Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
We have a lot to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. You had Donald Trump in Iowa and then at some weird speech with Nicki Minaj attacking people for wanting things to be more affordable, attacking the idea of low income housing. as Nicki Minaj with those four-inch nails clung to Donald Trump's deteriorating and rotting hand.
Chapter 2: What did Trump say about affordability during his Iowa speech?
Also, we saw more instances of Donald Trump's demented mind rotting before us in public. We'll go through that. Donald Trump continued to have a psychotic meltdown at night. further defaming Alex Preti, calling him a domestic terrorist last night, saying that former President Obama needs to be arrested for treason. We'll talk about all of that. Oh, and then saying, let the man effing cook.
It's very strange behavior. The fact that Tom Homan has replaced Greg Bovino in Minnesota has not really changed things all that much. The ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo continue to terrorize people in Minnesota and throughout the country. We'll talk about that, including the protests outside of the Dilley Detention Center in Texas.
where the Trump regime was again using chemical agents and attacking the peaceful protesters. That's where the five-year-old Liam, who was kidnapped by the Trump regime, is currently being detained at that concentration center with his dad. We'll cover that and more. Trump's polling is absolutely abysmal.
The latest Pew poll has him at about 37%, and only 56% of Republicans say that they support his entire agenda. America seems to be poised for yet another war against Iran after Donald Trump said back in June that he totally obliterated the nuclear facilities in Iran. Well, it's taken a few weeks for Donald Trump to get what he refers to as his armada from the Caribbean and to get it near Iran.
Trump sold out the protesters against the Ayatollah when Trump said, we're going to get your back if they kill a single protester. But then Trump's ships weren't even there, and now he's threatening what he refers to as his big plan, which sounds like kind of an all-out war against Iran. We'll cover that.
Meanwhile, Trump is trying to secretly support, or I guess not so secretly anymore, support fringe separatist groups in Canada to try to get Alberta to secede. We'll talk about that. We're on the verge of another government shutdown because Maga Mike Johnson put the House of Representatives into recess. He
joined it sent people home so even if there is a compromise in the senate regarding the appropriations package which by the way i would be wholeheartedly against any compromise that doesn't abolish ice and prosecute ice and border patrol and abolish border patrol but even if there were to be one it has to go back to the house right now and the house is on vacation thanks to maga mike but he's been hanging out with nikki minaj and talking about her nails and her jackets that's what maga mike's priorities are um
Lots of layoffs in corporate America right now, 16,000 layoffs by Amazon while they're funding Melania's movie that nobody wants to see to the tune of about $70 million. And then the Trump FBI raided the Fulton County election headquarters. They took all of the 2020 ballots
You had Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's Director of National Intelligence, as part of the team leading the raid of the Fulton County, Georgia ballots, which is completely unheard of. All of this is unheard of.
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Chapter 3: How is ICE's leadership change impacting its operations?
We go to fancy steakhouses. You could be fundraising. It's just so grotesque when you see this. And part of that is a move of obstruction, a big part of it against the Democrats and against really any sort of accountability for this regime that is completely out of control. We're going to get into all of it. I don't want to belabor the point right now, but I'm going to toss it over to Jordy.
Jordy, what's the latest?
What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty? I am thrilled to get into today's show. Before we do, though, just some housekeeping. We are so close to 6 million subscribers. And you know what? I'm throwing down the gauntlet right now. 30 days from today, we will hit that 6 million within the 30 days. That was pretty confusing the way I phrased that.
within 30 days we'll be at six million i am that confident in this pro-democracy movement and the might is mighty so please check to see if you're subscribed to the youtube channel right now a lot of folks may think they're subscribed but they're actually not so just do a quick double check and then hit subscribe if you're not and let's get to six million y'all 30 days you could hold me hold me to that benji where are we starting
Well, look, when Congress is in session, what happens? There are floor speeches that take place. There are congressional hearings. And the MAGA Republicans can try to do their hearings about toilet bowls or shower heads or whatever. But the hearings still involve Democrats who are allowed to be there.
And when you have an adversarial system, and even if they're talking about showerheads or toilet bowls or whatever MAGA deranged conspiracy they want to talk about, it sheds a great degree of light on what the hell is happening. And it's clear that Trump and these MAGA Republicans are involved in cover up after cover up after cover up, whether it's
covering up a child sex trafficking ring with the Epstein files, covering up war crimes or crimes against humanity off the coast of Venezuela, covering up Donald Trump's medical records, covering up what is actually happening at these detention centers where you have migrants and citizens being tortured,
concentration camps essentially in the United States, covering up Qatari bank accounts where oil money is being funded or oil money is being transferred from Venezuela as Trump sells oil to right-wing oligarchs using intermediaries who had been accused of bribery before to move the money to Qatar and sell the oil to enrich Donald Trump.
cover-up after cover-up after cover-up taking place right now as the Trump regime is now focused on supporting fringe, secession movement individuals in Canada to try to get Alberta to secede because Trump is so jealous of Prime Minister Carney. While Trump is talking about golden ballrooms and golden arches that he wants to build, It is utterly deranged stuff.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's polling numbers?
I mean, he just had stupid stuff like that. Donald Trump didn't call on Kristi Noem. He didn't call on Pam Bondi, which was notable as he was going around the table. But the short period of time that the media was allowed to record, Donald Trump said that he does not want to drive housing prices down. He wants to make housing prices up.
Trump says the American dream is about rich people owning homes, not poor people or low-income people or middle-class people owning homes. Watch what he says. Let's play it.
One of the things Scott said, though, is, again, existing housing, people that own their homes, we're going to keep them wealthy. We're going to keep those prices up. We're not going to destroy the value of their homes so that somebody that didn't work very hard can buy a home. We're going to make it easier to buy. We're going to get interest rates down.
But I want to protect the people that, for the first time in their lives, feel good about themselves. They feel like they're wealthy people. And I want them to understand that, you know, there's so much talk about, oh, we're going to drive housing prices down. I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes.
And they can be assured that's what's going to happen.
We want to help people become home owners. that's the housing crisis right now that people can't afford homes and so we're trying to figure out ways we should be trying to figure out what trump isn't to increase the supply of housing because the supply has been right now diminished by private equity and others
as opposed to first-time homeowners and others who need the house to pursue the American dream, who work hard but can't even afford rent, yet alone afford a home.
Ben, did you see how he demeaned people also who are trying to get a home? It used to be you could have one job, you'd work at a company, you'd get paid a respectable wage to be able to afford a home, you'd be able to afford college, you'd be able to afford all these things on one salary. That doesn't exist today for most people.
And Donald Trump, the wording that he used there I think is very revealing about the way that he views the people of this country. He said something to the effect of, we don't want these people who don't work hard to be able to get access to these homes.
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Chapter 5: What are Trump's international strategies regarding Canada?
Donald Trump is doing, frankly, the opposite, Jordy.
And to that point, exactly. You know who is benefiting from Trump and his economic policies? And shocker, it's the uber-rich. They're benefiting from Trump's policies while everyone else is, quite frankly, getting screwed. There was actually a great Wall Street Journal article that dropped this week, which shows that the overall it was something like the overall U.S.
home sales, they're just slumping across the board with affordability and high mortgage rates just discouraging typical buyers. Yet, home prices priced at $10 million or more are skyrocketing, both in transactions and total dollar volume.
So while the everyday American is getting screwed and squeezed because of Trump's economic policy, ultra wealthy buyers continue to buy multi-million dollar properties and capture an outsized share of the housing wealth. So I guess my question is, is that what you mean by the golden age, Donald?
that the top one percent get to thrive while everyone else is just fighting to make ends meet is that why you're having these great gatsby themed parties at mar-a-lago to just rub the wealth disparity that you're making even worse in everybody's face and i'm just glad i i think we saw a poll that came out that showed that the working class are finally waking up and trump's poll numbers with the working class have never been lower
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Chapter 6: How is the looming government shutdown affecting politics?
yeah i mean specifically is this laksha jain who's a really good pollster says trump's underrated political weakness right now is lower income people in our polling of lower income white people who backed donald trump by 26 points in 2024 his approval with low-income white people is now at a break-even point and that's been getting lower and lower and lower
as donald trump is throwing jordy to your point these eyes wide shut parties with showgirls with legs spread at a champagne hours event in mar-a-lago in bubbles in a pool i don't even know what words i'm using right now but that's what's
And that followed Donald Trump throwing a furry party with people who were half naked, wearing dog attire and dog outfits and dog masks, which followed the great Gatsby theme party of basically half naked girls or women in champagne glasses, like dancing around and gyrating. And that's what was going on in Mar-a-Lago.
But Donald Trump was in Iowa and he was saying, you're not hearing the word affordability anymore. because we solved it. Mission accomplished. Here, play this clip.
And they come up with this word affordability. And I saw it even, although you're not hearing it so much anymore. You know why? Because the prices are coming down so much. They don't want it to be an election based on lower prices. But we're bringing down the lower, I like that term better. It's the lower prices.
We're bringing them down. And then before that speech, Donald Trump was at a diner where he's like, I could do whatever I want with the economy. You want me to make the dollar go up, the dollar go down. Jobs go up, I'll do it like a yo-yo. I do it like a yo-yo, everybody. Yo-yo. Here, play this clip.
Would you like to see the dollar's value defined more?
No, no, I'd want it to be just seek its own level. Which is the fair thing to do. You could have it. I could have it go up or go down like a yo-yo. I'll give you an example. Unemployment. I could create the greatest unemployment numbers or employment numbers ever. All I have to do is hire three million people and put them into the federal government. And you have 10 people, you know, for one job.
That's right. That's right. Oh, Donald, that's all right. What are you talking about? What do you mean? Just admitting to manipulating the market. I can make it go like a yo-yo. By the way, the dollar is plummeting. The dollar is crashing. And many people see the crashing dollar as also a sign of very bad economic news ahead if it keeps going in that direction.
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Chapter 7: What are the consequences of the FBI raid on Fulton County election office?
Here, play this clip.
And China will be sending me a bill very shortly, supporting year-round E15 to my desk very quickly, and I will sign it without delay.
Okay?
I hope you remember us for the midterms.
China sending me a bill. What do you mean China is sending you a bill? And then in the speech he gave yesterday with Nicki Minaj, who he then gave, I think she's undocumented, and Nicki Minaj got a gold card to basically get her path to citizenship here for saying that she loves Donald Trump.
so she got a gold card which trump sells for a million to five million dollars who knows does that money go into the qatari bank account why don't we have access to this qatari bank why is there a qatari bank account where all this money is going into that's not nor and the republicans like of course it goes to qatar well duh Really, all the American money goes to Qatar? Where else would it go?
Where else would it go? Naturally, it goes to Qatar, everybody. But at that event with Nicki Minaj, Donald Trump, in his spreading lies about California and Governor Newsom, one of the lies Donald Trump's been saying is that, what does he say, like Walmart shut down 250 of the 303 California stores. Normally, when someone says something like that, if it's a politician, like, well,
What would you, did you mean like 225 or like 150? Like when you hear someone say something like that, like you're like, who would lie about that, right? Like that's a pretty definitive statement, 250 of 303. All just totally false. Like Ben, like any part of it? No, no, just false. Walmart's opened up stores in California. It's just another lie.
The same way Donald Trump lies and says that the reason that the California fires back last January were so bad is that California would not allow the water from the Pacific Northwest to flow from Canada because the California governor Gavin Newsom didn't turn on the faucet. And Trump says he turned on the faucet and otherwise all of Los Angeles would be burned down. And it just,
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Chapter 8: How is Trump's narrative influencing the midterm elections?
And I don't want a big section of the area built into low income housing. They wanna put low income housing right smack in the middle of it.
and uh that's not the american dream you know you didn't do that and low-income housing is great i built a lot of low-income housing but you don't put it there this is one of the richest neighbors in the world and yet again he reveals who he is that's exactly what i said right before right i mean it's the same thing you could see the the disgust disgust he has for people who aren't wealthy they just don't i don't want them anywhere near me get those not the american dream you get those dirty pores the hell away from hell out of here
Get the hell out of here. I want to talk more about that. I want to talk about the imminent invasion of Iran and what could possibly happen thereafter. We should talk about what happens when this compromise bill is reached in the Senate, which again, I don't like the idea that there's a compromise. I don't think you can compromise with fascism, but assuming there's a bipartisan deal reached.
This then has to go to the house, but the house, Maga Mike has put on vacation while Maga Mike parties with Nicki Minaj and gives her gold cards. Talk about that. Got a lot more to discuss on this episode. A reminder, make sure you hit subscribe. To Jordy's point, you may think you're subscribed,
But there are some people who think they're subscribed just because they search Midas every morning, but aren't actually subscribed.
Don't assume. Don't assume that you're already.
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