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That's j e R RY. ai slash LiB SYn We've got a lot to discuss on today's episode of the Mightest Touch podcast, Donald Trump held a lunch with banks and billionaires and other oligarchs, he proclaimed that Nicki Minaj ran these small business association and he said everybody in America is experiencing a golden age and people are as rich As they've ever wanted to be, their dreams have all come true except That's not true at all Meanwhile, not only are people suffering here on the domestic front, internationally, the world has never been more dangerous and more chaotic, at least in recent history. China and North Korea testing nuclear capable missiles comment at all from the Trump regime, no comment at all from Hexith or Marco Rubio. you have Russia escalating in Kyiv, striking Kyiv with ballistic missiles as Zelensky and Ukraine no longer have the necessary Patriot interceptors to stop the ballistic missiles, both because the Trump regime is withholding it and as a result of the Trump regime in Netanyahu's catastrophic war in Iran, which depleted those Patriot interceptors. You do have Zelenssky striking back with a drone swarm Tomk, which is Russia's largest fuel refinery over there That's about twenty five hundred to three thousand kilometers away. So That's a significant development Meanwhile in Iran in Tehran as well as Kam You have massive, massive attendance of Ayatollla Comines funeral This may be the biggest gathering of human beings Like in history together in one place biggest funeral in world history and You have somewhere between ten and fifteen million people who are attending this funeral recession there. Financial Times has also confirmed those numbers. And we've been sharing this footage because it is a historic event in human history to see this many people. And I think it also makes us all reflect on what Trump and Netanyahu said were was going to happen on the ground When you see all those people here, I think to myself, that's the place you wanted to launch a ground invasion against. That's the place where you said that Trump and Netanyahu would show up and be greeted as as heroes and that they would be welcomed there with open arms. I mean, you see all of those signs going after Trump and Netany Yahoo and also America, although you hear people on the ground there saying it's the American government that we're talking about here not necessarily the American people, but their signs are there will be blood and go after Trump and kill Trump and things like that Um, meanwhile Donald Trump was out there making durin social media posts and Just to show you how in a media cycle press just lets Donald Trump get away with basically anything posted that he wanted to get a restraining order against Georgia Maloney the Prime Minister of Italy, and it doesn't even register as like a story anywhere, right? The Pident of the United States harassing a female prime minister, female leader of Italy, a NATO country basasically saying she's stalking me, right? which is why I need a restraining order against you know, that was the implication of that. It won't even be a story that's covered. And I can say, well, can you imagine if former president and you can't, you can't. And it should not be normalized. And I think I could show you him posting about Macaully Colkin or him posting weird photos of himself and Mike Tyson or post with former President Obama and Michelle Obama on an AI Air Force one. where it, you know says, you know, bllack liivves matter in graffiti and it has, you know, Islamic scripture and all of these things, you know, obviouslyor horrifying. It's just the very idea of saying that you want to get a restraining order because a female prime minister in another country that's integral to our national security here is like stalking you from somebody who's been found civilly liable of sexual assault here in the United States. it's It's it's horrific and We shouldn't forget also, and I'll bring it up here at the outset, Donald Trump's financial disclosures or the portion that he revealed, which showed that there were billions of dollars that he made twenty one thousand stock trades and crypto schemes, which over the weekend today, the Trump regime's propagandaist ye, it may be unseemly, but It's just like what Hunter Biden did or you know, the way it'sue they tried to frame it. and the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post in order both sides that is we weren't good when Hunter did it, so we shouldn't be good about it when Donald Trump and his kids do it. It's like not even in the close universe of similarities like at all. and I've been covering that here as well. And then Donald Trump is railing on communists. We're going to go after the communists at the bizarre july fourth. That's their theme heading into the midtermss. We're going after the commommunist, We're going after the communists. july fourth event was the disaster we all thought it was going to be. The fireworks show became like a smoke show, like literally smoke Like you couldn't even see the fireworks because they just blew up all the fireworks, all that one. so they can say they set the Guinness book of records of the most fireworks polluted the air. You couldn't even see the fireworks. I mean, just objectively. And then the event was had a very weak attendance when Donald Trump spoke and they tried it all. four hundred fifteen thousand people attended everybody. It was four hundred fifteen thousand, but actually then one hundred fifty thousand just bitits Enough is enough is enough. and let me bring in Bret and Jeordy. Weve got a lot to discuss and I think I start with this disclaimer. because it's true The next one hundred days are among the most important one hundred days as everybody gets closer to the midterm elections And to me, this is the peak moment we've been warning about where exhaustion really starts to set in. It's like running a marathon Right? You're really good. maybe early on, you're like, shouldh I run this marathon? What am I doing? What am I doing? I train for it. But what do I do? Then mile five to ten, you're like, I'm good. I'm good Then you get into mile fifteen, I'm pretty good then twenty And it's hot and you're like, who What am I doing here? Am I going to be, you know, And that's when lots of people break And that's kind of where we're at right now. And I know there's exhaustion that really sets in this stuff starts to overwhelm you and feel like This is never going to end and we're never going to get out of this period. but that's when in the marathon, you got to trust your training and here, you got to trust your values and principles and you got you got to move forward and you got to rally each other. and you got to stay united during very difficult times. Breton and Jeordi, how are you? Gott to stay focused, got gott to keep putting in the reps, right? Every single day gott to keep putting in the reps. It's good to be here your Ben, good to be here, Jordi Good to be here, Mus, Mighty. I hope everybody had a happy fourth of July. Hope you're able to get a little bit of relaxation, spend a little bit of time with friends and family. I know it always feels you know, a little weird when it's Fth of July as we are witnessing these incredible attacks on our democracy and as we see the most corrupt individual we have ever seen in the presidency right now. But you know, I think that's That really what America's all about. I think America is about criticizing those in power who are acting corrupt. I think it is about constantly fighting for a more perfect union. And I think that's what we all are collectively trying to do here every single day. Jeordi, I gotta say, man, looking a lot better this episode. Last episode, I saw there are a lot of people worried about you because Geordi was a victim of this heat wave on the east coast, and Geordi he was sweating, he was drenched, your face was red, only because it was incredibly hot in your house over there. And folks were concerned, even though you told them, the only reason I look like this right now is because it's incredibly hot in my house and I don't have AC on right now. So Jord How are you feeling? You looking fresashh?'re looking good. Mudy. I'm feeling great. If you are an audi lister, I know we've been pushing people to download the audio version of the show. and please still do that wherever you get your podcast. It is helping. If you are only an audio listener, you should go back to last Thursday's episode J to get, I know, it's incredible that the brothers even let me on air of looking the way I looked. It was Ghastly. that's all I could say. I am looking and feeling great this episode. I'm excited to get in. I did just want to take a moment and sincerely thank everyone for the birthday wishes last week. I know I was talking to a lot of folks in the chat, but I didn't say so on the stream. So I just wanted to say thank you guys. meant so much. The Midas Mighty community is truly just like the greatest community. That's quite frankly ever existed. I know I might be biased, but I'm being sincere Benji Where we going? You know I think the most important tool that a reporter has is where you focus your lens on And it is always very notable to me where that lens is being pointed and where it's not being pointed as I reflect on the downfall of corporate news, which frankly traces the downfall of our democracy, which I believe is worth saving and can be saved. And one of the ways we have to do that is by building independent news. And so that's why at the outset, I say we should never normalize the fact that the Pident of the United States is saying he wants a restraining order against the Prime Minister of Italy by making up that she like is so obsessed with him and wants photos with him so badly that You know, he needs a restraining order and just to post that mockery of her. She's a far right wing politician in Italy There there should actually be a natural alignment between her and Donald Trump. and in fact, She was allied with him in pushing when lots of other European countries were saying You shouldn't be supporting him anymore. She was one of the room the voices in the room saying, let's, you know, let's let's be patient and things like that. And that's who Donald Trump Donald Trump goes after her. And you don't hear a peep about that. And this is heading into the Ankara NATO conference that's taking place in Turkey And it is notable as well and not surprising to me. although perhaps surprising to my dogs that you hear in the background, but not surprising to me that as we approach this Ankara event, you have Putin out you have certain things that are happening around this NATO trip that are very predictable. And we've been talking about for a very long time, right? You have Russia escalating in Ukraine And if you notice what's happening there Russia is using a lot more ballistic missiles and a lot less drones Why? Because Ukraine is capable of knocking out ninety to one hundred percent of the Russian drones this point, which by the way, the U.S could have studied how you did that in the security umbrella in the Middle East, considering that the Russian drones, or Iranian drones are the Sahed drones. Ukraine's able to strike those, but Ukraine doesn't have the ballistic interceptors right now So what's Russia doing? Obviously, they're using ballistic missile strikes overver and over and over again. and Ukraine just doesn't have the interceptors. so Just think about it. Like if you're Ukraine, you know if you had the weapon You could stop the ballistic missile, but you don't have it So you literally just have to watch as the ballistic missiles strike your cities, whether it's Spreresia or Kyiv or Kashan or you know any of these areas, whileile Donald Trump remains entirely silent about it now I mention the outset that Zelenssky has been able to strike back at Ops Russia's largest fuel refinery over there drones and if you follow the route that it seems these Ukrainian drones took, they actually reached about three thousand five hundred kilometers. Now the Opsk fuel refinery was about two five hundred, but they took the drones through a very circuitous route to evade the Russian drone interceptors And so you have that development. And I reflect on Donald Trump promising dayay one, he was going to bring peace after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I know them so well, it would be very easy to do peace That's why you have and we should have zero Uh, faith. I wouldn't even want to use their word faith when it comes to Donald Trump in the same sentence, that this memorandum of understanding with Iran is actually going to result in anything durable. because look what he promised on day one or before day one with Ukraine and be easy. I'm going to get a deal And instead, he started wars all across the world And he hasn't been able to resolve wars and he just makes up that he's solved this war and that war and this war and that war, you know, which he has and it also doesn't shock me As we get closer to this NATO summit, where In Ankara in Turkey, you have Israel under Netanyahu and the Netanyahu regime escalating its attacks on Turkey, saying they shouldn't get any F thirty five' ss. The security umbrella should be Israel controlling all of the major military weaponry in the Middle East and regardless of what your perspective is on whether Turkey should or should not get F thirty five', what you can deny is that Netanyahu is escalating this rhetoric. to affirmatively cause problems the NATO summit that's going to take place on Tuesday. That That's one of the goals of what Netanyahu is doing and Chrining is trying to derail derail that We shouldn't ignore the fact that you have in Southern Lebanon. And in Gaza. Netanyahu continuing to attack over and over and over and over again, in violation of the memorandum of undernderstanding as it relates to southern Lebanon and the purported ceasefire as a res as it results in Gaza, as it relates to Gaza rather. So you have that going on U, and we still have thousands of innocent people getting killed mothers, children, elderly people That's not Hamas., That's Hezbollah. I mean, are Th are elderly mother women, children over there. And then again, what's not being covered. That's how I want to I want to start at the outset. what's not being like what's not be covered. You know, I actually did see For the first time today coverage of what's going on in Tehran Ayatlla come in As a ro. I saw CNN had a crew. BBC was kind of early on having a crew. We focused on it on day one And I'm not suggesting we're the only people who focused on it. but now I am seeing some coverage of this And you know, it's interesting as I see some of the criticism of covering it Oh your propagandists for having a team embedded there to show what's happening Eed dot. I mean I don't think that's being a propaganda for the Iranian regime the picture that you all that painted. Trump. and Netanyahu. and neocon war haawks and others was that this would be the scene right here after Netanyahu invaded. You They promise that. after the invasion clearly that did not happen. We shouldn't forget Netanyahu and Trump being hacked on, hacked into Iranian TV. they beam themselves as though the Iranian people would be greeting them as Oh, we saw what you did in Gaza. We saw the genocide there. We saw the genocide that you do in Lebanon. Yes Come on in. We want that here in Iran That's what was sold, right? That's what Trump and Netanyahu said was going to happen did not happen And now undeniable is these images and what we're seeing And we can discern for ourselves what's happening. That doesn't mean that we are supportive of the Iranian regime by showing you the footage. think that it's hard to watch that and not accurately reflect on the size, scale and scope And and the meaning of that There are so many people out there who are mourning and showing solidarity and support four This regime and then people go, Oh Ben there's just small first of all, that's not a smuggerrou people. they're being paid. Clearly this is a propaganda operation, okay? But didn't you all say that Iran doesn't have money and they're bankrupt and they're on their knees and you've destroyed their navy and they're begging for a deal and they don't have any money at all and they're basically bankrupt So they're bankrupt, but then they've also paid tens of millions of people to show up and coordinate the largest public gathering in history. I start with that the things that will'll get to all the other stuff, what's happening in the Oval off I think we start the show with here's what's not being covered Those are your stories that should lead the news hereere's the thing, you shouldn't be mad at the people who are reporting on this. I mean, it's ridiculous. You should be mad at the people who have been lying to you about the realities of this war and about the Iranian regime and about the people in Iran. You should be furious at that, quite frankly. And you know as we look at all these problems, all those stories to me that Ben was just discussing have a pretty consistent through line that we have a narcissistic, psychopathic, a lying commander in chief, and that really permeates through everything, whether it's Ukraine, Russia, whether it's the war in Iran, anything, every domestic issue. It's all lies and fraud all the way through and we're seeing the consequences of this breakout worldwide and here at home. I've been watching this commentary and Ben was touching on a little bit, but from these MAGA commentators and these Netanyahu align commentators, and the things that they are saying just sound way too familiar to me. And I bet they sound very familiar to you as well, right? What are the things that we've been hearing? Those crowds, they're AI. They're using AI, they're fake crowds. They're just there to make sure that he's really dead because they actually hate him. They're crying, those are fake tears. They're bussing people in, they're bussing them in actually, and they're paying the protesterors. They're actually there the protters. They're paying the people to be there. They're paying them. They're paying them Doesn't this all sound like the exact same stuff that Donald Trump says about the No Kings rallies Doesn't it sound like the exact same things that Donald Trump said about Kamala Harris's rally when she had massive crowds there? Isn't it kind of similar to what Donald Trump hass been saying about vandals and the reflecting pool and all this crap? So the problem is he lies about all of this stuff. Far too often there is a complacent, compliant media who is willing to parrot those things because it fits with a certain dynamic But that's not the facts. And the issue at hand is people need to understand the facts and understand the war that we are getting into, especially if somebody like Donald Trump is going to send our troops, the brave men and women in our armed forces into harm's way on false pretenses. That's the thing that should piss you off, not people showing you what's actually going on And so I think this is incredibly revealing when you see this. And yes, there are a lot of people, of course, in Iran who are very against this regime, and we've covered that. We've covered the pro democracy protests across Iran. And Donald Trump gave those people a lot of false hope. Remember back in the day in February, when he said, takeake to the streets, I will have your back. and then he did not have their back. But just like in all countries, right? there are people who don't like I mean, think about our country, right? Think about the United States. There are people who don't like their government and there are people who do like the government And there's versions of that dynamic that exist throughout everywhere. And so if you are just getting one side of the story here, if you are just being fed one narrative, you are not being told the truth. And so I think this really breaks through that BS and breaks through. And I even saw a lot of MAGA people today saying, wow, I feel lied to I feel lied to. I'm looking at these crowds in Tehran. and this is not what I was told about the Iranian regime. I was told we were going to be able to overthrow this regime in a night. I was told we were going to be able to walk in and it was going to be done But no, it's a country of what ninety million people, I believe, even they had something like fifteen million people out there pr not protesting, but out there, I guess they were protesting Donald Trump with those signs. Very graphic signs about Donald Trump and JD Vance. and they had signs about Laura Loomer. likeike when you see the signs about Laura Loomer, I'm like, o, o, they're very rare They're paying attention. This's That's not somethingone I would say would be a household name if you ask people evenving in our country, but you're like, oh, they're deep in it. They're educated on what's going on in the United States here. It's just eye opening. And as you see also The stuff that Donald Trump was posting about Meloney in Italy, the Italian Prime mininister Ben said, that's somebody who Donald Trump should be best friends with, right? Some of they share a lot of ideology, you know, a lot of people don't like Maloney because she has a lot of these kind of MAGa esque beliefs, But Donald Trump is attacking her and he's attacking her on a personal basis because she didn't want to, I guess get involved in Donald Trump's war and she had a stern talking to him. We all saw that footage at the G seven a couple of weeks back. And so Donald Trump wants to act like she's obsessed with me. She's obsessed. She can't get enough of me. It's sick. it's very predatory, by the way, from somebody who is an adjudicated sexual predator. And you could see the way that he acts as a predator, even on female leaders across the country. But I think it gives you some more insight into Donald Trump insight, which you probably know And that's a Donald Trump. even though he does have this, you know, very horrific ideology and that is toxic and fills the political landscape both here and abroad. At the end of the day, Donald Trump is a selfish human being and everything to him is personal. It doesn't even matter if you align with him on nine out of ten things. If you make him look bad or you go against him on one thing, he will go after you the same way that he has gotten rid of all these other people in Congress who decided to Vote to release the Epstein files, even though they voted with him ninety nine point nine percent of the time. They became his public enemy number one becausecause to Donald Trump, it's all about you must respect me or you must flatter me. You have to constantly stroke my ego one hundred percent of the time and you fall out of line, I am coming for you And that's the message that he's sending to Maloney and frankly other world leaders while he's doing this. But that's really where it comes from, this very selfish, narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic mindset of Donald Trump, where he just has to attack, attack, attack when he feels threatened, even if it's something incredibly reasonable or just a disagreement Absolutely. Look, the biggest reckoning in our lifetime Midas mighty brothers. is going to be this idea of championing truth as a society again? and not allowing yourselves to get played, not allowing yourselves to be lied to, and then not being willing participants to make the lies even louder What's so frustrating, I think for so many is Donald Trump has lied to his base so often and so many times and so loudly now that they're finally starting to wake up. It's just this whole idea that the Trump regime just it doesn't deal in reality, right? Why for the Trump regime would you acknowledge that there are that many people you know attending the funeral for the Iye tot. don't acknowledge it then it won't exist. Why for the Trump regime should he acknowledge that China and North Korea have been testing nuclear weapons? Don't acknowledge. It doesn't make it real Don't acknowledge it It's the same reason why Trump wouldn't sign the Housing Act in my opinion. That would make the affordability crisis very much real. But if he doesn't sign it, doesn't acknowledge it not real. He lives in his own MAGA reality that he's crafted by putting all these yes people around him, right? Why not test for COVID in twenty twenty? That would make it real Donald Trump is all about just keeping his whole MAGA universe so pristine and pure, his MAGa universe the golden age for Donald Trump and his regime and the people at Mar aago, it might be the golden age for them, but not for the American people. It is so obvious to me that his refusal to acknowledge that these things are existing is so intentional Because then he has to try and address it. Then he has to answer for it. Then it becomes his problem and he's the laziest person in the world. He doesn't want to do the work. He doesn't care about the American people. That That's not why he's president. He became president to stay out of jail. and now he's using the office of the presidency to continue to grift and line his pockets with money. That is what he's doing, That is what he cares about. That's why last year, he walked away with one point four billion in crypto earnings. Why? Because he doesn't care about you This isn't the point is you the MGA base, you the American person. He could care less. It's all about how can I use this office and this power to benefit himself, his family, and those around him. If he doesn't acknowledge these things are happening, it doesn't exist in the MAGA reality, Benbret Yeah, and he uses the same tricks. And so we'll talk about this when we come back from our first break, but his post he goes back to the Walmart tricks Right, rememember during Thanksgiving when prices were significantly higher and he says, Walmart twentyenty five percent down. Under Donald Trump versus Joe Biden. then he calls him sleepy crooked Joe Biden. we all know Thanksgiving that was not the case But he just goes back to it right now Walmart. Binging down the price of beef at least fifteen percent. otherther prices going down twenty five percent, everyverybody else Time to join what did he say two weeks ago Freedom gas centers. I've never heard of these in Eastern Philadelphia Freedom Gas centers, everybody. They brought down their prices twenty five percent It's going to be great for you. We all know inflation is rising And it's rising at an alarming rate Not only is inflation rising at an alarming rate you have jobs being lost at an alarming rate. So you have both aspects of what's called the dual mandate of the Fed under attack You're losing jobs right now while you're having inflation rise And that's a very, very serious issue that's taking place right now It's the reality of what's happening out there All Donald Trump says we're in golden age. 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Then I just end up saying it and I'm like, man That's not a good tease if you just give the answer right away I'll just bring it up one more time that you know, Donald Trump posting Great news everybody. I've just been informed that one of the biggest, best, smartest retailers at America Walmart will be lowering its prices to celebrate America's j fiftieth. They're going to reduce the price of a pound of ground beef by almost fifteen percent amongst many other products. This is a huge deal for the many millions of Americans who smartly shop at Walmart. whichich is a truly patriotic company. What are you you trying to pump up their stock like you did with Dell today? R you had Michael Dell standing behind him today. Dell Stock rose, you know, I'll have to check what it is. and I wasn't following it all day, but while Trump was there, the stock rose where the guy probably made quite literally billions and billions of dollars to then say how many times has he announced that he's doing this now? like? It ended around like four point four three percent up and like eight percent up right after Trump said that. And it should be, you know, in Trump's financial disclosures that he himself released by law, he has what over a million dollars in Dll stock. And this is not the first time that Trump has done this before we even knew that the financial that was on the financial disclosure. rememember a few months back, when Donald Trump was giving, I think made it in the rose garden the whatever it is now the concrete slab in the Rose Garden used to be or he was outside somewhere. and he made a comment, you know, byy Dell. now is a good time. By Dell, byy Dell. And then it was revealed that he had all this Dell stock. I mean, the corruption that's happening is just mind blowing. By the way, I'll go back. I think it was over the same announcement Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah was about the was about the Trump investment funds that he's called it's literally the same he and it goes back to my Walmart point, right? whichich is he did the Walmart announcement Thanksgiving. He just brings back the Walmart announcement. I don't even know how many times Dell been in the Oval Office where they've talked about a philanthropic investment by Dell where he's putting in amount of dollars into the Trump investment account. so it's going to be a right off corporate level and maybe even individually for Dell depending on how it's structured. The so called Trump investment accounts by SNP and NSdEq ETFs exchange traded funds Companies like SpaceX when they're applied to the exchange traded fund because they got them to like waive the one hundred day requirement, you know, So so The companies are putting money into accounts that invest in exchange traded funds automatically for kids that then the market for the companies. You see what they're doing there because when they invest in these exchange traded funds those funds that have to buy the companies that are of the exchanges and then that pumps up the company. So it's like Micron gave two fifty. so they get a deduction and they're putting it in something that should boost their own stock price down the line. That's part of the situation that's going on. you know, it's a thousand bucks. I don't think I want to be clear, I would like to see and make sure, first up, it shouldn't be called Trump accounts I'd be interested to actually see how young people and babies can make more money or get money and be able to thrive and live. If you talk about some of the major issues right now facing the American people, I don't think it's babies investing in the stock market right now. I mean, I think it's homes and affordability and dealing with the crises that most Americans are confronted with. That isn't for me to say I could hold a complex thought and think to myself How you know, are there smart investments that you can be doing for children that grow over time? so when they're adults can you know also participate in the market potentially. I want to know more about But I think about what's needed right now. and I also think about the market manipulation taking place before our eyes. Then you have the Walmart announcement. here's what's going to happenway over. Walmart bringing down its prices and then You know, it's like what he says with drug prices, right? You know, that they're down eight hundred percent. It's the same, it's the same stick They're down eight hundred percent Okay, so the drug companies are paying you eight hundred dollars if the products one dollar. Most favored nations. That's not happening. You're telling me that the drug companies are now reducing their prices so it's as cheap as the cheapest price of that same drug in a foreign country. That's just not happening. Like you could keep on saying, we're doing most favor nations because most people don't know what that even means. Most favor nations means the same price as the lowest price that drug gets charged in another country. That's not objectively that's just not happening here. And over and over again, I can go and talk about, you know, each one of these schemes that he runs And it just it's just lies. So you see that, you get your hopes up Andy like the manufacturing boom is taking place here. The manufacturing boom is pl is quite the contrary We've had some of the biggest job losses late I remember, know we were reporting on the manufacturing boom that it was actually happening under the Biden administration and all the investments. And if you remember those charts, I don't have one on me right, but it was like a steep increase in manufacturing investment under Biden. And Donald Trump just reversed all of it, like just shut it all down. And now he tri tries to claim some sort of victory over that and tries to claim manufacturing gains when there really aren't. Right now the entire economy, like all the economic growth is basically when like hospitality and or medical, I think it's a medical, right? It's. Hospitality's losing're losing It's basically just medical medical health carere which is probably a result of, you know, having a lot of older people, you know in the country right now. And so that's it's a of Private equity investing in health care companies that that actually then charge the government for Medicare and Medicaid related services. And interestingly where you want to know where the waste, sorry, Bripp to interrupt you, but where the waste fraud and abuse in these systems come from is not at the individual level of people getting the treatment It's oftentimes the private equity firms and people like a Rick Scottts company who's now he's now the senator of Florida that would send and submit. incorrect statements to the government for reimbursements in order to make all this money is where actually a lot of and that's one of the areas where you know where anyway, this. Yeah. Rick Scott's Medicare fraud was something like one point seven billion dollars in fraud, just a massive massive number. And so you should remember that as people like Trump and these Republicans work to remove coverage of Medicare and Medicaid and social security and all these services from people and they try to claim, oh, we just got rid of it for those illegal immigrants. It's not you, it's not you. We're just taking care of the fraud. Like even if that were true, and let me reiterate that is not true. That's a lie to cover from stealing healthca from human beings. But even if that were It pales in comparison to what the Rick Scotts of the world are doing, the people who actually own these conglomerates who are quite literally stealing from you, but that's the Oligar class, right? That's the class of people who they are working to protect. And I think that's a big issue that I have with so many of the things Trump does because truthfully personally, I don't have an issue with the Trump accounts stuff, honestly really at all. It kind of stems from an idea that was actually put forward by if you go back like Coreory Booker and Senator Bob Casey had a similar idea. like it's not it's not a bad idea in and of itself. one issue is that What what Trump ends up doing is he always picks winners and losers. And so on the one hand, you have these Republicans who are trying to you know put forward and, you know, just capitalism is amazing and we need unfettered capitalism because that's what makes prosperity. On the other hand, they're not actually they don actually don't want that at all. They actually want crony capitalism. They want a capitalism that is just they essentially want socialism, but socialism for their rich buddies. And so you have Donald Trump constantly picking and choosing winners, trying to hurt and come after companies that he doesn't wanted to succeed, and then striking all these deals and corrupt deals And doing all these making all these efforts to pump up companies that he does like, like in that Walmart post, this great incredible company. You got to go to Walmart. This is how business is done. S way he treats everybody, right? Because going back to the Maloney example, what does Donald Trump want? He just wants people constantly to be praising him like a dictator, like people do in these regimes across the world That's what Trump wants. That's the energy he wants and he doesn't want anybody to do anything else. So Dell, go buy a deell, go to Walmart, go get your I don't know, whatever these other MGA companies are. I'm not going to give them freever advertising. And I' just say thisough Bad Yeah because I think you're under some. I think at the baseline, like the Trump accounts thing, it could be a good thing, but I just think anything that Donald Trump touches brands himself, you just have to be highly skeptical of it Also, you know, what does every good ponzi scheme need to keep going? It needs more suckers. And unfortunately, these suckers are sucking on their pacifiers and thumbs and aren't really willing participants in this as their parents opt them in. So again, I am highly skeptical of anything Trump does, even if it seems like it's a good thing, and all of a sudden now he's starting to prop up all these other companies around. Why is he doing that? You just have to investig in I don't need to drop But let me give you the answer. it's what I said before. So what he's now encouraging these companies Many are worried are in a bubble Right. The semiconductor AI, you know and lots of these companies that are propping up the market takeake some of your money and do a philanthropic investment into these so called Trump accounts, right? So it will be a tax write off for you or a deduction for you, depending on how it is classified. You put them into these accounts. the accounts then in are forced. to invest in the S and P five hundred to which you're listed on So then those accounts then put those thousand dollars or whatever. into the market and then these exchange traded funds, these ETF's that buy the market, then buy your company. And when you do it at scale, it props up the market. to me is one of the the schemes behind it and one of your kind of late stage capitalism red flags, if you will, is that a lot of these companies got a lot of American investment in it from the ChipS Act, which was a Biden initiative, seeing that our semiconductor industry was basically nonexistent compared to what was taking place in Taiwan and other places So what was it? forty to fifty billion dollars were invested in these companies if they hit certain metrics, they would get lots of money. Like look at a company like Micron which just gave two hundred fifty million dollars as a philanthropic investment to a so called Trump account It's gotten subsidized to the tune of three to five to go back and look at what the number is, but like three billion dollars of taxpayer money went to them the company go from sixty billion market cap to like overver a trillion like market up go look at market It's like p. you know, and where do you think that those years came from? In my opinion, it was chipsack investment, which by the way, could be good if you have the semiconductor industry, you know, actually being sustainable and doing the right thing. But then I think they do these Trump account things to focus on pumping up the stock versus pumping up the company itself to begins., that's what I think is also behind the Jeordian I think that aligns exactly with kind of exact what I'm saying here, right? Like there it just feels like there are more shady pretenses around this. And again, something that could be good Anytime Trump touches something, it turns to shit So I think just anybody has to be highly skeptical of what this looks like. Well I'll. this is a segue, then we'll go to the break because I don't want to I don't want to I don't want to belabor this, you know, this point because look Obviously, as an American, I still root for Tam USA. Okay, my wife's family's from Mexico, so I would root for Mexico as well. and they live here obviously now and they're they're citizens here in the United States, but were born in Mexico and And so it was a disappointing loss obviously to England, although England played great. And I'm enjoying the World Cup. I enjoy watching it. I hate when the politics are infused into it. I don't like the I want to just to watch sports You know, and not make a weird And you know, when Donald Trump did the all of the bad comes from like the peace prize and the weirdness and the personal aggrenda. But if you just let sports fans be sports fans, peopleople want to form bonds and be together. L I hated when you had Mark Wayne Mullen Homeland Security Secretary said, I was dancing around when Iran lost in the war. Like whyy are you dancing around? And why'd you treat the team that way? orr why'd you treat all of those teams that way when they when they arrived here But you know, when Donald Trump has so overly politicized this and then he calls up Gianni infontino and, you know, and then tries to put his finger on the scale. You see the outrage internationally with Flo Balligan m being u, you know, you know, being allowed to play after the Rd card. It was the first time. by way, I don't think it was a good call to begin with, but it was reviewed on inststant replay. But you now but because Everything Trump touches. He infects with that and then they were bragging about it today and like laughing about it. And Ted Crwz like, thank you for doing that, Donald. Thank you for doing that And and you see why the rest of the world is absolutely limid. And I'll just say, obviously if it happened in another country, against us and we I gotta say the only thing I'm going to say is I think it's very interesting that Donald Trump has spent his entire term relling against birthright citizenship only to call up the head of FIFA in order to help out the guy who is only on the USA team right now and only a citizen Due to birthright citizenship. So thank you, Donald Trump for your endorsement of birthright citizenship. Glad that we could clear that. And by the way, for the record too, I am stoed Flow is playing in the game. I think it gives us a huge advantage to win. That's not the point of this though is just Donald Trump's his own corruption It just knows no bounds and it just gives us J as you said, he gets a stank all. It gives us this kind of stank like international I don't want to say that anyway Can I say something positive though, just to go off? I I think the World Cup has been incredible though. Yeah And I love these international events where everybody is tuned in because I think, you know sports and whatever, even take awayay like all that stuff, just the idea of people from all over the world all kind of focused on one thing And I think it' I think it's very special, actually. and it's one of the reasons I love the Olympics, no matter where the Olympics is. And I think you really actually see the best of humanity. That's why I hate all the stuff that Ben was saying with the Ted Cruz and all these obnoxious people and Krump getting all their stank all over this. But I think it's really cool. And I think it's also cool that you know, there are all these people from all these countries all over the world right now who are in the United States, who are in Mexico, who are in Canada and are getting to experience, you know things that they never had before. And there you see these videos online of them you being amazed by things that we take for granted, right? And things that are kind of quintessentially American, even though if we joke about them and write them off like fast food places co or things like that. And so I think it actually is like incredibly you know special and a unifying experience. And to me, it's been one of the kind of bright spots in a very dark time quite frankly. know, which is why when we. I want to add this one thing. Sports are the ultimate unifier. sport. There's nothing like sport in this country. There's nothing like sport in the world The fact that these things exist are incredible. Also Flo should never have had the red card to begin with. I'm stoked he's playing. Let's go USA. Well And it reminds me though of perverted Donald. That I think that's the right word, the perversion of the july fourth celebration which, you know, he ruined. I mean, he ruined America's two hundred and fifty I mean, every aspect of it was odd and weird in the rallying against communism. I mean, you had the so called Great American state Fair, which wasn't great and it wasn't even a state fair And then not The heat exhaustion, the bizarre fireworks just to set a Guinness book of Reords and to blow them all up at once without any rhythm or patterns or colors Right? It was just all white and just blowing stuff up, you know, which is probably a parable for The Trump regime itself. Um, you know, while we' talking about vandals and reflecting pool and tearing things. just, you know, it turned something that could have been actually very unifying into something that was You know U. F. You know, And so there you have it. All right. 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Obviously a few weeks back now two weeks back or so the earthquakes there the four quake and then the main quake It's so rare to have those happen, you know right after each other that way Uh and then I think a very slow search and rescue operation that was held back by the authoritarian regime there of Delseie Rodriguez and Destado, Cabillo and lots of people on the ground were trying to You know their loved ones or be able to actually, you know do work. The United States said it brought in one hundred million dollars or one hundred and fifty million dollars and they made that the big announcement, one hundred and fifty million dollars for search and rescue. But again, it's like Like when we talk about Micron giving two hundred fifty million dollars to these so called Trump investment accounts after getting billions of dollars in subsidies from the taxpayers No, it's also like how much money did Venezuela give to these opaque accounts that Donald Trump has opened up regarding Venezuelan oil, billions of dollars, right that we've taken or Donald Trumps has taken. N'm not really sure where the money is, right? But we know they've taken billions of dollars in Venezuelan oil. And then it's like, we'll give you one hundred and fifty million dollars, but we took. billions of dollars. Why wouldn't we Rush billions of dollars of resources there and marshal everybody. and it seemed that what was most focused on Delsie Rodriguez and Destado Cabo was the show. And I think the people in Venezuela know this A lot of the attention was like, giving this was the other day. They gave medals to the American Sarch and resescue team You know, because they know that Donald Trump likes metedals. And so you literally had Delsie Rodriguez and Destano Cabillo who are in the Maduro regime, and the Trump regime labeled the Maduro regime Narcco terrorists the leaders of the narco terrorist ring is what they said about them Deli and Diaz Dado Cabllo. I mean, we have a most wanted sign, Diazado Cabo, twenty five million dollars. He wasabeled this by the Trp regime.' is why they labeled. and the Biden administration And this guy and her were given medals. while there's still tens of what are you celebrating Even if you think that the search and rescue team did a valiant job or a valiant effort There are tens of thousands of people who are unaccounted for, over three thousand dead, tens of thousand injured And when the death toll is counted, I mean, it could be in the tens of thousands, potentially I also think an investigation is needed into some of the underlying causes of the earthquake I think I don't want to veer u conspiratorial area. so I'm very careful with, you know, it's a natural disaster I do want to say that drilling activity king activity, increasing that has been known to increase or enhance seismic activity Link has been proven before I don't have the data to suggest and I'll be very clear, a cause and effect here, although I will say it is very rare to have a four quake and then an earthquake back to back like that But regardless Why are you doing you know, there are tens of thousands of people likely dead. We know three thousand are dead This is a time of mourning And you're out there giving metedals like it's the FIFA. or like it you know, like the Olympics, like what and in Destado is and obviously Why is Delsie having DiaSado do it? because it legitimizes the leadership in Venezuela when You have the Basically the U. S. ambassador now to Venezuela there and Dios Dado doing it Think about how difficult it would be now But you're going to bring a criminal case. against Diaz Dado in the future when your own ambassadors right there part of the award ceremony with D ado. So do you see how That was a move by Delseie And Das Dadto to also insulate themselves from prosecution in the future or from any accountability there. And meanwhile, you have the Trump regime saying Maria Machado is doing some grotesque PR stunt and that she's trying just to show up there and they're they've basically prevented her from getting the visa They stopped her. I think she she traveled somewhere to then stop there and then fly into Venezuela. she was stopped from doing that So I think that that's again That story iss not getting enough attention, which is why I'm covering it. Also no, say say breako. I was going to say, you know add Maria Machado to the list of people who put their trust in Donald Trump and ended up getting screwed over by it. Maria Machado, you know, you remember she won the Nobel Peace Prize Donald Trump was bitter about it. and remember, I mean, she's a very impressive individual who Yeah, and unfortunately, she really sold out all of her credibility. and she took a big gamble, which I think clearly has not paid off on kind of just going to suck up with Trump and's I'll give you my Nobel Peace prize and all these things. At the end of the day, she ended up just humiliating herself. and now as she tries to seeee if she could even go back to Venezuela and have some sort of impact or do anything. Now she's just getting iced out by the Trump regime who's just like, nowah, we're cool with the Maduro regime now. Like we're tight. We're business together. We're hanging out. we're having fun. We're friends. I mean, that just shows you you know, again, what Donald Trump values more, you know, than anything. Donald Trump will screw you the second he gets the chance to as long as he thinks that it's going to be better for him Persally notot better for the Venezuelan people, not better for the American people. And it's why we were sounding the alarms when you know the people were pushing those images of Venezuelans celebrating in the street after Chavez's ouster, and they were like, look, they're so happy. How could you be upset? Look how happy they are? And I said, because I know how this ends. I know how this ends with people. I know what Donald Trump is going to do here. And now if you look at all those polls, the people who are dancing in the streets, they're not so happy anymore They feel oppressed. They are very disgruntled with their government right now, the Maduro regime, the same oppressive regime.rump regime,? It's a puppet. It' Trum runs now, basically. Yeah they're Tum puppets. And so they're now furious. a lot of them are furious at Donald Trump. This is building resentment. And in my opinion, this is a powder keg that will explode in the future. You know, There's always a reaction to an action, right? There's always something that is going to happen. There's a butterfly effect, so to speak And when Donald Trump does these things, you may not see it right away, but down the road, you are going to see a lot of unarrest and you're going to see a lot stemming from this. I mean, because what more of a humiliation is there for a country than for you to let your country become a total puppet of the United States of America? You don't think that's going Bu some opposition. You don't think that's going to enrage people against the United States, against leadership. And we're already seeing more than the seeds now. we're seeing that already starting to grow Rret, you just said something right there. I don't know how you didn't just belt out laughing. Well I guess I do know because of how serious the topic, but you go, she as a Machada won the Nobel Peace Prize and Trump was bitter about it. Like that was verbatim what you just said. I mean, what an insane friaking timeline that we're living in that that could be a true statement. She won a Nobel Peace Prize. So Donald Trump got super, super mad at her because he thought the Nobel Peace Prize should have went to him. I mean just Out of this world bonkers that we've just At least Trump got the FIFA Peace prize. We know that organization's on the up and up. So No, like I think look, Donald Trump is a dystopian reality TV president or dictator. And what happens in reality TV shows Outcomes happen fast. There's like a challenge, there's an outcome. It looks it appears to be real, but it's vake, right? It's usually scripted by the producers in advance, but it has the trappings of reality and. And so when when we talk about cause and effect bt where you actually play something out to its logical conclusion. Maybe it doesn't happen that day But in Trump's reality show, that episode is over. We move on to the next episode the world hasn't moved on to the next episode, right? Like We're now a year and maybe more out from Trump's so called Liberation Day And yes, the inflation didn't surge on day one right after the disastrous announcement but now we're experiencing Because things in the in real world, not reality TV, in real world they take time to develop And that lag is often what MAGA has kind of used to attack the other. I mean, if you think about the most significant example is that a lot of the impact of COVID financially, economically hit when Donald Trump left, right? He destroyed the economy PPP program where they printed all of this money and they gave it out to mostly rich people the way supply chains were destroyed and of course, the deaths taking place, when you had to reopen the economy All of that and you had to take the bandage off It turned out it was gross. It was ugly. And there was a lot of inflation, and that's why lots of people predicted great recession. And it was tough for Biden and Biden was old school and he really couldn't message it You know, he was about uniting and let's get past it and d d d And and while he was taking the steps to fix thenen he was being blamed as the firefighter for what the arsonists were actually doing The same thing here, Bre, you look at Venezuela Okay on day one. Yes, Trump did the invasion. He put Delsa in But now we're feeling the systemic impacts and the consequences of what's actually happening And that's going to be felt long term. And outside of Venezuela, what it has enabled going back to what we talked about is the laaw of the jungle, the laaw of the strong, where China feels a certain way about Taiwan now in a different posture. and China's doing nuclear capable ballistic missile tests, where Russia feels completely free to say, oK, we'll whatever. I mean, you're just inv you're invading Venezuela. We got this. North Korea feels a certain way. Other countries, you, feel a certain way. We're not even talking about. I mean, look at the what they're now rebranding As the African cororps that's in Mali right now. I know people don't give a lot of attention to the developments in Africa, but Russia has a lot of troops in Africa right now where it's out there, you know, working with. I mean, you have to think more globally and geostrategically about these things that, you know about these these things that are happening. A few other points I'll mention though You know, it's interesting as you also see these MAGA Republican Congress members from Southern Florida, manyany of them come from families that are Cuban. and they're there and they've been basically saying, we need machado. why, you know, Delseie Rodriguez needs to go and it's like you're out there pumping up Trump. likeike where where do you think this is coming from right now? I mean, obviously that's where it's coming from. It's your guy and Donald Trump. And then to make the episode go full circle because I know my dogs want the episode to go full circle as well. you think about Machado and Machado thought Okay, the way to endear myself is I'll give him the Nobel prize. I'll suck up to him. My path is through obsequiousness to Trump. And what she saw is nope He'll just take and take and take more from you when you do that. Like that's not the way to whatever The same thing we saw with NATO. NATO appease Donald Trump for the first year. And what did he do? betrayed NATO every step of the way. And you look at someone like Georgeia Maloney also as well and how and you can make these parallels everywhere. So If you're Iran, which model do you follow North Korea Do you follow China? Do you follow those models of you're Iran? or do you look and you're like, oh yeah, I'll make a deal with him. It'll be great. It's interesting because you have Witkoff and Kushner who are saying to Iran, look, look, look You're going to be super rich. You just can't do tolls in the strait of Hormz. justust trust me. You don't want to just give up control over the strait and things will be great And Iran's like killed our leader, the Ayatolla You every time we've been in negotiations, you've bl you've literally started invasions during negotiations Not only do we not trust you We were not even in the same universe of even thinking about trust. What are you talking about You know, and then you start to read and research your history about Iran. I've done videos on this over the weekend and you start to also look at incidents that probablyably don't get enough attention anymore like Iran Air Flight six hundred and fifty five in nineteen eighty eight When a United States tanker that was in the Strait of Hormz during the Iran and Iraq warar, this tanker, the Vinenzi, shot Iran flight six hundred fifty five, killed two hundred ninety passengers innocent Iranians aboard and then just not like blame the pilots when we just blew up an Iranian flight in the Strait of Hormuz bring that up because I'm sure a lot of us don't even know that. But of course they know, what do you think they know that in Iran that happened on july third, nineteen eighty eight as well And so they don't trust And when it's like, just trust us, man, we'll be good. We'll be good what? I just want us all and I'll throw a dbrint just to have a realistic understanding of the world and here to be better informed about everything That's the goal that I want to empower everybody to do here with this network is to be informed about everything. Bret. You need nuanced perspectives on things on everything, even things that may seem simple. Oftentimes when you look below the surface, they're a lot more complicated. And what Trump tries to do is he tries to simplify everything into these catch phrases And to Ben's point these reality TV kind of moments that he thinks sounds good and he knows are easy to propagandize the people, but aren't actually good and they don't actually work. And that's why things keep falling apart. You think it's by accident that that the pool turned green? No, we told you that it was going to turn green weeks before the thing turned green. It's not because we're psychic. It's because when we analyze the situation, when we spoke to scientists, they told us the pool is going to turn green due to the conditions that Trump is creating. It doesn't make us brilliant or clairvoyant, but Donald Trump tries to p these in these statements and then he just knows that he could just lie about it after the fact and go, oh, it was Vandals who did it. It was Vandals. He does this about everything, the fireworks show. When we heard about this fireworks show for july fourth, which were actually like a july fifth fireworks because Trump rambled on for so long and ended up speaking to a nearly empty crowd, despite Trump claiming that there were over one hundred fifty thousand people there. We did reports, we showed you the footage, we showed you the receipts all the empty seats there because people had to return back through security after they evacuated the premises. But during that fireworks show, the july fifth fireworks show, it was a disaster. And we knew it was going to be a disaster because we knew Trump's plan was just to blow a bunch of stuff up all at once and that it would look ridiculous It would look ridiculous, You wouldn't be able to see anything. And I'll play you this short clip of the fireworks first, which also, by the way, resulted in the air in Washington, DC being more toxic the next day than like anywhere in the entire world. But watch how stupid this looks. This is idiocracy in real life. It's ridiculous. absolutely ridiculous And I've already given you a few examples, but here's another example of Donald Trump trying to say things in platitudes and not taking a nuanced approach to anything or trusting experts. I mean, this was like D backack to back days, okay, where Donald Trump one day, his energy secretary, was bragging about getting rid of renewable energy. I don't know how this is a brag. How is it a brag that you are making things more expensive for people? But he proudly posted. Energy Secretary Chris Wright wrote as we approach peak electricity demand in the thirteen state mid Atlantic At seven AM this morning, less than six percent of electricity generation was coming from renewables. Over ninety one percent of generation is coming from gas, nuclear, and coal. keepeeping our air conditionings blasting.ur air conditioners blasting. Keep them blasting folks. Keep them blasting. We don't have any of that silly renewable energy. We took that away. You got gas and oil. keepeep those ACs blasting This is the worst messaging. It obviously flies in the face of science. So they post that One day Then literally the next day. Ohh, by the way, and then he was specifically, he showed a chart of the PJM energy grid, which powers these thirteen states energy. And the following day literally the next day The Trump administration had to alert PJM their electricity use because outages Overloaded transmission lines and extreme heat were pushing the system towards blackouts. And so as a result Reuters reported that PJM escalated their emergency actions as a result. I mean, that's a direct cause and effect right there of the Trump regime saying, we don't need that stinking renewable energy. We're getting rid of it proudly essentially saying that they're raising your bills and relying on nonrenewable energy, and then the next day The next day a federal alert, we need to conserve. And by the way, remember they were saying every day, they were going on about Mam Dani's repeating the same request that is made in every single state and city virtually across the country to keep your ACs at seventy eight degrees to conserve energy. And then when the Trump administration does it Well, suddenly, it's not socialism, but it was socialism and communism when Mamani was urging people to conserve. I don't understand mean And meanwhile, you know who gets screwed, the American people because they're paying higher bills and also the United States of America as a country, as a global power, because Trump continues to lie to people also about what other countries are doing in this space. Trump tries to pretend he goes, Oh, China learned long ago that they shouldn't do anything with wind. They don't do anything with wind. It's not even remotely true. China is the world's largest wind power producer over two hundred twenty thousand wind turbines in operation. Yet Donald Trump says, this is an exact quote, China makes almost all the windmills and yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China. Do you ever think of that They actually do use them. They use them much more than the United States. They also use solar China has installed Thousands and thousands and thousands of heliostat mirrors across an eight point six one million square foot field at the world's highest solar thermal plant, Anduo Tousao, scheduled to commence operating in October. That's just one solar project out of many solar projects that they've been doing because China understands even from a selfish level This is going to make our energy grid stronger. This is going to make us less reliant on non renewable energy. It's actually a tool to have in our arsenal. It's going to allow us to provide a better quality of life for our people, make us less reliant on the Middle East, with all these disruptions with wars in the Middle East and everything that's going on. takes that off the table when you have this there So Donald Trump's attack on this and the fact that they are like brag about it. They brag about the idiocracy of it all as they're hurting people and they get the MAagA people to cheer them on. Yes, my bills are going to be more expensive. Thank you Eergy Secretary, Wright. Thank you for taking away renewable energy. The it's just you got to point it out and you got to really just explain to people what's actually going on on here. And when you look thread between so many of these things is that it's all to enrich the Oligar class. It's all to enrich this Epstein class. And you see this coordinated effort across all of Donald Trump's schemes to get people distracted on lies and kind of branding and his, his cons while he pickpockets them and gives the money to the wealthiest Americans. You're seeing wealth distribution Qite a directly from the people who need it the most to the people who need it the least. I mean, even when you look at Donald Trump's stock and crypto earnings, right It was literally like almost a direct one to one line between the amount Donald Trump made off his meme coin and the billions of dollars that people lost investing in Donald Trump's meme coin. I don't think I've ever quite seen it wealth transfers appear that direct to the American people. But yeah, Crazy crazy stuff.. Absolutely. look, I'll just end with this. We just celebrated our two hundred fiftieth anniversary this country If we want two fifty more heck, if we want fifty more We have to do exactly what Bret just said there And again, that's this reckoning within our lifetime about propping up people who tell truth who use facts and data to assert their arguments and get these lies and these liars and these grifters just out of here, man. it just cannot be the way of the future if we ever expect to continue this great experiment that we're all living through right now. I know there's a trillion dollar propaganda operation out there that is, you know infecting our loved ones and our neighbors and the people of our communities. and it's very hard to get them out of this zombification that they're all kind of going through. I just think it is so necessary that we as a community, we as the Mest mighty and just people who love this country, these pro democracy folks out there champion and truly, truly champion. Truth honesty, integrity. These should always be the qualities that we look to instill in the next generation within ourselves as we go forward here. because again, we just celebrated the two hundred fifty, if we want fifty, if we want twenty, if we want fifteen, five more Those are the qualities that we're going to need together as a country in order to make sure that that happens Everybody's been an honor to Be here with you today, whether you're watching on video or listening on audio. Thank you for all of your support We're grateful for you and we'll keep on fighting for you every day For those who watch on YouTube Can ye Try to subscribe on audio as well. 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