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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on MAGA Mike Johnson in the terror as the midterms are approaching and they are about to get the karma they deserve for the harm Trump has caused to the United St...

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Where'd you go, Magamike, Republican Speaker of the House, Magamike Johnson, ...

time is, uh, Magamike getting ready to lose his job come the midterms, and it'll probably lose all leadership positions in the Republican party. They're after, and he sees Donald Trump's polling hitting record lows, Donald Trump according to the Pew research poll, and other aggregates Trump's polling is the lowest in modern presidential history, since modern polling in 1953.

So what does Magamike been doing as he's shut down the House of Representatives? Well, basically nothing, and he's been out there, though,

reposting this interview that he did recently with Politico, and I had to click on it for you to say, what the hell is Magamike bragging about?

What are these Magar Republicans even talking about right now as Donald Trump has us in this never-ending war in Iran? As gas prices have now hit the highest average in the nation, in the history of our nation for the month of August. As Donald Trump's latest speech in Nassau County, New York, he stated, we all should have higher prices. We should be thankful for the higher gas prices, because this war is a great thing, and the higher prices is a wonderful thing for everybody. As Donald Trump said before heading to Nassau County when he was on the tarmac, I want to see those service members, those Navy sailors, and the Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and the George HW Bush,

who are suffering from horrific conditions that Donald Trump and his defense secretary, Higgs, have an afflicted Trump says, "I want to keep them on board for longer. They should be on there much, much longer."

So what's with all of this going down? What's Magamike doing? Well, here Magamike says, look, Donald Trump is perfectly, he goes, he's perfectly messaging right now the situation with our oil.

The American people understand, and Magamike says, Donald Trump's being perfectly transparent. Here's a Magamike says, let's play it. We acknowledge the pain at the palm. We acknowledge it. There's, just a president acknowledge that enough. Sure he does, yeah. I mean, I talk to him multiple times, usually a day. I mean, he's very intuned to that, and he understands the correlation between this and the midterms. And as you know, he's working around a clock every day to resolve the situation and Iran. He makes no apology for having eliminated a nuclear capability.

That's a, as a priority for everybody around the world, what I think will happen in the days of weeks ahead.

So we'll have a number of other countries around the world who understand the necessity, for example, of keeping a straight or her moves open for commerce,

because most countries have a bigger stake in that. We're confident this is going to be put to bed by November, by September. I'm hopeful it's soon. I mean, you're hearing the White House and folks close the administration say that we're on the verge of something big here. Oh, that's true. If we're not, if we're disappointed by the Iranians again, because they can't be trusted that the negotiation table, then we'll handle this as quickly and as steadily as we can without compromise in the position and the freedom and the interest of the American people.

And that's ultimately what's at stake here. I'm confident at the Pentagon is handling this and that the Congress is watching it closely and we'll see how it develops.

But and then magma mics like, you know, I see my job as a guy who handles the different levers and I turn this lever in that lever and then something comes out of nowhere, but I've got it. I'm dealing with all the levers here play this clip sort of this is kind of think of it a control panel with a bunch of dials every day. There's over 250 dials or so. And every day I've just been all the time trying to make sure they're perfectly calibrated. As soon as I step back to assess that, there's something that goes off. It's way off my pain. There are things out of my control. Okay. So all I can do is the leader of my part in the house and in our effort is to make sure that we're controlling the control levels.

I feel really good about that. But we are running a transparent campaign that is honest with the people and it's exactly the opposite of what Joe Biden tried to pull off. And magma mic then says, look, I've made people's lives and Trump has made people's lives so much better. And the American people truly appreciate that we've improved their lives here play this clip. He has made everybody's life better. He has put the economic conditions in place. World affairs sometimes intervene in those things. Domestically, we're doing everything we set. We're keeping our promises.

New King Rich has a good way of crystallizing things and he said, "Oh, we're bringing a new, I'm bringing a new, he and I talk about this a lot. He's one of probably the greatest living historian of all things pertaining to Congress." And he said, "Mike, you think about this, this election

Isn't a contract with America.

This is more of a contrast for America year." And I think that crystallizes it well. And I said earlier,

contrast being common sense and crazy, but really increasing now, this is a big thing.

It's a contrast between common sense and communism. And you can shrug that off. But I'm telling you, I've been flying around the country. I'm going to every state. Everywhere I go, people are the alarms of being raised. There are two things that motivate people in a midterm. One is anger. Of course, Democrats have that. The other is fear. And this is a real fear that people have that Marxists are taking over our government. They put out their platform. Everybody,

political needs to be paying attention to this. I mean, the year audiences. I mean, Magamike's not a good liar. Magamike is the worst, most bizarre odd liar. This is a very strange creature of this guy. And then Magamike says, at the end of the day, Donald Trump works each and every night to take care of the American people. Here, play this clip.

He wants to move quickly. He wants to fix everything overnight. And the legislative body is frustrating

to everybody, because the Congress is designed in a way, especially the Senate, to move slowly. And that's a frustration to a type A, go get a problem solving present like we have. I mean, he's a real hands-on commander in chief. And he wants to fix it all immediately. So he's trying to acclimate to that and accept the challenges and the hurdles we have and doing that. And yet we're still delivering the agenda. And so, look, here is Magamike's last post before going

even more radio silent. Congratulations to Mike Alfonzo Wisconsin, to victory in the Wisconsin 7th Republican primary. I look forward to working together to defend and grow the majority of everyone. I mean, that is weirdo. This Michael Alfonzo, we are dude. And he's Sean Duffy's son-in-law. And the guy is like, I thought he was in middle school, but apparently, he gives these interviews and he's obviously reading a script next to Sean Duffy. And he's got Sean Duffy by his side.

I mean, it's actually DEI. Didn't earn it. DEI didn't earn it. I mean, this guy's video that he dropped Miss Magamike's like posting it about his campaign. He did like there's three cuts in

six seconds because the guy can't speak in sentences here play this clip. We're finally here,

August 11th with a big election this Tuesday. You know, it's really been the honor of a lifetime to go all around. And then Magamike has the audacity to say the 2026 midterm is a contrast for America

between common sense and crazy. When I think about crazy, I mean, look, Pete Hexith literally,

a crazy is like a crazy thing. I mean, Donald Trump, like literally, I mean, these are crazy people who behave like crazy authoritarian communists who engage in the most terrific, like we've seen what they've done over the past two years. I mean, they're getting mocked by Iran right now as Donald Trump hides in cafeteria trucks in Turkey. They're just mock him every damn day and Trump's polling as I know at his all-time level. I want to bring in Congress women, Sydney, Comvlig or Dove. I

got a lot of questions there. Let's bring in Democratic Congress women, Comvlig or Dove.

Congress women, great to see it as always. It certainly does seem as we get closer to the midterms,

thankfully, but there's an acceleration of the criminality. It's every day, maybe in the past there was a few. Now it is everywhere you look, there's a new crime that is taking place and I don't want to understate the fact that there were crimes taking place before, but just the fact that the frequency right now has clearly accelerated to reach it in new level. I know one of the initiatives that you've been pushing is articles of impeachment against Russ Vote,

Russ Vote, the Office of Management and Budget Director for not complying with the law when it comes to critical grants. I want to talk about that, but you look around Trump's cabinet. It's just all criminal centers. I just want to be blunt like it's a bunch of lawless criminal thugs who are out there saying, you know, was the story? Yes, you know, today Russia, oligarchs come on in, you know, we won't require beneficial ownership disclosures anymore. And it's just like,

what the hell is this country becoming? What has it become? And talk to us about your initiative, but doesn't it seem too like right now? It's just like, here it is, where we are some,

we are Orbans hungry right now. Well, thank you for having me, as always,

loving on this with you, this podcast. Yes, we basically have a gang in the White House. I feel like this is a reco organization. It is a cartel, but he was very upfront in the beginning

About how he was going to be president, right?

folks and he was going to enrich himself. And that's what we're seeing happen. It is sad how unabashed,

how unapologetic, how brazen they are with their corruption. You were talking about Russia.

You know, there was some intelligence, some counterintelligence coming out, talking about how bad these people are, and essentially that got derailed because Trump doesn't want folks to really know his ties to Russia. We, and so now, yes, we've got Russell vote. OMB Secretary, who has been breaking the law. Now, this is the guy who's the architect behind project 2025. This is the guy who has had a pattern of criminality of disobeying the law. He's the one who's terminated

thousands of federal workers. He's the one that defunded and dismantled USAID. He's the one that

defunded the consumer finance department, CFPD. Those are not things he is allowed to do.

Those are only things that Congress can do. And this is a guy who has said that the empowerment control act, right? How we allocate money is a suggestion. It's a consideration and that congressional appropriations are an idea, but that is not a law that needs to be followed. And so he has really done what he says he thinks about government and is this last act of his to essentially cut billions of dollars and projects going to states, states like California,

while he has refused to come and talk to Congress, be transparent to Congress, answer the American people's questions, bridge too far. And so we've introduced articles of impeachment to go after him. And the debt continues to rise. I mean, these phony, I'm a fiscal hawk. You're just a freaking criminal fraud as we are. You're in a fiscal hawk. These labels Congress women are the stupidest things and when the media, oh, but they're a hawk. These people, I don't even know what you're

even talking about hawks and stupid shit. It's just dumb. It's like they're a bunch of frauds. There are a bunch of Bernie made offs who stole our freaking money. And they want to dress it up in some flourily language, but they stole our freaking money. And they took it away from people who needed it while Trump wants to build freaking golden ball rooms and nuclear power battleships because he likes the way battleship. He's a little baby. He likes the way battleship looked like in

the 1920s. So now our money is being diverted to $400 billion projects that a simple drone can take

down and it's just like enough. I just think Americans are clearly sick of it. Americans are tired,

but Americans can't be exhausted. And I think that there's an effort right now to exhaust us before

them in terms and make us just say whatever. So what do you do? And how do we keep up with this? Yeah. And not fall into these traps. I've just been okay enough. I mean, what do you say? I control the straight of hormones. We own it. You don't own it. You don't control it. You're a loser. Just shut up. You do want to say that each and every day stay awake and shut up or go someplace and go to sleep. This is a guy who is spending a billion dollars of our taxpayer

dollars a day fighting a war that's unnecessary. The straight of hormones was open before this clown decided to get involved in this, right? And so those dollars are not helping us get healthcare. They're not helping us take care of our families and feed our families. The reflecting pool we've talked about, right? The ball removed talked about the changing the Department of Defense to Department of War. All of these things, the whole putting your name on the Kennedy Center. All of

that stuff costs money. And it's money that the American people actually want to help their gas and grocery prices go down. So it is serious. And they are trying to exhaust us, right, with

this fire hose of crazy to wear us down. But I believe that American voters are in rage and they're

also engaged. They are coming out to these polls each and every time there is an election. It is no wonder that once again, this guy is a hopped up on getting the save act passed because he wants to suppress the vote. And continuous rumors around, is he going to call for martial law? So that we cannot have midterm elections. So I'm saying this. A Donald Trump thinks that Democrats are losers and that we are doing nothing. Then why you

so afraid of us that you're trying to get the save act passed? And you are now talking about will there be elections in midterm elections in November? Only a coward. Only a week and scared

Person would be pushing so hard to suppress the vote.

his quote unquote wins and on his platform and on his legacy thus far as the president.

But he can't because they all stink. His policy stink, his behavior stinks, probably his behind

stinks. But I don't have any evidence about that. But based on what people tell you and that's why

folks need to continue to show up because that's what he's been so afraid of and angry about. He's looking at these returns just like you are just like I am after every election and he's like, oh snap, you know, like what's the fuck? What's going to happen in November? Do it for coming for you in November. And if we win, when we win, we are going to do all of the things that the American people have been crying out for. Accountability, oversight, restoring cuts,

putting forth a plan to build, to fix, to build, to rebuild, to do better than we have been doing,

these past umpteen months with this carnival barker in the White House stealing our money. Speaking of coward, I wanted to get your take on the story. How Donald Trump snuck out of the old Air Force one and went on the catering truck and then lied and claimed he was on Air Force one and apparently he was there with Natalie Harp who people refer to as his human printer, Dan Sikovino and then he left the press and everybody else on the old Air Force one.

Then he told the press I was with you. I was with you. We we we we go down together. What do you make of that? I mean, this is a guy who who couldn't see or tell the truth if it

hit him in the face. I actually believe that this is someone in real cognitive decline. I think

he and his handlers are trying to hide from the American people how sick and how sickly he is.

And I think when you enter into that kind of state of dementia or cognitive decline, you do these kinds of crazy things. I mean, when I read and see the things that he's doing, I'm like, doesn't this remind you of that old and crazy uncle who is fighting so desperately to not have to go into the assisted living facility? And like at some point it becomes your fault that you haven't snatched the keys away from him and just put him in that home like this is what

we're dealing with right now. But he is asking people to not even see what they're seeing with their own eyes. You know, a topic that deserves more attention than as well. You know, I know we speak a lot about this catastrophic war in Iran. Donald Trump likes to claim everything is fantastic in Venezuela. Well, with the two back-to-back earthquakes, people there are suffering, you still have Delsy Rodriguez in charge with no sign of any elections coming soon.

The peak, if you actually, you know, listen to what the people are going through there and experiencing, people aren't experiencing any wealth. It's more of the same. In fact, it's worse. It's just an extension of not worse than what was going on in the Maduro regime. The search and rescue efforts were focused more on giving medals than actually doing the immediate search and rescue and not to, I mean, I want to anybody who has involved in it's great thing

to be involved in search and rescue. But to award yourself medals while there were people who are still trapped to me, it's just the sick thing. And I know you're very focused on it. What should we be knowing? Because it's just not getting the attention it deserves. Yeah. Well, thank you for even asking the question. And for highlighting all the things that are going on internationally, because we have to be keeping our eyes on all of these balls.

And there's a tragedy happening in Venezuela. We've had these earthquakes that have devastated the country, that have killed, you know, people. And normally, we would be talking about this and figuring out ways to get search and rescue there to help them. And that has not happened this time, mostly because the State Department, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, are really so focused on, you know, their oil in trying to take this money. We've also turned back into an imperialistic

power where we're trying to call it nice countries like Venezuela. So if you remember, we were the ones that went in and snatched Maduro and kept essentially the Maduro regime in power by now working with Delsea, who was his number two. And we've snatched our oil. But the American people are paying for all of the shenanigans that are going on in Venezuela that we are initiating.

And I think the American people want to know what they are getting for their money.

Are we selling the oil? Who's getting the oil? Are we taking the oil? How much are we selling it?

Where is the money going?

you have to have a dashboard of metrics to show us who's buying this oil? How much they're buying?

Where the money is going? And none of that is available. And I had Marco Rubio come to the Foreign Affairs

Committee. And I asked him about this and he was defensive and he was hotty and I don't know. He was trying to come for me. But ultimately he said, I know where all the stuff is. And you don't because you don't know where to look. And I'm not going to tell you. And it was like, oh my God. And I need people to know that because this is the guy who tried to run for president before, who's probably thinking about running for president again. And his number two hatchet man

when it comes to Venezuela was a big time donor that tried to help him before. And it's this guy on private planes flying all around Venezuela, talking with oil executives, talking with Delsea. And like on behalf of who? On behalf of the American people. On behalf of Marco Rubio. Maybe helping him with his next presidential campaign. We don't know. But all of this is happening

paid for by the American people. And I think that is a travesty. Yeah, look in these idiots with

their fascist imperialistic agenda. And I call him idiots because they ran out of weapons. They had a trillion dollars. And then we're in out of who runs out of weapons with a trillion

dollars. By the way, and it's against the war we should never have been involved in the US

super power of the world. You know, and not only just a trillion dollars in the budget last year. And accumulation of nine to 10 trillion dollars since 2016, a funding the military. Yes, the guys who bankrupted the casino ran out of weapons in the first 40 days, basically, in a war against Iran. And now we just have this, this idiot in the Oval Office, who goes, we control it. We won. We control the strait of her moves. And the rest of the world looks at this.

And they go, you know what? They're weak. They, you know, Trump used to say we're the laughing stock. It's beyond laughing. I mean, I'm sure Putin and Xi Jinping laughed, but it's almost going back out, give you the final word, which you talked about with that member of a family, you know, who probably needs to be put in some hospice care or something. And you know, it's beyond, you know, it's kind of like, what do I, you know, you know, summer laugh, some like,

what's even going on here with you all? And it's, it's, I wake up, I see, you know, the post

and I go, man, what the hell is this? This is humiliating. It's humiliating. Not as a never,

quickly, not as Democrat, Republican independent, just as like competent. I mean, this is really humiliating. I mean, if this guy was working for you, he would have been fired months ago, right? And, and you would have had all of the documentation in your performance review before you terminated him when put all his little crap in the low box and thrown it out the window. You were talking about these wars. You know, Pete Higgs said, this is the guy who's like, just

give me more money, give me more money. The Pentagon has failed multiple audits. We have run down our munitions and wars where we should not even be in. This guy is now mandating, meant to be on testosterone therapy who are in the military. I mean, what is going on? I'll tell you what's going on. Democrats, some Republicans, and independence are pissed off. And they look around and they say to themselves, this is an administration. This is a government that is not working

for me. And so we have got to galvanize. We have got to stay united and galvanize on and through November and throw as many of the bombs out so that we can control the gabbles in November and do all of the things, do all of the things that we have been talking about. Show all of the sunlight, investigate all of the madness, bring about subpoenas and charges to as many folks, the list is as long as a CVS receipt. And then restore these cuts and build budgets that actually

reflect the needs of the American people. I was in Brussels about a month or so ago and I was talking with our European allies and they said, you know what, I was so worried when you did it the first time. Now, God's Mac that you've done it a second time. And we are only your friends right now

because we need to be, but trust us, we are working on figuring out how not to need you. You never

want to go in international waters. And here friends tell you that they no longer find you credible.

Yeah, that's why we'll continue to focus on here on this network. The broadening alliances,

Europe, Canada and other places in Asia, even what we're seeing in the Middle East, the megapact

Replacing the US security and umbrella China moving in.

UNI interview just on international affairs because it's, it's, there's so much there to unpack.

But Congresswoman Convlogger, thanks for joining us as always. We appreciate you. We appreciate

the work that you do and I love seeing you and all the other shows and the different other

YouTube channels of the mindset that we're talking about. Thank you. I saved the best for you in your

audience. Although the Katie things was, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I give Katie

Fang a slide advantage over me. She's a national here. She's a national here. It's okay. She's

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