The MeidasTouch Podcast - MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 9/15/26

Starting point is 00:00:00 Don't you wish you could just hit skip on the worst parts of your life? You know the same way you can skip an ad? I get it. I'm Siaia and I live in Ice Cove. I've made some questionable decisions that didn't end up the way I planned. And today I'm still figuring it out. Somehow things usually get worse before they get better. Apparently, that's how I roll.

Starting point is 00:00:22 So bundle up and come along for the bumpy ride. Stream a new episode of North of North Tuesdays on CBC Gem. We've got a lot to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast, so let's just get into it right away. Let's talk about what's happening here and abroad as Donald Trump continues to destroy the United States and destroy the previous post-World War II architecture where the United States was the leader in the world. So the U.S. 10-year treasury yields broke 5 percent, not good. Mortgage rates broke through 7% not good. The East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia has suffered massive damage.

Starting point is 00:01:07 A second pumping station has been hit by the Houthis recently, and about 5 to 7 million barrels of oil is now blocked from getting out in addition to Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz. And the Houthis taking over all of Western Yemen and now controlling the Bob El-Mandab Strait and move. east. Also, the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, continues to hit Aramco facilities in Saudi Arabia, in Jazean, in Abba, in Upkake. And the Saudi Arabian monarchy right now is really on the ropes, MBS, meeting with the head of Sentcom Admiral Brad Cooper, also meeting with Mossad and Netanyahu people in Saudi Arabia right now, trying to figure out what to do. Here at home, you have Exxon, Joliet facility in Illinois. Very suspiciously, all of a sudden has a massive power outage. We saw black smoke over there that was flaming out. Interesting time for a massive power

Starting point is 00:02:14 outage. One of the bigger U.S. refineries over there, and that's further going to cause disruption to the supply chain over here of refined crude. In addition, you have dated oil trading at $122 for Brent, $131 for Muban, Oman at $121. The price of Brent approaching $110. The price of WTI, $105. And all of this seems to be getting worse by the minute. Meanwhile, you had Donald Trump in Ireland talking about how the Houthis are calling him, begging to do a deal, and the Houthis call him, and they call the Trump regime. You've got Treasury Secretary Besant saying that he's now doing a whistleblower line if you or anybody you know is cooperating with Iran. Will you be a whistleblower?

Starting point is 00:03:12 Will you help us? If you found anybody, we need you to self-report or you need to tell us who's working with Iran right now. That's, I guess, his economic deed day as we had this major BRIC summit take place in New Delhi, India, where you had the president of Iran. Iran and the foreign minister of Iran being greeted as basically heroes of the bricks block. You have all of these nations, whether it was China, whether it was India, whether it's Russia, Brazil, whoever, all the countries that were in the bricks, South Africa, we're like, we're cooperating with Iran. We're going to cooperate with them more.

Starting point is 00:03:48 In fact, that's what went down over the weekend. And Trump making the fool of himself in Ireland, making up conversations with the Houthis and attacking the U.K. and encouraging war in the Falkland Islands. There was a massive protest to Donald Trump when he arrived, though, in Dublin, which he claims he didn't see creative protesters over there in Dublin, had to all of them who's showing up.

Starting point is 00:04:11 So we got a lot to talk about this episode. Brett and Jordy, how you guys doing? Doing well. Those are very creative protests indeed. I think our clip of the protest, last time I checked to something like 30-something million views on Instagram and tens of millions more on other platforms. So I would say they certainly,

Starting point is 00:04:28 made an impact those protesters and good on them for taking to the street so i'm doing well ben good to see you good to see you geordie good to see you might as mighty man i know there is a whole lot to talk about today so i'm just going to pass it off to jordy jordy can check in how's it going everything good how's how's it being a dad of two now that seems like a lot and it's it's it scares me so how's it's it going how's it's going with you it's a lot it's definitely a lot brothers might as mighty how you all doing i am pumped to get into today's show I'm doing great. Everyone's doing great around me. Let's just dive right into it. Benji, that was quite the list that you read off. And I'm excited to dive in. Where do you want to start

Starting point is 00:05:08 off today, Big Bro? I could even start on part of the list that I didn't mention, which is Don Jr.'s Wedding, right? ProPublica did an expose this morning about how a Russian oligarch basically paid for Don Jr.'s wedding. There's a photo of the guy, the oligarch Putin's buddy in the background. And you could see a photo of him in a big group photo over here. And this guy paid for the private island. He paid for the fireworks display and lots of other expenses through a shell company that has an IBI LLC linked to an entity in Dubai. By the way, that's where Donald Trump also has accounts for where some of the money goes from the Venezuelan oil. But Don Jr. appear to have been making a lot of money in all of these quid pro.

Starting point is 00:05:58 That's how I've seen and that's how I'm classifying it, in my opinion, of course, since the Trump regime took power. So just interesting that he would have, according to ProPublica, Russian oligarch, Umar, Kremlin, and other Russians at the event, partying while this one Russian oligarch apparently was, like, responsible for paying for a lot of the wedding. The whole thing is just like red flag. I have so many questions. Like he said, Don Jr. is a very, very wealthy individual, especially from all the crypto schemes and all the other things that he's doing right now, these government contracts because he's just such a brilliant businessman to secure all these government contracts with this regime, right? Then I'm obviously being sarcastic before I get a comment from somebody. Donald Trump, of course, you know, the billions and billions, he's made profiting off the office in the most corrupt ways that we have ever seen in the history of this country. And they're having a Russian oligarch tied to Vladimir Putin fund things.

Starting point is 00:06:56 And I'm not saying that this is a little amount, but in the scope of the amount of money they have, spending $170-something thousand dollars on their wedding to fund the, to pay for an island, to pay for little things at their wedding, and then having all these other Russian oligarchs there who are very close to Putin, and the whole thing just reeks to me. It's incredibly, but just weird because they certainly don't need that money. And I think back to, you know, way back in the day before Midas touched, the 2016 election, which I think we've kind of been stuck in a perpetual 2016 loop. And that whole Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, you know, all of that stuff with Trump. To this day, literally, he did a post about it today, Russia, Russia, Russia.

Starting point is 00:07:34 I mean, it's all true, right? Like, look, there are there and have always been very close ties between Donald Trump, his businesses, Russian oligarchs, Vladimir Putin. It's well documented. They've said it themselves. And now you see even more of these ties and how they exist today. And I think it also puts the war that we're seeing the Russian. Russian invasion of Ukraine and the so-called peace efforts by people like Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner.

Starting point is 00:08:00 I think it puts that in a much different light also when you understand that the oligarchs who work with Vladimir Putin are partying up with Don and Bettina at their wedding over in the Bahamas. It's just so on brand, though, ultimately. That's what it comes down to. Like, it's a character trait of the Trumps to do this sort of like quid pro quoe type of stuff. Hey, for my wedding and X, Y, like, I'm just speculating here. But also what I'm saying is they can't help themselves. It doesn't matter that Don Jr. has the money to pay for this wedding. This is his preferred means of communication and dealmaking with Russian oligar.

Starting point is 00:08:39 Like, he gets off on this type of behavior. It is so freaking weird to see it play out, Ben. And it plays out with the same cycles of Donald Trump's, creating a problem, turning the problem into a disaster, disaster into catastrophe, catastrophe into bankruptcy, blame. Blame. Because when people experience catastrophes, they're looking for answers and people are suffering. And that's when Donald Trump, who is a predator, he's a sexual predator. He's a predator in all aspects of life.

Starting point is 00:09:11 That's when he injects ways to divide people during moments of suffering. That's what he does. So, right? During COVID, Dr. Fauci, right now as D. prices surge. What's he doing? It's Zelensky's fault, right? And so the Trump regime pushes out the reason that we see diesel surging, Trump says, has nothing to do with what's going on in the Middle East. He says it's because Zelensky keeps on striking refineries in Russia, and that's causing the price of diesel to surge. So Donald, you promised you were going to end the war in Ukraine

Starting point is 00:09:46 in 24 hours because you knew Putin and Zelensky so well. It would be easy. You said you were weren't going to tell anybody in 2024 what you would say to them, but you guaranteed that you would resolve that war, the Russian invasion. And now Donald Trump says, actually in 2026, despite Trump's catastrophic war in Iran and Trump's catastrophic wars in general being the main impetus for the rising price of diesel and gas and the cataclysm that we're experiencing in the global economy. It is Zelensky's fault. And that's what he literally posted this morning, blaming Zelensky. And this is what he's going to do. He's just going to try to what post his way out of this. This is what he wrote. Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian energy targets. Russia has agreed to do

Starting point is 00:10:32 likewise. What does Russia has agreed to? Not hit Russian energy targets? What do you mean? Likewise. Do you notice the language that he used to is always so fruity? Russia has agreed to do likewise, really? Because every day the war there continues to escalate more and more. Trump goes, the world's diesel price, the world's diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia-Ukraine war, not Iran, DJT. That's like a lie when you're talking about. Then he goes on to say, by the way, it's a self-own also because he was the one who promised he was going to end the war in 24 hours in 2024.

Starting point is 00:11:04 Not 24 hours from when he took office, 24 hours after the election. But I think that's what he thinks. He's going to post his way through this. So he's like, the failing nation of Iran wants to make a deal quickly and badly, I will determine whether or not the USA will choose to engage the concept of which we are open to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Then Iranian officials are like, okay, he's a clown, right? Like all of the Iranian officials are posting, just ignore him.

Starting point is 00:11:29 He's a liar. We're not talking to him. And then, by the way, he did the same thing with the Houthis over the weekend when Trump took this trip to Ireland. Why was he in Ireland? Because the Irish Open was at one of his golf courses. So it was a great opportunity for him to grift. while he was there on his own golf course,

Starting point is 00:11:47 and then he turned it into again, further be clowning of the United States. But let me show you the clip where Donald Trump is next to the Tishuk in Ireland, basically the prime minister of Ireland. By the way, hat tip to the president, Catherine Connolly of Ireland, who actually stood up to Donald Trump,

Starting point is 00:12:04 unlike what I observed here. And she released a statement afterwards that she called Donald Trump out to his face. She told him essentially he's complicit in genocide, and she told him that, you know, Ireland is always on the side of peace, and we need to stop all of these, you know, wars. And she posted a photo. This is the official, for those on audio, this is the official photo from her government

Starting point is 00:12:27 that was posted. And it looked like Donald Trump got him talking to in any event. When Donald Trump was separately with the prime minister of Ireland, people were doing like people were saying this as like a joke that what, like Donald Trump's going to get out there and say the Houthis called him, right? after the Houthis, over the weekend, starting Friday and over the weekend, made a massive advance through all of Western Yemen,

Starting point is 00:12:51 controlling the nearby islands, controlling the area by the Bob Melmandab Strait, controlling all of those cities from Moka, even further down south, and now turning potentially eastward to aided in other areas in Yemen, and the Houthis, Ansarala, allied with Iran, access of resistance, as they're called, really pushed back,

Starting point is 00:13:11 and force the Saudi-backed PLC. That's the government that the Saudi, that the Saudis back. They're in massive retreat right now. The Houthis Ansarala were able to capture lots of American provided weapons to the Saudis that the Saudis provided this PLC government. They're in retreat right now. As I noted at the outset, that's why you have these meetings in Saudi Arabia right now between the Netanyahu regime, Saudi Arabia, and the head of Sentcom trying to figure out

Starting point is 00:13:40 what they're going to do. But Trump said that to Houthi spoke to him. And then the Houthi leadership said, we didn't speak to you. You're a clown. And they came out with statements, you know, right away saying this didn't happen. And we all know what did it happen. It's just beyond embarrassing that this is what the United States president does. But here, let's play this clip. We've had discussions. The Houthis called us and they don't want to fight with us. They let us know. They don't want to fight with us. They don't want me to go after them. But they've called and they've talked to us and they don't want us to. They would much prefer not having us involved.

Starting point is 00:14:18 And they're letting most ships go through. There's just one country that they're not too happy with. And we'll get that straight in debt. Also imagine being MBS. You gave all this money to Trump and Kushner. And then you beg them to help you stop the advance of Ansarala, of the Houthis. They turn that down. They are helping MBS gather intelligence.

Starting point is 00:14:40 right now. But you do have the royal family there, MBS, particularly on the ropes. And you have these royal families throughout the Middle East very nervous about what's happening right now. One of the things I note that was a big development during the BRICS meeting, in addition to the prominent role that Iran's president, Poseschi, and Iran's foreign minister, Arrogchi plate, there was a meeting on the sidelines between President Poseskian of Iran and the leader of Abu Dhabi, one of the Emirates, and they met as the UAE, which was part of the Abraham Accords, is even hedging right now. And you see a lot of these Arab nations showing a lot more respect than a lot of nations in general at Rick, showing more respect to Iran than ever before. Iran really asserted itself at the Bricks meeting as not just a regional power, but a global player.

Starting point is 00:15:31 And Bricks asserted itself as a, and this was what it always tried to do and it was never able to do, as actual. an alternative to the alliances the U.S. once led. And they're talking about multilateralism and supporting each other and building new currencies together. And everyone used to not take that seriously when they would meet and be like, all right, got it. But she, one of the main leaders behind Bricks, played the long game, you know, with some of these countries and waited and waited and boom. Now they have the opportunity, Brett and Jordan.

Starting point is 00:16:07 Yeah. And what you've seen is just a full return. of U.S. power, of U.S. soft power, of U.S. hard power, soft power with U.S.A.I.D. Hard power with the way it's just all of our munitions are being depleted, the failure of all these wars, these ridiculous invasions, these threats against our allies. It's absolutely grotesque. And you're seeing headlines like this today in the New York Times. Saudi Arabia faces worst-case scenario after being rebuffed by Trump. The kingdom is in a state of strategic shock after coming under attack from an emboldened Iran and failing to win more U.S. military support

Starting point is 00:16:41 analysts say, and the Saudi kingdom has to be absolutely livid, and they need to be freaking out right now by what just happened. But as we've described this in so many other scenarios on the show, this is what Trump does. He makes a mess, and then he runs away because he's a coward. He destroys things, and then he flees the scene of the crime and leaves other people to deal with the repercussions. That's what he's done in the entire Middle East region right now with the Strait of Hormuz, with his unlawful invasion of Iran. That's what he's done throughout all of Europe. That's what he's done with Canada. He basically, he lights the match. He tosses it and then he runs away and he hopes that somebody else is going to pick it up and is going to solve

Starting point is 00:17:25 everything for him. But that's just not how things work. And right now, everything around him is reaching that breaking point, whether you're looking at the treasury yields or gas prices, or diesel prices or the bricks block becoming stronger, NATO being essentially non-existent or becoming weaker. Everything right now is actually a catastrophe. It's the worst foreign policy I have ever seen out of a president, bar none, does not even come close. And the fact that these people will still be viewed by the media at large as, oh, the Republicans

Starting point is 00:17:57 are the party of foreign policy. Just wait, they will still say that. It's absolutely absurd. Everybody is going along with this BS. And it's just lie after lie and the gaslighting has just gotten so extreme. And I find that sometimes even people who you think would be smarter and would be able to say, oh, this guy's lying about this. Oh, he lies about everything.

Starting point is 00:18:17 So he's lying about this too. Sometimes they buy his BS. And it's just sometimes I feel like I'm living in a zombie apocalypse where everybody is just trusting the word of this lunatic, almost like we're in like Soviet Russia or something. It's really, really kind of frightening, to be honest. One of the things that scares me, and I know I've talked about this on the show quite a bit, but it is just the United States placement in the world as we move forward here. I mean, Donald Trump, day in and day out, just continues to embarrass us as citizens of this country,

Starting point is 00:18:50 but just embarrass America at large by how he deals or doesn't deal with the problems that are facing, well, the United States and the world. We're a laughing stock. We are an absolute laughing stock at this moment. And I worry, five, 10, 15 years. Just say the pro-democracy community wins out. Just say it hypothetically here, right? And we get to have a strong democracy better than it was before,

Starting point is 00:19:16 a country that actually works for all of its citizens, not just purport, not just claims to, but actually does the work for everyone. Does it matter? It is my fear because we'll never get in the good graces of all these other nations anymore. And that deeply hurts me as someone who loves this country. And that's what I know we're all fighting for here to see a better tomorrow, not just for us,

Starting point is 00:19:39 but for our children for the next generations. But Ben, how? How can we get back into the good graces after just so embarrassing ourselves over the second Trump regime? Is there a way? Not to interrupt Ben, because, you know, I mean, who knows, right? It's speculation and it's, and we might not ever. And, you know, a president could come in.

Starting point is 00:19:59 I think people understand that a lot of this. is Donald Trump and these feckless Republicans, but the cycle that we want to break is this cycle of four years of this president, four years of an insane psychopath, four years of this president, four years of an insane psychopath, and that all these things are just election to election. Like the one thing that presidents have done actually well over the past, you know, at least in the post-world War II era, probably far longer than that, is there was a consistency with American foreign policy. There was a consistency with messaging and the way we treated our actions.

Starting point is 00:20:31 allies and our adversaries. And Trump flipped that on his head in a way that fundamentally changes the world order. And the thing that really frightens me is that Trump is teaching our adversaries right now all the wrong lessons, right? If the goal of this war, Jordy, was we don't want a nuclear Iran, then he has failed, a failing grade does not even begin to cut it. Trump the other day, one of his most revealing comments that I think went a little under the radar, during his interview with Laura Ingram, he made a comment like he said, if Iran had a nuclear weapon, we would be calling up and saying, sir, we could get together possibly. We would be dealing with them much differently. So Trump admitting, if Iran had a nuclear weapon, he wouldn't have done any of this.

Starting point is 00:21:19 He wouldn't have launched these attacks. He wouldn't have bombed the school. He wouldn't have invaded Iran. There wouldn't be this cluster, you know what, in the Middle East right now, if Iran had a nuclear weapon. And so Iran is hearing that message. There was a member of parliament in Iran who said, you know what, the one thing we've learned from this war, we need to fast track a nuclear program. We need to get a nuclear weapon today because they're not going to mess with us if we have it. The same way Donald Trump is buddy, buddy with Vladimir Putin, the same way he's buddy buddy with North Korea, Kim Jong-un.

Starting point is 00:21:48 That could be us. We could be friends too. But, you know, we have to take that step. That way we're speaking Donald Trump's language. And I think that is very dangerous. and it takes us from a period where we had this kind of agreement amongst world powers to have a non-proliferation of nuclear weapons to now creating this arms race of nuclear weapons in order to try to keep out these bullying nations who include most prominently the United States. Well, this doesn't get talked about enough, but North Korea, Kim Jong-un learned the lesson back in Trump's first term when Trump ripped apart the J-C. CPOA, that even if you did a deal with the United States, the United States would rip that deal apart.

Starting point is 00:22:34 So one of the reasons Obama did the JCPOA was actually thinking multiple steps ahead about denuclearization throughout all of Asia and focusing as well on North Korea. So the JCPOA was not just effective in Iran. It was a template for international coordination in North Korea. And when Kim Jong-un said, got it, I guess I need a nuclear weapon, they accelerated the program. And Donald Trump started talking about love letters and how incredible things are. But I'll tell you, you know, and I think Iran's calculus is that they've got something, frankly, more potent and powerful than even a nuclear weapon with the control over the Strait of Hormuz right now. And with their allies, part of the access of resistance controlling the Red Sea, Iran effectively with its allies control.

Starting point is 00:23:25 40% of the world oil supply right now. And for them, that weapon is perhaps even more powerful than a nuclear weapon. And in terms of the nuclear capabilities, the bottom line is that if they have relations, which they do at a very strong level with China, with Iran, with North Korea, and nuclear powers, their calculus is what is our role

Starting point is 00:23:52 role in a newly forming multipolar world order. Do we even need if we have sufficient backup over here from other BRICS nations and other military alliances? What does that look like here relative to our control over the Strait of Hormuz and now effective control, even though the Ansarala Houthis have its own structure? They're obviously allied with Iran at a very close level. know, they flexed in a way that doesn't have the, you know, kind of scarlet letter of the word nuclear attached to it.

Starting point is 00:24:29 And they're showing every day, though, how they can wield that power. Now, you know, the ridiculous thing is, you know, the Trump regime, the ridiculous propaganda we get fed here in the United States, that the Net Yahoo regime propaganda machine spreads and lots of others is that Iran's about to collapse. It's about to happen. They're about to collapse. I'll tell you where things actually look worse than Iran. by far in addition to the United States though right now.

Starting point is 00:24:54 I mean, if you look at Syria and you look at some of the protests that are taking place there right now over some of the issues of the supply shocks that exist, there's a lot of problems there that people should be paying attention to that aren't. And then here at home, I mean, we're in a very, very catastrophic situation. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic and pick these words. The reality is that, you know, there were lots of people. people who were warning about a great fuel crisis if the memorandum of understanding wasn't signed when it was signed.

Starting point is 00:25:29 And you'll recall Donald Trump when he was at the NATO summit, the same one where he left hidden with Natalie Harp on the catering container in Turkey. Remember what Donald Trump was saying there. He was saying that if we didn't sign this MOU, we're going to be in a lot of trouble. We could have global economic catastrophe. So it's one of the reasons we had to sign it. We were running so low. Well, that's happened now.

Starting point is 00:25:55 Right now, the salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana, mainly the Texas is the big one, is at lows at all, is at tank bottom, where it could even break like the way, it's a cavern. And if it's not dealt with the right way and treated the right way, it could implode on itself. Almost the way the Trump regime was saying, back in April. was going to happen with the Iranian pipes, but that's something we need to actually pay attention to. But more broadly, it's the oil shortage that exists right now. And while Donald Trump is doing this blockade in Iran

Starting point is 00:26:35 and bragging how commercial ships are not getting into the Gulf of Oman and then through the Strait of Hormuz and then into the Persian Gulf, the boast of the bragged by Sencom about blocking commercial ships is that the Gulf, that you're really admitting to war crimes. I mean, those are commercial ships. That's medicine, that's food, that's supplies. That's not military targets. Your blockade is starvation of the people. And eventually, Iran's going to respond, either directly or through groups that it's allied with. And so you saw what happened in Saudi Arabia. And Iran made this warning, whether Iran was directly responsible for it, whether it was the Houthis who are taking responsibility for it.

Starting point is 00:27:18 notably MBS blames the Iraqi resistance. Also part of the access of resistance with Iran, but the Iraqi resistance is like, we wish it was us. We would love to take credit. It was the Houthis. The Houthis are like, it's us. And then Saudi Arabia is like, no, no, no, no, but it was the Iraqi resistance. Why?

Starting point is 00:27:35 Because MBS is worried about his own standing that he can't stop the Houthi. So he's blaming the Iraqi resistance to blame basically the Iraqi prime minister, because that's still under the control of the United States, how they perceive it. So that's why they're doing that. But of course- Think about that image from the other day, okay? It was the Houthi soldier or his, I guess he was a soldier,

Starting point is 00:27:59 in flip-flops, looked like he was in like Birkenstocks or something, taking control over a US-made tank that was owned by Saudi Arabia and driving off on it, going on a joy ride while in Birkenstocks. Now, if that image happened during the Biden administration, It would have been the image of defining the entire administration, a Houthi rebel soldier, seizing an American tank because the United States and Saudi Arabia were defeated on the coastline at the Red Sea.

Starting point is 00:28:33 I mean, that right there, the fact that people aren't talking about this every single day and saying what a failure this has been by Saudi Arabia, by the United States, mainly by the United States, who now there's blowback on Saudi Arabia for their alliance with the United States to me. Like it's it's crazy to me. It's absolutely crazy. Saudi Arabia is just learning though what happens when you buddy up with Donald Trump. They're learning the notion of everything Trump touches dies. Everything Trump touches turned to you know what. And now they're feeling the repercussions of that. And they now have to figure out how they are going to kind of save themselves as Donald Trump has really wrecked their standing in the region. But they still have live golf.

Starting point is 00:29:13 Oh, wait. Never mind. They they don't. They don't. And by the way, go back to videos of Donald Trump hosting LiveGolf at his tournament when he wasn't in office. And he would say, no one's really gotten to the bottom of whether Saudi Arabia was really involved in 9-11 or not. But they're great golfing partners. And they're about to make the players so rich, he said.

Starting point is 00:29:35 They're so good for the game of golf is ultimately. And he gets a total pass on saying things like that, too. Trump buddies up with the people who actually did 9-11. buddies up with them. They're his best friends. But he's up with the people who killed Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post journalist. But he's up with them, but that's okay. Apparently, that's all right.

Starting point is 00:29:56 He could be in business with them, whatever. Remember a few months back when all those comedians gotten a lot of heat because they were doing that festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And they're comedians. And I do think they deserved condemnation for doing this event. But the fact that they get all this coverage of how horrifying it is that they are performing for this regime.

Starting point is 00:30:20 But Donald Trump is in business deals with them, having them at their golf course, nothing. Just another day to me just shows you the double standard of what's going on and how Trump is just totally, totally, totally held. And then the both sides of media will be like, you my sellus brothers, you might as touch brothers. You guys wouldn't credit Trump if he stopped 9-11. He's partnering with the people who did it, y'all.

Starting point is 00:30:44 Like, what are we talking about here? Like, it's right in front of your faces. Someone with a backbone, speak out. It's unbelievable. They let him slide on this. You know, the one you always get is if Donald Trump stopped cancer, you wouldn't give him credit for stopping cancer, right? You always get everyone uses that one.

Starting point is 00:31:05 And it's like, no, if he stopped cancer, he would get credit for stopping cancer. The issue is he's taken away cancer research for kids. Like, the issue is, is that he and RFK have actually spread disease. and spread issues and cut back on research. If he did the thing, he would get credit for it. If he actually did the, he lies. I mean, if he brought in $20 trillion in a year, he would get praise.

Starting point is 00:31:29 I would praise him for it if he brought in $20 trillion. That's a massive accomplishment. But then I use some common sense, and I go, hmm, looks like our deficit is increasing at a record rate. Hmm, looks like our debt has increased to over $40 trillion. and Trump's responsible for 30% of that. No, you don't get praised for lying and saying you're bringing in money that you did it. And you certainly then don't get the benefit of the doubt when you say you're going to give

Starting point is 00:31:58 $5,000 to people to vote Republican again. We know that this is a fraud. And we'll take a first quick break of the show because we've got a lot to discuss on this. But then the way it was framed on the Sunday shows, and I have to watch these from my reporting, is that it was like a real thing. You know, and they asked people to respond to it as though this was actually a, so is it like bribing people? It's like, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Starting point is 00:32:23 It's not a real thing. It's a fraud. You know, if you had to respond to it, I'm not even responding to it. The guy's a liar. He's a criminal. He's a sexual predator. He's a lunatic. I'm not even addressing the issue.

Starting point is 00:32:34 If you believe that he's going to give you a $5,000 check, then I have something else to sell you. I have a Trump token I'm going to give you right now. Or as Trump puts it on his social media. media platform. He's got free Trump $1,000 bills he's going to give you, but he's only got 74 of them left everybody. I'm going to give you one of those, okay? Let's take our first quick break of the show. We've got a lot to discuss. We already have discussed a lot. Let's take a quick break, a reminder. Our book is called WTF America. It comes out October 20th. Pre-order now. We have good pre-order momentum. Let's keep up that momentum. If you're planning on getting it,

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Starting point is 00:34:02 It was tough. It was hard work. It was really cool. It's a story for another time, us being in that recording booth. Maybe for a Patreon exclusive or something. All right, we will be right back after this. Don't go anywhere. We got so much to talk about.

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Starting point is 00:37:04 and we'll probably talk about it again, is we are damn proud of the book. And so I know people are like, can you guys not talk so much about the book? Only a few say that, but I see it. And the short answer is no. And I'm sorry, but I'm also not sorry. We've worked tirelessly on this book, and we were so excited to bring to you.

Starting point is 00:37:21 I think it helps set the stage for how we, well, how we got here and how we get out of this mess, which I think, you know, is super important. And I think, you know, it's, to be clear, it's not an election book either. It's not like the sell you in the midterms. It's not, it's not that. It's really a book that we, you know, hope stands the test of time, not, you know, any, any sort of one Period. Brothers, we got a wild Mitch McConnell siding today. Mitch McConnell in the wild. A wild Mitch McConnell spotted today in Washington, D.C. and the reporter swarmed him.

Starting point is 00:37:55 Should we, should we see a clip? Let's see a clip on Mitch McCall. Jorny urged me not to do the, the Adam Barrow voice, but it's okay. There he is being wheeled out of his helm. A wild Mitch McConnell in the DC. the area. Mitch being wheeled. You can't really see him just yet this posted by Anna Greyer of CNN. As Mitch made his way. Mitch, can we get a thumbs up Mitch? Mitch. Mitch. Mitch, Mike. Mitch, Mitch, mate. Mitch. Mitch. And he's in the car. Off to the cell. Any toe wiggle.

Starting point is 00:38:29 This whole thing's so weird. Can we just say, I don't even know if there's much more to add other than this whole Mitch McConnell saga has been very strange. They have not been forthrighted with the American public. It's a very strange thing for a U.S. Senator and someone of stature to be so hidden like this for these months and for the public to be lied to and for him to just be wheeled it was very weak in at bernie's i just want honesty and transparency and that what we just watched there was for the audio listeners the strangest clip of Mitch mcconnell being we literally wheeled out of his home and i'm not saying this to be funny he doesn't move in the clip He's physically there.

Starting point is 00:39:09 Again, not saying this to be funny. Like saying this because I deeply want transparency around this issue. He does not move, does not acknowledge any of the cameramen. Just in, like, as Brett put it perfect, like a weird weekend at Bernie's MAGA-esque moment right there that we just saw. We're recording this live on September 14, 2026. I have not much else to say about it. We're approaching the midterm.

Starting point is 00:39:36 Right. Donald Trump has had basically two awful years in office right now where he has a, I was going to say, a body of work, but I would say it's an awful, whatever you want to call it, of just destruction and devastation. And so for me, I've often been asked, like, what's your messaging? Are you going to message this or message that? I go, I say, you know, it's not about messaging anymore. I mean, it really isn't. because it's about living, right? And wanting to live more. And I guess that's the segue there from Mitch McConnell, I guess, and our lived experience.

Starting point is 00:40:17 And if you've endured this past not 20 months or so, and you've looked at it as this is great and that things are really good, and you like ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo in the streets, and you like the story today, that they've been throwing immigrants in little dog cages and alligator alcatraz, where they would call them calming cages at concentration camps. If you like that, every day you seem to wake up, there's another recall of some product based on the lack of safety that's going on.

Starting point is 00:40:53 Have you heard about this? Have you heard about this Russian saying the TV in the fridge? Somebody just told me about this day. I've actually never heard it. But it really sums up what Ben's saying here. This is real. No one's like even like pranking you. No, no, no, it's real. I looked it up and, you know, actually, I thought the phrase was actually very telling. And it's something that was said about Russia and the Russians would say about their own government that I think, unfortunately, very much applies here. But basically, you know, you have the TV, which is the state propaganda regime media and the state propagandists telling you how great everything is that we're in a golden age, that everything's perfect. And so, oh, they say, it's great. Everything looks like they're saying it's great. Everyone on TV is telling me, Everything's awesome and we're winning the more and everything's good. And then you go to your fridge and you open up your fridge and you get a reality check. Oh, I can't afford anything. I don't have anything in here.

Starting point is 00:41:42 And that dichotomy between the TV and the fridge, which was something that was used often to describe Russia under Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian regimes, I think now very much sums up what we're going through right here in the United States. I don't think I've talked about Pollock. People who are watching the show, you know, I mean, yes, I show clips of the debate. like the Adam Hamilton, Roger Marshall debate, but I'm just showing you clips of what they're saying. But like, there's very little, I think I've done this network. I don't even know the last time I did it where I was like,

Starting point is 00:42:15 and this is a great political maneuver. I never say these things because to me, part of getting out of this cycle is actually rejecting the gamification of politics and just looking at this lived experience. experience. This is really what you want a government to do, to hurt you and inflict pain and to mock you and inflict psychological torture on you? You think that it's the role of the government to steal your bread, steal your loaves of bread, then dangle breadcrumbs and then not even

Starting point is 00:42:50 give you the breadcrumbs. That's what you want in a government? Okay. I mean, if that's what you want, I'm not, there's nothing I'm going to do to persuade you if you think that this was a great period right now in American history what's unfolded. But I hope you reflect on this and go, you know what? I deserve better. My family deserves better. Future generations deserve better than this. We deserve a government made up of public service, public servants who actually do things to help me versus do things to hurt me. And if ultimately that's not what you see, I'm not going to be able to message you. I'm not going to be able to push you two points this way you're two point down. I just want to arm you with all the data of what's happening and what's going on around

Starting point is 00:43:35 the corner and what's going on so that you could make informed decisions yourself, how that impacts your voting. You're going to have to make those calls yourself. But I don't know, this is not what I think government should be all about. I think that this is the opposite of what government should be doing in like, again, we're two years in or so. And you got the guy posting, I hope everyone realizes that price increases throughout America were caused by sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden administration, not by Trump. Even oil was higher under Biden than right now. And we prevented Iran from having a nuclear weapon. With the temporary exception of oil, prices are coming down sharply. And oil will drop like a rock as soon as the military conflict with Iran is over.

Starting point is 00:44:26 Donald Trump was promising it would be over six months ago, but okay. Or Donald Trump then posting that the war is a scam conflagration. You all remember when, who was it, Dan Quayle spelled potato wrong and that was done. Your career was over. Imagine if he referred to a very catastrophic war as a scam, conflagration, and then spelled conflagration, C-O-N-F-L-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N. And again, look, the spelling's the least of it. I'm just trying to shake us out of the fact that we're not in normal times where a post like

Starting point is 00:45:03 this should be utterly disqualifying. Could you imagine if former President Obama or Biden made posts referring to very serious things as scam conflagrations with the typo? I guarantee you it would be front page every newspaper. It would be the front. That post alone would be the front page story every damn day of the week for weeks. And that post alone may lead to impeachment. Why did Biden even pull the troops from Afghanistan?

Starting point is 00:45:33 He could have just called it a scam and a hoax. And he could have just, that could have been it. What a strategy? Beyond the words. Beyond the words. Beyond the words. It's also equally, if not more weird, that his profile picture is like a brave heart type, like American flag over his face with the red, white and blue.

Starting point is 00:45:52 He's like snarling at the camera. Utterly bizarre. On top of that, he's posting from his own social media platform because he had previously gotten kicked off of the world social media platform where most people talk and do their... It is unbelievable times that we are living through. And what the media allows to slide as just normal because they've gotten so exhausted. Did you see them on the plane the other day, Jury?

Starting point is 00:46:18 They're like, Mr. President, what's this music playlist you got going on? You got some good music over here. Can you share the play? Will you share your Spotify playlist with me, buddy? And like, this was an actual interaction that the press had with Donald Trump. And I want to be clear. There are a lot of journalists who do amazing work and a lot of publications who do amazing work. But there are some like that that make me want to scream.

Starting point is 00:46:39 Yeah, well, let me tie this all together. Let me tie in Braveheart. Let me tie in Jordy, Trump not being on Twitter. Now, X. And let me tie in Biden-Afghanistan withdrawal and I'll tie it all together. Braveheart, wait for it. No wait. Hold. Hold. Now. That was the plan that basically China had for the international architecture. And that now moment happened at the Brick Summit in New Delhi, which was a real kind of statement that was being made about a rapidly changing global architecture and the split screen between what we were seeing at bricks while Donald Trump was in Ireland

Starting point is 00:47:25 attacking NATO, attacking Canada, attacking the UK, whiny. I mean, it couldn't have been more clear. And also what China was not doing earlier in this catastrophic war, as Trump calls it, a scam conflagration, They stopped importing oil at the rate they were in 2025 and before the war. They're the world's biggest, world's biggest importer of oil. And the moment they start importing, guess what's going to happen? The supply is going to decrease and the cost is going to go up. So China was actually keeping the oil.

Starting point is 00:48:00 The reason that they weren't going up higher than they should have was because China was not importing. They were using their reserves that has 1.5 billion barrels. huge dump like 1.35. And they bought, they strategize. They bought all this oil in 2025 when it was cheap. They stored it. They were using that now in addition to all of the conflagrations that I've been talking about. China's also importing. So if China were to import a lot, do you know what happens? You could see the price per barrel of oil easily hit $150, $175 a barrel. So China, not only only has replaced the U.S. in terms of kind of soft power, in terms of international alliance

Starting point is 00:48:48 building, which they've been doing. They've essentially replaced OPEC as well based on their ability to control the international price of oil by their importing. And they showed that they can do that. So they had this, wait for it. They're playing chess on a whole different playing field while Donald Trump is playing pickup sticks, but sticking himself with the sticks in the eye, basically. So that's why I pay very close attention to these international developments right there. January 6th, one of the reasons that Donald Trump was kicked off of various social media. Well, Donald Trump, oddly this weekend, was posting videos of himself from January 6th after he,

Starting point is 00:49:33 my opinion, encouraged all of the insurrectionists to go and he said he was going to join them or words to that effect. Remember, he then posted the video saying, all right, I definitely won. I won. I know you're sad because I'm the winner, but it's time to go home. Remember during the J6 committee, we saw how many takes it took him to do that. They gave him the script to read. He oddly posted that video over the weekend. So when he was aboard Katari Air Force One, which is a ridiculous thing that I even say Katari Air Force One. Here's, let me show you what he said. He didn't even remember posts.

Starting point is 00:50:06 He's like, I don't know, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? I want you to watch this for yourself. Here, play this clip. We need the full playlist. Can we keep playing it? Just keep writing the song's out eventually.

Starting point is 00:50:18 Mr. President, on Friday, you were posted a video you took on January 6th. What was the message for posting that on Friday? Well, I posted about 30. Which one of you talked is? You posted a video. You took and posted on January 6th asking the rioters to go back home. The rioters of January 6 in 2021. I don't know what she's doing.

Starting point is 00:50:38 You also reposted Maduro again, the capture of Maduro. Well, they never talk about Maduro. That was a great capture. You have Mitch McConnell weekend. That was a great capture, Ben. That was a great capture. Great capture like you called a group. Also, for the audio listeners, just worth saying really quickly, you see the lean in Trump's stance

Starting point is 00:50:58 as he's taking these questions, all of it, all of it is so weird. And every single one of us, but every single one person this is going to have to explain to their grandchildren, to their great-grandchildren, what you did in these moments. And also, like, what you did to speak out, use your voice, use whatever you can, to just, like, try and reclaim some sort of normalcy. Because what we're witnessing in these clips is not normal. Yes. I mean, and that's why when people want to have a normal political debate as we're approaching, you know, the midterm elections, it's like, I mean, this guy's like, he's like a lunatic. I mean, what is it that you want me to say to you? If truly, if you want that, good luck. God. You know, I know, there's, I'm, what I do here at the Midas Touch network is I'm going to show you what's happening. That's it. That's my job. My job is to show you, do I get angry at what I'm watching and do I share that anger with you? Yeah, I try to.

Starting point is 00:51:57 to keep it as even killed as I can, despite all these conflagrations. I try to share it with you and do it in a sober assessment to be analytical. But sometimes I will be very angry. But if you like whatever that was and, you know, talking about the playlists, if you like that he's posting about helipads and blaming Biden and you love paying more for gas and you love never-ending wars and you like that Donald Trump does what Netanyahu tells him to do. Like, if you're into that and Trump getting rich while you're not and you're getting screwed while Trump's blaming Biden, like if that's something that you're into at this point, we've experienced it.

Starting point is 00:52:43 You know, there's, you know, because Donald Trump was able to ride the coattails a lot of Obama during the first term and because Trump had not really that normal, but semi-normal people at least in at first. You know, you really saw how bad he was when COVID hit. It was bad the whole time. But, you know, I think some of the stuff that he's doing now, he was shielded. He was not doing then. Now you see it.

Starting point is 00:53:12 Like, you see every aspect of this. He didn't go after what he heard was the bad hombrei immigrants. He didn't he went after people who were paying taxes and were hardworking. And he put him in dog cages, which also further heard. the economy and was also inhumane and disgusting. Like, you know, so if you're Venezuelan or Cuban, if you are Haitian, if you are Mexican, and you support, I genuinely don't, you know, I genuinely don't know, you know, at this point, really, you think, you know, if you thought he was going to bring democracy to Venezuela,

Starting point is 00:53:47 I got another, he brags, I took all of their oil. It's all mine. It's all mine now. And I may take all the oil of Iran too. It's all mine. You sound like a, you sound like a lunatic. I mean, even authoritarian who are lunatics don't say that. They don't behave that way. You know, and often I'm like, you know, it's like North Korea style. You know, I'll say that. Or it's like, frankly, Trump is way crazier than Kim Jong-Lun in North Korea. Like right now, there is no comp about this level of lunacy this level of what we're showing you over here. You know, and so if you like this, I wish you the best. But if you don't like this, which I think the data is reflecting,

Starting point is 00:54:36 most Americans don't like this, then frankly, you can't normalize this. And you can't be like, oh, well, I think there's a stop, stop. It's a crazy. It's a lunatic. It's a predator. It's a sicko. Just shut it down. To shut it down.

Starting point is 00:54:51 And say this isn't a. It's why we don't need the Sunday. shows acting like this $5,000 bribe thing is real. It's why we don't need the debate shows having somebody debate. Is it a good idea? Is it a bad idea? It's a fake idea. It's stupid. We shouldn't even be talking about it. Don't even give it light. Why even engage with that bullshit? I'm mad that I'm talking about it right now. And, you know, there's something that Trump is very good at weaponizing that honestly, you know, in light of this, you know, 25th anniversary of a 9-11, it reminds me a lot of what happened in the wake of 9-11. And that's that kind of idea that you cannot have any

Starting point is 00:55:24 dissent from the federal government. And I think one of the great things about the United States is always that dissent is patriotic, that we should be able to speak out, that it's actually our patriotic duty to speak out when we see ills and when we see wrongs in the country and in the world. And what Donald Trump wants to do the same way so many Republicans did in the post-9-11 era is he wants to turn everything into you're either with us or you're with them sort of thing. And it's that kind of binary framing that I think is so incredibly dangerous. And I see so many people falling for this trap. I even see it with our coverage because I think, Ben, I think from the beginning, you know,

Starting point is 00:56:00 especially your coverage on the network of the Iran war has been spot on. You said immediately that Trump was lying about all this stuff. You called out as propaganda. You called out his lies that this was going to be a short excursion or whatever that the hell term he used at the time. You called it out on the day. And there are so many people every time that we call out the failures of Trump and his regime in this war that people say.

Starting point is 00:56:24 say, oh, yeah, you guys hate America. You guys hate, you guys must hate America. Are you supporting the, no, I think it's because we love America and we want to call out when we're being lied to before we get more troops killed in this war, before there's more global instability, before more Americans are impacted at the pump or at the grocery store. This is actually our patriotic duty to call out this regime as long as we're allowed to do it. And so we will do it. And I will not be deterred by these threats from people who try to make it this. You're either with us or against us sort of game. I'm done with that crap. I'm done. I'm not going to allow bad behavior to go unfettered with my tax dollars. I'm not going to allow this bad behavior to take place in our government and just

Starting point is 00:57:06 watch it happen and not say anything. I think that is cowardly and I think that is un-American. Let's take our last quick break of the show. We've got a lot more we can discuss. I want to talk for a moment about what's going on in Canada as Prime Minister Carney is also hosting an event that will have $120 trillion of assets represented in terms of sovereign wealth funds and all these different groups that are potentially going to be investing in Canada as Prime Minister Carney has become basically the leader of the free world uniting the mid-powers together. He's also going to be speaking at the European Union state of the Union. And so we'll talk about that.

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Starting point is 01:00:41 I was just reading some other news to see if it was coverage or yeah, that's what, that's what I was doing. I was going to finally connect the Biden piece. Remember I said, Braveheart, J6, then Biden. It kind of conflagrate it all. Got to conflagrate it all. Conglomerate it all. Look, Biden came in and had to make hard decisions. Trying to be the firefighter to put out the arson isn't easy.

Starting point is 01:01:11 and it can often demonstrate a lot of the problems that existed that were being covered up, right? It's easy for a doctor to tell the patient, you're great, you're amazing, right? It's more difficult for the doctor to say, you know what? It doesn't look good, and I need to help you. And here's the prognosis. I'm telling you bad things, and your life is going to be difficult. but would you rather be told these things and try to get out of it and we can work on it together and come up with the pathway?

Starting point is 01:01:46 Or would you rather tell you you're great? And then there be a sudden event that almost... Oh, my God, just remind them. Remember when Biden released the statement, like, you know, this winter, if you're unvaccinated, like, it could be bad for you. And, like, you could get really, really sick and potentially die. And all those Republicans were like, Derry, how could you say such a thing?

Starting point is 01:02:06 Because they just want Donald Trump to say, everything's great. It doesn't exist. There's no COVID. Everything's fine. Sorry. It's just like a product of memory. The reality is that there are very difficult decisions that need to be made in the hands of very skilled

Starting point is 01:02:23 operators to try to get us out of this. The concern, I'm putting that very lightly, is that even with an election, the executive branch is still the branch responsible under our constitution. for taking care that laws are executed, and the executive branch is still the commander-in-chief. So the core functions of execution is still in the hands of someone who's a lunatic, a sexual predator, a deviant, a criminal, a felon,

Starting point is 01:02:56 an incompetent, a bankruptor. That doesn't get changed. Now, what the elections will do is bring necessary oversight. It will create certain checks and balances, that are desperately needed, right? And to me, if you were an opposition party running against Donald Trump, you should basically be saying,

Starting point is 01:03:18 look, there's no way to do deals with this guy. You can't do deals with bad people. But we will do ruthless and relentless oversight. And every day we will report back to you what we are doing in that capacity. And we will lay out a sprawling oversight agenda, whether that's with judiciary, oversight all across the board. Heck, agriculture. Heck, you know, you named the committee.

Starting point is 01:03:45 We need people to deal with these situations. But it takes someone who's going to say, you know what? Right now our strategic reserves are very bad in a bad situation. Right now, the supply shock is devastating. We have to come up with difficult solutions and it's going to be hard. We'd We don't need somebody right now saying, we won. They're begging me for a call by the greatest. We brought a $20 trillion. Like that's the equivalent of a doctor telling the very sick person. You're great.

Starting point is 01:04:22 You're going to be amazing. Don't worry. And then the person comes back and they go, I feel way worse. Don't worry. That's just the, where are you living? That's probably just the house's fault. I don't know. It's the community.

Starting point is 01:04:37 And the person, I'm really feeling, really, don't worry, you're fine. That's on the road to recovery. Those feelings are normal. And so that is what's being done writ large at our country. And you have all these other actors across the world, both former allies and adversaries, direct adversaries or competitive adversaries. They figured it out. Year one, they didn't know what to do.

Starting point is 01:05:04 They knew he was a lunatic. They knew he was crazy. Nonetheless, the U.S. created this post-World War II architecture. Undeniably, the U.S. military power was real, even in the hands of a lunatic. The U.S. economy was still, even with Trump behaving as a lunatic, the safest place to put money in globally. There weren't all these structures that could take it out. What do you do? So year one was kind of to give you another.

Starting point is 01:05:36 example, the kind of the boxing match where there's, you know, a jab here, jab there. You know, China threatens to withhold rare earths, Donald Trump tacos, got it. Okay, Trump backs down there. You know, Trump says, I'm going to, you know, go after, you know, whoever over here, you know, there's another taco over there. So year one, you know, it's kind of like got it, like very fraudy. It's looking very weak. Year two, it started to, to be pronounced. And then with the catastrophic handling of the war, when people saw how the US ignored the, not only ignored,

Starting point is 01:06:17 but just outright lied about the framework, a deal that was done, that Oman negotiated, and Trump rushed in this with Netanyahu. And then by April, May, I think the world really saw, oh my gosh, like this guy is so and people should have seen it before, but this guy is all a bluff. The whole, and duh, the guy is a con artist his whole life.

Starting point is 01:06:43 But it really set in in a different way that even with the United States post-World War II architecture behind him, even with him taking the wheel of this vehicle, if you will, that was drove itself and could do great, He was still determined to crash it, and that's what he's been doing. And so the world said, got it. Here's how we're going to build. And we've seen this in all different ways.

Starting point is 01:07:14 While Donald Trump's out there posting the memes of drone ports and helipads and columns of the White House and behaving with this buffoonery, the world and very sophisticated operators have made sophisticated decisions about creating new world architecture. that they could have only dreamed about that's going to make them wealthier. And we're seeing why it's one of the reasons that the Treasury yields are so high. It's because people don't want to buy our bonds anymore. So if they don't want to buy our bonds, the yields are higher because the U.S. has to pay higher returns on those notes to induce people to buy them.

Starting point is 01:07:55 And then when Bessent does, oh, the bond buybacks and I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that economic D-Day, when you have the Treasury Secretary talking to, that way and then behaving so pathetically, the world looks at it and goes, God, it you're a loser too. Lutnik, you're, oh my God, it's all filled with losers. I mean, what was the thing that Besson posted today? After threatening economic deed day against any country

Starting point is 01:08:20 that does business with Iran, any country that does business with Iran, we will make sure that we go after you. So China, Russia. At the bricks, you had this group photo where they were all basically taunting Bessent, and they were all there. together that president of iran and all these other world leaders saying we're doing more economic cooperation with iran in response to what we saw at bricks this was treasury secretary besant's

Starting point is 01:08:45 message here pull that up one more time treasury secretary beston talks about a whistleblower hotline that you can call but pull it up if we have the whistleblower hotline one more just lost it with my eyes i'll find it in a second anyway treasury secretary in the mess area. Treasury launched Operation Economic Outcast, okay, to cut off all financial lifelines to the Iranian regime and its enablers. That's why I issued a new call for whistleblowers to come forward with tips about those who facilitate Iran's territory. What the hell are you talking? You did a tip line?

Starting point is 01:09:23 Your economic deed is a tip line. And, Jordan, even worse than maybe the Trump Braveheart photo is. that you've got Besson up, you know, Besson, oh, I am the house now. Well, yeah, if you're the house now, Donald Trump's bankrupted casino. So I guess you are the house now. And it just be clown, be clown, be clown. So then compare that to Prime Minister Carney. Let me just show you what Prime Minister Carney was doing and saying earlier. Prime Minister Carney said something's changed over the past year in our country. Canadians, we all know what I'm talking about. Here, play this Once again, Canadians are coming together.

Starting point is 01:10:02 Once again, our ambition is catching up with our potential. Something's changed over the past year in our country. Canadians, we all know what I'm talking about. We feel it everywhere. Canadians are standing united, buying Canadian, confidently choosing a Canadian future. Yeah, Canada's got that guy, and we got, Jared Kushner at some security conference talking about how...

Starting point is 01:10:34 I'm our role as the... As the meaning... It's the best impression on the show. As the mediator here... As the mediator here with Russia... I told me... Me and Mr. Wintkoff. Here, just play...

Starting point is 01:10:57 Clay Kushner, it's crazy biz. Here, play this. Look, I think right now, from the Ukraine perspective, I mean, President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that. And obviously, our job is the mediators to figure out how can we come up with a creative solution that doesn't violate their desires and that helps them achieve, you know, their objective and does in a way that we can get Russia to to end the conflict in a way that hopefully allows both parties to move forward in a framework where this doesn't happen again.

Starting point is 01:11:36 So just a bunch of words and I use the word framework. And so we've identified the core issue. Okay, Russia has told the face is perfect. Russia has told us what they want, which is all of Eastern Ukraine. Okay. And Ukraine has told us they don't want to get it. That was a quick side by side. Who's doing the graphics? They don't. Ukraine. So, you know, we're going to come up with a framework to figure this one out. Everybody that's what we figured out with the real central problem is. Russia wants it.

Starting point is 01:12:15 Ukraine doesn't want to give off their country. Um, Jericho. So we're going to mediate this. I'm going to mediate this discussion. Guys, me and Whitkoff, we're mediated. We're mediated. We're the mediator team. What do you mean you're the mediators? You're the United States. You know what they told you growing up? Don't make funny faces because your face is going to end up looking like that. Fred, bring up the graphic again. I'm just going for the sake of this. I'm just going to ignore everything that Kushner said. Every time he speaks, Brett, if you could pull up that graph, it it looks like like he's got like a sour stomach is like the nicest way I could put it. Like it always looks like he he's got to go to the bathroom. I've noticed every time he's speaking. That's kind of what we always say here too.

Starting point is 01:12:57 It's like these people like the Kushners of the world, like the folks in the Trump regime when they speak, they speak in these weird like intonations and things like that because it's their soul leaving their body as they're speaking. Like you actively see it because they're such sellouts. I just think about Donald Trump saying in 2024, I got the best words. I got to know my directions.

Starting point is 01:13:20 Other way, other way. Other way. Other way. To your right. Do you want him behind Kushner or? No, no, no, no, no. Side by side. Just so you know, on my screen, and my screen, this puts me.

Starting point is 01:13:31 We're trying to get bent on a side by for the audio. We're trying to get bent on a side by side. We've been over this with the screen flipping, though. Remember, we get to point the other direction. You know what, Jordy, the same way Kushner shouldn't be a mediator. I shouldn't be stage production of the, of the. You're perfect. It took him two years to realize after Donald Trump, I'm going to resolve this, I'm going to resolve it.

Starting point is 01:13:50 The central problem seems to be. Olinsky doesn't want to surrender. And Putin wants him to surrender. I just, guys, I just figured this one out, okay? I'm the mediator. Ivanka, do we take over Albanian island and turn it into Trump and Steen Island? I mean, first off, this guy, why this guy? Again, I go back to, I'm not political messaging, right?

Starting point is 01:14:17 If you want the son-in-law of a freaking sexual predator loser and a loser's son-in-law, you know, to be doing our foreign, like, why is this guy even, like, we, we shouldn't even accept that this guy is a legitimate human, right? Like, who are you? Like, why, why are you even here? I'm not, like, I'm not even just like, if someone would be like, well, what do you think about, I'm not even talking about Kushner. This guy's illegitimate. Who is this guy? This, why is this son-in-law doing a merit? Where's Marco Rubio, who, by the way, while I despise him, at least that's the role of a secretary of state, why is it that there's normal protocol at Bricks, where you have foreign ministers meeting, but we have the son-in-law, right?

Starting point is 01:14:56 Even in countries that we'll be like, oh, my God, this is authoritarian country, whatever we say about them, they've got their position, their foreign minister, are meeting with foreign minister. We've got Trump's scumbag real estate guy from Manhattan, Steve Whitkoff, right, who's part of world liberty financial with Donald Trump, making hundreds of millions of dollars from Middle East country, and we've got Donald Trump's son-in-law. Again, this is ridiculous.

Starting point is 01:15:20 This is not a Democrat talking point. This isn't need political messaging with you. This is freaking ridiculous. But I will show you. I promised I would show you the debate stuff. So the end scene on Mike Kushner. I mean, just utterly pathetic stuff. Wait, quick question on the cushion before we go on.

Starting point is 01:15:36 Brett, bring up the photo just one more time. Ben, 22-year-old you in mom's basement stuttering for the LSAT? Just working away at night, night after night, studying. Do you think, no, no, can you bring up the one of Ben and Kushner? I deleted that one. Why are you deleting graphics? We're actively having conversations about it. They're hilarious that you're making.

Starting point is 01:15:57 Oh, I'm studying for all sets, yes. Do you just like, was this where you thought you'd be? No, that's why I, that's why I were. I didn't. By the way, this guy's my age. You know, this guy, if you told me right now, Ben, we want you to mediate between these two. I'd be like, what are you talking about? Talking about them in the media?

Starting point is 01:16:20 Like, you know, I'm doing YouTube, you know. I'm a professor. I like to believe I'm giving educated info. I think I'm well researched and I'm giving the right facts. I'm running immediate. Why is this guy anywhere near anything like this? This is, and it just made, and by the way, this is precisely why Putin wanted Wittkoff and Kushner.

Starting point is 01:16:42 Putin picked his mediators because you've got literally Jim Carrey's Dumb and Dumber movie of these two people out there. and their very presence, even at these conferences, is a massive damage to the United States, even more than missiles, you know, hitting the East-West pipeline. These people are weapons of mass destruction to the reputation and credibility, because it's like, oh, really, we got to deal with Whitkoff and Kushner? Are they going to send Whitkoff and Kushner? What are you talking about?

Starting point is 01:17:12 You know, when I used to mediate high-profile cases, you would know the seriousness of which the mediation was being taken by who was sent to the mediation, right? Like, it would tell you before you went, oh, got it. They don't have like the right level insurance carrier and their board represented. It's not going to be a well worth it mediation. They're just here to tap me along. That would happen. You send Kushner and Whitkoff. I mean, imagine what Zelensky has to deal with. Oh, really? And then from Putin's perspective, it's like, got it. Whitkoff's going to come in and glaze me and tell me how great I am. And what a memorable day this is going to be just because he was invited to the credit.

Starting point is 01:17:50 And this is what Putin wanted. What Putin's dream was, was to establish Russia in the position before the Cold War ended and to establish Russia as a world player. And I saw Poland's foreign minister today basically say, and that dream will never be a reality. And that is NATO will always be united. You know what I'm thinking to myself? Okay. I mean, I don't know.

Starting point is 01:18:19 Is it nice to say, though? those things, like we should be objective about it. NATO is not united. NATO has never been less united. The main member of NATO is attacking NATO. So don't act like NATO is unite. I mean, there are some NATO Supreme commanders and people in the military leadership level at NATO

Starting point is 01:18:38 that still do their best to pretend that NATO's around and they'll do the exercises and the drills. But let's be real. You think anybody is gonna actually invoke article four and five? and that Donald Trump's going to agree, come on, just the reality. What are we talking about here? It's sad to see that happen, but that's the reality. All right, let me do less Kushner impressions, and let me land this plane, if you will,

Starting point is 01:19:07 not a Qatari plane. Let me land the Midas plane. Let me show you what happened during the debate between the Maga Republican incumbent from Alaska, Dan Sullivan, when he's debating against the Democratic candidate, a candidate for that Senate seat, Mary Peltola and Mary is someone who knows a lot. Like, she's, like, you know the people who know the issues of the community. She is Alaska. She is Alaska. And so what would happen was that the debate moderator would ask pretty basic questions,

Starting point is 01:19:40 but sound complex if you're not from Alaska, about, you know, what do you think about the migratory fishing? What do you think about, you know, whatever the issues were, right? And then dude, Republican, would look at her like the guy who would be cheating off the person on an exam in elementary school. He'd look to see what she said. And he would steal her answers during the debate. Let me show you what went down. Here, play.

Starting point is 01:20:03 Do the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and NOAA Fisheries adequately consider impacts on subsistence users, salmon migration, habitat, and indigenous ways of life? She holds up no. Yes, sir. He looks over, notices her answer. It gives the same one. We have two noes. And that's, you know, that's ridiculous. That's disqualifying. You know, I know people laugh, but like, that's your economy. Dude doesn't know. How could you even, not because Republican Democrat, how could you fathom electing dude who doesn't know basic issues about your economy? And he had to look and cheat to get the answer. It's like the same thing, like with the Trump stuff. I don't even approach it as a Republican Democrat. He's not even a Republican. I don't even know. He's a Trump. He's a Trump party Trump Trump.

Starting point is 01:20:53 That's all it is, is Trump. And, you know, you like that. That's not something that he doesn't know America. He doesn't know what's happening. You know, what did he say about interest rates, which are likely going to be hiked in the next 48 hours, by the way, when we were expecting three interest rate cuts, the market's priced in multiple interest rate hikes now,

Starting point is 01:21:12 which is going to make it much more difficult for people to afford homes and things are going to get much more difficult for people. But what do he say? I know the formulas. I'm the best with formulas, Donald Trump said. What do you mean you're the best with formulas? When you say that, you're dumb? What do you mean you're the best with formulas?

Starting point is 01:21:28 It's stupidest shit in the world. Like, that's it. That's disqualifying. You say you're the best with formulas. I know oil better than everybody. I know interest rates better than anybody. I know this better than everybody. I know this better than everybody.

Starting point is 01:21:38 I know this better than you. You don't. You know worse than anybody. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't. You're an idiot and you're a malicious idiot, which makes it equally worse. And you see why he's bankrupted casinos.

Starting point is 01:21:49 You see why Treasury Secretary best. I'm the House now. Bet against me if you will. Yeah, people bet against Donald Trump when he ran casinos. The House always lost with Donald Trump. But I digress, but let me take you out of this episode with Maga Republican Senator from Kansas, Roger Marshall at the Kansas State Fair.

Starting point is 01:22:12 And he's debating against this guy, Adam Hamilton. Guy I never even heard of, Frank. I should have known more about this guy, But he's a pastor over there. He's a great debate. I mean, he knows the state very, very well. I hadn't even seen that many. I'm just going to be honest, but I know stuff and I don't.

Starting point is 01:22:30 I watched this state fair, and I was like, whoof, I was mad at myself for not paying more attention to this. I was focused on a lot. I'm focused on Iowa and Ohio and Michigan and Florida and Texas and Maine. And, you know, and all these South Carolina, I think, could be a sleeper Democratic Senate pickup. But I wasn't paying attention to Kansas. And I should have because Roger Marshall, the MAGA senator right now, New York Times did an expose.

Starting point is 01:22:56 This guy when he was an OBGY and an obstetrician gynecologist, he would like sue his patients and not like one, 700 patients. Dude, sue, how do you even sue 700 patients? It's a crazy number. And he would wage garnish them. He would bring him to court. He would screw their credit if they didn't pay 100 bucks or 150 bucks. And so that's who we're dealing with. And this guy's like, we love the tariffs here in Kansas.

Starting point is 01:23:22 We love them. What do you love them? It's screwing people in Kansas when Donald Trump even says, you know, we're going to, we're going to bankrupt Bombardier. You may want to check there's a massive Bombardier plant in Kansas. And they use more American parts than Gulfstream does. You know, so this guy's like the tariffs are working. They're not working objectively.

Starting point is 01:23:42 They're not working. Stop it. They're not working at all. They're failing as everybody said they were going. going to fail. Just because the one month after Donald Trump announced Liberation Day, it didn't totally get destroyed, things take time. It wasn't, now we're seeing the inflation so we're seeing all the things that experts warned about. They're happening. They're not hoaxes, right? The whole thing Donald Trump today, I'm the hoax buster. That was Trump's post. I'm the

Starting point is 01:24:08 hoax buster. AI is a hoax, he posted. Data Center is a hoax. You know, that's just the golden I love flock cameras, not flock camera hoax, data center hoax, AI hoax, just so you all know, I'm not being hyperbolic. Donald Trump said people who are worried that AI could be harmful, that's a hoax. People who are worried that data centers are harmful, that's a hoax. People who are worried that flock cameras will intrude on your privacy, that's a hoax. He said that he wrote that. He said these comments, but if you want that, I'm not going to political message you.

Starting point is 01:24:45 If you want to be treaded on and to be treated this way, then I wish you, I wish you the best. I don't know what I say. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski says, Trump likes flock cameras, data centers, deregulated AI, new foreign wars, no carbon standards for coal and gas power plants, crypto-scam, selling pardons and covering up the Epstein files to protect himself in his wealthy cronies. But Maga cultists think he cares about them. If you like this shit, I'm not going to convince you at this point. I'm not going to show you an add and move you two points to the right.

Starting point is 01:25:18 If you really like this world, good luck. I truly don't know how you brush your teeth in the morning. I don't know how you get it. I don't know how you do your day. If you look at the, I truly wonder how you go about your day, but I actually don't want to get into the depths of that depravity. So I wish you the best at this point. Good luck.

Starting point is 01:25:37 I'm not trying to convince you that. Enjoy, enjoy whatever this is. In any event, let me play you out with what happened at this debate. Let's play it. the Republican incumbent, Dr. Roger Marshall. I guess I just ask the audience, who do you want solving this problem? The tariffs are a disaster for everyone across the state of Kansas, whether you realize it or not. Look, these tariffs are working. We are expanding our export markets because of them.

Starting point is 01:26:12 We love Kansas. We will live here. After I'm elected Senate, I'm not going to sell my house and move to Florida as you did. All a social media myth made by the social media not. as well, that the average cost of gasoline has been less under President Trump than it was under Joe Biden. You can look it up. You can fact-check me as well. If you love $6 a gallon diesel fuel, you can thank Roger Marshall. He supported this. He told us to tighten our belts because this was the cost of being safe in America. We were supposed to be out of this war after four weeks, maybe six weeks. We're six months in.

Starting point is 01:26:51 Would all the people in the room that I ran, one I ran to have a nuclear weapon? Raise your hand for me. Does anybody in this room when I ran to have a nuclear weapon? Well, last year, when you voted for the one big beautiful bill, you gave $30 billion in tax cuts to data centers. You may not agree with me on everything, but you're going to know exactly where I stand. Whose snap benefits are being taken away by you, and you're saying they all have fraud? We're talking about 18,000 children in Kansas who lost their snap benefits,

Starting point is 01:27:21 under his leadership. And I've worked hand in hand with Bobby Kennedy to help bring these make America healthy again, topics back. And courage is when you stand up to your president and your party and you say, this is hurting people back home. And you say it, even if your president's going to bully you,

Starting point is 01:27:38 pick on you, primary you and call your names, you still say, this is not okay. Thank you. And then, of course, I mean, it speaks for itself, as we would say in the law. I'm going to do a longer video on this, so I didn't cover it in extensive detail on this episode, so watch the longer detail. But the Supreme Court officially denied Donald Trump's emergency request to restrict mail and ballots for

Starting point is 01:28:05 midterm elections, Alito and Thomas dissented. And this was what we predicted was going to happen this morning. Do you remember the video I made this morning and I was saying this is the reason why you had Judge Carl Nichols, the Trump-appointed judge, issued that 1230 a.m. ruling in the D.C. district court blocking Donald Trump's mail ballot scheme where Trump was going to change the barcodes and have a Trump voter list. I said he wanted to send, you know, this Trump appointed judge wanted to send a signal that this was a bipartisan blocking of Trump's unlawful conduct, right? And so you had Judge Talwani, the Massachusetts District Court judge, and Obama appointee blocked it. But now we have the Trump appointee district court judge block it. So an Obama judge and a Trump judge blocked it, right?

Starting point is 01:29:03 And so then it also, I think, gave a little bit more cover to this right-wing Supreme Court to be like, here's our ruling. And then Trump can't really be like, it was a right-wing, it was a left-wing Obama thing. So that's why I said, I believe that judge was doing this at 1230 a.m. So we'll leave with that. We'll leave with that positive news. Brett and Jordan, you agree? I agree. I always good to end on a positive note.

Starting point is 01:29:28 Donald Trump being smacked down by the Supreme Court, a very, very, very important ruling. And it's good to see that and excited to see your longer take on that then. All right. Sounds good. I appreciate you. John Cushner. The Kushner, the Kushner face, I was skeptical at first because I don't know if I saw the video. I think I can refine it and make it better.

Starting point is 01:29:52 Yeah, you conflagrated it. Yeah. Perfect conflagration, Ben. Perfect conflagration. Oh, boy. All right. Everybody appreciate you. Get the copy of WTF America.

Starting point is 01:30:04 Pre-order it now. These pre-order it for just for an honor of the various faces. I put it all in the line right there. Ben's doing permanent damage to his face. Permanent damages. As my parents would tell me growing up, my face may stay like Kushner's face. It may get stuck like that.

Starting point is 01:30:18 I may get stuck like Kushner's face. So if I get stuck, this is all I got. This is all I got. Thanks, everybody. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. Before you go, our book, WTF America is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code, or click the link in the description.

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