This is why WE CAN’T APOLOGIZE!! ALWAYS CALL THEIR BLUFF!!

By Ben Meiselas

This is a perfect example of why we can’t apologize, we can’t hesitate, and we can’t be deterred no matter what others say.

We must flood the zone with truthful content, and we must be more relentless in the truth than the authoritarian regime is in their lies.

Look what they just did.

They ran away! We called their bluff and they fled like the cowards they are.

Trump and MAGA Mike ordered all the Republicans in the House of Representatives to take a paid vacation away from D.C. all next week. We exposed them and their bad-faith behavior—and now they’re just leaving D.C.

We showed that Trump and MAGA are actually giddy and enjoy seeing people suffer in a shutdown. We showed what liars they are.

And here’s how we did it.

We never apologized for our content. We never retracted. When corporate news tries to flood the zone with the usual MAGA fraud blaming migrants and transgender people, we call out those heinous lies. We push back harder and louder. We take the initiative and take control over the information war surrounding the shutdown. More significantly, we don’t just engage in “rapid response”—we show how you can go on the offense with your own messaging and not live inside Trump and MAGA’s framing of issues. We create the framework based on truth and facts. This may seem obvious, but it’s really never happened before in high-profile fights like this, where Trump and MAGA have used corporate news to carry their bag.

There have been at least eight major national polls recently released, and by margins of 12 points to 25 points, Americans blame Trump and Republicans for the government shutdown.

It might seem obvious that this is the case since they caused the shutdown, but with their trillion-dollar propaganda arm, Trump and MAGA leaders are used to bending reality and flooding the zone with lies. They are actually in shock that their lies aren’t working this time—when they say Democrats want a shutdown to fund undocumented migrant health care and transgender procedures in Peru. Americans know this is a lie. Americans rely on Medicare, Medicaid, or the ACA (with subsidies) to get their healthcare, and they know the threats facing their health and their lives based on the actions of Trump and the GOP. Americans understand that you can’t reduce healthcare costs by 1700 percent because you can’t reduce something by more than 100 percent. It’s weird, childish, and dangerous that Trump and Republicans make up numbers and AI videos over very serious life-or-death issues.

So finally, when the Republicans were cornered with their lies at the end of the week, you saw what they did. Same as what they did with the Epstein files—they just run away. They scatter. They stumble and mumble and hide and avoid. They expose their utter weakness and their fraud for all to see. At their core, these are truly weak and pathetic people who get off on bullying because they know what inadequate and failed humans they are.

So enough of tolerating and appeasing these fascists! We must always own the narrative—with strength and with truth—and yes, with empathy and love for basic humanity. We hope that the MeidasTouch Network is showing a new way forward. A new paradigm is here, and we are proud to be pioneering that paradigm with you.

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