The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump & MAGA in Complete Free Fall and it’s GLORIOUS

Episode Date: February 3, 2023

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, Ben and Brett delve deep into the latest twists and turns of the MAGA con artists trying to defraud America. The brothers discuss the Trump’s fatal error during a recently recent deposition in regards to the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit, Trump’s incessant attacks on Special Counsel Jack Smith, Republican obstructionism as the US hits the debt ceiling, a shocking bill introduced by House Republicans to implement a nationwide 30% sales tax, new insane stunts by Florida fascist Ron DeSantis, the latest in the bizarre saga of the Republican currently going by the name George Santos, the Supreme Court’s revelation that they were unable to find the leaker of the bombshell 2022 Dobbs decision, and much more! New full-length episodes of the MeidasTouch Podcast featuring the brothers are released every Tuesday & Friday morning. The rest of the week, enjoy our short-form content we call ‘The Mighty.’ If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to rate, review and subscribe. DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS: Füm: Head to tryfum.com and use code 'MEIDAS' to get 10% OFF when you get the journey pack today. Neurohacker: Go to neurohacker.com/MEIDAS for $100 OFF, that’s only $39 a bottle and as a listener of MeidasTouch use code MEIDAS at checkout for an extra 15% off your first purchase. Shop Meidas Merch at: https://store.meidastouch.com Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I love when you sing it in the intros. And as Trump swirls the putrid, fascist, fake gold drain of his at mar-a-lago he gets more despicable weirder and dangerous each day this week he went on a social media platform and reposted statements calling for a violent civil war he also called desantis a rhino globalist. Rhino globalists say what? And DeSantis' response, how do you think DeSantis responded to that? Well, he responded by saying, the deep state is trying to take away your gas stoves. I kid you not.

So two weeks ago. No, no, no. That's actually what DeSantis said in a statement. We got another foul taste this week of just how dumb and anti-American and just what traitors these MAGA House Republicans are, MAGA Republicans are in general. And we also saw Democrats fighting back in these committee hearings, which was a sight to behold, right? This is the Democratic Party I've been waiting for. Fierce defenders of democracy. But at the threshold inquiry, they are acting like adults.

I like that. I like my politicians who act like adults. Also this week, speaking of the exact opposite, the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives, right? They removed their American lapel pins. They just took it off, threw it away, and they replaced it with pins depicting AR-15s. Yes, the House MAGA Republicans were wearing pins celebrating mass shootings. I'm not making that up. It's there. Some people were like, oh, is that Photoshopped? No, no. I think the House Republican Party is a Photoshopped version of what the Republicans used to be. They're a fascist, but that's who who they are it's the reality of who they are oh and by the way the fbi launched another criminal

investigation into maga republican george santos from stealing uh gofundme money from a disabled homeless veterans dog all right this is the Midas Touch podcast joined by Brett and Jordy I am in the office today, dressed up in my suit. You look fancy. When you're not dressed like, when you're not dressed like the other brothers, like I just feel,

it just, it feels different. Well, Ben looks good. I think me and Jordy, I think we're both repping New York right now. So, so that's good. Are you wearing a Metz shirt too? I am.

Yeah, isn't that weird? Oh, nice. Both rocking the New York Metz gear. Ben over here, it seems like every episode a button comes down. He goes down further with the button. I'm not sure if this is intentional or what. I guess it's an interesting work look, but you look good though. So I'm not hating on it. I'm just mentioning the buttons are getting lower.

Here's the issue I have in Jordy, this sartorial one of us all though. I don't even know if that's an insult. This is, yeah, because you don't know. You got to Google the word. It's not an insult. He's stylish. I go, Jordy, you're sartorial. Jordy's like, oh, did he just insult me? I just, I don't know what to do with the button when I don't have a tie. So, Jordy, how are you doing? I want to plug two things, but most importantly, how are you, Jordy? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm starving. I just need to say this. I just need to get this off my chest. I love the time slot for this because we get all the Midas Mighty and it's fantastic. And the time slot's really good for you guys. I can't eat before I do the shows because

when I eat, I'm like a child. I just get really sleepy. So I have to eat after we do the shows and it's 8 p.m. on the East coast. It's only 5 PM by you guys. You guys get the better end of when we do the lives. I will say for sure. When I've been on the East coast with you, I've been like, Oh, it's pretty tough on the East coast at the time. But I, but I get it. But that's why you're the sartorial one. Remember, you know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of, it reminds me of sartorial. It's unbelievable. Remember like when we were younger, like when you're're young and you would say words that sound like disses but you really don't know what they mean.

And then someone would be like, oh, your epidermis is showing. And you'd be like, what? And then you Google. There was no Google back then, so you couldn't even Google it. But you could go, oh my God, you Google this. Yeah, I remember that really well. You guys made me cry because you guys followed me around the house and kept saying that and pointing and laughing.

Yeah. I know. I know. I mentioned that to Alex. I might be right. I cannot confirm nor deny, but oh my gosh, today watching, I mean, all week watching these Republicans, you guys, it's been like watching the biggest clown show. No offense to clowns. I don't want to offend clowns here because what this is, is just such a disgrace. And they're not only clowns. Once again, apologies to clowns. They are dangerous clowns. And we're seeing it every single day. And they are exposing themselves with all their action. And they are showing how they are not prioritizing

anything that they said they would prioritize when they ran, which we all knew. They're running straight to all the culture war issues, all the distractions. They are unable to govern. And you're just watching this day in and day out. And it is like beyond the movie idiocracy. It is beyond anything you could even dream up. I mean, these people are truly, this is lunacy that we are witnessing. But to see the Dems actually step up and have some fight in them and punch back, I was like, there we go. That's the Midas touching you. That's what I want to see. I want to see some fight in you. I want to see that pushback expose these traders. And that's exactly what we got to see all day today. And it was a breath of fresh air for sure. Let's get that. You know what? I want to get into that.

I'll plug the Ben stuff later. Okay. Ben can wait before plugging his stuff. But to your point, Brett, everything- Deep tease on the Ben stuff. Ben's a big tease today. I like that. Button to the end of the show. Big tease, Ben. Sartorial Geordie. Everything that they've done this week is just the most performative idiocracy. Again, they teased us with making up conspiracies about 87,000 IRS agents and gas stoves. But this week it went into full gear and they would introduce, okay, our big thing, we're doing a non-binding resolution. We need to condemn socialism in all of its forms. It goes, wait a minute, didn't you take a PPP loan? So if you're going

to condemn socialism in all of its forms, like you're aware that there is what Medicare is, right? You're aware when you took a PPP loan that came from the government. And also this is the stupidest thing in the world. And so I love this. This is one of the greatest things. So you know how all the House Republicans ran away from subpoenas in the last Congress? Maxine Waters, the Democratic Congresswoman from California, she's like, put me in, coach. I'm in. I want to testify before this stupid committee, for real. She's like, I want to testify before this dumb committee. Put me in. I want to sit down. And this is the House Rules Committee where they wanted to introduce the non-binding resolution to condemn socialism in all of its forms. And she's like,

look, I'm a capitalist, is what she said. She goes, I'm a capitalist. I don't know what this stupid thing that you're doing is. And then the person questioning her, the MAGA Republican, was like, I want to give you three names. And what comes to mind, the MAGA Congressman Rosenthaler, who was leading the conversations and was like, I'm going to give you these three names. What do they have in common? Vladimir Putin, President Xi, Kim Jong-un. Just watch how Maxine Waters handles this. Play this clip. The fact that this isn't passing on suspension just says everything about my friends across the aisle, that you can't condemn socialism.

I mean, in your opening remarks, you were talking about Putin, Kim Jong-un, and Xi. You know what they all have in common, right? Trump. Trump? North Korea, China, and Russia? He loves Kim Jong-un. That's quite the intellectual leap. I would say communism.

Would you like to denounce any communist leaders? Well, I don't know what you're asking, but let me just... The leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, has made often glowing, described other Ontarians like Kim Jong Un, who is condemned in the resolution. Regarding North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump said, Kim wrote me beautiful letters and they're great letters and we fell in love. You sure you want to hear the rest of this?

Unbelievable. You sure you want me to keep going? You sure you want me to keep reading? Brett, have we posted my Maxine Waters hit yet, or are we going to post that soon? I think it's going up soon, but yeah, stay tuned for that. I go over, I play the full seven minutes of her just brutally taking down the MAGA Republicans. That was just a taste of it. And then she goes like, I'm a capitalist. What do you even talk? What do you want me to do here? You want me to condemn socialism in all its forms? And he would go and he would just basically say names. He'd be like Pol Pot. And she'd be like, okay, you're just saying a name. And none of these people are socialists that she even mentioned. Like they're not even – and like it also shows you how deep these people are in their own kind of gaslighting and their own magaverse, as Geordie likes to call it. That you could say, what do these three names remind you of?

Donald – I mean Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un. It's like, are you going to keep going? Victor Orban. Like are you going to keep going with the names that all tie to Trump? Because anybody who does any rational thought, like while it was an incredible clapback for Maxine Waters, to me, it was like the only answer, you know, it was like, of course, that's the answer. What did this idiot expect her to say?

And he got what he deserved, just, you know, embarrassed in public. And this keeps happening. When they give you those questions on a multiple choice exam, the first thing I would go is Trump. I mean, it was a great clap back, but I would go, well, he does. Trump says he loves these people in the weirdest terms. And that's your leader of the Republican Party. I love Kim Jong-un. I fell in love with him. I mean, it's some of the weirdest shit. I want to kiss Kim Jong-un. That is love with him i mean it's some of the weirdest shit i want to kiss kim jong-un like that is the leader of the republican party he knew that he like got played because he

even he started laughing after he asked the question and he was like oh well that's quite the intellectual leap is it though because it seems like a pretty obvious connection to make the way representative waters delivered it to it was just so earnest like she she didn't even think like it just came out it's trump like is that is this what you want me to trump trump and it was just so honest it was so perfectly delivered then she had the receipts ready to go it was awesome well go go from the house rules committee to the judiciary committee where their big performative resolution is that they wanted to have the House MAGA leaders of the Judiciary

Committee read the Pledge of Allegiance before they start their committee. And the Democrats are like, okay, can we talk about the business of, yes, you could do the Pledge of Allegiance, but Congress member David Cicilline, the Democrat said said, but, but, but, but, can I add one amendment? If you participate in insurrections, you're not allowed to read the Pledge of Allegiance. This is what I mean. This is Democrats fighting back. And these are the moments that are out there to these idiot, traitor MAGA Republicans. Here, play this clip. My amendment gives the committee the opportunity to begin each of its meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance. So I'd like to offer an amendment to the amendment, adding in the second paragraph where the chair may designate an individual to lead the Pledge of

Allegiance to add the following language. Provided, however, the pledge shall not be led by an individual who supported an insurrection against the government of the United States in any way. Because I think if we adopt this amendment, then we will be truthful in representing that stating this pledge as an affirmation of your defense of democracy and the Constitution. It's hard to take that claim seriously if, in in fact an individual who in any way supported an insurrection against the government of the United States is allowed to leave the pledge. So I would ask Mr. Gates to accept this friendly

amendment and I look forward to supporting it. Would the gentleman yield for a question? I first ask Mr. Gates if he'll support the amendment. To make sure that someone who led an insurrection against the United States doesn't make a mockery of the Pledge of Allegiance and stand before this committee with their hand over their heart claiming to support the Constitution. Mr. Cicilline, my concern would be if your definition of an insurrection is objecting to electors then there would be many Democrats on the committee that wouldn't be eligible to lead the pledge since so many objected. That's not my definition of an insurrection. The last Republican president to get sworn in absent Democrat objectors was George Herbert Walker Bush.

Reclaiming my time, Mr. Gates, I will allow the chairman to determine whether or not someone has participated in an insurrection in the United States. I think this language is important. Would the gentleman further yield? I'm asking, Mr. Gates, will you now accept the amendment? Well, I'm concerned that you may be disqualifying too many of your own members, Mr. Cicely. I'm not concerned about that at all. Then agree to the amendment. I'm not concerned about it at all. Then agree to the amendment. Let's make this real. If you want to give someone the right

to stand before the house judiciary committee and lead the pledge of allegiance at a bare minimum, let's guarantee that that person has not participated or supported or in any way helped an overthrow of the government of the United States. With the gentleman yield. Seems like a simple proposition. Seems like a simple proposition. Let's go. You saw Gates. He's like, yeah, I'm a dumb idiot, basically. That was Gates' face. Like, yeah, I'm a freaking idiot.

But that's why I like this. This is when people are saying Democrats need to message better. Democrats need to fight back. Welcome to the era of Hakeem Jeffries. Welcome to adults in the room who are calling traitors, traitors, calling fascists, fascists. I loved that. And Gates had no clue what to do. And then Gates is like, well, I'm actually concerned.

You know, the both sides-ism that they try to do on their networks. And Cicilline is like, I'm not worried about that. You come up with the definition of an insurrectionist. Throw it right back in their stupid faces. Yeah, they have nothing to say when they're confronted with the truth and when you just hammer on it and you don't let them get away with, oh, but the Democrats didn't lead an insurrection against the United States of America. Okay. It's that simple. We all saw what happened on January 6th. We all know who participated in it. We all saw the January 6th hearings. We all know who asked for pardons, Matt Gaetz. We all know exactly what happened. So for you to try to gaslight and

try to be, oh, just protecting the Democrats. Now we'll get thrown back in your face every single time. Now that we have fighters there who are ready to engage on these BS issues. I cannot believe the time and the money that these Republicans are wasting day in and day out. They go there. This is their job, people. Think about your day. Think about how hard you work at your jobs to try to be productive. Now think that this is the House of Representatives. They go in here. They are getting our money. They are getting paid with our money, and they are leading the dumbest fights in the world. It should also be mentioned that the Pledge of Allegiance is read every day in the House of

Representatives in the first place. They just want to say it a bunch of times. Well, let's say it again and again and again and again. Let's say it before this committee and before that committee, because they don't have real patriotism. It's all performative BS. And once you peel back the performative BS, you see a crew that is fundamentally anti-American, a crew that is trying to strip away free speech rights, who attacks the First Amendment, who even now attacks the free market at all times. They claim to be free market capitalists. They're the first people to try to attack companies for making their own private decisions. This party is a fundamentally un-American party and often mirrors, unsurprisingly, the exact things that they

try to attack. Who was more close to a communist party? I would say the Republicans in their efforts to try to control every aspect of private industry if they upset them. I mean, you see it. Everybody is seeing it right now. And finally, finally, finally. Well, Brett, it's like what you say all the time. Every accusation is a confession. And that's when they project onto the Democrats, oh, communists, they're communists. This Republican Party doesn't know what to do. We are literally watching the dumbest majority in congressional history, I'd want to say. And they are going up against the smartest, most savvy Democrats for this time. The Democrats have learned what didn't

work. Going, and I might get in trouble for this, but going with that sort of high morality stance that we did back in 2016, 2017 era, we've learned, Democrats have learned like, hey, we could still take the high road and still maintain our integrity and morals by calling out this Republican BS. As they try and cloak themselves in the flag, these Republicans, they're using it as a shield because to your point, Brett, they're trying to take away all of the rights that Americans want. And they're trying to pretend they're patriots, but they're the least patriotic people in the world. Brett, I know I'll let you jump in, but Jordy, your sartorial acumen there is such that no one is going to get angry with you at all, Brett. No, I was going to say it's an absolutely

brilliant point, Jordy. And I think that that's the distinction I think that is often missed when people go back and reference, for example, Michelle Obama saying, when they go low, we go high. Now going high doesn't mean letting them get away with everything, which I think for far too long, people on our side have interpreted that, oh, let it just brush right off. You let them attack you, just be smile and be nice. That's not what going high is. It's not going low to hit back at people with the truth. I mean, you could do it in a way that's above board. You could do it in a way that's biting. And that's what we are witnessing. There's nothing low ball. There's no below the belt hits that we just witnessed. That's just all facts. That's just calling out the truth. And by the way,

staying high, in my opinion, that is the definition of it. You need to be able to punch back. And finally, we have people punching back. So we went from the House Rules Committee. We went to the House Judiciary Committee. Now let's go to the House Oversight Committee, where the MAGA Republicans appointed conspiracy theorist, QAnon follower, school shooting survivor, stalker. Marjorie Taylor Greene is on the House Oversight Committee and she was questioning a witness regarding the use of COVID stimulus funds. And she confused the witness a little bit because again, they live in their cat turd MAGA echo chamber. So just watch this exchange of

Marjorie Taylor Greene living in MAGA Republican Fox weirdo world, asking a normal individual a question. And then you look at the guy's face, who she's asking a question. It just goes, what did you say? What are you talking about? I just want to say, when you watch this clip, look at the witness, look at the guy who she's speaking to, and just look at how absolutely confused that he is with this all. He's like, what the heck are you talking about? Can you tell me how much COVID cash went to CRT? CRT?

Critical Race Theory in Education. It's a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin is not equal to black skin and other things in education. So for none of this has been true. I do not know that. But I do know that there's provisions that the federal funds generally are not used, they're supposed to be used for curriculum. Oh, Mr. DeDaro, I have to tell you, in Illinois, they received $5.1 billion at an elementary school there that used it for equity and diversity. So it's being used for these things.

Mr. DeDaro, can you tell us? Oh, Mr. DeDaro. She thought she had this Perry Mason moment. Well, well, well, let me tell you. There's this one school in Illinois, Mr. DeDaro. That one school, it got $5.1 billion for equity and diversity teaching. She should just start making up numbers. You know, that one elementary school, it got $60 zillion, bajillion, trillion, quadrillion dollars. Did you know that?

Imagine one school getting $5.1 billion. One school got $5.1 billion for the purpose, not for even teaching like history, for teaching equity and diversity. And then when you actually go in and you're like, what the hell is she even talking about? Where is she even getting this? There's something that says that like the state of Illinois is committed to – is like the entire state is committed to like treating people with equality and that the entire state received $5 billion in COVID relief, which also went to education as part of it. It had nothing to do with – It went to improving air quality, cleaning classrooms, hiring new teachers, improving the schools. It went to everything in the schools. It had nothing to do with- All of the schools in Illinois. It had nothing to do with anything that she... She just found some word that the state supports

equality, that the state was giving some money to schools, and then said CRT, which by the way, in the Fox propaganda disinformation world, in the MAGA echo chamber world, that's how they tell their stories. Look, the thumb drive was in this and they beamed algorithms from CIA bunkers in Italy and it beamed to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and then Dominion did this and that's reported in MAGA echo chamber world as news. But when MAGA echo chamber world is confronted with reality, you have these moments. But for far too long, Democrats pro-democracy have just let MAGA extremists get away with it. And so you had like one team cheating to score touchdowns, and then the other team wasn't even playing football. And so one team's

cheating and scoring. One team's not even playing and yet alone having a referee on the field. So they just got away with these narratives over and over again. And look, you do a study of history, you could poison the minds with propaganda. There's a reason that it's effective. And what I love to see, we don't have the clip here, but we were talking about it. Even like Adrian Fontes, who's a big fan of and a big friend of the Midas Touch Network. Seeing Adrian Fontes on MSNBC and saying that these election deniers are fascists, a secretary of state, a Democrat secretary of state saying, no, these are fascists. Just seeing that language being used in that way is something that I love.

And then finally, we go from the House oversight. Let me just say while we're still on oversight that this whole oversight scam that they are pulling right now is also another way for them to deflect from their own criminality. They are trying to act like Democrats never once probed COVID fraud, COVID spending fraud, which much of which occurred under the Trump administration. But this was actually a high priority for House Democrats. I mean, the PPP program was an essential program that helped a lot of people. Let me start there. I think it was very important to get money out to struggling businesses who needed it. But there were plenty of businesses and plenty of people associated directly with Trump and Republicans who have a lot of power, Republican politicians who took advantage of the PPP program, got their loans forgiven because that's what the program did,

and essentially were written blank checks by the government in the sums of hundreds of thousands, and in some cases, millions of dollars. And these Republicans are the main people who took these large sums of money in a criminal way when they didn't need it. Like what businesses were they taking the money for? A lot of people have no idea what businesses they were taking the money for. You could go down the list of the Republicans taking the PPP money. Matt Gaetz got $476,000. Because they have a job. They're supposed to be members of Congress. Yes. Marjorie Taylor Greene got over $180,000. She's the one on this committee. And it goes down the list. You see Kevin Hearn. Remember Kevin Hearn? He was the guy who went during the 15 rounds of Kevin McCarthy voting that they went, I'm voting for Kevin Hearn. Kevin Hearn took $1.07

million from the PPP program. Roger Williams from Texas took $1.43 million from the PPP program. Roger Williams from Texas took $1.43 million from the PPP program. And the list goes on. And House Democrats did this investigation. They did it. They did it in 2020. They did it through 2021. And what did they find? They found evidence the Trump administration mismanaged the whole PPP program, mismanaged the economic industry disaster loan program, led to nearly $84 billion in potentially fraudulent loans. And what happened? The second Biden stepped in, he started putting roadblocks in place to prevent the corruption. They started putting up boards that would monitor these programs and make sure that there was no fraud. That didn't exist before. And so I think that's an important thing. And now these Republicans have the nerve to come in and say, oh, we're going to be the ones to investigate

this. You were the ones committing the crimes. That's why you want to investigate it because you want to protect yourself once again, and you want to try to deflect on all the things that you did. As always, they use all these committees as weapons. Ironically, they created the House Weaponization Committee, but they use government as weapons to target their political enemies and to try to muddy the waters and spread conspiracy theories. And it's no different to what they're doing here. They just want that Fox News hit. They want the attention and they get it. They get it out of this. But at least some of the attention is in the form of humiliation, like what we just witnessed with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I think a lot of the attention is actually, to your point, Brett, negative attention and humiliation that they actually didn't foresee. If I could make the analogy here, these congressional Republicans are like wannabe class clowns. You know the kid that you had in your class that thought he was hilarious and wanted to just say stuff just to get a rouse out of, I don't know, the other students, but nobody liked him and everyone thought he was just crazy annoying. I'd like specific. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm thinking of one person. Anyway, that's who these congressional Republicans, that's who they are. They're just like, the American people are watching this just like, well, you guys shut up. Like, what are you doing?

You are embarrassing yourselves. It is humiliating to watch how stupid you really are. How about MAGA Republican Dusty Johnson, who was interviewed about, okay, well, what's the Republican plan? What's the MAGA Republican plan about raising the debt ceiling? So what do you want to cut? Like, what is your position in the negotiation? I know you say that you want Biden to negotiate with you, but like, okay, what do you want him to negotiate? So Republicans, can you give one example, just state an example of a single program where you believe there should be a cut? Just to be very clear, raising the debt ceiling is not about new spending. It's about paying the bills that, frankly, of other Congresses and other

administrations, where 25 plus percent of all of the debt, by the way, that's been created was by Donald Trump. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in control of the House created more debt in the United States than at any time in our history. And so we have to pay the bills that Donald Trump and the Republicans ran up. We can have a conversation about spending in a different part of the appropriations process, but raising the debt ceiling is about not defaulting on debt, which is a constitutional responsibility of Congress and the full faith and credit in the United States and United States currency and the United States markets is so vital. So this is what the MAGA Republicans said. They just gave me one thing. Just give me an example of something you

want to cut. Here, play this clip. So first on the budget demands of your party here, what specific programs are you putting on the table to cut? Well, that's not how a negotiation works. In fact, the law says that the president needs to step forward with a budget first. His team is going to miss their February deadline. They say they're not going to get that done until March. So here's what I think is step one. Today, we need to have the president and the speaker in the same room. That's going to happen. And we need to have the president and the speaker in the same room. That's going to happen. And we need to have President Biden agree that he will negotiate over the reckless spending that our country has been engaged in. But as you know, the debt ceiling relates to budgets already passed by Congresses, including with Republican votes. What are the positions? Because a negotiation,

as you know, involves, if you want to call it that, involves two sides presenting their positions. Can you name a single program that Republicans would be willing to cut money from to make a deal? But see, I think that's ridiculously unfair, and here's why. The credit card bill comes from our family. We have maxed out our credit cards. Now, of course, listen, we're going to pay that credit card bill. We're legally obligated to do so. But rather than force all of the onus on the Republicans, which I know y'all love to do, what a responsible, reasonable and sensible family would do is sit down together and start to talk through. I'm not doing that, sir. How do we stop? I'm not putting all the onus on Republicans. That's the law. The law puts the onus on Congress and the nation to pay its bill. But please the law. The law puts the onus on Congress and the

nation to pay its bill. But please go ahead. Is there a program that you can name that you personally would be willing to see money cut from? Well, yeah, there are lots of programs, but the point is, I'm not going to negotiate against the Republican Party on CNN. There are lots of programs, plenty of programs, so many programs, name one. Oh, you know, programs, name one. Oh, well, that's an unfair question to ask. Why? Name, give one program because they don't want to- That's not the way a negotiation works.

What does that even mean? One party comes to the negotiation without information. Biden has his plan. Biden has his priorities. And under Biden, the debt has decreased. The deficit has decreased. He's been far more fiscally conservative than any of these MAGA Republicans. So there's a proven track record of cutting the deficit by trillions under Biden. Donald Trump increased the deficit close to $9 billion. So Biden, $2 billion decrease in deficit. Trump, about $9 billion increase in deficit

because he can't pay for his billionaire cash grabs that he gives. So Biden has a plan. Biden talks about his plan. We know where Biden's priorities are. So no, name one program. And then Kevin McCarthy had this meeting with Jordy. Hold on one second. I have three points to make on that. One, it was an excellent job by the interviewer. CNN did a good job on that one. That interview did a great job not letting him up.

Russ has been stepping it up a little bit lately. Just trying to pin him. Yeah, absolutely. Just trying to pin him down on that. So that was a great job. Two, I've never seen someone look more like a Dusty Johnson than Dusty Johnson. Three, Dusty Johnson is the world's worst name. I swear. Yeah. Dusty Johnson's pretty bad. In the hall of fame of rough names, it's probably ranks pretty high up there. It's probably-

It's at least top three. Yeah. It's a rough one. I mean- Dusty Johnson. Imagine going, okay, we got to give him a little bit of a pass. I mean, he grew up being named Dusty Johnson, but let's move on from that. But I mean, go imagine Johnson. I imagine. Okay. We got to give him a little bit of a pass. I mean, he grew up in being named Dusty Johnson, but let's move on from that. But I mean, Trump added nearly just to like correct the numbers a little bit. He added nearly $8 trillion to the deficit. Trillion, not billion, $8 trillion.

Oh, I said that. I said billion. Yeah. And now let's take a quick break to talk about our clearly meant trillion. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I was like, huh? It's a billion.

That doesn't sound like a lot at all. $8 trillion to the deficit. So that is important. Also, this credit card analogy is like, they love this analogy. They love analogies that sound simple and like sound smart. And if you, under any scrutiny, they fall apart. If you want to even go with that analogy. You know, like when your family's there together and you eat macaroni and cheese and you know,

like, you know, when your significant other takes the Velveeta and she puts it on the macaroni and they're like, hon, what's, what's up? Why are you putting too much Velveeta on the macaroni? So Biden has to negotiate with us. Oh, what? I mean, it's really, do you pay your credit card bill when it's time to pay your credit card bill? Yes or no. You got to, you got to pay it. You got to pay the bill. And Republicans it's time to pay your credit card bill? Yes or no? You got to pay it. You got to pay the bill. And Republicans don't want to pay the bill, even though 90% of the spending, 90% of the debt has been racked up from previous administrations and previous Congresses. They want to pin this on Biden.

25% plus of the debt under Donald Trump in his four years. So don't even try to pretend you are fiscal hawks or fiscal conservatives. You ran up trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars in deficits, and you did it for the worst reasons. You did it to give rich people tax cuts like every single time. That's what you did it for. It wasn't even the pandemic that started it. You did it to give your rich friends tax cuts and you

blew a giant hole in the debt. You ran up incredible deficits and now you're trying to act like you are holier than thou. But we see right through it. We see right through it. It's like when you go to the movie theater and you're getting some popcorn and they ask you, do you want butter? And you're like, hey, I want butter, but not too much butter. Yet they keep on putting butter on the popcorn. And so you're like, hey, I'm butter, but not too much butter. Yet they keep on putting butter on the popcorn. And so you're like, hey, I'm going to have way too many calories with that. And by the way, do you have any salt? So in other words, what I'm trying to tell you in this negotiation is, okay, Dusty, can you just please answer the question, Dusty? Name me one program, Dusty.

Do you think Dusty Johnson is friends with David Pecker? Oh, oh, no. I see where I see where you're going there. And I thought of taking the conversation there. I went with the lighter humor and Brett went right there trying to trying to give that trying to make this podcast that explicit. And so Kevin McCarthy met with President Biden and like McCarthy with that fake voice of his.

What is that voice? It's bizarre. I don't know. Do we have the video of McCarthy though? Okay. So let me just set the context for a second. This is McCarthy after his meeting with Biden. They discussed the debt ceiling. There are going to be more discussions apparently. And this is him saying what happened in the meeting and what the status is. If you could tell me, just try to help me translate what he says here, because he says a lot of words. And I legit, like, I'm not just saying this. I legit have no idea what the guy is talking about. Here's Kevin McCarthy. I believe in hearing both perspectives, like anything else, be it business, be it in family, be it in relationships,

that you can find common ground. There's nothing in there but me walking away that does not believe at the end of the day we can come to an agreement that makes America stronger, puts us on a path to balance, and exactly what the American people are asking us to do. It's our responsibility. There's a lot of words. I want to put us on a path to power. I want to make America stronger. There's nothing that we can't accomplish if we're together in a relationship together and we need to work together in a relationship and we're going to come together again. It's like, okay, you are the worst speaker

of the house. You are the worst politician. And now can I plug my show in Kevin McCarthy's district? Can I finally do it? Or do you want to do a little bit more in McCarthy? Should I tease it slightly more? Tease it slightly. It's coming up. No, I just want to parse the words. There's nothing in there. This is a Kevin McCarthy quote. There's nothing in there, but me walking away that does not believe at the end of the day, we can come to an agreement. It's a lot of double negatives. It's a lot of words that don't mean anything. It's a lot of word salad. And I think he's just used to saying things with no meaning. It was like when he was on the show the other day, the weekend shows that we covered on Monday night's show. And he just said a lot of words, never answered the question. It's kind of the same

thing. He was kind of like, yeah, I was in there with the president and ice cream and TV screens and medicine and cell phones. And that's why America is so strong. And then we need a strong this. And have you heard about mugs? And yes, the deficit. And you're like, those were a lot of words. But you didn't say anything. You threw a lot of words together. I have no idea what the hell you are talking about. To put a nice bow on this topic of House Republicans. As we mentioned at the outset, they've now taken off their American lapel pins, took off their pins, threw them away, and they've got new pins now that they wear. And I am not making this up. This is not a Photoshopped image. They are now wearing pins depicting AR-15s where the American lapel pin once was.

There you see Santos wearing one. There you see Congresswoman Anna Luna. And I just profiled both of them because I didn't like – both of them use like multiple aliases. Like I've never seen people in a – all these MAGA Republicans also have different names and different identities and they call themselves like different things at different times. So which is a whole nother, do a whole nother podcast on that. But I know there was a lot of speculation, like, have we gotten to the bottom of like, who the hell was handing these pins out? Why are they wearing them? It's really like, it's something that you would almost see on like a meme about Republicans to show how

craven and disgusting and just how just sick they are. And here they are actually doing that. Like you said, Ben, like you would think, oh, that's Photoshop. Like that's photo. Like, have you seen the Photoshop of like the politicians where they have like the, uh, like NASCAR and they have like the brand, like the brands all over their suits and the companies all over their suits. And they're like, this is how they should walk around to show where the special interests are. Like, this looks like a version of that to show like, look, they're in the pocket of the NRA and there are all these school shootings going on. There are all these mass shootings all across the country. And look who is partially to blame for it. The people who

refuse to act, the Republicans, and they are proudly just displaying it for everyone to see. If you ask our pro-democracy friends overseas to draw in their mind like a political cartoon of what a Republican looks like, they would draw somebody in a suit with an AR-15 lapel. Absolutely. If you showed me this in Handmaid's Tale or some dystopian Orwellian style movie and this was part of the script, I would be like, okay, that's too far. This actually goes beyond Handmaid's Tale when you think about it. Could you imagine in Handmaid's Tale if they wore AR-15s? I could, I guess, but this is what is happening right now in the House of Representatives. The Republicans have taken away the flag and they now wear AR-15 pins. You cannot make this up. I tweeted it out. My tweet has over, right now at the time of viewing, it's been viewed over 3.6 million times. Wow.

The tweet. And the reason that I say, you know, it's not Photoshopped is because people think I Photoshopped it. They think, and I go, I prompt, it's not Photoshopped. This is actually what the House Republicans are doing. All right. So wait, wait, one more point before we get to it. One last tease so this is speculation

but what i've done in some just desktop research is uh the genesis of the pin is actually given to them by the nra again just speculation i need to confirm this but apparently it's an nra given pin for for for monetary gain you know what jordy while your sartorial sense is extraordinary, the idea of doing desktop research and spinning facts live without really – I think people like to know where my mind's at. Okay. Jordy did a quick Google search while we were live and that's the first Google result is saying that. All right. So let's So we talked about Kevin McCarthy on Friday, on February 3rd on Hulu. I will be executive producing a show. We've got a show on Hulu, everybody, that I executive produced with the team at ABC and Hulu. It's called Killing County, folks.

I want you all to watch it on Friday when it finally will be on Hulu. And it's a true crime thriller. And it is based in Kevin McCarthy's district in Bakersfield. It's called Killing County. The highest crime rates in the country. The highest murder rates in the country. The most police shooting deaths in the country. Where is it? It's in a Republican district. And frankly, when you start to unpeel or unravel the narratives

that are out there, we've talked about this before on the podcast, like the states, the 10 or 15 states that we did. Oh yeah, by the way, there is our billboard, Colin Kaepernick's Killing County on Hulu. And we did the billboard. We put the billboard right next to the Welcome to Bakersfield sign. So when you're heading into Bakersfield, right behind 15 states that have the highest homicide rate and the highest crime rate, almost invariably, they are states that are led by Republicans. And in Killing County, as you start peeling back the layers, some of the things that you start to find out is, did the Bakersfield Police Department kill their own informant? Was the Bakersfield Police Department running their informants off the books so that the Bakersfield police officers could sell drugs, methamphetamine and cocaine and other drugs into the community? The police officers were the drug dealers. How was that linked to the shooting of an informant? And all these other shooting deaths start to unravel.

And the story is compelling in the first 10 minutes. When you watch this, you're going to be like, what the heck? And look, before I did Midas Touch, before Colin Kaepernick and I became business partners, and before I, you know, doing what I'm doing now, I was a civil rights lawyer and I worked cases in Bakersfield right off Truxton Avenue is where I would stay in Kern County. These are the families. Welcome to Bakersfield. I lived with, you know, these families. The families are like family to me. The families actually all took a trip to Times Square. There's a big billboard. Also in Times Square, they got to see their loved ones who have since passed due to these police shootings and other conduct.

They saw them on the billboard in Times Square. It was a very touching moment. I am so proud to share this with the world. Please let everybody know about the show. Please make sure you watch it. Do me a favor, please. After this show, you watch it. Do me a favor, please. After this show, tweet about it. Go on social media, Facebook, Twitter, whatever you use. Tell people

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withdrawing from the case. And then there was the emergency hearing that was held in New York State Court called by the New York Attorney General Letitia James, where Judge Arthur and Goran basically excoriated Trump's lawyers and said that their frivolous answer was like the worst piece of paper ever. And Alina Habba didn't show up there. So I did like a superb analysis on the law. And then Jordy does an ad read on Fume and I'm reading the comments and they're not like really great legal analysis. They're like great ad read Jordy. And I was like, great ad read. I'm glad that people like your ad reads. I put a lot of work into those ad reads. Everyone knows my background before Midas

was in marketing and advertising. So I got firsthand, I got to be at shoots with real actors who would do ad reads. And I like to think I picked up a little bit from them. Well, you did a great job. They really make me smile. I got to say. I text Jordy. I'm like, I really love that read.

I watch the reads and I'm like, Jordy, you're really making me smile today. He's like, why? I'm like, that read, man. I mean, look, it's a combination of... Yeah, get back. Jack Smith. I was going to say it was part of his startorial. Special counsel, grand jury. Ben, what does that equation equal for us today in the news? Give us the latest. It equals a bad day for Donald Trump in the news when, you know, Fitton, Tom Fitton,

who like basically pretends that he's a lawyer. He doesn't actually say he's a lawyer, but he gives the impression. He's the president of a group called Judicial Watch. He wears really tight shirts and he talks about the law as though he's coming from a place of authority, which he has absolutely none. And he just spreads all this MAGA extremist, fascist, performative nonsense. But he's someone who Donald Trump gets advice from. And by the way, not protected by attorney client privilege because he's not a lawyer. And so, but Fitton's always like loud, tight shirts, and he does the muscle thing. When he was walking into the grand jury today, he was like trying to, he's like, oh no. That's why I said Carmen Sandiego.

I don't know if we have a photo of, while I'm doing this, Brett, maybe you find a photo of Carmen Sandiego so I could see why Carmen Sandiego was etched in my mind, but Fitton, he's very significant in the insurrection because he wrote emails to Trump's inner circle, to Scavino and others, basically writing the script before the November 2020 election, saying exactly what Donald Trump should say to declare victory even when he loses. And Fitton not only involved in, by the way, that's dating back earlier in 2020 when Fitton kind of helped coordinate the strategy of like, just declare victory even if you lose and say that, you know, say that you won. And so what that really goes to and what we see Jack Smith focused on are the elements of the crime. And here,

premeditation, you're going to hear that word a lot, intent, that this was a plan from the outset, no matter what, when you lose, do X, Y, and Z, and then X, Y, and Z was followed. There it is. Carmen Sandy Ago. Exactly. My mind is so silly sometimes. That is a sartorial, Jordy. When we're talking about sartorial, have you Googled that? If you say sartorial one more time, I might actually leave the show tonight. Okay. But have you Googled it while I've been on the show? No, but it doesn't matter even what it is at this point. You're saying it with a negative connotation attached to it. I'm just – anyway.

It's our tutorial. So – and one of the things Fitton – you know when Trump always talks about the socks case, the Clinton Sox case. That's a case that Fitton lost, that Trump cites as being helpful to him, which has nothing to do with Donald Trump's theft of documents and top secret sensitive compartmented information. The Sox case, Fitton sued the National Archives to force the National Archives to get Clinton to return notes that were being used for Clinton's autobiography, not top secret records, like records that were personal records. And the National Archives were like, okay, first off, it's 20 years too late. Like, okay, that's like from like 1998, number one. And number two,

it's personal records. Number three, who the hell are you, Fitton? You have no standing to sue us to then go after Clinton. There's nothing to do with any of – so that's the socks case where Donald Trump goes, you see? The court ruled I could steal all of our records and all of our classified records. No. steal all of our records and all of our classified records. No, the socks case. And they call it the socks case because it was like they were saying, oh, they believe in the autobiography that Clinton kept the notes to his autobiography in a sock drawer. So that's why they call it the sock case. But it has nothing to do with Donald Trump stealing records, obstructing justice,

concealing, destroying, mutilating classified records. If you just go through Fitton's entire history also, he stands on the exact wrong side of every single issue. You name an issue, he's on the exact wrong side, trying to fight against it, trying to spread disinformation. He's one of the bad guys. This is not a good faith actor out there. And I think they best summed it up when we had Rep. Zoe Lofgren sum it up during the January 6th hearing. She laid out how intricately involved Tom Fitton was with the plot to overthrow our democracy. And so as we see him today, get spotted heading in to the grand jury room where Jack Smith and the grand jury is set up to investigate Donald Trump's crimes relating to January 6th. I think it's important

right now that we actually revisit the January 6th committee when they were speaking about Fitton's role in all of this, because it just shows you just how involved he truly was. Here's the clip. A few days before the election, Mr. Trump also consulted with one of his outside advisors, inside activist Tom Fitton, about the strategy for election night. The select committee got this pre-prepared statement from the National Archives. As you can see, the draft statement, which was sent on October 31st, declares, we had an election today and I won. And the Fitton memo specifically indicates a plan that only the votes counted by the election day deadline, and there is no election day deadline, would matter. Everyone knew that ballot counting would lawfully continue past election day. Claiming that the counting on election night must stop before millions of votes were counted was, as we now know, a key part of

President Trump's premeditated plan. On Election Day, just after 5 p.m., Mr. Fitton indicated he'd spoken with the president about the statement. Sending along again, just talked to him about the draft below. Again, this plan to keep, to declare victory was in place before any of the results had been determined. Powerful. Powerful. And the fact that Fitton testified before the grand jury, he's linked to all of these other groups. And so a lot of information will come from Fitton. And we haven't really, even other than the January 6th committee talking about Fitton. And we haven't really, even in the, other than the January 6th committee talking about Fitton like that, that really seems to be an area that they

didn't probe as much as special counsel Jack Smith. And I wonder, you know, is Fitton going to invoke his fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination? Is Fitton, some people have, you know, some people have speculated, is Fitton cooperating? Has Fitton turned on Trump potentially? Because Fitton is very much exposed for criminal liability. So- Ben, Fitton is not only involved in the January 6th stuff we should mention and remind people of, he's also heavily involved in the theft and the obstruction of the top secret documents. Fitton is the guy who told Trump to blow off the National Archives. He's the guy who told Trump, you don't need to give them back. They're yours. You were the president.

They're yours now. You get to keep them. Those are your documents. He was the guy who did that. I got the socks case for you, man. Yeah. Yeah. And he's put the socks case nonsense, which we've said ad nauseum here what that was about. But literally beyond the socks case, he was the guy who told Trump, you don't have to give those back. They're yours. They're your documents. You could do, you declassify them with your mind. They're yours. Like he was the guy who put all this in Trump's head. And so he is actually tied to a lot of the criminal investigations into Donald Trump, not just January 6th, but January 6th and the issue over the confidential

documents. He's a total idiot too. Like when Donald Trump says, there is no law on point criminalizing my behavior. And as I would point out in the videos I would do, the laws are literally in the search warrant. They're right there. Okay? It's Espionage Act. It's obstruction. It's concealment and mutilation.

Those are actually the laws. They're criminal laws. You can't do that. And they carry with it massive criminal sentences. But he's getting that analysis from somebody who's basically pretending to be a lawyer, who is intentionally a bad faith actor, who's representing that he's judicial watch this or judicial watch that, but who doesn't really have any... He's not a real lawyer at the end of the day, you know, and whether he actually said, he's never said, I'm a lawyer, but I think clearly the context within which he speaks about

the law, it gives that appearance. But I want to also talk about this. So that's Fitton and Jack Smith. I talked about the emergency hearing that took place in New York State Court before Judge Ngoran where Donald Trump filed a frivolous answer to the lawsuit against him seeking at least $250 million by Letitia James where Donald Trump basically claimed, I don't know who runs the Trump organization. I can't admit or deny the allegations and also just said things that completely contradict statements that Trump's given and swore deposition testimony before. All the lawyers are so on to Trump now and it's great and all the judges are on to him too. So the moment that Trump plays a game, what the lawyers do, whether it's New York Attorney General Letitia James or Roberta Kaplan, E. Jean Carroll's lawyer, you run right to the court. Because if you don't, they've realized what Trump's tactic is. Well, if you were really concerned about my behavior, you would have said something right away, right? So now they run to the court. We need a hearing because they know

Trump's trying to delay the trial date. New York judge Arthur Ngoran said, I'm not moving the trial date. October 2nd, 2023, not moving. Same thing, the E. Jean Carroll trial, April 2023, not moving. Trump's got trial after trial after trial coming up in civil cases. And then we have all of the criminal investigations that are taking place. And for me, it's really a question of who indicts first, Fannie Willis, Alvin Bragg, or Jack Smith. That's why Donald Trump's calling for civil war. And the same thing when I talk about the lapel pins, where you may go, all right, he's probably saying some outlandish crap,

but you're not actually calling for a violent like civil war. Well, he is, and they are wearing lapel pins. So this is what Donald Trump posted. He goes, then they will have to figure out how to fight 80 million plus. It's not going to happen again. People my age and old will physically fight for him this time. What we got to lose, I'll donate the rest of my time here on this planet to do it. And I know many, many others who feel the same. They got my sixth and we are locked and loaded. That's Trump reposting somebody, some cult member on his

social media platform whose name is Free Texas 1776. And Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat, goes, it will likely get little to no attention today that the current front runner for the Republican presidential nomination just told his supporters to start arming themselves for a civil war to overthrow the government in the case he loses. Just Trump being Trump. So quirky. He's obviously being sarcastic there and both criticizing Trump and large media networks who are not going to cover that and treat it like this is a both sides. Here are the Republicans, the conservatives, and here are the liberals. That's why I always say on the Midas Touch podcast, never, ever call a MAGA Republican or Republican conservative again.

These are not conservative people. How many times I read headlines today about Fitton going in front of the grand jury where they called him a conservative activist, not a conservative activist. He wants to overthrow the freaking government. He's not a conservative activist. Stop calling these idiots, these right-wing magas, stop calling them conservatives. And then, you know, the media's excuse, well, we don't want to give him any attention. That's why. We're giving him airtime.

Okay. BS. You give him attention anyway. Donald Trump's got a new airplane that swooped into New Hampshire. And what a mighty- Trump force one. So smart. Yes.

Trump force one. You do cover him and you cover him in ways that are favorable. So you need to cover this. We cannot cover our eyes and close our ears to the fact that the Republican Party today is now a MAGA Republican Party that is a fascist party that is led by a deranged, sadistic cult leader who is reposting to commands for civil war. Like, could you imagine? And it's all in plain sight, right? Like, you don't need sleuthing and finding this, you know, email that was said. He's posting it. He's telling you. And then they're actually doing it. He's telling you, and then they're actually doing it. And so when this crazy person,

this MAGA terrorist is writing in here, it's not going to happen again. People my age will physically fight for him this time. They physically fought for him last time. What do you think when they say trial by combat, what they mean? And when people, they kill police officers in front of the Capitol and attack the Capitol building violently, they did attack violently. Then you add that, and then you see the lapel pins of the AR-15s. It all is together. It's all connected what these people are. Traitors. Go ahead. the old school Republicans. This is one of the good guys out there. And then election time comes up. And when they start having to be asked the question, will you support Donald Trump in 2024? You've said horrible things about him. You've said he's against everything America stands for. You've criticized him for wanting to terminate the constitution. You were a fierce critic of

his for January 6th. Would you support the guy? You said he's anti-American. Would you support the guy? Then you have people like even Larry Hogan. How did that happen? What the hell was that? Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan. They ask him, will you support Trump if he's the nominee? And at first he equivocates and you go, you know, well, there's a lot of good candidates

out there and I think we should choose the best candidates and we shouldn't choose losing candidates. And then they try to, well, will you support Trump if he's the nominee? Well, you know what? There are a lot of bad candidates out there, a lot of good candidates. We shouldn't go with losers. Will you support Trump? Yes, I would support whoever the Republican nominee is. You would support this guy after all that happened? After all that you've said in the past, you would support this guy. And then you have the people walking it back like that guy, Governor Sununu in New Hampshire. You see that? He today also said he was joking. He was joking when he said Trump was effing crazy. Didn't seem like a joke at the time when he said it, but no, it was just a joke. Just joking.

Just that guy, that rascal, the rascal, the rapscallion Donald Trump. Why would you want to be part of a political party where that like, you know, there are choices, right? Like you don't have to do it, OK? You don't have to become a freaking traitor against the United States, because they're running, you know, Hogan wants to run for president. So new news is going to be running. Um, and as part of that, they're, they think in their own delusional mind that they've got a shot in the

primary. And that if they say that they're not going to be supportive of the Republican nominee, even if it's Trump, that they're not going to win. And it goes back to, you're going to win in what? Turning America into a Russian satellite country? You want to win in and make our country the most fascist, ridiculous, laughingstock of the world? That's what you even want to win. And again, I always talk about that Alexander Haig quote because I think it's so important. General Haig was Secretary of State, the youngest four-star general in American history at that point. It's all about what a leader is on the Democratic side. And again, I disagree with Democrats on a lot of things. But when you're a leader, you got to stand up for things.

You can't just go with wherever the wind is taking you, you know, and just give in to populism. Like what I one of the things I really like about President Biden is he makes hard decisions sometimes, you know, and again, decisions that are potentially unpopular at the time, but ultimately are helpful to the country. And then on the other hand, you got MAGA Republicans, you know, okay, Fox is making up the conspiracy, everybody. Well, all right, the new conspiracy, everybody, the green M&M is a lesbian. Lesbian green M&M. Purple M&M is obese, everybody.

And then they're like – then they like implement a policy to like ban the green M&M and then they're all – we need to ban M&Ms. M&Ms are too woke. Today the one like – and they're like stupid today. Like today it was like everybody, Sims 4 is too woke. Sims 4 is a game from 2014. Did they just discover the Sims? Exist Sims 4 is too woke, everybody. And of course, gas stoves, right? Gas stoves is the big MAGA Republican, the Democrats. MAGA Republicans who legitimately want to take away your social Republicans who legitimately want to take away your social security, legitimately want to take away Medicare from you, legitimately want to raise your

prescription drug prices. They want to kill you. They're wearing AR-15 freaking pins. They're arresting women. They're criminalizing women. House Republicans are focusing on issues. It's all gaslighting. This is a tweet that they put up today. After all this, after everything that we spoke about, after everything they prioritized, the GOP tweets out. And I had to see this from my personal account because they actually block Midas Touch. The GOP blocks Midas Touch, which I think is something we need to speak about more. The GOP wrote, House Republicans are focusing on issues that matter. The audacity, the fricking audacity, people. And then they try to go on

their little megators and they try to use these made up issues to score political points instead of dealing with the real problems that exist for people. They go out there and they try to spike the football with the dumbest policies on the planet that don't even resemble anything related to conservatism whatsoever. Don't help people in any way, shape, or form. And here, speaking of these MAGA lunatics in the mix of all things, you have Ron DeSantis going out touting. And we said that he was joking about this a few weeks ago.

And he said it as an aside with sort of a laugh. Well, he wasn't joking now that he's proposing his budget. And he is saying, in my budget, guess what? We're not going to tax gas stoves. If you're electric stoves, you're going to have to pay the tax. But if you get a gas stove, tax-free. This is a real thing. This isn't an SNL skit. And then we just added, because I think it needs to be done, no tax permanently

on gas stoves. They want your gas stove, and we're not going to let that happen. And we're not even a state. The way Florida was built, a lot of this wasn't even connected to gas lines. You got a lot of electric stuff, but it's just the principle of, you know, this is ridiculous. Yeah. I mean, what's ridiculous is literally 8% of Floridians use gas, 8%, 8%. So that's how, you know, this is purely just some political BS, stupid stuff. A lot of people don't even have the gas lines to even do it. Like it's just stupid. I don't even want to humor it because it's just so dumb. No, no, but it's an excellent point though, Brett, because if only 8% of Floridians actually

have gas stoves, he's only talking to maybe a fraction of that percentage that are just so in his own megaverse, as we like to say. Because ultimately, Republicans, they think these culture wars are winning issues. They're issues to get people loud and maybe try and distract from the fact that, okay, let me hold up over here. Let me hold up gas stoves over here. I'm coming after your Medicare. Let me hold up SIMs over here. I'm coming after your Social Security.

I'm coming after your women's rights. Where they take and they take. And you know what? The American people are seeing them take. They are seeing them take. We saw it in the midterms. Everyone thought, all the big pollsters out there, all the brand names, they said, it's going to be a red wave.

No, they fed into a dumb narrative that was solely based on culture wars. And as we saw, calling back to that Marjorie Taylor green clip, when you actually try and have a conversation and she's shouting out CRT and $5 billion to this school, just the average American person just knows what she's saying is complete BS. And they're sick of it. They are sick of that buffoonery. And each day, the dumbest majority in congressional history is going to go up and do these dumb things and embarrass the country and embarrass themselves time and time and time again. And the American people aren't going to respond to this. They're not. They're going to respond to it in a negative way and say,

hey, I don't want you to leave me. You are an incompetent person. And in DeSantis' case, he's also, well, I was going to say in DeSantis' case, he's also not only, they're not only picking your pockets, but he's also distracting from the severe problems that Florida is facing. And he thinks, and this is an accurate assessment, I think it's been proven true because he did get reelected in a big way down there. He has realized that if I distract people and I own the libs all the time with these culture war issues, and I do that nonstop, I could distract people from thinking about the incredibly exorbitant rent prices that they're paying,

the ridiculous housing prices that they are paying, the insane insurance costs in Florida, the teacher shortage, the massive teacher shortage in Florida in public schools. I mean, there are a lot of incredibly fundamental, fundamental, basic governing issues in the state of Florida. Catastrophic issues. Catastrophic. I recommend Texas Paul did a really good breakdown on it, which I think you guys should watch. But he's also- Well, then Brett, you mentioned Texas Paul. Go to Texas. Greg Abbott. Greg Abbott. You know, Jordy, the problem that I agree with you, if pro-democracy is also loud and doesn't seed an inch. The problem, though, is how does Beto lose substantially to someone like Abbott, right?

How does DeSantis win in a landslide. It's because propaganda, these issues though, if utilized with the 1984 Orwellian precision that lethal propaganda can be weaponized to do, it is effective and it is important, not just vital, existential for pro-democracy to fight back and not just say, oh, we're fighting back, but to use the truth and to condense these true messages in ways that Americans can understand and see for themselves and see that there are 7,000 infrastructure projects going up, see that there are going to be 20,000 infrastructure projects, talking about jobs, jobs, jobs, standing up to these wannabe dictators like DeSantis and Abbott and a bunch of these other Republicans. I mean, Jordy, in 1984 by George Orwell, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. And that is the language of the modern day MAGA Republican. I truly think Orwell would be like, whoa, that even went further than I predicted the way they're going. But let's not forget the lessons of Nazi Germany. You tell a small lie, people get it. You tell a

big lie, people fall for it. And you go back in history thousands and thousands of years. These tactics have been utilized before and these tactics can be combated. And so it is important. One of the things we do here at the Midas Touch Network is we take deep immersions in historical context, decult deprogramming, and to try to bring truth in these digestible ways because the media is going to bolt sides the issue. They're not equipped to handle this. And so what do you have to do? This is the whole thesis of Midas Touch. You take the shovel and you rebuild the media. You build the media for 2023 and onward in ways that you show fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. They lie fact. You don't put people on split screens and say, here's a liberal, here's a conservative, yell at each other. All right, now we got a commercial break. No, you do 15 minutes of facts, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, and then you bring good looking Geordie on to do an ad read. That's the way then, yes,

sartorial Geordie. That's the way the media should be. And here, look, can we pull up Trump's statement, though, about DeSantis, too? Because this is just going to be glorious. And this is an opportunity to point out. Let's fuel what's taking place here. This is what Trump says about DeSantis. He goes, the real Ron is a rhino globalist who closed quickly down Florida, even its beaches. Let me read it the way Donald Trump says it though. Thank you. The real Ron is a rhino globalist who closed quickly down Florida and even its beaches, loved the vaccines and wasted big money on testing. How quickly

people forget. So first off, that's not even true. DeSantis killed tens of thousands of Floridians, killed them. Let's just be clear what he did by having ridiculous disinformation spread about COVID. And even right now, DeSantis to appeal to Republican voters, this is the Republican issue. You have to be anti-vax. You have to be against medication. You have to cheer on global pandemics. That is the craziest words that I am saying, but that is actually what it means to be a Republican today. Their political platform is you have to cheer on insurrections and global pandemics. That is part of their platform. So here, what Donald Trump's attack line on DeSantis is, being a rhino globalist,

breaking down what that means in their world, that means that you addressed and promptly responded to a global pandemic to make sure that people were safe, which DeSantis didn't do, but that's how you attack them. He loved vaccines. Could you imagine loving vaccines being a negative? Like when people created vaccines, like the person, when vaccines were invented and vaccines that have cured smallpox and other incredibly, incredibly ravaging, ravaging things. We're like, damn, these, like, anti-vaxxers used to be, you know, look, in mostly all circumstances, this anti-vax conspiracy strand used to be like the, like, like just some of the nuttiest of nutty. And you'd be like, what the hell? What?

What's going on? It is now a political platform of Republican parties and not just vaccines. So let's just say, let's just say, you know what? You know, everyone, we're cautious when it comes to that. Okay. Okay. Wasted big money on testing. Okay. Testing for sickness is now problematic in the Republican Party platform. The idea that you would test to see if somebody was sick is anathema. Jordy, I'm throwing these words your

way. Anathema to the Republican platform. We're anti-testing. We're anti-vaccine. We're AR-15 pins. We believe that while the military requires training to utilize weapons of war, like AR, like the military version of AR-15s, while the military requires training, they got to read a whole training manual and be proficient in order to utilize assault weapons. When it comes to 18 year olds with no credit, minimal to no background checks, can't even afford it. Let's not just give them the AR-15s, but after they have the school shooting, let's wear a freaking pin to celebrate it. This is who the MAGA Republicans are today. It is so shocking, but none of what I just said is hyperbolic. Another word for you, Jordy. None of what I said is hyperbolic. Great words. Great words. Great words.

Great words, Ben. Well, that's why- It's buffoonery. Straight buffoonery. Could be summed up in one word, buffoonery. That's why it's good though that we finally have people out there calling it out. And honestly, I do think a lot of it is inspired by you listening to the show, by you watching the show. I mean, there are a lot of people in DC who do listen to the show and hear your complaints and get it. And they take an example from us, and they take an example from you. And they see your complaints about the fire. They hear our

complaints about the need to have some fire out there to compete with these fascist voices. And hopefully they continue down this path because there are some dark forces we are going against. But you know what? We got the truth on our side and we got some of the best people on our side. So we need to keep pushing forward. I made a joke to Jordi and Ben last night, which really wasn't a joke. I was just looking, there was some like report that said like, Donald Trump is digging up footage of Ron DeSantis saying good things about vaccines for some oppo research. And I was like, isn't it weird that Republican oppo research on candidates is finding people saying like somewhat decent to normal things? Like that's oppo research to them. Finding somebody to say, yeah, you know, vaccines are good to preventing illnesses.

Gotcha, gotcha. It's just like a weird, sick thing. Can you imagine these debates, Brett? They're going to be off the wall. We're going to have to cover them. We're going to have to cover them. It's going to be absolutely great. The irony of it all,

to just totally kind of get away from the politics of it, is with this dumb gas stove debate over the last few weeks, I've been like a gas, like I like gas stoves for cooking. I've enjoyed gas stoves, but this, yes, but this actually, I've always really liked gas stoves for cooking. I found you have a lot more control, but this actually made me start doing research on the new induction stoves. And now like I really want an induction stove. Like all the chefs say that they cook much faster. It boils water. It boils water in like 30 seconds.

It has no heat. They're easy to clean. And now like that Biden's given out these tax credits for switching. I know, right? I'm so woke right now. So woke right now. Are you gonna support lowering prescription drug prices

next time? Are you gonna support infrastructure projects next time? Are you going to support a living wage? Is that what you're going to do? Are you going to try to make sure that veterans get the best health care that they deserve? Is that where you're going next, you woke liberal? I want an induction stove now. And the government is giving tax credits for people who want to make that change.

Are you going to support free and fair elections, you little liberal? I want an induction stove now. And the government has given tax credits for people who want to make that change. And I've been actively looking into it. Are you going to support free and fair elections, you little liberal you? Yeah. Woke. Peaceful transition of power. Woke. No. Woke.

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