I am a UK watcher. So you can totally discard this. But get as many people on the ground talking to those in the LA fires exposing the lies, talking to the fire fighters etc.
Also, more coverage of how other countries are fighting the right wing in their own countries may just show that no one is alone in the fight for democracy!
Thanks again for all you do! Best channel on YouTube! We need the equivalent in the UK so please expand eventually 😅
That kind of boots-on-the-ground reporting is the best way to counter disinformation - even when it's unintentional. I'm still chuckling over Musk's own goal the other day when he 'interviewed' firefighters about 'how bad Newsom's response has been' and got his backside handed to him.
I’m glad to see that Canadians join this Meidas Touch Network. I am also glad this net work channel stopped showing Donald Trump‘s face & his voice. It’s very upsetting to me. I trust Meidas Touch Network to give me the most accurate and honest information. Kamala Harris supporter here.
Thank goodness!!! From Detroit!! Been watching CBC but need some more sane talking Canadian input here. Too much yak yak from our still fighting the civil war southern states.
Thank you for fighting against your own version of MAGA in the UK. Farage is the same kind of jumped-up street hustler and Putin-backed carny barker as The Felon. But, sadly, the appeal of those types can't be underestimated, especially when a large part of society are looking for someone else to blame for the mediocrity of their lives.
Let's get our priorities in order. Who cares if FAUX is #1 as long as we have Meidas to turn to as the alternative to all the lies? This isn't a race, it's a marathon. You've come so far so fast there is no doubt that you will out run FAUX soon.
Love the UK. My mom was born and raised in England. I was born & raised here in Michigan. She is 93 years old & very upset and very saddened by what the new presidential administration will be doing & is already doing…. Destroying the United States and our reputation on the world stage. I wish things aren’t the way they are. I don’t sit back and do nothing. I write letters to congress and senate protesting Donald Trump’s cabinet picks and his policies that he will be implemented in 2025 for Americans. Take care.
WXCELLENT IDEA, boots on the ground getting first person accounts. News, is mostly local, here on the East Coast - I do not see the news about the fires, unless it is the "evening" news where I get 3 minutes about the fire and 10 mins about TFG.
Writing from Germany where a party that comprises many neonazis is gaining more and more voters (with a little help of their friend Elon and associated sycophants...), I can only echo what you are saying - we need something like Meidas in Germany, too!
We still have a very critical and diverse press landscape, but I have the feeling that the rejection of the AfD (the very rights party including many authoritarian-loving, Putin-, Orban-, Trump-friendly and often nazi-style members and voters) is not as strong as it has been. There is already something of a both-siding going on. This is also the fault of the weakness and lack of competence of the old parties, but it is therefore not less spooky.
My very old parents who are extremely grateful for the allied forces liberating Germany are wringing their hands and saying that they would never had thought something like that would ever happen again, not in Germany and not - almost everywhere - in the whole world.
Voices like those of the Meidas Touch network contributors are getting more important by the day! Worldwide! There should be (no, there needs to be) an organised network exposing almost in real-time Fox's lies almost and those of their political representatives, i.e. the Republicans and similar parties members from other countries.
I 💯 agree with you. It shocks me that the AfD and parties like it (in the UK we have Reform) are not called out on the lack of facts, their hateful rhetoric and the lack of knowledge when it actually comes to government policy and economics!! We need to call them out!! I also hope that the EU swiftly ban twitter in favour of blue sky and any other platform that has promote disinformation!
Many users (also institutions, such as universitities, journalistic groups, the German Ministry of Defence,...) are leaving X. What I am worried about at the moment is that Elon, Trump, and the like would take over TikTok!
So many countries are suffering the rise of far right koo koo's. I LOVE the idea of a united alternative that believes in the power of the individual and "all the freedoms" vs. an authoritarian state.... like the NATO nations have done to support Ukraine's efforts to defend itself--but including people from other countries with the same challenge even if not in NATO? Maybe MTN is a good place to start, and if so we must all up our game in attracting more subscribers (from all over).
There needs to be far more unity with the the progressive anti-Trump YOUTUBE channels.
Ring of Fire:David Pakman:Damage Report.........WW2 was won because many countries formed the Allies.........FOX NEWs is just a part of the nazi-axis forces.
IHIPNEWS....for sure should be broght into the Allied coalition. MTN should be given a leadership role for sure. This should have been done already........
A more affordable pathway for seniors on social assistance should be created.
Those that can afford being a founder should do it.
JUST came across this group whose goal is to push back on orange 2.0... don't know much about them yet but looks interesting.....MTN probably well aware already.... This excerpt is from a Politico / West wing 1-16-25 article abou them : . . . . . THE RESISTANCE COMETH: Former Biden-Harris officials will help launch on Inauguration Day a new legal response center to bolster the fight against Trump’s impending executive orders, our MYAH WARD reports. The new effort, funded by the national legal organization Democracy Forward — formed in 2017 during Trump’s first term — will analyze the president-elect’s executive orders to support legal and political challenges to his agenda.
The group, which announced the effort Thursday, has already identified more than 200 “emerging threats” that the orders pose.
Agree entirely with this sentiment, but please include Ireland also when you expand to UK 🤣 We love our brothers & sisters in our neighbouring country, but we are different.
Another Brit here! I agree - you’re doing a good job for a lot of countries- not just the USA. Suggested interviews - Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Glenn Kirshner, Robert Reich, Chris Cuomo, Michelle Obama, David Parkman.
Get an interview with Michelle Obama. That should push Fox over the edge altogether. As an extra plus it also will get some of the other "good picks and picker" to go nuts. Maybe a group interview with Michelle Obama, AOC, Liz Chaney, Hillary Clinton and a few other women leaders together and watch them kick some backside for sure. That group of women should really start a seismic eruption of macho Republican men. Of course they are only macho when they are raping, grabbing, drugging, photographing the victims and showing the photos around or bragging about doing this. To think the Orange menace bragged about doing adult things with his own daughter! Get those women to do an interview please.
Great ideas! I’m happy about Midas touch as well because they give you the absolute and clear truth. Fox News disgusts me. All they do is lie and lie and twist things to mislead people. They are a horrible news media outlet. Very right wing hosts.
Why would we discard you?! I certainly agree with you, keep exposing the lies about the CA fire in response to Fox! This tragedy is what brought out the hate that fueled Fox and their hateful followers!
For anyone to disregard your input would be a great miscarriage of journalistic responsibility. I agree with your direction 💯 %. Thanks for your support.
I do love President Obama. He was a true statesman. He was hamstrung by that idiot McConnell in his final year. But I do believe women have more guts than men to stand up to injustice. We have been fighting one cause or another all our lives... fighting for our families, our children, and ourselves. We have the experience - we've been doing it all our lives! Michelle would destroy them.
Great idea. I had old Republican Party uncles who would have "lively" debates with my Dem, pro-labor, pro-union father. We all went to Thanksgiving dinner together and didn't have to shun each other. Maga has destroyed families.
YES! Far too many maga voters (and even some "traditional" gop) bought the orange lie that he "didn't know anything about P2025 or the people involved".. There could be a regular column that displays a P2025 element and the associated current "real world" activity around it... Removing the Dept. of Education, for example. Tons of ramifications with that one. But overall focus on economic issues, since it seems most maga folks are complaining about "the price of eggs" and how that was the driving force for voting orange.
OH... forgot... Even though Kamala Harris & Surrogates began using the word "fascist" during the campaign I think it was wasted. FAR too many people have no clue what a fascist was/is and won't bother to look it up. Same thing is going to happen with the word "oligarch". There needs to be some way to educate those who NEED to understand the concepts.
Have an America on fire! How do we put the fire out!! We need to look at everything they do and the consequences! For instance he wants to cut regulations, let’s look back at what occurred the last time he cut regulations
She is part of the huge mainstream media campaign that badgered President Biden to step down from his campaign. Even knowing what she knows she still did that. She, of all people, knew that America was not in a position to elect a woman - much less a woman of color - so she is just part of the large cog of MS media all kissing the ring. She's just less obvious if someone is not paying attention.
But you know - on second thought - I would like her to be interviewed. I want to know if she still sleeps well at night knowing that she contributed to the orange clown getting back into the oval office.
Exactly I hope these people burn one day because only a sick disgusting evil thing would spread lies about the California fires and don’t want to give them any funding. Maga is truly evil.
I willingly delegate watching Fox to the folks at Meidas, who will siftvout anything relevant. I can't stand the faces of most of the hosts I see on the clips. Jesse Waters' smug self-satisfied side-eye or Maria Bartiromo's plastic pout give me the pip, and that's a fact..
I tried this because of this reason, to be aware of what they're spewing and be able to combat it, but I just couldn't do it. I felt like I was actively losing braincells each passing minute and kept getting infuriated when such a blatantly obvious and absurd lie was told like it was 100% confirmed fact. So I stopped before I went insane.
Props to those who can do it for the rest of us, appreciate you all.
Hi Ben et al, Personally I covers to being very tired of reading how angry you are to not be #1. I really like Meidas and am a long time donor and subscriber but at this point there are people who I’ve referred to Meidas who are telling me that they can’t deal with and are totally turned off by the constant fundraising emails like the one I got today. They are going elsewhere for their news. I have to say that I don’t care what is happening on other channels. You have lots of followers and have built a great network. Please stop sending out so many competitive “I’ve got to be #1 “emails. This is a stressful enough time for all of us without a daily reminder of trying to beat a network of lies and deceit. They know they are getting to you by your angered responses. Anger and fear are first cousins. The fires are terrifying and I’m so so sorry that you and your family and so many have such difficult times ahead. So please get back to a focus that matters… not beating out what has become a somewhat mythic bogeyman.
I agree with Carol. I’m a new subscriber and feel as if your angry screeds are sounding similar in tone to what I see on Fox (even though I completely agree with your sentiments). How about finding new ways to share the truth about the fires? Interviews with locals, firefighters, forestry and water officials, anyone who can tell the truth in a humanizing, compelling way. Stories about people helping each other, stories about people from far away helping. Maybe even some stories about how people in California helped some of the red states when they were in dire need after similar emergencies? What we need now is to re-humanize ourselves as a country and help people come back together, not pull us further apart. Organizations like Braver Angels are doing that work, which runs counter to the us vs. them that Fox et al. continue to successfully push. Thank you for your dedication and passion, Ben.
I understand where you’re coming from, and maybe they need to tweak the language a bit, but in today’s world, the truth is in competition with lies. I appreciate how tirelessly Meidas works to compete for the truth, to be #1 so that more people seeing the true than the false. I don’t think it’s coming from a place of vanity but from urgency.
Agree 100%. Heather Cox Richardson is someone who is true to her mission.. Her base has been built by keeping focus on what is happening and what the ramifications are. I value those journalists who know their mission to inform the growing group of Americans who see the hype and are looking beyond corporate media. Please, please keep your eye on the gap you are filling.. the accolades and increased subscribership will come in time.. through word of mouth.
Juupiter- HC Richardson-- brilliant but, again, why we lose. ask her the time and she tells you how to build a clock. the hopi poli do not have that kind of attention span --even if speed readers. keep it short, inspiring or engaging with a call to action. it's how THEY sell their side/lies. when or how will we learn?
thanks for the acknowledgement - LOL- but i am not looking for accolades, nor approval nor a fight. I want to win. my side has not learned that winning is everything. it takes money to win. it takes ferocity and tenacity imho. if you look at the reply, it only took a very small comment to cause hurt feelings. naive and myopic is not name calling. it is an opinion based on observation. calling the other side trumpanzees ( with all respect to the chimps) is name calling.
Liz, all caps telling someone their comments are myopic and naive is rude. And if you want to win, then don't be rude to a fellow commenter who also wants to win. There are several excellent substacks out there. Meidas is one of them. But most of us have only so much discretionary money to spend. And with more substacks coming in like Jennifer Rubin's The Contrarian, people are going to make the choice about where to subscribe because msm is such a lost cause. What keeps me here is Ron Filipkowski's excellent news summation. But what will win ultimately is electing tougher Democrats who are fighters. It won't be because you beat FOX News as number one.
CAROL-- YOUR NAIVE AND MYOPIC COMMENTS ARE HOW WE GOT HERE! Do yiu think Ben can do this w/o funding- heavy funding to fight the massive wealth on the oher side? the bogeymen/oligarchs are on the other side. Let's not eat our own. What they do to Ben is what they do to all of us.
Even though it was sent by Brett, the first words, "I'll keep this short." and the next sentence "...and my interview with President Biden." are definitely Ben's words. Brett did not interview Biden.
First I have to disagree and say there's nothing that shows they have to be number one. Second, what they did was explain to you the reason they are reaching out. They not only discuss their frustration with the lies being number one but also asking us for advice on what we believe as their subscribers, would be good to see and push. They also cannot get people on the ground and communicating and talking with real people without paying them. So they have to have a goal and get new subscribers. Many people don't understand how much money actually goes into putting a show on and it's not just him and it's not just his brothers. It is a network of people they have to pay. Fox doesn't have this issue which, I believe but could be wrong, is the point he was making. The fact he is able to beat Fox without all of the money that they have shows him and his brothers that what they're doing is valuable and it's reaching far enough. The problem is when the competition that has a lot of money is creeping up at the top that means Midas Touch has to push harder because of the lack of reach and resources. They want to make truth number one. I do agree that the wording probably could have been done better but I think the passion that they have they sent this out as soon as they had a moment because they feel the sense of urgency. Of course I don't know this for a fact these are just my opinion thoughts based off of how I see them as dedicated people to democracy and the truth. I just wish people would see things as more of a positive and understand why they have to put emails out in regards to money. We got to stop misreading in a negative form. The problem with Fox is their actions and their words and the truth never coaline. We don't have that with Midas Touch so maybe go a little easy until we see them become people like fox. Then give them hell. Right now we need to not pick them apart for not being perfect and Catering to our sensitivities. They're doing the best they can with what they got and unfortunately they need to ask us for help to give us more.
Just to say I’m all for the need to fund raise and to push back on lies . And MTN is brilliant at doing that. I just don’t need daily emails about who is #1 and who isn’t that turn into fundraising emails. I’m ok with fundraising obviously but competitive and angry emails to those of us who are already long time supporters makes me not want to read more
Interview ideas: Jack Smith, Kamala Harris, Zelensky, Bob Woodward. John Dean, General Milley, Michael Wolff, David Cay Johnston, Moskowitz, Jasmine Crockett
If they're getting to you, they have. won....You know they lie, and nothing else, all lies. You will win by keeping ONLY to the TRUTH. Just keep going. Too often the truth comes out last, but it usually comes..... Thank you
THAT part. As I was reading this post, I thought, sheesh. Go lick your wounds, formulate a plan, and go into action Instead of sounding like an already defeated loser.
I am from Canada. I suggest you interview people from Mexican government, Canadian provinces and even Ukraine. All who have sent help and why it is important for them. Also people from forest fire brigade ( like SOPFEU in Quebec) to explain how forest fire propagate, how hard it is to control, why it is taking so many days... Debunk them with serious information from outside California and outside US.
Please use this platform to introduce our future leaders. Who in the younger crowd is showing leadership? Somebody under 40 must be showing promise & a handle on what it takes & what it means to govern!!!!
Please stop focusing on views and clicks. That's the reason we've lost legacy media. Your subscribers are with you because they want to support journalistic integrity not the winner of the click war. Focus on your subscribers and the truth.
AGREE! All great choices. What's next for Pete? Will he run for Senate? Who is running against Nancy Mace in 2026? Start talking up and talking to the smart people who are going against the stupids.
I am a UK watcher. So you can totally discard this. But get as many people on the ground talking to those in the LA fires exposing the lies, talking to the fire fighters etc.
Also, more coverage of how other countries are fighting the right wing in their own countries may just show that no one is alone in the fight for democracy!
Thanks again for all you do! Best channel on YouTube! We need the equivalent in the UK so please expand eventually 😅
That kind of boots-on-the-ground reporting is the best way to counter disinformation - even when it's unintentional. I'm still chuckling over Musk's own goal the other day when he 'interviewed' firefighters about 'how bad Newsom's response has been' and got his backside handed to him.
That was fun to watch
This. Sometimes it takes someone outside our own democracy to point out where we can improve.
People all over the free world realize it's FOX who is broadcasting the fake news. The cult won't even think about that. :(
Great idea! We have our struggles here in Canada.
I’m glad to see that Canadians join this Meidas Touch Network. I am also glad this net work channel stopped showing Donald Trump‘s face & his voice. It’s very upsetting to me. I trust Meidas Touch Network to give me the most accurate and honest information. Kamala Harris supporter here.
I wholeheartedly agree with you Martin. Seeing his face, hearing his voice gets my nerves rattled.
Been sick of it since 2015.
They're workin on Canadian Meidas coming soon Anna!
Thank goodness!!! From Detroit!! Been watching CBC but need some more sane talking Canadian input here. Too much yak yak from our still fighting the civil war southern states.
Yeah, Piss Pot Poilievre, Dump’s mini-me.
Also in the UK fighting Reform Ltd (Trzmpism)!
Thank you for fighting against your own version of MAGA in the UK. Farage is the same kind of jumped-up street hustler and Putin-backed carny barker as The Felon. But, sadly, the appeal of those types can't be underestimated, especially when a large part of society are looking for someone else to blame for the mediocrity of their lives.
Let's get our priorities in order. Who cares if FAUX is #1 as long as we have Meidas to turn to as the alternative to all the lies? This isn't a race, it's a marathon. You've come so far so fast there is no doubt that you will out run FAUX soon.
We stand with you UK! We must get rid of MAGA or the culture of MAGA
This 100%
Love the UK. My mom was born and raised in England. I was born & raised here in Michigan. She is 93 years old & very upset and very saddened by what the new presidential administration will be doing & is already doing…. Destroying the United States and our reputation on the world stage. I wish things aren’t the way they are. I don’t sit back and do nothing. I write letters to congress and senate protesting Donald Trump’s cabinet picks and his policies that he will be implemented in 2025 for Americans. Take care.
I’m right there with you!
WXCELLENT IDEA, boots on the ground getting first person accounts. News, is mostly local, here on the East Coast - I do not see the news about the fires, unless it is the "evening" news where I get 3 minutes about the fire and 10 mins about TFG.
Writing from Germany where a party that comprises many neonazis is gaining more and more voters (with a little help of their friend Elon and associated sycophants...), I can only echo what you are saying - we need something like Meidas in Germany, too!
We still have a very critical and diverse press landscape, but I have the feeling that the rejection of the AfD (the very rights party including many authoritarian-loving, Putin-, Orban-, Trump-friendly and often nazi-style members and voters) is not as strong as it has been. There is already something of a both-siding going on. This is also the fault of the weakness and lack of competence of the old parties, but it is therefore not less spooky.
My very old parents who are extremely grateful for the allied forces liberating Germany are wringing their hands and saying that they would never had thought something like that would ever happen again, not in Germany and not - almost everywhere - in the whole world.
Voices like those of the Meidas Touch network contributors are getting more important by the day! Worldwide! There should be (no, there needs to be) an organised network exposing almost in real-time Fox's lies almost and those of their political representatives, i.e. the Republicans and similar parties members from other countries.
I 💯 agree with you. It shocks me that the AfD and parties like it (in the UK we have Reform) are not called out on the lack of facts, their hateful rhetoric and the lack of knowledge when it actually comes to government policy and economics!! We need to call them out!! I also hope that the EU swiftly ban twitter in favour of blue sky and any other platform that has promote disinformation!
Many users (also institutions, such as universitities, journalistic groups, the German Ministry of Defence,...) are leaving X. What I am worried about at the moment is that Elon, Trump, and the like would take over TikTok!
I’m keeping everything crossed that that doesn’t happen. It’s can’t be legal to have that kind of monopoly!
YEP. I fear they'll see it as just one more way to spread bad lies and propaganda . .https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/tech/tiktok-getting-banned-trump-biden/index.html
So many countries are suffering the rise of far right koo koo's. I LOVE the idea of a united alternative that believes in the power of the individual and "all the freedoms" vs. an authoritarian state.... like the NATO nations have done to support Ukraine's efforts to defend itself--but including people from other countries with the same challenge even if not in NATO? Maybe MTN is a good place to start, and if so we must all up our game in attracting more subscribers (from all over).
There needs to be far more unity with the the progressive anti-Trump YOUTUBE channels.
Ring of Fire:David Pakman:Damage Report.........WW2 was won because many countries formed the Allies.........FOX NEWs is just a part of the nazi-axis forces.
IHIPNEWS....for sure should be broght into the Allied coalition. MTN should be given a leadership role for sure. This should have been done already........
A more affordable pathway for seniors on social assistance should be created.
Those that can afford being a founder should do it.
JUST came across this group whose goal is to push back on orange 2.0... don't know much about them yet but looks interesting.....MTN probably well aware already.... This excerpt is from a Politico / West wing 1-16-25 article abou them : . . . . . THE RESISTANCE COMETH: Former Biden-Harris officials will help launch on Inauguration Day a new legal response center to bolster the fight against Trump’s impending executive orders, our MYAH WARD reports. The new effort, funded by the national legal organization Democracy Forward — formed in 2017 during Trump’s first term — will analyze the president-elect’s executive orders to support legal and political challenges to his agenda.
The group, which announced the effort Thursday, has already identified more than 200 “emerging threats” that the orders pose.
Great News!!! Will check out Democracy Forward online definatly.
Resistance to Orange Hitler is going to be tough and nasty. Tomorrow, with the Peoples March we move on from the angst of the election.
Have been reading ..."Defying HItler...The Germans who resisted Nazi Rule"
We now are living proof that "History repeats itself.".........Democracy, in North America and accross the oceans will defeat and crush the Maggots!!!
Just wrote about Senior Discount. Agree.
Agree entirely with this sentiment, but please include Ireland also when you expand to UK 🤣 We love our brothers & sisters in our neighbouring country, but we are different.
Thanks for that comment.
I'll volunteer to head to the UK. :)
Yes, I'll take The Bahamas bureau.
Another Brit here! I agree - you’re doing a good job for a lot of countries- not just the USA. Suggested interviews - Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Glenn Kirshner, Robert Reich, Chris Cuomo, Michelle Obama, David Parkman.
Get an interview with Michelle Obama. That should push Fox over the edge altogether. As an extra plus it also will get some of the other "good picks and picker" to go nuts. Maybe a group interview with Michelle Obama, AOC, Liz Chaney, Hillary Clinton and a few other women leaders together and watch them kick some backside for sure. That group of women should really start a seismic eruption of macho Republican men. Of course they are only macho when they are raping, grabbing, drugging, photographing the victims and showing the photos around or bragging about doing this. To think the Orange menace bragged about doing adult things with his own daughter! Get those women to do an interview please.
Great ideas! I’m happy about Midas touch as well because they give you the absolute and clear truth. Fox News disgusts me. All they do is lie and lie and twist things to mislead people. They are a horrible news media outlet. Very right wing hosts.
Why would we discard you?! I certainly agree with you, keep exposing the lies about the CA fire in response to Fox! This tragedy is what brought out the hate that fueled Fox and their hateful followers!
For anyone to disregard your input would be a great miscarriage of journalistic responsibility. I agree with your direction 💯 %. Thanks for your support.
Great first suggestion there! Feet on the ground.
These are GREAT IDEAS!
I like those suggestions, hope they get used! We are not in a dissimilar place than other countries.
Please just keep telling the truth so we can out number their lies.
Interview Hillary Clinton. Interview Michelle Obama. Interview Rachael Maddow
Michelle Obama would be a real feather in your cap. She has ended up being the face of the Democratic Party.
I do love President Obama. He was a true statesman. He was hamstrung by that idiot McConnell in his final year. But I do believe women have more guts than men to stand up to injustice. We have been fighting one cause or another all our lives... fighting for our families, our children, and ourselves. We have the experience - we've been doing it all our lives! Michelle would destroy them.
Do a contrast of the old Republican Party vs what it is today!
Get Liz Cheney in for an interview
Ohh, that's a good one! Bring in the OG Republicans to the network, and force MAGAs who hate her to watch it too 😅😆
Great idea. I had old Republican Party uncles who would have "lively" debates with my Dem, pro-labor, pro-union father. We all went to Thanksgiving dinner together and didn't have to shun each other. Maga has destroyed families.
Love that idea
Yes, I agree with all three of these. Rachael Maddow would be great. Also Pete Buttigieg .
Katy Tur.........Her life story is a movie.......reported Trump 01 from start to finish.......
Parents flew the helicopter that followed OJay down the freeway.
Do a project 25 daily update and the consequences
This ⬆️ And interview Christian Nationalist “escapee” and best-selling author Andra Watkins about P2025.
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/predicted-executive-orders-to-transform?
YES! Far too many maga voters (and even some "traditional" gop) bought the orange lie that he "didn't know anything about P2025 or the people involved".. There could be a regular column that displays a P2025 element and the associated current "real world" activity around it... Removing the Dept. of Education, for example. Tons of ramifications with that one. But overall focus on economic issues, since it seems most maga folks are complaining about "the price of eggs" and how that was the driving force for voting orange.
OH... forgot... Even though Kamala Harris & Surrogates began using the word "fascist" during the campaign I think it was wasted. FAR too many people have no clue what a fascist was/is and won't bother to look it up. Same thing is going to happen with the word "oligarch". There needs to be some way to educate those who NEED to understand the concepts.
Excellent idea!
Visit cities, do your podcast in different cities. Like a town hall
Get the interview with President Biden on TV so it can be seen. It was a great interview!!!!
Have an America on fire! How do we put the fire out!! We need to look at everything they do and the consequences! For instance he wants to cut regulations, let’s look back at what occurred the last time he cut regulations
Do a daily comparison of what a good president would do, compared to rumps decisions
Yes! Like a shadow cabinet, but with the Meidas touch. (Sorry, i couldn't resist. :))
yes 😁 I'm so glad I read this before I replied LOL I was going to post Michelle Obama as an interview as well. I think Barack Obama would be good too
Talk about how we can fight back
With actual action items we could implement either that day or soon after.
Do a daily calculation of his lies!
Have Daniel Dale on as a regular guest!!!!!
Contrast successful democratic presidents vs the orange orangutan
Orangutans are more civil than Trump and Company and suffer enough without the insult of comparison to MAG-Apes.
Maybe 60 minutes
Or maybe weekly
Great list!
Rachael Maddow helped us get into this mess.
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She is part of the huge mainstream media campaign that badgered President Biden to step down from his campaign. Even knowing what she knows she still did that. She, of all people, knew that America was not in a position to elect a woman - much less a woman of color - so she is just part of the large cog of MS media all kissing the ring. She's just less obvious if someone is not paying attention.
But you know - on second thought - I would like her to be interviewed. I want to know if she still sleeps well at night knowing that she contributed to the orange clown getting back into the oval office.
Faux news taking advantage of the massive fires to be #1.
Scum, lowlifes, pathetic
Exactly I hope these people burn one day because only a sick disgusting evil thing would spread lies about the California fires and don’t want to give them any funding. Maga is truly evil.
I don't want Fox to burn but to be shamed. Using lies to boost ratings is like CHEATING!
Agree they just make me so mad the way they lie people have lost a lot in California I have family members there just pissed excuse my language
You've every reason to be Phizzed.
Yes. Maga is evil in so many aspects. No love or joy in that cult. Go blue!💙
Fox News = Bottom of the bucket news channel.
💯💯💯💯
I have never nor will I ever watch anything Fox does. Stay with the truth and you will win.
Never have and never will watch FOX or any other podcast that spews lies and hate.
The truth will prevail lies and evil won’t
Unfortunately, we must watch Fox "news" if only to know what propaganda we need to rebut, so we are prepared to respond.
I willingly delegate watching Fox to the folks at Meidas, who will siftvout anything relevant. I can't stand the faces of most of the hosts I see on the clips. Jesse Waters' smug self-satisfied side-eye or Maria Bartiromo's plastic pout give me the pip, and that's a fact..
Same
Thank you for those that do. I just can’t watch Fox at all
No way will I ever give them a minute of viewing. That's why I am grateful for meidas touch
I tried this because of this reason, to be aware of what they're spewing and be able to combat it, but I just couldn't do it. I felt like I was actively losing braincells each passing minute and kept getting infuriated when such a blatantly obvious and absurd lie was told like it was 100% confirmed fact. So I stopped before I went insane.
Props to those who can do it for the rest of us, appreciate you all.
Can’t watch Fox At All I refuse to give them a rating. The Fake News And Fake Journalists Make Me Want To Puke.
No we don't we already know they do the opposite of what should be done
Hi Ben et al, Personally I covers to being very tired of reading how angry you are to not be #1. I really like Meidas and am a long time donor and subscriber but at this point there are people who I’ve referred to Meidas who are telling me that they can’t deal with and are totally turned off by the constant fundraising emails like the one I got today. They are going elsewhere for their news. I have to say that I don’t care what is happening on other channels. You have lots of followers and have built a great network. Please stop sending out so many competitive “I’ve got to be #1 “emails. This is a stressful enough time for all of us without a daily reminder of trying to beat a network of lies and deceit. They know they are getting to you by your angered responses. Anger and fear are first cousins. The fires are terrifying and I’m so so sorry that you and your family and so many have such difficult times ahead. So please get back to a focus that matters… not beating out what has become a somewhat mythic bogeyman.
With great respect and admiration, Carol
I agree with Carol. I’m a new subscriber and feel as if your angry screeds are sounding similar in tone to what I see on Fox (even though I completely agree with your sentiments). How about finding new ways to share the truth about the fires? Interviews with locals, firefighters, forestry and water officials, anyone who can tell the truth in a humanizing, compelling way. Stories about people helping each other, stories about people from far away helping. Maybe even some stories about how people in California helped some of the red states when they were in dire need after similar emergencies? What we need now is to re-humanize ourselves as a country and help people come back together, not pull us further apart. Organizations like Braver Angels are doing that work, which runs counter to the us vs. them that Fox et al. continue to successfully push. Thank you for your dedication and passion, Ben.
Wow, Claudia! Spot on!! To "re-humanize ourselves as a country" really hits in the heart of what's happening around our beloved country. 💖🤍💙
Great idea, to look for stories of the folx in Cali helping after disasters in other states!
I understand where you’re coming from, and maybe they need to tweak the language a bit, but in today’s world, the truth is in competition with lies. I appreciate how tirelessly Meidas works to compete for the truth, to be #1 so that more people seeing the true than the false. I don’t think it’s coming from a place of vanity but from urgency.
Agree 100%. Heather Cox Richardson is someone who is true to her mission.. Her base has been built by keeping focus on what is happening and what the ramifications are. I value those journalists who know their mission to inform the growing group of Americans who see the hype and are looking beyond corporate media. Please, please keep your eye on the gap you are filling.. the accolades and increased subscribership will come in time.. through word of mouth.
Juupiter- HC Richardson-- brilliant but, again, why we lose. ask her the time and she tells you how to build a clock. the hopi poli do not have that kind of attention span --even if speed readers. keep it short, inspiring or engaging with a call to action. it's how THEY sell their side/lies. when or how will we learn?
Well, I can tell by your replies that you're just a marketing genius.
thanks for the acknowledgement - LOL- but i am not looking for accolades, nor approval nor a fight. I want to win. my side has not learned that winning is everything. it takes money to win. it takes ferocity and tenacity imho. if you look at the reply, it only took a very small comment to cause hurt feelings. naive and myopic is not name calling. it is an opinion based on observation. calling the other side trumpanzees ( with all respect to the chimps) is name calling.
Liz, all caps telling someone their comments are myopic and naive is rude. And if you want to win, then don't be rude to a fellow commenter who also wants to win. There are several excellent substacks out there. Meidas is one of them. But most of us have only so much discretionary money to spend. And with more substacks coming in like Jennifer Rubin's The Contrarian, people are going to make the choice about where to subscribe because msm is such a lost cause. What keeps me here is Ron Filipkowski's excellent news summation. But what will win ultimately is electing tougher Democrats who are fighters. It won't be because you beat FOX News as number one.
CAROL-- YOUR NAIVE AND MYOPIC COMMENTS ARE HOW WE GOT HERE! Do yiu think Ben can do this w/o funding- heavy funding to fight the massive wealth on the oher side? the bogeymen/oligarchs are on the other side. Let's not eat our own. What they do to Ben is what they do to all of us.
Not quite sure how your accusatory and name calling response doesn’t equate to eating our own but I hope it made you feel better
Naive and myopic? Back off bud
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Thank you. What an intelligent comment.
Geesh, this was written by Brett, not Ben. MTN has no option except to grow in order to stay relevant. I applaud their drive for growth.
Even though it was sent by Brett, the first words, "I'll keep this short." and the next sentence "...and my interview with President Biden." are definitely Ben's words. Brett did not interview Biden.
Me too 💙💙💙🤩💯
Agree fully. Looking for honest alternative media but crap about being number one etc is a real turn off.
First I have to disagree and say there's nothing that shows they have to be number one. Second, what they did was explain to you the reason they are reaching out. They not only discuss their frustration with the lies being number one but also asking us for advice on what we believe as their subscribers, would be good to see and push. They also cannot get people on the ground and communicating and talking with real people without paying them. So they have to have a goal and get new subscribers. Many people don't understand how much money actually goes into putting a show on and it's not just him and it's not just his brothers. It is a network of people they have to pay. Fox doesn't have this issue which, I believe but could be wrong, is the point he was making. The fact he is able to beat Fox without all of the money that they have shows him and his brothers that what they're doing is valuable and it's reaching far enough. The problem is when the competition that has a lot of money is creeping up at the top that means Midas Touch has to push harder because of the lack of reach and resources. They want to make truth number one. I do agree that the wording probably could have been done better but I think the passion that they have they sent this out as soon as they had a moment because they feel the sense of urgency. Of course I don't know this for a fact these are just my opinion thoughts based off of how I see them as dedicated people to democracy and the truth. I just wish people would see things as more of a positive and understand why they have to put emails out in regards to money. We got to stop misreading in a negative form. The problem with Fox is their actions and their words and the truth never coaline. We don't have that with Midas Touch so maybe go a little easy until we see them become people like fox. Then give them hell. Right now we need to not pick them apart for not being perfect and Catering to our sensitivities. They're doing the best they can with what they got and unfortunately they need to ask us for help to give us more.
You got it, Carol! The competition with FAUX is a distraction. We don't have to be #1 in ratings, just #1 in truth.
Just to say I’m all for the need to fund raise and to push back on lies . And MTN is brilliant at doing that. I just don’t need daily emails about who is #1 and who isn’t that turn into fundraising emails. I’m ok with fundraising obviously but competitive and angry emails to those of us who are already long time supporters makes me not want to read more
Interview ideas: Jack Smith, Kamala Harris, Zelensky, Bob Woodward. John Dean, General Milley, Michael Wolff, David Cay Johnston, Moskowitz, Jasmine Crockett
ALL Great choices to interview.
Ive seen Dave Cay & he's ACE!
Exactly !!? Great List Going Forward !! 👍👌👊💪
Keep exposing the oligarchs, their gluttony & crimes & their willing collaborators in corporate media
Make #FOTUS, his henchmen & RW outlets alike FOX laughingstocks by using humor too
"I never watch Fox for the same reason I necer drink out of the toilet-The water may look clean but it's actually full of shit"
Stay strong people love you support from Australia
If they're getting to you, they have. won....You know they lie, and nothing else, all lies. You will win by keeping ONLY to the TRUTH. Just keep going. Too often the truth comes out last, but it usually comes..... Thank you
THAT part. As I was reading this post, I thought, sheesh. Go lick your wounds, formulate a plan, and go into action Instead of sounding like an already defeated loser.
Good Goobly Goo. 🤦🏾♀️
Ignore lies!
I am from Canada. I suggest you interview people from Mexican government, Canadian provinces and even Ukraine. All who have sent help and why it is important for them. Also people from forest fire brigade ( like SOPFEU in Quebec) to explain how forest fire propagate, how hard it is to control, why it is taking so many days... Debunk them with serious information from outside California and outside US.
Totally agree. Getting input from people in Ukraine will be key to continued support.
Yes indeed
Please use this platform to introduce our future leaders. Who in the younger crowd is showing leadership? Somebody under 40 must be showing promise & a handle on what it takes & what it means to govern!!!!
David Hogg!
I totally agree with David Hogg he’s passionate, articulate and under 40
David Hogg
AOC. She and Jasmine Crockett. They both know how to put things in perspective.
Please stop focusing on views and clicks. That's the reason we've lost legacy media. Your subscribers are with you because they want to support journalistic integrity not the winner of the click war. Focus on your subscribers and the truth.
Thank you for always being transparent.
Please enlist the right billionaire - Mark Cuban. He’s brilliant. Even if you pick his brain on strategy.
I will become a paid subscriber too.
I would love to see an interview with Governor Newsom, Jasmine Crockette, AOC, Buttigieg, etc. keep up the amazing work you are doing!
AGREE! All great choices. What's next for Pete? Will he run for Senate? Who is running against Nancy Mace in 2026? Start talking up and talking to the smart people who are going against the stupids.
Those are all GREAT choices!!