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Donald Trump continues to defraud the American people about the economy and basically everything else. Donald Trump is selling out Ukraine and being a Putin bootlicker. Donald Trump is bragging about building a 100 foot flagpole in front of the White House as he was wandering around the North Lawn earlier this week.
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Donald Trump is attacking Canada on the eve of their elections next week. And shock, shock, Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, not just in the Pew Research poll, but in the most recent Fox poll. He's underwater even on the issue of immigration in the Fox poll, and his approval on the economy is like 37%.
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When you dig deeper into the cross tabs, he's doing horrible, amongst young people and the Latino community, which he relied a lot on in the most recent election. Let's talk about that and more on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellis, joined by Brett. Jordy is not going to be able to be here today.

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On this episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down Donald Trump’s latest barrage of lies—this time claiming grocery prices are finally coming down, while millions of Americans struggle under the weight of his disastrous trade policies. CEOs of major retailers held a private intervention with Trump, warning him that his reckless tariffs will leave shelves empty and prices soaring. Meanwhile, China humiliates Trump on the world stage by flatly denying any ongoing trade negotiations. As Putin escalates his brutal attacks on Ukraine, Trump responds with a groveling social media post begging for attention. Plus, Trump lashes out at Rupert Murdoch after a new Fox poll shows his presidency crumbling. And while Trump spirals, Liberals are soaring in Canada’s latest elections. All that and more from Ben and Brett on the top-ranked pro-democracy podcast!

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Jacqueline Hadden's avatar

He is the criminal that needs to be deported

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Sally Skellington's avatar

To Salvador - all of them.

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Dee Joy's avatar

This is all a distraction.

This is all to keep us overwhelmed and exhausted.

Sounding the alarm now.

Project 25 is already 34% implemented.

We need to come together now and act fast.

The broligarchy billionaires plans for the future are happening right now and everyone needs to know - to be able to stop them.

Their plans do not include normal people unless you are one of their fit, healthy, white slaves.

They only want USA to have 50 million people - the wealthy & their slaves.

They have plans of genocide for everyone else that is why they're tanking the economy, stopping social security etc people won't survive without medications and support.

This is NOT conspiracy - this is happening right now!!

Short background info : must watch & share

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrtVNpKA/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrvd2QRn/

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Pamela's avatar

Absolutely!

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Kat Shotz's avatar

Swirling down the drain! Couldn’t happen to a better PINO.

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Bonny Becker's avatar

Let's not forget the Republican congress. Everyone's looking at Trump to change his stripes, but it's the Reps and the Senators we should apply heat to. They could stop this anytime they chose.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

That is the truth that doesn’t get hammered into them enough. They are chicken shit!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Now you insult chicken shit.

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Dee Joy's avatar

They're all in on the background plan

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Patty Inderkum's avatar

That’s sums it up perfectly 😡

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Sandi Lusk's avatar

Putin chose Trump to destroy the US and he chose well.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

He’s getting the global economy trashed as a bonus.

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Stacy's avatar

It's hard to feel excited about anything when they've arrested a WI judge for "obstructing ICE." I'm hoping it will backfire bigly but it's just one thing after another and the MAGA hate just builds. It's hard to think that many people are seeing the light when his approval rating only went down one percent from this time last term. I'm math impaired so I'm hoping that one percent actually amounts to a decent amount of people.

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Victoria Woodhead's avatar

You are NOT math impaired…

Donnie is!!!

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

Nice one. Sad truth.

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Scott Bump's avatar

Yes! Epstein said ; "he can't read a financial spread. Sheet". Huh? A stable genius with bachelors. in. Finance? Same school. Don Jr. went to! He says he " barely understands accounting 101". Both now are running our country folks!! No wonder they went bankrupt 6 times!!

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Suzanne Hanson's avatar

Yes!!! This is extremely disturbing. If we are stripped of the Constitution AND The Rule of Law.....we are screwed

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Sally Skellington's avatar

No,we are not screwed, they are. Watch and see what is to come!!

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Stacy's avatar

I hope you're right. Part of me thinks arresting the judge is going to turn the tide in our favor, but I also fully believed Kamala would crush him.

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Ed Garland's avatar

Yes! Mega Meidas Mazel! 💙🏆💙

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

I’ve got a ton of confidence in the American people to do all they can to prevent that. And in my opinion that includes more than just the regular citizens.

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Gail Mahan's avatar

When are the Republicans going to get some balls and impeach this guy?

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Rev.Carlton's avatar

Perhaps the USA will be ready to hear a left of centre voice for the first time. Bernie Sanders is a centrist in the rest of the world. The USA has such a phobia over Communism that anything to the left of a nazi looks scary. No wonder the nazis are now in charge.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

Plus most of these people do not know what fascism is, nor socialism, nor communism, nor Marxism. they bandy about terminology from a place of utter stupidity and willful ignorance.

They do not care. They have been given permission to be as hateful and cruel as their fuhrer.

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Dee Joy's avatar

They've planned it all this way.

Social media and corporate news have been brainwashing everyone relentlessly

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Sally Skellington's avatar

When the drugs wear off.

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Patrick E. White's avatar

Not going to happen.

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Patrick E. White's avatar

The Republicans had their chance to do the right thing and convict Trump after his second impeachment after the attack on the Capitol. They chickened out then and they are even less brave now. We have to find a way to get to their voters many of whom are not hard core MAGA and elect good Democrats. Our ground game and candidate vetting needs to get better and we have to keep whittling away at Trump and his minions. The polls are turning. Then, maybe, the support will crack probably from the people before his party.

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Dee Joy's avatar

They're all in on the background plan to become filthy rich loyalists and build the new America - that does not include normal people or minorities only the rich and their slaves.

Short breakdowns of what is happening behind the scenes -

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrtVNpKA/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrvd2QRn/

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Ed Garland's avatar

@Gail Mahan ... When? When their checks begin to bounce. Right now, they're hanging on for dear life, hoping the Dumpster doesn't get run off the face of the planet. Methinks they hope in vain. He's screwed. They're screwed and so are their families. This entire effort is an exercise in futility.

All of them will follow him into the abyss. They will have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide when the end finally arrives. Trust and rest assured--this monstrosity is going to go down in ashes never to rise again.

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Henry Battam's avatar

The Trump club is like a bubble. It must bust and Take all the MAGA and other suckers down with it.

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Ed Garland's avatar

They’re doomed. We will never retreat. 💙🏆💙

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Doc Blase''s avatar

In "about two weeks."

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Mary Olsen's avatar

Maybe with all his raging he will final have that massive stroke

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Victoria Woodhead's avatar

We should be so lucky!!

I hate to wish bad news on anyone, but Donnie is the exception!!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Some deserve nothing but 'bad news'.

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Sandy Leonard's avatar

PLEASE, LORD JESUS, LET TRUMP HAVE A STR0KE AND SAVE THE AMERICAN EMPIRE!!!

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Jean Conley's avatar

Um...I think he's already had one! His brain never functioned that well to begin with. But now.......well....you know. OH! Come to think of it--did he ever--and does he have now--a brain?????????????

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Rev.Carlton's avatar

I hope he posts a LOT more about Canada. Every time he soils the name of this free country with his idiocy it helps raise the rage. The more he raves, the more he helps us crush Polievre his surrogate skinny trump. Rave on rapist criminal fool. Keep up the good work.

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kent naffziger's avatar

Keep hope alive

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Paul Volker's avatar

Trump is in over his head and I can’t wait to see him finally drown!

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

Eternally

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Shelby Maxson's avatar

You know after 3 felonies you should be in prison for 25+ yrs so how he's got 34 without serving a single day in jail has me stunned. How could he lead a nation when he can't control himself to stop his own crime spree. This man is a sick disappointment and waste of air.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

I have 15 years in California’s carceral system. I lead Buddhist services now though I was a former family member for 12 years. I have met a lot of incarcerated people, and even though I know some of the things they did, I would still trust almost any of them with our Constitution more than this Cheeto nightmare, who not only has no desire to self improve, he thinks he’s god!

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Charlotte Braun's avatar

Trump has been on DRUGS since his program The Apprentice!!! Dr. Justin Frank MD stated that this is why he doesn’t sleep but rages .HIS JUDGMENT IS COMPROMISED!!!!!

HE IS STILL ON. ILLEGAL DRUGS!!!!

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Sally Skellington's avatar

My guess majority of the cult is. They are not normal.

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Dee Joy's avatar

It all makes sense when you watch this 5 minute breakdown - what is happening behind the scenes

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrtVNpKA/

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Bill Sager's avatar

LET FREEDOM RING!

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Larry's avatar

Trump can’t run a Casino much less a government!

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Karma Infinity's avatar

There’s a point where the volume stops meaning power—it just signals unraveling.

This isn’t strategy—it’s spectacle cracking at the seams. The bluster, once hypnotic, now feels more like echo than influence.

But the real story isn’t just the meltdown—it’s the growing immunity to it. A collective nervous system no longer shocked, just sharpening.

When chaos becomes the norm, clarity becomes an act of rebellion.

Small acts that ripple. Quiet generosity in action. The math of compassion holding firm beneath the noise.

What if the real shift is already happening—quietly, steadily, in us?

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Victoria Woodhead's avatar

Let’s TRY & be positive regarding Donnie, & NOT wish him well.

He deserves all the bad news he gets!

I just hope that this will be his last & final time here on Earth!💙💙💙

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Tami Torgeson's avatar

Karma has to be backing up like a dam - a God dam(n) for sure!

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

Oh I wish for him to pay for every single bit of bad karma he has foisted on humanity this time around. And it’s not mine to even wish; I recently understood the phrase “vengeance is mine …” I’m not a bible person, but I realized, that karma, life, evolution, whatever we want to call it, has its own way and its own timing. And its own inevitability. Every act has consequences. I pray that he experiences all of his, for the sake of evolution and greater light.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

YES! I feel that it is.

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Pamela Knight's avatar

Thank you Ben and Bret for the Truth

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Zeke1967's avatar

Meme coins and NFT’s , crypto scams, shakedowns of law firms and universities, dinner dates requiring special “contributions”, overpriced MAGA merch made in China, stock market manipulation, tax cheat, sexual predator, using the DOJ ,FBI etc. to investigate his “enemies” as a personal score settling operation against anyone who dares to disagree with him, and yet to be discovered fraud or other assorted crimes.

Yeah he is a criminal alright and a wannabe crime family capo who wouldn’t last a day in the mafia once they caught him skimming from the till, but he’d throw one of his kids under the bus to save his own ass. Too bad a life sentence for him would only be 10 years.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

Yeah, it should be several LIFETIMES.

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kris's avatar

He lies and he lies and he lies.

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Kirsten Hockaday's avatar

When will someone with large gonads finally invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the doddering old madman. The Orange Traitor Felon belongs in the prison rubber room, not the WH. Granted that leaves us with JP Mandel the unready, but he can not be as bad as the idiot in chief.

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Lisa Gonzalez's avatar

Jack Smith is at the Hague. Trump declared The Alien Enemies Act. Thus, he should be able to be charged with War Time crimes! Crimes against humanity re Gaza and Ukraine. Criminal contempt of court for ignoring a Federal Judge's ruling that was affirmed by SCOTUS. Deporting people without due process for a civil crime. Charging them with felonies and sending them to prison in El Salvador. Taking down cyber security with regard to Russia.

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Heather Bowler's avatar

The problem with this is that the US never signed nor ratified the Rome Statute which would be the international law that would make this happen. However…El Salvador ratified the Rome Statute which will make that country complicit in crimes against humanity. It’s a sticky wicket of international law.

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Lisa Gonzalez's avatar

Thank you for that information

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Heather Bowler's avatar

Your welcome.

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Kennick9600's avatar

tRump made $100 MILLION dollars yesterday for his dinner advertised to 220 of TOP investors. The tickets are bought through crypto so we can know who is buying OUR WHITE HOUSE. tRump pockets ALL OF THIS MONEY from selling OUR WHITE HOUSE. IT's called pay to play and it's how foreign governments get access and favors from the thug. HEAR YE, HEAR YE -- WHITE HOUSE FOR SALE!

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Linda M. Walker's avatar

Thought it was illegal for a sitting President to engage in selling ( anything).

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AtaraxyBob's avatar

Backed into a corner, he will lash out even more insanely ..encouraged by his handlers. From reading today's headlines, they are getting even closer to eliminating our judicial system. The likely scenarios for the near future are dismal.

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Valerie's avatar

DICTATOR THUG WITH DIRTY MONEY CONSPIRACY THEORIST LYING NUTJOB DONNIE NEEDS TO BE PRISONED TODAY ALONGSIDE CREEP VANCE AND DRUGGED UP ON KETAMIN MUSK

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Deborah Alecson's avatar

I love you guys. I am part of a group in my community/town in MA to protest on a regular basis and more people are showing up to participate because people are fed the fuck up. People are reaching out to me to rsvp for our protest. People are hungering to protest and need a place to do so. Feel strength from this.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

We, the people, must take what belongs to us only: the power over this land and Constitution. We will need to take this to the streets as an effort focused solely on defenestration until the job is done. We have no other choice at this point. We either win or lose this battle. I move for enforcing equitable equality. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/equitable-equality?r=3m1bs

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Deb Gwynn's avatar

I'm so disgusted by this lying POS!

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Laura MacLachlan's avatar

he's begging Putin to stop bombing the crap out of Ukraine capitol because he sees his fantasy of getting a Nobel Peace Prize slipping away.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

and he wants one so bad....

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M Pug's avatar

Let's start selling Obama 2028 stuff then, if they will send out the trump 2028 crap.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Go for it. I will buy some!

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Crisie Hanney's avatar

shouldn't Rubio be afraid to be deported?? he is a brown-ish dude and WAY more dangerous than anyone else they have snatched and deported.... just saying.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

Rubio needs to be terrified, his boss is extremely dangerous and very stupid.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Naw... Trump is not done setting him up for the fall. Rubio probably thinks he's smarter than Trump, but if he were, he'd know that the only reason he got the job as Secretary of State was so Trump could ruin him, and ruin him in such a way that the wreckage will keep him from ever running for office ever again. Based on the things that Marco Rubio has said about Trump in the past, the take down should be spectacular, at least to Trump.

JD Vance is in for a rude awakening as well for the stuff he said about Trump. He should be forewarned since he's been poked with a red flag many, many times during the campaign and since. Trump does not let him do much of anything, and when he does, he contradicts Vance and makes him look weak and foolish. Trump is going to play with Vance for an undetermined amount of time before he squashes him like a bug. If Vance thinks Trump will ever willingly turn the presidency over to him, he's sadly mistaken.

These people do not understand that you will never be safe with a narcissist. Not even Elon is safe, but he thinks he is. Musk thinks he has found the key to Trump, but he, too, is being played for a take down.

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Tim's avatar
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I just went grocery shopping yesterday. I purchase mostly the very same items every time I shop. At least 90% of the prices on FOOD items I buy were HIGHER yesterday!! "Dementia Don" is a pathological liar! He lies with every breath he takes. Another one is his lies about Ukraine: Crimea BELONGS TO UKRAINE as do all the other currently occupied regions the evil murderer Putin invaded! When is MAIN STREAM media going to wake up and start calling out what the MEIDAS TOUCH team has been reporting for MONTHS! OMG, I feel like I'm going to have a stroke!

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Diana Hess's avatar

Amen! I think we should ship him to Russia if he thinks Putin is so great!

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

Corporate media in my opinion has zero interest in telling any truth that helps the American people.

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Dennis W.'s avatar

Donald Trump is a idiot, lier and FOX News is still showing his approval rating above 50%. Most of the U.S. knowns what MTN is doing and telling the truth. But FOX is being FOX a propaganda news cast station. The problem is tooooo mmmmaaany people still tune into its station. 🤔 So, sad

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

It is very sad, I met with 3 friends the other day and two of them were repeating fox crap.

And I live in Canada!

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Dennis W.'s avatar

Suzanne, I understand your feelings and frustration. I live in California. I too have many friends that talk and walk along with propaganda FOX NEWS. It's so sad they have fallen into the Maga Cult pit! Canada is doing a great part trying to resist Trump. And, podcasts like MTN are doing their part in telling the truth and trying to dismantle this Trump regime. ✌️🤞

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

I wonder how Trump is behaving at the Pope's funeral. Because we all know it's about Trump and not the Pope who was a people's pope.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

I’m hoping he follows in the popes recent footsteps 😇

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

The Pope is in Heaven. Trump will be going to hell. So he won't be following in the Pope's footstep.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

You’re right, maybe just the steps just up to the pearly gates.

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LG's avatar

Can someone report on how much US tourism dollars we are down YOY due to the T Regime making international travelers fearful of being shipped to concentration camps if they try to enter our country.

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shri Kingsford's avatar

Trump is mentally gone he isn't anything he says he is. All he says are lies and surrounded by liars who support the lies. The art of the deal is just a lie.

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Dawn Wilson's avatar

I wish a psychiatrist would give him a mental health evaluation and expose his mental illnesses. Perhaps the MSM would have to push the 25th amendment. Doubtful . But at least we all would know what we’re dealing with. There must be a way to take him down via his own weakness ‘. You CANNOT be a bad man and live a good life . Not forever .

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Miriam Polli's avatar

Putin's puppet is doing precisely what he wants. How do you know when Dtrump is lying?

He opens his mouth. Love that.

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Cheri Johnson's avatar

It’s chaos to confuse people!

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LuckyisLucky's avatar

Yesterday he said he's making great tafts deals already with every countries This month. World Taft Dealers we haven't even talked to him. Not 1 tafts deal IN 90 days. Plus even Fox polls show his polls are bellow his first Term. Ruiters Polls show today 35 percent disapprove of him with all Americans. Meidas Touch Ben today. Have a nice weekend folks. 💙.

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Murray Smart's avatar

Trump and his entire regime are criminals and ALL should be in jail.......never to be able to vomit on America again.........

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Pat Robinson's avatar

Sadly I am not sure how much any of this matters until the GOP congress decides his actions are not good for the nation. Well until a few GOP elected officials. It's great that there are tons of court decisions that are not in his favor and do uphold the Constitution, but he will continue to do things and many will go unchecked unless the GOP takes a stand. Until a few of them stand up and say his entire cabinet is a danger to America we will continue to have chaos and will have to rely on long drawn out court proceedings. Perhaps the media, or the independent media can start focusing on individual GOP congressmen/women/senators and highlight loudly and frequently that they support things like security leaks, abandoning due process, tariffs that hurt the middle/lower/working classes, doing away with cancer reserach and encouraging folks to get measles, and making national registers of people who are "different"..today it's persons with autism, tomorrow persons with low IQs, then persons of color .

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David Didion's avatar

And to think taxpayers are spending 6 million dollars to send people to El Salvador prisons. Where’s the outrage?

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Faran Garris's avatar

Maybe China was the antibiotic we needed to help get rid of the infection.

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Carolea Hassard's avatar

So what you're saying is that we're in a Trump pandemic.

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Rosemary's avatar

Why doesn’t anyone ever say anything about the way Trump slurs his words?

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Bluesmurf's avatar

These people want to use Trump up. He has the base behind him, which they cannot grasp or control. So, they will use him until he is no longer able to be used. They will cover up anything that he does that is questionable, medical, illegal, or whatever. His signature is all they need, and in all actuality now that they have it on a mechanical pen, they can sign stuff without him as well. They do need to prop him up so that his believers and followers can see him.

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Mo Khan's avatar

Can’t all the law firms that made deals, break them, say they were under undue duress, and band together to fight theirs way out of it?

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Bluesmurf's avatar

From what I understand there is nothing in writing. The judge who is hearing the case to block this particular executive order has requested documentation of any deals that were made and a list of the security clearances that were rescinded. The DOJ lawyers cannot produce any of them.

Besides, Trump would not put this in writing. It would be a signed confession of extortion and quid pro quo. That leaves the lawyers an out to just ignore him if they want. Capitulation verbally but with no substance, teeth, and no way to enforce it.

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https://substack.com/@techiam

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Charles Brodeur II's avatar

Example: A flashlight I bought on AliExpress two weeks ago for $18.69 is now $51.02. WTF?

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Dee Joy's avatar

This is just the beginning

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Mo Khan's avatar

There should be no confirmations, none, for any more of Trump’s people that he puts forward

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Adam Schiff is blocking people. That's probably why we haven't heard of anyone getting confirmed lately. Sen. Ruben Gallego is doing the same. Road blocks abound.

https://apnews.com/article/veterans-congress-gallego-trump-6236bbc77ff1a98f736b1cf134cab609

https://substack.com/@techiam

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Viet Nam Vet's avatar

So why doesn't U of Penn release tRump's grades (which he said they could never release to the public)? He's stifed U of Penn millions of federal dollars because they made room for trans athletes. Well maybe it's time for Penn to play a "tit for that!"

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David Glaser's avatar

Cheers to the Maple Meidas! One more thing about Donald wanting Canada to be the 51st state. How stupid is he anyway? If Canada was the 51st state he would have lost in a landslide! Who does he think lives there?

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Cari De & MeMe's avatar

Totally AGREE with the Miedas analysis on our economy. Not only is he stealing our taxpayer dollars, he's self-dealing & stealing government properties, national forests & its valuable natural resources to sell to the highest bidder & benefit his organization. HANDS OFF!!!

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Irene Finn's avatar

Trump thinks just because he says it, people will believe it. Grocery prices coming down? He wouldn't know one way or the other, the rest of us do our own food shopping and we know the truth. He's almost as dumb as Tuberville and MTG.

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Cindy's avatar

the eggs are down by about $7 where I live but let's be clear and honest. I can remember when they were $2.00 and then $4.88 for 5 dozen, that's right now at $21 so he needs not brag too much. I hadn't purchased eggs in months now.

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Hairbender's avatar

I wonder where those new hats came from? Must have ordered them before the tarrifs!

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John giannattasio's avatar

Feels like a breaking point.

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Sally D.'s avatar

George Santos has been held accountable. He will spend 87 months in a federal prison. I wonder if he feels it was worth it. I doubt he will be pardoned. He is no longer in Trump's orbit, so he is expendable. While justice was served with Santos, those that need to be held accountable, and put in prison, are Trump and his cronies.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"George Santos, Disgraced New York Congressman Turned Cameo Star, Sentenced to More than 7 Years in Prison for Fraud.

The disgraced former congressman pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, in August 2024.

Disgraced former New York Rep. George Santos was sentenced to 87 months in prison on Friday, April 25." (People)

https://people.com/george-santos-sentenced-to-prison-for-fraud-11721249?hid=2e7a24e122b18170d301519bb8b970b7f5c0ea96&did=17449717-20250425&utm_campaign=ppl_relationship-builder&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=042525&lctg=2e7a24e122b18170d301519bb8b970b7f5c0ea96&lr_input=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1&utm_term=news-alert

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Karma's a bitch!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Wall Street seems to have decided that Trump is mentally unstable."

"I want to suggest today that what we are seeing, on Wall Street and in markets around the world, is the sudden realization that the president is mentally unstable – that he has dementia, probably – and as a result of that realization, investors no longer have any faith in Donald Trump.

Yes, I know." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-wall-street/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Please Sign Now: Remove Donald Trump From Office;

REGARDING THE 25TH AMENDMENT." (Occupy Democrats)

https://act.occupydemocrats.com/survey/remove-trump-office-04242025-poll/?t=5&referring_akid=4107.1949.ul_4kK

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"He did it. He actually did it."

"In a MAJOR and STUNNING escalation of authoritarianism, Donald Trump has OFFICIALLY instructed the Department of Justice to investigate the main fundraising apparatus of the Democratic Party.

The sitting President of the United States is using government power to shut down the Democratic Party’s main fundraising platform. This may be the most important moment grassroots Democrats have ever faced. It's crucial that we meet this moment.

This isn’t just outrageous - it’s terrifying.

News just broke that Donald Trump will sign an executive order targeting ActBlue with frivolous legal action.

Make no mistake: This is a man using the power of the presidency to silence opposition, suppress donations to his political opponents, and COMPLETELY BREAK the Democratic Party’s most powerful tool.

If Trump gets away with this power grab, we may never get it back.

We need to respond NOW with the biggest grassroots surge in Democratic history - before it's too late.

If Trump succeeds in his attacks on ActBlue, he wipes out the digital infrastructure Democrats rely on to win elections.

Let’s be clear: This isn’t about ethics or oversight.

It’s about Trump tipping the scales, rigging the 2026 elections, and silencing the voices of millions of everyday Americans who refuse to fund his fascist agenda.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"John Roberts owns this nightmare; without him and his corrupt Republican co-conspirators against democracy on the Supreme Court, we never would have had a reality star neofascist ascend to the highest office in the land." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/john-roberts-trump/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"'Any of us can be picked up': Experts see danger on horizon, as Trump expands crackdown." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deport-american-citizens/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Sherrell Salas's avatar

My niece was in Iralt and Ireland 3 weeks ago and many Italians and Irishman kept asking them about Trump and America as they would say watching what is happening is like watching a real live soap opera, as they were shaking their heafs.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

Thank you Meidas Touch! I’m living in Canada and appreciate you’re talking about what the felon is doing to Canadians.

Stay in the fight America!

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Diana Hess's avatar

I want to know where he is buying groceries. Oh he isn’t. He is clueless!

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

I’m not sure it’s clueless, I think he’s a serial liar and will always lie no matter what.

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Heather Bowler's avatar

Ben, please look at the Congressional Letter on the government website to Paul Weiss requesting information about the deal the strike with the regime! This is astounding, as I believe they can’t comply as a matter of Attorney-client privilege…you and Popok need to pull this apart please!🙏🏼

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shri Kingsford's avatar

Canada doesn't trust or like trump.

He just lies.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

I’m in Ontario, the felon is hated by all I know.

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NiaSky's avatar

He sounds like a 3 year old talking gerberish.

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Rev.Carlton's avatar

He’s not even incompetent. He is just not interested. Maybe the USA should elect a president, or else fire the office and let congress and your senate attempt to run the country. Trumpler/Kraznov is just cosplaying at it.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

The felon hates America almost as much as he hates himself.

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

China's Local Move To Gold For Trade Replacing Dollar

China is now preparing to establish a gold standard in trading with its local ASEAN trading partners through the Shanghai Gold Exchange established in 2002 With an estimated 30K+ tons of gold it is strongly positioned to use the yuan backed by gold to displace the dollar as the global reserve currency

This is a really big deal for much of the America's economic strength over the decades has been as its place as reserve currency in global trade But with the deterioration of its purchasing power due to excessive QE over the decades the weakened dollar position can now be easily exploited by China whose geopolitical strategy has always been to let the US make the mistakes and patiently wait for its turn to move, much akin to the philosophy of martial arts

The time is right to strike with the US weakened with what the Chinese knowing that the largest credit bubble in world history has been popped prompted by the Orange Cheeto and his Nazi followers with the equity markets reflecting this With China being the second largest buyer of US treasuries to support the ballooning American debt this adds another layer of complexity that puts the US in a very vulnerable position

The only safe place to be in this global destruction of fiat currencies is to get out of credit and get into real money which is gold/silver

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Sandy Leonard's avatar

I love to see Trump and Elon SQUIRM!!!

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Sally Skellington's avatar

"They"- 😂 notice how he stops the conversation immediately. Because there are no answers. He has no answers. Do,"they" even exist? 😂 Hell no!

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Wayne S Barks's avatar

Someone is giving Trump false data. He believes it to be true because he is told so by someone that loves and respects him! Most of his sycophants and best of all....PUTIN!

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Rev.Carlton's avatar

Yeah, well trump and facts have no connection whatsoever. They are not even in a relationship.

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Sally Skellington's avatar

Bi-polar's eat this crap up. They feed off it and make their own health worse.

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MsDee's avatar

Love yr analysis of tRump re making '90 deals in 90 days' - no follow through 🤣🤣🤣 🇬🇧

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Judy Cross's avatar

The flagpole would be for a flag of him.

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Joanne C Collin's avatar

Trump is a BS PRESIDENT!!! DOESN't He Know AMERICANS KNOW HE IS LYING!!!!

WE ARE NOT STUPID LIKE TRUMP!!!

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Dee Joy's avatar

Everything he does is another form of genocide- no emergency assistance to USA,

no social security,

no medic aid, destroying the economy,

destroying 401k's,

no foreign aid etc- people have died already bc no aid.

Trump is just the puppet for the billionaire broligarchy operating behind the scenes.

They only want america to have

50 million population which does not include normal everyday people or minorities, only the wealthy and their fit, healthy white slaves.

It all makes sense when you see their plan happening in the background - 5 min breakdowns :

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrtVNpKA/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrvd2QRn/

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Dee Joy's avatar

This is all distraction. Trump and the tech bros broligarchy along with Putin are the axis of evil.

Putin won't agree and USA will walk away bc Putin will own europe in future - this is just the first step.

It all makes sense if you know the plan that is happening in the background.

Two short breakdowns -

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrvd2QRn/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrtVNpKA/

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "It's BIGGER Than Trump or Elon, It Always Has Been", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)

https://youtu.be/ZntYFaGD-s4?si=QhSvpdEN5tlSNKJF

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch "I broke this Trump voter's brain... #new #fyp", on YouTube. (Adam Mockler)

https://youtube.com/shorts/-udGJix1ojI?si=mDZyPXaAj8AjIkI8

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Hilarious! Reaction by Jimmy Kimmel on Trump always said Not knowing anything about it; "I don't know", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/2hj1KB8Cw64?si=NSv3SXhpauKMMF18

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "🚨 WOW! AL GORE DESTROYS TRUMP IN 6 SECONDS", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ny2UyF-rKdo?si=gZKDnwpoNLqV1uEP

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Voter confronts Jon Ossoff about impeaching Trump", on YouTube. (CNN)

https://youtube.com/shorts/qHCjUk3XrVE?si=-fnKly4hV6tjxpjn

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "President Trump, remember, America first.", on YouTube. (Arnold Swartzenegger)

https://youtube.com/shorts/zsGwdhTFaJI?si=simf6KOI6O635izG

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Gov. Pritzker: Trump is rich in stupidity", on YouTube. (MSNBC)

https://youtube.com/shorts/fG099ZG8540?si=ev-jDCcPz5tmXAvs

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "So apparently he was being “sarcastic.”, on YouTube. (Luke Beasley)

https://youtube.com/shorts/bbjPIothHQY?si=OvIdrDuNMAL06F0M

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch "#PeteHegseth is cooked. But he’s only the symptom of a much bigger problem.", on YouTube. (Ohh That's Rich)

https://youtube.com/shorts/1Gooo3p44Hw?si=tmE6CrI2cFJjS1gU

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Can I be petty? #elonmusk", on YouTube. (The Don Lemon Show)

https://youtube.com/shorts/ztXhTr5HTcU?si=wbqyoTDx0Fs6B7qt

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Kim Jong Un With Putin And Trump Being Great Friends Again At Barbershop (U.S Tariffs 245%); AI Memes", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Rv2q98wNVXc?si=WzxKUYGe8Im6CY4V

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"EXCLUSIVE: Former DOGE Insider Exposes Musk's Secrets."

"A former insider blows the whistle on how Trump and Musk turned a government efficiency program into a weapon against the American people."

(Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network,

Apr 25, 2025)

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-former-doge-insider-exposes?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3078900&post_id=162161719&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"MAGA suckers rejoice! Trump's got a fun new way to take your money."

"President Donald Trump’s online store now sells “Trump 2028” hats for $50 a pop. It’s unclear if that includes potential markups, as a result of his boneheaded trade war.

Since winning the 2024 election, Trump has been peddling self-branded cologne and perfume, tacky MAGA guitars, and other MAGA merchandise. But this latest item, an overture to running for an unconstitutional third term, is distressing." (Daily Kos)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/25/2318611/-MAGA-suckers-rejoice-Trump-s-got-a-fun-new-way-to-take-your-money

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Pete Buttigieg WON Maga Bros Over, And Fox Is LOSING It", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)

https://youtu.be/rGLEIsC9iL8?si=EfXoIsH2Y05V8l2Y

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "ANTI MAGA Comedian destroys BIGOT on Abortion #standupcomedy #prochoice #shorts", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/lWjYmfverC0?si=q8AmkqvtbBnSqZu5

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Santos hit with BRUTAL prison sentence", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)

https://youtube.com/shorts/egGcvW5641w?si=8n-R92z3lLqcepsp

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Rest in Peace Pope Francisco", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Tp7X0am3VWM?si=NJLSzQTm2aVuNHUd

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Pope Francis's final blessing before his death 💔", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Wuj6ESreGys?si=PEiQ0OmTc5SZxELJ

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Dee Joy's avatar

Did you see these Barb?

Omg horrifying their plans for our future. They've succeeded so far, I hope they get stopped soon.

Two short breakdowns about the plan happening in the background

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrtVNpKA/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrvd2QRn/

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Thanks for the posts, Dee. I just can't believe all that's happening. It makes me angry and scared. I wish that Justice Roberts would get his head outta" his butt and rescind Trump's immunity, before Trump owns him completely and runs all over the SCOTUS.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"John Roberts owns this nightmare; without him and his corrupt Republican co-conspirators against democracy on the Supreme Court, we never would have had a reality star neofascist ascend to the highest office in the land." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/john-roberts-trump/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Kristene  Foust Edwards's avatar

😳🤥🟠🍊 Go Midas Mighty!

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Toni Murphy's avatar

Drain the swamp one day soon this man will wander away

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Mo Khan's avatar

Is there a place we can get a table or less of all the components of government must has gone after and which ones are actually being affected by firing and dismantling.

And which have been stopped by court cases. I have the sense that they are still firing and getting rid of people and shutting down departments, even though the courts have told them not to and I just need thisto understand how prevalent that is and to does everyone have a real awareness for aware of the laws being broken

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Yes. I can give you that link right now! In fact you can follow her on substack @prateekshac.

Looks like it hasn't been updated since April 9th, or the date has not been changed, but this has been the best source of all that has been going on.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR9KXyr2Kny4W_bZt0A7uYqumpqfeKF23cV3m2IClDIIqfdWnzXjp7V6tOSYOUBNpukKazvyj1yVSSb/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

And here is another source of information: Tracking The Current Ungovernment, Executive Orders, Lawsuits, & More

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR9KXyr2Kny4W_bZt0A7uYqumpqfeKF23cV3m2IClDIIqfdWnzXjp7V6tOSYOUBNpukKazvyj1yVSSb/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

https://substack.com/@techiam

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debra's avatar

I have a MAGA niece who was decimated in NC and tried to convince me BIden was offering NOTHING. I sent her a thousand articles and websites to use to get relief. I'll never know if she or her MAGA husband did anything, but I do know one thing: they won't admit it if they did.

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And now that Trump is back, he cut them off from whatever they were getting. They are now at the mercy of whomever they can get to come in and help them. I saw a YouTube video the other day that the Pennsylvania Amish are coming down every week to help rebuild NC. It sure is not going to be done with federal dollars. FEMA, from what I understand, has been defunded and the money moved to other things, like immigration/deportations and the defense budget or the border wall, or the golf budget.

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Natalie Halem's avatar

Nothing is down gas is up .30 cents, just filled my car, eggs are 7.00 a dozen just came from store. Enough of Trumps lies. Time for Republicans to start to stand up to Trumps lies. This will come back at them mid terms.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

As if he is responsible for the price of oil (“energy” - what a fool!), as if he knows what an egg costs, as if he has ever bought groceries,

And as if they didn’t get a DEAL on thousands of eggs? And did they buy up all the eggs so that PEOPLE couldn’t find any in the area? Just sayin’ ….

EVErRYTHING IS UP. I’m in California, and every single thing is up. Gas is near $5 a gallon again. Even loose tea has gone up at my health center nearby, from $3 to $4 an oz. Everything is up at least 25%.

Just sayin’ … we know the lies. And I have a lot of maga & trumpers around here, lots of Section 8, lots of people near poverty level. I just wonder how THEY are managing when it’s hard for me, and i have some savings, thankfully. I’m 76.

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Cari De & MeMe's avatar

YES, Ben, God picked you & your brother's to be our spokesmen!!! Love you guys!

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Charlotte S. Miller's avatar

Shame on those who failed to vote at all as well as those who voted for Trump! Your orange chickens are coming home to roost.

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Cari De & MeMe's avatar

Who's doing the real accounting for tRump's real second batch of books? Follow our taxpayer money!

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Russell Vought.

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KerriFlanagan's avatar

Love that Chinese dictator called it “fake news “

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Cari De & MeMe's avatar

Gangster Trump's sycophantic henchmen are ripping us all off - Republicans, Democrats, Independents, & even the anarchists.

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Stephanie's avatar

He also wants to put up a garden of life sized statues…. What a clown. Turning the Oval Office and WH grounds into a gaudy joke.

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Jean Conley's avatar

Thanks so much, Ben, for including the excellent State of the State of Address by Governor Walz (Minnesota). EVERYONE--especially republiCRAPS, should listen to ti!

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Erika Fultz's avatar

It wasn't even "they had a meeting WITH US". He just said "they had a meeting". No mention of who it was with

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Cari De & MeMe's avatar

Keep your grubby little 'HANDS OFF' the United States, Ukraine, Canada & Greenland's natural resources!

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Debbi Jackson's avatar

I love you guys...Thank you for keeping it real!

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Joanne Diochon's avatar

Trump is just the bit of the iceberg that shows above the waterline. The sycophant republican politicians and the millions of Trump voters who support his actions also need to be addressed. Yes his approval ratings are falling but even if 58% of people disapprove of his performance that means that 42% still approve or don’t care.

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Irene Finn's avatar

Trump is like that guy on the Titanic, playing the violin while the whole ship is sinking. Truly a dumb arse.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Oh, he won't be going down with the ship. He is the guy throwing women and children overboard in the only life boat with a gold tiller. You will see him toddling off into the fog to be picked up by someone's yacht.

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Ben, The following emails popped up in my gmail. Looks like a Remora has attached itself to your feed :

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Dee Joy's avatar

Yes happening for me too. I reported it

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Me too!

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Cari De & MeMe's avatar

Recession is beginning... no products, no distribution, no jobs, no medical, no money, no payments, no food, no homes...

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Cari De & MeMe's avatar

Liar, Liar!!! Food, including eggs, wheat products, utility bills, property taxes, car insurance, vehicle costs, etc., etc... are all increasing. Fake Trump & his propaganda machine. He doesn't remember his lies, upon lies, upon...

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Christy Jobe Carter's avatar

The fact the eggs at the Easter Egg Roll are wooden might be why the eggs were cheaper than real eggs

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Ruth Graham's avatar

impeach convict in prison.

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Ortiz's avatar

He's is such a pathetic LIAR!!! God I hate that man with everything in me... He has no idea because he's a broken million making up shit every time he opens that nasty hole on his old ugly face... STFU Don-Old!!! 😈 😤😡👎🏼😆

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Stephanie Munoz's avatar

Sorry not sorry that red state governors are not getting FEMA relief. Hoping at election time they are voted out

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Bluesmurf's avatar

awwww.... poor things. They actually believed that it would not happen to them when Trump clearly stated that he was going to shut down FEMA and there would not be any more money for disasters. Sucks to be them right now.

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Joanne C Collin's avatar

I don't understand why Trump was not removed!!! He has gone against our CONSTITUTION!! He has been lying to the American People. His administration is a bunch of INCOMPETENT PEOPLE and all ARE LIYING!! EVEN HIS DOJ & lawyers!!!

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Because he has them all in his pocket at the moment. If Congress would come out of their paralyzing fear stupor and stand together - and not many of them have to do that, only 3-5 in the House and like 15 to 20 in the Senate (a taller order), and he could be gone in a heartbeat.

Pound On Congress and DO NOT LET UP!

Call the Capitol Building: (202) 224-3121

• Try out 5 Calls App from your App Store to Assist!

Who are my Congressional Leaders in Washington, DC?

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

https://substack.com/@techiam

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Joanne C Collin's avatar

What a LIAR IN CHIEF!!! He thinks we are stupid??? That is why his RATINGS ARE SO LOW!!!!AMERICANS KNOW HOW BAD YOU LIE,, EVERYTHING IS UP, UP & UP!!! You MORON!!

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Pamela Wilder's avatar

Is it true a judge in Milwaukee was arrested by ICE for interfering with an immigrant arrest??? Are we REALLY going to wait until 2028 to do something???????

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Yes. A County judge was arrested by the FBI.

FBI Arrests Milwaukee Judge, Alleging She Interfered In Immigration Operation

This is a test! This is only a test! The arresting of a County Judge will test the guardrails around our judicial system and whether Trump, Homan and Noem can just terrorize people, illegally deport whomever they please, and go unchecked. We need all the facts before deciding whom to believe. “Dugan was arrested by the FBI and is now in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, the senior law enforcement official said.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-arrests-milwaukee-judge-alleging-interfered-immigration-operation-rcna203006

” Sources say Dugan didn't hide the defendant and his attorney in a jury deliberation room, as other media have said. Rather, sources said, when ICE officials left to talk with the chief judge on the same floor, Dugan took the pair to a side door in the courtroom, directed them down a private hallway and into the public area on the 6th floor.” https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/23/ice-arrested-mexican-immigrant-after-hearing-before-judge-dugan/83233154007/

https://substack.com/@techiam

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Mark Lambert's avatar

At least Canada when faced with right wing authoritarian rule swings far left to the party that protects its citizens rights and freedoms. WTF Americans.. STOP FAILING YOURSELF AND YOUR FREEDOM before you loose every last bit of it.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Republicans STUNNED, as Trump THROWS Them Under the BUS", on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/HnGJewnl-uE?si=MiSHdChmeLrMeitX

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump PANICS and BLAMES Courts for HIS CHAOS", on YouTube. (AF Legal/Meidas+)

https://youtube.com/shorts/dkr5aM5nt7k?si=EOYpzmJ0xZloZi6O

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Trump is a relentless bully, but he can be stopped by standing up to him, and not caving in to him. There is strength in numbers. COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Trump’s shock-and-awe presidency rolls on."

"SHOCK: The FBI this morning arrested a Milwaukee County judge for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest, Director Kash Patel announced in a since-deleted post on X.

What he said: “Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week,” Patel wrote.

To say the least: “The department’s apparent arrest of a state judge is a remarkable escalation of the administration’s battle with the judiciary,” POLITICO’s Amanda Friedman writes. “It was not immediately clear why the post from Patel was deleted.” Though DOJ did not respond to a request for comment, a U.S. Marshals Service spox confirmed the arrest." (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2025/04/25/trumps-shock-and-awe-presidency-rolls-on-00132333?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=00000164-54dd-ddf2-ab76-5cdd26bb0000

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"REACTION: Wisconsin judge arrested by FBI."

"Here’s my reaction to this shocking story. It took Kash Patel just 64 days from his confirmation, to turn the FBI into America’s Gestapo."

(Steve Schmidt, April 25, 2025)

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/reaction-wisconsin-judge-arrested?utm_source=live-stream-redirect&triedRedirect=true

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Pull the Plug on the White House Correspondents Dinner

At least for now...

while the press is under attack in America."

"I’m sorry Washington. But it’s time to pull the plug on “Nerd Prom.” At least for now.

The White House Correspondents Dinner, in its current form, sends exactly the wrong message, at a critical time for the free press in the United States." (Jim Acosta)

https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/pull-the-plug-on-the-white-house?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3775894&post_id=162125633&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Senator Schiff is right. Trump rigged the tariff announcement."

"Donald Trump rigged the stock market and bragged about it in real time.

Just minutes before the market opened, Trump told his followers on Truth Social: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!”, and posted “DJT” the ticker for his own media company. Then he announced a sudden 90-day tariff pause, reversing his earlier policy, and blindsiding even his own trade officials.

What happened next? The S&P 500 spiked nearly 10%. Tesla surged 18%. And investors connected to Trump, including those with early knowledge, saw their portfolios soar.

This wasn't a strategy. It wasn’t “art of the deal.” It was a coordinated act of market manipulation, and it reeks of insider trading, at the highest levels of government.

Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Ruben Gallego are demanding a congressional investigation, and we need to ensure that Congress follows through.

The timing, the posts, the trades… this wasn’t a coincidence; it was a coordinated cash grab using the power of the presidency. Demand that Congress investigate Trump’s market manipulation now.

There is no gray area here. The evidence is public. The timing is damning. And the motive is clear: personal enrichment.

Trump is orchestrating pump-and-dump schemes from the White House. He manipulated the markets, and handed his allies a payday. He used insider information, triggered a market spike, and then bragged about it publicly. That’s not just unethical. It’s criminal.

And every member of Congress who fails to act becomes complicit in normalizing corruption at the highest levels of power.

Congress must subpoena every trade, every memo, every whisper of coordination from Trump, his cronies, his family, and his financial backers. Anything less is a cover-up.

This is a blatant abuse of presidential power for personal gain. Tell Congress to investigate insider trading over Trump's tariffs.

Together, we will expose corruption and demand real accountability.

LeeAnn Hall

Director, National Campaign for Justice

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION:

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Julie Vantine's avatar

This is the playbook of Project 2025. LIE, LIE, LIE. This is frightening. It's going to get a lot worse. We can't wait till 2026, we the people have to continue to stand up against this regime. Thank you Meidas for everything you do.

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Pamela Wilder's avatar

Is it true that a judge was arrested by ICE in Milwaukee for interfering with arrest of immigrant???

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Yes. A County Judge was arrested by the FBI.

FBI Arrests Milwaukee Judge, Alleging She Interfered In Immigration Operation

This is a test! This is only a test! The arresting of a County Judge will test the guardrails around our judicial system and whether Trump, Homan and Noem can just terrorize people, illegally deport whomever they please, and go unchecked. We need all the facts before deciding whom to believe. “Dugan was arrested by the FBI and is now in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, the senior law enforcement official said.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-arrests-milwaukee-judge-alleging-interfered-immigration-operation-rcna203006

” Sources say Dugan didn't hide the defendant and his attorney in a jury deliberation room, as other media have said. Rather, sources said, when ICE officials left to talk with the chief judge on the same floor, Dugan took the pair to a side door in the courtroom, directed them down a private hallway and into the public area on the 6th floor.” https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/23/ice-arrested-mexican-immigrant-after-hearing-before-judge-dugan/83233154007/

https://substack.com/@techiam

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"REACTION: Wisconsin judge arrested by FBI."

"Here’s my reaction to this shocking story. It took Kash Patel just 64 days from his confirmation, to turn the FBI into America’s Gestapo."

(Steve Schmidt, April 25, 2025)

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/reaction-wisconsin-judge-arrested?utm_source=live-stream-redirect&triedRedirect=true

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Michelle Summers's avatar

The question is, why are we diverting federal funds the US needs to raise families, and funneling them to private equity-run ICE concentration camps?

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Because stephen miller does not like black and brown people and he wants them out of this country and he is Trump's most loyal lap dog.

https://substack.com/@techiam

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Ian Patton's avatar

Thanks for all your interviews with Charlie Angus. I think MeidasTouch has played an important role in helping to reveal Maple-MAGA Pierre Poilievre's (Skippy-the-Rat) true colours. With Skippy's poll numbers sinking like a cinder block in Lake Onrtario, things are looking far, far better than they did two months ago. With Putin on our Northern border and Trump on our Southern, Pierre as the filler would be a real shit sandwich. The only question now seems to be whether the Liberals will get a minority or majority. I'm NDP, but this time I want a Liberal majority. Monday can't come soon enough. A wee tune for Skippy-the-Rat. Cheers from Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc6RIkJn6MI

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J Frost's avatar

With the IQ of a turnip…

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Gregory Bailey's avatar

Since Trump wants to make 2028 hats, how about we make one, OBAMA 2028!

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Bluesmurf's avatar

🤣🤣🤣 Go for it! I'll buy one!

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Katbg57's avatar

BRAVO!! SPEAK Meiselas Brothers!! That was an excellent podcast/video! Well done! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🖐️🖐️ HANDS OFF! 🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪 ELBOWS UP!🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙💙💙💙

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Sue Opsal's avatar

I am so sick of him talking about "deals"! He sounds like the most immature child that he reduces every stinking thing in the world to a fucking deal!

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virginia arthur's avatar

Those responses to the press are priceless! Those who still believe in trump only have to go to the grocery store to see how he lies!

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Elaine Dawe's avatar

Hello. I’m a MidasMaple 🇨🇦🇨🇦 and I am so grateful to Midas for its dedication to ‘raw and unfiltered’ truth. I am sick at heart about my suffering brothers and sisters in the U.S. I

grew up as a ‘border kid’.

We travelled to ‘the States’ for Friday night grocery shopping, weekends to Allegheny State Park, and Christmas and Easter shopping. We never even needed identification. Now Trump is calling us losers and wants to annex us (along with Greenland) as another State! Fucking Trump! What does this guy have to do to be stopped?

Canada may be considered nice’ however we are not stupid. We are a proud and tough Nation and we are ‘loud and proud’. We are fighting back and we have just started! 🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Victor McDonald (Vic)'s avatar

45 has done just what the American(white) people has wanted him to do; the people who voted for this ass hat just thought it would NOT affect them.

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Ghita Feldbæk's avatar

Maybe AirForce 1 could vanish over the Bermuda Triangle on its way to Italy . Nobody is looking forward to Trump comming to the funeral of the Pope tomorrow

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Doreen Tankersley's avatar

Keep bringing the truth.

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J Frost's avatar

Guess who doesn’t give a flying f*ck about our economy!?!

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Pamela's avatar

Why "should we be thanking" the scumbag?

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Trump’s shock-and-awe presidency rolls on."

"SHOCK: The FBI this morning arrested a Milwaukee County judge for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest, Director Kash Patel announced in a since-deleted post on X.

What he said: “Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week,” Patel wrote.

To say the least: “The department’s apparent arrest of a state judge is a remarkable escalation of the administration’s battle with the judiciary,” POLITICO’s Amanda Friedman writes. “It was not immediately clear why the post from Patel was deleted.” Though DOJ did not respond to a request for comment, a U.S. Marshals Service spox confirmed the arrest." (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2025/04/25/trumps-shock-and-awe-presidency-rolls-on-00132333?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=00000164-54dd-ddf2-ab76-5cdd26bb0000

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Ian Patton's avatar

ICE - Trump's brown shirts, the MAGA Waffen SS.

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J Frost's avatar

He’s got too much orange pancake on to see his red face.

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Sally Skellington's avatar

He is not fit to be a UNITED STATES President! Courts and their games! 🤬💩

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J Frost's avatar

Lunatic! What doesn’t anyone factcheck him live?

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Bluesmurf's avatar

because of the fallout from fact-checking him live. Chicken hearts!

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J Frost's avatar

Right

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Patti Schimberg's avatar

We are so grateful for you!

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Mark Scheithe's avatar

MAGAs are RUSSIAN assets

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Larry McGinnity's avatar

We the People at Work

The People, the protectors of Democracy, are out and about. What "people," out where, about what--and why? First, millions said "Hand Off"to Trump/Musk et al, then on the 19th via 50501" (50 protests, 5o states, 1 Movement) millions more protested the mess in WDC. Also on the 19th we celebrated the "the shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord, starting the Revolution and our country. On the 22nd protectors of the environment cleaned up a different kind of mess on Earth Day.

As important as the participants in environmental mess cleanup and American history are, this post is dedicated to the named and unnamed protestors fighting the Trump/Musk Washington, DC, tyrannical mess. Or as Susan Grymes calls it: Protectors [of democracy, and so shall I in this post.

Who are the Protectors of democracy on April 5, 19th, May 1st--or all the everydays in between and into the future?? We will never know the names of each individual marcher, sign holder (or just standing together in solidarity). But we do know by name some people, advocacy groups, judges and law firms, and other entities who have not been cowed, and have fought back publicly--sometimes under threat of death.. Some, such as Sen. Cory Booker, with his 25 hour righteous speech on ethics, morality, and American democracy,have become an inspiration. Here then, in no particular order of noteworthy (except the first three), are the names of many of the army of protectors of democracy--and remember Courage is Contagious:

(Of course, the list is imperfect, Additions are welcomed. Also re-posting is permitted and encouraged.

PROTECTORS OF DEMOCRACY (By pen, voice, sign, or act)

(Updated April 25, 2025 Individuals

Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American"

Jess Piper/"View from Rural Missouri"

Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse"

Rep. AOC

AGs, 23 Blue States

Aaron Parnas

Adam Kinzinger

Sen. Adam Schiff

Adam Smith

Alex Wagner

Alexander Vindman

Ali Velshi

Alison Gill

Alvin Bragg (and the unnamed Manhattan jurors)

Amb. Susan Rice

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales/Democracy Now

Anand Giridharadas

Anat Shenker-Osario

Andrew Weissmann

Andy Borowitz

Ann Telnaes

Anne Applebaum,

Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)

Ari Melber

August Flentje

Ben Meiselas

Beth Benike

Brett Meiselas

Brian Tyler Cohen

Cassidy Hutchinson

Charlotte Clymer

Chris Hayes

Chris Krebs

Col. Susannah Meyers

Congressman Jim Himes

D. Earl Stevens

Dan Barker, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)

Dan Pfeiffer

Dan Rather

Daniel Berulis

Daniel Morton-Bentley

David Hogg

Dean Obeidallah

Delia Ramirez

Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Sen. Elyssa Slotkin

Erez Reuveni

Rep. Eric Swalwell

Garrison Keillor

Garry Kasparov

George Conway

Glenn Kirschner

Gov. Beshear

Gov. Janet Mills

Gov. Kathy Hochul

Gov. Maura Healey (MA)

Gov. Tim Walz (MN)

Gov. Tony Evers (WI)

Greg Olear

J.B. Pritzker

Jake Auchincloss

Rep.Jamie Raskin

Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Jay Kou

Jeff Danziger

Sen. Jeff Merkley

Jeff Stein

Jeff Tiedrich

Jen Rubin And the Contrarians

Jeremy Seahill

Jessica Craven

Jessica Yellin

Jim Acosta

Jim Hightower

Jimmy Kimmel

J-L Cauvin

John Cusack

John Larson

Sen. Jon Ossoff

Jonathan Bernstein,

Jordy Meiselas

Josh Johnson (stand-up comedian)

Josh Marshall

Joy Reid

Judd Legum (popular Information)

Julie Roginsky

Katie Fang

Ken Harbaugh

Lawrence O;Donnell

Liz Cheney

Lucian Truscott IV

Marianne Williamson

Mark Fiore

Marvin Kalb

Mary L. Trump

Maxwell Frost

Mayor Michelle Wu

Mehdi Hasan

Melvin Gurai

Michael Bennett

Michel Zeitgeist

Miles Taylor

Nicolle Wallllace

Noel Casler (former and current staff of the Inter-American Foundation, a small but

mighty federal agency for Latin America)

Olga Lautman

Paul Krugman

Prof. Lawrence Tribe

Qasim Rachid

Rabbi Joshua Hammerman

Rachel Cohen

Rachel Maddow

Rebecca Solnit

Rep. Andrew Egger

Rep. Emily Randall

Rep. Jessica Denson

Rep. Jonathan V. Last

Rep. Noe Casler

Rep. Pramila Jayapal

Rep. Sarah Longwell

Rep. Al Green

Rep. Don Beyer

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde

Rev. William J. Barber II

Rez Reuveni (acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, and his

supervisor)

Rich Wilson

Robert B. Hubbell

Robert Reich

Roger Parloff

Ron Filipkowski

Ruth Ben-Ghait

Sarah Inama

Scott Dworkin

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (whistleblower)

Sen. Andy Kim

Sen. Chris Murphy

Sen. Chris Van Hollen

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

Sen. Lisa Murkowski

Sen. Maria Cantwell

Sen. Patty Murray

Sen. Ron Wyden

Sharon McMahon

Sheldon Whitehouse

Simon Rosenberg

Stacey Abrams

Stephanie Miller

Stephen King

Steve Brodner

Steve Schmidt

Sue Nethercott

Sen. Tammy Duckworth

Tennessee Brandon

Thom Hartmann

Tim Snyder

Timothy Snyder

Tristan Snell

Will Bunch

Zev Shalev

ADVOCACY GROUPS, MEDIA NETWORKS

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

AICN (North Carolina)

American Oversight

Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers (North Carolina)

Blue Future

Blue Missouri

Blue Wave

Bluesky

Bulwark Media

CODEPINK

CREW

DemCast

Democracy Forward

Democracy Index

DemocracyLabs

Every State Blue

Feathers of Hope

Field Team 6 (North Carolina)

FiftyFifty one (50501)

Fred Wellman/On Democracy

"Hands Off"

Indivisible

Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday

Lambda Legal

League of Women Voters

Marc Elias/Democracy Docket

MeidasTouch Network

MoveOn

MSNBC (an exception to corporate news, and their suppressing news0

No Kings

Olivia Troy

Protect Democracy

Public Citizen/Co-president Robert Weissman

Run for Something

Seneca Project

Substack

The 19th/Errin Haines

The American Manifesto

The Bulwark

The Civic Center

The Dean's List/ Dean Obeidallah

The Dr. Martin Luther King Center

The Lincoln Project

The Politics Girl

The States Project (North Carolina)

The Union (North Carolina)

Third Act

Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana

We the People Dissent

Working Families Party

LAW FIRMS/ORGANIZATIONS, LAWYERS, COURTS, ACADEMIA

American Bar Association

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer

Big Ten Universities

David Pepper

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services

Harvard/President Alan M. Garber

Hogan Lovells (seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-

affirming medical care Law.com)

Jenner & Block (also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding)

​Judge Hannah Dugan

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

(former) Judge J. Michael Luttig

Judge James Boasberg

Judge Paula Xinis

Judge Royce Lamberth

Justice Elena Kagan

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Justices Sonia Sotomayer

Northwestern U

Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling (have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly)

Presidents of 328 U.S. colleges and universities have signed a letter condemning

“government overreach." (including St. Louis University)

Ropes & Gray (also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding Law.com)

Susman Godfrey law firm

UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (per the ABA Journal, representing fired

inspectors general Law.com)

Wilmer Hale Keker, Van Nest & Peters,

Southern Poverty Law Center

Letter signed by 500 law firms joined a court brief supporting Perkins Coie lawsuit against the Trump Administration)

To paraphrase Churchill: We shall fight them in the streets, we shall fight them on the sidewalks, we shall fight them on the internet, we shall fight them in the courts, we shall fight them in the Congress, we shall fight them in the voting booth--We shall never surrender. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. SOLIDARITY..

E pluribus unum ( "Out of many, one")

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Sally Skellington's avatar

He didn't say anything because he's a racist.

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peter's avatar

This is no different than Nazis arresting those hiding Jews, and it is ironic,,since Israel is doing to Gaza far worse than Hitler did to them... This is insane,, Arresting a judge?

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation says agents in Milwaukee, Wisconsin have arrested a state circuit court judge on charges of obstructing immigration agents who went to her courtroom to arrest someone who was scheduled to appear there.

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Yvette N Hath's avatar

Trump 2028 seems like an appropriate epitaph to me.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

Trudeau would never say such a thing 😂 the delusional felon strikes again.

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Chris Janisch's avatar

Those beady eyes on tRump. Those are the eyes of a LIAR

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Bluesmurf's avatar

It is the "morlock mouth" from the "morlocks from star trek" that gets to me when you watch him talk. Ick! If I could post a picture here I would, but if you look up 'morlocks from star trek' on the Internet, you will see what I mean.

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Chris Janisch's avatar

Totally!

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Punkette's avatar

Fantastic episode!!! Thanks, guys! 💪🏼💙

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"REACTION: Wisconsin judge arrested by FBI."

"Here’s my reaction to this shocking story. It took Kash Patel just 64 days from his confirmation, to turn the FBI into America’s Gestapo."

(Steve Schmidt, April 25, 2025)

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/reaction-wisconsin-judge-arrested?utm_source=live-stream-redirect&triedRedirect=true

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"Pull the Plug on the White House Correspondents Dinner

At least for now...

while the press is under attack in America."

"I’m sorry Washington. But it’s time to pull the plug on “Nerd Prom.” At least for now.

The White House Correspondents Dinner, in its current form, sends exactly the wrong message, at a critical time for the free press in the United States." (Jim Acosta)

https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/pull-the-plug-on-the-white-house?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3775894&post_id=162125633&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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"Senator Schiff is right. Trump rigged the tariff announcement."

"Donald Trump rigged the stock market and bragged about it in real time.

Just minutes before the market opened, Trump told his followers on Truth Social: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!”, and posted “DJT” the ticker for his own media company. Then he announced a sudden 90-day tariff pause, reversing his earlier policy, and blindsiding even his own trade officials.

What happened next? The S&P 500 spiked nearly 10%. Tesla surged 18%. And investors connected to Trump, including those with early knowledge, saw their portfolios soar.

This wasn't a strategy. It wasn’t “art of the deal.” It was a coordinated act of market manipulation, and it reeks of insider trading, at the highest levels of government.

Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Ruben Gallego are demanding a congressional investigation, and we need to ensure that Congress follows through.

The timing, the posts, the trades… this wasn’t a coincidence; it was a coordinated cash grab using the power of the presidency. Demand that Congress investigate Trump’s market manipulation now.

There is no gray area here. The evidence is public. The timing is damning. And the motive is clear: personal enrichment.

Trump is orchestrating pump-and-dump schemes from the White House. He manipulated the markets, and handed his allies a payday. He used insider information, triggered a market spike, and then bragged about it publicly. That’s not just unethical. It’s criminal.

And every member of Congress who fails to act becomes complicit in normalizing corruption at the highest levels of power.

Congress must subpoena every trade, every memo, every whisper of coordination from Trump, his cronies, his family, and his financial backers. Anything less is a cover-up.

This is a blatant abuse of presidential power for personal gain. Tell Congress to investigate insider trading over Trump's tariffs.

Together, we will expose corruption and demand real accountability.

LeeAnn Hall

Director, National Campaign for Justice

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-trump-rigged-the-market-investigate-him-now/?link_id=1&can_id=56bdad496d5a1d659d2f23c00c81d0e3&source=email-senator-schiff-is-right-trump-rigged-the-tariff-announcement&email_referrer=email_2711181&email_subject=senator-schiff-is-right-trump-rigged-the-tariff-announcement&&

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"George Santos, Disgraced New York Congressman Turned Cameo Star, Sentenced to More than 7 Years in Prison for Fraud.

The disgraced former congressman pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, in August 2024.

Disgraced former New York Rep. George Santos was sentenced to 87 months in prison on Friday, April 25." (People)

https://people.com/george-santos-sentenced-to-prison-for-fraud-11721249?hid=2e7a24e122b18170d301519bb8b970b7f5c0ea96&did=17449717-20250425&utm_campaign=ppl_relationship-builder&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=042525&lctg=2e7a24e122b18170d301519bb8b970b7f5c0ea96&lr_input=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1&utm_term=news-alert

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump gets CLOBBERED by BAD NEWS, as he CRACKS in Public", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)

https://youtu.be/TFI5lEvPy-Q?si=QeZx7_FdCHiobHPb

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Watch: "Gov. Newsom DESTROYS Trump for ECONOMIC DISASTER", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)

https://youtu.be/Maf_KVcIbzc?si=pWwxFFvo2z74QMrf

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump DOJ ACCIDENTALLY CONFESSES it LIED to JUDGE", on YouTube

(AF Legal/Meidas+)

https://youtu.be/AGd09l5FqFQ?si=PvYbW6MyRvv3H82R

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Watch: "Dems STRIKE BACK at GOP, as Trump Rapidly PLUMMETS", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)

https://youtu.be/cfNYu7P9fds?si=ourpwJLasv_xIhny

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'"Authoritarianism in Action': Trump Orders DOJ Probe of Democratic Donation Platform, ActBlue."

"Rep. Jamie Raskin called Trump's memorandum "the kind of edict you'd expect from a power-mad dictator in a Banana Republic." (Common Dreams)

https://www.commondreams.org/news/donald-trump-actblue?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=c0a1d2655c-News+Alert+%7C+%27Authoritarianism+in+Action%27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-35ede9c646-600492151

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"Judge blocked 'off-the-rails' Trump with order that won't be easy to reverse."

"A judge threw up a serious hurdle to president Donald Trump's executive order that would substantially roll back voting rights.

U.S. District judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly paused the president's March 25 executive order, titled "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections," instructing the independent Election Assistance Commission to change the national mail voter registration form to require applicants to prove their U.S. citizenship, and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote on her Substack page that the ruling would be difficult to overturn." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/judge-2671843169/

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"'Terrifying': RFK Jr's autism registry plan has parents 'panicked' kids will be 'hunted'." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-autism-registry/

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shri Kingsford's avatar

When will it be about American people and not red, blue, purple.

Political categories

Are so impersonal.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "U.S. will abandon peace talks, if Russia or Ukraine make it too difficult", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/mGWyqJR_cEk?si=ywvr3peci0mkCFdF

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

How long will people keep believing the lies the felon tells every hour?

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Some people will always believe everything he says. Most people will never believe anything he says. Some people will believe some of what he says. Then there are those who don't believe anything anyone says. Proof won't shake the people that will never stop believing him. We have to appeal to the some who are willing to be skeptical and those who don't believe anyone.

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Sharon Lemon's avatar

Thank you for your relentless spirit and energy to bring us the news

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uRNangel423's avatar

Thanks Ben & Meidas Touch for your spot on podcast! DT thinks he has America & the world at his mercy with these tariffs, but NO ONE is looking for a deal! He is so out of touch with reality that it truly is a concern to let him continue in this capacity. However, the enablers-JD, Elf Johnson, &

Musk-rat have got to go as well! In Prof Reich’s podcast the other day, he was asking for suggestions to call a movement of citizens, as he & others did feel that ‘demonstration, strike, protest or any other negative’ would be appropriate to call our growing citizens fight to this upheaval. Some suggested that we call it Democracy Day, which I think would be appropriate, or just call it ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ to protest this abhorrent regime! I would like to some feed back. Thanks as always!

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Margo Murdock's avatar

FFOTUS has no idea how loud that flag is going to sound flapping in the wind, the higher it goes the louder it will be. There’s a huge on on I-75 just south of Atlanta omg. It probably creates its own weather!

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AtaraxyBob's avatar

My analogy for where we are:A. bad virus is in the America App and has infected the global OS. A system re-boot is imminent. There is no software update to remove the virus or otherwise improve the OS. The reboot will temporarily disable the global OS, deleting many essential Apps..the virus will survive. Hardware failure imminent.

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Scott Bump's avatar

The Donald says he's going to "watch Walmart with their prices" Ebstein had said "he can't read a financial spread sheet" Don Jr. admitted "barely understood accounting 101" think either one has any kind of grip on MACRO Economics? think they can even define what that is? we need to get this clown and his circus out theres grounds for charges for every one of his Cabinet Members and a 34 time felon not jailed? yet ! ?

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Scott Bump's avatar

Elon doing what he did actually costing us more money then what we saved? people loosing their jobs to gut the fed agencies? just fired

benefits when fired? not unemployment easily! don't think fed pension? Elon is a self serving that does not care about us folks! it was clearing his lawsuits and farming our personal info for his Texas Data Central? that's not ok I'd never drive a Tesla no way!!

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some are saying Trump 28 is a distraction to get folks away from the issues. Mike Cohen, Steve Bannon eluded to not so it seems! all the Donald has to do is say it's an "national emergency" to block the process? he would do that Donald can't handle loosing, it's always something or someone eles's fault! he has to stay in office once he's out he's going to jail likely with Don Jr. remember what he said Jan 6? "you're a hero or a zero" while he , Meadows and others watched the police being beat up on TV!! oh yeah Donald could not handle jail... Rikers then a Fed Pen?? why shouldn't he?

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So many issues that have happened and replaced with another outlandish issue! Is that so Donald can read headlines about himself? good or bad?

Pete Navaro is chosen by Jarid due to his book on tariffs? Navarro quoted himself in his book? (Bump 2025) ;-)

we hear there was a Chinese lady taking pictures of documents at Mart Locco?

We have a Russian Olegarch neighbor who had access as a member of Mart Locco?

Don Jr. Visits Victor Orbon weekend before Judge Cannon cleared his Dad with an order that Smith was not appropriate to investigate? then Victor pays a visit at Mart. Locco? for some pictures of documents that Donald had in the pipe chase behind his dresser in his bedroom?

we had a Russian newsperson in the Oval while JD, Don and MTG's boy friend ambushing Zelenski to sign documents handing over Ukraine to them ? Donald said he wanted to show the world that oval meeting! so how and why was the Russian newsperson there? to document the authenticity of the planned ambush of Zelenski? Did Don Jr. walk in the Russian Newsperson to the Oval? which claim is not accurate here? the Donald has been aligned with the Russians for many decades folks!!

we have Elon and his muskrats gutting fed agencies, farming data and only boasting of 150 billion and the cost was how much? 153 billion was it?

why? to clear his legal issues? to get sensitive data for his data central effort in Texas? to privatize these agencies to line the pockets of himself and other billionaire buds?

gosh he's ugly isn't he? is that why hes dating the makeup artist now? when it gets to challanging for Elon he falls back on his mental disorder and his ketamine use!! poor Elon? he's poor with paper thin on self esteem!!

every one of these listed traitor acts need reckoning! investigating, and likely jailing!! they were not ok!!

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Trumps interview on "MS13" on the knuckles is not photo chopped? Hard to believe this man is so simple minded? and or stupid? maybe it's a distraction from getting questions on Ukraine?

Don Jr. likely is the one that produced that fake photo! if you don't agree with the Donald? or agree to disagree? he's going to attack the person personally!! don't like the science? attack the scientist! don't like the legal ruling? attack the Judge

He's not going to be willing to walk away 2028 I think! if he did he and Don Jr. could both end up in Rikers then a Fed Prison!!

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the Donald needs to go! upcoming protest for Veterans D Day in DC folks just before the Donalds birthday plans!! want to bet he and family will not be around Friday June 6?? hoping for a record turn out!! 90 degrees in DC today May 3 so June it will likely be hot but well worth it!!

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Sojourner2025's avatar

Let him hang a flagpole! We will put flag in distress signal

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Nuala's avatar

Trump bankrupted his businesses and now he is working on ruining the United States economy!!! Unhinged, evil, demented old man! IMPEACH

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judith bray's avatar

trump and Musk have already cleaned out FEMA funds. There is nothing left for them to give to Huckabee Sanders.

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Lee Kirkby's avatar

Canadian here. Reality is that there are lots of deals to be done, between businesses and countries just bypassing any US involvement. Lots to do without having US in the playground. Will take some time to normalize but US will be left out of the solution. Sorry looks good on them.

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Irene Cloyd's avatar

We have fires right now in the Pine Barrens of Southeastern NJ. There is so much BS being covered by the media (not you)P put not anything about these fires.

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Irene Cloyd's avatar

I love you guys! “Fake news” per China - crazy right!!

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Cat Lady USA's avatar

Until Drumpy came along I never heard anyone else talk about DEI!

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Elizabeth Romedy's avatar

💙💙💙

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❤️🇨🇦💙🇺🇸

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peggy stokes's avatar

Trump a creep 👿👿👿😭😭😭😭😭😭😞

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When you dig deeper into the cross tabs, he's doing horrible, amongst young people and the Latino community, which he relied a lot on in the most recent election. Let's talk about that and more on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellis, joined by Brett. Jordy is not going to be able to be here today.