Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. I'm Ben Mycellas, joined by Michael Cohen.
We've got a lot to discuss. Let's just start off
with Donald Trump in an interview this morning with Politico,
saying that he would grade the current economy that's experienced
by most Americans as an A plus plus plus plus
plus plus. He says, here, let's just play this clip.
Speaker 2: Pretty good, but I do want to talk about the economy,
sir here at home, and I wonder what grade you
would give.
Speaker 3: A plus, A plus, A plus plus plus plus plus.
Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting as I'd probably give it about a
D minus to an F right now, probably i'd.
Speaker 2: Say I don't know if I would give it an F.
For a D minus, I'm thinking maybe a C minus
at best.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think for I think for most Americans
who live paycheck to paycheck, if they're fortunate enough to
have paycheck to paycheck, the feeling is an F. I
give it a D minus because if you include the
stock market in people's four oh one k's, which has
actually gone up despite most people not being invested in
the market, you could at least say, look, it's objectively
true the market has gone up, but a lot of
that's been because of AI inflating the valuations and deals
that we're doing that undermine our long term national security
in order to pump up the price of stocks like Nvidia.
And just an example of that is Donald Trump posting
yesterday that he will be giving China the H two
hundred series of these GPUs the semiconductor chips, and these
H two hundred products are so highly classified, are so
important to our national security interests in the United States
that we just gave away that Trump's own Department of
Justice prosecuted people yesterday the same day Trump made the announcement.
People were prosecuted for selling these to China or selling
him to a conduit, a middleman, to then give to China.
And in the filing by the Department of Justice, they
describe what a grave threat that poses to our national
security interest that it is a felony for people to
give this to China. But then Donald Trump's just like China,
you can have it, and Trump's giving it to China
to encourage them to buy the soybeans and to allow
the rare earth elements to flow back into the United
States that they restricted and that they're not purchasing when
it comes to the soybeans because of Trump's trade war
against the world, where China's out maneuvered them. So now
I guess Trump's policy was declare a trade war against
the world. China stops buying the soybeans and cuts off
rare earth elements. We then give China our highly classified
H two hundred GPUs and technology.
Speaker 2: And what do we get. Oh, we get to give
twenty billion dollars to our farmers in order to keep
them going, right, That's what we get, you know, Ben,
I got to just tell you with an F you know,
or a D minus. I'm glad that I don't have
you as my professor because you're clearly a rough grader there.
But I'm with you. I mean, this is definitely this
is definitely D class material here. You know, I actually
have a little bit of knowledge in regarding these Navidia
H two hundred chips and so on. In your spot
on it is actually a crime. It is to the
extent of almost treason to provide China with these highly classified,
extremely technological chips that are used not just in AI
as they're trying to tell the American people, but on
top of that for our military guidance system, for the
for the laser guidance systems that's used. The big problem
that America is going to have because Ben, once again
you spot on right, what did America get for this
big trade? What America is going to take twenty five
percent on these chips? Do you realize that the second
you sell the Chinese one one of these do you
think the Chinese give two shits about intellectual property? They
do not not a There is not a chance in
the world that they will not reverse engineer or at
least try to reverse engineer both the H one hundred
and the H two hundred chip. It's just it's what
they do, and they'll figure out a way at worst
to turn around and to make a slight modification, so
in that way they don't end up in the International
Court for a theft of intellectual property rights. But China
doesn't believe in intellectual property rights, meaning after the first
batch that gets sold to them, they will put their
top scientists, and trust me when I tell you their
top scientists are pretty damn good. They will put them
on there to reverse engineer this in order to start
to create their own H one hundred h two hundred ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, in the Trump news cycle, that's just
something that happens, and like people don't pay enough attention
to it, and it's why we focus on it here
at the outset of the show. Right the same way,
Donald Trump put forward his national Security strategy which says
it's official policy of the United States to basically harm
the European Union to prevent the expansion of the EU
or the solidarity of the EU, and it's actually to
prevent the permanent expansion and the perception of expansion and
existence of NATO. In the official United States strategy National
Strategy document, it literally looks like it could have been
drafted by Putin. And it comes at the same time
that the Financial Times has reported that over the past
year or so, Putin was planning of how he was
going to basically move these cargo containers into United States
passenger planes and cargo planes and blow them up and
to try to create mass chaos and mass casualties worse
than nine to eleven. And Donald Trump is rewarding Russia
and treating Russia, as you know, as the ally of
the US, while Donald Trump's formal position about Europe is
that Europe is in the sphere of influence of Russia.
That's how it's described. Europe is in the sphere of
influence of Russia. Russia takes that territory. Then Trump says
the United States sphere of influence is the western hemisphere,
and that there's a renewed Monroe doctrine as he frames it,
such that Canada the castle state of the United States
of America, and it belongs to the US, as does
all of Central South America, Mexico. And you know, part
of the Trump invasion plan of Venezuela, you know, is
you know that that that belongs to us, the same
way Putin says Ukraine belongs to him, and the same
way China says Taiwan belongs to us. That's how that's
how the policy sees its spheres.
Speaker 2: Of Sure, so Ben, you're spot on when you say,
how come nobody is talking about that article where Russia
was contemplating on putting bombs on US flights. I mean,
my friends, do you realize that you're talking about government
sanctioned murder of Americans and other and you know, and
other individuals from other countries, and yet nobody's talking about it.
But what they are doing is they're treating, as you said,
Russia like they are an ally, and treating all of
our allies like they are the worst adversaries, like they
are Russia or China or North Korea or Iran. I mean,
this is completely out of control. We've really lost not
even that we've lost our weight, We're we're completely in
the wrong. We're not even in the right state. I mean,
this is seriously out of control. And yet we're talking
about now assisting Russia in terms of the complete and
total annihilation of Ukraine. Where how great was it when
Zelenski turned around and said, I cannot even consider this
twenty nine point of twenty eight point proposal. First of all,
it's outside of my authority and it's actually it's inhumane
right to turn around and to say that I'm going
to give up territory, I'm going to ignore the fact
that land was stolen from us, give up our mineral rights,
turn around and agree that NATO will never be the
Ukraine will never become part of NATO, and the other
twenty five or so twenty four points each one more
devastating to the people of Ukraine, especially as he said
to the memory of those Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who
have died for their right to exist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, think about it. You know, the way Donald Trump
floods the zone with whatever diabolical thinking he has overturn
the results of the twenty twenty election, say that January
sixth was not what it was the way and this
is a skill set that he has, but it's a
bad one, and you have to stand up to him.
He will throw everything at it. He will be relentless
about it and every single moment. That's the thing. And
then he will get a bunch of stooges who will
risk their lives and their career. And you know it
Cohen more than anyone, you know, you know, And it's
hard to get out of, you know, basically his own
kamakazies unless they can get out of it. And there's
a price to pay when you get out of it.
And they just push it. And it's a relentless fire hose.
It doesn't matter. You look at Trump with the wildfires
here in California. You know, even though it's the most
ridiculous thing to say that Newsome cared more about the
smelt than putting out the fires. And he was focused
on fish and the reservoirs were in full when they
were full, and that Trump saved the day. Trump creates
his scenario, and you want.
Speaker 2: The holding back, then, the holding back on the relief
package that had it's been granted to California simply because
California is a blue state and Gavin Newsom is trolling him.
You could only think about this.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom the governor of the most populous state in
the United States of America, the state that gives the
most to the federal government and takes the least relative
to what it gives, a state that would be the
fourth largest GDP in the world if it was a country.
The governor of that state takes a trip to Washington,
d C. Across the country to meet with Donald Trump,
to meet with the President of the United States. Donald
Trump refuses to take the meeting, so then the governor says, Okay,
can I meet with the head of FEMA, whoever that
is because the last guy left the guy before that. No,
can I meet with Christinole. She makes a lot of
propaganda videos as the governor of the largest state, most populous,
and wealthiest, who gives the most money to fund these things.
Can I meet with No? No, Can I meet with
the White House staffer or a FEMA staffer so that
the governor's office can at least have a voice.
Speaker 2: Wait, can I guess what they said?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, they said no. And then so Newsom did
this great interview with Jack Kochirella and I played this interview.
It was the morning video that I did where he
was overlooking the White House and he was calling Donald
Trump out. But the broader point I'm making there though,
and why I was talking about Zelensky and then move
there is Trump's mind is made up. It is Ukraine
belongs to Russia. That's it. So the question is is
how you get there?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: So last week it was the twenty eight point piece plan, right,
which is really a plan of surrender. This week it
is don Bas. It's okay, let's just ignore those points.
Just give Russia all of don Bas. Now, Ukraine controls
thirty percent of don Vas and they and European intelligence
estimate that it would take Russia another four years and
over a million Russian soldiers' lives to be able on
a best case scenario to get that thirty percent. So
for Ukraine, why would they give up land that they control.
That's their bargaining chip because the moment Ukraine gives Russia Donbas,
which Russia can't conquer by force. Cohen, what do you
think Russia does next? Do they go great or do
you think they used don Bas to go further west
and eventually into Europe.
Speaker 2: So they had this young lady who was part of
the parliament in Ukraine on television and she said what
everybody else who has half a brain is saying, that
Vladimir Putin did this years ago? Right, I think it
was what twenty fourteen when he turned around and he
took part of Russia. We're talking about the Dombas region. Well, okay,
they kick back, they shut up, They pretend, pretend that
they are going to be compliant with whatever agreement has
been reached. But know what they're doing is they're restocking.
Remember that a million Russian soldiers have already died on
this battlefield, all right. They have already basically depleted their
male population from like the age of eighteen to in
the forties. All Right, that's how crazy this is. Not
only are they looking to replenish, but they're also looking
to replenish their stockpile of armaments, because, let me be clear,
Russia doesn't have the system, they don't have the money,
they don't have the resources within which to keep producing
the number of missiles and rockets and ammunition and guns
that you know they currently need in order to be Ukraine.
What's amazing is that Ukraine. It's like that movie what
was it like two hundred? Right, where two hundred is
fighting one hundred thousand. These Ukrainians are fighting for their lives.
They're fighting for their nation, and they're not going to
go down lightly. You could blow up all the houses
that you want. You can go ahead and attack their infrastructure.
That's okay. The Ukrainians are strong people. They are determined.
They want to be independent and not be under the
thumb of Vladimir Putin and Russia, plain and simple, and
they will fight to the end. By the way, who
am I most impressed with? Yes, I know that. I'm
sorry the movie was three hundred? Apologies? Right? Who am
I most impressed with? Truth be told, Europe. Europe is
now meeting with Zelenski, and unlike our president, they're treating
him with the respect that he deserves. They're treating him
like the president of a country that is that is
in war, under attack from a hostile adversary, and let
me tell you something, they get to him some of
the necessary armaments. There's no doubt in my mind that
at some point in time Zelenski will do a full
on freaking offensive right into Red Square, right into Moscow,
which is Vladimir Putin's you know, krem de la Creme,
it's his crown jewel. And right after that they'll turn
around and they'll go after Saint Petersburg and all of
the places that Vladimir Putin holds deer as a nationalist,
that places that he holds deer, they will annihilate.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing too, Europe, in its own self interest,
sees the United States as no longer aligned with Europe,
no longer aligned with NATO and Europe. Out of their
own self interest, they view that if they don't do
this to help Ukraine, that in the next two to
three years there actually is. One may even suggest that
right now there is a world war taking place that's
not being called as such, with all of the wars
and proxy fights taking place across the country in various regions.
Perhaps it's not the way we think about it in
World War I and World War two, but Europe is
planning in its own mind. People need to realize they
are planning that if things keep going the way they
are in US continues to do what it does, that
Europe is going to potentially be at war against Russia
and the United States, and the US is no longer
viewed by Europe internally as an ally and they no
longer reviewed as really a part of NATO. Europe gives
it lip service because they feel they have to at
this point to at least try to keep the US
in a neutral posture. But if you look at the
alignments taking place right now, we've never seen anything like
this since right before World War One and then right
before World War Two. And Trump likes to always talk about, oh,
world War three of Biden, we are so close to that.
And I'm not trying to be hyperbolic in Doom's Day esque,
but that's truly if you look at what's happening in
the world, and it's why we cover this on the
Midas touched no work, and you don't see this covered elsewhere.
I mean, just look at what's happening right now between
Japan and China, where the new Prime Minister of Japan
Takeishi recently said, if China invades Taiwan, we as Japan
will have to protect Taiwan because there's no US help
being offered, to which the main ambassadors of China responded,
we are going to cut the head off. We're going
to behead the Prime minister of Japan. Japan was then
looking for the United States ambassador to summon the ambassador
of China to cool things down. That's not what happened. Instead,
what happened was Jijingping called Donald Trump, and Jijingping said,
you need to call Japan and tell Prime Minister Takaishi
to chill out, and that if you want to visit
us in China, Donald, then you want us to buy
those soybeans and release the rare earth elements. And they
keep holding this over is that you need to call
Japan and tell them to shut up. So then Trump
calls Japanese Prime Minister Takeishi and tells her calm down,
to which Prime Minister Takaishi and Japan knows, wow, we
can't rely on the US. So what are they doing
in Japan? The biggest military build up right now in
their history since pre World War two. That's happening right now.
A massive military build up in Japan, a massive military
build up in Germany. You have Canada looking to now
purchase its planes and its war weapons from Sweden and
elsewhere and move away from the US. And the thing is,
as you watch these alliances being formed, the US is
kind of in no man's land. And they lost Europe,
in Canada and Australia because we're openly hostile with it.
Trump's like begging jijingping, and he's uplifting Putin. But the
Bricks Alliance is weakening the United States as the US
moves away from its allies.
Speaker 2: It's the crazy though he doesn't see it that way.
Trump does not see it this way. Let me enlighten
if I can for two seconds, Ben, stay with me,
because I want to see your reactions, as if you would.
I want to enlighten our brigadors on something when something
like this happens. He's not listening to someone who's logical,
who is thoughtful in his words, I'm talking about you, Ben,
He's listening to a group of acolytes and sycophants that
are willing to tell him anything. So when somebody turns
around and says to him, you realize that America has lost,
not is losing, has lost its allies throughout Europe, that
if we allow Russia to take Ukraine, next will be Poland.
After Poland will be the Baltics, whereby Putin, while he's
still living, is hell bent on reforming the former Soviet
Union with himself as Zar Nicholas. Well, when you tell
this to Trump, he'll turn around and tell you it's
not true. He's more popular in Europe in his own mind,
simply because again it's reinforced by these acolytes. Where he
was bold enough to say to Dasha whatever her last
name is on that interview, that they call him Daddy Trump.
He just received the FIFA Peace Prize. These are being
regurgitated to him and repeated to him over and over
and over to the point that he's actually believing his
own bullshit. And that, my friends, is where we come in.
And that's where again I say it all the time.
It's why I say Midas Touch Network needs to have
not five and a half six million, you need to
have twenty million, forty million, fifty million. Because I know
it's a big number. Trust me, I understand numbers. But
the reason it's so important is if you have any
intention of ensuring that Daddy Trump and this administration get
their asses handed to them, that there is a blue
tsunami that wipes the red right off the map, you
need to have one specific place where people can go
to get information that is honest and truthful instead of
going to places that are fraught fraught with misinformation, disinformation,
malinformation all day long within which to keep their narrative
going for their viewers. That's what it's all about. I
mean state sponsored media. With what's going on now between
this Netflix and Warner and Paramount, all of this does
not benefit It does not in or to our benefit.
And that's why we need to have a place to
be united, a place for information and might just touch network,
it's the place to go. Look.
Speaker 1: I think that Europe is very late in the realizations
that they're now making, and I still think that these
European leaders are being too weak. Although you may say, oh, well,
what would you do in that situation, Ben where you're
running these countries and you have to deal with this
all of a sudden about face of the United States
becoming a fascist regime and how do you balance the
fact that there was a world order post World War
II created by the United States that in a flash
was ripped away from you. But I think the best
lesson Frankly, you know, I'm gonna say Cohen, of how
you deal with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, to me,
it's not even a close call Mom Donnie. When Mom
Donnie went into the Oval Office, he didn't sacrifice for
a moment any of the things that he believed. He
called Donald Trump a fascist to Donald Trump's face when
he was asked about it, and he said, let's take
a photo in front of FDR. And at no point
did Mom Donnie look like he was begging Donald Trump
for anything. And he said, where we have alignment, great,
Where we don't, we're going to duke it out. And
that's nothing's changed. I don't take back anything. You contrast
that to NATO, and it was actually Mark Rutt, the
Secretary General of NATO, who, as part of what he
perceived as a joke, it's Donald Trump's daddy, Donald Trum's daddy.
And when Trump sees somebody say that, or sees the
European nations march into the Oval Office and bend to
him or beg him or give him attention. Trump sees
that as an affirmation of what he feels about Europe,
that it's weakness and the only way to get respect
or to fight back is you have to put it
on the line, even if that means your country in
Europe can face economic pain by the disentanglement of the
world order. Newsflash, the world order is disentangling, whether you
beg Donald Trump or not. So the question is is
how do you deal with it? Because all you're doing
is putting off the inevitable where things will be worse
firsut if you confront it.
Speaker 2: So to me are dealing with it? Ben That's the difference. Canada,
as an example, they're not selling their soft lumber to
the United States because of taxes. They're selling it elsewhere.
The United States slapped on a rolled steel tariff or
a steel tariff. What are they doing? They're selling it elsewhere.
What happened, For example, when Trump screwed up our farmers
so and China needs to get their soy somewhere, they
went to Argentina, who we just bailed out. So Argentina
is selling now to China soy using our money. I mean,
the whole thing is batshit crazy. So the problem is
countries like Canada, countries like England and Italy and France
and just all all the NATO countries and others that
we considered our close friends are allies. What are they doing?
They're now looking for alternate routes in order to obtain
the the products that they need. And I want to
be clear about something. The United States doesn't really manufacture
too much of anything. Yeah, we manufacture cars. They don't
even want our cars. Our cars are too big for
their roads. You ever see an American car in Italy,
good luck making a left turn to go down a
street that was lucky that a horse can get through.
That's why the European cars are thinner than the American cars,
while they're smaller. Good luck selling a Ford f one
point fifty anywhere in Europe. They don't want it. That's
the whole point. We don't really manufacture shit here. And
for whatever the reason, this entire group of sicophant idiots
are all sitting there telling you, hey, you know, you know,
everybody wants our product. Everyone wants them, everybody wants the products.
We don't make shit, all right. In fact, we don't
even want to make it because we can't compete with
countries like China, all right, who pay two dollars a
one dollar an hour to their employees. Americans want cheap goods,
and we sell other things. And what will happen? They
will now go ahead and they will start to invest
as a group the way the United States and Israel
has certain relationships. They will then form their own relationships.
They will come up with their own military might, and ultimately,
who knows, maybe it'll even surpass the United States, which
then puts us completely in the doghouse, all thanks to
this administration.
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Speaker 1: Let's uh want to show some other clips from this
morning quickly. Let's talk about when Donald Trump was pressed
by the reb nottra press is the right word to
ask by asked gently by the reporter with actually very
little pushback. So what do you make of people heading
into this holiday season who aren't able to spend as
much and see the higher prices? Trump says, stop being dramatic.
Speaker 2: We got it.
Speaker 1: Do we got it? Or do we not have a Germany?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Maybe you to the people, not to the insurance.
Speaker 2: Now people are buying their holiday President's presidence, they're planning.
Don't be dramatic. No, no, here's here's what I know
and what I want to do.
Speaker 1: Don't be dramatic. Don't be dramatic.
Speaker 2: Cohen, Well, nothing, I mean nothing like being dramatic when
you know, you end up calling nine to one one
for an ambulance to take you because you're having you know,
chest pains or maybe a little kidney stone or god
knows what else it could potentially be. And unfortunately they
turn around, they tell you you're going to need to sign
over here because you don't have insurance, and then ultimately
what happens, your whole life gets turned upside down. You know,
most people in this country don't have clearly enough money
put off to the side in order to protect themselves
from some form of catastrophic health issue. But don't be dramatic. Dasha. Now, no, no, no,
don't you be don't you dare be dramatic, because you know,
he is the affordability president, and everybody under this administration
will have the ability to buy their own insurance. By
the way, it's with the same money that he's promised
everybody you were going to be receiving for Christmas, because
we're taking in so much money from all of these
idiot foreign countries that are paying us to.
Speaker 4: Do business that schmucks liked Joe Biden and Barack Obama
and every other president before him just did not understand,
and that allowed our country to be driven in to
hell by all these other countries.
Speaker 2: Truly amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it still is very hard for me
to believe, you know. And it just goes to partisanship.
Speaker 2: It goes to.
Speaker 1: What people are feeling. I don't know, I mean, Colin,
when you hear that, you know, like Trump's approval rating,
depending on which pole you use, is anywhere from thirty
seven percent to about forty two percent approval, which is
very low. But like you think about the thirty seven
to forty two percent of people who hear him saying,
don't be traumatic, you know, and it's just you think
about it, like what's going on in Russia right now,
where the economy is horrible and people are doing really bad,
and people live in these buildings without air conditioning and
freezing cold weather, and their sons are being sent as
basically fire fodder in Ukraine getting killed. I mean, whether
it's a million deaths or whatever. You know, the economy
of Russia struggling. You see these gas lines in Russia
for people just to get basic necessities. Sometimes you see
these speeches that it's people like freezing, you know, you know,
next to each other's shoulder to shoulder. But they've been
trained or brainwashed to believe that the peanuts and scraps
that they have from their leader Putin is what they deserve,
and that there's this broader mission of denazification, which is
we all know is BS or whatever these pretexts are
for this Greater Russia nationalism that they Putin's pull numbers
are all made up. The elections, they are all rigged,
we know that. But the fact that people go along
and about their days tells you about the human condition.
Because the economy there's total trash, and what this regime
wants Americans to feel is that their life and their
existence is trash. They want a dangle. Just around the corner.
There may be these riches, whether it's a Doge dividend check,
a tariff rebate check, replacing your insurance with a check
for two thousand dollars, and that that's going to be better.
That actually prescription drugs are going to go down seventeen
hundred percent, which is it's all right around the corner,
don't you worry? And the human condition can be molded
to accept breadcrumbs and to accept what Trump is trying
to do. And that's the tension that that we have
thirty seven to forty one percent approval while he's telling
people don't be dramatic, while he's quite literally screwing people's lives.
I mean job losses this year, job losses.
Speaker 2: Sixty percent of this deep percent since last step percent
of this country is also saying that they don't believe
a single word that the president is saying right now
as it relates to the economy. I want you all
to think about that sixty percent now of that remaining
forty percent of I would call them dopes. That it
should be one hundred percent because you know that what
he's saying, and it's not that I'm telling you or
Ben's telling you. And you got to say, well, who's
telling the truth? Is it Cohen? Is that Trump? Is it?
Is it mysell Is is it Ben? You know saying
it Trump? Whatever? No? No, no, no, you know it
because you reach into your pocket every time you go
to the supermarket. You know, the market, that word that
nobody uses anymore, along with groceries. Nobody uses those words anymore.
They're old fashion words. Sure, sure, well, I go to
the grocery store and I buy my groceries. So let
me be crystal clear. I know how much more I'm
paying for a bigger groceries right now than I did
ten months ago, or two years ago or three years ago.
I know every time I go to buy something at
the store or I order something online, I know how
much more I'm paying, and so does everybody. I mean,
it's the one thing that none of us are ignorant to,
and that is our own finances. So when sixty percent
say they don't believe a goddamn thing he's saying or
his people is saying. As it relates to the economy,
that's a fact. So now let's just quickly break down
the remaining forty percent. Twenty three percent say that they
somewhat believe what he's saying every now and then, not
all of it, but they don't disregard everything, all right,
And then thirteen percent turn around and say they believe
every single thing that comes out of Trump's mouth, no
matter what. Those are the numbers, those are actual statistics
and numbers not by one polster, but by a multitude
that all basically plus or minus two percent. That's a
serious number. But again, I personally am not happy with
sixty percent of the people complaining about the truth being
told to them. Regarding the economy. It should be eighty percent.
And you know what, maybe then, maybe then you'll start
to see Republican members of Congress step up knowing that
they're going to get fucking salacked, salacked during the mid terms.
That's what we need.
Speaker 1: One of the things we'll be watching tonight or just
a few hours on the East Coast is the results
of the Miami mayor's race. That could be the first
time a Democrat wins there in about thirty years. The
Democrats projected or expected to be in the lead as
of now. We'll wait until we see the results actually
come in. But something that I want to be focused
on as well, it's not getting enough attention. That's a
big data point right right there, because Miami South Florida
and Florida in general turned ruby red from blue. And
you know, will that be having a shift back.
Speaker 2: Let me show you.
Speaker 1: What Sean from the Real World road Rules Challenge and
what he's been saying. So you know, he's Sean Duffy,
the Transportation Secretary. So he's been out and about saying
that people need to dress better on airplanes and that's
been a main focus. People need to dress up and
wear suits to the airplanes. And someone asked him he
held this weird press conference at Yeah, and he was like,
you know what we should be doing here in the
airport is we need pull up bars and we should
be doing workouts in the airport. And people are like, dude,
what weird shit?
Speaker 2: Is this?
Speaker 1: Like what we're doing?
Speaker 2: Pull up bars?
Speaker 1: So he got he got asked a question though, which
is okay, well, what are you going to do to
lower costs at the airport. It's like, do you have
a afordability plan? The way Pete Boodhaji was very focused
on consumer protections that airplane companies airliners didn't like because
they were very consumer friendly and the airliners thought, we
can't give these types of refunds. But that was the
priority of Boodhaji. So what's your plan, Duffy? Surely with
affordability being the biggest issue, like you have a plan
right here playing this quick.
Speaker 2: Take costs.
Speaker 3: So the question is lowering the cost of food and airports.
And again it's it's interesting, it's it's market demand and supply.
They have people, you know, pretty totally contained and there's
not a lot of options, and so I don't have
a plan to reduce costs. What I am trying to
do is provide healthier options for people. And again, again,
who doesn't love a greasy burger at the airport?
Speaker 2: I know, I do? Okay, time, this guy could be
the stupidest human being that I've ever met in my
entire life. And that's a that's a hell of a
statement to make based upon the stupidity we're seeing from
morons like christinome Her you know her pet project there,
Corey Lewandowski or Pete Hegseth or any of the other
ones that are now gracing right the cabinet table. But
this idiot, first of all, Oh, it's a limited space
with a limited number of companies that are selling food.
I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I'm out of
my mind because I live in New York, maybe because
I go to JFK Airport, which is huge, or maybe
I go to to New Jersey right to what do
you call it? To New Jersey Airport over there, or
maybe even LaGuardia. But the second you walk in, if
there's not fifteen different food vendors there, I'm all selling food.
How about this? Maybe charge them less so in that
way they send savings along to the contum You go there,
as I did when I was traveling down to Florida
to see my folks. I got a cup of coffee,
a small black coffee, a bagel with some cream cheese
on it, and then I got myself a muffin to
take on the airplane in case I felt like I
got hungry. It's like nineteen dollars and you turn around
and you say, wait for a cup of coffee, for
a bagel, and for a muffin. Sure, it's very simple,
very very simple. I'm one person. What if you're traveling
with you, your wife and your two kids. You're talking
about like eighty dollars seriously, and what he wants to
do instead is spend money so that some guy or
a girl who decides to start working out and shits
in like a pig, sits next to you and stinks,
or now you're gonna what have to also build showers, right,
because that's what everybody wants. I want to wake up
at six o'clock in the morning to be on a
seven thirty flight to Florida, and I want to be
able to get my steps in. I want to be
able to do a workout so that the person sitting
next to me, right, you know, can turn around and say,
you know, you're kind of like sweaty and all, maybe
you could sit someplace else. I mean, that just makes
perfect sense. And so Sean Duffy, you fucking idiot, You
idiot making stupid ass comments like that so you can
show off that you can do what ten pull ups
or seven pull ups whatever next to the other idiot.
RFK Junior, Honestly, it's time you shut the hell up.
It's time you start thinking before you say stupid things.
You have all day long to prepare for this press conference.
This didn't just pop up simply because you showed up there.
This thing was planned, So maybe you ought to think
twice before you open up your mouth. And for being
such a stupid asshole. Fuck you.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about the things that this regime
got done, right. I mean, often it's what they inflict
upon people, pain, suffering, what they take away from people.
But when you think about the things that they like
do where they sit around a room and they're like,
what what do we want to produce? Like what's our
affirmative ideas?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: You know one of them is nursing, And you'd be thinking,
you mean like helping the nursing profession. No, it's removing
the professional degree designation from nursing. It's like, let's pick
on our heroes, the nurses and screw them over. And
someone's like, yeah, good idea, let's push that forward. And
then someone's like, well, why don't we start promoting like
nooses and swastikas and other racist symbols in the Coastguard. Yeah,
let's let's let's do that. You know what we really
you know, what's really missing in the airport.
Speaker 2: Yes, what what's.
Speaker 1: Really missing is someone could be smoking while doing push
ups or while doing pull ups. I've never even conceived
of this idea.
Speaker 2: Bringing back to dirty water dog ben for the realities.
Speaker 1: And to your point, it's like, do they listen to
the words that they're saying. Is there any thought in it?
Because the whole point of this press conference, as deranged
as it was, was to promote this idea of like
doing workouts and pull ups, which is the craziest concept
in an airport. So let me just show you that
message first, because this is what they want, This is
what they did this for. Is we need more pull
up bars and airports, Like who right now is saying
that's what we need? This regime here?
Speaker 2: Play this clip.
Speaker 3: Pretty wide open on what airports want to ask ask
for a grant. But it might be I want to
expand the play areas for kids. I want additional nursing
pods for nursing mothers. Maybe I want to work out
area where people might get some blood flow and doing
some pull ups or some step ups in the airport.
Speaker 2: But it could be any range of things.
Speaker 3: Maybe you want to work you know, this is tsa
we're gonna help on this as well. Maybe you want
to have a different lane for families to get through TSA.
How can we make the experience better as you come
through an airport? One billion dollars is going to go
to that.
Speaker 2: Maybe we should bring back prostitution and allow and allow
these massage polos to be opened up or right next
to every single Starbucks in a in an airport, because right,
who doesn't want to tug and rub when you're sitting
there at seven o'clock in the morning waiting for a
delayed flight. How stupid is this idiot? Right? I mean,
that's yes, it's exactly what I want. I want to
CrossFit center in everything. Why not some wall climbing so
maybe see maybe people can fall off the wall, breaking
on in a leg and therefore you now have the
hospital there. But of course you don't have now insurance
for it, so you can have to pay in cash,
which means that the state or the government can make
more money because now you have to have the doctors
there and you have to pay with your credit card
and with cash on the spot. Otherwise you can take
your broken limb and you could go go on to
your airplane. And keep going. I mean, if this is
not the stupidest press conference, I cannot wait for Saturday
Night Live to end up doing one of their sticks
on this or South Park, because this one really goes
to show you exactly what Ben is saying. They spin
a wheel of stupidity and they come up with ideas.
Speaker 1: Versus the real things that former President Biden did that
was actually legislated, that became law, the Inflation Reduction Act,
the Infrastructure Act. When you all go to your airports
right now, you probably do see that there's construction happening
across the country at airports, and a lot of that
comes from the Inflation Reduction Act in the Infrastructure Act. Now,
imagine if the time and effort Donald Trump in this
regime spent doing stupid stuff and dangerous stuff and deadly
stuff and hurting people that if Trump wanted to be like,
I'm a great builder, imagine if he rallied people so
that all of those projects that are taking place, the
red tape goes away and those can get done quicker,
and all of a sudden we start seeing an acceleration
of those programs. Imagine if rather than attacking USAID and
probably killing tens of thousands or potentially even millions of
people with DOGE. And what Elon Musk and Trump did
when they precipitously just started removing critical aid and functions.
I don't think we'll ever truly know the tally of
how many people died as a result. But imagine if
the ingenuity of these potential billionaires or billionaires was actually
spent building affordable homes everywhere and when you were driving
now rather than seeing ice agents and border patrol agents
making people disappear. Two hundred billion dollars that just went
to ice and border patrol, or nine hundred billion dollars
that's in the National Authorization the National Defense Authorization Act
went to building homes. And so you start driving and
those you know, those mini homes that are like eight
hundred square feet but have all the great accommodations are
now housing people, and people are able to live with
dignified lives, and we have there are less homeless people
on the street, and the unhoused community is being helped. Like,
imagine if this money was invested in mental health. Like
the money is there and and it's just being used
to prop up AI and data centers and Palenteer and
taking away our data and making us live in a
police state and a militarized state. But you know, it's
not you know, it's it's it's not a complicated formula.
If we wanted to move from Obamacare Affordable Care Act
subsidies to single pay or Medicare for all, the money exists,
it's just matter of it's being used by a regime
to inflict pain and harm people and blow things up
versus investing in the people. And to me, that's a
you know, that's an issue that needs to be addressed
the right way, and it needs to be and it's
a winning message. And anybody, to me, who shies away
from that message and doesn't deliver on that message and
uses it as just a way to get elected but
doesn't deliver it does so at their own peril. You
listen to what the people are saying. That's what people want.
People want Medicare for all. People want healthcare free, you
know they you know, or very very cheap. They want education.
They want to be able to work a job and
then have a home and not worry am I going
to be able to afford next month's mortgage or be
able to pay my rent. I'm working a job, dammit,
and want and look, CEOs should make a lot of money,
and I get it, you know, I'm not against CEOs
and entrepreneurs making money, but also I want them to
treat workers with dignity because it's ridiculous where someone's making
five has dollars.
Speaker 2: Everybody can live with honor and decency, with the American
dream instead of having to go to the airport, you know, husband,
wife and their two kids and have to take out
a mortgage on the house to buy a bagel, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's to me, it's attainable, It's achievable. Trump's been
able to sense the desperation on people, but exploit it
and lie to them and turn tens of millions of
Americans into his mark. But what the people are feeling
and what they want is real, and people need to
see it, and they need to listen better and not
just talk. You need to listen and hear what people
are going through. People are terrified about what AI is
going to do to their future job prospects. People are
really worried about not being able to afford a home,
not even being able to afford rent. Older generations have
their children living with them, and they want to see
their kids be able to start the lives that they
were able to start, you know, when they were their age,
and kids are living with their parents into their forties
an hour, late thirties if that, and because there's nowhere
else to go and nowhere else, but if their parents
are lucky enough to have a home. And we don't
want to be gas lit into thinking, oh my god,
this is great.
Speaker 2: It's it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not great. It's very bad. The situation in our
country is just getting worse by the day, and internationally
it is. But we're just going to deliver the information.
I think the biggest skill we have here Cohen, on
this network is we listen to people. We listen to
what they're saying, and we respond to that. We feel
the same way that you all feel. So we're just
trying to do our best to get the truth out.
So any final words, Cohen before we go.
Speaker 2: I don't I'm just nauseated by you know, I can't
imagine Ben Pete hag Seth. I'm sorry, Pete Boudages literally
going to an airport, a guy who's turning around and
saying no, no, no, hold on. You pay five hundred
dollars for your flight, you're permitted, it's two fifty each way.
You deserve to take off on time and to land
on time, and if in fact that you don't, that's
on the airline, and so they're going to have to
pay you for your time, for your inconvenience. That's a
Pete Budage Joe Biden idea that benefits all Americans. The
fact that you had these two idiots literally and shame
on the media for even showing up. The second this
asshole takes off his tie and starts to enchin ups,
that's when I would have turned around and have said,
and now we're going to go to Michael Cohen regarding
this present. Yeah, this is about the stupidest thing I've
ever seen in my entire life. We're not going to
waste your time with idiot number one and idiot number two.
And so with that, we apologize for wasting your time,
and if in fact that you're paying for this service,
we're going to rebate you a dollar, right or something
like that. This is so screwed up the fact that
they are able to get the press there to watch
them show off to do chin ups or pull ups
or whatever else that they're doing, all to prove a
point that there is pointless. Again, I'm so lost at
this entire group of morons. I mean, it's it's spectacular.
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