Midas Touch Host (7:45)

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Political Commentator (8:55)

Going to fire a guy at the IRS now who's pretty efficient in doing what he guy's name is Danny Werfel. Pretty efficient operator, running the IRS efficiently. No one likes the irs, but he's running the entity efficiently. Trump's going to fire that guy and replace him with Billy Long, who wants to abolish the entity that he's now going to lead. Also, you've got MAGA Republicans reaching out to Donald Trump and saying, look, you need to get rid of on day one, the direct tax filing system because TurboTax, which is owned by Intuit, is lobbying the MAGA Republicans to stop this free tax filing system so that it could be always done with private software and private hands. Because this is hurting the bottom line for Intuit. By the way, if you want to use TurboTax and into it, great. It's a. It's a good software. No one's saying don't use. But at the same time, it's great that the government is creating an efficient way for people to do the same task for free themselves online and save themselves some money. Not a bad thing. MAGA Republicans want to stop that because they want people to be pissed off and hate government. And here's where the media oligarchy comes into play place because they don't report on any of this crap. So people are frustrated at things, they're angry, they're but they don't know where to vent it. And so they're being told by Fox to vent it at the Democrats. Vented at Deep State, vented at these people. Here's who's doing it to you. Trans people, migrants are doing it to you, libs are doing it to you. And people start to believe that then corporate media in general doesn't report on these things. So you have this loop, you have this cycle taking place. Now, who is it internationally that Donald Trump and his team looks up to? Who are some of the main people? Vladimir Putin. Right. Who else? Viktor Orban, who's Vladimir Putin stooge, who is the authoritarian leader of Hungary, who visits Trump frequently at Mar a Lago. Right. Viktor Orban, Hungary. The entire GDP is under $200 billion a year. That's less than some American corporations. So why, why are you looking up to a country who had like 17 to 20% inflation and its entire GDP is $200 billion? Like, think about that. Who does MAGA attack California, which would have like the fourth largest GDP, not in the United States, of any country. So attack California, which is funding the United States, the fourth largest gdp. If California were to be a country in the world. World. Attack California. But let's prop up the new Argentinian leader, Javier Millay. Right? They love that guy. Javier Millay. Why? He poses for photos with chainsaws. He literally says his quote is, my contempt for the state is infinite. Meaning, rip down everything. Rip down all these regulations. Rip it all down. Tear it down and prop it up with an authoritarian style austerity measures where people are kept down. Right. Just look at Javier Malay's Argentina right now, this is objective data right now. The brutal austerity measures has deepen Argentina's recession, with consumer spending falling 20% in the past year and poverty rates soaring to a two decade high of 52.9% in the second half of last year. So the Argentinean austerity measures have led to poverty rates soaring to 52.9%. Think about that. That is who Trump wants to bring here. Now you go, Ben, back that up with facts. You say Midas touches fact base. Back it up. Okay, well, here's Vivek Ramaswamy, who runs the Doge, which is in charge of the Trump austerity measures imposing Trump austerity measures on us. Vivek Ramaswamy says the following. The American version is called Doge in response to somebody saying at Mar a Lago last week. I spoke to Javier Millay. He's a leader on a mission to free his country from decades of socialism and mismanagement. And Vivek Ramaswamy goes, the American version is called doge. Let's be very clear. Under President Biden, 16.1 million new jobs have been created. That's fact one. Our GDP is the fastest growing GDP basically in the world. Our inflation is like one of the lowest inflation in the world right now. Unemployment is at an all time low. We're energy independent. More oil drilling under Biden than under Donald Trump. Our stock market is up 50% under Biden than it was under Donald Trump. 40,000 new infrastructure projects created under President Biden. So you take all of those facts, but they're saying the guy who goes, my contempt for the state is infinite. And I've described this before on a substack post on Midasplus.com as the authoritarian loop. Is what I call, I call it the authoritarian loop, which is, how is it that in a state like Oklahoma, which is 49th in health, it's not a good stat to be like almost last, 49th in wealth, 49th in education, or close to that. You know, the worst stats in health, wealth, education, standard of living, all horrible. But they vote red, they vote Republican, all of like, why wouldn't they go, huh? If we're last and everything, maybe we'd want to get better. Maybe it's the people who are running this that are keeping us down. In contrast state like Massachusetts, one of the top in wealth, health, education, standard of living, they were basically voted totally blue. So how do you see this disparity here kind of happening? And as I've described that as the authoritarian loop. We see this, for example, in authoritarian countries where if you can train your people to believe they're worthless, if you take away their education, if you take away their health care, if you take away their rights, if you take away their freedoms, if you take all of that away, then the people, and then you start handing out breadcrumbs. When people feel worthless, they accept the breadcrumbs. And then, you know, you come in as the authoritarian, I alone will fix it. You create the boogeyman. You have this being pumped out on the media and then you say, I'm going to fix all the things where you're the arsonist. You know, that's one of the things here that I always talk about. Like if you want to know the source of inflation, where do you think it came from? Trump added $8 trillion in debt, the most ever. You had Trump mismanaging Covid, mismanaging supply lines, printing money recklessly. The PPP program that he oversaw gave money to millionaires, printing money, let millionaires get their debt forgiven. But how dare you ever forgive the debt of students who are under an economic cap threshold as well. So you do all of those things that creates inflation, that creates the economic problems that have to be solved. But the trick is, and the right wing is great at this trick. And this goes back to the post service, the irs, all of this. The they become the arsonists. You break it down, you burn it down. And then when the firefighters come in, you then blame the firefighters. The oligarchy tries to get their bailout on the way out, but then you blame the firefighters and you call them the arsonist. That's the sleight of hand. That's the trick. You call the firefighters the arsonist, you make the people believe that, and then the people re elect the arsonists back into power to burn it down again. And we have this authoritarian loop and this cycle that's taking place that we need to finally, once and for all break out of. That's what's going on. How do we break out of it? We have to connect. We have to get these messages out there. One of the things that we're trying to do here with this YouTube channel is get the message out. We're hoping we do that, but we'll see. We're doing our best. We need to get them. We need it. We need your help in this. So thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Appreciate love this video.

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