The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump STRICKEN WITH FEAR as DNC Crushes HIM BAD

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

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Donald Trump will be hosting at Bedminster, according to this invite that he and the various MAGA groups are sending out an award ceremony to celebrate insurrectionists for what's stated as their heroism and patriotism. There was a video drop that was released as well celebrating the January 6th insurrectionist, a montage of Donald Trump praising them. Look, as Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz continue to surge in the polls, Donald Trump will continue to get more and more desperate and his decaying MAGA movement will continue to get uglier and more grotesque.

It is our job in the pro-democracy community to continue to call this behavior out. Folks, this is the Midas Touch podcast and a programming note at the top of the show. This will be pre-recorded and what we're going to be focusing on this show, so as to not make it duplicative of our DNC coverage, is we're going to focus on the news this past week. We'll touch upon some of the themes that have taken place at the DNC, but I'm not going to showcase all of the DNC clips because you can get that coverage in our other feed. we weren't able to cover on the Monday show. And look forward to the weekend as well so you can be prepared and fully armed with all the pro-democracy news you need. I'm joined by Brett.

Jordy's been at a separate podcast convention over the past few days representing the Midas Touch Network there as our network continues to grow. Thank Jordy for all of his hard work. And Brett, great to see you on this historic day, day four of the DNC. Day four. I'm loving the energy this week, folks. The energy is great. I am feeling inspired. I am feeling hopeful. And I know that a lot of you are feeling the same way. And Ben, I think it's so important though, that we continue

to do this show, like you said, because there are so many stories right now that are slipping through the cracks. Don't get me wrong. I am very happy that the Democratic National Convention is getting the attention that it deserves. And it's been such an incredible event. But there are so many other stories that we want to be able to share with you. So I think the podcast here is important. And what a contrast, Ben, at this event, at the Democratic National Convention to the Republican National Convention. It's just hope versus hate. It's the best of us versus the worst of us.

And it's such an inclusive convention that we are seeing at the DNC. We are seeing Democrats, Republicans, independents all come together and rally around American democracy. And I think it's been so powerful to see former Republicans and current Republicans speak out at the DNC, see people across the Democratic Party speak out, see the powerhouses of these celebrities speak out, see the real stories of people being impacted by Trump policies speak out. It has been just a flawless convention, incredibly powerful, incredibly moving, and I cannot wait until the final night of the festivities. You know, we've been talking about Donald Trump leading his traveling fascist circus events that he calls rallies, not with the national anthem, but with the J6 choir song.

And Trump would always brag that his J6 choir song got more downloads than Taylor Swift, which it did not. But he would go along and say that corporate media refused to cover that Donald Trump is singing a song with some of the most violent of the insurrectionists. Frankly, if he made a song with insurrectionists generally, it would be terrible. But this song is actually with the ones who are like the most violent, and Donald Trump continues to promote them. And he sent out an invitation. Our team here at the Midas Touch Network exclusively broke this story. Another story broken by the Midas Touch Network. Thanks to, again, all of you Midas Mighty who contributed to GrowMidas.com to help grow this platform. And those who subscribe to Patreon.com slash Midas Touch.

Our editorial team continues to expand, but that's right. Donald Trump is hosting a January 6th awards gala on September 5th. The event description, quote, we gather to pay tribute to all January 6th defendants who have shown incredible courage and sacrifice. That is the horrific and despicable message that Donald Trump is putting out. In normal times, that would be disqualifying since in normal times, if a candidate spelled potato the wrong way, when yahoo the wrong way, did a weird windsurfing photo or behaved in certain ways that raise red flags, even have the kind of scent of a red flag for the highest office in our land. Our country once had standards. Well, a portion of our country still has standards. The silent majority still has standards, but corporate media normalizes this behavior.

Corporate media refuses to make this front page news, but screw them. That's why we got the Midas Touch Network here where we're going to point this out. Awards gala is traitorous, is treasonous. Celebrating January 6th in any form or fashion is despicable. The fact that this is the leader of the Republican Party doing it speaks volumes of the mutation that has taken over the Republican Party called the MAGA mutation. It has been heartening, though, to see major Republican figures and people in the Trump administration. And we're going to see more major Republican figures this evening as well speaking out against MAGA, that MAGA doesn't represent their conservative values. We've seen groups form like the evangelicals for Harris, the Republicans for Harris and similar groups. And we've always been welcoming here in the pro-democracy community. This is a community of liberals, progressives, independents, and frankly,

mainstream conservatives and mainstream Republicans. If you love our democracy, you love our constitution. And it's not just this performative way to say that, to take away people's freedoms, but you show it with your actions, protecting women's reproductive rights, treating all people with dignity and respect and equality, and frankly, actually living the values of our constitution and frankly, having moral character in general, you're welcome to this pro-democracy community. So I wanted to talk about that at the outset of the show. There was another great moment and C-SPAN captured it. I want to give them credit because they were the initial camera people who were there at this event. Although, Brett,

I thought you and the editorial team at Midas did a great job taking that coverage and clipping it so that it had its full context, but also we put the subtitles on so people can hear this interaction. And it just goes to show you, again, J.D. Vance can't do retail politics because he doesn't have real sense of who he is. He's the most inauthentic person. So we covered, for example, when he was in Philadelphia and he was asking, first off, he went to the tourist trap, Philly cheese steak place, like not like the place that people who really go and eat Philly cheese. So he goes to the tourist trap and he asked them about Swiss cheese. That's a big no-no. He went to a diner and yelled at his daughter for drinking the chocolate milk that his own

advance team gave to his daughter. And his daughter only had like one sip of the chocolate milk. And it was a very kind of weird interaction there. Here's another example where he goes to this donut shop in Georgia, and he just simply doesn't know how to order a donut. It's one of these moments, though, going back to what I said earlier, that lets me feel the spell of this MAGA is breaking, right? Where people can go, oh, you spell potato wrong? Oh, you're doing a weird windsurfing photo? Oh, you're putting your dogs on the top of your roof? You know, oh, you know, it makes us feel a little normal again. And this is a moment that the lack

of normalcy being called out is actually a very normal moment in American politics. So watch this awkward moment by J.D. Vance. Let's play. The Zoom has come to town. Thank you for letting us come in here. Yes, sir. I'm sorry, babe. Okay, yeah. She doesn't want to be on film, guys, so just cut her out of anything. I'm J.D. Vance. I'm running for vice president. Good to see you. Okay. okay she doesn't want to be on film guys so just cut her out of anything um okay good just everything yeah i mean a lot of glaze here, some sprinkle stuff,

some of these cinnamon rolls, just whatever makes sense. How long has this place been around? About four years. About four years? Okay. How long have you been here? A little over six months. Okay, good.

Okay. Okay, good. Okay, good. Can I get the little sprinkly thing? And I want to get the glaze thing right there. What an awkward interaction, Brett. Yeah. And it's like, I would say it's as if AI is interacting with humans, but I've actually seen AI have much more natural conversations than JD Vance interacting with the employees there. I

think what it gets to is this issue of authenticity. And I think that's why we've seen so much momentum with the Harris-Walls ticket. They ooze authenticity when you hear them speak. And we'll show at least a clip from the other night of Governor Walls and his incredible speech and what happened there. But when you hear Governor Walls speak, you innately feel that he is the real deal. When you see the interaction between him and his family, you know that that love is real. When you see J.D. Vance out there, you see somebody whose inner monologue is probably, don't be weird, don't be weird, don't be weird, please don't be weird, please. Ah, shit, I was weird again. And that comes out when you see these awkward interactions

in the most basic situations. I mean, answering every question there, okay, good, okay, good, okay, good. Like an absolute robot. It is just so cringeworthy. I had such secondhand embarrassment and they are certainly just, you know, when folks say, oh, these are some weird people, this is part of that, that we are seeing. Their kind of inability to understand just everyday Americans out there who are hardworking Americans trying to do their jobs and not be a part of a J.D. Vance photo op. I want to show you this contrast, though, that to me speaks volumes of the difference, not necessarily even a political level, but a humanity level between the DNC and how the Republicans are behaving and how they

have behaved when this MAGA mutation has taken over. So on the one hand, you had Governor Walz give this incredible speech last night where he gave a shout out to his daughter, Hope, his son, Gus, and his wife, Gwen. He says, you're my entire world. And he says, and I love you. And you see tears on Hope's eye. And you see Gus, his son, 17 years old, getting very emotional. Let me show you this clip first. Then I want to contrast it with another.

Let's play it. Hope, Gus, and Gwen, you are my entire world and I love you. I'm letting you in. You know, that image right there is kind of the perfect humanity gut check. How do you respond to that? Do you think that that is a loving scene where a bond between father, son, daughter, and wife is demonstrated? Or do you see that as something that is off or strange or something else, Brett? Yeah. And I'll just add that for the audio listeners, that the moment that we saw as Tim Walz is speaking, we see his son and his daughter watching, crying. We see his son saying, I love you, dad, as he sees his father on the highest stage in

politics speaking during this incredibly powerful moment. So you have that image, right? To me, give you my opinion, that fills me with joy and love. It brings a tear to my eyes. That was my reaction to it. So that's on the one hand, right? Now, I want you to think about the fact that the MAGA Republicans have been trying to send Trump surrogates into the stadium in Chicago, into this place of joy to try to sow division. And you have Mike Lindell, for example, the fascist pillow guy who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. He shaved his mustache. He put on a hat.

And he tried to go incognito to yell at 12-year-olds. And we captured this moment in our live coverage. We caught it exclusively here on the Midas Touch Network, this now famous clip of this brilliant 12-year-old Noah, who was an invited guest of the chair of the DNC, Jamie Harrison. And then you had the Trump surrogate, Mike Lindell, yelling at this brilliant 12-year-old kid over and over again. And then Noah, the 12-year-old, held his own and said, look, what are your sources? Are your sources? Trust me, bro. So I just want you to think about it because to me, what Mike Lindell does in this video that I'm sure you've all seen by now, if not, we're going to

play it. It takes on a broader context though, than just here's this interaction look how discreet how sick it is he's yelling at a 12 year old to me it's symptomatic of the joy that mag is trying to take away just leave us alone mind your own damn business if if you want to act like that with with your own people do that but stay away from our joy. Watch this clip. That's in your state. You want to know more in your state? They just found 250, 257,000 votes. This happened last week. A judge ruled in Georgia that are missing from the 2020 election. This just came out. You're behind. You should. So your source is trust me, bro. That's your source. No, the source. It's in your papers in Georgia. You need to read your news.

You haven't given me any last names. You need to read your news. No, this is your Georgia news. This is your Georgia news. Thanks, buddy. Have a good day. I'm okay. He provided no facts, no sources. He refused to give me the last name. He said for privacy, but elected officials provide their last names if they want the votes. So I'm confused as to why his source was Trust Me Bro. Mike Lindell just got rolled by a 12-year-old. That was such a powerful moment right there. And so I also now want you to think, though, about, I want you to see for yourself

what all of the Republican, MAGA Republican, I should make the distinction because as we're seeing, there's a lot of mainstream, normal conservatives and Republicans who are saying, vote Vice President Kallers. But this MAGA mutation, how are they responding to Governor Walz's son, Gus, being so overwhelmed with joy that he was crying while his dad was speaking. You had Mike Crispy, one of these big MAGA influencers say, Tim Wall's stupid crying son isn't the flex the left thinks it is. You raised your kid to be a puffy beta male. Congrats.

Does Barron Trump cry? Nope. Does he love his father? Of course. That's the type of values I want leading the country. And then Ann Coulter goes, talk about weird. And there's a photo of Governor Wall's 17-year-old son, Gus, there. And if you look at that statement by Mike Crispy, though, about like the being a puffy beta male or whatever it is right there, that's the language, though, of childless cat lady. himself for the third or fourth time and changed his personality and his entire identity to be this

kind of MAGA alpha, which is a weird concept, which doesn't really exist and is internally inconsistent concept to begin with. This is the language though that they use. So when these MAGA guys like the Crispys and the Vances and all of these people attack post-menopausal women and spend time talking about it, it's through that echo chamber of language that they use when they say, oh, the post-menopausal woman should only be focused on raising their grandkids or the childless cat lady is the biggest threat to our nation. It's that messaging. It's those goggles that they see the world

where a loving moment of a family coming together the way the Walzes did and the way everyone in that room did. To them, those goggles, their MAGA goggles, sees that as something they want to stop. So that's why they take away our joy by wanting to ban IVF, by wanting to engage in Project 2025 style policies, to burn books. They want to find ways, these people, to implement in a detailed way plans to take away our joy and our happiness because reflexively, what I showed you on stage pisses them off. I mean, I get this email, you know, from my coverage almost once every day.

J.D. Vance and the Trump campaign sends this email out that says this picture of Kamala pisses me off. And then I open it up and it's just a photo of her and they attack her for wearing like a necklace, which they say is an expensive Tiffany's necklace. And they go after her that that pisses you off. First off, it's not even the same necklace, but to that, that's what you're writing about. That's what's pissing you off. There are these deeper issues that they have and that they struggle with, that they've now have those feelings. But because of that, they want to rip away our joy. And the theme is mind your own damn business. And just if that's how you all want to live, go and live that way. Have your miserable 4chan existence and live that way if that's what you want to do. But can you leave

the rest of us alone, please? That's what's on display. So Brett, when we get back, I want to show more about that contrast here. And I want to talk about that in more detail. I want to talk also about the Texas poll that shows Vice President Kamala Harris only down five to Donald Trump in Texas. We see with the 538 average, she's taking her biggest lead yet, up 3.3. I've already highlighted some of the other polling, New York Times, CNN and others showing her ahead in North Carolina, ahead in Arizona, and also ahead, of course, in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. We'll talk about all of that and more when we get back. I want to remind everybody as well, I've seen some people posting it too, we've got the emojis now of Adam Mockler, the Mockler emojis, people unlocked with 500

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of the convention so far, when former president Bill Clinton addressed Donald Trump's infatuation with Hannibal Lecter, can we play that? One of the things is when you send a signal to the other countries, you want them to know whether they agree with you or not, at least that you're on the level. Here's where you are and what you believe. What are they supposed to make to these endless tributes to the late, great Hannibal Lecter. I mean, President Obama once gave me the great honor of saying I was the explainer-in-chief. Folks, I thought and thought about it, and I don't know what to say. So you had that moment. Also, you have this moment of former President Barack Obama making

it clear that Donald Trump has some real issues here. Here, play this clip. The people who will decide this election are asking a very simple question. Who will fight for me? Who's thinking about my future? About my children's future? About our future together? One thing is for certain, Donald Trump is not losing sleep over that question. Here's a 78-year-old billionaire

who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago. It has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that's actually been getting worse now that he's afraid of losing to Kamala. There's the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes. It just goes on and on. And this is obviously clearly getting in Donald Trump's head.

He keeps on talking about it over and over again. I'll give you an example of him talking about it. Let's play this one. Did you see Barack Hussein Obama last night? Take little shots. He was taking shots at your president. And so was Michelle. You know, they always say, sure sure please stick to policy don't get personal

and yet they're getting personal all night long these people do i still have to stick to policy okay first off brad i want to get your analysis but just the way he talks yeah like i i want to not just even address the substance because i'll throw that to you but the way he talks when he's just like they're talking about me he's like he does a voice it's a weird voice that he does you're feeling pregnant and when i want to tell you all and i'm just like this is you know i mean you sound like him during the uh the twitter uh spaces with you yeah i want to tell you you know you have me, you know, and for him, it's all just me, me, me, me, me, me, me. And I like the change here is first off, Democrats go high with our values. But when it comes to going after Trump, we can fight that battle the right way. It needs to be fought.

That seems to be a learning lesson here. Our values, our ethics high when it comes to fighting Trump. Let's go. Let's go. It doesn't mean you ignore the crazy thing. I thought former President Clinton's other line where he said, paraphrasing here, don't count the lies, count the eyes about Donald Trump. To your point, Ben, how he's always me, me, me, me, me. I thought that was such a brilliant line and such a brilliant message as well. And you see Donald Trump there, he just looks so small. He's such a petulant little child. And he frankly doesn't know how to handle being on the defense like this. And honestly, for a guy who dishes it so much, he cannot take it at all. And he especially hates being humiliated

on a national stage by people who are way smarter than him, way more respected than him, like former President Barack Obama, like the former First Lady Michelle Obama. That really, really, really gets under his skin. And one of the things I noticed that all these recent events as well is that Donald Trump's heart just frankly does not seem in it. He seems very low energy. Even the audience there, when he brought up Barack Hussein, Obama, even they were not really into it. They were like, oh, boo. It didn't feel like they had much gravitas behind them. And you just see his desperation. You see him just continuing to flail out there. You know, the nicknames and the whatever, like when Donald Trump is going, Barack Hussein, Obama, they're taking shots at me. When former president Barack Obama or

former president Clinton are talking about Donald Trump the way they are. The point that they're making though is a broader one of how that actually impacts we the people in the United States of America. As former President Bill Clinton says, look, when you're the leader of the free world, when you're the leader of the United States, even making small comments here or there, send signals and messages to the world, to your allies, to your enemies, about where you're going and who you are, which is why you have to be very meticulous and think through how you say things

and how things are communicated, right? And when Donald Trump talks about Hannibal Lecter, the late great Hannibal Lecter, people look at him the way we look at him, that he can be played easily, that he's a sociopath, that he is quite literally a mad person, that he can't be relied upon, and that he's probably having actual cognitive and mental issues that make him someone who cannot be relied upon and someone who will make the worst decisions always. Yeah. And going back to what we

were saying earlier when we played that incredibly emotional video of Governor Walz and his children, Donald Trump is like, you know, he's like the main person in this bubble, right? He's like, he like runs this bubble that all these people are in. And they just have really lost track of reality. Like it's not it's, it's quite frankly, sad to even watch like when you have Donald Trump saying the crowds, they're AI, they're not real people. And then you see those same people who we saw in those comments, people like them, repeating those things, you're like, okay, this is like a, a bizarre kind of psychosis that we are seeing that is being shared by this group of people. I think one of the other things that I noticed bothering Donald

Trump in the past few weeks is, and I think this plays a lot into the strength of the Democratic messaging, and I got to give props to the Democratic messaging throughout this convention and over these past few weeks. But Donald Trump preferred when he was feared. Donald Trump preferred, I think he was okay with being crazy as long as people were scared of him. And I'm not saying that he's not any less dangerous right now, but what I am saying is now he is being laughed at by everybody. Now he is being mocked. Now he is being looked at like a piece of garbage, like a piece of trash by the entire country, by a majority of the country. And I think that shift from being scary to being the weird kind of loser, pathetic person,

as people view him, I think that is a mortal wound to his ego. I know it's something that George Conway has talked about with his anti-psychopath pack, but that is such a mortal wound to this person's psychosis, to this individual. He cannot handle it. And he frankly cannot cope with this new reality of him being the world's biggest weirdo who nobody likes. The way we framed it several months back was that the only thing that Donald Trump and MAGA were running on was the strong man, weak man paradigm. So Donald Trump would say, up in the polls, bigger crowds. Those were the things. There was never policy. There was never what we're delivering. It was just this

idea, this inevitability of a Trumpism takeover of the country. And the evidence for that was what corporate media would propagandize, which was a lot of what we were being very critical of. Bigger crowds, he would say, and bigger polls. And they started those polls, frankly, right after the January 6th insurrection. Trump left a Trump dump on the nation. He torpedoed the country, the way he handled COVID, the way he added $8 trillion in debt. His policies dumped on the nation nation and President Biden had to fix it. And the moment President Biden inherited problems, unlike Donald Trump, who inherited prosperity for former President Barack Obama, they started running the polls right away versus focusing on,

hey, Donald Trump led an insurrection against our country. This person, the pressure should have been mounting on this individual needs to be put behind bars immediately. But the media's coverage was, oh, look at the crowd size in Waco, Texas, as Donald Trump launched his campaign years before campaigns normally launch on the 30th anniversary of the Waco siege as a direct attack on the FBI and had Ted N had them perfectly programmed, strong man, weak man paradigm. Play clips of President Biden looking old and weak and not having big crowds and start showing that Biden's poll numbers were low and make that a self-fulfilling cycle that you can't get out of. And then all people talk about about were, oh crap, the polls are this, by focusing on that two and a half, three years ago. But what this switch has done,

and what the crowd sizes behind Vice President Kamala Harris have done is, Trump can't fill those crowd sizes. So the weak man, strong man paradigm, big polls, big crowds has been turned on its head. She gets bigger crowds. So what does he do? He says it's all AI and fake. And he takes fake AI endorsements of Taylor Swift and looks pathetic. And now because he can't fill the same crowd sizes in the same cities where she's at, he now is doing these small events at small venues, and it actually makes him look smaller because his deranged message with like 10 people there or 30 people there looks extra deranged. I want to talk about that and more, but why don't we take our last quick break of the show. Trade makes it easy to experience America's best specialty coffees from home. Simply tell them what you like and whether you'd like it whole bean or ground,

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The new Economist YouGov poll has Vice President Kamala Harris up three. The new 538 average has Vice President Kamala Harris up by 3.3. Vice President Kamala Harris only down five to Donald Trump in Texas. Meanwhile, she's up in North Carolina, up in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and mostly all of the major polls there. Lots of people are talking about RFK, predicting that tomorrow he's going to endorse Donald Trump. Look, all of the analysis that I've heard and analyzed seems to suggest that it actually doesn't make a difference, that there's an argument that Vice President Kamala Harris could actually benefit from that. From the analysis that I've heard and that seemed to be persuasive to me, and again, I could be proven wrong here, a lot of the people who were supporting RFK just wanted an alternative to Donald Trump. So him saying Trump is not going to make them go Trump,

but that's left to be seen, but we'll obviously need to cover that. Although I don't need to spend any more of your precious ear time talking about RFK, who's just a total wacko. I want to show you this, though. This chart, I think, is important. Former President Bill Clinton pointed it out as well. This data does not lie. This is just the real deal data right here. Former President Bill Clinton explained that there was 52 million jobs created since 1989. 50 million of those jobs were created under Democratic presidents. Basically, every job, all of the jobs at a net level of net gain were created by the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations. The Bush and Trump, the Bushes and Trump administrations only gained 1.9 million jobs. This isn't like some glitch in the matrix, it is the design of their plans.

That's how trickle-down, Project 2025 style stuff is meant to work. It's not meant to lift up. It's meant to trickle down the sloppy eights to lower middle class and screw them over. And it's designed to benefit billionaires and deca-millionaires. And the foundation of that philosophy is that when billionaires and deca-millionaires do better. The country does better. That's the Republican economic philosophy now since Reagan. And it's been shown that that actually doesn't work. And it doesn't work well for the economy. And I mean, look, there's a lot of maybe Wall Street of you know maybe wall street people who when you um unleash all of this kind of debt and trickle down stuff they like it because they make percentages off of the deal flow and that there's like a lot of deal flow when trump adds eight trillion dollars of debt has tax cuts that

um for deck of millionaires and billionaires that aren't paid for, that results in wealthy people trying to do stock buybacks and things that people who work on Wall Street can get percentages of, but that actually doesn't help the economy grow. Right now, the American economy is growing faster than the economy of China. That's a big deal. Right now, the American economy is growing faster than the economy of China. That's a big deal. Right now, there's been 16 million jobs that have been created. Right now, right now, America's energy independent. I saw another stat that you look at North Carolina, the North Carolina economy is doing 50% better now than it was under Donald Trump. By every economic metric, we're doing better. That's

why Donald Trump and the MAGAs go around and say everything's rigged. The economic data's rigged. This is rigged. None of it's true. Don't believe any of the stuff. And the reality is, is that Donald Trump had the opportunity to do infrastructure. He did. He would have had bipartisan support for an infrastructure bill, and he promised there would be one, and that didn't happen. He promised there would be these factories, and that didn't happen. And one of the things that he is, because he's a predator in every sense of the word, he preys on people's hopes and fears and lies to them in ways that just even go beyond a normal political ambitious goal setting. He just is a liar, totally liar, makes things up. And as he said, if you repeat something over and over and over again, people believe it. And it doesn't hurt that he has propaganda networks

that push this and corporate media, which is ultimately run at the top by board of directors and CEOs who are the people who get their tax cuts. And Brett, when I talk about China here, as I mentioned that our economy is growing faster than China, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention though one of the new lines of attacks, very desperate by these MAGA Republicans, basically saying that Governor Walz is like a CCP sleeper agent, right? So James Comer goes on Fox and what they're pushing, and this is real, Jesse Waters, he said this multiple times now, multiple days, I'll just show you kind of one clip of it where Jesse Waters goes, you know, look, they're talking about the Donald Trump pee tape. Think about that. What's really more significant

is imagine if the CCP has video of Governor Walz on his honeymoon. Imagine the compromise that that would do. I think he means compromise. Imagine the compromise. First off, what are you talking about? A honeymoon? Two, no one's talking about the P-tape right now. The only people who are talking about it is like Donald Trump when he goes to Iowa and then brings up the P-tape on his own. No one's talking about that right now. That's not being talked about. Then also you bring James Comerer goes, well, I think that we're going to launch another investigation. We're going to focus Congress into this is serious. We're going to do hearings on Governor Walz being a sleeper agent. It's like James Comer, your whistleblower was not a real whistleblower you actually had a ccp agent as your key witness

to testify against biden in your failed impeachment investigation here let's let's just play this clip and you know about china congressman you did this when you looked into hunter when you go to china they surveil you if an American goes to China 30 times in the 90s, they have surveillance footage of him. They have surveillance footage probably of his honeymoon night. What kind of compromise is that? They were worried about Trump in a P-tape situation. That was all made up. This is serious business.

It's very serious. China thinks long term. It's very possible that China would be grooming an up and coming rising star in the political process to try to have a foothold in our government. I mean, they've done this in the military. We've caught them with spy rings in our universities. This is how China operates. They think long term.

And again, I can't say this enough. When you look at Hunter Biden's ties with communist China, it was for money. It looks like Walt's ties may be for ideology. And this is something that we should be concerned about. And we're trying to gather as much information as we can as quick as we can to present to the American people. It says it a lot about Kamala Harris that, you know, look, it's it's there's some extent there's humor, I guess, in just how pathetic they are. But it really is like beyond parody that just that whole thing exists right there, right? Yeah. That you have a leader in the Republican Party like James Comer on a propaganda network that, frankly, was founded by someone who wasn't even born an

American citizen. I mean, who came here, who created this network that was built on a foundation of also Roger Ailes bringing it to Murdoch about how to create propaganda to help future Richard Nixons. But this is Nixon on like Watergate wouldn't even be a, honestly, Watergate would not even be a thing talked about today. Like, let's be real, right? Like in terms of what Donald Trump's done, if you were to have learned that Donald Trump had someone like break into the DNC, they would go fake news. It's not real. And then it would maybe Watergate today with Trump would maybe be a story possibly covered by, I mean, setting aside the Midas Touch Network and our relentless coverage, maybe like Slate would cover it as one of 12 stories and that would be –

It wouldn't be on the front page. Maybe it. New York Times would not even – Today, New York Times and Washington Post wouldn't even cover Watergate as a thing. But that's why we have to rebuild the fourth estate. We have to democratize it and that's what we're doing here with all of you at the Midas Touch Network. And again, if you want to help, you can make that recurring donation at growmidas.com. You can do it. You can make one big time grow Midas thing. You could be recurring, but that's your opportunity to do it there. You go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch. And you can also support us

at store.midastouch.com and our pro-democracy sponsors. Brett, I want you to react to that before we go. Yeah, well, I think it's two things. Yeah, it is beyond parody, but it shows that Fox really has put aside any kind of notion that it's a legitimate news outlet. I mean, that's just a pure propaganda. It's nothing more than just news outlet. I mean, that's just a pure propaganda. Like that's nothing more than just extreme propaganda, quite frankly, that I think would make North Korea blush. And on the other hand, you see somebody like James Comer, what he's doing should be criminal. I mean, let's not mince words here. What he's doing is the epitome of actually weaponizing the government for political reasons. You know, oh, surprise, surprise.

Tim Walz is the running mate now for the Democratic candidate. So I guess we need to launch an investigation into this person. This is the kind of stuff that you see in Russia. This is the kind of stuff that you see in authoritarian countries. And James Comer with his kangaroo courts and his BS investigations, which are really just about trying to hurt people politically and exact revenge on political enemies for whatever reason. I mean, this is the stuff of communist dictatorships. This is the stuff that Anna Navarro was speaking about earlier this week of the reason why her family fled Nicaragua and fled communism. This is what MAGA

is. This is what this modern day mutation of the Republican Party is. So I think we need to call it out. And we cannot pretend like this is normal. Yes, silly, sure. But it's not just a joke. These are dangerous people who are making a mockery of our government. And what James Comer is doing should, I'm sorry, it should be a criminal offense. I couldn't agree more with you there, Brad. And look, we have to collectively call this out each and every day. And that's what we'll continue to do here on the Midas Touch Network. I want to just remind everybody, of of course check out our other coverage that's taking place right now on the uh midas touch youtube feed as well check that out it's going to be a very big and historic evening i'm sure it already has been but as i mentioned we pre-recorded this one um we would

have spent more time on monday's episode we'll do the full recap of everything that went down at the DNC. But we'll cut today's show a little short, a little earlier than normal, just because we know the DNC is happening. I wanted to make sure we hit all those other areas, which I think we did, to make sure you have all the knowledge that you need going into the weekend on this pro-democracy news. So just want to give a thank you to everybody. Thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors. Again, growmitus.com, become a recurring donor, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. There's a lot of exclusive stuff there. We won't do the after show again today because I know you're

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trying to steal our joy. And I agree with Tim Walz, that is probably the most offensive part of this movement to me, the most unforgivable part of this MAGA movement, that they constantly want to doom and gloom. They constantly want to try to bring us down. But we as a community, as a pro-democracy community filled with people across the political spectrum, people who maybe aren't even all that political, we need to rise above it. And we need to show that positivity, that hope, that unity is the force that wins and prevails over these dark, dark forces. So thank you so much. I hope you enjoy the rest of the Democratic National Convention, our coverage. Please continue to share it with everybody out there. Let them know you watched the convention via Midas Touch.

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