Message from MeidasTouch Co-Founder

Hey everyone, it’s Ben Meiselas from the MeidasTouch Network.

I hope you’ve all had a weekend where you could catch up on some rest and find some time for yourself, your own wellness, your family, perhaps friends, and take some time to decompress from all of this madness going on in the world.

Of course, here on the MeidasTouch Network, we’ve been focused on covering all of these breaking news developments as they unfold, from what’s going on domestically to what’s going on internationally.

As you know, with these Sunday posts I like to reflect on the week we just had and then talk about the week ahead.

Let’s get into it.

First, I just want to thank all of our subscribers.

Thanks for continuing to grow this Substack and the MeidasTouch Network. As you may have seen, MeidasTouch was once again the number one podcast in the United States, beating Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and all of the other right wing podcasts, and all political and news podcasts generally.

I think that’s a sign that people in this country continue to want independent news and don’t want to deal with all of the corporate news propaganda we’ve seen that tries to distort and disinform and lie.

We’ve also done a number of marquee interviews that I hope you’ve found informative.

I’ve interviewed everybody from Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran to former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

I’ve interviewed Governor Lujan Grisham of New Mexico. I’ve interviewed ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Garcia.

I did a number of videos with MeidasTouch chief economist Justin Wolfers, and having a chief economist right now with the qualifications of Justin Wolfers is so important given the wrecking ball Donald Trump has taken to the economy.

So I hope you found these interviews to be something that is uniquely MeidasTouch Network style and information.

Now let’s talk about the domestic front.

I’m not going to summarize the whole disastrous Republican midterm convention because I’m sure you’ve seen all our videos and coverage here on this Substack.

But its culmination in Donald Trump’s fraud, lying and saying he’s going to give five thousand dollars if you vote Republican, is just so cynically dystopian and Trumpian, an utter lie he’s rolled out in the past with DOGE dividend checks and tariff rebate checks, all false.

The reality is he’s made everything much worse. The cost of living crisis is worse. Gas and diesel are at record highs. People can’t afford homes. We’re likely going to see an interest rate hike this week. And Trump has gutted critical government programs, whether it’s ripping away people’s subsidies to afford health care, ripping away people’s Medicaid, ripping away lunch from children, all while Donald Trump constructs golden ballrooms for himself, or flies to Ireland to watch golf tournaments at his golf clubs, and flies on the Qatari jet, while also having the old original Air Force One fly with him as well in case he panics over a new purported assassination attempt.

The grift is criminal and disgusting.

There’s a reason we see Donald Trump’s approval at historic lows.

Really, other than Nixon at the time he resigned, we’ve never seen a president with lower approval than Donald Trump has right now.

We’re seeing Republicans in Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, Florida worry about a wave election coming up.

But as I think about the midterm election, you’ve probably heard me repeat this over and over on the show, I don’t think about it necessarily in terms of “political messaging.”

I think about it in terms of lived experience.

It’s a simple question.

This isn’t about who’s going to message issue A or B better.

Here it is.

You either have lived this experience in the United States over these past twenty months or so and you agree that it’s a form of psychological torture, a combination of maliciousness and utter incompetence making for a potent, bankrupt presidency that has caused so much pain to the American people and people throughout the world.

Either you recognize that, or if you continue to live in your fantasy world and think this is a good way to live life, you’re either someone no one will ever get through to, frankly, or you’re one of Donald Trump’s right wing oligarch buddies who, for the period you bend the knee to him, get temporary monetary favoritism in essentially a communist authoritarian government structure.

So when people ask me, “Ben, how would you message this?”

I say: Well, I tell people we have a lunatic, a psycho, a sexual predator, a criminal, a felon, a putrid human being in the White House who’s also an idiot and very demented — if you don’t see it that way, I wish you the best of luck at this point, because that’s the reality, my friend.

That’s the reality.

So that’s my perspective on the midterms.

We just have to speak very, very clearly, as we do on the MeidasTouch Network.

Now let’s talk about what’s happening internationally, which is inextricably intertwined with what’s happening domestically, because the reason prices are up, the reason we’re about to have interest rate hikes, the reason people are struggling, is also because Trump launched reckless, idiotic tariff wars against the world, which he continues to escalate like the idiot he is, and he’s launched reckless wars, including the catastrophic war in Iran.

We continue to see escalation in the Middle East.

Now the Saudi Arabian East-West pipeline has been shut down. The Houthis, or Ansar Allah as they’re called more appropriately in the region, control the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, all pushing east.

Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz.

You’ve got a few ships leaving, but before the war started it was twenty million barrels a day. We’re lucky if we’re getting five to six million barrels a day now through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran made it clear that if the US was intending on economically strangling Iran, Iran was not going to tolerate it, and Iran, directly and through its axis of resistance, is hitting hard.

The US moves closer into the abyss, and I suppose the plan is to just post bogus propaganda claiming Iran is always a day away from either collapsing, or making a deal, or making a deal and collapsing, or who the hell knows.

Trump just makes stuff up every damn day, and it’s all lies, and he’s got a propaganda media network both here and in Israel and throughout the world that tries to push this stuff, which has resulted in awful outcomes.

Meanwhile, we saw the BRICS meeting in New Delhi, India, where Iran played a very prominent role, where China has asserted itself as a hegemonic economic power in the world, leading a new multipolar order, and the world is moving away from the United States.

Countries are dumping their treasury bonds, forcing our treasury yields to increase. Countries are pulling investments out of the United States. No one wants to be invested in a Trump scam like he’s been his whole life. He’s been a loser and a scam artist, and while the US postwar architecture was powerful, the Trump wrecking ball has really destroyed it. It’s going to take a long time in the future to rebuild. Really, because that’s just the reality of it.

So as we approach this week, Congress claims they’re going to be back for a few days.

We’ll see.

We’re going to have our Washington, DC bureau ready to go, asking the questions you want answered. Let me know if there are any questions you want us to ask them.

We’re going to keep reporting rapid response the way we do every day. We’re going to keep talking about these broader global principles that I don’t see a lot of people talking about, and we’re going to keep building this network.

We’ve got the biggest independent news network in the world right now, and we intend to use it to get out the damn truth every day. So let’s do it.

We’re grateful for you. We’re thankful for you. Let’s keep fighting together. Become a subscriber if you can. Look, your subscriptions have allowed us to become the top podcast in the world, top YouTube in the world for news. It’s really important, so we’re grateful to you.

Alright, let’s keep cooking, everybody.

Stay in there.

Hang in there together this week. I Appreciate you so much.

Alright, that’s it for me.

Time to record a new video.