Brett (4:17)

Doing great, Ben. Doing great, Jordy. It's great to be here. Great to be here. Midas Mighty. Thank you, everybody listening and watching. Remember to go ahead and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Brothers, look like this is going to be like, for sure my last show. As many of you know, I'm on baby watch over here. Baby watch 2025. And yeah, this is definitely going to be my last show for the next couple shows. And so I'm excited to get into it.

Jordy (4:42)

Jordy, what's the deal? Phrasing. Phrasing is very important. Brett, you can't just. This is my last show. That's. That's pins and needles when you say that. But we're obviously very excited for you and your wife.

Ben (4:52)

Be.

Jordy (4:52)

This is incredible stuff here. Just stoked against today's show. Benji, where are we starting off?

Ben (4:58)

We all know that Brett's talking about his baby, right? Like, that's your point, Jordi. Right? Brett was a little cryptic with it, we all. Brett, you made it clear. The baby's going to be born any day now.

Jordy (5:06)

I'm just saying, starting the show, being like. And just so everyone knows, you know, I'm making this my last show is a crazy way to start with.

Brett (5:12)

You know, it's, it's, it's a, it's a good point. You know, I kind of, you know, a lot of people, I just assume people are kind of following the story over the past few episodes, but I guess not, not necessarily. So I guess I, there's a baby on the way in my household. I'm very excited and it's happening by the end of this weekend no matter what. And so this is going to be.

Ben (5:34)

Per doctor's order.

Brett (5:35)

Per doctor's order. So it's going to be my last show until I am back. Probably just missed a couple shows, let's be real. But yeah, let's get into it. Ben, what do we got today?

Ben (5:45)

All right. Donald Trump held a deranged press conference and the Oval Office yesterday with the president of Poland at the same time that the Epstein victims were on Capitol Hill sharing their stories and demanding the release of the files. While that press conference was taking place again and while the new president of Poland was sitting there in the Oval Office, Donald Trump said, look, let me tell you what's really happening here. This has been the most successful eight months in the history of the United States, which it actually has, and it's probably been the worst eight months in the history of the United States, objectively, if we just look at facts, data, America's power declining, our alliances absolutely being destroyed. So Trump says, all this Epstein stuff that you're seeing on Capitol Hill, these victims, the files, anything about Epstein hoax, just remember, like, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. It's Epstein, Epstein, Epstein hoax, hoax, hoax, hoax. And I'm just going to say it over and over and over again because if I say it over and over and over again, apparently the media just listens to what I say and I can turn people's brains into Magam Mush. You're play this clip.

Interviewer/Reporter (6:51)

I think we're probably having, according to what I read, even from two people in this room, we're having the most successful eight months of any president ever. And that's what I want to talk about. That's what we should be talking about. Not the Epstein hoax.

Ben (7:06)

According to everything I read, including the two people in this room, like, he can't even say a sentence. That's normal. Even as he's trying to engage in the fraud, according to the two people in this room. The. What does that even mean? Then he admits that he's aware that the doj, the Department of Justice, has been subpoenaed for the Epstein files. But Donald Trump says there's nothing to do. We've turned over everything. Which, of course they haven't. I'll fact check it, but let's play it.

Interviewer/Reporter (7:33)

Nobody's going to talk about. Because they're going to talk about the Epstein whatever. I understand that we were subpoenaed to give files, and I understand we've given thousands of pages of files. And I know that no matter what you do, it's going to keep going. And I think it's, I think, really, I think it's enough because I think we should talk about the greatness of our country and the success that we're having. I think we're probably having, according to what I read, even from two people in this room, we're having the most successful eight months of any president ever. And that's what I want to talk about. That's what we should be talking about, not the Epstein hoax.

Ben (8:09)

Just to fact check so many things there. Layoffs are up 39% in August to 85,979. Housing data show sellers now exceed buyers by over 500,000, marking the largest imbalance ever recorded in the history of the market. We have US companies announcing just 1,494 new jobs in August, lowest for the month since 2009, as layoffs surge. And notoriously, good job, year of 2009, notoriously great. Notoriously great. It was just the Great Recession.

Jordy (8:49)

Donald Trump says, make America great again. It was 2009's economy, make America great recession again.

Brett (8:55)

He missed a depression.

Jordy (8:58)

Got it.

Ben (8:59)

Yeah. And then, you know, I think we're done. He goes, I think we're done turning over the files. Like, do you think we're all just so stupid that you turn over a number that sounds large, 33,000 and go, look, I've turned over the files. They're talking about the release of 33,000 documents which they say are pages which are part of the Epstein files, except it was the part that was already produced many, many years ago. This is not actually the files in the Department of Justice's possession. And I've interviewed. Everybody should go and take a look at this interview I did with Spencer Couvin. And Spencer Kuvan is the lawyer for the first Epstein victims. He's since settled and resolved all of the cases for his clients. But he Was the first lawyer to file against Epstein, the first lawyer to take the deposition of Epstein. He took multiple depositions of Epstein. And the way he described it is, he go, ben. He goes, the 33,000 is like a needle in the haystack. It's the smallest amount in the massive trove of documents that are out there. He goes, there are the call logs that are out there. There are, you know, the. The video cameras that taped everybody going in and out. There's phone books. There's way more logs. There's the witness name rather than me. Say it. Let's just. Let's just bring in the lawyer, Spencer Couvin. In my interview with him, here's what he said we should be focused on. Let's play it. He didn't keep a list of these people.

Interviewer/Reporter (10:29)

What he would do is he would.

Ben (10:31)

Get calls from men, powerful men that were coming into town that lived in Palm beach, for example, and they would.

Interviewer/Reporter (10:37)

Call the home, and they would say, hey, I'm in town.

Ben (10:40)

They would then talk to Ms. Maxwell.

Interviewer/Reporter (10:43)

Maxwell would then send a girl out to the house. That's how the operation would work. So if you really wanted to see.

Ben (10:50)

Exactly who was contacting Epstein and trying.

Interviewer/Reporter (10:52)

To get women, you look at his phone books. You look at his phone records.

Ben (10:56)

The phone message pads were obtained during the search warrant of the home back then.

Interviewer/Reporter (11:01)

That's the first place we look.

Ben (11:02)

Portions of those phone message pads were released. Guess whose name was all over him? Donald Trump. Because he was best friends with Epstein. So it's not a shocker. Despite Ghislaine's Mary Poppins impression. Ooh. I do not know how I met him. Perhaps my daddy introduced me to him.

Brett (11:20)

I don't know why not to say a dirty word. Could I say the f. The F.

Ben (11:23)

Word in this dirty word here? Shit. Oh. Oh. Did I just say, such a baddie?

Brett (11:29)

I'm such a baddie.

Ben (11:30)

Oh, please forgive me, but no.

Brett (11:32)

Epstein liked the women because of their musical tastes.

Ben (11:37)

He liked the song selection. He wanted to know if they were into Vanilla Ice or MC Hammer. That's what they were doing. I mean, she literally basically said that during her thing. And then all the maggots are like, she exonerated him. Yo, She's a convicted sex trafficker, you nut bags. What are you talking about? You're. Ghislaine Maxwell didn't exonerate any. She's trying to exonerate herself and a convicted sex trafficker. And the judge in the trial would.

Brett (12:05)

Constantly note how vicious of a liar she was. How she's like the biggest con person on the planet. I think this all, all of this really just shows. It's a microcosm for the kind of MAGA media, the right wing media, and the kind of grip they have on these followers as we watch this kind of develop, because we watched in real time these Trump supporters effectively get brainwashed by Donald Trump and the right wing media into not caring about an issue that they have spent the last few years, years and years and years demanding the Epstein files and trying to pin this on Democrats and whatnot. And now you look at over the week, you look at when they were doing the press conference with the victims, every network was playing at least portions of this press conference, except one Fox. None of the right wing networks were playing this at all. It was as if it did not exist. So this is one of the ways the right wing media works. Not only does it try to spread certain propaganda, it also hides certain things from its viewers. Out of sight, out of mind. This isn't happening. And this whole Epstein saga, I think it lays bare the entire right wing media playbook. You got right wing media, you got these GOP politicians, the MAGA propagandists, all colluding to hide the most heinous acts imaginable, diverting their followers attention to protect powerful people. And if you could look at it across this Epstein issue, you can also look at it across every single issue. It's basically the same playbook that they employ everywhere. And it doesn't matter how heinous, it doesn't matter how obvious this is obviously one of the most kind of in your face situations there is. They could say, don't look over there, look over here. And their followers are just willingly going along with it. The whole thing is absolutely crazy. And the more you see Donald Trump try to deflect from this also just the guiltier he looks like. I've, I've gradually thought he's been guilt, look, seemed guiltier and guiltier and guiltier every single step of the way. And this is all culminating, of course, with now Donald Trump actually threatening Republican members of Congress, saying if you vote for this discharge petition, which is the petition that would get a bill on the floor in order to say, if you vote for this, we will immediately have to release the Epstein files. The Department of Justice will have to release the Epstein files. Just the very notion of that discharge petition, which would just allow for the vote on the Epstein files. Donald Trump and his administration are making threats at Republican congresspeople saying basically, if you do this then, you know, watch your back. We will consider it a hostile act within this administration. How is it a hostile act to release the Epstein files unless you're scared of what is in the Epstein.

Ben (14:54)

You said you wanted released. Yeah.

Jordy (14:58)

Brett and Ben. Brett, to your point before, for a lot of the MAGA constituents there, this was the issue that quote unquote, got them off the couch to go and vote was this issue. So to see right wing media and their total reframe of this and trying to conceal all of this from their audience is disgusting. But we shouldn't be surprised about that. What's beyond vile, though, is calling this the Epstein hoax that Donald Trump does time and time again. Like, it, it truly makes my blood boil because it's dismissing like the live trauma of all of the survivors and it then just undermines the credibility of people who bravely came forward about the damn abuse. Like it's disgusting. Calling it the Epstein hoax erases their pain and we'll pull up the press conference shortly. And it treats their suffering like it's some sort of political talking point. It's super gross. And then it adds another level of harm because it makes it seem like they're lying. Like these people who have really lived through hell, Donald Trump, the President, the Commander in Chief is making it seem like these people are lying. These women now who were girls that were raped by Jeffrey Epstein and his pedophile cabal, it's making them seem like they're liars. I don't care if it's not. It's not a red issue, it's not a blue issue, it's a humanity issue. It's absolutely disgusting and absolutely disqualifying for Donald Trump when he calls this the Epstein hoax.

Brett (16:27)

I'll just say if you're falling for this, though, like, sorry, I'm just gonna say if you're, if you fall for this crap, like if all of a sudden now you are repeating this because I see, you know, and a lot of these people are probably just bots and whatnot, right? But I see all these Trump people who write, you're still talking about the Epstein hoax like you're just a fucking idiot, okay? Like you don't believe in anything. You're a bad human being. Like, just, just like look yourself in the mirror and try to like, you know, acknowledge what you've become, because it's just a disgrace.

Ben (16:52)

And now they're saying it's the Democrat hoax, that, that all, that these are actually all Democratic operatives. Watch Donald Trump say that here Play this clip.

Interviewer/Reporter (16:59)

There have been survivors of Jeffrey Epstein speaking at a press conference on Capitol Hill. And they're calling for these case files, these documents to be released. And Thomas Massie, who is sponsoring a.

Ben (17:12)

Discharge position to get the House to.

Interviewer/Reporter (17:14)

Vote on releasing those documents, says he hasn't been here located in these files, but many of your friends and donors may be. And he says that's why the Justice Department is redacting them and slow walking the release. Is the Justice Department protecting any friends or donors, sir? So this is a Democrat hoax that never ends. You know, it reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation. We gave him everything over and over again, more and more and more, and nobody's ever satisfied, from what I understand. I could check, but from what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given. But it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president. Even if you look at D.C. right.

Ben (18:02)

Now and then he pivots to talking about D.C. where restaurants are suffering and people in D.C. are living in fear of masked ICE agents and don't want the military roaming D.C. there was also a lawsuit filed by D.C. based on the same kind of legal precedent we saw in the Northern District of California that having the military serve as the police is a violation of a late 19th century law called the Posse Comitatus Act. That had to be invoked because Trump's using the military as a police force. Later in the show, I'll talk about my interview with Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker. It's a powerful interview where he gave Donald Trump a final warning to stay the hell out of Chicago, to stay the hell out of Illinois. But let me show you a few other things regarding the press conference that took place. So Donald Trump did have the president of Poland at the White House, but there have been lots of times where Trump's had world leaders at the White House. And the idea that he was doing the flyover just for the president of Poland does not pass the common sense smell test to me. I think he was doing the flyover to intimidate the Epstein victims. And then basically while they were giving their press conference and then trying to, in the pathetic Trump way that he always lies and makes excuses for things. No, no, I did it for. Because the president of Poland was here. No, you were trying to intimidate the victim. So as you had Anuska de Georgia speaking, that's who the speaker is here. I'll tell you a little bit more about Anuska in a bit. They do the flood, the military plane flyover while the Epstein survivors are speaking here, play this clip. Department of justice telling me that this.

Brett (19:46)

Was going to happen when it had already happened.

Jordy (19:50)

This woman.

Ben (19:53)

Abused children. You saw that right there. For our audio listeners, the flyover of fighter jets over where the Epstein victims were speaking. That's Inusca de Georgia in the Sunday Mirror UK rag that was owned by Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, in 1997. There was an article in 1997 about how Ghislaine would bring young women to Donald and that she would be a supplier of young women is how it was called. They said one of the young women they mentioned in the article, they say is Anuska de Georgia, who was then spending time in the penthouse with. With Donald. And it was a very bizarrely written article. Anuska loves older men. They. They. It's like a grossly written article. Very misogynistic. And again, I have no clue of what of. You know, for all I we do know that Anuska was indeed a sex trafficking victim of Epstein and Guylane. It's. I don't know if, if Ghislaine was using the name of a young, attractive woman in order to, you know, make Trump look cool or if there was really a date. I don't know what took place there. But that's the name. If you're like, didn't I listen to, you know, you doing videos before wearing Newsca de Georgia? That sounds familiar. That's from that article with Ghislaine and Trump and Ghislaine's dad's newspaper, the Sunday Mirror. But for Donald Trump saying it's a Democrat hoax, well, here's an Epstein victim who was on Lawrence o' Donnell, Lisa Jones. And Lisa Jones is a Trump voter. At least she was a Trump voter and supporter because she thought he was going to release the files and help the victims because that's what he promised. So listen to what she has to say about all of this.

Brett (21:53)

Let's play it.

Ben (21:54)

So I'm going to go off of my survivor sister, Haley Roberson, and I'm a republic. I voted for him. I voted for Trump and for him to say what he's saying is beyond me because I put my hope in him and he's supposed to protect us. And for him to say that this is a joke and that it's sides, this is not sides. We will say it Time and time again, none of us are up there accusing him of anything. There is no one that is accusing him of any wrongdoing. So for the fact that he is saying those things and saying it's a hoax, who are you hiding for then? Because if it's not you, then who is it? And that scares me. Who is it? And here's Democratic Congressmember McGovern on the House floor yesterday. He's giving a speech. He sees the ASIN video ASINs are digital clipper and digital editor. And you'll see Congressmember McGovern react to Trump calling it a hoax as he sees the video we put out. Let's play it. It is shameful.

Interviewer/Reporter (23:07)

And speaking about the Epstein files again, I'm looking at the video of a.

Ben (23:12)

Few minutes ago, Donald Trump speaking to.

Interviewer/Reporter (23:14)

Reporters calling all this a hoax, all.

Ben (23:17)

This, the Epstein files, a hoax.

Interviewer/Reporter (23:20)

He's not talking about what we're doing here. And by the way, let me just say to the gentleman and anybody else.

Ben (23:27)

Who wants to know, listen to what the victims were asking for outside this.

Interviewer/Reporter (23:33)

Capitol just a few minutes ago.

Ben (23:36)

The survivors, the survivors of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell, listen to what the survivors have been saying.

Interviewer/Reporter (23:43)

They want the mass economy bill passed.

Ben (23:46)

They want something with teeth in it that will force this administration to comply.

Interviewer/Reporter (23:50)

Because they don't trust that they will.

Ben (23:52)

Democrats come out swinging ready to fight. Ready to fight on the House and Senate floor, ready to fight in the House and Senate committees. I want to highlight some of the committee developments. I want to talk about RFK showing up and what went down during his testimony. I want to talk about the economy. I want to talk about global affairs. Should be noted that the United States has now cut off all military aid to Eastern European allies, in addition to the way we've cut off aid to Ukraine. This is from the foreign. This is from the US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia. Move comes as Washington pushes NATO allies to pay more towards their defense. That's how at least it's being reported in the Financial Times. But there's far more to it than that. We'll talk more about what's going on there. Donald Trump didn't even show up to Paris today to the meeting with Zelensky, which first I thought Trump was going to be there with the coalition of the willing. Then it seems that Donald Trump, Trump didn't even bother to call into the meeting. He waited until it was done and then called Zelensky afterwards. And you literally have Xi Jinping Kim Jong Un, Putin and others in China right now laughing at the United States on tape. We'll talk about that. But also it's why we have to build an international pro democracy movement. Shout out to Charlie Angus, who independently runs Midas Canada. Over 100,000 subscribers. 100,000 subscribers on day one. Let's get that to a million subscribers in month one. So everybody check out Charlie Angus, Midas Canada on YouTube. Elbows up. Such an honor to be launching a Midas Canada.

Brett (25:42)

And you can just go to YouTube.comitis canada. Charlie's been releasing at least one video every single day. The response has been absolutely incredible and it's great to get, you know, real Canadian perspectives on Canadian politics. There's nobody better to be running this than Charlie Angus. It's so great to have him doing this.

Ben (26:00)

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Ben (28:29)

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Jordy (30:14)

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Ben (30:32)

Let's move on to our next topic. Let's talk about what's going down on the House floor. Democrat, Democratic Congress member Joe Negus. He's on the floor, he's in the rules Committee. Crushes it. He's from Colorado, Congressmember from Colorado. And he's like, are y' all magas just gonna keep on whining about Biden? Like, we're eight months in, we're 200 days in. Like, is everything just gonna be Biden, Biden, Biden? Because, like, it's getting old. And frankly, I'm getting secondhand embarrassment from watching you all try to blame the economy now on Biden. Okay, here, play this clip.

Interviewer/Reporter (31:10)

My colleague from Minnesota, I think, said the word Biden eight times. If I'm not mistaken, you couple that with references to the prior administration. That jumps up to 12 or, or 13. It's unclear to me when Republicans are going to stop complaining and actually do something to address the challenges that face our country. They spend more time talking about Joe Biden than they do about reducing costs. Every sentence from that side of the aisle, Biden, a verb, an adjective, and more coal. That's essentially the sum total of every sentence. And by the way, my colleagues, I suspect, are watching from their offices. I know that more of my colleagues are going to come to the floor here to engage in debate on.

Brett (31:54)

I don't know.

Interviewer/Reporter (31:54)

How many cras are they putting on the floor today? Three, four, five? That's all we do around here is cras. So I encourage them as they're watching, Please, when you come to the floor, maybe spend some time talking about your affirmative vision for the country and not so much time talking about the prior president.

Ben (32:11)

Well, that's all they've got. All they know how to do is whine and complain. Right, that's and. And lie. So that's why you have Transportation Secretary Duffy, who's from Real World Road Rules Challenge, reality show from the 1990s. Everything is Buddha J and Biden's fault. And then Pete Heth. Why was it that Prime Minister Modi met with Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin? Why did they do that military parade where they were laughing at Donald Trump Why? What do you think Hegset's gonna say? Everybody, because of Biden. Biden did that in China. Here, play this clip.

Brett (32:52)

Being China was celebrating, they're having this parade in Tam Square featuring a display of advanced equipment. And they invited Putin and they invited Kim Jong Un and attendance. So what message are they trying to send and what is the administration's response?

Interviewer/Reporter (33:05)

Well, unfortunately, the weakness of the previous.

Brett (33:08)

Administration has driven Russia and China closer together. That was a terrible development of a lack of American leadership and a lack of American strength.

Interviewer/Reporter (33:17)

And you saw it around the world, and it manifests in what we saw.

Ben (33:21)

On TV last night, quite literally the opposite. And again, that's what I mean. Like, these people are just like, they're like loser people. They're, they're, they're like real, like cowardly, pathetic humans. Like the fact that you would go, oh, that all happened just now in China because of, because of Biden. I'll tell you what happened. Because of Biden, two countries joined NATO, Finland and Sweden. NATO's expansion is a show of strength. You had Biden meeting with the foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea together, side by side on a tri lat basis, bringing them together. Biden strengthening all of our alliances in the Pacific. You had Biden making NATO stronger than ever, supporting Ukraine. That's. That's actually what took place. And then you had the constant. When Biden was in the presidency, undermining of him by this right wing fascist international movement of people like Nigel Farage and Bukele and Orban and Le Pen in France. They're all from the same crew of spreading the same lies from the same playbook and spreading all of this disinformation to come into power. It's the same stuff. And then engage in the havoc that we're seeing right now. I mean, the fact that not. We'll show you this in a bit. Nigel Farage, not from the right wing extremist they called the Reform Party, but they should not be named that. It's like being called the Truth Party or Truth Social. You know about reform. This is Mr. Brexit. This is Mr. Anti European Union, Anti NATO. This guy spews some of the most hateful conspiracies. He was the witness that the Republicans called to the House committees to talk about free speech. And then when he was asked by Moskowitz, who you having lunch with? Oh, I can't. I'm too much of a gentleman to share with you who I'm having lunch with. I would not do so. You're meeting Donald Trump. Oh, I would never spill the beans about where I'm going to have lunch. I would not tell you where I'm going to have lunch. Got it. You're meeting with Donald. Is this a free spot? Are you supposed to speak? Oh, no, I wouldn't. That. That's Discretion is the better part of valor. Let me explain to you. So you have that going on. But, but, Brett, at an international. Hegseth blames. Hegseth blames Biden. Let me show you this one.

Brett (36:05)

Just think about the humiliation, though, right, that. That Trump has received at the hands of Vladimir Putin since that meeting. Donald Trump holds this meeting, invites Vladimir Putin to Alaska. They have this summit, which is a complete and total disaster. Trump is all smiles when he greets Putin. He's clapping his hands like a seal. He's, like, embracing Putin as if he's like some, like, great guy. They have this meeting. Trump's face is very different. By the end of it, they send the delegations home. They cut the meetings early. And then what happens after that? Putin bombs Ukraine with the most relentless bombing campaign that he has the entire time. He basically says F you to any sort of peace efforts. He then goes to China, meets with Xi, meets with Kim Jong Un during this, this parade that they threw there, which was obviously like a show of force by China, just mocking Donald Trump and also mocking Donald Trump's attempt at a similar parade with the scale and scope of their parade that they did. And then you have Putin, you have Kim Jong Un, and you have Xi walking together. Buddy, buddy. And their message to the world there is, we are the new power center, thanks to Donald Trump. Donald Trump has abdicated. His country is no longer the center of the world right now. It is now us. We are the superpowers who are going to dictate how things go for now on. Then you have people like Modi, right? Modi in India. He's now buddy, buddy with Putin. Buddy, buddy with Xi. There's this entire shift right now in the global order, and it's all thanks to Donald Trump saying basically just pulling America out completely of its leadership role and letting these countries take the mantle. It is just such an embarrassment.

Jordy (37:49)

And it really shows you, too. Hey, it's really important to have allies. Like this whole notion of isolationism, like, that's not. That's not going to fly. That's not going to end well for America. So don't attack Canada, Donald Trump, don't attack friendly countries to the United States, because sooner or later, you know, there's going to be a group of countries, and we're seeing it come through that team up against America, and we're going to look around. We'll be like, hey, who's got our back? I know we've been jerks and everything, and I know we've been doing this tariff stuff, but, like, y' all still got us, right? Like it's us, y'.

Ben (38:19)

All.

Jordy (38:19)

You can't bank on that anymore because you are an embarrassment on the global stage and you're dragging this country down with you.

Ben (38:27)

Yeah. And it's perfectly summed up by this account Adrian Pull from Eastern Europe. When the Financial Times reported Pentagon officials last week informed European diplomats the US Would no longer fund programs that train and equip militaries in Eastern European countries that would be on the front line of any conflict with Russia. This Adrian P. Account goes good, I'm confident Europe will be able to protect itself. In the meantime, I'm sure the 77 million dumb Americans who voted for this clown car administration and the 90 million idiots who stayed home in November will suffer way more than the Europeans ever will. Next time a 911 happens or America needs our help, they can suck it and suffer. Try living in a world without friends anymore, you dumb mother effers. I mean, that's how they feel. That's how they feel in Canada. That's how they feel in Europe. And even like a prime minister, Kier Starmer can try to act like, oh, you know, let's get along with the people across the world are done with this American clown show right now. This wannabe fascism, It's. It's a pathetic version of fascism because the fascists don't want Trump in their club. Like, he's the loser fascists. And the fascists look at the loser fascists and like, yeah, what's he doing right now? Oh, the guy with the hands that are decomposing before our eyes. He's talking about invading California, his own state, and Illinois. What a pathetic loser. Oh, what. What's he gonna say with the new president of Poland there? What's he gonna talk about? Oh, he's gonna talk about Gavin Newsom's hands. Oh, that makes Talking about Newsom's hands. Here, play this clip of him talking about Newsom's hands in the Oval Office.

Interviewer/Reporter (40:16)

And he's. This is a very incompetent guy. I watched him with the hands. I'm saying, what's going on with the hands? There's something wrong with. There's something wrong with him. Do you Watch him. There's something wrong with this guy.

Ben (40:28)

Just want you to think from a. Obviously, Trump's hands literally are rotting in front of us. Like, Trump's hands look like he dipped his hands in a freaking piranha tank and then lifted him out and says, nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. His ankles are like 29 inches. And like, the guy is clearly going through it. We've heard him.

Jordy (40:49)

Newsom should do a side by side of his hands and Trump's hands and say y' all and talk hands and just see what Trump does.

Ben (40:54)

I bet. Well, Newsom's doing this because Donald Trump posted a photo of Newsom wearing a Trump 20, 28 hat, to which Newsom then posted a photo of only a slightly AI adjusted version of Donald Trump. And then do we. And. And then Donald Trump thought it would be funny to. Yeah, do we have that as a video, Brett, or do we just have it as. As the photo? It's fine either way. If we've got the video, let's play it. If not, just the photo's fine. Yeah, I've got it.

Brett (41:20)

I just got to find it.

Ben (41:21)

I don't worry about it. Donald Trump then posting a photo of Senator Schiff from California with a pencil neck. That was one of the Donald Trump's posts. Donald Trump posting an AI image of Rosie o' Donnell and then the White House reposted it and said, you know, and made some post attacking Rosie o'. Donnell. I, I mean, just think about this.

Brett (41:42)

The official White House account. Like, the. It's one thing when Donald Trump does it, it's embarrassing enough, but to have the official White House government account posting this manipulated Rosie o' Donnell photo that's threatening to revoke her citizenship is just so vile for so many reasons. And it's just, it's just stunning that there is no Republican willing to say, yeah, at least this is embarrassing. Like, we are embarrassed by this. How could you possibly be proud of yourself to support this sort of shit? Just absolutely nuts. And then I, I keep losing. I do have to do some up. Let me, let me, Let me play this one.

Interviewer/Reporter (42:20)

This is what you could end up looking like if you eat some of the raw frozen shrimp being sent to the United States by other countries.

Brett (42:36)

Newsom posted that. For audio listeners. It's the photo of Trump that's a little manipulated, making him look.

Ben (42:43)

Can you imagine Xi Jinping or Putin or whoever just going out every day and talking about invading the governors of their own cities and provinces and states and locales like, like it's, it's a crazy concept or like Xi Jinping or just going out there every day and whining about your predecessor over and over and over. It's the biggest loser quality. Like America is a loser country right now under Donald Trump. Like these qualities are the quality objectively, not even looking at it Democrat. The guy whines about the old presidency every single day. 200 days in, he talks about invading his own country. We launched, we had four ships, massive ships and a nuclear submarine off the coast of Venezuela. And Trump posts an execution video, which he purports to be an execution video of a fishing boat getting blown up by the United States military. Trump claims 11 people were killed. He says they're Trend Iragua gang members headed to the United States. I'm not going to play the video. It's a death video. It's like an ISIS style video. Could you imagine any foreign leader at all other than like ISIS or like bin Laden or like, or like the, the, the old town? Not even Taliban 2.0 maybe Taliban 1.0 post execution video. He's posting execution videos on the official account bragging that he killed 11 people in a 16 foot fishing boat.

Brett (44:27)

And we're not stupid.

Ben (44:29)

I mean a 16 foot fishing boat doesn't have the fuel capacity to make it to the United States. I don't even count 11 people on it. I can see three people. But I don't even need to go down that rabbit hole. It's hard for me to fathom that trend. Day Aragua goes around with just like all this like cocaine and heroin and drugs in open fishing boats with like that aren't sealed or like the drugs aren't hidden. Also if you say that trend Aragua is involved in human trafficking and smuggling. Right? That's one of the. How do you know they don't have on that boat a child that they're trafficking or someone they're smuggling and that you've just killed innocent people in addition to gang members. Under what legal authority do you go around and just start murdering people? Even if they are drug deal. There's not another way to stop that boat in the open seas. You just go and kill in territorial waters event as well. Then you have Rubio's story that the boat was headed to Trinidad. Then he changes the story. You have Hegson saying, don't worry, this was not AI. This is not an AI. I wasn't even thinking it could be an AI video. But Hex is like, this isn't an AI video. Everybody this is super. I'm being super serial, everybody.

Jordy (45:43)

No, we took you. We took you. We took you at your word. We took you at your word on this one, Hex. If something tells me this is exactly what y' all will do, I mean, for our audio listeners, when you're looking at this, but this is not a big boat, right? This isn't some yacht that they took out. There is 16ft max. Right? Okay. Drug dealers bad. Gang members bad. But that doesn't just give you a license to kill. Without knowing more of what's going on with that tiny, teeny, tiny fishing boat, I mean, I could just imagine the cost analysis of this. The missile probably cost at least 11 times more than any drugs that could. I don't know that number to be true, but I'm just saying the missile alone was probably more expensive than any drugs that were actually on that bus. And again, again, drug dealers bad. Gang members bad. Yes, agreed. But for America, that doesn't then just give you a license to kill people on a 16 foot fishing boat.

Brett (46:36)

We just. I'm not at a place to trust this administration on everything. We saw what they've done with Abrego Garcia. We saw when they put on his hands Ms. 13. And then Donald Trump said over and over, look, he has the tattoo on his hands. Remember that Terry Moran clip? And they were like, no, your people put that on. Your people put the letters on his knuckles. And Trump said, no, that's real. Those are real. They're willing to say anything to justify their actions. And a lot of these same Trump voters would criticize Bush for things that weren't even like a quarter of what Donald Trump is doing now. Like the surveillance state that Donald Trump is creating right now. The actions that Donald Trump is taking, the extrajudicial actions that he is taking by simply saying, oh, yeah, that person's a terrorist. I have the right to kill them. That person's a drug dealer. I have the right to kill them. When in American history has that ever been okay? We live through the shame of that during the Bush administration. And then there was actually a backlash to that. All of these people who support Trump now pretend to hate all those things that Bush did. They're supporting things that Donald Trump is doing that are a billion times worse than anything Bush did. And Donald Trump is just posting it to his social media feed. Don't tell me you need 4,000 troops, multiple warships to go towards Venezuela for a little, teeny, tiny fishing boat that could, even if it had drugs on it, couldn't have even had that much. It definitely couldn't have made it to the United States from where it was departing. And why can't you do it the same way anyone's always done any of this stuff? Send the Coast Guard out, I don't know, send somebody to approach the boat, actually check in on what's going on? I'm just supposed to trust the Trump administration that lies about fricking everything, that this is exactly what they were saying it was, that this is a terrorist organization, that they were coming to the United States? I'm supposed to trust the people who said that Haitian migrants were eating cats and dogs? Like, these people are not on the up and up about anything.

Ben (48:28)

You know, I don't. And I'm not trying to be coarse, because we're talking about a much more serious subject matter here, but it would be like LeBron James posting a video of himself, like, dunking on a little baby, like dunking on Jordy's little baby boy and go. It's like, okay, you're LeBron James. It's a. I didn't doubt that the United States military has the capabilities of blowing up a freaking fishing boat. Why don't you try to focus now on doing the hard work, which is supporting NATO and supporting Ukraine and supporting Zelensky in real wars, in real fights, versus you blowing up freaking fishing boats and posting it on your social media? I mean, for real, other than isis, right, which would post the death videos that they would do. Like, what group of people post execution videos? Other than terrorist organization. Other than terrorist organizations. Like, leaders like the Ayatollah of Iran's not posting photos. You know, the videos of the executions, I mean, they're happening, but you're not posting it publicly online. Like, this is not even a thing to brag. It makes you look extra weak. I think it reinforces, first off, like, are you gonna have a fishing boat? Like, would you. Do you want to fish in the Gulf of Mexico or be anywhere even near all the. Get shot down, down. But if you're our allies, you're like, yo, they are literally crazy. Not like, crazy crazy good. Like, they are weak crazy. And what the hell is going on there in general? So when we come back, I want to show you. Speaking of which, it's like, everything to hurt the country, they're doing. Let's get rid of wind and solar energy. Why Donald Trump doesn't like windmills. Let's not make vaccines a requirement for children anymore. Where now polo, measles, polio, measles. Mumps, rubella, all of these serious diseases. Bubonic plague can now spread once again. Why? Because Trump and RFK Jr think that spreading this disinformation is a great way to grift. And it's part of their quack fake science that they or quackery that they engage in. It's every move they make is nonsensical, non planned, no organization. Because Trump's a crazy guy. He's literally like a psychopath. He's a malignant narcissist psychopath who doesn't speak in full sentences and he's like treated like, oh, I guess that's the president of anything. No, I don't need to show this crazy psychopath any respect. The guy's a lunatic. He's not speaking in sentences. He's rotting and decomposing before our eyes. He makes us look so weak and pathetic. He's covering up for a pedo sex trafficking ring and just call out this behavior. When we come back, we'll show you more. I want to show what Governor Pritzker said to me. I want to show what went down in some of these hearings. And let's talk about other topics as well. A reminder, subscribe to Midas Canada. Charlie Angus leading Midas Canada. It's doing great. I want to see Midas Canada hit 1 million subscribers. So please everybody subscribe to Midas Canada. It's an honor, really. This has been like one of the most incredible things I felt like I've, I've done in my life in order to help and it's just now it's Charlie Angus. He's. Charlie's gonna run it. Charlie has full editorial control. Full. And he's gonna run this in the interest of Canada. But democracy needs to be viewed as across borders, internationally, as a movement. So I'm looking to Australia next we're looking to Europe and Mexico and South America and Asia and Africa where I want to have more Midas Touch networks there as well. And a reminder, please join. So become a member right now of the Midas Touch YouTube channel. We'll be right back. Lot to discuss last break of the show.

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Ben (58:25)

They were already linked up. But. But. Yes, but with the other. But with the other people who were showing up, I think that obviously their discussion was, yo, I saw it up close. Like, the dude is crazy. Like, dude is crazy. Like, could you believe, like, the gift that we've been handed? Oh, we were lucky. Russia's economy was down the tubes. We were getting screwed. The sanctions were working. This guy, like, loves me. He's so. We so weird. And then Modi's like, yeah, he. He thinks that he's gonna go after India. We're just gonna. We're gonna just go elsewhere. I mean, the guys that. The guy is a total lunatic. He wanted me to give him a Nobel Peace Prize. He wanted.

Brett (59:08)

He's.

Ben (59:09)

What's a Nobel Peace Prize for me? And then he goes to Pakistan and they give him a Nobel Peace Prize and they invest crypto, the money in Trump's new crypto venture, World Liberty Financial. The guys first, what do you think they're. They're doing exactly what I'm saying. What do you think they're talking about? About? We are the laughing stock of the world. When Trump is like, oh, the world's laughing at us. They literally are laughing at us. And our corporate media is so like, WWE Media or like, the way the NFL Channel covers the NFL is how corporate media, like, covers America. They're like, yo, everybody loves it. Let's go like, okay, y' all are just wild. Like, it's why I always have been reading India's media. What's going on in Japan, Ken? What's going on in Can. I've studied it. And if I felt that, like, they're being propagandized the way Sky News does, which is owned by Murdoch in Australia, for example, I'm listening to what the people are actually saying. And across the world, no one respects America, right? Nobody respects them. Zero. We, we are looked at as a crazier country than North Korea with Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un ain't posting the execution videos. Yeah. Donald Trump blowing up fishing boats and posting execution videos and then doing Rosie o'. Donnell. No, no offense to Rosie o', Donnell, because I actually think she's great. No one's thinking about Rosie o' Donnell right now other than Donald Trump. The fact that Rosie o' Donnell Occupy. Other than, like, oh, she was, she was funny and she, you know, I liked her. You know, I mean, I think she was a talented person. She's trying to live a peaceful life in Ireland island, but who's waking up and going, Rosie. And by the way, it's because Trump perpetually also lives in, like, 1991, in 1992. Like, his whole reference to the world are events that happened.

Brett (60:58)

Like, he does seem stuck in that time period, by the way. I think a lot of his followers seems kind of stuck in that time period as, as, well, it's, it's a weird thing, but, you know, and when Trump's focusing on a Rosie, when he's posting these dumb memes, when we are seeing these purges of actual expertise from our government, when we are seeing USAID dismantled, when we're seeing the CDC purged, when we're seeing what's happening with RFK and the HHS and, oh, my God. We'll play some of these clips from this hearing today, which was just. The entire thing was such a train wreck. When we see what his Department of Energy is doing to our energy and our climate, you know, what all these other countries are doing, you know what China's doing and Russia's doing North Korea, all these other countries, they're going, okay, totally, you know, sidelining themselves from these futuristic technologies and, and they're sidelining themselves from being the world leader of health and energy and all this stuff. I guess we'll just do it then. I guess we'll, we'll be the best now. They don't want to do it. I'll, we'll do it.

Ben (61:58)

You know, thinking of like a World cup reference. Soccer here in the United States or football abroad. Imagine like you're playing a competitive game and you think it's like the two best teams playing against each other. So you're like, all right, we've been training with, you know, we're ready to go against the best teams, number one versus number two in the world. You start playing and then the best team, number one, in this case the usa, starts taking the ball and then they start dribbling it back and then just start scoring and doing own goals on their own net. Every single time, they keep scoring on themselves. And in the, this example that I'm giving, China's, like looking at the United States continue to score on its own goal, and they're like, I guess, okay.

Jordy (62:44)

And then, and then Ben. And then the head coach, instead of yelling at his players, hey, stop doing the own goals. He's saying, rosie. No, Rosie. I mean, like, it's the. I want to comment on the Rosie stuff.

Ben (62:54)

Just really quick.

Jordy (62:55)

It's really embarrassing. I just want to say it's really been. It is really, really friggin embarrassing. Rosie is amazing. And the way she's handled it is amazing. Needless to say, Trump's behavior is. It's bizarre, it's pathetic, and it is embarrassment to this country. Like, it's beneath the office, but so obviously not beneath the man who is Donald Trump or, or the it that is Donald Trump. It feels like he's been attacking Rosie now for like 15 years. It's, it's really, it's really like next level deranged stuff. And I mean that. Like, it is really deranged stuff. So corporate media, not to play our favorite game, but to play our favorite game. Imagine if Biden did it. Imagine if President Biden, from the official accounts of the President and the White House, tweeted out stuff attacking a citizen of the country saying, hey, I am going to revoke. We're looking into revoking their citizenship. Like, imagine if he did just one tweet like that, just one. Not the, not the hundreds that Trump has attacked Rosie in the past. But imagine if Biden just did one. Your reaction would be that this man is unfit for office. It is beneath the office. This is despicable. This shouldn't. So why now? And I mean it. Why now?

Ben (64:09)

Why?

Jordy (64:09)

When Donald Trump does it, you don't hold his feet to the fire because he's Donald Trump. There's Donnie being Donnie. No, it's an embarrassment to this frigging country. Middle schoolers wouldn't get away with this type of behavior if they picked on their classmates like this. Why are we letting, or why is corporate media letting President Trump get away with this type of behavior?

Brett (64:28)

Let me, let me show you this. So we're gonna, we're gonna get into the vaccine stuff in this disastrous RFK hearing today, which was just a total mess. But I think it fits into this whole notion of the destruction of our institutions, the destruction of things that actually make America great, and the ability of other countries to step in and to actually have dominance in these areas. So one example is energy in the cloud climate. And so if we look at this right here, this was a real tweet that was sent by the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. We've played some videos of Chris Wright over the past few weeks on this show and he writes the following, and I'll just preface this in the beginning that this is a lie and I'll give you the fact check after he says, even if you wrapped the entire planet in a solar panel, you would only be producing 20% of global energy. One of the biggest mistakes politicians can make is equating the electricity with energy. So he was fact checked by a community note on Twitter that said actually covering just 1% of land with solar panels could theoretically power the entire planet. Electricity is energy and electrification replaces fossil use and transport, heat and industry. So just this very notion that you have, the Secretary of Energy, you have this, this solar energy, this incredible technology that other countries are, are expanding, that we've been expanding here in the United States, and you have somebody who is just attacking this form of energy just because of their ideology, just to support the fossil fuel industry. I get it. You like fossil fuels. I get it. Yes, we still do need fossil fuels. I'm not going to deny that. But you have these renewable forms of energy and you're just going to say F you to that. You know who's not being an idiot? You know who's not being stupid? China. I'll show you right now, look how China is dominating in solar energy. For those listening, I'm showing a chart which shows the, the China's wind and solar construction and how it compares to the rest of the world. There is one giant, giant, giant circle that is China's wind and solar construction. You could see the United States is one of the bubbles to the right. This just shows you that other countries aren't playing these weird ideology games that MAGA's playing where they just go, oh, screw that. That's woke. That's no. They're going. This is actually going to help us. We're going to be in the future while, while united, the United States is going to be focused on coal and fossil fuels and doing all this dumb stuff. You've had the Trump administration now, I think it was like near Rhode Island, Rhode island, there, wind farm that they were creating that was like nearly done. It was like 90%, maybe 95% completed. They stopped the whole project. So that's like jobs that are going away. That's more renewable energy that are going away just because Donald Trump doesn't like wind. And Donald Trump likes to say that the prices of everything are coming down. Just a complete lie. You look at energy prices, which is something that Donald Trump says are hitting rock bottom. I'll show you the energy electricity costs right here. Electricity costs are near a record high right now. A record high. And this is as right now we're seeing AI spread throughout the country. AI uses so much energy and is so bad for the climate that we really need as much energy as we could get if we're going to be able to deal with all of this. And so, for example, Meadow right now is building a data center in Cheyenne. Wyoming will use more electricity than every single home in the state in that one data center center. So at a time when we should be trying to find as much energy and electricity as we can, as much forms expanding solar, expanding wind. Donald Trump and his administration are spreading lies about these technologies just to help the fossil fuel industry. And they're screwing over America. They're making you pay more, and none of it makes any sense. And other countries are taking the mantle and they go, okay, we're going to do it then. Okay, screw you guys then.

Ben (68:12)

You have US oil giants, though, like ConocoPhillips and many others laying off most of their stat. Like 25. The ConocoPhillips announced like 25% of all of its staff's gonna be laid off. And they're the latest in a series of these oil companies that are saying they're losing money, they can't really expand their drilling anymore. So there's no drill, baby, drill. I think everybody needs to realize the though that when holistically the economy is doing bad, that's bad for everybody. And when Trump pits us all against each other and we're not working together to diversify and have a, you know, a broader overall goal, everybody ends up getting screwed. If you think, oh, he's going to help me, but he's going to Screw over them? No, it's going to eventually screw you over as well. And we're seeing that with the job numbers. The fact that it's the worst private sector job report numbers since 2009. Right. I think for the first time in recent job in the market history there are significantly like more houses that are out there. What's the stat, Brett, about how there are more houses that are out for sale right now? Housing data shows sellers now exceed buyers by over 500,000, marking the largest imbalance ever recorded in the market. There's so many other real traps like that that exist right now.

Brett (69:43)

Every economic metric right now indicator looks horrible. Like both beneath the surface, everything looks absolutely horrible. And then you have the markets which are doing their own thing, but you have like it's really looking like 2009 recession indicators all over the place. Just waiting for the house of cards to. And the fact that like nobody is really calling this out right now is just absolutely insane.

Ben (70:10)

And then it's always reported though in the news. Everything's like sudden. It's a shock. Oh my gosh. Shocking report. How did we not pick this up? It's staring you in the face. The data is right. If you want to look at accurate data, it's all, it's all right there. None the of this should come as a surprise when we head into a recession, when we're in stagflation, right? I mean we're basically in stagflation right now. Nobody wants to call it and be the first to report it, but we have declining gdp, we have rising inflation and we have rising unemployment. That's called stagflation. Like that exists. That's was really bad in the 1970s. And the impact of the tariffs, Tariffs, it's only going to get worse and worse and worse now because it really only started to take effect over the past 30 to 60 days in a, in a aggressive sense because Trump kept on delaying and this and that and now they're in effect and people's businesses are getting absolutely crushed. The uncertainty is crushing. Businesses. Businesses have tried. You're a business person, you know what I'm saying? Talking businesses have tried so hard not to pass it on to the consumer and, and, and eat it as much as they're. They can't anymore, otherwise they're going to go bankrupt. And guess what? There have been more bankruptcies through August than the last two and a half years combined. And the most bankruptcies on record since the Great Recession. Also we're seeing all this data in front of us. Not to mention there are 6 million Americans who are defaulting on their student loans right now. That means their credit has been trashed. That means they can't buy cars or lease cars or buy homes or rent homes. They can try to maybe get a co signer or get a family member, but We've just removed 6 million college educated people or even grad school educated people from participating in the market by using the Department of Education for the sole purpose of being punitive versus actually using the Department of Education to be helpful. It's what Gavin Newsom said, that Trump uses the government to do things to people, to hurt people. And Newsom says we should use the government to do things for people. The government should help people and actually do things. I interviewed Governor Pritzker today who said Trump's got weird derangement syndrome. About me. He wants to focus on invading Chicago. Go. Maybe he should focus on some other things rather than just like, hey, Don, focus on the world and what your actual job is. Stop being obsessed with me. Here, play this clip. We've reduced crime significantly in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois. We are in the bottom half in terms of, you know, high violent crime of the states.

Jordy (73:06)

Right.

Ben (73:06)

We're, we're 19th best in the country. I'd like to be first best in the country, but 19th is way better than the President is indicating. And, and the city of Chicago isn't even in the top 25 most dangerous violent crime cities, so he needs to.

Jordy (73:22)

Do a little reading.

Ben (73:24)

I know he doesn't do much of that, and instead maybe someone can inform him what the facts are, but he seems a little obsessed with me and with Chicago. Maybe he's got Pritzker derangement syndrome, but maybe again, he could just, you know, take a beat, learn a few things and focus elsewhere, maybe on protecting the country from the axis of evil that is beginning to form between China, Russia, North Korea, and they're drawing in India. I want to share this. Well said. And by the way, if you want to know how broken our media is right now, when I've seen all the interviews with Governor Pritzker, everything the media wants to ask is like, do you take Ozempic now? Or my God, how are you getting so skinny? And it's like, dude, the guy's city is about to be invaded any moment right now. Like, the number one topic, are you taking this one or are you taking Zephyron? It's like, okay, just leave the man alone. Stop asking him private health questions about himself. Just Focus on the fact that Trump is, I don't know, invading a united another United States city. Let's talk quickly about what went down during these congressional hearings in the Senate. RFK Jr. Was there. Democratic senator from Virginia, Mark Warner had some questions. Let's take a look at what we're doing.

Interviewer/Reporter (74:45)

That seems where your emphasis is. I want to go back to just again some basic facts. Do you, do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID I don't know how many. You're the Secretary of Health and Human Services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from COVID I don't think anybody knows that because the there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC and there was incentives and these are models. You don't know the answer of how many Americans from COVID This is the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Do you think the vaccine did anything to prevent additional deaths? Again, I would like to see the data and talk about the data. You had had this job for, for eight months and you don't know the data about whether the vaccine problem is that they didn't have the data. The data by the Biden administration absolutely disabled. So when Ada who is politicizing, you're saying the Biden administration politicized all the data? Go back to wash camp. Well, just go to the Trump surgeon General. They fired Dr. Crowd. They fired all the people who questioned the orthodoxy. They co fired Dr. Gruber. Dr. Kaus chairman, Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn't no matter how many Americans died from COVID let them know if the vaccine helped prevent any deaths. And you were sitting as Secretary of Health and Human Services. How can you be that ignorant? Like you know, I remember when we went to the hearing with you, I asked you about community health centers. You didn't know what role they played. I've been visiting. I'm glad you got to one think in April. I tell you what I hear on community health centers. They are terrified.

Ben (76:30)

Senator Michael Bennett, Democrat from Colorado. Let's play it.

Interviewer/Reporter (76:34)

Are you saying that the MRNA vaccine has never been associated with myocarditis or pericarditis? I am simply trying to tell. I am simply trying to say that the people that you have put on that panel after firing the entire Evading the question. No, I'm asking the questions here. Evading that question. I'm asking the questions. I'm asking the questions for Mr. Kennedy on behalf of parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America who deserve so much better. Than your leadership. That's what this conversation is about. Senator, Chairman, Senator. They deserve the truth, and that's what we're going to give them for the first time in the history of that agency.

Ben (77:23)

Show you Republican Senator Cassidy from Louisiana himself. He's a doctor. He's the reason why Kennedy ended up getting confirmed, because Kennedy made him a promise. RFK Jr made him a promise that he would not do anything with the vaccine advisory boards. And. And then right away manipulated the vaccine advisory boards. So Senator Cassidy had a clever, I guess, way of doing this and saying, do you think Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for Operation Warp Speed, getting out the vaccines? And then when RFK Jr says yes, because they're all sycophants who say that Donald Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize, go, how does that make sense? You've said the vaccine has killed millions of people. So if it's killed millions of people, why are you gonna give them the Nobel Peace Prize? There's no logic to these people because they're illogical, like vile human beings.

Brett (78:14)

Here, play this clip economies.

Ben (78:16)

An incredible accomplishment. Mr. Secretary, do you agree with me that the President. That the President deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?

Interviewer/Reporter (78:24)

Absolutely. Senator, let me ask you.

Ben (78:28)

But you just told Senator Bennett that the COVID vaccine killed more people than Covid.

Interviewer/Reporter (78:36)

Wait, that was a statement I didn't understand. Say that.

Ben (78:39)

Okay, then let me ask, because you also.

Interviewer/Reporter (78:41)

Senator, I just want to make clear I did not say.

Ben (78:44)

Well, we'll check the record.

Brett (78:45)

That's a question of fact. You also said that you were also.

Interviewer/Reporter (78:49)

As lead attorney for the Children's Health.

Ben (78:51)

Defense, you engaged in multiple lawsuits attempting to restrict access to the COVID vaccine.

Brett (78:58)

Again, it surprises me that you think so highly of Operation Warp Speed when, as an attorney.

Ben (79:03)

Attorney, you attempted to restrict access. Okay, good questioning. But what. You confirmed the guy. Why would you vote in favor of that guy? I mean, that. That to me, in this moment is. You want to call it the Murkowski or Susan Collins or the Cassidy model. Like, like you supported the guy who you knew would kill people, and then he's killing people, and then you are like, why are you killing people when you knew that he was that guy? Like, like you could have stopped it, man. Like, you could have stopped this. And there's so many people. Like, you could stop this. And it's not even asking them to be courageous. It's just asking them just. Just say no. I'm not even asking you to go the distance, like, and actually fight. Like, all you have to do is vote against this and you could have saved, but like, now you're complicit it in whatever the hell this is. So.

Jordy (79:58)

Did you hear how quick?

Ben (79:59)

I'll show you 100 other clips like that, but that's what we hear.

Jordy (80:01)

I was just gonna. Did you hear how quick he responded when he thought the question was going to be more positioned to Donald Trump than Nobel Peace Prize? I mean, he jumped it like he couldn't even let the guy finish the sentence. Yes, yeah, nominate him. I mean, RFK is such. He's a jag off. And I mean it because he's really hurting people. And so I just had my sons, like 20 minutes, month appointment and whatnot. And so I'm talking to our, you know, pediatrician. I'm like, hey, you know, should we get the COVID vaccine? Like, I'm just really curious. I want to understand, you know, your thoughts. She's like, absolutely. But like, she said it to me in a way, like, she was like, upset. I'm like, what's going on? She's like, I don't know if we're.

Ben (80:39)

Going to have it.

Jordy (80:39)

She's like, I just. I don't know. She's like, I think definitely based on the science and the data that we know in the medical community that kids should get it. My son's 20 months old. I'm terrified this upcoming flu Covid season right now and that he's not going to be protected because quite frankly, she's not going to have the materials here, the vaccines to protect Ben.

Ben (81:03)

Setting aside Covid, though, which we shouldn't set aside, right? Millions of people, okay. They act like it didn't killed millions of people and the vaccine saved tens of millions of lives.

Brett (81:14)

Lives.

Ben (81:14)

Yeah. The death could have been so much more. They're not just talking about COVID Right? They're talking about polio. They're talking about measles and mumps and rubella and bubonic plate. Like, they're talking about all of the things that we've eradicated that they want to bring back. I mean, look at the MAGA surgeon general from Florida. Just to be clear, he says these vaccines. He's not just talking about COVID George. He's talking about all of them. Polio, rubella, measles, mumps. He's saying that it's slavery, that it's a version of slavery to. In 1991, 80 plus percent of Americans supported mandatory vaccines for children. It wasn't like a question then. In 2019, it was 61% right now it's 51. Right now. That's what it is right now. Do we have that clip, Brett, of. Of him? Let's play it. If we do, every last one of.

Interviewer/Reporter (82:15)

Them is wrong and drips with disdain and.

Ben (82:19)

And slavery.

Interviewer/Reporter (82:20)

Okay, who am I as a government or anyone else?

Ben (82:26)

Or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body? Well, as a man standing now, who put your hand on your heart to seem earnest? Let me ask you to do this, sir. Sir, I want you to go into the home of a child who's suffering from polio or measles or any of the diseases that we've eradicated with vaccine. I want you. You know what, sir, I'm going to put my hand on my heart, sir, because that shows that I'm. I'm a serious man, sir.

Interviewer/Reporter (83:00)

Okay.

Ben (83:01)

What I'm going to want you to do, sir, I'm going to want you to bring your children next to their children. Okay? And I want to see what. Sir, why don't we have your children go to a country where there's a ton of diseases, Ebola. We can bring them to a place where there's Covid. We can bring them to a place where there's mumps and measles. We can bring them to a place where they're dead. We'll put your whole family, sir. And as a man standing there as a man, man to man, what are you talking about? Why can't we just be normal here and do what's in the interest of science and health? Why are we going there? Why are we doing that?

Brett (83:47)

Yeah. And you know, it's almost like. It's almost like these incredible life saving technologies and advancements in medicine are taken for granted and are like victims of their own, you know, because people aren't thinking about. Well, now they are. Now measles is spreading once again. But typically people aren't thinking about measles. They're not worried about mumps or rubella. They're not worried about all polio because we've eradicated a lot of these things or at least tamped them way down because of vaccines. And so now these people have the nerve to be stripping away these vaccine protections that people died like by the millions over before these things existed. And now you're seeing like, I don't know, I just don't understand how, if you're a Florida voter, how are you okay with this? How are you okay sending your child to school with this sort of guidance? How Are like, are this tax policy that important to you or are you going to get rid of these idiots who are endangering you and your kids lives? It's just so crazy to me. And now we're seeing like this weird kind of division in America, almost like a weird, almost Civil War style division where you have something called the West Coast Alliance, Health alliance forming. You have California, California, Oregon, Washington. You had Hawaii just join and they're basically saying, all right, if the federal government isn't going to protect us and give proper guidance to our kids and our families on vaccinations, immunizations on health, then we're going to have to do it ourselves. So you see that happening on the West Coast. You see there's a, there are eight New England and Mid Atlantic states. They formed their own coalition to address the CDC shortfalls, let's say led by RFK's lies and disinformation. So you have like Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. They're banding together right now to make their own recommendations for vaccines. Like this isn't how it's supposed to work. We're supposed to have a CDC that actually follows science, not this quack RFK junior. It's like having somebody on like, like the worst person you know on a Facebook group comment board now leading our nation's health and it's endangering lives. And it just stood stupid. I truly do not believe how anybody, I cannot fathom how anybody could support this sort of quackery.

Ben (86:07)

Well, we've covered a lot today. Absolutely did. We had to cover all. I don't know how. There was so much that happened this week that not sure we could have done it any other way. Want to remind everybody to subscribe to Midas Canada right now. Let's get Midas Canada to 1 million subscribers in the first month. Ambitious, ambitious, but let's try to do it. Just search YouTube.comitis canada. If you can become a member of our YouTube channel right now, that would be incredibly helpful. We know there are lots of people who can't afford membership. So if you are able to gift memberships to others by clicking the join button and gifting memberships, that goes a long way to help as well. You can check out Our substack@midas+plus.com M E I D A S P L U S.com Next week we will be doing a Patreon zoom. So I'm excited to see everybody there. Patreon.com Midas Touch Excited to meet everybody and answer everybody's questions. Jordy and I will be doing it because Brett will be out, but it'll be a Jordy and Ben. It'll be a Jordan Ben thing. We've been there's been a lot up in the air lately with, with with our schedule individuals and the next time you see Brett, Brett will be Daddy Brett. So we're excited. So, Brett, if you don't see Brett for a few episodes, you know, why don't hold it against him. He's not abandoning us. He's just there there with his new baby. So, Brett, all the best to you. On behalf of all the Midas mighty, thank you everybody for watching. We appreciate you and Jordy take it away.

Jordy (87:46)

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Interviewer/Reporter (88:39)

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