Thursday Breaking Updates with Ben: Trump Attacks Canada, Charlie Angus Responds - 8/27/26

27:36So what they've done with that is really unified all the parts of the country around the French population in Quebec. The separatist movement in Quebec are now sort of hiding under the table. They're not talking about separation. Maple Maga is deteriorating under pressure. And so what does Trump do? I mean, he signs this crazy executive order renaming the lake. It looks pathetic, Ben. And I think people are saying that's it. That's as good as it gets with this past week of threats and huffing and puffing. You're going to try and rename up all lakes, Lake Ontario, where you, you know, all the populations like along that lake who trade and work together from both sides of the border.

28:22It just it's looking really pathetic. Yeah, and I think the behavior that you've seen from these Trump regime officials, even after the bad faith tactics by the Trump regime made the deal fall apart, just show why you can't

28:39Ben Meiselas:do deals with the United States. It's very public, their behavior about, you've got to stop retaliating against us or else. It's retaliating because you're attacking them. This going into the victim cocoon that the Trump regime does, the posting of the eagle attacking the Canada goose. And then it turns out that in that video, the Canada goose actually beats the eagle in the fight. And then the Lake Ontario situation. But it just shows like you can't do deals. And it's a message to the world also that reminds me a lot of Carney's speech in Davos about a shifting world paradigm. You can't do deals with this psychotic regime unless you're like the new dictator in Colombia or the dictator in Ecuador or a Trump proxy from Miami who he's installed, where you're going to let American troops go in there in order to extract all of your resources and turn it into enriching Trump and the oligarchs.

29:45Well, Ben, I think the really important thing to talk about, and the Midas viewers understand this, but I watch, you know, American coverage and they don't get it. They think this is a trade dispute. This is outright war. And Canadians are coming together in really incredible ways. We posted through our Midas online work about a farm in Manitoba that was concerned because if they couldn't get their honey across the border, that they were going to go bankrupt. And we posted about it. other people posted. By the end of the day, they were begging people to stop calling because they had to set up an online store because so many people were out to buy their products.

30:23There's a Syrian family in Nova Scotia, Syrian refugees who set up a chocolate shop. They can't keep up with the orders because people are really taking these serious measures to show our support for one another. So Mark Carney has an enormous base to work from, but he also has real clear instructions to canadian people as you say ben no this man is a criminal they know he's a predator there is no dealing with them so we're in a very very uh interesting position one weekend uh it looks like the other side's falling apart and screaming and hollering and shouting and our side is staying pretty cool but i would like to make an offer to uh the mega regime and those behind it i think you've got to move donald out i think he's i think he's decrepit i think he's creepy.

31:09I think nobody believes him. I think you need to bring Lego man from Iran. We don't know that Lego man has had anything to do with Epstein sex cases, but we know Donald Trump, his name's all over the file. So I would rather as a Canadian negotiate with Lego man at this point. And as for the word of what comes out of the White House, it means nothing. This is this, this guy was a criminal grip trip and it's all coming home now. You know, you have, when you say this is actually war and this is how it's being viewed, I think it's important to understand that when the Trump regime talks about the Don Roe doctrine and what they mean for the Western hemisphere, that this is a broader plan as Trump sees the world, where Putin gets all of Europe, Xi Jinping gets all of Asia.

32:00Donald Trump doesn't think about Africa. So, you know, I guess his view is Putin and China, you know, you can carve up Africa, but Trump has the Western hemisphere and he has that map. And Trump's view of it, in my view, is very much like, and I'm just giving you my opinion, very much like a Hitler mindset. You know, Trump sees the map and he wants to take over a lot of places, you know, and he's doing that right now. And what we see actually happening, and I did an interview that's going to be airing tomorrow morning with Camila Lourdes-Galarza, who's in Ecuador. And we talked about the Naboah regime, that's the dictatorship in Ecuador.

32:43And then we talked about Bukele in El Salvador. And we talked about Malay in Argentina. And we We talked about the new leader who's a Miami lawyer, who was a lawyer for a lot of the drug traffickers in Florida, who became the Columbia president, Alvarado de la Esprea. U.S. has ground troops in these places. The U.S. has CIA. They're doing drone strikes. They're killing people. The prosecutors who investigate the killings are getting killed. The witnesses are getting killed.

33:15Ben Meiselas:We talk a lot about these war, you know, the Iran war that the U.S. is in. But I want to also note there's actual wars happening that gets no coverage in the Western hemisphere right now. And this is how Trump sees Canada. It's not to your point. It's not. He actually wants to send troops in and invade it and take it over. And it's not a joke. He wants it to be the 51st state and he wants to see the Canadian people be subjects of him. That's what he wants. That's what's actually happening right now. Well, Ben, I think this is really important because there is a danger of just treating it as a joke.

33:50I think as Canadians, we have to keep our spirits up and recognize how ridiculous he is. But he's extremely dangerous. He's extremely vicious. He's shown this through his entire career, his viciousness and his recklessness. And there is an element of the fuhrer bunker around him right now as things are starting to fall apart. You know, he has said on multiple occasions that he thinks he should be able to arbitrarily move the border, move the border 50 kilometers, he said at one point, maybe 100 another. That's the Great Lakes. So you arbitrarily move the border. That's an invasion. That is a statement that we will now just have a provocation and do something to take your country.

34:30And so we see the statement that he made on Lake Ontario. It's very much talking about why it belongs to the United States. It is part of that threat. We are treating it sort of is a joke, but I think most Canadians fully understand the nature of the threat. This is why Canadians are very focused, talking all the time. People, you know, peaceniks I've known my whole life are talking about defence here. I think the one thing that's stopping Donald Trump from doing something that reckless is that he's kind of spooked by the determination of the Canadian people. But that being said, the US embassy in Ottawa is actively undermining us.

35:10Pete Hoogstra, the ambassador, is actively intervening in our nation's affairs. This is why the petition to have him expelled and to call for hearings into U.S. interference, because we see these patterns across the Americas. They don't see us any different than what they're doing in El Salvador or Colombia. They see us as a place that they can interfere and undermine and threaten and break up and take leaders out if necessary. The one thing stopping them right now are the Canadian people. And I want to talk before we go about the Maple MAGA. And obviously, people in Canada know what we're talking about.

35:52And at this point, to me, I've always viewed the Midas Touch Network as a international democracy network, first and foremost.

36:01Ben Meiselas:And so I think our viewers have a huge body of knowledge now about what's going on in the world, which has been a made the biggest priority for me and how we how we built this thing. but Canada was having this trend the way the U.S. was moving you had your own vessel Pierre Poliev was that was we had Trump was our vessel here but we can go look at Orban we can look at these dictators in South America that there is this authoritarianism on the rise internationally internationally and canada of course saw what was happening in the united states and trump's attacks and then prime minister carney you know uh came at a moment where you had a banker or central banker someone with those bona fides against the bank ruptor and there was a dynamic there but you've still had the pierre polyev it's like the end of a terminator movie you know the guy loses his writing, he loses his seat.

37:07Ben Meiselas:And then he like somehow like, you know, spawns again. And you're like, dude, where'd you come from again? Why are you around? You lost your own writing. And for our American viewers, that's like your congressional seat. And so like he stole somebody else's writing. It was like, give me your congressional seat. And so you had all of that, Charlie, you know, but you still, and in Alberta, you have Danielle Smith, who's Maple Maga is really the only, the main kind of premier who's Maple Mac, like that out, you know, so outwardly like that, but not to say there's not others, but talk to us right now, because, you know, I'm seeing lots of people and old conservative leaders, new conservatives who are saying, dude, you can't both sides this to try, look what they're doing, look what they're doing.

37:51So talk to us about that. Well, it is really amazing. And Pierre Polyev is now totally on the margins. He has lost so much credibility. So he's not being a factor right now. But at the provincial levels, we're seeing they, Pierre Polly have backed a MAGA leader of the Conservative Party in British Columbia. I think they've had 12, 12 of their elected members quit and leave or get thrown out. I mean, they're in free fall. In Saskatchewan, Premier Mo, who's like, he's, he's Maple MAGA. He's getting hammered over the booze boycott because Saskatchewan didn't go with the booze boycott. He's having to now be on Team Carney.

38:31He's feeling a lot of pressure because people in Saskatchewan are really angry that they have not been strong. But it's most interesting with Daniel Smith, who is absolute, total, Mar-a-Lago, Maple Mega, Trump, Traitor, Quisling, who has done everything to undermine us time and time again. And the people in Alberta are out every day. There's rallies happening all over. So that's exciting. But you're seeing a lot of traditional conservative voices in Alberta stepping up. Thomas Lukasik, who's run this sort of Forever Canada campaign, has done an amazing job. He's now calling her out saying, you shut this referendum down.

39:09You're threatening our country. But the other really interesting voice speaking up is Jason Kenney, who was in many ways the founder of the Maple MAGA movement. He's telling the people of Alberta that they have to put oil on the table with the agenda in fighting the American government, that oil has to be part of the trade threat. Daniel Smith has done everything to protect MAGA. She's done everything to protect the oil industry's relationship with MAGA. But Jason Kenney, the guy who pretty much started the Maple MAGA movement, is now coming out and saying, these people are traitors. I'm going to call them out.

39:45So she's being torn apart from her own ranks, while the regular, ordinary people who come across all political spectrums. You know, Alberta's got a long history of really progressive, conservative, reasonable people who are conservatives. They're out there fighting. They're on Team Canada. So Maple Maga is disintegrating as the fool in the White House is doing. Every day he does something stupid and threatening to us. It builds Canadian solidarity in much more, in a way that we couldn't have imagined two years ago. So we get stronger every day. The fight is, we're just in the beginning stages, Ben, but we are in the fight of our lives.

40:26And it's, I'm feeling like we're going to get through this. I want everybody to subscribe to Midas Canada. Charlie Angus runs Midas Canada. He's got full, independent, 100 % editorial. Everything is Charlie over there. It's just an honor being in solidarity with Canada to see how we can bring international communities together under an umbrella of pro-democracy. And Charlie, before we go, and as we celebrate the first year of Midas Canada and the incredible work you've done there and the growth we've seen on that YouTube channel, where can people learn more about the petition that you've been telling people to sign about Hoekstra?

41:08Oh, yeah. So the Pete Hoekstra petition, parliamentary e-petition. So the language in this petition are great. I wish I'd written it, but it was written by Leanne Walker from Calgary, a great resistor. It was approved by Parliamentary, the legislative branch lawyers, because you don't just bring a petition to Parliament and get it signed off on unless it meets the test. It's calling for Pete Hoekstra to be made persona non grata for his interference. It's calling for investigations and parliamentary inquiry into U.S. interference in our country. It is Parliamentary Petition E7531. So if you're a Canadian citizen, all you've got to do is sign that.

41:46You put your name, your address, your email. Parliament of Canada will send you a code or check to make sure it's you. And then it goes in. We will have this. I think we're at about 300 ,000 plus now. I can't keep up. But this is going to be the biggest parliamentary petition in Canadian history. And it's telling MAGA and the U.S. Embassy, we know what you're doing. And you are not going to get away with this. and your MAGA dude, Pete Hoogstra, is a troll and we want him gone. We're going to pack his bags. And you know, Ben, Pete and I have had conversations in the past and I've invited him out for a beer or two just to try and give him some advice.

42:28Well, we're past the advice stage. It's time to pack the bags and send them to the border. Charlie Angus, everybody. Subscribe to Midas Canada. Thanks, Charlie. We'll take our last quick break. We will be right back after this quick message. Thank you. This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar, our exclusive snack sponsor. IQ Bars are better for you, clean plant protein bars, packed with fiber and brain boosting nutrients with zero added sugar. You no longer have to choose between healthy or delicious snacks. IQ Bars plant protein bars are packed with high quality ingredients to help keep you physically and mentally fit.

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45:52And he's always been on the side of the mining community over there. And so it's great to have Charlie aboard. I'll share this with you as well, a grinning Natalie Harp following Donald Trump aboard Air Force One. You can see over here as Donald Trump is leaving the White House. I mean, how utterly embarrassing right there. And I will share with you just from that Oval Office disastrous press conference that Donald Trump had, he was asked by before leaving, like, what the hell is even going on? Like, what the hell is this? Like, what the hell is going on right there? I think we all know what's going on right there.

46:35But look, the issue is what his priorities are. There's national security issues that I believe in my opinion, too. But look what he's focused on. Look what he's doing, including what we've talked about earlier. Lake Ontario, you're naming. It literally means big lake, great lake. And now we're going to call that Lake America. It was called Lake Ontario before the US existed and before Canada exist. I mean, how stupid are you? But he's doing that while you are paying record gas prices, while you are paying record diesel prices, while the PCE inflation readout was hotter than expected, while the American people have the lowest consumer confidence essentially in history right now, while people can't afford homes and can't afford their rent, while people can't afford healthcare, while all of this is going on, it's like, this is what you're doing, man, while you got us into a catastrophic war, while our service members are suffering, while you've destroyed our alliances abroad.

47:41It's like just clown behavior. Again, we know Trump's approval is at an all-time low. And I think the Republicans, I truly feel that in this midterms, they're going to get wiped out like no one's ever, like we've never seen in an election. I don't think there will be a precedent. If you looked at what's been happening in these special elections, where Democrats overperform by 12, 15, 18 points, and then you look at the generic and then you factor in an overperformance, I think people are wildly underestimating the reaction by the American people to the Trump regime. And the reality is, though, I don't want, I don't think the Democratic Party should necessarily take that as an endorsement of them.

48:44Yet, you need to fight and earn people's trust. the american people want accountability and they want to return and restore checks and balances to the system and the american people by and large feel the trump regime is a bunch of war criminals that they cover up child sex trafficking that they only care about enriching donald trump and do social welfare for billionaires while screw over everybody the american people know that this regime are evil, demonic, bad people. And I don't even think the American people view it as like, oh, well, the Republicans, I think there's like, these are bad people who have caused us harm, who have lied to us, and they treat us like we're stupid every day.

49:34I think it's very simple. And I think that it is incumbent upon any opposition party to make it very clear that the opposition will be just that, robust, ruthless, rigorous, and that will be the primary focus. And to articulate those goals and not to pretend there's deals that are going to be had with bad people. It was Warren Buffett who first said the Wab Canoe, the premier of Manitoba also said it thereafter, but it was a Buffett quote, I believe, originally. You can't do a good deal with bad people.

50:17Ben Meiselas:You can't do any deal with Donald Trump ever. He just can't do a deal with him. You can't give an inch to the guy he takes your life. That's just it. That's just the reality of the situation. That's it. All right. A reporter asked Donald Trump, hey, man, so you spent your day attacking Canada. Why are you doing this, number one? The reporter's like, there are reports that Putin is meeting. I'll show both of these first. First, the reporter says, there are reports that Putin is meeting the president of Iran next week. Is there a concern since they're talking about building Iran's nuclear facilities.

50:56Does this concern you? You announce economic D-Day

50:59Ben Meiselas:and then Russia and Iran announce more nuclear cooperation. It wasn't your whole thing. You were going to obliterate Iran's nuclear capabilities. And didn't you just send your CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to meet with Putin or to meet with the head of the intelligence in Russia? And this is their response the day after? Does that concern you, Donald? Here, play this clip. There is reports that Vladimir Putin is meeting with the president of Iran to talk about a nuclear agreement next week. Is there concern in the administration and the White House that these countries aren't taking economic D-Day seriously, that they're going to continue doing business with Iran despite the warnings?

51:41Iranians right now, they're not paying their troops. They're in deep trouble. They have very little capacity. Last night, we took 24 boats through the Strait. We're taking them through all the time. We say it very openly. It doesn't mean we're finished with the military, but we are. The Strait is open, as you know. The Strait of Hormuz is open. We have control and we have the blockade. Iran's not getting anything. Nothing is going through. Not one ship has gotten through. Will you punish Putin or Russia if they continue to do it? Well, it depends. It depends. And so far, I think Russia's behaved quite well having to do with the Strait of Hormuz.

52:20And you have to understand, for everything they do, we do also. You know, somebody was saying about China, what about China? We hear they're spying. We spy on them too. You know, it's hard to even express the stupidity there. They've been great. The question was, are you concerned that Russia is helping move nuclear material very publicly to Iran? I think they've been great. We do the same thing also. You know what it'd be like if you remember watching the World Cup, right? and Spain versus Argentina. And, you know, when Argentina scores, you know, you have Spain celebrating.

53:09Ben Meiselas:Go, yeah, we score, you score, you scored on our goal. You want us to help you out? Score on our goal. Like he has no sense. It's a stupid example, I guess. But you're the president of the United States, you idiot. But he doesn't care because he hates the country. He hates his job. He doesn't like, you know, he's not a publicist. He's not representing the United States. He's representing Trump and the Trump company to steal your money. And to sometimes give money to billionaires who give him money. And who stay in his good graces by giving him gold shit. That's it. He doesn't care about the country.

53:49Ben Meiselas:He doesn't care about our troops. He doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about it. He doesn't care about anything. This is the him show. And that's all he wants. I'll show you the other clip right here. This is from that same presser where the reporter says, but why are you spending all your time attacking allies? Like, why not spend your time, like, allies, same team versus other team? Why have you spent this whole press conference praising Putin, praising Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping said, we won't go along with economic D-Day. They're mocking you, Donald. The people who want to do harm are saying, we want to harm you, and they're mocking you.

54:43The allies who have been here to help, you're attacking. Does that seem odd to you? Listen to what he says. Let's play it. Things like this towards America's allies instead of doing things. Well, they haven't treated us well. The Canadian officials have treated us very badly. They're nasty people. They charge our farmers 400 percent tariffs. They've been doing it for a long time. And I had them figured out in my first term and I did some pretty strong things and had it getting pretty good. And then the election was rigged and now I'm coming back and doing it the way and finishing the job. But they treat us very badly.

55:22Canada treats us very badly. I would say that of all countries, as you know, we have President Xi coming in a couple of weeks. We have a lot of, we deal with a lot of people and people oftentimes they'll ask me, who's the worst to deal with on trade? And I said, that's easy. Canada. They are the worst to trade. And they feel entitled and just we can't have that.

55:45Ben Meiselas:President Xi doesn't like you, you idiot. He thinks you're a fool and you're a clown and a loser and that you've provided a fast forward button for China to achieve its overall objectives that I think it thought was 50 years away from being realized. You sped it up. And you have, he even answers the question about why do you attack your allies? by saying, I need to finish. He lies obviously about the 2020 election because he's a sick and demented person. But then he also goes, I needed to finish the job. You needed to finish the job against Canada? What are you talking about? You're going to finish the job on Canada and you talk to Xi Jinping and then you mock Canada together?

56:41okay you think that makes you look stronger you doing that with jiji pig he's like got it like

56:47Ben Meiselas:this guy's an idiot that's how the world thinks about you that's how the world thinks about you and then finally i want to show everybody this clip i i thought the speech that abdul el sayed dr el sayed gave in michigan in uh i think it was in farmington hills was a great speech did you catch that? I did a video where I covered the full speech, but I wanted to show you part of it where I thought was just A plus. Let me share this with you. Let's play. And I just want to point to two issues right now that we're dealing with. Number one, as hard as he tries, as hard as he tries, this guy wants to pretend like he never met Donald Trump.

57:30I don't know who that is. Who's that? and Donald Trump because he can't resist the red meat can't seem to keep my name out of his mouth Habibi if you can't say the name don't say the name

57:50Abdul Abdul

57:54Ben Meiselas:I'm gonna say it like that man it's creepy Abdul holds on to the L a little too long

58:08Ben Meiselas:You know, Natalie's going to show him this clip and he's going to be so mad.

58:20Abdul.

58:24Try Abdul Rahman.

58:28And then you had MAGA Mike Johnson in Texas today, where the MAGA Republicans are on the ropes right now. And a very desperate and scared and panicked MAGA Mike said, if we lose the midterms, everything we built will be destroyed. The economy is going to crash. The stock market will go bust. It will destroy our power abroad. It will undermine us internationally. So I just want to make it clear. This is always the plan of the con artist and the fraud. The arsonists destroy it. Everything that he's talking about, the wheels are already in motion right now or have happened, right? Our economy is, for most Americans, horrific right now.

59:25If you want to say that the market, the stock market is up a little bit, well, I mean, it's built on this kind of AI pump that's been taking place that feels like a circular kind of funding structure of lots of CapEx spending that's coming from the exact same sources. And lots of people can see at least some of the design of a bubble that's right there kind of before our eyes. But in any event, this is what they do. They want to blend. By the way, GDP growth is anemic. It's like what, 1.4 % inflation, significantly higher than when Biden left office. And so now they basically say, look, what'd they tell us?

1:00:19End of 2025, Trump owns the economy. He should own it at the beginning, but end of 2025, first quarter, 2026. We got you second quarter, 2026. And now, what do they say? Because they're con artists. 2027. We got this. 2027, it's what we're going to fix everything then we got it and then they're going to lose the midterms

1:00:42Ben Meiselas:and then they're going to say ha Trump was so close he built it they were so we had everything the first year was the appetizer whatever stupid thing they say then the second year was the banquet and it was about to all be unleashed but then the Democrats won and that foiled everything thing. They're giving you the playbook of what they do. This is what Trump did after his first term. And this is the cycle that we need to get out of as a country. Because this cycle, where the arsonists burn it down, then someone needs to fix it. And the arsonists then say, we're fiscal hawks. We're China hawks.

1:01:26Ben Meiselas:We're this hawk. We're fiscal conservatives. We're this. bullshit, you are the arsonist. You are the con artist. You created the fire. You created the problem. Then you want to dump it on someone. And then because they're just liars and the normal human reactions that you and I and others experience that stop us from like being a liar in every sound so that they don't care. They don't care that they're the ones who brought us $40 trillion in debt and rising inflation and the highest gas price. They'll be like, we stopped it. And now look, you made it higher. It's like, no, you did it. You did it.

1:02:09Ben Meiselas:And then their trillion dollar media machine then just starts to push all of this. And then they do, you're seeing it in action right now, where they then try to demonize and nonstop and then Fox and all the right-wing propaganda media. We need to get out of this cycle. So we have to recognize what the playbook is. And Maga Mike shows us the playbook here. Let's play that clip. The reason that we are doing that is because people like you understand the stakes are so high, right? This is for all the marbles. We cannot lose this midterm. I want you to imagine a nightmare scenario with these insurgent Marxist Democrats taking over the Congress.

1:02:49They would impeach the president on the first day. They've already said what they're going to do. They'll convert every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'll spend every waking hour investigating the president and his family and the cabinet and going on this lawfare exercise.

1:03:00Ben Meiselas:It would it would roil the markets. It would undermine people's confidence in the U.S. and the economy. It would empower our enemies across the globe at the worst possible time. We cannot allow them to do that. OK, the problem that we have right now is the people come behind us don't understand how dangerous these ideas are. They don't understand that socialism is a road to ruin. They don't understand that socialism is a step to get to communism. It's Marxist philosophy. They thought the communists, communism would be the utopia, the perfect society. They're dead wrong. OK, like crazy humans like that is truly a crazy, psychotic human being right there.

1:03:38Ben Meiselas:And stop normalizing it like that is really like a sick, demented human, Maga Mike. I mean, like, do you think that we didn't experience these last two years? Y 'all were in control, but this is what they do because they don't have a soul. They don't have a conscience. They cover up child sex trafficking publicly. They are the Epstein class. They are the demonic class. They are the cabal. They are all of the things that they warned about. They are that. and they don't care about anything, but making sure you suffer, that making sure they destroy America, that our troops suffer and that they tear to shreds every aspect.

1:04:29Ben Meiselas:And they're not happy until they see everybody who's as miserable as them. And until their dear leader can take all of your money and all of your earthly possessions. And that's what they want. That's it. That's their end game. So stop acting like this is a normal political time and not going to make a deal with these. Maybe I'm going to meet with these guys and make a deal. You're not going to do anything with them. Stop it. Cut it out. You have to recognize these are demonic, bad humans who have spent the last two years sending ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo to torture people. It's happened. These are people who are attacking Canada.

1:05:11Ben Meiselas:These are people who have torn apart our alliances. These are people who have allowed Donald Trump to do 21 ,000 stock trades in the Oval Office and grift billions of dollars while they talk about golden ballrooms. And these are also scared and pathetic losers. And when you step up to them, you see that they are as weak as can be hiding in catering containers when they could be aboard Air Force One, the most protected aircraft after a NATO summit, cowering, cowering with Natalie in a catering container. in Turkey. I cannot think of an image more embarrassing for the United States. It is mortifying.

1:06:06Ben Meiselas:It is shameful. And they want to act. They want to pretend that this is the golden age, that this is great right now. They've ruined the United States. They've ruined it. and now they want to create a boogeyman? You did it. It's happened. That's what it feels like to me. And I know when I hear you, that's what it feels like to you. And I know like me, you don't view any of that, what I said through a strictly political and partisan lens, right? I don't think anything I've even said in this episode, if anything, I think I've been critical of the Democrat Party on 7th. This is Republican fascist.

1:06:54Ben Meiselas:We need bold opposition, and we need people to earn our trust who will stand up. And if and when the Democrats win the midterms, and I think they will win the House and the Senate, they need to show that this ain't status quo. They need to stand up and be strong, and they need to stand up and fight for us and fight for you. That's what I want to see happen. And that's what we're going to fight for here. Accountability, transparency, bringing out the truth, connecting international movements of freedom, democracy. Keep checking in on the Midas Touch Network, okay? We got to keep on growing this together.

1:07:36We got to keep on growing this together, okay? We'll do this. We're growing this thing. subscribe to Midas Canada. Let's get them 300 ,000 subscribers. I got the brother show tonight. I hope to catch you there. I just did a video about Maga Mike Johnson's deranged speech. I hope go watch that video when this is done, by the way. And I interviewed the new president of AFSCME, Patrick Moran. And we had a really good interview also about the labor movement. And so that's in there as well. Go and check that out after this ends. Thanks everybody. I appreciate you. I'll see you tonight. Shout out Midas Mighty.

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