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Chapter 1: What are Trump's latest failures and scandals?
Vapaus matkustaa raiteilla. VR. Yhteisellä matkalla. Olipa kerran hyvä haltia, joka loihti taikasauvallaan herkullisen jouluaterjan kaikille metsän asukeille. Siinä oli tarjolla jos jonkinmoista herkkua. Oli rosollia, silakkaa, kinkkua, laatikoita, graavattua lohta ja... Jaha, joo, tämähän ei ollutkaan joulusatu. Tämähän olikin ostoslista. Ja se on pitkä.
No, onneksi kaikki ainekset herkulliseen jouluun saat. S-Marketista. Joulu on ruokaa. S-Market. Tulosyy. Terveystalon määräaikaistarkastus. Pientä kremppaa ollut polvissa ja selässä.
Chapter 2: How is Trump addressing the looming government shutdown?
Kausiluonteista kiiretä tasapainottavat lämmin työyhteisö ja merkityksellisiksi koettu työ. Terveyden tila pitkään ikään nähden hyvä. Kokonaisuudessaan oikein hyväkuntoinen mies. Voisi jopa sanoa, terve kuin pukki. Me keskitymme terveyteen, jotta joulupukki voi keskittyä tärkeimpään. Terveystalo on joulupukin virallinen työterveyskumppani.
Donald Trump is absolutely cratering in a new Quinnipiac poll and all the other big pollsters out there. His overall approval right now is at 38%. That disapproval number at 54%. When you go through the various cross tabs like Trump on the economy, only 39% approved.
on trade 39 percent of proof on national guard into cities 42 percent of proof on immigration which trump and maga claim is his best issue 41 as greg sargent says trump is weak unpopular and failing Treat him that way. And now Donald Trump is bringing the United States government to the verge of a shutdown.
A shutdown will take place on October 1st, unless an agreement is reached between Republicans and Democrats. But the key word there is agree.
Chapter 3: What do the latest polling numbers reveal about Trump's popularity?
And Donald Trump has previously ordered Republicans do not speak to Democrats, let alone negotiate. Have no contact. You know how a petulant child, no offense to petulant child, puts their hands on their ears and goes, I can't hear you. I can't hear you. That's what Donald Trump told Republicans to do. And MAGA Mike Johnson carried out the order.
And they need Democratic votes in the Senate in order to pass a funding bill. So what is Donald Trump out there now saying? Trans, migrants, crime. That's what Democrats want. That's not what Democrats want.
The only thing that Democrats have asked for, and frankly, the real debate should be if Democrats should have asked for more, is Democrats said, look, the Affordable Care Act tax credits are set to expire very soon. So we already know Medicaid has been gutted by the disastrous budget bill. Medicare is in jeopardy based on the disastrous budget bill. But the Affordable Care Act tax credits,
Chapter 4: What international embarrassments has Trump faced recently?
for your premiums are set to expire very soon, meaning your monthly premiums are about to skyrocket. So it's a pretty limited demand that the Democrats have made. Again, one may debate, should the Democrats be asking for a lot more? But they're not. And Trump's saying, I don't even want to meet with you, right?
There was supposed to be a meeting to take place today between the Democratic leader Jeffries in the House, Chuck Schumer in the Senate, Donald Trump and Senator Thune, the majority leader in the Senate for Republicans, as well as Maga Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, and Trump just canceled it.
Then Trump posted this long, rambling message and says, on further reflection, why would I ever even want to meet with Democrats? Their demands are outrageous. I'm not meeting with them at all. So he canceled the meeting. So I just want to get the facts out there. It's undisputed. Trump told the MAGA Republicans, do not speak with Democrats. They did not speak with Democrats.
Donald Trump posted, I'm putting up the post here.
Chapter 5: How is Trump planning to bail out Argentina?
So if you don't believe me, you could read it for yourself. cancel the meeting with the Democrats. We should not be meeting at the White House. Well, if you do that, this is the result. But you see, I think that Donald Trump wants the shutdown to take place. I actually think and I'm not trying to be conspiratorial here. A lot of it's actually rooted in the Epstein filed discharge petition.
You know, Democrats now have their 218th signature on this. Frankly, it's a relatively bipartisan discharge petition in that it comes from Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna and Republican from Kentucky Thomas Massey. But Adelita Gavalha, she is the Democratic Congresswoman from Arizona, Congresswoman-elect, She won this past week.
By the way, she outperformed her late great father and outperformed Vice President Kamala Harris by like 25 points. Again, we're seeing Democratic overperformance. She should be sworn in right away.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of Trump's tariffs on U.S. farmers?
Now, Maga Mike Johnson is saying, well, we may have to wait until we get the official results. Like she beat her opponent in Arizona, the Republican, by like 45 points. And now MAGA Mike wants to change the rules about swearing her in because she signs the discharge petition. And then there would be a vote on the Epstein files to take place forthwith.
So one of the reasons I think as well is I think there is a connection there. I think that's part of the story, not all of it. I think the broader story is Donald Trump realizes he's destroying the economy right now. He sees the indicators. He sees how unpopular he is. And he wants to go back to the playbook. You go back to the Magoel, right?
You go, you roll out your greatest hits, attacking marginalized communities. The Democrats shut it down because of trans. because of trans, transgender for everybody, transgender for everybody. What does it even mean, transgender for everybody?
Chapter 7: What are the details of the indictment against James Comey?
What the hell are you talking about? You're just bullying a marginalized community. The migrants, they want to give healthcare to the migrants. No, Democrats, frankly, the people who are suffering the most right now are like a lot of Trump voters. Like, Farmers right now who are going bankrupt and Trump wants to do a bailouts for them.
The affordable Medicaid rather in a lot of these red states is going to be impacting a lot of Republicans and Democrats as well. And the Affordable Care Act is something that lots of millions and millions of Americans rely on. That's the Democratic guess. But then Donald Trump and his MAGA sycophants are also out there saying, well, if there's a shutdown, we're going to fire Democrats.
lots of government employees. If you thought what Doge did in its first wave was bad, if you force a shutdown, we're going to fire more government employees. So they're also using it as a pretext to gut the government even more. And Donald, let's face it, Donald Trump wants a shutdown because he just wants to operate as a full dictator without the government even existing just in Donald Trump.
And he wants a convenient, uh,
Chapter 8: How does Trump's approach to leadership affect his political opponents?
person or entity to blame so he's going to say democrats are the reason the economy's suffering i was getting us a golden age but democrats are the reason so let me bring in brett and jordy i want to bring out the receipts as well right here about what trump is saying i want to talk about what trump has said in the past that the president he was saying obama's to blame if obama didn't negotiate with the republicans back in 2013 and and 2011. so i'll bring out those receipts
And we should talk about a bunch of other stuff, too. Trump bailing out Argentina right now. The MAGA libertarian president, Javier Millay, who Trump said and MAGA said was going to be so great for the Argentina economy. So America is now bailing out farmers because Trump destroyed the livelihoods of farmers with this trade war against the world and the retaliation America has.
And then Trump has the audacity, like the Ponzi schemer that he is, to now say, We're going to pay the farmers a bailout package based on the money coming in from the tariff, which is the cause of the suffering for the farmers. Then he misstates the amount of money, of course, coming in from the tariffs, like a almost a parody of a Ponzi schemer while we're bailing out Argentina.
While Trump is talking about building UFC stadiums in front of the White House, while Donald Trump last week was gallivanting in the UK in golden carriages, the Trump family announcing a new Trump vodka is going to be reintroduced. They destroyed the Rose Garden. They turned it into a private club for rich Republicans called Club Rose Garden.
And they rolled out additional photograph markups of what the ballroom is going to look like. The 90,000 square foot ballroom may even be bigger now. It's like three times the site of the White House. The scale of it just looks ridiculous next to the White House. And I said, someone needs to file a lawsuit to stop this ballroom. But I hope I'm a broken record on that.
But I'm going to keep repeating it over and over again. Brett and Jordy, a lot to discuss, brothers. Clearly a lot to discuss. A lot is going on. That is for sure. Well, it's great to be here, Ben. Great to be here, Jordi. Great to be here, Midas Mighty. Everybody watching and listening. By the way, we've got a lot of people watching live on YouTube right now.
I want every single one of you to go and add the Midas Touch podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify if you haven't yet. And if you already did, leave a five-star review. You know, Ben, we've seen the same strategy play out literally every time. First off, it feels like Groundhog's Day. I got to say that.
Every time we go through these shutdowns and the back and forth, it's just like the same things over and over and over. And Republicans always go back to the well.
They always go back to the same strategy that they use every single time, where they convince their own supporters to screw themselves, to gut their own health care, to remove benefits that they rely upon by saying this is only going to hurt the illegals if you do this. The Democrats want to support the illegals.
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