Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 2/17/26

30:04And spreading democracy across the world took root. And that became a powerful force internationally as well. And the spread of democracy, then the fight of democracy versus communism, right? We see as embodied in Russia, but which to me is more of a proxy for communism being the language of how these authoritarians could seize power and fight back against democracy.

30:37Ben Meiselas:But ultimately, I think that the forces of democracy prevailed. But these authoritarians, these people in the Epstein class, in my opinion, is how I refer to them as, they've been trying to figure out how do you take down these systems of democracy? and they use the same playbook and they've they've created they've sculpted the playbook the anti anti-woke two genders anti-immigrant um accusing the other side of being pedos what's the worst thing you can be say pedo so you accuse the other side of being pedos and then someone has to say I'm not that. I'm not that. And a person struggles to be like, I'm not that.

31:27I'm not that. If you're being accused by the people who are doing it, so this is all part of the same playbook. Orban uses this playbook. Putin uses this playbook. The leader of Belarus uses this playbook. Javier

31:43Ben Meiselas:Malay uses this. They use the same playbook. That's why Marco Rubio is in Hungary with Orban right now, because this is part of the group. And when you saw what Steve Bannon and when you saw what Epstein were doing in trying to prop up this right-wing playbook in other countries, trying to prop up the right-wing groups in Le Pen in France and Nigel Farage's reform party in the UK and Pierre Poliev in Canada, all this stuff is connected. Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Bukele in El Salvador, right? All of the stuff was being connected to each other. And it was create destruction and chaos. The oligarchs then feast on everybody's, on the panic, on the ensuing panic.

32:32They start propping up things like cryptocurrencies, where people flee to try to find stable coins in unstable times. The rich get richer. They seize people's assets.

32:44Ben Meiselas:And their currency in these files when you looked at it and what they were talking about or as Epstein was using, it was everybody was blackmailing everybody. And that's what was going down in these files as you really go back and understand it. And then so when you see Epstein referenced in the CIA messages and in these NSA messages, you start to make these connections about what's really going down here. And so when Donald Trump goes and makes the comment that he has no involvement at all, you know, and that he's vindicated, it's like, what the hell are you talking about, you crazy human? The hell are you talking about?

33:27Here, play this clip of Trump on Air Force One saying he's vindicated. Let's play.

33:31Ben Meiselas:So Hillary Clinton said in an interview today that she and her husband are getting pulled into the Epstein matter to divert attention from you and that your administration has something to hide. What's your response? I have nothing to hide. I've been exonerated. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. They went in hoping that they'd find it and found just the opposite. I've been totally exonerated. In fact, Jeffrey Epstein was fighting that I don't get elected with some author. A sleazebag, by the way. And I've been totally exonerated. No, no, they're getting pulled in. And that's their problem.

34:06I don't know. They're going to have to see what happens. But I watched her in Munich, and she seriously has Trump derangement syndrome. You think she should publicly testify? I've been totally exonerated on Epstein. And it's really interesting because they've been pulled in. Think of it. They've been pulled in. Clinton and many other Democrats have been pulled in. Yeah. Now, I want to show you in Munich, though. First, I want to show you Hillary Clinton calling out this right-wing troll. But then I want to show you what this right-wing troll, Czech Deputy Prime Minister Peter Makinka had to say, why don't I first show you what this right-wing troll said.

34:50So I want to show the clip of Clinton clashing with the deputy PM, Peter Machinka, after he defended Trump as responding to policies that went too far.

35:00Ben Meiselas:Let's watch this guy. Let's play this clip. We saw the cancel culture. We saw the woke revolution. I don't agree with the gender revolution, the climate alarmism. Which gender? Women having their rights? No, let Peter go on. I think there are two genders, but some of us think that there is more than one or more than two, sorry, more than two genders. I think there is male and female, and the rest probably is a social construct. So this is something that went too far. But does that justify selling out the people of Ukraine who are on the front lines dying to save their freedom and their two genders?

35:43If that's what you're worried about. Can I please finish my points? I'm sorry that it makes you it makes you nervous. I'm really sorry for that. It makes me nervous. It makes me.

35:58That right there, just so you can see it, is the playbook, because what I'll show you when we get back is. Hillary Clinton is saying democracy, values, empathy, support Ukraine. Here's what we need to do. Here's what America should stand for. Here's what the world needs to do. Here's how we correct these things. Then they come back with, it's international. The things that, you know, what the right-wing authoritarians analyzed at a psychological level is how to brainwash humanity. And these concepts trigger in people's reptilian brains things that are deeply rooted and deep-seated, and it galvanizes people to not address the logical arguments that are before you, then you layer on top of that what's happening with AI and counterintuitively, you have the situation where with more knowledge out there, you actually have less knowledge out there and you create a lord-surf dynamic that existed in feudalism.

37:16And this is what's going, this is what I want to let you know, this is what they're thinking about. This is how they're doing it. So you know the playbook right now. Let's take our first and only quick break of the show. We'll be right back, but we've got a lot to discuss on this episode. I'm so excited to share with you guys C-15 from Fatty 15, the first emerging essential fatty acid to be discovered in more than 90 years. It's an incredible scientific breakthrough to support our long-term health and wellness. And you guessed it, healthy aging. Fatty 15 co-founder, Dr. Stephanie Van Watson, discovered the benefits of C-15 while working with the U.S.

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41:49Those are Bukele's points. Those are Javier Malay's points. Those are the successors to Le Pen's party's points, Nigel Farage says those things. That's what the AFD is saying in Germany. That is why it is the US foreign policy to disrupt the European Union. That's America's stated 2026 foreign policy paper is to try to destroy the European Union and prop up right-wing authoritarians, lend support to the AFD. And by the way, who's in Hungary right now? Well, last week, Putin went first with his representatives. Now you had Rubio there with Orban. You had the AFD leader show up as well. They stick together.

42:39And when I said, if you don't recognize that that's going on, you are in a fight against an F-35 with a butter knife. That's what's going on. And no one talks about this stuff. No one talks about this stuff, really. unless you're reading wonky foreign affairs papers. But that's why we want to make this information and knowledge accessible to you.

43:05Ben Meiselas:By the way, we're so close to 6 million subscribers. I just realized that. Can you help us hit 6 million subscribers? That would be fantastic. So if you can, just double check that you're subscribed and recommend the Midas Touch podcast and the show to others. And also, you can go to store.midastouch.com and get the Midas gear. Anyway, let me show you what Hillary Clinton was saying, because this, to me, frames internationally what's going on. You saw the kind of MAGA right-wing extremist argument. Here's the argument of kind of multilateralism, pro-European union, free trade, cooperation, democracy.

43:46Let's play it. He has betrayed the West. He's betrayed human values. He's betrayed the NATO charter, the Atlantic charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A lot of what has been done before to try to make sense of how difficult it is to restrain people who want unaccountable power. And none of us in this room, including all of us on this panel, would choose to live under a regime that was so unaccountable that it could act with impunity the way that Putin does. except that's who Trump is modeling himself as. I didn't think. Well, first, I think you really don't like him. You know, that is absolutely true.

44:31But I really, not only do I not like him, I don't like him because of what he's doing to the United States and the world. And I think you should take a hard look at it if you think that there is something good that will come out of that. And again, that's one of their tricks on the right wing. Oh, it just seems that you don't like him. It's like, you're the anti-Trump podcast. You're anti-Trump. You hate Trump. I don't hate the guy because he's Trump. There are a lot of billionaires out there who do bad things. There are a few who do good things, but there are mostly a lot of them who, I don't devote my energy going there because they're not necessarily, at an individual level, disrupting the global world order the way that Donald Trump and his regime are.

45:26The reason I'm anti-Trump is not because I don't like him. Of course, I don't like him, but I don't like him for very specific reasons. And those reasons I lay out, because to me, I don't like somebody if they're taking away your healthcare. I don't like someone when they're depriving you of the ability for you to afford a home or to afford rent and then lies to you and claims they've made it so much better. I don't like somebody who betrays our allies and lends a hand and affirmatively supports our enemies, right? I I don't like somebody who's been found civilly liable for sexual assault and who was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein and said Epstein was a great guy who likes women on the younger side.

46:15It's a direct quote. I don't like people who host beauty pageants and say they use it to see girls naked and that when you host the pageants, you're an inspector. I don't like people like that who give away our classified information to the United Arab Emirates, the Qataris, and the Saudis in exchange for personal business deals that enrich themselves. I don't like people who engage in behavior that attacks our educational institutions. I don't like people who put masked agents, border patrol, and ICE Gestapo on the street to terrorize, torture, and kill people in this country. I don't like people who significantly harm immigrant populations, put people into concentration camps.

47:06We have a two-month-old being sent to an emergency room because there were no doctors at a concentration camp called the Dilley Detention Center in Texas, where there was no doctors on site from this private prison camp that's making money off the taxpayers. They are getting enriched as two months old and little children are getting rounded up and put in these freaking warehouses. And the kid and the little baby almost died spending their life in a concentration camp. I don't like the conduct of a regime that after terrorizing, torturing, kidnapping children and their parents and families and throwing them in these camps are now currently, as I'm recording this, rounding up the children.

47:55stealing the letters and artwork that the children are creating because ProPublica did a story about the letters coming out from the children who are telling the stories about being tortured by this regime. That's why I don't like the person who goes and says that Canada is the 51st state that says we need to take over Greenland. I don't like the person who puts a photo of himself with Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office above his grandkids. I don't like that person. I don't like that person for those reasons and many, many more reasons that I could spend an entire episode delineating. So it's not, you don't like him.

48:37What does that even mean? I'm not in third grade. You know, I'm not in second. It's not a matter of, oh, will you be my Valentine? I like you. I don't like you. It's a matter of humanity. And these are the conversations that we get to discuss here on this show, because it's just me and I get to speak to you about, but these are the things that weigh heavily on my mind beyond doing an episode. And here's what Trump did at the press conference. And here's what he did. The connective tissue is this, is this discussion about the broader geopolitical ramifications and the broader ramifications on our basic humanity and our decency.

49:22I don't like somebody who makes a post today when you have someone like Reverend Jesse Jackson who died at the age of 84.

49:30Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's post is, Reverend Jesse Jackson is dead at 84. Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a racist by the scoundrels and lunatics on the radical left, Democrats all. It was always my pleasure to help Jesse. He had much to do with the election without acknowledgement or credit of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand. I don't like that's what you say when somebody dies. You have to make it about yourself and attack former President Obama after posting photos of former President Obama and Michelle Obama on the bodies of apes. And then when you're asked if you would apologize for putting the photos of the first black president and first black first lady, having their photos go on apes in a photo, and you don't apologize, and you say that the photo and the video that had their faces on apes was strongly about voter fraud.

50:33I mean, you're just a terrible human being, you know, and then you layer on top of that all the Epstein stuff. It's like, who the hell is, like, who are these freaking people? And you wonder how we got here. And actually, the Epstein files, to me, is like the decoder, right? It's like the way you decoded the Rosetta Stone. That's the word I was looking for, of the hieroglyphics, right? The hieroglyphics in this zeitgeist is how the hell did we get her? How did this happen? Why is that happening? Why is this happening? How did this relate to this, right? To me, the Epstein files are viewed on multiple levels.

51:18One level is, of course, the horrific and atrocious sex trafficking that's taking place of thousands of girls who are victims. That is in there. There's another layer that is taking place though within these files that to me is further the Rosetta Stone of what's happening in the world because you know how like Forrest Gump in the movie is in the center of all of these like zeitgeist defining events in American history right as it goes through as it goes through everything right to me Epstein is like you know is is like is like pedo Trump I mean, it's not pedo Trump. It's like pedo gump. Pedo Trump.

52:04Pedo gump. He's like pedo gump. I see why I said that. But that's what it is. If you were to do Epstein's movie, you have Forrest Gump and you've got pedo gump. And he's like the central in all of these things. And you're like, oh, you were there when that happened. You were there when that happened. You were there when that happened. I wasn't crazy to think this was happening. I wasn't crazy to think that all of these things are actually inextricably intertwined with each other. And so then we have state regime media here now in the United States. So as I'm describing it this way for you, how do you think Jesse Waters and state regime media is talking about it?

52:47Here's what Jesse Waters had to say. Let's play this clip of Jesse Waters talking about the Epstein files. Let's play it.

52:52Ben Meiselas:It looks like he's mostly just a fixer, a guy who advises. He helps people with their problems. Sometimes those problems are you need a girl and or some penicillin or if you need it, he's got it. He's a sex rabbi. He should perform at the halftime show. Yes. Now, we could pass that off as just it's a ridiculous show. That's brainwashing right there. they are conditioning they know what they're doing they have embedded themselves in the living room of americans and they are now conditioning that all of these things that you've seen it's funny and it's a joke and that there's no difference between the halftime show of bad bunny and what you see in the files and he's a sex rabbi And he's like a fixer.

53:53And we've heard all these terms. And what's, you know, penicillin. I mean, making a joke about treatment for sexually transmitted diseases in connection with sex trafficking. If I just, I want you to know that it is not random what you see. It is part of an affirmative brainwashing campaign that is taking place. Whether it's done, you know, I'm not suggesting that they're necessarily sitting in a room, how do we brainwash people today? perhaps. I'm not suggesting it's necessarily that explicit, but the role of how you defend the indefensible and prop up these types of people has a historical playbook that spans 5 ,000 years.

54:52And it was fascinating to me when I heard Marco Rubio speaking at the Munich conference. And he spoke about this history of 5 ,000 years and how it was foolish that we would all believe that we could be different than we were in the past. Now, Jeremy, I don't want to play the one with Rubio to Victor Orban. People get it. He's there. Actually, you know what? Fine. Just play the clip with Rubio to Victor Orban. And then I'm going to play the one at eunuch just rubio to victor orban first let's play if we got the room but the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion that we had entered quote the end of history that every nation would now be a liberal democracy that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood that the rules-based global order an overused term would now replace the national interests and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.

55:58This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5 ,000 years of recorded human history. Yeah, so that was not the Orban clip, but that was the one I wanted to play anyway. So it's fine that we played that one. But I want you, again, that's the type of clip that we can just push aside and say, well, so what? What are you trying to get out of that? This is the view. The view is that what came before, this is the Trump view, but this is the Epstein class view. And we see it in the files. They hate liberal democracies. They hate those institutions that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a former secretary, was talking about there.

56:48They hate that. And they've tried to find ways to poke holes in it and destroy it. Why? Because authoritarians existed for 5 ,000 years before the American experiment and before the spread of liberal democracies. So the authoritarians in the arc of history want to go back to the time of what existed, frankly, before. And what he's saying is that really what's happened after World War II, which, by the way, has had America as the so-called leader of the free world and America leading these international institutions and the United Nations. For all of its flaws, we can debate it, but we haven't avoided wars, let's be clear, but we've avoided a world war since World War II and have constrained it with certain institutions.

57:42Ben Meiselas:So what Rubio is saying there is we should return to what humanity was like before then. And the experience of what humanity was before is the real experience, not moving the arc of history forward, but actually moving the arc of history backwards. He's saying it out loud. The playbook is there in front of our eyes. And I don't think we can look at the Epstein files divorced from that because, as I mentioned, What they talked about over and over again is precisely disruption, chaos, anarchy. Then they feast on people's panic. People move towards cryptocurrencies and other assets. They're already there.

58:28They're the ultimate insider traders because they are the ones not just moving the markets. They're destroying the world. And they're a few steps ahead of it. That's why I'm like, if we're just focusing on domestic politics, we're missing the real picture right here. Now, so what is Trump doing as he's confronted now with the fact that he's been figured out? And Americans say, okay, well, his polling is like atrocious. It's like the worst ever right now. It's the negative 30, 40. I mean, the guy's polling at 36%, 37%. And there seems to be no floor. It just goes lower and lower. rig the midterms.

59:10Who do you go after? Who does the Epstein class go after? Women and children, right? I mean, we're seeing in the detention centers, children in concentration camps, children under attack. But when they talk about the SAVE Act, they're talking about, in many ways, disenfranchising women. And so the plan, as you know, for the midterms, when they want to push this SAVE Act through, Fortunately, the filibuster in the Senate's actually blocking the Senate from passing the SAVE Act, although Trump and MAGA wants to try to destroy the filibuster to push forward the SAVE Act. But one of their main goals is to disenfranchise women.

59:54And again, this isn't conspiratorial. Under the SAVE Act, when a woman shows up to vote, she would have to bring her birth certificate, her license, and a signed declaration stating that she's the same person on the license as the birth certificate, and any name change is reflected because of marriage. And you have to do an affidavit or a passport, right? So you'd have to do all of those things. And the idea is to discourage women to vote. You have to find your, You know, and hopefully what they want to hope is that women don't know about this. They forget their birth certificates. They don't bring it.

1:00:36They don't carry their birth certificates on them. They don't carry a passport. Obviously, this would disincentivize people who may not have a passport, people who are citizens, but don't have a passport from voting. And the way they try to frame this, and I'll just show you the two examples before we go, is that you are being offensive to women by saying women are unable to figure out how to find their birth certificate and their passport and do a declaration. So their gaslighting is that you are sexist to suggest that women should not be able to find all of these documents. And for you to argue that women shouldn't be uniquely put through these hurdles, you are saying that you hate women is basically their argument that they're making.

1:01:34And I'll show you how they make the argument. Here's Tom Emmer on the Save America Act. Let's not treat women like this. Women are brilliant. Women can figure this out. You're saying they don't know how to bring their birth certificate and their passport and do a declaration? Watch what he says. Here, play this clip. Let's not treat women. You worked with a lot of these women in Congress. They are brilliant. They're smart. Why do you suggest that they don't know how to prove their citizenship by bringing a passport Or a birth certificate or a marriage certificate and or the new social security card that gets issued right after they get married.

1:02:13This is all nonsense. This is something that's common sense. Almost all Americans agree with it. It's time has come. You must prove that you're a citizen when you register to vote. Makes sense. You got plenty of time to get that done. And you got to show up with a photo ID to prove that you are the person that is indeed the citizen entitled to vote. It's an easy thing. It should be done tomorrow. Now, I don't just want to show you that. I want to show you the tactic of the manipulation, right? How they are framing it. And just then they use their state regime media to push this point. And they're like, oh, they hope their viewers go, wait a minute.

1:02:57So am I discriminating against women by saying women aren't smart enough to do this? They're gaslighters. I mean, these are the height of sociopaths, right?

1:03:08Ben Meiselas:I mean, they're pretending they care about women at the same time they're covering up the Epstein files too. Seriously? Here is what Chip Roy said. You'll just see it's the same message here. Play this clip. A lot of people are asking questions. They're saying, well, that's going to prevent women who've got complications with name changes. Hold on. We actually allow a fail safe that you go and you can sign an affidavit that says, this is my driver's license. My name is Sarah Jones on my driver's license. Here's my birth certificate, Sarah Smith. I certify under penalty of perjury that I'm the same person.

1:03:40And we allow that. And we allow states to make other mechanisms under their laws to make sure that they match it. So just requiring a process. A process targeting women to sign affidavits in order to vote? What?

1:03:59Ben Meiselas:I want you to hear their words and what their plans are. And I'll leave you with this, right? Think about the issues that you're going through right now and that Americans are going through right now, right? Struggling to pay rent. Can't buy a home. your kids are living with you because they can't even come close to affording where there's no hope for them and you see the hopeless look and the dread on their faces you have to make decisions can i afford groceries or health care do i hope that i just don't get sick this year do i not show up at a doctor because trump and mag has just ripped away my health care and now they claim they made prescription drug prices cheaper when we know that's not true they keep saying most favored nations when everything's more expensive.

1:04:51Can't go out and afford things. I can't get a good education. My kids don't have anywhere near the future that I have. Heck, my future right now. I'm not sure how I'm going to get by. I feel psychologically tortured, living paycheck to paycheck. What do I do? And all I see is the United States provoking more wars across the country. I I see endless suffering taking place throughout the world. I hear Donald Trump declaring peace in the Middle East and that everybody's happy in Gaza, yet I know that more people keep on getting killed, women and children, in Palestine every single day, and they keep pretending there's a ceasefire there.

1:05:29He's extorting Zelensky and trying to, you know, yet again, you know, threaten total capitulation there. He keeps claiming that there are all these wars being solved, but there just seems to be more wars and more treasury coming out from America every single day. You see all of the posts that this guy is making as his family continues to grift and grift and grift. And people, you know, a jobs recession, the environment is toxic. They rolled out, they canceled the endangerment finding that greenhouse gases are health issues. And they're out there, they're out there right now while there's, oh, there's masked agents going on the street, torturing people, covering up the Epstein files.

1:06:23While all of this is taking place. They're out there talking about making women sign affidavits to vote. This is what's on their mind. And then the media presents this as just another side of the discussion. And if I go on one of these shows, I have to debate these people and discuss with them all these crazy things that they want to talk about, about why women need to sign affidavits. And I need to prove why women don't need to sign affidavits and why that's a ridiculous thing. And we can't talk about the real issues facing the American people. As Senator Bernie Sanders always says to me, the most important issues are those being least discussed.

1:07:00And I would go dot, dot, dot. I think because the Epstein class doesn't want us to discuss those issues, they want to silence these issues. They want to cover up these issues. They don't want us talking about these issues. And I think it's incumbent upon us to talk about those issues and to bring them to light and to contextualize it. And I know sometimes a lot of you feel, you know, why do you show these Fox videos? Like, I hate it when you do the Fox videos, Ben, because if I wanted to watch Fox, I would turn it on. I'm not showing it to you to show you Fox clips. I'm showing it to you to contextualize the brainwashing that's taking place.

1:07:38So if you have people in your family who are brainwashed by the stuff, you know how to speak to them. That's why I show that. It's the same reason why I show Trump clips. I don't like showing Trump clips. I don't like listening to his voice. But I also know that part of the way we fight it is we can't let those words become the truth when they're lies. And we need to look at it, confront it, fact check it, show you the receipts. That's why I go play this clip, play this clip. We put it all together. So anyway, I hope you like this new format here. It's called Ben on Breaking News. Talk about breaking news, and then I wander off into professorial philosophies, but I think are really important for us to speak about and chat.

1:08:27Oh, I have some good news. I'm going to be doing a show with Katie Fang at this time slot as well. And so y 'all love Katie Fang on Thursday. I think we're going to try to launch me and Katie Fang on Thursday. And so I look forward to, you know, Katie Fang being on this time slot as well, which will be great.

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