MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 12/12/25

26:16MeidasTouch Team:Yeah, the biggest enemy of propagandists is the truth. And that's why they do everything they can in order to hide the truth from the people. And it's why their control over the platforms that disseminate the truth is so important to these folks. It's the reason why Elon Musk was willing to burn so much money to purchase Twitter because he gets to dictate the algorithms, the flow of the information, and MAGA thrives when they're in charge of the algorithms and the flow of the information. That's why we see a lot of this consolidation happening in the media. And these Trump-friendly people, help me kind in saying it that way, you see them taking over a lot of these major media companies because they want to control the flow of the information getting to the people.

26:56MeidasTouch Team:And so it's one thing for these folks to go on X or whatever and talk about, oh, there's this major threat. It's Antifa and, you know, spread all the various lies and conspiracy theories that they spread every day. But once they're actually confronted in a public forum about these things, you realize that there is nothing behind their statements whatsoever. They have nothing at all to back it up. You see that the emperor has no clothes in real time as you're watching them talk about this sort of stuff. So today there was another hearing down the hall from the Kristi Noem hearing. And one of these FBI officials, one of these Trump goons was being questioned.

27:36MeidasTouch Team:The lead guy over the Antifa task force, like the guy. Yeah, yeah, like the Antifa task force, so ridiculous. So this is like the guy. And his whole thing has been, you know, forget all those reports that we removed from the government websites that actually showed the American people the data, the accurate data, and said that most of the extremism and most of the violent acts in this country have been committed under the guise of right-wing violence. Forget all that data. Forget all those facts. The real biggest threat to the United States is Antifa. And when Congressman Benny Thompson decided to confront him about Antifa, very basic facts about Antifa.

28:13MeidasTouch Team:Okay, so who is Antifa? Where is Antifa? Tell me anything about Antifa. You watched this whole facade, this whole propaganda regime crumble before your eyes. This was one of the most stunning clips that I think I've ever seen in a congressional hearing. You got to check this out. Executive board of domestic terrorist organization, Antifa. That's our primary concern right now. All right. That's what President Trump did. What did the FBI say? We share the same view. when you look at the data right now, you look at the domestic terrorist threat that we're facing, right now, what I see from my position is that's the most immediate violent threat that we're facing on the domestic side.

28:56So where is Antifa headquarter?

29:02What we're doing right now with the organization. Where in the United States does Antifa exist? if it's a terrorist organization and you've identified it as number one. We are building out the infrastructure right now. So what does that mean? You said, I'm just, we're trying to get the information. You said Antifa is a terrorist organization. Tell us as a committee, how did you come to that? Where do we exist? How many members do they have in the United States as of right now? Well, that's very fluid. It's ongoing for us to understand that. The same, no different than Al-Qaeda and ISIS. No, no, I don't want you to ask one question, sir.

29:49I just want you to tell us. If you said Antifa is the number one domestic terrorist organization operating in the United States, I just need to know where they are, how many people. I don't want a name. I don't want anything like that. Just how many people have you identified with the FBI that Antifa is made of?

30:14Well, the investigations are active.

30:19Sir, you wouldn't come to this committee and say something you can't prove. I know. I know you wouldn't do that. But you did. Incredible. And you know why? It's the simplicity of all that. I mean, shout out Benny Thompson, man. That was awesome. He was just saying, where are they? Are they in the room with us right now? Where are they located? What have you identified? I mean, where does the Trump regime find these absolute creatures, man? He couldn't even respond. It was masterfully played by Benny Thompson right there. Shout out, Benny Thompson.

30:56MeidasTouch Team:Brett. Benny Thompson did a great job. I love how he's just like, the guy goes, we have all this data. We've compiled all this data. and antifa is the biggest okay well let's start with the day let's go through the data where are they who are they with the where are they bay uh uh we're we're structuring some i don't i forget what he even said but it's like what are you talking you just said you had the data you can't answer a single question and so that to me exposes everything about these people and i think every single day you're seeing more and more people break away from this party this trump regime this kind of whole entire MAGA takeover of the party, you're seeing it crumble.

31:34MeidasTouch Team:As I said, they've kind of become the establishment and they're now seeing an insurgency and there's going to be a fight within the Republican party coming up, which is going to be, you know, it's going to get pulled further to the right and go into like that weirdo Nick Fuentes, like Tucker world, or are they going to be pulled back to some sort of normalcy? I think that's an internal battle that they are facing and we'll be monitoring here, but just on an objective nonpartisan level, you should be able to answer those very simple questions, but it's clear that they are manipulating data. They don't want the American people to know the truth.

32:07MeidasTouch Team:And when they're asked the very basic questions, they crumble because they are lying to you and lying. No matter what party you are of, you should be able to look at that and say, that's not okay with me. I don't like our officials to be lying to my face like that. We got a lot more to talk about in this episode of the Midas Such podcast. We've got Indiana Republicans rebuking Donald Trump's backed maps with the redistricting efforts. Despite all of the death threats, the bomb threats, everything that Trump has unleashed on these people, they rejected him. We get a lot of legal news and so much more here on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast.

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37:21That's all I got for you. So these press conferences are just, like, they've exceeded pink dress lady North Korea. Like, they're in a whole nother, like, atmosphere. It's beyond Baghdad Bob. It's its own thing. so people will be like oh like in the future like were you was that like a levitt like and again this would be this would be parody and snl scripts and people would actually laugh if it wasn't actually real and harming so many people's lives and so today caroline levitt disastrous press conference you come up with another word other than disastrous for me but like it was actually like a freaking disaster and so she's and by the way hat tip to the press like they're actually asking good questions now.

38:07Like they're helping each other. They're working as one and they really are asking good questions. Not all of them. Let me be very clear. Like, like a lot of them are still awful. Um, but this white house group by and large, there's a good group of them who are asking good questions and finally being supportive of each other. And it seems that they've had enough as well. So one thing that she's asked about is, you know, Donald Trump keeps walking out with these bandages, like on his hand, like over and over and over again, like his hand, like has like discolored and he keeps walking out with these bandages.

38:38So like clearly something's happening. He's getting IV or injections quite frequently. And his hand is discolored. As I've mentioned, it looks like his hand was put in like a piranha tank and he goes out there and he tries to hide it. And so Caroline, why is he wearing these bandages on his hand all the time? Let's play. Yes. In the blue. Caroline. Yes. Go ahead. Thank you. The person's been spotted out and about a number of times with bandages on his hands. Could you please explain what that is about? Secondly, he noted on True Social the other day that he had aced three cognitive tests. Could you please clarify when those tests took place?

39:14I can do that at a later date. I obviously don't have that in front of me. The President has spoken about that quite extensively throughout the years. As for the bandages on the hand, we've also given you an explanation for that in the past. The President is literally constantly shaking hands. The Oval Office is like Grand Central Terminal. He is meeting with more people than any of you even know about on a daily basis. He's also on a daily aspirin regimen, which is something his physical examinations has said in the past as well, which can contribute to that bruising that we see. The bruising is because of lots of handshakes and aspirin.

39:46Got it. OK, let's just let's just move on there, because that made a ton of sense. I'm being sarcastic, of course. Then we'll talk about all these clips. So I'll ask Brett and George to get a reaction. But first, Caroline Levitt is asked, you know, about inflation. because Caroline Levitt during this presser kept on saying inflation is down. It's down. On average, it's down over the year. And it's not. It's up. It's up. And CPI is around 3 % year over year. So 3 % higher than Biden right now when Trump's promise is that he would bring the prices lower than Biden. And now it's 3 % higher and going up.

40:28So Levitt's like, no, no, no, no. it's at 2.5%. And then the reporter's like, no, no, it's 3%. And Levitt's like, no, no, no, no, no. My piece of paper says 2.5. So I'm just going to go with what is on this piece of paper. The three here, play this glimpse. First, very quickly clarifying Caitlin's question. You acknowledged that CPI in January when you took office was 3%. And in September, the last month for which we had data, it was also 3%. So inflation. No, it's 2.5%. Not in September, it was 3%. 2.5%, the average CPI right now, I have it in front of me. In President Trump's first eight months in office, inflation is measured by the overall consumer price index has slowed to a 2.5 average pace.

41:11This is down from the 2.9 % inherited in January. January is one month. Okay, just again, my piece of paper says it, so I'm just going to go and say it. Okay, wrong. And then Caitlin Collins from CNN asked a good question. Okay, if the economy is so strong, It's doing great. Everyone's thriving right now. Why, when Donald Trump spoke at that weird casino banquet hall at Mount Airy Casino in Pennsylvania in front of like 150 people, why did he tell them that they should only purchase like two pencils and two dolls and that people in China should get more pencils and dolls than people in the United States, which is exactly what Donald Trump said.

41:50Why is that, Caroline? Should we be rationing pencils and dolls in a way that China is able to get more pencils and dolls? Here, play this clip. I have two questions. I have one on Venezuela to follow up, but first on affordability, since we were talking about the economy at the beginning. If the economy is as strong as the president has said it is, then why is he telling parents two weeks before Christmas that they should only buy two or three dolls for their children? Look, what the president is saying is that if we want products made right here in America, if we want them to be made from American small businesses, which is a large part of the reason the president has effectively implemented tariffs, then we're going to have better quality products right here in the United States.

42:31Maybe you'll pay a dollar or two more, but you will get better quality and you'll be supporting your fellow Americans by buying American. And that's what the president was saying. Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Caitlin, and I wish you would report more on it, does in fact show that the economy is getting better and brighter than where it was under the previous administration. I will repeat. No, it's not. No, it's not. Okay. And again, what Donald Trump meant by that is that it's going to be higher quality products made in America. Okay. Let's just play what Donald Trump said at the casino banquet hall.

43:07The one thing you need, you need steel. You know, you can give up certain products. You can give up pencils.

43:16that's under the china policy you know every child can get 37 pencils they only need one or two you know they don't need that many but uh you always need you always need steel you don't need 37 dolls for your daughter two or three is nice but you don't need 37 dolls so uh okay that's what he said again objectively you could judge that for yourself but that's what he said and then finally we learned that Donald Trump gave China access to the H200 NVIDIA chips, which for national security purposes was never been granted to China. And Trump just gave it to China. He just put on a social media post, I'm giving the H200 chips to China.

44:01And Trump said he's doing it for dollar sign 25 percentage sign, which I guess means 25 % or$25. It's unclear because there's typo written. Let's just assume 25%. Okay. 25 % of what? China is going to pay us 25 % for the chip. Is China the buyer? And they're going to pay us 25 % for the chip? And after they buy one chip, you think they're going to buy the second? Wouldn't they just buy one, take it, and then give it to Huawei and their own company who's building the same chips, and then they'll just build it themselves, and they'll accelerate their program? Like, don't you think that? And that's why we've previously restricted China from getting these H200 chips, so much so that on the day Trump announced he was giving China the H200 chips, the DOJ prosecuted individuals for trying to serve as middlemen or middle people to deliver the H200 chips chips to China.

44:59This is the most highly prized American national security IP, and we're just going to give it to China. Do you know, by the way, what China did right away? Do you think they said, excellent, we're going to do an order of all of the chips? No, they did exactly what I said. They said, we'll buy one or two of them. They immediately said, thank you, but we're going to put controls on what can be purchased by Chinese companies, and we'll just take a few of them and then we'll give it to Huawei and Huawei will make it. So Caroline Levitt was asked, why is he doing that? Like why, why, why does that help the United States?

45:35Philip. Thank you, Caroline. On these advanced NVIDIA H200 chips, why is the president willing to allow China to have access to one of America's chief technological advantages? Look, I will tell you just a couple of things. The president put out his own statement on this, which I do think highlights his exact thinking. What you see from the president on Truth Social is most of the time what you hear from the president behind closed doors privately. He told President Xi that Nvidia will only be shipping H200 products to approved customers in China under conditions that will allow for continued strong national security.

46:13The administration continues to maintain a strict export control regime, and we are ensuring that the blackwell chip and other advanced technologies stay right here in america and these h200 chips will only be sent to china after undergoing a security inspection here in the united states and who's going to staff those security inspections when we fired the competent people in the government number one is it going to be people like lindsey halligan who can't even figure out how to walk through the hallways of a courtroom but a version of that in national security who's who's it going to be is going to be pete hegsett's crew okay and did you realize that our state like literally was just a bunch of gibberish.

46:51We're gonna give it to them for their national security. For our national security, we're giving it to them for national security. What are you even talking like? Just a bunch of gibberish. Brett, Jordy, you saw all of those clips. Who was the worst, who gave a worst performance? Kristi Noem, that FBI agent,

47:07MeidasTouch Team:or Caroline Levitt right there. I think this one's a wash, Ben. I think they all take the top title or maybe the bottom title. I don't know how you consider it here, but like, it's just like, I hate to say it, These are just fundamentally broken, evil people who are pushing things to support a fundamentally broken and evil regime. And they're also often just incredibly stupid. We're seeing Trump in this China situation, particularly in real time, in public, on social media, on television, negotiating against himself. I thought the whole concept behind the tariffs was this was going to give the United States strength and we were going to be able to bully these countries into submission.

47:50MeidasTouch Team:And they were going to do exactly what we wanted because they are so threatened by Donald Trump's tariffs. The opposite is happening. We're panicking. The United States is panicking. Our farmers are panicking. Our government is panicking because they're seeing the livelihoods of people like our farmers go down in the toilet because of these tariffs. And now they are rushing to try to patch up the holes that they've caused. So they're going, oh, we need soybeans. What are we going to do about the soybeans problem that we caused? China, do you want our chips that we need for our nationals? Do you want our most advanced AI chips that we have that you are desperate for, that the only reason you are behind in this AI race is because you don't have these?

48:33MeidasTouch Team:Please take them and please give us a fraction of the soybeans that you were giving us before any of this even happened. Like the stupidity is just crazy to me. And it's really a danger to America's national security in the process. And like I said, it's damaging the livelihoods of so many Americans all to support this failed tariff strategy that we are seeing, just putting tariffs on everything without any sort of thought behind it. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. It's one thing if you want to do targeted tariffs. And by the way, if you did targeted tariffs, you would probably target industries like this in China to ensure that the United States has a competitive advantage.

49:09MeidasTouch Team:You wouldn't go here, take all of our chips. Just none of this is making any sense whatsoever. And the more that Caroline Levitt continues to hide behind this, Donald Trump's hands are just the way that they are because he shakes a lot of hands. Every president, every public figure shakes a whole lot of hands. Their hands don't look like Donald Trump's. Their ankles don't look like donald trump's and his whole everything they don't look like that and so we already know that like tennis players you know like people like like people who like literally do all this stuff with their hands yeah maybe get a blister or two but like the more that they try to use these excuses rather than level with the american people about whatever the heck is going on the more my mind starts racing as to okay what is actually wrong with this guy like they're clearly trying to hide something.

50:03MeidasTouch Team:Because if they weren't trying to hide something, they would just be honest with the American people. And the reason that it sounds so ridiculous, all the comments that they say, is because it's all bullshit to cover for the truth, which they are too afraid of letting out in public. Absolutely. And that's where I want to start here, Brett. Chief propagandist Caroline Levitt. I mean, what a performance. Donald Trump has all of those bruises and bandages because he's out there literally shaking so many hands. You simple minded people, you guys can't even fathom the amount of hands he's out there shaking.

50:41And look, this is why I say at a certain point, I don't even believe what we're doing here is political. Plain and simple. I just don't want to be lied to and I don't want to be gaslit. I think it's vital that the American people know what's going on with Donald Trump and his failing health. At this point, he's likely at stage five CVI. He's constantly taking cognitive tests. He's falling asleep in every meeting, apparently. And he's got more bruises on his hand than Rocky Balboa after the 12th round. Like we just demand legitimate explanations. And the best thing that the American people can get is Caroline Levitt up there saying that he has so much bruising because he's shaking a ton of hands.

51:27Like, don't piss on my face and tell me it's raining. This should be a bipartisan take. And yet there's an entire political party out there, MAGA, who loves the piss. Please, sir, keep pissing in my face. More piss. It's disgusting. And we here at the Midas Touch Network demand answers, legitimate answers, and just stop gaslighting us, man. It's bonkers to me. By the way, that clipped out of context is going to be a crazy clip for the internet. You know, I don't think the phrases don't piss on my face. I think it's don't piss on my head. That's the same thing.

52:03MeidasTouch Team:The face just loves it. More piss. The face makes it extra graphic. Yeah, I know. I'm trying to be very graphic. Look, because if there was some other explanation for it, like, look, every week he goes and gets this IV there because it's helpful, you know, for oxygen or whatever it is. Like if there was a real reason, you know, you'd be like, you know, okay. I mean, an explanation that was not serious. Like you'd say, okay, that makes sense or that makes sense. When you say it was caused by him shaking hands, it's just the stupidest, the stupidest thing. So you can only then give the inference that it is to your point that it's bad, bad, bad that they really need to hide this.

52:44And that's why people have been suggesting, I don't know one way or another. Again, this is opinion, First Amendment protected opinion speech. Let me just be very clear. It's opinion, opinion, opinion. You know, people have been saying, you know, is this a Lakembi infusion, which is a small IV line typically placed, you know, it could be either in the arm, but lots of Lakembi patients have it right there in the hand. And it's for early Alzheimer's. It's about a one hour infusion every two weeks. You see, that's what it looks like on the hand when you do it. It targets cognitive decline, you know, early when you're monitoring for the side effects of this.

53:23Specifically, one of the side effects is brain swelling and bleeding. You do MRIs relatively frequently. And, you know, and again, I don't know if that's that or the other. but when you go and you say these ridiculous things, I then go to, okay, well, hypothetically, again, this is hypothetical, it seems like you're hiding really bad, bad stuff. And then when I watch his speeches, like, do we have the clip of him doing the weave, Brett, where he goes, weave, weave, weave? I'm not sure if we have that one, you know, where I watch these speeches that he gives, or let's play the one where he talks about the weave.

54:02And then there's one where he goes before that, let's play the one where he goes referring to the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. He goes, you know, the deadhead, bedhead, fedhead, bedhead, bedhead, fedhead. Like he's not even speaking sentences. It's like a weird Dr. Suzer. Let's play that one first. If we got three and four, we're scheduled to be at 4%, which is pretty amazing because we have a, you know, deadhead, fed, fed hair. I mean, this guy, the head of the Federal Reserve. All right, then play the one where he's at that banquet hall talking about his weave. Let's play.

54:34So it's November 5th, and it's also, again, it's a thing called tariffs. And I told you, I was about to say that, you know, because I love the weave, the weave. You know what the weave is? You go here, bing, bing, bing, bing. You always have to get back to the right location. but otherwise they'll criticize you for straying from the speech. If I, by the way, if I read what's on the teleprompter, you'd all be falling asleep right now. There's nothing funny about that. It's odd. It's strange. I really just want a normal human being to be in that.

55:09MeidasTouch Team:You noticed also like the defenses that the Trump officials are trying to do for his behavior, like put forward for his behavior. They all make it all much worse. Like there was Howard Lutnick. He went out there. He was on like the shows this morning. He was like, the thing about Donald Trump, that guy does not sleep. He barely sleeps a few hours. He sleeps less than I sleep. It's incredible. It's incredible. First off, it's not, it's never been a flex to me that you don't sleep. Like that's not healthy. Like you're probably not doing your best and being your best version of yourself during the day if you don't sleep.

55:42MeidasTouch Team:but it's also a sign of dementia if you're not getting any sleep. People who have dementia have a lot of difficulty sleeping through the night. And so the more they try to act like this is projecting power because the guy gets no sleep every night, the more I'm like, once again, what are they trying to cover? Enough of this North Korea-style propaganda. Just level with us and tell us the truth about what's going on. I'd like him to sleep at night because then he would, well, who knows? I would like him not to be in prison. Let me be very clear. The point I'm making is that we see him sleeping during the day, during his meetings.

56:21So, you know, I don't know what's better or worse.

56:22MeidasTouch Team:Which goes with the diagnosis, as I was saying. They don't sleep at night and then you nod off during the day. It's called sundowning. I mean, it happens. We see him sleep, but we see him with our own eyes. By the way, are we just going to gloss over the fact that he called Jerome Powell the fed hair? No, that wasn't. He just mumbled. He didn't say a word. The clip was that that's what he said. I know, but I'm just saying, like, imagine if Biden did it. Everyone's favorite game. Imagine Biden did that. I mean, like, and to Brett and yeah, but this whole deliver that fed it, it better, blah, blah, blah, blah.

56:52You know, and then it's like, OK, dude, this guy's not OK. Like this guy's like something seriously wrong with this guy. You know, don't gaslight me. No, there's nothing wrong with him. That's just that's just what intelligence is.

57:04MeidasTouch Team:And that leader of the Fed who was signed in by the Biden auto pen. Dude, you nominated him, bro. Like, what are we doing here? What are we doing here, people? All right. Let's take our last quick break of the show. When we come back, I want to discuss what happened in Indiana. I want to discuss what happened when Trump tried to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James again. We'll talk about that and much more. A reminder, We are on our way to 6 million subscribers. You may think you're subscribed to the YouTube channel, but you may not actually be subscribed. So just double check that you are subscribed and hit subscribe now.

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1:02:53okay okay a lot of those republican senators there uh did not back down after Donald Trump's threats. And Donald Trump repeatedly, on a day-to-day basis, threatened those state senators and lawmakers. I mean, basically threatened their life. He would put their names out there. He'd call them despicable human beings. He would say horrible things about them. He would talk about challenging them and primarying them. And then you had basically an arm of the Trump regime, the Heritage Action, which is like the political action arm of the Heritage Foundation, which wrote Project 2025 with Trump, wrote, President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders, if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state.

1:03:40Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes, and every no vote will be to blame. Hashtag pass the map. Do you remember when Republicans pretended to be about states' rights? And now, remember the don't tread on me flags, right? I mean, the same way they pretended to be China hawks. Remember, they were China hawks. They would protect Taiwan. Right now, Donald Trump's like, let's just give China like all of our chips. And let's not even allow the president of Taiwan to use airspace in the United States. And let's basically sell out Japan and South Korea to China.

1:04:21them, all of their frameworks of things that they create, it's just the frameworks of sociopaths. They create the framework to get whatever conclusion that they want. And the conclusion that they want is that they want their own little Kim Jong-un in the United States. They just want an authoritarian. So they want kings. So whatever it is that gets them there, that's the framework that they use. It's intellectually dishonest because it's not intellectual. It's just authoritarianism masked as intellectual frameworks, but I can do a whole rant on that another day. So Donald Trump, though, after losing, again, he also lost his other major endorsements also as well.

1:05:02He endorsed the Republican mayor for Miami and the Democratic candidate Eileen Higgins won that race. Earlier in the week, you had the Democrat flipping a House District 121 at the state house level in Georgia, where a Democrat lost by like 40 points back in 2024. That same Democrat ran again, Eric Gisler, and then won by two points against a MAGA Republican in an ultra red district right there. So Trump's endorsements not carrying the weight really that they used to would be an understatement. And here was Trump from the Oval Office earlier saying that, yeah, I wasn't really paying attention to Indiana that much.

1:05:42Like that wasn't really, it wasn't really my thing. I wasn't focused on it. Here play this class. Mr. President, in Indiana, just a few moments ago, the Senate there rejected the congressional maps to redistrict in that state. A number of Republicans voted against that redistricting effort. You have spent a lot of time talking about this. The vice president traveled to Indiana. What's your reaction? Well, we won every other state. That's the only state that's funny, because I won Indiana Indiana all three times by a landslide. And I wasn't working on it very hard. Would have been nice. I think we would have picked up two seats if we did that.

1:06:16And you had one gentleman, the head of the Senate, I guess. I wasn't working on it really hard. But when you see that, though, and again, Jordi, this is a point you made earlier in the show, too. Not through a lens as like a Democrat or a Republican or an Independent. Like, objectively, you worked very hard. You were posting on a daily basis about this. You made this a cause that resulted in many of these Indiana Republican lawmakers getting death threats. The Heritage Foundation put out that statement. Don Jr. made a similar type of threat. You've made many threats on a daily basis. And now that's your response.

1:06:53And so what I see right there, and trust me, what America's enemies see, who I guess Trump now considers their allies. They see a deranged, delusional loser, a weak, pathetic individual rotting away there who is all over the place, who is an easy mark. That's what they see when they look at that, Brett, Jordy.

1:07:16MeidasTouch Team:Yeah, it's such a disgrace. And what a line. Did you mention too that he sent J.D. Vance to Indiana multiple times? I forget if you said that. The question, the reporter asked that in the question. Yeah, the reporter. Yeah. So it's like, they went all in on this and they got humiliated. But that's why I think, first off, as Ben was going through the races that we saw earlier this week, a lot of these gerrymander attempts have been backfiring on the Republicans because they're stupidly, through Donald Trump's big brain over here, they're basing it on the 2024 election results, not taking into the account that Trump's approval and all of the various shifts that happened during that 2024 election have been completely reversed and that Trump has like a 30 % approval rating and most of the country hates him.

1:08:02MeidasTouch Team:So they're still relying on these old maps, which no longer exist. So in the case of Georgia, as Ben was saying before, we see that that was an attempt of them to gerrymander that district. And in order to gerrymander these districts, they have to take from other districts. So they weaken other districts in order to try to give more support to the Republicans in certain districts. They end up actually screwing themselves multiple ways. And so that's one of the where they call it a dummy mander. It's one of the things that they're also worried about in Texas, despite the fact that they were so brazen that they openly said in all their documentation and emails and messages that we're doing this based on race.

1:08:41MeidasTouch Team:This is all a racial gerrymander. The Supreme Court let them go along with it. But a lot of people are saying they're judging this based on Latino voting trends in 2024. but all the Latinos have swung back to the Democrats and in a very big way. So there's a good chance, like in Texas, that they're not even going to pick up all those seats that they thought that they did. And so I think the Indiana Republicans on some level realize that. I think they also realize that the Democrats are not messing around right now. We saw a Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom out here in California, really taking charge and taking the lead here and let everybody know he put all these Republicans on notice.

1:09:21MeidasTouch Team:You're going to do this. We're going going to fight back. And Democrats here in California overwhelmingly passed Prop 50. That could have been a complete humiliation if Newsom went all in on this and it didn't work, but it passed overwhelmingly. It really shifted the narrative. And then you had all these other states standing up saying, okay, if Indiana's going to do that, we're going to do that. You see Virginia saying stuff like that. So there has been this back and forth of this gerrymandering that all started because of what Texas decided to do in the middle of the decade, which is not how you're supposed to do these things.

1:09:55MeidasTouch Team:And now they are reaping what they sowed here. You see, even right now, as Donald Trump made those comments to the press, you see people like Donald Trump's own son, Donald Trump Jr. saying, I guess it's time to overthrow these Republicans in Indiana. They're already talking about ousting these people and replacing them with more MAGA aligned people. But I think one of the things that they haven't quite realized yet in this White House is that people are kind of done with them. Like even their own party is kind of done with them. Like you see even Marjorie Taylor Greene is done with them. They just don't have the clout and the power and the pull that they once had, but they don't quite realize that yet.

1:10:35MeidasTouch Team:But every single day we're seeing more and more evidence that that's the case. I was going to pass it to Jordy, but I want to say one thing that you said there, Brett. it's because they never actually wielded their power. They had the perception of power and what they utilized it for was for the least powerful things. They took power and strength and the perception of it and actually demonstrated the weakness. What Gavin Newsom would always say is that their strength masquerading as, it's weakness masquerading as strength rather than weakness masquerading as strength. But the reality is, is that now it's weakness masquerading as weakness.

1:11:13By the way, you know, and sorry, before I pass the choice, if Donald Trump really wanted to deliver a fatal blow to the Democratic Party and really wield his power, and these Republicans really wanted to wield their power, it frankly would have been very simple.

1:11:30MeidasTouch Team:All he would have to do is behave semi-normally and actually just do things that the American people care about. like declare a national emergency on high prices and deal with the immigration system, but deal with it in a humane way and deal with deportations of people who actually have criminal records. But they came in like a fricking wrecking ball and damaged everything in their wake rather than help with the affordability issue, which was a big reason why people like to say Donald Trump got elected. You can debate that as you will. But instead of dealing with the affordability issue, Donald Trump decided to increase prices by implementing mass tariffs on every single country.

1:12:12MeidasTouch Team:And they've been so brazen, so in your face, so destructive. If they really wanted to wield power, all they had to do was be normal and actually do things that the American people wanted them to do. But they could not control themselves because you're dealing with a bunch of power-hungry maniacs who just aren't doing anything with any sort of tact. They're just throwing everything to the wall and are trying to do this shock and awe approach. And I think we're seeing that that is backfiring instead of helping them. Exactly. Look, these people are sociopaths. They're also egomaniacs. And what do sociopaths and egomaniacs need to do?

1:12:53They need to put their fingerprints on everything. Tariffs like this. We're going to just tariff it all east wing of the white house buy we're going to create a ballroom these people are nuts like they're out of objectively they are out of their damn minds and when it comes to donald trump i mean just a global embarrassment he makes the world look bad it's wild to me when he's talking about indiana he sounds like a child he does he sounds like a kid who was playing a game that lost the game and not to put in these terms and it was like you know what wasn't even trying just so he could cope. It's really pathetic when you look at that man and you're like, that's the president of the United States.

1:13:34It's supposed to be a serious position. He's one of the most unserious people that I've ever seen. And it's frustrating to me and it deeply upsets me as someone who genuinely loves this country. And anybody who remains a serious person, he purges, right? He is repugnant to seriousness. And that's a big problem because even look at his first term, he hires a guy like Jerome Powell. Jerome Powell, say what you want about the guy. I mean, he's a serious guy with a serious background as an economist and a central banker who knows what he's doing. And he looks at the data and he presents it based on the mandate of our central bank, our federal reserve.

1:14:18And whether you like it or not, this is the data. And when we know the data, we can figure out how we address it and adapt to it. So, you know, what Trump will do when it comes to housing is Trump, we heard this all week, I don't need to play all the clips of it, but, you know, this is what Trump runs on in general, that the housing crisis is caused by migrants, that it's caused by they're taking your housing, and that's why housing is not affordable. And so the more you deport, the more affordable housing becomes. I mean, that's absolutely ridiculous. That's not even close to being on the mark.

1:14:56We have a supply side issue when it comes to housing. And the supply of housing has been depleted because private equity is buying up housing, commoditizing it, and selling it in a different variation of what we saw during the housing crisis where they bundled the mortgages. Well, now they buy the property and bundle the mortgages together. They do both. Why would we just commoditize the mortgages? Let's buy those and let's package them. And they did them on a subprime level. But now they're like, then let's lend to ourselves. And then let's put that on our balance sheet and show profits and raise our stock prices.

1:15:36So that was the learning. And when you remove all regulation, how is a new home potential buyer, a new buyer on the market, or any American going to compete with the private equity over the purchase of a home? It's not going to happen, right? So how would you address housing responsibly? Congress can pass legislation to build more houses, like build them. There are those smaller homes that you can build, I forget what they call them, the prefab homes. And there's ways to do it. Maybe that's the right way. Who knows? But imagine if the$200 billion that went to ICE or the extra hundreds of billions that went to the military industrial complex, went to healthcare and went to housing.

1:16:23In fact, from the National Defense Authorization Act, they removed language that dealt with improving the supply side of housing. But just think about if all of these massive resources and the Elon Musks and the Bezos and all of these people, right? That their focus was, let's do a national effort to build homes. That's what happened in the forties and the fifties after world, you know, that was part of the housing boom, but that's not what's happening. So to me, that is the most upsetting thing about this is just how great this country could really be. If all of these people who wielded all of this power and had all of this money actually, actually wanted to be in this together and actually wanted to do some damn good other than buying their 30th yacht.

1:17:07To me, that is the most disappointing thing about the human experiment here.

1:17:12MeidasTouch Team:Just the most dangerous thing is that, you know, they blame everything on migrants. Like Ben was saying before, they want to say that all of society's ills, all of your problems, whether you can't afford a home, whether things are too expensive, whether, I don't know, you can't get a girlfriend. end, like somehow it all comes down to it's migrants fault. That's immigrants fault. It's black and Brown people's fault. It's gay people's fault. And I'm sick of it. I'm sick of JD Vance wielding his power as the vice president to push disgraceful messaging like that. JD Vance likes to call everything disgusting.

1:17:44MeidasTouch Team:And that's disgusting. Well, that's fricking disgusting to me. Okay. And he damn well knows better. And to blame all society's ills on people who have nothing to do with these issues. When the real problem at the end of the day are the billionaires for the most part to try to redirect people's attention, people who are begging for help in these situations to say, don't look at the billionaires who are screwing you. Look at these innocent people over here who don't look like you. That brings back to mind some of the worst parts of world history. And it is a freaking disgrace. And that's it. That's it.

1:18:17Exactly, Brett. Right. We've all learned this growing up in school or whatnot. And we just think we, at this point, we should be better off as a society other than continuing to try and scapegoat the other. Like we all know world history. We know US history. And yet there's still so many folks in this country that are eagerly awaiting to scapegoat the next part. It's wild. I just want people to watch what a serious individual looks like. I mean, like he's just giving the data, right? Like here is Jerome Powell. He's talking about housing. Here's what he says about the current housing situation and whether the interest rate drops, these 25 basis point interest rate drops are going to make any meaningful difference when it comes to the supply of housing.

1:18:58Play this clip. And just quickly, you mentioned the housing market remains kind of weak. With these rate cuts that we've seen, is there a chance we're going to see more affordability in the housing market so more people can maybe enjoy that part of wealth creation? The average age or median age of a first-time homebuyer is now 40 years old. That's the highest on record. Yeah, so the housing market faces some really significant challenges. And I don't know that, you know, a 25 basis point decline in the federal funds rate is going to make much of a difference for people. You know, housing supply is low.

1:19:33Many people have very, very low, low, low rate mortgages from the pandemic period. And they kept refinancing and caught the really low. So it's expensive for them to move. And, you know, we're a ways away from that changing. Also, we're just we haven't built enough housing in the country for a long time. And so a lot of estimates suggest that we just need more housing of different kinds. So housing is going to be a problem. And, you know, really the tools to address it are we can we can raise and lower interest rates. But we don't really have the tools to address, you know, a secular housing shortage, a structural housing shortage.

1:20:11So isn't that so boring? Isn't that boring? Good. Good. It should be because he gave you the data and the facts, right? That's what I want to see. And then we can figure out how do we legislate around it and come up with a problem. Okay. Got it. Maybe we need to build more homes. How do we do that? Let's do debates and let's figure out, okay, well, how do we improve the supply of housing. Let's figure out, do we need to limit private equities ownership of housing? Let's debate it. I think we should, but let's have an honest discussion about it. It's like the same thing with healthcare. You all know from watching this that I support Medicare for all, and I support Medicare for all single payer.

1:20:57That's what I want to see. The alternative is on Obamacare with subsidies, which we've seen try to kind of reach this compromise between extending healthcare to 20 to 30 million people who didn't have it and the market forces that exists. And there are problems with it, but more people seem to support Obamacare than not because they would otherwise die if they don't get their healthcare. But are there ways to improve it? Let's discuss. MAGA Republicans, do you have another plan? and you can't just keep saying, get rid of all insurance companies when tomorrow, when are you going to do this? Give people$2 ,000.

1:21:35And then what's going to happen when people have surgeries or need chemo or need to get MRIs or need to do whatever, like the$2 ,000 that you're not even going to give because that's a fraud also, the same way you said there'd be Doge dividend checks. But if you want to bring it up publicly, then maybe we hold hearings about it that the American and people can see and we can talk about it and we can make intelligible decisions. Like that's that's actually what I want to see. You know, I want to see take place in government. On the other hand, you have Donald Trump roll out the gold card, the Trump gold card.

1:22:12Are you an immigrant with over five million dollars at a corporation or individually one million dollars? Well, you can get your hands on a Trump gold card today, a direct path for citizenship. so exciting it's a trump card it's gold and it's got donald trump's face on it oh everybody isn't this cool no what are we what are we doing here what is that that's not that's not a solve to anything who do you think is going to be buying these these cards right i'll tell you what the plan really is here though do we have the clip of donald trump saying that um from pennsylvania that he doesn't want people from shithole countries that just goes out and says it.

1:22:57Do we have that clip of him? If we do, let's play that clip. And they've been taken care of. I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hell holes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.

1:23:19I didn't say shithole, you did.

1:23:26Remember I said that to the senators they came in? The Democrats, they wanted to be bipartisan. So they came in and they said, this is totally off the record. Nothing mentioned here. We want to be honest because our country was going to hell. And we had a meeting. And I say, why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Right? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few. Let us have a few. From Denmark, do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people, do you mind? But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.

1:24:12The only thing they're good at is going after shit. He's saying that he doesn't want people from countries that have black people, right? And he wants people from countries that have white people. And the gold card, just like Donald Trump's history of discriminating against black people, is a way to basically say this card in Trump's own mind is a barrier for black and brown people getting into the United States unless they're sponsored by a corporation, which would usually be run by a white person or a wealthy person, in which case then they get a pass. So that's the gold card is like a America version of what like redlining, right?

1:24:49But that's the gold, you know, but that but whatever you call it, it is a it is a gimmick and a racist gimmick, but a gimmick versus how do we actually address what's systemically happening with our country? I'll show you one other clip of Jerome Powell, where he talks about inflation and jobs and this dual role of, you know, trying to help employment and make more people employed while lowering inflation. That's called the dual mandate of the Fed. Watch what he says here. Let's play. The official report on the labor market for September, the most recent release, showed that the unemployment rate continued to edge up, reaching 4.4 percent, and that job gains had slowed significantly since earlier in the year.

1:25:39In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside and risks to employment to the downside, a challenging situation. There is no risk-free path for policy as we navigate this tension between our employment and inflation goals. Brett, Jordy, you see right there. I mean, I just want to show you a serious approach, and that guy's under attack by the Trump regime versus an unserious approach. I'm not going to play the clips of Howard Lutnick. It's just ridiculous, but it's deeply unserious.

1:26:12MeidasTouch Team:Yeah. The difference between us and Canada is Canada saw a guy like that in their country, and they said, let's make this guy president. He knows the economy. Let's make this guy prime minister rather. And Donald Trump just craps on this guy every single day. And it's also just, you know, ironic when you look at, you know, the countries that Donald Trump mentioned, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, if you look at how they feel about Donald Trump, Donald Trump may like those people, but the people from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark do not like Donald Trump very much. I mean, just look at this. This is voting information.

1:26:44MeidasTouch Team:Like how would people from these countries have voted in 2024. And it is overwhelming in Norway, Harris, 86%, Trump, 12 % in Sweden, Harris, 90%, Trump, 10 % in Denmark, Harris, 96%, Trump, 4%. So Donald, I hate to break it to you. I don't think the feeling is mutual. And in one of those Howard, Howard, let in the clips that we're not going to play right now. And one of the things that Donald Trump, you know, what they say about these gold cards is we're going to get the richest people. That's means we're going to get the best and the brightest people in this country, the most brilliant, the rich, that's where the rich are.

1:27:20MeidasTouch Team:It really gives away their entire worldview. If you have a lot of money, they view you as being smart. If you have a lot of money, they view you as being special. If you're wealthy, they think about you in one way. And if you're not super rich, they think you're scum. They think you're part of a shithole. And that's how this administration views the people. That's why this con that they pulled over working people in our country. It's like, just look at the things they are saying, because they are saying it out loud. They think money equals brilliance. They think money equals character. And that cannot be further from the truth.

1:28:00Exactly. And look, as we start to wind down this episode, I'm thinking back to how we began it. And just again, And again, shout out to those Democratic Congress folks this morning who just crushed it, who went out there and just simply stated the facts, did it with truth. And look, I'm not here to carry water for a political party or anything like that. But it's just the obvious when you deal with facts, when you deal with the truth, when you deal with receipts, it's a very easy thing to do. Yet Donald Trump and the Trump regime just are constantly lying and gaslighting the American people. it couldn't be more clear where the american people are at this moment they are sick of being gaslit they are tired of being lied to and they are craving the facts the data and the receipts and that's why too i just want to take a special moment here to shout out this community shout out to the might is mighty thank you to all the viewers the watchers the youtube channel thank you to all the audio listeners just thank you guys for for staying with us every step of the way and letting us give you the facts data and receipts on every episode so genuinely from the bottom of my heart But thank you all.

1:29:06And that just brings me to the final topic quickly we'll mention is that the Trump DOJ tried yet again to get an indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James. And you may be saying, but didn't they do that already? Yeah. And didn't they do that before? Then yes. Just so you remember, initially the indictment got dismissed because Lindsay Halligan was an unlawful prosecutor. She was not allowed to be a United States attorney. So the case against James and Comey got dismissed. Then the Trump DOJ, after the case gets dismissed, they try to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James in Norfolk in Virginia.

1:29:51And the grand jury rejects it. You know how they say ham sandwich can be indicted? Well, they weren't able to indict the ham sandwich. So to be very, just to remind you too, in these grand jury proceedings, The judge isn't there and the target of your indictment is not in the room or their lawyers are not in the room. The only people in the room are the federal prosecutors and the grand jury. So the federal prosecutors make the presentation without opposition. That's why people say you can indict a ham sandwich because no one's like objecting. You're just giving them all the evidence you have.

1:30:25And if you're bringing it to them, it's usually gone through a rigorous review that there's probable cause, and the grand jury doesn't have to find proof beyond a reasonable doubt. All they have to find is probable cause, which is a much lower standard, right? So that's why they say you can indict a ham sandwich. So last week, it got rejected. This week, they said, all right, let's go to another area. Let's go to Alexandria, Virginia. Let's try it in front of another group. It got rejected again. So it's the third time it gets rejected if you count the first dismissal. Dismissed, then rejected, then rejected again.

1:31:01After the case got dismissed the first time, first off, this case would never be brought the first time, right?

1:31:07MeidasTouch Team:I can't believe you're allowed to do this, like shop ran juries. It just doesn't have to. You wouldn't because you will lose your bar license. The lawyer is behind this. No one does this. No one would bring the first prosecution. Remember. It's like, you know how Donald Trump was a vexatious litigant and how judges, like the Department of Justice now is a vexatious litigant in many ways, continuously filing these cases. And to me, even if at some point, and I don't see how they're going to do this, but even if at some point they were going to secure an indictment of Letitia James, I think the pattern that they've shown clearly fits into a pattern of malicious prosecution and vindictive prosecution.

1:31:49MeidasTouch Team:Like, How could anybody deny that? The more they try to pursue this, the more guilty they look in the way that they're going about this. And like we said, they look guilty from the start of this. It was obviously BS from the start of this, but it just gets worse every time. The main prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, who was Trump's own appointee, Trump appointed a guy named Eric Siebert, right? It wasn't the Dems. Trump and his DOJ, DOJ. So this is it. This is the guy. He became the interim. He was going to get approved by the Senate and he was going to get confirmed. But Trump said, you got to do this for me first.

1:32:23You got to go after Letitia James and Comey. He goes, well, we looked into it. There's no crimes there. Well, you got to leave. So they fired him and they pushed him out. He resigned, but they pushed him out. Then they brought in Lindsay Halligan. But the law says you can't bring in Lindsay Halligan. You only get one interim and your one interim was Siebert. So if you want to use Halligan, you have to get her confirmed by the Senate. You can't call her an interim the way Siebert was. And he was extended by the judges, his term. So he was the person. You get one shot at it under the law. So that would dead any case right there.

1:32:55No one would bring it after he... Just think about it like this. If this case proceeded to a trial, right? And you're New York Attorney General Letitia James and your lawyer, and the standard for finding her guilty is proof beyond a reasonable doubt, right? There's a memo in this case from the prior top federal prosecutor saying that there's no case and no crimes were committed. So what would you do? You would call a witness, right? And say, maybe an FBI agent. Did you review the file? Yep. In the file, was there a letter from the former top prosecutor? Yep. This is the person who leads your office, right?

1:33:34Yep. The top dog, right? Yep. Can you read what it says? Sure. It says that there is no crime that has been committed at all, and we shouldn't pursue this prosecution. So let me get this straight. Your own former boss said that there not only was no proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but there's no proof. Yep. Okay. That's what will happen if the case gets to trial. That's why this case will get dismissed immediately, even if it went to a trial. Okay. And so, Brett, to your point, that's why this case would never be brought. after it got dismissed the first time, you would have fired Lindsey Halligan.

1:34:05You would have got rid of everybody involved in normal times. Then they did it another time they tried to reindict. That got rejected. You certainly wouldn't bring it another time. But yes, Donald Trump has turned the DOJ into his loser law firms that would get sanctioned. No federal judge respects this. It just looks ridiculous. So that's what's going on there. And then this is why with the DOJ now running and always running the Epstein file released based on the law that was passed. That's why the Democratic lawmakers said, we don't trust you. You think we trust you to produce these files when they're doing a few days?

1:34:42Oh, no way. So the Democrats and the survivors are saying, we want an audit, damn it. We want an audit of what you did to these files because we know that you've spent thousands of hours redacting and probably destroying. So let us know what happened here. We'll keep you posted there. I'll do a video in the morning about that. So we covered a lot of topics. We covered a lot of topics there. I wanted to make sure that all of the Might is Mighty are fully informed about everything heading into this weekend. I feel hope and optimism, though, heading into this weekend. I really do. With all of this darkness, I feel hope.

1:35:19I feel empowered. I feel ready to go to the next year. I feel momentum. That's what we saw in Miami and And in Georgia, yet again, and of course, the blue tsunami earlier last November. So with that, I wish you well, Midas Mighty. Subscribe. Double check that you're subscribed. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Subscribe on audio as well. So go search Midas Touch on audio. Thank you, everybody. We'll see you next time. Brett, Jordy. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.

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