinton and we'll talk on the

other side of it. I can only say that the best exchange that I had came at the very end. When contrary to every other deposition they have taken, no Republican member asked any questions about Jeffrey Epstein or Delane Maxwell to anyone else they have deposed. And in fact, the Republican members didn't even show up for the deposition of Les Wexner. And when I said that, I had to point out that the only questions that any Republican

member asked of any of the people that opposed was of former Attorney General Bill Barr when Chairman Comer asked him about the allegations in his... view about Russia's involvement in my election in 2016. So at the very end of this hearing, after I made that point, I want to commend Chairman Comer for raising a series of significant questions that I responded to about the nature of the investigation and the areas that I thought should be explored. So I appreciated that.

I want to see the truth come out. So that was a reassuring way to end a very long, repetitive deposition. And I think that says a whole lot. And even just watching the body language of Hillary Clinton, hearing the way she speaks about this issue, her confidence in the way she speaks. I think she comes off as incredibly trustworthy as she is. She comes off as somebody to me who has nothing to hide about this issue.

And let's be honest here. She's so much smarter than any of these people in the House Oversight Committee. And they've dragged her through the mud before. They've had her do that very long testimony on Benghazi, where she was there for hours and hours and hours and didn't flinch, answered every question. and I'm sure she did the same here as they kept trying to throw all the stuff out her. And just the way they tried to derail this whole thing,

the way they didn't want to make it public, the stunt that they pulled with Lauren Bobert illegally, taking a photo of Hillary Clinton during the deposition and leaking it to MAGA propagandist Benny Johnson, they're trying to do everything they possibly can to try to throw her off her game, to try to rattle her. But she, to me, appears as somebody who's going in there, who was given honest testimony,

has nothing to hide. When Donald Trump, on the other hand, you look at him, everything he's doing makes him look guiltier and guiltier and guiltier. And these Republicans, as I said before, appear that they are just, they view their job as being the personal law firm of Donald Trump and everything that they do is designed to try to cover up for things that Donald Trump may have done in his dark past. Exactly, B. And here's the thing. Hillary wanted to do all of this in public. Like I think it was really smart of her, too, to hold that press conference answer after and answer these questions. It's really, like we always say here, you know, you just have to control the narrative, especially when the truth is on your side, ultimately. And so, right, you resumed in on

Ben. And so when Hillary does that press conference after, that's her getting ahead of all the shady stick that Maga and the Trump regime that they're trying to pull. Like, the reason, in my opinion, other than, you know, Lauren Bober just being ridiculous human being, sent that photo was to, like, make it look nefarious, like make it look evil, like what Hillary would, like, oh, look, she's answering questions on Epstein. Look, it's Hillary Clinton answering the question. It's like, yeah, she wanted to do this in public with cameras so everybody could see. None of this should be political. Like nothing with the Epstein file should be political. But you know who's politicizing it in every step of the way is the GOP at every step of the way. Look, this is a humanity issue. This isn't right

versus left. This is right versus wrong. It's literally good versus evil. We're all looking for, well, we as the pro-democracy community is clearly looking for justice for their survivors. That's what we want. We want accountability and answers. And anyone that's willing to stand up in public and say, hey, I will tell you everything that I know about this situation. I want to hear from them. And I think the American people at large want to hear from them.

Every step of the way, the GOP has been shady, shady, shady. They don't want the truth. They want their version of the truth. And they're going to try and make that mold it up any way that they can. But ultimately, the facts are going to be what the facts are. And the American people, and thanks to independent media at large, we're demanding the facts. And we're getting more evidence and more facts every single day. This has been one of these single worst looks for the Republican regime in quite some time.

I mean, this used to be an issue that they at least pretend. to really care about and we're proud to discuss. And now it just looks like, again, the cover-up in the situation cannot be worse than the crime at all. But the cover-ups getting pretty damn bad. And it's right in front of the American people's phases. Look, we started this episode talking about the people's state of the union. It is so critical that we ground coverage and center it in the people.

And we, the people, in getting out the facts and amplifying the voices of what people are experiencing and it's important to note what we're up against also and the breaking news from a little bit earlier ago is now that Warner Brothers is agreeing to be sold to Paramount. Netflix has declined to raise its offer after Paramount raised its offer of Warner Brothers. And so you're now going to have Paramount, which you all saw what it just did to CBS and how it's destroyed CBCS and how it's destroyed CBS already. Now they take over Warner Brothers. They're going to, you know, run that a certain way as well. And you may be saying, doesn't this like violate antitrust law? Like, aren't there like issues about one company now controlling almost like all of the media? Like is it there? How could it

possibly be that they control Paramount CBS and now Warner Brothers, they're going to own it all? Well, the antitrust department at the Department of Justice really doesn't exist anymore. I mean, it's pretty much been gutted. And the head of the antitrust division at the DOJ and the number two are gone. And, you know, corporations said, we don't want the, you know, the antitrust division to really exist. We want to be able to engage in, you know, these types of, you know, these types of things. And it's interesting because you may remember in 2024 at, you know, I'm trying to think of where that conference, there was a conference in David Zasloff, who owns the Warner Brothers,

was out there and he was asked in 2024 about Trump or Biden. I think this was before Biden left the race. And he said, well, one of the reasons that he liked Trump a lot was the idea of kind of these massive consolidations. And he thought that that would be, you know, helpful and mergers and acquisitions. And meanwhile, I pointed out that Zazloff basically got his job during a merger and acquisition of involving Paramount. I'm sorry, involving Warner Brothers and discovery during the time when Biden was in office,

but he was never able to actually successfully execute the business once he made the merger. Like he did the Warner Brothers discovery merger, then he came in from the discovery side, basically ran the company during Biden's term. And then now that entity should succeed. It should be competitive, right? It should do all the things he wanted, but now it's just going to sell that over and create this monopoly with Paramount, you know, which is, you know, I think not a helpful thing. And by the way, it's not just the DOJ antitrust divisions that's been dismantled. The anti-sex trafficking division of the DOJ has basically been dismantled.

Their division that goes after crypto has been dismantled. The civil rights division has been dismantled. you know, the DOJ's been utterly gutted at, you know, at this point. You know, and I think that... To be fair, Ben, the Civil Rights Division, they view their priority as the biggest thing is racism against white people is the current position of the Civil Rights Division with Trump. And I just want to emphasize how big of a deal that this merger is, this acquisition is, because now you're having a Trump lackey who's going to be owning Warner Brothers Discovery,

which owns CNN and owns so many other properties, right? This is the whole Barry Wise situation with CBS, same company, same owners. And this to me reeks of all the issues we have with kind of oligarchy, this right-wing oligarchy taking over, you know, this media, this media capture. And we see here just the other night, guess who was Lindsey Graham's special guest at the State of the Union? It was Ellison. It was David Ellison, the son of Larry Ellison, David Ellison, who was the chairman and CEO of

paramount. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that we see in Russia. This happens. We know that Trump is pushing for this deal to happen because it's also going to give the Trump administration a lot of control over the media right here now that his buddy is in control of it. He's got his buddy in control of Elison now is a control of TikTok. He's in control of this. He's in control of CBS. There's so much power now given to this one company. And think about everyone now, us, everyone who's competing now with these massive, massive, massive, massive conglomerates out there that control the media. I mean, you know, I don't underestimate this, I think, is what I want to say. It reminds me a little bit, but probably on a far bigger scale, even, of when, like, Elon Musk took on, you know, took over Twitter.

And people were like, ah, don't be fearful. Everything will be fine. It'll be the same app. No, we saw what he did there. He purged dissenting voices. And we've already seen what Ellison has done with shows like the Colbert show, you know, when they took over CBS. Colbert's not going to have a show soon. That's because of them.

I think you're going to see a lot more of that. And we've already heard stories about the Trump administration saying if this deal happens, there were kind of these backroom conversations happening. I don't know what has come of those, but saying if we're able to make this deal happen, then I don't want to see this host be on CNN anymore. I don't want to see this host be on this show anymore. And I think you're going to see a lot of that behind the scenes because that's how these oligarchs work. That's how this corrupt administration works.

They don't care about actual capitalism. and actual competition in media. They want to try to just own the airwaves and spread their propaganda as best as they can. And so this is a really, this is one of those issues that may not seem entirely political on its face. It may seem like an entertainment issue, but this is incredibly intertwined with our politics

and with the way people are going to be consuming media. So I think it's, you know, incredibly important. Remember, they had already accepted Netflix's bid, Warner Brothers Discovery. They had accepted Netflix's bid. seemed like that was kind of going to be the thing. But we do the Trump regime didn't want it to go through. We then saw that Paramount launched this hostile takeover attempt.

And they've been successful. They ultimately were able to pitch an offer. That was a superior offer to what Netflix did. And, you know, at the end of the day, whatever is going to give the most value to shareholders is what Paramount is going to do. They gave Netflix about four days or so to give a counterproposal. And the Netflix said, we can't match that. The numbers are too high.

So there you have it. This is going to have major ramifications. And I think it's just important, you know, that we that we follow this story and understand what's happening. I know it's something we've talked about, you know, so much these right-wing, you know, oligarchs and, you know, what they've been doing, you know, with the Trump administration to try to get their messaging out. And this is just the latest example. With that, let's take our first quick break of the show. A reminder. Make sure you subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. I got to make sure I remember that and stop saying six at the end of the episodes that I do.

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If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Brett, you are the superior. brother at reading the ads. I'm just going to say that that that hex clad read be it was like Oscar winning also I like that you showed your pan during the read like like whoever says like you can't you can't ever knock us for not using the products like that hex clad that you show during the read bread I could you're using that every day. I do get excited to cook with the hex clad. I'm not going to lie about it. I won't waste too much time. The other last thing I know Ben loves when we talk about this stuff is what you do you love when we talk about this.

Absolutely. I'm the superior brother. The ad reads. The ad reads. The ad reads. No, I'm not saying that I think I'm superior. I'm just saying it's a funny point. You heard Ben's feelings now. I was just, I was trying to give him a compliment.

Anyway, great read. You kind of threw me off. Now I feel bad. I'm going to be thinking about this all night. Probably going to keep me up. Benji, where to next? Okay. I want to cover one more thing as it relates right now to the Epstein files.

The World Economic Forum, CEO and president, Borge Brenn from Norway. He also was a foreign minister of Norway before taking over the World Economic Forum. He announced that he's stepping down from the World Economic Forum leadership role after an independent investigation was launched into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. He previously said he had no relationship with Epstein. Then he showed up in the files. Then he said he didn't know about Epstein's criminal prosecutions in the past, but then in the files. He and Epstein were doing like emojis regarding Epstein's past criminal convictions for raping minors, which they, he actually pled to child prostitution, which is raping minors.

And you probably remember Borge Brand from Midas videos. He was the guy interviewing Donald Trump at Davos. Do you remember that? The World Economic Forum, they're the ones who put on Davos, right, the Davos conference. And so he was the guy who said, it's a pleasure to welcome him, Donald Trump back to Davos at a time of significant economic, technological, and geopolitical change. And this guy, Borge Bend, you know, he was part of the whole Steve Bannon crew, global disruption, and trying to frame it as order while they, you know, while this Epstein class was preying on, you know, people throughout the entire world. Up is down, down is up. You know, That's this, the potent force of propaganda, right?

And just give you an example of it. Today, you had J.D. Vance speaking in Wisconsin. And quite literally, all the things the Trump regime does, they accuse the other side of doing. Right. And so J.D. Vance and the speech just says, you know what? What we have to avoid at all costs is government with bad policy

and bad leadership that destroys the American dream. Here's what he said. play this clip. I'm talking about your American dream. Whether you want to have a good job and raise a healthy, happy family, whether your kid wants to go off and play college football, whether you want to start a business like the one that we're standing in, whatever it is, the great thing about this country is that the American dream comes in many shapes and sizes. But here's the thing about the American dream. The government cannot give it to you for you, but the government with bad policy and bad leadership, it can destroy that American dream, whatever shape it takes in the lives of you

and your children. Like zero self-awareness. I mean, it is- Psychological studies on these people, right? Like, I mean, there has to be deep studies about psychological projection and everybody involved in this entire MAGA movement. How would they even do it? Like, I'm not suggesting it's a good skill by any imagination, but it is impressive that

they literally could go up there and say stuff like that. Like, they're soulless creatures. They're so, like, they have been. They have no shame. How you could, like, like just the physical ability to go up there and not have like something in you, be like, uh, uh, right? Like, how, how is it even achieve?

I mean, these are, to your point, Jordy, I mean, these are soulless monsters, Epstein class, predators who, who, who hate people, And they're so able to mutate into these fake personalities to just steal and harvest and take and be these predators. I mean, here he goes. When you go to the polls in November, I just want you to remember who's trying to defraud you,

who's trying to protect you from the fraudsters. J.D. Vads is saying that they're trying to protect the people from the fraudsters. Here, play this clip. Prosity of spirit. And so I want you, when you go to to the polls in November, I don't want you to just think about all the great things that we've accomplished, all the great things that we've talked about. I don't want you just to think about

no taxes on tips and lower gas prices. I want you to think, who is going to protect my money from fraudsters? And the simple answer is it's Derek Van Orden and Congressional Republicans. It is not the Democrats who created this problem to begin with. What is even going on there. When you think about all the great things we've accomplished, I mean, he's at a manufacturing plant and manufacturing is down. We're in a jobs recession right now. Inflation is surging again right now. Our fourth quarter GDP grew at only 1.4% when they were saying it was going to be 3% to 5%.

That's not, these aren't good data points right now. And setting aside those data points, American families are struggling right now. People can't afford their rent. They can't afford home. generations don't have hope in the future right now. But he goes, I don't want you just to think about the incredible things we've done for you. Like what? What have you actually? You've done nothing. You've taken. You've stolen. You've ripped to shreds things. But I want you to think about who's going to protect you from that fraud. You're the fraudsters.

You're the people who have pardoned the fraudsters, the drug traffickers. You're the people who have covered up the sex traffickers. Frankly, the petal protection ring is right there. The cabal is right there in the Oval Office. You've torn to shreds our alliances. Donald Trump is out there enriching himself to the tune of billions of dollars, giving away our classified technology, semi-conductor technology, to the UAE and others in exchange for hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars to him personally.

That's what you're saying. issue though right here's here's here's the issue it's that there is a subsect of people in this country who are inclined to believe what people are telling them if they have some sort of positive view towards them so um for example there was a moment the other night after the state of the union that hurt me that's all that you know what i'm going to say right it yeah and so there was this moment where CNN did like this focus group after the fact about the state of the union and they were asking swing voters uh so what did you think of the speech. Did the speech move you? Somebody hand up. The speech moved me. So they said, okay,

well, what moved you about the speech? It was in a moving speech by Donald Trump. It's quite quite the opposite, you know. And the person goes, you know, he said 18 trillion in investments. He said, he said, he said health care. He said something about health care. He said something about health. Yeah, he's taken away your health care. And the 18 trillion in investments is made up. It's bullshit. It's a lie. So it's great that he said numbers. I could say I did a zillion bajillion dollars in investments. But at a certain point, like people need to take responsibility and they need to have critical thinking skills and they need to understand this stuff. But that is exactly, it goes back to our point though about this kind of hostile takeover with Ellison and Paramount.

It's why they won't, it's why it's so important for them to control TikTok and why it's so important for them to control CBA. It's important for them to control the way people are getting information because when Donald Trump is up there in the state of the union, the one thing that doesn't exist does not, and this is why we didn't air Donald Trump's speech live. The one thing that doesn't exist is a counter, right? There's no one saying 18 trillion hold up. That's bullshit. You know, that's a lie. Hold on. You're talking about health care. Well, you refuse to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies and now people are suffering and going bankrupt because of it. So don't you dare talk about health care. Where's your health care plan? You said two weeks, 10 years ago.

You know, there's nobody to counter that stuff. And that works to the benefit of those in power who want to lie to you. So when I saw that, it was just such a kind of microcosm of the information environment that we're in. And it just caused me like internal, like physical pain to, to hear this guy who was, you know, probably a well-intentioned person, right? Probably thinks highly of the country. I assume, you know, I assume the best of people, right? But he's able to just buy these just incredibly obvious lies that are being told by the president of the United States. Well, we have to, to your point exactly, get to a point in this country where accountability and truth matter. Like, like actually, actually, actually matter.

And it's really the, it's the double-edged sword to what I always say. Because I want to give people the benefit of the doubt a lot because I believe in people. I believe in the American people. I believe in people. And so when there's a trillion dollar propaganda arm just consistently and constantly spewing disinformation in your head, I could see how you could be susceptible to the lies. But then on the other side of the coin, to your point again, Brett, critical thinking is so important. And I think we really have to hold people and our fellow Americans to standards, to be able to critically think for themselves and not just speak.

spew the regime talking points because you were duped. Why? Because the other half of the country isn't dup. The other half of the country is able to critically think and understand this and be frustrated with the lies. And so watching that, whenever they have the quote-unquote swing voters, which I'm not even sure if they are actually swing voters or just MAGA in disguise for the segment, but that's neither here nor there. It pains me to see their reaction just to kind of see where, you know,

where the other side of the country's minds are at. Because again, you're being lied to actively by people who do not have your best interest at heart. Who people- You just reminded me to remember when our researchers last time during the election, I did the whole swing voter thing. And our researchers just, yeah, during election,

they looked up the swing voter who they presented to the public as, this is an undecided voter. And like all of the person's Facebook and Instagram was all pro-Trump shit, all pro-Trump means, da-da, and we're like, this is your swing vote, this is your undecided, This is your undecided voter.

CNN. See your CNN. This isn't Fox even. This is CNN. That's how bad it is now, you know, just wait till, you know. How about billionaire Kelly Leffler was speaking at that event as well with J.D. Vans? Looting Looting Looting Leifler. Kelly Leffler.

She now runs this. They picked the billionaire, right-wing oligarch, to run the small business association, right? It's like when they pick that Casey Means to be the Surgeon General. who hates like being who hate surgeon generals right they pick the guy to run the EPA who hates the environment the guy the department of education who wants to shut down the guy yeah the department shut down education the guy who hates health uh and kills people uh and talks about sniffing cocaine off of toilet bowls to run the health department you've got the guy who couldn't run a military non-profit and was forced out after all of his personal issues to run

run the Defense Department and they change in a call to the Department of War unlawfully. You've got the guy to run Medicaid and Medicare services who was, in my opinion, a scam artist, talk show host, you know, you, I mean, I could pretty much go through. You've got the Kristy Noem kills her dog, you know, to run ICE and Border Patrol. You've got, you know, you just just name the position. That one feels a little more on brand for that, for those. That's true. That's probably the right.

The board of second. Anyway, you have, here's what, here's what Kelly Leffler had to say about that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, you know, they're, they're from the real world that they understand your struggles. They're like you. Here, play this clip. The Trump administration knows that there's nothing small about small business. In fact, President Trump tells me all the time, Kelly, small business is big business. And it's true. Friends, this administration gets it. Both President Trump and vice president vance lived and worked in the real world and that's why main street is coming back friends friends let me tell you donald trump tells friends every day that he care small business is big business friends friends really donald trump who screwed over small businesses his entire life friends

let me tell you friends it reminds me of a clip i remember when she was running she used the she said yall like six times in like a 30 second clip she's just so phony they're all they're so funny and just to clarify when you said real world i just like it has to be says like ben doesn't actually mean like real real world road rules like sean duffy so just just just just just to clarify because that's who the trump have they're a bunch of you have to clarify with this regime because there because there are people who they pulled from the real world the road rules challenge on mtv reality show into the administration that is true all right can take our last quick break of the show when we come back i want to discuss what's going on internationally i also want to discuss a

big development with the AI company Anthropic, which runs the AI Claude program, and how, which is integral to our military services. So right on the eve of potential war with everybody, including Iran that Donald Trump is threatening, you have Pete Hegsep telling Anthropic that basically they will be declared essentially like an enemy of the United States, even though their AI is critical. to our military operations. It was used in Venezuela, for example. If you don't let the Department of Defense

use your kind of AI programming to kill people autonomously without any human involvement, then you will be declared an enemy of the United States. And also, if we can't use your AI tool like Claude and your other AI tools to do mass surveillance on the American people, We will declare you an enemy of the country, and either we will declare you as being detrimental

to our supply chain to shut you down and or integral to our supply chain to seize your company and take it over under the Defense Production Act, where we will now take over Anthropic and run it ourselves. So here you have an AI company that's basically saying, look, you could use it for a lot of things, but we're not comfortable with you using

our AI and our coding in a way that could commit crimes against humanity without any human involvement and we don't want mass surveillance involving our tools. And the Trump regime saying, if we can't do mass surveillance and if we can't allow the AI to decide on its own who lives and who dies without human control, we will declare you one of two things which are contradictory. We will declare you as a threat to our supply chain. and ban you or so integral to our supply chain that the United States government takes you over.

And Brett, to your point, this is what you see in Russia. With the media, you see the media take over of what's happening here, like Russia, and now you have the regime taking over companies and saying we're seizing it so that we can do mass surveillance. It's not like, it's not like they're, it's not like Trump's denying these two days. demands. Hegson's demands are mass surveillance and autonomous killing where the AI code decides

the deaths. And all anthropics thing, well, I was just to say, perhaps the most chilling thing about this is the fact that, you know, right now, Anthropic is being singled out. Why isn't OpenAI being singled out who does chat GPT? Why isn't Google being singled out who does Google Gemini? Why isn't Twitter or X or whatever is being signaled out for GROC, which we already know is deeply integrated now and is being more deeply integrated in the government system? That's right. The AI that referred to itself as Mecca Hitler is very integral to the government's AI system right now. Why aren't they being singled out? Why?

I think the implication is that they agreed to allow this stuff, those companies. They agreed to allow the United States government to use their... AI to kill people, to do mass surveillance on people. That's my opinion when we kind of look at the broader landscape right now of AI and how buddy buddy all of these kind of AI CEOs have been with the Trump regime. You know, and remember, they want the support of the Trump regime so they continue to build these data centers all across the country and take up all the resources of all of these towns and neighborhoods without paying anything as they just leach and leech and leach and drive people's bills up and take away the water. Like it is the most dystopian thing

imaginable that's playing out right now before our eyes. Anyway, Anthropic was given 24 hours, right? They gave a deadline. 24 hours. You better respond, are you going to, you know, from the perspective of Pete Hegseth, are you going to do the right thing and let us do mass surveillance on people and use your AI to kill people? Well, Anthropic just issued their response and we'll let you know exactly what they said right after this break. First, I want to remind everybody, you like, see, see it's done, Ben, you like that? We're doing deep teases now. Deep Tee, that's that's. They reject the surprises. They reject the Department of Defense's. Oh, wait for the case. They rejected it. But Ben, Ben, Ben, I was trying to say it. But we'll talk, we'll, we'll, we'll tell you their statement,

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Links in description of the YouTube and audio, Benji. That was a deep tease for, We said that we were going to that commercial break like 15 minutes ago. And then we got distracted as we do sometimes. We said we were going to the commercial. Then we teased the outcome. Then I told the outcome. Yeah, why did you step on Brett's teas?

You didn't feel like that was. Well, I thought that the issue was so serious and significant that you didn't appreciate Brett's tea. It was such a monumental decision that I felt I felt bad leaving the tease when Anthropic ultimately decides that it is rejecting the offer. of Hegsith and I do agree that it was an insane thing to tease like there are there are other things to tease anthropic says that it maybe Brett isn't the superior brother anthropic says that anthropic says let me finish the line

Anthropics says that it appreciates the offer you appreciate but you know it's it's gonna stick with what it said before it believes that it is integral to the military and it hopes the military reconsider. And if you just think about it structurally, though, and this is, again, important to know, how is it possible, Ben Breton Jordy that Donald Trump has bankrupted so many things? Like even right now, right?

If you really wanted mass surveillance, which we know the Trump regime wants, and they really want autonomous AI killing and deaths, right? You really want that right now and you're going to, you want to retaliate against Anthropic and you're going to disrupt all of their software in the military. But you also are threatening to invade Iran. Don't you think that your adversaries are going to realize that that's going on as well? And don't you think, I don't know, maybe you deal with the fact that you have two air force

or two aircraft carriers right near Iran and that they've been there for like record periods of time and the Navy and the people who are in the Navy are just absolutely losing their minds right now just about how they're being treated by the Trump regime. Moral there is at an all time low. And now you're also going to disable your own technology. I mean, you've attacked your allies. So the UK doesn't want to let you use any of their basis. No country wants to let you actually use any of their bases or their land or their airspace other than Israel in order for you to attack Iran. So you've lost your allies.

Now you've lost the ability to even rely on their intelligence or their resources, as the United States has always done in the past in wars. You're now going after one of your chief suppliers of, to use the word superior, some of the most superior AI technology. you are also harming the morale of your soldiers right now. And this is something that's going underreported right now. But as Al Jazeera English writes, there's trouble brewing on the USS Gerald Ford, according to media reports. The vessel's toilet facilities are inadequate.

And those that do exist are prone to daily breakdowns. The crew are also unhappy after their deployment was extended. So the people there are literally living in feces and sewer. The internal piping has exploded. So the piss and the feces is all over the floor. It stinks. People are getting sick. And again, morale is at an all-time low right there.

The deployment has been extended twice. The Gerald Ford's been there for 241 days. The sailors are missing their funerals, missing births, missing their children's first steps right here. The ship's sewage system is failing. It's costing massive amounts of money. Crew members are now leaking to reporters. They want to quit the Navy. Moral is described in terms that defense journalists have not used since the Vietnam error reporting.

The deployment is on track to reach 11 months. The post-Vietnam record is 294 days. So I just, it's important that you know that this is actually going on. And remember, because we're making these parallels to Russia and American media and seizing companies like Anthropic and others and seizing production, right? I mean, aren't these the, aren't these the boogeymen that the MAGA's always said the Democrats are going to do, which they don't do? And the MAGAs are the first ones to do it.

Well, remember, the Pentagon got rid of all of the defense reporters from inside the Pentagon, right? That was one of Hegson's first things, and he has propagandists in there. So now you gutted the defense reporting groups who now still have to report, but they don't have access to the Pentagon transparently as they do before. So it all relies on leaks. So you have all of that taking place. And then you go to Iran with a list of demands after. Whitkoff, Donald Trump's envoy to Russia and everything, says, we just don't get why Iran is not

capitulating. Aren't they scared of our aircraft carriers? Why won't they capitulate? And after all, the reporting is that Donald Trump just wants a surgical strike to declare a victory like he did last time and say, total obliteration, but that Donald Trump doesn't have the ability to stomach any long-term war, nor do we have the resources to even be able to actually do a lot of long-term war. America doesn't have those resources. So if America starts the war in Iran, Iran retaliates around its neighbors and the likely result will be a massive World War III-style conflagration in the Middle East. That's likely what's going to happen. And we're fast rolling or slow rolling, whatever you want to say into it right now. So you have that happening in Iran. Off the coast of Cuba,

you had an American boat with 10 people on it, people who use. used to be from Cuba, who were living in the Miami area, who were recently on right-wing media, we're learning more about the individuals who were on this boat and basically brag that they were going to do stuff like this when they were going on right-wing media influencer podcasts and stuff. They get on a boat, they drive it. They go to Cuba, they sail to Cuba, they open fire on the Cuban Coast Guards. The Cuban Coast Guards respond as well.

I don't know. Were they promised like the Iranian protesters that if they created and, provoked an incident, that that would help the Trump regime in Rubio then go and attack Cuba. I mean, remember what Donald Trump said in Iran. He told the protesters, go out there. We need you out there. If any single protester gets out. If one get shot and killed, America will be there in Iran to get your back. If you believe the numbers of Trump and Lindsey Graham, 30,000, that's their number. 30,000 Iranians got massacred. And there's no self-awareness or even reporting that Trump's responsible for that massacre.

He told him to go out and do it. And we didn't even have our ships near Iran at that point. Our ships were in Venezuela. If you want to know why their tours of duty have been so long because Trump's been doing this stuff off the Caribbean, right, the invasion of Venezuela. Then he moved the ships to the Persian Gulf area and to be by and to be near Iran.

So the ships then moved, you know, into that region, kind of Mediterranean area. And so what the hell is going on there? Meanwhile, you have Kim Jong-un in North Korea saying, just announcing publicly. Remember when Donald Trump would attack former President Obama and be like, I'm going to stop Kim Jong-un. All of the stuff I've done has scared Kim Jong-un.

Quite the contrary. Kim Jong-un just making statements on the daily. Here's what we're doing. We're extending our nuclear arsenal. We're increasing our capabilities here, here, and here. Maybe we'll do some nuclear weapons in space. These are direct quotes from Kim Jong-un and what he said over the past 24 to 48 hours. Remember when MAGA would be outraged about, you know, or the predecessors, the Tea Party.

Oh, it's so weak that Obama would not, what, invade North Korea when it would do nuclear, when it would do the ballistic missile testing. Well, you just got just straight up Kim Jong-un just saying, here's what I'm going to do. His direct quote is the following. He goes, we have a prospective plan to strengthen our national nuclear. force and will focus on projects to increase the number of nuclear weapons and expand nuclear operational means and space for use. So Kim Jong-un said, China keeps flying its military drones over Taiwan, which it says we,

it's our airspace. We're going to do it. No comments there other than Donald Trump desperately wants to visit China in April. And so Xi Jinping realizes that all Donald Trump cares about. is this big photo op and to just roll out the army and do some sort of parade for Donald Trump. And you can get Donald Trump basically to do anything, you know, you want.

You got the United States depriving Ukraine of Patriot missiles and depriving Europe of missiles promised to Europe that it said that it would sell because the US said, we're not gonna give weapons to Ukraine. You gotta buy it. So Europe's like, okay, we'll buy it. Well then the United States doesn't sell the licenses or give Europe,

the stuff that it needs to actually give Ukraine, not just the Patriot missile systems, but the actual missiles and the radars and the repairs and everything that comes along with it. And the US is like, ah, I guess we can't find it. I guess there's scarcity. So then Europe's like, okay, well, we're going to build our own weapons. We're going to do a Europe first defense policy to which the US responds.

No, no, no, no, no. You can't discriminate against the US by doing a Europe first, Europe buying European military products first. You got to buy America first. They're like, why would we buy from you? You've been threatening us. You've been attacking our sovereignty. You keep going after Greenland and Denmark and you talk about kill switches.

And you tell us we're too dependent on you. So we're going to build our own weapons. Sure. That's what we'll do. Then Trump's like, no, you can't do that. Don't do that at all. And then meanwhile, the United States abstains in a resolution, urging a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine before the United Nations.

Russia votes against it. the U.S. and China abstain. 107 nations, our former allies, all voted for it. The U.S. abstained from a resolution on the four-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace. But I want everybody to see all this stuff is connected. But a common theme we see is that this idiocracy, this isn't coming from a political perspective, this idiocracy that is this Trump regime, is making us less safe.

stop the propaganda and focus what's actually happening on the Gerald Ford ship right now where where the sailors where our Navy right now the people on the Air Force carrier the Air Force carrier the aircraft carrier they they don't even have the pipes to use toilet bowls and by the way shouldn't this be a top story shouldn't this be a front page story everywhere that's why we focus so much on international news here on the Midas touch. All this stuff is connected. And by the way, it's connected to the Epstein files, too, because this Epstein class is international in scope.

And they were planning a lot of these things. Annexation of Crimea, Brexit, propping up Jaiyr Bolsonaro, insider crypto trading. Oh, that's in the files. And Epstein's like the middleman of that as that's happening. Brett, Jordy. Well said. And that's why it's so important that we always contextualize these things, like you said, on an international level and show.

you the ties between all of these various people because this isn't happening in the united states in a vacuum now there have been a lot of countries that have been able to uh really go on offense against this authoritarian strain by seeing the disaster of what has happened here in the united states i'm thinking of countries like canada who have done an incredible job at batting down this autocratic strain that was rising at the time uh in that country, various other countries throughout the world, you know, as well. But some countries still fall prey to this because I think a lot of this right-wing rhetoric, they know how to get to people's heartstrings, right? I mean, think about the way a lot of this rose in the beginning. It's almost, it's so morally depraved to think about it now, but they came into this by speaking about this

idea of a global elite, a sex trafficking ring of elites who were sex trafficking children, and blamed it on their political opponents when those people spreading these conspiracy theories were the people actually engaging in this sort of behavior with people like Jeffrey Epstein. So it's very devious what they do. And that's why every time you see, you know, a J.D. Vance out there, any of these people, they go, we're just trying to get the human traffic, the child sex traffickers off the street. And they don't want us to do that as they are covering up that very behavior, as they are covering up those very crimes.

So while that kind of rhetoric can be quite intoxicating and kind of appeals to people's almost like lizard brains, right? Appeals to people's just instincts. You have to be able to step back and go, these people are lying to you. If you're that guy who goes, oh, well, Trump said 18 trillion investment. Trump said health care. Trump said you got to be able to step back and go, but what's actually happening? Don't fall for the propaganda. Let's look at the facts.

Let's look at the receipts. Let's look at the photos. Let's look at the actual data as what's coming in. What's actually happening on the ship? Oh, it's a disaster. Okay? That's what's actually happening. Don't buy this regime propaganda.

It's going to get harder and harder and harder and harder. But that's why we need to continue to grow bigger and bigger. And we need to fight back. We need to combat this crap. And we need to work together and growing our megaphone collectively. I mean, all of us here in fighting back against the sort of disinformation. Well, that's the coolest thing, too, about hitting 6 million subscribers. million views on the Midas Touch Network YouTube channel, right?

I mean this earnestly, and I know our audience knows it, like, this isn't about, this isn't about Ben Brett or Jordy, right? Now that we have this megaphone, let's continue to build on it, right? Let's get this even bigger, even louder. So these pro-democracy ideals and values truly win the day. Brett, you talk about the swing voter again, right? We really do have to get back in this society to a place where truth is actually champion. right and accountability truly means what accountability should actually mean so for me it's going to be

one of the biggest battles i think this country is going to have to sort of reconcile and really go through over these next five 10 15 20 years however long this democracy can can really sustain and i truly feel that we will continue to win as a society so long as we bring truth and and i mean real earnest truth to the forefront of what this country and what these people should should really care about ultimately. I don't want to be lied to. Don't piss on my face. Tell me it's raining. It's absolutely ridiculous. I keep going back to that swing voter. I mean, what a putz. Like, like, come on, man. I just want to shake you. Like, please wake up. They are lying to you actively. You are the mark. Benji, what's say you? I'll just leave us with this too because we're talking about these

manipulation tactics. So earlier today, the White House official TikTok account posted an AI video of the U.S. hockey star Brady Kachuk, where they attribute the words. It was an AI of him calling Canadians maple syrup eating fucks. You know, I don't like cursing. I just want to let people know what the official White House account manipulated the Team USA gold medal winner. saying Canadian maple syrup eating fucks. And the guy didn't say that. Then Kachuk had to address the video and say, that's not my voice. It's not what I was saying.

I would never say that. That's not who I am. And now he's embroiled in this. And as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski writes, well, you know, what? You hang out around Donald Trump. And that's kind of the deal. You know, you hang there. You believe it's the, you know, you can go and say,

it's not political. It's not, I'm just here because it's the presidency and this is the White House and it's always an honor and this is what it means to be an American. Well, he just took your name image and likeness and now attributed the words to you that Canadians are maple syrup eating fuchs. And now that now when people think about your gold medal and people, it's overshadowed by all of this. Not only did Trump steal your valor, steal your win, he embroiled you in something grotesque and disgusting that should have been uplifting for everybody. Men's and women's hockey teams winning gold? How great! What incredible! I love hockey. I don't know if you know this about me.

I sit on the board of the Hockey Diversity Alliance with numerous NHL players. I've been on that board for several years. I love hockey. My best friend is it was a professional hockey player, okay? But also, how do you take a moment that's so beautiful, that should be so beautiful and patriotic for the country and turn it into a way to attack the female hockey team and to mock them and then turn it into a political perversion?

It's not political to call out Donald Trump's behavior. That's the thing that is like, oh, you're being political. It's just hockey. I'm not trying to be political. I wanted to root for the team. I wanted to cheer on the gold medal team. I love hockey. I love sports.

I like that, okay? But now I have some asshole in the Oval Office, some peto protector out there who's now attacking the women's hockey team. And so it's not political for me to say that's horrible conduct. Not just because I'm a girl dad, but because I'm a human being and I see something. And so you say something. And that's kind of the common thing too.

It's like, oh, you're turning this into a political thing. Why would you? Because you did it. You politicized it. You made it into a thing. You tried to divide our nation with something like that. And that's horrible. That's horrible.

And now the people who went along with it, now you're getting AI placed in your mouth by Donald Trump, attacking Canadians as part of Donald Trump's agenda to conquer Canada and invade the sovereignty of Canada. And that just makes us weaker. It makes us pathetic. You know, and even when people are like, well, I would never say that. I would never, okay, well, and call it out. Say that Donald Trump is wrong.

Just say what's actually happening. You don't know, why be we're scared of him? Just say what's happened. Say it's inappropriate. It's horrible that the leader of this country would behave in such a despicable manner. That's fine. Say that because that's the truth.

And that doesn't make me go, oh, you don't like hockey? Are you going to alienate? Are you going to alienate guys? What am I going to alienate? I like hockey. I sit on a hockey board. Okay? And at the same time I do that, I think that being a quote unquote man also means standing

up for the female team. That's what it means to be a man also. You stand up for people. You don't bully. That's what being a man's about. Being a man, oh, the girls team, the girls, that's how men behave. I know people should behave. Anyway, I'll leave you with that because that news came across my, uh,

came across my desk and that pissed me on the whole thing the whole thing pisses me off anyway on that positive note thank you everybody for uh thank you everybody well here's the part here's the positive i'll leave you in a positive note we showed the other day after the state of the union what people power looks like we showed what it looks like when everybody comes together as one and actually pushes back against this crap with the truth and we did it that one night we could do it every night right we could do this all the time we need to continue to push our energy in that direction positively, right? You use this movement in a positive way. It's one of the most important things to me now that we have a platform that's this size. And as we built it up the entire way, it's always been about

uplifting voices. It's always been about pushing back against this fascist strain. And so let's continue to do it. Let's keep building. Let's keep growing this community. Let's keep uplifting pro-democracy voices. We showed the power of it the other night. And we are just getting started. So let's keep up the fight folks. And that's how you end it on a positive note. Any criticisms with that, I'm just kidding. Jordy. No, I just leave with this. Even like right wing people, you're sorry, even like right wing people like Eric Erickson, like runs like red state, right? I mean, just he even goes, the Republicans in the United States are on the verge of supporting a practitioner of witchcraft for Surgeon General who won't recommend vaccines, but will recommend hallucinogens to connect to the

spirit realm and who channels moon, power magic. So I'm just reading you what like even someone like Eric Erickson is saying about the right way here. Yeah, exactly. What he's saying about the Surgeon General Pick, who's part of the MAHA, RFK, whatever, and go go and watch the video I did on Casey Means. I did a whole very long video where I show other clips of her in the past and how dangerous, you know, how dangerous. By the way, I want to be clear there are holistic medicines and things that I like, you know, and I'm supportive. But there's a lot of, there's a lot of stuff out there, you know, that that could be good

for you. But this Casey Means has shown that she does not disclose her conflicts of interest, that she sells these supplements and pretends that she's not making money off of them. And then she's made her whole brand to actually attack people's health, in my opinion, for her own enrichment. Anyway, I'll just leave with that because I said I was going to talk about it. I'm at note. Jordy.

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