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That was the scene from Ukraine last night. 450 drones sent by Russia attacking innocent civilians. 45 ballistic missiles sent by Russia killing innocent civilians. At least six people in Ukraine died while last night the energy and lots of areas in Ukraine was knocked out for hours and hours and hours and Donald Trump's responses you just gotta let them fight, let them fight it out. Donald Trump went from I will bring peace in 24 hours to let them fight it out. By the way, here's what Donald Trump looked like in the Oval Office before he left to go to Mar a Lago this weekend. While we now see what's taking place in international affairs in Ukraine, the take a look at Donald Trump. Remember on the left when he was making fun of disabled persons and that's how he ran the campaign while the tables have turned. Donald and before Donald left, this was actually Donald Trump before he left he was in the White House. He was like passing out sleeping. None of the corporate news covered it. Of course we cover it here on the Midas Touch network. And then when Donald Trump was in Mar a Lago today, here's what he posted this morning. He goes I'm recommending to Senate Republicans that the hundreds of billions of doll currently being sent to money sucking insurance companies in order to save the bad healthcare provided by Obamacare. And he puts this in caps be sent directly to the people so that they can purchase their own much better healthcare and have money left over. In other words, take from the big bad insurance companies, give it to the people and terminate per dollar spent the worst healthcare anywhere in the world. Obamacare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the filibuster exclamation point and Donald Trump will be like, you see this is what my plan is. We're going to eliminate all insurance companies, give people a few thousand dollars and then we're all good. Hey Donald, we remember what was it five months ago when Doge existed or no one talks about Doge anymore. Remember the Doge dividend checks. Everybody was going to get $5,000. Remember, was it a month ago the tariff rebate checks were bringing in so much money, trillions of dollars that everybody's gonna get a tariff rebate check. Lie after lie after lie. It's just fraud from a two bit con artist. As Democratic Senator Chris Murphy says, this is unsurprisingly nonsensical. Is he suggesting we just eliminate health insurance, get rid of everybody's insurance altogether and then give people a few thousand dollars instead? And, and then when they get a cancer diagnosis, they just go bankrupt because they can't afford the procedure. He is so deeply unserious. That's why we are shut down and America knows it. And here's what he was doing last night. He was walking out with like his hands looking actually like, like fricking Frankenstein around Mar A Lago, like yelling at people. It was such a bizarre sight to see. And then he has people like this there at Mar A Lago. I don't even know what the hell was going at Mara, going on at Mar A Lago last you had women who were dressed like this. I kid you not. This is a real photo. This is different from what happened last weekend when they had the half naked women in the martini glasses. This is what's going on right now. And by the way, Democrats made a very serious offer, one that probably frustrated a lot of Democrats at first to these MAGA Republicans, but they called their bluff when it comes to the government shutdown. Democrats said, look, we want the Affordable Care act subsidies to be permanently extended because we need Americans to be able to afford their health insurance. If you extended the tax cuts for the billionaires permanently social the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. But the Democrats said, look, let's do a one year extension on the subsidies and then let's publicly come up with a bipartisan commission and then let's offer solutions to the American people. Then let's have a vote on a date certain next year. By the way, good timing in the sense that it would take place right before the midterm elections so Americans can see which side is serious about a health care plan. But let's not force Americans to lose their healthcare coverage right now. And then all of the MAGA Republicans though, in response to Democrats just say, do a one year ACA subsidy extension. One year extension of these Affordable Care act subsidies. Republicans were all like, nope, we're never going to do that. Why would we do that at all? That's ridiculous. I mean, here's Lindsey Graham saying, and I just want you to hear it for yourself so you know what I'm talking about. You replay this clip.
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Senator Graham, can we ask you about this new Democrat offer? What do you make of the one year aca.
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Terrible, horrible. I'm not going to keep giving taxpayer dollars to the five largest health care insurance companies under Obamacare to get the government open.
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And then here's another MAGA Republican senator saying it. So again you can hear it for yourself. Let's play this clip right here.
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Senator, it's great to see you, great to have you on the show tonight. Let me ask you, will you accept this terrific offer by Chuck Schumer tonight?
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No.
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Lord, that's a non starter. What Chuck Schumer is asking us to do is to give $25 billion to criminals every year and $35 billion to insurance companies every year. That's what it's costing American taxpayers right now to fundto partially fund Obamacare. So that's a non starter and that's why here we are setting, should we do, should we break the filibuster? Not I think that's the conversation that Republicans should right now.
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Okay, so that's the position of these MAGAs right now. While, while Americans are terrified that they're going to be losing their healthcare. And right now we're living in a period where Americans can't afford things. Okay? I mean Americans go to the grocery store and they supermarket and they see the groceries are unaffordable. Americans can't afford their rent right now. Everything's going up. Inflation is surging as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs against the world. And Donald Trump's message before he left to go to Mar a La on the taxpayer dime again that we're paying for all of those stupid trips is that affordability is a con job. He goes, it's all one big con. It's not real. Affordability's a con. Just so you could hear him in his own words, here's what he said. Here, play this clip.
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That's a big number. Cuz Walmart's respected. I mean Walmart is Walmart and you know they're giving you prices. So that would mean that the whole series of pricing and costs, you know, the groceries and everything else, it was a con job. It was a con job. Affordability they call it was a con job by the, by the Democrats, the Democrats are good at a few things. Cheating on elections and conning people with facts that aren't true. It was 25%. Wal Mart just announced it two days ago, 25% cheaper. This year will be cheaper to have Thanksgiving than it was a year ago under sleepy Joe Biden.
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And then, by the way, you know, you have the Trump regime filing emergency motions to block the STAT payments to the beneficiaries. And then they brag about it. Let me just read to you what Attorney General Pam Bondi said last night. Within hours to go before the TRO compliance clock runs and the First Circuit waiting to deny immediate relief. Until a minute ago, we have filed an emergency stay application in the Supreme Court requesting immediate relief. And just so you know what that means, she's saying we rushed to the Supreme Court to block the payments of SNAP to the beneficiaries because they the regime doesn't want people to get SNAP benefits. The the United States government, just our taxpayer dollars, $40 billion just went to Argentina. $40 billion, by the way, it's like $37 billion to pay for the entire Affordable Care act for an entire year. But 40 billion we sent to Argentina. And the SNAP benefits would be for the next month or so would be like what, five or six billion dollars. And that money exists in a temporary fund. And we have more than enough money to fund SNAP right now. Fund snap. I mean, the Trump regime did what, a trillion dollar military budget, 173 additional billion dollars to the ICE Gestapo. By the way, here's what JD Van said, just so you could hear it in your own words, when he was attacking the courts, the lower courts, for ordering the Trump regime pay people the SNAP benefits. Here, play this clip.
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Look, Jackie, it's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of a Democrat government shutdown, which what we'd like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government. Of course, then we can fund snap, and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people. But in the midst of a shutdown, we can't have a federal court telling the President how he has to triage the situation. We're trying to keep as much turned on. We're trying to keep as much going as possible. The president and the entire administration are working on that. But we're not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge. We're going to do it according to what we think we have to do to comply with the law, of course, but also to actually make the government work for people in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown.
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I find this interesting as well. And it's so important that we have accurate, credible media diets right now because there's so much disinformation from the Trump regime. You remember when J.D. van said that he hoped that his Hindu wife converts to Christianity and then this sparked this massive debate. And like why, why would you say that? I mean you want you, you want your wife to. The whole thing is very, very, is a strange comment. Well, only 4% right wing of like the coverage came from right wing media on this. So it just shows you that like the right wing media is always going to cover up for maga and they always want to just give maga's base the kind of red meat that just pisses them off. But they don't want to ever look critically at their own people. So people ask me all the time, Ben, how do you stay up to date on the news all the time? On the Midas Touch network, you cover a lot. You do YouTube videos like 20 times a day. How are you covering it all? My go to news source is something called Ground news guys. This is a subscriber funded app and news site and every day they pull in thousands of articles from around the world and organize them by story and then show you what's the right reporting, what's left wing media reporting, what's the center reporting? It's a game changer because as active, responsible citizens I think we must get our news from reliable sources. And in Trump's America, being informed about the facts and media bias, it's the most important thing you can do. But that's why we love ground news. That Midas Touch. For every article they also tell you did a media conglomerate posted or did it come from an independent media source? And then they also list the degree of factuality, which is interesting because I've actually found that independent media sources have a higher degree of factuality than some of the corporate conglomerates. And I use the Vantage subscription plan. That's the package I use. I want you to use the Vantage subscription plan as well. And I love their blind spot feed because it highlights what I just showed you. What is the center media covering? Right wing media covering, left wing media cover. And then I try to cover it all for our Midas Touch audience. It's like the story I just shared with you. So join us by going to ground news MTN, get 40% off the ground news Vantage plan that I use every morning. They're subscriber funded by subscribing. You're not only getting a tool we all need today, you're also supporting our work here. On this YouTube channel. That's G R O U N D News MTN. And we've pinned a link to purchase your subscription below. Thank you, Ground News. By the way, I started this video by showing you the latest Russia attack, drone attack, ballistic missile attack on Ukraine, killing at least six. Remember what Donald Trump's statement about Ukraine is now? When he was asked, hey, you promised that you would stop the war in Ukraine by Russia on day one, Trump's response was, I'm just being sarcastic here. Play this clip.
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I'm not understating the complexity of all this, but as a candidate, you said you would have this war settled in 24 hours.
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Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that I would. What I really mean is I'd like to.
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And then what Donald Trump now says is, not only was he joking, lol. Lmao. Like he finds that funny that you said you were going to end a war on day one and now you acted like that was a stand up comedy routine, like what a sick human being you are. Now he goes, let them fight. I think that they should fight is what he says. It doesn't affect us in the United States. He says, he's like, the way I talk to you, Xi Jinping doesn't affect them. So doesn't affect us. Let them fight. Hey, Donald, you idiot. Let me be very clear what's going on in China. There's a reason why China is supporting Russia and that they have a deal to get the Russian oil and why there's more that's going on there. If you just read your freaking intelligence briefs, you would know the support that China is giving to Russia as you are out here saying, let them fight. Let them fight. So idiotic. Here, play this clip of Donald Trump saying, let them fight. Here, play this clip.
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Work together to see if we can get something done. We agree the sides are, you know, locked in fighting and sometimes you have to let them fight. I guess crazy, but he's going to help us and we're going to work together on Ukraine. He's got a lot more we can do. You know, he's been buying oil from Russia for a long time. He takes care of a big part of China and you know, I can say India been very good on that front. But we, we didn't really discuss the oil. We discussed working together to see if we could get that war finished. You know, it doesn't affect China, it doesn't affect us.
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You know, and meanwhile you have all these MAGA sycophants Like Nancy Mace. This is a real post from Nancy Mace. I have to tell you, last night I had the most incredible conversation with the President. I've never been more proud. I told him I love you. I, I told him I love him. America loves you. We love you. I mean these MAGA people are the most pathetic people imaginable. And I want to share this with you as well. So right now, in military bases across the country, guess what they're selling? They're selling Trump wine at military bases and Trump cider. He's forcing military bases to sell Trump Trump products. At the same time, over two dozen New York Times did a good report on this. Of our top generals and admirals have been fired, demoted, pushed aside, put on leave by frickin war criminal. Pete Hegseth, a former weekend Fox host who's now leading the Defense Department. He fired two dozen of our top people, including a leader at Central Command, the former head of the Navy Seals for promoting diversity. Got pushed out. The fricking head of the Navy Seals got pushed out. And instead the big initiatives by Hegseth and Trump are bring Trump apple cider or cider and Trump wine into military bases. I mean can you get more pathetic than that? Actually you can, cuz Fox did a whole special where they gave their Patriot awards and here's Sean Hannity with his face dyed orange giving Melania Trump the Patriot of the year award. And by the way, you know how Trump says, well the stock market's doing good, the stock market's doing good. First off, the stock market is not the American people. All the economists talk about this K shaped economy K because one line goes up and one line goes all the way down. And billionaires doing are doing well while the American people are in a recession, a great recession or perhaps even a depression right now. Based on what? Over a million jobs lost in the first three, three and a half quarters. Worst. Basically as bad as the Great Recession. Worse than any other time since then. I mean we have the right now, I mean recession and manufacturing. Trump screwed over the farmers. I mean it's, it's absolutely horrific. But this past week you saw a major drop in the stock market as well. Very volatile. Especially as AI stocks plunged. You had what open AI saying that they want the United States government to serve as a backstop for their debt and guarantee the debt and also to fund all of their expansion. Seriously, that's the. While the American people are starving to death, while the Trump regime is blocking snap payments and ripping away people's health care and where the Republicans look at an offer, just extend the ACA subsidies for one year. And Republicans say that's a nonstarter. While Donald Trump in the morning is making these idiotic posts about let's just get rid of, let's just give people a few thousand dollars and then they'll, and then they'll be great. Let me give you the actual idea what we should do, Donald Idiot. Let me explain it for you and spell it out. We should have universal healthcare in the United States. It should be free. Instead of having a $1 trillion budget for freaking military and supporting that defense industrial complex. Doesn't need to be $1 trillion. Okay, it could probably be about 5 to $600 billion. Instead of rich people go putting their money in tax havens and giving them what, a hundred percent deductions on private jets. And all of these tax benefits for yachts and private jets make them pay their fair share. And you know what? Make them pay a little bit more. If they're billionaires, make it pay a little bit more. Then guess what? All Americans can have freaking health care for free. Like all the other countries, by the way, including Argentina, who we just bailed out for $40 billion. Despicable Trump regime. Despicable hit. Subscribe. Let's get to 6 million and thank you for watching. You might as merch drop. Check out the latest pro democracy sticker packs. T shirts, hats, sweatshirts and more all@store.midas touch.com.
Date: November 8, 2025
Hosts: Ben Meiselas, Brett Meiselas, Jordy Meiselas
Network: MeidasTouch Network
This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast offers a scathing, spirited, and often humorous breakdown of current U.S. political events, with a special focus on Donald Trump’s reaction to Russia’s deadly missile and drone barrage on Ukraine. The Meiselas brothers analyze Trump’s increasingly “unserious” and erratic responses to major crises—both domestic and international—including statements on healthcare, government shutdowns, and foreign policy. Throughout, they emphasize the real-life consequences of MAGA Republican policies for everyday Americans, especially regarding healthcare, SNAP benefits, and the economy, using their signature blend of biting criticism and brotherly banter.
| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |------------|-----------------------------------------------------------| | 00:38–01:20| Overview: Russian strike on Ukraine; Trump’s flippant response | | 01:20–05:00| Trump’s healthcare “plan” and history of false promises | | 05:00–06:34| Democrats’ ACA offer and GOP’s categorical rejection | | 06:34–08:01| Real world inflation vs. Trump’s affordability denial | | 08:01–10:20| SNAP benefits crisis and legal battles over social safety net | | 10:20–13:23| Media literacy, Ground News plug, right-wing media bias | | 13:23–15:14| Trump backtracks on Ukraine promise; “let them fight” | | 15:14–End | MAGA sycophancy; Trumpism on military bases; economic critique; universal healthcare call |
The episode is fast-paced, irreverent, and densely packed with both rapid-fire rebuttals of conservative talking points and deep frustration at MAGA policies. True to their style, the Meiselas brothers blend scathing humor, pointed mockery, and regular asides to their growing “MeidasMighty” fanbase. They highlight both the absurdity and the real harm inflicted by the Trump regime, from performative politics to policy proposals with dire consequences for millions of Americans.
This episode pulls no punches in portraying Donald Trump and his allies as both dangerously unserious and actively harmful to American democracy and working people. Key points include the administration’s heartless approach to Ukraine, deception over healthcare and affordability solutions, disregard for Americans struggling with bills and healthcare, and the broader erosion of institutional integrity under MAGA rule. The brothers champion credible news, media literacy, actual solutions (like universal healthcare), and, above all, unwavering support for democracy.