The MeidasTouch Podcast - Tuesday Afternoon Breaking Updates with Ben 9/15/2026

Episode Date: September 15, 2026

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Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myceles, and this is your breaking news. And folks, I just want to say at the outset, I certainly understand that these are incredibly difficult times. And I know sometimes when we report on breaking news, maybe sometimes it feels cold. It feels detached from your experience. And so I want to acknowledge at the very outset, when we talk here about the surging price of gas, the surging price of diesel, when we talk about the per price of barrel of crude, whether it's WTI or Brent, you know, when we talk about this catastrophic war in Iran, when we talk about affordability and the cost of living, I understand that behind this screen or phone, or if you're listening to this on. audio, you know, beaming into your headset. I understand that there are people behind this, and we're experiencing this together. And this wrecking ball that is the Trump regime, what is first and foremost in my mind, not in a political way at all, frankly, because,

whether you're a Democrat, independent, Republican, or whatever, I understand that you're suffering, and that's not hyperbolic. This is a form of psychological torture. That's not hyperbolic. I understand that you're experiencing that. And so I can control what I can control, and that's about it. And so I just want you to know that behind these breaking news stories, behind the reporting that we do, as we build out this network, first and foremost, it's about you. And I want to be a lot of you. And I want to to let you know that I'm going to do everything I can to report accurately, to lead the news cycle with the truth, to build out independent media, because this is a fight for the people. This is a fight with the people. And you have the Trump regime, as Trump was bragging about

yesterday on social media posts late into the night, focused on turning the White House into a palace, words that Donald Trump used, turn it into a palace while the people are suffering. You know, they talk about Nero playing the fiddle as Rome burned. You have Donald Trump taking the, he's not even playing the fiddle. He's out there, sure, he's playing golf or cheating in golf while our country burns. But these are grim and serious times. And the Trump regime and their propaganda network, they did everything in their trillion-dollar playbook with all that right-wing disinformation money to scare everybody.

about Biden this and Biden that and all of the things. It turned out to be projection. It's the exact things that they're doing, whether it's covering up the Epstein files, getting the United States into wars everywhere, whether it is being the deep state, right? I mean, the Trump regime MAGA influencers, a lot of them are feds. And they turned out that they're secret feds. They're the deep state. all of the stuff that they've been doing is projection and confession.

And so I just wanted to take the time in the outset to let you know we're fighting for you. Also, at the outset, this is my view of the opposition party, whether they're Democrat or, you know, what an opposition party needs to be doing where you have an authoritarian regime like this. what we saw today in the Senate and the House is what oversight could actually look like, right? This is why Maga Mike Johnson and this is why the MAGA Republicans in the Senate didn't want to work during this Trump term because that would mean Congress is in session. And then you would get Trump regime officials who would be called and they would be cross-examined. and they wouldn't be on their propaganda networks. They would be cross-examined by members of Congress.

And we saw what that looked like today. We'll go over that in this episode. When Cash Patel was cross-examined, how awful he was. When Treasury Secretary Bessent was cross-examined in the House, how awful it was. And here on the Midas Touch network, we're going to show you the clips of what happened. So you can see it for yourself. And again, my view, whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, whatever, we need to be talking about core values and principles right and wrong. That's what has been lost in all of this gamified reality style coverage of politics.

When you turn it into a game and a reality show, what do you get? a reality show precedent, except one that is completely dystopian and chaotic and all over the place and unqualified, right? And evil, demonic. It's why we talk about core values and principles. Why are we covering this? It's not to aimlessly root for the donkey or the elephant. it is to bring in people to fight for us, not take from us. The example I've given is this Trump regime takes our loaf of bread, they then dangle breadcrumbs, and then they don't even give us the breadcrumbs, and then they laugh at us while they pile up the loaves of bread. I don't care what political party you're from.

That's not okay. We should all be against that. And I often get asked, Ben, what's your view on this political messaging or that? I said, wrong guy. I'm not political messaging guy. I'm news guy. Okay, but I say this. Heading into this election, it's not about political messaging.

It's about lived experience. If you lived the experience that most Americans did and you're okay with the behavior of this Trump regime and what was inflicted. upon you, there's nothing I'm going to be able to do to message you to change your mind at this point. What Trump has unleashed is hell, objectively in my view, in every aspect, from the economy to Epstein, it's been hell to war, every aspect of it. It's been hell. If you think this is the golden age, truly, spin that somewhere else. I have no interest in debating you. I have no interest in talking to you. I have no interest in wanting you to even watch this. Yeah, you're lost.

And I wish you the best in whatever you perceive life to be about, which is apparently you being treated like shit. I'm not going to be able to get through to you. If you want a government not to inflict things upon you, but to do things to help you and to not be involved in never-ending wars and to be transparent, then you probably look at this lived experience as it being hell. And as you look to the alternatives out there, this is why I say if you're the opposition, you're not going to do deals with the devil. You're not going to do deals with demonic people. You're not going to do deals with evil.

You can't make a good deal. deal with bad people. So if you're the opposition, just don't even go, oh, we're going to try to do this or that and see if we can bring this. Just say no, say we're not doing deals. We're not. You can't do a deal with Trump. Look what he's doing to Canada. He's sociopathic. Look what he's doing at the Kennedy Center. He's a he's a lunatic. He's a psycho. You can't do, you can't speak rationally to this people and the people who said they're truthfully. If it turned out that they were actually demonic people. Like if you actually did the big Scooby-Doo reveal

and you took off their terrestrial bodies and demons popped out. I'm like, well, that made sense. Got it. Like it wouldn't, I would have thought, whoa. And look, I'm being a little bit, you know, at liberty with my words here, but the way they behaved is pure evil,

pure evil. So you can't, we can do deals with them? No. Faustian bargains, no. What you just have to say is this. Ruthless and relentless oversight. And every day, we will report back to the American people about what we've accomplished on the oversight front.

And we will do a daily oversight brief from judiciary to the House Oversight Committee, to agriculture, to housing, to foreign affairs. to national intelligence, we will then report back to you, and we will keep a record. We will keep a record so that in the future, there is accountability, even where the executive branch refuses to take care that laws are faithfully executed, you see, if you're running for office in 2028 and your position is not, that on day one, you will rip down everything that has Trump's name on it, you are disqualified. Goodbye.

You're not, I know, no, no, no, no, no, no. On day one, on live TV, the bulldozers move in and destroy it all. The ballroom, the arch, all this shit down, bulldozed on live TV, day one. if that is not something that you're willing you're not qualified to run in this environment get the hell out this isn't a time no no no that's what happens on day one broadcast live while the people in this country rejoice that's the moment that we are facing right now it's like a saddam hussein moment in many ways in terms of the authoritarian regime that has inflicted so much pain the statues come down. The name goes down. That's what needs to happen. You know, Biden was kumbaya, kumbaya,

wait, wait three years. You saw how that happened. You saw how you, you see how evil percolates. It's not just rooted here in the United States. These are international forces. You understand? International. It's it's rooted in this Trumpism, what we saw with the, Orban's to the Trumps, what you see in the new leadership in Colombia, what you see in the Netanyahu regime, what you see in Ecuador, Naboa, what you see in El Salvador, that's what you are seeing. And it's, it combines Argentina, Malay, I keep, I get it, get the point. these are international forces and it's not a shocker when you see the Saudi Arabian royal family

on the ropes right now as Ansarala the Houthis are making massive gains in Yemen, taking over all of Western Yemen, and not just moving east as they had to aid in in some of these other cities, And not just striking the refineries in Yambu, western Saudi Arabia, Abkhyaak, eastern Saudi Arabia, but the very foundation of the Saudi monarchy, the Jordanian monarchy, these royal families in the Middle East, are now in doubt. The people are looking at them and saying, got it. This is just a way to aid and abet Trump, aid and abet Netanyahu, right? I mean, what meeting is taking place over the past 48 hours in Saudi Arabia?

It's Netanyahu Mossad. It's like not me being conspiratorial. It's what's happening. It's Senkam, Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia, because it's existential for MBS. You see, the security architecture that was built in the region is rooted in that dynamic for an MBS from a royal family. MBS is like Don Jr. Right? These these royal families, they're like, they're like Eric and Don and Barron.

That's who we're dealing with here. Of course they flock to each other. And the question is when you see the Saudi PLC forces or this or that, what are they fight. I mean, are they ultimately fighting for Netanya? I mean, this is what they're asking. This is what the, this is the dynamic. And this isn't me being hyperbolic. I'm just, this is an objective reality that's on the ground. If you're the PLC forces, you are fighting for the royal family, right? And Netanyahu and Trump. And that's a hard sell. And maybe it was less hard of a sell when the U.S. projected strength in the region and the U.S. didn't have a lunatic psychopath.

And this isn't always just rooted in Trump. I'll be clear. You go back. There's a history here that we need to be profoundly aware about as well. But now seeing Donald Trump reveal that the U.S. loses in a war to Iran. Everything's now starting to fall apart. And, That trickles, trickle down? That trickles into the U.S. economy, right? One of the main reasons the Houthis are buoyed right now was they go, look, Iran, who we're allied with, beat the United States. Saudi Arabia gets its weapons from the U.S. The U.S. is out of munitions.

Okay, we feel that we will call their bluff and call their bluff they did when Ansarala entered into Moka and and some of the other areas, it turned out that MBS was bluffing. He said that there were 80% more troops than that were actually there is what Anserrala discovered. And right now what we're seeing is Saudi Arabia and Netanyahu Centcom planning, plotting, sharing intelligence, not conspiratorial. This is what they're saying they're doing. Okay, like this is what's happening. And they're desperately trying to stop the Houthi advance right now. And the Houthis have been striking in Yambu.

Western Saudi Arabia, in Abkhiyak, eastern Saudi Arabia, in Abkhya, slightly up the coast in Saudi Arabia as well. Those refineries are badly damaged. East-West pipeline, not looking good, right? A lot of the pumping stations destroyed. Europe just found out they ain't getting their oil deliveries. I hope you didn't think when I was saying these things a few months back, I was being hysterical or hyperbolic.

I was trying to warn about these things. And this isn't a spike the football moment. Go back to how I started this episode. There's real suffering amongst the people, not just here in the United States, abroad. And it was avoidable suffering. You know, often economic crises sometimes evolve over time when the pipes and the plumbing of the economy have a blind spot. And it's not the fault always of the people in charge.

They have to respond and react to it. This issue has purely been caused by Donald Trump. And sadly, it's the perfect storm. His tariffs and trade wars against the world. his erosion of U.S. credibility, destruction of credibility of the United States as a reliable, predictable, grown-up, serious actor. It's a big problem when you lose the status of being viewed as serious, when you're viewed as a clownish nation, when you're viewed as like, and I don't mean this to disparage developing nations because developing nations often behave in their national

interest to try to become a developed nation. But the U.S. is behaving as like a, you know, it's hard to even think of the example of like a weird developing authoritarian nation that behave because they would implode in on itself right now. But you have the catastrophic wars. You have the botched memorandum of understanding that the Trump regime breached and violated the MOU. we have the tariff and trade wars against the world and you see everything right now is a wreck and it's all falling apart before our eyes right now. We're seeing it happen in real time.

Countries are pulling their money out of the bond markets here in the United States to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. The treasury yields are continuing to rise and rise and rise and rise. A mortgage right now, 30-year fix, 7.17% homes are unaffordable. Everything is unaffordable right now here in the United States. Gas and diesel surging to record highs.

And I'm not simping for oil execs. So please don't misconstrue this. But the top oil execs, they themselves are saying, we're past the point of no return. And there's no way to unconstrued. unwind what's been unleashed. We will suffer cataclysmic shortages. That's what's going to happen. And meanwhile, Donald Trump is out there saying, look at my Venezuela deal. Look, I get to steal their resources. I get to steal their assets. Notably, when Treasury Secretary Bessett was cross-examined,

and we'll show you this later on, about Venezuela, I can't tell you where the money is. the Treasury Secretary wouldn't answer where the money is, where the money flows are. You had a congressman ask, well, Trump says that we brought in $13 billion. Who's the we? Where is it? I can't answer that. I can't answer that. There's Qatari bank accounts where a lot of this money is going.

But that amount of money stolen from Venezuela, it's not additional money. It's not like Venezuela has produced more oil than it did last year. It's about the same. About the same that people of Venezuela still suffer. And Trump lies and says, ah, we did the 65 billion barrels of oil deal. We're going to fill up our salt caverns here in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That's happening. It's not happening.

So when you lie and claim you talk to the Houthis and you don't, you lie and claim you talk to Iran and you don't, You claim that these salt caverns are going to be filled with the sour, viscous, dense Venezuelan oil that hypothetically may be refined in 10 years. That's a lie. It's all a lie. And shame on the people who were complicit in this when you knew this was a lie, when you knew this is a lie. And so here we are 24 hours away where almost certainly we're going to see a major Fed rate hike tomorrow.

when we should have had three raid cuts, almost certainly the coming months ahead look grim. And that's why I start this episode in a little bit of a different way, rather breaking news. These are grim times. These are grim, grim, grim, grim times because we don't have serious human beings behaving,

well, they're not able to behave seriously. but our country isn't behaving as a serious country, and that's not a democratic position. I don't think I've said, I think I made this point on the show I do with the brothers. I don't think I've made any political points. Oh, the Democrats, lo, da, da, da, da, da, I just, I don't think at all. That's not what you come to the Midas Touch network for. This is facts. This is just facts.

And it's sickening to me to see, you know, this behavior. I mean, we'll talk about it in a moment. But, you know, when Donald Trump lost in front of the Supreme Court, which blocked his scheme to have the U.S. Postal Service, create a new system for collecting state ballots for the upcoming elections that would have to use a Trump barcode with a Trump voter list, states rights, huh? We're going to use the Postal Service to Trump State's Rights, the freaking postal service, to destroy our ability to deliver mail when it comes to ballots with Trump barcodes. But how did he behave when he lost? The Democrats, and these aren't the people that I interviewed. They're so mean to me.

What's just not, man? Again, I don't understand the behavior, setting aside. The policies are cruel. The behavior is that of a loser. It's loser behavior. That's the thing. We shouldn't want whatever political party you want, the QB of the country to behave like a loser.

You know how winners behave? When you lose, you accept it. You are gracious. You win some, you lose some. You handle it with humility. You don't boast or brag. you do public service for the public. That's what we should do.

That shouldn't be a Democratic point or a Republican point. So shame on these Republicans. If we were in normal times, he would be impeached and convicted. You know, what we had during Nixon was at least Republicans who stood up and said, you know what, that's wrong. And right now, we don't. And we don't because that was part of the plan. the plan was, and this was hatched by Roger Ailes and others,

create a right-wing propaganda environment to insulate the next Nixon. Well, you got someone a thousand times more dangerous and dumber than Nixon, and this plan over 40 years that metastasized has shielded this from the right amount of scrutiny while you have the other media and institutions were like, what do we do here? All Democrats and Republicans and election, it's like, oh, man, this is existential guy. This is existential. This isn't political. This isn't tan suit, spell potato. This isn't those days. This isn't, oh, Romney, he had a dog on the roof. Oh, Obama said this in the debate. This isn't that. This isn't that. This is the survival of our country. That's what this is about. When we come back, we're going to talk about what happened.

these hearings today. I'll show you what went down during the hearing of Cash Patel. I'll show you what went down during the hearing of Besson. We'll talk about this. By the way, have you got your copy of WTF America? It's the book I wrote with my brothers. It comes out October 20th. Pre-order it right now. The pre-order momentum is great, but we have to keep on growing up. It's not an election book. It's not an election book. It's what I've been saying. How do we get out of this hell generationally? how do we look at things internationally? How do we look at things from core values and principles? Don't look at me. Not the political messenger. I'm not an activist. Don't look at me like that. If you're looking for that, I'm not that guy. That's not what I'm going to do.

I'm not going to blind this, vote for this guy. It's not what I'm not there. That's not what I'm looking to do. I'm looking to establish values and principles that we fight for as Americans and as citizens of the world. Let's take our first break of the show. If we can't take a break. Life insurance. We all know we need it, but we keep putting it off because we think it's complicated or expensive or that will live forever. Stop telling yourself you'll handle it later and take care of it today with select quote. In 15 minutes, you could have coverage that fits your life and budget. Here's what makes select quote different. Their licensed insurance agents work for you, not the insurance company. They compare options across multiple carriers to find you the right

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I mean, again, and I'm thinking about how you at home may be opening up your fridge and saying it's empty. or what do I do? I don't have the ability to go see a doctor right now because the Maga Republican shut out the critical subsidies or they've attacked my Medicaid or they've made it impossible for me to access health care while Donald Trump says, I've reduced drug prices by 600% and by 800% or we have a new health care plan. We're going to get rid of insurance and give you $2,000. It's always that.

We're going to give you money. And it's like, stop. No one likes insurance industry. Okay, we get it. That's why when we talk about single payer, we talk about risk pools and enlarging risk pools so that we understand the basis of insurance is that people who are healthier while they're healthier can help people who are sicker while they are sicker.

And people who are healthier, guess what happens occasionally? Or more than occasionally, they can get sick. And so they could enter a risk pool that they didn't realize they were going to be in. So the idea of a single payer system is you enlarge a risk pool and you can make insurance more affordable. And there's ways that especially we've seen where our government can cover it or make it as cheap as possible, as cheap, my view as it should all be free. And I think it could easily be paid for. We spent trillions of dollars on catastrophic wars where we ran out of munitions.

We've given tax cuts to billionaires. We've given them deductions to buy sports teams and private jets and all of this. And I think that rich people should be taxed more. I don't think it's got to be, I mean, like, you know, it doesn't have to be. 40% more. We could have discussions on what it is, right? But let's just assume rich, you know, and by rich people, you know, we can have discussions about what defines that to be clear. But, you know, people, I think there should be no debate that people who are making tens of millions of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of dollars should pay more. we could have intelligent conversations of what that looks like, right?

Because they're getting exemptions everywhere. They're getting sports team exemptions. I talked about that on the last episode. You know, they can fully deduct over the 10-year period the value of their sports team while the asset appreciates. Just go and think about that while they then prohibit McLemore from saying free Palestine and exercising his free speech rights while they're able to deduct the value of their sports team and take. advantage of appreciation and then take out loans against the value of their teams, which they don't have to pay taxes on. So they could pay a little more taxes, yes. And they can still have 20 mansions and four or five private planes and yachts. It's not going to change their life.

Who needs all of that? I mean, truly, who needs all of that? And that doesn't even satiate them. They want to see you suffer. It's them relative to you. And unless you are begging it in pain, then they're not even happy with all the wealth they have. So in any event, we have more than enough money to pay for free health care many times over. It's easy.

It's not a debate. I'm not even here to debate you on it. It's so obvious. It's so obvious. And what? What do we learn today? That $3 billion more dollars, is going right now to Netanyahu for 5,000 pound bombs to drop on little children in Gaza,

to drop on people in Lebanon or families that are celebrating weddings in Iran. That's where we learn more money, more money going over there. Enough. Enough. I'm going to do a $2.8 billion sale of 40,000, 2,000 pound bombs. the largest single sale of conventional explosive ordinances from the U.S. in modern history. This is what we're doing right now. While my fellow Americans can't afford to fill up their car, this is what we're doing

right now as ranchers are going bankrupt, as farmers are going bank. This is what we're doing? What the hell is this? What the hell is this? That's why the books called W. What the F is this? This is crazy business. While the Mad King Rans and Raves Online, the board of the Kennedy Center today agreed almost unanimously to close the building for safety reasons.

And so that it begins the process of reconstruction. The closing will take place immediately. However, the renovation and reconstruction, which is a very large and complex job, cannot begin until such time as the D.C. Circuit rules on the board's approved name. If the ruling is a negative one, which it should not be and is not overturned by the Supreme Court, the reconstruction and renovation will not take place for the Kennedy Center. The attorneys from the DOJ will ask for an expedited appeal. In the meantime, $17 million raised by Donald Trump has been put into the Kennedy Center account to keep it afloat. Thank you for your attention to this matter. You need to put your name on the, you're like a sicko, man.

you're like a true fucking sicko excuse my language it's just you're sick like you are a fucking sicko again excuse my language again i don't like to curse but what the hell is this demented shit what is this my name has to go so excuse me that i don't want to have debates with lunatics that say stupid shit like this i'm done with them i really am if this is the you want, then have at it. If this is what you want, that Trump's name is the thing that he's thinking about while he's covering up the Epstein files and while everybody in this country is suffering, that's what you really want.

Go fuck yourself. Seriously. Seriously. I don't have time for you. I'm not laying. You see these people, these little weasels debating. And I give, by the way, credit to people who want to debate them. you know, go, go debate them.

Have fun, you know, with it. But what are you going to say to these people? I don't know who won the 2020 election. I don't know. I don't know who won. Joe Biden got sworn in. Oh, I got sworn in, but I don't know who. I just shut up.

Shut up. Shut up. And these people are causing the destruction of our country. We used to be able to have rational conversations and talk to each other like grownups. And this whole Trump weird magazine. mutation of this has prevented adult educated conversations. Let's behave like grownups, please. I think also if this was working. And you know, you'd be like, whoa, we did bring in 20 trillion

dollars, except we didn't. Our debt has increased to over 40 trillion dollars. Our deficit has hit record highs. We didn't bring in the money. It's just more lies. If it actually brought down the treasury yields and people could all of a sudden, and afford homes, I'd be like, I'd be damned. Some crazy shit, but it worked. I, you know, I'm wrong. I got to have it. Tweeting memes and posting Carg Island being blown up in AI and sending weird posts about yourself and George Washington, you know, I don't, we're playing on horses together or whatever. Oh, you know what? There's a method to it. But it didn't. That's why I say, this isn't a political messaging.

How would you message this? If you tell people this, 2.5 points to the, to the Democrat, we're talking of these people. They've destroyed our country. It's literally destroyed right now. And this isn't a talking point. This is literally what we have. This is a shared experience.

So that's what I say to you. That's my message. You're either living in this world or you want to die or you're part of a death cult. I can't, if you've loved this period of time, I, fantastic. Have that whatever weird world you want, but it's a pretty sick one. It's a pretty freaking sick one, by the way. You know, what he posts, everybody knows that Crooked Joe Biden's FBI didn't do what they should have with respect to the lunatic who shot me in Butler. By the time I got into office on January 20th, most of the information was missing.

altered, corrupted, or gone. It's all gone, everybody. Who would have thought? It's gone. New info was just found. Why wasn't it seen long ago? This was a Democrat plot to get me out of the United. The Democrats tried to kill me, everybody. They tried to kill me. I swear. What are we doing here? Why don't you release your medical records? Or was that destroyed to? You could release the Butler, Pennsylvania. so we could understand how was it that an AR-15 bullet hit your face and then poof, it disappeared. It just nicked it. We all know when it comes to AR-15 bullets hitting faces.

Pretty logical explanation that it just slight graze, release your Butler medical records. Trump had to be sued by his own former top legal advice. Remember that guy, Tom Fitten? You know, the guy. The guy who wears the tightest shirts, Tom Fitten. Remember Tom Fitton. Ridiculous. Tom Fitten was Trump's guy.

Tom Fitten from Judicial Watch in his super tight shirt, had to sue Donald Trump to try to get Butler records. And Trump redacted the hell out of him. He had to be sued by his own legal advisor. And Trump didn't produce it. He's covered it up like the Epstein files and produce your medical records, please. It's like, that's how AR-15 bullets work. They hit you in the face.

Cool. That's it. It just like, boom, bounces back. It's like a wildy coyote, you know, explanation for the F-15 pilot. You saw the story on 60 minutes? He fell from the sky going 100 miles per hour. Terminal velocity. Hit the ground.

Smack. Got up. That hurt. Where do I go? Where do I go? My name is dude bravo. That's what they say. Dude bravo.

Where do I go? Where does dude bravo go? A ledge. A ridge. Is it there? Yes. It's in the distance. Five, ten,

15 miles away. That hurt. Ouchy. But I'm going to go there to the ridge. By the way, I'm 51 years old. Not sure if you saw what I looked like. I'm not going to tell you what my name is. I'm 51. Yeah, I'm running. I did hit the ground at terminal velocity, but cool. Okay, there's the ridge. I'm going to climb it. I'm going to climb 7,000 feet. I did it. I'm up. There they are. They rescued me. Dude, Bravo got rescued. We did it.

and then I'm going to do an interview at 60 minutes, and I'm going to look perfectly fine. Come on, just stop the stupid shit. Just stop it. Whatever happened, just let me know what happened. Were you trying to go into the Isfahan nuclear facility and did it not work out? Did the CIA have to do some deal and pay off the local Iranians to get him back? What are you doing? What really happened?

Just let us know, stop with the coverups like the Epstein files. Tell us what happened. Tell us what happened. It is, it is what. I don't need to hear Trump go, Ukraine agreed to a deal. And they're going to stop shooting the Russian refineries. And then Zelensky posts, no, we didn't agree to that.

We didn't do that. That didn't happen. What we said was if Russia stops attacking our infrastructure, we'll stop attacking their infrastructure. That's what happened. I did a deal. And then you have, do we have the clip of NATO ambassador? he's out there saying he's saying the reason that diesel is surging right now, the reason

diesel is surging, it's because Ukraine striking all of the refineries. That's what's happening right now. Let's play this clip of the NATO, U.S. ambassador to NATO. Let's play it. Certainly taking capacity out of the global energy markets, like is what happened as Ukrainian strike. Russia has put pressure on diesel and oil generally. And that war needs to end.

And President Trump is absolutely right that the 30,000 people that are dying every single month or more on the battlefield needs to end. It's really a war that is. So you promised that you were going to solve it, though, was the plan. Remember what Trump said? I know the perfect words. I know what I'm going to tell Zelensky. I know what I'm going to tell Putin.

This is what he said in 2024 during election. I can't tell you what these perfect words are. But the words, they're so perfect that it'll end the war. So I've got a plan. In fact, I'll end the war in 24 hours after the election. And I'm going to cut electricity prices by half after the election. Gas is going to go down to $2 a gallon. Groceries are going to be affordable.

There's going to be no more never-ending wars. But I also assure you, 24 hours, perfect words. Zelensky and Putin will say, got it, Donald, what words? Those are great words. So I guess we're going to stop this war. And then you saw I did my Jared Kushner impression the other day, which I can do my Kushner impression, but I don't really don't want to do that. I'm not feeling it right now.

You can watch it. But Kushner's like, so it seems the issue, this is what he said at a Yalta conference the other days. It seems like what the issue is. If Ukraine agrees to Russia's non-negotiables, then the war ends. But you see, Zelensky doesn't want to agree to it. And I just see that Putin doesn't want to agree to Zelensky's terms. And so I think that's, we have to be mindful of this as mediators, really, as mediators.

What you discovered mid-September, 2026, is that the core issue of a war is that one side wants to take over the other side and the other side doesn't want to be taken over. And thus, that's the tension in the way that you've uncovered, you've uncovered the essence of of what war is. Great work, Kushner. It's like, do we really need dumb and dumber, you know, to be involved in this? It's just, it's stupidville. It is stupidville, all the while you have the MAGA Republicans out there saying things are great, things are amazing. I'll show you what Tom Emmer, Maga Republican Congress member. He's in the leadership of the MAGAs. Here's what he said about affordability. He said, affordability. That's such a low. voted word. It's like Democrats are using it to cherry pick. Things are great. This is what Maga's

closing messages to voters. Things are great. Okay. Here play this clip. And I'll tell you what, we're not all the way there yet, John. There are challenges in the economy, but here's the thing. There's a ton of good news going on. I mean, it's, they choose the word affordability in my humble opinion because it's just another word for the economy. The election is always about the economy. And in this case, you pick affordability because you can now pluck out the trees that you want to focus on.

We're going to focus on gas prices. Probably the best thing that they can focus on why, because we don't fill our tank every day, but we do drive by that sign every day, John. So we're reminded regularly. And by the way,

it really doesn't help to tell them that it doesn't help to tell us what. Things are great. What do you want to tell us? What do you want to tell us, dude? What are you doing? What are you doing? Okay?

Things are grim and they're getting grimmer by the day. That's just the reality. That's not a Democratic or Republican or independent. It's a reality that the American people are facing right now. And it didn't have to be this way. It didn't have to be this way. You want to criticize Biden? Go and criticize him.

They lost. He dropped out. Well, Biden, well, Biden, dropped out. So under your logic, Trump should drop out, right? Now, I personally believe a lot of Biden's policies created the conditions to get us out of the mess that Trump created. It's first one. Truly, you don't have to agree with me. I don't care whether you agree with me or not. We can't, whether we want to relitigate the past or not. The reality is that Donald Trump said, I would fix these things right away. That was the cell. And not only did he not fix him,

but objectively they're worse. You'd be like, well, under Biden, the inflation was this. Okay, sure. In the second year, that's like, that's, where did it end? What do you think caused it in the second year? You think it was just all of a sudden Biden? Or you think maybe it was Trump's disastrous COVID handling of things that led to the issues that naturally follow when you do things horribly. But in any event, Biden's out. Biden lost. Come all lost. You know, that's what happened. Okay. Trump promised he would fix it. He made it worse. That's the objective. reality. So under your logic, when you go Biden, Biden, Biden, like, okay, so under that logic, Trump should drop out. Now, I don't think I'd want JD, but anyone would be better than Trump.

So under your logic, great, Biden, Trump and Biden is. So Trump should drop out before the midterms. Right? Wouldn't that be, though, if you want, using their logic, shouldn't that be what happens? Okay, let's do that. Trump drops out. Crazy people. These are really crazy humans. These are dangerous, crazy demonic humans. On that note, let's take our last quick break. of the show. Get your copy, WTF America. Pre-order it now. Good momentum on those pre-orders. Let's keep it going. I try to make this my life's work in this book to let you know everything I feel. I don't want to be grim or whatever, but this is where I put my thoughts in. So if anything, well, I'll just leave it at that. Just go get it. Let's take our last quick break of the show.

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these individuals. It's like you get five minutes or three minutes. And so then the witnesses try to filibuster and they try to do everything they can to delay, delay, delay, delay. And then the time runs out and said just stupid, but you still got some good answers, I thought. I mean, some good questioning where we got inside and information. So let me show you if I can, just a few key and core elements. So first, I'll show you when Cash Patel, FBI directory, is in the Senate. He's getting grilled by Senator Schiff. And Patel calls on Chuck Grassley to end the hearing. Let's play this clip. I think we've got that one. And then I'll show the next one after that, if we've got it, of Patel saying the previous regulation

automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it. That'll be the next one. What about the bestiality? Same thing, because the regs wrote it up in a fashion before I arrive that addressed prostitution, bestiality, and trafficking. They were there before I got there. Tell me what it said before. It automatically disqualified any individual who participated on either side of it.

Obviously, we are never going to hire the criminals. The bestiality? Yes. So you disqualified the animal? Well, I don't think we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify it. I understand. I'm trying to understand why you did. So you used to be disqualified from the FBI.

if you engaged in beastiality. Seems like a fair proposition to be disqualified from the FBI for doing that. And Patel changed the rule to say, we'll still hire you. Same thing if you were involved in a lot of other very serious misconduct and horrific conduct and criminal conduct. And so he said if you were the victim, that's not what it's. said, and what are you talking about here? What the hell are we saying? What? What do you talk? What? I just, I had to show you that to show you it's real. Take a look right here as Cash Patel calls on Chuck Grassley to end the hearing. Here, let's play it. Mr. Booker tried to get an answer from you, a very simple answer

about the reporter who wrote an article about potential misuse of an FBI SWAT team by yourself. Didn't happen. Total lie. And what he asked you, so let me repeat it because you didn't answer his question. You're going to repeat a lie, so I'm not going to answer it. Mr. Chairman, we're going to have to extend time the more he does this. We don't have to extend anything. I'm trying to ask my question, Mr. Chairman. Could I ask both of you? Mike?

He asks his question then, like I said. Mr. Chairman, I've made my decorum through this entire hearing. His colleagues have called me a thug, a liar, baselessly attack my loved ones, continuing to jeopardize the safety of me and mine, all the while to advance their political narrative, he's doing the same. I would appreciate it if you concluded this hearing.

because this guy has no interest in oversight. I guess that's been about two minutes of Philbuster. So reclaiming my time, here's what I want to do. You asked your question, and then when he's done, you will have time to respond. Okay, his time's up.

So my... More of Patel right over here, trying to, I guess, clean up his prior answer, that he's very much focused at the FBI on the victims of bestiality, becoming FBI agents? Here, play this clip.

He's no longer protecting those who've been charged with fecality. He's protecting those who are victims. Just turned it upside down. No, you did. You actually did, because you lied. No, I could just say what I'm reading to you is you dropped automatic disqualification for applicants who have been engaged in bestiality.

Not victims of bestiality, applicants who have engaged. Do you disagree with that? Applicants who have engaged in beastiality means they were victims of, beastiality because they were forced to do so. And at this FBI, we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving the United States of America and the premier law enforcement agency in the world. They did that before. I eliminated the bureaucracy that prevented these great Americans from serving or at least being considered from serving, and I'm going to continue to do that.

Turn it upside down. What about Senator Welch's cross-exam? Let's play it. He said, quote, we had a rigged election. As you know, It was totally rigged because I won three times. I didn't win twice. I won three times. And, of course, the president is saying he won the 2020 election. Do you agree with that?

There are many ongoing investigations surrounding that matter, so I'm not going to comment on it and stylize the evidence. So if there's ongoing investigations, as I know there are, that indicates you do believe the president, 2020 was rigged. There are many ongoing investigations, and for me as the FBI director, to comment on the evidence would basically be in contradiction. Yeah, as a lot of you commented in the chat, by the way,

the victims of bestiality, I can't even have to say this. The victims of bestiality are the animals. What are you talking about, Patel, the victims of beasties, that there are people who are applying who the animals, I don't even want to say it. I don't even want to say, what are you talking? What are you saying? I don't want to say the word.

I don't even want to even articulate what you're trying to say. I mean, do you see why I call this book WTA? This is crazy stuff. But then you move over to the House. That was in the Senate. You move over to the House. And by the way, he's focused on the victims of bestiality here. Not sure if you heard, but the FBI.

We're focused on all the bestiality victims. and that's what we're looking to protect right as they cover up the Epstein files. I just want you to think about that, that they're lying about helping victims of, this is what the FBI director said that they are focused on helping the victims of bestiality become FBI agents while they cover up the Epstein files. I'm just showing you what they said. This isn't like a debate. This is literally what, those are the words that he said.

If you want to go watch the full thing, watch the full thing. But I think I gave the clip the full context that it doesn't deserve, frankly. But then I go to the House where you had Treasury Secretary Bessent. He was cross-examined by Democratic Congress member Heimes. Let's play this clip. Let's spend one minute on your intervention. About a week and a half ago, you spent some $10 billion plus or minus to try to lower the yield on the 10-year bond. This price is American mortgages.

When you started, the 10-year bond was at 4.8%. Today, it's at a 20-year high of 5.04%. 20 basis point rise. Was your intervention successful? And will there be more? Yes, it was, sir. Wait, wait. The 10-year went up by 20 basis points.

How can you say it was successful? Well, there is the counterfactual of what would it have done, and we then proceeded to have the two most successful treasurer. auctions that we've had in 20 years and the U.S. bond market, it continues during past month, since President Trump has come in, it has been the best performing bond market in the developed world. What, no, no, what are we talking about? What are you talking about? The 10-year yield is over 5%. The 30-year yield is 5.5%. Mortgage rates are 7.17%. our bond market is blown up.

And you did this buyback scheme weeks ago and you made it worse. It was at this level, right? The 10 year was like 4.8. And now it's over five. You don't want to go up. When the treasury yields go up, that means the government has to pay more interest to service the debt. You don't want it to go up. And you're like, our recent treasury bond sale did better.

Well, if you offer people a return of 5.5% to entice them, they may go, that's a good return. But you know who has to pay that, Besson, the taxpayers. Why don't you try to sell those same bonds at a yield of 3%? See how hot it is. Or 4%. See how hot. Oh, you know, why it's 5%. because that's what institutions and countries are buying it at because they know that you're desperate

and your schemes don't. That's the way the bond. Like, does he know the way the bond market works? Yeah. Guess what? If you offered people 7%, 8% or 10%, they'll probably buy it too. But you want to bring it down, moron. You want to bring it down because we the taxpayers have to service the damn debt.

Idiot. Stupid. It's like dumb people. It's like basics. This is the Treasury Secretary? No wonder when he was on his own, he was a loser, and he had 90% redemptions from his funds. The guy's an idiot. Let's take a look at Congresswoman Presley here, play this clip.

Frank, that you're on thin ice with me because you sat here in the midst of the tariffs conversation, and I asked for you to be a partner in pushing for an exemption of baby products, and you told me that I had a partner in you in that advocacy. And nothing came of that. So twice you've come before this committee, made a commitment under oath, and you've not followed up. I would say watch this space after President Shea's visit. Okay, I don't know what that means, but people are struggling. You've made commitments.

You haven't kept any of them, and it's outrageous. Moving on, I have a lot of ground to cover, and I get up too much of my time. Secretary Besson, when Donald Trump, this is reclaiming my time, when Donald Trump launched the unnecessary an unconstitutional war with Iran, how long did he say that would last? I don't recall. I'll jog your memory, four to five weeks. It's been six months. So he lied, and we're all paying the costs.

Since the war started, gas prices are up 52 percent. Yes or no, are you aware of that? Gas prices are up 52 percent since the war started. Are you aware of this issue? Yes or no? From what to what? I think that's not a good number. Okay, I'm going to take that as a yes.

You're playing like you don't know, but you know. Okay? Secretary Besson, working people reclaiming my time, Secretary Besson, working people are paying more for utilities now than they were five years ago, more than 40, 20% more. Are you aware of that? I am aware of that. Okay, moving on.

Secretary Besson, people are also paying over three times more on health insurance. Have you heard about this issue, yes or no? I am aware that Obama can say failure. Yes or no, are you aware? You can ask me a question. Stop filibustering. And stop acting like you don't know what the facts are. Moving on.

Secretary Best. Watch this space after she visits. Watch the space. What the fuck does that mean? Excuse me. Watch the space after she. Sorry, I kept on cursing this episode. I'm just the W.

What do they even watch the space about the cost of health after she visits? Why would, why would the ruler of China's visit to the United States, affect this space. What are these words? Pay attention to this space after she visits. You understand? No, you're just a bunch of con artists. That's what I understand. You're frauds. She's going to do a deal with Donald Trump. Watch this space, by the way. It's an important space. You know what she's doing right now? She controls the oil market. It's no longer OPEC. She, you know why? Because he had a plan and China had a plan. Depending on how much oil they import, they move the oil market way more than OPEC does. They bought it cheap. They have a reserve in 2025.

They have reserves of over at 1.5 billion barrels. They didn't import. Now they're importing. They can change the price of that market pretty damn quickly. You know what else they control? The rare earths. They control rare earths. So if I want to watch the space, the space that I could watch is how back last year when you threatened China, China threatened to withhold rare earths, and then immediately you tacoed. And then the rest of the world said, got it. Understand they're cowards, and this is all one big game to them. They don't have the carts. That's what happened.

But now you want to pick on Venezuela because you're bullies. This is what bullies do. They pick on Epstein survivors and victims. They pick on the trans community and international. They pick on Venezuela. They pick on Cuba. Right. It's related, right?

You think about how they punch down. And Cuba's like, you think we're going to invade you? What are you talking about? Why would we do that? We're not idiots. You know, and so they pick on, when they pick on Iran, they thought Iran would tap out. Iran didn't. Iran fought back.

And Iran wasn't even a regional power then. Okay. So Trump got out of the JCPOA. Iran did this war with that. And Iran fought back. And then the U.S. ran out of weapons and lost the war. And now the U.S. brags about punching down. It's Epstein-class shit.

You get what I'm saying here? What do they brag about now? We struck another commercial vessel heading into Iran. you want me to applaud you that the United States Navy shot a freaking cargo ship? Of course, the United States Navy can do war crimes if it wants to and drop big bombs on cargo ships in Iran that bring food and medicine and supplies to Iranians. I mean, I don't think we should be involved in the catastrophic war at all. But if you're going to talk about targeting, wouldn't you want to talk about we did a military target? No, send comm's like, let me be very clear.

We shouldn't be in this catastrophic war at all, period. I don't, you know, misconstrue my words, even a scintilla. But I just am making the point that they're bragging about striking fishing boats and Iranian tankers and bragging about being pirates. The proud United States Navy brags, we stopped 100 commercial ships. Okay, that was going to bring food. Why are you bragging about that? There aren't even military ships.

Like, that's war crimes you're bragging about, okay? They brag about shooting the boats off the coast of Venezuela. because they're losers. This is how losers behave. So it's go after Venezuela. We lost the Iran. Let's go after Cuba. Let's pick on somebody much smaller and then treat this as let's go into Colombia and Ecuador. Let's go into El Salvador. Let's fleck. And you saw Canada's like, no way. You saw what happened when they tried to pick on a large economy, but Canada going elbows up. So the, the, these predators who cover up Epstein files, whose names appear in the files, right? What do they do?

In international, they pick on Venezuela. Okay. And then they pillage Venezuelan resources. And they don't even do a good job at it. And they lie about what's $65 billion deal, 500 years, we're going to take Venezuelan. Okay. I've debunked that lie a hundred times. So I don't need to do it again.

But I want to show you this moment when Treasury Secretary Besson is asked by Congress member Kasten, so where's the Venezuelan money? So Trump says there's 13. Let me be clear because we need facts are important, right? Last year, this year, same amount of oil. The U.S. has only, has not enhanced the oil production in Venezuela. Okay. And you know, because I've done multiple fact checks, the Venezuelan oil, sour, viscous, dense, sticky, doesn't go into our salt caverns. The barrels that exist in the future are hard to refine decades away, billions of dollars of investment. We wouldn't need our defense department to create a communist authoritarian structure oil company

to do deals with Venezuela if our private industry thought there were great investments to be made in Venezuela. So the reality is that that's why Trump created an oil company with Hegsyth that's in the Defense Department, which is unlawful, and then talks about barrels of oil that aren't going to happen ever. So, you know, in any event, there has been some previous oil that would have gone to Venezuela that the U.S. stole and took. So where's the money, right?

Fair question. Donald Trump's out there bragging. We've paid for the war many times over. We've got the money. So the question is a basic one to best it. where's the money? Where is it? Have you seen the money?

So watch what takes place in this, in this space as bad. Let's look at the space before she visits. We'll look at the space. Look at the stupid people. Look at the space. Here, play it. What is the total amount of money associated with the sale of Venezuelan assets that's flowed through treasury accounts

or accounts managed by treasury since January? Just a minute. We are not giving out the total amount of disbursements. I'm asking for the total amount of money. President Trump said in July that it was more than $13 billion. Would you agree that it was more than $13 billion in July? Again, I'm not going to give out that amount. Okay.

Has Treasury hired an independent auditor to review those flows? KPMG. Okay, thank you. All disbursements are subject to KPNG. Yes, and will their audit review the flows through the Katari-Bandaged account that was initially set up? Will their audit review the Qatari flows? KPMG is reviewing everything since they have been hired. Will that include the Qatari flows?

Secretary Rubio said it would. I'm just asking you to confirm what Secretary Rubio is. And I agree with Secretary Rubio because State is leading... Okay. Have you personally reviewed any of their audits? There have been no audits published yet. So have you reviewed their work products? What's that?

Have you reviewed any of their mission work? My staff reviews them every day. Okay. Do you know, are any of the cash flows that are flowing flowing to the U.S. government, U.S. persons, or U.S. corporations? I have no knowledge of that. Okay, because President Trump said on July 27th, we've paid for that war many times over. We're taking in a lot of money, billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela. Who is the we that he is referring to?

Well, I think President Trump may have been referring to the oil deal that the Department of War is done with Venezuela. But he seemed to imply that we, the United States people, are taking in money to offset those costs. That would suggest flows to U.S. persons. Again, that this is one of the largest assets that may be ever to go on, the U.S. balance sheet, Congress. And we'll, okay. Are the accounts that the Treasury is managing tied only to the sale of oils, or are you also taking control of other Venezuelan assets? It is many Venezuelan assets.

So you've asserted control over Venezuelan assets. I know Interior recently said they're taking. We're taking control of Venezuelan gold sales, so we're also taking control of those assets and the dispersions. You can't testify as we sit here whether or not those are flowing to U.S. persons. No. Can you identify where or what U.S. bank those funds are being held? So, to recap, the auditor didn't do an audit.

We're stealing Venezuelan oil and gold. We don't know where it is. There's no audit. He opens up his book. We're not allowed to actually tell you where the disbursements are. Why not? It's our money. What fuck are you talking about, bro?

It's our money. The hell are you talking? It belongs to us. It's not your money. It's not Trump's money. It's not, you know whose money it is? It's Venezuelan people. It's their gold.

Okay? It's their gold. I want to see it because you're purporting to steal their gold and money in our name. But what's this? Are you taking their gold and giving it to Donald Trump? That seems like what they're saying they're doing. Okay. And that's what seemed to have been implied in that entire questioning.

That there's gold, gold nuggets, gold bars, gold being taken and hidden somewhere with oil, money, and that there's an audit. There's an auditor. Like they use words that like make us think that they are sounds. Okay, there's an audit. Have you seen it? Well, there hasn't been an audit done yet. Why not?

Why hasn't there not been an audit yet? Okay, I would expect due diligence to happen right away. I don't know, maybe before you showed up to a congressional hearing idiot. Maybe that's when it would take place. Are you going to wait for the space until after she shows up? They're going to wait for the space until Xi Jinping? Are you going to ask Daddy She if you can enter this space with auditors? Does he need to give you permission?

Freaking losers, man. They're all losers. It's not, these are loser humans. These are loser humans. What the hell was that? I could show you a lot of other questions, but that line of questioning alone should make you in rape. We don't know.

I'm not going to tell you the amount. It's in a bank account. We're not going to share it to bank account. We're stealing their other assets. We're stealing their other. Why? Why? No American wakes up and goes,

give me that Venezuelan gold. I want to pillage it, except predators. The same type of people covering up the freaking Epstein files. Remember when Donald Trump was in Ireland? We may just take all of Iran's oil. Just like Venezuela. We may never leave. Yeah, that's what a predator says.

That's what a sex predator says. says, that's what a predator says. The hell are you talking about? The hell are you talking? And do you realize, if you're the Netherlands, why do you think they pulled their gold from the United States? They literally pulled their gold, billions of dollars worth? You think they want to keep their gold here with that predator?

Why do you think country after country selling their treasury bonds? You think they want these people who I just shared with you to be responsible for their money? Do you want to give these people your money? Right? I mean, you think about it. It's like these people have control of your money, my money, that we put in banks?

These people who I just showed you, these aren't smart. These are dumb done. These are idiots. These are horrible people. And then the coup de grave all of it this week, they announced the following. All right, what are we going to do?

People are suffering. We're struggling. What are you going to do? Breaking news. The EPA is eliminating a rule that limits planet warming pollution from coal and gas fired power plants. Got it. So you're just going to, you're just going to kill us earlier. Understood. I guess that's the plan. That we all, we all just live to die right away in your dystopian hellish nightmare because you're all miserable people. The environmental protection agencies said Monday, It's repealing rules that limit planet warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas and announced it is taking separate but related steps to prevent future administrations from regulating climate pollution from power plants. So not only do you want to inject the cancer right into our veins, you want to prevent us from ever trying to rehabilitate after you do so. Really? Really? And then goes environmental groups.

This is how it's being reported by the AP. Environmental groups decried. They decried the change. How about not environmental groups? How about it's like the fish decried that they took out the water? I decrying. I'm going to decry when you kill me. I'm going to decry that fact.

The environmental group. You see how they have to report it, though? The environmental group, they decried. It's not should be the environmental group. We have to go outside and breathe the air. This isn't some like woke freaking lecture on whatever. Like I said, well, actually, I know. We don't want freaking dying.

And with everything that's going on, that's the rule you push, we're going to revoke the Biden error power plant rule. Why? And it's going to unleash America. You're going to unleash cancer. You're going to unleash toxins. You're going to unleash. There's a re we, this is why I go back to this.

And I know we've done a long episode. So it's been fun, though. I'm not fun. It's been therapeutic, is the right word. Definitely not fun. Therapeutic. I enjoy spending time with you. even if we're talking about stuff that makes me very angry.

So that's probably a better way to say, I'm not trying to message you. I'm not going to message you. I'm not going to tell you. And that's why you need to do this or that. If you don't at this point feel a certain way of what we've all gone through, then I can't, I can't help you. Sometimes it feels like we're living in a simulation, frankly, as a result of just how deranged life is right now under this dystopian Trump regime. Sometimes it truly, but, but as far as I know,

as far as I know, we're not. And, um, I want us to live happier, healthier lives and I want people to enjoy the short time they have on this earth. That's how I approach all of this. That's why I did this network. It's why I've, I've had the privilege and I've had the, fortune to be privileged and fortunate in my life. And I'm 41 years old and I've been able to professionally and personally accomplish life things that others maybe don't have. And I feel that it's my duty and obligation at this stage to do anything in my power. everything in my power to help from here in the United States to making sure the people in Gaza hear what I'm saying, to making sure that people in Lebanon know what I'm saying,

to making sure the people in Manab, who lost family members who were slaughtered in elementary schools, and Lamar, who were murdered in sports halls. I want anybody who just wants to live decent lives with each other in peace and in harmony to know that just every day this is what I think about. And maybe I'm not the best messenger. Maybe I make mistakes. Maybe I am a little bit all over the place sometimes. And sometimes I get super excited about a topic and I just say a bunch of shit.

And I'm just like, I don't know. Okay. You know, maybe you follow me. Maybe you don't. I don't know sometimes. But I hope you know that every day this network has been built, not on messaging you politics. There are other people who do that. They do it better than me. So I'm not trying to message you.

I'm really not trying to convince you. I'm perfectly okay if you disagree with me on a lot of issues. And I'm sure you hear me and you do disagree. That's fine. I'm not trying to change your mind or have you, I want you to have a data set of the best information out there in terms of accurate data. And I will share my opinion from time to time. But I don't feel like I've been politically, this, that, because I think that distorts.

you have to be empowered. You are empowered. But I certainly understand that there are big forces, vested interests that are trying to rip away your agency every damn day and trying to make you feel like what's the point of all of this. And so the purpose of this network is to make you know and connect you to a bigger community. where we all could stand shoulder to shoulder together from the streets of Pennsylvania to the farms of Iowa, right, to the streets in Lebanon

across the world in the Middle East, in Asia, in Europe, in South America, in the Caribbean. You know, I, in Africa, in all the countries in Africa and all the countries and in Mexico and Canada elbows up in Canada of course I want us all to be connected in our empathy and our love and our joy and just trying to leave this

a better place and if that's what the Midas Touch Network did that's what I want that's what I want this to be every damn day so that's what we're doing to Denmark I saw you comment to denmark yeah you all of europe to all around to to nordic states to everywhere everywhere okay i don't mean to leave anybody out w tf america check it out pre-order it right now spent a lot of time together with each other we're grateful for you it really are so have a good day keep checking in for more updated videos i'll keep doing update i did i did one on besant i showed all the clips of best. Go check that one after this ends. All right. Love you guys. Love you all.

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