MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/29/26

Summary

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MeidasTouch Podcast – Full Episode Summary (May 29, 2026)

Episode Overview

In this May 29, 2026 episode, the Meiselas brothers—Ben, Brett, and Jordy—tackle the latest developments in the ongoing Iran conflict and its global political and economic repercussions. True to their signature style, the brothers interweave sharp analysis, humor, and outspoken advocacy for democracy as they dissect Trump regime policies, media misrepresentations, economic pressures, and the far-reaching consequences for American democracy and global stability.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Chaos of the US-Iran War and Media Manipulation

• Escalation Not De-escalation: Despite claims of a ceasefire, direct US strikes on Iran in Bandar Abbas and Iran’s retaliation against US air bases in Kuwait signal the war is intensifying, not easing (00:30, 03:24).
• Media Spin and Manufactured Ceasefire: The brothers unpack how Barak Ravid of Axios reported a supposed US-Iran agreement for a “60-day ceasefire extension,” but the details are murky and not finalized. Ben and Brett criticize this as part of ongoing misinformation cycles (04:56, 05:56).
  • Jordi: “There’s another possible framework of a concept of a memorandum of understanding for a deal that could or could not be negotiated in the future—alarm bell emoji, alarm bell emoji... we did it!” (05:56)

2. The Trump Regime's Instability and Deflection Tactics

• Market Manipulation Around War: Falsely positive headlines spur stock market surges, while real inflation (PCE up to 3.8%) and household struggles are ignored (06:21, 08:00).
  • Ben: “Just do the basic math... If it keeps going up 0.2, what does that make next month? Four. What does that make the month after that? Four-two. ... I think we’re going to hit 5% PCE or CPI.” (08:00)
• Trump's Absence and Cabinet Chaos: Trump’s sudden, poorly explained Walter Reed trip, canceled Camp David meetings, and Treasury Secretary Besant standing in for him all raise concerns about regime transparency and stability (10:56).

3. International Relations: Middle East, China, and Diplomatic Failures

• Trump’s Casual Threats: Trump’s rhetoric reaches new levels as he threatens to “blow up Oman” if they don’t comply with US demands about the Strait of Hormuz (14:27).
  • Donald Trump: “Oman will behave just like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. They’ll be fine.” (14:50)
• Moving the Goalposts on Iran: The US increasingly demands Arab countries join the Abraham Accords as a prerequisite for any Iran deal, virtually guaranteeing no resolution (15:44, 18:38).
  • Brett: “Every single day they seem to be changing the terms as to what they want in these negotiations…just moving the goalposts.” (18:38)
• China’s Rise Amid US Instability: The panel notes how China is being positioned as a stable alternative superpower, as US foreign policy appears erratic and unpredictable (18:38).

4. Israel, Propaganda, and Projection

• Labeling Aggression “Defensive”: Israeli and US strikes are repeatedly framed as “preemptive” or “defensive,” despite clear aggression. The panel calls out this propaganda and the psychological projection behind claims Iran is the irrational actor (20:45–22:45).
  • Jordi: “The United States struck Iran Monday and Wednesday, and the fact that you could even say those are defensive strikes...to any sort of basic scrutiny just don’t seem to work.” (21:50)
• Projection and Excuses: Trump uses Israel as the constant justification for US belligerence, ultimately harming Israel and America’s global standing (24:06–26:23).

5. Domestic Economic Fallout and Grifting

• Economic Pain, Political Grift: The inflation spike (PCE 3.8%), declining savings, and economic struggles are contrasted with ongoing Trump-family grifts—loans to Don Jr.’s defense firm, plans for gold statues, the $250 bill featuring Trump’s face, and more (00:30, 40:14).
  • Ben: “Why you work so hard but don’t get paid what you deserve...is because they’ve got you siloed or they want to distract from all of this while they go and engage in the biggest grift in the biggest looting of your taxpayer money.” (44:09)
• Supreme Court Immunity and Accountability: Trump’s perceived “absolute immunity” emboldens further lawlessness, from attacking nations to demolishing parts of the White House (26:23).

6. Corporate Media Machine and Manufactured Consent

• Bothsidesism and Disinformation: Corporate media’s compulsion to present “both sides”—putting MAGA sycophants like Scott Jennings alongside truth-tellers—only sows confusion and aids authoritarian tendencies (35:36, 37:04).
  • Jordi: “They think it’s more important...to put somebody who is MAGA on their show so that they could appeal to the Trump administration...both sides thing.” (37:09)
• Effect of Media Overload: The brothers theorize that overwhelming the public with chaos and noise is intended to encourage disengagement and apathy, thus enabling further grift and policy manipulation (38:50).
  • Ben: “When you gamify politics and it’s just a bunch of shouting, it actually makes lots of people want to tune out and not tune in—which is kind of part of the plan.” (38:50)

7. Culture Wars and Scapegoating

• Bullying Tactics and Victimhood: The right leans into personal attacks (gender, veganism, sexuality), while quickly shifting to victimhood when challenged (50:25–52:23).
  • Ben: “Stop attacking marginalized communities, stop with this vile rhetoric, stop with this crap, stop behaving like elementary school bullies... treat human beings with decency!” (44:09)
  • RNC Chair: “Because Talafrico is a creep and he thinks he’s a vegan, he thinks God is non-binary...wants to mutilate children…” (50:30)
• Scripted Smears: The brothers argue these attacks would be levied against any Democratic candidate regardless of their identity or policies, exposing the lack of substantive arguments on the right (51:24 onward).

8. Legacy, International Authoritarianism, and the “Predator Class”

• Epstein Files and Elite Corruption: The episode highlights new revelations tying the so-called anti-“cabal” right to the very elite conspiracies they claim to fight, implicating Trump, Epstein, and the far-right in international criminality and market manipulation (64:02, 76:12).
  • Ben: “One of the big revelations is that the group of people who told you that they were going after the cabal were the cabal.” (74:41)
• The Predator Class: The systemic nature of global looting, manipulative propaganda, and victim-blaming—fueled by a well-funded, coordinated elite—is likened to a “predator class” or “Epstein class” (76:12–79:01).
  • Jordi: “If you’re viewing all the actions right now that we’re seeing through the lens of a predator, I think everything kind of makes sense.” (76:12)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Media Spin and Fake Ceasefires (05:56):
  • Jordi: “There’s another possible framework of a concept of a memorandum of understanding for a deal that could or could not be negotiated in the future—alarm bell emoji, alarm bell emoji... we did it!”
• On Trump’s Threats to Oman (14:50):
  • Donald Trump: “Oman will behave just like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. They’ll be fine.”
• On the Emotional Burden of Chaotic Governance (44:09):
  • Ben: “They want to overwhelm you with all of these things and the problem is though where you can’t look away is that this stuff is connected to what your lived experience is right now...”
• On Corporate Media and Manufactured Apathy (38:50):
  • Ben: “When you gamify politics and it’s just a bunch of shouting it actually makes lots of people want to tune out and not tune in—which is kind of part of the plan.”
• On the “Predator Class” (76:12):
  • Jordi: “If you’re viewing all the actions right now...through the lens of a predator, I think everything kind of makes sense.”
• On Democratic Messaging and Standing Up (55:57):
  • Brett: “Why are we radical left because we think people should have health care, because we think people should be paid an actual living wage...what’s wrong with you?”

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 00:30 — Opening analysis: US-Iran conflict, Trump grifts, inflation, state of the regime
• 04:56 — Debunking the “ceasefire” and Axios’ reporting
• 08:00–10:56 — Discussion of inflation, Trump’s health, market manipulation
• 14:27–16:09 — Trump threatens Oman, demands Abraham Accords expansion
• 18:38–22:45 — China’s gain from US chaos, “defensive” strikes, propaganda analysis
• 24:06–26:23 — Failures and humiliation of US objectives in the war
• 35:36–40:14 — Corporate media’s role, Scott Jennings as Trump mouthpiece, audience disengagement
• 44:09–52:23 — Culture war playbook, scapegoating, “victim” narratives
• 64:02–76:12 — Deep dive: Epstein files, “predator class,” manipulation of elite networks
• 76:12–79:01 — Final thoughts on authoritarianism, manipulation, and the role of independent media

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Concluding Message

The episode wraps by urging listeners to remain vigilant, support independent networks, and stand firm in upholding democratic values. The panel emphasizes unity, mutual aid, and the ongoing battle to preserve truth and civil rights in the face of well-funded, coordinated authoritarian attacks.

• Ben (79:01): “Hold the line. Before we know it there’ll be midterms...and when we get through this...we can reflect on this time and work to create structures to make sure this never happens again and build a better life for future generations…”

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Further Engagement

• Subscribe and Join: Listeners are repeatedly encouraged to check their subscriptions and join the growing MeidasTouch community for continued news, analysis, and activism.

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This summary is designed to capture the breadth, urgency, and candor of the MeidasTouch Podcast’s May 29, 2026 episode, serving as a bridge for those seeking context, critical insights, and key takeaways without listening in full.

Transcript

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[Ben]

the war continues to rage in iran we saw the united states strike bandar abbas in iran we saw iran respond by striking united states air bases in kuwait yet the trump regime claimed that there was a deal reached this morning they leaked it through barack ravid of axios then we learned of course there doesn't seem to be a deal cycle that we see happen over and over again donald trump's dark past continues to surface he's surfacing and as he's completely losing control control he filed an amended complaint against the wall street journal claiming that the love letter or i should say the birthday card to jeffrey epstein for epstein's fiftieth birthday was not actually sent by donald trump he said that's not my handwriting i would never write such a thing and it's defamatory to even suggest it also we learned that donald trump trump's doj launching a criminal investigation into eugene carroll for the case that she won where trump was found civilly liable for sexual assault and there's a criminal investigation out of chicago into a survivor of donald trump it's so utterly sickening also pam bondi set to testify on friday although we don't believe she will be testifying under oath or on video camera but we'll see about that also donald trump continuing to turn washington dc into this grotesque thing the ufc stage that's being built he's like changing golden horse statutes now he's doing like twenty three point four karat gold or something there the asbestos hole that was the east wing it just looks gross when you see this overhead of the white house you're like what in the heck is happening and to me this kind of reflects what's happened to our country right now what the american people are feeling is kind of what we're seeing right there in the oval office pce which is kind of the main fed metric on inflation rose to three point eight percent the ability of americans to save money has significantly has significantly declined people are struggling right now while the trump regime continues to grift and crime over and over again we'll talk about some of the latest trump family grifts as well that and more on this episode of the midas touch podcast we got a lot to discuss so i just want to get into it right away brett and jordi how are you both doing doing great it's

[Jordi]

great to be here ben great to be here jordi great to be here midas mighty for another episode of the midas touc podcast there's been so much news today to keep track of so i agree ben let's get right into it first you know i gotta check in with jordy jordy what's up man

[Brett]

how you doing hey brothers midas mighty excited for today's show if you can and you haven't already please subscribe to the audio feed of this podcast it's very helpful wherever you listen to podcasts on audio subscribe to the midas touch podcast benji where we starting off today

[Ben]

big bro i mean look the trump regime claims that there's a ceasefire right now and then when it strikes iran it says ooh it was just a defensive strike and the ceasefire still holds then we see iran responding to the us striking iran like it did in the port city of bandar abbas iran responds then it strikes kuwait iran releases videos where it's hitting the us air base in kuwait and then trump's like this was defensive or like centcom this is not offensive and the ceasefire is still holding right now and this is what every other day now we see something like this happen so you know most recently iran's tasman news agency also posted that hostile aircraft just in the past three or four hours was intercepted earlier over the bashir province of southern iran as well and again it seems that another mq nine reaper was downed over the iranian coastal city of jam we saw another mq nine reaper over the weekend and so let's just face it there's no ceasefire right now when barack ravid of axios posted again this morning i mean just so shamelessly there there was a d do we have the brock the barack ravid post as well because like when you break down what he says and the elements of it yeah this is you know it always has the two sirens which you know gonna make it extra bse and then it says there are four there

[Jordi]

are four sirens in this one let's not let's not downplay it now four

[Ben]

s in this one it goes the us and iran have reached an agreement okay so you read this first thing in the morning like oh we did on a memorandum of understanding okay so an agreement on a mou for a sixty day ceasefire extension and the launch of negotiation on iran's nuclear program but trump has not yet given his final approval two senior us officials and a regional source involved in the mediation told me i don't even know how you can take such a statement like that seriously so the agreement is to potentially enter into a memorandum of understanding which if entered into would provide for the possibility of a sixty day negotiating period to perhaps negotiated deal regarding iran's nuclear enrichment i don't know what i don't

[Jordi]

know what's confusing to you i mean there's another possible framework of a concept of a memorandum of understanding for a deal that could or could not be negotiated in the future alarm bell emoji alarm bell emoji we did it corporate

[Brett]

news man is just so humiliate how can he put that out there like with no shame like no shit like total like what embarrassment this is for

[Ben]

accidents well you know look the sequence of events also right you had the us striking bandar abbas iran responds so already the markets are looking shaky right heading into thursday then you get the pce inflation numbers which is like the main metric the feds use there's yes there's cpi consumer price index there's ppi producer price index which is like the wholesale price so right now cpi was at like three point eight percent or so ppi was at six percent which is kind of an indicator because if wholesale inflation's at six guess where that gets passed on to the consumer so that cpi follows kind of the ppi usually and then we got the pce we got today's which is the kind of main metric of the fed and today we saw over here the pce inflation the fed's preferred measure that rose to three point eight percent and that seems to be ticking up about zero point two to zero point three percent month over month and the trump regime was like bragging about that it was only zero point two it wasn't zero three lots of people said it was going to be zero point three no y' all said you were going to cut it in half and have no inflation by the way but just do the basic math so if we're right now in may and every month it goes up by zero point two again i'm not some crazy economist here you know i'm not a fed chair i'm not a central bank anchor but if it keeps going up zero two what does that make next month four what does that make the month after that in july let's just say four two what does that make august four five what does that make september four seven four eight what does that make october four nine five so when i'm here saying i think we're going to hit five percent pce or cpi i don't and when we hit it people are going to be like shocked right and be like what how did this happen just do like literally the most basic math so that data comes out this morning by all accounts this should be really bad so then barack ravid post that story though and then the nasdaq and the s and p and even the dow right that surges on that news that okay we're out of it and then the headlines are like it seems that we've made progress and i'm like what are you are you watching what actually is happening right now are you seeing that the us struck bandar abbas are you seeing that iran hit a us air base in kuwait are you seeing that israel's escalating in lebanon that the entire city of tyre which in arabic you call sir has been evacuated and israel's just demolishing and leveling this historic city there as they're leveling beirut while netanyahu's bragging about controlling sixty percent of gaza and says we want seventy percent of gaza to continue the genocide while all of that's happening our corporate news is acting like we've made it to some peace deal and the market and the markets are responding to that and then to me it's not a shocker that a few other things happened today donald trump really was nowhere to be seen today like kind of nowhere to be seen and i think this is also related personally giving you my opinion to that highly suspicious trip he took to walter reed which they said was for dental work and his regular checkup that he now gets every six months and he said i'm in perfect health i'm gonna release immediately my health report it was just a social media post and then corporate news like he says he's healthy donald trump tested himself and he said and he said he's healthy but who was the person out there speaking today treasury secretary besant right because market manipulation thursday so you have besant out there and to me what besant is doing is he's also signaling to the oligarchs let's keep this thing going let's keep this thing going don't worry about all that news let's keep this thing going that's why i think they put him out there i think was also to send coded message to the business community also but i'm not trying to get conspiratorial here so he goes up he does the press conference today no one knows where trump was for most of the day and then he goes we succeeded we changed the regime we did was regime change but i didn't make this make sense what he just said here play this

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with the iranian government we did not have regime change but we changed the regime as president trump said at the cabinet meeting as we've said other times the first layer of leadership was eliminated the second layer and we're now at the third layer and the way to think about it is the iranian government such as it is there is three pillars it is the elected government it is the irgc and it is the clerics and they are having trouble communicating so we are being patient okay they're

[Ben]

not having trouble communicating i quite literally see them communicate every day i can see the communication and it's very clear i see ayatollah mojtaba khomeini's posts i see the irgc posts i see the political side posts political side mb goluboff foreign minister aragchi i know who those players are the irgc i know motion reza i know ibrahim azizi i know who they are i follow what they're saying i hear them speak and then on the clerical side i hear them i hear them speak as well i see the messages that they're posting and i see i do like there are some areas where there is disagreement where it seems some of the more irgc people don't want any deal they think that they've won so much that they should make no concessions the political people iraqi and mbigalibaoff they believe that they've improved the standing of iran internationally and that in and of itself is a win and don't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because the the world views iran differently so let's not entrench further and then you have the ayatollah as well and the ayatollah kind of sits above all of it and you know occasionally kind of chimes in with these kind of broad platitudes you know but i see their statements every day so that's what's going on it's regime change but it's not a regime change okay just stop with the bs and then that followed donald trump's disastrous cabinet meeting which was supposed to take place at camp david but then they blamed it on the weather even though the weather wasn't all that bad so they did it at the white house okay another kind of red flag right there after trump's visit to walter reed to say we're going to camp david we're not going to camp david we're staying here and then he just isn't anywhere to be seen but then donald trump very casually talks about blowing up oman because the united states has so alienated oman oman was the negotiator last february who had the deal between the united states and iran that the us and netanyahu after a deal in principle was revamped invaded they then invaded iran and now oman is entering into deals with iran directly the sultan of oman has stated you know we have to move we're moving closer with iran right now and a lot of these things including in the strait of hormuz and so donald trump just very casually is like yeah we're going to blow it up we'll blow up oman that's what we'll do here play this clip

[Jordi]

iran wants

[Interviewer]

control of the straight over moves would

[Jordi]

you accept a short term deal that allows iran and oman to control the strait and would they have to open it immediately or would you be open to that happening over a period of

[Donald Trump]

time now the strait is going to be open to everybody and who would control it international waters nobody's going to control it we're going to watch over it we'll watch over it but nobody's going to control it that's part of the negotiation that we have they would like to control it nobody's going to control it's international waters and oman will behave just like everybody else who will have to blow them up they understand that they'll be fine we'll have to

[Ben]

blow them up also if you're watching for audio listeners i'll just describe the scene there you have rubio on one side you have hegseth on the other they both look like they have deer in headlights and rubio has a trump hat in front of him with donald trump's signature on it like he's like has like a signed hat by donald trump like how weird is it that the guy has a signed red hat signed by donald trump in front of him during a cabinet meeting i don't want to normalize that fact so after donald trump then talks about blowing up oman he then says well you know if we're going to do this deal with iran then i need all of the arab nations they owe it to us you must become allies with israel you must do it you must join the abraham accord i'm going to mandate it i'm going to mandate it and

[Donald Trump]

we'd like to have the countries we were talking about with saudi arabia uae qatar and the others we'd like to have them immediately join the and steve witkoff is working on that with jared and some others but would like to have them join the abraham accords it'll be historic if they do it and we would i think i think they owe that to us to be honest i think because that really would be a tremendous sign and i think those countries owe it to us they owe

[Ben]

it to you to become allies with israel because you and netanyahu invaded iran embroiled the entire middle east in it had a failed security umbrella so all these arab nations were then attacked which they warned against their economies are being absolutely destroyed right now and so now they owe it to you like you gave them a gift here that if the us going to have a peace deal with iran that they need to enter into an alliance with israel when that would actually result in a lot of these arab nations monarchies being toppled if they did that and they've made it very clear and they've drawn their lines that they're not talking about the abraham accords until palestine is recognized by israel with a two state solution with east jerusalem being the capital of palestine like i know for donald trump words are so meaningless he stands for nothing he has no value so for him it's easy to say i don't care about nato i don't care about article five i don't know what i'm going to do maybe i'll do this maybe i'll do that but this isn't some sort of transactional thing hey if i do a deal with iran you want

[Jordi]

to scratch my back here you gotta

[Ben]

you gotta be friends with netanyahu i do this you do that we do a trade we do a little biter i got you and they're like we're not doing this i mean we've heard from saudi arabia and turkey and qatar and all this does is show donald trump is weak and desperate the same way when donald trump strikes the port cities of iran and kills some people on the fishing boats there or attacks a few people that doesn't show strength that shows weakness when donald trump's out there and southcom or centcom are posting the videos of killing the people in the fishing boats without due process that doesn't show strength whoa the united states air force and navy can kill people on fishing boats without giving them due process you can slaughter people that to me actually shows a lot of weakness and it doesn't show strength and that's what the rest of the world sees right now and so what i think the middle east countries are looking at right now is they go look this guy is pathetic we have to figure out a way out of this we relied on the us security architecture with bases so we can't get out of this right away like we're a little stuck right now so we have to be a little careful but they're looking to china they're looking elsewhere and the entire security architecture is changing before our

[Jordi]

eyes absolutely donald trump is you know basically handing the status as sort of the world superpower over to china in these situations and is giving them immense power like ben rhodes said in the interview with you like they china despite all of their flaws are this stable power and we're like the erratic crazy people who you don't even know what to do how do you negotiate with the united states and one thing we've heard throughout this entire process from iran going back to the beginning is that they are having difficulty negotiating with the united states because the united states isn't consistent in its positions every single day they seem to be changing the terms as to what they want in these negotiations and what this kind of did though is that it put it out in the forefront right we're seeing right now donald trump changing the terms of these agreements in real time before you know we had he had all these other demands about you know nuclear and this and that none of which are being reached at all this right now has essentially become we just need to open up the strait of hormuz which was open before the war which shows you how much of a failure this thing has become it hasn't become we need to get freedom for the iranian people no it's become we need to open up the strait of hormuz something that was already open before but this to me shows you donald trump's kind of strategy of moving the goalposts in order so that he has an excuse not to get the deal to try to act like iran is being the irrational actor here when everything donald trump says about iran and their inability to communicate and their inability to figure out what they actually want is actually what's happening in the trump regime it's more psychological projection coming right now from donald trump and the people around donald trump but to at this point in these negotiations to all of a sudden throw in that saudi arabia and all these other countries need to join the abraham accord something that's a complete non start it just shows that you're you're not serious about this and anytime you get close to a deal he's almost looking for a way out of the deal and i think it's just very revealing of the posture of the united states and how these aren't good faith actors going into these negotiations also i think that the entire scam has really been exposed between what the us and israel has been doing and the language that they use throughout these attacks and this is certainly not something new but nobody has been more brazen about this than donald trump the trump regime and netanyahu and you see it play out all over the world right when you have netanyahu out there and he's leveling gaza or he's leveling lebanon what does he say oh it was a preemptive strike we were going after hamas it was defensive we had to defend ourselves we had to protect ourselves when the united states goes and starts attacking iran it was preemptive we had to defend ourselves we had to do it before they nuked us they would have nuked the whole country i mean the fact that you could even say with a straight face with these last strikes over the past few days the united states struck iran monday and then wednesday and the fact that you could even say that those are defensive strikes i mean you know where iran is on a map and the united states is on a map y' all are six what six thousand seven thousand miles away from each other and so you're now claiming that it's defensive when you are way over here when you were the ones who initiated this war and now you are bombing on iranian land once again saying that it was preemptive because you were worried that they looked at you the wrong way or that they were going to attack you like these excuses to me to any sort of basic under any sort of basic scrutiny just don't seem to work and like they just say it anywhere right it's like there's a boat in the pacific ocean we had to bomb it we had to we had to protect the american people like are people really falling for this crap it seems to be the most brazen way to provide some sort of justification no matter how loose that justification is to just go around the world bully people blow people up kill people there's no actual reasoning behind really any of this stuff and i think it's just more transparent than ever in twenty twenty six when you just see how brazen that they are being with these

[Brett]

arguments absolutely and like in my opinion so long as trump can continue to run this sort of market manipulation play with folks like barack ravid and axios doing their bidding for trump trump doesn't care he doesn't care how long this goes on because he doesn't care what the american person's paying at the pump doesn't care at all he doesn't care what danger he's putting the united states troops in he doesn't care about that so long as trump and his oligarch buddies could basically run up the market they're fine with this continuing i think that's why we see the goalposts being moved i'm not trying to get in trump's brain here because he's such a loser and he does not know how to make a deal if he ever did you know when he actually was in business let alone now the president of of this country he doesn't know what he's doing and so his only play i guess is to is to grift and to get his oligarch buddies super friggin rich along the way and so i think he's gotten really frigging comfortable here about where in the position about where and the position that we're in right now with the war he doesn't care he doesn't care how much this hurts the american person he doesn't care how much it hurts our soldiers he'll just keep doing this i think that's why it feels so repetitive day

[Jordi]

well he's also trying to get the

[Brett]

alarm ravine and axios like it's so

[Ben]

stupid he's trapped he's trapped himself also

[Jordi]

like there's no good option and for all intents and purposes donald trump has lost this war it's a complete and total humiliation and it's just undeniable at this point go through every single listed objective and these objectives have been shifting the entire time but the united states has completely failed throughout this war so what happens when you lose a war well you have to make concessions to the other party but those concessions would make things much worse off for the united states than before the war for the united states than with the negotiated agreement that oman was looking over prior to this war starting without any of the bloodshed without the billions and billions if not trillions of dollars spent on this war this could have all been avoided and the united states could have actually ended up with a better deal possibly a better deal than the jcpoa the obama bill at least per what the reporting was at the time but don trump did not choose to do the negotiation route he chose to do this route and quite frankly when donald trump continues to bring up israel as his justification for everything that he's doing to me if you are the most ardent supporter of israel you should be appalled by donald trump doing that because it just feeding in to every single thing that has been apparent from the start of this the reason why donald trump entered it his association with netanyahu the way him and netanyahu have been working together and netanyahu and ben gvir say to donald trump publicly making statements we will not let them make a deal without us approving it why like tying those things together to me is probably the most damaging thing possible to israel to the united states to this entire relationship and i think it's one of the reasons you're seeing such anger right now and because people are sick of this the lies and the deception and this this framing around it all and and these and people leading us in to more war that just simply does not need to take place it's not an american first thing yet we just keep seeing this every day and donald trump just is so quick to mention israel as an excuse also for all of his actions i think it's just no good for anybody here yeah

[Ben]

well i mean because that's what's happening you know that's that's what's that's what's going on and so that's why you know i also think that the supreme court's absolute immunity decision which basically said look he can't be charged with murder he can't as long as he says it's a function of article two you know there's no ramifications i think that also gives this kind of free rein of well i'm going to kill this person i'm going to kill that look i'm just going to rip down the east wing i'm going to go to war and i'm not even going to try to pitch it to the people i'm not even going to try to explain why i'm doing it right i mean the foreign policy version of ripping down the east wing i don't care just rip it down we'll deal with it later i'll just freaking bomb it bomb oman i'll bomb you i'll bomb this i'll bomb that and then we'll

[Jordi]

deal with it later and then we'll

[Ben]

and then we'll figure it out well guess what later later comes up the bill becomes due and people are like okay well what are you doing what are you gonna do right now and his move is what he's done his entire life which is the fraud we've done it we control it we control the straight everybody we're winning we did it they don't have leadership okay well you can keep on doing this but what you know the last time he did this was with with COVID fortunately he loses the election somebody else comes in fixes it very difficult to fix it inflation surges we suffer the person who's fixing it biden gets blamed for it he fixes it he gets us out of it we start heading in the right direction as we're kind of making this gentle soft landing that nobody thought was possible trump wins the election and then it's like you know when those planes are landing and then they come back up and they don't make then it goes back up and then the turbulence surveillance you know hits again the big problem right now is that yes we have the midterms coming up we don't have a general for another two years happening and so unlike the twenty twenty covid version of this we are now is he going to drag this out for eighteen months is this where we're going to be two years from now look it's clear what needs to happen what needs to happen is he needs to make the deal with iran iran and oman control the strait of hormuz symbolically that's what will likely need to happen then there'll be some other kind of international guarantees that can be layered on top of that that if there isn't any free passage that that status can be revoked no one likes that but that's likely what needs to happen right now iran will enter into a jcpoa style deal that'll look like the obama that'll look like the obama deal you bring that in you give sanctions relief to iran you write you know you either write him a check or you unfreeze twenty six billion dollars and you come up with a containment strategy maybe you lean on china maybe you lean on europe you lean on a broader coalition to ensure that the strait of hormuz doesn't get closed again you have to concede a little bit because you didn't win your objectives weren't achieved the strait of hormuz opens up the you know we try to focus on domestic issues and the economy and maybe the us rethinks also its position about having having bases in the middle east in the first place and we don't need a one point trillion dollar you know maybe you can spin this as a positive you know why do we need one point five trillion dollars why why you know let's you know let's put that money to domestic issues and let's figure out a different you know security structure that leans more on nato or leans more on foreign countries as well to to deal with it and you know and and we focus on domestic to me it's something more along those lines that needs to happen it seems pretty obvious but continuing to just be frozen isn't a solution and then having people like scott jennings who gets destroyed by adam mockler on cnn go this is a great deal we won i mean he just made a post like that today this is an amazing we've gotten everything we wanted what do you this is a real post from a human being scott jennings who cnn has on looks like a huge win for president trump in the us hearing from a senior administration official this report is true and the us appears to be getting everything we want what does that even mean what are you talking about like when you say something like that you should never be able to say anything again like like like like on on this topic you

[Jordi]

know how you know the us has not gotten everything that the us wants because donald trump hasn't signed a deal because no one signed a deal if you if if a deal came to you and it was everything you'd want it's like say this is everything i want we have a deal not this isn't actually a deal we'll have to think about it for for if you for a little bit we'll we'll see what happens not only is jennings featured on cnn but scott jennings is paid by cnn he's a paid contributor correspondent on cnn it really is atrocious and who retweeted that effectively i know they say retweets are an endorsement but screw that you know who retweeted the statement by scott jennings barack ravid of axios apparently agreeing that this is every get in the us getting everything we want it's so disingenuous and you know this is the this is the corporate media that we have to deal with right this is the environment that we have to deal with and bet you just listed a whole array of issues in our country and the destruction of our country by donald trump and that's why our great corporate media here apparently is laser focused on the issues that matter donald trump joe biden's debate in twenty twenty four laser focus still laser focused

[Ben]

on joe biden we'll we'll take our first quick break of the show a reminder everybody hit subscribe help us get to seven million subscribers we're so close double check that you are subscribed you may think you're subscribed but you may not actually be subscribed turn your notifications notifications on on youtube also that tells you when there's new videos that drop so make sure notifications are on also become a member of our youtube channel join you click join and you can gift memberships to other people we've got exclusive podcasts exclusive content access to the emojis and more make sure you join and if you can afford to give memberships to others gift those memberships now i love to see it in the chat as i watch all right let's take our first quick break of the show we'll be right back i've been

[Jordi]

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[Brett]

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[Jordi]

don't think anyone's confusing him though for a guy who just calls balls and strikes or like some centrist or whatever i mean he is a shill he presents as a shill he's like you know he's like the trump white house

[Brett]

unofficial spokesperson like his like sort of shtick at least he puts forward i

[Jordi]

almost think it's worse right i think it's they really want to appeal they think it's more important not to appeal to the actual center of the country or the things that most americans actually agree on but they would prefer to put somebody who is maga on their show so that they could appeal to the trump administration i think think it's given the trump administration something we're going to take your voice and we're going to put you on cnn and we are going to try to blend it in as just one of these other voices right it's just this both sides thing so we're going to have scott jennings and then we'll have somebody like adam mockler who's actually telling the truth and who's actually telling you facts and we'll leave it to you to decide maybe the truth is just somewhere in the middle of this extreme maga guy and the actual facts that are out there and jennings gets reports direct i mean he said it in that post that we showed right he gets his reports directly from the white house they tell him what to say on the air and then he says it he is quite literally their mouthpiece from everything that i hear from everything that i've seen from him and so i really i think it's almost more devious and i think it's part of the effort and part of the thing that we're seeing this moral rot that we're seeing throughout all of a lot of these corporate media stations and what's what's happening right now at cbs you know and and think about how much worse this is going to get when the merger is completed right you're going to have more pressure on these networks because they want to buddy up they want that access to the trump white house to bring in more people like that and to try to act like that is kind of you know where people are at even though it is so offensive to just anybody who has like a half a brain cell well look when

[Ben]

you gamify politics and it's just a bunch of shouting it actually makes lots of people want to tune out and not tune in which is kind of part of the plan and when corporate media is run by their kind of corporate oligarchical overlords the media aspect is sometimes a lost leader in their other agenda and when you can keep the masses very confused and uneducated and wanting to just stay out they're able to do massive amounts of grift and criming and quid pro quo and market manipulation because people are just like yeah this whole i don't like politics it's all bad it's gross i'm just gonna i'm just gonna do what i'm gonna do and not pay attention to any of it because i don't even want to tune into all of the yelling and i think that's i'm just so overwhelmed by all of these things that are happening and that's a reaction that's that's i understand why humans would feel that way with all of this being pushed on them and then you layer on top of it someone who's really loud and obnoxious like jennings who's saying you don't know what you're talking about and

[Jordi]

let me explain it it's like ah stop you're an idiot i thought that was mark levin for a second whatever

[Ben]

all but all but that's mark levin

[Jordi]

all of them it's just like that

[Ben]

was howard lutnick just give me the

[Jordi]

truth does ben have one impression yeah

[Ben]

it's one impression just give me the truth to tell me what's actually what actually is happening i mean just think about this small morning you wake up they announce a fake peace deal who does that you're announcing a fake peace deal that isn't real while everyone knows there's a war going on you're covering up child sex trafficking rings right now like you're covering up the epstein files you have donald trump having his doj launch a criminal investigation into e jean carroll who sued donald trump in federal court and a unanimous jury found that donald trump sexually assaulted her a unanimous jury found that donald trump sexually assaulted e jean carroll and also defamed her about it then there was another trial and trump was again found liable for defamation trump appealed he lost in front of the second circuit court of appeal trump argued she wasn't telling the truth about this she wasn't telling the truth about that the second circuit court of appeals disagreed the jury disagreed the federal judge disagreed and now a survivor whose rights were vindicated in a court not a made up january sixth slush fund with people appointed our system a court system a jury a judge found in favor of eugene carroll then trump launches the department of justice to investigate her for saying she lied in the trial that she won then you have donald trump file lawsuits against the wall street journal using ghislaine maxwell as a character witness ghislaine maxwell when she spoke to my former criminal defense attorney who's now the top federal prosecutor in the country the acting ag said that she didn't know if i actually wrote this letter to epstein for his fiftieth birthday and she put the birthday card together so if she doesn't know and wall street journal wrote about it then clearly i'm vindicated and that this is defaming me and people like what what are you what are you saying you're citing ghisain maxwell as your character witness and an amended complaint you find out that don junior works with a a small north carolina company that all of a sudden got a six hundred fifty million dollars loan from the government to do defense work and now they're valued at two billion dollars and don junior is has a heavy you know interest or stake in this company and then tried to downplay his role what are you telling him donald trump wants his face on a two hundred and fifty dollars bill which he's not even allowed to do living presidents living people can put their face on currency it's against long standing law and then you want your you want your few then threaten the bureau of engravings to put your face on a two hundred fifty there's no you want to create a new currency while inflation is what's he doing whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa what does the white house look like what are you building it looks like a dumpster you're building this thing that looks like like a roller coaster like some some like weird roller coaster county fair from hell in front of the white house there's this big asbestos pit where the east wing used to stand the white house looks like this grotesque demolished thing what what are you doing you you want milli vanilli to perform in vanilla ice the way that the treasury secretary is holding up trump two hundred and fifty dollars bill and he looks like he's right out of that land where the grinch lives he looks like he can be

[Jordi]

he really does look like a who

[Ben]

you paint the guy green he looks like the grinch i mean holding up this you know you you you got what what in the world milli vanilli vanilla ice are representing the united states at the two hundred fiftieth anniversary and then you have some of these other acts are quit like what what is happening right now so you i'm just i could keep on going on and on and on he wants to create twenty four karat gold horses in the white house and then and that's what he's focused on right now paint you know doing golden horses around washington dc and so you could wake up and with all of those things that i said you could be like all right i'm just going to go do my job i'm not going to pay attention to any i don't like politics politics and then i'm gonna go and have lunch and then i'm gonna go back home i'm gonna watch some netflix or whatever i'm go to sleep and i'm gonna act like none of this is happening okay that's what a lot of people think they want to overwhelm you with all of these things and the problem is though where you can't look away is that this stuff is connected to what your lived experience is right now your lived experience why you're suffering why you struggle to pay rent or pay your mortgage if you're lucky enough to even have a mortgage why you work so hard but don't get paid what you deserve and that your pay isn't commensurate with the rise in inflation why you can't afford gas or groceries or all of these things things is because they've got you siloed or they want to distract from all of this while they go and engage in the biggest grift in the biggest looting of your taxpayer money they're taking your money to enrich themselves while they stock trade from inside the white house three thousand eight hundred stock trades while the market is being manipulated in my opinion opinion over and over again a new trade every nine damn minutes taking place right now while you're out there being screwed and then as we approach the midterms it's the same damn playbook over and over and over again what do they do ooh james talarico you a freako james frico tofu boy you're transgender you're transgender nanny nanny poo poo six genders six genders oh do you have a girlfriend are you gay are you a gay boy are you transgender and it's like what are you doing stop stop attacking marginalized communities stop with this vile rhetoric stop with this crap stop behaving like elementary school bullies who don't even behave behave this bad treat human beings with humanity treat human beings with decency all humanity deserves to be loved and cherished and their civil rights respected are you a vegan a vegan oh in texas you don't like that barbecue you don't want barbecue and it's like i'm an eighth generation texan i like barbecue if i'm vegan what's wrong with that if i'm gay what's wrong with that if i'm transgender what's wrong with that that stop with it and that's what they go with that's their whole shtick oh and the immigrants are coming to get you the illegal aliens i mean did you see what they did right before we went live the white house today was posting the aliens are coming we have a new secret initiative that's coming the aliens this the alien people like what are you doing the aliens they walk among us and then they release this horrifically like racist thing where they do an illegal alien traffic because that's what they call migrants illegal aliens and they go instead countless presidents congressmen senior officials knew exactly what was happening instead of protecting american citizens they chose to cover it up and even accelerate the invasion until one man finally had the courage to tell the truth then it goes on to say aliens have been walking among us living in our neighborhoods and interacting with us in our daily lives lives they've shopped in some of the same stores attended some of the same classes as our children and lived seemingly normal human existences with one exception they do not belong here and as you read what they're saying here this is straight out of a nazi playbook oh and then god forbid you call them nazis god forbid you call them out god forbid you curse at them and these little snowflakes they run and start whining you called me a name oh the democrats are unhinged oh you're calling me names like these idiots get to lie about everything make up everything that isn't real bully name call dehumanize round up use the government to tread on people like never before invade your privacy spy on you all of the stuff they accused the others they're doing and you call them out and what do they do it's like scott jennings with adam mockler oh my god oh my god and then even you know the the abby phillips the host both of you calm down both of you what do you mean both of you adam mockler was making points and then scott jennings was like don't you put your finger fu fu and it's like they're all like that over and over again the moment you punch back they go into victimhood right away oh my god it's so unfair your weapon that's who they are that's their character right now we have to recognize what's going on and you take a look right here you have the rnc chair that guy gruders he goes on he's like all right talo frico

[Jordi]

this is

[Ben]

the head of the rnc this is how about you just address what the american people are going through here play

[RNC Chair]

this clip because talafrico is a creep and he thinks he's a vegan he thinks god is non binary he wants to mutilate children he wants to put boys in girls locker rooms people are done with that that's if you looked at the autopsy the democrats put out it's simple all those things and the fact that they are openly supporting communists and socialists people don't want the united states senate certainly the voters in texas don't want that we think paxton will win we'll think it's we think it's a red seat hands down we're not going to have any issues heading into november we're happy with paxton and we're going to do everything we can to make sure he's successful we're happy with

[Ben]

the guy he was indicted for securities fraud he was impeached by his own party he's got the mistress and the guy who he helped helped you know with all the political favors to then get the mistress the job and then they're living in a house together for millions of dollars which was his own

[Jordi]

wife divorced him and cited biblical grounds for the divorce when she divorced him that's why you know they run this playbook every time right and and we saw them run this playbook and a lot of people were like oh that's why they won in you know in twenty twenty four i i i i i don't agree with that but you know maybe this has more power ironically when the economy is on the on the up and up but when people are suffering and you're still going back to this i just don't think it hits the way that they think it hits at this point and it also just goes to show you because i feel like i've heard a thousand times at this point from folks after the twenty twenty four election and as people are legitimately scared of just elections in general and we're and democrats need to nominate the right person and we need to get away from this trump scourge and so you see a lot of people who want to kind of play it safe and who go you know what the next you know i've heard this from a lot of well meaning people like the next democratic nominee should be you got to do a straight white guy because they're not going to be able to go after a straight white guy like listen you can't be giving him anything i think the whole talarico thing kind of puts that to bed doesn't it like dallarico straight white guy christian and actual christian if anything this is like one of the most black and white moral tests or religious tests whatever you want to call it that you could possibly give these voters who consider themselves ultra religious right you've got an actual religious guy in talarico and then you got this just grotesque person someone who violates every command of government like donald trump in paxton and they try to dangle out he's a vegan and all this stuff i mean think about the names that they called joe biden who is no leftist right they called joe biden they would say he's a communist he's a marxist they would say but what was donald trump's line that he would say at the rallies he hates god he's against god he wants to destroy god joe biden goes to church every sunday joe biden has received communion his entire life donald trump like paxton these are all people who are frauds absolute frauds violate every single tenant of every every religion out there yet they will smear people no matter what they will call barack obama a marxist they will call talarico tofu talarico they will call say talarico the vegan they will say oh he's gay he's a dweeb they throw all this stuff out it doesn't matter to them because the scripts are basically pre written they don't have anything to actually sell to people and so you have going out there you have someone like a talarico speaking about wanting to help people speaking about the way that he could actually improve people's lives and the things that you're hearing from people like the head of the rnc are just these smears just these slurs and like ben said the second you give them one tenth one one hundredth of that energy they cry because the only thing that's more of a superpower and i don't use that in a positive sense the only thing that's more of a superpower to them than their shamelessness in their bullying is their shamelessness in playing the victim they get off on playing the victim they are perpetual victims and this is the strategy from donald trump to ken paxton to stephen miller to scott jennings things you name it they're all whiny that's why you got to stand up to them and that's why you cannot accept their framing of things if you're going into whether it's an election or a debate or whatever it is and your mindset is i need to adjust the way i'm thinking about this because i want to appeal to this person or we could win this argument if only we should it's not going to work don't live by their framing stand up for your value values the average voter out there isn't thinking in terms of these binaries of left versus right like the corporate media does it's much more complex and you'd have a lot of people who fox might brand as leftist leftist leftists who would consider themselves actually moderate who would say you know what's moderate making sure that people have health care making sure that people could afford to buy homes i think that's i think these are moderate policies make sure teachers are paid what they're supposed to be paid but you will have fox calling those people radical leftist leftist marxist communist whatever it is no matter what so stop falling for their

[Brett]

bs and we brett so perfectly said and we've seen it here at the network too right how everyone always tries to frame us not everyone but like the fox news of the world that the radical left network midas touch it's like why are we radical left because we think people should have health care because we think people should be paid an actual living wage that's a radical left policy i think it says a lot more about you you labeling us radical left network than it does about us who want these basic human rights i mean what's wrong with you why don't you want these basic human rights for people and and ben you said it perfectly too man the second you try to hold these loser magazines accountable and call them out on their bs they become the world's biggest babies they play victim they cry they try and say oh cancel culture see look they always try and cancel me now maybe it's just because you're doing horrible shit and you should be called on that that people are upset with you or that they just don't have any more time for your bs this is a time when i think we sort of reclaim this country in a really positive way and stop allowing these magas to sort of get away with this oh but you're canceling me no shut up you're a loser stephen miller you're a loser dude you're all ahead of the rnc you're a loser dude and there's nothing wrong with me saying it that because you don't care about the american people there there's nothing cool about not caring about the american people doesn't make you cool are you going to call taro a vegan okay you weirdo we're going to fight for health care we're going to fight for human rights here in this country and actually try and do some progress here and y' all could keep you know calling us names and this weird stuff but we're not

[Ben]

going to have it all right let's take our last quick break of the show a quick reminder hit subscribe help us get to seven million subscribers we're still so close to hitting seven million subscribers let's get there in the next sixty days let's get there i was going to say let's get there before donald i want to see a peace deal entered so i want the peace deal to beat us to seven million subscribers so but help us get to seven million subscribers also become a member click join on our youtube channel and if you're able to afford memberships it really helps our channel when you join and then if you gift memberships to others to people who can't afford memberships that goes a long way as well and it helps grow our channel let's take our last quick break of the show we'll be right back you probably

[Jordi]

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[Brett]

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[Ben]

to democratic senator coons he made an appearance on fox they wanted to talk constantly about former president biden's twenty twenty four debate and i think senator coons had the perfect response here's what he

[Interviewer]

had to say she thought he was having a stroke it's inexplicable as a wife why you wouldn't stop the whole thing right then and go straight to a hospital what's your what's your take on what she's saying now

[Senator Coons]

frankly my take is that as i've gone up and down the state of delaware in the last couple of days nobody's asked me about joe biden's debate performance in twenty twenty four they've asked me about the rising price of gas they've asked me about trump's tariffs they've asked me about insecurity and instability because of an unresolved war in iran that is not going well as someone who cares for president biden i too was concerned about what that several second pause meant what was happening at the moment but i was with president biden earlier today we were at the funeral of a friend of ours someone who long served as the mayor of one wilmington and he's fine i see regular incidents where president trump falls asleep in meetings in the middle of the day makes no sense in answering questions and frankly what i think the average delaware wants to hear is what are we going to do to lower their costs and what are we going to do to avoid future pointless wars overseas two things president trump ran on when he was successfully elected in twenty twenty well i mean we

[Interviewer]

can go back and forth you know on the cognitive abilities of president trump versus what was quite obvious from president biden president trump answers like thirty to one hundred questions every single day from the press most days he is a question we never saw president biden take

[Ben]

that risk in a million years of

[Interviewer]

answering questions that way yeah significant because

[Senator Coons]

i think there was a secretary hegseth

[Interviewer]

in front of me of his condition and i think

[Jordi]

that's the goal of

[Senator Coons]

the war in iran and if the goal of the war in iran is to prevent iran from ever having a nuclear weapon secretary hegseth couldn't explain that strategy and he couldn't explain how the war in iran is going to help make us more secure and lower the costs that americans are facing policing because of the closure of the strait of hormuz that's what's in front of them that's where we started in this interview that's what i think we ought to be focused on we have to deal

[Ben]

with the threat we have to deal with the threats sure donald trump's own team said that iran did not pose an imminent threat they made the situation look if i'm iran right now what are you looking at you're looking at north korea kim jong un today bragging about his nukes like kim jong un posing for photos in front of gigantic nuclear weapons remember when former president obama would get blamed for every non nuclear test that kim jong un would do they'd be like eight missiles launched today and be like my god obama wore a tan suit number one number two kim jong un launched missiles tests in the ocean and it would be like obama's fault like okay but there was no nuclear weapons there was containment obama responded by strengthening alliances with south korea and japan there was a strategy put in place biden furthered that strategy of leaning into allies in the pacific with a kind of a pacific first strategy recognizing that's how you contain kim jong un that's how you contain china that's how you contain russia that's part of your geopolitical framework and so if you're iran you're like okay every day that passes why don't we use this to i mean why don't we use this to our advantage to it to i mean iran's claimed publicly this is what they've said there was a religious edict and to this extent and they've said publicly we just want to want uranium enrichment for civilian purposes whether you believe that or not that's what they've said you had the jcpoa which inspected it and showed that they were complying with the international support of the jcpoa if they didn't comply you'd be able to have massive public support at an international level to take action at the un level through multilateral processes and not just kind of go it alone own donald trump and netanyahu but if you're iran there's no reason that you would allow these straight up removes out of your control may open it but you'd still want to control it because if there's a violation you know the lever is to close it and you're looking at north korea and you're saying got it we need a nuclear weapon because that's the only way to stop this constant barrage and north korea said today kim jong un says there will absolutely and forever be no denuclearization of north korea that was their statement by the way you won't hear this make a headline pretty much anywhere you know other than a few places right like that's a pretty big story also you won't hear that israel demolished the entire city or major parts of the city of sir tire t y r e they called sir in arabic escalating things there won't hear about you'll just you know donald trump says there's a ceasefire no there's not there's not there's not a ceasefire and others are reporting that israel's pushing behind the scenes for trump to kill for the united states to assassinate mb golubov iran's parliament leader and lead negotiator and that seemed to be the strategy the entire time right as this war was about to start and start starting kill all of the negotiators you all remember ali larajani he was one of the chief we don't hear his name because he got killed you know early on he was you know in terms of finding a moderate voice he was one of the more moderate voices there to do a deal with and you kill lara johnny and who do you get you get this guy vahiti you know who's an irgc you know lifer who's out there and is far more entrenched than larry johnny money you know and so that's that's that's where this goes and as a result of you know this destructive policy as i mentioned this new international security architecture being formed we saw canada and prime minister carney agree to purchase the saab globalized from sweden they're still doing their reevaluation of the f thirty five s where i think canada is moving closer to getting the gripen which is the fighter jet that competes with the f thirty five but for now canada did not buy the united states e seven which is the model above the century which is the e three awac canada went and bought the global eye and announced that at cansec which is the big canadian defense forum we saw a big announcement between norway and france norway saying it's agreeing to participate in france's security umbrella that france france has worked with the uk poland lithuania other countries projecting nuclear strength you saw a meeting between the uk and poland entering into defense alliances there the world is changing the world is the world is shifting we cover it every day and the us you know what you had marco rubio show up in new delhi there was no one to visit no one to really greet him when he showed up in india it was this this bizarre trip that he took to india where no fanfare modi didn't even want to meet with him he seemed you know it's it's it's it's like you know it's like loserville with the united states right now and so as i mentioned what does it do attacks attacks fishing boats in the pacific and southcom announced more murders of fishing people in fishing boats the us secretly entering into a deal with guatemala to start blowing up things in guatemala and claiming there are narco terrorists that it's blowing up their same type of arrangement it has in ecuador what the bigger picture is as maria babib explains is normalize the presence of us troops bombing things throughout the western hemisphere and basically encircle mexico to do a soft invasion of mexico and to start bombing sites in mexico at will to assert hegemony over mexico you see the us circling cuba and threatening to invade cuba and guess where the trump regime went to give information about the cuba invasion today axios axios was reporting today that there may be so much chaos erupting in cuba as a result of the sanctions and the blockade that the people of cuba are getting ready to rise up against the cuban regime and that the trump regime is making preparations for summer war plans if the cuban people rise up and it's just i want you to think about this with the way us propaganda is being used to support a one trillion or one point five trillion military industrial complex think about that propaganda machine machine when it's turned on against james talarico when that machine is turned on against gavin newsom when that machine is turned on against whoever think about it when they say oh it looks like newsom cares more about smelt fish than the fires and you go well that's ridiculous no one believes that that and then they pump that every day newsom forgot to turn on the faucet everybody and if he turned on the faucet we could have put out the fire like come on nobody believes such a thing and then they pump that every day and then before you know it you start speaking to people about it and by the way people who aren't just even right wing people and they're like hey you hear about the smelt like no come on that's reaching you there's no there's not a smelt issue what are you talking about out and so we should never forget that this entire apparatus is being created here to manipulate minds brainwash hoist up the oligarchy allow the rich to get richer allow the corruption to happen in plain view and let them get away with it while they pillage loot and steal and crime and that it's not just simply maga it's part of an international authoritarian fascist movement you look at what's going on in in europe you look at the movements there that are taking place you look at you know putin's tactics you look at what's happening and this is a there's a broader force at play here and ultimately when we talked about the epstein files and the epstein class i think one of the big revelations is that the group of people who told you that they were going after the cabal were the cabal and they were they were saying these things that sounded so outlandish but they were the ones puppeteering these events bitcoin in twenty twelve twenty thirteen epstein's talking about it there manipulation of currency before russia annexes crimea epstein's on the emails talking about talking about it all the meetings before helsinki with trump and putin epstein's talking about meeting with lavrov to prep before that meeting took place you know i don't want i like the movie forrest gump so i don't want to to bring forrest gump in here but you know being compare epstein to forrest gump but like epstein was in all of these places and so one of the reasons that trump for many reasons wanted to suppress the epstein files is because you know what was the game like seven degrees of bacon kevin bacon kevin bacon i remember that growing up or whatever one of the threads that linked this class of people together who were using child sex trafficking in my opinion as some of their currency to blackmail each other and victimizing people in the most disgusting way imaginable but they were out there manipulating the markets and manipulating the destruction of liberal democracies across the world and you had them coordinating in different countries about the destruction of liberal democracies everywhere within destruction and chaos and global tumult the corrupt are able to loot and that's a dynamic that we're seeing play out here right now and i think people are wise to it but they got a trillion dollar media machine to pump out that propaganda to try to keep people brainwashed and so i think our job is to use this network to use this channel to use our platform platform which isn't as big in terms of the structure financing you know coordination that they have but we know we've got people on our side to get out these message to give these warnings to let you know the hustle so we can see it call it out in real time and try to defeat it and try to defeat it not for democrats not for this political party because this is international scope for humanity for truth so we can go about our lives and not deal with these tyrants and authoritarians from constantly treading on us harassing us assaulting us trying to steal from us rip away our futures and the futures of future generations so i'll leave it at that because i think it ties it all together especially as pam bondi is set to speak but not testify how she won't testify under oath won't do that won't go under video camera apparently but she will be talking informally to the house oversight committee okay got it got

[Jordi]

it got it well you know if you go if you take a broader perspective of the concept of the epstein class and a lot of things that ben was speaking about with epstein i think you could also call it the predator class and if you're viewing all the actions right now that we're seeing and all the things that we spoke about throughout this episode through the lens of a predator i think everything kind of makes sense i mean think about what the united states is doing in latin america think about what the united states is doing in the middle east think about the tactics they're using in cuba right now think about what the united states does to canada to our eu allies think about what the united states does domestically to people here at home the the threats that they have been pushing now to threaten international travel and say that we may ban international travel into cities that allow immigrants in and they're targeting the blue cities they're saying we may actually do everything seems like an attack everything is an assault but they're doing it jean carroll predators predators predators predators and that also only works if they have the backing of propaganda of billions and billions of dollars that are justifying that in flowery language that are justifying by the same way that these people play the victim with adam mockler on cnn and go whoa your hands in my face stop effing attacking me what the f are you doing that's what they do on a much grander scale in all of these geopolitical aspects oh whoa whoa whoa whoa

[Ben]

whoa is that a drug boat boom

[Jordi]

explosion whoa whoa whoa are you were you gonna do send some nukes my way explosion boom war war it's just the strategy that they use and they play the victim they use that propaganda to realign to reposition what's kind of actually going on and i gotta say it's it's incredibly effective it's very it's very potent but that's why you know i think part of what we do here just making you kind of aware to it and i think if you've seen just the way that the attacks on someone like a talarico have ramped up since paxton got the nomination you see what it's like when that machine kicks in it's like they flick a switch right and it's just boom boom boom boom boom it's coordinated it's well funded and it is so brazen that to me it should be like oh they had a meeting about this this is the most obvious thing in the world but most people aren't that critical in the way that they think about the media that they consume like this audience here and so that's why one of the things you know i think that that's important that we do as all of us here is continue to spread the word and continue to call this stuff out and to show just how these propaganda networks are manipulating you and are manipulating the american people well

[Ben]

said brett such an honor to be able to spend each and every day with you whether you're listening on audio whether you're watching on youtube just taking this journey with you together during these very difficult times is something that is is deeply rewarding for me and i've heard so much of your comments that this network is helpful for you but this network is helpful for me we're in this together it's helpful for us and i think we always need to stick together during very difficult times help each other when someone needs to rest pick up the slack for each other but hold the line hold the line before we know it there'll be midterms before we know it there'll be elections and we need to continue to hold the line every single day we'll get through this and then when we get through this we can reflect on this time and work to create structures to make sure this never happens again and build a better life for future generations and to leave the world a better place and to to know that when we get out together on the other side of this that we put it all out there on the line that every damn day we were out there fighting for what was right fighting for love and empathy and equality and civil rights uplifting not punching down supporting each other working towards peace not war supporting democracy fighting back against fascism that's what we do each and every day so hit subscribe help us get to seven million subscribers you may think that you're subscribed but guess what you may not actually be subscribed double check join and become a member the memberships have been very helpful in our growth it's been helpful for our expansion thanks to you and so if you're able to afford youtube membership by clicking join join you may be able to gift youtube memberships to people gift a membership to others who can't afford it let them get access as well to the special features here it's been a great one everybody let's keep on fighting together thank you and i'll let jordy finish the show

[Brett]

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[Ben]

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[Brett]

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[Ben]

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[Jordi]

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[Ben]

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[Jordi]

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