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Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben 11/12/2026

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Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben 11/12/2026

The transcript presents a critical analysis of Donald Trump’s leadership, labeling it as reckless, dishonest, and deeply harmful to U.S. democracy, national security, and global alliances. It highlights how Trump’s policies—such as prolonged military deployments in the Arabian Sea, escalation threats in Iran, and protectionist tariffs—have led to public distrust and suffering among military families. The narrative emphasizes that these actions are not only ineffective but morally and strategically disastrous, with long-term consequences including increased casualties, weakened alliances, and a loss of global credibility. The political shift in the South, particularly Mississippi, is presented as a pivotal moment reflecting a broader public rejection of Trump’s authoritarian style and values. The text calls for transparency, accountability, and a return to principled leadership, urging a reevaluation of U.S. military and foreign policy. It stresses that true leadership requires clear goals, honesty, and empathy, contrasting sharply with Trump’s chaotic, emotionally charged rhetoric. Additionally, the piece promotes financial literacy through Wise, advocating for global, fee-free money management as a symbol of rational, informed personal finance. Ultimately, the message is one of moral clarity: the American people are rejecting a regime of deception and war-mongering, and the future demands leaders who act with integrity, not just power.

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Nobody thought Mississippi was possible, but you did might as mighty and obviously Scott Colombe and his team did they put in the work. They were everywhere in Mississippi, including at a Trump rally in the home stretch where Scott Colombe showed up. It's a top lawyer, former judge. Remember, Maggie Republican extremist Cindy Hyde Smith blocked his appointment to the federal bench. He basically showed her exactly why that was a massive mistake. We had him on back in September of 2025. An incredible honor to have him on. We always believed in that race. We did a video back then about Trump having a rude awakening in Mississippi. Lots of people like, "Yeah, Mississippi, what are you talking about?" We said, "Pay attention." I think this is something that Democrats need to realize going forward. That this election, this seismic victory, can be a generational victory now. It's important to make sure that resources are put in to places like Mississippi and the South and throughout this country. Because when you really break it down and you actually speak to voters, you find out that there's actually a lot of alignment there. If you can win Mississippi, if you can win South Carolina, if you can win Texas, if you can win Ohio, if you can win the Secretary of State Race in Indiana, if you can win Michigan, if you can win these states, if you can win Missouri, if you win these states, I think that shows really what can happen for generations. I mean, obviously, Trump and Maga aren't learning their lesson. I mean, Trump's doubling and tripling down. He's all in on Hegsith. He's all in on Stephen Miller, the new Chief of Staff. He's out there, doing the same, lunatic post over and over again and talking about Mr. Vito. He's the same guy. He's a Bankruptor and a loser. This is the behavior that the American people rebuked and repudiated. He's really an ill-human being. This is who he is. He sucks. He's terrible. He's a terrible human vile. He's a criminal. He's a felon. He's a sex predator. We need to have a world without this guy. This is what it's going to be like for the next two years. He continues to threaten Democrats for the fact that they're going to conduct oversight of him in the 120th Congress. He's saying that it's criminal and that he's ordered the DOJ to go after the Democrats and the White House Council's office sent letters to Democrats on Capitol Hill, which they didn't even send. They just kind of posted it online and then the Democrats had a react to it. This is their behavior. It's loser behavior. But this is what's going to happen. Also, you had Donald Trump sending his son-in-law and his scumbag real estate friend. You had Kushner and Whitcoff in Moscow. They were with Putin. They look like as happy as can be with Karel Demetriyev, who runs Russia's sovereign wealth fund. Yuri Yushakov and Putin. It was just a big propaganda victory for Russia yet again to see Dumb and Dumber. I don't know, who's Dumb and they're both equally Dumber. In Moscow, I'm not a fan at all of Marco Rubio. I think Marco Rubio is a war criminal and is awful. But this is a job for the State Department and the Secretary of State. The idea that we don't have a functioning State Department. That's also a major victory for Russia that you have the son-in-law and some random guy who's in business deals with Donald Trump for world liberty financial. As part of this overall corrupt grift that also the American people rejected. We'll talk about that. You also have Trump and Musk throttling Starlink and Star Shield for Ukraine. Once again, Ukraine's not able to use Starlink and Star Shield in certain areas for their drones to travel above a certain miles per hour, kilometer per hour, both in terms of offensive drone capabilities and the interceptor drones that block the Russian drones. You have the Trump regime clearly trying to extort and put pressure on Zalinsky while you had Whitkopf and Kushner in Russia. Then before that, they were in Abu Dhabi for what they called trilateral talks. That's what that's the Trump regime's framing of a trilateral three way that you had the US. You have Russia. You have Ukraine. But Russia wanted to talk about a European security architecture. They're beyond Ukraine. They're not dealing with the cease fire issue. The issue is we need a cease fire in Ukraine. We all agree. There needs to be a cease fire in Ukraine. That war needs to stop. That's what Trump promised in 2024 that he could do it in 24 hours. Of course, he's not able to do that. I have magic words. That's what I'm going to do with my magic words. No. What Russia wants to discuss is the security architecture of all of Europe. And what that means is Russia doesn't believe Ukraine is a country. Russia doesn't believe Eastern Europe is a thing. So countries like Poland and Romania and Bulgaria, you know, all these, you know, countries. Russia basically says that those that's Soviet Union. These aren't actually sovereign countries. And what Putin's been saying also is, look, I sent a letter to Biden in 2021 about European security architecture and how NATO and these Eastern European countries aligned with the EU have encroached upon what Putin views as the actual security architecture, which is the Soviet Union. It's how Putin sees it. So Putin's like, well, we have to invade Ukraine because we don't countenance. We're not agreeable to this new security architecture post-World War II. And Biden and Europe will like screw that. You know, we're not going to agree to give you Eastern Europe. And so on that basis, you know, Putin launched this catastrophic invasion. We haven't seen invasions like that since World War II, although Trump did it now with Venezuela, you know, and then the US supported its ally Ukraine until Donald Trump stopped all of that. So Putin wants to talk about European security architecture. Europe understands what that means. It means reconstituting the Soviet Union. It means Ukraine doesn't exist. And when you see Kushner and Whitkop talk about European security architecture, they're just using Putin's language. And to say the parties are far apart in a deal is an understatement. They're not even talking about the same things. And so I think Zelensky's strategy is, let's just try to get through these next two years, work with Europe, try to figure out how you can, you know, continue to hold your ground at the front, continue to inflict these casualties on Russia on the front, just kind of hang in there as best as you can with the Russian strikes inside of Ukraine, try to inflict pain inside Russia on the refineries, on the kind of proton energy facilities, on the parts, manufacturers, and try to just draw it out for the next two years until a new American president comes in. There's a new Congress, obviously, but Donald Trump's not going to follow any laws that even Congress passes. But anyway, I want to give you the heads up there. And then, you know, in Iran, they continue to strike tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. We've seen at least two more tankers hit today in the Strait of Hormuz. And at tip to MSNOW, they did a very good report, although it's a horrible situation about the USS George H.W. Bush, one of the two aircraft carriers that are in the Arabian Sea, right? Just to remind you, originally in the Arabian Sea, you had the Abraham Lincoln and the Gerald Ford. Gerald Ford went back home, Abraham Lincoln went back. I remember all the issues in the Gerald Ford and the Abraham Lincoln that we reported about. They were there for such a long period of time. Well, the ships that replaced it was the George Washington more recently from the Pacific. We no longer have aircraft carriers in the Pacific. And the George H.W. Bush left from Norfolk, Virginia, and it left around March 31. And it was there continuously, without any port call until October 4, where I went to Puket, Thailand for a short period of time then came back to the the Arabian Sea and the spouses and the family members of our incredible sailors and marines who are aboard the USS George H. W. Bush were just told that their family members will not be coming home anytime soon. They'll be there until after the holidays and probably well beyond that as well. And there was this real kind of fiery confrontation that took place in Norfolk, Virginia. You had the acting secretary of the Navy, Hong Cao is his name along with some admirals telling the family members, look, this is a 47 year war. We didn't start the war, you know, all the Trump talking points and the family members were like, dude, shut the fuck up. Excuse my language. So I'll be like, shut up, stop, stop using that. We haven't been in a force. Stop saying that. Okay. What happened was this Trump in Netanyahu started a war. There's no defined goals. We don't know why our loved ones are there. The conditions and morale is very poor. We've been hearing more stories now about multiple suicide attempts aboard the George H. W. Bush, just like we heard about the Abraham Lincoln, the family members are living their furious over what's happening right now. And so that's, you know, that's what's going on in Norfolk and they're like, Hong Cao, the Navy secretary is like, well, Trump's a business man. He had to do this. He's a business man. And the families are like, what's the criteria? Like, what's the goal? Like what are we doing here? Is it just whatever Donald Trump and Higgs think one day? What is it? And basically the admirals who were there and Hong Cao, the acting secretary of Navy had to admit, yeah, it's basically whatever they want. And yeah, there's no defined goals, but so family members are like, no, no, no, no, no. If you're sending our loved ones into harmed way, the harms way, there should be defined goals, not but you either have defined goals or bring them home. And then Hong Cao, the Navy secretary is like, well, we're going to be out there until Iran agrees to negotiate with us and until Iran agrees to give up its nuclear capabilities. And then the family members are like, yeah, that's not happening. That's not a thing. They're not going to give up. They won the war. Like the family members know, like the US didn't win this catastrophic war. Iran destroyed the military bases, the logistical center in Bahrain has been destroyed. We have a logistical center in Diego Garcia, but that's thousands of kilometers away. You have, in addition to the military bases being destroyed, even in the UK, you have the Royal Air Force base in Fairford and the Royal Air Force base in Mildenhall have both been evacuated in Fairford. You have the B1s and the B52s evacuated in Mildenhall. You had the Strato tankers recently evacuated. You have treasury secretary Besent now living in a bunker. He's had to evacuate his home. You know, the tough guy treasury secretary Besent who's like, Iran is like the snake. I'm going to cut the head off the snake. I'm going to chop their head off. Operation economic outcast. You do not, you do not mess with me. You're, you know, the guy's living in a freaking bunker right now. Hiding afraid that Iran is going to kill him in the United States. And Marco Rubio lives in a bunker right now. Donald Trump has put all of these surface to air missiles around Mar-a-Lago and all these places. That's why he wants to have this drone port. That is the the ballroom drone port, by the way. It just looks ridiculous. Have you seen what this ballroom looks like lately? It's gigantic. Like the most, they destroy the White House. Again, if Obama did this to the White House, dude would be charged with like treason and be sentenced to life in prison. So no, Donald Trump should not get away with what he tried. I think we have a photo of a Jeremy somewhere in the stack. We don't have to worry about it. People have seen the way this ballroom just makes the White House look terrible. There it is. I mean, what the hell is that? I mean, as I've said before, anyone who's running for the Democratic presidential as a Democratic presidential candidate, it's disqualifying unless you say I'm going to blow that up on day one. I'm going to do live. I'm going to demolish it on day one. It needs to be just like in authoritarian regimes when they follow the statutes, the statues fall and all of the symbols of the authoritarian regime as well. It is a prerequisite. It has to be demolished, obviously, safely. I mean, nobody around, of course, has to be demolished. If he does the arch, the arch has to be demolished, which is the arch that's going to cover up the Arlington cemetery. Then you know the story yesterday where an army sentinel had to tell Hegsith and Hegsith's crew, you know, stop laughing and being disrespectful and taking photos at the tomb of the unknown soldier. And so it's just like, it's a regime of absolute, it's a regime of absolute kind of clownish behavior right now. And again, going back to Norfolk, Virginia, you have these family members saying, what are we doing here? Why are you sending our, the American people have spoken, bring them home, bring our loved ones home? We don't, they shouldn't be there. What are we doing here? And so, you know, that's, that's kind of the lay of the land of what's happening. I mean, of course, also Jensen Wong, the former NVIDIA CEO, he's now resigned. We know that Trump and Lutnik covered this up as well. They knew about it in 2025. They knew that it compromised our national security interest, but they let it happen because, I mean, Donald Trump had a lot of NVIDIA stock, by the way. Personally, and Donald Trump just sold NVIDIA stock back in August, millions of dollars worth of NVIDIA stock he sold. I mean, come on, impeachable, traitorous, what a scumbag. First of all, why are you buying and selling tens of thousands of stocks each month? Tens of thousands, they shouldn't be selling one stock each month. But dude sold NVIDIA August 21st, he knew that Jensen Wong was compromised and the company was compromised. He sold the stock at a high point, and it felt 29% since then. Now, this is a stock that makes up a lot of people's portfolios. A lot of people who have the NASDAQ, who have the S&P, you know, who have portfolios have this. So, people have been stuck with this 29% loss while Donald Trump got out. While Donald Trump sold NVIDIA when he knew all of this, and he compromised our national security also, right? I mean, when Donald Trump made the H-200 semi-conductor chip available to China in January, which by the way is a ridiculous thing to do, China didn't buy any. While China was going to favor its own domestic semi-conductor chips, they caught up in the race. Did they catch up in the race because they previously had access to the H-200 and other chips that Biden put export controls on, and Biden prevented from getting there, but Trump allowed to get there. And now you see in Iranian military weapons, in Russian military weapons, in Chinese military weapons, they have the most advanced chips, and they've been able to advance their military very, very rapidly. And we've seen, you know, when you open up, when you dissect these Russian drones, the Garen-4s, the Garen-5s, the Iskender's, the Shaheeds in Iran, I mean, they have US semi-conductors in it. And, you know, you can clearly see that. So, Jensen Wong is out. It seems like, you know, it's like a Tiger Woods thing. It's like a new affair. You remember the Tiger Woods? Like, we learn about like a new affair every two hours now. It's like the person who ran his health care division, another person, this person, that person. It's a freaking mess. But Donald Trump sold. Donald Trump got out. Donald Trump sold, and then it went down 29%. So, while, you know, those, you know, those Trump kid funds, you know, those have Nvidia in it. So, while while everybody else got screwed, Trump made it out, okay, though. Trump made it out, okay. So, we've got that going on as well. So, Donald Trump called in to, you know, one of these right wing propaganda networks. And I'll show you what he said earlier today. He's like, what would they impeach me on? Making America great? No, being a fucking felon, man. Being awful. Excuse me, let me just stop cursing. Being like engaging in crimes every day, multiple. Like, honestly, in my opinion, by nine a.m. by nine a.m. Eastern, he engages in five water gates, things that are way worse than water gate, five of them every day, every day, every day, and probably more than that. Like, if he did a water gate, it would be, it wouldn't even about, yeah, of course, that wouldn't even be a scandal today, because what he does by nine a.m. every day is far worse. I mean, in my view, it's, it's as bad as you get when it comes to trees in every single, the American voters know this too. The family members of our brave sailors and Marines, everybody knows, like, you know, look, he's got what, 25% of the country still support this shit. Stop cursing. 25% of the country still civ, it makes me angry. 25% of the country is still in this cult. 75% absolutely detest this, like detest it. And people who have half a brain detest this. And, you know, when he says stuff like this, it is, there's 21 Senate seats that are going to be open in 2028. I mean, it's possible that if this, this is how he's going to do it. Democrats can actually not just have a veto proof majority in the Senate, like, it could be like, yeah, we should all abolish the filibuster. by the way. Democrats could have enough for like, you know, literally do anything that they, you know, do anything that they want, you know, in both chambers. Anyway, here's Trump saying the only thing they can impeach me on is making America great here. Play this clip. It's happening in our country right now. So the only thing they could impeach me on is making America great. No, I mean, we have done, we have done such a good job. You know, and the guy there knows it. He knows better. The interviewer there, lawyer. He knows better. He knows what's up right here. And in many ways, people like him when history is written are just as bad. You know, his children, his grandchildren, they should look at him as a coward. Because that's how history will remember that. Just because you're asking the question, you're aiding and embedding and enabling this behavior. That's how history will view you. You will be a, you will be shameful to all of your future generations to the interviewer as well. And anybody who supports this crap, anybody who enables this crap, it's filthy, filthy. Here's what Donald Trump says about the catastrophic war in Iran that we're in the midst of winning the war. Play this clip. Well, number, they should do it. We're in the midst of winning a war. You know, we can win that almost at any time when I want to win it. And we're, but the timing of what I've done is important because some people have asked me, do it this way. And I'm willing to do it anyway. But we, we have reduced them to nothing. And all of a sudden, we're not going to have money to finish off what we started so brilliantly. I, I genuinely, we didn't start anything brilliantly. You slaughtered children when you started and you killed lots of children, hundreds in Minab and Lamar. There's nothing brilliant about this. I don't even know what words you're actually saying. You can win this at any time, but you choose not to win it. What, what does that even mean? That's, what is it, what do you even referring to? So you could win it, but you're just, you just prefer to keep our Marines and sailors in the Arabian Sea so that they could be what like guidance for crude carriers. Like that's how you, rather than you could win it at any time, our troops could come home and be with their family, but you don't want to win it because lots of people are calling you on a lot of things, whatever the hell that means. So you want to just keep our sailors and Marines aboard these aircraft carriers, like 1500 kilometers away from Iran. They can't get that close because Iran has the capability of destroying these aircraft carriers. So that's why they're far away. And they're basically there to do what? To, help somewhat guide crude carriers exiting the Oman route of the Strait of Hormuz and then Iran strikes two or three or four every single day. Like that's, that's how you use our Navy. That's pathetic. That's pathetic. And then they did what? Operation Iron Gate. That's the new one. Bunker Boy Bessent. That's what I should call it. Bunker Boy Bessent, who's in a bunker right now. He's now Operation Iron Gate, which is like the land of Iran. And it's like, okay, let me look at a map, please. Let me look at the border of Iran. Got it. So there's, there's Turkey. There's Iraq. There's Turkmenistan. There's Pakistan. There's Afghanistan. Okay, let's look at the map. So Pakistan has areas that you could just basically have Iranian smaller vessels take smaller amounts of gas and oil and other supplies and just smuggle it that way. The US can't stop that from happening. The trade between Iran and Pakistan is needed. I mean, Iraq gets a lot of gas from Iran. You can't just shut down the border. So there's a lot of stuff going that way. Turkmenistan is neutral. Turkey's not stopping it. You know, Turkey's not going to stop it. You think Afghanistan, the Taliban's going to stop it? No. So what are you announcing? You have 20 people in Tampa who are part of a task force that you're calling Iron Gate. You're not stopping it. And also, I believe Iran's doing ship to ship transfers in the straight of Hormuz and they're getting out oil and gas, still not at the quantities before. And then what the Trump regime is what? We're going to win the war just to wait more time. Let me pause here and then we'll delve deeper. This is Trump's entire life. Trump's entire life is bankrupting things. He's being a loser. My dog's agree. And where he's at now is basically where he's been at his whole life, which is the blame, the bravado, the con. And then it works for a little bit because he's defrauding people. And then people catch on. It fails. And then he just keeps the fraud going. And it leads to bankruptcies for everybody else around him. But then him personally, now he blames, oh, I wouldn't be able to fix the deficits. This would be the post this morning. I would be able to fix the deficit. And I could It balanced the budget, but it's Democrats, the Democrats, they're stopping it. Oh, I can deal with this, but the caravans are back because of the Democrats. And I would have been able to do this, but it's the Democrats. That's his mode now, and for the next two years, this is the game they're going to play, which is blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, and then not actually make decisions that are needed. Then when people come in and have to make hard decisions, which result in difficult consequences, the same way if a surgeon had to do surgery on somebody, it's bloody, it's messy, it's dangerous, it's gory, that surgery, you have to fix it, you can tell the patient they're perfectly healthy while they're dying, and then they can die, or you can tell the patient the truth, do a surgery, and then you're going to have to do difficult tasks. Trump doesn't want to do. He wants to tell people, it's great, we're winning, it's amazing, and then blame whoever, blame this person, blame that person, blame this person. So then what they want to do is blame Democrats, or when there's a Democratic president who has to now make a decision with Iran, like Iran's going to be able to develop nuclear weapons because of Trump. But then they want to blame, oh, we were going to stop it, but now it's your fault. You did it. We had such a plan to open the straight up our movies, but then you did it. We remember in 2020, Donald Trump released the Taliban, he didn't negotiate with Afghanistan. He let the Taliban prisoners out. He said that he was going to leave the base in May of 2020. He didn't. He left that to Biden. You got all of the Taliban out there already, and Trump wouldn't share intelligence with Biden's transition, wouldn't share any of it, Biden had to do something different. They blame Biden for everything, and still to this day they blame Biden, Biden's fault, Biden's fault, everything's Biden's fault. This is what they do about everything, and we have to be aware of what their tactics are. It's a global tactic of these authoritarian to rip down systems, to attack elections, to blame and hope that people's attention spans with all of the algorithms and all of the social media and things move very fast that people won't pay attention and won't remember who did what. And they'll live in a 60 day election cycle where it can be gamified, and it can be rigged and billionaires can pour money, and that's what they want to do. It's why we have to fortify our minds against it. It's what we talk about a lot here on the show. All right. Let's take our first break of the show, store.mini. Why am I dogs barking like a hundred times? I love my dog. Like in a very barky mood, I love them, and it's like bark, bark, bark, I'll show today. Guys, I'm barking, I left the bark all the time, store.minustouch.com. Take a look at the blue, take a look at the blue wave shirt right there. I was part of the blue wave, Jordy's got the lawyer up shirt as well, store.minustouch.com. Check it out. 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So that's Trump's the plaintiff he sued BBC on October 27th, 2026, magistrate judge let order the order Donald Trump to sit for his deposition on her before December 11th with a discovery deadline of December 18th, 2026 quickly approaching plaintiff now files this expedited motion seeking a stay of the December 11th deadline pending resolution of a forthcoming scheduling extension. Additionally, plaintiff asks for a ruling on this motion on or by November 20th, 2026. Therefore, given the looming discovery deadline, the logistical constraints of arranging the deposition and the short time frame under which the court has been asked to adjudicate this motion, the party shall file any motion for scheduling extension on or by November 16th, 2026. Otherwise, the party shall comply with the current scheduling deadline. So this judge is a really bad judge. I mean, so I don't want to read too much into this order. I can see the judge extending the deadline. Donald Trump previously, the BBC filed a motion to dismiss Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against them and the judge denied the motion to dismiss, which is like the worst ruling imaginable. This is one of these Trump-stuge judges who you see at those senate confirmation hearings that I show you who are like young and totally unqualified and wouldn't should never be appointed. It's part of this, you know, I think the guy is like my age. He's a release, not that you couldn't be a good judge at my age, but I mean, this guy is just a Trump boot-looking sick of it. I mean, I don't know how you do not dismiss, I mean, regardless of your political party, I don't know how you just don't dismiss that case. We're Donald Trump saying that it was defamatory to link him to the insurrection based on how the BBC edited a documentary that never aired in Florida and aired in the UK. There's no jurisdiction. Number one, number two, Donald Trump was involved in the insurrection. I mean, we saw him there and who cares at BBC edited the footage that said, this or that, we saw what happened. Trump was prosecuted for the conduct. There was a probable cause determination made by a grand jury that Trump's conduct regarding the insurrection was illegal. There was a probable cause of that to allow a grand jury indictment. So what would be defamatory even if the footage from January 6th was edited to shorten it? I mean, it's clown show judicial behavior. It's what America is rejecting. Trump's suing for $10 billion while he's in office. It's just stupid shit. And the American people are like, this is, again, loser behavior. You shouldn't have, like Obama was in prison and he thought it was a press, he thought it's suing people for hurt feelings. It's like, dude, what are you doing? Biden did that. George W. Bush, no one would do that. It's so demeaning to the presidency. I mean, what Trump has done to the presidency, what he's done to the White House visually and also just symbolically and in practice is that he's destroyed the United States credibility. He's destroyed the power. He's turned the whole thing into a fascist clown show. It's very, very sad to see. And now Donald Trump is talking about how he would love to be the prime minister of Israel. And that when this is over, he can go to Israel and become the prime minister. And so you could be like, oh, he wasn't being serious. He's joking. I don't need you to joke about something where you have Netanyahu committing genocide in Gaza, where you have currently right now, the Netanyahu regime in Israel is trying desperately to provoke escalation of the war in Iran. Okay. While you have Netanyahu in Israel currently in what they call security zones, which is them taking land that doesn't belong to them inside Lebanon and Syria and elsewhere. These aren't funny jokes. This isn't, you know, this isn't like a humorous time or topic to be, you know, to be, oh, well, you know, my popularity is so good in Israel. Well, clearly, it didn't help Netanyahu in the election because right now, God, the eyes and God, who's the former leader of the IDF, who leads the Yashar opposition parties forming a government with the Arab block to oust Netanyahu as the prime minister, Netanyahu is very desperate. Netanyahu is trying behind the scenes to orchestrate a national security incident to stay in power. God, the eyes and God has called them out. Former defense ministers of Israel are calling out Netanyahu for trying to provoke a national security incident to have martial law or to claim that he can't leave power because you have president Herzog in Israel allowing the government to be formed, which is what God, the eyes and God is doing right now. So it's, this isn't, this isn't a humorous, this isn't funny, this isn't, this isn't the type of behavior that should be, that should be happening right now. But let me just again show you what he said here. Let's, let's play this clip. Now, I will say this in Israel, I'm at 99%, literally I'm at 99. I'm the most popular person. You know, when this is over, I can go to Israel, be prime minister. No, I'm, I'm, I'm very much Israel-inclined. And then he was, he was asked, are you still the most pro-Israel president ever? Here's what he says. Let's play it. You, your view, Donald Trump's view of our ally has changed. Has it? Are you still the most pro-Israel president ever? Well, I am. And I don't understand a couple of things like I wasn't on the ballot, but still, if you look at El Said in Michigan, he got more votes than the Republican candidate got by quite a bit. Yeah, I'm not sure what's complicated about that. People hate you. People across the world hate you. People here hate you. We hate what you've done to our country. We've hate the divisiveness. We hate how unprepared you are. We hate that you cover up child sex trafficking. We hate your disgraceful behavior. We hate that you've destroyed our alliances. We hate that you have made everything more expensive, we hate that you launch the catastrophic and unlawful war, we hate that you gutted our government, we hate the way you treat people, we hate your day-to-day behavior, we hate it, we hate it, and it's gross as just a human set aside getting to the level of presidency. I mean you're a gross person like you are actually just a disgusting, disgusting creature, and you are hated in this country, and that's going to be the name Trump is going to be the most hated name for generations, and generations, and you may still have this cult, and you know you still see these mega Republicans in the house filled with hate, Tom Emmer, that lunatic, you know Jim Jordan, that lunatic, the American people ain't with it, that's what this election showed, but remember that Trump is literally he's ill, and I'm not saying that, in order to avoid accountability, I want to make it clear, he's a war criminal who needs to be sent to the Hague, in my opinion, so does Hague, so does Rubio, so does JD Vance, so does Lutnik, so does Besson, all of them, should be sent to the Hague, and I won on day one, a future Democratic president to say yes, I will destroy the ballroom, I won't demolish it, and I will send these people to the Hague, like I'm joking, it's not joking, they're war criminals, I want them to also be clear, they'll send Netanyahu to the Hague, and he went to Can Step Foot in New York, he'll go to the Hague, like impeachment to me is like a three out of a ten of the level of accountability, where these people should go in front of war tribunals, and be charged in the Hague, that's consistent with their crimes, at least. Donald Trump then asked, what do you think about full-scale combat operations in Iran? Here's what he says playing this clip, you know, return to full combat operations to destroy what's left of their industrial base and pick action on and everything else, because they're dangerous, they're crazy. It could happen, it could happen. All right, little politics before we talk about it. We're very strong. I'll tell you, you should have been done by other presidents, you should have been done by other countries. Yeah, sickos, I mean, you're both sickos, I mean, sicko furbies talking to each other, and you're sicko-war-mongering, neo-con-disgusting Epstein-class language, I mean, what are you talking about? Explain what that means, then, tell the American people what you mean by that, okay? You want full-scale operations? Explain it to the people. Explain it. No, don't say that you have an uncle who went to MIT or whatever stupid shit spews from your mouth. Tell the people what that means. Okay, you want to escalate this war. We have two aircraft carriers that have been there for a very long time. We're out of interceptors, we're out of a lot of offensive weapons. We have about 50,000 troops in the region. Iran is the size of California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Michigan combined. They have about 3 million very loyal IRGC, an Iranian army kind of people who could be mobilized. It's a country of about 90 million people, but you have a very core base of IRGC. Do I think that there's a lot of the country that would be okay with being more moderate and would prefer not to have more of a theocratic, religious, Iatolistile country, sure, but any type of sympathy the West could have had, that's been lost when we slaughtered the kids in Lamar and Minab and we run an embargo where we starve the people to death. So we didn't exactly gain any sympathy for the West has been completely lost. They look to China now, they look to Russia, they're not looking towards the United States and certainly not to Israel after seeing the genocide in Gaza. Like let's be very clear about that. So if you wanted a full-scale operation, if that's actually what you wanted, what would that actually mean? You would need to do a draft in the United States and you would need to be able to mobilize somewhere in the range of half a million to two and a half million troops. Now Donald Trump dodged the draft five times with bone spurs. Okay, so you would need to do that and you would need to sustain casualties. About 35,000 to 50,000 American deaths would probably take place every month in Iran. Frankly, the same way Russia suffers around 35 to 50,000 deaths on the front in Ukraine. The war would probably look very similar. Lots of drones, lot, there'd be a kind of a kill zone like we see, you know, in eastern Ukraine where the kind of the front is in the war with Russia where some of the Russian occupied territories are. We know what that war looks like. It's like World War One meets Terminator. That's what we'd have to have ground troops. If you were going to do what you're all claiming you want to do, which is regime change, you would still lose the war and we would probably lose about half a million service members and people who are drafted, at least before we would probably be in a stalemate or just or retreat anyway. So when you say that, when you get all horny about war, right, when you do whatever that weird thing is, I mean let people know what that actually means. And that's why if you have family members who are in the military, who are bored those aircraft carriers, this isn't a fucking joke to them. They know what war means and they don't want to have a psycho in the White House. They don't want that. They want leadership. They want adults who speak very confidently and sophisticatedly and can lay out plans and define missions. That's how grownups and leaders talk. No, that's not what they want. And every time you do that, you say fuck you to them basically. And that's why they hate you as well. That's why we see Moral actually at an all-time low because they see your behavior and they're sickened by it. They're disgusted by those types of conversation. I mean, look, this is what he's saying on the same call. I'm genetically blessed. I have an uncle that was considered the number one professor at MIT. What does it mean? The number one professor? There's not a gold medal award. What do you mean? You're genetically bloody. What the hell are you even talking about? What word? No, what humans don't talk like this? Grownups don't behave like this. Here, play this clip. I've seen it. I study it. I have an uncle that was probably considered the number one professor in the history of MIT for 51 years. He got the science award, the same award that I gave to Elon and I gave him out last week. We gave it to Google. We gave it to a lot of great people. We gave it to Jensen, frankly. That wasn't a little before, but what a horrible thing that is. That's so sad to see that happen. But my uncle got the same award from Ronald Reagan. They presented it to me when I was there last week. And it was sort of something. So I do have, I think, an inclination. I'm a believer in that. If you have two great parents that were baseball players or great athletes, you're going to do better than somebody that wasn't there. Yeah, shut up, man. Just shut up. You sound so stupid. You sound like such a dumb fuck. Just shut the hell up. And the whole American people look at you with zero confidence because you say dumb shit like that. And everyone's like, what the hell is he even talking about? Who is this person? You know, when I see people when I'm out and about, just in all that often, sadly, when I, when I, but I love doing what I'm doing, when I hear from people that go, I'm not a political person. I'm not like following day-to-day politics, but like I see his behavior. And I just think that's not someone who should be in leadership. You know, Ben, I see their behavior and they're just me. They're just evil. They're gross. These are disgusting. Who behaves like that? That's what I hear more than, hey, you know what, Ben? Let's talk about the Democrats or let's talk about how the democratic party can do this strategy. I hear most people saying what's happening now doesn't represent my values in principles and that this is important to what I was raised to be. And that's what we need to, those are the voices that need to be out there. That's why I've said, you know, this midterm shellacking by the Trump regime was actually a non-political shellacking in my view. 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I don't even like, what are you even trying to say here? They're not. There's the true fact is that throughout the past two years, just as before, there would be these pockets of, like if you want to call them, the caravan. It's about 1,500 people moving from Central America, who kind of make it to Southern Mexico. Then you have Claudia Scheinbaum and her government is able to kind of stop people when they're in Southern Mexico. They don't even get up to actually, you know, where the border is. And you have about 1,500 people. It's not an invasion. It's not a thing. But this is what they do. They're back to that again. But this is all Trump knows. He doesn't know how to govern. He doesn't know how to actually make decisions. He can't actually solve the issue in the strait of hormones that he created. He's not going to be able to deal with inflation. He's not able to actually do things. I mean, it's tariffs against the world, which cause inflation. He's just going to what? Keep the aircraft carriers there indefinitely. And then just destroy the lives of our service members and their family members so that you can get out what 8 million barrels a day of oil through the strait of hormones when before the war, 20 million barrels a day were getting out and then just lie and now claim, "Oh, the same amount of oil is getting out." Well, then why do you need to continue to tap the strategic petroleum reserves, which are beyond taint bottom? I mean, they're covering up the damage to the salt caverns. I mean, in Texas and Louisiana, where there are these salt caverns. Clearly, I believe internal damage to those caverns that they're covering up, but they're going to blame the future Democratic President for. I mean, we're well below the lowest limit that it should ever be at right now. And they manipulate the market. And so the reality is that the paper price of a per barrel of oil comes down, okay? But the actual refined product, the gap between those, is still very significant, that crack spread, as it's called. And so, you know, you have to actually solve problems. You got to solve the problem, okay? And either pull the aircraft carriers out and agree to a deal with Iran, where the U.S. has to accept it lost because we lost. That's what we should do. Or what we shouldn't do. But this is your other option. Escalate, do a draft, draft millions of Americans to war, explain to the country why you need to send everybody to their death, tough guy, and explain that. But having two aircraft carriers isn't a thing. That's not a solution. That's a Trump fraud. That's just a Trump fraud and it's bankrupting us. So the right move is we should never have been involved in the war in the first place. The right move now is we should retreat because we lost. I'm not saying that it's weakness. I'm saying that that's the reality of it. Retreat, get out, take the aircraft carriers out, work with some regional countries and develop whatever we can do to still have some connection to the region, that can at least be helpful to our national interests, I suppose. Maybe that's better in general than the exploitation that exists in the past. Under all prior administrations, not uniquely Trump, although Trump has made it much worse and much more catastrophic by leaps and bounds. So do that. But putting two aircraft carriers there isn't a thing. And then just telling people you won the war. That's not a thing. That's not winning the war. It's stupid. And we all know that that's not happening. We know we don't control the strain of our moves. We know it's not a win. And so the audience is that guy from the Salem channel, who's interviewing you. He was, oh, that guy just wants to increase the war. He wants to send-- he wants a draft. He wants to see hundreds in my opinion. Hundreds and thousands of Americans die because that would be the consequence of actually doing the type of invasion if your ideas regime change that would have to take place. And we would still lose. There wouldn't be regime change. So what are we doing here? The way you want to know how you deal with inflation, you stop your stupid fucking tariffs. You stop the tariffs against the world. Just stop them. That's it. It's easy. Stop the tariffs. Two free trade deals with Canada and Europe and elsewhere. You can have a limited surgical tariffs to protect certain key sectors. Auto and maybe some other steel, some other areas that are very important, I think. I wouldn't say tariffs are all big. But you have to use it very surgically and, you know, I mean, and so that's that would deal with inflation right away like it'd be pretty basic to solve these issues. You know, you would need to have the DOJ function again the SEC function again commodity futures training commission function again like it's actually not a lot of it's not that hard to fix it's going to be hard in the sense of he's caused so much damage. But like the solve is pretty obvious, you know, in in in front of our eyes, but you know, look what a future democratic president you name whoever you think the president's going to be. They're going to have to withdraw and what's Trump and MAGA going to say. Oh, weakness 47 49 years of war you've ruined it Trump had a plan and now you moved it you retreated surrender surrender right and that's and that's what they're going to so we have to know that now we all have to get out the word now two years before it. And we have to talk about it every day again to fortify our minds from it in 2024 our minds were in fortified. We were living in a news cycle that was gamified and the amount of money that was injected from musk and others overwhelm the system but they were doing it early on in the Biden administration. They were ready to go right away to undermine the entire administration and Biden was come by now let's come together how could you politicize covid how could you pull we're all joined and Trump and MAGA and the billionaires and the oligarchs had their plan to really just completely destroy the presidency and they succeed in it every day and turned everything into a divisive issue contrived issues that didn't exist. Made up fate terrorist attacks that weren't actually happening they come up with like a terrorist attack and buffalo like it didn't happen like where's like so it was like a guy who was crossing the border drunk and it was like a terrorist attack they did like all of these like images of like jihadists they're like look at what's going on it's like no you know the same thing they try to do with new some with the smelt fish when we had the fires here back in January of 2020 he's doing the smelt he's doing smelt fish and he didn't turn the fire hose and new some didn't respond right away for the first few days. I knew some realized wait a minute I have to respond to this stupid shit and if I don't respond to it right away that becomes the actual story it's not enough that I governor no governing is like 30 40% 60% has to be fighting the right wing propaganda and the firehose of disinformation that the oligarchs push and they push it every day so we know in 2029 a Democrat wins a Democrat has to withdraw why do you withdraw you are weak you let her on win it's like. No, it's like you you have to make that decision and that's what now Iran's been able to develop a nuclear bomb now Iran's to if Iran. The Council of experts which is the kind of body that picks the Iatola they had a discussion today in Iran about withdrawing from the nuclear non proliferation treaty that Iran's been a member of. There was a fatwa by the prior Iatola combate who got killed by the Trump regime not to develop nuclear weapons on religious grounds Iran has the engineering capacity. It has the intellectual capacity and base a more so than Pakistan and North Korean many other areas it could develop a nuclear weapon if it wants to but it's had this fatwa and it's part of the nuclear non proliferation treaty and it did the deal with Obama. The JCPOA and so it didn't develop a nuclear weapon if it wants to again probably is now why wouldn't it right now right I mean Donald Trump's got two aircraft carriers over there you know if Trump escalates Iran. Remember remember when you know early on in the war it was like heggs at the rubio when they were trying they were like they've got a conventional shield with ballistic missiles to be a shield for the nuclear program. Okay well if that's the case it's more so now Iran's got all of these military underground cities of massive amounts of ballistic missiles massive amount of cruise missiles massive amounts of drones upgraded drones. They have electronic warfare jamming systems where they've intercepted multiple U.S. Lucas drones we've seen we've seen the capabilities that they have they've shot down what 55 56 MQ 9 reapers multiple MQM's dozens of MQ ones we've seen what they've been able to do. And and and so the Trump regime goes on like other about the collapse about the father about to know they think so a future president is going to get blamed for what Donald Trump was stopping him from doing nuclear weapon. No he wasn't no he wasn't they they want to start the started Donald Trump destroyed the security architecture in the region and by the way that's why Putin's talking about European security architecture because China and Russia have already reshaped Middle East security architecture. They've already reshaped Africa security architecture Trump just doesn't realize Africa is even a thing you know I think he thinks Africa is a country. But Russia and China have all influence in Africa in the U.S. has you know pulled out there Donald Trump has put in his puppets in the western hemisphere. But if you look at what's happening in Argentina and El Salvador in Paraguay where the guy resigned in in Bolivia in all these other areas all of these Trump right wing you know with Bolsonaro in Brazil you know and Lula you know when the Trump authoritarians also share the Trump incompetence. And so we see you know so we see these right wing kind of puppet dictators kind of falling one by one or running into all of these issues in the western hemisphere now and they all have like financial grift and crypto shit and all of this stuff that's happening over here because Trump doesn't know how to implement these things. Xi Jinping knows how to implement Putin not so much as she but but but Putin knows how to play Trump at least and Putin's also working with the Middle East countries as well so we we we know that but security architectures change in the Middle East changed in Africa. So now Putin's like okay let's just do Europe and then Trump thinks he's doing security architecture in the western hemisphere which he's which he's not and we're going to see the accountability phase there is one of the shields of America that's all fall in the part right now. And then we have Kushner and Whitkov for anyway we have the clip of Whitkov leaving Moscow and he's like running around he's like we did a deal. Okay Whitkov what was the deal talked to us about the deal you did with cough let's play. So so what do you think the true progress was made today what are those European countries I think I think progress was made today yes do you think the Russians are serious about making this work. I think I think progress was made I think was made earlier today Abu Dhabi was people didn't think that we were going to restart trilateral we've restarted it we've set a new meeting now on top of that. And this is what President Trump wants to say we want to see what what are you even talking about trilateral you do you think it's an accomplishment that you had a discussion that failed a failed discussion in Abu Dhabi where Russia talked about reshaping all of Europe is the accomplishment. We're not the deal that Trump promised in 2024 we did that we did it we did a agreement to agree to future discussions in a trilateral where Russia's demands are going to be even more maximalist than they were before and we went from talking about a ceasefire in Ukraine to Russia saying we need to redo the security architecture of all of Europe. Let's just watch this question like this guy said to me like why do we have this why do we have this idiot son-in-law out there I mean again we shouldn't normalize that this idiot that this grifter that this loser this guy who's not confirmed by the Senate sky who doesn't work for the government he's Trump's son-in-law like could you imagine if in normal periods in the United States somebody sent there like son-in-law like they're idiot son-in-law over here. They're like like what's wrong with this country but that's exactly the optics that Putin and Carrille Dmitriyov and Yuri Yushekov and Sergei Lavrov won. They know this is a humiliation ritual for America they know that anything that you know that that Soviet that the Soviet Union dealt with tear down the wall Mr. Gorbachev and the you know Russia knows that the optics here generationally how this will look as the broader history is written puts the United States as this demanded failing failing thing it's sad it's sad I mean here play Kushner Any clip of Kushner we've seen a big change with the Europeans and we think there's a very strong momentum and desire to engage together and we're very confident that if we move to a multilateral format that will continue to make progress to resolve the issues and we we believe that will help us in the war. - What are you even saying if we agreed to a multi-lateral, if what are you doing like a book report? You're doing like mock UN? Like what do you even, what are you even doing? Oh, we think the Europeans are changing that what you think Europe's gonna give up Eastern Europe? Stupid shitter, you're talking about. You think Europe, who's not invited, trilateral, try, three, US, Ukraine, Russia. So in a trilateral format, you think that Europe, which by the way, sent people to Abu Dhabi and then Medinsky, the lead negotiator for Russia, mocked the European representatives, told them to go in the hallway and Kushner and Whitkov had the European representatives go in the hallway. And Medinsky then mocked Europe over and over and over again. He described Europe as a sick ulcer and Ukraine is the pussy abscess. That's what Medinsky said in Abu Dhabi. I don't wanna let you know, he said that it's like an infected ulcer and Ukraine is the abscess where the sickness leaks out of. So we need to cure the sickness. And then you have idiot boy, Kushner, article Europe is very interested in those, although going to a trilateral or trilateral, what are you just dumb man, you're just stupid. You're just stupid and you know, in Turkey right now, you all know what's going on there. They have the COP31, it's the big climate conference last year, I think it was in Brazil. You have California's governor, governor Newsom is there at COP31, you see him right there. You know, he was at the other one too in Brazil. Major climate conference, State Department is boycotting it. The U.S. State Department is boycotting this. Boycotting climate conference. It's like again, such a loser behavior by the U.S. And they won't even fund democratic congress members who want to show up. The State Department is refusing to allow any of, we are funding Whitcoff and Kushner going to Moscow to party with fury, you should come and create the metria of input. But the State Department won't put money to allow U.S. to have any representatives at a climate conference. So you have California governor Newsom over there and you know, this is a very big conference. You have lots of countries in the world talking about the importance of, you know, this isn't controversial. We live on earth. We don't want to be polluted and sick and have cancer spray. You know, they talk about Maha, right? This has been the most anti-Maha imaginable from glyphosate poisoning our food. The Trump regime has promoted glyphosate, right? And all of the removal of any health-related regulations, just allowing disease to spread, the U.S. certification of being measles, safe from measles is going away with like 7,8,000 cases of measles that we know about, sick. These are truly sick people. And, you know, I reflect on it too, which is if Biden wasn't in office, I don't think it's not to say that COVID's gone. And like, you know, I know people who still get COVID. You know, I don't like it's not a thing. You know, we're like, you know, but Biden took action that was very, very difficult. He ripped the bandaid off of Donald Trump's destruction across everything and it was bloody, it was gory, it was sick and it was bad. And you had to do surgery on it. And that led to lots of inflation. It led to a lot of difficult decisions that had to be made in Afghanistan here there. I mean, Trump released 5,000 Taliban prisoners who surrounded all of our bases and Trump refused to share intelligence with Biden to set up Biden and set up our troops. Go and look at what Trump did with the Taliban troops. And so, it's certainly horrific what happened during the Afghanistan withdrawal. But think about what's already happened in Iran, I mean, which is, you know, I don't want to suggest that any loss of life is very serious. But Biden had to take difficult actions. Biden had to, you know, get the supply chains getting back again. He had to deal with all of these things. Because the country was in such a devastating situation, you had to do stimulus, you had to figure out a way and that was very inflationary, very inflationary. And then he fixed it and he was landed in this plane. That's just the objective facts. Go look at all of the data. It wasn't a spike the football moment. It wasn't like, oh yeah. And that was a mistake tackling. Everybody was great when people weren't. But we were heading towards 2% inflation. Year over year, there was job growth, significant job growth year over year. The way he structured the Chips Act had export controls to block exactly what Nvidia and all of these companies have been doing under Trump. But to incentivize them to produce so that we could have a semi-conductor boom. And Trump really destroyed, in my view, the semi-conductor boom by destroying the Chips Act incentive and Trump becoming the communist authoritarian and taking stakes in these companies for his own ego versus allowing the growth to happen on the trajectory that was intended, which wasn't the greed, all of a sudden growth with kind of bubble pop, but to have a steady kind of growth that could then be addressed with the right types of regulations to ensure that issues regarding data centers and unregulated AI can be dealt with. These things were thought out and planned. But every move was attacked by Biden over and over again. He was too old to communicate effectively against these tsunami of disinformation. And that's a big issue. It was a big issue. But I want people to see what the tactics are because they're going to do it again. You see where it's going. Trump's going to be stuck and frozen for the next two years because we're going to see this Ponzi scheme. It's good. The war is great. Everything's done. He's going to keep the troops there as long as possible. It's going to be like COVID. Things are good. Like a miracle. It's going to be amazing. And it's not going to be amazing. And you highlight that climate conference as I talked about there. And you think about just again, the multilateral groups that the US was once a part of that were not. You have Donald Trump talking about invading Cuba in that same interview we talked about invading Cuba. Again, we're going to do it. We're going to do that when we're going to do Cuba. So this is where he's at. And then his plan, the Republican plan, is when there is a democratic trifecta, because I think there will be. They're going to blame everything on whoever that is. The withdrawal of Iran, inflation, all of the fraud that's been covered up, all of that, they're going to blame. And so what you're going to have to have is someone who's a superior communicator, who's out there messaging every day. Here's what they did. Here's what I'm doing. Because that's the game that's about to be played. Two years, they're just going to status quo, which means things are going to get bad. Inflation's going to keep on rising. They won't release the year over year numbers like they did. And then they're going to blame the democratic administration. That's the goal of all of this. And then try to come back into power in 2030 as the arsonist who said that they're the ones who are going to fix it. I just want everyone to be aware of what the game is. And we have to now use these moments to get ahead of that, to plan every day now, to block, not wait for an election. You get it? OK, store.mitustouch.com. Go check out the live show I'm going to do with my brothers in a little bit as well. That's the new gear. I was part of the blue wave. Have you got that? Have you got the lawyer up gear? Go check out lawyer up gear as well. 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  5. The American public is increasingly rejecting Trump’s rhetoric, with strong opposition to his war-mongering, lack of accountability, and failure to define clear national policies.
  6. Military families are deeply distressed by the prolonged deployment of U.S. forces without clear goals or end dates, highlighting the lack of strategic leadership.
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