Trump has Disaster Sunday as All Plans Collapse

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Trump has Disaster Sunday as All Plans Collapse"

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
Date: July 19, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the unraveling narrative and mounting problems for the Trump regime, focusing on the disastrous escalation of the war with Iran, increasing U.S. military vulnerability in the Middle East, and the regime’s chaotic, misleading messaging. The Meiselas brothers break down Trump’s false claims of military control, his administration's media spin, the ongoing fallout in Iran and neighboring countries, as well as significant domestic distractions and political theater from MAGA Republicans. The brothers balance sharp analysis with their signature humor and unapologetic pro-democracy stance.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Escalation and Consequences of the Iran Conflict

• Trump Administration's War Narrative Collapses:
  • Ben analyzes Donald Trump’s attempt to control the narrative amid major military setbacks. Trump “is in full panic mode as his escalation of the catastrophic war in Iran has backfired.” (01:15)
  • Despite White House claims, Iran successfully targets U.S. air bases across the Middle East, including Jordan, causing significant casualties and forcing emergency evacuations.
• Contradictory Official Messaging:
  • Energy Secretary Chris Wright insists the U.S. "controls the Strait of Hormuz” (02:15) and paints a picture of successful military action. Yet, real-world events directly contradict these assertions.
  • Major U.S. assets—such as drones and helicopters—destroyed by Iran; U.S. forced to relocate military aircraft to safer zones like Israel.
  • Iran’s strategy is to expose the vulnerabilities of Gulf states who believed U.S./Trump promises of protection, showing “you still have US Bases there, we're gonna strike your countries.” (10:30)
• Propaganda vs Reality:
  • The MAGA Republican/Trump narrative is repeatedly debunked by actual events—like continued Iranian missile and drone attacks—which demonstrate that “Trump has lied about everything his entire life.” (03:50)
  • Ben jokes about the “cosplay deranged stuff from the Trump regime” (01:34), using the brothers’ signature blend of biting critique and humor.

2. Media Coverage and Information Warfare

• Right-Wing Media Echo Chamber:
  • MAGA commentators (e.g., Maria Bartiromo, Matt Von Swall) express confusion as Trump’s claims of “obliterating” Iran prove hollow (04:05).
  • Ben highlights how right-wing media “floods the zone” with stories falsely promoting U.S. strength and Iranian weakness (14:13).
  • He stresses the importance of objective fact-checking and advocates for tools like Ground News to see stories across the political spectrum and cut through the spin (14:13).
• Memorable Quote:
  • “I want to study what the right is reporting on, what the left is reporting on, what the so-called center is reporting on. Then I want to go to the original sources and I do an exhaustive analysis every morning…” – Ben (14:00)

3. Distractions and Political Theater at Home

• Deflection Tactics:
  • While international crises rage, media is used to distract and instill fear, e.g., Fox News segments on “Parents Night Out” babysitting event in NYC devolve into absurd culture war attacks (13:19).
  • Ben lampoons the “fresh hell” of right-wing media panic and emphasizes the need for a responsible media diet (13:52).
• House GOP’s Lack of Oversight or Action:
  • Rep. James Comer openly admits the House is wrapping up without substantive oversight, revealing lack of accountability (17:49).
• Rhetoric about Communism and Socialism:
  • MAGA figures use extreme language about “Marxism, communism, socialism” to fearmonger about Democrats and reinforce Trump’s “oligarch” system masquerading as anti-elite (19:17, 20:21).
  • Ben: “Trump has a communism for the oligarchs. And that's often how it does kind of spiral. And that's what we're seeing happen.” (18:24)

4. Notable Reactions and Emerging Voices

• Trump’s Indifference and Deflections:
  • Trump dismisses concern about a key international Memorandum of Understanding: “I couldn’t care less. Thank you very much.” (06:54, 07:46)
  • Reacting to U.S. service member deaths, Trump flatly frames them as sacrifices to block Iranian nuclear ambitions but contradicts earlier claims of destroying Iran’s arsenal (06:54-07:46).
• Obama on Political Hypocrisy and Nativism:
  • Former President Obama (clip) critiques current GOP politics as overtly nativist—now veiled in hypocrisy rather than open malice:
    • "Listen, hypocrisy is progress because it means that you feel guilty enough to either lie to yourself or others. And that is better than not even thinking about the idea that maybe you're doing something wrong." (22:34)
• Hunter Biden on Washington’s “Closetocracy”:
  • Hunter Biden introduces the term “closetocracy,” alleging a pervasive, closeted gay network among Republican elites, and argues unresolved internal conflict breeds external vitriol (23:18).

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Notable Quotes & Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote / Moment | |-----------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:15 | Ben | "Donald Trump is in full panic mode as his escalation of the catastrophic war in Iran has backfired." | | 02:15 | Energy Secretary Chris Wright | “President Trump wants to end it with a peaceful agreement with Iran, but it takes two parties to do that.” | | 04:05 | Maria Bartiromo (summary) | “We’ve obliterated the Iranian army, but they’re hitting all of these bases really hard…” | | 06:54 | Trump (via Xavier) | "I couldn't care less. Thank you very much." (on the MOU and Iranian rejections) | | 13:52 | Ben (satirizing Fox) | "Would you trust your child or children with a total stranger?... What the fresh hell is this?" | | 14:00 | Ben | “I want to study what the right is reporting on, what the left is reporting on, what the so-called center is reporting on..."| | 17:49 | Rep. James Comer | “We’re heading into the August work period ... so this has to happen this week.” | | 19:17 | MAGA Mike | “Marxism, communism, socialism begin with the premise that there is no God … it leads to death.” | | 20:21 | MAGA Mike | “Marxism has led to the murder of tens of millions of innocent people ... I’m here to tell you it’s wrong." | | 21:24–22:14 | Barack Obama | “One of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘we the people’ means a certain kind of people… That echoes then ideas about who can be a citizen, who belongs, who gets to make decisions.” | | 22:34 | Barack Obama | “Listen, hypocrisy is progress because it means that you feel guilty enough to either lie to yourself or others.” | | 23:18 | Hunter Biden | “Everybody knows there is like this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington D.C. ... I call is [sic] the closetocracy…” |

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Segment Timestamps

• Introduction & Trump's Posturing: 01:15–03:50
• Catastrophe at US Bases / MAGA Media Spin: 03:50–08:38
• Middle East Escalation & Iranian Strategy: 08:38–13:19
• Fox Media Distractions & US Political Inaction: 13:19–18:24
• MAGA Messaging & Culture War Playbook: 18:24–21:24
• Obama Reflects on Nativism & Hypocrisy: 21:24–22:34
• Hunter Biden’s “Closetocracy” Commentary: 23:02–23:18
• Wrap-Up / Call to Action: 24:35–end

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Tone and Language

The MeidasTouch Podcast maintains its trademark energetic, irreverent, and fact-driven style. The brothers combine sharp political critique with comedic sibling banter and plainspoken, urgent language in support of democracy and government accountability.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode is a scathing review of the Trump regime’s imploding Iran war narrative, the perilous real-world fallout across the Middle East, and the regime’s attempts at distraction and gaslighting. The hosts reinforce the need for media literacy, fact-checking, and civic engagement, offering a blend of sobering analysis and biting humor that marks MeidasTouch as an essential voice for pro-democracy commentary.

Transcript

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Donald Trump is in full panic mode as his escalation of the catastrophic war in Iran has backfired. Iran has demonstrated it is capable of hitting US Air bases hard in the Middle East. So now Donald Trump has finally surfaced. I mean, he made a post this morning praising the UK for potentially drilling off of its coast. But then Donald Trump sent out his proxies like Energy Secretary Chris Wright to claim that the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz and that if Iran begs for a deal, maybe the US May come back to the table. But as of right now, the US Controls the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump regime is saying, and the US is, is directing traffic. I mean, all of this cosplay deranged stuff from the Trump regime is so utterly humiliating. But here's what Trump's energy secretary says here. Let's play this clip right here.

[Energy Secretary Chris Wright]

President Trump wants to end it with a peaceful agreement with Iran, but it takes two parties to do that. If they're, if they're, if they're ready to do that, that's the way it'll end. If not, we will continue to assure flow of traffic through the Strait without Iran's cooperation.

[Ben]

Now, in the real world, the US Embassy in Jordan has just warned that due to credible threats, the Aqaba International Airport and seaport in Jordan has now been fully evacuated as the US has turned that international airport into a military base as Iran has successfully hit other bases in Jordan, which also resulted in numerous casualties, including at least two deaths of US Service members, although we believe that number is much higher then on state regime media this morning, Maria Bartiroma had on MAGA Republican Congress members and MAGA Republican advisors. I mean, here you have Victoria Coates, a former deputy national Security advisor, on Bartiroma and Maria Bartiroma's like, I'm getting a little confused right here. We've obliterated the Iranian army, but they're hitting all of these bases really hard in Jordan. They're even hitting Saudi Arabia. They're hitting Bahrain. They're hitting, they're hitting all the Kuwait. What's going on here? What's going on? Have you maybe thought that Donald Trump's a liar and that we didn't obliterate Iran's military and that Trump has lied about everything his entire life? Like we don't control the Strait of Hormuz and we've hit Strategic Petroleum reserve tank bottom. Here's what Maria Bartiroma and her MAGA guest has to play this clip.

[Xavier]

You know, CENTCOM says that there will be outsized action in retaliation. But I don't understand how it's possible that Iran has the capabilities to fight this way and continue to try to lash out at Gulf countries and US Military bases. Because the US has obliterated Iran's military and the president continues to reiterate that.

[MAGA Mike]

Yes.

[Ben]

And if you look at the numbers of missiles that they've been able to fire off from the beginning of this war, you know, late February, early March, and what they're able to do now, it is very seriously degraded. They've gone from over a hundred, you know, and you have all of these MAGA commentators this morning and MAGA social media influencers like Matt Von Swall saying, I'm confused. The USA has the most powerful military on earth. We've bombed the hell out of Iran for four months. Trump says their air Force, navy, and nearly all of their missile capabilities are destroyed. So how is Iran capable of hitting US Bases? Right, because Trump lies about everything. Speaking of Energy Secretary Wright on ABC this week said, you know, we did actually win the war in the first four to six weeks, then we did negotiations Then we did a pivot. And so that's what's really going on right now. But when I said that we were gonna end this in a few days, or we needed four to six weeks, we did. Then we did negotiations because we wanted to give peace a chance in the United States. That's what we wanted to do. And then we did a pivot here. Let's play this clip.

[Energy Secretary Chris Wright]

You were on this show back in March, and I want to play something of what you said about how long this war would last. I think that this conflict will certainly come to the end in the next few weeks. Could be sooner than that. So you said it would certainly come to an end within a few weeks. We are now nearly five months into this war. How does it end? When does it end? Well, the plan we needed four to six weeks for military actions. They went for five and a half weeks. We did a pause to try to get an agreement with the Iranian people to allow oil to flow without them attacking it. They've proven unwilling to do that.

[Ben]

But Energy Secretary Wright wants everybody to know that gasoline prices today are actually much cheaper than former President Biden, and everybody's thriving right now. That's what he wants everybody to know. Here, play this clip.

[Energy Secretary Chris Wright]

As well supplied as we can, gasoline prices today are more than a dollar a gallon cheaper than they were four years ago under the Biden administration. And we'll do everything.

[Ben]

Also, Donald Trump called into News Nation. And Donald Trump said that any. He said, I couldn't care less. Thank you very much. When it comes to whether or not the MOU exists, Trump says, I don't really care if the mou, the thing you cared about so much, you held it up in Versailles. He goes, I don't care about that memorandum of understanding anymore. And he goes, the good thing about those service members dying in Jordan, they did it for the love of the country, and they did it sacrificing to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon. Okay, you said you obliterated their nuclear arsenal in June of 2025. You've done nothing. What in the world are you talking about here? Play this clip.

[Xavier]

Xavier. That's right. We called him to get his reaction on these troops who were killed in action. The president telling me over the phone that it's very sad. He said, it's a very sad thing. We hate to see it happen. He says that they were in service of our country and they, every one of them, will never allow. They'll fight to the death, never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon. And that last part, of course, is something we've repeatedly heard President Trump cite as the driving force for this war with Iran. So I thought that was notable. And I also had a quick second to ask the president about Iranian leaders who said today they are no longer following the memorandum of understanding. I asked him his reaction to that, and he said, I couldn't care less. And it was really just a brief phone call, but certainly some noteworthy reactions from President Trump.

[Ben]

Now, with all of this as background this morning as well, Israeli forces entered, not just we've talked about Lebanon before, we obviously talked about Gaza and the West Bank. But you do know that Israel's in Syria as well. In areas of Syria, Israeli forces enter the village of Al Samandaya Al Sharakia in Syria's Quintreau Province with five military vehicles. They set up a temporary checkpoint there, searching civilians in Syria. Also filed a mortar round in a smoke shell nearby. No reported casualties. Syria condemned the operations as part of ongoing Israeli incursions into southern Syria and called for a full Israeli withdrawal. And while you have the Trump regime proxies again pretending that the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz and is controlling the traffic, we have senior Iranian officials, like senior Iranian Member of Parliament Azizi, saying the following. If U.S. troops truly understood what our wise supreme leader meant by unforgettable lessons, they wouldn't waste a single second fleeing. Also, the IRGC navy reporting that this morning four ships, four tankers in the Strait of Hormuz ignored warnings from the IRGC trying to leave the Strait of Hormuz via the unauthorized US Designated route. According to the irgc, two of them were struck and disabled while two others turned back. The IRGC announced that their air defense system also shot down yet another MQ9 Reaper drone a few moments ago over Avaz. Now, if you're saying this seems like deja vu, don't you report like another MQ9 reaper being shot down every day? Yeah, Iran, Iran's been shooting down multiple MQ9 reapers every day. The low estimate, they've destroyed 30 of these MQ9 reaper drones. Maybe it's more like 50 billions of dollars in drones that were destroyed. Iran also destroyed helicopters at these bases in Jordan and the other bases as well. They've destroyed drones at some of these other bases, just probably within the past eight days of this massive US Escalation, Iran has done tens of billions of more dollars in damages and the US has had to move like all of its, like a lot of its aircraft now into Israel, into Ben Gurion Airport there and others, because that's just the one area as of now that Iran has really not struck. And Iran strategically not hitting it yet because Iran sees that they have the golden dome there and that they're more heavily protected and Iran's by the US and so while the US Is more heavily protecting Israel and its Israel interests, you know, all those countries that did the quid pro quo deals with Donald Trump and thought that they were getting the security and the Arab nations, Iran sees the vulnerabilities there. So Iran's strategy is also, I think, showing these Arab nations, look, you believe you paid all this money for the US Security umbrella. Look what they're doing. They're protecting Israel right now. And so you're left vulnerable, but you still have bases there. And as long as you have US Bases there, we're gonna strike your countries. And the interceptors are not really working that effectively in these Arab nations that are now being hit by Iran, like Jordan and Kuwait and others in to the US Strikes or the munitions have just run out at this point. And by the way, if you're like, well, Ben, you know, why do you just. Do you know that Iran, are they giving accurate information? I know that they put out a lot of propaganda. I'm not just spitting out what they say, but when their satellite image and you can confirm it and geo located in other areas, we've been right about a lot of this stuff by looking at the geolocations and can they make a statement? Let's geotarget it. Let's see what's going on. So ir release the video of another MQ9 reaper. Then they show the reaper that was destroyed. Here, let me just show you this clip. Let's play it. But on state regime media, one of their big issues while all of this is going on is Mayor Momdani, will he babysit your kids? And. And Mayor Mamdani wants to do a parent's night out. And now they want to have your kids go with strangers. This is how state regime media is trying to kind of fear monger and distract from the fact that Donald Trump is literally looting and pillaging and destroying this country every single day. Here, play this clip.

[Energy Secretary Chris Wright]

Let's start off in New York City, where Mayor Zoran Mamdani wants to babysit your kids. Next month, the city's Parks Department is set to host a parents Night out, where New Yorkers can drop off their kids at a city rec center for free babysitting. What could possibly go wrong Joining us now with reaction Fox News contributor Joe Concha. I'm assuming from that look on your face, you're not going to be dropping your kids off with Zoran Mamdani.

[Ben]

No, Charlie, you've met my kids. I mean, would you trust your child or children with a total stranger? I mean, what the fresh hell is this? Hey honey, let's go bowling tonight and leave the kids with commie kindergarten. I mean, by the way, it's why it's important that we have a good media diet, that we understand

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[Ben]

need to get objective damn facts in our reporting. It's why I use ground news, because I want to study what the right is reporting on, what the left is reporting on, what the so called center is reporting on. Then I want to go to the original sources and I do an exhaustive analysis every morning before I record these videos. So you take a look at this story right here. US Forces redirect five commercial vessels, disable one after resumption of naval blockade on Iran. So this is a big story that was covered by right wing media and it's intended to be like, look, the US Is controlling the Strait of Hormuz when we know that that's not actually what's happening. It's getting no coverage on the left. The center's only covering it just a little bit. But this is getting massive right wing coverage right here. And so you can see how right wing media is flooding the zone with this idea that the US Controls the Strait of Hormuz, that the US Is winning this war, that Iran is begging for a deal which is totally false and fraudulent. And then you, Maria Bartiromo, saying what's going on? We obliterate them. We didn't obliterate them. The US Lost the war to Iran originally and lost the war badly. Iran did not have its weapons obliterated. Iran has probably increased its ballistic capabilities and increased, definitely increased its drone capabilities and adapted its tactics since the since winning the last war against the United States. And that's why Iran is in this position where Trump has escalated and not only has Iran not submitted or surrendered, but Iran has hit back much stronger than before and much more tactically. And if we just assess the objective acts, we would have known that that would be the case and that bombing Iran more is not going to make them want to do a deal at all. It's going to make them totally have no desire to ever do the MOU ever again and it'll cause global catastrophe. And that's what's happening right now. By the way, it's why I partner with Ground News on these videos. They're the best tool for me to stay objective with my reporting. It's an app and a website, Ground News that pulls in thousands of articles from around the world and organizes them by story and shows you how's the left, how's the center, how's the right. Framing stories differently for every story. It has a color coded layout and makes it easy for me to see political bias. So you can compare reporting from the same issue in one place and come to your own conclusion. It shows you what independently owned media's report reporting on, what corporate owned media is reporting on. They have this dedicated blind spot feed that I was just talking about and I believe in Ground News so much we're gonna offer you a 40% off discount of the same vantage plan that I use for my research. So just go click the link in the description or go to Ground News MTN or scan the QR code up here. It's one of the biggest discounts they've offered. If you wanna support this channel and get a clearer understanding of the world. Try out Ground News one more time. It's Ground News MTN. Now going back to this video, I mean you have James Comer who chairs the House Oversight Committee just admitting that they're not doing any oversight at all. And he said look we're going on vacation in a few days anyway. We're going to take our vacation and we're about to leave so we've got a few more days to do things but then we're heading out really just going to head out, no investigation, no anything. This just shows you further their cover up of the Epstein files. Play this clip.

[Congressman James Comer]

Done. I agree with Tillis. This is the last week, this is the last week for, for a number of reasons because we're heading into the August work period where Congress is not in session and we're heading into the November elections. So this has to happen this week. I want to remind everyone we have passed this bill in the House. It's now up to the Senate. It I've spoken with Speaker Johnson, he is communicating with Leader Thune on trying to get this, this is a priority. We keep passing bills and attaching the SAVE act in the House so hopefully it'll get done this week. And I've got.

[Ben]

And what do they want to do? Not any work in the House of Representatives. Instead they want to go out there in the country and do what Mag and Mike was doing today. Fear Monger say, you know The Marxist and the communist and the socialist, they promise you all of this free stuff. They promise you all of this and then they kill you. Yeah, you're describing Donald Trump and you know the biggest tell, you know, when Donald Trump says that he would be the best communist, you go, I'd make the best communist because I just promise everybody free things. Then I wouldn't deliver and I would destroy their lives. I'd be like, Lenine. Yeah, you're describing Donald Trump. That's Donald Trump. And Donald Trump has a communism for the oligarchs. And that's often how it does kind of spiral. And that's what we're seeing happen. Here's what Megan Mike's saying though. Play this clip.

[MAGA Mike]

You see Marxism, communism, socialism begin with the premise that there is no God. And there's a whole different set of implications that follow that. Because if there is no God, it means all that thing about having everybody having inestimable dignity and value doesn't apply anymore. Right. In fact, you don't have any individual dignity or liberty or value. That's inherent. You're just another social animal. You're just part of the herd, by the way. That is the basis of socialism. Okay. You know what happens to the, to the social animals and the herd? They got to be directed, controlled, corralled. They may provide for them a little bit, give them some free stuff, but they're certainly going to take away their freedom and ultimately it leads to death.

[Ben]

More from MAGA Mike here. And this is the message right now heading into the midterm from the MAGA Republicans, they don't deliver on affordability. Everybody's life is worse off except the right wing oligarchs. Things are far less affordable right now. People can't afford homes, health care has been ripped away, data centers in their neighborhood. While Trump and his oligarch script, and this is their message played.

[MAGA Mike]

And this idea of socialism, it's a Marxist idea. Marxism has led to the murder of tens of millions of innocent people. And in the 20th century alone, it is a trail to death. And I'm here to tell you it's wrong because it begins with the wrong premise. You cannot reject the founding ideal, the creed of America, and be able to defend your freedom. Those are mutually exclusive pursuits.

[Ben]

And it's fascinating though to see some former MAGA podcasters or libertarians or people who seem to be more sympathetic to Trump and maga. I'll say, like Tim Dillon. Here's what Tim Dillon had to recently say on his latest podcast. Let's play it. They're in the White House. They have the Congress, they have the Senate, they have the Supreme Court. It is them. It is now them. I don't want to hear about the deep state anymore. And notably you had former President Obama just making a podcast appearance and here's what he had to say recently. Let's play it.

[Barack Obama]

One of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that we the people

[Energy Secretary Chris Wright]

means

[Barack Obama]

a certain kind of people. When you have the vice president, the current vice president, making a speech that is basically a blood and soil version of we the people, that, you know, it matters who your parents were and how long they've been here, despite him being married to an immigrant daughter of an immigrant himself. That echoes then ideas about who can be a citizen, who belongs, who gets to make decisions.

[Ben]

The example you gave is actually a lovely illustration of this. A hundred years ago, a vice president could not stand up and make a nativist argument if he was married to the daughter of an Indian immigrant. But today he can. So we move from malice to hypocrisy. That's progress.

[Barack Obama]

It is progress.

[Ben]

That is progress.

[Barack Obama]

Listen, hypocrisy is progress because it means that you feel guilty enough to either lie to yourself or others. And that is better than not even thinking about the idea that maybe you're doing something wrong. Yeah.

[Ben]

And then finally, Hunter Biden's been making his rounds. And here's what Hunter says. Although I will say the right wing oligarchy is certainly, I think, one of the biggest dangers out there. But here's the point that Hunter makes here play.

[Hunter Biden]

I believe that the biggest problem in America, in Washington D.C. with the federal government, is it not the oligarchy, closet cases, it's the closetocracy, as I call is. And I'm being totally serious. Everybody knows there is like this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington D.C. and everybody knows every single one of them who's gay. And what I believe the only reason that that is relevant is because I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world. And they do. And so what they do is their whole lives they've been closeted. And so you have this like black ball inside yourself, this blackened heart by the fact that you can't be who you want to be. And so you take it out on everybody else. And these men, largely men, have done exactly that. And everybody knows who they are. Everybody. Yeah.

[Ben]

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