MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 7/17/26

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32:33Those are a couple of things I'm proud of. And by the way, for all you telling me that I look tired, that I have the bags under my eyes, you understand why now. We've been writing a book. Anyway, Ben, back to you. I just want to emphasize this point one more time about how the credibility of CENTCOM is absolutely shot. When it comes to the law of the seas, I know we have a lot of people who watch or in the shipping industry who have worked on tankers, who have worked on the docks. It's a crude example I'm going to give, but there's a whole kind of law and animal kingdom around the seas and the law of the seas, right?

33:16And at the very top, indisputably, the king of the jungle would be like the United States Navy, right? The United States Navy. You know, then you would have like, you know, the hyenas or like the, you know, would be like the pirates, right? And, you know, you wouldn't want, you know, the pirates was never a good thing until Donald Trump ragged, we're the pirates now. We're the pirates at sea. So we're the ones zoo or whatever. But at the top, you would have CENTCOM, US Navy. So if you would be pinged over whichever radio frequency and you heard something from CENTCOM, right, from the George H.W.

34:03Bush supercarrier, ship, whatever the order is, you would say, yes, sir. Okay. Now those supercarriers tankers with CENTCOM are pinging these tankers in the Strait of Hormuz saying, you're free to use the southern route. The southern route of the Strait of Hormuz remains open. To which the tankers and people are recording what's taking place over these frequencies, they're saying, excuse my language, fuck off. Get out of here. Shut up. You're annoying us. I know it's a small thing when the US is bombing bridges right now and bombing railroads and killing civilians in Iran. But it is something that is more than just the F off part of it.

34:58That's what the tanker captains are telling the super carrier captains. I just want to make that emphasis right there. Your credibility is everything in life and in life. And the United States has absolutely none right now. And I was like, you know, I wouldn't say hopeful, but I, when I at least saw the, uh, the CENTCOM Admiral, uh, Cooper for the first time, I was like, okay, this guy at least isn't like pounding his chest and like, you know, trying to do these weird macho videos like Hegseth does or whatever. So I was like, maybe we'll actually get some real information out of him. Unfortunately, uh, you know, I always give the golden rule with the Trump administration, with the Trump regime, never give them the benefit of the doubt because, uh, they're never going to live up to even your lowest of expectations.

35:41But it's as if Donald Trump is, you know, out there and they're telling these tankers who need to go through the straight of Hormuz, you know, it's almost like telling people to like eat the diarrhea lettuce, eat the diarrhea lettuce, eat it, eat it. Trust me. It's great. It's great. We're like, I see thousands of people are getting this virus right now from the lettuce. They have explosive diarrhea. Eat it. Trust me. It's great. And they're like, no, I'm not going to eat it. I see what's happening. I see what's happening. I live in the real world, you know? And so you have CENTCOM trying to push these people to live in this fantasy land right now, the same way during COVID that Donald Trump didn't want people to care about COVID.

36:16And there was kind of a movement where they're like, maybe it's good to go out there, go get the virus, go get infected. It's like, no, I'm not doing that, man. I see people dying. I see what's going on. There are tankers on fire. I'm not stupid. I hear what the SEPA Navy is saying to me in the communications. I'm not messing around here. And the fact that the Trump regime is so willing to put these captains, the people on these boats who have, it's got to be like the heart. Can you imagine that being your job to drive through the Strait of Hormuz? Like how harrowing in general. And for Trump to just be so willy-nilly with their lives, I mean, just shows you just the total lack of value that they place in lives.

36:56And again, it also shows this feedback loop that we've been in since day one. I mean, don't you remember right when the war began, when the strikes happened and the strait was closed down? What did Donald Trump say? Donald Trump took to his little social media app and he starts going, show some courage. Go through the strait. Trust me, show your courage. Be strong. Be a man. And it's like, no, I'm not going to the strait to die. Here's the thing, Brett. I'm going to toss it right back to you. But here's the thing about him. And it's important. And we talk about this in WDF. But here's the thing, right?

37:26He was nonstop with it, right? Right. Non like he never gave up on that message as crazy as crazy as it was the same way with the reflecting pool painted blue, the same way he lies about 19.1 trillion dollars, the same way he claims that the tariffs are bringing prices down. You know, we just did the 25 percent tariffs on Brazil last night when there's a four hundred and thirty five million dollar surplus with Brazil. You know, the Supreme Court will strike. He won't stop. He will be relentless. So Brett, to your point there though, he's never stopped saying, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.

38:01Right. And, and then they do it because he keeps on saying, do it, do it, do it. And it's a crazy person that just keeps on going. You know, that's his, and I don't mean this in a positive sense, the superpower that he has, that the evil superpower, that, that harm, he doesn't stop. Do it, do it, do it. You know, most humans like, all right, all right. And then they do it finally, not right away, Brett, not April, not May. not June, July. Finally, they do it, right? Because he keeps on saying, I got you, I got you, I got you. What happens? Seven tankers destroyed Iran. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

38:36There was a death on one of the ships. And what's he still saying now? Do it. And so the tankers now, July, are saying F off, F off. But it's an important study, though, into what the problem is. And that's how he's been his whole life. He doesn't give a shit if he destroys your life. In fact, he likes that. He doesn't give a shit. He cares. Am I making money? Am I making money? Am I accumulating more power? That's the important point. And he also wants to use you. He wants to use you and your position as a prop, right? It's why we see the Hegseth, the send me video, right? It's all based on this propaganda that's so bastardized loving this country in a specific way.

39:21And the MAGA way is like this, like overly machismo. If you're not killing the enemy, you don't love America. If you're not wrapping yourself in the American flag, you don't love America. And all that's led to are the senseless deaths of our servicemen over this war. It's ridiculous. Never tell me again that MAGA and the Republican Party champion our servicemen and women. They don't. If they did, we would not be in this war. We would not be putting them in this war because for them, they can't even name why we're in this war to open the strait. Now, the strait was open before we got there. What is going on?

39:53Completely agree, Jordy. And, you know, Trump, I think at this point, everyone should realize that he views every single other person on this planet as pawns of his to use at his will. Like Donald Trump, it's his world according to him and everyone else is just living in it. And he'll willingly sacrifice anybody's life. He doesn't give a crap. He really doesn't care about a single soul other than himself. He's the most vain, narcissistic person on the planet with a severe mental disorder. And that is actually quite dangerous when it gets the situations of war. And I can't help but as we speak about this, go back to kind of even January 6th with his own supporters when he told them, you know, we're going to march to the Capitol and I'll be with you and all the stuff that he said around January 6th.

40:42And of course, he lit the match, set the fire, had everybody storm the Capitol, and then he at that point was nowhere to be found. Because it's not about him. It's not about, I'm going to actually be at the front lines with you, or I am going to prove that this is safe. I am going to go through the straight of Hormuz. Can you imagine that visual? Donald Trump going through the straight of Hormuz. I'm going to do this to show you that it's safe. No, that's not what it is. It's you risk your lives and do it. Aren't you a tough guy? Don't you want to show that you're tough and that you have courage?

41:15And everyone's at this point is like, no, actually, I don't want to die for you, Donald Trump. And I don't want to die for the stock market. But here's the thing. Goebbels said this. Hitler said it in Mein Kampf. And authoritarians in the past have utilized this. You don't tell a small lie. You tell a big lie and you repeat it over and over and over again. Think about tonight, Trump's national address. And fortunately, there's a lot of networks that are not going to be streaming it live, which is good, but they're probably going to normalize it after and not show the crazy stuff. So to me, it's good.

41:57Don't show it live. You shouldn't. But also educate and inform people about what a lie and how harmful it is. Don't say, oh, well, Donald Trump just gave a speech. In many ways, that becomes worse because you're now filtering it through a normal lens. So what we do at the Midas Touch Network is we don't play it live. And then we comment afterwards with a fact check about what's actually going down. And so, again, tonight, what's he going to be doing? He's going to be talking about the stuff he was talking about in 2020, which we all knew is a lie. But here he is in 2026 on July 16th with this catastrophic war going on, with our strategic reserves being depleted, with the American people suffering, with gas prices going back up again, with the American people having health care ripped away.

42:50What's he doing? He's going to be talking about elections and communism and 2020 was stolen. And while he posts photos of Xi Jinping and himself all night, you know, him and Xi Jinping, these weird photos of him, he's what? He's going to accuse Xi Jinping of stealing the election for him in 20, the guy who he like admires. It's not even a consistent thing at all, you know, regarding, you know, the way he engages in this behavior. But the important lesson is he's not going to stop ever, ever. And so the only way to respond to it and deal with it is strongly with moral clarity, unwavering and just stand on business, just stand on it and call out the truth every damn day.

43:38And that's what we try to do here at the Midas Touch Network. Now, I just want to share this video with you because I want to ask you, has anybody, other than on the Midas Touch Network, have you seen any news network that's not independent news, that's not affiliated with Midas or an independent news source, show the video of the Shahid drone striking into Kuwait, by the way, which is an area that the United States has military infrastructure in here. Let me show this video for you.

44:17Now, I can show you lots of other videos like that. But instead, you'll hear the media asking, and I did a whole video on this, so I don't need to play Caroline Levitt for you. But instead, you'll hear the media adopting the fake framework from the United States that Iran was the party that breached the memorandum of understanding and that how could we trust Iran if Iran so quickly breached the memorandum of understanding? And, you know, now that we fully destroyed the Iranian military, how do we even negotiate with them when Iran's unable to even communicate with each with itself at the leadership levels?

45:00And then it's like this fictitious conversation between Caroline Levitt and these so-called reporters who are asking questions. Well, now that they always use the term like neutered. It's part of their whole like weird. Now that we've neutered them, they're unable to talk. And that's why we should have done this to begin with. But they want to settle and they want to come back and negotiate with us soon. But they're neutered. So their leadership isn't talking. It's like their leadership is talking. We know who their leadership is. They haven't been neutered. They have Shahid drones. They have ballistic missiles.

45:34They are successfully targeting U.S. bases in the nearby Arab nations. They're escalating in response to the US escalating. We know where this is headed. And so the whole framework of the discussion is some fake fraudulent fantasy world as well that is not even rooted in the reality. And the cause and the consequence is the abyss that we're heading into right now that frankly we're in, where we are at tank bottom, where now then it gets reported breaking news. How did we get here? because it was happening every damn day. And you all decided to, I don't know, chase whatever Barack Ravid was telling you, Trump's stenographer at Axios.

46:19Oh, there's productive conversations. No, let's assess objectively what's happening. And by the way, that's the point. I'm proud of this damn book. So I'm going to keep on promoting this book because I'm proud of WTF America. And by the way, the book, which you could pre-order right now, it comes out in October. It's a book for the community. I mean, we dedicate this book to you. And one of the main theses, the thesis that I put in this book is you, we're the we with you fighting with you is the way out of this mess. It's one of the key solutions is communities like this getting out the truth because you speak to people in your family about, you talk to others about it.

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50:07Shout out to our sponsors. Links in description of the YouTube and the audio. Use the links, use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, I want to talk about what you're talking about before break. This crazy speech that's about to be played tonight. I didn't want to cut you off. So sorry for now restarting here in this segment, because i i think i have an alternate take here it might be slightly controversial but i actually think it's at least worth discussing and brett i'm curious your perspective here as well i think they should air trump tonight legacy media at least reason being i don't trust them ben to exactly what you landed on there to report what's about to happen as honest brokers of information i think they are going to cherry pick the most sane parts of whatever happens tonight and while doing that they then play into exactly what Trump complains about.

50:55Oh, you've censored me. You censored me. You see, they wouldn't let me speak. Then corporate media is going to bend over backwards to show the sane moments of what's happening. To me, in many ways, I get PTSD at moments like this to the 2024 debate with Trump and Biden when they muted the mics. I was screaming from the rooftops back then. I'm like, why are you going to mute the mics? Why are you self-censoring Trump on his behalf, right? he's a crazy person and the world needs to see that he's a crazy person now Benji with respects the Midas touch Network and independent media covering it I fully uh you totally trust how you're going to cover it that you will show every single clip throughout this crazy speech and that people will get the accurate information so I agree in our instance why we shouldn't show it but that being the case I think it's necessary that corporate media shows it and here's the other thing, Brett, before I toss it over to you, look, the biggest problems facing this country right now are the affordability crisis, the housing crisis, a healthcare crisis.

51:54I could go on and on. And tonight, Trump's going to go up there and talk about what? The 2020 election being stolen? That's insane, right? I'm not like saying that. No, it's truly insane. It's 2026. He's going to go up there and talk about how state and Senate level seats were stolen. That's what everyone assumes he's about to go up there and talk about. This is a madman. This is someone who genuinely is deeply ill, a deeply irresponsible person, let alone president, who just hates this country. There is no other conclusion I can draw other than his divisiveness here, that he hates this country and he wants to put his hatred so tangibly on its people.

52:36I can't say I agree. I want to say, I don't think they should show it. I don't. I don't think they should show it. I don't think they should show the election lies. I think if they have advance notice that they're going to be election lies, they shouldn't show it. And not only that, but I also think they have a fiduciary probably obligation not to show it. That aside, right, if they're trying to avoid a demand. Yeah, but I already said both ways, right? I'm giving both options. So I don't think they should show it because I don't think they should put that into the airwaves. You know, they're showing it on their digital platforms already.

53:06People are going to see it. It's, you know, it is what it is, right? And also, at the same time, you have seen all the lawsuits from the 2020 election and the airing of those lies, and the courts hold the parties responsible who are amplifying those lies, especially if they have knowledge in advance that that's what's going to happen. And I kind of bet also that even like a fox, when they air this, I bet they probably do so with some sort of disclaimer. You know, I'm all for people seeing how crazy the guy is. But I think that's why they need to see the crazy in context. And I get it. You think they're going to sane wash him after the fact.

53:45And they probably will. And they probably will. And you're not going to and you're not going to solve that. Is the solution, in my opinion, to play him completely unfiltered? No, I don't. In my opinion, you know, I don't think that networks have an obligation, nor do I think it's in the public interest for people to be fed. lies in prime time, you know, especially on these, you know, network channels where there are other shows and things that people want to be watching and stuff like to interrupt people's lives to pump this toxicity into their living room. I don't think they have an obligation to do it.

54:22I actually think it's negative and it's also a fiduciary issue for these companies. You know, we've talked about it. I don't want to even give it more time because I want to spend the time getting out just the truthful information. As we talk about also in WTF America, we can control what we can control, right? And what we can control is using every millisecond and second to do our best. Does that mean we're always going to be right about everything? No. No, but to do our best, getting out the truth, not as aligned with this political party or that political party, but being aligned with reality.

55:05When Donald Trump says$19.1 trillion was brought in, then you need to fact check that immediately and say, okay, well, if you did that, then why are you doing Reconciliation 3.0 where you want to do more cuts to critical programs that the American people rely on when you already said you got all your money from the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which has been an absolute disaster? But if you brought in$19.1 trillion, you need more money from taxpayers. You need to get rid of more programs. Let's just view it in the most common sense lens. And also, you're bragging about the last inflation report, which may have been fine if you stuck to the memorandum of understanding.

55:50But just by claiming some random 12 gas stations in Pennsylvania called Freedom Stations are selling gas at$3.47 because we don't even know this opaque system that you're using to basically fund this thing and lose money. So you can say 12 gas stations are doing this. The 150 ,000 other gas stations, the prices are going up. We're heading back to$4 a gallon. And now we've hit strategic tank bottom or we've hit the tank bottom of the strategic petroleum reserves and people are paying more money. I mean, I see in the comments what people are saying, I'm paying over$6 per gallon right now of gas.

56:31That's the condition in a lot of states. It's going back up significantly. And we're in a period where we're not able to do, we're not going to be able to do an MOU again. You think we're going to be able to do an MOU, go back to it nicely and neatly? No, Trump has escalated any chance of de-escalation into what can only be existential because Donald Trump is now showing there is no MOU that exists, that Trump will not stop until there's global economic catastrophe and maybe won't stop even when that takes place. So Iran's got the message. They knew that this would likely happen. They prepared for it strategically.

57:10That's why they got out 60 or 70 million barrels of oil, although not all of the oil. It's not like it's going to be easy for Iran. They don't want war. They don't love war. It's not like they're excited about this. They're suffering casualties. This is harming them. It's not like this is a great situation, but they are built on resistance. They're not going to tap out anytime soon. They saw what happened with the funeral processions for Ayatollah Komenay, and all this does is further escalate and make things work. And Trump can do the gimmick and say, look, Walmart is doing a sale. Beef is down 12 % according to the Walmart sale.

57:52You can't take Walmart coupons and extrapolate the economic condition of the American people. But for this Trump regime and for corporate news, that just creates a framing of the other side when they both sides of thing. And then it just becomes, oh, there's these numbers, there's these numbers. There's a lot of noise out there. So whatever, we'll just, you know, whatever we can do about it. You know, let's just report that. We'll report this. And no, what we can control is telling the truth. So why we're recording now while Donald Trump's giving the speech and we're telling the truth. There ain't no$19.1 trillion.

58:29And that should be the biggest freaking story right now. Because how someone claiming they brought in$19.1 trillion, but then is begging for money from the taxpayers. That's a quintessential Ponzi scheme. The big, beautiful bill, the destructive bill was the first Ponzi scheme vehicle. Then they did it twice. Now they did it three times while he holds up$19.1 trillion and says how rich everybody's getting when that's not taking place. I saw a poll, Harvard Harris X poll showing amongst independents by a wide margin. What was like 59 to 41, independents say economy better under former President Biden than Donald Trump.

59:10And look, those first two years of Biden were rough. We shouldn't pretend, oh, it was amazing. Those were years where you had to fix the mess that was created in Trump regime one. You know, people forget how bad it was during that period of time, how catastrophic it was when every day you would learn about thousands of people dying each day because of COVID while Trump was saying, inject bleach. And while Trump was, again, manipulating the market and doing a lot of the same things back then that he's doing right now. And we're seeing it at play again, because he is a bankruptor, a perennial destroyer.

59:49He doesn't do deals. He tore up the JCPOA, the Obama non-nuclear deal with Iran. Then he and Netanyahu invaded. Just like Donald Trump said with COVID, in a few days, it would all go away. The curb would be bent before Easter. It would all be great. One to two cases max, no worries. He's doing the same thing here. He said it would take three or four days. We'd be done, max a week or two. We're still doing it. They want to make a deal. They don't want to make a deal. They may make a deal. They don't want to do a deal. I'm going to blow up their bridges. They're smart. I hate them. They're cuckoo.

1:00:22I mean, they're cuckoo. He said they're cuckoo. The president of the United States referring to using the word cuckoo. What are you talking about? They're cuckoo. That's where we went from presidents who, whether you agreed or disagreed, spoke with clarity and authority and use their words carefully. And now he's out there saying they're cuckoo, they're crazy. We can't deal with them. Like we need to take a step back. And the problem is we're now at this place where everybody's been warning against. How do you pull out of this right now? How do you get out of this with these deranged individuals who right now their new culture war issue is high T, high testosterone within the supporting gender affirming care of high T in the military while constantly doing flyovers?

1:01:11That's their new distraction. Their new distraction is doing flyovers, whether it's a Pensacola, whether it's South Carolina, wherever, that are dangerously low. And then when people are like, dude, you're going to kill the kids. You're going to blow out their eardrums. Like, what are you doing? They go, the flyovers will continue until morale improves. Dude, flyovers are cool. Okay. This is what Pete Hegson said. The flyovers will. And then the Navy secretary was out there saying, carry on patriots, carry on everybody. You know, and it's like, we don't, nothing wrong here. And it's like, okay, we can like, like the bottom line is you can like UFC.

1:01:53No, that's fine. You want to like UFC personally? I don't like UFC. I like boxing. I like soccer and football. I like, I don't, UFC doesn't do it for me, but you don't have to be weird about it and do it in front of the white house. You could like grand Prix, but like, we shouldn't be emphasizing turning Washington DC into a racetrack, you know, when there are so many issues, you know, that are, that are taking, but you can still like it, but why, but why do you have to do it there? You can like flyovers. You could like air shows. I like flyovers. I like air shows, but that doesn't mean we have to like that.

1:02:25It's like some woke thing to be like, oh my God, that seems pretty dangerous when you see the kids covering their ears. And when you see that in the past, those types of flyovers have resulted before in very serious injuries. And so it's like, oh, you woke, you care about them injuries. You're not patriotic. You don't like, I like to see it. Just stop doing stupid shit. Just seriously grow up. We don't need to see Apaches that low. The Apaches can fly. It's cool. We got it. We can be patriotic. We can support our troops. We can support the military. There's a photo right there of what it looked like, you know, with the, and this is the white house is going all in on this and they want us.

1:03:05This is one of their things. They want us to be distracted, but here's the thing. And And we talk about this in WTF America. We can walk and we can chew gum at the very same time. And we can say, you know what? That's your priority. But you got to just, you can't do the story just on that. You know what I mean? You got to be like, this is what they're doing. And let me explain to you why they're doing it. They're doing this because they want some new culture story to divide the American people while inflation is going to be rising again, while the markets are going to be crashing that Donald Trump talks about all of the time, more significantly, while Americans are psychologically tortured.

1:03:43And you see these videos, you know, I saw a fight for progress do a video. I showed it before, had to had to to them as well, where they were showing somebody in Pennsylvania in Bresnahan's district, MAGA Republican, you know, and their fridge probably looks like a lot of the fridges that I see with, you know, with our supporters and people who are here, where there's like two items because people can't afford food right now here in the United States. And now the Trump regime is going back for reconciliation 3.0 to get hundreds of billions of dollars for the military industrial complex that then work with all of these companies that Donald Trump does his 21 ,000 trades.

1:04:21And then he pulls this shit right here, these air show, whatever, these low flyovers. So then we're angry and then ha ha ha, that's a new way to divide us. And that's the whole shtick. The whole shtick is to find ways to divide us. And then, you know, they bring in, we talked about Todd Blanche at length, I showed the hearing, but then you've got Todd Blanche out there who becomes an arm of Donald Trump, not an arm of justice, an arm of the criminal racketeering enterprise that is the Trump regime. And they just go out there and loot and pillage from you over and over again while doing Trump coins and Trump dollars and Trump this and Trump that and Trump airports and all this stupid shit.

1:05:08And the American people are like, man, WTF, stop this. Stop this freaking madness. And then when you people in the Democratic Party are like, well, I think that the way we, it's like, this shit's existential. You know what I mean? I get, you know, when you're not in power, but if you are not channeling the existential nature of this moment, you've completely missed this moment right now in history in this time, Brett. I could not agree more. And you know, something I want to add also is just about the whole kind of charade of all of this, right? Everything is a performance in some respect, and it's designed to elicit some sort of reaction.

1:05:55And so when you look at the military stuff, as Ben said, what do they want? They want this culture war battle. They want, you know, the libs to get upset. And then they want to say, oh, they don't want the military to have fun. Oh, look, they hate the military, blah, blah, blah. Right. And, you know, I actually think these the comments from people like Hegseth and the folks who are in charge of the Pentagon right now, I think they're actually like horrible and appalling. And they're everything against what our military actually stands for. Like we've all, you know, whether you're in the military or if you've just seen movies about the military, you know, like one of the top things about the military is discipline.

1:06:29And it's actually following instructions and following rules. And now what we're seeing is the military being encouraged basically to just be kind of like unhinged frat boys. And instead of getting reprimanded and instead of getting the discipline that the military is supposed to instill in our soldiers so that they actually perform at maximum capacity in battle, they're getting, oh, great job. You did it. Oh, you did it. And I can't help but think that the worst one day is going to happen with one of these stupid stunts. Something is going to go wrong and people are going to die. And we've seen all these close calls already.

1:07:04It almost feels like one of those final destination movies in some weird dystopian way. But we saw the Trump, the Freedom 250 whatever fair that nobody showed up to when they were doing that rehearsal with those young girls. and the giant thing fell down from the top of the stage and almost killed the girls, right? That's because of the incompetence of the Trump regime and everything they've done with it. You know, you see, and it's easy to laugh at stuff like the reflecting pool, right? But that also shows a greater kind of wide, broader incompetence. And you put that incompetence in a wartime scenario.

1:07:38You put that incompetence in structural things that you are building. you know, then when they collapse, you know, the only thing I guess they could do is ultimately blame, you know, blame the other, right? It's the vandals, it's the Democrats, it's the far left commune, whatever they want to do. But the fact is, they are causing a lot of trouble for people, and they are risking people's lives. And I also want to read, you know, there were the hearings today, I want to read a statement from one of the Epstein survivors, because Todd Blanchett this afternoon did meet with the Epstein survivors.

1:08:10He basically, and this is part of the kind of act, the theater, the performance that I was speaking to. This is the perfect representation of that. It's the epitome of that. In fact, Tom Tillis, Republican Senator, you know, somebody who kind of fancies himself as more moderate. He was trying to, you know, act like he was taking a principled stand, right? I'm not going, I cannot vote for Todd Blanche unless he agrees to meet with the Epstein survivors. And for the last few days, he's been just saying, I'm not sure what I'm going to vote. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I'm not sure if I'm going to vote to confirm him.

1:08:45And so Todd Blanche basically backed into a little fake corner here, does meet with the Epstein survivors. I heard the meeting was completed under disaster, like a train wreck from the survivors. I heard it was appalling. And I have a statement actually right here from on the survivors that I'll read you right now. This is from Epstein survivor Lara Bloom McGee, and she said, quote, today Epstein survivors confronted Todd Blanche, and he treated it like a perfunctory addition for votes, not accountability. Blanche was condescending, repeatedly interrupted, and tried to gaslight survivors instead of explaining why DOJ released materials that revealed survivors' identities.

1:09:23He offered no real plan to investigate anyone beyond Epstein and Maxwell and gave no reason to believe the remaining files aren't vital to exposing other perpetrators and enablers. Todd Blanche is unfit to be attorney general. Senator Tom Tillis and the Senate must vote no. And the survivors indicated as well that they reached out to Tom Tillis after the meeting and told them what a disaster this was and that he should not vote for Todd Blanche. And I'll give credit to Eric Michael Garcia for getting that comment on the record from the survivors. And now, what does Tom Tillis do, right? Tillis essentially awards Todd Blanche with a participation trophy.

1:10:02Oh, he finally did what no one before him would do. He met with the Epstein survivors. And because of that, I'm inclined to vote yes on this nomination. It's all theater. It's all BS. I'll read you the statement from Tillis right here. Let me just make sure I have the most up-to-date statement from Tillis. This is from earlier. This is from before the meeting. I have a positive disposition to Mr. Blanche. I have not made a final decision, but he said yesterday he would meet with the Epstein victims today if it could be arranged. I expect that meeting to occur before I am willing to vote. I'm trying to get to yes, but this is a very important part of getting to yes.

1:10:42And then Tillis's comment after the meeting was, quote, I commend Todd Blanche for doing what all his predecessors over the last two decades never did, meet with the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's horrific crimes. I appreciate his willingness to directly engage and listen to them. Never mind what the survivors actually said happened once they got there, but Tillis wants to give Todd Blanche all the credit in the world for simply showing up, even though Blanche ended up just essentially torturing the survivors even more. This is the kind of phoniness, the theater, the rot that so pervades the Republican Party, the Epstein class, the Trump regime, all of it.

1:11:22Absolutely. And it goes back to something I said earlier this week, humane versus inhumane, right? It's kind of how I view the lens of which I walk through life. So often you get the Tillots of the world, the Blanches of the world, just inhumane, right? And it's seemingly that it's always attributed to one party and that being the Republican party now by no stretches are the democrats perfect in any which way but i just get the feeling that time and time again the republican party so often like lets you down and just you being like um america these people don't want to work like the the blanches of the world the tell us this they don't want real answers they're because they're scared of what they're going to find and how their party is going to be implicated that's what it feels like the entire republican party, the Congress members, the senators, it just feels like so truly authentic that they are so willing to put party over the people.

1:12:23And to me, that's not how politics should be. That's not how this country gets better. That's not how the affordability crisis in this country gets solved. It's not how the healthcare crisis in this country gets solved. The housing crisis in this country gets solved. It's just simply not until we actually elect leaders in these positions, no matter the party that want to work for the people, the system doesn't work. And so often and so many times, I just continue to be so frustrated by it. And at the end of last episode, I gave the flowers to Ben. I want to give the flowers to this community here because it's exhausting.

1:13:00I know it's exhausting because we're living through it together every single day, and it's meant to be exhausting that they're not helping out the people, that they're not trying to figure out better ways to make this country better for everyone, not just the top 0.01 % who get the F around in Mar-a-Lago. It is insanity to me. But with us all, I think we could pull each other out of this madness and continue to expose the Blanches, the Tillises, the Trumps, the Hegsess of the world one by one. We have to do it. There is no other way. Jordy, well said. Brett, well said. Midas, mighty. Thank you.

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1:14:17And that goes a long way to help. All right. Thanks everybody for watching. We appreciate you. A lot more coverage throughout the day. Obviously things are going to be escalating with this war. We'll be on top of it every step of the way. We're grateful. We're really grateful for your support. Jordy, take it away. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. The Midas Mighty is standing strong

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