Midas Touch Host (6:54)

Powerful words right there. It's 2025. Why aren't my blinds smart and automatic like the rest of my home? Are your blinds still from 2025? Look, there's a better way to buy blind shade shutters and drapery. It's called three day Blinds. They are the leading manufacturer of high quality custom window treatment in the United States. And right now, if you go to three day blinds.com Midas they they're running a buy one, get one 50% off deal. Look, we can shop for almost anything at home, so why not shop for blinds at home, too? Three Day Blinds has local, professionally trained, designed consultants who have an average of 10 years plus experience. They provide expert guidance on the right blinds for you in the comfort of your home. Just set up an appointment and you'll get a free no obligation quote the same day. It's what I did. And then I put their blinds all over my home, except for right there. Cause my neighbor's a Midas Touch fan and she likes to see her green friends when I do these hot takes. Look, if you're not very handy like I am, just go trust them. They come into your house, they figure it out for you, and you're not going to regret it. I am so happy. I have three day blinds. Look, it's 2024. I have so many smart gadgets and gizmos in my house. Why not do that for your blinds as well? That's what I did. I'm very happy. So right now, get quality window treatments that fit your budget with three day blinds. Head to three day blinds.com Midas for their buy one get 50% off deal on custom blind shade shutters and drapery for a free no charge, no obligation consultation. Just head to three day blinds.com Midas one last time. That's buy one get 50% off when you head to the number 3D a Y blinds.com Midas and spell Midas right M E I D A S. Thank you. By the way, in Canada they continue, you know this from our Canadian viewers continue to boo the American national anthem at all of their sporting events. You probably have seen this to our Canadian followers and supporters that at the Canadian sporting events the announcer will come on and they'll be like, please, everybody do not boo. Show respect to the national anthem. Please do not boo. And the crowd still booze anyway and boos louder and relentlessly against the United States national anthem. Here is the Montreal crowd booing the American anthem despite the plea not to boo. This is before the US Finland game. Um, let's take a look at the four nations tournament. Let's play it. And that wasn't even at the United States Canadian game. Get ready for that one. As Marley, one of our supporters says, over 80% of Canadians are purposefully shopping Canadian made products. 56% are avoiding travel to the US undetermined if we're pleasure or work. Hopefully work, we're doing our bit. Canada is united. Hoping Trump is banned from entering Canada. We should not entertain the enemy. I think those numbers are actually going to get higher. I'm hard to imagine why any Canadians would want to buy American unless they're forced to or travel here. What I hear from all of our Canadian supporters is they've canceled all of their trips. It is a scarlet letter to vacation, to travel to the United States. People have canceled their trips to Florida, Hawaii, throughout the United States of America, devastating our tourism industry here in the United States. Because let's face it, Donald Trump keeps talking about conquering Canada and annexing it and has made it clear, as you heard Charlie Angus said, that America, unfortunately under the Trump authoritarian regime, isn't a friend of Canada. Instead you have Elon Musk and his like kids holding these meetings with people like Prime Minister Modi. You see Prime Minister Modi's team right there and then you see Elon Musk and like his children while the Kremlin laughs at the United States. Laughing. Kremlin insiders say Trump has given Putin the green light to expand the war. I mean, heck, we heard what Trump said. He says, basically, give Putin anything he wants, and Putin can join the G7, make it the G8. He doesn't think Ukraine should join NATO, that Ukraine should not be able to get its land pre2014 borders. Um, you know, and more, by the way. But when Donald Trump says this, he also does it and attacks Canada. So when he's asked about Putin, um, Donald Trump's like, I don't like Canada. They don't pay their fair share for NATO, which he lies about. Canada has been one of the fiercest allies of the United States ever. And Canada has stepped up more than almost any nation, if not any nation, to fight for people's freedom. Um, and then Donald Trump says, well, that's why they need to become a state. He still keeps talking about annexing and conquering Canada. Play this clip.

Donald Trump (12:27)

We're in for more than Europe. I mean, think of it. Or NATO. I mean, let's call it NATO, because Canada's. And by the way, Canada is just about the lowest payer also. Just, you know, they shouldn't be that. They are just about the lowest payer in NATO in addition to everything else. So Canada has really been taken advantage of, and if they had to pay just something modestly fair, they would be able to succeed as a country. And that's why. That's why I feel they have to become a state. Yes.

Midas Touch Host (13:00)

And then, of course, there was J.D. vance's horrific speech at the Munich Conference, one of the most awful speeches in American history, foreign policy history, for sure, where JD Vance attacked all of the democracies across the world, but especially European democracies, and promoted Russia interfering with elections. And I think Canada takes note of that. I think Canadians realize. Got it, Elon Musk, Putin. They're just gonna try to interfere with our elections and prop up people to turn it into Maple Maga. It's why the Liberal Party in Canada, though, is now gaining momentum. They were not predicted months back to be able to form a government with the snap elections coming up, but it seems that they will. And you got people like Mark Carney and others are vying for that leadership position who are doing quite growing, getting quite popular. Here is J.D. vance. Let's play it.

Pete Hegseth (14:00)

We're at the point, of course, that the situation has gotten so bad that this December, remote Romania straight up canceled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors. Now, as I Understand it. The argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections. But I'd ask my European friends to have some perspective. You can believe it's wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections. We certainly do. You can condemn it on the world stage, even. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign, foreign country, then it wasn't very strong to begin with. Now the good.

Midas Touch Host (14:54)

This was an important moment where the German defense Minister, Boris Pistorius said, I may not be the most famous negotiator out there, but even I know you don't give away all of your negotiating chips before the negotiation like Trump and Pete Hegseth did. Here, play this clip.

Roy Wood Jr. (15:11)

I emphasized it already several times.

Midas Touch Host (15:14)

I'm not the world's most important and.

Roy Wood Jr. (15:17)

Famous deal maker, but if I, if.

Midas Touch Host (15:21)

I were, I would know that I.

Charlie Angus (15:23)

Don'T take any essential point of negotiations.

Midas Touch Host (15:27)

Off the table before the negotiations begin. And speaking of Pete Hegseth, here he is right here saying, you know, such a contrast, right to Angus's speech, because Angus is like, here are our principles, here are our values. Here's what we're fighting for. And then Hegseth, the former Fox News host, I put news in quotes, who is now our secretary of defense with zero experience because our spineless Republicans let Donald Trump pick the most amateurish, weirdest, strangest, unqualified individual for this position. Hegseth goes, you know what's, why do people talk about values? Can you take a gun and can you shoot values? Here, play this clip.

Pete Hegseth (16:09)

As President Trump has said, but it's not enough. Nor is 3%, nor is 4%. More like 5%. Real investment, real urgency. We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values. You can't shoot flags, and you can't shoot strong speeches. There is no replacement for hard power. As much as we may not want to like the world we live in, in some cases, there's nothing like hard power.

Midas Touch Host (16:49)

As I think about Hegseth saying there, there's this video that's gone mega viral on TikTok, you may have seen it, of a Canadian saying, let me tell you what we think about American Canada. Here, play this clip.

Roy Wood Jr. (17:02)

Pleased to meet you. I'm a Canadian, and I can tell you one thing for sure. I'm not going to be a bitch for some big city billionaire. We like our country and we're happy with our independence. And there's a few things you should know about Canada. For one, we don't have daily mass shootings, and we'd like it to stay that way. Another thing is we have universal health care, and that's because we think it's important to look out for the most vulnerable within our society. Canadians are independent people, and we want it to stay that way. For the most part. We believe in the climate crisis, and we want to do everything we can to protect the environment for future generations. And sure, maybe we don't have the biggest army in the world or the most billionaires on the planet, but we do have clean air, open spaces, and a love for our brothers and sisters, whoever they may be.

Midas Touch Host (18:00)

There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe let's get to 5 million subscribers. And to all of our Canadian supporters out there, you got to know that you got a bunch of us here who are with you. We support what you're doing. Stand up to Donald Trump and our authoritarian regime here. Keep standing up. Keep spreading the word in Canada about our network. We got your back from inside the trenches, right? Right here. Thank you. Hit subscribe can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas plus substack for ad. Free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now@midasplus.com.