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Ben Meiselas
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Jordy Meiselas
Yeah, I hear there was a lot of outages that day also and still out. I mean, it's like every day we're hearing of new outages at the faa, everything in total chaos. But Ben, you listed all the top news of the day, but I want to make sure we're focusing on one of the biggest stories of the day that's it's your birthday Ben. Happy birthday to Ben. And not just any birthday. It is Ben's 40th birthday. Thank you for spending it with us here on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm really excited about this episode. We've got a lot to talk about, so I know we're going to get right into it. I want to thank everybody also because last week, as Ben mentioned, was a, it was an exciting week. It was also a very grueling week for all of us, you know, doing all the things that Ben said and more and then keeping this thing afloat. And we couldn't have done it without all of you and all the support out there. So thank you so much. And that YouTube charts thing, man, it's really cool. YouTube is now having a podcast charts where they show you the top podcasts on the platform. It's an honor to be the top news podcast on the YouTube charts and thanks everybody. Remember to subscribe to the Midas Touch podcast. Listen also not only on YouTube and watch on YouTube, but listen on the on Apple podcasts on Spotify. Leave a five star review. Jordy, what's the latest?
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Ron Filipkowski
I'm just going to say this before we dive in. Benji. Happy birthday, big bro. I love you, man. Where do you want to start off today?
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Ben Meiselas
Oh, I should. We should start also with our thoughts and prayers and positivity goes out to former President Biden and his entire family. By now you know that he announced that he has a very serious prostate cancer diagnosis. Maga. Republicans right now are trying to further spread conspiracies about him. Corporate news continues to defame him. I don't even want to get into that and give that any attention. I just want to send a heartfelt thanks to everything that former President Biden has done for our country and beyond. His policies representing decency, compassion and a true love for our country. So I know the mightiest mighty sending all the positivity we can to former President Biden and his family. Let's get into what's been going down. So Donald Trump got back from this disastrous trip to the Middle east. As I posted on various social media accounts, because America is so propagandized and our media basically looks no different than the way like Kim Jong Un state regime media works or Russian state regime media works. The headlines are basically what Donald Trump feeds to the media. And they just basically posted, oh, Donald Trump did a $1.2 trillion deal with Qatar. No, he didn't. He didn't do a deal with that. Their entire G GDP is $200 billion. Okay, they're not giving 6x their GDP to the United States. Like do some critical evaluation before you just give those types of headlines. And most of the, quote unquote deals that Donald Trump announced were things that former President Biden did anyway. Trump did no deals at all. And by the way, when you look at these so called deals that Donald Trump does, like what he did with the United Kingdom two or three weeks ago as well, it literally said on the bottom of the memorandum of this is not a binding deal. And all it did was give preferential treatment to Jaguar, Land Rover and Rolls Royce over United States car manufacturers. Donald Trump did not do a deal with China. Right. It was a consensus where Donald Trump just totally caved and capitulated. Donald Trump rushed his Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, his trade Representative, Jameson Greer to go to Switzerland because the products from China were not reaching our ports. And we were about to have a situation where there was to be nothing on our shelves even worse than Covid. Donald Trump caved and just took down the tariffs from 145% to 30%. Donald Trump's done zero deals in 90 days. And all of these other countries are realizing what a horrible negotiator he is, how weak and pathetic that he doesn't hold the cards. Remember Donald Trump saying, I got the cards, you don't got the cards. Everybody realizes that Donald Trump doesn't have the cards and that you can play him so easily. I saw.
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Jordy Meiselas
Not only that, Ben, it seems like we're also hearing an anytime Donald Trump leaves, right, he makes this big announcements, right? We got a deal here, this country, we did this in this, in this region, in that region. And then he gets all the headlines. The press runs with everything he says verbatim, no matter how ridiculous the numbers are. And then inevitably one of the countries comes out and they go, that wasn't what we talked about at all. And in fact, Donald Trump completely offended us. Like we're watching even what happened in India where the Trump administration was trying to take a credit for this ceasefire between India and Pakistan. And India is like furious at Trump right now. Like they are absolutely pissed. And they think that Trump's trying to take credit and that Trump had nothing to do with this. And it's just like it's an embarrassment, it's an international embarrassment to see him go to these countries, then lie, have the, our press write these headlines without any discernment whatsoever, and then have to have these other heads of state and whatever correct him and correct the record all the time. But Trump has understood that our media is so propagandized that all he has to do is just say whatever he wants and it's just basically going to be repeated. And, and they're going focus on things that aren't really important. They're not going to focus on the fact that Trump isn't sending FEMA into these states, that he hasn't even activated him. He's not going to focus on, you know, they're not going to focus on the death toll as a result of Trump and what's going on with the National Weather Service. That should be a major scandal. We're going to get into all that here as well. But the things they're focusing on, to run these like 24, you know, 24 hour a day stories on like Biden and to be focused on all these other things, to me it's just a disgrace. And you're missing the mark of what, like the serious things that are going on in the country right now. Then, you know, my message through all these deals is that his announcements constantly follow the same pattern. He declares a major breakthrough only for the details later to reveal that nothing has really changed. And in the meantime, the press is just doing his bidding for him. And it's just a complete embarrassment to our entire system.
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Ron Filipkowski
To be honest. You sort of get the sense too that the press is intentionally missing the mark. Like they're going up at that plate and they're intentionally striking out with the T ball right in front of them. And that's because they're scared of their access. They don't want to lose that access that means so much to them. It's no longer about accountability and holding Donald Trump accountable in their eyes. And that's the saddest thing about this. I want the fourth estate to be at its prime and really hitting back hard, but doing so in a way that makes sense and actually just doing their jobs. But to see them get up there every single day and just let, let, let, let the ball just pass them by intentionally, it's infuriating.
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Jordy Meiselas
And it could sound like a conspiracy theory, right? Oh, the media is coordinating with Trump and they're trying to do his bidding. Right. But then you hear these stories that show that it is very much true. Like today we were hearing the story about Wendy McMahon, the president of CBS News, and she is resigning because she was on the side of Bill Owens, the 60 Minutes executive producer who recently resigned because for the first time ever, the, the higher ups at CBS and the ownership of CBS was saying that they had to adjust their programming about Donald Trump to appease Donald Trump. Like that was coming from the top. And these executive producers, these well respected people at these networks who have been doing these jobs for a very long time, they are now backing out. They are now saying, I refuse to be complicit in what is happening right here. I understand, you know, that they want to do this merger, that they want to do this buyout deal and that they know that Trump is the one who's able to either accept or deny that deal. But I'm not going to be complicit in selling out our country in order to give beneficial treatment to Donald Trump. I mean, it's just complete abdication of the role of the fourth estate. And that's why I want this media to succeed. I really do want them to do well. I want them to be able to do their job. But it so pisses me off when we learn about what's going on and, you know, shout out to Wendy McMahon for her courage and calling this out in coming out in public and speaking out about what her network is doing behind her behind the scenes to these shows which are supposed to be able to call balls and strikes. But right now they are trying to appease Donald Trump.
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Ben Meiselas
Let's take a look at this clip from the St. Louis mayor, Kara Spencer. And this should be the biggest story of the day of the week. This should be a front page story. Donald Trump has not sent FEMA into St. Louis or any of these areas that have just been devastated by tornadoes and horrific weather events that killed 28Americans. As of this recording, that that has not happened. The first thing you do is you activate FEMA and FEMA gets on the ground. And FEMA works with local and state officials to coordinate things, especially as we now approach hurricane season. What's going to happen then when a hurricane strikes and FEMA isn't doing its job? We've been reporting about this FEMA issue and issues regarding starting the National Weather Service and the national oceanic and Atmospheric Agency that Donald Trump has gutted for months and months. We've made it a major story here at the Midas Touch Network. Not just a passing story that gets half a day treatment and then goes away. What could be more fundamental to what a government is supposed to do than in a time of distress, provide the service? What else? What are we paying our taxes for? It's certainly not to have a already billionaire born with a golden spoon in his mouth like Donald Trump go to Qatar so he can brag for gold Plated jets. That ain't freaking normal. Let's play this clip of mayor Spencer from St. Louis.
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Caroline Levitt
Just true for St. Louis cities across the nation when they are, when experiencing disasters such as this. This is what the federal government is for. We need your help. We need the help of the broader community. We have set up a fund to help bring in the, some, some funding right off the bat just to bridge that gap. But we need federal assistance. There is fema. There is FEMA on the ground yet. FEMA has not been on the ground. We do not have confirmed assistance from FEMA at this point.
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Ben Meiselas
Did you hear what she said? We had to set up a fund like a Go Fund me because the federal government is not helping out. Okay, that's where we begin. The top of our story on the Midas Touch podcast. What the hell is going on? And it's not just unique to that. I want you to think about all the other people who have been fired. The people who worked at the nih, National Institutes of Health, the people who worked at the cdc, the people who work at research facilities. I want you to think about the veterans who were fired, the people who work and Veterans affairs who were fired. I want you to think about the people who work in the national parks, the people across all government agencies who provide critical functions that Donald Trump and Elon Musk defamed, gave them the middle finger and said we're firing you for performance related reasons. Go F yourself. Destroyed their lives and dismantled our government. We did another report on this as well and I talked about it this weekend that Trump fired the head of FEMA who was a MAGA guy, the interim head of fema because the guy refused to say during a congressional hearing two weeks ago that he wanted to dismantle fema. Kristi Noem, dog killer Homeland Security Secretary said that she wanted an charge he was actively seeking to dismantle fema. And the FEMA guy said he personal, personally believed that would be a bad decision. This was a MAGA guy who ran as a, ran for Congress. As he said I'm the MAGA candidate. He got fired for saying he didn't want to dismantle his own agency. So I want, I'm trying to raise right now the alarms of what's going to happen and we're seeing what's happening right there. It's upset.
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Jordy Meiselas
I'd like to just point out a pattern as well, Ben, and that's in all these situations like, like we've seen now multiple deadly storms, fatal storms occur under the Trump Administration, we're seeing the storms that we're speaking about right now. And just a few months ago, if you remember, there was like, there were storms that had at least like 40 deaths in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma.
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Ben Meiselas
No female to those states too.
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Jordy Meiselas
No FEMA to those states too. And Donald Trump again, did not even like speak out about those issues. Did not even say any even words of comfort, not even like for all of his posts, he's posting about, you know, wanting to arrest Bono and, and frickin Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce and people for speaking out against him. He's saying Taylor Swift isn't hot. This is, he's posting QAnon memes about military tribunals for Obama, all this crazy stuff that we'll get to in a little bit. And he can't even do one post saying, listen, I, I'm, I hear you, I'm with you. I'm going to use the weight of the United States government to ensure your safety, to ensure you are okay. Even with our, our troops, our troops dying, right? We saw our, our, the death of our troops both near our border right here, who were sent on this mission to secure the border by Donald Trump. We also saw our troops die in Lithuania. Donald Trump did not release a statement. And when Donald Trump was asked about it, he acted like he didn't even know what the person was talking about in the Oval Office.
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Ben Meiselas
Oh, what do you mean people died?
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Jordy Meiselas
Well, what are you talking about? And that's his move, if you've noticed. His move is to just totally act oblivious to everything, just anything that could look bad. He goes, I never even heard of that. What, I don't know. And then you have people like even Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the last storms, right? She was begging Trump to do something, do something, help us out. What the hell are you doing, man? And he refused. And he refused then and he refuses now. And the amount of shit that he and all those mag influencers, I think back to, you know, when there were the storms in Georgia, when there were the storms in North Carolina. And what did President Biden do at the time? He picked up the phone instantly. He declared emergency declarations. He immediately got on the phone with people like Brian Kemp. He went into action. And that's not even something that deserves to. Oh wow, you went into action. That's what you're supposed to do as the President of the United States. And Donald Trump is not even doing the bare minimum here, like pick up the damn phone, contact the officials, see what they need, do what people need for their, from their government. It's just basic governance right here that is completely getting swept under. And nobody is speaking about this as a scandal when to me, this is like the biggest scandal imaginable. This is like, imagine if during Katrina, Bush just totally even ignored it. Like, we talk about his bad response. Trump has no response response to these storms.
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Ben Meiselas
It's.
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Jordy Meiselas
It's honestly outrageous.
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Ben Meiselas
Let me share with you this. Donald Trump then talks about how. He talks about his Middle east trip during this press conference, and he claims he secured $5 trillion. Here, play this.
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Brett Meiselas
Because there's no place like the White House. I found out, you know, you have a lot of places, and I just left some of the richest places and we loved them and we. They gave us a nice contribution of about $5 trillion trillion dollars. But this is a special place. Even they talk about it. So it's great to have everybody here.
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Ben Meiselas
And by the way, those are not some of the richest places either. Okay? Qatar's entire GDP is $200 billion. You know what the annual GDP of Canada is, who Donald Trump attacks? It's like $3 trillion. Okay. Do you know the GDP of California, which is the fourth largest in the world? World. It's not that Qatar is rich. And this is where Donald Trump's mind is so attached to this idea of like royal authoritarians versus democracies. California has the fourth largest GDP in the entire world.
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Jordy Meiselas
Okay.
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Ben Meiselas
It's not even close. But Trump looks up to these, you know, leaders in the Middle east, and they didn't commit $5 trillion. They didn't commit 30x their annual GDP to the United States. And it's just absurd that nobody there is like, hey, you realize that that just makes absolutely no sense. So then Donald Trump spoke to Putin today. Now, I just want to give this context. Trump was claiming that he was going to go to Istanbul to meet with Putin and Zelensky. Remember about two weeks ago, Putin said that he wanted to go to Istanbul and meet with Putin and have peace discussions, which we told you was all BS and to be propaganda to try to play Donald Trump. So Trump would attack Zelensky. But the real goal was just Putin wanted to have a direct conversation with Donald Trump so that he can get everything he wanted out of Donald Trump and then try to force Ukraine to surrender. Because Zelensky has been making very smart diplomatic moves. Zelensky showed up to Istanbul. Putin backed out. Donald Trump backed out. So then Donald Trump spoke to Putin today, and the purpose of the call was try to secure a ceasefire. Instead, Donald Trump Just made a post. He's like, we talked about ceasefire. I feel very good about these conversations. Now it's up for Zelensky and Putin just to talk it out. It's up to them to talk. That's your solution? Your solution is that you're done. I just want me to be clear. You're done. Zelensky and Putin need to. You don't think that's been thought about before war. And the problem is, is that Putin wants Zelensky to completely surrender and Zelensky wants Ukraine just to exist. Right. If Ukraine stopped fighting, it would no longer exist. If Russia stopped fighting, we would have peace. Zelensky's agreed to an unconditional ceasefire. That's the dynamic. But what did it, what did our corporate news run with? Donald Trump says ceasefire is going to our country. No, Donald Trump claimed he was going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours with taking office or even before that. And what's Donald Trump speaking about? Putin was clearly mocking Melania during the phone call. And we know that also because Russian state regime media has been showing Melania nudes over and over again since the election. Watch Donald Trump talk about, oh, I think Putin likes my wife. I think he likes Melania. You. That's what you got out of the call. Here, play this clip.
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Brett Meiselas
And compassionate first lady, I would say she is very dedicated. In fact, if you look at just what I heard, Putin just said, they respect your wife a lot. I said, what about me? No, they will. They like, they like Melania better. That wasn't good. I don't know if that was good. I'm okay with it. I'm okay.
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Ben Meiselas
I'm okay with it. Okay, let me be clear. When Putin said they respect your wife over there, he was mocking you. That's what he was doing. I'm, I'm okay with. I mean, how weak and pathetic does he look? Then you have Caroline Levitt give a press conference earlier in the day where she was asked if she has any updates about Stephen Miller. Trump's top advisors plan to suspend habeas corpus. In other words, to dismantle the Constitution and take away people's right to have cases heard before federal courts by essentially invoking martial law. And her response is, we're still looking into that. We're still looking into that. Here, play this clip of other question.
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Caroline Levitt
Recently, Stephen Miller at the White House made some comments about considering suspending hate previous corpus. And I'm curious if there's any update on how the White House is exploring that option to Enact the president's agenda. I don't have any update at this time, but I can check in with our deputy chief of staff.
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Ben Meiselas
What in the Kim Jong Un are we watching right there? The question what's going on with the potential elimination of our constitution? Well, I don't really have any updates on that, but I'm going to, we're going to look into it. We're going to. Do we understand the import of what they're saying. By the way, this is what's going on on state regime media as they constantly show these Melania photos over and.
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Jordy Meiselas
Over again on Rush Russian state TV media. I unfortunately we have to clarify which state.
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Ben Meiselas
What did I say?
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Jordy Meiselas
I said state regime media. And so I just want to clarify, we're not talking about our state regime media, the Russian state regime media. And for the audio listeners. Yeah. And I mean they literally, they run and they do this like all the time. They show like nude pictures of Melania and they like mocker. It's, it's, it's insane. And like, you know, this is all top down from Putin. Like this isn't just, you know, a random producer deciding to run this.
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Ben Meiselas
We've got a lot to discuss in this episode. I want to talk more about what went down in that Caroline Levitt press conference. I want to talk about the status of the budget bill. I want to talk about other pressing concerns. Let's take our first quick break of the show. I want to remind everybody, subscribe to our YouTube channel, we're getting closer to that, that 5 million subscriber mark. Make sure you subscribe on audio, wherever audio podcasts are available. Leave that five star review. We've got a lot of angry Joe Rogan fans who try to give negative one star reviews. So if you think this, if you think this show deserves a 5 star review, it'll take you 20 seconds to do and it really helps the show a lot when you give a five star review. Also next week we'll do patreon zoom chat patreon.com Midas Touch. If you wanted to meet me, Brett and Jordy, sign up right now at patreon.com Midas Touch Go to store.midas touch.com to check out the Midas Touch gear Pro democracy gear. We know that you will love it. Store.midas touch.com and then there's Midas Plus.com that's where our editor in chief Ron Philipkowski writes those incredible daily bulletins@midasplus.com let's take our first quick break of the show. We've got a lot more to discuss with.
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Brett Meiselas
We come back.
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Ron Filipkowski
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Ben Meiselas
Morning.
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Ron Filipkowski
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Jordy Meiselas
Great shirt.
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Ben Meiselas
Thank you. As a birthday gift. It was a birthday gift from our mom, so wear that. Figured I'd wear that birthday gift. All right, let's get into it. So Donald Trump's disastrous budget bill, which he calls a big beautiful bill, it's actually a massive, gigantic disaster, by the way, don't you see the like New York Times and others, like say the big beautiful bill is making its way through. Like, how do you literally buy that idiotic framework? What this bill is going to do is it's going to add at least $4 trillion to the deficit. I think conservatively, 6 trillion. My prediction is more like 15 to 20 trillion when all is said and done. Especially when you factor in what Doge has done by essentially dismantling the IRS to allow rich people to avoid paying taxes by doing maneuvers that would otherwise be investigated. So how do I know that this bill is going to add at least $4 trillion to the deficit? Remember how the MAGA Republicans were making it almost impossible for former President Biden to raise the debt ceiling? Oh, that's so fiscally irresponsible. How dare you do it really? Well, in this budget bill, they raise the debt ceiling, the MAGA Republicans do, by at least $4 trillion. Okay, that's in it right there. When you take a look at then the trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the billionaire, you're looking at, you know, I think the, the best estimate is $6 trillion. I mean it's, it's literal. I mean you can't even debate with that. You want to have a debate with me whether it's 15 or $20 trillion that's going to be added to the deficit? You know, fine, but this also cuts Medicaid $880 billion. That's still there. There were some MAGA Republicans who were holdouts on the Budget committee and they were not voting for this budget party bill because they wanted more cuts to Medicaid. They wanted to make sure more people were immediately taken off Medicaid and that wasn't delayed by a few years. They wanted it to happen next year. That was one of the things that MAGA Mike said, okay, we'll get rid of these people from Medicaid right away. If they don't meet the MAGA definition of able bodied, MAGA will determine if you're able bodied or now MAGA will determine what your corporation should have to price. You know, you see all these press conference right now when a company like Walmart, by the way, and I'm not trying to compliment Walmart, they've done a lot of crappy, crappy stuff but. And have destroyed small and medium sized businesses. But when a company like Walmart says we're going to have to pass on cost to consumers and the Trump regime is like, no, you need to eat it, you need to eat it. They did like the same stuff with Amazon. They did the same stuff with like you need to eat the cost.
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Jordy Meiselas
Sounds a little, a little communisty. If I.
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Ben Meiselas
All of this stuff is Trump and MAGA central planning. We're going to create MAGA savings accounts. We're going to do the ma. Like they literally have something called MAGA savings accounts is one of their gimmicks. So there's not going to be no tax on Social Security, but MAGA savings accounts, everybody. I mean, isn't this stuff. If you're like, what do you mean? MAGA savings account just. I think I have a clip of Caroline Levitt talking about the MAGA savings accounts. Here, play this clip.
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Caroline Levitt
As I said, this is a very pro family piece of legislation. Not only does it increase the child tax credit. But it also includes MAGA Baby Savings Accounts for children that are born before January 1, 2024, under 8 years old, US citizens and have at least one parent with a valid Social Security number. And when this tax provision becomes law, the child, if, if the parents seek to do this will be set up with a savings account. Essentially it's a 401k for a newborn baby.
- [35:10]
Ben Meiselas
It's essentially a 401k for a newborn baby called a Maga savings account. I wonder which corporations are going to try to be benefiting from MAGA savings accounts and building out an entire, you know, industry around there. This is not a family friendly budget. I mean, this is a budget that's going to kick you off of your health care. I mean, the nonpartisan congressional budget groups that take a look at this have said that, you know, 13, 14 million Americans are going to lose their health care. People are going to lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance. They're going to lose their, their Snap it Guts hud, which provides rental assistance and affordable housing to be. It's by like 40%. This is the least family friendly thing. And then they go out there and have Caroline Levitt just lie in the most brazen way imaginable. I mean, she's asked about the fact that this is going to add at least $4 trillion to the deficit or more. That's one of the reasons why Moody's downgraded America's credit score, because this is going to blow up the deficit. By the way, 25 to 30% of the deficit that's already existing was caused by Donald Trump the first time. He was the most reckless with debt of any president in history. And you don't have to take my word for it. Go back and look at the GOP presidential debates, which Trump was too afraid to show up in. And you'll see DeSantis and Nikki Haley said the reason why we had inflation under Biden, a direct quote from them, was because of Donald Trump's reckless handling of the deficit and adding trillions and trillions of dollars in debt. It's a direct quote from them. So you don't have to quote me. But here Caroline Levitt just looks at the camera and I want you to watch her whole demeanor. Like, she has, like the worst tells as she gears up to lie. She does this thing like she flips her hair and she just kind of gears up and she like revels in the lie. Like, she's like, all right, I'm going to do a good lie. I'm going to watch her get the question. She, like, she, like, enjoys it. You'll see her wind up. It's sick. It's sick. Here, play this clip. Just a quick follow up.
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Caroline Levitt
Is the President okay with this bill adding to the deficit?
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Brett Meiselas
Ms.
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Caroline Levitt
This bill does not add to the deficit. In fact, according to the Council of Economic Advisers, this bill will save $1.6 trillion. And the president absolutely understands and hears the concerns of fiscal conservatives and of Americans who want to get our fiscal house in order. That's what the intention of this bill is. There's $1.6 trillion worth of savings in this bill. That's the largest savings for any legislation that has ever passed Capitol Hill in our nation's history. The next bill that even comes close was $800 billion. That's less than half of the savings that we see in the one big, beautiful bill. And so the goal of this bill is to produce economic growth, to cut taxes, and to get our fiscal house in order. And this is the right step in the right direction towards doing that.
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Jordy Meiselas
Okay.
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Ben Meiselas
It is literally going to add $4 trillion. Do you see how effortlessly she does it? I'm going to find the other clip where she does that, where she does the thing, and I'll make sure I get it to Brett during the break, but effortlessly.
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Jordy Meiselas
Is it the one where she asked, where she's asked about Moody's?
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Ben Meiselas
Yeah, yeah. Do we have that one?
- [38:28]
Jordy Meiselas
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [38:29]
Ben Meiselas
Let's find out.
- [38:30]
Jordy Meiselas
Let's see if this. Let's see if this is that.
- [38:32]
Brett Meiselas
Yes.
- [38:32]
Jordy Meiselas
Thanks.
- [38:32]
Caroline Levitt
And then I'll go to you.
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Jordy Meiselas
You're awesome. I want to get the President's reaction into Moody's downgrading the credit rating. Credit rating of the United States.
- [38:40]
Caroline Levitt
Sure. Well, look, the President talked about this over the weekend. The Secretary of Treasury also talked about it. When you look at the world, the world has confidence in the United States of America and our economy once again. The president just last week secured trillions of dollars in investments from Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.
- [38:59]
Ben Meiselas
That started it. That's where I was, like when I was watching it live, I was like, she's like, gearing up, you know, like the baseball player before they go to the plate, they like, like have their practice when. All right, all right. This is going to be okay. Literally, the world is selling off America right now. They're saying we need to get out of America. Objectively, what's happening is the European bond markets, the European equities markets, China's markets, they're actually doing much better right now. As people are no longer viewing the United States as a safe place for money or a safe place that it once was. If Donald Trump can. And just let's look at it objectively. If Donald Trump wakes up in the morning and he starts to make posts like himself holding a sword, blind justice under the law will return to our republic. As he starts posting about military tribunals about Obama from QAnon counts. He's posting counts that from accounts that say, I believe in Q. The great awakening of holding the line. Actual death cult accounts. Posting first military tribunals and then himself with swords and then saying Taylor Swift ain't hot anymore. Would you want to put your money in that company who's like, just think about it. If it was a company and you're an investor. Let's, let's break it down in an easier way. Okay. Let's just say you have $5,000 to invest and on the one hand you have a company run by a CEO who's posting things like that here. Just pull it up one more time. Who's posting death cult QAnon stuff. Weird Sword pictures, talking about we should criminally investigate Beyonce, Bono and Springsteen. Illegal violations. Illegal violations. Or are you going to try to invest with a company where the CEO is like, we need to support free trade and we need to create a stable market environment. And China realizes this. China sees this opportunity. While Donald Trump was out there begging for personal gifts to himself in the form of gold plated jets, which he claims it's like the Statue of Liberty. This was like a gift to America. That's what they're going with now. It's like the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty. There was a congressional resolution from 1877 agreeing to accept the gift of the Statue of Liberty. The United States actually paid for some of its construction and that was for the American people giving a gold plated jet that becomes part of Donald Trump's hypothetical library, which isn't in existence. Which means Trump gets to use this and his family uses it for their rich billionaire friends for the rest of their freaking lives on the American taxpayer dime. Okay, that, that is not like the statute. How offensive to say that Trump.
- [41:56]
Jordy Meiselas
It's offensive to your, to our intelligence, honestly, the whole thing. Like they always find the dumbest. What about ism to try to go to. To try to normalize his behavior. And there is nothing normal about this behavior and the fact that you have Donald Trump in any other media environment. Trump threatening to hold military tribunals to imprison President Obama. Former President Obama I think that might be like a big deal, right? Trump ignoring calls, people begging in these states for help. Help, please just help us a little bit. Please activate fema, do something. And ignoring them completely. And now you could go on and on. You know, we're just talking about the tariffs and throwing the global economy into chaos, all that stuff. Right, right. You could talk about that for days, but apparently the media wants the one they want. They want to make sure, you know, that Joe Biden's old. Okay, that's. That's what's top of mind for them. All that stuff could go to the side. Because, folks, I'm not sure if you've heard it. Joe Biden, old guy. That's. That's what the media wants to focus on right now. Just ridiculous.
- [43:01]
Ben Meiselas
Just think about how heinous it is, too, that during this really somber moment for our country to recognize that former President Biden got that diagnosis. It took, what, less than 24 hours for Donald Trump to give a press conference and say the most despicable things about former president. Right. And to go up there and basically spread conspiracies and to say, oh, we should be looking into what's going on there then. Donald Trump refers to having a score of nine on the Gleason scale of prostate cancer as stage nine cancer. I mean, the whole thing is just like, just put it like. And then Trump then pivoting to brag about passing dementia tests himself, like, making it about himself, oh, I passed. I aced it. Trying to be like, I'm so smart. I passed the dementia test, but Biden has cancer. Play this clip. This was from earlier today.
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Jordy Meiselas
Do you want to respond to President.
- [44:04]
Caroline Levitt
Biden being diagnosed with cancer? Are you going to call your, your processor?
- [44:09]
Brett Meiselas
I think it's very sad, actually. I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago because to get to stage nine, that's a long time. I just had my physical. You saw that. You saw the results of that particular test. I think that test is standard to pretty much anybody getting a physical. Good physical. We had the doctors at the White House and over at Walter Reed, which is a fantastic hospital. I do it. I did a very complete physical, including cognitive test. I'm proud to announce I aced it. Got them all. I got them all right. You proud of me? Yes. Your husband would be proud of me for getting them. All right. It's a little risk. If I didn't get them all right, these people would be after me. It would Be not a good situation. But I think, I think frankly, anybody running for president should.
- [44:57]
Ben Meiselas
And you see the people in the back there though, to the cop in the back and they're all like. They're all like. I mean, to me, those people are equally as bad as him. And it's honestly, it's such a shameful representation of America that that is somehow valued. Con artists, frauds, felons, sexual abusers like a sick, vile piece of trash. That's a piece of trash human being being lowest of low characters. Like a real sicko, a criminal, a felon. It's a felon, a fraud, a freaking loser, a bankrupter. Someone whose entire life has been scamming people and ruining lives. Like the fact that you could just have a copactor. You think he gives a about you? Really? You think he cares about you and your family? The fact that that could even be normalized right there. And let me just show you this clip. When I interviewed former President Biden and I asked him what you want your legacy to be, this is what American corporate news is afraid of. By and large, they hate to have a good, decent, drama, free human being with predictable foreign policy who handles himself with class. Because that's not enough drama to get these lazy pieces of shit in the media, the clicks that they freaking want because they are pathetic at their jobs. Play the clip. When history is all told, how do you want to be remembered? What do you want your legacy to be?
- [46:44]
Brett Meiselas
I kept my word that when I said I was going to do something, I did. And that my focus has always been about how to give ordinary people a shot. You've probably heard me say it before. My dad used to say, joey, a job's about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about being able to look your kidney. Answer I'm going to be okay and meet it. It's about being able to be yourself and focus on people who need some help. And the vast majority of American people, all they want is a chance. Just a chance and they'll do fine. You see hope I do. I am hopeful.
- [47:29]
Ben Meiselas
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- [48:30]
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- [52:45]
Ron Filipkowski
Let's go. Links in description of both the YouTube and the audio. Use the links, Use the codes. Let them know we sent you. Benji, real quick, before we move on here, I just wanted to reflect on that clip that you played right before break. When you see President Biden speak about just his legacy and what that means to him and how he sees in the direction of his country going and that he has hope, I mean, it really hits me at my core. He genuinely believes it and it motivates me. And I think it motivates us here at this network to make sure that we make that a true reality here beyond the politics of it all. Like, not that he's a Democrat or whatever. He's just a good person. He's a good human being. And for whatever reason, like legacy media, as you astutely pointed out, hates that. They hate that steady hand on the wheel. And for the life of me, it breaks my heart that that's the relationship that the media thinks that they need to be so antagonistic towards a true leader, a true, truly great human being. Like someone who actually cares about this country, but even beyond that, like someone who just cares about other people.
- [53:50]
Brett Meiselas
People.
- [53:50]
Ron Filipkowski
You'd go to church every Sunday when my. Sorry, just quick. When my son was born, he wrote me a letter congratulating me on the birth of my son. I don't know if I've even really spoken about this publicly. Like, went out of his way to write me a letter that he signed personally. And it's just. It's someone that really cares. He didn't have to do that.
- [54:08]
Jordy Meiselas
Why I got to say, this journey.
- [54:10]
Ron Filipkowski
Like, other than the fact that he's just a good human being and to see the tappers of the world go so hard against someone who's just such a genuine person and write these smut books, these smear books with secondhand anonymous sources. Naomi Biden, she came out, Joe Biden's granddaughter came out, said she read the books, and she said there's just anonymous sources just sprinkled throughout these books. Well, hey, I'm a primary source. I interviewed him here in Pittsburgh. You know why he was here in Pittsburgh? Because he was at the steel union. Because he wanted to keep the jobs in the United States and met with the steel workers here because he cared to keep the jobs here in America, because he cared about the workers here in Pittsburgh and what they were doing. Why? Because he's a Good human, because he actually cares about this country. Ben, you interviewed him. I was at the White House when you interviewed him. It's a competent human being right there. It's someone who truly understands what's needed in this moment and what is the media. How do they repay him for being just the genuine, authentic version of himself and honestly, just. Just doing his best to lead this country and doing a damn good job of it? They kill him. They stab him in the back. They say, f you, Joe Biden. We don't want that. But no, I'm not going to let that. That weirdo narrative that this legacy media is trying to promote time and time again be the legacy that this man leaves behind, because what he's leaving behind is truly great, and it's truly, at its core, patriotic. And I just wanted to get that off my chest because I was reflecting on all these things as I continue to see this. Sorry, Brett, go ahead.
- [55:38]
Jordy Meiselas
No, well, I was going to say, like, you know, anytime I see like this, you see that force of the media, right? You see when the media machine kicks in, right? You saw it after the debate, which we, of course here, you know, we're very honest about, very critical of, you know, but. But you saw the outsized media response after the fact and how they didn't stop punching, right? They just did not stop. And now you see they have this book release, and so they're cranking it up, right? They're going nonstop about Biden, right? And all I. Sometimes I just feel like I'm being constantly gaslighted by this machine out there. Because I think too, like you said, Jordi, your direct interact that you had with the person, and you know, that there's a phrase that's something like, you know, you may not remember every word somebody says, but you remember how they make you feel, right? And every time we've been with, you know, President Biden, you know, he has been incredibly present with us, and he. And gracious with his time and made us feel, you know, very welcome. When we did that interview with President Biden, he took much longer than we were actually scheduled for. For the interview. He then, after the fact, you know, told the Secret Service to, like, push his meetings and stuff. He showed us around the Oval Office. He told us stories. It was very interesting, very unique, you know, very special kind of moment, you know, And I even think back, Jordy, when you. When you interviewed him in Pittsburgh and did a little social media with him in Pittsburgh, you know, I recall what was one of the first things he Said with the. After, after you finished recording. Recording. He said, how your brother's doing? You got their number.
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Ben Meiselas
Could I give them a call?
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Jordy Meiselas
And then you called me and Ben with the President of the United States on the phone. Ben was not near his phone.
- [57:19]
Ben Meiselas
I was teaching.
- [57:20]
Jordy Meiselas
Ben missed the call, but, but I, but I picked up and he was like as gracious and as nice as could be. Oh, Brett, so good to hear from you.
- [57:28]
Ben Meiselas
How's it going?
- [57:29]
Jordy Meiselas
How's your family? How's your wife? And so when I see the stories that are being presented and the way, as if there was like some mass cover up, right? There's some massive cover up that was going. If they were trying to cover anything up, they give us a little too much access because we would have freaking known, you know, we, we would have known fast. All right? We had one, one on one conversation. We would have known very quickly if they were trying to cover it up. They did a very bad job. What were you going to say, Ben?
- [57:58]
Ben Meiselas
Just judge by the actions that we all objectively know took place. I mean, want to talk about deals? Want to talk about deals? How about the fact that under President Biden, Finland and Sweden became members of NATO, right? It was the first time in a long while while for NATO to expand the way it did. Think about a deal, deal like that with countries so close to Russia and strengthening the NATO alliance. I mean, 16.2 million jobs created, 40,000 infrastructure projects taking place, lowering prescription drug prices, record low unemployment. You know, drill, baby, drill. While Donald Trump's actually destroying the gas and oil industry, former President Biden was focused on climate change because it's a real thing. But also America was energy independent for the first time. And there was actually America was the biggest energy supplier, leading by like every metric.
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Jordy Meiselas
Leading by like every single metric.
- [59:07]
Ben Meiselas
First place. First place in every single, in every single metric. And the one of the big problems though is, as I've said, America has so propagandized this situation that we're not looking clear eye. We are here at the Midas Touch Network and our audiences, but a lot of people don't see the connections about what's going on across the world. And that's why our international coverage at the Midas Touch Network, I think is unique and I think it's unprecedented. Brett, to your point, when you take a look at what's happening in India, the people there are pissed at Donald Trump. Trump did. Trump's family did a crypto deal with Pakistan recently, six days after the terrorist attack in Kashmir. You're not going to hear about that, you know, in our corporate, corporate, our corporate news right here. But India is pissed at that. You're doing personal crypto deals with Pakistan six days after a terrorist attack in Kashmir. Like, what the hell are you doing? You're taking, you're claiming that there are trade deals with us that aren't there. You're taking credit for the ceasefire when you didn't have a role in that. I mean, like what you, okay, you're tricking, you're tricking American people because our state regime media in America pushes that out. But you're not tricking the rest of the world, like, where the impact of these things, you know, actually matters. All that countries are trained on is Trump's a weak negotiator. You hold out because you get a better deal if you don't deal with his nonsense. And if you are a country that's able to bribe him and pay him off and buy Trump Towers, you'll get things in return, right? The leader of Syria says he wants to have a Trump Tower. Damascus, Damascus sanctions get removed. Now you have Vietnam inviting the Trump family to build a Trump Tower in Ho Chi Minh City. I mean, this stuff's happening right in front of our faces. You know, that's why China hosted this conference with the Latin American nations and Caribbean nations in Beijing this past week while Donald Trump's been, you know, out there with the Qataris and the Saudis, by the way. The Saudis, what is it? More than half of the hijackers from 911 came from. This came from Saudi Arabia. Qatar funds Hamas. I mean, just what are we, like, what are we even talking about here? So while Trump's doing that and he's partying in royal palaces, Beijing invited the Latin American countries and Caribbean countries and saying, look, let's strengthen the BRICS bloc. We're a stable force. Trump isn't, you know, we don't believe in bullying and, you know, and this kind of American style hegemony now, it's, it's, it's. Could be China. Very well could be, probably is, you know, China playing the game and spreading their own lies and propaganda, but they're playing the game and, and I don't. And Donald Trump's posting weird memes of himself with swords. Like, like, like what the, Like Trump's not even doing anything at a sophisticated level. It's just a bunch of dumb. And that our corporate media, like again, just ignore, like, ignores the behavior and then emphasizes whatever the headline is. Trump says we're closer to a ceasefire. He said he was going to have peace in 24 hours. You let him off the hook for that. Like, like how Trump said there was going to be peace in Gaza in 24 hours. And things are way worse right now. He lies about every, every single thing.
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Jordy Meiselas
We're still waiting on the health care plan, by the way. And his lies are like the same. They're always the same. And so I don't understand how anybody's fault for them. It's always, oh, we got something. It's. It's actually really good. It's really great. It's the best. It's going to be there. And we just need two weeks, two weeks to unveil it. Oh, it's just going to be a couple weeks. Oh, we just need a little more time. It's going to happen. You know, we're getting them together. It's going to happen. Just give it a few weeks. It's the same. He just constantly kicks the can down the road and then his lie gets parroted. Oh, Trump says he has a huge plan that's going to change everything. That's going to solve this problem. Solve that problem. By the way, I would love for this problem to be solved. Right? I would love to. For this war to be over. I will celebrate the day that that happens. But I'm not going to preemptively buy Donald Trump's bullshit when he has a track record for lying. Not about one thing here or there, but literally everything.
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Ben Meiselas
What do you say? Last week it was health care costs are now going to be down 90% because he said he signed an executive order order, total BS executive order, where he says we're going to force pharmaceutical companies to have a most favored nations clause where whatever they're charging the lowest price to whatever country is what they charge in America. ISO decree via executive order. Has anything happened? Are your health care costs 90% lower right now? No. If you want to address health care costs, have universal health care care, which Republicans oppose all of the time. Have Medicare for all. If you want to reduce health care, have the government the way it now because of what Biden did, negotiate lower prescription drug prices across all pharmaceutical companies for Medicare. Have that take place for the private health care market as well, or make the private health care totally public so all Americans get free health care. Instead, Trump and the MAGA Republicans in their bill are taking away people's Medicare, Medicaid. Notice the fraud and the sleight of hands. He signs an executive order. That's bullshit and not real. Lowering prescription drug prices while actually taking away health care from 13 to 14 million Americans, at least with the piece of legislation, like that's actually what's happening. So just report. It's easy to see it. Just report on what's happening. Brett, you're like, I don't want to get conspiratorial that the corporate media is just shilling for him, you know, but we. It's not like what I just said there. Like, it wasn't like I just discovered, you know, something. Oh my God, look, I just came up with some incredible, you know, new theory of relativity. I literally just said the truth. Healthcare costs are not down. They're taking away Medicaid. So why is that so hard to report on? Why aren't you prioritizing that in, in your, in your underlying report reporting? I want to just pivot quickly to some of these international elections because I think it's important. We reported on the Canadian elections, right, where their MAGA maple, led by the Conservative Party, Pierre Poliev, was leading in all of the polls. Then they got demolished by the Liberal Party. Prime Minister Mark Carney was able to form a minority government right there and a massive upset and Pierre Poliev lost his seat there. You go to Australia where their Liberal Party, which is actually their Conservative Party, their Labor Party in Australia is their Liberal Party. The, the right wing party, which was led by a guy named Peter Dutton, who they call Teu Mag or Teu Trump. He lost his seat and they got demolished. So the center, center left party in Canada won. The center central left party in Australia won. And the polls just like completely switched and reversed. We saw the same thing happen in Romania. Romania, where their far right wing party led by this guy named George Simeon, he modeled himself, he says he's the Romanian MAGA guy. He actually won the first round in the elections earlier in the month. But Romania rallied around the centrist, center left, pro eu, pro democracy candidate. Young people basically said, we can't have our country become like Hungary or become like Argentina or frankly become like America. You know, right now we're just going to be a Putin proxy. We can't let that happen. And a big victory there from this guy named Nicosure Dan, who is their pro center, their, their left, their center left campaign, pro EU candidate right there. And that was a big victory that there. And then in Poland you had in Poland, the mayor of Warsaw, liberal centrist guy, ended up beating the far right wing, Carol naraki in the first round. There's going to be a second round June 1st. The President of Poland right now is a right wing guy. The prime minister is more of a center liberal guy. They have, it's somewhat of a confusing system in their, not that confusing, but in their parliamentary system, the prime minister is the head of government and they have a president who's the head of state. The prime minister has more power, but the president still has veto rights. And so in Poland, you have the center, center left candidate win the first round there. So we're seeing this Trump effect across the world. And so, you know, either you have countries bribing, you know, Trump at this point, you know, or just totally repelling and checking him and forming alliances that basically isolate the United States as there's this massive flight away from American markets as the American brand has been irreparably harmed by Trump and, you know, and maga. So I think that gives us a full scope of all of the events taking place right now. I'm gonna go and spend the rest of the birthday with my family. It was incredible to spend the birthday with my brothers and all of you. The Midas mighty. So if you can, check out midasplus.com we really want to get to a million subscribers on that sub stack. So check that out. Patreon.com Midas Touch. Next week we'll go live there and do our special meeting. You can ask us questions there and then store.midas touch.com check that out. Brett, did I leave anything out there?
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Jordy Meiselas
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Ron Filipkowski
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