MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 7/31/26

27:31So Donald Trump held a WTF press conference earlier today where one would hope the commander in chief, though we have a commander in thief, you would hope that he would discuss what the hell, seriously, what the hell's happening with this war. I mean, I'll show you, and the wars across the world right now. I mean, just to show you a little bit of what's kind of going on right now, this is some of the video coming in from Egypt as you have a drone striking the Damiana port right there. Let me show you this footage. Let's play it.

28:27Okay, I'll direct our attention right now to Russia's war against Ukraine. I'll show you Penza in Russia. We're a Wild Berries factory. That's the logistical facilities. It's their Amazon. There's like 20 of them in Russia, and like 10 or 11 of them have been destroyed at this point by Ukrainian drones. those long-range FP1 and FP2s. Let me show you Penza right here so you can see it. Let's play it.

29:03Russia striking in Lviv, Western Ukraine. And as part of these Russian strikes, They also struck, or there was an area in eastern Poland where a ballistic missile landed, and these sirens over Lublin, which is in eastern Poland, were going off. Zelensky was in Lublin yesterday. First, let me show you Lviv. This is Ukraine. Let me show you just so we could all see it. Let's play it.

29:41Also today in Kyiv, there was a U.S. manufacturing plant that was hit by Russia and intentionally targeted by Russia right there. I've got to say, it makes for a great audio podcast. a russian ballistic missile destroyed a key drone factory owned by a u.s registered company terminal autonomy marking the first known russian strike on a u.s owned company in ukraine the tension i mean there were other ones there was like candy factories and other factories but this is the first you know u.s owned weapons company the factory produced ai guided attack drones no one was reported killed but you know this this this war is spreading notably when i heard about the lublin attack you know poland's response was very reminiscent of what the arab nation responses are when the drones strike or the ballistic missiles from iran strike these bases right what is what are they it's always the interceptors were always 100 effective and then if there were damage it was the like drone residue or the you know whatever the debris it's the debris They say the debris hit it.

30:56And it's like, okay, stop the debris. Yeah. It becomes debris. Once it hits, then it becomes debris, but the drone or the ballistic missiles is not debris before it hits. So I wasn't, I'm not trying to get conspiratorial. I just think that Poland knows that if it invokes article five or even article four, which is consultation, article five is the mutual defense pact of NATO, that the United States isn't going to abide by it. I think Russia wants to test the resolve of NATO, will they invoke Article 5? And that's why Poland's pretending that, you know, look, fortunately, it didn't kill anybody, as far as we know.

31:34And it did just kind of hit an open area. But, you know, I think it's being downplayed personally. So any event, with all of this taking place, by the way, as it relates to the Egypt strike in Damiana, right now, Iran, through both M.B. Ghalibaf and Aragchi are saying, this is actually Israel that did it, false flag from Israel, in order to try to blame us to draw Egypt in a bigger way. It's conflicting reporting there, but I want to give you at least the latest of what they're saying in Iran. But in any event, like, and by the way, Netanyahu is in the United States right now with Hegseth. And so Netanyahu stayed.

32:13He's like parked himself here. He was supposed to be in and out, but he's like, no, I'm just going to stay because I think he realizes that he's going to have a lot more influence face to face with a headset, with a Trump by being here. And he could actually dictate the terms of the war because I think what Netanyahu is acutely aware of is something that we've kind of known about Donald Trump for a while is that oftentimes his opinion and his actions are based on the last person he spoke to. And so I think Netanyahu knows, well, I could speak to him on the phone and probably persuade him to increase the bombing campaign or do something.

32:49But then if somebody comes in the room right after I do the phone call, what was that? MBS or MBS's brother. Yeah. Then they say, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill. And that is going to be what sticks with him. But if I'm there, if I'm always around, then I'm going to be able to kind of get around that. I'm going to be able to tell Donald Trump exactly what needs to be done here. But that's why MBS sent his brother yesterday also to the did you notice that i mean and it's like well why would you personally you can't just pick up the phone no because netanyahu is not leaving so that's why mbs sent his brother to the united who happens to be the uh defense secretary and the the the arab nations are run like the united states it's like the brothers and the sons i was gonna say it's so sound familiar you know so the brother shows up and speaks with kushner who tries to take over fifa we'll get we'll get to that one in a moment but any event look so so trump is asked a quite you know you know he's at this press conference he did this like anti-immigrant press conference where immigrants can't be truckers because they don't speak the language is what he says and midterm guys at the time they're bringing out the greatest hits bringing out the greatest hits you can't have immigrants as truckers it's got to be veterans like why can't it be both why can't why veterans be truckers?

34:03And why can't immigrants be truckers? We don't, let's, let's be, let's, it has to be one or the other. For Trump, it's always a zero sum game, right? But in any event, he's asked, I'll show you him like running away, like where he's asked the question, you know, so we're gonna be in this war forever? Like what's the status? Very much, bye, thank you.

34:27So, you know, if you heard the questions, the questions are how long are we going to be in Iraq how much Iran or Iraq I should mention I could say it's a Freudian slip but it isn't because the U.S. and Saudi Arabia struck in Iraq and it should also be noted that the U.S. basically controls the Iraqi army at the I mean through the funding but then you have an Iranian militia embedded within the army which is who the U.S. and Saudi Arabia struck and they killed IRGC people and so you have this the short of it is have this massive regional war and brett do you remember growing up when the type of footage that we're showing though there you know the strike at damiata the strikes in you know russia the russia strikes in lviv like when we grew up war was covered you know when it was ugly sometimes like not kind of non-stop non-stop you'd have the people there with the hats the same way they covered weather but you know and we'd we'd get the information and now you have cencom out there publishing things like the Strait of Hormuz.

35:26Do we have this post of CENTCOM? I mean, just so people can see how ridiculous it is. CENTCOM, it's a social media post, but CENTCOM was doing, it's like true, false. And the false is the IRGC says it's dangerous to go through the Strait of Hormuz because the IRGC will potentially shoot your tanker if you use the Oman route. And they have that as false. Not that one. Not that one. Just keep going, just keep shuffling. Not that one, not that one, not that one, not that one, not that one. Not that one, not that one, not that one, not that one, not that one, not that one, not that one. It's one of them, but it's the CENCOM graphic that we'll show later.

36:09And then the CENCOM also says the US strikes did not hit, or that Iranian strikes did not hit certain air bases, Muwafik, Salty in Jordan, Faisal in Kuwait. And it's like, we have the surveillance. We have the satellite footage. We know these bases were hit. And it appears that the F-35s were hit. It appears that these hangers were indeed hit. There it goes. 17th time is a charm. This is just how you know this. This is how CENCOM has zero credibility. And it's sad to say this, right? This is what CENCOM says. First claim by Iran, false. The IRGC again claims free and open routes through the Strait of Hormuz are dangerous for commercial vessels, false.

37:04Fact, the immediate dangers posed to commercial vessels and their civilian crews are the IRGC's verbal threats and attempted attacks. Well, first off, that's a threat. Okay. Second, they've knocked out like dozens of tankers that we've seen. So if you're going to start off and say that it's false, that it is a false claim for the IRGC say that going through the Strait of Hormuz is not safe, I don't need to read on anymore. You're just Trump fraudy level. And that's what's then come. It's sad. I think we should send Trump through. I think Trump should go through. It's safe. It's a show. He's a show.

37:47Everybody lead by example. Let's send him to the Strait of Hormuz. Brett, a Qatari LNG tanker. I just want to tell people the facts. A Qatari LNG tanker, right? Because Qatar is suffering right now. They're struggling. I mean, not suffering like, you know, I mean, I think American people are suffering more, but Qatar is struggling. Qatar sent its first shipment of liquefied natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz in weeks using the Iran designated shipping corridor. They negotiated this with Pakistan. This is interesting because before they were trying to use the route closest to Oman, what would happen to those tankers?

38:26They would be shot. They would be hit hard, right? And so now they're using the other route. So we need to focus on the facts. So now when you tell me the casualty number is whatever, and you tell me the killed in action, I don't believe anything you're saying. This is CENTCOM. If you can't agree right now that at a bare minimum, the Strait of Hormuz is dangerous, if you think that's, then it's just enough. Everything you're saying is false. And Brett, we have a war and wars involving the world right now. It's deeply problematic. What do you make of it all? I think it's deeply problematic. And I think it goes against everything that Donald Trump has said from the beginning of since before his term.

39:09I mean, he, like his big promises, think about every single promise Donald Trump made that everything was going to become affordable on day one. Prices were going to be cut in half. Your electricity bill was going to be cut in half. The war in Ukraine was going to end within 24 hours. There was going to be no new wars. The Epstein files would be released. You go through every single aspect of all of Donald Trump's promises, and he's failed on every single one of them. And not only failed, but he's made all of these things worse by his own doing. And you know what, Justin Wolfers, when we had him on, our chief economist here at Midas Touch, who's, we're working with his Platypus Economics, he's doing, you know, he's doing amazing work.

39:50I mean, he's brilliant, Justin. And, you know, Justin, what really stuck with me from the last time you guys did a hot take together was he was saying, you know, normally I, you know, nine times out of 10 or, you know, 99 times out of 100, you know, the economy really isn't attributed to the president himself. He's maybe one piece of a larger puzzle. But this time, you could definitively say that Donald Trump is to blame for all the chaos that we're seeing right now. You can trace everything back to his war, to his tariffs, to his coercive actions. Everything right now stems from one man, all the global chaos, everything that we're seeing, indisputably so.

40:29Right. You take a look also what's going on in Iran's army before we went live. Says it struck the U.S. Sheikh Issa Air Base in Bahrain with attack drones targeting power generators, navigation systems, and support buildings. It claims the strikes cause significant damage to U.S. military capabilities in the region. It's striking these U.S. bases without much resistance at this point because the U.S. interceptors have been depleted. The PAC-3s and the THAAD, they're different systems, they're acronyms, and the PACs are the Patriots. The THAAD has a whole long acronym. But the THAADs are 12.5 million each.

41:13And what Iran would do is it would send its Shahid drones or even decoy ballistics, and it would have three of these THAADs would shoot up. And it was like, even if they struck the ballistic of Iran or the Shahid, that was a big win for Iran because it's like you just spent$50 million on our$25 ,000,$50 ,000. It's asymmetrical warfare. And it's what everybody's warned about. It's why Ukraine has been able to do so well going up against Russia, because they've been employing the same strategies in so many ways. Except ballistics. Yes. Ukraine needs the interceptors for, they don't have any capability on their own, because that's what patriots are supposed to be used for, are the ballistics.

42:03Now, they say we need immediately. I'm concerned. I really have a deep, I know there's a prevailing narrative of Ukraine is hitting all of these things. They are. They are. But what concerns me is also what the Prime Minister of Poland said today. The next one, this is what he said, the next 100 days are going to be decisive and determine the course of the war. And it depends on Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Okay, that is a concerning stake. When I look at that, I go red flag, that's a worrisome concept to me. And I don't trust Donald Trump pretending that he may give Zelensky things. To me, it's all part of Trump's manipulation where this doesn't work, that doesn't work.

42:46So now you kind of love bomb. I'll lure someone in. I'll say I'm going to give you the patriots. But then what does he do? I mean, this is my opinion. Then he calls up Putin. I'm sure I'm giving you my opinion and says, hey, you know what we talked about? To me, that is a more likely scenario than Donald Trump helping. One more thing, Brett, and I'm sorry, I'm blabbering. Even that Lindsey Graham legislation, the sanctions for Russia, I saw some people say, well, there's some Democrats who aren't supporting sanctions on Russia and they give the list. What the hell's wrong with these people? If you actually read the legislation, it gives Trump the discretion to decide if he's going to impose the sanction, which he already has now.

43:29And what it does also is if Trump claims that you could be aiding and abetting Russia in his own mind, he could tariff you or sanction you while not sanctioning Russia. So Trump has the power if he wants to do with the legislation, but the legislation makes it discretionary. So the people who didn't vote for it, it's not that they didn't want sanctions on Russia. It's that they didn't trust anything that gives Trump the discretion on his own and opens up a path for Trump to do more tariffs, which is a more likely scenario than sanctions. That was the issue with that. Have you guys seen the reporting also about this Trump erupting in meetings with his own aides about these wars?

44:16I mean, to me, this is probably the most concerning kind of piece of evidence that we have about this whole war. And frankly, it confirms everything we've been reporting that Donald Trump is indeed panicking about this war. Donald Trump is panicking behind the scenes. He may get up to the cameras and he may say, we're going to beat the FNS out of them or whatever he's telling Fox, Trey Yinkst over at Fox, right? He may try to act like a tough guy, but behind the scenes, he's rudderless. Behind the scenes, he doesn't know what the hell to do. And behind the scenes, all of his aides have disagreements with the approach.

44:47And it's a very precarious situation that we're finding ourselves in right now. You have General Dan Cain, Raisin Cain, who Donald Trump calls him. He has one kind of view of the war. There's the Admiral Cooper guy who had CENTCOM. He has a different view of the war. Cain has been very worried, according to this NBC News reporting, about the dwindling amount of interceptors and Patriot missiles that the United States has, even though Trump, every time he gets on his social media app and stuff goes, we have infinite, we have an unlimited amount. It's like a video game. We have unlimited amounts of interceptors.

45:21Well, Cain is like trying to tell Trump, like we are running out fast. Like this is not a good situation right now for us to be in. And that's leaving our troops in great harm in the region. And then you have Cooper just kind of trying to get a word in with Trump. Apparently he's not even speaking to Trump all that much. And you have Trump freaking out. The official who was giving, who was the source, One of the officials was one of the sources in this piece described Donald Trump as exasperated, exasperated. They said that he erupted during the meeting on his aides. He doesn't know what to do.

45:55He is incredibly frustrated. His back is against the wall. He really, in his heart of hearts, apparently believed that he would be in this and out of this and that everything would go great and he would be fine and he'd be able to topple this regime. And now he's living the reality of what everybody warned him. And he's still trying to gaslight his way out of it. But this is how you know that he really does know the truth. The fact that you're actually getting this reporting that yes, he is panicking behind the scenes. Yes, he is screaming at all of his aides behind the scenes. Yes, he doesn't know what the F to do right now.

46:30And that's why he's lashing out to Fox reporters going, I'm going to beat the FNS out of him because he doesn't know what to do at this point. That's why I say he's panicking. Oh, how do you know he's panicking? I know, obviously, that's why he says I'm beating the FNS out of you. We'll talk about that and more when we come back. Also, updates on Todd Blanch, a new poll from Fox State Regime Media shows James Tallarico up three. You add that to some of the other polling of the United States Senate, whether it's Ossoff ahead, whether it's Sherrod Brown that's ahead. You're looking around right now.

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50:12Welcome back, everybody. Thank you to all of our sponsors. We're so grateful for them for supporting the show, support our sponsors. You know, what says Panic more than giving a phone call to state regime media Fox and telling them, here's what I want you to put out. Here's what I say. I'm going to blow the F and S out of them. I'm going to blow the F and S out of them. you're calling up Fox going on the record. Isn't like on background or off the record. You're on the record with a media and regime media. Like they can package this for you in a way that's regime. Donald Trump says that he, whatever.

51:01No, I mean, this is the message that you want out there on your regime media. President Trump tells Fox News about Iran. We are going to beat the effing S out of them. He went on to say, we'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating. So clearly the United States is going to respond to what the president described as a surprise attack. Just think about, and by the way, the surprise attack framing, you know, I think, and I apologize if I even went surprise attack and perhaps could have been a little more nuanced with it. it's surprise in the sense that usually the pattern is Trump strikes, Iran responds, then we see, then Trump claims fake deal, and then Trump strikes, and then Iran strikes.

51:47So this was Trump strikes, Iran strikes, and then Iran strikes. So it had a perfect fifth, perfect fifth, perfect fourth, perfect third. It had a little, that was from my class. It added in a perfect third. It had a little bit of a different rhythm, you know, to the normal kind of back and forth strikes. But the reality is, is that Trump's doing fake negotiations. So why, if Iran has a target of opportunity and it sees a radar or this or that, you know, it's going to go by Donald Trump's deranged views of like, you know, like, I guess Trump's just counting on like, you know, if he doesn't do anything, they won't do anything.

52:26It's like, you're still in a war, you violated the MOU and the MOU isn't a thing anymore. And so you're in active war. And, you know, this was one of the big disputes in that NBC news story that I was talking about, that was talking about Dan Kane. And I was speaking about Admiral Cooper, the who leads CENTCOM. And and one of the things that, you know, Cooper was saying is that, you know, he's starting to think that these limited strikes that we're doing aren't really doing much. There have also been U.S. officials who have been saying, you know, telling the press. that exactly what we've been warning about from before these strikes even began, all these kind of different strikes, that the more Donald Trump does these things, the more he's actually going to make it more difficult to achieve his objectives in this war, whatever the hell those objectives even are at this point, aside from opening the Strait of Hormuz, because all he's doing is he's strengthening the regime and he's building support behind the regime.

53:20And he's really not doing any damage to the regime, but he is killing civilians, which is only hardening the power of the Iranian regime and is also bringing the people in Iran closer to the regime. So everything that they're doing is actually having the opposite effect. And one of the conclusions, unfortunately, that it seems like Admiral Cooper drew from all this is that that's probably because we're not hitting them hard enough. We got to bomb them harder. If only we now bomb. If we did, I'm telling you, Donald, if we did one big, massive bombing campaign for a week, that we would end this.

53:55And that's just not going to happen. I don't think there's ever been an instance in history, ever, ever in history, where an air bombing campaign alone wins a war. It's never happened before. It's not going to happen here. And I don't know why they keep thinking that they could bomb their way out of this situation. Well, even their strikes yesterday in Keshem apparently killed a family over there, an innocent family. You have MB Galiboff making a social media post before talking about, look, you just killed another innocent family in Keshem. And you are, Brett, to your point, I mean, constantly committing these war crimes over and over and over again, which regardless of the fact that it's even rallying people to the Ayatollah and turning public sentiment against, there's no public sentiment that wants this war.

54:47Even in the United States, nobody wants this. Why Trump's approval is not like all-time lows. Nobody wants to be in this with Netanyahu and then Mark Levin, but it's a war crime. When we blow up the ships in Venezuela, those are war crimes. Those are war crimes that are taking place. We covered the drop site scoop about the prosecutor from Ecuador who was assassinated, who was investigating the U.S. war crimes off the coast, which involved also people from Ecuador as well. When you look at Donald Trump's polling lately, I mean, it's as low as you can get across all of the major polling. It's 33, 34, 32.

55:25When you look at the subset of non-college white voters, that's Trump's crew, right? Plus 24 back in February of 2025, negative eight right now, that's a new low. He's net negative on white non-college voters right there. But basically, you look at all voters. I mean, independents, he was like net negative 22 on every issue. Gas, net negative 58, net negative 50. I mean, his polling is as bad or worse than after the January 6th insurrection right now. As I told you, there was a Fox poll before. James Tallarico up three on Ken Paxton. I mean, I guess the old MAGA playbook of Tala Frico and vegan and six genders, six, six gender.

56:18I just think, I mean, Ken Paxton's a guy who's a crook. He released child sex abusers. He got impeached by his own party. He's been indicted. He's like the worst human like he's trump's correct divorce them on biblical grounds he's he's trying he's he's drum's crew but um you know it's interesting about those attacks i'm not saying they don't work because i think they i think they do have an impact for sure you know when they do the you know the culture war stuff they do it they do it for a reason but i think the ironic thing about those attacks is they work a whole lot better when the economy is actually better when things are actually better, when things are running smoother and people actually can be redirected into those culture war games.

57:06But when the world is quite literally on fire, when the GDP is slowing to basically nothing, when inflation is going through the roof, I think people look at you trying to do Tala Frico and transgender this, transgender that, and they go, shut the hell up. Like, stop. Like, we're all being beaten down by you. Now stop, like, trying to beat down, you know, other communities as well enough enough of this crap and ironically it worked you know and during biden because actually things were recovering and people were able to get a little bit of a breather at that point yeah well look and i don't want to paint the rosiest picture biden had to deal with trump right and so there was high inflation the first you know years that was a big problem and biden had to deal with it and there was recovery from covet there was a lot of things that were going on that had to be deal with.

57:54But there's a difference between dealing with problems and the house affirmatively being on just total fire. And if you think about, Brett, to your point, again, not to glorify that everything was great and rosy and amazing, but you didn't have a full house on fire. And so you were able to basically get in there into the house and shout to people, hey, I got a nicer house for you. That's that house, but it could be better. You want the bigger house? You want the nicer car? I alone can fix it. I can do it. I can do it. And that's an argument that may appeal once people are like, oh, let me see what house is that?

58:35The Mar-a-Lau? Maybe you're promising me all of these things. Electricity bills are going to be half as much. Gas is going to be under$2. Housing is going to be affordable. There's going to be no wars. Oh, that sounds like maybe a better house than the house I'm in. But right now, the house is on fire. The house is on fire. People know who the arsonists are because they're burning the house right now. I mean, we see Trump meeting with Netanyahu. We know who's doing it. We know where it's coming from. And then while the fire's taking place, the arsonists are going in and going, yoo-hoo, yeah, hey, everybody.

59:13What do you think about the transgender people? Okay, what do you think about, uh, Tala Frico? What do you think about, um, uh, communists? What do you think about, well, communists? And people like, dude, shut up that you're burning that, take your freaking fire hose and put this thing out. We don't want to hear any of this crap. That's the moment that we're, you know, that's the moment that we're in. And also on the democratic side, people, I think don't want to even like here, you know, well, are you going to move me 3.2 points to the center or 2.2 points to the disc? And are you going to people like, where's your fire hose?

59:52Where the hell is your fire hose to put out this fire? And don't direct that fire hose up in the air. Direct the fire hose at the firehouse and show me you're going to get in there. And I don't care. Yeah, it's dangerous to get in there. Yeah, you may get hurt getting in there, but show me you're going to get in there and put out the damn fire. Because if you're not going to do it, I want to know who's putting out the damn fire. That to me is the moment that we're going through right now. And who is out there fighting? Who is up there rolling up their sleeves, calling out the corruption, the criminality and everything that's going on in plain view right now.

1:00:31And one of the things that I think we need to talk about, first off, Todd Blanche should not be confirmed, period, full stop, forever, unethical, the worst, the worst. Todd Blanche, in my opinion, shouldn't have a bar license for what he, that's like, that's generous. To me, that's heaping praise if saying he shouldn't get a bar license, because to me, it's far worse, the damage that this guy has done. He's way worse than Bondi. He's frankly, he's way worse than I think Gates would have been, right? In any event, you have the two Republican senators who Trump screwed over, Cornyn and Tillis, they're holding out and saying, we're not going to confirm you until you put something in writing that you're going to void Trump's collusive settlement with the government, where Trump gets a super pardon voiding, where Trump gets a super pardon.

1:01:24So there's no tax audits and there's no criminal investigations into his tax evasion. And Trump gets a free pass and gets to not have any investigations into him there. And then there's a January 6th slush fund for$1.776 billion. And Blanche and DOJ, they've said, look, they've said, well, we'll make the oral representation that we're not going to enforce the settlement agreement. But Cornyn was a former Texas Supreme Court justice before becoming a United States senator. He knew what was going on. I mean, I guess I would give him a little bit of credit, but certainly not give him lots of credit.

1:02:04So he was like, got it. So the reason you're saying you'll make an oral representation, but not a writing is because in the settlement agreement between Trump and the government, Trump and his individual has it. It says the only way this gets overturned is if there is a written instrument. So you're preparing Trump to have the no written instrument loophole, no written document loophole. God, they made the oral representation, but there was nothing in writing. So therefore this agreement was still enforceable. That's a gimmick. That's a Trump stunt. That's so Trumpy right there, right? That was their plan.

1:02:36And Corden identified. And Corden's like, look, just put it in writing. Just put it in writing. You say you're not going to enforce it. So put it in writing that you're not going to enforce it. And Blanche is like, as far as we know, Blanche is like, well, there's nothing I can do about it right now. And Corden and Tillis are like, well, what's going on? They also want to like, they're like, somebody in Trump's orbit. Maybe it's Trump. Maybe it's Trump in Trump's orbit is the one telling Blanche. Absolutely not. Maybe, I don't know, Donald Trump made a post this morning saying that, well, we're not going to, maybe we won't even have Blanche confirmed until after the midterms, where Trump suspects that Republicans will control the United States Senate still, and then we'll get his confirmation done after the midterms once Tillis and Cornyn are gone.

1:03:20Well, at least with Tillis, it seems pretty clear that Tillis is going to be replaced by former Governor Cooper, and you'll have a Democrat in that seat now in North Carolina. And it's possible Cornyn, after Trump endorsed Paxton is going to be replaced by Tolerico based on the current polling. And if you look at places like Iowa, Josh Turek, great ad that he just had with Obama. I've had him on. He was incredible. Paralympian basketball player, incredible guy. He's up. Sherrod Brown's up in Ohio. Ossoff's up. And then these people have pretty significant leads as well. You know, so the craziest thing, though, is you look at the polling, right?

1:04:01And I know, you know, people feel about polling. I feel the same way. You never know what the polling, right? But you look at polling, you look at the environment that it appears that we are in on these generic polls where you're seeing Democrats plus 12 or more on a lot of these polls, like nightmare scenario for Republicans when you look at the data. But then you turn on the news and I feel like all of the news is like just constant stream of Democrats in disarray, democratic catastrophe. What are these Democrats doing? Look at all this infighting. And like you said, direct your fire hose where it's supposed to be, okay?

1:04:38We got a freaking fire burning in front of us right now. How about we pay attention to the fascist threat that's in front of us beyond a threat, the one that's all-consuming right now? How about we pay attention to these various fraudsters, these corrupt individuals who are continuously trying to take over our government. And how about we actually look at the data, what's going on, and acknowledge the fact that this is actually quite a good environment right now heading into the midterms for the Democrats. And it's the Republicans right now who are actually in a very, very bad position. We'll leave you on that optimistic note.

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1:06:30Check it out. Oh, I'll just quickly talk about FIFA because I didn't say it. You had the hold code that was being formed by Gianni Infantino with the Kushners to bring in a 20 % sale of the FIFA World Cup. This is just another kind of Trump-Kushner scam. You had UEFA in Europe, CONCACAF as well in North America, Central America, all of the kind of Western Hemisphere. you had 41 countries in CONCACAF, UEFA, all the member countries in Europe, the U.S. football program, all basically saying hands off. It's a no confidence vote for Gianni Infantino as well. He may have to go now, you know, with this scam.

1:07:14And yet again, it was just something where it was, you know, not because of Trump or Infantino, they made this World Cup weird. But the best parts were when people could just enjoy sport. And it brought people together in spite of Trump and Infantino and Giuliani trying to screw it up. But then they're like, how do we ruin this good thing even more? How do we ruin it? It's like, let's sell it off to private equity. And it also is important to note, they're doing this with kids sports as well. These right-wing MAGA extremists, I'm sure you're seeing, raising up the price of children's sports to make it inaccessible.

1:07:49you know that sick housing that's who they are they want data centers in your backyard they want to take away children's sports these are real things it's not fear-mongering they're telling you they're doing it they want to take away they're like you know men and women's but they're taking away children's sports they're taking away we'll leave you on that note um thanks everybody hit the qr code appreciate you shout out might as mighty have a good one

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