Breaking Afternoon Updates with Ben 10/20/2026

Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis and this is your hour breaking news. We've got a lot to discuss on this episode. I want to thank everybody for supporting the release of our new book WTF America. It's out right now, the way out of this hell and back to democracy. I'd love to read in the comments what your reviews are. Show us the photos of the book. You can tag us on social media and I'll try to show them on future episodes of the Midas Touch Podcast. This book is dedicated to you. So I hope you are all enjoying the book. It really gives a road map. I think generationally for how we get out of this hell, the hell that we're in right now, Donald Trump in a world of hell. You take a look at all of the latest polling, Trump's polling, at the worst in the history of every major poll since the poll began. So if we're talking about NBC, ABC, Ipsos, Pew, any modern polling that exists, going back to the beginning of polling, Trump's got the worst approval that there is right now. Let me show you over here how Harry Enten describes it. Let's play. Oh, it's level up minus 18 points. And now he's at the record low for him and CNBC minus 19 points. When you put it together, what essentially is going on is there are a lot of events in the world, but this cake, as we get closer and closer in the midterm elections, is starting to look at least a little bit baked here. All right, I suppose you could say if you're Republican, the good news is not getting worse, but you actually need to be getting better. Correct. These are, these are, these are horrible numbers, Johnny. So put it in historical perspective. Yeah, just how horrible are these numbers? I mean, it's the worst this century for a president at this point in the second term. When you look at an average of the CNBC and Washington Post Post, I mean, we're talking about right here, the average of CNBC and Washington Post, minus 22 points. Barack Obama was underwater, but not anywhere near this level. He was at minus eight. And George W. Bush in the middle of the Iraq war, when that was going south, he was at minus 20 points. So at this point, Donald John Trump is in fact holding the record for the lowest net approval rating for a, yeah. I'll show you what Mike Walls, Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations had to say, here's what Mike Walls had to say. Let's play it. policies. And we're not just seeing it with Iran. We're, I know we're going to talk about it in a minute. We're seeing it with Cuba as well. Look at the report where the Communist Party and Cuba have been working with Antifa and another, a number of other progressive leftist groups to so chaos in our inner cities. This is their soft power, long march through the institutions, and they're doing it with the violent environmentalist movement, with the pro-Palestinian movement and a number of other movements in this effort to undermine traditional Western ideology. Oh, that's it. So it's a Cuba Communist conspiracy right now. That's what's happening. How are we even talking about here? Donald Trump was in Kansas yesterday, ranting and raving like a lunatic. By the way, his words in the Oval Office, ranting and raving is what he describes these things that he does that he calls rallies as. But here's what he told the reporter on Iran, he said, we could win the war tomorrow. He's just deciding to stay there for the hell of it here. Play this clip message to the farmers and anywhere, leave for them in sight coming soon. Very big. We're going to be winning a war very soon. We could win it tomorrow. Frankly, we could leave today and we've already won. We have to stop them from having a nuclear weapon Iran. I'll show you what else he said. Trump said already, our prices are much lower. Did you know that at home that the prices are much, much lower right now here? Play this clip way, the other. It's going to be finished very soon. Oil is going to drop way down. Diesel is going to come way down. Everything is already our prices are much lower. And by the way, our oil is much lower or let's say if you go to gasoline or oil, anything you want to call it much lower than Biden and much lower than Obama. And we're also doing something that they should have done. Stop the Iran situation because you just can't have that. We wouldn't have even a world. I mean, the world is very thankful for what we're doing. So that'll be over fast. The oil will be coming down. But food prices have come way down. The grocery service speak have come way down. They haven't. They haven't come way down. This is what the Trump regime does. They want to create this hypothetical world that they've saved us from annihilation in the hypothetical world while they are currently the arsonist blowing up the actual world. But they want to be the heroes of the hypothetical future in order to stay in power. And they want to bend reality so that we somehow ignore that these are the people who control every damn branch of government. They control the White House. They control the House. They control the Senate. They control the fascist right wing Supreme Court. They control a lot of state legislatures. I mean, so when you look at a state like Texas, by the way, where James Talleriko is pulling ahead, or you look at a state like Ohio, where you have Democrats pulling ahead over there, where, and we'll talk about Ohio in a moment as well, where you talk about Kansas, where you have Adam Hamilton, the Democratic candidate for Senate right now leading Roger Marshall, the MAGA Republican Extremist Senator. When you look in these states, too, and you look at the state dynamics, these states have been pretty much run by far right wing MAGA types for a very long time. And they've created the problems. Then they create their boogeyman. They get in the never ending wars. They are the ones that cause the inflation. They are the ones who cause all of these catastrophes. They increase our debt to over $40 trillion. The deficit increases. But then they go, uh, transgender people are going to come and get you. That's what's going to happen. Uh, it's the, uh, it's, it's, it's, it's Somalian people. Somalian, we, we, we need to be scared about Somalian people right now. They're coming to get you Haitian people are coming to get you right now. I mean, this is what they do over and over again. This is, this is their MO right over here. Um, zooming in on Texas for a second. I want to highlight over here this new Tolerico ad because look, I think James Tolerico is running a brilliant campaign over here. Here's the new Tolerico ad running statewide. Let's talk about it. Ken Paxman says I don't have his experience. And he's right. I've never been indicted for fraud. I've never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I've never been impeached by my own party. And I've never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile. I have a different kind of experience. I've worked with both parties to cap the cost of insulin and pass the largest property tax cut in Texas history. I'm James Tolerico and I approved this message because we need a different kind of experience in Washington. Meanwhile, you take a look at Ohio right now where you all see what happened where the Vagrama Swami released an ad featuring Amy Acton. That's the Democratic candidate for governor. We've had Amy on numerous times here on the Midest Touch podcast. So the Vagrama Swami, the Magga Republican extremist, a real vial individual, especially for what he did over here. He released an ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother who remained with Amy's stepfather, who raped Amy Acton when she was 12 years old. Amy Acton's estranged mother took the side of the stepfather, even when the stepfather was arrested for sexually assaulting Amy Acton when she was 12 years old. And then Amy Acton was removed from the custody of her mother, obviously, and her stepfather, obviously. There were police reports detailing what happened to Amy. And so this ad by the Vagrama Swami featured Amy Acton's estranged mother who remained with the stepfather, who sexually abused her at 12 years old, ultimately leading to his arrest. And Amy's permanent estrangement from her mother. And the ad from her estranged mother said, "My daughter is a liar and you can't support my daughter. She lies." And Vagrama Swami said, "I endorse this ad." And then Amy Acton's brother, Amy Acton, they came out with statements basically saying like, "This is really new depths of depravity right here." That you would feature an ad of the estranged mother who was covering up for the stepfather. This is what you're doing. The court records speak for themselves. Dr. Amy Acton's brother statement on Ramaswami platforming their estranged and abusive mother. So what Acton's brother said, "Today, Dr. Amy Acton's brother, Philip Sterns released the following statement, condemning the Vagrama Swami's attempt to platform their estranged and abusive mother." It's not surprising that Vagrama Swami has stood, has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at 12 years old from our birth mother's husband into a political talking point. Said Philip Sterns, Dr. Acton's brother. After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy's rapist until he died. This desperate disgusting attack reveals exactly who the fake Ramaswami is at his core. A pathetic excuse for a man who was willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants. And by the way, Vivek Ramaswami didn't even issue an apology. He said, "I don't know what actually happened in their relationship." Here's the statement from Vivek's campaign, quote, "We don't know what happened between Amy and her mother who first spoke out about Amy in 2020. But we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulous who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor. I think before society decides who to entrust as governor, it requires leadership and accountability. It was disgusting Vivek Ramaswami, what you did by platforming that filth and further traumatizing, not just doctor acting, but all sexual abuse victims by doing things like that. By your behavior, you have trauma, and it's not surprising, you're part of the Epstein class, in my opinion, who's covering up the Epstein file. So this is kind of par for the course for all of you. But you know what? Where you make a error, where you do something bad, you know what you do? You apologize. You can just say that was wrong. We shouldn't have done that. That's not what you're, but no, you said, oh, we don't really know. You should know before you go and put that out there, you should know. Because what kind of governor are you going to be? You'll probably be a governor the way Donald Trump is president goes about just invading countries, slaughtering children, then having oopsies, and then blaming an on Zelensky who has nothing to do within the first place. Maybe that's maybe the issue when we pull back is we don't necessarily, we shouldn't necessarily think about everything in politics as some gamified lens. Who's up? Who's down? Who's being more Machiavellian? How about we start with a base level of seriousness and decency and empathy and compassion and competence? And then we can work our way up because the word corruption, the word despicable, the word hellish, these words can even capture how bad this situation actually is. One criticism that he might as touch network gets and I'll acknowledge it and I'll address it head out as, oh, you're being hyperbolic when you say hell is breaking loose or when you say it's despicable or treasonous or traitorous or fascist or all of the words you use, it's hyperbolic. I wish there were other words I truly do in my lexicon that I could find to capture what is happening right now. What else can you describe it other than one of the deepest depths of hell when you have Donald Trump cutting access by Zelensky and Ukraine for their drone interceptors and cutting off their access to alert systems while Russia is raining down ballistic missiles and children are being killed because of Donald Trump. You give me a better word if you don't think that's hell. You are probably lucky in your privileged cocoon where you don't see it. But just because you don't see it doesn't mean people are in experiencing it. One of the things that Trump and these magas have done, which we also talk about in WTF America is when they bend reality, when they make words meaningless, when the difference between 1 trillion and 22 trillion is illusory because in one breath Trump could just say, one trillion, two trillion, 22 trillion, that's a difference of 21 trillion, that's meaningful in material. And when you start to talk about fake ceasefires, fake deals, fake 22 trillion, fake this, fake that. And everything is fake and we have to accommodate it. That's how you start to live in this world of disorder and actual anarchy such that all these magas do is point to some world in the future that they're going to fix because more anarchy would have taken place had they not engaged in the anarchy they're creating. No, we have to frame it. We have to fortress our minds, solidify our minds, fortify it against the mega disinformation campaign because they're coming after you. They're coming after you with trillions of dollars in oligarch poison and disinformation to pollute what goes on up here and to make reality meaningless, to make the very essence of life meaningless because when things don't have meaning, when things feel hopeless, that's when these miserable pieces of shit oligarchs come in and snatch your purse and take your money and make it even worse off for the rest of us. And we need to stand up to that and that's why we talk about these elections. You better believe they're important, but this can't just be an election thing. This can't be a high five when Democrats take control of the House and the Senate because if we just go back to a status quo, that enables the arsonists. They feed off a status quo of nothing really changing. They feed off a status quo of promises made and not really delivered. So you better step up future leaders with a bold agenda and actually wheeled power for the benefit of we the people because we the people do not want to go back even to what it was like right before Trump because those conditions led to the Trumps and they will be fertile for future versions of this. You have scumbags like the Vakes and the JDs and old and the Higgsits, truly shitty human beings. That's how you call them. That's what they are. Real, awful, putrid human beings. They are horrible people. They're evil. They're demonic people who are out there to cause you pain to hurt you every damn day. It's not enough for them to amass. Well, they want to inflict pain upon you. They want to see you cry. They want to see you die. They want to lie to you every damn day. They get off on your misery and we have to stop accommodating them and acting like this is normal behavior. That's what feeds and festers a mass psychosis when we try to enable that behavior to begin with. So call it out. And that's why in my videos, when I do videos, I go right away and I say, look, what you're about to watch is a sex predator. That's Donald Trump. He's a traitor. Okay. He's a loser. He's a lunatic. He's a bankrupt. He's a fraud. And you call it out not to get clicks to fortify our minds about what we're about to watch. Because if it's like, I'm going to show you clips of a politician. I'm going to show you clips of just someone who is giving you an alternate perspective. No. He ain't giving you an alternate perspective. He's giving you an alternate universe where you die, where you get tortured, where you suffer. That's the alternative world that he wants to deliver. Pain. That's all they want for you while they, you know, when they talk about they them, they are the ones who want to loot and pillage and take from you. That's what this is about. It is the Epstein class versus you. It is the billionaire class versus you. That's what's so obvious right now. That's what people are pissed off and livid about right now. That's why the polling is the way it is. Don't get me wrong. There are good Democratic candidates. I happen to think Dr. Amy Acton is a great candidate. I think that James Tolerico is a great candidate. I think that Dr. Abdul El Sayed is a great candidate. I think he's running a very strong campaign, damned the torpedoes full speed ahead. As people try to attack him this way and that way, he's like, I'm here representing Michigan. You want to talk about America first? You want to talk about America? Why do you keep asking me every damn question about things that have nothing to do with how Michigan, how the people of Michigan are feeling right now? Why are you constantly asking me questions and do you disavow this? Do you disavow that? Do you about this? Do you about that? Because I grew up in Michigan. Here's my record. Here's what I want to do. This is how I'm going to make the people's lives here better. Yes, I think it makes more sense to put our money, to build hospitals, to build factories, to build things in Michigan versus taking our money and using it for bombs to blow up hospitals and blow up things and slaughter little children abroad. Seems pretty freaking reasonable to me. If you want to know what I think is radical, you want to know what I think is extreme time. I think it's the behavior of people who loot and pillage and steal from us to buy bombs to slaughter little children in Le Maird and Minab and Kesham and Gaza. That's what I think is radical and extreme. No, and I think is radical and extreme when the Trump regime destroys the federal government doesn't have anything to replace it with, creates complete and utter chaos. He can't even vet a freaking press secretary who says that she's a practicing lawyer from African China. The hell are we talking about here? And you want me to believe that these stooges, these idiots know how to deal with the straight of Hormuz. they have no- clue what they're doing. They're dumb. They're dumb. They're fascist. They're traders to this country. And we see it every damn day WTF. It's the title of this book. I hope you'll get it. E-book, hardcover, audio. Take our first break of the show. We spend our whole lives looking forward to retirement. No alarm clock, no commute. Nobody telling you where you need to be Monday morning. Sounds pretty good, right? But then retirement actually gets here. And there's a question nobody really warns you about. Now what? What do you do with your time? 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I'm talking May 21st of 2020 when we were putting out videos and our lives would maybe have 12 people in them at first. I also want to feature on these episodes going forward people like Viviana because there is no Midas Touch network without the Midas mighty, without all of you. I obviously can't highlight everybody's contribution. I always believed that if we waited around for somebody to save us, that person would never arrive. So we had to build something. I still believe today that the Midas Touch network alone is far from the solution but I think it moves us in the right direction because you see the solution is always you. The Midas Touch network needs to be decentralized in the sense of we should never tell brilliant reporters how they do their reporting at all. We should just empower. We should use the network to help. So whether it's a Katie Fang or a Scott McFarlane, whether it's Aaron Parnas, whether it is on the Legal AF side, just let great reporters report and do their work and help where you can stay away where you should stay away and just be there and do whatever you can to lend support. That's it. And then let the Midas mighty let the people take the news and let them champion the truth. Empower the people. Don't hog the credit. Don't hog the news. Don't create a pipeline where information is prevented from reaching the masses. Let the people know what's really happening and where you make mistakes where you don't live up to your potential, which inevitably happens. Apologize. Get better. Improve. That's all you can do and I want to hear from you what your thoughts are about WTF America. I want to go back to the Harry Anton clip because at the top there was a different clip that ended up playing and I got the actual clip that I want to show you what is happening across these various polls. Let's show the actual clip right here of the Harry Anton that I wanted to show you. Let's play. Sometimes you just have to go through the history books. Okay, so I was looking pre-midterm October the worst ever net approval ratings ever in any individual poll. And you can see that the top four spots for the worst are all occupied by a very similar looking gentleman. Sometimes the pictures really do tell the story. Trump, Trump, Trump and then Trump, NBC, ABC, Ipsos, Rotter-Sypsos and the Pew Research Center all at least 31 points underwater when I was digging through the data sets the worst ever in an October was in fact Harry Esch Truman who was 30 points underwater and these numbers exceed all of them. So worst ever in NBC, worst, worst ever. Worst ever in ABC. I believe so. Worst ever in Ipsos. Worst ever in Worst ever in view. If these are the worst at least in terms of compared to other presidents before a midterm election in the October, these are the four worst ever regardless of any pollster compared to other presidents. So what do you do when that's the reality? You deny the reality if you're Trump, a lifelong fraud, bankrupt or loser sex predator that he is and you come up with some scheme. Fixing things is hard. Doing real deals is hard. We have a whole chapter in WTF America called No Deal Donald. Dude is incapable of building. Dude is incapable of doing deals. He destroys. He is a lifelong destroyer. Deal breacher. So he looks at the constitution which has its own implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing called the take care clause in article two that the executive branch takes care that laws are faithfully executed in good faith. Then he goes, your constitution is built on good faith. I've spent my whole life breaching agreements that have good faith at its core. Good faith. And by the way, that's why other countries, and I'm not suggesting the United States has the only great constitution out there and that everyone, I don't know, I'm not so meyopic in my views, but one thing that was admirable that people look to the constitution is like, how do you do it? How do you have these peaceful transitions of power? Your constitution is fairly broad and vague and not that long and you just deal with good faith. Why wouldn't someone just say, no, but I'm not going to do it. And you know, we before Trump and the legal communities, that's our system. There's consequences. If you don't follow it, there's criminal penalties. No one is above the law. And then the right wing fascist Supreme Court said, absolute immunity, you are above the law. We will allow the president to have immunities that even kings and queens and princesses and princesses, even that they don't have in their systems. where they exist. Our system was created as a rejection, as an abolition of kings, where no one is above the law, yet we now have an absolute immunity doctrine, which what do you think the consequences are going to flow when you put that in the hands of a sex predator? When you put that in the hands of a felon? When you put that in the hands of a bankruptor? What do you think they're going to do? Someone who breaches agreements. It's fairly predictable and basic that these consequences are going up. So what does Trump do today? Well, you had the price of oil going up above $111, $112 a barrel. That was brunt. You have WTI, which is more of the US-based one going above $103 a barrel. And so Trump regime needs a plan. What do we do? What do we do? What do we do? What do we do? Okay. Oh, I got a plan. I got a plan. I'm raising my hand, Jeremy. I want you on them. I got a plan. I'm raising my hand. I've got a plan. I've got a plan. Oh, what's your plan? Okay. Let's do the same plan we do every dime. Let's say we're doing a deal with the Ron. That'll make the oil markets go down for a little bit. That will juice up the stock markets. Then we'll tell the CFTC and the SEC not to investigate the trades that are happening when we juice up the markets, when we create the dips by the dips and then make money when the markets rise and then sell off and then rinse and repeat while the Americans are getting screwed with all of this taking place. Okay. How do we do it? Let's just do the same thing we always do. Pakistan, they're begging for some protection, right? All right. All right. So let's tell a seam you near the field, Marshall and Pakistan to go and take a trip over to Iran to meet with Foreign Minister, Iraqi and to meet with their leadership in Iran. And then let's plan to story. Where should we do it? Should we do it in Axios? We've done there. No one's going to believe that. Should we do it Al Jazeera? We've we've done Al Jazeera a lot. Or CBS and too obvious. Let's do it in al-Arabi al-Jadid. Let's do that. What's al-Arabi al-Jadid? I don't know, but it sounds like someone who might know this. Eureka al-Arabi al-Jadid and they report breaking news and somehow this goes over like the wire. So that it gets reported in the Bloomberg terminal. US and Iran reportedly back new diplomatic proposal, Qatar and Pakistan have reportedly presented a compromise proposal with preliminary US and Iranian approval according to informed sources. According to al-Arabi al-Jadid everybody, you have to trust al-Arabi al-Jadid. I mean when was the last time al-Arabi al-Jadid led you astray, right? The plan reportedly includes confidential IAEA inspections of Iranian nuclear sites. Wow, Iran's going to agree to IAEA inspections. All of a sudden, what are they going to get in return? And partial concessions involving $6 billion in Iranian funds frozen in Qatar. So Iran is going to give up every position that they said they stood for for $6 billion in funds being frozen. I don't know, al-Arabi al-Jadid is saying it. So I don't know who they are, but let's just put it on the Bloomberg terminal and let's just spread this information. Then let's have those other sources repost it and then let's move the markets. So they pulled one of those today. They did, they did that. And then, you know, and then you had not surprisingly, Motion Razai, who's the main advisor to Ayatollah, Mojtaba, Komeine, and he basically did a post, not a single gram of enriched uranium will be removed from Iran. There will be no negotiations until the United States takes steps to build trust. That process must begin with the full fulfillment of all Iran's conditions, the conditions in the MOU, those conditions, which in the MOU had phases climbing the ladder before nuclear inspections could take place. Now Iran says we don't trust you even more. So we want all those concessions, all of those terms implemented at once. Until those are met, why would we concede to anything at this point? Because you're telling Al-Arabia Al-Madeid or state regime media fox or CBS that we're about there's about to be a revolution in Iran or the pipes are about to burst in two weeks and Iran's going to be obliterated or the economy is about to break because Operation Economic Outcast is going so great. You know, the thing about your lousy propaganda Trump regime is that yes, Iran acknowledges their economy is hurting. It's not helping when the United States does blockades and issues sanctions, but Iran has lived with sanctions for decades and decades and decades. The IRGC is fully entrenched in the Iranian system. They're not just going to be regime change. How do I know that? Well, you killed their Iatola. You killed Iatola, Komein A, and now as sons in charge, that didn't break them. They brought in the sun. They brought in a new level of leadership. They have multiple levels of leadership prepared. So that ain't breaking them. And you can say that two weeks, two weeks, one week, two weeks, that isn't happening because you're lying to the American people. And then when you criticize them, oh, what are you doing, Iranian propaganda? Are you doing the Iranian side? No, to me, the most important act of patriotism and America first is telling Americans first the truth. And the truth is Iran is not going to change regime anytime soon. The truth is, is that while they're having economic problems, we shouldn't act like they're doing incredible. They're able to weather this. They have their oil for domestic purposes. By the way, you want to know what happened? You want me to let you on a little secret about what happened when a seam unir, the Field Marshal of Pakistan left. You want to know what happened? Pakistan opened up its roads, which was temporary close for the past week to Iran. You know what happens on roads? You know, it travels on roads? Yeah, things, things travel on roads. You know that the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, that's just one exit for Iran, a convenient exit for them to bring out their oil. But you know that there's something called the Caspian Sea, which is on the other side of Iran. You know, there's something called roads and land around them. You know that Iran, if they're able to get through Pakistan, they can easily send oil and supplies to China and China can send it to them. You know that that's something that could happen. You know that Iran can take a circuitous route but a route nonetheless through Turkmenistan and through some of these other areas and try to bring oil as well and supplies to Russia. You know, Russia can send it to Iran that way. You know that Sergei Lavrov, Iran's foreign minister, was in Iran yesterday. Russia's foreign minister, rather, was in Iran yesterday. And Lavrov met with Moshen Razi, the top advisor to the Ayatollah. Also, he met with foreign minister Aragjee. They talked about strategic cooperation, regional stability, further Russian investment in Iran's nuclear plans, in addition to the Bushier nuclear facility. Russia's foreign minister Lavrov said, "Our cause in Russia is at one with the cause of Iran against those who attack us." He's basically saying, "We're aligned in a military struggle. We're allies." He's saying it publicly while Donald Trump's like, "You know, I don't think Russia's helping Iran." Russia's foreign minister is in Iran saying, "We're helping Iran." Literally in there. We're helping. This isn't me combing through CIA documents or secret files. Although I'm sure if I looked through deeper files, you would find a very extensive network of precisely levels of cooperation that are deeper than the statements that Lavrov's making. But not like he left a lot to the imagination. What do you think he's talking about when he meets with Moshen Razi and foreign minister Aragjee? No one's really hiding the situation about what's happening. Same thing with Wang Yi. China's foreign minister meets with foreign minister Aragjee. And then the Trump regime's like economic outcast is doing amazing operation, economic outcast. Iran is so isolated. Dude, Trump is isolated at the US, created a global oil crisis, doing deals with Putin while Putin is meeting with Iran to also help fortify Iran and give Iran capability to further beat the United States in the catastrophic war that's causing the oil prices to rise, like what the what the hell are we doing? And then you have these cowardly pathetic vile creatures like Marco Rubio whose ears grow every time he tells a lie. Soon he's just going to be ears because every time he lies, but he didn't look like this when he was younger and I know when people, anyway, I won't go down that rabbit hole. It's just saying, I think there's a correlation here. You know, it's like I read these books, these ASAPs, Fables, modern versions to my little girl, and you know, we're going to give you unlimited power. You'll become the Secretary of State, but every time you lie, your ears grow a little bigger. And this is Rubio. I mean, what a fool. You now have the power, but you've sacrificed America's power. And every time you lie, your ears grow at the same time. Marco Rubio said, I saw somebody associated with Ukrainian government say this here. Let's let's play this clip of Rubio. Well, it's tough to make a deal, including those that we may have some disagreements with. In the case of Pakistan, it's a country that we have to have a relationship with. It's a country that possesses nuclear weapons. It's a country that from a geographic standpoint, we need to be able to interact with them in much the same way as the government of India has to have and has a relationship and meets with leaders from Iran. So these are difficult things to balance, but then the world required defense, air defense. So, teeth, and again, on the 18th, there were air strikes in Ukraine that were not detected. That is not because America did not provide information. I saw somebody associated with Ukrainian government say that people in Ukraine are dying because the US is denying them information. That's scandalous. That's outrageous. That's just simply not true. That's not accurate. Now, that there was a problem identifying that perhaps there was an internal issue in terms of them being able to take the information that was being provided and systemize it and react to it. That's possible. We're looking at it. Our understanding is that to the extent that happened on the 13th and on the 18th, it was a technical matter. Ah, it was a technical matter. It was a glitch. It was a glitch, everybody. That's what it was. Same thing when the algorithm was shutting down for President Lula in Brazil. It was a glitch. It was a meta algorithm glitch. When they shut down, when they shut down the No Kings account, the data centers, they can't handle all the data about No Kings. Yeah, it works with the Super Bowl. It works with other but when it comes to No Kings glitch, too much traffic. It's like a Nintendo cassette when you were young. You have to blow on the algorithm. And that's how the algorithm works. But only when it comes to pro-democracy content, protesting the regime, calling out the oligarchs. That's when you got to take out that that's when the algorithm just needs a little old take out the cassette. Super Nintendo or regular Nintendo for me blow on it basically and then it all it's all great. It's all gravy, everybody. Well, you do me a favor though. When you get WTF America, if you've got it now, whatever social media platform you use, tag us, show us a photo of you and the book. Give us a review. And ultimately, you don't like the book. Make me sad. It'll make me sad, but it'll be truthful. Hold the book and you could be like, uh, thumbs down, socks. I don't think you'll have that reaction, but I'm open to an honest review. I think you'll go to them. I think you'll go to thumbs up that the book is great, that it actually provides detailed specifics of how we get out of this hell. That it's not merely an election book, that it provides a clear roadmap. And then I think you give two thumbs up if you like it and you give a positive review. And I think you like it. I think it, I mean, look, it's inspired by all of you, the Midas mighty. Yeah, blow on that algorithm, right? And when it comes to, when it comes to progressive or liberal or pro-democracy, oh, oh, oh, shucks that that data center, it just needs a little bit, just ain't working when it comes to all the right wing filth and trash that spreads. voila, it all works. When it comes to the Ukrainian drones accessing starlink and star shield, folks, the weather, did you know, it must have been a weather glitch. That's what happened. Here's the thing you're so damn cowardly, like if you're gonna do this, if you're gonna go do this path, if you, if you are what you seem to be, obviously a Putin bootlecker and a Xi Jinping bootlecker and it's not even allied. If you're, if you're bending the knee and having the US sovereignty come second to Putin and Netanyahu and Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un, then just go say it, just do it, own it, own it, own it. I will despise you, but perhaps not even at least you'll, at least you'll be like, at least I'll know, okay, got it, here's who you are. But when you do this, oh, that didn't, that's not happening. Oh, no, that's, we're not covering up the Epstein files. Oh, no, no, no, we didn't say that with Netanyahu. You said it. I heard you say it. You literally said it with Netanyahu. I'm hearing you. I'm hearing your words. You're threatening the thing and then doing the thing and then telling us the thing that you threatened and happened isn't actually happening. Right? Last quick break of the show. We'll be right back. Get WTA for America. We'll be right back. AI isn't just opening up new business opportunities. It's changing the way businesses get work done. The questions they ask, the decisions they make, and the routine tasks that they can hand off. That's the idea behind NetSuite. Next, the next generation of the business management suite trusted by over 40,000 companies, with AI woven into every tool that you already rely on. 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One non-witcher-all reward redeemable. Terms at dkng.co/offer, limited time offer nationwide based on sports book predictions and free-to-play sports contest availability varies by state. Welcome back to Ben on breaking news. I've been my cellist. Shout out to the Maple Midas out there. One of the things we talk a lot about in WTF America is the importance of independent media making these connections globally because you know how the right wing always wants to talk about globalist plots, globalist this, globalist that. The real globalist plot has been authoritarians trying to and doing their poisonous information, rigging the systems together, working with each other as the arsonists and you saw this in the Epstein files. Epstein was talking to a lot of these oligarchs back in 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018. Talking about this stuff too, it's one of the observations that I think goes understated when we talk about the Epstein files, but he was a middleman in the Epstein class that was a class of oligarchs and international leaders who were the arsonists destroying the systems so that when people were running scared, they would pick your pockets basically and in the chaos in the disruption, they could drift more easy, they could steal from you more easy, and they could entrench their wealth more easy. So they're the globalist authoritarian network and we have to think though actually globally in systems in order to fight back against that with the fire hose of truth, to fight back against the firehose of disinformation. So Canada, a big referendum about Alberta and Alberta remaining in Canada. It was a separatist referendum, and I know Canadian might as touch viewers will say, well, actually, Ben, it was a question about starting the process to vote on the referendum. So I certainly want to speak very specifically. I understand that there's nuance to it, but I think it's fair to describe the intent was a separatist movement fueled by Maple Maga and by Maga here in Trump as part of the attacks on Canadian sovereignty. I think we can acknowledge that that's the reality. Prime Minister Karni grew up in Alberta. He's an Edmontonian, and so he traveled around Alberta channeling his childhood and pro unity. And the independent, or I should say the pro separatist vote got destroyed despite Maga and Trump doing everything they can to try to prop it up, remain 75.3%, separatist independence, 24.7%. And when you look at a blue conservative Calgary and they kind of have a reverse in Canada with the colors and things like that, but blue conservative Calgary, 89% remain, 89% remain in Calgary. And you have Prime Minister Karni as the new leader of the free world. And he was celebrating the big victory. Obviously, it's still a very difficult time in Canada right now, and our heart goes out to everybody there and in Alberta after the horrific, horrific incident that took place at the military base over there. I want to show you Prime Minister Karni after his support and the support of Canadians, elbows up, shoulder to shoulder, destroying the separatist group over here. Let's play. Good day. It's good day for Canada. It's such a good day. I'm out of breath yet again, proving my lack of fitness. No, it's a great result for Canada, thrilled that Albertans have chosen unity. They've chosen to build together. They've chosen to continue to take care of each other, to move forward together. With purpose, high ambition. I'd like to thank all of the volunteers who supported the election, of course, those who campaigned on all sides. The electoral volunteers who were still counting some of the votes above all Albertans for turning out in numbers participating in the democratic process. Premier Smith and I spoke this morning. We had a good conversation on a series of issues, including providing additional support, all support for the victims and the families of the tragedy at CFB Wainwright. That was our first focus, and then we turned to the referendum and moving forward in the spirit of cooperative federalism, including on issues of immigration, other common priorities of the federal government, the provinces, but underlying it, priorities of the Canadians. Lawful, deliberate, meticulous, a great speaker, a decent, empathetic human being. Canada elected the right guy for this moment. That's for sure. Contrasted with the wrong guy creating this WTF moment, Donald Trump. Yikes, Donald Trump loses his shit at a reporter for the third time during a Q&A in the Oval Office. That's how Rupert labelled it. Let's play it. You own a lot of golfers. You're right. Why it's quiet. It's wrong with you. You're a sick person. I'm not sick of this. I actually think there's something wrong with you. Go ahead. I mean, at that point, why didn't the other reporters in the room just go, no, you'd be quiet. You piece of shit. Like, no, stand. I get it. Just walk out. Just walk out at that point. Quiet. Quiet. I mean, you're like a crazy human. He's like a freaking lunatic. Like actually, like a demonic look. You got to ask to quiet. He's like a psycho that hell is wrong with you. He wasn't, that's how you react to that really. And you know, when it's people like that, like, oh, she's being so emotional or she's being too this or this guy, this guy is the most emotional lunatic there. Quiet. Actually sick. What a sick human being he is. He snapped at another reporter. Let's show you this. Hey, I'm not point. You better, you better, I don't know who the hell you are, but you better be careful. Go ahead. When you confirm that the U.S. is Trump and snapped at a female reporter. Let's play this clip. Wait. Wait. Can I just ask you about Trump accounts? Could Trump accounts expand to it? I think it's psychotic. Then JD Van starts to talk and Trump falls asleep. Let's play it. And it's involvement in this so important. And I think Andrew and Ferguson and I have learned day to day that without actual coordination across the various arms and government, this work would not be possible. The fact of the president has empowered us, but also told all of the cabinet secretaries to do the work. He then refers to the speeches that he gives as ranting and raving. His words. It's not easy to stand up there for two hours, ranting, raving. You have the crowds, but there's a lot of love in those rooms. And I think it's made a big difference. So when I say he's ranting and raving like a lunatic, right? He says it either. Get the call or hyperbolic, ranting and raving. Why are you saying that? He admits he's ranting and raving. Just take another angle as he snaps at a reporter. Let's just show you this. Let's play it. Why? Why? What's wrong with you? Are you a sick press? And by the way, did you catch JD Vance behind him? I mean, like, you know, when you grew up and you watched like the side kicks to like the bad guys and like, like, who is the side kicks to, you know, to like shredder in Ninja Turtles? What were those guys' names? Do you remember what their names were? Be-be-bop. Be-bop and rocksteady. Right? Right. You got it. Freaking shredder and be-bop and rocksteady. I googled that. I didn't know be-bop and rocksteady. And he's got the, the foot clan, an army of ninja foot soldiers that he commands and positions for tactical advantage that always get killed first. There's Crang and Alien Warlord. That's RFK Jr. There's Baxter Stockman, a mad scientist and roboticist who often builds tech, Mauser, that's Elon Musk. There's Tiger Claw, Razar or Fish Face, recurring mutant assassins and henchmen and that's like Lutnik and Bessent and all of that. I mean, these guys are right out. These are, this would be parody and farcical if they weren't so, if this wasn't people's lives. And I'll share this with you as Trump is asked about the new Fox power rankings, which shows less than a quarter of rural voters are happy with the state of economy. Are you concerned? Watch his response. Let's play it. In the new Fox news power rankings, it shows that less than a quarter of rural voters are happy because they have the economy. Are you concerned about these people? No, because as soon as the war's over, it's going to end very soon. The Iran will, I had no choice. Yeah, you can't let them have. It's the number one state sponsor of terror. As soon as that war is over, oil is going to drop like a rock and that's the only thing holding it back. No, we have tremendous support. You know, when people are unhappy with the gasoline, it just sound trivial, but they say it themselves. It's a, it's a big price, but actually it's a small price to pay for not letting Iran have a nuclear weapon and they will never have a nuclear weapon. That's already, we could leave right now and we would have done a good job, a great job. That beautiful plane right there took them out, but it's under hundreds of tons of rock. The beautiful plane right there, the B2 took them all out. We obliterated it, but we need to re obliterate it. It's like a every year obliteration ritual. Every year, Trump and Netanyahu, they need to do their obliteration because the prior obliteration wasn't an obliteration and then this is going to be rinse and repeat every day a year and they may American people are sick of it. The American people are sick of it. And I'm seeing, you know, I'm seeing not just Democrats or liberals, I'm talking about people that don't like politics. We're talking about people who consider themselves conservative, independent, people who consider themselves American first. Did you notice that really throughout this episode? I barely even talked about like, I talked about humanity. I barely, I'm not like, you need to vote for this part. I'm just talking about humanity and leadership and grown up behavior and empathy and not behaving the way Vivek and Trump behave, you know, and call an out behavior, right? We have to, we have to not accept and normalize this stuff. And it's why every damn day we flood the zone with the truth, truth, truth, truth, truth, truth, truth, truth. And we're going to keep on doing it. I try to lay out the full philosophy in WTF America, the way out of this hell and back to democracy. I wrote this book with my brothers. Get it now if you can support the book. I think you'll truly like it. And if you like it, do a photo of yourself in the book, thumbs up. And if you don't like it, you could go thumbs down, sad face. You let me down, but you're not going to let you down. You're going to like this book. I promise you. I promise you what a what a picture right there. I got to work on the pitch a little bit better. But it's really a great book. It's inspired by you, the Midas mighty. I want to give one more shout out to Midas Viviana. Thank you for all of your support, Viviana. And thanks. And I'm going to try to highlight other Midas mighty OGs as well. There's Viviana right there with her copy of WTF America. We're so grateful. There is no Midas mighty without people like Viviana without people like all of you who are the true secret ingredient to this all. Thank you very much. Shout out, Midas mighty. Go get WTF America now and tell me in the comments if you got it. Thanks, everybody.