The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump MORE DESPERATE THAN EVER as Election Nears

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: With Election Day approaching, VP Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are touring swing states. Trump is drawing tiny crowds and blaming his low turnout on Harris and President Biden. Meanwhile, as Hurricane Helene strikes, VP Harris and President Biden spring into action to aid those affected. In contrast, Trump stages a campaign event amid the storm's devastation, diverting resources for his own gain, lying to the public, and deepening national division. Ben, Brett, and Jordy break it all down! Subscribe to the new Legal AF channel: https://youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Deals from our sponsors!  American Giant: Visit https://american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code MEIDAS HumanN: Find out how you can get a free 30-day supply on bundles of new SuperBeets Heart Chews Advanced and save 15% for a limited time only by going to https://GETSUPERBEETS.COM and use promo code MEIDAS. Policygenius: Head to https://policygenius.com/MEIDAS or click the link in the description to get your free life insurance quotes and see how much you could save! Calm: Get an exclusive offer of 40% off a Calm Premium SubscrIption at https://calm.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 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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focusing on swing states. Very different approaches, though. On the one hand, you have Donald Trump speaking in front of very small crowds with people leaving in the middle of his speeches. He's talking about how he hates overtime pay and thinks that people don't deserve it. He blames the small crowd sizes on Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden not providing him with enough security. He also says that nobody, nobody is talking about the environment anymore, he says. And isn't that funny? He says. On the other hand, Vice President Kamala Harris is out there speaking in front of packed stadiums, packed crowds, like the crowd she spoke in front of

recently in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she's providing detailed policy positions. And you can feel the enthusiasm in the room. Earlier today, Donald Trump held a very, very dangerous PR stunt in Valdosta, Georgia, diverting resources of the first responders necessary in the aftermath of the devastating Hurricane Helene. Donald Trump quite literally used rubble from the hurricane to build a podium where he gave a speech where he was lying and saying that the federal government is not providing any support or enough support, which is completely false and belied by the statements of both the Republican and Democratic governors from the impacted areas. We have that audio. Once again, a terribly dangerous PR stunt designed by Donald Trump to divide we the people on something where

we should be coming together and fixing problems and being there for our fellow Americans. Finally, Vice President Kamala Harris got a key endorsement from the former Arizona, very conservative Republican Senator Jeff Flake. We'll talk about that and also how Vice President Kamala Harris is expanding the map. States like Texas and Florida may be in play. Earlier today, I spoke with the Democratic Congress member and senatorial candidate, Democratic Congress member Colin Allred. We'll talk about that as well. Brett, Jordy, welcome to the show, everybody. It's good for me to be back. Thank you, everybody, for all of your support.

While I was gone, Brett did an incredible job filling in for all of the hot takes. I hope to see much more of that as well. And I know you all do as well. Thank you to our entire team here at the network for making that transition easy for me. And thank you everybody for your wishes. Brett, Jordy, how are you doing guys? Doing great, Ben. It's great having you back. I know everybody here is so excited to have you back. It's been awesome. Just the reaction that I've received, like the warm welcome that I received by stepping into your shoes to do some of these hits. And for those wondering, I will certainly be doing more. Don't you worry.

I see a lot of people asking, was it a one-off thing? Is he coming back? I'm going to be doing it. I did, I did some over the weekend and I'll be, I'll be doing more this week. Don't you worry,

but I know we have a lot to talk about. I want to first send, you know, all my thoughts to those affected by this hurricane. You know, our hearts are with you and you know, please look into any sort of resources that could be helpful to you online. And we're here for you. You know, I think in these

moments, I think one of the most important things is to try to bring people together and unify folks and try to look for, you know, what's best in everybody and how we could all help one another. Unfortunately, we see far too often the forces that be in our nation trying to divide us and further rip us apart. And we'll get into that in this episode. But I wanted to start off by sending my well wishes to everybody. Jordy, how are you doing? Well said, B. Couldn't have said it better myself. Ben, fantastic to have you back. I'm not trying to get anybody in trouble ben but last episode i don't know if you heard popak swore um on the episode and so i just i thought i should let you know just gave us a gave us a whole explicit tag word did he use you can just i

don't want to say and i feel bad ratting him out but like i know it was brought to your attention most likely by by people who leave the review so i just i just wanted to come clean because i know brett wasn't going to say anything and. People liked unfiltered Popak on the show. No, it's so great to have you back, man. It's so great. But Brett did an excellent job with those hot takes. I'm stoked that he's going to keep doing them, honestly. They've been amazing. It's just great. I just love this network. I love this community so much, man. And Ben, congratulations with everything, man. And Ben, congratulations with everything, man. Let's get into it. So Donald Trump has his MAGA followers. Granted, it was a small crowd

in a speech over the weekend in Erie, Pennsylvania, critical swing state. He now has them clapping over no overtime pay. Yes, folks, it is a cult. This is his message. He hates overtime. Play the clip. A lot of people don't give. I know a lot about overtime. I'd hated to give overtime. I hated it. I'd get other people. I shouldn't say this, but I'd get other people in. I wouldn't pay. I hated. This is going to lead to. Hear what he said. I got other people too. I hated to pay it. I wouldn't pay it. He said, Trump's project 2025 plan calls for allowing employers to stop paying workers for overtime. Also, you know how Donald Trump would say no tax on tips when Donald Trump actually was in office. He had no tips on tips.

His plan was that employers owned the tips of the service workers. Service workers, you would have to give your tips to your employers. The Democrats stopped that in an omnibus bill. I'm seeing a bit of a theme here, Ben. So no tax on tips because tips don't exist anymore because the boss gets to keep your tips. That's the fine print on the Trump policy. And also no tax on overtime. Once again, read the fine print on the Trump overtime because you ain't getting overtime because Donald Trump wants to eliminate overtime pay. It's one of the main functions of Project 2025, one of their main initiatives. And Donald

Trump is now in the final days of this election, working it into his stump speech, working it into his stump speech that he wants to take away people's overtime, and he has his supporters clapping for it. Just think about this current state of the race. I'd say this, though, in that clip alone, the folks who were behind him initially, because I think it was the first time he's really started to roll this no overtime payout in his speech, in his stump speech, they were a little taken aback at first. Like you see people's eyes start darting, like, should we clap? Should we clap? And it's such a cult, right? And they feel so like that they have to clap for everything the man does that eventually they do give in and start to do it. But when their initial reaction was like,

wait, did he just, did he just say what I think he just said? I mean, that clip is really revealing. One of the weird, like alluring things I think to Trump's followers is that they like that he hurts people, but they like that he hurts those other people, right? They're not hurting me. He hurts those people. And I like that he's making those people upset. And so nobody thinks it's going to happen to them. And so they're like, oh, yeah, take away that overtime. We don't need those, you know, loser workers. We need that overtime pay. We don't need it.

It's the same thing anytime I speak to anybody who has done contracting work for Donald Trump over the years. They never thought that it would happen to them. They never thought that he's not going to stiff me. He stiffed all those other people because, oh, they did bad work or they were bad workers. No, he's not going to stiff my company. Next thing you know, they're out millions of dollars because Donald Trump refuses to pay them and then sues them and does all these legalese in order to just crush these small businesses. It's a tale as old as time with Donald Trump. And it just keeps going in one stupid circle because then the lawyers all buy in with that same principle. Oh, he won't stiff me. He's not going to stiff. He'll treat me right. I know I'm going to be the one who he thanks and pays. No, it's like an endless circle of stupid and grift. And then the natural evolution is the Democrats did it. Biden did it. Kamala did it. It's their

fault. And then you have a corporate media and a propaganda media that spreads that message over. They did that to you. They were the ones who took your overtime pay away. Yeah, but you were the one who, ah, they made me do it. It was their fault. Anyway, at the same speech where Donald Trump was talking about how he hates overtime pay, as we are learning more about the devastating effects and impact of Hurricane Helene, yesterday in Donald Trump's speech, he said that no one's talking about the environment anymore. Climate change is the biggest scam of all time. That's what he was talking about yesterday while all of this was going on. Play this clip. Now we call it. Do you ever notice

this was such a big deal, the environmental stuff. I haven't heard the environmental stuff mentioned in six months. I was saying the other night, what the hell happened to the environment? David, will you figure this out? David McCormick, everybody vote for him. David, will you figure this out? You know? No, but think about this. I haven't heard, Mike, I haven't heard, they don't ever talk about the environment anymore. You know why? Mike is saying, don't talk about it now.

No, it's one of the great scams of all time. You know why they don't talk about it? Because people aren't buying it anymore. I don't want to use bad language. My wife said, please don't use bad language. They are talking about it every day. They're talking about it now in the wake, especially of the devastation of these increasingly lethal and devastating hurricanes. And Donald Trump, they're making this a major part of his campaign, saying that climate change isn't real.

And in fact, he says, rising water levels are better because you'll get more beachfront property, even though that literally makes no sense. If the water rises, you have less beachfront property. Perhaps Donald Trump's talking about one of his properties where perhaps if it rises temporarily, he'll have more beachfront. I don't even know what he's talking about. This is part of his speech. So he gives the sit down interviews like this where he says that a more beachfront property. This is good play this clip. The single biggest threat not global warming. When they say that the seas will rise over the next 400 years, one eighth of an inch, you know, which means basically have a little more beachfront property. Okay. Think of it. The seas are going to rise.

Who knows? But this is the big threat. I watched Biden the other night. It's the greatest existential. He loves that word because it's a big word. And he thinks, you know, he thinks he doesn't even know what the hell the word means. He goes, it's the greatest existential threat to our country. Global warming.

Tell the people in North Carolina, tell the people in Georgia, tell the people in Florida, tell the people in Alabama right now that. Tell them that. No, but we'll show you in a little bit what Donald Trump said when he held this PR stunt in Valdosta, Georgia, where he said nobody expected this. Nobody said it was coming. Well, we did. We did. People are saying that. Scientists are saying that. People who care about facts are saying

that every single day. And just because you lead a death cult and not a political party doesn't mean reality doesn't exist. It does exist in the real world. And when you listen to him say that, just even the things, existential, that's a big word, existential. Ooh, that's a smart word, but that's why he says that word. Nobody talks about it. The biggest gift. By the way, just to prove to you that he says this over and over again, here he was in Michigan the last week or so speaking to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. So now what they do is like, if you're a Republican governor, you have so little self-respect for yourself. If you're Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that you now become a moderator for a bizarre town hall that Donald Trump holds in Flint, Michigan. Like what?

You're a governor of a state. Like go, go be in Arkansas. What are you doing? Play the clip. This nuclear power. And when I hear these people talking about global warming, that's the global warming you have to worry about. Not that the ocean is going to rise in 400 years an eighth of an inch and you'll have more seafront property, right, if that happens.

I said, is that good or bad? I said, isn't that a good thing? If I have a little property on the ocean, I have a little bit more property. I have a little bit more ocean. What are you even talking about? You want more seafront property over your land and you'll have less land. You'll have less beachfront property. You'll have more water and you can be dead. What are you talking about here? And we saw the devastating impact of this

with COVID, right? Where a leader starting in 2019, if Hillary Clinton was in office, do you think Hillary Clinton would say, like a miracle, it's all going to go away? Or the moment she was aware of COVID in Wuhan, China, do you think that she would immediately tell the people right away that she would rally the entire world, as America should as a leader, to try to do everything to stop this, to communicate on a daily basis for years leading up to it. That's why it's called COVID-19 because it happened in 2019. But Donald Trump in 2020 was saying, really what, through April, like a miracle it was all going to go away. Then you had the Trump shutdowns because he mishandled the thing. And then he would brag about his ratings every day. And now the corporate media wants us to

wave one of those men in black wands and act like that didn't happen, that it was the most ridiculous and dangerous abdication of duties in the history responsible for the deaths of millions of people, where there were food lines, mobile morgues in the United States. You didn't have toilet paper every day. I mean, this was a devastating period. And we're supposed to pretend what? That he wasn't, and that that was just a thing? Like, oh, well, if it wasn't for COVID, the economy would be great. What do you talk? First off, no, there was a recession before COVID that was starting. Donald Trump's trade war against China was an absolute disaster. He was already increasing our debt more than any other president before. Those are just objective facts. And then he mishandled it. You don't get what other presidency, you're just like, you know

what? Forget that whole entire year. Not his fault, even though he was the one in charge and said things like this. Play the clip. It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle. It will disappear. And from our shores, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We'll see what happens. Nobody really knows. People do know. People did know. They were trying to give the advice and he was doing freaking wavy things with the stupid hands versus giving people the facts. And let me just show you some other clips from the speech that Donald Trump gave. I make one observation for one second before we get to these other clips.

Anytime you hear Donald Trump say, and nobody knows, nobody knew this, nobody knew this could have happened. It's he's talking about himself. Nobody knows what existential means. You don't know what it means. So Donald, like you don't know what that word means. And like, that's, this is your way of admitting it, that this you you'll notice that's a common theme and all the things that he does. But you know, this, this is why we've kind of been trying to bring these climate issues to the forefront because they really do affect people's lives. And one of the, I think, enraging things for me personally is when I look at a state like Florida and I see Republicans in charge there, and I see somebody like a Ron DeSantis, and I see what they are trying to get their citizens angry about there in Florida. What

is Ron DeSantis trying to rile his people up about? He's trying to rile people up about trans people. That's what he's making them all mad about. He's trying to rile them up about books that have LGBTQ content in them. You got to make them real mad about the books. Meanwhile, they're getting crushed by these storms. These states are getting crushed by these school shootings. All this horrific stuff is actually happening that is endangering the lives of their kids, the lives of their families. And the Republicans are doing this waving of the keys, like in the movie Up, Look Over Here, Squirrel, at these trans issues and all these other things while people suffer. And that's why I think it's so important for us here to continue to highlight these sorts of issues and why it's

important that you all highlight these issues. And it's just so infuriating to see the same playbook over and over with Donald Trump, whether it's COVID, which was like a fast moving disaster, I will say, to now climate change and global warming. That's over a longer period of time and seeing him do the same thing. It's not going to happen. It's going to go away. Look, it's actually not that serious. Look, it's actually cooling in a lot of places. Oh, look, what is it? It's snowing outside. What is that global warming? Like the, the unseriousness of which he's taking it is exactly how he handled COVID. And we saw the devastation that, that wrought in the country.

The same thing is going to happen if we elect people like Donald Trump, the same thing will happen. People will suffer. People will die. People are already dying. More people will die if Donald Trump is elected. This is just, these are just the facts. It's why it just, just the facts. It's all so infuriating to me. Sorry, Ben. I interviewed Democratic Congress member Colin Allred, who's running for the Senate seat against

Ted Cruz, right? And Ted Cruz is of the MAGA ilk of Trumpian nonsense. And they can't even get their electric grid to work in Texas. But what these MAGAs try to make their people feel like is so disenchanted to have no agency over themselves, to make them think that there is no better path forward. And Brett, to your point, just distract with this idiocracy over and over and over again. And it's exhausting. And I understand why people want to turn away from it, but your life is on the line. Like, just take a look. I'll take a bit of a divergence from these Trump clips, but Ted Cruz is just another version of this. Ted Cruz doesn't care that Donald Trump called his wife ugly and said that his dad killed JFK. Ted Cruz is a power hungry monster out there who freaking hates the people in Texas. He hates his constituents and he

runs around right now doing a version of Trump, right? Doing a version of this weirdo standup creepy routine. Like take a look at here. Like let's take a look at Ted Cruz and who he's running against with colin all red just so you see the difference ted cruz been given these speeches like this one at turning point in usa where he talks about look liberal women are unhappy because they got their men's weenies aren't good weenies here like like this what have you been talking about here play this clip left is so bad they're so. They're so pissed off. And by the way, if you were a liberal woman and you had to sleep with those weenies, you'd be pissed too. If you had to sleep with those weenies, dude, you went to Harvard law. What is this shtick? Who behaves like you had to deal with those weenies, dude, you went to Harvard Law. What is this shtick?

Who behaves like that to deal with these weenies? Here he is mocking the fact that he abandoned his state when they suffered from freezing weather and devastation. And he went to Cancun and he was caught in the airport. And then he joked about it and said, I love you, Orlando. He's giving a speech in Orlando. Not quite as good as Cancun. Here, play this clip. I gotta say, Orlando is awesome. It's not as nice as Cancun.

But it's nice. And you wonder why their keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, who gave the big speech, the biggest speech of the night before Donald Trump's speech was Hulk Hogan, who ripped off his shirt and said, the hoaxster wants to make sure that you vote for Trump or else the hoaxster is going to give you a beat down. What are we doing here? What in the world is that? And by the way, here is Ted Cruz talking about how Mickey Mouse is always having sex with Pluto. And why do our kids see all this cartoon sex? Here, play this clip. I think there are people who are misguided trying to drive, you know, Disney stepping in saying, you know, in every episode now they're gonna have,

you know, Mickey and Pluto going at it. Like, really? Thank you for that image, Senator. But it's just like, come on, guys. These are kids. And you could always shift to Cinemax if you want that. Why do you have... It used to be... Look, I'm a dad. You used to be able to put your kids on the Disney Channel and be like, all right, something innocuous will happen. Okay, first off, Disney was never doing that. That doesn't exist. I don't know what he watches on Cinemax or elsewhere because that's simply not

happening. So I don't know. I mean, although he does have that issue of reposting things in the past, but that's just what the Republican party has become. That's what MAGA has become. On the other hand, I interviewed Colin Allred, Democratic Congress member. Let me just tell you a little bit about him. He was the president of his high school. Then he was a football star at Baylor University. He was a linebacker, superstar. Five seasons in the NFL, he played for the Titans. He then quit the NFL to go to law school at Berkeley, became a civil rights lawyer, worked in the Obama administration, became a congressman from Texas's 32nd congressional district. So when I had the opportunity to ask a Democratic Congress member, Colin Allred,

about people like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump pretending to be alphas and tough guys, I'm like, you were in the NFL. You're actually in like locker rooms. And according to like what's masculine or alpha, you've been around some tough dudes. What do you think about Ted Cruz and Donald Trump? Here, play this clip. Ted Cruz would not last a second in a locker room. He would not last a second in an NFL locker room or my college locker room because we could spot guys like him a mile away. He would not listen second in an NFL locker room or my college locker room because we could spot guys like him a mile away. We called them me guys.

The me guys were the ones who were always looking out for themselves first, who didn't care about the team, who thought that they were just, that they were hot stuff. And they were also the ones who we would always find a way to kind of get them,

chew them up and spit them out because we couldn't have them on our teams. And when I was captain of the football team at Baylor, and if I ever saw somebody like that, I'd go right at them. I'd go right at them until I broke down whatever was causing them to think they were so special and make them to get on board with the rest of us because we're trying to do something together that's not about you. And we all have to remember that we are part of a cohesive community. As John Lewis used to tell us, we might've come here on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now. We're all Americans. And when you have leaders who think that they're more important than this entire

project, a 250 year project that all of us, over 300 million of us are a part of, then you have to make sure that they are no longer in positions of leadership. And so we got less than 40 days here. And I want everyone to know that here in Texas, we can make sure we get rid of Ted Cruz. So get involved with us, go to ColinAlroy.com. If you're in Texas, make a plan to vote, check your voter registration status, make sure you get out to vote. We can do this. You know, one of the projects for me that I take very personally as well is when I see a lot of these young boys who are becoming men have the becoming part stunted by some of this right wing crap that I see out there. The treatment of women horrifically, the punching down, the mocking of marginalized communities. And I always say, that's just not how men act. It's not how anybody should act. But the idea that MAGA has tried to take that narrative and spin it that way, it's an important part as well

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You did something. I definitely did something. By the way, the launch of MidasPlus.com is doing pretty good. That's our new sub stack right there. And so a lot of people were saying, guys, we love MidasNews.com. We love what Ron Fulopkowski is building know, your team's breaking all of these stories. But there's a bunch of people who said, hey, MidasNews.com, you have a lot of ads all over it. And we're like, I know, because we're trying to make it free. So I still have to like, you know, I know Donald Trump says that he hates overtime, but like we have to like pay people to do the work and everything and make sure that we have staff and keep growing it. So we have to have some kind of source. So that's why there were all those ads on MidasNews.com. But what we figured is let's do MidasPlus.com, have it be an ad-free experience where Ron Filipkowski can kind of do

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All right, let's talk more about Donald Trump's speeches for a moment. I did a little weave right there. I wanted to talk about, I did a little weave with Ted Cruz because Brett, you were mentioning this is how unserious MAGA is behaving. And I just wanted to show, look, at the end of the day, you have someone like Colin Allred, and then you have somebody like Donald Trump and you have somebody like Ted Cruz. And I don't even think it's Democrat Republican. Let me show you this clip too. I'll do another weave within a weave right here, which is, let me show you former Republican Senator Jeff Flake, who just endorsed Vice President Kamala

Harris. And this is why to me, I've always said, it's not like a Democrat Republican things. It's just like a pro-cy, pro democracy thing with people like Jeff Flake, the former conservative Republican Senator of Arizona, who by the way, has been the ambassador to Turkey until recently his tenure there was kind of finishing up. And he came out with a very powerful endorsement. And then he went on this week on ABC and here's what he said. And you're joining the ranks of several Republicans endorsing Harris recently, notably Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney. Do you think it really makes a difference? Can you appeal to Republicans who may be on the fence? Well, I think Republicans believe in the rule of law in particular, and it's difficult to

support a candidate who, having lost an election, tries to use the powers of the presidency to overturn that election. That is anything but respect for the rule of law. So I know that a lot of conservative Republicans feel the way I do, that you just can't support a candidate like that. And with regard to tariffs as well, there are reasons to impose tariffs, but to pretend that we're going to get a windfall of money from some foreign government because we're imposing tariffs just doesn't jibe with what we're conservatives have been on free trade. Right. I mean, Colin Allred, Jeff Flake, Liz Cheney, right? The commonality there too, is these are people who still support our democracy and they're just very serious and thoughtful people who are taking their jobs to be public servants in that way to actually deliver results.

On the other hand, you've got the Ted Cruz's and the Donald Trump's and Trump's in Erie, Pennsylvania this weekend. And he's like, she's a stupid person. And if she wins, it's not going to be pleasant for me. Remember what Colin Allred said? A me guy. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. For Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and all of these maggots, it's me, me, me, me, me. Play this clip. No, this is a radical left

lunatic we're dealing with. By the way, if she wins, it's not going to be so pleasant for me, but I don't care. I really don't care. And then whining about crowd sizes throughout that speech as well, saying that it's Biden's fault for the crowd size. And that's why it's so small. They play this clip. Conson yesterday, and except for the fact that the administration would not let us have the, we had 50,000, maybe more people, and we were going to do an outdoor rally.

And we ended up having to do it inside in front of about a thousand people. But we had 50,000 people that showed up, but they didn't want me to be outside. They said they couldn't get us enough people because they were guarding the United Nations and Iran. The president of Iran is here. Quite literally nothing that he's saying is true. They didn't deny him anything. He has the most secret service ever. In fact, I think he probably has too much, if you want to know the truth. If you ever see him roll in, it's like he's got more secret service than the actual president

does. He shuts places down with massive amounts. That's never existed before for any past president, the level of protection that he has. He's gotten everything that he's asked for and more, and he's just lying there. And there's not 50,000 people outside. When he was in Potterville, Michigan, for example, the local media did a fact check because he says the same thing in every speech. It turned out there was not 40,000 people outside. Brett, Jordy, Midas, Mighty, you know how many people were actually outside waiting?

Four. There were four people outside. One was one of the children of the parents and then just some other person. There was nobody outside of that event. And he's doing these small events because people are getting tired and exhausted of this act even here in erie pennsylvania you'll see the guys behind trump have clearly had enough play it and then bad things started to happen we will open anwar again i got it done ronald reagan couldn't get it done nobody could get it done i I got it. It's probably the largest site in the world. Could be bigger than Saudi Arabia. Okay. Right now there is more oil production and drilling and distribution

than in Saudi Arabia right now. United States leads the world in drilling in the oil that we're producing here. Not under Trump under right now. That's just the reality of it. And Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden are focused on climate change. But what's Donald Trump talking about in speeches like this? Then I'll show you Vice President Kamala Harris in just a moment. Donald Trump is saying that migrants, you couldn't even have someone in Hollywood, someone in Hollywood, even the best actors couldn't do it, couldn't be as good as the migrants because they're so dangerous. That's his speech that he's giving. Here, play this clip. You should have it. You should be able to have it. The new thing

is hydrogen. They have hydrogen cars. They have one problem. On occasion, it will blow up. And when it blows up, you are not recognizable. No, you're not even recognizable. This is like a massive bomb being dropped. When it blows up, you are no longer, your wife cannot identify you. Let me put it that way. Is this your husband? Does he show you blood? Is this your husband? I really can't, I really can't tell. No no so that's a problem they're gonna have to work out i think yeah that wasn't the clip but uh you get the there's a real there's a really at that point it's just a bunch of nonsense yeah no doubt about you know one of

the things that's really been just bothering me also is the media's inability to adapt to the current moment like let's stop accepting this idea that Donald Trump could just go along and like pretend to be president and try to act like he's president going to these various cities while he is diverting resources away from people who actually need help so that he could get extra protection while he goes to Georgia or while he does all this other things. Let's stop pretending like Donald Trump's these lies or like anything legitimate whatsoever when he goes out there and he says, oh, there are 50,000 people waiting outside of, they like, they accept his framing for stuff. And when I was like tuned in for like a few seconds today to see how people on the like cable news channels and stuff were covering Donald Trump in Georgia today, It was appalling. They, they, they just totally buy into his stunts. It's like the most insane thing. Everything you hear from the press, it's just as if this is like normal. And he's like, Oh, look at this good guy going into these areas. Like, what the heck are you doing? Honestly, when I was in the hospital,

I'm sorry to interrupt you. But when I was in the hospital with my wife, when she was delivering last week, I was there for five days, right? So she just had the news on and trust me, I was not going to tell her, Hey, you should be watching Midas Touch right now. Okay. So just let her watch whatever she was watching. I was not going to comment on what was on TV. So I was sitting there and watching it out the day and we would be watching like ABC or NB, whatever it was. Right. And you'd go through the morning news through the night. And if you were watching it, you would not stupider and you would be like programmed on a whole thing that's like not happening. And I'm just like, why can't you just show people like what's happening? Like, like Donald Trump making this post where he goes, St. Michael, the arch angel defend us in battle, be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God,

cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world, seeking to rule the souls of men. Amen. And right after that, following it up with, I promise to make America great again, this time with crypto. Hashtag WorldLibertyFi is planning to help make America great again with the crypto capital, become the crypto capital of the world. This white list for eligible persons is officially open. This is your chance to be part of the historic moment. Join WorldLibertyFinancial.com. So after selling a $100,000 watch, which was Midas Touch Network, the only one who goes into the frequently asked question sections of these things and the disclaimers and shows, you realize that they're not even selling a watch, that they're actually

selling a concept of a watch. No, the $100,000 watch is just an illustration of what the watch may look like. Also, there's a disclaimer that there's no liability if we don't actually send you the watch ever. You're responsible for that. You can buy the watch with Bitcoin as well, and you could buy the watch from foreign countries. And then when you dig a little bit deeper right there as well, what is it that you find in addition to that? Well, one of the things that you find is that it's located in a location in, what is it, in Wyoming, where in that special location, they have what, it's a sex shop as well? What it is is there are thousands of businesses that use whatever. They use some janky law firm in Wyoming because of their like tax laws there or whatever it is. And because they think they play nice with also like foreign money.

And they were able to establish an LLC that has a virtual address in this building. Um, a building that is mysteriously like blurred out from most angles on Google maps. Like it's the only location that's actually like blurred out on Google maps when you try to look at it. And it houses a company that does sell sex honey for erectile dysfunction. And like hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of other companies, they all use this, like it's not a real address. They all use this virtual location as the address. And it's just curious for a company selling a $100,000. I'm just going to say, you don't see Rolex using a virtual address for their HQ that also shares a location with these thousands of other businesses. This is a bit different.

Oh, by the way, want a refund for your $100,000 despite the fact that the watch doesn't exist? They are not responsible for if you never get it. It says like it could be delayed, could come in responsible for, if you never get it, it says like it could be delayed, could come in a year, could come in 20 years. Who knows? Want to want that a refund after you pay too bad. All sales final is another thing with these watches. Want to want to pay an untraceable cryptocurrency. Go, go, go ahead. Where are you from? You from Russia? It doesn't matter. Go, go, go ahead. Pay Donald Trump a hundred thousand dollars in Bitcoin. Um, because that, that,

that'll work out great for our democracy and everything. And nobody wants to like even inspect it. Nope. Nobody even wants to go, this is a little shady. It's like, it's like only Midas, like it's us. Like I, I, I, I, I it's, it's, it's baffling, but like I said before, like the media loves to just take Donald Trump's framing and run with it and and we saw this you know i i think this was kind of most apparent during that interview uh kamala harris and tim wallace did like their first sit-down interview who was it was it was a cnn was dana bash where every question she asked was like donald trump says you do this your response donald trump says that you actually da da da da what do you say to that it's like you

don't like your interview i i get you like don't want to act like oh i'm like sucking up to the morning but an interview doesn't have to be like you parroting donald trump's bullshit and and and republican garbage and and like projecting it at them and having them respond to flat-out lies like that's not how this has to work and And today, President Biden did exactly that. See, I got my weave. You can weave. I said President Biden did exactly that because they started to ask him about Donald Trump's framing on the storm where Donald Trump blatantly lied that President Biden wasn't involved

in anything with this recovery efforts, hadn't contacted the governor, Governor Kemp. Once again, 100% bullshit, 100% lies. But the media has to confront President Biden using Donald Trump's made up story. And thankfully, President Biden clapped back at them when they're asking the question. I'll play it. Mr. President and Governor Cooper, Donald Trump has accused both of you of ignoring the disaster. He is lying. Let me get this straight. He's lying. And the governor told him he was lying. The governor told me he was lying. I've spoken to the governor, spent time with him, and he told me he's lying. I don't know why he does this. And the reason I get so angry about it, I don't care about what he says about me. I care what he communicates to

the people that are in need. It implies that we're not doing everything possible. We are. We are. And you spoke to the governor, I assume you heard the Republican governor of Georgia talk about that he was on the phone with me more than once. So that's simply not true. It's irresponsible. Just lie after lie after lie. And this is what they do. And you see this, by the way, no matter what happens every single day, there are like five to 10 lies that they just run.

Then you know that they all have, they're probably group chats and they're, what do they use? The telemarketerogram and their signal and whatever. They use all their various chats and they put together like, okay, this is going to be what we're pushing today. Okay. The storm's coming before the storm's even like done.

Let's start blaming it on Biden. Okay. Okay. All full court press. Let's blame Biden. This is Biden's fault. This is Kamala's fault. Let's start saying, I'm hearing report.

This is like the new thing that always goes viral, like on, on sites like Twitter now, because they're just exact reports say that President Biden declined to help because he wants to help Kamala Harris win the election. Breaking, breaking, breaking. All bullshit. 100% lies. Donald Trump repeats the same lies. All these people repeat the same lies. It's the same that happens in that Russian-funded operation that got indicted by the DOJ.

When I listen to comments from our audience abroad, by the way, I genuinely feel, I feel for them because actually I don't know how to respond to them sometimes because they're like, hey, Jordy, you know, I'm from New Zealand. I saw this comment today. I'm from New Zealand. You know, I don't understand.

Why is a storm political? And like, quite frankly, I don't even know how to respond back to them because just the timeline that we're living in is so utterly absurd that it doesn't like it came more in a response that I could actually give them that I'd feel validated that I gave them a good response to. A storm shouldn't be political. It's not. It's bonkers that this is the direction that corporate media, that an entire political party has decided to take. Let's blame Biden for

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Policygenius.com slash Midas. Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors. Links in description of both the YouTube and the audio. Use our codes. Let them know we sent you. Let's get into it, folks. Donald Trump in 2012 said the following, and to me, this informs a lot of what went down today. Donald Trump wrote, polls show that the hurricane had a huge positive effect for Obama on his win. Isn't that ridiculous? So for Donald Trump, he believes in his own mind, where as former President Barack Obama was just being a leader and doing what leaders should do, Donald Trump viewed that as, well, I should basically use the hurricane, in this case, Hurricane Helene, as a PR stunt, as a way to divide and fracture

Americans. And for Trump, he viewed it as an added benefit that it was in an important state. In Georgia, for the election, all states are important, but an important state when it comes to the election. So Donald Trump held this event in Valdosta, Georgia, and he used some of the rubble from the area right here, and you can see it. And he assembled this right here. Take a look at the podium that he built out of the bricks from a furniture store that was destroyed by the hurricane. As you look at some of these other images, the first responders were put next to him there, but then also forming a crowd to his side right there, instead of actually helping the people. There's a lot of missing people there still. And you have the first responders out there kind of watching this press conference, as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, said, shouldn't these first responders be out helping

people who desperately need it instead of being used as human props for Trump's latest exploitation of a strategy? Let me just show you some of these things too. Brett, you showed before the clip what President Biden was saying when he was asked the question by the reporter using kind of Donald Trump's framing where Donald Trump, where president Biden was like, look, I spoke to all the governors. We've given them all of the resources. This should not be, he's like, don't, this isn't about Biden. Okay. The issue is, is that Donald Trump's conduct is hurting clear lines of communication that's needed to help people right now during a crisis.

Don't make this a Biden v. Trump or Kamala. We need to save people's lives. And this freaking idiot, who's basically what Biden's saying, is out there using secret service resources and bringing people and distracting from what first responders need to do. There's a reason why a President Biden or former presidents don't go out in the middle of a hurricane when bodies are being identified and people are being located and first responders need to do their work because it's a distraction and people freaking die. That's why that happens. But here's the Republican governor right here, Henry McMaster.

Here he's saying, look, we've got the resources. This is a great team effort, including from the federal level. Here, play this clip. So this is a great team effort. And I assure you it's going to be done, but this is one that is going to take a lot of patience. We got the team. We have the equipment. The federal government is helping us well. They're embedded with us. And there's no asset out there that we have not already accessed. No asset out there that we haven't already accessed. Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia said the same thing, but let me show you here. This is Donald Trump claiming that Governor Kemp is having a hard time reaching President Biden. And then we'll show you the clip that's in the same video

of Governor Kemp saying that President Biden called him yesterday. Play this clip. Ideally with the governor, that governor needs to, he's been trying to get them and I'm sure they're going to come through. But he's been calling. The president hasn't been able to get him. But I just spoke. The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back. And he just said, hey, what do you need? And I told him, you know, we we got what we need. We'll work through the federal process. He offered that if there's other things we need, just to call him directly, which I appreciate that. And remember the clip I showed you earlier where Donald Trump said that no one talks about the environment.

He said that climate change is a hoax, that none of these issues are even real. So no one even cares about them anymore. Well, here today, Donald Trump said that climate change is a hoax, that none of these issues are even real. So no one even cares about them anymore. Well, here today, Donald Trump said that yesterday. Okay. He says that in mostly all of his speeches, but he said that yesterday. So here today at this PR stunt that he did in Valdosta, here's what he said that he goes, no one thought this would happen. Nobody thought this, play this clip. Georgia, as well as North Carolina, South Carolina Florida Virginia Alabama and Tennessee that's a big one and the devastation wrought by this storm is uh incredible it's so extensive nobody thought this would be

happening especially now it's so late in the season for the hurricanes this is hurricane season it's not so late in the season. Hurricane season extends to this period of time. And we know that these storms are getting more lethal and dangerous because of climate change, which you are claiming is a hoax 24 hours ago. And now you're using your resources to distract first responders from doing their job. Let me show you, this was moments ago from that same President Biden briefing that he was given, where again, I think President Biden is just completely fed up by the broken brains of the media right now. Here, play this clip. In retrospect, do you wish that there were more resources in North Carolina, knowing what

you know now? And do you wish that you spent more resources in North Carolina, knowing what you know now? And do you wish that you spent the weekend here in Washington rather than in Delaware? Come on, I'm 17. We're in Delaware. It's 90 miles from here, okay? And I was on the phone the whole time working on that. And the resources, the question is not whether we get more. This is a list of every resource we're getting in there.

But the question is how to get it in. It's hard to get it from point A to point B. It's hard to get it. Some of these roads are wiped out. Communities are wiped out. There's no ability to land. There's no ability to get trucks through. There's no ability to get a whole range of things through. So, I mean, anyway, I sound frustrated. I am. OK. It is a ridiculous question that's being asked. On the other hand, you had Donald Trump in Walker, Michigan, when we knew about the devastation of Hurricane Helene. Donald Trump was telling the victims, it's OK, you're going to be fine. You'll be OK. Here, play this clip. Alabama and all of the other states who have been really hit hard by that very large hurricane. That was that big one, a very large hurricane this week.

We're with you all the way. And if we were there, we'd be helping you. And you'll be okay. You'll be okay. You'll be okay, is what he says. Like a miracle, it's all going to go away. You'll be okay, is what he says. Like a miracle, it's all going to go away. You'll be okay. All I'm going to do is blame deaths on Democrats. I'll divide us. I won died as a result of the storm. We know that there's about 600 people in North Carolina, one county alone that remain unaccounted for according to officials. And Donald Trump's out there doing PR stunts right now. Let's compare that to what Vice

President Kamala Harris had to say yesterday evening in front of a packed crowd in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here are a few words that she had to say about the devastating hurricane. Play the clip. In all seriousness, everyone, before I begin, I want to say a few words about Hurricane Helene. And please have a seat if you're able. I want to talk about Hurricane Helene for a moment. And I know that everyone here sends their thoughts and prayers for the folks who have been so devastated by that hurricane and the ensuing events in Florida, in Georgia, the Carolinas, and other impacted states. And we know that so many have been impacted. Some have died.

But I want to thank everyone for doing everything you can to think about them, send them your thoughts, send them your prayers. I want to thank the first responders who have done so much. And we will stand with these communities for as long as it takes to make sure that they are able to recover and rebuild. Earlier today, I received an operational briefing from FEMA Director Criswell. More than 3,300 federal personnel have been mobilized.

We are deploying food, water, and generators and working to restore water and power. And the President and I have told state and local leaders we will provide whatever help they need in the days and weeks ahead. And so I thank you all for sending your best wishes to everyone there. Thank you. And you know, the thing is, disinformation in crises like that kills people. And that's what Donald Trump is doing by spreading these lies right now and making this a political thing. Going back to this Las Vegas, Nevada speech, I just want to show you what a large crowd it was as well. What a speech,

right? As Donald Trump has these teeny tiny speeches, Vice President Kamala Harris in front of a pack crowd, was it 10,000 people or so at this Las Vegas speech, all chanting, we're not going back. Let me show that to you. Wow. Yes. Really big, really big crowd. Then over here, she talks about, look, Trump's ready to fold, but I'm all in. We'll play this one. And in two days, I know we will cheer on Coach Walls when he debates J.D. Vance. Yeah. But listen, also, their debate should not be the last word. I'm trying to debate Donald Trump again. And I think he should debate again. The American people have a right to hear us discuss the issues. And as you say here in Las Vegas, I'm all in. I'm all in. Even if my opponent is ready to fold. So there you go. And here, Vice President Kamala Harris says we just need someone in the presidency who's focused on fixing problems versus playing political games all the time. play this clip. We need a president who cares more about solving problems than playing

political games and demeaning people full time. We're tired of that. We're done with that. We are done with that. And when I hear over and over again from people, and one of, I think the most powerful messages, honestly, and I see this showing up in the polls is basically like, are you exhausted of Donald Trump? Are you just sick and tired of the drama, the whining and the crying and the babyish behavior? Heck, my baby is far more mature than Donald Trump. Are you sick and tired of all of that? I just think people are. And for the last, what, nine, 12, 15 years of Trump being involved in politics, it's really been a cancer on our body politic, on our ability as Americans to, I don't know, just thrive and coexist with our fellow Americans in peace and just have normalcy again. Look, I know the powers of propaganda.

There's a reason why authoritarianism, strong men propped up by propaganda has been the historical norm since the beginning of humankind. Democracy that we've had here in the United States is a small blip in the historical experience of mankind. And it is our duties to protect, defend, and preserve that together. And that's what we're going to keep on building here at this network. So I want to tell you very briefly about the Governor Walz, J.D. Vance debate coming up so you can prepare yourself across all Midas platforms. So on Patreon, we're going to be having a watch party. So if you really loved watching along with us the way we did it last time during the debate

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