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Chapter 1: What are Donald Trump's new war threats against Nigeria?
We'll see you next time. Tulosyy, terveystalon määräaikaistarkastus. Välillä kipua hartioissa, sormissa puutumisoireita. Asiakas kertoo tekevänsä kausiluonteista tiimityötä pakkauslinjastolla, ajoittain epäergonomisissa asennoissa. Pitkän työkokemuksen myötä löytänyt kuitenkin toimivattavat tonttuilla, vielä seuraavatkin sata vuotta.
Me keskitymme terveyteen, jotta tonttut voivat keskittyä tärkeimpään. Terveystalo on Joulupukin virallinen työterveyskumppani. Evidensia.fi.mevet.fi. Hey Donald, it's getting even worse. If you thought it was a wipeout when the blue wave hit on Tuesday, the momentum keeps growing against Donald Trump. We saw spontaneous protests taking place in Washington DC.
People are just pissed right now at this Trump regime. And it's not just even from the people, we're seeing the courts finally assert their authority as well. Democratic governors asserting their formal and moral authority. Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate now stepping up. I'm like, yes, this is what we've been freaking waiting for.
I do not want this to turn into an episode of Legal AF, but there were so many legal updates to talk about. So I'll try to do them very, very quickly as well. But the sandwich guy, Sean Dunn, Allegedly, I didn't see anything. What sandwich?
Threw a sandwich allegedly at an ICE officer or Border Patrol agent, found not guilty of misdemeanor assault, a massive embarrassment for the DOJ after they previously failed to secure felony indictments against him. A jury of his peers said not guilty.
You had a federal judge in Chicago, Judge Ellis, issue a restraining order against the Trump regime for their excessive force tactics, the gassing, chemical warfare against the people in Chicago. We'll talk about that. Judge McConnell in Rhode Island found that the Trump regime violated his order by depriving people of the SNAP benefits that they're entitled to and starving them to death.
You've got the Trump DOJ in the Comey case doing everything they can to resist trying to turn over grand jury transcripts and Lindsay Halligan like self-selected portions that she gave to the judge. It's a total mess and a disaster over there.
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Chapter 2: How are Republicans responding to the recent election results?
You had the Supreme Court case against Trump's tariffs against the world where even the right-wing justices were like,
what the hell are you doing here you're just making up that this statute that has nothing to do with tariffs has to deal with tariffs tariffs are core article one functions of all of that's taking place you've got maga mike humiliating himself every single day donald trump has never looked weaker And freaking Marjorie Taylor Greene is out there sounding like the voice of reason right now.
Meanwhile, jobless claims exploded. Another 153,000 jobs were lost in October. Add that to the 950,000 jobs that were lost in the first
three quarters of the year basically the only time it's been worse is the great recession and covid that's not good data but donald trump's out there bragging that uh thanksgiving's gonna be way cheaper and everybody's really really happy we've got a lot to discuss brett and jordy it's great to see you both It's great to be here, brothers. It's great to be here, Midas Mighty.
Always a pleasure to be reporting and analyzing the news with you here on the Midas Touch podcast. By the way, all the people watching live right now, please remember to go and check out the Midas Touch podcast anywhere you find podcasts on audio. Wow, I think the reverberations are still sounding from Tuesday's elections where, let's face it, Republicans got shellacked.
It was a huge win, not only for Democrats, but for democracy as a whole. I mean, the voters came out with a total and complete repudiation and rejection of MAGA, of Trump, of everything that these Republicans stand for. So what do the Republicans do? They double down on all their failed policies. They double down on all their failed messaging. They refuse to learn any lessons from it.
And we've just been seeing that right now. At the end of the day, People feel what's going on in this economy. They feel the damage that this regime is causing them day in and day out. And Maga Mike may think he's slick and Trump may think he's slick by going out there and lying and gaslighting the American people every day, but that's never worked in American history.
When people go to the grocery store, I don't care if you're hiding the inflation data, I'll tell you what your inflation data is. It's the receipt that you get after the groceries are rung up. That's your inflation data right there. Want to hide the inflation reports? I get one every time I go to the grocery store. We see how expensive things are getting. So hide it at your own peril.
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Chapter 3: What legal challenges is the Trump Justice Department currently facing?
Lie at your own peril, Republicans. The American people are wising up. And if you don't change your act soon, get ready for another blue tsunami in the 2026 midterms. Jordy. What's the latest on your end? Let's go. I am still feeling the good vibes of earlier in the week, and I can't wait to get into today's episode. It's shellacking, Brett. I haven't heard that word in quite some time.
I'm glad you brought it up. Because that's what, that's simply, that's what it was. It was a complete shellacking to MAGA, to the Trump regime this week that we saw, because people are pissed and people are not going to be gaslit by this administration any frigging longer. Benji, what's going on? Well, look, Donald Trump, has a message to the American people.
So lots of people took various messages from Tuesday's blue wave. I think one of the more significant ones is affordability is a real significant issue, that inflation surging has crippled people. This was a repudiation of Donald Trump, right? But Trump's message, the voters want him to do something. invade Nigeria. Yeah. Invade Nigeria. So he made a video about that yesterday.
Here, play this clip. We're going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria is not going to be happy about and may very well go into that now disgraced country. Guns are blazing to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible, horrible atrocities. I'm hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.
If we attack, it will be fast, vicious and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians. What? What the F? I mean, you watch that, and under normal circumstances, that would be, what, a president declaring war on a country, right? I mean, first off, he says it sounds like a sexual abuser, like when he
just address that right like i mean the the language that he talks about invasion is like the like it's grotesque even the words whether they like it or not this is what he's gonna do like like he's a sick he's a sick human being um and then just like just just threatening war so that that was that was one of the the main messages that he had the other
is that he's just gonna pretend that uh not only is inflation not real not only is he gonna claim he solved this he's gonna say that he made thanksgiving 25 cheaper based he says on a powerful statement powerful, Walmart made a powerful statement, he says, that he says that the groceries are 25% cheaper.
And so I'll show you what he said first, then I'll show you what he posted here playing this clip. Maybe in the history of our country. Yeah. This has been a major achievement for your administration, targeting the segment of our population that needs it the most, that has the highest obesity rates. You're making it affordable. You are truly saving lives.
That's coming from the viewers that we've had in that one hour that we took a little bit of a break. My question to you is, Walmart just pushed out a report that says this year's traditional Thanksgiving meal will cost 25% less than it did the Biden administration, plus gas prices being down in the $2 region makes it more affordable to travel to Grandma's house this Thanksgiving.
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Chapter 4: What updates are there on the Supreme Court's ruling regarding Trump's tariffs?
The people around the desk were in charge. The auto pen was in charge. That is a big factor. Okay. Do you feel at home that your Thanksgiving is 25% cheaper? Does that resonate with you as a real fact? Um, let's see how they're lying. Brett, the Midas Touch fact check right away. You see, the 2025 Walmart Thanksgiving meal contained only 15 items, while the 2024 meal contained 21 items.
Additionally, most of the brand name items in the 2024 meal were replaced with great value items or like the more generic items. And so it's I guess literally comparing apples to not oranges,
quarter of an apples let me just break it down he's bragging about shrinkflation right walmart because the economy is struggling so much under the trump administration had to figure out a way to lower the price of their thanksgiving meals so they removed about a third of what comes in the meals and then for the rest of it they took the brand name stuff and they replaced it with their value brands that's what actually happened that's the truth of what's happening that's what trump is bragging about
It's another recession indicator, and as we look through all the economic data right now, we see recession indicator after recession indicator after recession indicator. I've noticed the phrase, Ben and Jordi and my Almighty, that continues to come up in nearly every economic tweet that I see and every story that I see in the New York Times or the Post or whatever.
Here's the phrase you see, and this is a warning sign, in my opinion, whenever you see it. since 2009. You'll see that a lot. Since 2009. Jobless claims have not been this high since 2009. Inflation, since 2009. You look at all the various things they keep going back to since 2009, which is, or they go back to, you know, at first the COVID pandemic. Since the COVID pandemic or since 2009.
Both very, very, very bad signs for this economy. And Donald Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson, despite the shellacking, Jordy, that they took on Tuesday. Shellacking. the shellacking, they continue to go out there and just lie to the American people.
And if this is their plan, if they think that they could go out there and tell the American people that things are cheap when they know that things are not cheap, the shellacking we saw on Tuesday is going to look like a blip. I'm assuming behind the scenes, they have a better plan than this. I don't know.
But if this really is their strategy, it's one of those things where it's like, you know, never interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake, because this is like the biggest mistake imaginable that you could be making as a political party.
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Chapter 5: How is Marjorie Taylor Greene's feud with GOP leadership impacting the party?
They are still pretending that they are invincible, but people see through the BS right now. And now we have hard data about just how furious the American people are at this administration. including those key groups that Republicans have been bragging about that they've kind of captured over these past few months. How many times, and the media, by the way, played such a big role in this, too.
How many times have you seen these legacy media stories that say Gen Z is, they're MAGA now, they're pro-Republicans, there's a whole new generation out there, and they're all ultra-conservative, or Latino voters, they're ultra conservative now. Trump totally changed the game. It's a permanent shift.
Well, the election showed that the Republicans lost all their ground with all their voters, that those voters maybe flirted with them a little bit during the 2024 election. But once they got a taste of what it was like living under Republican leadership and living under Donald Trump, They said, I need to get the hell away. I need to get as far away from this crap as possible.
And that's what they did. And we're seeing the Republicans make excuse after excuse after excuse. But their excuses just don't match reality. And as I said, this is the approach they want to take. So be it.
It's why I love here at the Midas Touch Network, we deal with facts and data and the truth and receipts, because once you start from a position where I'm just going to be honest, I'm going to tell the truth here, then you don't have to play cover up and you don't have to start swimming for answers and really just trying to recover once you gaslight people into hating you, quite simply.
And so what we see here from MAGA Mike Johnson and Donald Trump every day, They're acting as if it's business as usual, if everything is super frigging normal right now. And Brett, to your point in the data, it does not reflect that anymore. And the people are pissed. They're pissed at this regime for the constant gaslighting. Because to your point, when you go to the grocery store,
that's the facts that's the data that's the literal receipt that i need to know that something is horribly wrong right now in this country and so trump could be up there all he wants saying what he's saying but the facts are affordability is the biggest issue on people's minds and they know when they're being lied to and they know that this world right now is not affordable for them ben
love how sorry go bro i was gonna say i love how now all these you know republicans while they're trying to pretend that everything's great all of a sudden you see them trying to adopt the messaging of the democrats during this election cycle and all of a sudden there is like donald mom donnie trump over here going affordability that's an interesting word new word affordability have you heard of this word affordability it's like
The only one in this golden age that this Trump regime has been taunting and flaunting and putting out there is Donald Trump and his entire regime and his entire cabinet. That's who's living in the golden age, quote unquote, while the American people are suffering. I mean, goddamn, they're having these Gatsby party parties at Mar-a-Lago. It's crazy. Only in people's faces.
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Chapter 6: What does the latest economic data reveal about job losses and layoffs?
Retail's up there as is services at 64,000. You take out the doge cuts, the number's a bit better at 800,000, but still well above last year. Challengers doesn't see much in the way of hiring, saying announcements are 35% below last year, and they're skeptical about the number of new hires for the holiday season. One of the terms we hear
being thrown around now because the economy's so bad is K-shaped growth or a K-shaped economy. You may have heard that term, like what do they mean by K-shaped? Just think about the letter K, right? In the letter K, there's one line that goes straight up and there's one line that goes straight down and then you have the vertical line, right?
That's a K. So the line going up, all the billionaires, the billionaires are crushing it and they're doing better than ever. The line going down is basically the Great Recession currently taking place, or perhaps even a depression of regular Americans who are getting absolutely screwed right now.
The people who can't afford rent, who can't afford their mortgage, they're lucky enough to be able to even take out a mortgage. They're the ones who are terrified that healthcare is being ripped away. They're on SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, food stamps.
psychologically tortured by what this regime is doing also when you talk about three percent year over year inflation that's what three percent means you know people toss around the number oh inflation's three percent like what does that actually mean it means it's three percent higher than last year
And so if it was 3% higher the prior year, and if it was six or 7% higher the prior year and 4% higher the prior year, what that means right now is it's 3% higher than basically the cumulative total of what it was four or five years ago. So cumulatively over the past four or five years, that means inflation could be at 20% higher basically for people whose wages
are not keeping pace with that, quite the contrary, who are being laid off from their jobs, whose wages are decreasing right now. And so I think that's an important point. Jordi, going back to the other data that's out there, which I think is important to address, you know, I interviewed Governor Shapiro of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
And one of the things he pointed out is he goes within Pennsylvania, there are these three bellwether counties and one of them is like Bucks County, right? Which is the swingiest county in the swingiest swing state, Bucks County, right? You take a look at every position from the judges, the DAs, the school boards, right? Massive shifts from red to blue from 2024 to the present.
The same thing in their other swing districts. You look in Georgia where there were statewide elections, massive swings from red to blue there. You look in New Jersey, areas where Trump was able to shift voters, often in Latino areas, but other areas too, from blue to red. That shift went back to Mikey Sherrill, if not even more than existed before. You look at Virginia.
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Chapter 7: How are Trump's claims about the economy being challenged?
I mean, look at what George W. Bush did, right? Look at what all these Republicans who take power do. It's kind of their MO. It's what they do. They pump up the economy with good vibes and all their bullshit, and then they destroy it because they're chasing this candy rush, this candy high, which is actually horrible for the economy.
And the economy implodes, just as every economic expert says it's going to, by them taking the actions that they're going to take. That's the sick thing that, and by the way, I mean, Donald Trump hates America. Like, let's be very clear. Like, he hates the country. He hates Americans. He hates everything this country stands for. He hates our Constitution.
And these MAGA Republicans, they hate America. Like, let's not mince words. What they're now just trying to pull, your point exactly, pull this far enough along where you can then just blame the Democrats. And because that's their whole shtick, just blame the Democrats. Like, it doesn't matter what happens to the country, to these magas, because they hate it. They hate everything about it.
long as they're personally okay and they can blame democrats that's their whole shtick and that's not that's not okay that's not what our country should stand for let's take our first quick break of the show everybody hit subscribe right here let's get to six million subscribers hit join become a member of our youtube channel as well and get memberships for other people that helps us grow as well all right we're going to take our first quick break of the show we'll be right back we'll talk about some of those legal updates including
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the legal cases discussed in this episode?
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Yeah, different angle. I have a different angle today for the podcast. You guys might see this. So real quick, Ben, I'll throw it over to you. I know you love when I go on these tangents. I had a lot of forehead. My wife said, she's like, Your forehead is just too big on the show when we did the stream on Monday. She's like, let's resurface you. And so we worked on that and this is my new studio.
I think your forehead looks great. I think your forehead looks great, I got to say. Thanks. And you're looking good. No matter what angle, Jordy. No matter what angle you look good, you know? I'm sure the Midas might agree. Engie, where to next? I mean, look though, the bigger the forehead, the easier target it is to chuck a sandwich at. I was waiting.
I was like, how's Ben going to make this transition? You know what they say about people with big foreheads? Bigger target to throw somebody. Big target for sandwich, yeah. That's what I was thinking too, yeah. That's what they say. So 37-year-old Sean Dunn worked at the Department of Justice during the invasion by ICE and Border Patrol of Washington, DC.
Sean Dunn, protecting the community, was caught on camera holding a sandwich there are some who say that he threw the sandwich at the ice officer there are others who say he did not there are others who say that he was offering it um because he thought that the ice officer was hungry hard hard times so you like the sandwich
and yeah the trump economy was such that he was offering the meal um because he saw the ice agent working overtime and so i'll just show you the clip right here and i'll when i watch it i don't see anything so you tell me what you see i don't see anything here play this clip I thought it was very clear. I thought it was very clear.
I thought he said, excuse me, officer, times are tough out there. Would you like the sandwich? And then I see a car. You guys have handed me sandwiches harder than that growing up. Well, I see the car moving past. I see his hand. Almost he looks like he's asking for a sandwich, Sean. I get what the jury was doing here. And I think that what was kind of clear is that I don't know.
Let me see it one more time, Brett. Just play it one more time. I'll try to look. It's interesting. From that angle, I don't see it at all. Yeah, no, at that time, I actually didn't see anything. In all seriousness, let me be very, very clear. There was no Sam. In all seriousness, the defense... the defense was basically a self-defense, right?
It was Constitution allows you to have self-defense, ICE, Border Patrol showed up attacking people with gas, chemical weapons, trying to kill people, right? And you can imagine a persuasive argument being made to the jury that where the government overreaches, and tries to kill, harass, and harm people in the community, you have a right to protect yourself and to protect people.
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