Podbit · The MeidasTouch Podcast
A stage at the Great American State Fair literally collapsed during rehearsals, nearly injuring the young girls dancing on it. The Trump regime had promised 150,000 daily visitors; footage showed near-empty grounds, a structural failure, and a heat-stricken attendee seeking emergency care in a baptism pool.
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Meiselas presents the Momdani thermostat episode as a perfect microcosm of how the Trump regime operates. Mayor Zoran Momdani of New York City posted sensible heat-crisis advice — set thermostats to 78°F, unplug unused electronics — and Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner mocked him as 'Mayor Cum Donnie' and called the advice communist. Meiselas then reveals that the Department of Energy's own website contained virtually identical guidance, recommending thermostats between 75 and 78°F during summer days. Shortly after Momdani's post drew mockery from Fox, the Trump administration scrubbed those pages from the DOE website. [1] — Ben Meiselas "DOE thermostat guidance deleted after Momdani post: After NYC Mayor Zoran Momdani advised residents to set thermostats to 78°F, the Trump a…" 35:55 The deletion is not trivial: Meiselas uses it to make a broader epistemological argument. If the regime will delete thermostat guidance to score a political point, why would anyone trust the jobs data, the economic statistics, or any federal information? The 57,000 jobs figure — already terrible — might, he suggests, be masking a far worse reality.
When NYC Mayor Zoran Momdani tweeted that residents should set thermostats to 78°F during a heatwave, Fox News called it communist. The Trump administration then deleted the Department of Energy's own page with identical guidance — exposing how the regime shapes 'reality' to win news cycles.
After NYC Mayor Zoran Momdani advised residents to set thermostats to 78°F, the Trump administration deleted the identical guidance from the Department of Energy's website.
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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