The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump CRASHES HARD and Gets MORE DESPERATE

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

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free of charge bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming ontario so is it even considered campaigning anymore where you just sit around at a country club where you talk negatively about the United States economy as the economy is actually soaring and setting records and you stand beside a bunch of like cereal and milk and you just start crap talking about the United States of America over and over again, trying to actually cause harm and sabotage the United States of America, while that is normalized by corporate media that decides to cover that instead of, say, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Governor Wall Street. I just want to talk about that at the outset of the show, because as Donald Trump continues to decline in the polls and Vice President Kamala

Harris and Governor Walz continue to gain momentum, Donald Trump is getting more desperate. He spoke earlier in the week in Asheville, North Carolina, whether it's because he can't fill any stadium or auditorium of significant size, or simply he also hasn't paid his bills in various auditoriums across the country. Donald Trump chose a very small venue in Asheville, North Carolina, to host an event earlier this week. It was the same usual ranting and raving of Donald Trump, not saying anything of substance and just kind of whining throughout the entire time. You compare that to Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden speaking together earlier in the day about things that actually matter to the American people, like Medicare negotiating

reductions in prescription drug prices that will impact millions and millions of Americans, something that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans tried to block. I mean, today's a day where we're getting good economic news. Sales at U.S. retailers unexpectedly surged in July, way beyond expectations. Jobless claims are at their lowest level since July 6th. The stock market soared past 40,000. It was up over 500 points at some points today. You got all of that going on. And then you have Donald Trump, you know, having the corporate media just have him lie after lie after lie while they broadcast it.

So much so that I don't know if you noticed this for those who were watching it, that Fox had to remove the chyron of the stock market today when Donald Trump was talking negatively about our economy so that it could continue just to lie to its viewers. We'll talk about that and more on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben, joined by Brett and Jordy. Jordy bringing back the red hat. Brett bringing back the USA hat. I love it. I love it. How are you guys doing? USA, USA. I'm doing great. Another very weird day in the world of Donald Trump and JD Vance, but that's just, I think any day that ends in Y at this point, it just gets weirder and weirder and weirder. You know what I was thinking also, as we see Donald Trump just

not campaign and just hide in his country clubs and private golf courses. First off, that's just incredibly strange. And the nerve, the gall of the Trump people to act like when they tweet out and say things like, where's Kamala? Why haven't we seen Kamala? It's like, yeah, she's been in every state. What are you talking about?

She's in front of crowds of like 20,000 people every single day. Your guy is holed up in the basement of his country club that he lives in, which is its own weird thing. But one of the things that I've been kind of taking notice of, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are like never in the same place at the same time. And I get wanting to divide and conquer and go up, but that's not what's happening. This is, it's very odd. Like, have they even been in the same room at the same time more than like three times ever? I'm genuinely curious. Do they not like each other? Do they ever talk to each other? I'm thinking of the RNC. I'm thinking of other things where they may have been together, like in that weird Fox interview, that moment in...

I can't think of much else, honestly, but the whole thing is just weird. It gets weirder by the day. We're going to dig into it. Jordy, how are you and your red hat doing today? I'm doing great. I got a lot of compliments on the red hat, brother. So I'm just going to say, I'm saying we're taking red hats back. So there it is. Brett, to your point, before we kick it back to Ben, at this point, I'm thinking Melania has spent more time with Trump than JD Vance. I mean, it's close at this point. And we know how much Melania loves hanging out with Trump. So, hey, we'll see.

We'll see. I'm really excited for today's show. Real quick, shout out to our Australian listenership, man. Gotta love the folks from Down Under. I was taking a look at some of our metrics. We have a huge, huge, might as mighty coalition out there in Australia. So thank you all for listening. We appreciate that. Thank you, mighty coalition out there in Australia. So thank you all for listening. We appreciate that.

Thank you, mates. Very big in Australia. Thank you to all our supporters internationally as well. We're all united when it comes to supporting democracies because, you know, I know that this election has impacts and ripple effects across the world. Let's just take a look briefly at what went down during this bizarre press conference that Donald Trump held in Bedminster, the burial site of his first wife, Ivana, where he let the shrubs grow over it. Yeah. Donald Trump, so first off, the reason he's

doing these press conferences is because he can't actually speak to crowds and so his team tries to like write him the script and he never actually is able to even stick to it he gets the corporate media to like cover these things we make the editorial decision here at the Midas Touch Network that we will never run these things live we need to look at the clips we need to fact check what he's saying and then we can show the clips because to let him rant and rave like a lunatic on our digital channels is just detrimental to our democracy. But let's just show you what went down with the appropriate fact checks. Here Donald Trump says that Vice President Kamala Harris called him weird and called JD weird, and he says we're not weird.

This is part of the press conference that Donald Trump's holding today here playing this clip. Very angry at her. I think I'm entitled to personal attacks. I don't have a lot of respect for her. I don't have a lot of respect for her intelligence. And I think she'll be a terrible president. And I think it's very important that we win. And whether the personal attacks are good, bad, I mean, she certainly attacks me personally. She actually called me weird. He's weird. It was just a soundbite. And she called J.D. and I weird. He's not weird. He was a great student at Yale. He went to Ohio State, graduated in two years at the top of his class and all of these different things. And we have this guy that's running a failed,

really a very failed state who's had a terrible career. I mean, you have him saying they're weird. No, he's a weird guy and she's weird in her policy. I mean, there's so much to unpack right there. He goes, I'm entitled to personal attacks. Then he says, I'm not weird, which is a weird thing to even say. This is economic speech. Let's remember, this is supposed to be a press conference on the economy and it's neither of those things. It's an excellent point to just reemphasize. That's why we're all here, right? That's why

he brought the press to come and cover this so he could talk about his plans for the economy moving forward. But I don't think there was much economic talk. Well, it's the scam that he pulls on all these things. He doesn't leave his places. He doesn't leave Mar-a-Lago or he doesn't leave Bedminster. He walks outside of his private country club, which is a choice, I will say, to talk about the struggles of the working man from right in front of your private country club or private golf course that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to belong to. I'll say that is certainly a choice. And then to just ramble incoherently about random stuff. But it's a scam that works on the media, unfortunately, because apparently as long as you

dub anything a press conference, they're going to show up with cameras. And he hand selects also the reporters who are going to be there. So the people there are his sycophants. So he has like a little crowd who applauds for him. And then he has like organizations like the Gateway Pundit and all these like far right organizations that ask ridiculous questions like, how did you feel when God saved you on that fateful day? And crazy things like that. But CNN and, well, we know Fox will, but like a CNN airs it, they go, it's a press conference. Maybe Kamala Harris will just start calling her rallies press conferences and maybe they'll start airing them one day. It's a good experiment. You know, one of Donald Trump's moves to where he plays the press is when he doesn't know the

answer to a question, he goes, I'm going to hold a press conference on it. Very powerfully, very soon, I'm going to hold a press conference on it. Then he never holds a press conference on that topic. Remember, was it two weeks ago now, he said he was asked a question in the other press conference, I think, that he held. He was asked how he was going to vote on the Florida referendum about women's reproductive rights. I'm going to hold a press conference on that. Okay, well, he doesn't do that. Remember back in 2015 or 2016, he said he was going to hold a press conference about how Melania had gotten to the United States of America to answer all of those questions when he was spreading all the birther conspiracies. He never did that. He says he's going to hold a press conference. You remember

during the debate with Biden, when he was asked a question, he said too, he was like, I'm going to do a press conference. You want me to do a press conference on it? I'll do a press conference on it. The guy has like three to five moves. They're all stale. They're all weird. And it's just important that we call it out. But the corporate media eats this stuff up. You know what I'm saying? I see some of these reporters, Ben, that will say, breaking. Trump says he'll be holding a press conference to discuss his position on abortion. And it's like, are you really falling for this? Like, are we really doing this? How many times do you have to fall for this before you realize that it's BS? Like, come on. Watch the Midas Touch Network once. I beg you. You know, it's like when he files the notice of intent to file a lawsuit against the Department of Justice and

he'll like say, I'm going to sue the DOJ for $100 million for the lawful search of Mar-a-Lago that was done with probable cause with a search warrant. There's no basis to file a lawsuit, but he knows if he puts 100 million, because it's a headline grabbing number, the corporate media will be like, Donald Trump files $100 million lawsuit. And then when he loses the case, it doesn't really get any attention at all. Think about this. Remember when Donald Trump sued our friend Michael Cohen for like $300 million? And remember, he fundraised off it. I'm suing Michael Cohen $300 million for all of these things. And everybody wrote about it. And then the lawsuit started. So Michael Cohen's like, bet. All right, let me take your deposition.

Then Donald Trump refused to sit for a deposition. Then when he finally couldn't delay any longer, he dismissed the case without prejudice. And then there was like barely a peep about that. Like no one's like the headline should be. Donald Trump filed a completely frivolous lawsuit and he was scared as hell and that's why he dismissed the lawsuit. But it never gets that coverage because the corporate media can be played so easily by fascists and the MAGA Republicans have learned how to play the refs like that. And frankly, it's one of the reasons we need to revisit and rethink the media. It's

what we're doing here. Okay, part of Donald Trump's economic press conference right over here. He claims that people don't know vice president Kamala Harris's last name. And he says something like you ask a man on the street, they don't know what her name is. Here, play this clip. So I don't think so. I don't think people know who she is yet. When people, cause really people didn't know. You can ask the man on the street. I saw it on one of the shows today you can ask the man on the street i saw it on one of the shows today they asked the ministry what's the last name of kamala nobody knew it's harris nobody knew the last name i don't even use it because nobody knows who i'm talking about people don't know who she is again it's just the most ridiculous thing in the world yes people do

know who she is she's beating you right now. That's what's going on. And then so Donald Trump is also obsessed, obsessed that she's on the cover of Time magazine. And he also is obsessed that it is a drawing versus an actual photo. The fact that it's a drawing bothers him so much. And so this is what he talks about in this as well. Here, play this

clip. And when they find out, I think you're going to see something. But right now, even not knowing her and with all of the, like the cover of Time Magazine, they didn't put a picture. They got a great artist to do it. What was that all about? You know, what was that all about? The whole thing is crazy. What's crazy about that? What do you mean? What's that all about? Why what was that all about the whole thing is crazy now what's crazy about that what do you mean what's that all about why is it a strange thing that there's an artist on time magazine who who did a cover just think about it this way donald trump sued uh the people who do like the nobel peace prize like he he sued them because he was not the winner. That's who this individual is. I don't think there's anybody in the history of the United States who has filed more lawsuits and lost more

lawsuits than Donald Trump. Just think about this too. In a day where we've learned as well that part of the reason why unemployment is low, why manufacturing jobs are soaring. They're soaring also in green sectors. If America could lead the world when it comes to wind and solar and other sources of energy that work and that are clean replacements that make our climate better, but also help our economy, we're adding hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Factories that were shut down are now being revitalized. We've been to some of those factories, Brett and Jordi. Brett and I were in Pueblo, Colorado. We saw with our own eyes a factory that was struggling when Trump was in office that make the biggest wind turbine, is the biggest wind turbine plant in North America.

They're thriving, adding thousands of workers. And we see this repeating in Michigan, in Ohio. People are getting jobs. Yet Fox and right-wing propaganda and corporate media are making people who benefit from these policies go against things that would give them their own jobs. Like watch, this is part of Trump's press conference where he talks about wind energy is, he goes, is killing your birds and destroying the fields, the gorgeous fields. Listen to what he says here. Instead of playing this game with wind that is ruining everything, killing all your birds, destroying the fields, all these gorgeous fields.

You got windmills all over the place and you have birds. You want to see a bird cemetery? Just go under a windmill. You see thousands of birds dead. The bald eagle, if you kill an eagle, they put you in jail for years. And yet these windmills knock them out like nothing. And nothing happens to the people now. And Brett, you've done this before too, where you've transcribed what he's said, because when you actually read what he's saying also, it's clear how demented and psychologically disturbed and detached he is, even more than when you just kind of

watch it happen. And I want to show you this other clip. So think about this. Think about if Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz were giving a speech or holding a press conference. And I know the MAGA corporate media thing now is to say, Vice President Kamala Harris doesn't talk to the press. She never speaks to the press. Over and over again, almost every day, she speaks to the press. She goes out, she answers their questions. She doesn't answer them in deranged ways. I mean, she answers the questions like a normal person. So sometimes there's not like a, you know, like a clippable moment where she says something like outrageous.

She just answers the questions. It takes her five or 10 minutes to go through the questions and she's all right. Thank you. But imagine if she and Governor Walz were giving a speech and they said something like 100% of all net jobs created are from migrants. Just think about that alone here. Listen, Donald Trump says this, but just think of someone said 100% net anything, what was created when it's clearly a false number here, watch this. And I want to talk about it. Virtually 100% of the net job creation in the last year has gone to migrants.

You know that most of the job creation has gone to migrants. In fact, I've heard that substantially more than beyond actually beyond the number of 100 percent. It's a much higher number than that. But the government hasn't caught up with that yet. Does anybody have any doubt that if Vice President Kamala Harris answered a question like that, that there would be five op-eds in the New York Times and other papers and everything saying she needs to go. If she just answered the question like that, that would be it. It's done. See you later. We'll show you in a little bit. She gave a speech today while Donald Trump was doing whatever that was, where she gave a very detailed presentation and explanation how a discreet policy that she and President Biden pushed forward together and Biden signed into law has allowed Medicare to collectively bargain

for all the people who have Medicare to lower prescription drug prices and how that has had a tangibly better impact on people's lives. No Hannibal Lecter, no craziness, no whatever. And the expectation is that she's required to do that, which frankly any politician should have to be able to explain things. But Donald Trump can go and ramble about supply chains and it's clear that Donald Trump doesn't know what a supply chain even is. Listen to him try to talk about it. I'm showing you these. I could show you dozens of other clips where he rambles about Kamala Harris. You get the point. You get it.

Let me show you where he tries to talk about the economy. Watch this here. Play this clip. We're going to bring back our supply chains to stop costly supply chain disruptions. We have tremendous disruptions. I have it all the time. And I think you do, too. We order things and I keep saying, well, when's it getting a sir? There's a supply chain disruption. And I mean, you end up getting stuff like three months late now. Every I don't know all these geniuses over here. I think we can say that I'm not sure that you're necessarily as much into it, but they are. And I will say that often, very often we have problems with supply chains where I'm waiting

for things for weeks and weeks. And I say, by the way, whatever happened to a supply chain, sir, it's not coming in. And it's a terrible thing. Nobody nobody ever thought a thing like that would happen to our country. Yes, they did. And there was actually a plan for it when former President Obama was talking about how a global pandemic could impact supply chains. And it was Donald Trump's mishandling of COVID, which did which actually caused a cascading effect on supply chain issues. Now, when President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris came into office, they pushed forward legislation like the CHIPS Act, which said one of the ways that you deal

with supply chain issues is you make things in America. The way Donald Trump wants to mock things like wind energy and wind turbines and things like that. Think about one way that you can deal with a supply chain issue. Like the factory we were at in Pueblo, Colorado, they now manufacture the turbines in the United States. It then goes in the railroad in the United States, and we control the supply chain. Before there was investment in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, they would have their main plant in Vietnam and other places, which would make us dependent on certain supply chain shipping issues. So one way to deal with that is to bring these jobs to America. Now, one thing, for example, a big supply chain shipping issues. So one way to deal with that is to bring these jobs to America. Now,

one thing, for example, a big supply chain issue that was exposed during Donald Trump's mishandling of COVID was supply chains regarding semiconductors. Semiconductors are in all of our electronics. It basically runs everything we do. Well, most semiconductors are being made in Taiwan and Asia, and they were not being made in the United States. The US used to control the semiconductor industry, and then we fell off. So we passed the CHIPS Act under President Biden, bringing that back here to the United States of America. And another way you can deal with supply chain disruptions is by having good relationships with your allies, not supporting chaos like Donald Trump does with Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin. So there's concrete strategies

that can actually take place. But Donald Trump is a chaos agent when it comes to these things. And it's obvious just from listening to him, he doesn't even know what a supply chain, he would not even know the most basic even know what a supply chain, he would not even know the most basic thing of what a supply chain even is. But he said supply chain a bunch of times and rambled a bunch of words and said it's the worst thing to ever happen. So take him at his word for it. The whole thing is obviously insane. And what's a wild kind of hypothetical, which really isn't a hypothetical, is to think how far behind we would be as a country if Biden and Harris weren't in

office and if Trump were instead. Because for the first time in, I believe it's like 50 years or over 50 years, the United States GDP is actually growing faster than China's. That's a pretty big deal. And it's because of all the investments that Biden and Harris have made in manufacturing. This is a massive deal. And we'll get into more of the climate stuff later. I do want to talk about those clean jobs in a bit more detail. But what you're saying is exactly right, which is if you try to pretend like the climate is not an issue and that these jobs are not American jobs or should not be American jobs, what are you doing? You are ceding high-paying, highly skilled, good American jobs that are sustainable for the future,

you are ceding those jobs to other countries. You are saying, we don't want these jobs. China, you take these jobs. Other countries, you take these jobs. And I can't think of anything more irresponsible to do to American workers than to leave them in the dust to other countries with emerging technologies. It's like the worst plan on the planet. And like I said, we'll get into more details. The thing I like about Donald Trump doing this, quote, economic speech today, and Trump also did an economic speech in a very tiny auditorium yesterday in North Carolina in Asheville, is that on Friday, I believe Kamala Harris is going to be in North Carolina, and she is going to be delivering her economic platform.

And I assure you, it's going to actually be about the economy. And I assure you, it's going to be quite detailed. And her policies will actually be policies to actually help benefit the American people. I know that's a shock to the media when these speeches happen. We're already learning a few things. We learned that Kamala Harris is supposed to be calling for the construction of 3 million housing units, expanding the housing supply. That's going to be one of the planks that she introduces. The reporting's really just coming out now. She's going to offer tax incentives for builders that construct properties for first-time homebuyers. So definitely a focus on housing, making sure that first-time homebuyers are able to live the American dream. We know that she's

going to be targeting price gouging, which is obviously a huge issue and the major cause of inflation today as well. She's apparently proposing this down payment, $25,000 in down payment support for first time homeowners and has a lot of details with that plan. So these are like tangible things designed to help people and not just the ramblings of a lunatic. And so I think the contrast in Trump actually doing his today is going to benefit Vice President Harris so much when she does her event, especially when she has detail and energy and stuff. The thing I've noticed about this time around for Trump especially is it's far different than 2020. And I think it's even way, way, way different than 2016, which is, I think every time he speaks,

he's actually hurting himself at this point. Every time he gets, he reminds people of why they dislike him. And I think people are just like, oh, I just want to live my life. I don't need this. I don't need this guy in my ear. I don't need this rambling. Enough is enough. I'm ready to move on. And so I think actually the more people see him in some ways, sometimes the better because they're just so repulsed by him, Jordy. No, I couldn't agree more. And I just want to add on to that. That's why this whole fallacy around the America First movement is a Republican MAGA movement. Their idea of America First is solely baited in xenophobia and like hatred, you know, for our neighbors.

But if you really look at it, America first couldn't be more, you know, of a larger platform than the Democrats are pushing forward. How do we keep jobs here in America? How are we making sure that citizens who are below the poverty line are able to live so they don't have to live paycheck to paycheck? Jordy, let me contrast off your point just just to piggyback off what you're saying, because you hit on something. Think about the slogans of the two campaigns, right? You have make America great again. That's a look at we're looking at it back in the past, right?

We want to bring America back to this old time. And we are not going back. You know, those are two very distinct messages. One is a message about the future. One is a message about bringing America backwards. And I think that contrast is actually quite powerful and is one of the geniuses behind Kamala Harris's campaign slogan and the campaign's message. Also their messaging of mind your own business, mind your own business. And I know we got the bracelets right now on store.midastouch.com,

right? Jordy, is that ready to go? It's a little dicey, B. I don't know if they're live just yet, but we do have some excellent, excellent, excellent gear up there. And I teased it too early, so people are going to have to wait for it to give up. Please leave the marketing to little bro. It's my domain. Did I reveal a stage? I don't know if the bracelets were live and ready to go. I'm still working on a few things to make sure they're as accessible as possible for our folks.

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There you go. I'm like, oh, man. All right. Let's let's take a look at Donald Trump's face with a fly on it. While Donald Trump was speaking at that weird press conference in Bedminster, there was a fly that I think it was the same fly that was on mike pence's head was on donald trump's cheek and so there you have it uh that fly is certainly a is a foreshadowing uh defeat so it's good to see that same fly is i mean you know it is the same fly that that fly i think it's the same fly it's yeah it's daddy fly. Thick daddy fly. I think Mike Pence sent it. He said, tell Donald. I want him to know it was me. So the Harris-Walls campaign, what I like, I just like how aggressive they are. They put

out the following statement. They said, statement on Trump's whatever that was. At his country club, Donald Trump huffed and puffed his opposition to lowering food costs for middle and working class Americans and prescription drug costs for seniors before pivoting back to his usual lies and delusions. No surprise, Trump doesn't want to defend his agenda that would raise costs for families by $3,900 a year, cut Social Security, and eliminate the Affordable Care Act. Also, he can give his rich donors tax breaks. The American people cannot trust a word, Donald Trump says, but they can trust Vice President Kamala Harris, who has spent her life taking on fraudsters, cheaters, and criminals like Donald Trump to make our country safer and lower costs for the middle class. I like that they are not mincing words. I mean, by the way, Donald Trump said over and over again that he was going

to bring, like he has a record, right? We know how he dealt with COVID, right? We saw the disaster where Donald Trump stood there during his press conference and bragged about the ratings from his press conferences during COVID while he told people to inject bleach enzymes. That was the origin story of the Midas Touch Network, that we were watching those things and Brett Jordy and I were just like, okay, we got to do something. I don't know what it is, but let's just start. You can't gaslight us about this because that's why we started this thing, because we were watching, going, what the F is going on and why are people treating this like

it is normal? What is happening here? And so we're like, we have to say something. You know what, Donald Trump can say no tax on tips, but guess what? He has a record. When Trump was in office, he proposed a plan through his labor secretary that would take the tips given to workers and give it to their bosses. Now, why would he do that? Because Donald Trump is one of the people who would benefit from that. It took a amendment to an omnibus bill to stop the Trump administration from stealing the tips of service workers and giving it to their bosses. That was Donald Trump's interpretation of the Fair Labors Act.

So we have his record there. We know that when Donald Trump was in office, he promised an infrastructure plan. He said he would introduce infrastructure and it would be done so good. It would be the most powerful infrastructure ever. He did not introduce it. He said it would be coming in two weeks, two weeks, two weeks. It actually never came. We have a record of that.

On the other hand, Biden and Harris got an infrastructure bill through Congress where now there's close to 50,000 infrastructure projects going on across the country that all these Republican, shameless Republicans who voted against it want to take credit for this opening and that being built and this happening and that happening. They want to be there for the ribbon cutting of things that they voted against. Then when it comes to healthcare, Donald Trump said that he had a beautiful, big healthcare plan that was better than Obamacare, better than the Affordable Care Act. Then Donald Trump showed up to interviews with a binder of blank pieces of paper stacked up to claim that was his plan. There was nothing even written. It was literally blank

pieces of paper and there was no healthcare plan introduced. The only thing Donald Trump tried to do, because we have a record of this, these things actually happened, is repeal the Affordable Care Act. But for John McCain voting to keep the Affordable Care Act in place. Remember when John McCain voted against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act? Had Trump got his wish, your healthcare would have been taken away from you. So we have Donald Trump's record there. How do people realize how horrible it was before the Affordable Care Act, before Obamacare also? People couldn't get insurance coverage if they had anything bad happen to them in the past. People would just get denied insurance and be out of pocket and go bankrupt left and right. It was way worse than people even

remember it being. And the fact that the main Republican policy is to destroy the Affordable Care Act and they have no idea about how to patch the gaps of it and they have no plan whatsoever. That should be an even bigger controversy. Donald Trump promised these factories in Michigan, in Ohio, and remember he would have these big announcements, these big press conferences going back to the- Golden shovels. What'd you say?

He had golden shovels at the factories in Wisconsin. Golden shovels, factories, and then the factories would never get built. And he would play with people's lives. But then what he would do, what the corporate media would do, what right-wing propaganda media would do, is they would then try to scapegoat it. It's the migrants' fault. It's their fault. They're the ones who did it. They're the ones who screwed up when it's just the fact that these billionaires only care about things if it benefits them and their whole plan

is to screw the American workers. That is quite literally what their plan is. So you contrast that to what was announced today, where there was a historic negotiation of drug prices by the Biden-Harris administration, where they were able to utilize the fact that there's huge bargaining power with Medicare. They were able to include in legislation a provision where Medicare can negotiate on behalf of all Medicare recipients with the big pharma, with drug manufacturers, so they can use their collective bargaining power to basically say, you know what? We are not going to allow Medicare to cover your drugs. We're going to go with this drug or a competitor unless you reduce the prices.

So if you want to talk about an actual art of the deal and a real negotiation that benefits we the people and the American people, you take a look at this chart of new prices. And if you're on Medicare, this is a lifesaver for you. This is very beneficial. And this is in addition to the fact that President Biden and Harris has already capped the costs of insulin and other prescription drug prices have been lowered. You want to talk about, again, facts and data. Well, Donald Trump talks about drill, baby, drill, drill, baby, drill. There is a reason why Donald Trump wants to abolish the Department of Education. There's a reason why he says, I love the uneducated. Because if people are educated, they can look at facts and they can look at data.

That for the first time in America's history right now, America is energy independent. I think it was something like America is producing more oil right now than ever in the history of the United States or any country ever in the history of the world right now. Energy independent for the very first time. And when Donald Trump goes and says these ridiculous things like, oh, the Biden-Harris administration, they're importing all of this tar from Venezuela. Again, you can look at the data and see that Donald Trump was importing like six to 10 times more oil from Venezuela than the Biden-Harris administration. I could look through almost any stat, including border crossings. Border crossings right now are down more than during the Trump administration right now. Now, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris thought about this

crazy idea called bipartisan solutions, where they had a Republican conservative from Oklahoma negotiate, lead the negotiations of a bipartisan border deal that was agreed to in principle. You had a guy named James Lankford, a Senator from Oklahoma, who's devoted his life to immigration policy. This is as conservative as you get. I think we can all agree James Lankford, conservative Republican senator from Oklahoma, is a pretty right-wing actual conservative guy. He's not a MAGA guy on most issues, but maybe on some a little bit, but a conservative guy. And then Donald Trump said, no, we don't want a bipartisan border deal because we want to create chaos at the border. And Trump said, blame me. Trump said, that's a winning issue for me. I want

to run on chaos. The same way Donald Trump attacks the Federal Reserve chairman right now and tries to prevent Chairman Powell from reducing interest rates. The same way Donald Trump was talking about, as I mentioned at the outset, he was talking about a Great Depression happening in the United States. Meanwhile, the economy is in one of the strongest positions it's ever been. Do you have any doubt, viewers, the listeners, that Donald Trump would be happy right now if the economy tanked. He, Fox, the Republicans get jolly when there's a day where the stock market does bad. Why? It's simple. Occam's razor. Sometimes the simplest solution is the answer. Their whole plan for power is if there's chaos, if there's hopelessness, if there is depression, if there is sadness, then they come along and they say that it requires a

strong man who's going to come and fix it all. And that's what you need to do. You need to surrender your agency to a dictator. And that's why they want to create chaos. Two years ago, they tried to create a run on the bank. Two and a half, three years ago, the MAGA Republicans, Ted Cruz and others engaged in economic terrorism and encouraged, that's what it is, and they encourage people in Canada to shut down the bridges so that trucks cannot bring in goods and items. We've never had in American history a situation where you've had, other than now, a political party, now it's the Republican Party, that's goal is not to present a competing vision for America. Their goal is affirmatively to try to sabotage our country from within to cause harm, to prop up an authoritarian and to remove the Constitution. Meanwhile, Donald Trump sends

emails where he's plastering his name on the American flag. Donald Trump says that he wants to wear the Trump flag, not the American flag, the Trump gold USA flag, he says, if he gets elected. I just want you to think about that, folks. As we've talked about on other shows, the importance of the flag, patriotism, our constitution, and that the fact that Donald Trump's vision would be to put a gold Trump on the flag. Are we serious? Come on here. Again, I don't care what politics we have. We should look at this and say, what in the world? Is that a Trump flag? No, we fly the American flag.

We don't sing the Trump J6 anthem. We sing the national anthem. Did Donald Trump send one post congratulating the Olympic teams for winning gold? Does Donald Trump said anything nice about America? No, he shit talks America as Governor Shapiro of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would say. All the time, all the, this is fail. We're third world. We're horrible. America's the worst.

Over and over again. Putin couldn't have it any better. Meanwhile, finally, because Ukraine's got the weapons it needed, Ukraine's actually launching an offensive in Russia right now in the Kursk region and has Putin on his heels. It's an incredible change of events, but it's good stuff. Anyway, I know, Brett, you got a lot to talk about. Jordy, I know we got a lot to talk about. I was rambling there a little bit. I got work. Let me just say this, Ben, before we take a sec. That's the power of hope. And that's why the message of joy that Kamala Harris has from her campaign and Tim Walz, that I think is why

it's resonating so much. Because Donald Trump, for the last, I was going to say four years, but really for the last 10 years, his entire mission has been to depress people. His entire mission has been to tear people down to make us all miserable. And now for the first time in a while, people are feeling joy. You see it when you go out, you see it at events, you see it at stores, you see joy. When Kamala Harris speaks at those events, when you see people with their cell phones out like it's a Taylor Swift concert, you see joy. And the difference between a Kamala Harris event and a Donald Trump event could not be more stark. And that is a potent emotion.

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now with Harris and Walz is truly all about hope and joy. And then on the opposite side of that coin, you have the MAGA agenda, which is just simply mayhem and misery. And it couldn't be more clear. You have one party, the Democrats with Kamala and Wallace, with Harris and Wallace, who genuinely want to help people, who want to make this country a more safe place for people to live for everybody. And yet you look at the Republican Party right now, this MAGA party with Trump and Vance, who again, bizarre. I want to say it again. It's weird that they're not campaigning together. More people should be

asking why they're not together. That's bizarre. That's not normal. But yet their whole platform is America sucks. Only we can fix it. And by the way, when we say that we're going to help, we mean, wink and nod, that we're going to help the billionaire in the 1% class. So the choice in this election, it just couldn't be more clear. And I love the emotions of the Wallace Harris campaign, which is joy, love, and hope. If you want to talk about emotion and electricity and inspiring, then look no further, Jordy, than J.D. Vance. I say that sarcastically, obviously JD Vance is holding these events and like parking lots and nobody shows up. I don't know what they are. It's they, they look like the four seasons, total landscaping. Like they don't look really

much different than that. And I'll show the viewers some pictures of like the VIP section at the events and some of the crowds here. Like these are legitimately the pictures right here. Here's a picture on the left. You see a ton of empty seats. This is like an hour and a half before he was going on and like the doors had opened hours before this, like the doors open before hours before the combo events, people are in there, they're talking, they're chatting. And there are what, like dozens of seats if that laid out and like a handful of people sitting in them. Then you have, while he's speaking, you have the VIP section, which looks like, I don't know, a bench that has like 10 people on it. It's all very strange. But J.D. Vance taking his weird tour across the country and

it's going weird, I would say. What do you think, Ben? It's very, very strange stuff and very inauthentic. And, you know, Jordi, the point that you make about fear versus hope, Brett, you made this great point to me offline when we were talking the other day. You were like, just look at Florida. the referendums that are up for where people are voting and where they are on these issues. You know, whether it's like legalizing marijuana or supporting women's reproductive rights, you have overwhelming support for the side of like these really important issues in people's lives that tend to be like 65, 70% in favor of the position that would align with the Democratic Party. You don't even have to look at referendums. I mean, just look at issues in general, whether it's gun control, whether it's climate, which you'll talk about in a little bit, whether it's wages, whether it's the role of unions,

whether it's how we treat our veterans, whether it's paid family leave, whether it's education, whether it's healthcare, women's reproductive rights, LGBTQ plus rights. You go through all of these issues, 65, 75% of Americans support the democratic position. So Jordi, how do you get it so that these elections are close or people are voting against their interests. Fear, hate, lies, division, culture wars. Talk about the Green M&M and Dr. Seuss, and they're coming for your dishwashers. They're coming for your meat. They're coming for your guns. They're coming for this. They're coming to scare people. Say socialism, communism, Marxism. You don't even have to even describe it. Just start saying, use the boogeyman language

over and over again. That's how you get in Florida. I'm not going to vote to legalize cannibalism, but I'm going to vote for Jeffrey Dahmer. You're like, wait, these things seem quite incompatible. I don't understand. And you see that in a lot of these polls, like Ben said, where you have like 70% support for abortion rights and legalizing marijuana. And then those same people, not nearly in those margins, are voting for the people who actually want to take away those rights. And you're like, huh. And that's part of this authoritarian playbook. It's a part of the MAGA playbook.

It's why Fox exists, quite frankly. It's why they say the crazy things they say. But let me build on that because it's also cheap, right? I don't want to make light of those emotions because those are awful things to feel, right? When you're scared, when you're feeling miserable, when you're terrified, when everything is doom and gloom. But that's an easy emotion to invoke out of people, right? That's an easy emotion to really make somebody feel because all you have to do is really start to talk negatively, right? You don't really need to ruin anything in facts, just base everything in fear. That's why though, with the Harris-Walls campaign, genuine joy and emotion and hope is

such a difficult emotion, quite frankly, to harness, right? You could do it in an inauthentic way and it won't come off nearly as helpful or as impactful. But what Walls and Harris have been able to do is provide people with genuine joy and hope for a brighter future because nobody wants to go back to what Donald Trump had led us through during the periods when he was elected. And so when you're able to actually combat all that mayhem and misery from MAGA with genuine joy and hope, I mean, the sky's the limit of the mountains that you could move. And I think we're seeing that. You know, one of the things that Zelensky was able to pull off at the beginning of the war,

when Ukraine was unlawfully invaded by Russia, as Russia did its normal propaganda campaign, and Zelensky was able to point out each step of the way what was happening. And so when Putin would say, oh, Ukrainians are Nazis, or Ukrainians are this or that, Zelensky was two steps ahead. It's almost that same playbook in order to how do you combat propaganda that I see Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz's team using as well, getting ahead of Donald Trump's press conferences and saying, here's what he's going to say, here's what he's going to do. And then when he does it, say, here's what he did, here's why he

did it. And what are they trying to cover up here and frame these issues, and then they can communicate it. The problem with President Biden, while I thought Biden's done an incredible job at the tasks for which he was hired, we have to recognize there is a communications battle and a communications war that's taking place. And you just have to have this rapid response made for 2024 in this specific moment. And I wish that wasn't so. I really do. I wish that wasn't required. But it is clear to me that Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz are made for this moment. And you see now just how easy – not easy, but you see Trump breaking and say, oh, they're calling me weird. You see J.D. Vance on these appearances.

They're on the defensive now. So like J.D. Vance shows up at a VFW post-92 and it's clear he doesn't even know what a VFW post is in general. He's like, I'm here at a... Take out Q card. I'm here at a VFA. I'm one of you. Here, play this clip.

As it's great to be here, it's great to be part of VF post, VFW post 92. I've actually got the card right here in my pocket. I'm officially a member. This is not the last time you're going to see me. right here in my pocket. I'm officially a member. So this is not the last time you're going to see me. Oh, it's like someone saying, I'm one of you. Look, I'm here. I'm one of you. I don't have it on me right now, but have you seen that clip of JD Vance when he tries to like go by the picket line and visit the union workers on the picket line and the woman goes, the woman sees him and goes, yeah, she goes first time here. He goes, yeah. And then like, it here? He goes, yeah.

And then like, it's a very awkward like fist pound that he tries to give somebody. It's like, yeah, it's, it's, that's the thing with him. He is the most inauthentic person on the planet. Can you play that clip again? That's the first time I saw that clip. And that, my, wow, that is one of the most like humiliating clips. He had no idea where he was for the audio listeners. He genuinely takes out this note card out of his pocket as he's saying where he is to make sure he's reading it correctly. Holy cow, that was embarrassing. As it's great to be here, it's great to be part of VF post,

VFW post 92. I've actually got the card right here in my pocket. I'm officially a member. So this is not the last time you're going to see me. You know, and he was like, am I at the VA? Am I Veterans Affairs VFA, VFW? Where am I? So then he goes on Laura Ingraham and they try to help him out. They give him like the biggest softballs, right? So what you're gonna say, J.D. Vance, to suburban women who are concerned you're gonna take away their reproductive rights. So here's what J.D. Vance says. Here, play this clip. Senator, one of my dear friends tonight said to me, well, all these suburban women, all these suburban women, all they care about is abortion. And they don't understand that decision is with the states now. It's not banned nationally, even if people,

some people want to be banned nationally. It's with the states. What do you say to suburban women out there who are marinating in this propaganda? Well, first of all, I don't buy that, Laura. I think most suburban women care about the normal things that most Americans care about. All right, so he's saying there that suburban women don't care about normal things, that it's not normal if you're caring about women's reproductive rights. So she tries to give him the answer, which is, one, a completely outrageous answer to give, right? She's feeding him the answer. Her framing is insane.

Let's start off there. She's leading him to say there's all this propaganda out there that people are saying that women's reproductive rights are taken away. But JD, can you just repeat what I'm trying to say that it's a state's rights issue and women in blue states or purple states are okay here? Like that's what she's trying to get him to say. And then JD Vance's response is basically, you're not a normal woman if you actually care about your reproductive rights because he genuinely has this hatred towards women. Like that's his view. He can't stop that from showing. And then this clip of him from 2020 surfaced where he was talking to a podcaster where he goes,

the main purpose of post-menopausal female is they need to help raise their grandchildren. This is an area where like J.D. Vance has quite literally spent the last four years saying the most horrific and weird things and misogynistic things about women. Just play a small portion because he goes on for like three minutes about his philosophy on post-menopausal females. Here, play this clip. And you can sort of see the effect it has on him to be around them. Like they spoil him. There's sort of all the effect it has on him to be around them. Like they spoil him.

There's sort of all the classic stuff that grandparents do to grandchildren. But it makes him a much better human being to have exposure to his grandparents. And the evidence on this, by the way, is super clear. That's the whole purpose of the post-monopausal female in theory. Did your in-laws and particularly your mother-in-law show up in some huge? So can we just say this? This is what Governor Walz says. And we've made merch that says this.

Just mind your own damn business, J.D. Just stop it. Stop it. Just. And this is when Governor Walz describes this as weird. It's dangerous. It's misogynistic. But when he goes, it's dangerous. It's misogynistic. But when he goes, it's weird. What's weird is like, why are two men having that conversation at all?

Like that's a weird conversation to be having. Then they're sitting around. You know what we should do too? Let's take away condoms. Let's take away contraception. You know, no one else would be good. You know, IVF, which has been like a lifesaver for so many people. Yeah, let's make rules that says the frozen embryo is the same as a human.

And then you can get the death penalty. How about that? Yeah, you get the death penalty if a frozen embryo is destroyed. And then you're treated like a murderer. Oh, great, great idea, JD. Yeah, man. Okay. I've, I've, I've got a good one. I've got a good one. You know, we really need to be talking about, we really need to be talking about an Algerian boxer's vagina. Okay. Like what we really need to be talking about is, yeah, did you see the Algerian

boxer? What, what, what is, what is the president going to do about the boxing federation involving an Italian boxer and an Algerian female boxer? Yeah, yeah. Well, let's actually just, let's spend our time talking about that. I mean, we did a whole video on this thing, you know, the weird GOP where you have like Tucker Carlson and his people, you know, testicle tanning. They're coming for your dishwashers. And you know, the green M&M, she used to be really sexy. Yeah. Did you know the green M&M was like a real sexy M&M? Oh, and now they're making her less sexy. Yeah. They're making her legs a little less long. Oh man, really with the green M&M, she was really sexy. I mean, they have these, when Governor Wall says they're weird, those are strange

conversations that they're platforming and having all the time. And it's just like, let us be happy. Let us live our lives. Stop it. Just stay away from us with that weirdness. And then finally, Brett, I'll pass it over to you when it comes to climate. It's like climate change is a real thing. Okay. We need to address it. We need to talk about it. When Donald Trump has been like, you know what? Maybe climate change means that we're going to have more beachfront property. And that's a good thing. No, it's not a good thing. And it doesn't give you more beachfront property in by its very own terms. It takes away the beachfront property and will sink your fricking Miami and all of these places.

So it's not going to be a benefit. And let's just address with and deal with these issues. You know what we really need to do? Horse tranquilizers. And maybe we should inject ourselves with horse tranquilizers. It's these people's views. Brett, but give us a climate update before we go. Yeah. Like we were saying earlier, the thing with these policies also is they're bad for Americans. It might be good for big oil to push this stuff. You might be saving their pocketbooks, their bank accounts or whatever, but it's bad for Americans and it's bad for American workers. And so it's such a con job by Donald Trump, by J.D. Vance, by this Republican Party, because when you see the actual hard data and more importantly, when you see actual people being put to work on technologies for the future, you're like, oh, that's talking about the clean energy boom of the past few years.

The two years since the clean energy plan was signed into law in August 2022 by President Biden, companies have announced or advanced 646 new clean energy products, creating 334,565 new jobs and driving $372 billion into new investments across 47 states. Trump wants to undo all that. That's the thing that we need to make clear. He wants to take all this away, which would take a lot of these, most of these jobs away. And I thought somebody who made the most brilliant point about these jobs was this writer, Greg Sargent in the New Republic, who does a really great job. He used to work at the Washington Post. He's at New Republic now. He writes really good columns. And his point is that when you take away these policies like J.D. Vance and Donald Trump want to do, you are hurting the people that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are trying to say they are helping. Many of these jobs are in the heartland

of America. I'll pull up right here the clean energy states that are receiving the most jobs here, the most projects from this clean energy boom initiative by President Biden, by Kamala Harris. You got Georgia, New York, Texas, Michigan, Kansas, Nevada, South Carolina, New Mexico, Arizona, Ohio. Those are the tops in order right there. What Sargent says is that the Climate Power Report finds that many of these jobs, mostly manufacturing and wind, solar, batteries, EVs, are concentrated in shrump-friendly areas. More than 100 such projects are located in rural communities, potentially totaling over 50,000 jobs. Most projects are in GOP-controlled house districts nearing 200,000 jobs. I know a lot

of these clean energy plants and stuff. One of the big ones I know is in Marjorie Taylor Greene's district. She rails against these projects. It's given jobs to her constituents. It's such a self-defeating move by these politicians that is just so incredibly, incredibly cynical. And I'll say a little bit more of what Sargent said, because this piece that he wrote, once again, it's on the New Republic, you can find it there. He wrote, but as the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler demonstrates, the Inflation Reduction Act contains many provisions ensuring that more EV parts are manufactured in the United States.

That's meant to help catch the US up with China in such manufacturing. Kessler shows that the Inflation Reduction Act is creating large numbers of these jobs in the US, and this climate power report underscores that. Trump would repeal the whole climate agenda, which would hurt progress in the very places Trump and Vance rhapsodized about. While it's unclear exactly how many of the projects and jobs that would cancel, it's likely to roll back many of them. So if you want to be a jobs president, if you want to be leading the country towards the future, once again,

we're talking future versus the past. These are the kinds of initiatives. It shouldn't even be like a political thing. It should be, let's look at the data. Let's see what's best. Oh, these are good for the environment. Great. Does it help us get jobs? Yes, it does help us get jobs. Does it prepare us for the future? Yes, it does prepare us for the future. It checks every box except line the pockets of oil executives. So that's where we're at right now. But we're all in this together, in this future forward message right now, this future mindset. And I think we all ultimately, whenever we see Donald Trump at one of these press conferences, we all in our mind are like, oh, we got to hear this guy again. It's the same old crowd. He's saying the stock market's going to

crash. He said that in 2020 also. He's saying the same old things. It's the same old boring show every single time. And I know we, I know we're tired of it. I know you're tired of it too. But you know, that's why we got to keep highlighting this stuff. And like I said, at this point, I think the more folks here from both candidates, I think actually the better for democracy at this point, because the contrast is so stark. The messages are so different. Then you're a big part of moving this country into the future.

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