The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump TRANSITION DISASTER Accelerates FASTER

Episode Date: November 26, 2024

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: Trump advisors are at war with each other as some leak to CNN about investigating Boris Epshteyn, who is threatening lawsuits in response. Trump taps Russ V...ought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, while egg prices are expected to skyrocket in 2025 due to the Avian Flu H5N1 outbreak. Meanwhile, the GOP downplays allegations against Pete Hegseth as "flirting," and farmers push for exemptions to protect migrant workers from deportation. In legal news, Jack Smith has dismissed the January 6 federal case against Donald Trump. Ben, Brett and Jordy break it all down! Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Subscribe to Adam Mockler on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler Deals from our sponsors!  Netsuite: Do you know your own numbers for your business? Download NetSuite’s ultimate KPI checklist right now at https://netsuite.com/meidas Fum: Head to https://TryFum.com/meidas and use code MEIDAS to get a FREE GIFT with the Journey Pack today! Qualia: To boost YOUR NAD+ levels up to 74%, Go to https://qualialife.com/JORDY for up to 50% off and use code JORDY at checkout for an additional 15% off. ZBiotics: Head to https://zbiotics.com/MEIDAS to get 15% off your first order when you use MEIDAS at checkout. Miracle Made: Go to https://trymiracle.com/meidas to save 40% off and use code MEIDAS to claim your free 3-piece towel set 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 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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Starting point is 00:01:43 But, you know, that's just me. Donald Trump hit with a cease and desist by Gibson Guitar for using their intellectual property on trumpguitars.com. That's what Donald Trump was doing. It kind of reminds me of when FDR and Trumno, of course, it doesn't. Let's also talk about Donald Trump's advisors going to war with each other. Some of Trump's advisors have leaked to CNN that they've conducted an internal investigation of Trump's other advisor, Boris Epstein, for a pay-for-play scheme. Meanwhile, Boris Epstein threatening that he's going to sue those Trump advisors for leaking that to CNN? That's what's going on in Trump world.
Starting point is 00:02:29 So I guess corporate media, this was the drama that you wanted. Also, corporate media, remember how you parroted what Donald Trump would say? I know nothing about Project 2025. Well, Russell Vogt, the key architect of Project 2025, literally on the manual, his name is like on chapter one, Russell Vogt. Donald Trump named him to the Office of Management and Budget to implement all of the Project 2025 agenda. It should also be noted as well that corporate media seems to be already trying to cover for Donald Trump that egg prices are going to be going up, up, up in 2025. They're saying, look, it's the avian flu and a new strand. And so we should expect prices to go up. Well, that avian flu viral strand has been around for several years
Starting point is 00:03:20 and you let Donald Trump and MAGA's blame President Biden for it. One of the other reasons that was for the prices going up was that you had corporations using that in the pretext of inflation to price gouge the American consumers. But we here at the Midas Touch Network will make sure that everybody knows that if egg prices are going up, that's Donald Trump's fault. Trump promised things would go down. They are going up, that's Donald Trump's fault. Trump promised things would go down. They are going up already based on the threats of his policies. But it's not just about prices of eggs. It's actually about health because President Biden addressed health concerns, even if it was not politically expedient for him. On the other hand, Donald Trump has RFK Jr. now, who he wants to lead
Starting point is 00:04:06 health and human services. And RFK Jr. said that H1N1, now we're at H5N1, but he said H1N1 was a scam made by pharmaceutical companies in order to profit off of it. So look, we've been focusing a lot on the sexual assault and harassment allegations against Donald Trump's cabinet. I think about 38% of his core cabinet have sexual assault allegations against him. And also Trump's been found liable for sexual assault. But I think we also have to reflect on how unqualified these people are as well. And they should not be holding positions of power near positions that are close to positions of power. And finally, we're hearing now from a bunch of farmers, probably many who actually
Starting point is 00:04:51 voted for Donald Trump, saying that they want exemptions to the bloody mass deportations. This as the Texas land commissioner has picked out a plot of land where they want the concentration camps to go already. This and more on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm joined by Brett and Jordy. Not the timeline I wanted, but the timeline I'm ready to confront. Yeah, I think that's one way to put it for sure, Ben. But here we are, and we got to do what we do, right? It's interesting that we're seeing that lawsuit against Donald Trump from the company selling those guitars by Gibson.
Starting point is 00:05:30 Because the second I saw Trump once again doing his same old grift, this time with guitars, as a guitarist myself, when I saw Donald Trump holding up that guitar, I said that looks exactly like a Gibson Les Paul. My mind immediately was, did he do some sort of deal with Gibson? Like no fricking way. Did he do a deal with Gibson? Absolutely not. Because the Gibson Les Paul has always been like my aspirational guitar to buy. Growing up, I was always like, I always want to get a Les Paul. I've never gotten one, but I've always wanted a Gibson Les Paul. So when I saw it, it was like that. So I am personally very unsurprised by the lawsuit from Gibson there. Certainly a lot to cover. And you see what Trump does here. There's always so much chaos.
Starting point is 00:06:12 It's the same kind of thing he's worked throughout his legal strategies and everything he's kind of ever done. He throws so much at you that you hope that even if some things get caught, that some things slip through the cracks. And so in this case, we have just so many supremely unqualified nominees, people who Donald Trump wants to surround himself with, some of them with very serious sexual assault allegations against them, and then some of them who are just plain unqualified. And at a time when tensions are high across the world, at a time when we are going to be confronted as we always are with various diseases, infectious diseases, pandemics and the like, it's very important that the people filling these roles, the people who are going to dictate how we live our lives and how we confront these crises, It's crucial that these are competent people. Unfortunately, on the whole, we are not seeing that. There are some picks by Donald Trump that
Starting point is 00:07:11 I think are okay and fine and whatever, but there are certainly a lot of very dangerous picks that I worry about if there was another pandemic or things like that. We'll get into all of that and more. Jordy, what's new on your end? Excited to get into the show tonight, brothers. But I'm going to say it, the corporate media coverage is absolutely insane of Trump, that they continue to literally cover for him every step of the way. The egg prices is a perfect example of that. What did we see too when he was running for president? Was he such a bad president? If you just include the first three years and not the way he handled the pandemic, he wasn't so bad, was he? I mean, that was a talking point that I saw over and over and over again with corporate media. And I don't want to
Starting point is 00:07:55 make light of these situations, but it's just becoming just stranger and stranger by the day. We almost need a March Madness grift bracket. So someone bookmark this and we'll revisit this. Just all the greatest slash worst grifts that Trump has done over these past couple of years or months. We got the sneakers, you got the watches, now you got the guitars, you got the Bibles. You could go on and on. It is just an endless list of grift after grift. And now he's going to be the frigging president and corporate media is going to cover for him. But we're not going to do that here at the Midas Touch Network. We will not let you all down. I promise we're calling it out every step of the
Starting point is 00:08:34 way, Benji. Even if you gave Donald Trump a mulligan for an entire year of his presidency, like who gets, just ignore that whole year. There was a manufacturing recession in 2019, whereas there's a manufacturing boom under President Biden. Just go back and Google it. Was there a manufacturing recession in 2019? Yeah, because what did Donald Trump do? He'd go to Ohio, by the way, a state that votes for him. He'd go to Michigan, by the way, a state that apparently voted for him. He'd go to Wisconsin with golden shovels and he said, I'm building the factory. I'm going to build it. And then guess what? He didn't build it. He lied over. He goes, my infrastructure package is coming week after week. Now, the reason why I think it's important though, that we cover the guitar story is not just that, oh, Trump's a grifter and it's very scammy. If you can't
Starting point is 00:09:26 properly sell a guitar when you are a president-elect, which nobody would ever even conceive of doing before, and you have to steal intellectual property from another guitar company, you want the nuclear codes? Look, we take for granted that things sometimes work. You don't necessarily think when you're eating grapes or you're drinking milk or you're making hard-boiled eggs or whatever it is, the process of how it got there and the generations of safety protocols that were put in place to make sure you don't die along the way. And so while it may seem trendy, not to me, but to some, who the Doge Committee, and they're going to fire quite literally millions of people who work at the federal government. What in the world is food processing administrator, senior protocol level three engineer from, well, yeah, maybe that's the
Starting point is 00:10:33 person who was looking into that thing that is ensuring compliance so that you can go about going to the grocery store, picking food out, and you're not worried about dying or- Yeah, Ben, here's the thing, Ben. When you remove somebody from Twitter at random, right? An employee at Twitter, the website may stop working. It might start glitching. You might have some issues accessing the search function. Notifications may start being glitchy. Stuff like that is going to happen. When you pull people out of these government positions who are in charge of regulating food safety, who are in charge of pandemic preparedness, people die. Like that's what happens if you do this in the wrong way. And if you do it with a sledgehammer
Starting point is 00:11:17 and not a scalpel as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are promising to do. Sorry, I just wanted to point out because he views this the same way that he viewed his job going in there at Twitter. Let's just get rid of full departments. Let's just get rid of all these people. Oh, this position has a funny sounding name. It says diversity in the name. So I assume that's bad because when I think of diversity, I don't think of the diversity of biological organisms. I'm thinking of the diversity that I'm racist about. So here's what I got to do. Just wipe away that position. Next thing you know, you have foodborne diseases and you have all these things spreading. And that's like what Elon wants. That's what they want to do with this fake organization that they put together. You know, I think one of the things that Donald Trump and MAGA did during COVID also was kind of make
Starting point is 00:12:08 the American population numb to the very concept of death. Like the very reality of like family members dying or people going out and like losing their lives, it just became kind of like numerical, like rounding up versus like, this is people's life. What are we talking about? We want to save people's lives. We don't want people to die here. So you just take a look though. We're talking about these Trump guitars right here. Brett, to your point, when you looked at them, they were like sold out right away. And the kind of why I call it scammy, there's a lot of reasons, but he basically uses on all of these products like AI generated imagery or kind of Photoshop
Starting point is 00:12:57 imagery and then sells them in advance. They don't manufacture the products for five or six months until after a sale is done. So they collect all this money upfront, then they figure out how they're going to manufacture it. All sales are final, whether you actually get the thing or not. And then it always says this in the fine print. I always go to the frequently asked question section, whether it's the sneakers or the coins or whatever it is that he's selling. And it always says this, the images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product. And so even when he was selling the $100,000 watches, it said the same thing.
Starting point is 00:13:43 So you're going to be buying a watch for $100,000 and then they make them, what, in China and then send you a different watch and go, here you go. This is what you put $100,000 towards. It obviously raises major red flags in terms of money laundering because what human being other than maybe just someone who loves being taken advantage of over and I'm sure there's a large group of people like that and wants to feel like they're a part of this but who else would buy something that's not the real thing for hundreds of thousands of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars you know and here now we're seeing Gibson saying look that's an image of our guitar and here's the thing too Gibbs is a lawyer Gibson has an obligation to sue Donald Trump for it to preserve its intellectual property and trademarks over and patents over the device. then steal Gibson. And then when Gibson sues them, they now use as a defense. Well, Gibson
Starting point is 00:14:47 allowed Trump to go and use it. So they're not defending their marks. So you actually have, if you own trademarks, an affirmative obligation to defend it and sue. So now you also have Donald Trump throwing this company, Gibson, under the bus because Gibson has no, they have to sue Trump, just so you know. And I'm sure they want to, but they are legally obligated to, or else in their various other lawsuits, they will automatically lose them. Now, talking about lawsuits, let's pivot for a second and talk about the Trump world all threatening to sue each other. We knew this would happen. It's happening early. And you have on the one hand, Boris Epstein, who's been very loyal to Donald Trump since 2016. Just so you remember,
Starting point is 00:15:32 Epstein is that guy, the body cam videos of him surfaced in 2023 of an incident from 2021, where various women at this Arizona bar accused him of just being overall creepy and groping them at the bar. It was a very embarrassing body cam footage and yet another example of Trump picking people who have certain types of issues and accusations being made against them. But you have a group of Trump lawyers and advisors who are saying Epstein was involved in a pay for play scheme, basically selling off access for $100,000 a month to Donald Trump. Epstein saying, that's BS. I'm going to sue you for saying that. That never happened. And then the other advisors saying it did happen. And what you have here are these typical kind of power struggles that go on that we've always seen historically with Donald Trump's picks.
Starting point is 00:16:33 And we're seeing it here now again, Brett and Jory. So that's basically the Epstein situation. By the way, Epstein went to Georgetown University Law School right around the same time that I went there. We took different paths. Yeah, there are different paths to say – Didn't Eric also go to – Eric went to GW? Why are you overlapping with so many of them? Tiffany went to Georgetown Law School.
Starting point is 00:16:58 There you go. One of the things that Trump said about Tiffany is that she finished first in her class at Georgetown Law, and they don't do rankings like that at Georgetown Law. So you would not be first in class. And I don't even think she was on the high honor roll, not that it matters one way or another, but he lied. He had to lie and say she was first in her class. Wow. Trump lied. Breaking news. Trump lied, everybody. Breaking news. And the interesting kind of wrench that's been thrown into this mix, of course, has been Elon Musk. And we've had heard numerous reports now of Trump and Elon
Starting point is 00:17:32 sort of getting on each other's nerves throughout this whole process. I mean, heck, it seems like Elon Musk has become the new Carrie Lake of Mar-a-Lago. He just doesn't leave the place anymore. It's hilarious. I mean, the guy's been there for weeks. He's been there since the election. He hasn't left, apparently, which is just utterly bizarre. I'm sure he leaves for his events and whatnot, but his home base right now, Elon, is Mar-a-Lago. And so there are times where Trump gets super irritated at him, but now Elon Musk is also trying to flex his influence in this new White House incoming administration. And so Elon has had a very rocky relationship with Boris
Starting point is 00:18:12 Epstein to say the least. And so I think he is likely behind a lot of kind of the push as well to get Epstein kind of out of the kind of inner circle. And Epstein's been there with Trump now for a while. He was even in the courtroom with him. He was on some of these indictments. And so it just has been a very central player in this Trump world. But you see how Elon Musk is coming in and he's trying to bully his way around and is trying to purge Trump's own inner circle of those people who have been around him for a really long time. Listen, as you see all this, the one thing that becomes increasingly clear to me is that this sort of tension that we're already seeing bubble up in the inner workings of the Trump camp is not something that is going to be sustainable. I mean, we're already seeing like the cracks forming and even beyond cracks in many respects, but these people are going to eat each other alive. And some of it is just going to have to be us watching and saying,
Starting point is 00:19:16 let them destroy themselves. Let them, you know, they'll take care of this on their own. But we are going to continue to see these stories because it's impossible not to when you put so many people devoid of moral character, all with their own kind of personal ambitions and their own kind of personal end goals. You throw them all in the room and you try to have them play nice. It's not going to work. They're all going to be at each other's throats nonstop. They're all going to try to be tearing's throats nonstop. They're all going to try to be tearing each other down, leaking stories to the press, getting each other fired. It's going to be pure chaos within this administration. And the only thing that I
Starting point is 00:19:55 hope is that in the midst of that chaos, that that allows us basically to prevent a lot of the chaos inflicted upon our country while they are kind of too caught up in their own kind of inner battles. It's why this MAGA ilk goes after experts, right? They go after experts in fields. It's because they are so incompetent. They're born on home plate and they need somebody to blame because they don't know how to run anything. So what do they do? They need to find it's somebody's fault. Oh, this guy's an expert in that field. It's his fault. Let's get him out the door. And sooner or later, there's not going to be those competent people around because Trump
Starting point is 00:20:34 continues to surround himself with yes men and yes women. And it's just going to be a circular firing squad of who's the most incompetent. And they're just going to not only get nothing accomplished during this administration, but they're going to attack each other every single day. If I were to create a word tree of Donald Trump, one of the key words after some of the obvious ones, perhaps criminal being one of the main ones that might pop up on a word tree though, is blame, right? Jordy, I don't even think it's about experts. The whole thing is actually a lack of leadership. The whole thing is how do we blame this group, blame that one? And Trump's entire campaign was based on blame.
Starting point is 00:21:19 Vice President Kamala Harris's was based on competent leadership. Let's move forward and let's get beyond blaming each other. And Americans seem to be like, no, no, no, no. Not all Americans, but a lot of Americans. I need to blame somebody for this. The reality was who they should blame are the billionaires that Donald Trump represents. The Mar-a-Lago crowd are the real people, but they've weaponized blame as a way to keep this kind of force field around themselves and say, it's this fault. It's that fault. It's the Haitian migrants.
Starting point is 00:21:53 They're eating your cats and dogs. It's this group of migrants. They're the ones who are coming for you. It's this group. They're the ones that come. It's the trans, the trans men, trans woman. They're the ones, trans people are coming for you. And by the way, just think about it. You have transgender people who are fighting for our country right now. And one of the first executive actions that Donald Trump plans to put in place while you have America not meeting its military recruiting requirements is to kick out transgender troops out of the military, which would force about 15,000 people out of their post, existing people on medical deferments,
Starting point is 00:22:33 basically saying that you are medically not qualified to fight for this country if you are transgender. And so that's the type of stuff that's going to be part of Donald Trump's focus. Who can we blame? And when you blame and you shame, and you're not actually trying to better your game, what ends up happening is it backfires all of the time. And that's just not the way to have sustainable leadership. And that's exactly what we're seeing right now. Now, we are going to have another Patreon Zoom meeting this Wednesday morning, upcoming. So for those who can't attend the night sessions, it's going to be Wednesday morning. I want you to check in at patreon.com slash Midas Touch. So you can see when on Wednesday morning it's going to be. There'll be a secret link right there. It'll be another one of the meetings. As I said, we want to do more meetings with you during these times. I love seeing your face. The last one was
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Starting point is 00:27:17 I'm shocked. We went through all the grifts, guys. The Bibles and the suit. Sorry, the Bibles, the watches, the guitars. I'm just surprised there hasn't been a suitcase, a suitcase grift yet. Aren't you guys surprised that there's been no Trump suitcase? Yeah, I don't want to go there, Jordan. I don't want to go back and retake, but yes, Jerry. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:27:47 Let's move on. I understand that, and they appreciate that joke. I want to talk about the... For another show. Did you lose me there for a second? Lost you there for a quick second, but you're back. I know. Jordy, did we lose Ben? We might have lost Ben.
Starting point is 00:28:03 I think it's more suitcase conversations, but that's okay. We'll save it for a different show because I know Ben did not want to dive in deep into that topic. Am I back? He's back in the flesh. Back in the flesh. All right. Speaking of back in the flesh, one of the things that we don't want in the flesh is the H5N1. What'd you say? I said, what a transition.
Starting point is 00:28:29 No one wants H5N1 in the flesh, but it's a serious matter because look, you know, H1N1, we forget, or we hope we don't forget. I mean, it killed, you know, almost half, maybe more than half a million people worldwide. I mean, that was a very serious thing. It was taken seriously at the highest levels of the medical community. President Obama, former President Obama, messaged it. We took the threat seriously and it was dealt with, right? And the question was always, what if you had someone who's incredibly unprepared? And I can't rewrite the history and say what would have happened if Hillary Clinton was the president in 2019. That's why it's COVID-19. And I'm sure, though, she wouldn't have pretended through March of 2020 that this was a hoax, as Donald Trump said, and like a miracle, it was all just going to magically disappear and then start blaming people. That's why, you know, when I get asked questions by Trump supporters or when I, to the extent the Trump supporter approaches me at the holidays or whatever, or just in general, because from
Starting point is 00:29:39 time to time, Trump supporter will see me. I know I'm not going to change their mind in a single interaction. So often what I just say is I go, look, here's someone, he's bankrupted everything he's touched before. So I hope you're right about him, but he's someone who's screwed up always. And so I'll check back in with you in about six months in a year, okay? Because he's someone who's failed before, but maybe go back and just do your okay? Because he's someone who's failed before. But maybe go back and just do your research on why he's failed. Then they'll go, well, that's being a good businessman.
Starting point is 00:30:10 That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to bankrupt your companies. Okay. I'll check back with you in about six to nine months. Because look, this is how he runs things. There's a pathology and an MO here in how he does things. And it's deny and blame and pretend things aren't going to happen. But now we're confronted with another viral strand, H5N1. And we've been seeing outbreaks of avian flu strands now for many years when President Biden's been in charge. And
Starting point is 00:30:41 sometimes what you have to do with the purpose of regulations, like when Biden would be in office, and I know businesses don't like this, and they're going to tell Trump, hey, we need to be exempted from this. But sometimes where there is a positive result for avian flu, you have to then unfortunately kind of kill off the livestock or you have to take action. Even if none of the other livestock have it, you have to sometimes take preemptive action. And of course, businesses are going to say, look, that's millions of dollars right there. That's millions of dollars. We can't do that. But okay, you then have to say millions of dollars. We can't do that. But okay, you then have to save millions of dollars. But what if? What if that's what's actually going to stop a massive pandemic from really hurting people and
Starting point is 00:31:33 from killing people? And so these are the decisions that leaders have to make. And how do you think Trump's going to be making that decision? Well, so much attention has been focused on sex assault and child sex trafficking of Trump's cabinet. And think about that. That should be a disqualifier. I'll show you in a little bit all of the Republicans who have spent the weekend justifying it. I mean, like literally going on TV and saying it's flirting. It was flirting. Or look, Donald Trump is just picking disruptors. That's what they go. That was one of their lines this weekend. He's picking disruptors. Who are we to challenge his pick of disruptors? I don't know. You're a United States Senator? Seems like a pretty significant thing. Maybe you say if you're a disruptor because you have allegations for child sex trafficking or sex assault,
Starting point is 00:32:27 that just maybe you're not the right person for the, I don't know, maybe that's what you should be doing. But in addition to these allegations, these people are woefully unqualified. Like when child sex trafficking is the tip of the iceberg for these picks by Donald Trump to be the cabinet. That's saying something. And already you've got Trump having all these Republicans in the Senate lined up without even the hearings taking place saying, yeah, we're going to support people. We're going to support people. We're going to support people. So yes, for example, RFK Jr. is credibly accused of sexually assaulting his 23-year-old nanny. Yes, RFK Jr. kept a diary of all of the women who he cheated on his wife with and in very specific detail, sketched out the sexual positions. And later after his wife
Starting point is 00:33:21 discovered that, she unalived herself. Yes, all of that happened. But he's also someone who's gone on Russian television, RT, and he said that H1N1 was fabricated by the government and pharmaceutical companies so that big pharma would get rich. This is what he said on Russian TV. Here, play this clip. The World Health Organization, that's really a misnomer. The World Health Organization is even more captured than CDC is. The World Health Organization gets half of its budget from the industry. It is absolutely controlled from top to bottom by
Starting point is 00:34:00 the pharmaceutical companies and particularly the vaccine makers who use WHO to, you know, fabricate pandemics like the swine flu, like the H1N1 and make billions of dollars on pandemics that never happen. Now, here's the thing. There are legitimate complaints about, there are legitimate complaints about big pharma. Okay. And the same way when we're talking about like the FBI or the CIA, there are very credible, legitimate complaints about them that we shouldn't shy away from when big pharma engages in really concerning behavior. But to say, to take advantage and to be predatory on Americans or people of the world and take advantage of the skepticism that's rightfully there about big pharma, but to then say that H1N1, swine flu, was just something that was just totally
Starting point is 00:35:06 made up, that it was one that is a big lie for pharmaceutical companies to make money, that's not just a conspiracy theory. That's a lie. There's been literally hundreds of thousands of people who have died from that, and that's irresponsible and should be disqualified. That's the guy who you go, let's let him run health. He's the guy who should run health. This is a guy who said that the purpose of the quarantine, by the way, these are Trump lockdowns. I love how MAGA tries to recast this as though this was the democratic lockdown. Biden didn't have lockdowns. And again, this is the collective amnesia of COVID. They were responsibly looked into these things in 19, in 18, had he not tore apart former President Obama's pandemic playbook,
Starting point is 00:36:13 there may not have been a need for any of those things if it was handled responsibly and done the way leaders should. But here you have RFK Jr. in another clip, which should come up in a confirmation hearing. And again, our research team were the ones who uncovered all of these clips. Here he says that the purpose of the quarantine was to cover up installing 5G cell phone networks in order to create a sense of slavery vis-a-vis digital currency. Play the clip.
Starting point is 00:36:45 I'm going to say one more thing. They haven't done a very good job about protecting public health, but they've done a very good job at using the quarantine to bring 5G into all of our communities and to shift us all, to begin the process of shifting us all to a digital currency which is the beginning of slavery because if they control your bank account they control your behavior and we all see these advertisements okay i'm his voice is really hard to listen to also like so i the whole the whole shtick. And I know I understand that there's a health thing there too, but he's lying right there over and over and over again.
Starting point is 00:37:33 Now, here he is. I got one more I want to play. One of his things that he wants to do, leading HHS, is to stop research on infectious diseases for eight years. Here, play the clip. I'm going to go to NIH my first week, and I'm going to call all the division heads, and I'm going to call all the bureau chiefs, and I'm going to say, we're going to give drug development and infectious disease a break, a little break, a little bit of a break for about eight years. And we're going to study chronic disease. Can I just say this? Can I just say
Starting point is 00:38:14 this real quick? It's just so predatory. And what I mean by this is there are Midas Touch podcast listeners that aren't necessarily super anti-RFK because of Ben, some of the things that you sort of alluded to, like, hey, are there questionable things out there that we as a society should perhaps look into? Yeah. I could understand why people would be okay with that sort of thought process, but it's then when he takes it a step further and he starts to go down this deeply conspiratorial lane that becomes at the risk of killing people ultimately. He brings people in and this is what so many of these magas really do. They bring people in with perhaps an inkling of truth, with something like,
Starting point is 00:39:06 hey, maybe we should look into this, right? And then all of a sudden they go, boom, and they hit you with the deep, crazy conspiratorial stuff that's not only dangerous, but it's deadly as well. Yeah. I mean, hey, you don't want... I think most people would agree with, hey, do we want, should we look into these certain additives in food? Are these dyes healthy? Why is this chemical allowed in the United States, but not allowed in the United Kingdom? I think those are all incredibly fair points. And I think those are all things that we should be raising. But having good ideas in those regards does not negate the things that we just heard in those statements, which to Jordi's point are incredibly, uh, dangerous statements. And like we, uh, we, our researchers put together a list of, because, you know, RFK is often branded an anti-vaxxer and that's sort of his, the labeling that folks give to him. And while that is accurate, it's so much more than that. Like there's so much more, there's so much more crazy stuff that he has said that is like maybe even more dangerous.
Starting point is 00:40:09 And so there's an article right now, if you go to Midas plus.com, it's called viruses are our friend. It's a, that's a quote from RFK 10 off the wall clips from RFK jr. Resurface on blue sky. Um, and we have 10 clips, which are just one crazier than the next. Like in one of these clips, RFK Jr. says that the chemicals in water are making kids trans and gay. That's something that RFK Jr. is saying. And so when you hear stuff like these 5G conspiracies and the anti-vax and all the rest, to me, even though he may have, you know, have some good ideas in terms of,
Starting point is 00:40:47 hey, should we be looking at this food additive or why does this country do it this way and not allow this sort of thing? And we do. Those are all questions that I think the American people deserve to have answers to. And I think he actually has kind of some good insight into some of those areas. That doesn't mean that you can negate all of this other stuff that could be incredibly dangerous at a time when you need to have your guard up and be fully prepared, as we've seen what happens when an administration is not prepared and a pandemic hits. You see the devastation of that, despite the fact that a lot of these Trump voters want to just block out, black out completely all of 2020 and the ramifications from that,
Starting point is 00:41:26 which were a direct result of Donald Trump's mishandling of the situation, the ignoring of the pandemic and denials that are not too dissimilar than what we hear from RFK himself. And we see that that leads to absolutely deadly consequences. Look, they don't just want to block out 2020, though. They also want to block out 2019 and, frankly, 2018 as well. Because remember, 2019, manufacturing recession, 2018, 2019, around that period, Donald Trump continuously trying to repeal Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, which he's going to want to try to do again. Also during that same time period, Donald Trump tried to pass a rule that would say your tips belong to your boss. Your boss owns the tips of workers. So the whole concept of no tax on tips is actually if your boss owns your tips, it's a tax avoidance scheme for your boss because you're not going to get tips at all.
Starting point is 00:42:29 And so they want to ignore all of that. And really, the only thing they want you to focus on was really right up until they pass the tax cuts for the deca billionaires and deca-billionaires and deca-millionaires, because that's when the Trump cycle really took over. And that cycle dipped into about the first year and a half of the Biden cycle, who then had to fix that. The part they want you to remember about Trump won was the Obama part, the part where the Obama policies had things working well because Obama implemented policies that were actually sustainable and responsible. That's why former president Bill Clinton was able to balance the budget. Whereas MAGA Republicans and Republicans and Tea Party Republicans, they've brought us
Starting point is 00:43:19 record deficits. Donald Trump added $8 trillion in debt. I think we'll be lucky in the next four years if that number's not three times. I think the best case scenario was $12 trillion in debt that was going to be added. I think it'll be more like $30 trillion in debt. And what are they going to try to do? They're going to try to blame the Democrat who then takes over because of the mess that they created. But I guess if there's a glass half full portion of this, which I think there is, I think we can get out of this loop. I call it the authoritarian loop on MidasPlus.com. I did
Starting point is 00:43:59 a whole article on the authoritarian kind of feedback loop that I'm describing that took place. Because at some point, I don't like F around and find out because that means people are going to be hurt by F arounding and finding out. Even people who voted for the guy, I'm sorry. If you want me to wish pain upon my fellow American, it's just hard for me to want people to feel paid. Okay. That that's just me. But to some extent, it's like, this is what you wanted. Russell vote. The guy who literally is the architect of project 2025. Now he's the head of the office of budget and management. He's the office of management and budget OMB, literally the guy, his name is written. Chapter one, Russell Vogt, what we do to basically get rid of the government and give it to Donald Trump. So for all of that, oh, I don't know anything about Project 2025. Well, Russell Vogt is in charge. Tom Homan is running immigration.
Starting point is 00:44:58 And with Tom Homan running immigration, we now have the land commissioner from Texas who somehow extracted land from somebody, bragging, we took the land from this rich lady who didn't want to give it to us. So now we own the land in this letter. A small government, huh? And we took this land, we seized land for a private citizen. And now we want to give this 1,402 plot acres to build deportation camps. Let's get them. And now the farmers are out there saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, but we have migrants. We need an exemption. So go for the migrants that you don't like, maybe in the blue states, but don't come, but there are farmers in the blue states. So can we do a carve out over here? Don't take our migrants away. And you have to think about it. I mean, there are migrants who are keeping the
Starting point is 00:45:51 economy afloat. And Trump's telling the American people to literally deport people who are hard working at their work sites, who are helping the American economy. That's what they're asking for. Anyway, there's a lot more to talk about. I want to take our last quick break of the show, but I want to remind everybody, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Wednesday morning, the time, the link, it's all on patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Last time, hundreds of people joined to meet my brothers and myself. We had a great time meeting you. We're doing it Wednesday morning now for those who can't attend at at night so you can attend a morning session. We're going to be doing a lot more of those as well. Patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Let's take our last quick break of the show.
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Starting point is 00:49:58 where to next? Let's talk briefly. Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion to dismiss the Washington, D.C. federal criminal case against Donald Trump. This was not unexpected. I mean, unfortunately, that's the consequence of the election. There's really nothing Jack Smith could do in that situation. For those blaming Jack Smith for this, Jack Smith did everything he was asked to do, right? He was called when he was called by Merrick Garland. Jack Smith wasn't involved in the timing at all. So Jack Smith came from The Hague, where he was living his life, prosecuting war criminals, riding bikes, came here, pretty much won everything that he had to win legally.
Starting point is 00:50:42 He won the big motion against Donald Trump in the federal court itself, where Trump argued absolute immunity. Jack Smith then won it again in a court of appeals before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in front of both Republican and Democrat judges. The panel was a bipartisan panel. And then one of the things Jack Smith then asked was for the Supreme Court to expedite review so that it could go to trial on time. The Supreme Court rejected that, waited many, many, many more months. Then when they delayed, accepted oral argument for Donald Trump, then set it at the latest possible timeframe. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court said that the 14th Amendment Section 3 disqualification clause for leading an insurrection
Starting point is 00:51:33 does not apply to Donald Trump, even though it very clearly would apply if you were a strict textualist. That's what literally the text says. You're involved in insurrection, you're disqualified. But the Supreme Court says, nope, that doesn't apply. They delay the hearing on Trump's absolute immunity, then delay issuing the order, give Donald Trump absolute immunity. And ultimately, Donald Trump was able to then delay, delay, delay. I don't think Jack Smith ever envisioned, I mean, this is a serious lawyer, that the Supreme Court would actually create a
Starting point is 00:52:06 whole new legal doctrine and then basically admit that when they said they're conservative, they weren't conserving our democracy. They were conserving a monarchy where someone is above the law. And while I know that's disappointing that he filed a motion to dismiss, it's not on Jack. There's a lot of other people that can be blamed here. We're doing the blame thing, not Jack Smith. He did everything that he had to do. And now he's just literally following what the literal requirement is when you're, and when you read what he wrote, he is absolutely like livid that he has to write. Like it's clear that his hand is literally being like forced upon, not literally,
Starting point is 00:52:46 and he's got to write this thing. I do want to show this because when Rand Paul says something that somewhat makes sense, you know that there's a big issue. And Magarapa, I'm not saying I agree with a lot of what Rand Paul's even saying here, but when Rand Paul's like, look, I don't think we should turn the military against American citizens. Like we can't have like military in the streets or national guard, like rounding people up. He's like, I think there should be deportations, but I just don't think we can have our United States military. And I would oppose what Trump's plan is.
Starting point is 00:53:21 When you have Rand Paul saying that, that is a good indication of what this Trump plan is, is as dangerous as you can be. So let me just show you a brief portion of what Rand Paul is saying here. Let's play it. If they send the army into New York and you have 10,000 troops marching, carrying semi-automatic weapons, I think it's a terrible image and I will oppose that. But it's not that I oppose removing people. I just object to what has been against the law for over a hundred years and that's using the army. But deputizing the National Guard, that specifically is the proposal. You also oppose that. I don't think it's the best way to do it. It's less clear whether that's legal or illegal.
Starting point is 00:54:05 Typically, it has to be done at the behest of the governors. I still don't like a militarization of police, whether it's now. Okay, now let me show you Senator Eric Schmidt, MAGA Republican Senator. Here he is saying that, look, Pete Hegseth, he hasn't been charged yet with sexual assault. It may have been a hush money payment to pay off the victim and have the victim sign an NDA. But there are no charges here. Trump said, this is disruptive. This is what disruptors do. I could show you a dozen other magas saying this this weekend. This was their line, disrupting. Here, play the clip. This is a decision that President Trump made to bring in another disruptor. And I think if you look at this election, it was disruptor versus establishment. He ran on this. And there needs to be reform in the Pentagon, whether it's procurement,
Starting point is 00:55:00 whether it's getting rid of divisive DEI that's dividing our military by race. There's no place in our military. I think he's talked about eliminating that. And then also making sure our focus is on our chief adversary, China. Let me ask you, I guess, big picture, Senator. You're on the Armed Services Committee, and there's a known sexual assault problem in the military. Do you believe that Pete Hegseth is the right person to lead the military given all of that at this very moment? Well, he's not been charged with anything. Of course, I think that's important. And so you read from a police report. I've not seen the police report. But again, I'd like to,
Starting point is 00:55:35 there's probably more documentation around this that would be interesting to see. So I hear you saying you have questions. Well, of course, I'm going to have questions, but. Of course, but and this goes back to what we said before. Look, there are legitimate issues with the Department of Defense needing some reform. There's a lot of wasteful spending and there are issues with it. They then make it about DEI. DEI? You just named a Fox News weekend host who's never commanded a company in the military to be the Secretary of Defense, and you're saying the issue is DEI, which is code for the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is a black man, a retired four-star general, someone who is qualified. So in MAGA's DEI world, Pete Hegseth is qualified. Lloyd Austin is not qualified.
Starting point is 00:56:44 And that's what's going on there. And then we need a disruptor. I'm a conservative. And as a conservative, the most way I could be a conservative is let's bring in a Fox News host to just completely crap on the Department of Defense. I'm a conservative. Nothing that they say has a shred of credibility anymore or even before, but it's out there. It's out there. Now, you as Americans can be, Schmitty, I like that. I like that. That makes sense to me. Or you can actually do your own freaking research, wake up and say, that's freaking crazy. That is insane. What? What? To get the nuclear codes? What are you talking about? The guy who says water makes you gay
Starting point is 00:57:34 to be the HHS? What are we talking about? Someone who may be compromised by Russia, who praises Putin and praises dictators across the country to be the head of the DNI, to be ahead of our national security? What? I can go on and on. Brett, take the next segment, which is my favorite segment. Well, as I've said about Trump's cabinet, he has the ultimate DEI cabinet. It just stands for didn't earn it. And I think as you see, all of Trump's picks, most of Trump's picks, at least, most of them certainly have not earned their position. The only way that Donald Trump seems to be selecting many of these people, not all, but many of these people is from a Fox News lineup, apparently, is what's going on there. And just side note, have you noticed that like 98% of the time when even the media or when people use the term disruptor to describe somebody, usually it's because that person is just like a complete and total a-hole. Like 98% of the time,
Starting point is 00:58:37 but oh, they're just a disruptor. They disrupted this, disrupted that. They're just like the world's worst person. Anyway, I want to give you some economic update. Real quick. Sorry. Can I just dive in super quick before we dive into the favorite segment? Can corporate media just in general, can we just stop letting this go? When you have the person who was just on being asked about Hexcess and the police report, say, I haven't read it. What do you mean you haven't read it? You're on there because you know that they're going to ask about them. The same way when Tony Hinchcliffe did the joke at MSG and they had all the Republicans go on their corporate stations and they're like, so what'd you think of the joke? Oh, I actually
Starting point is 00:59:13 haven't heard it yet, but he's a comedian. So it's like, why is there zero pushback when that is the ultimate answer? Part of it is even structural, right? Part of it is structural. These shows have commercial breaks. They have small, short timeframes. They just want to get the question out, get their clip and move on. Because that's like, that's their whole thing. You know, I mean, the format is flawed. And so unless you are at a high level, actively working against it,
Starting point is 00:59:41 then you're going to fall into these traps because you know damn well that those guests coming on your channel are aware of your restraints, are aware of the timing, and know how to bully their way through an interview. And that's one of the reasons why these Republicans love appearing on all these shows. Okay, let's get into some economic updates. It's everybody's favorite segment here at the Midas Touch podcast. This is the NetSuite by Oracle Know Your Numbers Minute. So we had some good news, folks, with Federal Reserve rates a few weeks ago. We saw the Fed last cut interest rates by a quarter point earlier this month. Unfortunately, right now,
Starting point is 01:00:17 it looks like the Federal Reserve may be slowing down on their plans to cut rates. In September, they were originally predicting that there was going to be multiple rates by the end of this year. They were predicting three rate cuts this year, and then another four rate cuts next year. But Trump has sort of shaken up that entire plan. You have a lot of economists very worried now about the impact of Trump's tariffs, about the impact of Trump's tax cuts for the super wealthy on this economy, which has become the number one economy in the world. I just want to remind everybody in the post COVID landscape, now economists are just like a little wary about doing this and about continuing to bring down rates. And so what we're
Starting point is 01:00:58 seeing is already as of the moment, as we are live right now, mortgage rates have already begun to creep up. And if this remains the case that the Fed is going to kind of slow their role a little bit on the rest of the rate cuts that they were originally expecting, we could see continued high mortgage rates. And this will also result in other borrowing costs for consumers and businesses to rise. We'll see auto loans to remain expensive, small business loans to face high rates. And those are just some of the issues right now with the uncertainty that Donald Trump is bringing to the economy. And that's also one of the reasons why you always want to be on top of the latest government economic policies. And NetSuite does provide that
Starting point is 01:01:41 convenience by allowing for adaptation to new policies through agile system updates. I found this very interesting today, and I think this should be screamed from the rooftops because guess what? The truth still matters, folks. According to a nationwide survey of grocery prices prepared by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of this year's Thanksgiving meal is now at its lowest level since 2021. But that's not all. When you adjust that for inflation, 2024 is now going to be the cheapest Thanksgiving meal in terms of purchasing power in nearly 40 years. This is the kind of stuff that we have seen all the trends heading to, and yet everybody has been focused on high egg prices,
Starting point is 01:02:25 which those prices had, by the way, come down before this fear of the flu outbreak. Meanwhile, so far, the markets are liking Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary. This guy, Scott Besant, the stock market futures rose after he was selected. I think people were first concerned that he was going to go in a different direction. Elon Musk was actively lobbying against Trump's pick here for Treasury Secretary. Besant is a hedge fund magnate. He's a known quantity on Wall Street. So like I said before, Wall Street doesn't like uncertainty. The economists don't like uncertainty, but Wall Street does like kind of thinking that
Starting point is 01:03:05 they have control over somebody or knowing that somebody is in their camp. One of the interesting things about Besant, he supported a lot of democratic kind of politicians and causes in the past. But ironically, the people who are most angry about Besant as the pick for treasury secretary are the MAGA followers themselves, because he has a long history as being a George Soros guy. You really can't make this up, but he was one of Soros' biggest protégés. And then when he started a fund, Soros helped him start that fund. So you're seeing a lot of backlash on this one, kind of specifically from Trump voters. I just think it's an interesting dynamic that we see forming here. And NetSuite provides the customization to use tailored reporting
Starting point is 01:03:51 features that allow businesses to focus on a variety of specific stock market indicators relevant to your sector as a business. And with all the uncertainty that lays ahead, and there are certainly a whole lot of it, You definitely want to make sure that you are always one step ahead of your competition. That was the NetSuite Bioracle Know Your Numbers Minute. Do you know your own numbers for your business? Download NetSuite's ultimate KPI checklist right now at netsuite.com slash Midas. I want to remind everyone. Quick programming note for folks asking in the chat. Network goes on as usual this week. I know it's a holiday week, Thanksgiving coming up.
Starting point is 01:04:31 We're going to be doing the brother show Thursday as well. Look, politics will probably inevitably come up at your Thanksgiving this year. Let people know about the Midas Touch Network. If they're not subscribed, if they don't know about it, let them know that, hey, we're a place, we're a pro-democracy community here. We're inviting and we tell the truth, you know, the way we tell the news the way it should be, which is unapologetically pro-democracy. And we just hand you data and the truth and the facts. Benji.
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