MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 9/18/26

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Donald Trump previously threatened criminal charges. Against the prior chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, for not lowering interest rates, keeping them the same. Trump brought in a new guy, Kevin Warsh, the chairman of the Federal Reserve right now. And guess what Trump did? Guess what Kevin Warsh did to Trump? Raised those interest rates. And guess what Donald Trump did? Behaved like an absolute lunatic and said, now I'm not going to trade with any country. And if we want to be really rich, no more trading with any country we have a deficit with. Talk about that. Donald Trump called Barack Ravid his personal stenographer, propagandist over at Axios today. Surprise, surprise. Trump both said they really want to make a deal, and also, I really want to annihilate them. Trump threatens absolute annihilation of Iran. Talk about that. Prime Minister Carney gave a speech before the European Union Parliament, the first time a foreign leader ever gave a speech like that there. They're talking about a speech before the European Union Parliament, the first time a foreign leader ever gave a speech like that there. They're talking about about associate member status for Canada and the EU, bringing them closer together. An F-16 crashed in Michigan. Seems like an awful lot of planes are crashing and helicopters and Apaches and Blackhawks are randomly crashing and refineries are shutting down. There's power outages. We're not really sure what's going on here, but don't really trust what the Trump regime is telling us about all these various incidents. Of course, Congress, they're now in recess. MAGA Mike lasted about one day where there were hearings and Treasury Secretary Besant and Kash Patel were cross-examined. And I think that showed us all why we need accountability, why we need oversight, right? Because even though the MAGA Republicans control both the House and the Senate, and they basically rigged the rules so you could only get like a few minutes to question these idiots, they look so awful during their short period of time. And I mean, so awful. I mean, you had Kash Patel talking about bestiality and why he allows people who were found responsible for bestiality to be in the FBI. And he said, no, I'm referring to the victims of bestiality. And then even the MAGA Republican Senator, Senator Kennedy was like, are you talking about dogs? What are you talking about there, Kash? And so I guess we'll talk about that. Russia war in Ukraine continues to escalate. We've been covering what's happening in Odessa and Kiev and cities throughout Ukraine. Similarly, we've been talking about Zelensky's response. We're seeing still refineries throughout Russia are being hit. Things are escalating there. Don't worry. Trump promised he was going to end that war. Like two years ago, he said it would end it in 24 hours. It'd be so easy. He has the best words, he said. So he would use some words with Putin and some words with Zelensky and it would be resolved. But now he blames Zelensky for the rising price of diesel. He says it has nothing to do with Iran. It's all about Zelensky. He's Fauci-ing Zelensky. Dr. Fauci-ing Zelensky. It's not a surprise he was doing that before. Anyway, he was Fauci-ing Zelensky before he was Fauci-ing Fauci. And then Donald Trump gave that deranged speech in North Carolina where he was, dancing. We once did a video early on in the Midas Touch Network. We called them like Trump dancing on graves, the grave dancer. And he's kind of doing that right now as the American people are suffering. He's like, I delivered all of my promises. We're in a golden age. Everybody's rich. Everyone's amazing. And then when he returned to Washington, D.C. aboard Qatari Air Force One with Natalie Harp, he could be seen holding a placard about destroying the Kennedy Center is what he was reading. A massive, gigantic placard that says destroy Kennedy Center that I guess he and his henchman Bill Pulte were looking at together. And this says yesterday, a legal observer who was monitoring what was taking place at the Kennedy Center said that Trump was sending forklifts to not just put fencing, but to start indiscriminately crashing into the pillars of the Kennedy Center. Like, just think about it. The judge is like, Trump, you can't name it that. Can I inscript my name? Can I engrave it? No. Or then I'm going to break it. I'm going to break it. I'm going to send a forklift and I'm going to break it. Brent and Jordy, that's where we are right now. That's where we are right now as we head into the end of September. That's where we are. You think we got a lot to talk about? Oh my God, what a list. Good to see you, Ben. Good to see you, Jordy. Good to see you, Midas Mighty. I can't even process that list. If you told me, if I said, if we made this prediction on the Midas Touch Podcast, if we said, guys, it's really important that you vote this election, because if you don't, they're going to bulldoze the East Wing of the White House. They're going to destroy the reflecting pool. They're going to try to demolish the Kennedy Center. They'll probably host a UFC fight on the lawn. We're going to start a catastrophic war in the Middle East. Measles going to rage back, or we're going to start a trade war with Canada. Oh, and by the way, the FBI is also going to start making exceptions for hiring people who engage in bestiality. People would have been like, this is the most conspiratorial podcast I've ever heard of. This is blue anon, crazy bullshit. What the hell are you talking about? Somehow, I didn't even scratch the surface of all the things that have actually happened under this Trump regime. Really, really, really, truly sick stuff, but we're going to get through it all. Jordy, how are you doing? Didn't even scratch the surface there, Brett. That's right. You left out the skyrocketing gas prices, ICE just murdering people on the streets here. Left out quite a bit. I mean, we could go on and on, but to your point, if we had said this before, you know, locally and been like, hey, this is what is going to happen. Although I will say like we did probably aptly warn, like it's going to get worse and it continues to, but people would have been like, ah, those Midas brothers, man, blue anon. I got to say, Jordy, the bestiality thing, that one, I couldn't have called that. I didn't expect that one. Correct. Correct. I'm excited to get into today's show. Benji, Brett, it's great to see you. Midas Mighty, it is wonderful to be here. And the quick thing I'm going to say here is when Donald Trump's talking about saying the golden age, right now, everyone, we are all in the golden age. It gives me like MAGA, Michael Scott from The Office vibes when he's like, I declare bankruptcy. You got Trump out of, I declare the golden age. You can't just say it, buddy. You can't just say it. It blows my mind how much corporate media, legacy media just lets Trump skate on a lot of this, but not us here, not the Midas Mighty, not this pro-democracy community. We're going to call it out every step of the way with that. Benji, where are we starting off today, big bro? You know, it certainly kills satire. It certainly kills parody because what we're seeing is be beyond even what I think they envisioned in idiocracy. And it's right here. And, you know, the rest of the world is looking at this and they're like, what the hell is happening here? They're actually like WTF. And, you know, we here are looking at this too. And we're like, we're doing everything that we can here on the Midas Touch Network. The people here who we're fighting with, the Midas Mighty, you all are doing everything that you can. The people have been resilient here. But here we are, the Trump regime, they're trying everything. They tried to rig the mail. Just think about they're trying to have the U.S. Postal Service change the way they deliver only election ballots, no other mail. You would create a special Trump barcode and the state election process would have to correspond with Trump's election barcode. So there would be a Trump portal and the names would have to match. That's why the Trump regime wanted to seize all of the election rolls from all the states because they wanted to remove the names of people they didn't like. And they were going to kind of create their own, in my opinion, like a fake list. This is what my opinion was that they were going to try to do. And then they wanted to like create this. The people who created a fake Epstein files list would have created a fake voter list. That's what my opinion was. People like Janis Joplin and people who were dead before Epstein was even alive would have done that. Just giving you my opinion. Protected by Trump. Protected by the first amendment about where I thought that this could be headed. But you'll feel free to have different opinions than me. But then even the Supreme court and that seven to two decision blocked Trump from that, which is, Hey, you can't make the postal service a way to stop people from voting. Just think about that's, that's an issue that we just confronted here in the United States. He's posting deranged memes like only Trump. And it's a photo of our house, the people's house, the white house. And it says only Trump. And this kind of sums up, I think all of his failed, flawed, catastrophic, everything. He's a deranged lunatic, sexual predator, awful human being. He's a felon. He's a bankrupt or not a builder, a deal breaker, just truly putrid in all respects. Only Trump. It's never about public service. It was never about the people. It was never about government functioning. It was all about grifting, stealing, criming. It was all about only about Trump. Only Trump is the person who's really made money. Lots of it during this horrible time period. Only Trump is the person really going through the golden age, perhaps some oligarchs who go in and out, but even they'll be targeted by him eventually, whether they're in today or out tomorrow. But only Trump has been able to, you know, have, you know, have better life while the American people have absolutely suffered. And so, you know, Trump goes to North Carolina, he's given a. He's given a speech at like the local airport over there, by the way, North Carolina, a place where Donald Trump rejected FEMA aid over and over again, rejected the appeal for FEMA aid, then kind of gave it in drip by drip by drip. Biden gave 100 percent matching FEMA aid. Donald Trump refused to do the same match and he rejected the request by the governor. I mean, again, how utterly sick is that, you know, to do? I mean, Melania was in North Carolina the day before. And she spoke to the children about how she wants to give them all AI. That's what she wanted to talk about. And she's like every there's an ash ash county, like everybody here is so resilient. You're so resilient. It's like, yeah, well, your family and your regime wouldn't give these people the aid that they needed. And he kept on denying it. And you gutted FEMA, you crazy people. Like, what are you doing? What the hell is even going on anyway? So Donald Trump is in North Carolina and his message to everybody heading into the homestretch for midterms is I've delivered every single promise because I delivered every promise I made and far more. I didn't just deliver. I did far more, he said. Here, play this clip. And I've delivered on every single promise I made and far more than the promise. OK, then he says that skyrocketing gas prices are very inexpensive price to pay for the Great War. He says it's been it should be more money. He said we're lucky that it's so high because everything's so amazing. So we deserve this, he says. I have to say you have a little higher. You have a higher. It's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that it's a little more. It's even if it was frankly, even if it was a lot more, but that's going to come tumbling down. That's going to be like a rocket ship in reverse. It's going to come tumbling down. It'll be like a rocket ship. It should be more expensive. That's Trump's message. It should be more expensive, everybody. While you and everybody can't afford their gas, Trump says it should be more expensive. Just a little more, but then it'll come tumbling down just magically like a miracle, perhaps it will all disappear. I don't know. Maybe injected in your veins, right? Maybe put some horse tranquilizers, maybe replace gas with horse tranquilizer. Maybe that's where it goes. Maybe we should just not trade with anybody. You know how we can get really rich if you just do zero trading anymore, and that's one of the things that Donald Trump said. I'll talk about that in a little bit as well, but his solution is we cut off trade with everybody. We'll get to there in a moment. Trump on Iran. Trump says, "The Democrats gave us the dark age of America. We turned it into the golden age." He says, "This is the golden age." Watch for yourself when he says that this is the golden age. You're going to win, Michael. So the Democrats gave us the dark age of America, and we turned it into the golden age. We're right now in the golden age of America, and that war is going to end very soon. Watch. You just watch. You just watch. Just watch. Lodge, everybody. Then Trump on Iran. He said they called. The Iranians, everybody, they called again. They want to make a deal, but they're not ready yet. That's the issue. The issue is they're not ready, he says. Here, let's play it. And they want to make a deal so badly, they call. We want to make a deal. We want to make it. They're not ready yet, I don't think, but we could have a deal anytime we want. And I've delivered on every single. No, that's it. We could do a deal anytime we want. What about Venezuela? You told us that you invaded Venezuela because that was going to make our oil prices go down and that we've got access to 65 billion barrels of oil, apparently, in Venezuela. And it's going into our reserves. This is what his claim is. You've all seen my videos and the podcasts where I debunk this and I explain to you how all of the oil in Venezuela, it's hypothetical, the 65 billion number, its potential, it's viscous, dense, sour, doesn't go into our reserves, billions of dollars of investment that may take five, 10, 15 years before you could ever refine it. Lots of businesses don't want to work with the Delci regime over there because it's part of the Maduro regime. Also, it's unlawful what Trump is doing. So lots of businesses, for purposes of their shareholders, are very cautious about what they're going to be doing. And they're going to be doing it. But this is what Trump says about Venezuela. Let's play it. Don't forget, they never want to talk the fake news about Venezuela. We took out Venezuela in 48 minutes and and now we have all our big oil companies going there and we're working along with the government of Venezuela very well. The relationship is extraordinary. We're taking out millions and millions of barrels of oil and I can't get the press to talk about it because they don't want to talk about it. We're taking out millions of barrels of oil and I can't get the press to talk about it because they've never seen anything like it before. When they say to the victor belong the spoils. That's one of the greatest cases anyone's ever seen in history. We paid back the cost of our war many times over and you watch what's going to happen Iran. It's going to be a really good conclusion. It's going to and it's going to happen. It's going to I say it's going to be a little bit after the election, but maybe not. Maybe it's before the election. He was bragging about invading a country, stealing their resources. He claims the money paid for itself when Treasury Secretary Besant was under oath and he was asked, so where's the money? Besant opened up his book. I'm not at liberty to tell you where the money is thus far. Well, where is it? You said it's paid for. Is it in the Treasury? I'm not at liberty to say. You know what I mean? You're not at liberty to tell us where the money is as in the Qatari account. It's being audited. Who's the auditor? I'm not at liberty. Have you seen the audit? It hasn't started the audit, but I'm just going to say the word audit. But in the future, there will be an audit. All right, so where's the money? And by the way, there has not been more production of oil and the oil processes of oil to oil being refined since Donald Trump. Donald Trump invaded the country and kidnapped Maduro and put in Maduro's number two as the leader. It's been about the same. Trump stole probably $13 billion, some maybe more. That's probably in a Qatari bank account. That's like Trump's account. Not for we the people. Trump alone. We don't know where this money is. And Besant was asked. And Besant was like, I'm not allowed to say. I showed you what his testimony was. But then Donald Trump says that the new one, the new one, because people know that tariffs aren't going to. Make us rich like he promised. So his new one is if you stop trade with every country that we have a deficit with, it's about 50 plus countries. If you stop the trade, all trade, just shut it down. No more trading. That's how you get really rich by doing zero trade. In 2026, this is his solution. Do no trade. trade. And if we stop trading with every country that we have a deficit with, which is most of them, and which would be very easy to do, would make at least $1.5 trillion a year. We do that because it's almost like a reflex. He is the stupidest person on the planet. And if you believe a word that he says, then I'm sorry, but you are too. He's lying about everything. The guy doesn't even know what a trade deficit is. And that's a problem, I would say, for the President of the United States. His concept of a trade deficit reminds me of what my wife calls girl math. I didn't buy this, so that means I now have $100 to buy a dress. Now that means I have $100 to buy this product. And it's like, well, no, you don't. You don't. And that's kind of Trump's concept here. It's like, okay, so I didn't spend money on this, and groceries, but I bought this. Okay, but you don't have groceries. Now you don't have anything to eat. And so you're not going to be able to buy anything. And so you're not going to be able to live. You're not going to have anything to do. You get things for trade, obviously. That's why we trade with countries, because it's beneficial to Americans, and it's beneficial to companies in America who need to get a diverse series of parts from various countries in order to make their products. And what Trump is talking about right there is economic suicide. And that's now his threat against the Federal Reserve and against the entire American economy. He's been threatening, you keep raising rates, I'm going to just cut off trade with everybody, because that will solve the problem. No, it won't. That will send the United States into a depression. And I will use a Trump terminology here, the likes of which you have never seen. It would be an utter disaster. But I think the helpful thing about Donald Trump going through all those issues is he's kind of clearly laying out all the various things that he has been an utter failure on. He brings up the war. He brings up gas prices. He brings up trade. He brings up every issue possible. And it just reminds you, oh, yeah, the guy failed at literally everything. And that's why if you just go with what Trump says being the opposite of reality, it's kind of an easy way to do analysis. And you're going to be right 99.999% of the time. So when Trump gets out there and he says all these things, and he says that he's kept every promise and all this stuff, you just have to know, okay, it's the opposite of reality. And people feel this sort of thing, right? People understand that we're not in the golden age. They see Donald Trump focused on all this garbage while everybody's suffering. They see him on the plane through the window with a big poster board where someone is apparently pitching him on demolishing the Kennedy Center or a post on demolishing the Kennedy Center to post on his social account. These aren't the things that Americans are concerned about right now. Americans are concerned about their lives, but Trump just keeps causing more chaos and more chaos. And quite frankly, when you look at what he's doing and if you think about how would I, if I were an evil individual, an adversary of the United States of America, who was hellbent on destroying this country from within, I don't think you would do really anything differently than what Donald Trump is doing right now. He is showing step by step by step how to dismantle everything. And it's another reason why the midterms coming up are so vital. And that's why everybody needs to get out there and vote, quite frankly, because there needs to be some sort of check on his unfettered power. And these Republicans are such cowards. They refuse to do anything. They refuse to work. You know, I'd fancy to guess that Congress has not been in session more days than they have been this past year. It's unbelievable what we're witnessing. And what we just heard Trump say by cutting off trade, right? Again, it shows perfectly the America first scam that Donald Trump has put over his followers, as Brett shows a calendar of actually how many days it looks like Congress has worked this year. 15 days of legislative business in over four months. 15 days of legislative business in over four months, Jordy. Dude, just truly, again, unbelievable when you see this right in front of your face in numbers like that. But again, it shows you, Brett, when he's talking about cutting off trade, that America first scam that he's put over all of his MAGA loyalists and just quite frankly, the Republican Party in general at this point. America first for Donald Trump just means America all alone. Let me isolate ourselves from our allies. In fact, let me go after our allies. Let me isolate ourselves from the world by not conducting trade with them. Let me make up numbers. 1.5 trillion. Look how smart I am by not doing trade with these countries. Look how much money we're going to have. We're going to be so rich. We're in the golden age, actually. Aren't y'all so rich now? By the way, if those gas prices, if they have to go up even a little bit more, y'all be all right. You know why? Because we're in the golden age. If I say it enough times that we're in the golden age, you're going to believe it, right? And so disgusting. And what frustrates me too is just like in general, we played four clips, five clips just like from this rally in North Carolina alone. There were quick clips. That was crazy. Like WTF, that was already just insane and we didn't even get to have them. And so how does corporate media coverage like cover this to me is like equally more depressing and upsetting and frustrating. There was just like an NBC headline that caught my eye as I was doing some research. It was like Donald Trump bashes Democrats. See, even my dog's pissed off. Trump bashes Democrats on crime while campaigning in North Carolina. It's like, that's what y'all took away from this. And by the way, I went ahead and read that article. There's no real fact checks in there. The fact check is from the opponent's like staff, like seven paragraphs in of why that's BS. Crazy to me how any sane network or news organization can look at what Donald Trump is doing up there and just continue to pretend that that's normal. That that's the President of the United States, that this is what we have, you know, come to expect out of someone in that position. Disgusting. I want to take our first quick break of the show. Reminder, our new book is called WTF America. You could pre-order right now. It officially arrives in bookstores and officially will get delivered October 20th is when it comes out. But pre-order it right now. We would love for you to get a copy people were wondering, were we reading the audio book? And we did. All of us have different sections of the audio book that we read. And so if you were wondering, will we be reading the audio book? 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So this impacts people's ability, companies' ability to get loans from banks, and it makes it more expensive to get these loans. So the range right now is 3.75 to 4%. There's something called a dot plot that the Fed uses to show you how they may be voting on future rate hikes or keeping rates the same or decreasing rates. Notably, Kevin Warsh, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, was against these dot plots, but we just got a dot plot out from this Federal Reserve Board. And the dot plot shows at least one more interest rate hike that's going to take place this year, probably another 25 basis points, but we will see ultimately what it is. Possibly, two more rate hikes, but mostly people are saying they'll at least be one more. But I should caution because if you looked at the dot plots from a few months back, you would have expected, or at the beginning of the year, you would have expected there to be three interest rate cuts this year. And so that's what mostly every economist and banker was believing. That's what the Federal Reserve Board did. But rarely, if ever, was the economy so dramatically impacted by the person in the White House. Usually, they have to react, but they don't ultimately cause this complete reversal of a trend the way Donald Trump did. But Trump's tariffs against the world, trade wars against the world, catastrophic war in Iran, Trump's attack on the immigrant population, which also was a big problem for labor and for workers. As well, Trump's attack on our manufacturing base, his attack on farmers overall. This created a situation where we're in very difficult economic times now. Some would say very catastrophic economic times. That's how most Americans see it. I'm not being hyperbolic when we talk about the lowest consumer confidence in history. I didn't make that chart. It's the University of Michigan Consumer Confidence Report. It's a report that goes back half a century. And since they started, this is the worst consumer confidence that there is right now. Inflation is surging. And so there was a 12 to zero vote. It's unanimous. All board members of the Federal Reserve said rate hike. So it wasn't just this person or that person. There were Trump picks, George W. Bush picks, Biden picks, people who were all on this board. 12 nothing. They all said rate hike. They all voted to hike the rates. And then you had Kevin Warsh. Again, Donald Trump's pick to be the chairman of the Federal Reserve. He went out there and he said, high inflation. This is what our mandate is at the Fed. And when we see inflation elevated, we act. And there is elevated inflation caused by geopolitical stability. Say what you want. There could be a lot of criticisms for Kevin Warsh and they're all fair. But I believe he actually, and I'll call it out when it happens. I think he acted responsibly. I'm not rooting for rate hikes. Okay. But given the data, he made the right decision. And afterwards, he said basically, mostly the right things because inflation is high because of geopolitical instability. They take the actions that they can control. He goes, I can't deal with trade policy. I don't deal with this. We deal with what the Fed deals with our mandate. And this is why we acted unanimously like this. It is important to note. Though that Kevin Warsh's background, he was a member of the Federal Reserve many, many years ago. He's not that old of a guy, but he was there when he was very, when he was much younger, but he was there. And he had a reputation as being called an interest rate hawk. So his background was someone who was more inclined to aggressively raise interest rates to try to control inflation. That was his reputation. Ironically, Jerome Powell, who was the prior chairman of the Federal Reserve, who Trump picked during Trump's first term, Trump picked Jerome Powell. Jerome Powell, again, very significant credibility as an economist, normal, kind of well-researched, kind of the right person. But his background was what was called an interest rate dove. And he was someone who believed that you can spur growth and bring down inflation. Jerome Powell, again, very significant credibility as an economist, normal, kind of the right person. So Trump came up with some phony pretext about the Federal Reserve building is over budget. Yeah, of all people, Donald Trump is the one saying that. And that's why he was criminally prosecuting Powell. And Powell had to quash a subpoena. Then Powell's term ended. Powell's actually stayed on the board right now. And you had Kevin Warsh appointed. And lots of people included, like, that's an interesting pick, because Kevin Warsh is a hawk. He's the guy who's known to raise it. So is Kevin Warsh going to go again? Yeah, he's going to go again. And Trump wanted that guy criminally prosecuted. He brings in Warsh, the hawk. And what does Warsh do? Raise his interest rates with the full board, unanimously voting to do so. Then Warsh held a press conference where Warsh was asked, so what are you going to say to Trump? Like, how do you now message this to Donald Trump? Because he obviously brought you here to try to force the board to lower it. That's why he was going after Powell. Watch what Warsh says in response here. This was Warsh at the press conference. I have to ask, what is your message here to President Trump, who has repeatedly called to cut interest rates, not raise them? I've got nothing for you on a discussion with the president. But I won't make that count as your question. Then you had Trump's top economic advisor, Peter Navarro, rush to the Bannon show. Let's take a look at what went down there. Why do you think I'm surprised? I was not a worse guy. I'm not a worse guy. I see him not as MAGA. I see him, let's call him MARA or MASA, like, make recessions great again. You know, it's like, or make stagflation great again. I just, look, he sold himself and now he's selling us out. I think it's pretty much as simple as that. And I don't know, here's what I don't know. I don't know whether it's a gap in his training or whether he's just one of them. And this is political. I fear it's political. energy prices. The risk of regime violence has long been baked into the global price of oil and gas and everything else. The Iran war is going to lower prices, lower energy prices. And the guy is a complete fool. The guy is a complete idiot. And I'd have to say, you know, respect for Warsh for not going along with Donald Trump on this. I think his actions in not being the lone vote, like a 11 to 1 vote in the Fed, I think that actually probably really helped actually calm some of the nerves people had about the rate hikes because people were watching and the investors were watching to see, is this guy, is he a serious human being or is he going to fold and do whatever Donald Trump wants him to be? Because that Fed position, it's independent for a reason. It's independent because the entire global financial system relies on the decisions of that board. It affects so much. And so if you see the chair of the board acting in a way that is irresponsible, that is untrustworthy, then you lose the trust of the entire system, quite frankly, can collapse. And so thankfully for now, Kevin Warsh has at least retained his credibility on this issue because if he went and did what Donald Trump wants to do, and if we didn't have this independence of the Fed and Donald Trump went in there and he said interest rates should be 1%, so I hereby decree, like Geordie, I declare bankruptcy, I declare interest rates 1%, right? If Donald Trump did that, you know what happens? The dollar gets super weak, imports get super expensive. You might have a short-term, jolt to the economy where the stock market rises and people get this sugar high and then everything will freaking collapse. And inflation, you think inflation's bad now, you will be dreaming of the inflation we have right now if Donald Trump got his way. But that's why he has a history of bankrupting everything, because he can't make the right decisions. He's physically incapable of making the right decisions. And what he does when he's in a bind is he just does this doom spiral. And when you doom spiral, you end up doomed. And that's what's happening. And that's what's happening right now. Thankfully, there are still a few things blocking him from completely throwing everything in this country into the trash. But we are hanging by a thread here. Can I go tinfoil hat, Geordie, just for a quick second here? Something to me is just, I'm holding reservations here. Something's not passing the sniff test for me, right, right away. And part of it actually came in Navarro's response on Bannon over there, where he said something along the lines of, you know, maybe Warsh needs more training. It's such a way for him to phrase that, more training. And there's like, what do you need to sit him in front of the TV and have him watch more Trump rallies for three hours and then send him back out there? There's an overarching relationship here that I just, I don't feel comfortable about. But we'll kind of see where things continue to, you know, head out there, Ben. What do you think? Do you think everything is simpatico over here? Or do you think there's a little bit more that we have to kind of, you know, wait and see approach? I don't think that it's simpatico, I think you always have to wait and see. There's always scheming with the Trump regime. I mean, Kevin Warsh sold himself as somebody who would be the opposite of what he was his entire career. If you go back and you say, well, why did Trump pick this guy? It makes no sense, Ben. Didn't Trump know the guy was, you know, a fed hawk? Well, didn't he know that JD Vance was out there saying that I'm a never Trump guy and that he's like Hitler and you know, that's what JD Vance said, right? But JD Vance ended up doing the shtick of, you know, MAGA this, MAGA that. You know, I never said I was gay in high school when I said this with my grandma. I never said that I was Appalachia guy, this, that and the other. This ultra MAGA extremist, that's who I really am. Look, you know, this eyeliner is not eyeliner, it's toughness. Look at me, I'm strong. You know, JD Vance did that shtick and that worked on Trump. And, you know, Warsh did, you know, I think Trump thinks that Warsh is an attractive man. I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I think that Warsh, it's a crazy analysis and you'll be like, Ben, what are you even talking about? But this is how Trump- No, it's a Hegseth. It's a- Warsh, Warsh is central casting. He's a handsome guy. He looks the part. He knows how to play into Donald Trump's thing. He said he would be doing the cuts. I think if he's able to, he'll try to do it. I think though his view of it is, is that, you know, it was so overwhelmingly baked in that this was going to happen, that if it wasn't unanimous, anyone who, anybody who broke would not have any credibility ever again. So I think his view of it is, is look, inflation, I can't not do the interest rate hikes right now. So we have to do it. We're going to have to do one more. The next one is going to be, I believe, unanimous as well. And then I think what his hope is, is change, you know, and this is what I think they're messaging behind the scenes is, you got to find a way out of this war. You got to find a solution. You got to figure this out, you know, and then, then we'll work for you. We'll try to get it down. But like, we can't do it right now. No matter what you want us to do, it'll undermine you. So I think those are the conversations taking place. But I think Trump is attracted to him as a man. I do. I think that we've seen that before with Trump. And I think that's plays into it. And the guy's central casting for what Trump perceives as that role. And so there's a lot of factors that, that get into play. It's just so incredibly sick, though, that, you know, reflecting back on how you started this segment, that Donald Trump was willing to criminally prosecute and throw an individual in jail in Jerome Powell, because he wouldn't do what he said, because he wouldn't break the independence of the Fed and lower rates artificially in order to soothe Donald Trump's ego and do what he wants. And now his own guy is in there and his own guy also not only kept rates steady, like, like, like Powell did, but actually had to hike rates. And it just goes throughout this entire Trump regime. I mean, that's really the makings of an authoritarian, uh, tin pot dictatorship. What do you see when you see a guy like Trump threatening people with prison time and not only threatening it and making a wacky truth social post and people saying, ah, but Donald, he just says things, you know, he doesn't actually do things, you know, sicking the department of justice, the once trusted department of justice and career officials and his wackies who he put in there and having them go after career, uh, individuals in the United States federal government and go after American citizens in some cases, like American sporting heroes, like the Olympian, uh, who was near the reflecting pool who they tried to throw in jail, going after people like James Comey. It's, it's really, really, really a, a, a bad situation when you have the president of the United States willing to use the power of the United States government to go after people for whatever petty grievance he has. And, and it's obviously intentional. And we all know that too, is because he wants like Powell, for example, to quit, to put his head in the sand, to back away slowly, to just, you know, give up hope and just, you know, hope, okay, maybe if I just stop, maybe if I just go away, Trump will leave me alone. But to Powell's credit, you know, I think he's hung in there and it's, it's been at least refreshing to see another, you know, someone else kind of stand up to Trump, like, Hey, I'm not just gonna completely go away and fade into the sunset here, Donny. You know, there's gonna be some overarching oversight, Right. as we go forward here. And that to me, Brett, too, how strong he went after Powell versus now the reaction with Warsh when we've now seen the actual, the physical raise, there almost hasn't been any, you know, like if, if Powell. He blamed everyone else. He was like, oh, he's on a board with a bunch of wackos. And the thing that Trump says also is once again, his psychological projection, he goes, ah, all those other people were just put on the board for political reasons. doing the political biddings of their masters. Unlike my guy who should be doing what I tell him. It's like, you realize you just contradicted yourself in one sentence. Well, because he's, again, the projection there is also his boards, like the Kennedy Center board, which are all of his handpicked puppets, because he does that. He assumes that's how all boards operate, that they're all fake. Every board's a fake board because he runs fake boards. Like, that's what he does. We'll talk about that when we come back. Also, there's also, you know, we got to remember how basic and kind of caveman and lunatic kind of Trump is, right? He also doesn't like the way that Powell looks. It's like a professor. He looks smart. Like Trump looked at the guy and just doesn't like the guy's existence. And so part of it also for Donald Trump is like torturing the guy. And Trump feels differently also about his guy, you know, the guy who he thinks is good looking. It's a weird dynamic. And I almost sound like I'm crazy for saying that, but that's part of Trump. But I think you're completely right. And let me just interject one more time. I think it's something to do with the fact that he's an academic, right? This is the same reason why he went after Fauci. That truly intimidates Donald Trump, because intellectually, Donald Trump can't meet on that level. So what does he have to do? He's got to threaten. He's got a name call. He's got to do all the stuff that dumb jocks do, that Donald Trump used to do in high school, that he's gotten away with because of his daddy's lawyers and his monies and all of that all his entire life. That's what we're seeing. But let me even refine that there, Jordy. Trump wasn't the president. Trump also, Trump was not accepted in any of that in his life, right? The jocks didn't want to be with him. And so Trump thought like, like, just think about it. Trump believes that locker room talk is talking about grabbing women by their genitals and sexually assaulting them because you get away with it when you're rich. He's like, isn't that what we're talking about in the locker rooms? You know, I did an interview with Colin Kaepernick, you know, and you should go watch it. And you could ask what happens in locker rooms at high level sports. And it's not that. Okay. You know, and it's a serious business and it's behaving like leaders and running teams and organizing things. You should go and watch the interview I did with Colin Kaepernick. Like Trump wasn't accepted into that. And he like, like that's the locker room talk. It isn't. And then the academics and that, you know, they rejected him. And so that's why he's like my uncle, MIT, you know, and so you have to think about he's been the outcast his whole life because he's you know a deranged lunatic and he's seeking vengeance on everybody right now in ways that are kind of profoundly kind of crazy and that's part of all of this his whole life has been about revenge and they're unfair and i'm unfair and everything's unfair and this is this that and everything's treating me this way and it's like we'll talk about this in the next break too we'll talk about the kennedy center he just wants desperately to have his name with kennedy right i need to engrave it i need to be he wants to be in that he wants to be the putin she thinks he wants to be in that club and they don't want him in that club the crazy thing is that the us had the club that lots of people wanted to be and we created the post-world war ii architecture and donald trump never thought that first off trump thought that that was never something he could be a part of he was intimidated by that he thought the other people would embrace him in his club they don't want him in his club and so it's just all of this rage all at once and that's how the whole world that's why it's like oh they're laughing at you they're laughing at you he's talking about himself that everybody looked at him his whole life this way so i think that's an important framework all right let's take our last quick break of the show check out the colin kaepernick interview by the way um you know i think it has all it's an hour long long form i'm going to try to do more of those on youtube and on the midas touch podcast audio feed so check out on the midas touch podcast audio feed too and by the way i'm going to i'm going to give a call out right now make sure you add the midas touch audio podcast if you haven't yet apple podcast spotify anywhere you find podcasts add the show listen to the latest episodes we're dropping new episodes there every single day all right in the book 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to like choose favorite interviews especially as someone who like co-founded the network it is my favorite interview that we've ever done here the network i've listened to it now three three and a half times it is so worth the listen if you haven't done it don't do it right now because you're watching us and listening to us so don't do it when you're done with this give that give that interview a listen it's like an hour long it's truly just the the insight and just the conversation ben i i just found like so thoughtful and just really loved it big bro yeah you know um i've known colin now for nine years eight eight years you know a really long period of time and you know some crazy we it's really one of the fascinating things to me of the interview was how many people said i had no idea that you were his lawyer i had no idea what you did before midas or you were your friends with con i like that actually really fascinated me because we have a lot of listeners who go you know back to the beginning and i've heard us tell you know these stories a lot and we got a lot of folks who are joining us every single day and so i think it was cool also for folks to get reminded that you didn't kind of just materialize one day hey i'm ben on youtube also i inevitably since i'm always in the chat i always see someone say are these guys brothers love that love because i mean welcome welcome no shade you ask all the questions yeah we're brothers brett and i are not twins that's been that's that's come up quite a bit lately so just want to put that out there but you know prime minister carney was basically basically the same role as powell and kevin warsh in canada right he was the chairman of their basically their bank of county was one of their basically the big central bankers you know over there um and then bank of england he was like their big central banker over there uh canada during the great recession in the uk during brexit and so this is someone who was tested during great times of crises so he had a coalition build and those were times where the recessions could have turned into depressions and the brexit break which is still i think had very negative consequences in my opinion um could have even been much worse um but for him being brought in to fix things and so canada elected someone who is of incredible intellect incredible empathy and uh someone who's reflective with all these life experiences a true builder a coalition builder and the u.s elected a bankruptor a deal breaker and a predator and so you have such a contrast and you know thinking about chess moves you know to think about canada fortifying itself and building this resilience by bringing in carney and then carney bringing resilience in a rapidly changing global order against the chaos unleashed by the u.s in ripping apart its own architecture right the u.s created the post-world war ii architecture where all of these countries were dependent on the u.s and the u.s made a lot of money on the u.s and the u.s made a lot of money on the u.s and the u.s made a lot of money on the u.s and the u.s made a lot of money on the u.s and the u.s made a lot of money building that dependency providing building that dependency providing building that dependency providing protection protection protection and providing a framework for financial and providing a framework for financial and providing a framework for financial structure security structures and whether structure security structures and whether structure security structures and whether you like that structure or don't like you like that structure or don't like you like that structure or don't like that structure i think undeniably that that structure i think undeniably that that structure i think undeniably that was the structure was the structure was the structure and that structure in the rules-based and that structure in the rules-based and that structure in the rules-based order the rules were created by the order the rules were created by the order the rules were created by the united states after world war ii united states after world war ii united states after world war ii and those rules frequently benefited and those rules frequently benefited and those rules frequently benefited the united states and trump viewed that the united states and trump viewed that the united states and trump viewed that as we're being taken advantage of when as we're being taken advantage of when as we're being taken advantage of when it's kind of the opposite you know was it's kind of the opposite you know was it's kind of the opposite you know was the case and now you see the case and now you see the case and now you see a rapidly changing order um and so a rapidly changing order um and so a rapidly changing order um and so you'll have the brics alliance being you'll have the brics alliance being you'll have the brics alliance being built up we talked about the new delhi built up we talked about the new delhi built up we talked about the new delhi brick summit iran playing a prominent brick summit iran playing a prominent brick summit iran playing a prominent role in that summit as well you know role in that summit as well you know role in that summit as well you know with brazil and russia and with brazil and russia and with brazil and russia and china and india and south africa and china and india and south africa and china and india and south africa and all these other countries as as well all these other countries as as well all these other countries as as well today in the united nations security today in the united nations security today in the united nations security council you had russia and china block council you had russia and china block council you had russia and china block a u.s led effort to impose a u.s led effort to impose a u.s led effort to impose international sanctions and sanctions international sanctions and sanctions international sanctions and sanctions monitoring on iran and so it was a big monitoring on iran and so it was a big monitoring on iran and so it was a big deal that you had this existed before at deal that you had this existed before at deal that you had this existed before at the u.n security council and this was the u.n security council and this was the u.n security council and this was blocked by russia and china earlier blocked by russia and china earlier blocked by russia and china earlier today today today you had wang yi china's foreign minister you had wang yi china's foreign minister you had wang yi china's foreign minister meeting with foreign minister iraqi in meeting with foreign minister iraqi in meeting with foreign minister iraqi in beijing before xi jinping was set to beijing before xi jinping was set to beijing before xi jinping was set to meet with donald trump next week meet with donald trump next week meet with donald trump next week to prepare and coordinate there we've to prepare and coordinate there we've to prepare and coordinate there we've learned i don't think we needed this learned i don't think we needed this learned i don't think we needed this report from cnn but nonetheless cnn report from cnn but nonetheless cnn report from cnn but nonetheless cnn reported on and it gave some new data reported on and it gave some new data reported on and it gave some new data gave some of the names of the satellites gave some of the names of the satellites gave some of the names of the satellites but that russian satellites were but that russian satellites were but that russian satellites were encouraged outright saying yeah we're encouraged outright saying yeah we're encouraged outright saying yeah we're allied and iran saying we're allied and allied and iran saying we're allied and allied and iran saying we're allied and meanwhile you have treasury secretary meanwhile you have treasury secretary meanwhile you have treasury secretary besant like doing tip lines if you found besant like doing tip lines if you found besant like doing tip lines if you found anybody we're going to who may be anybody we're going to who may be anybody we're going to who may be helping iran please let us know and we helping iran please let us know and we helping iran please let us know and we will take action against them and as i will take action against them and as i will take action against them and as i said i think on the show i did earlier today. It's like, we're going to punish you so much. She, we're going to throw you a five course dinner. We're going to treat you with the most lavish state dinner, Donald Trump. That's how we're going to tell you that we're angry with you. It's like, okay, I mean, you know, you have Besant just looks like an utter fool. He couldn't even answer the basic questions of where some of the money was going from Venezuela, as I know earlier, which bank account. I mean, the guy looks like a total, but then he is the house. I'm the house on Hawkeye economic. I wrote it in the financial times, my op-ed announcing economic D-Day. Then I said, the financial times is a tool of China and it's far. Okay. Well, you, you wrote, I saw some of these like right-wing accounts online. They were like, oh, that line was so bad-ass. What a bad-ass mic drop best. I'm like, the guy's an idiot. The guy like, like, what are you doing? Haven't you learned the lesson of people? You have too much hubris because I feel like we're all watching like some poetry right now play out before us. Yeah. It's, it's like Oedipus. It's fricking Homer, you know, it's, it's like Aesop's fable. Like, you know, it's Thucydides try, you know, it's like, yeah, but they're having sex with the animals. Apparently apparently under cash Patel's view, you know, did you see that? I thought there was that chart, like the spectrum of like dog. Yeah. And it was like Kristi, gnome zero cash, Patel 10 of their view. View of dogs. And so I didn't even, um, but there's even videos today. I mean, like, uh, you know, uh, one of our researchers was able to identify at Trump's Virginia golf club. They had like all these kids, uh, that were in this swimming pools, shallow pool, kiddie pool area. And at Trump swimming pool, they released like hundreds, maybe thousands of little, uh, goldfish and they put it in the pool and the chlorinated water. And then they had the little kids, like it was running around, getting the fish, killing the fish. The whole scene looked like incredibly creepy. And it's like, are you aliens? Like you just love seeing animals and get tortured. Why are you putting the little fish in the chlorinated water? Why are you having the little kids try to hunt for the fish in the water? Why is like, why is that even a game? I don't know if you're gonna have them search for things. Why don't you put marbles in the water or something? Or why don't you put, you know, I don't know, pennies in the water or something. Why, why goldfish? Why does everything have to be a torture ritual? Which adult in that part of the Trump Epstein class, like thought about this idea to begin with? I don't know. It's just, in my opinion, the whole thing is just absolutely deranged and crazy. In any event, you have the us chaos and disorder. Meanwhile, you have prime minister Carney. He's there speaking in the European union parliament after the state of the union previously given. Yeah, that's it right there. I mean, what are they doing right there? The whole scene is gross. You can take it off. I don't want to look at it anymore. It's disgusting. It disgusts me. Gross me out. I guess what are they doing right there? Right? The whole, the whole scene is grotesque. Prime minister Carney, on the other hand, I mean, this is serious times, man, right? This is serious stuff happening in the world right now. And I've just over and over again, it's like, we are not behaving as a serious nation. We're not even talking about the layers and levels of complexity and intrigue. We're not even behaving in as a modicum, as a serious nation, like at, at the floor, we should be a serious nation. And then we should go up from there in terms of levels to this, right? Us used to lead the global architecture. Now we're not even meeting the bare minimum threshold of pass. We're below the floor. We're not serious. We're clownish. We're jokes. And we're worse than that. We're dangerous. That's what secretary of state, former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton said. We're dangerous. We're not serious. And we're a menace. We go around, and we do menacing, dangerous things. By the way, like Donald Trump, his whole life, remember the conversation of he wanted to be in this locker room. Like, yeah, get out. He wanted to be in that group, get out. And that's why he brags about his uncle being at MIT, or that's why he needs to steal the valor of this group or that group. He was the outcast. The irony is that you have Besant saying economic outcast with Iran. Iran's being embraced more than ever in this newly developed global world order by a group of nations that Donald Trump wishes he was allied with. That's one of the crazy things about all of us. Anyway, I digress. I digress. I digress. Prime Minister Carney speaking at the European Union Parliament, talking about how we're not fair weather allies in Canada. Listen to what he had to say. Let's play it. We are not fair weather allies. We do not pursue zero sum deals. Our commitment to the rule of law, and our unyielding defense of human dignity, individual freedom, and democracy share the same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication. We hold common values for which we have always fought, and in whose defense we must always remain vigilant. We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but a means to adjust society. We are committed. We are committed stewards of our natural heritage. We believe that our prosperity grows when it's shared these values. This is a sharing of choice, not coincidence. And he goes on and discusses more about sovereignty, about uniting, about all of these things. Can I just tell the people of Canada, I'm very jealous of you guys. Very jealous. You guys made an incredibly good decision, and I wake up every morning and I see stuff like that, and I watch what we're dealing with here at home in the US, and I'm happy for you guys, but obviously very sad for what's going on here. And Trump confirmed, remember Trump tried to deny the other day when he went out there, when the trade deal, so to speak, fell apart with Canada, what did Canada say? They said that the United States of America was trying to remove our sovereignty. They were trying to say who we could trade with, who we can't trade with. They were trying to say what language we could speak, what language we can't speak. And this was kind of all confirmed when Donald Trump was speaking about this new relationship that's forming right now, or this strengthened relationship between Canada, and the European Union, when what did Donald Trump do? He threatened both parties over this new agreement. He was asked about it yesterday while he was on the tarmac in North Carolina, and Donald Trump made some sort of comment like, well, if they're doing this in bad faith, or if they're doing this with bad intentions, then I might have to punish them with more tariffs. If they're doing this with good intentions, that's another story, but I might have to punish them for doing this. Once again, that's confirming exactly, and not that we needed confirmation that Canada was telling the truth in the situation, and Donald Trump and all the crazy, psychotic lunatics in the Trump regime were lying. But it's further confirmation that he's saying it out in the open. You don't have sovereignty. We don't want you to have sovereignty. You can't enter into trade agreements or have relationships of your own unless you have the explicit approval of me, Donald Trump. Yeah. Show you Professor Sachs, renowned professor. Here's what he has to say. When I heard him say this, I was like, "This sounds like a Ben rant right here." Listen to what he has to say. Let's play it. I think we should understand. We have a cabinet of 35 people. Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one. There's one bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. No other training at all on technical skills. No other training at all on technical issues. And not one single research PhD degree in the cabinet, as opposed to China, where it's half the cabinet basically is science and technology and research PhDs. In other words, we're led by grifters and fools. Sorry. Straight out. And they're incompetent and they're arrogant, and they don't even know how to ask a question. He's got to be a Midas viewer. I've heard you make that exact rant before. I've been on that rant before. I mean, he's exactly right though. Again, and it goes back to kind of, I guess, like the central theme of this episode, and it's Donald Trump's allergy to academics. He, Donald Trump, would much rather put people around him that would be, yes, men and women, these stooges, these mega stooges that will go along with whatever he wants. And also, who Trump just thinks fits the bill. I'm thinking though it's an allergy to the cast. I'll throw it back to you though. But I don't think it's an allergy just to academics. It's all these different groups of people who are trying to be thoughtful or teamwork or work together. Trump just views the whole world, going back to what Carney says, as the zero sum game where he wants to steal and take and destroy. And he thinks that he's not in the club with all the secret people who are doing all the destroying. And he really wants to be the leader of that and be with that crew of people. And he keeps trying to find all these people and everybody's repulsed by him. And so he gets deeper and deeper into this. And so this whole facade, this whole crazy thing has just become this kind of weapon of mass destruction. He is, the WMD that now is here just taking his life vengeance out on everybody, his own supporters. I mean, the people who voted for him, I mean, he's screwing them more than just about anybody, but all Americans are being screwed right here. I mean, we all are experiencing the rising price of gas and diesel. I saw JP Morgan recently published our baseline analysis. We don't have a baseline anymore when it comes to oil. We assume that there were certain red lines that just Donald Trump wouldn't cross because it would cause economic catastrophe, and he's crossed them, and so we don't really know what to say anymore. This goes to show you, remember, even though the arrogance of like Jamie Dimon, you know, well, I think, oh, yeah, I think, oh, it's like, okay, well, guess what? Guess where this has taken us right now? You know, we have to recognize we have a psycho, Jordan. I mean, you know this. We have a psychotic lunatic. I mean, this guy's, we can't, you show that NBC headline, you know, others want to talk about this podcast or that podcast. They don't have the stupidest debates. Most American people are like, yo, we are led by a literal psychotic human, or who even knows if he's, the guy's a lunatic. Like, this is a real demented thing. CNN was focused on the important stuff today from what I heard when I got my notes from the team. I heard they were laser focused on Hassan Piker. I just want to make sure that they're focused on the importance. We have like, like today alone, also, like, the thing is, it's Trump has infected every aspect of government. And government is, of course, supposed to work for you. And it often doesn't. But it's often not like a purposefully destructive force that's working against the actual stated goals of the kind of entities that people are assigned to lead. When you have somebody running the Department of Education, whose goal is to destroy education, and they're not going to destroy education, when you have somebody running health, whose goal is to destroy health and make you sicker. And every day, we're getting new reports about food contamination. And oh, yes, everyone's getting diarrhea now, because nothing's tested. And, and measles is raging back, and everyone has measles. And today, of course, talking about RFK Jr., and plenty of other folks in this administration, this regime, I should say. But even today, you know, RFK was out there. And one of the comments like, the unvaccinated kids, you know, who died from measles, sure, they get all the headlines. So that's what the media wants to focus on. But you know what they don't want to focus on? They never talk about the real problems, the vaccine injured, they should really focus on the vaccine injured, not those, not those poor, you know, unvaccinated kids who died. Why are they focusing all their attention on that? You know what I'm going to look into today? Also, you know what we need to focus our head on? We need to focus our head on the vaccine. And we need to focus our head on the vaccine. And infrastructure on, we need to look at chemtrails, I'm looking into chemtrails. I got to look into chemtrails. That is what I need to see. When I look in the sky, I see lines, and I don't know what they are. People say they're coming from planes. But I think it's a secret government conspiracy from your own government. What are you talking about? There are real issues right now. There are children dying because they're unvaccinated. You are encouraging this bad behavior. And you are using your pedestal, your powerful role, as the leader of the nation's health. And it pains me to say that, to spread disinformation that literally kills people. That is a shame. And the blood of every child who dies, who is unvaccinated, particularly when you are pushing all of this garbage, the blood is on the hands of RFK Jr. The blood is on the hands of Donald Trump and all of these enablers around him. Remember, none of this happens without enablers around him. When you see that picture on the plane yesterday, it's like, oh, my God, we're going to die. We're going to die. We're going to die. We're going to die. We're going to die. We're going to die. We're going to die. Or on Marine One yesterday of Donald Trump, and you saw through the window, and he's holding that big placard up that says Kennedy Center demolition or Kennedy Center demolished or whatever. He was handed that by somebody, somebody who had to mock it up, whether they used AI or whether they used Photoshop or whatever. They had to mock up this ridiculous graphic, print it out on a giant poster board, because this is how they present things to him, hand it to Donald Trump to approve or reject from posting on his Truth Social account. Then a Natalie Hart or whomever posted on his Truth Social account. And this is how the government is operating right now. You saw the picture then after on Marine One of what's the Bill Pulte, the guy who Trump put in charge of housing and Freddie and Fannie. And and he's walking out with this giant poster board. They just showed Trump about demolishing the Kennedy Center. And then that's the same guy who was pitching 50 year mortgages to Donald Trump as a means to try to make home ownership easier. As interest rates are spiking and everybody is suffering and everything is getting more expensive. It's the problem when you infect every aspect of the government. It's not just the government that gets sick. It's the people who get sick. And that's an issue. And unfortunately, we need to act right now. It's very important. We have midterms coming up. And it's important because we can't let this be terminal, right? We're sick. It's us. We're a sick country. We have to admit we're a deeply, deeply sick country right now with a whole lot of issues. But I don't think we've reached that terminal phase yet. And there are these small moments in history where people could rise up and people could push back and people could say, I'm done with this crap. I'm going to at least do as little like the bare minimum of what I need to do right now to stop the sickness. And then hopefully, probably not right now, probably not a couple of years from now, probably not even a few years from that, we will work to get and bring back a healthier country that actually works for the people. I think we covered a lot in this episode. We could keep on going. But I think right now, we'll just say we're grateful for you. We feel more confident in ever heading into the midterms that the American people are starting to feel like, you know what? We can fight back. We're in this together. I think people are identifying the source of all of this. It's in the Oval Office. Let me give you a couple of data points, too, as Ben's talking here. Ashley hints in Iowa, running for office. What was her big announcement yesterday? Her big ad that she released? I'm willing to work across the aisle with Democrats to get things done. That's the kind of language you only hear from Democrats normally. And for a Republican to be putting that in an ad a few weeks before the midterms shows that they know which way the wind is blowing. It's the Representative Maria Salazar in Florida, who we don't have to, I think Ben showed these clips before, we don't have to show them again. But, you know, right after the 2024 election, the day after, she goes, Donald Trump, he's only going to go after the bad immigrants. All my issues like over 200,000, I think, undocumented immigrants in her district. And so this is a big issue that her constituents really care about. She gets a lot of pressure from because she lives around a lot of these folks. And she goes, well, I'm not worried about them when she was asked. She's only going to go after the bad ones, the criminals, the Trendy Aragua, the this, the that. And flash forward to today, she releases an ad against Donald Trump, not against her midterm opponents, not against the Democrats, she releases her own ad against Donald Trump, saying, Mr. Trump, you've gone too far with this immigration thing. This is not okay. This, listen, it's, in my opinion, all performative BS, right? But it shows you one thing, it shows you that even they know the tide is turning and all their internal data is telling them what's coming for them in just a few weeks from now. 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