Peasants Perspective
Peasants Perspective: A Voice from the Edge of Freedom
Join Taylor Johnatakis, a self-proclaimed “peasant” turned podcaster, on an unfiltered journey through family, faith, and the fight for American ideals. From the depths of DC Jail—where he recorded during a 14-month sentence tied to January 6—to his triumphant return home after a Trump clemency in 2025, Taylor delivers raw, heartfelt commentary for the common man. Expect a mix of gritty storytelling, reflections on liberty lost and reclaimed, and timeless lessons drawn from his life as a septic designer, father, and reluctant rebel. Whether he’s reading Dr. Seuss to his kids or dissecting the state of the republic, Peasants Perspective is a bold, unpolished call to stay grounded amidst chaos. Subscribe for a front-row seat to a story that’s as real as it gets—no filter, no apologies.
Peasants Perspective
The Machiavellian Playbook: Creating Crisis for Control
Ever wonder why society seems increasingly chaotic, yet solutions always involve giving more power to those already in charge? In this eye-opening episode, we explore the Machiavellian playbook that's been used for centuries by those seeking to consolidate control.
We break down an illuminating clip explaining how princes would pay criminals to terrorize cities, only to swoop in as heroes—a strategy that feels eerily familiar in today's world. From manufactured crises to controlled opposition, the tactics may have evolved, but the end goal remains the same: keep the peasants distracted and dependent.
Senator Rand Paul's petty White House uninvitation becomes a fascinating window into political theater, where politicians make principled stands when cameras roll but quietly maintain the status quo behind closed doors. The revelation about paid influencers and protesters on both sides of the political spectrum forces us to question which movements are organic and which are carefully orchestrated.
Perhaps most stunning is our candid discussion about monetary policy. When Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell casually admits they simply "print money digitally," it exposes the smoke and mirrors behind economic debates that consume Washington. As one host points out, theoretical budget arguments mean nothing when taking your family to McDonald's now costs $50.
Throughout history, the divide has never truly been left versus right—it's always been the powerful versus the powerless. If you're tired of being manipulated and want to understand how the game is really played, this episode pulls back the curtain on who benefits when chaos reigns.
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Speaker 3:We're getting screwed man, every time we turn around we're getting screwed. Oh, the revolution's gonna be through podcasting for sure. That's the only way we talk. It's the little guys. The little guys that take the brunt of everything. It's gotta stop. Peasants, man, we're just peasants, every one of us. You watch those old movies. You see the peasants in the background with the kings and queens walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning peasants. Welcome to another episode of the Peasants Perspective. Got that a little close to my face there.
Speaker 5:Every morning. There's a little magic.
Speaker 3:Every morning. Yeah, If you are coming from another stream, sorry about that. This is just how we prove the life and we're not ai, that's right mine here, there we go, there we go okay, get my pop-out chat set somehow. Where's the pop-out chat for this? Looking for my YouTube pop-out chat. Where is it? What's going on? No chats.
Speaker 6:All right. What's going on? This is weird.
Speaker 3:All right, well, so be it. I guess I will be in the dark for youtube, like I was for the last 87 episodes before oh yeah okay, that's so fun. All right, well, we are. We do have the rumble chat. Yes, rumble is working now. Yes, it is all right. Great, let's get started. So the first thing we wanted to talk about today was this little petty issue with Rand Paul. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 5:No.
Speaker 3:So the White House throws a picnic and they invite all the congressmen and all the senators over and they can bring family and kids and grandkids and whatever, and they get to go do the White House thing, real insider thing. Right, it's just very, very, very elite special party. Well ran, paul got uninvited so this is kind of funny. So listen to this.
Speaker 9:This is, uh, this is politics, this is and um, you know, it's kind of a great time of the year in the summer. My family comes up uh, my son and daughter, long grandson are coming up because we were going to the White House picnic. But I've just been told that I've been uninvited from the picnic. I think I'm the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic. The White House is owned by the taxpayers. We all are members of it. Every Democrat will be invited, every Republican will be invited, but I will be the only one disallowed to come on the grounds of the White House.
Speaker 9:I just find this incredibly petty. I mean, I have been, I think, nothing but polite to the president. I have been a intellectual opponent, a public policy opponent, and he's chosen now to uninvite me from the picnic and to say my grandson can't come to the picnic. I just just the level of uh, immaturity is beyond words. I just I just. You know, I've been here long enough that, if anybody has ever followed me, I've been a critic of obama, I've been on a critical biden, I've been in a critic of the previous trump, but always, always in a, I think, a reasonable fashion along policy. And so they've decided they want to declare war on my family and exclude us from the White House, and I just think it's incredibly petty and I hope someone will ask them some questions about how they have decided to sink to this step.
Speaker 9:What was the explanation given to you? No explanation, we're just not welcome. You have to get a ticket and we've always gotten tickets. I mean, I've been to 10 White House picnics. There's like Easter egg rolls. There's picnics.
Speaker 9:This is for Congress and I think what's particularly galling about it is I don't know if this came from the president on down let's hope not but if not, it's coming from his petty staffers who have been running a sort of a paid influencer campaign against me for two weeks on Twitter. If you look at my Twitter, it's just gobs and gobs of these people. We know they're being paid because the White House someone has told us the White House called them from the White House and offered them money to attack me online. So we have that and now we're uninvited to the picnic and it's like I don't know. It's just incredibly petty and it shows it. Look, I'm arguing from a true belief and worry that our country is mired in debt and getting worse, and they choose to react by uninviting my, my, my grandson, to the picnic. I don't know. I just think it really makes me lose a lot of respect I once had for connell strong you were all right.
Speaker 3:So what do you think of that?
Speaker 5:what is going on here? I mean it, I, I don't know. Is there a rift between him and the president?
Speaker 3:Okay, so here's the thing.
Speaker 5:Here's the thing, because I'm imagining something that I think is probably not real.
Speaker 3:There's these particular politicians that take these really highfalutin principled stands when the cameras are on. We showed a clip a while back of thomas massey right, thomas massey so conservative runs around the deck, clock on his shirt, but thomas mansey is in. I can't think it's the rules committee. I can't remember which one, but it's the one that basically like, if you can't get past the committee, you can't get any bills on the floor like he has.
Speaker 3:He has a very important vote there, and multiple times thomas massey has done the whole in the committee meetings. When c-span's not broadcasting on c-span one, you know, and there's not a lot of attention, he'll say things like well, I oppose what we're going to do with this bill, but I'll vote it through, and he votes it through. So he's been the guy multiple times who his vote is even what allowed it to get past. You know he's on that committee to stop things. If you're one of his voters, that's what you think, right If you're one of his supporters. But the reality is he's on that committee to look like he'll stop things, but everything goes through. So then when it gets to the floor and Thomas Massey fund raises off his opposition, when he gets into bickering matches with Donald Trump, that's what happens. Rand Paul's the same way. He's the guy that in the behind the scenes I mean he does a lot of stuff with COVID. I'm not saying I disapprove of Rand Paul's work, but when you look at it and you go well, hold on a second. Are you the controlled opposition? Are you the controlled opposition? Are you the one that's going to come up here and look like a hawk? But you know you only vote against it when it's on the floor. When it's in committee, you let it get by, unless your vote doesn't matter, then you're always the flaming opposition.
Speaker 3:He's from Kentucky. Who else is from Kentucky? I guess one of the other states. I can name both senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul Right. Both senators mitch mcconnell, oh, and ran paul right. So you've kind of got this kentucky, kentucky thing going on. A very unassuming state to who, in my opinion, has a. It has a problem with the um, the uniparty right. Mitch mcconnell clearly embodies the uniparty right, but even more than that, like ran paul, is a huge advocate for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 5:I mean, what does that mean? Uniparty?
Speaker 3:uniparty. It's where the Republicans and Democrats overlap. Like for the last I don't know 30 years, we've had a neocon uniparty.
Speaker 5:Jeez, there's another word I don't really understand Neo means new, like the new conservative party, like we're not conservative American flag patriotism.
Speaker 3:We're conserving American hegemony around the world. Does that make sense? Like like ideals like ideals, like we're the new conservatives, like we're the new eisenhower conservatives or truman conservatives, just after we dropped the bomb when we ran the world. We own the money, we own everything. We've got the biggest military. Russia fell. Let's run around okay so it's the new conservative. Like their scope expanded so am I a neocon no, neocons are the ones who push these wars okay right because they're spreading democracy.
Speaker 3:Why? Because democracies are arsenal. Like you know, we manipulate democracies, clearly, as we've learned over and, over and over again. The usaid soft money, the actual, uh, the actual kinetic actions we've taken to undermine democracies around the world. Okay, right, the whole cold war initiative, that whole thing the neocons are like into that because I'll tell you what my first thought was with this rand paul guy, what's that?
Speaker 5:or at least with this clip, not with the grandpa guys, that's a dumb way to say it. Um, my first thought was is this some kind of weird you know 4d, 5d chess thing where you know they're, they're not taking him to the party because he's like the designated survivor or something and he's not going to be there anyways and they're just doing this to I don't think so okay now here's the thing he.
Speaker 3:He also says something else that's critically important for us to know paid influencers on the conservative side. Here we are yesterday talking about paid rioters and paid agitators. Yeah, well, we know there's paid influencers line. We know foreign adversaries do that chinese. The chinese have the ten cent army. Right, we've shown the bot farms that they've got. Well, the conservative ecosystem uses influencers. Who are the influencers they use? You know them, everybody knows them.
Speaker 3:Charlie kirk, turning point bannon uh, you know. Liz wheeler. Uh, candace owens I mean some of them. I threw candace owens inside. I don't know, she might be one of the ones that's not bought, but you've got this whole ecosystem of people that are kind of in that conservative movement that are influencers online as if this is a new career path, profession, right, and they got a call from the white house being offered compensation to essentially rile up the troops the, the info war, the online wars. It was like oh, my feed is full of stuff. Well, how does he know every one of those is paid? How does he know some of those aren't organic? How does how do we know that we're not being influenced by paid operators?
Speaker 5:I don't know online.
Speaker 3:If you're getting riled up online and posting a bunch of comments and things like that because you saw a story coming from a really famous, well-connected influencer, what's the possibility that it's a paid thing? Okay, now you're part of the process. You know, you're just in the muck. I don't know, pick a hill and die on it. I mean, maybe it's that's the thing, like cotton amash. You know, like if I had money, would I pay people to spread my message?
Speaker 5:Probably, I mean not a bad thing, I mean right, we had that kind of cheddar to just be slinging it around.
Speaker 3:See, frazier says, the Rand Paul stories on CNN, washington Post, you, you, yahoo, you have posts and YouTube, but not Fox News. How about that? That's right, because Fox News is uniparty and Fox News is also pitching for Trump because he gives them access, so they're not going to cover this story. That makes Trump look petty and small and his staffers petty and small. The whole thing is funny, but at the same time, I I'm like you wield the weapons you wield, right? I mean, this is this, is what these, the democrats, are good. If a democrat steps out of line, they get so ostracized that the pain is greater to stay in line and take heat online than to step out of line. Well, the republicans clearly haven't been playing this game. Ran paul gets to go to the white house every year. Well, listen, if you're not on board with the agenda, you don't get to come, but fetterman's coming, yeah well, fetterman is, you know, open and hostile.
Speaker 3:You are like the black. You know, the wolf in sheep's clothing ran paul's incredibly pro-immigrant, illegal immigration right, low wages, free trade, tariffs are attacks on the people. So it's like, on one hand, he's like we need to spend less, we shouldn't be tariffing, I want free trade, the border should be open. It feels like a utopian, libertarian's view of the world. Right, that's what it. That's what he openly progresses to, proclaims, to kind of address.
Speaker 3:But then when you get right down to the nitty-gritty, it's like but the border, this isn't about spending, this is about about border. This isn't a spending bill. We're always going to be spending money. What's a counter proposal? What's another idea? So you've got good head, steven Smith, russ Voigt putting together the big, beautiful bill and almost like a knee jerk reaction, who opposes it? The spending hawks, when it's not a spending bill. You know what I mean. And yet, at the same time, if you go back in these guys's history, they've approved all the spending that came before, especially massey. Right, he has no room to talk on spending because he has the ability to stop all the spending you know it's so sad, it's so petty.
Speaker 3:You don't get to come to the white house. Okay, you can vote for the bill. Just come out and open support. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3:I don't know, ran paul might be proven right by history. I'm not saying one way or the other, I just find this really funny. You know, he does come off with this aura of you know being above it and all this stuff, but then at the same time, in my opinion, he has that weak left knee, right, it's like he, he cocks up and he's and he's all stanced, but that back leg soft, he's not, he's not ever. Yeah, it's very petty, punch back hard, man. You know, don't just get up and talk about we're spending too much money. Oh, I could get on board with the border, this, and I could get on board with this and I could get on board with this, but we're just spending too much money where, just outright, say it you want to cut medicaid, you want to do something? You don't you do or don't want the tax cuts, but instead it's like this big, it's just the spending. It's like okay, hello, there's magic money printers, there's 21 trillion missing.
Speaker 3:Right at the end of the show today we're going to get into what scott besant says about the treasury. And then we're going to get what the federal reserve says about printing money right out of their own mouths and you're over here telling me we can't balance a budget. I get it. There's no accounts back or forth. You know what I mean. Like every year, he does the christmas thing. Oh, look at all the crazy spending we're doing, yeah. And do you want to cut medicaid or not? Like what we're trying to cut? All the tortoise study programs? It doesn't add up to that much. What you're telling me is all these years that you get excited about cutting and all the wasteful spending and you highlight all the dumb programs and the gay monkey studies. You're telling me that after all the years of doing that, you're like, oh, it's not enough yeah, well, I want to take my family to the party well, we saved your tickets.
Speaker 3:I was about eight hundred dollars. Meanwhile, trump gets asked about uh, it's because he went to the canada center last night, which is the dc theater, right, it's like the center of art, it's the imperial capitals show space and they've just had apparently really bad, nasty, progressive yucky art and plays and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:So trump took it over, put rick grinnell in charge of it and they've been bringing in americana and all this stuff. So he shows up and they've been selling out. That's the other story. People are like, oh no, he's going to show to the kennedy center. No, they're showing up for these americana events and stuff like that. Really, you know, positive uh, pro amer how many times I've said pro americana theme things? So trump goes I don't even know what he was going to last night when he goes into the Kennedy Center roaring standing ovation in DC. Wow. So again, it's hard to pin down who actually hates Donald Trump. Ok, so he gets asked as he's going in.
Speaker 3:Right, a little red carpet event, it's not great audio, but he gets asked a pretty good little question. So are some actors boycotting this event because you're here? Okay, that's the question and trump's response again, he does verbal judicious.
Speaker 2:He's the best politician we've ever seen all I do is run the country well I couldn't care less.
Speaker 3:All I do is run the country. Well, how many?
Speaker 2:numbers. You saw them today, they, they're setting records. We took $88 billion in tariffs in two months, far beyond what anybody expected. There's no inflation, people are happy, people are wealthy, the country is getting back to strength again that's what I care about and we're going to have a safe country. We're not going to have what would have happened in los angeles. Remember, if I wasn't there, if I didn't act quickly on that, los angeles would be burning to the ground right now the judo.
Speaker 5:I gotta say what was the question? What well I gotta? I don't, I don't even know. But what I gotta say is milani is looking so good there. I wonder if she's like the first AI robot.
Speaker 3:Turns out that it's all robotics. So the question was what do you think about actors boycotting tonight? I couldn't care less. All I do is run the country. Well, Great numbers, CPI numbers came down and Chris is great. We're stopping the riot in LA. Like when he talks, just as Scott Adams said, the flags and eagles fly out of his ass. He's just going for it. It's like Fourth of July.
Speaker 3:Huh yeah, it's like Fourth of July every day. He's so good man, so all I do is run the country. Well, I want to introduce people and I love it when I find these clips that bring a uh, a larger topic into high focus. So have you ever heard of machiavelli?
Speaker 5:that's very machiavellian, ron I've heard people say that I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3:Okay, we're gonna learn what machiavellian means. So machiavelli was an Italian prince and he wrote I don't know if it was one of the early theses, but he wrote a very foundational book that talks about politics and power, specifically power, how to acquire power and this gentleman right here don't know who. He is given a little lessons talking about Machiavelli and the process which he advocates in order to obtain power.
Speaker 10:If a prince wants to conquer a city and the city does not want to be conquered, they would hate him. But if the prince pays criminals to kill cows, burn barns, smash windows, set things on fire, the people will panic in fear and cry out for help and the prince will come in get rid of the very criminals he bribed to create the problem. Nobody will know the better for it and everyone will praise the prince as a hero. So it's good marketing. You create the need and fill it. You go around the back of the house and set it on fire and you go around the front of the house and sell them a fire extinguisher and they'll pay anything for it and even thank you for being there. So it's called machiavellianism, where you create or capitalize on a crisis to consolidate control. If a prince wants to conquer a city okay, machiavellianism.
Speaker 5:I didn't know what that meant. Now I do, and that's what's going on that's it.
Speaker 3:It's machiavellianism. Yes, you create or capitalize on a crisis to consolidate power, right? I've said it many times. What's the difference between extortion money and protection money? Be awfully bad if something happened to your fine shop here. They're both worth the same. You know what I mean. If you pay some protection money, we'll keep you clean. I don't want to pay the protection money. Something bad happens to the shop.
Speaker 3:Who sent the bad actors? Where'd they come from? If you're so good at protecting, you know what I mean. Like extortion money, protect, it's the same thing. Right? The government is an extortion racket. Is it good or bad? I don't know. I do want protection in the nuclear age. It seems like it makes a lot of sense to me. You know what I mean. Like I can see what drugs are doing to people. I'd like you to stop the drug dealers. Where are they coming from? Is it actually our government doing it? I mean this is as we in this, in as a conspiracy theory podcast. Right, we're looking at things and it's like the conspiracy theory that, like everything's coming from a central node. Like all of our major problems are systemic epidemic. We can't fix them. Problems are coming from one, two or maybe three central nodes.
Speaker 5:That's a very inconvenient truth.
Speaker 3:And those nodes happen to also be the ones that have power. Exactly Like we talk about the cartels, are we talking about the cartels that clinton was working with. Are we talking about the cartels that the ccp is now working with, or are we working the ccp to work against us, to create that everlasting enemy? We just did a trade deal with the ccp yesterday and it didn't, the public statements didn't address, fentanyl didn't address.
Speaker 3:It's allowing the students to come back over, which we know are spies. Yeah, so let's trade some money and we'll be your boogeyman and you can be our boogeyman forever and ever and we're paying them to do it.
Speaker 3:It's it's. It's no different than the russia ukraine thing. I really wonder what's really going on there, because I feel like ukraine could just turn off the diesel, like I don't know about this moment, but a year, a year and a half ago, russia was buying diesel fuel for the front line from ukraine yeah yeah, I'm being dead serious. So we're sending all of our stuff over there and they're fueling them up and then driving like we're selling them the diesel that ukraine was. So are we paying the boogeyman?
Speaker 5:Hey brothers, are you guys out of bullets?
Speaker 3:Here's a few, so listen there are people who would argue that in our natural state we're utopic. I don't believe that. Okay, I don't. I believe in the law of the jungle. I think you get. As long as there's equality, there's a, there's a, you can get to peace. But when you have any quality of force right, then you're going to have problems because eventually that force is going to find its way to a sociopath or a psychopath or someone with a, with a personality flaw that mother didn't beat out of them. You know what I mean. And so I don't believe that we're just naturally in a harmonic state. I do believe we have to create political alliances, power alliances, in order to keep the bad elements of human nature in check within society. Is that fair enough?
Speaker 5:I'm still just thinking about Russia buying diesel from Ukraine. I don't even understand. I don't understand that. I mean, it's breaking my brain.
Speaker 3:I don't understand why we fund Al-Qaeda. I don't understand why we're sending 40 million to the Taliban. I don't understand why we fund Al Qaeda. I don't understand why we're sending 40 million to the Taliban. No, no, no. I don't understand why we're funding.
Speaker 5:Catholic charity for immigrants across the border. I can understand that one because there is money to be made.
Speaker 3:But there's money being made in Ukraine, so a lot of money, I know, but they're doing it by cannibalizing themselves. Ukraine is not acting, it is the puppet master that's acting. Ukraine long ago became a puppet state. It transferred hands from puppet state soviet union to puppet state eu. Azarov nazi battalion slash globalist. Why does the democrat national convention have their servers in ukraine? Okay, okay, okay. So the neocons who just want to spread democracy and blah, blah, blah, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 5:Like so you're telling me that they are so corrupt that they will sell fuel to their enemy I'm telling you so corrupt there's a legit possibility.
Speaker 3:Our own country brought down the twin towers. That's how corrupt I'm telling you they are. You don't think they'll sacrifice your lives. I'm telling you they'll so corrupt they'll lie for decades over our involvement in vietnam and escalate that when they had one billion off ramps, including when ho chi minh said I'd like to make north korea a democracy, will you help me? And they said no, and he went okay.
Speaker 3:And then he went to the, to the communist, and he's like I'd like to free my people in korea. And I said korea, nor vietnam, ho chi man, vietnam. And uh, would you help me? And they said sure, but you have to be communist. He looked at it. He went all right, all right, I just want freedom from my oppressors. Let us pick what we want to be. And he viewed the sales pitch of socialism and communism as something that they could work out.
Speaker 3:After the fact, we had millions of off ramps. But why didn't we take any of them? Because on the day that we settled the war of World War II, there was a picture of Ho Chi minh with stalin or some other russian, and that became the reason why we could never ally with ho chi minh, but he'd been in paris when the treaty was being signed, hobnobbing with the westerners trying to get alliances. I think it was in paris that he met with a soviet when it was signed. Right, the whole thing is stupid. I'm telling you, the people that run this place, they care more about their budgets on on their tank factories and all that kind of stuff than they care about the actual winning of anything all right, I mean, it's just, I'm trusting you on that, it's machiavellian it's create the problem, to consolidate power and create the solution.
Speaker 3:It's the patriot act. Patriot Act was the goal. Everything else was a part of it. It was keeping the military industrial complex going. Everything else is a part of it. Serves that end right and for what? So that we can have barbecues on the 4th of July and celebrate Pride Month.
Speaker 5:I guess so.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's where we're at. Here's the thing. When you see something like this, you'll start noticing it everywhere. But the question always remains for us are they capitalizing on this? Are they actually responding to it appropriately, because that's what we pay them to do, or are they causing it? You live in a world where the trump campaign will pay influencers online right to get their way fair enough in a vacuum, where the Trump campaign will pay influencers online to get their way Fair enough.
Speaker 3:In a vacuum, not a big deal. In a vacuum, not a big deal. Then you've got a. So you've got paid influencers online. You've got paid agitators on the street coming from the left. Is it possible that the Trump administration is paying the agitators coming on the left in order to push real ID consolidate and deportation stuff? Is it possible? Yeah, Am I making that claim? No, because it looks like it's coming from the left and this is a color revolution. But herein lies are we have to discern.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Do you trust all of your sources of news? Do you trust all of your influencers that are better than mainstream news? They're the same if they're getting paid bro.
Speaker 5:I've been so gaslit I can't even trust myself.
Speaker 3:I don't even trust you, taylor, yeah, now there. So, gaslit, I can't even trust myself. I don't even trust you, taylor, yeah, okay, now there's some things, images that are kind of hard to see. So you see this image here. Okay, this is uncle sam. Right, you're supposed to be married to the goddess columbia, but she fell by the wayside because we decided to not do the goddess thing but help your country and yourself.
Speaker 3:Report all foreign invaders Ice. 866 DHS to ice, whoa, whoa. Help your country and yourself. Report all foreign invaders Ice. Do you know what happened when I call? I called ice. So years ago you called ice. Yeah, what?
Speaker 3:For years ago, when I was rehabbing houses and flipping houses, moved to washington and there's all these people standing outside of home depot that are like I can drive while sir I'm like this is great. Oh, you mean like day labor dude. So I started hiring day laborers out of the home people parking lot to help me do my rehabs, paid them cash, no big deal. They're all hispanic and at the time this is just what you're doing, like I didn't think anything of it. But these are guys looking for a better life. So over the course of a year I ended up with a really steady crew. It was like 10 or 12 guys that were out of the Home Depot parking lot and paid them every Friday, just did the thing right, like many other little fix and flippers. Well, one day the guys come to me and they're like and they were a mix guatemalan, honduran and mexican. And one of the guys comes to me. He's like hey, uh, rafael or miguel beat up someone last night with a gun and like he had to go to the hospital and was like really bad, like really really bad. We don't want to work with him. He's you know, he's scary, I guess like my hardest worker, literally.
Speaker 3:I remember the first day I hired him I took him to this house where the house had flooded. It was mold on everything, three stories of molded everything, like the, the people who went into foreclosure, the ups, the washer and dryer were upstairs, like in the middle of the house, and they turned, took the washer and dryer out and just turned on the hot water and cold water and let it ran and left and let it run for weeks. So the house had just wet, humid, molded water damage everywhere. So, step one, rip everything out of the house down to the studs. Yeah, so I bought these guys, you know, masks and respirators and I'm trying to give them instructions. I speak portuguese. I'm trying to give them, like broken portuguese, spanish, instructions on how to haul sheetrock out. And as I'm talking, here comes this big piece of wall already disassembled, and Miguel is walking out with this big piece of sheetrock. He's already working and he's got his gas mask off. You know, it's triangular like this. He's got it upside down. So that's day one.
Speaker 5:He is is a hard worker, not a craftsman so let me guess these guys wanted miguel out of the way so they could make room for some of their buddies. No, they wanted.
Speaker 3:They were scared of miguel okay gail's covered in tattoos. They're all covered in tattoos, okay, except for maybe a couple of them. So, um, so they wanted Miguel gone. They were afraid of him.
Speaker 3:Okay, Okay so so I'm like okay. So they, they convinced me that I need to let Miguel go. So I'm like all right. So I tell Miguel, hey, no more work. And he's a little upset, but he understands he's a day labor and he'd worked every day for me for a year. So he's, you know, it was pretty much a job.
Speaker 3:At that point he hadn't been to the home Depot parking lot for a while. So he goes to the home Depot parking lot and I'm working with a business partner who's like dude, you got to call ice or you got to call the police about that assault. So I'm like, okay, I call the police, cause they're all afraid to call the police because they're. So I call the police, tacoma PD, I report the assault and they're taking the report. And as soon as I say I mean I'm already four minutes into the conversation I say yeah, and I'm pretty sure he's an illegal immigrant. And oh, okay, well, tell you what. You need to just call ice. This isn't really our thing. And he wrapped up the conversation, didn't finish the report. No report number. I just reported an assault by the oh, by the way, he's illegal oh yeah, never mind start over okay, so I call, so I I call ice, I leave the little tip.
Speaker 3:You know, they do their little intake there and I tell them where he's gonna be and they're like okay, we'll go get him, oh sweet. So I go to the home depot parking lot. I'm sitting in the back of the parking lot and I'm watching the crowd. Sure enough, here comes ice and they grab them. Wow, okay, I'm like that was crazy, let's do it again no, I'm just like in my mind.
Speaker 3:I'm like you know, I don't know what they're going to do, but essentially the assault needed to be resolved. Listen, right, I'm not out there being like you can just run around punching people, especially if you're using a gun, and I mean this is like attempted murder type bad assault. So this isn't like something that, in good conscience, I can just look past and be like. You know, have at it, go interact with the rest of society with that bad attitude, you know, yeah, so uh, time goes by, two months go by.
Speaker 3:At this point I've laid off all the guys all of them because I'm not doing the illegal thing I already, you know. I'm starting to realize, like when tacoma pd wouldn't help me, I'm like, well, what if it was me being assaulted? You know, so I'm, we get, we, we move on. Well, two months goes by and I get a phone call from another guy and he's like, hey, uh, miguel's out and he's looking for you. He's pissed, he thinks you turned him in. I did so. I'm like, oh no, so I'm like can I get his phone number?
Speaker 3:so I get his phone number and I call him up and I was remodeling a house on bambridge island and we were putting in a counter. So I'm like, hey, can I get you and and, uh, rafael, which is another guy that was a good craftsman that could do granite, can I get you guys to come help me put in these granites? Like, oh, okay, so give him the address.
Speaker 3:I probably threw him off they come over and they install this granite in this kitchen and I'm like, hey, thanks, guys, so much. He's like, oh, hey, man, when you called me, I was like I was mad, I was gonna come look for you and hurt you. I thought you turned me in. But you didn't turn me in. You wouldn't call me for work, but maybe it was sam, but I don't know. I'm never working for sam was the partner. I'm never working for sam. I worked for you, though you were a good man. I thought. I thought you turned me in. You know, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, anyways, I sort of paid him for that job and then I never had to deal with him again and that was he left.
Speaker 3:So where is he now? Don't know, don't care, I hope he's not listening to this. He got got out in two months, okay. So he went to the ICE detention facility in Tacoma, the famed one that's been firebombed. Okay, he went to the ICE detention facility for two months in Tacoma. This is all under the Barack Obama administration.
Speaker 5:Okay.
Speaker 3:And they processed him a green card. Oh, wow, so it could be done. So he assaulted someone with a gun. Tacoma PD wouldn't handle the case. Ice was like, yeah, we'll pick him up. They took him in for two months, helped him with his paperwork, welcome to America and, by the way, he'd been deported two times prior. And then he got a green card and he was like I was really mad, but in the end it's actually really good because I got a green card and now I'll never be deported again. In the end, it's actually really good because I got a green card and I'll never be deported again.
Speaker 3:Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That was our immigration system, wow. So when I see a poster like this, I'm like you're setting a lot of people up to be snitches who get in stitches Because not a lot of them are going to be on their feet. As I was Nervous as all heck, calling up the guy who's threatening to assault you, right to offer him work it turns out, if you call the number, they just give you a green card totally, by the way, transformative moment in my political thought process.
Speaker 3:Transformative moment because I was like what are we doing here, law and order, and what made sense to me? At one point I was bleeding heart. I'm hiring these guys. I was paying their taxes. I took the tax hit right to pay them, thinking that that was somehow a good thing, but I was enabling a community of people that are you know I don't know how else to describe it under other than I was enabling the underbelly of society, a guy that can assault someone with a gun and get away with it. That's underbelly type stuff. Yeah, you know, I mean the. That was scary. So nicole wallace, in response to this poster, she's got this um clip that she did yet or not you know clip segment she did, where she's kind of having a little bit of an emotional hard time with this and I I have very mixed I understand the emotions. When I see that poster, I'm like wow, this is like the foreign invaders. You know these were undocumented people a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean, like these were our neighbors and community members. Blah, blah, blah, blah blah. They're just picking almonds.
Speaker 8:And now here we are report the invaders oh, wow, yeah, about showing this to both of you. It is um, it is news, um, but it is. It is um is news from the trump administration. It's a post from the Department of Homeland Security that they put on X advertising a tip line with a poster that reads quote help your country and yourself, report all foreign invaders. This is your taxpayer dollars, this is who you voted for. If you pay taxes, your taxes are paying for this ad being disseminated on Elon Musk's platform X that says quote help your country and yourself, report all foreign invaders. Did Vladimir Putin write that?
Speaker 11:I'll tell you, one foreign invader we could deal with is Elon Musk.
Speaker 11:I'll tell you one foreign invader we could deal with is Elon Musk. Having said that, I mean it's just absurd that we would that, americans, and our strength and our democracy is our ability to take so many different cultures and so many different religions and make something great, and that's what we've done throughout our entire diversity has been our strength. Something great, and that's what we've done throughout our entire diversity has been our strength. And when you look at that, it taps into the isolationist impulses of a lot of people, the inner racism and hatreds that a lot of people have, unfortunately, and so many of those people have not had the courage to speak up and to stand up for democracy and the American way of life. And unfortunately, the Republican Congress might be the greatest offender in this regard. No one in the Senate or the Congress is standing up against our dear leader when he tries to use, tap into these isolationist impulses and use our military to further his political means.
Speaker 8:Retired US Army Brigadier General Steve Anderson. Thank you for being part of our coverage that was one of your generals, retired Brigadier General.
Speaker 3:Ok, oath to the Constitution. What does that mean to you? What did he? Say good question he's basically saying like you know, this is uh this is what there are comparisons to like world war ii and the holocaust and the way hitler rounded people up. Okay, the round up is the similarity, not the cause and reason. Does that make sense? Okay, yeah, but there's a danger and, I think, a mentality, where we get excited about round them up you know, what I mean.
Speaker 3:Like there's, there's some pain and suffering on the end of the people being rounded up yeah, I'm not super excited about a round up but at the same time, it's a solemn duty. Yeah, do you see what I'm saying? So it's like we shouldn't be excited about doing it. No, but at the same time, we have to properly contextualize it that they're invaders.
Speaker 5:It's tricky yeah there was there was a guy that I.
Speaker 3:There was a guy one day I was walking the track in prison and he walked up. He was on, he lived on my housing unit too. He was. He turned out he was Honduran and he comes up to me and he's holding his little case paper. He just met with the case manager. He doesn't speak hardly any English. Okay, Comes up to me and he's like do what's this? What's this telling me? So I'm looking at it as the first time I'd seen the release date and like basically it was his. You know, he'd met with them and they're like here's when you're leaving, and here's the whole thing.
Speaker 3:So he had an ICE detainer. He was like does it have a detainer? I was like, yeah, it's got an ICE detainer. He's like, oh, okay, and it says deportation order. He's like, oh, okay, I was like what does that mean? He's like, oh, so I kind of, in his broken English and my broken Spanish we talk he's from Washington State. Turns out he's from Ballard. He's lived in Ballard for 20 years and back and forth to Pasco. So he's got a family in Pasco and he's got a family in Ballard Some baby mamas, OK. So he's got kids here.
Speaker 3:He's got like one kid that's like 18 or 20, something like that, and another kid that's like 15 and anyway, and another kid that's like eight, you know, between the two, two families, and uh, his mom got sick so he went home to honduras and he came back, like he always would, and he got caught at the border and got a one-year prison sentence for re-entry. So that's why he was in prison and then we're going to deport him again. It's like you're going to come back and it said on there that he could use his treaty. Uh, there's a treaty with honduras that you can finish your sentence in honduras. So you can just get like early deported. And he's like do you want to finish your time in honduras? No, no, prison honduras.
Speaker 3:No, he was like but this is a guy 20 years in this country. He's been here illegal. He hasn't learned english. That was the stunning thing to me. How do you live in ballard, washington? This is like a suburb of north seattle. That's a crappy suburb where everything costs two million dollars. Yeah, you know what I mean. Like it's an industrial suburb built around the, the port or the, the docks and the, the, all the terminal but it's become very high rent.
Speaker 5:Like everybody who lives in ballard commutes into seattle now, but it used to be a real blue collar, but it's only like it's five or ten minutes away from downtown downtown seattle.
Speaker 3:That's why I say it's like, it's like everything. There's two million bucks, but the original culture of ballard was blue collar. You know what I mean? Yeah, fishermen, fishermen, yeah, but it's not that anymore. So the fact that he's 20 years in ballard, like he's living with yuppies, basically, and I spent some time in ballard in my transition period.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I speak english that's weird to me.
Speaker 3:That's weird to me.
Speaker 5:I just spent 20 years in a country we hired a lot of uh, people close to ballard that live down there, you know, do network and that kind of stuff. They would work, you know, by the day.
Speaker 3:Um so you know, for cash so maybe you've met my friend, maybe. Okay, metal is metal is uh good, I'm so gaslit I can't even trust myself. Quote of the day. You're welcome. So the roundup begins. They're getting pretty serious about this, okay, paid protesters. So this is a uh woman on tiktok who posted this little video and she's talking and I guess I guess she's been talking about this for a while. She's talking about being a paid protester and how she became familiar with it at the black lives matter event. So then again, confirming, when you have these riots where there's this big agitation, you've got this element of paid protesters and agitators that is always on the table. How do we know if there is or isn't paid protesters?
Speaker 5:I don't know we don't have any of the receipts. I don't know.
Speaker 3:I mean I see the deep dives data republicans doing. I mean they're telling us trump's saying it, but I don't know. Is this machiavellian? Yeah, there's paid protesters. Why I have the receipts right. Is this? Is this yellow cake?
Speaker 5:we've all been told that usaid funded a lot of stuff, but that's the whole point.
Speaker 3:We don't know we don't know, yeah, and when we find out, then there's all this plausible deniability exactly they're not organic.
Speaker 4:Now, I haven't told many of y'all this before, but I'm going to repeat it because I have so many new followers. My husband and I joined the black lives matter movement and that's when I woke up to pay protesting. I had never joined a big movement before. I had 10,000 people on my live. I'm not going to sit up here and say that I was happy that I joined that movement Now, looking back on it, because I could tell that we were emotionally controlled into believing in it. But I'm happy that I did go, because I got to experience some things and come back and tell the truth.
Speaker 4:It was a setup. Bricks was already in the road, 10 trash can barricades already in the road and the paid protesters stuck out like a sore thumb. They're standing back looking like this and the folks that's agitating these protests are not even from the area. Clock it. Therefore, for experience, for knowledge and for for truth, join some of these protests and see what your own two eyeballs every last one of them will make you think about sandy hook and the boston bombing, the government and these rich folks ain't shit, and the government know they're doing it and ain't gonna do shit about it because they need to set the stage for the next election. They got to have issues to vote. Same damn thing. Going on with these wars only a full profit off a war, quoted by sam su the art of war. And all of it is done at the expense of civilians.
Speaker 3:How sick we're not civilians, we're peasants yes to the land because I gotta feed my family tomorrow. Welcome to clear eyes. Welcome to clear eyes, yes. So again, the paid protesters, the agitators being bussed in, not coming from the area. Is every protest the same? No. Is every riot the same? No. Are they all identical? No, but we see the common elements in them, right, that these are tools. I oftentimes reflect on january 6th like I know why I went. What was I there for? What was my role? I wasn't getting paid. Nobody said anything for me like I.
Speaker 3:I totally object to the idea that I was somehow like an actor. I was. I was an unpaid, involuntary actor, maybe right, but somehow that I was. Look, I just walked into a bear trap. I absolutely believe there were agitators and stuff like that. I've seen it and I also understand the crowd. Don't go to these things. If these protests have the chance of popping off, go the other direction because, listen, there's a hormone or something in the air when you get there.
Speaker 5:You don't want it, okay yeah, or you could be like her and just go check it out with your own eyeballs and then go through a little repentance process and flip around and get yourself straight.
Speaker 3:Ok, so yesterday we talked about how the current riots in LA started over some some raids on a search warrant, and I'd mentioned that it was Home Depot. It wasn't. The media was reporting this was a raid of Home Depot day workers. That wasn't the case. Home Depot, from what I understand now, wasn't involved at all. So go to Home Depot shop, but it was over this warrant thing. So this is a little news aggregate thing that's talking about that.
Speaker 13:A large crowd quickly gathered to protest what they thought was an enforcement on undocumented immigrants. Now a woman who was arrested protesting that day is shedding new light on what agents were really looking for. 27-year-old Isabel Lopez has been indicted on four counts, including obstructing, impeding, resisting and assaulting officers. Authorities say that Lopez punched an FBI agent in the head, kicked and shoved other federal agents and even threw a softball at the back of a Hennepin County deputy. And what Lopez and others thought was an ICE raid was actually part of a criminal investigation, one that yielded 900 pounds of methamphetamine. Multiple federal agencies executed search warrants at a number of locations. They are all connected to an investigation into drug trafficking, human trafficking and money laundering. Officials say they recovered 900 pounds of meth from a burnsville storage bed worth 22 to 25 million dollars.
Speaker 13:Agents also sees gold-plated gun portraits of al pacino's character from the movie. Scarface lopez made an initial appearance in us district court where these are federal charges, and authorities say she will remain in custody pending a detention hearing.
Speaker 4:What oh?
Speaker 5:Say hello to my little friend, don't take.
Speaker 3:Pablo, we're not, we're taking his meth. Yeah, dude, damn, wow, I bet she's sitting in jail just going. Oh my gosh, I interfered in a drug bust human trafficking thing. I punched an fbi agent what a dummy wow, and listen, I have.
Speaker 3:I am no fan, like no. I want law enforcement to do their right thing. Oh yeah, huge issue with, like you know, all cops are bad cops, because if there were any good cops, that wouldn't be bad cops. I'm like I hate everything about this. I hate the fact that you know, again, going with the conspiracy theory, whose drugs are you picking up? Are you picking the, the originators drugs up? Like you know what I'm saying, the government involvement I, katherine austin fitz, talks about. You know they ran a scenario where if you could push a button and make all the drug trade go right around the whole world, would you do it and not the 10 people they did the experiment, the thing with, who are big foopas.
Speaker 3:Only one of them said they'd push the button out of the rest of them when they went to it it they were like well, we need to preserve the system. The whole point was they were exposing that the drug system, the drug trade system, the narco trafficking system is has become so intermeshed with the real economy that you can't get rid of it without bringing down the real economy. Keep in mind, think about things that HSBC Bank was doing for drug laundering. That bank existed to drug launder drugs. That was its balance sheet and, by the way, james Comey had something to do with that, and anyways, some interesting things there.
Speaker 3:So again, these raids and these protests that are happening right now, it's about a drug bust. They're protesting a drug bust. Oh, that's. That's about immigration. Oh, that's machiavellian, changing the thing of it. That turns it into a false flag. For sure you know that went from a woman who made a very poor decision that morning to go attack an fbi agent under what she thought was an immigration raid. Turns out was a drug bust. Right, but everybody who follows. Shame on you.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Right. Shame on you for getting involved about something that you really don't know what's going on and this weekend is supposed to be hot, by the way. I think there was like 1500 protests and all 50 States, and here's what I have to say about that. Yeah, when Trump on January 7th or 6th was banned from the internet, they banned like 2 million people from social media accounts, and I'm not saying I'm for that, but this is allowed to be organized.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Now Trump signed executive orders. It's about free speech. I do not expect Trump to come stamping down on free speech and censoring and deleting accounts and stuff like that, but the idea that this is somehow organic, this is, at minimum, allowed. At a minimum, it's being allowed.
Speaker 5:And at worst. What I'm really afraid of here is that for the last four years, or whatever five years, they really tried to get the right and the left to battle it out, and there was a couple instances where I really felt like civil war was going to pop off and it just never happened. It was like, oh, thank goodness. And uh, now it feels like, you know, we couldn't get that civil war between the right and left, let's just do it between the left and the left, and this is going to be the kickoff.
Speaker 3:Or you've brought in millions and millions of illegals and now you're calling them invaders. The civil war is with the invaders. There is a civil war, but that was the left. They're going to unify left and right. I will tell you this there's nothing that unifies the peasants of america like the topic of immigration, and I know this because when you walk into a federal prison, the it's a segregated environment, right and so you can. You know who's who and what's going on.
Speaker 3:The whites and the blacks universally wanted the hispanics to be deported. I mean, they wanted them gone. They had no problems with serranos or nortanios. Southern California, northern California gangs had no problem with American born Texas Hispanics. But that clot of foreign speaking ones that don't even speak English you know what I mean Like they were. They wanted them gone because the blacks felt like they're the ones bringing drugs into their communities. You know what I mean. They're the ones taking their jobs. They can't get a break because these guys are coming in and out working them. I mean the whole dynamic. And then, of course, you got the white situation, the whole thing. I can't even tell you how many Hispanics that were from Texas that were like we're all for deporting these guys Like.
Speaker 3:They view that they're a different culture. They don't speak English, they don't come and assimilate. When they come, then they expect the Mexicans and the Hispanics here to assimilate with them. You know so it's a very different thing.
Speaker 3:So the immigration issue it's jobs, it's housing, it's kids in school. I've listened to people in Idaho that are from the Boise Valley complain about how their schools, where their kids are going, are like two a third to half full of new hispanic kids. It's holding back entire classrooms. Right, it affects everything. So this immigration issue does not affect the country club people. It does not affect those business owners and small to medium-sized business owners. To them it's good, it's a bottom line thing, because they don't live in the neighborhoods where the low income housing is. They live in middle class America. You're separated from it, got it? Huge thing happened when my youngest son this is six years ago now, almost seven years ago when my youngest son was born here in Silverdale. He was born with blonde hair and a lot of it and blue eyes, you know, and the nurse was like this is so. I haven't seen a baby like this in so long. Like what?
Speaker 3:do you mean she's like well, you know, I mean fairness. Most, most the kids are born, or you know, being brown, brown eyed, dark hair, genetically dominant. You know what I mean. Like usually got dark hair, like it's just is what. It is not super common to see a pure redhead or pure blondie as much anymore, especially in this area, and so anyways. But she goes um, we didn't have medicaid or anything, we were cash paying and all that kind of stuff. And she's like, oh, this is really unique. And she's like, oh, like she's trying to figure out what she could give us, like the diaper bag and the free diapers. Like can we give that? That's a medicaid thing. Can we get? You know, like trying to figure out what we actually could get, that wasn't part of, like a Medicaid program.
Speaker 3:A couple of things. First thing she said was she said 50% of the kids that are born in that hospital have no father of record. So there's no dad going on the birth certificate and they're not in the room Like, oh, it's horrible. So 50%.
Speaker 5:And then the other thing she said was 50% of the kids that are born in that hospital are born to non-citizen parents. Okay, is that why?
Speaker 3:the father's not involved Just because he said the overlaps not the same. Okay, so it's. You know, 25% of citizens have a dad. It's like you know, it's an overlap. So some of the immigrants have a dad there. Some of the immigrants don't. Some of the legacy Americans have one, some of them don't. That's one category.
Speaker 3:But she said the big thing was 50% of the births at that hospital were to parents that were not legal. So the baby was now a citizen. They become the anchor baby. But I thought to myself 50%, where do these people live? Where?
Speaker 3:do these people live in this county. Where are the trailer parks, when are the RV parks full? And then I start thinking about it and it's like, oh no, they are everywhere. That's you know. We know the apartments and stuff that go around. That's where a lot of them are living. That's where the housing's going. The housing's not being built for your son, who just is becoming an adult and going on with his life. The housing isn't being built for them. It's being built for people that are coming in and working two or three jobs, and you know what I mean and building their own housing.
Speaker 3:Yeah not building their own? Yeah, exactly. Anyways, pretty interesting. Okay, cowboy state daily. This is from wyoming and they've got a.
Speaker 3:The headline here is as new homeschool laws take effect, some schools push to limit sports activities. So what's going on in Wyoming is they've just in Wyoming I think I talked about this about homeschool rules. Not every state is the same. So Wyoming, big red state.
Speaker 3:But students that wanted the homeschool had to get permission to homeschool their kids. They had to submit the curriculum to the school board or district or whatever for approval, had to take all the standardized tests. So basically, you homeschool your kid with public supervision Not ideal for some homeschool parents it's not ideal. So they passed a law that said no more of that, no more asking permission to homeschool your kids, no more having to submit curriculum and no more having to take the tests. And the high schools need to keep their sports and extracurricular activities open for homeschool kids, and that they're going to be giving a $7,000 voucher to homeschool parents to help with educational expenses and they can then pay a la carte to take classes at the high school. So if you want to have them to go take a math class, they can just go take the math class okay, they don't have to take the rest of the bs stuff great.
Speaker 3:I love that. I can absolutely see how great that is. However, the schools are pushing back. Who do the schools?
Speaker 5:work for. By the way, what do they do? I can't remember. Why are they pushing back the?
Speaker 3:elementary and middle schools have remained open programmatically for homeschool kids to come in and do sports or music or whatever. But now they're saying no more, we're going to shut down elementary and middle school. The law says the high school has to stay open, because they wrote that into law. But there's a bill being submitted that's working through committee very fast, so fast that the residents that are alert are concerned that there's not enough time for the parents to like see what they're doing. They're going to close the middle schools and elementaries to homeschool kids and there's a statement in here that I want to focus on. A few public school superintendents theorize. Their peers are digging in their heels against the homeschool empowerment laws so they don't have to participate in their own demise.
Speaker 5:Okay.
Speaker 3:This is the institution trying to protect itself.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 3:This is the superintendents trying to keep their jobs. Yes, and the Democrat Party and liberals and progressives in that camp. They view the Department of Education and schools as a job program. They do not view it as a educational program. This is absolutely. I read a book when I was in prison called the deepest south and it was about nachi's uh, mississippi or alabama, I can't remember mississippi. It was the state in the city in the south that never uh, left the union, the state loyal to the union, so it didn't get burned. So it's the one and only like antebellum community left in the South with all these beautiful mansions and stuff. Well, they have them and their adjoining county right, the one county with predominantly white and has like one administration at the school to 30 students, has good test scores, good college placement, all that stuff. The adjoining county where the parents all work in the same place, like it's basically one of those split cities where the county draws the city in half. So you know okay anyways.
Speaker 3:Uh, the other county horrible outcomes, illiteracy rates, and they have like one teacher, one, one employee for four students and they're like for 30 years the solution in this district has been throwing money at it, hire, hire more aides, hire more teachers, whereas the other district has focused on outcomes and so they've had totally like perfect side by side. And he was saying this is the victim mentality left over from slavery and segregation, versus this is the empowerment we just have to do it mentality. And in the book he's very it's just. I read the book three times when I was in solitary confinement. You have to explain it three times. Yeah, anyways.
Speaker 3:Point is there's the difference there, right, they view it as a jobs program. They don't care about the educational outcomes. Oh, hey, we have bad education. Throw more money at it, hire more people, whereas over here they're like we have bad educational outcomes. They're like who should we fire? Different, different mentality? Okay, so they're participate.
Speaker 3:They don't want to participate in their own demise and so by doing that, they're hurting potentially homeschool students right in there and they're just creating this scenario. That's anti-parent. It's again the mentality, right, of protecting its own. This shows up over and over and over again. Right, this is a uh, so just keep that in mind. I wanted to set that up there. The battle out there is over the homeschool thing, but you can see right there the superintendent's digging in their heels because they don't want to participate in their own demise. Right, why don't we? Why has it been so hard to get rid of the department, the department of education? Because nobody wants to participate in their own demise, even though it's good for america. Why don't they reorganize and take the fbi and burn it to the ground? Well, we don't want to participate in our own demise, you know if, I if I get rid of my business.
Speaker 3:Who's going to cash my paycheck? Who's going to cut my paycheck?
Speaker 5:yeah, and this is applied to every department that exists.
Speaker 3:Simple yep okay, scott besant testified yesterday something kind of fun and this has to do with international allegiances that cause us to pay into things, and he's talking about the global tax schemes, and this is specifically the carbon tax credit scheme. Ok, and the United States has pulled out of it.
Speaker 6:For whatever reason, the previous administration chose to outsource American sovereignty on tax matters, and the Trump administration believes that is unacceptable. Many other countries would seek to pull in revenues from US multinational corporations into their treasury, and rest assured that the provisions in the one big beautiful bill to combat this are a staking out of our fiscal sovereignty. The US tax system will stand next to what is called Pillar 2, and other countries are welcome to relinquish their fiscal and tax sovereignty to other nations. The united states will not. So this bill will allow us to prevent our corporate revenues from being drained into foreign treasuries, and that is in the hundreds so yesterday, ron, I read you this section out of this book, sacred duty, that about the un.
Speaker 3:Yeah and uh, I don't know if I could find that page again so quickly. Anyways, he talks about how the un sets an agenda and then it works its way down into law and we're like where do they get these ideas? Where do they get these laws? Well, they already agreed to do them by signing on to them. So then they're obliged to get them down all the way down to the county and city levels. So pillar two was basically kind of like they've created uniform commercials, uniform zoning laws, uniform zip code rules, uniform engineering, uniform electrical building codes, building every, but it's everything. Uniform government, right, everybody's got to be a democracy. It's got to look like this, everybody's got to do this, everybody's. They're pushing down an agenda. Part of it was what they call pillar two is this taxation model. Everybody's going to tax their citizens this way right.
Speaker 3:And they're going? Nope, we're going to stand aside from it. We're in charge of our tax policy. You are not. Trump wants to get rid of internal taxation. Why are you taxing your employees? Okay, If we're employees, we're part of the value added service that's being made here.
Speaker 8:So if the United States is a, a corporation you don't tax your employees.
Speaker 3:That's exactly what they're doing. He says you should be taxing the people you sell it to. Yeah, you get, you get the revenue from them. So that's why he sees the world as an import export deal, because that's what it is, where everything's a corporation bouncing around out there and then there's corporations within corporations. Okay, so he's just saying we have to act like a corporation because that's what we are, and we're not going to subject ourselves to that because we're also, simultaneously, a sovereign country. We have to do. We have to do both. We're not going to surrender. So he's like we're going to stance next to it. We're not going to align ourselves with pillar two. That is excellent.
Speaker 3:I wish they would do the same thing, for we're not going to align ourselves with agenda 2030. You know, these are all these UN agendas that are trying to uniform the way the government, governments administer themselves, and in the process of doing that, you surrender your identity, your national identity, you surrender your cultures and customs. This is why, you know, in an effort to really, truly in an effort to take the burqa off and this is what this book, sacred Duty, talks about right In a, in a feminist warped fantasy of taking the burqa off women in the Middle East. That's why you have transgender story hour in America. Same people, same movement. Same people, same movement. The objective was to liberalize and remove any type of sex stigma and gender inequalities at all. Other countries rejected it. Culturally, it's a nonstarter. We have to pay Pakistan $20 million to hold a class that eight people attend. You know what I mean. It's a nonstarter. But in America, where we're all walking around on our phones our kids have all got tiktok brain. They're watching all these crossdressers online really photogenic on with makeup on a camera and filters and lighting. You know what I mean they.
Speaker 3:But it all started. It all started back when this guy went to UN to fight that issue. Right, it's, it's the same thing started there. So the fact that Scott Besson is just standing up and saying this is unacceptable. It's a big deal, like a really big deal. We're taking charge of our tax policy, so no longer are people like Rand Paul going to be able to say, well, I'm going to raise money about talking about it but never be able to do anything about it. Now it's actually in your hands. Now it's actually in your hands, okay. Next thing here. Okay, this is federal reserve chairman. Uh pal talking about money. Listen to this. This is this is why anytime people talk about budgets and it's like who do we owe the money to and how does it get made, and all this kind of stuff, listen to this. This is how unreal. This is you.
Speaker 6:This is 60 minutes simply flooded the system with money yes, we did.
Speaker 7:That's another way to think about it. We did. Where does it come from? Do you just print it? We print it digitally. So we you know we as a central bank we have the ability to create money digitally and we do that by buying treasury bills or bonds or other government guaranteed securities, and that actually increases the money supply. We also print actual currency and we distribute that to the Federal Reserve Banks.
Speaker 6:You simply flooded the system with money.
Speaker 5:Oh OK, yes, that's a good solution. I like how he just goes. Yes, you could say that.
Speaker 3:That's what we did, oh, ok. Well, that's cool. All right, we got stuff breaking up. We got stuff happening out in Iran today. Let's do two last things. We're going to wrap up on money and then we're going to leave the rest of the show for tomorrow, because we got to get wrapped up here. But Jerome Powell says he's asleep at the well. That was Jerome Powell, by the way. Sleep at the well. This is Letnick from the Department of Commerce. We just had inflation numbers come out yesterday 0.1%.
Speaker 5:Yeah, okay, and they were expecting like.
Speaker 3:Jerome. Powell is just sitting around waiting. Everything's coming up better. Okay, so this is Lutnik.
Speaker 12:It's unbelievable that. You know Jerome Powell is just sitting around waiting. You know the president calls him too late. You know it's just too late, Powell. I mean, why hasn't he cut? I mean, you remember, if he cut interest rates one percent and you've got Europe cutting like crazy, you realize that saves America three hundred billion dollars a year. It's unbelievable how much we would save if he did his job and he cut interest rates. The economy is ready for it. It's easy. Inflation is low. Come on, he's got to do his job soon. It's easy, Inflation is low. Come on, he's got to do his job soon. It's unbelievable that.
Speaker 3:I hope he does. I would like to see interest rates go down. I don't see any point in keeping them up. I don't think it curbs spending, it only increases the amount you have to pay. Like that's one of the other dirty jokes about all this. Okay, so you just get to pick and set the interest rates. So the whole CBO thing is based off the interest rate today. If you drop that interest rate, that entire CBO score drops.
Speaker 3:That's a balance, oh you want to save a trillion dollars. Drop the interest rate 1%, that'll save you a trillion dollars. That's just a little game you got to play.
Speaker 3:Look like your budget was good. It's another gamesmanship. They just manipulate. How you look at, the numbers change the interest rate. Budget is actually reducing. Interest rate goes up, but then you got a guy like grand paul. Well, I can't pass that budget. Well, what if I can get jerome powell to drop the rates? Oh well, now we have to talk about immigration. So I don't want to talk about immigration. I want to talk about the budget, as long as it's unattainable because of the interest rate is high. The inner workings of all this is maddening. Because it's unattainable because of the interest rate is high. The inner workings of all this is maddening because it's like Trump sees it and he's like turn down your interest rates.
Speaker 3:Vote for that bill. Give me the structural changes I need. Get the invaders out of the country so American citizens can have jobs and housing right. Build up the military so everybody's afraid to attack us. How is this a bad plan? How is this a bad plan? It's not a bad plan. On top of that, scott Besson comes in and even with everything they're doing and all the cuts they're making at the IRS, they're still bringing in extra revenue. And it's not even tax season.
Speaker 6:The president's efforts to modernize the IRS, warned that the effort would result in a 10% shortfall in receipts. Instead, the opposite happened. April receipts this year were up 9.5% over the previous year and receipts in May were up 14.7% over the previous year. Most remarkably, the president was able to achieve these results while reducing 2 billion in waste and planned it spending at the irs. Critics of the president's efforts modernize the irs warned that the effort would result in a 10.
Speaker 3:I gotta set it to stop replaying that's annoying all right, so receipts are up. So what do you know about the numbers? Nothing yeah nothing.
Speaker 3:None of the projections can be accurate. Oh, they're the people who said doom and gloom are being proven wrong. S, that was another thing s and p's up on the year. So, oh, the stock market's gonna crash. Now index is doing fine. You know the whole everything. We know nothing. Yeah, we know nothing. Common sense has to rule the day when we know nothing, because the more complex you make it, you don't know all the systems. You're affecting simple stuff. Like I said before, how is this a bad plan?
Speaker 5:yeah, I don't know, but when these guys report all these numbers, I, it doesn't mean anything to me whether the numbers are good or bad. You know, what really means something to me is when I go through a drive-thru and I have to give him my card.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's $30 and you're eating alone.
Speaker 5:Yeah no. I took my family out the other day to freaking McDonald's. It was over 50 bucks for just four of us. I was like what the hell's going on? It's like we can't do this anymore.
Speaker 3:No, it's brutal. It's absolutely brutal. I know I got five kids. When it's like I just got to eat, it's like seven hours of labor. I don't know kids. I can't keep this up.
Speaker 5:Let's have a little talk about fiscal policy.
Speaker 3:All right, guys. That's it for today. Thank you for joining the show. Don't forget to go visit 1776 live. We're going to be adding some timestamps down in the show note. No, it's a long show. If you want to come back and find your segment later we'll be having some timestamps and uh, that's it, guys. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Bye, old woman, man, man, sorry, what knight lives in that castle over there. I'm 37. What? I'm 37. I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you man. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind you looked. Well, I object to it. They automatically treat me like an inferior.
Speaker 1:Well, I am king, oh, king. Eh, very nice. And how do you get that? Eh, by exploiting the workers, by hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society, If there's ever going to be any progress. There's some lovely filth down here. Oh, how do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 1:Good, lady, I am Arthur, king of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the? Who, the Britons? Who are the Britons? Well, we all are. We are all Britons and I am your king. I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class is oh, there you go bringing class into it again. That's what it's all about. If only people would Please, please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What I told you? We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs Be quiet. But by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major.
Speaker 1:Be quiet. I order you to be quiet. Order. Who does he think he is? I'm your king. Well, I didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings. Well, I can become king. Then.
Speaker 1:The lady of the lake, her arm clad in the purest, shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Be quiet. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Shut up. If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away. Shut up, will you Shut up? Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system. Shut up, come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help, help. I'm being repressed, bloody peasant. Oh, what a giveaway. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Eh, that's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
