Podbit · The MeidasTouch Podcast
JD Vance told a military audience that one of the reasons he wanted to be VP was so the Commandant of the Marine Corps would have to salute him — a former E-4 corporal. Troops did not appear to find it funny.
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Ben Meiselas catalogs the administration's ever-retreating factory job promises: first it was day one, then Q4 of year one, then Q1 2026, then end of 2026, and now Hassett is pointing to the second half of the year or 2027. Hassett's clip promises construction jobs now and manufacturing jobs once the factories 'turn on the lights.' But the more revealing part comes next: Hassett expresses concern that Federal Reserve board members are 'not going to be voting because they're patriotic, but rather because they want to get Trump' — drawing a direct parallel to Democratic Supreme Court justices he claims voted in a bloc against Trump. Meiselas identifies this as a pre-built narrative: when the economy underperforms, the administration will blame interest rate hikes by 'libs' at the Fed. The kicker: Jerome Powell, Hassett's implied liberal villain, is a Republican Trump appointed himself in 2017.
National Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett warned of 'libs on the Federal Reserve' who might raise interest rates to hurt Trump — pre-building the excuse for when factory job promises don't materialize. Ben Meiselas points out that Jerome Powell, supposedly one of those 'libs,' was Trump's own 2017 Republican appointee.
National Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett suggested economic benefits from new factories would materialize in the second half of the year, but factory jobs may not fully arrive until 2027 or 2028.
Kevin Hassett pre-emptively blamed 'libs on the Federal Reserve' for potential interest rate hikes that could undermine factory job promises, despite Jerome Powell being a Trump-appointed Republican.
Jerome Powell, whom Hassett implicitly grouped with Federal Reserve liberals, was actually appointed by Trump himself in 2017 and is a Republican.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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