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We covered the massive hands off protests over the weekend. Let's cover some of the Democrats who are now going on TV and fighting back, going gloves off, going guess as they would say in Canada, Elbows up. Here is Democratic governor of Minnesota, Governor Tim Walls talking about Donald Trump. Let's play this clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Donald Trump snatching up college grad students and sending them back or sending folks to El Salvador illegally. That's not the policy. But for us to them to say we don' Care that violent criminals come in, we most certainly do. What we were asking for is the resources to make sure they don't get here. And the same thing with the other policies. It's not a WOKE policy to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true. And what I'm saying is are we going to turn away from being a country of legal immigration? Are we going to turn away from a country that, that thinks diversity and making sure that we don't have gaps in income between blacks and whites? Those are policies that have strengthened America. And I think what we allowed ourselves to do is we got timid and then when we got power, we didn't pass things that improved people's lives. This whole idea, I think the Democratic Party gets theoretical. You know, talk about food insecurity. People are hungry, get them food.
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As I've said before, I wish we saw more of this side of Governor Walz during the campaign. Although I thought he was great during the campaign. I just like when, when he's a little looser and just speaking from the heart. Here he is again saying what are they even talking about WOKE policy? Because we're trying to give people food and we're trying to give people an education. Play this clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Donald Trump snatching up college grad students and sending them back or sending folks to El Salvador illegally. That's not the policy. But for us to them to say we don't care that violent criminals come in, we most certainly do. What we were asking for is the resources to make sure they don't get here. And the same thing with the other policies. It's not a WOKE policy to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true. And what I'm saying is are we going to turn away from being a country of legal immigration? Are we going to turn away from a country that thinks diversity and making sure that we don't have gaps in Income between blacks and whites. Those are policies that have strengthened America. And I think what we allowed ourselves to do is we got timid and then when we got power, we didn't pass things that improved people's lives. This whole idea, I think the Democratic Party gets theoretical. You know, talk about food insecurity. People are hungry, get them food.
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Next up, Democratic Senator Adam Schiff. He's been on the Midas Touch Network numerous times. Here he is on Meet the Press talking about this enduring image of Donald Trump golfing over the weekend as the markets were crashing, as Donald Trump told people he doesn't give an F if people are upset. Play this clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Unfortunately, he's wrecking our economy. I think people have seen their retirement savings on fire. And there he is out on the golf course. That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency. That is the President out on a golf cart while people's retirement is in flames. The Treasury Secretary saying that people aren't looking at where the retirement savings are. Maybe he doesn't have to. He's got the wealth, he doesn't have to. Maybe the president with his wealth doesn't have to. But what I'm hearing from Californians is those that have just retired, those are on the eve of retiring, they're terrified of this. And I hope and pray we stay out of recession. But if we head into a recession, it will be the Trump recession. He will completely own it. This is a completely self destructive economic act that he's engaged in.
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Yeah, Senator Schiff is meeting the moment and he's got a great social media and digital team as well. Let's take a look at what Senator Cantwell, Maria Cantwell of the state of Washington has to say. Play this clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Listen, I listened to your segment. I've never heard so much about fuzzy math in my life. And the notion that that chart is getting so much national attention, you know, the letters in Greek, all this stuff that makes no sense. That's what people, consumers are saying. How is this helping me in a time of you're adding to my cost with a tax on my consumer goods. And so I think that's why we're gaining support from these organizations today.
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And she's right. I mean, the idea of tariffing the entire world based on a completely fraudulent formula as well, where penguins are being tariffed as well as islands that just no human inhabitants or islands that house American military bases and the entire formula is applied wrong as well. Um, with a recklessness and a carelessness, as Donald Trump literally says, I don't give an F. She's on point right there. And we should highlight more of her videos and her interviews and her speeches as well. Next up, Democratic Senator Cory Booker. You know, Senator Booker's been meeting the moment here he is saying, I've never seen in my life any administration that is intentionally doing the destroying our country. My only thing is, I would say I call him a regime, not an administration. Play this clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Earlier in the program, he said there may be some increase in prices, but it's going to be worth it. Your response? You know, God bless, Kevin, but I've never seen an administration in my lifetime do something so monumentally wrong and that so staggeringly, staggeringly hurts American people. You know, I've been hearing all day yesterday from frightened Americans who've saved for their entire lives for retirement in the coming months, but now know they can't because in one fell swoop, Donald Trump has devastated their retirement counts, their 401ks. I know millions of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck, who already in their administration have seen rising prices even though he promised they would go down, rising inflation even though he promised it would go down. And now they're bracing themselves for seeing their monthly bills go up because of what this president did. And that will devastate them.
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And this also at the protests, Aaron Parness from the Midas Touch network, also Aaron Parnas has his own independent media network as well. He was on, he was inside embedded in the protest. Here he is speaking to a Democratic congressmember, Jamie Raskin. Play this clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
I'm here with Congressman Jamie Raskin, M.D. now, Congressman, why did you choose to come to this protest and why is it so impactful in this moment right now? Well, my congressional district is in Maryland and it borders Washington, D.C. so we have tens of thousands of people from Maryland who've come down here. So this is the one I did, even though I was in Florida actually with Maxwell Frost for the rest of the weekend. So this demonstration across the country with more than a thousand different protests is going to, is going to further catalyze popular resistance in opposition to this deranged program that they're imposing on the country. Now, a lot of folks are concerned right there. A lot of people have told me that they're being fired, especially at the IRS right now. What's your message to those who have been terminated at the federal government? And how can they fight back? What can they do in this moment right now? I'm sorry I missed it said Good morning. Yeah, yeah, no worries. A lot of folks are being, are worried they're being terminated right now at.
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The federal government and they, and they.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Want to know what they can do, what's their future? So what's your message? We are winning in the courts. Like, for example, they fired 10 of thousands of probationary employees, which was completely lawless. And so they've been restored theoretically to their jobs, but they're not letting them go back to work. They are giving them pay, but they're not having them do their jobs, which is absurd. But we're going to fight for them to get their jobs back and then we are going to make sure that people who've lost their jobs, who can't get their jobs back are part of this movement against authoritarianism in the country. Congressman, thank you so much.
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Next up, Congress member Eric Swalwell at the protests in Washington, D.C. over this weekend, crushing it. Play this clip because as you stand.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Here right now, we have gone from a Trump slump to a Trump train wreck. We are going into a red recession. Our 401ks, our 201ks, our costs at Walmart and Home Depot and Target, where four out of five of the things we buy are from overseas, are going up. And where is Donald Trump? He's golfing. So to Donald Trump, I say get your ass off the golf course and face the people.
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Here's There's Jamie Raskin speech from the protest. Let's play it.
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Various Democratic Politicians
The right to speak freely, to publish freely, to worship freely, to assemble freely, and to petition government for a redress of grievances. As Dr. King said, We've got the right to protest for what is right without being arrested, deported or fire. We got the right to read the books we want, including 1984 in the Handmaid's Tale, even if they now belong in the nonfiction section. We've even got the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth, and turning my 401k into a 201.
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I don't know.
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Here's Howard Lutnick. Face the nation. Play the clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Is a 10% tariff permanent? Well, remember, this is a national security issue. I got it. Is the 10% address our budget deficit that, you know, the laws of America. The laws of America. He would like it to be that we need to protect the companies that invest here and we are going to protect the companies that invest here. That is the policy of the United States of America. That's why trillions of dollars are coming here. The rip off of the of the United States of America is over. All these companies are going to come and invest here. That's what they're doing. That's why they've committed trillions of dollars. They know this. Mr. Secretary, the place to go. Mr. Secretary, the campaign's over. You won. So I'm asking what the plan is. So the Treasury Secretary said on another network, we're going to hold the course. It's not the kind of thing you can negotiate away in days or weeks. That makes it sound like the tariffs are staying in place at least for days or weeks. Is that correct, or is the President considering postponing implementation to negotiate? There is no postponing. They are definitely going to stay in place for days and weeks. That is sort of obvious. The President needs to reset global trade. Everybody has a trade surplus and we have a trade deficit. We are paying away our future and our lives. The countries of the world are ripping us off, and it's got to end. The President has made it crystal, crystal clear. This is the policy. We are going to protect the factories that come build in America. We are going to protect them. They're going to be successful. That's why they're going to build in America the greatest economy in the Earth. All of these companies are gonna come and build here.
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So here's Howard Lutnick as well. Oh, and here is the other almost billionaire. This guy's almost a billionaire. Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary. And here, Scott Besant is asked on Meet the Press, what do you say, Mr. Besant, to the Americans who are retired right now or about to retire, who are losing their life savings? Scott Besson's like, oh, well, I don't know. Look, the end of the day, you know, I think most people have all the money that they need, so I don't know. I think they'll be okay. Here, play this clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Dollars. Wait, we send them $12 billion. So it's not the tariffs. It has nothing to do with tariffs. If they went to 00, they would go to 200 billion with us. We need to stop the ripoff. And 00 is. Is the way. I know, but we don't have 00, sir. We don't have 00, actually, because when we saw the President stand in the Rose Garden holding up that chart that you helped make, that wasn't actually tariffs. That was actually confusing to investors because it was some kind of other formula. And the countries themselves seemed kind of random. Like, why are the herd and McDonald Islands, which don't export to the United States and are quite literally inhabited by penguins why do they face a 10% tariffs? Did you use AI to generate this? No, no. The idea. Look, the idea is the list left off. Because the idea what happens is if you leave anything off the list, the countries that try to basically arbitrage America go through those countries to us, any country. Like, we had tariffs. The President put tariffs on China, right, in 2018. And then what China started doing is they started going through other countries to America. They just build through other countries through America. And so the President knows that. He's tired of it and he's going to fix that. So basically he said, look, I can't let any part of the world be a place where China or other countries can ship through them. So he ended those loopholes, these ridiculous loopholes. And now what he's trying to say is, I'm going to fix the trade deficit of the United States of America. It's a national security issue. We need to make medicine, we need to make semiconductors, we need to make ships. We need to have steel and aluminum. Come on. We need the greatness of America to actually be built in America.
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And he's tired of my Scott Besant impression. I'm not sure if that's offensive or not an offensive impression. I think it's accurate. Of what? The most arrogant guy imaginable. You know, it's like, yeah, you know, I don't know anything. No, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't care. I'm rich. I don't care. That's Scott Besson. My Scott Besson impression right there. Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Bacon here. He's asked about tariffs and how it's going to raise prices and cause a recession or Great Depression. Um, and rather than answer the question because these MAGA Republicans are so cowardly here, MAGA Republican Congressmember Dan Bacon, he's like, let me just give you a history lesson on tariffs, which caused depressions, but I'm too cowardly to actually link it with the current regime. Play this clip that the President talked.
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Various Democratic Politicians
All the time during the campaign about tariffs. He put them at the centerpiece of his policy. He talked about the glory days of the 1800s and wanting to go back to him. Did Republicans just not take him seriously? There's a couple of facets to your question, Margaret. It's a good question. You're right, though. When you look back, it was Republicans supported tariffs in the 1800s and up throughout 1930 when we passed the Snoot Hartley Act. That created one of the worst, well, the worst depression we ever had. We learned from that, that tariffs and protectionism does not work. And that free trade, in the end, as long as it's fair, we want fair trade. And I support the president wanting to get fairness. Some of these countries do treat us wrong, but fair trade should be the goal. And you're right, the president talked about this. He did not hide, as this is part of his agenda. But here's my take on it, and I've been studying politics since I was like, 13 years old. People voted for President Trump because of the border. And he is really delivered there. They voted for him.
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Oh, and by the way, have you seen the pins that they're wearing? The lapel pins that they're wearing? These magazines, like the head of the Federal Communications Commission and others, They've got this, like, Trump pin that they wear with Trump's face on it, on their. They were Trump lapel. If you ever wonder how do you get, like Putin and Kim Jong Un and how did you have, you know, how do these, these humans do this? I don't know how to describe it. I mean, these weak, frail humans behave this way. Anyway. Speaking of weak, frail humans behaving this way, here's the Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins, being asked by Jake Tapper about tariffing penguins. Play this clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
President Trump laid out with a giant graphic of all the countries where tariffs were going to what he called reciprocal tariffs were going to be imposed. And you're imposing a 10% tariff on the Herd and McDonald Islands. The Herd and McDonald Islands have zero human inhabitants. They have zero exports. They have zero imports. They do have a lot of penguins. Why are you putting import tariffs on islands that are entirely populated by penguins? Well, I mean that. Come on, Jake. Obviously, here's the bottom line. We live under a tariff regime from other countries. We have too long. The McDonald Islands is not imposing the idea that America goes first. I mean, come on, whatever. Listen, the people that are leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest people I've ever worked with.
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I just take a look, by the way, Boston, New York, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Idaho, Utah, Oakland, and cities. And hundreds of other cities, thousands of other cities across the country in the world protesting this idiocracy right here. Here's Howard Lutnick saying what we want to do. We want to bring back the jobs to the US where millions of Americans will be doing the little screws in the iPhones, you know, those factories you see in China? We want to bring Those to the U.S. play this clip.
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Various Democratic Politicians
Great American workers. You know we are on other networks of millions of people. Well remember the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little little screws to make iPhones. That kind of thing is going to come to America. It's going to be automated and great Americans, the tradecraft of America is going to fix them, is going to work on them. They're going to be mechanics, there's going to be H Vac specialists, there's going to be electricians. The trade craft of America, our high school educated Americans, the core to our workforce is going to have the greatest resurgence of jobs in the history of America to work on these high tech factories which are all coming to America. That's what's are you concerned next generation of America? Are you?
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These images right here from Mika Irfan the Dream, Spencer Hakimi and say thank you. Here's Spencer Akimian goes hey Fox Newsboys, now that China called our bluff and said let's play ball, what should we do? Raise tariffs on China by another 34%, 90% effective tariffs rate with China. What's your game plan here? Also, depending on what the S and P does today, the aggregate may be worse than the Great Depression. There you have it folks. Let me know what you think. Go to store.midas touch.com Check out the Midas gear store.midas touch.com patreon.com Midas Touch Check it all out. Thanks. Bye. 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.
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