The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump CAVES QUICK on Thanksgiving

Episode Date: November 29, 2024

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We had to do this one. And we've got some great news, I think, to report. In Midas Touch world, we just got stats that Midas Touch surpassed Joe Rogan in viewership on video podcasts leading up to the election. That's pretty big news. We'll talk more about that. But I also want to talk about what's going on in the country and the world. Donald Trump got quickly schooled on the international stage by Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum.

Donald Trump beat his chest. He was loud and obnoxious, made all of these threats against Mexico. And then she held firm, and she basically said, Donald, you don't know what you're talking about. She wrote this letter to him, and I'll go over what she said in the letter. And then Donald Trump responded, I won. I got everything that I wanted. And then she responded, I truly have no clue what you're talking about. You didn't get anything different than what I said before we spoke. But however you want to feel, you could go and feel.

And, you know, she's representing the sovereignty of Mexico. And we see that world leaders are not going to back down to Donald Trump. And I guess that may make MAGA people feel like, oh, we did it. We did it. We solved everything. You didn't solve anything at all. And it's important that we stick to the facts. Also, some good news to report. Some California Republican seats surprisingly flipping blue. Some seats that were not expected to flip blue, flipped blue. Talking about California's 45th congressional district.

We're talking about California's 13th congressional district. And previously we had called California's 27th congressional district flipping from red to blue. And so what this means with Donald Trump appointing a lot of mega Republicans in Congress to cabinet seats, at least until some special elections that are going to take place in about April, it's only going to be a 217 to 215 House majority for Republicans if things hold this way. And I think that we saw what happened when they had a bigger majority than that. So it's just going to take basically one Republican who's not going along with their playbook, and they're not going to be able to get anything done at all. And the types of things that

they're saying they want to get done, though, I really want to talk about it. I mean, you've got Jody Ernst, a senator from Iowa, talking about make them squeal. We want to make the government squeal. You have Elon Musk running the Doge Committee, just a made up fake agency. That's not a governmental agency, but it's masquerading and pretending to be one with Republican support. He says he wants to inflict economic hardship. And then you've got a new trade representative who was just appointed by Donald Trump talking about decoupling the United States from China so that we would all feel short-term pain in a decoupling as we go after

China. I want to talk about this and more. I want to stick with the facts and I want to wish everybody a very happy Thanksgiving. And as I said at the outset, we couldn't do this Thanksgiving without holding a live podcast. So whether you're watching this on Thanksgiving or you are watching this the day after Thanksgiving or over the weekend or listening on audio, we just wanted to spend this time with you. Brett, Jordy, how are you? Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Always grateful for this community here. Grateful for the Midas Mighty. Grateful to be able to do this show, to have this platform, to be able to use it for good. Grateful that our reach numbers are being noticed, although we'll talk about them more in a little bit. But I'm just grateful that the

message is getting out there, honestly. It's now more important than ever that these messages are getting out there, that they're connecting with folks, and that we're able to break through with the truth as we see kind of, unfortunately, so many of these kind of corporate media channels and newspapers cower to Donald Trump and bend the knee. It's so important that we do not. It's so important that we stick to our mission

of telling the truth, of getting the facts out there, of being a check on power. And that's what we promise to do every single day. And thank you for letting us into your home. We are eternally grateful and happy Thanksgiving to you and all your families. Jordy, how are you doing? Happy Thanksgiving, y'all. So happy to be here. I saw the chat last week when I was giving the programming note. People were a little bit surprised that I said that we were going to be doing a Thanksgiving Day pod. We never miss a pod, especially Thanksgiving. We celebrate it with our family. And this right here, the collective might is mighty. Y'all are family. You know that. We're not missing today.

So happy Thanksgiving. We hope you're enjoying it. Benji, where do we want to start? Look, Teddy Roosevelt had something called the big stick policy. Walk soft and carry a big stick. In other words, act like a statesman or a statesperson, but when you need to show power, you show power at the right time. Donald Trump, in my view, has the little stick policy whereby he acts obnoxious and beats his chest, makes all of these threats, but ultimately backs down. I mean, one of the fundamental things that I talk about sometimes when MAGA people are always like, but he's a businessman. In addition to telling him that he bankrupted all of his business, I'm like, he's not a good deal maker.

He really isn't. He's never made, he got daddy's money and then he basically did bad deals with all with that money. I mean, if he literally did nothing with his money, he'd be far richer than he was before he got elected. And for all the people who were like, he lost money. No, he didn't. He made far much more money while in the White House. And after grifting on being the president that he did before, it's not even close. But why else would he need to do a show like The Apprentice if he was actually a real billionaire at the time? You wouldn't need to do that. And why would you over the past four years have to start selling NFT trading cards? And why, if you were the wife of a billionaire, would you be selling $99

figurines of yourself if you were really all that wealthy? I mean, he's made his money now and his wealth off of basically selling off America. So a great example of him being not a good deal maker, and this is how he operates, as I like to say, the little stick policy, is he makes some pronouncement on social media. Do you think somebody like a Jamie Dimon or a Warren Buffett or other business leaders would erratically make pronouncements that could impact their bottom line on social media as a way of kind of commuting, like in all caps. So that's what Donald Trump did earlier in the week. He says he's imposing a 25% blanket tariff on Mexico, on Mexico, Canada, and then an additional 10% tariff on China. He hasn't mentioned any other

countries at all. So other than, I mean, China is not a close ally. We're obviously very competitive with China, but Mexico is our number one trading partner and Canada is our other top trading partner. So for your very first pronouncement, you're not going after like other countries that are antagonistic to the United States. I mean, you're going after your top trading partner in Mexico and you go after your top trading partner in Canada. Also a thing to know too, you know how like these MAGAs, like they love Viktor Orban in Hungary, despite the fact that like inflation was like 25% in Hungary, their entire GDP was like 120 or like $180 billion, less than a lot of American corporations. What do they also love?

They love Argentina, right? Javier Millet, they love him. They say that's great. 53% poverty rate in Argentina. And over the past, whatever it was, year, year and a half, I think real wage growth in Mexico has increased about 25%, whereas wage growth in Argentina, negative 22%. And so there's actually a lot of good things that are happening in development in Mexico over the past few years under their previous president as well, who gave the handoff to Claudia Scheinbaum, its current

president. So anyway, Donald Trump makes that post. He makes that threat. Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, says, first off, you don't know what you're talking about. And then she says, okay, I guess we're going to have to feel mutual pain. And she writes this letter. And if I can, I just want to read the letter because I think it's so important that we stick with facts, right? And I don't want there to be things lost in translation. We have source documents of what the president of Mexico actually said to Donald Trump. So why should I paraphrase it? Let me just read it to you. It's not that long. It was written on right here, right? And you know who was really good at doing that? Zelensky with Putin, I think was one of the models for how you deal with these kind of blowhard tyrants who spread misinformation. You can't see the battlefield of information.

You know what? Let me give credit to somebody in the United States on this also, though. Pete Buttigieg has been fantastic at this, I got to say. Pete Buttigieg, the other day, Don Jr. and Elon Musk were going back and forth, and Don Jr. was spreading just blatant lies about the electric vehicle charging program across America, basically saying falsely that there are only eight or nine chargers that have been built with these billions and billions of dollars. And then Elon Musk joins in with Don Jr. Don Jr., Pete Buttigieg replies to Don Jr. and says, everything you just said is a lie. And then Elon Musk puts the onus on Pete Buttigieg to explain the issue rather than the guy who just made it up to explain it. So he has to explain the facts rather than the fact that Don Jr. did the lie. But then Pete Buttigieg did this long tweet thread and clarified everything. And then at the end of it, Elon Musk

was like, oh, that's very interesting, actually. Didn't know a lot of this. So thanks for sharing. And it's like, dude, you're the electric vehicle guy. You're the Tesla guy. This is something that you should probably know and probably do know. But they just like to stir shit online and they like to spread disinformation. And it's one of the things that they use Twitter or X for is to spread this disinformation. And so meeting people on these battlefields actually does become important, especially for world leaders to provide a check because we're already seeing, and I know Ben is about to go over it in a second, how Donald Trump is going to weaponize social media in order to pretend like he is doing things that probably have already been done. In many cases have already been done by president Biden to take credit for things president

Biden did, or to completely fabricate a situation between him and world leaders. He's going to use it as a disinformation machine. And so sometimes the only way to combat that is for just the truth to be flooded through those same systems in order to fight back. And that's what Claudia Scheinbaum did quite brilliantly here. I'll toss it back to you, Ben. Real quick, and let's get really specific about Elon Musk real quick there, Brett, because it's very obvious that he knew what he was putting out there was false, right? He wanted to spread that misinformation intentionally to confuse the American people, to confuse the world. What Buttigieg did so brilliantly too in his response was how quick, how quickly it was done

and how efficiently it was done. Just like how Scheinbaum responded so quickly. You have to cut these things off at the head, right? It's a great point. We're in 2024, almost 2025. There's no time to go around a round table and debate your response. There's no time to run this up the food chain and try to figure out, is this the right word? Is that the right word? Maybe we should say it this way. Maybe no, you got to get the message out fast because people's lives are at stake. And it also reminds me of the FEMA spokesperson who spoke out very quickly when Donald Trump was spreading all that misinformation when we were getting hit with those hurricanes as well. It's all about the rapid response in a very quickly and efficient manner that people could very quickly understand, Benji. When you talk about FEMA, the problem though is the distribution

hose, right? We're going to be talking a little bit, where people are investing their dollars in kind of corporate media, all the attention Rogan is getting, you know, how then corporate media covers Rogan and all of those things. And one of the things that we've seen, though, is this, you know, just very powerful kind of fire hose of lies, though, that, you know, we do our part here on the Midas Touch Network to bring on the FEMA rep who tells us what's going on right away. But how corporate media then reports on it is that it's a both sides issue. On the one hand, you've got Donald Trump saying that FEMA is not giving people money and that they're actually helping illegal immigrants and not funding what they need to fund.

And on the other hand, you have the truth. It's one of the ways corporate media let us all down. So we have to build these structures, what we're building here. So here's the letter from Claudia Scheinbaum, dear President-elect Donald Trump, I'm writing to you regarding your statement on Monday, November 25th concerning migration, fentanyl trafficking, and tariffs. You may not be aware that Mexico has developed a comprehensive policy to assist migrants from different parts of the world to the southern border of the United States, parts of the world who cross our territory and route to the southern border of the United States. As a result, and according to data from your country's Customs and Border Protection, CBP encounters at the Mexico-United States border

have decreased 75% between December 2023 and November 2024. Moreover, half of those who arrive do so through a legally scheduled appointment under the United States CBP-1 program. For these reasons, migrant caravans no longer arrive at the border. Even so, it is clear that we must work together to create a new labor mobility model that is necessary for your country, as well as address the root causes that compel families to leave their homes out of necessity. Just pause there for a second. So one thing she's saying is already in the letter on November 26th, migrant caravans are not a thing. Okay, they're no longer, there's no such thing as migrant caravans anymore. So let's just stop that.

And then she also says here, one of the things that we need to deal with is that you, we must work together to create a new labor mobility model that is necessary for your country. You know what she's saying there, right? Comprehensive immigration reform. She's basically talking about the bipartisan border deal. She's saying that because of the way your country doesn't deal with immigration the right way, you have lots of people who don't have papers, but they're integral to the labor market regardless. So you need comprehensive immigration reform. That's what she's schooling him on there right there. It goes on to say, even if a small

percentage of what the United States allocates to war were instead dedicated to building peace and fostering development, it would address the underlying causes of human mobility. In other words, she's saying, it's your fault. You spend all this money bombing other countries. If you actually focused on not spending money on bombs or less money on bombs and more money on dealing with your economy and helping people and dealing with this issue, it would be solved. You're the problem, Donald, is what she's saying. On another note, and for humanitarian reasons, Mexico has consistently expressed its willingness to help prevent the fentanyl epidemic in the United States from continuing. Again, notice her language there, in the United States. Mexico is

willing to help you deal with your problem, she's saying, right? This is, after all, a public health and consumption problem within your society. In other words, it's your country that's doing the drugs. It's not us. It's your country that's doing the synthetic drugs. So far this year, Mexican armed forces and prosecutors have seized tons of various types of drugs, 10,340 firearms, and have detained 15,640 individuals for violence related to drug trafficking. Furthermore, the Mexican Congress is in the process of approving a constitutional reform to classify the production, distribution, and commercialization of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs as serious crime without fail. However, it is publicly known that the chemical precursors

used to produce this and other synthetic drugs are illegally entering Canada, the United States, and Mexico from Asian countries. This underscores the urgent need for international collaboration. You must also be aware of the illegal trafficking of firearms into my country from the United States. In other words, she's saying this isn't a Mexico to U.S. problems. These are Asian countries bringing this into all of our countries, and therefore we need cooperation and not blaming each other. She goes on, and then she says, and by the way, you're putting illegal firearms into our country. 70% of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it isn't in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours? President Trump, migration and drug

consumption in the United States cannot be addressed through threats or tariffs. What is needed is cooperation and mutual understanding to tackle these significant issues. For every tariff, there will be a response in kind until we put at risk our shared enterprise. So pause there. She's saying for every tariff you do to us, we're going to do something to you that puts your country at risk as well. And then she gets very specific. Yes, share. For instance, among Mexico's main exporters to the United States are General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford Motor Company, which arrived in Mexico 80 years ago. Why impose a tariff that would jeopardize them? In other words, why are you going after your own companies?

Such a measure would be unacceptable and would lead to inflation and job losses in both the United States and Mexico. I'm convinced that North America's economic strength lies in maintaining our trade partnership. This allows us to remain competitive against other economic blocks. For this reason, I believe that dialogue is the best path to understanding peace and prosperity for our nations. I hope our teams can meet to continue building joint solutions. Then immediately, like all this MAGA propaganda was like, she submitted, she's back down. She said she's going to close the border. She said she's given Trump everything she wants, which did not happen. But Trump started picking up on those social media posts because he's terminally on social

media. So then he basically incorporates what those social media posts are saying, right? He goes, just had a wonderful conversation with the new president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum Pardo. She's agreed to stop migration through Mexico and into the United States, effectively closing our southern border. We also talked about what can be done to stop the massive drug inflow into the United States and also U.S. consumption of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation. He also writes, Mexico will stop people from going to our southern border, effective immediately. This will go a long way towards stopping the illegal invasion of the USA. Thank you. By the time the campaign is over, everyone will know how really bad the horror of this drug is, to which she then responds right away.

And she sets the record straight. Let's pull up her response right here. She says the following. She goes, in our conversation with President Trump, I explained to him the comprehensive strategy that Mexico has followed to address the migration phenomenon respecting human rights. Thanks to this, migrants and caravans are assisted before they reach the border. We reiterate that Mexico's position is not to close borders, but to build bridges between governments and between people. Now, I don't know how you read this. It was important that I read every word there,

because I want you to see the full exchange that takes place. And I just, I don't get how someone looks at that by Donald Trump and goes, that's power. You know, and perhaps in a 2024 social media age, you know, a president Biden needs to be going about every day, maybe 20 times. He should have just been bragging about everything. Going back to what I said at the outset, you know, the big stick policy of walks off, be a statesman or statesperson, carry a big stick when you need to. I mean, maybe those days are gone. But I just, I look at this Trump stuff and it's like, it's comical. Isn't the right word. I mean, it's, it's goofy. Like, like you just had a fake negotiation with yourself. You got, you got outmaneuvered and now you're posting it. Again, that's not

tough. That was pretty weak. She was the tough person in that discussion. It's completely humiliating, honestly, because she so delicately basically said, America, this guy is a pathological liar and everything he said to you was a complete and total lie and he is a total coward. And if we want to deal with this like adults, we can. And I am here to deal with it like an adult. And Donald Trump just looks so childish. I mean, it feels like a toddler in a way, like lying about what somebody said. And then the person has to be like, what are you talking about? I didn't say any of that stuff. That's not, what are you saying? And if this is going to be a

strategy, it's going to be something interesting to watch where Trump makes some sort of big proclamation, I'm going to do XYZ, and then proclaims that he fixed the problem a day later on Twitter and says, I did it. I did it, everybody. This border issue that we've been dealing with for decades and decades and decades solved it with a tweet, everybody. Meanwhile, if you actually look at the data, because the data is important, you will see that border crossings are at its lowest. They're lower now than they were than when Trump was president. And that is thanks to the executive actions taken by President Biden. I know President Biden didn't want to have to take executive actions. He wanted to do it

through a legislative means. And then Donald Trump blocked that legislation. He blocked the bipartisan border deal. And so Biden ultimately had to take it into his own hands. I'm sure he wished he was able to do, did the executive action earlier. He probably should have, quite frankly. But he's a guy who wanted to deal with things in the normal kind of way that we deal with issues, which is through bipartisan legislation. Donald Trump, the Republicans blocked it, and here we are. And now Donald Trump, I think every single day is going to try to take credit for Joe Biden's accomplishments. And I want to make sure that we call out all of these because this is going to happen constantly, constantly, constantly, constantly as we look ahead to before Trump's presidency, obviously, and after he's inaugurated. When we see things like

the stock market setting records like it is right now, when we see things like GDP growth staying strong, we saw a GDP report yesterday that showed 2.8% growth in the economy. As we see all this data, we're going to see Trump and the Republicans go along with all this BS, taking credit, now saying, oh, Jordy, you're so right. They're going to go right along with it. But Trump's going to go, I have the greatest economy in the entire world. It's the best stock market anyone has ever seen. This is the best that the lowest border crossings. And it's like, yeah, because Biden handed it to you the same way Barack Obama handed it to you the last time and you screwed that up. And it seems like, though, all of Trump's moves are trying to screw that up with whether it's the tariffs or these threats against countries.

I mean, there was a report in Rolling Stone yesterday or at least sometime this week that Trump is thinking about bombing Mexico. He's thinking about invading Mexico and bombing the cartels. And this is something that he's been obsessed with over the past few years and apparently even attempted his first term and had to be told by the military, like, we don't bomb our allies. That's a war crime, actually, is what the Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, told Donald Trump at the time. Like, that would be a violation of international law. We can't just bomb other countries. We can't bomb sovereign countries. But it seems like everything Trump wants to do, all of his impulses are to cause chaos. But part of me feels like if he wants to do nothing and send out a tweet claiming he solved the problem,

and we are allowed to just kind of skate by on Biden's economy. And we know the truth and we call it the truth. Part of me is like, okay, maybe that's the best case scenario of what happens. But it's important that we see through this BS because Jordy, you are a hundred percent right. He's going to do this. The media is going to go along with it. They're going to go, Oh, it is a great economy. Everything is awesome. Oh, look, the border is down. Yeah. You should have been reporting on that last time. We already saw, I've seen a flurry of reports about this Thanksgiving. Speaking of the holiday today, speaking about how this is the cheapest Thanksgiving since

2021 in terms of prices. And when you adjust it for inflation and spending power, consumer spending power, this is the cheapest Thanksgiving going back to like the 1980s or something like that. Where were these articles over the past? Where were these articles over this all this time? But now we're going to see more of that. I'm not sure if you guys saw that crazy morning consult study that came out that showed basically the day after the election, Republicans and Democrats flipped on their views of the economy, which just shows how it's so much about vibes. You had literally the day after Donald Trump was declared a winner, the Republicans all of a sudden said, the economy's great now. Everything's

awesome. And meanwhile, the Democrats flipped to like, yeah, maybe it's not so good. And it's just an interesting kind of study in human psychology and kind of shows you also a bit like how kind of BS a lot of these polls are because they're not dealt with in facts, but they're dealt with in vibes. But I think that's important why the truth is so important and why it's crucial that we are getting out the message that we continue to build these platforms into that. And I hope you all subscribe here on YouTube. I hope you all subscribe to the Midas Touch podcast on audio. Help us get those audio numbers up, up, up. We are beating Joe Rogan. We are beating every network under the sun and beyond it on video, video views across the internet, but we got to do that on audio also. So subscribe to the Midas Touch podcast

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Rogan podcast video ratings are. Of course, this was also during the month where Rogan got the interview with Donald Trump, which is one of the bigger interviews that all the media covered over and over again. And by the way, I don't think you could turn on any corporate media without them saying the name Joe Rogan over and over again. It also just goes to show you how corporate media is just absolutely obsessed with right-wing narratives in general. It's one of the fundamental issues too. We talked before about, Brett, you mentioned the vibes and all of these things. And you said, well, now all of a sudden there's a vibe shift and Republicans are now like, well, the economy's good. Well, they've been lying. The truth is that the economy

was pretty good. All the objective metrics were that, but the corporate media buys into all the right wing vibes and they're really, and it was reported as though we were in some like great depression. And that's not to suggest that everything's great for everybody. That's not to suggest that we should underestimate people's struggles or not be compassionate towards those things. But oftentimes wage disparities between workers and their bosses, those are problems that are caused by Republicans. Price gouging is a problem caused by Republicans.

And so the angst was actually caused by Republican policies. What Biden could control, he did effectively. And that actually led to a bottom-up, middle-out economy. But again, when I think about just the framing of that article, you take a look at the graph and it's like Midas and Disney are tied at number one. Okay. Disney's got a market cap of like $215 billion, right? And the Midas Touch market cap is about $215 billion less than that, okay? And then you've got Rogan, who's got like a $250 million a year deal or something crazy like that.

And then you've got MSNBC, and then you've got Fox right there. Like I kid you not other than the graph, which shows us number one, and it's an article that's going on and saying how great Rogan is, you know, and how Rogan does better than all of these corporate media giants that have billions of dollars, even though he gets hundreds of millions of dollars.

Like there's not a, there's not a single reference to the fact that we were beating him. The chart shows we're beating him because we are. I'll read from this. Just a funny framing. I don't mean to spend the rest of the show talking about that. No, I think it's important to talk about it because the framing is utterly ridiculous. I think we should talk about it. Quite frankly, in my honest opinion, and Brett, I'll pick it to you so we should start talking about it, quite frankly, in my honest opinion. And Brett, I'll take it to you so you could read more about it. Hey, look, I'm okay.

I'm kind of okay with this corporate media because I'm so used to this now. I'm so used to them just overlooking the Midas Mighty community, the Midas Touch network. It's comically intentional at this point. And look, again, I'm fine with it. Keep ignoring us, right? Because we're going to appear right next to Disney freaking junior with 1.3 billion YouTube views on our podcast network. And then you go over to Rogan and the whole article is about him. And look, I'm not jealous. That's fine, man. Hey, good for you. Whatever. That's awesome. Great work, Joe. But the funniest thing to me is Adweek, which is not a right-wing publication. I come from the marketing world. Pre-Midas, I did marketing.

That award, that's one of my marketing awards that I actually was able to win in my marketing career. And it was a huge deal to appear on Adweek. So Adweek's not like this right-wing platform, but it's as corporate of corporate media that it can be. And so their framing to me is just utterly hilarious about how this podcaster, this Joe Rogan podcaster is out punching corporate media and how he's getting all these amazing views. And literally right next to him doing better is another podcast, another podcast network,

the Midas Touch Network, Comically intentional, brothers. And I want to be also clear. I'm not going after Joe Rogan here at all. Honestly, congrats to Joe Rogan. These are incredible video numbers. They're amazing. They're not as good as Midas Touch's video numbers, but they're incredible.

They're great video numbers. And, you know, of course, I'll also concede that Joe Rogan has an extremely large audio presence and, and crushes it, um, on his Spotify audio podcast, like a hundred percent. But this article is about the growth of video on the internet. Um, and so when we speak about the growth of video and you have this chart that shows Midas touch and Disney tied for number one, and the way that they are, um, the way that

they are discussing this is based upon minutes watched across YouTube and Facebook. So the amount of time people actually spent watching these platforms. Midas Touch is number one along with Disney and Joe Rogan is second. Yet the whole framing of this article is about how Joe Rogan has now surpassed the mainstream media and surpassed all the other channels. And that's where my issue is not with Joe Rogan has now surpassed the mainstream media and surpassed all the other channels. And that's where I, you know, my issue is not with Joe Rogan at all in this regard. My issue is with the framing of the corporate media who just loves to talk about certain things and just likes to just ignore certain things for some reason. I mean, how many articles, think pieces have we seen in the New York Times, in various

papers, on the news over the past few weeks since the election, have we heard things like, oh yeah, pro-democracy people, they need their own platforms. They need their own version of Joe Rogan. And then they completely leave Midas Touch out of the conversation. And you're like – and so I'm just here. Like, am I missing something? Like, I, like, I don't know what else are you just scared of us? You don't want to speak about us because we're competing with you because hello, hello, we're doing more views than him. It is exactly that it is because we're not tied to any corporate interest or have any of these executive stakeholders or shareholders. This is a people-powered movement led by you, the listeners, you, the Midas Mighty, and that strikes fear into all of these corporate

entities. You know what it is also, Jordy? Speaking about corporate entities, to piggyback off exactly what you're saying, here's what I think I've realized also is we here at Midas Touch, what you see is what you get. We have a great staff, a great team, a great engine behind us, a great team of editors and producers and writers and then things like that. We don't do publicity. Like we don't have a publicist. And these other people all have publicists. And I think that plays into it a little bit where they are kind of pitching stories about them. And so like, you know, there's a hilarious story about Megan Kelly's impressive, incredible, astonishing numbers on herself. And it's like, she does a fraction of

what the Midas Touch Network does. We've never run an ad about the network. We've never did any promotion. Our marketing budget is $0. And we're going against people who do have our marketing budget is $0. Um, and we're going against people who do have big marketing budgets and people who have publicists who quite frankly are tied to, you know, you, you may have the, I bet if you looked at Megan Kelly's publicist, for example, I bet she also represents a lot of other people in the media, um, who, and they have all these relationships to pitch stories like Megan Kelly is just straight up question. She's nowhere even be found on these charts. Um, and again, and again, I'm, I'm,'m i'm totally okay with it i am because you know what the work is more important than the accolades to me right the midas touch community this pro-democracy community it's never

an ego driven like we never make this stuff about us it is just comically intentional when we see it time after time that like we just have to talk about it on this episode. We should go on these tangents. We should go on these. I liked it. I like that. Good, good tangent. We addressed it. Let me deliver some good news for you. Rudy Giuliani almost crying outside of the courthouse earlier this week. Let's play it. Reality is I have no cash. It's all tied up. So right now, if I wanted to call a taxi cab, I can't do it. I don't have a credit card. I don't have a checking account. I have no place I can go take cash out except a little bit that I saved, and it's getting down to almost nothing. I have a business. I can do business expenses.

But I'm very careful about that because God forbid I should make a mistake between a personal and a business expense. Unlike Hunter Biden, I go to jail right away. Okay, I think there's so much to unpack there. I kind of say that I'm going to start using that as, I'm going to save that sound. And anytime, like, if you're like,

hey, Bretttt like you got a couple bucks like i i forgot to go to the atm i'm just gonna be like reality is i have no cash it's all tied up it's funny how our brains work because i was thinking that we should need to accept it just like that and then julianne's like listen you're shane listen shane i've got no cash you see i got no cash i got no cash you you see. I got no cash. I got no cash, you see. Listen, listen, you see. At the end of the day, it's not like if I were Hunter Biden.

Dude, Hunter Biden is convicted of felonies. Like, what kind of example? Like, I wish you got the Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden literally has sentencing soon. Yeah, you got off easy compared to Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden, give up your hunter biden i'm not gonna pardon my son like i like hunter biden like suffered from drug addiction like i genuinely feel bad for the dude after like everything that he's gone through and they literally went after hunter

to go after his dad but like that's the example that you give the guy who who the justice department was actually weaponized against who got convicted of of felonies for things that nobody else would ever be charged with. A tax fraud charge, what he actually paid back as taxes, and a charge for filling out a form saying that he was not on drugs during a time period when he was on drugs, being prosecuted by a special counsel with a Trump agenda where people believe that people should have AR-15s wherever they want to do. Just think about that. Hunter's charge, and I'm just randomly digressing here. So if you were drinking beer and if you were drunk and then like the next day or, you know, you then go buy a gun, that's a felony. And they charged Hunter basically with that. You should have said that you were a drug addict on the form.

You checked the box. No. And Hunter got convicted on that. So that's the Rudy Giuliani news. Other good news to report in the House of Representatives. Earlier in the week, we heard that Adam Gray, the Democrat running against Republican incumbent John Duarte in the Inland Empire area, that's California's 13th congressional district. Some ballots from Merced were coming in. By the way, I'm from California california objectively we should figure out this process

because it is takes yeah we yeah we got it we got to talk about this we got we got to really california california what the fuck okay you gotta count these votes yeah okay what do you that's why that's why i live that's why i live in pennsylvania this is what are you doing over there let me just say it is one of the most popular states and then there's a lot of like ballots from out of the country it's like a lot of election the election was like a month ago what are you doing yeah okay i'm gonna put my foot down here california you got to get your shit together and this is like a district too this is like a statewide one district one district and and so the democrats pulled ahead and it looks like Adam Gray is

going to go on to win this, flipping a red seat blue. We see the same thing earlier in the week on the 45th congressional district, Derek Tran beating Michelle Steele, the MAGA Republican, turning that red seat blue. And then Democrat George Whiteside in California's 27th congressional district that was held by MAGA Republican Mike Garcia, who was a big stain. Mike Garcia was in the Los Angeles area, real MAGA extremist and that seat flip. So to be fair, California held all of its congressional seats and flipped three red states blue, or three red seats blue, which is some good news to report. So what that means is, given Donald Trump appointing a lot of these MAGAs in Congress to his cabinet, until special elections take place, for example, in Florida and other states right around the April period, it's only going to be a 217 to 215 majority. So quite literally, if one or two people just don't show up, Democrats can take

control of the House right away. If something happens to a MAGA Republican, Democrats could take it. It's very, very narrow. There was a point there where I was wondering, because I kept seeing pick after pick of Trump pulling from the House of Representatives. And I think I texted you guys. I was like, is he trying to purposely throw the house? Is he purposely trying to flip the house? Because I think Trump always needs somebody to blame. Think about Trump from the very beginning, right?

And he'll always find somebody to blame. Don't get me wrong. But he'll blame the deep state. He'll blame the rhinos. He blames the Democrats. You know, he'll blame whoever he needs to blame. But I think the fact that even narrowly right now that the Republicans are going to control the House, that Republicans are going to control the Senate, that he has the White House, everything is going to fall on them. And so part of me, I had this conspiracy theory. I'm like, is he trying to flip the House so he could blame the Democrats a little on this?

Because it was just so bizarre, but it's going to be very tight for all these things. But I think the lessons that we have learned is, and this is a big difference, I think, between Democrats and Republicans, that if this were the Democrats that had a one or two vote lead in the house, they would be like, how do we work together? How do we work together to solve our problems here? Let's work across the aisle and let's get things passed. Republicans are just so brazen and they just double down on their extremism and they don't try at all to do that. It's something that I think we've noticed over these past few years when they've had a very slim, narrow majority.

I want to talk more briefly though about the Doge agency, this fake governmental agency, which is masquerading as a real government agency. It'll be interesting from a legal perspective, you know, given the representations made, you know, if it has quasi-governmental agency status based how it's representing itself, it then kind of triggers certain public requirements. So one of the things that fascinates me is if you're a quasi-governmental agency, for example, and I should do hot takes on it, but it's something that's been ruminating in my mind, which is public records requests, for example. Should you now get access to all of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's emails that they're sending

and their text messages and their direct messages? Have they now made themselves into governmental actors? And so rules like that apply. And there's a lot of other implications if you're a public entity. One of the things that Vivek Ramaswamy posted, I did a whole video on this as well to show that literally every one of his posts is just so hypocritical. He goes, governmental support for non-government organizations is an oxymoron. Isn't that quite literally what Doge is, the non-governmental entity? Ben, I've also seen him say multiple comments like, we need to stick it to these unelected bureaucrats should not have our say in our government. It's like, bro, you're the unelected bureaucrat who is trying to have the most power over our government. Everything they do is just so hypocritical.

And then you have people like, so one of the things that they've done, because these Republicans can be so easily bought out, is they recognize that Joni Ernst from Iowa was one of the biggest critics of Donald Trump's cabinet picks like Pete Hegseth and others. She wanted that position. So now they're making her the head of the, like, all you have to do apparently, you know, to buy off these Republicans is like, just give them social media attention. So they've made her the Senate liaison to the Doge committee. And so she goes, I'm partnering with the Doge Committee. She has a $2 trillion blueprint. Most of our money goes to national defense spending and it goes to

social security and healthcare. So when you're going to cut $2 trillion, where do you think that's going? If they're like, we got to slash the hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare fraud. I mean, so stipulated, I agree with that, but that doesn't get you to $2 trillion. And you know who's committing that Medicare fraud? You may want to look at your MAGA Republican Senator Rick Scott, who settled the biggest Medicare health fraud. That's how he made his money. He settled it. He invoked the fifth. He got a golden parachute for his company for the amount of $300 million. And his company like pled guilty and like settled the case for billions of dollars with the federal government for engaging in the biggest Medicare fraud scam.

So it's just notable when you when you like just take a look at the language they're using to from Doge. It's all performative, but it's also like deeply alarming to like Joni Ernst. Her hashtag is make them squeal like you make make who's like you want to make people squeal. I mean, people who rely on Social Security and Obamacare make make them squeal. Remember that line, because, you know, that's something that I want to make sure we're clear. Like, oh, you're trying to make me squeal. And then Donald Trump's pick, Jameson Greer as his U.S. trade representative. I mean, these people have these ideas that are cooked up in these laboratories of oligarchy and autocracy, as my friend David Pepper would say.

And they're not practical. This trade secretary, this trade rep, he's talked about decoupling the United States from China. In other words, making the United States not use Chinese products. So what are we talking about? People know where iPhones get made and the parts. So how are you going to decouple this? What is that even going to look like? And you take a look at what he says, and his exact language is, while there's no silver bullet, and in some cases, the effort to pursue strategic decoupling from China will cause short-term pain. And so if you take a look at the language of these billionaires and agents of these billionaires, they keep on using this language over and over again. And I want to be very clear about what that language is,

right? Elon Musk talks about hardship. We need to inflict hardship on us. What Argentina's doing is great. 53% poverty rate is great. No, no, no, it isn't. This guy, the trade rep Greer talking about short-term pain, make them squeal, you know, call me old fashioned, but you know, for me, going back to what we said at the beginning of the show, I like politics and statesmen and stateswomen in the, you know, I like that big stick policy. I don't want obnoxious loud people who are paper tigers when it really comes down to it, who can't back up what they're actually doing and threaten people and bully people, but deep down are weak. Perhaps I'm old fashioned in the age of social media. Maybe that's why, you know,

Adweek talks about Joe Rogan because he makes a bunch of, you know, hyperbolic, conspiratorial, you know, misogynistic at times, you know, kind of statements. And maybe, you know, in a social media age, you got to get attention. You got to go, ah, look at me, look at me. You know, maybe we're just not, maybe you need to do more of that right now. But call me old fashioned. I like people who walk soft, who act mature, who behave like adults and back up what they're saying with real power when the time is right. For me, government and things that are functioning should not be about inflicting pain on our own people or on our trade partners. I mean, to me, governance should be about helping

people and lifting people up and not knocking people down, not making them squeal. It should be lending a hand. How can we help? How do we figure out these situations together and make sense of the complexity of the world that we live in? That's my view of things. And that's what we stand for on the Midas Touch Network.

This is going to be real serious talk. We go through stats. We go through data. We go through charts. I go through legal filings. I go through the footnotes. And again, maybe that's not, I mean, clearly more people are watching it. We see the stats than the other networks.

But perhaps corporate media still doesn't think that that's what people care about. I don't know. But to me, that's what I want to know the facts. I want to know the data. I want to see it. That's what we're going to provide here all the time. I want to remind everybody, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. You can meet me, Brett and Jordy, on these Zoom chats that we're doing. And I want to wish personally everybody a happy Thanksgiving, Brett. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. And please remember to add the Midas Touch podcast anywhere you get audio, a podcast. Now I'm dead set now on catching up on the audio because we've conquered in the video.

We got to get there in the audio. So there's a lot of people watching this right now live along with us. Go ahead to Apple Podcasts, to Spotify, add the Midas Touch Podcast on both. Send it to your friends and family as well. Have them add the Midas Touch Podcast. Let's continue to increase our position in the landscape, not because we're obsessed with numbers, but because we want to be able to get these messages out there. And I'm tired of these think pieces day in and day out going, oh, where's the, where are all the messengers? Where are they going to be? Well,

we're right here. We're not going anywhere. We're just getting started. You're a part of this. Let's build this community bigger and better than ever this Thanksgiving. I just want to reiterate that I am so thankful for all of you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for making us the number one channel in the United States. Thank you every single day for giving us a reason to fight, a reason to wake up and making us feel optimistic about the future of our country and showing that we could do it in a way that is honest, that is even handed, and that is righteous. I really appreciate it. Thank you very much. And then we'll toss it to Jordy to sign us out. Shout out to the Midas Mighty! Hey! The Midas Mighty standing strong

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