Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. I'm Ben Mycelish, joined by Michael Cohen.
It's June twenty seventh, twenty twenty four. It's debate Night.
The first presidential debate of this election season between President
Biden and convicted felon Donald Trump, will be taking place
in just a few hours now. There are lots of
people who are trying to act like this is just
a normal presidential debate, and they try to compare it
to debates in the past where there was significant impact
Nixon versus JFK or when people thought that Al Gore
was going to easily defeat George W. Bush in their
first debate. This is nothing like that or anything close
to that in terms of the importance and in terms
of the difference between candidates. On the one hand, in
president by someone who supports democracy, supports American institutions, supports
the America and the Constitution that I think that we
all thought existed except for this Maga movement, this Maga mutation.
On the other hand, you have Donald Trump, who is
running as an anti democracy, pro authoritarianism candidate, and he
may try to pretend that that's not what or who
he is, but listen to his answers and pay attention. Look,
the American people deserve this debate. The American people deserve
to not hear how Fox tries to filter what Donald
Trump says, or right wing media or his sycophants what
they try to say from Americans does deserve to hear
the distinction, and the only thing that I'm hoping for
more than anything is just that it is the whole
thing takes place, that the candidates are able to talk
and express their views pursuant to the rules, and that
the debate just happens. I think that the American people
deserve to see these two candidates more than anything, and
that's what's kind of most important to me. Michael Cohen,
what's your initial reflection as we head into this debate.
Speaker 2: You know, I sit and I listen to all of
these pundits, and truthfully, none of them know Donald Trump.
They only know him, you know, from television, or they're
three minutes of communication with him by asking a question
and so on. I've tried to explain this to many
people that are around Biden in the preparation. President Biden
needs to come out swinging, and he needs to come
out and swing hard. So, for example, we did this
the other day and we had a lot of fun
with it. Ben, you know, kind of like what should
Biden's right out of the gate response to Trump b
and somewhere along the line, again, it's not just what
you're saying, it's also the delivery. So Biden, no matter
what the question, you know, look, my opponent has no
sense of reality. The man brags brags about once passing
a basic cognition test over four years ago. My opponent
thinks that the ability to draw a clock, identify an elephant,
or remember a five item list is such a feat,
it's such a feat of magnitude that he should be
the president of the United States based upon this cognition test.
That's what he needs to come out and say. Where
you know, it's an elegant way of calling Donald an
asshole and an idiots. That's what Biden has to do
because right now, what Trump's people are telling him, you
need to go out there and you need to defy
all of these pundits saying that you're going to be bombastic,
that you're going to be impossible to control, and as
you already know, they're going to cut mics and you
have a certain period of time and so on. Donald,
that's not the way that you're going to win this debate.
That's not the way that you're going to end up
winning the election. You need to show America that you
are stronger than they think you are. Blah blah blah.
Here's the truth. Donald can handle it, all right. He
can't handle anybody poking fun at him. He can't handle
somebody questioning his intelligence or his capabilities. So when you
hit him with that cognition test, and I believe that
each and every one of our brigaders will say the
same thing. When he was out there and bragging about
how well he did man woman Jold camera TV, blah
blah blah, I was able to identify an elephant whoa
really ah nozzle to you. You know what, I'm voting
for you, mister elephant. Identify your guy. That's what you
need to do. And it's again, it's not just what
you say, it's how Joe Biden says it. He has
to say it with a smile and with a laugh
and sort of like you know, a political beatdown, two
finger salute. That's what he needs to do.
Speaker 1: You know, this is what Donald Trump has been posting
things like this, Trumps for debate against Biden by going
to nursing home and arguing with dementia patients. That's one
of the things Trump's posted on his social media platform.
It's interesting because in a way, what you're saying, Cohen two,
is that what Donald Trump's advisors are really telling him
is for you to win, Donald Trump, you have to
act not like Donald Trump. You have to for this
ninety minutes, act like a different person and try to
trick the American people. On the other hand, the Biden
folks are telling Biden, you need to go out and
be the best Biden you can be and be that
Biden who gave the State of the Union, and so
to me that distinction, right. The Trump advisors don't act
like Trump. Act different when they ask you these questions.
Do not act like what it's your instinct to act,
Act like you care about the climate when you don't,
act like you haven't said that the January sixth insurrectionists
are hostages. Act like you haven't said that you trust
Vladimir Putin over America's intelligence agencies. Act different, Act put
on an act Donald, pretend that this is reality TV.
And go out there and act and behave like a
different person.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: That's his guidance that they're giving, where Biden is the opposite.
I want to share this with you, Cohen. These are
the rules of the debate tonight. You have Victor Blackwell
from CNN, say, explaining how each man's microphone will be
muted when it's not their turn to speak. He and
film maddingly demonstrated what that looks like and sounds like
I think we have a clip of what this is
going to look like where CNN lays it out with
the format. Let's play it.
Speaker 3: If we go behind the podiums, you can see two
green lights. When they're on, they signal to the candidate
his microphone is on. When the green lights are off,
they signal to the candidate his microphone is off. Now,
I want to give you a sense of what it
will look like for viewers at home if a candidate
whose microphone is off interrupts a candidate whose microphone is on.
So I'm standing at one podium and I'll ask Phil
to come in and take the other podium. And so
let's say I'm answering a question, my light is green,
and I'm speaking. Phil's microphone is off and his green
lights are not illuminated. He's going to interrupt me as
I'm speaking, and this is what it will sound like.
My volume remains constant, while Phil's interruption can be difficult
to understand.
Speaker 4: Let's try the opposite. My microphone is now on. Victor's
microphone is off and he's going to interrupt me. My
volume remains constant, while Victor's interruption can be difficult to understand.
We should note by agreeing to participate in this debate,
both campaigns and candidates have also agreed to buy by
these rules. The CNEA and Presidential Debate there's live at
nine pm Eastern.
Speaker 2: Conte the stupidest, stupidest reenactment I've ever seen. Well, okay,
you know, and you know you can't do it, and
you know these are the rules and that everybody agreed
to aby Donald Trump doesn't abide by rules. Rules don't
apply to him. Not only do rules not apply to him,
neither do the laws. And do you really think they're
only something like six feet away from each other? Go ahead, Ben,
try to say something and then he's just gonna start
shouting louder. So it's gonna get picked up by the
other guy's MC. Maybe it's not going to be as
clear as the other Listen, let me be very clear
about something. Donald knows what's coming at him tonight. All right.
I get a lot of people calling me and saying, Michael,
do you think that he doesn't even show up? You
know now they're turning on there saying that he's willing
to take a drug test right now, but uh, Joe
Biden is not, and you know this is unfair, and
so on and so forth. It's so incredible. It's almost
as if they're looking to try to find the reason
why Donald should not take the stand today. One of
the funniest things is somebody had sent to me. It
was an entire list of various different questions that they
believe CNN or if they had people been like you
or me turning around and sending questions in the question
that they would want to hear is something like, mister Trump,
numerous members of your company, your campaign, and your administration
had been convicted of crimes, including yourself. How would you
respond to those who might say this is not a
witch hunt but a pattern, and mister Trump, you happened
to be the common denominator. How would you respond to that.
That's the kind of question that they need to bring out. Now,
let's say CNN chooses not to do that. What Joe
Biden has to say is, and we know that he's
going to call him a felon, you have to turn
around and you have to say in your answer somehow,
whatever the question might be, Donald, look at the number
of people here. Let me give you the example, Donald,
in your company, in your campaign, yourself included. Numerous members
of the administration have all been convicted, some are right
now in jail as we speak, including yourself. Right, you
know how many people in my administration? You know how many? Zero?
You know how many from my campaign? Yep, you know
the answer. Zero. You know how many from mikey Zero?
Because I don't have a company, right. You know, he's
got to bring a little humor, interject a little humor
into this as well. You think maybe the question about
him being a common denominator should not come out by
the Biden, by Joe Biden during this debate. It would
be a massive, massive mistake.
Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more with you, and just but just take
a look at some of the stuff that Trump's posting Coen,
this is to your point, like you think Trump's gonna
follow the rules, Like as I started this episode, we
are in such unchartered territory in the history of our country,
in the history of our democracy. I mean, he's out
there posting things like this that this is part of
an actual video that he just posted moments ago.
Speaker 2: Let me show it to you.
Speaker 5: By Denica, And I've never slept better.
Speaker 6: Sometimes when I get hopped up on sugar, my parents
give me by Denica, so I pass out of times
they give it to me during the day, probably so
they can do the deed gross.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I don't know whether the folks that
are in the Trump campaign think that they're funny or
anything like that. It's not. It's not funny, it's not clever,
you know it would be. It's it's childish, it's churlish,
it's it's stupid. With all due respect, what the Biden
administration should do is they should be coming out with
more and more ads. You know of somebody with you know,
wearing a Trump mask so you only see it from behind,
you know, in an orange jumpsuit working on the Chang
Gang or breaking rocks. On the side of the road
or something like that, and say, I want to be
clear about something. One of the two people that are
running for the presidency of the United States is a
felon and the other is not. You choose, make it simple,
and there will be people that will say, I choose
the felon. Okay, I mean that just really makes a
lot of sense. But sure you have people that are
so knee deep into this dumpster cult of Trump that
they will turn around and walk around with a T
shirt that says, I vote for the felon. All right, me, personally,
I'd be wearing a T shirt that says, fuck the felon.
Speaker 1: Here is what these magacryberries cry babies are doing right
now here. You have Steven Miller posting, Remember if you
see Biden bizarrely shouting, not blinking and slurring while fast
talking tonight, it's because he's on drugs. As our editor
in chief Ron philip Kowski said, these whiny cry babies
always seem to know so much about this topic when
rejecting accusations onto others. The Trump White House was a
pill mill under Ronnie Jackson, actually was a pill mill.
I mean the Department of your age Johnson.
Speaker 2: You all know congressman from Texas, Ronnie Johnson, and he
doesn't even know the guy's name, mister fucking genius.
Speaker 1: I mean the amount of fentanyl patches, Verse said, which
is the date rape drug, ketamine, provigil, adderall, a bunch
of other hard drugs were dispensed so recklessly and carelessly
during the Trump White House. We're always going to keep
bringing it up here in the Minus Touch Network on
this show and our other shows. But you know, when
you hear Ronnie Jackson say so, here's what I think
the cocktail is that they're preparing for Biden. He's like
listing the drugs that were on the list of drugs
in the White House when he was the doctor there,
provigil this one and that one. Here's what Charlie Kirk,
one of the main MAGA influencers, has to say. Here's
what he just posted. Everyone keeps saying there will be
no fans allowed in the audience in tonight's debate. That's
not true. Joe Biden will have two fans sitting up close,
Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, and our editor in chief,
Nis Clever. The whining and crime continues.
Speaker 2: Oh, He's so clever. I mean, how great was that? Right?
How great was that? They're already they're already projecting the
fact that they know that Trump is a complete and
total disaster, and that he doesn't understand the minutia. He does,
he's not interested in the minutia. Explain to me, Ben
if they start deciding to talk about, for example, the economy,
and why, why why do Americans believe that Donald Trump
is better equipped? Imagine how ridiculous this is, that Donald
Trump is better equipped to deal with our economy than
Joe Biden. Time the fuck out for a second, folks.
All right, let's be real clear. Stock market is at
an all time high. Okay, there you go, stock market
and all time high. Your four to oh one k
kicking as all right, you're talking about unemployment and all
time low. I mean, we can go on. You have minority,
have black wealth increase has never been higher, and you
talk about all the various different things. The US's gross
domestic product, our economy is at least two and a
half times greater than any other economy in the world.
We are now as of a couple of days, I
think we are one hundred percent right now, energy self sufficient.
The amount of oil that we are producing in this
country for ourselves makes us energy independent. Right? Trump? Really
the seven time bankrupt, you know, sexual offending, business fraud violator,
thirty four comp felon. Really, this is the guy who
you think is better for the economy. Why because he's
turned on telling you he's gonna round up the largest
roundup of migrants and put him into internment camps. The
fuck are we talking about? What is this the nineteen thirties,
early nineteen forties we're talking about in tournament camps? I mean,
what is he babbling about? Why? Why is anybody taking
this orange crusted mandarin as clown? Serious? I couldn't run
a fucking business that he received hundreds of millions of
dollars from Daddy. He couldn't run that business properly. And
he's going to run the United States economy? Come on, man,
what are we doing?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: He's got tens of billions of dollars of right wing
money injecting that propaganda every single day at the national
cable news level with Fox and all of the lies
that Fox tells every single day, to the local TV
level with Sinclair and the lies that they spread across
local television every single day, to the lies that are
spread on social media platforms like.
Speaker 2: X and others.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are billions and billions of dollars invested
into these lies by a class of Americans who wants
to be the oligarchs Allah, the oligarchs of Putin, and
they don't care about our democracy. It's why it's important
that shows like this and the network like the Midas
Touched Network really springs up from the fact that the
corporate media is doing the both side stuff. They're trying
to normalize that. You don't hear any of what you
just said, though, other than maybe a very small segment Cohen,
I'll say, corporate media does mention it occasionally, But corporate
media goes by narratives.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The narrative that's run by corporate media is kind of
indistinguishable from the narrative that's pushed by the right wing media.
Then corporate media wants to act like they're being fair,
so they say, well, you know, we're not into advocacy,
so we're just going to platform these lies that are
told by Trump and these magas and again, these the
lies to Cohen are so predictable it's the same thing
that they always do. Their moves are so obvious. I mean,
this is what Don Junior just posted a few hours ago.
Moments ago, he wrote this Live TV has a seven
second delay. Why on earth would CNN need a one
to two minute delay unless they were planning a and
manipulating tonight's debate. Same with Biden refusing to take drug test.
If he wasn't jacked up on all sorts of drugs,
why wouldn't he submit to such an easy test. As
Midas News editor in chief Ron Philipkowski writes, CNN has
said that it will start at exactly nine. There will
be no delay. This is just the latest conspiracy theory
for the cry baby Party as they continue to lie
and lie. It's just what they do. And he may
be saying, well, where's Don Junior getting that information from
accounts like this? The big right wing influencer account, one
of the big voices right now in the Republican Party
is cat Turd. It's cat feces. It's this account right
it's this account right here.
Speaker 2: He's attacked me quite a few times. Cat turn cat Turd.
Speaker 1: Is one of the big and it's not This isn't
even like a joke like that is a big right
wing account. Don Junior has appeared on shows with the
cat turd with the kind of emoji of the cat
turd itself there or the avatar and cat turd spreads
the lie. Here we go, CNN is already trying to
cheat and then Cohen, you just go back though to
the headlines from twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, their headlines
like this, As Aaron Frischner says, he goes somewhere, Donald
Trump is wondering to himself how many times he can
get away with doing these exact same stupid bits before
a debate. He doesn't even change it up a little bit,
just counts on mass amnesia, which always seems to work out.
Speaker 2: And you look at these exacts. That's not really true, Ben,
it doesn't always worked out. You know. You and I
on this program and on others, have demonstrated the number
of people Trump's supporters, people that stood on lines to
go to rallies, And while the rally was going on,
and Donald starts going into one of these you know,
riffs about sharks or electrocution or batteries in yachts run
by batteries or the great late Hannibal Lecter. They picked
themselves up and they leave that you know how many times?
And its salty if you're there and you have the
old video. I mean, you know how many of these
videos have we seen so far of people just picking
themselves up and leave. Now, of course, what does Trump's tea?
You know, what do they do? They go ahead and
they talk about the size of the crowd. The place holds, say,
ten thousand people in it. There were eighty thousand people
in the audience, eighty thousand. The place only holds ten thousand, right,
and it wasn't full. You could see off to the left,
there's nobody there. Off to the right, there's nobody there.
They have everybody a dead center. And then if you
really look closely, during a lot of this sort of
rambling horseshit that comes out of that gaping fucking hole
under Donald's nose, all of a sudden you see people
standing up, shaking their head, and then they leave. So
nobody's being fooled by Donald's stupidity. And I'll tell you
something too, Tonight's going to be a very interesting night.
And again everybody's trying to say, oh, you know this
is Biden's night in order to really lose it or
to win it. I totally disagree. It's the night that
either of them are totally gonna get bashed or they're
going to win this thing. Joe Biden is a guy
who understands the minutia. This is a guy that just
finished with the g seventh Summit. There's a guy who
was off in Israel trying to negotiate some peace and
a truce between Israel and Hamas, get the hostages back,
and you know, figure out something something Middle Eastern peace.
Do I think he's going to be able to do it?
Absolutely not that this this sort of fighting has been
going on for three thousand years, all right, This isn't
like it happened yesterday, and you could fix it tomorrow,
like Trump will tell you. In fact, I really hope
that one of the questions that they ask him, you know,
mister Trump, to be honest with you, You've said on dozens
of occasions at rallies and on various different press programs
that you could fix the Russia Ukraine war in twenty
four hours. You also have, you know, have stated that
you could resolve the Israel Kamas war in twenty four
hours and many other things as well. Can you tell
us what the secret formula is that you would employ
that you would be able to do these things in
twenty four hours when your opponent hasn't seemed to be
able to do it in over three years, and, by
the way, you weren't able to accomplish it in your
four years either. That's a really good question to ask.
They're going to start asking him questions that holds him
to account on the things that he says. And then Trump,
of course, is going to turn around and he's going
to claim an unfair question. It's a nasty question, That's
what he's gonna do. And if Joe Biden can really
just beat it down right there, do a political beatdown
right then and there, criticize Trump's intelligence, the fact that
he has no idea what he's talking about, that he's
a con man, a felon, that he lies in everything
that he does, and the people that he has around
him are also lined for him. Blah blah blah. You'll
see this guy go completely uninged on television. In fact,
in fact, if Biden keeps it up, and he does
it again with a smile and a smirk and so on.
Those are the things that really get under Donald's skint.
Don't be shocked if this debate doesn't go the full night.
You know.
Speaker 1: I think what exists right now is also a phenomenon
that will be discussed after the general election, which is
the silent Biden voter. And one of the goals that
I have here, though, is to speak to those people,
because they're not really silent. It's just corporate media isn't
talking to them. They're out there talking. And one of
the ways I identified them and you did as well, Cohen,
is we received tens of thousands of messages I would say,
over the course of the ten thousand videos we've done,
probably over one hundred thousand or close to it, messages
from people who kind of fit this description of either
independent or former mainstream Republican. Maybe they consider themselves a
Reagan supporter, or they voted for George W. Bush and
they may have voted for Donald Trump the first time.
They may have even voted for Donald Trump the second time,
but there was a breaking point, whether it was January
sixth or something like that, and there is look you
can say, well, they should have realized this sooner and
my response to that is, I welcome anybody to the
pro democracy community, and I'm not going to be judgmental
and critical because we're at an existential moment right here.
But like, here's an individual by the name of Kyle
Sweetzer who I recently interviewed, and I hear this story
over and over again how important character is and decency
and democracy over authority carrianism to take a listen.
Speaker 8: The longer you stare at Trump and his record, the
worst it gets. So you know, Trump's coosing up to
foreign basically adversaries. He's uh, Oddly enough, some people don't
like me saying this, but he's less conservative than Biden
on fiscal responsibility. He added eight trillion to the debt
even with without COVID. Uh, he's not physically responsible.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 8: He gave people a license to to act bad out
and out in the open. And I think that, uh,
the mag of movement just needs to be destroyed. And
I think any rational person that starts listening to Trump
instead of directly, instead of having someone else regurgitate what
Trump says, I think if you listen to Trump and
then you listen to Biden speak, it's night and day
there's no comparison. Trump is unhinged and he's just not
fit to lead, certainly not fit to be the president
of the United States.
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Speaker 1: I showed you that clip right there of Kyle Sweetzer.
I think there's a lot of Kyle Sweetzers out there
who regret their votes for Donald in the past. Who look,
they've been so entrenched in the Republican Party their entire
like it's their identity. So just think about it like
a sports team, which is not necessarily your full identity.
Speaker 9: Right, if you.
Speaker 1: Were a Mets fan, how difficult would it be to
be go from a Mets fan to all of a
sudden becoming a Yankee fan or rooting for the Yankees.
Now that's totally frivolous, right, Mets ving it doesn't have
an impact, But imagine your entire life. You were a
Republican and then your party and your identity was then
taken over by some other thing. But you were still
told that this was are you're a Republican, this is it,
and you know that's not it, but you know that
if you move away, you're going to be exiled from
your entire life and from your entire community. When we
speak to CULTI programmers and when we speak to people
and we try to understand the pathology, because I really
want to be empathetic and sympathetic and try to really
understand why isn't it so obvious?
Speaker 2: Why is it that.
Speaker 1: People don't leave that there really is these strong connections
all wrapped up in identity and the fear of exile,
and then the fear that all of the people who
you've let down for your views or that you hurt
you will be conceding that you were wrong, and so paradoxically,
rather than admit it, you go further down the rabbit hole.
There's a psychological, pathological explanation for it, which is why
one of the things I want to open up this
network to is to just always let people know that
when it comes to compassion and empathy and love and
democracy and caring for each other, that this platform focuses
almost most on that rather than political tribalism, going.
Speaker 2: So look, you know, I agree with you, though the
Trump cult is very, very different. Believe it or not.
You got somebody like Steve Miller, all right, Stephen Miller,
by coincidence, happens to be from the same hometown that
I'm from. And I can tell you from people who
I know who know his family, that they are disgusted
by him and the things that he's doing and the
things that he's saying on their behalf. And I don't
know what sort of a relationship that this kid has
anymore with his family. He's willing to trade in his
family for his position now with Trump. I find it
absolutely amazing. And I know for a fact, because this
is a guy that never had, you know, any he
never had any real interaction with media. From twenty sixteen
through twenty twenty. All of a sudden, you turn on
like Newsmax that as Lewandowski as the moderator. And it's
very funny because Lewandowski does some weird shit with his mouth,
all saying he's oh, I mean, it's like like his
jaw has its own separate battery pack. I mean, it's
it's crazy. And then they say the craziest things. But
I do also want to say, do you remember I
think it was Animal House. I found this one audio sound.
I would love if Biden would pull something like this out.
Just imagine this, Oh Zhon, It's like for me, I'm
turning this debate. I'm turning the debate into a Bravo
reality show. But that's really what it's what it's going
to be. Could you imagine if Biden either he memorizes
this or he turns on and he pulls this out
of that. I think it was like Dean Wermer from
Animal House saying it to like Blue Tartski or you know,
one of the other guys at the Animal House. And
I found the clip so I just wanted to play
it for a quick second.
Speaker 10: Said, It's one of the most insanely idiotic things I've
ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response
were you even close to anything that could be considered
a rational thought.
Speaker 1: In his room is now dumber for having listened to it.
Speaker 10: There were you no points, and the god.
Speaker 2: That's what he should do. Just pull it out and say,
I could not have said it better than the nineteen seventies,
you know recitation by Dean Warmer, What you said just
now has made us all much stupider than we were
just prior to listening to your answer. That's what Biden
needs to do, and again, he needs to do it
with a He needs to do it with almost like
a smile. Oh I feel bad. Some people said that
they couldn't hear it. Well, basically, it's what you just
said is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. YadA, YadA, YadA.
It is hilarious when it relates to Donald and what's
gonna happen tonight. You are going to hear one. Oh,
it's from Billy Madison. Oh okay, I'm sorry. I thought
it was from Dean Warman. My apologies. You may be right.
It's another great movie Billy Madison with Adam Sandler. One
of the things that I can say about tonight is
that Trump is going to get very frustrated and very quickly.
And we're already hearing the rumblings from people inside the
Trump camp. When you start to see Don Junior, who's
not even in the country right now. I think he's
either in Dubai or he's in Oman where they're doing
some real estate project. Imagine really, because all the projects
that the Trumps have done overseas, whether it's Toronto, whether
it was uh, what's the uh in Spain, they all
have gone out of business. They've all lost the rights
to have the Trump name on the properties. I mean,
it's it's, it is what it looks, it is what
it is. Knocked themselves out. But from Oman, he's sitting
there and talking about how Joe Biden is on drugs
and that, you know, CNN is going to be playing fair,
you know, unfair once again making Donald the victim. By
the way, Ben, have you ever seen anyone Brigaders, have
you ever seen anyone more victimized than Donald J. Trump?
I mean, come on, you have to feel bad for
the guy who was literally victimized every single day since
the day that he made the announcement right in June
of twenty fifteen. This guy has been victimized by everybody.
I mean, talk about how crazy it is that people
are still buying into the victimization of Donald as opposed
to Donald victimizing everybody else.
Speaker 1: You know, the deal in Oman was brokeered by the
Saudis who said that they have Kushner in his pocket.
And so while all the Maga Republicans. All they know
how to do is say, Hunter Biden, you have Don
Junior on an airplane doing this in a Saudi broker deal,
where Saudi Arabia has said NBS has said that he
got the enemy list or the kill list from people
like Kushner before NBS had his own purge. And then
you have Don Junior doing this today before the debate.
Play this clip.
Speaker 9: Did a day trip to Dubai and Oman.
Speaker 11: We have a project in Oman, projects in Dubai, just
checking in on the day job. Literally, I'm on the
ground for eighteen hours and I think I did thirty
something hours of flying. But if you're gonna fly that much,
this is a great way to do it. I'm in
first class on Emirates and this is sick. These beds
lie down, go fully flat, the doors closed. You're in
your entire enclosed cubbies. Pretty spectacular, great food, more legroom
than I couldn't know what to do with.
Speaker 9: And like I said, the beds fly.
Speaker 11: Out flat and they even have mattresses to go on
top of them.
Speaker 9: So if you're gonna do if you're gonna do.
Speaker 11: Eighteen hours on the ground, a day trip to the
Middle East, this is the way to do it.
Speaker 9: Figure.
Speaker 11: I had to share that one with you, guys, because
I'm a reasonably spoiled individual and this is still pretty spectacular.
Speaker 9: Have a good one, guys.
Speaker 1: It's right in our faces. And how could the cult
like that? I mean, that's why everything they do is
projection or confession. I think, by the way, the workers
at Oman, I think we're making about like three hundred
dollars a month in connection with that project. Anyway, I
could show you more clips of Don Junior, but I
don't want to show anymore. It's repulsive.
Speaker 2: You know. What would be really interesting too if the
two get into a back and forth debate. You know,
I would be interested to understand Donald Trump's newly found
fascination with the Ten Commandments, considering, if you go through
each and every one of the commandments, donald Trump has
violated that commandment at some point in time in his life.
So it's amazing, you know. Once again, it goes to
the whole notion of do as I say, clearly, not
as I do. And I would love to see Joe
Biden turn around and say to him, you know, isn't
one of the ten commandments thou shalt not covet thy
neighbor's wife. Okay, maybe it's not your neighbor, but haveout
the guy down the block, or thou shall not covet,
you know, a porn star and a playboy playmate, right,
thou shalt not you know, let you know, bare false witness.
Uh and so really, because there's nothing that you say
that has any semblance of truth to it. In fact,
it's been determined that you lie to the American people
forgetting about COVID that cost a million Americans their lives.
How about right, you cannot covet your daughter either, right,
and you shouldn't be having bad thoughts about her. But
at the same time, you know, seriously, I mean, you
lied over thirty five thousand times to the American people,
including on an epidemic, on a pandemic.
Speaker 1: Really, here is what it looks like to be a
maga Republican in Congress today. They have to dress Donald
Trump dresses them up. Just think about that, a coequal
branch of government. Donald Trump makes them wear outfits. And
this is how he dresses them up. Here's Congressman Troy Nells.
He makes them wear his gold shoes, his fake gold
shoes with the fake red bottoms right there that he
sells for five hundred dollars. He then makes them wear
ties with his picture on the ties, and then they
say things like, other than faith and family, the only
hope we have is President Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the Republican Party that was supposed
to do.
Speaker 2: We shall not have a God before thee right, right,
that shall not have a God before me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they're all like this, and they all go
on and then they just whine. Here is a cat
camic Maga, Republican congresswoman, whining and crying about how biased
the debate is before the debate even takes place. Watch
this from moments ago.
Speaker 12: We know that this is an exceptionally biased debate that
he's walking into. Then shows the confidence that he has
that our team has in walking into this entirely one
sided debate already.
Speaker 2: But I think it's going to.
Speaker 12: Be exceptionally telling if they try to pull a fast one,
if they try to mute or silence Donald Trump. The
American people at large we'll see right through this and
will be outraged. This can only hurt Joe Biden, not
help him by silencing Jhnald Yeah.
Speaker 9: Because.
Speaker 1: Here's Andy Ogle's Maga Republican Congressman. Here play this clipe.
Speaker 13: By the way, I have my bill, the no Juicing Joe,
which would require him to be to divulge, to report
to the American people anytime that he takes a mind
altering stimulant, like we know he's going to have to
do before this debate. They're going to have him juiced
up and jacked up on some sort of cocktail so
that he can be lucid and take on or at
least try to debate Donald Trump.
Speaker 8: Congressman Andy Ogle's Pride of Tennessee, God bless you.
Speaker 9: My friend will talk to soon.
Speaker 1: By the way, here's maga Mike Johnson. Let me show
you this clip.
Speaker 2: Let's play it.
Speaker 14: Like many, I look forward to hearing Donald Trump lay
out his vision for the country. It's a positive vision,
it's a forward vision.
Speaker 2: He is excited.
Speaker 14: I talked to him, spent a lot of time with
him last week down in Mary Lago and then on
the phone over the weekend, and he's in a very
good place. And I expect that you're going to see
a sharp contrast between President Trump's positive agenda and Joe
Biden's proven weakness. And I did a lot of media
over the last several days, and everybody wants to know
which Joe Biden's.
Speaker 1: Going to show up.
Speaker 14: And I look, my summary is this, it doesn't matter
if he drinks a whole gallon of energy drinks. He's
not going to be able to match the acumen and
the readiness of Donald Trump. And that's what we expect,
even if.
Speaker 2: The I mean, could you imagine, you know, there's a
funny expression like uh and I would say this to Maga,
Mike jerk Off. I would say to him, Hymga, Mike,
do you know the difference between a brown nose and
an ass kisser? And the answer is depth perception, all right,
there's something wrong with this guy's glasses. The fact that
this guy is the Speaker of the House, this lame,
fucking pathetic putts, this puts and a half, right, this bootlegger.
I mean, it's unbelievable that he's sitting there and he's
denigrating the President of the United States talking about amped
up on drugs. Seriously, I mean, that's the only way
that you think Joe Biden is going to be able
to beat Donald Trump. Donald Trump's nonsensical rantings that go
on at his rally. The fact that they're doing this
before the debate even takes place because they know, they
know that Trump is gonna end up shitting himself. Von
schitz and Pants is gonna lose it because he is
so thin skinned. He cannot take the heat. He can't
take They can't ask whatever question do you remember in
one of the debates in the last election, I think
it was Megan Kelly asked him a question and he
didn't like the question. It's a fair question to ask,
turns around and he goes it's a very nasty question.
It's the nasty question. And he doesn't even answer the question.
But what this is, what he's going to do? There
is nothing, There is nothing that this man can explain
in any significance, with any significance at all, that we're
all gonna look at him and say, Wow, truly, we
are all smarter today and understand more about what this
topic might be and what the issue is. Thanks to you,
Donald von schitzen Pants. All right, nobody's gonna be saying
that now. His MAGA supporters will say, yeah, Donald, you
did great, you did great, and no, no, all right,
rest assured. My prediction for tonight Trump bombs. I think
Biden does well, all right. Do I think that each
one will have a gaff? Yeah, I think Biden will
also have a gaff, But so what, so what? I
think Von shitzen Pants is going to make such a
fool out of himself fighting with the moderators day. From
the beginning to the end of the day. He's gonna
be fighting with them, thinking that he could bully them.
All right, he doesn't have the audience. He's not gonna
have his my capability to try to overtalk, even though
you're gonna hear I'm yelling in the background. All right,
he's going to get so frustrated. I wouldn't be shocked.
I'd give it a twenty five percent chance that von
shitz and Pants walks off the stage and says, this
is a waste of my time. I'll just beat Joe
Biden at the polls.
Speaker 1: Let me share with you this because with everything Magga Republicans,
it's all projection and confession, and so in the lead
up to the debate, we prepared this short to getting
a lot of attention, kind of a throwback to the
origins of when Midas Touched first started. Let me share
this with you, because what we really call out is
what is truly taking place, just the facts and the data.
Speaker 2: Let's show it to you.
Speaker 5: And my stupid people.
Speaker 2: When I wanted to refute it, they said, sir, don't
dignify it with they we fuddle.
Speaker 7: Have you been noticed peculiar behavior recently in someone you know?
Taroedye byrat, someone who mixes fiction and reality.
Speaker 2: The late great Hannibal Lecter.
Speaker 9: He's a wonderful man.
Speaker 7: Perhaps someone of advanced age you have known for years.
Speaker 2: Did you just see Maduro Venez where Although it's a unbelievable.
Speaker 7: Venel, of course, we all have our goops, But consistently
odd behavior can be a sign of fronto temporal dementia,
a degenerative disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of
the brain that dramatically impairs cognitive function, and there are
some key signs to look out for, like slurring words.
Speaker 2: Failing New York Times by an anomous really.
Speaker 7: Namous struggling to find the correct words is another sign.
Speaker 2: The Mullor report I wish covered the oranges, the oranges
or the oranges of the investigation.
Speaker 7: You may also notice someone veering into incoherent idea detached
from reality.
Speaker 11: You know what I'd do if there was a shark
or you get electrocuted.
Speaker 4: I'll take electrocution every single time I'm not getting dear
the shark.
Speaker 7: Or an inability to complete simple sentences.
Speaker 9: Saudi Arabian Russia will repeat.
Speaker 7: Other notable symptoms include impaired motor function, such as a
wavering limb and decreased balance, often accompanied by a signature
lean or arched stance. If someone you know is demonstrating
several or all of these symptoms, they are seriously unwell.
As a matter of safety, they must be relieved of
critical responsibilities and disqualified from any position of authority. Remember,
frontotemporal dementia is a degenerative disease. Cognitive function will never
return and will only deteriorate further. Don't ignore the signs.
Speaker 1: Michael Cohen, two fingers salute, So two fingers salute first
and foremost goes to each and every one of these.
Speaker 2: Maga assholes who turn around and want to question that
Joe Biden is on drugs and that he's going to
be all doped up on some sort of a cocktail,
you know, from the Stephen Millers, to the Don Juniors,
to the MAGA Mike Johnson's, to all of these assholes
on Newsmax and Fox News and so on. I mean
it beyond the fact that it's disrespectful to the President
of the United States, it is untrue. It is not
based on any on any fact at all. And I
find it, and honestly I find it. No one's going
to turn around and say, hey, they're going to be,
you know, boosting Donald Trump's cognitive ability by giving him
some sort of a cocktail that deals with dementia. You know,
they have these new drugs out now, you know that
maybe he's on one of those cocktail. Certainly with his
MAGA supporters, he can afford it. Nobody's questioning that, all right,
We're just questioning the fact that he's going to act
like a human being and not a complete and total asshole.
So to each and every one of these MAGA morons,
the ones that don't believe that Joe Biden is going
to be able to whip the shit out of Donald
Trump tonight, because Joe Biden knows facts. Joe Biden's been
doing this for fifty years. Trump has been screwing shit
up for what six to all of you maga assholes.
Fuck you.
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