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And as I've been saying, I expect that price of crude to be up above $120 a barrel pretty much in no time. Donald Trump's out there saying we're not negotiating at all with Iran. It's just a matter of time before we go back to war with Iran. Maybe it's before the midterms. Maybe it's after the midterms. You're just going to have to wait for the next episode of the dystopian apprentice that has now become the very unserious United States of America. Last night, as Donald Trump was leaving from that South Carolina thing he did. I don't even want to call it a rally or a speech, right? It's Donald Trump out there. In front of people occult, he's just making noises, right? He's just like, and you're prior. You're prior. It's like, what? You're not, you're not well, man. You're not, you're not well. And then he's like, did I show you this one? It's like, yeah, you've showed us that one. We've seen that one at everyone. Have I talked about the men's asses yet? Yeah, you did that. Every speech you talk about another man's ass and how attractive men are to you. And the homosexual disinhibition, we see it. Yes, it's every, every, did I, did I do the cognitive test one? Yeah, yeah, we know you've memorized five animals in a row and everybody said you're a genius and that your IQ is unparalleled because what about, did I show you the calculator one? Yeah, yeah, we've seen the calculator one. You talk about, you added numbers and you divide it and you minus it and you add it and then there's a number and you knew the number. We, yes, yes. But like, we want, we want people who are focused on like, I don't know the fact that the price of crude is now $114 a barrel and people can't afford anything. Like that you ripped away people's health care and you don't have a plan and you just say 800% reductions and you just say words like most favor nations and like, that's not what's actually happening. So yeah, we, we, we, we see it. We, we, you, you do this every time, okay? It's, it's, it's ridiculous. By the way, I'm only going to plug it a few more times WTF America go get it. We really appreciate all of the reviews, but this is a WTF moment and we have to use the right language and we have to cover this stuff the right way because what we're watching is not normal. We have to fortify our minds to that this is not normal politics. We shouldn't be looking at this through a gamified lens. We need generational change. We need international pro-democracy independent media working together. We lay out how Midas Touch Network was created and we talk about how we get out of this hell collectively. The world, if you support democracy and facts and truth, how do we do it? We lay it out very specifically. Okay, so last night Donald Trump's leaving South Carolina where he also called Dr. Annie Andrews, who's running against Darling Graham or a bunch of stories that came out today about Lindsey Graham as well. But in any event, the way Trump I guess deals with that is to call Dr. Annie Andrews a mother of three, a slur for transgender people and he's like, "Oh, Dr. Annie, Dr. Annie!" "Oh, Dr. Annie, come on, man. What are you doing?" I mean, you're sick. It's hateful language that should be condemned. And what are you doing? Be serious, man. This is a real life. These are people's lives. I think about it at just literally a family level that Dr. Annie Andrews has to explain to her three children why the president of the United States is calling their mother a tranny and the children asking questions about, just think about that. I think about a conversation that then have to take place at households across America where children are, my daughter's two years old and so forth, she's very perceptive two years old though. She knows, "Papa book, Papa book, Papa book." But in a year or two, she watches that and thankfully, I don't think that'll be her. I think we're going to purge this mega-scorge. I feel comfortable and confident about that, but I think about conversations that have to happen across the country where people are, why is the president of the United States behaving that way? I think about just people generally. I mean, as a guy, I think about one of the things that I try to do is be a mentor to young men. It's one of the reasons why I teach. There's a lot of reasons why I teach, but I think that I try to be a mentor to everybody, but I think that there's a lost generation of young men who fall for this fake alpha crap and are taught to be dicks and are taught to be jerks and assholes and to treat people with disrespect and to bullying. That's not how I grew up, so I make it a point to use my platform and to use what I can do to try to be a mentor and a role model to the extent that I can be in a purport to whatever I try, to try, I don't purport to be perfect, but I try, I try, I do my best, but I think about the message that gets sent to young men and then also the treatment of women. I think about, even today, Donald Trump did this post about Vivek Ramaswami's ads where Vivek used the estranged mother of Dr. Amy Acton in an ad to attack her daughter. They were estranged because Amy Acton's stepfather raped her, raped Amy Acton when she was 12 years old, and the stepfather was arrested, Amy Acton and her brother were removed from the house. The reason Amy Acton is estranged from her mother was her mother took the side of the stepfather who was raping her daughter when she was 12 years old. And so Vivek featured Amy Acton's mother in this ad and spent millions of dollars with the mom bashing rate victim, a sex assault victim, and it's disgusting. It's absolutely like absolutely freaking disgusting behavior. I'm not even saying it's a political, it's disgusting behavior, and leave it to a sex predator like Donald Trump because that's what he is. He is a sex predator. He's been found civilly liable for sexual assault. I mean, he's on audio bragging that he's sexually assaults women because he's rich, and you get away with it when you're rich, and then his defense to that is its locker room talk. And that's how men talk in the locker room that men, he says, this is what we just what we joke about. We joke about sexually assaulting women because if you have money, that's that's what I meant locker room talk. And then he's surrounded, make people go locker room talk locker room. That's not locker room talk. That's sick disgusting. It's not what happens in locker rooms, you know, when I interviewed Colin Kaepernick and clients who are athletes, they don't go around in the locker room talking about sexually assaulting girls and women, what the hell are you talking about? And Trump bragged about using his beauty pageants to inspect girls naked without their consent and the beauty pageants that he, I mean, these are things, these are things that he said. So it's not shocking, although it always still shocks the conscious when he posted the vague Ramaswami's ad was great. And the mother's ad should disqualify Dr. Amy act. And that's what Donald Trump posted. The vague Ramaswami put up a very powerful ad about a mother saying that her daughter Amy act and who is running for the governor of Ohio is a liar and much worse, the press and a concerned and well coordinated attack is trying to get the vague Ramaswami to take down the ad. Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about a daughter in that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving an office. He goes on and just winds, but it's sick, think sick, sick, sick, sick, sick. I mean, but this is the Epstein class. Trump, the vague, they're the Epstein class. These are sick. These are sick demons. These are demon people. These are demonic people. These are sick, demonic people. And we have to keep on saying that are these are sick, demonic people. That's who they are. It's not, it's not a Republican Democratic thing. You want me to show you? Do we have this clip? I was reflecting about the Kansas debate that took place. Did you see the Kansas debate? It was, what's the guy's name? Hamilton. Adam Hamilton versus the mega-Republican Roger Marshall, right? Hamilton's the Democrat, mega-Republican extremist, Marshall, who is currently a senator, Marshall. And I wanted to look historically in Germany, see if we've got this one. I wanted to look at the 1996 Republican convention because I was thinking about Kansas. And I remember
at that time growing up, I was 11, but I remember was Clinton versus Bob Dole. And Bob Dole was viewed as, you know, a pretty right wing guy at the time, you know, and going against Bill Clinton, right? And people were saying like, well, Bill Clinton was, you know, able, especially in 1992, they left wing radical extreme. And Bob Dole was viewed as like a right wing conservative. This is what a conservative looked like. So I went back and I looked at it and I'm like, I remember, like his convention speech. I'm like, what did he say? I'm, you know, just with all of the madness in the Maga Republican Party today, like, let me remind you that this was what a Republican looked like in 1996. He's a Kansas, he was, he's dead now. He's a Kansas senator at the, or was a Kansas senator at the time. He was the leader of the party at the time. Just watch this here, let's play. A family from Mexico arrives this morning legally, has as much right for the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers. The Republican Party is broad and inclusive. It represents the Republican Party is broad and inclusive. It represents many streams of opinion and many points of view. But if there's anyone who has mistakenly attached himself to our party in the belief that we are not open to citizens of every race and religion, then let me remind you, tonight this hall belongs to the party of Lincoln and the exits which are clearly marked are for you to walk out of as I stand this ground without compromise. Now, how do you go from that to, this is here, do, do this one from South Carolina, Jeremy, where he does this. Here, let's play it. Boom. Boom. And then when he was saying Governor Haley, he then just starts to go like, you're playing this clip. And I'd say 90% of the reason I took the governor. I took the governor. I put her over the United Nations. Do that one again, Jeremy. I just want to see it one more time. I took the governor. Then he talks about how Melania asks him after a lot of these speeches if he's okay because he says, you know, I keep running into walls. I'm not able to walk straight. I can't speak in sentences. So my wife says, she says, well, he goes, I go home to the White House. He said, and I, he goes, I say to Melania, he goes, I say, baby, baby, baby, hey, baby. Was I the best baby? Was I the best tonight baby? Nobody does it like me, baby, right? And she goes, what happened to you? Are you okay? And, and, and I say, yeah, I'm just pretending to be Joe Biden. So that's why I'm running into walls. And that's why I can't walk downstairs because I am saying I'm Joe Biden, baby. Come on, baby, don't you know that baby, baby? Here, watch what he says. This is part of his speech, your play this clip. And then I came back and I finished my speech. And I said, baby, how good was that tonight? Was that the best? Nobody can do it like me, baby. You see that crowd? And she said, what happened to you? Are you okay? And I said, what do you mean? They had you walking around the stage hitting the wall. Are you okay, darling? So they took my little routine and they said that I was me doing it. I said, that's the end of sarcasm. Okay, they put young people behind them, you know, and you look at the young people behind them. Young boys, you want to call them that? People who purport to be men, young ladies, young girls behind him, some like these crowds are significantly smaller. But, you know, they're laughing at that behavior. This is all they know, right? I mean, the past 10 years have been defined sadly by madness, by WTF. It's been defined by madness. Because even during the Biden administration, it was all Trump and Maga and right wing media doing maniac behavior on replay over and over and over and over and over again. And then the first Trump term, the Biden term. And now this is what a lot of people, I mean, those people are 14, 15, 16 years old. This is what they've seen. They don't know what mature leadership looks like. And I'm not suggesting that, you know, America has a history of all perfect leaders far from it. But I'm just literally talking about a baseline of seriousness and then competence. And then like, let's just start there. Like, let's just start with the floor. Like, I'd like to rise through this my own Maslow's hierarchy of political needs. But I think we need to start at a floor of like, we're not serious. This isn't, this isn't serious behavior. You have Trump saying, I didn't get the Nobel Prize. I didn't get the Pulitzer Prize. I should have gotten the Pulitzer Prize. I should have gotten the Pulitzer. Let's play this clip. The only thing I know is she hates Israel. That's the only thing. She hates Israel with a passion. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. He doesn't like the fact that I saw of was, watch what happens. Look, look, he's already gone. Wow. You're, you're law enforcement is fantastic. Next one also show the other one, Jeremy. That's like that. So, but I didn't get the Nobel Prize. I didn't get the Pulitzer. I should have gotten the Pulitzer for writing too. The people that got it shouldn't have gotten it. You know, they got the, they got a Pulitzer Prize for their accurate and wonderful writing on the subject of Russia, Russia, Russia. They all had it wrong. They had it wrong. But the Nobel Peace Prize, everybody said, well, you'll get it. They said, I'll get it last year. The person who got it a very high quality woman, you know, who that is. And she said that, no, no, I don't deserve the Nobel Prize. There's only one person in the world that deserves it. In fact, she said, I mean, what, what is that? I mean, seriously, what, what the F is that? I mean, it, tell her we watch them. Not normal. The American people are struggling. It's not a talking point. It's not a messaging point. People can't afford things right now. People are delinquent on their credit card bills, on their student loans. People can't pay their rent right now. They don't have health care. People are going hungry in the United States. We're in never ending wars. Likely, any minute now, the Trump regime in Netanyahu regime are going to escalate. Netanyahu is already saying regime change, regime change. It has to be regime change. It's us or them regime change, regime change, which if you take that to its natural conclusion, that means global economic depression, a million American service members killed, and we will also not achieve regime change. But that's what that means. So in Trump and Netanyahu, we'll finish him off, we'll finish the job. If you're really going to even attempt to do a regime change in Iran, where the IRGC is fully embedded and you would have to basically figure out a way to get rid of the carons of big country, two million IRGC aligned people who are not going to go easily and have they have massive weapon arsenal. Trump could say, "Oh, we took out their Navy. You did it. It's just a liar." I mean, they have a massive amount of ballistics, a massive amount of drones, a massive amount of submersives, a massive amount of anti-ship stuff, a massive amount of cruise missiles. And they've developed the Anash III. They're increasing their capabilities significantly. They've got a massive military, massive military. So if you truly wanted it, which I don't think we should be involved in this catastrophic war at all, I think Trump and Netanyahu are genocidal maniacs that need to be tried at the hey, you know where I stand on this. If you were looking at it though from some neocon military strategy, you don't win the war, which we should never be in, but you don't win the war by making social media posts. You can't win the war by dropping a moab, a mother of all bomb on pickaxe mountain, or doing another bombing campaign that doesn't win the war. In fact, it further entrenched the Iranian regime. To the extent you even concede from a military strategy standpoint of winning the war, whatever that means with regime change, you would have to commit about a million American service
members who would likely be dead. And then there wouldn't be a regime change. That's what it means. Global economic depression, trillions of dollars in the Middle East blown up and obliterated, the likes of which we've never seen in apocalypse like we've never seen in world history. And maybe with Netanyahu's end of day's view of the world, and he's a sick old individual as his Donald Trump, they don't have, they're sick, they're sick old human beings, quite literally, sick in the head and sick in terms of health. Maybe they don't see a future for this earth. But what these two sickos are doing right now is apocalyptic. It is hell breaking loose. So spare me when you go, hell is breaking loose, shut up. It is breaking loose, okay? It is loose, it is breaking loose. And I'm giving you receipts and data points of it breaking loose, okay? I mean, look at these sickos. Did you see that Netanyahu who was posting videos of him in Donald Trump doing like weird dances? I don't think we may have the photo of him, but it's them dancing together as they cavalierly talk about catastrophic escalation and murdering children. I mean, these are real sick, these are real demons. These are real sick demons. There's no other way around. These are sick, sick, sick demons, demon humans. And you just have to look at it. This isn't a normal Republican, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is a demon Epstein class. These are sick, sick, sick, sick, sick people. It's what we see. This was Donald Trump on the tarmac last night saying, we're not negotiating with Iran. Most seem to think we're going to do this after the election. We may do it tomorrow. I don't know. I'll just wake up and I'll see. I'll just wake up and I'll see here, play. Well, against Iran, we have a little, we have a little conflict against Iran. And they're going to send the event in the real deal of events. But we're doing very well militarily and financially against Iran. Is there any developments? Is there any developments with those negotiations? I mean, are they ongoing with Iran at this Iran? A little bit, but we'll see what happens. Are you over it? Are you over negotiating with the Iranians at this point? No, I think we're not negotiating with. We are going to have something one way the other will happen fairly soon. Most people seem to think it's after the election. And we're going to see what happens. But I will say this, what we've done with Iran is amazing. What we've done is amazing. I'm already talking. Is that amazing? What are you talking about? I don't know. What are we talking about there? He's next to a Vanderholly field, right? The day before he was there with Floyd Mayweather. The day before he was there with Mike Tyson. Come on, what are we doing, folks? I hope you've got your copy of WTF America. I want to read the comments now. Tell me what you thought about the book. If you've read it or if you listened to the audio. 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[email protected]/mytis, M-E-I-D-A-S. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. - Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Micellus and this is how we're breaking news before we went to break. I talked about how the price of crude is now about $114. A barrel I talked about how the IRGC struck seven more tankers in the Strait of Hormuz's Centcom was making post earlier today that they would stop $25 billion worth of Iranian crude from getting out of the Strait of Hormuz, which is just a made-up number, $25 billion, even in the most optimistic projections of what Iran said. It could get out of the Strait of Hormuz with no blockade for those 100 days. It would have been like $15 billion worth. And so it is making up numbers. I mean, everything's just a 22 trillion, 25 billion. You could have just said 15 billion. That would be a full blockade of Iran's most optimistic scenario of the amount of money they would have made. But you just come up with 25 billion. So it's just everything you say is just the lie. Like Donald Trump posted this morning, 75,000 Iranian protesters were killed in the past seven months. And three or four weeks ago, Trump said 100,000. A few weeks before that, he said 60,000. A few weeks before that, they said 50,000. A few weeks before that, they said 30,000. So when you say 30,000, 50,000, 100,000, 75,000, remember when Donald Trump was sued civilly by New York Attorney General, Letitia James, the premise of the lawsuit was he made up numbers. It's why character and past behavior is important. It's not something that we should have overlooked. We didn't hear of the Midas Touch network, but there were lots of people who would say, ah, you're being hyperbolic. You're being hyperbolic. Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're not being hyperbolic. Telling you the truth of what's happened. What's wrong with this guy? And so he's doing the same thing. We brought in $22 trillion. He says, we didn't bring in $22 trillion. If we brought in $22 trillion, why the debt increased to over $40 trillion? Why wouldn't it decrease to $20 trillion? Which if you were able to decrease the debt and balance the budget, like former President Clinton, you'd be praised for that. You may have won the House on the Senate, but you did it. You did the opposite of you're making up the number. The deficit has increased. Dead increased deficit increases. You have the Treasury bond market as an absolute shambles right now. The 30 or fixed mortgage is like 7.5%. People are struggling. You're just making up numbers. Federal government spending is up. You promised $5,000 over and over again. Doge, dividend, tariff rebates. He said that, I mean, did you see? I saw that this number that last year, the whole year, like 100,000 jobs were created. Did you see that? It was misreported. Or the numbers that were first given were about 1.2 million new jobs were created in 2025. But after revisions, the economy only added 116,000. 90% less. Former President Biden would be bringing in 200,000, 250,000 jobs a month. And he would be getting, nice. Screamed at, you know, why wasn't it 350 or Trump? I would bring in 500,000. I'll make GDP growth 8.5%. You know, and then when he gets these awful GDP numbers, what does Trump say? No, it's 8.5. Well, but the number is like barely 1%. So what? Oh, no, no, no, they bring out Kevin Hassett, right? This loser who's been wrong about everything in his whole life. And, you know, and then he'll go, actually, if you extrapolated, then it's used words. If you extrapolate the curvature, it's actually eight point five. I said, no, it's not. It's not a bad man. You're a liar. You're just a bunch of freaking liars about everything. And so fly about the straight of Hormuz sent.
calm is just this, I get it. Look, Iran has propaganda, the US has propaganda. There's lots of propaganda. Okay. The US propaganda is like the dumb, dumb, dumb propaganda. It's like the stupidest lies. It's like, like, what are you talking about? We know we don't control the strain of her moves. Like, why say that? Like, why go there? I don't want to give a hat tip to our great editorial team at the Midas Touch Network. You had Aaron Parnas, Ken Harba, the team at Valor media who partners with the Midas Touch Network. They've done such an incredible job providing, we did this exclusive report today. We obtained dozens of never before seen photos and videos, revealing devastating damage to the US military bases from Trump's catastrophic war in Iran. Troops and military families are breaking their silence to the Midas Touch Network, describing being abandoned by their own government. It's so much worse than people realize is what they're telling us. Service members are saying they had no idea what they're even fighting for. Troops were forced to dig their own foxholes since there was no protection against Iranian drones, destroyed aircraft, bombed out barracks and mess halls, military families sheltering in parking garages. This is what the new Midas Touch report is revealing about this catastrophic war. Our troops deserve competent leadership, a clear mission and a commander in chief and secretary of defense who don't send them into war without a plan. As Donald Trump did this morning, he truth, he truthed at Iran. And then truth social was like, Donald Trump just did a nasty, a nasty truth social bomb breaking. Trump slams Iran in new truth as we said on the Midas Touch account. Yeah, not sure how Iran is going to recover from this. Let me show you Aaron Parnas made this video. It's on our Instagram account right now. Here's how he describes the reporting from him and Harba Valor Media. Here, let's play. I have breaking exclusive news right now. This is what the United States government does not want you to see about the war in Iran and it is horrific. US troops have told us what the Pentagon hasn't. Destroyed aircrafts, bombed barracks, families left behind in Bahrain, troops literally having to dig their own foxholes. I have never before seen images and videos from various US military bases in the Middle East and exclusive reporting in coordination with Midas Touch and the Valor Media Network. Service members told us about the devastation that bases are experiencing in the Middle East right now. And these are some of the images coming from the Middle East like America's base in Saudi Arabia. And Jordan sources told us that Iranian missiles and drones hit US barracks in July. They say that they could literally hear troops calling for help from inside the flames and they couldn't reach them. In the United Arab Emirates, troops tell us that they learned about the war in Iran at the same time you and I did on television. They had no shelters. Some were to take out to eat. Others had to dig their own foxholes. In Bahrain, families say evacuation planes were waiting but the Pentagon refused to send them because it would quote "make the situation look bad at home." And now service members say that they were used as pawns in this war, that their children's innocence were stripped from them. That's the families of service members. And some don't even care if they live or die anymore. The exclusive reporting is on the Midas Touch Network's website. Please read it all and look at all of the videos and all of the images. Spread the word and follow for more. Show you this near miss never before seen footage of a missile attack on a US base in the United Arab Emirates shows a missile striking just meters away from American personnel caught out in the open. Show you this let's play. Terrific, horrific stuff and I really want to give thanks to all of our writers and research. They spent a very long time speaking with service members collecting this information that's never been reported anywhere else. And I think that what we're trying to show here is that independent media. We can do the reporting on a level that exceeds what actually exists out there in terms of even the capabilities of reporting on things in war zones wherever even more than what other larger news organizations were once able to do that have now been captured by the oligarchs. And I'm only going to say it a few more times, but just because it's important. WTF America is the book the way out of this hell and back to democracy. I hope you're able to order a copy now or get it as a gift for other people either the hardcover or the ebook and we talk about how we created this network. The first few chapters are dedicated to the origin story, how we're trying to build as a counter to state regime media fox how they really began in 1970 with a Roger L's propaganda memo to Richard Nixon and how that became right wing radio, how that became Fox and how that became a whole right wing disinformation echo chamber, if you will. And you know, sometimes I get asked, I can say well, Ben, you know, you're doing a media network and you're telling us what's happening, but what else are you doing? You know, or you're preaching to the choir or whatever it is, which I don't think we are. I mean, our viewers span the globe, span political parties. So I don't really think we're preaching to the choir, but whenever I hear that, oh, you're preaching to the choir or whatever I go, do you think that Fox is preaching to the choir? Do you think Fox is preaching to a right wing audience inevitably people go, yeah, of course they are. And is Fox doing reporting, I mean, reporting to do reporting? Yeah. Okay. So you think is you think Fox is a powerful entity in terms of the ability of what they've been able to achieve for bad, you think they're weak or you think that they've been powerful in doing bad things. Yeah, they have. Okay, well, don't you want to create a version for good? So why why does the logic apply to them? But why wouldn't she want one for democracy? A version for good, a version for truth, a version of a fire hose of information and facts to counter the fire hose of disinformation, right? So when I put it in those terms, I think I think when we lay out the thesis in the book as well, and I think it's a it's a very, very, very important one. You know, look, you've got Donald Trump out there. These are the types of things he's posting today. All foreign accounts, foreign body counts, vote red, he says, the Republican stand, they're a public stand strong. It's like a weird photo of himself draped in an American flag standing like a massive bronze statue over the White House. I mean, sick, they're a public stand strong, the hell? Then he post this racist AI slop of a white guy in prison attacking black men in prison. I mean, it's just pure AI racist slop that's out there. And he reposts this account even behind bars, bullies can't break a strong man, never underestimate someone who refuses to give up. You got Netanyahu posting weird videos of himself, you know, at a gym with punching bags, like, well, what are we, what are we doing here? What are we doing here? And meanwhile, you have Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, now the AG, who's turned the DOJ into a criminal racketeering enterprise, Todd Blanche, you know, he's out there still covering up the Epstein files for Donald Trump. Remember, this whole catastrophic war in Iran began because Trump's covering up the Epstein files, right? Since the Epstein Transparency Act passed when an overwhelming veto proof support, Congress only came back into session like 14 days in the past six months, right? Under Maga Mike, Congress only worked 14 days in like six months and the catastrophic war, and Maga Mike sending everybody home really was around the Epstein files. It's pretty quick, we all know that. But, you know, you have New York Post, they're a part of regime media, they have their own podcast, Todd Blanche goes on the New York Post podcast, and he says the following on the Epstein files, he's never about protecting Trump, he says, you're playing this clip. Over the last four years, then you're blinded. So there was never, this was never, ever, ever about protecting President Trump, ever. And so what the, what the documents did reveal that during the civil lawsuits, when, when he was named improperly, the lawyers would call him, he didn't fight, he said, "Come over, talk to me, I got nothing to hide." And that's in the document. Yeah, that's literally not what's in the opposite is in the documents, literally the opposite. Sick people, right? Demonic. That's why I go back to, these are demons, these are six, six, six, six, six, six, six, humans. Sick humans. More over here from Blanche saying, yeah, I guess we may have made a few mistakes, but it's all like very minor with the Epstein files, very, very minor here, play this clip. And by the way, we made mistakes, and I've owned up to those mistakes, meaning
a reviewer that's reviewing documents, maybe didn't redact a name and they should have, which there's no excuse for that, but mistakes were made. But what happened when we were called out for those mistakes? We owned up to them and we fixed them. And so I don't know what happens next with respect to the public's perception of the work that we did, but I can tell you that President Trump from day one said, "Release as many of the files. Everything released when the Epstein transparency act was passed by Congress, the President signed it like within a day, two days. And then we put our lawyers to work to comply with the statute, which we did. And I don't know. I can tell you that they, I mean, the Democrats obviously are trying to tie some dirt to President Trump because he knew Epstein back in the day. Yes. And by the way, amazingly, you didn't hear a peep about Epstein during four Biden years. And make no mistake, if President Trump did something wrong or was in the Epstein files, if you think that Garland and Chris Ray and Biden wouldn't have exposed that. Yeah. We did hear a peep. We heard about it from people like you and Trump saying that it's going to be released, saying that they want to release it. They're going to release it. By the way, should Biden have released it? Probably. I mean, he was focused on dealing with the catastrophic economy that Trump left him the first time. You know, I think people have a lot of rightful criticisms about Merrick Garland, about, you know, the way he was handled should have released it, released it. You know, I'll tell you the documents that have been released are very, very bad already for Trump. That's why they're still hiding them right now. That's, they're not complying with the statute. There's still millions of documents that are being withheld. But Biden viewed, and we could say this was wrongful or the right move, Biden's view of it was, look, I'm focused on things like the Chips Act and the Pact Act and, you know, I want to help red states, even more than blue states. That was a philosophy of thinking to which was not rewarded. In fact, it was hurt. You know, he had an old school approach of, you know, the days where he and Bob Dull would go to the bar and they, you know, figured out, you know, and, you know, you know, you're not going to do this with this, with this bunch of demons, these mega demons, you're not going to do it with them no more. And so, and then, you know, when the host is like, oh, well, the Democrats want to tie dirt them in a partisan issue. I think the people, if people just want the documents released, it's pretty basic. The people want the documents released. I mean, the survivors, a lot of them voted for Trump, you know, they thought that he was going to release the files and he did it. And they feel betrayed. They know what's happening right now. And so, where does this go? There's another Epstein Transparency Act that will pass with veto proof once Congress comes back into session. And then, you know, I think we're going to see a lot of investigations into Trump and this whole regime, WTF America is the book. If you are, if you are able to order it, if you've been holding off, order it now, hard cover, or ebook, or you can get it as a gift for people that you know, if you've already got copies, all the like, the lists are based on sales through tomorrow. And I think you're just going to like the book, you know, it's dedicated to the minus money. All right. Let's take our last break of the show. We still got a lot to discuss. If you've ever looked into GLP ones, you probably had the same reaction I did. Why is this so expensive? That's what initially got me interested in collective. 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I think it sheds new light on everything that's happening and there's a lot more but this has, you know, I think that we will see a lot more people start to pay attention to the reporting that we just released here on the minus touch network and, you know, my philosophy on all of this reporting is the thing about the book. I don't, I don't silo information, right? The reality is that there's nothing in the book. It ties everything together, it gives you the story, but I didn't sit on secret information. If I have the information, I'm going to, I need to vet it, then I'm going to give it to you right away, regardless of the book or regardless of whatever. I want you to have it right away and I'll let you decide if it's a powerful story or not a powerful story, but I think that, you know, it's incumbent upon us as truth tellers, as a news network, that we get the information out once we authenticate it as quick as we can. And, you know, this story actually took a number of weeks because we had to authenticate it. We had to speak with service members who were at these bases, who opened up to us and trusted us with their stories. And so grateful, obviously, to them, to our courageous service members. We know we have a lot of military families who watch this show. And we're thinking about you and my own view is that it's the ultimate act of patriotism to accurately describe what's happening in this catastrophic war. It's not patriotism to wrap myself in the flag and then lie to you and say, we're winning, we have all of our military bases, we control the straight of horror moves, Iran's getting their ass kicked. They are going to collapse any day now, just you wait. That's not a, you know, I may make an American feel good. I don't know. I mean, I don't think we should have been in this war in the first place, but, you know, I don't know. Okay. Does that, that's not true. Our military bases are destroyed. Mostly all of them are absolutely destroyed, and that's not hyperbolic. They're done, Iran launched ballistics and drones, and they were not protected. These bases and they've been, they've been destroyed. Iran controls the straight of horror moves. They do. And even if you're like, well, I read an article that says more oil is getting out now than before the war. It just used common sense. You think more oil, you think the war was beneficial to the straight of horror moves. We need better oil situation from the shirt, let's go to war. You think it's a better situation like just logically that makes sense to you. Come on. Like, let's be real here, but let's just assume for the sake of argument as we would say in the law, assume our goendo, it's the same, which it isn't, assume it's the same amount. Okay. Well, now it costs $1.5 million a day to utilize a very large crude carrier for the ship [BLANK_AUDIO]
transfers. And then every day of the voyage, it's $1.5 million a day for transport of crude. So that adds $35 to $40 million to the process where it used to cost $30,000 a day. And so what that means is that $33 to $40 are being added per barrel based upon the risk premium with the wrong striking tanker after tanker. So even if you assume the same amount of oil, the fact that the U.S. Navy has now said, you know what, we're not going to behave as a Navy. We're going to behave as a smuggling ring. We're basically going to be like narcos when it comes to oil. And we're going to help oil go through a southern route in the strait of Hormuz by Oman. That risk that's created and the fact that you need aircraft carriers and coordination with the patches and all of this. And that Iran still strikes the tankers. That's adding $1.5 million a day. And I just think about our proud Navy. You know, I know so many people in the Navy. I love our Navy. Don't get it twisted. But we're not using our Navy as a Navy. We're using our Navy as smugglers. And that's kind of embarrassing. Trump is making posts bragging about being a pirate. This is our Navy. This is the proud United States Navy. This was supposed to be a fighting force. And Trump's a gangster. Trump's a loser gangster. So of course, he brags that the use of our Navy is a smuggling ring to bring oil out of a route by Oman hugging the coast of Oman through ship to ship transfers. Whereas before the catastrophic war started, all the oil was getting out of the strait of Hormuz fine. This is the boat. This is what Sencom is bragging about. Well, I still look at the price of crude and I still see right now it had $114 a barrel and up 4.26% today. Yeah, by the time this post was made, it's already 114. What do you think it's going to be tomorrow? Look at the trend right there as well. Look at the trend right here. You know, when all of these dips are Trump market manipulation, but you know what the market then realizes, then it goes up the market then realizes it goes up. You want to solve the war in Iran? Let me show you how you solve it. You take the US aircraft carriers and you leave the region. That's what you do at this point. You lost the war, you pack up, you leave. That's what you do. And then if Iran doesn't open the strait of Hormuz, then you rally an international coalition. You said, see, we removed our carriers. Okay, we're not even in the region anymore. Okay. Iran needs to open up the strait. The US is committing not to be in the strait of Hormuz, no blockade, unfreeze the freaking $12 billion that Iran wants. Just unfreeze it. And the swing of things, the amount of money compared to what this Hormuz being caused is nothing. So just unfreeze the $12 billion that's in a Atari account with respect to the broader $300 billion that Iran wants because of the damage that's been caused. To me, you know what, you say there should be compensation paid, you figure out what that looks like. Is that $50 billion? Is it $100 billion? You do that in concert with Gulf States and a broader coalition. You go, look, we're not going to do $300 billion, but we will invest $50 billion over the course of three years in concert with Gulf partners. We want to empower Gulf autonomy over here. You already have the mecca packed. There's already alliances that are being formed to kind of replace the broken US security umbrella. And that's how you resolve the issue. It's insane. And then, and then look, you want to know what I also think, let me be very clear of my personal view. That Israel needs to leave southern Lebanon, all these bullshit security zones, which is just Israel capturing territory that doesn't belong to it, and then stealing land of other countries. Israel needs to get the hell out of there in my opinion. I think though the way to start the conversation, to open up the strait of her moves, and then we get there, you know, the most practical way, if you think about the various dynamics that are taking place here from a real politic perspective is you get the carriers out, you unfreeze the funds, you commit a real number to Iran's redevelopment, you empower the local Arab nations, you commit to working on a way to get Netanyahu, the hell out of there, which is important. I would like to see that happen immediately. Netanyahu is a psycho, genocidal maniac. So it's going to be, you know, I think, I think we want to open up strait of her moves. Then we got to figure out what we do there. You know, in my, you know, my view is, you know, I'm very deeply critical, I would be an understatement of everything, and we should not be sending any more money there in my opinion, but or ever, you know, in the future, based on the behavior of what the hell is happening. But look, let's open up the strait of her moves right now. And I think that is, I think what I outlined is a legitimate framework for how you do it. There's no other way to do it. There's no other way to do it because we, we shouldn't have been involved in the war. Netanyahu got us involved in, and Trump got involved partially to cover up the Epstein files, you know, Netanyahu is still making, you know, these videos. We got to get rid of the regime, regime, we got to regime change. You're not doing regime change. You're not going to happen. You know, it's to stop, stop acting, you know, how psychotic can you be that the lesson that you've drawn is that by bombing more, you will be able to get regime change or that by attacking the Iranian civilians, you're going to curry favor with the Iranian civilians. You know, they, they see what you did in Gaza. They don't want you to do a Gaza in Iran. They know that that's what's coming. So they're not, they don't want that. Obviously, no one wants that. So anyway, that's my, if you want to know what, you know, Ben, okay, you say that's how you result in the situation. There's no other way to result in the situation other than what I just outlined at this point. And if you're going to go to war, which, again, let me be 100 with you, we shouldn't. It's catastrophic. We should never have been involved in this war in the first place. I just always want to repeat that because I think Trump and Netanyahu exit, Rubio, Bance, their war criminals, they need to be tried at the Hague. I want to reflect a real politic and military strategist perspective, though, which is if you're actually going to do a war, then you've got to do a war. And a war means ground troops. A war means hundreds of thousands or millions of American service members dying for this. If you actually want a chance of taking over the country, which is not going to work anyway, and you're not going to do regime change. But that's what a war is. A war isn't doing social media posts and saying, it's open. It's open. Look at the AI slap of me being a pirate. Look at the AI slap of me pretending to bomb Carg Island. Look at me in Netanyahu dancing. That's not what a war is. A war is, you know, 3,000, 5,000 people will be dead every day. Global economic catastrophe. That's what a war is. You know, like let's, like, let's, you know, Trump, Trump wants this to be a reality show thing. He wants it to be like, you know, like a game like the next step. We war. This is war. This is death. This is death. This, that's war is bloody. It's carnage. It's heads falling off. It's arms falling off. It's people being slaughter. It's death, death, death. And that's what war is. It's not a game. That's why you need serious people who understand that needs to be avoided. You don't just go into that haphazardly or carelessly. It's war, war and peace, right? You don't have, you know, a guy out there, you know, who's in rallies, you know, talking about men's asses. You know, we've got a great ass. We beat that shit out of them. You know what? This is war. This is, this is, this is body parts falling off. This is death. This is people and trenches and freaking drones flying everywhere. This is guts flying. That's war. So don't act like this is some game. And one of the things that Trump has done and these magas have done is they've made words have no meaning in things in reality. Feel more like a simulation than actually things that are happening and having people so disconnected from world events and world affairs that no one's even covering the types of things that we're covering here on the Midas Touch. No, this is, this is war and peace. This is, pick your words, pick your words carefully. Pick your words very carefully because your words can lead to a six-year-old girl dying in Zappresia in her, you know, next to her mother because your words. This is war and peace. Your words can lead to a elementary school being blown up and 168 little girls being slaughtered. Pick your words carefully, because your words can lead to a group
of children at a sports hall at volleyball practice, being killed by these tungsten pellet bullets flying over their heads, severing their arteries as blood flows everywhere. Pick your words very freaking carefully because this is reality. Not a reality show. Not the bullshit of Sean Duffy with his family, celebrating, Xi Jinping showing up here. Not what's the lady's name with the gigantic neck, Kevin Kelly, Lefler. This isn't the small business reality show situation. This is real life. This is some real shit and we need serious freaking human beings. We need to be serious. So when JD Vance is out there saying, "What, Elon Musk, store, shield, store, it's a private company." So if they're terms of service, if they're toss is just like, "You can't use it. What can we do?" We're just, "I'm just JD. I can't do anything. Watch what JD says here, play this clip." Well, I think that fundamentally Elon Musk runs a private corporation and I think it's completely understandable that he doesn't want to get in the middle of what is a war between two state actors without the United States government effectively directing him on what to do. So I don't think that's about Elon. I think it's fundamentally what is America's policy and you pray to Russia going to be, as I just said earlier, I think we're working on some renewed negotiations. What is your policy going to be, Trump's promise was that he had magic. He was Harry Potter. What do they say? It's a Harry Potter expression. What does Harry Potter say when he has the thing, is they're like an invictus, what does he say? What does Harry Potter say? Trump says that he had magic words. Someone give me what Harry Potter says so I can say it. Anybody want to give me what Harry Potter says in the chat? No, it wants to give, "Wing derriam liviosa, okay. They're liviosa, liviosa, and now I'll bring peace between Russia and Ukraine. It'll be easy, liviosa, wing derriam liviosa, okay, well, that didn't work, okay. That was not a real thing. You can't do liviosa, okay. So now we're October 22nd, 2026. The war is out of control. We have regional wars everywhere and Trump is saying he deserves a Pulitzer Prize, okay. That's where we're at right now, that's where we're at right now, six, six, six stuff. We got the brother show coming up at five Eastern, five Pacific, eight Eastern, eight Eastern, five Pacific, get your copy of WTF, Petronius, Petronius, Wing derriam liviosa, Kalamazoo, not African-Dabra, alohamorah, it's not African-Dabra, it's not African-Dabra, expecto petroleum. I expecto some petroleum right now, expecto much cheaper, freaking petroleum, WTF America, the way out of this hell and back to democracy, appreciate you, get your copy now, recommended to people. That's a big way you can help right now is when this show ends, just help people, you know, go get the book. Thanks everybody, appreciate it, grateful for you, shout out, minus and mighty thanks for watching. I'll see you tonight. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber for our sub-stack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Philakowski, add three episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content, only available at MidasPlus.com.
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