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Speaker 4 We have a lot to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast.

Speaker 4 I want to talk about the government shutdown appearing like it's going to end as this continuing resolution that will cause over 20 million Americans to lose their health care was supported by eight cowardly Democrats.

Speaker 4 We'll talk about that. We'll give you our views and opinions there.

Speaker 4 We'll talk about convicted child sex trafficker Geele Maxwell bragging on emails that the House Democratic Judiciary Committee was able to get their hands on, where she basically describes it as like a five-star resort.

Speaker 4 She gets everything she wants. The prison warden helps her with her legal brief.
She gets puppies. We'll talk about that and more.
Donald Trump got booed at the Washington Commanders NFL game, like...

Speaker 4 booed loudly, like unquestionably despised and detested at that stadium. And they tried to like set it up where he would be talking about like the troops.

Speaker 4 And they're like, how could you boo him if he's talking about the troops? But the moment he went on that Jumbotron, the people there booed him.

Speaker 4 Talk about California Governor Newsom essentially functioning as a shadow president, like representing the United States by representing California, which is the fourth largest economy in the world if it was a country at these international conferences.

Speaker 4 He's in Brazil right now at the United Nations 30th Annual Climate Conference in Sao Paulo, talking about the importance of addressing climate change responsibly and building economies of the future.

Speaker 4 We'll talk about all that and more. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy brothers.
You know, I was flying back on this trip from New York.

Speaker 4 If people were wondering why my background looked different, I had a trip in New York. I went out there with my family.
I got on the plane.

Speaker 4 And as I was heading back on Sunday, I first started hearing that there could have been these eight Democrats who were, you know, in my view, surrendering, capitulating.

Speaker 4 You pick the word. And I was like, no, come on, that's not, there's no way that's happening.
And then my Wi-Fi was kind of spotty. It was decent on the plane.

Speaker 4 But then as the trip progressed, I was following along and I couldn't say anything about it because I was stuck on the plane.

Speaker 4 So the moment I got home after a five and a half, six hour flight, by the time I got home, it was like seven hours the drive home.

Speaker 4 You know, I went to the computer right away to call out those eight Democratic senators. That video since gone viral where I just I just unleashed.

Speaker 4 I just let people know my feelings about it because i was frankly pissed but i also don't want to um you know use that energy in a negative way i want to use that energy to build this network and to really promote um and amplify rather uh people who fight for people just leave it at that brett jordy how are you Yeah, I think you had a lot of

Speaker 9 pent-up anger and aggression on that flight that you let out in that take. But, you know, I'm with you there.

Speaker 9 I'm, I'm honestly candidly hugely disappointed in the decision to fold on this, with this deal um and not getting the one thing that you were holding out for i have like a whole lot of thoughts on it including i made a whole list of like pros and cons taking the deal you know not taking the deal that i could go through in this episode but for now to not waste too much time in this intro i'm going to say what's up midas mighty what's up ben and jordy it's great to be here jordy how you doing I'm doing as well as one could be doing, especially after what we saw over the weekend.

Speaker 4 I could get into it right now, or we could toss it to Ben, start the show, and then that's where we could go. What do you guys think we should do? Now, I'll jump in right away.

Speaker 4 Look, you can't make deals with fascists. You can't make deals with fraudsters.
Donald Trump is a notorious deal breaker, a destroyer.

Speaker 4 He doesn't follow contracts the same way he doesn't follow the Constitution. He just doesn't follow that.
You can't make deals with this guy.

Speaker 4 And just the idea of saying, well, you know, the Republicans said that they're going to negotiate in good faith. No, they're not.
They're not good faith people. They're bad people.

Speaker 4 They're horrible human beings, in fact and they've and i'm not just saying that to be a little hyperbolic they've demonstrated over the course of the past 10 months that they're willing to shoot chemical weapons at people in the united states they've shown that they're willing to put children into concentration camps they've shown that they're willing to let donald trump engage in a disastrous trade war against the world to throw our country into recession they've shown that they're willing to basically let donald trump do anything from tearing down the east wing of the white house uh without any appropriate approval process or legislation.

Speaker 4 By the way, I did a lot of takes over this weekend about the likely asbestos in the East Wing, and there likely wasn't any asbestos abatement plan.

Speaker 4 And the people around the area are likely exposed to these carcinogens and make themselves susceptible to mesothelioma. Go back and watch the other clips that I do there.

Speaker 4 But you know, he wants to build triumphal arches. He wants to talk about Club Rose Garden and partying in Mar-a-Lago.
Two weeks ago was the Gatsby party.

Speaker 4 This weekend it was where they have like those crab claws, like the most expensive crab and filet mignon. And it was like synchronized swimmers.

Speaker 4 Like it's like the strangest stuff going on at Mar-a-Lago while the people are suffering.

Speaker 4 For those on audio, we're just showing you the buffet and the crab claws right there that were on display, like as people are starving to death.

Speaker 4 And Trump's willing to use starvation and chemical warfare against the Americans as a approach to induce suffering to then say, well, now you have to make a deal based on it.

Speaker 4 I mean, it's just ridiculous, ridiculous behavior. But like, let's just start with the concept that Donald Trump's a fraudster, right? Like everything he says is a lie, quite literally every word.

Speaker 4 He says he brings in $22 trillion. It's all false.
Tariffs have brought in some money, about what, $200 to $300 billion,

Speaker 4 not $22 trillion.

Speaker 4 And Donald Trump's own solicitor general argued before the Supreme Court last week in the case to determine whether these tariffs against the world are invalid.

Speaker 4 The whole argument that was that that it was not a revenue-generating scheme, that the purpose of tariffs is not to raise revenue, it's to shift trading relationships.

Speaker 4 And the why they argued that is because if it's revenue-generating, then it's obviously a tax. And if it's a tax, it's the Article I

Speaker 4 Congress's province to actually be involved in tariffs. So, the whole argument before the Supreme Court is that it's not revenue-generating, it's not taxes, it has nothing to do with that.

Speaker 4 And Trump's saying, look at all the money we raised: 22 trillion. No, you didn't.
It's about 200, 300 billion dollars, but deficits they're still storing 7% year over year.

Speaker 4 Our debt's getting higher than it ever was before. And we look like we're heading into recessionary territory.
Don't even take my word for it, right? Kevin Hassett, Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson.

Speaker 4 Hessen's the top national economic advisor. I mean, they're all saying that there are many sectors in the economy right now in recession.
You had...

Speaker 4 Hassett this weekend saying that he expected negative growth when it comes to GDP for this next quarter, which he blames on the shutdown, but that's what they're just going to do.

Speaker 4 They're going to blame everything

Speaker 4 on that.

Speaker 4 You had 153,000 jobs being lost

Speaker 4 last month. That was just announced based on private data.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics isn't reporting data. So

Speaker 4 we know we're not in a thriving environment, although Trump says inflation's done, everything's great. But let me just go and show you back from August of 2024.

Speaker 4 I just want to show you the anatomy of his fraud so you can see it for yourself, right? This is one of the things that he ran on in his campaign.

Speaker 4 He said, I guarantee you, I guarantee you in the first 12 months, he says, energy prices, specifically electricity, will be down 50%. In many cases, 50 to 70%.

Speaker 4 He says, I guarantee it, you know, anything Trump says is true. He says, just here was the speech that he gave in Asheville, North Carolina.
I just want you to hear it. Here, play this clue.

Speaker 10 By contrast, I'm announcing today that under my leadership, the United States will commit to the ambitious goal of slashing energy and electricity prices by half at least half.

Speaker 10 We intend to slash prices by half within 12 months at a maximum 18 months. And if it doesn't work out, you'll say, oh, well, I voted for them.
I still got them down a lot, but we're looking to do it.

Speaker 10 We're looking to cut them in half, and we think we'll be able to do better. And every single thing that I promised, I produced.
Every single thing.

Speaker 10 You will never have had energy so low as you will under a certain gentleman known as Donald J. Trump.
Have you heard of him?

Speaker 10 So we think your energy bills will be down by 50 to 70 percent. How good would that be for a thing called inflation?

Speaker 4 So now I'll just show you a clip where Trump lied about the energy prices this was from last week where end of last week he had that presser with victor orban and with orbon by his side trump just says we got it down electricity prices energy prices they're down 30 35 40 percent we did it mission accomplished i think we've got that clip let's put it energy prices are down by 30 35 40 let me bring in bretton jordy because this is one of the things that he does like He just says that they're down.

Speaker 4 He says inflation's been solved.

Speaker 4 He says grocery prices have never been this cheap and we all know that's not the case so how do you even do you can't do a deal with a human being who's out there like it's like doing a deal with a bank robber right like you're like i trust that guy dude he's robbing a bank like i'm watching him he's robbing the bank why would i do a deal with this guy yeah he's a con artist which is why when somebody uh in this republican party with donald trump's backing says if you vote for this we pinky promise that we're going to have this vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies, the thing that Donald Trump says he wants to get rid of permanently in every post that he makes on his social media app.

Speaker 9 We pinky promise that we'll have that vote. I don't know how you trust that and how you make that the basis for you changing your mind and voting for something.

Speaker 9 That's the biggest problem to me that I have with these eight Democrats who went along and voted for this bill to open the government or advancing it at least.

Speaker 9 Like, have you not picked up on the fact that Donald Trump is a con artist, that he's a scammer, and he's always doing the same thing every step of the way?

Speaker 9 Ben said this before in the podcast, but Trump's the kind of guy who always promises riches that are just in the near future for you. We're going to get this down for you.

Speaker 9 The prices are going to come down. Get ready.
You're getting Doge dividend checks. You're getting tariff dividend checks.

Speaker 9 We got the, I'm going to look for the gold in Fort Knox and I'm going to give you all the gold that we find in Fort Knox. It's going to be great.
Who's ready for $22 trillion? We brought it all in.

Speaker 9 You're all going to be super rich. Everything's going to be amazing.

Speaker 9 Meanwhile, the thing that we're finding out is that the only people that are getting rich in the Trump economy are Donald Trump and and his billionaire buddies, Donald Trump with his crazy corrupt, appearing at least crypto schemes that are going on.

Speaker 9 I mean, we're looking at like the most insane levels of corruption imaginable while inflation is crushing Americans, while all these things are crushing Americans, energy prices, crushing Americans.

Speaker 9 And Donald Trump, you know, it's one thing to be able to say it and lie to people on the campaign trail.

Speaker 9 You could probably get away with that. Like Donald Trump got away with that, right? He lied in the campaign trail.
He got elected. But once you're president, it becomes a lot harder to lie to people.

Speaker 9 And I think this is going to continue to backfire against Donald Trump as he lies to people and says, No, actually, things are a lot cheaper for you. You think that things are expensive.

Speaker 9 No, actually, your gas prices are lower. Your electricity prices are lower.
Your grocery bills are lower. People know when they go to the store, as I've said, that their prices are much higher.

Speaker 9 They know that they are feeling the pressures of this economy in their everyday life. And so, for these Democrats to fold in this scenario to a guy like Donald Trump is just, it's insane to me, right?

Speaker 9 To me, if you're going to send your troops into battle, as they did, as they, you know, launched this great campaign, had all this momentum, once people get to the front lines and are fighting for you, you can't just ditch the battle.

Speaker 9 Like, what the hell are you doing? You spent like 40 days fighting for a specific goal, and that was to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, and then you didn't get that goal.

Speaker 9 You can't, I'm sorry, you can't claim victory. I'm not going to sugarcoat it here.
I mean, are there good things that come with ending the government?

Speaker 9 Like, sure, we could go down a list of good things that are ending the government. I'll let Jordy go first, but like, I'll break down the full, you know, pros and cons of this vote.

Speaker 9 But to me, I'm going to be candid. I think it's complete and utter capitulation.
I think it is a ridiculous and insane thing for Democrats to do.

Speaker 9 And it's really now going to take all of us to put as much pressure as we can, I mean, on these Republicans, because they're saying right now, they're not guaranteeing any votes on the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Speaker 9 They're saying they want to get rid of them still. And so to me, it's like, yeah, y'all just got swindled.
And so I just don't understand how they do not see that fact at this point.

Speaker 4 No, you nailed it. And, you know, it's times like these.

Speaker 4 Like, I'm very reflective of the work that we do here at the network and why it's really important that we refer to ourselves here as pro-democracy, right?

Speaker 4 We're not like pro-this party or pro-that party. We don't carry water for an administration or a political party.

Speaker 4 We have a set of values that we live by, values and principles that we use as our North Star. Now, it's the summation of those values and principles that is essentially power to the people, right?

Speaker 4 And what the Senate Democrats did the other night, it was subverting the will and the voice of the people. It's like super unforgivable, honestly.

Speaker 4 And it's just an obvious betrayal of where the base of the party is. Like, Brett, to your point, there is no way to sugarcoat this.

Speaker 4 It's just simply pathetic and it's negated all of the work of the previous 40 days. As you can tell, I'm pissed.
I'm furious.

Speaker 4 And it's just why like rigorous primary processes are actually very necessary. Right.
And it's also why it's past time that we have a change in leadership here in the Democratic Party.

Speaker 4 The old guards got to go. We got to get in a new guard brick by brick.
It just has to be done.

Speaker 4 You can't put on your gloves and enter the arena and then be winning the damn fight and throw in the towel in the eighth round. Like, what the fuck did we just watch? It's crazy to me.

Speaker 9 I agree with you, but

Speaker 9 you could go.

Speaker 4 Let me just show you who the Democrats are, too.

Speaker 4 So you have Senator Tim Kaine, who was watching the election coverage with us on Tuesday as we were talking about the momentum about why the Democrats were winning all of these seats, including the Virginia governor's race.

Speaker 4 And he's a former governor of Virginia, senator. He's held like every elected office, you know, in Virginia.

Speaker 4 And I suppose that he'll say, well, you know, we dealt with the reduction in force issues, and that's I'm a Virginia senator, so that's why I have to look out for my constituents. But

Speaker 4 you know what? Donald Trump and January 30th is going to be able to reverse the reduction in force. I mean, the deal only holds through January 30th.

Speaker 4 Donald Trump's shown that even when you make a deal like that, he just throws it away anyway. That one really pained me to see Tim Kaine do that because, you know, I've been a defender of him before.

Speaker 4 So then you have Dick Durbin. You have Fetterman.
Fetterman doesn't shock me with anything.

Speaker 4 You had Senator Shaheen, who was on the Midas Touch Network two weeks ago and basically said that she would never do this. And she's allegedly the person who was like leading this.

Speaker 4 You have Senator Maggie Hassan. You had Senator Angus King, Senator Cortez Masto, and Senator Jackie Rosen.

Speaker 4 And Rosen was on recently too, and basically was out there, you know, saying that how she would fight for the Affordable Care Act until the end.

Speaker 4 And what's been worse about, you know, to make it even worse, is that there's such this gaslighting and they all go out there and they almost act like this group, like they've achieved some victory or like, no, this is a good thing.

Speaker 4 and then they acted like we

Speaker 4 the pro-democracy community were somehow not winning this fight and that we had to change the tactics because we were not winning and therefore a change had to be made immediately it's like in what universe are you living in like Tuesday demonstrated very clearly a mandate a mandate not specifically for Democrats, but a mandate for people who fight against this regime and fight for affordability and really understand what that means.

Speaker 4 And where the Democratic Party was representing those things against the regime, for affordability, with different ways of going about it.

Speaker 4 That's why we saw the blue tsunami and the momentum was growing. I mean, while these Democrats were capitulating, in my view, you had

Speaker 4 the stadium filled with

Speaker 4 in Washington and the Washington Commanders game filled with people like booing Donald Trump, showing how unpopular he is.

Speaker 4 Like, it's unheard of to have this level of booze this early on in a presidency that people hate this guy.

Speaker 4 And it was like, while that was going on, while Trump was being humiliated, you had this group going behind people's back and doing this. Just show the clip one more time.

Speaker 4 I know we've done lots of videos of this of Trump getting booed. Let's play it.

Speaker 9 Sound issue. We'll get the sound fixed.

Speaker 4 Get that one fixed in a second. I want to show you, though, now, though, MAGA Mike Johnson.
Two clips I want to show you, though.

Speaker 4 MAGA Mike from earlier in the day, where MAGA Mike refused to answer the central question.

Speaker 4 Okay, so in the Senate, part of this deal is that the Senate will allow a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Speaker 4 The Senate Republicans didn't agree they would vote for it. They just said they will allow Democrats to bring it up in a vote.

Speaker 4 And we know the Republicans are going to to vote against it there's a 60 vote threshold we know that democrats don't have 60 votes to extend the affordable care act subsidies when every republican and donald trump have come out there against it but the democrats act like that's a win that they'll get the vote to to occur okay but then in the house the house hasn't even agreed to allow the vote to happen so why wouldn't you secure

Speaker 4 a requirement, at least if you were going to go down this route, which I would still disagree with, that votes have to be taken in the House and the Senate.

Speaker 4 So you could at least try to say, well, we'll at least get to show going into the election, all of the House members who are all up for re-election that did not oppose the extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidy.

Speaker 4 Well, here's Mike, here's MAGA Mike earlier today just walking away when he was asked the question. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 13 And finally, do the right thing and help us to bring an end to the pain of the American people. This has gone on too long.
Too many people have suffered, and it's long overdue.

Speaker 13 That's the update I wanted to give you this morning. There are probably lots of questions, but I'm going to get a lot of my own questions answered later today.
So stay tuned for more. Thanks so much.

Speaker 4 So everybody wanted to know, will you bring the issue of extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies to the House floor? If the shutdown ends? Will you agree to that? He walks away.

Speaker 4 Then Manu Raj, who I think does a really good job for CNN in general, just covering what's going on in Capitol Hill, he catches up with Meg and Mike and watch what happens. Let's play this.

Speaker 16 We're going to do in the House what we always do.

Speaker 5 And it's a deliberative process to

Speaker 16 get

Speaker 16 consensus on whatever

Speaker 16 the proposal is.

Speaker 16 As you know, I do not guarantee the outcome of legislation or dates or deadlines or anything.

Speaker 5 I actually

Speaker 16 vote for this among the members and that is what we will do. But it's not a vote.
Exactly as we always do. Exactly as I always do.
But it's not guaranteeing.

Speaker 4 So he says we're not going to guarantee a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Speaker 4 Then he gives some word-salad answer about we'll go through a deliberative process, which basically means they're not bringing up the Affordable Care Act subsidy extension for a vote.

Speaker 4 So what's going to happen? What's going to happen is the Affordable Care Act subsidies, they've expired. People are getting their letters now.

Speaker 4 Health care is going to cost 100% more, 200% more will become unaffordable. People will lose health care.
And all Donald Trump's been posting about now,

Speaker 4 you know, and just ranting and raving about this are two things now to kind of Brett, to your point when we talk about dangling these riches or trying to distract people. He's been saying two things.

Speaker 4 Number one, he knows people don't like insurance companies, valid.

Speaker 4 So he just goes, we're going to get rid of the insurance companies in general. No more money goes to insurance companies at all.

Speaker 4 And instead, we'll give people a $2,000 to $3,000 check, and then they can pay their health care with that $2,000, $3,000.

Speaker 4 Well, you're not addressing the central issue because what happens when somebody has a surgery that costs $100,000 and you've given them a $2,000 check, Now they go medically bankrupt. They die.

Speaker 4 So there's a reason why insurance exists. Now, insurance used its existence to become this profit machine that screwed people over in ways that shouldn't be taking place.

Speaker 4 But there's a reason why you need to address the issue of high risk pools and why universal health care, guaranteed healthcare exists in pretty much every other country other than the United States, including in Argentina, who we gave $40 billion to while screwing over our people here.

Speaker 4 That was one thing that Donald Trump said. The other thing is that he wants to go from 30-year mortgages to 50-year mortgages,

Speaker 4 which just basically means extending the principal payments out a longer period of time. So they're slightly less on a monthly basis from 30 years to 50 years.

Speaker 4 But then the interest that carries over the 50-year loan balloons to such a massive amount that people are in debt for the rest of their lives.

Speaker 4 And that doesn't address the issue of affordability of homes, which is a supply issue, which is the fact that corporations, private equity, hedge funds are buying all these homes up and they're competing against individuals who stand no chance against these billionaire, trillionaire hedge funds.

Speaker 4 And so the supply of housing is severely limited for people to get into the market where it's commoditized. That's the issue.
Supply is the issue, not a 30 to 50 year.

Speaker 4 Brett, I know you have a lot to say. Jordy, I know how you have a lot to say.

Speaker 4 I'm going to shut up in the next segment and let you both talk about that because I spent a little bit too much time talking. We're hitting our first break point right now.

Speaker 4 When we come back, you'll hear from Brett. And Jordy, we've got a lot to discuss.

Speaker 4 Also, Geele Maxwell's five-star treatment that's pissing off all the other inmates and all-Americans, pretty much, as the cover-up there continues.

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Speaker 4 I just want to set it up and frame, give Brett the right framework here, which is, Brett, whenever Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, when the walls close in, when he is spiraling out of control and we see his lowest approval, he goes to his scam bag, right?

Speaker 4 And, you know, whether it's Doge dividend checks, $5,000 that he said everybody was going to get, of course, that didn't happen. Tariff rebate checks, that didn't happen.

Speaker 4 And now he's claiming some, I guess, combination of the tariff dividend check. I'm not really sure, but it's $2,000 is one of the gimmicks that will replace healthcare.

Speaker 4 I guess that's what he's claiming the plan is. It went from negative 1,600%

Speaker 4 drug prices to now he's going to give everybody $2,000. And then the 50-year mortgage, which they tried to roll out as though people were going to be like, oh, thank you.

Speaker 4 You know what I was really looking for. 50 years of indentured servitude.
50 years. Thank you.

Speaker 4 And I just think people are catching on to it. But Brett, I think I just wanted to contextualize it.
Here's he's pushing that now. Why? Here's why.

Speaker 9 It's interesting because if you've followed MAGA and Trump like I have over the past few years, one of the big things that MAGA would always say, a phrase that they latched onto from the World Economic Forum is, you will own nothing and be happy.

Speaker 9 And they like bashed the WEF for that and they like made that a big, you know, thing, like we want ownership, which I totally understand, by the way.

Speaker 9 But what Donald Trump is pitching here is quite literally that world economic form concept of you will own nothing and you will be happy.

Speaker 9 Essentially, this would turn anybody on these 50-year mortgages into renters. And they say it would make things affordability, more affordable for first-time homebuyers.

Speaker 9 I mean, it is really like wooden. It would also drive up the prices of homes.
Like Ben said, you'd be like an indentured servant. You'd basically be renting your whole life.

Speaker 9 You'd have generational debt at that point.

Speaker 9 The average homeowner, I think, right now is like age 40. It's the highest it's ever been.

Speaker 9 So just think about taking this loan that that doesn't mature till you're like 90 years old for a lot of people. I mean, the whole thing just really doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Speaker 9 I know Pulte, who's like, he started like on Twitter, he would do these giveaways. I'll give you 100 bucks if you retweet this.
Like he was like this guy, like this figure on Twitter.

Speaker 9 We're doing, that's always a big red flag for me, by the way. And then he got pulled into the Trump administration.
He's been Donald Trump's like henchman in going after any of his political enemies.

Speaker 9 He's the guy who kind of concocted the charges against Letitia James and all these people who goes, you committed mortgage fraud. You committed mortgage fraud.

Speaker 9 Like that's his role right now in the Trump administration to be one of his sort of like mafia

Speaker 9 style goons.

Speaker 9 So that's that scam. And then with the insurance thing, you know, I think what Donald Trump is doing is

Speaker 9 shocker, incredibly predatory, because he's a predator.

Speaker 9 But I think this whole notion where he's instructed all the Republicans clearly, because they're all using this language, and they're all in the pockets of these big insurance companies.

Speaker 9 Let's not get it twisted.

Speaker 9 But he tries to position it because he's this fake populist and he goes, listen, those big, bad insurance companies, if we pass pass this, those big, bad insurance companies are going to be the ones that are getting all of your money.

Speaker 9 You deserve the money instead. We should write a check to you of a couple thousand dollars rather than getting those health care subsidies.

Speaker 9 You know what to do with that money much better than the insurance company is. You know what that leads to? It's going to lead to like so many people dying and not getting insured.

Speaker 9 The issue is that insurance isn't affordable and the subsidies help make it affordable. It's actually like a key part of the Affordable Care Act are these subsidies.

Speaker 9 So you take away the subsidies, which really like will drop the price of these cases, $1,000 a month, $2,000 a month. I mean, without these subsidies, healthcare is going to rise.

Speaker 9 Over the course of a year, in some places, people are going to be paying $20,000 more, $30,000 more.

Speaker 9 So getting a check from the government for $1,000 or $2,000 that theoretically Donald Trump thinks you're going to spend to buy a healthcare plan that you can't afford, that's just not something that's going to happen whatsoever.

Speaker 9 It's this faux populism that is going to actually destroy people's lives, leave people at incredible risk, and totally, totally, totally screw them over, especially if they, people are suffering right now.

Speaker 9 They need money. They need to be able to, they're probably going to take it.
So this money's never coming. But let's say they got that money.

Speaker 9 A person who thinks that they're healthy are going to, they're going to spend it on the bills. They're going to spend it on the things that they need, their immediate needs.

Speaker 9 Then come a health catastrophe. They're going to be screwed and it's going to be all Donald Trump's fault.

Speaker 9 Honestly, this is like one of the big reasons why I'm upset about this whole, you know, cave of the Democrats, because don't, I don't care about like using these things as a political cudgel, but I actually want to make sure that people are protected.

Speaker 9 I want to make sure that people actually get the care that they deserve, that people are taken care of. And I'm just not seeing that at this point.

Speaker 9 Hey, I could be proven wrong or things could change in the next month or two. And I'd be happy for that to be the case.

Speaker 9 But right now, we see what the Republican Party is doing and what they are saying.

Speaker 9 And they're saying that they do not want to fund any of these subsidies whatsoever, and they are not committing to the vote. So as I said earlier,

Speaker 9 for fairness' sake, let me break down what I think are like the good things of doing this deal. And as I said from the beginning, I am very much opposed to them doing this deal as it is.

Speaker 9 But they got the guaranteed Senate vote on ACA subsidies in December. I'll get back to that soon.
Congress is going to be back in session.

Speaker 9 That means Adelita Grijalva will be sworn in, which should lead to the final vote on the Epstein discharge petition. We will see what happens there.

Speaker 9 Federal employees that were fired October 1 and on, all those reduction forces, they will be reinstated, and those additional firings will be blocked until January 30th, 2026.

Speaker 9 Federal workers who've been out of work and missing paychecks get paid and get back to work.

Speaker 9 The delays at the airports will be over, national parks open, all that sort of stuff. They secured the funding for SNAP and for the VA for at least the next year.

Speaker 9 So it won't be up for debate come the next CR votes.

Speaker 9 And, you know, what it effectively did, regardless of the outcome, and I'll happily say this, it focused the issue that everybody's talking about right now on the issue of health care, which is a really important thing.

Speaker 9 And it really put the Republicans on the defense here. And you could argue that it galvanized voters for Tuesday's elections, and Trump's approval is at all-time lows.

Speaker 9 I mean, we could go on and on with this stuff, but I think that's almost why it's almost more like devious that they caved because they got all these people excited, they got everyone to come out and vote, and then they kind of pulled the rug out from under people.

Speaker 9 Because I'll tell you now what I think are some of the bad parts about this, and that's some of the things I've said already, but I'll repeat them.

Speaker 9 The Democrats made the entire fight, the entire purpose of all this, was the ACA subsidies, And all they got for it was some sort of guaranteed vote in the Senate, something that the House of Representatives has not agreed to.

Speaker 9 It would still take 60 votes in the Senate. MAGA Mike, you think he's going to take it up? As of right now, it doesn't seem that way.

Speaker 9 It seems like he's waiting for Donald Trump to tell him what to do. This, to me, is the single most damaging part of the cave.

Speaker 9 Also, the fact that this could have been the same deal that they took like weeks ago, you know, like it's really ultimately like no different than what we could have done weeks ago.

Speaker 9 So it's almost like, what was the point, you know, other than, you know, I guess galvanizing people, you know, helping people, you know, that political nature.

Speaker 9 But what was the point in terms of the end result? That's the part that's pissing me off right now. Demps had everybody on their side fighting.
They had the momentum on their side.

Speaker 9 I showed you the boot clip after multiple times of struggling to play the boot clip. You see what people think about Donald Trump.
He's the most hated president right now of all time.

Speaker 9 And this is a time where Democrats took a very long time to get back to where they are right now. I I mean, they were really struggling after Trump's election.
They were losing the messaging war.

Speaker 9 They were losing all the political battles. And finally, they kind of got their mojo back with this one.
Republicans were cornered.

Speaker 9 And at the moment that they had them cornered is when they basically waved the white flag and gave up, which is one of the craziest things in my mind.

Speaker 9 And then you also just told Trump and Republicans that if they wait out any battle long enough in the future, that you will cave. You know, you're dealing with sociopathic people right here.

Speaker 9 And now they know that ultimately, if they wait long enough, that you're going to back down. And And like the most offensive part to me is what Ben touched on before.

Speaker 9 It's the Democratic messaging about their decision. And sometimes it's like, if you're going to take a big swing like this, right?

Speaker 9 If you're going to bank on, we think MAGA Mike is going to bring this up in the House. We think we're going to get 60 votes in the Senate.
Just you wait and see. There's a plan.
There's a strategy.

Speaker 9 Then you better be able to come out and really.

Speaker 9 articulate that strategy in a convincing and persuasive way and not basically place the blame on the American people for not understanding your brilliance or making up these BS excuses like that Donald Trump was winning this entire battle when every single piece of data out there shows that that is not true.

Speaker 9 And that to me is one of the single most infuriating things possible. Like I'll play you this clip of Angus King, for example.
Angus King was like, yeah, well, you know,

Speaker 9 we could ultimately we couldn't beat Trump. Like watch this.
And tell me if you're as infuriated as I am about this.

Speaker 14 Well, Joe, you have to go back to what the strategy was at the beginning of the shutdown. There were two goals, both of which I support.
One was standing up to Donald Trump.

Speaker 14 The other was getting some resolution on the ACA premium tax credit issue.

Speaker 14 The problem was the shutdown wasn't accomplishing either goals, and there was practically, well, there was zero likelihood that it was going to.

Speaker 14 In terms of standing up to Donald Trump, the shutdown actually gave him more power, exhibit A being what he's done with

Speaker 14 SNAP and SNAP benefits across the country. Oh, by the way, Joe, you're going to love this.
Guess who's getting paid during the shutdown?

Speaker 14 Not the park rangers or air traffic controllers.

Speaker 14 The ICE agents. Under special law, under that big, awful bill that they passed last summer, the ICE agents are being paid.
Nobody else is. So standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.

Speaker 14 It actually gave him more power.

Speaker 9 It just sounds like cope to me. Like, it sounds like you're

Speaker 9 bullshitting me. Like, you know, don't, don't bullshit me.
Okay. Like, be honest.
Let's, let's be honest here. Okay.

Speaker 4 It's, it's infuriating.

Speaker 4 That's the first time I've actually seen that clip. That, that is.

Speaker 4 Of course he went on Morning Joe for that.

Speaker 4 Infuriating. And that's the whole thing, Brett to your point earlier.
It's like, what the heck was the point of the last 40 days if you're going to cave in the ways that you did? And also,

Speaker 4 I'm not going to get conspiratorial here, but there are certain facts behind the members who had voted, some of whom are retiring, some of whom have their next re-election bid in 2028, some of whom have their next re-election bid in 2030.

Speaker 4 So don't like, don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining. If you wanted a cave, just say, hey, I want to cave.
I'm ready to give up. I don't want to fight anymore.
You could do that.

Speaker 4 I still wouldn't like it, but at least you're being honest to me at that point. Because what you're seeing there, it's like,

Speaker 4 What like, how do you, how do you help that? Not that I'm here to help that, but I'm here to want to help the American people.

Speaker 4 And when that's their elected officials right there, someone who doesn't want to fight, someone who doesn't even realize that they're winning the fight,

Speaker 4 it blows my mind. It blows my mind.

Speaker 9 Tell me the plan. That's right.
Like, tell me the plan in a convincing way. Or don't go on TV and give me this.
Well,

Speaker 9 there's no winning against Thalent. Don't give me that crap, okay? Go on and tell me your brilliant plan.
Tell me how you intend to get Mike Johnson to bring this to the floor.

Speaker 9 Tell me how you intend to get the 60 votes. Assure me.
That should be your job. Assure me.

Speaker 9 But if you're making up all this other stuff, then I'm going to be skeptical of you until I actually see the results happen. Let me show you this MAGA Mike Johnson clip.

Speaker 9 Meanwhile, let's see what MAGA Mike Johnson's saying on Greta Van Sustren's show so you could see kind of the other side of it, what Mike Johnson thinks about extending these Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Speaker 20 Well, is the Republican idea or solution going to go into effect at midnight on December 31st? Because people are going to get sticker shock on this insurance.

Speaker 20 I mean, this is really sort of an urgent matter for a lot of people.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it's an urgent matter for us, and it has been, which is why we put it into the bill that we passed in the early summer, and the Democrats fought to take it out.

Speaker 13 So, we're reintroducing some of these ideas. There's a lot of ideas on how to drive the cost down, and we have November and December to work on that.

Speaker 13 We're going to have to get a bipartisan consensus on some of this, and so we'll be presenting our ideas and putting them on the table.

Speaker 13 The Democrats, this is very important to point out, they don't have any reform ideas at all.

Speaker 13 Their argument is they they want a completely unreformed continuation. They would do it permanently, most of them, on government just subsidizing the insurance companies.
And that is not the solution.

Speaker 13 And we're going to be educating the population along the way as we do this and come up with reforms that will actually solve the problem and not make it worse.

Speaker 4 What Magamike basically says is, well, we have from Greta Van Sustran asks him, so, you know, what are you going to do when people get sticker shock and they see their premiums increasing?

Speaker 4 It's not a unique Democrat issue.

Speaker 4 Like people from all different political parties human beings who live in the united states are going to get this and see their premiums rise and he goes well we have all of november and we have all of december to figure this out and so at least if you were angus king like wouldn't you go on and basically say like i'm not trying to help him because i definitely don't support what he did but wouldn't you say

Speaker 4 you're going to see MAGA Mike start to flail and now they're going to have to come up with their plan and every day we're going to be out there saying, what the hell is your plan?

Speaker 4 Because the people now understand the issue and they're not going to have a plan. So each day on the Senate, you're going to see me there and I'm going to say, show us the plan, MAGA Mike.

Speaker 4 Show us the plan. I'd at least be like, okay, like I,

Speaker 4 all right, maybe. I don't, I don't know.
I don't think so. I think I still hate this.
But like for you to say, Did you know, Joe, that ICE agents? Yeah, we know. We know.
We see them on the street.

Speaker 4 They're freaking gassing people in Chicago. We're well aware that ICE is being funded.
We know that. We know that people are starving.
You know why?

Speaker 4 Because they're people, and we see the food bank lines are longer than ever. We understand these issues by existing.

Speaker 4 And these senators are so far removed from the feeling on the ground that they're just like.

Speaker 4 Well, I just think that what we needed to do here because of the pressure we were under is the pressure was in the opposite direction, you morons.

Speaker 4 The pressure was increased the pressure against Donald Trump. Like, there's a reason why California Governor Gavin Newsom is meeting the moment right now.

Speaker 4 It's because he's aggressively going after Donald Trump and fighting for the people with his moral and formal authority.

Speaker 4 There's a reason why, in places like Salt Lake City and West Virginia, and purple states, and red states, you name it, Bernie Sanders

Speaker 4 are filling up huge stadiums with people who are pissed off. There's a reason why Zoran Mamdani's campaign was so successful.
Yes, he understood the social media age.

Speaker 4 Yes, he was, I think, a good candidate, energetic, good debater, all those qualities.

Speaker 4 But his message, affordability, affordability, affordability, and we're getting screwed by these right-wing oligarchs. That was a message that we know what's going on.
And it was such a freaking miss.

Speaker 4 And all the while, Brett I guess if there's, if there's once, you know, why wouldn't Angus say this? Look, now we get to focus on the Epstein files.

Speaker 4 Because now there's two things that we're going to talk about the rest of the year, healthcare and Epstein. And people were forgetting about the Epstein files.

Speaker 4 Again, I would still not support what they did, but at least I'm making a cogent argument there, right? We need to focus on Trump's cover-up of the PPP, the pedoprotection program by the GOP.

Speaker 4 And every day, we're going to be bringing up Donald Trump's connections with Epstein until the files are released. That's where our attention needs to go.

Speaker 4 And we can't watch Americans suffer losing their snap at, I don't know, say something like that, right? Versus, well, I think we were losing the debate. You are losing the debate.

Speaker 4 You were actually winning the debate massively.

Speaker 4 What are you doing? So, I do want to talk about Epstein now because a lot of new developments have come out.

Speaker 4 Since last week, New York Times, Wall Street Journal's public records request on one of the court dockets involving JP Morgan Chase showed 4,600 suspicious activity reports, SARs, totaling $1 billion of likely money laundering that Epstein was involved in, which, by the way, was being investigated by Alex Acosta, then the United States Attorney of the Southern District of Florida, who later became Donald Trump's labor secretary, who took a deposition recently by the House Oversight Committee and said, I don't know anything about financial crimes.

Speaker 4 Dude, it was a $1 billion money laundering investigation in parallel to the child sex trafficking trafficking investigation and you gave him the sweetheart deal so you have that big revelation you have additional information coming out now that ghelaine maxwell is getting the greatest treatment of all time by the bureau of prisons in the minimum security facility after she was removed from the tallehasse maximum facility maximum security facility put into a minimum security facility where she was banned because child sex traffickers, convicted child sex traffickers, are not allowed to to be in this minimum security facility.

Speaker 4 And now Ghylaine Maxwell is working apparently with the help of the warden. The warden is trying to suck up to Trump, apparently.

Speaker 4 So it was like helping give Ghylaine like cell phones and information and printing out stuff and redlining and underlining things, like actually helping her get a commutation for Donald Trump to prepare the paperwork.

Speaker 4 You've got Ghylaine getting access to service puppies and meals, and they shut down the prison so she can meet with private VIP guests that nobody knows who they are.

Speaker 4 And if any prisoner dare speaks out, and this has happened before, about the unequal treatment and the favoritism for Ghilane, they send the minimum security prisoners who actually belong there to maximum security facilities in Houston.

Speaker 4 And that's happened. And the wardens held meetings with the prisoners.

Speaker 4 If you go to the press, she said, according to these whistleblowers, if you go to the press, we're sending you to maximum security facilities to help Dhelaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker.

Speaker 4 And meanwhile, the MAGA Republicans in the House are blocking the Democrats' subpoena of the formerly person known as Prince Andrew.

Speaker 4 Now it just goes by Andrew because they removed all of his titles because of his connections with Epstein. And additional hacked emails came out.

Speaker 4 We did a report on this showing that Epstein worked with Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel and defense minister of Israel, to to work on all of these Israeli defense contracts with like the

Speaker 4 Allison, what's him, Allison Otara, the leader of Cote Voie in Africa, Ivory Coast,

Speaker 4 Mongolia's leaders, and they would pitch their services.

Speaker 4 Epstein would use the sex trafficking ring to then serve as a middleman, apparently, based on these emails that have been released, not conspiratorial, like actual emails

Speaker 4 where you see him talking about building the cash flow with Ehud Barak and doing these deals in war-torn areas. They mention a lot of countries by name and deals that

Speaker 4 they're working on.

Speaker 4 So they would use the sex trafficking where he would use the sex trafficking ring to then be a middleman in these deals with foreign countries to bring Israeli Mossad surveillance technology into these other countries to help the authoritarians keep power in these foreign countries.

Speaker 4 And it's like, you know, that's not a rabbit hole that I love going down, but it's a true one. That's why I go down it and I go, holy crap.
And I showed you all those emails.

Speaker 4 So that's what's going on in the Gee Lane front.

Speaker 4 One of the things that Andrew likely knows is a lot of the other rich, powerful men who were with him, with the underage girls like Virginia Juffrey and others.

Speaker 4 By the way, Virginia Juffrey, according to Donald Trump's own words, was found and taken from him from the Mar-a-Lago spa. When she was an underage 17-year-old girl.

Speaker 4 Also, we had Allison Gill do a report here. She's been doing great Sunday reports on the Amindus Touch Network, right?

Speaker 4 From Buller, she wrote, talking about how FBI agents who have seen these files say they're far worse than the worst nightmare of what people expected to be in them. So that was the coverage there.

Speaker 9 Let me just say, though, let me just say, you did this whole deep dive, which is very well researched and well informed.

Speaker 9 And I know that our audience appreciates it and that we've stayed on this story very closely for many years now.

Speaker 9 But you don't have to do a deep dive to think, isn't it weird that Ghelane Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker, was moved to a cushy club-fed prison out of her previous prison into this low-security prison in Texas?

Speaker 9 Isn't that weird?

Speaker 4 Isn't it weird that

Speaker 9 after speaking with Trump's lawyer, after given immunity by Trump's lawyer? Isn't that a little weird? Isn't it also weird that she's getting all of the special treatment in the prison?

Speaker 9 Isn't it weird that she has, that they gave her a puppy?

Speaker 9 I think that's kind of weird that they gave her a puppy, that she does Pilates classes and yoga classes, and that she has these secret private meetings with these VIPs, all the things that Ben went through before.

Speaker 9 Like that on its own, before you get to all the deeper, dark stuff, like that on its own is freaking weird.

Speaker 9 And I could go on, isn't it weird that House Democrats asked Prince, formerly Prince Andrew, he's no longer has the prince title, to testify before the House of Representatives, before the committees?

Speaker 9 And Republicans said, absolutely not. Isn't that a little weird?

Speaker 9 Like, like, at what point, if you're a Republican or a Trump voter or you name it, who pretended to care about this issue and made it your big thing over the past few years, and you see all these attempts to block any sort of progress on finding out more about this, you see the cover-up in plain sight happening before your eyes, at what point do you go, huh?

Speaker 9 It's a little freaking strange.

Speaker 9 That's all I want to say.

Speaker 9 Like, you don't need to peel back a billion layers to look at this story and realize exactly what is going on right here between Donald Trump and his former great friend of many decades, Ghelane Maxwell.

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Speaker 19 Benji, where to next?

Speaker 4 In a moment, I'm going to tell Brett to play the clip regarding California Governor Gavin Newsom's trip to Sao Paulo in Brazil, basically representing not just California, but the future of the United States and what the United States once was on the international stage.

Speaker 4 It's why I called Governor Newsom essentially the shadow president at this point.

Speaker 4 You know how in other governments they have like a shadow cabinet in the opposition party, which we should do here in the United States.

Speaker 4 I am hereby saying that Governor Newsom is the de facto shadow president right now, and he's out there representing California, which would be the fourth largest economy by GDP in the world if California was a country.

Speaker 4 And he's there, you know, talking about... Here's why we know that climate change is real.
Here are the steps we're taking in California. Here's why it's good for people's health.

Speaker 4 Here's why it's good for the economy. And he goes on to defend American values and principles.
He speaks out against the current regime. And so I just think about you have that taking place.

Speaker 4 And then back at home, you have Donald Trump holding a disastrous presser. I did a video on this earlier.
You should all go and watch. It was like weird.

Speaker 4 Like Erica Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow, she just like shows up all the time now in the Oval Office. And then randomly, I don't need to play the clip.
It's too grotesque.

Speaker 4 And our audio listeners, you'll just hear like a kiss sound and it'll gross your ears out. So I'll just tell you what it is.
Yeah, I'm going there because Trump did. He's like, where's Erica?

Speaker 4 Where's Erica? Erica, come here. Then he just like kisses her, like in the Oval Office, like for no reason.
It was like very strict. Why are you kissing her? Like

Speaker 4 in a press conference, like she's in the room. So

Speaker 4 first off, I'm not like a, I'm not like a kisser when I greet a general anymore or whatever. Like, I don't know, they just say of like, I don't know, kissing someone when you say hello to them.

Speaker 4 I don't know.

Speaker 4 I just don't do that. But setting that aside, like maybe like you see somebody and then they leave, right? And those are the times where maybe you do like a kiss on the cheek.

Speaker 4 But like I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to think of like a meeting that would take place where in the middle of it, where you know the person's there and also you're on TV, like you call the person and say, come here, come here.

Speaker 4 And then you kiss them on camera. Like it's a very strange.
Like it's a very strange thing that I think like deserves more attention for how strange it actually is.

Speaker 4 But you can go watch my other video that I did on that. It's my analysis there.

Speaker 4 And I guess on a more serious note, I don't know, less more serious note, Donald Trump posted this morning an attack on all air traffic controllers. Just think about this behavior.

Speaker 4 Like, this is how Donald Trump treated his workers in Atlantic City and they hated him. And he ripped off his contractors and didn't pay him.
And he's ruined so many lives. But just think about this.

Speaker 4 Like, air traffic controllers. Very specialized, right? Very

Speaker 4 require a lot of brain power, a lot of focus,

Speaker 4 highly skilled, not that many of them. And this is what Donald Trump decides to post today

Speaker 4 while they've had to take significant sacrifices as a result of the Trump government shutdown. All air traffic controllers must get back to work now.
Exclamation point. Just pause there for a second.

Speaker 4 Like, could you imagine just treating somebody you know like that at all? Like, again, take away Democrat, Republican, Independent, like, other than like someone who's like

Speaker 4 a gigantic dick, like as a a person, you know, and I was thinking about not using that word because we know what Stormy Daniels said about Donald and it's the exact opposite.

Speaker 4 So I don't even want to phrase gigantic dick in Donald Trump in a sentence, but being an asshole, I don't know, whatever, just being a total jerk. We'll go jerk.
Jag off, Ben. Come on.

Speaker 4 He's being a jag off. Okay, but like just the behavior of get back to work now, traffic controllers.
Like, dude, who behaves like that? Like, I'm just trying to think about like raising your children.

Speaker 4 Like, would you want your children to treat other human beings like that? Like, it's a character of a bad person manifested in real life. Now, anyone who doesn't will be substantially docked.

Speaker 4 For those air traffic controllers who were great patriots and didn't take any time off for the Democrats at that hoax, I will be recommending a bonus of $10,000 per person for a distinguished service to our country.

Speaker 4 Like, we all know the number is like a fake, right? Like, that's not going to ever happen. Just another fraud number by Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 For those that did nothing but complain and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid in full shortly into the future, I'm not happy with you.

Speaker 4 You didn't step up to help the USA against fake Democrat attack that was only meant to hurt our country. You will have a negative mark.
at least in my mind, against your record.

Speaker 4 If you want to leave service in the near future, please do not hesitate to do so with no payment or severance of

Speaker 4 any kind. You will be quickly replaced by true patriots who will do a better job on the brand new state-of-the-art equipment, the best in the world that we are in the process of ordering.

Speaker 4 The last administration wasted billions of dollars trying to fix antiquated junk. I'll just tell you this.
Under the former administration, I didn't see planes crashing all the time.

Speaker 4 I didn't see these delays happening all the time. I didn't worry when I got on a plane like I did last time, what was going to happen to me.
That's a uniquely kind of Trumpian thing.

Speaker 4 But let me just show you two.

Speaker 4 Do I want to want to play it? But I'm not going to play the Trump Oval Office stuff from today. He's just obnoxious and he's a horrible human, and it just will annoy me.

Speaker 4 It's just Donald Trump saying things like this. I'll just tell you what he says because I really don't want to play it.
He goes, Everything's cheaper. Gas prices are under $2.

Speaker 4 Everything's incredibly cheap. We've just, we've stopped inflation.
He talks about the healthcare system where we're no longer going to have insurance companies.

Speaker 4 And instead, we're going to give everybody $3,000 or $2,000 and that's going to be used instead. Like you do realize, though, that insurance needs to be insured, right?

Speaker 4 My view is that the government should play a substantial role in it because it's a human right like in every other country and there should be universal health care insured by the government.

Speaker 4 That's my view. How do you pay for it, Ben? You tax the rich more money.
You start off by taxing them a fair amount. You tax them more money.
You bring in more revenue, actual revenue.

Speaker 4 That's my view of it i'm unapologetic about that but the next idea of a plan is the affordable care act you create these pools that can deal with high-risk people you basically require that people join this insurance to ensure that you have all these people who can spread out the risk and then you try to subsidize it to bring down the price it's still insurance dominated and oftentimes insurance comes from people's work and so it creates these issues where it's expensive but you try to subsidize it to bring down the costs.

Speaker 4 Or you go back to a pre-Obamacare Affordable Care Act where 20, 30 million Americans don't have insurance and they die. So what's your plan?

Speaker 4 And saying you're going to give people $2,000 and destroy insurance companies, that's not a plan. It's not a real thing.

Speaker 4 It doesn't address the issues and it will cause people to go into medical bankruptcy. So he says that.

Speaker 4 Then he talks about, maybe we do play this clip, Brett, because I just want to hear people say it for all of Donald Trump's talk about, we hate the globalists, we hate the globalist.

Speaker 4 Donald Trump goes, when somebody's like, why is Donald Trump focused on like Argentina and China and all these other places in the world and not on helping Americans?

Speaker 4 Trump's like, well, that's what I, the world is the United States. Let's just play this just so I can show you the one receipt.
Then I'll go to Newsom. Let's play it.

Speaker 11 You can believe these deals.

Speaker 11 But so when somebody makes a statement about he's devoting time to the world, well, the world is the United States because if the world's in trouble or if the world is ripping us off, you know, the world was ripping us off before I came here.

Speaker 11 Europe was getting massive tariffs. They were sending us nine, ten million cars a year.
We were sending them none. They were not taking our agriculture.

Speaker 11 We were taking massive amounts of their, it was so unfair. Now we have a deal where $950 billion is coming into the United States because of me and because of tariffs.

Speaker 11 So if I don't do all these things, our country is doing very poorly. So, you know, it's easy to say, oh, don't worry about the world, but the world is turning out to be our biggest customer.

Speaker 11 The world was on fire, and we could have been in that fire very easily if you didn't have a president that knew what he was doing.

Speaker 4 What is he even talking about? What do you mean? The world didn't take American agriculture and American cars until you? I mean, you just want to look at China. We were exporting.

Speaker 4 27 million metric tons of soybeans to China. And now it's 12 and a half metric tons.
If you want to look at anywhere else in the world, you'll find that Canada was taking a lot of our stuff.

Speaker 4 Now they're taking almost none of our stuff. Same thing in Europe.
They're not giving us $950 billion. These are all fake numbers, fake deals.
None of it's actually happening. Show it.
Show it to us.

Speaker 4 Show us in the treasury where the money came in, right? Should it be easily, is there a check? Show me the money. Show me the project.
Show me where it happened. Show me the data.

Speaker 4 We're just going to repeat the same lie over and over again and not show me anything. But I I just wanted to share that with you because they're like, oh, globalist, globalist, globalist.

Speaker 4 It's like a warped, it's like the worst version of globalism, too. It's like

Speaker 4 stupid globalism. Like, I can't even describe what it is, right?

Speaker 4 It's like a made-up version where he goes out there, undermines America's status in the world, and then like begs other countries, and then doesn't realize that he's begging and in a position of weakness, and everybody is actually taking advantage of us or laughing at us as he goes out there.

Speaker 4 And like, that's like he's discovered the idea of trade for the first time, but does it in a way that undercuts

Speaker 4 significantly of the United States. But meanwhile, Donald Trump isn't sending like anybody to the zero people, to the San Paulo United Nations climate conference, the 30th anniversary.

Speaker 4 Nobody, because our regime doesn't believe in climate change. They don't believe in wind energy.
They don't believe in solar energy.

Speaker 4 All of the great investments that Biden was making in the country that would have helped American industry, Trump's destroying, and China's taking full advantage of that. It's good business.

Speaker 4 It's really good business. And it's good for the environment.
Like, it's a double win. Great business, great for the economy.
New jobs being created, manufacturing, construction.

Speaker 4 We were in a manufacturing boom because of it. We got rid of those jobs.
And it's actually good for the environment also. But Trump's like, screw that.
Why would I do anything like that?

Speaker 4 So let me show you what Governor Newsom said. Here's Governor Newsom in Sao Paulo.
He's at the Milken Institute right there. And he says, look, California is here for the long haul.

Speaker 4 Let's play this first quote.

Speaker 15 My country may be unrecognizable to you in a year or two. There's a revolution going on in the United States of America.
It's not about co-equal branches of government.

Speaker 15 It's not about popular sovereignty. It's not about the rule of law.
It's increasingly about the rule of dawn.

Speaker 15 And I hope it's dawning on many of you.

Speaker 15 How real that is. But I also hope, in the spirit that began this conversation, that I'm leaving you with a sense that we march to the beat of a different drummer in California.
Stable,

Speaker 14 reliable partner.

Speaker 15 We're here for the long haul. We're 1,600 miles away from Washington, D.C.,

Speaker 15 thousand miles in terms of mindset. So think about California in those terms.
Think about us as a partner and think about us as it relates to decisions you make in the future.

Speaker 14 You matter. We care.

Speaker 4 And there were lots of more clips like that and comments that he made, but I did a whole video on that. So, Brett, let me pass it to you to kind of just give us a summary of where we're at right now.

Speaker 9 I think people know where we're at,

Speaker 9 but I want to make it clear. We're going to keep fighting no matter what happens here.
I mean, that's what we're here to do.

Speaker 9 I like to think that we are representatives of this community and that you are representatives of us, that we're all fighting to actually make people's lives better.

Speaker 9 And that this movement that we have built, this pro-democracy movement, as Jordy so eloquently described earlier, is not about any sort of single political party.

Speaker 9 It's about doing what's right for the people. So if I see the Democrats and I think they're screwing up, and by the way, it's okay if you disagree with us in any way here.
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Speaker 9 We could have disagreement here. I think they made a poor decision.
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Speaker 9 I'm not going to just try to shill for a party. I'm not going to try to just try to sugarcoat things and say that everything is great.
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Speaker 9 Okay. I'm going to tell you how I actually think things are.
And I think they screwed up big time here.

Speaker 9 But what I can promise you, I can't promise you anything that the Democrats are going to do or any politician is going to do. I never put my faith in politicians.

Speaker 9 But what I can promise you is that we're going to continue to fight for you here at the Midas Touch Network.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 9 so we march on, you know. And I want to thank everybody else for your support out there, for supporting this network.
It really means so much.

Speaker 9 You know, I've been meeting so many people now when I go out who tell me, you know, that they love the network and they love seeing me on Instagram and the YouTube videos and all the various things.

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Speaker 9 They're going to be things that make you want to celebrate. We're going to be here for it all.
Okay. And so I just want to thank you once again, and then I'll toss it off to Jordy.

Speaker 4 Y'all the best. Ben, anything else you want to add before I send us off? That's all I got, Jay.
Y'all the greatest.

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