MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25

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Speaker 10 Another day and more countries Donald Trump is threatening war with.

Speaker 13 He then threatened to invade Gaza, send troops there, occupy it permanently.

Speaker 18 Then Fox tried to, I guess, cover up for it and say that he was part of some master negotiation that we just simply don't get.

Speaker 24 And also what he was doing with Greenland and Canada and Mexico and Panama and Colombia, where he threatens things and then just basically either preserves the status quo or gives the other countries more than they had before.

Speaker 20 It's all part of four-dimensional chess, folks.

Speaker 20 I mean, this stuff is dangerous because Trump is isolating the United States of America, but it's also making America look so utterly weak and pathetic and detested across the world.

Speaker 33 As Donald Trump backs down on his various tariff threats and his various cries or claims that he's going to do all of these wars, he's also losing in the courtroom as well.

Speaker 20 There have now been multiple federal injunctions against Donald Trump and Elon Musk's various schemes.

Speaker 17 There was an injunction regarding the Doge access to the Treasury Department records.

Speaker 42 Although the person who was appointed as the representative to go inside the Treasury Department apparently resigned recently over making certain eugenics-related comments.

Speaker 17 And so once these were discovered, the person resigned. There's also injunctions regarding birthright citizenship.
There's also injunctions regarding the government freeze.

Speaker 32 There's injunctions regarding Donald Trump's attempt to put trans women into the male prisons and to deprive them of the medication based on the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the United States Constitution.

Speaker 48 There's also an injunction that was issued by the court about that fake government buyout offer and more.

Speaker 36 We'll go into all of these major federal injunctions, but it's been loss after loss. after loss for Trump.

Speaker 32 Don't be distracted, folks.

Speaker 51 Prices are not getting lower.

Speaker 35 They are getting getting higher.

Speaker 50 That's if you can even find eggs at a supermarket.

Speaker 24 Houses are not getting more affordable.

Speaker 17 They are getting less affordable.

Speaker 42 There has not been peace in Ukraine in 24 hours, although Trump has made Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping more powerful than ever.

Speaker 17 We're going to break this all down on the Midas Touch podcast today.

Speaker 32 I want to start off, though, by showing a series of clips.

Speaker 17 Brett Jordy, I want you to react to these clips.

Speaker 34 The first clip I want to show you, Sean Hannity trying to

Speaker 34 say Donald Trump making these statements about Gaza brilliant brilliant stuff here this is part of complex negotiations everybody here play this clip the U.S.

Speaker 55 will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too

Speaker 56 Now, like Trump's tariff threats and tough negotiations with Panama, Venezuela, Denmark, Mexico, Canada,

Speaker 56 this is likely just the first chapter in a complex, ongoing art of the deal negotiation. But once again, for the millionth time, the Democratic Party is just overcome with hysteria.

Speaker 17 You know, there's like that DMX song where he like lists a bunch of like women or like kind of like a list of like ex-girlfriends who don't talk to you anymore, who like hate you?

Speaker 58 Like that's kind of like what you'll say.

Speaker 61 Panama, Colombia, and you know, and Denmark and Greenlito, places where Trump literally lost in negotiations and Trump was made an utter full.

Speaker 50 I could do the DMX voice with those songs.

Speaker 43 Here's Kaylee McEnany, though, trying to push these propaganda talking points.

Speaker 40 This is from state-run regime media called Fox.

Speaker 36 Let's play it.

Speaker 63 Well, the media didn't listen to that. Those gathered in the room, Caitlin Collins, others, because I watched through the channels last night and it was absolute pandemonium.

Speaker 63 I mean, the freak out was only second to June 27th, the day that Joe Biden had that disastrous debate. And when you look at it, I just thought to myself, they haven't learned the lesson yet.

Speaker 63 And the lesson is this. Maybe Trump is not trying to take Gaza.

Speaker 63 Maybe this is a grand part of a negotiation to get Iran to come to the table, to get Iran to hold back the proxies, to get Iran to stop its nuclear warfare on the world.

Speaker 65 Maybe that's it.

Speaker 63 My lesson to the media, this one line I wish they would take. President Trump is playing four-dimensional chess.
You all are playing checkers.

Speaker 66 If they even have a game board.

Speaker 67 If they even have a game board, yes.

Speaker 59 If they even have a game board. Ha ha.

Speaker 69 Elon Musk and Doji are all in your government records.

Speaker 67 Ha ha, everybody.

Speaker 28 Do you even have a game plan? Like, they're like literally cartoonishly evil.

Speaker 26 By the way, that was the face of Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's chief of staff as Donald Trump talked about permanently occupying Gaza.

Speaker 17 Brett and Jory, Jordy, sorry for that long intro.

Speaker 36 I just had to show those clips right away.

Speaker 29 Brett, how are you doing?

Speaker 9 No, I mean, it's craziness. It's pandemonium.
We can never act like any of this is normal. There really is like a coup of the government happening from the inside.

Speaker 9 And we're seeing state-run media like you see in Russia and North Korea. and other autocratic countries.
Fox is just full-on state-run media at this point. Everything they say is bullshit.

Speaker 9 Everything's a lie. Honestly, a lot of the stuff I think would make Vladimir Putin and the stuff he does over in Russia blush

Speaker 9 with the level of gaslighting that they have. And it's the same pattern, though, that we've seen from Fox over so many years.
And that's at first they try to tell you what Trump really said.

Speaker 9 Oh, this is actually what he really meant. It's actually four-dimensional chests.
And watch, let me show you. And then Hannity goes, oh, you're just not getting it.
People,

Speaker 9 if you are as smart as me and everybody else, we know that Donald Trump is doing these negotiations.

Speaker 9 And then inevitably, this is going to happen where Hannity is going to be on an interview with Trump one-on-one, and he's going to ask, so this is a negotiation tactic, right?

Speaker 9 So you're not really, this is just a positioning for the United States. And Trump's going to go, no, I really mean it.
And Hannity's going to go, but you really don't, right?

Speaker 9 And the whole cycle is going to continue like it always does. The stupidity is endless.

Speaker 9 They're even using the same talking points right now.

Speaker 9 If you look from Fox to the White House press secretary to people like Pete Hegseth, you see the talking points just repeat themselves on all those aspects. They are clearly in coordination.

Speaker 9 And if, you know, let me show you a clip. I got a clip of them literally repeating each other's talking points that I do want to show you.

Speaker 9 I'll show you this, and then I'll just make another point about why Fox is state-run TV after you watch this, but this makes it pretty damn clear.

Speaker 72 Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Speaker 73 The definition of insanity is attempting to do the same thing over and over and over again.

Speaker 74 And as the President and Prime Minister pointed out last night, as our Defense Secretary said famously today, Pete Hegseth, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again.

Speaker 72 President Trump is an outside-of-the-box thinker and a visionary leader who solves problems that many others, especially in this city, claim are unsolvable.

Speaker 73 The president is willing to think outside the box.

Speaker 57 We might as well look at one of the world's world's longest problems and bring in a leader who thinks outside the box, who's crazy, may just be crazy genius.

Speaker 68 Like I said, Mike,

Speaker 9 you can't, Vladimir Putin is watching that, being like, guys, you got to tone it down a little bit. That's a little on the nose, fellas.

Speaker 9 And that clip for the audio listeners, you go between Carolyn Levitt, who's the press secretary. You go to Pete Hegseth, who was a Fox News host, plucked right out of Fox News morning TV.

Speaker 9 Then you go to the Fox host praising him. They all say the same exact things.

Speaker 9 And where I was getting at before is if that wasn't enough for you to explain that to state TV, guess who's getting a new show on Fox, a new weekend show on Fox coming up soon?

Speaker 9 Lara Trump is going to be hosting a new show where she's going to get into the truth about what is really going on. That's right.
Lara Trump, former co-chair of the RNC, now getting a show on Fox.

Speaker 9 But yeah, Trump administration, tell me more about DEI and merit-based hiring.

Speaker 65 You know, Lara is probably going to end each show singing her hit singles, Brett. It's going to be, when I watch,

Speaker 9 I hope, I hope those Fox viewers get all the singing they asked for.

Speaker 65 When I watch those clips, I'm going to borrow a word, I'm going to borrow a nice Yiddish word, puts.

Speaker 9 McInnany, putts, Hannity, puts, Will Cain, putts, Levitt, puts, Hexa, puts.

Speaker 79 They're such losers, man.

Speaker 65 It's unbelievable watching them with these same talking points, these tired-ass talking points.

Speaker 65 And then you get the sense when you watch the Carolyn Levitt clips very specifically, she's doing like a bad book report in school.

Speaker 65 Like it feels like when she's reading from her notes, like even just the way that she tries to deliver the information is just awful and super incompetent.

Speaker 39 I mean, these people are the worst.

Speaker 58 You know, as Donald Trump and people like that are,

Speaker 32 their one mission is destroy U.S.

Speaker 54 aid.

Speaker 44 Okay, but the broader plot there was that was the first one they were going to go after, right?

Speaker 36 So go after USAID, which which provides all this aid to like vulnerable people abroad, like women who have HIV and AIDS to stop the transmission of the HIV AIDS to their babies and like stopping things that are like and harming agencies and organizations that like do things like that.

Speaker 15 Like literally people are going to die.

Speaker 17 But one of the things that we've learned, right, is that Elon Musk and Doge are now going to the other agencies, right?

Speaker 48 They put their people in the Treasury Department.

Speaker 17 We'll talk a little bit more about the legal maneuvering there, but there's now an injunction blocking that data from being given over to Musk and anybody but their designated person who works at the Treasury Department.

Speaker 45 But it turns out that that person was bragging about eugenics and saying that he wouldn't marry anybody outside of his race ever.

Speaker 29 And those posts emerge, and apparently that person resigned from that position, but

Speaker 40 we'll get into that.

Speaker 52 But then they've gone into

Speaker 25 the Department of Labor, Department of Education.

Speaker 53 It seems like every day they go into

Speaker 33 another entity to somewhere, and they say, Get the hell out of here, and like walk in and then have their 19 and 22-year-olds

Speaker 13 enter the systems and put their creeps.

Speaker 9 These little like creeps, they're putting their little tentacles.

Speaker 26 I want to call them kids because I give them that gets them like, oh, they're child.

Speaker 15 These are adults, but they're like, they look like creepy kids, but they're actually, you know, purportedly, I won't call them grown men, but whatever.

Speaker 33 So they go into all these areas.

Speaker 52 But like, I need to remind us, perhaps we start this like

Speaker 13 cleanse at the beginning of the episode.

Speaker 28 Like when JFK rolled out USAID, it was because this was viewed as like a major part of America's soft power, that America was the leader of the free world.

Speaker 34 And what JFK was saying is as the leader of the free world, it's not bombs and threats.

Speaker 32 It's sometimes medication and food and helping countries out.

Speaker 28 That saves lives here when you can do that.

Speaker 17 Here, play the slip of Jay.

Speaker 86 The presence of the United States is

Speaker 86 as a

Speaker 86 leading power in the free world is involved in your work directly. The people who are opposed to aid should realize that this is a very

Speaker 86 powerful source of strength for us. It permits us to exert influence for the maintenance of freedom.
If we did not

Speaker 86 were not so heavily involved,

Speaker 86 our voice would not speak with such vigor.

Speaker 86 And as we do not want to send American troops to a great many areas where freedom may be under attack, we send you.

Speaker 86 And you working with the people in those countries to try to work with them in developing the

Speaker 86 economic thrust of their country so that they can make a determination that they can solve their problems without resorting to totalitarian control and becoming part of the block.

Speaker 9 And I want everybody quickly to just beware of a lot of the disinformation that's going out there right now.

Speaker 9 Because one of the things I think that's been the scariest thing for me about this Trump administration, and frankly, it's been a concern of mine for the past, I don't know, since we've been doing this, is that you have Fox owns the flow of information that's on cable news.

Speaker 9 They're the dominant news outlet spreading the news there, and they own a lot of newspapers. And then you have Sinclair that owns a lot of the local news that's repeating right-wing talking points.

Speaker 9 They're a right-wing conglomerate that owns channels that appear to be NBC or appear to be ABC or Fox or whatever. They're actually owned by Sinclair.

Speaker 9 Then on digital, you have the platforms that are owned by people like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and those are throttling information, those are pushing certain information to the top.

Speaker 9 And so these lies spread so quickly.

Speaker 9 So I see every day now a new lie that is built up in order to justify the destruction of these agencies and to smear people and to destroy them, to fire them, to maybe ultimately imprison them.

Speaker 9 And it worries me because it doesn't look like the United States at all, but it does look like Russia. It does look like what you see in these autocratic countries.

Speaker 9 And so when you see with USAID and you see Elon Musk, you know, I've seen a lot of these kind of right-wing people on Twitter go,

Speaker 9 isn't it everything that, you know, they're afraid because we found the fraud.

Speaker 9 We found the fraud and the illegal activity and they are mad that we discovered all the illicit activity that they are doing at the Treasury Department, at the this department, at the that department.

Speaker 9 They make up a lie and then they use that as a predicate to then go after those organizations and to bleed them dry when they are the ones actually engaging in likely illicit behavior.

Speaker 9 They deflect with that.

Speaker 9 That becomes the pseudo-truth that gets uplifted first on social media, then it flows to Fox, it's repeated on Fox, and then it just becomes the kind of MAGA truth that they think is the truth.

Speaker 9 There was this Politico story yesterday that was one of the things going on that was saying like, oh, look, USAID paid paid Politico all this money over these years and they're using it to bribe Politico.

Speaker 9 And it was just complete and total BS.

Speaker 9 They were paying for like a Politico data service the same way government agencies pay for Reuters or Associated Press or whatever to get access to data, to get access to research and things like that.

Speaker 9 And it was money that was paid over the course of, I don't know, like eight years or 10 years or something like that.

Speaker 9 They turned this into a conspiracy theory that USAID is being used to funnel money to news agencies in order to shift the programming to be anti-Trump.

Speaker 9 And they somehow acted like Politico is like the most pro-Biden administration, which if you read Politico ever, you know that it's absolutely not at all.

Speaker 9 And I think they're even owned by a right-wing like German conglomerate of Politico. But

Speaker 9 the point that I want to make, though, is that they are using Soviet-esque justifications in order to destroy these agencies.

Speaker 9 And it's just a very devious tactic. I'm not honestly sure how you overcome all that other than by building these pro-democracy voices like the Midas Touch Network and others up.

Speaker 9 And so, I mean, that's our mission right now. We got to combat this just endless flow of stuff.
And I'll just add also that we're doing that.

Speaker 9 And I want to thank everybody because we're proud to announce that the Midas Touch podcast on audio platforms right now is the number one news podcast out of any podcast on all of audio and Apple podcasts.

Speaker 9 Not only that, when you look at all categories, we are the number two podcast of all podcasts. So that's higher than the New York Times.

Speaker 9 You see, it's higher than Joe Rogan, higher than Tucker Carlson, higher than Megan Kelly, higher than Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro.

Speaker 9 So finally, these pro-democracy voices, despite all the manipulation, despite all the finger that they have on the scale here, we are still winning this information war right now.

Speaker 9 And that's because of you, because while the corporate media wants to think that the pro-democracy community is dead right now, that we are silent, they are dead wrong about that. People are fed up.

Speaker 9 They don't like what's happening.

Speaker 9 So, if you want to support, by the way, help us get to number one of all podcasts, make sure you go right now also and add the Midas Touch podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify and keep us up the rankings because we need to continue to clap back at this disinformation with the truth.

Speaker 9 And that's what we're here to do. And I know that's what you're here to do, Ben.

Speaker 9 Ben, you're on mute.

Speaker 15 You have protests taking place across the country as well, the 50-51 protests, 50 states, 50 protests on one day.

Speaker 25 I know that was not getting a lot of corporate media.

Speaker 9 Did anyone, and was it on any channel at all?

Speaker 13 You know, I mean, you would think about if there were protests literally in most cities across the country, whether you were in Los Angeles, San Francisco, whether you were, you know, in Tampa or Denver or Wyoming, wherever.

Speaker 51 I mean, this shouldn't be a Republican, Democrat, Independent, vegetarian, carnivorous, whatever, like whatever your issue is, you should not want billionaires to have your social security info and your medical records and your data.

Speaker 66 I, I, it, it shocks me that there are people like, yeah, we're owning the libs.

Speaker 90 Take my medical records and my social security and all of my information. Take my Medicare.

Speaker 66 Take that libs. You, you, you, we owned you.

Speaker 24 Really?

Speaker 51 Like that, like, that's, you're rooting for billionaires to literally, like, you're.

Speaker 91 You know, we do that.

Speaker 50 We do that, we do the

Speaker 37 segments on the leopards eating your faces, right?

Speaker 4 But often when the leopard like eats your face, you'd be like, oh, leopard, you know, sometimes while the leopard is eating their faces, they're like, yes, yes, I love the leopard.

Speaker 70 It's like, they're eating your face. That was your eyeball, okay?

Speaker 23 And that was your nostril.

Speaker 66 And, but, but I don't need an eye.

Speaker 35 Okay, that's a little bit weird.

Speaker 93 Like, stand up for yourself.

Speaker 71 Look, I'm not really sure where I'm going with that, but people get it is the point.

Speaker 91 People get it is the point.

Speaker 14 And people don't want that to happen.

Speaker 28 And one of the things that we, the people, can do is, you know, we're going to get out all the information.

Speaker 33 We disseminate the information.

Speaker 40 We build this platform.

Speaker 88 This YouTube channel is almost 4 million subscribers strong.

Speaker 17 And I think our growth was something like close to half a million subscribers over the past 30 days or slightly less, thanks to everybody here.

Speaker 95 We can keep on growing this together.

Speaker 54 And then we can also activate when we need to be activated peacefully, of course, and to make sure we get these messages out it's why it's important that we continue to grow I mean but who's who's who's the beneficiary of this because it certainly ain't the red state Venezuelan voter or the red state Cuban voter or the red state voter on food stamps or the red state voter on Medicare or Obamacare let's show some of those shall we though let's just just show me first Brett let's let's do the Venezuelan community that had a lot of people on TPS temporary protected status meaning they were here lawfully leaving Venezuela because there's a dictator, Nicolas Maduro, who's trying to kill them.

Speaker 40 They were welcomed here into the United States a lot under the Biden administration, which respected their TPS status as well.

Speaker 26 They rallied, though, not behind Biden, but behind Donald Trump and said, oh, Trump's going to protect us, Trump for Venezuelans and Cubans and everyone for Trump.

Speaker 1 So what does Trump do?

Speaker 70 Trump's been making deals with Maduro to send them back to Venezuela, revoke their TPS.

Speaker 40 Their TPS is gone.

Speaker 70 So, now you have people in these communities, especially communities too, like where Trump has resorts, like Doral, the city council.

Speaker 28 There's all Cubans and Venezuelans in Doral. That's the big populations there.
And they're like, wait a minute, now you're sending us back to Venezuela?

Speaker 93 What?

Speaker 40 You're doing deals with Maduro?

Speaker 46 Biden didn't recognize Maduro.

Speaker 98 Biden protected their TPS status.

Speaker 88 They rallied to Trump, and let's play the clip.

Speaker 99 At a press press conference in Doral Monday, Venezuelan Americans denounced the Trump administration and South Florida Republicans.

Speaker 100 More than betrayed.

Speaker 101 Beyond betrayed.

Speaker 100 They used us. They actually, during the campaign, and I don't want to make this political, but during the campaign,

Speaker 100 the elected officials from the Republican Party, they actually told us that he was not going to touch the documented people.

Speaker 25 Well, I mean, what do you think he was going to do?

Speaker 19 I mean, let's be real.

Speaker 32 And I don't root for people let me be very clear even if they voted for trump or supported trump i don't want to see americans suffer because we're all suffering too it's not you know just unique there um

Speaker 77 but

Speaker 95 you were so stuck in your rage algorithm that you were that you were like trump had signs said it said mass deportations now you think he was talking about deporting white southern men who do you think he was talking about deporting

Speaker 95 you you were holding the signs at his events.

Speaker 77 You were, I mean, not her specifically, I don't know, but you know, but Venezuelans and Cubans and Latino Americans and others saying mass deportations now.

Speaker 88 And you and I were saying here, and other hosts were like, he's talking about deporting you.

Speaker 4 What do you think that actually means?

Speaker 79 And now they're like, oh, I've been so betrayed.

Speaker 17 I've been so betrayed.

Speaker 78 I want to show this, though, Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, because it's not just unique to Venezuelans or Cubans or Palestinians for Palestinians for Trump.

Speaker 88 I could be a Palestinian for Trump.

Speaker 93 Muslims for Trump.

Speaker 28 What are you talking about? He had a Muslim ban.

Speaker 1 He banned you.

Speaker 7 He's going to be good this time.

Speaker 85 What does he go?

Speaker 60 Let's level it. Let's level Gaza.

Speaker 91 I mean, let's just destroy it with Netanyahu by his side.

Speaker 66 Wait, what do you think he was going to do?

Speaker 66 That's who he is. What are you talking about?

Speaker 95 It's everyone, though.

Speaker 32 I mean, here you have the MAGA Republican representatives, Congress members right now, who are going out there and they're basically saying, Look,

Speaker 13 it's time you all feel pain.

Speaker 31 Americans, we're going to release a budget soon.

Speaker 4 It's going to suck.

Speaker 84 You're going to feel so much pain.

Speaker 33 You're going to hate it.

Speaker 77 You're going to suffer.

Speaker 66 But shouldn't we all suffer for Elon Musk and Donald Trump?

Speaker 30 Shouldn't we suffer?

Speaker 70 Shouldn't we suffer from

Speaker 98 our dictators?

Speaker 1 want us to suffer. So let's sacrifice for them.

Speaker 17 If you think that I'm making that up and that's not what they're saying, roll clip.

Speaker 103 You'll see a menu of options that will come out in March and it will be littered with a collection of ideas, some of which Americans are going to really not be for.

Speaker 103 But hey, if we don't sacrifice, if we don't understand that this is going to be a painful process, nothing's going to change.

Speaker 66 Why?

Speaker 66 Why? I don't want pain.

Speaker 3 What are you talking about?

Speaker 9 The crazy thing is,

Speaker 9 I would maybe understand some of this if they were like, listen, like times are really tough.

Speaker 9 The economy, we're in a great depression and we all got to understand that times are going to be tough as we get back, you know, on our feet. But our economy is the best in the world.

Speaker 9 Like, you know, there are obviously a lot of issues with the economy, but our economy has been the best in the world thanks to President Biden bringing us back to the devastation that was wrought by Donald Trump's previous administration.

Speaker 9 So you saw four years of steady growth. You saw four years of inflation raising because of what happened with Donald Trump and the pandemic and the issue with supply chains and you name it.

Speaker 9 And you saw President Biden deal with that in a steady way, execute what is known as a soft landing, which many people thought was impossible.

Speaker 9 And now that we're at that soft landing stage, Elon Musk and Donald Trump actually want to destroy people. They want a hard landing.

Speaker 9 They want to actually hit people over the head and make them suffer. And this is like, how many times do they have to say this out loud before people get it? How many Elon said it before the campaign?

Speaker 9 Trump said it last week. You have this guy saying it right now.
There is no need for Americans to suffer for things to improve.

Speaker 9 And the fact that people apparently decided that they want this is one of the most disturbing things to me.

Speaker 9 But Ben, I think you nailed it, the rage algorithm, people looking beyond their own interests, because it just, it upsets me because I have so much empathy and I care so much about these various groups of people.

Speaker 9 I care so much about the treatment of the Palestinian people. I care so much about about the treatment of Muslims in America.

Speaker 9 I care so much about these other immigrant groups, the Venezuelans, the Cubans, and to see them be led astray by Donald Trump and to buy his bullshit when everybody should have known that Donald Trump is a master bullshitter and was going to sell these people out the second he could, it just defies any sort of logic to me.

Speaker 9 You know, I read an interesting article. I'll just like go over quickly, but it was an article about one of Peter Thiel's in-house thinkers, they called him, a house philosopher.

Speaker 9 And this guy's name is Curtis Yarvin, and he's a software engineer, and he developed kind of this program, this plan that we now kind of see Elon Musk following.

Speaker 9 There's been articles about this guy in The Guardian and on this website, The Nerd Reich. And he envisioned, and this is a guy who J.D.

Speaker 9 Vance frequently retweets and quote-tweets and views as an intellectual genius, this software engineer guy.

Speaker 9 And he said, quote, if Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia and he suggested running the government with a president and then an unelected ceo type who gets to do whatever he wants in the government and destroy the government from within make the american people feel pain as he re rewires the government um from the ashes does that sound familiar to what's going on right now well this is somebody who peter teal who's one of the paypal mafia guys he uh helped start PayPal with Elon Musk and very close, you know, basically responsible for JD Vance.

Speaker 9 This is like the philosopher, and I use quotes for that, that these people look up to. And this is who they're taking their guidance from right now.

Speaker 9 So I just think it gives a little bit of perspective. He called his operation that he envisioned RAGE, retire all government employees.

Speaker 9 And what the writer of this nerd Reich notes is that rage is basically the same thing as Doge under a different name. And that's exactly the plans right now that you see Elon Musk carrying out.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly, right?

Speaker 65 You look around, you look at all these buyouts for government officials.

Speaker 74 I mean, it's exactly that plan.

Speaker 65 How terrifying is that? It's happening right in front of your eyes. Look, there's no other way to put this.
The Republican Party is pro-oligar. They hate you, American citizen.

Speaker 65 MAGA base, they hate you. They want to make you suffer.
You heard it. You heard it right there from the horse's mouth.

Speaker 65 That's one of your elected officials saying that you need to feel pain in order to then later feel better. But that's not even truly what he's saying.

Speaker 78 You need to feel pain so the oligarchs so they can feel good.

Speaker 80 That's what this Republican Party wants to do.

Speaker 65 It is unfriggin believable, but we're not going to let it happen. Not this community, not this pro-democracy movement.

Speaker 78 No chance.

Speaker 68 Uh-uh.

Speaker 25 Well, that's one of the reasons, too, you know, when they're doing all this stuff and they're throwing out the invasions language and then they're having Musk's team go in and destroy the government.

Speaker 13 Then they sneak in their culture war issue front and center.

Speaker 53 Donald Trump signing an executive order order banning the nine transgender NCAA athletes from playing in sports.

Speaker 25 And then, you know, and then they basically push out kind of those talking points to, you know, literally impact, I think, I think it's under 10, according to Charlie Baker, who runs the NCAA, the president of the NCAA.

Speaker 58 A lot to talk about.

Speaker 17 Brett, we actually did talk about the person you mentioned, Curtis Yarvin, about

Speaker 17 six months ago, Anthony Scaramucci and I spent about four minutes talking about the Yarvin-J.D.

Speaker 49 Vance connection.

Speaker 18 And so we were saying this is who they follow.

Speaker 58 And we went through a bunch of it about maybe even more than six months ago.

Speaker 25 It may have been like May or June, however many months ago that is.

Speaker 40 Anyway, we've got a lot to discuss.

Speaker 50 We're going to take our first quick break.

Speaker 39 Trump losing in the courts.

Speaker 15 Loss, loss, loss, a ton of injunctions, right-wing judges as well, Reagan appointees and others, you know, basically saying that this Trump regime is lawless and that these injunctions are necessary with things like birthright citizenship or sending Doge people into the Treasury Department or

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Speaker 10 Flashback alert 2016 Marco Rubio debate with Donald Trump where Rubio says

Speaker 55 in all fairness Marco is not a negotiator I watched him melt down and I'll tell you it was one of the saddest things I've ever seen he's not going down.

Speaker 75 He thinks the Palestinian is a real estate deal.

Speaker 55 And these people may even be tougher than Chris Christie.

Speaker 67 The Palestinians are not a real estate deal, Donald. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 67 They're not a real estate deal.

Speaker 75 A deal is a deal.

Speaker 55 Let me tell you, I've never known.

Speaker 75 It's not a deal when you're dealing with terrorists. Have you ever heard of the debate?

Speaker 3 You're not a negotiator.

Speaker 68 You are not a negotiator.

Speaker 3 And with your thinking,

Speaker 67 you will never bring peace.

Speaker 55 You will never bring peace.

Speaker 75 Donald might be able to bring peace

Speaker 75 from the Palestinian areas, but he's not going to be able to.

Speaker 67 This is not a real estate deal.

Speaker 55 He will never be able to do it. I think I may be able to do it.
Although I will say this, probably the toughest deal of any kind is that particular deal.

Speaker 13 Few observations.

Speaker 39 Number one, Donald Trump now compared to then

Speaker 58 literally looks like absolute cognitive mushroom.

Speaker 52 I mean, like, like literally looking at Donald Trump now, I mean, I know the media wanted to say all these things about Biden.

Speaker 51 There's a Biden was older, but Biden's was saying things that

Speaker 52 made sense.

Speaker 17 And yes, the delivery was slower, sure, would Biden stutter, but like, okay, Donald Trump says things where like you read the transcript.

Speaker 33 I mean, he did one recently, and I read it about air traffic controls.

Speaker 102 And you just read these statements, and it's like, what are you saying?

Speaker 43 This is what Trump said.

Speaker 35 We're all going to sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers.

Speaker 31 Brand new, not pieced together, obsolete, like it is is land-based trying to hook up a land-based system to a satellite system the first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can't hook up to land to satellites and you can't hook up satellites to land it doesn't work we spend billions of dollars trying to renovate an old broken system instead of just saying cut it loose and let's spend less money and build a great system done by two or three companies very good companies specialists that's all it is they use 39 companies that means that 39 different hookups have to happen.

Speaker 52 I don't know how many people of you are good in terms of all the kinds of things necessary for that.

Speaker 52 And it's very complex stuff, but when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities and different people, you need one company with one set of equipment.

Speaker 43 And there are some countries that have unbelievable aircraft.

Speaker 61 It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 I got it.

Speaker 68 You get the point of this. Yeah, I mean, by the way, Ben is only halfway done, which is the only reason why I can't go.

Speaker 65 I think it was NPR in 2017.

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Speaker 18 Brutally honest with brothers.

Speaker 8 Jordan, you may speak.

Speaker 68 Thank you.

Speaker 65 Thank you. Do you guys remember?

Speaker 65 I think it was like 2017, NPR actually did a story that it was next to impossible to translate Donald Trump in other countries just because of the ongoing just verbs that come out of his mouth.

Speaker 65 I can only imagine what it is now. I mean, take that statement, for example.
It's completely ridiculous.

Speaker 65 My other observation from that clip, Ben, if you'd be so kind, would be that, did everyone in Trump's orbit just sell their soul? You don't actually have to answer this.

Speaker 36 It's rhetorical.

Speaker 78 just sell their sell out, completely sell out, because that Rubio clip is actually standing strong.

Speaker 65 It sounds like he actually has a strong conviction there. And he's calling Trump out for exactly what he's doing now in 2024.
So it's 2025. So it's unbelievable to see, you know, the J.D.

Speaker 65 Vance's who had the hard anti-Trump stance. And, you know, it wasn't just anti-Trump to be anti-Trump.
It was almost essentially like a close adjacent to a pro-democracy stance.

Speaker 65 But no, they've sold their soul to get closer and more power, closer to the power.

Speaker 9 And of course, you don't have to go as far as J.D.

Speaker 9 Vance because you had Marco Rubia right there on the stage, who's now the Secretary of State, going, Oh, Donald, amazing plan to take over and occupy Gaza and own it.

Speaker 9 Oh, this is exactly what everybody. I'm excited for this.
This is an amazing idea.

Speaker 9 Coward, such a tiny, like the one thing that Trump was right about about was the nickname Little Marco, because this is such a tiny human being, just a speck of a man, just such an insignificant little tiny human being.

Speaker 9 I'm not talking about in size, but I'm talking about in his intellectual stature.

Speaker 9 I'm talking about in just the way he's willing to sell out his values for power, the tiniest of people that you could possibly ever imagine. Marco Rubio, you pathetic little man.

Speaker 6 You pathetic little Rubio, you little little Rubio.

Speaker 68 You little Marco.

Speaker 61 I'm like, let's be clear.

Speaker 50 Let's be clear, though, too.

Speaker 13 We're just bullying now. But I mean, I guess you could bully bullying.

Speaker 85 Yeah, Marco.

Speaker 61 Bullying bullies is not bullying.

Speaker 24 It's like when in like a math class, when you would have like negative negatives, it somehow became a positive or whatever.

Speaker 59 If you bully a bully, it's a positive.

Speaker 65 I love the extent when our math

Speaker 68 brothers are. It's all my magic collection.

Speaker 41 Bullying a bully, all good.

Speaker 68 It's no longer bullying.

Speaker 31 But here's the thing.

Speaker 27 We also know that Donald Trump has very, you know, is looking weaker than ever as well.

Speaker 17 I mean, with all of, like, just think about all those memes out there with Claudius Scheinbaum and Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Trudeau, President Scheinbaum.

Speaker 48 We're like, you just take a look at Mexico, for example.

Speaker 3 Donald Trump's like, look at the, look at the negotiation I got.

Speaker 1 10,000 troops at the border.

Speaker 48 A Donald, there's already 15,000.

Speaker 17 So you just agreed to negative 5,000 troops at the border.

Speaker 36 You literally just said you're going to have less troops at the border, but they're, but then all like Trump's people go on, but now they're permanent.

Speaker 85 It's like, okay, where was that set on the deal?

Speaker 51 Number one.

Speaker 36 And then number two, Biden had far more troops on the board. All right.

Speaker 77 So you screwed that one up.

Speaker 60 What about Canada?

Speaker 28 You said you wanted to annex it, like the way Putin says he annexed Ukraine, take it over, conquer.

Speaker 40 What'd you get, Donald?

Speaker 68 Okay, here we go.

Speaker 50 $1.3 billion in border security.

Speaker 32 I mean, you mean the same thing that was happening under Biden that was talked about in December?

Speaker 59 No, but he said it again to me.

Speaker 91 Okay, what else did you get?

Speaker 18 Fentanyl czar.

Speaker 17 Okay, well, how much fentanyl is coming in from Canada?

Speaker 22 None.

Speaker 7 but we'll have a fentanyl czar there.

Speaker 9 I think it's like 40 pounds.

Speaker 16 Just think about it from me.

Speaker 50 I mean, basically, okay, think about it from this perspective, though.

Speaker 50 If Vladimir Putin threatened Ukraine, Zelensky responds to Putin, hey, I know you say you want to annex Ukraine, that you said you're going to invade.

Speaker 33 What if I gave you a fentanyl czar?

Speaker 12 And Putin was like, okay, deal.

Speaker 68 Even.

Speaker 19 And then that was it.

Speaker 94 I mean, I just want you to think about it.

Speaker 47 We have Trump using Putin's rhetoric, weakening the United States.

Speaker 13 And then, when Trump is like confronted by a united and strong Canada, good for them.

Speaker 50 We stand in solidarity with you, Canada people, Canadians who love democracy, and people across the world who love democracy, standing up to our humiliating fascism here in the United States.

Speaker 34 What does Trump do when he sees the stock market going down?

Speaker 28 He folds like the cheap suits that he wears instantly.

Speaker 19 I mean, in Panama, how embarrassing is this?

Speaker 54 The State Department puts out a tweet:

Speaker 23 We got a deal in Panama.

Speaker 76 The crossings are free.

Speaker 32 Then the Panama Canal Authority responds, not true.

Speaker 59 We didn't agree to that.

Speaker 9 It's embarrassing.

Speaker 59 Didn't do it.

Speaker 84 Then they do fake deals with Colombia.

Speaker 69 Look, we got Colombia to submit.

Speaker 54 What are you talking? You didn't get Colombia to submit. What are you talking?

Speaker 84 Colombia is not doing anything different either.

Speaker 97 It's the same exact thing that's happening in the Biden administration.

Speaker 76 All you've done is unite the world, and they all just think that you're just going to go throw a tantrum, then move on to the next one move on to the next one move on to the next one but russia's loving this this has been russia's favorite week or favorite two weeks you know for them to watch the self-destruction of u.s power this is julia davis she does a great job you should all follow her she does russian monitor i really like her work tackling putin pals celebrate trump's simply sensational first week of u.s self-destruction nice alliteration there too um

Speaker 79 but the thing i want want to say here is in addition to the obvious stuff that weakens America, there was something else that wasn't covered, but that Russian TV is talking about over and over again.

Speaker 35 And I'm not just talking about the nudes of Melania that they play on Russian TV to taunt Donald Trump all of the time.

Speaker 51 What Marco Rubio said on the Megan Kelly show

Speaker 97 was viewed in Russia as submission, as an admission and a submission that the U.S.

Speaker 11 is done trying to lead the world.

Speaker 95 It's not being covered here.

Speaker 91 It's be a, I watched Julia Davis monitor Russia.

Speaker 79 So I'm telling you, this is nonstop.

Speaker 83 And they say that Rubio sounds exactly like their foreign minister, Lavrov.

Speaker 77 They go,

Speaker 77 this is how Lavrov talks.

Speaker 83 I want to show you the moment.

Speaker 35 Let's play it right here, where Rubio talks about the U.S.

Speaker 36 being part of a multipolar world where China and Russia basically have equal power.

Speaker 17 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 107 So it's not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power.

Speaker 107 That was an anomaly. It was the product of the end of the Cold War.

Speaker 107 But eventually, you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet.

Speaker 107 We face that now with China and to some extent, you know, Russia.

Speaker 48 Okay, that right there,

Speaker 97 that statement, I don't,

Speaker 40 it's hard for me to characterize or even give the right words to what that was that you just observed.

Speaker 22 But for all of foreign policy, America saw itself as the leader of the free world, right?

Speaker 87 We'd call the president leader of the free world.

Speaker 11 The way that's being interpreted internationally is Rubio saying there's America,

Speaker 58 China, Russia.

Speaker 32 And then there's more to that clip where he goes, everyone focuses just on their own self-interest,

Speaker 13 who they're going to go after, what they need, and that's it.

Speaker 33 That's a complete 180, a complete 180 of American foreign policy.

Speaker 32 And that's exactly what Russia wanted to hear.

Speaker 11 And they viewed that as American surrender.

Speaker 37 And that's what they're saying over and over again on Russian TV, Brett Jordan.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 9 And I just want to add, you know, I'll bring it full circle back to the beginning of the show when we played the clips of Hannity and Kayleigh McAdenny going, oh, no, these are just the works of a brilliant tactician and it's 4D chess and blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 9 Outside of the Fox bubble, that's not how these things play. And the reality is, is that the president is a very powerful person.
That's why they call him the most powerful person in the world.

Speaker 9 And his words and his actions have an effect on the entire world. And other world leaders take cues from the comments and actions that are done by the president of the United States.

Speaker 9 So when you have Donald Trump speaking about invading Panama or Greenland or Gaza or

Speaker 9 Canada or you name it, that goes to Vladimir Putin and through his mind and goes through Xi Jinping's mind and go, oh, I mean, maybe I'll take Taiwan. Maybe

Speaker 9 I should take these other countries in Europe because it's giving them the green light because now America's kind of central focus, like the idea of America pushing back against that imperialism in the current day is now being met with Donald Trump going, oh, no, that's cool.

Speaker 9 It's good to invade countries. This is what you do in this world.
So it's giving them a green light to go ahead and to do those sorts of things.

Speaker 9 And you could just go down the line of everything that this administration is doing. And you see that it is giving all of these dictators and autocrats also excuses to engage in their worst behavior.

Speaker 9 Also, particularly when it comes to like what Donald Trump's saying about Gaza and saying that he's, it's a beautiful Riviera and it's going to make for great

Speaker 9 high-class developments. Essentially, just saying that he wants to build Trump Tower or Mar-a-Lago out in Gaza.

Speaker 9 And you have all these Trump people and MAGA people going, oh, it's not the Gaza Strip anymore. It's the MAGA strip.
You see all these things. You know what that is great for?

Speaker 9 It's great for recruitment for terrorist organizations overseas who have been saying that America was seeking the destruction of the Middle East. Great for them.
They are now able to use those clips.

Speaker 9 And whether Donald Trump is serious or not serious, they have that footage now. They have the tweets from all these high-ranking people in the Trump administration.

Speaker 9 They have all these sound bites from people like MAGA Mike, the Speaker of the House in the United States. And they could use those and go, we're under attack.

Speaker 9 So are you going to join us or are you not? Because they're going to come for us. It's the greatest recruiting tool ever for these groups.

Speaker 9 Donald Trump has made our country, whether he even acts on these things or not, he has put our country in grave danger.

Speaker 9 The same way that he spiked the stock market for those few hours before he panicked and reversed on his tariffs.

Speaker 93 His actions have real-world effects.

Speaker 9 There's always going to be an opposite reaction to Donald Trump's action. It's the nature of how this works.

Speaker 9 And so, we're frankly, we're not safe under this administration, is basically my main point. And

Speaker 9 we just got to be careful, honestly, with all this stuff.

Speaker 9 And unfortunately, the Republican Party and MAGA and the Fox News of the world all view this as some sort of propaganda game, but the consequences are serious.

Speaker 65 Exactly, Brad. Trump is providing a permission structure to allow these world leaders, these dictators, to live out their worst ideas.

Speaker 65 He has provided that permission structure for them. And then just on a lighter note, if we're still bullying Marco Rubio, his ears are gigantic.
I mean, for such a little guy.

Speaker 61 You can't do a physical joke.

Speaker 19 I mean,

Speaker 68 what do you mean?

Speaker 68 What? What?

Speaker 1 Bullying, bullying, and then making a physical appearance.

Speaker 13 You were bullying him intellectually.

Speaker 48 Now you're going to call him.

Speaker 65 I mean, someone's got to say it.

Speaker 5 Maybe he's like, maybe it's like Pinocchio, where his ears grow the more he lies.

Speaker 77 Jordy bullying physical appearances.

Speaker 25 I'm not sure I can condone that younger brother, Jordy.

Speaker 37 There's a lot to criticize Marco Rubio, but having jay first off his ears come on

Speaker 1 come on jay you're getting a little too comfortable on the uh with with this bully all right i want to remind you just because you're the number one podcast jordy and you're beating joe rogan we don't this is why the people come here

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Speaker 36 We'll talk a little bit more about the protests taking place across the country.

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Speaker 77 Jordy.

Speaker 65 Benji, where to next?

Speaker 20 I think our nation needs one gigantic tushy bidet just over our nation to

Speaker 3 spray that full throttle.

Speaker 49 Spray that out.

Speaker 87 I mean, I guess that's called an election in two years and in Congress and then

Speaker 62 a massive tushy bidet in four years because,

Speaker 3 oh, wow, wow, wow, wow.

Speaker 50 Let's talk about the courts. Let's talk about what's going on there.

Speaker 94 Multiple injunctions against the Trump administration.

Speaker 17 And Doge, whatever Doge even is, seems like a bunch of private citizens and billionaire-connected individuals who are just going and raiding different federal agencies, a bunch of creeps.

Speaker 62 I mean, some creepy-looking

Speaker 60 we could bully them.

Speaker 48 Definitely some creepy.

Speaker 68 The Doge kids deserve some bullying.

Speaker 68 How far it could be.

Speaker 61 Bully some creepy-looking dudes.

Speaker 16 Is quite selective at times.

Speaker 24 If 4chan was manifested in the human form, it would be the people that Elon Musk is sending into these government agencies.

Speaker 9 Frankly, if these kids are bullied a little more, I don't think we'd have Doge. Maybe they needed a little more.

Speaker 68 I am.

Speaker 3 You guys bullied me a ton.

Speaker 65 You guys bullied me a ton growing up, and I think it really built some character.

Speaker 85 It really did.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 33 we'll save it for RFK voice, fair game.

Speaker 68 Might as touch after Doctor.

Speaker 74 His voice has to be fair game, right?

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 79 we're not going to go stop it.

Speaker 78 Benji, where to now?

Speaker 6 I was trying to talk about legal cases while you're trying to get me canceled, Jay.

Speaker 16 Let's talk about injunctions.

Speaker 37 I'm a law professor, Jordy.

Speaker 98 Let's talk about injunctions.

Speaker 84 An injunction was issued in Washington, D.C.,

Speaker 32 purporting to stop Musk's access.

Speaker 94 to the Treasury Department and to the payment transaction systems.

Speaker 17 The judge was inclined to grant this injunction and then basically ordered the parties to come up with

Speaker 92 a form of the deal, of what that would be.

Speaker 46 But as with every Donald Trump deal, including the buyout, you can never really trust anything he's going to do because the person in the Treasury Department ends up who they agreed could stay there is a Musk handpicked puppet who it turns out based on some new breaking news.

Speaker 31 A staffer for Elon Musk Department of Government Efficiency, whose access to treasury payment systems was approved by the judge as the designated person resigned today after links to a deleted social media account that advocated for racism emerged, specifically eugenics.

Speaker 43 You can't pay me any money to marry outside of my ethnicity and pro-eugenic immigration.

Speaker 105 policies that this individual supported.

Speaker 23 So that was the treasury department person, but that injunction remains in place.

Speaker 24 It's unclear how much of our data they already have, how much access to your medical records, Medicare records,

Speaker 34 bank account informations that they have, but that injunction was issued.

Speaker 14 An order, Donald Trump wanted to ban birthright citizenship.

Speaker 29 Birthright citizenship is literally in the Constitution.

Speaker 24 There's an order enjoining or stopping the Trump administration from terminating the Constitution.

Speaker 31 Very strong words from the federal judge, who was actually a Reagan appointee, Republican, who goes, it has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals.

Speaker 18 The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain.

Speaker 48 Nevertheless, in the courtroom and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon, which I intend to follow.

Speaker 32 Hopefully, when history is written, we will look back at federal judges, including even Trump appointees, as those who have held the line.

Speaker 17 And I'll tell you, Donald Trump has pissed off all of those D.C.

Speaker 92 federal judges, including those who he appointed when he let out the January 6th insurrectionist.

Speaker 37 They had actually warned him in other sentencing hearings before he took office: do not release the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, but Donald Trump released the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.

Speaker 94 Talking about more injunctions here,

Speaker 68 this buyout offer, which seems to be completely illegal.

Speaker 37 It seems to be an unlawful buyout offer because the appropriations process of Congress has not approved such a buyout offer.

Speaker 84 I guess it has to be in legislation.

Speaker 50 But also, one of the reasons that could render this buyout offer unlawful is that it was also

Speaker 37 came with the threat that if you don't take the offer, you're going to be fired anyway, which would make the agreement coercive in nature and make it unconscionable as an agreement.

Speaker 35 That's one of the things that were argued.

Speaker 83 The judge in that case,

Speaker 33 I believe it was a Massachusetts judge, pushed pushed until next week, at least next Monday, there's going to be a hearing on whether there will be a more permanent injunction.

Speaker 24 But if you're a federal worker, you're under no obligation to respond until at least next week.

Speaker 37 There'll be more clarification next week.

Speaker 33 But one of the things we're even learning, for example, is like all of these IRS

Speaker 37 people who took the buyout offer because Trump's threatened that he's going to fire all the IRS workers anyway.

Speaker 12 So a lot of IRS people took the offer.

Speaker 13 And, you know, they're one of the groups that took the offer.

Speaker 37 But then they were told you can take the offer after they took the offer because it's tax season and they're needed to process all of the taxes.

Speaker 37 And so, Donald Trump, who said that the tariffs were going to replace taxes, we didn't need an IRS.

Speaker 84 We could just have the external revenue service. And he wanted to push out the IRS agents.

Speaker 41 Well, the IRS agents said, oh, bet, we'll take the retirement.

Speaker 92 We'll leave.

Speaker 84 And then, guess what?

Speaker 37 Fake offer.

Speaker 35 We need you to work through tax season, you know, through March and April, which just goes to show you Trump's a con artist.

Speaker 33 His whole life has been duping people.

Speaker 28 He's going to dupe you too.

Speaker 84 So I like that.

Speaker 28 By the way, the people who are leading a lot of this litigation, unions, AFL, CIO, SEIU,

Speaker 94 retirement

Speaker 32 Federation, a bunch of groups who have been the ones pushing these cases.

Speaker 91 So they've at least stopped that.

Speaker 17 The government funding freeze, there's a Rhode Island case and a DEC case.

Speaker 32 The funding freeze has been stopped, although it seems that the Trump Trump administration is violating that freeze and still just saying, Well, the memo's frozen, but we're but we're just engaging in other action.

Speaker 7 But that's under federal judge monitor right now.

Speaker 11 And one that's not getting, I think, enough attention, though, just in its in its sheer cruelty, was this executive order that would have forced the trans women population in prisons to just forcibly take trans women off their medication and and then to put them back into the population with men, where horrible things would happen.

Speaker 17 You got really horrific declarations like this one right here. I mean, this is what, you know, this guy, Aaron Melnick, who's been doing a good job covering this stuff, says.

Speaker 50 Speaking personally, one of the most horrifying things in the last couple of weeks was Trump's decision to order that trans women, including people who fully transition surgically, be taken off their medication, stripped of female clothes, and and thrown into men's prison.

Speaker 13 And you got declarations like this.

Speaker 17 That seems like a really bad idea that would have resulted in immediate sexual assaults.

Speaker 11 Consistent with the standard of care, Sarah has lived as a woman and has taken hormones for several years, including the entire duration of her incarceration.

Speaker 50 Prior to her incarceration, she had several surgeries, including since, and then it's redacted, since her arrest, she has always been housed in women's facilities.

Speaker 50 If Sarah is transferred to a men's facility, she will not be safe.

Speaker 17 She will be at an extremely high risk of harassment, abuse, violence, and sexual assault. She may be subject to strip searches by male correctional facilities officers.

Speaker 32 She may be forced to shower in full view of men who are incarcerated, and her breasts and female genitalia will be exposed and vulnerable to sexual harassment, assault, and rape.

Speaker 53 The federal judge temporarily blocked that under the cruel and unusual punishment amendment of the United States Constitution.

Speaker 20 So people are fighting back.

Speaker 34 People are taking to the streets as well.

Speaker 48 We talked earlier in the episode about various protests, 50-51 protests that we're seeing across the country over this past week.

Speaker 17 I think those will continue to grow in size.

Speaker 17 As corporate media refuses to report on those, make sure you stay here on the Midas Touch network because we're going to do that type of reporting.

Speaker 50 I want to share this with you as well, Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern.

Speaker 12 Other Democrats are fighting back.

Speaker 17 This is Democratic Congressman McGovern speaking from the floor of the House of Representatives, how people voted for lower egg prices, not for a Middle East mar-a-lago.

Speaker 36 Here, let's play this clip.

Speaker 108 I mean, my Republican friends like to talk about America first. Again, I mean, look at the front page of the New York Times today.
Trump proposing takeover of Gaza as U.S. territory.

Speaker 108 I got to tell you, people voted for lower egg prices, you know, not for a Middle East mar-a-lago.

Speaker 108 You know, people did not vote to send their sons and daughters into the tunnels of Gaza so that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump can build Trump Tower, Gaza.

Speaker 3 That's not what they voted for.

Speaker 108 I mean, people want to talk about issues and want us to deal with issues that are going to impact their everyday life, lower the cost of living.

Speaker 108 And in the first weeks, we have seen nothing, nothing from this president or the Republican majority here to deal with that.

Speaker 87 Next, he talks about Trump wanting to invade Greenland and Panama. Here's Democratic Congressmember Jim McCover.

Speaker 108 And look, you know, the agenda that we're talking about, I mean, I'm looking at the New York Times here. Trump proposing takeover of Gaza as U.S.
territory.

Speaker 108 I mean, do your constituents want to have their sons or daughters sent to Gaza to be in the middle of that violence?

Speaker 108 This is the guy who also now wants to invade Greenland. He wants to take over Panama.
He wants to annex Canada. He wants to now occupy Gaza.

Speaker 108 I mean, we have 42 million people in this country who are hungry. Whatever happened to America first? Whatever happened to helping people in this country? Whatever happened to lowering prices?

Speaker 108 And instead, we get this.

Speaker 67 This is like a warmonger here.

Speaker 108 I mean, come on.

Speaker 87 Powerful words there by, not like a warmonger, is a warmonger.

Speaker 58 But I like that.

Speaker 12 I mean, Congressmember McGovern's been great.

Speaker 87 We've been seeing, you know, whether it's Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, AOC,

Speaker 13 Dan Goldman, Senator Schiff,

Speaker 12 Senator Murphy,

Speaker 26 you know, if I keep listening, I'll leave out names.

Speaker 53 Democrats are fighting back, and we're seeing, you know, some even new Democrats emerge

Speaker 62 who are leading this fight.

Speaker 87 And, you know, I like Democrats going in front of the Treasury Department building, going in front of the USAID building.

Speaker 31 Those visuals are important.

Speaker 15 It's important to be there, but it's important to visually connect what's happening to we, the people, so we can see.

Speaker 9 Brett, I think it's important as well that we reflect on the weakness that Donald Trump is showing with all these moves and how he continuously now tries these big swings and ends up getting swatted down, whether it's by other foreign leaders or whether it's by the judiciary system.

Speaker 9 And Ben, you know, we use the phrase here that Ben came up with a weapon of mass distraction. And, you know, Ezra Klein kind of took that through line, I think, and expanded on it a bit as well.

Speaker 9 And a great op-ed that I read where he basically said, you know, don't believe Trump. Like he's going to try to throw all this crap, see what sticks.
He's going to try to act.

Speaker 9 He wants everybody to think he's the super powerful king that nobody could say no to. But guess what we're seeing time and time again? People are saying no to him.
The courts are shutting him down.

Speaker 9 His team is a complete and utter mess. They're making all these mistakes.
They're kind of a disaster behind the scenes. They can't really do anything right.

Speaker 9 And as they struggle, you see the people rising up. You see the people taking the streets.
You see Donald Trump's approval rating falling dramatically.

Speaker 9 You see Elon Musk, who I think it's weird for just a random public figure to have an approval rating, but I guess some people do. But you see Elon Musk's approval rating.

Speaker 9 plummet like i'm talking plummet where most americans um i think only 30 something percent of Americans approve of what Elon Musk is doing right now.

Speaker 9 One of the fascinating things that I saw as well is there's a new poll out amongst Republicans who before the election said like 60% or something like that said they were excited about Elon Musk having a very intimate job in the Trump administration.

Speaker 9 Now that's down among Republicans to something like 26%

Speaker 9 with this new poll. So you're seeing things change.
You're seeing perceptions change.

Speaker 9 So we have to remember that in spite of all the craziness out there, to not fall for all of Donald Trump's antics and to understand that he is not infallible, that we have the strength and we have the energy.

Speaker 9 And whether the corporate media wants to show it or not, we're going to show these images. We're going to show the protests.

Speaker 9 We're going to show the opposition to Donald Trump, the pro-democracy resistance that is taking shape in all forms right now. And we are never going to give up with this.
And I know you aren't.

Speaker 9 either. We got to break through the noise.
We got to continue to fight. And I know that you all are going to do this.
Oh, you know what?

Speaker 9 I also want to do if it's okay just two seconds i want to show you just a quick clip of our interview uh with jim acosta um from earlier um this is you can see the full thing on the midas plus sub stack uh we had a great chat with him spoke to him for what like 35 minutes this morning um he he's such a legend and he is one of the voices out there that is standing strong that is fighting back that is not taking the crap that is not laying down he's defending our democracy and he had some thoughts about donald trump constantly backing down i'll play it for you right now.

Speaker 64 You know, Trump rolls out this threat. I'm going to do these tariffs.
And believe me, I've seen this movie before. He is the king of empty threats.
He puts out these empty threats all the time. And,

Speaker 64 you know, you'll talk to his aides and advisors and they'll say, this is what we call strategic rhetoric. And he'll say all of this stuff and then he'll get concessions.
Baloney.

Speaker 64 It doesn't always work out that way. Take a look what happened with Kim Jong-un.
Remember when Trump during the first administration,

Speaker 64 his first administration was saying there's going to be fire and fury and all this stuff. And then he goes and he meets with Kim Jong-un.
What happened? Kim Jong-un still has nuclear weapons.

Speaker 64 Nothing happened as a result of that.

Speaker 50 You know, Brett, those

Speaker 53 conversations that we're going to be having with Acosta quite frequently on Midasplus.com.

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Speaker 62 Go there.

Speaker 87 Great content.

Speaker 18 Philip Kowski does a great job with these daily updates, but

Speaker 17 we're going to get to hear from Acosta

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Speaker 3 Think about that.

Speaker 32 Think about the, you know, he has his sources, he has, you know, all of that.

Speaker 91 And he's going to bring that here

Speaker 30 to you.

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Speaker 79 Check it out.

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Speaker 30 We're growing.

Speaker 83 We're scrappy.

Speaker 48 We're scrappy with it as the kids.

Speaker 9 I'm telling you right now it's an inflection point right now right we may be down bad from the election right everybody's not thrilled to say the least about what happened but what's happening right now in the background and not not in the background for you but in the background to the to the folks and in corporate mainstream media all that there's something growing right now that's bigger than ever that they don't even see coming so let's continue to build that and let's continue to just crush them right they're not as we emerge it's going to be it's already too late for them let's not late but it's already too late but but as the once they finally get wind of what's going on here, they're going to be oh crap, right?

Speaker 9 They're going to freak out. So continue to follow all the platforms, grow, and not just us too, but all the pro-democracy creators out there.
Make sure you're following. Let's grow this community.

Speaker 9 And I really mean it. I'm going to push you guys really hard this episode because I want this show to be number one.
I want these messages to get out. Follow the Midas Touch podcast on audio.

Speaker 9 We are the number one news podcast now in America. I want to be the number one of all podcasts, but it's great.

Speaker 9 that we're beating all these MAGA people because once you're the higher you are, the more the algorithms push you out, the more they push down the other other folks.

Speaker 9 And we got to drown these people out. It is my mission in life to drown these MAGA voices out and for this community right here to be the one leading the charge.

Speaker 9 So on that note, I guess I'll leave it to Jordy to sign us.

Speaker 77 Give it to the bully. Give it to the bully.

Speaker 68 Might as mighty bully.

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