The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump MORE HATED than EVER and Biden BIG PRESSER

Episode Date: July 12, 2024

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I thought he did an incredible job, showed a great deal of command on the issues when it came to foreign policy. I mean, we're talking about real intricate discussion on foreign relations to the various questions that were being asked. And as he was being pressed, there was also some moments too where we saw some incredible passion being shown by President Biden when he talked about gun violence in the United States of America and the fact that Donald Trump brags about doing nothing and helping the NRA and helping the proliferation of military-style weapons used in school shootings, when President Biden talked about women's reproductive freedoms being taken away, when President Biden talked about Donald Trump wanting to be a dictator, when President Biden was questioned about his mental acuity and his cognitive abilities, President Biden was like, look at my schedule and look at Donald Trump's schedule.

Look at the things that I do every day. And what does Donald Trump do? He sits in his golf cart all day and he checks his scores and he just kind of sits there like that. Is that what you're referring to? When President Biden was challenged about gaffes that he made, he goes, just look at what Donald Trump says. Listen to what he says. And President Biden answered question after question, multi-part questions. Why don't we just show a little recap of what went down? And then why don't we all talk about it? Let me just call in Brett and Jordy so you can see their faces and know that they're here as well.

Let's do a quick recap of some of the key moments, I thought, of this press conference. And then let's just talk about this current moment, you know, and let's talk about where we go from here. First off, we have President Biden when he was asked about, well, what do you think about your legacy? You, you, you. He's like, this isn't about me. I'm here to complete a job. Watch this. I'm not in this for my legacy. I'm in this to complete the job I started. As you recall, understandably, many of you and many economists thought my initial initiatives that I put forward can't do that. It's going to cause inflation.

Things are going to skyrocket. The debt's going to go up. What are you hearing now from mainstream economists? 16 economic Nobel laureates said I've done a hell of a job. And under my plans so far and what's going to happen in the future if I if I've reelected, that things are going to get much better. Our economy is growing. I was determined when I got elected to stop the trickle down economic theory that if the wealthy did very well, everybody else would do well. My dad was a well-read, decent guy. I don't remember much trickling down on his kitchen table. Middle class people

and working class people need help. And so what happened is I decided to implement, was able to implement as president what I believed when I was a senator. And that is that the way to build this economy is from the middle out and the bottom up. That way we grow the economy. And the wealthy still do very well. They do fine. And guess what? Find me an economist, a mainstream economist who said we haven't done well. What have we not done that isn't working right now? And so we got more to do, though. We got to finish the job. President Biden was then asked about the concerns from our allies that Donald Trump may weaken NATO, as Donald Trump said that he would consider pulling America out of NATO and disbanding NATO.

Let's play this clip. Thank you, Mr. President. How are you? I'm well. The elections in the U.S. have consequences around the world. You have pretty high standing in Europe. I just asked President Macron about you and he said we are happy to have him as the president of the United States. But there is a concern. Many people in Poland and across Europe are worried that the former president may win the election.

And there's a lot of concern that Donald Trump may weaken NATO, stop supporting Ukraine, or push Ukraine to give up territories to Russia. They're correct. He answered it directly. That's what Donald Trump territories to Russia. They're correct. He answered it directly. That's what Donald Trump wants to do. President Biden was then asked about his schedule and if he feels he's able to keep a schedule. Play this clip. Presidency is the most straining job in the world, and it's 24-7.

How can you say you'll be up for that next year, in two years, in four years, given the limits you've acknowledged that you have today? The limits I've acknowledged I have? There's been reporting that you've acknowledged that you need to go to bed earlier and your evening around eight. That's not true. Look, what I said was, instead of my every day starting at seven and going to bed at midnight, it'd be smarter for me to pace myself a little more.

And I said, for example, the 8, 7, 6 stuff, instead of starting a fundraiser at 9 o'clock, start at 8 o'clock. People get to go home by 10 o'clock. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about. And if you look to my schedule since I've since I made that stupid mistake in the campaign, in the debate, I mean, my schedule has been full bore. I've done. Where's where's Trump riding around his golf cart, filling out a scorecard before he hits the ball? I mean, look, he's done virtually nothing. Then President Biden talks about the standing of the United States leading NATO. Let's play this clip. Ask you about your you mixed up President Zelensky and Putin earlier today. And you now have sort of your key allies, including the British prime minister, the president of France, the German Chancellor having to step in and make excuses for you on

that. Officials here are saying off the record that your decline has become noticeable. Hasn't this now frankly become damaging for America's standing in the world? Thank you. Did you see any damage to our standing in my leading this conference? Have you seen a more successful conference? What do you think? And the Putin piece, I was talking about Putin and I said, and now at the very end, I said here, I mean, Putin, I said, no, I'm sorry, Zelensky. And then I added five other names. idea anybody suggests that we haven't had an incredibly successful conference. How many times did you hear in that conference, I know it sounds too self-serving, but other leaders, heads of state, in thanking me, saying the reason we're together is because of Biden, because Biden did the following.

Look, folks, this is a, well, anyway, I thought it was the most successful conference I've attended in a long time, and find me a world leader who didn't think it was. President Biden then talks about what Donald Trump's been saying at his rallies, where Donald Trump said that he only recently learned, or he only recently learned upon becoming president what NATO was, and he never knew what NATO was before then. Here, play this clip. I think, how can I say this without sounding too self-serving? I've not had any of my European allies come up to me and say

Joe don't run what I hear them say is you've got to win you can't let this guy come forward it'd be a disaster it'd be a disaster I mean I think he said

in one of his rallies don't hold me to this recently recently, where NATO, I just learned about NATO or something to that effect. Foreign policy has never been his strong point. And he seems to have an affinity to people who are authoritarian. President Biden then gets fired up talking about gun violence and raises his voice for the first time during the press. This was an important moment right here. Let's watch it. That little button we have, control guns, not girls. I mean, the idea we're sitting around, this was so good as well. We're sitting around, more children are killed by a bullet than any other cause of death.

The United States of America, what the hell are we doing? What are we doing? We've got a candidate saying, promise the NRA, don't worry, I'm not going to do anything. I'm not going to do anything. We've got a Supreme Court that is what you might call the most conservative court in American history. This is ridiculous. There's so much we can do still. And I'm determined to get it done.

It's about freedom. Then President Biden talks about our democracy being under siege. Let's play this clip. Do you think our democracy is under siege based on this court? Do you think democracy is under siege based on this court? Do you think democracy is under siege based on Project 2025? Do you think he means what he says when he says he's going to do away with the civil service, eliminate the Department of Education? I mean, we've never been here before.

And that's the other reason why I didn't, you say, hand off to another generation. I've got to finish this job. I've got to finish this job. I've got to finish this job because there's so much at stake. Then finally, he was asked about a portion of his press conference where he misspoke and referred to Vice President Harris as Vice President Trump for a second. And then the questioner said, well, Trump's using that to mock you right now. How do you respond to that? Here's what President Biden said. This concludes.

Respectfully, earlier you misspoke in your opening answer. You referred to Vice President Harris as Vice President Trump. Right now, Donald Trump is using that to mock your age and your memory. How do you combat that criticism from tonight? Listen to him. Listen to him. And so this is what Donald Trump posted moments ago. Let's pull up the post from Donald Trump's social media. Crooked Joe begins his, quote, big boy press conference with, I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president. Great job, Joe, of President Biden responds. By the way, yes, I know the difference. One's a prosecutor and the other is a felon. One is a great response right there. I want to speak more

about that press conference, but I do want to show this is a great response right there. I want to speak more about that press conference, but I do want to show this is a video that we created at Midas Touch as well. This goes to what President Biden was saying at the end, listen to his words. So this was a speech that President Biden gave on July 9th about NATO. Donald Trump gave a speech at his property at Doral, Miami. And take a look at the difference between these two speeches and tell me which one do you think, which person here do you think the media is telling that they need to step down? Let's watch this. 1949, leaders of 12 countries, including President Truman, came together in this very room and created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

I didn't even know what the hell NATO was too much before, but it didn't take me long to figure it out, like about two minutes. Today, NATO is stronger than it's ever been in its history. Thirty two nations strong. Twenty eight countries. Twenty eight countries. Think nations strong. 28 countries, 28 countries. Think of that. We know Putin won't stop in Ukraine. Make no mistake.

Ukraine can and will stop Putin. You know, Ukraine, when you think Ukraine, I had a very good relationship with Putin. We talked about it. It was the apple of his eye. As President Reagan put it, and I quote, you are threatened, we are threatened. You're not at peace. We cannot be at peace. And they said, would you protect us? I said, no, I will not protect you from Russia.

Again and again at critical moments, we chose unity over disunion. When people who love our country protest on January 6th in Washington, they become hostages. Freedom over tyranny, hope over fear. If you leave Florida, you end up getting shot, mugged, raped. This is a pivotal moment for Europe, for the transatlantic community, and I might add for the world. Did anyone ever see the lovely movie Silence of the Lambs? Did you see it? Did you ever hear of Hannibal Lecter? He was a lovely man. Reagan knew it then. We know it now.

Our nations will continue to keep faith with what we pledged in years to come. Yes, oh yes. And quickly, says President Trump. Yes, oh yes. Well, there you have it. And by the way, have we seen Donald Trump in recent memory hold a press conference like the one President Biden did and get asked actual serious questions about nuanced foreign policy and discuss foreign policy like that? No, we haven't.

And by the way, Biden, of course, he gaffed at the top. I'm sure a lot of the corporate media is going to focus on the VP Trump, VP Harris moment, because that's the easy thing to talk about. But he then proceeded to have what I thought was actually one of the most impactful moments of his entire presidency. And honestly, the clips that we even played on the show don't even quite do it justice. I recommend that you go. We streamed the entire press conference. Watch it on the Midas Touch YouTube channel or watch it anywhere, quite frankly, because the answers he gave, especially about foreign policy to me, were intricate, were detailed, showed a deep command of the issues that Donald Trump could not even ever do a hundredth of that. Joe Biden has more foreign policy knowledge and experience in his pinky than Donald Trump has in his entire body. I thought he made an absolutely outstanding contrast to Trump, especially on the foreign policy issues, especially when he got passionate about gun violence,

especially when he made the case as being the most pro-union president. And I was watching this going, he should be doing this all the time. Not to be like, do something, do something. But honestly, if I were Joe Biden, I would be doing two of these a week at this point. I'd be holding fireside chats because what we saw there was truly like watching an elder statesman tell us what's going on, tell us the stakes of the battles we are facing's going on. Tell us the stakes of the battles we are facing across the world. Tell us the stakes of the fight for our democracy here at home. Tell us the stakes of the fight for our freedoms here at home, the fight for reproductive rights, the fight against gun violence. I mean, that was Joe Biden at his best. I thought he was absolutely

fantastic. I'm seeing a lot of praise for him online after that speech with a lot of people going, oh, I didn't know he knew that much about foreign policy. Yes, that's his thing. That's his thing. And we can't let these media narratives continue to get in the way of who these people are. And you know what the media is going to do? They're going to amplify every little gaffe while they ignore every Donald Trump gaffe and treat it like it's a joke. I don't have the video with me this second, but we made a video pretty recently of

Donald Trump getting the names wrong of people he knows. It's three minutes long. Names of the cities that he... It's three minutes long. It goes on and on and on and on and on. And all those gaffes got the tiniest coverage. But any sort of slip up that Biden makes right now is going to be amplified 100x, and that's probably lowballing it, quite frankly, by the media who is going after there and just wants to be so incredibly vindictive. And you could see it in these people. You could see it in their tweets. You could see it in their smiles, quite frankly.

You could see it in the photos that they post. I'm talking about this corporate media. You see they are like sharks in the water who smell blood and they want to get their scalp. But this isn't a game. This is not a game. This is about American democracy. We have two candidates. We have a candidate who has a firm grasp on foreign policy, and then we have a candidate who wants to usher in fascism, who's openly courting authoritarian dictators, who wants to remove America from our place in the standing in the world. And if you want to talk about mental competence, you have a guy who's talking about batteries and sharks and electric vehicles and windmills causing cancer and Hannibal Lecter. And I could go on this list for the next hour and a half if I wanted to about Donald Trump. Donald Trump, they give all the grace in the world to. Donald Trump, let's talk about immunity, Supreme Court immunity. Donald Trump gets media immunity. Donald Trump, they let say whatever the heck he wants. And when he messes

up, they treat it like it's a joke and they do not give Biden a single ounce of grace. And I hope that that press conference at least sent a message to people that this guy is in it to win it, that this guy knows his stuff, that this guy is a leader, that this guy's age is not a issue. It's not like a fatal issue, but that his age is actually an asset. With age comes wisdom. With age comes that experience of him understanding the geopolitical landscape that he laid out quite brilliantly in a quite detailed way. And I'm sick of it. And people need to step up. The media needs to step up and report about this on the facts, on the substance, and stop playing these petty games.

Sorry, I'm fired up, but I have to say it. And I really appreciated that press conference. And my message to the Biden campaign, I will say, keep it going. Let Joe be Joe. It's something we've said on this show since day one, right? Don't try to hide him. Don't even worry about the gaffes. He's going to mess up names. By the way, Joe Biden has made those same types of gaffes his entire career. You could find it was in 1980 of Joe Biden getting names wrong. That was like his thing. That was a big joke during the Obama administration. He'd get people's names wrong. He'd make gaffes. It's one of the things like he was known for in addition to his foreign policy acumen. That's actually not a new thing. But let Joe be Joe, get him out there, have some fireside chats with people, do it once a week, twice a week, do these press conferences. He can handle it. He can handle it.

And the more people see him, I think the more folks will have confidence in him. And I believe that he has an excellent chance of winning this election and that Donald Trump will once again be a loser this November. But it's going to take off. Hey, you got me fired up, man. I want to run through a brick wall right now. Let me just say this. Look, solid presser, right? We all saw it with our own eyes.

Perfectly fine. I want to say this, though, about corporate media, the journos, the pundits, the podcasters, but they have been vultures to your point. Look, Biden might not be a great orator at this point in his career or even a good one, but let's not pretend that Donald Trump is much better. Oh, but Biden reads from a teleprompter. Honestly, so what? When did prepared remarks become some big moral failing? And tonight's presser, by the way, was phenomenal answering questions from reporters. But here's where my frustrations kick in.

You know, there's nothing Biden can do right now to appease the corporate media. Corporate media, Brett, will either A, ignore the performance altogether if he does a decent job. God forbid he does a great job like he did tonight. They'll ignore it. Or B, they'll pounce on him for any miscue or mumble that he makes. It's just simply a lose-lose for him at this point because the rules of the game are imbalanced. Corporate media is leading with a narrative. Joe Biden is too old. And then cherry-picking his public engagements

to confirm their bias. It's gross. But A plus shot from Biden. That's why I think Biden at this point has to rewrite the rules. He needs to take this into his own hands and not follow the lead of these journalists who want to push these narratives. And we were the first to acknowledge here that debate night was a disaster. That debate night was terrible. But I'll tell you this, if Joe Biden, if this was the Joe Biden we saw at that debate, there would not be a lot of this chattering, right? And there are so many people out there who loved Joe Biden the second before he stepped on that stage. And then suddenly after they went into this panic death spiral, this incredibly unhelpful panic death spiral, and despite event after event after event, 20 plus events, doing stages,

being on stage at NATO, giving that speech that we played to you before, going to the swing states, shaking the hands of voters. It will never be enough. And President Biden at his press conference tonight did acknowledge that at one point. He goes, no matter what I do, it's not going to be enough for you. If I took a neurological test today, which by the way, I took many neurological tests and I'm fine. If I took a neurological test today, you'd say, oh, well, it wasn't the proper test. I need this test. I need that test. Like you are holding me to different standards. And I want to show you this picture that I saw also of the journal. This is posted by one of these journalists waiting to get in to this event, just to show you how they frame it. Because this to me is the epitome of

kind of vultures right here. You look at this photo right here, waiting for the quote, make or break press conference. And the photos are all these journalists smiling, just like waiting as if this is their moment. And you just see the glee on people's faces that they want to take this guy down. They all want to have them be the person who writes the story. I took down this president in the United States. And I think that is absolutely disgraceful. Let's follow the facts. Let's follow the data. Let's follow the objective comments that President Biden is making. Let's compare those with the policies, the things that Donald Trump is saying, and make those stakes clear to the American people. Enough of the games. Frankly, I'm sick of it.

Look, when the debate happened, we reported on it accurately, clear eyed what went down the next day. We reported on it the day after we talked about it, but after a while it's like, okay, I get it. Where on the spectrum of news does that belong when you're making editorial decisions? And for me, and I think for the Midas Mighty, the focus is, yeah, it was a bad debate. Okay. It's a great presidency. The things he's done with the economy, the things he's done with foreign relations, his support of unions, bottom up, middle out, the way he's pushed back against trickle down. You go through his protection of women's reproductive rights. You go through the list. President Biden's been there with the

people every step of the way. And so you got to compare a data point with the broader picture of what's been going on for three and a half years and what are the threats, what are the issues that are impacting Americans on a day-to-day basis? Which is why we've devoted a lot of our attention to Project 2025, Donald Trump's threats to democracy, Donald Trump saying that he wants to be a dictator. When in American history have we had someone run on the platform that they want to be a dictator? Donald Trump making statements that praise January 6th insurrectionists and call them hostages and say he's going to release the hostages. I mean, that doesn't get any attention. And Donald Trump has all those cognitive moments as well that

get no attention. And here's what they'll do, Ben. They'll point to one article that they wrote about that. They'll say, look, we covered it. Look, we covered it. What I said on the last show, Ben, and by the way, we missed you on the last show. It's good to have you back. I gotta say. What I said on the last show was to me, it's not about reporting it or not reporting it, right? The media, of course,

should report on the everything that's happening right now with the Biden administration. That's their job for sure. It's the proportionality of the reporting is what I said on the Biden administration. That's their job for sure. It's the proportionality of the reporting is what I said on the last show. And it's when you have 200 plus articles written by one organization in the span of a week. And I think I'm lowballing it for some of these organizations about one specific topic. And you are so clearly putting your finger on it, and you continue to make up stories, by the way. You release a story about a Parkinson's doctor visiting the White House that

had nothing to do with Joe Biden. Joe Biden was not even in the White House when this guy came. This guy was a neurological expert who saw everybody in the White House. You make these fake stories up, you put them out on your front pages, and then you come back a day later and you don't even offer as much as a correction sometimes. You just maybe add another line into the piece. And then you say, oh, all good. I'm just doing journalism. Just doing journalism. And it feels like they are out for a specific outcome rather than just that they're reporting what happens. While they may do a story about Project 2025, you may see a segment, you may see a story, but not seeing equal coverage here of the issues. And I would say Joe Biden's age pales in comparison to the threat of a guy who literally wants to destroy American democracy, strip away the rights of women, strip away the freedoms of Americans, take away your social security, take away your Medicare, your healthcare, pales in comparison to all those issues. And it is not deserving of the weight that

the media is giving it. Look, let me show you what I think the attention should be on. This was from Donald Trump's speech in Miami from this week. And he spent a significant amount of time praising January 6th insurrectionists. And whenever he starts these events, by the way, he's replaced our national anthem with a different song by the J6 Choir. He plays the J6 Choir anthem. These are some of the most violent insurrectionist people who attacked police officers, attempted to kill police officers. That's who's a part of the choir. Just think about it.

That's how he starts his event. Imagine if President Biden goes, before I'm giving this press conference, I would like us to please stand at attention while we listen to the Bin Laden 7. I mean, like we're going to listen to – let's listen to the insurrectionist song. All right. Now let's take questions. Could you just imagine the moment? Could you imagine if during those questions President Biden was being asked, if he was like, let me explain to you what I want to do. I want to be a, be showed to him. This was Donald Trump from a speech in Miami saying that the January 6th insurrectionists are hostages. He says that his buddies at the Supreme Court are helping to free them. Watch what he says. But when people

who love our country protest on January 6th in Washington, they become hostages unfairly imprisoned for long periods of time. But fortunately, the Supreme Court has just ruled and they should be out soon. We are a third world nation. So in the background, that's QAnon music too. So that's kind of music that's played by QAnon. He gets up there. He attacks America. He says America is a horrible place. He praises the insurrectionists. He praises the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court never actually ruled that the insurrectionists will be let go. They said that a certain obstruction charge couldn't be used, but the other charges can. You can't go and just attack and try to kill police officers.

And the people who are imprisoned have either been found guilty by juries, they've pled guilty, or they're some of the most violent of the violent January 6th criminals. You don't even hear anybody talking about that line other than on the Midas Touch Network and a handful of other independent media networks. So the question becomes is, where do you direct your attention, your editorial lens, your rage, how you're able to focus on what is going to actually impact audiences? And those are the decisions that we make. Brett, you talk about the immunity that's given by the media to Donald Trump. When they compare President Biden's economic numbers to Donald Trump, they'll usually also say, President Biden still has better

economic numbers if you take out the last year of Donald Trump, and Biden still does better. You'll hear that occasionally in passing. But why are we even taking out the last year of Donald Trump and Biden still does better, right? Like you'll hear that occasionally in passing, but why are we even taking out the last year? You get a mulligan for a full year as the president. When you mishandle a crisis, we, we don't consider that that year doesn't get considered on you. Just think about that. It was like, look, you know, you know, for Carter, we can just totally, you know, forget about. Frankly, it reminds me of when they covered for Bush and said he was great on foreign policy and great with national security other than 9-11. But he was great, right? It's like you can't ignore the big thing.

You can't ignore the big thing. I'm sorry. Well, yeah. And by the way, though, for 9-11, I mean, the country came together and unified. And you heard today one of the things President Biden, I think in a very nuanced way, was being very critical of the mistake that America made. Think about the maturity of that response. You've got Donald Trump, Hannibal Lecter, my friend, Hannibal Lecter, blah, blah, blah. President Biden at his press conference is saying in a very diligent way, I spoke to the war cabinet. They're a very right-wing conservative war cabinet. I tried to explain to them from a historical perspective, the mistakes that America made, how after 9-11, our focus was not on the Taliban where it should have been. And then it

was directed in all these other areas. We got into a quagmire and it caused massive, massive amounts of damage to us and abroad. Don't make that mistake. And he's like, I wish they would have listened more to that advice because we're seeing some of the problems there. But he's reflecting on a mistake he made. He's calling in no uncertain terms for a ceasefire. And he's reflecting on very nuanced conversations rooted in historical experience. And could you imagine, I mean, do we have the clip of Donald Trump talking about water spots? Like think about President Biden, what I just told you he said, and then think about what Donald Trump was talking about at his event. Here, play this clip. You know, it's only 103 degrees out here.

So, you know, they built all these, they called, sir, we have many water spots. I said, what about one for me? Do I have one? I don't have one, Marco. They gave water spots. Everybody has a quarter water spot where water comes out. You get, they don't have anything for me. I'm being drenched up here. I mean, like, what is that? And that doesn't get talked about ever. This is an individual who says he wants to be a dictator. He was found liable for sexual assault. I mean, can we talk about that? Found liable for sexual assault by a jury. He's on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women. He's on tape talking about how during his beauty pageants, he would show up and without consent, inspect naked girls at his beauty pageant, talks about how he wants to have sex with

an 18-year-old who, because of her mental illness, he thought she'd be better in bed and joking and laughing about that. He's on tape talking about the thing he thinks he has in common with his daughter, Ivanka, is sex. He says he wants to be a dictator. He's a convicted felon. He led an insurrection before our eyes. We observed it. He's someone who says he'd consider pardoning the Proud Boys. He invited the Proud Boy leader to the White House in December for like a tour and was in the residence area where Enrique Tarrio was taking photos of himself there. He praises Vladimir.

What are we even talking about? Honestly, I think at the first debate that President Biden had for someone who's been a statesperson or a statesman his entire life, dealing in democracy, you're sharing a stage with someone found liable for sexual assault with the judge says is the same thing as rape. A convicted felon standing right there who lies about everything, who's like just a, you can't even understand what the guy's even saying, like a total maniac. And I think Biden's also just like, what in the world is going on? By the way, that's how independent voters, by and large, have been looking at the debate and the post-debate.

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There's that convention in Sun Valley, Idaho right now that Allen and Company throws every year in Sun Valley, Idaho at this lavish five-star hotel property and the who's who of corporate media. They all show up at this event and they all talk about deregulation and how much money they could make and where the – just look straight out of the movie Succession. So this is Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav right there. Owns CNN. Of CNN. What did I say? I was just saying that's the parent company that owns CNN.

Correct. Parent company of CNN, Warner Brothers Discovery. There he is right there. And just take a look at his response to this question as he arrives at this convention. Asked about the upcoming presidential election, Zaslav said, it mattered less to him which party wins as long as the next president was friendly to business. We just need an opportunity for deregulation so companies can consolidate and do what we need to do to be even better, he said. For him, it's all about how can corporations get bigger and which party is going to help them make their corporations bigger. Are you going to tell me, let me just bigger. Are you going to tell me that that individual who stands to lose millions of dollars, if not more,

due to corporate taxes or due to regulations to ensure that we have a free and fair media, are you going to tell me that that person who says that they don't care about our democracy, they simply care about deregulation and what's good for business? Are you going to tell me that that individual has no preference in the election? Are you going to tell me that that individual who makes the orders for these cable news networks, that that individual does not want to put his finger in the scale to help him, to help him save millions and millions and millions of dollars. I'm sorry. I just don't buy it. Here's the thing too. Yes, Brett, I get your point, but it's to me the delusion of thinking that that's going to be the outcome. Donald Trump has bankrupted every business he's touched. He's not a great businessman.

He was on a TV show where he played one. He's bankrupted almost every company he's touched, casino after casino, product after product, products you've never even heard of like Trump Mortgage, Trump Vodka, Trump Steak, and ones you've heard of like Trump University. Every company the guy's touched, he's failed at. Also, he's talked about basically criminally prosecuting media companies that don't provide favorable coverage to him. He's posted about that, how he's going to go after them, going to go after you. So you could think that you're going to do

well and prosper in that environment, but take a look at what Putin does to his people over there. It's easy for you to say that there in Sun Valley, Idaho, with that smirk and look like, oh, I'm going to do whatever I want to do. You don't think he's going to come for you first and shut down everything that isn't like Fox, that isn't pure propaganda? He said that's what he's going to do. So what I'm saying, Brett, is, yeah, there's the delusion that this is going to be some better corporate environment where he'll pay less taxes, but there's not. Economist after economist, Nobel laureate after Nobel laureate said, under Trump's plan, it will be an absolute disaster across the board. Even all those CEOs admitted it after they came out of that meeting with Trump that time.

They said, this is going to be a disaster. This is going to completely destabilize the economy. If he does one-tenth of what he says he wants to do, Donald Trump, it will completely destroy the economy and send everything into chaos and would actually completely offset all those tax cuts that they want. So you could either think long-term about this, or you could think in the short-term and try to get that shot, right? That shot of, oh, I'm going to get my tax cuts, right? That might feel good for the short term. It's not going to feel good when you're forced to become a state-run media of the Trump administration. And by the way, we've seen what happens to these organizations when new leadership

takes control. They change quite quickly, right? We saw that when CNN, I'm talking about CNN, we saw that when CNN got a new owner, almost overnight, the same journalists who we saw every single day, all of a sudden changed. Just became very bizarre. Then that guy had such a disastrous run. He ran the thing into the ground and he was fired and they had to pick up the pieces and here they are now. But we've seen what happens. It happens quickly. It's not like a, oh, what's going to happen? Is Trump going to make something state-run media? Are they really going to listen to him as a new boss? Yes. Yeah, it absolutely will. It absolutely will. And we have to think of the ramifications of a Trump presidency,

not just on our democracy here, not just on businesses here, our lives here, but globally. This guy is a walking, talking, wrecking ball. We know it because we saw it before. He's promising the dumbest stuff now, stuff that does not hold up to any scrutiny if he did hold a press conference and he was asked about it and he would just ramble through it and probably bring up Hannibal Lecter and sharks and stuff and everybody would laugh and say that it's funny. That's the state of things right now. That's why they have to play the mental gymnastics of, well, look at Trump's economy. If you only take the first three months of May, his first three presidencies, and then a month in June, if you look at those months compared to the Biden presidency, it's the mental gymnastics that they have to do to prove their points

is quite disturbing. And it's just like, okay, if you, if you genuinely do care about your paycheck and care about money and care about the economy, we have resumes. Like we, we have examples of what this looks like overall with a Trump presidency versus a Biden presidency. And it's just like, the case is pretty dang clear. I mean, I just remember every day with Trump, when the stock market would have a good day, that was like front page news all of the time. Stock market booming, stock market this. Okay, the stock market, which is not a good metric, I think of how the economy in general is doing for the rest of us. But nonetheless, that was one of the metrics

that Trump was graded by. Under Biden, the stock market's like twice as high, like double what it was than under Donald Trump, under that metric. But I think it's important to listen to what President Biden says. He goes, look, people can be wealthy. Good for you, wealthy people. Great. I'm the senator of Delaware, which used to be a red state. There are more corporations in Delaware than any state. I'm pro-corporation. I'm not anti-corporation, but I'm anti-greed. At some point, when you're taking billions of dollars so that your CEOs can make $ million, 50 million, and all your execs make 40 million, 30 million, 20 million, and you're screwing over the average worker. That's what I'm not okay with.

That's unfair. You are rigging the system for billionaires and that is a problem. I'm not okay with tax cheats. I'm not okay with billionaires who are trying to cheat the system, but go ahead and be rich. Let's just have a fair system that's bottom up, middle out, not trickling it down and saying, let's give extra benefits and special benefits to the billionaires who are already billionaires. It's like, you know, remember this hearing this week, this is what kind of James Comer said. And this is something that the MAGA Republicans talk about all the time,

you know, and they'll say, you know, look, my James Comer wanted to be clear how much he eats chicken McNuggets at McDonald's. I eat chicken McNuggets all of the time. And look, the chicken McNuggets are more expensive now. Chicken McNuggets far more expensive now. And it's Biden's fault. Like, just take a look at what James Comer said. Then I want to talk about this here. Chairman, forgive me. Do you know what the cost of 10-piece chicken McNuggets is today? Well, I buy a lot of chicken nugget meals.

It's under $5. It's $4.49 at the closest one you can get here. I mean, and Impossible Nuggets are even less. So there's no inflation at McDonald's, Mr. Ashkin. And I would say I spend more money at McDonald's than any person in Congress. And I'll stand by that. I'll testify under oath. My three kids.

We certainly don't mean to bankrupt you with our Not revenue. Gross profit for McDonald's in the past year ending March of 2024. Jordy, you have any guesses? I'm not playing this math game. You just tell me the answer. Okay. $14 billion. That's what I would have said and you didn't even ask me. $14 billion in gross profit. You know what the CEO of McDonald's makes? I'll answer. $20 million or so. You know what the CFO makes? Around 10 million. And then the other top executives around eight and a half to $10 million. Year over year, McDonald's gross profit, profit, we're not talking about revenue, we're talking about profit, went up 9% from 2023 to 2024. So when we're having these discussions about the price of Chicken McNuggets, for example, and you can apply this to eggs, you can apply this to all of these other products.

One of the main issues that has to be addressed is corporate greed. You know how you address corporate greed and fraud and collusion in the market and antitrust violations? Through common sense regulations. You know who carries out regulations? Agencies. You know who's destroying agencies to do their job? Republicans, the Supreme Court. What do you think the Supreme Court's ruling was to take away the power of agencies to do their jobs on things like antitrust and securities fraud and environmental violations and things like that so that these corporations can have massive, massive profits. And then what they will do is then blame it on Biden or blame it on the Democrats or blame it on anti-competitive whatever, when in reality, a lot of it is driven by corporate greed. And that's something President Biden's actually been trying to address. But systematically systematically the MAGA Republicans have been tearing down the ability for common sense regulations in these areas. And that's why when Americans realize these facts,

when this data is out there, they think differently because they're like, oh, you're trying to screw me when you can remove the circus aspect of politics and make it about not politics, about humanity and about what's really happening. People go, oh, and they wake up. That's why the MAGA Republicans are terrified about Project 2025, even though they're implementing it. They're terrified about people knowing about what Project 2025 is, not terrified about the policy itself. They want to implement the policy. They got caught. Because once people know about it, they know, holy crap. The first question I often get from people when they look it up, and you can see right now, the number one issue

Americans are focused on right now is not Biden's age. It's project 2025 is what people are looking up over and over again. And often the first question I get asked at Brett and Jordy, I wonder what you guys is, is this real? Is this a real, is this really the plan? And I say, yes, go and read it, read their plan. They talk about it. They say, this is a revolution that will be bloodless if the left lets it be. I mean, think about that. The Heritage Foundation, which wrote it, they're the main sponsor of the Republican National Convention. When you walk into the RNC, it says the Heritage Foundation welcomes you to the RNC. Trump's been seen with the writer, the main author of Project 2025 over and over again. 140 plus people from that Trump worked with in his administration work for Project 2025, including very high profile people like John

McEntee, like Stephen Miller, who keeps denying that he's a part of it. And literally, you're in the video, dude, about transitioning to Project 2025, about Trump's press secretary, Carolyn Leavitt, who is also in the videos on the Heritage Foundation site. There are multiple videos of Donald Trump from a year or two ago being with the Heritage Foundation going in. And you're working on a plan for us that we're going to implement right when we get in there. You're working on a plan for us and we're going to implement it right when we get in there. There's such a track record of it and they were hoping that people didn't read it. I think they were hoping people didn't quite catch on. They like speaking to their bubbles. They go on Steve Bannon's show. They go on Fox. They like

speaking to their bubbles. When things escape those bubbles, that's when they get upset about it. And people have been finding out. And the things in Project 2025 are so shocking, so stunning, that folks are starting to get worried about it. And they're understanding the real stakes of the selection and actually what Donald Trump and his acolytes want to do, to strip away LGBTQ rights, to imprison people for getting the abortion bill or getting abortions, to abolish the Department of Education, to take away your healthcare, to repeal all the progress that we made on climate change and give all these bailouts to big oil. It's all in there, folks. It's all in there. So you could read it yourself. They literally have a website where they have it. You could go through it page by page. And I think you'll be quite horrified. We posted a graphic on our social media that had a lot of the kind of high level beats of it the other day, which you can see on our Instagram account at Midas Touch, if you scroll through

there. But this is real. This is horrifying. And it needs to be talked about with the same veracity, if not more, than Joe Biden's age, because this is something that deeply affects people's lives. And potentially- I would say, and I'll be very clear, I would say far more. I would say it shouldn't even be in the same- Agreed. I am asking the media for the bare minimum. Yes, absolutely, Brett. Brett, can you do me a favor? Can you pull up the vultures that were covering Biden's presser today? Bring that energy to covering Project 2025. Please, I beg of you, because don't do this, which you've done. Like this is how Trump plays the media,

Brett, with his, when they run these fact checks, like the corporate media will point to those truths. I hate saying that his social media posts that you showed up before of him denouncing it, saying that, Oh, Trump has no idea. He doesn't stand behind it. Look, they're totally ignoring what Ben, you said earlier that the plan is developed by his people, promoted by him at their conventions. And then it's meant to implement his autocratic agenda. But he truthed about it, brothers. He truthed that he doesn't know about it. So the corporate media in 2024, they'll take a convicted felon at his word.

But that's why we're here, the Midas Touch Network. And that's why the Midas Mighty are here. But, are here. Here's what the press was worried about, though. They weren't asking President Biden today about Project 2025 when they went to the White House following a meeting between the new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who, by the way, all the press said had no shot of winning the elections in the UK as well. They were proved completely wrong. The polls were proved completely wrong. The polls were proved completely wrong. And so he has his meeting with President Biden after the summit. And what does the press do? I've never seen any president treated so disrespectfully as this. The press for like a

minute straight just starts shouting at President Biden after the press conference. Not in a press conference. It was just a meeting. They were taking pictures. Just starts shouting at President Biden about the George Clooney op-ed. George Clooney, George Clooney, George Clooney, George Clooney. This Clooney, George. It's the, that's the craziest. Honestly, that's, that's psychotic behavior. Like what is the meat he'd do? Sometimes I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here.

Like, are we the only ones who are looking at this us in the mightiest mighty community and are going, this is unhinged. Why are they not focusing on the issues? It's such a failure of the media. And by the way, I know we have other people on this network as well that have different opinions than us, and that's okay. And by the way, I argue with them like this, the same way that I make my case to you here. And I firmly disagree with those opinions. That sort of behavior that I see right there from the press is exactly the problem. Stop treating this like it's a game. Let's get down to the substance. Let's get down to the stakes and the facts. Let me show you a simple equation with photographs. Photograph one, let me show you

the vultures, the press that was out there, the hyenas who were ready to go, who thinks this whole thing is a joke. This is the photo of them waiting to get in saying, here it comes, here it comes. So then they're out there. Number one. Now, who are they employed by? Their parent company with the big bosses who are out there in Sun Valley, Idaho partying, David Zaslav kind of right there. So one plus one. Even this guy's jacket bothers me quite frankly. I feel like I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, the way that you drive. One plus one equals two. Now here is the Trump or death flag right here that goes up at all of these Trump events. So when you have all of that and it's all a game

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of him? I don't know. Cause you supported a cult leader in Donald Trump that took over the party and you allowed that to happen. You know, that's how it, I'm not making any excuses for the other guy there, but I'm just saying that the party is now the party of the Amber Roses and people selling Hak Tua 2024 shirts. By the way, this is what Donald Trump posted moments ago as well. New sneakers that he's selling. New shoes.

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opinion has changed from not sure to he should stay in? Yes. Okay and how about you? How do you feel? You weren't sure. How do you feel now? Same. I think he's the logical choice. Yeah I mean, look, that's where the people really were. I mean, I certainly understand. We talked about candidly after the first debate, clear-eyed, I get that there's a concern. I understood it. But every single day, the corporate media has been focused on this narrative tsunami, and they've given this all the attention. They've cherry-picked from here and there to build this up. I just think they're so out of touch with where we the people are. are focused on issues that affect our lives and our families and future generations and our neighborhoods and our communities. We, the people, like to spend the weekends with our family,

maybe having a catch, doing a hobby, going to a movie, maybe occasionally going out to a restaurant. Not like this. Spending time with family. Yeah, we don't really want to go out and be selling hot to us, spit on that thing, 2024 shirts or fly Trump. Like for us, we're not in Sun Valley, Idaho. We're not out there. We the people have issues that we got to deal with every single day. What we recognize, I think this is part of the growth of the Midas Touch community, is we recognize, is President Biden the flashiest guy out there? No. Is he that flashy at all? No. But we, the people, we want normalcy.

We don't want to wake up with all caps, posts, deranged psycho cuckoo person is a maniac and I'm going to whine in the morning. We don't want that. We don't want that. We just want someone who goes through the motions, who gets things done. And perhaps George Clooney in his $80 million Lake Como place, maybe he views this as some Hollywood script and it's going to be excitement at the convention. Oh, my God. Some of these ideas. Oh, it's so exciting. No, no. Look, I know George Clooney. The outcome probably doesn't matter for you in your mansion in Lake Como.

Sure, it's probably not going to change your life. But for we, the people out there, this is life or death stuff right here. We understand what Project 2025 is. We understand the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade. We understand the implications of Donald Trump saying he wants to be a dictator on day one. We understand the implications of these Supreme Court justices he appointed saying that he would be allowed to order SEAL Team 6 or the military to kill his political opponents. And because that's an official act or a core constitutional function, that he would be permitted to do so. We've seen the Supreme Court be okay with the rapid proliferation of bump stocks. Bump stocks used in mass shootings.

We've seen the Supreme Court basically say, you know what? There shouldn't be any gun regulations at all. We're just going to read out of the Second Amendment anything about regulation and well-regulated militia, and we're going to apply a historical test and just say, if we don't find any historical prohibitions on it, because guess what? These military weapons weren't around then when the Constitution was being drafted. They weren't aware of these military-style weapons. They didn't have them. So you want to apply your historical test while kids are getting killed? What are you doing? We recognize the issues of climate change. We understand climate change is real. It's not a joke. It's not a freaking joke to we the people when Donald Trump goes up there and goes, there'll be more beachfront property for me. No, these are serious issues for we the people and that these things matter. And so what we talk about here on the Midas Touch Network, what people are focused on here are issues that affect the economy.

What we're focused on here, what we're judging President Biden by, the ratings that we care about, is inflation falling? Yes. Is crime falling? Yes. Are border crossings falling despite Trump's effort to sabotage it? Just think about that. Trump said, I am screwing up a bipartisan immigration deal because I want the American people to suffer and I'm going to kill a bipartisan deal whose lead negotiator is the Republican senator from Oklahoma? The most conservative person, actual conservative in the Senate who negotiated this thing because you want we the people to suffer so you could run on our suffering? Is climate emissions falling? Is inequality falling. Energy production is growing. I know

MAGA Republicans, everything for them is a nursery rhyme, right? And I know the media may like the flesh, drill, baby, drill, drill, baby, drill. Okay. There's more drilling right now while we are also paying attention to climate change than ever in the history of our nation and any nation. President Biden broke OPEC. OPEC was trying to jack up the prices to over $100 per barrel of oil. And President Biden said, you know what? No, screw you. We're going to strategically use our strategic reserves. We're going to pump our barrels into the market.

We're going to lower the prices. We're going to sell high barrels into the market we're going to lower the prices we're going to sell high buy low and replenish which is exactly what he did and opec had to drop their prices are real wages growing not just the stock market which is up double right now than it was under are real wages growing yes are jobs growing jobs growing? Yes. Are unions growing? Yes. These are the issues that we, the people, are talking about. These are the pocketbook, kitchen sink, kitchen table issue, whatever you want to call them, that we're focused on.

And we see Donald Trump up there, Hannibal Lecter, Hannibal Lecter, water spots, water spots. And does President Biden have a stutter? Yes. Is President Biden 81 years old? Yes. Newsflash, he's 81. But cut the crap about being mean and nasty and mean-spirited about people who are older. When has ageism become an acceptable thing in our country? What the hell is that? Just mocking people who are older because he walks slower, he looks older. How dare you mock someone? That's wisdom. We just mock elderly people. Oh, look at him walking. He doesn't walk the same. I guess we're going to throw away all that good stuff for a fascist wannabe dictator who praises Vladimir

Putin, who's basically the same age. What are we even talking about here? So when I often get asked a question like, well, Ben, what I notice is that the Midas Touch Network is not really focused on where a lot of, even some other left-leaning networks are focused on other things and you've pretty much stayed the course and focused on the same things. I go, yeah, because that's what matters to the American people. We have a core set of values and principles here at the Midas Touch Network. And that's what matters. That doesn't even have a political affiliation. Let's be decent human beings. Let's not mock the disabled. Trump mocks the disabled. You want to elect someone to the highest office who mocks disabled people? Who says that military veterans are suckers and losers?

You want to put that person in the president's? What are you talking about? Who says he wants to be a dictator on day one? Who's a convicted felon? Who's been found liable for sexual assault? The media just go, oh yeah, the judge says that you were found liable for rape. The jury found you liable for sexual assault. You're all over the Epstein files. You're in depositions. You're in his call logs. You're on his plane logs. He went on your plane. You hosted yacht parties with like 14-year-old girls, like all the stuff's on this feed. You're on camera. You're on audio tape talking about sexually assaulting him, bragging about it. But you know what? That's Trump being Trump. That's Trump being Trump. Like what in the world are

you even talking about? That is a vile, disgusting human being who should be nowhere near the proximity to anything. This is not someone who should run a company, big, small, medium, a nonprofit. If someone walked into my room and started bragging about sexually assaulting people, I'd call the police and get the hell out of here. Push them away. Get out of here. And the Republican Party's like, yeah, give that guy the nuclear. What are we talking about here, America? So you want to know why I'm focused on those issues and not a fricking debate from two weeks ago. You want to know why I get pissed and livid when I keep hearing from, you know, even like Democrats and the George, Lake Como, George Clooney's of the world. When I see Biden enacting over the past three and a half years,

the exact type of agenda you've always claimed that you wanted, he did it. And what he can bring us in the next four years could be actually so special and reverse the course of all the damage that Donald Trump's been done. And you're playing these games, that's life and death with the Midas Mighty, with the people out there. And look, I'm channeling your rage out there because I feel it too. Don't play games with our lives. Don't play games with the lives of our kids and our grandkids and our family and our neighbors. We know what's up. Stop the bullshit. Just stop it. Grow up, media. Enough with the smiling, I'm going to get you, I'm going to get you. Enough with that crap.

Grow up, become an adult, appreciate the fact that our democracy is not something that's guaranteed. Appreciate the fact that you could even be a reporter because of the fundamentals of our constitution that allows for you to go and do the exact things that Project 2025 and Donald Trump wants to take away from you. He's threatening you and you think it's a game? He's threatening your life too on most of his posts. So wake up, grow up, support our democracy. That was great. I agree a thousand, a hundred billion percent. And here's the great thing also, everybody. President Biden has an incredibly accomplished vice president. And I said this on the last show, that my one silver, I have two silver linings of this disgusting saga that we've seen over the past couple of weeks. One, they weren't paying any attention to Joe Biden before in the media.

They wouldn't play any clips from his rallies. They wouldn't play any clips from anything he did. They wouldn't speak about anything he did. At least they're talking about him now. Might not be good press. At least they're talking about him now. I'll give, that's my number one. Number two, at least for the first time in this entire presidency, as she has went around through the states, across the country, achieved a ton, people are now finally starting to put some respect on Vice President Kamala Harris's name.

After years of completely disregarding her, years of disregarding, acting like she doesn't exist, the media acted like she didn't exist, people making fun of her online. I'm disgraceful. But finally, over these past few weeks, people started seeing in her what President Biden saw in her, seeing a leader, seeing somebody who's out there to defend democracy, seeing someone out there who is a prosecutor, someone who could prosecute this case against Donald Trump, against his criminality, against his destruction to women's freedoms. And seeing her out there hitting the swing states, to me, it shows you that you got a pretty damn good team

when you combine President Biden and Vice President Harris. And I'll play this one clip from her. She was in, I believe this is from South Carolina. Vice President Harris talking about Donald Trump and how he bows to dictators. And you'll see why I think that this is such a solid team, the two of them together. We simply know we cannot count on Donald Trump to help keep America and Americans safe, not here at home and not on the world stage. And yes, I am also talking then about national security. This week, our President Joe Biden is hosting more than 30 global leaders in Washington, D.C. for the NATO Summit. Now, NATO is the greatest military alliance the world has ever known. And thanks to our president, Joe Biden, thanks to Joe Biden,

if there is one single person who deserves credit in the world for strengthening NATO, making it stronger, making it more united and more effective. That is Joe Biden. That is Joe Biden. And having made it more effective than together with our allies around the globe, we are standing up to the dictator Putin. All to ensure America is strong and Americans are safe. On the other hand, do watch because it's not new. On the other hand, watch as Donald Trump has embraced Putin. Watch that.

It's not just happening today. It's been happening. As he, Trump, threatened to abandon NATO and encouraged Putin to invade our allies. He even said Russia can, and I'm going to quote him now, and forgive the use of the word, but he said, quote, Russia can, quote, do whatever the hell they want. And he wants to be the president of the United States? And understand, as Trump bows down to dictators, he makes America weak. And that is disqualifying for someone who wants to be commander-in-chief of the United States of America.

That is disqualifying. You've got an experienced president of the United States with a firm grasp on foreign policy who came out a winner in this press conference. And I have to admit, I was wrong about this press conference today because I assumed going into it that it was a lose-lose for Biden because the media would simply go and pick up any sort of gaffe. And they did that. But President Biden's performance outweighed their efforts to make that gaffe into something bigger than it was. And then you have a highly capable, qualified, passionate vice president. To me, you've got a dream team and the smartest people

around them. And I'm just stunned for a second, going back to that clip that we showed at the top of the segment of those viewers from that CNN focus group that they had after the press conference, how level-headed those voters were. Those voters, more level-headed than members of Congress, more level-headed than these pundits who are shouting that everything is on fire every day. I think we've shown time and time again, and I know we've had to get fired up like this. This isn't our first time. This might be the most extreme that the media has gone in this direction. But I know we felt the same way before a lot of these special elections in 2023. I know we felt the same way before the midterms when the media was shouting,

it's all over for the Democrats. It's all over. It's going to be a massive red wave and there's nothing that anybody could do about it. We're looking at returns. We're looking at what people are saying. We're looking at what people are saying about Trump, about these Republican candidates. And we see independents being like, I can't associate with these people. We saw this all throughout the primaries. All throughout the primaries, hordes of voters saying, I do not support Donald Trump. Independent voters saying there is no way that I could support Donald Trump. All that hard data that we have received from those primaries, from the midterms, all of that has all pointed in one direction. It has not even been

ambiguous, the direction it goes in. And I believe that the average voter is actually smarter than the media gives them credit for. I do. I think that the media often sits from their ivory towers and they go, this is what the people think, or this is what the people should think, or the people are going to think this, or they're going to vote this way. But then you talk to the people like you did in that press conference and they go, it wasn't great the other night, but I'm with him now. Trump is far too dangerous. So what are we doing here? What are we doing here, people? I sort of keep asking myself every day, what the hell are we doing here? What is going on?

But that's why we need you, honestly. That's why this community is so important. Because on digital, at least, this community reaches far more people than any of these networks out there. They may have their cable channels with their declining ratings, and they may have got a shot in the arm with their ratings over this as everyone tunes into panic. We reach more people than them. And so I'm going to call on you, the Midas Mighty, to do everything in your power to continue to spread these messages and to continue to go to

bat for democracy and not to fall in these media traps. Share these videos. Share information about Project 2025. Speak to your friends. Speak to your family. Let them know the stakes. Let them know how it would affect you personally. The best messenger for any issue is not for it to even come from one of us or to come from a pundit on TV. It's if it comes from you. You are the most powerful person in the people's lives around you. And don't forget your power. And don't forget that exponential power. You tell a friend about Project 2025, next thing you know, they're at a dinner party. They're going, hey, my friend told me about this Project 2025 thing. Spreads like wildfire. People start to be asked questions.

That's why we see those Google searches about Project 2025 surging far beyond searches for President Biden's age. What the hell are we doing, people? We're in this together. This is about our democracy. It's about our country. It's about the world. Let's all step up together. I'm calling on all of us right now. It's a call to action for all of us. Let's step up, people. Jordy, I know you wanted to say something. No, I just wanted to say, and those voters, Brett, in that CNN piece, they're more informed than these Hollywood elites. I can't not take a shot at Clooney because they really pissed me off. When you look at those elites sort of pile on this week, it just really reaffirmed my initial sentiment about the entire saga. Because time and time again, and I don't say this because you know, because it's a buzzword

or I'm pandering to anyone, but it's like these privileged rich white guys from their mansions who are the ones casting the stones, trying to tell the electorate that they know what's best for them. Clooney's the Reiners, Stephen King's like, well, I'm sure the democratic party has enjoyed those donations. Like it doesn't mean that the ultra rich Hollywood types know better than the will of the people. And when you look at the Clooney op-ed, for example, not once in there was there an actual plan. Compare that to the statements from the Whitmers or Westmore or Newsom's or Shapiro, VP Harris,

who are actually on the ground talking to voters, not talking at voters. Now, as someone who knows the stakes of the election, I'm going to take the plan of seasoned professionals over someone behind a keyboard and a penthouse just because they have a couple of bucks to throw around. I've talked to people. If I get in an Uber and occasionally something will come up about what do you do, or we're just talking about things, or if I'm out at a place. If the topic of politics comes up, I'll ask people, so what do you think about what's going on right now? I've had people say, post-debate, I've had people say, so what did you think about that

night, the debate? What were your thoughts on it? And a lot of them would be like, oh, yeah, no, that really wasn't good. I had to turn off the TV in 10 minutes. It's, it's, it's scared. I get it. I totally understand it. Then I say, so, so what do you think you're going to do though for the election now?

And, and, you know, what, what have you seen since? And they say, oh, well, you know, he's looked great since. That's interesting. So what are you going to do though? Like putting that all together, like you were concerned that one night, right? Like, and it was bad. Don't get me wrong. It And it was bad. It was rough. They go, oh, I'm still voting for him. 100% rate. 100% rate. Because I think voters are smarter than these pundits, than those people who you're talking about, Jordy, give them credit for. You don't

run away from a battle. I want to make a correction there. I said Lake Como, I said he lives in France. He lives in Italy. Oh, wow. a correction there. I said, like Como, I said, he lives in France. He lives in Italy. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. The media is going to be all over that one, Ben. We should do corrections at the end of our episodes because I have another correction for you, Ben. I have another one. You called Succession a movie. It's a TV series. I see. This is the kind of thing, the corporate media is going to run segments about your mental acuity. Clip it. Clip the 10 seconds. Ben calls a session of the movie. You're going to be called to pull Ben off the air.

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