The MeidasTouch Podcast - OMG! GOP Candidates Make BIG MISTAKE at END of Campaign

Episode Date: September 30, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the rot of the Republican Party with some of the strangest mistakes and behavior yet. Uplift Desks: Visit https://upliftdesk.com/meidas and get FOUR free accessories, plus an extra discount off your entire order. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the MeidasTouch Patreon: https://Patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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free of charge bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming ontario i think this perfectly highlights the rot the condition of the MAGA Republican GOP right now. Look, you have Mark Robinson, the scandal-plagued, doesn't do it in justice, but the scandal-plagued Republican gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina. Here he was campaigning at the end of last week. This is real. Look, he posted this photo of himself.

He's campaigning with cardboard cutouts of Donald Trump and Melania. This is a post that Mark Robinson made of himself campaigning in North Carolina with Trump in a tuxedo and Melania in an evening gown. And people are there taking photos with the cardboard cutout. More on that in just a moment.

But you take a trip slightly up north in Virginia to Virginia's 7th Congressional District where there is a hugely important congressional race. You have Eugene Vindman, the Democratic candidate who Donald Trump retaliated against and attacked. He's running against someone by the name of Derrick Anderson, who when Roe v. Wade was overturned, this MAGA Republican, Derrick Anderson, wrote, SCOTUS finally got it right and overturned a 50-year decision of federalizing abortions. As Justice Alito stated, the lack of constitutional

reference to abortion requires Roe and Casey to be overturned. And trying to present a lighter family guy image of himself, on the one hand, Mark Robinson's out there doing cardboard cutouts of Trump, but you've got over here this MAGA Republican Congressman, Derrick Anderson, taking photos of himself, get this, with a rent of family, not even his really family. This is his neighbor's family. You have this MAGA Republican, Derek Anderson. He's not married. He doesn't have children, but he wants to pretend he is and then attack childless cat ladies and attack other people's families.

So he takes a photo with somebody else's family and presents it as his own family to try to win the 7th Congressional District while taking away your freedoms and our freedoms here in this United States of America. Think about that. Now, let me go back for a second here to MAGA Republican Mark Robinson running for governor of North Carolina. Remember when Donald Trump claimed he knew nothing about the situation of Mark Robinson running for governor of North Carolina. Remember when Donald Trump claimed he knew nothing about the situation of Mark Robinson making these horrific posts about sexual relations with his wife's sister, who I don't even want to go. I did a whole video where I tried to read it.

I got through about two of the messages. He also calls himself a black Nazi. He denies that he makes these posts. He says he's doing an investigation into CNN. I think I'll mention he denies it. But CNN's investigative reporting was pretty good there. Here he says he talked to Donald Trump about it. He spoke to Trump recently.

Here's what Mark Robinson says. Play the clip. From President Trump. We've spoken to him, had great conversations with him. But we have chosen to Trump recently. Here's what Mark Robinson says. Play the clip. From President Trump, we've spoken to him, had great conversations with him, but we have chosen to do that because we want to make sure that he wins this state. And when Donald Trump was asked about Mark Robinson, Donald Trump says, I know nothing about the situation. I don't know anything about it. Here's what Donald Trump had to say. Play this clip. The option to move around while I work also promotes better circulation. I've definitely reduced strain on my back and my neck, and I know it's helping prevent long-term health risks.

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One of the reasons I'm pointing this out, the Derrick Anderson example, the Mark Robinson example, is just how phony all this GOP stuff is. And then they go and take away our freedoms, take away your freedoms, and then behave like this. So speaking of the cardboard cutouts, this has been something going on in the GOP for a long time. We've been covering it here. Remember, we were one of the first outlets to report through the Patriot Takes account back in 2021. Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene, we captured this moment, it's disgusting, but remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene had the cardboard cutout of Donald Trump,

and she would campaign with this cardboard cutout. And then as she would campaign for office, she would grab the penis, the crotch area of the cardboard cutout as part of her stump speech. So just think about this. She would go, you can't make this stuff up. She would go town to town campaigning with a cardboard cutout and grab the cardboard cutout of Trump's penis. Cardboard. Disgusting. Here, play this clip. There we go. There we go. And then I gotta do one more thing. I GOP, here are just examples very recently. Mark Robinson with his cardboard cutout. Here's his post. Folks, it's great to be back on the campaign trail.

More county Republicans are working hard. We're united and ready to take back our state. He acts like this is like a normal thing. You know, it was about two years ago at the Midas Touch Network we created a video short which I think has proven to be pretty prescient and we called it Weird GOP I want to show it to you right now let me just play this clip for you let's play it problem is they are a weird political party. Stop! M&Ms will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing,

until the moment you wouldn't want to have a drink with any one of them. These 26 QAnon people. Q is a patriot. QAnon believers lined up on the grassy knoll. It's the site of the JFK assassination. They believed that the president's late son, JFK Jr., would miraculously appear and that he would help Donald Trump take back power. I want to talk about the real pandemic, child sex trafficking.

By putting masks on these kids' face, you guys support sex trafficking. Have you been a good little Nazi? It's not necessarily the extreme. I mean, these are people that talk about testicle tanning. Testicle tanning. It's testicle tanning. Half the viewers right now are like, what? Testicle tanning? That's crazy. But my view is, okay, testosterone levels crash and nobody says anything about it. That's crazy. By and large, a large part of the Republican Party is just out and out

weird. Then all of a sudden you get invited to, like, well, hey, we're going to have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes. You should come. And then you realize they're asking you to come to an orgy. You got a lot of really crazy people. The frontrunners of the Ohio Republican Senate race got into a heated fight. When do we invade Australia and free and oppress people? In Florida, the State Education Department rejected more than 50 math textbooks for promoting

critical race theory. The Democrats are the party of princess predators from Disney. Disney stepping in saying, you know, in every episode now they're going to have Mickey and Pluto going at it. Like, really? Come on, Disney World. The Santa's flag. The antidote that we've seen now is urine therapy. Satan's controlling the church. Calling gingerbread men a gingerbread person when obviously they're men.

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss. Wind. They say the noise causes cancer. Absolutely normal. Yep.

They're really like odd ducks and i say we created that and this was before everyone was saying oh weird weird weird because the behavior there is this is objectively weird stuff but then it goes to the next level where it's dangerous because it's about actually taking away your freedoms and taking away your rights with these things. And so as I reflect on it, I think about what Donald Trump was saying on Friday night, where he gave this weird town hall thing. And he keeps on talking about the tariffs and he goes, America was great. 1890, he says. Remember what he said last Friday night? Here, play this clip.

We're going to be doing a lot of things, but we're lowering taxes. We're going to use tariffs very, very wisely. You know, our country in the 1890s was probably, Marsha, probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs. And we had a president, you know, McKinley, right? You remember Mount McKinley? And then they changed the name. But one of those things, he was really a very good businessman and he took in billions of dollars at the time, which today it's always trillions,

but then it was billions and probably hundreds of millions. But we were a very wealthy country. America was great in 1890. As I posted on my social media, I said, okay, we've been watching the movie, waiting for the ending. When was America great? When you say make America great, what do you mean by make it great again? Right now, America's leading the world under Biden and Harris in GDP. Leading our stock markets booming. Your 401k is up. Crime is down. Unemployment is at all-time lows.

America's economy growing faster than any. So we're doing pretty great now. But when did Donald Trump think it was great? 1890, he says. You know And that's what I put. McKinley? This is just strange stuff. So you can judge for yourself. But they want to turn this into, you know who they love, right? They love the president of Argentina right they love this guy Argentina's poverty rate soars above 50 percent right Argentina's doing terrible who else they love Viktor Orban in Hungary they could go it's the strong man Viktor Orban inflation in Hungary was like 20%, number one. Number two, their entire GDP is smaller than like a single, fairly normal-sized company in the United States. So as Donald Trump attacks American corporations, just that one American company has a bigger GDP than all of Hungary.

But he like loves Viktor Orban, the strongman. This is, no, let's highlight it, let's talk about it together, and let's just, you know, call this stuff out. Thanks for watching, hit subscribe. Let's get to three million subscribers together, okay? I mean four million subscribers, we got to three million. Anyway, I've been at a hospital for a long time

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