The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Faces PISSED OFF USA over his LIES

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: Could Trump face a massive lawsuit from First Lady Dr. Jill Biden after his latest move?; Trump’s trip overseas shows his weakness on the world stage; Damascus falls as Assad flees in bad news for the dictator; The GOP’s war on social security; and more! Ben, Brett and Jordy break it down. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Should President Biden have pardoned Hunter Biden? Take our poll now: https://forms.gle/ceEZGHg4TxnB5zBS8 Deals from our sponsors!  Aura Frame: Exclusive $35-off Carver Mat at https://AuraFrames.com. Use code MEIDAS at checkout to save! Trade Coffee: Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subscription at https://drinktrade.com/meidas ZBiotics: Head to https://zbiotics.com/MEIDAS to get 15% off your first order when you use MEIDAS at checkout. Leaf Home Solutions: Schedule your free inspection and get up to 30% off your entire purchase at https://leaffilter.com/MEIDAS Mint Mobile: Get a 3-month premium wireless plan for just $15 a month when you go to https://mintmobile.com/meidas Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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can't resist. Despicable, disgusting, and just so unbecoming of the United States presidency. We'll break that down. Doesn't Donald Trump also give a little bit of those Bashar al-Assad kind of vibes right now? I mean, if you think about it, there's Bashar al-Assad, there's Donald Trump right there. Donald Trump is posting today people who are building statues for him in MAGA states. Not the best thing that you should do when statues of dictators are being toppled across the country right now. That's right, folks. Damascus has fallen. The rebels have taken control of Syria.

President Biden's out there with some very serious statements that balances the opportunity for peace in Syria, but also recognizes that America's role must be to stop the regrowth of ISIS as well. We'll break that down as well as other international affairs where the pro-democracy community continues its protests in the country of Georgia against the pro-Putin dream party there. We'll talk about everything that's going on in international affairs where Vladimir Putin never seemed weaker. So what's he doing? He knows how to play Donald Trump like a fiddle, nuclear blackmail against Donald Trump. And Putin keeps putting his oligarchs on Russian state TV to kind of taunt Donald Trump. We'll cover that here as well. Also, Donald Trump gave that interview with Meet the Press, which should be reframed perhaps, Meet American Propaganda

1984 Orwellian Style. What an embarrassing interview from just the questions that were asked. No pushing back on Donald Trump's lies, but Donald Trump did talk about separating families, potentially withdrawing from NATO, how gas prices and other prices are potentially going to rise as a result of his tariffs and more. We'll talk about all of this on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellis, joined by Brett and Jordy. And of course, should have that programming note at the beginning that after the show ends, as soon as it ends, go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch. We have that secret Zoom link for all of our patrons. Can't wait to see you at our secret meeting.

No questions. Off limits. Excited to see you at our secret meeting. No questions. Off limits. Excited to see you there. Brett Jordy, how are you guys? I'm really excited for the Patreon today after this. And if you're listening to this on audio, it's already happened. You could rewatch it by going to patreon.com slash Midas Touch and check that out for the next time. We're going to be doing this just about every week now to make sure that we're able to all just be in touch as part of this community during these times. We think it's super important over here. Everything's going well,

Ben. Looking good, by the way. Look at Ben over here. Ben, man, what a new setup. Looking fresh. HD Ben. HD Ben. This is the first time I think a lot of people have seen you in HD for the first time. So for those on audio, I upgraded my laptop and I upgraded my camera. Now, we still don't have the staff and team at Midas Touch Network to do it for me. So I did it myself. So I don't fully know where to look, but let's be real. I don't really know where to look anyway.

And so I'm trying to look at the camera, but it's a whole different setup for me. So I'm going to figure that out. So bear with me, Jordan. You're doing great, big bro. Jordan, how are you? You are doing great, big bro. I can't wait to get into the show today. So I guess, why don't we just get started, Ben? Where do you want to lead us off? Okay. When I saw Donald Trump posting these advertisements for a fragrance that he sells at gettrumpfragrances.com. This follows Donald Trump selling Trump guitars and selling NFTs and sneakers, assassination. I think it's for literally any item at the end of that.

It's selling Trump and you could just name anything. And like, there's an 80% chance that you're going to be right that he's selling. Well, if you notice the business model, if you want to call it, that is the same for all of these. So he never actually creates the product first. So what it appears to me, this is again, my opinion from analyzing what I'm at least observing, I could be wrong, but I think it's accurate. It seems that he's posting AI images of the product that actually don't exist. And when you go to the frequently asked question section of all of these different products, which all have different dot com names, they all basically say the same thing, that the

product that you see in the photos is for illustrative purposes only. It's not the product you're going to get. So the $100,000 Trump watch, for example, which seems to have parts made in China, it's not even made. So they sell it, they take in all of these orders, they kind of hoard the money, and then they decide how they're going to manufacture it later. They're frequently asked questions. It's a concept of a product. It's a concept of a product. But look, to your point, Jordy, concepts of products are different than concepts of healthcare. This is always when people are like, oh, you hate Donald Trump. Look, if Donald Trump wanted to go out there and he was in Mar-a-Lago and he was not running government and he wanted to sell little trinkets, right?

Sell this and sell that. Go for it. Like, I hope you're not scamming people. I hope it's within the confines of the law. But if that's what you want to do, do it. Concepts of a made up Trump watch or perfume, Jordy, to your point, are different than concepts of a healthcare plan where if you remove people

from the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, if you take away people's social security, if you take away people's Medicare, that means human beings are dying. We saw what concepts of a plan meant when Donald Trump was in charge during COVID. For him, it meant, oh, like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Let's just ignore it.

Let's pretend it's not here. And then we'll just start blaming people for it and not take any responsibility while millions of people die and then rely on a whole propaganda apparatus to push it. So Jordy, to your point, it's grifty, it's ridiculous, but also this isn't any of our while millions of people die and then rely on a whole propaganda apparatus to push it. So, Jordi, to your point, it's grifty, it's ridiculous, but also this is an area of law that I teach at USC Law when I teach in the spring semester. I took off fall semester because me and my wife just had our first baby girl, Ximena, but I'm back in action in spring in front of a class of over 100 students at USC. And we teach name, image, and likeness law and intellectual property as part of the subject

matter that I teach. So I consider myself to be somewhat of a subject matter expert in this type of litigation. You can't steal people's name, image, and likeness and use it for commercial purposes. It's different than if you're reporting on the news, that's newsworthy. The moment you start selling products, all of those exceptions don't apply. And now you're commercializing something using someone's face to advertise your product. There's countless examples of lawsuits that were filed where people's name, image, and likeness were misappropriated. The cause of action, the legal claim is called misappropriation of name, image, and likeness. Sometimes it's referred to as a violation of someone's right of publicity, that you have a right not to have someone publicize your image, your likeness for

the purpose of exploiting it for commercial ventures. But there was a case recently of the rapper T.I. and his wife, her name is Tiny Harris. So T.I. created this band called OMG Girls back in 2009. A company then started releasing OMG dolls that seemed to use the image of T.I.'s band. He sued. He got a verdict for $71 million. And there had to be a lot of evidence adduced, though. Were they related? Is that how the company created these OMG dolls? Here, you don't even have to deal with that. Trump is using Dr. Jill Biden's image to sell perfumes and to sell colognes. You can't do that. It is unlawful in a civil sense. You could file a civil lawsuit for monetary damage. It's not a criminal thing. It's a civil thing. The statute of limitations

on the low end is about two years. So she's got about a two-year period if she wants to sue him for this. What would the damages be? How much money is Donald Trump making from this stuff? Is he going to be making $5, $10, $20 million? Then I think she'd be entitled to punitive damages of three to five, maybe even as much as 10 times the underlying damages. So to me, he's just handed her a potential lawsuit for $100 million. Now, you're probably saying, well, Ben, Dr. Jill Biden's not going to sue him. She believes that the office of the first lady is august. It's respectful. It's dignified because it should be.

So would she kind of go and bring things to this level? I don't know. She probably won't. But also you may have to ask, when Donald Trump degrades the office this way, how else can you deter him from this conduct? I mean, you've seen when E. Gene Carroll at least sued him, it did have a deterrent effect. When Donald Trump was slapped with gag orders, it did have a deterrent effect. He does back down when he's hit with these things. So how do you stop a bully? I think you have to slap $100 million lawsuit on the bully. It's the only thing he reacts to. One more point and then I'll toss it to you, Brett and Jordy. Donald Trump's been found liable for sexual assault. Donald Trump is on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women. So when Donald Trump posts this photo next to the

wife of President Biden and uses language like, can't resist, a fragrance your enemies can't resist, and makes some sexualized implication there, which by the way, Fox then parroted over and over again on all of the Fox shows in the morning. They were basically saying, it seems like Dr. Jill Biden is into power. Seems like she was into Donald Trump. He knows what he was doing. That needs to be deterred and stopped. It's frankly disgusting and despicable. And who wants, I mean, could you just imagine? The fact that this is normalized by corporate media, that's why I wanted to do this as our first story. And it's not to point out, oh, Trump's doing grifty crap. It's just, this is a stain on the United States

of America. And it deserves to be covered with seriousness and in the appropriate legal context. Jordy Brett. Yeah. And I'm not saying necessarily that the first lady, Jill Biden, should go ahead with a lawsuit like this, but I would like to see many more instances of kind of Democrats and just people in general not backing down to this guy. I think far too often, especially right now, you get the sense in a lot of ways that there are a lot of kind of politicians out there who were kind of like, they were like made nervous by the election. When you look at the results, yes, Trump won and the electoral divide was pretty decent. But when you look at the popular vote, when you actually look at how many votes in each state, it's not like it was, it wasn't this mandate. It wasn't this blowout,

like they try to make it seem. And when you look at the gains that the Democrats made in the house, it tells a whole kind of different story even than the national race that was out there. And so I think these sort of postmortems of, oh, like the Democrat brand is dead, like we need to run away from all these policies. I think that is wrong. I think there are improvements to be made for sure. But I think this whole idea that like now we have to wave the white flag, surrender. Now we have to just let's do what Donald Trump says and make Donald Trump happy. That concerns

me a little bit because I think a healthy democracy does need an opposition to somebody who is so anti our democracy like Donald Trump. And it seems like every day when I open up social media, I see another post from somebody who I thought I respected or liked or whatever. And you see something like, you know what, Elon Musk is very right. I actually agree with Elon Musk very much with this. You know, Donald Trump is very right about it. It's like you don't have to bend over backwards to try to appease these people. They are not going to like you.

They are not going to like you. They are not going to work with you. The whole thing is a con, and it's about time that we all call this out and continue to use the power that you have that is a check on the executive branch rather than just folding right off the bat. I spoke with Democratic Congress. Sorry, Jordy. No, absolutely. I mean, he's just such a small, pathetic man. I'd like to think that Melania said no when he asked, hey, can I do a photo of you and we could promote my cologne? And then Melania says no. And so Trump decides, you know what, I'm going to go and do that. She should absolutely sue. I'd love to see it because ultimately, it's what you said, Brett. And I'm not putting this all on Dr. Jill Biden here. I'm not. But

it's that essence, Brett, of people just rolling over and just letting Donald Trump be Donald Trump, right? Like why and why time and time again, are we just letting this person get away with this type of abhorrent behavior? It's pathetic. It needs to stop. And it will only stop when you stand up to the bully, Ben. Jordy, you mentioned Melania. What was she doing on Fox over this weekend? Well, Fox asked Melania, so what are you going to do as the first lady?

What initiatives? You did Be Best before. What's your new initiative? I mean, Be Best was like total BS, but Fox was like trying to do the propaganda for her, right? And she was like, and again, I'm not playing Melania clips and I made a policy here on my videos. I'm not playing Donald Trump's. I have to talk about the news. I'm just not playing their audio and video. Neither am I going to be playing Melania's audio and video. But her response is, well, I've created these very beautiful Christmas ornaments called the Merry Christmas America Collection. And the Merry Christmas America collection for $90. You can buy the Merry Christmas America USA Star. The USA Star is an exclusive limited edition ornament. Purchasers have the option of

receiving a digital collectible as well. That's a photo of it instead of the real thing, if you would just like a photo of the ornament. Oh, Ben, what the hell, man? Are you kidding me right now? I thought you said you weren't playing Clips of the ornament. Oh, man. What the hell, man? Are you kidding me right now? Like I thought you said you weren't playing clips of Melania, but that was clearly – I thought she was in the room with us. With my new camera, with the new mic. It's like – You do look incredible. You look amazing.

Yeah, it's really next level impressions right there. So then one of the Fox hosts then says, well, Melania is actually donating all of the proceeds to a charity for children in need. Okay, no shit. What are you talking about? It doesn't say anything of that on this. And normally, if you were going to do that, you would list the charity it was going to go to. And why wouldn't she say that publicly? Why wouldn't the first thing you say is this money is going to charity. But then Fox does that and puts out that propaganda for her. Speaking of Melania though, I was just going back in history because we talked about Bashar al-Assad.

Can we talk about the Fox propaganda though right now? Because they really, and we're speaking of Assad, so I think this all kind of plays in. It's really ramped up to just the craziest levels. So the other day, Fox sends out a push notification. I'm paraphrasing it ever so slightly, but the push notification sent out by the Fox News app was something along the lines of Trump shows dominance with Macron handshake showing America is back. And you're like, what are we doing here? Like in North Korea, if they ran that headline, I think even they would be like a little much, guys. Really, that's like, we're probably pushing the limits of what the people might believe. But that was an actual headline from an organization that purports to be a news organization. But you could see how that being beamed out to millions of people's phones at the same time being put on headlines, while the antithesis of that is also being rolled out, attacking, attack, attack, attack, funded with billions and billions and billions of dollars.

You could see how this propaganda works and how it permeates and how they try to make these dynamics of strength versus weakness. Look, Donald Trump tugged on this guy's hand hard. America is back. Look, we are so back right now, folks. That's dominance. That's manliness. The whole thing is totally pathetic. And it's so obvious if you're just looking for it. But I think if you're really just embedded in this world, maybe – I'm trying to give some people the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe you don't see how obvious it is. I don't know. But it's so ham-fisted to me that I don't know how you don't see that and go, all right, give me a break here, guys.

Well, Brett, to your point, just so people know the exact context of that, right? President Macron of France invited Donald Trump to the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, which was previously burned down. So this was a big event. Macron was smart. What he realized was, how do I get Donald Trump to meet with President Zelensky and send a message to Putin when Putin's looking very weak right now, when Putin's big ally in Syria is being overthrown? So Macron was the one actually exercising strength and international leadership. And he realized we have this grandiose

historical cathedral. Let me invite Donald so he gets a photo op and that Donald can look and act tough and act like a big shot right there. In the meantime, Macron then brings in Zelensky. And in a brilliant move, this is really Macron's brilliant. He brings Zelensky and Trump together while Trump is, you know, thinking about his big handshake, which he looked ridiculous on. And by the way, Macron was ready for it and squeezing Trump really tight. And you could look at Trump's face in some of these photos. Again, I don't want to show more Trump stuff, but he leveraged Trump's desire for publicity and to seem big, but to bring Zelensky in for geopolitical purposes. And so I wrote an article on MidasPlus.com about it. I called it the tiny or micro stick policy.

I said, we used to have Teddy Roosevelt in 1902. And thereafter, America's policy was speak softly, carry a big stick. You don't have to be loud and obnoxious but you can back up ultimately what you do with power. I said Trump's got a micro stick. It's like a tiny stick policy. It's act loud and obnoxious but you're but you have no real power. So it's interesting to see how Macron was utilizing that and how our enemies like Putin is utilizing that. Putin's using it with nuclear blackmail.

Regarding the handshake, the handshake was the most ridiculous thing imaginable. I mean, Trump approaches the handshake from a downward 90 degree angle from the elbow and jerks the hand up in the weirdest way. It looked very strange. And you're right, Brett. All of the push alerts from Fox were like, the most powerful move ever. He dominated the handshake, biggest handshake ever. Meanwhile, what was really taking place was Zelensky was engaged. Thank you for chopping out the face. Zelensky was engaged in a real diplomatic effort by pulling over Zelensky. That's what was actually happening. And that's actually what the strength there is. I want to talk about all of that. I want to talk about more of exposing Fox's propaganda.

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watch Curb Your Enthusiasm season one. Yes. And then you go to Curb Your Enthusiasm season, like when they have the HD and it's on and you're like, wow, it really looks a whole lot different now. It's a moment. This is a defining moment for Ben right here. Defining, defining. But now you got to make sure like,

they're going to see everything on you now. That's the thing with this. I was nervous for him with the camera. Like it's a really high definition camera. I'd be nervous for myself. Let me rephrase that. I'd be nervous. Like it would like bring out every pore,

every wrinkle. You look great, big bro. Oh, well, I appreciate that, Jordy. I was going to say, I won't turn this into my trials and tribulations of trying to set up this camera last night, but let's just say there was probably four hours of me whining trying to- All I know is I woke up to hundreds of texts as if there was an emergency. I woke up to hundreds of texts and I go through it and it's been having a mental breakdown on iMessage. I'm not going to show you all my texts, but it just went on and on and on and on and on and on and on. And every text are like pictures of the setup and like Ben freaking out because he thought it was like over

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Over the last four years, we've had the lowest average unemployment of any administration in 50 years. This has been a hard fought recovery, but we are making progress for working families. There hasn't been a single month with a net loss jobs report since President Biden's taken over. Here's the thing though, and here's what I understand. The minimum wage, for example, has not been raised for decades. While CEO salaries have increased 1000, 3000, 5000, 10,000%, while CEOs and billionaires know how to dodge their taxes, while the people pay their taxes, people see this disparity. While private equity buys up homes, reduces the supply

of the housing market by commoditizing it and makes it so it's like impossible to buy a home if you just have a regular job and then makes it very difficult for your kids and your grandkids to get good paying jobs to buy their own homes. Yes, these numbers are great, but people are pissed now. President Biden's policies were to deal with systemic issues. And when you deal with systemic issues, they don't heal overnight, right? Like infrastructure act, inflation reduction, bottom up, middle out economics. That takes many years to occur. The same way Reagan's trickled down, which benefited the billionaires, the impacts are, they felt right away, but also are now still being felt to this day, a restructuring of wealth, a massive wealth grab for the billionaires

hoarding all of the wealth. It wasn't enough for them to just be billionaires. They have to take it all and people are pissed, but people need to know how to vent that peacefully and how to vent that and where to vent that anger. What Donald Trump and the MAGA said is it's the trans who are doing it, trans people. It's the migrants. It's the communists, the Marxists. Secret cabals are behind it. MAGA, when they tapped into George Soros, they made it both anti-Semitic and the billionaires. Notice what what Trump would do in all of those ads and all of the emails. He would say the billionaires are the ones giving Kamala Harris the money. Remember all that reporting that we did?

The billionaires are supporting. She's raising money off the billionaires, which she really wasn't. Don't get me wrong. There were some billionaires who supported her, I'm sure. But overwhelmingly, the billionaires supported Donald Trump because they wanted to pay no taxes and they want to get basically social welfare for billionaires rather than taking care of we, the people, of taking care of you. So people were pissed. So Vice President Kamala Harris saying, let's go forward.

Let's turn the page. Hope. There's a bright future. People didn't even know what that meant, I think is the kind of analysis. She ran Obama's 2008 campaign in 2024 when people are saying, I'm pissed. Who should I be pissed at? And Trump is saying, George Soros, migrants, you should be pissed at trans people. They're all taking your jobs. They're eating your pets. They're coming for you. And people were like, OK, got it.

I got to blame. I got to blame some people. While the reality is the ringmaster of all of this are people like Trump and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and all, not just them, all these billionaires and people who have amassed massive amounts of wealth, who have been spiking the football and gloating about it and like laughing in our faces post the election which we see that with these they've all emerged right and they're cocky as you know what they're look what we did his entire cabinet are billionaires who he's put not entirely but um nine twelve people in cabinet and senior billionaires fourteen billionaires donald trump 14 essentially the entire cabinet are billionaires.

And while Elon Musk says things like, you know, I don't support unions because they have a lord versus peasant dynamic. And I thought we weren't playing clips of Elon. Anything with lord and peasant dynamics, I cannot. The Lord versus peasant dynamics, you're saying, are in unions fighting for living wages for people versus, I don't know, the actual Lord v. peasant dynamic of you having $350a-Lago laughing at people because they're not paying taxes while the people are paying more actual taxes than billionaires are paying. I think that's the situation that's going on. So I think what Democrats have to harness right now, but in a peaceful way, is you have to harness the frustrations and the anger and you have to let people know what's up. I mean, the parallels here to these dictators across the world, I mean, I think can't be overlooked. I mean, when I saw Donald Trump posting that people were making

statutes, golden statutes of them or fake golden statutes. I'm thinking it's the same time where Bashar al-Assad statutes are being torn down by just pissed off people and some bad people there too, some rebels. But as President Biden said, there is an opportunity if you can root out ISIS in Syria to try to redefine the future of a Bashar al-Assad free system. I mean- Can I just say, once you start building statues of yourself as like a living president, I think it's game over for you at that point. I've never seen the story end well where the statues are up of the dictator and everything just goes swimmingly for that guy. I just, my whole life, I've seen images of people tearing down these statues after the dictators flee or the dictators are like decapitated.

It just does not end well for the people with the statues. I mean, we go back to, you know, whether it's like Gaddafi or now Assad or Saddam Hussein, you could go back the list of the autocrats overseas who have put up statues. And I'm just going to say the success rate, not a great club to be in at the end of the day, is all I'm going to say. Look, America is not about that, though. That's the frustrating thing. What we used to mock that behavior. There used to be movies, and granted, Sacha Baron Cohen's from the UK, but it's similar to the South Park style mocking of dictators when Sacha Baron Cohen was in the movie, The Dictator. And you would see that, you'd be like, that's ridiculous. That's

embarrassing. That's just some goofy stuff. But that's actually Trump. I mean, take a look at just this photo of Bashar al-Assad that was found in his palace right here. This is what he looked like when he was younger. Doesn't this remind you? He was born with a golden spoon in his mouth. Doesn't that remind you of Trump? Literally, while Donald Trump was dodging the draft in Vietnam, here's the photo of Trump. It's like the same photo right there. I mean, doesn't that give you that small stick energy right there? I mean, and Donald Trump is literally somebody who has a golden toilet bowl. Okay. His toilet is probably fake gold, but his toilet is gold. He lives in a gold luxury apartment.

He lives in a country club and he brags about his wealth. One of the other parallels between Bashar al-Assad that I started kind of picking up on, I said – I was reading some articles about how Vogue did this propaganda piece for the Assad family in 2011. And they featured Asma al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's wife. You see her right there. And they called the article a rose in the desert. And they said, Asma al-Assad is a glamorous young and very chic, the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies. She's breezy, conspiratorial and fun. Her accent is English, but not plummy. Despite what must be a killer IQ, she sometimes uses urban shorthand. And they show the photos of Bashar al-Assad and her and the kid together. This is crazy. And they show that was in their edition.

And then I think about this, the Vogue cover from 2005 with Melania Trump on it. Donald Trump's new bride, the ring, the dress, the wedding, the jet, the party. Why are you selling $99 Christmas ornaments? If you have that, that's not enough. That's not enough. You've got the private jets. You've got any car. You have to now go after the people who, for whatever reason, believe in you because they're watching Fox propaganda. And you have to take from those people $99 when you have that amount of wealth. And then you see these members of Congress. And I hope we have this clip, Brett. It's one of these MAGA Republicans today talking about cutting Social Security and just saying, well, that's

got to be, or Medicare, like that's off the chopping blocks as well. Like, ha, ha, ha, well, that's got to be, or Medicare, like, that's off the chopping blocks as well. Like, ha ha ha ha ha, like, I guess that's what's going to go next. Do we have that clip, Brett? Do you know what I'm talking about? And so we've got to right this ship, and it's going to mean cuts. It's going to mean cuts to the 24% of the discretionary spending that we have. And it's also going to mean looking long term at the front end of some programs like Social Security, Medicare, not taking anyone off of what they paid into so far. But there is some waste, abuse and fraud in Medicare that we can we can take those numbers back and add to our general coffers in our treasury. And on the front end of Social Security,

I think there's a way when people are living longer, they're retiring later, that on the front end, we can move that retirement age back a little bit. Let me get your take on it. It's the craziest stuff. The first thing that you go after while billionaires are amassing the craziest amount of wealth, where you're all prepared to give the wildest more tax cuts to these billionaires. Your first thing that you do as Republicans is go after people's health care, is you go after people's social security without even a sense of feeling like what. So here's the thing, folks. Republicans were out there saying over and over again,

the trans people are coming to look at you in the bathroom. They're coming for your high school sports teams. They're coming to beat you in sports or the migrants. They're eating your cats. They're eating your dogs. They're coming for your pets, even ducks. They're eating ducks off the street. None of that's happening. Republicans are coming for your family.

Not only are they coming for your books, they're coming for your health. They're taking away your healthcare. They're taking away your health care. They're ripping it away from you. They're coming for your retirement. They're coming for your social security. They are coming for you, not hypothetically, not jokingly, not sarcastically. They're doing it and they're saying it to your faces right now. So get freaking angry, freaking pissed, but get pissed at the right freaking people. Get pissed at the people who are doing it to you, who are scamming you and looking at you and laughing at you and mocking you in Mar-a-Lago.

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Oh, I was just going to say, Jordy, do you think I would be a good auctioneer? You really interrupted Brett some great dialogue. I was going to say, Jordy, do you think I would be a great auctioneer? And I was going to go, do we have one? Do you know why I'm saying this other than you think I may be losing my mind right now? Ben, I think you'd be great at anything you put your mind to. One, two dollar, three dollar, four dollar, five dollar, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,

five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, The reason why I'm asking that is Donald Trump's IRS commissioner pick was an auctioneer. And his whole shtick when he was in Congress, like his whole shtick, like he had like one move. It's like the basketball player who could only go right and then do like the one move.

Like his whole move and people are like, oh, this guy is so funny, is that he would like – like when he would like go and give a speech on the floor. He'd be like, do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? Do I got one? You know, people are like, oh when he would like go and give a speech on the floor, you know, people like, oh, that was amazing. All right. All right. It gets old after the first time you do that, buddy. But Billy Long's all stick. This is the guy Donald Trump is bringing in to lead the IRS. The one thing Trump has to fire the existing guy who was selected on a bipartisan basis, whose term isn't over until 2027. But Trump's bringing in this guy, Billy Long, former MAGA Republican

congressman. I guess Trump's going to fire this guy, Daniel Werfel, I think is his name, who is the current IRS head. The IRS has made major improvements right now under President Biden because Biden has worked to bring efficiency to agencies. Can I tell you something crazy about Werfel for a second? I just looked him up. Daniel Werfel graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview, New York. Stop it. You went to our high school? You went to our high school. This is kind of crazy fact, right? Out of all the high schools.

I swear, I'm reading it right now. Werfel graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview on Long Island in 1989. So obviously older than the three of us over here, but that's pretty wild. Out of all the schools in the country, when I looked the guy up, he went to Plainview JFK, which is where we grew up. That's pretty good. Ben, you guys overlapped in going to the public schools in Plainview. When did he say? When did he graduate, Brett? What are you talking about? He overlapped. Ben overlapped. Ben was in first grade when he was in high school. I'm just saying

they overlapped. I was like, did I hear Brett say the dates wrong? There's a connection there. Together, Jory. Ben was a toddler, to be clear. Close. Well, the point that I'm making, in a long, very circuitous and bizarre and weird way, is that President Biden picked people who improved the agencies, whose goal was to do better. So one of the things that the IRS was doing is it found the tax cheats, the billionaires who weren't paying their taxes, it collected the money. That's why the deficit under Biden was far less than under Donald Trump. Trump added $8.5 trillion of debt to our country, the most ever, 25%, 30% of all debt was caused by Donald Trump. One of the ways President Biden managed things efficiently as we clawed back money from billionaires who weren't paying their fair share of taxes. Also, he created an online system for you to file taxes online.

There's a whole IRS filing online system, which didn't exist before. Call times, if you have issues to call the IRS, went down to as efficient as possible before. If you called the IRS, you would never even get in touch with somebody. People were pissed. They hated the system. But then what did the Republicans do? They created a boogeyman. Ooh, Biden's having 88,000 IRS agents who are knocking down your door.

Okay, that's not anything that's happening at all. There were 88,000 new people being hired, I think, over the course of two decades to replace people who were resigning or leaving or aged out, retiring over time. And Biden was created an efficient IRS. Trump creates people who break the systems on purpose. Like Billy Long says he wants to destroy the IRS and he wants to repeal the concept of income taxes with a 23% regressive sales tax, which would benefit billionaires and screw over the 99% massively because the billionaires get to avoid all of their, you know, get to avoid paying all of their taxes. When Donald Trump finds the person to be the postmaster general, he picks the guy, DeJoy, who wants to destroy the post office. The guy's life is like, let's destroy the post office. When Trump finds the FBI director, Kash Patel, let's pick the guy who said that the FBI should be abolished. Let's make him the FBI director, right? When it comes to the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth,

let's pick a Fox weekend news host who has no experience leading in the military. It'd be one thing if the guy was a Fox news host, but was like a general or like another high rank, it'd even be a four star, be a one star, a two star. How about you lead a military company? Hegseth hasn't led any military company. He led two nonprofits after he left, veterans groups that pushed him out because of his personal behavior. He's someone who's been accused of sexual assault. He denies the allegations, but it's a pretty detailed police report. Someone whose mommy wrote a letter to him saying that he's an abuser of women on or around the same time he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman whose mommy's now on TV calling senators on behalf of her son saying, can you please let my son get the nuclear codes? Can you please do it? Penelope, I'm Penelope. And I'm Penelope. And I'm going on all the news for my son. It's like, really, kind of embarrassing. I gave the joke in my last one.

My mom went to my third grade art teacher to get my work hung up. And that embarrassed me. It wasn't for the nuclear codes. I mean, we have Penelope Hegseth going on, Donald, he's a good boy. He's a really good boy. You made the right decision. These are the people who lecture us on DEI. As Brett says, DEI really stands for didn't earn it. That's MAGA, didn't earn it. It's all these MAGA people, Brett. That IRS story that was – I feel like that was one of the earlier stories in the Biden

administration where they tried to make improvements to the IRS and turn it into this IRS agents are coming to your doors and they're going to knock down your doors with weapons. They're sending in an army. That is a very clear instance of exactly what we're talking about here and kind of a big focus that we've had. It's that these culture wars are created and they are, quite frankly, bullshit. They're really made up things. And I don't want anybody to take that as like, oh, you don't care about this group's rights or that group's rights. I just mean they exploit these things in order to control people, in order to turn people

against each other who otherwise would be working together for a common cause. And in this case, the common cause is to actually be able to advance in our society, to have economic opportunity, to be able to live the American dream. That's what everybody wants here, except for the billionaires who are in charge. And so while Donald Trump puts all these billionaires in charge, while Donald Trump wants to strip away the actual parts of the IRS that are actually designed to help people, I understand there's no love lost with the IRS, right? Nobody is like, yay, I'm going to pay taxes to the government. This is going to be awesome. I can't wait to pay taxes. I get that. But these are actually improvements that were designed to claw back more money from tax cheats from millionaires

and billionaires who were cheating on their taxes and in order to actually help you to help normal people out there pay their taxes, figure out how to do it, the process, do it more efficiently. This is actually to improve the process for regular people. Well, the billionaires don't like that. So how do they gut this agency without telling people that we're taking away the things that are actually making your life easier? We're taking away the things. So instead of having to wait on the phone for hours in order to get a hold of somebody at the IRS to help you with your taxes, you get through in just a couple of minutes and you could help and you could go about your day, go about your life, go to your son's baseball

game, whatever it is, right? How do we do that? Well, we have to invent this story that there are these IRS agents that are going to be knocking down your doors and they're coming for you. It's always, they are coming for you. And it's this divide right now, which I think is one of the greatest divides in our country that we are seeing. And I think it's more present than ever, especially in light of many of the recent events that we've seen, that there is such this divide right now by the people who are wealthy and are getting wealthier and wealthier and wealthier by the day. I mean, just obscene numbers, like to go from being worth $100 million to over $300 million. Some people gaining that kind of wealth in the span of like

a month, right? While there are people who are struggling. That's the kind of thing that Americans look at and they go, what the heck is going on? This is a fundamentally unfair system. And so what do they do? Distract, distract, distract. Oh, look at this. Look at these people using the bathroom. Aren't you mad about that? You should be very mad about that. Get angry about that. They redirect the anger in these places. And that's something that is really the cause of all this division. And it's why there is so much funding put towards things like Fox and right wing radio and all these various things, because they need to stoke that division. So while you're looking over here, they could redirect you there while they're picking your pocket with the other hand.

And they're putting forth the most radical agenda on the planet that seeks to strip away your social security, that seeks to strip away your Medicare, that tries as hard as possible to prevent you from getting the healthcare you need. This is across the board, and it's a strategy that is deliberate, and it is happening every single day in this country. We all just need to be aware of it, and that awareness, I think, is one of the most terrifying things imaginable to the ultra wealthy, which is why they work so hard to control the flows of information. It's why you have Elon Musk spending $44 billion to control the flow of information on Twitter, a worldwide platform that people have considered a town square. Why spend it? He's losing all this

money. Isn't that an issue, right? Look, he's losing. No, he doesn't care at all. He's made far more money than that. Even just in his other investments over the past month, he's made more than that. His wealth has increased more than that. He doesn't care because he gets to control the most valuable resource that we have right now in the world, which is information and what people are hearing. And he gets to, with his platform, amplify and de-amplify certain things in order to push certain agendas in order to further divide people and do that head fake for people. Don't look at this. Look at this. This isn't the real story. That's the fake news. The real news is here on X. This is the real things that we're telling you about. And that's why we need to keep calling them out. It's why independent platforms are so important because when you have this corporate money,

when you have these billionaire investors, when you have all that stuff, you inevitably get beholden to the same interests. That's what we see with all these networks. That's what we see with the foxes of the world. That's what we see as these newspapers get taken over by these billionaire owners, as someone like Jeff Bezos tries to curry favor with Donald Trump. They're all a part of the same team. Okay. And you ain't on it. We ain't on it. I'm just telling you that right now. And so the sooner we kind of realize that, the sooner we're going to be able to have actual

substantial progress in the country. I'd say it like this, Brett. In a war, what is one of the tactics that's often used? Deception, sleight of hand, fake outs, right? And one of the things I think that we're seeing right now, though, to your point, is a variation where there's a culture war, which is a smokescreen, I think, for a class war, right? The culture war is a smokescreen for, I think, a class war. And it's an asymmetrical warfare because the people who are being beaten down by the billionaires

kind of don't even, they feel angry, but the culture war aspect is having their anger all over the place and they're not sure where to be angry. So yeah, you're telling me it's trans people. You're telling me it's migrants. You're telling me it's George Soros. You're telling me it's this group or that communist or a secret cabal of people. Oh my God, is this the QAnon cabal? I got to go down the rabbit hole. No, no, it's the billionaires. Occam's razor. Let's be clear who's happening. The people who hang out at Mar-a-Lago are the ones doing this to you, and they are distracting you with culture war stuff while they wage war on your bank accounts, on your pocketbooks. While they're picking your pocket, they're out there saying, oh,

focus on this. Isn't this wild? Could you believe it? There's a trans woman on the volleyball team. The volleyball team. Don't you care about the San Jose State volleyball, which is not even national? Does this make you angry? What about the bathrooms? Nancy Mace, bring Nancy Mace on TV. Let Nancy Mace have her bullhorn and go, I am outraged that I have to go into a bathroom with a transgender congresswoman. I am worried about that. And meanwhile, two years before,

three years before Nancy Mace was saying positive things about LGBTQ community, what are they doing? Literally with the bullhorn, they're saying, look over here, look over here. And then with the other hand, they're taking your money. They're taking away your health care. They're taking they're taking away your Medicare. They're taking away your your your kid and your future grandkids opportunities. That's what they're doing. And so I think it's important. As this platform develops, that we make it clear where this is happening.

We combat their culture war with the truth and with the facts. And we talk about what's really happening. It's why we start this episode talking about Donald Trump grifting by selling his people perfume and cologne and misappropriating name, image, and likeness, and how we link that with what's going on in Syria, how we link that what's going on in the halls of Congress, and how we link that ultimately to how you're being impacted personally. So let's keep growing, Midas Mighty. We will be starting our Zoom. We have a little bit of buffer of time right now. So why don't we let people sign up for Patreon right now? So sign up now, patreon.com slash Midas Touch, sign up. We'll start it in like, say, 10 minutes.

So we'll start it officially. That makes sense, Brett and Jordy? Yeah, perfect. 6.15 Pacific, 9.15 Eastern. That gives you some time if you want a little bite to eat, you want to get a cup of soda or something healthier or water or whatever. I don't know what I'm even saying anymore. If you want to do that, well, go and do that. I'm just describing things that I'm doing. And we will- ben's been saying his cravings right now okay well we we will see you we will see you sure look might as mighty hang in

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