1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:06,919 Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. I'm Ben Mysells, joined by Michael Cohen. 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,919 We've got a lot to discuss, including the Manhattan District 3 00:00:10,919 --> 00:00:17,320 Attorney filing its opposition to Donald Trump's motion to dismiss 4 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,839 the Manhattan criminal case where Donald Trump was convicted on 5 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,280 thirty four felon accounts, where Michael Cohen was the key 6 00:00:24,719 --> 00:00:28,399 witness in that case. The Manhattan District Attorney's office was 7 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:33,920 addressing Donald Trump's absolute immunity arguments. The District Attorney argues 8 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,960 that Trump should not get absolute immunity, and basically what 9 00:00:38,039 --> 00:00:42,320 they call for is a stay or a pause of 10 00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:46,560 the proceedings over the next four years, to be renewed 11 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,920 and reevaluated after Donald Trump's term. That's the headline right there. 12 00:00:52,399 --> 00:00:55,000 They make other arguments that we'll get into as well. 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,439 Of course, I want to hear from Michael Cohen, who 14 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,840 was the key witness in that case. Also should maybe 15 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:05,680 start the show. Cohen talking about these just very erratic 16 00:01:06,239 --> 00:01:11,439 posts from Donald Trump, and the behavior already during this 17 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:17,200 presidential transition period is if you could even believe it 18 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,120 being more bizarre than his behavior during the campaign or 19 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,439 when he was previously in office. I mean he was 20 00:01:24,519 --> 00:01:28,200 posting before, and why don't we start with this one, 21 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:32,519 Michael Cohen, what he's saying about Trudeau in Canada, calling 22 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,319 him the governor of the fifty first state. But before 23 00:01:35,359 --> 00:01:37,400 doing that, let me just turn it over to you 24 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:41,079 before getting into the news. How are you doing, Michael Cohen? 25 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,760 Everybody cares a lot about you here on this network, 26 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:48,159 and the Midas Mighty and legal efforts and of course 27 00:01:48,239 --> 00:01:50,799 the brigaders all want to make sure you're doing okay? 28 00:01:50,959 --> 00:01:54,439 Speaker 2: Are you hanging I'm hanging in there. There's a lot 29 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:00,519 of angst. There's a lot of anxiety throughout the entire country. 30 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,959 I can't tell you the number of people, you know, 31 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,239 I do this TikTok thing just because I can't sleep 32 00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:09,319 sometimes at night, and I can't tell you the number 33 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,879 of people that are dming me. It's like, how is 34 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,039 this happening? What's going to happen to our country? And 35 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:18,120 I tell everybody take the temperature down. Let's just all 36 00:02:18,159 --> 00:02:20,560 take the temperature down. You know. I saw there was 37 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:26,719 an argument that took place between Ana Cabrera and Whoopy 38 00:02:26,759 --> 00:02:29,400 Goldberg on the View. I don't know if you had 39 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,400 a chance, Ben to see it, but it's exactly what's 40 00:02:33,479 --> 00:02:38,439 going on at dinner tables all around the entire country, 41 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:42,199 all around the country. In fact, it's even going on 42 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,120 around the world. I have friends from Italy, I have 43 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,280 friends from France and England that are like, what's going 44 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,680 to happen in America? I don't know. But what they 45 00:02:52,759 --> 00:02:56,479 want is they want us only to be talking about them. 46 00:02:56,879 --> 00:02:59,960 They only want to hear you know that everybody is 47 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:03,120 nervous that, you know, Project twenty twenty five is going 48 00:03:03,159 --> 00:03:05,599 to take over and our country is going to go 49 00:03:05,759 --> 00:03:10,000 from you know, our democratic republic to an autocracy and 50 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,439 so on. And the answer is no, it's not going 51 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,479 to happen. And I've said this at least a dozen times, 52 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,800 but I think it's really worth saying again. The founding 53 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,680 fathers of this country were brilliant, beyond beyond brilliant. It's 54 00:03:25,719 --> 00:03:30,240 hard to imagine that a group of such geniuses existed 55 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,280 at a time to create a document that has long 56 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,879 existed during our two hundred and forty nine year history. 57 00:03:39,639 --> 00:03:42,280 And during that two hundred and forty nine years, look 58 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:45,800 at what we've seen. We've seen fights right with King 59 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,319 Henry in order to obtain our independence from there. We 60 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,280 had World War one, World War two, we've had the 61 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:55,520 Great Depression, we've had civil rights, we've had a civil war, 62 00:03:56,639 --> 00:04:00,560 we've had January sixth insurrection. And guess what we had 63 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:06,439 nine to eleven, and guess what we survived? Why? Because 64 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,360 the guard rails hold Now, you know, without even getting 65 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,479 into the summon substance or the merits regarding Matt Gates, 66 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:21,199 there were enough Republicans that said that mac Gates should 67 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,560 not be the attorney general, okay, and these twenty to 68 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,839 thirty Republican senators who said that they cannot, cannot go 69 00:04:30,879 --> 00:04:35,480 along with this. That's how the guard rails hold themselves up. 70 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,759 So the question becomes whether or not the guard rails 71 00:04:40,759 --> 00:04:44,040 will continue to hold up, or will some of these 72 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,480 nominees like a Pete hag Seth, who should not be 73 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,759 Secretary of Defense, the should not be running the Department 74 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,639 of Defense. Whether or not he is going to somehow 75 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,639 slide through, whether or not Trump is going to figure 76 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,439 out how to do these re sess appointments, none of 77 00:05:01,519 --> 00:05:05,720 us know. But if we're going to allow them to 78 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,360 get into our heads, that's a danger to all of us. 79 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,839 That's not what this community is about. We are a 80 00:05:13,959 --> 00:05:17,879 growing community. Thank God for communities like Midas Touched, like 81 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,680 our political beatdown, like Maya Kulpa, like your legal af 82 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,399 to myself's worth. I really say this, and not because 83 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,839 I'm so proud to be your friend and too proud 84 00:05:27,879 --> 00:05:31,360 to be a part of this network, but more because what. 85 00:05:31,319 --> 00:05:34,639 Speaker 3: It does is it gives the rest of you the 86 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:39,240 ability to have a community where we can share things 87 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,800 that will need to be done to ensure that our 88 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,319 democratic republic continues. 89 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 2: It's why when Ben is always saying, hey, join us 90 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,439 on the Patreon where we have one on one conversations 91 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,639 because there might be something on your mind that we're 92 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,000 not actually bringing up and you get the chance to 93 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,519 ask us questions that are important to you. But this 94 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,720 political beatdown and Midas in all of its properties, this 95 00:06:07,879 --> 00:06:12,800 is a place where if the guardrails start to fall, 96 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:17,160 it's political beatdown, it's Midas Touch network, it's all of 97 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:20,600 it that is going to help to rebuild the guardrails, 98 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:26,319 to ensure our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and future generations 99 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,879 to come that it withstands. Well. 100 00:06:28,879 --> 00:06:31,959 Speaker 1: Look it seems obvious, right, and I appreciate that. Cohen, 101 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,079 and you're a major part of this community. You're a 102 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,639 leader in this community. It seems obvious that Donald Trump 103 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,199 is going to do whatever he can to try to 104 00:06:41,399 --> 00:06:45,639 break the ultimate contract. You know, Donald Trump is a 105 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,360 breaker of contracts. That's what he's done his whole life. 106 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,639 He enters into things and he rips it apart, or 107 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:53,720 he breaks down things that existed. 108 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:55,319 Speaker 2: That's what he's done. 109 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,399 Speaker 1: The Constitution is a contract between government and we the people. 110 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,600 And one of the things that Donald Trump obviously wants 111 00:07:03,639 --> 00:07:08,160 to do is he wants to destroy that contract that's 112 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:12,480 been meticulously crafted and has its flaws and its straints. 113 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,079 Of course, he doesn't want that to exist. What you're saying, Cohen, 114 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,879 I believe is that the founders vested power in all 115 00:07:19,959 --> 00:07:23,160 of these different sources to deal with this. 116 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 2: Well, imagine, just imagine for a quick second, then that 117 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:34,480 the Senate doesn't protect their power, their right, there will 118 00:07:34,519 --> 00:07:37,759 be no Senate. That's the whole thing. So, whether they're 119 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,519 doing it within which to uphold the Constitution, or whether 120 00:07:41,519 --> 00:07:44,360 they're doing it because it's right for all of us, 121 00:07:45,079 --> 00:07:47,399 I can't tell you that it is or it's not. 122 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,959 What I can tell you is that they enjoyed their 123 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,279 own power and this is one of the powers that 124 00:07:54,319 --> 00:07:58,480 they have. If they relinquish it to an individual who 125 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:04,879 sees himself as great than the chief executive, then they 126 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,399 have no power and they have no use, and then 127 00:08:07,639 --> 00:08:11,480 therefore their position is no longer necessary. So they're doing 128 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,040 it for their own salvation. 129 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: And also what's obvious is that people are pissed right 130 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:26,639 now generally and with the being pissed at the fact 131 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:32,000 that they're such great disparities in wealth between the billionaires 132 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,320 and everybody else. How the one percent, and specifically the 133 00:08:36,399 --> 00:08:41,120 point zero one percent has amassed all of the wealth 134 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:45,480 and they viewed it as a zero sum game against 135 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:50,720 everybody else. It's not just enough that the billionaires have 136 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:54,960 three Gulf Stream six jets, it's got to be fifteen. 137 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,120 It's not enough that they've got three fifteen thousand square 138 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,799 foot mansions, it's got to be ten of them. And 139 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,559 then when they have that, they need twenty of them. 140 00:09:05,879 --> 00:09:08,720 And then when they have that, they then need to 141 00:09:08,799 --> 00:09:14,080 take away people's health care. They need to validate their 142 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,360 billionaire status not just about going in their life and 143 00:09:18,399 --> 00:09:21,679 being happy. But it almost like he's in the suffering 144 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,480 of others, like they want to see other people. That's 145 00:09:25,519 --> 00:09:27,080 why I'll pause it to you in a second. 146 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 2: Though. It's funny because what you're saying it's so comparaive. 147 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,840 We need to sort of show, like what took place 148 00:09:33,919 --> 00:09:39,960 in Syria, the people, we have the power. They may 149 00:09:40,039 --> 00:09:42,639 think that they have the power. We are the mass, 150 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,960 We are the ninety nine percent of this country. Look 151 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,759 at what happened in Syria. The same thing could happen 152 00:09:49,799 --> 00:09:50,320 here too. 153 00:09:51,759 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: Look at what's happening in Georgia where there is a 154 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:59,200 pro democracy movement. And remember Trump didn't get a mandate. 155 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,159 There was tens of millions of people who did not 156 00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:06,080 vote this election, and Trump got under fifty percent of 157 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,000 the vote and ended up being a very close election. 158 00:10:09,159 --> 00:10:12,679 And so when Trump is behaving the way he is 159 00:10:12,799 --> 00:10:17,240 during this transition, and you saw him on Meet the Press, 160 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:22,240 he was asked, can you guarantee the people that with 161 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,320 your tariffs, prices are not going to go up? What 162 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,840 did Donald Trump say, I'm not going to guarantee anything. Huh, 163 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,120 because I'm pretty sure during the campaign, accordion hands was 164 00:10:34,879 --> 00:10:39,480 guaranteeing every single thing. He was then asked about healthcare, Yes, 165 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,480 you want to replace Obamacare, you want to replace the 166 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:47,279 Affordable Care Act. What's your plan? Donald Trump's response, I 167 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,720 don't have one. I have the concepts, though, and we're 168 00:10:50,759 --> 00:10:53,440 working on the concepts of a plan. You still don't 169 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:58,360 have a plan, seriously, and so the people are seeing that, 170 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:01,799 and you combine with the fact that on day one 171 00:11:02,399 --> 00:11:06,279 Donald Trump's promises are not going to happen. We see 172 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,240 Vladimir Putin flexing already and saying that the only way 173 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,720 there's going to be a day one deal is if 174 00:11:12,759 --> 00:11:16,480 you give Vladimir Putin and Russia everything that Vladimir and 175 00:11:16,519 --> 00:11:20,279 Putin and Russia wants, which is basically a surrender by 176 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:22,799 Ukraine and Ukraine saying we're not going to. 177 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 2: Deal with that. 178 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:26,919 Speaker 1: Everyone's talking about egg prices right well. H five and 179 00:11:27,159 --> 00:11:30,799 one is on the rise, where one mutation away from 180 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:35,000 that being transmitted now human to human and going from 181 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,840 its current animal status into a general population. It's been 182 00:11:38,879 --> 00:11:42,960 detected in raw milk, where you have RFK Junior, a 183 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,480 raw milk advocate. He's pro raw milk and wants to 184 00:11:46,519 --> 00:11:50,960 appoint others under him. And so egg prices based on 185 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,320 the status of H five N one egg prices are 186 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,519 going to be up right now gas prices are at 187 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,840 an all time low in the Biden administry, two dollars 188 00:12:00,879 --> 00:12:04,600 and ninety seven cents. When Trump can't deliver that, when 189 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:09,039 prices go up, when mass deportations start, when these things happen, 190 00:12:09,159 --> 00:12:12,279 Michael Cohen and Donald Trump is saying this. This is 191 00:12:12,639 --> 00:12:15,960 he's been on a manic posting spree. And here's the 192 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,440 latest one that he posted. America is going to start 193 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:27,360 building monuments to our greatest heroes and heroines again DJT. 194 00:12:27,759 --> 00:12:33,279 So when they start building gold statutes to Donald Trump's 195 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:38,480 billionaire cronies a la Syria, when those statues are being 196 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:43,039 pulled down, I'm just saying we the people are going 197 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,120 to be very cognizant of that. And Donald Trump is 198 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,799 pushing those buttons right now. The billionaires are spiking the football, 199 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:57,120 and the first thing they're going after is not a 200 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:01,679 I'm a billionaire worth three hundred and five fifty billion dollars. 201 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,639 My workers are not even making a living wage. There's 202 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:08,120 still a minimum wage. Maybe we should address that. What 203 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:09,480 do they go after first? 204 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 2: Cohen? 205 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: Your healthcare, your social security, your medicare you know almost 206 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:16,279 any people rely on. 207 00:13:16,759 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm okay with you know, doing a way with 208 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,039 the Affordable Care Act. So long as you have something 209 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:31,000 that is better, you know, they don't take into consideration 210 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:35,320 the fact that there's like thirty million Americans that have 211 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,679 insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act, thanks to Obamacare. 212 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:44,720 It's very easy to say, I'm just gonna kill it. 213 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,120 I'm going to starve the ACA right out and get 214 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:53,240 rid of it altogether, and I'm going to replace it 215 00:13:53,279 --> 00:13:57,480 with something better. Okay, sounds perfect to me. I'm all 216 00:13:57,519 --> 00:14:00,759 in on that, as long as every America who wants 217 00:14:00,799 --> 00:14:04,600 insurance can get health insurance. In fact, every American should 218 00:14:04,799 --> 00:14:09,360 have health coverage and health insurance and affordable health insurance. 219 00:14:10,799 --> 00:14:16,600 Here's the problem. Here's the problem. When asked by Kristen Welker, 220 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,440 do you have a plan? Do you have a policy? 221 00:14:23,039 --> 00:14:26,840 We have a concept of a policy. I want to 222 00:14:26,879 --> 00:14:29,480 put this into perspective. Then join me for this first 223 00:14:29,559 --> 00:14:33,000 sec I want to put this into perspective because I 224 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:35,840 really want to see your the look on your face. 225 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:42,440 You just had a gorgeous baby girl, right, Imagine hypothetically 226 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,679 you don't have health coverage, when do you deliver the child? 227 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,639 By the way, why did your wife end up getting 228 00:14:50,759 --> 00:14:57,279 the you know, the healthcare to ensure an easy pregnancy. Well, 229 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,720 imagine you go into the obgyns. So you go to 230 00:15:00,759 --> 00:15:04,360 the hospital in order to give birth to this child, 231 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,799 and you say, I don't have the money to pay you, 232 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:14,320 but I have the concept of the money. You think 233 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,919 you're gonna get a room. You think you're gonna get 234 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:22,000 an OPGUI into deliver or an anesthesiologist. You think you're 235 00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:24,679 gonna get any sort of assistance at all. And the 236 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:31,080 answer is no, it's comically foolish. It's comically foolish. And 237 00:15:31,159 --> 00:15:35,679 somebody who just went through the whole scenario, what's the 238 00:15:35,759 --> 00:15:39,240 alternative if you don't have health coverage? And that's why 239 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:44,720 when you talk about a concept of a policy, it 240 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,080 just doesn't make any sense. 241 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:55,279 Speaker 1: Look, one of the things that government should do is 242 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:02,200 provide some basic quality of life's stuff for people to 243 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:08,159 ensure they enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 244 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:16,720 For Republicans, government is a tool to provide social welfare 245 00:16:16,799 --> 00:16:22,480 to the wealthiest, to rig the system for the wealthiest, 246 00:16:22,759 --> 00:16:27,639 and to not ensure and to not look after people 247 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,399 like at a basic level, there is a function for government. Sure, 248 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,120 there's waste, there are programs that aren't implemented the right way. 249 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:42,159 There are well intentioned programs, for example, to help people 250 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,879 who are not housed find housing, where it turns out 251 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:49,639 that you allocate two or three billion dollars for a 252 00:16:49,679 --> 00:16:53,279 program and it goes to all of these businesses, or 253 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,080 it does, it doesn't get used the right way, and 254 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,240 then it doesn't solve the problem. And we can look 255 00:16:58,279 --> 00:17:01,559 at that and go, this was a well intentioned program, 256 00:17:01,919 --> 00:17:05,319 but now you've raised our taxes and you've done nothing. 257 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,960 In fact, you've made the problem worse. So we can 258 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,640 look at it as intelligent people and say you need 259 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,680 to fix it, or we should not have these people 260 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:19,880 as elected officials who screwed up the program. Ultimately, that's 261 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:25,119 an intelligent adult conversation to have the purpose of government 262 00:17:25,759 --> 00:17:29,359 should not be as MAGA wants it to be a 263 00:17:29,559 --> 00:17:34,240 tool to take away the freedoms of people, but to 264 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:39,960 only enshrine a subset of benefits for a vaulted class 265 00:17:40,079 --> 00:17:45,319 of individuals that support a ruling class. And the arc 266 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:49,440 of our history has always been moving in the direction 267 00:17:49,519 --> 00:17:52,160 of trying to fix problems. The reason that you have 268 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:57,359 the Affordable Care Act is because before it, people could 269 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,960 be denied care for pre existing conditions. So tens of 270 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:06,480 millions of people died, died because they had a pre 271 00:18:06,599 --> 00:18:12,079 existing condition and they could not afford surgery, so they 272 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,920 ended up dead. And so the Affordable Care Act came 273 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,440 into place to say, Okay, we need to stop that. 274 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,640 Can you argue that there are inefficiencies in the Affordable 275 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,240 Care Act, that there are parts of the program that 276 00:18:26,279 --> 00:18:29,519 are wasteful potentially that could be fixed, and all of 277 00:18:29,559 --> 00:18:34,920 these things. Sure, sure, but it's a clearly better system 278 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,240 than when people were dying. And I know people, lots 279 00:18:38,279 --> 00:18:40,799 of people who are part of this community who, but 280 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:45,240 for the safety net of the Affordable Care Act, could 281 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:45,839 be dead. 282 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 2: And he wants to knock off Snap, he wants to 283 00:18:50,079 --> 00:18:54,960 knock off via Health. You know, if there's anything that 284 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:59,319 really got to me more than any of this stuff 285 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,160 is the fact that we ask people to serve in 286 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:09,720 our military to protect our valuable constitution, to protect our freedoms, 287 00:19:09,799 --> 00:19:14,279 our safety, our security as the United States of America. 288 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:17,720 And then when they come back, and they come back, 289 00:19:18,599 --> 00:19:23,279 many of them with physical injuries, they come back with 290 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:28,920 emotional scars. We're asking them to put their lives on 291 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,759 the line so that we can have freedom and the 292 00:19:32,799 --> 00:19:35,599 freedom that we can pass down to our children and 293 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:40,119 future generations. And the least we can do is support 294 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,839 them in their time of need. One hundred and nineteen 295 00:19:45,079 --> 00:19:49,279 billion dollars is expected to be cut. That is the 296 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:55,119 budget of the VA Health. I am so appalled by 297 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,279 the notion that anybody forget about whether they do it 298 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,720 or not, the fact you could even bring that up, 299 00:20:02,559 --> 00:20:05,200 The fact that they can talk about, you know, doing 300 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,079 away with this, and they keep talking about privatization of it. 301 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:13,200 That's never gonna work. That just doesn't work, especially once 302 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,839 again when all you have is the concept of a plan. 303 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,160 This is not this is not right. You can't ask 304 00:20:20,279 --> 00:20:23,839 somebody to protect you and then once again throw that 305 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,960 individual under the bus. But it's not just one individual, 306 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:33,000 you know. We still have two veterans a day taking 307 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:36,640 their own lives, and nobody has figured out a way 308 00:20:36,759 --> 00:20:39,680 how to stop this. Really, do you know what one 309 00:20:39,759 --> 00:20:43,640 hundred and nineteen billion dollars can do. We can take 310 00:20:43,799 --> 00:20:47,839 areas upstate New York. We could take areas in California, 311 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,680 we could take areas in Texas, we can take areas 312 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:55,880 in any any state, and we could build magnificent homes, 313 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,640 three bedroom, three bathrooms, kitchens, dining room, living room, the 314 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:06,160 whole bit. You could build a modular home, beautiful, the 315 00:21:06,319 --> 00:21:10,480 setup with washers and dryers. Give them an address for 316 00:21:10,599 --> 00:21:15,400 what two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand dollars per person? 317 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,200 You know how much? One hundred and nineteen billion dollars 318 00:21:20,319 --> 00:21:23,359 when you start really looking at Give them a place 319 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,519 to call their own, a place so that they can 320 00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:30,960 spend time with family and friends and all that. But no, no, 321 00:21:31,519 --> 00:21:34,160 let's just cut all of that shit. Let's offer them 322 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,960 no proper healthcare. So it's only two veterans a day 323 00:21:38,039 --> 00:21:42,119 committing suicide. No, this is so wrong. It's so wrong. 324 00:21:42,319 --> 00:21:45,240 And look, many of them are coming back with these 325 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:49,839 emotional scars. The PTSD. Trust me, I know about PTSD. 326 00:21:50,599 --> 00:21:53,519 It's a bitch. And if God knows it, I mean, 327 00:21:53,559 --> 00:21:56,799 I'm fortunate. I have a very close knit and a 328 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,680 very tight family. What if you don't, what if you 329 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:04,119 feel all alone? No veterans should ever feel alone. They 330 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,319 sacrifice themselves for us, as far as I'm concerned, Like 331 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,759 this community. They have a community of brothers and sisters 332 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:18,160 that make up our military. Nobody should be alone. They 333 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,160 shouldn't be suffering, not physically, not mentally. And I'm so 334 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:26,960 angry when I start seeing, you know, things like veterans 335 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,480 for Trump, this is unacceptable. Of all the things that 336 00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:36,039 he's saying, this to me is the most unacceptable, because 337 00:22:36,079 --> 00:22:41,039 these people protect us, they protect our democracy and our 338 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,960 constitutional rights, and we're just ignoring them as if they 339 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,680 don't exist or that they're not relevant. It's so we 340 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,640 ask him to do something. It's our obligation to take 341 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,359 care of them. 342 00:22:54,599 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: So what Trump and the magas do, though, is knowing 343 00:22:58,599 --> 00:23:05,880 that there is these massive class disparities that exist, and 344 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,559 knowing that they're the ones. The billionaires are the ones, 345 00:23:09,839 --> 00:23:15,279 and the deca millionaires and their policies generationally are the 346 00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:20,279 ones responsible for the suffering that exists. So what do 347 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:25,680 you do strategically, though, when you're the one causing the suffering, 348 00:23:26,039 --> 00:23:29,920 when it's your plans and policies doing that. What's your 349 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,880 strategy to get people not to think that you create 350 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,440 the culture wars? And that's why they talk about penises 351 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,359 and vaginas all day and the trans this and trans 352 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,920 people that, and we got to look in the bathrooms 353 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,759 and make sure they're coming in the bathrooms. 354 00:23:46,799 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god. 355 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,799 Speaker 1: A San Jose State volleyball player is a trans woman 356 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,559 on the on the San Jose volleyball team. Can we 357 00:23:55,599 --> 00:23:59,880 should be outraged by it? They push these boogeymen and 358 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,720 in addition to migrants that they'll blame for that, they're 359 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,359 eating your cats and dogs. The migrants are the ones 360 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,160 in the hospitals. You're not getting good healthcare because of 361 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,440 the migrants, they argue, not because the healthcare companies are 362 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:18,319 denying coverage or the Trumpers policies are the ones taking 363 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,400 away your good health care and that they want to 364 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,559 take away all of your benefits. They go, it's the 365 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,759 migrants fault. They're doing it, when in fact, the migrants 366 00:24:25,799 --> 00:24:31,079 are contributing to the economy in significant ways. So that's 367 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,920 their plan and plot. And then what do they do 368 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,160 as well? It's always projection, right, So magas then create 369 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,440 the left wing billionaire and part of the George Sorows 370 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:46,039 stuff is anti Semitic dog whistles Sorows cabal, and they 371 00:24:46,079 --> 00:24:49,400 do the George Soros. But also what they want to 372 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:54,039 do in augmenting a sorrows type personality is Trump, who's 373 00:24:54,039 --> 00:24:58,160 a billionaire. Elon Musk. Who's the richest person. They want 374 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:03,519 people to say, Aha, it's the liberal billionaire George Sorow's 375 00:25:03,599 --> 00:25:07,839 people who are out there screwing you. And what Trump 376 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,240 and Maga have done a nefariously good job at doing 377 00:25:12,799 --> 00:25:16,079 is the blame game, pointing the finger, blame these people, 378 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,519 Blame these people. Oh, stoke culture wars, and Democrats are 379 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:23,720 often like, look, we need to turn the page, we 380 00:25:23,759 --> 00:25:27,519 need to move forward, we need to build where And 381 00:25:27,759 --> 00:25:30,319 don't get me wrong, Democrats point the finger at Trump 382 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,200 a lot. Trump is Trump that. But also you have 383 00:25:33,279 --> 00:25:37,279 to be clear that this is a concerted effort by 384 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,720 the billionaire class embodied in the Republicans. And now it's 385 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,039 pretty clear, it's pretty visible right where the battle lines 386 00:25:46,039 --> 00:25:51,200 are drawn, because the Republican billionaires who put hundreds of 387 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,640 millions of dollars to get Trump elected, they're spiking the football, 388 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,759 they're doing interviews, they're saying, Oh, it's going to be 389 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,200 so good right now, We're going to take away health care, 390 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,920 no more regulations for us. We think these are great 391 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,880 times and people are pissed, and so Democrats need to 392 00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:13,720 tap into that to do it through the right means 393 00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:18,759 legislation and peacefully. But Democrats need to tap into there's 394 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,880 rage right now, there's rage on the streets right and you. 395 00:26:22,839 --> 00:26:25,039 Speaker 2: Know what we need to do, Ben, We need we 396 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,480 need to ensure that the proper message, the proper voices 397 00:26:29,559 --> 00:26:32,599 are heard. We're not getting it out of the DNC. 398 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,240 And you know, you start listening to who might take 399 00:26:36,279 --> 00:26:40,359 over for Jamie Harrison? Who listen? Jamie Harrison may be 400 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,559 an awfully nice guy, but who to hell wants somebody 401 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,279 who's a nice guy. Like We've got a bunch of maga, 402 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,400 fucking trolls that are just you know, constantly saying nasty 403 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,359 shit about me, about Ben, about this station and so on. 404 00:26:55,559 --> 00:26:59,119 Even here right now with us, nobody cares. Nobody cares 405 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,759 about them the same Wait, nobody cares if Jamie Harrison 406 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,319 is a good guy or a bad guy. I'm sure 407 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,359 he's a wonderful friend. He's probably a great guy to 408 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,960 hang out with. But here's the interesting thing, I don't care. 409 00:27:12,759 --> 00:27:15,960 I want a proper message, one that is going to 410 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:21,880 counter the opposite side, the Republican message. Where it's so simple, 411 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,599 it's so simple. If you are a veteran, this is 412 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,799 what you are going to lose. If you are female, 413 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,519 this is what you have already lost. If you are union, 414 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,519 this is what especially steel workers' union, this is what 415 00:27:38,599 --> 00:27:42,359 you are going to lose with the tariffs. If you 416 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,000 are you know, a carpenter's union, you are going to 417 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:50,039 lose work because there will be no wood. There's not 418 00:27:50,079 --> 00:27:52,680 gonna the cost on wood is going to go up 419 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,000 one hundred and twenty five hundred and seventy five percent, 420 00:27:56,079 --> 00:27:59,319 which means less construction. So you're not going to be 421 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,039 having jobs after job after job. I mean, you're not 422 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,160 going to have a constant pay. I mean, these are 423 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,119 the things that you have to hammer over and over 424 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,000 and over again. You see, then you're one hundred percent correct, 425 00:28:12,519 --> 00:28:17,319 one hundred percent correct. The billionaire class, they don't understand 426 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,519 what it means to pay ten dollars for a piece 427 00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:25,119 of wood or a hundred. It doesn't matter. They cannot 428 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,720 spend their money in one hundred lifetimes, plain and simple. 429 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,880 So if the house costs ten million to build or 430 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,799 thirty million to build, it doesn't matter to them. It's 431 00:28:37,839 --> 00:28:41,640 a rounding error. Elon Musk, that's just the interest from 432 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,519 one day. He doesn't give a shit. You see, what's 433 00:28:44,519 --> 00:28:47,200 his name, just bought a boat three hundred and eighty 434 00:28:47,319 --> 00:28:50,559 five footter it's over there getting a second paint coat 435 00:28:50,759 --> 00:28:53,559 so that you could see it from ten thousand miles away. 436 00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:57,839 I mean, seriously, seriously, you think you need a three 437 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,359 hundred and eighty five foot yacht when you have veterans 438 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:05,960 who are living on the street. Come on, man, what 439 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,400 better than this? And here's the. 440 00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: Thing, Cohen, it's not just a winning message what you 441 00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:16,720 and I are talking about. It's also the right thing 442 00:29:17,559 --> 00:29:22,440 and the truth. It's not propaganda, it's actually what's happening 443 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:28,880 and right now from democrats, it's crickets. It's crickets. You 444 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:34,400 don't hear. You don't hear. The winning issue is staring 445 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,000 them in the face. It's what the people want to 446 00:29:38,079 --> 00:29:44,119 hear about. It's obvious. People are pissed that billionaires and 447 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:49,759 deca millionaires are screwing them and gloating about it and 448 00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:54,119 spiking a football in their freaking faces. People are angry 449 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,400 when they are struggling to afford basic living while other 450 00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:03,079 people are gloating over all of the benefits that the 451 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,400 government is actually handing them, and the bailouts and all 452 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:12,079 of the stuff that the billionaires always get that's happening 453 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,160 because of policies that started with Ronald Reagan and even 454 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:21,960 before that. But these are Republican driven agendas to screw 455 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,599 over the people and distract them with culture wars. So 456 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,400 I'm just saying to democratic leaders or people who want 457 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,119 to be leaders in this space in general, and we 458 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,519 will do our part here on the Midas Touch Network 459 00:30:35,559 --> 00:30:38,960 to use our pulpit to make sure we are being 460 00:30:39,079 --> 00:30:42,119 very clear and concise and what we're saying, and what 461 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,039 we're saying is is that it is a Republican led 462 00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:50,599 effort to hoist up an oligarchy, a billionaire oligarchy class 463 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,440 to screw the people. And we need to look people 464 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,759 in the eyes and we need to say to them, 465 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,720 we care about you, We're looking after you, we're fighting 466 00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:04,960 for you. We understand that you are struggling paycheck to paycheck, 467 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,000 and we want you to understand that it's coming from 468 00:31:08,039 --> 00:31:12,039 the people who have golden toilet bowls and golden statutes, 469 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,880 who are lying to you and grifting off of you. 470 00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:18,079 And we want to do our part to help you 471 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,759 and enact policies that will benefit you. We hear your pain. 472 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:27,079 We understand that prices are feel the pain you. We're 473 00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:29,839 in the same boat as you, and we want and 474 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,240 we want to fight for you, and we're gonna fight. 475 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 2: You just need it. 476 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: You need to say it to the You need to 477 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,759 reach out to the people. You need to reach out, 478 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,279 and Trump does that but lying and conning people and 479 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:46,319 grifting and manipulating and defrauding. Anyway, we'll take our first 480 00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:48,519 quick break of the show. I want to remind everybody 481 00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:52,440 about Michael Cohen's YouTube channel at The Michael Cohen Show. 482 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,799 Make sure you subscribe. They're also patreon dot com slash 483 00:31:56,839 --> 00:32:02,799 Political Beatdown. We'll be hosting another line Political Beatdown zoom 484 00:32:02,799 --> 00:32:05,480 meeting soon where you can ask Michael Cohen and I anything. 485 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,599 Let's take our first and only break of the show. 486 00:32:10,119 --> 00:32:13,359 Speaker 2: Okay, so let's be honest. What most people really want 487 00:32:13,359 --> 00:32:17,000 for the holidays is to see their favorite people more often. 488 00:32:17,559 --> 00:32:20,440 That's why this year, the best gift that you can give, 489 00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:24,240 I mean, obviously, besides plane tickets is an Aura digital 490 00:32:24,319 --> 00:32:29,279 picture frame, name the number one digital photo frame by Wirecutter. 491 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:34,279 Aura frames are incredibly smart and they're incredibly easy to use, 492 00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:39,319 allowing you to upload unlimited photos and videos directly from 493 00:32:39,359 --> 00:32:42,759 your phone to the frame. 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I have to look at them 565 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,760 over and over and then double confirmed that they're real, 566 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,199 because they are some of the most kind of ludicrous 567 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:34,199 and embarrassing and just things that would and should be 568 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,320 focused on, not just like, oh, Trump's doing crazy things today, 569 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:42,239 but this should be front page. I think, you know, 570 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,119 corporate media New York Times calling out how dangerous this 571 00:37:46,159 --> 00:37:49,800 stuff is and not treated like oh, just a crazy 572 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,960 grandpa being crazy again. No, this stuff has real impacts. 573 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,599 Why corporate media is so broken. So here's one of 574 00:37:56,639 --> 00:38:00,199 his posts. It's like manic post post posts. America's going 575 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,880 to start building monuments to our great heroes and heroines again, 576 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,639 d JT this one. I'm saying that Canada will be 577 00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:11,480 a fifty first state and calling Justin Trudeau, the Prime 578 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,559 Minister of Canada, Governor, I mean, just insulting our allies. 579 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:17,480 Speaker 2: It's really insulting. 580 00:38:17,639 --> 00:38:19,800 Speaker 1: It was a no pleasure to have dinner the other 581 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:24,480 night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada. 582 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,039 I look forward to seeing the Governor again soon so 583 00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:31,639 that we may continue our in depth talks on tariffs 584 00:38:31,639 --> 00:38:35,440 and trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular 585 00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:41,199 for all d JT. And again, it's crazy, Ben, this 586 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:46,000 is crazy talk. It's crazy talk. Look, we have a 587 00:38:46,039 --> 00:38:48,000 lot of Canadian followers here. 588 00:38:48,039 --> 00:38:48,559 Speaker 2: I've been to. 589 00:38:48,559 --> 00:38:49,880 Speaker 1: Canada a bunch of times. 590 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,880 Speaker 2: My family lives in Canada. Half my family, my father 591 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,760 grew up in Canada, went to University of Toronto, came 592 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,000 to America to teach head and neck greekan destructive surgery. 593 00:39:01,199 --> 00:39:05,119 My five cousins, my first cousins, lived there, and uncles 594 00:39:05,119 --> 00:39:09,239 except two passed away, you know, unfortunately my aunts and uncles. 595 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,880 But my family lives there, all nieces and grand nieces. 596 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,440 And so this is not a joke. It's a it's 597 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,679 a sovereign nation. He's talking about them like if there's 598 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,840 some sort of an extension by the way you remember 599 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,679 I said it, while Poot didn't make start taking Ukraine 600 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,599 and taking Poland and then going back after Grusnia, after 601 00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,199 Georgia and so on. In China goes after Taiwan. Why 602 00:39:35,199 --> 00:39:38,840 would Trump not go after Mexico and Canada right start 603 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,880 making all borders the you know, the sea and making 604 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,079 it the coastline. 605 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,360 Speaker 1: This is going to your point there. The This is 606 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,639 how the events unfolded, right. So you had Donald Trump 607 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:57,119 was invited to France by President Macron in France to 608 00:39:57,599 --> 00:40:00,800 be there for the opening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, 609 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:06,719 which was previously burnt down. President Macron outwitted Donald Trump, 610 00:40:07,599 --> 00:40:13,159 entice Trump to go there with the big cathedral trappings, 611 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,800 and so Trump shows up in France. Then Macron brings 612 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,480 in Zelensky there as well, gets a photo op with 613 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,559 Trump and Zelensky at the cathedral, sending a message to 614 00:40:26,639 --> 00:40:32,079 Vladimir Putin. While Putin is facing some humiliations internationally, his 615 00:40:32,199 --> 00:40:36,960 big ally in Syria, Bashar al Assad's overthrown, the Romanian 616 00:40:37,639 --> 00:40:44,920 elections were overturned or stop based on Russian interference there, 617 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:50,599 the pro democracy protests in Georgia, Russia's losing major military 618 00:40:50,639 --> 00:40:55,360 bases in Syria, most likely as a result of Russian 619 00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:01,519 influence with Bashar al Assad leaving. So mcron in France 620 00:41:01,679 --> 00:41:06,880 brilliantly sends that message to Putin. So what happens in return? 621 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,519 I think Donald Trump felt embarrassed. Also, Trump did that 622 00:41:10,599 --> 00:41:15,079 really like weird handshake with President mccran and mccron squeezed 623 00:41:15,079 --> 00:41:17,320 the shit out of Trump's hand back to did you 624 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,719 notice like Trump's face grimacing and our idiotic corporate media 625 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,800 here was like Donald Trump asserts his dominance over France 626 00:41:26,159 --> 00:41:29,239 with power handshake. First off, that's not even what it was. 627 00:41:29,599 --> 00:41:32,920 Macron got the better of the handshake. But how ridiculous 628 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,760 that you as American media are focusing on the handshake. 629 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,119 It was the most ridiculous. If anyone's ever shaken your 630 00:41:40,159 --> 00:41:43,800 hand like that, they're usually like mentally ill or have 631 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,800 serious like I'm never It's just the most bizarre thing ever. 632 00:41:48,079 --> 00:41:51,679 So Trump felt humiliated. So what does he do? He 633 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:56,039 starts like defaming a first lady, doctor Jill Biden, and 634 00:41:56,159 --> 00:42:00,400 misappropriating her name, image and likeness, and like selling fragrans 635 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,679 and colowns with doctor Jill Biden's picture on it and 636 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:08,599 saying even your enemies can't resist my cologne. I mean disgusting. 637 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,559 I did a whole hot take. How that's a violation 638 00:42:11,679 --> 00:42:14,719 of privacy rights. And she consume him if she wants to. 639 00:42:15,119 --> 00:42:19,639 But then he has victor Orbon of Hungary. Go travel tomorrow, 640 00:42:19,639 --> 00:42:24,119 a Lago, Putin's emissary, right, goes tomorrow a Lago meets 641 00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:29,039 with Musk and Donald Trump. And then Trump starts sending 642 00:42:29,079 --> 00:42:32,519 these messages because Canada is like, all right, if Trump's 643 00:42:32,519 --> 00:42:35,599 gonna do this stuff, we're gonna have to do retaliatory tariffs. 644 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:40,599 So then Trump just starts doing erratic post after erratic 645 00:42:40,679 --> 00:42:45,760 post in response to the developments in France. To me, 646 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,880 that's the context also within which this is a cohen. 647 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,840 He also posted this. By the way, he goes, any person, 648 00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,000 this is real, Like I was like, is this a 649 00:42:56,039 --> 00:42:59,400 real thing? He post this. Trump writes, any person or 650 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:04,639 company investing one billion dollars or more in the United 651 00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:11,599 States of America will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, 652 00:43:12,039 --> 00:43:17,159 but in no way limited to, all environmental approvals. Get 653 00:43:17,199 --> 00:43:22,199 ready to rock. And then some Twitter account Dogie designer 654 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,920 writes bullish on America, and then Elon Musk goes, this 655 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:33,320 is awesome. Rocket Ship America. This is awesome that anybody 656 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,000 who has a billion dollars can literally people. 657 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,920 Speaker 2: Have a billion dollars within which to create some sort 658 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,880 of you know, some sort of a business. Yeah, that's great. 659 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,760 You know who has the billion dollars? The top ten 660 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,039 people that he's actually putting into office in his cabinet 661 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:56,559 or around the cabinet, meaning Elon Musk or Linda McMahon 662 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,760 or Lutnik or you know, that's what they're all doing. 663 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:06,199 It's it's basically in front of our faces, right under 664 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:11,800 our noses. They are stealing. They are doing to America 665 00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:16,599 what the Robert Barons did going back into the seventeen hundreds. 666 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,480 That's what they're doing right under our noses. And these 667 00:44:20,599 --> 00:44:23,760 magadopes are just sitting there and they think that somewhere 668 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:28,559 along the line, some of the scraps from long Shank's 669 00:44:28,599 --> 00:44:33,719 table is going to fall onto theirs. So it's so foolish. 670 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,280 I don't understand what we're doing anymore. I don't understand 671 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:37,960 what we're thinking. 672 00:44:38,599 --> 00:44:43,000 Speaker 1: Here's the thing with these billionaires who party at mar Lago. 673 00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:49,639 You realize that at some point, if you kill off people, 674 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,159 then you don't have people to even sell things to. 675 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:58,800 You realize, when you destroy the lives of consumers, they 676 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,639 can't buy your stuff. So you want to do things 677 00:45:03,679 --> 00:45:06,280 that are going to give people cancer and take away 678 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,840 their healthcare, and take them off important social safety nets 679 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,119 that they paid into, and mock people. What do you 680 00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:16,679 think that's going to do to your company? 681 00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,280 Speaker 2: But what they rely on, and I'm so sorry they're 682 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,840 not thinking that way. They're not thinking about selling another 683 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:28,079 Tesla or you know, or running another hedge fund that's 684 00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:31,199 worth you know, three quarters of you know, of a 685 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,599 trillion dollars. That's not what they're thinking. What they're what 686 00:45:34,639 --> 00:45:37,840 they're basically doing. They're chopped in up our country into 687 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:42,280 little pieces, and you know, it will become the halves 688 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:47,079 and the have nots. The problem for the halves is 689 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:52,320 there's what eight hundred billionaires in America right now, starting 690 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,920 with one billion, going up to three hundred and twenty billion. 691 00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:03,280 Imagine the top three billionaires have more money than all 692 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:08,840 the other billionaires combined. Imagine that, right. So when you 693 00:46:09,119 --> 00:46:12,480 start talking to when Elon Musk wants to start talking 694 00:46:12,519 --> 00:46:17,800 about what is good for you, what you need, how 695 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,400 does he know it's no different if I say to you, 696 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,280 I mean, we've all read about the dinosaurs that roam 697 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,159 the earth. You know what it's like to be a dinosaur. 698 00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,840 The answer, of course, is no, you can't understand what 699 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,679 it's like to be a dinosaur any more than Elon 700 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,239 Musk could understand what any one of us are going 701 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,599 through on a day by day basis. But I will 702 00:46:39,599 --> 00:46:42,000 tell you, I will tell you, knowing Trump as well 703 00:46:42,039 --> 00:46:45,400 as I do, that relationship is not going to be 704 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:49,719 long lived, just not. And what's happening is they're all 705 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,480 jockeying for certain power, and just as soon as we 706 00:46:54,639 --> 00:46:58,840 the people turn around and don't allow it to take place, 707 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,159 whether it'll be the same that put a stop to it, 708 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:06,360 or whether it'll just be a massive revolution like what 709 00:47:06,559 --> 00:47:10,360 just took place in Syria, there will come a point 710 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:14,039 in time he will have to blame somebody. He'll have 711 00:47:14,159 --> 00:47:18,000 to blame somebody, and who will he blame? Everyone other 712 00:47:18,079 --> 00:47:24,360 than himself, specifically somebody like Elon Muskin vivik Rumswami. Because 713 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,719 the two things or the three things that they are 714 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:31,480 doing are right there at the front, right at the 715 00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:36,159 helm of all of the things that many of you 716 00:47:37,079 --> 00:47:40,559 are nervous about that keeps you up at night. 717 00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,719 Speaker 1: You know when I think that one of our responsibilities 718 00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:49,599 here as well is also reflecting on the power of 719 00:47:49,880 --> 00:48:00,239 peaceful protests, mass peaceful protests and mass peaceful demonstrations and 720 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,880 making it clear that the ends can be achieved through 721 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:11,760 peaceful means. As people are sick and tired of what 722 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,239 Trump is doing, what he's already what his policies are 723 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:21,239 already happening before it's even day one. I mean he 724 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:27,360 posted this Michael Cohen as well. Just now he goes Bidenomics, 725 00:48:27,639 --> 00:48:32,039 and let's just pause there. Bidenomics was all about bottom up, 726 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:38,440 middle out, how do you help workers even the playing 727 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:43,480 field and billionaires pay their fair share. That's all biden 728 00:48:43,559 --> 00:48:46,960 Economics is, right, That's what it was. And it's not 729 00:48:47,159 --> 00:48:52,360 overnight that you can enact policies where Republicans have been 730 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:58,360 pushing this agenda for forty years, fifty years. Biden's policies 731 00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:02,039 were on target for where the American people were. The 732 00:49:02,119 --> 00:49:06,719 messaging wasn't, but his views were on target and his 733 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,599 attempt at messaging it and what his policies actually did. 734 00:49:11,599 --> 00:49:16,639 But here's Trump's post Bidenomics. You pay taxes. I send 735 00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:21,079 it to Ukraine, they send it back to Hunter. Hunter 736 00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:27,079 gives it to me. Pardon Hunter, how Bidenomics works. So 737 00:49:27,199 --> 00:49:28,760 here's the thing, though, Cohen. 738 00:49:29,599 --> 00:49:33,039 Speaker 2: A terrible terrible thing for Trump to be saying. It's 739 00:49:33,079 --> 00:49:36,119 a terrible terrible thing. First of all, none of it 740 00:49:36,159 --> 00:49:38,559 is true. But go ahead, what were you going to say, Ben? 741 00:49:38,679 --> 00:49:41,840 Speaker 1: What I was gonna say, though, is is that you 742 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:50,159 have Trump Maga with their cannonballs of dis info over 743 00:49:50,199 --> 00:49:53,360 and over and over non stop. This stuff right that 744 00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,440 gets put on Fox. They spread that. 745 00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,000 Speaker 2: Now again. 746 00:49:58,119 --> 00:50:02,039 Speaker 1: I ask, don't get me wrong. You know, I thought, 747 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:07,000 you know, President Biden's speech at the Brookings Institution today 748 00:50:07,079 --> 00:50:09,920 was a good speech. I think when you know, some 749 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,280 Democrats show up on and do the Sunday shows, okay, 750 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:20,960 but where is Where is that fighter who doesn't just 751 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:26,159 show up on an old school platform that nobody watches, 752 00:50:27,039 --> 00:50:33,159 just out there using the toolkit of modern day marketing 753 00:50:33,559 --> 00:50:40,760 and advertising and social media and saying that these things 754 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:47,239 by Trump are outrageous and saying, oh the golden toilet 755 00:50:47,559 --> 00:50:51,679 bowl boy, who's out there in mar A Lago with 756 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:56,480 the richest man in the world laughing in your freaking faces, 757 00:50:56,519 --> 00:50:59,840 has something to say, sit down and shut up gold 758 00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:04,239 toilet bowl boy. Let's actually focus on what matters to be, 759 00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,519 like just where where are the people? 760 00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:11,159 Speaker 2: But say whatever you want, say whatever you want about Trump. 761 00:51:11,559 --> 00:51:15,360 He doesn't read, he does this, he does that. Think 762 00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:20,480 about that post that he just put up. Each and 763 00:51:20,519 --> 00:51:23,239 every one of us have to acknowledge that that's not 764 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:29,280 what Bidenomics is not by a long shot. It's misinformation. 765 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:34,000 It's disinformation, it's malinformation. We could easily turn it to 766 00:51:34,159 --> 00:51:36,760 trump genomics. Put that back up for one second, and 767 00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,360 you turn around and you say, you pay taxes, Yeah, 768 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:43,960 we pay taxes, all right. I put my daughter in 769 00:51:44,039 --> 00:51:48,599 law in charge of the RNC, within which to collect 770 00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:54,280 money to use for my legal fees. I'm now going 771 00:51:54,360 --> 00:52:01,119 to make her thanks to round sanctimonious sen because I 772 00:52:01,159 --> 00:52:04,440 took out Marco Rubio, gave him a big spot. Lord 773 00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,880 knows how long he's going to ultimately last. I say 774 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,719 maybe at best six Scaramuci's all right, then you turn 775 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:16,400 around and you have they just you could take that down. 776 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,000 They just went ahead. The Trump organization just inked two 777 00:52:20,119 --> 00:52:24,880 more deals with Saudi Arabia for branding and so on. 778 00:52:25,599 --> 00:52:30,079 I mean, let's let's just be fair here, all right, 779 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:34,400 and let's turn around and say, you may not think 780 00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,239 that Biden was the right guy to take us into 781 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,079 the next four years based upon his age and so on. 782 00:52:42,559 --> 00:52:46,800 I'll acknowledge that. I'll even accept that. But we're going 783 00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:53,760 to acknowledge and accept somebody that wants to completely whitewash 784 00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,039 the fact that we have the best economy in the 785 00:52:56,039 --> 00:52:58,880 world by two and a half times. The stock market 786 00:52:59,119 --> 00:53:02,119 is at an all time I'm high and has been 787 00:53:02,199 --> 00:53:05,519 even before the election, right because Trump is saying that 788 00:53:05,559 --> 00:53:08,360 the stock market's only up because he won and big 789 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,679 business is coming back, and that's what's causing the stock 790 00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:16,880 market increase. And then you have unemployment at a loan 791 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,320 at an all time low, you have a minority income 792 00:53:21,679 --> 00:53:25,159 you know, rise at the greatest of all time in 793 00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,719 US history. I mean, come on serious, You can go 794 00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,039 on and on, and this is this is what you 795 00:53:30,119 --> 00:53:33,280 want to do. You want to whitewash and rewrite history 796 00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:39,039 to say that Biden and the economy are no good stop. 797 00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:44,480 Where are the Democrats? Where is Jamie Harrison? Why are 798 00:53:44,559 --> 00:53:48,880 they not putting out ads? Why is Joe Biden himself 799 00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,519 not sitting right now? As the president of the United States. 800 00:53:52,639 --> 00:53:55,239 If I was the president the same way I'm talking 801 00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:59,320 to each and every one of you every Tuesday and 802 00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,760 every third day at this hour, I would do the 803 00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:06,960 same thing as president. My fellow Americans, there's so much 804 00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:13,159 bullshit going on right now, by the Republican Party, by 805 00:54:13,199 --> 00:54:16,559 my adversary, by the President elect. However you want to 806 00:54:16,599 --> 00:54:18,800 talk about it, and whenever you want to talk about it, 807 00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,920 none of that is true. And I want to walk 808 00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:28,840 you through one aspect of the misinformation, the whitewashing of information. 809 00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,559 Let's just talk about unemployment right now. The unemployment level 810 00:54:32,679 --> 00:54:35,400 is at an all time low for at least the 811 00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,719 last one hundred years. And let me just give you 812 00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,719 some recent data. This is the same data, the same organization, 813 00:54:43,079 --> 00:54:46,480 the same department that did it under the Trump administration, 814 00:54:46,639 --> 00:54:49,639 did it under the Obama administration, did it under the 815 00:54:49,679 --> 00:54:53,960 Bush administration, and all the way for god knows how 816 00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,599 many hundreds of years. They're the ones that tell you 817 00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,880 what the unemployment rate is. Not me, I don't make 818 00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:02,519 it up, My people don't make it blah blah blah 819 00:55:02,519 --> 00:55:05,960 blah blah. Go there, use the power of the office, 820 00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:10,159 show the vision of a man sitting behind the Lincoln 821 00:55:10,199 --> 00:55:13,800 desk put your put your your your meat into this thing, 822 00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:18,719 and turn around and say you cannot you cannot accept 823 00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:22,360 this lie and allow the lie to continue to be 824 00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:28,760 regurgitated over and over and over until ultimately the lie 825 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:34,199 becomes the truth. And that truth, which is the scheme 826 00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,840 and the plan of how Stalin used to do it, 827 00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,360 is unacceptable here in the United States of America. Blah 828 00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,559 blah blah blah blah. That's what they need to do. 829 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:50,880 That's exactly. Two finger salute, sir. Two finger salute has 830 00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:54,599 to I would say, has to go to the leaders 831 00:55:54,639 --> 00:55:58,199 of DOJI right, Department of Government Efficiency, which I don't 832 00:55:58,239 --> 00:55:59,920 even know what the hell they are. Are they appro 833 00:56:00,559 --> 00:56:03,400 Are they an agency? Now? I have no idea. It 834 00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,760 has to go to Elon Muskin Vivik Ramaswami. These two, 835 00:56:07,079 --> 00:56:10,199 these two assholes are just out there every single day 836 00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:15,679 running around there. You go, running around the Capitol literally 837 00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,760 bullying everybody. We want this, we want that, We're gonna 838 00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,000 do this. He's got his kid on his shoulders having 839 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:26,639 a great time. Daddy's gonna make America great again. Seriously, no, 840 00:56:27,079 --> 00:56:31,079 I mean, seriously, do you not realize how many. Actually 841 00:56:31,119 --> 00:56:33,519 it's one finger for one, the other finger for the other. 842 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,960 This is not a joke. This is just not a joke. 843 00:56:37,199 --> 00:56:42,000 There's lives that are at stay risk here. There's people's 844 00:56:42,159 --> 00:56:45,360 ability to eat and to pay rent and to have 845 00:56:45,639 --> 00:56:48,119 healthcare and so on, and that's on the line. This 846 00:56:48,159 --> 00:56:50,880 isn't this is not a joke. I know that they're 847 00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:54,920 having fun playing, you know, a role here, but there's 848 00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,159 a lot of lives on And that's why again I'm 849 00:56:57,159 --> 00:56:59,840 gonna say this one last time before we end up 850 00:57:00,119 --> 00:57:04,679 closing out this episode. That's why this community, why the 851 00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:09,039 Minus Touch network, political beatdown, my Maya Kulpa podcasts, my 852 00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:13,719 YouTube channel, Legal af the my Cellos brothers. It is 853 00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:18,599 why this community is so so so important. It's so 854 00:57:18,719 --> 00:57:23,239 important because we as the community cannot allow this thing 855 00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:27,719 to continue. We cannot just sit back, do nothing, say nothing, 856 00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,440 and then one day wake up and say, how the 857 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:34,039 hell did this shit happen? All right, not going to 858 00:57:34,119 --> 00:57:38,480 happen on our watch. So to Vivik and to Elon, honestly, guys, 859 00:57:38,679 --> 00:57:40,079 fuck you both. 860 00:57:40,639 --> 00:57:42,880 Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out to one of 861 00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,719 the brigaders, Ron Gravell, who I think gave a good 862 00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:50,920 slogan that we should use. He says, how Trumpanomics works. 863 00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,920 I rip you off? Did you think there was a 864 00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:58,760 part two? Simple message? Simple message, you can meme it, 865 00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:02,679 label it trump Bonomics. I rip you off? Did you 866 00:58:02,719 --> 00:58:05,159 think there was a part two? And then show in 867 00:58:05,239 --> 00:58:08,719 the image on the back all of the ways Trump 868 00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:13,199 is ripping you off, Like, visualize, you know, the workers 869 00:58:13,239 --> 00:58:17,000 being screwed in the back, Visualize Donald Trump and Saudi 870 00:58:17,079 --> 00:58:22,000 Arabia getting all of this money. Show that imagery, and 871 00:58:22,119 --> 00:58:23,400 you know there are lots of people like, are you 872 00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:25,760 really live live you guys, Yes, we're really live live. 873 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:30,239 And read your comments also, and I thought that was 874 00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:31,960 a I thought that was a good one. We're on 875 00:58:32,039 --> 00:58:34,239 all right. Let me remind you. I'll make sure you 876 00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:38,199 subscribe to Michael Cohen's YouTube channel at the Michael Cohen Show. 877 00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:41,119 Go there now. Make sure you also subscribe to the 878 00:58:41,239 --> 00:58:44,960 Maya Culpa podcast. That's the blue one, not the red one. 879 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,320 When you search wherever you get podcasts, just search Maya Culpa. 880 00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:53,519 When you see the blue one, click subscribe. And also 881 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,960 patreon dot com slash Political Beatdown. Cohen and I will 882 00:58:58,039 --> 00:59:03,000 chat about which day we're gonna do our next zoom meeting. 883 00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,039 Do me a favor, everybody though, put in the comments 884 00:59:06,239 --> 00:59:12,760 what time you prefer mornings or after our show or evenings. 885 00:59:13,079 --> 00:59:14,719 Speaker 2: Do you have a preference. 886 00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:18,000 Speaker 1: When we do these zoom meetings and we'll take that 887 00:59:18,039 --> 00:59:23,719 into account. Michael Cohen Beatdown Brigaders, Midas Mighty. Thank you 888 00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:27,000 all so much. We'll see you next time on Political Beatdown. 889 00:59:27,639 --> 00:59:27,840 Speaker 3: Oh