This is the first time in my 65 years that I can name every cabinet member and tell you a lot about them,along with so many other corrupt government officials. I've been more informed through my Meidas Touch subscription than through any other source. Thank you,Ben,for sharing your morning coffee with us.
I agree. This terrible regime has forced us to pay attention, to learn about things we experienced vaguely from the periphery. I have learned so much from the MT! I depend on them as my major news source- trust is so important!
Why is it the first time? You know them all because their names are in our faces all day long. It is the first time because cabinet members and appointees of previous Presidents, even some of #45's picks, took their jobs seriously, worked diligently in the background, did not need makeup artists and hair dressers or personal airplanes or a cringey and desperate obsession with "15 minutes of fame" turning into hourly, daily, weekly and months long self-promoting embarrassments and disastrous scandals.
I have said it before, Biden could have taken months long vacations in Aruba during his term and the folks in his administration would have continued the work of government seamlessly, flawlessly and quietly without the noise and fanfare while bringing us out of a pandemic crisis and building back our economy to the best in the world and too many ignorant, misinformed idiots believed the entertaining con man and his false promises to care about THEM. We are living in this hell due to egg prices in 2024 and because a despot convinced his flock that black, brown, yellow, red, blue, green, you know, any skin color other than white coming across our borders must be stopped dead. So gullible. So sad and so Trumpish and MAGA >>>>>>> Making America Grossly Abhorrent
Egg prices surged in 2024 primarily due to ongoing outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, which decimated millions of egg-laying hens, drastically cutting supply. This supply shock hit during peak holiday demand, with higher costs for feed, labor, and packaging also pushing prices up, despite some easing in feed costs later in the year, as restocking the lost flocks takes months. The government doesn't micro manage egg prices.
Completely agree. We should be helping the kids understand that they need to be paying attention now or they'll be building toward the next trump. In other words, if we and our parents, etc., had been paying attention and participating we might not be in this mess. I include following business/tech activity. Then there's the number of people who DON'T VOTE. That said, I admit I never felt politics was really any of my business until I had children. On the other hand, before having children, I remember distinctly listening to the radio in 1979 in Saint Paul, MN, to a news item that 3M was going to contribute millions to the schools if their needs for the curriculum were followed. That got my attention.
Brenda, Yup I concur...I am so much more up on and educated on political people and events than I have ever been (also 65!) and Ben and the brothers are a huge factor in this. I am so grateful for Ben's thoroughness, team building skills and Chutzpah!
Yes, Ben, you are an outstanding journalist along with your brothers and all of your associates! No one needs to watch ABC, CBS, or NBC News because of their ridiculous news reporting! And FOX, NewsMax as well as OAN should be removed because all they do is lie about everything! MS Now is the only news station that reports the truth. All of Substack reporting needs to be in every household! Thank you again for all of your hard work and dedication to the people all over the world!
Hey BB. I started to pay attention to all those pesky cabinet members during the Nixon regime. I started paying attention to SCROTUS about the same time. I had a great Social political science teacher in middle school. He always said, keep both eyes on The Supreme court Justices, they can be very dangerous. And low and behold...Gore v.Bush Florida...
and now these scoundrels on the court. And if you know your history a lot of these people , Stone, Bannon,...were part of the Brooks Brothers riots back during "the hanging Chad crap" in Florida. They were never brought to justice for the garbage they pulled, and here we are now. Hang in there. Sometimes it's easier just to pick one crook and follow them.
Good morning honorary guest Hegseth. Peter Are there clouds in your coffee. Perhaps you're looking at yourself through the smoke in the mirror. Today is Sunday a good day to pray for remedial redemption.
Without media’s touch, we in the uk would be completely in the dark. How safe Trump would be, how empowered he’d feel if only corporate media fed their filth through the BBC. People like the meidas touch, Aaron parnas, Adam Mockler etc are true American patriots, selfless heroes.
The BBC, CBC, DW News, TVP World, France 24. Zeteo has some great stuff. All on YT for free. It's US legacy news that's utter crap. The rest of the world isn't so stupid, lol unless Murdoch owns it.
Add to that France Culture, and the French-German TV channel Arte (much of it is also on YouTube, and Arte has many free programs on its website, which often has English subtitles and also an entirely English-speaking version; www.arte.tv).
To be honest: Zeteo is often too cynical for me. One of the main reasons that we got in the current place to start with is the fact that many progressives seem to no longer know how a democracy is supposed to work either.
A good start would be to (re)read Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals", in which he reminds us of a basic fact: in a democracy, "compromise" is not a dirty word, it's a noble word. It's one of THE main things distinguishing a democracy from a dictatorship.
All too often, when Democrats behave like democrats and therefore compromise with the GOP in DC, part of the progressives (Huffington Post under Obama, and many independent media today) turn against Democrats and imagine that they "caved" or are "weak" or "corrupt" or "just don't have it in them to fight" etc.
In real life, what happens is that whenever WE THE PEOPLE don't fight to make sure that the GOP has no power in DC, then ANY pro-democracy Representative and Senator SHOULD compromise with them, because that is exactly what is needed to make a democracy work.
It's one of the things I love about MTN or for instance HCR, Paul Krugman, Rachel Maddow etc.: contrary to so many on the left, they never give in to this kind of cynical "Dem bashing".
Same thing with the major comedians: especially Jon Stewart revels in this (totally anti-democratic) Dem bashing, and the comedian who never ever indulges in it (and therefore imho offers a truly superior form of comedy) is Trevor Noah...
But this was about the media, not comedians. So all I'm trying to say is: not all independent media are "equal" either, and MTN truly stands out here as being radically pro-democracy AND understanding what that means.
I really am in two minds about the BBC. I do not watch/listen to the BBC. I don’t watch live TV of any description and therefore, don’t pay a TV license. I object strongly though, to foreign governments attempting to undermine British institutions to push their own agenda.
I mean, I know there's important stuff packed into that short article ... but "orange warts" just killed me. 😂 Life is truly just bonkers at this point.
In Australia we have become addicted to your podcasts. We need to poke fun at the situation to stay sane as well as be informed so I laughed pretty loud @ orange warts!!
Lots of ways to get rid of warts, burn them off, tie thread around the base of them, I think toothpaste was also supposed to work. I got a great laugh out of that too, how about putting the orange warts on all of their noses.
Thank you Ben and the MeidasTouch for what you do everyday. That was well said they are slowly getting what is well deserved coming to them. Horrible monsters who constantly lie and threaten people. Can’t wait till the day all these sick evil corrupt criminals and pedophiles get what they all deserve. Be Safe and Stay Strong 💯💪💯
Ben, you are tenacious in bringing the truthful facts with receipts to our country and the world. It is greatly appreciated. You, Brett, Jordy and the rest of the network do a fantastic job! Thank you.
That Propagandfomercial CBS put on with Kirk was such cheesy garbage you could smell the Limburger through the TV screen. Needless to say she won't be wining any Oscars for that skit. I guess CBS is considered State TV.
It's incredible that the network of Dan Rather and 60 Minutes is now promoting a guy who never got any serious traction before he died, and who wrote lists of university professors students should NOT study with... (which is bad enough already, but the list obviously also led to death threats etc.).
All of this IS the ERASURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
I had no interest in watching that phony Kirk but still had a sliver of curiosity about what happened on it. And also, how many actually watched it. Your simple review was sufficient.
The only time we watch CBS in our house is for a sporting event we are interested in. I've seen a couple of clips of the Erika Kirk "town hall". She is a terrible actress and she's looney tunes, as well.
Happy Sunday Ben & everyone. I miss the days when we didn't have to worry about our own president causing harm to all of us. I never paid much attention to politics my entire life (I'm 58) until 2015, when the orange chucklefuck rode down the escalator to announce his presidential campaign. I hate trumpism for making me feel hate towards those that support him. My friend and family group has shrunk significantly after cutting off those that are maga. And I'm not sorry. I have zero tolerance for racism & white supremacy. I hope for the day that soon Democracy will be back in full swing and we don't have to worry anymore. Keep up the resistance. Stay strong. FDT.
That was my epiphany as well. I (at 66) watched that coin-operated conman riding down the escalator ...and his hate speech saying "All Mexicans were bringing their drugs and are rapists!" I was saying there was no way that any American would elect a racist conman whose university was a con, who put his name all over everything to try to make a buck-steak, vodka or a failed reality star who bankrupted his companies 6 times, NO WAY! and then the idiots after the first disaster did it a second time. UNFUCKINGBELIEVEABLE
Miss, there are naive and ignorant people in the world that I like to compare to ostriches. Can’t take the truth shouted from the mountain tops? Can’t believe ANYTHING a liberal says? Can’t acknowledge the terrible conditions in our country right now? Burying your head in the sand won’t protect anything but that denying brain of yours! People who cower and are incurious in the face of this country’s rapid downfall are only hurting themselves. MTN keeps us informed truthfully and with no punches pulled. That’s why it’s my main source of news. Those who ignore this information do so at their own peril. Good or bad, I want to be informed!
Thanks for your reporting of the news. Meidas is the only network that I have faith in to tell the truth. You give us hope that we can regain some semblance of order in this country. Stay safe and well.
Actually the worse it is, the less 'the rest of the world goes there.' Or here, rather. Tourism is in the tank. We need to GET RID OF THE ENTIRE REGIME; once DJP is gone the puppeteers will be glad their plan no longer has a human face. It may get worse before it gets better. We are still in the 'Organize!' phase. No slack!
This is the first time in my 65 years that I can name every cabinet member and tell you a lot about them,along with so many other corrupt government officials. I've been more informed through my Meidas Touch subscription than through any other source. Thank you,Ben,for sharing your morning coffee with us.
I agree. This terrible regime has forced us to pay attention, to learn about things we experienced vaguely from the periphery. I have learned so much from the MT! I depend on them as my major news source- trust is so important!
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I got a big warning too. Harsher than ever I've been given before. WTF
Brenda, I feel the same at 66. WOW, never have I ever imagined our country going through this. So I fight so my kids don't have to!
Why is it the first time? You know them all because their names are in our faces all day long. It is the first time because cabinet members and appointees of previous Presidents, even some of #45's picks, took their jobs seriously, worked diligently in the background, did not need makeup artists and hair dressers or personal airplanes or a cringey and desperate obsession with "15 minutes of fame" turning into hourly, daily, weekly and months long self-promoting embarrassments and disastrous scandals.
I have said it before, Biden could have taken months long vacations in Aruba during his term and the folks in his administration would have continued the work of government seamlessly, flawlessly and quietly without the noise and fanfare while bringing us out of a pandemic crisis and building back our economy to the best in the world and too many ignorant, misinformed idiots believed the entertaining con man and his false promises to care about THEM. We are living in this hell due to egg prices in 2024 and because a despot convinced his flock that black, brown, yellow, red, blue, green, you know, any skin color other than white coming across our borders must be stopped dead. So gullible. So sad and so Trumpish and MAGA >>>>>>> Making America Grossly Abhorrent
Egg prices surged in 2024 primarily due to ongoing outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, which decimated millions of egg-laying hens, drastically cutting supply. This supply shock hit during peak holiday demand, with higher costs for feed, labor, and packaging also pushing prices up, despite some easing in feed costs later in the year, as restocking the lost flocks takes months. The government doesn't micro manage egg prices.
Completely agree. We should be helping the kids understand that they need to be paying attention now or they'll be building toward the next trump. In other words, if we and our parents, etc., had been paying attention and participating we might not be in this mess. I include following business/tech activity. Then there's the number of people who DON'T VOTE. That said, I admit I never felt politics was really any of my business until I had children. On the other hand, before having children, I remember distinctly listening to the radio in 1979 in Saint Paul, MN, to a news item that 3M was going to contribute millions to the schools if their needs for the curriculum were followed. That got my attention.
I agree 💯 percent
That is the truth!! I've learned more than ever and feel confident in what I do.
Brenda, Yup I concur...I am so much more up on and educated on political people and events than I have ever been (also 65!) and Ben and the brothers are a huge factor in this. I am so grateful for Ben's thoroughness, team building skills and Chutzpah!
Yes, Ben, you are an outstanding journalist along with your brothers and all of your associates! No one needs to watch ABC, CBS, or NBC News because of their ridiculous news reporting! And FOX, NewsMax as well as OAN should be removed because all they do is lie about everything! MS Now is the only news station that reports the truth. All of Substack reporting needs to be in every household! Thank you again for all of your hard work and dedication to the people all over the world!
Let's not forget the names of Congress members outside of our own districts!
Awesome comment Brenda, I couldn’t agree more 💯
70. Feel the same.
AGREE!I can say the same thing!
💯 Brenda. Thanks to Ben and his team. We are all better informed.
See you in the streets!
Hey BB. I started to pay attention to all those pesky cabinet members during the Nixon regime. I started paying attention to SCROTUS about the same time. I had a great Social political science teacher in middle school. He always said, keep both eyes on The Supreme court Justices, they can be very dangerous. And low and behold...Gore v.Bush Florida...
and now these scoundrels on the court. And if you know your history a lot of these people , Stone, Bannon,...were part of the Brooks Brothers riots back during "the hanging Chad crap" in Florida. They were never brought to justice for the garbage they pulled, and here we are now. Hang in there. Sometimes it's easier just to pick one crook and follow them.
LOLOLOL - you are so right! I have never known so much about my government in past years!! WTF!!???
You are an idiot
Good morning honorary guest Hegseth. Peter Are there clouds in your coffee. Perhaps you're looking at yourself through the smoke in the mirror. Today is Sunday a good day to pray for remedial redemption.
Typical maga troll. You can't handle the truth, so you stoop low like your worthless president with an insult.
Wow, pete got a like. Bet he did it himself.
I'm 69, and it's the same for me. I've decided that from now on, no matter who the President is, that will always be the case.
democracy would die without MT. not exaggerating.
Without media’s touch, we in the uk would be completely in the dark. How safe Trump would be, how empowered he’d feel if only corporate media fed their filth through the BBC. People like the meidas touch, Aaron parnas, Adam Mockler etc are true American patriots, selfless heroes.
The BBC is still doing a lot of good work too though. Don't throw away the baby with the bad water...
The BBC, CBC, DW News, TVP World, France 24. Zeteo has some great stuff. All on YT for free. It's US legacy news that's utter crap. The rest of the world isn't so stupid, lol unless Murdoch owns it.
I also love Meidas Canada! Charlie A is great!
I grew up close to the border, and next year will be there again. I wanted Canadian news all the time. It's great to see that on MTN.
Add to that France Culture, and the French-German TV channel Arte (much of it is also on YouTube, and Arte has many free programs on its website, which often has English subtitles and also an entirely English-speaking version; www.arte.tv).
Thanks for the suggestions!
You're very welcome!
To be honest: Zeteo is often too cynical for me. One of the main reasons that we got in the current place to start with is the fact that many progressives seem to no longer know how a democracy is supposed to work either.
A good start would be to (re)read Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals", in which he reminds us of a basic fact: in a democracy, "compromise" is not a dirty word, it's a noble word. It's one of THE main things distinguishing a democracy from a dictatorship.
All too often, when Democrats behave like democrats and therefore compromise with the GOP in DC, part of the progressives (Huffington Post under Obama, and many independent media today) turn against Democrats and imagine that they "caved" or are "weak" or "corrupt" or "just don't have it in them to fight" etc.
In real life, what happens is that whenever WE THE PEOPLE don't fight to make sure that the GOP has no power in DC, then ANY pro-democracy Representative and Senator SHOULD compromise with them, because that is exactly what is needed to make a democracy work.
It's one of the things I love about MTN or for instance HCR, Paul Krugman, Rachel Maddow etc.: contrary to so many on the left, they never give in to this kind of cynical "Dem bashing".
Same thing with the major comedians: especially Jon Stewart revels in this (totally anti-democratic) Dem bashing, and the comedian who never ever indulges in it (and therefore imho offers a truly superior form of comedy) is Trevor Noah...
But this was about the media, not comedians. So all I'm trying to say is: not all independent media are "equal" either, and MTN truly stands out here as being radically pro-democracy AND understanding what that means.
Al Jazeera is a great global news source too. In English.
I really am in two minds about the BBC. I do not watch/listen to the BBC. I don’t watch live TV of any description and therefore, don’t pay a TV license. I object strongly though, to foreign governments attempting to undermine British institutions to push their own agenda.
Question: if you don't watch/listen to it, how can you know something about the quality of what it offers?
The BBC is still state-owned, so largely not comparable to US corporate media.
Imho, this is one of the main reasons why for now, no neofascist party ever managed to get into the government.
So if anything, the BBC deserves our strong support, just like NPR deserves our strong support.
Yes it is but with CBS being their partner, we need some answers on how going forward they will mitigate the 🍊🤡 lies
CBS being whose partner?
I mean, I know there's important stuff packed into that short article ... but "orange warts" just killed me. 😂 Life is truly just bonkers at this point.
In Australia we have become addicted to your podcasts. We need to poke fun at the situation to stay sane as well as be informed so I laughed pretty loud @ orange warts!!
It's the little things. :)
Also, sending much love for the families of the victims in NSW. ♥️
I'm so sorry to hear of the murders in your country.
Australia's Prime Minister needs some massaging. He just made a deal with the 🤡 for rare earth minerals. 😡
Lots of ways to get rid of warts, burn them off, tie thread around the base of them, I think toothpaste was also supposed to work. I got a great laugh out of that too, how about putting the orange warts on all of their noses.
Duct tape works lol. Now there's a fun thought.
'Bonkers'! I bet you follow Heather Cox Richardson! She is another patriot anyone who follows MTN should follow.
Thank you Ben and the MeidasTouch for what you do everyday. That was well said they are slowly getting what is well deserved coming to them. Horrible monsters who constantly lie and threaten people. Can’t wait till the day all these sick evil corrupt criminals and pedophiles get what they all deserve. Be Safe and Stay Strong 💯💪💯
Thank you Ben for all your hard work.
Ben, you are tenacious in bringing the truthful facts with receipts to our country and the world. It is greatly appreciated. You, Brett, Jordy and the rest of the network do a fantastic job! Thank you.
The President of Peace my butt! 😡
All tRump has ever caused other people is misery, chaos, and hate! He will literally do anything that benefits himself with money power and control!
Just the wrong spelling of peace, should be Piece.
That Propagandfomercial CBS put on with Kirk was such cheesy garbage you could smell the Limburger through the TV screen. Needless to say she won't be wining any Oscars for that skit. I guess CBS is considered State TV.
It's incredible that the network of Dan Rather and 60 Minutes is now promoting a guy who never got any serious traction before he died, and who wrote lists of university professors students should NOT study with... (which is bad enough already, but the list obviously also led to death threats etc.).
All of this IS the ERASURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
I had no interest in watching that phony Kirk but still had a sliver of curiosity about what happened on it. And also, how many actually watched it. Your simple review was sufficient.
I expected her head to spin and for her to puke green. She is so full of evil.
The only time we watch CBS in our house is for a sporting event we are interested in. I've seen a couple of clips of the Erika Kirk "town hall". She is a terrible actress and she's looney tunes, as well.
we need to cancel the radical-right cancel culture :)
VIVA MEIDAS TOUCH NETWORK.
VIVA LA RESISTENCIA
Hey, don't insult stinky cheese lol
Happy Sunday Ben & everyone. I miss the days when we didn't have to worry about our own president causing harm to all of us. I never paid much attention to politics my entire life (I'm 58) until 2015, when the orange chucklefuck rode down the escalator to announce his presidential campaign. I hate trumpism for making me feel hate towards those that support him. My friend and family group has shrunk significantly after cutting off those that are maga. And I'm not sorry. I have zero tolerance for racism & white supremacy. I hope for the day that soon Democracy will be back in full swing and we don't have to worry anymore. Keep up the resistance. Stay strong. FDT.
That was my epiphany as well. I (at 66) watched that coin-operated conman riding down the escalator ...and his hate speech saying "All Mexicans were bringing their drugs and are rapists!" I was saying there was no way that any American would elect a racist conman whose university was a con, who put his name all over everything to try to make a buck-steak, vodka or a failed reality star who bankrupted his companies 6 times, NO WAY! and then the idiots after the first disaster did it a second time. UNFUCKINGBELIEVEABLE
None of this is normal. When will all of America wake up.
Miss, there are naive and ignorant people in the world that I like to compare to ostriches. Can’t take the truth shouted from the mountain tops? Can’t believe ANYTHING a liberal says? Can’t acknowledge the terrible conditions in our country right now? Burying your head in the sand won’t protect anything but that denying brain of yours! People who cower and are incurious in the face of this country’s rapid downfall are only hurting themselves. MTN keeps us informed truthfully and with no punches pulled. That’s why it’s my main source of news. Those who ignore this information do so at their own peril. Good or bad, I want to be informed!
We The People 🇺🇸
Interesting that 35 % of adults in the U.S. are illiterate and he has about a 35% approval rate.
Susan, that was perfectly announced!
Yes Susan, isn’t that an amazing coincidence…or is it🤔?
The felon squatter in the WH easily bamboozles those fools‼️
Yes and I BLAME all the naive ignorant republicans that put AMERICA Here!
Thanks for your reporting of the news. Meidas is the only network that I have faith in to tell the truth. You give us hope that we can regain some semblance of order in this country. Stay safe and well.
We must fight for DEMOCRACY and the CONSTITUTION.
Americans fought and died against FASCISM and Hitler.
It is shocking that some people do not know or understand
what America has stood for, or they just don’t care.America ‘s
enemies are within.
We must fight for Democracy or we will lose it.
RESIST. VIVA LA RESISTENCIA. VIVE LA RESISTANCE. SAMUD....
great comment - thank you :)
So..
Nothing has changed, and won't change till djt is out of office ✋
Or no longer in this world.
MTN till the wheels falls off! 🫡🫶
Thank you for all you do✌️💙
We are unstable and the rest of the world goes there. Orange 🍊 has created this motion.
The Kremlin Gremlin And His Wannabe Oligarchs Are Pernicious To Our World Also.
Actually the worse it is, the less 'the rest of the world goes there.' Or here, rather. Tourism is in the tank. We need to GET RID OF THE ENTIRE REGIME; once DJP is gone the puppeteers will be glad their plan no longer has a human face. It may get worse before it gets better. We are still in the 'Organize!' phase. No slack!