It IS a muffler shop, but Ben's is spelled Meidas. And fox news saying our idiot in chief has the touch, is, well just wrong. We ALL know, the only thing he knows how to do is lie, whereas The Meidss touch ONLY tells truth!
My thought exactly, and as much as Fox sputters lies so loudly, they sure need some better mechanics in their shop! They will never be the solid gold that Meidas Touch is every day, no matter how hard they try!
Yes, and the orange guy must be full of hot air; in the case hot toxic air. That’s his Midas touch. Would it be a compliment? Oh, sometimes the muffler backfired; orange guy farted….sound familiar?? Hmmm
Their use of it is sounds desperate and ironic. First the usage of the term reminds me of Tony Soprano when he said he has the Anti Midas Touch, everything touches turns to shit. Everything Trump touches dies. Especially our economy and our world standing.
Especially when the young woman's body was painted in gold. her skin was completely painted over, leaving no skin exposed. she would die from asphyxiation. skin actually breathes, if it can't it is serious ,and death could result.
It seems to me though, that just like "King Midas", Trump also prefers SHIT plated in gold. Just look what he's done to our White House, and all his own properties! He doesn't even have enough money or class to use real gold; he electroplating instead! Tacky, cheap garbage, just like its owner.
Not to mention the people in Gaza who are starving to death. Of the 130 people who have died in Gaza so far from starvation, 97 of them are children. It's Trump at his finest walking in the realm of I don't care about anyone but myself.
He lied. It was half the amount of money. He sent it to a charity NOT RECOGNIZED as legit. And guess where the "charity " is located.? ISRAEL. its a humanitarian relief fund, in Bebe country. POS both if them
For WHAT, exactly? The "aid" that he allegedly sent, he DIDN'T really! He sent it to a shell company IN DELAWARE that was intentionally given an Israeli name, so that when he sends money there, people believe he is helping Israel. I'll bet NO ONE can guess what he's doing with the money?! LoL
Funny (?) story. My very elderly father who has always been a republican but hates Trump only watches Fox News - all damn day. I keep telling him his brain is rotting away because of it. He insists that the "news" he watches is real news. Yesterday after he spouted off some garbage about the Cleveland Guardians changing back to the Indians and I tried explaining the real story, he told me I just hadn't watched the news that day. Sigh. I'm watching first hand how Fox distorts facts (or omits them entirely). Luckily dad didn't vote for Trump. But his brain is seriously rotting away. I blame Fox News for the decline
I’m sorry to hear that. I have dear friends who have lost their way watching Fox, too. I hope they all see the light very soon, especially when the orange buffoon is proven to be a pedo in the worst degree.
Good ole FOX news. I have a brother who worked as a cameraman for them. A cameraman. Let that one sit for a minute and then one day he starts spouting off how he interviewed this one and that one and sat with a few Presidents and interviewed them and how they lie. I questioned, "Interviewed? You are a cameraman." To which I was told, "Yes, I am a cameraman, but my job also included interviewing." To this day, he tells us that we watch the wrong news so we don't get the actual truth. My husband asked him one day where he gets his news from then and he told him "the news"
Unfortunately many folks equate their personal confirmation bias with truth. It is not a rational decision, so presenting rational facts is ineffective. It is better slip under their guard with a "solidarity...but" kinda comment. "Hey Dad, these folks on Fox are just so darned devoted to Trump and I know you can't stand the guy...how do you think they square that circle?"
I am sure others out there can come up with better lines! Come in with a friendly approach and ask the question that leads to reflection...
Oh, I push back and we have robust discussions. But he’s convinced they are “fair and balanced”. He’s not well and it’s not worth using our last conversations to talk about Fox.
PS it is important as we wade through this second Trump term that he does not cause even more damage than he already is by poisoning our personal lives.
Please start referring to the Epstein Files as the Epstein/Maxwell files! Because if we don’t rightly start looping her in, they will try and make her a victim!!
Here is a positive spin… I just googled Midas Touch… AI generated definition pops up first. Next was Meidas Touch YouTube then Meidas Touch News. Not that Fox folks would google Midas Touch? But, they could! Guess where it leads them? Smart ones could and may click on Meidas…
It's ridiculous that someone comes up with a term or a phrase in a meeting, and then everyone is directed to use that term on and on ad nauseam. It's almost as if ... they were trying to brainwash their viewers or something ....
They are. It is a deliberate attempt to change the meaning of a phrase or word. Give it another meaning all the time and the new meaning sticks, like it did for "woke".
its also a cult technique known as 'loaded language'. cults will take certain buzzwords or phrases and abuse them to the point they lose their actual meaning as words, but just elicit a pavlovian emotional response. examples 'benghazi' they rode that one forever. they are trying to make something stick with the 'autopen' and 'hunters laptop' and 'tren de aragua' in the same way but failing on all of them bc ppl are starting to catch on. all those buzzword failed to gain traction in the same way they flogged 'benghazi' and others for years and years.
they have done this too with all the names, biden obama hillary those are not even words anymore to maga, they simply elicit a completely irrational emotional response -- unrelated to the actual word itself. same with socialism, marxim, communism, none of which they could define in a billion years. in cults its a form of 'thought stopping' -- making sure no rational conversation can be had around a topic. it becomes irrational immediately bc maga doesnt undertand english and just want to yell at things. loaded language is 100000% a cult technique.
I have a friend who went from supporting Bernie to QAnon and one of the first things she brought up was Hillary and Benghazi…
I knew I’d lost her when she said she “liked” trump! Now nothing will change her mind. Although I think maybe the Epstein thing has her a little confused 😵💫
You know those things called mufflers that are on cars? Maybe that's what Fox is really calling Trump, but they got the spelling wrong. When those mufflers go bad, your car is really loud. That sounds like Trump. He's gone really bad and is loud about everything. Not real government business, but loud about any of his corruption schemes, his lies, his trying to take the USA down, etc. We should start calling him the muffler man - the one that needs to be replaced.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so there’s that I guess. But this just serves to confirm a point about right wing “brains”. They are not creative, which is why they’re not funny, artistic, musical, or generally human, in the best sense of the word. Basically reptilian, they focus more on negativity, darkness, paranoia, conspiracy….the not-so-attractive aspects of humanity.
Thanks Ben for accepting the “torture” of watching Fox News so we don’t have to. You’re right. *Everything* Drump touches DIES. Fox is pathetic to try to ride on the “Midas” name but it just makes them look even more pathetic, if such a thing is possible. 😆 I saw an earlier post here that asked “Isn’t Midas a muffler shop?” YES…let’s muffle ALL of maga…the sooner the better!
Dumped cable years ago. Not worth $180 a month, especially given I'm forced to give 40% of my time to big pharma commercials despite paying that much. Need that to buy groceries now. But we did have Fox (and three others including MSNBC) at work. I watched Fox for about 5 minutes, and everything was an blatant lie or contrived. That was the end of my curiosity as to what "the other side" thinks. I found nothing contrary to what cost them $768M in that lawsuit.
It’s eating them up inside because they know that the MeidasTouch is taking over big time with the facts and the truth and not backing down like the pathetic fake news cowards and traitors they are not to mention they completely make themselves look like fools and idiots like the orange whopper they worship.
Wouldn't it be great if the faux news reference to the Midas Touch actually led some of their followers to the MTN? I doubt anyone of them would understand that there are different points of view than those of the right wing media, but there may be some who are willing to listen to alternative points of view, and that would be a win for the Midas Mighty.
Now I stopped watching Fox News and have not had cable for years, I only stream!! You heard the song “ Midas touch” by Midnight Star, Everything you touch turns to gold!! Everything Trump touches is tarnished, keep up the good work, you get 5 stars, he gets nada 👎
Midas? Isn't that a muffler shop,
We wish they could be muffled!!!!
Nice catch, P!
Terrific reply! And I agree.
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Thank you VERY much.
Spam. REPORTED.
What, 💩? We knew that.
How in the world does this comment relate to the topics of the day?
Wow, that is brilliant! Great comment. I forgot all about that. Yeah he needs a muffler on his mouth!
Too funny!
Sure is and Trump definitely is blowing shit out his ass!! lol his ass and mouth look the same big Ang ugly!! Scotland said it best!! STENCH!!
Loved all the protest posters in Scotland, masters of the insult!
My favorite was the man playing the bagpipes. The sign said, "At least this bag of hot air has a purpose!"
Absolutely right!
Midas well have the best!
Clever!!!
The slogan came back to me like it was just on TV yesterday.
It IS a muffler shop, but Ben's is spelled Meidas. And fox news saying our idiot in chief has the touch, is, well just wrong. We ALL know, the only thing he knows how to do is lie, whereas The Meidss touch ONLY tells truth!
Love!! 😂
…And I hope they sue TF out of them! How friggin dumb and desperate do people have to get?
That would be perfect as I am sure it is a name owned by the muffler shop
My thought exactly, and as much as Fox sputters lies so loudly, they sure need some better mechanics in their shop! They will never be the solid gold that Meidas Touch is every day, no matter how hard they try!
LOL
Yes, and the orange guy must be full of hot air; in the case hot toxic air. That’s his Midas touch. Would it be a compliment? Oh, sometimes the muffler backfired; orange guy farted….sound familiar?? Hmmm
It sure is! 🤣🤣🤣
He never ever has had an original idea of his own.
you wish it was...they dont gix cars they fix bs lies with the truth...💙
omg!!! That is hilarious and we almost missed it!!!
Their use of it is sounds desperate and ironic. First the usage of the term reminds me of Tony Soprano when he said he has the Anti Midas Touch, everything touches turns to shit. Everything Trump touches dies. Especially our economy and our world standing.
Actually …
King Midas was cursed with that touch. EVERYTHING he touched turned to gold, including his wife and children. so yes, everything he touched died.
YES... I think it is strange fox would use that but they do not know what the story means... who's going to tell them...?
Oh they know…but I don’t know if MAGA knows….
This speaks volumes to Maganuts and Fox News followers… they don't read… the moral of the story (like Project 2025) will go over their heads…
and just like with Project 2025, t hey wouldn't listen anyway!
Excellent point
More like Midas touch in reverse: everything he touches turns to s***.
In Trump’s case: “Gold is in the eye of the beholder”.
temu gold
The Midas story is not a happy one, so no, NOT IN REVERSE. Everything King Midas touched died.
Especially when the young woman's body was painted in gold. her skin was completely painted over, leaving no skin exposed. she would die from asphyxiation. skin actually breathes, if it can't it is serious ,and death could result.
Brilliant!! I was hoping someone else remembered that!!
Midas lost everything of value in his life!! We can only the same happens to dumpy!
Trump went bankrupt 6 times since he is a clueless idiot, I would bet a lot him and his kids do it again.
Better him than the country.
Exactly. The morons at Fox are too ignorant to even know the source of the phrase. But the vast majority of their viewers are, too.
Trump has the PEDOPHILE TOUCH!!!!!
GOP; gang of pedophiles
That's in a way not far off from crooked trump at all...
Exactly! That’s how dumb Fox is— King Midas killed what he loved as a result of his greedy wish that all he touched would turn to gold
This is a be careful what you wish for parable
It seems to me though, that just like "King Midas", Trump also prefers SHIT plated in gold. Just look what he's done to our White House, and all his own properties! He doesn't even have enough money or class to use real gold; he electroplating instead! Tacky, cheap garbage, just like its owner.
Midas touch and smell of death …
That's Focks' new slogan, "Smell-O-Death"
Damn! Now I can’t use it to name my new line of MAGA oriented colognes.
Sure you can! Anything that violates Rupert's intellectual property rights, go ahead!
Not to mention the people in Gaza who are starving to death. Of the 130 people who have died in Gaza so far from starvation, 97 of them are children. It's Trump at his finest walking in the realm of I don't care about anyone but myself.
Well you have to remember he's pissed off that he didn't get a big hearts and flowers thank you note from them.
Love the protests in Scotland after his arrival…
He lied. It was half the amount of money. He sent it to a charity NOT RECOGNIZED as legit. And guess where the "charity " is located.? ISRAEL. its a humanitarian relief fund, in Bebe country. POS both if them
For WHAT, exactly? The "aid" that he allegedly sent, he DIDN'T really! He sent it to a shell company IN DELAWARE that was intentionally given an Israeli name, so that when he sends money there, people believe he is helping Israel. I'll bet NO ONE can guess what he's doing with the money?! LoL
Clarity. Thx.
https://substack.com/@jr717/note/c-140084944?r=4hcex0
Also thx.
A couple of notes however give us a line or two intro to these links even though substack internally is supposed to be a safe medium...
And I REALLY wanna see some documentary evidence, bc congress can't do a damned thing with just he said/she said...
The title of the pee tape in kgb files
Funny (?) story. My very elderly father who has always been a republican but hates Trump only watches Fox News - all damn day. I keep telling him his brain is rotting away because of it. He insists that the "news" he watches is real news. Yesterday after he spouted off some garbage about the Cleveland Guardians changing back to the Indians and I tried explaining the real story, he told me I just hadn't watched the news that day. Sigh. I'm watching first hand how Fox distorts facts (or omits them entirely). Luckily dad didn't vote for Trump. But his brain is seriously rotting away. I blame Fox News for the decline
I’m sorry to hear that. I have dear friends who have lost their way watching Fox, too. I hope they all see the light very soon, especially when the orange buffoon is proven to be a pedo in the worst degree.
But they won’t hear any of that on Fox
Good ole FOX news. I have a brother who worked as a cameraman for them. A cameraman. Let that one sit for a minute and then one day he starts spouting off how he interviewed this one and that one and sat with a few Presidents and interviewed them and how they lie. I questioned, "Interviewed? You are a cameraman." To which I was told, "Yes, I am a cameraman, but my job also included interviewing." To this day, he tells us that we watch the wrong news so we don't get the actual truth. My husband asked him one day where he gets his news from then and he told him "the news"
Well, there is a distinct difference in FOX News journalists and FOX HOSTS.
Unfortunately many folks equate their personal confirmation bias with truth. It is not a rational decision, so presenting rational facts is ineffective. It is better slip under their guard with a "solidarity...but" kinda comment. "Hey Dad, these folks on Fox are just so darned devoted to Trump and I know you can't stand the guy...how do you think they square that circle?"
I am sure others out there can come up with better lines! Come in with a friendly approach and ask the question that leads to reflection...
Oh, I push back and we have robust discussions. But he’s convinced they are “fair and balanced”. He’s not well and it’s not worth using our last conversations to talk about Fox.
You are right about that. It is better to connect and enjoy the time you have left together.
PS it is important as we wade through this second Trump term that he does not cause even more damage than he already is by poisoning our personal lives.
Please start referring to the Epstein Files as the Epstein/Maxwell files! Because if we don’t rightly start looping her in, they will try and make her a victim!!
I agree.. she should NOT be pardoned!!
Trump loves criminals like himself…it’s like he’s the devil and opened up hell…
The Epstein Sex Files.
The Epstein pedo files.
they are already trying to do this...
Here is a positive spin… I just googled Midas Touch… AI generated definition pops up first. Next was Meidas Touch YouTube then Meidas Touch News. Not that Fox folks would google Midas Touch? But, they could! Guess where it leads them? Smart ones could and may click on Meidas…
That was my thought! Their strategy could backfire and drive more people here!
Yup! Free advertising!
Didn't the original story end rather...badly?
Although, if there is even ONE person so horrible as to want his daughter to be replaced by an object of pure gold, it would be Trump.
But he'd be pretty damned upset if it also turned his hamburders and diet Coke into objects of pure gold!
Actually yes - he touched his daughter and she turned to gold.... and died. Everything the felon touches dies; somehow this seems appropriate.
Maybe they need to be reminded that at MeidasTouch the truth is golden.
You're living rent free, as they say, in Fox's head, Ben!
It's ridiculous that someone comes up with a term or a phrase in a meeting, and then everyone is directed to use that term on and on ad nauseam. It's almost as if ... they were trying to brainwash their viewers or something ....
Maybe their viewers will find their way to this news center and get some truth into their foxed brains.
My thoughts exactly!
They are. It is a deliberate attempt to change the meaning of a phrase or word. Give it another meaning all the time and the new meaning sticks, like it did for "woke".
its also a cult technique known as 'loaded language'. cults will take certain buzzwords or phrases and abuse them to the point they lose their actual meaning as words, but just elicit a pavlovian emotional response. examples 'benghazi' they rode that one forever. they are trying to make something stick with the 'autopen' and 'hunters laptop' and 'tren de aragua' in the same way but failing on all of them bc ppl are starting to catch on. all those buzzword failed to gain traction in the same way they flogged 'benghazi' and others for years and years.
they have done this too with all the names, biden obama hillary those are not even words anymore to maga, they simply elicit a completely irrational emotional response -- unrelated to the actual word itself. same with socialism, marxim, communism, none of which they could define in a billion years. in cults its a form of 'thought stopping' -- making sure no rational conversation can be had around a topic. it becomes irrational immediately bc maga doesnt undertand english and just want to yell at things. loaded language is 100000% a cult technique.
Excellent note. I shared it on my Substack.
I have a friend who went from supporting Bernie to QAnon and one of the first things she brought up was Hillary and Benghazi…
I knew I’d lost her when she said she “liked” trump! Now nothing will change her mind. Although I think maybe the Epstein thing has her a little confused 😵💫
You know those things called mufflers that are on cars? Maybe that's what Fox is really calling Trump, but they got the spelling wrong. When those mufflers go bad, your car is really loud. That sounds like Trump. He's gone really bad and is loud about everything. Not real government business, but loud about any of his corruption schemes, his lies, his trying to take the USA down, etc. We should start calling him the muffler man - the one that needs to be replaced.
midas mufflers. yes we remeber them too
Excellent…
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so there’s that I guess. But this just serves to confirm a point about right wing “brains”. They are not creative, which is why they’re not funny, artistic, musical, or generally human, in the best sense of the word. Basically reptilian, they focus more on negativity, darkness, paranoia, conspiracy….the not-so-attractive aspects of humanity.
Thanks Ben for accepting the “torture” of watching Fox News so we don’t have to. You’re right. *Everything* Drump touches DIES. Fox is pathetic to try to ride on the “Midas” name but it just makes them look even more pathetic, if such a thing is possible. 😆 I saw an earlier post here that asked “Isn’t Midas a muffler shop?” YES…let’s muffle ALL of maga…the sooner the better!
Dumped cable years ago. Not worth $180 a month, especially given I'm forced to give 40% of my time to big pharma commercials despite paying that much. Need that to buy groceries now. But we did have Fox (and three others including MSNBC) at work. I watched Fox for about 5 minutes, and everything was an blatant lie or contrived. That was the end of my curiosity as to what "the other side" thinks. I found nothing contrary to what cost them $768M in that lawsuit.
It’s eating them up inside because they know that the MeidasTouch is taking over big time with the facts and the truth and not backing down like the pathetic fake news cowards and traitors they are not to mention they completely make themselves look like fools and idiots like the orange whopper they worship.
Wouldn't it be great if the faux news reference to the Midas Touch actually led some of their followers to the MTN? I doubt anyone of them would understand that there are different points of view than those of the right wing media, but there may be some who are willing to listen to alternative points of view, and that would be a win for the Midas Mighty.
They are certainly using the phrase in a vain attempt to co-opt it, and in their twisted view, diminish its “power.”
You’ve got em scared, and they should be…
Now I stopped watching Fox News and have not had cable for years, I only stream!! You heard the song “ Midas touch” by Midnight Star, Everything you touch turns to gold!! Everything Trump touches is tarnished, keep up the good work, you get 5 stars, he gets nada 👎