So excited that Katie Phang has joined the MTN and look forward to more journalist coming onboard. Trump wants to shutdown the independent media as he cannot control the narrative and how people view him. He’s got the worst approval rating this early in a term and it is thanks in part because of the Meidas Touch Network and Legal AF. Keep shinning the light and elbows up.
So excited that Katie Phang has joined the MTN and look forward to more journalist coming onboard. Trump wants to shutdown the independent media as he cannot control the narrative and how people view him. He’s got the worst approval rating this early in a term and it is thanks in part because of the Meidas Touch Network and Legal AF. Keep shinning the light and elbows up.
Her sign off speech mentioned MeidasTouch.........With Katie on board, MTN will get even stronger............IHIPNEWS is playing clips from MTN now..........
Congratulations. You do not watch TV... You are one of the fool idiots who get their news from Tik Tok, Facebook,,X, and U tube,,, How fucking pathetic
No TikTok etc. Kid, seriously, you’ve never heard of AM radio with its plethora of news stations and talk shows voicing every side? And you’ve never heard of any kind of printed news outlet, or apps that provide all of them?
And YouTube? Everything is to be had on there and intelligent people search out every kind of source to get the full picture.
I'm looking forward to seeing her here also. I've never seen or heard of her either. I used to love MSNBC but got rid of cable 4 years ago. It's not the same on YOUTUBE.
Team sport mentality ? If you are so pissed at Meidas then get the hell off our channel. President Joe Biden was not perfect nor has any president been so. You calling trump a chaos bomb rather than a fascist criminal says much about you. You are being deceitful by that very description of him. This is not a popularity contest. This platform has given a voice to many journalists who have been fired or silenced by their own networks. I am proud to be a part of the Meidas Mighty. There is no such thing as the unvarnished truth because human beings will always filter their truths from their own experiences. By the way, we are not sheep here. You claiming we watch Meidas because they tell us only what we want to hear is absurd.
I wonder if we might be seeing the start of paid bashers/ critics? Funded by folks like Elon! Goal to undermine dicredit and create uncertanty?? I can.picture.Elon.offering that
Agree!! Paid critics/ bashers get paid with how many responcess.they get!! Their efforts are so toxic! then add.elons.algo bots?? Most all projection coming the.Donald and.Don Jr.!! Their.the."fakes".
First of all, subscribing to the MTN YouTube channel is FREE. No money needed at all. And it is perfectly possible to subscribe to the MTN Substack for free too. Aside from that, Ben didn't even mention the WORD "money", let alone ask for it. So your first line already is extremely easy to refute. Not a good start for someone who wants better reporting...
And unfortunately, the rest of your post is just venting. Your claims are extremely vague and cynical, with nothing to back them up.
How exactly is that going to help us defeat fascism?
When anybody starts venting against MTN.........that "venter" does not fully grasp this pivitol time in history. I went to being a founder a few months ago......that was a no-brainer for me. Helping build the foundation for MTN is my duty in order to preserve democracy and freedom. "Venters" have the freedom to express their voices..........the truth will win over fascism.
While MTM is free,many people like me support this channel with small monthly payments. I pay $5. But when you have thousands of people paying $5 or more that's quite a sum of money. And you neglect the fact that people will watch however they can because they hate Trump and his cronies. People aren't getting paid to protest in major cities. People with a conscience will stand up and fight because they are true patriots no matter what.
I occasionally watch some of those as well. The important part is that we have all kinds of independent reporters to choose from. Something that Fascism would never allow.
You're not "calling out bullshit here". To do that, you need to be PRECISE and come up with ARGUMENTS and EVIDENCE. Instead, you throw around vague and cynical complaints, with nothing to back them up at all. How will that help anyone?
Example: you join the GOP here in calling the ACA "a disaster". Nonpartisan studies have shown that it has saved an additional HALF A MILLION American lives by now. If you want to call that a disaster, you clearly lost your moral compass. Democracy can only survive when citizens are willing to cultivate a strong moral compass and patiently fact-check and back up claims. Not by simply indulging in the negative emotions that Trump's "flooding the zone" cannot but trigger...
Lol... if you want to argue that only the people who read the books you read will share your opinion and therefore "See the Light", I'm sorry, but that's a VERY lame argument ;-)
Anyone truly interested in the truth and the democratic process cultivates engaging in real, respectful debates in which it is the job of everyone to back up your claims with arguments and links to evidence/studies. If you want to skip that crucial civic duty and imagine that anyone who'd read your books would think the way you do, what's the difference between your approach of the truth and that of a fascist... ?
So with that, let's ask you again: WHY do you want to call the saving of an additional half a million American lives a "disaster"? Any concrete arguments?
So you don't know how to engage in real debates. See? THAT is, in the end, what fatally weakened the US democracy. You HAVE to be two, at least, to debate. Imagining that reading and fact-checking is "homework" that we should all do on our own, as tiny little atoms separated from one another, and that if someone reads your stuff, they'll automatically think like you, that IS the assumption underlying any fascist ideology - which you would have known, if you truly did "your homework" ;-)
I always believe that if a commenter refers a questioner to "Look it up on the Internet," or "you could try doing the work yourself" - well, that means that the poster hasn't done the research on their view and doesn't HAVE those sources. Guess you don't have handy the facts that led you to your view? Yet here you are, promoting them. Sloppy.
Exactly. When someone claims to "know the Truth" better than anyone who disagrees with him but cannot even formulate basic arguments backing that "Truth" up, using his own words, it indicates that he's a blind follower of certain "sources", not someone who is familiar with fact-checking his own beliefs. So what he believes is probably false in the first place...
"Source" in a rational debate means a specific link to a specific study that investigated the topic you made a claim about, and then proved your claim to be true. Not the name of MEDIA that PUBLISH articles, op-eds, etc.
Just as a matter of "FACT" - many many many people who come here to be here also expand their minds with a variety of sources. I have to say after reading this thread that you are making a lot of far reaching generalizations with no evidence to back any of it up. You say that ACA is a disaster and that the majority of us all want a single payer system. Where did you get that? Have you asked all of us what we want? Have you ever been on an ACA funded policy or ACA that you funded yourself?
What are the promises Biden made and then forgot about? Did Biden forget about them, or was there perhaps some other reason he wasn't able to do everything he said? But since you did not provide evidence and proof, I cannot address your accusations.
The Trillion Dollar Bank Bailouts were George W. Bush in 2008 - read your history. I was actually there screaming at my TV while Bush handed over 900 Billion dollars to Henry Paulson with no strings attached and Henry Paulson handed it over to the big banks, and put other financials out of business -- all the while people were losing their homes to the mortgage disaster that caused all that. Or were you referring to something else?
What environmental disasters have been made by democratic malfeasance? The Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico? Was that the fault of Obama? How? and Prove it!
Which Democrats are corrupt, dishonest and deceitful? And what is your definition of corrupt? dishonest? and deceitful?
You scream 'foul' and blame it all on Democrats with nothing but hot air that follows your accusations. Put up or shut up!
So much of what you bring up is old news. Way old news. And, while I am not familiar with any of those names you put out, my guess is that there is much more opinion than fact there. If we can't get past the melonhead, the things people do want that are daily put forth by Bernie Sanders, will never happen. I don't need interviews with people like me. I need interviews from those in the know and experts. Most of us most likely do access other sources. We come here for truth and expert analysis.
Sorry Barb.. you will not get news here. You want news: Go to The Independent, The Irish Star, Reuters, Raw Story,, Guardian, New Republic, BBC, CBS,NPR... Meidas Touch is to news what Cliff Notes are to Tolstoy... It is a junior shooter composite site that breaks down into little itsy bitsy pieces the news of the day that they cull from original news sources. Go to AP. The people on that site are too lazy to seek out in depth anything... They get news from Tik Tok, U tube Joe Rogan, and Cracker Jack boxes. Benny boy is the equivalent of the jeweled suit glossy con man pig fuck TV evangelist. Praise the lord, rub your nuts and pass the plate.
Look here David I will say this once again BUT not nicely. GET THE FUCK off our channel you obviously fancy yourself as an intellectual much like trump fancies himself as a deal maker.
That's not what listing "specific sources" in a debate means. Your concept of truth is 100% subjective. YOU, individual Z, know best because YOU read X and Y. And why are your claims true? Because X and Y said so!
That's never ever how the truth works. You need to come up with SPECIFIC and OBJECTIVE arguments and evidence. All you have are "ad hominem" arguments. Cicero already showed, 2,000 years ago, why those are the weakest of all and using them simply means preaching to the choir, in other words, creating a little bubble of shared subjective opinions and refusing to leave it to confront the real world.
So once again: you claimed that the ACA, which already saved more than half a million additional American lives, is a "disaster". Please try to back up your claim with arguments and evidence, if you think you can, OR just admit that claims like that are mere temper tantrums...
You're right. This particular email from Meidas is not journalism. It's a feel-good, in your face response to the Joe Rogans of the world. It's designed to get us pumped and, yes, to become subscribers. The chest-thumping may be over-the-top, but there is so much more to Meidas Touch than this email. Go back to 4/25 and listen to the interview Ben conducted with Merici Vinton, who worked at the U.S.Digital Service until DOGE took over and turned her job into something she was unwilling to do. She explained exactly how it all went down. As a result, we got the truth from someone who was there when it happened. That is journalism, and it's just one example of what Meidas does on a daily basis. These long-form interviews give people like Merici Vinton, who are witnessing the "walking chaos" firsthand, the opportunity to enlighten all of us about what's happening. No doubt you can find "corrupt, dishonest, and deceitful" people in other administrations, and I'm all for cleaning that up. But standing up to the Trump administration is our priority right now.
I looked up several of the names you mentioned and will take a look at their writings. I reserved Aaron Goode's book at the library. Never hurts to widen your view.
I suspect your omniscience has burned out everyone in your sphere that used to engage with you. In your loneliness and need for engagement you landed here today. Did the argument fill you up? Even a little? I doubt it b/c you seem like you're calling out from a black hole of your own making. Maybe take a step back for introspection and a hard look at your life. While you're here, trying to manage MTN and the lives of others, who is managing yours? Sincerely, I wish you the best, David.
So excited that Katie Phang has joined the MTN and look forward to more journalist coming onboard. Trump wants to shutdown the independent media as he cannot control the narrative and how people view him. He’s got the worst approval rating this early in a term and it is thanks in part because of the Meidas Touch Network and Legal AF. Keep shinning the light and elbows up.
Me too I love her this is going to be great bring it on Fox,Trump And Maga
This is not the place for promotion
SPAM! Reported. STOP this nonsense!
I also reported and blocked that spammer.
Watching the Orange Turd in his Blue suit made me throw up and the suffered extreme brain fog.
reported
> He’s got the worst approval rating this early in a term and it is thanks in part because of the Meidas Touch Network and Legal AF. <
and because Trump is a horrible person to begin with.
Because he is a complete fraud.
Generally, polls do not get a statistical sample. Respondents do not answer truthfully -- say what they think the pollster wants to hear.
If you ask whether we should join the axis of evil, I bet less than 5% agree.
Yippee for Katie Phang joining MTN!!!
Her sign off speech mentioned MeidasTouch.........With Katie on board, MTN will get even stronger............IHIPNEWS is playing clips from MTN now..........
James, excellent comment! I’m with you on your statement and agree completely!! 💯👍
I never watched her as I never had cable. Looking forward to seeing what she has to say.
I haven’t had cable in nearly 20 years but have watched plenty of Katie Phang on YouTube. She’s fantastic!
Congratulations. You do not watch TV... You are one of the fool idiots who get their news from Tik Tok, Facebook,,X, and U tube,,, How fucking pathetic
No TikTok etc. Kid, seriously, you’ve never heard of AM radio with its plethora of news stations and talk shows voicing every side? And you’ve never heard of any kind of printed news outlet, or apps that provide all of them?
And YouTube? Everything is to be had on there and intelligent people search out every kind of source to get the full picture.
Katie is one-of-a-kind!
So honest, positive, and knowledgeable! Aren’t we lucky!
I'm looking forward to seeing her here also. I've never seen or heard of her either. I used to love MSNBC but got rid of cable 4 years ago. It's not the same on YOUTUBE.
Bring Katie on.
me too, love her as well! I didn't know she was joining MTN, fabulous news!!!
I'd be surprised if 100% of the tariffs are still in place by May 10th. Trump changes his mind daily.
Team sport mentality ? If you are so pissed at Meidas then get the hell off our channel. President Joe Biden was not perfect nor has any president been so. You calling trump a chaos bomb rather than a fascist criminal says much about you. You are being deceitful by that very description of him. This is not a popularity contest. This platform has given a voice to many journalists who have been fired or silenced by their own networks. I am proud to be a part of the Meidas Mighty. There is no such thing as the unvarnished truth because human beings will always filter their truths from their own experiences. By the way, we are not sheep here. You claiming we watch Meidas because they tell us only what we want to hear is absurd.
I wonder if we might be seeing the start of paid bashers/ critics? Funded by folks like Elon! Goal to undermine dicredit and create uncertanty?? I can.picture.Elon.offering that
Notebook mention all the spam ads that have been cropping up like whack-a-mole.
Dang autocorrect! Should have been "not to mention," not "notebook."
Hi Scott, I would not put anything past anyone in this maga sphere, The good thing is we have each other's backs ALL DAY.
Agree!! Paid critics/ bashers get paid with how many responcess.they get!! Their efforts are so toxic! then add.elons.algo bots?? Most all projection coming the.Donald and.Don Jr.!! Their.the."fakes".
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Eccles is a fraud and a bore. BLOCKED.
Thank you Ed. You just made me laugh. I needed that. The Meidas Mighty have the fight in us. Apparently, theses idiots don't know who we are...
First of all, subscribing to the MTN YouTube channel is FREE. No money needed at all. And it is perfectly possible to subscribe to the MTN Substack for free too. Aside from that, Ben didn't even mention the WORD "money", let alone ask for it. So your first line already is extremely easy to refute. Not a good start for someone who wants better reporting...
And unfortunately, the rest of your post is just venting. Your claims are extremely vague and cynical, with nothing to back them up.
How exactly is that going to help us defeat fascism?
When anybody starts venting against MTN.........that "venter" does not fully grasp this pivitol time in history. I went to being a founder a few months ago......that was a no-brainer for me. Helping build the foundation for MTN is my duty in order to preserve democracy and freedom. "Venters" have the freedom to express their voices..........the truth will win over fascism.
While MTM is free,many people like me support this channel with small monthly payments. I pay $5. But when you have thousands of people paying $5 or more that's quite a sum of money. And you neglect the fact that people will watch however they can because they hate Trump and his cronies. People aren't getting paid to protest in major cities. People with a conscience will stand up and fight because they are true patriots no matter what.
How exactly is that a comment on what I wrote?
I occasionally watch some of those as well. The important part is that we have all kinds of independent reporters to choose from. Something that Fascism would never allow.
Except Jerry Weiss, Jessica Denson....
You're not "calling out bullshit here". To do that, you need to be PRECISE and come up with ARGUMENTS and EVIDENCE. Instead, you throw around vague and cynical complaints, with nothing to back them up at all. How will that help anyone?
Example: you join the GOP here in calling the ACA "a disaster". Nonpartisan studies have shown that it has saved an additional HALF A MILLION American lives by now. If you want to call that a disaster, you clearly lost your moral compass. Democracy can only survive when citizens are willing to cultivate a strong moral compass and patiently fact-check and back up claims. Not by simply indulging in the negative emotions that Trump's "flooding the zone" cannot but trigger...
Lol... if you want to argue that only the people who read the books you read will share your opinion and therefore "See the Light", I'm sorry, but that's a VERY lame argument ;-)
Anyone truly interested in the truth and the democratic process cultivates engaging in real, respectful debates in which it is the job of everyone to back up your claims with arguments and links to evidence/studies. If you want to skip that crucial civic duty and imagine that anyone who'd read your books would think the way you do, what's the difference between your approach of the truth and that of a fascist... ?
So with that, let's ask you again: WHY do you want to call the saving of an additional half a million American lives a "disaster"? Any concrete arguments?
So you don't know how to engage in real debates. See? THAT is, in the end, what fatally weakened the US democracy. You HAVE to be two, at least, to debate. Imagining that reading and fact-checking is "homework" that we should all do on our own, as tiny little atoms separated from one another, and that if someone reads your stuff, they'll automatically think like you, that IS the assumption underlying any fascist ideology - which you would have known, if you truly did "your homework" ;-)
I always believe that if a commenter refers a questioner to "Look it up on the Internet," or "you could try doing the work yourself" - well, that means that the poster hasn't done the research on their view and doesn't HAVE those sources. Guess you don't have handy the facts that led you to your view? Yet here you are, promoting them. Sloppy.
Exactly. When someone claims to "know the Truth" better than anyone who disagrees with him but cannot even formulate basic arguments backing that "Truth" up, using his own words, it indicates that he's a blind follower of certain "sources", not someone who is familiar with fact-checking his own beliefs. So what he believes is probably false in the first place...
"Source" in a rational debate means a specific link to a specific study that investigated the topic you made a claim about, and then proved your claim to be true. Not the name of MEDIA that PUBLISH articles, op-eds, etc.
Wow, if Meidas has gotten you this mad they're doing their job right.
You don't have to come here. Go to your safe space (Fox "news," Newsmax, etc.) to denigrate Democrats all your little heart desires to.
Why don't you just get lost. Nobody wants to hear your comments try speaking to the maga morons!!
Just as a matter of "FACT" - many many many people who come here to be here also expand their minds with a variety of sources. I have to say after reading this thread that you are making a lot of far reaching generalizations with no evidence to back any of it up. You say that ACA is a disaster and that the majority of us all want a single payer system. Where did you get that? Have you asked all of us what we want? Have you ever been on an ACA funded policy or ACA that you funded yourself?
What are the promises Biden made and then forgot about? Did Biden forget about them, or was there perhaps some other reason he wasn't able to do everything he said? But since you did not provide evidence and proof, I cannot address your accusations.
The Trillion Dollar Bank Bailouts were George W. Bush in 2008 - read your history. I was actually there screaming at my TV while Bush handed over 900 Billion dollars to Henry Paulson with no strings attached and Henry Paulson handed it over to the big banks, and put other financials out of business -- all the while people were losing their homes to the mortgage disaster that caused all that. Or were you referring to something else?
What environmental disasters have been made by democratic malfeasance? The Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico? Was that the fault of Obama? How? and Prove it!
Which Democrats are corrupt, dishonest and deceitful? And what is your definition of corrupt? dishonest? and deceitful?
You scream 'foul' and blame it all on Democrats with nothing but hot air that follows your accusations. Put up or shut up!
So much of what you bring up is old news. Way old news. And, while I am not familiar with any of those names you put out, my guess is that there is much more opinion than fact there. If we can't get past the melonhead, the things people do want that are daily put forth by Bernie Sanders, will never happen. I don't need interviews with people like me. I need interviews from those in the know and experts. Most of us most likely do access other sources. We come here for truth and expert analysis.
Sorry Barb.. you will not get news here. You want news: Go to The Independent, The Irish Star, Reuters, Raw Story,, Guardian, New Republic, BBC, CBS,NPR... Meidas Touch is to news what Cliff Notes are to Tolstoy... It is a junior shooter composite site that breaks down into little itsy bitsy pieces the news of the day that they cull from original news sources. Go to AP. The people on that site are too lazy to seek out in depth anything... They get news from Tik Tok, U tube Joe Rogan, and Cracker Jack boxes. Benny boy is the equivalent of the jeweled suit glossy con man pig fuck TV evangelist. Praise the lord, rub your nuts and pass the plate.
I guess your reading comprehension isn't so good. I get my news from a number of sources. I didn't mention by name. You need to grow up.
Who the fuck was talking to you? That is classic narcissism, you think it has to do with you... It was a statement not an accusation,,, you twat
Hey little peter, Fuck you. Call a woman a twat ? YOU are an asshole. Come on up to New York and talk shit like that you punk ass.
Look here David I will say this once again BUT not nicely. GET THE FUCK off our channel you obviously fancy yourself as an intellectual much like trump fancies himself as a deal maker.
Any arguments to back up your claim?
That's not what listing "specific sources" in a debate means. Your concept of truth is 100% subjective. YOU, individual Z, know best because YOU read X and Y. And why are your claims true? Because X and Y said so!
That's never ever how the truth works. You need to come up with SPECIFIC and OBJECTIVE arguments and evidence. All you have are "ad hominem" arguments. Cicero already showed, 2,000 years ago, why those are the weakest of all and using them simply means preaching to the choir, in other words, creating a little bubble of shared subjective opinions and refusing to leave it to confront the real world.
So once again: you claimed that the ACA, which already saved more than half a million additional American lives, is a "disaster". Please try to back up your claim with arguments and evidence, if you think you can, OR just admit that claims like that are mere temper tantrums...
F OFF
You're right. This particular email from Meidas is not journalism. It's a feel-good, in your face response to the Joe Rogans of the world. It's designed to get us pumped and, yes, to become subscribers. The chest-thumping may be over-the-top, but there is so much more to Meidas Touch than this email. Go back to 4/25 and listen to the interview Ben conducted with Merici Vinton, who worked at the U.S.Digital Service until DOGE took over and turned her job into something she was unwilling to do. She explained exactly how it all went down. As a result, we got the truth from someone who was there when it happened. That is journalism, and it's just one example of what Meidas does on a daily basis. These long-form interviews give people like Merici Vinton, who are witnessing the "walking chaos" firsthand, the opportunity to enlighten all of us about what's happening. No doubt you can find "corrupt, dishonest, and deceitful" people in other administrations, and I'm all for cleaning that up. But standing up to the Trump administration is our priority right now.
I looked up several of the names you mentioned and will take a look at their writings. I reserved Aaron Goode's book at the library. Never hurts to widen your view.
Your mind games won’t work here…
I suspect your omniscience has burned out everyone in your sphere that used to engage with you. In your loneliness and need for engagement you landed here today. Did the argument fill you up? Even a little? I doubt it b/c you seem like you're calling out from a black hole of your own making. Maybe take a step back for introspection and a hard look at your life. While you're here, trying to manage MTN and the lives of others, who is managing yours? Sincerely, I wish you the best, David.
Oh go away.