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Jordy
Hi, I'm here to pick up my son, Milo.
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Ben Mysella
There's no Milo here.
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Jordy
Who picked up my son from school?
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Ben Mysella
Streaming only on Peacock. I'm gonna need the name of everyone that could have a connection.
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Jordy
You don't understand.
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Ben Mysella
It was just the five of us.
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Harry Enten
So this was all planned.
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Ben Mysella
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Ben Mysella
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Ben Mysella
We were returning home and one of the flight attendants asked Bronx if he wanted to see the flight deck and meet Kath and Andrew.
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Narrator/Ad Voice
I got to sit in the driver's seat.
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Jordy
I grew up in an aviation family, and seeing Bronx kind of reminded me of myself when I was that age.
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Ben Mysella
That's Andrew, a real United pilot.
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Jordy
These small interactions can shape a kid's future.
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Narrator/Ad Voice
It felt like I was the captain.
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Ben Mysella
Allowing my son to see the flight deck will stick with us forever.
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Jordy
That's how good leads the way.
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Ben Mysella
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody from the Midas Touch Network to you, your family and everybody. You are celebrating this incredible holiday with. Happy, happy Thanksgiving. We here at the Midas Touch Network are thankful for you. We're thankful for your resilience. Just thinking about where we were last Thanksgiving and where we are now. Your perseverance is never giving up, never caving and helping us not just build this network, but help us build what's become a movement of independent media replacing the corporate news that has capitulated and bent the knee. And we saw that all happening right last Thanksgiving, huh? Was we were at the tables. We saw one by one, this media entity fall, this media personality fall, this newscaster fall. And together, with your help, here we are this Thanksgiving. I don't want to paint a totally rosy picture of where our country is right now because our country structurally is in a very bad place. And for people throughout our country, we know that people are struggling right now. The one silver lining, if you will, I think, though, is that the, there's hope. There is hope for what the future can be without Trump, without maga. And I think that that hope was certainly not there last Thanksgiving. Last Thanksgiving, the country was in a better place under former President Biden. But I think hope felt lost because it was right after the November elections of 2024. Now we're with the November elections of 2025, with the blue tsunami that swept across this country, with where we are now, looking forward, united, standing shoulder to shoulder, no kings protest, shadow hearings, Democrats pushing back finally and fighting, leaders emerging. I think there's hope in the air this Thanksgiving. And so we are thankful for you. We are so grateful for everything that you do every day. And we've made this Thanksgiving episode for you, rain or shine. Holiday, no holiday. We're going to be here with you every step of the way. And for those who are now watching the Midas Touch Network for the first time because maybe one of our Midas mighty members convinced a family member to turn this on and say, give the Midas Touch a try. I say welcome. And here in the Midas Touch Network, we are unapologetically pro democracy. We don't mince words. I love graphs and charts and data and statistics and footnotes and we love going through court filings line by line so that we could actually show you the facts the objective criteria out there, we love deep dives into history. We have international correspondence here on the network. We have Midas Canada led by Charlie Angus. And what's important to us is that we uplift marginalized community communities. We stand on. On empathy. We stand for people's rights. We don't waver in those principles and those values that make this network what it is. And that's why we've grown people power. Brett and Jordy, great to see you. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Brett
It's great to see you as well. And it's great to see you, Midas Mighty. And Ben, I do think it's important to reflect on this past year. I think that's an important point because from the ashes, we build. You know, we don't just sit idly by. We don't sulk in our depression. We build, build, build. And we build a strong pro democracy coalition, a strong pro democracy news network that. That believes in the truth and disseminating that truth as far and wide as possible. So on this special edition Thanksgiving episode of the Midas Touch podcast, I do want to send my love and gratitude to all of you out there, to my brothers here, to all the Midas Mighty, to everybody in this country who cares about democracy, and to everybody around the world in the pro democracy coalition. We are so thankful for you and thank you for spreading the word. Thank you for sharing the show with your family. Because as you know, we are brothers here. It is always a pleasure to invite you to our metaphorical Thanksgiving table on special occasions like this, and every time we do the Midas Touch podcast, we like to kind of invite you into the discussions that our family is having about the most pressing topics of the day. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Jordy, happy Thanksgiving. How are you doing?
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Jordy
Happy Thanksgiving, brothers. Happy Thanksgiving. Midas Mighty Bread.
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Ben Mysella
I like that.
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Jordy
You know what? Build, build, build. Build back better there, B. Build back better.
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Brett
I'm not gonna lie.
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Ben Mysella
I had to avoid trying to say that. I caught myself almost going there.
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Jordy
I. I'm super reflective on days like today. I really am. And I just want to start off and just say, you know, thank you to this community. None of this is possible. None of this has been easy. But you all, the Midas Mighty, this community, you guys have hung in there every step of the way through the good times, the bad times, the tough times. You all are relentless in the best possible way. And it's because, like us, you guys care. You care about this country. You care about what's happening, and you don't think it's right, and heck, you know it's not right. And so just from the bottom of my heart, thank you for continuing to fight alongside us, and I'm excited to keep this going. So happy Thanksgiving, y'. All. You guys are truly the best. Benji, where are we starting off with today? Big bro?
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Ben Mysella
When we thought about building out this network, we never wanted to ground it in a specific kind of personality. That's why it's not the Ben Mysella show or the Brett and Jordi show. You know, we always wanted to ground it in the people because this is people powered. And as this network has grown, it's been so important for us to elevate and amplify the voices of community organizers, the people who were leading the no Kings protest, the people whose voices don't often get heard on corporate news or cable news. You know, we've always been amplifying the voices of the Epstein survivors. Before, it was covered on the news. The way it's been covered now, and rightfully so, it's being covered now. But we've been on that beat and talking to the survivors for a very long time. We've been covering the shadow hearings. When corporate news was suppressing the protests, we would cover the protests. And so I think that's what's also led to the growth of this network. So I wanted to reflect on that. And I think as we sit here today on Thanksgiving and I have an honorary seat for you at my Thanksgiving table, Midas mighty. I want to reflect on some normal times. A leader with dignity. And the Obama library put out a compilation, starting In, I think, 2009, of the messages, the Thanksgiving messages from former President Obama about Thanksgiving and what it means to him and what it means to his country. So just take a look at this compilation because I think we start with this versus the kind of chaos. I want to show you what we can be. Once again, this is what America once was. Let's play it.
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Barack Obama
For centuries, in peace and in war, in prosperity and in adversity, Americans have paused at this time of year to gather with loved ones and give thanks for life's blessings. We'll spend some time taking stock of what we're thankful for. The God given bounty of America and the blessings of one another. I'm thankful that my daughters get to grow up in this great country of ours. And I'm thankful for the chance to do my part as together we make tomorrow better than today. We're also grateful that this country has always been home to Americans who see these blessings not simply as gifts to enjoy, but as opportunities to give back. We give thanks for the men and women who set sail for this land nearly four centuries ago, risking everything for the chance at a better life. And the people who are already here, our Native American brothers and sisters, for their generosity during that first Thanksgiving. This is a season not only to be thankful for the incredible blessings that we have, but also to remember the neediest and generously serve those who are not as fortunate. Well, it's easy to focus on what separates us, but as we gather with loved ones on this Thanksgiving, let's remember and be grateful for what binds us together. I'm thankful that I get to see the best of America every day. The courage of our troops and veterans, the resilience of our families, and the basic goodness of the ordinary people who call this country home. Thanks and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
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Ben Mysella
And then I'll show you this. The tradition that we would normally see of a president of the United States on Thanksgiving is one of showing humility. Right? The White House is not supposed to have golden ballrooms. It's not the point. We don't have kings. Right. I mean, the point of it is that it is a humble abode and that it doesn't have heavy military presence around it. It's a state. If we wanted to build a massive castle and a massive fortress, we can do that. Like the United States has that capability to do it. There's a statement of simplicity, of humbleness, of walking soft but carrying a big stick, not being obnoxious and loud and fraud, but ultimately being a paper tiger and weak, which is what this Trump regime is. And part of the humility and the symbolism connecting that. The president is not above the people. The president is supposed to be with the people. Is on Thanksgiving, former presidents would show up in food banks or be with troops, and they would be serving food. Could you ever imagine an image of Donald Trump at a food bank serving people food? Or do you believe that Donald Trump thinks that, that that's something that he would never do? And he probably. Why would I ever do that? So just take 15 seconds to watch right here for our audio listeners. I'll describe what's happening. It's just former President Obama, he would do this basically every year of his term. He would show up at a food bank or show up at a center where veterans would be there. He would spend Thanksgiving with them, and he and his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and his family would serve food. They would be the food servers. Let's play this clip, Right? You saw him serving food there to veterans Brett and Jordi. That's like, that's who we were. And to me, that shouldn't be Democrat or Republican. And look, let me be very clear. I'm no Ronald Reagan fan. It's an understatement. I'm not a Reagan fan. But when I went to the Reagan library in California, which was actually near the venue where I got married, I stopped there because it was close when we were looking at wedding venues. And I went in there and I was appreciative, though, that there was a, that there was still a dignity in there. You know, there was, you know, statements about, you know, a man who doesn't want credit is someone who is ultimately able to, you know, achieve the most. You know, there were quotes like that. And I'll go get the right quote versus. I mean, do we have what Donald Trump was saying? Do we have a clip of this, Brett, where he was calling Pritzker a fat slob before then Trump left and disappeared to Mar a Lago? I mean, I think we have a clip of that here. Let's play this.
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Interviewer/Reporter
Of every newspaper. It's out of control. The mayor is incompetent and the governor is a big fat slob. He ought to invite us in, say, please make Chicago safe. We're going to lose a great city if we don't do it quickly.
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Ben Mysella
Yeah, the Reagan quote, I just found it because I have it on my, my table behind me. So I should probably know what it says because I see it every day. There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets credit. You know, there were quotes like that, you know, and whether you say, you know, he lived by that creed or didn't, you know, whatever, but there was still a. There was still a dignity there. Or, or Trump at that ceremony on Tuesday, his idea of a joke was talking about sending the turkeys to the concentration camp in El Salvador where we know hundreds of migrants were unlawfully sent there and, and tortured and sexually assaulted. And he's up there saying, oh, we were going to send them to El Salvador. Here I think we've got that clip.
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Interviewer/Reporter
But instead of pardon, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship gobble and waddle straight to the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador. And even those birds don't want to be there. You know what I mean? That was a tough. I'd like to thank the president.
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Brett
Brett Jordy could you imagine the Midas Touch podcast during the Obama years? What a great show that would be. I just want to say, but I think one of the things that are always is so mind blowing to me is that these Trump voters and these Trump pundits who go on CNN and all of these networks, they live in an upside down world and they go, Barack Obama, most divisive president we've ever had. And I'm always like what the hell are you talking about? Like what reality do you live in? But they live in some alternate reality where I guess they're forced fed this Fox News and this right wing propaganda garbage and they regurgitate it and they buy into it and they believe this ridiculous narrative. And everyone on this side always, they always start asking like why? Why is our politics so politic? Why is it so charged? And why, why are people at each other's throats and why are things so why? Why are people so hateful right now? And I'm like exhibit A, okay, listen to Donald Trump. Literally anything he says, it comes from the top. That is exactly what we are seeing. It is no surprise that since Donald Trump appeared on the political scene, we are seeing all of this division, we are seeing all of this chaos that people are suffering cause. And Donald Trump is just one of many reasons obviously because the whole party has been infected. But there is a clear delineation between kind of before Donald Trump and after Donald Trump where we have seen this political system interrupt, where we have seen kind of the moral collapse of this country. But I think now, I think what we're seeing, one of the things at least are that the cracks are finally beginning to form in this wretched MAGA movement. We are seeing people just so sick of the division, just so sick of the blame games of everything. I mean the shooting in D.C. with the National Guard members. I think it's indicative of what we've been seeing from these MAGA people. The rush to blame. How do I pin this on Democrats? I'm going to blame all migrants for this. I want to. How do I get a political advantage out of this horrific tragedy? Just like enough is enough. We are all Americans here. Let's stop this bs. Stop trying to clamp down on other people's rights. Stop to trying, stop with the all the games. Stop treating people like crap, okay? Understand that there are people out there who are suffering. People out there who need assistance, who need help. Those, those aren't people that you kick while they are down. Those are people you're supposed to pull up and help. And that's the reason that politics exists, or that's the reason that politics are supposed to exist. That's the reason why people are supposed to get into the political arena because they want to put their ideas forward for how to create a better society, for how to help the most amount of people possible. But I think we've lost weight, we've lost sight of that in these past few years. And so I think that's what we're all here are trying to restore.
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Jordy
It's a great point, Brett. And you know, I think this is just going to be an episode of quotes because when you were talking about how Donald Trump's attitude, how that sort of trickled down, trickles down to the base, reminds me of that. Remember the Titans quote, attitude reflects leadership, Captain. And so when you have Donald Trump up there just dividing the country, calling for Democratic senators to be hung, calling them traitors, is a trickle down effect that ultimately happens with his base where that language just becomes so normalized to them. And you see it, you see it on social media, you hear it on the streets, quite frankly, and it's disgusting. Donald Trump says things at the podium that kids in middle school would be suspended for saying. Half the rhetoric, frankly, that he says. And so when he is the president of the United States, when that's the leader of the country, you know, there's a certain amount of responsibility that comes with the words and how you position things. And so like playing those clips the way we started the show of Obama and Trump, it's just the juxtapos, the juxtaposition. There is just couldn't be more night and day. I long for a country where we have a leader as dignified as a President Obama, as someone who can clearly speak to the American people in ways of hope, in ways of bettering this country, in ways where we all want to see this country continue to thrive and continue to grow. And not somebody like a Donald Trump who continues to divide this country every single day, every single time he steps up to a microphone, Ben, I'll give.
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Ben Mysella
You a quote from 1984 to go.
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Jordy
It's a quote off. It's a quote off.
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Ben Mysella
Two and two makes five. And Brett, to your point, that seems to be how this Trump and Maga interpret the world. They say it's five, it's five. And we're out here saying, no, it's four. And then they tried to use their propaganda machines to tell us, hey, it's it's five. No, it's four or I can give you this quote, Jordi, from Eugene Victor Debs. In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism or religion or both to deceive and overawe the people. It's not something that is actually unique to this time. It's unique to the United States of America. But the human experience is that of authoritarians. In utilizing these tactics and why we always frame what's happening here in the United States as part of an international right wing extremism, ultra nationalist, anti immigrant movement is because Trump's authoritarianism is linked with what we see in Russia, with Putin, with Orban in Hungary, with Bukele in El Salvador, in movements like the Reform Party and Nigel Farage in the UK In Le Pen's movement in France, where their far right wing person is leading in the polls there, which is deeply problematic right now. Who was the disciple of Le Pen ideas that were rejected before. We see this tension exist. And you know, we could have seen in Canada the Conservatives who became kind of Maple Maga winning there, but Canada looked at what was happening in the US this past year and said, nope, we ain't doing that. Okay, we see what's happening. Same thing could have happened in Australia. Their Liberal Party, there's actually their far right Conservative Party, their Labor Party is basically what we would consider to be a Liberal Party. And fortunately, Anthony Albanese, who's the Labour Party leader, won with a massive mandate there. And interestingly, in both Canada and in Australia, the individuals who were the leaders of the right wing party lost in their own writing. Basically what would be their conversion of a congressional district. Although Pierre Poliev basically, who's in Canada was basically, basically stole the writing or the district of another right wing person and then he's out there spewing with a level of arrogance again. When, dude, you lost, it'd be like, imagine like a Congress member losing and then taking somebody else's district and being like, what you talking about? It's all good. I'm still here. It's like, dude, you lost in your own district. Anyway, we'll take our first quick break of the show. We've got a lot to discuss. I want to talk a little bit about. The more we're learning about the identity of the shooter in Washington D.C. who Trump granted asylum to in April of 2025. Midas touch was all over that right away. Reminder, now's a good time if you can, to join the Midas Touch YouTube channel. You're probably already a subscriber. If not subscribe. But by joining and becoming a member, you help build this independent media platform. So click join right now. You can gift memberships now to family members at the Thanksgiving table as well. And you can. I'm not really sure how that would but you can give memberships to people in the chat room. You can go on substack at Midas plus and you can give memberships to people there. It's easier to do it that way, but on YouTube you can gift others who are in this chat. And if your family member happens to be in a chat, they may be able to get one of those gifts. That's the way it works.
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Jordy
There you go.
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Ben Mysella
And to actually outline how technical stuff work, I'll stick to politics, folks.
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Brett
Yeah, stick to the politics.
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Ben Mysella
In other words, help us grow. Take our first break.
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Jordy
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Jordy
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Ben Mysella
Give you some more 1984 quotes.
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Jordy
I was going to, you know, I was going to say, I was going to say, do you have any more quotes for us? But I didn't want to put you on the spot and, like, get you all nervous that you didn't have it. I knew you want to let us down.
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Ben Mysella
Not really. When I get all nervous, if you put me on the spot, I was just the person telling you could Gift memberships on YouTube to the person sitting next to you. So don't think for him. Don't think for a moment that. That I have that level of humiliation. Let's take a Look at this. 84 quote. 1984 quote. Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. Many ways you can, because the authoritarian mindset has been studied before. And this is why Donald Trump wants to erase what happened on January 6th insurrection. It's why he wants to claim that he won the 2020 election and always says it's rigged. He wants to control the past by controlling the present. And the good news is, is I think the resistance has grown so strong that he's not able to do that, and he's getting flustered and frustrated and he's panicking. Now, of course, everybody knows this quote, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. Doesn't that describe the Trump regime? Kind of perfectly right there. And double think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them. In the Trump regime, they call it alternative facts, but they have their own word for basically doublespeak. All right, maybe we'll do more after the next segment, but what I wanna share with you right now is talk about the doublespeak, the lies from the regime. They bring out people like Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, and he'll go out and he'll say, look, inflation is gone. Thanksgiving is cheaper. You're in a golden age. Victory here. Play this clip.
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Scott Besant
The Biden administration was especially working Americans. Real wages got decimate that. The inflation rate was up 21, 22%. But the average basket of goods and services that a working family bought was up in the 30s. So we have brought down inflation. Inflation came down in April for the first time in four years under President Trump. So the first thing to do was to bring down the Rate of change, we're going to continue to bring it down. And energy prices are down. You might have seen yesterday, Walmart came out and said that the Thanksgiving meals, 25% less.
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Ben Mysella
Everything he said was false. Quite literally, every word in that was false. Thanksgiving is more expensive. The price of turkey is more expensive. The price of everything essentially is more expensive. Like, if we want to have an objective analysis here, you can say, well, gas prices are down. They're down about a penny, maybe two pennies, maybe, maybe basically about the same. But you want to say, but everything else is more expensive. Energy prices, electricity prices, everything else is far more expensive.
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Brett
The Thanksgiving lie is just so blatant because everybody knows when they go to the store. And I actually saw Trump people now responding to these clips of Scott Besant and responding to Donald Trump's post, even on his own truth social media platform that we monitor, saying, like, where. What are you talking about? You know, Mr. Chair, whatever they call them, what are you talking about? Last year I paid $200. This year I paid $350. They're like posting their receipts because you can't lie to people about something they're experiencing in their daily lives. We know from the data that turkeys are at least 25% more costly this year than last year in the prices that consumers are spending. And wholesalers, I think, are spending like 75% more on Turkey. And that's the centerpiece of most Thanksgiving meals. Then you add everything else in, and then they keep going back to that Walmart lie, which has been debunked over and over and over again, where they replaced the actual items in the Thanksgiving package that they sell with generic items, and then removed more than a quarter of the items in the package. So, yes, it's a little cheaper than last year because they removed all the premium items, actually removed them and replaced the others with the generics. So it's like enough of the gaslighting. This whole regime is all gaslighting and lies, like, accept responsibility and tell the American people how you plan on fixing these problems.
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Jordy
It was like six items they removed from that. And which is why it ultimately brought the price slightly down there. But that's what this is. And that's what we say, too. It's like, the lies are so stupid. Like, the lies are such an f you to the base. Like, to his base because. And to the American people, obviously, but especially to his base because he just wants them to. To go ahead and parrot the talking points that he's giving them. But quite frankly, Once you get the literal receipt, you get a bit frustrated, Donnie. Even your base is fed up because the money's literally coming out of their accounts. They have literal receipts that prices aren't going down, that inflation's not even close to being fixed, and you're not doing a damn thing about it other than just giving them fake talking points to go ahead and parrot talking points. Don't pay the bills, Ben.
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Ben Mysella
You know, the way, the best way to describe it, you know, is on last year's Walmart list, they listed, and I'm making this up, three Mercedes, right? Three Mercedes s classes were listed on this one this year. They list one used Toyota and they go, okay, look, the price went down. Look at what it was last year. And now there's one used Toyota from 1993. Look, we did it. We. We reduced inflation. So then when, whether it's Democrats or rational thinking, people go, because they're now putting the used Toyota. Then, then the latest attack is, oh, what, you think people shouldn't drive used Toyotas? Are you mocking our base? That they shouldn't drive the. It's like, no, you're a sociopath. That's not what we're saying. People can drive a used Toyota. Absolutely. That's great. There's no problem with that. But stop telling me that. That it was one thing the other year and it's one thing this year. The bottom line is that they happen to be using brand names last year, that's just a fact. And had 21 items. That's it. That we're just giving you the objective fact that in order to get a lower number, you've altered the calculation going back to those 1984 quotes. You've altered the reality, and now you're presenting that as making things cheaper and it's not. No one's saying that I buy, I buy generic goods all the time. I go to the supermarket, I look at it and I go, this tastes the same. It looks the same. That's great. No one's judging somebody for doing that. We're judging the Trump regime for lying to us about the prices. That's the issue. But let's talk about how the American people feel about all of this. And are they buying what is being sold right here? You know, I actually thought these breakdowns by Enten over the past week have been brutal to the Trump regime, and he's done pretty good summaries of just the. The various polling out there. So let me start with this one where Enten talks about how if people are Buying what the regime is selling, how people feel about prices, if they believe it's going up or down. Here, play this clip.
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Harry Enten
Data analyst Harry is here on this special Friday. Been a tough few days for the.
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Ben Mysella
President in the polls.
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Harry Enten
John Berman, I would say this is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious. What are we talking about here in terms of net approval rating? Well, take a look. These are all November polls. The best one of the group puts him at 14 points underwater. That's the Marquette University Law School poll, tied for the worst he's ever had in that poll. Fox 17 points underwater. Maris 17 points underwater. The Reuters Ipsos ball 22 points underwater. And then taking the cake, the AP North Pole 26 points underwater. When your best poll has you still 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad. And it's as bad as 26 points underwater. We're talking about an average, well, well, well underwater with the deep blue sea swimming with the fishes. And now, I mean just your Costs are up versus a year ago. Groceries 85%. Utilities 78%. Health care 67%. Housing 66%. Gasoline 54%. The bottom line is this. Americans feel like prices are rising in each and every single part of their lives. Rising, ever climber. And they just don't feel like Kate Baldwin that they can catch a break the Treasury. You know, this is a poll that came out yesterday, Marco University Law School poll. And I don't think it picked up enough coverage that it should have because these numbers should be truly frightening to Republicans. Why do I point it out? Why do I say that? Okay, Dems versus Republicans on the generic congressional ballot. If you look at all voters, this matches the average. You see Democrats up by five points. Okay, that's not a bad position, but it's not as strong as they were in the 2018 cycle at this point. But come over to this side of the screen. This is where it gets truly frightening for the gop because among those certain to vote, look at this. The Democratic advantage nearly doubles. We're talking about a nine point advantage going from five to nine points. And this matches with what we're seeing in other polls, which is huge Democratic enthusiasm.
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Jordy
Huge.
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Harry Enten
And more than that, remember, elections are not just about persuasion, they're about turnout as well. And what this suggests is Democrats are far more likely to turn out at this point a nine point advantage. Going from five to nine. That is a plus. Two thumbs up. Great news for Democrats.
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Ben Mysella
The Latino vote What are we seeing among the polls there?
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Harry Enten
Yeah, what are we seeing? You know, one of the big shifts in 2024 from 2020 was that shift towards Donald Trump. Right. Immigration played a key role. And then I want to start off with Latinos on Trump and immigration. You know, back a year ago, what did we see on the issue of immigration? Latino voters trusted Kamala Harris more than Donald Trump, but by just two points. One, two. Look now at Donald Trump's net approval rating on immigration among Latinos. He is 38 points underwater. That is a 36 point shift essentially from where we were a year ago on immigration. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are basically tied on the issue of immigration. And now on the issue of immigration. Latinos, Destiny despise, hate Donald Trump, 38 points underwater. In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong when it comes to immigration.
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Brett
What about the Lex.
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Ben Mysella
That guy's funny guy, you know, they despise, they hate him. Did you see the one where he like jumped?
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Brett
Yeah, yeah, yeah. For the audio listeners, there was a way he went airborne in one of those clips like I've never seen.
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Jordy
I know you guys don't usually like about him.
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Ben Mysella
That bother me sometimes, just in full disclosure. Right. But, but I do appreciate people who seem to enjoy their jobs, like, whatever. Like, he does seem to have a level of enthusiasm.
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Brett
I appreciate his enthusiasm. I appreciate his New York accent and I appreciate his energy and his jumping. What annoys me sometimes is when what he'll always do is he'll try to follow up like a poll that's blatantly bad for Donald Trump by cherry picking some random piece of data. Or like, the thing that infuriates me the most is the betting odds. He will highlight betting odds from those online betting platforms as if they are actual polling data or any sort of real information other than what people are just betting on on the Internet. And that is when he loses me. But for the sake, for the sake of this. That was a great montage.
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Jordy
I want to add to this. I want to add to this. I got to speak. I've always liked the guy. Like, I just think he's like, I do. I just think he's a. Oh, I.
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Brett
Never shared this in our text.
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Jordy
And I like, I like that. Like, he does seem like he genuinely enjoys what he does, which is very rare. And that New York accent, dude, I as, as fellow New Yorkers, it just cracks me up how thick that is. I mean, I say this in the most endearing way possible. And the fact that we are Jewish I knew 30 Jewish Long island moms that speak just like him. And it, I just, I, I enjoy it.
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Ben Mysella
I want to show this though, just pivoting gears for a moment because there's two other there's, by the way, I.
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Brett
Haven'T even looked up where he's from or what he is, but I, I, I could tell you for sure he's a Jewish New Yorker. Like I'm, I' sure of it without even Googling it. And somebody could confirm it or I'll look it up when I get a break.
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Ben Mysella
But when Donald Trump was leaving Washington, D.C. to go to Mar a Lago, he was asked by the press in Air Force One or on Air Force One, are you planning to extend the Affordable Care act subsidies? Right. This is on a lot of people's minds right now at the Thanksgiving table, will the subsidies be extended? Because we're seeing massive drop offs on the state ACA Affordable Care act exchanges right now. People aren't buying these insurance plans because of the price. And so the deadline is December 31, but the plans are, people have already gotten their notices. So you see how expensive they are to buy plans right now on the exchanges. It's exactly what we and Democratic leaders and people who just care about facts have been saying. It's significantly higher. It's basically unaffordable. Trump acted like he was going to extend the subsidies and announce that in the Oval Office. But then the MAGA Republicans in the House said if you do that, there's going to be even more mass resignations from the kind of more far right wing MAGA versus just the far right wing MAGA who call themselves centrist. And the centrists want to resign right now because the Affordable Care act subsidies are not being extended and they're not centrist. Let me just be clear. But the people who believe they are because they think they're going to lose in their districts and get wiped out based on the ACA subsidies not being extended. So you have this civil war going on and Trump was asked in Air Force One, are you planning to extend those subsidies? I'd rather not. I'd rather, I mean, just like what a sick thing to say. I'd rather not. Okay, well then what's your plan? What is your plan? I'll just show you all this video right here. This is from July 19, 2020. A TRUMP IN I could, I could show you a thousand clips like this, but I'm just going to show you this one as illustrative. But just trust me, there's A thousand others like this, maybe more than a thousand others. I'm just picking this one because. Just because it's clear, it's cogent, it's concise, it makes my point. July 19, 2020. Let's just play this clip of Trump talking about his healthcare plan during his first term. This is 2020. Let's be clear.
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Harry Enten
I want to talk to you about Obamacare. Since the pandemic hit, millions of people have lost their jobs and thereby lost their health insurance. And almost close to half a million have signed up for Obamacare. Your administration just announced that you're signing on to a lawsuit to overturn Obamacare and replace it. Why does it make sense to overturn Obamacare with which people now are relying on Democrats are going to say the man who's wanted to kill Obamacare is going to take away the protection for pre existing conditions.
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Interviewer/Reporter
First of all, we got rid of the individual mandate. Pre existing conditions will always be taken care of by me and Republicans 100%.
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Harry Enten
But you've been in office three and a half years. You don't have a.
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Interviewer/Reporter
Well, we haven't had. Excuse me, you heard me yesterday. We're signing a health care plan within two weeks. A full and complete health care plan that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do.
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Ben Mysella
Okay, so how is that not disqualifying? And I mean this sincerely, like, why is it that he's judged on a whole different scale? Like, why? That's what he said in 2020. Two weeks. And by the way, he wasn't talking about in two weeks, we're going to, you know, I don't, I don't know, come up with some plan that's not on something that's life or death for human beings. You know, in two weeks, I'm going to come up with a new plan to encourage you, you know, you name the topic, you know, people to watch less video games or play less video games or watch, watch less TV and exercise more. You know, which, by the way, you know, people that, that would, I'd still want to hold somebody to their word. Right. You know, we want to come up with a plan to just help people, you know, get off their, their kids spend less time on the iPad. Very important. I'd still hold you accountable to that. And let's just say you don't do that. I mean, it's one thing, but it's still bad. You're lying about rolling out a health care plan for like years and years and years. And this lends to the psychological torture that people feel because of this regime. It's a form of abuse, psychological abuse, post traumatic stress that he, because he says he's going to do things just like, just even the COVID In two weeks it's all going to go away. No, in 24 hours it's never going to hit our shores. Like a miracle, it's going to disappear and then it doesn't. It's just like the guy is a frickin liar. Stop even viewing it through the lens of politics. It's just view it as he's a bad person. He's an evil person. He's been a lifelong con artist, a lifelong fraud, a lifelong criminal, a lifelong sexual abuser. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy, right? Like that's just what bad people do. Like we don't have to sometimes look for it. Oh, I wonder. No, no, no, no. He's bad to his core. At the very deepest recesses. He is a shit human being who has caused his whole life hurting people. And that's what's got him off hurting humans. And that's what he wants to do. A bad person. Sadly, in our, in our world there are bad people and he's the baddest of the bad bad human. And that's an example right there. And that's it. He's a con artist. That's it. Liar, Horrible person. And that's what we need to move beyond. That's. We can't normalize that. We need people with dignity being leaders, Democrats or Republicans or independents or some other party that forms in the future. I just want people with dignity who actually respect our constitution, who respect the laws, who are humble, who appreciate empathy and don't want to destroy it, who uplift marginalized communities, who not punched down, who show respect and someone who I can tell my kid this should be a role model. That's what I want as a leader in a very nonpartisan way. That's the most basic criteria. Let's take our last quick break of the show and then we'll be right back with much more. Remember, join if you can become a member right now of our YouTube channel. Also check out the substack midas plus.com subscribe on audio to the Midas Touch podcast. If you're a YouTube listener, leave a five star review on on the audio podcast. That helps our audio numbers a lot in the audio algorithm. So even if you're like I prefer it on YouTube, do us a solid on Thanksgiving. It helps subscribe on audio and leave a five star review. It'll take you literally 90 seconds probably to do both. And it goes a long way to help us out. Right, Last break of the show.
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Brett
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Ben Mysella
Toss it off to Brett. Because, Brett, I know you were anxious after I showed some of those clips to get a word in about, you know, again, Trump on the airplane leaving D.C. saying I hope not, regarding extending the subsidies and not having a plan at all. I did a video, I'm not sure if we'll release it today or tomorrow of Magamike, where I went back and talked about where MAGA Mike promised at the end of the government shutdown that he had a plan. Do you remember all of those interviews that MAGA Mike was doing? He goes, the only thing preventing us from showing you the plan because it's super secret is once the shutdown ends, we'll put out the plan right away is what he said. And then they didn't. And it's just like enough of that shouldn't be again, a Democrat or a Republican or an independent thing. That's just, that's, that's horrible behavior by these, by these people, by these wicked, evil, bad people.
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Brett
Brett yeah, I mean it's, it's a policy choice. It's a clear policy choice what's going on with people's health care right now. You could either support people and make sure that they don't go bankrupt due to medical bills or you could not support them and have people suffer and likely die because they can't afford to pay their medical bills. And Republicans are constantly basically torturing people and threatening people. And you see that with Donald Trump. Like, I don't want to extend the subsidies. I don't care what you want or don't want to do. You have to extend the subsidies. People are going to suffer if we don't. If you want to put forward a plan that replaces our current insurance system, I believe with a universal health care plan would be the way to go about this. And I do think that the government should be supporting healthcare here in the United States. We spend more on healthcare in this country for worse outcomes. And we have these insurance companies as the middlemen, which many countries do not many countries guarantee universal health care for all of their citizens. If you want to talk about how we want to get to that sort of system, I am all ears. But we're also living in the reality of our current system and the laws that are in place right now to make things more affordable. And Republicans simply want to chip away at those laws because they were created by a Democrat. Because they were created by their arch nemesis, Barack Obama, who, going back to what I said in the beginning of this episode, they view as the most divisive president in history when which is the craziest fricking concept in the world and shows what these MAGA mush brains are all about. But we have the system. We have something set in place. There's a very simple fix for it. But Donald Trump would rather send billions and billions of dollars to foreign countries. He'd rather prop up Argentina's failed economy than help the American people. And I'm just like sick of all the gaslighting in every respect. We just see gaslighting, we see attacking, but we're not seeing any solutions from this party. It goes back to what Jordy was saying in the last episode, that these people love to complain. The Republicans maga Trump, they love whining, they love complaining, they love riling people up. But they actually have dose solutions to solve really complex issues. They just want to complain about any of the ideas that other people have. But put your ideas forward. Let's hear them out. But we know what their ideas actually are. Their ideas are to strip people off their health care coverage. Their ideas are to give insurance companies all of the power to allow them to deny people who have preexisting conditions to allow people to simply die. And I am not okay with that. And there's a reason why they don't say that out loud, at least most of the time, because they don't want people to realize that that is exactly what their plan is.
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Jordy
Such a good point. Isn't it striking, on a separate note, when you watch clips of Donald, like that Chris Wallace interview from five years ago, four and a half years ago, that we played right before the break when Trump said that he was gonna sign his comprehensive healthcare bill in two weeks in 2020, it's striking when you play videos of him then, and don't get me wrong, it does not seem all there back in 2020, but then you play videos of him today in 2025, and then, you know, you go back to the videos in 2016 and 2017 that we play often, too. And just to show the divisive rhetoric that. That he, you know, brings out. I mean, it should really concern everyone just how quickly he's declined mentally and physically. And I'm not saying this to just, like, be hyperbolic, but when he gets a question these days, he doesn't oftentimes even attempt to answer it in any sort of form. He's just kind of out there spewing nonsense and divisiveness for the sake of it. But I genuinely, in my heart of hearts, just think he doesn't fully comprehend anymore the questions that he's being asked on.
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Ben Mysella
A few points there. Number one, he's recently said that he got an MRI after he was forced to admit it, but he doesn't know what part of his body he claims that the MRI is on. Saying that you don't know what part of the body the MRI was done on in many ways is probably even scarier than the fact that he's got the MRI in the first place. You know, what part of your body an MRI was performed on, if you've ever been in an mri. Got an MRI before, I've gotten an MRI before. You definitely know it was a very serious experience, you know, for anybody who's gotten an mri. So the fact that the President of the United States says, I don't know, the body part, all of it. And it was great, and the greatest MRI ever. Again, to me, that's another very disqualifying thing. You talk about health care. Back in May, Donald Trump signed an executive order where he promised the American people that prescription drug prices would now be sold in the United States at a most favored nation level, a M, F, N clause. He said that he got insurance companies to buy into, meaning most favored Nation. It's a contract term that America would now be buying, I guess the government from insurance companies and making it accessible to the people at the lowest price. That not the insurance companies, from the pharmaceutical companies that sell the drugs at the lowest price. Those pharmaceutical companies sell those drugs in another comp. Another country. So if a pharmaceutical company sells drug A in Canada for a dollar, most favored nations would mean then that same pharmaceutical company has to sell it in the United States for a dollar. That's never happened. He promised that that was gonna take place in May. Then he moved on and said, oh well, 1,600%, 1700% reductions as well. And well, that hasn't happened. Right. That would mean that they would be paying us money. So yet another lie right there. He's of course, never rolled out a plan. And then finally, when Donald Trump says, or MAGA says that former President Barack Obama was the most divisive president in history, what they really are trying to say and what they mean to say is that he was the blackest president in history. And this is primarily based on racism towards former President Obama, who did a very good job. And that's what they're doing. That's what they mean by divisive. The fact that you had former President Obama, someone who accomplished so much, who did it with ease and with compassion and empathy, that drives racists crazy. Donald Trump is a racist. And Donald Trump's policies are based on his racism, his hatred, and that's they're willing to rip away health care or anything that has Obama's name on it because of that. Now, I mean, just even take a quick look at what happened in the G20. We've covered this at length where Trump has boycotted the G20 in South Africa. That just took place. It's the first time it's on the African continent. You had a black leader in President Ramaphosa of South Africa who led this. President Lula of Brazil led it last year. Before that you had President Modi of India lead it. The US boycotted it. And then they wanted to send some like low level diplomat who Trump says is a senior level diplomat to show up for the ceremony where the gavel is passed from Ramaphosa to the United States because the United States is hosting the G20 next year. And the G20 leaders, including Ramaphosa, said, no, you didn't show up. We're not just going to, we're not going to allow someone who's not a leader of the country to be on the stage with us. These are the leaders of every country at the G20, they don't send like a random representative, like, or an intern or whoever to be there. These are like the presidents and prime ministers and leaders of the countries on the stage. You're not going to just send somebody that's so disrespectful to the G20. So what South Africa said is, look, we'll pass this. We'll pass it on privately and, and you can still do the G20. We're just not going to pass it on to someone who's not the head of state, someone who's not the leader of the country. So then Donald Trump posted, well, we're not inviting South Africa to the G20 next year in the United States that they can't show up. And we're not going to do any help to south. Give any help to South Africa in the future. See you later, South Africa. You're banned from the G20. And Trump made a post like that. And I know with all the craziness of Trump, that doesn't get a lot of attention, but he's claiming that he's banning South Africa from showing up to the G20. You realize BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and South Africa has a lot of, there's a lot of reasons to trade with South Africa. There's a lot of things to do. You know, as part of a trading relationship, Canada made a great deal with South Africa right away. And it's like, what the hell are we even doing here? Finally, that just brings me to the last topic. And we've covered this a lot here on the Midas Touch Network. So I'm not going to spend so much time because we've done so many videos on it. First off, our hearts go out to those National Guards members in Washington, D.C. who were shot, who have suffered unthinkable and their families. These are National Guards members from West Virginia and, you know, horrific, horrific, horrific, despicable act where this individual, who we're now learning more about this person's identity was Ramanula Laconwal, Afghan national came. It was working basically with the CIA in Afghanistan. This person's like, 10 years in the Afghan army, worked alongside the CIA on a lot of very serious missions over there. And then obviously, after Trump made the deal surrendering to the Taliban and Biden withdrew, people who were, were helping the military were brought back to the United States because they would have otherwise gotten killed. And this person spent 10 years working with like the CIA. This guy spent years working with, with the military and all of their missions. So he came here in 2021. He was vetted, no signs of terroristic thoughts or, or, or anything like that. He lived in Washington and applied for asylum in December and was granted asylum by Trump in April of 2025. Trump gave this guy asylum. I don't know what if his emails or anything showed radicalization? We don't know that yet. What we do know though is that Trump gutted our counterterrorism division within the FBI. It's basically non existent, doesn't exist, Right. Trump appointed a 22 year old guy with no FBI experience or counterterrorism experience named Thomas Fugate. 22 year old, he was a gardener, he was a Trump fan, supporter of Trump. And they just picked this, like if you made this the script of a movie, you know, like I'm trying to think of those movies I watched when I was like 8 years old were like, like blank check, right? Where the kid gets like a million dollar check. I think he lived in Indiana and he like bought like a casual castle and all these things that like, you know, I don't know, I remember like those silly movies like imagine if you were made the head of the FBI counterterrorism with no experience, like, okay, but this is real and it's deeply serious, right? Because all of our main counterterrorism people have been pushed out. They no longer work at the FBI. And you got this 22 year old run, you know, running it to what the hell knows what he's doing. And the FBI warned that their capabilities had been destroyed. And I can't say for sure is that one of the reasons that led to this, that they weren't able to detect these types of things. All I can tell you is that our counterterrorism. Let's just go to undisputed facts and we'll leave it at this. Our counterterrorism at the FBI and joint counterterrorism task force here have been destroyed by the Trump regime. That's an undisputed fact. The other undisputed fact is Trump granted this individual asylum in April of 2025 and now they don't want to admit it.
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Interviewer/Reporter
It.
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Ben Mysella
So Cash Patel is asked at a press conference, can you clarify the timeline? Because Kristi Noem had to admit that yes, they gave asylum in 2025. So when cash Patel was asked, can you tell us, can you confirm that? He goes, you're going to have to ask Kristi Noem. Here, play this clip. And Secretary Kristi Noem has put out details specifically related to your other questions. So I'll let that speak for themselves.
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Narrator/Ad Voice
When he was granted, when he was going to get asylum. If you could just clarify that timeline.
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Ben Mysella
And yes, I believe Kristi Noem put that out and that's a DHS matter and I'll refer to them. I believe Christy Dom put that out. You're the FBI director. You're giving the briefing. You're in front of the camera. You should reach out and you should answer because that's literally your job as the FBI director. But that's what we see over and over again from this regime. And so I'll leave it at that. I think everybody gets the point. So I. Brett, let me pass it over to you, but let me give my last evening. Evening. Thank you. Thank you all so much. I'm grateful for you. I'm appreciative of you. Happy Thanksgiving. We really, we really appreciate you. Subscribe here, subscribe on audio, leave a five star review on audio and become a member of this YouTube channel if you can. It really helps grow this platform and you can gift memberships to others. That's what I want to say, Brett.
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Brett
Yeah, I think I just want to say, you know, watching that Cash Patel clip, it just, you know, just yet another reminder that this is an administration that doesn't care about giving the facts. They don't care about the truth. They're trying to run a constant propaganda op, a constant psyop on the American people. We saw this as the shooting was happened. We saw all the mag influencers, all the Fox News talking heads, all those people try to rush to figure out what, okay, what's the story now? Who are we blaming? Oh, who's Donald Trump's latest target? Mark Kelly. Oh, it's Mark Kelly's fault. Because Mark Kelly told the troops that they should obey their oath. So somehow it's Mark Kelly's fault that this person got shot. Mark Kelly. Mark Kelly. Mark Kelly. Let's put him on trial. Put him on trial. And then you saw the narrative just keep shifting. They kept kind of moving their target. Okay, maybe if that wasn't it, maybe it was this person, maybe it was all Democrats, maybe it's all Democrats who speak out against Trump. Oh, may. Oh, it's President Biden. That's President Biden. And it's the issue that we have when we have an administration that's completely devoid of the facts. But you know, I'll just say on this Thanksgiving, I think it's good that we're finally seeing though, that I think those attempts to propagandize the public are not working, as we saw in that montage of clips from Harry into and as the polls are showing, as we're kind of, I think we're all kind of feeling the vibe shift as well in general, especially since those elections. I think we're finally seeing things ahead in the right direction in this country where people want to get back to normalcy, people want to get back to the fundamental values of this country. And people are increasingly rejecting this MAGA chaos, the MAGA division, this whole rage machine that they have built. And so let's keep it going. I want to thank this community so much for being a huge part of that. You are you just being here. I mean, hey, you're here right now on Thanksgiving watching us, maybe alone, maybe with your families. Whatever it is, we're so grateful. If you're new watching this episode, welcome. I hope you continue to watch. We do these long form podcasts on YouTube as the Midas Touch Podcast every Monday and Thursday at 8:00pm Eastern, 5:00pm Pacific Time. And then it goes on the audio feed on the Midas Touch podcast the day after. And then in between, you know that we are doing tons of episodes every single day, bringing you all of the breaking news, trying never to miss a major story. So check us out on YouTube. Check out the Midas Touch podcast feed for daily recaps. Make sure you check us out on substack midasplus.com we're so grateful for all your support. Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for spending this day with our family here and our hearts go out to everybody out there. We are so, so so thankful. Jordyn Take it away.
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Jordy
Shout out to the Midas. My day. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our substack@midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from Ron Filikowski, ad free episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available@midasplus.com hey Ryan Reynolds.
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