The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Suddenly BLINDSIDED as Biden HITS BACK Hard

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, Brett and Jordy discuss wins for democracy overseas and whether they are a sign for the November elections in the US; President Biden fires back at critics and naysayers in a flurry of public appearances and a surprise call-in to Morning Joe; Trump goes missing for 10-days and continues to post QAnon memes from his golf course; The urgent threat of Project 2025 and its impact on democracy – and our climate; More good news for the American economy; and more! Deals from our sponsors! HumanN: Get a free thirty-day supply of SuperBeets Heart Chews on all bundles and 15% off your first order by going to getsuperbeets.com and use code MEIDAS Bon Charge: Go to boncharge.com/MEIDAS and use coupon code MEIDAS to save 15% Policygenius: Head to policygenius.com/MEIDAS or click the link in the description to get your free life insurance quotes and see how much you could save! Zbiotics: Head to zbiotics.com/meidas to get 15% off your first order when you use code MEIDAS at checkout Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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back at critics and making it clear that he is not going anywhere. The president has been delivering speeches and chatting with voters in swing states across the country, holding more than 18 events in 10 days. Biden sent a letter to House Democrats, letting them know that he is ready to fight on and called into Morning Joe to push back against his critics and affirm that he is in it to win it. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has not been seen in public in over 10 days and has just been hanging at his golf club, posting literal QAnon memes and whining about Fox News' coverage of him. Trump is desperately trying to run away from the dangerous Project 2025 agenda as more Americans begin to hear about his dangerous plans. And the U.S. economy continues to grow with more jobs, jobs, jobs, and Americans just set records for holiday travel over July 4th. Brett and Jordy are here to discuss it all on the Midas Touch podcast.

Jordy, just me and you today, man. How are you feeling? Let's go. It feels like the adults are out of the room and we're ready to go here. Oh, this is going to be Midas Touch podcast unfiltered without, right? This is going to be quite a historic show here, I think. I'm really excited. Ben, we miss you big bro, but get some rest. Get some rest. We got you over here. No, just messing around. B, hold your champagne. I've never heard of that one before, but I really like it. And I think I'm going to start to use that going forward. Hold your champagne. You know what I was going? I was going to hold my beer. Hold my beer to hold myagne. I like that. And I figured in France, it's got... My first draft was Hold My Croissant.

Champagne way better. Champagne way better. I'm glad you went with that. I thought croissant may be slightly offensive, so I thought I'd move over to champagne. I thought that bridged the gap, but then I said croissant here. So all that editing is for naught. But you know what they say, Jordy, writing is rewriting. And what I see about writing is that while all of this is happening, Trump is just out there posting these QAnon memes, taking to truth social. And I've seen this narrative in the media where they're trying to frame Trump's actions these days as, oh, he's being so restrained after the debate. He is really being so much, much more statesmanlike.

Just because he's not going out there and literally not doing anything, Donald Trump has not been seen literally in over 10 days. He just decided that he was going to hold his first event on Tuesday at his own golf course in Miami. That's how far that he is currently willing to travel and willing to pay for other venues and whatnot. Trump has literally been posting, as I said, QAnon memes. And I just want to make this clear at the top of the show because this really says so much about the candidates here. Donald Trump here posting this QAnon account. It's called Spiritual Street Fighter 17. And this meme that says, we stand united with DJT. Now you go and

you click on that individual's profile, their profile on truth social says 1776. Again, I'm a proud American born and raised woman for Trump. I believe in Q, the great awakening and holding the line where we go one, we go all. Literal QAnon memes posting a person who is supporting a literal death cult. Do you remember back in the 2016 campaign, Jordy, when QAnon was a big story, the rise of QAnon, the threat of QAnon, all the stuff around Pizzagate and the shooting up of Comet Ping Pong and all the damage that came from that. And rightfully so, back then, the media was at least calling out the threat of QAnon. Now, Donald Trump consistently, by almost every single day, is reposting literal QAnon accounts whose goal is to have televised public executions of Donald Trump's enemies

and the deep state, as they call it. I mean, this is really sick stuff on a new level, right, Jay? Absolutely. MB, you think this would at least warrant a couple op-eds calling for Donald Trump to drop out of the race, but no, crickets from corporate media over and over again. It's a scary, scary time when the leader of an entire political party in this country can just retweet QAnon cult memes over and over and over again and go completely unchecked. Bizarre and scary. And here's the thing about the coverage lately that I have seen. And it's something that I said, Jordy, on the previous podcast that we did. Of course, they should be covering stories about President Biden. It's a very important story. What may or may not happen with President Biden,

the debate, sure, it's important. What I have an issue with is the proportionality of the reporting. There was something like over in the week since the debate, more than 200 pieces put in the New York Times about the debate. I mean, a little excessive. Now, if you told me, well, Brett, Brett, Brett, there are also 200 pieces about Project 2025 and posting QAnon and Trump posting QAnon memes and all this stuff, I'd say, okay, they just post a lot. They write a lot of articles. Okay, I got it. Point taken. That's simply not the case. Sure, they have mentioned these other topics, but writing a couple articles about something compared to 200 plus in a week on a single topic, I think you're putting your finger on the scale a bit there. And at that point, you're not simply reporting the news. You are actively trying to

drive the news. Like here's some other stuff that they're not speaking about. Here's some other posts that Donald Trump has posted in the past few days. We have, we the people support Trump from Patriot Point Man, one of these memes. Spiritual Street Fighter 17, again, this is that QAnon account, again, a meme that says it's time to totally obliterate the criminal syndicate and has a picture. It's kind of covered up. It appears to be the United States Capitol. And this is what we are seeing right now. It is truly, truly, truly a baffling thing. But meanwhile, we are seeing far and wide across the world, democracy prevail. And I think that is one of the interesting things. Despite all the bluster of

Trump, despite all the thoughts of the pundits and the polls, we are seeing a complete repudiation of that exact ideology across the board. And by the way, we've seen it here in America too, in these special elections. We've seen it here in America in the midterms when there was all this talk about a red wave. And now we are seeing it overseas. We saw first in the United Kingdom, the Labor Party defeated the Conservative Party, who was in office for, had control for about 14 or so years. The Labor MP Keir Starmer is now the prime minister. And how about that, by the way, Geordie, a transition process that doesn't take months, that doesn't allow time for, I don't know, some sort of insurrection attempt in the meantime.

It's something to think about. Maybe they have, you know, they've been doing this for a while. Perhaps it's something to think about, I'm just saying. One of the things I was really amazed with there, though, was the speeches, the concession speeches after, the victory speeches after. To me, that's what this network is all about. It's getting back to that civility and being able to believe in democracy and the will of the people. And, you know, what we saw there with that transfer of power, I'm sure a lot of you, and we posted on our social media as well, you can check it out. Seeing that transfer of power between the previous party in power and the Labour Party, it really speaks volumes. And, you know, quite frankly, it makes the UK

government, it makes them look like the adults in the room. And we are just like the crazy, I don't even know what to call us. But meanwhile, then we had France. And for months, months, months, the polls, the pundits have been saying that there was going to be a right-wing takeover in France. They were saying Marine Le Pen's National Rally Party, this neo-fascist party, was going to glide to power easy, no issues whatsoever. What happened? Their pro-democracy forces on the left and the center left, they joined forces, they created a new party called the New Popular Front, and they took on Marine Le Pen's party. Le Pen's party, the National Rally Party, ended up coming in third place. It was a complete upset, one of the greatest upsets, quite frankly, in French history. Just an absolute stunning defeat. And once again, now it's up to America to decide,

are we going to follow in the suit of the UK, of France, or are we going to go different? Now, I think it's heartwarming to see these images that are coming out of France, of all the celebrations. There was actually one I saw yesterday too, which was quite funny. It was a side-by-side of the split screen of the Le Pen people and of the people in the new popular front. And their reactions were quite different. But here were the celebrations on the ground in Paris after the results were announced. And for those listening, you don't have to worry about what they're saying. Don't worry. But just know it's a lot of very happy people. Now, the next couple I want to- But Brett, how could the polls get it wrong? How could they get it so wrong? Could it be, Brett, it's almost as if reporting on panic polls generates clicks and

ratings. Could that be a theory here? Because that sure did look like a lot of people that were definitely giving a different view than what the polls had indicated over there. And here's the thing, Jordi. Throughout history, fascist movements, autocratic movements, have been able to attain power with small numbers because they are able to exploit divisions in the majority. I mean, if you go back to Nazi Germany, and if you look at MAGA, you have a number of about 30% or so of people who firmly support those ideologies at those times. Now, one of the things we could learn though from France is the power of pro-democracy forces uniting together to see a greater threat, to see that

this is bigger than any one individual, but this is about our democracy and about our rights. And I hope that that is additionally the takeaway of this and that Americans start to get serious about the threats that lie before us. This next clip I'm going to play is in French, so I'll prep the listeners for what Marine Le Pen says here. But Marine Le Pen says, she brags that her policies are the same policies as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Here's the clip. It doesn't look like anything. The big political lines that I defend are the big lines that are Putin. Here's the clip. They're telling you who they are. So let's believe them. MAGA, of course, in total disarray, Jordi, because they thought that they were going to have this big victory overseas. You know, remember this autocratic movement, it's a global movement at the end of

the day. And here were some of the select voices that a global movement at the end of the day. And here were some of the select voices that I picked up here. Cue the conspiracies, B. Cue the conspiracies. Oh, my God. David Sachs, France shows that no election is certain. Macron and the far left used every trick in the book to deny Marine Le Pen her victory. Republicans shouldn't get complacent. Cat Turd, a thought leader in the Republican Party,

says they cheated in France, just like here. The fascist account End Wokeness said, this is insane. Macron's party colluded with the far left socialist in order to block a Le Pen win. 200 candidates dropped out last week, coalescing against the far right. Well, the coup just played off. The socialist just won first place. It looks like France will not be saved. Yawn, yawn. Just the biggest whiners of all time, Brett. And that's why I give it to the American people by and large, that they reject that type of sentiment and that type of feeling and that type of just loserness that you see from the MAGA, right? When you see from the cat turds, the N-wokeness, the saxes, it's just like, you're just the biggest whiners of all time. And the American people don't like that. You also

dabble and deal in exclusively and nothing else other than conspiracies. It's weird. And the American people by and large don't want to align themselves with you or your authoritarian rule. Absolutely not. And we need to make those stakes clear here and every day and stay focused on those specific stakes. President Biden today, moving on to the United States, he was pushing back at all this various media coverage against folks telling him that he should drop out. President Biden posted this morning, he said, this morning, I sent a letter to my fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill. In it, I shared my thoughts about this moment in our campaign. It's time to come together, move forward as a unified

party and defeat Donald Trump. And I think seeing what happened overseas, that idea of unifying has never been more important. That was their key to victory there. I'll read you at least, maybe I'll read the whole thing. I'll see how it goes. I'll read you at least a part of the letter that Biden sent to congressional Democrats. He says, fellow Democrats, now that you have returned from July 4th recess, I want you to know that despite all the speculation in the press and elsewhere, I'm firmly committed to staying in the race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump. I've had extensive conversations with the leadership of the party, elected officials, rank and file members, and most

importantly, Democratic voters over these past 10 days or so. I've heard the concerns that people have, their good faith fears and worries about what is at stake in the election. I am not blind to them. Believe me, I know better than anyone the responsibility and the burden the nominee of our party carries. I carried it in 2020 when the fate of our nation was at stake. I also know that the concerns come from a place of real respect for my lifetime of public service and my record as president, and I've been moved by the expressions of affection for me and so many who have known me and supported me over the course of my public life. I have been grateful for the rock-solid, steadfast support from so many elected Democrats in Congress and all across the country, and taking great strength from the resolve and determination I have seen from so many voters

and grassroots supporters, even in the hardest of weeks. I can respond to all this by saying clearly and unequivocally, I would not be running again if I did not absolutely believe I was the best person to beat Donald Trump in 2024. So that was his message. You could read it. It goes on for another page and a half. I'm not going to read the whole thing. This might take up a bit of the podcast, but I found him to be an impactful letter, pushing back on everything that's going on. And then President Biden also, and everyone's telling him, get out there. You got to get out there. You got to talk to voters. And he's held something now like 18 plus events over the past 10 days. He's been getting out there. He's been in Pennsylvania, he's been in Wisconsin. He's been all over the place in various swing states. President Biden also today called in to mourning Joe to make his case as well. And I thought President Biden sounded incredibly forceful as well in this phone call. And I'll play you a clip. Here's the first clip where he says the bottom line, not going anywhere. The bottom line here is that we're not going anywhere.

I am not going anywhere. I wouldn't be running if I didn't absolutely believe that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump in 2024. We had a Democratic nominating process where the voters spoke clearly. I won 14 million of those votes, et cetera. So I just I'm not only believe that from the beginning, but I wanted to reassert and demonstrate that it's true. And I'm going to be doing that all through this week and from here on. The next clip, President Biden mocks Donald Trump. He says that Trump is a liar and says that Trump has just been on his golf cart for the past 10 days hanging with his wealthy friends.

He's just a liar. And he hasn't done a damn thing since the debate. He's been riding around the golf cart for 10 days down in Mar-a-Lago talking with his wealthy friends. I'm not running because of these guys, Joe. I'm running because, and you know me well enough to know this from the very beginning, I ran because I never bought on in the trickle-down economic theory. I never bought into the notion that we have to walk away from the rest of the world in a cave to Putin or anybody else. I've never believed any of that. And I'm confident that's what the American people are. So what I did was I went out and I wanted to make sure that there wasn't any slippage at all. And with the average voter, I don't care what the millionaire says. President Biden calling Trump a pathological liar and

bringing up some of the crazy things that Trump said in the debate and has said recently in his lies. And we're just like, what the hell are we even talking about here? Like, are you listening to this individual? He's a pathological liar. He lied about Roe. He refused to accept the outcome of the election. He refused to condemn January 6th. And he says they claim he spoke with Putin before he invaded. What the hell are we doing, Joe? What are we doing? This is bizarre. It's a good question. President Biden was asked a question by Mika on Morning Joe asking him, how could you assure the American people that that night during the debate was just a fluke? Here was his answer. How can you assure the American people that you won't have another night like the

one you did in Atlanta? Look at my career. I've not had many of those nights. It was a terrible night and I really regret it happened. But the fact of the matter is, how can you assure you're going to be on, you know, faith that can intervene on your way to go to, you know, work tomorrow? Age, age wasn't, you know, the idea, I'm too old, created over 15 million jobs, 21 million insured for the ACA, beat big pharma, relieved student deaths for five million people, first black woman in the court. So I think I had a significant run.

And that's how I'd measure me. Measure me what I've done. And by the way, in terms of my neurological capacity, I had a physical, a neurological physical as well in February. It's released. I released all my records, all of them, all of them. And I have a neurological test every single day. Try sitting behind this desk and making these decisions. You know it. Both of you know it. They know it. I'm not bad at what I do. And now, it doesn't mean I never make a mistake. I do. But I'm making those decisions.

President Biden talking about all the events that he's done since the debate, including the very night of the debate when he was out at two in the morning. The night of that debate, I went out. I was out to two o'clock in the morning that very night, that very night. It drives me nuts. People talking about this. That very night, I talk in a large crowd. Look at the crowds we've gathered from Atlanta to North Carolina to Pennsylvania. And look at the enthusiasm. But it was right after. Where the hell is Trump then? What has Trump said or done? Except deny and he knows that he is the one to defeat Donald Trump and that the naysayers have been proven wrong time and time again. red way. There will be no red way because I've been all over the country. I didn't believe it at all. And then in 2023, the key elections, I went into those races, not every one of them, but a lot of them. I said we were going to win. Look, we won those. So, Joe, it wasn't just that

it didn't happen. I was predicting beforehand it would not happen because I've got a pretty good political instinct than I. And here's the deal. It's not going to happen here this time around. The American public is not going to move away from me as an average voter. President Biden was also speaking about this constant narrative that there's a rightward shift in the United States. And he's saying, like, where do you get that from? Look at France and look at the United Kingdom and look what's happening and look at what Trump says that he is going to do. By the way, in case you're wondering whether there is one, have you ever seen Trump run away so fast from what he's for? You know he's going to do it anyway. I mean, he's such a liar. This guy, it's all, everybody knows what they're planning to do.

And now he said, no, no, no, no. This guy is going to rip away at a woman's right to choose in a permanent way. This guy is going to make sure that the exact revenge this guy's going to destroy democracy. This guy's going to give a blank check to the Supreme Court and going to going to use the 2025 agenda. This guy's extremely dangerous. But you notice he doesn't speak up for what he now really is for. He's all of a sudden realizing, oh my God, nobody's for what I'm for. And a big theme was Biden raising the stakes of this election and continuing to speak about all the things that Trump keeps running away from.

If your policies are so popular, why do you keep running away from all of these things? Here's another moment like that. Think of the things he lied about. He talked about he gave the largest tax cut in history. Yeah, he gave the largest tax cut in history to millionaires and billionaires. He said that he's gonna to do 10% universal tax proposals,

not going to drive prices higher. Every major economist in the world is saying it's going to drive an average $2,500 per person. Only jobs we've created for illegal immigrants and bounce back jobs and bounce back from COVID. Give me a break. That's what he said at the convention. I mean, I see him at the debate.

I mean, everything he said. He said, you know, he largely fixed COVID. You kidding me? And what happened? Nobody said anything. Nobody said anything. Except me. I think these are great.

I think this is actually great of President Biden to be out there and getting his message across. I'll play one more, Jay, and then I want to get your thoughts. But at the end, President Biden basically concludes with making the comparison to the elections that we've just seen overseas and how Americans will also reject the extremism the same way that they have rejected extremism abroad. And so this guy's going to have to start to answer for what he did. I'm not letting up, Joe. I am not letting up a little bit. And by the way, you know, you know, France registered, you know, I look, you talk about Europe, France rejected extremism. Democrats were rejected here as well. Trump and, you know, this is a guy who is an extreme candidate. I can't think of a candidate in my lifetime that's been more extreme. He makes George Wallace look like a patriot. Jordy, what do you think overall about the call into Morning Joe? It's fantastic. It was Biden at his best again. And honestly, he should do this more often.

You know, it's funny. I sort of have two conflicting thoughts at the same time. I think he should almost do this weekly, call into Morning Joe weekly, because that's what the American people want to hear. They want to hear why he is so great for this country versus why the other guy is so dangerous. And he did a great job today. And I think a weekly call would do a lot of good. At the same time, let's be clear,

there's nothing President Biden can do right now to appease the media coup that we're all witnessing. Like he can do a cartwheel on stage while stopping a Rubik's Cube and it will just never be enough for some of these media members. Even when he goes on Morning Joe today, Brett, and has as good of a performance as he had,

suddenly because he's defending suddenly, because he's defending his record, he's now acting Trumpian. I saw that take from a lot of members of the media. So let me get this straight. You want him to go on live TV to defend his record, but not like that. He didn't do it the right way today. Well, that's weird. And so I'm speaking to those corporate media members. Just be honest. Say that you're dug in in your position and that your ego just won't allow you to change your mind on the topic. But just do everyone a favor and don't bring your degree to a dogfight because I'm no longer trying to entertain this intellectual debate about the ticket. The ticket is the ticket. You could get behind it or you could get the hell

out of the way. I like that line, Jordy, but the degree or the dogfight is good stuff. Yeah. And like I've said on the show, it's an important discussion to have. I think it's a discussion that's great. And I think it's great that Democrats could be having these hard conversations. The thing that has disturbed me in recent days, to say the least, is like I said earlier, that proportionality of the stories, the putting so much emphasis on certain stories, and kind of just now they're like making up stuff a lot. And then they have to retract their stories. Like yesterday, they did a report that Ted Lieu was calling for Biden to drop out. Not true at all. And they're just rushing to get at the story. I saw Axios did a story that was about the advance team prep for Biden for events. And you have to, you know, they posted with a bunch of kind of sirens and say, Biden needs to have pictures of all the locations in the event before he goes in. And we got a copy, an exclusive copy of the entrances, the exits, everything that they show the president before

he gets in and that a security team prepares for. And it's not until you get to the very bottom line of the story that says that this is done for literally every president ever. And so that's the kind of putting your finger on the scale kind of storytelling, if you want to say it in a nice way, that really disturbs me. But I think it's important to have the discussions, have those conversations. I think that's fine. But I think once you cross over into really trying to put your finger on the scale of what's happening, like we are seeing with these major media networks, it is quite disturbing to see how quick they are to cave into anti-democratic forces. Absolutely. And look, this is really where my frustrations start to come from too. It's like, okay, he went out in North Carolina,

President Biden said he's running. He went out in Wisconsin, said he's running. He went out and met with the governors. The governors left the meeting. They all had his back. The VP has his back. He's tweeted out that he's staying in the race. He's now released a statement to Congress saying he's staying, the congressional Democrats saying he's staying in the race. So why continue to perpetuate this narrative as if he may or may not drop out? That's why it's been so frustrating for me as the, you know, as the weeks and days go on versus just understanding the moment and understanding what we need to do to defeat Donald Trump. Because right now, all you're doing by continuing to engage with this fantasy is you're helping Donald Trump, period, full stop. One of the most frustrating things, and I know we got to hit the break soon, Brett,

but one of the most frustrating things about these last few days for me personally has been the most privileged among us casting stones from their penthouses, trying to tell the electorate that they know what's best for them. And look, I'm sure a lot of it is in good faith, but I just hope these folks are having conversations with the party base who seem to feel much differently than they think. Biden said it. He's not going anywhere. It's a good thing. He remains the best candidate to take on Donald Trump. And as far as this election is concerned, it doesn't get stronger than a Biden-Harris ticket. Nothing else even comes close. And so one silver lining, I guess, that we can all take from this, Brad, and I saw you had tweeted

this out the other day, at least folks are now starting to realize just how big of an asset VP Harris is. And another silver lining is folks are engaged again to realize just how big of an asset VP Harris is. And another silver lining is folks are engaged again. But once again, it's time to get behind the ticket or get out of the way because anything else at this point helps Trump, period. Yeah. I mean, the thing is that if you would want it to be Kamala, Vice President Harris, I think she is amazing. The great thing is she's a very effective, great VP. And her role as VP is to fill in in case there are ever any issues. So to me, you get the best of both worlds. I'm happy that Vice President Harris is finally getting a moment, quite frankly, and getting the respect that she deserves.

And I want to play a clip from her at the Essence Festival later in the show. And before we go to break, though, I just want to also show, if I could find it, this Chuck Todd tweet, which to me also just totally misses the message. Chuck Todd says, Biden's anger at, quote, elites is a bit misplaced. Without the elites, he would have had a serious primary foe without the elites. No labels effort would have had a compelling ticket. Arguably, it's the elites who put too much faith in Biden and got the Dems in this position. No labels were the elites. And folks did try to challenge Biden. The reason that they got so much backlash and did not make it was not because of some big conspiracy, but it was quite frankly that voters didn't want it. The voters said no to that. The voters rejected the challenges from Dean Phillips or RFK or all the other people who were out there. They did. They rejected it.

If there was an appetite for that and Dean Phillips' whole thing was running on Biden's age, then there would have been votes for that and people would have been like, oh crap, there's this guy. But that just wasn't the case. I'm sorry. I want to talk about President Biden's schedule. I want to talk about President Biden's visit to a church in Philadelphia and compare it to Donald Trump's disgraceful visit to a quote unquote black church in Detroit. I want to show you Kamala Harris. I want to talk a little bit about Project 2025 and more. We'll be right back after this. Don't touch a thing. As many of you may know, I just got married and I plan on expanding my family with more responsibilities stacking up. I want to make sure

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a ton of experiences for those watching. Wow. Hyatt event in Atlanta, Waffle House in Atlanta, campaign event in North Carolina, remarks in New York, a few campaign events across New York and New Jersey, remarks on the immunity ruling, events in Virginia, meeting with them governors, Wisconsin. And this weekend, he was, of course, going across Philadelphia. He's really been hitting the trail. Now, they also just announced some more events by President Biden in the next week or so. More travel announced, remarks commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act in Austin, Texas.

On the 16th, he's going to be giving remarks at the NAACP's National Convention in Vegas and remarks at the UNIDOS U.S. Annual Conference in Las Vegas as well. On the 17th, this week, President Biden is going to be hosting world leaders at a NATO summit that the United States is hosting. That should be a big moment for our allies, who I'm sure themselves have their own concerns about things going on in the world. But maybe President Biden will be able to chat with them and say, hey, good job overseas. Got any tips for us over here? I'm 31 and I don't even like to do long weekends anymore somewhere because I just get so tired. So seeing that extensive schedule, it's pretty reassuring to me. It's pretty exhausting to me to look at even,

quite frankly. And by the way, remember Trump, for all the talk about the schedules and everything, Trump would work, I think it was reported like three hours a day. He would send out those, his scheduling that his White House would send out would be like, he's taking lots of meetings and doing lots of things. And he would just mark the whole day with executive time, executive time, executive time, which meant that he was not doing anything. But anyway, President Biden, one of the things that he said really reassured him was going out and speaking to voters firsthand. And he did that in a big way in Pennsylvania. First, I want to show you his visit to Mount Airy Church of God and Christ in Philadelphia. Compare this to Donald Trump's visit to a black church in Detroit,

which ended up packing with a bunch of MAGA supporters. So first, let me bring up this picture so you could see the difference in the audiences of each event. I think it's important to see that Donald Trump's is a scam and that President Biden's is actual real support from the Black community. Here is this picture right here, which says it all. On the right, you have Trump's event and you literally see just all the white Trump supporters who are wearing MAGA hats and red and were brought in. He basically rented out the space from this church, which, by the way, has been embroiled in a lot of its own kind of legal drama, that pastor who had sold it to him. A much different view than what we saw at the Biden event.

And I'll play some B-roll right now also of the crowd at Biden's event in Philadelphia, just so you get a sense of it. I mean, this is joyful, real people, real supporters, none of that BS, none of that gaslighting that Trump does at any of his events. And I listened to the sermons and what people were saying. It was so hopeful and it was about positivity and it was about love thy neighbor, look over to the person next to you. It's such a contrast, the stuff that we hear in a lot of these Trump speeches and all of these Trump speeches, which are so negative no matter where he is. And so I thought, you know what I'm going to do? President Biden gave some great words at this church. I'm going to take just one portion of Biden's speech. Like literally,

I'm not even going to like take a bunch of different areas. Let me take this one portion of Biden's speech, which I thought was powerful. Let me contrast that with the moments of Donald Trump and his way of that he feels like he should be courting black voters. This was the compilation that I put together. I've always felt the power of your faith in good times and in tough times. The fact is, as scripture says, all things work together for good. To those who love God are now called according to his purpose. Our purpose is to serve others. That's our purpose.

To know everyone entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. To know faith without works is dead. And then I got indicted a second time and a third time and a fourth time. And a lot of people said that that's why the black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against. And they actually viewed me as I'm being discriminated against. It's been pretty amazing. We're all called to be doers of the world.

In this nation, that means keeping our eyes on the North Star, the very idea of America, that we're all created equal in the image of God and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect our entire lives. We've all seen the mugshot. And you know who embraced it more than anybody else? The black population. It's incredible. You see black people walking around with my mugshot. You know, they do shirts and they sell them for $19 a piece. We've never fully lived up to that, but we've never fully walked away from it either. And that's because of you and generations before you who led the church from slavery to freedom, always praying, always believing the joy cometh in the morning.

You've never given up. I won't say it because I don't like using the word bullshit in front of these beautiful children. So I won't say it. I will not say it. But this thing allows millions of people. My life and as your president, I've tried to walk my faith. Get us through the pandemic.

I claimed a million loved ones and left eight million people with an empty chair at dinner or breakfast because of someone they lost. To ensure that the economy has the lowest black unemployment and more black small businesses in decades. To rebuild and ensure black America has a peace of mind that comes with health care for everybody. Thank you very much. That's what I like those teeth. I want to find out where you I got to get my teeth like that to ensure you can follow your dreams without the burden of student debt. To make housing affordable, help more black families build wealth and pass it on to future generations. To keep our community safe by getting weapons of war off our streets. To give hate no safe harbor. These lights are so bright in my eyes that I can't see too many people out there, but I can only see the black ones. I can't see any white ones,

you see. While there are those who want to erase history, Kamala and I want to make it because black history is American history. Would you rather have the black president or the white president who got 1.7 billion off the price? I think they want the white guy right now. Of course, there's more to do to deliver jobs and justice. There's more to do. But above all, we need to protect our rights, the rights of all Americans, to make sure democracy works for you. Folks, I know with every fiber of my being, I know I'm going to look like I'm 40 years old, but I've been around a little bit.

The bishop and I were talking about that. It's heck turning 40. Well, all kidding aside, you know, I've been doing this a long time. And I, honest to God, have never been more optimistic about America's future if we stick together. I really mean it. At the end there, there was a video of Trump hawking his very expensive sneakers that he said him and Fox bragged about. That's why black voters will vote for him. I mean, the whole thing is so offensive. To quote President Biden from his interview with Morning Joe this morning. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? You could watch that and it's even a contest. This is even a close call.

Give me a, to quote Biden again, give me a break, right? Give me a break. And like I said, that was one moment of Biden's speech. And I thought that comparison and that contrast was powerful. And for those asking, yes, it's on our social media. It's on our Twitter account. It's on our Instagram or TikTok or Facebook, all that. So you can check it and find all that Midas Touch. Follow, make sure you can share that video. Jarring. That was a great video. I mean, I know your editing skills are very good, but that seemed like a very simple... Here's President Biden speaking, here's Donald Trump speaking. I mean, quite literally, drastically different speeches. Biden spoke about other issues too. And you see in the contrast, just the difference in values that these people have. President Biden was out there and he was talking about how important it

is to bring back dignity again. And I wanted to show you that moment because it was particularly powerful, but from a different moment in that speech. I believe when I ran the first time for president, I said something basic. I said we have to bring back dignity and hope in America. Number one. Number two, we have to give working class and middle class people like the family I came from a shot and build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down. And thirdly, we must unite America again. That's my goal. That's what we're going to do. God bless you all. I want to show you also Bishop Felton at that church who came out to bat for President Biden and was asking a question that I think is on a lot of folks' minds, to be honest. Let's understand something. I don't know why it

is that you want to make an issue of the president and his condition with stammering and not being able at certain times to bring forth words while another person lies fluently and you never challenge his lies. It's just a much different event and a much different reaction than the events that we've seen Donald Trump hold, where everything that he does is a complete scam. And I think after all this, as President Biden powers through all the controversies, I would say this, nobody knows what's going to happen ultimately. Nobody knows what decisions will affect what. Nobody here is psychic. But I think it's important that no matter what, that we're all there defending democracy,

and that we try not to consistently tear each other down because the stakes are just too damn high, quite frankly. And I think all of us need to acknowledge that at minimum. I saw a post from the account Angry Staffer, which is, I think it was like a staffer in the Trump administration who would post messages anonymously. This is what he had to say. And I thought it was a good thought, good level-headed thought on what's happening right now. He said, I think everyone needs to take a step back, breathe, and think about the reality we're in. We're all on the same side here. We all have the same goal. Yes, we may have different ideas for how to get there, but we all want the same side here. We all have the same goal. Yes, we may have different ideas for

how to get there, but we all want the same thing. Trumpism has to be defeated. Project 2025 can't be allowed anywhere near the corridors of power. We have to stop fighting amongst ourselves and keep our eyes on the prize. If Biden stays in the race, as it appears he will, he can and will beat Donald Trump again with our help. If Biden decides to leave the race, Kamala Harris can and will beat Donald Trump with our help. The situation is politically complicated, but it's also fundamentally very easy. Our job doesn't change. Our goals don't change. We're going to follow the UK. We're going to follow France. We're going to defeat authoritarianism. I think that is the perfect tone. And I would say probably echoes my views 99, if not 100%. And speaking of Kamala

Harris, she was at the Essence Festival over the weekend, speaking in front of a packed house, got like a rock star welcome. I should have a picture of it I want to pull up just to show you how big this crowd was when VP Harris was speaking. And I want to show you a bit of her speech as well when she was speaking. She was talking about the media kind of disregarding the true threats and Vice President Harris is making clear the threats to our country and that they need to be paid attention to. Sadly, the press has not been covering it as much as they should in proportion to the seriousness of what just happened when the United States Supreme Court essentially told this individual who has been convicted of 34 felonies

that he will be immune from essentially the activity he has told us he is prepared to engage in if he gets back into the White House. Understand what we all know. In 122 days, we each have the power to decide what kind of country we want to live in, understand what we know. When there has been a full-on intentional attack against hard-thought, hard-won freedoms and rights, when I talk about the family that raised me, yes, they took me in a stroller as they were marching and shouting for justice,

knowing that justice will not be achieved unless we are prepared to march and shout and fight for it. And one of the ways we do that is through our vote. Like I said, I am glad that there is a renewed spotlight on Vice President Kamala Harris. I think she is an incredibly effective communicator. And she's quite frankly been doing this the entire presidency. And it's just like these things haven't been picked up on. And one of the weird kind of silver linings thing that we mentioned earlier on the show is that because the press is just hoping now that Biden stumbles and that it's a disaster and that everyone continues to cause chaos and turn on each other, they're

covering all the events now, at least a lot more of them, not all of them, but they're covering a lot more of them. So at least folks are being able to see this stuff for themselves now in more ways. At least Vice President Harris is actually getting to be seen speaking to the American people. At least Biden's speeches in full and not in these clipped, deceptive clips are being seen by people. And I just think that's important. I think it's brought out Brett, to your point, exactly. I think this has brought out like another energy, another energy from president Biden, another level of energy from VP Harris, another level of energy, frankly, from the electorate who is like all in, committed. We're going with this and we're going to win.

That's the mentality that we need as we sprint through November right now, is everybody's eyes on the prize and let's do this damn thing. And so that's been another reassuring thing about this moment. Yeah. I think Biden, I think VP Harris, I think voters, I think folks are really starting to, it's a big wake-up call in a lot of ways. And I think folks are seeing this as very much a do or die moment. And so, you know, I think despite what anybody, you know, has contrasting beliefs, you know, and hey, we have hosts on our own network who don't agree with us. That's fine. People are allowed to have their own opinions. Like. I don't require that everybody

share the opinions of us. And if you agree with us 100% of the time, maybe that's not a good thing, right? Disagreement is healthy. Disagreement is good. But I think we all need to continue to commit ourselves to fighting for democracy, no matter where the chips may fall. Some of the things the media doesn't quite show because they're more behind the scenes moments, although they certainly demand that Biden does this and he does do it everywhere he goes. Biden's just shaking hands with voters. Biden having these interactions with voters. And you could tell that that was a big calculus of Biden saying why he was staying in. I've met with voters. I've seen their enthusiasm firsthand. So don't guess like me. I've seen the actual base of our party and the base of our party are not democratic, big money donors. They're not pundits and they're not

New York Times reporters. They are the people on the ground in the towns and the cities that I shake hands with at these events. So here's President Biden in Pennsylvania, shaking some hands well after giving a speech in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Here's some more pictures of folks at Harrisburg in Harrisburg showing their support. And I think the show of support by the true grassroots of that party, I know it's got to be very meaningful to Biden. And I think it should send a message to other folks, you know, if that base of the party is behind them, you know, I think you need to take their feelings into account and you can't push them aside. That's all I'm really going to say about that. I want to talk to you because it's very important

that we stay laser focused on the threats to the country, that we stay very focused on the data, that we stay very focused on the issues and that we stay very focused on the issues and not the gossip. That's what I want to make sure that the show remains a place for, the issues, not the gossip. So I want to speak a bit more about Project 2025. I want to speak a bit more about some of these deceptive groups that are trying to destroy our climate with Donald Trump's help. And this is some really shady stuff that our research has uncovered. And it's very important that you hear about this. And I want to tell you more about positive news about the economy that has been going underreported as a result of the

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could it be the fact that. I just think he doesn't feel like hanging, you know, with Trump, hanging out with Trump. Yeah. Hanging out. Of course.

Yeah. Hanging, hanging out with Trump anymore because there's some bad blood between the two these days. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.

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I want to give a huge shout out to the moderators. We obviously have a big subscriber base and we are marching to 3 million. It is not an easy task whatsoever to moderate these live chat feeds. So I want to give a huge, huge, huge thank you to the moderators who are putting in their time because that allows us to focus on the very important stuff of telling people about the pressing issues of the day and of the era. important issues right now that I think we all need to be focused on is Project 2025. Now, Donald Trump likes to now, he's trying to distance himself from Project 2025. He says he doesn't know anything about it or anyone involved, except it's run by Trump people, like mostly Trump people. They literally say that their goals are to quote, and I'm quoting, institutionalize Trumpism. That's literally what they say. And here are just a few of the Trump officials that are behind Project 2025. Gene Hamilton, Ed Corrigan, Wesley Denton, Troop Hemingway, Brooke Rollins, James Shirk, Mark Meadows, Andrew Kloster, the director of Project 2025, Paul Danz, also worked for Trump as a top aide. And Trump's top aides also appear in the Project 2025 videos about implementing

Project 2025. And here are the receipts. We found them. They may have had these videos unlisted on their YouTube channel, but we found them. You see on the left, Stephen Miller, Project 2025 Presidential Administration Academy. That's the video on the Heritage Foundation's page that he participated in. And then we also see a part of the video, Carolyn Levitt, who is Donald Trump's press secretary. So Donald Trump is trying to coffee boy Project 2025. I don't know anything about it. I don't know any of the people. This is just a coffee boy. Well, your people are literally all over it. And this thing that you call Agenda 47 is Project 2025 with another name. So do not try to gaslight us. We know, and let me tell you

just a few of the things. We have a little graphic to sum up some of the things that is going on with Project 2025. It's basically a Trumpian wishlist of all the most horrible things you know about Donald Trump that they want to implement if they get the power. So here's a brief list. They want to purge the government of thousands of civil servants and replace them with unqualified far-right MAGA loyalists. They want to send the Justice Department to prosecute Trump's political enemies, pardon violent January 6th criminal insurrectionists, pack the Supreme Court and lower courts with MAGA extremists, enact a national abortion ban, restrict IVF access, reduce the FDA's approval of abortion medication, remove a national abortion ban, restrict IVF access, reduce the FDA's approval

of abortion medication, remove mentions of abortion and reproductive health through agency materials, reverse President Biden's student debt forgiveness, reinstate student debt on millions of Americans, give tax handouts to the ultra wealthy and big corporations, eliminate union and worker protections, cut social security, raise retirement age, cut and privatize Medicare, rip away healthcare from tens of millions of Americans, remove protections from pre-existing conditions, repeal President Biden's law that allows Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, abolish the Department of Education, implement and expand book bans, go after marriage equality, repeal anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ plus students, reinstate Trump's transgender

military ban and expelled transgender service members, end climate protection and gut clean energy programs, withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden's landmark climate law, replace climate advisors with fossil fuel lobbyists, deregulate big corporations and the oil industry, send the US military after anti-Trump protests, put immigrants in mass detention camps, rip immigrant children from the arms of their mothers, reinstate and expand Trump's Muslim ban, and much more. Like I said, that is just a brief overview of Project 2025. And by the way, many of those same things are in Agenda 47 that they try to position as something that's different. It is truly not different.

And something I also want to focus on with Project 2025, as Trump tries to deny it, is the effect that Project 2025 and their plans will have on the climate. Now, we spoke briefly about, in that list, we mentioned a few of their plans to roll back all the progress that Biden has made on the climate. And President Biden does nearly enough credit that he is the single most effective president. He's enacted the most comprehensive environmental agenda out of any president quite literally in history through the various bills. There's never been a president that has made more progress on this issue than Biden. And Trump, Project 2025, they want to take all those gains. They want to roll

it all back. And we know by now, we see the news about these hurricanes and these storms and everything, climate change. There's increased incidence of extreme weather across the country. I mean, I don't think anybody could at least deny that we're experiencing a lot more extreme weather now than we used to. But here's the thing that you need to look out for. And when we started digging into this research, it was quite horrifying to me that there are all these plans that President Biden has enacted and other plans that he wants to enact to protect the environment, to slow down this extreme weather, to actually make a big difference in the climate space. And then there's all this big money and all these groups out there that are trying to do

everything possible to reverse that progress. And it's not only that they're doing that, because we know that they do that, right? But the nefarious ways in which they are doing that, there are a bunch of these groups that many of them are tied to Trump, that create names, they pose as if they are grassroots organizations fighting to protect the climate, when they are actually being funded by big oil, big gas, in order to give everything possible to big gas by making people afraid of clean energy alternatives. There's so much money being poured into this. And I'll give an example. Let me just read for a second from some of the research we compiled. So a dozen of groups across the country, many purporting to be grassroots organizations, are linked to the fossil

fuel industry. Nonprofits tied to oil and gas and other fossil fuel interests gave at least $19 million, $389,552 to groups opposing clean energy initiatives nationwide. Over 70% came from the Charles Koch Foundation and the Charles Koch Institute, which funneled $14.3 million to these groups. Oil companies, including Phillips 66, ConocoPhillips, and Occidental Petroleum and other corporations tied to fossil fuels gave at least around $1.4 million to groups that opposed clean energy. And here's where it gets more devious. I want you to listen to the names of these organizations. They purport to be like environmental organizations. They're actually doing the opposite. So beyond the funding,

there are links to these specific groups and corporate polluters. There are these anti-wind groups. Trump always talks about wind, wind. What happens if the wind stops? You're going to lose our electricity. It's all tied together, right? They have these two coalitions, the Save Right Whales Coalition and the American Coalition for Ocean Protection. The Save Right Whales Coalition was co-founded by Lisa Linneaus, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which is a fossil fuel think tank. She was also a member of the Advisory Council for the Institute of Energy Research, a close ally of the Trump administration that has received millions from the Koch Network and the oil and gas industry. The American Coalition for Ocean Protection is a project of the Cesar Rodney

Institute, which has received funding from the American fuel and petrochemical manufacturers, and is a member of the state policy network and receives money from Koch Network Foundations. Are you seeing a pattern here? Are you seeing their strategies? The coalition founder, David T. Stevenson, was also a policy director at the Cesar Rodney Institute. He was a Trump advisor who previously worked at DuPont, a chemical company that is a member of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. I could go way more in depth, but I think you get the point. And a lot of these groups are connected to Trump. Like the American Coalition for Ocean Protection, it's an umbrella organization for several

of these anti-wind groups, was founded by a former Trump advisor. Wind Action, a New Hampshire-based anti-wind group, was led by that Lisa Linneaus, who is a close ally of the Trump administration. And I could go on and on and on and on. Affordable Energy for New Jersey, a product of the Consumer Energy Alliance, an oil and gas front group led by Michael Watley, who's Michael Watley, a former oil lobbyist who was literally the co-chair of the RNC along with Laura Trump. Something else to note on how this connects to Project 2025, 55 of the groups involved in Project 2025 have received more than $50 million from the oil and gas industry and its allies since 2020. So when you see this pushback

and you're like, how could Trump be making such ridiculous statement? When? Look, what are you talking about? It's the cost of all the money behind it. That is why. And President Biden, quite frankly, scares these big money interests. He scares the big money interest in media. He scares the big money interest in oil and gas. And that's why there is such a forceful pushback to him on everything he does. That's why throughout his whole presidency, there's been such a pushback, especially from media elite types, big money types, with corporate billionaires funding them. That's why it's such an honor to me that we're able to fund this network, quite frankly, on the grassroots level. There's really quite literally nothing like it. It's certainly not the greatest business model in in the world as we joke around, but this is funded by you guys doing the emojis in the chat,

right? Doing the super chats on YouTube. It's funded of course, in part by our great pro democracy sponsors. It's funded by the folks who go on Patreon and subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com slash Midas touch and become members. That's how we survive. That's how we thrive. And that's what allows us to always be independent to ourselves and not have anything dictated to us by these outside interests. So thank you for keeping that all possible. Real quick, I just wanted to emphasize that's some excellent research that you did there on climate. And I'm glad that we're talking about climate more on this show because it's crucial. It's vital for the future of not just our country, but frankly, the world that we get this and we get this right as soon as possible. One of the things I hope to see, at least in the next debate, if it happens is they got to talk

about climate. Like I want to see Trump put on the ropes and just ask, do you believe in climate change? Yeah. Project 2025. Like, like where do you stand on on the ropes and just ask, do you believe in climate change? Climate change 2025? Yeah, project 2025. Like, where do you stand on these core issues? And just let him speak. You know, just let him defend these indefensible positions in which he holds. So I'm glad we're talking about climate on this podcast. And I know our viewers, I see it in the chat right now. I know our viewers are glad that we're talking about it as well.

I agree, Jay. The stakes are just too high and it's existential, literally, in the climate and for so many other reasons. I want to run down some other quick accomplishments recently, some good news that we've seen. On Sunday, over 3 million people were screened at US airports. That's a record for the TSA. Record travel. Americans are traveling and taking vacations right now at record numbers, which is often a pretty good indicator of how people are feeling about the economy and their own kind of personal situation. Travel this year is up 6%.

July 4th, gas prices hit their lowest level in three years. They now average nationally around $3.49, give or take. The June jobs numbers, again, exceeded expectations. How many times do we get to report on that every month? 206,000 new jobs, bringing Biden's total new job total to 15.7 million new jobs. Jobs are far above pre-pandemic levels. They're far outpacing even the job growth from before the pandemic. I wanted to highlight this story, which out of their 200 plus stories on Biden, and if you should drop out or not, the New York Times did highlight one story that is worth bringing to your attention here. And it's about America's

left behind counties. And it's of course framed in the most New York Times-y way on the planet, but the information here is important. Here's what they said. A remarkable comeback is what the title was, subheader. This is the kind of thing that we couldn't have even dreamed about five or six years ago, one expert said about the changes. And they said in a post, America's left behind counties have just notched their best three-year stretch of job and business creation so far this century. And nobody saw it coming. Well, once again, going back to what Biden said, I think Biden saw it

coming. I think that's why he implemented the policies, right? I think we saw it coming on the Midas Touch Network. I think these are kind of the things that we've been speaking about. So if so many things keep happening that nobody saw coming, then maybe just maybe like a little bit be like, maybe we're not actually right about everything. That's all I'm saying. I'll read you a little bit of this as well. America's so-called left behind counties, the once great manufacturing centers and other distressed places that struggled mightily at the start of the century have staged a remarkable comeback in the last three years. They've added jobs and new businesses at their fastest pace

since Bill Clinton was president. This turnaround has shocked experts. This is the kind of thing that we couldn't have even dreamed about five or six years ago, said John Lettieri, the president of the Economic Innovation Group, a think tank that studies economic distress in the U.S. His group is releasing a report that details the recovery of left-behind counties. The Times continues these counties span the nation, but are largely concentrated in the Southeast and Midwest. And they say in their newsletter, they'll explain how they defied recent trends, particularly a grim stretch under Donald Trump to rebound so strongly from the pandemic recession. And he'll also show why that this

will probably not help President Biden. That's literally how they finished that wrap up in the beginning. It's just so crazy. But good news for the people, good news for the economy, and that's what we're doing. And we got now, folks, about 120, a little less than 120 days till election day. It's real. It's on, right? And if anything, I hope that the last week or so has woken you up, woken you up to the gravity of the situation, to the stakes of the situation. And I actually continue to feel quite optimistic. I'm optimistic when I look overseas and I see democracy winning. I'm optimistic when I see those grassroots supporters out there in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin rallying and

understanding that this is a bout more than any one person and that they are in it to win it. And I think all of us need to remain optimistic in this fight for our democracy. I think it is absolutely essential, essentially essential. And remember that fascism thrives on demoralizing you, right? I mean, that's one of the big tenets of fascism. They want that 30% to win. They want that Le Pen 30%, right? They want to so demoralize the rest of us and so fracture the pro-democracy coalition so that they could win with a 30% of the vote. It's up to us to make sure that that doesn't happen, right? And so that involves us putting in the work. It involves us staying focused on the issues, not getting caught up in petty battles, and

continuing to fight on and try to hang on to hope and optimism, because I have no doubt about the power of this community. And frankly, the power of this community in light of all this corporate media coverage that we have seen in the past week or so, it shows you why this community is so important, why you all are so important. And we thank you for that. Thank you so much for joining us today on the Midas Touch podcast. Remember to follow us on all of our various social media platforms at Midas Touch podcast. Remember to follow us on all of our various social media platforms at Midas Touch. We're just about basically everywhere you are, Instagram, TikTok,

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